Author's Note

Hey everybody, in this chapter Empire and I put little subtitles next to the two Discords that show up in it. Here's what they mean:
(S)-Spirit
(G)-God
Thank you, that is all

Crisis on Two Equestrias Pt. 1

In a familiar yet different forest a vortex of light space time energy and magic opened up as Mal fell on the ground. His head was hurting as he stumbled around. The two orbs however entered in a familiar castle from their own vortexes.

'Oh man, I really hope that wasn't Star Swirl or someone like that. That would be just my luck.' Mal thought. 'And I have no idea where I am right now.' He continued with a sigh. 'I'd better fly up and see if I can find a nearby settlement.' Mal summoned his wings and flew high above the forest canopy. He scanned the area for a few moments until he spotted a familiar landmark. 'Hey, it's Sparky's castle. Someone in her town should be able to help me,' Mal flew to the edge of Ponyville and landed, retracting his wings. Mal slowly walked through town, but noted something was off. It almost looked like something big had happened in the town rather recently, if the swatches of upended earth were anything to go by. No one seemed to be around. 'That's odd, it's the middle of the day.'

"Hello!" Mal called out.

He found nothing. Naturally, he sighed. "Well this sucks." He sighed.

"It’s about to suck even more for you!" He turned to see the mane six.

"Finally, I thought I was being ignored." Mal said.

"Your evil of taking souls stops here!" Twilight decreed.

'What is Sparky saying.... oh I must be in another universe.' Mal thought. He saw a flash as their manes rainbowfied. 'Oh it’s that rainbowfied power...... ' He then blinked for a moment as realization hit him, 'oh crap.' He braced himself as a beam and an explosion of rainbow power hit him.

"Yes take that!" Rainbow Dash cheered. At the epicenter of the explosion stood Malthael, his blades at the ready. He was out of it, still somewhat reeling from the whole universal travel. The hood in place as his aspect started to control him. His wings formed again. The mane six moved back.

"But, but Tirek, the power of friendship..." The being’s dark hood had glowing eyes within it.

"None." The fog started up. "Can stop." With that his spread his arms and wings. "DEATH!" a wave of the fog rolled in Twilight created a barrier to stop it from spreading to them. When it was over anything alive was now dead and some of the buildings’ wood started to show signs of decay and falling apart.

“Dear sweet Celestia what is this thing?!" Twilight yelled.

"Should we try using that rainbow power again?" Pinkie asked.

"I don't know if we can use it again right after firing it once."

"So what does that mean, darling?"

"Umm..." Twilight said, shaking a little. Malthael slowly approached the barrier, raising his sickles. Once he was directly in front of it Twilight cast a teleportation spell right as he shattered it. In this universes palace the two royal sisters looked on with Discord as the six returned via teleportation. "Well how did it go?" Celestia asked.

"What is that thing?! It took the rainbowfied power and shrugged it off!" Twilight screamed.

Malthael looked on at the place where those ponies had been. All of a sudden his mind returned to him. Mal pulled his hood down and looked at the area. 'Oh no,' he thought noticing all the decay. 'This can't be good. The last thing I remember is Sparky and the others saying something about me stealing souls. Please don't tell me...' Mal took a deep breath and summoned a familiar soul.

"Ottio, I need you to tell me something."

"What is it laddie?"

"I didn't take any souls recently, did I?"

"No laddie, but there is something I should tell you. Those two souls that got out, they were those alicorns that imprisoned you all those years ago."

Mal paused at this. "You mean I actually captured their souls? How did they escape?" He asked.

"Well they were loosely captured, something about your powers not being completely under your control at the time. They used the surge to escape." Mal sighed. He was going to need to find this universe’s Discord.

--------------------Back at the palace Celestia and Luna gave Twilight a look of utter confusion. "What do you mean?" Celestia asked.

"I mean exactly what I said. We used the power we used on Tirek on him and it did nothing! What are we going to do now? How are we going to save Equestria?" Twilight asked.

"I suppose we have one last option. Discord would you please stop this creature?"

"Well, I suppose I could. I'm a little intrigued what could shrug off a power like this." Discord said with a grin. "Well, I better get going before too much damage is done. I should be back by tea time, Fluttershy." He finished, summoning a door and walking through it.

Mal paused he was slightly confused he should be where a village was but found only woods. "Stop right there.” Mal turned to see Discord in a cop outfit.

"Discord there you are.... wait..... question, are you in a relationship with Luna?" He asked. This Discord gave him a confused look.

"What are you talking about?"

Mal sighed. "Who is your best friend?"

"Fluttershy, why?" Mal face palmed.

"Ok you’re this universe’s Discord."

This Discord looked at him for a few moments. "I'm guessing that you come from a reality where I'm in a relationship with Princess Luna and you’re my best friend."

"Yes and yes. Okay, I need you to listen to me."

"Why should I, you tried to kill Fluttershy." Discord asked, getting out a pair of handcuffs.

"I didn't mean to do that. As soon as they saw me they fired that rainbowfied power at me and I lost control of my powers. Look, I need your help. Two souls I had in my possession got loose, and now I think they're trying to imprison me in Tarturas... again."

"You were imprisoned in Tartarus? You're really not helping your case for me helping you." Discord stated.

Mal laughed a bit at that. "Yeah right as I said that I realized it.... ok I was imprisoned in Tartarus because the universe I was in was racist." Discord nodded, some ponies were racist he could believe that. "I had no control over my powers, was put to sleep, then woke up and killed everything in Tartarus." Discord raised an eyebrow.

"Everything, even Tirek?" Mal thought for a moment.

"Monkey centaur thing, was trying to steal magic?" Discord nodded. He summoned an orb of light.

"I will claim your magic..... wait what’s going on? Why do I not feel my body?" the orb asked. Discord was wide eyed. He unsummoned it.

"Yeah I'm guessing he stole your magic?" Mal thought for a moment. "Wait a minute, how powerful are you?" Discord raised an eyebrow.

"Shouldn't you know if your best friend is the Spirit of Chaos?" Mal rolled his eyes.

"One my friend is the God of Chaos, two I've seen him man handle a being with 12 alicorns worth of magic and stalemate the Elements of Harmony in power." This Discord felt a bit jealous.

"Hmmph, well I don't really know how strong I am. I know I'm stronger than both Celestia and Luna, but the Elements have always been a little stronger than me."

"Can you still access other dimensions and universes?" Mal asked.

"Hmm, I've never really tried all that. I've always been happy causing my chaos here."

"Can you try? I'm sure the Discord in my universe is already trying on his end, but I need to get into contact with my friends as soon as possible."

"I don't know, aren't you worried about what could happen if two Discords came into contact with each other?"

"Look, I just need some help getting these souls back. If we're not careful they could cause a lot of problems."

"Who are these souls exactly?"

"Uh... Celestia and Luna's parents." Mal reluctantly admitted. This Discord blinked for a bit. "Before you do anything these two are so pro pony that their citizens ruined my Discord’s life were willing to commit genocide for the hell of it, and kinda attacked me after I saved a village from a monster attack." Mal sighed. "Yeah you just decided to fight." This Discord summoned rubber chickens. In Malthael’s universe the (G) Discord finally shot up.

"I found the reality... Now time to see if I can give him something." Discord appeared in the wormhole. Touching it he suddenly was dragged though. At the ground a vortex opened up. (S) Discord and Malthael saw (G) Discord. He stood up. "Mal I found you... Now I can stop those eights’ worrying.... Oh wait." He saw (S) discord. "Oh great Luna’s going to kill me." Malthael’s eyes twitched.

"Really, you're worried about Luna right now?" Malthael asked, holding off (S) Discord's rubber chicken with his sickles.

"Well she did warn me about potentially destroying reality by running into alternate versions of myself." (G) Discord said.

"Look, can you just do something about him?" Mal asked, indicating (S) Discord.

"How am I going to do that? He's me so he has to be as..."

"He's only a spirit of chaos."

"Oh, well. Then I'm sure I can think of something."

(G) Discord gathered the energy he needed it was much easier without any distractions. "Now." He said, Malthael jumped up. As (S) Discord looked up his counterpart unleashed a blast that was just as powerful as the Elements themselves.

"Oh Crap....." (S) Discord was hit by it and there was a stone statue of him.

"Wow he really isn't as powerful as me." (G) Discord said. Mal walked up to him.

"Ok so what do we do with him?" Mal asked. (G) Discord got an Idea.

"I know." In a snap they were gone.