One month have passed since Kenai formed an alliance with Shining Armor, and it was now 51 months (4 years and 3 months) since Chloe first arrived in Equestria, as well as 39 months (3 years and 3 months) since Aylene became her beloved sister, and they're happy to be with other and with their centaur friend, Stephan, whom they both love with all their hearts after he showed his kind and defending side to them when he first saved them and healed them and later fought Akeno to save them from the okapi's wrath.
One day, Stephan and the twins came to Canterlot meet Chloe and Aylene again, but much to everypony's shock, the three have injuries and bruises on their bodies, which it's what their own father (Howard) did to them again. When Chloe and Aylene saw Stephan and the twins coming for them, the two rushed down to meet them, but when they saw the injuries and bruises on the three centaurs' bodies, Chloe and Aylene both gasped in shock, before Chloe then asked "What happened to you, Stephan?", and then Aylene added "You and the twins look horrible! Who did that to you three?", and then Stephan said "My father did that to us, again!", and then Chloe said "You and the twins all need to see a hospital to get these injuries and bruises healed!", and then Aylene added "I'm going to tell Mother Celestia and Aunt Luna that you're here in Canterlot, but I will also tell them that you and the twins were injured and that you need to get to the hospital and also need some help!", and then Aylene went back into the royal castle to inform Celestia and Luna about Stephan and the twins need their help and need to get to the hospital right away, while Chloe stayed with Stephan and the twins and she tried to do her best to keep them calmed down until Aylene returns with Celestia and Luna so they can help the three injured centaurs by teleporting them and sending them all to Ponyville Hospital, with the help of some magic.
When Aylene came back to Chloe, Stephan and the twins with Celestia and Luna, Chloe explained "Stephan and the twins were injured!", and then Celestia asked "Who did that to them?", and then Aylene added "Stephan told us his own father did that to them!", and when Luna heard what her Pegasus niece said, Luna got red in the face out of anger rising in her eyes and then she yelled "This is outrageous! How could a father like him abuse his own children like that?!", and then Chloe said "There's no time to explain now! We need to get Stephan and the twins to the hospital right away!", and then Celestia said "Right!", and then she and Luna lit up their horns and they started to use their magic and then they successfully managed to teleport and send Stephan and the twins all the way to Ponyville Hospital in almost no time.
With Stephan and the twins being teleported to Ponyville Hospital to treat and help their injuries and bruises heal, Celestia then asked Chloe and Aylene "Why would Stephan's father do him and the twins such a horrible thing?", and then Aylene answered "As a matter of fact, it's not the first time he's doing that to Stephan and the twins!", and then Chloe said "Stephan's dad, or in other words - Howard, always treats Stephan and the twins like that!", and when Celestia and Luna heard what Chloe and Aylene said about Howard being abusive to his own children for quite a long time, Luna then said "Then we should send some royal gyards to keep an eye on him!", and then Celestia added "But first, you must tell us where does Stephan lives!", and then Chloe answered "I've never been in his home before, and neither Aylene, but I think he's living in the Badlands!", and then Aylene added "I think so too! If Stephan is a centaur and he have such a bad father, then their home must be in the Badlands rather than in the Everfree Forest!", and then Celestia said "We'll send Shujaa with some of the royal guards to the badlands to investigate and check on Howard's home!", and then she called Shujaa and some royal guards to come, and when they responded and came to Celestia, Luna, Chloe and Aylene, Shujaa then asked "What do you want us to do, princesses?", and then Celestia said "Go to the Badlands, find Stephan's father's home and investigate it and check on it to find some evidence about that centaur abusing his own children!", and then Shujaa said "Okay, your highnesses!" before he turned back to the other royal guards and said to them "Let's go! To the Badlands!", and so the albino orangutan and the stallions all left the royal castle and headed together to the Badlands, which was indeed the right place where Howard's home is located.
Meanwhile, in Ponyville Hospital, Nurse Redheart and the other nurses were taking care of Stephan and the twins by treating their injuries and bruises by preventing any of them from getting infected, and then the nurses put plasters and bandages on all the injuries and bruises to prevent blood from flowing out of any of them, and once the whole process was done, Stephan and the twins started to feel better as they're now resting down in their soft and warm bed safely inside one of the patient's rooms.
Meanwhile, after they all traveled for about two hours, Shujaa and the guards all arrived at the Badlands and then they started to search for Howard's home, and they had no trouble finding it because they ended up in front of a medium-sized house, which was indeed Howard's house, and so the albino orangutan and the stallions approached the house and then Shujaa knocked on the door and waited for an answer from inside, but no one responded, and so Shujaa and the guards simply just pushed and opened the door to find out it wasn't locked, and then they started to go inside and start to investigate, check, search for some clues and find some evidence which will tell them all if Howard was indeed abusing his own children all along.
Eventually, after searching the entire house for clues and/or evidence, one of the royal guards then called for Shujaa and for the other guards to come and see what he just found, and when they all came to the right spot where the royal guard waited for them, he then showed them all a wooden club which had some blood stains on it, and this was indeed just the right evidence that they all need to solve the mystery if Howard is abusing Stephan and the twins or not, and the club with the blood stains on it was a proof which tells Howard indeed beats up and abuses his own children, because this is the wooden club Howard used to beat up his own children with, and then Shujaa and the royal guards all left Howard's house, and they took the wooden club along to show it to Celestia and Luna so Howard can be apprehended and put in the dungeons for his crime.
However, when Shujaa and the royal guards were about to go all the way back to the royal castle, Howard suddenly came out of nowhere and stopped them and said "Going somewhere?", and Shujaa and the guards where all shocked to see him looking at them with an evil smile before he said "Just what were you all thinking you're all doing in my house?!", and then Shujaa said to him "You shall be apprehended for abusing your own children!", but then Howard said "You're wrong! YOU ALL shall be imprisoned for breaking into my house!", but then one of the royal guards pointed out and said "But the door to your house was unlocked so we're all able to just go inside without having to wait for you to come and open the door for us from inside!", but then Howard said "It doesn't matter! Get out of here or else I'm calling a Beartaur to chase you all out!", and is is when anoer royal guard said "Run!", and so Shujaa and all the royal guards turned to run away, and Howard watched them all leaving before saying "That'll teach them all a lesson!", before he then added "Thinking they all have any rights to break into my house while I'm not around it, huh?!", and then he said to himself "When I will have my hands on my children, they will learn to respect me and help me avenge Lord Tirek for me!".
Meanwhile, back in the royal castle, Chloe, Aylene, Celestia and Luna all still waited for Shujaa and for the royal guards to return back with evidence which will tell them if Howard was indeed abusing Stephan and the twins, and when Shujaa and the royal guards all finally returned, Shujaa handed Howard's wooden club to Celestia and Luna, who are then shocked when they saw the blood stains on it, and then Celestia said "Howard must be found and captured!", thus declaring that Howard indeed abuses Stephan and the twins by using his wooden club to beat them up when they do good things against his orders and permissions.
Then, Celestia turned to Chloe and Aylene and then she told them to go the Ponyville Hospital and tell Stephan that they now know about his father being abusive to him and to the twins all along, but she also wanted them to tell him that she will make sure his father will never be able to take him and the twins back with him ever again, and the human girl and the Pegasus pony listened to their mother and went out of the royal castle and went together all the way to Ponyville to tell Stephan that they now know of his father's abusive nature, and once they arrived in Ponyville, the two went towards the hospital and there they asked Nurse Redheart to take them to see Stephan and the twins, and once Chloe and Aylene finally met up with them, Chloe and Aylene finally told Stephan that they now know of his father's abusive nature by having one of the royal guards finding and bringing Howard's club that had blood stains from his (Stephan) and the twins' blood on it, which told them all that Howard is an absolute child abuser, but then the two sisters added that Celestia will make sure that once he and the twins were all fully healed, they won't be going back home, because she will make sure that Howard will never get close to him or to the twins ever again, much to Stephan's shock which was then replaced by relief to know that Celestia would do this needful favor for him and for the twins so they can finally see the end of their days of being abused by their own father, though deep inside his heart and mind, Stephan knew that his nightmare will not stop until his father will be imprisoned in Tartarus for good.
Later, it was the middle of the night when Howard came out of house in the Badlands and looked up to the sky, and then he said "Just you wait, my ungrateful near-teenage son! You and the baby twins will never get away from me! When you're all alone with these filthy human girl (Chloe) and Pegasus (Aylene), this is where I will strike and kill them right in front of your eyes! Lord Tirek will be so proud of what I will do to them that he probably would like to become your teacher! Or better yet - your godfather! I promise you, my children, that I will never leave you alone with your so-called friends! Once I will have them all out of my way, nothing, NOTHING CAN STOP ME!" Howard roared evilly to the skies of the night, before he then laughed out loud evilly, thus showing and proving that one day, Howard will exact his revenge on Chloe and Aylene to get Stephan and the twins back to himself.