Rise of the Angel of Death

Twilight walked out of the palace she had to find Pinkie Pie, who was jumping around doing weirder stuff than normal. "Twilight, Discord’s birthday is coming up did you get your invitation?" Pinkie Pie said with cheer.

"Yeah, I did. Though, I don't know what in the world I'm supposed to get him."

"Just don't get him a gift certificate that's always lazy." Pinkie pointed out.

"I won't, Pinkie." 'Well that rules out that option.' She thought. "So what are you going to get Discord?"

"Ooh, I was going to bake him a super duper layer cake that has a layer of almost every flavor! It's gonna be sooo good!" Pinkie cheered, drooling slightly.

"Ok then so where is Discord holding his party at?" Twilight asked. Pinkie thought for a moment.

"I don't know actually he did say when he last saw me that he found a nice little place to live so possibly there." Pinkie Pie said with a smile.

"Like the forest that went missing?" Twilight asked. There was the piece of a forest that went missing in the northern part of Equestria. Not very much of it was gone but it was where the CMC saw Discord in dragon form.

"Oh remember those other dimensions you went to through the mirror and where Mal and Discord placed Sombra’s soul thing. Maybe Discord found an empty one to live in." Pinkie Pie said with a smile.

Twilight however started to imagine a whole dimension with nothing but Discord’s chaos.

She started to shake, disturbed by the images she had conjured up. "Twilight, are you okay? You look a little pale."

"Sorry, I just had a disturbing thought for a second. So who else do you think was invited?"

"Well, I know Luna and Mal were invited. One's his marefriend and the other's his best friend." "Oh great, Mal." Twilight said.

"Oh come on Twilight, Mal's not that bad."

"He constantly calls me Sparky and always tries to get a rise out of me. How is he not that bad?

Pinkie thought for a moment. "Well he hasn't ripped your soul out... Plus he helped a group of islands force away an invasion, help free Luna from Nightmare Moon then saved Celestia from Solar Flare, oh and helped us with Demise." Pinkie did have a point.

Twilight had to let out a sigh. "I guess you're right. I just wish he'd act a little differently. Did I tell you what he did in the mirror world?"

"Yes Twilight, you told us all about how he hijacked your spell and didn't tell you about his plans." Pinkie said with a giggle. "Listen Twilight, I've gotta go. I need a lot of time and ingredients if I wanna get this cake right." Pinkie finished, hopping off to some other part of town.

"Alright Pinkie, I'll go see if any of our other friends got invitations. Maybe they'll give me an idea on what to give Discord for his birthday."

Turns out they did but they were clueless or not very good at picking a gift. When the day came for the party Twilight had finally finished finding the best gift she could think of. "Ok, how do I find Discord’s party?" She asked. In a flash she was gone as the letter burned up.

------------ Back with Mal’s group, including the three sirens amazingly, and the Current PM of his nation, a Goblin, looked as he showed them the painting with dogs playing poker, or what he thought looked like dogs.

"Yeah I can't paint." Mal said looking at it. In a flash they too were gone. Twilight and friends appeared in a place with pink air with floating land masses and what looked like a… eyeball? Another flash was heard under them, then another above them. Looking up they saw Mal’s group standing upside down. Gravity was somehow not working right.

"Hi Sparky, good to see you again. Why are you upside down?" Mal asked.

"We're not, you are." Rainbow Dash said.

"Or maybe we're all upside down." Mal started.

"Maybe we've always been upside down, and we're just now realizing it." Pinkie continued.

"Maybe everything we know is upside down and the only way it can be right side up is to learn the truth about ourselves and the universe." Mal finished.

"Or maybe Discord is just playin' one of his pranks on us." Applejack deadpanned.

"Way to be a party pooper, Applejack, and the party hasn't even started yet." Mal replied.

"Can we just forget about who is and isn't upside down, and focus on finding Discord so we can go to his party?" Twilight asked. Everyone nodded and set off to find out where Discord was.

Mal’s group summoned their wings, with Trixie on her broom and the sirens spreading their odd, finlike wings. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Twilight started to fly too. The other three were stranded until Pinkie jumped and landed on the next land mass. Mal looked at this. Landing on the land mass he jumped to the next one without his wings. "Hey you can jump to the other landmasses, gravity seems off here." He tossed a rock only for it to keep zooming by.

'There's another reference to be made here but I can't remember it... again. I think it involved a plumber or something… weird.' Mal jumped from mass to mass until they all reached the edge of a forest. Mal, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash were the first to make it, followed closely by the others. "Of course this is where Discord would hold his party." Mal said to no one. "This was the forest he lived in when I met him the first time."

"Really, because this is the forest that went missing a few weeks ago." Twilight replied.

"Still, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in his aesthetic choices. I mean sure, the gravity thing was cool, but not nearly as chaotic as I thought it'd be. Where's the random animals dancing in tutus, dogs and cats living together, or weather patterns made of candy." Mal lamented.

Almost everyone sighed at Mal's concerns. Everyone that is except Pinkie, who shared in some of them. "I know right. I was hoping for at least a little chocolate rain, but there hasn't been a single drop so far. Ooh, maybe he's waiting for the party for all the cool chaosy stuff!" She cheered.

The group walked through the forest. They found nothing different. Finally, they were at the edge of the landmass as they approached Mal paused a bit. "I wonder, maybe he’s having it below us?" Mal reasoned. He walked and fell over! He summoned his wings and flew up. "Ok this landmass seems to be normal."

He however let the rush die down. "I saw a bunch of clouds below us I figured that’s where Discord’s at." Mal pointed down. They landed on the clouds that slowly consumed them until they found themselves coming out into the middle of Discord’s party inside the cloud

Mal looked around the room and was disappointed to see that it was by all accounts a normal party.

Discord noticed this and walked over to Mal. "Oh, what's wrong Mal?"

"Nothing, I was just hoping for more chaosy stuff considering it was your party."

"I would've, but Luna advised that most of Twilight and her crew wouldn't appreciate some of my tastes." Discord said with a sigh. Mal actually laughed at this.

"Dude, you're whipped, and by a pony too, never thought I'd see the day."

"I find it hard to believe myself." The Gargoyle Prince said walking over to Discord and Mal.

"Oh, hey, I've never seen you before. My name's Malthael, but most just call me Mal." Mal said extending his hand toward the gargoyle.

"I am Victor, prince of the gargoyles. Discord has told me a lot about you."

"Really like what?" Mal asked. The gargoyle’s prince had a smile.

"You’re an aspect of death, king of the Northern Isles, and his best friend." Victor said. Mal had a chuckle.

"Yeah I'm still debating if that's a good or bad thing." Mal chuckled before turning back to Discord. “By the way Discord, your invitation interrupted something very important between Sunset and I.” Mal stated, frowning and folding his arms.

“What did I interrupt?”

“Something very important,” Mal stressed.

The gifts were there as were the other Equestrian princesses. Pinkie Pie herself found a fountain of chocolate that never ended, she pretty much feel unconscious from well, over eating. Victor himself was talking about what he learned his race had entered a deep hibernation they're awake when they feel needed. The fact that they sleep in stone helped them remain immortal in the sleep. Twilight looked a bit outside she saw the eyeball looking at her.

"Discord, mind me asking where are we?" The god appeared right next to her.

"Well I found this empty dimension right next to Equestria, it was formless so I gave it form." Discord finished. The eyeball blinked.

"And the eyeball?" Twilight asked.

"That's the way into the dimension, in truth you passed right through it." Discord had a small. "It can turn into a mouth too."

Twilight shuddered at the thought. "Discord, that's disgusting."

"What, it's not a real mouth. Even I wouldn't like that."

"Whatever, so how many empty dimensions are there?"

"Well, just as many as there are inhabited ones."

"That's incredible!" Twilight said.

"Not really, you seem to forget just how astronomical the odds are of life forming in a dimension."

"I guess you're right. I never really thought about it like that."

"Few ever do." Discord said with a shrug.

"Discord!" Mal called out. "You're half-daughter passed out in the chocolate fountain! Do you think you could do something about that?" Discord looked over to Mal and did notice that Pinkie was in fact covered in chocolate.

"Looks like we'll have to table this discussion for later Twilight." The pink pony was dragged out of the fountain. "How much did she have?" Discord asked.

"I think enough to give everyone here diabetes, twice." Mal answered. Pinkie coughed up a bit of chocolate.

"I'm sure she'll be ok." Discord answered. The pink pony’s eyes slowly opened.

"I was in chocolate heaven." She said with happiness. The dimension started to shake. Mal had a calm expression and pointed up.

"What was that?" He asked.

"Oh yeah, this dimension is still a bit unstable, plus the gravity of the other dimensions still effect it." Discord finished. As the shocking intensified Discord had a look of fear. "Everyone, brace yourselves." Everyone did so as a wave of energy shot though the dimension as its outer walls had electric storms. Finally it ceased. "Sorry everyone a power surge happens every now and again." Mal slowly got up.

"Good to.... Ahhh" he felt something coming up until two orbs of light escaped him.

"What the what?" Twilight asked.

"Run." One orb said.

Mal’s wings shot up as he chased them. "Stop them, the surge let two souls escape!"

The souls passed through the clouds and Mal soon followed. Sunset summoned her wings to chase after him. The souls passed into the eyeball as did Mal. The souls hit the sides as Malthael slashed at them. The eyeball glowed as another surge started, the three were soon tossed into a vortex as energy almost hit Sunset who landed on a landmass.

"Mal!" Sunset screamed. In a flash Discord looked around the area. The others soon came as well.

"What just happened?!" Twilight screamed.

"Mal just traveled to another universe," Discord said. Everyone turned to him. "The eyeball is like a tunnel, a wormhole. The barriers of the dimensions are weaker there when the surge passes through it. Mal must have hit the energy that made up the wormhole allowing the surge to expand it and forge another wormhole to another universe." He managed to gather energy from the air around the wormhole. "This energy is acting differently than that of this dimension, it’s from another universe not another dimension, unfortunately its mixed with a bunch of junk energy from other dimensions at each universe's and a bit from other universes." He said.

"Can you find and bring him back?" Sunset asked.

"Possibly if I find a weak enough place in space time I can focus my magic on it and open a tear to the next universe, I however have to find the right universe’s energy first."