I Will not be Contained

by Eon333MS

Tempest of Fate part 2 (Rewritten)

Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy all stood right outside of Canterlot castles main entrance. Twilight spoke up. "Well let's go in girls let's see what has happened to Jake." All the girls nodded and together they all entered the castle. Walking down the halls towards Celestia's throne room they ran into Shining Armor who greeted his sister with open hooves. "Hey Twily." Shining said with a huge smile on his face. Twilight and Shining hugged each other quickly, and Shining greeted the rest of the elements. Twilight asked her brother if he knew what had happened since Jake had arrived at the castle. "I don't know too much Twilight. Princess Celestia wanted to talk to him alone, and I haven't seen him since. However there's a rumor going around that he has been placed in the Canterlot Dungeons."

"What!?" The six mares screamed.

"It's just a rumor though. You should check with the princess to find out what really happened." Shining Armor added.

Twilight sighed with relief. "Thank you Shining. Let's go girls." The six mares continued their walk towards the throne room.

"Luna don't you think you may have jumped to conclusions?" Celestia asked her sister.

"Sister you were not there. You didn't see the room or how injured Tempest was. And Jake was standing over Tempest's body ready to kill him." Luna answered.

"Perhaps but you still should have heard both sides of the story before sending Jake away like that."

Luna sighed "I suppose you're right Celestia. But I wanted to get him away from Tempest as quickly as possible."

"I see. How do you feel about Tempest? Do you think he's been lying to us?"

"I began to question his motives when he revealed he intended to kill the creature. However he seems to regret that now, and I believe he wants to make up for it. Aside from that he's been loyal to the crown his whole life. I'm convinced he'd do anything he felt was necessary for the kingdom." Luna answered, then added with a chuckle "I also think he's quite admirable."

Celestia raised her eyebrows then continued. "I... Agree. After everything that's happened, what you've told me, what Tempest has said, and what Jake has told me. As much as I didn't want it to be true I think Jake has been lying to us. The information doesn't add up, and after what you saw Jake do, I don't think we can trust him to tell the truth. I will give him a chance to explain himself, but I don't think anything he can say will do him any good."

"So what will happen to him?" Luna inquired.

"Normally Jake would be given the same punishment anypony would be given with attempted murder. However Tempest has informed me that he will be willing to drop the charges if Jake is returned to Darklight Labs. So that is what I think will happen."

"I agree with your decision." Luna and Celestia talked a bit more but were interrupted when six mares entered the Throne Room.

A unicorn guard announced their approach "Your majesty. Princess Twilight Sparkle, and the Elements of Harmony are here to see you."

"Yes I see that. Thank you. Glad to see you here Twilight." Celestia answered and smiled at Twilight. "What brings you here?"

"Greetings Celestia, and you too Luna." Twilight smiled as she said this. "Well we came here because we wanted to find out what happened to Jake since he came here."

"Ah. I should have guessed, unfortunately Twilight I have some bad news."

"What would that be yer highness?" Applejack asked.

"Well Luna witnessed Jake attacking a pony named Tempest Reason."

"What! Why!?" Twilight and her friends exclaimed.

"At present I don't know, Tempest claims he hadn't done anything to antagonize Jake, he just attacked him. I haven't heard Jake's side of the story yet."

The Elements of Harmony looked at each other. In the short time they had gotten to know Jake he didn't seem like the guy who would start a fight for no reason. They quietly discussed this with each other until Fluttershy decided to speak up for Jake. "Your majesty, ummm, well I just can't believe that Jake would do something like that without a good reason. I got to know what he was really like when he took me into the Everfree Forest."

"You mean when he took you as his hostage after fighting you and your friends?!" Luna scowled.

"Ummm, Luna the reason why he took me hostage was because he didn't want to fight with us anymore. He didn't want to see anyone else get hurt when they didn't need to, but he also felt like he needed to get away from us for some reason which I still don't understand. We became friends while we walked through the Forest, and he even admitted that he never intended to hurt me in the first place, even if my friends did come after me."

Luna stared with confusion at Fluttershy "He captured you because he wanted to stop the fight, and he had no intention to hurt you?"

"Yes." Fluttershy answered Celestia watched this discussion, her eyebrows raised at this new information.

After hearing her friend speak Twilight stepped forward and said "Celestia I think Fluttershy is right. Every time Jake fought with us he never seriously injured us, and he even tried to convince us to simply leave him alone. Even when he battled my brother he tried to negotiate before fighting. Because he didn't want to fight anypony, and I don't believe he wanted to fight Tempest, there must be something we don't know."

"Darn tootin!" Applejack said in agreement with her friend

"Yeah! Besides I was the one that attacked Jake first both times it wasn't his fault!" Rainbow admitted.

"Yeah Jakes not a meanie!" Pinkie said.

"I concur with Twilight your majesty." Rarity declared.

Luna couldn't believe what she was hearing, they were sticking up for the creature that viciously attacked them? Why? "Why do you defend Jake after he attacked all of you?"

"As we said Luna, we attacked Jake first. We made a mistake and we want to fix it. Jake isn't a bad guy he's just misunderstood, and he's been misunderstood for far too long. He didn't attack us because he wanted to, he attacked us because he had to. Luna we forgive him for what he did, and I hope he forgives us." Twilight answered.

Luna stared at Twilight taking in everything she told her. It started to make sense to her but one thing still bothered her. "If Jake is really so good, then why doesn't he pay proper respect to royalty?" The others stared at her. "From what I saw he never once bowed to my sister, and he definitely never bowed to me. He even went as far as to disrespect me to my face." Twilight was a little shocked at this but this time Celestia answered Luna.

"Luna did it ever occur to you that there might be a reason why he didn't bow?"

"We-well no." Luna stuttered.

"Jake didn't exactly disrespect you either, he was simply sticking up for himself after you demeaned him. I think you may have got what you deserved."

"What! But what did I do?" Luna complained.

"If I recall correctly you referred to Jake as a beast, and demanded he treat you with respect after you disrespected him. How would you feel if the positions had been reversed?"

Luna thought about it for a moment. She thought about everything she had thought about Jake, and then she thought about what Twilight and her friends had told her. Suddenly she realized that she may have been misjudging Jake from the very beginning, making assumptions without evidence just because he was different, and what he had done. She hadn't known enough to make any sort of accurate assumption, but she made assumptions anyway. And she was wrong, but one thing was still left unexplained. "Then why was Jake ready to strike Tempest down?"

The elements looked at each other. "I say we go find out." Twilight suggested.

"Yeah, and ah'd like tah have a word or two with Tempest." Applejack said.

"Yeah I want to find just what that pony's beef is with Jake." Rainbow stated.

Celestia looked at all her friends rallying to Jake's side, and wondered if there was hope for him after all. "I will be honest my little ponies I had thought there was no hope for Jake. That he would be found guilty of attempted murder. But now I believe that Jake's word is credible once again, and that he might not be guilty. So I agree with Twilight, let us go hear Jake's side of the story." The ponies marched off toward the Canterlot Dungeons.

Jake sat down staring at the floor. He had finally gotten over his brief period of depression, but wasn't sure what to do now. Was anybody going to come for him? Was he trapped here? Was he going to be sent back to Tempest? Most likely. Jake hoped against hope that that wouldn't happen, but the odds seemed to point towards that happening.
Wait what was that? Jake listened carefully and heard the sound of hoofsteps heading towards him. Jake eagerly looked out the bars hoping to see someone who might be able to help him even though he knew that was unlikely. He couldn't see anybody yet, but after a little bit the ponies came into view. Those six ponies he met earlier accompanied by the two princesses Celestia, and Luna.
Jake wasn't too surprised to see Celestia and Luna, but the other six were a surprise. 'I guess they came after me after all.' He thought. When the ponies arrived at the cell he was greeted with hi's and hello's from all the ponies, and Princess Luna unlocked and opened the cell door.

"Why are you letting me out?" Jake asked.

"Because it's time we heard your side of the story about what happened in the Dining Hall." Celestia answered.

Jake was mad, he wanted to scream at them that if they had just listened to him before sticking him in this cell they could have saved everyone a lot of trouble. But he held his tongue because he knew it would just get him into more trouble. "Let's go then."
The ponies led him back to Celestia's throne room where Celestia asked Jake "Now can you explain to us why you attacked Tempest?"

"I have good reason to want to attack him, but he actually attacked me first." Jake answered.

"He claims you attacked without reason." Celestia informed.

"He's lying. Here's what happened-" Jake filled them in on what happened after he was originally let out of his cell. How he was led by a mysterious voice to the Dining Hall, and how Tempest attacked him, and started the fight. He also mentioned that he believes it was all a set up to make him look bad, and make Tempest look good.
The ponies looked at each other taking all this in. It was a lot to take in, for the most part everypony trusted Jake, but what he said didn't seem right. Why would Tempest just lead Jake to a room to set him up? Why would anypony want to do that? "But why would Tempest want to set you up?" Twilight asked. "What could he gain from it?"

Jake just stared at her "You're joking right? Do you honestly not know."

Twilight sighed angrily, "Jake you've hinted at something horrible happening to you, and that if you were brought to Celestia that something horrible would happen to you. But you've never told us what it is. You just said we already knew. But we don't! We have no idea what you're talking about. Please just tell us. Why would Tempest want to hurt you?" Twilight pleaded.

Jake just stared mouth open. None of them knew, not even the Princesses? Why would that be kept secret from them?... Unless what Tempest did to him was illegal, and he needed to keep it secret. Which would explain why Tempest had that unicorn put up some kind of barrier which prevented Princess Celestia from getting to close to him and finding out he was intelligent. It all made sense now.
"The reason why Tempest wanted to do that to me. Is because he freaking tortured me!" The ponies recoiled at his outburst. "I wound up in this world through some kind of portal that sucked me in. I wound up in a forest where Tempest found me, and brought me to his labs. Where he knocked me out cold and performed vivisections and experiments on me!" Jake informed.
Everypony was in shock at this but Jake wasn't finished. "This went on for several weeks, but I finally managed to escape from there, and I think you can figure out the rest."

The Elements of Harmony, Princess Luna, and Princess Celestia were in shock. Luna was the most distraught by this information as she realized something nopony else did. 'He used me. He used me to hurt Jake!'
Celestia was the deepest in thought. Tempest had done all that? Was Jake lying? Was Tempest capable of such atrocities?
Suddenly Celestia remembered Jake telling her about Tempest having a unicorn set up a magical field which prevented her from meeting Jake back when she first saw him in Darklight labs. That would make sense if Tempest wanted to keep his treatment of Jake a secret. It would also explain why Tempest lied about having created Jake, why he had no respect for Jake, and why he would have set Jake up in the Dining Hall. The portal also explained the magical anomaly she had sensed. So it was a portal that brought Jake here. Celestia believed Jake's story, but she still needed proof. "Jake do you happen to have any proof of what you claim?"

"I still have the scars from some of the experimentations." Jake answered.

"I see. Unfortunately this isn't the proof we need, there's nothing to suggest Tempest did this to you. It would still be your word against his."

Twilight spoke up "Then we need to find some proof. I will search around with my magic, and see if I can find any evidence of the spell Tempest used to lure Jake to the Dining Hall."

"Ah'll go have a talk with that Tempest fella, see if ah can get im tah admit tah anythin." Applejack declared.

"I'll go with you." Rainbow said

"I will head over to Darklight Labs to see if I can find any information there." Celestia said. What she said caught Twilight's attention.

"Darklight Labs? I thought that wasn't real. Why didn't you tell me about it Celestia?"

"Darklight Labs was supposed to be top secret Twilight. I was going to tell you some time after you became a princess, but it wasn't exactly a priority." Celestia explained.

"And Tempest is a part of Darklight Labs?" Twilight asked.

"He was head of Darklight Labs." Celestia answered, and Twilight gasped at that. The head of Darklight Labs was the one that did those things to Jake?! That's just... evil.

"As for you Jake, I will have Luna prepare a castle suite for you to stay in." Celestia declared.

"That's not necessary your highness." Jake assured. "A regular room will do just fine."

"Nonsense you are our guest now, and you shall be given the respect you deserve."

"But-" Jake started to reply before being cut off by Luna.

"Don't try to argue with my sister. You won't win this fight." Luna chuckled after saying that.

"Fine." Jake said when his stomach growled, and he remembered he hadn't had anything to eat all day. "Can we get something to eat first though?" The ponies giggled and Luna and the rest of the elements led Jake towards the Dining Hall (a different one) while Celestia, Twilght, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash went off in search of evidence for Jake's case.

Luna led Jake to the Dining Hall, so that they could all grab a bite to eat. Luna asked "What exactly does your kind eat Jake."

Before Jake could answer Fluttershy spoke up "Ummm. I believe Jake is an omnivore, am I right?"

"Yes, and before you ask no I don't eat ponies, even if I did I wouldn't eat you because you're intelligent, and that would be murder." Jake answered.

"Well then perhaps we should request the gryphon menu then." Luna suggested.

"That's okay, I'll just have some fruits for now." Jake said.

"If that's what you want." Luna replied and requested a menu from the royal waiter.
While everyone ate, Pinkie decided to get to know Jake a little better.

"Hey Jake do you like parties?"

"Well it depends on-"

"Ooohhh ooohhh! Can I throw you a welcome to Equestria party?"

"Well I'd rather you didn-"

"Here I already have invitations set up here's yours?" Pinkie held out a party invite for Jake's welcome to Equestria party it was to take place in 15 days.

"But-but why would you make this, how did you make this in the short time you had?"

"Well duh, I've had these prepared in case an alien named Jake ever happened to wind up in Equestria on that particular day."

"But-but why would you even-" Before Jake could go any further Rarity interrupted.

"It's Pinkie Pie darling. Don't question it."

Jake just stared not quite comprehending, then just shrugged his shoulders. "OK."

"So you're coming to the party right?" Pinkie asked.

"We'll see."

Rarity decided it was her turn to have a conversation and spoke to Jake, "Darling if I may ask why are you wearing such plain looking clothes. They look well designed but not very stylish."

Jake looked at his clothes he was just wearing some royal blue sweatpants and a white t-shirt, nothing stylish but not ugly either, just casual. Then he remembered these were ponies, and obviously didn't wear clothes very often. "I just wanted to wear some casual clothes, since I wasn't expecting to get sucked into a vortex and end up in a world inhabited by ponies."

"Ah. I'm sorry that happened to you."

"It wasn't your fault."

"Still I'm sure you didn't deserve what Tempest did to you." Jake said nothing, instead he thought about Tempest. Jake honestly didn't completely blame Tempest for doing what he did. Jake understood that Tempest believed he had to do this for his country. Tempest was wrong of course but Jake still understood him. Rarity spoke again "Tell me why did you even bother to wear clothes? Was there some sort of celebration?"

Jake was dumbstruck. Did that pony just ask him why he wore clothes period, did she honestly- oh wait ponies. Jake remembered and answered, "Well my kind generally wears clothes on a daily basis, and it's considered improper, even illegal to be naked in public."

"Really." Rarity said surprised "Why?"

Jake thought about it for a second. "Think about it like this would you go out in public if all of your fur was shaved off?"

Rarity shuddered at the thought "No of course not."

"That's pretty much what it would be like for humans going around naked since we don't have any fur." Rarity's eyes sparkled with comprehension and Jake finished saying "So you see humans wearing casual clothes is the equivalent to ponies going around with no clothes on."

"Oh I see. Still if you would like I could make you some very fancy attire." Rarity offered.

"That's very nice of you. I'll think about it."

"So your race is called human then?"

"Yes it is."

Fluttershy thought the term human sounded familiar, and suddenly remembered what Twilight had told them about her adventures in Canterlot High. "Wait human you mean like the creatures Twilight met when she went through the mirror portal?"

"Wait mirror portal? What do you mean?" Jake asked curious.

"Well some time ago Twilight had to go through a magic mirror, and enter the human world, to get her crown back." Over the next few minutes Fluttershy explains the events of Equestria Girls to Jake.

"So I might have a chance at going home?" Jake asked with excitement in his voice.

"It's possible Jake but unfortunately right now we have more important things to worry about right now, like bringing Tempest to justice."

"I don't care about Tempest just get me home."

"As much as I wish I could we need you here to provide evidence against Tempest. Besides only Princess Twilight knows how to make the portal activate properly."

Jake sighed "Alright, but as soon as this is over I want to give that portal a try."

"I'll see to it. However now I have something I would like to say, Jake first of all I would like to apologize for misjudging you on more than one occasion, and for jumping to conclusions when I saw you in the Dining Hall with Tempest."

"Apology accepted. I can't blame you for acting the way you did under the circumstances."

"That doesn't excuse my actions, I was impulsive, and should have known better." Luna said.

"Hey, learn from your mistakes that's all anybody can ask for." Jake replied.

"I suppose you're right. However I have another thing I want to ask you."

"Yes?"

"Is there a reason that you do not bow before me or my sister."

Jake stopped at this and thought about what he was going to say. "Well in my home country we no longer have royalty, instead we elect our leaders through votes. That's a very dumbed-down description, but I think you get the basic idea right?" Luna nodded. "There are other countries that still have royalty, but some are just for tradition. As for why I don't bow, it's because I have set up certain rules for myself, one of them being I don't bow to anyone unless they earn my respect, or I am under allegiance to them."

"Why?"

"It's what I believe is right, it follows my religion and feels like the right choice for me."

Luna pondered what Jake told her and finally replied "Not sure how I feel about it, but as ponies say to each their own."

"Humans say that too."

"Really? It seems like our races might have some things in common then." Luna commented. "Well now that we've finished our food I propose that we take Jake to his suite."

"Alright." Jake said and they walked off in the direction of the Canterlot suites.

Twilight was on her way towards the Dining Hall where Tempest and Jake had fought. She was hoping she would be able to use her spell tracker to find out what spell Tempest used to lure Jake to the Dining Hall in the first place. Once Twilight reached the Dining Hall she immediately went inside and scanned the room. Nothing. "What? There has to be something." She scanned again and got the same result. This was where the spell originated so if there was anything left over it would be here, and there wasn't enough time for the magic trail to disappear yet.
Twilight decided to search elsewhere to hopefully find a trace of the spell. But no matter where she looked she couldn't find any trace of it anywhere. She even searched Jake's cell but still nothing. This wasn't possible, was Jake lying after all? She shook her head in refusal, but still what was going on?

Tempest was absolutely confident in himself. Soon Jake the human would be returned to him, and life would proceed as normal. Tempest was going over the notes to his magic siphoning weapon when two ponies entered the room. Annoyed Tempest turned around and asked "Can I help you?" Looking at the two ponies he recognized them as Applejack the element of honesty, and Rainbow Dash the element of loyalty.

"Are you Tempest?" Applejack asked.

"As a matter of fact I am, and I believe you two are Applejack the element of honesty, and Rainbow Dash the element of loyalty." Tempest praised.

"Ya got that right." Rainbow said.

"Well what can I do for you two?"

"Actually we would like some answers." Applejack stated.

This confused Tempest "Answers to what?"

"Well we want to know what really happened in the Dining Hall with Jake."

"Wait how did you even know about that?"

"Jake happens to be our friend, and we want to know why you and he fought." Applejack explained.

"Well there isn't much to tell. I entered the room he happened to be in, and he screamed at me then attacked me."

"That's not what he told us he said you attacked him first."

Tempest scoffed "Well he's obviously lying."

"Hey don't you call our friend a liar, it was you that attacked him because you-!" Rainbow started to say but was interrupted.

"Rainbow!" Applejack interrupted her before she revealed how much they knew about Tempest.

Tempest was enraged now. "You dare accuse me of wanting to fight him, look at me I still have the injuries from what he did to me!" As he said this he pointed to a bruise on his neck where he had let the plate strike him. "Now if you don't have anything better to do than accuse me of things that didn't happen then kindly leave."

"Why you little-!"

"Rainbow, let's go." Applejack cut her friend off tugging her towards the door. The two elements walked outside the door. "Fools." Tempest muttered under his breath as soon as they had left. He knew having some injuries on him from the fight would prove useful. He turned his attention back to his notes but he couldn't help but think about why these two were questioning him. Did they have evidence against him? No that wasn't possible, the only evidence that remained was the magical trail from the spell he used to lure Jake to the Dining Hall, and he had buried that under another spell so that it would come up as nothing. Sure a high level magic user could eventually break it if they figured it out but few ponies had that level of magical expertise, even if they investigated it for some reason, your average investigator pony would not be able to detect it. He had absolutely nothing to worry about.

"What the hay AJ! Can't you see he's lying." Rainbow practically screamed.

"Of course ah see it. But ah also see that we can't do nothing tah get him to spill the beans. It's a dead end here, we should just go back to Celestia and tell her we couldn't get any info out of him."

Rainbow groaned but muttered "Fine." And they began walking back towards the throne room.

Everywhere Celestia went the ponies bowed before her, but not a single one of them wanted to give her any information. She asked several what they knew about Jake the creature that had once been here, but what she usually got was "I can't talk about that without permission from Tempest." or "I'm sorry I don't really know anything." Celestia suspected that they were keeping things from her, but she couldn't just lash out at them. She sighed and continued walking through the facility hoping to find somepony to give her the information she needed.
She asked pony after pony, but nopony told her anything, there was one nurse that seemed to be frightened when Celestia mentioned Jake, but she wouldn't speak either. Celestia was getting tired of this, and was almost ready to give up. It didn't help that almost all of these ponies looked alike. In fact she had actually asked a few of the ponies she already asked because she thought they were somepony different. But finally something happened that might help Celestia out.
A young unicorn stallion approached her and asked "Are you trying to find out about the human?"

Celestia eagerly replied "Yes can you help me?"

"Do you want to find out the truth about him?"

Celestia grew even more eager "Yes please."

"We should go somewhere private and talk. Follow me." The stallion turned and led Celestia to his office Once they entered, he locked the door behind them and bowed to Celestia. "Princess Celestia, my name is Study Guide." He rose after introducing himself. "And I think there's something you should know..."

Twilight was infuriated, there wasn't a single shred of evidence she could find to help Jake. She stomped her hooves on the ground in frustration, why couldn't she find a trace of the spell Tempest used to lure Jake? Twilight forced herself to calm down, and tried to think this thing through. 'What could cause spell trails to be hidden?'
The answer suddenly hit her 'cover spells!' Tempest was a clever pony, just in case someone did try to find evidence against him, he used a cover spell to cover his tracks. Twilight immediately ran back to the Dining Hall and began scanning for cover spells, after a bit of searching she finally found one, it was a high level one, but nothing she couldn't handle. She charged up her horn with a spell that would remove the cover spell, and unleashed it.
The cover spell dissipated, and Twilight began searching for luring spells until she finally found what she was looking for. With a smile she jotted down in her notepad everything she needed to tell Celestia and went back to the throne room.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle waited patiently for Princess Celestia to return. Suddenly a burst of white light appeared in front of the ponies, and out emerged Princess Celestia accompanied by a young stallion. The ponies greeted Celestia, but afterwards Twilight asked "Princess who is this?" She pointed at the young stallion.

"This Twilight is Study Guide. He has agreed to help Jake's case, and has already revealed much of what Tempest has done to Jake." Celestia answered.

"Wait a minute this guy was with Jake the whole time but he's only now deciding to do something about it." Rainbow exclaimed.

SG stuttered "Well I uh-"

"Zip it pal, you might be trying to help him now, but you should have done it long before."

"Rainbow Dash that's enough." Celestia said.

Study Guide took in everything Rainbow just said, and came to a conclusion. "No she's right your majesty, I should have done something a lot sooner." Study Guide declared.

"Study Guide the past is in the past, and there's nothing we can do about it. Learn from your mistakes. Besides given your surroundings, your inexperience, and your uncertainty of what to do it's understandable that you would make a mistake. However what really matters is that you're here now doing the right thing." Celestia reassured.

"Thank you Celestia." Study Guide said with a smile.

"Now my little ponies tell us what you have found out on your own."

"Ah'm sorry yer highness, but uh, that Tempest fella was locked up tighter than a prison on a Sunday. We couldn't get im tah talk." Applejack said.

"I see, what about you Twilight?"

"Well it was tricky but I finally found the spell Tempest used to lure Jake to the Dining Hall, and I took notes." Twilight said levitating her notebook.

"Good work Twilight. Now let us find Jake and prepare to bring Tempest Reason to justice." Celestia said. Rainbow Dash screamed "Yeah!" and the company heading toward the castle suite.

Jake lay down on the huge king-sized bed talking with his new friends Luna, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie. They continued talking for a while, until Celestia entered the room accompanied by Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and a stallion Jake recognized. "Study Guide? What are you doing here?"

"Oh uh, hi there. I-I'm here because, because, because I want to do what's right. Tempest had no right to do what he did to you." Study Guide replied.

"What's right? What's right would've been to find Princess Celestia and put a stop to Tempest's schemes before they got out of hand." Jake said his tone serious but only slightly condescending.

"I I'm sorry. I-It's just, Tempest and those other ponies are my friends, I really didn't want to get them in trouble."

"But you're turning them in now." Jake said with slight concern for SG.

"I-I know. But what they, and I have done has gone on for far too long without being punished. I can't just stand by anymore."

Jake took this into thought, out of all the ponies he remembered at the facility Study Guide had been the kindest to him. Jake still hadn't liked him very much but now, he believed him.

"Just be sure to remember this for the next time it happens." Jake said reassuringly.

"I'll try." Study Guide answered confidently.

Celestia cleared er throat to make an announcement. "Ahem. Everypony I believe the time has come to bring Tempest to justice."

"About that." Jake interrupted. "Could we not make a big deal out of this?" All the ponies stared at him and Rainbow screamed "What! After all he did to you, you want us to take it easy on him?!"

"Well yes, becau-" Jake started, but was interrupted again by Rainbow.

"Are you insane!? That pony needs to be taught a lesson!"

"I agree, but he should be given the punishment he deserves, and only what he deserves nothing more nothing less."

"But what makes you think we would be unfair to him?" Luna asked.

Jake sighed "I don't mean to imply that you all might be unfair, it's just... back on my home planet Earth, I used to be a law enforcement officer. And in my line of work, obviously I had to arrest and bring some criminals to justice. The criminals would face a trial from the town judge and get the punishment he or she deserved.... But after a while the town judge's power went to his head a little. Anyone who had committed a crime no matter how big or small always got an extremely undeserving punishment way worse than what justice actually called for."
"I've seen some half decent people have their lives ruined because they stole something petty, and all they really did was make a mistake which they honestly regretted making. I'VE SEEN FREAKING CHILDREN GET PUNISHMENTS MEANT FOR ADULTS!! There was a kid who stole a loaf of bread because his little sister was starving and he was the only one who could provide for her. You'd think there would have been a little sympathy for the kid but NO! He was given two freaking years behind bars for what he did. AND HE WASN'T EVEN OLD ENOUGH FOR A PUNISHMENT LIKE THAT!" The ponies expressions grew more and more shocked as Jake went on, but he wasn't done yet.
"But it got worse, when the kid and I protested that the punishment was too harsh, and the kid struggled and tried to escape, the judge only increased his punishment to five years. The boy asked me to look after his sister for him, since I seemed to be the only one willing to help him. So I did, I found his sister and looked after her as best as I could. But in the end it was all for naught, the little girl died only five months after I took her in, apparently she had caught a rare disease that I forget the name of. She had caught the disease sometime while she and her brother were on the streets. The disease had gone away, but she had a relapse which is what ended up killing her." At this point Pinkie and Fluttershy had tears in their eyes.
"I've tried for years to do something about it, I've sent letters to out of town authorities, I've spoken out publicly against what the town judge does. But no one seems to care, sometimes it feels like I'm the only on who wants actual justice to return."
"Do you understand why I want to step in and make sure Tempest gets a fair punishment?" The ponies stared at Jake as if they were seeing him for the first time.

Finally Celestia stepped forward and spoke up. "I understand where you're coming from Jake, but I assure you I will handle this with as much grace as I can."

Jake took her words in slowly, then with his mind turning to other matters requested "Celestia may I speak to you in private?"

"Yes Jake you may, please come with me." Celestia led Jake out the door and into the next bedroom closing the door behind them. "Now Jake just what was it you wanted?"

"Hold on a second." Jake interrupted as he walked over to the door. He quickly opened it to find Princess Luna attempting to listen in on their conversation. She blushed and quickly trotted away. With a sigh Jake asked "Celestia would you mind throwing a shield around us to prevent unwanted ears from listening in?"

Celestia's horn immediately began glowing a beautiful transparent gold and started emitting twinkling sounds indicating that she was using her power. Once she finished producing a barrier around the room she spoke. "Now that we're alone and uninterrupted what was it you wanted to speak about?"

"Celestia, I think we need to keep everything that happened between me and Tempest quiet." Jake stated.

"Why?" She asked curious.

"Because what Tempest did to me is pretty much an act of war, if word of it somehow got to my world, it may not go over so kindly with them, not to mention it's probably better if the general public of your world is unaware of what happened as well. So in short the less people, and ponies know about this the better." Jake's voice took on a tone of assurance when he spoke this.

Celestia pondered over everything that Jake had just told her before agreeing quickly "I agree with you Jake. I will have a private trial for Tempest, as Princess I have the authority to grant his punishment myself. However Jake I think you should know that the minimal punishment I can give him is banishment from Equestria."

"Temporary or permanent?" Jake asked his tone serious.

"For an act of war, permanent. However permanent banishments can be dismissed if the convicted does something rather amazing to make up for it. In Tempest's case however this is unlikely especially considering that Equestria is in a time of peace."

"I see." Jake sighed "Well if that's what needs to be done, then do it." Celestia nodded at Jake's answer.

"Would you like to be present at the trial?"

"No, I don't want to be anywhere near Tempest ever again." Jake replied coldly.

"I understand." Celestia assured.
With their discussion finished they went back to the room where the others were. Luna and a couple of the others were pouting about how they didn't get to hear what Celestia and Jake had discussed.

Twilight approached Princess Celestia with a question. "Princess may I ask what you two discussed?"

"Sorry Twilight, but I will not tell you now."

"Oh okay your majesty, I mean Celestia." Twilight said remembering the many requests Celestia had given her to stop calling her princess. "So what happens now?"

"Now my little ponies we will bring Tempest Reason to justice."

"YEAH!" The other ponies cheered.

Tempest walked into the Throne Room. He was certain that the Princess was finally going to hand Jake over to him. What else would they summon him for? However the look in Celestia's eyes made him feel uneasy. He cleared his throat and began to speak. "Greetings your majesties. May I ask what you have summoned me here for?"

Princess Celestia rose to her feet and spoke with a voice of no remorse, "Yes Tempest, you see I have summoned you here, because you have committed a grave crime that must be answered for."

"What!"

"Tempest Reason you have been found guilty of foalnapping, assault, lying to royalty, torture, and many other crimes."

"What-wha? By who?!"

"By Jake Darrison the human. You held him captive in Darklight Labs and performed various experiments on him without my authorization and held the truth from me going as far as to injure me when I got close to discovering the truth."

Tempest was in shock 'How did she find out?' "What! No I didn't."

"Do not lie to us Tempest it will only make things worse for you. Twilight Sparkle step forth and present your evidence." Celestia said.

Twilight stepped out from behind a curtain levitating a notebook. "I found evidence of a luring spell in the Dining Hall that was hidden under a cover spell. I documented the evidence into my notebook."

Tempest stared at her 'How did she find out?' "But that doesn't prove-"

"Maybe not Tempest, but this will, Study Guide please step forward." Tempest stared in shock as the pony he recognized as Study Guide stepped out from behind a curtain. "Study Guide are the charges against Tempest Reason true?"

Study Guide stared hard at Tempest for a moment before answering "It is all true."

"Study Guide! You traitor!!" Tempest screamed.

"And I should have done this a long time ago!" Study Guide retorted.

"Tempest Reason, Study Guide has already testified against you. There can be no doubt that you are guilty. Before I allow Tempest to defend himself is there anything anyone else wants to say."

Luna stepped forward. "I have a few things to say. Tempest we know all about your plan to lure Jake to the Dining Hall. But we have seen something nopony else has. Thou used us." Her eyes began to tear up a little as she struggled with her emotions. "Thou-thou used me to suit your own plans. You knew I would act rashly when I saw you and Jake fighting in the Dining Hall. You used A PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER BEING!" Tears of anger were flowing down Luna's cheeks now. She really regretted everything negative she had ever thought about Jake, and that she had unintentionally helped Tempest inflict more suffering on him. Celestia placed a wing on her sister to try to calm her down.

"Tempest Reason you may now speak your peace." Celestia stated.

"I did what I did for Equestria." Tempest stated sternly.

"Explain." Celestia requested.

"Jake is an alien, regardless of how he wound up here in Equestria he could pose a serious threat to ponykind if he is allowed to inform the rest of his kind about our weaknesses, our lifestyles, anything! The risk of alien threat was to great, and I knew none of you would condone what needed to be done so I took matters into my own hooves."

"And that Tempest is where you went wrong." Celestia replied.

"What?"

"Performing such an act without consent is unacceptable. But furthermore you had no right to do what you did to Jake even under the assumption that he was an invader. And if Jake truly was an invader he would have done something against our kind by now, he also would not have come alone. Did you ever consider that Tempest?"

"Well-I..."

"I didn't think so. The fact is Tempest, you were being xenophobic. Jake has proven to me that he has no intentions of harming ponykind, and what you did to him must be atoned for."

Tempest paused for a moment. "Where is Jake?" He would have thought the beast would want to gloat about having beaten him.

"He did not want to be here at this time. He wants nothing to do with you Tempest. Now if you have nothing else to say I shall give you your punishment." Tempest remained silent. "Very well. Tempest you are now stripped of your rank and removed from Darklight Labs."

"What!"

"And the same goes for the rest of the ponies who experimented on Jake and never tried to help him. But considering that you were the head of the crime, the punishment for you will be much worse. Tempest Reason you are hereby banished from Equestria forever."

Tempest couldn't believe it. Everything he had accomplished, his life's work, his position of power, everything he had ever done in his life had just been stolen away from him. Tempest had been the one to get the Princess to arrange for Darklight Labs to be set up in the first place, he was its founder. Now everything was lost to Tempest BECAUSE OF HIM! Tempest was furious, but even more so Tempest was afraid. Afraid of being outside of the safety of Equestria. He couldn't go back, not out there, not after what had happened to him so long ago. "No! No you can't do that!" Tempest cried out in desperation, but the more rational part of his mind told him to calm down 'You idiot the charges against you could give you life in prison, or worse petrification. She's letting you off easy by giving you banishment. Don't antagonize her, accept her offer and go!' But Tempest was still afraid, afraid of something that had happened to him in the past. Something that had changed his life. Tempest's worrying was interrupted by Celestia drawing him back to attention.

"Tempest I do in fact have the authority to do what I have said, I suggest you accept this before I add to your punishment."

"............... I accept, your majesty."

"Very well, you will have three days to pack up your things."

Tempest walked out of the room enraged, while the others left to go celebrate with Jake.

Tempest gathered up the rest of the things he had left in the Canterlot labs. Most importantly his notes on the magic siphoning weapon, maybe they'd come in handy, might give him some leverage with the princesses.
Once he gathered up all of his things, he started to head for Darklight Labs. It would no doubt be his last visit, along with several other ponies' for that matter. While he traveled he thought over everything that had just happened. Was he wrong? Was Jake the human really a good guy?.........................No! He did the right thing, and he would prove it. In fact Jake was the reason for all of this right now, the reason his life was ruined. 'Jake will pay. I shall have revenge. Somehow.' Tempest thought.

Jake sat on the edge of his bed and looked around at all of his friends. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie who was bouncing up and down on the bed. Even Shining Armor was there. All the ponies congratulated Jake for no longer being in any danger. Jake couldn't help but feel happy now, he no longer had to be afraid of Tempest sending lackey's after him, or of being put in a cage. There was only one thing that still bothered him. How was he supposed to get back home? 'Maybe that mirror portal will hold the answer.'

"What's on your mind sir Jake?" Luna asked, she had taken to calling Jake 'sir Jake' for some reason.

"You don't need to call me sir. And to answer your question I'm thinking about home."

"Oh I see."

Pinkie finished bouncing and decided to ask Jake a very important question "Hey Jake can I throw you a congratulations on being set free party?" her eyes getting large like those cute puppy dog eyes. Jake was immune to that trick but still answered "I'll think about it."
Jake took in a deep breath as he finally came to the terms of the fact that he was free.

It's just as I feared. Celestia and Luna are weak rulers. This world needs a strong new ruler, and because no one else will take up this responsibility, I suppose I will have to. I am fully capable of leading in the princesses stead, but I lack the physical power to overthrow them. But I will find a way to fix this. I will lead Equestria to a new age. An age of glory, strength, fear, and power. The time has come to end the sisters reign, and set in a new order for Equestria.