On the bright and sunny day in Ponyville, Sweetie Bell, and Scootaloo went to their homes with Sweetie getting some sheet music while Scootaloo gets her newly repaired scooter. They cross paths when they are heading back and exchange a mutual look and go in the same direction, without agreeing to it or speaking to each other. They notice how empty the town is and somewhat mention their families drag them into hiding but see no reason too.

When they realize that they spoke, one of them brought up the reason why they were fighting until they see the town getting darker. They look up as a cloud of dark ponies fill the sky and color it red. Looking, Scootaloo brought out her scooter and got Sweetie Bell to hop on and ride away as the dark ponies start attacking buildings and look for ponies.

Two fraudulents chase after them as they ride towards Twilight's Castle until a large, dark fraudulent in heavy armor appear in front of them. He uses magic to take her scooter and turn it into a small metal ball. As more start to surround them, the two fillies run away into their former clubhouse as the large one chase them now.

When they make it inside, he started to break the clubhouse apart doing whatever it takes to get to them. As the two hug each other, afraid of what is going to happen next, they apologize for the name calling earlier and say they did not mean any of the bad things they heard about each other as the large fraudulent came in.

When he close in on them, the two scream when a lone earth pony came in and fight against him fearlessly. She got them both on her back and got out of there at great speed, dodging any magic spell charge at them. The pony made it inside Twilight's castle and any magic aim there was deflect back. Inside, Rarity and Rainbow Dash went to hug their little sisters and scold them for not hiding. They thank the pony for what she did before asking what is her name and why she seem familiar.

"Yaw don't recognize me? I don't blame yall, I'm Granny Smith, in my prime," the pony said strutting, shocking all of them.

"Wait, you're Granny Smith?" Scootaloo ask.

"Why yes indeed, thanks to this gem, (Pointing at the white gem on her neck) I'm able to fend for myself and I'll say, if I know where my grandchildren went, I'll join them quicker than a hungry snake catching its first oversize meal in days," Granny explain.

When Sweetie ask what she means by joining, Smith said, "No time to explain, I must fight those armored alicorns and enjoy my youth as long as I can." She then yell Yeehaw and ran out the castle as the sound of a party cannon came out.

Looking at what is going on outside, Rarity told them to stay inside, keep the doors close and just hang out with all the ponies that are there, as well as the mane's six's pets. The two roll their eyes, thinking they are going to be trapped with Apple Bloom as Rainbow Dash and Rarity run out the door. After some looking, the young fillies see that Apple Bloom isn't there and ask Spike, who is giving blankets, where she is.

"I thought you girls were fighting, why are you looking for her?" Spike ask as Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo says they want to avoid her as much as they can so they want to know where she is to avoid it. Spike wonder what to say next as he knows the truth and was silent for a bit. They were not satisfied with his silence and demand to know where she is.

Spike didn't want to tell them where she might be or lie about it but firmly said she is not there and if they need to see her, they will see her soon and walk away. The two wonder about it as they sit by Winona, Gummy, and Tank and start to show concern for Apple Bloom because of how Spike didn't want to tell them where she is.

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Before the Fraudulents start to attack, the ponies of Ponyville didn't want to let their hometown be destroy knowing Twilight had warned them earlier. Many of the adults start by getting the young foals and old folks to hide in Twilight's castle while the rest of the Mane 6 get ready for what is to come by prepping canons, spells, and any materials they can use.

Seeing the young and the old going into her castle, Twilight cast a spell on her castle that will deflect spells aim at it as she receives messages from the other princesses saying they are ready to fight back if their kingdoms are invaded and have alerted other dignitaries about the invasion.

When she isn't looking for materials to use, Rarity looks for as many young and old ponies to hide while Rainbow Dash gathers all those who can fight. At one point, Rainbow Dash came in, carrying Tank and some of the other pets into the castle where Rarity is.

"Rainbow Dash, what are you doing with Opal and all of our pets?" Rarity asks as she uses magic to get Opal away.

"Fluttershy left me with all of our pets and said she needed to do something important. Besides, I want to make sure Tank is safe from those ponies if they are what Twilight said," Rainbow Dash explain as she let loose Winona, Gummy, Angel, and Tank.

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After their sisters came into the castle, they are in the face of battle and run to their positions. Rarity got as many earth ponies to wear sequence and unicorns to do a flash spell so when a group of fraudulents chases them, Rarity calls them to bring out the sequence and commence the spell. As the flash affects them, it temporarily blinds the group more than it should. As for Rainbow Dash gather as many pegasi, she can and get them to use clouds as weapons with some help from Discord.

"I'm rather glad Twilight finally saw how dangerous Malbourne's kind is, but look at what is going on and-," Discord said but then interrupted by Rainbow defending Malbourne, using what he had done earlier and tell him to make booby traps. Discord supply clouds that look like lightning clouds but would turn into flowers, bubbles, and chocolate rain.

"This would do great, but how will we know which one is a lightning cloud or one of these "trick" clouds?" Rainbow Dash ask. He then explains that the clouds will react as tricks whenever a pony that is influenced by the immoral gem tries to use them. After that discussion, they see Muffins trying to activate the trick clouds only to shoot lightning instead.

When they encounter a group of fraudulents, Rainbow shift the cloud to make the lightning hit them instead of causing damage to the town. Rainbow cheer for it hitting them and get the other pegasi to get the clouds to attack them and saw how they are trying to use their clouds, only for them to get the trick clouds instead. With most of the pegasi as well as Discord attacking the fraudulents, Rainbow Dash decides to fight as well, hoof to hoof.

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During the chaos, some of the fraudulents stop at the sound of a loud roar. They look around until a giant foot came out and look up to see a giant bear-like machine that is doing the loud roar and moving its arms. They aim their magic at it, only for it to be negated, which made them use more magic against it, getting the same result.

Within the mechanize bear is a bunch of woodland creatures: a group of bunnies, squirrels, etc. each run the arms and legs of the machine, at the head are three bears doing the roar with a few mice on a look out while in the chest is none other than Fluttershy and Doctor Hooves.

"Thank you Doctor for this but are you sure all of the animals will be safe in here?" Fluttershy ask.

"Absolutely Fluttershy, this machine is made out of parts that are designed to keep those inside safe while going against any enemies outside," Doctor Hooves answer.

"By the way, where did you get these parts to build this?" Fluttershy ask. Before he got a chance to answer, a mouse above report recent actions by the fraudulents. Fluttershy translated the mouse and Doc demand that they keep fighting as the bear take them down.

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A fraudulent break into Sugarcube Corner to see it is dark. Within the darkness, he could see a couple of large amps. It was relatively quiet until he see purple magic being use to turn the amps up.

"Reveal yourself," the fraudulent yell as the purple magic bring out more amps with high volume.

The sound of hooves came out as someone whisper in a microphone, "Are you ready to party?"

On top of the amps, Pinkie Pie came in, carrying a rock guitar and wearing face makeup similar to Gene Simmon, said in a loud voice, "For those about to rock, (Jumping from the amp and getting her guitar ready) We salute you."

When she finish the last phrase, she made it to the floor then strum the guitar, creating sound waves from the amps to blast the fraudulent out of there and attract the attention of more. Seeing more heading towards them, both Pinkie and Vinyl came out to see a small group heading towards them.

"Get the amps and canons ready," Pinkie said as she get the guitar out and get ready to rock more.

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In ReproScape castle, both Applejack and Big Mac fight against any fraudulent in their way as they head to where their little sister would be. Before all the fighting, Malbourne developed a feeling that stops him from wanting to attack anyone so he instead de-quip the weapons and power capsules.

Applejack notice this and call him out, saying, "If you're not going to help out, then just tell us where Apple Bloom should be and get out of here!"

Malbourne point to where they need to go then said they need an Immoral Gem to use as a key for a door they need to go through. After he gave the directions, Applejack went to a fallen fraudulent, pull out a gem and she and Big Mac leave him. Malbourne looks at what they did and flew to catch up with them.

When they made it to the end, they see a huge door with a small hole in the middle of it, shape like the Immoral Gem. Applejack place the gem within the hole, which causes the door to light up with red as a loud sound came out. Before anything else happens, the Immoral Gem shattered and the light went down. They all look around to see what may have caused the gem to break, only to see when they look up, two pairs of red glowing eyes. AJ call them out, asking if they were the ones responsible for the destruction of the gem.

"Hhm, some filth dare call us out, how uncouth," a male voice said.

"Now hold on, we should introduce ourselves if they have the audacity to go this far," a female voice said.

The sound of flapping wings came out and the two reveal themselves. Malbourne recognize them both as Alicorn Lightning Rider and Alicorn Weapon Mage as Big Mac loudly say, "Where's Apple Bloom?"

The two transport the Apple Siblings to a dark, empty room with a couple of small torches and they ask where they are.

"The same place filths like you were last seen and belong," Weapon Mage said as she and her brother brought out their wings, looking to fight. Both AJ and Big Mac took the hint and get ready when Lightning Rider charge towards Big Mac while Weapon Mage throw a magic spell at AJ who dodge it.

Lightning Rider, being born a Pegasus, mainly use his wings to fight, whether he creates strong winds to blow away Big Mac or throw a series of sharp feathers at him. As for Weapon Mage, being born a unicorn and true to her name, use her magic spells to pop up anything she needs in the situation she is in, such as crates to halt Applejack in her place and pop up any weapon she wants, such as a sword. With both of them having magic horns, they are also able to toy with them by teleporting to another spot in the space they are in.

Unfortunately, for them, both Applejack and Big Mac use their rodeo skills to dodge and maneuver around anything they throw at them while fighting.

The fight went on as all of them try to land an attack. When the Apples are doing their best to catch them with the fraudulents toying with them, Malbourne transport to where they are and made himself invisible so Applejack and Big Mac will not see him. Here, he tries to think of a way to help them win and get out fast.

However, he did not know that his siblings know he is present and decide to aim their attacks towards him rather than the Apples. To begin, Weapon Mage threw a spell that would put Applejack near Malbourne than get Lightning Rider to shoot feathers at him.

After that move, they eagerly want to do it again, so they look at each other and agree on their conniving plot and decide to repeat the sequence. They repeat this, either throwing wooden crates or sharp winds at him while making either Applejack or Big Mac close to make it seem as though they were aiming at them.

After some time fighting and "bad aiming", Lightning Rider shoot a string of feathers towards Malbourne without giving Weapon Mage a chance to get Malbourne near their targets, getting Applejack to be suspicious.

She went to where he shot the feathers to discover Malbourne, exhausted from using magic to hide and obvious that he had taken the attacks from earlier.

She and Big Mac gasp at his condition then look at the others to see Mage using her magic to strangle her brother because of what he did and call him an idiot. Applejack asks him how long has he been hiding when Weapon Mage give a snicker. She heard it and ask what that was for, which she answer while holding her brother's neck.

"Well if you must know, you have to be a pea-brain, filth to not know of his presence," Weapon Mage said.

"Yeah, we had to put up with that twerp and his invisibility spell for long enough," Lightning Rider said, but after he said that, Weapon Mage got even more angry and tighten her spell. Applejack asks what he means by that when Malbourne told her who they, to her and Big Mac's shock.

"He-he's your little brother. How can you two attacks, knowing he's going to get hurt?" Applejack asked. Weapon Mage put her brother down, out of breath but still breathing, and start a monolog.

"Little brother, ha, that is just a silly title that means nothing. Is being related to someone means been given valuable treasure, high praise and the talent of being better than everyone else is? Let me tell you, it does not; I have to be in the shadow of some kid, just because he is a natural born alicorn. My magic can cause chaos and supply the necessities for violence, all overshadow by some pegasus born with a magic horn. It does not matter whether he is in my birth group; he needs to be gone and his entire praise and treasure shower should go to moi. And even if the first attempt was a complete failure, you two had delivered him for me to do it; and what luck, he's now a filth-liking traitor, all the more reason for me to finish him."

At the last few words, her gem glow and shimmer with her greed and jealousy.

Both Applejack and Big Mac look at her with an appalled expression as she starts to laugh maniacally. The Apples look at each other with a serious look and Applejack angrily charge towards Weapon Mage during her laugh.

During this struggle, Applejack was moving too much for Weapon Mage to blast her with magic, so before she thought about transporting, Applejack took a bite of her hair and hold on tight. Weapon Mage tries to get Applejack to let go, but her jaw proves to be stronger than her magic.

She thought about ways to make Applejack let go, many violent ones, and was about to perform one until she felt a tap on the side and look to see Big Mac, who punch her into unconsciousness. As she falls down, she drops Applejack down and Big Mac went to her side and brought out some rope to tie Weapon Mage up, from her hooves to her wings and finally her she regain consciousness, she sees herself tie up next to Big Mac, looking content with what he did. "Don't think you won filth, Lightning Rider, get up you

"Don't think you won filth, Lightning Rider, get up you dunce and fight," Weapon Mage said when Big Mac direct her face towards her brother to see Applejack standing near him. Applejack got some rope and tie up Lightning Rider, the same way Big Mac did. The two then get their hoof by the sibling's Immoral Gem with Applejack saying, "Just a silly title that means nothing, ugh." After Applejack said that, both she and Big Mac rip the Immoral Gem off the two, causing them to fall into disillusion as they fall into unconsciousness. Applejack and Big Mac put the two gems away, went to

The two then get their hoof by the sibling's Immoral Gem with Applejack saying, "Just a silly title that means nothing, ugh." After Applejack said that, both she and Big Mac rip the Immoral Gem off the two, causing them to fall into disillusion as they fall into unconsciousness. Applejack and Big Mac put the two gems away, went to

After Applejack said that, both she and Big Mac rip the Immoral Gem off the two, causing them to fall into disillusion as they fall into unconsciousness. Applejack and Big Mac put the two gems away, went to Malbourne, asking if he is okay, and try to pick him up. Malbourne try to get up, clearly showing he can barely do so. "Don't worry, I have a rapid

"Don't worry, I have a rapid recoverey rate, so I'll be…fine in no time," Malbourne said trying to bring out his wings but brought it back in pain. "You better watch it, at

"You better watch it, at least, tell us how we can get out of here and we'll carry you out," Applejack said as she gets him on top of Big Mac's back. "This place has been sealed off for many, many years, even beyond that. This can get us out of here,"

"This place has been sealed off for many, many years, even beyond that. This can get us out of here," Malbourne said as he uses his strength to use magic to transport them back to where they were. When they made it there, Malbourne look more tired than before. Applejack look at him until he told her to just put the gems they collected in there as both of them can fit in the hole and said that no one will shatter the gems this time. Applejack

Applejack look at him one more time before she put the two gems within the hole, causing it to light up with red light. After it fully lights up, smoke came out this time as the door open outward and almost immediately, all three felt a chill. Still they all went in as the doors close afterwards and into the cold, dark hallway. Applejack look around through the darkness and notice how empty it is. "This

"This don't look like a holding or some kind of jail cell," Applejack said with her breath showing after each word she said. "This is ReproScape, we don't keep any prisoners for more than a few hours. However, with specific ponies, they keep them really close to the royal council,"

"This is ReproScape, we don't keep any prisoners for more than a few hours. However, with specific ponies, they keep them really close to the royal council," Malbourne explain with his breath showing as well. He further

He further explains, "Where I directed you two, is where they are going to take your sister soon; it's just the council often pass the prisoner during their interactions and with a plan of this scale, it would take a long time to find Apple Bloom so I suggested-". By the end of his second explanation, Big Mac interrupted him when his ears and jaw dropped, pop-up eyes and stop in his place. Applejack look ahead to see what Big Mac is looking at to gain the same reaction as him at the site. The three look to see a giant, black cauldron that looks as though it reach the first floor of the castle. Applejack look around and notice three platforms behind the cauldron, line up vertically and the top one being half the size of the others when she start to have a revelation. "Hey, isn't this the cauldron from that video you showed me earlier?" Applejack

"Hey, isn't this the cauldron from that video you showed me earlier?" Applejack ask with worry in her tone and expression, which he nodded. "They have not started the ceremony yet, but you guys just need to get to the top platform, wait until the council come in then-,"

"They have not started the ceremony yet, but you guys just need to get to the top platform, wait until the council come in, then-," Malbourne explain until the sound of hooves come out. Malbourne told them to hide underneath the platform and that it is time. Applejack and Big Mac panic and start to look for stairs, which does not exist here in the castle.

They look through their leftover supply of rope, until Malbourne said, "Save it, I have a plan but I would like for you two to cooperate with it.

The two look at him until Applejack said, "Alright, we'll trust you, but you must hurry."

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A row of Fraudulents lines up on the two platforms and on the top platform, the six council members a line, with the last one carrying Apple Bloom in the balloon. The first one took her and told the rest to get the ceremony ready.

One of the five set up six small screens, with the first row showing Ponyville, Canterlot and the Crystal Empire while the bottom row show a list of their plan, Cloudsdale, and Las Pegasus.

Two of them give different colored vials for those in the second row while the rest throw furniture, books and articles at the outside bottom of the cauldron. When they all seem done with throwing and receiving, the council member with Apple Bloom made a speech.

"We have the Corrupted Being. (Showing Apple Bloom to everyone) Not only that, we have moved far enough to move on to the next step: BEGIN YOUR NEXT JOB!" He said, gaining a response from everyone saying "Captain".

The second row pour the vials of potion into the cauldron, creating a dark color liquid, while the bottom row set the furniture and book on fire, heating the cauldron to a boiling point. As the contents start to have fire beasts, Captain look down, put Apple Bloom on top of the cauldron and then pop the balloon. It all went into silence after that pop as Apple Bloom is falling, unconsciously into the boiling cauldron.