Is all Hope Lost?

Discord was cursing at himself for not being able to save Spike from Roseblood. "Grr! I am such an idiotx dammit!" He exclaimed. He wanted to try and go after Roseblood himself by just turning into a powerful monster the size of Godzilla and go on a rampage to save him and the rest of his friends from this awful spell.

Of course, deep down inside of him, a voice was telling him that it would be complete and utter suicide, like his own conscience was trying to talk him out of it.

Another Discord showed up looking like an angel, possibly coming from the real one's own head. "Oh, what would you know?" Said the Master of Chaos to his clone. "You are just a figment of my imagination!"

"Maybe so." Said the other Discord. "But, how you were wrecked by Roseblood last night, ibwoimd advise not too, unless you want her to kill you. Not to mention that she had Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilight, all the princess' under her influence, will wipe you out into oblivion."

"Shut up!" Discord exclaimed. "I could have defeated Celestia and Luna a long time ago."

"Be reasonable." Said the angel clone. "You will need help. You got dragons, hippogriffs, eland, kudu, Zebrican buffalo, griffins, and other friends on your side to help you defeat her."

Discord was thinking in his head, and he thought of how ashamed he would be if Zecora, and the others inside the cave found out that he lost Spike to the evil mare that could be the future ruler of Equestria.

Deciding to admit his shame and his supposed failures he went back into the cave with his head bent down. "Discord, where is Spike?" Asked Zecora. "Were you two out there in the morning light?"

The Master of Chaos' throat felt very dry like sandpaper, and swallowed hard. "Zecora," he began. "Spike had been abducted while you were all sleeping."

"Whaaaat?!!" Everyone inside the cave exclaimed in horror and disbelief.

"How did this happen?" Said Zecora.

Discord expected a reaction from her she everypony else inside. He felt like shedding tears of complete failure, but he said "Spike asked me to take him out because he thought he heard voices. Like survivors seeking refuge. Roseblood suddenly used a surprise attack and abducted him. I tried saving him , but she was too powerful, even for me."

Zecora didn't know what to say or even think about this turn of events. "You tried all that you could." She ultimately remarked. "But warn us about this, you should."

"I know." And he growled in anger and guilt soon morr. "Dammit, it's my fault!"

"Calm down, Discord." Said Lyra. "The plan, remember? We have all these creatures on our side."

"Yes. But what if it's not enough?" Asked Discord.

"Then... I guess we'll he in for the fight of our lives." Said Cloudchaser.

"My sister's right." Said Flitter. "We either die trying to free Equestria, or die trying."

"We got to make this count." Clpudchaser added. "We'll get him back, we just need to have all of those dragons, changelings, elands, and other creatures you guys encountered to help us in the fight."

"We better go tell them what happened." Said Rumble.

"Not just yet. For now, we should think of a plan to free Spike in our stone tent." Zecora said.

"Are you crazy?" Said Bon Bon. "He won't survive in there!"

"Yeah, who knows what kind of evil and despicable act Roseblood will perform on him! We have to act now and get him out of that hellhole." Lyra added.

"No. It's far too dangerous." Said Discord. "She is more powerful than you can all possibly imagine. She took me out with no ease or breaking a sweat. And I'm supposed to be the master of chaos for Celestia's sake!"

"Skow down there, drama king." Said Thunderlane. "We gotta warn the others out there somehow."

"And we gotta prepare for attack." Said Pip. We'll need all the help we can get from the army you formed to stop Roseblood."

"Right you are." Zecora agreed. "If Roseblood wants to play games with us," her eyes narrowed in a serious look. "We'll give her war."

"I can't wait to send her all the way back to hell when I get my hooves on her." Green Jewel said with a brave and fierce look on her face.

"And make her suffer for making a fool out of moi!" Discord exclaimed in fury. "Nopony makes a fool out of me and gets away with me. Ho, ho, I will make sure she will suffer in eternal pain and anguish."

"Control yourself, Discord." Said the zebra. "These take patience and precision. It was what talked about before."

"I know that." He defensively said to her in reply. "Time's a wastin, now. To the Dragon lands we go."

"Not so fast." Said Pip. "What if the guards all catch us out there and take us to Roseblood's castle with Spike?"

"Pip's right." Said Cloudchaser. "Are we gonna use a surprise attack on her and her guards? Our dad said that some things require the element of surprise."

"Forget that." Said Gustave le Grand. "We have to storm ze castle, that way, it will provide Roseblood with ze perfect distraction to strike at her in ze heart of her operations and plans."

"Those do sound like good ideas," said Lyra. "But, we're worried about how many lives will be killed trying to stop her."

"I am certain that we might lose some lives." Said Zecora. "But, we have to do everything in our part to save Equestria from Roseblood's filthy lies."

Everyone was feeling uncertain about these plans, and hoped that all the allies Spike and Zecora will be a big help in this upcoming plan, and maybe an upcoming war between the two sides.

"Look. I don't want to mess anything else up. I'll just make things worse if I joined all of you in this fight." He sat on a stones and sighed in shame. "As a matter of fact, I caused enough collateral damage as it is. I wouldn't even mind if I was turned into a lifeless, still statue again."

"Discord, you can right your wrong by helping us fight." Said Pip. "We're in this together."

"And we all need the help if your magic of we're gonna stop Roseblood for sure."

The Master of Chaos was silent, but he ultimately Said to everyone: "I put Spike in a terrible, grave situation right now. Rosebloox has him because of me. The only thing I'll be remembered for after this is the creature who has doomed Equestria into an eternal hell of despair, evil, and suffering."

"Don't say that." Said Cloudchaser. "We all make stupid mistakes. But, it doesn't mean we can never right almost all the wrongs to make them right."

"We all need you, Discord." Said Flitter. "You're as important to the good guys like everyone else here."

"I honestly cannot believe I am saying zis, but zey are right. Discord would he a good leader along with Zecora." Said Gustave le Grand. "And, we must all save my precious cakes, cupcakes, and all of ze baking materials to make my parfait sweets."

"Yeah. That's the least of our problems." Said Bon Bon sarcastically. "Kinda sounds like Pinkie Pieb if you ask me."

Zecors looked over her right shoulder, and began thinking of Spike and his safety, hoping that Roseblood hasn't done anything sinister. Despicable, or evil to the poor baby dragon. He was probably scared shitless by seeing that he was the evil mare's prisoner.

"Hang in there, Spike." She muttered to herself. "Stay strong, and pull through, everything will be alright." She might not know him like the Elements of Harmony do, but she knows him long enough to see how much of a strong baby dragon he was on the inside.