Rogue Chaos- Hold onto your butts!
After Shayne and Discord both woke up from the dream that Luna had brought them in, both of them soon realized that they were on a completely different ship than the one that Nova was doing repairs on. One that Shayne wasn’t familiar with… but the draconequus definitely was. It was the one remaining ship that used to belong to the lorrian, but now belonged to the Battleborn. And several of the features that were being modified by Kleese and a few other members of the LLC were to make it more accessible to all Battleborn that were on board.
In layman terms, this new ship now served as the new and improved command cruiser for the Battleborn. And served as something in which any of the Battleborn can be able to easily access when going off on missions and also returning from those same missions. And the hangar bay had enough room to have the fortune’s favor and Nova’s ship (what Montana called ‘The Brothership’) in the same loading bay so repairs could be done much more quickly.
Right now though… both Shayne and Discord were talking to Reyna. And the Valkyrie was really not expecting what they were trying to tell her. “Wait… let me get this straight… one of the inhabitants… from Discords world… visited the two of you while you were asleep?”
“Yeah, both he and I were there and even Aurox saw it too,” Shayne told the rogue leader. “Both of us saw some… winged unicorn-?”
“Alicorn.” Discord corrected.
“-Alicorn and we also saw the same pony that Whiskey has as a plushie in his room.” Hearing that statement from Shayne really surprised Reyna… while also making her a bit curious as to what else happened during this dream of theirs.
“ …… I’m not sure if I should be surprised that this happened, happy that you found some people from your home world, Discord… or worried that I will have some random pony show up in the middle of my dreams while I’m asleep,” The Valkyrie told the two of them, before letting out a deep sigh. “What exactly did they tell you? Surely, they didn’t just use that chance to just say hello.”
“Well, first… let me state that the alicorn pony we saw was not really just an ordinary pony,” The teen told her. “She was in fact a princess. And them being able to reach us through our dreams was one of her powers. But she didn’t do it to say hello… she said that she needs our help and based on how she told us, it sounded like it was an emergency.”
“Okay, but how exactly are we supposed to reach the planet where he lives?” Reyna now brought up a new question as she looked at him. “I know that the draconequus that he and Eris freed were busy trying to put the universe back in order, but we heard no word from them after our battle at the Heliophage.”
“I’m not entirely sure either… that and the idea that Fluttershy told us sounded… risky.” She said, before looking at Discord for a moment as she sighed. “She told us that Discord would know the way… and it sounds like she’s implying for him to take us there.”
“Like take us as a guide or-” That was when Reyna’s eyes went wide. Almost as if she thought that Shayne was suggesting the worst idea possible. “No… you can’t be serious…”
“I think she was…” That had the draconequus’ eyes beam up in response. Excited about what Shayne was implying. But making Reyna even more concerned now.
“Shayne… are you sure that letting Discord take the reigns of a ship would be the best idea here?” The rogue leader questioned. “I mean… we just got Nova repaired and I don’t Kleese or anyone else would want to have another broken ship just hours after one of our main transports just got fixed.”
“We could have Kleese pay for the damages.” Discord decided to contribute to the conversation. Yet… that didn’t really do so much to convince Reyna… and amused her instead.
“While the thought of Kleese doing something like that really does make me wanna see what happens… I’m not sure letting you do it alone is still a good idea.”
“Who said that he had to do it alone?” Shayne asked. “You’ve flown the fortune's favor numerous times. Maybe you can teach him.-”
“TOO LATE!!! WE’RE GOING!!!” Discord yelled, flying to the controls and bashing every button on the controls. “TO FLUTTERSHY!!!”
“Coordinates needed.” The computer spoke. Shortly before Nova soon arrived. But before she could say anything, the spirit of chaos took charge.
“I'll give you some coordinates!” Discord grabbed some wires from the computer and shoved them in his ears. He was shocked, literally, with his eyes glowing blue with some startup sounds.
All while Nova soon said something that echoed across the entire ship. “Attention everyone… please hold onto something. Sh*t’s about to go down.”
“Oh yeah! We’re gonna end this fic, folks! To Equestria!!!” Alarms blared everywhere, with everyone rushing in.
“What the hell is-” Ghalt yelled, seeing Discord connected to the computer. “Discord!? There better be a good-.”
“We’re going to a new home, suckas! Moms, you're going to LOVE Fluttershy and Celestia!”
“... To be clear, it was Discord’s idea to take full control of the ship.” Shayne deadpanned, noticing that the draconequus’ tail was dangerously close to the hyperspeed controls.
“Oh, I know already.” Eris rolled her eyes.
“Danger. Coordinates too far. Energy and fuel low.”
“Low, my ass!” Discord yelled. “ALL ENERGY TO COORDINATES!!!”
“... We're all gonna die, aren't we?” Ghalt asked.
“For the record, I did advise all of you to hold onto something…” Nova commented.
“And I was going to suggest that we take a ship that has full fuel and have a few of us go check it out, but Discord decided to jump the gun… of course, this has not been the first time it’s happened…” Shayne mentioned, recalling all the other times that Discord has done it. “But we’ll all be lucky if we’re still in one piece-”
“Going to light speed.”
“Nonono! That's too slow!” Discord yelled. “We gotta go… ludicrous speed!” Everyone gasped. Yet, out of all the Battleborn in the room that thought this was crazy… one person was on board with it.
That… being Whiskey Foxtrot. “JUST DO IT!! FOR FLUTTERSHY!!” The ship jumped into light speed, everyone feeling the force and being pushed back a bit.
“Thank god I made caskets for everyone!” Kleese yelled.
“SHUT UP, KLEESE!!” Everyone else shouted in unison.
“Come on,” Discord yelled, tightening his grip on the wires and the controls. “Faster!!!” The sign above, which read ‘light speed’, turned into ‘ridiculous speed’. Everyone was pushed back to the wall, before being pinned to that wall by Montana, since he was the last one to be flown backwards.
“Hey, this actually feels comfy. What am I resting on?” He asked, unaware that he was pinning everybody else to the wall.
“Everybody…” Mellka groaned. “You’re kind of crushing our rib cages here… and that’s normally ISIC’s job.”
“If I had ribs, then I would surely be dead by Montana’s overweight body!” ISIC added
“FASTER!!!” Discord yelled. The sign turned into ‘Ludicrous Speed’. Everything outside turned from zooming stars into plaid. It was then that every loose thing flew to the wall, with everyone pinned even tighter, most of their bones cracking.
Then at one point… everything stopped. All the battleborn soon dropped from the wall as their belongings went everywhere and they all thought that they had survived the trek. That was… until they heard the newest warning. “Arriving at Planet… Equus, part of the sagittarius sector… Ships power depleted. Beginning orbital descent.”
“Is that good or bad?” Benedict asked.
“Would you consider crash landing to your death on an unknown planet good?!” Ernest soon chirped.
“... Aw crap.”
“I’m coming, Fluttershy!” Whisky and Discord yelled, with the clone rushing ahead to the window.
“Sheesh, and they say I’m an idiot.” Oscar commented. Shortly before Shayne mentioned something to him.
“Don’t you have the plushie of Fluttershy’s friend?”
“Uh… n-no! I don't have a pony toy! Who said that about me!?”
“You do realize that Discord saw both of you with one…” Shayne replied. “And the planet we’re going is the one where the pony that Whiskey’s doll is based on lives… and that includes yours too.”
Five seconds later, Oscar was soon charging towards where Whiskey and Discord were at. “I’m coming, Rainbow!!” All three pressed random buttons on the controls, resulting in the ship leaning forward and puffing out some air, resulting in them all crashing to the planet.
“And this is where I die, by the biggest idiots of the universe.” Galilea said to herself.
“I’ll see you all later!” Eris spoke, snapping her claws and poofing away.
Leaving ISIC to say one thing to himself. “I really want to know if there are some openings in robot hell when this is all over.”
Five minutes earlier
Out of all the possible situations that Starlight really hoped to find herself in when she, Thorax and Discord were going to rescue everypony that was captured by Chrysalis… this was not the most ideal. Both her and Thorax were cornered… and her magic was slowly being drained by Chrysalis.
Of course… they still had one trick up their non existent sleeves. That being Discord. Before they started to infiltrate the changeling kingdom, they came up with a plan to where if they say the words ‘Klutzy Draconequus’, Discord would show up. However, they did not know if right now, Discord was either captured or just biding his time.
“So… How does it feel now to be completely powerless against me, Glimmer?” Chrysalis mocked, before looking back at the weakened unicorn. “Without your magic… without your friends… there’s no way you can stop me. So stay out of my way!”
Of course… this was when Starlight was beginning to take a gamble. Around the time where Chrysalis was beginning to focus her attention on Thorax. “Chrysalis… you can take my magic… you can take my friends… but if you think I’m going to just sit here… without my klutzy draconequus… you must be out of your mind.”
Chrysalis though… just felt like this unicorn was stating the obvious. “I said stay out of my way.”
“Yes… and I said… klutzy draconequus…”
“Yes, I have your klutzy draconequus…”
“No, I mean… ‘Klutzy draconequus’!” Starlight tried correcting herself. Beginning to panic internally because her gamble wasn’t working the way she thought it would be.
“What is this? Are you just saying ‘klutzy draconequus’ over and over to the point that you are trying to convince me to hand him over to you?” The changeling queen told her. “What kind of an idiot would do something like that? Besides… your wasting my time.”
“Oh no… Why isn’t this working!? Come on, think!” Starlight panicked. With Discord out of the question, she had no way of trying to find a way to overcome Chrysalis. In fact, the only thing she can do was to try and help Thorax.
Though, around the time when Thorax was going to do what Starlight told her… that’s when Chrysalis heard something. “Wait… what’s that noise from outside? Do I hear-?”
In that moment, around the same time that a bright flash of light went off from Thorax giving Chrysalis his love, something crashed through the changeling kingdom and tore off the roof of it. Causing the cocoons of everypony that was stuck up there originally to fly off everywhere as Thorax stood in a newly transformed state. However… that wasn’t the most surprising thing.
The surprising part was when she, and many others, saw Discord emerge from what looked like some kind of unknown craft. However… the draconequus seemed different. For one thing, he had a jacket on that Starlight did not recall him wearing before… and then there was the fact that he wasn’t quite alone in the crash. “We’re home!!!”
“Yeah, we noticed,” They all heard a different voice now as Starlight saw a bipedal figure with bandages around the hands and chest while wearing clothes that had not been seen before in Equestrian society. But the part that was startling to her was that there was a giant… monster that was tethered to the back of this person. “Would it really kill you to try and not crash the ship next time. We just got it after you kicked the ass of that Lorrian dude two days ago?”
“Hey, I wanted to get here first and not wait any longer to learn how to fly one of these things! It was a piece of cake!”
“Yeah… if you consider us getting split up from the others in the middle of a unknown planet your goal.” The demon like figure mumbled, before pointing an outstretched talon towards Starlight and the others.
“Okay, just WHO are you and WHY did you have to crash into my kingdom!?! I was so close to finally conquering Equestria, yet you ruined everything!!” Chrysalis snapped at them, before looking at Discord specifically. “And you!! I thought my drones already captured you!! What the hay are you doing just standing there like nothing happened?!!”
“... Have we met before?” Discord asked. “I swore I saw you on a Watchmojo top 10 list before… top 10 ugliest bugs? Or is it Top 10 Sexiest Bugs?”
All that did was cause the girl to snicker. But to Chrysalis, she was beyond angry. “I am QUEEN CHRYSALIS. I had the most perfect plan! I even kidnapped the Elements of Harmony and the Princesses-”
That… just had the figure next to Discord groan for a moment. “You kidnapped Fluttershy and Cae-Cae!?”
“Oh you f**ked up now…” The girl next to her said.
“And who are you to say such rude insults, freak!?”
“Excuse you… But this ‘Freak’ is a mother… and the adoptive mother of an equally pissed off draconequus,” She said, before taking out what looked like a bladed boomerang as the demon stretched out it’s claws. “And I think you don’t want to mess with us, lady.”
“Oh really now? You’re going to try and fight me?! You and what army?!” The queen mocked. However, to Discord and his accomplice right next to him… those were four words that she really should not have said.
“Well, since you asked so politely…” The draconequus asked, before turning his head and looking at a hillside not far from where they were at. And on that hillside… were dozens of beings that Starlight herself was completely unfamiliar with. Most being bipedal and all of them had different appearances and weapons that were never seen in Equestria before. “Just to be really clear… you were the one who asked.”
Of course, it was in the moment when the Battleborn first made their presence known… that Celestia and the others were beginning to wake up after being freed from their cocoons. The rest of the changeling drones had also transformed, like Thorax. Leaving Chrysalis cornered as it was herself… against everypony else.
Starlight though… felt it was the right time for her to try and offer her a hoof a friendship. Allow for her the chance to be reformed, just like how Twilight offered her that same chance. “Chrysalis-”
“LET ME AT HER! I WANNA KNOW WHAT HER STOMACH TASTES LIKE!!” Immediately, what looked like a four armed, vampiric witch dived at Chrysalis, having the changeling be consumed in a pillar of chaotic flames as they all heard the changeling queen’s screams of pain… that and the beings maniacal laughter.
“Aww, come on Aunt Orendi… you ruined the most dramatic moment in the season finale!” Discord pouted. But what made things more… uncomfortable was hearing that the being that just attacked Chrysalis mercilessly… was his aunt.
It was something that had her friend Trixie herself shiver upon seeing this whole thing play out. “Uh… M-maybe Trixie should wear less of her hat and cape m-more often…”
Though, for everypony else, despite witnessing the brutal beating of Queen Chrysalis by a strange vampiric entity, there was something else on their minds. Though… it was a Rainbow Maned Pegasus that first decided to address this. “So… can somepony please catch us up on what we missed? Or for that matter… who the hay are these guys?”
When Rainbow herself said that, Starlight saw a few other figures, including the vampire witch, come back over to where Discord was. And the girl who was right next to the draconequus that had the demon like creature behind her soon spoke up. “Perhaps we should find a better place to discuss this… I would suggest the ship… but someone decided to crash it into the planet on the mad dash to come here.”
The draconequus… let out a deep sigh and only said three words in response… over the sound of hearing two of the newcomers squealing like fanmares at the sight of Rainbow Dash and her friend, Fluttershy. “I’m not apologizing…”
Canterlot Castle
It took a while in order to get things situated, especially since the fact that Discord crashing a ship out of nowhere seemed to bring up a lot more questions than originally intended. That and the fact that fixing the ship brought up another unintentional problem. That being trying to fix the ship and see if it can be linked up with the communications that they had set up on Bliss, Ekkunar and Tempest.
So, while Ghalt was working with Kleese, Mellka and Deande on that front, The Rogues decided to go with Princess Celestia, the ponies that Discord called his friends, and the other princesses too. Shining came along as well, but from seeing Aurox, the stallion looked rather… uncomfortable seeing a creature of his nature. Even though his young daughter, Flurry Heart… really wanted to touch his horns for some reason.
By the time they got inside the castle, Celestia herself had dismissed the guards so that way they can be able to freely converse without anypony else overhearing the conversation. Once that was done and the doors to the hall were closed, the princess soon spoke up. “So… perhaps we can start with proper introductions. I believe that, to an extent, that you know some of our names already…”
“More or less,” Reyna herself commented. “Discord has told us the names of a couple of you… and we already know about Fluttershy because of the plushie that Whiskey has.”
Whiskey and Fluttershy in that moment… looked at one another awkwardly, before Reyna broke the silence. “As for us, my name is Reyna Valeria. I run the Rogues and to Discord, he sees me as the adoptive grandmother. Shayne and Aurox are his adoptive parents, Whiskey Foxtrot’s the uncle, Orendi’s… the aunt-”
“EVEN THOUGH I CALLED DIBS ON BEING THE GODMOTHER!!”
“-thanks… for that. As for Pendles, well…” Reyna added on, before looking towards the Roa.
“I’m just here for the kicks… and also for helping out the rogues in a pinch. It’s part of my occupation.” He said, which… made some of the ponies a bit confused.
“And pray tell, what is this occupation of yours?” Rarity asked.
“Well, I’m the founder of Executive Executions of course! Snapping necks and cashing checks is my business,” Pendles replied before tossing something out. “Here’s my business card. Get one free assassination on the house if you like.”
“Err… Thanks… for that…” The mare now said, before noticing the penguin named Toby hit himself in the face with one of his fins. “Oh? And who’s this cute little one?”
The response that she got though… was unexpected amongst most of the ponies in the room… but not exactly that to Discord and the other rogues. “Who SAID THAT!?! WHO DARES CALL ME THAT?! I SWEAR, WHEN I FIND WHO DID IT, I WILL SHOW THEM WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY CALL ME BY THAT DAMNABLE PHRASE!!!!”
“To answer your question… That’s Toby,” Shayne soon spoke up as she shot a glance over to the penguin. “Who Discord see’s as the adopted grandpa. Side note… never say that around him… it’s one of the things he really hates the most.”
“Um… W-why’s that?” A nervous looking Fluttershy asked.
“Well… originally, when his planet was taken over by cosmic hellspawn called the varelsi. He and Benedict, one of the UPR that came here with us, were both rescued by them, but when they allowed Benedict to serve in the fight… they rejected Toby because he was deemed ‘too adorable for combat’,” Shayne replied back. “Afterwards, Reyna found him and then he became part of the rogues… at least, that’s what I know so far.”
“Okay…” the alicorn named Twilight Sparkle soon spoke up. “But let me ask you guys something then… How did you find Discord in the first place?”
That had Shayne look back at both Discord… as well as Eris, who just happened to appear in the room just now, soon took a deep breath. “That… is quite an interesting story…”
“Recap time!” Discord spoke abruptly. “If you excuse us while we get through the boring part, folks at home. See you in the finale!”