Meanwhile, back in the Everfree Forest, the herds were all happy and enjoying having fun with the baby okapis whom they all now care for the time being, and Opey is happy to be with her non-okapi friends - Kyra, Albert, Milton and Georgie. However, the herds still knew that they must find Akeno and his friends, capture them and help Celestia, Luna and the other rulers remove and take away their evil magic and then send the five to Tartarus.

However, back in Ponyville, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were all searching for their little sisters and brother, and then Applejack called "Apple Bloom! Where are you?!", and then Rarity joined her and cried "Sweetie Belle! Where did you gone?!", and then Rainbow Dash joined in and yelled "Scootaloo! Where are you hiding?!", and then joined in as well and Pinkie Pie screamed "Randall! This is no time to play hide-and-seek!", but the four foals didn't answered their respective older sisters, and there is a good reason why - the four were now Akeno's prisoners.

Back in Akeno's cave, the CMC were still trapped inside their cage, and then Sweetie Belle asked "How do we get out of here?", and then Randall said "I'm not sure how, but I think our only hope is to simply just wait for our big sisters to come looking for us.", and when she heard him saying that, Apple Bloom said "I hope so, Randall. I hope they'll eventually come here to find us.", but then a female voice said to them "Your big sisters aren't coming to look for any of you filthy foals!", and when the CMC all heard the evil voice talking to them about their sisters, they all turned to see Ganda looking at them with an evil smile creeping on her face, and then she added "Face it, stupid little ones - no one will come here to find you!".

When the heard what the evil female rhinoceros said, Scootaloo then asked her "Then what you suggest we should do?", and then Ganda said evilly "Oh, that choice is pretty simple - join our side, help us exact our revenge, and then you're free to go!", and then she asked "How does that sounds?", and then she lowered down onto her stomach and waited for the foals to give her an answer, but then Apple Bloom said "The answer is no!", and then Scootaloo added "We'll never join your side, you monster!", and then Randall yelled "We'll never let you use the four of us against our families and friends!", and then Sweetie Belle cried "Now get us out of here or else you will pay!".

However, Ganda just laughed evilly at them and said "Just as I thought! You four are such stubborn foals who doesn't want to help us! That's a shame, because that means we'll never let you go!", but then Randall yelled at her "You set me and my friends free or else we'll ask Twilight and the other princesses to cut off your horns and then burn them to ash!", and then he asked "Is this what you want?!", and when Ganda heard what the Earth pony colt said, she froze in place and looked at him and at his three filly friends in shock, but then she quickly shook her head and snapped out of her shocked state before she then said "Why should I even care! Female rhinos can live much more better without horns and still survive longer than females who still have their horns!", and then Scootaloo asked "Oh yeah?! And how or why is that?", and then Ganda explained "Because rhinos with horns are more vulnerable than rhinos which had their horns cut without getting killed, because poachers always target rhinos for their horns! But if you cut a rhino's horn while keeping it alive throughout the process and ending up successful, poachers will be much LESS interested in the hornless rhino!".

Then, Ganda said evilly "Now, if you four excuse me, I have to go back to my friends! And don't bother try to escape, because there's no way out of this cage! See you all later!", and then she finally turned tail and ran away and went back to her friends, thus leaving the CMC trapped and locked in the cage all alone once again. While still trapped and locked inside the cage, Randall said as he felt almost hopeless about getting rescued "I wish Pinkie Pie and her friends were all here to save us.", but then Scootaloo said to him "We shouldn't listen to what that crazy female rhino said about our big sisters not coming to look for us!", and then Sweetie Belle cried "I'm sure Rarity is worried sick about us, and especially about me!", and then Apple Bloom said in agreement "You may be right, our big sisters may be trying looking for us, and I bet they won't stop until they finally find us!", and when Randall heard everything they all said, tears of hope formed and rolled down his eyes and then he said to his three filly friends "Thank you!", and then the four foals went up to each other and then they gave each other a group hug, and they all hoped that their big sisters whom they love so much will eventually come to their rescue.

Meanwhile, in White Tail woods (or Whitetail woods), Trixie Lulamoon was been waiting for her friend, Starlight, to come and meet her again, since the two were good friends, and in fact, Starlight is Trixie's assistant in her magic shows, since Trixie was in fact a magician pony (though she still needs Starlight's help and assistance to master her own magic), but upon seeing that Starlight isn't coming, the magician Unicorn pony said "I wonder why it's taking so long for Starlight to come here to meet me again.", and then she added and asked herself "Maybe she went to have some fun with Twilight and with her friends? Or maybe she's working in the School of Friendship as its guidance counselor?", and then Trixie let out a sigh as she thought something really bad might've happened to Starlight.

Then, after a few minutes of thinking to herself, Trixie finally made it up in her mind and decided she should probably go look for Starlight, and so she said as she started to walk away from her wagon "I'm coming for you, my friend and assistant, Starlight.", and later on, she added as she left Whitetail woods and went on her way towards Ponyville "I'm coming to meet you again, Starlight, to make sure to let you know that I'm always okay.", but what Trixie didn't know is that Starlight went with Twilight and with the others to look for the CMC after the four were kidnapped (or foal-napped) by Akeno's brainwashed okapis in order to use the foals as baits for Chloe, Aylene and Stephan.

Meanwhile, the mane seven were all searching for the missing CMC, but they're still no closer to finding them, and then Rainbow Dash asked "Where did they gone?", and then Rarity added dramatically "Where's my little sister?", but then Twilight said to them "It's okay, calm down! We'll find them!", and then Starlight added "Yes! They may have gone far away, but I'm sure we can still find them if we keep working together!", and then Applejack said in agreement "That's right! Apple Bloom and her friends were all probably waiting for us at some unknown place, waiting for us to come here and take them back home with us!", and then he she added "I just hope Akeno and his friends aren't the ones who are pulling the strings in this case!", and then Pinkie Pie said "If Akeno and his friends indeed foal-napped Randall and the fillies, then I'll be glad to shoot that no good okapi out of my party cannon!", and then Fluttershy added "And I will use my stare on him and on his evil friends and scare them all to death with it for foal-napping such sweet little fillies and colt!", and then Twilight said "In that case, we all must go and find where did that Akeno and his evil friends took Randall and the fillies to!", and then the six other mares said in both agreement and in unison "Right!", and then the mane seven continued together to search for the missing foals, and they new one thing is certain - when they will find the CMC, they will find Akeno and his friends too.

Meanwhile, back in the Everfree Forest, Opey and her friends were playing with each other, and so they decided to go and play together away from the herds to have some time with only each other, but before they knew what's going on, they all got lost. The five wild animal friends started to search for their way back to the herds, but they failed finding their way back to them, and instead, they all ended up leaving the Everfree Forest and going to the Badlands, where Akeno and his friends live with all the brainwashed okapis, and the mane seven were all heading there too. As for Trixie, she too went to the Badlands after the mane seven to search for them, and particularly for Starlight, but what she, the mane seven and the five young wild animals (who are all traveling to the same place) don't know is that once they will find and enter Akeno's cave one after another, they're all heading into a trap.

Opey and her four non-okapi friends continued to travel through the Badlands until they all ended up reaching and entering Akeno's cave, and inside the cave, Georgie the gorilla asked his friends "Guys, where are we?", and then Albert said "I don't know, but I definitely don't like it.", and then Kyra added "Me neither.", but then Opey stopped dead in her tracks and shushed her friends when she suddenly heard an awfully familiar grown up male voice crying, and then she told her friends to follow her lead but be very careful with each step they're making, since she knew this crying voice very well - it was Akeno, and he's crying over having the new scar on the center of his snout (and right on his face).

When Opey reached behind a rocky wall which also a corner with her friends following in tow, she was the first of them all who slowly took a peek and she was shocked to see Akeno sitting down onto his haunches and crying like he never did before, and she was even more shocked to see the new scar he had on the center of his snout and right on his face, and then she quickly hid herself back behind the rocky wall to prevent Akeno from spotting her, and just after she managed to hide herself behind the rocky wall, Akeno stood up on his feet once again and cried with anger can be seen as tears formed in his eyes "That stripeless zebra colt with the spiky mane and tail, he ruined my beautiful face!", and when Opey and her friends all heard what he said, they all became curious and they wanted to know what he's talking about, but then Opey suddenly felt an elephant's trunk suddenly touching roughly at the back of her neck, and at first she thought it was Kyra, and so she said to her "Don't touch me like that, Kyra!", but then Kyra the elephant cried and said back "It wasn't me!".

Then, an adult male voice said evilly "No, it wasn't her at all! It was ME!", and Opey heard the adult male voice coming from behind her, she swallowed nervously and then she slowly turned around to see Terrence roughly touching and stroking at her back with his trunk, and then he said to her and to her friends, who are now terrified by his massive size and intimidating appearance "I see have here some new guests, haven't we?", and then he laughed evilly, thus causing the five young animals to scream and start to run away for their lives, but Terrence started to chase after them and he tried and attempted to catch up with them so he can imprison them all and put them in the cage (alongside the CMC).

Opey, Kyra, Albert, Milton and Gerogie all tried to outrun Terrence, who kept catching up with them (due to an adult African bush elephant being able to run in a fast burst of speed of up to 40 miles per hour), and they tried to get to the rock walls and hide behind them and wait for Terrence to just pass by, but Terrence knew their trick and so he pulled out his own trick ahead of them, and so he decided to pretend to be leaving them alone by just running by when they tried to hide away from him, and when Opey and her friends sloly came out of hide after he left, he suddenly appeared in front of them and started to chase after them once again, thus showing them he's not an animal which they can pull their tricks on that easily, due to African bush elephants being one of the three most smartest mammalian animals who still lives today, the other two were the Bottlenose dolphins and the humans (who are still certainly considered animals because humans are primates).

Then, Lysander and Sayla came out of nowhere and helped Terrence ambush Opey and her friends, thus capturing Kyra and Georgie, and also prompting Opey, Albert and Milton to continue to run together for their lives in an attempt to lose their much larger enemies, but then Ganda came out of nowhere and helped her friends capturing Albert and Milton, thus leaving Opey to continue to run away for her own life, and eventually, she ended up reaching to the cage where the CMC were locked up, and so she decided to open the cage and set the four foals free and out of it, but then she's suddenly got pinned down to the floor by Akeno, who managed to catch and trap her in and between his legs before he looked down at her with evil eyes and said to her evilly "Going somewhere?", and then he knocked her out cold with a kick to the head, and then he used his magic to open up the cage and throw Opey inside it, but before he can close and lock the cage again, his own friends came while leading Opey's friends to the cage so he can put them inside it and imprison them all as well, and so Akeno used his magic to levitate up and then throw Kyra, Albert, Milton and Georgie into the cage, and then he closed and locked it to prevent the five young animals from having any way to escape, thus now having nine young hostages which he (Akeno) and his evil friends (Terrence, Lysander, Sayla and Ganda) can all use to destroy Chloe, Aylene and Stephan.

When Opey and her friends recovered and got back up on their feet, they found themselves locked together with the CMC in the same cage, before Randall and Scootaloo approached them with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle following in tow, and then Randall asked "Hello, what are you five doing here?", but then Opey stepped aback and begged from the light green Earth pony colt "Please, don't hurt me! I may be an okapi, but I'm not like Akeno! I'm just a kid!", but then Scootaloo asked "Why should we hurt you?", and then Apple Bloom added and said "It's okay, okapi. We mean you and your friends no harm.", and then Sweetie Belle said to the five young animals "We're the Cutie Mark Crusaders!", and then she introduced herself and said "I'm Sweetie Belle! Rarity's younger sister!", and then Apple Bloom added "I'm Apple Bloom! Applejack's younger sister!", and then Randall continued "I'm Randall! Pinkie Pie's younger brother! I'm also the only official main member of our team to be a colt!", and then Scootaloo finished "And I'm Scootaloo! Rainbow Dash's younger sister!", and then she added and said "And together we are...", and then the four foals jumped up and yelled happily in unison "THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!", but then they saw this caused Opey and the other animals to shake in a bit of fear due to hearing them yelling out loud while introducing themselves, and this caused Scootaloo to say "Oops!", and then Randall stepped forward and gave his right foreleg and hoof to Opey and to the other animals and said to them "We're sorry! We didn't meant to yell in front of you all like this!".

Then, when Opey and the other animals saw Randall giving his right forehoof to them and giving them a smile to reassure them that he and his three filly friends won't hurt them, Opey slowly stepped forward and gave her right foreleg and even-toed hoof to shake the colt's hoof with her own, and once the two shook each other's hooves, Opey said though in a bit timid voice tone "W-well, I'm Opey! I-it's nice to meet you too, Randall!", and then she turned around and motioned with an even-toed forehoof of hers at each of the young animals who stood behind her and then she said to the CMC as she slowly got more confidence in her voice "These are my four best friends! Kyra, Albert, Milton and Georgie!", and then Georgie raised his left hand up and said to the CMC "Hi there! It's nice to meet you all!", and then Scootaloo said to him back "Likewise!".

However, they all suddenly heard someone stomping his foot on the cave's floor, and so when they all turned, they saw Akeno, who have stomped his even-toed hoof on the cave's floor in front of their cage, but then they also saw the adult male okapi's evil eyes looking right at them all, before he then yelled angrily at the nine young hostages "SHUT UP!", but then Opey asked "Excuse us?", and then Akeno yelled "YOU NINE MAY HAVE BECOME FRIENDS THIS EASILY, BUT NONE OF YOU ARE GOING ANYWHERE! YOU WILL BE LIVING IN THIS CAGE AS MY HOSTAGES, AND WHEN THE TIME COMES, MY FRIENDS AND I WILL SURELY COME HERE AND DESTROY YOU ALL!", and then he called for one of his brainwashed adult okapis to come and help by guarding the cage for his friends and him, and soon enough, an adult female okapi ran up towards Akeno and stopped right in front of him and the nine young hostages.

When Opey saw the adult female okapi who stood in front of her and her friends, she quickly recognized and knew who that adult female was - it was none other than Opey's mother. Akeno then said to Opey's brainwashed mother "You stay here, guard the cage and keep an eye on the prisoners, okay?", and then Opey's mother nodded and said "As you wish, your highness.", and then Akeno said to her "Good! Now I gotta go and be with my friends! And you stay here and keep an eye on the prisoners and make sure they don't escape!", and then Opey's mother said "Yes, King Akeno.", and when they all heard what she said, everyone, particularly Opey, gasped in shock, but Akeno, on the other hand, just smiled at her and then he smirked evilly and said to her "I always liked to be called a king, darling! Now have fun with the prisoners and make sure they don't escape!", and then he turned tail and started to run away and leave Opey's brainwashed mother alone with the young hostages, including her own daughter (Opey herself).

Then, Opey cried for her brainwashed mother "Mommy!", but then Randall asked her "You know that adult female okapi, Opey?", and then Opey said and explained "Yes, she's my mother!", and when everyone heard what she said, the CMC and Opey's non-okapi friends all gasped in shock before they said out loud in unison "WHAT?!", and then Opey cried again for her brainwashed mother and said "Mommy! It's me, your daughter, Opey!", and even though the brainwashed adult female okapi did heard what she said and then turned around and looked down at her daughter in the eyes, she still didn't recognized her at all.

However, Opey didn't gave up and so she cried "Mommy, it's me!", but then the brainwashed adult female okapi asked her "Who are you?", and then Opey cried "Mommy! Don't you remember me? I'm your own daughter! I'm Opey!", but then Opey's brainwashed mother said back to her "That name means nothing to me, prisoner! I don't even have any children! Tell me what you really want!", and when Opey heard what her own mother just said to her, she gasped in shock and then she cried "Mommy! I can't believe you completely forgotten me! I'm your daughter! And I love you!", but then her brainwashed mother yelled at her in the face "Shut up your mouth, prisoner! I don't even have a daughter! Akeno is my husband! We don't yet have any children!", but then Opey cried and yelled to her mother as tears of sadness started to form in her eyes "No! Akeno is not your husband! He's a vicious traitor who betrayed our family!", and then she added "Don't you see that, Mommy? Akeno has brainwashed you and all the adults and elders, and he's fooling you all to make you think that he's the rightful leader of our family!".

However, Opey's mother said to her daughter "What are you even saying, prisoner?! Akeno is our family's rightful leader!", but then Opey cried "No! You're wrong! Asha is our family's rightful leader! She may be gone, but we should never forget all the good things she have done to us before what Akeno did to her! Don't you see, mommy! Akeno destroyed Asha and then he took you all under his lead against your own will!", and then she cried out loud "YOU DON'T KNOW ME ANYMORE, MOMMY!", and then she finally burst into tears and the CMC and her four non-okapi friends all went up to her and hugged her all around her body to comfort her.

However, after no more than just two minutes, something started to happen to Opey's mother - she suddenly started to recall and remember all the good memories she had with her daughter so far, from the moment she (Opey) was born to just before Asha's death, and at first Opey's mother struggled and didn't know who she should trust and believe and/or what to choose, but after having an inner struggle for a few moments, she finally made it up in her own mind and then she managed to snap out of Akeno's evil magic and redeem herself back to normal, thus finally setting herself free from Akeno's evilness.

Then, Opey's mother shook her head from side to side to shake away the dizziness she got when she snapped out of her brainwashing for a few moments, and once she got her vision and eyesight cleared from the dizziness, she looked down and saw her own daughter crying with her friends and the CMC all around her and trying to comfort her, and this made the okapi mother gasp in shock before she quickly lowered down onto her haunches and then tears started to form in her own eyes to see her own daughter this very sad, and then she softly and kindly asked "Opey?", and when Opey heard her mother's soft and kind voice speaking to her again for the first time since before Asha's death, Opey sniffled before she looked up to see her mother sitting down and looking at her with some tears forming in her own eyes, and when she saw and realized her mother is no longer under Akeno's vicious influence, Opey quickly got up on her feet and then she ran towards the the cage's iron bars and then she stuck her own head and neck between the iron bars to get much of herself out of the cage as possible and then she cried "Mommy!", and then her mother responded by lowering her own head down to her and then she started to nuzzle Opey's face and she tried to calm her down by saying "Shhh, it's okay, Opey. It's alright, everything's fine. Your Mommy's back.", and then Opey cried to her mother "Mommy! I truly missed you! I thought you don't love me anymore!", but then the okapi mother tried to calm her down and said "But I do love you, and I always will. You're my daughter, and I love you with all my heart.".

When the CMC and Opey's friends all saw the touching moment between Opey and her own mother, they all couldn't help but cry tears of joy, and when Opey calmed down thanks to her now redeemed-back-to-normal mother, the mother okapi then asked her daughter "What is this horrible place?", and then Opey said "It's Akeno's cave, he brainwashed you and all the adults and elders, and then he and his friends took you all here, but thanks to me, you're now free from his influence.". However, when Opey's mother heard what her own daughter said, she gasped in shock and asked "Where's Asha? Is she okay?", but then Opey cried "She's gone! Akeno destroyed her!".

When the mother okapi heard what her daughter Opey said, she gasped in shock, before she then growled in anger and said "How dare he?! That traitor dared to kill my family's leader! How he could've done such thing?! How could he turn us adults and elders on our own children and make us leave them all alone and join him just like that?! He's so barbaric!", and then Opey said to her mother "Please, Mommy! Help us get out of here!", and when she heard what her own daughter said, Opey's mother said "Oh, yes! Or course! I will get you and all of your friends out of here in no time!", and then Opey said back to her mother with a smile "That's my mom!".

Then, Opey's mother thought about a plan to get her own daughter, her friends and the CMC out of their cage so she can set them free and then escape from Akeno's cave with all of them, and just then, Terrence the elephant came by to check on her and on the young prisoners, and so Opey's mother decided to pretend to be scolding her own daughter and her friends in front of him in an attempt to fool him into thinking that she's still brainwashed, but then Terrence cleverly looked very close into her eyes and saw that Akeno's influence doesn't have any effect on her anymore, thus causing him to yell "You snapped out of control! You're back to normal! Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!", and this caused Opey, her mother, her friends and the CMC to gasp in shock all together when they realized that Terrence is not fooled by the okapi mother's trick at all and that he found out that she snapped back to normal, thus prompting Opey's mother to then push and force him to charge into the cage and destroy apart of it without having anyone getting hurt in the process, thus finally setting Opey, her friends and the CMC free and they all got out from the broken cage, seconds before Opey's mother then tripped the big male African bush elephant with an even-toed hoof of hers, which causes Terrence to lose his balance and fall down onto his side, thus getting knocked out cold and unconscious.

With Terrence knocked out cold and unable to move, Opey, her mother, her friends and the CMC all saw this as their chance to escape from Akeno's cave, and so Kyra the Indian elephant cried "We can finally escape from the cave!", and then Opey's mother said to everyone "Come with me, little ones! Let's get out of here!", and then everyone nodded in agreement before they all started to run away together and they all started to search for their way out of Akeno's cave, but they all knew that they must do so quickly, or else Akeno and his friends will capture them again, and this time - they will imprison Opey's mother as well alongside the children (including her own daughter, Opey) for snapping out of her brainwashing and for betraying Akeno.