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Omega walks into the board room, past the suits, and sits right at the head of the table. Originally, it had been made wide enough to accommodate two. Now, one chair sits central, giving the head more space than the rest at the table. This fact isn't lost on him.

"Fillies and gentlecolts, today marks the first day I officially take over as CEO of Neightural Ways. As your new CEO, I want to review the state of business, and how it could be improved." Omega says, levitating a graph over to the whiteboard right behind him. "As you can see, our sales have been stagnating for a few years. Even the smaller, novelty items I'd introduced a few times haven't kept our figures up much at all. So, cereal may be working for us at present, but maybe our business could be expanded upon. Thus, I have a... proposal. Neightural Ways is recognized simply as a cereal distributor, so if we expand, there needs to be a new, distinct brand to market any other type of product. Therefore, we need a brand to serve as the parent company to Neightural Ways. I present to you." Omega brings up a separate piece of chart paper, showing off a logo consisting of the omega symbol, with a sideways I underneath it. "Omega Industries. All new brands we create for our business will all belong to Omega Industries moving forward. Including Neightural Ways."

The entire board stands up, stomping their hooves in a standing ovation, each of the members having a slightly purple tint in their eyes for the duration of this. Everything, is going according to plan.

"Good, my influence has affected every one of them. Now, to start branching into new ventures for the company..."

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Omega steps outside his inherited mansion, only to immediately notice something wrong. Or rather, multiple things wrong. Between a brown liquid raining down from strange pink clouds, to all manner of oddly proportioned animals roaming the streets and disobeying the laws of physics.

"What." Omega says aloud, an eye twitching.

"Oh, what do we have here? Somepony who doesn't belong." An eerie, yet iconic voice rings out from seemingly all sides.

"Q? What the hell are you doing in this world, shouldn't you be pestering Picard or Janeway or something?" Omega asks.

Then, various animal parts start bouncing and falling from nowhere, until they assemble into a creature that Omega recognizes separately from his reading.

"I haven't the foggiest what you're prattling on about. And everypony says I'm the one who doesn't make any sense." Discord teases, conjuring up a baseball. "Fore!" Discord tosses the ball into the air, and hits it with a previously unseen baseball bat towards Omega's mansion.

Omega isn't having any of it, blasting the ball with a magic shot. When the ball is struck, it disintegrates into a whitish, wispy mist.

Discord narrows his eyes at this. "That should have made it duplicate."

Omega fires his next shot at Discord, who promptly opens a hole for the blast to sail right through. And yet, it passed through without turning into a miniature sailboat racer as was intended. When the shot does hit one of the passing animals, it returns to normal.

Discord slowly turns his head back around to Omega, the sound of grinding stone on stone reverberating as he does so. "Well, I'd LOVE to stay and chat, but I left my laundry cooking."

Before Omega can respond, Discord snaps his claw and disappears in a white flash.

"Just what the hell is going on!?" Omega thinks, frozen in place as he's trying to process what happened.

"... I wonder..." Omega fires a blast of his magic at a nearby cotton candy cloud, dispelling it instantly on contact. He fires off another shot at a tall bunny, turning it back to normal as well. "I'm not even USING a dispel spell... But if my magic is able to undo this... madness... Should I right this disaster? It'll take days, and Q-cord could easily redo it faster than I can dispel it... But he's afraid of me. Screw it, time to save Canterlot, and the rest of Equestria from that thing."

With that, Omega starts a meager stroll, casting his magic on everything disorderly in sight. The slower pace is necessary, if he's to fix everything. Along the way, he manages to save some affected ponies from their fits of madness. As he continues his walk, some of the saved citizens trail behind him, watching in awe as his magic does its work.

Suddenly, an agitated draconequus flashes into being in front of Omega. "No no no no NO! You're NOT supposed to be undoing my chaos! How are you even-" Discord suddenly splits his head down the middle, a bolt of Omega's magic sailing right through. "How rude! I'm SPEAKING-" Discord's torso bisects, the top half hopping off the bottom half as yet another bolt sails through. "STOP THAT! Do you have any shame! I'm trying to mono-" Suddenly, a doll in the likeness of Discord appears in front of him, taking the hit and returning to non-existence. "-logue here!"

"Can it." Omega says, firing another bolt.

Discord FUMES, smoke blowing out of his ears as he screams like a tea kettle. He holds his claw and paw out, a purple-plaid lightning shooting out of his palms. Upon touching Omega, they fizzle out with a weak puff. Discord growls even more, his face completely red with fury, red spirals in his yellow eyes. This rage prevented him from seeing what Omega's blasts had actually been doing behind his back. By using a transfiguration spell, Omega's been making mirrors behind the lord of chaos. Omega fires one more shot, easily avoided. Suddenly switching to levitation magic, one of the mirrors comes into Discord's view. Before Discord can begin to react, the blast reflects off one of the mirrors behind him, going through his body for real this time. Stunned by the pain, Discord lets out a scream, as the blast quickly reflects from mirror to mirror, shredding through his body like wet paper. Strangely enough, no blood or viscera comes of it, the exposed insides merely consisting of that same purple-plaid energy. In the span of seconds from that final shot being fired, Discord has been reduced to a hole riddled net of a mess. With one last casting of magic, Omega picks up the net in his levitation, causing it to dispel entirely.

Slowly, the remaining chaos begins to fizzle away, things returning to normal in a slow but sure manner. "Did I really just... save the world?"

The small crowd gathered behind Omega cheer, coming closer to thank and praise him for getting rid of Discord.

That's when something clicks in his mind, his perceived purpose becoming clear. "I am Omega Maelstrom. I am the end of chaos. And I shall bring order to this world."

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Celestia sits patiently in her throne room, having seen the chaos fade away. Not having to wait long, she receives the awaited scroll from Twilight. Humming to herself in delight, she opens the scroll, her eyes tracking across the page.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED! One minute, I was standing in Ponyville after my friends got into a huge argument, and Discord was talking to me, but then he said to wait a minute, and then everything just went back to normal! Is he coming back? Did he get bored? WHERE IN THE WIDE WIDE WORLD OF EQUESTRIA IS HE!? I suggest keeping a vigilant watch, he might be hiding out somewhere for all we know!

Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.

Celestia's ears flatten against the back of her head, her mind racing as she re-reads the scroll, checks the back of it, turns it upside-down, and checks for any magically concealed hidden message.

"This can't be right. Discord can only be defeated by the Elements of Harmony. Has he truly gone into hiding?" A pit of dread grows in Celestia's stomach. "Tirek should be in Tartarus. I have to check and see if he's still contained."

Author's Note

Omega's magic ability is finally revealed. Order magic. It stands to reason if chaos magic can exist, order magic must as well. This also pertains to the meaning of Omega Maelstrom's name. Omega; The end of. Maelstrom; Chaos. I've also gone and updated the prologue. Dropping the hybrids plot in favor of... well, you'll have to go back and see for yourself.