Freedom, Choice, Independence, and Liberty.

  To some, these words are taken for granted, believing themselves entitled to the ideas simply because they draw breath. But what happens when you stop and think about them? What course of action does your mind take when your mind dwells upon these words?

And more importantly, what are you willing to sacrifice to preserve them?

(Sequal to "Earning Freedom". Might be able to stand alone, but it's best if you read the first one before this)

  After Big Macintosh escaped wrongful incarceration, thanks to foreign stallion named: Sin, He, Spike, Sin and another pony with questionable sanity named: Shade traveled around Equestria to live life without the constant frustrations and restraints of home. However, due to a double cross by Princess Luna, Sin found himself on trial for for assisting ponies he believed wrongly imprisoned, liberate themselves from such disgusting misuses of power and authority.

  The four were joined by Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie under order of Princess Celestia as Sin's sentence for his guilt. The eight ponies found themselves among the ranks of the "Bloody Sky Captains", the freedom loving crew of the airship "Gonshinian". After seeing life stripped for the first time by the hands of his mentor, Macintosh is in shock. He had never thought death acceptable by any circumstance, though; his life had never been directly threatened before either.

  After a brief conflict with the Triple M. airship: "Judgment", The "Gonshinian" has been in travel for the past week due north over the Griffin Empire to transport Sin, a former Senator of the Federation, to his homeland to investigate a suspicious lobbyist campaign. Though the motives are not yet clear, the effects seem to drive a wedge between the representative Senators, and the arbitrating Centaurs. All compliments of a Mega Corporation named: Triple M. and it's well known Vice President: Malich.

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After some extensive research into inter-dimensional travel, pony kind had made contact with humanity. Five groups of over 50 ponies each had traveled from the waygates on Equestria into Earth. While three of the elected "Equine-compounds" were erected in America, the two others found settlement in the UK and Russia for diversity in cultural research.

   The political goal of both races were to have the ponies teach harmony to humanity, and help them to overlook the political, economic, and social differences that had caused such strife and hate between not only races and creeds, but cultures and personal choices; as the equine's themselves had done.

After years of profound political disunity as well as social, America has fallen into a depression that far exceeded the catastrophic "Great Depression" of the 1940's.

It has been four years since the waygates had been opened and the contact between the two races had been officially made. In that short of a time, have the Equestrians shown enough to the humans that they may pull together in this time of economic hard ship? Only time will tell.

(And by that, I mean in what ever mood I am; I will bring a nuclear winter, or I will give salvation... I haven't decided yet.)

When it takes everything you have just to get up and face the day, is it truly a life worth living? Have your regrets begun to outnumber the good things about life?

Twilight Sparkle had been noticing a growing number of ponies have been disappearing from her fair town, at first she dismisses these disapperences as unexpected moves or untold get aways. Though as time draws on, the mare becomes more suspicious. Where is everypony going?

With the newly formed Peace-colts, strange behavior from her closest friends, a mysterious Pony in Black; Twilight will encounter trials and realities she could only conceive in her worst nightmares

. (Please comment and let me know what you think.)