After seeing her little sister taken away, Applejack stop looking and start to furiously ask Malbourne where he is taking Apple Bloom. He use his magic to take AJ and Twilight under a tent where he show the same video the council showed him after saying where Trauer is taking her and why did he did it. As they are watching, it got to the part where it show what is going to happen to Apple Bloom. It made all of their eyes widen and jaws drop, with Twilight looking like she is about to throw up.

Looking at this, Malbourne shut the video and whisper to himself, "To think I watch this through the end with a straight face." Malbourne look at both girls and is calm about how they reacted, until Applejack angrily push him to the side.

"Listen Bourne, Malbourne, whatever your name is, you know a lot about what is going on, so you're going to take me to ReproScape and I'm going to rescue my sister and let me tell you, if Apple Bloom isn't the same in certain areas, you're going to meet the ends of my Apple-Bucking hooves. Understand," Applejack said, scaring the young colt.

"I'm going to suit up, you better be ready to take me by the time I'm done," Applejack said as she left the tent.

He shook for a bit and ask Twilight to lend an ear. She believes he has some good because he return to let AJ know about what is going to happen and ask what does he needs. Malbourne told Twilight that the council of ReproScape plan on starting a war with all of Equestria, with plans to concur and rule as a dictatorship. Even mentioning that they are going to get a couple of grand armies to attack almost every section of Equestria when they get Apple Bloom into the pot. When it happens, any pony wearing an Immoral Gem will get an extra charge to overtake anyone that comes their way. She ask when they are going to send the army which he answer as soon as possible. This got Twilight to call Spike to send a message to the three princesses to let them know and try to let other ponies know about it too.

In the time together, Twilight and Malbourne was talking as all of the ponies are getting set, either in hiding or methods to fight. Applejack yell his name and went up to him, dress like how she did in the Equestria war and demand for him to fly her immediately. She also demanded for him to carry her with magic as she doesn't trust his items. As he start to fly, the sound of "Wait" came up and it's revealed to be coming from Big Mac, also dress the same as from Equestria War, saying he wants to go too. Applejack ask why he wants to go when he wanted to send Apple Bloom away earlier.

"I was mad because she humiliated me in front of every mare in town. I wanted her to return to normal and when I saw that part of the video, I knew I messed up and I want to join you on your mission AJ, whether you like it or not," Big Mac said with Applejack rolling her eyes and saying for Malbourne get them flying. As he is using magic to get them off the ground, Granny Smith came running, wishing her grandchildren the best of luck and if she was younger, she would go too. With that goodbye in mind, Malbourne took Applejack and Big Mac to the direction of Reproscape.

As she is looking, Granny start to wonder about how she is going to defend herself from this upcoming battle. While she is thinking, Twilight gave her a small white gem in a shape similar to the immoral gems. Twilight reassure her that the gem is safe and she should go back to the farm to make sure everything will be safe and secure, including herself. As Granny is leaving, Twilight look at the direction of where they were going and hope they are going to be okay.

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Over in ReproScape, Trauer came with an unconscious Apple Bloom to the front of the royal council, announcing that he alone brought the corrupted being. He also mention that Malbourne is a traitor and they should began the war as soon as they can. Each member look at each other as one of them use magic to shrink him down to the size of an ant.

"That's for telling us what to do you filthy ant, now with the Prince against us, we'll just have to start without him. Commence Army!" The head of the council said as he use magic to put Apple Bloom in a bubble and carry her like she is in a balloon. As the members leave, each went off to do preparations for the upcoming war.

Two of them start gathering ponies suitable to attack separate sections of Equestria. When they are finish with their assignment, they send those ponies to a room where another councilmember is yelling, "DUPLICATE!" getting the ponies to use their fraudulent magic to make a copy of themselves. After the group is finish making the copy, the first ones fly off, to another councilmember who shows the group their specified target and once they understand where it is, they go to another one who supplies them all with magic and weaponry. Once they collected everything they need, the army fly to their destination: this process was repeated until the councilmembers are satisfied with the number of armies there are.

While the process is going on, the head of the council look at Apple Bloom and call upon his fellow members. He told them to gather all of the remaining ponies that weren't pick to fight to go to the castle for an important job. As the members are dismissed, he took Apple Bloom and went inside the castle.

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As they are flying, Applejack ask how long is it till they make it there, which Malbourne responded with not long. As they are flying, Malbourne saw the group of Fraudulents heading their way and made himself, AJ and Big Mac invisible. They manage to fly by without being seen as they made it to the entrance. Malbourne brought the two with him, pass the magic gate and into ReproScape. As they are flying over ReproScape, Applejack and Big Mac saw and became disgusted over how the foals they see in the streets are treating each other.

"How unruly can these foals be?" Applejack said looking at one that is pushing a filly into some mud.

"I'm sure they wouldn't do that if they weren't wearing the immoral gem," Malbourne said when he notice Applejack and Big Mac ignoring him, giving him a look of anger. He sigh as he took them to the front of the castle door saying that Apple Bloom should be at the lowest level, beneath the castle as they landed.

Knowing that, Applejack push open the door and loudly ask how to get to the bottom floor, only to see a hall full of unicorns. They see her and get ready to use their magic against her until Malbourne brought Big Mac and use his magic to create a hole beneath them.

"Don't worry, this will take us to the lowest level without any stops," Malbourne explain but both of them still look at him angrily. He look at them and use magic to close the hole after them. It was a long fall until they made it to the last floor where he use magic to levitate Big Mac and Applejack so they won't have a rough landing while he use his wings.

"We didn't need your magic to help us land," Applejack said through her teeth with Big Mac adding "Yeeup." Malbourne look at them but understand what they mean. He look forward to see a bunch of masked Fraudulents there to stop them from going to where Apple Bloom is as the three get ready to fight them all.

-To be Continued

A/N: Hope you guys enjoy the first half of the 8th ch., here's a fun fact: this full chapter has been through A LOT of rewrites, idea changes and thoughts about the character actions. Up to this point, it has been consistent with some small changes made here and there but after this point, it dealt with major changes.

If you would like to see what those changes are, I put a section for this on my Profile under the MLP section. But fair warning, there will be some kind of spoilers for the second half, but you all are free to check it out if you want. Be sure to leave any thoughts or suggestions on the characters or the plot, etc. in the Review section, whether positive or negative. Thanks and Gokigenyou.