Twilight and Fluttershy groaned in pain as they stood up. "Where are we?" Fluttershy asked.
"Twilight? Fluttershy? Is that you?"
"Girls! Where are you?" Twilight shouted.
"I think we're in the cell next to Y'all, are y'all okay?" Applejack asked.
"We're fine. Tootsie Roll is with us. Are you guys okay?" Twilight asked.
"We're fine, darling."
"Twilight, Fluttershy, Tootsie Roll is dangerous! She erased the memory of a colt!"
"Tootsie Roll is not dangerous. She's a scared filly who deserves friendship."
"Fluttershy is right. Tootsie Roll is not dangerous. We have to help her."
"Okie-Dokie-lokie. How can we help?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"We need to get a piece of chalk from Mayor Sweet Tooth. It's what keeping Tootsie Roll prisoner here."
"Sorry, Princess. That won't work a second time." Mayor Sweet Tooth stepped out of the darkness.
"Let us go, now or I will free us," Twilight demanded.
"Sorry, Princess. Those bars are made from a certain material that not even you can break, even with your Alicorn magic."
"Why are you doing this? Tootsie Roll is just a filly," Fluttershy told him.
"Yeah, she may have powerful magic but that doesn't mean anythin'," Applejack told him.
"I make candy for a living. I wanted to make the greatest candy in all of Equestria but sadly every spell I tried to create failed. I was able to make all sorts of things that amazed any and everypony with potions and many days experimenting but for me, it wasn't enough. I wanted more. I was tired of seeing other unicorns who were like me able to do the spells I wanted to like it was nothing but one day..." He looked at the silent pink unicorn whose glasses had broken in two after the fall and was curled up in the corner turned away from everypony. "I met Tootsie Roll. Her magic was powerful. She could create anything with a blink of the eye. She was sad because her father was taken away from her. Once I gained her trust, I bonded her to this..." Mayor Sweet Tooth revealed the black chalk that Tootsie Roll told them about. "This is an ancient magic piece of chalk that, once it has been bonded to a creature, that bond can never be broken. However... if the chalk is broken or gets wet that bond is broken."
"Why are you telling us this? Once we get that chalk, we're going to free Tootsie Roll and take her back with us," Rainbow Dash told him.
"I'm going to erase your memory. I may not be able to do any kind of candy spells, but I do know a few good memory spells, especially ones that can erase memories. Enjoy them while they last, girls. I'll be back with your train tickets and a few treats for the road home." Mayor Sweet Tooth then left them alone.
"What are we going to do now, Twilight?" Applejack asked her.
"Escape! That's what! We just need to find a loose brick or bar then get out of here, get that chalk and stop Mayor Sweet Tooth," Rainbow Dash said with confidence.
"How Rainbow Dash? Mayor Sweet Tooth said that not even Twilight's Alicorn magic could get us out of here," Rarity told her.
Twilight then got an idea. "Maybe not my magic, but maybe Tootsie Roll's magic. She created nearly everything in the factory with her magic." Twilight walked over to the young filly who was still curled up in the corner silently. Twilight laid down behind her so she could feel safe. "Tootsie Roll?" Silence followed. "I know you're scared of Mayor Sweet Tooth but we need your help." The young filly still stayed silent. "Please, Tootsie." Twilight put a comforting hoof on her. "You're the only one who can help. I know things seem bad and scary, and I know we said that earlier, but we have been in far worse situations. There was a time when we had our cutie marks taken away. We couldn't do anything of the things we were normally good at. We were defeated, we had no way to contact Spike or the Princesses. We nearly felt hopeless but we didn't give up. Wanna know what happened next?" Twilight waited a bit for her to answer but she said nothing.
Twilight proceeded to stand up and walk away from her but a voice stopped her. "What happened next?" She turned to the young filly who was now sitting but was facing Twilight. "How did you get your cutie marks back?"
Twilight smiled walked back to her and said, "We didn't give up. We had three other ponies who helped us now only get our cutie marks back, but we convinced them that your differences make you who you are. We can't do this alone, we need your help. Can you help us?"
Tootsie Roll stood up and nodded. "Yes. I'm tired of being afraid and alone. I've been like this for years. I don't know if I can break those bars but I can try." Tootsie Roll walked over the bars of the jail cell. She took a deep breath and began to powerup her magic. "Come on... come on..." The bars began to crack. "Come on!" The bars on both Twilight's and the others jail cell broke in pieces.
Twilight carefully approached the entrance and held out her hoof. Once she found herself able to leave, the others followed suit. "You did it, Tootsie Roll."
"Nice job, sugar cube."
"I do say, that was most excellent."
"All right, girls. We need to get that chalk from Mayor Sweet Tooth, destroy it, and bring Tootsie Roll back to Ponyville."
"How? Even if we destroy that chalk, he could come back for me. My magic is too powerful for him to lose. He'll do anything to keep me here."
"Don't worry, Tootsie Roll. We're going to find a way. We always do," Rainbow Dash told her confidently.
"All right, here's the plan..."
Mayor Sweet Tooth returned to the seven captured ponies only to find the bars were broken and everypony was gone. "Of course. Tootsie Roll broke the bars. Should have known her magic would be able to break this and I also should have known that they would have convinced her about "friendship". No matter, even if they escaped their cells, Tootsie Roll can't escape."
"I beg to differ." Mayor Sweet Tooth heard her voice from upstairs and proceeded to follow it.
"Come on out, sweetheart. Have you learned your lesson?"
"Yes, but not the one you want me to learn. You were wrong about me. My magic makes me unique, not evil or bad. I don't deserve to be treated like a piece of property that you can use to your advantage. I am my own pony."
"Really? If my memory serves me right, you came to me and told me your story. From what I can tell, you were created to be used to do whatever somepony tells you to do." Mayor Sweet Tooth looked around the seemingly empty factory for where Tootsie Roll could be.
"You're wrong. That isn't what I was made to do." Tootsie Roll stepped out of the shadows in front of Mayor Sweet Tooth. "But now, we are going to stop you."
"We?"
"No, us." Mayor Sweet Tooth looked at the group of ponies who were in Mayor Sweet Tooth's factory. Each one of them had angry faces.
"You told us that you adopted Tootsie Roll out of the goodness of your heart. The princess and her friends told us what you did. We didn't believe her at first but once they brought us here, we believed."
"Mayor Sweet Tooth, you should have just asked for help. Ponies are willing to help, if you just asked," One town pony told her.
"Yeah, I've always wanted to be a candy master like you. I may be a pegasus but I would love to learn how you did what you did. Maybe I could make everything Tootsie Roll made, but you know, without magic."
Mayor Sweet Tooth just watched as the villagers kept reprimanding him but many said that they would forgive him, once he let Tootsie Roll go. "Mayor Sweet Tooth." He turned to Twilight. "Being a unicorn does have its advantages but not every unicorn can become a success in magic. Some are just happy doing what they love. Rarity's talent is finding gems but she also does fashion and that doesn't require magic. Pinkie Pie can make the most amazing cakes and she's an Earth Pony. Just because you can't cast any spells involving candy, doesn't mean you should force somepony else to. You shouldn't give up. Besides, it seems like you have somepony who is willing to be your apprentice. Tootsie Roll is a unicorn who should be free to do whatever she wants and I think we both know that she wants to find her father, her real father."
"Tootsie Roll..." Mayor Sweet Tooth took out the black chalk and broke it in two. "I am sorry. You're right, Princess. I'm sorry for my treatment of you and your friends. More importantly, I am sorry for keeping you prisoner here, Tootsie Roll. I may not be able to do much with my magic... but that doesn't mean I can't teach others to do what I have always loved, making amazingly delicious candy for everypony to enjoy. I shouldn't have kept you here all these years, Tootsie Roll."
Tootsie Roll stayed silent this whole time, giving him an emotionless stare. Suddenly, Mayor Sweet Tooth was engulfed in magic and thrown against the wall. "Tootsie Roll, what are you doing?!" Twilight asked her.
Tootsie Roll didn't answer her "You kept me here for years! I was scared! I was alone! I had no pony to look after me! I lost my father once then I lost him again! I ran off to find a way to help him and you lied! Why should I forgive you? Why should I forgive the pony who made my life even worse than before?!" She asked with tears falling down her face.
"Tootsie Roll, I don't know what has happened to you but you need to stop hurting him," Twilight told her.
"Why? He hurt me and I should return the favor."
"Because it won't do anything. If you hurt him, then my friends and I will stop you as we have done with other threats to Equestria in the past."
"But he hurt me. Physically... mentally... magically."
"Ponies get hurt every day but getting back at those who have hurt you in the past will do nothing. You have scars but you shouldn't let them get deeper. Instead, let them heal. It's the only way you can feel better," Twilight told her.
Tootsie Roll released Mayor Sweet Tooth from her magic then fell to the ground in defeat. The six mares just walked over to the young filly silently and gave her a silent hug. She was hurt, scared, and alone but right now, she needed time. "I want my daddy. I want my daddy so bad..." Twilight could hear her faintly whisper those words over and over again. Their cutie marks soon glowed signaling that their mission had come to an end but now they had a new mission, helping Tootsie Roll find her real family.