My Little Pony Friendship is Chaos

Chaos awoke early in the morning as per usual to do his routine exercises by the pond. However, during one of his more difficult exercises he saw his reflection on the pond and noticed that his Cutie marks or Tattoos as he called them had changed positions. The one on his chest moved to his right shoulder, the one on his right moved to the left shoulder and the one on the left moved to his chest. At first he thought it was strange, but didn’t pay attention to it soon after.

Once he finished up with his mediation exercise, Chaos headed towards the village. Everything seemed normal as always, ponies setting up shop for the day, buying, selling, etc. As he walked around searching for materials he needed, he caught Twilight passing by and decided to greet her. Nonetheless, once he approached her, both of them were interrupted by a splash of rainwater. They immediately accused Rainbow Dash of playing a prank on them, but once they saw who it really was, they became confused.

“Terribly sorry, darlings. I'm afraid I'm... I'm not good with the thundery ones.” Rarity explained.

“Rarity, why are you…? Oh no.” Chaos said as he noticed that she had Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark, “Well, get ready folks for a mind fuck of a life time cause this shit is about to get doozy.”

Twilight questioned her friend on how her cutie mark had been switched. But Rarity didn’t know what Twilight was talking about. She explained that she was simply doing what she's done since the day her cutie mark first appeared.

“If this happened to Rarity, do you think this happened to the others?” Twilight asked Chaos.

“I don’t know.” He replied, “We need to check on the others right now. If Rarity has Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark then Rainbow Dash must’ve had her cutie mark switched as well.”

Twilight and Chaos head off to Fluttershy's cottage; which, according to Rarity, is actually Rainbow Dash's cottage; to find out what's going on. They find a sullen Rainbow Dash inside and open the cottage door to the sight of dozens of woodland animals running amok. To their surprise, Rainbow Dash had Fluttershy's cutie mark not Rarity’s.

They later find Fluttershy at Sugarcube Corner with Pinkie Pie's cutie mark, trying to make ponies laugh. Pinkie Pie, wearing Applejack's mark, trying her best to manage Sweet Apple Acres, and Applejack with Rarity's mark at Carousel Boutique trying to make dresses. Each of Twilight's friends failed miserably at their new tasks and were clearly unhappy. Strangely enough they all said the same thing, that they are just doing what their cutie mark tells them to do.

“Okay. This is getting way to strange Twilight. What the hell is going on here?” Chaos asked gruffly.

“I don’t know, but whatever happened to them we’ll find out in the Golden Oak library.”

Before heading to the library, they made a quick stop at Twilight’s house to pick up Spike.

“What’s all the commotion about? Can’t a dragon get some sleep here?” He asked still half awake.

“No time to explain Spike. Get up, we’re going to the library.” Twilight responded, “We have to find answers now.”

They frantically entered the library and looked for clues on what had happened to their friends. After a while of searching, Twilight remembered that the night before Princess Celestia sent her the spell book of Star Swirl the Bearded. Dear Twilight Sparkle, The spell contained on the last page of this book is Star Swirl the Bearded's secret unfinished masterpiece. He was never able to get it right, and thus abandoned it. I believe you are the only pony who can understand and rewrite it. Princess Celestia From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled.

“I cast the spell so I could find out what it was, but nothing seemed to happen. But now I know something did happen. The spell has changed the Elements of Harmony! That must be why their cutie marks are all wrong!” She exclaimed.

“So just cast a counter-spell to switch them back.” Spike responded.

“Oh. There is no counter-spell!”

“Why don't you just use that memory spell you used to fix everypony when Discord was here?”

“It's not their memories, Spike. It's their true selves that have been altered!”

“Zecora's cure for the cutie pox?”

“That won't work either...”

Spike sighed the said, “Well, maybe it won't be so bad. Maybe our friends will grow to like their new lives.”

“No Spike,” Twilight responded saddened, “They're not who they are meant to be anymore. Their destinies are now changed, and it's all my fault.”

“Question.” Chaos interrupted, “Could that also explain why my “Cutie Marks” or tattoos as I like to call them, have switched places?”

“This is not the time to be joking around Chaos.” Twilight said almost angered.

“I’m serious Twilight. Observe.” Chaos replied as he took off his shirt and revealed his three Cutie Marks.

Once they saw he wasn’t joking around, Twilight and Spike became astonished and extremely perplexed as to how Chaos obtained them.

“H-How is this p-possible? I thought you couldn’t get a Cutie Mark since you aren’t from here.”

“Right? I got them a while back but didn’t say anything because… You know what, I don’t even remember why I never said anything. Probably because it wasn’t that big of a deal.”

“Do you remember how you got them?”

“All I know is that when I got them, it felt as if I was being branded. You know?”

“No. Could you explain?”

“Well, being branded is a kind of a painful method yet quick way we use to mark animals or even people as our property or even to signify something. For example, we brand horses so tha… Next example! I believe in Africa when a thief is caught for the first time, they are branded in their necks to signify that they’re a thief so that way others can know to keep their distance. Not a very humane way but it’s better than death if you’d ask me.”

“Oh, Spike, what have I done?” Twilight said saddened, “I messed with something that I didn’t have extensive knowledge of and now all my friends are miserable.”

“Not me.” Chaos interrupted, “However I do concur that we find a way to get our friends back their real cutie marks. But how do we do that I wonder? But if anyone comes up with a way to do it, it’ll be you.”

“Aw, come on, Twilight,” Spike intervened, “I agree with Chaos, you’ll figure out a way to fix this. You always do. These are your friends after all.”

“You’re right Spike. They mean more to me than anything.” She responded still saddened.

“Twilight? You alright?” Chaos and Spike asked.

“I got it!” She exclaimed, “I know what to do!”

“You do?!” They both asked surprised. “I may not be able to remind them of who they are, but I can show them what they mean to each other. They’ll find the part of themselves that’s been lost so they can help the friend they care about so much! Come on guys!”

“Perfect!” Chaos said with excitement, “What do you want me to do?”

“I’m going to need you to take care of Applejack and Pinkie Pie while Spike and I take care of the rest of our friends.” Twilight told him.

“Alright then. Let’s get to it.” Chaos  said as he headed off.

One by one, Twilight, Spike, and Chaos restore the memories and identities of each of their friends by reintroducing them to their correct roles. Now with the help of their restored friends and the Elements of Harmony: Rainbow Dash helped Rarity clear the weather, Rarity helped Applejack make dresses, Applejack helped Pinkie Pie save Sweet Apple Acres, and Pinkie brought smiles back to everyone in Ponyville.

“A mark of one's destiny, singled out alone, fulfilled.” Twillight then gasped and said, “Wait a second, that's it! I understand now! I know how to fix the spell!”

They all returned to the library, and Twilight with some help from Chaos rewrote the spell's incantation: "From all of us together, together we're friends.” She began.

“With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end!" Chaos said ending the spell.

Having completed the spell, the Elements of Harmony sparked to life, bathing Chaos and Twilight in their light. Both of them suddenly vanishes into thin air, leaving a scorch mark on the wood floor in the shape and pattern of their cutie marks. Twilight appeared in a strange, ethereal space full of stars and nebulae with Chaos seemingly nowhere to be found.

“Hello? Where am I? What is this place?” She asked confused.

Moments later, Princess Celestia appears before her, congratulating her on creating a brand new form of magic, “Congratulations, Twilight. I knew you could do it.”

“Princess... I don't understand. What did I do?” Twilight asked still confused.

“You did something today that's never been done before.” Celestia explained, “Something even a great unicorn like Star Swirl the Bearded was not able to do, because he did not understand friendship like you do. The lessons you've learned here in Ponyville have taught you well. You have proven that you're ready, Twilight.”

“Ready? Ready for what?” Twilight asked intrigued.

Celestia leads her student down a pathway of stars as dozens of images float by, depicting key moments in Twilight's life and study of magic and friendship.

Strangely enough, around that time is when Chaos appeared.

“Man,  that is one roller coaster ride I do not want to try again.” He said still sort of dizzy, “Oh hey Twilight. Princess.”

“Chaos!? H-How did you get here?!” Princess Celestia asked shocked.

“How the hell should I know?” he responded, “All I know is that I got zapped at the same time Twilight did. However, I think I must’ve taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque because I was at an entirely different place for a while.”

Before Celestia could speak, a shifting blob of magenta energy emerged from Twilight's chest and began to swirl around her while a pulsing white light grew from her very center. Twilight lifted into the air, the whirls of magenta and white blanket her, and she disappeared in a brilliant flash, like the supernova of a star. As for Chaos, his 3 cutie Marks painfully return to their original place and he too was engulfed with whirls of black energy and a blood red light.

In the night sky over Ponyville, a variation of Twilight's cutie mark, now sporting six small white stars instead of five, appear and float down to the ground. Moments later, a similar event happened but with a different symbol appeared and floated towards the ground. Twilight's and Chaos’s friends watch as the first light faded away and Twilight appeared, now a little taller and with a pair of feathered wings. Seconds later, the black energy with blood red light faded away revealing Chaos with a set of armor that unveiled one of his 3 Cutie Marks on the chest plate.

“Twilight? Chaos? Is that both of you?” Applejack asked. Once she got of clearer view all of them gasped in awe and shock.

“Wha... I-I've never seen anything like it!” Applejack exclaimed.

“Ha! Twilight's got wings! Awesome! A new flying buddy!” Rainbow Dash said laughing.

“Why, you've become an Alicorn. I didn't even know that was possible.” Rarity responded surprised.

“Alicorn and Armor party!” Pinkie Pie screamed happily while blowing a party kazoo.

“Wow...” Fluttershy said softly, “You look just like a princess Twilight!”

“That's because she is a princess.” Princess Celestia replied.

“Huh?” The girls said confused.

“Tu peux répéter s'il te plait?! Or to be more dramatic: excusez-moi?!” Chaos replied sarcastically.

“Hold on a second!” Pinkie said as she grabbed a drink than immediately spits it out.

“A... A princess?” Twilight asked puzzled.

“Since you've come to Ponyville, you've displayed the charity, compassion, devotion, integrity, optimism, and of course, the leadership of a true princess.” Celestia explained, “As for you Chaos, I don’t know how you managed to get this strange armor. You don’t even have any Cutie Marks… Wait a minute. It can’t be…”

“What?” Chaos asked intrigued.

“That symbol on your chest armor, it’s from an element long thought forgotten.”

“I don’t follow.”

“That symbol represents Will.” “And by Will you mean like "the control of one's impulses and actions" right?”

“Correct.”

“So, you mean I’m similar to a Green Lantern except I don’t have a ring that harnesses this willpower. Interesting but at the same time ironic.”

“Will was the most powerful out of all the elements of Harmony. However, very few over the course of time had that symbol. Fewer and fewer became worthy to bare the Cutie Mark of Will, until it was almost entirely forgotten.  Unlike the other elements, this one in particular could function without the intervention of the other elements, but if all of them were combined, the one who had the Cutie mark of Will could unleash devastating attack by absorbing the other element’s power.”

“So basically, I’m a conduit for the elements of Harmony. If they can’t seem to finish off an enemy, then I come in, adsorb their exerting power and unleash it more powerful than before. Hmmm. What the hell, beats being bored almost every day. I’m down.”

“However Chaos, I do find it strange that the armor is able to fit you. The armor was designed for only ponies who had the mark. Not only is it strange that after so many years of never appearing on anypony, you come along and bear it along with 3 other ones and also the armor has changed enough so that you can wear it.”

“I guess I’m just lucky Princess.”

The next day, a princess coronation ceremony was held in Canterlot, in which Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Cadance preside over.

Celestia addressed the assembly of ponies saying, “We are gathered here today in celebration of a momentous occasion. My most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle and her friend Chaos, have done many extraordinary things since they’ve lived in Ponyville. She helped reunite me with my sister, Princess Luna while he has protected this Kingdom from any possible harm. But today, Twilight Sparkle and Chaos have done something extraordinary. She created new magic, proving without a doubt that she is ready to be crowned Equestria's newest princess and he brought back an Element long forgotten, deeming him worthy of the title: the Guardian of Equestria. Fillies and gentlecolts, may I present for the very first time, Princess Twilight Sparkle and Chaos the Guardian of Equetria!”

On the castle balcony, Twilight and Chaos wave to a crowd of hundreds of cheering ponies chanting their names.

“Say something, Princess.” Celestia prompted her former student.

“Oh. Um...” Twilight said clearing her throat, “A little while ago, my teacher and mentor Princess Celestia sent me to live in Ponyville. She sent me to study friendship, which is something I didn't really care much about. But now, on a day like today, I can honestly say I wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for the friendships I've made with all of you. Each one of you taught me something about friendship, and for that, I will always be grateful. Today, I consider myself the luckiest pony in Equestria. Thank you, friends. Thank you, everypony! And you too Chaos!”

He just looked at her then chuckled, “Likewise Princess. Likewise.”

After her emotional speech, Twilight went to talk to her Brother Shining Armor, who is surprised to him find crying. “Are you crying?” She asked.

“Of course not. It's... it's liquid pride. Totally different thing.” He responded.

Twilight's friends appear behind her to congratulate her, and she meets the five of them in a group hug. Moments later, her and Chaos take flight and soar towards the sky.

“Yes! Everything’s going to be just fine!” She exclaimed.

“Damn fucking right Princess. Damn fucking right.”

Later that night, Chaos entered his home and went straight towards his hidden possession, “It would seem that I don’t need you after all.”

He then prepared to destroy it only to seconds later hide it as his facial expression changed and say, “Then again, you might prove useful. Just in case this Guardian thing doesn’t work out. I can always resort to you. Besides, I sense that stronger foes will emerge. As long as they don’t interfere with me rising again, they’ll all die either way. And this time, I’m staying for good. All I need is more time for that weakling to gain their trust a little bit more. Once he does, I’ll will slaughter them all! They will a bow and die before me!”

He screamed and laughed as a bright light that slowly changed from red to dark purplish color shined engulfing him completely thus temporarily ending his depraved laughter.