The Elements of Harmony were dead. The Crystal Empire, the last bastion of love and peace, had collapsed. Deep within the Canterlot gardens, an asymmetrical statue began to glow. The stone fell cracked and peeled away. A deep, reverberant chuckle issued from within the statue as its prisoner awoke. Discord slowly wormed his way out from within the stone casing. With a snap of his fingers, he was gone.

Chaos and destruction: the world was built around these ideas. Discord, one of the oldest beings in Equestria had seen many things. He had seen years of warfare, the death of thousands, the rise and fall of empires. It was an eternal cycle of rise and fall, chaos and destruction.

But the cycle had been broken, the order of chaos shattered. By what? It was destroyed by an anomalous being from another world. He was unifying all the world under his one banner using ruthless violence and vast destruction. This would not be the first empire to attempt to conquer the world, but this was the first to come so close to success. Discord could not allow the cycle of Chaos to break completely, it was too much fun to let go!

Germaney was thrown into confusion as chocolate milk rain fell from skies of cotton candy. Germaneans looked up in confusion at the unnatural phenomena. From the roof of a tower in the heart of Marelin, Discord watched, his mouth twisted in a smile of unceasing amusement. This nation was much to organized, it had to degenerate to Chaos. Wars may be chaotic, but this war was waged in the name of order.

“HELLO EVERYPONY!” Discord yelled at the top of his voice, “Let’s have some fun.”

Germanean guard units responded quickly. Discord was soon surrounded by dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldier. Several thousand more were kept in reserve, in case things went downhill. Dieter himself emerged from the crowd of soldiers, his red cape billowing in the chaotic wind. He stared up a discord with cold, disinterested eyes.

“Discord, come down now. I am offering you a chance to discuss this. If you refuse, you will die.” Dieter smiled coldly.

There was a sudden flash, and Discord suddenly appeared next to Dieter. Dieter simply turned to face him, his face showing none of the surprise or fear that Discord had expected. A hundred guns leveled themselves at Discord’s head. Discord, for the first time in centuries, felt a twinge of nervousness. He was functionally immortal, but he was not invincible or invulnerable. All it took was a signal from Dieter, and he would be cut down by a hail of bullets that not even he could stop.

“It has come to my attention Discord, that you are considered to be a deity of Chaos. This, however, is untrue. This is a land of magical creatures. You are perhaps stronger than others, but you are like Celestia in that regard. You have magical capabilities, but you are not gods.” Dieter said the last five words with particular emphasis.

Discord laughed, “Why so grim? Loosen up; you can’t kill me any way! I’m immortal; to shoot at me is useless!”

Dieter responded coldly, his smile enough to freeze blood. “You may be immortal, but you are not invulnerable. I can tell. First, if you were truly impervious to bullets, you would not have come down from the tower. Second, when the guns were first leveled at you, something played across your features. It was not mischief or amusement. It was fear. We both know that you cannot dodge bullets. For all of your talk, you are unable to move that fast.”

Discord cursed himself mentally. He had made it too easy! He was being beaten at his own game. It had been so much easier to trick the Elements of Harmony. He simply had to target their weaknesses to alter their thoughts and emotions utterly. Dieter was much more intelligent than that. Discord would have to switch tactics. He could tear the First Reich apart from the inside.

“You’re right. In truth, I came here to state my loyalty to your cause. I think that it is so very worthy, and I would like to join it. Perhaps I could be your lieutenant.” Discord chuckled.

“You lie.” Dieter said simply, his face emotionless.

“What? Me lie? You must be mad!” Discord feigned ignorance.

“Do not think of me as being idiotic or ignorant like the Elements of Harmony. They believed in the altruism of all creatures, that friendship could heal all things. Their naivety made it easy for you to deceive them. I am not naive. You cannot trick me. You are the ‘spirit of chaos’. You would not swear your loyalty to a regime dedicated to order and dominion above all else. It is against your nature.” Dieter smiled coldly, his eyes glinting like steel.

Discord was taken aback. It was almost as if Dieter could read his thoughts! Dieter could see through him easily, despite the fact that they had never met. How could it be? Discord was a master of duplicity, and he had been put down twice by this creature. It was supposed to be impossible. Not even Celestia could figure out is conniving schemes. Discord realized he was dealing with something on a far greater magnitude than Celestia. He was not of this world, he could think “outside of the box”. Discord knew he was foolish in imagining that the man who conquered most of the world would be stupid.

Discord tried to use his magic again, but found that it was suppressed by a great power. What was strong enough to suppress him? It was impossible. Chaos magic was on a powerful on a magnitude incomparable to other forms of magic. Discord was the strongest wielder of Chaotic magic that ever existed. Only the Elements of Harmony could stop him, and only temporarily.

Dieter observed Discord’s straining with cold indifference. “There is someone you should meet before you go, Discord” he said.

Discord gritted his teeth at Dieter’s mocking tone. Nevertheless, he was interested as to who was suppressing him. He stared to where Dieter was pointing. His eyes widened as he saw who it was. This was a day for firsts; for the first time in centuries, Discord blanched. There, standing before him was an ever familiar lavender colored unicorn. It was Twilight Sparkle. Discord rounded on Dieter in shock.

“Twilight Sparkle? How did you get her to join you? She is only loyal to Celestia.” Discords voice was tremulous. “How did she become so powerful?”

“I have ways.” Dieter stated coldly.

It had been hard to break her. It had taken hours of psychological torture. That wasn’t truly effective, either. She had resisted him even as her mind had begun to break. In the end, Dieter fell back to the same method he had used on Shining Armor. He threatened to torture her baby dragon, Spike. Her mind had broken, and she had sworn her allegiance on the spot. Dieter was still cautious around her. She could turn on him at any time. He made a point of being heavily armed whenever she was around. As for the increased power, Dieter had injected her with experimental magic stimulants which amplified her magical powers seven-fold. She was more powerful than Celestia by an order of magnitude.

Discord, however, could not be broken. There was nothing to break him with. Torture had no use on him, since his nerves had long since died while encased in stone. Psychological torture was useless, since there was none worse than being encased for eons in stone. Discord wasn’t attached to anything, so he could not be threatened through the torture of an individual. Death was the only logical conclusion.

Discord obviously came to the same conclusion. He suddenly straightened up. He beat his wings frantically, trying to escape from the ring of Germanean soldiers. Dieter raised his hand, leaving it opened. Discord began to lift off the ground. His eyes seemed to plead with Dieter for his life. Dieter smiled coldly at seeing such a foe humbled with such ease. He made a fist. Thousands of rounds of ammunition tore through Discord as over two hundred sub-machineguns were fired at him. His wings were severed, his head was pulped, and several of his limbs were completely amputated by the hail of bullets. Blood sprayed all over the building behind him, leaving odd, chaotic patterns. Ichor spattered against the pavement, leaving it slick with the viscous red fluid.

Dieter stared at the corpse for several seconds. After a while, he turned to his soldiers.

“Remove the body and incinerate it. Have the engineers clean off the building and street.” Dieter spoke like an automaton.

He spun on his heel and marched away.

Author's Note

Special thanks to Nuggetmanu2 for proof reading and ideas. Thanks to the reads for support and suggestions. Please feel free to comment.