//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 - Noctis Insanus Ianuam // Story: MLP: Age of Chaos // by religarro //------------------------------// Luna had just finished a very relaxing bath; scented candles, body oils, bath salts, the works. It was times like these that she really enjoyed being a princess. She finished drying off and wrapped herself in her favorite midnight blue bathrobe. Opening the royal bath house door she raised an eyebrow as she was greeted not by a castle hallway but by foliage and the sight...and smell, unfortunately...of the Haysead Swamp. She calmly closed the door and walked over to a window. Yes, canterlot was still there. Moving back over to the door she opened it again to reveal a desert. She closed the door. Opening it again revealed what appeared to be the main stage of a strip club. There was a whistle and a couple of cheers and Luna quickly slammed the door closed, a small blush on her face. She couldn’t help but be somewhat amused, if not a tab bit embarrassed, at this obvious ploy by Team Chaos. After taking a breath and mentally bracing herself for whatever lay behind she opened the door again; Twilight Sparkle tumbling out of what appeared to be a broom closet. The purple alicorn brushed herself off and looked around confused until her eyes landed on the princess of the night. “Luna? Where am I?” she asked. “In the royal bath Twilight. While I can assume the origin of these ‘silly doors’ that doesn’t explain your being in a closet. Unless there’s something you wish to say…” said Luna slyly with a smirk. Twilight’s eyes widened as a blush spread across her face “Wha-NO! No no no! Disarray tricked me into going into the closet! He showed me one full of old scrolls where one of the small storage rooms were, and when I went in he slammed the door behind me. When I opened the door again, it just led to another closet” said Twilight “I had thought that if I went into that closed, and reopened the door, it’d lead someplace else. So I went from closet to closet until I realized that the doors went to different locations regardless of where you were just by opening and closing them again. As for why I was still in the closet. It was because it was all closets! Every time I opened and closed the door it was just another closet!” Luna nodded “That is actually a rather clever means of keeping you distracted as they cause pandamonium” Twilight gave a sigh before moving over to the door and began to quickly open and close it repeatedly, peeking inside to see where it led. Luna just raised a brow “Well, I suppose that’s one way of going about it…” Twilight stopped and turned to her fellow princess “What do you mean?” “Well, where are you trying to go?” “I was hoping this door would eventually open to one of my friends’ houses” Luna raised a brow “Why don’t you just teleport there? For that matter, why didn’t you just teleport out of the closet?” Twilight just blinked a few times before facepalming. She had done it again, overthinking things. With a sigh and a groan she responded “I...forgot I could...I was slightly panicking and...and…” and that’s when it hit her, that was when it finally clicked. “I was panicking so much I began overthinking and forgot something simple, like that I could teleport. That's how they got me the last few times! Disarray keeps putting me in scenarios that would cause me to panic and overthink!” she said in realization. Disarray was her baby brother after all. He had known her his whole life. Of course he’d know all the little ways to trip her up! He knows how she gets when she’s thrown into a problem without warning, he knows how she’ll overthink things and miss something really simple and obvious, he knows her! Well, not this time! With a smirk of determination, Twilight disappeared in a flash of pink. The princess of the night simply shrugged and removed her robe. She would just soak in the royal bath until this prank was over. Twilight first teleported to Sweet Apple Acres. She planned on collecting all her friends and teleporting each to the castle of friendship. It would be mildly exhausting, teleporting back and forth so many times, but it was the obvious right answer to get this prank over quickly. It seemed foolproof. She realized a glaring problem with this plan however when she got to Sweet Apple Acres; nopony was there. Drat, the Apple family must have gone through some doors. She quickly teleported over to Sugar Cube Corner finding it just as empty and deserted. Next was Fluttershy’s cottage. Nothing. Rainbow Dash’s cloud house? Empty. Desperate, she teleported over to Carousel Boutique. “Twilight darling!” greeted Rarity “You’ve come just in time to try some dresses I’ve been working on” Giving a sigh of relief that at least ONE of her friends could still be accounted for,  she shook her head “Perhaps some other time Rarity. Right now, we have a problem” “Let me guess, Team Chaos again?” said Rarity, her cheerful expression changing to a tired one. Twilight just nodded and Rarity gave a sigh. “These past few weeks have been the worst. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the fact that my sweet little Spikey-Wikey and that nasty Disarray are the same person. Then there is that team of his, and that...that...thing that calls itself the god of chaos, poisoning their minds! Their pranks have been causing massive delays in my work!” Sighing as well, Twilight nodded “I know! My plans to re-open the library had to be delayed for two whole weeks because of all their pranks. Anyway, we need to find the others and finish this” “I couldn’t agree more! Wait, what did you mean by ‘finding’ the others?” the fashionista asked, throwing open her front door with magic and marching through before Twilight could warn her. Twilight quickly followed so they didn’t end up seperated. They found themselves in a beautifully decorated great hall. The place seemed very familiar, but neither of them could place it. Twilight turned to Rarity. “I was going to warn you about the prank; none of the doors go where they’re supposed to. We could end up anyplace in Equestria! Also, I can’t find the others. I think they may have already gone through a door and ended up someplace random” Rarity gave an annoyed groan and was about to say something when a voice called out, distracting the two from the gust of wind pushing the door closed behind them. “Twily! What a surprise, you came to visit! Though, it’s unlike you to not write a letter first. If we’d known we would have met you at the train station.” Both mares turned around to see Shining Armor smiling at them, Cadence coming up behind. “Twilight?” she asked gleefully “And I see you’ve brought Miss Rarity Belle! Why Shiny and I were just talking about how we wished you would open a boutique here in the Crystal Empire, weren’t we Shiny?” Shining Armor just grinning and nodded “Oh we’d just love for you to create a crystal line of clothing” Rarity’s eyes lit up and she was about to respond before she felt Twilight place a hand on her shoulder, shaking her head slowly. “Sorry for disappointing you both, but we came here by accident.” she said, frowning a bit as she continued to speak “The doors have all been enchanted, so none of them lead where they’re supposed to go. We thought it was just affecting Equestria propper, but if we’re here it means it’s possible that they’re affecting all of Equis!” Rarity’s gasped a little “They’ve never done a prank this big before, I didn’t think they were powerful enough to affect the whole world…” Twilight nodded “This new god of chaos may be a bigger threat than we originally thought. Not just clever, but powerful” Shining raised a brow “They? New god of chaos?? What happened to Discord?!” “Retired” explained Rarity “He retired and named this strange ‘thing’ as the new god of chaos. Said thing then went and corrupted the minds of three mares and my dear Spikey-Wikey, and now they work for it, making our lives miserable!” “Wait, Spikey-Wikey?” asked Shining slowly, turning to Twilight  “you mean our little baby brother Spike works for…” “That’s right big bro!” said the dark dragon in question. A ball of purple flames dispersing as he teleported in, floating several meters above them. His cape waved in an unfelt cosmic wind, his eyes glared at the ponies in front of him, and an evil smirk adorned his face. Next to him, Hymn floated lazily, sipping on a martini. “Twi, you figured out the trick in less than an hour this time! I’m so proud of you!” Twilight just glared at him. “Disarray, this isn’t funny! This is so much more dangerous and problematic than your last pranks! Also, why are you here, to laugh in our faces?!” Disarray shook his head and smirked “Now, I’m not that bad Twi. In fact, I figured you were still confused and had come to explain the joke to you. Granted, explaining a joke makes it less funny but seeing you scramble is a joke in and of itself. How many closets did you go through?” Twilight clenched her fists but Disarray cut her off before she could say anything back. “Anyway, to explain things to those who haven’t yet figured it out, as you all are probably already aware; the doors don’t lead where they’re supposed to go. However your harmony powers will fix them. Just fire out a harmony wave and it’ll fix everything instantly” “We know that already, that’s how the harmony powers work! Tell your boss these pranks are getting old fast!” said Twilight angrily. Disarray just shook his head and continued with a dark grin. “Maelstrom didn’t plan this. I did. They aren’t even involved at all this time, this one is all me Twi! Well, all us” the dragon said, gesturing to Hymn who nodded with a smirk of her own, wrapping her arms around Disarray’s neck. “Now, I’ll continue explaining before I was rudely interrupted. Harmony will fix the doors yes, HOWEVER, it’ll work ONLY on the doors. If someone ended up halfway across the world, they’ll stay there. Fix the doors, but you’d better make sure everyone is right where they belong first” Cadence, who had been standing next to her husband listening quietly, raised a brow. This whole thing was extremely clever and she didn’t know this side of Spike, or rather Disarray now, existed. The drake definitely had poetional and this new god of chaos made the right choice in choosing him. She glanced over at her sister-in-law. Twilight was doing her best to calm herself, breathing deeply. Rarity shook her head disappointingly, looking up at the dragon. “Spikey-Wikey, I always thought you were a sweet little dragon! You were always so willing to help out, always so kind and generous. Need I say it? You had a special place in my heart. But now I see, you’re just a foal who can’t stop pestering and annoying the adults around you to get some attention. You don’t understand how much I absolutely despise such behaviour! I am seriously disappointed in you Spike, and if this all keeps up, I don’t think we could be friends anymore” It was like someone had dumped an ocean of ice water over him. He didn’t know how to react to what he was feeling. On the one hand, it was infuriating that somepony kept calling him a foal when he was eighteen years old. On the other hand, it was like someone had taken a knife and jammed it into a closing wound, opening it wider. Fortunately, Hymnphonic was there and came to his rescue hugging him from behind, her eyes burning with rage. Hymn loved her sister, but this was going to far! “Don’t listen to her Disarray! She’s just taking advantage of the feelings you had for her. She’s manipulating you into doing what she wants; just like she always does!” she said before teleporting right front of Rarity, glaring at her. “He’s a lesser god of chaos now. It’s both his job and role in this universe to bring calamity, disorder, and disasters. That had a lot more weight to it than making dresses, don't you think? After all, Chaos is a necessary fundamental building block of reality itself. That’s a lot more important than what blouses are in style. So, tell me, who has the more relevant role here?” Rarity was beside herself. How DARE this mare speak to her like that! The absolute nerve! “You little...how dare you?! Listen I don’t know who you are, but when I find out I’ll-” Rarity started to say but was cut off by Hymn. “How dare I? How dare YOU?! How dare you speak to someone you claim to care about in such an underhanded and manipulative way?!” Hymn said, turning and giving Disarray a comforting smile. She had his back, she’d always have his back. Floating up back to his side she sneered at the ponies below, oh she was going to enjoy this. “We were going to go easy on you, but now? Now, we’re going to make you work!” she said as she began to sing. Rarity and Twilight groaned. “What’s wrong? Her voice is quite beautiful” asked Cadence. Soon she understood their frustration when the servants and guards around them, possessed by the power of Hymnphonic’s voice, marched to the nearest door. Without hesitation, even as the princess of love ordered them to stop, they opened their doors, went through, and slammed said doors behind themselves. Cadence couldn’t help but raise a brow again, turning and looking up at the emerald shadow mare. Giving a wink to her rival, Hymn turned to Disarray, wrapping her arms around him “Come on Disarray! Tonight’s our night, me and you. Let’s have some fun making more people get lost through the doors” The dark drake smiled and they both teleported away. They had a whole world to spread chaos too and they weren’t going to do it sitting around there. “...this is an interesting development. So he goes by Disarray now?” asked Shining. Twilight nodded “Sorry I hadn’t sent you a letter about it, there was just so much to deal with and I’m still trying to get used to it myself. This whole thing is just one giant headache! Disarray and Hymn used their magic to find the most crowded areas in Equestria and the Crystal Empire. For added fun they even went to a couple cities in the Griffin Empire, just to shake things up. Currently, they were seated on a park bench in Baltimare, watching ponies enter and exit out of buildings confused. Some had wised up and decided to stay put either by sitting on the ground or slowly wandering around their new location. Some were climbing in and out of windows. The duo sat in silence until Hymn eventually spoke up. “Hey, Disarray? You know, you shouldn’t let her treat you like that” she said “I know you’re supposed to be over her, but she still gets to you. She’s never going to see you as you wanted, just use you to get what she wants” Disarray just nodded with a sigh. Hymn pulled him in for a sideways hug “I’m only saying this because I’m your friend. Don’t worry about her, just focus on being the best Master of Mayhem you can be. The boss made you the leader of the team because they see so much in you, just like I see so much in you” Disarray could only nod again, a slight smile on his face “Thanks Hymn, I needed to hear that” he said The shadow unicorn smiled back “Always glad to help. Now, ready to spread some more chaos?” With a thumbs up from the dragon, Hymnphonic began to sing; her voice amplified by Disarray’s power. Everypony in the entire city was at her mercy. Each one opened a door, walked through, and slammed it shut behind them, getting lost all over Equis. A young mare had found herself at the mercy of that voice three times already. She had ended up all over Equestria, and once even ended up in one of the cities in the dragon kingdom. That had been scary. Now, fortunately she was back on Equestria soil, just in time for the voice to hit her again and force her through another doorway. To where? She didn’t know. To her surprise, she found herself in a familiar mall in Manehatten. Could it be? Fortune must be smiling down upon her because she had been teleported back to her hometown! She had never been so happy to see this mall! “You! Ah’ve been looking all over for ya!” a voice called out behind her. She turned and nearly pissed herself. Walking towards her with a huge grin on their face was one of the Masters of Mayhem she’d heard about. The shadow mare continued to get closer and closer, her red eyes seem to borrow into her soul. “Please don’t hurt me!” the mare screamed in fear, falling to the ground and holding her hands up in defence. Seed just blinked in confusion until she realized that was wrong. Quickly she shifted back to her ‘normal’ form of Applebloom “Aw Babs, come on, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just me” “Ap-Applebloom? What’s going on? I keep ending up in all sorts of random places! Also, why do you look like...are you one of those chaos masters I heard about?!” “Ah’m gonna tell ya everything, but we better go somewhere where we can talk” Seed said, switching back to her chaos form and going over to a door to a nearby shop and opening it, gesturing to Babs to walk through. The city mare cautiously walked through the door, a look of surprise on her face as she found that she wasn’t inside the snack shop but rather a nicely furnished wooden room, complete with conference table. Babs quickly ran to the window and saw the apple trees of her cousins' orchard. “Woah, that’s so cool! You can control the doors!? “Oh Ah can do much more than that, Ah have all sorts of tricks and skills. Being a lesser god of chaos means all kinds of crazy power, and all Ah gotta do is annoy the crap outta ma’ big sis! Isn’t that awesome?!” Babs nodded wide eyed before going to the window and looking out, giving a slightly worried look “But aren’t you afraid she’s gonna catch you? If she were to see you…” Seed just grinned and shook her head “Naw, Ah saw her and Pinkie Pie entering the barn. So I decided to run up and slam the door closed behind them before they could realize what was happening. They’re somewhere far away from here haha” “But isn’t that...you know...a little mean?” “Cuz, Ah’m one of the ‘bad guys’ now. It’s my job to try and stop the Elements of Harmony, even if Ah have to be a little mean. Or a lot mean, Ah’m tellin ya, mah sis can be a pain in the ass sometimes” Babs just nodded, still taking this whole situation in. Meanwhile, Disarray and Hymn continued traveling from city to city, using Hymnphonic’s hypnotic voice to force all different types of people to enter doors all over the place. Confusion was the name of the game here. However, Hymn was a little distracted, still thinking about what her sister had tried to do. Just like since he was little, she tried to manipulate Disarray buy using his feelings for her to her advantage. She did this constantly to stallions, dragging them along by their heartstrings, but to do this to Disarray? How dare she! They duo kept moving along, forcing more and more ponies and creatures of all kinds to walk through doors to random places. This was truly a jumbled mess. One that wasn’t going to be fixed soon. After all, Team Harmony didn’t know where their teammates were. Only Twilight and Rarity were accounted for at the Crystal Empire. The two in question were busy opening and closing doors, desperate to find their friends. Shining and Cadence had brought out a small table, and we casually sipping tea. With a frustrated sigh, Twilight turning and faced her older brother and sister-in-law “Why don’t you help us instead of sitting on your flanks?!” she complained. Shining and Cadence just smirked and shrugged. “Come on Twily, don’t you see this isn’t bringing you closer to any real solution to this mess?” asked Shining “Come on, think. You’re the Element of Magic, surely you know a spell to correct these doors” Twilight gave an exasperated huff, rolling her eyes. “Sure I know how to return the doors to normal. It’s a very simple spell. However, the spell can only fix one door at a time. I can’t just go around fixing every single door individually, it’d take forever! That also doesn’t solve the problem of getting everypony back to their respective homes. Then there’s the issue of Disarray and Hymnphonic constantly sending ponies to random places, reshuffling everypony around! This entire situation gets constantly harder and harder with each passing minute!!” Shining nodded and Cadence decided take over the explanation “We realize that Twilight, but that’s the idea. This prank is meant to constantly get more and more complex the longer it takes for you to figure out. The answer here is to play the game in reverse. You can make the doors all lead to one place right?” Twilight nodded slightly, looking at the two. Knowing them, they probably already had the answer to this riddle. Twilight sighed, it was a good thing she ended up here to get their help, or else she’d be at this all night. “Yes, I can. Why?” she asked, eager to hear their plan and get this all over with. “Well, why don’t we just enchant the doors to reunite all the ponies in one spot and THEN send then back to their respective homes. Once they’re all gathered in one spot, you and the other elements just repair all the doors at once preventing more chaos” Shining stated. “We can use the three palaces as points to reunite everypony” said Cadence with a smile “Celestia, Luna, and I can organize everypony, while Shining and the mage-guard keeps Disarray and Hymnphonic distracted and away just in case they want to try hypnotizing ponies again while you gather your friends and prevail through the power of Harmony” Twilight nodded, giving a big smile “Yes! This will definitely work! Thank you both so much, I don’t know what I’d have done without you two!” she exclaimed, giving both a big hug. Shining just smiled “Aw Twily, you would have figured it out on your own eventually, you always do. The purple alicorn smiled and blushed a bit at the praise before focusing her magic on the nearest door, commanding it to only go to one place; her palace and vice-versa. Cadence did the same to another nearby door, but to Canterlot. “Cadence!” greeted Luna, walking through the door wearing only a shirt and sweatpants. Cadence hugged her aunt before pulling away to take in her outfit “Having a casual Night Court I see” she teased with a giggle. “Night Court was canceled do to this prank. I’ll have to remember to thank our new god of chaos and his associates, those nobles can be rather...irksome. It also doesn't help that I seem to have misplaced my dear sister. Regardless, I assume you have some sort of solution for this debacle?” “As a matter of fact we do have a plan of sorts. It’ll take a lot of time and effort, and the faster we work the faster we finish. Also, the faster we work the less time we give the enemy to make things more complicated again. But in all seriousness, we’d better hurry. Our ponies are getting transported to all manner of crazy random locations" Cadence replied. Twilight went wide eyed when she realized what Luna has said. "Wait! Celestia is missing?!" Luna just smiled and shrugged "She'll turn up, I have a sneaky suspicion where she is..." Twilight was about to ask but Luna walked back to the door to Canterlot, calling forth a platoon of her royal guard and ordering them to follow Cadences directions to the letter. They saluted and turned to the princess of love, awaiting her command. Once orders were given and everypony was up to speed they began to execute their plan. All across Equis, ponies were waking up from the influence of Hymnphonic’s song. Looking around, they found themselves in all manner of crazy random locations; from Reptilia in the Dragon Kingdom, to Ponyagara Falls, to parts of the Griffin Empire, to even Zebrica. For the most part, it seemed the doors were purposefully short range. Just enough ponies ended up in far off places to cause panic and a sense of urgency, but the majority of ponies just ended up at a neighbor’s house, or at its worst, the next town over. The irony and brilliance of this is that the majority of ponies would have had no problem getting back home on their own should the doors be fixed, but Twilight and the other princesses still had to gather everypony together just to make sure the ones who ended up far away could be brought home safe. It was a ton of extra work that purposely overcomplicated things. It also appeared that the Masters of Mischief played a personal hand in manipulating the locations of a few doors for various individuals, if Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were any example. The two had found themselves face first in the Manehatten city dump, plopped into the smelliest wettest pile of rotting garbage in the place. They could have sworn they heard laughing. Back at the three places, Twilight, Luna, and Cadence were working diligently to organize the ponies that flooded their great halls. Among said ponies could be seen the odd zebra or two and a few confused griffins. Palace guards kindly guided ponies into various groups, and most politely waited until they could go home. Once a large enough group for a certain city were gathered, they were sent home through a doorway to their city’s town center where they were instructed to wait until the doors were fixed before trying to re-enter their homes. “I’m seeing less and less people out on the streets” said Hymnphonic with a slight frown “It seemed they figured out how to fix this one” Disarray looked up at the sky. The sun was setting, the moon was raising, and the stars were starting to appear. The day was over and he smiled. “It’s fine Hymn, It’s already night. We won haha. What do you think of that?” Hymn giggled and hugged the drake “I think this was really fun. You always come up with the best ideas. If we’re done out here, let’s go home. All that singing has made me tired” Disarray nodded happily and the two teleported away. It was kind of nice, he thought, having fun, just the two of the. It was quieter, but also nice. Back at Twilight’s palace Fluttershy had finally arrived after three hours of receiving ponies. “Fluttershy! It’s good to finally see you!” smiled Twilight “Where have you been?” “Oh Twilight, you have no idea how wonderful it was! I ended up in Zebrica, where I saw lots and lots of wild animals! I even saw an elephant and met this old giraffe who had these beautiful neck rings. She told me she had always wanted to meet a pony an-” “It’s great you had such a fascinating day darling” Rarity interrupted “but we MUST hurry and find the others so we can get together and stop this madness!” “Aaand we have to make sure everypony gets home safely…” groaned Twilight “This prank is the most exhausting yet! I’m going to need another aspirin...” Looking up, the purple princess spotted Rainbow Dash hovering in the air. The pegasus was looking about, searching for her friends. She spotted them as Twilight waved her over. “Hey Twilight! For some reason I ended up at your brother’s place. He told me head here. How’re these crazy doors treating you?” “I’m done talking about these stupid doors for right now. Where were you, by the way?” asked Twilight with a sigh. Dash just shrugged “Found myself in Los Pegasus when I went out for groceries. I gambled a bit; won some money, lost some money, it was an ok day” “Ah…” was all Twilight mumbled, watching as a garbage covered Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon walked past her “...no comment…” they both muttered, walking over to a group of ponyville ponies who in turn gave them a wide berth. They were absolutely furious and were going to make whomever was responsible pay if it was the last thing they do! “Well Howdy ya’ll! Ain’t ya a sight for for sore eyes” greeted Applejack with a wave. Pinkie Pie was bounding around happily beside her “We took our time, but we’re finally here” “Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh today was super-duper awesome fun!!!” Pinkie Pie practically screamed “First, I went over to Applejack’s for some Zap Apple jam for a project I was working on, youknowhowIamworkingonthisandthatsoIdecidedtoworkonthiszapapplecakebutIneededthejam ANYWAY when we tried to enter the barn, BOOM we were at Ponyagara Falls! We tried to go back but the door slammed shut behind us. It was super fun though! I went over the falls in a barrel eventhoughApplejacktoldmenottobutitwasfunintheendandthenwewentthroughanotherdoorandendedupinthemoutainsandwentsnowboarding! Applejack is really good at snowboarding! So anywho wegothroughanotherdoorandwe’reatthesea! Like, the really big one! Then weheardsingingandendedupinManehattenwherewemetApplejack’sauntandunclewhowerereallyniceandeverything. After all that we went through another door and ended up in Canterlot. Princess Luna sent us here and presto here we are, where I then told you all about the awesome day we had!” The others stared at Pinkie Pie while Applejack just shook her head with a smile “She’s gonna sleep real well tonight…Anywho, seein how we’re all here, lets go about fixing this mess” Twilight blinked a few times before giving a relieved nod “I couldn’t agree more! The soldiers will continue escorting the groups where they need to go. It seems everyone has been organized so we can send out a harmony wave to fix all the doors at once and finally be done with all this!” Twilight gestured to her friends, who nodded and formed a circle. Holding hands, they concentrated and released their rainbow wave of harmony. Every door returned to normal, and now Twilight had to deal with the task of getting all the remaining groups home. Some knocking from a nearby closet caused the group to turn, just in time to see the door open and a confused Princess Celestia step ou. Behind her through the door they could see brooms and other cleaning supplies. “Oh finally! I’ve been stuck in the closet all day!” she said before walking away. "Huh...Celestia was in the closet..." said Rainbow Dash. The purple princess' eye twitched and a small blush graced her cheeks before she just shook her head and have a huff. Walking over to the nearest group who waited patiently by a door she calmly asked “What are you all from?” “Eh? We're from Vanhoover” This was going to be a very long night. It was almost four in the morning and they were still getting ponies back to where they belonged. The Elements were beyond exhausted, and Twilight suggested that after it was all over and fixed, her friends should sleep over in her castle. They all graciously accepted. Disarray and Hymn has just arrived back to the the old CMC clubhouse now Team Chaos regional office from the main Headquarters. They had learned from Shadow Blitz that they could watch the goings on of the prank on the many TVs in their HQ lounge. It was quite hilarious watching Team Harmony scramble to figure things out and gave them joy to see everyone else generally having fun ending up in random locations. “I had a really great time” laughed the dark drake. Hymn smiled, her arm wrapped around his “I’m glad to see you smiling Disarray. I know what happened with Rarity really got to you” “Yea, well, if you weren’t there she might have. Thank you for being at my side tonight Hymn, and for having my back. It means a lot of have a friend like you that I know I can always count on” Hymn blushed, punching the dragon in the arm playfully “hey, what are friends for, right?” It was about that time that Bad Seed and Babs entered, both looking rather tired from staying up so late. “Oh there ya’ll are. Ah was looking for you Disarray. Well, you and the boss. Is the prank over?”  Seed asked, plopping down into one of the seats at the conference table, leaning back and proping her hooves up. “Yea, Team Harmony just finished wrapping things up, rainbow wave and all” replied Disarray, Hymnphonic nodded in agreement. “Spike, Sweetie Belle, is that really you?” asked Babs wide eyed. Both lesser gods nodded and shifted back to their old ‘normal’ forms. “Babs? Haha I didn't notice you come in! What are you doing here? Did you enjoy our little game?” asked Hymphonic, a huge grin on her face. “It was amazing! Applebloom, or um, Bad Seed was telling me all about you guys and your jobs! She even told me about the night you girls got your cutiemarks, I’m so jealous, I wish I could get mine” Disarray raised a brow “You don’t have yours either? What are you good at?” Babs shrugged, giving a sigh “I don’t know about being good at anything, but I like nightlife, and clubs, and parties. I want to open a big nightclub one day, but my parents think that idea is stupid and are constantly making me take more ‘conventional’ jobs. None of them have worked out and I’m still a blank flank…” “Parties huh?...” mused Disarray, the dragon glancing over to Seed who had a huge grin on her face, nodding enthusiastically. Seems she had already came to the same conclusion he was coming to right now. Turning to Babs, Disarray shifted back into his chaos form and smiled “Well, what if we were to help you get your cutiemark. You ARE the forth crusader after all” The mare’s eyed widened “You can do that? How?” “Easy. Join us. Join Team Chaos. I’m sure our boss Maelstrom would love to have you onboard” Babs couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She looked to Bad Seed who just smiled and nodded her head. Then to Sweetie Belle who shifted back to her chaos form and did the same. They were serious. A part of her wanted to scream yes as loudly as she could, another became hesitant. After all, if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. She couldn’t let herself get her hopes up…. That’s how they get shattered. Her parent's taught her that. Life isn't all fun and games they say. Big dreams are just that; dreams. “But, you said you work for the new god of chaos right? So even if you want me on the team, they have the final say. Why would they want a twenty year old blank flank who can’t keep a job?” “Maybe because said boss sees something in said blank flank. Or maybe because said boss is nuts. Maybe both. The question isn’t why. The question is do you want the job?” asked a voice behind her. Babs whipped around and came face to face with Maelstrom, their three golden eyes focusing on the city mare. “Well?” they asked again, holding out a contract for Babs to sign. Thinking it over Babs looked at the chaos god, then over to her friends. Wait a second, why was she debating this?! Her friends, who were GODS, just came to her and asked her to become a god as well; it was a no brainer!! Snatching the contract from Mael she quickly went over to the table and signed her name, handing it back with a huge grin on her face. “I’m in!” Mael shook Babs hand as they imbued her with chaotic powers. It seemed more unstable than with the others. She seemed to constantly warp and change, her body becoming two dimensional, then quilted, then a quadrupled pony, then for a second even claymation before returning back to normal.  Her fur and hair cycled through several colors and patterns before finally her body turned dark grey, her mane, tail, and eyes a bright yellow. Her outfit had changed from a shirt and jean short to a pair of black and yellow plad bellbottom pants and a black and plaid sleeveless top, complete with a wide loose fitting back belt covered in gold studs. Babs really really liked her new look. Team Chaos had huge smiles on their faces. The girls ran over and hugged their new teammate. Disarray turned to his boss. “Five down, only one to go. A pegasus for Fluttershy right?” Mael nodded as the new shadow mare ran up and hugged her new boss “Oh thank you Maelstrom, this power feels awesome! I promise I won't let you down!” The chaos god chuckled “I know you’ll try your best. With a new look and the start of a new life comes a new name. Hmm, wait, I know. Welcome to the team...Party Pop”