(Abyssinia – Bone Dry Desert)

Utopia, Greyback and Strife are sweating and exhausting as they are stranding through the sandy desert known as Bone Dry Desert. They found some tracks that left by Twilight and her friends but the winds blowing the sand tracks away.

"Oh man, we've been walking around circles in the hottest desert." Utopia panted as Strife wiped off the sweat on his head with his hand.

"Then how come you lost your smelling scent ability?" Strife asked, feeling exhausted. "I thought you are the best tracker."

"That's because this hot air affects my nose as it is losing my detecting smell and I no longer follow Twilight's trace." Greyback said as he rubbed his nose with his arm.

"How? We can't stay like this unless… there's a road." Utopia said as Greyback sighed in irritated.

"Utopia stop guessing. You just a…" Then Greyback suddenly remembered something that Utopia said. "Wait, did you just say road?" He looked down the cobblestone road at a further distance and smiled. "Good idea, Utopia."

He ran over to see the road that leads to a huge, deserted tower like-city. "Where there's a road, there's usually a city over there!" Greyback shouted and chuckled.

"Then we made it!" Strife said as they are going over in the city as they saw a big sign says: 'Welcome to Kludgetown!'

Greyback looked at a sign sarcastically.

"A Kludgetown, huh? Doesn't look like that much to me, especially with lowlife vendors." Greyback said as he saw some vendors in the front entrance.

Utopia was worried that vendors were going to sell anything but living creatures.

"You mean they are going to sell us for greedy money?!" Utopia screamed.

Strife puts his finger on his chin in thoughtful.

"Ummm… Yes, but don't worry we were watching you and tried to blend in." He said as he patted on Utopia's mane head with his hand.

Utopia, Greyback and Strife went in the Kludgetown. As Utopia and two allies wandered in Kludgetown, they walked past a male pig the horn seller with merchant hood who looked at unicorn pony.

"Ahh, another pony with a horn. You're selling it to me?" He asked greedily as Greyback snarled at horn collector merchant who back away and he drew his sword at him.

"We just trekked down here from the desert, so we're in no mood for this sort of stuff. So, get lost or I am going to shut your stupid voice. Got that!?" Greyback asked threateningly as horn dealer nodded in fear.

Utopia was surprised and little scare that the Fridolfian Wolf scaring him as they kept walking and heard shouting.

"Hey, kitty kid! Where've you been?!" One of the voices shouted as Utopia and the others looked worried.

"Hey, guys. We got the problem." Utopia said as he and others following the voice.

"Go away! Just leave me alone, you big bully!" A young kid voice said.

Utopia and others headed in the dead-end alley where the voice coming from as they saw three raccoon bandits wearing their raggedy clothes especially the leader has his animal skull tattoo on his left arm, who holds the young kitten in his paw.

Tawny is a street kitten kid and adoptive brother of Capper. His fur is oranges stripes, mitt (paws) and bib (chest) are white. He wears his torn brown flat cap and shredded yellow scarf.

Utopia, Greyback and Strife looked in shock that they tormented him.

"Oh my… poor kid. He looks so innocent." Strife said in solemnly.

"Guys, we have to do something." Utopia whispered to them in troubled.

The young orange kitten tried struggled to get free, but the raccoon leader grips him tightly.

"Bruto is ain't happy for you." One of the mean raccoons smirked.

Young orange kitty spat saliva on Bruto which made him madder.

"Alright punk, time to teach you a lesson." Bruto said as he ready to punch him as Utopia, Grey, and Strife rushed to them.

Then a brave unicorn pony blasted his magic at the raccoon leader's paw, making him staggered and cried in pain as he dropped the young kitten down as he ran up behind Utopia and the others. The other bandits were surprised at Utopia's magic blast especially the leader. As he blew his paw to cool it down and glared at them, even more at Utopia. Utopia stood up at them.

"Have you guys had a no shame? Bullying that kitty is not worth it." Utopia pointed his hoof at the raccoon leader.

Bruno growled. "So, you want me to challenge you?!"

"Yeah! Go get him, boss!" One of them said as the leader charged at him, but Utopia dodged him by jumping over and punched his hoof across the leader's face.

Bruno wiped his face that unicorn punched, he tried to have punched him back, but Greyback quickly holds the raccoon's paws. He twisted his raccoon's paw making bone crack as he yelled in pain and kicked in his head. The leader shook his head firmly and shakes his paw.

"That's it, doggy. You're going down too!" The raccoon leader shouted as running towards Greyback as he quickly kicked his groin hard.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" The raccoon leader screamed like a girl as he dropped his knee in agony which makes his bandits cringed in shock and even every vendor creatures saw too, seeing the worst embarrassing thing in their lives.

"Ooohh!" Two raccoon bandits cringed. wincing their eyes.

As he left stunned, Greyback lifted him with his two arms that Utopia, Strife and the little kitten couldn't believe their eyes that Fridolfian Wolf was strong, and he tossed into the lizard vendor's pet shop causing smashing into pieces and the lizard ran away in astonished. The scorpions got out from the jar that got broke as they are crawling around Bruto's face as he screamed in fear and started to run away from them and crashing through some building's wall. The two bandits glared at them and they ran over to follow him.

"You haven't seen the last of us! Verko will be hearing about this!" One of the goons shouted.

As the young kitten saw the bandits running, he happily turned at Utopia and companions.

"Thank you, whoever you guys are." A young kitten with a torn brown flat cap.

"No problem, kid. What's your name?" Greyback asked.

"The name's Tawny and who are you?" He replied as Utopia put his hoof on his chest.

"My name's Utopia Magus." He gestured Tawny with his hoof at Greyback and Strife.

"This is Greyback and Strife." He said.

"Are you guys being… travelers?" Tawny asked.

"Actually, we were travelers. We came here to find the element's wielder and Princess Twilight and her friends." Strife said as Tawny looked dumbfounded.

"I'm sorry, what? I don't understand." He said as Strife sighed.

"Anyways, are you originally from the Panthera the capital of Abyssinia?" Strife asked.

"Uh, yeah I was there. But I stranded here after that huge big airships attack my home." Tawny answered as Greyback and Utopia were surprised.

"How did you know that, Strife?" Utopia asked.

"I was there with Storm King some time ago." Strife answered as Utopia rolled his eyes.

"So, what about the cats, are they survived?" Greyback asked.

"Oh, about those two cats. Their named Capper and Katherine who already lived here." Tawny said.

"Who's Capper and Katherine?" Utopia asked.

"Capper is a nice cat, he seemed not bad obviously and I lived with him. I also heard a rumor that Katherine is a beautiful former famous model and dancer and she is becoming a hairdresser as she in Kat's Salon." Tawny said as Utopia and others looked each other.

"Would you excuse me for a minute?" Utopia asked as he, Greyback and Strife huddled together.

"All right, let's separated. Utopia, you go with Tawny to find this Capper. Strife and I go to Kat's salon to see the cat lady. Before you go, I might give a contact orb armlet to you." Greyback said as he picked contact orb armlet from pockets and gave it to Utopia.

Utopia used his magic to levitate armlet puts on his arm. "So, I can contact you?" He asked.

"Yes, once you find Twilight and her friends. Please let me know."

"Alright, I see you around but be careful of Storm Guards." Utopia said as Grey and Strife nodded as they are going find Katherine which makes Tawny confused.

"Hey, aren't you with them?" He asked.

"Don't worry about them. Can you take me to Capper?" Utopia asked.

"Sure, I know where he is." Tawny said as he and Utopia are walked through the streets.

They walked for five minutes until they stopped front at the Capper's wooden little manor with a big windmill that's behind on it. Tawny looked over his shoulder at Utopia. "Well, this is it." Tawny said as he and Utopia went inside but the room is empty.

"Huh? Where's Capper? Is he gone already?" Utopia asked confusedly.

"Let's just say he's going to take some air, but he will be back shortly." Tawny said as Utopia sits down on a couch nearby window that can be seen a windmill spin that from outside.

Utopia looked around the surrounding of this room. Tawny sit on a chair underneath the table and wait. Several minutes later, the trapdoor opened and reveals the cat with a shabby red duster coat.

Capper was con artist cat. His eyes were light malachite green, pompadour short curly hair was dark greyish indigo and body-color was moderate gamboge with darker gamboge (face, ears, paws, and tail) and lighter gamboge (chest fur). He wears his shabby red duster coat and small bandage tied around his tail.

"Welcome, my little ponies, to my little manor." Capper said as he jumped off the opening trapdoor to let Twilight and her friends stuck up their heads.

As Twilight and her friends are amazed at the decoration of his little manor and others having some comments with Capper.

Capper walked right up to Tawny.

"Hey, big bro." Tawny as Capper rubbed on kitten's head playfully.

"Where are you wandering off to, Tawny? Haven't I told you to stay here?" Capper asked as Twilight, Mane Five and Spike looked at Tawny especially Fluttershy who adored at him.

"Ooh look at him. He's kinda cute." Fluttershy said as Tawny chuckled nervously.

"Um yes, I'm Tawny. Nice to meet you, ponies." Tawny said as he takes off his brown flat cap and bowed to them while holding his cap on his right paw in bow position. Capper came up with a kitten and puts paws on his shoulder.

"I adopted him a little brother." Capper said as Utopia was shocked.

"Tawny was your adoptive little BROTHER?!" Utopia snapped.

As his shout make alarms Twilight, Mane Five, Spike, and Capper who yowls like a cat as he startled, and they turned around to him.

Utopia was starling again as he almost fell through the opening hatch door but quickly hopped out of the hole and dropped on a floor with his body flat.

Twilight and her friends were surprised to see him except Capper who felt disbelief and turned at Tawny.

"Did you bring another pony?" Capper asked quietly at him as Tawny nodded answerable.

Twilight and her friends rushed over Utopia who got up from the floor as he shook his head and Twilight hugged him.

"Utopia, I thought you were captured!" Twilight said while hugging him.

"I'm okay, Twilight." Utopia said as Mane Five and Spike chattering happily around him until Rainbow Dash called out.

"You're alive but how did you get away from those monsters at Canterlot?" She asked.

"Let's just say I have been saved and help from my friends." Utopia said as Twilight and her friends looked in amused and even Capper was fascinated.

"By who?" Capper asked as he walked towards him.

"Who knows? I'm Utopia Magus by the way." Utopia gestured his hoof as making a handshake position.

"Oh Utopia, that really sounds like imaginable paradise and peaceful as my place. I'm Capper." Capper said as he shakes his paws on Utopia's hoof.

"Pleased to meet you, Capper. Your place looks not so bad but some junks." Utopia said as he lets his hoof go same as Capper did.

"Well, yeah. Sorry about that unexpected guest and tried to help yourself." Capper said as he went back to chat with Mane Five. Tawny has met Spike the dragon and he was amazed.

"Hey, you are a little dragon that I ever have seen, and nobody knows any other mystical creatures." Tawny commented as Spike smiled at him.

"Yes, I am Spike. You look little to me, and I like your fancy flat cap." Spike said.

"Thank you. Could you tell me about ponies and yourself?" Tawny said.

"Well, I'll be glad to, Tawny." Spike said as he and Tawny walked to the nearby window's couch.

Utopia heard Twilight's gasped as he walked next to him.

"What is it, Twilight?" He asked as Twilight used her magic to take an interesting book.

"I think this book had an answered the Queen." Twilight smiled as Utopia was surprised but smiled delightfully.

He looked at his contact orb armlet on his arm ready to let Grey know as he walked to the door.

Twilight saw Utopia headed to a door.

"Where are you going?" Twilight asked as Utopia turned around at her.

"I need to take some air." Utopia said.

"Alright, but be careful of strangers." Twilight said.

"I will." Utopia said as he opened a door with magic and closed it behind.

He looked around to make sure no one watching him, and he touched the contact orb as it glowed.

Out in the city, Greyback and Strife were continuing searching through alleys until their weapons started to glow in red and purple.

"What's meaning of this, Strife?" Greyback asked.

"I think it tells us we're closed to find one of the Elements of Justice's wielders." Strife answered.

"Then let's go!" Greyback said as he and Strife running through town as their weapons getting glowed brighter.

"As we were running through towns, our weapons glowed brighter." Strife said.

Until Greyback and Strife found Kat's salon as they are standing in front of the salon.

"So, this is it." Strife said as the sound of communication heard.

"Oh, it's Utopia. Look likes he found a princess." Greyback said as he pulled out his communication orb from his jacket coat's pocket to see it glowing.

The globe appeared with magical projection to show Utopia.

"Guys, I've found Twilight and her friends, and they are safe." Utopia said.

"Good work." Greyback said.

"Did you find Katherine?" Utopia asked.

"Yes, we are standing in front of her salon shop. As soon Katherine joined us, we meet you there as possible." Greyback said.

"Right. Over and out." Utopia said as he turned it off making magic projection disappeared.

"Let's look in there, Grey." Strife said as he and Greyback looked through a window to see Katherine, who cutting the badger customer's hair.

Katherine is elegance white cat, former fashion model, former dancer, and hairdresser. She has her aqua eyes sclera, short blonde hair covers her right eye, light sapphire eyeshadow, purple bowtie on her tail and paw's nails polish color is purple. She wears her blue blouse with white flower patterns all over it, light purple long fabric skirt, a bluish Martialis Sash Belt around her waist and hair stylish salon apron.

Greyback and Strife were a bit blushed at her feline's beauty.

"Hubba, hubba. She is a true beauty." Strife mumbled as he and Greyback quickly snapped out of this.

"Okay, enough gawking time." Greyback snapped. As she finished her badger customer's hair. "Now you all done." Katherine said as she gestured him as the badger gazed into the mirror to see his hair was trimmed fashionably.

"Woah, thank you. Miss Katherine." He said.

"You're welcome, it's twenty-five storm bucks." Katherine said as she gestured her paw out to him.

"Twenty-five? But I only had about fifteen storm bucks!" Badger exclaimed.

"Take it as fifteen or leave it not twenty-five." Katherine said as the male badger scoffed, and he reluctantly gives fifteen storm bucks to her.

The badger stormed out of the door and mocked about Katherine's salon. Greyback and Strife were seemed bewilderment awkward.

"Huh. She needs more money but still poor." Greyback said.

"You seemed quite awkward, Grey. Her life was awful but it going to worth it. Strife said.

Greyback and Strife were going inside Kat's salon. Katherine was busy and counting the money as she sighed in distressed.

"I hate my job." Katherine said.

"Totally much." Greyback said as Katherine's ear twitched that she heard the voice and turned around at them.

"Oh, I'm Katherine the fashionable hairdresser and you guys want hair-styling?" Katherine said in still upset.

Strife floated towards her. "Uh, hello. I'm don't have my hair." Strife pointed his finger on his head showing that he doesn't have his hair.

"And my hair looks perfectly fine to me." Greyback added as Katherine crossed her arms.

"Okay, who are you guys? You're not exactly around this Kludgetown, aren't you?" She asked.

"Well, we've got to travel here. I'm Greyback and this is Strife." Greyback said as he pointed at murky cloud life-form creature.

"And we're here for you to join us for becoming Justice Defenders." Strife said as Katherine looked in confused.

"What's Justice Defenders?" She asked.

Before Greyback answered to her, their weapons started to glow the same as Katherine's sash belt itself. Katherine gasped at her sash belt.

"What's happening to my sash belt?" Katherine asked.

"You have found one of Cutos of Armis called the Martialis Sash Belt and symbolizes Assurance." Strife said as her sash and Greyback and Strife's arsenals stopped glowing.

Katherine stares at her sash in dazed as Greyback and Strife walked next to her.

"Look, Katherine, I know you don't understand a little. But we want you to join us because your Martialis Sash Belt has chosen you. Will you help us?" Greyback said as Katherine looked in concerned and pondered.

"Well, maybe I should— Her sentence was interrupted as the sound of vendor complaining.

"What's going on out there?" Katherine asked as she, Strife and Greyback looked through the window.

They see the two Storm Creatures that had dark purple streaks in their hair as they trashed around the vendor's supplies looking for a team.

"Oh no. The Storm Guards were hunting around, which means Tempest and her comrades were already here." Greyback said.

"And why are they here?" Katherine asked.

"They must be going after Princess Twilight." Strife said.

"Who's Twilight?" Katherine asked.

"No time to explained, we have to hurry to find Utopia!" Greyback said as Katherine sighed knowingly that Greyback was right.

"Then I accepted your help." Katherine as she takes her apron off.

Malleo and Storm-Quads along with Storm Creatures walking through alleys to other places in the city to find Twilight and her friend while Tempest, Grubber and yeti creature soldiers went into the central town area.

"Are you sure, you saw those three were heading out beyond Equestria and now you are telling me they're here in this deserted town?" Malleo asked at Talpa.

"Malleo, he's got a point. I'm sure they are around here somewhere." Angelus said as she is flying around next to him. Guralph saw Utopia's mane hair as he picked it up.

"Boss, look what I found." Guralph said as Malleo and others looked at Guralph who holding Utopia's mane hair as Malleo takes unicorn's mane hair from his paw and he smells it.

"Your right, Talpa. He's here with others." Malleo said as Talpa chuckled in improvement.

"Which means the last alicorn princess and her friends are here." Talpa said as Malleo called out the vendors.

"Attention! A green unicorn stranding here in this town along with companions." Tell us where they are…" Malleo nodding gestured at Guralph to finish his sentence.

"Or I will make any of you with serious painful happening here." Guralph finished Malleo's sentence as the same three raccoon bandits from earlier approached to them. Malleo and others looked at Bruno who beaten up as he covered in bandages strap and has swollen on his face due scorpion's stinging.

"So, you guys came here looking for that puny unicorn and his allies?" Bruto asked.

"Yes. And one of them is the wolfie dog did that for you?" Malleo asked.

"He beats me up and I can't believe he lifted me up and tosses me over in a small pet shop." He said as Talpa walked to the raccoon bandit leader.

"Anything else?" Talpa asked.

"Before fighting those punks, I tried to get that kitten named Tawny who formerly worked with us." The leader said in ominous.

Malleo staring at bandit leader with interesting evil smiled as he walks toward him.

"Now tell us about this kitten Tawny." Malleo smirked as the leader tried to have answered him.

Greyback, Strife, and Katherine already on the salon's roof as they were narrowed look at them.

"Oh no, they are knowing we were here." Strife said.

"Katherine, did you know about Tawny?" Greyback asked as Katherine shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know, but I think I heard someone said that he's lived with Capper." Katherine said.

"Then let me track the kitten." Greyback said.

"And how are you going to find him?" Katherine asked.

"With this." Greyback gestured as he is holding a fur hair from Tawny. Katherine and Strife were surprised.

"You mean you can smell his scent with a fur?" She asked.

Enough chat, follow me well." Greyback said as he, Strife and Katherine running and jumps off the building's roof.

As the raccoon leader was finishing explained to Malleo about Tawny lived with Capper, Guralph's ears twitched as he saw Greyback and others are running on the higher ground roofs. Guralph looks towards Malleo and pats his shoulders to get his attention. Malleo turned back to him.

"What is it now?" Malleo asked irritably.

"I saw those guys spying on us and now they are going to find Capper's place." Guralph said as Malleo smiled a little bit.

"Excellent spotted, Guralph and let's following them." Malleo said as he and others chasing after Greyback and his allies, leaving with raccoon bandit leader and his two gangs behind.

Author Notes: Utopia and his two traveling companion journeyed to the Kludgetown to find Twilight and her friends, even the Element of Justice's chosen wielder which is the mesmerized fashionable cat named Katherine. Don't forget to review after reading this!