The Return of Harmony- Alternate Ending

by Matthais Unidostres

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Discord, Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 5384

The Return of Harmony Part 1 made no sense! Here's what should have happened. . .

The Return of Harmony Part 1 made no sense!
Here's what should have happened. . .

Published 2012-12-04 22:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-12-15 03:44:55 UTC

The Return of Harmony- Part 1

The Return of Harmony- Alternate Ending

The Return of Harmony- Part 1

We pick up where the Mane Six have entered the palace labyrinth in search of the Elements of Harmony, which were stolen by the Spirit of chaos himself, Discord. . .

As Applejack walked through the labyrinth, she saw a bizarre sight. Three apples rolled along in front of her. Curious, Applejack followed them into what appeared to be an apple orchard. More apples joined the three rolling apples forming three large piles than moved around her.

"What in tarnation? Where am I?" Applejack asked nervously, seriously freaked out now.

The apple piles rose up, revealing gruesome faces. The piles laughed, possessing the voices of ugly old witches straight out of fairy tales.

Applejack jumped back in fear. "Who are y'all?" she gasped.

"The keepers of the grove of truth," one pile said.

"You may ask us one question past, future or present," another said.

"But be warned, that the truth may not always be pleasant," the last one cackled.

Applejack began to back up slowly, "Well, ah don't trust this place worth a hill of beans! Ah'm outta here!"

Applejack spun around and tried to run, only to get blocked by the apple piles and pushed back into the grove.

"Quiet your voice. You don't have a choice!" the piles all said as one.

Applejack was too freaked to do anything but back up away from the piles, cringing whenever they touched her. Soon, she was standing next to a small pond.

"To see what will happen next week," one pile said.

"Go ahead," said the second.

"Take a peak!" the final one concluded.

Applejack gulped, and she turned to face the lake. The water swirled, revealing a vision of a twisted version of Ponyville. She and her friends were standing in the middle of the freaky scene.

Rainbow Dash shouted, "I hope I never see you again!

Fluttershy shot back, " Me too!"

Pinkie Pie yelled, "Fine!"

Rarity shouted, "Fine!" as well.

Twilight Sparkle nodded and said with finality, 'It's settled, then."

The six ponies then went their separate ways.

Applejack backed up in shock, "What the hay did I just watch?"

"When all the truth does is make your heart ache," one pile said.

"Sometimes a lie is easier to take," another pile added.

"What's that supposed ta mean?" Applejack said defiantly, "You trying to say that what I just saw in that over-sized puddle is gonna happen? What do ya'll take me for? A dummy?!"

"This is the grove of truth-," a pile began.

"Grove of truth, my hoof!" Applejack shouted, stomping on the ground in frustration, "Why should I just stand here and be lied to by a bunch of talking apples! Ah gotta help mah friends get those Elements and defeat Discord, so get outta mah way!"

Applejack jumped over the apple piles and ran for the exit. However, the apples reappeared in front of here and merged together int o an even bigger when. Applejack started to sweat like one of her farm's prized pigs as the giant pile began to for itself into a giant apple sculpture of Discord.

"You will not leave this grove alive!" it boomed.

It raised its red delicious claw and swatted at Applejack. She only barely dodged it, and ran for her life out of the grove.

"Twilight!" Applejack shouted with joy as she spotted her friend.

Twilight hugged her friend fondly and asked, "Are you alright? What was that loud voice?"

Applejack shook her head, "Ah don't wanna talk about it. Let's just move! Now!"

Pinkie Pie chuckled as she bounced around the balloon filled garden, laughter coming out of the smiley faced balloons.

"This is the greatest balloon garden I've ever seen!" Pinkie cheered, "It's the first balloon garden I've ever seen, but still- wah!"

One of the balloons caught Pinkie's leg by its string, causing her to trip and fall in the mud.

"Hey, what gives?" she said indignantly as the balloons' laughter intensified.

Suddenly, Discord appeared and said, "What's the matter, Pinkie Pie? I thought you appreciated a good laugh?"

"It's different. They're laughing at me."

"It's hardly different. Your friends laugh at you all the time."

Pinkie Pie shook her head, "No, that's silly! My friends laugh with me, not at me."

Discord leaned behind a balloon, and his head vanished. The balloon's face came to life and began to fly around the muddy pony. "Oh, really?" the balloon said in Discord's voice. The balloon then began to laugh even harder as the spinning caused Pinkie Pie to get dizzy.

"No! Stop it!" she shouted.

Suddenly, balloons with the faces of her friends appeared, and they began to laugh as well.

The Discord balloon floated close to her face, "Oh, poor Pinkie Pie. And here I thought laughter made you happy."

Pinkie began to shake violently as the laughter grew louder. She shook and shook, until finally, she couldn't hold it in any longer. She flipped over onto her back and began to laugh and laugh and laugh. . .

"What?" the Discord balloon gasped.

Pinkie snorted and wiped her eyes. She looked down at herself and chuckled, "I do look silly! Don't I?"

"But-."

"Like I always say! You gotta be able to laugh at yourself! It's no big deal!"

"But. ..your friends. . . they laugh at you!"

Pinkie chuckled, "So? They don't mean any harm! They can't help it. I'm funny! And besides, sometimes things happen that are funny!"

"No!" the balloon said angrily, "Listen to me!"

"Like I remember one time, after we got that dragon to move-."

"Stop it!"

"Fluttershy played this joke on Rainbow Dash-."

"Stop it!"

"And Dashie got scared, and I couldn't help but laugh!"

"Stop it!"

"And Dashie didn't mind, cause she knew it was funny-."

"Listen to me!" the balloon shouted, "You're friends don't give a flying feather about what you feel! They just- OW!"

As the balloon was talking, Pinkie Pie took a pin out of nowhere and jabbed it into the balloon, popping it. Discord's head reappeared on his body, and he began rubbing hard at his nose, which now had a pin prick on it.

Discord growled, "Fine! We'll do this the hard way!" He snapped his fingers and vanished. However, the balloons now had angry faces on, and they all flew towards Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie gasped and ran out of the garden as fast as she could. She ran up and down paths, soon loosing the angry balloons. She looked back as she ran to make sure they weren't still following her-

BAM!

Pinkie had slammed right into Twilight.

Pinkie hugged Twilight tightly. "Oh my gosh! I't good to see you girls. I thouhgt I was a goner."

"Alright! Alright! Relax, Pinkie! You can let go now!" Twilight gasped out.

Pinkie let go of Twilight and said, "Come on! We better find the girls before that big meanie Discord does something to them!"

"I was expecting an audience with the Princess, not outdoor sports," Rarity said as she pranced through the labyrinth. She had her eyes closed and wasn't looking where she was going. She didn't see the wall until it was too late.

"Agh!" she cried as she hit the wall. She opened her eyes and gasped, "Oh my..."

In the stone wall were three beautiful diamonds.

Discord's face suddenly appeared within the gems. He laughed and said, "Welcome to your lucky day, Rarity. You've found the one thing in Equestria that could rival my face for sheer beauty. What do you think? You like?"

"Yes, I like very much," Rarity said, overcome by the sheer beauty of the gems. Suddenly, she shook her head violently and turned away, "No! No, I shan't succumb to such fabulousness."

She strained as she took heavy steps from the wall, as if huge weights were attatched to her hooves. "Must... get to the center... to meet... the others," she groaned out. She then ground to a halt and screamed at the top of her lungs:

"HELP!!!!"

"Rarity!" the three ponies shouted. They all quickly ran towards the scream, and soon found Rarity rooted to the spot, as if invisible ropes were pulling her back.

"Rairty! What's wrong?" Twilight asked urgently.

"D-d-d-diamonds!" Rarity stuttered out.

"Beg pardon?' Applejack said.

Rarity gestured behind her to a stone wall, "There! Three, big, beautiful diamonds! I can't resist! But I mustn't succumb to such fabulousness! But it's just too much!" Rarity then fell to the ground in tears, "I can't stand it much longer! Help me!"

The three ponies just stared at the wall in confusion.

"Uh, there ain't nothing there, Rarity," Applejack said.

Rarity blinked, and turned around. She gasped and covered her eyes, "Of course they're there! Just look!"

Twilight thought for a moment, then an idea flew into her head.

"Have any of you ever read 'The Odyssey'?" Twilight asked.

"Is now really the time to talk about books?" Rarity asked incredulously.

"Just listen, you see at one, evil sea ponies try to lure the hero into crashing his ship with their beautiful singing, so what they do is. . ."

A few minutes later, the four ponies are walking through the maze. However, Rarity has been tied up by one of Applejack's lasso's, and is being dragged by the other three.

"We should be far enough away now. We can let her go," Twilight said.

After Rarity was untied, she hung her head in shame, "I am so sorry, dears. But those diamonds were sooooo-."

Twilight put a hoof on Rarity's shoulder, "Don't worry about. Let's forget it and move on. We've go to find Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash!"

"Yeah, let's go-go-go!" Pinkie said, and she shot off into the labyrinth, with the others quickly following behind.

Fluttershy stared up at the three butterflies fluttering over her.

"Fluttershy, looks like you've been left behind by your so-called friends, huh?" one of the butterflies said.

"Oh, no. I'm certain they're doing their best to find me," Fluttershy replied with a smile.

"Well, it must be so upsetting to know how weak and helpless they think you are," the butterfly said.

"Not at all," Fluttershy said happily, "I am weak and helpless and I appreciate their understanding."

"Yes... Well, surely it burns you up... I mean, that they're always pointing out your flaws, right?"

"Not really. In fact, I think I'm awfully lucky to have friends who want me to be the best I can be," Fluttershy said with a smile in her voice.

There was a flash, and the butterflies turned into their true form. "Oh, for goodness sake!" Discord shouted in frustration, "You've been kind for far too long, my dear. Time to be cruel!"

Discord reached out a claw to touch her. However, he didn't expect Fluttershy to unleash the full power of The Stare on him.

"Do - not - touch me!" Fluttershy said sternly, glaring right into Discord's demented eyes, "Sure, I'm afraid of you, but that doesn't mean I have to just lay down and let you have your way with me! A dragon tried to hurt my friends once, and I'm terrified of dragons, but I stood up to him anyway and sent him packing, and I'll do the same thing to you! My friends and I are gonna find those Elements, and we're gonna use them to defeat you once and for all, and I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to Angel and the rest of those bunnies! Get it?!"

Discord stood horror struck as his eyes were locked open by The Stare. Discord gulped nervously and replied in a squeaky voice, "Got it!" He then snapped his fingers and vanished in a flash.

Just then, the other ponies ran in. . .just in time to see Fluttershy faint.

"Fluttershy, darling!" Rarity gasped, and she ran over to her fallen friend.

Applejack looked around tentatively, "Huh. Looks pretty quiet round her ta me!"

Pinkie pulled an mad face and said, "That meanie Discord probably snuck up on her and scared her. That sure sounds like the kinda thing he'd do!"

"Little help here!" Rarity called out as she strained to lift Fluttershy onto her back. Twilight hurried over placed one of Fluttershy's front legs over her shoulder, so that the unconscious pegasus was supported between the two unicorns.

"Thanks, Twilight," Rarity said.

"You're welcome," Twilight said with a smile.

High above the labyrinth, Discord emptied a bucket of chocolate milk over his head. Rubbing his face hard, he took a deep breath and let it out. He then spotted Rainbow Dash running through the labyrinth below him.

"Alright, last chance. I better make this one work out!" Discord said, stroking his billy goat gruff in thought. Then he smiled wickedly and said, "How about, instead of trying to get her to betray her Element. . .I get her to use her Element against herself!" Discord laughed, and then vanished in a flash.

Rainbow Dash skidded to a halt as she saw a grey cloud with rainbow colored lightning go by her.

"I've got you now, element!" she said, and she quickly followed the cloud. Soon, she arrived in a clearing where Discord was lying on a cloud hammock.

"Oh, I can see why you like these clouds so much. Very plush," Discord commented nonchalantly.

"Get off there and put 'em up!" Dash shouted as she jumped onto her rear hooves and started throwing punches, "Come on! Let's go!"

"Hey, I'm here to deliver a message," Discord said as he got up.

"I've got a message for you, too!"

Discord suddenly became serious, "Listen closely, this is important."

Discord then began flying around Rainbow Dash, speaking a clever little rhyme:

A weighty choice is yours to make.

The right selection or a big mistake.

If a wrong choice you choose to pursue,

the foundations of home will crumble without you.

Discord snapped his claws, and the thundercloud flew in front of Dash and started to spin. In it, an image of Cloudsdale being destroyed began to take shape.

"Cloudsdale? Crumble... without me? No!" Dash shouted in terror.

A gift wrapped box suddenly appeared in front of her.

"That box contains your wings," Discord said, "You can take them and leave the game, or you can carry on aimlessly wandering this maze. Your choice. . ."

Fluttershy had finally regained consciousness, and now the five ponies were making good progress through the labyrinth.

"Come on, girls. We have to find Rainbow Dash! As a team, we're unstoppable! Rainbow Dash won't let us down!" Twilight said.

Suddenly, Applejack gasped and pointed up, "Ah don't believe it! Rainbow Dash is flying away! She's abandonin' us!"

Everypony looked up and gasped and Dash flew up and out of sight.

"How can it be?" Twilight said breathlessly.

And with that, there was a loud rumbling all around them as the entire labyrinth collapsed and disappeared into the ground in a cloud of dust. As the dust settled, Discord himself made his entrance.

"Well, well, well. Somepony broke the 'no wings, no magic' rule," Discord said. He snapped his fingers, and Fluttershy's wings and Twilight's and Rarity's horns reappeared.

"Game's over, my little ponies. You didn't find your precious elements!" he said. An umbrella appeared in his hands. He opened it so that it came out upside down, and "meowed" as it opened.

"Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of chaos! Hahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!"

To Be Continued. . .

The Return of Harmony- Part 2

The Return of Harmony- Alternate Ending

The Return of Harmony- Part 2

Previously on My Little Pony. . .

"Princess Celestia, we came as fast as we could."

"I need you to wield the Elements of Harmony once again and stop Discord."

"The Elements! They're gone!"

"Hahahahahahaaa! Everypony has to play, or the game is over and I win."

"Cloudsdale. . .crumble. . .without me. . .NO!"

"Rainbow Dash is flying away! She's abandoning us!"

"How can it be?"

"Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of chaos."

Discord burst into a fit of laughter, falling onto his back and kicking his limbs wildly.

"Ah can't believe Rainbow Dash abandoned us like this. . ." Applejack said, her voice filled with hurt.

Twilight shook her head, "No! Rainbow would never do that to us! Remember back when we first met? She didn't go with the Shadowbolts, so she wouldn't abandon us here!" Twilight then pointed an accusing hoof at Discord, "Admit it, Discord! You tricked Rainbow Dash! You didn't play fair!"

Discord chuckled as he got to his feet. "I'm not playing fair?" he said bemusedly, "Perhaps we haven't met. I'm Discord, spirit of chaos and disharmony. Hello?"

But Twilight continued to press her point, "You gave us rules to follow, but then you tried to get us to break them so  you could take away the labyrinth before we could find Elements of Harmony!"

Discord blinked in confusion, "Oh, wait, did you...?" Discord chuckled, "How funny! You thought the Elements were in the labyrinth?"

Discord snapped his fingers, and the Mane Five were suddenly back in the Castle where Discord first made his appearance within the stained glass windows. The Discord in the windows chanted:

Twists and turns are my master plan.

Then find the Elements back where you began.

With another flash, they were back in the present.

"I never said they were in the labyrinth," Discord said plainly.

Twilight was at a loss for words, "But...but.." she stammered.

"Keep trying, Twilight Sparkle. Maybe the magic of friendship can help you," Discord said mockingly, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some chaos to wreak!"

Discord snapped his fingers and vanished. Immediately, cotton candy clouds rushed in and began pouring down chocolate milk.

Pinkie Pie gasped, "Chocolate milk? I love chocolate milk!" She opened her mouth wide and began inhaling the sweet liquid.

Applejack nudged Pinkie hard and said, "We don't have time for this! We've got to git those Elements back before Discord destroys Equestria!"

Twilight rapped her hoof against her forehead. "Grr! Think, Twilight, think! 'Find the Elements back where you began.' Back where you began. . ."

"I can't take it anymore!" Fluttershy gasped, falling to the ground and covering her face with her hooves.

"Calm down, dear, it'll all be okay," Rarity said gently, putting one of her own hooves over Fluttershy's shoulder.

"I-I-I just want to go home! And hide in the closet! With my teddy bear!" Fluttershy whimpered.

Twilight's eyes suddenly lit up, "Wait a minute...home! 'Back where you began!' Fluttershy, you're a genius! The Elements must be in Ponyville!"

The Mane Five quickly trotted down the path to Ponyville, with Twilight in the lead. "Come on, girls," Twilight said confidently, "I'm certain this is what Discord's riddle really meant. If we get back to the library, I have a book that I just know could give us a clue. Ah!"

A stampede of deer legged rabbits came out of nowhere and trampled Twilight into the dirt.

Fluttershy gasped in horror, "Angel! How could you!"

Suddenly, the Sun shot down beyond the horizon, and the Moon shot up to take its place. It was now pitch black night.

"Uh-oh, ah can't see a thing! Whoa!" Applejack slipped on the now slippery road and crashed into the rest of the group, knocking them over. "Sorry!" she stammered.

The Sun and Moon changed places again, and it was once again day time.

"Wah! Ahh!" Twilight exclaimed, "Discord's turned our dirt roads into soap!"

Discord suddenly skated by on the slippery surface, "Beautiful, isn't it?" he said. He then pointed to the now chaotic town before them. Chocolate rain was failing, the ground was a patchwork quilt, and building were floating in the air, some of them upside down. "This is the new and improved Ponyville, and these are only my first of changes," Discord said giddily.

"Wee! This is fun!" Pinkie Pie cheered as she did skating tricks on the soap.

Twilight groaned. Discord suddenly picked her up and pointed, "Picture it: The chaos capital of the world!"

It suddenly changed from day to night again. "I can't picture anything. It's too dark," Twilight remarked. Discord dropped her and the soap and sighed.

"Well, wait a few minutes and you'll see it in the beautiful light of day. Or not," Discord replied, and vanished with a flash.

"Ponyville, the chaos capital of the world? Not if I have anything to say about it!" Twilight declared.

"Not if we have anything to say about it," Applejack said as the rest of the group stood by Twilight. Twilight couldn't help but smile as they went on their way.

They quickly entered the Library as the night turned to day once again. Spike was busy sleeping in the corner. Twilight went over to wake him, but Fluttershy held her back.

"Shhh! Don't wake him up! He looks so peaceful!" Fluttershy said softly.

Twilight sighed, but smiled, "Okay. Now, Elements of Harmony- A Reference Guide. . ."

"Ooh! Ooh! I know where it is!" Pinkie said excitedly, "It's-."

"I know, Pinkie, under 'E'," Twilight said as she walked over to the appropriate spot. She levitated the book off the shelf and opened it. She gasped. The book had been hollowed out, and inside were the Elements of Harmony!

"The Elements! They were here all along!" Twilight gasped, "See girls? We did it! We found the Elements of Harmony! Together!"

"Well, not exactly. . ." Applejack said.

Twilight nodded, "Oh yeah, Rainbow Dash. And we can't use the Elements without her."

"Well then, let's go find her!" Rarity said, "And let's make it quick. I could sure use a spa appointment after all this! Ugh, this soap smells terrible! And add in that wretched chocolate rain-!"

"Alright, Alright, Rarity, we hear ya. Let's go!" Applejack said.

Fluttershy flew down from Rainbow Dash's house. "She's not here," she said.

Applejack looked worried, "She could be anywhere by now! We're never gonna find her."

"Yeah, we will," Pinkie said happily, "'Cause she's right there!" Pinkie pointed to a patch of cloud in the sky. On it, there proudly stood Rainbow Dash, apparently keeping watch over the skies.

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called out.

Rainbow Dash gave a quick look down at them. "Hey guys!" she called down.

"We've been looking everywhere for you!" Twilight called out, "Discord's still on the loose! We need you to help us defeat him with your element, loyalty!"

"Well, duh!" Dash called back, "Why do you think I'm staying here in Cloudsdale!"

Rarity stared incredulously at Dash, "How in Equestria can she think that tiny patch of cloud is Cloudsdale?"

"The same way he got you to think that cheap rock was a bona fide diamond," Applejack remarked.

"I thought we agreed never to speak of that again," Rarity hissed.

"Look, Rainbow," Applejack shouted.

"No, you look!" Dash shouted back at her, "If I leave Cloudsdale, it's gonna be completely destroyed! There is now way I am gonna let that I happen! I was born in Cloudsdale, and I am loyal to it, so I'm not gonna let anything happen to it! So there!"

Fluttershy whimpered, "Oh no! It's hopeless!"

"No it's not!" Twilight shouted, she then focused her gaze on Dash, "Rainbow! You say you're loyal to Cloudsdale, but what about your loyalty to Ponyvile, to Equestria, to your friends?"

Rainbow Dash's left eye twitched, "I - I - I can't think about that right now!"

"But you've got to!" Twilight persisted, "Listen Dash, I understand-."

"NO YOU DON'T!"

"YES I DO!"

Dash took a step back on her tiny patch of cloud.

"I understand what you're feeling, Rainbow," Twilight continued, "This is a matter of conflicting loyalty. You don't know who to be loyal to. Remember when everypony wanted those Gala tickets? I didn't know who to give them to. But I made the choice to give them up so I wouldn't let my friends down. Luckily, things turned out good for everypony. You see, instead of seeing things as either A or B, black or white, left or right, you have to-."

"Take the third option. . ." Dash whispered.

Everypony stared tensely up at Rainbow Dash, who had become very quiet after speaking. Dash stared into her front hooves. They were trembling violently.

"If I stay, Discord will take over. . .if I leave, Discord will make Cloudsdale will crumble. . ." Dash said nervously. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them. "Well then. . .I'll just have to take Discord down!"

Dash's grey scale coat and mane quickly regained their color as she zoomed down to the ground, landed, and said, "Necklace me, Twilight! It's time to stop Discord!"

Everyone closed in and hugged Dash, cheering. However, they were interrupted by a trio of ballet dancing buffaloes wearing pink tutus.

"Maybe it's a little too early for a group hug. . ." Twilight remarked.

Discord laughed manically as he sat on his throne in Ponyville. He magicked up a glass, which filled with chocolate rain from the top up. "Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing!" he cheered.

"Not as wonderful as friendship!"

Discord gasped and turned to see the six bearers of the Elements of Harmony, ready for action. Discord's draw dropped so far that it hit the ground. He picked it up refastened it to his face and said, "But how! I trapped Rainbow Dash in an unanswerable paradox!"

Rainbow hovered in the air and smiled, "Heh! Well, wrong problem with that, Discord! Not all problems can just be answered with a yes or no, or an A, B, C, or D! Sometimes you gotta try E, none of the above!"

"What?" Discord spat.

"Sometimes you can't be loyal to everything you're loyal to all at once," Rainbow continued, "Sometimes you gotta make choices. But the best thing you can do is look at things from all angles, and maybe, just maybe, you can find a way to please everyone."

"Ugh! Gag!" Discord shouted, "What a speech! You must be thirsty after that! Here! Catch!"

Discord threw his glass of chocolate milk at Dash. Inches away from her, the glass exploded. Discord starting laughing, but stopped when the smoke cleared. Twilight had created a magic shield around Dash at the last moment, shielding her from the blast.

Discord growled and cracked his knuckles, "You wanna play like that? Fine!" Discord, snapped his fingers, and a loud whistling sound filled the air.

The Mane Six soon noticed square shadows over them. Rarity looked up and gasped. "Look out!" she screamed.

The ponies quickly scattered as anvils began raining from the sky, crashing into the ground. Discord laughed uproariously as he continued to snap his fingers, causing safes, pianos, and boulders to fall from the sky as well.

Rainbow Dash flew towards Discord at full speed. At the last moment, Discord vanished, and in his place was a brick wall.

CRASH!

Dash moaned as she slid down the side of a wall like a rotten tomato. Discord reappeared nearby and began to laugh again.

"HEY!"

Discord turned to see Pinkie Pie glaring at him. "Hurting ponies is not funny!" she shouted. Just then, the Element of Laughter shot a blue lazer beam at Discord's bat wing. Discord called out in pain as it instantly turned to stone.

"Ahh! You little pink whelp! You're in for it now!" Discord shouted. He raised his eagle claw, and it began to glow with a golden force. Pinkie Pie gasped as she was seized by the neck by the strange force and levitated in the air. Discord smiled wickedly and made a fist, causing Pinkie's neck to be squeezed. "No one can save you now, my dear! They're all too busy dodging falling Acme products!" Discord chuckled as Pinkie writhed around in mid air, the color beginning to drain from her face.

Suddenly, Fluttershy flew up in Discords face. "You - big - dumb - *MEANIE!***" She then unleashed the full power of her stare on Discord, causing him to drop Pinkie. The pink pony gasped and began gratefully sucking in air to fill her lungs. Meanwhile, the Element of Kindness shot a pink lazer that hit Discord on his left horn. Disocrd's head jerked back and he fell over. But he quickly dusted himself while aveting his eyes from Fluttershy's gaze.

"Ha! Of course you slipped through my heavy rain! You're so small, useless, and insignificant, who would notice you! AH!"

Discord doubled over in pain as the Element of Honesty turned his other wing to stone. Applejack strode boldly towards the Draconequis and said, "Ah'm sick and tired of your lies, Discord. Why bother talkin? Nopony listens to a dirty rotten liar like you!"

Discord got up and shook off the pain. "Huh! I don't need wings to fly!" Discord rose quickly into the air, where all the cotton candy clouds gathered around him. "Time to give you a generous helping of chocolate hail!" he shouted.

"Everypony, to me!" Twilight shouted.

The four ponies quickly ran next to Twilight, who created a shield just in time. The cotton candy clouds had become machine guns, spitting out bullets of chocolate ice cubes.

"This is not generosity!" Rarity shouted, "This is giving ponies what you think they should have, without even considering their feelings! Generosity is when you find out what others need and willingly share it with them! Nopony wants this chaos! Only you do! So that makes you selfish!"

The Element of Generosity shot a blue bolt up through Twilight's shield and right into Discord's eagle claw. Discord cried out in pain as it was turned to stone and clutched it tight. If he hadn't noticed that Rainbow wasn't on the ground, he sure did when Rainbow slammed hard into Discord's back, sending him falling to the ground.

Discord formed a storm cloud in his lion paw, but the Element of Loyalty shot a red lightning bolt at it, dispersing it and turning Discord's paw to stone. Discord hit the ground hard, creating a cloud of dust around him. He got up and snarling, "The one who lives to run away lives to fight another-."

Before Discord could finish and warp away, Twilight's Element of Magic hit Discord's other horn, disabling his magic.

"NO! This can't be!" Discord shouted as he rolled over onto his back. He tried getting up, but his stoned appendages seemed to weigh 2000 pounds each, keeping him from moving very far. He back away as the Mane Six closed in on him.

"All right, ladies, let's show him what friendship can do!" Twilight announce.

"Wait-wait-wait!"

Everypony turned to see Pinkie Pie taking one last drink of chocolate rain. She then bounce over to the group and growled at Discord.

There was a magical hum as the Elements build up power.

"NO!" Discord shouted.

There was a Sonic Rainboom as the Rainbow of Light shot up, arced in the sky, and crashed down on Discord.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Discord shouted as the rest of his body turned to stone, and then suddenly exploded into a cloud of dust.

The Rainbow of Light split and enveloped the town in a dome of healing, cleansing all the chaos Discord had performed. The Mane Six floated gently down to the ground, and smiled at the patch of scorched earth right where Discord used to be.

Fanfare erupted as the Mane Six entered the great hall of Canterlot castle. Ponies looked on as the six heroes approached Princess Celestia.

Celestia announced triumphantly, "We are gathered here today to once again honor the heroism of these six friends who stood up to the villain Discord and saved Equestria from eternal chaos."

Celestia's horn flashed, and a curtain was drawn back, revealing a stained glass window depicting the Mane Six using the Elements of Harmony to obliterate Discord.

The crowd cheered as the heroes smiled broadly, knowing that the Magic of Friendship would never fail them.

THE END