Rainbow Dash woke up dangling from the ceiling by her tail.

“Ugh, not again, stupid Vampony instincts,” RD sighed before hopping down and trotting into her bathroom, she removed her mask,

“At least I don’t have to keep that on anymore,” Rainbow said, brushing her teeth and then approaching her tub and the closet next to it, opening it, RD revealed her collection of sunscreen, the very thing keeping her from bursting into flames in the sunlight.

“Here we go again…” Rainbow said before dumping several bottles worth into the tub and climbing in and rubbing herself with the sunscreen.

“I barely afforded it this week, if it weren’t for Wonderbolt donations I’d be screwed,” Rainbow said, sighing at her lack of bits to spend on herself.

After spending twenty-five minutes of scrubbing herself and spritzing her mane with mane spray, Rainbow went downstairs and began her breakfast.

“Hey Tank,” Rainbow said as she poured herself some cereal.

Tank nodded, acknowledging the greeting.

“I’m not proud to admit this but, I may need to start getting you wild greens… I can clean them but, I’m not super well off right now with my bits.” Rainbow said.

Tank tilted his head questioningly.

“Don’t give me that look, I know that I could be making my own cloud home but with certain expenses considered this home is more suitable. It just so happens that I owe some loan sharks,” Rainbow admitted.

Tank shook his head.

“No judging,” Rainbow sighed before making for the door.

Tank gave a little sigh and looked out the window…. And noticed something bad, Tank as quick as a turtle could try to stop Rainbow.

“Calm down Tank, I’m just stepping outside to- WHOA!” Rainbow walked outside only to fall through the air as soon as she does.

Despite being a little discombobulated she managed to right herself and she looked to see her house was upside down.

“What the hay?” Rainbow flew up to her house and looked through the door and saw that everything was rightsideup but outside everything was upsidedown.

“How is-... wait…” Rainbow looked around and saw the clouds were changing colors.

“Discord…” Rainbow said with some nervousness, realizing this

“She needs to find her other friends and find a way to stop Discords dastardly plans before he-"

"... huh?” Rainbow turned where she heard the voice and saw Pinkie standing on a cloud.

“What the?” Rainbow said.

“Just playing with the author again, anyways hi Dashie!” the annoying pink menace said.

“Pinkie? How are you up here? Your an earth pony,” Rainbow asked.

“Actually I’m an ancient primordial being with a history of weirdness surrounding her,” Pinkie said.

“...Oh…” Rainbow said.

“Why do you keep forgetting this Dashie?” Pinkie teased.

“Whatever, do you think Discord is behind this?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Most definitely, the magic permeating everywhere smells of it," Pinkie said.

"You can smell magic?" Rainbow asked.

"Yep! It sort of has different smells Twilight smells like lavender, you smell like Skittles and I smell like death and carnage with just a hint of chocolate," Pinkie said.

"Oooook, let's go," Rainbow Dash said flying over and scooping up Pinkie Pie who spread her arms and went.

"Wheeeeeeeee!"

When the two got to ground level they saw that things were pretty similar to when Discord last escaped, messed up beyond recognition and chaotic.

“We gotta find the other girls!” Rainbow said.

“On it chief!” Pinkie said before grabbing a cotton candy cloud and then dematerializing.

“I’ll never get used to that,” Rainbow said before flying around Ponyville and seeing Twilight running around.

“Egghead!” Rainbow called and Twilight noticed her.

“Rainbow!” Twilight called flying up to her.

“Did Discord get out again?” Rainbow asked.

“It seems like it, we need to gather the other-” Suddenly Pinkie rematerialized with Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity.

“Got ‘em!” Pinkie said.

“Pinkie how did you-” Pinkie just raised a brow. “...Got it,” Rainbow said.

“Girls, we need to find the elements,” Twilight said flying down to them.

“What in tarnation is going on here?" Applejack demanded.

"I have the suspicion that Discord escaped," Twilight said.

"I suppose that makes sense considering my dresses were trying on other dresses," Rarity said shuddering from the memory of clashing fashion choices.

"Where are the elements of harmony?" Fluttershy asked.

"Last I checked they were in Canterlot," Twilight said "I had Spike send a message, we should be getting a message back from Celestia," Twilight said as the group hurried back to the castle.

Twilight ran towards her castle before she ran into some kind of invisible barrier.

“Ooof!” Twilight grunted as she fell to the ground.

“Twilight!” Fluttershy exclaimed.

“What the?” Twilight said as she got up and touched the barrier and saw that there was a sort of clear barrier there.

“What is this?” Twilight asked.

“It’s a giant barrier,” A familiar voice said and they all turned to see Discord standing there.

“DISCORD!” Rainbow said getting defensive.

"Now now Rainbow Dash, no need to get so, aggressive,” Discord waved her off.

“What are you doing here?” Twilight demanded.

“Oh I'm not here, this is just a recorded illusion,” Discord said.

“Recorded?... but your-” Twilight said before Discord cut her off.

“-Responding to everything you're saying perfectly, yes, I like to pride myself on my skills of prediction,” Discord said.

“Yeah right, get over here!” Rainbow said leaping at him but she flew right through him.

“I assume Rainbow just tried to test if I was just kidding, I suppose that was proof enough,” Discord said.

“What do you want Discord?” Rarity demanded.

“Why that should be obvious, retribution for ruining my fun,” Discord said.

“You were going to destroy Equestria!” Twilight defended.

“I was simply having fun at the expense of mortals, nothing wrong with that, in other words, I have captured Celestia and Luna,” Discord said getting to the point.

“You what?!” Twilight said getting mad.

“That’s right, you have to find out where they are, and so begins the scavenger hunt for princesses,” Discord said with a laugh.

“Let them go!” Rainbow tried to punch him but she went through the illusion again.

“Oh and one more thing, if I catch any of you wearing your elements, I’ll turn them into mice and trap them in a room with a wild cat.” Discord said “One more thing, a riddle to make things interesting. Your princesses are where they live, only one hour I can give, search carefully, the location isn’t safely,” And with a chuckle, he vanished.

"That last part didn't even make sense," Rarity sighed.

"If what Discord said is true, we only have one hour, we have to think,” Twilight said as the group gathered.

“I bet the princesses are at Canterlot Castle right now! Think of it, they are where they live? They live in a castle,” Rainbow reasoned.

“That’s actually a good point Rainbow, but I feel like that’s too obvious, Discord is not that easy to figure out,” Twilight said going into thought.

“Maybe they're in some alternate dimension where furless apes that wear clothes-” Pinkie said before Twilight interrupted.

“Not the time Pinkie, we need to hurry, if what Rainbow said is right then there are three castles that we need to search and less than one hour to do it,” Twilight said.

“Then we should make haste,” Rarity said before Twilight nodded.

“Let’s go in groups of two so he can’t hypnotize us again, got it?” Twilight said, the group nodded.

“Rarity, you and I should search the castle of two sisters, Applejack you and Fluttershy investigate My castle but stay out of my third desk drawer and Rainbow you and Pinkie go to Canterlot,” Twilight strategized.

“Wait what was that about your drawer?” Pinkie questioned.

“Let’s go!” Twilight said before the group scattered except Pinkie.

“Aww…” Pinkie sighed before running after Rainbow.

Applejack and Fluttershy opened the door to the castle quickly and rushed in.

“Huh? Applejack? Fluttershy?” Spike exclaimed.

“The long and short of it, we got one hour to find the princesses, and we think they might be in here, we need your help,” Fluttershy said.

“On it!” Spike said before running off.

“Shy, can ya use yer dragon sniffer to smell out the princesses?” Applejack asked.

“I can try!” Fluttershy said before turning into her Solstice Kirin form and she began sniffing around.

“And ah’ll… look upstairs,” Applejack said galloping upstairs.

Pinkie and Rainbow rematerialized right back in Canterlot.

“Ok! You search the perimeter and I’ll search the interior,” Pinkie strategized.

“Got it I’ll inform the guard too,” Rainbow said before taking off.

Pinkie vanished and began reappearing in various parts of the castle.

“Princess! Call out if you can hear me!” Pinkie called before vanishing and reappearing in another hallway startling a couple of maids.

“Ah!” they cried falling over.

“Princess!” Pinkie called before vanishing.

“....I need to lay off the late-night camomile tea…” one of the mares muttered.

“Me too…” The other agreed.

Meanwhile Rainbow flew circles around the castle looking for any signs of the princesses.

“Celestia! Luna! Where are you!?” Rainbow called.

Twilight and Rarity reappeared in the castle of two sisters.

“Rarity, is there a way for you to detect them?” Twilight asked.

“I can sense emotions, perhaps I can smell them out,” Rarity said before turning back into a Changling and flicking her tongue a few times while searching around.

“I’ll do a magical cursory scan, maybe I can detect their signatures,” Twilight said before lighting her horn.

While the girls were skimming castles looking for the princesses, a figure trotted his way into town.

He was wearing a hood, as he wandered through town. He saw ponies going about their business, albeit a little warily considering the state Ponyville in.

He looked around before bringing out his pendant and uttering a few words before the pendant opened its eye and looked at him.

“Yes?” A male voice came from the pendant.

“Lord Vel, I found traces of the energy here, this is undoubtedly where we need to be, should I begin tracking of the target?” The hooded pony asked.

“No, wait for the confrontation, use the special crystals I gave you and then do your job, and then get out of there, and don’t make me repeat myself again, do not engage the other targets, it’s not time yet,” The voice of Vel said.

“I will do my best,” The pony said.

“You will do your best, or else,” Vel said and then the call ended.

“Hey sir, your talking to yourself, are you okay?” Roseluck said from her stand and the figure turned to her.

“Yes, excuse me,” The pony exited the market area.

Applejack ran up some stairs and when she glanced around making sure nopony was watching she put her nose to the floor and sniffed.

“No scent…” Applejack said before running off sniffing the air, she looked around for any signs of the Princesses scent when suddenly a strange scent struck her… she heard the sound of a shower running nearby and an unfamiliar scent… it could be trouble, so Applejack followed it to a room and readied herself.

“Alright Discord, if yer in there, prepare for the worst!” Applejack said, before bucking the door open.

“ALRIGHT DISCORD, IT’S TIME TA…. Trixie?!” Applejack exclaimed when she saw Trixie in the shower.

“H-hey! Ever heard of knocking!?” Trixie pulled the curtain over herself.

“The hay are… Never mind ah’ll deal with you afterward,” Applejack said before leaving.

Rainbow swooped around the castle, and several guards assisted her, having been informed of the situation.

Rainbow had to pause outside Canterlot Castle for a breath.

“Whew!...” Rainbow got ready to take off again when she heard a chime and turned to see a foodcart being pushed, titled, ‘Pizza Palace,’

“Hey there! Want a-”

“Not now! Princess in danger!” Rainbow said.

“Ok…” The pony pushed his cart on.

Twilight and Rarity had searched but their widespread search methods are turning up nothing.

“We may be in the wrong castle,” Rarity said turning back into a pony.

“Perhaps,” Twilight thought about it, what other castle are they in?

“We must hurry, it’s been thirty minutes already,” Rarity said.

“I know I know,” Twilight said, let’s go help check my castle with Applejack and Fluttershy.

Applejack met Fluttershy at the top floor along with Spike.

“Did you see anything?” Applejack asked.

“No, I looked in all the windows,” Fluttershy said.

“Cept for an unwanted houseguest ah found nothing,” Applejack said.

“What?” Fluttershy and Spike asked.

“Not important, we need to find the princesses,” Applejack said.

“Applejack! Fluttershy!” The two turned to see Twilight flying up to them, Rarity waiting on the ground.

“Twilight!” Spike said running up to the railing.

“Hey Spike did you guys find anything?” Twilight asked.

“No, we were hoping you did,” Spike said.

“No, we need to assume they're in Canterlot,” Twilight said before a voice in the background startled them.

“Nope!” They turned to see Pinkie had teleported herself and Rainbow.

“Ugh, all this teleporting is giving me motion sickness,” RD complained.

“Did you two find anything?” Twilight asked approaching.

“Whole lotta nothing, I looked,” Rainbow said.

“I teleported all over the place, and found nothing either,” Pinkie said.

“Then where are they?!” Twilight's mane began to stick out, showing she was stressed.

“I don’t know, eugh it’s hard to think on an empty stomach, wish I got some of that pizza,” Rainbow said.

“This is no time to be thinking of food Rainbow!” Twilight scolded.

“Sorry, sorry,” Rainbow sighed.

“Wait a second… Rainbow, what was the name of this pizza cart?” Rarity asked.

“Rarity? Not you too, this is an emergency!” Twilight scolded.

“No listen! What was the name?” Rarity asked.

“Uh… Pizza something… Palace! Pizza Palace,” Rainbow said.

“Wait… your not saying that he didn’t hide them in an actual castle did you?” Twilight asked.

“I frequent Restaurant Row when I visit Canterlot and I certainly remember a place called Pizza Palace, they have vendor carts as well,” Rarity replied.

“Still, it seems a little farfetched,” Twilight said.

“It’s our only clue, Pinkie, can you mass teleport?” Rarity asked.

“It’s tricky with this many ponies… but I can try,” Pinkie said before the group huddled around her and she concentrated hard before the group suddenly found themselves in the outskirts of Canterlot.

“That’s… as close… as I can get us…” Pinkie panted.

“It’s close enough, thank you Pinkie,” Twilight said before the group ran into Canterlot through the front gate and searched around for the cart.

Rainbow, Fluttershy and Twilight with Spike on her back took to the air and began searching for The Pizza Palace cart.

"Alright girls! Spread out, look for the cart!” Twilight said.

“How much more time do we got?” Rainbow asked.

“Five minutes,” Twilight said.

“We gotta search Canterlot in five minutes?!” Applejack exclaimed.

“Just spread out and hurry!” Twilight said as the group scattered.

Fluttershy flew over houses, Applejack looked in alleyways, and Rarity subtly flicked her tongue to taste for any panicked emotions.

Pinkie popped her head in and out of various spots she’s certain there would be a food cart.

Rainbow darted back and forth from each street.

“How was I supposed to know I was so close to the princesses?” Rainbow cursed as she took back to the air.

Rainbow met up with Twilight.

“Any luck?” Twilight asked.

“No,” Rainbow said.

“We’re almost out of time! Who knows what Discord will do if we don’t find them!” Twilight said. “Where did you encounter the vendor?” Twilight demanded.

“Outside the castle grounds,” Rainbow said.

“Let’s check there,” Twilight said and the two darted over towards the castle.

They landed at the edge of the property and Spike hopped off.

“Alright, how long do we got?” Rainbow asked.

“One minute,” Twilight said.

“Then forget the consequences, I gotta go fast!” Rainbow took off and flew above the area, looking carefully for the familiar cart….

Rainbow saw a vendor group near Restaurant Row.

“THERE!” Rainbow darted over there while Twilight teleported with Spike.

They arrived startling the group of vendors.

“We need to find Pizza Palace, it’s an emergency!” Twilight said.

The vendors seemed too startled to respond properly, but Rainbow looked through the names anyways.

“Taco Tuesday… A taste of Neighpon… Mc Donkeys…” Rainbow paused when she saw a vendor leaving… it was Pizza Palace!

“THERE!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“Toss me! There’s no time!” Spike said.

“O-ok!” Rainbow grabbed Spike and threw him at the cart.

“Huh?! What in the-” The vendor jumped out of the way as Spike crashed into the cart and knocked it over.

“Ooof!” Spike grunted as the cart busted open and Celestia and Luna rolled out of the carts cooler.

“Princesses!” Twilight yelled and she ran to the princesses and turned Celestia around…

She was a doll, a fake?!

“Huh?!” Twilight exclaimed and suddenly the sky darkened and Discord's laughter could be heard.

“Time’s up!” Discord’s eager voice rang out.

Everyone turned to see Discord suddenly appear, reclining on a floating upsidedown lawn chair.

“Discord?! What happened, we looked in the right places!” Twilight said.

“You were quite clever, enough so that I needed to multilayer my plans, with backups. You were all fooled!” Discord laughed.

“You meant a castle right? Unless you lied!” Twilight accused.

“Oh no, I never lie in a game,” Discord said.

“Then where-”

“Did you bother to check the Crystal Empire castle?” Discord asked.

Twilight took a step back in shock… in her haste, she completely forgot about the crystal empire!

“For being so smart you can be so scatterbrained,” Discord laughed floating to ground level.

“No… I failed,” Twilight said.

“That you did,” Discord said. “Ready to hear what’ll happen now?” Discord said with ugly glee.

“Please don’t hurt them Discord,” Twilight said.

“Why don’t we gather an audience,” Discord snapped his fingers and summoned the rest of the mane six to him.

“Huh?” Rarity and Applejack exclaimed and Pinkie was already facing Discord with a glare.

Discord chuckled seeing her determined look.

“Seems the element of laughter isn’t laughing anymore,” Discord said.

“Where’s the princesses?” Pinkie asked.

“You already know, with your powers, you heard everything,” Discord said.

Pinkie’s eyes widened as her friends gathered around her.

“You… know about… me?” Pinkie asked.

“Of course, I know about you, all of you as a matter of fact, just because the body is petrified doesn’t mean my spirit is, I watched your little meeting, it was quite entertaining,” Discord said glancing around at the ponies gathering. “Oh dear, I feel a slip of the tongue coming on,” Discord chuckled.

“No!” Pinkie said as her mane began to flow like fire.

“No Pinkie! You can’t do that here!” Twilight cautioned.

“Twilight, he’ll tell everypony about all of us!” Pinkie said.

Twilight thought about it… and got an idea.

A crystal was placed in the center of a magic circle.

“Then let’s go somewhere less populated!” Twilight lit her horn brightly.

“Huh?” Discord said covering his eyes before a mass teleport occurred.

“Refero ad me”

They reappeared in the middle of a forest near Ponyville.

“Hmm… I see what you intended,” Discord said.

“Huh?” Twilight panted looking around where they were.

“Good Idea Twi, this way nopony will see us in our true forms!” Rainbow said.

“Girls wait, this isn’t where I wanted to go,” Twilight said confusedly.

“It isn’t?” Spike asked.

“I was going to take us to the castle in the everfree, not in the middle of the woods,” Twilight replied.

“You probably just misfired or something, whatever let’s fight him!” Rainbow said going into her Vampony form.

Rarity showed her Changling form.

Pinkie turned into her skeleton pony form.

Fluttershy hesitated but acknowledged she needed to help her friends fight Discord and turned into her Solstice Kirin form.

Twilight lit her horn.

Spike readied himself to assist in any way.

Applejack hesitated.

“C’mon Applejack, if there’s a chance to show it it’s now, we’ll need all hooves on deck for this,” Rainbow said.

“Ah… ah won’t be able to control it!” Applejack said nervously.

“Ah yes the element of honesty with a secret to hide, quite ironic ain't it? Should I explain what your secret is?” Discord chuckled as he floated into the air.

“NO!” Applejack said getting ready to fight,”

“Let’s stop these shenanigans, how about instead of fighting I go with my original plan of teleporting you all underneath the Crystal empire to join your princesses in eternal imprisonMENT!” Discord suddenly shrieked in pain.

“Huh?” The mane six and Spike exclaimed.

Discord twisted his head on backwards to see a crystal was stabbed into his back with a colorful crystal.

“What in the-” Discord said before suddenly the crystal glowed brightly and he screeched as he became discolored and he fell to the ground in a heap.

“What the?!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Ok… can someone tell me what the hay is going on here!?” Rainbow demanded.

“Oooohh….” Discord groaned as the crystal was alit with chaos magic that was sucked out of him.

Before the girls could question what happened a hooded pony trotted out and unceremoniously pulled the crystal out of Discord, earning a grunt of pain from the lord of chaos.

“Huh?” Twilight said, seeing the hooded pony, he wasn’t like the other hooded pony who warned her to get out of Equestria, he had a grey coat and his red eyes stared through the darkness of the hood.

“Who are you?” Pinkie asked.

“...” The pony didn’t say.

“Sir, w-we thank you for helping to bring down Discord but who are-” Twilight asked before the pony turned and began trotting away.

“Hey! You can’t just walk away-” Rainbow said before he broke his silence.

“Shut up, my work here is done, I’ll take my leave,” He said.

“Hey! Yer not going anywhere until ya explain what the hay-” Applejack trotted after him but he unexpectedly spun and put his hoof against Applejacks chest.

“Huh?” Applejack said, before his hoof moved rapidly jabbed her sending her flying into a tree.

“Applejack!” Twilight called running to her.

“Consider that your warning,” The pony said.

“You- how dare you!” Rainbow lunged and flashed her fangs intending to take him down for hurting her friend.

The pony moved faster than her and struck Rainbow sending her flying into a bush.

“AGH!” Rainbow grunted.

“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted before she and Rarity turned and fired a magic blast at the pony who stood there and tanked it.

“Huh?” Twilight was surprised that he didn’t even stumble.

“Weak,” he said, before darting forward and knocking Rarity aside and grabbing Twilight and tossing her into Pinkie who caught her.

“I got you!” Pinkie said.

“Leave them alone!” Spike breathed fire on him but he walked through the fire and swatted Spike aside.

“AAAH!” Spike yelped.

“Spike!” Twilight called before turning to the pony angrily.

“Don’t hurt my brother!” Twilight fired an unrestrained blast which hit the pony and he had to put his guard.

When the blast ended Twilight panted, hoping that got him.

He was standing there his arms had some burns on them but apart from that he wasn’t dead.

“How?” Twilight.

“Better, you actually scorched me a little, but your still weak,” He said.

“STOP!” Fluttershy cried and he turned to see Fluttershy descending on him and grappling him.

“Hm?” He said.

“There’s no need to hurt eachother! We-” Fluttershy was cut off when he swiftly broke her grip and grabbed her by her neck.

“Ack!” Fluttershy choked.

“Half dragon half pony, fought both many times,” He said.

“Leave her alone!” Rainbow shot out of the bush sporting a black eye and she punched at him but he dodged it and caught her by the neck as well.

“You at least I won’t kill,” He said.

“Huh?” Rainbow said confused.

“Mother sends her regards,” He said and Rainbow’s eyes widened.

“No…” Rainbow said realizing what he was talking about.

“LET THEM GO!” A massive pink flame erupted nearby and he turned to see Pinkie coated in pink flames.

“Release them or meet your maker!” Pinkie said.

“Your kind I am not familiar with, I’m curious,” He tossed the Vampony and Kirin aside and trotted towards Pinkie.

Pinkie unleashed her sonic screech upon him and he stumbled a little but pressed on as she continued, even as blood dripped from his hood.

Eventually, he got close enough and he threw a punch, Pinkie threw a punch as well and it caused an explosion.

“Pinkie!” Twilight cried trying to get up, Rarity and Fluttershy stood by her and they saw the smoke part.

And Pinkie laid up against a tree as he stood over her.

“Your definitely the strongest one here, I actually had to try back there,” He raised his hoof to finish her.

“NO!” Twilight cried.

“Enough!” a voice roared and they all paused and turned to see a portal open and an old black stallion exited.

“Now what?” Twilight prepared herself.

“Cloud, you have overstepped yet again! If word get’s out we’re jeopardized!” The stallion snarled as he approached the newly named Cloud.

“Forgive me Lord Vel… I was about to finish this pony, and then take my-” He actually gave a gag of pain as the old stallion jabbed him in the gut.

“Your punishment waits for you back at the base, now go back, I’ll clean up your mess,” Vel said.

“Understood,” Cloud said getting up and limping towards the portal.

“And you…” Vel spun to Rainbow who looked up from where she was laying and her eyes widened.

“No…” Rainbow crawled backwards as he approached.

“Stop!” Fluttershy shouted as she and her friends ran forward to stop whatever he was going to do.

The stallion glanced at the charging ponies and simply stamped his hoof and a dark magic shockwave blasted them sending them flying.

“AAAAHHH!” The all cried as they hit the ground.

“Girls!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“You need to keep your mouth shut for now,” He then opened his mouth and a stream of dark magic flowed into Rainbow’s mouth when she wasn’t looking and made a symbol on her tongue.

“Huh?” Rainbow said.

“That’ll keep what happened here from getting out, if that’s not enough, remember what I’m capable of, if you want to still have friends left,” He got in close, “Stay out of our business, until it’s yours,” He growled.

“....” Rainbow didn’t say anything as he turned and trotted back towards the portal and vanished.

Rainbow then got up and trotted over to her unconscious friends.

Twilight woke up in the hospital.

“Huh?! Wha?!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Easy,” A stallion with a brown coat comforted her.

“What… where are my friends?” Twilight asked.

“You were all injured in your fight with Discord, Mrs. Rainbow Dash brought you all back,” He gestured to the other ponies lying in hospital beds, a few bruises and scratches and black eyes, nothing dangerous at least…

“Thank goodness,” Twilight sighed before going into thought "Where's Discord?" Twilight asked.

"You did quite a number on him, He's in a holding area, completely magicless." The doctor said.

"I need to question him," Twilight tried to get up but a pain in her side made her lay back down.

"You need to rest, some guards will be coming by soon to ask some questions soon," The doctor said.

"What about the Princesses?" Twilight asked.

"Discord confessed he stowed them in the underground of the Crystal Empire, Princess Cadance is working to free them now, they should be returning to Canterlot within the day," The doctor said.

Twilight should have calmed hearing that but something kept nagging at her.

“My name is Doctor Brown Wheel, but you can just call me Brown, if you need me just call,” He introduced himself before leaving.

Twilight laid her head back, and thought back to that encounter… who were those ponies? And… why does it feel like in some convoluted non-understandable way…. Are they familiar?

Author's Note

The next part.

Discord has been drained of his magic, and the evil forces are shown making their move.

But what was their purpose here? How did they know Discord was freed? Has the situation fixed itself? Or gotten worse somehow?

Tune in for the answers next chapter.