The next day, in front of Maretime Bay Police Station,
“Going to the Police Station first thing in the mooooorning, Ooo Yah!” Izzy sings a merry tune, dancing to the Station’s front door, “Going to See Hit- Friends!” Izzy quickly corrected herself and looked around to make sure no pony heard her, “I am going to see my friend's first thing in the morning, yah,” Izzy enters the station to a sight to behold. Hitch and Sprout were not surprised to see there since they work there; however, seeing Sunny and Aaron behind bars sure was. Sunny presses her face against the bars depress while Aaron faces the corner mumbling to himself, twitching now and then,
She is not sure exactly what happened yesterday, but when Misty and she went to find their friends earlier, they were nowhere to be seen. Izzy thought that they had gone to eat something else while. If it weren’t for Sunny’s text later that day, she would not have known that they were, quote ‘having a sleepover at the police station,’ unquote “Morning Everypony,”
“Hi Izzy,” Everypony replies, some more enthusiastic than others, as Izzy moves to greet everypony before stopping in front of Sunny,
“Hi, Sunny,” She looks around the cell, “So this is what it feels like being on this side of the bars. It feels rather odd since I was with you the last time this happened. But we had massage chairs and a mini spa,” Hitch gave Izzy a weird look at that statement, “Speaking of which,” She called over her shoulder, “You really need to upgrade your cells, Hitch. They don’t even have a comfy bed in there,” Izzy points to the wooden bench large enough for one pony to lie on with a flat pillow and a small blanket on it,
Perplexed, Hitch could only blink at what he was hearing, “Ahh… I will think about it, Izzy. But you have to remember that they are being punished for being bad ponies.”
“Oh, right. Speaking of which, why did you lock up two of our friends?” She taps on the bars, making them ring, much to Sunny’s discomfort.
Clearing his throat, Sprout speaks up while lifting a small clipboard in his hooves and flipping through the pages, “One of them is in there for battery and the other for disturbing the peace,”
Izzy was taken aback. The last time they were in jail was because of a misunderstanding and fear from the Royal Family of Zephyr Heights. This time Sunny has done something wrong on purpose. “Awe, Sunny, which one did you do?” Izzy leans in close to her friend as Sunny leans away,
“Is that really important, Izzy?” Sunny says unsure how to respond to her friend,
Without missing a beat, Izzy replies with a straight face, “Just curious, is all,”
Sunny throws up her hooves in frustration, yelling at the top of her lungs, “AAAHH! Hitch! How long do we have to be in here for?!” Sunny calls out to the stallion behind the desk,
Hitch looks at the clock on the wall, “About ten more minutes,”
In disbelief, Sunny could only blink, letting that sink in, “That is all?”
Hitch sits up straight in his chair, “Normally, this will be treated as a misdemeanor with a small fine of ten bits, and then you will be free to go. However, no pony came forward to press charges against you two,” He picks up a report going over the situation, “According to eyewitness reports. Most of the ponies were more concerned with teaching you two a lesson about your disorderly conduct rather than going through the trouble of the legal system. As a result, one night in jail is all you will receive so long as you are two behave yourselves,”
“That's good to hear,” Sunny says, glad that there is some good news about all this. However, it was at that same time that Aaron gave a crazy laugh before mumbling to himself again, causing everypony to be on edge,
“What is wrong with Him?” Izzy asks from the safety of hiding behind the sheriff, looking over his shoulder,
“I am not sure myself,” Hitch says as Sunny moves away from Aaron as much as she can physically possible, “He has been acting like this the whole time since they got here,”
“He reminds me of a filly that lost her little dolly down a well in the afternoon,”
Hitch gave Izzy a strange look, “That is an oddly specific comparison,”
Before Izzy could say anything, Aaron spoke up loud enough for everypony to hear, “North is South. East is West. Twilight hates me. Never going to find Canterlot. All the du da day.” He laughs before resuming his mumbling,
Everypony stares in silence, afraid that making too much sound would set him off. All of them expect Izzy as she nudges Hitch, “Wait, what did he say about somepony hating who now?”
“Okay, that's enough; Sprout get her out of there,” Hitch says, snapping Sprout out of it,
The red stallion looks back at Hitch with fear in his eyes, “Why do I have to go near the crazy pony?!” He asks before Hitch gets close to his deputy, staring him down and leaning over him as he speaks,
“Because you swore an oath of protection and loyalty to this town and its citizens, and you are my deputy and have to listen to my orders, and I can have you take night shifts patrols around the abandon warehouse districts if you don’t.”
Sprout’s face turns white at the implication of walking around one of the scariest parts of town at night, “Ah,” He replies pitifully, trying to get out of this situation,
“Now, Sprout!” Sprout moves away from his superior, stopping in front of the cell door,
Slowly and quietly, he opens the door, never taking his eyes off Aaron. However, halfway open, the door made a loud squeak causing everypony to freeze. They all look to the corner of the cell seeing the eyes of a crazy pony looking back at them. Sprout tries to close the door, but Aaron is faster and gets out of the cell, jumping over Sunny in the process, “Freedom!” He shouts at the top of his lungs charging through the front door.
“Aaron, wait!” Sunny calls out to him as everypony gives chase,
Aaron was able to get around the block before he ran into somepony, allowing the others to catch up with him. Aaron had run into Misty, who was passing by, causing her to drop her bags and spill groceries everywhere. Sunny moves to help him up as Izzy goes to check up on Misty.
“Aaron, you, okay?”
“Yeah, I am fine. What hit me?”
“What hit you?!” Misty growls, pushing Izzy out of the way and staring him down, “Why were you running around the corner at top speed without looking where you are going!”
Typically Aaron has no problem giving smack talk to anyone with an attitude toward him. But for some reason, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything except to apologize, “Sorry about that. I wasn’t thinking straight,” He looks around at anything but the mare in front of him, “I had to get out of there,”
“Right,” Misty says, unconvinced, as Aaron smiles weakly at her,
“Aaron,” Hitch says, making Aaron turn about-face,
“Yes, Sheriff?’ Aaron asks before Hitch slaps some hoof cuff on him, “Hay!”
“Sorry, Aaron. I was going to let you go. But I can’t anymore because you broke the law,”
“WHAT. When?” Aaron says in disbelief, looking at his hoofcuffs,
“When you broke out of the jail cell,” Hitch says before letting his deputy read Aaron his rights, escorting him back into the station. Sunny looks torn between following Aaron and Hitch while the sheriff goes to check up on Misty, “Sorry about that, Misty. I hope he didn’t cause you too much trouble,” Hitch says as Misty starts picking up her food,
“That is alright, Hitch,” She replies quickly; for some reason looks very guilty,
“Here, let me help you,”
“Oh, that is alright! I can handle this myself,” Misty says, trying to get everything before Hitch can get anything, but she isn’t fast enough. As Hitch picks up and inspects one of the cans,
“Property of Flower Bread?”
Misty smiles nervously, sweet going down her face as she tries to keep a straight face, “Yes. You see, I work there and was… getting more supplies for today’s lunch rush. Hehe,”
Hitch gives her a deadpan stare, “Misty,”
“Yes?” She squeaks, trying to walk away but was blocked by Sunny and Izzy,
Before she could do anything, Hitch puts hoof cuffs on her, “The Flower Bread is close on the weekends,”
“Fudge!”