Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks

Twilight almost believed that it wasn't true.

She wanted to believe that it wasn't true, but reality kept going into her mind, telling her that Discord is back. Discord laughed into the heavens above, he stopped laughing and cracked his back.

"Oh, it feels so good to be free yet again!" Discord said out loud and turned his attention to Princess Celestia while stretching his limbs.

"Celestia, good to see you again!" Discord said and teleported next to her.

"But I must say, you have grown quite old the last time I've seen you, I can see the bags under your eyes! What's it been like....5 months?" Discord jokingly said and chuckled at his own joke.

Celestia snorted and glared at her enemy. Discord turned back and looked at Twilight and her friends. His smile grew wider and wider, "Twilight, my old friend!" Discord said and teleported by all of them. He walked by each one and gave them a handshake.

"How have you all been? Oh this is just like old times!" Discord said as he shook Applejack's hoof. Applejack pulled her hoof back in disgust and glared at Discord.

"What good times you sneaky yella bellied varmint?!" Applejack questioned him. Discord put a hand to his chest and pretended to look hurt.

"Surely the good times we had together as friends." Discord smirked.

"We are not friends!" Twilight yelled as her horn glowed.

"Oh Twilight, so lost in this Magic of Friendship, it's so disgusting really!" Discord chuckled and turned around to hear deep voices behind him.

Discord had a raised eyebrow and crossed arms at what he saw; weird (weirder than him) creatures with many colors on them. They all eyed Discord with curiosity. The half metallic one stepped up and looked down at him.

"Hello there," Scalor began, "my name is Scalor Bara-codon, who are you and what are you exactly?" he asked. Discord smiled deviously.

"Well, at least someone here as good manners," Discord stated, "I'm Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony."

"Chaos…?" Warhead thought out loud, "That sounds bad."

"Well of course it sounds bad, it is bad you dolt!" Slash smacked Warhead's shoulder.

"Anyway, I would just adore staying and chatting with you all, but I've got some chaos to spread around Equestria." Discord said as he was about to snap his fingers to disappear.

"Wait!" Scalor yelled, Discord stopped and looked at him, "Why would you want to do that, to spread chaos in this peaceful world?" he asked.

Discord laughed to himself, "HAHAHA, you really didn't hear me clear did you? I'm the SPIRIT OF CHAOS AND DISHARMONY!" Discord slowly said.

"You still cannot spread chaos through this peaceful world, we won't let you." Optimus said and brought his fists up. His Autobots did the same.

"No Scalor, he's stronger than he looks!" Rarity screamed.

"This little punk looks like he can barely fight a piece of scrap! We can take him!" Slash yelled.

With that, Discord chuckle and soon blurted out laughing. He snapped his fingers, and suddenly a giant fist that looked just like Discord's lion paw was hovering above the Crushers. Discord brought his hand down and the giant lion paw landed right on the Crushers.

"NOOOOO!!! YOU MONSTER!!!" Twilight screamed and looked in horror as the lion paw lifted itself off the ground and disappeared. The Crushers groaned in pain as they laid on the ground barely moving.

"Well, that was fun. Now if any of you don't mind, I would like to spread my lovely chaos now." Discord said as he was about to snap his fingers.

"NO DISCORD!!!" Celestia roared. Discord turned around to see Celestia with her mane almost burning red with rage. Discord crossed his arms and yawned in his hand, this made Celestia furious.

"You think you're so cocky Discord, but we will never let you escape this time, especially after you hurt our Crusher friends!" Celestia said.

Discord smirked and said, "Oh, and how do you plan to do that without your precious Elements?" Discord placed his hands on his cheeks when he saw Celestia's expression.

Celestia backed up a little, completely shocked, "H-how did you-"

"Know about the Elements being infected?" Discord finished her thought, "Well, when they were, I felt myself becoming stronger knowing that the Elements of Harmony were destroyed, and now that I'm free, there is nothing that any of you can do to stop me." Discord chuckled to himself.

Celestia placed her hoof down hard, the ground cracked where she was. The rain was hitting the ground harder, and the wind was blowing furiously. Twilight tried to push her mane out of her eyes to see her mentor about to attack Discord.

"Even though the Elements are gone," Celestia glared at Discord as her horn glowed, "I'm still here to stop you and defend my kingdom!"

With that, Celestia shot an energy blast at Discord; Discord snapped his fingers and teleported just before the blast hit him. Celestia looked above her to see Discord floating in midair. Discord snapped his fingers again just as Celestia was about to shoot him with another blast.

Celestia was trapped in a giant bubble, as she shot more blasts to try and break it, Discord lifted up his hand and the bubble rose to the lightning above. Celestia was horrified to see the bubble being electrocuted and her as well.

After a few seconds of horrified screams of pain from Celestia, Discord lowered the bubble and let Celestia fall to the ground. She laid unconscious as the rain pelted her mane, Discord laughed maniacally and turned his attention to sniffling behind him.

Twilight had tears flowing down her face, well Discord couldn't tell as the rain was making it difficult. All the other ponies had horrified expressions, even Spike. Rainbow Dash stepped up and glared at Discord.

"This time," Rainbow choked back tears, "I'm gonna beat the living buck out of you."

"Ooooooo, so scary." Discord said sarcastically. Rainbow snorted and spread her wings, ready to charge. She flew at him with unreal speed! Discord snapped his fingers and a shield of grass appeared in front of him. Rainbow crashed into it and with another snap of his fingers, the grass rolled up and Rainbow was trapped inside.

Discord waved his hand in the air and the grass shield flew Rainbow towards her friends. They all fell back as the grass shield fell on top of them. Rainbow broke out and shook her head to regain her focus.

Shining Armor had enough and shot energy blasts at Discord who simply blocked them and snapped his fingers that caused the wet grass around Shining Armor to turn into ice. Shining Armor slipped and fell on his back.

Discord's hand lit up and a lightning bolt struck down in front of the ponies. They covered their eyes and saw as path between them and Discord was covered in flames. Discord was standing there, laughing to the heavens above.

"Oh, it feels good to be back!" Discord yelled.

Discord stopped laughing as he heard a cocking sound and looked to see Scalor pointing something at him. It was a long, silver barrel that glowed blue at the end. Scalor stood behind the ponies, not saying a word, but threatening to shoot Discord.

Discord's smile faded as Scalor glared at him, still pointing the stick and not saying a word.

Soon after a few seconds, Scalor spoke, "This is your last warning, give up or else."

The ponies felt frightened, this wasn't Scalors calm and nice state this was something completely different. Scalor was now a stone cold warrior, not afraid of anything. As his glare intensified, Fluttershy squeaked in fear. Scalor looked down at them to see how scared they appeared, out of guilt, he lowered his gun and looked calmly towards them.

Discord rubbed his chin as he saw Scalor looking at the ponies with such calmness, when he was threatening him just a few seconds ago. Discord's smile grew wider and wider.

"Awww," Discord said, "so that's your weakness."

Discord's hand glowed and Twilight flew from the group and into Discord's hand. Twilight screamed as Discord held her above the raging fires below.

"Twilight!!!!!" The ponies and Spike screamed. Scalor put his gun up again, this time he was mad.

"PUT HER DOWN!!!" Scalor yelled as his gun started glowing at the end. Twilight struggled against Discord's grasp on her.

"I see you have a soft side on these ponies," Discord said as the grip on Twilight increased, "for a powerful warrior like yourself, I expected you to just attack me with that weapon of yours, but no, you're just another fool who believes in the Magic of Friendship. Disgusting!"

"Scalor, help me!" Twilight screamed as Discord began to loosen his grip on her, threatening to drop her in the fires.

"Why do you do it? What do you get out of helping these ponies? I see absolutely nothing!" Discord yelled and held Twilight with one hand, Twilight was trying her best not to move, and she didn't want to fall.

"I do it because they are a proud and peaceful race, and I must protect them from the likes of you. Now I ask you again, put her down." Scalor calmly said.

Discord smirked, "As you wish." With that, Discord dropped Twilight. Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow gasped as Twilight was falling to her death. Twilight screamed as she fell to the deadly fires below. Scalor reacted quickly and caught Twilight before she landed in the fires. Scalor placed Twilight near her friends and turned back to Discord to shoot him.

But he was gone.

Scalor looked around and saw nothing; he sighed and looked down at the ponies. Twilight looked up to him and sniffed, "Th-thank you, Scalor."

Scalor nodded and looked over at the still unconscious Celestia. He went down and nudged her a little with his right fin, she still didn't wake up. Twilight had been crying at this point, her mentor was badly injured. Discord never tried to kill them before, so why now?

Twilight walked over and nudged Celestia with her muzzle. The rest of the ponies weren't holding up to good either. Fluttershy was already crying, Rarity's mascara was streaming down her face, from both the rain and her tears, Pinkie had a river of tears flowing from her eyes like long streams, Applejack wiped her nose and tried her best not to cry, Rainbow flicked her mane out of her face and turned the other way.

Slash, Dice, Warhead, Jumpstart, and Razor got up and rubbed their heads. They gasped as they saw Celestia injured and not moving. Razor got in close and placed a wing on Celestia. "She's still alive," She said, "but we need her to get medical attention at once."

"But Discord is still out there." Fluttershy quietly said between tears.

"I'm sorry Fluttershy, I truly am, but we need to get Celestia out of here. I promise you, we will get Discord." Scalor said and picked up Celestia. "Men, let’s roll." Scalor said and trudged past them, the Crushers slowly walked behind him.

The ponies looked at each other and just followed the Crushers out of the statue garden. When they got out, they saw Scalor talking with Circuit Breaker and Hawk Eye. Circuit Breaker doing his best carried Celestia, Hawk Eye was rubbing his chin as Scalor told him what happened.

"Scalor..." Twilight spoke up. Scalor looked at her and so did Hawk Eye.

"What do we do now?" Twilight finished. Scalor sighed and said, "We will figure it out, but now let’s get back to Canterlot."

With that, Scalor activated his umbrella attachment and adjusted it above the ponies and Spike, not allowing the rain to get them wet anymore. Optimus trudged through the grassy meadows, all the Crushers followed him. Each one was beginning to question Scalor in their own thoughts, how could he let the creature that hurt Celestia get away?

Twilight began to whimper and Shining Armor put his foreleg around her shoulder. Twilight looked at her brother with sad eyes, beginning to form tears. "It's alright Twily, we'll figure this out." Shining said as Twilight placed her head on his chest and cried silently. Scalor picked up the sound of crying, he sighed and continued to move on. This was a good time for him to think to himself.

'What happened? This strange creature was so powerful that it beat me and my strongest Crushers. Whatever it was, it's on the loose and we must capture it. But Discord said that only the Elements could defeat him, how can we take him down without the Elements of Harmony? Whatever the answer is, I hope we find out fast, because now we have two enemies to think about; Discord....... and Megatron.'