The Renegade Heroes

The Prophecy

It was a relatively calm day for Fluttershy, just taking a casual stroll through the meadows, lightly singing to herself and to her bird-friends.

And then she gasped as she saw a pony, lying in the meadow... Not moving.

The pony looked like a stallion, with a dark-green coat as well as a silver-and-blue mane. He was wearing a black cloak with the hood down, revealing his broken and bleeding horn.

Fluttershy quickly raced to the unknown pony, panicking and shuddering, "Oh no, oh no, oh no! W-What do I d-do...!"

Not able to think of anything else, Fluttershy quickly grabbed him and proceeded to carefully carry him to her place, as the hospital was simply too far away. Little did she know however, that a shiny gold medallion dropped out of his cloak when he was picked up.

At her cottage, Fluttershy quickly, yet gently, set the stranger onto the couch, much to the chagrin of Angel Bunny, who had to hop down onto the floor. She quickly removed the cloak and gasped. The unknown pony had wings.

He was an alicorn. Fluttershy stared at him for a little bit, too shell-shocked to move. But then she gulped and shook her head, remembering that he was injured, badly.

She quickly ran out of the room to grab her first-aide kit, Angel quickly following behind, mostly because she was ignoring his demands for carrots. But as she left the room, a certain draconequus had materialized, looking around quickly. "Fluttershy? Oh where could she be... it's not like her to be late for our tea party." Discord blinked a little bit as he finally noticed the wounded pony on the couch.

"...Now, who are YOU?" Discord grumbled quietly to himself. He slithered over to him, suddenly wearing a plaid trench coat and wielding a magnifying glass. He quickly inspected all around the strange pony before he sneered a bit. "Your not from around here... are you?" Just as he raised his fingers to snap him back to wherever he came from, Fluttershy had burst through the door, Angel on her back and contently munching on a carrot.

Fluttershy gasped and gave an angry glare at Discord, "Discord!"

As soon as she said the draconequi's name. the strange pony gasped loudly and opened up his eyes, revealing that they looked like a galaxy. Black, blue, and purple background with hundreds of tiny, white, irregular dots. He sat straight up, panting heavily. He began muttering softly before bursting out laughing, his eyes not closing once. After a minute of laughing for him and awkward shock for him he quieted down, only to grin maniacally.

They all just stood there in stock silence before Fluttershy squeaked a little, timidly stammering "U-Uh... a-are y-y-you o-ok?"

The stranger whipped his head around to her, grinning even more and giggling. "Ok? I'm moooooore than ok~! I'm The Prophet after all~! Teeheehee~. I'm here to give a warning! Hurray for the end of all worlds~! After all," He twisted his head towards Discord, his tone suddenly dropping all of his laughter, leaving only a dead serious monotone, "The King Of Madness will arise."

He suddenly opened his mouth wide, wider than it would physically be possible, and living static started to pour out of it, swirling around Discord like a tornado, moving faster and faster, until it started to shake the house, and it moved faster still.

Fluttershy tried to scream, but the howling winds easily drowned out all noise, despite her best efforts. Eventually the winds subsided, the static being sucked into Discord. Once the dust settled, Discord no longer looked like himself. Gone was his colorful and playful demeanor, replaced only with malice and cruelty. His body crackled with grey lightning as he crumpled to the ground.

The Prophet started to cackle madly, dropping to one knee. "KING FOLIE HATH ARISEN! LET THE MULTIVERSE TREMBLE BEFORE HIS WAKE!"

Meanwhile...

Button Mash groaned and threw his forelegs up in the air. "Uuuugh! I give up! You win!"

Sweetie Belle giggled at her coltfriend's frustration as he slumped down on the couch. "Awww, cheer up Button! At least you got me down to 19 health!"

Button grumbled a little and said under his breath "Out of 20..."

Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes playfully and sighed contently, leaning against Button Mash. She giggles a little bit and nuzzles into his neck. "So what do you wanna do? Rarity's got going to be home for a while."

Button sighed, turning his head to look at her, "I don't kno-" He was cut off as Sweetie's lips met his, making him blush slightly but kiss back.

They stayed like that for a couple seconds until Sweetie pulled back, a sly grin on her face. "Oh I think you know exactly what we could do~..." Sweetie leaned in for a kiss again, but stopped, faintly hearing a distant ringing in her ear. She sat back up, looking around confused.

Button tilted his head, a little concerned for his marefriend, "Sweetie? You alright babe?"

Sweetie shook her head and smiled, "Oh it's nothing. I just thought I heard-" There it was again, only louder, much louder. Sweetie gulped as a chill went down her spine.

Button's voice suddenly turned serious, but protective. "Heard what Sweetie?"

Suddenly Sweetie's eyes shot open, the pupils dilated into a weird shape, eight arrows each pointing a different direction, and a blood curdling scream emitting from her throat. She started to flail wildly, clipping Button on the temple, knocking him out.

Meanwhile...

"La La-la La-la La-la La-la!" Chatter Bug sang to herself, happily trotting over to her favorite aunt's house, which doubled as a bakery so bonus points, from school. Once she got there she threw open the door and called out, her eyes closed and she was grinning brightly. "Aunty Pinkiiiiieeee! I'm hooooooome!"

...

When she didn't get a reply Chatter Bug blinked a bit, opening her eyes and looking around the shop. Or rather, what was left of it.

Chatter Bug's jaw dropped when she saw the damage that was brought upon Sugarcube Corner. Everything was either smashed, warped, or simply burnt to charcoals. The only thing that was untouched, was a single, lone cupcake with rainbow colored frosting, seemingly in the middle of the devastation.

On the cupcake though was a black decoration...

Of eight arrows.