Omega wasn't sure about this, he knew didn't like Discord and he knew that Discord did NOT like him.
<<one minute into the past transition>>
The group of 7 was standing in a field, waiting for this 'surprise' that Princess Luna had for them.
They saw the black and gold chariot, it had been 5 months since her re-coronation as Princess of the Moon and the Sun, this is not what made the group of 7 nervous.
What made them nervous was the fact that she was carrying the statue of Discord.
Touching down, Luna took a mighty flap of her wings and exited the chariot.
"Hello, my little ponies, and man. Friends, I have gathered you for a special mission, one that may make or break a different thing I have set up, anyways, the point is, is that Discord has been evil for far too long, he must be reformed." Luna debriefed.
"Why, exactly, the fuck would we want to do THAT?" Dash querried.
"To prove yourselves as the awesome peace-keepers you are?" Luna tried.
"Alright then, Luna, girls, let's do this." Twilight directed, taking charge.
"Okay, I'll be back in Canterlot if you need me, hopefully you won't need me." Luna said, re-mounting her chariot and getting flown off.
Omega wasn't sure about this, he knew didn't like Discord and he knew that Discord did NOT like him.
The Mane 6 equipped the EoH and charged up the 'Release Sealed' magic.
Several seconds passed, the lights getting brighter and brighter, until they matched the sun.
The blast went forth, hitting the stone statue full force, the 6 mares floated down, the statue crumbled and shook, the stone broke away, revealing living flesh, after gaining enough leverage, Discord broke the stone himself.
"Aaah, free again, time to deal with all of you." Discord said as he picked at the stone still clinging to his skin, hide, fur, scales, and whatever else his epidermis was composed of.
"Right, in hindsight, we should have made a plan before doing that." Twilight said, facehoofing at their lack of wisdom.
"Yeah, right, I'm just going to go make some chaos." Discord said, preparing to teleport with a snap of his fingers.
He was shot in the chest, almost cut in half by the Archangel's Smite.
"NO, BAD!" Omega rebuked, holding the Archangel's Smite in one hand, his ripensulous amount of strength allowed the act.
"AAAAAH, why? Why did this happen?" Discord squealed in pain.
"Omega!" Twilight rebuked her lover.
"Twily, listen, he was going to try to escape, I couldn't let that happen." Omega said, dismissing the Archangel's Smite and summoning the Ring Leader onto his neck.
"By SHOOTING HIM? You could have just disabled his power!" Twilight criticized.
"I still need help here..." Discord said, his voice weakened by the near-body-splitting-sized wound in his torso.
"What makes you think I can?" Omega argued.
"I, I, I don't know, I guess you wouldn't be able to." Twilight's face fell.
"Unless the Elements of Chaos can be used to reverse chaos, I don't see how I could have used them.
"You have-a my Erements?" Discord faked a Haysian accent.
"Yeah, I've been working with them, it's hard though, what with the elements being Misery for Laughter, Deceit for Honesty, Treason for Loyalty, Greed for Generosity, Hatred for Kindness, and Reality for Magic, the last one is surprisingly easy though." Omega noted.
"How did you get them?" the 6 ponies and still bleeding draconequus querried.
"Those fucking stupid clones of opposite-ness, they had the Elements of Chaos, but now I have them, and I'm working on being able to use them." Omega revealed.
"Why in tha sam-hell would ya want ta do that?" Applejack interrogated.
"Power, that's all it is, is power." Omega answered simply.
He wasn't a big gamer, but he had played enough games with items, and a decent amount of RPGs to know that getting 1 legendary relic would make him a hero, so he could only imagine getting 6 legendary relics.
"Well, let's get back to me, shall we? I'm still hurt over here." Discord complained.
Twilight brought up the mystical interface and changed the EoH to 'Healing', then launched the relic-level energy at Discord again.
The draconequus was healed, but his powers were locked down, he could do little more than teleport, so he did.
Omega teleported him back immediately after.
Discord gave up after that, with no chaos power and even his basic power locked down, what was the point?
For anyone, with no power, no chance to fight or resist, what was the point? The point of trying, The point of staying alive?
The reason was hope, and Discord was quickly running out of that, too.
<<thoughtful transition>>
The debate on where Discord would be staying quickly degraded from a debate to a shouting match, nopony would allow the lord of chaos to enter their domain, Omega stood off the side, conversing with Discord and sharing both a cigarette and some jokes.
"So, how long were you stoned last time?" Omega laughed.
"Well, I have to say..." Discord started, his face was normal, then he turned it into a horrid, messy, gruff version of his normal visage "Meth, not even once." he finished, both males laughed.
"*sigh* You know, you're actually not so bad, when you have some self-control." Omega complimented.
"I guess, it feels nice to just talk to someone, and these fire-stick things are great. What are these?" Discord querried.
"Their called cigarettes, known to a lot of my people by names such as cancer-sticks, fags, ciggies, coffin-nails, smokes, and tobacco-burritos." Omega revealed, the last item on his list was said by a guy that Omega was 99.99% sure was hispanic.
"Nice, I never would have thought of using tobacco for recreation, it's normally used for medicine." Discord noted, taking another drag.
"Yeah, so, do you feel like doing full-blown chaos anymore?" Omega asked, suddenly serious.
"Not really, I found out something, be nice to people and they'll give you stuff, or something like that." Discord tried to formulate a proper response, but lacked the words or knowledge to do so.
"Close enough, alright that's enough, this is my last ciggy." Omega said, taking the last one in the pack and lighting it with the Arspace, his upgrade to the Sollun, the magical fire/ice gun, he was lying, of course, he had about 50 metric fuck-tonnes of cigarettes, he just didn't feel like getting more at the moment, he had to get them manually since they were not part of his warping system. Discord frowned slightly.
"Awww, that sucks well, I'll just lay here then, I healed up nicely at least." the draconequus replied, patting the area of his torso that was previously a hole.
"Right, well, don't let me here about you doing anything bad now, you know what I can do, and you know I'll do it, and I know where you are at any time, I'll find you, and we'll tussle, got it?" Omega said, his voice casual as he issued the threats.
"Right, okay man, I'm not really feeling up to doing anything evil anyways, just things like pastries hitting people, and other prank things." Discord responded, standing up and stretching, he had reduced his size to 6 feet, minus the horns.
"Alright, I'll hold your word for that, I'll go and tell Luna about your successful rehabilitation, stay here." Omega directed, teleporting off to Canterlot.
The Mane 6 had stopped yelling, they merely stared at each other.
Discord made his move.
"Hey girls, so, no need to argue anymore, Omega helped me see the light, he's off to tell Luna about my successful rehabilitation, in the meantime, I baked you a pie." Discord revealed, pulling a pie out from behind his back, it looked normal enough.
"Ooh boy, what flavor?" Pinkie chimed, bouncing in delight.
Discord narrowed his eyes, his tone went serious.
"PIE FLAVOR." he said with emphasis.
Suddenly, a miniature pie shot out of the top of the big pie in slow-motion.
"Neat." Pinkie said, picking the smaller pie out of the air and eating it, burping out the tin plate that held it.
Discord peeled away the pie crust to reveal miniature pies inside the larger pie, he passed them out, taking the empty pie shell in one hand, he spoke.
"Aaaahhh, my favorite flavor, imagination." he said, drinking the pie crust.
<<last transition (not really)>>
Omega appeared in the throne room, he saw Luna sitting on the throne, arguing with a white coated stallion with a black mane, a goatee, red paint on his body, and a cutie mark of a dark red explosion symbol.
Omega merely shoved the strange stallion out of the way.
"Luna, Twilight reformed Discord, that's all I had to *kick* say." Omega informed, kicking the strange stallion in the face after he tried to charge him, two jagged looking swords drawn.
Omega turned to the stallion, he was charging again.
"I'm killing him out of self-defense." Omega said calmly, though loud enough the Luna could hear him.
He summoned the Retractor, bringing out 1 blade, he did a quick slice to block the 2 blades attack. he put the back end of his sword onto the stallion's chest, holding him up.
"How is your puny sword's pommel going to hurt me-" he stopped, Omega brought out the second blade, stabbing the stallion through the chest and melting his body, the bloody mass of meat fell to the ground with a thud.
"Finally, geez, finally someone dealt with him, I hated that guy anyway, I'll get rid of the body then." Luna thanked, teleporting the melting body away, along with its blood.
"Right, so yeah, Twi and her friends reformed Discord, they did it surprisingly well." Omega credited the Mane 6, they needed the praise, and he knew Luna was planning the ascension coronation ritual.
"Okay then, that was fast, Twilight is very skilled in dealing with people, I commend her on her performance, but surely you had something to do with it." Luna skepticised.
"I stood off to the side and didn't bother her." Omega put the princess's conerns to rest, she believed him, he had given her no reason to not.
"Well, okay then, I guess that is all there was to say?" Luna querried.
"Yeah, that's all, I'll just go then." Omega said, teleporting away.
Luna checked off another item on her list, she went to check on her sister.
Teleporting herself to her sister's tower, the princesses' rooms were kept in separate towers, she entered the door.
The smell of salt and alcohol filled her nostrils, threatening to dig up her last meal and evict it from her stomach.
She saw her pink maned sister chugging a bottle of cold liquor, at least 500 more bottles were lined up around the room. Luna facehoofed.
"Sister... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" Luna rebuked, she was highly disappointed in her alabaster sibling.
Celestia, to her credit, stayed calm chugging the rest of the bottle, when it was empty, she set it down, swallowed the liquid she still had in her mouth, and then responded.
"AAAAAAH, LUNA, you scared me." Celestia said, sounding nervous and sad.
"You can't deal with your problems when your mind is drowning in alcohol." Luna criticized.
"Alcohol is a poison, Luna." Celestia replied simply.
"Well... then... why are you drinking it?" Luna argued, her sister's reponse was very left field for her.
"Because there are things inside of me that I need to kill." the white princess said, her tone was depressed, she was on the verge of tears.
"You would sooner piss yourself than kill what is inside you, how far have you made it, by the way?" Luna asked, concern filling her voice.
"I'm up to year 2580 of 4002 and counting." Celestia answered, she was dealing with all of her problems from day 1 up until the current day.
"That's excellent progress, keep it up, sis. Oh, and in the future, I suggest using marijuana instead of alcohol to help you, it is much more relaxing and mind opening." Luna suggested, closing the door and flying away.
Celestia lit up a joint.
<<common rabble transition>>
Discord was moved to Canterlot to live under the rules of the castle.
Omega memorized a map of Equestria.
The CMC stayed friends, but they changed from 'Cutie Mark Crusaders' to 'Neopolitan Maidens' just because I can't come up with a better name.
The ponies acquired an equipment boost.
Twilight's focus was tactics, hitting the enemy no matter what defense they had. She had the Grudge, a tactical sniper rifle that can bounce its magical bolts of plasma energy off of thin air up to 5 times, allowing it to pass by obstacles and barricades with ease. The Choker was a poison gas pistol, the magical shot was fired and upon significant impact would burst into a varying sized field of poisonous gas, the size of the field depended on how much energy was put into it. And the Ripper, by utilizing powerful control technology, this magless, gripless, stockless assault rifle launched 3000rpm of magic impact bolts, effectively tearing up the target.
Rainbow Dash's focus was speed and blades. She had the Dragon Claw, a 9 inch long knife based on the Assassin's Creed hidden blade. The Dragon Wing, a mithril wing-covering, sacrificing no mobility and allowing her to use her strong wings as a weapon. The Dragon Fang was a mithril sword based on Xero's Slicer blade, the first sword the younger man used as a cyborg.
Applejack's focus was heavy weapons. She had the Slammers, a set of sledgehammer style shoes, giving her hoof attacks a lot more power and lethality. The Buckshot was a sonic wave energy enhancement, allowing her to hit someone and separate their body from their head and limbs by blasting it backwards with so much force that it ripped clean off. The Flint West-Wood was a revolver that fired .357 magnums, the special thing about them is that, rather than AP rounds with a steel core, these rounds were made entirely of steel, giving them a lot more stopping and piercing power.
Rarity's focus was precision and lasers. She had the Plasma Cutters, a set of small, double-sided knives that fired lasers in thin, precise, burning hot beams. The Jesin (jee-zin), basically a purple lightsaber. The Bird-watcher was a special weapon, it started by placing down the 'watcher' part, a 4-inch diameter black glass hemisphere on a small, light gray pad. Sticking that to a wall, the user activated it and launched the 'bird's, spheres of black glass, the 'watcher' part watched the 'bird' part with a laser, keeping up with it and sending a laser directly through the air, able to be thrown behind cover and cut through it, or be manipulated in mid-air and allow more precise laser cutting, in order to preserve the practicality, the 'bird's had to be activated to make the laser part work, it was a good weapon in stalemate firefights.
Fluttershy's focus was medical stuff and chemical warfare. She had the Beretta 9cc, despite its name, it was actually a large cannon-like weapon that worked exactly like the TF2 Medi-gun, no change except the name. The Lethal Incision was a syringe casing filled with concentrated euthanasia, it was an extension of her forelegs, the rapier-like blades that could cut enemies (hence the word Incision) could also inject the euthanasia into the target, killing them within 10 seconds. The Angel Blade was the only thing that wasn't med-based, it was a knife with a black alloy flat and red alloy edge, black alloy was made from iron, carbon, titanium, and hydrogen, a less powerful form of red alloy, the blade was imbued with passive charms, ones for large boosts speed, agility, dexterity, and perception, a small symbol of a rabbit's head was printed onto the flat of the blade, the face of her pet rabbit Angel (hence the name), it was a useful weapon when the euthanasia ran out and things got too hectic for normal speed combat.
Pinkie Pie's focus was pyro, physics, technics, and kinetics. She had the Einhoofer Flammenwerfer, gemanian for 'one hoof', it was an MP5 frame that shot incineration rounds, a high power incendiary type of round. The Helium Slicer, a knife that was orange-hot, but still sharp and very solid, able to slice through thick armor plating with little effort, melting through it like butter, it was very dangerous, which is why it turns off when sheathed. The Dragons Breath was a muzzle-mounted flamethrower, as long as the helmet worked, she would be able to turn it on and shoots streams of fire by simply breathing, very useful when cornered.
Scootaloo's focus was not being in battle, Omega had given her a pair of .44 magnum desert eagles, called the Destroyer Eagles, to protect herself if she needed to fight, but not for any combat that lasted longer than a minute, she was more than capable of escaping as well.
Omega's focus was complete destruction in as little time and most power as possible, he had already listed his weapons, they were in the last chapter, go there and read up on them if you don't remember.
All was good, but then the Crystal Kingdom had some errand for them.
They had to go and greet a pony for the Equestria Games, like the olympics but annually instead of quarter-annually (once every four years). It was easy, some pony almost got confused for the Games Inspector, but merely asking her name was proof enough that she was most decidedly not to inspector.
Crisis averted, Town saved, it was a good day.
<<nervous transition>>
Omega was nervous, this was one of the few things in life he was not sure about, the other couple of things were his fight with Kary-08, retrieving his armor successfully after escaping from his company's grasp, and defeating XV without dying.
He walked into the store, the lens wearing stallion gave him a look, Omega didn't pay him any mind, he picked out the product, the best he could find, it was as glorious as it was expensive, costing several thousand bits, he took it to the front counter and set it down.
"So, going to tie the knot with your marefriend, I see." the clerk asked, inspecting the wedding band Omega had selected.
"Not exactly..." Omega trailed off, this was awkward.
"Going to tie the knot with your stallionfriend?" the clerk guessed.
"NO! I'm hoping to tie the knot with my marefriend." Omega corrected.
"Ah, I see, nervous are we? Eh, for you, big guy, still full price, I don't give discounts." the clerk laughed, Omega merely removed the exact amount that was charged, the clerk stopped laughing, he took the money enthusiastically, Omega took the ring he had selected, and left.
Slipping the small piece of jewelery into his pocket, he equipped his Power armor, minus his helmet, and made his way to his second destination.
It was Hearts&Hooves Day again, Omega was prepared for this.
He was going to propose to Twilight.
And, for one of the extinctually rare times in his life...
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...He was scared.
<<love-filled transition>>
Approaching the picnic Twi had set out, Omega calmed his breathed, Twilight looked absolutely perfect, standing and waiting for him, after a long time with the cybernetic body-parts, her figure was svelte, yet very strong, though she did not look like it, she had almost the same figure as Luna, so yeah, pretty fuckin' beautiful.
"Finally, did you stop for a smoke and grow the materials on site?" Twilight joked, her giggle was golden.
"No, I had to stop and get something." Omega told a half-truth, he didn't want her to know right away.
"I see, you stopped to clean and wear your armor, it's nice, very aesthetically pleasing when you don't have your helmet on.
"Right, so, shall we?" Omega offered, gesturing to the spread of food.
"We shall." Twilight accepted, getting into a comfortable spot and sitting back on her haunches.
The lovers ate their food slowly, exchanging small talk, they wouldn't opt for what some couples did and feed eachother, as Omega's mouth was not visible and it would be wierd anyways.
Nearing a third of vodka each, Omega having turned off his resistance to lighten himself up before popping the question, the pair got closer and closer, until the food was gone and all that remained was a third of a bottle of Grey Goose Vodka, they took a synchronized drink, cheeks flushing red from increased facial blood-flow, the pair stared lovingly into eachothers eyes, Omega turned his resistance back up high to get himself ready for what was about to happen.
Omega summoned up every ounce of courage he had, it immediately left him the second a particular thought crossed his mind.
'She'll soon be a fucking PRINCESS, I can't propose to her when she's about to become a PRINCESS, it's a good thing I didn't print out that pre-written letter to Luna, or I'd be literally royally fucked.' the soul-shattering though crossed his mind, he warped the ring away, storing it in his supplies as 'Band of Future', as he would need it in the future.
The rest of the date passed like a snail, Omega could feel the repressed urge to pour his heart out and ask his lover on the spot, but discipline won over, he restrained himself.
'After this Princess Twilight ordeal, I'm going to propose to her with a thousand times more heart and soul.' he vowed to himself.
He was a lover AND a fighter, and he was going to do this.
Eventually.........