The two chariots flew away from Ponyville, two ponies in each chariot while Rainbow Dash flew beside them. The four pegasi that guided the chariots had their eyes set forward towards their destination, not paying attention to the others.

"Hey Twilight," Rainbow Dash says, "um… how are we going to find all of these ponies?"

"I… I really don't know, but I'll figure it out."

"Well you better figure it out soon or we'll be in one heck of a mess." Applejack says.

"I know, I know. I just need time to think…"

Their talk was suddenly interrupted when the chariots shook violently with the sound of magic, stopping in midair.

"Agh! W-what the?!" Twilight looked forward to see the four pegasi suddenly frozen solid; the lack of them flying as well as the weight of the ice caused the chariots to begin to fall.

"What in tarnation?!"

As they fell, each one of them grabbed onto the chariots to keep themselves from free falling.

"I gotcha!" Rainbow says as she dashed towards them with the intent to stop the chariots. As she swooped down she misjudged how fast the chariots were falling, causing her to miss them, failing to catch anypony. "What the-! Hey!" She turned around, looking down at the chariots and flew down at them as fast as she could. "Hold on I'm coming!"

Rainbow Dash wouldn't be fast enough this time, the chariot was too close to the ground for her to catch up to them in time.

"Brace for impact, girls!" Twilight shouts.

They all hugged the chariots tightly; after a single moment, the chariots hit the ground hard, kicking up a thick cloud of dust and causing the chariots to make a ripping sound as they were torn apart by the impact. Rainbow dash flew down fast at them, looking very worried and unable to see past the thick dust cloud.

"H-hey! A-are you all okay?"

The sound of coughing was heard from the ponies as the thick cloud lifted. The chariots were totaled, and they were laying there in the rubble coughing from the dust. The pegasi were still frozen, laying on the ground with the ice over them a bit cracked, looks like the ice took most of their impact.

One by one they stood up; Twilight looked around to check on them, and then coughed again from the dust.

"I… I think we're okay…"

"Yeah, but it the chariots ain't…" Applejack says as she looks around at the debris.

"What happened?" Twilight asks.

"Oh, my mane!" Rarity yelps as she feels her mane with her hooves, feeling how frizzed and dusty it was from the impact. "It'll take hours to clean this out!"

"Rarity, I think that's the least of our-" Applejack began, but she was interrupted by somepony.

"Ow!" A small, timid voice let out. Everypony looked over to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy winced in pain, looking over her shoulder at her left wing, which was a bit mangled and the skin was very much bruised. It didn't look broken, but it was obviously painful to move it.

"Fluttershy!" Rainbow shouted as she flew over to Fluttershy. "Are you okay?!"

"My… my wing…"

"It doesn't look broken…" Twilight says as she walks closer. "But it still doesn't look good…"

"That wing should be the least of your worries." A male voice said, not far from their position.

They all turned their heads and, in surprise, saw a stallion with a greenish coat and a short red mane and tail. He had a horn as well, showing that he was a unicorn, explaining how the four pegasi were suddenly frozen.

"What?! Who are you?!" Rainbow huffed as she faced him.

"Who I am is not important. What is important is that you five are a threat to my plans; and so, I am here to get rid of you."

"Over my dead body!" Rainbow shouts as she suddenly flies towards him.

"Rainbow, wait!" Twilight shouts.

"Don't worry." His horn began to glow a blood red color. "That's the plan!" He stepped forward, firing a beam of red magic, hitting rainbow and sending her flying back, causing her to hit the ground hard and slide into a nearby tree.

"Agh!" Rainbow winced, she wasn't hurt bad, but the shot of magic made her feel like she was burned, even though she wasn't.

"Rainbow!" Twilight shouts at RD as she hits the ground, she then turns to the stallion. "Stop! We don't want to fight you!"

"That will just make finishing you off a whole lot easier." The stallion says before he steps forward and fires another, yet more powerful beam at Twilight.

Twilight quickly reacted, lowering her head and fired a beam of her own at him. The two beams met violently, two beams of magic being forced against each other, each with the intent to overpower the other. The beams kept still due to them having equal force.

"Why are you doing this?!"

"Once I release the Gargarath, I will be its servant! I will attain unlimited power and rule over both realms under his power! Who knows, I might even become powerful enough to overthrow him and rule over everything myself!"

Twilight felt him force more power into his magic, his beam drawing closer to her, she then began to force more magic into her own beam. Soon her beam began to overpower his, slowly moving towards the stallion as his beam of magic grew shorter. He looked surprised by this and put more force into his, but Twilight kept putting more magic into hers and soon, her beam overpowered his. His magic vanished from his beam and hers hit him directly, sending him flying straight into a tree. Twilight stopped and panted and looked unbalanced and a bit weak, tired from using that much magic in a short period of time. The stallion shook his head and stood up slowly, looking over at her with an angry look and out of breath as well.

"You… you're more talented with magic than I- OOF!" He was rammed into the tree again, but this time by Rainbow Dash. He hit the tree harder that time, hard enough for the tree to bend over a bit and shake off some leaves. Rainbow then flew back and the stallion fell to the floor in pain. "Ow…"

"And stay down!" Rainbow Dash says as she slowly flies back over to her friends.

Twilight then began to walk over to him. "If you plan to free the Gargarath, then you must be the one foalnapping ponies. In that case, I'll have to take you straight to Princess Celestia for her to decide what happens with you…"

"Ngg… that's… not going to happen." His horn glows red, gathering his magic. "Just know that… agh… that this is not the last time we see each other…" He then vanishes in a blast of red magic energy.

"Hey!" Twilight shouts. She rushed towards where he was before he disappeared, then looks around to see if he teleported anywhere close, but saw nothing. "Dang it! He got away…"

"Twilight, I think we should return to the princesses and tell them what just happened." Applejack suggests.

"No, we need to get home and get Fluttershy to the Ponyville hospital in order to get her wing properly looked at. I'll talk to Spike and have him send a letter to Celestia, inform her of what happened."

"Either way, how are we going to get home?" Rainbow Dash asks. "I mean, I could easily fly home, but Fluttershy's wing is busted and the rest of you don't even have any, and you don't look like you're in any condition to teleport that far, let alone bring the rest of us with you."

"I got an idea." Twilight Says.

Twilight walks over to the four frozen Pegasi; they looked alright, just frozen. She drew magic to her horn and began to cast a spell. She uses the spell on them and the Pegasi quickly defrosted. They all looked dizzy and confused, slowly getting onto their hooves.

"What… what happened? Where are we?" Asked the first pegasus, rubbing his head with a hoof. "I have a terrible headache…"

"It's a long story, but I need a favor from you four..."

Soon, the four pegasi were carrying the four flightless ponies home themselves, Rainbow Dash flying beside them. After about a half hour of flying, they were dropped off at Twilight's house, after which they instantly began flying back to Canterlot.

"I'll take Fluttershy to the hospital," Says Applejack, "you three go on home, I think we should talk about the situation later."

"I agree, I need to get home and fix my precious mane, and I have barely even started cleaning up my boutique!" Rarity says before trotting over down the road.

"I should get some rest, I've done a lot of flying today and I'm beat. What are you going to do, Twilight?"

"I'm going to just get a few hours to rest, Spike is probably still asleep, and so I'll have him make the letter tomorrow. See you then, Rainbow."

"See you then, Twilight."

Rainbow then dashes off to her own house. Twilight gave a quick sigh, looking up at the night sky's stars. "This situation is more difficult than I thought…" She says to herself before going into her house. "I really need to get Allard to help us…"