Dull yellow beams of light from the moon shone into the bed chambers Rage called home. In the bed lay the crimson Alicorn sound asleep. A rift opened in the room and out of it came a unicorn, it had a full body length skinsuit, black as night that covered their whole body. A facial covering of the same black color covered the ponies face. A short horn poked out of it. An opening for the pony's eyes revealed a violet mane and purple fur.

The unicorn's deep blue gaze took to a desk where the Chaos Emeralds lay. A devious smirk spread across its face as it walked to the desk. "This is almost too easy." It chuckled. "Like taking candy from a baby. The Elements of Harmony are mine!" It reached for the gems which glowed softly.

Suddenly, as she was mere inches from touching them a bolt of magic struck his hoof. Quickly the unicorn turns around to see Rage sitting up, his horn glowed.

"Don't move." Rage says in a stern voice as he quickly gets out of bed. The unicorn looked at him, frozen in a mixture of surprise and confusion. "You so much as lay a hoof on The Chaos Emeralds and you'll be wishing you stayed back in whatever hole you crawled out of…" he warns.

"An Alicorn?!" The unicorn exclaimed in shock. "Chaos Emeralds?" It looked back at the gems then to Rage. "You're not Twilight Sparkle."

"Ah yes because I look soooo much like her." Rage scoffs mockingly. He then walked a few steps closer. "Who are you?!" He demands to know

The unicorn looked at Rage. The unicorn finally realized who it was and shook her head. "You're Prince Burning Rage!" She exclaims

"I'm not a prince…" Rage growled. In a panic the unicorn attempted to grab a Chaos Emerald but was suspended in magic by Rage.

The unicorn looked at Rage who walked closer. It managed to cast a counterspell and looked at Rage. "Why are you watching the Elements?!" She asks angrily.

"Elements?" Rage asks. "Who are you?!" He asks again.

The unicorn fired a beam of magic at Rage. The beam turned into a cloud of smoke and the unicorn quickly grabbed the Chaos Emeralds.

Rage coughed and flapped his wings to launch himself forwards, ahead of the smoke screen. He looked to the window where the unicorn was running towards.

"You're not getting away that easily!" He shouts as he runs after the unicorn. His horn glows with a light blue aura as he fires a blast of ice at the unicorn, catching their leg as they escape through the window, covering it in ice. Rage ran faster and leapt out of the window and flapped his wings, taking to the skies.

"Rage?!" Twilight opened the door with force just in time to see him fly out of the window. She galloped to the window to see what was going on. She looks to Rage in the skies then down.

The unicorn was quickly sliding down the rope they had used to reach the window as Rage turned around to swing back at them. As they were just a few feet from the ground Rage fired a ball of flames at them but missed. However, it caught the rope, burning it and making the unicorn fall a few feet to the ground.

The unicorn impacts the ground and drops the Chaos Emeralds. The ice that encased their leg shattered upon the impact with the ground. In a panic they grabbed four of them before looking to see Rage closing in. They then looked up to see Twilight fly out of the window.

"Dammit…" the unicorn cursed "This wasn't supposed to happen…" they grumbled as they turned and ran as fast as they could. They made it to a path that ended near Fluttershy's house and there waiting for the unicorn was a strange, shadowy, dark purple portal.

They looked back to see both Rage and Twilight hot on their tail. Rage seeing them at the portal gasped as he looked even more determined and put all of his effort in catching the pony. He reached the ground and with a bright glow he changed to his Mobian form.

The unicorn gasped as they hopped through the portal. Once on the other side they too changed. There was a purple female Mobian wolf with amber eyes.

"Blade!" Rage calls out and extends his right arm, summoning the weapon. The dragon wing-like blade shimmered with a bright orange glow in the moonlight as Rage shouts and swings it, sending an arc of fire in their direction.

The wolf looks in shock "Impossible…" she says as the portal closed just before the fiery arc reached her. She stood in a dark field of dark red grass and blinked. She then turned to a dark gray hedgehog, Christain.

"That was close." Christain says, crossing his arms and looking at her.

"That was a Mobian." The wolf says in disbelief.

"It was." Christain nods. "Tell me did you get the Elements of Harmony?" He asks without a second thought.

"I'm sorry but I only got away with four." They apologized holding the Cyan, Purple, White and Yellow Chaos Emeralds out.

Christian walked over and frowned "Kira you idiot! These are the Chaos Emeralds!" He barks angrily.

"Chaos Emeralds?!" She exclaims. She then turned back to where the portal had been. She looked down and closed her eyes. She thought about the last thing she saw before the portal closed, the sword in Rage's hand, then she opened her eyes. "That Mobian…" she says distantly.

"Is known as Ragis Chaotic the Hedgehog." Christain says walking closer to her and taking the Chaos Emeralds. "He's been a thorn in our side for years."

"But, Nix that blade-" she started to talk but she was silenced.

"Christain!" He barks at her. "I go by Christain now…"

"Your vessel does." She scoffs under her breath. "But that weapon…he wields a Blade of Chaos!"

"Correct." Christian says as he turns and begins to walk. The wolf quickly followed. "I thought you knew that…Kira…" he says looking at the wolf. "Afterall, you were once a Chaos Guardian were you not?"

"I was." She says spitefully.

"We can make this work." Christian says more focused on his plot now. Kira looked at him, then back to where the portal had been. Then she smirked, getting an idea of her own.

Kira then felt a tinge of pain on her left leg and she fell to her knees, she inhaled sharply and let a painful grunt out. "Are you alright?" Christian asks as he knelt next to her. She rolls her pant leg up. The leg was frostbitten and had some scrapes.

"Bastard…got me on the way out of the window." She curses.

"You'll be alright." Christian says helping her up. "Get back and rest. I'll send for you soon." He then turns.

"What next?" She asks him, raising an eye as he walks away.

"Next?" Christian chuckled "next we turn his powers against him:.." he says before vanishing into the shadows.

As for Rage he had managed to be mere feet away before the portal closed. He leapt with as much might as he could muster only to just fall short. He skidded into the dirt and groaned as his weapon disappeared and Twilight caught up to him.

"Are you alright?" She asks him while helping him up.

"Yeah…" he says panting. "Thanks." He says dusting himself off. He let out a sigh and changed back to his Alicorn form.

"Who was that?" Twilight asks him as they walk back towards the Palace of Friendship.

"I have no idea." Rage shrugs. "She climbed into my room and tried stealing the Chaos Emeralds. It's strange though…she seemed to think they were The Elements of Harmony." He says as they reach where the Emeralds had been dropped. Rage picked the remaining three up and sighed.

"So was she from your world?" Twilight asks.

"Maybe." Rage shook his head. All of this was confusing for him. "I mean she's Mobian…but something was different about her. that For one...she's skilled in alteration magic. It's not easy to change your form like that…or…" he trailed off and stopped as they made it to the door.

"Or…?" Twilight asks, looking worried at him. His face showed he was concerned or deeply worried about something.

"Nevermind…" Rage sighs, shaking his head. "I'm tired and it's best I don't think about it when I am tired."

"But what about the Emeralds they took?" Twilight asks in a worried voice.

"I'll get them back." Rage sighs "She fled to Dark Mobius…" he yawns. "If you want to know more we can talk in the morning." He said as they entered the palace.

The next morning, Rage and Twilight were at her throne and Rage was looking at Dranzer's Journal and sighing. "Anything?" Twilight asks.

"No." Rage sighs. "I just don't understand…how did I not sense something like that?!" He shouts in frustration.

"Rage, it's not your fault." She says "You can't be hyper vigilant all the time. You have to rest now and then."

"I know that…but I should have known before she was a few feet from it." Rage sighs. "Now either I go in alone or I find the spell to protect you and your friends."

"You need to protect us?" Twilight asks "From what exactly?"

"Dark Mobius has had some…strange magic or something that's been there longer than I have been around that…takes people…makes you a pawn of Christian's…my Chaosblood gives me protection but anypony else? They're vulnerable."

"Magic or something? You mean you don't know?" Twilight asks.

"No." Rage shrugged. "All I know is that it twists people's minds." He says. "

"Because you were expected to just be alone the whole time?" Twilight asks and Rage nods. "That seems silly."

"I agree." Rage nodded in agreement; "But I didn't really have the ability to ask how when I was training." He sighs. "Now? I don't know."

"What about Bureinjingukaosu?" Twilight asks, rubbing her chin.

Rage smiled "A good thought but…Chaos never needed the spell…so I doubt Blade would know it." He explained as he flipped a few more pages. "I could go ask Chaotix…but if I go to The Chaos Realm, Dex will wring me out for losing half the Emeralds."

"Why not ask Celestia for guidance?" Twilight suggests. "She's very wise. I am sure she could help."

"Wise and smart as she may be, this is stuff that's really out there Twi…" Rage sighed.

"You won't know unless you ask!" Twilight looked at her. Her eyes were focused. More so than usual. As if her words had more meaning than she let on. He returned his eyes to the journal as he flipped another page.

More time goes by. Rage continued through the journal. He was well into parts he hadn't yet translated or decoded. He flipped yet another page. By now Twilight was getting worried. He had been so buried into the book it was as if she didn't exist.

Rage's eyes scanned the page. About halfway down he paused and gasped in shock. "No…that's impossible…" he says aloud.

Twilight raised her head, mostly in surprise to hear him speak all of a sudden. "What is it?" She asks almost immediately. She looked at Rage who had a look of shock.

"According to Dranzer's journal…during the final days of The Shadow War they were aided by many of an ancient race known as the Echidna. Dranzer says they taught a spell to them that would protect them on Dark Mobius." Rage explains.

"That sounds like a reasonable thing to do." Twilight shrugs "What makes it so impossible?"

"If they did then the Echidna would have kept record of it." Rage says "However, I have never seen anything recorded by The Echidna that mentions having taken part in The Shadow War or this spell."

"Meaning what exactly!" Twilight asks tilting her head "You mean to tell me you've read everything they made?"

"Many of their works are graphical in nature and not many texts survived the years." Rage sighs.

"Why not ask them?" The lavender unicorn suggested to which Rage shot her a glance.

"Can't they're all gone." He sighs. "They went extinct long before I was born. Most of their texts have been lost to time. Those that do remain are mostly kept on Angel Island."

"And you expect me to believe you've read them all?" Twilight asks skepticism clouding her voice.

"What else is there to do when you're alone on an island that floats in the air?" He asks. "Read and get lost in thoughts all day."

"Sounds pretty idyllic." Twilight shrugs. "So why move here?"

Rage sighed "We've been over that." He says in a more upset voice "On Mobius everyone has these expectations of how I should be. They hear Chaos Guardian and they think of some noble knight of old who upholds a code of chivalry and all that crap. Or they expect me to be some old hermit who's grown jaded with time. Beyond that living in isolation like that just…it's not something I could do."

"Right…" Twilight says softly "Sorry." She then shook her head. "What about that unicorn? Did you recognize her at all?" She asks changing the subject

Rage looked at Twilight and closed his eyes, scrunching his face up in thought. After a minute or so he sighed and shook his head. "No. I haven't seen her before and when she changed after hopping through the portal I didn't recognize her either. All I know is she fled to Dark Mobius."

"So you think she's working with Christain?" Twilight asks as Rage closes Dranzer's journal.

Rage nodded "No doubt. As it stands he'd be the only one with the means to open a portal to Equestria from there." He says using his magic to place the book back on the shelf.

"You think he was actually after The Elements of Harmony?" Twilight asks as Rage walks to the door.

"I think so. He's likely not aware of what happened with Tirek and all." The crimson Alicorn replied as he opened the door.

"Where are you going?" Twilight asks.

"Angel Island." Rage says "I am going to review everything I have to see if maybe I missed something."

"Let me come with you!" Twilight says walking up to him. "A second pair of eyes wouldn't hurt and I think I've about figured out their language."

Rage looked at her and thought. Technically where he was going was considered sacred and not supposed to be seen by just anyone. However, he wouldn't mind the company. Plus, his friends were not just anyone. He nodded "Alright." He agrees.

"Better yet, why don't we all go?" Twilight smiled. "I'm sure we could all find a way to help."

"I suppose." Rage sighs. "We could all go. I owe you all that much at least."