Forwards to an unfortunate future

by Muffin Queen

The revival of chaos

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The return of chaos

Rarity landed face-first onto the ground, she landed behind the CMC Clubhouse. "I was expecting to land somewhere else in Sweet Apple Acres," she said, the unicorn trotted across the Orchard then she stopped when saw popcorn coming out of the sweetcorn. "Well at least I know I'm in the right time," she watched as Twilight cast her spell and nothing happened, Rarity stay hidden in the pile of popcorn until herself and her friends had gone. "I suggest they're going to Canterlot," Rarity knew that she had to head off to the Palace labyrinth.

When she finally arrived at the Palace labyrinth, she searched for any sign of Starlight Glimmer, but she was nowhere to be found.

Rarity searched around the labyrinth even behind the statues, eventually her friends had come to the labyrinth and she was out of time.

She saw them being split up and spreaded across the labyrinth. Rarity used her floating spell to see if there were any changes made, but there was nothing really strange going on. Well except the fact that Applejack had talked to the apples and Pinkie Pie had chatted to a balloon, wait that's no different to how Pinkie usually acts.

The labyrinth disappeared and in its place stood a large crater, Discord laughed at the arguing ex-friends. Rarity growled at him, she still believed that Discord was not fully reformed by Fluttershy and still caused chaos.

Twilight and her friends began the journey back to Ponyville, which surprisingly took longer than expected. The road got covered in soap and the sky switched from day to night, it was complete chaos-wait, of course it is.

When they got to the library, Twilight begged for her friends to go in and carried Tom (Rarity's rock) in. Rarity watched through the window at them, they fought each other for the elements of harmony reference guide. Twilight managed to catch the book and find the elements, but Rarity knew what would happen next.

Discord laughed at the mane six, their plan didn't work in the end and they all split up.

The unicorn entered the library, she didn't understand why the elements didn't work but didn't even care about that. She began to pack up and ordered Spike to do so as well, Rarity watched and felt as if something was missing.

Twilight packed up some of her books at the same time that Rarity remembered it. "Oh no! Twilight told me that Princess Celestia sent her many letters to remind her and give clues about Discord true intentions! If those letters aren't sent then, then Twilight won't know his plans and our friendship could be broken! I cannot let this happen, but what?" Rarity thought of what she should do. When she saw Twilight closing up one of her bags, Rarity couldn't take it anymore and just decided to give Twilight the answer straight away.

Rarity looked through the the window and saw a little pile of spare parchments lying around, Twilight left the room to go look for, Rarity used this as her chance to sneak in and take one of those parchments. Twilight wouldn't miss it, besides, Rarity is going to do something good with it. She also took one of Twilight's quills, looked at the door, the floated do a desk and wrote on the parchment. "There, now I just need to find a war to give this to Twilight," she heard Spike and Twilight coming in

"I'm telling you Twilight, I still think that you should reason with them," Spike suggested.

Rarity felt as dumb as an elephant, "Of course I'm in Twilight's home, I can easily give it to her!" he said she said. She heard hoovesteps coming closer to her.

"Yeah but no matter what I do, they never listen. Wait, why is one of my parchments all the way over here? Hang on a sec, it's letter." Twilight said

"Well, what's it say?" Spike asked

"It says: 'Discord has probably made you split apart on purpose so that you couldn' t use the elements. Their memories are the key!' I don't-No, I think it means I must cast a memory sell on the others," she suggested.

Rarity made sure to follow Twilight around Ponyville, hiding in the shadows, staring through windows to make sure that nothing would go wrong. Eventually Twilight and her friends had to go up in a balloon to catch Rainbow Dash, Rarity floated up with her spell and saw her friends darting towards Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy pulled the balloon forwards but she still couldn't catch up to Rarity and Pinkie Pie, Rarity herself thought of this as a little more entertaining when she saw it from here.

Twilight yelled at Fluttershy about how Discord could win which was able to make her speed increase, they were able to catch up with Rainbow Dash and then Applejack used the rope to hold he in place.

The memory spell was cast on Rainbow Dash and now they were all back to normal. They all went to Discord throne so that they can surprise him with their elements. But something was wrong. Discord wasn't on his throne.

"Where could he be?" Rarity asked

"I don't know, but I think that the only thing we can do is search for him in Ponyville," Twilight explained.

Applejack searched all of Sweet Apple Acres, through the orchard, behind the barn, inside the apple cellar, but there was nothing in there other than dancing apples.

Rarity looked through her boutique, (she would be enraged if Discord was there) fortunately for her and unfortunately for her friends she couldn't find him there.

Twilight searched, in detail, throughout the library: in the bookcases (though there's in no way he'd be in there), through her bedroom, in the kitchen, yet there wasn't even a clue.

Pinkie Pie looked inside Sugarcube Corner, mostly spending her time eating cakes, and using her magnifying glass to act like a detective. She accidentally slipped and dropped her cupcake, which splatted all over her detective hat.

Rainbow Dash flew across Ponyville in lightning speed, she looked over houses and in corners, on the edge of town, and underneath flying buildings, but still nothing. She looked from above if there was any suspicious things going on, there was nothing strange other than chaos.

Flutter shy asked her animal friends if they could search for him, (she could only talk to some of them since the others had gone chaotic) they all pitched in on finding him.

"Find anything, even a clue?" Twilight asked hopefully

"Nope, nothin'," Applejack replied

"My little critter friends couldn't find him either," Fluttershy added

"So what now? He could be anywhere in Equestria by now," Rainbow Dash said, that was when a sudden suggestion popped up in all of their heads.

"Canterlot!" they chorused.

Meanwhile Rarity had already figured out about where to go (since she watched all of them hunt for Discord). When she got to Canterlot she figured that she had been correct, ponies were flying everywhere, buildings had gone all jelly-like and the road was moving by itself.

"Oh my," Rarity said in shock, the palace was even worse. The towers swayed from side to side, the doors opened and closed continuously, the guards kept on bouncing around and the chocolate milk rain covered it all in puddles of chocolate milk. She literally dualed the doors just to get inside.

When she managed to get inside the palace, there were dancing armours and it seemed as if they had been turned to life. The corridors were filled with apple pie, Rarity had to doge most of them to get to the throne room.

She was able to survive the journey to the throne room where she found out about what had happened. Discord sat on Celestia's throne with Starlight Glimmer at his side, his eyes were spirallinghwhich proved that he was hypnotised.

"Well you took your time," Starlight said

"Zip it! What have you done to Discord, never thought I'd say that," Rarity questioned her

"I was sort of hoping that you'd find me quicker," Starlight commented

"You've hypnotised him haven't you, he needs to be back there!" Rarity yelled

"Of course he needs to be back there, but I can't allows that. Discord here is my little puppet," she said

"I don't really care about puppet shows right now, you know that my friends will come and turn him into stone," Rarity reminded her

"Well then I'll be here to stop them, as for you, well I can't let you go free just like that," Starlight began to trot towards Rarity and Rarity took a step back whilst gathering her energy for a spell.

"Aruno!" Starlight yelled, her horn started to glow and she cast a spell at Rarity, but before the spell could get to her Rarity cast a counter spell and deflected it back to Starlight Glimmer. Starlight vanished, "I wonder where she went, wait, no I don't!" Rarity went to Discord and saw that he was still hypnotised. "I order you to break out of this hypnotism spell when I say now!" Rarity ordered, she heard other voi

"Come on! I don't think we've checked the throne room!" was obviously Twilight's voice. Rarity opened up a time portal and before she got sucked in she yelled "Now!" and Discord fell out of his trance and was confused at how he ended up in the throne room and even more confused at how the mane six were all colourful. "Hey how did that white unicorn get there?" he yelled.

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