Spike was in the office room alone with the leader of the protesters. In order to make sure that he didn’t try to make another escape, he was wrapped up in chains. Spike struggled but couldn’t manage to break free.
“It’s useless.” she said. “Try as you might, you’ll never break free.”
“W-what do you all hope to gain by ponynapping the mayor?” Spike asked.
“That “mayor” has caused nothing but trouble ever since she was elected. She claims she’s for the helping ponies, but her only concern is dictating how we should live our lives; and this bill she’s been trying to pass will only cement her dictation.”
“And you think ponynapping her is the only way to get your message across?”
“What other choice did we have? We’ve done everything possible and our voices have been ignored for the longest time. If that bill of hers get passed all these ponies here would be out of a job and/or on the streets.”
Before this conversation could go on any longer, one of the protesters came in and alerted the leader that they were ready to move. They were on their way to another location seeing as how they mistakenly ponynapped Spike and felt that the princesses and the police force were hot on their trail. “Alright.” she said as she turned back towards Spike. “Put him in the cage, and lets move out.”
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Celestia continued flying through the air at a fast pace until she came across the old abandoned factory. Not wasting any time, she flew full speed through a window and landed right in the middle of a large empty room. “SPIKE!” she yelled, her voice echoing throughout the room. Celestia proceeded to frantically search up and down the building yelling Spike’s name over. She found no sign of Spike or the protesters; however just when she was about to give up and leave, she heard voice coming from nearby. Using her magic, she turned herself invisible just as they were entering the room she was in.
“Come on hurry up and find it.” said the mare.
“I’m looking, I’m looking.” said the stallion.
“Well look faster.” she said. “They’re already ahead of us.”
“Yeah, yeah.” he said with a heavy sigh while rolling his eyes. “Say, what do you think our leader is going to do with that dragon?”
“Who knows. Maybe use him as leverage or something.”
At that point Celestia made herself visible and approached the two ponies. The look she gave them was the stuff beyond that of nightmares. “Where are they?” she asked in a menacing tone of voice.
The stallion quickly spoke up. “Our leader and the others are taking the highway to our other headquarters on the other side of town.”
“Why did you all ponynap Spike?” the princess asked, this time looking at the mare who was shaking with complete fear.
“W-w-we didn’t mean to t-t-take him. It w-was and accident.”
“You ponies better hope nothing happens to him.” she said, and with that she teleported outside of the building and took off for the highway leaving the two ponies quivering in fear.
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The leader of the protesters and Spike were in a carriage being pulled by four strong stallions. Looking up, one of the stallions saw Celestia flying over them. She flew up ahead turned around and flew all the way behind them. The princess continued this over and over carefully looking for anything that looks suspicious.
“Boss, we have a bit of a problem.” he said.
“What is it?” asked the leader.
“Princess Celestia is flying around.” he explained. “I think she’s looking for that dragon.”
“She doesn’t know who or where we are, act normal.”
Upon hearing this, Spike knew this was probably his only chance to get Celestia’s attention. The leader turn back to face Spike and saw that he began struggling around with the chains once again, trying his best to get free but to no avail. “I thought I told you, you can’t break free from those.” But Spike wasn’t struggling to get free, he was actually turning his body to the right to face the window. Taking a deep breath, Spike released a blast of fire from his mouth through the window. The leader began screaming at the shear size of the blast. She quickly moved towards the cage that Spike was in and opened it just as he let out another blast of fire out the window causing her to fall backward.
Ponies outside who saw the the giant blast of fire shooting out of the carriage, were trying their best to avoid it; but in doing so they started to cause the carriages they were pulling to rock side to side violently.
Up in the air, Celestia witnessed the commotion on the highway as she flew over it. She also saw green flames coming out of the carriage ahead of her. “Spike!” she yelled.
Flying full speed she managed to catch up with them. “PULL OVER!” she yelled.
“Boss, it’s the princess!” yelled the lead stallion. “What should we do?”
“LOSE HER, QUICK!”
The four strong stallions began running full speed getting ahead of Celestia, but the was the ruler of Equestria, an alicorn, how in the world to you out run somepony like that? The answer....you don’t.
Celestia was right behind them getting ready to use her levitation magic to grab all of them, but there was a small problem. The four stallions were swerving left and right through traffic so that she couldn’t get a lock on them. Seeing that magic wasn’t going to work, Celestia was going to have to try a new tactic. She flew right over the carriage and landed right on top of it. “QUICK, SHAKE HER OFF!” yelled the leader. Celestia held on for dear life as the stallions began swerving at a violent rate; almost causing the carriage to flip over. Celestia has had enough of this little game and decided to end it. Holding on with her left hoof, she raised her right one, which began glowing, and brought down on top of the carriage hard; making a large hole. Looking inside, she saw both Spike and the leader of the protesters. “Spike, are you okay?” she asked.
“Y-yeah.” he answered.
Seeing Spike wrapped up in chains and locked inside a cage like he was some rapid animal made Celestia angry to no extent. Celestia was about to slam her hoof on the carriage again to make a larger hole in order to levitate Spike out of there when suddenly they ran over a large pot hole that bucked Celestia violently off.
“PRINCESS!” yelled Spike.
“NOW’S OUR CHANCE, GO!” yelled the leader. The stallions took that next exit that led them off the highway and into the city; right past the police station where at that point, they heard loud sirens fast approaching them. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
The police ponies were hot on their trail.
The leader quickly noticed that their speed had reduced a little. Looking through the window she saw two of the stallions taking off their harnesses. “WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!”
“THIS ISN’T WORTH IT!” yelled one of the stallions yelled. “I HAVE A FAMILY!”
“I CAN’T GO BACK TO JAIL!” yelled the other.
Both stallions quickly bailed leaving the rest to their own devices. As the police caught up with them, the leader stuck her head out the window and charged up her horn. She fired a beam at the hooves of the officers causing most of them to trip and crash into one another, much to the horror of Spike.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” he yelled.
“SHUT UP!” she yelled back as she continued to fire.
The leader was so focused on the cops that she failed to noticed that Celestia had caught up with them. She landed on top of the carriage once again and slammed her right hoof through it creating an even bigger hole. Using her magic, she quickly levitated the cage Spike was in through the hole and into the air where she flew off with it.
The leader screamed with anger and frustration at Celestia’s rescue attempt, but that wasn’t the end of it. The police got close enough to return fire and took out half the carriage. Seeing no point in continuing, the two stallions slowed down and came to a complete stop, much to their leader’s protest.
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Celestia and Spike landed into the city park which was right next to where the two stallions surrendered. She furiously freed Spike from the cage and the chains the binded him and pulled him into a powerful hug. “Thank goodness you’re alright.” she whispered as she squeezed the little dragon. “My baby.”
Celestia soon began sobbing softly; glad that Spike was okay and that this whole ordeal was finally over. Spike on the other hand was struggling to get free from Celestia’s grip as he was finding it extremely difficult to breathe.
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Luna was on her way to meet up with her sister on the other side of town when she came across the large group and police ponies surrounding a now broken carriage. As she landed and saw two stallions being loaded up into the police carriage and the leader of the protesters struggling against the police ponies; not wanting to go to jail.
“Luna!” yelled Celestia.
Luna looked over to her left and Celestia standing next to Spike. With tears in her eyes she wasted no time in running full speed at Spike pulling him into a bone crushing hug that rivaled Pinkie Pie’s.
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Spike and the princesses were at the police station talking to the police chief when the mayor of Vanhoover stormed in. She was beyond mad, she was furious. “WHERE ARE THEY?!” she yelled.
“Ma’am, please calm down.” said the chief. “We have them in custody now.”
“Darn them.” she said with venom. “Because of them I couldn’t make my vote to pass the law in time, now it’s going to take even longer to pass it.”
“Maybe it’s for the best.” said Spike catching the mayor’s attention.
“What?” she said.
“Trying to ponynap you was wrong, but I understand way they did it.”
Spike’s statement shocked the mayor, Celestia and the chief. “If that law of yours was passed it would have a devastating effect on the businesses of all ponies in this city.”
“I agree.” Luna added.
Celestia was confused. “What are the two of you talking about? What law?”
“The law she’s trying to pass is one that would ban all pastries in the city.” Luna explained. Celestia froze, her eyes almost popping out of her head. She looked over to at the mayor in disbelief.
“Don’t look at me like that.” she demanded. “This city is facing a major problem. Instead of eating healthy ponies are stuffing their faces with cakes and cookies. They ruining their lives.”
“No you’re ruining their lives.” Celestia stated. “You’re destroying their businesses because they don’t sell what you consider healthy?”
“I’m saving lives by helping these ponies eat healthier!”
“No, you’re trying to force ponies to live the same kind of lifestyle you live. There’s a word for ponies like you.” Celestia gave the mayor a look of pure disgust. Not wanting to continue with this conversation, the mayor left for the next room in order to press charges against the protesters that were caught and their leader for trying to ponynap her. Once she was gone, the leader of the protesters walked in with two officers next to her. She stopped and looked over at Spike and the princesses. “This isn’t over.” she said with a smirk. “There will be others to continue fight. We won’t stop until she is removed from office.”
Spike, Celestia and Luna watched on as she was being taken away. What she and her group did or rather tried to do was wrong, but understandable. The three of them left the police station and began walking down the street. “Well that was exciting.” Spike said jokingly earning a chuckle from the two sisters.
“You know we still have time to get ready for tonight.” said Celestia. “Shall we go.”
"But Sister, what about the mayor?" asked Luna "She has some supporters, but the vast majority disagrees with her. What if something like this happens again?"
Celestia thought about what her sister said to her. What if the protesters return with a stronger leader this time? What if the tried to ponynap the mayor again? Sure they could just use their power to remove the mayor from office, but what kind of message would that send to all of Equestria? "We'll just have to keep a closer eye on this city." she suggested. "Like the mayor said, it's going to take even longer for her now to get that law passed. Hopefully within that time the ponies of this city of this city will have found a way to resolve this peacefully."
Luna nodded. "Yeah...hopefully."
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Not that far from Spike and the princesses, there were three ponies wearing robes with hood over their faces, hiding in a dark alley. "There they are?" one them said. "They're on there way to the Starswirl the Bearded Museum."
"It won't be long now. Once they lead us to what we're after our plans will commence."
"Let's go." And with that, the three ponies disappeared into the dark alley.