Chapter 37: Rescuing the Rescuers.

Author's note: Hello, sorry for the delay. I could blame it on a bunch of stuff, but it really just boils down to laziness. Sorry.

Today's appearances are by Lord Guffington and Solar Ember!

Well anyways, I have some potentially bad news. This story will probably be ending soon. Maybe one or two chapters, then it will be over. On the bright side, there is a 50% chance that there will be a sequel! So there's that. Well, enjoy!

Man, this date is going great! Fluttershy and I are actually talking, and she seems like she isn't going to fall apart! We had just finished up our meals, when the waiter came by us.

"Mr. Breeze, I'm terribly sorry, but there is somepony here to see you. He insists on seeing you now."

"Who is it?" I asked

"He didn't say. He is waiting outside for you." He said as he turned and walked away

"Who ever it is, they can wait." I said with a smile

Fluttershy smiled back.

I heard somepony running, and I looked around. I saw the butler galloping toward me, as he tackled me to the ground, off of my chair.

"What have you done with Master Scorch! I know about your little search party to take the prisoner away!"

Man, this guy just got substantially more lucid. And strong. And angry.

I pushed him off of me, and I stood up.

"I have no idea what you are talking about!" I said

"Every time you show up, one of our prisoners disappears, and I'm now quite sure it was you who knocked me out that one time! You are just bad news."

"Did it ever occur to you that Scorch is the one who is bad news? He has kidnapped at least six ponies, and performed experiments on them! That is not ok! So we locked him up in the dungeons in Canterlot where he belongs."

He looked at me a moment, and looked down on the ground.

"I know...I know he is a bad pony...But I am sworn to serve him, and thats just what I am going to do!" He said as he ran off

I looked frantically at Fluttershy, who was in shock.

"Go." She whispered

I started off in the direction that he was going, but I was stopped by the waiter.

"And where do you think you are going hmm? You haven't paid your bill, and you broke one of our chairs. You're not going anywhere."

I shrugged and ran past him to be greeted by two big guard ponies.

"Gah! I need to get going!" I yelled

"Well you're out of luck then." The one on the left said

"Yeah." Said the other.

I just let out a big huff, and went back to the table.

Fire Hearts POV a couple of minutes earlier:

"LET US OUT OF HERE YOU CRAZY BASTARD!" Dawnfang yelled

I looked down to his cutie mark, and saw that it was no longer a sun rising, but a moon.

"Hey, Dawnfang, did your cutie mark change?" I asked

He dropped off of the door, and looked back at me.

"Well aren't you just the observative one. Yes. My cutie mark did change. Because I am no longer Dawnfang, but Duskfang. His counterpart."

"Kinda like a split personality?"

"Exactly like a split personality."

"Is that what Scorch did to you? He split your personality in two?"

"Yes. More specifically he split my cutie mark in two, making two separate halves of the same pony."

"So what do we do now?" Thrash asked

"I'll teleport us out." Snowflake said

He closed his eyes, and tried to teleport us, but it didn't work.

"Don't waste your energy, the walls are magic proof." Duskwing said while sitting back down.

His head twitched, and his cutie mark changed back into the sun.

"So what, you are Dawnfang again?" Flashwing asked

"Yes."

We all looked at each other, and sat down. There isn't much to do now but wait. And since nopony can feed us, and we don't have any water, I hope it isn't for too long.

Radiant Breeze's POV, present time:

I had just finished up fixing the chair, and paying bill, when Fluttershy turned to me.

"Please be careful." She said with tears beginning to form in the corner of her eyes

I went over to her and hugged her.

"Don't worry, I will be ok. I'm sorry such a good night has to end like this." I said

"It's ok. It was still the best night of my life." She said as she hugged me tighter.

I figured I would stay here as long as she wanted, since I was running out on our date. She finally let go, and we said goodbye.

I ran quickly, punching the waiter on the way out.

"Fuck you!" I yelled

I opened my wings, and took off toward Canterlot. Ok so, I would say he has a good 40 minutes on me. And if he took the train, he will be pretty close. So I will need to kick it into gear if I want to catch him in time.

An hour later:

I landed in the castle courtyard, exhausted. I ran past the guards, as they already knew me, and up the stairs. I galloped all the way into the throne room, up to Luna.

"Hello Radiant Breeze, how are you doing?"

"Did an old pony come through the castle going to the dungeon?"

"Not that I am aware of, why? Is something happening?"

"I think Scorch's butler is going there now, to set his master free."

"Let us go now. We may not have much time."

We galloped through a bunch of hallways, until we finally made it into the dungeon area. We ran up to the entrance, where we saw one of the Royal Guard ponies lying on the ground, with a stab wound. Luna and I looked at each other frantically, and galloped on. After a short while, we made it to Scorch's cell. He was still in there. But so was the butler.

He slowly picked his head up to look at us. When his eyes met ours, he started to laugh. Luna and I looked at each other, confused, until we saw that his magic inhibitor was gone. He broke out in a nearly defining laugh, and rose up. He charged up his horn, and Luna and I dove out of the way. He shot the front of the cell, and it flew off. The whole thing.

"NOW YOU ALL WILL PAY!" He yelled.

"Breeze!" Luna yelled

I got up, and ran over to Scorch, but I was stopped in place. He looked over to me, and started to laugh again. He charged up his horn, and shot me in the face. I flew back and landed on the ground, unconscious. He then turned his attention to Luna, and he shot a bolt at her too, but she teleported away. But it almost seemed as if she got hit too, just before she made it out.

"Sir, it's good to have you back." The butler said

"It's good to be back. Now lets go and find my robes."

Drake's POV:

You find your favorite bipedal, coat wearing, changeling, just relaxing. There hasn't been much going on in the past couple of days, so I decided to rest up a little. Changing into that big ass dragon took a lot of energy, and I am still kinda feeling it. But maybe it is time to get off of my ass and check out what everybody is doing. I made my way out of my house, and looked down at Ponyville. It's night. Hmm, thats news to me.

I changed into a hawk and flew off toward Thrash's house. When I got there, I knocked on the door a couple of times, but no one answered. Ok, well I'll go see how Breeze is I guess.

I flew on over to his pad, and knocked on the door. Rainbow Dash answered.

"Sup, is Breeze here?" I said

"Nope, he is on his date with Fluttershy tonight."

"Damn, well thanks anyways."

As I was walking away, I saw Fluttershy running up to the house.

"Drake! You have got to go to Canterlot! Breeze left two hours ago and hasn't returned! Something must be wrong!"

"Why did he go to Canterlot?"

Fluttershy explained everything that happened, and when she was done, I understood why she was worried.

"Ok, I'll go. HEY DASH! STORMRUNNER! NIGHTSTAR! GET OUT HERE!" I yelled

Dash came out and said that she was the only one home. I explained everything, and she decided to come. I changed back into a hawk, and we took off.

An hour later:

We landed in the courtyard, and explained to the guards out front why we were here. They nodded, and ran in with us. On the way, they introduced themselves as Night Stalker, and Solar Flicker. Night Stalker was a black Pegasus with a red mane, and Solar Flicker was a dark blue Pegasus with a bright green mane.

We made our way through the castle, until we came across a dead body. One of the guards got all emotional, but the other just corralled him forward. We turned a couple of corners, and we found ourselves at the scene of the crime.

The whole front of the cell was on the ground, and Breeze was lying there, passed out. I walked over to him, and nudged his head a couple of times. He started to come to.

"Wh- What happened?"

"I don't know, you tell us."

Breeze's POV:

And so I did. Once I was done, the guards led us to where they kept all of the prisoners belongings. It was chaos. Everything was ransacked, and there were a couple of unconscious bodies around. We heard some rumbling behind one of the separators in the center of the room. Drake stepped in front of the group, and slowly made his way up to it.

"WHERE ARE THEY!" We heard a voice yell

"I don't know Master Scorch, we checked everywhere."

Drake looked back at us, and made a signal to be quiet and wait for the signal. Ok well, I guess we are doing this then! He changed into a snake, and slithered around, using all of the crap on the ground as cover. A few long seconds passed, and we heard a crash.

"NOW!" He yelled.

We charged around the wall, to see Drake rolling around with Scorch. I started to go over, but the butler stepped in front of me, with a knife.

"Not so fast!" He yelled

Night Stalker pushed me aside, and charged at the butler. The butler closed his eyes, and shot them open. They were a pure, bloody, red. He lunged forward at the Night Stalker, and in a flash, he had disarmed him, and stabbed him.

"THIS IS THE POWER OF MASTER SCORCH!" He howled

He lunged forward again, at me this time, but Solar Flicker reached him first. She plunged her spear deep into the butler's side. The butler stayed still for moment, before creepily turning his head at Solar Flicker. He jerked the spear out of his side so fast, it made my head spin. He yelled, and charged at Solar Flicker. She reacted quickly, but not quickly enough. She blocked his first couple of swipes, but eventually, they started to hit her. She let out screams of pain, and I decided to get off of my ass. I ran at the butler, and I tackled him.

But then, he pivoted himself around, and put his hooves on my chest. He pushed himself off of me, and did a flip. He landed perfectly on his hooves.

"I've had just about enough of you."

As he said that, Night Stalker apparently got back up, and slashed his neck. The butler let out a yelp, but it didn't last long, as Solar Flicker speared him in the side again.

The butler closed his eyes, and fell to the ground. We all turned our attention back to Drake and Scorch, who seem to be duking it out pretty hard. We started to go for Scorch, when we heard a scream beside us.

We looked around, and the butler had picked himself back up, and stabbed Night Stalker again. Night Stalker cut his head off this time. Night Stalker fell to the ground and said to go make sure he doesn't get away. Solar Flicker ran over to him, and picked his head up off of the ground. I was going to go over too, but Dash pushed me away.

"You heard him, we need to stop Scorch once and for all." She said

I understood, and we galloped into the fight. Scorch saw that we were coming, and put up a shield.

"I'LL GET TO YOU TWO ONCE I FINISH OFF THIS ONE."