Jake stirred to consciousness, he could tell he wasn't lying down because his arms were hoisted in the air 'so I've been chained up another time' he thought. He pulled himself to his feet trying to make sure his legs weren't broken but he detected a whispering not too far away.
"Sir, he's waking up,what do we do?" One voice spoke with concern.
"Hold your post!It's not going anywhere." said another voice with confident authority.
Jake had regained his footing and looked up opening his eyes fast enough to make his captors flinch, he was in a small room but not a dungeon or dank prison cell like he was expecting,the walls were a dusty orange plaster while the floor was a dull white marble, if anything this was a hastily converted storage room, it was then jake realized instead of some j'avo soldiers in suits and masks with guns it was small horses in golden roman-like armor with spears looking at him with anxiety. Jake stood 7 feet away from them but guessed they were as tall as his shoulders, he met their gaze and stared at them for a few minutes making no facial expression.
He analyzed the situation he was in, this is the third time he had been captured since meeting sherry,nothing new there he thought. The ponies were new, maybe neo-umbrella has concocted some more creatures in their labs, he visualized a scientist coming up with the idea of ponies before being birch slapped in the face for being an idiot. 'actually that doesn't make much sense for them to have a army of ponies unless they plan on making the BSAA Laugh themselves to death. Then again that redfield guy could use a laugh, he looks as happy as a j'avo going to the opticians. Well if they think spears will stop me from getting out then they'll be disappointed, unless they got some hidden strength this shouldn't take too long.'.
During jakes thought process he forgot to take his powerful gaze off the guards, the one on the left grew nervous sweating under its armor and after 5 minutes trembled in fear up to the point where the only sound in the room was the Clanking of different plates of armor bouncing off each other. It's legs were wobbling as jake thought it would be interesting to concentrate his stare on it to see how far he can go. Eventually after another 7 minutes it snapped throwing the spear to the ground shouting "I ACCEPT OUR NEW MONKEY OVERLORDS!"
The other pony banged his spear on the ground furious "Silence Traitor!Pick up your weapon and maintain your post!Swear your allegiance to Celestia or you can share the cell with that creature!"
Jake looked on completely bewildered, he thought it'd be funny to mess with some dumb animals but never in a million years did he expect it to talk! He laughed in disbelief which drew their attention to him. "Oh this is hilarious, did you get some ventriloquist or were these little guys trained to hold their little spears and pretend they're talking?Hey when I break out of here can I take one with me?It'll make a great gift for my girlfriend!" Jake tried looking behind him to see where the true soldiers were but found a wall right behind him. "So you want me to come to you huh?Well I hope you've warmed the fire!" Jake called out to no one in particular.
The guards watched his strange outburst with confused expressions, the larger guard barked out in frustration "You are not going anywhere!You will stay here until the princess recovers enough to conduct an interrogation!" but this only let a snigger escape jakes mouth.
Jake recomposed himself and looked at the chains holding him back then responded to the ponies command "yeahhhh,no." and with little effort pulled one chain hard enough to rip it off from its fixture at the wall then done the same with the other causing a large chunk of plaster to fall with it, he looked back to the ponies who were in shock and asked "so which of you has the key to these?" waving his shackles in the air.
The younger pony in a state of panic looked to his superior officer then back to jake then back to his commander pointing at him with his hoof shouting out "HE DOES!!" then quickly bolted out the room through the door. The other pony was speechless but stood in front of the door feigning courage.
The light gray stallion kicked his back leg to shut the door. "You want to get out of here monster?Well you'll have to get through me!" Determined but still shaking in his voice. He pointed the spear at jake and crouched into a battle stance.
Jake looked down at his opponent slightly bemused, he looked up slightly and remembering their conversation earlier pointed at the door asking "Is that your princess celesteeya there?"
The colt looked behind him eagerly thinking he had just gained the advantage in this confrontation because nothing can beat the princess of the sun. "Princess I..." However his heart dropped as the crushing realization that he was the only pony in the room and he had just turned his attention away from the remarkably strong being that moments ago ripped bare metal off the wall with just the strength in its arms. Before it was too late he tried to raise his weapon but instead was greeted by a hand striking the side of his head with the palm launching him into the wall and leaving him out for the count.
Jake looked at the animal that acted like a strong captor simply stating "I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book!Then again I could probably trick you with a carrot on a fishing line." he walked over to the unconscious pony and checking its armor found a compartment with a key in it. He calmly unlocked his shackles and let them clatter to the ground quickly rubbing his wrists to check for damage "Those were the most awkward handcuffs ever,and I speak from experience!Did they not have any in my size?" having a quick glance at the unconscious guard he continued "Tough crowd, I wonder where they locked me up this time?" Looking around the room jake found what he was looking for, a window close to the ceiling. Without much effort he pulled himself up and stared out through the glass, but almost lost his grip when he noticed the ground was miles below him to the point where clouds blocked parts of the green fields visible in the distance. "What the FUCK?First they take me to china,then to the bottom of the goddamn ocean and now in some kind of floating sky base!What next a fucking volcano??" as he said the last sentence he punched the wall making a few cracks in the plaster. " You know what I'm out of here!" he stormed towards the door stopping halfway to point at the guard with laboured breath "As for you....Find another job."
He kicked the door open with impatience and looked down the long corridor ahead of him, there was a blue carpet with a purple rug in the middle travelling down and around the corner to the left. The room was broken up by marble columns reaching the ceiling with patterned blue wallpaper in between. But there was one thing missing, guards, ponies, j'avo or otherwise it was silent with no movement. Jake could handle the noise and intensity of battles with gunfire, explosions,screaming and more but silence?That didn't sit right with him. He tested for a reaction "Hellloooooooooooooo!Hereeee pony pony pony!" however his subtle display of scouting got no answer.
Jake started to stroll down with a newfound confidence "Maybe this place ain't so ba-" a large flash of light filled the room pushing him back instinctively putting his arms in front to shield his eyes but kept footing while the rug underneath him slid back with him on it. He threw his arms up in the air and angrily shouted "Seriously?Who throws flash grenades like that??".As his vision cleared the figure cleared up to be another large pony, but this one was different, it was as tall as jake, had dark blue fur, no armour but a dark crown and styled horseshoes of some kind, it had a horn on its forehead and wings on its back that looked physically attached as well as some sort of cosmic collaboration of stars in the style of a mane on its head and in place of a tail and it's eyes were complete white, yet one thing was obvious to see, it was Royally pissed off.
Jake shook his head at the next unfortunate victim to stand in his path "Oh man, neo-umbrella done one hell of a job on you twinkle toes!" but got a dramatic response.
The creature bellowed out at top volume causing jake to cover one of his ears "FOUL CREATURE!THOU DARE MOCK ROYALTY AFTER WREAKING DAMAGE UPON OUR LIVING QUARTERS?WHAT HAST THOU DONE WITH OUR SISTER?"
"Wow do you shout at your mother with that mouth?"he retorted "I don't know who your sister is,where I am or who you are, also why are you talking like there's more then one of you?Have you got more guards you're trying to alert?Do you hear voices in your head?Because you should probably get that checked out."
His choice of words caused a large reaction from the alicorn, her wings flexed out as she lifted herself off the floor, seething in fury she shouted again but jakes response was only to squint one eye this time "THOU DAREST MAKE QUIPS ABOUT OUR MOTHER?SUCH INSOLENCE!WE SPEAK THIS WAY AS TIS OUR NATURAL TONGUE AND IF THOU SHALL MAKE FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE WHEREABOUTS OF OUR SISTER THEN PERHAPS A TORTURE SPELL WILL REVEAL THE TRUTH OF YOUR TRUE INTENTIONS!"
She lowered her head aiming it like a weapon at jake and squeezed her eyes shut in a state of concentration.The long horn glowed with a blue field surrounding it culminating into a white ball with green crackling energy at the tip, Jake just huffed in a disappointed tone, "you know I'm starting to think maybe there are no ventriloquists around here which means maybe I should go get checked out." The spell interrupted his thoughts as the ball as large as his hand flew out at a fast speed. Jake narrowly dodged it putting his back to the closest wall on his left. The ball continued on its course bouncing off the carpet once and hitting the door he had walked through earlier, needless to say the result was devastating.
On the carpet it dissolved through a few inches of matting and revealed floorboards underneath but the door received the worst of it. At first the dark oak had turned a lighter shade but in the middle of the impact area a small hole appeared letting in light from the window room but slowly opened up showing the damage from jakes escape. Eventually the door was no more as the hinges hung loosely and the metal handle fell from its lock and clattered onto the ground stirring the guard laying on the floor "Uh..wha?Did we win?" he turned to see jake but also the princess of the night hovering in the air with mad eyes. Not wanting to get involved the guard slowly got up and backed away from the door out of sight, he peeked once more to see if they were going to continue what they were doing but they watched him so he backed away again "Right sorry,sorry..."
Jake looked back to his attacker and pointed at where the guard was standing with a sarcastic look but shook his head and moved on "Whatever, but WHAT The FUCK was that just now?What are you trying to melt my skin off to see what tasty candies are inside me?Do I have a target on my head saying 'shoot me'?Tell you what get me some red paint and I'll give you something to shoot!"
The dark pony looked down at him and with a condescending attitude shouted out again "THOU IS NO MATCH FOR US, WE ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN AGE, WE HAVE EXPERIENCE IN COMBAT AND WE HAVE MASTERY OF FLIGHT AND MAGIC,WHAT DOES A PATHETIC CREATURE LIKE THOU HAVE?"
Jake smirked and clenched his fists "I've got a dad you'd never want to meet."