Someone began knocking on the door, breaking all out of their stupor (though Tenmei was still blushing.) Yuuki got up and trotted to the door before opening it. What stood behind it made her eyes widen and a gasp of shock escape from her lips.

There, just outside, stood the fabled Discord himself. The one who started this whole mess, and pretty much all the messes that transpired since then.

Everyone else at the table quickly rushed upstairs at the sight, and so did Tenmei after he turned around to see why.

“Just a moment, please. Gotta get something.” Yuuki sighed before bolting the stairs herself quick as lightning.

Discord stood there, using his lion paw to rub his chin a little. Next thing he knew, the ponies who ran upstairs came back with their respective weaponry held in saddlebags and attached to forelegs.

“Oh my, getting a bit agitated, are we?” The chimera asked, flashing the group a toothy grin.

“How can we not?” Koto swiftly countered, eyes narrowing low. She pointed the accusing hoof at the chimera. “You dragged us here and started a great big mess for us to clean up!”

Discord kept grinning, putting the digits of his mismatched hands together like a scheming madman. “So I did.” He replied.

“Before we continue,” Nagare interjected, raising a front hoof briefly, “how did you find us?”

“Well,” Discord started, grin widening, “Celestia sent me here to find you. I simply asked Twilight for directions after that, and here I am.”

“Seems reasonably legit.” Yuuki sighed, shaking her head afterwards. “But it doesn’t excuse you taking us from our world and throwing us here in bodies we weren’t familiar with at the time to boot!”

The heads of the others nodded in agreement at that point.

“If that’s how it must be,” Discord began again, eyes glinting maliciously, “then we will fight.”

“One problem: where?” The group of five asked in unison, almost as if they’d been five personalities of a single entity.

“I can make us a platform to fight on, if it suits your needs. I’ve taken on multiple ponies a hefty few times; what’s stopping me now?” Discord asked, the tuft of fur on his tail snapping like swift fingers. Before any could react, they vanished along with him.

The quintuplet found themselves on a great big platform, perhaps three times the size of Ponyville, and well on the other side stood Discord.

“Quite impressive, no?” Discord asked, still smiling.

“Eh, it’ll do.” Nagare sighed, flaring his wings wide.

“Well, there’s five of you, so...a total of five weapons, right?” The chimera asked.

“Duh. Did you lose your eyeballs or something?” Rekka countered, a brow arched.

Discord, as if to respond, yanked his eyeballs out of his head and shook them like dice before tossing them aside over his shoulder. They then returned into their sockets as if never taken out at all. He flared his own wings wide, and cleared his throat.

All was silent for a moment. The quintuplet then broke apart, and Discord took to the air, making sure to stay only a few inches above ground. He was amazed that Nagare got onto his hind legs and was running upright towards him, sword in front hooves poised like a lance.

Discord then looked to his right, moving his head out of the way of Koto’s incoming boomerang. He blew a raspberry to taunt the unicorn as her weapon then returned to her waiting magical grip.

The chimera quickly swiveled around, nearly getting hit by Yuuki’s weapon in the process, and witnessed Tenmei rise onto his hind legs, crossbow aimed at him. A bolt was fired, only for Discord to snap his fingers and cause an anvil to land on it from straight-up nowhere before it could collide with his body.

“What the…?” Tenmei inquired, blinking at the anomaly. He reverted to all fours. Glancing up, his eyes widened as another anvil threatened to drop upon his head, and he quickly moved out of the way.

Nagare then began flying, rushing at the chimera with his blade still poised to strike. Yuuki did this as well, only she climbed high into the air before descending whilst spinning, her yoyo spinning around her as she went. The mare looked like a drill doing this, and the air currents she seemed to generate as she spun faster and faster only made it appear even more like that.

Discord held his lion paw to his mouth and yawned into it, using his bird-hand to grab onto Nagare’s sword, the sharp side in his claw as a result. Using all his might, he then hurled the stallion away from him, snapping his tuft-fingers to make ropes hold his wings as he careened away.

The chimera looked up and stepped aside, letting Yuuki collide face-first with the platform. There were visible cracks made from the impact. He deftly dodged the boomerang and another crossbow bolt, only to feel a form jump onto his back and finding two orange forelegs grasping him by the throat.

“Surprise!” Rekka cried, wrapping his hind legs around the thing’s chest. He held a surprisingly tight grip, and for some reason, Discord noticed his weapon wasn’t attached to his foreleg anymore. The chimera reached around and yanked the stallion by his long mane, forcing him to let go before he found himself thrown over his adversary’s shoulder.

Koto rushed towards Discord, spinning her boomerang in her magic. Discord yawned again and moved out of the way before then flying around her and going so fast she was turning her body in a vain attempt to hit him.

Once the chimera rushed at Nagare, who had stood up on his back legs with wings still tied, Koto was sitting on her rump holding her head with a hoof. Her eyes were spinning in their sockets.

Nagare hissed, raising his sword in a defensive stance, waiting for the chimera to stop before him. Discord instead swiveled around and began swiping at the pegasus from behind with his mismatched appendages, forcing him to fall back.

Yuuki removed her face from the platform, and she shook her head afterwards. She coiled her weapon back around her foreleg and noticed that Nagare was having a bit of trouble keeping the claws away from him. In fact, he had scratches on his midsection and one of his back legs. The mare took off, hooves outstretched before her as wings drove her onwards, hoping to stop Discord’s attack.

Before she could, though, an anvil landed on her head and she fell to the ground. It disappeared before it could crush her, though she herself was now locked in a daze of dizzy like Koto.

Rekka and Tenmei stood next to one another, a good ways away from the fight.

“This is a problem.” Tenmei murmured, watching Nagare get careened away again as Discord smacked him with his tail.

“Yeah.” Rekka agreed, holding his cannon next to him in his magic. His brow was furrowing. Both ponies then broke into a gallop, charging right at Discord in unison.

Discord saw them getting closer. He grinned again, readying his mismatched arms to grasp the two before finding a pair of hooves cover his eyes. He felt back legs wrap around his throat, and something thin whack his head over and over again.

The chimera then stood on all fours, yanking the intruder away with his tail. Once sight had been unveiled, he shot a glance at who was hitting him still. It was Koto, and she was struggling to break free.

Needless to say, she was thrown elsewhere, her boomerang flying with her as she went and skid upon the platform after landing on her side.

Discord stood upright again, just in time to grab the two stallions before they could land a hit on him. He held Rekka by the horn, and Tenmei by the mane. His tail grabbed Nagare, who had also charged back into battle on his two hind legs, and wrapped around his still-tied midsection.

Yuuki was charging as well, this time by hoof. A great big bruise was on her forehead, and she was shrieking in a mixture of pain and anger at this point. Tears leaked from her eyes as she galloped like a rabid dog, teeth bared as if preparing to bite down.

Next thing she knew was a cage appeared around her, and its metal bars soon grasped her form, tying her wings to her midsection as well.

Koto rose up, shaking her head for a moment, before her eyes widened at the sight the world presented to her. Before she could react, a lasso appeared from nowhere and grabbed her by the neck lickety-split. She and Yuuki were then dragged to Discord, who was now grinning again.

What he didn’t count on was Rekka’s cannon suddenly increasing in size, to the point it was about five times the size of he. It was still grasped in his magic, despite his horn being held firmly by a lion’s paw. The hole the bullets would come out of began emitting a fiery glow, white-hot dead center.

Discord moved out of the way, making sure to yank his adversaries with, before the resulting laser could hit him. After the laser was finished being fired, the entire area it had hit was naught but a smouldering scorch mark. The weapon reverted to normal size, returning to its owner’s foreleg afterwards.

“How...did you do that?” Discord asked, raising Rekka to eye level as he spoke. His eyes were wide with wonder.

“It seems to happen at random…” The stallion answered, ears on his skull.

“Well, that was very chaotic--not in a good way, mind you--of you to do that.” Discord sighed, smiling again. “But, you five still aren’t strong enough to tackle me. See me again if you’ve still a bone to pick with me in the future.”

Author's Note

Well, that was quite the asskicking.

~Dragon