# To Boldly Hoof It Ch 10. Escape

Author: BluebloodFan91
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Ch 9. Escape

The 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
shrugged. "Maybe Princess Celestia is only allowing the ponies who she
trusts the most with this secret access. So she only has a minimal staff
here."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
couldn't help but chuckle at Dumbbell's joke. But in all seriousness,
he still couldn't believe all this around him actually existed. He had
used to think that his aunt Celestia was a completely honest ruler, who
always told her subjects the truth about everything that went on, with
the exception of her good-natured little jokes every now and then. But
now, he was beginning to doubt everything he knew about his great aunt.
Celestia had definitely been hiding the fact that she had space ships
and a giant space station, as well as trying to keep the plot hole a
secret. She was definitely up to something that she wanted to keep a
secret from almost everypony. And what bugged him the most was that he
still had no idea what it was.They soon
came across an elevator. They both got inside and Blueblood used his
magic to push the button for the floor Princess Luna's room was on. The
doors closed and the elevator started moving upwards.Dumbbell
and Blueblood then both cringed with disgust when they heard the tune
of the 'Equestria Girls' song start playing in the elevator."Oh, gosh," groaned Dumbbell.Unable
to take it, Blueblood spotted the speaker the song was coming from up
on the sealing of the elevator, and lit up his horn with magic. He then
shot a blast of magic out of his horn at the speaker, which then
exploded with a burst of electrical sparks and some smoke. The music
ceased. Now all that could be heard was the soft sound of the elevator
moving.Dumbbell and Blueblood waved the smoke away from their faced with their hooves."Thank you!" said Dumbbell."You're welcome," said Blueblood.After
a few more moments, the elevator came to a halt, and the doors opened
again. Blueblood and Dumbbell got out and began walking down the
corridor the way they remembered the princess's room was on the map.They
immediately could tell which room the princess was in when it came into
view. They saw a unicorn guard standing in front of the door. Also,
Princess 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
guard stared at them, raising an eyebrow at them. "Princess Celestia
has ordered that no one is to disturb her sister. And Princess Luna is
in a coma. She can't eat anything at the moment. Also, where is the
food?"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..."
Dumbbell stuttered to the guard, realizing his plan had completely
fallen apart. Panicking, he quickly leaped into the air, spun around
using his wings, and bucked the surprised guard in the head. The guards
was knocked back against the door and he fell to the floor, knocked
unconscious.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
rolled his eyes at Dumbbell and then used his magic to open up the door
to Princess Luna's room. They both looked inside.The
room was very large and lavishly decorated. It was actually kind of
like an expensive fancy hotel room. Golden light from a crystal
chandelier hanging from the sealing illuminated the room. Several Large
Persian rugs lined the hard oak floor. On one side of the big room there
was a living area, with some elegant sofa's and chairs, a glass coffee
table, and a marble fireplace. At the far end of the room, there was an
enormous window, looking out into space. In a corner, there was a fancy
wooden desk, and on the other side of the room, there was large, elegant
king sized bed, complete with drawn back bed curtains, and beside it on
one side was a night stand with a lamp, and on the other a large wooden
wardrobe.They immediately spotted
Princess Luna lying on the bed, unconscious. They walked into the room
and Blueblood pulled the unconscious guard into the room with them for
good measure, and closed the door behind them.The two stallions walked up to Princess Luna's bedside."Okay,
I know this is going to sound cheesy," said Dumbbell, "but I kind off
feel like a knight in a fairy tail right now, going on a dangerous
mission to rescue a beautiful princess."Blueblood
could see a Dumbbell had a dreamy look in his eyes as he stared at the
unconscious alicorn mare lying on the bed before them. Even Blueblood
had to admit, even though he knew she was his great aunt, she really did
look quite beautiful lying there unconscious, her magical cloud of a
mane flowing out from her head over the pillows, her barreled chest
slowly rising and falling with each breath she took.Blueblood
shook those weird thoughts from his head and got back to the situation
at hoof. "Come on! Lets hurry and get her out of here before somepony
notices 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
lit up his horn and levitated Luna's unconscious body up off of the bed
with his magic, and, much to Dumbbell's surprise, laid her down on the
brown 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!
We can't just walk around this place carrying the Princess like this!
Even if there are hardly any guards in the corridors, somepony's gonna
notice."Blueblood stopped where he was
realizing with dismay that his friend was right. "You're right," he
said, looking back at the brown pegasus with an alicorn on his back.
"What do we do?"They both thought for a
few moments, trying to come up with an idea. That was when Dumbbell
noticed the guard he had knocked out still lying on the floor where they
had 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..."
Dumbbell scratched the back of his mane as he thought for a moment,
working out his plan in his head. "We'll just carry her, and tell
anypony we come across that she's just another guard that was injured or
something, 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
quickly, they took the unconscious unicorn guard's armor off him and
put it on Princess Luna. They even took care to make sure the princess's
giveaway magical, starry, cloud-like mane and tail were tucked in under
the armor so that they wouldn't give her away."Hey,
Blueblood, I've always wondered," said Dumbbell as he tucked the
princess's mane underneath her helmet, "what the heck are Princess
Celestia's and Princess Luna's manes and tails made of? Because this isn't hair!"Blueblood
thought for a moment, but then shrugged. "Honestly, I don't know," he
admitted. "I've never thought to ask them about that. I suppose they're
made 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
they were finished putting the armor on Luna, she did indeed look like
she might pass for a unicorn guard, so long as no one got a good enough
look at her. They placed her back on Dumbbell's back and then walked
back out of the room. They headed back down the corridor to the
elevator. Fortunately, they didn't run into any guards on the way so
far.When they got to the elevator,
Blueblood was about to press the button when the doors suddenly opened,
revealing a pegasus guard inside. Blueblood and Dumbbell froze.The
guard walked out of the elevator, but then paused and looked at the
guard 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
to their relief, the guard smiled at them and said, "I hope she gets
better. By the way, just so you know, something happened to the music
speaker in that elevator." He pointed back at the elevator he had just
walked out of. "It's a shame too. I really liked that song." And with
that, the guard walked off and continued on his way down the corridor.Blueblood
and Dumbbell walked into the elevator and Blueblood used his magic to
press 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
Dust galloped her way through the corridors, looking for the
maintenance tunnel where the tractor beam emitter was located. She had
decided to stop flying through the corridors because every now and then
she would pass a guard, and she figured a guard seeing her flying
through the place, even if she was a pegasus, would look suspicious,
even if she was disguised as a guard. She knew guards weren't supposed
to act like that.Finally, she found the
door she was looking for. On it, written in big letters, were the words,
maintenance tunnel 12G. She leaped over to it and, making sure she was
alone in the corridor, she opened it up and stepped inside.She
found herself in a dimly lit tunnel. Various pipes and machines lined
the walls as far as the eye could see. And looking down the tunnel, it
looked like it went on forever.She
trotted through the tunnel, ducking under or stepping over the
occasional low hanging object, looking for anything that had to do with
the tractor beam. Fortunately, all of the machines and pipes and wires
were nicely labeled in big bold letters, like she was in the sixty's
version of the Batcave.After searching
for several minutes, she finally found a big, bulky, cylindrical machine
the size of a train engine, jutting out of the wall of the tunnel.
Coming from the machine was a low mechanical hum. On it was a sign that
read 'Tractor Beam Generator'."Okay,"
said Lightning Dust to herself. "Now how do I 'disable' this thing?"
After a few seconds of thinking, she decided the best thing to do was
just start destroying as much as she possibly good.She
began pulling all the wires and tubes that she could, lighting up the
tunnel with magical/electrical sparks. She turned around and started
bucking a large pipeline that was connected to the machine. After a few
good bucks, the pipe broke off of the machine, sending a burst of gases
into 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
is fun!" she grunted as she bucked a large metal panel off of the
machine, exposing the machines innards. She then reached inside and
began pulling whatever wires she saw in there.Wow. Security here sucks,
she thought to herself, surprised that she had been able to just walk
in to this place and start breaking stuff with out any guards trying to
stop her.Unfortunately, she didn't realize just how much noise she was making."HEY, YOU THERE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"Lightning
Dust cringed when she heard that sudden shout and turned her head in
the direction it had come from. She saw two royal unicorn guards
standing a short ways down the tunnel the direction she had come in,
both of them illuminated by the blue and golden light coming from the
glows around their horns. They didn't look happy.Darn it, Lightning Dust thought to herself nervously. The guards began approaching her.Lightning
Dust leaped into the air and flared her wings. She flew over the two
surprised guards heads and sped down the tunnel back the way she had
came.As she flew, she saw a couple blue
and yellow flashes of light bounce off the walls and some of the
machinery around her. Glancing behind her, she could see the two guards
firing magic blasts at her from their horns. However, after a few more
seconds, 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?
she thought to herself, realizing that had probably helped get the
attention of the guards who had found her, in addition to the noise she
had been making. Lightning Dust curses herself for being so reckless
again.She flew out the door into the
bright corridor, and proceeded to fly down it as fast as she could back
towards the hangar where she was too meet Blueblood and Dumbbell. She
didn't care if guards saw her now. With the tractor beam generator
successfully damaged, all that mattered was getting the heck out of this
place before the guards had a chance to fix it.As
she was flying, suddenly the loud whine of an alarm started blaring all
throughout the corridor. It didn't take a genius to realize that those
two guards she had just gotten away from must have set it off because of
her.Then she heard a voice on an
intercom start speaking over the sound of the alarm. "Intruder alert!
All guards to maintenance tunnel twelve G on deck seventy two! This is
not 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
don't know," said Blueblood, however he figured it couldn't be good.
"Maybe they found out the princess is missing! We better hurry!"Dumbbell nodded.When
the elevator came to a stop and the doors opened up, the two stallions
poked their heads out and looked both ways. After seeing the corridor
was clear, they came out and started galloping down the corridor as fast
as they could, which wasn't easy for Dumbbell with Princess Luna draped
over his back.As they got further down the corridor, they could hear a commotion up ahead of them."You hear that?" Dumbbell said.Blueblood
gave him a quick nod as they hurried. They were almost to the hangar
bay where their ship was. If he remembered correctly, it was just up
ahead of them around the next corner they were about to turn.As
they rounded the corner, up ahead of them in the corridor, they saw a
sight that made their hearts sink. Lightning Dust was caught between two
groups of guards, blocking her path to the doorway to the hangar. She
was flying in the air, trying to dodge the spells being cast at her by
the unicorn guards. Blueblood and Dumbbell watched helplessly as
Lightning Dust made an attempt to fly over the guards in front of her. Suddenly,
Lightning Dust's eyes met both Blueblood's and Dumbbell's. They could
see actual panic written on her face as she tried to get past the
guards. A second later, they saw Lightning Dust get hit in the back with
one of the unicorn guards' spells. A brief expression of shock flashed
across Lightning Dust's face before she went limp and fell out of the
air, falling to the metal floor beneath her with a thud. It had
apparently 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
guards began making a move towards them. Blueblood, panicking for a way
out, noticed the doorway into the hangar bay a few meters on their
left."Lets get out of here!" Blueblood
shouted, pushing Dumbbell with his head to start running into the hangar
bay where their ship was. Blueblood hated the fact that they were
leaving Lightning Dust, but they didn't have any choice. The guards knew
who they were now, and there was absolutely no way they could get to
Lightning Dust without the guards capturing them as well, and then their
whole plan would be ruined and they would all be put in prison.The
unicorn guards began casting spells at Blueblood and Dumbbell as the
two ran into the hangar, which much to their surprise was deserted of
any guards. They guessed it was empty because all the guards had left it
to go into the corridors to search for Lightning Dust. She must have
put up quite a fight for them to need all of the guards to capture her.They
began running towards their ship, which was still right where it had
been. All the while, ducking down to avoid getting hit by the spells the
guards were hurling at them.They
miraculously made it to the house ship and leap inside the open doorway,
slamming 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
that moment they both jumped as they heard the guards outside starting
to slam against the front doors, trying to bust them open. They both
looked 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
about everyone else?" said Dumbbell as they ran into the bridge,
referring to the others who were probably still hiding in the closet
upstairs."NO TIME!" Blueblood said, as he
could still hear the guards pounding on the front door. He went to a
computer station and began pressed the buttons he remembered would
activate the force field around the ship. "We have to take off now. I
sure 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
heard the sound of the rocket thrusters firing outside. The ship shook
and rattled as it lifted up off the floor of the hangar bay.At
that moment, Trixie, Hoops, Score, Jet Set, Upper Crust, Gilda, Sunset,
Flim, 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...
exactly," said Blueblood, looking and sounding ashamed. That was when
he noticed Iron Will in the room with them. "WAIT, IRON WILL?!"
Blueblood shouted in shock, surprised to see the minotaur with them,
knowing full well that they had left him back on Earth. "WHAT... WHEN... HOW
DID 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
Trixie spoke up. "Another anomaly opened up while you guys were gone.
And 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.
"Oh my...!" said Upper Crust, pointing at Princess Luna lying on the
floor. "Is that Princess Luna? What the heck is Princess Luna doing
here?" "That's a long story," said Blueblood. "Lets just get out of here!"Dumbbell
worked the controls and on the view screen they watched as the ship
turned around in the air so that they were facing the exit. Dumbbell
pushed forward on the controls, and they flew out of the hangar bay out
into space. They began flying away from the space station. "Where is Lightning Dust?" Gilda asked suddenly, looking around for her friend.Blueblood
and Dumbbell both gulped in shame and sadness and looked at each other.
They both knew this wasn't going to be easy, but they had to tell them
all 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
split up," continued Blueblood, looking down at the floor in sadness.
"She got caught by the guards. There was nothing we could do.""YOU
LEFT HER BEHIND!!!" Gilda yelled angrily, flapping her wings and
leaping over to Blueblood, landing right in front of him and getting
right in his face, gritting her fangs in rage."There
was nothing we could do!" Blueblood whimpered, trying to back away from
the snarling griffon, but unable to because he was in a chair. "They
were shooting at us! If we had tried to save her, they would have caught
us 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
all looked and gulped in fear at what they saw. On the view screen they
could see that giant, odd shaped ship that had attacked them back when
they first left Earth. The Ascendency. The ship, they knew, Rarity and Shining Armor, and perhaps even more of the element bearers, were aboard.And
to make things even worse, it wasn't alone, either. There were four
more ships, just like it, nearby it. On each of their hulls were the
words, HMS Destiny, HMS Monarch, HMS Harmony, and HMS Devotion written in large bold letters.All
of them were moving towards them, the massive cannon opening on each of
the five ships began to glow with white light. They all remembered what
that 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
slammed his hoof down on the red button. Just like last time, they all
felt a strange stretching feeling in their bodies before they, and the
ship, all disappeared in blink of an eye, just as the energy beams
passed through right where their ship had been......................In
another part of space, a giant horseshoe suddenly appeared out of
nowhere, and it then began to rapidly transform into a pumpkin, and then
a school bus, and then Derpy Hooves' head, and then finally it became
the 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
shouted in surprise as his lego head was knocked off his body and fell
to the floor. But since he was made of legos, his body simply walked to
where his head was lying and picked it up and stuck it back on. And just
in time too, because a split second later they all felt that stretching
feeling again, and then, in the blink of an eye, they and the ship all
turned 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
LEFT LIGHTNING DUST BEHIND!" Gilda shouted back at him. She was about
to swing at Blueblood again when she was suddenly Iron Will grabbed her
raised arm and pulled her back away from the cowering Blueblood. "LET
GO OF ME!" Gilda shouted at the minotaur, trying to pull away from him.
But 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
course we didn't!" said Dumbbell, getting up from his pilot seat and
running over to them. "There was nothing we could do! The guards had her
surrounded, and they were after us too!""We're
gonna get her back, Gilda," said Iron Will, Gilda still struggling in
his grasp. "We're gonna do all we can to rescue her, but we can't help
her 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,
Hoops approached Gilda. "Don't worry, Gilda," he said, showing a
surprising display of kindness. "We'll rescue Lightning Dust. And
besides, I'm sure she'll be okay. I really doubt they'd hurt her or
anything."Gilda let out a sigh, but then
glared at Hoops. "You don't know that. What if they're torturing her for
information or something?".....................When
Lightning Dust came to, she didn't know where she was, but she had to
squint 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
the far side of the room there was a living area, with some elegant
sofa's and chairs, a glass coffee table. A marble fireplace in the wall
was flickering with a few flaming logs. At the far end of the room,
there was an enormous window, with closed curtains, so she couldn't see
out. In a corner, there was a fancy wooden desk, covered with various
stacks of papers.She became aware that
she was lying on something soft and comfortable. She looked down, and
saw she was lying on a large, elegant king sized bed, complete with bed
curtains that were currently drawn back, and beside it on one side was a
night 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.

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