"... And on that day, Friendship truly was magic. The Legion of Doom sealed away, and Grogar's bell destroyed," Twilight finished as her hoof settled on the post Battle of the Bell photograph.

Orchid looked down at it with renewed awe. She had heard of this long ago battle, but this was the first time she had ever seen anything from that day. Neither Twilight or Flurry liked to talk about it.

And from the story she had just been told, she really couldn't blame them. "So what happened to Discord? Please don't tell me you let him off with nothing like you guys did when he sided with Tirek?"

Twilight shook her head, a vindictive look coming to her eyes. "No. Not this time. He said it was to test me to see if I was really ready to take the throne as Equestria's sole ruler, but no one bought it."

"Not even Fluttershy?" Orchid asked as she looked at the Pegasus in question.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Especially Fluttershy. She was the only one to ever really call him a real friend. Starlight and her group kinda just put up with him, and Spike and Big Mac only really hung out with him during their O&O games."

"So what happened to Discord then?"

Twilight frowned. "We combined our alicorn magic with the magic from the Tree of Harmony and banished him from Equus altogether. He's still alive I know for a fact. But he can never return."

Orchid's mouth dropped. That wasn't what she had been expecting at all. "Isn't that a bit much?"

Twilight shook her head. "He twice betrayed Equestria, and nearly doomed the whole world. All because he thought he was some sort of friendship expert. So no. It wasn't too much. He pops now and again all over the place, but only a few of us know who he is."

Orchid gulped. Her mentor very rarely ever spoke like this. Only when she ever spoke of something that truly angered her would she ever speak with this much venom in her voice. Luckily, those times were rare indeed.

She did have one question though, leftover from the battle. "So, whatever happened to the Legion of Doom? Stupid name that it is."

Twilight giggled. "It really was a stupid name I agree. As for what happened to them? Well..."

***

Twilight tried not to frown as the light-filled her vision, but it was difficult to do in a time like this. This was something she thought she would never do. But she could not forgive herself if she didn't at least try.

When the light faded, the one on the right spoke first. "Sparkle. Come to gloat at us? I see you've gotten bigger since the last time we met."

Twilight tried not to growl at that. "Hello, Tirek. Chrysalis. Cozy Glow. I see your time away has not changed you much."

The former queen laughed. "If you think we'll beg for mercy, or change our minds, then you're a bigger fool than I thought."

Twilight shook her head. "No. I don't expect you to do any of those. In fact, I would rather be done with you three forever and call it a day. But I will not do that. Not yet anyway. I need to know something first."

"And what's that?" Cozy asked.

Twilight, in turn, looked at the older two. "Simple. If the three of you had somehow won, would you have stayed allies? Or turned on each other in the end? I've always wondered that."

That got a roaring laugh out of Chrysalis and Tirek. "What a stupid idea. Us? Actually getting along for that long? What kind of idiots do you take us for Sparkle?" Chrysalis sneered.

Tirek nodded. "Then we are agreed on that much at least. I would have sooner taken their magic for my own," Tirek added. "I only put up with them because they served a useful purpose."

Cozy Glow looked at the two of them with a horrified look. "But. I thought we were friends?"

That got an even bigger laugh out of the two adults. "Idiot. We only put up with you because we needed you. Why would we ever be friends with a pony? Let alone a brat who thinks she's on our level," Chrysalis replied.

Tirek nodded. "I do need to thank you for getting me out of Tartarus like that." He sneered as he flicked Cozy in the head, a move that sent her flying a good twenty feet. "But our relationship is over, you simpering brat."

Not even Twilight could believe what she had just heard, as Cozy picked herself up from the ground. The light had gone out in Cozy's eyes, her shoulders slumped, and her tears beginning to fall. This betrayal had broken her.

Tirek turned back to Twilight. "Before I suck your magic out Princess Twilight, tell me. How long has it been?"

Twilight's frown grew. "It's been over a thousand years you were beaten Tirek. No one aside from me, Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Flurry Heart, even remember you ever existed."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Chrysalis asked.

Twilight smiled as she looked at her. "Not a single changeling alive even knows you existed Chrysalis, let alone your name. They forgot it within a few generations. I had nothing to do with it. The whole world wanted to forget you three ever happened, so it did."

Tirek and Chrysalis shared a surprised look. Both could tell Princess Twilight was telling the truth, and why wouldn't she? She gained nothing by lying to them. "Then what do we do now then? I have no plans to ever be a goody four shoes," Chrysalis sneered.

"I do not either," Tirek added.

Twilight nodded as her horn began to glow. "I was hoping you two would say that. But I had to hear from the two of you myself." The light around her horn grew brighter. "Stone prisons are so last millennium, so I have a new prison for you two. It's called the Phantom Zone. A place only an alicorn can reach and none of us have ever let someone sent there out yet."

Before either could ask what she meant by that, a portal appeared above them. Moving down, it seemed to swallow them whole. Once it reached the ground, the portal winked out of existence, leaving no trace they had ever been there.

Twilight nodded as she turned away. A part of her hoped that one day, both Chrysalis and Tirek would change their ways, and she could let them out of the Phantom Zone. But another part found it hard to believe.

She was surprised to see that Cozy Glow still sat next to the tree she had been flung at. Her tears were still flowing, and it broke Twilight's heart to see a pony so broken, so crushed.

Whatever else she had done, Cozy had once been her student, and a part of her had never outgrown that teacher role she once had at the School of Friendship. But she kept her face unknowable as she walked over to the filly.

Cozy looked up at her with a listless look. "Do whatever you want to me. I don't care anymore. I don't have any place to go now, and you don't want me back. You never did. Not then, and not now."

Author's Note

No, I'm not sorry about what I did with Discord. I absolutely hate how Hasbro took the cheap and lazy way out with Grogar in Season 9. So there it is.

As for the Legion of Doom? Well, I also regret nothing I did with them. The Phantom Zone used here is the same as Superman's. But other than that, and who can open it, it has no connection to DC's character.

This also only changed Fluttershy's bit in The Last Problem. Rest stayed the same.