Discord, as it turns out, was more slippery than the girls expected. Teleporting away at the last second and leaving a dummy statue behind, Discord waits until the unveiling ceremony of a new stained glass window to unleash his final plan. After all, if he couldn't defeat the Elements as a whole, he'd just have to permanently separate them. He'd throw in a few others too - including that pesky princess - for some extra flavor. Once they were cast across the veil between worlds, he could deal with them separately. Divide and conquer, as they say!

In a different place altogether, Oliver Rhine's simple and dead-end life is roughly interrupted by a bizarre group of people stumbling into his workplace, pursued by delinquents with strange abilities. When the dust settles and Oliver learns about these strangers and their mission to return home, he sees an opportunity to escape this dirt-hole life and experience a real adventure. But why should these so-called "ponies" accept a stranger into their fold?

And all the while, Discord watches with glee. Digging up and reintroducing the power of magic to a world that had long forgotten it, he sets his new human minions upon his foes. Either they would triumph and find their way to him, or they would fall short. Either way, he was in for a wonderful show.