Little Redd: the Lost Concept of Peace

Chapter Six

The Elements of Discord

The chimera leapt forward from his seat, his hands clasped against his cheeks and an insane, hyperactive grin spread across his face.

"Brilliant!  Your peers should be here in a few minutes."

As was expected, just a moment later a cream-colored unicorn stallion appeared in Dark Ponyville with a green glow about him that faded almost immediately.  He was clad in a green uniform, had a slick black mane completely parted to the left, and a ridiculously small mustache.  The Swastika on his flank stood out like a blaring warning sign.

Redd still wasn't used to her uncle pulling figures out of time.

"Commander Hoofler, preparedt for action!"

He said, saluting Discord with his small green eyes alight.  Discord looked down at him, his large white brow cocked.

"That would be nice, Discrimination, if the four that aren't here were as well.  But they're not."

Hoofler's face fell a bit.

"But I eiven brought my own tank andt effrysing."

Despite his words, a tank had not, in fact, travelled with him through the fabric of dimensions.  Hoofler perked up, sniffing the air, and turned to Redd.

"You uszing new shampoo?  Eit smells lovfly."

He also had a tendancy to hit on various mares about Dark Ponyville.  Her expression remained unchanged.

"It's from the spa.  Nothing special."

She suppressed her cringe at his constant musk of lead and sulphur, and sighed for show.

"When're they gonna get here?"

Discord smiled at his niece.

"My my, such impatience.  You've only been here for what, two miliminutes?"

She looked at him with disgust.

"That's two 0.6ths of a second that've been wasted."

"You mean hours?"

"Depends on how you've set the terms at the moment."

Discord giggled.

"Oh, you know me so frighteningly well, Redd."

She smirked.

"I know."

The third party to arrive came along in a silky yellow haze, a huge light brown stallion in a tan camouflage uniform with a buzzed mane and a sandy colored, very short tail.  He had golden eyes, a strong jaw, and a golden star cutie mark.  A burn scar was slashed across his neck, disappearing under the shoulder of his uniform.

"Permission to speak."

Mimicking the soldier's previous authority with perfection, Discord responded.

"Granted."

Fear sprung in the stallion's eyes at hearing Ackeman's feminine voice, but recomposed himself.

"A Nazi tank was destroyed by the unicorn squad on guard at the time."

He turned to Commander Hoofler, who was baffled.

"There were no survivors."

Hoofler paid the bad news no mind.

"Eit vorked zis time?  Ja!  The Changeling, die verloren werden!"

He continued rambling to himself in Germane, possibly revising the plans for the imminent destruction of the Changelings so that they now included tanks.

Gilded Star, the Equestrian military stallion, turned to Discord.

"Your doing?"

He gasped, mocking surprise.

"Am I getting predictable?  I can't have that!"

He snapped his fingers, replacing the cotton candy storm with flying, crying orcas that occasionally screamed.  A far ways off, you could hear Pinkamina's cry of despair.

A gasp made Discord, Gilded, and Redd turn.

A young creamy colored stallion with a brown mane long in the front and a thin tail with big blue eyes was looking in the direction of Pinkie's wail, towards Sugarcube Corner.

"I think Auntie Pinkie's having a party!" Pound Cake exclaimed.

"That's unlikely, Pound," Redd stated flatly.

Pound Cake had grown up soft, still acting less like a stallion and more like a colt.  He had quite the foreleg on him though, and his wings gave him an advantage in one-on-one combat.  Another voice rose up from behind them, from the air.

"Sorry I'm late," a bright orange mare said, landing softly against the ground.  Her unkempt purple mane and pink eyes were a one-and-only combination recognizable to every member of Dark Ponyville.

"I had a score to settle."  She chuckled, and leapt to the top of Discord's throne with a cat's grace.

"I can see you've been doing well, Scootaloo."

Redd still had the images of filly Scootaloo playing through her head.

Scootaloo laughed, the cracking high-pitched tones not unlike Rainbow Dash's.

"Well of course, dummy.  I'm always good."

An blue glaze caught their attention, and an orange mare with a mane every color of the sunset glared at Scootaloo, the remains of the inter-dimensional spell sliding off of her.  Her irises were pinpricks, and she looked  like she was ready to strangle the purple-headed mare.

Redd turned to Scootaloo.

"What was that about settling some score?"

Sunset Shimmer cackled, and never moved her gaze from the pegasus's.

"Oh, it isn't settled.  Not.  At.  All."

Just as she leapt at the orange pegasus, a red wave of magic enveloped her, and slowly began lifting her into the air.  Somehow, Shimmer's angry blue eyes widened further, threatening to pop out of her head altogether.

"Redd!  Put me down!  I swear to Molestia, PUT ME DOWN!"

Her fear of heights was beginning to get to her, and she was beginning to have second thoughts about gnawing Scootaloo's head off, if she ever lived to safely see the checkered ground below her again.

"Redd, thank you kindly, but that is certainly enough.  We must give her her Element," Discord cut in.

Redd sighed, rolled her eyes, and dropped Shimmer.  Gilded caught her, and set her safely on her hooves.

Scootaloo looked over to Hoofler, who had a world map laid out before him and a red pen in his green magic's hand, marking out plans and positions.

"'ey.  Nazi."

His pen jerked, tearing a small hole in his map.

"I am Commander Hooflar!  Do not address me as a mere soldier, Scootaeloo!"

She raised a brow, and looked at him funny.  He didn't really know what to make of her.

"Vhat?  Vhy are jou laughing?"

"Relax, bro.  Come get your Element."

Discord opened the box, each of the Elements simpler than the Elements of Harmony, dangling by a black gold chain rather than an elegant pendant.  The Element of Chaos was constructed in a bracelet form.

Hoofler took the Element of Discrimination.

Gilded Star took the Element of Candor.

Scootaloo took the Element of Pride.

Sunset Shimmer took the Element of Fury.

Pound Cake took the Element of Innocence.

Little Redd took the Element of Chaos.