Twilight
Twilight snorted and woke up. Much of the desk she had been using as an impromptu pillow was covered with a large roll of parchment, "Ugh, drool stains are so hard to get out of these" she thought with a grimace.
Her attention was riveted however by the sight outside, the sun and moon were in the sky at the same time. This only caused Twilight to panic, "Oh no, what's happened to the princesses?!" This was cause for great concern, as this phenomenon only happened if both princesses couldn't reach out to the cosmic bodies with their magic, "I have to get to Ponyville, this is an emergency!"
"Spike, Spike!" she said urgently.
"SNOOORE mmm yur" was what Twilight got in reply.
"Spike!" she said with more force. The baby dragon woke up at this, still sleepy and barely awake.
Spike rubbed his eyes, "Ugh, is it morning already?"
"Uhm, yes, no, maybe, that's the point, I can't tell!" she spoke with hints of panic in her tone.
Spike got up and looked out the window, "Whoa, that is weird"
"Exactly, we need to go find the princesses as soon as possible" at that, she picked up Spike and galloped out of the castle. When she got outside though, she was swarmed by a mob of panicked ponies. They were yelling, stamping their hooves, and generally being a nuisance. The road was completely blocked by them, hindering Twilight's progress.
She mentally sighed, "This could take a while"
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Link
The vines were completely focused on Link, so much so that they didn't notice Angel hopping off of Link to hurry back to the cottage.
While the vines weren't smart enough to notice him leading them in circles, they did have the numbers advantage. One of them managed to wrap itself around one of his hind legs and hoist him into the air.
It then proceeded to slam Link into the ground, with him only uttering a 'yipe', winded from the impact. He got up carefully, I'm lucky it didn't manage to break anything, this could be rea-"
A flash of steel was all Link saw before the vine that was menacing him was cut cleanly in two. Looking around, he saw Angel... with a large knife that he was holding in his two front paws.
...I don't even WANT to know where he got that" he thought while watching him swing it.
When Angel managed to get near Link, he hopped onto his back, all the while saying, Stay back or I'll cut you! He turned his attention to Link, Get a move on, these won't get rid of themselves!
He was right, even if he made Link uncomfortable with the knife he was swinging a bit too close for comfort, "Angel, ANGEL!" this managed to stop his reckless swinging of the weapon he was holding, "Just cut the vines if I get caught by one, you're swinging that rather close to body parts I want to keep intact, like my head"
Angel gave a mock salute, "Let's do this"
The vines were more wary of them now that Angel had appeared to help. They were moving, slithering around the duo like snakes, as such they didn't notice the six element bearers congregating on the road to Fluttershy's cottage.
As the standoff continued, the vines began to move straight up, hissing all the while, "Now what are they up to?" Link thought as the vines started to vibrate.
All at once, the spikes that adorned the vines shot out, hitting anyone and anything indiscriminately. Angel hid behind Link's head to avoid the barrage, Crap, that's not good at all"
Jumping to the side, Link managed to avoid most of the spikes that were shot. He got a few scratches, but luckily didn't get himself impaled on one of them.
The vines, now without spikes, were readying to try and trap Link again. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw what appeared to be a rainbow, spinning around a central area, when it cleared, what he saw looked to be some sort of abomination of nature.
While he was gawking at the sudden appearance of such a bizarre creature, one of the vines took the opportunity to hoist him up by the leg, and unceremoniously toss him towards the group.
He slammed into the chimera creature and sent both sprawling dazed from the impact, "Well, how rude of you to just pop in like this, you interrupted our conversation" as he said this he materialized a fork and started eating the vines like they were spaghetti.
"Ouch" was all Link had to offer to the conversation.
The creature finally took notice of what had crashed into him, "Oh? What have we here?" He moved around Link, inspecting him, "Well, you certainly are a surprise" he said while he sniffed Link, "Ohhhhh, it smells positively chaotic"
Link snapped back to reality when it picked him up by his front leg, "Where oh where did you come from hmm?"
He gave him a flat look, "Blame the neurotic purple winged unicorn"
"Hahahahaha, allow me to introduce myself, I am Discord, most handsome spirit of chaos and disharmony you will ever meet" he finished with a smug look while conjuring a glass of chocolate milk.
"..." Link turned to the others, "Who is this guy, and-" Link watched Discord slurp up the glass around the chocolate milk and proceed to use the milk as a rubber ball, "-just what is he doing, and why?"
Applejack face hoofed, "That's Discord, once the greatest threat ta the kingdom, now reformed"
Discord proceeded to wring the milk like a towel, which squeezed out lemonade of all things. Link turned to the rest, "I have a hard time believing that HE was the greatest threat to your kingdom"
He started chuckling, "Boy those were the days, cotton candy clouds, soap bubble roads, Ohhh it was wonderful"
Rainbow Dash spoke up, "He made everypony live in chaos under his rule!"
"Did he ever actually harm anyone?" Link asked bluntly.
"Harming them would be sooooo typical and boring" Discord cut in while floating upside down in the air.
"Ganondorf would have torn this guy to pieces" Link chuckled somewhat darkly at that thought before running off to go combat the vines again.
"Um, Discord, did you cause all this?" Fluttershy asked him.
He gave a mock hurt expression, "Moi, cause all this, I'm reformed now, don't you trust me?" his eyes were big and watery at the end.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go follow that wolf fellow, he looks like he could be fun" With a snap of his talons and a mischievous smile, he was gone.
Discord reappeared above Link, "Well, now what are you gonna do?"
He looked up at Discord, "Work on getting rid of this menace, you gonna help?"
He snapped his talons, and he was suddenly decked out in flippers, an innertube, goggles and water wings, he wielded a rubber chicken like a sword and had a serious face on.
Link barely held in a snicker when Discord went skipping into the mess and actually started cutting the vines with the rubber chicken. He looked back to find the girls with some striped pony that held a flask out towards them. Turning to find Discord, he was holding the chicken in a basic stance while talking with his lips out of sync of the words he was saying, "...Please tell me that's not what he would normally do"
Angel looked at Discord, "That's pretty normal compared to some of the other stuff he does" he turned back to Link, "Oh, and he more or less lives with Fluttershy"
Discord suddenly appeared above them, "Yep, it'll be fun" he said with a smile.
Link dropped the issue of living with this being, "How are we going to get rid of these things, they're quite stubborn"
At the statement, Discord got a mischievous gleam in his eye, "Well, if you want to get rid of them, it would be best to attack the heart of this matter" he got a smile befitting a being such as him, "How about I send you there?"
Before Link could formulate an answer, he had snapped his talons and Link had been teleported to the heart of the Everfree.
"Hmph, I am SO the greatest villain ever" Discord said with a pompous air about him while smugly smiling.
Link looked around to find himself in a clearing, it had a river winding along the edge of it and had soft grass covering the entirety of the ground. He sighed, "Should've seen that coming"
He didn't know which way to go, so he started going east, hoping that would be a way out.