A different legion of doom

A unicorn baker was walking to Canterlot to do his job.

"Hey there unicorn friend. Have you heard?"

"About Princess Twilight's coronation? Who hasn't? I'm on my way there now. So much baking to do and-"

"No, no.... It's about the Earth Ponies....."

"I know their crops have been underperforming, but-"

"That's not it. They're hording the food for themselves! I heard the mayor of Appleloosa say that if Unicorn and Pegasi want to eat, they can use their OWN hooves to dig."

"How awful!"

"We unicorns have to stick together, don't we?"

The unicorn baker walked through Canterlot as Mrs. Cake waved at him, but he turned his head away in anger.

Thorax snickered evilly to himself, as he walked back to the lair to meet with the others....

Later.....

Thorax changed back as he met with the others.

"Ahh, Thorax. Another successful field trip I presume?" Starlight asked the changeling.

"Spreading distrust amongst the Unicorns and Earth Ponies is too easy. We could take down Twilight and her friends a HUNDRED times, but as long as they have the 'love' of Equestria behind them, they CRAWL back to defeat us. Not, anymore."

"No friendship, no magic! It's so obvious when you think about it. I did my part freaking out the Pegasi through a very cleverly thought out disguise....."

Thorax turned to Trixie's plastic wings, and stared back at her with a disappointed expression.....

"The magician hat covers away my horn.... Heh he...."

"None the less, 'Grogar'"s absence has given me time to prepare the next part of our plan."

Discord removed the brick of the hiding place with his magic and grabbed the bell.

"Grogar's bell. This artifact can steal any creatures magic. It holds that magic, until it is released by this spell. Which means, all of the DESTRUCTIVE and CHAOTIC powers are OURS for the taking!"

Discord's lips multiplied as he begun to rapidly kiss the bell over and over and over-

"You're drooling on the bell." Starlight stated, as she took it away from him as he frowned.

"Let's try the spell before Grogar gets back, I'm sick of waiting for that old goat's master plan."

"Believe me, we all are. But I'm more disappointed for a reason you may not believe.... Once we drain the 'goat' of 'his' magic, you will see just WHY exactly 'he' needed us all so badly....."

"And how exactly do YOU know about his true plans?....."

"When you are a powerful spirit of chaos like myself, you tend to know and see things others cannot. And believe me, chaos is ANYTHING but blind....."

"Well, are we gonna do this thing or not?" Starlight asked.

"Take my hands."

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"So we can ALL be part of the spell! Unless you prefer I take all the magic myself?....."

Trixie took Discord's lion paw, as Starlight took his eagle claw, while Thorax took his tail, which formed a hand.

"Our pact stands. What we do, we do together. Once we have defeated all the protectors of Equestria, we will claim this land and rule our separate kingdoms, ALONE, once more."

Discord activated the bell through some eyes beams, as it begun to lift into the air.

Eventually, the magic contained inside was released from its prison, as the four villains grinned evilly.

The bell blasted the four with the magic, as it was slowly lowered back to the table.

The four villains then stared at their new bodies, as they all laughed maniacally.....

Later.....

"I have returned! Twilight Sparkle's coronation is today, and we're going to ruin it, with THIS artifact. But to succeed, you MUST work together!"

"Oh, way ahead of you Grogar."

Thorax spitted changeling goo at "Grogar", keeping him from moving.

Trixie emerged as a powerful Alicorn along with Starlight, as they had both grown taller.

Thorax then jumped down, revealing himself to be a taller changeling who was no longer a mere drone, but rather an evolved "king" type.

The bell then emerged from their grip.

"The bell?! You had it all this time?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"Of COURSE we didn't tell you 'Grogar'."

Discord emerged from a flash of light looking exactly like his old self, except with an extra eye on top of his forehead.

"You really thought that I, the spirit of chaos and disharmony would be BLIND to what you were really planning?"

"I- I thought I could get you to-"

"What? Reform? To experience how NICE it feels to be 'friends' with one another? Hah ha ha! You make me laugh! You really do, but you're forgetting one, important, detail, CHAOS IS FAIR."

The other three villains were confused as to what Discord was talking about, until he signaled them to activate the bell.

They did, and it begun draining "Grogar" of "his" magic as he screamed and squirmed.

"Yes! YES! I have you now!"

The other three villains gasped in shock and surprise as they saw "his" true form.

"CHRYSALIS."

Chrysalis gasped in shock and horror as she saw the superpowered villains before her.

"Mother! It was YOU the whole time?!"

Chrysalis panicked and tried to flee, as Thorax rushed after her furiously.

"STOP." Discord grabbed Thorax by the tail.

"Augh! LET ME GO! Let me drain her love!"

"Don't worry Thorax, she'll get what's coming to her soon enough."

"Discord, you knew Chrysalis was Grogar the whole time? Why didn't you tell us?"

"Because if I did tell you, she would have known and would have imprisoned us in Tartarus a long time ago, its because of that crystal ball she kept here that sees everything....."

Trixie promptly blasted the crystal ball into nothing, as she giggled giddily to herself.

"It feels so good to ACTUALLY BE Great and Powerful then just boasting about it, oh I can't wait for Twilight to be crawling on her knees when she gets a load of the new and improved Trixie!"

"Those ponies are so caught up in their 'coronation' plans that they haven't even realized what we were doing, revenge is really sweat isn't it?" Starlight asked the others.

"Well, you better have picked a name for your 'equal' kingdom, because it's time to TAKE OVER EQUESTRIA." Thorax roared, as he and the others laughed maniacally......

Meanwhile.....

Twilight was dealing with pre coronation nerves at the moment, as everypony was looking at them with weird looks and tense frowns.

As she wondered what could be making Everypony so tense with her friends, they were interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Umm, hi..... I think I have an explanation for all of this....." Chrysalis sheepishly answered.

"Chrysalis? What are you doing here?" Twilight asked the reformed changeling queen.

"Well.... I might have made the tiniest mistake..... All well intentioned and humble on my end but-"

"Get to the point." Applejack commanded.

"Well, I thought I could help Princess Twilight become a more confident leader so she has the strength to defend Equestria, which is why I summoned four villains who are now on the loose and are really not big fans of yours so...... My bad....."

The ponies plus Spike gasped at this horrifying information.....

Later........

"Let me get this straight, you wanted to boost Twilight's confidence, so you sent Starlight, Trixie and MY OWN BROTHER to attack her?!"

"Don't forget Discord."

"And while you united these FOUR villains, YOU changed into Grogar?!" Pharynx was in disbelief how his mother could do something so horrible after her metamorphosis.

"Chrysalis, how could you do this to us?"

"Not only did I try to make you a strong, confident leader, I thought that if that didn't work, I could be able to get them see just how wonderful working together can be, and that would be able to reform them..... Especially my young baby boy Thorax....."

"You have made a dangerous miss-calculation mother, do you have anything ELSE you would like to tell us?"

"Sigh..... All my magic is trapped in Grogar's bell, and Trixie, Starlight, Thorax, and Discord have all of the real Grogar's magic....."

"This is terrible! We need to alert the Equestrian princesses before this DISASTER happens!"

"I..... Need some time to think first....."

"Well there isn't any time! They're probably on their way to attack Canterlot! RIGHT NOW!"

"Then we'll stop them!"

"How?! We can't just take on FOUR villains at once!"

"You're kidding right? We've faced impossible odds before, and we've ALWAYS succeeded! I'm pretty sure we can take on four baddies at once." RD assured.

"But we haven't faced anything like this before!"

"So what? Even if you don't believe you can do this, we do. We believe in you, in us." Applejack assured Twilight, as she looked at her friends with confidence......

"Right, Spike! Send a letter to Starswirl! Tell him we need the pillars to guard the boarders of Canterlot. If the villains are coming for a fight, we'll have one waiting for them! With Thorax on the loose, he'll be after Sombra. Warn Cadance and Shining Armor, they're our final line of defense if we fail. The ultimate battle for the fate of Equestria, is coming!"

Meanwhile...........

"We can not go anywhere until you three get a grip!" Discord commanded his three teammates.

"All I'm saying is that we should take the magic inside the bell, then we would share Thorax's ability to shapeshift into ANYTHING powerful!" Trixie proposed.

"None of you except Discord KNOW how to shapeshift! It is a very difficult practice that takes months!" Thorax stated.

"Regardless! We should attack now! The longer we bicker like foals, the more time Twilight and her cronies have to plan our demise!" Starlight pressured.

"LISTEN! I have had it up to HERE with your consistent arguing and debates over 'who gets what' or 'what we should do' or 'I'm the best one here'! We are going to make our move NOW, and THAT, IS, FINALE! UNDERSTAND?!" Discord snapped at the three.

"Why are you so jumpy? I thought you were the spirit of chaos, not rage." Starlight questioned.

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"Sigh........ My time in stone after the elements were used by different bearers has left me a little unhinged..... The more time I spend there, the more I lose it........ Which is why we need to rise and finally take Equestria to get our REVENGE on those putrid ponies for the way they treated people like US! Are you with me?!"

The other three nodded in agreement, as they begun to leave the cave.

"So, where should we strike first?"

"Heh heh heh....... EVERYWHERE."

The four then left the cave to invade all of Equestria.

Later.......

"We've faced enemies of Equestria before, and we've always succeeded. That wouldn't be possible without all of you. So I ask for your help again today, in what is our biggest battle yet! All of Equestria is at stake, and I can't do this alone! But I'm not afraid, because with friendship as our armor, and teamwork as our power, nopony can ever bring us down!"

THUD!

"Is that supposed to MEAN something?"

Starlight dropped the guards as they laid defeated by her hoof.

"Starlight?! You're-"

"About to teach you a LESSON!" She yelled, as she zapped her with her magic, which caused her to fall into her throne, badly hurt, which made her friends all gasp.

"Wow, it's true! Alicorns DO have more FUN."

Meanwhile........

"Spread out and stay ready, friends! Canterlot depends on us."

Star swirl and the other pillars look out the mountaintops for trouble, until they see a blue Alicorn flying at them at full speed.

Trixie landed on the ground near the pillars, as Star swirl blasted at her.

However, Trixie blocked the attack with a shield, as she approached intent on dueling the wizard.

Rockhoof tried to charge from behind but Trixie blasted the stallion, causing him to fall back unconscious.

Mist Mane, Meadowbrook, and Star swirl fired their magic at Trixie, but she merely laughed as she blocked them with her shield.

She then blasted Flash Magnus out of the air, which caused him to land into the other pillars.

Somnambula tried to charge, but Trixie blasted her out of the air.

She then imprisoned them in a magic bubble designed as a prison.

"This is where washed up has-beens like you belong! Make way for a real magician Starswirl!"

"NO!"

Rockhoof tried to charge her, but when his shovel hit her, it merely broke into pieces.....

Trixie then picked him up with her magic and tossed him across the floor, as she imprisoned him as well.

"Oh run along, the BIG stallions are playing!"

"Somnambula.... Warn the princesses....!"

Sombambula tried to fly away, but Trixie landed in front of her and blasted her with her magic, before imprisoning her with the others.

"You old coots were barely even a challenge, HAH HA HA!"

Meanwhile........

Sombra tried to make his way to Canterlot to defend the princesses, but was met with company very soon.....

"And just WHERE do you think you're going? You are just the stallion I wanted to see." Thorax licked his lips as he stared at Sombra intensely.

"Too bad you didn't schedule a meeting!" Sombra declared, as he teleported himself and Thorax to a snowy location.

"Where are we?"

"Somewhere you can't hurt anypony!"

"Wrong! I can hurt YOU!"

The two battled it out for dominance, as they rapidly teleported and zapped each other for several minutes.

"Ugh! Stay still still so I can blast you!"

"Oh yes, real motivating."

Sombra blasted at Thorax causing him to fall back.

"You'll pay for that!"

"Put it on my tab."

Thorax in a fit of rage blasted the mountain top above Sombra but he teleported out of the way, causing the avalanche to fall on Thorax instead.

Confident that did the job, Sombra begun walking away, only for the snow to explode and cause him to fall back weakened.

A green cocoon then enwrapped him as Thorax picked him up.

"Now I have all eternity to get my revenge on YOU." He stated, before flying away with him to do who knows what.....

Later......

Twilight and Starlight were having a beam-O-war, until Twilight's spell reached Starlight, causing her to fall back weakened.

"Stand down Starlight Glimmer!" Celestia warned.

"No, never! Not after your 'faithful student' RUINED MY LIFE!" Starlight shouted, as she blasted at the princess of friendship.

Fortunately, she created a shield around herself and the princesses before it blasted them.

"You leave us no choice Starlight!" Celestia stated to the titular Alicorn, as she and Luna flew up to face her.

"What are you doing?!"

Starlight pulled out the bell and drained the two royal sisters of their magic.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

"So THIS is what I needed all along! The bell takes away all magic, and no more magic means no more talent!"

"That's what you think! NOW!"

Rainbow Dash surrounded Starlight in a rainbow tornado.

Pinkie then stuffed her into her party canon and blasted her into Fluttershy's bee hive.

She screamed and ran with the hive on her head.

"Let me get that for you darling." Rarity stated, as she enwrapped Starlight with a giant necklace and tossed her across the room.

Then Applejack whipped her across, smashing the bee hive on impact.

The ponies plus Dragon then surrounded her, intent on punishing her for her actions.

Unfortunately, Starlight grinned as a massive explosion shattered the glass, sending them flying. As Starlight flew up in response.

"WE'RE HOOOOOOOOOME!" Discord announced, as he exited a portal into the castle as it disappeared.

Thorax flew through the window as Trixie jumped into the room, as she blasted the throne away.

There Chrysalis stood hiding from the chaos, until Starlight tossed her to where the others laid.

Twilight then placed a shield to protect them from the villains.

"You think your pathetic shield can stop us? HAH HA! The pillars have been defeated, your school abandoned. Face it Twilight, YOU'VE LOST."

"You can attack us, and we may fall. But we still stand together, united in friendship. And we won't stop until we defeat you! No matter how many ponies you take down!"

The four could only laugh hysterically, as they had no idea what they were up to.

"Didn't you all notice something was wrong in Equestria? We've been busy."

"A whisper here, a rumor there."

"Destroy some crops, cause some damage."

"Turn pony against pony."

"Until your entire kingdom is on edge! Waiting for just the tiniest thing to push them over the brink!"

"There's no backup friends or rainbow magic to save you now!"

"Trixie thinks it's time for some re-decorating!"

The four then turned around as they blasted MASSIVE hole into the wall, causing the castle to start to collapse.

"You know what's stronger then friendship Twilight? FEAR."

Thorax yelled, as he caused the shield to be destroyed.

"Because when you have to protect yourself, you don't have time for ANYPONY ELSE."

"Too bad you never taught THAT to my village!"

Twilight gasped as the four begun to charge their fire, until a rock landed into them.

Twilight turned around, and saw none other then Rarity who defended her.

The four got up to fire again before Twilight ran and the others lifted a rock to protect her.

"Go Twilight! Get help!"

"No! I can't leave you here!"

"It's our only chance!"

"You'll come up with something to save the day!"

"You always do!"

"We believe in you!"

"LEAVE!!!"

Twilight just barely teleported out of the castle before the rock was blasted by the villain's magic.........

To be continued..........