Project ART

An ethereal ghost of wind. Something unnoticeable to most. The spirit that had breathed the wind stirred. It felt the source of it's power, it's very nature. It felt..... chaos.

"Now, now, that's enough!" Cheerilee snapped at the group known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders. All three of them had been locked in a tussle over what a statue of a draconequis meant. Scootaloo thought it was chaos, Apple Bloom thought it was confusion, and Sweetie Bell thought it was disharmony. As the three fillies stopped fighting, she went on, "You're all right. Discord represents general disharmony, chaos, etc. And since you three exemplified him so well, you get to write an essay on chaos. Now come along!" She said, cheerily. As the school foals fell into line, the statue began cracking.

Soon. It had started twenty years ago by those blasted ponies's reckoning, when he'd felt a small surge of chaos. Now, he would finally be free to cause chaos. Say your prayers, Celestia.

"All right, why are there cotton candy, chocolate milk-raining clouds everywhere?! Rainbow Dash yelled as she tried to corral the clouds away from Ponyville.

"Exactly the reason why the corn is popping!" Jawsome responded as he waded through what used to be the cornfield at Sweet Apple Acres.

"Why's that a bad thing?" Pinkie Pie said from where she was getting rained on. By chocolate milk-raining, cotton candy clouds. Not even Pinkie logic.

"Because it makes no sense!" Applejack yelled back. Sonic ran up, half coated in cotton candy.

"That stuff is not moveable by hand, man." Sonic said.

"Great. There goes the corn." Jawsome and Applejack said. Suddenly, the apples on the trees nearest the corn started growing really large. The squirrels and woodland creatures began chowing down on them.

"Now, I wouldn't-eeeeeek!" Fluttershy said as she tried to get the animals to stop eating the apples, but mid-sentence their legs grew longer.

"This isn't the best time for a visit, am I correct?" Rarity said, trotting up with all eyes on her.

"Yes." Everypony but her said.

"Don't worry everyone, I have a spell that will fix everything!" Twilight proudly proclaimed as she walked up. She tapped into the ethereal pool of magic, and cast the spell. As the magenta light died, nothing had changed. "I don't get it! My failsafe spell... failed?" She said, in shock at the failure.

"Don't take it personal, Twilight. There has to be some way to stop the chaos." Spike said.

"That's the problem! The spell was designed to fix chaos! So this is either not chaos, or really powerful magic!" Twilight said.

"Wait! Sonic, can't you use that Chaos Control to fix this?" Jawsome said, looking towards his brother.

"Not sure. From what I recall, Chaos Control was only a way to warp time and space, essentially teleportation. I don't think that it actually controls chaos." Sonic said, in his thinking pose.

"It's worth a try!" Jawsome yelled. Sonic flinched, before responding,

"Fine." He grabbed the Emeralds, and raised them into the air, yelling "Chaos Control!" A wave emitted, and when it passed over the chaos, it was fixed. The clouds disappeared, the popcorn became corn again, the apple trees returned to normal, and the animals once again became short.

"Hey!" Pinkie yelled, with a mouth full of chocolate milk rain.

"Yeah! You fixed it!" Spike said, before burping up a letter. Twilight grabbed it in her magic and unfurled the scroll, reading the contents before gasping and saying,

"We're needed in the castle in Canterlot immediately!"

Canterlot Castle....

Celestia paced around the front entrance stairs. The chaos outbreaks were a terrible omen of a dark power reawakening. Hopefully her star student, Twilight, and her friends would arrive soon. Especially those hedgehogs, since the same thing could happen with-

"Princess Celestia! We came as fast a we could!" Twilight said, running into the castle with the ponies and hedgehogs. "What's going on? Why is all this chaos going on? Why-?" She stopped dead as Celestia raised a hoof.

"Follow me." She simply said, and walked northerly.

Tower of Harmony, Canterlot Castle.....

"You see, this is not natural chaos." Celestia said, walking down the corridor to the North Tower.

"Any chaos is not a good thing. Especially giant water gods." Sonic said.

"What?" Everypony in the room, minus Jawsome, who knew exactly what he was referencing, asked.

"Uh, inside joke. Anyway, what does this have to do with us?" Sonic said, sheepish and then curious.

"This is the North Tower. Here we keep the Elements of Harmony, thanks to your efforts." Celestia said.

"But why us? Why not-?" Twilight started, but was stopped by Celestia stopping in front of a door.

"I require you to once again wield the Elements against another enemy, an ancient evil long forgotten. I want you to fight The Spirit of Chaos, Discord!" She said.

"Discord, eh? If I recall, the name itself means chaotic or disharmonious. So, we are essentially facing this world's Chaos?" Jawsome said. Everypony with the exception of Sonic looked at him. The two hedgehogs looked at each other and nodded. "We have something to tell you."

Everypony was listening. Sonic started.

"You see on our world, we have something very similar to your Elements of Harmony. However, unlike them, they are pieces to a set of fifteen in total. The Fourteen Chaos and Flame Emeralds,-"

"We know that!" Pinkie said dramatically. Sonic continued,

"And the Master Emerald. Each is an object of incredible power, with the Master Emerald, the most powerful, generating infinite levels of energy. The Chaos and Flame Emeralds don't generate that much power, but each on its own is extremely strong. The more you collect, the stronger they become, and if all are gathered, then none could stand in your way. You would be.... Invincible!" Everypony gasped.

"But these Emeralds are also subject to other powers. Like two sides of a coin, or the opposite poles of a magnet, the Emeralds have two wavelengths of their own. Positive and Negative. The positive aspects of the Emeralds are much like the symbolism of your Elements, and the power of friendship. However, the negative aspects are what, unfortunately are what we dealt with on a near daily basis. Greed, corruption, hate, anger. The more of these there are, the more their power overrides the positives. In time, a demon would be born. At least, that's what they said. But there was another side to the Great Emerald, Chaos. This being is the God of chaos, but it is normally peaceful, watching over a race called the Chao. In our world's ancient past, a tribe of Echidna lived near the Master Emerald Shrine. One of them was a gentle girl, named Tikal. She was friendly to the Chao, so Chaos did not bother her. Rather, they became friends, where Tikal would always visit, and Chaos would always be welcoming. But the tribe's leader was not so peaceful. Under his rule, the tribe had conquered many rivals. He wished to use the Master Emerald's power to rule all of Mobius. He was dedicated enough to pursue it by any means. He attempted to take the Emeralds by force, in turn hurting Tikal and the Chao. This also enraged Chaos, who used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to exterminate them, but Tikal sealed herself in the Master Emerald with Chaos for all time before he could do any more damage. That is the power of the negative energies of the Emeralds." Jawsome followed up. He then continued, "But there was one other mystery that the Echidna were attempting to solve. The mystery of the Monado. A sword of mystical origins, a tool to manipulate ether, weapon of only certain few. They had attempted to just control it, but could not. They eventually stopped trying, and as a sign of friendship, Tikal placed the sword at the Master Emerald Shrine, where it would await it's one true bearer. That bearer was also the one that could control the Flame Emeralds, counterparts to the Chaos Emeralds. While chaos is malleable, flames are not. They are hard to control, and as such, are only useable by the one of the Monado."

"Whoa." Twilight said.

"And that is just what we remember. We were only just born when we were sent here, so we grew up with your history. We are not just here. We are but two reflections in a mirror, one living a life unlike the other. And if the mirror shatters, then we would be one, experiences and memories intertwining. Me and Sonic would probably just fade from existence then and there." Jawsome finished.

"So I see you two are indeed experienced. However I do not have another Emerald, so-" Suddenly Jawsome's eyes glowed bright gold. His vision tinged with white, scene greyscale. He saw a maze, a strange creature, his friends not acting as they did. He saw the next Emeralds, in a obvious place to find them. And above all, he heard a voice saying

"You will find them back where you began." As the vision cleared, he noticed everyone staring at him, as well as a pain on the back of his head.

"Jawsome! You all right?" Rainbow asked.

"Fine! It's just.... What happened?"

"You just spontaneously collapsed on the floor." Twilight said.

"Well, it's not anything that could kill me." He said, nodding at Sonic.

"What? You saw another vision?" Sonic asked.

"Right. I don't think those Elements are where we think they are."

"Correct you are, Jawsome the Hedgehog." A voice echoed around the hall, deep and sonorous, ended by a loud laugh.

"Discord!" Celestia said.

"Oh, Celestia, how nice to see you again! Well, not really since you rained on my parade a thousand years ago, but it's better than being a bloody statue, now isn't it?" Discord's voice echoed.

"Where is he?" Twilight muttered.

"Why, right here!" The stained glass depicting a.... thing manipulating pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies alike began moving."Ah, yes you irritable ponies. How do you feel having something of value stolen from you?" The image said, flitting from one window to the next.

"Yeah, yeah, smarm it up while you still can!" Rainbow yelled, flying towards the image. It disappeared, leaving her to face plant into the glass with a sickening SMACK and slide down to the floor.

"Ah ah ah, Rainbow Dash. Representing of Loyalty, if I may presume?" Discord taunted, sidling over to a window portraying the Mane Six around the Pedestal of Harmony, Elements in their place.

"You quit this childish behavior and return our Elements!" Rarity scolded.

"Ohhhh, the graceful Rarity, Generosity, if I do hear correctly." Discord said, lying upside down on top of the Pedestal.

"Quit your game before I have to do it myself." Jawsome said, obvious anger showing. A small, almost unnoticeable black aura began radiating off of him.

"No thanks, Jawsie." Discord said.

"Flame Spear!" A red hot shard was now sticking in the glass, which must be enchanted so as not to break. Discord just simply reappeared on top of Twilight's depiction in the window, tutting the now angry red hedgehog.

"Just stop and give back the Elements!" Twilight said forcefully.

"Oh-ho! Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic graces me with her words! Not very nice considering, but wisdom may be in them. Now, why would I do that?" Discord said. Pinkie started biting her lip.

"What?" Pinkie busted out laughing.

"He's dancing.... on your head! Hahahahaha!" Pinkie managed to get out. The image was indeed dancing on the head of Twilight's picture.

"Where can we find the bloody things then?" Twilight hollered.

"Why didn't you just ask earlier? But I will only tell you my way." The draconequis said. "Ahem.... Twists and Turns, all means to an end. But you will find what you seek, back where you began." The Spirit of Disharmony then left. Maybe to pick up a pizza from what they'd seen. Hold the cheese maybe. Twilight started pacing, mind running at a mile a minute, processing what she'd just heard.

"Makes me wonder if a toaster is gonna bust in here yelling 'OH YEAH!'" Jawsome thought. "Wait, why am I thinking that?" He then thought.

"Twists and turns.... Back where you began.... I'VE GOT IT!" Twilight muttered, then yelled. "Discord must have hidden them in the maze!" They all looked out onto the leafy labyrinth in silence.

Maze entrance....

"So, Discord must have hidden the Elements in the middle! It's only logical!" Twilight said excitedly.

"Besides, we might find an Emerald in there!" Sonic added. "As for logic, we-e-e-ll, the God or embodiment of Chaos doesn't play by the same set of rules."

"Whaddya mean?"

"It means that he can do just about anything." Sonic said.

"Well, let's beat him at his own game! Don't even need to navigate with these bad boys!" Rainbow said, then flew towards the maze. But before she could clear the border, a flash blinded everypony in the area. The next second, Rainbow hit the ground, and she, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twilight were looking very different. Humans? No. Not having their horns/wings? Yes. A laughter quite similar to the one heard in the Hall of Harmony was heard. Then Discord himself appeared. He was quite a character, having a goat's head, lion's paw, deer's antler.... You get the idea.

"Oh, you should see the looks on your faces! They were priceless! Hahahaha!" He laughed. A flash off to the side distracted the ponies however, and they saw someone taking photos. It was Jawsome, but he laughed it off and burned the camera and pictures. He then drew his Monado and pointed the tip of the blade towards the draconequis.

"So, you must be Discord, eh?" He said. He charged a Flame Spear behind his back, and threw it at his head. He simply scrunched it down, and the shard flew towards the hedge wall, but it deflected off somewhere else.

"Ahaha. Now we don't want you burning down this maze, do we?" Discord said. He snapped, and suddenly a red aura appeared around Jawsome. Multiple whishes were heard, but nothing happened to the pyrokinetic hedgehog. He started clapping slowly.

"Nice. A light show. A Motobug was way more threatening that that." He said.

"Hmmpf. Count yourself lucky that my Chaos magic can't tamper with your abilities. You still have yet to find those Elements though, and if I recall, you were looking for an Emerald of some sort?" Discord said, lazily twisting a cloud.

"Shaddup." Sonic said. "Let's just do this, everypony." Everyone nodded. They walked into the gap in the leafy labyrinth. Before they took off, walls sprang up around them.

(Me: this is taking forever, and how will I put the end in? Let's just fast forward.)

Ponyville....

"It... Didn't work?" Twilight said. "It can't be..." Starting at her tail, her color drained away, to match those that were once her friends.

"Twilight! Don't let him get to you! We can do this!" Jawsome said. "I can't.... alone." Growling, he charged a shard and threw it at Discord, who again dodged it perfectly. But once he did that, he realized that.... He just couldn't. The wave overran his fur, changing it to grey. He began walking home, but not before he let his Monado drop in front of the library.

"Yes!" Discord said, celebrating his victory. "Chaos rules once again!"