I've spent untold amount of time tracking this escapee, however, even with the Alicorn amulet, this task proves to be difficult.

  And I also have to find this pony before morning comes, well, isn't that great?

"Come on, where is this bastard? Ugh, he couldn't have gone that far? Did he?" I sighed as I traversed the murky depths of the Everfree.

  "I swear," I began to ramble, "when I find you, I'm going to..." I trailed off as a sudden thought struck me.

   Is it possible to summon forth a clone of yourself with magic? Heh, if that IS possible, then I could be at two places at once! Hopefully, speeding up the process of this stupid pursuit.

   A snide smile crept up to my face, "Alright, just... focus, right?" I muttered to myself.  

   I closed my eyes and focused my magic, "Come on, damned amulet-thing. Work!" I cursed while I continued to focus.

   Then "it" happened, I felt like I was being... burned alive? No, it felt like tongues of flames were assailing my body, but I didn't feel any pain, it just felt as if I was enveloped by non-burning flames. Non-burning flames? That sounds really stupid, it sounds even more stupid because I'm the one that thought about it.

   I staggered back in surprise, "Ugh, damn. What the hell?" I grumbled.

  When I opened my eyes, I saw an exact imitation of me right in front of me.

   "Oh my god," Me and my clone said almost exactly at the same time, "You're me, and I'm you!" I stated, my clone once again, said the exact same thing, at the exact same time.

   "This is bloody amazing," I stated.

   "Man, I know right?" My clone replied, "Dude, your an idiot for not doing this earlier!" My clone snidely added.

   "Idiot? Me? You do know you're just calling yourself an idiot? Right?" I, the original Wilson, countered.

   "Eh, fair point." The other Wilson replied.

   Alright, enough arguing with myself, time to find him once and for all.

   "So, shall we carry on with the chase? You know he'll get to Ponyville eventually," I said.

   "Eh, sure. But let's make more of us before we get going." The clone responded.

    I nod in agreement. Shortly, both me and my imitation began the process of the cloning-spell. Much to our inconvenience, however, it appears that only the original Wilson can cast the cloning spell.

   "Well, this is rather problematic..." I said to the other me.

   "Hm, it appears so..." He said, "Alright, have fun cloning yourself over and over again! I'm off to find the bastard! See ya!" He said as he vanished via teleportation.

   Oh for god's sake, that was a dick move! Then again, that was my clone... ugh. Screw it, if you want something done, do it yourself, I suppose.

   After an ungodly amount of tediously recasting the spell over and over, I seemed to managed to be more efficient in casting the spell, not even needing to concentrate anymore.

  "Alright, you're the last one, I don't think I can cast that spell any longer without knocking myself out." I said to my most recent clone.

  "Aw, suck it up, you sissy." My clone said to me.

  Geez, every clone that I would create would always be a dick to me in some way.

  "Yeah, yeah. Not the first time I've heard that," I barely managed to say, as I was exhausted from all that spell-casting, "Now shoo! Go find the one that escaped." I lay flat on the ground.

   "Yeah, and shoot a flare-like fireball at the sky to signify that one of us found him?" He said as he prepared to leave.

    Oh yeah, I forgot to add that part, "Yeah... right." I simply replied, still laying down on the ground.

    Shortly, I heard the distinct teleportation sound, that's all I needed to know that Wilson number... eleven? Was it eleven? Eh, that's all I needed to know that he already departed.

    "Time to get some rest-" Just before I was about to let the blissful grasp of slumber take me, I saw the flare, the "brave one" was found.

   Is this for real? Like, right now? Just before I was about to rest, the one we were after was found?

    "Oh for... can't I get some rest?" I furiously yelled at the sky, "Ugh, might as well get this over with." With reluctance, I transported myself using magic to the current location to wherever my duplicate is at.

    As I materialized, two things amused me, one, the pony that got away was actually perching on a tree-branch, two, the reason why he was on the tree was because a pack of timber wolves were right under him, hoping to maul and then consume him.

   "It seems that he didn't notice us yet, thinking what I'm thinking?" My clone asked.

   "Yup," I replied, "but first, let me regain my magic." I snapped my fingers causing my clones to disperse in a cloud of smoke, the other clones probably did the same as well.

   I could feel my magical prowess being revitalized as my duplicate disappeared, "Ah, much, much better." I said to myself as I regained most of my magic back.

  Now, I'll need to somehow kill all off the timber wolves wanting to eviscerate him, but how? Now, a fiery inferno might take care of that problem, but, that would probably cause a very, very large forest fire.

  Maybe the squall of swords would be a possible solution... nah, that would probably impale the escapee as well. How about slashing them all down? Ah, right, they can regenerate themselves.

   I'm running out of ideas fairly quickly, maybe I should get some inspiration from video games I played, heh.

   Make the wolves levitate harmlessly in the air? Not only making them vulnerable to attacks, but also completely unable to move? Now that would probably work, nah. I'll save that for another time.

   How about opening a wide, dark abyss beneath the wolves? No, what am I thinking? That would probably consume the tree as well.

   I guess freezing them would be an option, I guess I'll try that one out.

   I condensed freezing arcane energy in the palm of my hand and jumped out of cover, the timberwolves seemed to noticed me.

   Not even hesitating to blast them all, I shot a wave of icy magic in an arc at them, effectively freezing them all, and the ground and whatever was behind them.

    I briefly saw the Royal guard on the tree sighed in relief, and then gasped in terror as he saw me standing still right where I was.

   "There you are! I've been looking forever!" I called out.

    He glares in either terror, disbelief, or anger at me for a moment and then proceeds to jump off the tree and make a run for it. Fortunately, for me, I already had a spell prepared.

    I quickly shot a bolt of non-lethal ice magic at him before he could successfully escape one more, the bolt of ice managed to land right on his left foreleg.

    Aforementioned leg was now encased in ice, disabling him from fleeing effectively.

    I disappeared in a flash of black light and reappeared right before him, "Thinking you're going to escape from me for the second time?" I asked him in an intimidating tone, "Don't think so."

  The only reply I received from him, however, was a spit at my face.

  "In hindsight, I should've probably seen that coming." I sighed as I wipe the spit from my face, "Yeah, funny, wasn't it?"

  I then proceed to punch him in the face, "Yeah, who's the comedian now?" I said while nursing my fist, I think I might have decked him too hard.

  Now then, I should probably head back using teleportation, one minor inconvenience, though, I'm not sure how to teleport another being.

  I suppose I should just carry him through telekinesis all the way to the hideout, but that would probably take way too long.

  As I continued to ponder, I could hear him struggle to break free from the ice encasing his foreleg, quite a nuisance, actually.

  "Could you stop that?" I asked in annoyance, breaking from my train of thought.

   To my surprise, he actually stopped, "Thank you." I responded to his silence.

  "Look in front of you... " He said, fear instilled within his tone.

   I looked up, and saw what appears to be multiple green glowing eyes in the foliage. Great, even more timberwolves!

   "Let me go... Let me go!" He said, struggling even harder to break away the ice.

    "Psh, I've dealt with worse." Sorta.

    I readied my ice magic once more, but suddenly, the ground shook, making me slightly unbalanced. Suddenly, a colossal timber wolf emerged from the bushes and trees.

    I simply gazed at it in awe and a slight bit of terror as it.  

    I wasn't expecting this, I knew I shouldn't have skipped the episode.

   "Um, sure, yeah." I hastily began to melt away the ice immobilizing him, then I halted.

    Hey, it would serve this weasel right if he got eaten.

    "Hey! Now's not the time to be day dreaming!" He yelled.

    That snapped me out of my daze, "Oh? Yeah, right." I continued to melt away the ice. Soon enough, he broke free from it.

    "Go! Run!" I ordered.

    "What? Aren't you here to retake me?" He asked in confusion.

     "Well, I need you alive, bloody dolt. Now run!" I commanded once more.

    "I can't!" He responded. What a rhetorical reply.

    "Can't or won't?" I yelled back.

    "We're surrounded!"

    Immediately upon hearing this, I swiftly did a scan on my environment, unfortunately, he was right, we are surrounded by the them.

    If he dies now, all the effort invested in chasing him down would be all for nothing!

    "Draw your blade," I commanded.

    He blinks.

    "Draw your blade, imbecile!" I ordered once more. This time, the command that I had given has finally processed correctly in his tiny brain of his.

    A wolf lounged at me, luckily, with my sharp reflex, I managed to blast him, mid-pounce, with an orb of potent ice-magic, freezing it from head to tail completely.

    The other wolves seemed to disapprove of the murder of one of their brothers, the large one lounges at us, in an attempt to devour the both of us. Luckily, I managed to dodge its mouth, as well as pushed my equine companion out of the way of its mouth.

    "I'll keep this mongrel off you! Just, try not to get yourself eaten by the other wolves!" I yelled at my slightly dazed captor as I teleported on the top of the head of the large timber wolf.

     In an attempt to not get shaken from the head of the wolf, I materialized a black-sword in my grasp, much similar to the one earlier, and I stabbed it right in the forehead, surprisingly, I secured a good grip right on the wolf.

    Unfortunately, it started shaking its head frantically in agony in a desperate attempt to shake me off its head.

    Somehow, I managed to maintain my hold, enabling me to channel intense fiery magic in my hand. Once I felt that I had enough power stored within my palm, I jumped off the wolf, and in mid-air, I aimed, and fired.

    A massive fireball shot out from my palm and into the wolf as it made contact with the large beast, it exploded, enveloping the wolf, and almost the entire vicinity of the wolf in flames, if I didn't jump far enough, I might have been charred as well.

   I think... I might have used way too much energy in that. Well dammit! There's no doubt that bastard got incinerated to ashes!

  Might as well check, the blast couldn't have been enough to char his body enough to make him indistinguishable from the other ashes now laying in the, once grassy, fields of ashes.

   I looked around the burning remains of the forest, so far, no corpse. I thought it would help me if I doused the flames, and so I made it rain, heavily.

   No, not actual rain, mind you. I just shot a barrage of water upwards, making it appear as if it was raining. As soon as the flames were extinguished, I noticed something.

   A pathway that I had not notice. In the middle of the pathway was the pony's blade. I placed one and two together, and I came to a conclusion.

  "He escaped, once again." I muttered to myself, my right eye twitched briefly.

  Insatiable rage building up inside me, I screamed, "FUUUUUUUU-" Next Chapter: Chapter 6. Preparations Estimated time remaining: 42 Minutes