Discordian Troubles

by monsterlord18

Rating: everyone
Tags: Human, Sad, Main 6, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Romance, Adventure, Discord, Crossover, Dark
Length: 68724

Discord is back and he ain't holding back.

set between (He's Baaaack) and (Game Night II) of 'Friends From Unexpected Places'

the Second Battle of Canterlot is over. the Changelings have been defeated and brought to the side of good. but, the chaos of the battle have released a certain Spirit of Disharmony.

Discord has been released and he's out for revenge. and he ain't holding back.

Published 2012-11-26 03:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-12-17 22:43:15 UTC

Abduction

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 2

Abduction

The screen played the last battle with Dark Chrysalis, ending with her destruction at the hands of the Element of Harmony powered Triple-Dragon Slave. The little ’movie’ ended with the birth of Cadence’s and Armor’s son, Glade Yggdrasill, and Eris accidentally releasing Discord.

“my my my. I had no clue that the world had gotten so violent.” Discord joked, covered in candy wrappers. He unwrapped another and tossed a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inside. “When I was in charge, there wasn’t that much violence. Mostly because I was the one doing it.” he snapped his fingers and sent the screen away.

He snapped them again and reappeared inside Orion’s hold. He walked around like he owned the place. “and humans are back on Equestria. I thought Jeria made it so that they would never return, thanks to what Za did.”

He snapped his fingers, causing every disc, cartridge, tape, and reel to hover in front of him. He summoned up his screen again and quickly played each one, memorizing each one and getting a few wicked ideas. Some, he tossed away. A giant 200-foot tall lizard with spines that can breath radioactive blue fire like a heat beam? No thanks.

Once he got them all down, he disappeared, letting them all fall to the floor.

Satoshi heard something fall and clatter inside Orion. He wondered what it was, for a moment, as he swung on a rope over to the back and oiled up the rudder.

A couple hours earlier, he was looking at a map of the world supplied by Armor.

“the badlands lie, just over the mountains of Manehatten.” he explained, showing the pilot the map. “the quickest way to get there, avoiding all the mountains between us and there, is to head to Maredrid, follow the train tracks to the Equestria/Gryphon Kingdom border, then follow the river south. Once you reach the ocean, continue to follow the Equestrian coastline. You should reach Manehatten that way.”

Quite a detour. Can’t he just fly over the mountains. “can’t I just fly over the mountains?”

“you could, but they are pretty high. Some even reach higher then the Tower in Feather Top. And you saw how big that was.”

oh, he remembers. That thing reached a thousand feet tall. Godzilla from the battle for the city was barely 1/3 it’s size. Plus, he didn’t want Orion to go Star-Mode now. He wanted to see the country-side, not pass it by. Also, if they go in half-prepared; without directions and all that, they could overshoot him by miles and doom the world. Slow and steady wins this race.

Pinkie excitedly jumped up and down. “I can’t wait to go to Manehatten! I can’t believe I haven’t been there before! We‘ll get to see Diamond again! And I can finally meet your old friends and family! This is gonna be so much fun!” Marble sat and slightly smiled, not really excited to be heading back. “Pinkie noticed this and stopped. “you okay, Marble?”

Marble sighed. “no.” Pinkie sat down next to him, wondering what was wrong. “when I left for Ponyville, I… didn’t leave on the best of terms with… I guess you could call them ‘friends’. they… they hated me and I hated them.”

Pinkie nodded, taking it all into it and remembering that Marble was a complete Emo when he came to town. “well, you know what I would do?” Marble looked at her. She took her hooves and made his mouth wide. “Smile. Just turn that frown upside-down and they’re bound to forgive you. Plus, you have Diamond there. She’s bound to help.”

Marble still wasn’t sure. It wasn’t only his ‘friends’ that hated him.

“so, what can we expect from Despair?” Hiccup asked as he and Applejack walked to the ship.

“Discord.” A.J. corrected. “and quite a number of things really.”

“how so?”

A.J. thought of a good way to describe him. “um… okay. Picture the worst enemy you ever thought and times him by 1000. That’s how bad he is.”

Hiccup whistled. “and he can manipulate just about anything, right?” A.J. nodded. “well, we’re gonna have our work cut out for us.”

A.J. chuckled. “you have no idea.”

Eris laughed as a red robin hovered down and landed on her finger. Dash watched her, keeping a upbeat look but feeling nothing but dread inside. She doesn’t want to leave her alone, not with Discord loose and with Manni trying to take her and Scoots. She doesn’t want to leave both of them all alone.

“Dash?” Shadow walked up next to her. “are you okay?”

Dash took a deep shaking breath. “no. no, I’m not okay. I… don’t want to leave Eris and Scootaloo, now with all that’s happening to them.”

Shadow looked to Eris for a moment before sitting down next to his torn marefriend. “well… we could always take them with us.”

“What?” Dash gasped.

“well, Discord will be after her, no matter where she is. And Manni won’t come after them if they’re on a moving ship.”

She wasn’t so sure. taking them or leaving them are both equally dangerous but she doesn’t want to lose them either. “I don’t know, Shadow. I--”

A sudden flash of white light hit them and sent them screaming back into a building. A snap of the fingers and the building they hit exploded. That sudden blast caught everyone’s attention.

“what was that?” Pinkie asked.

“Trouble. What else?” Bahamut said. He and Gilda flew on ahead to check things out.

Shadow and Dash woke up to see them covered in foam. “what? You thought I resorted to killing?” Discord asked with a chuckle. “you crazy. I’m not like Celestia.”

Dash tried to run out but the foam was as tough as glue. “Discord! What do you want?!”

“What makes you think I want something?” Discord said. He hung upside-down on a invisible pole. “why couldn’t I just want to say hello? It has been far too long, Element of Disloyalty. We should catch up. Play ‘abandon my friends’ or go out on a adventure to find and dump some new ones.”

“Shut up!” Dash yelled.

The sudden tone in her voice caught him off guard. “well… maybe I do want something.” he looked to the stunned girl looking at him with fearful eyes. “a little Scion.”

Dash gasped in fear when he said that. She tried to get loose again but the foam was tighter then a hot tire. “I won’t let you touch Eris! You hear me!?”

Discord yawned and flashed on over to her. “I hear you. I just don’t want to listen to you.” he snapped his fingers. A invisible rope wrapped around Eris and lifted her up next to him. “I’m gonna need a little heir to the chaos throne and little Eris here fit’s the bill.”

“NO!” Dash yelled out.

Bahamut and Gilda rammed into Discord from behind, forcing him to let Eris go. Discord quickly straightened himself and looked back at the Gryphon and Dragon. “mm… Bahamut and Gilda, correct?”

“Guess we don’t have to introduce ourselves.” Gilda said in a snarky tone. Bahamut flew over to the stuck couple and breathed fire on the foam until it melted away.

Dash quickly flew out and got between Discord and Eris. “I’m not letting you take her!”

Discord laughed at the foolish display. “I’m afraid you got no choice in the matter.” he snapped his fingers.

They waited for something to happen but, after a few moments, nothing did. “I think you’re losing your touch.” Bahamut joked.

Discord chuckled yet again. “wait for it.”

Begin Song:

One Who Gets In Our Way - Xenoblade Chronicles OST

Suddenly, the ground began to shake, gaining magnitude as something underground moved towards them. A crack tore though the ground towards them. “oh, that can’t be good.” Shadow gulped.

A large crack appeared beneath them. Discord disappeared, leaving everyone to worry.

The ground exploded out from beneath them, sending them off in different directions as a large stone monster rose from the dirt.

Dash landed on her back, landing badly on her wing, breaking it. She and the others looked up to see a 50-foot Stone Golem right over them. “oh, come on!” Bahamut exclaimed in anger. The Golem turned to him and raised it’s fist. “un… hehe. She said it.” he pointed to Gilda, who quickly bonked him on the head.

The Golem raised it’s fist and punched down on the two. The Gryphon and Dragon were able to get up and get away in time before the fist hit. When it rose, the tree it did hit was flattened like a pancake. “that… would’ve been messy.” Bahamut gulped. The Golem raised it’s fist at them. It fired from it’s hand like a rocket, hitting them and sending them right into the castle with the stone fist.

“Gilda!” Dash yelled out. The Golem’s shadow cast over her. She looked up in fear and gasped to see it right over her. It raised it’s right arm, the fist it just launched returning to it, and thrust it down at her. She quickly unfurled her wings, then gasped in pain, remembering that one of them was broken. She quickly ran as fast as she could, dodging the attack.

She ran underneath it’s legs and away from it. The Golem turned around and aimed it’s fist at her. It prepared to fire it when a blast caught it in the side.

“up bup bup.” Lina joked, smoke rising from her hand. “now… attacking our friends. That’s a felony.” Aura and Riku ran by her, blades drawn. “Trying to kill them… you’re gonna have to pay for that.”

Riku jumped into the air and encased his Keyblade in shadow. He landed on the Golem’s left hand and jumped up. He flipped backwards and fell towards it’s head. “Helm Break!” he hit the top of it’s head over and over and over and over and over again. Usually, that would be a insta kill. Against this thing, all it did was crack it. Which was good enough for him. He jumped off and summoned a dark fireball into his free hand. “Dark Firaga!” the fireball shot out and hit the monster in the crack, causing it to split open.

Aura fell from right behind Riku, spun his lance, and thrust it right into the monsters head. Clearly they both forgot that Stone Golems, at least ones of Tales of Vesperia variety, don’t have brains. The attacks didn’t faze it one bit. It grabbed Aura and sent him rolling right into some of the group, hitting them like a bowling ball to pins.

Jax tossed one of her chakrams up into the holes Aura and Riku made. The Golem watched it go in, then down to her. She snickered as she snapped her own fingers. “Tidal Wave.”

Before long, water came bursting out of every part of the Golems body; every opening, every crack, every hole. Every single one, drowning it from the inside.

The Golem’s body collapsed and fell forwards, it’s head towards them.

End Song.

The ring floated out along with the rest of the water, stopping just before Jax. She picked it up and spun it around her finger.

“piece of--”

Begin Song:

Golem Fight - Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike OST

The Golem’s stone fist rammed into her from behind, sending her right into a tree, knocking her out cold.

Water sloshed out of it’s body as the Golem once again rose. Seems drowning it didn’t exactly work.

“OH, Come on!” Zilver exclaimed. “what does it take to kill one of these things!?” Fox just shrugged. This was his first time facing a Golem. the Golem roared and tried to turn him and Fox into pancakes.

Req flew over the fist, wrapped it in a Bind spell, and pulled it away, making it hit a already destroyed building instead.

The little battle got the attention of everyone in Ponyville, including one Manni.

“Freeze Arrow!” Amelia and Zelgadis exclaimed, sending frozen arrows at it’s feet. The arrows hit and froze it’s feet over, keeping it in place. It struggled to get them loose but the ice, combined with the natural snow that was already there, made it unbreakable. “It worked?” they both said.

It wouldn’t hold long, just long enough for Gourry and Emil to make their move. They looked at each other and nodded. They grabbed their swords and ran towards it.

Ash pulled out his pistols and fired at the Golem’s head, keeping it distracted. They did it’s job, forcing the monster to cover it’s eyes.

Gourry and Emil ran up it’s back. The constant pitter-patter got it’s attention and it tried to brush them off. They cut though the hand with ease, reached the head, and jumped off it into the air.

A couple of magic whips, courtesy of the unicorns in the team, wrapped around it’s legs, keeping it at bay.

Emil and Gourry, alone with Req, raised their swords high and fell to the Golem. with a quick yell, they slashed down at the monster.

End Song.

The Trio skidded down it’s arm, jumped off, and landed in cool poses. Req snapped her fingers… and the Golem fell apart into 3 pieces.

Eris ran over to Dash, who grabbed her and hugged her close.

Those who fought panted as they looked at their handiwork. “well… that was easy…” Gourry panted.

“Yeah…” Req agreed. “but why would he sent something like that after us?”

To everyone’s surprise, Discord’s voice echoed though the air. “simple. To wear you down.”

Begin Song:

Key of Darkness - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST.

A solid blue barrier emanated from the Golem’s disintegrating body, sending everyone back out of the little battlefield. The only one not affected was Eris and, by extension, Dash.

Discord suddenly appeared from behind and grabbed Dash by the mane. “odd. I’d figure that the barrier would’ve effected you too.”

Scootaloo and the CMC arrived to see Dash in her situation. “Dash!” she tried to run to her but ran into the barrier.

“no matter.” Discord threw her aside like he was throwing a rat. She landed on the ground and was knocked out.

“Mommy!” Eris yelled out.

“Mommy?” Discord said in confusion. She looked from her to Dash and back again. “hmm… hmhmhmhmhmhm. How ironic.” Eris fearfully looked up at Discord and slowly backed away. “now where do you think you’re going?” he snapped his fingers, summoning a cotton candy cloud which she backed into. The cloud lifted her up to eye level with the Spirit of Chaos. She struggled to get loose but you know how Cotton Candy is, especially if it’s Discords cotton candy. “he have a lot of chaos to wreak.” he sinisterly said. He raised a finger and touched Eris’ forehead with it. Eris went limp as her eyes lost all color.

“we have a lot of chaos to wreak…” she repeated in a dead monotone.

“Heave Ho!”

The humans rammed a tree into the barrier again and again and again. It wasn’t even leaving a dent in it. Req tried to cut it open but her sword couldn’t cut it. Discord is really something else if he’s able to produce a barrier she can’t cut though. She noticed of Discord doing something to Eris and tried to cut though it again.

Dash regained consciousness and saw Discord doing something to Eris. “Stop it!” she yelled out.

Her mother’s yell made the color in Eris’ eyes return. She struggled to get loose again, irritating Discord. “Grr. You don’t know when to give up.” he angrily said to Dash. “guess I’m gonna have to do this in a undisclosed location.”

He walked off, tossing Eris to the ground. With a snap of his fingers, she was picked up by a unseen force.

“NO!” Dash struggled to get up but Discord really messed her up good.

Eris struggled to get loose from this but, like before, it was tough. She saw her mom trying to get up. “MOM!” she yelled out.

Req was able to cut a tiny sliver into the barrier. She stuck her sword in and pulled down.

Dash was able to weakly get up. Despite her body saying no, she ran after Discord and Eris. “LET HER GO!” she tearfully cried.

Discord walked off the cliff and onto thin air, Eris still in tow. “MOMMY!” Eris called out.

Discord snapped his fingers. “on, do shut up.” he covered Eris’ mouth with solid maple syrup, making her mute. “ugh. I hate it when they call out.”

Dash’s chest hurt as she reached the edge of the cliff, unable to do anything. “ERIS!!!”

“MOMMY!!!”

Eris and Discord disappeared in flashes of light.

“NNNOOO!!!” Her heart now completely broken, Dash collapsed and let a flood of tears come falling. “no… no… don’t take her away… don’t take… my Eris away…” she tearfully cried. “this… can’t be happening…”

she gagged and held her mouth as blood almost vomited out.

The barrier disappeared of it’s own free will. Req staggered on one leg before falling over.

Dash fell over to the side, blood dripping out and tears still falling. Her insides felt like they were on fire and that’s not from the heartbreak.

“DASH!” her pony friends yelled out as they ran over.

“Er….. Is…..” she was able to mutter before falling unconscious.

If you’re thinking that I’m turning Discord into a ‘no-holds barred’ bad guy, they you’re right. He’s out for revenge and he’s gonna get it anyway he can.

A number of horrible things happened today…

…and they are only going to get worse.

*author’s notes*
As you saw from a earlier scene, Discord made himself well-known with everything in the humans possession. So… let the bad guy suggestions come flooding forth. I’ll consider them all. I won’t use them all; I already have two myself ready to go, but I will consider them all.

It's Worse

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 3

It’s Worse

Discord reappeared on top of a mesa with Eris. She dropped down and tried to run back to Canterlot but Discord snapped his fingers, trapping her inside a bird cage.

“Mommy!” she called out, hoping Dash would hear her.

The cage hovered up to Discord’s face. “Save it, you little twerp! Your ‘mother’ is not coming.” Eris didn’t believe him and tried to break out. Discord grabbed her face and made sure she looked into his eyes. “Your ‘mother’ never truly loved you.”

Eris didn’t believe that. Dash loved her more then anyone around.

“your mother only loved you because she was afraid of you.”

“no…” Eris’s eyes turned soulless and began turning all sorts of different colors. “no, that’s not true…”

“your mother took you in because she was ordered to. She raised you because she was afraid of what would happen if you turned against her.” Eris stopped fighting back and let her eyes continue to change. “She never truly cared about you. She only used you for herself. Rainbow Dash is a big fat liar who never truly cared about you.”

Eris gave up and, though Discord’s manipulation, accepted it as truth. “Mommy…” she said in monotone. “…is a big fat liar… who never truly cared… about me…”

Discord smiled evilly. his little spell took better then he expected. “Yes. Rainbow Dash never cared.”

“Rainbow Dash… never cared…”

“she deserves to pay for kidnapping you.”

“She deserves… to pay… for kidnapping… me…”

Discord lifted up a finger and placed it on her forehead. A quick flash of light followed, blinding out the camera.

“ERIS!” Dash yelled, bolting up from her bed. Pain racked her body, forcing her to fall back. Her yell woke Shadow up from a nap he took at the foot of her bed.

“Dash! Are you okay?”

Dash tried to get up but pain shot though her again. She fell back “what happened? Where’s Eris? Did they get Eris back? Is she okay?”

“calm down.” Shadow patted her on the forehead, calming her down. “calm down.” Dash looked at him, still worried about Eris. “Eris is… she’s gone, Dash. Discord took her 7 hours ago. They haven‘t been seen since.”

7 hours. Lord knows what Discord did to her. Dash’s mind ran scenario after scenario of what Discord would’ve happened to Eris. Her heart sank low when she reached the last one. “I have to save her.” Dash tried to get up again but pain shot though her yet again. Shadow comforted her as the doctor, who just overheard it, walked in.

“I’m afraid you’re not going anywhere.” he said. Dash looked at him with somber eyes. “in fact, in a few months, you won’t be able to go anywhere.”

“wa--” she sat up with Shadow’s help. “what are you talking about?”

The doc used his magic to pull up a chart. “well… I’m afraid you have Ponius Medurus.” both Dash and Shadow raised a eyebrow in confusion. That sounds made up. “I know it sounds made up; the pony who named it wasn’t… all there when he discovered it. We just call it Pony Decease.”

“Pony Decease?”

“it’s a rare decease that attacks the body from the inside, slowly and painfully shutting down all organs until the host… well, dies.” Dash’s heart sank even further. She can’t be sick. Not with Eris gone.

Shadow can’t believe it either. He doesn’t want Dash to die. They were just going out. “is there any cure?”

The doctor shook his head ‘no’. “I’m afraid not. It’s incurable and...” the doctor’s voice droned out as a stunned Dash just sat there. she couldn’t believe it. These past 6 months have been a nightmare. First her mom days, then her brother dies, then some stern social worked wants to take Eris and Scoots away, then Eris gets taken away by a vengeful spirit. Now, to top it off, she has a incurable decease that‘s going to kill her. When did her life become the universe’s punching bag? “…usually, it’s genetic. Was there anyone in your family who contracted it?”

She didn’t know anyone else in her family. She just found out she had a brother with Soarin’ and… “my mom…” she distantly said. “that’s what killed her. My mom had it and she didn’t tell me.”

“I see.” the doctor walked to the door. “I wish I could do more to help.” he knew what her next question was. “you have 2 weeks, at best. The virus progressed quite a ways. It progresses quickly though physical activity.” he walked out, leaving both them behind.

Dash broke down and cried as hard as she could. Shadow grabbed her and comforted her. She couldn’t believe that she was going out like this. Why was this happening to her?

“you think Rainbow Dash is going to be okay?” Fluttershy asked Marble as they walked to the ship.

“I sure hope so.” Marble replied, looking back at the hospital. “She’s gone though so much these past few months; all of it bad. You‘d think that just once she‘d have some good things happen in these past few months. Even I didn’t have this many horrible things happen to me.”

Fluttershy looked to the hospital and got a sad look. Why is Dash suffering this much? Who decided she was to be a magnet for heartbreak?

(unfortunately, that’s me. She was just chosen out of the blue. Hell, all of this stuff comes out of the blue.)

Cadence stretched as she was finally able to leave the hospital. Armor walked out with Glade in a stroller being pushed by him. “Finally. I’m able to leave. Can‘t wait to lose all this baby weight.” she groaned as she stretched. She looked back to Glade and smiled. She walked over and kissed him on the forehead. “This is your first time out in the world.”

“it took 11 months, 2 invasions, a amazing wedding, and one GREAT night…” Armor joked. Cadence playfully shoved him when he said that ‘great night’ part. “but in all seriousness, we did make a cute baby. Though he’s not nearly as cute as his mother.”

“Aw. Armor.” she cuddled up next to him and he hugged back. “hmhm. You know you’re not gonna be touching me for a long while, right?” Armor looked at the camera with a confused and defeated look. “I just went though a whole lot of pain. You’re gonna on embargo for a LONG while; least till Glade is 4.”

“Aw, man.” Suddenly, a pony ran by them as fast as she could and up towards the mountain. Something about her felt familiar to both of them.

“Dash!” Shadow ran out but realized it was pointless and stopped not 20 feet away from them. “Dash…” he sighed and kicked a rock into a trash can.

“Shadow?” Cadence walked over to him. He noticed her and sighed. “What’s wrong?”

“It… it’s Dash. She’s feeling heartbroken on losing Eris to Discord.”

“I don’t blame her.” Cadence said in a mean monotone, remembering what Chrysalis did to her back at her own wedding.

“but… that’s not the half of it.”

“?”

“Dash… just found out she has a incurable decease. She’s gonna die in 2 weeks.” Cadence gasped in sadness at that. Armor felt bad. Even Glade, who was only a week old, cried at the story.

“are you sure it’s incurable?” Armor asked.

“unless your wife or any other Alicorn can cure… what did he call it, Pony Decease? No.” Shadow sighed as he sat down. “when did her life start turning into a soap opera? When did it start to fall apart?”

Armor and Cadence looked at each other, not sure what to say. They weren’t even with Dash when it started to turn into a Lifetime movie.

Celestia looked out of the window of her room to the sky and sighed. So much chaos and heartbreak has happened in these past 2 days. But, one big thought on her mind is Eris. Why would Discord abduct her? She didn’t have use over her powers; Dash made sure of that. Unless, of course, that was all for naught and Discord got rid of whatever Dash had in place.

A loud commotion from the courtyard got her attention. Orion and it’s crew were down there, along with the pony natives and one unexpected story.

“SHE‘S DYING!?!” everyone exclaimed, having just heard Shadow explain what happened. Scoots took the news the hardest.

“unfortunately, yeah.” Shadow lamentably said. “it’s incurable and it’s going to kill her in 2 weeks.”

“well, why not have the princess’ cure it?” Fluttershy asked.

“It’s incurable, ‘Shy.” Lina said with a groaning sigh. “If it’s still called that, I don’t think the princess’ can cure it.”

“well, we’re from off-world so we may have a spell that can cure it.” Req suggested. “of course, I can’t make any guarantees.”

Scoots didn’t want to believe this. She sadly looked up at the mountain.

A long serpentine figure watched the mountain top from high in the air. It snickered and disappeared in a flash of light.

In a corner of the top of the mountain, far enough so anybody hiking won’t find her, Dash curled in a corner and cried. She lost her daughter, she’s gonna lose another, she’s gonna die. Why is her life turning out like this?

“Dash!”

Scootaloo’s voice echoed though the mountain, grabbing her attention. “Dash!” Dash got up and wiped her eyes. “I-in here.” she tearfully said.

Scootaloo poked her head down from above the corner and found her. “there you are.” Scoots jumped down and hugged her. Immediately, she started crying. “Why? Why didn’t you tell me you were dying?”

Dash gasped in fear. Shadow must’ve told her… must’ve told everyone. “I… I didn’t know until now. But… I think it’s what killed my mom. The doc said it was genetic.”

“Dash… we could help you.. The princess’ could try to heal you. Req and the others could’ve tried their spells on you. You could’ve tried anything to deal with this instead of coming up here.” she tearfully looked up at her. “do I mean nothing to you, Dash? We’re all we have for each other. We both lost our parents and our brother. We need to help each other.”

Dash looked away, not wanting to look Scoot’s directly. She knew, in her heart, she was right but… after all that’s happened, she’s wondering if she should listen to it.

“I knew you were a irresponsible parent but this is a new low.” they both looked to see Manni walk up to them. Naturally, she arrived having not heard anything. “taking a Pegasus incapable of flight up onto the top of a tall mountain where one wrong move can kill her. Tsk tsk tsk. That’s low.”

“Go away, Manni. I had enough happen to me today.”

“hmm… I saw. Just think, if you were a better parent, then your child wouldn’t have been kidnapped.”

“SHUT UP!” Scootaloo yelled. “it’s your fault Discord is out in the first place! If you didn’t try to take us, then he wouldn’t have been released!”

Manni, like before, ignored her. She’s so stubborn, she doesn’t listen to children. You’d think she would, since she works in child services. “come now, child. I’ll take you to a better family.”

“are you deaf or something?” Dash asked, walking over. “She said no! now, if your THICK skull can absorb that, go away and leave us alone!”

“no. you’re a irresponsible parent and your children must be taken to a much better family.” Good grief, she’s worse then Frank Burns from M*A*S*H. and he’s as evil as they come. Dash picked up a rock and tossed it to her. It hit Manni in the head. She held where it hit and snarled. “You did not just do that.”

“So? Like you said, I’m a ‘irresponsible parent‘.” Dash turned back to Scoots, leaving Manni to get angry. “bitch.” that broke whatever seal Manni had on her anger as she attacked Dash, pinning her into the ground. “Get off me!” Dash kicked her off, making Manni brush right by Scoots. Scoots backed up, slipping a hoof over the side. She flapped her wings to regain her balance; and she would’ve too, if she wasn’t pulled at her tail by a hand.

The filly screamed as she fell over the side and towards the city. “SCOOTALOO!” Dash ran and jumped over the side after her. Manni ran to the edge and watched them fall. “oh, no…” she gasped. She ran down the mountain the way she ran up.

“Help!” Scoots yelled as she fell. Oh, she so wishes she could fly right now. Dash fell after her and tried to flap her wings when she felt pain in her left one. She forgot that that one was broken.

“Scoots!” Dash called out. She reached out and was able to grab her. They looked to the ground, which was quickly getting closer. “never imagined we’d go out like this.” she said. Scoots chuckled softly then began to laugh. “not something to be laughing about.”

“I was just thinking back to a few months ago. You jumped to kill yourself and I jumped after you to snap you out of it. It was thanks to that we met Eris.”

Dash had forgotten all about her suicide attempt. If she didn’t try to kill herself, she would never have found Eris. And it was after that when… Wait. That’s it. Her life started spiraling out of control when she jumped to kill herself. And now, she jumped to save Scootaloo. Maybe now, her life might flow normally now. For at least 15 seconds. They held each other close and waited for the end.

Suddenly, they felt a pull and stopped falling. They slowly opened their eyes to see themselves in a magic cage cast by Armor. He slowly set them on the ground. Both Pegasi took a breath of relief before falling back.

Shadow suddenly ran up and hugged Dash. Dash blushed in embarrassment for a moment before he let go and smiled at her.

“What happened?” Armor asked. Sora and Luna ran up. “we saw you fall. what did you two do up there?”

Celestia arrived just as the bitch Manni herself arrived. “ask her!” both Scoots and Dash angrily looked Manni. “she suddenly attacked us on top of the mountain while trying to take Scootaloo. Again.”

Celestia angrily looked at the social worker. “is this true?”

Manni gulped. Celestia was talking to her and she’s angry. “un… well… being the irresponsible mother that she is by letter her climb all the way up there, I tried to convince Dash to let Scootaloo go so I could take her into custody. That didn’t go over well.”

“good grief, she’s worse then Frank from MASH.” Sora sighed, tapping her forehead.

“and instead, you put her in danger by knocking her off the mountain.” Celestia continued.

“I didn’t knock her off the mountain. She was pulled off.”

“now that’s a lie.” Dash angrily said.

“actually… she’s right.” Scootaloo said, not wanting to take the bitch’s side on this one. “Something did pull at my tail.”

“Well, who…” Shadow stopped and looked up. those there looked up at the mountain to see a serpentine figure disappear. “Discord?”

“it can’t be.” Celestia said. “he would never resort to killing.”

“he’s out for revenge.” Armor said. “And we saw that he’s not holding back not long ago.”

Celestia didn’t want to agree with him but the evidence shows that Discord isn’t pulling any punches now. But, she had more immediate concerns to deal with. “that still leaves the fact that you attacked Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo on top of the mountain, knowing full well what would happen.”

“I was just doing my job.”

“your job?” Dash angrily repeated. “if you were doing your job, you would listen to Scoots. She doesn’t want to go with you! She wants to stay with me… even if it is going to be for 2 weeks.”

That’s when Celestia came up with a good idea. “you know… I heard that there is a adoption agency down in Manehatten. You could ask them to give you full custody of Scootaloo.” Scoots happily took a deep breath and Dash smiled. Why didn’t anyone tell her sooner?

“you can’t do that.” Manni exclaimed.

“can and did.” Luna said, handing Dash a scroll. “just give this to whoever’s in charge and let them take care of the rest.”

Dash happily took it. Maybe when she gets Eris back, they’ll be able to do the same for her. Manni snarled and angrily walked off.

“just what is her problem?” Sora asked.

“who knows?” Dash sighed. “maybe she’s just really in love with her job.” she looked at the scroll and snickered. She hugged Scootaloo and spun her around. Things are finally looking up for her.

Celestia was happy for her but couldn’t help but think about that figure they saw for a split-second. It could’ve been Discord, but he’s not one to kill. He likes to have fun at others expense as long as he could. Something was terribly wrong. She felt it in her gut.

Scion of Chaos

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 4

Scion of Chaos

Discord took a step back and took a look at his finished work. “this’ll put them down emotionally.” he snapped his fingers and summoned up a lit cigar. He took it and took a puff. “now… you remember what you need to do?”

“yes…”

“good. Now go. And remember…” he kicked the cage down over the side of the mesa and snickered. “have fun.”

“you don’t need to tell me twice.” the person he talked to disappeared in a flash of white light.

With a evil snicker, Discord summoned up a couch and got comfy. “this is going to be good.” he took another puff and exhaled a heart-shaped smoke. With a snort out of his nose, he shot a smoke sword though it, cutting it in half.

“you said the Badlands, right?” Satoshi asked Celestia, who was staying behind with the other Alicorn’s, as well as Armor and Chrysalis.

“indeed.” Celestia replied. “And like Marble said, you may need to stop at Manehatten to get a guide though it. A dragon native to that area would be a good place to start.”

“gotcha.”

Satoshi got behind the wheel and got to work getting the ship ready to fly. During that time, Celestia turned her attention to Dash, who had Scoots in a choke-hold. Finally having a good opportunity to adopt Scootaloo gave Dash a much needed boost of confidence. She’s going to live these last 2 weeks of her life to the fullest. “Rainbow Dash?” she and Scoots looked to the princess. “I’m… sorry for not being able to cure your decease.”

“I know, princess. But I think I have a idea on how to get rid of it.”

“how?” Jax asked.

“Discord.”

“Discord?” the ponies asked with confusion.

“yep yep. He has power over chaos and he uses it for bad. Who says he can’t use it for good and get rid of this?”

Twilight and Celestia looked at each other with not so confident expressions. “are you sure? Why would he help?”

Dash was hoping she would ask that and pulled out a little script. “I prepared a little play I’m going to put on for him. In short, what will happen without me to mess with. Who else will fall for his tricks of disloyalty?”

Spike was going to comment on that, saying it was a crummy plan, until he actually took it into effect. “you know… that’s not a bad idea. Yeah, he enjoyed messing with you. Don’t think he’ll want you to expire before he had his fill.”

Dash pointed to A.J. with open arms. “told you. Told you. Plus, I have Eris. She can probably get rid of it.”

“one can hope.” Cynder sighed.

Begin Song:

Dola and the Pirates - Castle in the Sky Soundtrack.

0:00.

Satoshi flipped a switch, causing the blades to lightly spin. “Okay. If we’re all ready, then lets…”

“Wait!” Applebloom yelled as she and the rest of the CMC, complete with knapsacks, ran up to the ship. They quickly ran up the ramp before Satoshi pulled it back. “We’re coming too!”

“Fat chance!” Applejack exclaimed. “we’re heading into dangerous territory! There’s no way we’re bringing you along!”

“you’re taking Scootaloo.” Sweetie Belle pointed out.

“as far as Manehatten.” Rarity added. “we’re stopping there for a few days to find a guide though the Badlands!”

“And so Dash can adopt Scootaloo.” Pipsqueak and Feather Weight said.

“Come on. What’s the worst that could happen?” a fully healed Dinky asked.

Their sisters looked at each other and sighed in defeat. “Fine.” Derpy said. “But only as far as Manehatten. Deal?”

“Deal!” the 5 said in excitement.

“you know, this is a good opportunity for me to introduce you to your cousin Babs Seed. She lives in Manehatten.” A.J. added.

“And so does Diamond!” Pinkie exclaimed in her usual way, bouncing up and down.

0:30.

“All right!” Satoshi exclaimed, cracking his fingers. “Let’s take to the sky!” he grabbed and pulled a lever.

The propellers on Orion’s masts started up, gradually gaining enough speed and thrust to lift the modified Man-O-War off the ground.

Satoshi grabbed the thrust lever and smiled. He hasn’t done this in a long while, not since they crash-landed on Equestria. He took a deep breath and confidently looked to the sky.

“Next Stop: Manehatten!”

The ship lifted off the ground, kicking up a lot of snow and wind.

The ponies leaving waved back to those who weren’t, who also waved back.

Celestia felt uneasy. Mostly because she’s still trying to figure out who would try to kill Scootaloo. Discord couldn’t be the culprit. Killing isn’t his usual M.O. is there someone else who they’re dealing with? someone worse?

Orion took to the air and flew off into the sky

Everyone in Canterlot, Cloudsdale, and Ponyville watched as the ship sailed across the sky.

1:08.

The ship burst though the clouds and up high into the air. It leveled and sailed along the clouds like a actual ship on the water.

“Wow…!” Scootaloo exclaimed as she and her friends looked out at the sky’s expanse. “this is so cool. Is this what you see all the time, Dash?”

“every day.” she said as she joined her.

A flock of birds flew by. One squawked in surprise to see something that massive up there.

1:25.

“This ship is incredible!” Shadow gasped. “it must’ve taken you forever to build.”

“Not really.” Satoshi said. “just a lot of help from my friends and a already wrecked Man-O-War ship. A little spit, grit, and elbow grease and we turned a wreck into this baby.” Satoshi chuckled as he leaned forward. “ironically, almost every world we visit has us crash-landing. Of course…” Satoshi looked to the camera. “those are only the worlds based off of shows and games and such.” Shadow looked in the same direction Satoshi did, trying to see what he was looking at.

Aura climbed on down to the second deck, which houses the ships cannons, and made sure they were in place. “how do they make ammo by themselves?” he tried to open one up and look inside, only to be met with a screen of Satoshi saying over and over, “nuh-uh-uh. Nuh-uh-uh.”

“Dammit, Satoshi. I’m just curious.” he tried to open it again, only to have a rocking barrel grab his attention.

A roar came from below. The Silver Dragon Helios flew up from the clouds and alongside them.

“Helios! Sorry. Forgot to ask you to come.” Applebloom said with a slight nervous chuckle. The dragon landed, causing a outlash from the pilot.

“No! No!” Satoshi exclaimed. “I’m not letting him on my ship. I just had the thing repainted. And I don‘t want the ship to stink of dragon dung.” Bahamut, Spike, Cynder, and Spyro gave him mean glares.

“Satoshi…”

The pilot groaned as he lowered his head in defeat. “Fine. But he’s your responsibility. You clean up after him.”

“is anyone here a good cook?” Gourry asked, picking his teeth. “cause I’m starving.”

“Me too.” Lina groaned.

“oh, no. we’re putting you on diets!” Req said with the authority of a mother.

“What!?!” they both exclaimed in surprise and fear.

“you heard me! We’re cutting back on what you eat!” Gourry and Lina looked at each other like their grandmother had died and wailed just the same. “cry all you want; you’re still not going to get anything extra for dinner.”

A unidentified pony hit the deck, quickly becoming recognized by Dash. “Manni!?!”

“well… I didn’t expect that.” she said in a dignified manner as she got up.

“What are you doing here?” Dash angrily exclaimed. “I thought Celestia told you to back off.”

“And I take the safety of children seriously. In fact, I could take all this kids away just for being here.”

“Is she being serious?” a angry Derpy muttered to Halo.

“I sure hope not.”

“but… thankfully for you… I’m just here to observe and take notes.” Manni said, pulling out a pen and paper.

“take notes?”

“To prove that Dash is the worst parent around.”

Dash groaned and hit her head on the railing. She’s never going to give up. “good luck, cause with this…” she held up the scroll from Celestia. “… it won’t matter either way what you think.” Manni growled inside her mouth. Scootaloo and Dash high-hoofed, each one snickering.

2:13. End Song.

“there it is.” Shadow said, looking over the edge of the ship. What he said caught Dash’s attention. She walked over and looked down with him. “Maredrid.”

The ship lowered though the clouds, giving everyone a glimpse of what was once the city of Maredrid. Nothing was left of the coastal city but a crater and the few houses on the outskirts that survived.

“it’s… nothing but a hole in the ground.” Shadow said with a falter in his voice. His hometown, reduced to a memory. Dash nuzzled up next to him to help him feel better. “I’m okay, Dash. I just can’t believe it.”

The ship flew low, flying inside the crater’s rim.

“when the Winter War ended, they counted up anyone missing from all the attacks. My… mom was listed among them. She wasn’t able to board the train in time.”

“Shadow… I’m so sorry…” Dash said, knowing full well what he went though. She looked down into the crater and thought for a second. “Satoshi. Think we can land for a moment?”

“Land? Why?”

“so we can pay our respects to those from Maredrid who didn’t evacuate in time.” Shadow looked at her with a confused but thankful and sincere expression.

“if you want. You’re the one on the time limit.” Satoshi turned the wheel.

Orion descended from the air and touched down near the center of the crater.

The ponies stood in silence as they paid their respects to those fallen during the Winter War. Shadow placed a single tulip in the center, in respect to his mother. The humans, not being native to this world, felt uncomfortable; some more then others.

Before long, the ponies finished. Shadow took longer then them but they didn’t argue.

Shadow took a deep breath and regained himself. “Okay. Let’s go.” he turned and left for the ship. The humans were already on their way back when he turned. He shouldn’t be surprised by that. Dash rested her head on his shoulder, much to his pleasure and comfort.

When no one was looking, a single hand reached down and grabbed the tulip. She had her back to the gang so they wouldn’t react so big when she said this…

“what a wasted sentiment.”

That sudden voice and what she said caught everyone by surprise. They looked back to see a Draconequus holding the tulip. The humans quickly drew their weapons as the ponies got into battle poses. “Discord!” Twilight snarled.

Req took a gander at the figure and… something told her it wasn’t Discord. Maybe it was the fact that it was the white hair, or maybe because the voice was female.

“Put the flower down!” Shadow angrily said. The Draconequus ignored him and peeled away a petal.

“Hey!” Dash exclaimed, getting it’s full attention. “he said put it down!”

The Draconequus chuckled with a smirk. “as you wish…” she turned around, showing herself to everyone. Everyone gasped when they saw who it was. Dash’s heart broke and fell when she saw who it was.

Begin Song:

Key of Darkness - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST

“Mother.” Eris said as she finished turning around. She crushed the tulip and tossed it aside.

“Eris?” the CMC asked in unison.

The more mature Eris, late teens if you will, looked at her former friends and chuckled. “well… my former best friends.” she snapped her fingers, summoned up giant fishes that fell right on top of them.

“…Eris…” a stunned Dash gasped. “what… what did Discord do to you?”

Eris hovered up into the air and got comfy. “oh, nothing much. Except open my eyes to the truth.”

“t-truth?”

“Yes. That you killed my parents and took me for your own.”

“What?” Scootaloo exclaimed. “That’s crazy! Dash never did that. I should know; I was there.”

Eris scoffed at Scootaloo’s ‘lies’. “Papa Discord told me you might try something like that, ‘Sis’. he told me that you would lie in order to get your way. We both think that could be your ‘special talent.’ lord knows falling to your death via mountain isn‘t.”

“Falling to death…” Scoots pieced it together. “you were the one who pulled me off.”

“Bingo. Tell her what she won.” Eris joked as meanly as she could. “Papa Discord wouldn’t condone it but I’m my own girl. Papa Discord has no hold over me.”

Papa… Discord? Did they hear that right? “Eris… whatever Discord did to you, we can fix it.” Req said.

“but I don’t want it fixed. I like it like this. I find the powers of chaos to be quite soothing. And plus, it’s good that I balance out Papa Discord.” she snapped her fingers and summoned a Dark Nut straight from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. “if he’s the fun side of Chaos, then I’m the Destructive side.”

She got comfy and snapped her fingers again with a scary grin. “It’s time for some Chaos.”

End Song.

Picture of said Darknut:

Begin Song:

Boss Fight 2 - Kid Icarus Uprising OST

The Dark Nut’s eyes glowed red. It reached back and pulled a sword out of a scabbard.

“where did…” Satoshi looked from it to the ship. He then face-palmed. “Agh. Discord. He must’ve snuck on board and copied everything we have.”

“Which means we can probably expect more like him?” Lloyd asked as he drew his blades.

“worse.”

The Dark Nut yelled and charged at them. It pointed it’s sword and thrust forward at them. Emil jumped to the side and slashed his sword at it. It just bounced off the armor, making him wiggle a bit. “w-w-w-what kind o-of a-a-armor is t-t-that?”

“indestructible armor.” Aura said. The Dark Nut charged at him and swung it’s sword down. Aura blocked it between the prongs of his lance and, with some clever workings, was able to rip it away.

The knight hit Aura in the face with it’s shield, ran over, and picked up it’s massive blade.

“Electric Graze!” Lina and Jax yelled. Tiny bolts of lightning, each the size of needles, shot out of their hands, hitting the armor, electrocuting the knight from the inside. It won’t kill it but it will buy them time.

“Go for the back of the armor!” Ash yelled out. “in the games, their weak point is always the back.”

Riku and Fox looked at each other and nodded. They readied their weapons and charged at it. The Dark Nut was able to gain some motor skills too little, too late. Fox jumped over it’s head, positioned his staff just under the helmet, and pulled it off as he jumped over. Riku slashed up at the back of the armor, breaking the rope that held it together.

The knights armor fell apart, exposing it’s true self. Spyro, Cynder, and Bahamut flew together and spun around in a triple-helix, each covered in fire of a different color. They slammed into the knight and went though it. The fire engulfed the knight, killing it as it silently fell.

End Song.

“Yeah!” Sora and Zel high-fived.

“shortest fight we ever had.” Req said, having kept a tally on their fights.

Dash didn’t feel like cheering. She turned to talk to Eris again, only to find that she had disappeared. “Eris…” she depressingly said. She held her heart as soft tears fell. “Discord’s telling you lies, Eris. I always loved you.”

Night on the Orion

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 5

Night on the Orion

Discord sat in a beach chair at a coastal city. With some manipulation, he made it so that nobody knew he was there. Until it was too late, that is.

“oh, what fun Chaos can I do here in Cololulu?” he said with glee. He snapped his fingers and summoned a checklist. “hmm… I can put Pineapples under chairs… turn the local Manta Rays into social gentlemen… oh, I know. I can make the palm trees grow as high as the atmosphere with ponies already on them. OH, I can be so geniusy.”

“that’s not even a real word.” Eris said, appearing over Discord and hanging upside down.

“I’m the spirit of chaos and disorder. I can turn that into a word if I want.”

Eris rolled her eyes. She grabbed the invisible pole she was hanging on and swung off, landing in a professional stance. “10 points.”

“so how did everything go?” Discord asked, referring to Eris’ little ‘reunion’ with everyone back in Maredrid.

“Fine. Fine.” Eris grabbed a pineapple and bit off the thorns and ate them. “Rainbow Dash was shocked to her core so I think I did all right. Surprised everyone well when I summoned that knight from that… euh…. Zelda game. Boy, they are going to be surprised when they see what else we have in stock for them.”

“Don’t I.” Discord snapped his fingers, summoning a checklist of what beasties and baddies they are going to use. He crossed off Eris’ Dark Nut. He wasn’t that powerful to begin with but it must’ve done some good if it shocked everyone.

“Get this. They’re going to the Badlands to rescue me and take you out.”

Discord laughed at the notion. “oh, now that is hilarious. And here you are, bad as me.”

Eris pretended to blush. “thank you, Papa Discord.”

“oh, they are going to be in for a rude awakening when they don’t find us there.” Discord laughed. Eris turned to leave to spread more chaos. “wait wait wait, Eris dear. What good changes do you see for Cololulu?”

Eris thought for a moment then snickered evilly.

A eagle screeched as it flew down to the flying Orion. The bulking ship droned on though the night sky, making it’s way to Manehatten, which was just 8 hours away.

In the ship’s kitchen, Req and Sora were hard at work making dinner. Since half of the people on board were vegetarians, they had to keep them in mine. Luckily, all the carnivores are able to put up with a all vegetarian dinner, if it was that.

Satoshi lead the ponies though the ship, giving them a tour of the vessel. He didn’t give a tour to their other world friends because they already got the tour on their respective worlds.

“…and this is Req’s and Aura’s room.” he said, showing the ponies their room. It was super-duper fancy; fit for a goddess, though Req really didn’t want it. She wasn’t into fancy rooms and all that. Hell, she lived in a attic back home in Teria by her own choice.

Sora and Jax, being sisters, shared a room they put together to be FOR girls and girls only. The mere sight of it made Rarity faint out of jealousy.

Ash’s and Satoshi’s room isn’t… as nice as the other rooms. It is typical where it’s like most boys rooms; Meeeeeesy.

Bahamut’s room, which is the smallest out of them, wasn’t as messy but it was… eh… draconic in nature. He also has a small corner dedicated to his girlfriend Sapphyre. Cynder and Spyro shouldn’t be surprised; when they first met, he was so lovestruck, his heart was trying to burst out of his chest.

The Captain’s Cabin, which is located where captain cabins usually are, was nothing fancy. It just looked like what you would expect from cabins on ships like a Man-O-War. It has a desk for the captain, a large table for papers and maps, and a few knickknacks that the gang had collected over the years, most prominent are the group shots from each world they visited. First was the group shot from their home world Earth, with the Archangels Gabriëlle, Uriel, and Krouze, the former captain of the Orion Captain Bauer, the mercenary from Andromeda Merrifield, and Aura’s sister Jessica and her newborn son Adolf.

After that, the pictures descended from what world they’ve visited. From Star Fox to Tales of Symphonia then Kingdom Hearts, then How To Train Your Dragon, Legend of Spyro, and The Slayers. Each one had a group shot of them with their new friends from that world. Only one missing is this world.

Between the desk and the table is a staircase that leads to the other rooms mentioned before down on deck 3. At the end of that surprisingly large hallway is another staircase, leading down to the cargo hold.

“wow.” Pipsqueak gasped. “This ship is surprisingly big!”

“Yep.” Satoshi said with a smile. “it’s one of those things that’s bigger on the inside then it is on the outside. Surely there must be some here on Equestria.”

“there is.” Spike said. “and please don’t call me Surly.”

Aura and Ash groaned at his comment. It made them hurt inside that he ripped on Airplane! It wasn’t even that good to begin with.

“Dinners Ready!” Sora called out.

As if they haven’t ate in forever, Lina and Gourry ran over everyone and up to the kitchen, much to everyone’s surprise. Amelia and Zelgadis sighed in embarrassment. “They have bottomless pits for stomachs.”

Eris and Discord laughed as they looked down on the flooded Cololulu. The entire city was underwater, with it’s residents up on rooftops, waiting to it to recede.

“oh, that is a good one.” Discord laughed. He wiped away a tear and sighed with content.

Eris, however, didn’t get her fill. She snapped her fingers with a wicked sneer. Even Discord is wondering what she’s up too.

A large fin slowly emerged from the water, heading for the city. The residents spotted it and shook in fear. A MASSIVE shark burst out of the sea and chomped down on the city, swallowing it and it’s residents whole.

Eris laughed with glee at the sight and clapped like a little girl. “Oh, now that was funny.”

Discord, however, was completely surprised and horrified by what he saw. Even he’s not that sadistic to find something like this funny. Eris snickered before disappearing. “This… could be a problem…” he muttered before disappearing as well.

Lina’s and Gourry’s eyes gleamed as they looked at the spread of meat and veggies before them. “Let’s dig in!” the fillies exclaimed with Forks and Knifes in han… hoof.

Req gulped out of fear. She knew those two had a BIG appetite “just remember that there’s…” Lina and Gourry dove right in and took most of the food for themselves and gorged themselves. The Fillies dug into their food. “other… people… here…” Req sighed and lowered her head in defeat. Aura patted her on the back.

Before the pigs could get at the rest of the food, everyone took what they could and also began to eat.

“Oh, my god. I forgot how good you two can cook. You‘re basically goddess‘ of the kitchen.” Ash said with a full mouth. Sora and Requiem smiled at the compliment.

“Really?” Spike asked. He looked at his corn on the cob and took a bite. The explosion of tastes hit him, making him pound his palm into the table in the captains cabin. “oh, lordie lordie. This is good stuff.” he said in a ‘Urkel-Esq.’ tone. “there’s good, then there’s great.” it didn’t take long for the ponies to agree. This stuff was better then what they have back home.

Jax took a big gulp when she remembered something. “hey. Weren’t we in the middle of a marathon before we crash-landed?”

“oh, that’s right.” Satoshi put down his cutlery and ran as fast as he could downstairs to the cargo bay.

“where’s he going?” Trixie asked, looking down the stairs with Gilda from the table.

“To get what we were watching before we were forced to crash-land on Equestria.” Bahamut said before taking a drink.

Satoshi quickly returned with a box collection of a old 90’s show. Edge was able to catch a glimpse of the title and found it confusing. “Power Rangers Zordon Era complete collection?”

“what?” Req asked with a shrug. Satoshi walked over to a DVD player, opened it, put the last disc in, and closed it up. “it’s a good show…” she grabbed her cup. “if you can get past the campiness.” Twilight and Halo raised their eyebrows with discontent. “hey, we don’t complain about what you watch.”

Satoshi pulled down a screen and grabbed a remote before sitting back on his chair. “we were on episode…. ‘Line in the Sand’ of In Space, right?”

“I think so.” Aura said before he slurped in a alfredo noodle. Satoshi pressed play on the remote…

Begin Intro:

…and the intro to Power Rangers: In Space began playing.

“you do this every night?” Pinkie asked.

“yep. We have a crapton of movies and shows down there.” Ash said. “we aren’t even 1/3 though them all.”

Marble and Applebloom whistled. How big of a collection do they have?

A hour passed and the table was cleared of empty plates. Everyone stayed there, however, as Countdown to Destruction Part 1 ended. Plus, they could barely move with such full bellies.

“that wasn’t the last episode, was it?” Scootaloo asked.

“nope. 1 more then this season is over.” Req said. “After this, we should put in a new movie, Satoshi.” Req said as she pressed the play button.

“Yep.” he took a sip though a straw of his milkshake. “think we have a copy of Transfomers G1.”

The episode began to play and everyone shut up. Shadow began to comfy up to Dash, only to find she wasn’t there. He spotted the door closing.

Dash walked out onto the deck and looked around. The whole thing sure looked different at night. Helios was asleep at the bow of the ship, acting as the guard dog. Dash chuckled warmly and walked to the nearest railing.

Most of the ship’s mast propellers were off, except for 3 and the 2 large ones in the back, Giving the least amount of sound to break moments.

Dash reached the railing and looked over the side. The ground was so far below and she was so high up. Higher then any Pegasi had flow.

“Couldn’t stay?” Shadow asked as he walked out to join her.

Dash looked back and nodded. “yeah.”

He walked up to her and got close. “what’s up?”

“Well… I keep wondering why Eris would attack us and say that I lied to her. She didn’t even have a family when I found her. Well, no family that I’m aware of. But… how could she claim I never loved her? I loved her as any mother would.”

Shadow had thought about that since they ran into her and already had the answer. “well… what do Teenagers do? They rebel. They become rambunctious and a teensy bit destructive. Although, I was surprised that Discord was able to speed up her growth. I didn’t know he could do that.”

“I didn’t know he could take a sweet and innocent girl and turn her into a sadistic monster.” Dash took a deep breath and continued to look down at the ground below. She reached into her hair and pulled out a flower she had hidden away.

“what is that? A white rose?” Shadow asked, taking notice.

“yeah. She gave this to me the first day we met. It was my mom’s favorite.”

“oh, that’s right. You found out your mom died that same day.”

Dash nodded. “and I vowed that I would look after Eris the same way my mom showed me.” Dash scoffed. “and look at how well that’s turning out.”

Begin Song:

Romantic Flight - How To Train Your Dragon soundtrack

“Hey hey hey.” he gently pulled her over. “this is Discord’s fault. Not yours. And from what I saw when we reunited back in Maredrid, you were already a good mother. I’m sure whatever foal we have together, or Scootaloo when you adopt her, will be raised by the nicest mother in Equestria.”

Dash scoffed at that. “yeah, right. No, that title belongs to Derpy.” Shadow softly chuckled and Dash nuzzled up next to him. “plus, how can we have a foal if I only have 2 weeks to live?”

“then you better hope we get Eris back soon.”

“yeah.” Dash sighed. “I hope.”

From behind Helios, Manni heard the whole thing. She slinked down back behind the dragon and pondered what she was doing. Is she doing the right thing for Scootaloo, her--

The door to the cabin opened and everyone flooded out. “What do you want us to see that’s so important, Satoshi?” a annoyed Zilver asked.

“you’ll see.” he said as he climbed up steps to the controls.

“What’s going on?” Dash asked.

“Satoshi’s got something he wants to show us. Won’t tell us what, though.” Derpy said. She noticed that those two were out by themselves before they all arrived. “what were you two doing out here, anyway?”

“just having a talk, Derpy.” Dash said. “no need to get all romantic.”

Satoshi got the controls, flipped a switch, and turned the wheel to the left while pulling back on the left lever.

The ship slightly turned to the left and flew up into the clouds.

It passed though a thick layer, causing everyone to cover their eyes from all that moisture.

It slowly flew out of the top, allowing clouds to part by it.

“Okay. You can look now.” Satoshi said with slight glee. Everyone lowered their hands or hooves or whatever and looked at what could only be describe as something from a dream.

The ship sailed along the clouds to a endless display of stars and colors. The moon shone down on them, illuminating their way.

“WOW!” everyone exclaimed in awe.

“this is… so romantic.” Rarity said as the stars lighted up her eyes. The display lighted up every females eyes. The males in relationships took advantage of the situation and snuggled up to their special someone.

This display made the single people in the group wish they had boyfriends or girlfriends.

Satoshi sighed. “Times like this make me wish I had a boyfriend.” (oh. Forgot to mention. Satoshi’s gay.)

A Aurora Borealis appeared, adding more oohs and romantic feelings to the already mesmerized crowd.

“Luna would’ve loved this.” Trixie sighed.

“Colette, too.” Lloyd added.

Dash looked up with wide eyes and hope in her heart. Hopefully, she’ll be able to get Eris back. And if all falls to shit, she can always have Jax use Personality Shift on her and Discord and destroy the evil halves before they wake up. But, she hopes that would be a last resort. She yawned and rested her head on Shadow’s shoulder. He didn’t mind. He welcomed it, in fact. He had something he wanted to ask her.

“Dash?”

“hmm?”

“I know that, given the situation, this probably isn’t the best time to ask but, seeing as you might have only 2 weeks to live anyway…” he leaned into her ear and whispered. “…will you marry me?”

A stunned Dash went wide-eyed for a moment. They watered and she wiped them away. She looked to him and softly replied ‘yes’ and softly nuzzled him.

The Orion flew on though the sky, slowly but surely making it’s way to Manehatten.

A lot is going to happen in that mountain border town. A great many things; most for the better.

End Song.

Arrival at the Big Apple

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 6

Arrival at the Big Apple

The sun shone down on the Orion, with only 4 out of it’s 12 mast propellers working. The others weren’t on because Satoshi made them to be ‘beds’ for the fliers of the group. Everyone else slept on the deck or in the cargo hold.

“So, how long till Manehatten?” Aura asked as he, Satoshi, and Marble sat on the railing.

Marble looked over the side and spotted a few landmarks from his childhood. “not far. I recognize the land. We can’t be less then 5 minutes out.”

“So any minute now.” Satoshi concluded. He headed up to the controls.

A very tired Applebloom walked out of the cabin and out onto the deck. “it was cramped down there.” she yawned with a groan. “I could barely get any leg room.”

“it wasn’t that better out of the deck, Applebloom.” A.J. groaned. “Manehatten has better hotels then back home, though, and sleeping in the beds will be worth sleeping on hard floors.”

“you been to Manehatten before?” Marble asked, having not known this.

“several times. I have cousins who run their own apple farm out here.” A.J. returned her attention to her sis. “So this is a good time for you to meet your cousin Babs Seed.”

“Babs Seed?” Applebloom asked in confusion.

“yeah. She’s around your age. Stubborn as you and your friends too. And she’s a prime candidate for you to induct into the Cutie Mark Crusaders.” she said with a wink.

“a blank flank?” Applebloom looked back at hers and at her dragon-head Cutie Mark and got a somber feeling. “that’s cool, but…”

“But what?”

well… Scootaloo, Pipsqueak, and Dinky are the only ones without Cutie Marks now. And once they get theirs… we’re gonna have to break up.”

Applejack and Marble looked at each other for a moment and were about to comment when Satoshi interrupted. “hey.” he grabbed and pressed the button on a airhorn, creating a loud and obnoxious horn trying to wake the sleeping fliers up and off the propellers. It didn’t work. “Guys!”

“I got this.” Bahamut said as he tossed a pebble up and down. He threw it as hard as he could and hit the highest one, Cynder, in the head, waking her up. The pebble fell down and hit every other flier in the head, waking them up. They all grumbled in anger and looked down. Satoshi pointed to Bahamut and stepped away. “didn’t see that coming.” the dragon said nervously as he chuckled in the same way. He yelled as he zoomed into the cabin with every Pegasi, Gryphon, Changeling and Dragon pursuing him.

Those on deck looked to the cabin as the fliers beat the crap out of Bahamut. “Ow! OW! Hey! Wow, don’t touch me there! Ouch! *whining* I WANT MY MOMMYheheY!”

Satoshi rolled his eyes with a groan. He always had to ham it on.

The rest of the propellers turned on and spun as they normally do. The ship slightly turned to the right and headed down though the clouds.

The door to a house on a apple farm opened wide and a filly the age of the CMC walked on out.

“where are you going, Babs?” her mother asked.

“Just out for a walk, ma. Don’t worry about it.” Babs replied. she took a few steps when a shadow flew over the land. Both girls looked up and were surprised by what they saw.

Orion flew down out of the clouds and headed for the city of Manehatten. Buildings 5 stories tall littered the sky line with smaller buildings surrounding them. The mere sight of the ship made the inhabitants gasp in astonishment at it’s massive size.

“we’re supposed to find a guide here?” Emil said with slight fear, looking at the sheer size of the city. “this place is massive. It’s bigger then Meltokio and Palmacosta combined.” those not native to Symphonia looked at each other with confused looks.

“well, we can always ask the mayor for help.” Req suggested.

“how about we find a place to land first.” Gilda yawned.

“that…” Halo started as he looked down. “…could be a problem. I don’t see what would count as a landing pad.”

Satoshi snickered yet again. “you forget that this was once a real ship.” he looked over the side and spotted a big enough river down there. He pressed a few buttons and turned the wheel.

The propellers in the back of the ship stopped spinning. The fan blades folded into the shaft and retracted into the ship. The propellers on the masts slowly stopped one row at a time, from the bottom to the top.

The ship descended from the sky. It skimmed along the waters surface for a few feet before breaking the surface and slowly making it’s way it.

Everyone on the ship reacted to the sudden change from airborne to waterborne got to them.

Orion slowed to a halt on the left side of the river. It halted not that far from the shoreline and lowered it’s anchor.

The ship creaked as it swayed back and forth on the water. The ramp extended from the ship and down onto land.

“you thought of everything for this ship, didn’t you Satoshi?” Twilight asked as they all descended from the ship.

“yep.” he said with a smile. “so… where do we go from here?”

“well…” Sora pulled out notes that their pilot had taken. “… we have to find a native to the Badlands who can guide us though it. Not sure why we can’t just fly until we find Discord.”

“you clearly never been.” Marble sighed. “there’s a red fog that covers the sky all the time.” he thought back to what movie the humans had that had a good example. “it’s like Mars.”

“Oh!” the Earth humans exclaimed.

“okay. We need a Badlands native; dragon, right?” Sora asked. Trixie nodded, remembering that Dragons originated from the Badlands. “that’s the main quest. Was there any other side quests we need to do?” she asked like a RPG menu.

“I’m gonna go take Applebloom and introduce her to her cousin Babs.” A.J. said. “they’re gonna need to stay when we head in into the Badlands.”

Pinkie grabbed Marble and spun him around. “I’m gonna go meet Marble’s friends and family. I only met Diamond so I can’t wait to meet everyone else!” she gleamed. Marble wasn’t so enthusiastic and pulled out his sunglasses.

“And I…” Dash pulled a happy Scootaloo onto her back. “… am gonna adopt this squirt.”

“I was hoping to go meet Babs.” Scoots said, hoping that it wouldn’t hurt Dash’s feelings.

“Go ahead.” Dash pulled out the scroll she was given by Celestia. “this is all that’s needed.”

“thanks.” Scoots gave Dash a quick kiss on the cheek then jumped down to join her friends.” Manni softly growled inside her mouth. There’s no way she’s going to let this happen.

Req took her turn. “then how about this? Let’s all split up and go do what we want or need to do then meet back at Orion at nightfall.” everyone murmured among themselves and agreed. “Great. Besides, I think me, Gilda, and Trixie will be enough for to get a guide.”

“okay.” everyone said before splitting up.

Eris slowly walked though the frozen over Crystal Empire. She felt happy covering the place in a blizzard.

“yeeeeeah.” she stretched and put her hands behind her head. “I am good.” she walked by a shocked but frozen Crystal Pony and knocked on it. “nobody was expecting this.” she chuckled evilly.

She walked towards the crystal palace, about to take a seat at it’s throne, when she spotted something… off about it. Someone walked out of the palace with a glowing horn.

She softly snuck up to it and spotted a Black Unicorn leave the place with a shard of a crystal. “this will work.” he sinisterly said before disappearing in a flash of dark smoke.

Eris emerged from hiding and was, as I’m sure every reader is, confused. “who… was that…?” She muttered. “there was something off with him. Like he… has no heart.” she shivered at the mere thought of him. “hope I don’t have to deal with him.” she said before disappearing in a flash of light.

Applejack led the fillies and colts to the Manehatten Apple farm. They were happy to finally meet a Blank Flank like them. Well, like Scoots, Pip, and Dinky. They were so happy, they felt like singing. And A.J. heard a rock balled begin playing from somewhere and tried to find it‘s origin.

All:
♪Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.♪

Sweetie Belle:
♪oh, I can’t wait to meet our new friend.
To see what antics that she’ll bring.♪

Scootaloo:
♪I wonder if she’ll be a farmer or a taster of treats.
Oh, I can‘t wait to meet our new friend from the far east.♪

Applebloom:
♪one can only wonder what a girl like Babs will bring.
For we Cutie Mark Crusaders are always anxious to meet new friends.♪

Dinky:
♪all I hope for is that she is nice and ready for a loon.
I hope that she’s a whole lot better then Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.♪

All:
♪Babs Seed, Babs Seed.
I hope she’ll be a good friend.
Babs Seed, Babs Seed.
Hope she’s better then that stupid Spoon or Tiar.♪

The music stopped before Pip and Feather Weight could get a word. The fillies laughed; even A.J. chuckled at that.

“I hope she is better then Tiara or Spoon.” Applebloom hoped. “we don’t need another bully.”

“She’s pretty nice.” A.J. said. “but, due to her being bullied for her Blank Flank, she’s a little bit shy so don’t be surprised if she’s… distant.”

“we know the feeling so we know what to expect.” they all said.

Dash walked into the adoption agency in Manehatten. Shadow stayed outside, mostly to keep Manni from coming in. why was she so obsessed with keep Scootaloo from Rainbow Dash? That’s something everyone is trying to figure out.

She walked up to the counter and stood there. The receptionist took notice of her. “Can I help you?” she asked in a snooty accent.

“yeah. Um, I want to speak to whoever’s in charge. I’m looking to adopt someone.”

“First door on the right.” she said, pointing down a hallway while blowing some bubblegum.

Dash thanked her and headed down it. She reached door and knocked on it. “un… hello?”

“Come in.” a voice replied. Dash opened the door and walked in to see a Gryphon play some indoor golf. “give me a moment.” he gripped his club soft but tight. He lightly hit the gold ball. It rolled but missed the coffee cup. “man. I can never get the 18th hole.” he set the club down and took his seat behind his desk. “can I help you with something?”

“yes. I wish to adopt a child…” she noticed the name plague and read it. “…Fredrick.”

“okay.” he replied. A pregnant pause descended as Fred waited for a reply. “well? Is there any specific child or do you want the whole building?”

“oh. Oh, sorry. Yes. A Ms. Scootaloo.”

Fred nodded and went to his file cabinets to get her name when he just realized… “un… we don’t have a Scootaloo.”

Dash pulled out the scroll given to her by Celestia. “this will explain everything.” Fred took it and unfurled it.

He read it and, in a unexpected twist, got really angry. “What the hell is this?”

“what?” Dash asked, not really sure why he’s angry. Fred turned it around and gave it to Dash. She read it and couldn’t believe what she was reading.

‘don’t be fooled by this wretch. She’s the worse mother in existence and will burn down your building and everyone in it if she doesn’t get her way.’

“WHAT!?!” Dash exclaimed at the top of her lungs. There’s no way Celestia would say something like that.

“Security.” He said into his intercom.

Dash tried to make things clear. “no no no no no. wait wait wait wait wait. This is all a big mistake.” security entered the office and grabbed her by the hooves. “I swear, she didn’t mean to write this!”

“Get her out of my sight.”

Dash yelled as she was thrown out of the building. She landed in a puddle of mud face first right in front of Shadow and Manni. She pulled her face out and spit out mud.

Shadow helped her up and wiped off her chest. “What happened?” Dash sadly and angrily showed him the fake letter. Shadow took it and read it. “What?”

“Someone swapped that with Celestia’s letter.” Dash sniffled. “but… why would he do that?”

“I don’t know.” Manni snidely said. “could’ve been misplaced.” she bit into a apple and walked off with such a smug look. Shadow and Dash angrily looked at each other, already know what happened to the scroll Celestia gave them.

The Pegasi mayor of Manehatten sighed as he leaned forward on his desk. “so bored…” he moaned.

His intercom rang and his secretaries voice came though. “Mr. Day. You have a couple of visitors here to see you.”

“Send them in.” he replied with disinterest. He is in a really sour mode today. The door opened wide and 3 figures walked in. what surprised him was that one was a species he never saw before. That species got his curiosity. “who are you 3?”

“I am Requiem Hikaru, Mr. Mayor. And this is Princess Gilda, heir of the Gryphon Kingdom, and Duchess Trixie Lulamoon, wife to Princess Luna. We come of behalf of Princess Celestia.”

“Celestia?” he asked. It’s not often that Celestia sends someone to Manehatten. “what does she want?”

“This will explain it.” Trixie said as she used her magic to bring some notes to his attention.

He grabbed them and quickly read them over. “Discord escaped?” he asked, not really surprised by it. That war a couple weeks ago would’ve been enough to for him to break loose. “and Celestia wants me to help you find a guide to the Badlands where he’s hiding?”

“yep. If Discord stays on the loose, there’s no telling what will happen to the world.” Gilda said. “Cats could marry dogs, houses could hang upside down. Mice will--”

“I get the picture.” the mayor sighed. “so… you need a guide?”

“yes. Particularly someone native to the Badlands, like a dragon.” Trixie suggested.

Mr. Day thought about it. “hmm… we have a number of traders from there. In fact, one just arrived 2 hours before you did. He should be down in the markets. Un… I think his name is Garble. He‘s a Red Dragon who… to put it lightly, has got a bad attitude”

“Garble. Okay.” Req said as she wrote the name down. “Thanks for the info.”

“it’s no problem. Is there anything else you need?”

“not at the moment.” Gilda said. “and again, thanks for the info, mr…”

“Day. Golden Day.”

Manehatten

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 7

Manehatten

With the directions from Golden Day, the goddess, the princess, and the duchess made their way though the crowded Manehatten markets to find their Badlands guide.

“Let’s see…” Req pulled out her notepad. “he said we’re looking for a Red Dragon named Garble. But he didn’t give us any other information. How are we supposed to find him?”

“I’m sure we can think of something.” Trixie said. “besides, how many dragons are named Garble?”

“true.”

Their search was interrupted when Manni ran by, running as fast as she could with fear for her life. “GET BACK HERE!” Dash yelled as she ran after her.

“Dash?” the trio said to themselves. Shadow panted heavily as he got to them. “Shadow, what’s going on?”

“*Pant. Pant. Pant.* Manni, she… she replaced Celestia’s letter to the adoption agency with a fake, saying Dash is going to burn the place down if she doesn’t get her way.”

“WHAT!” they yelled out. They looked in the direction Manni and Dash ran and snarled. “Hope on.” Gilda said. Shadow reluctantly did just that. “we’re going after them.” she told Req and Trix. They nodded, knowing Manni has to pay for this. Gilda took to the air and went after them.

Req said and placed her hands on her hip. “I never knew Manni would go this far. Just what is her obsession with Scootaloo, anyway?” she asked. She saw that Trixie was gone. “Trixie?” she looked around for a second and watched her enter a shop.

The bell to the shop ringed as Trixie walked though the door. The place was very oriental in appearance. The bell caught the attention of the owner. “ah. Greetings. And welcome to my shop. May I help you?”

“just browsing for the moment.” she replied.

Req entered the shop and whistled at the collection. “wow. Quite a number.” she muttered as she looked around. Antique clocks, old magic scrolls and books. What surprised her is there’s a actual sword. “now that’s weird.” she grabbed it and pulled it out. “I thought ponies don’t use swords.”

“Ah. That is a truly rare piece.” the shopkeep said, noticing Req grabbed the blade. “someone sold it to me for quite a high price; said he found it while exploring in the Arctic North. Legends say it belonged to Zax, the Human God who helped create our world with the Alicorn Goddess Jeria long ago.”

“oh.” Req gripped the handle tight and swung it. It was light and nimble and cool to the touch. “easy to swing.” she spun it around. “might make a good back-up weapon. How much is it?”

The shopkeep looked at the blade and thought up a price. “mmm…. 2000000 Bits.”

“$2 Million dollars?” Req whined and put the blade back. She doesn’t have that much money. “that’s a lot of money.”

“it’s the only one in the world. Of course it would be worth a lot.”

During their little talk, Trixie walked around and saw a necklace dashed away somewhere in the back. “how much is this?”

The shopkeep walked over and she pointed to the necklace. “Oh. That. You have good taste.” he grabbed it and pulled it into view. It was black and red with a Alicorn design. “This is a Alicorn Amulet. There’s 5 in existence and said that they’re very powerful.”

“Alicorn Amulet…” Trixie muttered. That would make a perfect souvenir for Luna. “How much?”

“around 5000 credits.”

Trixie bit her lips. Then, she remembered who she was married to. “if possible, can you make the bill out to Princess Luna?”

He wasn’t so sure he should do that. “that… doesn’t sound like a good idea. For starters, she barely knows me and…”

“tell her that her wife, Trixie Lulamoon, bought her a gift but is keeping it under wraps.”

“Wife?” he looked down at her hooves and saw the wedding band with royal markings. “Oh. Oh, my apologies. I-I heard that Princess Luna had taken on a wife, I just didn’t know it was you.”

“You and everyone not from Canterlot or Ponyville.” Req joked, looking though a book.

“tell you what. Because I didn’t know who you were and so you don’t throw me in jail, how about I cut the price in half; 2500.”

This was one aspect of her marriage she didn’t see coming but shouldn’t expected. “okay. 2500.” she used her magic to bring out a notepad to write down the castle’s address as the shopkeep reached up and grabbed the amulet. “here you go.” she said, handing him the note. “again, keep it a secret. Just tell her that Trixie has a surprise for her.” she said with a wink.

The shopkeep put it in a box and handed it to her. Trixie left, tossing a couple bits down for himself. Req continued looking at a book, not aware that Trixie had left… until she used her magic to pull the humans ear, making her hop out on one leg.

Manni ran as fast as she could down a street with Dash in hot pursuit. “GET BACK HERE!” she yelled. Manni stuck her tongue out and kept running. Shadow suddenly jumped down in front of her with his horn glowing. Manni screeched to a halt and ran down another road. “Shadow!” Dash yelled, about to put him down for getting in her way. Shadow stuck his hoof up and pointed down the road.

Manni looked back and saw that they weren’t in pursuit. She snickered and kept running… until Gilda fell from above and pinned her to the ground. “get off me!” Manni exclaimed.

“not a chance.” Gilda said in a scary tone. She took Manni’s bags and looked though it, finding the real letter just as Dash and Shadow caught up. “Got it.” she said, tossing it to the Pegasus.

Dash caught it but didn’t leave just yet. She had a few questions for Manni. “why are you doing this? Why are you so obsessed with getting Scootaloo and Eris away from me?” Manni kept silent. She was keeping her reasons to herself. “fine. Be that way.”

“Maybe we should tell Golden Day about her. Make sure she keeps away from us during out visit.” Dash stiffened and her eyes widened when she heard that name. Gilda and Shadow noticed this. “Dash?”

“What…. What did you say?”

Shadow and Gilda looked at each other with confused expressions. “she said we should take Manni to this Golden Day person.” Shadow repeated. Dash stood there with a clear stunned expression. He’s here. He‘s actually here. “Dash?” without a word, Dash quickly took off, ignoring her injured wing. “Dash!” Gilda reacted with a yell and hit herself in the head. “What?”

“I just remembered.” she said in a worried groan. “Golden Day is Dash’s dad.”

“OOOOH!” Rarity exclaimed. “Spike, take a look at this!”

The engaged and expectant couple were in the Manehatten maternity store, looking at clothes for their coming dragon/pony hybrid foal and for Rarity for the coming 10 months. She thinks to have found something perfect for the kid and got Spike’s attention.

“what is it?” he asked as he walked over.

“What do you think of this for the baby?” she asked, holding up a sailor’s uniform.

Spike didn’t know what to say. “it looks….. Unique.” in Rarity’s vocabulary, that means good. “but, um… wouldn’t it be better to make the stuff? I mean, you are a fashion designer.”

“I had considered it, Spike, but I’m gonna have to work overtime to make enough clothes to sell in order to raise enough money. Who knows how hard or easy it’ll be to raise a hybrid.” Spike shrugged in agreement. She had a point there. “plus, and as much as I hate to admit it, there are some designers who are…” this part hurt her pride the most. “…better then me.”

Spike chuckled. “if you say so, Rare.” he looked though the shop and found something that would be… nice for her. “hey, Rare. Think I found something that would look good on you.”

Curious, she turned around and saw him wearing a VERY thin see-thought negligee. “SPIKE! You honestly expect a dignified lady such as myself to wear something that… tasteless?”

Spike had his counter-argument ready to go as soon as he turned into a teen in case this happened. “and you went after a dragon who just turned 14 both physically and mentally.”

“how much for the negligee?” Rarity asked as soon as Spike finished. Spike chuckled and walked over. At least he had one thing to use against her if and when they got into a fight.

Begin Song:

The Fate of the Galaxy - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack

A little filly dropped her teddy bear. She went to pick it up when a pair of feet walked past. She didn’t see who the feet belonged to but she felt cold just being around her. She quickly grabbed her bear and ran off.

A lone human female, with a red cloak covering her body and no more then 12, slowly walked though the Ponyville markets, making her way to the store that Req and Trixie were at just a half hour ago. As she walked, she left a air of intimidation, frightening even the toughest of dragons and gryphons.

On a roof-top just over the markets, Orochi and Tsylatac watched as she made her way to the shop.

“she’s not going to have what it takes.” Glacies said. “we shouldn’t have let her go along to retrieve it.”

Tsylatac got off a chimney and landed on the shingles. “calm yourself, Glacies. She’s more then capable of pulling this off. I’m sure of it.”

“you better hope so…” Lucis said as he took over. “…cause if we lose that thing, it’s gonna set our plans back a ways.”

“Trust me, Lucis. She won’t fail.”

The door the shop opened, jingling the bell and getting the attention of the shopkeep. “hello there. Is there…” he saw the person and immediately though it was Requiem. “ah. Lady Requiem. With what do I own the pleasure of your return?”

The unknown girl looked around the shop and found what she was looking for. “you have something of mine. And I want it.” she asked in a cold tone.

Something was wrong. That wasn’t Requiem. Still, he never turned down paying customers. “of course. I’m sure we can think of a good price.”

“Price?” the girl chuckled and, with a flick of her right wrist, summoned a red scythe with a curved handle. “I wasn’t asking for it.”

0:51. End Song.

Marble stopped in his tracks as he stared at a sight he wasn’t sure he’d see ever again.

His old childhood neighborhood. It was exactly how he left it; a dump similar to any slums anywhere. “I never thought I’d see that ol’ dump again.” he said with a chuckle. It seemed like yesterday when that freak storm appeared and crippled his sister Diamond and destroying a number of rooftops. They never did figure out what it was, though.

Pinkie walked up and nuzzled beside him. “you ready to meet your old friends?” she gently asked.

Marble took a deep breath and sighed. “yeah.” he went to take a step but stopped mid-way. He steeled himself and went forth.

Gentle humming came from a small flower garden just beside a basketball court, where a group of young stallions and mares were playing a game.

Diamond Cake, Marble’s younger and crippled sister, watered the flowers from her wheelchair. She set the jug down on her lap and rolled over to another part of the flower garden. She wasn’t aware of the visitors coming to her.

Marble was surprised to see Diamond watering flowers. She used to hate that. Guessed being crippled can have benefits.

He stopped a few feet away and cleared his throat. “um… hey there, sis.”

Diamond stopped what she was doing and looked back. “Marble?” her brother smiled and waved to her. Diamond smiled wide. “Marble!” she used her magic to pull her brother over and hug him. That little screech got the attention of those playing. “Oh, it’s been so long!”

Marble blushed in embarrassment. And it was in front of his marefriend, too. “Diamond. Please. I have my marefriend with me. You’re embarrassing me.”

“oh. Sorry.” she stopped her magic and put him down. She turned her attention to a surprising calm pink mare. “long time, no see Pinkie.”

“hey, Diamond. It’s been a long time.” she walked over and hugged her. “how are you doing since Hearts and Hooves day?”

“still crippled.” Diamond joked.

“Sis…” Marble groaned.

“Okay. Okay. Unc.”

Marble raised a eyebrow in confusion. Pinkie fully figured out what she meant and gasped in excitement. “I don’t get it.” Marble muttered. Pinkie and Diamond scoffed. “What?”

“think about it. Unc.” Pinkie said with a smile while poking Marble’s head. He was still confused but the pieces eventually fell into place.

“wait…” Diamond giggled. He figured it out. “are you saying that… you’re pregnant?”

“yea-huh.” Diamond said with a giggle.

Marble couldn’t believe it. His little sister was gonna be a mom. He staggered and fell back. Pinkie caught him before he hit the ground. “who… when… how…?” he couldn’t form words. Those were the only ones he could get it. It was more then enough for Diamond to explain.

“Green Block, 3 weeks ago, and my legs are crippled, not everything below my waist.”

Marble couldn’t believe it. He’s gonna have a hard time believing it. He-- “wait, Green Block?” he asked, breaking the mood he had. “the dad is G.B.? the most violent pony around.”

“He’s not violent.” Diamond said in his defense. “he’s kind and gentle. He even proposed when we found out.”

“and don’t you think he’s doing that out of guilt; or maybe because he has too?” Marble continued, not wanting to believe that. Green Block was the one who was ridiculing him the hardest when the accident happened.

“Marble… he’s a nice pony. If you took the chance to know him, you would see that he’s a really nice guy.”

Marble was about to argue again when a large and powerful explosion came from downtown.

Spike and Rarity left the maternity store with a number of items for Rarity and the Baby when Spike ran into someone he never expected to meet again. He hit the red dragon and fell back.

“Hey! Watch IT!” the Red Dragon angrily said.

Spike brushed off his butt when he saw who he ran into. “oh, no. not you.” he whined, falling back down. When he said that, Rarity took a look at the dragon and reacted as same, hitting her head against a wall. “oh, no.”

The dragon took notice of the mare. “do I know you two?”

“no. but we know you.” Rarity sighed, not wanting to believe that this is who they think it is.

The red dragon took a good look at Rarity and Spike. After 3 minutes, he finally figured out who they were. “Oh. Oh, wow. This is too good.” he laughed. “the screeched voiced Rarity and little ‘Spikey-Wikey.’ Hahaha. Oh, this is good.”

Spike casually looked to Rarity. “I’d say Garble remembers us, Rare.”

“you really grew since I last saw you.” Garble joked. “you may have wings and look like me, but you’re still a wimp.”

Spike scoffed at that. “a wimp? I helped end a war against the Changeling Horde. I helped destroy Nightmare Moon for good. Me and rarity are helping take out the spirit of disharmony. Tell me, how does that qualify as a wimp?”

Garble had nothing, mostly because he couldn’t think of a good retort. “fine. Guess you’re not a wimp. But you’re still a weakling.”

“I am well aware of that.”

“Thankfully…” Rarity interrupted. She walked over and help her fiancée up. “…some ponies like a sensitive dragon.”

“What?” he eyed inside the bags and tried to contain a chortle. “oh, good grief. Hahahaha.” Spike and Rarity angrily looked at each other, then at Garble. “oh, no. oh, no. you can’t be. You can’t be expecting a child.”

“Not just that.” they both said. “we’re engaged.”

“What?” Garble fell over laughing. This was so funny, it hurt. “you two? Engaged? Ahahahahahahaha! Oh, this is too good.” he rapidly hit his fists on the concrete ground.

Suddenly, a large and powerful explosion echoed though the streets. Smoke from it caught them and covered them fast.

Even leaders of cities need to rest and Golden Day is doing just that, taking a little nap on his desk. His door slamming open woke him up. He snorted and rubbed his eyes to see a very angry Cyan Pegasus where his door was. “may I help you?”

“how…” Dash shakingly said. “How could you?”

Day raised a eyebrow in confusion. “excuse me?”

Dash took a deep breath and… “HOW COULD YOU LEAVE US LIKE THAT!?!” she cried. “You! You just left us! How could you leave us!?!”

“What are you talking about?” a disgruntled Day asked.

Dash angrily wiped away her tears. “Shine Dash. 24 years ago. You two had a loose night that resulted in a young mare…”

Shine Dash? That’s a name he hasn’t heard in a long while. Wait? Does that mean that she’s. “…when the mare was 2, you left and abandoned both her and her mother! Some time after that, you found some hussy and that resulted in Soarin’, formerly deceased member of the Wonderbolts.”

Soarin’ is dead? He hadn’t heard of that. “and now, here you are, the mayor of Manehatten. Hehe. I can’t wait to here that story, but…” she angrily walked over to the nearest bookcase. “what I want to know…” she put a hoof to it. “IS WHY YOU LEFT US!” she pushed it over, causing it to crash to the ground. Dash fell to her hooves and cried. “why… why did you leave us? Why did you let mom die…?”

Golden Day didn’t know what to say. He never expected to see his daughter before him. Or to hear that Shine is dead. “Rainbow… I… I don’t know what you want me to say.”

“Just tell me the truth.” she wiped her eyes and sniffled before looking up at him. “why did you leave us?”

That was a question that was bothering him for a while. “Dash… I--”

A sudden explosion echoed though the city. The glass to the room they were in broke, sending shards all over.

The shopkeep pulled himself from the ground and looked back in fear to see his shop in flames.

“what happened?” Req said as she and Trixie ran back.

“one of your friends destroyed my shop!” he yelled.

“one of our friends?” Req repeated. “that’s preposterous. Unless you serve food, Lina and Gourry should leave you alone.”

“Well, tell that to her!” he yelled, pointing to the fire. Req and Trixie looked at the blazing inferno.

Footsteps from high-heel shoes echoed as their owner walked out unscathed. The sword of Zax hung off her back. She took noticed of Req and silently but evilly snickered.

“This is going to be good…” Aqua evilly chuckled as she popped some popcorn into her mouth. “… I can tell.”

The unknown girl raised her right arm into the air…

Begin Song:

Dark Impetus - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST

…and summoned up her scythe.

She spun it around in a epic but scary fashion before pointing it to the goddess.

“whoa!” Req reacted. She reached for her blades but held. “I never dealt with Scythes before.” she said to Trixie.

“perfect.” the unknown girl replied. She spun her scythe once then charged at Req like a cheetah. Req barely had enough time to push Trixie out of the way when the girl reached her and swung at Req’s neck. She was barely able to block it in time.

The girl was unexpectedly powerful as she sent Req crashing though several buildings. Req crashed though the last one and right into a fountain square.

Req groaned as she struggled to get up. This girl was surprisingly powerful and fast. That’s a dangerous combo. She should know; she’s a member of that combo. Req was able to get up to her knees when the girl appeared out of thin air and kicked her in the gut.

The wind left Req’s lungs as she was kicked into the air. The girl disappeared then reappeared right beside the goddess. She kicked her in the back, disappeared, reappeared, and slashed up at her shoulder. She disappeared again and reappeared, slamming the blunt of the handle into the back of Req’s knee. She disappeared and reappeared again over and over and over and over again, kicking the snot out of Req.

The girl reappeared high in the air, spun her scythe over her head, and yelled as she fell to kill Req. “This is your end!” she flipped backwards and swung down.

A gunshot echoed, the bullet aimed straight for her. The girl blocked the shot but it sent her off course. She slammed her scythe into and jumped to the top of a chimney.

Satoshi and Fox quickly reloaded their rifles, took aim, and fired again. The girl spun her scythe around like a airplane propeller, blocking the shots with ease. Aura and Lloyd ran by and headed towards her. The girl chuckled and pulled out the blade. She pointed it at the gunners as a pink glow swirled around it.

A beam of pink light shot out of it and headed for Satoshi and Fox. They yelled and quickly ran out of the way. She spun around and sent a scythe-beam towards Aura and Lloyd. They blocked it but the force was too powerful and they were sent rolling into the fountain.

The girl scoffed and put the blade away. She jumped down and walked over to take care of them.

More gunshots rang out, heading for her. She quickly took a step back, avoiding the Mana Bolts that almost hit her in the head. She snarled as she looked in their point of origin.

Ash’s guns smoked as he aimed right for her. “(Damn. It’s him.)” she snarled on the inside. Ash fired again at her but the girl moved too fast to hit. She ran up the sides of a couple buildings like a parkour pro, Ash’s shots hitting where she was.

“Dammit.” Ash breathed.

“we got this.” Riku said as he, Zel, and Jax ran past. They took the same route she did when she did her parkour moves and ran after her.

“kick her ass for me.” Req weakly moaned before going limp.

Orochi and Tsylatac watched the little spectacle from atop a belltower and laughed.

“now that was entertaining.” Tenebrae laughed. The knight got up and disappeared. “Where’s he going?”

“to make sure she doesn’t die.” Glacies explained.

“oh.” a portal of dark fire appeared behind them and they walked in. “why?”

End Song.

“Bet you can’t catch me!” Babs playfully yelled to the CMC.

“You’re on!” they all yelled as they ran after her.

Applejack and Babs’ mother watched them play from the sidelines and smiled. “It’s nice to have Babs make some new friends.” her mother said with a smile. “she’s been having trouble with her schoolmates teasing her for being a blank flank.”

“My sis and her friends know the feeling.” Applejack said, referencing to their problem with Diamond Tiara. “anyway, Mrs. Seed. I have a favor to ask of you.”

“?”

“me and my friends are going into a dangerous area soon and… well, we don’t want them to get in the middle of it. Think you can look after them until we get back?”

“sure.” Mrs. Seed said, not even thinking about it. “anything for Golden Harvest’s daughter.” Applejack forced a smile but she didn’t want to hear his name. not near to that day.

“GET BACK HERE!” Riku yelled as he, Zel, and Jax ran after the mystery girl. She lead them to the Manehatten farm in hopes of losing them. Better said then done.

The girl jumped into the air and fired a scythe-beam at them. Riku and Zel were hit by it but Jax was able to block it and continue running. The girl disappeared and reappeared behind Jax. “Disappear!” she punched Jax right in the side, knocking her out cold.

“Jax!” Applejack and the CMC exclaimed. The girl looked up and saw the ponies watching.

A sudden dark noise came from her left. She looked and saw Tsylatac appear beside her. “you’ve been busy.”

“not by choice.” she retorted. She tossed Jax to the ground and handed the sword to the knight. “I’m out of here. I already did my work.” she turned and walked though the portal. The knight would’ve followed her but didn’t. he had another plan to put into motion.

He disappeared in a flash and reappeared behind the CMC. A gust of wind shot out of him, sending everyone but Babs to the ground. “what?” she exclaimed. He grabbed Babs by her mane. She struggled to get loose. The knight lightly placed his finger on her forehead, knocking her out.

“Babs!” her mother yelled.

The knight placed the unconscious Babs under his arm. “Don’t worry. She’s still alive. I just need her for something. I promise she will return unharmed.”

Those were the last words he said before disappearing in a flash of dark fire.

Into the Badlands

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 8

Into the Badlands

The dark knight Tsylatac reappeared on top of a mesa and tossed Babs to the ground. She hit face first and rolled a few feet. She mumbled as she rose her head, mouth full of dirt. She angrily spit it out and snarled back at the knight.

“What was that for?” she angrily exclaimed. “why did you kidnap me? And where are we?” she looked up at the sky and noticed that it was orange. And everywhere she looked, it was red sand. She had a good feeling where she was. “Is this the Badlands? Why did you bring me into the Badlands?”

The knight raised her hand and shut her up. “please shut up. If you must know, I mean you no harm.” Babs couldn’t tell if he was lying or not. That helmet was making it difficult. “but… I do have something I need you to help me with.”

“HA! Like I’m going to help you.” she wasn’t going to help destroy the world for his sake.

The knight sensed this. “but it’s to save this world.”

This knight wants to save the world? From what? And why? There was something screwy going on here and there was only one way she was going to get an answer. “save the world? How?”

The knight disappeared and reappeared beside her in a flash, surprising her. “Listen carefully.” he mysteriously said into her ear as his cape fluttered in front of the camera.

“Ow! Req exclaimed as Amelia wrapped her wrist. Both girls were on Orion’s deck with Amelia bandaging the beat-up goddess. Jax, Riku, and Zel were also there. They had some bandages but they weren‘t as beat up as Req. “ugh. First that knight guy beats the snot out of me, now that girl with the scythe. Is there something about me that they hate so much, they don’t even ask me to try and change it?”

“maybe they just hate you for being you.” Amelia said with closed eyes.

“maybe. But there was something about that knight from the train. Something familiar. I can’t put my finger on it. But I do know there was something familiar about him. Like I know him from somewhere.”

The shop that the girl destroyed to get that sword was, as everyone suspected, destroyed. There was nothing left.

“Dang.” Trixie whistled. She looked at her box which had the amulet. “glad I bought this when I had the chance.” she walked out of the crowd and down some streets. “this may complicate things.” she muttered. “that Garble fella Golden Day told us about may’ve been injured from that explosive attack. There were some dragons and ponies wounded when it exploded. Garble could’ve been one of them.”

She looked to her right to see some fillies and colts cowering behind a box, afraid that this might happen again. Trixie looked back at the box with the amulet then back to the kids.

*Ding*

A light bulb went off in Trixie’s head. She had a good idea on how to get their spirits up. And she had a good power boost for her to use. She had to make sure it was all right for Luna, anyways.

Golden Day looked out the broken window of his office down to where the shop exploded. In all his years in charge, he never expected this to happen. After that explosion, Dash quickly left to go help but realized too late that her friends didn’t need it. Mostly due to the fact that the battle went by faster then you can say ‘princess Celestia.’ when she left, Day delved into his memories of his time with Shine. She clearly had his stubbornness so he was going to have to explain everything.

“but… will she like what I have to tell her?” he muttered.

“tell me what?” Dash angrily said as she walked back in.

Day sighed and looked back. “you came all this way for a explanation, didn’t you? Why I left you and your mother?” Dash angrily snarled at him. Guess that was it. “I was scared.”

That was something she never expected to hear. “Scared? What do you mean scared?”

Day glanced away from her and sighed. “when it was me, her, Comet Skies, and May Day, we were inseparable. The best of friends. Me and Shine married and moved to the Gryphon Kingdom, both to get a new start on life… and to find a cure for her decease. Then… Shine got pregnant with you.” Dash angrily frowned. “I was afraid about being a father. I didn’t know the first thing about being a dad so… out of fear, I ran. I didn’t want to be a father.”

“So just like that, you left us!?” Dash snarled.

“…… after that, I ran into Geo, a Earth Pony who was a geologist. We fell in love but, like with Shine, she got pregnant with Soarin’. I tried to be a good father but it was too tough. I left her and found myself here in Manehatten. I made sure I didn’t fall in love but also found myself being a popular member of the community, eventually becoming the mayor.”

Dash couldn’t believe what she was hearing. He left two families because he was afraid? Is he kidding her or something? “I don’t believe this. You left me, and Soarin’, because you were afraid!?! Is … are you insane!?”

“I admit, those were decisions I regretted.”

Dash angrily scoffed and kicked at his desk. “You bastard! You just up and abandoned us! If you stayed, then maybe mom would still be alive.”

She died? That was something he should’ve expected but he still didn’t want it to happen. “let me guess. It was from her decease?”

“yeah. And I didn’t know about it until I got the letter saying she was dead. And just 2 weeks ago, Soarin’ died during the war with the changelings, leaving Scootaloo all alone.”

“Scootaloo?” he asked. He hadn’t heard that name before.

“Soarin’s adopted daughter. He took her in when her family died in a fire. And with him dead, I’m trying to adopt her, but this annoying unicorn Manni is trying to prevent me from doing so for a reason she’s not saying.”

“I see…” he looked at his desk and at a picture of him and his friends from his childhood. He couldn’t believe Shine was dead. And his heart sank knowing that Dash is all alone right now. He wanted to make right with Dash somehow. And he could only think of one thing. “can I… can I see this Scootaloo?”

Dash was surprised to hear him ask that. “s-sure. But why?”

“to help repay my leaving you when you were very very young. It may not be immediate but I will do what I can to help you adopt her.”

Inside, Dash was happy he’s going to help but she is still mad that he left them all. “Fine.” she angrily said. “and just so you know, it’s too late to apologize. You had 19 years to do so.”

Dash turned to leave when Day stopped her with a question. “Wait.” she stopped and looked back. “Shine’s decease. Do you…”

Dash lamentably nodded. “I have 12 days left. And I don’t care if it’s short. I’m gonna love that squirt. And I’m gonna get the other one back.”

She left with her father not far behind. “other one?” he muttered.

“hello?” Babs nervously called out as she walked on the mesa. “h-hello?” nothing but a shrieking wind answered. “I-is anyone out there?” She continued walking until she reached the edge of the mesa. “well, that’s just great.” she turned around to head to the other side, and hopefully a path down, when she ran into someone’s leg. “ow.” she rubbed her nose and looked up to see a monster standing over her; a monster with multiple body parts.

“and who are you?” Discord asked, looking down at her.

Babs shook in fear as she looked up at him. He’s so intimidating. She shook her head and gathered herself. She remembered the worst memory in her mind and worked with it. “the name is Babs Seed.” she said in a intimidation voice. “I hate my life and I hate my family. I heard you escaped and I was hoping I could become one of youse.”

“Babs! Oh, my Babs!”

Babs’ mother has been crying every since the kid was kidnapped. Applejack left after it happened to tell everyone what happened and ordered the foals to stay there.

“Don’t worry, Mrs. Seed.” Applebloom sympathetically said, rubbing her back. “my sis and her friends will get Babs Seed back or die trying.”

The mother sniffled and wiped her eyes. “you think so?”

“Are you kidding us?” Scootaloo exclaimed. “some of her friends are so powerful, they can overpower Princess’ Celestia, Luna, and Cadence.”

She had to admit, that was pretty impressive. But still… “I just hope Babs will be okay. Just who was that… thing that took her?”

The fillies all looked at each other. “We don’t know.” Sweetie Belle said. “that’s the problem.” she sighed. “I just hope they aren’t hurting her, whoever took her.”

“but we will get him back.” Dash said as she walked up. “no question about it.”

“Dash!” Scootaloo happily exclaimed. She ran over and hugged her, much to her surprise. “so? Am I Scootaloo Dash now?”

“eh…” Dash scratched the back of her neck.

Scootaloo’s eyes half-closed. “what happened?”

“Manni, who else? She replaced Celestia’s letter with a threat.”

Scootaloo snorted and let go. “just what is her obsession with me?” Dash shrugged, not knowing the deal herself. Scoots then noticed a unknown Pegasus walking towards them. “un… who’s he?”

Dash looked back and sighed. “someone I never thought I’d see again.” she walked over to him. “this… is my father. Golden Day.”

“your father?” Scoots gasped. “but you told me he was dead.”

“I said he was dead to me. I never said he was 6 feet under.” she angrily said to his face. After what he pulled, he saw that coming a mile away.

He painfully shrugged it off and turned his attention to the orange filly. “so… this is my potential granddaughter?” he asked.

“yep. Considering Manni ever lets up.”

Day thought for a moment. “Dash. When we left, you said something about a ‘other one’. was there another you were going to adopt?”

A shiver ran though Dash’s soul as she thought about that day. It was a nightmare more like. “she was… Eris was… taken from me. And now there’s no chance at getting her back.”

“Dash…” Scoots nuzzled up next to her. “Don’t say that. Of course we’ll get her back.”

“I know, squirt. But…” Dash couldn’t speak any further. Her voice was cracking from fear that she would never see Eris the same way again.

Fireworks exploded over the park downtown, drawing Ponies, Gryphons, Dragons, and Changelings to a just-made stage. On the stage stood a certain show-mare with a all-too familiar costume.

“Citizens of Manehatten, come and be amazed as the GREAT and POWERFUL TRIXIE gives you a show like no other!”

Some members of the crowd clapped but they heard about Trixie being a show-boat. And half didn’t even hear that she was married to the princess of the moon. Among the crowd was the guide they were all looking for, and Marble who didn’t want to be with his sister at the moment. He’s still peeved that she’s engaged to his archenemy and carrying his child.

“Prepared to be amazed as the Great and Powerful Trixie performs feats unimagined and never before seen by mortal eyes.” someone in the crowd weakly said ‘whoo’, signaling Trixie that she needed to go turbo. “and did I also mention that I had a powerful and magical object to power up my spells?” she said with a snicker. They did not and were now keen to see what object she had. Trixie used her magic to make the Alicorn Amulet appear. “gotta make sure this is safe for Luna, anyway.” she muttered to herself before putting it on.

As soon as she did, she felt a surge of energy rush though her and literally, literally, felt her eyes turn red for a second. “whoa. That was… odd.” she shook her head and went on to put on a show.

“Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Trixie summons a powerful beast from the Realms of Tartarus!” the realms of Tartarus? What, is she crazy? She wasn’t even planning on pulling moves like that; she’s not even sure where that thought came from. Not even the Princess’ can pull a move like that. Why’d she proclaim she could? She had no choice but to do it. Hopefully, the Alicorn Amulet can pull it off.

Trixie concentrated and the amulet glowed red. A spark appeared in mid-air then quickly exploded out. The audience covered their eyes to block the bright glow. When it passed, they unblocked their eyes and gasped in awe.

Cerberus roared to the sky and snarled at the crowd. Granted, it was the size of a Chihuahua but it was Cerberus none the less. Trixie was amazed she actually pulled it off. “it worked?” she muttered to herself, still stunned. She glanced to the crowd, remembered she had a crowd, and went back into character. “and there you have it; The Great and Powerful Trixie is capable of summoning a beast from the Realms of Tartarus.” she quickly sent it back before it could cause trouble. “now, for my next trick, I’m going to need a volunteer! Anyone?”

Nobody raised their hands or hoofs. Trixie rolled her eyes and used her magic to pull one, a red dragon, out and onto the stage. “thank you for volunteering, good sir.”

“Sir?” he exclaimed in surprise.

“may I ask your name, good sir?”

“un… Garble.”

“Okay, G--” Trixie stopped mid-sentence. Wasn’t that the same name of the guide Golden Day directed them too. “Garble?” she repeated.

Req had her face buried in her right hand with her pointer finger on her forehead. Manni was forcibly put in a chair by Gilda and wrapped in magic chains ala Shadow. She tapped her forehead and sighed again.

“why…. Why do you hate Dash? Why are you going out of your way to make sure Dash doesn’t adopt Scootaloo?” she asked.

Manni stayed silent and tore her head away in a huff. Gilda got angry and pulled hard on the rope. “You better come clean, you little witch! This is my best friend your messing with!”

Manni opened one eye and looked at her. “I don’t want to say. It’s personal.”

“PERSONAL!” the 3 of them yelled in anger.

“IN what way…” Shadow started. “…did Dash do something to you that made this come from you!?” Manni kept silent.

Just then, Dash and Scootaloo ran in, laughing and hugging each other. “IT FELL THOUGHT!” they happily exclaimed.

“what do you mean?”

Scootaloo smiled and fell to the floor. “you are now looking at Ms. Scootaloo Dash.”

Shadow smiled, ran over, and hugged her and Dash. “oh, that’s great! Congrats!” Req and Gilda looked at each other with a smile then back to them. Manni couldn’t believe her ears. “How did it happen?”

“well, it turns out that Golden Day, the mayor of Manehatten, is my father.” Dash said.

“we know.” Req said. “Gilda filled us in.”

“well…” Dash wasn’t affected by that; she knew Gilda would fill them in sooner or later. “…he felt bad for abandoning me and mom when I was only 2 that he was willing to do anything to make up for it. Well, after I decked him in the cheek…”

“he deserved it.” Gilda said.

“…we went to the adoption agency again and we were able to clear things up with his good word and the REAL letter from Celestia. Now, Scootaloo is officially my daughter.”

“that’s great.” Req said with a smile. “also, about your dad, did you forgive him?”

“Buck no.” Dash exclaimed. “He abandoned me and mom when I was just a toddler. But…” she bet down and nuzzled her new daughter. “… this is a good start.”

“yeah, yeah. Congrats.” Manni distantly said. “You’ll get to be the girls’ mother for 10 days.”

Scoots rolled her eyes. “shut up.” Dash laughed and the two high-hooved.

The door to the cabin opened and Trixie walked in. “guess who I found?” she said in a sing-songy matter. She used her magic to pull in Garble.

“un… what’s going on?” a VERY confused Garble asked.

Req and Dash gave her some mean stares. “what?” Trixie asked.

Half an hour later…

Discord and Eris hovered above the city, Babs in Discord’s clutches.

“This is the place?” he asked.

“Yep.” Babs said. “that’s Manehatten. And that’s where your pursuers are right now.”

Eris chuckled. “well, only one thing to do now.” she evilly said.

“what?” both Discord and Babs asked. Eris snapped her fingers before she answered.

Garble, having heard the entire story, thought about helping them. During that entire explanation, most of those there went out to get everyone back to the Orion, leaving Requiem, Trixie, and Dash to explain the story. Dash told Scootaloo to head back to her friends and stay there, knowing that there’s gonna be a big to-do coming soon.

“so… let me see if I got this straight. You want me to lead you into the Badlands to find a escaped Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony so you can put him back in the statue he broke out of or destroy him completely, AND free the baby Draconequus he brainwashed?”

“hmm-hmm.” mostly everyone said. There were some members missing as they were still in town.

“mmm…” Garble thought long and hard about the pros and cons. On the con side, he could get turned into a frog. Or worse. On the other side, he would be considered a hero by helping them. So many options and so many things that could go wrong. “mmm……………………………. Okay.”

“you’ll do it?” Hiccup asked.

“sure. Why not? I don’t want the world turn into a puddle anyways.” the group silently cheered and some high-fived. “BUT… it’s going to cost you.”
*record needle scratch*

“Beg pardon?” Halo asked.

“you heard me. You’re going to have to pay me.”

“PAY YOU!?!” Lina exclaimed. “We’re asking you to help save the world and you’re worried about your next paycheck!?”

“gotta make a living.”

Lina’s top almost blew off and she almost threw a fit but Gourry was able to get her outside in time. At the same time, Spike and Rarity came in. “What’s with Lina they both asked.

They noticed Garble and they noticed him then… “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!” the 3 of them yelled.

“you 3 know each other?” Aura asked.

“we had a run-in when I was still a baby!” Spike growled. “treated me like crap and almost had me break a Phoenix egg.”

Rarity took over. “And, to top it off, when he found out me and Spike were having a baby, he laughed at the notion and nearly broke the street he was pounding on out of laughter.”

“it’s still funny.” Garble said with a cracked voice. He cleared his throat and chuckled. “well, in this case, it’s gonna cost you extra.”

“EXTRA!?!”

“hey hey hey. I got my head stuck in a tree for a week thanks to these 2.”

Thunder that sounded like a cat’s long meow rolled outside. “fine. Deal. Whatever.” Twilight said. “where’s Pinkie and Marble?”

“still downtown.” Trixie said. “I saw him at my performance but I didn’t see Pinkie.”

Lightning the color of green beans crashed down. “well, they had their chance to get back.” Satoshi said as he ran out.

Pinkie looked up to the sky at the dark clouds that suddenly appeared. “that can’t be good.” she gulped.

“We should probably find shelter.” Diamond suggested.

“but what about Marble?” Pinkie asked.

“I’m coming, I’m coming.” he said as he ran to them. The trio went inside the apartment building to cover themselves from the storm. “everyone’s gonna be mad when they find we aren’t with them.” he said.

“we can explain, right?” she suggested.

The sound of screeching metal got their attention, as well as everyone’s in the city.

Satoshi ran up to the wheel and flicked a few switches when the screeching metal sound caught up to them. “Holy… that’s a bad sound.”

“No argument.” a groaning Spyro said, rubbing his ears on one of the masts.

“where’s it even coming from?” Lloyd asked, looking around trying to find the source.

Sora looked up to the sky and blinked. “Found it.” she said in a normal tone. Everyone looked in the direction she was and gulped.

Begin Song:

Koloktos/Molderach - Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword OST

A massive golden robot formed just over the city, with parts of it’s armor still floating around. Once the body was finished, the armor clutched on. 6 arms shot out of it’s torso, each wielding a large curved blade.

“That Koloktos from Skyward Sword?” Bahamut casually asked.

Fully formed, the larger-then-in-the-game Koloktos swing it’s right arms down at the city, destroying a few streets.

Eris evilly chuckled. “destructive chaos is best chaos.” she swung her arm and the robo swung it’s blades across rooftops. Eris laughed again at that sight. Discord and Babs looked at each other with a slight pang of fear.

“take a good look at the city, kiddies, cause we’re taking off.” Satoshi said as he powered up the ship.

“but what about Pinkie and Marble?” Riku asked as Satoshi pushed in a few buttons.

“they’re big ponies. They can look out for themselves until we get back.” Applejack said.

The propellers spun up and instantly spun at high speed. “they’re gonna have to. Can’t let that robot destroy the city.” Satoshi said as he grabbed the wheel.

The Orion lifted out of the water and up into the air. This caught the attention of Eris, who commanded Koloktos to attack.

And he complied. The 12-story robo moved though the city and towards them.

The ship wasn’t completely out of the water when the robot arrived and swung 2 of it’s 6 blades.

“INCOMING!” Edge yelled, referencing to the swords.

“Windy Shield!” Zel, Lina, and Amelia exclaimed. A see-though green shield appeared over the ship and protected them from the attack. It caused the ship to shake though but it gave them enough time to get into the air.

Orion quickly entered space-flight mode and shot off like a rocket down the river.

“dammit.” Eris snarled. “fine. If they’re too chicken, get back to destroying the city.”

Koloktos replied and turned back to Manehatten.

“that’s one big robot.” Pipsqueak gulped as he and the other CMC members watched from the farm.

Orion flew overhead and hovered just a few feet above them.

“Ya’ll be good to Mrs. Seed now, ya hear me?” A.J. said.

“We will sis but you might want to focus on that thing!” Applebloom exclaimed, pointing to Koloktos as it neared the center of town, swinging it’s blades around.

“and he would’ve been destroyed by now if you didn’t decide to stop and say bye.” Satoshi said. He pulled back on a throttle, lifting the ship up.

“well, sorry.” A.J. sarcastically said.

The ship turned to the city and blasted off towards the robot destroying it.

Koloktos swung it’s blade down on a fountain when a series of cannonballs struck it in the body. It turned to see the ship barreling right towards it.

“what idiots.” Eris sighed as she snapped her fingers.

“anybody remember how we beat it in the game?” Jax asked.

“un…. Think you went for the chest.” Req guessed. “think that’s it’s weak spot.”

They all looked and saw that it was a different color then the rest of the body. “the chest.” everyone said.

The Orion fired it’s cannons again, getting it’s full attention. Koloktos turned towards them and readied it’s blades and exposing it’s chest.

“Bad idea, Muchacho.” Shadow joked.

“Req!” Satoshi yelled. She nodded to him and ran up to the bow. She pulled her sword and spun in a 360 as Satoshi fired the main guns.

“Seraphim Blade!”

The cannons fired the large beam of green light towards the robot with Req added her spell into the mix. The two combined and formed a more powerful attack. It struck the machine in the chest, making it stagger back.

“Cloak of Fire!” Jax yelled.

True to it’s name, the ship was enveloped in a cloak of fire. It speed right towards the automaton and rammed right into it’s chest.

The ship burst out it’s back and over the mountains into the Badlands.

Koloktos creaked then exploded, it’s pieces evaporating before then hit anything in the city.

End Song.

“Well, that was anti-climatic.” Discord said as he, Babs, and a furious Eris disappeared.

Lifeless World

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 10

Lifeless World

5 minutes after the gang was sucked into a Black Hole and killed, and in another location, Eris and Discord were still celebrating. “we did it! We did it! Oh yeah yeah yeah.” Eris laughed.

“good-bye Elements, good-bye Celestia’s last line of defense.” Discord laughed.

Babs, who had ‘joined’ their ranks, couldn’t believe it. She definitely didn’t see that coming, neither did everyone else in Manehatten.

Scootaloo was hit the hardest. She was Dash’s daughter for 3 hours and her new mother was already dead. She was hit with so much depression, she turned grey. Literally.

The sky above shimmered and sparkled as billions of stars and multiple nebulas littered it. The person looking at it blinked and groaned. “what… happened…?” she said. She rolled over, found herself face first in a pile of sand, and coughed up a mix of sand and blood. “*hacking cough* oh, Faust.” she gulped and shook her head, trying to clear it up. “what the hell happened to us?”

Dash hacked up some more blood and sand, cleared her throat, and got up. “where are we?” she asked with a sore throat. She looked around…

Begin Song:

Dust to Dust - Final Fantasy XIII OST

… and in every direction, there was nothing but sand, sand, sand. It seemed to go on forever. There were no landmarks to follow, nothing to find shelter in, just endless sand in a sunless yet bright world.

“how did we get here?” she coughed again. “I remember we were sucked into that Black Hole then… nothing.”

“people always wonder what’s on the other side of a Black Hole.” Req said as she walked to her. “never knew it was a endless desert with a weird sky.”

“Req.” Dash said with a mix of confusion and relief. “you survived too?”

“yeah. And I’m sure the others did, too. But…” she looked up to the sky. “where are we?”

“I don’t know. That’s the scary part. Are we dead or are we just in another realm?”

Req scoffed. “I saw what the Afterlife looks like with my own eyes. Trust me; this ain’t it.”

“so it is probably another realm.”

Muffled screaming got their attention. “GET OFF OF ME!” someone yelled from beneath Dash. Dash yelped, quickly got off, and helped who she was sitting on up. Unfortunately, it was the prick who’s been trying to take Scoots away.

“Manni? Ugh. I forgot you were on the ship.”

Manni spit up sand and brushed it off her fur. “why am I not surprised? I was bounced all over that thing you call a cargo hold.”

“but if you survived as well, then maybe everyone else has… wherever they are.” Req said. She turned and started walking.

“where you going?” Dash asked.

“this way.” she simply replied. “remember that I’m a goddess. As such, I can sense things and I sense that if we go this way, we’ll find our friends.”

“you sure?” Manni asked, not wanting to question her abilities.

“never steered me wrong before.” she said before walking over a sand dune. Dash and Manni looked at each other for a moment then ran after Req. they weren’t keen on being all alone in a endless desert, especially with each other.

“well, this is just great.” Jax angrily grumbled as she, Gilda, Zel, Trixie, and Applejack hung off a dead oak tree. “now where are we?”

“Could be anywhere.” Zel said as he struggled to get his cape off the branches it was entangled it.

“well, I don’t like this place.” Gilda said with a disturbed look. “it’s so… lifeless.”

“same.” A.J. and Trixie said.

Jax grabbed one of her chakrams and cut the branch her skirt was caught on. She fell to another branch, which she landed with grace, then jumped down that to the sand. “well, we won’t find answers just hanging around.” she tossed her chakram. It cut though the branches the others were hanging off of, allowing them to fall.

“which way do we even go?” Zel asked. “there’s nothing but sand in every direction.”

Zel had a point. There was no telling where they were or even if there’s anyone else here.

“Solodum forer derum.” a ball of light shot out of Trixie’s horn and up into the moonless and sunless sky. “Luna taught me that. It supposed to help you find people important to you. In this case…”

“our friends.” the other 4 finished.

The ball shone brightly and shot to what they’re going to refer to as west. “quick. After it.” Gilda said as she took to the sky. The ponies and humans nodded and ran after her and the ball.

“Hello!” Derpy called out as she flew though the air. “Hello!” she had been doing that ever since she woke up 10 minutes ago and she was starting to give up hope; believing that she was the only one who survived. She whined in fear. “I don’t want to be all alone. I don’t want to leave Dinky all alone.” a single tear fell. “I never even got to say good-bye to eTu`nes.”

A sudden and quick bright flash caught her attention. She looked to her left and saw a pristine and magnificent palace rising out of the sand. At the very least, it was shelter. And hopefully, her friends were there. She flew towards it, eager to get away from the endless sand below her and the endless star & nebula filled sky above.

No clouds. No shelter. No water. No food. This place is the definition of true hell. At least, that’s what Halo and Twilight are believing. As soon as they woke up, they started walking, hoping to find anything. Better said then done.

Twilight’s movements slowed, getting the attention of Halo. “You okay?”

Twilight looked up at him and smiled. “Y-yeah. Just thinking about what Discord said back on that mesa. Could Celestia; could any Alicorn, have really done all those things? Wiped out the Draconequus’ and put the world under their rule?”

Halo glanced away for a moment. “well… it’s possible.” Twi looked at him with such shock, it was like he turned into a ghost. “think about it; has Discord ever lied to you all before?”

Twi thought back to both his escapes. “except for a annoying riddle that sent us down a wrong path, no. he never did. Which means… it must’ve been true.” Twi whined and sat down in despair. “did Celestia lie to me?”

“no. she didn’t either.”

“huh?”

“Celestia said that she and her sister have been ruling Equestria for 1500 years, right? It’s possible they were born long after the war ended and didn’t know about them. And didn’t they said they knew Discord before he went all cuckoo with the chaos stuff? They may have found out about the war some way or another and that ended up being their rivalry.”

Twi had to admit, that made sense. But she doesn’t remember Celestia telling her any of that. So where did Halo hear all that?

A unconscious Satoshi was slumped over the wheel of a beaten up Orion. It’s wings were gone but, other then that, it was mostly intact.

Ropes appeared from out of nowhere, wrapped around the ship, and pulled it. Satoshi fell back to the floor, still out cold. He didn’t know where he was being pulled, or how he’ll react when he finds himself there wherever it was going.

End song.

5 hours. That’s how long Req, Dash, and Manni were walking. 5 long hours and not a sign of anyone else or anything else; no tree, no mesa, no town. No nothing. Dash flew as high as she could and could find nothing around. They were all alone.

“this is it.” Manni worriedly said, feeling that this is where they will meet their end. “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”

“we’re not going to die.” Req said. “I haven’t felt hungry ever since we got here.”

“same here.” Dash said as she landed. “wait. THAT’S IT! We’re in the Lifeless World.”

“the what now?” Req asked in confusion.

“it’s a old legend from when the world was made. Supposedly, when Zax and Jeria created the world, they also inadvertadly created a alternate world where the rules of life and time have no say. It was said to be endless desert with a clear sky filled with stars and beautiful colors.”

All 3 looked up. There were stars and colors. “so, you think this is the Lifeless Realm? Cause it looks a lot like Purgatory.”

“Purgatory?” Dash and Manni asked.

“a place where the dead wait before going to heaven or hell. I only caught a glimpse but it did look like this.” she looked up to the sky. “Catalyst was right after all.” she muttered to herself. “all the worlds are connected at the afterworld.”

Manni snarled and threw sand at Dash. “This is all your fault!” she yelled at the Pegasus.

“My fault!?!”

“if you had just let that STUPID Draconequus go, we wouldn’t be in this situation!”

“What!?! If you didn’t try to kidnap Eris and Scootaloo in the first place, then Discord wouldn’t have been released to where we would be here!”

“It was your fault, you cyan bitch!”

“WHAT!?!”

“if you had just let them go, we would’ve avoided this!”

“If I let them go, I would’ve killed myself! And why are you SO obsessed with taking Scootaloo away from me!?!”

“Because she’s my--” Manni stopped right there and looked away.

Req looked between the two, feeling a bit awkward to be caught in the middle. “Oooooookay. Um…. How about we keep going? Hopefully, we’ll find everyone.”

“Fine!” Dash exclaimed with great anger.

“Fine!” Manni said in the same tone.

“Good.” Req cheerfully said. Dash turned to leave when she suddenly felt light-headed. “Dash?” her chest started to hurt horribly and her vision began to blur. She felt bile float up from her stomach. It burst out in a violent torrent with blood.

“DASH!”

Rainbow Dash’s vision blacked out and she keeled over to the side. Req ran to her side as Manni watched in fear.

Rainbow’s decease is starting to take it’s toll.

Reunion with Friends Long Dead

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 11

Reunion with Friends Long Dead

Rainbow Dash collapsed into the sand as her disease had begun to take it’s tone on the Pegasus. She thought she had more time before she would start feeling the effects of the illness; especially if they are in the Lifeless World. But, guess somethings, you can’t outrun. So much for hoping that diseases don’t hit in the Lifeless World.

“DASH!” Req yelled as she ran over. Manni watched with fear clearly seen in her eyes. Req pulled out her sword and held it over the unconscious Pegasus. “Curaga!” the spell seeped out of the sword and into Dash but, frankly, it won’t help with an incurable disease like the one Dash has. She was so desperate, she went into her goddess spells. She didn’t want her friend to die. “Celestial Light!”

The sword glowed bright white and Dash did the same. Dash took a deep breath and coughed violently. Req took a sigh of relief and fell back onto her butt. “thank goodness. You had me worried.”

Dash coughed again and held her throat. “what happened?” she coarsely asked.

“your illness hit; what else?” Req replied.

“my… illness?” she rubbed her throat as she got up. “but this is the Lifeless World, isn’t it?”

“well, Gabs told me that even in Purgatory, you can still get hit with illness’s. thankfully, they won’t kill you, seeing as how you’re already dead. So even fatal diseases like cancer or… whatever you have won’t kill you, long as you’er in here.”

Dash looked up to the clear sky. “but… I’m still gonna suffer the painful affects?”

“afraid so.”

Dash sighed and rubbed her eyes. That’s just great, just real great. She’s still gonna get the affects but won’t die from them. Why not just call this place hell while we’re at it? “well… can’t stay here.” she flapped her wings and took to the air. “come on. Let’s see if we can find everyone.”

“o-okay.” Req muttered. She walked off in the direction they were already heading with Dash not far above her. Manni followed not far behind. She almost let the truth slip when she and Dash had their argument before she lost consciousness but, thankfully, she was able to hide it in time.

Begin Song:

Sulyya Springs - Final Fantasy XIII OST.

The stars in the sky flickered one by one as each and every group in the Lifeless World journeyed on, hoping to find the others and make some sort of plan and get out of this endless desert place. Of course, not knowing where to go is a bit of a… problem.

“we’ve been walking for hours.” Shadow moaned. “can’t we take a break?”

“you want to find the others or not?” Sora replied, leading him, Fluttershy, Edge, and Garble though this wasteland.

“I WANT to go home with Dash and Scoots. And are you even sure we’re going in the right direction?”

“no, but this feels right. And my feelings have never lead my astray.”

For some reason, the Pegasus, the Changeling, and the Dragon weren’t exactly confident with that plan. But, it was the only thing they have to go on. And anything was better then being in the middle of nowhere.

Spike continued walking with a sleepy and lightly wounded Rarity on his back.

“sorry again, Spike. I didn’t know there was a snake under that rock.” she yawned, looking at where the snake bit her on the hoof.

“just be glad it wasn’t poisonous.” Spike commented. “otherwise, we would’ve lost our kid.”

Rarity held her stomach for a moment. “yeah.” she felt guilty. Ever since they started going out, even after he proposed, he had been doing everything for her and not letting her do anything for him. How could she? She didn’t have the time. Well, as soon as she got the chance, she was going to go by her Element and do something for him as thanks for taking care of her.

Considering they ever get out, that is. “where do you think we are?” she asked.

“I don’t know.” he replied. “could be anywhere, could be nowhere. We could be dead and this is the afterworld or another dimension with no sun yet everything is still as bright as the day.”

They passed over a sand dune and a patch of green not far from them. Well, it looked like a patch but they were quite a ways away from it.

“is that… green?” she asked, squinting her eyes.

“only one way to find out.” Spike put Rarity down for a moment, picked her up to carry her as if they were crossing the threshold, and took of to the air. Where there’s green, their’s likely people. And where their’s people, there’s likely a way out.

“are we there yet?”

“no.”

“are we there yet?”

“no.”

“are we there yet?”

“Can you shut up, Bahamut? Geez. And we don‘t even know where we‘re going.”

“sorry if I’m trying to lighten the mood, Zilver.”

Derpy knocked on the massive double-decker doors of the palace she found while flying. “Hello?” she knocked again. “hello?” when nobody answered, she figured it’s deserted. “just so you know, I did knock.” she said outloud before opening the door and heading in.

The door automatically closed behind her, locking her inside.

Dash flew upside-down beside Req as the 3 of them continued on to… who knows where.

Manni glanced to the right and saw something that would be considered out of place. “is that green?”

Req and Dash doubled back and looked in the direction she was looking. Sure enough, there was a patch of green far from them. By Req’s calculations, it’ll take them at least half a day to reach it.

“Anything’s better then sand.” Dash happily exclaimed as she flew towards it. Req and Manni followed after her, running as fast as they could.

The trio reached the greenery in 4 hours of non-stop flying and running which, in the Lifeless World, is a breeze. Anyone could run a triathlon here and still be as well-rested and calm as when they started.

The patch, however, turned out to be rolling fields, every flower ever known stretched out over the hills, trees the size of houses, small snow-covered mountains that one can easily climb over, and petals floating a unseen and unfelt wind.

In short, this was the definition of paradise.

“knew that this place couldn’t be endless desert.” Req said as she looked around in awe.

“hopefully there’s people here.” Manni said. Her stomach growled, causing her to laugh nervously. “and maybe some food. I didn’t have a thing to eat since we left Manehatten.”

“well, only one way to find out.” Dash said as she walked deeper into the greenery. Req and Manni followed.

After 3 hours of searching though the green fields, the 3 of them were starting to give up hope that there was anyone else here. I say were because… well… that proved to be false.

The trio climbed over a hill, each of them yawning out of boredom, when they spotted a small but modern town not far below them. And where there are buildings, there are…

“People!” the 3 of them exclaimed as they ran on down.

It took them the better part of a hour to get there but they got there. Sure enough, there were people, but it was a bit surprising to see Ponies, Humans, Demons, Lylatians; basically a whole ton of beings from different worlds here.

“is that…. Is that a gargoyle?” Req commented, seeing one walk by. Dash and Manni shrugged and walked though the town.

They got the attention of everyone they passed by. They all felt something off with those 3, as with their other guests that arrived recently.

“Come on. Kick it over here!” a boy’s voice called out.

Requiem recognized it instantly and gasped in shock. “was that…” she ran off to go find the source of the voice. Dash and Manni, wondering what she heard, ran after her.

Req ran though the ground, shoving people out of the way, before coming across a playground where children were playing. Among them was a 7 year old boy she never thought she was going to see again.

“Adolf…” she gasped.

Adolf kicked a soccer ball into a net. It went in, causing him and his team to cheer. “YEAH! That’s how we do it!” he cheered. He high-fived a few of his teammates when he spotted his sister standing there with a wide smile on her face. “Requiem?”

“ADOLF!” she yelled out as happy as can be. She ran for her and hugged him and held him tight. “Oh, Adolf. It’s so good to see you again.”

“wh-what are you doing here, Req?” a surprised and confused Adolf asked.

“it’s a… it’s a long story, little bro.” she said with tears in her eyes. “it’s just great to see you again.”

Dash and Manni appeared and saw her hugging the kid. “un… Req? who is this?” Dash asked.

Req put her brother down. “I told you about my… deceased brother Adolf, right?”

Dash looked at him and he playfully waved. “he’s Catalyst?”

Both siblings face-palmed. “guess we’re gonna have to explain that part of the story.” they said in unison.

Then, Dash had a realization. “wait? If he’s dead, then that must mean th…” Dash quickly turned around and ran off. It took her a moment but Req got the same realization.

“if this is the afterworld…” she muttered. “… then all dead people must be here. Including a recently deceased brother and mother.”

Dash ran though the town, even passing by her friends that had just arrived. She arrived at the outskirts of town, finding the two she was searching for, talking and laughing on a bench. Happiness welled up inside her as she ran over. “Mom! Soarin’!” they both turned around in surprise as Dash’ ran up and hugged them. “OH, it’s so great to see you all again!”

“Dash!” they both exclaimed in surprise. “are you dead?” Soarin’ asked.

Dash chuckled and lightly punched him in the shoulder. “no. I’m not dead. At least… I don’t think I am.”

“this is just so unexpected.” Shine said.

“I know. I felt the same way when me and everyone else got here.” Dash immediately broke the mood and lightly punched her mom on the shoulder, same as with Soarin’ but a bit harder. “why didn’t you tell me you were sick?”

Shine knew she would have to answer that question sooner or later. She just hoped she had 60 more years till then. “well… I didn’t want to worry you while you were growing up. Though… having you commit Suicide, I certainly didn’t see that coming.”

Dash was surprised that she heard that. “how did you… forget about it. Forget about it. Still, you could’ve told me. Could’ve helped me when I got it.”

Shine felt bad. “I’m sorry, Dash. I didn’t know it was genetic. If I did--”

“I know. I know.” Dash softly said. “but still, some fair warning.”

Soarin’ looked between them and felt uncomfortable. “sooooo, how’s Scootaloo? Is she okay?”

This part, Dash was looking forward to. “you mean Ms. Scootaloo Dash? She’s doing fine. Just adopted her.”

Soarin’ breathed a sigh of relief. “thanks, Sis. And hey, how’s Eris?” a pang of regret fell on her face as she looked away. Soarin’ felt bad for asking that. “that bad?”

“y-yeah.”

“how bad?”

“it’s--- it’s a long story. And I don’t feel like talking about it now.”

Soarin’ nodded. “okay. I understand.”

Dash took a deep sigh then looked back to them. “well, anyway, as I said, I got Scootaloo adopted into my family, despite some help from a stubborn and vengeful Manni.”

“Manni?” both her brother and mother asked.

“yeah. Some crazy lady who was trying to take Scoots away. Still not saying why. But, thanks to Dad, we were able to put her in her place.”

Both Soarin’ and Shine gasped. “you… you met Golden Day?” Shine gasped.

“yeah. He feels extremely guilty for abandoning both our families and he believes helping with Scoots would help. It did, but only a sliver. And it felt good, punching him in the face.”

Soarin’ and Shine chuckled in empathy. She beat them to the punch. Literally.

A Way Back Home?

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 12

A Way Back Home?

Eris laughed as she bounced a Gryphon child like a basketball. She bounced it around, keeping it away from several glass Draconequus’. she scooted around them and tossed the ‘ball’ into the basket. It went in and gave Eris 3 points.

“YES!” Eris grabbed the scoreboard “That means I have…” she added 3 to it. “100 to your 33 and that means I win.” she chuckled and snapped her fingers, sending the glass Draconequus’ away.

The Gryphon child unfurled and ran as fast as he could away from the crazy lady. Eris let him run and tossed the scoreboard away, causing it to explode like a firecracker. Suddenly, Discord appeared. “hey there, Papa Discord. You missed the game. I creamed them 100 to 33.”

Discord ignored that and skipped to the point. “I’m not here for that, Eris. I want to know where that Black Hole sent them all.”

“what, after the Reaper was destroyed 3 days ago?” she thought back to what she did. “by all accounts, it should’ve killed them and sent them straight to the afterworld.”

A alarm clock went off in Discord’s head. “Please tell me you’re joking.”

“no. why? Wasn’t I supposed to have done that?”

Discord bit his finger and whined. “Their bodies were taken as well into the Afterworld, which means they have a good chance of coming back.” Discord rapidly snapped his fingers and disappeared.

Eris scoffed and wrapped a towel around her head. “how was I supposed to know?” she muttered as she snapped her fingers and disappeared.

Back in Ponyville, a couple of characters I think we all forgot, myself included, sensed something wrong and FINALLY woke up after a long 7 month nap. Something in the atmosphere affected them, making them black out for that long. Who are these people, you may ask? Well, they’re animals.

Ash’s pets, the Alaskan Wolf Fenrir and the Swallow-Tailed Kite Cobalt, finally woke up after a long while and already felt that they missed out on a lot of events. And to top it off, their owner was missing.

The door to Fluttershy’s cottage opened and Carrot Top walked in. she smelled something bad and covered her nose. “geesh. I know I promised Fluttershy I’d look after her animals but she didn’t warn me about the smell. P.U.” she walked in and saw Fenrir and Cobalt were up. “Hey! I was worried you two were going to sleep forever. Everyone was. Fact you didn’t die of starvation and thirst is nothing short of a miracle.” Fenrir looked around for Ash. “you looking for your owner? Well, Ash said you two were a lot smarter then you looked. So…” she shrugged. “might as well give it a try.”

“hey-ey! Adolf!” Aura happily exclaimed as he held the kid by his ankles. “it’s been too long, squirt.”

Adolf felt the blood rushing to his head. “yeah. Great to see you too. Going dizzy. Going dizzy.”

“oh.” Aura flipped Adolf upright then set him on the ground. “just happy to see you again. Me, Req, and Bahamut thought we weren’t going to see you again.”

“I know. I felt the same way. I just can’t believe you guys are all dead.”

“I don’t think we’re dead.” Bahamut said as he scratched his cheek. “I think we were just sent here. I don’t feel ‘out of body’ or anything.”

“Me too.” Req and Aura said in unison.

“really?” Adolf asked in confusion. “Huh. That is a bit odd.” the 4 all looked at each other, wondering if they were truly dead.

In just 3 hours, everyone sucked into the black hole had found themselves at the same area that Req, Dash, and Manni had found. The only one who didn’t reappear there is Derpy. Naturally, everyone was worried, hoping she’s okay. She has her daughter going though a tough time with that disease that has her growing dragon wings inside her body. The ropes that wrapped around the Orion; belonged to those who lived there, pulled the ship into the area. Satoshi woke up half way there and, though some explanation from the deceased, helped them pull it there.

Everyone took the chance to say their good-byes to those they had lost from events they couldn’t control. Some, however, weren’t able to find who they were looking for. Adolf said it was because that not all lives are in this town. There’s thousands; millions; billions others like it all over that desert and that they would be in one of those. The fact that Adolf, Shine, Soarin’, and a number of others were there was nothing short of coincidence.

And that’s not even the highlight of the ‘livly’s’ stay. One of the deceased gave them the nickname; saying they aren’t fully dead. Nobody takes her seriously as she was… cuckoo back when she was still alive.

“What do you have to show us, Adolf?” Req asked as her little brother dragged her to the middle of town.

“Something amazing.” he said. He lead her to a large pool of green water in the middle of town that’s only a foot deep but 30 feet wide.

“What is it?” Lina asked as she and the others approached the pool.

“I don’t know the real name for it but we just call it the Pool. Allows us to see what’s happening in the living world; current events, if you will. There‘s one in every realm across this entire place.”

“huh. How’s it work?” Hiccup asked.

“Simple.” Soarin’ flew on over. “just say the name of the place you want to see and it appears. Works like this…” he cleared his throat and said… “‘Cloudsdale. Equestria.’”

The pool lightly shone for a moment then showed a picture of said place. Everyone exclaimed in amazement at the thing; they never saw anything like it. Aura wanted to try something. “Teria. Earth.” the pool shown and showed the medieval style town. “can it show people too?”

“Yeah.”

“Jessica Aesir.” the pool shined and showed Aura’s younger sister holding her baby boy in her arms.

“Wow! What a cutie!” Fox wolf-whistled.

A vein popped in Aura’s head. One light scuffle later and Fox was on the ground with Aura’s boot to his head. “I can tolerate most inter-species relationships, but I’m sure as hell not going to tolerate you hitting on my sister! All right!?”

“All right.” Fox squeaked, his mouth barely able to move.

Req sighed. “you’re gonna have to forgive Aura. He’s very protective of Jessica. Even more so after what Sopa did to her.”

“Sopa?” Twi asked.

“Jess’s less… friendly boyfriend. Had a huge crush on me and in a word: Sadistic. Ever put her though the same thing your going though with Starlight.” Twi looked back at her preggo stomach; knowing what Jess went though.

“hey, whatever happened to him?” Adolf asked.

“I don’t know. That was mine and Aura’s battle but he was to deliver the finishing blow.” Bahamut said.

His and Req’s eyes fell on him. “I… I couldn’t do it. As much as I hated him, I couldn’t bring myself to kill him.”

“then he must still be alive.” Req said. She looked into the pool and said ‘Adrian Sopa.’ the pool shined but turned to black. “Black?”

“odd.” Adolf lightly touched it. “it never did that before. Adrian Sopa.” again, nothing but black. “what the hell?” he muttered.

Req and Aura looked at each other with nervous expressions. They had a bad feeling about this.

“OH! Let me try something.” Amelia shoved the two aside. “Lina Inverse.”

“Me!?” Lina exclaimed in surprise.

“it won’t work, missy.” Adolf said. “it doesn’t show people who died. It on--”

“hey. There we are!”

“wait, what?”

Sure enough, there was Lina right in the pool. Along with everyone else. But Adolf, Soarin’, Shine, and the surrounding area weren’t in there.

“How can you be in there?” Soarin’ asked himself. “this thing doesn’t work like that. Trust me, I tried. It doesn’t show dead people.”

Riku looked at his hand then up into the sky where the angle was looking at them. “Maybe, we’re not really dead.”

“we’re not?” all the livsy’s asked.

“how else can we be in there? And why else would that crazy lady give us that bad nickname?” Hiccup concluded.

“Which means… you guys can go back.” Shine said.

All the livsy’s looked at each other for a moment and cheered. “We can go home!” they all cheered. They completely ignored the feelings of those that were dead until they were a minute in. “s-sorry.” Fluttershy shyly said.

“It’s okay.” Adolf, Soarin’, and Shine said.

Twi got a idea. It had nothing to do with those 3 but it may be a clue that could end someone’s suffering. “hold on. I want to try something.” she walked to the pool and remembered what Celestia told her about Cosmos. “Alicorn Cosmos, Scion of the Stars.”

“who’s that?” Lloyd asked as the pool shone, not remembering hearing about that guy. Even the ponies were confused who he was, even with Celestia’s explanation.

“Cosmos was Celestia’s husband. She said that Discord sent him away. So, maybe…” the pool stopped shining, allowing Twi and everyone else to look in. everyone but the dead trio gasped in surprise. “it… it can’t be.” Twi gasped.

In the image where Cosmos should be… was Discord.

A couple of white flashes appeared behind them. “you really shouldn’t have done that.” Discord threatened.

“D-Discord!” Twi gasped. “how did you get here?”

Discord scoffed and held her up. “I’m a Spirit of Chaos. I can bend reality to my will. Going to the Afterworld isn’t exactly hard.”

“he’s right.” the dead trio said. “he’s done it before.”

Discord put Twi down and hovered above them. “guess it was too much to ask for my daughter to take care of you!”

Eris sighed. “how was I supposed to know that the Black Hole would send them here, body and all? You see, this is what happens when I’m kept out of the loop so don’t blame me.”

“what do you want, Discord?” Req asked in a threatening tone.

“Simple.” he snapped his fingers. “For you do die!” A lightning bolt shot out of nowhere and towards them. It disappeared as soon as it reappeared. “what?” he snapped his fingers again and the same thing happened again. “What in…”

“didn’t experience before, did you Discord?” Soarin’ chuckled. “ya see, offensive magic has no say here. This is a place of eternal rest, after all. Non-combat spells are still good though.”

Discord snarled and snuffed. “This ain’t over!” he barked before disappearing with Eris.

Zil fell over and chuckled. “Whew. Thank goodness for that rule.”

Twi returned her attention to the pool and looked it. It showed Discord returning back to the living world and freaking out. “why didn’t Celestia tell me that Cosmos was Discord? She said that Cosmos was a Alicorn with power of the stars.”

Nobody had no answer for her. This was news to them as well. But the reason and the answer will appear sooner or later. Right now, they had more pressing concerns.

“Adolf? How do we get back?” Req asked.

Adolf shrugged. “how should I know? I can’t go back so I didn’t bother looking for it.”

The group groaned and scoffed.

“if the way back is what you seek…” the crazy lady that gave the nickname started. “… then seek the palace to the East. There, a tome will be found to take you back to the realm you call home. But, be forewarned. To claim the book, you must face what you fear most.” the lady walked off, leaving them to ponder what she said.

“the Palace to the East? This place has palaces?” Emil reacted.

“it seems so.” Shine muttered. “though I haven’t heard anything about it.”

“she said something about a book.” Twi got exited. “maybe it’s a book of all the knowledge in the universe. Oh, that’s so exciting!”

“Twi…” her pony friends went on.

“Okay. Okay. Guess I can wait until I die.”

“I’m more worried about that ‘worst fears’ line.” Trixie said. “when they say that in stories, you know it’s going to be bad.”

“well, it is worst fears.” Zel commented. “of course it’s going to be bad.”

“un… guys?” Applejack interrupted. “the more time we spend talking, the more time Discord has to figure out how to stop us and mess Equestria up big time.”

Everyone looked at each other and nodded. “Right.” they all said. With a objective in hand and a world to save, they ran off the to get the book and get back home.

Dash stopped and let everyone run by her. She looked back to the pool and looked into it. “Scootaloo.” the pool shined and showed a image that shocked Dash to her core. Scootaloo sat in a corner by herself, crying and cutting her legs with a razor, and as grey as Dash when Discord distorted her. Guess depression is Scoot’s opposite.

Tears fell from Dash’s eyes and into the pool. She felt a pang run though her front-left leg, getting her attention. “Don’t worry, Scoots. I’ll get back as fast as I can.” she turned and flew after her friends.

Scootaloo cried her eyes out, holding a bloody razor in her hooves. All 4 of her legs were cut up intentionally. She lost 3 families in just 3 years. The universe must hate her if it’s doing this to her.

Something wet hit her on the back of her neck. She reached back and wiped it off. She looked up at the ceiling of her room. There weren’t any cracks or noticeable leaks. So where did it come from?

Meanwhile...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 13

Meanwhile…

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

Pinkie yelped and squealed as she jumped to avoid mousetraps that Eris had set down a couple days earlier. She jumped onto a flagpole and hugged it tight to avoid to still clapping mousetraps.

“ow. My poor butt.” she whined, rubbing where the mousetraps hit her. “dang it. This is getting annoying.” she jumped down onto a clear patch and sighed. “I like practical jokes as much as the next guy but there’s a difference between joking and just plain cruel.” she hopped to another clear patch then to another then to another.

Ever since the gang died 4 days ago, the entire world has effectively gone to Chaos Hell. Nothing is as it was on the world anymore; it has officially turned upside down. Black is white, up is down, dogs and cats are getting along. It is just pure hell. And Discord and Eris love it.

CHOMP!

“Ow!”

Pinkie jumped out of a stream with a crocodile biting her flank. she kicked it in the eye, making it whine like a dog and fall back to the stream. “why do animals and traps always go after my butt?” she whined as she walked to the Manehatten farm. “hey there.” she called out to the CMC.

They looked and lightly smiled. At least Pinkie can bring laughter to dismal days. “hey, Pinkie.” Dinky called out. “what kept you?”

“a bunch of traps and animals who seem to be keen on biting my butt.” she whined. She pulled a paper bag out of nowhere. “maybe this’ll cheer Scootaloo up.” she reached in and pulled out a noise maker.

“a noise maker? Really?” Applebloom asked, not sure if Pinkie is taking this seriously.

“noise makers always cheer up even the most depressed ponies.” Pinkie said with confidence. She blew into it, causing a loud and obnoxious noise. She overdid it and broke it after one blow. “oh.” she sadly said.

“can… I have a try?” someone said from a ways away. They all looked to see a familiar filly approach them. The fillies and colts were surprised and happy to see her, her mother included.

“BABS!” they all happily exclaimed. They ran over and hugged her. “what happened?” “did that knight hurt you?” “where were you?” “oh, Babsy, Babsy, Babsy! I was hoping you were alive!”

Babs blushed in embarrassment. “un… mom? You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends.”

“what happened to you?” Applebloom asked.

Babs laughed nervously and scratched the back of her head. “it’s a… long story.”

Slumped in a corner of the darkest room in the house, Scootaloo silently cried. She lost her family; she lost Soarin’. she lost Rainbow Dash. The Universe hates her and she hates it. No no- she LOATHES it. She grabbed the bloody razor and looked at it. All 4 of her legs were cut up; some still seeping blood.

A knock came from the door, getting her attention. “Scootaloo? You in there?” Babs asked from the other side.

“go away!” Scootaloo cried out. “just… just leave me alone!”

Babs ignored her and came in anyway. “you want to talk?”

“No! just go away!” she cried out.

Babs glanced away for a moment, trying to find the right words to say. “listen, Scootaloo. If this is about Dash, then don’t be worried.”

“Why?”

“because she’s not dead.” Scoot’s stopped crying and wide her eyes, wondering if Babs is telling the truth. “look, Discord told me that Eris did send them to the Afterworld but thanks to their bodies also being taken, they have a chance to come back. Normally, the body stays behind when someone dies. They were sucked in nail and all.”

Scoots couldn’t believe it. It sounds too good to be true. “are *hiccup* are you sure?”

“positive. I betcha that in a few days, they’re all gonna be coming in guns blazing, taking Discord down faster then you can say--”

“and just what do you think you’re doing?” a super-duper peeved Eris asked as she appeared behind her.

Babs and Scoot‘s froze up when she appeared. “eep.”

The smoke from a active volcano filled the sky of a lone island located FAR south of the main continent.

A certain female Draconequus appeared at the volcano’s rim with two fillies in tow. She tossed them to the ground, where they landed on a hard rock.

“I knew something was off about you!” Eris snarled, referring to Babs. “I knew something was off about you as soon as I saw you, you sniveling dreck.” she kicked Babs in the gut. Babs rolled over to hold her gut, then Eris pressed her foot on the filly’s neck. “You were just a spy sent to keep an eye on us, weren’t you?” Babs choked as she tried to shove Eris’ foot off. “WEREN’T YOU!?!” Babs’ vision started to blacken as the smoke and heat from the volcano, plus Eris’ foot on her throat, started to take their toll.

A pebble hit Eris in the head. “HEY!” Scootaloo yelled. “LET HER GO!” she tossed another pebble at Eris. It missed but it pissed her off all the same.

“you… little bitch.” she took her foot off Babs and angrily stormed over to Scoots. Scootaloo was so scared, her legs shook. Eris grabbed Scoots and held her over the rim, right over the lava. Scoots struggled to get free but Eris was holding on tight. “you and mom; you and Dash. The both of you-- no, everyone! You all lied to me! You told me I was the last of my kind; you all told me that all Draconequus’ are evil!”

“n-no we didn’t. Discord… is lying to you.”

“SHUT UP!” Eris was starting to lose it and her ruffled hair was the proof. “You and Mom lied to me! You stole me from my family and lied to me!”

“you… didn’t have a family.” Scoots grunted. “we looked but we didn’t find anyone. And when did we lie to you; and I mean really lie?”

“All the time!” Eris tightened her squeeze. “Papa Discord told me you two never loved me. You all hate me; me, my species, and my power! You all hate it and wish me gone!”

“t-that is not true.” Scoots grunted. “we loved you. We took care of you. Sure, we were afraid, but only for the first hour that we knew you.”

“STOP LYING!” Eris snarled straight to Scoot’s face.

Scoot’s looked into Eris’ eyes and said with unwavering condition: “would I ever lie to my sister?”

Sister… that word raced though Eris’ mind. She had a mother… and a father… but she never had a sister. Her head started to hurt horribly, forcing her to drop Scootaloo and hold & yell it in agony.

Babs ran over to Scoots and held her over as she coughed up a storm. Eris yelled as her head felt like splitting open. “Eris?” Scoots worriedly asked.

Eris whined and held her head as pain raced though it like there’s no tomorrow. She put one hand to the ground to keep her up. “Make it stop…” she whined. Her body began to pulsate. A glyph appeared beneath her and stretched out to cover her area.

“this can’t be good.” Babs said with shaking fear as she and Scoots tried to go around her. They were able to do so and run for the slope.

“Gy….. Gyh…. Ah…. Ge….” the pulses came rapidly as the glyph shone brighter and the pain intensified inside Eris. “gy…. Hr….”

“DDDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Everyone connected to Eris felt a shot go though their heart and soul.

Palace in the Sand

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 14

Palace in the Sand

“DDDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Everyone connected to Eris felt a shot go though their heart and soul.

Discord felt something horrible happen and disappeared.

The CMC all felt a dreary weight add to their shoulders.

Celestia felt dread come over her.

And Rainbow Dash felt a part of her self shatter into pieces.

Dash fell to her knees and gasped every time she took a breath.

“………. you all felt that, right?” Edge asked.

“a shot go though your heart and soul?” everyone replied, all feeling dread and despair.

“so it wasn’t just me.”

“something… Something terrible happened.” Dash gasped.

“think we all felt that.” Req said. “we better hurry.” she told the driver of their little sand vehicle. He nodded and put the skiff into overdrive.

The crazy lady back at the town said something about a palace to the east which housed a tome to get them all back home to stop Discord and Eris. Unfortunately, the journey on foot would take them more then 30 years and that’s not time they have. Thankfully, they have things that can cut the journey to mere minutes.

little Sand Skiffs the size of Orion that can go so fast, a journey to the other end of the Afterworld would take 6 hours rather then 600 years. And the occupants don’t feel it. No, they see it with the scenery blurring right by.

Satoshi stayed behind to make repairs to Orion and reattach it’s wings. By all accounts, he should be done by the time they all got back.

“there it is.” Soarin’ said. The driver slowed the skiff down enough for everyone to get a good look at the crystalline palace.

It stretched high up into the sky with the only clouds in the entire Afterworld swirling around it at 300 feet up.

“wow.” Twi gasped. “it looks just like the Crystal Empire palace. Except much bigger, of course.”

“where would we even find that book?” Gourry asked, feeling like this was going to take a long time. “that thing is so big.”

“knowing our experience…” Ash said as he took over. “… it’s probably at the top, guarded by some monster.”

“yeah right.” Lloyd scoffed.

“care to make a bet then?” Ash smirked. “30 gold coins says it’s at the top.”

“deal.”

Cynder sighed and pinched the bridge between her eyes. “boys. So clichéd.”

The volcanic island that Eris had taken Scootaloo and Babs is long gone. There’s no trace of it left; nothing except a big smoldering crater that’s quickly filling up with sea water.

Scoots and Babs are all alone on a deserted island with nothing but a palm tree. (how’s that for a cliché?). They have no hope of getting back home and are most likely to spend the rest of their days on the island, which is slowly losing ground to the rising water level.

“never thought I’d go out like this.” Babs said, kicking some sand into the water.

“neither did I.” Scoots sighed. She thought back to Eris freaking out and going crazy. “Babs? why did Eris freak out like that?”

“I don’t know.” Babs kicked the tree, causing a coconut to fall. “could be a number of reasons.”

Just as Babs was about to crack the nut open, they heard moaning coming from the other side of their little island. They both looked to see a unconscious Eris lying in the sand, body still pulsating and energy coursing all throughout it.

“Eris!” Scoots exclaimed. She ran over to her and tried to touch her only to have her hoof meet a invisible barrier that burned her. “Ow!” she pulled her hoof back and put it into the water to get rid of the pain. She looked back to her sister with worry. Her eyes were snapped shut and her mouth bared her teeth as she tried to deal with the indescribable pain with each gasping breath. “Eris…”

The skiff rolled up the palace’s base. Everyone jumped off to the sand below.

“whoa!” Riku whistled. “it’s even bigger up close.”

“it’s probably big inside too.” Lina sourly joked. Riku rolled his eyes and mimicked her.

“and you think it’s at the top, Req?” Spyro asked as he strained his neck looking up. “cause I don’t think we can fly that high.”

“I’m sure this place has a elevator or something we can use; Pulley system. Whatever.” Req replied.

Dash, still shaken by the shot though the heart and soul, glanced back to her brother and mother, hoping to get some more intel. “Do you know what’s inside?”

Both of them, plus Adolf, shook their heads no. “not a thing.” he said. “we had no reason to go inside before.”

“now you do.” Dash said with a smirk.

Jax strode on over to the large doorway and knocked on it. “Hello?” the doors suddenly shook for a second, making her jump a bit.

With no help from anyone or anything, the doors opened wide on their own accord, which was nothing new to the earth-based heroes of the group. For everyone else, however, this was new.

The doors opened wide, revealing a large audience chamber on the inside. Touches on the wall lit on their lonesome, adding light to the otherwise dark room.

“well…” Sora started with a slight pang of fear. “that’s welcoming.”

Jax glanced around the place, taking it in when she noticed sand already inside. The odd thing was, they look like hoof prints. “is that…” she leaned down for a closer look. “I think someone already beat us here.” she said back to the others.

“beat us?” Emil asked in confusion. “who could’ve beat us here?”

Jax looked on ahead and found a spot where the sand reached a big part then continued on as hoof prints. “a certain missing klutz.”

A missing klutz? Ash counted those who were there and he, along with everyone else, remembered that they were missing a gray mail mare. “Derpy!” they all exclaimed.

Eris shivered as she curled into a ball. Her body still pulsed and energy still coursed though her. Scoots and Babs tried cooling her off with water from the sea but it evaporated before it even got close to her. To make matters worse, a small area underneath her burned into glass and started to spread out, gradually emcompassing the whole island.

“what’s going on with her?” Babs worriedly asked.

“I’m not sure.” Scootaloo said with concern for Eris.

With every strong fiber in her being, Eris was able to open her eyes. “Scoot… Scootaloo…” she weakly said. What surprised the Pegasus was that there were tears forming in her eyes.

Scoots didn’t know what to do here. She never heard of anyone suffering like this. She doubts that even the princess’ can do anything about this. “Eris…”

Eris whimpered for a moment before her body began glowing again. “make… it… stop…” she whined. She doesn’t want to experience it again and tried to hold it in. “gh…. Gy…. Gyah….”

“h-how?” Scoots depressingly asked.

Eris‘ reply was something Scootaloo didn‘t want. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

From the coast of Equestria, where the town Coltdon was, a large nuclear like explosion could be seen erupting out of the ocean. It was the second one in a hour and from the same location.

Just before everyone entered the palace, another shot went though their hearts. This one did it for Dash and she just fell down to her knees, crying for no reason.

“just what the hell is that?” Bahamut said with a shiver.

“whatever it is, it isn’t pleasant.” Halo gasped.

Soarin’ noticed his sister crying and walked over. “are you okay?”

“y-yeah.” Dash wiped her eyes. “Just don’t know where this came from.”

Twi and Req looked at each other with concerned expressions. “we better hurry.” they both said. Everyone nodded and they went in.

The Audience Hall, as everyone expected, was big. VERY big. There was enough room to fit 2 Orions and have room for a X-Wing from Star Wars.

“Wow.” Rarity gasped. “how long do you think it took them to build this fabulous palace?”

“how should we know?” Soarin’, Shine, and Adolf asked.

“We’ve only been here for a few years.” Adolf added.

“right. Well, is there anyone……. Older?”

“the oldest person in our little hamlet is that crazy lady you all met.” Soarin’ said. “she’s supposed to be over 10000 years old.”

Req whistled. “now that’s old.”

“benefits of living in eternal paradise.” Adolf chuckled.

After some exploration, the group was able to find a hidden button on the walls of the hall. Spike pressed it, revealing a hidden passage behind the throne. It retracted up into the ceiling, revealing a large spiral staircase behind it. It went up into the palace, which was good enough for them. They climbed up it, eager to get that tome.

Half-way up the stairs, Garble had a thought. “are you sure it’s at the top? It could’ve been down there in the hall.”

“it’s a force of habit these old places have.” Ash said. “it’s either in the highest point, the deepest cellar, or the most dangerous dungeon.”

“ugh. That’s something I can agree with.” Lloyd said with distain.

“I’m more curious about that thing the old lady said.” Spike said.

“what thing?” Rarity asked.

“she said something about facing our worst fears. What could she have meant by that? Our worst dream, our worst fear like snakes or spiders, or… what would tear apart our selves?”

That was a good question. She never did give anything useful to go on, just ‘face your worst fears’. some are fearing the worst of this and prepared for the worst to happen.

The gang reached the top of that flight of stairs to see another large door in front of them, as well as the grey Pegasus that had been missing for quite some time.

“Derpy!” Jax exclaimed. She and Req ran over to her. As they neared, they heard her sobbing. Tears fell from Derpy down into a puddle. She must’ve been crying for a long time for there to be a puddle.

“it…… it’s all my fault.” she cried out loud.

“your fault?” Req asked.

Derpy didn’t reply; just kept on crying. “I’m so sorry, eTu`nes! I’m so, so sorry!”

“eTunes?” everyone muttered. Who was this eTunes? Jax heard Derpy say it quite often. Dash and Shine knew who he was but didn’t want to say anything.

“eTu`nes! Don’t leave me… please… don‘t go…”

“okay, what happened to her to make her like this?” Sora asked, keeping her distance.

“how should I know?” Jax asked. “I heard her mention the name a few times. I thought it was a pet or something.”

Emil looked up at the door and cocked his head to the right. There was the image of a snake wrapped around a body on it. “what the…?” odder still, it was at arm level. Curious, he walked over and pressed it.

The door unlocked, cracked open, and swung wide, revealing a bright white light on the other side. It was bright enough to force everyone to cover their eyes. Knowing what Derpy is currently going though, they had a very bad feeling about this.

“you must face what you fear most…”

Catalyst

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 16

Catalyst

The gang ascended the palace stairs as quick as they could to reach the tome that would get them home. Unfortunately, they had some trouble when they were forced to confront their worst fears. Everyone was devastated by having to live though those horrors. Everyone except Dash and Manni, that is. In Manni’s worst fear, which Dash experienced because she already faced hers in real life, she found out that Manni was in fact Scootaloo’s aunt and that all her attempts to take her were really her ill-attempted ways to rescue her. If she had just told someone, they could’ve avoided all of this. Despite this, Dash forgave her. Partially.

“it was… just so real…” Rarity shivered. “Spike attacking everyone. And me. It was just… too scary.”

Spike held her close, having gone though a traumatic experience himself. “I know. And you know I would never do that, right?”

Rarity nuzzled her fiancée and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. “I know, Spike. But still…”

“Seems that most of your fears was someone you loved more then anything leaving.” Adolf pointed out. “guess love can really scar you for life if it works against you.”

Fluttershy whined as she nodded. “yeah. It was scary. I didn’t how I would do if Edge ever left me.”

Edge smiled and kissed her on the forehead. “and that’s something I would never do. You know that, right?”

“yeah. I know that, Edge.” she said with a smile.

Not everyone’s worst fears was their lover leaving. Req’s worst fear was one from her past; one she never wants to see again. That black cloaked abomination she called--

Begin Song:

Caius’s Theme - Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST

Suddenly, a church bell rang, getting their attention. The earth gang froze in fear. They remember that horrid sound. That sound wasn’t connected to anything good.

Aura was the first to speak. “was that…?”

The sound came again, confirming their fears. They looked at each other then ran up the stairs as fast as they could. “Guys?” Twi called out. They didn’t respond. “guys!?” Adolf remembered it as well, and he knows what devil it belongs to. He ran after them as well, scared stiff.

everyone else looked at each other and got worried. They ran and flew as fast as they could to catch up.

Discord reappeared in Canterlot, right in front of the royalty.

“Discord!” Celestia snarled. She went into a battle pose, ready to turn him into ash.

Discord just chuckled. “I’m not here to fight.”

“you’re not?” Chrysalis asked.

“no.” he snapped his fingers, making all 6 of them, that’s including Armor and Glade, disappear. “I got something to show you.” he snapped his fingers again, making him disappear.

The gang ran up the stairs as fast as their legs or wings could carry them. The earth part of their gang had serious looks on their faces. It’s like they heard this bell sound before.

“do you know what’s going on?” Dash asked Lina.

“not a clue. This is a first for all of us.” she replied.

Light shone from above, signaling that they were near a exit.

The gang ran out of the palace and out onto a veranda that was big enough to hold them all and then some.

“whoa!” they all gasped. They were so high up, they could see the town they came from off in the distance. “that’s far.” they all exclaimed.

“and that’s 500 miles away.” Adolf, Soarin’, and Shine all said. “we must be pretty high up.”

Spyro looked over the side and whistled. “very high up.” below them were the clouds they saw obscuring the high top of the palace.

“we must be very high if we’re past the clouds.” Twi commented.

Req couldn’t shake the horrid feelings she felt when she heard those bells. There were only a few times when she heard them and it was back home on earth… and whenever HE arrived.

Discord and the royalty reappeared high above the ground, at a point where they could see the gang.

“they’re alive.” they all happily gasped.

Discord evilly snickered. “are you sure?” he sinisterly asked. He looked up, as did everyone else. “where do you think we are?”

They all thought for a moment but it was Cadence who ultimately came up with the answer. “the Lifeless Realm.”

“bingo, dingo, dango.” Discord playfully applauded her.

“but why did you bring us here?” Armor asked.

Discord evilly smiled. “to see what would happen if one were to die in the afterworld.”

Celestia gasped in terror. “no. no, you can’t.”

“already done.” Discord snickered as he snapped his fingers.

Everyone took in the view as long as they could. Not even the princess’ can get this high up. That bad feeling still lingered in Req. maybe… it was just a coincidence that they heard it. After all, it is a palace in the Afterworld, after all. Maybe it was just--

Lightning suddenly fell from above and struck all around them. One hit near Halo, making him yep.

“Look out!” Riku yelled as more came crashing down all around them.

Fireballs came from the walls, forcing them to duck and cover. “what’s going on!?” Amelia yelled.

“how should we know?” Bahamut exclaimed.

The outlines of the veranda burst into flame and spread out, cutting off all means of escape.

Discord, in surprise, looked at his hands.

“Discord, stop this now!” Celestia cried out.

“I didn’t do this.” he said. “someone else did. I just summoned a creature to take care of them. I have no clue where all that came from.”

“you didn’t?” Luna asked. She and everyone else returned their attention to the display. “then who…”

The sounds of a sword being pulled caught the group’s attention, as well as the sound of a creature yelling out in pain.

A few seconds later, the halved body of a armored behemoth from a certain sci-fi shooter came crashing down at them, right near Fox. “WHOA!” he yelled, barely avoiding it. “where did…?”

A invisible hand grabbed Req by the throat and lifted her up into the sky. She was the flopped around like a rag doll all over the area, hitting the floor at least 10 times, each one harder then the last.

A blast of fire erupted from out of nowhere and hit her, sending her into the wall of fire. She hit that and a invisible force shot her down to the ground, right near the exit that lead up.

She gasped for air and coughed up blood. “Req!” Aura yelled as he ran over. Someone snapped his fingers, causing a wall to appeared between the gang and Req.

The sound of footsteps caught their attention. They looked around and saw no one walking so where…

A part of the ring of fire dispersed, revealing a small stairway that, indeed, shows someone walking towards them ever slowly.

“well… long time no see.”

The earth part of their gang quickly pulled their weapons and took aim at the person, which has the others confused.

“I honestly never thought I’d see you again.”

Req gasped in fear. “no… no no no no no no no.” her sword shook violently in her hands. “not you…... Anyone but you…” Adolf grunted as he held his chest. The wound where the bastard killed him hurt.

The black cloaked figure approached them with a wicked smile on his face. “is that any way… to talk to your brother, my dear Serenity?”

“Serenity?” everyone other then the earth-gang asked. “who’s Serenity?”

“just who are you?” Twilight asked.

The cloaked figure snickered and swung the cape part of his cloak aside, revealing himself fully and completely. “why, the name… is Catalyst, my dear Twilight Sparkle.”

“Catalyst…” Twi softly repeated.

“wait, THE Catalyst?” Lina exclaimed. “The one that caused Requiem and her friends a lot of trouble?!”

“correct as always, Ms. Lina Inverse.” he evilly sneered at his shocked sister. “seems I’m well known.”

“we wish you were a distant memory!” Aura yelled. He swung his lance and charged at the cloaked stranger. Catalyst lightly side-stepped to the right, punched Aura right in the stomach, then karate-chopped him in the neck. Aura collapsed but didn’t hit the floor as Catalyst caught him and tossed him back into Hiccup. Both fell to the floor with Aura on top of Hiccup. The skirmish forced his hood to fall over, revealing his face. (okay. Since I’m not at that part in the Requiem Trinity where he reveals himself, I’m gonna keep calling him Catalyst. Save the reveal for Part 3: Eternal Twilight.)

Catalyst swung his arm as if their was a blade in it. “good to know I’m not rusty.” he evilly snickered.

End Song.

(for those wondering who Catalyst looks like, just look at my icon. that's him.)

Begin Song:

Followers of Chaos - Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST

0:00.

Req shivered in fear for a moment until she shook her head, clearing it and steeling herself. “what are you doing here Catalyst? We killed you! You shouldn’t be here!”

“I wondered that myself when I first got here, dear sister. Normally, when gods die, their souls go as well. But we’re technically Demi-Gods, Serenity. So, when we bite the dust, we end up here.” he chuckled. “it’s funny. I sought to destroy this accursed place and immortality but now it’s the only thing keeping me alive. Hmhmhm. Ironic, don’t you think?”

“it’s hilarious now get out of our way!” Jax yelled, swinging one of her chakrams like a sword.

“Ah, Jacqueline Yggdrasill. Better known as Melody Zeigler. Heh… it’s funny that your getting along so well with horses, considering what you went though.”

Jax was surprised to hear that. She never told Catalyst this. “how did you… how do you know all this stuff? How do you know who Twilight and Lina are?”

Catalyst looked back up the stairs he came down. “the tome. It can show you what’s happening and what will happen. That’s how I know everyone’s names and events. That’s how I know that Fox married that beautiful and surprisingly sexy vixen Krystal…” Fox drew his staff and pointed it at him. “… that Hiccup lost his leg when he fought the Red Death…” Toothless snarled at the cloaked sadist. “…and that Twilight was raped and is now pregnant with Starlight.” Twilight angrily frowned and powered up her magic.

Req got up and drew her sword. “what do you want, Catalyst?”

Catalyst chuckled and put his arm out.
1:20.

Darkness shrouded around it and formed into a wicked blade that would scare even the devil. “to leave this accursed place. And the only way to do that…” he swung his blade along the ground, scratching a line in with a horrible noise that made them all cover their ears.

Fire erupted out of it and covered the sky above them.

“wait. Nobody can use combat spells in the afterworld.” Adolf said. “it’ll upset the balance.”

“oh. Adolf. Didn’t see you there? How’s that stab wound treating you? Deadly, I can imagine.” Req snarled and gripped her sword hard enough to draw blood. “yes, that is true, but, technically, these are not battle spells.”

Lina sputtered and called Catalyst’s bullshit. “you have fire all around us. you have hit Req with a fireball. You called down lightning on us. I’d call these combat spells.”

Catalyst snickered. Lina’s as smart as he imagined. “okay. I lied.” he swung his wicked blade around and pointed it at the group. “I just don’t give a flying FUCK about this world.”

1:51.

Demon wings shot out of his back. The bastardo got ready and charged at them. They all barely had any time to react when Catalyst reached Req. he kneed her in the stomach, stabbed her in the shoulder, and pulled her to the floor with his blade.

He quickly side-stepped to the right to avoid Riku’s blade and blasted him in the back with a fireball.

Lloyd and Emil jumped down from above and slashed down at him. The blades met a invisible forcefield. Catalyst’s eyes glowed as energy gathered beneath him. “Wrong move.” he smugly said. The energy burst out, sending both swordsman to the ground.

A magic blast shot by Twilight shot past his head. “dang, I missed!”

Catalyst sneered and pointed his blade to her but didn’t attack. “you’re lucky you, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Trixie are with child right now, otherwise I’d make you pay for what you have done.”

“hey!” Edge rammed into his gut, making him stagger a bit. “Nobody talks about my Marefriend that way.” Spike and Halo joined with him.

Luna wanted to go help as well but Discord had erected a barrier, keeping her and her fellow Alicorn’s away. It also seems to block all sound as they were yelling but nobody below took notice.

Catalyst quickly gathered himself and fired a beam out of his sword at the trio. It hit the ground beneath them, sending them careening to the wall.

Zel and Gourry swung their blades down at the fallen god. Catalyst casually blocked them both with his own blade. The duo quickly pulled their swords back and attacked again. The 3 had a brief swordfight in which Catalyst emerged victorious by stabbing them both in the legs and blasting them into a wall.

A glyph appeared beneath Jax as she powered up a low-grade spell. If Catalyst can cast them, so can she. “Mighty Fire from the Raging Inferno; the blaze that can snuff out all life…” Catalyst heard this and fired a fireball towards her. “…I call upon thee to--” the fireball hit her, cutting her spell short and critically wounding her left arm.

Sora saw the sight and angrily growled. She drew her short-sword and charged at him. He heard this and quickly blocked her. Sora jumped onto the blade and flipped over him. She ducked from his swing and stabbed him in the gut. “that’s for my sister!”

The stab didn’t faze Catalyst in the slightest. Instead, he just laughed and grabbed her by the throat. “you were never the violent type, were you Krystal Zeigler?” he said with glowing eyes. He drew her close to his face where they could tough lips. “you were a gentle lass, weren’t you?”

“Let her go!” Ash yelled. A few Mana Bolts hit Catalyst in the back, making him roar like a monster. He dropped the girl and turned around at the gunner.

“Wrong move to make, Ashlin!” Catalyst evilly chuckled before disappearing. He reappeared behind him and stabbed Ash in the back. “as was leaving your miserable home town.”

“ASH!” Sora yelled out. Catalyst took out his blade, quickly spun in a 360, and fired at Sora. It hit her, sending her rolling into the wall of fire.

Bahamut rammed Catalyst from behind but he expected that move. It was all the Drake ever did. The demi-god quickly spun around and grabbed Bahamut by the horns. “ah, Bahamut. You would’ve made a powerful general in my army. But you choose to stay with the humans. Hmhm. Grave mistake.” Catalyst spun around as fast as a tornado and sent him careening right into the attacking Spyro, Cynder, Gilda, and Garble, sending them to the ground.

Req yelled as she flew in from behind and stabbed him in the back. Catalyst yelled out in pain as energy from Nexus Ultimus shot though his body. “That’s for hurting my friends!” Req yelled.

Req flew up, quickly pulled her blade out, cast Bind; holding Catalyst in place, spiraled around a few times, spun her blade, and swung it, yelling “Seraphim Blade!” a sword beam shot out and struck Catalyst right in the back, decapitating his wings. Catalyst yelled as he fell over the side of the castle, falling to the ground that lay far below.

End Song.

Req landed on the floor and retracted her wings. The fire dispersed and everyone took a much needed breather.

“that…. Was a whole lot easier then last time.” Req panted. Her sword turned green as she walked back to the others, ready to cast cure.

Begin Song:

Heart of Chaos - Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST

Darkness shot up from behind Req and into the sky. Streams of the dark stuff shot out of it and hit her in the back, sending her in to the wall. More streams came out and hit the others, minus the pregnant ones.

“did you honestly expect that I would go out that easily?” Catalyst asked as he rose from below, the darkness shooting out of his back like a locomotive. “I am the God of Death and Destruction! I am the thing that causes wars to end all wars to break loose on other worlds!” his eyes glowed red as his power bulged though his body. “I am the Bringer of the End!” he roared like a monster as darkness shot out of his body and washed over them all. It retracted like a real wave from a sea, dragging the others with them.

“no you don’t!” Req yelled. She swung her sword at the darkness, cutting it before they were all dragged over the side.

Catalyst laughed evilly as he rose up higher. he summoned up a blade almost as big as the castle. He swung it down at them, ready to turn them into a distant memory.

“if you can use battle spells, then so can I!” Lina yelled as she finished powering up a spell that could take him out. “Dragon Slave!” the spell shot out her hands, cut though the sword, and hit Catalyst right in the noggin. As what one would expect from the spell, a massive explosion followed, covering Catalyst and most of his darkness.

Darkness cut though the blast like it was butter with Catalyst just laughing away. “you thought that could defeat me!?” Catalyst asked with a chuckle.

“what?” Lina gasped. “that… that should’ve killed you.”

Catalyst just chuckled. “but I’m already dead, aren’t I? besides, a weak spell like that won’t take me out?”

“w-weak?” if the Dragon Slave isn’t powerful enough to take him out, then what is?

Catalyst lightly chuckled, then laughed full on at the futility that the group was doing with all this fighting.

The dark cloud began to retracted into Catalyst in a painful way but he accepted it with a smile. “Darkness lives only to conquer. Darkness lives to corrupt…”

the cloud began to wash over him and turn into a new form, one that the group had seen before. “I am the true Scion of Chaos. I am the true Bringer of Death…”

The crab-like legs were the first to form, followed by the muscular and demonic hands.

“I exist only to bring the Light to it’s end. The Light of Existence…”

The body formed with a large hole though the neck down to the hip.

Catalyst leered at the group and smiled evilly. “I… will destroy this pathetic Afterworld and Immortality with it!” a devilish head formed around him.

Fire shot out of the hip and into the head, engulfing it in flames. This was a form Requiem knew all too well. She saw it during their final battle with Catalyst back on earth; when Nightmare Moon possessed her and extracted her memory from that fight; when Dark Chrysalis used crystals to transform into that monstrosity.

“Catalyst’s… true form…”

Chaos Catalyst reared back and roared to the sky. He dug his front legs deep into the castle’s architecture, anchoring him to the building. He bent down to the group and roared as loud as he could.

He summoned up his wings and flapped them, creating a large gust that was too powerful to fight. They were all sent careening back into the wall and hitting it hard enough to hear a few bones crack.

Chaos Catalyst roared like a distorted, demonic elephant again and powered up a beam attack.

“no.” Req grunted. Chaos Catalyst’s attack powered up even more as he continued to flap his wings. “this won’t happen again.” Catalyst fired his beam attack. “I won’t lose my friends!” Req’s eyes glowed black.

End Song.

The attack hit, causing a large explosion that covered the entire top.

Chaos Catalyst laughed at his victory. “You see… you cannot… defeat me.” he said in his demonic voice.

Suddenly, a light shone from within it, but something was… off about this. It’s like it was too dark to be normal.

Begin Song:

Invisible Depths - Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST

A sword beam shot out of the smoke and fire, hitting Chaos Catalyst in the chest. More and more came out, hitting him more times then he can count. “What?”

The smoke dispersed, revealing something nobody expected. “this is… unexpected.”

Darkness seeped out of a clearly mad Requiem. Her eyes glowed black as the dark power rushed though her. Everyone else was unconscious from the blast Catalyst sent them. Everyone but Twi, who was feigning unconsciousness.

Req yelled as she sent another sword beam at her demonic brother. It hit and exploded in a way that nobody ever saw before.

This was certainly a side of her Catalyst never expected to see. He never would’ve seen her accept the darkness. “this… could be a problem.” he muttered under his breath.

“you… you will pay for harming my friends!” Req yelled. She pointed her sword at him. It opened up, forming a wicked looking cannon. “I will die before I let you kill my friends! YOU HEAR ME!?!” the darkness erupted out of her, frightening Catalyst. This wasn’t the same barmaid he remembered torturing for fun.

Requiem sprouted her wings but that had taken a dark turn. They looked more… demonic then usual. She rose up into the air and charged at the beast. “AAAAHHHH!!!!” she slashed down at him.

*cut to black…*

1:38. Prematurely End Song.

“oh… dear… Faust…” Celestia shakingly gasped. The others also looked on in shock. What Req did was… was indescribable.

“that was… something I didn’t expect to happen.” Discord commented with a equally surprised by the spectacle.

He snapped his fingers and disappeared. The Alicorns were left behind in the Afterworld and began to fall.

Aura’s hand twitched as he grunted and woke up. “wha… what happened?” he groaned as he got up. Like him, everyone else groaned as they woke up.

“what… happened?” Twilight asked with a feigned moan.

“I don’t know.” Spyro groaned. “but I think we got our asses kicked.”

Aura took a quick glance around and found Req out cold in the middle of a burned section of the veranda. “Req!” he ran over to her just as she woke up. He helped her up and held her when she stumbled.

“Aura… wh--”

The screams of the royalty got their attention. They all looked up to see them fall to the ground.

“Princess Celestia!” Twilight called out. Thankfully, they were all able to spread their wings and catch air. Chrysalis caught Armor and Cadence caught Glade. “Whew.” they all landed on the veranda and looked down at the ground far below. “what are you doing here?” Twilight asked. “last we saw you, you were still back in the real world.”

“Discord happened.” Celestia said. “he took us captive and took us hear to show us your demise at his hands. But… something happened he didn’t account on.”

“Catalyst…” Req interrupted. Celestia nodded. The goddess got a headache and held her head. “ugh… do you know what happened to him?”

“You don’t remember?” a worried Luna asked.

“n-no. I remember him blasting us then… nothing. I blacked out or something. Did you take him out?”

The royalty looked at each other with worried expressions. “un… we don’t know.” Armor said, feigning ignorance. “it all happened so fast, we didn’t see what happened.”

“oh. Okay.” Req shook her head, trying to get rid of the headache. “hope you guys have Advil back at Equestria.” she moaned as she turned and walked off to join the others.

“how can’t she remember what she did?” Cadence whispered. “I know I’m not going to forget it.”

“me too.” Twilight said.

“you saw it too?” Luna asked.

“yeah. I feigned unconsciousness but I did see everything. Every… gruesome detail.” she shivered in fear. There was no way could believe that Requiem did all that. She’s always sweet and innocent but knows when to throw down; kinda like Fluttershy. But she never expected this dark side to her.

“What do we do about her?” Chrysalis asked, worried for her life.

Celestia looked at Req, who was busy curing those injured. She doesn’t believe that Req would’ve done this intentionally but still, knowing that she’s capable of doing that… “nothing. For now. She clearly doesn’t know what she did so it’s unlikely she’ll do it again. But still… we should keep a eye on her.”

Author's Note

i call this blatant advertising for the Requiem Trinity; i really do.

The Tome

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 17

The Tome

Discord appeared in the skies above Manehatten with a hateful snarl.

“damn. This could be a problem.” he muttered to himself. “I never knew that that girl could have that frightening a power inside her. And by the sounds of it, nobody did. And to top it off, I got Eris going crazy.” he was so busy talking to himself that he didn’t notice a quick spiral flame of darkness appeared behind him and someone float out. “this is not working out like I planned.” he bit his finger in worry as his eyes darted back and forth. “I know. I’ll leave the planet.” he snapped his fingers and summoned up a suitcase. “yeah. Yeah, I’ll go to another planet and start up the Draconequus’ there. That’s better then hanging around here.”

“how sad.” a deep and booming voice said. Discord screeched to a halt in mid pack and looked back. “the great and might Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony is afraid of a little human girl.” a human with some very weird hair said.

“exactly who are you?” Discord asked.

The human chuckled with a different voice; this time feminine. “someone who’s going to make you a lot more powerful.”

“and to be frank, we’re so sad you don’t remember us. Especially after all we’ve been though.” a calm, cool, and collected voice said.

“but if you are curious, our collected name…” a dark orb appeared in his hands. “… is Orochi.”

Req fell onto her back and sighed deeply. She had been casting cure on everyone from their fight with Catalyst non-stop for the past half-hour and she was dirt-poor tired.

Aura picked her up and put her on his back. “thanks, Aura.” she weakly said before falling asleep.

Lloyd winced as he rubbed his leg. “damn, that guy was tough!” he groaned. “exactly how were you able to beat him?” he asked the earth-based members of their group.

“a whole lot of luck.” Jax replied, pressing his right arm into it’s socket until it cracked. “ah, that’s better.” she sighed. She moved it around, making sure it was in place. “how did we beat him this time?”

Everyone shrugged. They had no idea how. “I think Req knows…” Aura looked back to her sleeping form on her back. “but she’s out cold right now.”

Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Armor, and Chrysalis knows what happened. They saw every horrid detail of what Requiem did to Catalyst. They’re so horrified, they didn’t want to say what they saw. And I wasn’t able to write it; It was that disturbing. They knew Req wouldn’t normally do something like that but… for her to snap like that but not remember… they’re now very, very afraid of her.

“so…” Applejack sighed with a yawn. “we got another flight of stairs to go up.”

“but it looks like it’s a short one. Compared to the others.” Emil said as he started up the stairs.

Ash started when he looked back at the armored behemoth that was cut in two back before Catalyst revealed himself to everyone. Something about it felt… familiar. “eh. It’ll come to me.” he muttered as he started up.

“oh, that’s right.” Trixie used her magic to summon up the box with the Alicorn Amulet. “I got this for you in Manehatten.” she opened it up and revealed it to Luna.

“what is it?” she asked.

Trixie pulled it out and showed it to her. “some kind of amulet I found in a thrift store.” Trixie remembered how much she paid for it and chuckled nervously. “you might get a check for a few hundred bits in the next couple of days.”

“What?”

“it was really cute and I thought it would make a perfect gift for you.”

“Trixie…” Luna chuckled and kissed her on the forehead. “you don’t need to give me a gift. Just being with you is good enough.” Trixie smiled and nuzzled her. “plus, where would I put it? All this jewelry has to be kept on for us to retain our regal and glorious looks.”

Trixie didn’t buy that for a second. “Luna…”

“it’s true. Just ask Tia.”

Trixie sighed. “well… guess it would make a good gift to one of the kids; considering he or she is a Unicorn or Alicorn. I hear this thing is to amplify powers. And I think that part is true.”

The gang neared the top of the palace, something that had taken them a combined 10 hours to do, and were ready to finally leave this place. Req woke up half-way up; still not remembering what had happened to make Catalyst go bye-bye.

Ash, however, was still thinking about that armored monster when he finally placed where he remembered it from. “oh, crap.”

“what?” Sora asked.

“you know that armored thing that Catalyst chopped in half and threw towards us?”

“Yeah? What of it?”

“I just remembered when it was from. It was a Hunter from Halo.”

“a Hunter?” Aura and Bahamut repeated. The gang reached the second to last veranda when they said… “Don’t those things usually work in pairs?”

Ash forgot about that. “uh-oh…”

Begin Song:

Hunter - Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Unofficial OST
(what unofficial means in this case is that it’s ripped from the thing. So… you have sound effects. In this case, it helps.)

Sure enough, their fears were realized when a Hunter approached them and growled.

“That ain’t good.” Fox gulped.

The Hunter snarled and powered up it’s fuel rod cannon.

“Move!” Zel yelled. The Hunter fired it’s cannon into the center of the group, making a green explosion that sent everyone in different directions.

Gourry quickly drew his sword of light as the Hunter powered up it’s cannon again.

Ash quickly got up, pulled out one of it’s pistols, cocked back the hammer, and proceeded to fire at the alien, making it angry.

Gourry charged at the Hunter, much to the alien’s amusement. Gourry jumped at the beasty but the Hunter smacked him with his shield, sending him crashing into Chrysalis. The Hunter powered up it’s cannon again and decided to overload it.

“This is getting us nowhere.” Sora yelled.

Aura drew his lance and charged at the monster. The Hunter snarled and aimed it’s cannon at her. Aura jumped over it, getting the attention of the Hunter just as it fired it’s cannon. It hit Sora’s position, causing a green explosion.

The lancer landed on the Hunter’s back and powered up his lance with fire. He stuck it in it‘s back, causing fire to spread all throughout the Hunter.

The smoldering behemoth fell over and died from it’s burns.

End Song.

Aura sighed and pulled his lance out. “that wasn’t that bad.” he joked. Sora screaming ‘bloody murder’ said otherwise.

“AHH! MY LEG!” she yelled, holding her messed up leg. The Hunter’s attack hit her there, causing it to become horrible mangled, burned, and twisted. It was so bad, that a few of the gang, one of them being the toughest in the gang, to throw up.

Aura rounded round, saw the leg, and gagged. “my god.” he gagged again and felt a little bile in his mouth.

“it hurts!” Sora yelled, trying to hold back tears.

“I could imagine!” Gilda exclaimed. “your leg is messed up.”

“thanks for pointing out the obvious!” Sora snapped. She whimpered as she hit the part of the thigh that wasn’t messed up. “can’t you cast cure or something?” she asked Req.

“I’m only good for wounds and broken bones. When it’s something as bad as this, I tend to falter. The only one who could possible fix this is Uriel or Gabrille but they’re back at Luna.”

“beg pardon?” Princess Luna asked.

“what? Oh, oh. No no. Luna’s what we call our moon.” Req explained. “and I mean it. Gabs or Uriel could do something like this in their sleep.” A.J. was about to ask a question and Req already knew that. “and I know. I may be a Goddess but I’m still getting in touch with my powers. Those spells you saw me pull; Seraphim Blade, Judgment Ray, Angel Feathers, Cure- those are all I know. And the level you intensity you see them as are all I can muster.”

The princess’ and Twilight looked at each other. They know that’s not true.

Adolf snapped his fingers, remembering something that could help. “I can tell Gabs or Uriel if they come by.” he suggested.

“they come by?” Ash asked.

“Periodically. But when they do come, I’ll tell them that Sora is horribly mutilated and tell them you’re on Equestria. But… for now…” Sora yelled in pain. Adolf winced. “I’m afraid that you’re gonna have to wince your way though it.”

“WHAT!?!” Sora yelled. “You have no idea how much this hurts! AH! Nothing hurts this bad.”

Cadence scoffed and crossed her front legs. “Really? Cause I can think of one thing that hurts worse.”

“Not now!” Sora growled.

During this time, Ash was tinkering with one of his pistols, putting in a combination into the jewels encrusted on the handle. It took and the jewels momentarily glowed. He spun the gun and pointed it at Sora’s leg. He fired, hitting the leg square in the center.

“What was that for?” Dash yelled.

“wait for it.” he said.

“Wait for what!?” Sora yelled. “For you to add mo--” she stopped yelling as she felt the pain recede. “oh. The pain’s gone.”

“how did he…” Manni muttered.

Ash spun the pistol and gave it to Sora. “just fire every time the pain hits again and you should be fine.”

“t-thanks.” Sora replied with a slight blush. He was really looking out for her. Outside the bedroom. Guess he really does care.

Ash helped her up and put her on his back. “Come on. We got a tome to get to.” he walked up the last flight up stairs as everyone watched on.

“they make such a cute couple.” Amelia commented.

“Like Req and Aura, huh?” Riku chuckled.

Everyone walked up after them. Everyone but Jax, that is. “Ash… is mine!” she snarled to herself. “and it’s gonna be a cold day in hell when my sister gets him instead of me!”

The gang walked up the last flight, growing hopeful with each step. Each step is one more closer to home and the friends they left back on Equestria.

During the climb up, Twi couldn’t help but ask her mentor. “Celestia?”

“?”

“why didn’t you tell us that Cosmos was Discord?”

Celestia gasped and stopped. “sister?” Luna asked.

“how did you find out?”

“there’s a pool in the town we came from…” Soarin’ started. “with the ability to show us events and people happening right now. We just said Cosmos’ name and Discord’s image popped up.”

“why didn’t you tell us?” Twi asked again. Celestia looked away from her, not wanting to answer the question. “Princess?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” she said. “I just… don’t want to.”

The ponies looked at each other with concerned expressions but they didn’t go any further. If she didn’t want to say, she didn’t want to say.

Jax, however, got a idea. There’s more then one way to get info.

After a half-hour of climbing, they reached the top floor. And the tome. Everyone whistled when they saw what it was.

A giant, shiny, green sphere hovered in mid-air with a deep drone whispered out of it.

“This is the tome?” Hiccup commented. “Funny. I expected it to look like a book.” some of the others nodded and murmured in agreement.

Twi’s pupils went wide when she saw the intellectual treasure trove in front of them. “this contains all the knowledge in the universe and is getting more every single second. Just one hour alone with this would make one the wisest person on their planet. Can you imagine what a lifetime of studying would do?”

“Focus Twi.” Halo said. “we’re here to find a way home. You can have fun with this after you die.”

“I know. I know.”

Fox scratched his chin as he looked at it. “so… how do we do this? Do we ask all formal like, with the ‘thee and thy and thou’ crap or just flat out ask?”

“one way to find out.” Jax said. She walked up to it and it lightly shone. Req and Chrysalis whistled. “let’s see… how do I word this…?” Jax muttered.

Celestia said, “just ask it how we can get home from this Afterworld.”

“right. I know.” Jax turned back to the sphere and pondered on how to word it. “um… oh great and powerful tome…”

“hey. That’s copyrighted.” Trixie said. Armor sighed and bonked her on the head.

Jax rolled her eyes. “oh great and powerful tome… reveal to us…” she glanced back to Celestia. “… the entire history between Celestia and Discord.”

“What!?!” Celestia exclaimed.

The sphere glowed bright as it fulfilled her wish. It shone so bright, everyone had to cover their eyes.

Author's Note

oh, great. i could never keep track of origin stories. everyone, take notes. this is gonna be complicated.

Origins

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 18

Origins

“It’s not fair!” a 4 year-old Luna exclaimed as 7-year old Celestia played with her new crown. “I want to be the new princess!”

“now be fair, Luna.” their mother said. “Celestia was the first born so she’s the Princess of Ponyland.”

Filly Luna didn’t like it and threw a fit instead. “But I want to be the princess! It’s just not fair! I want it, I want it, I want it!”

Filly Celestia rolled her eyes and smacked Luna on the head. “Shut up! I’m the princess, now deal with it!” Luna, now super pissed at her sister, teared up and ran out of their home as fast as she could. “cry-baby.” Celestia said with a huff. Her mother smacked her on the head, harder then what Celestia did to Luna. “ow! Mom!”

“Go apologize to your sister!” she said. “she’s younger then you and she’s not good with making friends.”

“but mom, she…”

“Go!” she said with force.

Celestia, caught off guard by that, followed her orders. She put her crown down and went after Luna.

Celestia descended down the castle walkway, headed though the town, and walked into the woods that surrounded her home town. Whenever Luna ran away, she always went into the woods. And she’s getting bolder each time, too, going in deeper every time.

“Lulu!” she called out. “I swear, that girl is going to run away so far, she’ll be at the moon.” she sighed. “LULU!” she yelled out. Celestia went ‘ugh’ as she walked further in, walking past her sister’s hiding spot. Her shouting also got the attention of a young serpent-like creature with different limbs made from different animals.

Celestia sighed after a half-hour of searching. “Lulu… you didn’t really run away, did you?” she sadly said as she continued on.

The serpent creature slithered though the trees above, watching the filly as she walked. It was mesmerized by her big pink flowing mane and her voice. “(never saw her before.)” he thought to himself. “(but by the looks of it, she’s a Alicorn. And mother told me that Alicorn’s are deadly monsters but she doesn’t look like a monster.)”

Celestia sensed something off in the forest. She stopped in mid-step and glanced back for a couple seconds before moving on. “Lulu! Come on, Lulu. This isn’t funny.” the serpent creature slithered though the trees, keeping up with her. “if it helps, I promise I won’t yell at you. … for the rest of the day.”

The serpent felt bad for her and started to get worried. The woods can get pretty dangerous at night and he doubts that the pink-haired Alicorn can handle them. So… he was forced to do something her family told him not to do: he went to talk with a pony.

“Lulu!” the serpent appeared right beside her, scaring Celestia quite a bit.

“missing someone, are we?” he asked.

“un…” Celestia wasn’t sure what to make of this. This was a new species she never saw before talking to her. “un… yeah. My sister.”

“if she’s a blue un…. Un…. I’m sorry, I’m not sure what kind of species you are.”

Celestia chuckled. He doesn’t know what she is. “hmhm. Well, I’m a pony. A special species of pony called a Alicorn. And you?”

“mmm… I think I remember being called a Draconequus.”

“you think? Never heard of someone not knowing what their species is.”

“well… I was never good at school.” he sheepishly said. Celestia chuckled again. “and to answer the original question, your sister is hiding about 50 feet that-a-way.” he pointed behind her. Celestia looked and saw the faint outline of a blue pony.

Celestia face-hoofed. “unbelievable.” she said into her hoof. She angrily looked in that direction and headed over. She peered into the bush Luna was hiding it, scaring her. “Lulu…” Celestia sternly said before using her magic to pull her out by the tail. Luna angrily scoffed and crossed her fore-legs. Celestia turned to the serpent. “thanks for helping me.”

“no prob.” he replied. Celestia bowed to him then headed off back to town. The serpent was curious about this Alicorn. Normally, one would run away in fear thanks to those ghost stories and propaganda the adults spread about how they‘re freaks of nature. But this one… this one was different. She didn’t see him as a freak, but as a friend. Curious why, he headed up into the trees and followed her.

“who was that?” Luna asked as they walked back into town, still being hung by Celestia’s magic.

“I don’t know. We just met. But there was something different about him, though.”

“different how?”

“I don’t know. I think it was because he’s a Draconequus.”

“a what?”

“I don’t know. Think that’s the name of his species. Maybe Cosmos will know.” Luna playfully cooed. Celestia now regretted saying that name. “Please don’t.”

“Tia and Cosmos, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.”

“Lulu!” Celestia snapped.

Luna just laughed. “it was too perfect to resist.” she continued laughing as they approached their castle home.

The serpent creature followed them from the shadows, staying out of view of everypony. He quickly moved across the street and into another alley.

“found Lulu, mom.” Celestia said as she walked into her study. She placed Luna on the floor on her face. Luna looked up at her and snarled.

Their mother was buried in paperwork so she didn’t pay much attention. “That’s nice.”

“and get this. In the woods, I came across a Draconequus. He was really helpful; helped me find Luna.”

“that’s nice.” their mother tonelessly replied.

Celestia’s ears drooped. It was a stupid mistake talking to her when she’s like this. But… she decided to have some fun with it. “mom, I’m pregnant.”

“that’s nice.”

Celestia rolled her eyes and shrugged at Luna, who was laughing. She noticed something flash by the window. Curious, she walked over to look. As she neared it, the thing outside snickered. Celestia already knew who it was. “You can come in, Cosmos.”

The 8-year old black Alicorn with a silver mane poked his head in and chuckled. “how’d you know it was me?” he asked as he climbed in.

“you always pull this stunt, that’s how.”

Cosmos chuckled as he climbed in. Luna spotted something in the other window and went over to investigate. “hello?” she called as she peered out. The serpent creature’s head poked down unexpectedly, causing Luna to yelp.

“hi there.” he nervously said.

“Lulu!” Celestia said as she and Cosmos ran over. “what ha--” she spotted the serpent and chuckled. “You again. What are you doing here? And you can come in.”

The Serpent stayed outside all the same. He wasn’t about to enter a Alicorn palace. “it’s… okay. I’ll stay out here.” he did get comfortable, however. “and I was curious. Nobody has ever shown me kindness before.”

“Really?”

“un… Celestia? Who is this?” Cosmos asked.

“oh, Cosmos. This…. Well, he didn’t tell me his name but he helped me find Lulu when she ran away. Again!” Luna nervously chuckled. “he said he’s a Draconequus. You know what that is?”

“I heard Dad say that name a few times but I didn’t pay any attention.”

“your name is Celestia?” the serpent asked. “that’s a nice name; beautiful, too.” Celestia blushed a bit. “well, my friends call me Dis.”

“okay. Dis.” Celestia said with a smile.

10 years later…

The relationship between Draconequus’ and Alicorns are reaching a breaking point. The ruling families of both species are now, for lack of political terms, full-out yelling. The citizens are ignoring it and acting as if nothing happened, including 4 friends who have been together for 10 years.

The 3 Alicorns sat down in a green field and looked up into the sky, calling out images in the sky.

“hey, look at that one.” the 17-year-old Celestia said, pointing up to a cloud. “that one looks like a bunny.”

“and that one looks like a crown.” the 14-year-old Luna said, pointing at another. “a nice… royal crown.”

The 18-year old Cosmos rolled his eyes and chuckled. Luna’s still obsessing over that after all these years.

Celestia sat up and cracked her back. “what’s taking Dis so long? It’s not like him to be late.”

“he’ll get here when he gets here, Tia.” Luna said.

“and that is now.” Dis slithered up and landed just outside the field. He landed and started walking with a yawn. “Sorry I’m late. Traffic was murder.”

“took you long enough.”

Dis tossed down his bag and laid down next to them. “sorry, but mother was being… stingy.”

“same with ours.” Celestia and Luna said in unison.

“which is odd because she wasn’t like that when she first met you.” Celestia said.

Cosmos shrugged. “sure there’s some reason.”

Night soon fell onto the campsite. The 4 gathered around the campfire as Luna told them a scary ghost story.

“…and then, the Headless Horse reached the unsuspecting pony and then…” Luna jumped up and hit the ground as hard as she could. “Pounced on the pony and gobbled him up.”

The 3 yelled in fear then laughed. “that’s a good story, Luna. Scary but good.” Dis laughed.

“thanks. Just made it up.” she said with a sneer as she strode on over to her spot.

Cosmos used his magic to mess with a timber of the fire. “so… did you hear about what’s happening in the outside world?”

“About the Chaos?” Celestia asked. “yeah. Sounds pretty deadly.”

“Chaos?” Dis asked.

“some term mother’s throwing around. Says there’s creatures out there who don’t follow the rules of the world and have the world as a playground.”

Dis wondered if she means his powers to manipulate his surroundings. “you mean… this?” he snapped his fingers, summoning up a low-level cotton candy cloud.

The 3 just shrugged. Dis summoned up a few cones. They took ‘em and dipped them into the cloud. “Oh, Dis. I love how you’re able to make these yummy clouds.” Celestia chuckled.

“you think that’s something?” Dis laughed. “this is something a baby can do in it’s sleep.”

“but it’s so yummy.” Luna said, taking a big bite out of hers.

Cosmos patted his hooves on the ground for a second. “do you guys think… we’ll always be together like this?” The other 3 blinked for a moment, looked at each other, then back at Cosmos. “I mean, as friends. Sooner or later, we’re gonna have to go our separate ways. It’s possible that… we may nev--”

“Don’t say that.” Celestia interrupted. “we’ll always be together. I feel it in my gut and it has never steered me wrong.”

Luna’s eyes closed halfway. “Really?” she listlessly asked. “did you forget that Ursa Minor a few days ago?”

She had forgotten about that. She closed her eyes and chuckled nervously as her face flushed. “well… most of the time.”

As time passed, the campers gradually fell asleep. First Cosmos, then Luna. Celestia was struggling to keep her eyes open as she watched the fire dance. Her heavy sleepy eyes closed and her head fell onto Dis’s left shoulder, much to his surprise. She immediately began to dream, dream about this most cutest Alicorn she had ever met; the Alicorn that was right across from her.

“you are so cute…” she said in her dream-like state. “I hope you never leave…”

Dis, not knowing it was for a Alicorn and not knowing she was half-asleep, took that to mean him. “(Celestia… think’s I’m cute…)” he looked at his hands. “(she’s able to look past this and see someone… cute…?)” he looked at her and smiled. “(how do you like that?)”

The next morning, they packed up the camp before moving to their next site. There were missing one, however.

“where the heck is Tia?” Luna asked, looking around to find her.

“I think she walked off into the woods.” Cosmos said. “and she was looking at me all weird, too.”

“how weird?”

“like… un… um… *claps hooves together* like one of those girls from one of her romance cartoons.”

Luna gagged and stuck her tongue out. “*Hacks* ugh. You won’t see me acting like that. No way, no how.”

Cosmos chuckled at it. She’s gonna go though it eventually. He used his magic to put his sleeping bag in his pack when he noticed that they were missing someone else. “where’d Dis go?”

Dis slowly walked though the woods, carrying some flowers that he had summoned with his powers. “(okay, Dis. Just be confident, play it cool, and tell Celestia she’s cute, just like how she told you last night.)” he walked around and tree and saw something that made him stop in his tracks.

Celestia hummed to herself as she used her magic to pull petals off a flower. “he loves me… he loves me not… he loves me… he loves me not…” she happily closed her eyes when she reached the last one. “he loves me!”

she heard footsteps behind her and kept her eyes closed. He was about to speak but she cut him off. “I know you’re there.” she used her magic to pull him closer. “Shh shh shh. Please, don’t say a word.” she ran her hoof though his fur and heard him shiver. She leaned in close and whispered into his ear. “let this be… perfect…”

She kissed him full on the lips and lost all meaning to the outside world.

Dis’s eyes went wide when Celestia kissed him.

“(oh my Faust, she’s kissing me! If this is a dream, I don’t want to wake up.)”

Celestia broke the kiss and smiled. “huh. Tastes like bubblegum.” bubblegum? Dis breathed into his hand and smelled it. Holy crap, it does. She turned his back to him. “I’ll meet you back at camp. I just want to… take it all in.”

Dis did just that and disappeared. Celestia finally opened her eyes and fell to the ground, so very very glad she did what she did. Her first kiss… and it was perfect.

Dis reappeared in camp with a really funny look on his face. Luna noticed this and scowled. “what happened?” she asked.

“n-nothing.” he disappeared and reappeared next to his bags.

Celestia returned to the camp as dreamily as she can be. “la da la la-da-la-da la da-da da-da…”

“well, someone’s in a happy mode.” Luna joked.

Celestia dreamily sighed and laid her head on her bags. “and why shouldn’t I?” she sighed in a heavenly manner.

Cosmos finished packing his bags and stopped to think. “(maybe… I should tell her… before things get weird.)” he put down his bags and walked over to Celestia. “um… Tia?”

“yes, Cosmos?”

“um… can I talk to you in private?”

Private? Didn’t they just have a private moment? “sure…?” Celestia got up and walked off with Cosmos.

“what do you think they’re going to talk about?” Dis asked Luna as he packed Celestia’s bags for her.

“who knows? Could be anything.”

Cosmos lead Celestia to the same spot she had mistakenly kissed Dis. She was still confused as to why he lead her back here. “what’s going on, Cosmos?”

Cosmos nervously scratched his neck. This is either his worst idea or his best. Well, only one way to find out. He took a deep breath and kissed Celestia full on the lips. Celestia went wide-eyed at first then gave in to his embrace. “(he wanted to… do this himself… didn’t he?)” she asked herself as she kissed back.

5 years later…

The Draconequus’ and the Alicorns are at all-out war and the Alicorn’s are losing to the Draconequus’ powers over manipulation, which the ponies have decided to call Chaos. As a result, Alicorn scientist are quickly working on a biological weapon that will gain them victory. The 4 friends are having difficulty keeping together, since they are suppose to be enemies. And things are going to get really hairy.

Celestia sat by herself in the bathroom, holding a small stick with her magic. “Please no, please no, please no, please no, please no.” a blue line appeared on the stick, making Celestia groan in a give up-ish tone. “Oh, boy.” She rubbed her neck and tossed the stick into the garbage. “Cosmos isn’t going to like this.”

Dis appeared in the castle courtyard and quickly moved behind a statue to hide from a patrol. He peered out, made sure they were gone, and slithered into the Alicorn castle.

Luna walked though a corridor, looking at some papers, when Dis suddenly appeared. “Ah.” Luna dropped the papers in her yelp. “Dis! Warn me before you do something like that.”

“sorry.” Dis whispered. “just a bit… edgy.”

Luna used her magic to gather up the papers. “yeah. This war has everyone on edge. Why our parents decided to throw this stupid war is beyond me.”

“I know. I tried to talk mine out of it but they wouldn’t listen.”

Luna chuckled. “guess we get more stubborn as we get older, don’t we?”

“looks like it. Un… do you know where Celestia is? I got to talk to her about something.”

“yeah. She should be in her room. But be careful; mother ordered all Draconequus’ to be killed on site. No exceptions of who.”

Dis felt uneasy. Seems the Alicorns are stepping up their game. “okay.”

Dis snuck down the hallway leading to Celestia’s room, sneaking past any guards on the way. He almost got caught once when he knocked over a vase but was able to use his powers to turn himself into a replacement until the guards moved on. He almost lost a letter he had wrote to help express it but was able to recover it in time.

He reached Celestia’s room and was about to knock on it when he heard voices inside.

“…mos, it’s my decision on what to do with it. And if you want to help, you can.”

Dis heard Cosmos angrily scoff and walk around. “how could you get yourself into this situation?”

“I don’t know. It was just… a accident. A accident I’m gonna have to live with. What about you, Cosmos?”

“I’m not sure. I just… I need to think about it.” Dis heard a window open. “I have to go on assignment. When I get back, you’ll have my answer.” he heard wings flap and fade away. Celestia depressingly sighed.

Dis waited a few moments before knocking on her door. “Tia? You in there?”

She didn’t reply for a few moments but, after a while… “yeah. Come on in, Dis.”

Dis opened the door and saw Celestia laying back on her bed, holding her forehead. “is something wrong?”

“yeah. Something is… very wrong.” she sat up and hugged a pillow. During those 5 years, Celestia learned that it was Discord she had kissed for the first time and not Cosmos back in those woods. She had been hoping for some alone time to talk to him. “listen… Dis… we need to have to talk.”

“same here.” Dis came by with the intention of telling her how he felt about her ever since that day. He also never found out that Celestia and Cosmos were one of the hottest couples in town. “but you first.”

She sighed. This was going to be difficult. “Dis… I’m pregnant.”

Dis’s heart sank when he heard it. “p-pregnant?” she slowly nodded. “wha… how? When?”

“last night. I was cutting though a alley so I don’t get punished for breaking curfew when someone attacked me and… and…” she didn’t finish the sentence but Dis pieced together what happened. “and I wasn’t feeling well when I woke up so took a test. It was positive.”

Dis found this hard to believe. Celestia was one of the toughest Alicorn’s he knew. And super beautiful to boot. He can’t picture her with a preggo belly. “so… why did you tell Cosmos? Before you ask, I heard you at the door. I didn’t hear all of it, though.”

“well… *sigh* and I was hoping to tell you this some other time; let you down easy, but…” Dis cocked his head in confusion. “me and Cosmos… we’ve been dating since the camping trip 5 years ago.”

Dis’ heart sank even further, as well as shatter. “w-what?”

“yeah. I meant to break it to you slowly bu--” Dis didn’t want to hear it and immediately left. “Dis!” she got up to chase him but he snapped his fingers and disappeared, dropping his letter. Celestia noticed this, picked it up, and felt her heart sink when she was what was written on it. “Dis…”

The Alicorn army gathered above the Draconequus capital city, ready to bring an end to this long war. Cosmos joined the leaders, clad in battle armor. “is it ready to go?” he asked one of them.

“he is as ready as can be.” Starswirl the Bearded said. “but… he is rather violent.”

“Good.” Cosmos looked up into the sky.

A large spiral cocoon fell from the sky and towards the town. The cocoon broke and turned into wings. The creature they belonged to flipped backwards and crashed into the middle of town, causing a large amount of dirt to kick up, obscuring what it was. A beam of blue light shot out of the dirt and hit the town, causing a large explosion. The dust dispersed with a flap of the creatures wings, revealing a large and deadly dragon.

Another explosion rocked the town as Dis reappeared in his home, tears in his eyes. “So… so she was just leading me on…” he silently sobbed and wiped his eyes. Another explosion hit, breaking him out of his tearful session. “oh no.” he ran down the hall.

“Mom! Mom, we got trouble!” he ran into his parents study and saw a horrifying image.

Using his magic, Cosmos pulled a sword out of the bodies of the two lead Draconequus’. he turned to leave when he saw a horrified Dis standing in the doorway. “oh no.” he gasped. He looked between him and the dead leaders. “oh no. these are… oh, Faust. Dis, I didn‘t know.”

Dis made a fist hard enough to draw blood. “You…” Dis snarled in anger. “I’m Gonna Make You And Your Kind Pay For This!” he yelled as he snapped his fingers and disappeared. In the process, he caused a explosion that sent Cosmos right into a bookcase, making it collapse on him.

Celestia paced back and forth in her mother’s study, worried for both Cosmos and Dis. She didn’t mean to break Dis’s heart like that. She had hoped to do it slowly and not have it come out like that.

“Tia…” Luna said with concern, watching her sister pace. The door to the study opened, making both the sisters look.

Cosmos limped on in with bandages covering his legs and body. “Cosmos!” Celestia exclaimed. She ran over and hugged him. “thank goodness you’re okay!” Cosmos begrudgingly returned her hug. Celestia silently sniffled as she broke her hug with his boy-toy. “Cosmos… I made a stupid mistake… It has to do with Dis…”

11 months later…

The Draconequus are now fully and completely wiped out. The Alicorns are now in total control of the new country they call Equestria. The Alicorns decided to use their powers to govern their new world and the ponies now have complete control over everything; the weather, the flora, the fauna. Almost everything really. It’s also been 11 months since they last saw Dis. Tia, Lulu, and Cosmos believe that he’s dead.

The first major event in the countries history was the marriage of Celestia and Cosmos. The second biggest event is happening right now.

Luna paced back and forth in the waiting room at the hospital. Her sister is now giving birth to her niece. She went into labor 20 hours ago and started pushing half a hour ago. And Tia’s suppose to be the strong sister. She sat down in a chair and looked at Celestia’s room. “please be okay, Tia.”

“AAAAAHHHH!!!!”

A contraction hit the newly christened Princess of the Sun as she tried to push her daughter out. “Oh, I’m gonna kill whoever knocked me up!”

Cosmos nodded in agreement. “well, if you do find him, be sure to bring me along.”

“okay, Princess. the baby is starting to crown. One more push and she should be out.”

Celestia panted, thankful that this is almost over. She should‘ve gotten the epidural when she got the chance. “Okay… okay… okay…”

“just one more push and we’re gonna be parents.” Cosmos said with a smile.

A very tired Celestia smiled back. “thanks… for being there for me.” she panted. As soon as the next contraction hit, she pushed down again.

Outside in the rain, Dis watched from the window with a somber expression but was really angry inside. “(Celestia and Cosmos. Bah. She should be with me. We’re the better couple.)” a realization hit him; something he had never considered before. “(unless… she was just having fun at my own expense with this. That bitch! She was just using me. She never cared about me.)” something inside him snapped, replacing what love he had for Celestia with anger. He now hates her with every fiber of his being.

He heard a baby’s cry. He looked in and saw a very tired Celestia grabbed her new daughter with happy tears in her eyes. “hello there, Erys. I’m your mommy.” she sweetly said. Cosmos rubbed her back and nuzzled up next to her.

“(Erys… the female version of the name Dis…)” normally, one would be happy that someone used their name. not him, though. he looked at the baby Alicorn and got a deadly plan in his eyes. “(I have great plans for you.)” he snapped his fingers and disappeared.

The large dragon from the assault that killed his parents was chained to the wall and sleeping like a baby. Actually, he is a baby. He only is 11 months old, anyhow. Dis appeared in front of him, waking him up. The Dragon snarled and tried to bite him.

“calm down.” Dis snapped his fingers. Cotton candy clouds appeared and wrapped around his mouth. “my. You are a violent creature, aren’t you? Of course, that’s what you were raised to do, aren’t you? A creature of no remorse, with no feelings for anyone around him. A creature incapable of love, no matter how hard you try. you know only how to rain down death and destruction. You will never break loose of such destructive powers, no matter how hard you try. And I can use that.”

He snapped his fingers yet again. The monster was quickly and inexplicably turned into a small marble. Or rather, the essence of a egg. He grabbed it in his fingers and chuckled. “in 2000 years, in case I fail, you will be reborn just as you are; as violent, as deadly, as destructive.” he snapped his fingers, sending it into a chaos vortex where it will remain for the next 2 millennia. “see you in 2000 years…” Dis chuckled evilly and disappeared.

2 years later…

Not long after Erys was born, Celestia’s and Luna’s mother died, leaving the 2 sisters and Cosmos in charge of the fledgling country. Luna started to get jealous of the ponies playing in Celestia’s day and not her night. It ate at her but she kept it far in the back of her mind. It wasn’t going to be a problem; she was sure.

Erys quickly grew from a sweet little baby into a hyper-active toddler that was driving her parents wild. Still, Celestia considers her to be the best thing that ever happened to her.

But… everything will change today…

“Don’t go too far, Erys.” her mother called out. Celestia smiled as she saw her daughter run off. She reminds her so much of herself when she was Erys’ age.

Erys laughed as she ran after a butterfly. She jumped up to catch it but missed. She jumped up again and missed again.

Erys landed at the foot of someone’s… well, foot. She looked up and noticed a serpent creature with different limbs. “well… aren’t you the cute little fuss-bucket?” he said with a snarky tone. Erys felt something both scary and familiar about him. Unfortunately, the scary part is what’s the focus today.

“MOMMY!”

That yell for help got the attention of the 3 Alicorns and one ultra-powerful Unicorn. “Erys!” Celestia gasped before running in. Luna, Cosmos, and Starswirl ran after her.

They ran into the castle courtyard to see a Draconequus holding Erys by her mane. Immediately, they took up battle positions. “Let Her Go!” Cosmos threatened.

“Um… no.”

Celestia recognized the voiced instantly. Could it be him? After all this time. “Dis?”

Dis wasn‘t sure she was going to remember him after all this time. “You do remember me? Well, I was so worried you wouldn’t. oh, just thinking about it filled me with grief.” he said in a joking manner.

“Dis… what are you doing? We have so much to catch up on.”

“do we?” he angrily asked. “let’s see. You broke my heart, you married the monster who killed my parents, you had a bastard child who you technically named after me, you’re ruling the country that wiped my species to the ground! There, that caught up enough for you?!”

His angry tone caught Celestia off guard. “D-dis…”

“What do you want?” Cosmos angrily asked.

Dis chuckled evilly. “revenge. Revenge for you all eradicating my species!” he evilly looked at Erys. “and I know a good place to start.”

Celestia’s good feeling from reuniting with her good friend turned into anger as soon as he threatened Erys. “you touch one hair on her head or so help me, I’m going to make you pay!”

Dis chortled and snapped his fingers. Erys yelled as she disappeared in the same manner as Oscurita. “Go on. Make my day!”

Celestia couldn’t believe what she saw. Her best friend… just killed her daughter. That’s it. No more little miss nice pony. If he wants to die, so be it. “You… how could you! WE WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS, DIS!”

“Were being the right word.” he replied. “And it’s not Dis anymore…” He rose up into the air and got comfortable as his former friends got into battle positions. “… it’s Discord.”

Celestia’s anger reached a boiling point. “Dis…” a few tears fell from her eyes as she accepted it with a broke heart. Her best friend… was now her greatest enemy. “Discord!.. I’m gonna make you pay!!! YOU HEAR ME!?! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID!!! YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!!!” she powered up her magic and shot at him.

And thus, Celestia’s and Discord’s rivalry was born. Their war lasted for 900 years and almost tore the world apart.

During their war, Discord was able to capture Cosmos inside a little black pearl which he placed inside her body close to his black heart but, since he disappeared like how Erys did, Celestia believed him to be dead.

At the end of his life, Starswirl used the last of his powers to grant Celestia and Luna the gift of immortality. He saw that this war was going to last for a long time and that they would receive powerful help in the future to help defeat him just before he passed on.

After 900 years, Celestia and Luna were forced to use a forbidden power from the dawn of the planet that they were told never to use except in emergencies. Using the Elements of Harmony, they able to imprison Discord in stone. before he turned, Discord created a little virus that he planted inside Luna. A little virus known as Nightmare Moon.

During their war, their old kingdom was turned into ruin, forcing the pony’s to spread out across their country, establishing the cities of Canterlot, Manehatten, Trottingham, ETC. the old town where Equestria was founded turned into the ruins Halo and Twilight came across while investigating the Everfree Forest and the palace, the resting place of the Elements of Harmony.

The rest of this little show showcased Luna transforming into Nightmare Moon and Celestia banishing her to the moon, Celestia periodically visiting Discord’s statue to try and find out where he sent Erys and Cosmos; only to end up with a recipe for chicken pot pies, and the events of the show and these stories with Derpy meeting eTu`nes, the Mane 6 getting their Cutie Marks, Twilight and her Friends turning Nightmare Moon back into Luna, the little bout with Trixie, the fiasco with the Buffalo, the Best Young Fliers competition, the Grand Galloping Gala, Discord’s return and eventual re-imprisonment, Luna trying to fit in during Nightmare Night, Spike going on a journey to find himself, Cadence’s and Armor’s wedding with the Changeling invasion, the humans arrival on Equestria, the dragon Oscurita roaring in to the sky, the ponies turning into humans, the humans destroying Nightmare Moon completely, Twilight getting pregnant with Starlight, the mane 6 falling in love, Dash and Scootaloo coming across Eris, Eris summoning up the other members of the group, the Fall of Canterlot, Godzilla destroying Maredrid completely, the Battle of Canterlot, Dark Chrysalis getting destroyed, Discord being unleashed again and kidnapping Eris, him turning Eris into a sadist, the battle with the Reaper above Manehatten, the ship and all of them getting sucked into a black hole, them arriving in the Afterworld, learning about the tome, arriving at the palace, their battle with Catalyst, and right now…

The Leap Home

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 19

The Leap Home

The tome shut off and hovered in mid-air.

Dumbstruck, everyone just stood there they were, still trying to wrap their minds around the story. Celestia, however, was angry as hell at Jax for making everyone see that.

“un……………” Jax shook her head and tried to piece together what they all saw. “so… let me see if I got this straight…” Ash groaned and pulled out a notepad. He knows where this is going. “… the reason Discord is going all apes hit because a certain princess didn’t even bother to open her eyes when she kissed him 2000 years ago!?”

“I’ve heard of really stupid reasons to have a personal vendetta against someone but, in this case, I can sympathize.” Aura angrily exclaimed. Everyone agreed with him.

Lina chuckled viciously as she turned to Celestia. “you know. This whole mess could’ve been avoided… if you had just talked to him after you found out! But no… you had to keep it a secret to when you got pregnant and when war broke out! No wonder he snapped the way he did! How stupid were you!?”

“Enough!” Luna yelled. “blaming my sister for this won’t change anything! Could any have you have seen this coming if you were in her shoes?” nobody answered her. They also made some crummy choices that resulted in something they never saw coming.

Req pinched her eyes and sighed. “ugh. Fine. We can berate her when we get back to Equestria. Now… what do we know?”

Ash took out his notes and began to write down as Twilight began to talk. “well, we learned that the dragon Oscurita was originally created 2000 years ago as a soulless beast of destruction. And that he was brought here by Discord.”

“but… he can’t be soulless.” Derpy said. “Dinky said that he was kind to her.”

Ash looked at the camera with a raised eyebrow. “I’ll… just put a question mark after soulless…” he did just that. “Anything else?”

“well, we learned that Discord had romantic feelings for Celestia, before all that mess happened.” Sora said, still on Ash’s back due to her bum leg. “if we can play that on him, we might be able to change him back.”

That was a plan; play his feelings. Although the Ponies aren’t exactly big fans of manipulation.

“what else?” Ash asked.

“Cosmos was never sent to a Chaos Realm, but rather into a black pearl Discord is keeping inside his body.” Riku said. “getting to that is going to be a problem.”

Jax wickedly sneered her teeth as she spun her chakram around her finger. “just leave that to me. One Personality Shift and good Discord will let Cosmos go.”

“my biggest concern is Erys.” Luna said. “that really didn’t explain what happened to.”

“actually, it did.” Twi said. “the way she disappeared is the same way that Discord sent Oscurita to our time. So, she’ll end up coming here. And remember, discord had some plan for her so he wouldn’t have killed her.”

“if that’s true, then she should’ve reappeared the same time Oscurita did.” Cadence muttered. “then… where is she?”

Everyone thought about that; Where would she reappear? Dash got a sinking feeling that she did reappear, just not as a Alicorn.

Jax turned to ask the time how to get back when she noticed a rainbow tail go down the stairs. “(where’s she going?)”

Groaning came from Scootaloo’s mouth as she woke up. Water erupted from her mouth as she coughed. “Ugh. Oh, god.” her chest hurt as she gagged and coughed up more water. “oh, Faust.” she coughed inside her mouth and shakingly exhaled. She put her head to the ground and closed her eyes. “oh, man. That hurt. Ugh… what happened? The last thing I remember was…” she gasped and quickly turned around to the ocean. “ERIS!!!” her voice echoed. Only thing that replied was thunder off in the distance. Groaning came from Scoot’s right. She looked and saw Bab’s waking up, feeling as bad as Scoots did just a few seconds ago. “Babs!” she ran over to her.

“Ugh… emmm…” Babs coughed up water. “egh… Wgat gappened?”

“huh? Oh. ‘what happened.’ well…” Scoots helped Babs up. “I’m not sure. But I’m more worried about Eris.” she looked out to the sea. More thunder rumbled off in the distance. “she’s losing it. I’m not sure why but I think her powers are going out of control.”

Babs cleared her throat and coughed again. “you think that‘s what‘s going on with her?”

“can’t think of anything else.” she sighed as she sat down. “we just need to figure out a way back.”

Babs coughed one last time before looking around. She recognized the area. “wait. I know where we are.” she pieced the surroundings with images in her memory. “we’re just outside Clopdon.”

“Clopdon?”

“yeah, yeah. We used to come here all the time for summer vacay.” Babs got up. “on foot, we’re about 2 days away from Manehatten. But if we get to the train station in time, it’ll be a few hours.”

Scoots nodded. It’s a lot better then sitting around here. “if we can get back, we can have Pinkie or Golden Day sent a letter to Celestia, let her know what’s going on and help Eris.” Babs started to run off. Scoots ran after her. “You know where you’re going?”

“I’ve been here ever since I was a baby. I know Clopdon as well as I know Manehatten.”

Scoots’ hopes Babs was right, for Eris’ sake. She glanced back as she ran, seeing more thunder rumble. “please, be safe Eris.”

Celestia stormed down the stairs, angry as can be at Jax. “Hey!” Jax called out, walking after her. Celestia ignored her and kept on walking. “Hey!” they reached the veranda. “I’m talking to you, Celestia.”

Celestia snapped and used her magic to pin Jax up against the wall. “why did you do that?” she angrily asked the human. “why would you do that!? You had no right to reveal all that!”

“And you had no right to keep something that big a secret from Dis. If you had just told him sooner or bothered to open your eyes, you could’ve avoided all this!”

“Shut up.”

“listen. We all make mistakes when it comes to romance. I did. Req did. Everyone else you know did. We know that feeling.”

“NO YOU DON’T!” Celestia yelled. Tears began to fall from her eyes. “You have no idea how that feels.” her voiced quavered. “You don’t know how it feels to… to be enemies with your best friend… to have those you loved most taken away from you…” Celestia rubbed her eyes but the tears kept falling. Her magic faltered, causing Jax to fall to the floor. Celestia also fell to the floor. “to have your own child ripped away from you… to be all alone for 2000 years…”

Celestia sobbed as tears fell like waterfalls. Jax rubbed her neck and glanced away; she couldn’t bare to look at anyone when they cry. “Celestia… we all make mistakes. We either own up to them or accept them and move on. Yours are still around and can be fixed. You got Luna back after 1000 years.” she patted the princess on the back, who sniffled and looked at her with tear filled eyes. “trust me. You’ll get Cosmos back, you’ll get Erys back. And you’ll get Dis back.”

Celestia sniffled again and wiped her eyes. “y-you think so?”

Jax smiled with confidence. “have we ever let you down?”

She certainly had her there. Not once have they ever let Celestia, or the world, down. In fact, these humans may have been the best thing ever to happen to their world in a long time. “no… no, you haven’t.” Celestia replied, finally being able to smile.

The 2 walked back up to the tome just as everyone was starting down. “Whoa whoa whoa, where are you guys going?” Jax asked.

“back to town.” Adolf said.

“but don’t we need to get the way home first?”

“just got it.” Req said as she was one of the last ones down with Twilight. “I’ll explain it when we get back.”

Twi stopped in mid-step and looked back at the two of them. “where did you two disappear too?”

Jax and Celestia looked at each other for a moment. “Just… out for a walk.”

“oh. Well, hurry up.” she ran on down the steps, leaving both of them behind. Jax started after her when Celestia stopped her.

“thanks… for not telling them.”

“about what, the crying?” Jax laughed with a scoff. “trust me, Tia. You’re not the first ultra-powered ruler to break down and shed a few tears.”

The sand skiff pulled away from the high palace and headed back to the town. On it, they discussed on what to do with Discord.

“Okay. So we know that Discord was in love with Celestia.” Req said. “Maybe, if some residue of his feelings are still in there, we can use it to make him see the error of his ways and let go of his pursuit of revenge.”

“yeah, that’s a good plan and all, but you’re forgetting that Cosmos killed his parents and helped slaughter his species.” Armor said.

“Right. Right. Forgot about that. Well, then Jax can do her Personality Shift on him and we’ll destroy the evil half before it has a chance to go berserk like Chrysalis’.”

“there’s a bit of a problem with that plan.” Celestia interrupted. “Cosmos is no slouch when it comes to fighting. If you use that spell on him while he’s still in that pearl inside Discord, he’ll turn evil too. And I hate to imagine what he would act like if evil.”

“I think I know how to deal with that.” Lloyd said. “we saw that Discord put that pearl thing near his heart, right? And we saw where. And from what we all experienced, if the prison is destroyed, the prisoner is, well, released.”

“I get what you’re getting at.” Bahamut said, chiming in. “if we get lucky and destroy the pearl while it’s inside Discord…”

“then Cosmos will be released easy peasy then Jax can shift Discord and we can get rid of the evil half just like *snaps fingers* that.”

“but remember, Discord’s no slouch when it comes to fighting.” Luna said. “remember, it took me and Tia 900 years to defeat him.”

“so?” Req asked. “I’ve only been fighting for 2 years and I beat Gods and Goddesses more times then you can say ‘Mary Poppins’.”

“there’s still Eris we have to deal with.” Dash interrupted.

“oh.” Req had hoped Dash wouldn’t bring her up. “Right. W-well, we can just Personality Shift her, too.”

“no!” Dash exclaimed. “just… just let me talk to her. Try to get her to break loose out of whatever programming Discord put in her head.”

“Dash… *sigh* okay.”

“that still doesn’t help on how we’re gonna get back.” Garble asked. “and besides that, you still need to pay for my services, plus extra for this unexpected detour into the Afterworld.” everyone groaned in agony when he brought that up. Spike sighed and bonked Garble hard on the head, knocking him out.

“thank you.” everyone said in unison.

“we’re leaving now?” Satoshi asked in surprise as everyone started climbing back onto the ship. Spike and Gilda carried Garble’s unconscious form onto the ship.

“yep. Found the way back. Now start the ship up.” Req ordered.

Satoshi looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “did she just order me around?” he asked. Ash rolled his eyes and pushed him up the ramp.

“Do you have to leave now?” Adolf asked Req, Aura, and Bahamut. “you just got here. We got so much to catch up on.”

“I know. And I don’t want to leave either.” Req said with lament. “but… Adolf, you know that we’re not ready to come here yet.”

“I know, sis. I know. But… I’m gonna miss you.”

Req smiled and hugged her brother. “I’m gonna miss you too, kiddo.”

“And hey, It’s not good-bye forever.” Aura said. “we’ll die someday and rejoin you.”

“but it’s gonna be a long wait.” Adolf sighed.

“you waited this long to see us again. What’s another 80 years?” Bahamut said with a wink.

Adolf sighed as he pinched his eyes. “figures you would say something stupid like that, Bahamut.” the 4 laughed with delight as they said their final goodbyes for the next few decades.

And they weren’t the only ones.

“I can’t believe we have to say goodbye again.” Dash sadly said to her brother and mother. “I still couldn’t believe you guys were dead when it happened.”

“we know Dash, but you know we can’t go back.” Soarin’ said. “we can’t leave. No bodies to go back to.”

“besides…” Shine lovingly covered her daughter with her wing. “you have two important people waiting for you back home.”

Dash nodded with a chuckle. She had Scootaloo and Eris and Shadow waiting for her. And besides, it’s not like this is going to be a eternal goodbye. She knows where to find them.

The Orion flew up into the air and hovered 1000 feet above the town.

“so… how do we get back home?” Applejack asked, looking down from over the railing.

Requiem drew her blade and powered it up. “it’s a simple process that can also be deadly.” she said. “it requires a god or goddess to do it but the pool that allows those departed to see our worlds can be powered up to allow those like us to pass though it and return home.”

“Oh.” everyone said in unison.

“It can work like that?” Edge asked.

“yep.” Req jumped up onto the outer mast. “in a few seconds, Soarin’s gonna ask the pool to focus on Manehatten cause that’s where we need to go.”

Nexus Ultimus glowed bright as Aura remembered something that she had just said. “wait. You said it was dangerous. How is it dangerous?”

Req looked back and painfully smiled. “If you’re a demi-goddess, it takes away some of your life.”

“what?”

A bright green light shone from below. They all looked to see the pool light up and focus on Manehatten.

Begin Song:

Lasky - Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Unofficial Soundtrack
(just like with hunter a couple chapters back. It has sound effects. And again, it helps.)

Req swung her sword to the right. “hope this works.” she held her arm out, spinning her sword around as fast as possible. Energy gathered into the blade in the form of ice crystals. Req silently grunted in pain as it did indeed what she said and took some of her life.

She swung once above her head and shot the ball of ‘ice’ down to the pool.

The ball hit, causing the pool to glow bright. A whirlpool extended out of the pool and extended wide enough for the Orion to pass though.

“holy crap, it worked.” Trixie commented.

Req held her heart in pain as she looked down at the portal. “Celestia. It’s your world. You give the order.”

The princess stared at Req for a moment, a bit surprised that she would ask her, given what she did in the past. She toughened up and nodded. “Satoshi, Take us in! it’s time to take my world back!”

“Roger that.” he pressed a button on his little console, causing the ship to shake a bit.

The Orion quickly entered space mode, with the wings successfully reattached by Satoshi. The engines kicked into gear and the ship blasted off. It pulled up and pulled a u-turn before heading down to the portal.

Everyone in town looked to the sky nervously. Nobody’s ever done this before.

The crazy lady that gave them the directions to the tome melted away, revealing her true for underneath. “Good luck, my darling daughters.” the female Alicorn softly said.

The voice reached both princess’ ears. They looked at each other with concern then over the side. “Mother?”

The ship turned down and shot bow first towards the portal.

“better hope this works!”

The ship spun around and powered up it’s main cannons as it shot right into the portal.

End Song.

Author's Note

yeah yeah yeah. it's rushed. so sue me. i have off days.

and only 3 chapters till the end of this side-story.

Farewell... Squirt...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 21

Farewell… Squirt…

Begin Song:

Hurricane - Ace Combat: Assault Horizon OST

The Orion zoomed at top speed in space mode over the mountains then over the sea. Straight ahead in it’s path was a hurricane, and a powerful one at that. And since they were the only ponies unchanged, they took Golden Day, Diamond, Babs, and Babs’ mother with them.

“WHAT!?!” Dash yelled out, not believing what she heard.

“it’s true. Eris is going… berserk or something.” Scootaloo explained with worry. “I’m not sure why, though. It just happened.”

“how long ago did that happen?”

“I don’t know…. When you guys were killed, I guess.”

“that was 5 days ago.” Req said.

Dash bit her hoof in worry. Please let Eris be okay. “How much longer, Satoshi?”

“Just need to get though that hurricane.” he pressed a button, bringing the wings in. unnatural lighting cracked though the hurricane’s walls. “But something tells me that’s gonna be a problem.”

The ship rolled into the rain wall and slammed right into it.

The ship shook and swung around in the storms winds and rains.

“I’m starting to get motion sickness!” Gourry yelled.

“just hang on!” Satoshi struggled to pull the wheel to the right but the wind was really getting in his way. “there hasn’t been a storm yet that took me out.”

The ship pulled a hard left turn as it was forced to go right by the storm. The engines were at peak capacity, so it gave the ship some boost.

After much hardship, Satoshi was able to direct the ship out of the storm and into the eye of the hurricane.

Orion broke though the storm wall and fell to the sea floor. It was able to pull up in time and fly back up into the air.

“never thought I’d say this…” Dash groaned. She held her mouth as she gagged. “but I got air-sickness…”

“oh my god…” Req gasped. Dash looked up at her and then the direction she was looking. What she saw made her gasp as well.

Right in the center of the hurricane was a creature made entirely out of lightning; head, feet, hands, everything. Thing is… it’s not lightning. It’s pure energy that resembles lightning. And right in the center of it was Eris, who was cowering in the fetal position.

Dash ran to the bow and yelled, “ERIS!”

Eris slowly and painfully opened her tear-soaked eyes to see the ship flying right outside and Dash‘s voice reach her. “D-Dash…” her body glowed bright. She grabbed her head and yelled out as loud as she could.

Energy shot out of the mass and struck against the ship like lightning.

“WHOA!” Halo ducked, avoiding a runaway.

“That was a little closer then I’d like.” Cynder commented.

Dash ran over and continued to look over the side. “Eris… what the hell did Discord do to you?”

“DYAAAAHHHHHH!!!”

Another shot came towards them. Satoshi planned for that one and banked the ship to the right. It just grazed the tip of the wing, leaving a small smolder that won’t do anything.

“this isn’t good.” Trixie gulped.

“She wasn’t doing this last time.” Babs said. “all she did was cause explosions.”

“Explosions!?!”

Inside the mass, Eris was in unbridled pain and every time she would get used to it, it would increase in intensity. Right now, it’s at max level and lordie, I don’t want to see what’s beyond max.

Tears of pain fell from her eyes as her power ransacked her body. “Make it stop… make it stop… make it stop…” she snapped her eyes open as it glowed again.

“MAKE IT STOP!!!” more energy shot out of the mass, sticking at the masts of the ship.

A part of the mast broke loose and fell to the deck. “Geez!” Garble had to jump to get out of the way. “this is a little too intense for my taste.”

Dash hung onto the railing for dear life as Satoshi pulled the ship though some sick maneuvers. Despite all that was going on, she could hear Eris crying, begging for it to stop. “Eris…” and as it wasn’t bad enough, her dicease started to act up, making her hold her chest in pain. “D-damn… not now…” she grunted in pain.

Another bolt hit the ship, sending it into a barrel-roll. That roll sent Dash hurdling out of the ship and into the air.

“DASH!” Scootaloo yelled out.

Dash was in too much pain to do anything except fall. Scoots whined in fear and looked back at her wings. She was sure as hell not going to let her die now. Not again. She ran to and jumped over the edge.

“SCOOTS!” the CMC yelled.

Mandi ran over to jumped after her but another bolt stuck the ship, sending it into a tail-spin.

“Dash!”

Scoots fell as fast as he could and caught up to Dash. Dash was able to open one eye in pain.

“S-Squirt?”

Both hit against the mass and instantly disintegrated.

“Scootaloo!” Manni cried out.

“Dash!” the Mane 6 yelled.

“AHHHHHHHHHH!” another bolt struck out and hit the ship in the hull, breaking though it and striking against the storm wall.

“Worry about ourselves for now!” Satoshi yelled out. “if they’re still alive, they’re on their own.

End Song.

Dash and Scootaloo yelled as they fell though the bowels of the mass and to… somewhere.

“You should’ve have come, Scoots!” Dash yelled.

“And leave you alone in pain? Not a chance. You’re my mother and my sister and that’s reason for me to do this.”

For some reason, Dash felt glad she did that. “Scoots…”

“da… dy…. DAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!”

The two heard Eris yelled from somewhere but they couldn’t find her. “ERIS!” they both yelled out.

“Ah! Ah. *sobbing* please… make it stop… make it go away…. Please… I don‘t want this anymore…”

“Eris!” Dash called out.

The two reached the bottom and landed on some invisible floor.

Begin Song:

Oh, and One More Thing - ParaNorman Soundtrack

“AAAHHH!!!”

A bolt shot out and struck both Scootaloo and Dash in the chests, sending them into some invisible wall. The bolt retracted and hovered above a energy ball with several others as it surrounded Eris.

Dash fell to the floor and caught Scoots as she fell. More bolts came and hit them, burning them on their torsos. The bolts continued to strike them even after they were down, adding more burns. One of the bolts picked Dash up and pinned her to the wall for a moment before slamming her back to the floor.

Another of the bolts tangled around Scootaloo’s neck and attempted to choke her.

Eris held her head as she begged for the pain to stop. “Make it stop… make it stop… make it stop… make it stop… make it stop…”

Outside, things weren’t going to well for the ship as more bolts struck against it, causing some areas to catch on fire.

Dash grunted in pain as she struggled to get up. She noticed Scootaloo getting choked and ran over to her. She slammed her hooves down into the bolt, causing it do disperse. “You okay, Scootaloo?”

“no… I’m not…” she rolled over and held her stomach in pain. “I think that messed me up.”

“AAAAHHH! DRAHHHHH!!!!!” more sobbing followed after that little yelling display, getting Dash’s attention. The energy sphere shone brighter as Eris was put into more pain. “why… won’t it end…?” she tearfully asked herself.

Dash got up and limped over. “Eris!”

Eris opened her wet eyes and looked over to her. “m-mommy…” Dash gasped when Eris called her that. “Help… me… please, end this…”

“H-how?”

Another attack hit Eris, causing her to yell again. When it passed, Eris coughed and was able to glance up at her.

“mommy… please… kill me…”

“Kill you!?!” Dash yelled out. she couldn’t do that. She was still the same baby Draconequus she raised. “I… I can’t do that!”

“mommy, please! Please! Kill me. Please.” another attack hit, causing her to yell again.

A dumbstruck Dash looked to the floor in horror. She can’t do this. There was no way she’s going to kill her.

Outside, things weren’t going so well. More bolts struck against the ship, putting more sections on fire. The force from a explosion sent Lloyd hitting against the railing. It forced one of his blades to fall out and fall into the mass.

Eris yelled again as a dumbstruck Dash continued to look at the ground, this time with tears falling. She doesn’t like seeing Eris like this but she can’t kill her own daughter. She just can’t.

“Eris… Eris, I can’t. because I know you can fight this! You can fight this, Eris. Just try.”

“I can’t!” she yelled.

“Yes you can. You’re stronger then this, Eris. I know you are. And not just me, all your friends think so, too.”

“that’s right…” Scootaloo groaned as she got up. Her legs trembled beneath her but she kept her balance. “you can overcome this, Eris. You just have to try.

“I… I can’t…” Eris closed her eyes as more tears fell.

“yes you can, Eris!”

“I… can’t!” another attack hit her, and this time, it was continuous. “AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! AH! AH! AH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The sphere glowed bright as the powers of chaos began to over take her.

“ERIS!” Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash yelled out.

A glint from above got Scoot’s attention. She looked up to see Lloyd’s sword fall towards them. “oh no…” Scoots gasped.

The sword fell though the sphere and…

End Song.

Outside, the mass groaned and collapsed in on itself. A moment later, it exploded into a blue sphere.

Begin Song:

Green and Blue from Halo 4 - Orchestra Rearrangement by Youtuber Dummeh

SHLUNK!

Eris’s eyes lost all color.

The sphere disintegrated, revealing that Lloyd’s sword fell though and stuck Eris though the chest.

“ERIS!” Dash and Scoots ran up to her as the sword disintegrated and instantly returned in Lloyd’s scabbard before he knew it was gone. Eris fell backwards to the floor but was caught by Dash.

“Eris! ERIS!” Eris’ reply was rasping breathing as her wound began to seep blood. Little sparkles began to float out of her body as it began to fade away. “no. no no no no no. no, Eris. You can’t leave me! Please no!” Dash broke down and sobbed into Eris’ shoulder.

The Draconequus’ left hand twitched and slowly worked up to Dash’s shoulder. “I… it’s okay, mommy.” Dash tearfully opened her eyes and wiped them. In her arms was Eris back when she was just a baby but she still had her grown-up voice. “we… both knew this was going to end this way….”

“no. no no no. Eris, you are not going to leave me! Not like this!” Dash sniffled as she wiped her eyes. “I need you, Eris…”

Eris slowly shook her head ‘no’. “no… you didn’t need me.”

“What?”

“you just… needed me… to fill a hole that was left in your heart. But… you don’t need me for that anymore…” she looked to a tearful Scootaloo. “you have Scoots… and Shadow… and everyone else… so please… don’t be sad.”

“Eris… how can I? you were my daughter.” Dash hugged her, never wanting to let go. “I love you so much…”

Eris slowly and weakly returned the hug. “I love you too… mommy…”

Dash broke down and continued to cry. She didn’t want her to go.

Eris broke the hug and touched a finger to Dash’s chest. Her chest glowed for a moment, scaring Dash. The glow then expanded out though her body, then back into her chest, forming a sphere no bigger then a marble. “what…?” the marble floated out and disintegrated into the air. “what did you…?”

“A little… going away present.” Eris weakly said. “you’re… no longer sick… mommy… I took your disease… and got rid of it.”

“Eris…”

Most of her body had disintegrated into sparkles, leading only the upper torso and head. Eris hugged Dash again. “I’m… never going to forget you, mom.”

More tears fell down Dash’s faces. She hugged Eris tightly. “I’m never going to forget you too, squirt.”

Eris lightly smiled and closed her eyes.

The rest of her body disintegrated into sparkles and faded away, leaving Dash hugging air. Scootaloo broke down and cried her heart out. Dash fell to her knees. Her heart aches. She just saw her daughter die right in front of her and she wasn’t able to do anything about it.

Suddenly, their surroundings began to fall apart. Dash and Scoots looked at each other for a moment before falling into darkness.

3:25. End Song.

Dash and Scootaloo woke up to find themselves on a tropical volcanic island’s beach.

“but… Eris destroyed this place…” Scoots muttered.

Dash sadly looked away and spotted a lily lying in the sand. It was the same one from the field of flowers they both found. Dash gently grabbed it and held close to her heart. “Oh, Eris…”

Begin Song:

Alan Wake - Orchestra Rearrangement by Youtuber Dummeh

The sounds of Orion’s propellers filled the air as the ship touched down in the water.

Both Dash and Scootaloo slowly walked onto the ship deck where they were hugged by mutant Pinkie.

“We were so worried.” Celestia sighed. “We thought you were dead.”

Dead… that was a word Dash didn’t want to hear for a long while. She broke down into tears and ran into the captains cabin.

“Dash!” Shadow ran after her, leaving everyone worried and confused.

“what happened?” Trixie worriedly asked.

Scootaloo didn’t want to say anything. She just wanted this to be over with. But it’s good that they hear it now rather then later.

“Eris… she… she’s dead…”

That news shocked everyone to their core. “no. no, that can’t be true.” Cadence pleaded. “she was just a kid! No way she can be dead!”

Tears formed in Scootaloo’s eyes. “I don’t’ want to believe it either, But she’s dead!” she fell to her knees and continued crying. “Eris is dead…”

Not long after, everyone who knew Eris began to shed a few tears, but not on the level of intensity that Dash and Scoots were showing. Those who didn’t know her just kept silent.

Applebloom wiped her eyes when she noticed something in the sky. “Look.” she said in awe. Everyone wiped their eyes and looked up and awed as well.

A small beam of light shot into the sky. It spread out, causing the hurricane to disintegrate.

Sparkles floated down from the sky as gracefully as possible. Req reached out and caught one with her hand. Babs commented earlier that the island that suddenly reappeared was destroyed by Eris. Maybe, this was…

“a parting gift from Eris…” she muttered. “all of the mean things she did are now being undone.” she closed her hand on the sparkle.

Down in the cargo hold, Dash cried her heart out. Shadow wanted to comfort her but knows that she needs to be alone right now. He turned and slowly walked away, leaving Dash to her tears.

1:34. End Song.

Discord felt something bad happen but he didn’t care. “So… Eris is finally dead. Hmhmhm. Good.” he walked over to a tube and pressed a button, turning it on. “and now they’ll be coming after me.” a sphere appeared inside the tube. “but I’ll have a perfect weapon waiting for them.”

The effects of Chaos Eris spread on the world reversed and undone. Cololulu returned to where it was, the effects from the fights with the Reaper were reversed, and other damages were now long gone.

The Orion’s creaking and listing on the water was the only thing that could be heard. Nobody had anything to say. Even Pinkie and Marble, the two most hyper characters on the boat, were silent.

The cabin doors creaked open and Dash slowly and sadly walked out. “Dash…” Shadow slowly walked over and gently hugged her. “are you okay?”

“yeah…” she said with a croaked voice. “yeah. I… ran out of tears.”

“Dash… I can sympathize with what your feeling.” Req said. “when Adolf died, I felt like shit and I wanted to cry all day.”

Dash nodded. “me too.” she took a shivering breath and sighed. “I just can’t believe that Eris is gone.”

“nobody can.” Shadow said.

Dash felt some more tears coming on but she kept them back. She took a deep breath and gathered herself. “But… I know that crying won’t bring her back. And killing myself won’t bring her back.” She unfurled her wings and flew up besides the wheel. “but I can do one thing. And that’s get rid of the monster that killed her.”

Begin Song:

Horizon - Ace Combat: Assault Horizon OST

Yeah. Yeah. They can’t bring Eris back from the dead, but they sure as hell can sent Discord to the land of the dead. And it’s a good opportunity because he’ll be weakened by the loss of his Scion and everyone will use their grief to their opportunity.

“So where to?” Satoshi asked as he walked up to the wheel.

Celestia had a good feeling on where he might go. “head to the Everfree Forest. he’s likely back where this all began.”

Satoshi nodded and turned on the ship. “Are you sure?” Jax asked.

Celestia looked at her with confidence, giving the human her answer. “without a doubt.”

Req drew her blade and pointed it to the horizon. “then let’s end this once and for all. Satoshi, head for the Everfree Forest.”

“already am.”

` the ship rose out of the water, it’s engine roaring like a monster. The wings extended out and caught air as the propellers turned on.

“Next stop, final battle town!” Satoshi announced as he turned the wheel.

The Orion turned to the west and headed off to carry everyone to their final battle with a vengeful and now sadistic spirit. The rear propellers retracted into the ship and large starlight engines opened up and took their place. They flared up, giving the ship extra boost.

Dash walked to the nearest railing and looked back to the island. She then looked down at the lily she still had in her hooves. She gently smiled as she rubbed some sand off of it.

She placed the lily in her hair. It was a good fit.

She looked back to the island and calmed herself down with a deep breath. “Goodbye… Eris…”

She walked away from the railing as the sheild went into place, protecting everyone from the elements. Especially with what Satoshi’s about to do next.

“Here we go!” he yelled out as he pressed a big red button.

The engines flared and went into full throttle, sending the ship blasting off like a rocket.

Back home, Discord chuckled as the thing inside the tube began to take form. The ground shook and split open beneath him as a spire lunged out and into the air.

1:25. End Song.

Author's Note

*sniff* E-excuse me. i un... i have something in my eyes. *sniff*

so... final battle time? and they have a bone to pick with Discord now.

Let Chaos Begin...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 22

Let Chaos Begin…

The last of the spires protruded out of the ground, finishing Discord’s new castle. He set it up back where this all began; Celestia’s and Luna’s ruined hometown located in the Everfree Forest. And it’s not like it wasn’t lost forever; Halo, Twilight, and the CMC found it while investigating why it became what it was.

Discord stood on top of his new palace with that tube he was tinkering with and evilly laughed. The Pentagram in his forehead glowed yellow for a moment.

“Hahahaha! Now when Celestia meets her end, this world will truly once again belong to the Draconequus!”

“(n-no!)” a voice from inside yelled. “(I’m not gonna let you do this!)”

Discord felt a attack come from inside his body. And it wasn’t that Cosmos jerk. He was still locked away. “Grr… figures you’d try to fight this.”

“DISCORD!!!”

Discord anticipated that voice and looked out to the horizon.

Begin Song:

Decisive Battle - Ace Combat: Assault Horizon OST

Far off in the distance, fast approaching his new palace, was the Orion. It flew as fast as it never flew before, exceeding it’s speed limit exponentially. Everyone onboard was ready to take this bastard out, for the world… and for Eris. Whatever the cost, he was going to pay.

The ship zoomed over the trees and shot straight for the palace.

Discord laughed at their futility. “They never learn.” he snapped his fingers and watched the show.

Towers around the palace lit up and small orbs of light lit up on the tips.

Laser bolts shot out of the orbs and towards the ship.

“Nice Try.” Satoshi snickered as he pressed the big button.

The main cannons powered up and fired. The blast cut though the lasers fired and hit one of the towers. It didn’t blow up but instead caused it to spark. The tower suddenly blew up on it’s own, passing the spark onto the other towers which also exploded.

“huh. Can’t believe that worked.”

The Orion rolled to the right, avoiding a attack from Discord himself. The engines flared and the ship shot up into the clouds.

Discord snarled and used his powers to send the clouds away. It didn’t matter to them as the Orion came falling it, firing it’s cannons. The shots struck against the palace, destroying a large amount of the structure.

The ship banked left and turned around the palace before heading back out a ways.

“ICE BITE!”

Jax shot a icicle shaped like a sharks mouth towards the Draconequus but he just deflected it like a badass. The attack shattered into bits and melted.

The Ship slowed down and turned around to face the palace. Though they were at least 5 miles apart, Discord and Celestia stared each other down.

Discord laughed at their futility once again and snapped his fingers again. “game over, Celestia.”

The main tower to his palace opened up, revealing a large cannon inside it. It fired at the ship. Orion strafed to the right, avoiding the blast, and fired it’s main cannons at the enemy cannon. It hit, causing it to explode.

Discord covered himself from the blast and snarled.

End Song.

Begin Song:

Boss Fight 2 - Kid Icarus: Uprising OST

The Orion’s engines flared and it flew to the tower.

Discord scoffed and snapped his fingers. Lightning shot down form a cloudless sky towards the ship but they planned for that.

“WINDY SHIELD!”

“BARRIER!”

Both the earth and Slayers members of the group cast protection spells and sent the lighting back to sender. It struck Discord, electrocuting him but he seemed to enjoy that.

“Hahaha! Is that the best you can do?!” the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony called out. He snapped his fingers again.

A large sticky tongue shot from below and hit the Orion’s bottom hull. Jax looked to see a giant frog holding the ship in place. “Oh, no you don’t.” she grabbed one of her chakrams and engulfed it in electricity. She pointed it to the tongue. Lightning shot out of her chakram and struck the tongue, sparking down it and electrocuting the amphibian. The frog disintegrated into darkness, letting the ship go loose.

The Ship turned to the right so that it’s left could attack when needed. Grappling hooks shot out of two of the cannons and hit the palace’s tower. The humans jumped on and skidded on down it.

“oh no you don’t.” Discord snared, snapping his fingers yet again.

A dark portal opened up in their path and fireballs shot out towards them. Everyone pulled their weapons and cut right though them with ease.

Discord summoned up a blade and had it cut though the rope. The humans were close enough to where they can jump off and landed on top of the palace. The ponies and dragons followed suit and landed right them.

Those not willing to fight or too injured or too lazy to do so stayed back to keep an eye on the ship.

“Good luck, guys.” Sora pleaded, wishing her bum leg was healed already.

Discord appeared in front of the group along with a Cerberus. The 3-headed dog snarled and charged at them. Gourry drew his Sword of Light, spun it around a few times, then cut right though the doggie, causing it to disintegrate into darkness.

End Song.

Discord chuckled as he looked down at the group.

“well… this was to be expected. Me, Celestia, Luna…” Discord reached into his body and pulled out the black pearl. “…And Cosmos, all together again after 2000 years. Once the best of friends, now the worst of enemies. And all because some clueless princess failed to open her eyes to see who she kissed. Oh, bravo Celestia. Bravo. Really smart.”

Celestia grunted in pain when he said that. “Dis… you don’t have to do this, please. Think about what your doing! You’re sending the world into chaos all for some kiss.”

Discord scoffed. “not just because of that.” he snapped his fingers, summoning up the tube he was with. “so the world can return to it’s natural state.”

“Natural state?”

“yes. As you recall, our parents went to war for complete control over the world and last I checked, the dreadful Alicorns won. I plan to reverse that and bring back the Draconequus! After that, the world will return to what it was supposed to be!” the tube glowed, making him smirk. “and I won’t be doing it alone.”

He hovered over to the side, revealing a Alicorn within. Celestia saw it and gasped. “no…”

Discord evilly chuckled. “Recognize her, Celestia?”

“E…Erys…”

“that’s right. Erys is to be the vanguard in my war to reclaim the world for the Draconequus.” he sat back on a invisible couch. “but… I am surprised you weren’t able figure this out in the first place.”

“figure what out?”

Discord chuckled and snapped his fingers. The tube glowed and copied into 2. One contained the original Alicorn and in the other… was the familiar form of a recently deceased Draconequus.

Dash gasped when she saw who it was. “Eris!” a sudden realization hit both her and Celestia.

Discord laughed evilly. “that’s right. The baby Draconequus Dash had been raising all this time was, in fact, your daughter, Celestia. And I’m surprised you weren’t able to figure it out. They had the same eyes and all. But… you already knew that, didn’t you Dash?”

Celestia turned to Dash. “what’s he talking about?”

Dash opened her mouth but nothing came out the first time. “I… I had a suspicion back at the Tome that Erys did come to our time, just in a different form because Dis said she had plans for her. I had the feeling but I… I didn’t want to believe it.”

A dumbstruck Celestia looked away. Why would she keep this a secret? “oh, how sad, Celestia. Even the Element of Loyalty has some secrets and the biggest one was taking your daughter.” Celestia snarled at Discord and powered up her magic. “A-bab-bab.” he snapped his fingers and summoned up a trigger. “one wrong stop and both Eris’s go boom. You think I’m gonna play fair? As if.”

the Pentagram on his forehead glowed, getting Celestia’s attention. “Dis, stop this. This is not you and you know it.”

Discord scoffed. He bounced the pearl up and down in his hand. “Dis… died a long time ago.” he raised the pearl high, ready to smash it against the ground.

“NO!”

Suddenly, a wolf jumped up and bit Discord’s trigger hand. “Ugh!” he tried to swing the wolf off but it bit tight. Fenrir bit in deeper, drawing blood and forcing Discord to let go of the trigger. Cobalt swooped in and clutched the pearl out of Discord’s hand.

“Nice going, you two!” Ash called out.

Discord grabbed Fenrir by the neck and tossed him to the ground. The wolf yelped in pain as it skidded to the group. Cobalt flew in and dropped the pearl into Ash’s hand.

“Good to see you two aren’t going to be lazy during our entire stay.” he said.

Begin Song:

Zanza - Xenoblade Chronicles OST

“now… how do we release him?” Ash asked, holding the pearl up to the sun.

Discord laughed. He may have lost the trigger and the pearl but they still can’t do anything. “You can’t. the prison can only be opened by me. And I’m sure as hell not going to let that bastard Cosmos loose.”

Jax angrily looked to him and summoned her chakrams into her hands. “Then we’re gonna make you open it.”

Discord laughed and hovered in mid-air. He took up a battle pose similar to a certain insane clown. “Try me.”

Jax chuckled as one of her chakrams coursed with energy. “I was hoping you’d say that.” everyone drew their weapons and pointed them to the Draconequus.

Discord lightly chuckled. They were really gonna fight him. Well, better then being bored. He snapped his fingers as always.

The ground beneath them shook and split open, causing a rock spire to come out beneath them. They all tumbled over the side of the spire as it continued to grow.

“Is that all?” Spyro commented. He dug his tail into the spire and shattered it like glass. “Power of earth can really be useful.”

Lina landed on the flattop of what was left of the spire and fired a powered up fireball at Discord. The fire bounced off a invisible barrier and shot back to her.

Emil cut thought the fireball and made Lina jump off. He jumped after her as another fireball cut right though the spire’s remnants, destroying it completely.

Req flew at Discord from below and swung her sword at him. Discord blocked it with his fingers, elbowed Req in the neck, then kicked her right into the tower.

Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Chrysalis combined their magic and sent a powerful spell to Discord. It hit him and continued to go right by him right into the atmosphere. The Spirit struggled against the attack. The Pentagram on his forehead glowed again and Discord countered with a powerful attacked comprised entirely of chaos. It struck the royalty, sending them over the edge in pain.

“You can not kill me!” Discord bellowed. “I am chaos incarnate.” his barrier stopped an attack from Zel and Emil and sent them flying. “there is no possible outcome where you can defeat me.” dark clouds began to swirl under him then up to grab him. Discord welcomed it and let it wash over him.

“This… may be a problem.” Trixie gulped.

From a distance, Tsylatac, Orochi, and that girl watched the fight from a distance.

“I got 20 credits on Discord.” Ventus said.

“15 says that one of them dies.” Lucis said.

“I’ll get in on that.” the girl added.

Tsylatac kept quiet and just watched. “you haven’t been defeated before and you won’t now, will you… Requiem?”

Discord laughed into the air as the darkness took him over. “Darkness and Chaos combined. A potent combination that can rip the very fabric of the universe in two.” the Pentagrams glow reached a high point as darkness completely took him over. The wind picked up more, making the ship crash against the tower.

“this world shall be mine once more, and the universe will soon follow!”

End Song.

Darkness shot out from beneath him, making everyone cover their faces.

Begin Song:

Ibitsu (TV size version) - Tales of Symphonia OVA soundtrack.

0:00.
Epic freeze frame of the darkness shooting out of Discord and covered the group.

To be Continued…

0:20.

The battle for Eqrestria’s fate begins.

Will it return to chaos or continue on as it did countless times before.

And what will become of Eris and Erys?

Find out in the final chapter of Discordian Troubles.

0:50.

Anime style stills of past major events are shown.

Discord being released from his stone prison and taking baby Eris with him.

The Orion taking flight to give pursuit.

The girl’s little rampage though Manehatten with the sword in hand.

The Reaper and the Orion fighting over Manehatten, ending with Orion being dragged into a black hole.

The group finding themselves in the Afterworld and reunited with friends and family long dead.

The epic rematch with Requiem’s twisted brother Catalyst with darkness emanating out of Requiem.

Learning the history of Celestia and Discord though the Tome.

The Orion flying out of the Black Hole and back into battle.

Eris dying and fading away in a tearful Rainbow Dash’s arms.

The Orion flying right towards the palace for a final confrontation with Discord himself.

1:35. End Song.

Discordian Troubles

Begin Song:

Transforming into a Monster - Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike OST

From the reaches of space, one can clearly see that Equestria was f**ked up. Not just the country, but the whole entire planet. And it was only getting worse.

In a spot, black clouds formed in the sky, covering a large patch of green.

Dark clouds shot out from underneath Discord, who was laughing up a storm. The clouds washed over everyone and the ship was forced away by the shockwave.

*cut to black*

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Discordian Troubles

Requiem cut though the darkness to see Discord hover up into the air.

*cut to black*

Final Chapter

The tubes holding both Alicorn Erys and Draconequus Eris disappeared in flashes of white and reappeared in orbit around the planet.

Discord laughed as he felt the power of darkness flow though him. “this power… Hahaha. He was right. The power of darkness is truly amazing! It feels so right and it feels so wonderful! Hahahaha!”

“He?” Jax muttered. “he who?” she asked Amelia. she just shrugged.

The dark clouds swirled around until it shrunk to where it resembled a snakes body. The only thing that remained of Discord was his upper body in place of the head.

“HAHAHAHA! The world will once again belong to the Draconequus! And you will be naught but a distant memory!”

Dark tendrils shot out of the cloud and slammed into Spike and Chrysalis.

“Spiky-Wikey!” Rarity exclaimed. A tendril shot to her but Spyro got to her in time before they hit.

“Hahahaha! Darkness & Chaos. Chaos & Darkness. Such a combination! Together, there is nothing that can stop such unbridled power. I will have to thank him once this is over!” Dash flew up to hit him from behind but was struck by a tendril. “And once this is over, I plan to take a more grown-up Eris as my bride.”

That plan made Dash furious. “There is no way you’re gonna touch Eris!”

Suddenly, her Element of Harmony appeared and blasted the tendril away.

The other Elements of Harmony suddenly appeared on their respective owners, even Mutant Pinkie’s.

Discord reacted and retreated back a bit. The Mane 6 looked at each other and smirked. “Game over, Discord!”

“haha. It’s only over when I say it is, Twilight Sparkle.” Discord’s eyes glowed yellow, same with the Pentagram on his forehead. “And it is far from over!” Darkness shot out of the clouds and struck everyone like a locomotive.

*cut to black*

Discordian Troubles

1:55. End Song.

Begin Song:

Chaos Vortex - Kid Icarus: Uprising OST

0:00.

The dark tendrils shot though the air like bullets out of a gun or cannonballs out of, well, cannons.

“Wind Blade!”

True to it’s name, blades made entirely out of wind shot out of Jax’s chakrams and cut though the tendrils but there were so many.

“Well… least it’s not that monster form of Catalyst’s.” Aura commented, running along the side of the tower.

Emil agreed with him as he cut though a tendril. They fought two; Chrysalis’ and Catalysts, and the earth members of the gang went up against another version long before they all showed up.

The cannons from the Orion fired automatically at the encroaching Darkness. Her leg may be out but Sora was still capable of using her bow and arrows. She took aim and fired bomb arrows into it. They penetrated and exploded.

Discord slithered on up the tower to his palace, laughing up a storm.

Satoshi, his gray brick thing now transformed into a Scythe, ran up the side of the tower and up after him. He jumped off and swung his scythe at Discord. He just retreated back and sent a tendril of darkness to slam him though the tower and out the other side.

Fenrir ran along side the tower’s rim as Cobalt flew alongside him. Both of them seemed to glow a bit.

Discord snarled as he slammed a tendril into Lloyd when a roar reach his ears. He looked to see a Chimera jumped at him and tried to bite his head off. Discord stopped him and shot him back into the palace.

“You never told us that Fenrir and Cobalt can merge into a Chimera.” Fox panted as he and Ash pulled out their guns.

“Didn’t I?” he asked as he cocked his pistols. He spun them around and fired at Discord. The shots bounced off a invisible barrier but it got Discord’s attention. 2 Tendrils shot out and 2 tendrils hit them both.

Spyro and Bahamut rammed into Discord from behind, making him stagger a moment or two. he grabbed them both and launched them into the tower.

Magic artillery from Luna and Trixie struck against the dark body, causing some damage though a roar it itself made. Discord snarled and got angry. He snapped his fingers, summoning up a replacement Nightmare Moon. Luna gasped in fear and went wide-eyed. “not again.”

Nightmare Moon roared instead of talked. It powered up a magic attack with it’s horn and shot it towards the two. It hit, causing a big explosion.

“Luna!”

“Trixie!”

Discord evilly chuckled. At least one nuisance was long gone.

2:45.

The darkness that hit the two swirled around like a galaxy before being burst open. Luna and Trixie breath a sigh of relief, glad they weren’t hurt, as something shiny and bright flew out of it and straight for Discord.

Now in full Goddess mode, Requiem is gonna give this asshole the pounding he deserves. ……. That sounded a little wrong, didn’t it?

Nightmare Moon roared and shot towards Req like a shrieking missile. Req flapped her wings and streaked though the air, Nightmare Moon in hot pursuit.

The Unicorns and Alicorns fired at Nightmare Moon but both her and Req were moving too fast to get a clear shot.

The cannons on the Orion tracked Nightmare Moon and fired. It’s shots hit the boogey-mare but it didn’t effect her. She continued after Req with blazing speed.

“Don’t you ever give up!?” Req yelled back at her. That’s when she got an idea. “Hehehe. That could work.”

Req stopped in mid air and retracted her wings. Nightmare Moon was about to nab her when Req suddenly fell into free-fall. she quickly summoned her wings and flew underneath the shadow serpent.

“What?” Discord growled. Nightmare Moon shot for the body, which Req was planning for.

The goddess burst though the other side and sank her blade right into Nightmare Moon’s chest. They flew on up into air. Nightmare Moon tried to bite Req but she binded her mouth shut.

Req spun around like a ballerina and swung her blade, sending Nightmare Moon falling to Discord.

Nexus Ultimus glowed as Req spun it around in her hands. “Take this…” she swung it down and pointed it at Nightmare Moon. “Judgment Bind!”

A beam of light shot out of the blade and struck Nightmare Moon. She roared as she was sent into Discord. Nightmare exploded, making Discord lose his focus over his darkness & chaos and fall to the ground below.

4:17. End Song.

Req landed and retracted her wings and panted. “Whoever put that Pentagram on his forehead… really knew what he was doing.” she put her blade away and panted some more as she walked back over. “this guy is a hassle.”

“it sounded like you said Judgment Bind.” Lina commented.

“I did. I only used once before. Takes a lot out of me but it’s pretty effective with distracting some tougher enemies. We should have ten minutes before he attacks us again.”

Ash reached back into his pocket and pulled out the black pearl. “which should be enough time with how to open this thing. We could use the extra oomph.”

“Okay. So… anybody got any ideas?” Cynder asked.

They all thought but they couldn’t come up with anything. Celestia couldn’t think of anything either. At least, until she looked at Riku’s weapon. “I never noticed this before but is there a reason why that sword is shaped like a key?”

“?” Riku glanced down at his Keyblade and raised it. “yeah. It can open any lock, such as doorways to the hearts of any world.”

“Any lock?” that gave Celestia an idea. “think it can open this?” she gestured to the pearl.

“hmm… maybe. Won’t really know until I give it a try.”

Riku stood at one of the palace’s edge with the Elements of Harmony. As Riku was from a foreign world, he was going to need some help when using his Keyblades power.

“let’s hope this works.” Riku muttered to the Mane 6. They nodded to him and he nodded back. He pointed his Keyblade at the pearl, which glowed and had a keyhole suddenly appear on it’s surface. The Elements of Harmony glowed and gave power to the weapon.

A beam of light shot out of the Keyblade and hit the keyhole. The sound of a door unlocking caught most of their attentions. The pearl glowed bright, bright enough to force everyone to cover their eyes. The sounds of glass shattering littered their ears for a moment.

A few minutes later, the glow stopped and everyone was able to open their eyes.

In place of the pearl, which had shattered and dissolved into a million pieces, was the unconscious form of one black Alicorn. “Cosmos!” Celestia exclaimed. She ran over to him. “Cosmos! Cosmos!”

Cosmos grunted as he woke up from what felt like a long, long nap. He opened his eyes to see a tearful but delighted Celestia right over him.

“C-Celestia…?” he hoarsely asked. “you look… different.”

Celestia smiled wide with a gasp and hugged him. “It’s you. It’s really you!” she cried once but with happy tears.

“it worked.” Riku cheered. Cosmos looked to see a human high five a mutant pony and 5 others he didn’t recognize. He looked around and saw others he didn’t recognize.

“Un… Celestia? Who are these people? And why does Luna look older?”

Celestia gave a gasping chuckle. “it’s a long story. It’s just great to have you back.”

Begin Song:

Truth in Lies - Wild Arms XF Theme.

0:00.

A flash of light appeared beside Riku and the Mane 6. “Dammit! I was too late.”

“Dis!!” Cosmos exclaimed in anger. Discord snarled as the Pentagram on his forehead glowed. Cosmos got up, only to collapse again.

Req’s blade came down in front him, scaring him. “relax.” she said with a wink. “just leave this to us professionals.” she walked out a ways and pointed her blade to Discord. “You… you caused all this devastation… all this heartbreak… all because of a miss-placed kiss.”

The rest of the humans got their weapons. The Mane 6 and the Dragons also got ready for a rumble.

“there is a word for someone like you. It’s called a monster.”

Discord scoffed at her comment.

“be ready, Discord…” she swung her blade and took her battle stance. “for this is the day your reign of tyranny ends!”

She and the rest of the humans charged at him.

0:36.

Celestia helped Cosmos up. He watched the fight in confusion, wondering where the humans had come from. “Un… Celestia. Just who are these people?”

Celestia looked at him and smiled. “friends of ours. Very powerful friends that, without their help, the world would’ve fallen many times before.”

“Powerful? How powerful?”

“Very powerful.” Cadence commented as she helped Celestia.

“another Alicorn? Don’t remember seeing you before.”

Celestia rolled her eyes. “we’ll explain later, now come on.” they proceeded to take him to the Orion, which had docked with the tower a few moments ago.

Req yelled as she swung her blade down at Discord. He dodged it and struck her with a blast of chaos.

Emil slid in between Discord’s legs and kicked him in the back. The spirit grabbed Emil’s foot and swung him right into the tower.

Ash took aim and fired non-stop at the spirit. Discord quickly spun around to avoid the Mana Bolts. Discord appeared behind Ash and karate chopped him in the neck.

A arrow hit him in the shoulder. Sora drew another one and fired again. Discord caught that one and snapped it in two.

Several magic whips grabbed Discord’s legs and tripped him up. Twilight and Rarity pulled their whips, Discord along with it, and slammed him into the tower himself.

Discord shook his head and snarled. He snapped his fingers, causing the base of the tower to explode.

1:51.

The explosions spread up on the tower, eventually reaching the top. The tower crumbled and fell apart, the remnants falling to them.

The Orion’s cannons fired at the rubble as the Alicorns got Cosmos on board.

“Ugh…” Garble bit his finger, wondering how to work the controls. “How does that Satoshi guy even work this thing?”

With her eyes half-closed, Gilda walked up, grabbed the wheel, and spun it.

The Orion moved back to a safe distance as it’s cannons continued to destroy the rubble.

Satoshi jumped thought the rubble and swung his scythe at Discord. It connected with the spirits neck. Satoshi spun around and sent Discord flying down into his palace.

Spyro, Cynder, and Bahamut fired blasts of fire down into the hole Discord made. All 3 blasts went in, causing a big explosion. Discord reappeared behind the three, grabbed their horns, spun around, and sent them down into the explosion they created.

Riku, Gourry, and Zel fell from above and stabbed Discord in the back. He roared in pain as he snapped his fingers. A pair of boxing gloves appeared and knocked both of them off his back.

“Fireball!” Lina, Aura, and Amelia sent fireballs at Discord but they just bounced off. Fox fired up at Discord along with Ash but, like before, they all bounced off. Discord just shrugged them off with a invisible hand like a hand to lint.

“This… is starting to get annoying…” Aura panted.

“you think?” Bahamut moaned.

Discord laughed as the Pentagram glowed even brighter.

Jax grabbed her chakrams. “that’s it. Time for Plan B.”

3:13.

“Plan B?” Applejack asked as a glyph appeared beneath Jax. “What’s Plan B?”

“Just hold him down like we did with Chrysalis while I take him out!” Jax closed her eyes and concentrated on her spell.

Dash sighed as she lowered her head. “can’t she say anything?” she asked. Rarity and Twi just shrugged.

Discord laughed as he shot chaotic fireball after chaotic fireball at the group. “This world is mine and will always belong to the Draconequus, now and forever more!”

A magic whip shot out of Celestia’s horn and wrapped around Discord’s neck. Magic whips shot out of the other Unicorns and Alicorns, holding Discord in place. “What is this?”

“A way to make you come back to your senses, Dis!” Celestia yelled. “I’m sorry it came to this, Dis. But you left us with no choice!”

“what?”

The glow from the glyph, caught Discord’s attention.

3:43.

The glyph gained power as Jax’s spell finally began to cast.

“Oh Powers of the Infinite Mind that we can only Dream of grasping…”

Discord struggled to get loose. Req, Lina, Amelia, Zel, and Riku added their own magic into the mix, holding the bastard in place.

“Let us break the Bonds of Reality and bring back the ones with Love or separate the Good from the Evil…”

“(You deserve this! We… deserve this!)” that same voice from before said.

“Damn you.” he snarled.

“…let us dive into the stream of Time and Space and do the Impossible!”

Jax’s eyes snapped open as a white blade materialized in front of her. She spun around, grabbing it in the process, and pointed it to Discord.

“it’s time for you…”

4:09.

Jax swung the sword and charged at him. “…to face the truth!”

Discord struggled again to get loose but the whips and bind spells hand him locked tight.

Jax jumped into the air, bypassing Discord entirely.

Jax flipped upside down and landed on the bottom hull of Orion. She jumped off it and swung the blade in front of her.

Discord roared as he tried to get loose again.

“PERSONALITY SHIFT!!!”

The blade went right though Discords chest.

A blast of light shot out from the other side, covering the entire battlefield in less then a few seconds.

A shockwave shot out and quickly covered the world.

4:55. End Song.

The tubes Discord sent into the atmosphere disappeared as soon as the shockwave finished covering the entire world.

When the light dispersed, Discord was seen unconscious face-down on the palace roof with a equally tired Jax right beside him. And it wasn’t the only thing that was different.

“ha… ha… ha… whew… that’s… that’s how we get it done.” she panted as she slid down the wall and fell asleep upon reach the floor.

“Yay!” Pinkie cheered as she looked her body over. “I’m back to being a pony again!” she laughed and hugged Marble, who laughed as well. “And if I’m fine, all the other places and people effected by Discord will be undone as well.”

“Like Eris with that island.” Babs said.

“but… aren’t there supposed to be 2 Discords now? A good and a evil one?” Hiccup pointed out.

Darkness seeped out of Discord’s mouth and into the air. “not if he was possessed.” Req commented. “but still…”

Discord groaned as he woke up. “ow… my head…” he rolled over and held his head in pain when he noticed everyone standing over him, pointing weapons at her. “who… are you all?”

“What?” Req and Lloyd looked at each other for a moment before putting their weapons away. “You don’t remember us?”

Another headache hit Discord. “s-should I?” he looked around. “where are we?”

The Orion flew up and Celestia flew off. “Discord?”

“Tia! Whoa, what happened to your hair?”

Celestia looked at her hair and got confused. “It’s been like this for 1500 years.”

“1500 years?! We’ve only been alive for 17 years.”

What? That’s the word everyone was murmuring. Luna approached and curiously looked at her sister. “What… year do you think this is?”

“year? Un… 7547, right?”

Celestia and Luna looked at each other. “that was 2000 years ago. This is the year 10003.”

“what?”

Celestia realized what was going on. She chuckled. “I’m afraid your suffering from a case of amnesia, Dis.”

“Amnesia? Guess that explains your hair. So… what happened these last 2000 years?”

Everyone looked at each other and chuckled. “Un… nothing much. Just a war here, a new species there.” Luna said.

Discord raised a eyebrow in disbelief. “I can tell when your lying, Lulu.”

Celestia chuckled as she helped him up. “We’ll explain later. It’s just great to have you back, Dis.”

“Back? Was I gone somewhere?”

Hiccup and Zel looked at each other. “You… could say that.” Hiccup said.

“well, I lost.” Ventus sighed as he gave up his bits to the other Orochi personalities.

“So did you, Kyra. Pay up.” Aqua said.

“wait wait wait. I said someone was going to die. And last I checked, they have a choice to make.” she said as she sat back.

“a choice?”

Suddenly, the tubes reappeared where Discord had summoned them earlier. Both Alicorn Erys and Draconequus Eris were still in there.

“I was wondering where they went.” Req said. She summoned her wings and flew up to the tubes. A console appeared in front of her. She looked at it and gasped.

“Requiem?” Celestia asked as she and Dash walked over. “What’s wrong?”

“Um…” she looked back to them both then to the console. “we have to make a choice.”

“a choice?” Dash asked.

“remember what Discord said? She said that Eris, the Draconequus, was Erys the Alicorn. And… there can’t be two of them in existence if they’re the same person so…”

The revelation hit them both like a bag of bricks. “we have to choose between the two.” both Celestia and Dash sadly glanced at the ground, then at each other. “isn’t there anyway to get both?” Req shook her head ‘no’.

Dash flew up to the console, not wanting to believe her. Turns out she was telling the truth. There was a switch with pictures of a Draconequus and a Alicorn between the switch. A big red button was below it. That was probably to activate and confirm which one was what they wanted.

“What’s going on?” Luna asked as she and everyone else walked over.

“We have to make a choice.” Req said.

“A choice?” Aura asked.

“between Eris or Erys.”

“well, that’s simple.” Pinkie said. “go with Eris.”

“but if we do, Celestia will lose her daughter for good.” Halo said.

“But Dash already lost Eris and she likely doesn’t want to lose her again.” Scootaloo yelled. “And I don’t know about you, but I’m not keen on losing my sister again.”

Dash glanced back at the arguments then back at the console. She could get Eris back. But… Celestia would lose her daughter forever. And the same holds true vice-versa. Either way, someone’s gonna end up disappointed. She took a deep breath and sighed. “I’m sorry…” she said to herself as she flipped the switch in one direction and pressed the big red button.

Dash sat at the edge of a hill, overlooking the flower fields that she, Scootaloo, and Eris found. She looked at the flower she found on the beach back at the island for a moment before putting it back into her hair. Someone approached her from behind.

“hey there, Rainbow Dash.”

Dash looked back and smiled. “hey there, Erys.”

The maroon Alicorn filly with purple hair walked up to Dash and looked at the flowers. “pretty flowers.”

“yeah. Eris loved them.”

Erys glanced away from the flowers for a moment. “Dash… I don’t know if mom or dad told you this but I still have all the memories from when I was Eris.”

“You do?”

“Yeah. And I thank you for everything you did for me. And I’m sorry for causing all that trouble.”

Dash playfully scoffed as she ruffled Erys’ hair. “it wasn’t your fault, squirt. It was Discord’s. and besides, I don’t care if you’re my daughter or someone else’s, I still love ya squirt.”

Erys smiled and hugged Dash. “I love you too, Dash.” Dash smiled and hugged her back.

After a few moments, they broke the hug. “So… you gonna come?”

“Yeah. Just need to say goodbye.” Dash walked up to the cliff and took a deep breath. “Eris… it’s been a blast… and I’m gonna miss you.” she looked back to Erys and smirked. “You ever tell anyone this, I’ll deny it.” Erys cocked her head to the side, not sure what she was talking about. Dash turned back to the flower fields and took another deep breath.

“♪the sun goes down, the stars comes out.
And all that counts is here and now.
my Universe… will never be the same.
I’m glad you came. I’m glad you came…♪”

A single tear fell down Dash’s face but she rubbed it away.

“Dash… that was beautiful.” Erys said.

“Thanks.” she unfurled her wings and took to the air. “now come on. We’re gonna be late for the party.”

Begin Song:

Glad You Came by The Wanted

Erys unfurled her wings and joined up with Dash in mid-air. “Then what are we waiting for?”

Dash smirked like her normal self and Erys chuckled. “okay, squirt. Let’s see you pull this move.” Dash flew on off to Ponyville.

Erys chuckled and flew after her. For such a young filly, Erys was pretty fast and caught up to Dash. “haha. That’s nothing.” Erys joked.

Dash laughed and Erys joined in.

3 months after the final battle with Discord, the world turned back to normal. And, as you can obviously tell, Dash decided to finally let go of Eris and let Celestia have her daughter back.

After 2000 years, they were finally together again.

Cosmos and Dis heard the story of what happened these past 2000 years and couldn’t believe it. Dis dismissed it as a poppycock fairytale but the lack of Draconequus’ is certainly something to be concerned about. He’s currently looking for a way to bring them back without causing a big incident like Discord did.

Diamond and Green Board got married, much to Marble’s slight dismay. The two are planning to move to Ponyville in the coming months, saying it’s a great place to raise their coming foal. Pinkie is ecstatic for their return.

Rainbow Dash and Golden Day partially made up. He still had to make up for leaving both her and Soarin’s families but helping out with her own family is a good enough start.

Scootaloo and Manni are hanging out more, as Manni was the last family Scoots had in the world. And Scootaloo’s choice? She went with Rainbow Dash. Manni may be related by blood but she never bother to look for her. Dash is the only mother she needs and both of them couldn’t be happier. And to make matters worse, Manni is started to become infatuated with Golden Day.

Despite Orion being fixed, the humans still can’t leave until they get that part that the dragon Oscurita took.

Speaking of which, where was that guy? He wasn’t seen at all during this whole chaos fiasco. And who was the girl they met in Manehatten? Is she in league with that knight they ran into during the Winter War? That was the question of the century but nobody paid it much attention.

There were plenty of unanswered questions, like what happened to eTu`nes, who the knight is, who that girl was, or what happened to Catalyst during his and Req’s rematch. and with no way to get back to the Tome in the Afterworld or to contact Adolf, Soarin’ or Shine, they can’t transmit the information. Well, whatever the case, they’ll meet it head on.

Down in Ponyville, the Electronic Symphony club was in full swing.

All of the cast in this story gathered on the dancefloor and danced to the song that was currently playing.

Cosmos and Celestia danced close to each other, as did Luna and Trixie, and Armor and Cadence.

The humans pulled their own individual moves. Some, in Gourry’s case, being so, so embarrassing.

Erys laughed as she danced with the CMC.

Dash danced up to Shadow and grabbed his hooves, pulling him close. Scootaloo jumped onto Dash’s back and laughed. Dash exclaimed, pulled her down, and gave her a noogie.

Back at the flower fields, a single petal touched down on the cliff. The petal was picked up by a invisible hand and hovered in mid-air.

“bye, mommy. And thanks for everything…”

The petal floated off and into the air, up to the sun.

the story continues in Friends from Unexpected Places starting with chapter 'Game Night II'

Author's Note

well... there you go. that's the last side-story. from this point on, it's Friends from Unexpected Places. and it's not long till we reach the end of that as well.

Credits

When the Past can effect the Future...

Begin Song:

Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Leona Lewis

Focusing on the bright spots will guide you though

as the Battle between Light and Darkness rages on...

Story:
Zach Wood

Editing:
Zach Wood.

Song Choices:
Zach Wood

Cast:

Requiem Hikaru
Rebecca Shoichet

Aura Aesir & Emil Castagnier
Johnny Yong Boush

Jacqueline 'Jax' Yggdrasill & Lina Inverse
Lisa Ortiz

Sora Yggdrasill
Hayden Penntiere

Bahamut
Russell Brand

Ashlin Geroma Arapaho Silverton (Ash)
Steve Burton

Satoshi Tanaka
Haley Joel Osment

Twilight Sparkle
Tara Strong

Applejack & Rainbow Dash
Ashleigh Ball

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy
Andrea Libman

Rarity and Princess Luna
Tabitha St. Germain

Princess Celestia
Nicole Oliver

Teen Spike
Jaleel White

Applebloom
Michelle Creber

Sweetie Belle
Claire Corbett

Scootaloo
Madeleine Peters

Halo's Light
Simon Pegg

Zilver's Light
Ricky Gervais

Marble Cake
Seth Green

Storm Shadow
George Lopez

Mirror's Edge
Sam Riegel

Derpy Whooves
BaldDumboRat
(i don't know her real name, just her youtube handle)

Dr. Whooves/Time Turner
PierceSmoulder
(again. youtube handle only.)

Shining Armor
Andrew Francis

Princess Mi Amore Cadenza
Britt McKillip

Trixie Lulamoon & Chrysalis
Kathleen Barr

Pipsqueak
(you know, they never did mention the name of the guy who played him. for now, ignore it.)

Feather Weight
Tobey Macquire

Soarin'
Matt Hill

Spitfire
Maryke Hendrikse

Gilda
Maryke Hendrikse

Zaltan
Ike Amadi

Lloyd Irving
Scott Menville

Fox McCloud
Steve Malpass

Riku
David Gallagher

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Jay Baruchel

Spyro
Elijah Wood

Cynder
Christina Ricci

Gourry Gabriev
Eric Stuart

Zelgadis Greywords
Crispin Freemen

Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun
Veronica Taylor

Discord
John de Lancie

Golden Day
Nicholas Cages

Manni Peddi & Shine Dash
Tisha Campbell-Martin

Garble
Vincent Tong

Adolf Hikaru
Ty Panitz

Eris/Teen Eris
Miranda Cosgrove

Orochi:
Tenebrae : Paul St. Peter
Lucis : Gerard Butler
Aqua : Shanelle Grey
Glacies : Liam O'brien
Terra : Quinton Flynn
Ventus/Aero : Greg Cipes
Ignis : Lance Henriksen
Fulmen : Ali Hillis

Tsylatac and Catalyst:
ME! (i sound like a cross between Yuri Lowenthal and A.V. Kennedy(Laguna from Dissidia 012)

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and it's Character's are Copyrighted by Hasbro.

The Requiem Trinity and it's Characters are Copyrighted by Me.

any OC characters of MLP:FIM belong to me.

all music used belong to their proper owners.

Return of Chaos

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 1

Return of Chaos

Scootaloo struggled to get free from a large Pegasus ponies’ iron grip as another tried to pull Eris off the ground.

“think about what your doing.” Manni said as she watched. “I’m trying to take you away from a bad influence and put you in a better home.”

Scootaloo was able to get her mouth free. “how stupid are you? Dash isn’t a bad influence!”

“nonsense. A problem drinker like her, a good mother? As if.”

“HEY!!!” Dash came from out of nowhere and slammed into Manni, sending her into the hedge maze. “GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTERS!!!”

Manni got up and wiped blood from her mouth. “and look. She’s violent too. You’re practically begging me to put them in better homes.”

Great. She was Frank Burns stubborn. “THEY ALREADY HAVE A HOME! WITH ME! WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE YOU TO SEE THAT!?!”

The Pegasus trying to take Eris, meanwhile, was still having trouble trying to pull her away. “Let go! We’re gonna take you to a better home.”

“NO! I wanna live with Rainbow Dash.” Eris pleaded.

“she’s a bad influence. You’re better off.”

“No!”

“Come on.”

Her eyes glowed white. “I SAID NO!” a shockwave shot out from beneath her, sending the Pegasi and Manni to the ground and leaving Dash and Scoots alone. Both friendly Pegasi looked at her with stunned looks as Eris looked at her own hands. “did I… do that…?”

She heard a cracking behind her, which made her wince.

Begin Song:

The Key of Darkness - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST

The cracks at the base of the statue worked up it, breaking longer and deeper into it. “uh-oh.” all 3 of them said.

Manni groaned as she got up and noticed the statue cracking. “what in the world…?”

Celestia and Luna watched in horror as their worst fears were being realized. “how could it have broke that fast?” Luna gasped.

Celestia looked at the baby. “it must’ve been Eris. She may have released him.”

The stature cracked further. This time, darkness shot out of it and into the air, causing a large dark cloud to appear over it. It got the attention of everyone in town.

“What’s that?” Lloyd asked in worry, pulling up some logs.

Fox looked and came to the same conclusion everyone else got. “trouble.”

The statue exploded outward, sending shards flying everywhere in the garden. Dash quickly covered Scoots as Eris covered herself, being too far away for Dash to get to herself.

“2 and 1000 years can give you such a crick in the neck.” a all-too familiar voice said, sending shivers down Dash’s spine.

“it can’t be…” she slowly looked up and saw the familiar Draconequus standing where the statue stood. “Discord…”

Discord heard his name, looked over at Dash, and smirked. “My my. Rainbow Dash. The fabled Element of Harmony and recent step-mom. How quant.”

“DISCORD!” a blast of sun magic blasted him in the side. Celestia landed with a scary amount of force and blasted him again.

Discord was able to bring up a shield shaped like a umbrella and stopped it. “my my. Much more violent this time, aren’t you Celestia?” the princess snarled at him. “is that any way to greet to a old friend?”

“Friend? Bah. Friends don’t betray you and leave you to rot. As far as I’m concerned, you should go back to your prison.”

“oh, tsk tsk tsk.” he lifted himself off the ground and sat back on a invisible chair.
“How Sad, Celestia. You used to be so noble. Now you‘re a violent queen.”

The princess scoffed. “you haven’t even begun to see me violent. Now, I’ll only ask this once. Bring back my beloved! Bring back Cosmos and Erys!”

Discord pretended to forget those two. “Cosmos and Erys… Cosmos and Erys… I don’t think I ever heard those names before!”

That sent anger down Celestia’s spine. Her horn glowed a bright yellow. “You Bastard! I’ll…”

The Spirit waved his hand at her, ‘sweeping‘ her away. “Calm calm, Celestia. You’ll get your husband and your daughter back…” Discord rose up into the air only as a badass villain would. “…as soon as I have had my fun causing chaos!”

Discord laughed into the air as he normally would, causing lightning to fall around him. One such bolt fell and hit Celestia right on the horn, knocking her out cold.

Discord continued to laugh, eager to bring some fresh chaos to the world.

End Song.

Discord continued to laugh into the air, glad to be free from his stone prison yet again. “Oh, this is SOOOOO much better then being cramped into rock. I can actually scratch this itch on my nose.” Discord did just that.

Dash slowly backed up, pushing Scoots’ back with her. She wasn’t going to let the filly be a part of whatever Discord had planned, or have her be distorted.

Discord snapped his fingers, summoning up a list and a faux pair of grandpa glasses. “let’s see… what Chaos shall I reek today?” Eris looked at the unconscious Celestia, who wasn’t more then a few feet away, and tried to silently crawl over to her. “oh, turn Fillydelphia into a playground for electric eels. That’s something I always wanted to try. Oh, and turn Canterlot into a dung pile. Oh, that will send Celestia, or at least her nose, packing.” he chortled at a oldie but goodie. “maybe I can make Berry sneeze and blow the whole town over again. That was a classic.”

Eris was able to reach Celestia and tried to wake her up. “Celestia… Celestia… wake up…”

Discord sensed the baby trying to wake her up and snapped his fingers, making her reappear before her, wrapped in magical rope. He was admittedly stunned by how she looked. “huh. And I though all our kind were extinct.” he muttered. Eris struggled to get free, but Discord was much much stronger then her. “hmm… pretty young. And likely not in touch with her powers.”

“Hey!” Dash exclaimed, getting the spirit’s attention. She got up and snarled at Discord. “Keep your filthy paws off my daughter!”

“Daughter!?!” Discord replied in surprised. She looked from Dash, to Eris, then back to Dash. “You look nothing alike and she’s my kind, not a ridiculous mamy-pamy pony.”

“Ridiculous?” a magic blast hit Discord in the side, forcing him to let go of Eris. She fell to the ground and quickly ran to Dash, who quickly hugged her and got in front to protect her. All of them looked to see a very familiar lavender unicorn standing a few feet away with a glowing horn. “the only thing ridiculous is you.” Twilight said without fear.

Discord just chuckled and hovered back as if he was laying on a couch. “well, well. Twilight Sparkle. It sure has been awhile. Oh, and your with child. That’s gonna be twice the fun.” Luna and Trixie ran up beside her and also got ready to do battle with him. “Oh. Luna. Princess La Luz De La Luna. It sure has been awhile. Did you happen to enjoy that little gift I left behind… Nightmare Moon?” Luna angrily snorted at Discord as her horn glowed bright. Trixie stepped in front of her and blasted the spirit. The blast just bounced off him, not even making a tickle. Discord looked at her, wondering if she was serious.

Trixie looked up at her horn and groaned. “I really need to work on my magic.” she muttered.

“and un… *cough* who are you?” Discord asked with a ‘who is she’ look.

Trixie was hoping he would ask that. “you don’t know who I am? I… am the Great and Powerful Trixie! Duchess Trixie Lulamoon! Wife to Princess La Luz De La Luna! And you’re gonna get it.” Discord wasn’t afraid. It fact, he didn’t have any clue how to react. She was completely BORING. “I may not have met you but I heard a lot about you.”

Discord yawned at all this. “at least I’m well known.”

“and soon, a distant memory.” Req said as she and the rest of the gang ran up. The humans pulled out what weapons they had and pointed it at the spirit.

Discord was surprised to see her kind here. “A Human? On Equestria? I thought Jeria banished your kind 100,000 years ago.” banished? that world was bounced around them all, wondering what he meant by that. Discord shrugged. “well, no skin off my back.” he snapped his fingers, wrapping everyone in a individual cobra. The snakes laid on the squeeze. “it’s so nice to see you all again, but Chaos doesn‘t happen all by itself.” he walked on thin air, strutting his stuff.

“DISCORD!” Twilight yelled. “don’t do this! You know what happened last time.”

Discord chuckled. “indeed I do.” Discord reappeared in front of Twilight and ran a finger down her face. “And unlike last time, I’m not going to play fair.”

“Play fair?” Pinkie exclaimed. “you turned us all into our opposites.”

Discord playfully sighed at that good memory. “ah… good times.” with a snap, he disappeared in a flash of white. The snakes disappeared as well. Everyone fell to the ground and landed without a hitch.

“Who was that?” Cynder asked.

“D-discord…” Celestia groaned as she struggled to get up.

“Princess!” Twilight exclaimed as she ran over. Luna did the same thing and both helped her up.

“Who?” Fox asked for confirmation.

“Discord.” Eris said. “The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.”

Everyone looked at her with weird expressions. “how does she know that?” Ash asked. How did she know that? She wasn’t told about him yet she knows his full name. how is that possible?”

Discord reappeared on top of a mountain in the badlands. He yawned and summoned up a lounge chair. “It is so good to be out of that statue again. One of these days, I’m gonna have to show Celestia how that feels. But first…” he snapped his fingers, making a theater-sized screen appear in front of him. He summoned a bucket of popcorn and got comfy. “I missed out 1002 years. I gotta catch up.” the screen began to play images and videos of the past 1000 years into small segments that would whittle this down to 3-4 hours.

his thoughts turned to that kid from before; Eris, he believes her name was. “Eris… and here I thought I was the last one.” he came up with a good plan for her. “I think I need a new Scion of Chaos.”

“Discord is a Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony that ruled Equestria long before me and my sister came into power.” Celestia explained. She and everyone else gathered in the throne room so she and Luna could explain their history with Discord. She was still weak from the bolt and it showed. “he was eventually defeated after a long war that lasted 20 years and encased in stone… with some heavy casualties inflicted.”

Satoshi took notes, knowing that some people would have questions after this and, since he was a Brainiac, they would normally come to him.

“Casualties?” Lina asked.

“many ponies were turned into stone or sent to a void Discord called home.” Luna said, taking over for her weakened sister. “we still haven’t found a way to bring them all back. He…” this part affected Luna more then most. “…created Nightmare Moon and infected me with her. It took her 2 years for my jealousy to get the better of me, but… well…” Trixie comforted her wife by nuzzling up next to her.

“there’s more.” Celestia weakly said. “among those taken were… my husband; the Alicorn of the Stars, Cosmos. And… my daughter… Erys.”

“Eris?” everyone exclaimed. They all looked to the Draconequus baby. Some even pointed to her for confirmation from the princess.

Celestia shook her head ‘no’. “she may have the same eyes but that is far from my Erys. My Erys is a Alicorn like me and her name is spelled with a Y, not a I.”

Dash looked between the princess and her Eris. “that’s why you tried to kill her.” she whispered to herself.

“When you defeated him last time…” She said to the Mane 6. “…I was hoping it would release everyone he had sent away.”

“it didn’t.” Rarity concluded. They beat him but they didn’t see any new ponies. Well, except for that weirdo Screwball.

Celestia nodded. “but now, we have a chance to rescue them again.”

“no need to convince us.” Fox said, twirling his staff. “where do we go to find this… Dis fella?” all the other off-worlders nodded and murmured in agreement.

“DISCORD!” Luna corrected. “and, as we are sensitive to chaos, we sense that he appeared in the Badlands, far to the south.”

“the Badlands…” Marble muttered. “I visited there once.”

“you did?” Edge asked.

“once; with my friends from Manehatten. It lies right across the mountains surrounding the city. There was nothing but endless red sand and large mesas. Guess that’s why Dragon’s call it home.”

“Dragons?” Bahamut and Spike asked.

“it’s where they come from. I bet if we ask them, they’ll tell us where Discord is.”

Celestia considered that plan and went with it. “very well then. You all shall go to the Badlands and stop Discord before he can send the world into eternal chaos. And hopefully bring all he sent away back.”

The ponies bowed to her. “Yes, Princess.” they all said in unison.

The off-worlders looked at each other and nodded. “we’ll d our best.” they all said. They all walked out to go deal with the new threat. Trixie gave Luna a quick kiss on the cheek before going to join them.

“But be careful; Discord is more powerful Nightmare Moon and Dark Chrysalis combined.” Celestia called out.

“we figured that.” Aura called out. The moment Trixie ran though the door, they closed shut.

Luna watched in worry as her wife left but returned her focus to her sister, who collapsed. “sister.” she ran over and comforted her. “don’t worry. They’ll defeat Discord and we’ll get everyone back.”

She knows that, but she feels that something is… wrong. Very wrong. Like something bad is quickly coming. She looked out the window at the very distant mountains. “Cosmos… Erys… are you still alive?”

From Worse to Terrifying

From Worse to Terrifying

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 9

From Worse to Terrifying

The golden robot known as Koloktos exploded into pieces that evaporated before hitting the city. Orion quickly flew away from the explosion and over the mountains separating Manehatten- and Equestria -from the Dragon’s homeland known simply as the Badlands.

“Well that was an explosive way to leave.” Shadow said.

“Discord must know we’re coming for him.” Req suggested. “otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent that.”

“Which means we can expect a lot of trouble in the Badlands.” Aura said.

“yeah.” the humans sighed.

“I just hope Pinkie and Marble will be okay.” Fluttershy said, looking back. “We left them back in Manehatten quite suddenly.”

“we had no choice.” Sora said. “it was either leave them there or risk losing the city. Besides, they can take care of themselves. Isn’t Pinkie a Element of Harmony?”

“good point.” Riku said.

Spike sighed and turned to their guide. “okay, Garble. How much do you want for helping us?”

Garble jumped onto a railing and thought about it. “hmm…. About 200 bits.”

“200 bits!? Spike and Rarity exclaimed.

“a hour.”

“A HOUR!?!” all the ponies exclaimed.

“Are you kidding us?” Dash exclaimed. “you’re gonna drive us into bankruptcy.”

Garble chuckled. “Sorry, but that’s my price. Besides, I’m sure royalty…” he looked to Trixie. “… can surely pay the price.”

“you have got to be joking.” Trixie and Twilight said in unison.

“nope.” Garble chuckled. “that’s my price. And last I checked, you agreed to it.”

“that was before we knew the price!” Applejack exclaimed. “and because we were in quite a rush. Remember the giant robot?”

“I remember. But I stand by my price. Either you agree to pay up or else I’m jumping ship.”

Ash and Fox gutturally growled at each other. This was highway robbery but they needed a guide. “*sigh* deal.” Ash said.

“Ash!” the humans exclaimed.

“we either go around wandering the Badlands and just wait for the end of the world or we have a someone show us where to go.”

“t-t-that’s something I want to know.” Zilver said. “why do we need a guide into the Badlands, anyway? Why not just look for large places that could house a bad guy?”

The ship passed over the mountains and the expanded splendor of the Badlands opened up to them. “That’s why.” Lina droned.

A single red hazy cloud stretched all over the Badlands, covering the entire land. Nothing, not even the tallest mesa, could break though the red cloud.

“That’s why we call it the Badlands.” Garble said. “the entire place is covered by one big red cloud that hasn’t disappeared or showed any signs of disappearing in 2000 years. And under that cloud, there’s a whole lot of mountains, mesa’s, pillars; basically anything that would give this ship a hard time.”

“…oh…” Zil droned. “that… would do it…”

Satoshi leaned on a console and sighed. “down into the clouds?”

“down into the clouds.” Garble instantly replied. Satoshi sighed, not wanting to get the ship wounded again; with what Oscurita did to it. But, they had a world to save.

Orion droned down from the sky and into the low clouds that covered the ground from 150 feet above. It broke into a section, causing the cloud to quickly engulf it.

“They left us!” Marble angrily exclaimed. “I can’t believe they left us!” he angrily kicked a basketball into a wall. It bounced off and hit him in the head but he wasn’t fazed a bit.

“well, they were in a hurry. Remember the robot?” Pinkie asked.

“yeah. I remember. They still could’ve tried to come get us, though.”

“I don’t think they had time.” Diamond suggested.

Marble moaned and sat down. “a little warning could’ve been nice.”

Pinkie and Diamond groaned in unison. Suddenly, Pinkie’s entire body began shaking. Violently. “Pinkie?” Diamond nervously asked.

Marble looked back and nervously exclaimed. “uh-oh.” Marble gulped. “Pinkie Sense.”

“Pinkie Sense?”

“something that nobody can ever explain.” Marble sighed. “and by the looks of it, it’s a Doozy.”

“I-I-I-I-I-it’s a b-b-b-b-b-b-big o-o-o-one.” she shakingly said. “t-t-t-there’s a v-v-v-v-very b-b--b-big d-d-d-d-doozy coming.”

Marble gulped and nervously looked to his sister. “and she’s never wrong.”

The Orion turned past a large rock pillar it was barely able to avoid in time and continued on.

“whoa! I didn’t even see that thing!” Sora exclaimed.

“Which is why you brought me.” Garble said. “dragons born and raised in the Badlands become intune to the place; knowing where everything is. Speaking of which, turn to the left!”

Satoshi did just that, narrowly avoiding a mesa’s wall. The ship scratched up to it and only lost paint. “oh, man. I-I just repainted that.” he whined.

“but we don’t even know where to look for him.” Edge pointed out. “he could be anywhere in the Badlands.”

“if there’s one thing we learned from bad guys, they always like large places; castles, comets, weapons. The list goes on and on.” Req said. “so, if we look for the largest pillar or mesa, we’ll find Discord and Eris.”

“well why didn’t you say so?” Garble said. “the largest mesa in the place is about 5 miles south.”

They all looked at each other then up at Satoshi. “already turning.” he said, turning the wheel.

After 10 minutes of flight, they came across the largest mesa on the planet; 7 miles wide and 5 miles tall. “Holy… that’s huge…!” Halo gasped, looking up and not finding the top.

“that’s a mesa for ya.” Garble said.

“and there’s only one way to find out if Discord’s up there.” Jax said. Satoshi turned the wheel and the ship flew up to it’s top.

The anchor from Orion fell and crashed into the mesa’s flat top. The ramp descended and everyone walked down. “trekking across this place is going to take forever. How are we going to find him?” Fluttershy asked.

“Simple…” Eris said from behind.

Begin Song:

Key of Darkness - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST

“…we’ll find you.” she raised her hand and a pulse shot out of it. The pulse forced everyone to the ground in a violent manner. Eris chuckled and floated up. “I must say, I commend you for coming all this way just to deal with us. It shows just how Celestia is keen on keeping her tyrannical rule.”

“what?” Twi asked in a mix of confusion and anger.

“you heard me, ‘precious student’. she was willing to eradicate the Changelings, she was happy when Nightmare Moon was killed for good, she locked Papa Discord in stone. She even tried to kill me when I was just a baby, Or did you forget that?”

They didn’t forget. Seeing Celestia like that really shook her up. “but… that still doesn’t explain why Discord is doing this.”

“yes it does.” Discord said as he appeared behind them and pulled the same move Eris did earlier. “I’m trying to return this world back to the way it was; a free world where anything and everything can happen-- Not where it is under the constant tyranny of those loathsome Alicorns.”

“you’re not making any sense.” Req groaned, holding the side of her abdomen.

“Do I have to spell it out?” Discord sighed. “when the world was under the rule of the Draconequus’, there was freedom for all, including nature. If a building wants to float upside down, why not let it? If a bunny wants to grow legs as long as a giraffe, so be it. But with the Alicorns; all they want is rules, rules, rules. Bleh bleh bleh bleh. they hated it so much, they called it Chaos. So, we took that name with pride. And look at what happened with Equestria; ponies in control of the weather, animals so helpless they need the ponies help, wars breaking out between countries, Celestia and Luna raising the sun and moon. All of it, rubbish. The Alicorns hated our rule so much, they wiped all of us out. Well, all but me and Eris.”

Dash groaned as she got up. “why didn’t they kill you?”

“simple. I’m the only one who knows where Celestia’s little husband and daughter are hidden away. Nobody, not even Eris, knows. That’s why she kept me in stone; so she can find the information and go get them herself. But, we Draconequus’ are stronger then we appear. 2000 years later and all she got was a recipe for chicken pot pies. As for Eris, I’m not sure how she survived. Maybe a spell was used to make sure she would disappeared then reappeared 2000 years later; hopefully when Celestia’s rule met it’s end. Guess that was too much to ask since it endured this long.”

Twilight couldn‘t believe what she was hearing; neither could the other ponies. “you’re insane, Discord. Rules exist for a reason. If they weren’t around, we’d have anarchy.”

“So?” a unknown voice said. They looked to see Babs standing in another section. “why shouldn’t the world turn into chaos?”

“Babs!?!” Applejack exclaimed. “come on. Your mother is worried about you. We can--”

“I’m not going back, Cousin A.J.” she said in a snarky and mean tone.

A.J. was shocked to hear that. “w-why not?”

“because young Babs Seed here…” Discord walked over to her. “…knows to true fate of the world belongs to Chaos and wants to have some good fun in the process.”

“Yeah. Now scram before I turn you into a toaster or something?” she threatened. When Discord and Eris weren’t looking, she winked at A.J. with a slight smile.

“Well, enough lolly-gagging.” Eris yawned. “it’s time to spread some glorious chaos.” she, Discord, and Eris turned to leave.

“Wait!” Req exclaimed, pulling out her sword. Discord snapped his fingers. A invisible force hit Req and sent her flying into Garble and Trixie.

“I think you need a friend.” Eris evilly snickered as she snapped hers. All 3 of them disappeared in flashes of light.

End Song.

Begin Song:

The Human Reaper - Mass Effect 2 OST.

0:00.

“a friend?” Hiccup muttered. “what did he mean by that?” nobody knew. It could be anything.

Suddenly, the mesa began to shake and crack into pieces. “oh, crap!” Req said. “Back to the ship!” she yelled.

And just in the knick of time as…

0:13.

The ground burst open and a Reaper from Mass Effect crashed out, destroying the middle of the mesa and sending rubble flying.

It let loose it’s trademark horn and turned to climb out of the mesa.

“oh, Crap!” Ash yelled. “Not one of those things!” he yelled as he and everyone else booked to the Orion.

“What is that!?” Gourry yelled.

“Not something you want to face one on one.” Req yelled back to him.

0:37.

The Reaper Capital Ship climbed out of the hole it made in the mesa and let loose it’s horn again. It showcased it’s body as it slowly moved to face the fleeing group.

“that can’t be good!” Riku yelled as he looked back.

It spotted them, powered up it’s laser, and took aim.

0:56.

Once locked, the Reaper fired it’s laser at them.

Everyone quickly climbed onto the ship. Satoshi quickly ran up to the wheel and immediately started the ship up.

The laser scorched along the ground as it neared them.

“HURRY IT UP!” Trixie yelled, looking as the laser neared them.

“I’m trying!” Satoshi yelled back. “It takes time.”

“then we’ll give you time!” Req exclaimed. She and everyone else who can cast barriers ran to the edge and cast them. The barriers combined into one super barrier and blocked the laser. The sheer power of it made the casters tire easily.

After just 3 seconds, the barrier broke and the laser hit the ground below the ship, causing a explosion that sent the ship, and it’s passengers, yelling over the side.

1:34. End Song.

The Reaper horned and took to the air.

Begin Song:

Reaper Chase (suite) - Mass Effect 3 OST

0:00.

Pinkie’s shaking got more violent to the point of scaring anyone nearby.

“is she going to explode?” a Gryphon asked.

“un… no…” Marble said, unsure if she will or not. “but… all the while I’d stay back.”

“t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-the d-d-d-d-d-doooozy is g-g-g-g-g-getting c-c-c-c-c-closer!”

The Reaper shrieked though the air, completing ignoring the mesas and pillars It flew right though them, destroying them on the way.

Discord, Eris, and Babs reappeared above Manehatten. Discord snapped his fingers and summoned a couch. “This should be a interesting show.” he snickered as he summoned up popcorn. He and the other 2 sat down.

“(hope they don’t find out.)” Babs thought to herself. Her mind flashed back to when that knight kidnapped her.

“Listen Carefully…” Tsylatac said as his cape fluttered in front of the camera.

“I want you to say you hate Celestia’s rule and become one of Discord’s prodigies.”

“What?” Babs yelled. “there’s no way! He’s a sadistic a-hole that just wants to turn the world into his playground. Why would I join him!?”

The knight sighed. “so you can keep tabs on him and inform me of his movements.”

“but why? My friends told me you’re beat up this girl named Requiem.”

The knight stayed silent for a moment. “that was for something else. But I do not seek the end of Equestria. I wish to save it, from Discord and from another threat.”

“another threat?”

“That’s a story for another day. Right now, you should focus of Discord.”

Babs sighed. She didn’t want to be put in danger; her mom would flip. But, then again, how many times are you called a hero for saving the world. She sighed again. “what do you want me to do to get on his good side?”

Discord shook Babs out of her little daydream. “wha-what?” she said, breaking out of her trance.

“watch. The show is about to start.” he snickered as he drank out of a soda bottle.

Babs looked down and gulped. She hopes her family and new friends will get out okay.

A loud foreboding horn echoed though the city scape. Nobody knew where it came from but they were scared just the same. They hoped it was friendly, too. Boy, were they off the beat.

Pinkie continued shaking. Apparently, this isn’t the doozy. But it’s a big threat none the less.

“What was that?” Diamond said in fear.

“nothing good.” Marble gulped.

1:50.

The horn echoed again and a large shadow covered the city. Everyone looked up and instantly got scared.

“oh, shit.” Marble gulped.

The Reaper descended from the heavens and touched down in the middle of the city. It let loose it’s trademark horn and powered up it’s laser.

“not again!” a whiny earth pony said as she and everyone on her block were instantly incinerated by the laser.

Eris laughed with glee as the Reaper went about it’s business. “Oh, now that’s good comedy.” she laughed, popping in some popcorn.

“hard to find good entertainment these days.” Discord laughed. At first, he was scared by Eris’ personality. But, if you can’t beat them, join ‘em. Turns out this kind of chaos is fun.

The Reaper bellowed as it fired it’s laser again into the city, destroying entire city blocks. The residents ran as fast as they could for shelter, not wanting to get killed by the giant robot. They just went though one giant automaton, they don’t want to deal with another.

Diamond’s wheelchair tripped on a rock, causing it to tip and fall over. She fell out and roll to a stop. “Help!” she called out.

Her brother heard her, looked back, screeched to a halt, and ran to her. A Pegasus, Green Block, flew past him and picked her up with great concern in his eyes. He noticed this and the thankfulness and sweet pleasure in Diamonds eyes.

“what was I doing?” he muttered, thinking about how he was mean to Diamond being engaged to Block. He shook his head, grabbed the still shaking Pinkie, and pulled her away.

A explosion sent all 4 of them, including a large number of the populace, to the ground. They quickly looked up and yelled as the Reaper walked over them.

3:46.

The Reaper let out it’s horn and was about to crush them when a explosion came from it’s top most point. It didn’t damage it but it got it’s attention.

More, smaller explosions riddled down it’s side all the way to it’s tentacles.

The Orion, now in space mode, flew out of one of the explosions and into the robots field of vision.

“HEY!” Satoshi yelled. “You have us to deal with!”

The Reaper bellowed and powered up it’s laser. Satoshi quickly cut the power to the engines. The Reaper fired it’s laser as Orion fell to avoid it.

The engines reignited in the knick of time just 5 feet over the river. The ship entered a sonic boom just as the Reaper fired it’s laser again, hitting where it was.

“Come and get us!” Satoshi yelled as he slammed the throttle forward as hard as he could.

“they’re alive!” Eris exclaimed. She growled and rubbed her hands together. “I have to rectify that.” she snapped her fingers.

The Orion zoomed along the river, just skimming the surface, leaving a big wake behind it.

The Reaper’s horn bellowed as it took to the air and went after them.

It fired it’s laser down at the ship but the Orion was too fast for it to hit so it just shot into the water.

“HA! You couldn’t hit a warship if it was caught on flypaper!” Satoshi yelled to it.

“Are you trying to egg it on!?” the mares all yelled, not wanting to be killed anytime soon.

“you want to get it away from the city, do you?” he yelled in reply. The mares shut up and let him do what he does best.

The Reaper fired again and again and again but the Orion was just too damn fast. So, it decided to ram it. It powered up it’s engines and flew after the ship as fast as it could.

“Perfect.” Satoshi muttered. “now to get him away from the city.”

The Reaper fired it’s laser yet again. The Orion quickly dashed to the right and kept on flying.

The two space-craft eventually exited the river, which lead out into a large ocean bay. Orion flew up into the air, followed by the massive robotic Reaper Cuttlefish.

“I hope you have a plan.” Spike yelled, hanging onto the ship and holding Rarity close at the same time.

“yeah. Don’t get killed.” Bahamut yelled.

“good plan.”

Every citizen in the city gather at the eastern-most part of the city to see the fight take place.

“Come on, guys! Kick it’s butt!” Pinkie cheered with pompoms. Marble face-hooved and sighed.

The CMC and Babs mother also watched from the farm as the Orion and the Reaper flew into the air above the bay.

“no way they’re going to lose to that thing.” Scootaloo said with hope in her heart. “there’s no way.”

“they’re doomed.” Eris and Discord said in unison, popping more popcorn into the mouths. Babs, however, is like Scootaloo, hoping for them to win.

The Orion zoomed up into the clouds, leaving the Reaper in it’s dust. The Reaper bellowed it’s horn and fired it’s laser into the clouds, hoping to hit it in a blind fire. It hit something, causing it to explode.

“Nice try!”

The Orion zoomed down from behind and fired it’s main cannons into the Reaper’s back. It hit but didn’t leave a dent. The robot monster quickly turned around in a u-turn that would tear a normal ship in half, and fired at Orion. The ship quickly turned right to avoid it.

The Reaper turned to follow the ship, still firing it’s beam in the process.

“Everyone hang on to something.” Satoshi warned as he pulled back on all throttles and levers.

Orion banked up and pulled a dangerous loop-de-loop that allowed it to miss the laser by a few close inches. Those on board could feel the heat emanating from the laser. The ship turned upright and flew down the monsters infrastructure.

“That thing is massive! How are we supposed to take it out?” Emil exclaimed.

“the thought way that thing is built, it’s going to take more then the Dragon Slave to take it out.” Lina theorized. “please tell me you know how to take it out.”

“yeah. How’d they take it out in the game?” Rarity asked.

Aura shrugged. “I don’t’ know. Un… I think they went after the firing chambers as they were priming.”

“But ugly’s here is under that front tentacle.” Halo pointed out, having seen it fire a few times. “how do you propose to get at that?”

The ship flew underneath the Reaper, showcasing a few large glowing cylinders underneath it. “take out the eyes and it’ll be exposed.” Req smirked as she looked to the pilot.

Satoshi nodded at the idea and turned the ship around.

Orion pulled a major u-turn and sonic-boomed out from underneath the Reaper and out quite a ways.

The Reaper bellowed and turned towards them as Orion turned up, flipped around, and headed back towards it. The Reaper fired it’s main cannon and the Orion moved to dodge.

6:48.

“Take this!” Satoshi yelled as he pressed both fire buttons.

All cannons on both sides fired. The shots homed in on the Reaper and hit it in the eyes. The Reaper bellowed and fired blindly into the sky.

Orion fired it’s main cannons and all the secondary ones at the firing chamber.

The shots hit square on, destroying the chamber. Secondary explosions followed as the Orion zoomed underneath it and out the other side.

The Reaper, or at least the bottom half, exploded in a torrent of fire and metal.

7:37. End Song.

Everyone onboard cheered and sighed with relief. They destroyed something that was originally indestructible. So much for that claim.

“Whew.” Twilight rolled down to the floor. “that… was a lot of fun.”

“think I tossed my biscuit’s a few times.” Garble groaned. He gagged and held his mouth.

“you learn to get used to it.” the earth part of the gang said. They’ve been though all this before numerous times.

“yes!” the CMC all cheered. “♪nobody beats bad guys like our guys.♪” they cheered and danced. During which, Feather Weight grabbed and kissed Scootaloo. All by mistake. He realized what he did and quickly let her go.

“un… s-sorry.” he nervously said. Scootaloo blushed as well and scratched her cheek.

The crowd in the city cheered. 2 robots dead in 2 hours. This was a new record for the city. Marble cheered but noticed that Pinkie was still shaking. Apparently, the Reaper wasn’t the doozy. Then… what was?

Babs, internally, was relieved they won, but outside she panted like a worry-wort.

“calm, Babs.” Eris chuckled. “this is far from over.”

Clouds quickly moved all around the Orion, leaving everyone on board confused.

“What’s going on?” Spyro asked.

“how should we know?” Zel said, a bit frightened by this.

One cloud ran into the ship and washed over it. ot floated on away and showed everyone where the sudden gust of wind came from.

Begin Song:

Fall - Tron Legacy OST.

A large dark hole appeared where the Reaper was and absorbed everything in the immediate area, the Reaper corpse included.

“is that… a black hole…?” Fox asked like he saw a ghost.

Even those who never been to space knew that Black Holes are bad news. They slowly looked to each other and, in unison, “GET US OUT OF HERE!” they all yelled to Satoshi. They didn’t need to tell him twice.

The engines kicked into the highest gear possible but the pull of the Black Hole already reached them. At best, they were only delaying the inevitable.

“no…” Marble gasped.

“they… they can’t…” a defeated Scootaloo said.

Discord and Eris chuckled evilly as they watched the pitiful humans trying to escape. “try to run like the little ants you are. You won’t get far.” Eris evilly chuckled as she snapped her fingers.

The Black Hole’s pull grew even stronger. Everyone on the ship felt it and knew their rime was almost up.

“Come on! Come on!” Satoshi grunted, not wanting to give up. He never gave up before and he won’t know.

The Orion shook and buckled under the pressure as it tried to escape but everyone knows nothing escapes a black holes pull; not even light.

“watch closely, Babs.” Discord said. “this…”

The Orion’s wings broke and were pulled into the hole.

“is how you…”

The ship inched closer and closer to it’s inevitable doom.

“Deal with trouble-makers.”

The Engines sparked and failed, and with that, sealed their doom.

The ship was pulled back into the black hole, spinning around like a top.

Everyone yelled as they were pulled into oblivion. Once the ship was in…

End Song.

… it clapped shut with a loud clap of thunder.

Celestia gasped in fear as she heard the same thunder. Luna and Cadence also sensed it.

Something very horrible happened today. They weren’t sure how but… they sensed that the Elements of Harmony… are dead.

“YES!” Discord and Eris cheered. They high-fived and pulled a victory dance.

Nobody could believe that they were dead. It didn’t seem like it. Pinkie had stopped shaking as soon as the Black Hole dispersed. The death of all their friends was the doozy.

“she… she can’t be dead…” a soulless Scootaloo said with tears running down. “Dash can’t be dead… she just became my mom.” she fell to her knees, not wanting to believe it.

Face your Fear

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 15

Face your Fear

When the flash of light passed, Twilight found herself in a hospital bed wearing a gown like what Cadence had.

“what….?” she gasped. “how did I… get here?” Suddenly, a pony she never met before came in and grabbed something; a baby, out of a bed. “Wait? What are you doing!?” she frighteningly asked.

He looked to Twi with a cold scowl. “Princess Celestia deemed you unworthy on being a mother. She ordered me to take your child away from you before you can do irreparable harm.”

Twi’s heart sank. “no. no no no, you’re lying!”

“No.” Celestia said in a booming tone. “he’s not.”

Something was wrong here. Very very wrong. “but… you can’t take Starlight away.”

“yes I can.” Celestia said with a mean scowl. “and with good reason.” she took the baby from the guy’s hooves. “you failed to eliminate Discord, you killed my husband, you destroyed Ponyville…”

“What? That doesn’t sound like me at all!”

“well, you did, Twilight Sparkle! You caused all those things and many more. Last I checked, that makes you a unworthy mother! You’ll be lucky if I decide you can visit Starlight.” Celestia walked out the door with the baby in hand. Twilight just looked up like she lost her soul.

“no.” she gasped. “no, she can’t take Starlight away. She can’t…” she curled up into a ball and cried. “she can’t….”

Applejack found herself back home, just outside the barn. “how’d I…”

“Applejack!” a voice called out; a voice she hadn’t heard in years. “Come keep an eye on your baby sister.”

“baby sister?” A.J. gasped. She remembered this day and ran into the barn. She pushed the doors opened and saw what she feared; herself as a little filly. Filly Applejack was hanging off a railing, reading a book. “no. no no no, not this day.” Adult A.J. said in fear.

“Applejack!” the voice called out again.

“Coming, Dad.” Filly Applejack called out. She closed the book and jumped down from the railing. The railing shook, causing a lantern to fall into a pile of hay. Filly A.J. didn’t notice it as she ran out. She ran right though her adult form like she wasn’t even there.

Applejack shakingly shivered as she slowly back up. “no. not again.” the pile of hay ignited on fire. “I don’t want to relive this again.” the fire quickly spread and covered the barn. “not again…”

“Applejack. Stay here and look out for your sister.” the male said as a female ran by to the barn with a bucket of water.

“Okay dad.” a shaken Filly Applejack said. Her father took off his Stetson hat and placed it on her head.

“we’ll be right back.” he said, filling the filly’s heart with hopeful chance. Her father grabbed a bucket, filled it up, and headed to the barn. Big Mac also ran by but he headed to town to get help.

Applejack’s mother and father ran into the barn to put out the fire, which was a… big mistake. The supports snapped into two and collapsed, causing the flaming barn to fall on them both.

“Mom! Dad!” both Adult and Filly Applejack yelled out.

“NO! no, Edge, you have to believe me!” a tearful Fluttershy cried.

“Believe you?” Edge angrily scoffed. “that’s a laugh. You never truly loved me, did you?”

“no, I do love you! I came back to Canterlot for you. When you turned evil, I never stopped loving you!” Edge angrily scoffed and looked away. “Edge, please, you have to believe me!”

“Shut up!” Edge slapped her across the face, sending her to the ground. A shocked Fluttershy rubbed where he hit her. He… he hit her. “just shut up, you bitch! Just shut up and leave me alone!” Edge’s wings flapped, taking him to the air. “I should’ve stayed Chrysalis’ lap dog.” he angrily muttered before flying away.

Fluttershy’s vision blurred as tears fell at a great pace. “Edge………… don’t leave us alone……….. Please………” she closed her eyes and fell over, holding her stomach tight.

“Spike, stop this!” Rarity cried out.

Spike, now full grown as he was in Secret of my Excess, roared loudly and rampaged though town. He stomped down on the Boutique, killing Sweetie Belle and their friends.

“SPIKE, STOP!” Rarity cried. Spike snarled and turned to her. Rarity’s heart dropped when she saw that his eyes were soulless. “s-spike…” Spike walked over, opened his mouth wide, and proceeded to eat her. “SPIKE!” Rarity tried to cover herself but what could that do?

“Luna!” Trixie yelled out with cheer as she ran over to her wife. Luna snarled and blasted her with a powerful spell, sending her into a pillar.

“What are you doing here!?” she angrily asked. “I thought I told you to stay away forever!”

Trixie struggled to get up,, grunting in pain in the process. “w-what?”

“I should’ve seen the signs earlier but I didn’t expect it from you, Trixie!”

“w-what are you talking about?” she asked with tears in her eyes.

“what am I… did you forget already?” Luna used her magic and shoved Trixie beneath a stain glass mural. Trixie looked up and gasped she when saw that she was attacking Luna, Celestia, Cadence, and Chrysalis. The Alicorn Amulet she bought was clearly shone. “5 years ago, you tried to kill us all; You tried to kill me!” Luna pulled her ex-wife over to her. “you stabbed me in the gut; killing our child.”

“What…”

Luna shot Trixie down to the floor. “you were banished to the farthest reaches of the world with no hope back. But here you are, ready to kill us again!”

“no! no, I’m not!” Trixie pleaded. “I would never try to kill you. Honest. I love you too much to even think about it.”

Luna scoffed. “love. Pshaw. Thanks to you, I lost all feeling for it.” she turned her back to her tearful ex. “have your fun.” she said to someone that wasn’t Trixie.

Worried that something bad was going to happen, Trixie got up and ran for the exit only to find someone worse then a angry Celestia standing there. “no…”

“I’ve been looking forward to this for a LONG time.” Trixie’s father evilly chuckled. He raised a knife and charged at her.

“no no no no no no no!”

A black crystal at the top of the door shone with dark pulses. The effects of the crystal had sent everyone into a trance like state where they are being forced to confront their worst fears and nightmares.

The only ones not effected were Soarin’, Shine, Adolf, and Derpy, since she already went though it already.

Those affected had a little red jewel in the middle of their foreheads, showing them their worst fears.

The jewels on the humans head broke and shattered, cutting them off from their worst fears… after they happened. Sora and Cynder fell to the ground, silently sniffling while some of the other shook in fear. Requiem held herself and shivered. The rest were just shocked.

“what happened?” Shine asked.

“n-n-nothing you want to experience.” Req shakingly said.

“it……. Definitely….. Lived up to it’s expectations.” Emil said with shocked eyes.

“our worst fears? More like nightmares.” Ash softly gasped. “very horrible… very real… so very vivid nightmares.”

Lina took a shuddering breath and sighed. “if possible, can you… not ask us what we saw? To take about it will….” she held herself as she shivered.

If Lina is scared, then it must’ve been frightening. So, Soarin’ didn’t pursue it. Besides, he and Shine are more worried about Dash. What nobody knows is that she and Manni are having the same vivid nightmare.

Dash found herself near a house on top of a big hill.

“Where…? I don’t remember this place. I never even been here.” she heard laughter behind her. She looked and gasped at what she saw. She saw Scootaloo, who is a bit younger, walking up with a couple of ponies she didn’t recognize.

“This is going to be the best birthday party ever!” Scootaloo cheered.

“I’m sure it will, my darling daughter.” the female Pegasus said with a smile.

“daughter?” Dash softly repeated. The 3 walked though her like she was a ghost and kept on walking to the house. “This must’ve been when she lost her parents and was rescued & adopted by Soarin’.”

The 3 entered the house, everyone inside yelled surprise, Scootaloo laughed and wooped, and they went in.

‘Soarin’ said it was a fireball that hit the house, killing all but Scoots. But… why am I seeing this? I didn’ even know Scoots was in Ponyville till just 3 weeks before Twilight came. So how is this my worst fear?” she heard shaky breathing nearby. She spread her wings and took to the air and found in instantly; Manni. She flew down to her. “Manni? Why are you in here?”

“it’s…… I don’t want to see this again.” she gasped in fear.

Before Dash could ask what, they heard a boom from above. She looked up to see the meteor fall to the house. “Scoots!” she started to run to it but remembered that this was the past and that this was a dream- a nightmare. Can’t change nightmares.

“no. no no no.” Manni gasped. “I don’t want to lose them again. I don’t want to lose Sunny again.”

“sunny?” Dash asked in confusion. The meteor hit the house, causing it to explode and sent bodies flying.

“SUNNY!” Manni yelled.

“Who?” the dream distorted then turned to white. Dash flew over to Manni. “Just who is Sunny?”

Manni didn’t want this to be brought out like this. She didn’t want anyone to know. “I… she…” she took a deep sigh and finally gave in. “Sunny…… was my sister. She… her last letter told me that she had a filly. A orange filly with purple hair that she named sc--”

“Scootaloo.” Dash said with her. It didn’t take long for Dash to piece it together. “You’re Scootaloo’s aunt.”

Manni softly nodded. “yeah. When I saw that you were trying to adopt her, I… I thought I should take her with me. I didn’t think you would be perfect for Scootaloo. So…”

“you tried to take her.” Dash finished. She shook her head and snarled. “Why didn’t you say anything!? We could’ve avoided this whole mess; going to Manehatten. Having to deal with Discord. Me losing ERIS! If you had just told us, this all could’ve been avoided!”

“I KNOW!” Manni yelled, catching Dash off guard. “I know. When I found out Scoots was alive, I didn’t think. And when I found out you were adopting her… I just lost it. I quit using my brain.”

“we noticed.” Dash angrily said. “That little stunt with releasing Discord really showed us that you weren’t thinking!” Manni didn’t argue. She deserved this for all the crap she pulled. Dash sighed. “listen, Manni. I hate you for all the crap you pulled on me and Scoots. And thanks to you, we have Discord on the loose. But…” but? Manni wasn’t prepared to hear ‘but’. “…I… forgive you for all you did to us.”

“you… forgive me?”

“yeah. If I had known you were Squirt’s aunt, I would’ve stopped trying to go though with the adoption. Hell, I’m sure even Celestia would’ve done something for all of us to be happy.”

Manni sighed. “it’s okay, Dash. Scootaloo must really care about you if she’s willing to stay with you despite what I said.”

“she thinks of me as her idol.” Dash chuckled with a smug smile. Manni chuckled and looked up at Dash with a smile. “come on.” Dash offered her hoof to her. “you want to make nice with Scoots, just stick with me.” Dash winked. Manni smiled and took it. Dash helped her up. “but…” Dash’s cheerful mood quickly changed to anger. “you ever try to take Eris away from me again, I will personally see to it that you get sent to Tartarus! Got it?”

“got it.” Manni squeaked. Dash let her go and sighed. Once Manni calmed down, she asked… “I have to ask, where did you find Eris?”

Dash chuckled and thought back to that day. “she found me.” Manni raised a eyebrow in confusion. “she helped me help myself when I tried to… kill myself when I heard that my mom died and when I lost Shadow. If it wasn’t for her…” Dash held her heart, giving Manni her answer.

“Dash…” both Dash and Manni gasped in surprise when they heard the voice. “Manni… wake up!” the ground opened wide and absorbed them both.

The jewels on Dash’s and Manni’s foreheads shattered, bringing them back to reality. By the looks of it, they were the last ones out as the ponies were crying and holding each other close.

“whoa. What we miss?” Dash asked, feeling the same as ever.

Fluttershy, being held by a lamentful Edge, sniffled and wiped her eyes. “how can you be so cold-blooded!?” she cried. “didn’t you face your worst fear?”

“eh…” she and Manni looked at each other. “no, not really, no.”

“no?” Rarity wiped her eyes. “how could you not have faced your fear?”

Dash shrugged. “guess I already faced them in real life and overcame it. Although, I did find myself in Manni’s. turns out there’s more to her then we realized.” Manni nervously chuckled and scratched the back of her neck.

Nobody could believe what they were seeing. Dash and Manni, getting along? Weren’t they mortal enemies not that long ago?

Dash unfurled her wings and took to the air. “come on. What are we waiting for? We got a tome to get to.”

She flew on though the door, revealing another spiral staircase. She flew up it, leaving them behind. “Wait up!” Manni exclaimed before running to catch her.

Everyone’s mouth’s hit the floor when they saw that they were getting along. “I think we just entered the Twilight Zone.” the earth-based humans said in unison.

Author's Note

damn. so everyone's fear was someone very close leaving. damn. wait, did Fluttershy say 'us?' does that mean.... ho, boy.
and to those who thought Manni was Scoot's mother, nice guess but you missed it by that much.

From Terrifying to Nightmareish

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 20

From Terrifying to Nightmarish

The train headed to Manehatten screeched to a halt, sending it’s passengers, Scootaloo and Babs included, flying forward. The locomotive halted just before it went over a break in the line and over a cliff.

“whoa.” the engineer whistled, looking over the edge. That… would’ve been deadly. The passengers looked out their windows or the breaks between cars and whistled at how far they would’ve dropped.

“AHH! Look at Manehatten!” one of the passengers yelled.

The entire city was turned into chaos central with buildings as high as the atmosphere and creatures better off in stories floating around. What was even more odd is a continuous beam that kept shooting into the sky. A pulse went up into the air though the beam. When it went into the clouds, it went ‘boom’ and spread more chaos out into the world. That one turned Feather Top into a giant bird bath.

Babs’s heart sank when she saw her home like this. “Mom…”

“Wait. Babs. Look. The farm. It’s still in one piece.” Scootaloo said, pointing to said farm.

Babs breathed a sigh of relief. “thank goodness.” she and Scootaloo exited the car they were on and looked down at the cliff though the break. “Now… how do we get down?”

Scootaloo thought about it and looked around to try and find anything. Unfortunately, she didn’t. “Guess we’re gonna have to rough it.” she told her.

“rough it?”

Scoot’s term of rough it is sliding down the side, using your hooves as breaks. “ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow…” they both went ow ow ow as they slid on down. They should’ve looked around for some shoes.

When the two arrived at the farm, they saw that almost everyone from Manehatten had taken refuge there.

“wow.” they both said, surprised to see the place like this. They moved though the crowd and headed up to the house.

“caring for 50000 people is no easy feat.” Babs’s mom sighed as she slunk over the kitchen table, her feet aching for relief.

“tell us about it.” the colts and fillies of the CMC said, having been helping her take care of the refugees. Pinkie and Marble are also helping and their hyperness is just what was needed to help perk everyone’s spirits.

“I know it’s been tough, but there’s was the closest place we could go to, what with Discord having taken out the train tracks.” Golden Day said.

“I’m still surprised he did that.” Applebloom said, stirring a pot filled with noodles. “Applejack told me that Discord wasn’t like that when he was released last time.”

“Yeah. It was after everyone died that he changed.” Sweetie Belle said. “he changed for the worst.”

“he became like Eris.” Dinky sighed.

Marble moved though the crowd of refugees that had set up camp and found Diamond sitting around a campfire with several other ponies with Helios sleeping not that far from them. He walked up behind her and hugged her. “Oh. You surprised me, Marble.”

“Sorry. And how can a hug scare you?”

“it just does. That’s the scary part. You don’t know.”

Marble rolled his eyes and scoffed. “Listen…” he sat down beside her. “I know that… my initial reaction to you being engaged to Green Block and carrying his baby was a bit… negative--”

“you yelled.”

“Yeah. I yelled. But… that was because I wasn’t sure you were making the right choice, after what he did to me.”

“I remember.”

“but… after some thinking, and some nudging from Pinkie Pie, I decided that I would… give your relationship with him a try.”

Diamond smiled and patted her brothers head. “thanks, Marble.” Marble looked up and smiled at her. “and whole knows; you and Block could become good friends.”

Marble’s eyes got that fazed look. “I’m giving him a chance. Isn’t that enough?”

Diamond giggled. “yeah. Guess that’s enough… Uncle Marble.” Marble playfully scoffed. That’s gonna take some getting used to.

Suddenly, a pair of fillies ran by, getting his attention. “Scoots?”

The door to the house slammed open and the two fillies ran in. “We got trouble!” both Scoots and Babs said.

Nobody asked but their innitial reaction to this was… “SCOOTALOO!” her friends exclaimed. They ran over and hugged her.

“Babs!” her mother shrieked happily. She hugged her daughter and kissed her over and over and over.

Babs struggled to get loose of her mothers death grip. “mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom…” she did get loose and wiped her face off. “you’re embarrassing me.”

“I was so worried! When you and Scootaloo disappeared, we feared the worst.”

“how’d you disappear, anyhow?” Applebloom asked.

“Eris kidnapped us.” Scoots explained. “She took us to some island to kill us then… something happened.”

“what happened?”

Marble burst in. “we got trouble outside!”

Lightning fell from the sky and fell around the barn, striking everyone outside, causing them to yell out in pain.

One such bolt fell towards Diamond but her fiancée pushed her out of the way, making him take the blow instead of her. “Block!” she yelled out. Another bolt fell to her but her brother flew in and picked her up just before it hit her. “Marble! Block, he…”

“I saw.” he replied. They flew into the house and quickly closed the door.

“what happened out there?” Babs yelled.

“I don’t know…” Marble put Diamond down and quickly pushed the table in front of the door. “but I got a good feeling about what’s coming next.” he pushed a chair in front of the table as Golden Day walked to the window and looked out. When he saw made all color flush from his face.

“what’s going on?” Pipsqueak asked.

Golden Day couldn’t describe what he was seeing. It was too horrific for him to repeat.

Begin Song:

To Hunt L’Cie - Final Fantasy XIII OST

0:00.

Outside, innocent ponies were turning into horrifying and dangerous monsters in ways to horrific to describe. And… even if I could, it would give kids nightmares for months to come.

“My Faust…” Babs’ mother gasped when they all saw what was going on outside.

Another Lightning bolt struck just outside the house and who should come out but Discord himself. But… something was off, really off, about him, and Pinkie was the only one to notice it. “is that… the same pentagram Dark Chrysalis had?” she muttered.

The Pentagram in Discord’s forehead glowed yellow, as did his eyes. Whatever Orochi did to him certainly took effect as a loud boom echoed from underneath him, flattening the ground beneath him.

“it… is all over.” he told everyone inside. “everyone on the whole planet have been turned into savage beasts, ready to do my bidding. Your friends are dead, sent to the Afterworld where nobody can return. The only reason I didn’t turn you is because I need some witnesses to observe the rise of my new empire! HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

“he has officially gone insane.” Sweetie Belle tried to joke.

Pinkie snarled and walked out to confront him. “Hey!” her yell got his attention. “I thought you were a spirit who loved to have fun! Where’d that guy go?”

The Pentagram on Discord’s head glowed again. “he… is long gone.” he pointed his hand at her, causing lightning to appear in it.

“Pinkie!” Marble ran out a few feet to get her but quickly stopped and ran back in when Discord blasted her right though the door. She hit the cupboard and fell to the floor. “Pinkie!” Pinkie groaned as she struggled to get up. What happened next, nobody saw coming at all.

Pinkie placed one of her hooves onto the table to help up when it suddenly, and painfully, split open to look like a the barrel of a rifle, causing everyone to scream. “OH MY GODS!” Pinkie, who didn’t feel a thing, looked at her hoof and screamed as well. Soon, all her hooves split open.

1:02.

Babs’s mom quickly put the table cloth over Pinkie as Marble angrily sneered at Discord. “You…” he unfurled his wings and flew on out. “BASTARD!” he tried to ram Discord but was stopped by a invisible forcefield. He screamed as he was sent back into a stack of firewood.

The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony snapped his fingers, bringing Marble over to him. “you want to join her?” Lightning appeared around Marble but it didn’t hit him. “so be it.”

“DISCORD!!!”

Celestia’s angry and irritated voice filled the air, surprising him and everyone who didn’t change.

The Black Hole that had destroyed the Orion reappeared over the sea when it first appeared. The creatures inside the city stirred and snarled. They had a pretty good feeling of what’s going to be coming out of that thing.

Discord, and everyone else, is confused on how that thing reppeared. “How…?” Discord looked to Marble. “This was your doing, isn’t it?” he asked the Pegasus.

“How can I? don’t use magic?”

The Black Hole suddenly exploded in a show of force that nobody on the ground did.

1:30.

The Orion flew on out of the explosion and quickly pulled up before it hit the water, making a straight bee-line for the city.

“Impossible…” Discord gasped. “They were dead!”

Inside, everyone’s hopes were brightened. “THEY’RE ALIVE!” they all cheered.

Discord snarled and tossed Marble to the side. “Kill them.”

1:44.

The creatures in the city moved to attack the Orion. They opened their mouths and powered up what beam attacks they had.

The Orion was the first to attack as it’s cannons fired and hit every creature in the town. It turned hard right and headed straight for the farm.

The ponies were still in the painful process of transforming so they couldn’t do anything about it. Discord still snapped his fingers, however.

A dragon from Skyrim suddenly appeared and slammed into the ships front. It roared as it powered up it’s fire. The Main Cannons fired and sent the dragon out a ways before exploding.

The ship slowed down and turned hard on it’s left.

2:12.

Req, Jax, and Celestia fell from the ship and straight for the Draconequus.

Req slashed down at Discord but he quickly dodged to the side. One of Jax’s chakrams missed his head when he dodged but she tried to attack him with the other. That also missed. Celestia’s magic hit him square in the chest, sending him skidding back a bit.

“Impossible…” Discord snarled. “…I killed you.

“believe it. We’re back.” Jax said as she caught her other chakram.

“Next time, you might want to be more thorough.” Req commented. She spun her sword and pointed it at Discord.

“Dis… please, stop this.” Celestia pleaded.

That name… he hadn’t heard that in a long while. If psychological warfare is their game, then they’re going be sorely disappointed. Discord scoffed. “I haven’t the time for this. Stay tuned.” he snapped his fingers. He, and all the other ponies, disappeared.

2:41. End Song.

The Orion touched down as Req was the first to comment, “is it just me… or did he go even more insane?”

Marble grunted as he got up. “No. he went insane.”

Derpy was the first on off when she was ran into by a squealing Dinky. “MOMMY!” the two rolled on the ground a ways before stopping. “Mommy, you’re alive!” Dinky happily squealed as she hugged her mother tight.

“Applejack!”

“Rarity!”

Sweetie Belle and Applebloom joined in and hugged their sisters.

“RAINBOW DASH! Scootaloo jumped at Dash, causing them both to fall off the ramp. “You’re alive! You’re alive!” she cheered as she hugged Dash.

“Good to see you too, squirt.” Dash got up and was able to push Scoots off. “it’s so very good do se--” she noticed Scootaloo’s cut up hooves. “wh… what happened?”

Scoots looked at her hooves and went ‘oh.’ “un…. It’s a long story.” Dash raised a eyebrow as only a mother would. “it is.”

“and we can’t wait to hear it.” Manni said as she jumped down to them.

Scootaloo closed her eyes halfway. “oh. You. Un, Dash. Did you have to bring her back?”

“Squirt!”

“what?”

Dash sighed. “Listen… there’s something you need to know.” Scootaloo tilted her head in confusion. “Scootaloo… you still have family out there.”

“Yeah. You, Shadow, and Eris.”

Dash shook her head ‘no’. “No, Squirt. Biological family.” she got up and walked over to Manni. “Manni… Manni is your aunt. Your biological aunt.”

Scootaloo went into shock when she heard that. She still had family? And Manni was it? Is that why she tried to take her all those times? “y-you’re kidding, right?”

“nope. Manni is the only family you have left in this world.” Scoots looked to Manni who glanced away. “so… Scoots… you have a choice. You can stay with me… or the only family you have left.”

“Dash…”

“there’s no pressure.” Manni said. “We both agreed to fully support what decision you make.”

“So… it’s up to you.” Dash said.

Scoots couldn’t believe this. Why are they making her choose? She sucks at choosing. “(Dammit, why are they making me choose?)” she doesn’t’ want to disappoint either of them.

“oh, you have no idea what a relief it is to know you’re all alive.” Golden Day said with a sigh of relief.

“You have no idea.” Halo said. “where we went was a bit… trippy.”

“where’d you all go?” Applebloom asked, hanging off of Applejack’s back.

“the Afterworld.” Req explained. “We ran into a few old dead friends, found a tome that has all the info in the universe, had a rematch with my brother Catalyst which we still don’t know how we won, learned about Discord’s history, and we now know how to beat him.”

Those who didn’t go just stood there, not sure how to react first. “Un……….” Dinky shook her head. “if you say so.”

Marble chuckled. “Pinkie would be so lost with this.” he then remembered that Pinkie was transforming. “Pinkie!” the foals yelped and ran with him into the house.

“Oh, crap!” Golden Day winced.

“What’s going on?” Fluttershy asked.

“eh…”

Marble ran into the kitchen and towards the shifting table cloth that Babs’ mother had put over the changing Pinkie. “Pinkie! Pinkie! Are you okay?” the only response was a demonic sounding growl. That growl was something he didn’t expect to hear. “P-pinkie?”

Pinkie got up from the floor and the table cloth fell off. What Marble saw made him gasp. Pinkie asked in a growling matter but that’s all that came. Growls. And her looks weren’t exactly Pinkie anymore.

“you flew too fast for us to catch up, Marble.” Sweetie Belle said from outside. “what’s go--” she and the other members of the CMC ran in and yelled. “P-pinkie?”

Bahamut came in, confused as all sin as to what‘s going on. “just what is going on-- oh…. Oh my god… is that Pinkie?”

Pinkie made a confused growl then looked around for a mirror. She looked into it and saw a mutant pony standing where she was. There was nothing that even remotely resembled a pony in this new look. She gasped in fear when she realized that it was her. She looked at what was once her hooves in horror.

“Pinkie…” Marble softly said.

“What’s going on in there?” Shadow asked.

Marble glanced to the exit, then back to a horrified Pinkie. “un… I… um… it’s better if I show you.” he responded. Pinkie backed up into the corner. “Pinkie… they’re gonna see this one way or another.” Pinkie growled at him and he understood it. “It’s okay. I still love you. Although I consider this a test of our relationship.”

Marble walked out. “Um… something… happened to Pinkie so you’re gonna have to promise not to yell.”

“Yell?” Hiccup asked.

He nodded to the human then turned back to Pinkie. She slowly walked out, revealing her new form to everyone else. Nobody yelled but they did gasp in fear. Rarity even fainted.

“that’s Pinkie!?!” Dash exclaimed. “What in Equestria happened to her?”

“Discord. Not long after you died, he snapped. Not sure why.”

Pinkie yelped, getting their attention. She used her new reptilian tale and drew a picture into the ground. And that picture was a Pentagram.

“wait… isn’t that the same symbol Dark Chrysalis had on her forehead?” Gilda pointed out.

“it is.” Req said. “whatever happened to her also happened to Discord. That’s gonna make our plan even more difficult.”

“gonna make him as sadistic as my dark self?” Chrysalis asked.

“Or as Eris.”

Eris… Eris… oh, right. They forgot. “Oh, crap. Eris!” Scootaloo and Babs exclaimed. They got the attention of everyone there. “Something bad is happening to Eris.” Scootaloo said with worry. “Something really, really bad.”

Author's Note

whoa. that sucks for Pinkie.

and i hope you brought a tissue because you're gonna be crying next chapter.