“Still, its a nice place you got here,” commented Discord as Kazuki took a bit of the bucket of popcorn. Then he commented, “Too much harmony in the air for my taste though.”

“I'm surprised you aren't trying to pick a fight with me considering how our last meeting went,” commented Kazuki as he contemplated informing Discord that Faust was alive.

“Yeah… about that,” said Discord nervously before pausing to drink a cup of chocolate milk and throw the chocolate milk when he was done.

Kazuki just rolled his eyes before opening a portal and the chocolate milk pass through, the faint sound of an explosion was heard in the distance outside of the forest before he said to Discord with a sigh, “Please, keep your chaos outside of my forest.”

“Sorry,” said Discord as he glowed from embarrassment, literally, since it suddenly became night and he was glowing in the dark. Then the sun was suddenly up as he said, “I figured we could start over since both of us had to fight with Celly and Lulu.”

“I'm not against it but you know they will try to put you back in stone, right?” asked Kazuki as he started to float while crossing his legs.

“Please, I felt their connection to the Elements weaken over time, how do you think I got free in the first place?” said Discord sarcastically in the beginning before asking the question as he suddenly appeared behind Kazuki and whispered on his ear, “Plus, I know about their little fight, the one that ended with Lulu in the time-out corner.”

Kazuki wasn't even fazed by the sudden appearance of the draconequus and just asked, “Did you know that the Elements have chosen new hosts?”

“Really?” asked Discord in a coy tone as he stretched his torso and coiled around Kazuki as a snake, the alien didn't even blink as he ended face to face with those yellow and red eyes, which only made Discord to smile from ear to ear, literally. The draconequus always liked Kazuki because the alien never had a problem with his chaos and always took it with either a smile or indifference, Kazuki and Faust were the only ones that took him seriously when required but were more than happy to put up with his playfulness.

To answer Discord's question Kazuki just tapped on the draconequus’ forehead and transmitted all the information on the current bearers/hosts of the Elements of Harmony. The draconequus was engulfed by a poof of smoke, when the smoke disappeared it revealed Discord in the form of a younger looking female with combed white mane wearing a school uniform as she swooned, “Wow, senpai is so smart and cool!”

“Nope,” said Kazuki simply as he picked the teenage looking female draconequus by the back of her shirt as he would a kitten or puppy, with the girl no longer sitting on his lap he simply dropped her from the tower.

Discord popped into existence beside Kazuki while puffing her cheeks while lightly hitting him with her fists and saying, “Mo, that was mean, Kazu-senpai.”

Kazuki just did his best impression of Spock.

“Please, don't be mean to Tōsō-chan, onī-chan,” said a loli version of Discord that appeared on the other side, which Kazuki responded with a light karate chop of the head of the loli looking Discord and she responded, “Itai! Why onī-chan is so mean to Fuwa-chan?”

“Seriously?” asked Kazuki in disbelief as he looked unfazed at the sad chibi Discord, even the names Tōsō(闘争, Strife) and Fuwa(不和, Discord) were rather “in your face” on Kazuki's opinion. Then he thought, “Why do I have a feeling that he'll be using many anime tropes to annoy me? Knowing him he will probably take this as a challenge.”

Discord in chibi form just kept crying anime tears as Kazuki looked at the duo.

“Ara ara, Kazuki-sama, there’s no need to get violent,” said another female Discord that was hugging from behind and gently placing her rather a sizeable asset against the back of his head.

“And here it’s the Boob-Gag/Fanservice Trope,” thought Kazuki as the two previous versions of Discord disappeared as the one behind him nuzzled his hair. After a while, he asked, “Are you done?”

“Yeah, I’m done, but your hair is so soft, I couldn’t help myself,” said Discord as she floated around Kazuki before “sitting” on the air in front of him in seiza. Then she added with a cute smile, “And you can call me Eris in this form, or Eri-chan if you prefer.”

“So, anything in particular that you wanted to talk about before going on your merry and chaotic way?” asked Kazuki after looking at the female draconequus for a bit and just shrug.

At Kazuki’s question, Discord —or Eris, for now— just glanced at the castle and at the presences inside and below the structure, however, what caught her attention was a presence that felt just like Kazuki’s but smaller that seemed to envelop a group of smaller presences. Eris looked at Kazuki and the presence of the “Kazuki yet smaller” below several times trying to piece together what she was sensing.

“What’s up with the presences in and below the castle?” asked Eris curiously.

“I suppose you could call them my clan, beings that came to be under my protection for one reason or another,” explained Kazuki.

“I see,” said Eris as she crossed her arms beneath her breasts, making appear that her leather jacket was about to burst open in the effort of trying to contain the two soft orbs. At the same time, Eris also noticed that there were a few ponies down there and she didn’t even question why she was feeling two presences extremely similar to Celly and Lulu but “darker”, for lack of a better word, and figured Kazuki would tell her about them later, however, there was one presence that she was curious about, so she asked Kazuki, “Hey, Kazu, why do I feel a presence like yours but smaller down there?”

“Tell you later, you better deal with the Elements before they gathered and are used against you,” said Kazuki as he felt the Mane Six moving from Ponyville toward Canterlot, then he added, “Oh, and keep your mess out of my territory.”

“Sure thing, I won’t throw my toys in your garden,” said Eris as she got up and stretched her arms before turning back into his male form and say to Kazuki, “I got a lot of chaos to spread, I’ll visit when I get it out of my system. Bye Bye.”

*snap*

And with a single snap of his fingers Discord was gone. Kazuki glanced at his side before extending his hand and grab the air.

*rip*

Kazuki pulled and space was torn revealing a small temporary pocket dimension, however, his focus was on the being that was spying on his meeting with Discord, so he looked at cybernetics alicorn and said, “You know that it’s rude to spy on others, right?”

“That’s rich coming from someone that trains spies and assassins,” snorted Faust as space reformed behind her and the gaping hole in the air closed itself.

“I said it was rude, not that I wouldn’t do it,” commented Kazuki as he got up from his sitting position and stood beside the alicorn, noticing that the center of the feathers on her wings was glowing as she floated in mid-air.

“Even so, isn’t natural for a big sister to worry about her little brother?” asked Faust with a knowing tone.

“The fact that he had an argument with your daughter make things complicated, doesn’t it?” asked Kazuki and Faust just sighed.

“They are still young, disagreements are inevitable,” said Faust with sighed, after all, they were not even five thousand years old. After a moment of silence she looked at the extension of Kazuki’s presence that controlling a spare body in his room, her eyes flickered as she switched through some visions and saw Kazuki’s spare body playing with some pups, plus Gard was nearby, which caused her to comment, “My my, when did you get pregnant?”

“I didn’t, it’s Gard’s litter and I’m just babysitting them to give her a break,” answered Kazuki as he opened a portal back to his room and Faust followed him.

“Um, that would have been such a life-saver if I met you while I was carrying either Tia or Lulu,” said Faust as she looked at Tera and her voice caught the attention of the pups.

“Aunty!” shouted the pups as they gathered around Faust.

“Hello, little ones,” said Faust as she knelt down and greeted the excited pups while Kazuki went back to his meditations. After greeting the pups she climbed on the bed and laid at Tera's right, the white she-wolf was just leaning back on the headboard with Gard just nuzzling the white-furred dome, which caused Faust to comment, “She seems to be having fun.”

“Yeah, she has been quite giddy since she wrapped one's mind around the fact that I’m carrying our pups,” said Tera as she placed her left paw on Gard’s head gently rubbed the gray she-wolf’s head.

Faust just hummed as she placed her head on her left hand and used her right index finger to trace the red circles on Tera’s fur, occasionally feeling the little kicks from the unborn pups.

“You know? I seeing you like this it kind of makes me miss this,” said Faust as she switched through some visions and until she was able to see the unborn pups snuggled against each other inside their limited but comfortable space, then she commented when she noticed a particular detail, “Oh, you even changed the position of the cords to not endanger their lives, the cabling is too organized to be natural.”

“What?” asked Gard as she registered the word “danger”.

“There's nothing to worry about, Gard, aside from the normal risks involved with pregnancy. Besides, the little ones here,” said said Faust as she patted Tera's belly, which caused some of the pups to shift, as she continued, “Have a strong life-force, not a surprise considering who their father is, so I'm sure all of them will be able to survive without medical assistance.”

“Oh, thank you for explaining, Bosslady. Um, I'm not good at understanding complicated stuff, but I'm just happy that the pups are strong and healthy,” said Gard without lifting her head of the form she was rather enamored with or displacing the paw that was petting her.

“Please, just Faust is fine. After all, we're one big family,” said Faust before leaning closer and kiss the she-wolf on the forehead, as far as she was concerned everyone living under Kazuki's protection here in the Everfree Forest was of her herd, regardless of species. With Gard reassured she turned her attention back to Tera and asked, “Where were we?”

“You were considering 'going through it again’ because of my condition,” said Tera as she hugged Gard and the grey she-wolf responded by encircling her arms around Tera’s distended middle.

“Oh yeah, there are some prototypes I was thinking of producing before we met. I want you to take a look,” said Faust as she moved and sat beside Tera.

“Sure thing,” said Tera and Faust just answered by placing her head on Tera’s right shoulder, from the right eye of the cyber alicorn a holographic 3D model was projected in front of Tera before it disassembled into smaller pieces. From there Tera and Faust just brainstormed on how to change the model that was presented, Tera just used her right hand/paw to move, change and remove components —kinda like MCU Tony Stark’s Holographic Interface— while using her left to caress Gard and the pups that ended snuggling with her.

*knock* *knock*

Around noon someone knocked on the door, so Tera and Kazuki just said at the same time and in the same tone, “Come in, it’s unlocked.”

This was the scene that Zecora saw when she brought Gard’s lunch along with Sol and Moon, who were bringing many lunch boxes for the pups.

“Are we interrupting something?” asked Zecora as she saw Faust in casual clothes and a pair of naked female wolf-like diamond dogs on the bed, the white one and Faust seemed to be going over some schematics while Gard was sleeping. What throw Zecora for a loop was that Gard was lacking the most prominent feature she had in the past month, however, it didn’t take long for the zebra to spot the familiar metallic grey purplish eye with concentric rings on the white she-wolf’s forehead, so she just asked, “Mwalimu?”

Sol’s reaction, on the other hand, was less thoughtful and more of knee-jerk/foot-in-mouth.

“Whata f-” started Sol but the moment she started, two pairs of blue eyes, one of which was artificial, a pair of featureless lilac ones, a pair of eyes yellow eyes that were previously closed but were now alert, two pair of cyan eyes, one of which was slitted like Sol’s own eyes and a two metallic grey purplish eyes glared at her with various degree of intensity because of the many innocent and curious ones that were now focused on her. So, either out of instinct or some quick thinking she completed her phrase almost without hesitation, “-udge is going on?!”

*whistle*

Moon was the one to catch the attention of the occupants of the room with a whistle before saying while presenting the stack of bento boxes she brought, “C’mon, little ones, it’s time for lunch.”

“Yay!” came the excited shout of almost two dozen of hungry pups that gathered around Moon and Sol. While the two sisters were handing a box to each little one Kazuki got up and started to set up some small tables and cushions for the ones that already got their bento, it kinda looked like a kindergarten. Either way, once he was done setting up the tables he opened a portal and walked through while Faust deactivated the holographic interface

“Mwalimu, what happened?” asked Zecora as she placed the tray of food on the nightstand.

“Nothing, I’m just babysitting them for Gard over here,” said Tera as she sat up and Gard did the same, however, Tera said to Gard as she was reaching for the tray, “Not so fast, Gard, we will be sharing that tray but you’ll slowly change your diet to the one I recommended before.”

“But…” Gard started but at this moment Kazuki came back with two trays of food, the ones he recommended, for Tera and Gard. So, with no argument, the two she-wolves got up and joined the pups on one of the tables as well as Zecora, Sol and Moon, who brought their own lunch.

“I almost forgot how annoying it was to use hashi with these big paws,” complained Tera as she managed to use the chopsticks with some difficulty.

“Want me to get a knife and fork for you, Mwalimu?” asked Zecora as she looked at Tera.

“No need, I just out of practice with this body,” commented Tera before returning her attention to her meal.

“So, how that happened?” asked Sol as she pointed at Tera’s belly.

“I’m curious about that as well,” commented Moon.

“I just used flesh manipulation to temporarily merge with Gard before separating while taking our litter,” answered Kazuki since his main body was closer to Sol and Moon, plus he didn’t need to eat and he was just sitting near the balcony as he fed Bryn, who was sitting contently on his lap.

“Yeah, just that,” said Moon sarcastically.

“Could you not do that?” groaned Sol before continuing, “It’s creepy when we ask something to one and the other answers.”

“Yeah, but that way my spare body can eat while I answer the questions,” countered Kazuki before returning his attention to Roxie and say, “Say ‘aah’.”

“Aah…” said Bryn cutely as she opened her mouth and Kazuki fed her a piece of meat. Their meal progressed as they chatted and once they were done all pups, Gard and Tera went to Kazuki’s spacious bed to take a nap, except for Bryn was in Kazuki’s arms.

“I’m going to upload this blueprint on the mainframe in Tenteienkyū, see you later,” said Faust before leaving the room.

“So, are you going to do something about Discord?” asked Sol as she focused on the familiar feeling of Chaos Magic being used in the distance.

“Not at all, I predict that he will not take his opponents seriously and will end up in the receiving end of the Elements, again,” commented Kazuki as he carefully placed the youngest of Gard’s pups, for now, between Tera and Gard.

“That does sound like Discord,” commented Moon before looking at Tera and Gard, then she commented, “Um, I know you told us you were a mother before but seeing in front of my eyes really is something different.”

Kazuki didn’t say anything and just placed a spell around the bed to muffle noise from the outside to let Gard, the pups and his spare body get some rest.

“Yo, Kaz, can I ask you something?” asked Sol with an uncharacteristically serious tone.

“You already did,” commented Kazuki as he reversed summoned the tables back to storage but left one for him, Moon and Sol.

“You know what I meant, you jerk,” said Sol before just asking anyway, “Are any one of your children still alive?”

“Sol!” said Moon thinking that it was best not to pry in such matters.

“At the moment, I think, just one,” answered Kazuki seeing nothing wrong with the question. Then he added, “After all, he was the one to kill my last incarnation before I recovered my original body.”

The eyes of the two alicorns widen in surprise and Moon was the first to recover, so she asked, “Where is this son of yours? And who is he?”

“Probably sitting on what used to be my throne,” added Kazuki, which left the sisters confused before continuing, "As for who he is, well…"

Later that day, afternoon, Ponyville

Kazuki used the Meisaigakure no Jutsu to remain invisible as he floated above the “chaos capital of the world”, as Discord put it, and observed the confrontation between the Mane Six and Discord. Kazuki had to resist the urge to facepalm at Discord’s cockiness, he didn't even notice that the colorful ponies were not grayed/discorded or the patch of grass that was underneath them instead of the pink tiles he made.

“Yare yare daze, cocky as ever,” commented Kazuki as he made a portal that led to somewhere in the Everfree Forest and used his telekinesis to pick a boulder before reshaping it like a statue of Discord showing surprise and horror before bringing it to his side.

“NOOooo…” Discord started to shout but his voice was drowned by the “friendship beam”, which Kazuki had to resist the urge to just criticize, seriously, they were just wasting too much power and just smashing the problem with it and hoping it would work.

“Amenotejikara,” said Kazuki quietly as his third eye focused on Discord and just as the rainbow was millimeters away from touching the draconequus he swapped places with the statue that Kazuki made and before Discord could process what happened Kazuki just placed his hand on the back of the taller hybrid before disappearing in a blur of white static while muttering, “Hiraishin.”

The sound of static went unheard as the arc of colorful energy of the Elements slipt and turned into a sphere before expanding and undo all the chaos that Discord caused.

Kazuki’s castle

Kazuki and Discord reappeared in Kazuki’s lab, Discord just felt on his knees breathing heavily while processing the fact that he was saved from yet another millennia-long imprisonment in stone. Kazuki just walked away, Discord barely hearing the clanking of the alien’s geta or the heavy footsteps that approached the shocked draconequus until he saw a pair of cream colored legs in front of him. Out of reflex, his eyes looked up and his mind immediately recognized who was in front of him despite feeling different from what he remembered, even when he looked at those blue optics instead of eyes.

“Sis…” whispered Discord as he looked at Faust, who just knelt down and hugged the draconequus.

“Hi there, Dissy,” said Faust softly and for the first time in millennia, Discord cried.

“Sis! You’re alive,” said Discord as he hugged the alicorn and felt her warmth.

A tearful reunion later, underground village

Discord held his cup as the animated teapot poured tea for him, he was with Kazuki, Faust, Moon and Sol in the same cafe they were when Kazuki returned from the Fallout-like Earth.

“So, you survived,” said Discord as he looked at Faust after she gave a brief explanation of the events that led to her transformation.

“Technically yes,” added Faust before taking a sip of her tea.

“You two are Celly and Lulu ‘dark side’,” said Discord as he looked at Sol and Moon, the former looked bored while the latter looked somewhat apprehensive.

“Pretty much,” said Moon with a shrug.

“Wow, not even I see that coming,” Discord muttered to himself.

“Tch, that’s rich coming from a walking modern art project,” snorted Sol.

“Man, you’re so much more expressive and honest them Sunbutt,” commented Discord before a thought came to his mind, so he added, “Wait, doesn’t that make you also Sunbutt?”

“And it’s an amazing butt, way better than that fat sugar-themed cougar,” said Sol shamelessly.

“You know I’m technically your adopted uncle, right?” asked Discord and Sol just shrugged not caring at all about that fact. Either way, Discord turned to face Kazuki as the alien took a sip of his tea, the draconequus had a serious expression after taking a sip of his own tea, then he said, “Lastly, you were not only free for the last millennia but you also left me there to suffer!”

“Let me remind you that you caused me to petrify myself, so I will only say this: Karma's a bitch,” said Kazuki with a grin at the end, it was petty of him but he didn’t care.

“Touché,” said Discord grumpily as he drank his tea. Then he asked, “What now? I wouldn’t mind hanging out you with you all here but I’m not exactly subtle and I won’t stop my chaos just because you asked.”

“Give me your hands,” asked Kazuki and Discord hands just popped off and “walked” toward Kazuki. Aside from a raised eyebrow from Moon, no one reacted, so when the two hands were close enough —it was like a scene out of the Addams Family— Kazuki just picked the lion paws by the wrist and summoned a brush on his other hand before starting to draw on it.

*giggle*

“Don’t squirm, I can’t draw the seals if you keep moving,” said Kazuki before he resumed his task but Discord keep squirming, so Kazuki just used Juken and poked the hand/paw on the side.

“Ouch,” said Discord as he felt a small shock before he started giggling again as Kazuki started to draw, however, he noticed that he couldn’t move his lion paw.

“Oh, I didn’t know you’re this ticklish,” commented Moon with a smile.

“I knew,” added Faust as she took a sip of her tea.

“Sis! Help!” pleaded Discord between while laughing.

“Don’t be a baby, Dissy, it will be over soon,” said Faust, which caused Discord to look to his “nieces” for help but Sol had a particularly vindictive smile as she looked at him.

“Consider this revenge for the pranks you pulled on us(Celestia and Luna) before being stoned,” said Sol as she smiled almost sadistically at the struggling Discord.

“I hate you,” mumbled Discord in between his fits of laughter. After a session of “torture”, Discord looked at the drawing on his palms, back of the hand, fingers and wrist before asking, “So what’s this exactly?”

“These are contract seals, they will allow us to summon each other and communicate with each other,” explained Kazuki and Discord raised an eyebrow.

“Why? I thought you would ask me to stay?” asked Discord.

“We both know you would eventually run off to do something else, so I’m just going to make a suggestion: why not go on a road trip through the Multiverse?” asked Kazuki.

“What?” asked Sol, Moon and Discord while Faust just raised an eyebrow.

“You get to be in new places, do new things and you might even meet other draconequi,” explained Kazuki, which caused Discord to blink in surprise as he processed what his friend just said before looking thoughtful and it didn't take long for Discord to reach a conclusion.

Night of the same day, underground

“I'm going to miss you sis!” said Discord as he cried a river of tears, literally, while hugging Faust.

The draconequus spend the rest of the day with the alicorns and Kazuki, it was fun, but he was already feeling the urge to go out and do something, it was simply his nature. So, in the end, Discord accepted that Kazuki's idea would be the one that would give him the most freedom to do what he wanted. Those were the events that led to the current scene, Discord using a shirt with floral pattern hugging Faust while crying not too far from the cliff that overlooked the underground ecosystem. Kazuki's was off to the side observing the scene, the fact that Discord's tears were pouring on Sol and Moon was kinda funny though.

“Oh, don't worry about it, Dissy, you can visit and/or call us anytime,” said Faust as she patted the back of the childish draconequus. Behind her, her drenched daughters just had their eyebrows twitching at Discord antics, in Sol's case the wetness just evaporated as her temperature raised with her internal rage.

”I know, *sniff* sis, it's just… we just met again and I'm already leaving. Maybe I should stay for a few days,” said Discord, which caused the alicorn sisters to glare at him but he just ignored them.

“Oh, Dissy, we both know that would only make things worse. Besides, this little journey might be what you need to finally gain some maturity,” said Faust with a smile.

“You wish,” snorted Discord before leaning down and picking two suitcases out of nowhere before saying, “Maybe I will, maybe I won't, who knows? I don't know what this little trip has in store for me but that's what it's exciting about it.”

*Air horn*

Just to complete the scene the sound of an air horn was heard as a ramp came out of nowhere along with a floating boat, so Discord just nodded before climbing on the small private yacht and wave at them as the ship disappeared through a portal.

“Did he really need to make it so clichê?” asked Moon as she finished drying her mane.

“Who cares? He was annoying but fun to have around and I'm going to miss him, even if he was too noisy sometimes,” commented Sol before stretching her arms up and said, “I'm beat, gonna catch some z's.”

“I'm going to do some reading,” commented Moon.

“Don't stay up too late, you're gonna need your energy for what's gonna go down tomorrow,” commented Sol and Moon just rolled her eyes at her sister but didn't say anything as she walked away. Sol just placed her hands on Kazuki's shoulders and letting some of her weight rest on them she said, “Come to bed, Kaz, we're going to have our hands full tomorrow and I want some alone time with you.”

Then Sol looked at her mother and asked, “Wanna join?”

“While I wouldn't mind, I plan on going over some blueprints that Kaz and I worked on earlier today, it will most likely take all night,” explained Faust.

“Meh, your loss,” said Sol with a shrug before teleporting herself and Kazuki to his room.

Kazuki's room

Sol just let herself fall on Kazuki's bed while hugging the owner of the bed like a teddy bear.

“I don't remember agreeing with this little setup,” commented Kazuki.

“You can get out anytime, so I take you at the very least don't mind,” commented Sol and in response, Kazuki just reverse summoned his kimono and hakama before summoning a jinbei(甚平) to be used as his nightwear. Sol just smiled and kissed the smaller alien before saying, “Goodnight, Kaz.”

Kazuki decided to just enjoy the warmth so he just said to the alicorn as she closed her eyes, “Goodnight, Sol.”

Canterlot, throne room, next morning

A crowd was gathered in the throne room, the Elements of Harmony stood before Celestia as the trumpet sounded in the background. Spike stook to the side not too far from the group as Celestia spoke, “We are gathered here today to once again honor the heroism of these six friends who stood up to the villain Discord and saved Equestria from eternal chaos.”

“If only they knew,” thought Kazuki, who was invisible and intangible as he observed Celestia unveil a new glass mural depicting Discord’s defeat, as he watched the ceremony. Deciding it was time, he undid his invisibility and intangibility as he sat on the throne with Hon-chan in his left hand while his right elbow rested on the armchair, his right hand on his right cheek as he read Hon-chan with a bored look, it was this moment he spoke, “Now now, Celestia, you’re just being overdramatic.”

*GASP*

The collective gasp of the crowd and the Elements was expected since they just saw a being clad in white sitting on Celestia’s throne that wasn’t there before, Spike's girly scream before stumbling back was kinda funny, all the guards immediately pointed their weapons at Kazuki and Celestia turned around with a feeling of dread as she recognized that voice. The princess’ eyes widen as saw Kazuki but at the same time, she used her magic to sent a message to Luna asking the lunar alicorn to get the Elements and bring them to the throne room just before her eyes landed on Kazuki.

“Hello there, my faithful student,” said Kazuki as his lilac eyes met the magenta colored eyes of the shocked princess.

Author's Note

Jinbei(甚平), alternately jinbē (甚兵衛) or hippari(ひっぱり), is a kind of traditional Japanese clothing used mostly as nightwear or house wear. Fun fact, the whale shark is also known as jinbei-zame (ジンベイザメ（甚平鮫）, "jinbei shark") or jinbē-zame(ジンベエザメ 《甚兵衛鮫》, "jinbee shark") in Japanese due to its skin patterns resembling those of jinbei.