Chaos Reborn: The Corruption of Harmony

Chapter 25: Will It Ever End?

Derpy shot forward, starting the next round of the battle. Discordia, in turn, took to the air, dodging as the pegasus zipped below her. The purple alicorn spun around and smirked hoping to catch the sight of her victim crash into the adjacent wall, but was thrown for a loop when she saw nothing of the sort. In fact, it was as if the grey pegasus had disappeared.
Discordia looked around in surprise, trying to locate the Element of Love.

“Where did she- GRAH!” Discordia released a howl of pain as Derpy shot up from below. Her hoof sunk deep into the alicorn's lower abdomen, forcing her to vomit as she was sent crashing into the ceiling before plummeting back to the ground. Discordia held her gut, coughing as she got back on her feet and looked up in rage. “You…!” She regained her composure. “You’ll pay for that cheap shot…and so will your little one. I’ve decided I won’t kill her right away after all. No, I think I’ll torture her for a few years first. She’ll be begging me to kill her as she endures only the most exquisite suffering.”

Blinded by rage, Derpy dove down for a second attack, but was stopped as Discordia shielded herself with her wings. The furious pegasus pounded on them as hard as she could, trying to break though, but to no avail. It was like pounding on a wall of solid steel. No matter how hard she hit, there was no give, but as she began to wear herself out, the wings began to separate and squirm.
Before Derpy had any time to react, she found herself wrapped in a mass of black tendrils, squeezing the life out of her. She struggled as hard as she could, but they were just too strong. In an act of desperation she let out a muffled cry and bit down on the tendril wrapped over her shoulder. Discordia screamed in pain once again and flung Derpy at the others.

“I got her!” Rainbow Dash yelled to the others as the jumped up in an attempt to catch her friend. Unfortunately for both of them, all that achieved was to send the both of them crashing into the wall behind. The others rushed to their aid.

“Are you all right?” Twilight asked as she pulled Derpy off of Rainbow Dash and back on her feet while Fluttershy and Applejack attended to their blue friend.

“Yeah. I’m ok…” Derpy said while rubbing her hoof over a dent in her helmet. “But I don’t think I’m strong enough to beat her on my own.” She turned back to the others. “You ok Rainbow Dash?”

The rainbow maned pegasus’s eyes were still spinning as Applejack and Fluttershy held her up. “Ughhh…” she groaned, trying to shake it off. “Yeah, I’m fine too. I’m just getting really tired of being thrown into walls.”

“I hope that’s not all you’ve got.” Discordia interrupted, slowly walking towards them, her tendrils writhing and lashing about.

The girls cautiously backed away, fearing what was next to come.

“Game over. Time to die.” The purple alicorn smiled as the girls backed into the wall, her tendrils lurching forward.

Fluttershy shivered in fear, closing her eyes and holding onto Rainbow Dash as the black appendages nearly reached them. The tension was broken as a blast of magic, hit the tendril. Discordia turned her head in irritation to find Luna standing defiantly a few feet away.

“Thou will have to go through me first.” The princess of the night said, holding a defensive position.

Discordia rolled her eyes and sighed. “Very well.” Without even facing the princess, the purple alicorn slammed her with a tendril, knocking Luna over with a single blow.

Luna promptly lifted herself back up. Her legs trembled as she fought to stay on her hooves.

“Will you just stay down already?” Discordia said, turning around and smacking the blue alicorn to the ground once again.

Luna lifted her head and opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off as a tendril wrapped around her throat, lifting her into the air.

“What was that, princess?”

Luna grunted and choked, trying to loosen the grip around her neck.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t catch that. It sounded like you were saying ‘I don’t have enough broken bones’. Why princess! I’d be happy to help you out with that.” Discordia flung her tendril into the ground hurling Luna with enough force to crack the marble floors. “Oh, you want more?” She mocked. The purple alicorn continued slamming her beaten opponent repeatedly onto the floor, laughing as blood splattered and feathers flew. She lifted the broken and bruised princess into the air, admiring her work. “I guess we’re done here.” Discordia said, releasing the grip on Luna, leaving her twitching and bleeding in a crater.

“No more…” Derpy said in a flat tone.

The purple alicorn smiled. “‘No more’? Ha ha ha. Oh, there will be more, a lot more. You girls are just my warm up. I plan to do this and much, much worse to all of Equestria. Besides, who’s gonna stop me? You?” She chuckled to herself. “Oh, you’re strong. I’ll give you that, but you can’t stop me on your own.”

“She’s not alone!” Twilight announced as she and the others stood in front of Derpy.

Discordia yawned. “Oh yes, how could I forget Twilight Sparkle and her worthless sidekicks?”, she said sarcastically waving her hoof around to dismiss them. “I no longer find this amusing. No offence to you mares, I think I’ll clean up here and find some new playmates.” Discordia’s tendrils combined back into wings, and she took to the air. Her horn radiated with dark magic. “Say good bye, girls! It’d been a blast!” A cone of energy shot down, consuming the entire group.

Twilight and her friends screamed, anticipating their demise.

“I said NO MORE!” The grey pegasus stomped her hoof, her boot cracking the floor below.
Suddenly a massive dome of golden light stretched out, holding back the blast.

“What’s this?!” Discordia said in surprise, ending her attack.

“I won’t let you do this anymore!” The dome popped, revealing the Elements of Harmony to be unharmed. “You’ve hurt so many ponies already! The princesses! My friends!” A tear rolled down her cheek as she turned to the charred pony lying on the floor. “The Doctor…I won’t let you continue to harm the ones I love.” The cutie mark insignia on her chest plate began to glow, creating six bubbles similar in color to the dome that protected them. “I may not be able to stop you alone…” The bubbles separated and hovered in front of the Elements of each of the girls. “But I am the Element of Love, and the best thing about love…” Each of the bubbles bonded with the Elements. “…is that it can be shared!”
The six mares began to glow with a blinding golden light. Discordia shielded her eyes momentarily. And when the light subsided, the purple alicorn gasped as she beheld each of the Elements of Harmony sporting a unique set of armor.
“And the more love is shared, the stronger it gets.”

Rainbow Dash smiled.
“Payback time”

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow both looked at each other and nodded. The pink pony ran up to Dash and jumped up on her hooves as the blue pegasus launched her into the air. Pinkie’s armor was of a futuristic style, and when she hit the ceiling, her back boots clamped down and held her up there. She held her front hooves together, the metal shifting and locking together to form a large gun barrel. “Time for the party cannon!” The targeting system slid down over Pinkie’s left eye as she locked on and fired a ball of pink energy from her front hooves.

Discordia jumped forward, barely escaping the blast. Her mouth gaped as she looked to see a massive hole in the ground just inches behind her.

Rainbow Dash was next. She wore a bronze helmet, with a matching shield, and shin pads reminiscent or Roman or Greek armor. A rainbow cape attached to her element. The blue pegasus darted forward, stopping just in front of Discordia who was holding her front hooves in front to shield herself. The dark alicorn peeked out to see Rainbow hovering upright in front of her.

“You’re…not going to attack?” Discordia lowered her arms in confusion.

The Rainbow Dash just smirked, lifting her rear leg up and with a single forceful kick, sent the alicorn plummeting into the hole behind.

Discordia fell down into the main hall, landing hard on the red carpeted stairs before rolling to the ground.