Chaotic Origins

Rainbow yelped as Discord pulled on her tail. She glared at him, opening her mouth to complain. Before she could say anything, though, a cooked chicken appeared in her mouth. Discord laughed as she spat it put and ran her hooves across her tongue to get rid of the awful taste.

     "Ewww, that's gross! Why would you even do that?" Rainbow complained.

     "I think I'm going to be sick," groaned Twilight, who looked slightly green. Sonic stopped tugging on his chains for a moment.

     "While you're at it, could you make a chili dog? I know they're all vegetarians, but the diet is paling." Sonic asked, shrewdly looking up at Discord. Twilight stared at him, aghast.

     "You're an omnivore?!" she screeched. Sonic gave her a dry look.

     "Yeah. So?" Discord, in the meantime was laughing at the little interaction that was going on.

     "Aaww, you make such a cute couple! Too bad I hate cute," he cooed. Sonic flinched, and stared at him.

      "Couple? No way. Nuh uh. Never happening," Sonic vehemently denied.

     "Oh, really? I have to wonder, has Rarity gotten to you yet? According to her, she could even make me look pretty. It wouldn't be that hard, really." Discord pulled out a hand mirror and examined himself. Sonic sighed and went back to pulling on the chains. After a few moments, Sonic finally gave up.

     "Ugh, skip this. Might as well go straight to the big guns." The Emeralds appeared around him, floating in a circle. Sonic floated up, the chains breaking like glass and the cuffs falling away. As he rose, golden flames wreathed his body, and his eyes flashed before turning red. A bright light flashed, and when it died down, the Emeralds were gone. In their place was a flying, golden Super Sonic. Discord whistled.

     "You're practically oozing chaos energy. Which means that it only takes a snap of my fingers and I'd be in complete control. I have more power than you can imagine, much less hope to defeat with your paltry Emeralds."

     Sonic smirked.

     "You can try." He cracked his knuckles, and readied his fists. Discord snapped his fingers. Nothing happened. He tried again. He frowned as it continued to fail. Sonic's snarky smirk only grew as Discord kept trying. He quit after the 10th or so try.

     "No matter. We can do things your way." Long talons grew from his fingers, and blades appeared along the edges of his wings. Discord floated up, matching Sonic's height. He was about to challenge him when he got socked in the chest with an explosion of golden light. He was sent flying away into the trees. Sonic turned to Twilight and Rainbow.

     "Round up the girls and get the Elements. I'll beat him up a little before we corner him and you turn him back to stone. Got it?" He didn't wait for an answer before blasting off towards where Discord had landed. Twilight and Rainbow shared a look.

     "Who died and put him in charge?" Rainbow Dash grumbled. Twilight sighed and pulled her away.

     "Just come on!"

     Sonic caught up to Discord just as he rose from the bracken. Sonic smirked, for the normally overconfident draconequis was scared. He was hiding it pretty well, but Sonic could still tell.

     "What you afraid of? Finally meeting someone who can defeat you without breaking a sweat?" Sonic taunted.

     "Really, such demeaning comments AREN'T necessary," grumbled the Chaos God. He turned to Sonic, readying his claws. He slashed at him a couple of times. When the powered up hedgehog dodged those easily, Discord tried something different. He acted as if he were going to slash at him again, but shot a beam of energy out of his palm at the last second. Sonic tried to dodge but was too slow, and the beam hit him square in the chest.

     Discord grinned, thinking that the hedgehog was done for. No one could recover from a point blank shot like that. To his surprise, Sonic rose up above the treeline within seconds. He laughed.

     "What is this, a tickle fight? Where's all that power you were bragging about?" Sonic taunted. He was really getting into the the swing of things, and wasn't about to go down without a fight, both literal and verbal.

     "Fine. I WAS going to go easy on you, but you've forced my hand." The Chaos God snapped his fingers, and a sphere of metal mesh appeared around Sonic. Woven into the mesh were countless laser guns, all of which were hopelessly cliché. Discord grinned.

     "There is no escape. There's no way to dodge all those lasers." Discord crowed, sure of his victory.

     Sonic shrugged his shoulders. "Who said I was going to dodge them?" The guns all shot their load at the same time, all of them aiming at the glowing hedgehog. At the very last second, he started spinning, curling up into a ball and hovering in place. All the lasers bounced off of him, wrecking the cage with a few of them hitting Discord.

     Sonic rolled smoothly out of the spin, charging towards Discord while he was still distracted. Discord dodged around him only to get blasted anyways. Sonic had stopped and performed a devastating axe kick, sending a wave of energy in the shape of a crescent blade rushing towards the draconequis.

     Sonic grinned. This fight was pretty easy so far. Normally he wouldn't be so self-assured, but Discord seemed like a one-trick-pony. For all Twilight had told him, Sonic didn't see any cotton candy clouds or chocolate milk rain. He didn't even see any dancing buffalo in tutus. (He had secretly wanted to see that) but it was probably better that there wouldn't be too much cleanup.

     Discord flew straight to Sonic, grabbing him with his elongated claws. He snarled, for once truly angry.

     "No one attacks me so brazenly and gets away with it!"

     "From what I heard, it's already happened. Twice."

     "But you were the only one who's done it with his fists." Discord piledrived Sonic into the side of a mountain, launching him out the other side. Sonic fell, scoring a long trench in the ground. He wasn't down for long, though, and shot back up to the fight. He spiraled around Discord, causing the Chaos God to spin around in order to keep track of the hedgehog. Once he was sufficiently dizzy, Sonic spun around and kicked him with both feet. Discord fell away a few feet, but kept himself from going too far.

     The battle continued in this fashion for a few minutes, both scoring hits and taking them in equal measure. Discord was obviously worse off than Sonic, though, who was just getting started. For a moment, there was a lull in the fighting. Discord panted while Sonic jabbed and punched at the air in front of him. When he had the Chaos Emeralds, he felt like he could take on the world. Now was no different.

     Finally, Discord stood up straight and attacked with his claws and wing blades. So far he hadn't used the latter, and they were a surprise to Sonic. Still, he dodged with ease. Sonic dodged under one such attack and delivered a deadly uppercut to Discord's chin. There was a resounding crack, and a tip of a fang sailed into the air. Discord fell to the ground, landing with a thud. When he didn't move from  where he fell, Sonic cautiously flew down.

     He landed softly, his super form alight with golden flames. His eyes were narrowed. Slowly he approached. As soon as he was close enough, he poked the draconequis. Nothing happened. He drew closer.

     Suddenly, Discord lashed out. Sonic tried to dodge, but the air around him changed to the consistency of water. He couldn't move fast enough. A set of claws closed around his throat, lifting him into the air as Discord picked himself up from off the ground. He squirmed, trying to break free, but was unsuccessful.

     "NO!" cried a certain purple unicorn. Discord turned his head to see the Mane 6 in full Elemental regalia. Twilight stepped forward, her eyes blazing.

     "Let him go," she ground out.

     Discord smiled evilly. "No, I think not. Take it this way. As long as I have him, you wouldn't dare use the Elements on me."

     Twilight gasped, her mind making the connection. She glared at him, but he only tightened his grip on Sonic. Sonic squirmed, but gave up as it became too difficult to breathe.

     "Do it!" Sonic wheezed, slowly losing consciousness.

     "No! What'll happen to you?"Twilight cried.

     "It doesn't matter! Do it!" he repeated, his lungs begging for air. Discord scowled, not liking where this was going.

     "Don't you dare!" he growled. "I will not be turned to stone again! I will be free to create a new kingdom in my image! The Land of Chaos! Home of Disharmony!" Sonic shot Twilight a desperate look as he scrabbled at the arm holding him.

     Twilight gulped. "Alright girls, let's do this!" They all rose up, their Elements glowing. Discord stared in disbelief. He began to stutter, trying to protest, to say something, but he couldn't. He looked down at the hedgehog dangling by his throat. Sonic's eyes were closed as he fought unconsciousness.

     A rainbow beam emerged from the Mane 6. It spiraled and glowed with divine light. As it rushed towards Discord, Twilight could only pray that Sonic would escape unscathed. While she wasn't sure exactly how the Elements worked, she only knew they fixed anything unharmonious. Sometimes they healed. Sometimes they destroyed.

     Discord felt the familiar burning sensation, but it hurt just as much as it had the first two times. He gritted his teeth as he felt his limbs turn into stone. It only took a moment, but it felt like eternity to everyone who was watching.

     Sonic's eyes were forced open as searing pain raced through his body. As Discord was being turned to stone, his grip loosened, and Sonic fell to the ground, still caught in the rainbow beam. He clenched his teeth shut, trying not to yell in pain. It felt like someone was burning every cell in his body at the same time. He held himself up on his hands and knees. He knew that the sensation had to end some time, but it took what seemed like forever. Finally, the pain stopped.

     Sonic could vaguely hear Twilight's cry, and he passed out before she could reach him.