Twilight struggled against the bindings. The lava underneath her boiled and sizzled, and lit the chamber in a menacing orange glow.
“You have no idea what you’re getting yourself into, Geldingo,” she exclaimed with furfur. “I’m an Equestrian princess, if words gets out that you kidnapped me, you could face jail time of up to 3 lifetimes!”
The dark brown stallion simply laughed as he wiped dirt of his lab coat. “Then I’ll just have to make sure nopony ever finds out about this. I believe the best way to do that, is to kill you, and Daring Do as well!”
“You don’t have to do this, you’re a brilliant scientist, you can use your intellect for the good of equinity, not just for stealing ancient artifacts!” Twilight pleaded, desperation clear in her voice.
“I suppose so, but where’s the fun in that!” Geldingo pranced towards a control panel. “Once I activate my Mega-Drill, the tomb of Epona will be opened for the first time in seven thousand years, and all of its riches will be mine for the taking!”
He turned his attention to an impractically big lever. “Now, my dear princess, I’m afraid it’s time for you to meet your maker!” He laughed maniacally, and pulled the lever.
The lava began to steadily rise up, inching closer to Twilight’s bound form. She could feel the approaching heat on her back hooves, and tried struggling with the rope again.
“Au revoir!” exclaimed the mad scientist as he cantered towards the exit.
“Not so fast, Geldingo!”
Both ponies turned their heads to the direction of the voice, Twilight smiling giddily while Geldingo groaned.
Standing on the above catwalk, Daring Do stood triumphantly, glaring down at Geldingo.
“Ah, Daring Do, I was wondering when you were going to show up. Unfortunately, I have places to be right now, so I’m afraid I’ll simply have to kill you later.”
Daring responded by grabbing a loose wire from the ceiling, swinging forwards, and landing with a back-flip. “You’re not going anywhere, I’m stopping you, and shutting down your drill.”
Geldingo smirked evilly, and pointed at Twilight. “You sure you don’t want to help out your friend first?”
Daring turned around to see the tied-up Alicorn staring down with fear at the slowly rising molten, and she got into position for take-off, only to hear the sound of a door closing behind her. She looked back to see that Geldingo had indeed escaped.
She would just have to deal with that later. She launched towards Twilight, and landed right next to her, hanging on the wall she was bound to.
“He injected me with something that made my wings stop working,” Twilight explained. “I won’t be able to fly out of here.”
“Then I’ll just have to carry you,” Daring said confidently, before snapping the rope loose with a single bite, and scooping up Twilight in her forelegs. The Alicorn gazed in awe at the Pegasus, and hung on tightly as they flew back to solid, lava-less ground.
When they landed and Daring gently let her back on her hooves and asked her if she was alright, Twilight continued staring in amazement at the adventurous mare, and felt an overwhelming rush of feelings she didn’t know were there.
“We can’t stay here for long, do you think you could make it the rest of the way on hoof-“ Daring was interrupted by a pair of lavender lips suddenly being pressed against her own. Twilight was kissing her.
When Twilight pulled her head back, her eyes widened in realization of what she had just done, and both mares blushed furiously.
“We, uh… we should probably talk about… this, after we stop Geldingo,” Daring said with an awkward chuckle.
“Y-yeah”, Twilight agreed, brushing her mane and looking at the floor with an embarrassed grin.
“Damn you, Daring Do!!!”
The scientist’s curses echoed through the caverns as he laid there, trapped under the remains of what was once the Mega-Drill.
“And don’t forget about Twilight Sparkle! That’s me!” Twilight shouted back.
“Yes, yes, damn you as well.”
Daring and Twilight shared a laugh as they trotted away from the cave entrance.
“So, what’s gonna happen to him?”
“The city officials should be here within a few hours to take him in,” explained Daring, with a smirk. “I get the feeling it’ll be a pretty short trial.”
Twilight giggled. “Yeah. I guess that wraps up another exciting Daring Do adventure, huh?”
“Well, almost.” In a single swift motion, Daring turned to face Twilight, and leaned in to plant a kiss of her own.
When they parted, a red-faced Twilight smiled brightly, while Daring grinned with half-lidded eyes.
“So, I guess now’s the part where we talk about what this means and-“ she was shushed with a hoof on her lips.
“We can talk later,” said Twilight, a saucy look on her face. Daring seemed to agree.
The two wrapped their forelegs around each other, and went in for another kiss, this time a much longer, passionate one.
I wonder if now I can get my books categorized under romance, Daring thought to herself.