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Prologue: A cackle in the dark

If you're going through hell, keep going.

~ Winston Churchill

The draconequus sits on the throne of the abyss he calls home. He shifts in his throne uncomfortably as he lies there waiting for the chance of escape from his eternal prison.

        “Another day in this wretched prison. Carelessly thrown in here like a broken doll to the dogs.” The beast summons a bottle and drinks it dry. “ A princess of peace and harmony condemns me to be locked stone, twice! You'd think she’d at least be more original the second time.” He let’s go of the bottle as it evaporates into thin air. “Well at least she left me some powers, but peering into Equestria seems more of a punishment then a gift. It only let’s me see how utterly boring the world is” He raises his hand. “But I might as well check what my little ponies are doing anyways.” As he waves his hands in a spherical motion an orb of purple energy appears. The misty ball clarifies into a picture of a group of fillies playing in a field. “Life as always, boring, nothing interesting ever happens without me.” He stands from his chair and it disappears behind him. “I do not deserve to be here! I am Discord!” The orb picture changes to a town being ravaged by freak natural disasters. “ This is closer to what my world would be like, but noooo Celestia had to keep everything ‘normal’, and what’s worse I’m only here because of her lackeys. Six little ponies, Weak and feeble, not only resist, but overtake me as well!  I am the god of chaos, not a weakling to be defeated! I will not stand for this! I will escape this infernal rock!”

        With the anger of his imprisonment festering in his mind, he contemplated a way out. “I’m the god of chaos and I can’t even get out of a statue!” He summons a table and slams his fist into it causing it to creek and whine. “The idea I could be held down in stone is implausible. Nothing is escape proof.” Then an idea emerges into his mind. “If I can’t break out of my prison, maybe I can break into a new world?” With a crazed sneer plastered on his face, he takes his claw in rips through the air.

        A portal of blue light opens where his claw was a moment before. “You think you can hold me down Celestia. I’ll be back, and this time with a few new friends” With that he steps through Laughing maniacally.

*********

        “ Are you mad?!”

        “Why yes I am.” Retorted Discord calmly.

        Five ponies and Discord are standing in a ruined castle as if holding a meeting. They surround a table with various nonsensical document strewn across it, as if a baby had smacked a keyboard with a writing program running.

        “We covered this a few minutes ago, Heinz.” sighed a gray stallion with his hair in a bun to the white unicorn. He was growing tired of the silence that they sat in, and was glad to speak.

        “Ich weiß, du und wissen der Mensch. Es war für Betonung.”

        “What did you say to me, German?” The black unicorn was agitated. He felt that talking so none understand is as bad as insulting him behind his back, and for all he knew he just did.

        “If I didn’t fight alongside your kin I'd kill you where you stand.” Heinz said getting into his face.

        “I’d like to see you try.” The gray unicorn levitated two katanas in a battle stance in preparation for Heinz.

The stark white unicorn stepped back a bit from the samurai. He hadn’t had expected him to retaliate so, severely.

        “Don’t be killing each other now,” The deep voice of the American marine rang out like thunder,  “ Although I might want to kill this german as well.” He said with a sarcastic smile.

        “Quit the act. We all know you're a cowardly traitor.” said the Samurai shortly.

        The green earth pony took a step back, but still replied, “Well at least I don’t keep my hair in a girl’s Braid.”

        A purple pegasus flew just above the army pony, “What’s wrong with women, you pompous jarhead,” the she retorted as she started to fly above the round table. She really enjoyed her newfound wings. They granted an amazing feeling of freedom.

        The stallion with the bright red mane, Heinz, shifted slightly to find something to say in the ever growing insanity, but his train of thought was derailed by the draconequus .“Will you all shut up! You’re all going to give me a migraine.” Everypony turned to Discord.

        “Not till you explain what’s happening.” The ex-CIA pegasus said flying up to Discord’s face. “Like what these marks on our butts are.”

        “Those are cutie marks and for future reference that is your flank” He said while picking up the pegasus and dropping her back into her place. At his current size he stood about four times as tall as the rest of the ponies in the room.

        The black unicorn looked discord in the eyes and said “And what are these ‘cutie   marks’ .”

        Discord looked to the misfit group of soldiers, questioning why in the world he picked them, “They are, Mr.Daichi, your talent. Every pony has one, but I haven’t the time to explain further”

        The entire group looked up to him in disbelief. All they had been doing for the last hour was nothing. He acted as if he had too much time.

        Heinz decided it was time for answers. “So why are we here in the first place?” demanded the german.

        “You did see me rip you out of your normal dimension and time and put you into this place right?”

        Heinz’s anger was festering, but he held it back. He understood full well that who or whatever this thing  was it was immensely powerful. He was the equivalent of a god here and the way he put he was one. The god of chaos and madness and Heinz very much enjoyed his sanity, “I meant why you did that.” He said holding back a yell from the idiotic dragon thing.

Discord looked towards Heinz. “Oh that. Well you’re here to wreak havoc. You see I really hate this place.”

        “Then why are you here.” grumbled the American.

        “Oh shut up, Hugo! He meant the world not the castle. You really are an idiot aren’t you Hugo” Shouted the pegasus. She then proceeded to ask another question. “Secondly, where are we?”

        Discord flicked something from his finger as if bored of the conversation. “This is the origin of my demise.”

        Hugo scratched his head, “Well ,that’s a little cryptic.” said Hugo looking extremely confused.

        Discord looked angrily at the less than bright american.“This was the last resting place of the Elements of Harmony. Fabled items of power. Sent me to a prison of stone. Ring any bells”

        The group surveyed the old, broken down castle. “This is where the Elements of Harmony were kept?” asked an even more puzzled Hugo. He hated riddles, jokes, people who make jokes, and clowns. This thing was a combination of all those thing.

        “No, Hugo, this is where they were hidden. This would be the last place you would look for such fabled items of power.” answered the purple pegasus appalled by hugo’s ignorance.

        “You are correct, Flare” says Discord finally feeling like he picked at least one intelligent mind.

        The final pony looked out from his deep purple hood and began to speak, “Can we end the pleasantries?” sneered Vex “and tell us why the hell we’re here”

        “Be respectful in front of your commander” barked Daichi.

        He looked to the samurai “I didn’t volunteer for this, and I don’t follow you ‘honor bound’ leadership code. I’m a mercenary. A hitman. What I do is kill for coin. ” Vex looked back up to Discord “Just tell me what to do, I’ll do it then put me back. That’s all I want. Being in a place filled with brightly colored, magical ponies,” He said the last word with disgust, “ doesn’t quite fill me with, what’s the word, glee.”

        “To answer Vex’s question,” Discord said ignoring the last half of vex’s speech, “you are here to raise an army. Then proceed to take control of  Equestria. Try to keep most towns in one piece, no point in ruling when everything is destroyed.” He chuckled, “You each will command your own army or work by yourselves. I truly don’t care how you do it just get it done.”

        Flare looked at him suspiciously, “what's the catch? With your type of power you would have done this by now.”

        “Well you’ll have to deal with the ponies who defeated me, witch is no easy task.” He burned with the memory. “but you will have the Knowledge and the technology from each of your times, and you lack my one flaw,” Discord paused, “my weakness to harmony. I am literally the embodiment of all things chaotic. There for harmony, my opposite, is the only thing capable of subduing me.”

        “And how are we to ‘raise an army’?” questioned Heinz.

        “Well that is entirely up to you. Be it dark, underhanded, or just plain evil I don’t care. Actually I would encourage it”

        Vex looked up to Discord smiling at himself and the plans he now held in his mind “Well this should be fun”

***

A chill runs down the Princess’ back, as she feels some type of disturbance. Something unnatural. Something that shouldn’t, no couldn’t be.

She looks to Luna at the far side of the throne room distress on her face. “Luna do you

feel that?”

        Luna seems to be snapped out of a trance. She shakes her head “Yes, I do. It’s strange”

        Celestia tries to interpret the wave of energy but it seems otherworldly, completely alien even to her.“I can’t tell what it is, can you?”

        “No. That alone is” She pauses to think, “unsettling”

        Celestia nods to her sister.

        Before more could be said the massive throne room doors burst open. A sweaty brown earth pony comes in. He seemed to have run all the way up for even his green tie was drenched in sweat.

        “ Celestia, Luna! We have bad news!” he pauses huffing. “I thought I was is shape” he panted under his breath.

        Celestia looked to the pony before them amused, but the feeling quickly fades, “Yes Doctor, we know something’s wrong, but what is even beyond us” They had gotten used to the Doctors outbursts. He always seemed to be around when there was trouble. He was like a magnet to disaster, or disaster was a magnet for him.

A smile creeps on the Doctor’s face “Well I might be able to help” He turns his head to the door. He stops and calls  “Ditzy come in here.” He looked absolutely bubbling with knowledge, trying to hold it in for the right time. The princesses had learned that his favorite pastime was babbling about things most didn’t comprehend.

The light gray pegasus walks in with a scroll of paper in her mouth “Hmf mumf mumf” She spits the scroll onto a table. “I mean, yes Doctor.”

“Thank you Ditzy” The Doctor rolls out the sheet of paper and waits for the royal sisters to get close. “A trans dimensional rift opened and closed itself right about here” pointing to a dot on the map. “and here” Pointing to another place. “This boggles my mind. This should be almost impossible” He say’s this almost to himself. He looks back to the princesses. “A trans dimensional rift is basically a hole where a pathway between two dimensions are formed. Not only is that extremely hard to do, but also dangerous if not done correctly. It’s like the dimensions are like a big thing of glass and the rift is made by throwing a rock through the glass. Eventually it shatters, but you could go around the glass. That takes such an immense amount of energy it’s almost impossible, but whoever did this did that. Whatever we’re up against is very powerful.”

        Taking a closer look at the map Celestia realizes something. “It opened in the royal garden, and” she stops “the ancient castle”

Luna looks to her sister confused “Why would they open at the castle, sister?”

        Pondering this herself she answered “I don’t know. It would depend on what they’re doing”

The doctor clears his throat “There is still more. You see the one in the garden opened first. Three hours later the second appeared. After they opened they closed themselves up almost instantaneously, after of course the beings passed through.”

“Do you know who, or what did this Doctor?” asked Luna

“Um” He pauses embarrassed  “No. I did do a scan though. They appear to be ponies, but have subtle differences. One of them however matched no description of magical creatures or ponies I could find. They don’t make sense because ,If my hunch is, right they shouldn't even exist in this dimension.”

“Go on Doctor what’s your guess?”

“Well you know I’m not from here, right celestia” He seemed to be beating around the bush. Unsure whether to tell them

“Yes. It’s not hard to tell”

        “Well I’m not even from your dimension”

        “Go on”

        “I’m from a place where the common evolutionary path was, well to be blunt, apes.”

        “Apes?” asked Luna

        “Yes I said apes. Hairless sentient apes. Much like ponies actually. Asides from different shapes and the lack of magic you and them are very similar”

Celestia pondered on this “I see, but If they are like us what is the threat?”

“Not all of them are peaceful. Unlike you they are prone to war and bloodshed, but they always found a way to survive.”

Luna was puzzled by all this. “So how did they get here. Obviously it’s possible because here you stand. Also if there apes there, why ponies here”

The doctor thought about the questions. “Well I’m a pony because of something called regeneration. My TARDIS scanned the surrounding area found the most earth like planet and well basically downloaded your genetic structure into my D.N.A. Why they are ponies, though, is beyond me. How they got here is also a mystery. It would take tremendous power to do it. Is there any being on this planet that strong?”

A sudden realization struck Celestia. She knew who it was. “Luna get the guards, I think we’ll have problems soon.”

***

The doors once again crash open to the throne room. A dark gray pegasus, almost the color of storm clouds, limps into the room. His left, hind leg, chest and face are all cut. His black mane ruined by the wind. “Celestia...” He falls to the floor before finishing.

It took a minute to register what was happening. She walked over to the stallion “Thunderclap, you overworked yourself again” Celestia concentrates and heals him with her magic. “Thunderclap what happened?”

        Thunder's eyes open. He’s weak but the magic was still flowing through him, giving him strength. “Baltamare has fallen”

        “Fallen, fallen to who? Who would attack us?”

        He feels stronger now. The magic of the alicorn was strong. “We don’t know, but they had strange weapons that let even earth ponies attack from afar. it was an absolute massacre. Only are best pegasi and unicorns could even touch them.”

        Celestia looked sadly at Thunderclap. “it worse than I thought.” She puts her full attention back to Thunderclap. “Thunderclap have you regained your strength?”

        He stands and taps his once injured leg on the floor. “I think so”

        “Good, I need you to lead a war party into the Everfree”

        “A war party? Why? We haven’t had a war in equestria for over a hundred years.”

        “I’ll explain later. Just be prepared for more of the soldiers you fought before”

        “Yes ma'am. I’ll assemble the party”He trots away with determination in his eyes.

        Celestia walks to the window and looks up to the bright moon. She sends a flare up. Several minutes later Luna flies down to the balcony.

        “Yes sister, you needed me?”

        “ Luna I have discovered what has truly happened. The ponies who came from ‘another dimension’ were here for conquest.”

        “But there were so few of them. How could they do any harm.”

          “They must have recruited some ponies, but the fact that there were so few means that not all of their kind wanted to do this. Which sadly only improves on my growing suspicion.”

        “What are you suggesting sister?” Luna asked hoping it wasn’t what she thought.

        “We are going to bring one here. We do not stand a chance alone. We do not know are enemies”

         Being confirmed in what she really already knew, she started to protest “ No this is a bad idea. Bringing one of them here will just strengthen them! We can’t trust the pony we bring here.”

        “We will take one with sympathy. With a good hart. Most importantly a strong will. For I fear he’ll need it. He will be the only person who can teach us to defend against, or even use their weapons.”

        “You are right sister, but I still don’t like it. I fear for the worst”

        “I know, but we must do it. We are the only with the power to do it.” She sighs “Sister join our strength.”

         They cross their horns and they start to glow. They rise floating to the ceiling. Gathering their strength they let out a beam of gold light. They both fall panting. The spell took most of their combined strength.

        Luna panted “Where did you send it sister?”

        Panting she answered. “To a place where he’ll find guidance.”

Joseph Malburg:

one thing that i thought u could do is maybe put a little more detail on the group of evil guys like people wouldnt even understand who they are really.

Joseph Malburg:

_Marked as resolved_

Joseph Malburg:

_Re-opened_

Joseph Malburg:

basically by that i mean theres little discription in the antagonists.

Joseph Malburg:

preeeeety nice i suppose

Joseph Malburg:

there are 1 or 2 spelling errors and some wrong words like "witch" instead of "which" but other than that its pretty very nice