{"sf1_id":791808,"sf2_id":null,"title":"To Boldly Hoof It Ch 10. Escape","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":4735,"posted_at":"2014-12-04T19:10:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Blueblood","Character Development","Clean","Equine","Fantasy","Flam","Flim","Friendship is magic","Griffin","Gryphon","Hoops","Horse","Humor","Iron Will","Jet Set","Lightning Dust","MLP","Mare","Minotaur","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Plot Development","Pony","Prince Blueblood","Princess Luna","Sci-Fi","Stallion","Story Progression","Story Series","Sunset shimmer","To Boldly Flee","Transformation","Trixie","Unicorn","Upper Crust","alicorn","dumbbell","gilda","luna","parody","score","space","surprise"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791808-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-10-escape","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791808","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791808\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 9. Escape\n\nThe corridors of the space station were surprisingly empty as Blueblood and Dumbbell made their way to Princess Luna's room.\"Weird,\" said Dumbbell. \"I'd have thought there'd be a lot more ponies on board this station.\"Blueblood\nshrugged. \"Maybe Princess Celestia is only allowing the ponies who she\ntrusts the most with this secret access. So she only has a minimal staff\nhere.\"Dumbbell also shrugged. \"Could be.\" Then after a few moments of silence, he said, \"So this is where our taxes have been going,\" said Dumbbell.Blueblood\ncouldn't help but chuckle at Dumbbell's joke. But in all seriousness,\nhe still couldn't believe all this around him actually existed. He had\nused to think that his aunt Celestia was a completely honest ruler, who\nalways told her subjects the truth about everything that went on, with\nthe exception of her good-natured little jokes every now and then. But\nnow, he was beginning to doubt everything he knew about his great aunt.\nCelestia had definitely been hiding the fact that she had space ships\nand a giant space station, as well as trying to keep the plot hole a\nsecret. She was definitely up to something that she wanted to keep a\nsecret from almost everypony. And what bugged him the most was that he\nstill had no idea what it was.They soon\ncame across an elevator. They both got inside and Blueblood used his\nmagic to push the button for the floor Princess Luna's room was on. The\ndoors closed and the elevator started moving upwards.Dumbbell\nand Blueblood then both cringed with disgust when they heard the tune\nof the 'Equestria Girls' song start playing in the elevator.\"Oh, gosh,\" groaned Dumbbell.Unable\nto take it, Blueblood spotted the speaker the song was coming from up\non the sealing of the elevator, and lit up his horn with magic. He then\nshot a blast of magic out of his horn at the speaker, which then\nexploded with a burst of electrical sparks and some smoke. The music\nceased. Now all that could be heard was the soft sound of the elevator\nmoving.Dumbbell and Blueblood waved the smoke away from their faced with their hooves.\"Thank you!\" said Dumbbell.\"You're welcome,\" said Blueblood.After\na few more moments, the elevator came to a halt, and the doors opened\nagain. Blueblood and Dumbbell got out and began walking down the\ncorridor the way they remembered the princess's room was on the map.They\nimmediately could tell which room the princess was in when it came into\nview. They saw a unicorn guard standing in front of the door. Also,\nPrincess Luna's name was nicely labeled on the door.Blueblood and Dumbbell stayed out of sight of the guard for the moment and looked at each other.\"What are we going to do about that guard?\" asked Blueblood.\"Um... I have an idea,\" said Dumbbell. \"Just follow my lead.\"They walked up to the guard at the door. He turned his head to look at them as they approached.Dumbbell spoke. \"Hi. We're hear to bring the Princess her dinner.\"The\nguard stared at them, raising an eyebrow at them. \"Princess Celestia\nhas ordered that no one is to disturb her sister. And Princess Luna is\nin a coma. She can't eat anything at the moment. Also, where is the\nfood?\"So she IS still in a coma, Blueblood thought to himself, while also thinking about what an idiot Dumbbell was for coming up with this stupid plan.\"Um...\"\nDumbbell stuttered to the guard, realizing his plan had completely\nfallen apart. Panicking, he quickly leaped into the air, spun around\nusing his wings, and bucked the surprised guard in the head. The guards\nwas knocked back against the door and he fell to the floor, knocked\nunconscious.Blueblood looked at Dumbbell as he landed back on the floor beside him. \"You're an idiot,\" he said to him.Dumbbell glared at Blueblood. \"Hey, I took care of it, didn't I?\"Blueblood\nrolled his eyes at Dumbbell and then used his magic to open up the door\nto Princess Luna's room. They both looked inside.The\nroom was very large and lavishly decorated. It was actually kind of\nlike an expensive fancy hotel room. Golden light from a crystal\nchandelier hanging from the sealing illuminated the room. Several Large\nPersian rugs lined the hard oak floor. On one side of the big room there\nwas a living area, with some elegant sofa's and chairs, a glass coffee\ntable, and a marble fireplace. At the far end of the room, there was an\nenormous window, looking out into space. In a corner, there was a fancy\nwooden desk, and on the other side of the room, there was large, elegant\nking sized bed, complete with drawn back bed curtains, and beside it on\none side was a night stand with a lamp, and on the other a large wooden\nwardrobe.They immediately spotted\nPrincess Luna lying on the bed, unconscious. They walked into the room\nand Blueblood pulled the unconscious guard into the room with them for\ngood measure, and closed the door behind them.The two stallions walked up to Princess Luna's bedside.\"Okay,\nI know this is going to sound cheesy,\" said Dumbbell, \"but I kind off\nfeel like a knight in a fairy tail right now, going on a dangerous\nmission to rescue a beautiful princess.\"Blueblood\ncould see a Dumbbell had a dreamy look in his eyes as he stared at the\nunconscious alicorn mare lying on the bed before them. Even Blueblood\nhad to admit, even though he knew she was his great aunt, she really did\nlook quite beautiful lying there unconscious, her magical cloud of a\nmane flowing out from her head over the pillows, her barreled chest\nslowly rising and falling with each breath she took.Blueblood\nshook those weird thoughts from his head and got back to the situation\nat hoof. \"Come on! Lets hurry and get her out of here before somepony\nnotices the guard that you knocked out isn't at his post.\"Dumbbell also shook himself from his intoxicated state and nodded. \"Right!\" he said.Blueblood\nlit up his horn and levitated Luna's unconscious body up off of the bed\nwith his magic, and, much to Dumbbell's surprise, laid her down on the\nbrown pegasus's back.\"Hey, why do I have to carry her?\" Dumbbell complained. \"She's heavy!\"\"Because I'm a prince,\" said Blueblood.Dumbbell glared at the white unicorn angrily. Blueblood flinched.\"Err... I mean... because, as an athlete, you're a lot stronger than I am.\"Dumbbell nodded. \"Darn right, I am!\"\"Okay. Now lets get out of here!\" Blueblood turned and started heading towards the door.Dumbbell was about to follow Blueblood when he realized something.\"Wait!\nWe can't just walk around this place carrying the Princess like this!\nEven if there are hardly any guards in the corridors, somepony's gonna\nnotice.\"Blueblood stopped where he was\nrealizing with dismay that his friend was right. \"You're right,\" he\nsaid, looking back at the brown pegasus with an alicorn on his back.\n\"What do we do?\"They both thought for a\nfew moments, trying to come up with an idea. That was when Dumbbell\nnoticed the guard he had knocked out still lying on the floor where they\nhad left him. He suddenly got an idea.\"Lets take that guard's armor off and put it on Luna!\" Dumbbell said. \"We'll disguise her as a guard too!\"Blueblood looked at Dumbbell like he was insane. \"What? But she's in a coma!\"\"Um...\"\nDumbbell scratched the back of his mane as he thought for a moment,\nworking out his plan in his head. \"We'll just carry her, and tell\nanypony we come across that she's just another guard that was injured or\nsomething, and that we're taking her to get medical attention!\"Blueblood shook his head. \"That will never work!\"\"Do you have any other ideas?\" Dumbbell asked him.Blueblood thought for a moment, then frowned and hung his head. \"No,\" he admitted.\"Alright then,\" Dumbbell said smugly.Working\nquickly, they took the unconscious unicorn guard's armor off him and\nput it on Princess Luna. They even took care to make sure the princess's\ngiveaway magical, starry, cloud-like mane and tail were tucked in under\nthe armor so that they wouldn't give her away.\"Hey,\nBlueblood, I've always wondered,\" said Dumbbell as he tucked the\nprincess's mane underneath her helmet, \"what the heck are Princess\nCelestia's and Princess Luna's manes and tails made of? Because this isn't hair!\"Blueblood\nthought for a moment, but then shrugged. \"Honestly, I don't know,\" he\nadmitted. \"I've never thought to ask them about that. I suppose they're\nmade of magic.\"\"Why?\" asked Dumbbell, holding up some of Luna's tail in his hoof and looking at it. \"What is the point of it?\"Blueblood shrugged again. \"I don't know! I guess it's just to make them look pretty or something! Now let's hurry!\"When\nthey were finished putting the armor on Luna, she did indeed look like\nshe might pass for a unicorn guard, so long as no one got a good enough\nlook at her. They placed her back on Dumbbell's back and then walked\nback out of the room. They headed back down the corridor to the\nelevator. Fortunately, they didn't run into any guards on the way so\nfar.When they got to the elevator,\nBlueblood was about to press the button when the doors suddenly opened,\nrevealing a pegasus guard inside. Blueblood and Dumbbell froze.The\nguard walked out of the elevator, but then paused and looked at the\nguard draped over Dumbbell's back, a questioning look on his face.Dumbbell quickly spoke up. \"O-our friend here had a little accident. We're taking her to get medical attention.\"Much\nto their relief, the guard smiled at them and said, \"I hope she gets\nbetter. By the way, just so you know, something happened to the music\nspeaker in that elevator.\" He pointed back at the elevator he had just\nwalked out of. \"It's a shame too. I really liked that song.\" And with\nthat, the guard walked off and continued on his way down the corridor.Blueblood\nand Dumbbell walked into the elevator and Blueblood used his magic to\npress the button to go back down to the floor that their ship was on.As the doors of the elevator closed, Dumbbell looked at Blueblood and said. \"How do you think Lightning Dust is doing?\"..................Lightning\nDust galloped her way through the corridors, looking for the\nmaintenance tunnel where the tractor beam emitter was located. She had\ndecided to stop flying through the corridors because every now and then\nshe would pass a guard, and she figured a guard seeing her flying\nthrough the place, even if she was a pegasus, would look suspicious,\neven if she was disguised as a guard. She knew guards weren't supposed\nto act like that.Finally, she found the\ndoor she was looking for. On it, written in big letters, were the words,\nmaintenance tunnel 12G. She leaped over to it and, making sure she was\nalone in the corridor, she opened it up and stepped inside.She\nfound herself in a dimly lit tunnel. Various pipes and machines lined\nthe walls as far as the eye could see. And looking down the tunnel, it\nlooked like it went on forever.She\ntrotted through the tunnel, ducking under or stepping over the\noccasional low hanging object, looking for anything that had to do with\nthe tractor beam. Fortunately, all of the machines and pipes and wires\nwere nicely labeled in big bold letters, like she was in the sixty's\nversion of the Batcave.After searching\nfor several minutes, she finally found a big, bulky, cylindrical machine\nthe size of a train engine, jutting out of the wall of the tunnel.\nComing from the machine was a low mechanical hum. On it was a sign that\nread 'Tractor Beam Generator'.\"Okay,\"\nsaid Lightning Dust to herself. \"Now how do I 'disable' this thing?\"\nAfter a few seconds of thinking, she decided the best thing to do was\njust start destroying as much as she possibly good.She\nbegan pulling all the wires and tubes that she could, lighting up the\ntunnel with magical/electrical sparks. She turned around and started\nbucking a large pipeline that was connected to the machine. After a few\ngood bucks, the pipe broke off of the machine, sending a burst of gases\ninto the air out of the pipe.The low hum coming from the machine suddenly quieted to a weak whine, and then ended all together.Lightning soon began to enjoy herself as she continued to break the machine.\"This\nis fun!\" she grunted as she bucked a large metal panel off of the\nmachine, exposing the machines innards. She then reached inside and\nbegan pulling whatever wires she saw in there.Wow. Security here sucks,\nshe thought to herself, surprised that she had been able to just walk\nin to this place and start breaking stuff with out any guards trying to\nstop her.Unfortunately, she didn't realize just how much noise she was making.\"HEY, YOU THERE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!\"Lightning\nDust cringed when she heard that sudden shout and turned her head in\nthe direction it had come from. She saw two royal unicorn guards\nstanding a short ways down the tunnel the direction she had come in,\nboth of them illuminated by the blue and golden light coming from the\nglows around their horns. They didn't look happy.Darn it, Lightning Dust thought to herself nervously. The guards began approaching her.Lightning\nDust leaped into the air and flared her wings. She flew over the two\nsurprised guards heads and sped down the tunnel back the way she had\ncame.As she flew, she saw a couple blue\nand yellow flashes of light bounce off the walls and some of the\nmachinery around her. Glancing behind her, she could see the two guards\nfiring magic blasts at her from their horns. However, after a few more\nseconds, she was soon too far away from them to possibly hit her.She looked ahead of her and saw the light of the open door out of the maintenance tunnel.Crap, I had left that open, didn't I?\nshe thought to herself, realizing that had probably helped get the\nattention of the guards who had found her, in addition to the noise she\nhad been making. Lightning Dust curses herself for being so reckless\nagain.She flew out the door into the\nbright corridor, and proceeded to fly down it as fast as she could back\ntowards the hangar where she was too meet Blueblood and Dumbbell. She\ndidn't care if guards saw her now. With the tractor beam generator\nsuccessfully damaged, all that mattered was getting the heck out of this\nplace before the guards had a chance to fix it.As\nshe was flying, suddenly the loud whine of an alarm started blaring all\nthroughout the corridor. It didn't take a genius to realize that those\ntwo guards she had just gotten away from must have set it off because of\nher.Then she heard a voice on an\nintercom start speaking over the sound of the alarm. \"Intruder alert!\nAll guards to maintenance tunnel twelve G on deck seventy two! This is\nnot a drill!\"Great. Now this whole place knows about me, Lightning thought to herself. I hope Blueblood and Dumbbell are having better luck then me....................Back in the elevator, Blueblood and Dumbbell heard the alarm blaring.\"What's that?\" asked Dumbbell, glancing around him nervously.\"I\ndon't know,\" said Blueblood, however he figured it couldn't be good.\n\"Maybe they found out the princess is missing! We better hurry!\"Dumbbell nodded.When\nthe elevator came to a stop and the doors opened up, the two stallions\npoked their heads out and looked both ways. After seeing the corridor\nwas clear, they came out and started galloping down the corridor as fast\nas they could, which wasn't easy for Dumbbell with Princess Luna draped\nover his back.As they got further down the corridor, they could hear a commotion up ahead of them.\"You hear that?\" Dumbbell said.Blueblood\ngave him a quick nod as they hurried. They were almost to the hangar\nbay where their ship was. If he remembered correctly, it was just up\nahead of them around the next corner they were about to turn.As\nthey rounded the corner, up ahead of them in the corridor, they saw a\nsight that made their hearts sink. Lightning Dust was caught between two\ngroups of guards, blocking her path to the doorway to the hangar. She\nwas flying in the air, trying to dodge the spells being cast at her by\nthe unicorn guards. Blueblood and Dumbbell watched helplessly as\nLightning Dust made an attempt to fly over the guards in front of her. Suddenly,\nLightning Dust's eyes met both Blueblood's and Dumbbell's. They could\nsee actual panic written on her face as she tried to get past the\nguards. A second later, they saw Lightning Dust get hit in the back with\none of the unicorn guards' spells. A brief expression of shock flashed\nacross Lightning Dust's face before she went limp and fell out of the\nair, falling to the metal floor beneath her with a thud. It had\napparently been a stun spell because she was now lying unconscious.\"LIGHTNING!\" Dumbbell shouted on impulse, but realized his mistake the second after he made it.All the guards turned their heads to look at them.Dumbbell cursed himself as he and Blueblood froze on the spot.\"Hey, isn't that Princess Luna?\" said one of the guards.\"It is! Hey, those two aren't guards!\"\"Crap!\" Dumbbell cursed.\"Wait to go,\" Blueblood said angrily to Dumbbell. The\nguards began making a move towards them. Blueblood, panicking for a way\nout, noticed the doorway into the hangar bay a few meters on their\nleft.\"Lets get out of here!\" Blueblood\nshouted, pushing Dumbbell with his head to start running into the hangar\nbay where their ship was. Blueblood hated the fact that they were\nleaving Lightning Dust, but they didn't have any choice. The guards knew\nwho they were now, and there was absolutely no way they could get to\nLightning Dust without the guards capturing them as well, and then their\nwhole plan would be ruined and they would all be put in prison.The\nunicorn guards began casting spells at Blueblood and Dumbbell as the\ntwo ran into the hangar, which much to their surprise was deserted of\nany guards. They guessed it was empty because all the guards had left it\nto go into the corridors to search for Lightning Dust. She must have\nput up quite a fight for them to need all of the guards to capture her.They\nbegan running towards their ship, which was still right where it had\nbeen. All the while, ducking down to avoid getting hit by the spells the\nguards were hurling at them.They\nmiraculously made it to the house ship and leap inside the open doorway,\nslamming the twin doors shut behind them and locking them.\"That was a close one!\" breathed Dumbbell, now that they were out of the line of fire.Blueblood nodded as he caught his breath. He could practically hear his own heart beating in his chest.At\nthat moment they both jumped as they heard the guards outside starting\nto slam against the front doors, trying to bust them open. They both\nlooked at each other, knowing they didn't have a lot of time.\"Lets get to the bridge and start the ship, NOW!\" urged Blueblood.Dumbbell nodded and they hurried from the foyer into the living room.\"What\nabout everyone else?\" said Dumbbell as they ran into the bridge,\nreferring to the others who were probably still hiding in the closet\nupstairs.\"NO TIME!\" Blueblood said, as he\ncould still hear the guards pounding on the front door. He went to a\ncomputer station and began pressed the buttons he remembered would\nactivate the force field around the ship. \"We have to take off now. I\nsure hope Lightning Dust was able to stop the tractor beam.\"Dumbbell let Princess Luna slip off of his back onto the floor and then sat down in the pilot seat.They both heard a loud magical zap outside the ship as Blueblood successfully got the force field bubble up around the ship.\"That should hold them for a bit,\" said Blueblood, looking over at Dumbbell. \"Get us out of here!\"\"Firing thrusters!\" said Dumbbell as he worked the pilot controls. \"We're taking off!\"They\nheard the sound of the rocket thrusters firing outside. The ship shook\nand rattled as it lifted up off the floor of the hangar bay.At\nthat moment, Trixie, Hoops, Score, Jet Set, Upper Crust, Gilda, Sunset,\nFlim, Flam, Surprise, and Iron Will came running onto the bridge.\"What's going on?\" asked Trixie.\"We're taking off!\" said Dumbbell.\"So it worked?\" said Iron Will, sounding hopeful.\"...Not...\nexactly,\" said Blueblood, looking and sounding ashamed. That was when\nhe noticed Iron Will in the room with them. \"WAIT, IRON WILL?!\"\nBlueblood shouted in shock, surprised to see the minotaur with them,\nknowing full well that they had left him back on Earth. \"WHAT... WHEN... HOW\nDID YOU GET HERE?!\"\"What do you mean?\" said the minotaur, sounding confused. \"I've been here the whole time.\"Blueblood continued to stare at him incredulously. \"What!? No you haven't!\"Then\nTrixie spoke up. \"Another anomaly opened up while you guys were gone.\nAnd now he's here, and he thinks he's been with us this whole time.\"\"Oh,\" said Blueblood, deciding not to question it. He walked over to his command chair and sat down in it.Outside the ship, they could hear little booms as the guards fired spells at the force field protecting their ship.\n\"Oh my...!\" said Upper Crust, pointing at Princess Luna lying on the\nfloor. \"Is that Princess Luna? What the heck is Princess Luna doing\nhere?\" \"That's a long story,\" said Blueblood. \"Lets just get out of here!\"Dumbbell\nworked the controls and on the view screen they watched as the ship\nturned around in the air so that they were facing the exit. Dumbbell\npushed forward on the controls, and they flew out of the hangar bay out\ninto space. They began flying away from the space station. \"Where is Lightning Dust?\" Gilda asked suddenly, looking around for her friend.Blueblood\nand Dumbbell both gulped in shame and sadness and looked at each other.\nThey both knew this wasn't going to be easy, but they had to tell them\nall sooner or later.\"She... she got captured,\" said Blueblood, turning back to Gilda.Gilda's eyes widened in shock and horror. \"WHAT!?\" the griffon exclaimed.\"We\nsplit up,\" continued Blueblood, looking down at the floor in sadness.\n\"She got caught by the guards. There was nothing we could do.\"\"YOU\nLEFT HER BEHIND!!!\" Gilda yelled angrily, flapping her wings and\nleaping over to Blueblood, landing right in front of him and getting\nright in his face, gritting her fangs in rage.\"There\nwas nothing we could do!\" Blueblood whimpered, trying to back away from\nthe snarling griffon, but unable to because he was in a chair. \"They\nwere shooting at us! If we had tried to save her, they would have caught\nus as well. And they would have found you all eventually!\"Before Gilda could tear into Blueblood, Hoops suddenly spoke up. \"Uh, guys! Look!\" He was pointing at the view screen.They\nall looked and gulped in fear at what they saw. On the view screen they\ncould see that giant, odd shaped ship that had attacked them back when\nthey first left Earth. The Ascendency. The ship, they knew, Rarity and Shining Armor, and perhaps even more of the element bearers, were aboard.And\nto make things even worse, it wasn't alone, either. There were four\nmore ships, just like it, nearby it. On each of their hulls were the\nwords, HMS Destiny, HMS Monarch, HMS Harmony, and HMS Devotion written in large bold letters.All\nof them were moving towards them, the massive cannon opening on each of\nthe five ships began to glow with white light. They all remembered what\nthat meant from before.\"They're gonna fire at us!\" gulped Jet Set.\"Hoops! The red button!\" shouted Trixie.They all knew what she meant by that. The improbability drive!\"Press it?\" Hoops asked her.Outside, all five of the enemy ships fired their energy blasts simultaneously.\"PRESS IT NOW!\" Trixie screamed.Hoops\nslammed his hoof down on the red button. Just like last time, they all\nfelt a strange stretching feeling in their bodies before they, and the\nship, all disappeared in blink of an eye, just as the energy beams\npassed through right where their ship had been......................In\nanother part of space, a giant horseshoe suddenly appeared out of\nnowhere, and it then began to rapidly transform into a pumpkin, and then\na school bus, and then Derpy Hooves' head, and then finally it became\nthe house ship, Defiant, only it was made entirely of legos.On board the Defiant, they were discovering that they themselves were made of legos too.\"And now we're Legos,\" said Flim, looking at his lego body.\"Huh! I have the sudden urge to start singing 'Everything Is Awesome'!\" said Hoops.Suddenly, Gilda turned back to Blueblood and punched him in the head. Blueblood\nshouted in surprise as his lego head was knocked off his body and fell\nto the floor. But since he was made of legos, his body simply walked to\nwhere his head was lying and picked it up and stuck it back on. And just\nin time too, because a split second later they all felt that stretching\nfeeling again, and then, in the blink of an eye, they and the ship all\nturned back to their normal selves as normality was restored.Blueblood looked back at Gilda in anger. \"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!\" he shouted.\"YOU\nLEFT LIGHTNING DUST BEHIND!\" Gilda shouted back at him. She was about\nto swing at Blueblood again when she was suddenly Iron Will grabbed her\nraised arm and pulled her back away from the cowering Blueblood. \"LET\nGO OF ME!\" Gilda shouted at the minotaur, trying to pull away from him.\nBut it was useless against Iron Will. He was way stronger than her.\"Gilda, calm down!\" Iron Will snapped at the struggling griffon. \"I'm sure the didn't leave her on purpose!\"\"Of\ncourse we didn't!\" said Dumbbell, getting up from his pilot seat and\nrunning over to them. \"There was nothing we could do! The guards had her\nsurrounded, and they were after us too!\"\"We're\ngonna get her back, Gilda,\" said Iron Will, Gilda still struggling in\nhis grasp. \"We're gonna do all we can to rescue her, but we can't help\nher if we get captured ourselves!\"Blueblood nodded. \"That's right!\" he said, though he was less sure that they even could successfully rescue Lightning Dust, but he had to say something to calm Gilda down for now. \"We're going to try to rescue her, of course! I give you my word as a Prince!\"Gilda slowly stopped struggling and seemed to calm down. Iron Will let go of her.She looked at Blueblood, her expression still angry. \"Your word means jack squat to me,\" she spat.The room became eerily silent after that.Slowly,\nHoops approached Gilda. \"Don't worry, Gilda,\" he said, showing a\nsurprising display of kindness. \"We'll rescue Lightning Dust. And\nbesides, I'm sure she'll be okay. I really doubt they'd hurt her or\nanything.\"Gilda let out a sigh, but then\nglared at Hoops. \"You don't know that. What if they're torturing her for\ninformation or something?\".....................When\nLightning Dust came to, she didn't know where she was, but she had to\nsquint her eyes as they got used to a bright golden light.As her eyes adjusted, she looked around saw that she was in what looked like a very large, luxury hotel room.On\nthe far side of the room there was a living area, with some elegant\nsofa's and chairs, a glass coffee table. A marble fireplace in the wall\nwas flickering with a few flaming logs. At the far end of the room,\nthere was an enormous window, with closed curtains, so she couldn't see\nout. In a corner, there was a fancy wooden desk, covered with various\nstacks of papers.She became aware that\nshe was lying on something soft and comfortable. She looked down, and\nsaw she was lying on a large, elegant king sized bed, complete with bed\ncurtains that were currently drawn back, and beside it on one side was a\nnight stand with a lamp, and on the other a large wooden wardrobe.The golden light in the room was coming from a crystal chandelier hanging from the sealing illuminated the room.\"Where the heck am I?\" she asked herself in confusion. ","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791805-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-9-capture.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791809-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-11-the-princess-s-offer.json"}