"You won't get away with this Quillius!" Twilight bared her teeth angrily.
Quillius had locked all the ponies in the dungeon, along with the old ruler Grogar.
Grogar sighed as he tried to barge the door with his horns, but recoiled in pain.
"I am too old and weak for this." He hung his head. "This is all my fault. I should never have done this in the first place all those years ago. I gave him these ideas. I have every right to be here." A tear rolled down his goat-like nose.
Celestia and Luna exchanged a sorrowful look.
"Grogar my friend," Celestia began, "You may have been bad once but now you have seen the error of your ways and changed for the better. You have learned the true meaning of friendship."
"Thank you, Princess." Grogar replied meekly.
"LET US OUT!" Rainbow Dash was yelling, flying into the bars to knock them down. When that failed, she tried pulling them. To no avail.
"Oh, this is awful. How will we ever get out of here?" Fluttershy cried.
"I have to agree. This dungeon is just vile!" Rarity complained.
The older ponies were already walking around a corner in the dungeon.
"Guys, where are you going?" Twilight called.
"Follow us, but be quiet." Fizzy replied in a hushed tone.
Everyone gathered round the corner, as the older unicorns pushed against a rock in the wall. Ribbon touched her horn to the brick, and it crumbled, showing a passageway.
"No way!" Rainbow Dash gasped.
"Well I'll be." Applejack added.
"Less talk, more walk." Galaxy whispered. Everyone followed on behind Ribbon and the other old unicorns.
"My mother and the others dug this years ago. But we were too afraid to use it until now." Rosette admitted.
The tunnel was pitch black and seemed to go on forever. Twilight's horn glowed and a white light shone out.
"I learned this one myself." She explained to a baffled Princess Celestia.
"Impressive!" Celestia answered.
The ponies reached an iron gate at the end, and Twilight turned off her horn light.
They all peered out of the iron rungs of the gate. Clear. They pushed it open and trooped out.
Grogar hung back.
"Care to join us?" Applejack frowned.
"More than anything," Grogar said, "but I don't deserve it. I shall stay here and fight off Quillius. You escape back to Equestria."
Twilight frowned. "You're not the same guy anymore. Come with us." She pleaded.
"If I succeed and survive...Then I shall join you. Even though for a short time, you have been wonderful friends to me. I do not deserve such a blessing for my past crimes." Grogar answered.
"People change, we believe ya, now come on." Applejack said desperately.
Grogar sighed and followed them as they snuck through the empty courtyard.
"Well, well. Going somewhere?"
Everypony turned around, and saw Quillius standing on a top turret of the castle.
He turned around to gallop down the stairs.
"RUN!" Pinkie Pie cried.
Everypony broke into a rapid gallop across the courtyard and out into the fields that they had been in earlier.
"We need a plan, y'all!" Applejack cried.
"Agreed." Luna answered, turning to look at her sister.
"Let's leave this decision up to the Elements of Harmony." Celestia replied.
Twilight thought for a moment.
"Okay. We all gather into a circle, the non-magic ponies in the middle of us. Shining Armour; You use your protection bubble spell over all of us. All us other unicorns will use their magic together to teleport us back home." Twilight said.
"How do we do that? We don't know the spell." Gusty said, sadly.
"Think back to where we all were earlier; The picnic on Ponyville Green. Imagine you want to go there, and imagine as hard as you can." Twilight replied.
They all gathered in a circle, as Twilight had instructed. The non-magic ponies all sat in the middle.
"Oh my goodness, oh my goodness." Fluttershy whimpered.
Rarity held her hoof reassuringly. "It will be okay, Fluttershy dear."
Quillius came galloping toward them just as Shining Armour cast his protection spell.
"Grogar, look out!" Cadence cried.
The bubble reached Grogar last, but not after Quillius had shot a spell at him.
"PONYVILLE GREEN!" The unicorns cried.
In a flash, everypony disappeared from Tambelon grounds.
Quillius shook with rage. "NO!" He cried, as he too, teleported.