Sin, a former Senator from his home land of a land mass simply known as the "Federation" has left his home behind in order to observe the mother land of his state, North New Equine.

Upon arriving in Equestria, he finds the parent nation to be... different from what he'd expected. After all, North New Equine was an industrial and robust society based heavily on consumerism and currency, with heavy government influence. Here, the opposite was true.

The Equestrians lived happier and more care free lives, basing their society around friendship and love for one another.

Basic Prequal to Earning Freedom kinda?

Charles Dickens's 1843 novel: A Christmas Carol has seen countless renditions and reinvention. Each focusing more on the social and emotional impacts of the journey of Ebeneezer Scrooge from his cynical and self absorbed greed to being a happy and giving individual in the end. And from a heart felt perspective, who doesn't like seeing the moody and miserable transformed into a upbeat and kind hearted person?

But what happens if you look at the story from a more logically and rationally centered point of view?

Warning!

Story contains: OC, I know a lot of people hate OC's, but this story is one of them. (And a little shout out to another Original by FIM's very own: GentlemenJ.)

Everyone knows of the Hearths Warming Eve story about the three leaders of the pegasus, unicorns and earth ponies. But there was a time after that where the Alicorn sisters were not present, what happened during that time?

(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?

Big Macintosh was a simple apple farmer pony. He has a family who cares about him, a respected name in the Ponyville community, and enjoys his work tilling and caring for his beloved apple trees.

But when he's thrown into jail under false charges, he begins to think about the freedom he'd taken for granted. Suddenly, a strange package appears within his cell, containing tools for his escape and a strangely cryptic note that forces him to reevaluate his lot in life.

After; he comes across a strange and foreign stallion who teaches him the ways of freedom and liberty in a way that changes the young pony's life forever.

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?

(Special thanks to codejunkie for assisting in the editing of earlier chapters.)

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

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