Three Days Ago
Discord stood next to Derpy. She had visited Fluttershy’s home to see how she was adjusting to her duties. Fluttershy was sleeping near a large bear who had his massive forearm around her. There were several nurses running around and the entire area was covered in makeshift tents. Discord looked tired.
He spoke in barely a whisper “It’s been hard my dear Derpy. There are too many wounded. Too Many near death. Why is it so hard?”
Derpy put a wing around his body as he dropped on all fours. Her ears perked up and a large explosion ripped through several tents. A black haired woman in a blood red robe cackled in glee.
“Well if it isn’t the traitor Discord!”
Discord looked over his shoulder “Hello Somnambula. I thought I felt your brand of evil.”
Derpy moved to protect Discord. However before she could she heard a crack. She saw Discord’s daughter Screwball standing there with the other elements of chaos. Goldengrape, the element of Pandemonium, charged at the witch first but was instantly drained of his youth. The others looked wary until a beam hit them Screwball and Screwloose were the only ones to get out of the way. Bon Bon fell to the ground her disguise vanishing revealing her to be a changeling. Roseluck struggled to stay on her aged hooves but collapsed. With her last strength she caught Somnambula in poisonous vines. Another explosion ripped through the tents and two ugly crones walked out of the smoke.
Their leader yelled “Let us go, show these pretty ponies what happens to those more beautiful than us!”
It got really cold really fast as a large man with ice blue skin and frigid eyes walked into the clearing. Derpy whinnied in despair. A large wall of toothpaste appeared in front of her and the small hut. Derpy peeked through the magical wall to see Colgate standing there with Time Turner and a blue box nearby. Colgate yelled out “Greater enchantment of floss. Wrap the crone. A green string wrapped around the three old women. Screwball grabbed one end and wrapped it around her and Screwloose.
She spoke while pulling out a ball “Screwloose go fetch!”
Screwloose chased after the ball and there was a sickening rip and three screams.
Colgate turned towards Somnambula “Cursed explosion of mouthwash.”
Somnambula screeched in agony as her body vanished. Time Turner jumped back as an icy wind froze the place where he had been standing. Colgate shivered but summoned a wall of toothpaste. She heard a southern voice “Well howdy. If’n it ain’t King Charlatan. Minty was right, Ah’ll be darned."
Colgate wiped away some of the toothpaste and saw Applejack’s cousin Apple Fritter standing there with a gem eyed pegasi with three masks for a cutie mark, her friend Seaswirl, and her cousin Rainbow Flash. She even saw a steel silver unicorn shakily try to stand.
The five squared off with King Charlatan as Screwloose and Screwball moved to the side of the steel silver mare.
She heard Screwball “It’s alright Essence take a load off we got this.”
Charlatan was engulfed in an inferno and when the smoke cleared he was gone. They had also vanished. She looked about and saw the devastation. There were now only one hundred tents out of the six hundred they had. Almost all of Canterlot had been killed by now. Luna would not be pleased. She dropped to the ground and wailed. Time Turner wrapped his foreleg around her and did his best to comfort her. With Somnambula gone those that had been drained of their youth were returned to normal.
Rainbow Dash and Princess Twilight Sparkle descended from the sky as Applejack, and Rarity came running up the sidewalk. Pinkie was already next to Derpy looking distressed.
Twilight Stormed over to Derpy “How could you not stop this? Do you know how many died because of your incompetence?”
Discord snapped his fingers causing a muzzle to appear on Twilight locking her mouth shut.
He spoke very menacingly “About time you showed up princess. Do you even have a clue who she was up against? No? Well let me enlighten you. All the bad beings from tartarus have escaped. She was up against The witch Somnambula, Hydia and her daughter, and last but certainly not least King Charlatan. Surly someone who reads many books should know about them. One who can drain the youth of her victims, Two who can control the purple smooze, and the king who can freeze a pony solid with a blink of his eye. One alone is trouble all five at once is a death sentence even for an immortal. So do you think you can leave the poor traumatized alicorn alone for a bit. She was lucky my element bearers arrived when they did.”
He snapped his fingers again and the muzzle vanished. Twilight shot a death glare at him and walked off. The others followed except for Rainbow who noticed Fluttershy nosing one of the unresponsive nurses and collapsing into tears. She went over while Pinkie tried to console Derpy and sat next to Fluttershy. She wrapped her wing around her and let her cry into her body.