A Villain Gets A Second Chance

In her own dimension...

Versa looks over Arthas's soul and sighs with relief at it returning to its previous brightness saying, "I sure hope that annoying stallion lets me relax for awhile. I swear it would be easier to raise a child than watching over that royal pain in the flank..."

By the time things return to normal between you and the girls, it is March and the royal guards have finally stopped checking the food for safety. With a sigh, you look at Twilight and say, "I swear...your mentor was just like you when you learned about that ordeal involving Andorhal, she actually started a panic with how thorough the guards were being. I can't believe that it got to the point where Luna had to calm everyone down, quite an interesting mentor you have..."

Twilight looks at you with a sigh and says, "I know, but you need to put yourself in her shoes and remember how peaceful this land is. You aren't in Azeroth anymore, so there aren't any villains that nasty." Then rolls her eyes and says, "So do yourself a favor and stop studying magic like you are preparing for things to hit the fan in a month!" Changing the subject, she then asks, "You better be careful when you help clean up winter, I don't want you missing out on anything fun because you were trying to punish yourself."

Rolling your eyes at her, you nod and say, "Yes mother... try to keep the mayhem to a minimum, okay? I don't want winter to stick around for another month."

She grabs your left ear and pulls it hard, saying with a frown, "Hey, it isn't like I go out of my way to cause trouble. I'm not as bad as the crusaders, you know!"

After she releases your ear, you smirk, asking, "Oh really? Then what about the incident with Mr. Smartypants...hmm?" Not getting an answer from her except for an annoyed snort, you chuckle as she trots away from you.

As you head into town, you see vests being handed out and approach the group and await your turn. Eventually reaching the front, you then ask the three ponies handing out vests and ask, "Where would my talents be best utilized?"

Applejack looks at you and chuckles saying, "Ah think ya'd be more helpful on the animals or plants team, but make sure that ya don't use magic, as it is town tradition to clean up winter without using magic at all."

Nodding, you ask, "It started because Ponyville was founded by Earth ponies, right?"

The farm pony nods with a smile and says, "Yup. Somepony's been studying."

You shake your head and then say, "Not really, it is kind of hard not to learn something when around the bookworm, she tends to ramble...a lot." Getting back to the matter at hand, you ask, "So where do you want me to start?"

Applejack hands him a green vest and chuckles, saying, "Nowhere yet, pardner. We will meet up and discuss what needs to be done once Mayor Mare gives her speech."

With a nod, you hear her tell you to hang around the City Hall until the mayor gives her speech as she needs to finish handing out vests and stand out in the open for the other ponies to gather around.

A few minutes later, after giving her speech, you look for where Applejack is and head over to her. When you get there, you listen to her give out instructions to the group. When you hear your name called out, you listen as she assigns you to a snow blade when you hear a song start up as Rainbow starts singing, "Three months of winter coolness, and awesome holidays." when she stops and Pinkie jumps in, singing, "We've kept our hoofsies warm at home, time off from work to play." You hear applejack chime in and sing, "But the food we've stored is running out, and we can't grow in this cold." You turn to Rarity when she continues the song, "And even though I love my boots, this fashion's getting old." You see Twilight trot past, singing, "The time has come to welcome spring and all things warm and green, but it's also time to say goodbye. It's winter we must clean, how can I help?"

Following the others to where the snow blades are as Twilight continues to sing, you head to an empty one and shift your form to that of an earth pony, then step into the contraption and watch other ponies hop in their own machines while joining in on the song before fastening a ring around their body and put their chest against the padded bar. Watching others do the same thing before pushing, you follow their example and fasten the ring around your barrel before looking at the lay of the land.

As you feel the urge to join in on the song, you squash it down and focus on making your way to the bottom of the hill. When you make it there, you wonder how you are supposed to lift the blade up when you see a lever on the right and see that it is connected to the blade through a string and pulley. Pulling the lever out of the slot and moving it up into the top one, you then look at the blade to see that it is up off the ground and start to back up to get turned around.

A couple hours pass when you are at the top of the hill and catch Twilight speaking to Applejack and frown, thinking, 'I sure hope she has the body strength to push a machine like this...'

Ten minutes pass by when you hear Twilight say to slow down, causing you to turn your head and look around curiously. You see her zip between two hills a short distance from you, only to hear a crash and back up to go see if they are okay. You are a few feet away from them and hear a deep, rumbling sound, causing you to look around to find that tons of snow up on the cliff a hundred yards away is rushing down towards you all and call out, "Everyone brace for the snow's impact!"

The avalanche of snow buries you and the other machine, rendering you unable to open your eyes as you grumble in irritation of being buried alive under snow. Forced to fight your way out of your ring and dig your way to the surface, you pop up out of the snowbank and look around to see Applejack glaring at Twilight and scolds her for using magic.

As the day wears on, your machine gets dug out and the others become more organized with Twilight's help, causing you to smile as you watch her find something to do. Clearing away the snow in a strip with a pony pulling a plow behind you, there's a pony planting seeds and another behind them covering the furrow. When all the plowing is done, you hear a bird chirp out a signal. Minutes later, you see a massive whirlwind pass through the sky, clearing away the clouds and sucking away the snow in its wake.

When everyone gathers, you listen to the mayor's speech as she is surprised that winter is on time for once. You then watch as she thanks Twilight for her skills by giving her a vest and the title of being the All-Team Organizer. As the mayor declares winter wrapped up on time, everyone around you starts cheering and join in. You then hear what Applejack says and look over to see Spike sleeping on a floating chunk of ice, causing you to chuckle, saying, "Poor Spike's gonna learn a lesson too, it seems."

Just over a week passes by as you notice strange, pink clouds zip through the sky over Ponyville, raining chocolate milk wherever they go. You watch as Twilight attempts to cast a spell, but it fails to do anything against the crazy clouds and the changed rabbits.

Twilight gasps as she turns to you, asking, "Can you do anything about this craziness?"

You think of all the spells you know, but shake your head and say, "Sorry, but most of what I know is mostly spells for offense or defense, or magical information that might let me dabble in spell creation."

Rainbow then asks you, "What about that thing you did to Prince Blueblood?"

Recalling what you did that night sends an uneasy chill through your body, causing you to shiver in displeasure and stammer, saying, "I-I-I...I can't."

Seeing the fear in your eyes, Fluttershy walks up as Rainbow asks you why not, looking into your eyes and asking, "What has you so scared? Did something go wrong when you did that?"

You shake your head and say, "I-It's too...dangerous."

Applejack then steps up and places her hoof on your shoulder and asks with a concerned look in her eyes, "What happened, pardner. No matter what it is or was, you can tell us and we won't leave you."

Bolstered by your friends reassuring you, you find the courage to tell them what really happened and say, "I...I grew so angry at how that snobbish, poor excuse of a prince treated the girl that was interested in him. My anger turned into rage and I...I lost control of myself as something within me channeled dark magic with the express purpose of being cruel without causing potential injury. I heard of how dangerous and seductive that dark magic is, and I don't...no...I can't let myself fall prey to one of my dark vices and risk returning to the very monster I am trying to overcome!"

Seeing him shudder and cry makes Fluttershy rush in and wrap her wings and forelegs around the stallion's scarred inner self, saying, "We will always be here to help you avoid that fate, doing whatever we can to stop you."

As the others voice their reassuring words, Twilight hears Spike belch out a letter and quickly picks it up. Reading it quickly as the others go quiet, she gasps and says hastily, "Princess Celestia wishes to see us all in Canterlot at once."

With nothing better to do, and being slightly curious, you then say, "Well then, lead the way, Twilight."

Once you get off the train at Canterlot, you follow the girls off and look around curiously at the mountain city.

Twilight looks over her shoulder at her friends to see them all keeping up with her, except for you, and speaks up, "Come on Blister, we don't have time for sightseeing!"

You hurry after the group up to Canterlot Castle and are ushered through the gates by the guards saying that the princess is waiting for you all in the throne room, rushing into the room to see Princess Celestia pacing back and forth with a concerned look on her face.

Princess Celestia stops in her tracks and turns to face them as she hears, "Princess Celestia, we came as fast as we could."

You hear the princess thank you all, followed by Twilight asking rapid fire questions if this was about the weird things happening around Equestria until she is silenced by Celestia putting up a hoof so that she can speak. When she asks you all to follow her, you nod as she heads up the stairs to a different part of the castle.

As she walks down the carpeted hall, she says, "I've called you here for a matter of great importance. It seems an old foe of mine, someone I thought I had defeated long ago...has returned. His name...is Discord."

You listen to her tell you about them and her history with Discord, followed up by them discovering the elements. When she then continues on, it annoys you slightly and makes you shift your attention to her rear. As you stare at it, something seems different to you about her as you think, 'I don't know what it is, but something about her seems different from last I saw her... Why isn't her flank jiggling with each step?' It then hits you as you grin, thinking, 'Oh, so she lost weight...though her rump is still fairly sizeable though. At least I can barely see she has wings, though what is a much better view is not obstructed by her flowing tail.'

Celestia continues to tell them how the spell holding him broke when they became the new element bearers, catching a glimpse of Arthas gazing intently at her backside. She averts her eyes back forward as she secretly wishes her tail didn't flow in the air now, stopping at the door at the end and turning her flank to the right, saying, "This is the Canterlot Tower, where the elements are kept inside since you all recovered them."

As she turns to face you while hiding a light blush on her face, you hear her kindly tell the girls they must use the elements again to put an end to Discord's mischief. When you hear Pinkie Pie try to reason with her own insanity, trying to save the chocolate rain, you shake your head with a chuckle before your joyful mood is dashed by getting a flashback of how you betrayed everyone you cared for.

Moments pass as you look upon a jeweled case that Rarity fawns over, only to see it open and be empty. Minutes pass by as you watch the others as they look at the empty box, trying to figure out what happened when you think, "What obviously happened, was that someone must have beat you to the punch."

She gasps as she then rhetorically asks, "But how is that possible, that chamber is protected by a powerful spell that only I can break. This doesn't make any sense..."

Discord watches them from one of the window panes, laughing maniacally at their plight, saying, "Making sense, hoh? What fun is there in making sense?"

You watch the Draconequus flit from window to window, appearing as one of the illustrations and taunting the princess. Raising your eyebrow at Discord saying how grim Celestia can be, you chuckle in your mind and think, 'If you think she is grim, just wait until you meet me...'

As the Draconequus admits to 'borrowing' the elements he eventually gets to his plan, saying, "To find your missing elements, just make sense of this change of events... Twists and turns are my master plan, then find the elements back where you began."

While you think over the riddle, you instinctively think of an answer, 'Could he possibly mean the ruined castle? Before I jump to any conclusions, I better see what they come up with.'

Twilight wanders around the room, trying to figure the puzzle out when she stops by the window and says triumphantly, "That's it! I bet Discord hid the elements in the palace labyrinth." She then sees you lost in thought and asks, "What did you come up with Blister?"

Pulled out of your idle musings, you look at Twilight and say, "Well, with how it was worded...I thought that the answer might lie at the old castle."

Thinking it over, she says, "That would make sense, but Discord said that there was no fun in making sense. So I doubt that they might be there, our best bet would be in the maze."

You think back on what he said and then say, "Hmm...very true, you make a good point. The maze might be the true answer, but what if for some reason, he would do the last thing you expect he would?"

Twilight mulls it over thoughtfully for a few moments, saying, "Why don't we handle both ideas at once? The girls and I can check out the labyrinth, while you can go investigate the old castle!"

Celestia looks at them all with hopeful eyes and says, "Good luck, my little ponies. The fate of Equestria is in your hooves."

As you follow Twilight down the hall, she heads a different way and stops to wish you good luck. As the others do the same, you wish them luck in return and say, "The creatures of the Everfree would be wise to be wary of me, so worry not Fluttershy."

Just before following the others down the corridor, Fluttershy rushes towards you and nuzzles her muzzle against yours affectionately, breathing in your smell before pulling away and saying, "Please be careful and try not to hurt them too badly, okay?"

You smell her floral smell and chuckle, saying, "Don't worry, I will only give them a bump on the head unless they mean me serious harm." She then turns and takes off after her friends, leaving you alone to continue your journey to the ruined castle.

The journey back is pretty uneventful as you make your way through the forest, arriving at the old castle a half hour later and say, "Alright, time to head in and see if they are here."

Heading through one of the doors, you look upon the monument to see nothing there and sigh, saying, "It seems I was wrong, I need to go catch up to them in the labyrinth."

Discord snaps his fingers and appears on the top of the monument, lounging comfortably as he laughs, saying, "Oh hoh hoh...to the contrary, young stallion. Why would you leave when the fun is just getting started..." then snaps his fingers to lock the doors shut and put a candy barricade up, then disappears to watch the fun unfold.

With a huff, you attempt to blast a hole through the doors with a destructive spell. When the bolt hits the door, it ricochets off and hits the ceiling. Watching the bolt as it races towards you, you jump out of the way and hear something explode into rubble behind you. Turning around to look, you spot that one of the destroyed columns is now just a pile of rocks, saying, "What the..."

Amused by your failed attack, he laughs harder and says, "Oh what a shame that didn't work, as the candy barrier is magic resistant. Why not try something else?"

Annoyed with his games, you walk up to the door and turn your rear towards it, shifting your appearance into that of an earth pony. Pushing your rear into the air, you strike the door with all your strength and are rewarded with a bone jarring shock that runs back up your body.

Discord wails out laughing as your body vibrates from the blowback, saying with tears in his eyes, "HOH that was spectacular, DO IT AGAIN!"

When you regain feeling back in your body, you ignore him and head toward another part of the castle to search it.

He watches with amusement as you wander the castle, looking for a way out and triggering some of his traps along the way. Eventually making your way further into the castle, Discord says, "Awe, don't let yourself get discouraged, for you might yet find the secret door out of here." Seeing the annoyance on your face, he chuckles and then snaps his fingers, saying, "Fine then, be that way, allow me to try to cheer you up with a party instead."

As the sounds of heavy armor makes its way to your ears, you summon forth Spellmourne and prepare for a fight. When you see a dozen armored ponies approaching, a second look tells you that it is just empty armor and sigh with relief. When they draw their own weapons and charge you, you react by charging a slash attack with the sword that cuts the ancient heavy breastplates in half.

Discord watches with interest as he sees you react with violence against the puppets, destroying each set of armor with a flourish of powerful cuts sent through your sword. When the last armor is defeated, he claps sarcastically, saying, "Well done, well done indeed. I would love to stay and play with you more, but I have guests to entertain elsewhere. Be sure to enjoy my parting gifts as you search for a way out. Ta-ta." He then snaps his fingers and disappears in a puff of smoke, heading over to the labyrinth to undermine the magic the elements have against him.

You then call out angrily, "You better not do anything to my friends or terrible things will happen!" Unfortunately, you hear no response and sigh exasperatedly, saying, "What a pest...let's get back to finding a way out of here."

Spending a long time in the castle, you discover a variety of curious things, such as a library filled with old books, some extremely annoying escape paths that lead to empty rooms, and of course numerous traps. Feeling hungry, you stumble upon a wooden cabinet and open it casually, only to jump aside as a very dark object jumps out at you. When you close the cabinet and turn around, you eyes spot that what attacked you was, in fact, a cake. Looking at your opponent with disbelieving eyes, saying, "Seriously...? I have to defend myself against a confection?"

Just then, the dark chocolate and strawberry icing cake leaps at you from its silver plate, snarling savagely at you through the mouth formed from one side of its four layers.

Performing a roll to dodge the attack, you cut the cake in half while swiftly levitating the silver platter behind you and watch as the cake lands safely on it with a wet plop, saying, "I believe that I will show this weird thing to Celestia."

Continuing on with your search, you discover a secret 'play room' and assume it is for one of the sisters. Eventually, you are walking down a corridor when you feel a click from under you, saying, "Crap..." Jumping back hastily to avoid the death trap, you wait for the attack until you watch a sandwich appear from the side of the wall. Staring at the sandwich hungrily and curiously, you use your magic to lift it up and flip it over before setting it back down. Unsure if it is safe to eat yet, you pry the two halves apart and wait for it to attack you. A few minutes pass before you decide it is safe and eat it, testing the button again to see if it would happen again.

After eating a few sandwiches, you are no longer hungry and wander the catacombs some more, eventually managing to find a path out at the bottom of a ravine, smiling and saying, "I'm finally out, I'm on my way to help you girls. Looking up at the sheer wall of rock, you groan and say, "I will have to find the time and let Rainbow teach me how to fly."

You watch day turn into night as you search for a good way up to the top, then see it turn back into day. Unable to tell time robs you of knowing how long you have been in the old castle, finally able to climb your way out of the ravine. Panting heavily, you look down the ravine in victory...only to find that it has become a small crack in the ground. Your anger builds as you become further annoyed with Discord, turning your gaze to where you know Ponyville to be and make your way back into the dark forest.

Creatures scurry away from you as you walk through the forest along a forgotten path, not in the mood to play games any longer. It takes you a few minutes to return to Ponyville as you see the girls approach Discord with the necklaces on, realizing something is wrong as Rainbow Dash is not there. Spike is there instead and the other girls all seem to be more greyish than you remember, which draws a scowl to your face as you realize he has done something to the girls.

Walking towards Discord, you call forth Spellmourne and continue towards him slowly as you watch the girl's elements glow for a moment before vanishing, leaving them to fall to the ground. Moments later, you watch as the girls argue and go their separate ways, greatly concerning you. When Twilight turns gray herself, you watch Discord talk with her for a moment before jumping for joy and skating off on a watery road.

Changing your course to go check on Twilight, you stop her from going inside her library home by putting your right hoof to her cheek, asking, "What's wrong, Sparklebutt?"

Depressed and grey, Twilight looks at you with a faint flicker of a smile, saying, "My friends are all being jerks to me, so I am heading back to Canterlot. I don't need you abandoning me too, so goodbye."

Her words are like a knife to your heart, but you ignore it as she tries to turn away. Keeping your hoof on her cheek, you force her to keep looking at you. Wanting to get some reaction out of her, you move in and place your lips against her. Slipping your tongue into her mouth, you feel her lazily slide her tongue around yours and pull away to see if it had any effect on her. Seeing nothing at all, hearing only a sigh escape her lips spurs you into a last ditch attempt as you look her square in the eyes and ask, "Sparklebutt, could we talk about trying for children?"

She barely blushes at hearing that and sighs deeper, saying with a shake of her head, "What's the point...I need to go pack."

Watching her turn away from you hurts you deeply, making you slowly turn to find out where the laughter is coming from. Once you see Discord dancing around, seeing him makes your heart burn with rage as you remember everything he put you through and what he did to your friends. Your grip on Spellmourne tightens as you frown while walking up to him with ice cold eyes, saying in a chilly tone, "You are to blame for all of this."

Discord snaps his fingers and sits down in a throne, then summons forth a drink to celebrate his victory as he turns to the snow white pony, saying, "We meet again, Snowy Stallion. Did you enjoy my parting gifts? OOHH, have you come to congratulate me on my victory over the Elements of Harmony?!"

In her own dimension...

Versa watches the events with a groan as she tries to calm his raging soul down, having very little effect, causing her to begin to fear for her little ponies as she imagines what would become of Equestria or the world if he is not calmed down. Not wanting to fail, she hastily shouts into Princess Celestia's mind, "DO SOMETHING TO SAVE ARTHAS!"

Hearing the shout causes her to spew her tea into the air and drop her crumpet as she looks around wide-eyed for who just yelled at her. Seeing no one around her, she races off to her room to do something to help her subjects out.

Back in Ponyville

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You look up at Discord with a creepy smile and a dark chuckle as you hear music play around you, saying, "I came here for a very special reason, a once in a lifetime chance event. So tremble in fear and scream in pain, for I shall soon introduce myself to you..."

Discord sits upon his throne as the music continues, rolling his eyes and scoffing while saying, "Ugh, how droll..."

"It was many years ago that they knew my name, I'm the biggest villain of the killing game. People say what I did was wrong but I didn't care, I tried to cure something that plagued 'em everyday." As you start singing, you shrug your shoulders and rise onto your back hooves a moment, you bend your forelegs and hold your hooves upside down to either side in an unknowing gesture. Returning to the ground on all fours, you keep singing without missing a beat, "When their light goes out and placed in the ground, that's when I would come around. Creatures all across the lands would run in fear at seeing me nearby."

Something about the song makes him wanna back away, but he doesn't want to leave his throne behind.

As you stand still and stare into his eyes with a sinister smile, you keep singing, "Run, run, run! They way they move, make you feel fear, fear, fear! It makes us wanna scream, scream, scream! Before you break, running in terror like everyone else. Graves empty as I visit each one and I can raise them all, which truly is easier than blinking an eye. They all heard from where I came, but they knew I'm the king of undead from a world far more cruel than this. When the people scream and the children hide, that's when you know I'm nearby. As you hear the sound of uncountable screams, I'm likely attacking a bigger city." Taking a moment, you close your eyes to let yourself slowly shift back into your original form as the music keeps going for several seconds. Grabbing your sword with a spinning flourish, you hold the sword down towards the ground. Lifting the sword up, you hold it upright as if in a formal duel, then move your arms to the side in a gracious bow, saying, "Apologies for failing to introduce myself, for I am Arthas Menethil...King of Icecrown Citadel in the frozen wastes of another world." Straightening back up and not missing a beat, you add, "You will learn to fear my wrath..."

Unaware of what is happening outside, Twilight reads through scroll after scroll of her friendship reports, slowly regaining the color that drained out of her and saying with realization in her eyes, "Spike, Spike! It's all so clear now, don't you see?" She holds him up while standing on her hind hooves, saying, "Discord's trying to distract us all from what is important!"

Finding this amusing, he laughs loudly and claps, saying, "Marvelous singing! Now that was very entertaining!"

With your anger controlling you once again, you channel dark magic into your sword saying in your dark, menacing voice, "DO YOU FIND THIS FUNNY TO YOU?!" then thrust it up into the air and cast a massive barrier that surrounds Sweet Apple Acres and the outskirts of Ponyville.

Still chuckling, Discord snaps his fingers while saying, "This is so pathetic, my magic overpowers everything..." When nothing happens, he looks around at the deep blue indigo shield wreathed in azure fire and says, "Huh..."

As he snaps his fingers a few more times, it does nothing at all as you see a shocked look on his face as he wonders what is going on, saying to him, "What's wrong, science experiment...did your magic finger break?"

He smiles nervously at you and chuckles, saying, "Oh of course not, after all, I can still do things like this..."

You watch him follow your sword and go to snap his fingers, but beat him to an attack and drive Spellmourne into the ground. Casting a wide freezing blast, you see his snap fail once again and chuckle darkly.

Twilight leaves the house to go find Applejack, completely oblivious to the massive shield or you fighting Discord with dark magic, saying, "I'm coming for you all, girls!"

Discord's hooves freeze in place, causing him to sweat nervously for a bit before trying his magic again. Managing to free himself from the ice, he looks down at it curiously to see it still intact and asks, "Well, well, it seems that you wield some strange kind of magic, Arthas. Do tell me what it is."

With a dark chuckle, you pull your sword out of the ground and bring it back, saying, "What is the fun in telling you when I can show you!" then swing it sideways and send forth a fast indigo slash right at Discord.

Barely having time to blink, he jumps aside and cries out in pain, shouting, "YEOWWW!" Putting his left claw to his side, he hisses in pain before bringing it up to look at. Seeing that he is bleeding for the first time in a very long time causes him to gasp and look at you in fear for a moment before getting angry, saying, "You...are going to pay for that!"

After catching her last friend, Twilight then starts a group hug, saying, "I'm so glad that I got you all back." until she sees a group of dancing buffalo in tutus pass by and says, "Perhaps it is too soon for a group hug."

Looking around, Fluttershy doesn't see you anywhere as she asks, "Uh girls, do any of you know where Blister is at?"

Rainbow is about to reply when something tall and blue races their way, shouting, "WOAH, GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Seeing her friends in danger of being hit, she yanks them aside to safety.

Twilight looks at Rainbow with a concern and asks, "Rainbow, what was that for?"

She points to a spot a few feet away and says, "W-Well, look for yourself."

Turning her head to look, she hears the others wonder what caused the massive clean-cut gash in the ground beside them. A pained shout then catches her attention as she says, "Let's go find out what is going on girls."

When they get close enough, Applejack looks on in shock as she watches you fighting Discord, saying, "Uhm girls, is it just me, or does Discord seem to be in pain?"

Fluttershy looks closer and gasps, saying, "He is in pain, I can see blood running down his left side from a cut."

They all gasp at seeing the cut in his left side and watch you thrust your sword down into the ground, shouting, "SUFFER FOR THE MISERY AND PAIN YOU CAUSED MY FRIENDS!"

You watch with glee as Discord screams out in agony as black lightning races through his body, pulling your sword out of the ground to cease the attack only to thrust it forward and send out a blast of frost.

Rainbow watches the fight with awe and says, "Do we even need to help him here? This fight seems a little bit one sided..."

Twilight gulps and says, "Our friend needs our help to save him, just look at his face underneath his helm...he is inflicting pain while smiling widely."

Applejack then nods and says, "Your right, Twilight, that isn't the pony we know. The pony we know doesn't like inflicting pain upon others."

The cyan pegasus then looks at the others and asks, "So...any idea as to how we are going to stop him?"

An idea comes to the farm pony's mind after a moment, saying, "Well, ah could have Twilight throw me at him and ah could use my strength to knock him off his feet and then take that opportunity to seal away Discord."

Twilight smiles and then nods, saying, "I like that plan, let's go kick some sense into our thick-headed friend."

When Discord narrowly avoids being struck by your magical attacks, he is blown to the ground once more. He scrambles onto his back just in time to see you drive your sword into the ground, watching with fear-filled eyes as another blast of icy snow is unleashed at him. He tries to scramble away, but finds himself unable to and looks down to see his arms and legs frozen to the ground.

As you stomp up to him, you watch with glee as he can't run away anymore and drive your sword into the ground right between his lower legs to send another bout of black lightning through his body just to hear his screams. Once you finish channeling the spell, you yank your sword free and look down at the Draconequus, seeing his body shake violently before moving to stand over him, saying, "Prepare to die and rise again...as a slave."

Watching you raise your sword in slow motion, Discord loses control of his body and pisses himself in fear, stammering, "N-No...I-I don't want to die." He then screams, "SOMEPONY PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THIS MONSTER!" As the sword starts to descend toward his chest, his heart hammers in is chest. When the sword's tip pierces the skin on his stomach, he watches as a pair of light orange hooves slowly slam into your helmet. The pony keeps moving sideways from the force as it sends his would-be killer off balance, in fact, it completely knocks you off your feet. Watching as you sail a few feet through the air and hit the ground, not moving for several seconds, he snaps his head back around and sees that it was Applejack who spared him.

Rainbow watches with a smirk as Discord pulls himself free from his restraints, asking sarcastically, "Close one wasn't it?"

Escaping his restraints and returning to his hooves, he coughs away his embarrassment. Bringing out a glass and fills it with chocolate milk. After drinking the glass itself down, he tosses the milk away into the distance, causing a big explosion, saying, "Oh it's you girls again, haven't you learned your lesson the last time?"

The cyan pegasus then huffs and says, "Hey, we just saved your life bub!"

Discord scoffs and says, "Oh please, I was simply waiting to spring a nasty surprise on him. Oh...chaos is a wonderful thing."

Twilight then says, "Not as wonderful as friendship."

You wake up with a splitting headache and a loud ringing in your ears, causing you to groan in discomfort asking, "Did someone see the train that slammed into me?"

Pinkie gigglesnorts at hearing that and says, "That wasn't no train, that was Applejack being thrown by Twilight's magic!"

Applejack sees you look around with squinted eyes, saying with a light chuckle, "Sorry about having to kick you so hard, pardner, but we had to stop you from doing something bad to Discord."

Everything comes back to you as you sigh, feeling ashamed of yourself for losing control, saying, "Thank you, girls, I am extremely grateful that you stopped me before I ended his life. I owe you all so much for stopping my rage."

Twilight then smiles and shakes her head, saying, "You don't owe us a thing, Blister, that is just what friends do."

A week later, you are heading back to Canterlot for a ceremony to congratulate the ones who saved Equestria. Not hearing your name on the letter earlier, the girls still made you come with. Making your way towards the hall, you look back at them and say, "I will cheer you girls on when you walk up there." Heading towards the doors, you look to the guards as they prepare to open both doors and stop them by saying, "Oh I'm not with them, I'm just here to watch the ceremony and cheer on the ones who saved the day."

Celestia sees the door open a little as you walk in and take a seat at the back, smiling at how her plan is unfolding. When the doors open wide, she hears the trumpets play their fanfare for the heroes as they make their way up the aisle toward her.

As Twilight waves at Spike from the ramp, she watches Celestia look at the crowd behind her with a chuckle, then hears her say, "I realize you are not overly fond of crowds, but I kindly ask that you come forth and join the others."

Silently huffing, you grumble under your breath, "Damn you sunbutt..." You then feel the eyes of everypony fall upon you as they whisper to each other in hushed tones, thinking, 'This had better be good or she won't be getting what I found in the dungeon...'

Once you are standing behind the others, Celestia then raises her wings to signal for silence and says, "We are gathered here today to once again honor the heroism of these six friends, and a new friend they had made since then, who stood up to the villain Discord and saved Equestria from eternal chaos." With a smirk to her student, she uses her magic to pull a curtain back to reveal a new window featuring the six girls plus you wielding Spellmourne...in your humanoid, armored form.

You look at the window, then turn back to Celestia with a raised brow, saying wordlessly, 'Hiding the truth a bit, aren't you?'

As she hears the crowd cheering happily, she smiles mischievously, then turns her nose up a little at him, wordlessly responding, 'My sister, the girls, and Spike, all agreed on this. Besides, you have no say in what happens in a world where we have the final say.'

Groaning in annoyance, you hear Rainbow whisper to you, "Like it? I think you and that sword look awesome up there, though it was Twilight's suggestion that you be added to the display in your human form."