We find Discord on the edge of Ponyville.
He had created multiple copies of himself, who were all dressed as construction workers while the original was dressed in a tie with glasses on his nose and hard hat on his head. In his hands...paws...claws, were blueprints, and he had several more under his arm. the master of chaos clapped his claws a few times before saying, "Okay men, let's make this snappy. I want the chocolate pudding lake filled by lunch time and the town hall's walls turned to jello an hour later. The pudding mixture is very precise, so I want you to check and double check it before unveiling."
"Excuse me sir," said another Discord in a butler styled uniform, complete with a monocle over one eye, walked up to him wht a platter on his claw. "The samplers for the jello walls have arrived."
"Excellent," the real Discord replied, fiddling with his claws as he did. "Let's have a taste then." The 'butler' Discord opened the platter, which then morphed into five plates, all of them now floating in the air. All of them had a different coloured jello on top, despite the fact that each of them looked rather 'normal' for a basic pony's tastes. Discord conjured a spoon and took a bite out of each of them, taking slow bites as he let the flavor roll around in his mouth. "Hmmm," he hummed after tasting the last one, "okay, that's good. I'll have the strawberry jello for the entrance and main hall, the lemon in rooms one through four and lime in rooms five through nine. The peach flavor will be...ah! I want it for the roof! Then we'll have the pineapple...wait a minute!" Discord's eyes went wide as he looked back at the last plate. "Hey! Nobody likes pineapple! Which idiot decided to get the pineapple sampler? Get this out of my sight!"
The other Discord nodded and quickly stepped backwards, as a ringing could be heard coming from the original. Discord snapped his fingers and a breast pocket appeared on his body, which he reached into and pulled out a cellphone. "You got Discord, master of chaos and ruiner of countries. If its not broke, I can break it. What's up?" he said into the cellular device. That is, till his eyes went wide again. "What the-what do you mean the deep fried bell won't be arriving till Monday?! Rerouted?! To where? Quadamanyada...never heard of it. Fine, but expect this to be the last time I use your delivery service." With that, he cut the call and threw the phone away, an explosion going off a second later. "There's always something."
"HEY DISCORD!" yelled a voice in the distance. The draconequus looked around for it's owner, only to see Flash and Springer flying down and landing twenty feet away from him.
"Oh, hello gentlemen," he said with a slight bow. "I would love to sit and chat, but as you can see, I'm in the middle of some very delicate chaos." He turned back to his worker Discords and snapped his fingers, creating a megaphone. "Hey load bearer, don't cross those wires or you're gonna-"
BOOM!
An explosion kicked up a dust cloud, which slowly flew towards them. Discord rolled his eyes as he conjured an electric fan, which he used to blow away the dust. "Blasted union workers! They think they can just work with little effort and get paid so much...and I'm not even paying them!" he sighed before turning back to the pegasus and jakhowl. "Now, what can I do for you gentlemen?"
Flash pointed his Celestic Gear at Discord, a look of pure anger on his face. "Reverse whatever hex you put on my friends and return Ponyville and the rest of Equestria back to how it was! This is your only warning!"
"Oooooh," Discord replied in a pretend scared voice. He snapped his fingers and a pair of black boots appeared on his feet. "Oh no, I'm shaking in my custom baby seal leather boots!" Fake sweat went down Discord's face, which then turned into tiny porcupines, which rolled off his body and dug into the ground like moles. It was here that Discord looked back at the boots, a look of slight disapproval on his face. "Say...do these things make my thighs look fat? Be honest with me here."
Springer just shrugged at the question, while Flash continued to glare at him. "This ends now," he growled.
"Oh lighten up," Discord chuckled, waving his claw. "You seriously need to relax. Besides, what do you intend to do against me? I control reality itself. I've broken the power of the Elements of Harmony, I've turned your little friends against each other, and soon your precious princesses will bow to me and I will rule this land."
"Not if I have anything to say about it."
Hearing this, Discord simply laughed. "You?! What can you do? You're nothing!"
Flash's glared hardened. "You don't know anything about me."
Discord just raised his eyebrow at this. "Don't I?" he said before a flash of light occurred around Discord, changing him into a doctor's uniform, complete with stethoscope and a medical chart in his claw. He looked down at the medical chart as he summoned a pair of extra large glasses. "Flash Sentry. Five nine, blue mane and orange coat. Currently training to be a royal knight, and can't figure out that he could already be dating a certain pony that everyone in the comments will be yelling about." Discord then tapped the chart as he saw a certain fact about Flash on it. "Oh! Might I suggest a change in careers? Its about how rare your triple Z blood type is. With Royal Knight mortality statistics, you'll likely end up bleeding out without anypony to blood transfuse you some."
"Enough games!" Flash growled, cricking his neck. "Last warning. Change everything back, NOW!"
Discord just let out a snort, his doctor clothing disappearing as he stood up straight in front of pegasus. "You dare command me, the Spirit of Chaos?! You're nothing but a mortal pony, with nothing more than a flashy sword and a pet pooch. I could crush you with a thought...so I will." He snapped his fingers and Flash and Springer suddenly felt like there was a building on their shoulders.
"What's happening?" Springer yelped as he fell to his paws and knees.
"I don't..." Flash moaned, his body suddenly hitting the ground with a thud. The pegasus tried to open his wings, only for them to kiss the ground as well. Yet, despite this sudden change, Flash and Springer slowly began to get back up. As they did, Flash said to his partner. "Springer...I think he's increased the gravity around us! We gotta fight it!"
"You're right my little playmate." Discord answered as he conjured a throne and a bag of popcorn. "Now...let's see what a hundred Gs of pressure does to you." The two felt weight increase and push them deeper into the ground, which was beginning to crack beneath them. Yet despite this, the duo still stood. Seeing this, Discord scrunched up the bag of popcorn and put a straw on it, where he started to 'drink' the bag. "Still in one piece, eh?" He snapped his fingers again, "Let's amp it up to three hundred Gs, shall we?"
Once again, the pressure intensified, and Springer's whole body collapsed to the ground while Flash was barely staying up. The pegasus could feel his own sweat smashing into the ground, the liquid also feeling the effects of the chaos magic. "Grrr...blast it." Flash barely said, his whole body struggling as his wings stayed pinned to the ground. "I'm...not...done...yet."
"Now this is what I call an extreme dieting regiment," Discord commented calmly as he finished his 'popcorn bag drink'. "Side effects may include backache and occasional loss of life....man, that sounds so dark." Discord remarked, realizing what he just said. "I have got to get out more. No more staying in stone statues for centuries."
It was here that Flash's body kissed the floor, his whole being just barely hanging on. He let out a small cry as he felt like he was about to become flat as a pancake, (Which is he least favorite type of cake) his will slowly draining as he felt the pressure continue. Flash looked up, seeing that Discord was now back to directing his other doppelgangers, completely ignoring the duo. Flash then looked down at himself, seeing the sheath on his person, and an idea popped into his head. He tried to quickly grab his weapon, his hooves shaking as he did. A few seconds later, it was on his hoof, which he then used as a cane to push himself upward. However, this proved to be futile, as he found himself hitting the dirt again, his sword also slamming into it due to gravity's pressure.
"No," he grunted out, "I'm not letting it end here. No...WAY!" His eyes shot open and glowed bright gold, power suddenly flowing through him. "RRAAUGH!" he roared as the pegasus suddenly stood up, the gravity no longer affecting him. As he did this, Flash grabbed Lightbringer, yelling again before swinging it, shooting a sonic wave at the still ignoring Discord. The force of the wave smashed into Discord's throne, knocking him out of it as a yelp of pain followed from the monster.
The intense gravity all but vanished after this, allowing Flash and Springer to breath easy as they stood back to full height. Once Flash was steady, he looked over at Springer. "You okay partner?"
"Yeah...yeah, I'm okay." Springer replied with a few short breaths. "A little shorter maybe, but I'm fine."
"Good. Now, we need to-"
"That's it!" yelled a certain voice, causing Flash and Springer to turn to the voice's owner. It was Discord, who now had steam coming out of his ears. "It happened again, didn't it?!" he exclaimed as he desummoned his throne. "Why won't my chaos magic work on you? Why are you immune?! I want an answer now boy!"
Flash just shrugged, showing a small yet cocky smirk as he did. "Wish I could tell you, but I've got no clue why. All I know is that since it doesn't work, I've still got a chance to take you down." With that, he raised his Celestic Gear and pointed the crossguard at Discord. "Flash Force!" He fired a powerful beam of light at the draconequus.
Discord simply snapped his fingers and a brick wall appeared, which the blast stuck and destroyed, leaving him unscaved. "I might not be able to use my magic to destroy you," Discord growled as he snapped his fingers again, "but I can use it to create things that can." In a flash of light, a bomb appeared in his hand, with the word 'ACME' on the side. "Let's have some fun, shall we?"
Discord then summoned a small cannon, which he threw the bomb into. Seeing this, Flash's eyes went wide before yelling, "MOVE!" Flash grabbed Springer both jumping out of the way, the explosion just barely missing them. With this, the partners rolled on the ground, their backs feeling the air pressure from the explosion. A second later, they both got up, now seeing that they were on opposite sides of the draconequus. The two shared a glance and a quick nod later, both of them got into a battle stance.
"Flash Cutter!" The pegasi swung Lightbringer and unleashed the energy blade, which flew towards Discord.
Springer followed suit with his own attack, his paws rubbing together as he summoned a sphere of blue energy. "Aura Blast!"
Discord snapped his fingers and two pairs of scissors appeared in his hands. He then used them to cut through the air, creating two tears in reality on either side of him. The Flash Cutter and Aura Blast flew into one of the tears and then flew out the other, making their new targets Flash and Springer.
"Whoa!" Flash yelped as he jumped into the air, barely dodging the blast.
"Yikes!" Springer cried as he created a Bone Breaker to deflected the attack.
"Close, but no cigar." Discord said as he conjured a cigar and lit it with his thumb. "Wanna try again?"
"Why you little-" Flash hissed before charging forward, spinning around and becoming a drill-like tornado. "Flash Driver!"
Discord simply rolled his eyes and once again summoned the scissors, which he used to create more tears. Before Flash could do anything, he flew through one of the tears, only to fly out of the other. Unfortunately, the second tear was pointed at a wall made out of baby blocks, which Flash smashed straight into. The result of the charge made Discord let out a laugh, only to see Springer running at him with a Bone Breaker. The jakhowl spun his weapon around and then swung it the draconequus, who created another portal which the bone went into. Springer instantly felt a blinding pain in his head, as the second tear was above Springer, causing the weapon to hit him in the back of his head.
"I'll refrain from the 'why are you hitting yourself' jokes," Discord joked before looking back at Flash, seeing the pegasus ascending from the broken wall of blocks. "Oh boy, here we go." Flash let out a roar before taking flight, his body going at almost max speed. However, as he spun towards the monster, Discord decided to literally split himself in half. Flash flew through both of them as Discord dodged the blow, causing him to land a few paces away, right by Springer.
Discord then rolled his eyes, letting out a small yawn. "As fun as this is gentlemen, I have other things to do. I have a lot of chaos that needs to be done, so I'll leave you to fight each other instead."
Flash and Springer looked at each other in confusion. "I think you might have accidently zapped your brain away," Flash barked back, "we're not gonna fight each other."
"Aren't you?" Discord asked before snapping his fingers. A flash of light occurred around them, causing the duo to backpedal into each other. A second later, they were shocked to see that they were surrounded...by themselves. Hundreds of Flash and Springer duplicates were everywhere, standing between them and Discord.
"You have got to be kidding me." Flash said, a tinge of fear in his voice.
"You like?" Discord chuckled, floating over the clones. "Personally, I think I might need to try and redo the hair. How much do you spend on gel to make it that way?"
Flash growled as he shot forward and swung his sword at a copy of himself, which brought out its own Lightbringer to block the origanal. Flash then tried a different sword strike, only for it to be blocked again. Three blows later, Flash quickly found that he was fighting a mirror version of himself. "That's not good."
Springer also tried to fight a copy of himself, but like Flash, he found himself being countered no matter what he did. He then created a Bone Breaker and used it to strike the clone, causing it to disappear in a puff of smoke. "Ha! I got him!" he cheered as he turned to the rest of them, "Alright, let's see what-oh no." The jakhowl's eyes went wide as the copies all summoned Bone Breakers as well. "Oh come on!"
Before he could say anything else, the copies charged forward and began attacking him. The two continued to fend off the fakes, but they were surprisingly strong. Not only that, the moment they managed to take down one, two would take its place.
"Oh, I do so love gladiatorial combat," Discord commented as he conjured a cinema seat and sat down, holding an extra large soda and popcorn bag. "I should seriously film this for the kiddies."
Flash slashed away at another copy of himself, threw away a Springer clone with his tail and kicked another Flash copy away. "They just keep coming!" he barked as he swung his sword around. He saw a copy of Springer and brought his sword down, only for the copy to hold up his paws.
"REAL ME! REAL ME!" He called out.
"Oh shoot! Sorry!" Flash yelped before seeing a Flash clone charging at them. "Get down!" Flash yelled before shooting a blade of energy, destroying the rushing duplicate. He then looked down at the ducking Springer, his eyes narrowing as he realized his error at almost hitting his partner.
"Springer, get on my back, now!" he ordered. Springer did so and the two shot into the air, turning back to the ground once they were high enough. "FLASH VORTEX!" He called out as he spun his weapon and created a tornado of light, which struck the fakes, knocking them all back. The attack destroyed most of them, only for the rest to suddenly disappear in a multitude of puffs of smoke.
Once the smoke cleared, Flash and Springer landed back on the ground, both panting in exhaustion. The two then heard clapping, making them turn towards Discord. "Bravo gentlemen, I will admit that your skills are quite impressive." Flash and Springer just glared at him, knowing he was about to try something else. "Now that we're all properly warmed up," Discord said as he cracked his knuckles, "the real game begins."
Flash and Springer took a battle stance and waited for whatever the draconequus planned to do next. Seconds passed, the three just standing there, unmoving. That is, till a certain wicked smile creased itself on Discord's face. A snap of the fingers soon followed.
"That's not good." Flash muttered, only to feel the earth beneath them begin to shake and rattle, causing the two to quickly lose balance until Flash took to the skies. They kept an eye on the ground, only to see what Discord had planned. An army of giant columns shot out of the ground, causing Flash to start trying to fly higher. "Hang on Springer!" he commanded as he began to zip through the sky, dodging the never-ending barrage of columns. That is, till one of them smashed into the duo.
"AUGH!" Flash yelped in pain, causing Springer to fall off from the blow. "Springer, no!"
"Flash!" The jakhowl called out as he fell, only to land back first on one of the columns. "Ugh!"
Flash on the other hoof, landed on one of the acute columns and slid down it, only for Discord to create a giant puddle of mud for him to land in. The mud covered his wings, grounding him as he let out another yelp of pain. Seeing this, Springer let out a roar. "Discord!" The jakhowl quickly got up and summoned a Bone Breaker, cutting it into two bones before charging the draconequus.
"Oh? The lapdog wants to play, huh?" Discord commented with a roll of his eyes, which rolled out of his head. "Eh, not interested. I was never much of an animal lover."
Discord then snapped his fingers, summoning large cannons to his side, which started to fire rocks at the jakhowl. Springer saw the first one coming and used his Bone Breaker to cut through it, followed by the second and the third. Then Discord's cannons each fired another shot, which met in midair and moulded into one. Springer saw it coming and leapt into the air as the bones faded in his paws. He then put his paws together, creating a large sphere of aura, which he threw at the boulder. It struck and reduced the rock to dust, allowing the jakhowl to fly through it as he created another Bone Breaker. Seeing Discord, he raised his weapon high and with all his might, swung it at the draconequus.
Time seemed to slow down as the bone came in contact with Discord's head, striking it and causing pain to surge through his body. With this opening, Springer spun around and lodged the other end of the bone into Discord's stomach, knocking him back as he did. That is, till another puff of smoke happened, this time covering Discord's body.
"Good show," Springer turned his head to see Discord floating besides him, "too bad that wasn't the real me." Before Springer could react, his whole body went stiff. Springer then felt why, as Discord had summoned a long thing of rope, which quickly wrapped around Springer. Discord snapped his fingers again, causing another cannon to appear...around Springer's body. Discord just shined a giant devilish grin. "Bon voyage!"
Meanwhile, Flash had finally trudged out of the mud, panting as tried to catch his breath. "Ugh...this is tougher than I thought. There has got to be-what the heck?!" Flash looked up, only to see his partner inside Discord's new cannon. "Springer!" He then tried to extend his wings, but his body refused to move. "Oh no, not now!"
A second later, the jakhowl found himself flying through the sky, his body slamming into a gingerbread house. The rope around the jakhowl tore into pieces as Springer rolled on the ground, pain searing through his body. "Ohhh...that hurt." Springer moaned, his body finally coming to a halt. As he shook his head, trying to stabilize himself, Discord appeared right in front of him.
"Having fun?" Discord giggled, snapping his fingers again. This time, a flash of light appeared around the monster, causing a bunch of clothes to appear on his persona. He was now dressed in a blue jacket with white sleeves and collar, while wearing a red and white baseball cap with a green triangle on it. In his claw was a metal ball, which was divided into two colors, blue on top and black on the bottom. He took his cap and spun it around, before saying out loud. "Pocket ball, GO!" He threw it at Springer, hitting the weakened jakhowl. A red light flew out of the ball, the light quickly striking and bathing Springer in the red glow before disappearing. The red glow then went back into the ball, which sealed the ball back up and fell to the floor.
"Alright," Discord said as he walked up and picked up the ball, before holding it up high, "I just caught a riolu-er, jakhowl!" Discord then did a slight gulp, "Whew, almost had a copyright issue there."
"SPRINGER!" Flash screamed, letting out a roar as he unsheathed his blade again. "LET HIM GO YOU MONSTER!" Flash screamed as he pushed himself up and rushed forward, his fatigue thrown to the side.
Discord however, just rolled his eyes as he desummoned his previous clothes. "They never learn, do they?" The draconequus snapped his fingers again, causing an explosion to happen under Flash, knocking him into the air. As Flash's body flew up into sky, Discord summoned another cannon, which appeared over Flash's body. "Later golden boy."
BOOM!
The resulting sound shot Flash out of the cannon, his body hurtling through the air and crashing several hundred yards away into a stack of jenga blocks, causing the tower to fall onto him.
"Welp, that's that." Discord said as he conjured a cage out of thin air and threw the ball inside. The ball then exploded, spitting out a beaten Springer. "Time to see if my other opponent is ready to give up as well. Discord calmly hovered over to where Flash had landed, levitating the blocks away with ease. However, when he removed the last block, he was surprised to see that the apprentice knight was gone. "Hmm? He's not here?" Discord commented before looking back at the cage, the jakhowl still laying there, silently breathing. "Eh, he'll back. I know he'll try to 'save' you, so I think I'll just keep you around for a bit." Discord looked back, only to see that he was now a mile or two away from Ponyville. "Huh, had no idea our battle went this far out. I need to get back to the old chaos grindstone...but I better make sure old Flashy-boy is beaten before I get back to more chaotic goodness. I still need to figure out how he resists my magic after all."
Meanwhile...
Flash had managed to drag himself out of the blocks and was currently hiding a ways off, having found a giant clarinet to climb into. He then looked outside one of the grooves of the massive instrument, only to see the draconequus now hovering around, looking for him. Thankfully, he was going the opposite direction, letting Flash take a breather. That is, till he saw the cage levitating right by Discord. Seeing this, Flash slumped back down in the clarinet, groaning to himself. "Darn it...is this possible?" he questioned, looking at the blade in his hoof as he did. "I mean, I know his magic can't hurt me but...I can't even land a hit on this guy! And he's got Springer!"
"I don't want to hear that defeatist attitude."
Flash's eyes shot open as he lifted his head and looked around. "Springer?" He asked, recognizing the voice. "What the-where are you?"
"In that cage Discord put me in," Springer's voice replied.
"But how can I hear you?" Flash asked in confusion.
"I don't know," Springer replied, "I just kind of...know that you can. Maybe our aura connection has grown stronger. Though that doesn't really help us right now."
"Yeah, I agree buddy." Flash said as he picked himself up, "how do I fight something that can turn the world upside down?"
"There has to be some-look out!"
Flash went still as he glanced out the clarinet again, only to see Discord floating close by. He held his breath, hoping for Discord to simply pass by him.
"Marco," the Sprit of Chaos said out loud as he looked around. "Polo."
Flash's heart raced as he drew closer and close.
"Marco," his foot stomped into view just outside the clarinet, before stepping away. "Polo."
As he walked away, Flash finally felt safe enough to breathe.
"You can't hide forever Sentry, so come on out and let me win so I can get back to my chaos. You know, the thing I'm supposed to do instead of playing around with a wannabe knight and his pooch!"
"Geez," Springer commented, "guy sure loves to hear himself talk, doesn't he?"
"Yeah..." Flash nodded in response, only for a lightbulb to go off in his head. "Wait...I like to talk too."
"Come out come out whereever you are," Discord yelled, flying over the clarinet again. The draconequus then opened the clarinet with a snap of his fingers, only to see nothing inside. "Hmm...not here either. Did he run away?" Discord looked back at the cage right by him, shaking his head as he did. "No, he wouldn't abandon you. So why isn't he trying to get me? Did I knock him out?"
Meanwhile, Flash had escaped the giant instrument a few seconds ago. He had then began sneaking around, hiding behind several other ridiculous things as he did. He was now behind a large stack of pancakes, which Discord was about to float by. "Alright, let's try this out." Flash whispered as he grabbed the bottom pancake, pulling it halfway out, causing the whole tower to begin to topple towards the draconequus.
Discord saw the pancakes begin to fall, warping away before the tower even got close to falling onto him. A second later, the draconequus reappeared and looked around the fallen stack, trying to see what made it fall. Looking at the bottom one, he saw that it had a large chunk bitten out of it.
"I think you need to retry your recipe."
Discord looked around for the one who said that, but he couldn't quite locate it.
"The overall taste's okay, but its missing that real kick. You know, maybe some actual good maple syrup."
"What is-where are you?!" Discord asked as he continued to look around, growling.
"You should ask Pinkie for her recipe...oh that's right, you can't because you made her a party pooper."
"Where are you?! Come out and face me!"
"That's for me to know!" Suddenly a Flash Cutter attack flew at Discord from the left, causing him to warp away for an instant while the attack soared past. Once it had, Discord warped over to where it had originated, a Lego statue of himself standing atop a pile of ponies. At least, it was supposed to be, since the statue of Discord was cut to pieces. Discord's eyes narrowed at the sight, growling as he did, only to hear Flash's voice from somewhere else. "And for you to wonder."
Discord slowly turned around, a deranged smirk on his face. "Alright, you made your point funny guy! Real funny..."
"Can't say the same for you. I haven't laughed once this entire time, and everypony thinks I have a great funny bone." Flash replied before shooting a Flash Vortex. Discord barely managed to block it, the surprise causing him to put up a simple barrier.
"Annoying little brat!" Discord hissed once the attack had faded. "Come out right now!" he yelled as he conjured a bomb and threw it at where the Flash Vortex had come from, causing an explosion.
"What's the matter? Can't hit the broad side of the good old chaos barn?" Flash's voice replied from another spot.
"Shut your mouth!" Discord cried out as he created a whole bunch of swords and fired them in every direction. "No one makes fun of me, no one!"
Flash had been hiding behind a card tower when the swords started raining down. He quickly ducked for cover, just barely dodging the blades. Seeing the anger build in Discord, Flash just chuckled to himself.
"Oops! Looks like you missed again. Too bad!" Flash commented, only to see Discord yell again, throwing a barrage of bombs now. A few explosions later, Flash continued the taunts. "Missed again! Looks like the old stone statue bit made you loose your aim. That or you never had any lessons to begin with. Though to be fair, you're not that good with the chaos stuff anyways, are you? I mean, there's nothing but junk that's not even worth mentioning around here and you still can't find me." He then fired off another Flash Cutter as he quickly left his current location.
"Oh shut up!" Discord yelled as he blocked the attack, summoning several lightning rods, which struck out a series of electric beams around him. "Don't think you can upstage me colt! I am chaos incarnate!"
"No, I think you're just whiny baby who can't seem to figure out who he really is." Flash jabbed back, firing off another attack as he hopped to another hiding spot. "Yeah...I think I'm right. You're just a clown who doesn't get how to cope with anypony."
"Don't play psycho analyst with me birdbrain." Discord hissed, summoning more and more things, all of them destroying everything he could see as he blocked another one of Flash's attacks. "I am chaos! There's no way you can understand the beauty of my power."
"Oh yeah? Is that why you chose to make Ponyville the chaos capital instead of Canterlot?" Flash commented back, letting out another chuckle. "You know, because its an easier place to set up shop than a city full of humorless tightwads?"
"What do you know?" Discord replied, this time not summoning anything this time except a barrier around his body.
"I know that the real reason you're doing all this is because all you want is attention. That's all you really wanted, isn't it?"
"I'm not hearing this..." Discord muttered, his ear twitching as he began to concentrate.
"Wake up, you oversized jigsaw puzzle! Isn't it obvious?" Flash joked, changing hiding spots again. "You just want someone to laugh at your dumb old chaos, which makes perfect sense as to why you would leave Canterlot. The whole place is nothing but humorless droning nobles...that and stone-faced guards." Flash spun Lightbringer in his hoof as he readied another jab. "Though to be fair, I'm a guy who can laugh at anything and I'm not finding you to be in the least funny. At all."
"Shut up," Discord replied, his voice raising as he did. "Shut up!"
"I mean, look at what chaos is to you!" Flash giggled as he began to summon another attack from his blade. "There's chocolate rain, cotton candy clouds, animals with slightly longer legs...yeah, I know what that is." Flash smirked as he yelled his next words. "Boring! that's what it is! Where's your A material? You have all this power and you can't even be remotely funny?!"
"Show yourself!" Discord ordered, "come out and face me right now!"
"You make me laugh, but only because I think you're kind of pathetic." With that, he started laughing, the sound of it causing Discord to literally turn red.
"Cut it out," he called out, but the laughing continued and grow louder. "Stop that!"
"What's the matter? Can't take a joke?" Flash commented, seeing a window of opportunity as Discord's barrier suddenly disappeared, his rage now making him lose focus. "Or are you mad because the only funny joke I can find with you is that you're a big old baby?"
"Stop it," he cried, plugging his ears with his horns. "Stop laughing at me! Stop it right now!"
"Why?! Don't you want ponies to laugh at your stuff?"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Discord screamed, his rage finally peaking. That is, till the corner of his eye saw a bright flash of light. He turned to face it, only to see a Flash Force attack already charging for him. However, before he could block it, the attack struck the draconequus, knocking him out of the sky and into a nearby hill of mashed potatoes. "RRRAAAUUUUGGHHHH!"
Flash smiled, seeing the hit he had finally managed. This was his weakness. Discord could dish it out, but he couldn't take it.
However, as Flash turned to the hill of mashed potatoes, he saw something that he didn't like the look of. The potatoes were smoking, as if something underneath them was burning. Suddenly, the pile exploded with a tremendous explosion and underneath was Discord, looking surprisingly similar to Twilight when he once spilled a drink on her book, his hair flaming and his eyes were on fire.
"Uh oh," Flash gulped. "That's not good."
Discord's entire body glowed before tightening his fist and slamming it into the ground. Said ground began to glow all around him, making Flash feel uneasy. His feeling made sense, as the ground around the pegasus suddenly exploded, causing him to get knocked back into the air.
The explosion could be seen for miles, as the explosion looked like a giant mushroom of smoke.
However, when the smoke cleared, Flash could be seen on the ground with several scraps and bruises on his body. The pegasus tried to get up, but his legs were completely incapable of holding his weight. Looking up, he saw Lightbringer a few feet away and slowly crawled towards it. But as he soon as he got his hoof around the handle, a cloven hoof stepped on the blade.
Flash quickly looked up and saw Discord glaring down at him.
"Game over," he said darkly, before snapping his fingers. A metal rope appeared, quickly wrapping around Flash, lifting him into the air and slowly squeezing him.
"I'll admit that you were a worthy adversary," Discord said as the ropes began to tighten, "nopony's gotten a hit like that on me in some time. But in the end, I always have the last laugh."
Flash could felt nothing but pain as this happened. Despite this, he opened his eyes and stared at Discord, only to see something behind him that made him smirk. Seeing this, Discord's eyebrows hopped up slightly. "Hmm? What's this?"
Flash opened his mouth, but no sound came out despite his lips moving. Curious as to what he said, Discord slightly loosened the ropes, "What was that bird boy? What did you just say?"
"Ha...ha."
Before Discord could figure out what he meant by that, a searing pain struck his back as a purple colored beam hit him. As the draconequus yelled in pain, Flash felt the ropes around him loosen even more. Letting his body go limp, he was able to slide out his restraints and fall to the ground, where Lightbringer still sat. Quickly grabbing it, Flash did the one thing he had the energy to do and slashed at Discord's scaly green leg, slicing it clean off.
Discord one again roared in pain, hoping around on one foot as he did. Flash then tried to move, only to feel his body start to let out again. Despite this, he gave himself a moment to catch his breath before running towards the earlier familiar sights.
"Flash! Are you okay?" Twilight yelled as she and the others, now back to their original colors and wearing their Elements, rushed over to him.
"Girls!" He cried out as they got closer, "you're back to normal!"
"You bet we are," Rainbow said with a loop the loop.
"Ya'h can thank Twilight for that," Applejack added.
"She made us see the light," Rarity continued.
"Yep yep yep!" Pinkie said happily as she bounced around.
"We're really sorry for how we acted," Fluttershy finished.
"No apology needed. It wasn't your fault." He then turned to Twilight, a smirk on his face. "How'd you manage to fix them?"
Twilight just blushed. "Like you said, I needed to remember all the great things about my friends. You can thank Princess Celestia for that." Her horn then glowed as a familiar helmet appeared in front of her. "So, you willing to forgive us and help finally put an end to this?"
Flash shook his head. "I can't forgive you."
The others all frowned at this, but then Flash took the helmet and placed it on his head. "Because there's nothing to forgive. It wasn't your fault over what happened," he turned and glared at Discord, "it was his!"
Discord had finally managed to reattach his foot, before turning and seeing the seven ponies standing in a line with the Elements of Harmony. He moaned and rolled his eyes, "Oh come on! Why are you all here? Wasn't your friendship and all that junk over?!"
"Not a chance, ya varmit!" Applejack barked back, "you couldn't break up our friendship for long! We'll beat you right here!"
"Oh Applejack, don't lie to me," Discord said as he pointed a glowing finger at the earth pony, who was quickly pulled towards him. "I'm the one who made you a liar," he said as his other hand glowed. Flash suddenly felt his helmet begin to fly off him, causing him to hold it down and get pulled along with it. The other girls, minus Twilight, followed suit, and soon they were all floating close to him. "Don't you ever learn? I'm in control here!"
However, before Discord could say anything else, a purple bubble appeared around the others, protecting them from Discord's magic. It was Twilight, who had used her magic to encompass all of them in one go. With this, the bubble she controlled started to float backwards, away from Discord. Once they had floated back to a reasonable distance, the bubble popped and they landed back onto the ground.
"I'll tell you what we've learned Discord," Twilight replied, glaring at the monster. "We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt that its worth fighting for."
"Maybe if you had a friend, you'd see that." Flash added, pointing his blade at the draconequus after he put the helmet back on. "This is your last chance. Return Ponyville and the rest of Equestria back to normal, or suffer the consequences."
Discord just made a gagging motion. "Oh please, friendship is nothing compared to the powers I possess. But since I've seen how annoying you ponies can really be today," Discord hissed, glaring at Flash. "I think I'll just finish you all right here. I need my chaos fix, and you blasted ponies have been delaying that all day long." Discord then 'cricked' his neck, which was him actually twisting his neck into a loop before straightening. "Time's up ponies! I'm winning today!"
Flash however, just smirked as he rested Lightbringer on his shoulder. "Aw, what's the matter? Just admitted you can't take the heat? I mean, if you had just said that earlier, I wouldn't have made fun of you so much and-"
"Shut your mouth!" Discord interrupted, snapping his fingers as several cannons appeared behind him. "I'm getting rid of you right now!"
"Oh please, cannons again?" Flash mocked back, causing Discord to shoot cartoonish steam out of his ears. "You do realize you can't even hit the side of the chaos barn, right?"
"Shut up!"
As Twilight saw the distraction Flash was now making, she took a battle stance. "Alright everypony, let's show him what friendship can really do!" The others nodded and took battle stances as well....except for Pinkie, who was currently missing from the group. "What the-where's Pinkie?"
"Over here!" They all looked around until the saw Pinkie, who was now underneath a cotton candy cloud, her mouth wide open and gulping down chocolate milk rain. Once she had her fill, she licked her lips and groaned in delight. "Mmmm...that's good stuff right there."
"You finished?" Twilight asked in a deadpan tone. Pinkie didn't reply. Instead, she simply ran back over and growled like a dog at Discord. Twilight took that as her cue and closed her eyes, focusing on her Element. The crown began to glow brightly as a field of magic surrounded them.
As the magic covered them, Flash noticed it as well and smirked. "Looks like my distraction worked. Too bad for you Discord."
"What are you-" Discord stammered, as he was still summoning more cannons in a fit rage despite forgetting to use them. It was here that he saw the Elements begin to glow, and the aura around the seven began to intensify. "No...not again!"
But it was too late.
Twilight's eyes shot open, now pure white as she and the others all began to float off the ground. A brilliant burst of light shot out of them, as the seven Elements shot out a different coloured beam of magic, which combined to form a rainbow. The rainbow shot upwards before descending back down towards Discord.
"NO!" Discord screamed as he was struck by the spell. Slowly, his body began to grow stiff, as his tail suddenly turned to stone. The petrification then began to take effect, as it then covered the rest of his body.
The once master of chaos was nothing but a statue again.
Once that was done, the rainbow exploded, sending a magical energy wave across the land. The light itself began to purify the land, turning everything back to normal. They had done it, chaos had lost this day.
As the light began to fade, Flash and the girls descended to the ground. The seven all let out sighs of relief as they saw Discord standing there, his body still petrified. They began to look around, only to see that Ponyville was back to normal. Seeing this, Flash turned to the girls. "Good job, I think we won!"
"Yeah, thank goodness." Twilight replied, wiping some sweat off her forehead.
"Flash!" The pegasus turned to see Springer running up to him, having been freed from his cage.
"Springer!" Flash said as his partner tackled him to the ground in a hug.
"You did it! You saved me!"
"Heh heh, it was nothing buddy." Flash chuckled as he patted Springer on the head. Springer then helped him up, as Flash was now feeling the pure exhaustion he was supposed to be feeling from the earlier battle. "Thanks partner. I don't know about you, but I'm pooped."
"Yeah, I noticed." Twilight remarked as he walked up to him. "You were reckless again, weren't you? I thought you promised to stop being so reckless!"
Flash just shrugged, blushing. "I didn't know what else to do Twilight. Sorry."
"Eh, its fine." Twilight sighed, the others all watching the scene, winking at each other as they did.
That is, except Pinkie, who then asked everyone, "Hey everypony, we did win, right?"
"Er...yeah? I'm pretty sure we did Pinkie." Flash replied, pointing to Discord's statue as the others nodded in agreement.
"Good." Pinkie's eyebrows hopped up and down before a giant smile popped onto her face. "You know what that means, right?"
The girls just smiled, instantly knowing where she was going. Flash on the other hoof, had no idea. "What do you mean Pinkie?"
"Victory party!" Pinkie exclaimed, confetti flying out of her mane. The others just started laughing, knowing that a party was in their future. Seeing their laughter, Pinkie cheered, "That's more like it! My laughter is back!"
"Sounds good to me." Flash remarked before raising his hoof into the air. "You heard her girls. Let's celebrate our victory!"
"Hear hear!" the others replied, all of them cheering now. They had won. They seven friends had overcome the Spirit of Chaos, foiled his plans and saved all of Equestria.
"WE DID IT!"