Ace and Bolt stopped dead in their tracks at the guard's orders. Not once have they ever seen such authority and strength from one stallion. "We were just on our way to Ponyville, don't mind us hehe." Ace eyed the guard’s every step that he took towards them. Bolt scooted himself close to Ace to whisper in his ear. “I’ll take off for the woods, go on ahead to Ponyville. If we split up, he’ll never be able to catch us.” Ace just nodded his, still eyeing the guard. " I have a lot of questions to ask you, don't move," ordered the guard. Bolt ignored the orders and took off, headed towards the woods. Ace did the same, but only off towards Ponyville. The guard stood in disbelief for a moment, then sounded a horn that he carrier around his neck.

Bolt flew into the woods looking for a place to hide. He took cover in a thick bush to avoid being seen. The guard that had sounded the horn earlier was now accompanied with two other guards. Bolt was careful not to make a sound and kept himself low to the ground as the guards passed him by. As Bolt slowly turned around to sneak away, he accidently stepped on a snake. The snake reacted immediately and sunk its fangs into Bolt's hoof. Bolt yelled out in pain as he shook his leg violently to get the snake off of him.

Ace quickly took off in the opposite direction of Bolt, heading towards Ponyville. Ace quickly glanced to his right, only to noticed a number of similar looking pegasi guards coming from a distant could, an odd looking cloud. It seemed much larger than the rest in the sky and had large distinct rectangular shapes that casted shadows of what seemed to look like building structures. Ace looked forward and learned that he was now entering the streets of Ponyville.

Ace made his way around several houses heading off to the Western part of town. Before he knew it, there were at least ten guards trailing less than fifty feet behind. Ace had never been chased by ponies with such skill and strength. Ace panicked and darted for the center of town, where it was the most crowed. Every pony in town was out shopping, running their daily errands. Soon, crowds of ponies were staring at the young pony as he darted his way around the ponies in his way. He was hoping to eventually slow down and blend in with the crowd in chance to lose the guards behind him.

The second Ace started to slow down to ditch the guards every pony backed away from him and stared, avoiding any close contact with him. As he flapped his wings to take off again, one guard rushed towards Ace and bit down on his tail. Ace flinched in pain and crashed underneath the guards weight. The guard tumbled behind him and . Once Ace came to a stop, one of the other guards landed on Ace's wing only to give Ace immense pain. He shrieked with agony and refused to forth any more effort to get away. It just wasn't possible, this couldn't be happening, he was caught.

"I've got him, he's not going anywhere." said the guard on top of Ace. "You’re a fast little guy aren't cha?" teased the injured pegasus guard that brought him down. "We have word that your companion has already been caught, you're in quite a lot of trouble." Ace was enraged and struggled with all his might despite the pain in his wing. It didn't matter, the guards were strong and twice his size. Ace started to cry as he grasped the fact that he was utterly helpless. He had no strength left in him, it was over.

The little fillies of Cloudsdale were practicing their flying techniques, and Rainbow Dash was showing off her moves in front of everyone, as usual. Even Fluttershy was out today, struggling to stay airborne. Rainbow Dash stopped as she noticed to colts bullying her innocent friend Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash flew over to confront the bullies. "Leave her alone," she ordered. "Ohhh, whataya goona do Rainbow Crash?" Hoops said mockingly. "Keep makin fun of her and find out," Dash retaliated. "You think ur such a big shot, why don'tcha prove it?" Dumbbell commanded. "Whadaya have in mind?" she said with confidence.

The three fillies made their way over to the small obstacle course made for the young ponies at the camp. They took their positions at the starting line and waited for Fluttershy to wave the flag to signal the start of the race. "Ur goin down," said Hoops. "In history mabey!" Dash said excitedly. Young spectators crowded around to watch the race. Dash could only lick her lips with excitement, waiting for the race to begin. Fluttershy lifter her head and waved the flag to signal the start. All three ponies took off as fast as they could to the first ring.

After the first major turn, Dumbbell failed to properly maneuver through the fourth flight gate and crashed into a sky pillar. Dash had never flown like this before, it was unlike anything she had ever felt. The adrenaline and the wind in her main only fueled the fire of her excitement for flying. After Dash passed through the eleventh flight ring, Hoops purposely hit Dash from behind, causing her to lose the lead. "Later Rainbow Crash," yelled Hoops. She was furious but continued on and accelerated faster and faster with each passing ring. Dash flew to the final flight ring located all the way at ground level. Flying as fast as she was while flying down only increased her speed to the very limit.

She was filled with happiness and she felt the desire for speed consumed her train of thought. Dash blew past Hoops while reaching almost impossible speeds. A mach cone surrounded her body and ripped through the sound barrier. She had performed the legendary sonic rainboom as she went through the final ring. The blast of static rainbow stretched out from the point where Dash broke the sound barrier and blew across all of Cloudsdale. The blast went for miles and headed for Ponyville.

Ace was laid helpless on the ground. The guards surrounding him were getting ready to take him to who knows where.

The wave of warm colored energy rushed towards the town. Everypony stood in awe as the wave of war color rushed past them. The guards lowered their heads to prepare themselves for the unknown. The wave engulfed Ace's worn out body and gave him what felt like new life. He opened his eyes wide with anticipation. The new sensation was indescribable. He felt a warn powerful energy that oddly enough made him feel happy. It charged every cell of his body. This was his chance to escape.

The guard, still on top of him, was dazed by the blast and unaware for what was about to happen. Ace wiggled out from under the guard, just enough to have the chance to bite down on his leg. The guard yelled out in pain as he pulled his leg off of Ace's wings. Ace rolled over onto his hooves to flap his wings. Even the pain in his right wing seemed to have subsided after the unknown blast.

He darted off and slipped between two nearby houses to start his get-away. He weaved around house after house hoping to shake the guards off of his tail. Eventually, he soon after found himself leaving Ponyville. He looked back, only to see that the well trained guards were still following him, not too far behind. The experienced guards had dealt with criminals before, but no pony had ever escaped their hooves quite like this

Ace suddenly started to feel his hind legs stretch from the rest of his body and noticed a change in wind pattern around his body. A cone of air had taken shape and grew in size as he accelerated. Ace didn't even bother looking back to see if the guards were still there. Nothing in Equestria could stop him now.

As Ace continued on, he slowly started feel the immense pain coming back to his wing. Ace was putting too much force on his already injured wing. Flying as fast as he was wasn't helping. He didn't care though, losing the guards for good and finding his brother were his only priorities. Ace glanced back, horrified to see that the guards were gaining on him. The guards were going to make Ace tire himself by forcing him to use all of his energy to get away. After all, they did had the biggest advantage, endurance. Ace had incredible speed, but he could only maintain it for a short time.

As Ace's pain grew, the cone of air faded away. He was becoming exhausted, and his newly attained energy seemed to have vanished. He slowly started to lose altitude as he gave up his escape. His body had had enough and wouldn't let him carry on any longer.

Ace plummeted to earth, almost unconscious at this point. Even flapping his wings to keep himself in the air was too difficult of a task.

A yellow light suddenly covered his body and halted him in mid air. His eyes were barely open, but he could definitely tell that somepony was using magic to stop him. Ace was slowly lowered to the ground and placed in front of a radiant pony. Ace couldn't see too well, but he could tell that she had both wings and a horn and was even taller than the guards.

The guards landed just behind Ace to confirm the capture and confront their princess. Ace knew that he had to get away, but he just too weak to resist any longer. "Rest now young colt," said the bright pony in front of him. He was calmed by this mother-like voice and gave in by closing his eyes. The magic coating his body felt like a warm blanket that made him sleepy. The image his brother was the last thing that went through his mind before the young worn out colt fell asleep. Maybe this itself was a dream, or as he saw it, a terrible nightmare.