Two months have passed since Chloe and Aylene fought together against Howard in order to save Stephan and make sure that he's okay and away from him, and within these two months which have passed, both Chloe and Aylene slowly healed and by the end of the second month since that horrible and faithful day where the fight against Howard took its place, the teenage human girl and the young Pegasus mare both made together a full recovery and all their bruises, wounds and injuries completely healed and disappeared like they were never there on their bodies before, and with Chloe and Aylene's complete recovery after the fight against Howard, it was now 64 months (5 years and 4 months) since Chloe first arrived in Equestria, as well as it was also 52 months (4 years and 4 months) since Aylene became her sister, and right now they're both doing well after they fully recovered from all the bruises, wounds and injuries which they both received during the fight against Howard, before Stephan retuned with the help they both needed in order to make sure that the evil centaur doesn't makes his attempt to finish both Chloe and Aylene and get away with that so easily.
Meanwhile, in the dungeons below the royal castle, Howard is still serving his two month suspended prison sentence for his crimes against both Chloe and Aylene, and also against his violent crimes against his very own children (and particularly Stephan himself), and now his whole body is covered with scars which he received throughout his fight against both Chloe and Aylene, and as he sat down on his horse haunches, the evil centaur said and asked himself "I lost my son to a girl and a Pegasus, I got so many scars all over my body, and to make matters worse - I even lost both of my big, fully curled and beautiful bighorn sheep horns! How could this get EVEN worse?!".
However, just then, the same royal guards and changelings who put Howard in his prison cell two months ago suddenly came back to take him out of his cell, and once they opened his cell and got him out, they all started taking and leading the evil centaur all the way to the court where he's going to stand trial for all of his crimes, from killing his wife to abusing his own children to assaulting Chloe and Aylene in order to get Stephan back to himself, and Chloe, Aylene, Stephan and everyone else will also be there to teach him and show him what happens to abusive fathers who dare to abuse their own children in order to make them as vengeful as the fathers themselves.
It's the day in which Howard will stand trial in the court for his crimes, and the royal guards and the changelings led him to the court to come face-to-face with justice and be ashamed of himself for everything bad he have done to his own family, and most importantly and particularly - to his very own son Stephan, who is now going to see the last moments of his evil father before the evil centaur is to get and receive the true punishment which he truly deserves.
Once Howard is brought to the court to stand trial for his crimes, he looked all around himself to see lots of ponies, changelings, yaks, dragons, griffons, Hippogriffs, Kirins, and even many good centaurs who live in Equestria standing above him and all around him and looking down at him with anger in their eyes for they all already know of his crimes, but Howard didn't seemed to mind any creature when he suddenly saw his teenage son standing next to Chloe and Aylene and looking down at him as well, thus causing Howard to give him a dark and angry glare in order to scare Stephan, but Chloe and Aylene held onto both of the teenage male centaur's hands in order to reassure him that his father won't mean him any harm anymore, but when Howard saw Chloe and Aylene giving Stephan reassurance that everything is going to be okay, he angrily snorted as now it clearly seems that he hates his own teenage son for the most.
Just then, Celestia, Luna, Thorax, Pharynx, the mane seven, the reformed animals (Shujaa, Kenai and Agatha), all the other rulers and even Discord stepped forward and all looked down at Howard right in the eyes, as the evil centaur only snorted back in anger like a Spanish Black Bull (a fighting bull) who is determined to fight his opponents with all his might, and then Celestia said in an authoritative voice as Howard turned and looked and stared up at her in anger "Howard! You have committed so many crimes which cannot be described that you've done so far in your life! You forced your own family to live in such horrible and unfavorable conditions in the Badlands! You cared about your own youngest children very little and even turned your back on them when they really needed you to help them survive and thrive and grow to become fine and independent adults! You mercilessly destroyed your own wife with the help of a ferocious Beartaur in order to get a full control on your family's life and treat your own children like your slaves! You made and then let your oldest son betray his real friends and join a group of bad Zebrataurs led by an ill-tempered leader and a muscular and ferocious second-in-command who doesn't tolerates even the smallest and most forgivable mistakes which every creature makes! You horribly abused, attacked, beaten and even tried to kidnap your own oldest son and make him as evil as you are because you want him to be like you and avenge Lord Tirek under your evil orders! All of your cruel and heartless acts are so much inexcusable and are worthy true punishment!".
However, Howard suddenly transformed his angry face into an evil smile and then he said and asked "Oh, really? Well, most creatures here in Equestria already knows that what I did to my son and to these twins is the whole truth, but what about the human girl? Huh?", and when every creature heard what Howard said, all the good centaurs out of them started talking to each other about Chloe (since she's the human to whom Howard referred), but then Celestia called for Chloe to go up to the stand, and so the teenage human girl walked up to the stand and then she started explaining the fight she and Aylene had together against Howard on that same horrible and faithful night, which happened two months ago.
Then, Chloe started explaining to every creature (and particularly to all the good centaurs) that she too went through abuse by her own family and even explained that her own parents and her older brother Mike blamed her for her grandmother's death (although Elizabeth Williams died of cancer at the age of 70), and she even explained how her older brother tried to get rid of her by throwing her to the tiger enclosure to be eaten, although she's luckily saved by two zookeepers who spotted her and rescued from the tiger enclosure in the nick of time, and before she finished, Chloe explained to every creature that she and Aylene fought together against Howard in order to save Stephan from being attacked, assaulted and harassed by the demonic centaur, and when all the good centaurs heard everything that Chloe said, Howard's defense has weakened, much to his displeasure.
However, as soon as Chloe finished explaining her side of the fight against Howard, she's called to stay on the stand as Aylene soon went up to the stand to join her and explain her own side of the fight against Howard as well, and during her long explanation, Aylene also told in front of every creature that she too went through abuse much like Chloe, before she's rescued by her and is allowed to live by her side in the royal castle, but then she also explained her family connection to the male wolf-pony hybrid Wolf Eye, as she told every creature in the whole courtroom that despite she (Aylene) herself is a pure (100%) pony, she's still related to Wolf Eye because he was her grandfather, and she even told that her own mother can howl and she also rarely acts like a wolf because of her genes being 75% those of a pony and 25% those of a wolf, although thanks to Wild Berry's genes, Aylene herself was born without any of the wolf genes, and when she explained how her own mother killed her father and tried to make her (Aylene herself) just like her evil hybrid grandfather Wolf Eye in order to get revenge on the princesses and then get revenge on all the other rulers of Equestria in order to avenge his death and succeed in where he failed, every creature and especially all the good centaurs are shocked to realize that even though Aylene is related to Wolf Eye (as she's his granddaughter), she's still unwilling to listen and follow her abusive mother and rule over all of Equestria in order to avenge his death.
Then, this is when Chloe and Aylene are called to go down from the stand and Stephan is called to go up to the stand instead, and once Chloe and Aylene walked down from the stand and Stephan went up there instead, this is where his father started looking angrily at him in the eyes as he hoped that his teenage son would become afraid of him again and wouldn't dare to rat him out and talk about everything bad he have done to him in his whole life from birth and until now and from his own side. However, Howard's hope was crushed when Chloe and Aylene are called to go back up to the stand again to support Stephan as he started speaking his side of his family's life story and even told his father's villainous role which he had as he played his part as the father and patriarch of his family.
Stephan explained to every creature in the whole courtroom (including all the good centaurs) that his father treated him real badly by trying repeatedly and continuously to abuse him in order to make him his revenge soldier so he can be later used by Howard to avenge Lord Tirek, and that every time that Stephan refused to be a bad centaur or do as Howard says, his evil father would often be beating him with his wooden club to punish him, and he even told that his father even broke his left hind horse leg by beating him too many times, and one of the other reasons why he did this to Stephan (which he also explains) was because beating his teenage son meant for Howard a good source for stress relief and for calming down his raging nature when he gets angry at Stephan for the younger centaur disobeying him by trying to be a good centaur, and Stephan even explained that Howard also did the same things to Andy and Zoey because he only wanted to have Stephan as his son and hated the twin toddler centaurs so much, for he knew that they won't listen to him and will always fear him for his scary and intimidating presence.
In addition for all these things which Stephan said, which of course they're all true because his father really abused him (and later on - the same with the twins) for quite a very long time, Stephan also explained to every creature in the whole courtroom that even before he (Stephan himself) was born, his father was indeed abusive because of his will to become just like Lord Tirek and later avenge him when the older demonic centaur have failed to rule over all of Equestria and was sent back to continue his sentence in Tartarus, and that was before Howard even met Helena and became mates with her, and Stephan even explained that ever since his mother Helena became mates with his father Howard, the demonic centaur didn't really treated her like a real wife, but instead he treated her worse than a slave before and after Stephan and (later) the twins are born, and that's when Stephan finally cried and said with tears forming and rolling down his eyes that his own father treated his mother like a toy, as he (Howard) became mates with Helena only because he wanted her to give birth to his children, and once she did gave birth to Stephan and later on to Andy and Zoey, Howard started neglecting Helena like if she's nothing but a toy, thus revealing the whole truth about his own father's cruel and heartless nature to every creature in the whole courtroom.
However, just then, the totally unexpected happened - a warm light started surrounding the whole courtroom before a familiar female voice softly said Stephan's name, thus getting his attention as he then turned and looked up to see the spirit of his mother Helena descending down and then coming towards him, thus causing Stephan to jump off the stand and then run all the way to meet his mother again, and every creature (except for Chloe and Aylene) were all in total shock when they saw the ghost of the centauress who is none other than Stephan's deceased mother, and when Andy and Zoey also saw her, they started crying and before they both went all the way up to her as well, and that's when the teenage male centaur and his twin toddler siblings hugged Helena tightly as they got reunited with her again, and the centauress tried to make herself feel solid enough for them so they can feel her body while hugging her tight as tears rolled down the eyes of all three centaur children, who are all very happy to see their mother again, and this time - they all got reunited with her together.
However, when Howard his wife and his children reuniting with each other, he yelled in shock and anger "What is this?! Helena?! I can't believe it! I thought I have destroyed you!", but when Helena heard what he said, she turned to him and said "Yes, you did destroyed my body, Howard! But, however, you didn't destroyed my spirit and my soul!", and when Howard heard what his wife said to him, he yelled and said out loud in anger "WHAT?!", but then Helena said to him and then asked "You should be ashamed of yourself, Howard! I loved you with all my heart and I even gave birth to three good children who will succeed you as good, big and strong centaurs in the future - and this is how you repay me?", but then Howard yelled in anger "NOOOOOOOOO!" and then he added "You're nothing more but a useless toy, Helena! You're too good and kind for a centauress and I hate you so much for all the shame and embarrassment you gave me! All my childhood friends started ignoring me and turning their backs on me ever since I fell in love with you! I made a horrible mistake when I loved you back! You're nothing but trouble to me! And now, YOU WILL PAY!", and once Howard roared that in the faces of his wife and children, this is when he broke free from his restraints and then he used his magic to lift Stephan and the twins up and away from their mother and then he started to choke them while holding all three of them up in the air in front of every creature, who all looked in shock, horror and even anger at the ferocious adult male centaur, who is now determined and very willing to destroy all his three children, for he now saw them as huge mistakes and he felt a massive regret for bringing them to the Equestrian world.
Then, every creature in the courtroom yelled down at Howard to stop and all the good centaurs begged him to let his own children go, but Howard ignored all of them as he then roared angrily at his children "I WANTED YOU THREE TO SUCCEED ME AND AVENGE LORD TIREK FOR ME, BUT NOW THAT I SEE WHAT YOU'RE REALLY MADE OF, I'M SO SORRY THAT I BROUGHT YOU THREE TO THIS WORLD! NOW, IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO SAY GOODBYE, YOU TRAITORS!", but just as things looked very bleak for Stephan and for his younger siblings, a familiar male baby Rhinotaur suddenly came out of nowhere and then he opened his mouth wide before he then clamped down with his new milk (deciduous) teeth on Howard's right hind horse leg, thus causing him to howl and scream "EYAUUUUUUU!" as he then let go his magic of his children and let them fall back down to the floor, only for Bluebell to then use her own magic and rescue them in the nick of time before she then brought them back down to the floor and very gently placed them on the floor safely.
When every creature saw the familiar male baby Rhinotaur's face, Chloe, Aylene and their friends soon recognized him and knew who he really is - it was Trog, and just then, his mother Tah also came forward and showed herself in front of every creature and moved into a full view as she came behind Howard and once her little son let go of him, Tah grabbed the evil centaur by the back of the neck and then she forcefully turned him back to face her so he can look at her in the eyes, but when Howard so Tah and looked her in the eyes, he gasped in shock and surprise before he asked out loud "A Rhinotauress?!", and then Tah said "Name's Tah, and the baby Rhinotaur who just bit you is my precious little son, Trog!", and when Howard heard what she said, he turned to look down at Trog in the face before turning to look back at Tah and soon realized that the two Rhinotaurs are a mother and a son.
However, just then, Tah said to Howard in disappointment "Now I'm very disappointed of you for what you're doing to your very own family, Mister!", but then Howard said "They're MY family anymore! They're all a bunch of stupid traitors! They all betrayed me, they asked for it, and I was just going to give them a taste of their own medicine!", but then Tah said to him "I don't think so! You should be ashamed of yourself for what you're doing to me and my son's friends!", and when Howard realized that Tah and Trog are also friends with Stephan and his younger siblings (despite the two Rhinotaurs haven't showed up when the fight between Chloe, Aylene and Howard (which was a fight of two against one) took place), he gasped in shock and then he tried to fight her in order himself free, as Tah still held him by the neck and didn't let him go.
Then, Tah said to the evil centaur as she looked at him right in the face "Now, Mister, I suggest you first apologize to Stephan, to his twin toddler siblings and to their mother for crushing them under your hooves and for breaking their good hearts, and then you'll spend the rest of your life rotting in Tartarus for all I care!", but Howard didn't felt afraid of her words at all as he then yelled back in defiance and in pure rage "NO, I, WON'T!", and then he punched her angrily in the chest and caused her to let go him, before he then started fighting the mother Rhinotauress as he became determined and very willing to take her down first before he'll turn back to destroy his own children as well.
However, Tah showed every creature in the courtroom that she's a very strong and powerful Rhinotauress, and even though she has no abilities to use magic while Howard has, Tah is still more than twice his size and is able to resist to most of his abilities, before she finally grabbed Howard by the throat and threatened to choke him to death in the same way he nearly did to Stephan and to his younger twin siblings, thus finally turning Howard into a coward as he chose the wrong creature to mess up with, before he then barely said and begged as tears started forming in his own eyes "No! Don't do this to me! Please! I'll do anything! Don't hurt me, you beast!", and when Tah heard what he just said to her, she moved him down and looked at him very close in the eyes before she angrily said back "I am NOT a beast!" and then she angrily threw him down to the floor.
When Trog saw his mother easily winning against Stephan's evil father, he cried and cheered for her (in baby language) "Yay! Mama tok big bed sentaor daun! Wei tu go for Mama!", and when Chloe, Aylene, Stephan and their friends all barely understood what Trog was saying, they're all very happy with Tah's abilities to defend herself and fight back against her enemies, and that's before Tah turned back to her son and then she started hugging him and lifting him up to her level so she can look at him in the eyes, but then the moment was short-lived and was ruined when Tah suddenly screamed and yelped in pain and accidentally dropped Trog back down to the floor, and when every creature saw what's happening, they all saw Howard (who have quickly recovered) stabbing Tah in her upper human back with a knife (which he made to appear with his magic), and as every creature saw him doing this, they all saw that Howard is now seeing nothing but red in his eyes for the second time (since his fight against both Chloe and Aylene, two months ago).
Then, Howard roared at every creature in the whole courtroom in anger as now he completely lost his temper and madly said with the loudest of voices "THE ABUSE AND THE VIOLENCE WILL NEVER STOP! I'M LORD TIREK'S TRUE SUCCESSOR, AND EQUESTRIA IS ALL MINE! THIS IS MY WORLD! THIS IS MY KINGDOM! THIS IS MY DESTINY!", but before he was about to end Tah with another stab to the back of her neck, four magical beams suddenly hit him from all sides and then slowly started lifting him up and away from the Rhinotauress, and as Howard struggled to fight, but to no avail, he saw Celestia, Luna, Thorax and even Discord using their magic all together to stop him from committing more crimes and defying the laws.
Then, Celestia said to Howard "You cannot be reformed as you truly have a dark heart with no room to share!", and then Luna added "You don't deserve to see your own family ever again!", and then Thorax said "You had the chance to be good when you were much younger, Howard! But now it's too late!", and then Discord finished and declared "Now, you feel exactly what I felt when I was imprisoned for a thousand years! IN STONE!", and then the four together blasted their magical beams at Howard's body, thus causing him to scream "NOOOOOOOOO!" as he slowly got petrified and was turned into a stone statue, thus ending Stephan and the twins' worst nightmare at last, as now their evil father now means them no harm no more.
With Howard turned into stone and defeated, Stephan and the twins went up to Tah, who is injured from being stabbed in the back, but is luckily still alive and is feeling well instead of suffering from so much pain, and as Tah barely shook off the pain she just received, Trog asked her "Ar yu okey, Momy?", and Tah responded back by saying to him "It's nothing, son. The skin on my upper human back is actually really thick, so I don't feel much pain from being stabbed.", and when he heard what she said, Trog asked his mother "Hau com?", and then Tah explained "Just like normal (regular) rhinos, we Rhinotaurs have very thick skins, and mine is incredible 2 inches (5 centimeters).".
Then, when Chloe, Aylene and their friends all came down to Tah's aid to see if they can help her, Chloe asked her "Are you okay, Tah?", and then Aylene added "Howard didn't hurt you much, did he?", but then Tah explained "Actually, he barely even stabbed me.", but when they all heard what she said, Stephan (who got to her with his younger siblings first because they were much closer to her than all the others) asked her "How come?", and then Tah explained "Just like normal rhinos, we Rhinotaurs have thick skins, and on both my upper and lower bodies, my skin is incredible 2 inches thick, so Howard's knife barely did some damage to my massive body.", and then she added "I'm going to be fine, that wound on my upper back will heal with time, I promise.", but then Twilight suddenly said "I think I can help you with that.", and then she went up to Tah's upper human back and then she used her magic to heal the wound on Tah's upper back completely, thus also causing the wound to disappear in an instant along with the pain, which is also completely erased along with the wound itself, thus successfully healing Tah in the same way and technique she already used to heal Stephan's left hind horse leg (when it was broken).
With Tah being healed by Twilight's healing spell, Bluebell suddenly said "It's very good to see that you're able to heal Tah's wound, Twilight. However, there is just one more thing we all need to deal with before we can go back and do all the normal things each of us usually do.", and then she asked "Where does Howard's stone statue's going to stay standing and fit in? I mean, where do we all are going to display it?", but then Discord interrupted her and said "Well, I can think of just one good place where that centaur can stay and be put on for a very good display!", and Celestia, Luna and the mane seven all knew what Discord is actually trying to say - Discord suggests that Howard's stone statue will be put on display in the Canterlot sculpture garden (where Discord himself was displayed as a stone statue (before he was reformed)).
No more or less than an hour later, Howard's stone statue is put on for a display in the Canterlot sculpture garden, and when Stephan saw his own father on display as a stone statue, the teenage male centaur couldn't help but shed a few tears of sadness from losing his own father, because even though Howard abused him and even tried to kill him when he finally had enough of him, Stephan knew that that evil centaur is still his father and that if it weren't for him, Stephan and the twins would've never existed at all, but then he suddenly the warm light and the soft touch of the hands of the spirit of his mother Helena, who quickly tried to comfort her teenage son and tried to help him get over the loss of his own father who betrayed him, before he suddenly received a loving hug from Bluebell, who also understood the great pain in his heart from losing his father and becoming an orphan, but then he's also comforted by Andy and Zoey (his younger siblings), the mane seven and Spike, the princesses, the changeling kings, Shujaa, Kenai and Agatha, Tah and her baby son Trog, and of course - Chloe and Aylene, who were all there for him to comfort him as they all understood the pain that he feels from losing his own father, and so they all did the best they can do to calm Stephan down and show him that didn't lost everything he knew and loved for the most, for he's now safe from Howard's wrath forever.
Then, Helena said to her son as she's about to leave him again "Good luck, Stephan. Have the good life you deserve with your friends.", but then Stephan asked "But wait, Mother. I know I can now leave and survive without your help and I don't need you because I'm an independent teenager now, but what about Andy and Zoey?", and then added and pointed out "They're only toddlers and they still need a mother. They're too young to survive all by themselves without an older centaur's care.", but then Helena said "You don't need to worry about your younger siblings anymore, because I already know one good centaur, may I actually say centauress who would like to take care of your younger siblings and relieve you from your duties to care for them.", and then Stephan asked her "And who that might be?".
Then, Helena turned to Bluebell and then she said to her "Bluebell, can I ask you to do me a great favor?", and when she heard what the older centauress said, Bluebell said "Anything.", and then Helena said to her "Please take good care of Andy and Zoey.", but when Bluebell heard what she said, she and the others yelled out and said together "WHAT?!", before Bluebell alone asked her "Why did you chose me?", and then Helena said to her "Because you're a very good, generous and kind centauress and my older son Stephan deserves to have you as his mate in the future, but you're both still teenagers right now, and so until the day for you to become mates comes, I give you the responsibility of taking care of Andy and Zoey. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you take them under your wing after everything good you've done for them and for my teenage Stephan. You even saved their lives from Howard, who is not a father but a ferocious monster who cares for no one but only himself.", but then Tah interrupted and said to her "Well, actually, you should also thank me and my baby son Trog. If it weren't for us, Howard surely would've killed them all with his magic before Bluebell could save them with her own magic, and thanks to us, Bluebell is barely able to save Stephan and his younger siblings in the nick of time.".
However, Helena said back "Either way, I'm still happy that my children are now in good hands and are all going to live in such good and proper ways for the rest of their lives without any harm coming from that Howard anymore.", and then Bluebell said "Well, I...I don't know what to say.", but then Andy and Zoey both went up to her and started hugging at Bluebell's lower horse body before they said together "We love you, Bluebell! You saved our lives! You're a very good centauress, and we know that you can take a very good care of us!", and when Bluebell looked down and saw the two toddler centaurs hugging at her larger body and reassuring her that she'll be very happy to take a good care of them, the teenage winged centauress couldn't help but smile down at them and even shed a few tears of joy from the fact that now she's going to take care of Andy and Zoey as Stephan is going to be living together with Chloe and Aylene in the royal castle so all three friends can stay and live together side by side, and Stephan too felt happy for her as now Bluebell is going to be like a mother figure for his twin toddler siblings and take a very good care of them while also giving Stephan much more time to be with Chloe and Aylene each day while he's going to be living together with them in the royal castle.
With everything's settled, Helena said goodbye to Stephan and to all his friends and said to Bluebell to take a good care for Andy and Zoey before she faded and disappeared, and Bluebell said that she will be a mother figure for the two toddler centaurs and will take them under her wing and will also protect and defend them from enemies, dangerous creatures, and ferocious monsters and beasts no matter what, and with that promise being kept, Bluebell took Andy and Zoey under her wing and took them to Stephan's home (as now she's going to be living there instead of Stephan and is now going to take care of the twins for him), while every creature went back to their respective homes, and Stephan called and said goodbye to Bluebell and also wished her for a good luck as he was about to go with Chloe, Aylene, Shujaa and the princesses back to the royal castle (which is now his new home as he's going to be living there as well), and at last, after all these years of abuse and treason from Howard, Stephan's dream to be free and permanently safe and away from his evil father finally came true, as now he's going to start enjoying his new life in the royal castle with his two best friends Chloe and Aylene by his sides.
