Yigal, Gilad, Ezra and Black Heart all fooled and tricked Chloe, Aylene and Stephan and used baby Dan Ashmor as a bait to trap all three friends in their house, and when Stephan tried to pry the door open, he and the girls got knocked out cold by the four villains, who used frying pans to hit them on the backs of the heads each, and now the evil brothers and Black Heart were taking the three unconscious friends with them out of their house, but the inseparable trio are now tied up in ropes to make sure they cannot escape from what the four villains have planned for them - taking the three to the great water pit to drown them all to death.
Later, when the four villains finally reached the great water pit, they all put their evil plan into action and so Yigal, Gilad and Ezra all jumped into the water while carrying the tied up Chloe, Aylene and Stephan along with them and then they started to swim, with Black Heart assisting the evil humans by flying above their heads and also to make sure they all manage to tie the three friends to the large rock which stood in the middle of the great water pit, and also aiding the evil humans by helping them all carry Stephan's heavy body (for him being a centaur), and once they all reached the large rock in the middle of the great water pit, the four villains used other ropes they carried along with them to tie up Chloe, Aylene and Stephan to the large rock, to better ensure that they all slowly drown when the water level will slowly rise up and the large rock will eventually disappear below the water surface, with Chloe, Aylene and Stephan going to drown all together while being tied up to the large rock.
Once they were done, the evil brothers all swam away from the large rock and back to safety, and then they and Black Heart (who flew above them and assisted them in order to help them get rid of the inseparable trio) all left the great water pit while leaving Chloe, Aylene and Stephan tied up to the large rock all together to drown, and just then, the water level slowly started to rise up, and at the same time - the rock slowly started to disappear below the water surface, and there's nothing Chloe, Aylene and Stephan can do to save each other or themselves from drowning.
However, after Yigal, Gilad, Ezra and Black Heart all left the great water pit and went all the way back to their house (and to their home), none of them noticed an adult woman, who was been watching everything the four villains did to the three poor, tied up and apparently helpless friends, who are now going to face drowning in the great water pit. The adult woman appeared to have long brown hair, brown eyes, but what was weird with her is that she also had two long horns growing on her head, the larger front one on the forehead and the smaller hinder one on the top of the head, just right behind the larger one, but because the woman had two eyes instead of just one on the center, it is obvious that she's definitely not a cyclops (because cyclops only have one eye which appeared on the center of the forehead, and they also have only one horn growing on the top of the head instead of two).
What's more weirder about that strange-looking adult woman is that she also had big animal ears on both sides of the head, similar to Stephan, Bluebell and other equine centaurs, and her lower body from her waist downwards appeared to be hidden in the large bushes which stood and grew near the great water pit's top edge, but when she came out of the bushes and exposed her lower animal body part, she's shown to be a kind and/or type of centaur that almost no one have seen before, because instead of having the lower body of a horse, a zebra, a bear, a lion, or a tiger, the centauress appeared to have the lower body, legs and tail of an African rhinoceros, which makes her part of an almost extinct centaur species (or race) which once existed all over Equestria for almost one million years, before being driven to extinction by both Equestrian species and other centaur kinds and races around 10,000 years ago. The adult female centaur-like creature is also none other than one of the largest centaur species which appeared, lived and existed in Equestria - she was half-human/half-rhinoceros (A.K.A - A Rhinotaur).
The adult female Rhinotaur (A.K.A - Rhinotauress) was watching the water level slowly rising up, and she also saw the large rock slowly disappearing below the water surface, but rather than leaving the three friends to drown and to die in the great water pit, the Rhinotauress decided to go down to the great water pit to save Chloe, Aylene and Stephan from drowning, and so she started to run as fast as she could towards the great water pit's edge and then she jumped off the edge and plummeted down and landed in the water below (making a big splash in the process), and then the Rhinotauress started to swim as fast as she could towards the large rock in the middle of the water pit, and then she climbed up onto the large rock and made her way up to the three tied up and still unconscious friends.
Then, she started to quickly untie Chloe, Aylene and Stephan from the large rock, and then she also untied them from the other ropes (which tied their arms, legs and hooves together, respectively), and then she picked up Stephan and placed him down on top of her own lower rhinoceros back, before she then picked Chloe and Aylene up with her arms and placed and cradled them close to her upper human chest to keep them all safe, before she quickly turned to go and got down from the large rock and started swimming back while carrying Chloe, Aylene and Stephan along with her to safety, and once she got out of the water, the Rhinotauress quickly climbed up and managed to get out of the great water pit with the three friends, whom she just saved all at once in the nick of time, before she then carried them all along with her to a safe place where they can recover from the last attack, which knocked them out cold from behind.
The Rhinotauress took Chloe, Aylene and Steohan on her arms and on her back and carried them along until she found a large empty cave where she can finally place the three friends down, and once she entered the cave and walked to a spot at the back of the cave, she gently placed Chloe and Aylene down on the cave's floor and then she took Stephan off her lower rhinoceros back and gently placed him down next to the human and Pegasus pony sisters, and then she turned tail and she started to run away from the cave in order to find some sticks, twigs and some wooden logs and she also found, made and crafted from some stones and small rocks some flint stones to better ensure that she does succeeds in making fire, and she ended up returning back to the cave while carrying lots of wooden sticks, twigs and even some large logs (which she carried on her lower rhinoceros back), and then she placed down all the wood she collected and then she used her new flint stones to make a spark of light which will set the wood on fire, and she ended up setting up some fire successfully.
Just then, Chloe, Aylene and Stephan all slowly started to move their bodies, and then they slowly opened up their eyes and then they tried to slowly get back up on their feet and hooves, as they all finally recovered from the last attack which knocked them out cold when they tried to escape the villains' house, only for them to discover that they're now in the large cave the Rhinotauress carried and took them to while they all lied down unconscious, and then Chloe said "Huh?", and then Aylene asked "Where are we?", and then Stephan asked "Is this a cave? What are we doing in a cave?", and then Chloe asked "How did we ended up here?", and then Aylene said "The last thing we can all remember is that we tried to pry the door open to escape Yigal, his family and my former mother's house, but we all ended getting knocked out cold by them!", and then Stephan recalled and remembered what happened and so he said in agreement "You're right, Aylene! They knocked us out cold!", but then Chloe asked "But how did we all ended up here?", and then Stephan said "We shall thank whoever saved us from our greatest enemies!", and then Aylene added "And maybe we can make friends with him or her for what he or she did for us before!".
Just then, an adult female voice said to them "So, you three have finally awakened!", but when they heard what the voice said, Stephan asked as he, Chloe and Aylene all started to look around them to see who just talked to them "Huh? Who said that?", and then the female voice said "Over here!", and when the three turned to the opening of the cave, they saw the Rhinotauress sitting down near the fire she set up to keep warm, and they also saw that she's looking at them, before she then said "Hi!", but then Stephan yelped and stepped aback in shock and also in a bit of fear when he saw the Rhinotauress, before he then yelled "Ahhh! A Rhinotaur!", and then he added and cried "Stay back!", and even Chloe and Aylene stepped aback when they saw the Rhinotauress looking at them right in the eyes from a distance, and the human and the Pegasus pony both looked shocked and even afraid as they thought the Rhinotauress might be dangerous like an ordinary rhinoceros (like Saut and/or Ganda, for an instance), before Chloe then asked "What are you?", and then Aylene asked and added "What are you supposed to be? Some half-human/half-rhinoceros or something?".
Then, the Rhinotauress answered and explained "I'm a Rhinotaur! And I'm also a female, and so I'm called a Rhinotauress!" and then she quickly added "But there's no reason for you three to be afraid of me! I won't hurt you, I promise!", but then Stephan asked after he and the girls heard what she said "Excuse us? What did you just said?", and then the Rhinotauress repeated "There's no reason for you three to be afraid of me! I won't hurt you, I promise!", but then Stephan siad and asked "Whoa! Are you real? I thought you Rhinotaurs are extinct in Equestria!", but then the Rhinotauress said "You're wrong! My kind and race aren't extinct, though we're still an endangered species!".
Then, Aylene said to her "Whoa! You're even bigger than an adult centaur!", and then the Rhinotauress explained "That's because my kind and race we're one of the largest centaur species which have existed for almost a million years, and yet we still exist today, though in small numbers rather than in huge herds!", and then Chloe asked her "How did we ended up here in this cave?", and then the Rhinotauress explained "I saw three adult human males and an adult Pegasus mare carrying you three while you're all unconscious to a huge water pit, and I got a bit curious but also very worried, and so I decided to follow after them and see what they're going to do with you, and when I watched them swimming (and flying) towards a large rock in the middle of the water pit and tying you three up to it, and then just turning away and leaving you all to drown and die, I was shocked and angry to see how could four full grown adults like them do such thing to three teenagers like you, and so I decided to jump into the pit and I swam towards the rock, got myself onto it and climbed up until I got to you, and then I cut the ropes tying you three to the rock, but then I also cut the ropes tying your wrists, ankles and hooves together, before I placed you three on myself before I left the water pit with you!".
When the three friends all heard everything from what the Rhinotauress said, Stephan asked "Wait, so does that means you saved our lives from drowning?", and the Rhinotauress nodded her human head and said "Yes! That's correct!", but then Stephan said "But I still don't understand! Rhinotaurs are known to be hostile and dangerous creatures towards every creature they see that is not one of their own kind, even if they're from another species of centaur!", but then the Rhinotauress said "Hostile and dangerous? Oh, not me! All I ever wanted is to have some friends, but most Rhinotaurs are bad at friendship, even more than dragons!", and then Stephan asked "Really?", and then he added "Then what's with the few Rhinotaurs who are actually good at friendship?", and then the Rhinotauress said as a tear formed and threatened to escape her eye "Those who are good at friendship are hated for the most by the rest of their own kind! Therefore, because I'm a good and kind Rhinotauress, most other Rhinotaurs hate me and keep themselves and each other away from me for the adult female I am!".
"WHAT?! WHY?!", Chloe, Aylene and Stephan yelled in shock all together, and the Rhinotauress said to them "Because most Rhinotaurs see the magic of friendship like a dangerous disease which can cause and lead our entire species into extinction!", but then Aylene cried "But that's not true at all, Miss! Friendship is necessary!", and then Stephan added "That's right! To my own kind, friendship means power for a good reason which helps us and keeps us alive today - friendship helps us centaurs find the love we need and pair with a mate for life! Without the strong powers and magic of friendship, almost everything in Equestria would've become extinct, and life will be crashed forever! And that also includes all of ponykind!", and then Aylene said in agreement "That's right! If we ponies fail friendship, we won't exist anymore!", and then Chloe added "Everyone needs to have friends! Even Rhinotaurs, I suppose, actually need friendship in order to find a mate and pair for life and have children of their own to prevent extinction!".
Then, the Rhinotauress said to the three friends "But even if what you're all saying to me is true, most Rhinotaurs think otherwise! They shunned me and banished me away from our homelands for me being good at friendship, and even my very own family were all sick and tired to look at or even think about me!", and when Chloe heard what she said, the teenage human girl cried "This is so disrespectful of them to do such thing as that to you! They're even worse than my own family when they tried to feed me to the tigers at the zoo when I was only 7 years old!", and then Aylene added "And worse than my own mother when she killed my own father and made my life harmful and miserable before I met and joined Chloe!", and then Stephan added "And even worse than my own father when he started abusing me and my little siblings to make us his revenge soldiers to avenge Lord Tirek, after our mother was killed by that Beartaur on that dark and terrible day which I can never forget!".
When the Rhinotauress heard what they all said about themselves having been abused by their own and respective kinds (particularly by their own and respective families), she gasped in shock and asked "Oh, so we four have something in common, aren't we?", and then Chloe said "Yes! Of course we have!", and then Aylene added "We al went through abuse!", and then Stephan said "At the evil hands (or hooves) of our very own families!", and then the Rhinotauress said to them and asked "So that explains why you're all together, aren't you?", and then all the three friends said together and in unison "Yes!", and then Aylene said to her "And you're just like us! You too went through abuse and harassment just like the three of us did! We're all the same!".
When the Rhinotauress heard what Chloe, Aylene and Stephan said to her about herself being the same as the three of them after she too have already been through abuse by her own family, said and asked "If you three want to, maybe can we be friends?", and when the inseparable trio heard what she said, Stephan said "Of course you can! You may be an adult and not a teenager like us, but you still saved our lives before! And so we all owe you something in return!", and then Aylene cried happily as she flied up and then kept herself flying and floating in place next to Chloe and Stephan "Welcome to our team!", and then Chloe added "It is a pleasure to let you into our inseparable team!", and the Rhinotauress blushed at the last words each of them said to her, and then she said "Thank you!", and then she added "I...I don't know what to say!", but then Aylene cried "It's okay, Miss! You're welcome to our inseparable team!", and then Chloe added "And we don't even care you're from an entirely different species! We're one human, one pony and one centaur, but we're still all together no matter what!", and then she added "And now you're one of us too! Because you saved our lives! You're our newest friend!".
When the Rhinotauress heard what the three friends said, tears of joy started to form and roll down her eyes and she said back "Thank you all!", and then she covered her face in her human hands as she finally burst into tears, since she never had or even made any friends before, but then she felt something touching her on the left cheek, and when she moved her own hands away from her own face, she saw Aylene stroking at her left cheek with a forehoof, before the teenage Pegasus mare said "It's okay! there's no need for you to cry!", and then Chloe added as she too approached to comfort and calm the Rhinotauress down "Everything's gonna be fine!", and then Stephan finished as he also approached with a reassuring face "We're your new friends, or may I say you're our new friend! And we all truly accept and appreciate you for the good Rhinotauress you really are! You're not like the rest of your own kind! You have a loving heart and you care for whoever needs your help, even if they're strangers, and it's just the same I used to do myself!", and when the Rhinotauress heard what they all said, she sniffled a bit and said "Thank you all, my friends!", and then she started to hug all the three friends at once and at the same time, and Chloe, Aylene and Stephan couldn't help but hug her massive body back, and thus a miraculous thing happened - the inseparable trio (three) became the inseparable squad (four).