Inside of a pocket dimension filled with screens and void we see a blue translucent alicorn pacing back and forth, the being known as Harmony. “If I had known this would be the outcome I would’ve let those falling rocks crush the stupid elf. This is bad, I’m not sure if there’s no going back from this now…”

The screen she’s pacing in front of is displaying a scene from inside the Changeling throne room. There’s hundreds of drones prostrating themselves in front of the queen, silently offering prayers to the throne. Queen Chrysalis stands up as she feels herself swelling from a feeling even more potent than love, an energy more powerful than mana. Worship. “It’s actually true. You can receive a surge of power and overwhelming strength just from the reverence of a crowd of lings. Tell Drone 3405 aka Dr. Sentiment that he can pull out after two more weeks, and give him the same treatment we’d give a royal drone. This is the biggest discovery since the second queen learned how to establish the hive mind, truly no one can stop us now!”

She lets out a typical villain laugh before barking a few more orders to the drones closest to her. “I want someone to inform the Dragon Lord that the divinity experiment was a success. He’ll find out on his own anyways so it’s better to establish a level of trust between us. Also let’s get started on the construction of a few different rooms in the hive for worship. I want altars and statue depictions of myself in every room. From here on out the changeling hive has a new religion…”

Her eyes glow green as the room around her goes dark. “Me.”

The screen zips away into the void and is replaced by another screen. This one displaying a battered and bruised thestral chained up in a prison cell. Harmony watches as a Griffon and a Minotaur enter the cell block and walk up to the room containing the thestral.

“Alright bat. You’ve officially piqued my interest. What’s this world changing information you claim to have, and before you ask, yes, if the information is good I will release you.”

The familiar thestral that was once the Chancellor of the colony spits a wad of blood onto the stone floor and glares at the griffon for a few seconds before speaking. She’s trying to gauge if the hen will keep her word. “I saw it with my own eyes. My soldier was lifeless, the light had left her eyes, and she had grown cold. She was DEAD, and that bladesinger…somehow revived her. I thought it was an act of necromancy and was prepared to have her thrown out of the cave and killed, but she had a heartbeat. She acted the exact same. He legitimately retrieved the soul of a dead creature and returned it to its former body while breathing life back into said body.”

The griffon queen and the minotaur chieftainess glance at each other with wide eyes that quickly fold into concern. “And you're sure it was his own power? That’s not something the ancient bladesingers were known for.” The minotaur asks.

“It was either him or that blasted Princess… Luna. Apparently he claims to draw some level of power from her. If it were up to me I’d say they both need to be eliminated.”

The scene shifts and Harmony lets out a massive sigh as she stares at the new image displayed before her. “This one isn’t his fault, but I can only imagine this impending clash will turn the world upside down…”

This scene is of the very familiar Canterlot Garden, specifically on a collection of statues being moved from their obscure corner of the garden to an area with more foot traffic. Where they can now be properly displayed. One statue in particular that appears to be some serpent or wyvern with an assortment of different animals making up its limbs stands out more than the rest.

At the base of the statue the smallest of cracks begins to form, and instantly Harmony hears a voice she’d hoped she would never have to hear again.

“Ohhhh is it almost time?~ Time for me to make my rousing debut once more into the fray? This time no pesky alicorns or their silly trinkets will stop me. Wait, what is this? There’s an abundance of chaos right here in the castle. This creature is… an abomination. The one thing in this world I despise, organized Chaos. Harmony what have you been up to, hm? I thought I did a pretty good job of wiping out all of those annoying bladesingers, but I wake up eons later to find they have returned? Well it seems like it’s just one, but I did not think you would raise some type of monster like this.”

“I didn’t raise him, I don’t even know how he got here. He’s a complete outlier Discord, a threat to both of us. He’s already had a rippling impact on the future that endangers all of us.”

The creature is still encased in stone, but Harmony is familiar enough with him that she can tell he’s stroking his beard in thought right now. “That is very…interesting. Perhaps I should play with him first when I get out of this blasted prison you’ve trapped me in.”

“Maybe you can put him in his place, he refused to stay in line under my watchful eye.”

“Well of course, Harmonica. How can you keep something in line if all you do is look at it? Sometimes you need a more…direct approach.”

Harmony stops viewing any of the screens and continues pacing while thinking to herself. “The rise of divinity, the return of the God of Chaos, and the elf that shouldn’t exist. It’s almost like a sick joke because of how perfectly the cosmic stars had to align for this to happen. All of these beings needed to exist at the same time and interact with each other in a specific way, for us to reach this outcome. It might not have been predicted in my book but this is far too lucky to be a coincidence this has to be Fate. But why, why would Fate seek this outcome? Why thrust The Era of Gods upon us?”

Author's Note

Alright that pretty nicely sets us up for Season 2 I think? Now it's time for me to disappear for a week or two and reread my own story so I can fix all the grammar oopsies that I know have to exist, and also actually start an organized collection of notes keeping proper track of details I've revealed about certain characters, which plot threads are open, what important information do I need to make sure I don't contradict in a later chapter, stuff like that.

If I finish doing all of that early then I'll start writing again when I finish, I'm not disappearing because I want to take a break, I'm disappearing so I can make sure I'm tracking all the nonsense I got going on in the story so I don't fuck it up in season 2. Soon as that's finished I'm right back on the grind!

Thanks for everything homies, the kind comments, the feedback, the favorites and the thumbs ups and most of all...

THANKS FOR READING! <3 :D :D :D