A memory, one from a time many years ago now. One she has relived many times and holds nothing but contempt for. The rise and ultimate fall of her power, her strength, her will, even her body. The day those accursed mares dared cross her and attempted to erase her from existence. The day the Elements of Harmony were recovered and used to strip her of the lunar princess' body. How could she, Nightmare Moon, be overpowered and torn asunder by 6 mere civilians and some trinkets! This was the thought she had every time she saw that memory, until the day came where she saw the self imposed "Lord of Chaos" himself fall to these same elements.

She watched on, naught but a fragment of her former self unable to interact more than a whisper still she watched on. Watching the Changeling attack on Canterlot, the return of the Crystal Empire and King Sombra with it, and the destruction and ever hunger for magic of Tirek. It was when she watched the element bearers lose their marks and individual abilities to another unicorn magi, this Starlight Glimmer, that she came to an idea.

First however, she would need to gather as much strength possible to call upon her soon to be allies. It would take time for her to gather the necessary energy required, but she has already been watching for several years, what more was but a few months?

~**~

"Thanks for coming Discord" Fluttershy smiled "I had such a good time."

"Think nothing of it my dear, same time next week?" Discord asked.

"Oh of course, I will have some biscuits prepared to go with some tea." The shy pegasus softly declared.

After the small exchange of goodbyes Discord left the small cottage. As he was about to teleport back to his home, if you could call it that, he stopped. Something was happening in the old castle that sits in the Everfree, something that was pulling on many magical strings. Not being one to ignore something new and possibly fun he changed his destination and vanished at the snap of his claw.

Thinking that it may have been the newly crowned Princess of magic testing a new spell, he checked in the library, the dungeon, the organ room, and any other he thought she may have been hoping to pull a fast one on her. He however was able to find nothing.

It wasn't until he was about to leave that the feeling came back, the warp of magical energy of something that didn't exactly belong, something he had felt before but was encased in stone during the time. The warped energy was closer now that he was in the castle, he was able to feel it coming from the old throne room.

Popping into existence in the old room he felt the energy moving around. Around and around it went before he felt it stop behind him, then it started to speak taking the form of a specter. Looking much like she does when she moves as a shadow, but with her draconic eyes glowing from the billowing cloud that was her current body.

"Honestly these foals are completely foolish to trust you so readily after what you did to them, it is even almost just as foolish for you to continue to converse with the same mares who imprisoned you once before."

Discord only chuckled before turning to the voice. "Well well well, if it isn't, oh what does pinkie call you again, oh right, black snooty!"

"I have no time for your games trickster. I instead have a proposition for you if you are interested."

Discord attempted to touch Nightmare but his hands only went through her "body". "An ethereal body? Ohh this should be fun! Can you take over another's body?"

"I fail to see how that is relevant to this discussion Discord." Nightmare said with irritation laced in her voice. "I require your aid and with it I will be able to take down those accursed elements!"

"I still can't believe I am relying on these inferior beings for assistance." She thought to herself. Discord was the final piece in her plan she had yet to obtain. Sombra and Chrysalis were both easy to convince, the former she gained his help by reviving him through his severed horn. The changeling queen, after her defeat at Canterlot, was desperate and would do anything to get back to power. Starlight Glimmer was probably the most willing out of all of them. After all, this was a way to hurt the element of magic, Twilight Sparkle. Starlight was happy to help the nightmare in any possible way.

Tirek proved to be the most challenging to get so far due to being trapped in Tartarus, but just like the others, once he learned who the target was and what Nightmare wanted to do, he joined with her. Discord however would pose the most difficult of all of them to convince as he was not only the lord of chaos, but also most likely still held contempt for Tirek's betrayal. It was this that Nightmare was debating eternally when Discord disappeared. Looking around it wasn't until he was playing with her ethereal body that she noticed where he was.

"Yikes, lots of smoke up in here" He stated waving at what normally would be her hair. "You must be thinking too hard there snooty! Must be quite the plan for all of this."

Moving away from the being Nightmare was less than pleased. "I am not here to play games Discord, are you interested or not?"

With a tap of his jaw he stated. "Hmm, alright then smokestack, what is your plan?"

Finally getting to the core of what she wished to discuss, Nightmare transitioned to the most problematic portion of her plan. "First, before anything else, are you able to work with Tirek? Not for him, but with him?"

With this single question Discord stopped moving and looked directly into the eyes of the specter.

"You plan better be good Nightmare" He stated with much malice in his voice. His care free nature all but evaporated. "If you think this is funny, I will show you the true meaning of chaos."

It was with this that the nightmare no longer saw Discord the trickster, but the Lord of Chaos, and the terrifying beast that he was. Such a change in demeanor almost left her stunned, his personality changing from one extreme to another, almost like that of flipping a coin.

"I assure you that I am not joking and require you to be able to work with him. Each of us in our little group is able to see the negative aspects of another being. It is this ability that I wish to use. Currently there is Tirek, Chrysalis, Sombra, a mare who goes by the name of Starlight Glimmer, and myself. You are the only one left that we need."

Giving her a hard stare the draconequus waved a claw to her. "Speak your plan, if I feel that it is worth my time. For your sake, it better be."

With this statement Nightmare continued. "Very well, if you have not yet noticed there are six of us total, one to match each element. I plan to use your ability to warp space, along with another's newly found ability to travel through time, to go to a world where the beings are not so colorful in spirit and nature as the ponies of this word are. Where in a world of black and white, they are grey. I have seen through the leylines of reality and have found what I was looking for. I believe they may have already captured your attention as they are also chaotic in nature."

"You speak of humans." Discord stated with wide eyes. "Alright then nighty, what do you wish to do with them? You should know that I have been watching them for some time now. They are capable of both being paragons of virtue, while also committing atrocious acts of which are most vile."

Noticing that the chaos lord was seemingly along with the idea she continued. "Each element bearer stands for a different type of virtue, something that you and I are very well aware of. It is the humans nature that I wish to capitalize on. I wish to abduct six of them, one of each that their heart is more of a specific renegade type. A truly selfish person for generosity to be an example."

With this the draconequus was starting to put things together. "I think I understand where you are going with this. You wish for Chrysalis, a being who eats love to find a selfish human, Tirek being the king of betraying to find a disloyal one, and Sombra the tyrant to find an aggressive one. So that would be generosity, loyalty, and kindness each." He had been counting each one on a different claw. "I know of this Starfall Glitter, or however you say her name. You wish for her to find a liar like herself to combat honesty. I can only assume you wish for me to find someone who has a twisted sense of laughter. This only leaves you, Nightmare Moon. Who are you looking for to combat magic. You should already know that humans do not inherently posses it."

"I wish to find a human whose heart is filled with betrayal and anger, one that would go against the flow, one who knows how to tear relations apart, one that can help destroy the so called "magic of friendship". It is with this being that I plan to take as my new vessel as the anger in their heart will make them easy to control."

"Give me a moment to think."

After several minutes Discord agreed to help her on the condition that he only help them find the poor unsuspecting humans, pick one out to be his proxy, and bring them back to Equestria. After that the six gathered and began preparations for their departure.

~**~

"This is so God Damn BORING! Why the hell did I agree to come to church in the first place. With a groan the young man slouched in the pew receiving a swift smack across the back of his head from his mother.

"Relyks sit straight and quit whining. I finally managed to get both you and your sister here today so be respectful in the house of the lord."

"Relyks quit staying up all night and get up in the morning, Relyks get your butt up and come to church, Relyks sit straight and quit whining. He thought in a mocking tone. Not many would be willing to hit the man other than family or close friends as he was anything but small. Towering at a 6'3" and being 280 lbs with only a little roundness on him, most avoided him due his stature alone. Along with near waist length hair and despite only being 24 having what his friends called his "Lumberjack beard" people were, to put it quite bluntly, intimidated by him.

The sermon continued for a length of time and he was beginning to grow lethargic due to his boredom. But unlike most suspect, the calmness that a church holds would soon be lost quite swiftly. Relyks was staring at the clock counting down the minutes until they could leave. He had other things he wanted to do. Several of his friends had disappeared and he was one of the few still looking after months of no progress. He would deny it but past his hard exterior and sarcastic nature was a soft core. He had few friends but those he did he saw like family.

"Hey ma, I will be right back I have to use the re-" A crash and a flash of light interrupted him as he was going to get up. He looked to the source of the commotion when his eyes widened not being able to believe what they were seeing. In front on him was not only his missing friends, all being held in some sort of floating spheres, but also 6 villains from a show that he watched from time to time.

Looking at each one he recognized them all. Mentally taking note that each of them seemed to be paired with a sphere, all except Nightmare Moon.

"Alright them snooty, are you sure your little champion is here, I am getting bored of all this." Discord said while floating circles around his sphere it appearing to be holding one of the young man's missing friends.

"Yes." Replied the nightmare. "I can feel the anger radiating off one of them here. It is only a question of which one."

With this Discord took the stand having donned a cowboy hat and boots to match. "Alright now ya here! This is Smokey, and I am the Bandit. One of ya is sum-one who we be lookin fer." At this Discord snapped his claw and while the hat and boots vanished, they were replaced with reading glasses and a notepad. "Lets see here. Are any of you feeling angry, hurt, possibly betrayed? Maybe even feeling a little butt busted, bum frustrated, or anally annihilated?"

At his words nobody in the chapel moved and all was silent until a small voice could be heard.

"-that really discord?" With how silent it was the girl might as well have yelled it out.

"Ah so my reputation proceeds me! Unfortunately I do not have much time but I think for you miss I can make an exception." With that Discord used his magic and the girl floated up and over to them frozen in shock.

Relyks was flabbergasted to say the least as it was his sister whom was singled out. With wide eyes he stared, waiting to see if his little sister was in danger, and knowing whom the six before him were let him know it was a real possibility. With this he slowly lowered his arm to his pocket.

"Well miss snooty, is this the one you are looking for?" Discord asked levitating the frightened girl in front of the specter.

"No she is not. just toss her aside we don't need her"

"Well then mind if I take her? I think I could do with a good feeding." The changeling queen asked.

"Do with her what you will, it matters little to me." Nightmare Moon stated before passing the girl to the queen, or would have if not for the speck of silver that flew through her ghostly form. Looking behind her the 6 villains could see a knife embedded in the wall behind Nightmare Moon.

Standing with his arm stretched out was Relyks. Panting and with sharp eyes he looked at them and charged without hesitation, growling out. "Give. Them. Back!"

Chrysalis, forgetting for a moment that these were not the kind ponies she was so used to, but the aggressive and lethal humans, failed to notice the man as she was transfixed on the knife until his fist collided with her chitin body. Wasting no time Relyks pulled his sister away and pushed her behind him, locking eyes with Nightmare Moon as she said three simple words that caused his blood to freeze in his veins.

"There you are."

Author's Note

So this is the first piece of fanfiction that I have made. I have had this idea in my mind for some time and now finally have at least the beginning fleshed out. If there are any issues or errors please let me know and I will be sure to fix them.