“Doomed, what do you mean doomed?” Asked a curious Armanii

“Gritz…he was the one…he gave the order to invade…”

“Of course he gave the order to invade, he’s the Master General.”

“No…I mean…he told your friend to declare war…”

Armanii’s jaw dropped.

“What.”

“You heard me Mr. Sve…”

“That…that cannot be…Galog would never…”

“He did!”

“Not my friend…”

Armanii couldn’t believe that Gritz and Galog had worked together to start this war, and now innocent ponies would suffer for it. There had to be a way to stop them

“Wait…That’s it!”

“What’s it?”

“We’ll just siege the base! We have the tools, why not just attack them?”

“I hardly think you’re a general Mr. Sve…”

“I don’t care. We need to try! Gather some unicorns from Canterlot, we’re going on a raid”

The ponies looked to each other in confusion.

“With what exactly?”

“Magna-nades!”

“The what now?”

“The Magna-Nades, the ones I pulled from the dead commander! We have plenty to set up a miniature siege on the portal, toss a few in and destroy their machinery! It’s so simple!”

“This doesn’t seem well thought out…”

“It’s our best hope right now.”

Twilight looked at Celestia, with a nod she turned back to Armanii and tugged his coat.

“Armanii, why don’t we try using the Elements of Harmony?”

Armanii looked down at her, obviously confused.

“The what?”

“The Elements of Harmony! They are the magical elements wielded by the defenders of Equestria, maybe we could use them to drive the Talomanzans out!”

“That…actually might work. I don’t see why it WOULDN’T work anyway…”

“Exactly!”

“Still, I am bringing the Manga-nades with us just in case.”

“Now…How to find this new base of operation?”

“We could…we could get a scouting party arranged…or something”

“How fast would that take us?”

“Assuming there IS a base, it wouldn’t take long with the fliers I have in mind.” Came a confident Rainbow Dash.

“Send them in. I want those fliers in here, if they truly are the fastest, then I want them to search. Rainbow Dash, we’ll have to exclude you.”

“WHAT! Why?!”

“I require you here.”

Princess Celestia looked over at Rainbow Dash.

“The wonderbolts are in Canterlot today, find Spitfire and tell her we need the wonderbolts here pronto.”

“Yes Princess.” And in a flash she was out the door.”

“I sure hope…I hope we can save equestrian…Armanii, do you think we can?”

Armanii sighed. “If we can stop them early…yes.”

Princess Celestia walked over to Armanii

“What can you tell me about the Talomanzans? The Soldiers, the military?”

“There’s not much to say. The soldiers are like the generals, fearless. They are highly trained killers, rivaled only by a certain group which I…wont go in to. But the Soldiers were all brutally trained in harsh environments. Talomanzans train with live ammunition, and real scenarios. The soldiers are trained in the field alongside veterans, they clean their own wounds and they carry their own weight. They are highly religious however, and they never fight on days of their national holidays. But only Talomanzan Holidays, never other religious or national holidays.”

“Give me an example.”

“Well…what kind of holidays do you have?”

“We have the Winter Wrap-Up.”

“Tsiya Vhu-Re, ok…they would attack on that day.”

“What day wouldn’t they attack on?”

“Uretan O I Mouz, Herashema klii, Hereshema…”

Princess Celestia looked at him confused.

“I don’t know what any of that means Armanii…”

“Oh, my apologies, sometimes I forget that you do not speak Talomanzan. Passing of the Souls, Hearth fire Eve, Hearth fire…the list goes on.”

“When do those occur?”

“Toward the end of the Talomanzan 12 month calendar. But they are unimportant…”

“Rainbow Dash should be back with the Wonderbolts any second now.”

“Who are they?” Armanii asked curiously.

“They are the best show fliers in Equestria, they put on flight shows quite often.”

“Ugh…I can not stand show boaters.”

Sure enough, Rainbow Dash came back followed by 4 other Pegusus in wonderbolt uniforms. A flame maned pony came up to Armanii.

“Are you the one who asked to see us?”

“You are Spitfire?”

“That’s me”

“Then yes, I did ask for you. I need a search party.”

“A search party for what exactly?”

“A large portal, or complex, it’s purpul and pulsating, find it wherever you can and tell me where it is. We need to get it out of here.”

“What makes you think that you can command us?”

Armanii didn’t know how to respond to that, he looked at the Princess

“Can I do this my way?”

“Sure…”

Armanii turned back to Spitfire.

“Because if you don’t there will not be a home to go back to for you, and there will have to be a new leader for your wonderbolts! I am in no joking mood! Now, go cazzaxa!”

Spitfire backed up a few feet from Armanii

“That’s all I needed. Cmon wonderbolts, let’s go find that…thing…”

They flew out the window at Lightning speed, leaving a trail of clouds behind them. Armanii looked back to Twilight and knelt down to look her face to face.

“Is there ANYTHING else we can use against the Talomanzans?”

Twilight thought hard about the question. And soon had come to a conclusion.

“There’s Discord…”

“Discord?”

“The manifestation of Chaos…He’s been tame for a while now…but I don’t trust him…”

“We need that. Any magical upper hand will help us immensely. Where is he?”

For that they turned to Princess Celestia

“I believe he’s in the gardens, he might be watering the hedges right now…”

“Then let us go. Or at least these 6 and I shall go.” Armanii headed toward the door.

“Wait!”

“Yes?”

“Discord is insane, watch what you do around him, he will play games with your mind.”

“Thanks for the tip.”

He walked out and headed for the gardens with the other ponies.

Soon, at the gardens, Armanii looked high and low for the being known as Discord. He assumed that the being looked like a pony, so every pony he saw, he called out, “Discord?” but they all looked at him as if he was insane. Soon he heard a humming sound from around a bush.

“That’s Discord.” Came Twilights voice “Be careful Armanii, he’s a tricky thing.”

“I can handle him.”

He turned the corner to come face to face with the god of Chaos himself, he quickly jumped back in horror of the monstrous mash up.

“DEAR KYNARETH! WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT GODDESS ARE YOU!?”

Discord laughed out loud

“I am Discord, master of chaos. And you must be Armanii Sve.”

“H…How do you know my name?”

“Oh it’s simple Armanii I know everything. In fact, Pano wu thii taz?”

Armanii looked at him confusingly.

“Met taz wu cruugan…”

“Cruugan!”

“You speak Talomanzan?”

“I speak everything Armanii, and I also know why you’re here for ME.”

“Then I need not explain it in detail Discord, I hope you can keep sane long enough to help us.”

“I actually don’t know why I SHOULD help you. I mean I like chaos, it’s fun, I need chaos to live. This invasion is the perfect mix of it. I said I had to use my powers for good, I never said I had to like NOR did I say…hehe…that I had to support Celestias version of ‘Good’”

“Fine then Discord. But answer me this. With out your help, Talomanza will invade, they will destroy everything harmonious to this land…”

“That’s perfect!”

“…and build a better one, Without you or Celestia, you wont have anyone to hate, nor anyone to cause chaos for.”

Discord dropped his act and looked at Armanii for a good long while.

“hmmm you bring a valid point Armanii…”

“Will you help us?”

“It’s not exactly hard to tame chaos when it’s already been tamed is it?”

“I suppose not. But I still don’t trust you.”

“I don’t trust me either!”

“Good, then we are on the same page…I think”

Discord snapped his fingers, and in a flash they were back to the throne room.

“Well?” said Princess Celestia.

“Well…” Said Discord “Apparently I’m stopping a war.”

“AHAHWHAHAHAAHAHHA!!!”

Author's Note

There can be no harmony...without Discord...