A pegasus in full armor came in for a landing, carrying a sword with his hoof before he saluted, “Sir.”

“Sergeant,” I answered with a nod as I returned the salute, thankful that I managed to get Swift Spear to teach me how to do it properly. “Report.”

“The troops are setting up a perimeter around the town as per previous orders, sir. What is the situation?”

I sighed and glanced back towards the house, “The threat is contained. Princess Twilight is talking to the prisoner now, but I want to arrange transport for the prisoner to the Canterlot dungeons as soon as possible. Did you bring a suppression ring?”

“Standard equipment, sir,” the pegasus agreed with a nod.

“Good. Right now, she is under a suppression spell, but when fitted with the ring, under no circumstances is it to be removed,” I told him. “Full hoof cuffs, the entire deal.”

The blue pegasus nodded, “Yes, sir!”

“Good. Secure the prisoner and get her ready for transport, sky chariot, all the way to Canterlot. Oh, and send your fastest flier ahead before the Princesses mobilize the entire guard down on this place. The changeling that brought the message to you had orders to warn Canterlot just in case things got out of hand here.”

“I’ll do it.”

I turned my head to see Rainbow Dash trot over.

“I can take the message to Canterlot. Nobody would get there faster than me,” she said with a grin. “I’ll tell them that they can relax, we handled it.”

“Thanks, Rainbow.” I sighed with a nod, “If you can beat Amber there, all the better. She has a head start of several hours.”

Rainbow smirked, “Easy. See you later.” And then she beat her wings and before she was three body lengths off the ground, she was already flying faster than I could at my best.

“You know, I actually believe her,” I commented as I watched her quickly disappear in the distance.

“Me too, sir.”

I looked back at the pegasus, “Your name?”

“Sergeant Cloud Walker, sir. Royal Guard Scout Ranger, Las Pegasus garrison.”

“Thank you. Get the prisoner secured and ready for transport. She is being held in the building behind me, in the basement.”

“Yes, sir!” he said with a nod before taking to the air, moving back towards the rest of the group of guards gathered just outside town.

Once we get back from here, I’m kidnapping a Princess to a tropical island for a month. Duties or not, there has to be some way to solve it.

Maybe we could get a temp. Wonder if Pinkie Pie is busy?

With that thought to amuse myself, I turned and trotted back inside, heading down the stairs to the basement where I was met with an interesting scene. Starlight Glimmer was on the floor, tied up. Sunset was standing over her, her horn lit up while Twilight worked some sort of spell around Starlight’s horn.

“Escape attempt?” I asked as I reached the bottom of the stairs.

“Yes, sir,” Sunset answered with a nod, a hoof on the chest of the unicorn on the floor. “She somehow shook my spell off.”

“Well, relax. The guard is here with a real suppression ring,” I said and moved up. “As for you, Miss Glimmer… why don’t you get some rest?” I asked and lowered my head, tapping my horn against hers.

The unicorn wiggled to try to get away and then just kind of collapsed, snoring.

“You two okay?” I asked and I raised my head again.

Twilight nodded. “We’re fine,” she answered and then grimaced. “I spotted it just in time and disrupted her teleportation spell.”

Thank you, Twilight! I wasn't sure I would have slept well if she managed to get away. Actually, I would, I could have tracked her down that way.

“She said anything?”

Twilight shook her head, “Nothing important. Mostly she tried to convince me to let her go and that cutie marks are evil.”

“She’s nuts then?” Sunset asked and moved off the sleeping unicorn. “How can you hate cutie marks?”

“I don’t know,” Twilight sighed. “That’s something for the doctors to figure out back in Canterlot. For now, we need to get her moved there.”

I nodded, “The guards are getting organized. They’ll be here any moment with a sky chariot. Are you going with her?”

Twilight nodded, “I think I will. You?”

Shaking my head, I looked down at the sleeping unicorn, “I’ll take the train with the rest. It’s going anyway and they need the chariots for more important things than flying me around. Getting you two there quickly is important. Me getting there quickly is not.”

As much as I wanted to get back to Luna, it wasn’t practical to have them fly me back.

Twilight surrounded Starlight in her magic field, lifting her off the floor, “I’ll take her out to the guards. Thanks Page.”

“Thank Sunset. She is the one that actually took her down.”

Twilight glanced at the yellow unicorn and smiled, “I intend to,” before she trotted up the stairs, floating the would-be villain behind her.

I turned my head and looked over at Sunset, “Sunset?”

“Yeah?” she asked, looking away from the stairs as she turned to me.

“Good job.”