Halo: Equestria (Version 2.0)

A golden beam of energy slams into the ceramic tiling of the Great Hall, creating a blackened crater. Another blast impacts the white wall leaving it cracked and smoking. A blinding flash of light, and the sounds of a body hitting the floor is heard, along with the clattering of a crown.

On the ground laid Princess Celestia.

Above her, smiling maliciously, was Discord.

Celestia was tired, and it showed. Fighting the Draconequus took a lot out of the Princess, leaving her weak and exhausted. Discord laughed as Celestia attempted to stand up, but her legs gave out and she slumped to the floor.

"Why don't you just give up Celestia? Can't you see that I've finally won back power?" Discord asked as he ran a talon on his eagle claw under the Princess' chin.

"I will not give up. I will defeat you, and when I do, I'll make sure you're broken into pieces when you're a statue." Celestia threatened. Discord pulled away, a fake look of terror plastered on his face.

"Oh no! Celestia's giving death threats! I'm so scared!" He taunted. Celestia growled at his mockery of her and attempted to stand once again. Discord simply smacked her back down with his lions' paw and glared.

"Listen here, Sun Butt, you've lost, I've won. It's all over for you and your precious little ponies. After I'm done with you, I'm going after your six little heroes. And believe me, you don't want to know what I'm going to do with them when I get my mitts on them." He said, a malicious sneer curling across his lips. Celestias' pupils shrunk to the size of pin-pricks. He was not only threatening her, but her subjects lives and innocence now?

This madness had to stop; right here, right now.

Slowly standing up, Celestias' threatened to give out once again. But she wouldn't allow that. Her mane hung limply by her side, devoid of the flowing and life in it.

"I'm going to stop you Discord." She said determined, a piercing glare coming from her eyes. Discord laughed and wiped away a tear.

"I'm just shocked at how stupid you really are! The Princess of the Sun, of all ponies!" He said between laughs. Celestia continued to glare at him. "Ooo, sooo scary!" Discord mocked.

"This is no joke Discord. I'm stopping you right here, right now." Celestia said as her horn began to glow a faint red.

"Oh? And how, exactly, are you going to do that?" He asked, fake interest on his face.

"With my fail-safe spell." Celestia said with a smirk as the red around her horn began to grow darker, flaring out as it did. "The Summoning of the Giants." Blinding red light consumed the room, and Discord gasped in surprise. Celestia cried out in pain as the spell worked her body into overdrive as it powered the spell. Then, as quickly as the spell started, it ended. Celestia fell to the ground and panted heavily. Her tired eyes looked about for the Giants, but none were present.

Her fail-safe had, well, failed. Tears began to form in her eyes; Equestria was lost.

Discord sat up from his spot on the floor and looked about. A wicked laugh began to come from him as he observed the lack of Giants in the room. He continued to laugh as he stood and walked over to Celestia. He knelt down to her and his laughing soon ended.

"Looks like your little magic trick went up in smoke. I was very impressed with the power coming from it, but the results failed to impress me. Looks like you've failed Celestia." Discord said smirking. Celestia spat on Discord and he wiped it away with disgust.

"Burn in Tartarus, you son of a-" But she was cut off when Discord punched her.

"Now now Celestia. No need to act brash." He said with a scowl to her. Celestia spat out a little blood onto the floor. Discord stood and walked away from the Goddess a little bit before turning to her again. "You're familiar with the Cockatrice, right?" He asked. Celestia managed a simple nod. "Good, then you should know that when somepony looks at it, they turn to stone." He asked. Celestia nodded again. "Good. Now, I'm going to turn you to stone, like you did me, and I'll make you a public statue to your ponies to see that their leader has fallen!" Discord said as he rushed up to Celestia and began to stare intensely into her eyes. Celestia gasped and tried to avoid eye contact, but Discord grabbed her by the sides of her face, making her stare.

Eventually, everything went dark for Celestia.

Discord stood and smiled. He had finally won. He finally had control over Equestria once again. Oh, the madness and chaos he'd be able to spread amongst the inhabitants of the land now! Snapping his fingers, he and Celestia teleported to the center of Canterlot. Ponies around them gasped as they looked at the Draconequus and the stone Goddess.

"Citizens of Canterlot! Look before you, at your fallen leader! And look, to your new ruler! Equestria is under my control now! And with this new management, comes new chaos and nonsense! Enjoy your normalcy while it lasts, my little ponies, for it will never return!" And with that, Discord vanished, leaving Celestias' stone form on the ground.

Ponies gathered round the statue.

Some began to cry.

Others gasped in shock.

"We have to all get home and stay inside! Canterlot will be Discords' playground soon!" A stallion proclaimed to the others. They all nodded, except for a few.

"NO! We must fight back! Get him to return Princess Celestia to normal!" A young stallion said.

"High Society, hush! There is no way we'd win against him!" a mare yelled. Soon, the crowd began to bicker and yell. This was the beginning of the chaos and mistrust amongst the higher echelon on Canterlot. A little filly was laying beside Celestia's laying form as tears rolled down her cheeks. She looked up to her mother with tear streaked cheeks.

"Mama, will Pwincess Cewestria come back?" She asked. Her mother knelt down and picked her up.

"I'm afraid not, my little filly." She whispered to the child.

"But why, Mama?" She asked.

"Because we've lost..." her mothers sighed. The two turned away and walked home.

A single tear rolled down Celestias' stone cheek and dripped to the ground with a single splash.