In a Strange Land

By: The Fanfic Stealer

Harry Potter X My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover

Summary: Takes place at the end of Episode 2, Season 2: The Return of Harmony (Part 2). The confrontation with Discord does not go as planned, and all hope seems lost as the only ones that could defeat him fall to his might. Meanwhile, in another world, a familiar young man finds eight unconscious young women near his home. They're naked except for various accessories, have hair colors he's never seen before, and all of them have the strangest tattoos on their hips… God!Harry HarryXHarem

Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by Rowling and WB. MLP:FiM is owned by Hasbro. I claim nothing from either of them.

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Prologue: Defeat

It started with the second confrontation between the wielders of the Elements of Harmony and Discord. Discord had levitated Applejack up to himself to mock-examine the Element of Honesty, telling her that lying to him was useless, as he was the one who made her a liar in the first place.

Now, in some other time, in some other place, he would have continued on to levitate the other Elements of Harmony to him while reciting his obligatory villain monologue, only to be interrupted by Twilight Sparkle as she teleported in amongst her friends, raised a bubble shield between them and the Draconeques, and floated them to safety. From there, Twilight would have made the equally obligatory heroically defiant speech, the six of them would have blasted Discord with a Harmonic-Magic-powered Magic Missile spell, and it would have scored a clean, game-deciding hit due to Discord not realizing his influence over them had been broken until it was too late. Discord would have been re-petrified, Ponyville would have been restored, the day would have been saved, and Twilight would go on to have a temporary nervous breakdown over being tardy with her weekly Friendship Report.

But in THIS time, and in THIS place, Discord noticed something was wrong with Applejack as he mock-examined her Element. Levitating the other Elements to himself, he immediately realized that his hold over them had been broken. And so, when the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony tried to blast him back into a garden decoration, he was able to raise a defense in time, preventing his defeat and making him much more weary of the six, seemingly harmless ponies before him.

From there, it all went downhill.

On hindsight, it was a miracle that the ponies were able to even survive the first several seconds after their attack failed, as Discord had immediately dropped all pretenses and begun some serious spell casting, his earlier playfulness quickly fading. Twilight Sparkle, on realizing that she and her friends had failed again, and had possibly pissed off a being even their goddesses had had trouble with, had instinctively reapplied her bubble shield, just in time to block what appeared to be a very large, very pointy icicle of chocolate milk. After weathering an onslaught of decreasingly playful and increasingly Lovecoltian attacks, she had attempted another Harmonic Magic Missile… only to realize a critical flaw in the Elements of Harmony.

While the Elements of Harmony were arguably THE most powerful force of magic in Equestria, they were cumbersome for mortal ponies to wield: five ponies had to channel trust-based magic into a sixth one simultaneously, while the sixth one aimed and fired what was essentially the magical version of a fire-pony's hose at full throttle. There was no finesse, not control… the caster was essentially committed to whatever spell was cast, and would need some time to switch spells if such was called for.

Meanwhile, Discord, being a Draconeques and an Elder God, had supernatural adaptability and reflexes, a mind-boggling array of magicks, and a mane-na pool that surpassed even those of the Princesses Celestia and Luna at his disposal. Not only that, but his mantle as the Spirit of Disharmony and Chaos manifested as an ability to warp reality with insane ease, his very Presence overpowering the laws of nature.

Since she was channeling the Harmonic Magic into a Bubble Shield spell, she found that she couldn't send another attack at Discord without first lowering her shield, which would pretty much have guaranteed their deaths with the amount of raw, seething magic Discord was throwing at them. She couldn't ask the only other unicorn in their group, Rarity, to attack for her, either, as she was busy being a magical conduit… not that it would have done much even if Rarity had been able to attack-- her "Special Talent" automatically precluded knowledge of attack spells, even one as relatively simple as the Magic Missile. For all intents and purposes, it seemed like they were doomed, Discord's increasingly disturbing magic quickly and steadily chipping away at the shield the rapidly tiring Twilight was keeping up.

Then, salvation seemed to come in the forms of Princesses Celestia and Luna, the two princess-goddesses teleporting in and immediately raining blasts of light and darkness on the Draconeques. It was not a moment too soon, as Twilight had been on her last legs. As soon as Discord had turned his attention away from her to deal with his old adversaries, she had dropped the shield and, after a very brief moment of rest, began to weave another Magic Missile spell, her progress greatly hindered by her fatigue.

Unfortunately, Discord had noticed Twilight's forming spell moments before she completed it. Seeing that the wielders of the Elements of Harmony were vulnerable, he briefly turned his attention away from the sisters to launch a storm of twisting, reality-warping magic at the six mortal ponies. Celestia and Luna, on seeing the threat to the ponies they had come to care about for different reasons-- Celestia because they were her beloved student and her friends, and had saved her sister from herself; Luna because they were the one to free her from Nightmare Moon's control-- didn't think twice about abandoning their attack runs on Discord to shield them as best as they could. Discord's attack struck and broke through Celestia and Luna's magical shields just as Twilight fired off her third Harmony-powered Magic Missile of the day. There was an immediate flash of light and a mighty explosion, twin cries of pain, the feeling of everything around them twisting in manners the mortal mind was never supposed to perceive, then…

…Darkness.

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In another place, far removed from the battlefield, a young man jogged through the forest surrounding his home. He was indulging in his daily morning jog, meant to keep him fit and help organize his mind in preparation for the upcoming day.

Normally, he would run laps while dodging around trees to give himself some variety. Today, though, while rounding a bend, he was forced to stop by something that was most certainly not usually there: eight naked young women laying on the ground, all of them sporting hair in the strangest of colors, and equipped with some seriously magical artifacts. He could only stare in shock as his mind tried to process the information it was receiving. When it did (though barely), he could only find one thing to say:

"Oh, bollocks."

It seems Fate was not done with one Harry James Potter.

Author's Note

A/N: This is what happens when I become a Brony. I write… THIS. I'm going to Pony Hell, I just know it… but at least I won't be alone! Yes, I'm talking about you, AJ Talon! Because of you, I can't see or read about Fluttershy and not think "potential nymphomaniac" or "it's always the quiet ones!"

...So, was this good or bad? Should I continue? This was an experiment on a different writing style for me-- I'm usually all for short prologues, then long chapters, usually more than ten pages, at least. This time, though, I'm going for five pages each chapter, give or take.

For my other works, look for me on fanfiction.net, same pen name.

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