Spike awoke, fully clothed in a room that wasn't his. In fact, he instantly knew where he was. "Why am I in mom's room?" he thought. "If i'm here, then, that must mean i'm in Canterlot....but why? Did they send me here when I was asleep?" It was then memories of his activities with Pinkie started to come back to him. He remembered everything that happened between the two of them; both before and after. As he started to blush hard, Spike started to wonder who it was that brought him here; maybe the guards knew. Spike got out of Celestia's bed and headed for the door, however, when he opened it, he was stopped by two guards.

"We're sorry, Spike, but the princess has instructed us to not allow you to leave her room until she returns." one of them said.

"What, why?" Spike asked.

"We're not at liberty to say." answered the other guard. "Just that you're not allowed to leave this room until the princess returns." With that, Spike was pushed back into Celestia's room and the guards shut the door.

"HEY!" Spike yelled as he grabbed the door handle. Spike pulled on it, but it didn't budge. "YOU CAN'T KEEP ME IN HERE!" Spike attempted to use his shoulder to break the door down, but that too proved to be futile. "The balcony." he thought. Spike headed towards the glass door that lead to his mother's balcony; believing that's how he was gonna escape, but as he got there, he found that it too was blocked off. There was some kind of purple aura surrounding the window. Spike went to touch it, and a small prick of lightning shocked him. He was trapped with no way of escaping.

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Celestia and Luna returned to Canterlot along with Stardust and began making their way into the throne room. "Where's Shining Armor?" Celestia asked.

"I've sent a guard to fetch him as soon as we returned, your majesty." Stardust answered. "He should be here soon." It didn't take them long to reach the throne room in which Celestia was about to take a seat on her throne when Shining Armor and a few guards entered. Celestia wasted no time in getting to the main issue. "What happen?!" she interrogated.

"We've engaged Stargazer in a forest about 20 miles outside of the city of Fillydelphia." he explained. "He's managed to fight off all of the guards single handedly; some of them are critically injured."

"Stardust has informed us that he's willing to kill. Tell me, has he done so?" Luna asked; afraid to hear the answer.

"Unfortunately, he has." Shining answered; lowing his head. "Three of our guards were caught in a massive explosion he set up in Fillydelphia when we went to check his childhood home." Celestia gripped the arms of her throne. Stargazer had killed three of her guards and critically wounded the rest. If he's willing to do all of that, then there's no telling what he's gonna once he returns to Ponyville. Once again, Celestia's mind turned to Spike, and how she's was just seconds away from seeing Stargazer deliver the finishing blow to her son. No, she promised herself since that night that nothing will ever harm Spike like that ever again.

"What about Blueblood?" asked Luna. "Any word from him?"

"None." Shining answered. "I assume he's still looking for any kind of trace of him."

"Sister, should we put guards in Ponyville?" Luna asked.

"No need, Luna." said Shining. "Blueblood said he had somepony in Ponyville who's on high alert."

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Twilight sat on her bed in Cadence's arms as complete and total fear washed over her. "He's coming for Spike." she said. "I know he is."

"He won't get to Spike." Cadence reassured. "As long as he remains in Canterlot, he'll be safe."

"I'm more worried about what he'll do once he finds out Spike's not here." Twilight said.

"Nothing." Rainbow said; cracking her knuckles. "If he even looks like he'll do something, i'll break his neck."

"And don't y'all be thinkin' about confrontin' Stargazer by y'allself." said Applejack. "Ah feel like Spike ain't the only one he's after. He may try to convince y'all ta take'em back. And since y'all still have feelings fer the bastard......."

"YOU WHAT?!" yelled Cadence. Both she and Fluttershy had shocked looks on their faces as they stared at Twilight. Cadence was about to say something when everypony heard loud stomping noises coming at them at full speed. Seconds later, Twilight's bedroom door flung open and standing there was Pinkie standing the doorway with her nightgown barely hanging onto her body.

"TWILIGHT, HOW COULD YOU?!" she yelled. "AFTER EVERYTHING HE DID, HOW YOU STILL FEEL ANYTHING FOR HIM AT ALL?!"

"Okay, first off, how could you hear us when Spike's room is down the hall, and second, I don't want to feel anything towards him, but.....I can't help it." she said as she hung her head. "I....I want to see him again." Twilight couldn't help but feel guilty as all the alicorn could think about right now was Spike, and how she felt like she was betraying him. Twilight didn't want to admit this to everypony, but whenever she and Spike slept together, there have been some instances where her mind went to Stargazer and how it felt to be with him again.

"Does Spike know?" Pinkie asked; causing Twilight's heart to skip a beat.

"W-What? No...no he doesn't." she said; lowering her head in shame. "He doesn't even know Stargazer's on his way to Ponyville."

"STARGAZER'S ON HIS WAY TO PONYVILLE?!" Pinkie screamed; nearly blowing everypony away. "HOW DID HE ESCAPE?!"

"It doesn't matter, so long as he doesn't know where Spike is." said Cadence.

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Spike laid on the floor of Celestia's bedroom panting heavily. He tried everything he could think of to attempt to escape his prison, but nothing worked. "T-This is ridiculous." he said.

"What is?" came Celestia's voice as she walked in her room. Spike moved to sit up just as Celestia approached him. Spike glared at her while she wore an innocent, cute smile on her face. "What's wrong, Spike?" she asked.

"You locked me in here as if I was some kind of prisoner." he said. "The guards won't even tell me why i'm in Canterlot, and i'm exhausted from trying to break outta here." Celestia giggled before she took a seat next to Spike; placing an arm around him. Her horn glowed and the curtains were pulled back and the purple barrier disappeared; allowing light from the sun to fill the room. "Why am I even in Canterlot, and did I even get here?"

"I had you brought here, Spike." Celestia answered. "I wanted.....to spend time with you." Celestia was trying to not let on why Spike was actually here. The last thing she wanted, was for him to constantly worry about what may, or may not happen to him if Stargazer finds him. "What do you say we have ourselves a little.....date." she suggested with a cute giggle. "We could spend the entire day together, just you and me, you know, like we used to."

"I wouldn't call those "dates", more like mother/son outings." Spike said.

"Come on, it'll be fun." Celestia said as she stood up; pulling Spike with her. She was hoping that this little outing with Spike would not only keep him from finding out way he really was here, but also put her mind at ease. Just knowing that Stargazer was out there somewhere was causing her an untold amount of stress. Latching onto Spike's arm, the pair walked out onto the balcony where Celestia extended her wings and took off into the air with Spike holding onto her.

On the ground, Luna watched her sister and nephew take off through the sky. "I wonder where they're going?" she thought. Luna's attention was soon captured by Stardust running towards her; calling her name.

"Princess Luna, we've received a message from Prince Blueblood." she said. "He received intel from some ponies that they saw somepony matching Stargazer's description in Baltimare. The prince is on his way there to investigate right now. Should I let your sister know this as well?"

"No." Luna answered. "She's stressed enough as is. As soon as you hear from Blueblood, let me know ASAP."

"Ma'am!" she saluted.

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*BOOOOOM*

A massive explosion could be heard throughout Ponyville that caused the residents of the town to take to the streets to find out where it came from when another one went off. Some were sure that a creature of some kind was about to attack the town and most ponies ran to seek the aid of Twilight and the others. The bearers of the elements, along with Starlight and Cadence began their investigation of the mysterious explosions. Twilight started to fear that the explosions were being caused by stargazer making his way towards Ponyville, however, her mind was put at ease once they discovered the source of it all. Big Mac was in the middle of training by punching the ground, which caused a huge chunk of the earth to rise up, and blowing up the massive rock.

"Big Mac, what in tarnation are y'all doing?!" Applejack yelled. "We can hear y'all all the way in Ponyville!"

"Trainin'." he said before swift kicking the rock in half with a clean cut.

"Trainin' fer what?" she asked. Big Mac didn't answer and continued his training. "BIG MAC!" Applejack tried and failed to get her brother's attention.

"Stargazer." Fluttershy said; catching everypony's attention. "He's training to confront Stargazer. Blueblood asked Big Mac to be on the lookout, just in case he failed to catch him. I guess he got the message."

"Wait, Fluttershy, you knew?" asked Rainbow.

Fluttershy nodded. "I.....I wanted to tell you, but I didn't want anypony to worry, besides, we had to get Spike under control before he hurt somepony." Rainbow was about to sat something, but was cut off when Big Mac caused another explosion followed by a mini earthquake. The red stallion had made a crater when he punched the ground before looking at his fist and let out a soft growl. He wasn't strong enough yet.

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Spike and Celestia walked through the market area of Canterlot with the princess latched onto his arm. This garnered the two of them some attention from the citizens as Spike noticed them staring and mumbling amongst themselves. Thanks his hearing, Spike knew what they were all saying about his little situation, and surprisingly, it wasn't anything negative. All the ponies of Canterlot figured that Celestia was just being overly attentive to Spike after everything that's happened to the poor dragon. He also heard some of the stallions commenting on how lucky he was to have such a sexy mare by his side. Three of the stallions talking about him was none other than Pyro, Techrat, and Sunspot. The ones who tried to Spy on Twilight and the others during their slumber party and on Celestia when she Spike had a "moment" together in Baltimare.

"How I wish I was that dragon right now." Pyro said; envious of Spike as he and Celestia passed them up. "Dammit, I bet you guys he was the one banging her in Baltimare."

"How can you be sure, the camera was destroyed when you fell off the building and onto that car?" asked Sunspot. "To tell the truth, you shouldn't even be alive right now."

"Don't remind me of that." Pyro said before taking a sip of his drink. "And besides, just look at how happy she is around him. You can't tell me that they're NOT banging each other."

"And how are you gonna prove that?" Sunspot asked. "Spy on them like you tried to do before?"

"Precisely." Pyro said with a dark smirk. "Think about it, ever since Celestia was debikinied in Baltimare, all pictures of her had vanished, and the black market is willing to pay top bit for anything lewd of her. So how much do you think we'll get if we somehow manage to get a video recording of her banging somepony, we'll be billionaires."

Techrat, who had been quiet up to this point, finally spoke up. "This isn't about the money, you just want a video of Celestia for "personal" usage."

"That too." he said. "We record them, then make a four copies; one for each of us, and the other to be sold on the black market."

"I don't know." said Sunspot; unsure if he should go along with this.

"Dude, you didn't see what I saw in Baltimare; Celestia's tits and plot jiggling while she was on top of that lucky bastard, it was amazing." Pyro said. "Image having footage of that in your personal collection." Sunspot started to imagine a naked Celestia and a perverted grin formed on his face; the same with Techrat. The two stallions quickly agreed to Pyro's plan. Surely, this time, things won't backfire in their faces. The three stallions got up from their table, and went after both Celestia and Spike; being extra careful as to not let on that they were being followed.

Speaking of Celestia and Spike, the pair made their way to a small pastry shop where they took a seat at one of the booths. "I used to bring you here all the time, Spike, remember?" Celestia said as she put and arm around Spike; bringing him closer.

"Kind of." he said. "I was very little back then."

"Ah, Princess Celestia." said the waitress as she approached. "Are you getting the usual?"

"Yes, I am." she said. "Oh, and get Spike the same thing please."

"On the way." the waitress said before she left.

"The usual?" Spike asked. "Let me guess, a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate filling and frosting, right?"

"You know me so well." Celestia giggled. A few minutes had passed before the waitress came back with two plates of chocolate cake for each of them. Celestia wasted no time in diving right into it. Spike chuckled as he saw the smudge of chocolate on Celestia's face as she happily ate. Grabbing a napkin, Celestia wiped her mouth before going back in for another bite. She was like a giant child when it came to cake. Sometimes, Spike finds it hard to believe that she's the ruler of this country. As the two of them ate, Pyro, Sunspot, and Techrat took a seat at a booth across from them. In his hands, Techrat was putting together a mini camera they could use to record Spike and the princess without being noticed.

"I wonder what they're talking about?" Sunspot wondered.

"Who cares, as long as we get some footage of Celestia in her birthday suit, I couldn't care less about they're talking about." Pyro stated. "Hey, Techrat, what's taking so long?"

"Don't rush me, unless you want the video to come out looking like shit." he said. Pyro looked back towards Spike and Celestia and caught them standing up from their seats and beginning to leave.

"They're leaving." Pyro announced. "Quick, after them!" The three stallions quickly got up from their seat, but was stopped when they were confronted by the manager.

"Surely, you aren't thinking about leaving without paying, are you?" he asked. All three stallions chuckled nervously as the manager stared them down.

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It was evening time when the train left Dodge City and was heading towards it's next stop.....Appaloosa. Stargazer sat in his seat with an aggravated look on his face. When he saw the train schedule, he didn't think to look and see if there were any other stops along the way to Ponyville. He figured it'd be at least another day or two before he'd make it there. "Hey, why so glum?" Sentinel asked as he took a seat. "We should be in Ponyville soon."

"I hadn't counted on it taking so long to get there." Stargazer growled. "Dammit."

"Think of it this way, we could take this time to get to know each other better." Sentinel suggested. "Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?"

"Hmph, where do I start?" Stargazer said with a smirk. It was then the unicorn fugitive began to tell his new ally about where'd he came from, however, unknown to them, a certain prince was standing on the tracks right outside of Appleloosa with ax in hand; waiting for their arrival.