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// 3- What to do, what to do? 
// Story: Jumble of the 6 
// by Daylight_Dreamer 
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"I couldn't possibly, oh how do I get out of here?" Starlight muttered to herself. 

The former queen of the changelings was staring her down, and the whole room was now staring at her angrily, convinced she was to blame for the whole mess, and not even the princesses could help her.

For the first time since her graduation, starlight felt as tho she had no hope. She had proven herself a leader, but who was she to lead? She truly felt alone.

"I already got us out," came Discords usually snide tone, "You can open your eyes."

Starlight slowly opened her eyes revealing a totally different room.

It seemed to be an unfamiliar living room. Perfectly normal aside from the furniture on the ceiling, floating furniture, stairway that went nowhere... OK, normal isn't the word, must be Discords place.

"But, how..?" she started talking but was cut off.

"Oh, Starlight, even you should be familiar with a teleportation spell." Discord but in.

"I mean how were you not effected by that brainwashing spell?" she retorted.

Discord let out his usual chuckle, clearly amused at her bewilderment. His face went serious before he spoke. "If that vile insect thinks she can pull the wool over MY eyes she has QUITE another thing coming. Give me 10 minutes and Ill have the others back too so we can so we can fix this mess and get Fluttershy back."

"What others?" asked Starlight.

"Well, I couldn't take the whole room but we need help. This kind of counter spell requires a close connection," Discord explained, "so I brought Tree Huger, and those little crusader foals." 

"Will they really be able to help?" She asked.

"I'm not sure yet but they were the obvious picks," he assured.

"How so?" Starlight was skeptical, she didn't really know Tree Huger, only heard Fluttershy speak fondly of her, and the crusaders were just foals.

"They were closest to us." Discord teased, "Its also a good sample group of friends, Treesie and I are friends with Fluttershy, and if I'm not mistaken the foals are sisters of three other elements, not to mention your connection to Twilight."

"That only leaves Pinkie," Starlight was astonished, "and she's friends with everypony. Discord, your a genius."

"Well I know I'm a genius," Discord grinned, but it quickly faded into a serious expression, "but this one was just luck, I don't like getting by on luck. We Need a to do something, and, as much as I hate to admit it, I cant just snap this away. My plan started with getting us here and ends when the team has their correct memories back. So if you have any ideas how we can stop Chrysalis, you can think them threw while I'm in the other room, but the real question is if its worth trying to realign the elements first."

"Not going to be easy, we still don't know that much about changelings," Starlight rubbed a hoof on her chin, "Any way we could get in touch with Thorax?"

But Discord had already left the room. Leaving Starlight with her thoughts.

This had to be easier than they were making it, they beat her when she had an entire army, and a magic absorbing throne. Now shes on her own. She had to be vulnerable. She had to have a weakness. There had to be a way to stop her.

But how? If Celestia and Luna had already failed. How could starlight hope to succeed? 

How about the other problem. How exactly were the elements 'mixed up'?

Sure, Twilight had been acting all shy, But that dosn't really mean anything. Come to think of it tho, she also wasnt interested in reading. Not even her new Daring Doo book. That was concerning.

Her only ideas now were a) Get in touch with Thorax and hope he had an idea, or b) Get Twilight back and hope she had an idea.

Starlight concluded that she had no ideas, hopefully Discord had one.