A young couple thought today at Mount Apexia was very peaceful. It was sunny, the air was cool and everyone seemed to be happy. Until they spotted a panicked Crimson Forge galloping down the street. How could he have been so blind? After the recent events that happened after what Asmodeus did, whose to say that someone wouldn't be a shred bit paranoid of outsiders? But this was something else. This was a sickness that has overtaken King Tiberius. He broke dozens of sweats as he tried to figure out where they went. Over the course of their travels he knew information about them, what they liked, and where they like to go. "Think Crimson Think!" he thought to himself. Then he eventually realized he just wasn't fast enough. Who else he knew was fast? Then he thought, Rainbow Dash! And what does she like? He decided to make his way fast towards where he was certain he would find her, the Apexian Arena. Soon enough, he saw that Dash was already getting into some trouble.

"Look. I don't understand what the problem is." Rainbow Dash said in the best Latin she knew. "I got the money…or denari right here with me! So let me in!" The dragon at the booth look puzzled and as annoyed as Rainbow Dash did as she spoke in Latin, "I can't. You should know this process already by now. Now show me your ID."

"Um, what the hay is an… uh ID?" Rainbow Dash said. The booth-dragon looked even more puzzled. "You don't know what an ID is?" He asked. "All citizens of Mount Apexia are required to have one for security reasons."

"Well, I'll have you know that I am a guest here at this place. Besides, I wanna see what cool new sports they have in there."

"What do you mean by a guest?" The booth-dragon said as he gave a stare. Crimson Forge entered the scene just in time. "Arca Impeta! (Rainbow Dash!) There you are." He said as he noticed the situation. He nervously said to the booth-dragon. "Hey there. Sorry about that, my uh…marefriend here gets lost often. I'll take her home."

"Did you just call me your marefriend?!" Rainbow Dash said out loud before receiving a nudge. "Just play along…" Crimson whispered back. As he looked back, he knew it was too late to convince anypony or anydragon what was going on, because the dragon picked up a weird-looking device that looked like a handle and held it up to his head. Crimson and Rainbow ducked behind a corner.

"Ok, what the heck was that?" Rainbow Dash asked impatiently.

"I've made a grave mistake." Crimson said. "I've gotten you all in trouble."

"Oh you're gonna be in trouble alright." Rainbow Dash said. "For calling me your marefriend? That's disgusting! You just couldn't think of anything better!" She was about to pound him on the head before he said, "You're gonna be arrested!" Rainbow Dash looked confused before she said, "Excuse me?"

"I didn't know this, but while I was away King Tiberius passed a new law." Crimson replied.

"What law? And who the heck is King Tiberius?"

"He passed a new law that states foreigners in Mount Apexia get prison for life!"

"What?"

"It's true. My best friend explained it. If the guards find you, they will lock you up!" Crimson explained before hearing a whistle. "Oh no…"

"Wait, why don't they want any foreigners in Mount Apexia?" Rainbow Dash said before she and Crimson looked around the corner. Rainbow Dash saw the guards, ponies and dragons alike, clad in black and silver armor from head to toe. It was as if they weren't living beings at all. They ducked back behind knowing that they saw them. Crimson gave Rainbow five seeds. "It's all I have, they will grant you camouflage for up to five minutes. Give them to the others, you and Twilight can fly and teleport out of here with no problems." He said before taking a peak. The guards were getting closer. "On the count of three." Rainbow Dash nodded. "Unus, duo, tres!" Crimson started running from out of the corner at breakneck speed alongside Rainbow Dash. But the guards pulled out a miniature cannon and launched a net at Crimson Forge. The impact drove his face into the ground as his hooves became entangled. "Crimson!"

"Go! My father will have your stuff ready for the hike to Alba at the back entrance! Go warn the others!" He yelled as the guards beat him up and carried him off. Rainbow Dash took off.

As soon as the cable car came to a stop, Ignatius stepped off and sped towards Emerald Tooth's house. He wasn't entirely sure if what he was doing was right, but as he saw a pony fly over him leaving behind a rainbow streak, something told him to keep on doing what he was doing. He eventually came to a house and saw Emerald Tooth's door unlocked. Emerald Tooth was working at his desk when he saw an ever familiar pony enter his home. "Ignatius! Salve!"

"No time for warm and humble greetings Mr. Forge!" Ignatius blurted out.

"Why? You seem to be in distress what's wrong?"

" Your son Crimson is back!" He responded with a face of mixed emotions. Emerald smiled and laughed at the thought. He was delighted to hear that. "And why is that a bad thing?"

"Because he brought foreigners with him!" The smile on Emerald's face disappeared just as suddenly. "Eheu (Oh no)." Emerald started to pace back and forth. "Who are these foreigners?" Ignatius gulped. "The Mane Six." He said as Emerald's eyes widened. "You mean the ones in the expelled prophecy by…Ahura Mazda?"

"I'm afraid so."

"You're talking about the six named Crepuscula Scintillara (Twilight Sparkle), Arca Impeta (Rainbow Dash), Trepidara-Timida (Fluttershy), Paucita (Rarity), Punicella Crusta (Pinkie Pie), and Malifera-Jacoba (Applejack)?"

"I'm afraid so. And they seem to have brought a little dragon with them as well." A stressed out Emerald Tooth bent down to Ignatius, put his hands on his shoulders and said, "Ignatius. Best friend of my son, I know this may not sound fatherly, but how do you know if he is telling the truth?"

"Because as I was running to your house, I saw one of them fly over me, Arca Impeta." Emerald stood up and processed. "So it must be true." He paused for a minute. "Then we really are doomed if we don't take action. Where's Crimson headed for?"

Rainbow Dash flew past all the other ponies and dragons trying not to hit any of them. An overwhelming sense of panic overcame her. If the Apexia guard could capture and entangle Crimson Forge, what other kinds of technology did Apexia possess? The thought of it made her shiver as she saw Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie walking towards the garden. She dived down and came to a screeching halt as Fluttershy turned around to see her in a state of hysterics. "Rainbow Dash, goodness, what happened to you?"

"We have to get out of here Fluttershy and Pinkie!"

"Now? When we just got here and were about to have fun fun fun?" Pinkie Pie stated.

"Crimson accidentally led us into a trap!" Rainbow shouted.

"Wh…what kind of trap?" Fluttershy said being nervous at the thought.

"He told me that some sort of crazy king decided to ban foreigners or they get arrested, for life!" Pinkie Pie gasped. "What kind of pony…or dragon does that? Not my kind of party I say!"

"Speaking of which, let us boogie out of here and warn the others!"

"Wait a minute! Where's Crimson?" Fluttershy said.

"Oh no…" Rainbow Dash said. "He got captured by the guards!"

"What?"

"Yeah I saw him!"

"Well we need to go rescue him!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Yes let's…no wait. He told us to warn the others." Rainbow Dash said in a low tone. "I don't think there's any way to get him out of that mess."

"Wait wait wait wait, just wait!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "I think I got an idea!"

Darkness and muttering engulfed Crimson Forge's universe as he was dragged mercilessly to his unknown destination. Before he knew it, the blindfold was taken off him and he was pushed to the ground. Before his eyes was a pair of ever familiar feet. He looked up to see that he was at the mercy of his own king, Tiberius Maximus. A 10 foot dark blue dragon with burning eyes and golden armor. Next to him, Queen Domitilla, a bright pink dragon with green emerald eyes and silver armor was sitting next to him. "Sanguineus Fabricarus!" Tiberius bellowed. Crimson got up and saluted. "Rex Tiberius." he said before the king took his seat in the court room. Judge Hermogenes,a frail but ominous dragon stepped up to his place. "All rise!" said one of the guards.

"May the prosecuter present her statement." Hermogenes said. The prosecutor who was the same on at the booth stepped forward with the witnesses on both sides of the court. "At approximately 14:00 hours, an aquamarine pegasus stepped up to Miss Isabella at the booth and was seen trying to enter the arena without and ID card. After she looked up in our batabase books, there was no record of an Aquamarine pegasus with a rainbow tail. As soon as she picked up the telephone, Crimson Forge then was seen assiting her out of the situation and hiding her from the guards. Therefore, an accusation must be made that Crimson Forge brought in outsiders." She claimed. Hermogenes looked at a mortified Crimson. "Young warrior, is that true, as you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

"Yes your honor." Said Crimson. "I did bring them in."

"Is there a peculiar reason why?" Crimson sighed. He knew that if he lied they would know, they were just too darn good at this stuff. "I believed in…" he said as the audience and witnesses leaned in.

"…the prophecy." Crimson contintued followed by chatter before the judge banged the hammer down on the table. "Order!" he shouted. "Crimson Forge. Are you saying, that the reason that you brought forbidden outsiders in here, is because you believed in the banned prophecy written by the halucinatory himself Ahura Mazda!?"

"Ahura Mazda is the wise one! He is not a halucinatory…"

"Silence!" Hermogenes bellowed. He sat back in his chair. "Crimson. You were appointed to the Apexian Guard by the Academy as their best student. And for you to drop this low…" he continued. His voice showed slight sympathy only for that to be followed by apathy. "Such blasphemy cannot be tolerated.". The prosecutor stood up and said, "May I your honor?" he said as he pulled out a book and read. "Ammendment 12 of Chapter 5 in the Apexian Book of Justice states: "Those who betray the rule of customs and allow a foreigner to enter the building without specific permission from his majesty himself are commited to a sentence of being put to prison for life."

"One moment…" the judge said.

"Excellency?'

"We have already established that Crimson is guilty of that ammendment."

"There is another your honor…" he said as he flips the pages back and reads. "Ammendment 7 of Chapter 3 in the Apexian Book of Justitce states: "Those who follow another belief, commits action based on that belief, and disobey's the law on action based on that belief, and a belief that has been forsaken by the Apexian community, are stripped of their rank entirely and dishonored by the Apexians." So in short your honor, we have a double first-degree crime." The audience's chatter began to increase as Crimson's heartbeat began to beat louder than the tapping of the Judge's hammer. "Does anypony or anydragon have any objections?" The room went silent. "How does the Jury find the accused?" he announced.

"Guilty!" they all shouted. Crimson let out a large sigh. There was no hope now. Without his guidance, the mane six would never make it to Alba.

"Crimson Forge. Son of Emerald Tooth." Hermogenes said. "For your crimes against Apexians, I hearby sentence you to prison for life, with your legacy humiliated, and your history forgotten. Justice has spoken!"

The tap of a hammer may seem illigitimate, but for Crimson, it was the point of no return as the court clapped their hands and he was dragged off to the Tarturus Cells deep within the mountian. As he was dragged, he regretted almost everything that he did to the mane six. He started to blame himself for everything he did, including accidentally almost causing Pinkie Pie to be killed by the Giant Ambush Spider. He felt nothing but regret throughout his entire body. Then he started to feel something else, not hope but something fluffy. He opened his teared up eyes and looked to his left to see a familiar tail. Could it be? No it couldn't, Mount Apexia is too large anyway. The guard carrying him asked the other a question. But the other guard didn't' respond. "Quintus buddy are you alright?" the guard said as he kept looking at the other. He guard looked down. "My friend, what happened to your tail?" he said. Crimson listened up. Maybe his thought about the familiar tail wasn't so far fetched after all. "Where did you get that much dye? Did you…" But before he knew it, the other guard let go of Crimson and swung his spear at the other guard without warning. The vibration of the helmet knocking him unconcius. Crimson was stunned. Why did the other guard hurt him? But then he caught onto something. "Do I know you?" Crimson said as the other guard lifted his visor only for the him turning out to be a her. "Surprise! I found you!" shouted an ever familiar voice.

"Pinkie?" Crimson said.

"Of course you silly filly!"

"But…but how?" he said.

"Well long story short, Rainbow Dash found us, we saw where you were going, we ran into a guard, Fluttershy used her stare on him, Rainbow Dash tied him up, we argued who was gonna rescue him, so I just put on the armor, walked in the court room exicted because you know I couldn't wait to rescue you, then I was dragging you like a little doll on the floor, and then wham I hit the bully with the spear! Taadaa!" Pinkie Pie said fastly.

"Well, I'll hand it to you. You certianly are full of surprises." Crimson said as the rest of the Mane Six caught up. "Crimson!" Twilight remarked. "I heard about the whole thing! How come you never knew about this?"

"Because I wasn't here for it. But I was blind. I should've known that Asmodeus's action would've rattled Mount Apexia to the core." Crimson responded.

"This is just terrible!" Rarity exclaimed. "How will we get out of this mess?"

"I know that there's another entrance to Mount Apexia, but there is just one problem; it's heavily guarded."

"Then how will we get past them?"

"This is where your elements of mindfulness can determine our fate. Fluttershy, I need you to use your powers to startle the guards. Applejack will then summon branches from the ground to hold them down, but considering the level she's at, she won't be able to hold them down for long. That's where Twilight will make herself useful. She will use her ability to slow down time while we are making a chain to her. Sound like a plan?"

"Well, it's the best we got." Applejack said. "But where exactly are we headed?"

"A long distance from here. A region known as Alba."

"How far is it?"

"A nine day hike in good conditions."

"Nine days!?" Pinkie Pie said.

"It's the best shot we have! My dad will have our supplies ready at the entrance. Let's go." Crimson said as they all galloped down the hall and into another corridor that lead to the North-eastern entrance.