//------------------------------// // A Failed Arrest // Story: The Journey of Lukas // by MyAwesomePony //------------------------------// After making their way out of the city of Maretime Bay, Sunny had just taken Izzy to her lighthouse, readjusted the crooked picture next to the door and closed all of the curtains in the room so that nobody would be able to peek through. She then whipped her head around to take a real good look at Izzy, who was still smiling from ear to ear, she couldn't believe that a real life unicorn was in her house. As she continued to stare at her in disbelief, Izzy finally caught wind on what was going on. "Do Earth ponies also like staring contests?" She asked, before she started to stare really hard at Sunny Starscout, up to the point where they were almost touching noses, but after a while, she ended up losing the contest. "Ah! You win! I blinked!" As Izzy walked off the explore the room, Sunny still couldn't believe the fact that she was within the presence of a real life unicorn. "There's... a unicorn... in my house... This is so cool!" She squealed in a fangirl voice, but suddenly, her smile quickly faded away as she processed the situation she had gotten herself into. "Wait, no, it's bad. Very, very bad. What have I done?" She asked herself in a panic. "Wow! I've never seen an Earth pony before." Izzy said as she stared into a telescope nearby. "We look exactly the same! Except for this, of course." She then gestured to her unicorn horn. "Whoa! Hey! Be careful where you point that thing." Sunny said cautiously after Izzy got a bit too close to her. "Why?" She asked. "Well, I, uh... um... sorta don't want to get zapped with a wayward laser beam." Sunny stuttered. "But of course you know that already. [chuckles] You've probably been reading my mind this whole time." Suddenly, she noticed something rather odd about Izzy's horn. " Isn't it supposed to glow, by the way? Or does that only happen when you levitate stuff?" "Well, actually..." Izzy laughed nervously, shifting her eyes around the room, but before she could explain, she was interrupted by Sunny. "Wait! Don't answer that yet. Let me get my notebook!" Sunny then ran over to the counter in the kitchen, pulling out her notebook from one of the drawers. "Okay, wow. Okay." She exhaled as she opened the notebook. "A hundred forty-two questions for a unicorn". Question number one - where do you live?" "Bridlewood." Izzy replied. "I knew it!" Sunny exclaimed, before continuing to ask her questions in a rather fast pace. "Do unicorns really live in trees? Do they eat pizza? If so, what toppings do they like? If not, why not? Can you actually fry pony brains with a single horn zap?" She then stopped asking questions and gasped as she noticed a can of beans nearby, knocking it over to Izzy. "Can you make this float?" Izzy looked at the can of beans for a brief moment, before looking back up at Sunny with a sad look on her face. "No... but I can do this." She then proceeded to fling the can right onto her horn, bouncing it in the air like a basketball. Eventually, she bounced it one more time, causing it to hit the ground as beans splattered all over the floor. "Ta-daaaaa!" "Wait. You don't have any magic?" Sunny asked in a sudden sad tone. But before Sunny could get an answer, they were suddenly interjected by Lukas, who swung the door open and closed it behind him instantly, panting as he did so. "Lukas? What took you so long?" Sunny wondered about the absence of the human. "Sorry, Sunny. I had to distract Hitch from coming here, it's going to take a while for him to pick up all of that litter." Lukas scoffed to himself, but little did he know, his statement turned out to be wrong. "Sunny Starscout!" Hitch called out in an amplified voice. "Argh, that hurt." He cleared his throat and continued, as Sprout was standing behind him wearing one of those mind reading hats. "Sunny Starscout, I know you're in there with that unicorn! Come out with your hooves up and surrender!" "Yeah, you're completely surrounded!" Sprout exclaimed, trying to sound intimidating, when in actuality, there was nobody else there besides him and Hitch. "Will you let me do my job?" Hitch whispered angrily, before turning back over. "You are under arrest!" "Wow, he cleans up litter fast." Lukas pointed out "This is bad." Sunny said nervously. "How sneaky are you guys? "Uh, medium sneaky?" Izzy replied. "Yeah, what she said." Lukas added in. "I can work with that." Sunny said in a more calm voice. "Okay, I'll distract them." "Oh, pffft. Relax. I'll talk to them." Izzy scoffed as she made his way out the door. "Wha—? N-No, no!" Sunny cried out, trying to stop the unicorn from making the situation worse for them, but despite Sunny's begging, Izzy went outside to try to talk some sense into Hitch and Sprout. "Hi, guys!" Izzy greeted casually. "Now, I know what you're thinking." "Aah! She's already reading our minds!" Sprout screamed, before running in the opposite direction as fast as he could. "Quick, before she fries our brains!" "W-What are you doing? Where are you going?" Hitch asked, turning his head around, but unbeknownst to him, Sunny, Izzy and Lukas quickly made their escape. "To get reinforcements!" Sprout exclaimed. "We have reinforcements?" Hitch asked himself, before noticing that the three friends had just left. "Oh, come on!"