Shining Darkness: Universes Collide

It was just an ordinary night in Equestria. The Moon was glowing with enchantment, the stars twinkled in harmony, there was not a single disturbance to be found. The royal couple of the night, Prince Noctis and Princess Luna were in their throne room, simply relaxing. It has been about a year since peace in Equestria was established. Things went incredibly crazy after Acerbus, the king of the dark realm, had managed to escape his imprisonment in the dimensional rift. His escape was only possible due to Noctis and the other's making a simple, but grave error. When they rescued Sora, the mother of Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, as well as Star Swirl the Bearded from the purgatory in which they resided for thousands of years within, they had forgotten to close the gate itself, leaving the dimensional rift able to be re-opened with ease. Luckily however, with the help of an old foe, good had prevailed over evil, and King Acerbus and his dark army were vanquished at last.

The night was filled with serenity. Noctis and Luna resided in the throne room, simply admiring the night that they created together. That very night, it was the one year anniversary of continued peace and harmony in the kingdom of Equestria. The once adventure filled and exciting past intruded into their minds as they reminisced on those good times. "Oh Luna, its hard to believe that its already been a year since we've managed to maintain the peace in Equestria. I mean, I really am surprised that we haven't gotten ourselves into any kind of mess considering how just last year, we were literally magnets for bad luck. I have to say, once Evil Anon was defeated, things really stopped being so chaotic. Things are so peaceful now, that its actually starting to get a bit boring."

"I must say, Noctis, I have to agree. Peace is what I wished for for my entire existence. My life was never truly at peace, and while the peace was nice while it lasted, it seems my soul itself desires the action and the trouble and the adrenaline of battle. I mean, even Nightmare Moon and I have everything completely worked out. Things aren't fun anymore. It is a shame that our lives together have become rather, routine." Luna had said, with remorse and sadness as she kept her head down.

"You know Luna, I miss the good old days when we just spent our time having fun with everyone. We haven't had a day to simply relax and do as we pleased in over a year. Not only that, but I miss Vergil, and I miss Synergist. Man, that was a crazy experience. When I was in Synergist's universe, everything was so different and strange. It was a whole new world, and it saddens me that I had to leave it so soon. We could have done so much in that world together."

"Ah yes, Synergist. I remember him well. He was the one who had aided you and helped you find me in his world. I still can't believe such a minor error in Twilight's spell caused us to end up in a whole other universe."

"Heh, yeah, it was pretty crazy. Don't get me wrong, I was pretty frightened at first, but everything grew on me. It sucks that Synergist didn't want to come here with us, he would have made a hell of a friend."

The two continued their reminiscing on the past until they decided to do something else. Luna and Noctis then both agreed to leave the throne room, and perhaps go take a visit to the colonies to the north and south that they had rediscovered while on their journey two years ago.

Once Noctis and Luna leave, Discord appeared out of the corner and spoke to himself, "So, life for those two is getting boring now, is it? I do say, things have been rather less entertaining over this past year. I mean I caused them so much chaos, but it seems they have become accustomed to all my tricks, and I don't enjoy pulling the same old tricks on them either." After much pondering on what to do to solve this dilemma, Discord finally came up with an idea so dastardly and clever, that it would forever keep their lives interesting. "That's it! I know exactly what to do. Why it will be so chaotic, that they will never see whats coming! Of course, now I need to contact the Discords of the other two universes, and then my plan will easily come to fruition!" Discord spoke to himself with a smile on his face.