//------------------------------// // Making An Escape // Story: The Journey of Lukas // by MyAwesomePony //------------------------------// Sunny, Izzy and Lukas were running through the streets in Maretime Bay, where ponies were still running around screaming and panicking at the presence of a unicorn, but Izzy seemed oblivious to this. "Earth ponies are serious about games." She giggled, unaware of the havoc that she caused. "They're not playing! They're terrified!" Sunny clarified the situation for her. "Oh no! Of what?" Izzy asked, now a bit concerned. "You! You're a unicorn! Earth ponies hate unicorns!" Sunny replied. "Really? That seems a little harsh." Izzy thought. "Yeah, and they apparently take their security measures to the extreme!" Lukas added. While they were running, Izzy took a good look at Lukas. "I don't mean to come off as rude, but you are a funny looking creature." "Yeah, I get that a lot." Lukas replied, not at all offended by Izzy's comment. "I'm Lukas, by the way." "Well, nice to meet you, Lukas." Izzy said happily. "No time for introductions, we have to go!" Sunny wailed in a frantic tone. Once they had reached the center of Maretime Bay, they saw a bunch of green slime everywhere, looking up, they saw that Phyllis had prepped up some sort of catapults and they were both projecting the same green goo. barely missing the trio. "Let's go!" Sunny exclaimed and ran off, with Izzy and Lukas following behind. Lukas, Izzy and Sunny took cover behind the tram car, which had previously applied its brakes after seeing Izzy. Green slime flew everywhere and ponies were still running amuck, it was utter chaos. Sunny and Izzy began to run off again, however, Lukas wasn't so lucky. When he was about to leave, a blob of slime stuck to his hands, causing them to get stuck on the tram. "Guys help! I'm stuck." Lukas called out in a panic. "I got ya, Lukas!" Izzy cried as she ran up towards Lukas and set him free by cutting the slime with her horn. "Thanks Izzy, now let's get out of here!" The trio continued to run as fast as they could, with a few minor issues along the way, but just when they thought that they were in the clear, Sunny and Lukas looked behind to see that Izzy was no long behind them, but instead was distracted by a movie theater as she started to make her way towards it. "Ooh, I haven't seen this one yet." But Izzy would've been better off if she had just stayed there, because as soon as she started trotting, she was suddenly incased in a metal box with a red siren on top, there was also a big red button on the side of it, which was assumed to be how you open up the box. After that, everything went silent, there wasn't a single sound besides the ringing siren. "Woah, that seems a bit like overkill." Lukas muttered under his breathe. "All right, citizens, calm down." Hitch said aloud. "The threat has been neutralized. The unicorn has been captured. You may now cheer." As if on cue, everyone began cheering knowing that Izzy was no longer a threat to them, however, Sunny felt pretty bad for her, even though they have only known her for a couple of minutes now, she knew that she didn't do anything wrong. She looked over at Lukas to get his approval as Lukas slowly nodded his head as if he knew what Sunny was thinking, she started to walk towards the box. "Sunny! What are you doing?" Hitch asked as the crowd stopped cheering. "Don't even think about it. No, don't you dare. No, no, no, no!" Despite Hitch's demands, Sunny ignored him and pushed the red button on the side of the box. "Sunny!" Hitch exclaimed. But it was too late, Izzy was freed again, but she still had a big smile on her face like nothing ever happened. "So, your name's Sunny?" Now that Izzy was out of the box, the ponies started panicking once again, some of them even ended up getting trapped in the boxes themselves. Sunny and Izzy quickly raced away. "Bye! It was nice to meet you all!" She called out. "Wait up, guys!" Lukas wailed, and was about to follow them, but then he heard Hitch say... "Deputy, to the lighthouse!" "Uh oh! I gotta slow him down, but how?" Lukas thought to himself and after looking around, he saw a nearby trash can filled to the brim with trash. Lukas then walked over towards the trash can and proceeded to knock it over, causing all of the trash inside of it to spill all over the floor. "Oh no, there's litter on the ground, who's going to come and pick it up?" Lukas asked in a fake tone. Hitch was running after the two ponies, but then heard Lukas and whipped his head around. "Litter!" He then ran up towards the trash. "Don't worry, Lukas. I'll have this litter cleaned up in no time." "Ha, I can't believe that actually worked." Lukas chuckled as he ran off.