Fade Away

  Discord. A God of Chaos. He was created with the intent of chaos. His entire life was filled with chaos and he enjoys every second of it. However, being stoned or killed in this case -to put it lightly - sucked. Being stuck in stone was torture. He was stuck by himself with no way to cause chaos. It was the exact of him. Normal. But, being "killed" was partially worse. Gods aren't mortal and therefor, he couldn't be killed. So, what was the situation that he was in currently? His own subconscious after being knocked out. Yes, knocked out. He was alone in his own mind. And that was not pretty in his current state. He sat in the darkness for what seemed like years, a blinding light appeared to the right of him.

"Ugh, turn off the lights." He groaned as he shielded his eyes.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Discord. That's up to you." The light spoke. Turning his head, he found it to be Princess Celestia. His mouth curved into a smug smile as she walked forward.

"Hello Celly, what brings you here?" He asked, said smile curving into a unamused frown.

"For you, Discord. I wanted to reform. Your magic would be greatly better for good." She smiled. He scoffed.

"So? I'm sure the world would be thousands BETTER without me. Trust me, I know." He sat on a invisible chair and she sat on one as well. "I've heard everything that ponies say when I'm gone. 'Oh, I'm glad that stupid DIPcord is gone' or 'He just caused chaos, he was EVIL and he deserved it'. You can't fool me, Cel'. I know who I am. And I deserve to be stone according to your little ponies. Well, thousands beat one don't they? Isn't that how votes work? You're wasting your time anyway."

"Discord, I have all the time in the world to talk about this. Your magic could be used to influence ponies alike. You have the ability to do anything you want. That ,alone, proves that you do what you want because you can. Tell me, you cause chaos because you think it's fun. Others don't think as much. So, that must means you only care about yourself Discord. You've lived by your own rules and only yourself listened to them. Discord, I now know from this, that you're just lonely. And causing chaos is the only thing you know how to do. If you wanted friends, you should of asked." He stared at her like she was dead wrong but he just couldn't deny it. No matter how hard he tried, he could not refuse to believe that. He sighed and looked at her.

"Is it really that easy? Is it, Celestia? Do you think that I can just walk up to somepony nowadays and ask, Want to be my friend?, do you know what they'll say in response? AH IT'S DISCORD. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! It's not that easy as you think it is."

"Then join us. Fluttershy thinks as you as a friend and I'm sure you wouldn't like to be stone again." He weighed his options and he leaned towards freedom. He sighed.

"Fine. If you think it's that easy than let's get out of here. Honestly, I'm just bored of everypony thinking I'm evil. I just want to have fun!" He stood up and as he did, his eyes widened and stared at the Princess. "H-how..."

"Let's go, Discord." She smiled and walked into the growing light. He shook his head and followed. As they entered the light, he was blinded once more. He awoke after being blind for so long. His eyes were adjusting to the sudden light change. Not to mention, the remaining pain in his body. Getting up, he stretched, happy to be finally in the world of the living. As he stretched, a loud explosion sounded. Averting his eyes towards the gaping hole in the wall, Cole was slung into the ground, heavily damaged. He looked out the hole and saw a severely pissed Sombra who was turning the entire castle into darkness. He turned towards Cole and grabbed him by the arm and teleported away to the Elements who were recovering.

"Discord!" Rainbow prepared to fight. "What did -"

"Shut up." She stopped at his serious tone. "I'm helping you. Cole is injured and King Sombrero is angry. What do we do?" He asked. They all seemed apprehensive at his sudden change.

"Ah believe you. Ah am tha Element of Honesty. I know when yer telling a lie." Applejack spoke up.

"Thank you, AJ. I am severely grateful for your trust. Now, Cole?" He cleared his throat.

"I can heal him but it will take some time." Celestia spoke up. "Healing him will be difficult. You all need to keep Sombra away. I will fuel Cole with enough energy if you can be successful." They all nodded and headed out.

"Don't worry, Princess!" Rainbow saluted.

"Yeah! We'll get that super meanie head!" Pinkie stated as she bounced with them. Celestia took one last stare at Discord and nodded. He nodded back. They all left through the hole in the wall.

"So, any ideas?" He asked them. They all had their Elements on. They heard a teleport happen suddenly and they saw Shining Armor and Princess Cadence standing there.

"Shiny!"

"Twily!" They both hugged as Cadence stared at Discord.

"I'm on their side, don't start Costanza." He scoffed. She ignored the name and stared at Sombra.

"Sorry we're late. We had problems with changelings at the Crystal Empire. We found a end to them and now, we're here to help." Cadence explained.

"Yeah. Now's it time to defeat Sombra. C'mon!" Shining ran out to battle and everyone followed. Discord stuck behind as to remain hidden. He planned his own attack and that would be stealthy. They all ran to into battle and got their asses handed to them by his rage-filled power. Attacks did nothing and were shrugged off. For minutes, he watched them all battle and they were defeated easily. They each lay on the ground, injured except the standing Shining. He was the strongest, being the Captain of the Guard. However, that didn't matter. He fell just like the others. Sombra stood there, laughing at their useless attempts. Discord smirked and teleported behind him, unbeknown to the dark unicorn. He reared his hands back and bared their claws and then brought them down on the unicorn. He dragged them deep in his flesh and threw him away. The dark unicorn gained balance and saw his attacker.

" Discord. You traitor. " He growled, horn flaring to life.

"I don't care what you think." He spoke back.

"[b You're worthless. "

Sombra fired a blast of dark magic at him and he smacked it away and kept walking towards the unicorn. Blast after blast, Discord moved or smacked them away. He neared the unicorn and Sombra was starting fear him after throwing away his attacks. Discord teleported behind him and grabbed him by the neck. They stared at each-other, gazing into their souls. King Sombra's stare began to falter as he began seeing the darkest regions of the god's soul. The horrible, truly evil thoughts that he had thought of were the most vile, disturbing thing he'd ever seen. Discord smiled.

"Sombra, there's no fate worse than death, but I'll tell you something. Life can be hell and yours... is about to be." Discord began flooding magic into his hands, sending lethal charges into the Unicorn. "You will see my pain and why I'm choosing to do this." They all awoke moments later and saw Sombra howling in pain as Discord held on him as pink magic shoots into Sombra. Discord said one last thing. "Hasta luego, hijo de puta." And with that, Sombra exploded into a bright light. IT blinded everyone excluding Discord as the energy lashed out and created even more explosions. He laughed as destruction ensued. After the light faded, everyone saw only Discord.

"Pinkie, do you know what time it is?" Discord asked the pink mare.

"Adventure Time?"

"No. It's party time." She gasped at those words and pulled out her party cannon from her mane (SOMEHOW) as he smiled. Hours later, the party began. Ponies celebrated their victory over against their enemies and partied hard. Discord was sitting outside away from all the ponies as they got a little too rambunctious. He stared up at the dark sky and chuckled. Cole walked out ad joining the God who was sitting on a bench.

"So, Discord, hows it feel being the good guy for once?" He asked the God.

"It feels weird. Celestia said I did the right thing but, I mean it was simple. I'm hundreds stronger than he will ever be." Cole chuckled.

"I know, it felt strange when I did something good for once after being so bad. In a way Discord, we're alike. Once evil but now we're trying to be good. I think you'll be good for this world." Cole took a sip of the fruit punch he was drinking.

"What?" Discord questioned.

"I'm not staying here. This world has it's Shepherd. I mean, I DO have a life in my world. I can't stay here. So, I'm hoping you can be the hero Equestria needs and deserves." He explained.

"You can't pin all that on me!" Discord falsely cried. Cole just chuckled and so did Discord. "I'm sure I'll be fine. So, to heroes?" He poofed a drink to him.

"To heroes." They bumped glasses and took their drinks. As they drank them, Twilight walked out.

"Hey, you two. You're missing the party." They looked at each-other and shrugged. They stood up and headed in. The party was definitely lighted up after those two came in. For now, Equestria can rest easy. Hopefully. I don't know about Discord, honestly. He may cause trouble, but I'm sure he'll be forgiving.

THE END.