I waited, by Gaia I waited for a long time for one of them to answer. Hopping off of the table, I began walking back to my seat. That’s when Princess Platinum snapped out of her stupor.

“I have one question...what are you intentions?” Princess Platinum asked. That made me pause, and turn...even without a face you could tell I was expressing disbelief.

“I thought I made myself abundantly clear, I want no equines wandering in the territory we own setting up towns. I do not want to fight a genocide, but I will happily do so.” I stated

Then one of the Pegasi piped up “You meant a war...right?”

“No, I mean genocide. Sure, you equines may have unity, but that’s all. We have magic users to counter your Unicorns, drakes to burn your Pegasi’s feathered wings, and swarms of Uruks and Ologs to put your Earth Ponies six feet under." I stated mater-of-factly "So I will give you this one and only warning. Should you, at any point in time, think that taking our land is a good idea...then I will personally lead the army that kills you all. Do we have an understanding?" I ask

"You seem cold to us...other than the Draconiquuai, what did we do to offend you?" One of the Pegasi asked

"Yeah, I'm keen to know why you're so aggressive as well. It ain't like you." Cas said, her voice laced with concern

"Earlier this morning, I flew over your three encampments to assess what threat you could potentially pose...however I was distracted by a sight so heinous I am afraid I cannot see your kinds in a positive light." I said

They all paused. "Might I ask what that sight was?" Princess Platinum asked.

"Two Pegasi fillies, extremely malnourished, and scarred beyond belief. It looked like they had been tortured. I have since taken them in under my protection, and here they will remain until they decide otherwise." I said.

There was outrage strewn across the faces of all in attendance, with the exception of Commander Hurricane, and Princess Platinum. They bore looks of worry.

"Were their wings broken?" Hurricane asked

"Yes, one of them had their left wing broken. You know who did this, don't you?" I ask

"Yes, and she has since been executed for her crimes." Princess Platinum said

"Well then, a small amount of justice is served...may I be so bold to ask of you a favor, princess?" I ask

"Only if it is a means for peace between us and the other two tribes." She declared

"I find your terms to be satisfactory. I may send a pair of magic users your way for...specialized training. I will give them a name to utter, it will be your way of knowing they were sent by me. Does this sound reasonable?" I ask

"Why yes, yes it does. Give me the name."

"Ains Ooal Gown." I said

"Very well...I shall remember it. Now, is there anything else you two would like to say to our hosts?" The Princess asked the other two tribe leaders

"My scouts noticed a chunk of really fertile farmland within the forest, may we transport a bit of the soil back to our farmlands?" Puddinghead asked

"That depends...Cas, get a map."

"You mean-"*Snap*"-this map?" She asked, waving the thing infront of my 'face' I shook my head, took the map, and opened it up.

"Point to the location." I said

The Chancellor pointed to a section of land that held great significance to the continuation of the timeline, the area in which the Tree of Harmony resides.

"I will have the Uruks in the area harvest enough soil to fill a cropland." I said

"We could gather it ourselv-"

"No, you cannot. It is Basilisk territory, your scouts are lucky to be alive." I lied

"...Very well, you know where our temporary housing is, have them deliver it there." Puddinghead said

I waited yet again for another question, and after about two minutes of nothing, I declared the meeting adjourned. As they left the room, I was thinking about what to do next...until I felt a rune on my wrist activate. A 'sight' rune, one I put near the Tree of Harmony. It detected a young...well, something. Whatever it was had tapped into the source of the tree's power...which could mean two things. Option A) Discord had been made manifest, or Option B) one of the two sisters had managed to leave without a single sentry seeing her, navigated the nearly maze-like forest, and finally find the tree without being attacked by any of the local wildlife or local plantlife,

I was betting on option b.

Meanwhile with Joe

Pov: Joe
Location: Joe's Laboratory

"The runes are holding, magic matrices are stable...I think we did it master!" Gruk said

"It would seem that way...only one way to find out. Automaton, activate." I said to the mass of glowing metal, receiving the reply of fuck all. To prevent a potentially damaging explosion, I cut the flow of magic flowing into the would-be automaton.

"Blast...I was sure we had it that time!" Gruk said, shaking her head in disappointment

"I agree with her, this was the thirty-third attempt to create an automaton using only magical means." Danny said

"Wat an atomton?" A familiar small, blue Pegasus asked

"Artificial life." I replied

"Wat aretifical?" Luna asked

"Hmmm...something made by another thing, I guess." I said "out of non-organic materials."

"Yu know big wurds." Luna stated

"Yup, that's Joe for you. Either he explains it using all the fifteen syllable words in the dictionary, or he doesn't explain it at all." Danny said, laughing. Luna joined him in his buoyant laughter, and it echoed through my lab.

"Hehehe...yup." I said, giggling a bit.

However, my laughter was short-lived as two runes lit up on my wrist. One was a magical influx warning spell, and the other was a magic monitoring rune. My eyes darted around the room looking for the source...they eventually landed on little Luna. She had wisps of magic flowing all around her, and she was beginning to float.

"Wat is going on?" She asked "Why am I flying without flappin my wings?"

My mind was scrambling to find a reason, when it hit me, she was ascending...this meant she would temporarily be a flashbang.

"Everyone, avert your gazes and cover your ears! We have a magic flash incoming!" I yelled to the others in the lab before taking my own advice.

PHOOOM

I was expecting a wave of nearly pure harmonic energy to wash over me.

PHOOM

...what I wasn't expecting was wave of pure chaotic energy to follow it...

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

...Nor was I expecting insane laughter.

Author's Note

Managed to extend this chapter, and I gave it a somewhat better cut off point...I know, I'm kind of rushing the plot a bit, but there's not much I can do with pre-chaos Equestria. So, anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I will look forward to making more. See y'all in the next chapter!