Chapter 21: Time to End This!

Chapter 21: Time to End This!

Discordia sat upon the throne, smiling in wait for what she knew was to come.
Slendermane stared at the large door that sealed off the only entrance.
WHAM! The door shook with the first impact.
WHAM! It shook again, the wooden bar holding it shut arced and began to splinter.
The door was then surrounded by a pink magical energy.
WHAM! The force of the blast blew the doors off the hinges, flinging them forward across the room. The slender pony repelled an incoming door with a tendril as he watched, otherwise unmoving.

Discordia stood up to greet her guests. “I must say, you made quite an entrance, but if you wanted to die so badly, there’s no need to be so dramatic. All you had to do was ask.” But as the cloud of debris cleared, nopony was there. “What?!” She darted her head in anger and confusion, searching for where they might be hiding.

“So you’re the big scary Discordia…” Discord’s voice filled the room. “Funny, I thought you be taller.”

The evil unicorn regained her composure and put on an arrogant smile. “You and your silly games. Why don’t you show yourself? Perhaps, you’re afraid?”

“Afraid? …Of you? Haha. Oh, that’s rich.” Discord’s paw appeared overhead and plucked the crown from the evil unicorn’s head. The rest of him appeared as he stroked his beard and looked it over. “Ok, I get the wings, but what’s with this gaudy crown?”

Upon spotting him, Slendermane immediately lashed out at the Draconequus.

Discord's torso swayed and contorted dodging the attack. “Whoa there! Is that any way to treat company?” He taunted, and disappeared again, taking the crown with him.

“I grow tired of your games, Discord.” The winged unicorn stepped forward and looked around the throne room as she spoke. “Where are Twilight Sparkle and the others? Why don’t you face me?!”

“All in good time, my dear.” The disembodied voice filled the room once more. “But first I’d like to know a little bit more about you. Considering you were birthed from my power, I guess that makes me your daddy. You know, I’m not sure I approve of your boyfriend here. Sure he’s tall, dark, and faceless, but I have issues with his temper.”

Slendermane’s tendrils writhed and whipped as he looked around the room for a target.

“Enough of this! I demand you to show yourself!”

“Fine. Spoil the fun.” Discord reappeared wearing the crown he had taken. “You may have gotten my power, but you most definitely didn’t inherit my charming personality and sense of humor.”

“I’ll only ask you one last time. Where are the others?” Discordia demanded in irritation.

“Behind you!” Twilight yelled as the Doctor dropped the invisibility field generated from his sonic screwdriver.

Before she had a chance to fully turn around, Discordia was met with a beam of energy from both the alicorn princesses, the impact knocking her off her feet as she landed with a THUD.

“Ha! I guess she’s not so tough after all” Rainbow Dash taunted, hovering over her.

Enraged, the unicorn struck the blue pegasus with a blast of dark magic, flinging her across the room into a nearby wall. Dash held her head as she sat up and tried to shake in off.

“Careful, Rainbow Dash!” Twilight warned. “The future version of me says she’s nopony to be taken lightly.”

“Yeah, tell me about it.” Dash said as she got up and rejoined her friends.

Discordia propped herself up with one of her magical wigs and turned to her minion. “KILL THEM!”, she commanded.

The creature leapt to attack the group but was met face first with an invisible force field conjured by the combined force of the two Twilights. Slendermane thrashed the barrier violently in an attempt to break through. Pinkie Pie walked up to the edge of the invisible wall and began making faces at the monster, giggling as she taunted it.

Discordia spread her wings and took to the air, firing a beam at future Twilight. It landed just in front of the purple mare, missing her, but starling her enough to make her lose concentration on the barrier spell.

With the power of the barrier reduced by half, the raging tall creature smashed through shattering it like glass. His mouth spilt open, readying to attack as he lifted himself up with his spider like tendrils. Pinkie looked up in awe as Slendermane stared down at the pink pony and let out a roar powerful enough to blow back her hair.

She snorted as she tried to hold back a chuckle, but was unable to stop herself from barreling over in laughter. The slender pony tilted his head in confusion and Pinkie proceeded to point and laugh. “You look so silly!” Pinkie giggled. “Oh! I know what you need! Just gimme a second. Stay right here.” The pink pony zipped off and returned with a marker. She pulled off the cap and jumped up on his muzzle as she proceeded to draw on his face for a moment. Then she jumped down and admired her work. “There you go. That’s better.”, she said, holding up a mirror so he could see.

On the slender pony’s blank white face sat a pair of poorly drawn, misaligned eyes. He roared again and whipped the mirror out of Pinkies hoof with a tendril.

“Hey! If you didn’t like it, you could have just said so, you big meanie pants!”

The creature took another swipe at the pink pony, thrusting a tendril at her with enough force to pierce the marble floor as she jumped out of the way. Pinkie, in turn, pulled out a brightly colored cannon seemingly out of nowhere and fired, blasting the Slendermane and a cloud of confetti back several feet.

Present Twilight Sparkle was weakened and slightly stunned by the power she’d lost when the force field spell was broken. As she her vision cleared, she could only scream and try to shield herself with a hoof, as she was met with the sight of Slendermane charging at her after Pinkies attack. He dove into the air to pounce on the weakened unicorn, but just before he was able to sink his teeth into Twilight, he was met with a kick to the side of the head as Luna swooped in to save her sister’s star pupil.

“Make haste Twilight Sparkle and join the others! This monster will not stay down for long.” Luna warned as she flew down to block his path.

The creature looked to his master for support, but found her to be preoccupied trying to land a shot on the constantly teleporting Discord who taunted her with each failed shot. Slendermane pulled himself back up on his tendrils readying for another strike, but was met with a counterattack, this time from both princesses. The light of Celestia’s solar beam burned with great intensity, while the Luna’s shroud of darkness hindered his vision. He trashed his spare tendrils blindly in all directions, hoping to take down one of the two alicorns as he tried to escape the brunt of their assault, while future Twilight took random shots at him to further disorient the monster.

Above, Discord was still dodging attacks but was becoming short of breath. The winged purple unicorn fired a shot at him as he curved his long snake like body parry the blast. He looked down at the ponies below. “Any time girls! I’m not doing this for my health!”

Discordia fired a blast grazing his claw. He winced as he gripped it with his paw. Then she turned and fired at the girls. In panic they scrambled, trying to avoid being hit as she let out a constant barrage of energy balls to keep them scattered.

Discord tried to attack but was met again with injury as the Discordia bucked her back legs as hard as she could into the draconaquus’s face. Discord fell to the ground, and sat up, holding his chin.

She landed nearby and was about to deliver the finishing blow. “Any last words, father?” She grinned as she knocked her predecessor down as stood on his throat.

Discord wheezed as her tried to push the hoof off his neck. “Yeah...what’s that behind you?!” He said as he pointed.

“You must think I’m an idiot if you think I would fall for-” Discordia’s words were cut short as a bright flash of light appeared behind her. The unicorn whipped around to see the mane six gathered together preparing to use the Elements of Harmony against her. “What!” She yelled in disbelief.

“I tried to warn you.” Discord said with a grin before teleporting away.