On the way to Destruction
"Dash, Cann and I need to discuss this at length, could you go find the rest of the girls? We've got trouble brewing and everypony will need to know this."
After all the girls were assembled, they waited patiently for the two researchers to finish getting their "presentation" ready. Rainbow Dash looked back and forth at the two ponies who seemed to be speaking Equestrian but otherwise making not a lick of sense. They kept excitedly pointing at charts and graphs and erasing chalk from each other's equations only to replace them with yet more numbers or... letters for some reason. Pinkie Pie stepped up and insisted she be allowed to handle any and all drawings. She merrily hummed while she drew out pictures of alicorns. Rarity and Fluttershy simply sat and chatted until everypony was finished with whatever they were doing. Applejack looked annoyed at all the fancy math. Finally Cann and Twilight calmed down and looked over the room. Dash spoke up finally, her eyes spinning. "Guys would somepony care to fill us in?"
Twilight looked apologetic. "Professor, would you care to do the honors?"
"Alright, let me explain..." He looked over the charts and graphs and scribbled notes. "No, there is too much, let me sum up."
He lifted a pointer with his magic and pointed to various pictures as he went. "The Elements of Harmony, seen here-" He pointed to six circles with the words "Kindness" "Loyalty" "Generosity" "Honesty" "Laughter" and "Magic" written underneath them. "-were originally formed by Celestia and Luna during the war with Discord. During this war each of the six original living elements, seen here-” He pointed in turn to six crudely drawn alicorns with the names “Shimmer” “Dawn” “Tornado” “Blueberry” “Lokey” and “Sapphire” “-were corrupted by Discord and turned against the others, until finally Celestia and Luna fought a losing battle against their six friends and the god of chaos himself. Luna and Celestia were finally able to restore each of their friends to their senses, using the memory spell rediscovered by Twilight during the Discord's escape. The six came to the conclusion that, while they were certainly powerful enough to counter Discord, individually they were corruptible. The war would never end as things stood, and they truly loved their little ponies enough to make any sacrifice."
Applejack raised a hoof. “Prof, we appreciate the recap an all but how does that relate to the elements going all wonky?”
Pinkie Pie leaned into A.J. “This is recap for the audience, a few of them have probably forgotten most of these details.”
“Yeah? Well I done heard all of this already, it’s boring.”
“The audience hasn’t heard most of it.”
“Yeah, well who’s fault was that? You done took the whole lot of em off to watch you wake up Dash.”
“Hehe yeah, that was funny!”
“In a moment Applejack, to really know what went wrong you need to know what they really are to begin with.”
Here he pointed to a crudely drawn Alicorn, with the name "Dawn" written below. "The element of magic found a solution, and it was one Celestia and Luna vehemently refused to continence. He developed a ritual which would bind the life, essence, and power of an alicorn into a physical object, the object would be all but impervious to Discord's influence. Each of the six begged Celestia and Luna to perform the ritual, it took the element of Kindness-" Here he pointed to a picture of another alicorn named "Shimmer". "-to convince them at last, and with a heavy heart they bound each of their friends into an enchanted stone. Using the power of the elements, they turned Discord to stone."
He gestured to Twilight who took up the pointer and continued. "That brings us to the most recent war with Discord. Girls, he touched the elements. Much like he was able to corrupt us, by handling the elements he was able to alter the magic that bound them. When we blasted him, contact of the magic of the elements with chaos magic further altered them. He apparently forced out the living embodiments of the elements. The magic and essence of each was left behind, but without the life-force the element was disrupted, so the power transferred from the element to each of us. Each of your stories have the event happening around the same time in the morning, Applejack was up early enough it actually happened while she was awake. For the rest of us the change happened in our sleep."
She gestured to a third alicorn "Tornado". "Dash's encounter with Tornado told me two things. One: the princesses have recovered their physical form. Two: from her coat color and demeanor, it seems the six have been corrupted again."
Dash nodded. “She was a real piece of work, cocky as all hay. What kind of pony brags that much?”
Rarity rolled her eyes. “Yes Rainbow, none of us have seen any of our friends let a little ability go to their heads.” Dash blushed at this.
Twilight pointed to a picture of Discord, he had a silly smile on his face. "Finally, we have one more problem, the elements are the only thing keeping Discord trapped in stone. So long as the elements remain as they are, his prison will slowly weaken." Everypony gasped at this.
Fluttershy’s eyes seemed to blaze. “That... big... dumb … MEANIE!” Rarity soothed her.
"So that's where we stand girls, the living essence of each of our elements is out there now, plotting to overthrow our two princesses. To make matters worse, their very presence may lead to the release of Discord, it will be the war of chaos all over again, but this time even worse."
Applejack stood up. "Ah reckon it's real simple how to fix this, we round 'em up and make 'em see reason. If they wanna tussle why, we'll oblige 'em."
Dash had looked a little lost up till now, but immediately reacted to this. "Yeah! We'll kick their flanks all over the sky!"
Rarity looked a little shocked, but resolutely nodded. "Definitely darlings, nopony deserves to be controlled the way we were, I almost wish Discord would escape so I could teach him a lesson personally!"
Fluttershy spoke up. "Those poor ponies, we have to help them, that meanie shouldn’t be allowed to hurt anypony ever again!"
Pinkie bounced excitedly. "Oh this is gonna be so much fun! Lemme get my cupcake cannon!"
Twilight grinned, happy all her friends were willing to give it their all. "Okay everypony, gather close, we're going to teleport to the princesses to warn them and offer to help!"
There was a blinding light as Twilight mass-teleported the six of them to the throne room. Cann looked at the charred circle on the floor. “They just rushed off to what could be certain doom... and they left me behind...” Spike nodded. “They always seem to do that, it’s like we’re not even here to them at times. Come on man, I made some tea.”
Twilight looked around, the sun throne was empty, the entire room was deserted. She panicked, even when Celestia was not holding court there were guards, maids, courtiers... where was everypony?
"Girls, something is wrong, wait here a moment." Twilight teleported to the moon throne, the princesses’ bedrooms, their personal baths. Every place she checked not only contained no princess, but no sign of anypony else.
She teleported back to the throne room, gasping a bit: even an alicorn could get winded from rapid-fire transports, it seemed. "Gone, everypony is gone! The whole palace is empty!"
Rarity looked horrified. "What do we do now?"
Fluttershy, in a small voice. "Panic?"
A chuckling came from all directions at once. Pinkie Pie bristled at it. Twilight facehoofed. “We’re too late...”
Pinkie looked at Rarity. “”I almost wish Discord would escape...” You just had to say it didn’t you?” Rarity looked abashed and gulped.
Discord's rich sonorous voice echoed through the chamber. "Oh my, this is priceless! I'm terribly sorry my dear Twilight, but your princesses are in another castle!"
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First. For this chapter, anyhow.
Wait....Super Mario Reference? WIN.
"Alright, let me explain..." He looked over the charts and graphs and scribbled notes. "No, there is too much, let me sum up."
Another Princess Bride reference, FOR THE WIN!
Q!!
So we have a whole war summed up in a few sentences, fourth wall destruction, Discord AND Super Mario.
301509 yes, I shall rename the war with discord the krikket war, as you'll never see it, and therefore have to assume it was quite epic, you just missed out because... pinkie pie. The wall will be ok, Pinkie has cremated it 42 times so far, it comes back every time.
Now to find out where Discord stuffed the Princesses.
I foresee a lot of enemy to stomp and many mushrooms to eat...
301852 with the god of chaos and pinkie pie around who needs shrooms?
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wait a minute, wasn't discord displaced from the chaos godhood the very moment pinkie pie became a goddess?
And many more castles........
Let me put it this way. Discord + 6 ancient elements discorded + 6 new elements + all 12 ponies alicorns + war of chaos + Super Mario reference + awesomeness + randomness = DAMM! EPIC STORY BRO!
. And so the new epic battle ensues. I say GO. ON.!
Hehe. Still funny. Don't stop!
"I'm terribly sorry my dear Twilight, but your princesses are in another castle!"
LOL!!
...Or should I say, "HAY-Larious!"?
Haha, ALL YOUR UPDATES ARE BELONG TO US. Love your allusions, keep up the good work.
"No time to explain, let me sum up."
"Your princesses are in another castle."
Spike's little aside.
Little things like this make this already intriguing story so much more interesting to read. I approve.
Nice all your base reference with your last 2 chapters.
302349 I do like chapter names with a theme, and well, these chapters are about betrayal and a sneak attack...
302331 thank you, I do love to pepper the fic with little injokes. they bring me much joy and harm nopony.
301865 Pinkie is the element of laughter, if she had something to be a god of besides that, it would be randomness
Discord's rich sonorous voice echoed through the chamber. "Oh my, this is priceless! I'm terribly sorry my dear Twilight, but your princesses are in another castle!"
TOAD YOU TROLL!!!
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Hmm, Tornado said 1 week. I don't know if she will appreciate being made a liar...
Also I thought some of the original Elements were male?
Hmm... Unicorn vs Earth Pony vs Pegasi? Easy. Tracking, trapping, And over powering 6 goddess that have lived longer, have more experience, unkillable, and are evil with no moral values?... Not so much...
302633 all pronouns used thus far have been neutral or female by design. drama is important and since the sex of the original six were completely unimportant to the story it could safely be made an issue of suspense. as for the week, well discord will explain.
303005 perhaps... perhaps... I could in fact have lead you through 20 chapters only to have them all lose in spectacularly bloody fashions, the greatest trollfic gorefic ending ever. no I'm just fucking with you. this is action comedy, I assure you, I have complete ass-pulls ahead, none of it will be believable in a realistic sense. that disbelief you hold? it will not help you here.
>Discord's rich sonorous voice echoed through the chamber. "Oh my, this is priceless! I'm terribly sorry my dear Twilight, but your princesses are in another castle!"
OH GOD I'm gonna die of laughter before i'm done with this!
301827 Werrrrl, If each of the Oldicorns decides they want a Castle and Discord ALSO does, That is a possibility
Oh gawd, I'm having Mario flashbacks... not another castle, please, for the love of all things holy, Not. Another. CASTLE!!
About that Princess Bride line, that's one of my favorite things to see/do in fics, take an awesome quote and put it in an entirely different context that still makes sense.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
"No, there is too much, let me sum up."
-The Princess Bride? EXCELLENT!
So long as the elements remain as they are, his prison will slowly weaken.
-So even if they get purified, they HAVE to go back in their rocks... bummer. Of course, maybe the mane six could take their place in theory, but of course it won't work out that way in the end.
“They just rushed off to what could be certain doom... and they left me behind...” Spike nodded. “They always seem to do that, it’s like we’re not even here to them at times. Come on man, I made some tea.”
-Heh.... in one of my plot bunnies he actually gets to come along to a necessary-but-actually-pretty-boring firing of the Rainbow Deathray FTW. Unfortunately, despite being a weapon created by Discord, the target is neither Evil nor Chaotic in its essential nature, so the Rainbow Deathray FTW doesn't COMPLETELY work.
I'm terribly sorry my dear Twilight, but your princesses are in another castle!"
-Good line, and you are REALLY ramping up the opposition... at least the Old!Elements seem to be merely Discorded rather than minionified.
TO THE PIPES!
Run! No, fly! No, teleport! Gahhhhh! Just pick your favorite method of transport and FLEE!
DAT REFERENCE
Discord, for saying that, I WILL END YOU. *le unending rage*
Good so far, still catching up. Just had to say that.
QUICK! SOMEONE TELL THEM HOW TO ACTIVATE GOD-MODE!
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IDKFA & IDDQD!
~ tgm & ~ psb !
Quick give them a key board, a gallon of Monster Energy Drink, and a party size bag of Funnions! We're in for a party!
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I see what you did there.
So...Discord is Toad now?
6649197 Annoying character whose main purpose is to give you bad news... Yeah, he's Toad.
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Pinkie trap him in a dimensional shard.
Really, Super Mario References?
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No memes were spared.
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The Mario one itself was a reference
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All memes are references, but not all references are memes.