*First person POV Jake*
These guys have been keeping me here for quite some time. But today I'm going to escape this place. The horses have made one crucial mistake, you see these horses have been drugging me ever since they first began experimenting on me. Over time the human body builds up a slight tolerance to the drugs effects causing them to put the human to sleep for a significantly lower amount of time. Apparently they didn't take this in to account, or maybe their horse bodies are different and don't have this effect so they wouldn't expect it. Regardless my plan is, when the nurse comes to give me my second dosage I pretend to be asleep, so that she'll open the cell door. Once she does I'll unleash a surprise attack and render her unconscious, hopefully with as little pain as possible. Once that is done my cell door will still be open and I'll be able to begin my escape.
*A few hours later*
The drugs effects are starting to wear off finally, and the nurse hasn't shown up yet. That's good, time for me to get into position. I position myself close to the door to my cell but not too close so that I get in her way, that might look suspicious. I lay down and pretend I'm still affected by the drugs so she won't be afraid when she sees me. I wait until the hall door leading to my room finally opens, meaning the nurse is finally coming. I wait patiently until she opens the door to my cell 'Come on!' I'm getting jumpy, I can't blow it now, calm down Jake. She enters my cell and as she turns around to close the door I begin to get up quietly. Before she closes the door I grab her, she shrieks from this and I quickly close her mouth. I grab the syringe from her bag and inject her with the drugs, deep down a part of me is concerned about what the syringe contains, and whether or not it might be dangerous to horses, but logic dictates otherwise. Why would the horses inject me with something that was poisonous to them? It would make more sense for them to inject me with something they know works as a drug on every living creature. Before the drug takes full effect as I'm lowering her to the ground I whisper in her ear "Sorry." With that I place her gently on the ground and make my way out of my cell.
I feel the first taste of freedom I've had in a long time. It feels GREAT! Freedom is incredibly important to me and having been denied it for so long felt horrendous. But I couldn't just stand here embracing my freedom, I had to get a move on, they'll figure out I'm loose eventually. I approached the door that led outside the containment room, and looked outside. No one was in the hallways. So far so good, well here it goes. I move through the hallway very quietly so as not to get anyone's attention. Looking down the other hallways to make sure there was nobody there. How big was this place? At this moment I recalled the biggest flaw with my plan. The fact that I knew very little about the layout of this place. The horses always brought me to the exact same rooms, so I only knew my way to those rooms, I couldn't really remember the way out either because the first time they brought me into the building was weeks ago, and they haven't exactly shown me since then.
Another problem was the amount of horses here that could discover me. I needed to find a way to move around the place without risk of being seen. I could also really use a weapon, I didn't really want to kill anyone, not even Tempest though I did want some justice. But I wasn't afraid to fight my way out of here. I thought for a moment, 'If there are any vents here I could travel through them without being seen.' I looked around for vents but there weren't any here. 'Darn it!' I had to keep going before I was seen.
I made it to the end of the hall where it turned left and right. I quickly checked both directions to see there was no one, and took a left turn. Ran to the end of this hall where there was a door. I opened it just enough to peak through, and then backed off. Horses, there they were. How was I going to get past them? I looked around for vent or anything I could use to sneak past them. Nothing. I backtracked a little and noticed a ventilation duct I hadn't seen before, 'Perfect!' I pulled the vent out of its socket Thank God it wasn't screwed in. I crawled into the vent and pulled the cover back over the hole so no one would notice that it had been removed. I crawled through the vent to see where it would lead me too.
I finally came to AN ending to the maze of vents, I could have got out at other points I had found but there were horses there and I would've been caught. I dropped from the ceiling into a room that looked like a kitchen. It had a ton of tables with white table clothes over them and a back area that looks like it was used for making food. I guess it must have been like midnight or something cause no one was here to make food. I went to the back area to see if there was anything I could use. Nothing really useful, but I found two really sharp knives that I could use if I needed too. From here I continued back into the hallways.
*Tempest Reason third person POV*
Tempest was seated in his office when a random unicorn scientist knocked on his door. "Come in." The unicorn opened the door and stepped into the office. "What is it you want sir?"
"Well, you see sir there seems to be a slight glitch in the system." The unicorn said
"What do you mean?" Tempest asked confused.
"Sir, the nurse who was supposed to give the sedatives to the human, has failed to report in and confirm she did so."
Tempest looked alarmed for a second, but then reasoned with himself 'There's no need for alarm. The nurse probably just forgot about checking in. The creature was still secure, everything was perfectly fine' Tempest took a deep breath, and answered "Well find the nurse and ask her to check in she probably forgot to do so, and if she didn't then find out why she didn't check in. Understand?"
"Yes sir." The unicorn turned and trotted out of the room
'Yes. Everything is fine. Everything is perfectly fine.'
*Back to Jake First person POV*
I took my new knives and continued to walk through the hallway, lucky for me the horses hadn't set up much security, clearly they thought it was completely impossible to escape. Well they were wrong. I kept walking until I came to another intersection. Was I going in circles? This place all looks pretty much the same. I kept walking and passed by a room I was familiar with, I quickly moved away from the open doorway so the horses in the room wouldn't see me. I found another vent to enter and I did so, I was starting to get nervous walking out in the open.
Crawling through the vents I eventually found a place where there were some stairs that were going up, 'progress alright!' I made sure no one was around and I leapt out of the vent and ran up the stairs. The stairs lead me to another set of hallways, but since this building was mostly underground going up must be the correct way right? Let's find out. I walked along to another intersection, and immediately jumped back when I saw horses down the adjacent hallway fortunately they were looking away from me. I scolded myself for being so careless I had nearly been caught. Looking around the only way to go was straight ahead, but I'd have to sneak past that adjacent hallway. I hugged the wall and began to slowly sneak across the hallway, once I was close enough I dove to safely get out of sight from those horses, and proceeded to run across the hall in case any of them wanted to come this way.
*Third person POV Tempest*
The unicorn from before came charging into Tempest Reason's office. "Sir we have a situation."
Tempest slightly annoyed that the unicorn had just barged in unannounced. "What is it?"
"Well sir we looked around but couldn't find any trace of the nurse. That is until we checked the humans cell. The cell was open and the nurse was unconscious. She had been injected with the syringe and the human has escaped."
Tempest's jaw dropped. 'This can't be happening. This Can't Be Happening! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! NOT NOW!' "Put the facility on full alert! I want the creature caught before it has the chance to escape and harm Equestria!"
"Yes Sir!"
Tempest looked out his window his face filled with rage. 'Alien scum! I won't let you get out so you can hurt my nation!'
*Back to Jake with the first person POV*
A lot of exploring and traveling through vents later. I suddenly heard bells and alarms being sounded. 'Well guess they know I'm gone' Time to knock down the stealth, and amp up the speed. I ran across another hallway looking for a way out, all the rooms I had come across had been pretty much pointless to my goal. Running across the hall I glanced down an adjacent hallway where some horses spotted me. They began to chase after me telling me to stop, 'Yeah right!' I continued to run but since they were horses, well they were gaining on me. Thinking quickly I ran into a nearby room and locked the door behind me, opened the back door. But instead of going through it though I went back and hid in the room. The horses broke the door down and looked around after seeing the open door on the other side of the room one of them said "Quick he must be headed for the exit! This way!" and with that they ran through the door and turned right. 'Perfect now I know which way to go.' I followed them as best as I could but they were still faster than me They turned right at the end of the hall and by the time I got there they were already at the end of the next hall. I knew they'd eventually double back when they realize they should have caught up to me by now, so I crawled into another vent.
After crawling through the end of this ventilation system, I got out somewhere I think was close to the exit I started moving across the hall thinking just how many halls were in this place? "STOP RIGHT THERE!" Someone behind me shouted. That voice. I knew that voice. TEMPEST! I turned around clenching my hands around my knives. Tempest and about seven other horses who were with him were standing there glaring at me.
"You're coming back with me." Tempest declared.
"Not on your life!"
"I won't let you get out so you can destroy Equestria!"
"I'm not going to destroy Equestria!!"
By this point some other horses had heard us and gathered around behind us. I turned around to see a nurse horse standing several feet away. I got an idea, there was no way I could overpower Tempest and his posse by brute force in this confined area, and I didn't want to fight if I didn't have too. I looked back at Tempest to see that he had started charging his horn. I quickly threw the knife in my right hand in his direction. I knew I was going to miss but I was only trying to distract him so I could begin my plan. I turned around and ran over to the nurse and grabbed her and held my knife to her throat.
"HEY! Let her go!" Tempest screamed.
"First you back off! If you don't she may get hurt." I screamed back. I was bluffing I wouldn't actually hurt the nurse, sure she was working for Tempest but she probably didn't have any say in his affairs. I wasn't going to hurt someone innocent if I could help it. But Tempest wouldn't risk any of his fellow horses getting hurt. Not if he cared for his country like it seems he does.
"Why you-"
"NOW!"
"Arghh! Stand down everypony." Tempest said with a defeated tone. "
There was that saying again. Every pony. Were these guys ponies? I dunno I'm just gonna call em horses.
"You can't hurt Equestria. I won't let you Tempest declared.
"How do you know what I'd do you never even gave me a chance!!"
"You clearly don't deserve a chance! Look what you're doing."
"You forced me to do this! Just stay there! If I see anyone following me, well I won't be responsible for what happens." I yelled walking away from them my captive in hand, she was barely even struggling. Poor thing must be scared to near paralysis. I made sure no one was following us and I walked into some kind of storage room for broken metal supplies. I knocked the nurse out as painlessly as possible and set her on the ground. Looking around the room I noticed a large metal pipe that looked useful to me. I decided to swap it with my knife grasping the metal bar in my hands the weight of it felt perfect to wield.
I opened the door and looked around. I didn't see anyone in the hallways so I began making my way to the exit. I was so close I could feel it. I turned a corner and started running ahead but then four horses ran in front of me clearly intending to stop me. I grasped my metal pole, and took a stance saying "Get out of my way." They shook their head no and charged at me. I charged them back.
When I came close to the first one I swung my metal bar as hard as I could at the side of his head and he fell down completely out cold, a noticeable gash in the side of his head, but nothing he wouldn't recover from. The second tried to stomp me with his hooves but I moved to my left out of his way and wacked him over the head. The third got scared and tried to run off but the fourth stopped him so they both tried to jump me. I dodged and they fell on their heads the fourth was dizzy for a second but the third just ran off. The fourth then tried to use its powers on me shooting laser blasts at me. I jumped and dodged each blast and charged him when there was an opening. However before I could reach him a field of energy surrounded me and lifted me into the air. I struggled but I couldn't break free no matter what I did. I looked at the unicorn in front of me, and noticed his horn glowing, 'so he's the one doing this'. I looked at the metal pole in my hand, it was my only chance. I concentrated and flung the pole as hard as I could at the unicorn's face. "OUCH!" he yelled. and his horn 'sputtered' and the glow disappeared, and with it the energy field around me. I quickly ran forward and grabbed the unicorns head and smashed it into my knee to knock him out. I picked up my metal pole and ran to the exit.
There it was. I could see it. The way out. I hadn't seen something so beautiful in a long time. But before I could go through the doors someone behind me yelled "STOP!!!!" I turned around. It was Tempest and his posse, I wish this guy would just give up. I ignored him and ran through the door while he was still screaming. Outside I could see Tempest had prepared for this too as there were guards out here I managed to avoid being seen by most of them while I tried to quickly sneak past, but two of them spotted me when I got close to the woods. Here they come. The first unicorn charged at me I dodged and bashed him on the head easily enough. But the second managed to hit me with his front hooves and pin me to the ground. On the ground I saw Tempest getting out of the building about to alert the other guards to my presence. 'NO! Not when I'm so close!' I grabbed some dirt in my hand and flung it in the unicorn's eye, he grunted and recoiled while I brought my fists and feet to make his acquaintance. Yeah I punched and kicked him off me then once I got free I kept punching and kicking him until he passed out. I looked back to see that Tempest had alerted the guards and was beginning to approach me. I turned and ran straight into the woods. I heard Tempest yell NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!! behind me. I didn't care. I made it I was free, I still didn't stop running though, there was enough adrenalin flowing through my body to keep me going for a while. I was not going to get caught.
*Third person POV Tempest Reason*
"NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!!" Tempest yelled. "Don't just stand there go after it!!!"
"No wait!" A different voice shouted "We need to treat the wounded!" It was Study Guide.
"Are you undermining my orders Study Guide?! I said go after it!"
"Sir these ponies are wounded. We need to help them right now."
Tempest stared at Study Guide full of rage, but then started to cool down as he realized Study Guide was right. "Alright fine! You ten go and try to find the creature quickly! The rest of you let's get the ponies inside."
Ten ponies charged into the woods in a desperate attempt to find the human. While the rest headed back to the facility after the nurses put the two unconscious unicorns on a stretcher.
Tempest thought to himself "I will catch you again. I WILL bring you back here. I will punish you for escaping. I promise."
Study Guide on the other hand was thinking something completely different. "May Celestia guide you human." he tuned to look back at the woods one last time and thought to himself. "Good luck..... Jake."