I still can't believe it! We were had by Discord! He played us like a violin!...or a puppet? Whichever comes first, but anyway, as Discord continued laughing like a maniac.

"Ho, you ponies are just the most fun I've had in eons!" Discord responded, wiping a tear from his eye.

"Well, quit it!" PInkie screamed at him. "You better think before you laugh at the Pink..." Pinkie looked back for a moment to think.

"You mean Pinkie Pie?" Kaede answered as Pinkie looked back at her in anger and exclaimed "I knew that already, Kaede! So shut up!"

"Oh, yeah?" Fluttershy questioned, evilly smiling at Pinkie Pie. "Well, ha ha ha."

"No. Ha ha ha." Fluttershy continued to purposely laughed, causing Pinkie to be more angry.

"Everyone stop!" Mason shouted. "We need to stop fighting and try to work together!"

"Mason's right." Twilight agreed with a serious expression. "We're supposed to be a team! Not enemies!"

"Well, maybe Twilight might be onto something..." Applejack said, but we knew that she was being sarcastic. "Maybe we need to work together?"

"Oh please!" Rarity scoffed. "You all are just trying to deceive me to get my Tom! Well, I won't let that happen!"

"That's right! Tom! I named him myself! So back off cretins!" Rarity hissed at us. Did she literally just named that giant boulder 'Tom'? Yep, she gone bonkers.

"This is just too entertaining." Discord laughed as he snapped his fingers, making a couch appear as he sat on it and began eating some popcorn.

"Yeah, you cheated, you...cheater!" I exclaimed, pointing my Hacking Gun at him.

"Me? A cheater?" Discord asked, pretending to act surprise. "Well, that's rude. I believe we haven't met before. I'm Discord, spirit of chaos and disharmony. Hello?"

"How are we supposed to find the Elements of Harmony when you took away the labyrinth before we could get to the end?" Twilight questioned.

"Oh, wait, did you?..." Discord soon began laughing again, much to our annoyance. "How funny! You thought the Elements were in the labyrinth?"

"So it was a trap. I knew it." Mason darkly glared at him. "You lead us by making us assume that the Elements were hidden in this labyrinth because of the first part of the riddle, correct?"

"Well, at least somebody is paying attention." Discord smirked. "Here, why don't I jog all your memories?" He cleared his throat, reminding us of his riddle he gave to us earlier. "Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the Elements back where you began."

"Find the elements back where you began..." I muttered, trying so hard to know what that last part meant.

"Hope you all try to figure that out. Maybe the magic of friendship can help you." Discord chortled. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some chaos to wreak." He snapped his fingers and disappeared.

"Mason! Calm down!" Twilight said, trying to calm him down. "We're going to get Carrie back!"

"Yeah, along with Kodi." I added, still worried about my best pal. Kodi, please be alright. Soon, I felt a drip on my head as I looked up to see some pink clouds raining down, but instead of rain, it was...

"Chocolate milk?" I asked, letting a drip fall on my tongue. Well, even if we're trying to save Equestria from a craze chaos maniac of a villain, this isn't half-bad.

"Ugh!" Twilight sighed in frustration as she began thinking. "Think, Twilight, think!"

"What could he mean by that?" Kaede wondered. "It must be a clue to...something."

"Whatever it is, we need to hurry!" Mason said, tapping his foot impatiently. "I need to hurry if we're gonna both Carrie and Kodiak."

"Hmm..." I began to think, wondering what did Discord's riddle meant by that. Find the Elements back where you began....Wait...that's it! "I got it!"

"Yeah, I think I know what he means! Twilight, can you transport us back to Ponyville?" I asked, surprising her, Kaede, and Mason.

"What?! Why in Equestria would you want me to go back to Ponyville when we have an evil villain to deal with?!" Twilight asked.

"Fine, but you better be onto something. Besides, this might be difficult due to using too much magic to transport all of us." Twilight gave me a glare before her horn began glowing and soon, we transported ourselves back from the labyrinth and back to Ponyville.

"Mason! Trust me on this one! If we head back to the library and-" All of a sudden, we began to hear a rumble as we looked back and saw a bunch of long-legged bunnies charging towards us.

"Good boy, Angel! Mama's sou proud!" Fluttershy commented in a cruel way. I made a sad and worried look towards Fluttershy, seeing how she was acting. I just hope that once we defeated Discord, everyone will be back to normal.

"Wow, I can see so much better now." Applejack commented, sounding sarcastic right there.

"What the heck?" Kaede asked, widened her eyes as we bore witness at what was supposed to be Ponyville, but instead, it looked like we were in Wonderland. "What happened to Ponyville?!"

"Are we even sure we're in Ponyville, Twi?" I asked in shock. "Because to me, I think we're in Wonderland!"

"Of course we are! I just don't why it looks like this!" Twilight exclaimed as she tried to walk but instead, slipped into some road made out of soap. "WAH! AHHH!" We all watched slipped through the slippery road.

"What is even going on here anymore?" Mason questioned, shaking his head from all this.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Huh? I turned around and let out a yelp upon seeing Discord right behind me. "This is the new and improved Ponyville, and these are only my first of changes."

"Just ignore him and let's keep moving on. He'll just keep confusing us even more." Mason sighed as he slide through the slippery road. Me and Kaede looked at each other, shrugging before we followed after him and Twilight.

"This may look like fun, but it's not!" I heard Pinkie exclaimed, still keeping her straight, serious, but angry expression on her face.

We stopped at the end of the path and saw the rest of Ponyville and the rest of civilians. They seemed to be avoiding anything 'chaotic'.

"Picture it: the chaos capital of the world." Discord appeared before us with a smirk on his face as he snapped his fingers, causing the sun to be lowered. Huh? He can do that too?! But I thought both Celeste and Luna were the only ones who have the power to move the sun and moon.

"I can't picture anything. It's too dark." Twilight responded, narrowing her eyes at him.

Discord smirked and replied "Well, wait a few minutes and you'll see it in the beautiful light of day. Or not." Discord jumped into a hop before disappeared.

"Ponyville, the chaos capital of the world?" Mason asked, face-palming himself. "Really?"

"Well, not if I have anything to say about it." Twilight said, still determined to fight back.

"Don't worry, you won't." Fluttershy said, ruining Twilight's mood as she let out a sigh of frustration.

"You really don't know? You really never knew anything about me?!" Fluttershy asked angrily. "You never knew about the blushes I was given off?! Anything at all!?"

"Uh...no?" I replied nervously. Fluttershy crossed her hooves and turned away from me, much to my shock. Jeez, what's her problem?!

"Can we focus for two seconds?!" Twilight yelled. "We need to hurry! Now Ren, show us the way to find the Elements!"

"Right, follow me!" I said, heading straight to the center of town. Thanks to Discord's riddle, I figured out where they are.

Later
Phew, after some troubles with our friends, we finally arrived back to the Golden Oaks Library.

"See Twilight, when Discord said about 'Find the Elements back where you began', I realized the day when we all first met right here! The day I woken up from that chamber in the home-ship! That's what he meant!"

"Maybe cause you're so dumb and pathetic?" Fluttershy chuckled evilly, ignoring the glare Twilight was giving her.

"Anyway...I guess you were getting tired from all this, Twi. I can hardly blame you." I sighed.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Twilight sighed before we entered the library. As soon as we entered, we saw Spike reading some books before he took noticed of us.

"Hey guys, you back?" Spike asked, before noticing his friends were...different. "And why are some of you grey?"

"It's sorta a long story." Mason replied with a sigh. Before any of us could say anything else, Fluttershy sneaked up behind Spike and ducked a bucket of cold water all over his body.

Fluttershy returned an evil smirk on her face and replied "Cause you just looked so peaceful."

"I...uh..." Spike looked at her with confusion while he squeezed his tail to get the water out of him. "...Huh?"

Suddenly, we heard a crash as we turned to see Rarity moving 'Tom' inside of the library.

"Yeah..." I nodded before looking over the shelves. "Where is it? Hey, Twilight, do you remember that book that explained about the Elements of Harmony? I mean, it could possibly be there."

"Good point, Ren." Twilight nodded before looking towards Spike. "Spike, where's the reference guide to the Elements of Harmony before somepony does something she'll regret." She muttered as she looked at her friends with an irritating expression. Please, just hang in there Twilight.

"The Elements of Harmony?" Spike asked as he brightened his face and continued "Oh, I know exactly where that book is!" He climbed up a ladder and reached out for a book. "Found it!"

"Good, could you give it to us, please?" Kaede asked politely, which Spike nodded as he was about to hand to her, until Fluttershy pushed her aside and grabbed the book.

"Keep away!" Fluttershy replied in a sing-song voice as she threw the book over to Applejack.

Applejack caught the book on her nose and began balancing it with a bored expression on her face.

"I don't have any book." Applejack answered as she threw it over to Pinkie, who bounced it over to Fluttershy.

This took about five minutes until I was able to grab the book before Fluttershy could get it. I sighed in relief and said "I think this belongs to you Twi."

"Thanks Ren, at least there's somepony else who has a mind." Twilight sighed as I was about to hand it to her until it was covered in a blue aura of magic and floated near to Rarity.

"Hey, we need that!" Kaede exclaimed, starting to get irritated. "Please, give it up!"

Twilight gritted her teeth and let out a long and strained groan. Oh no, I'm not liking where this is going...

"Give me that book!" Twilight screamed as she began chasing after Rarity. However, I noticed Fluttershy lowering her hooves and grabbed Rarity, lifting her up on the floor, and causing Twilight to crash into 'Tom'.

"Lies!" Twilight exclaimed before pouncing at Pinkie and Applejack, fighting over for the book.

"Alright! I have had enough!" I shouted as I immediately grabbed the book and exclaimed "Everypony, stop!"

"Huh...that was easier than I thought." I smiled before saying "Now listen, we need to focus if we're going to stop Discord once and for all and then save Carrie and Kodi."

"Oh, who cares about them?" Fluttershy said in a snarky tone, causing me to glare at them. I know she's under hypnosis by Discord, but still....

"I care." Mason narrowed his eyes towards Fluttershy. "My sister is in trouble, and is in the hands of that chaotic fool. Who knows what's happening to her or Kodiak?!"

"Mason's right." I nodded in agreement before looking over the book. "Now, let's open up this bad boy." I slowly opened the book, revealing the six Elements of Harmony.

"The Elements!" Twilight exclaimed in joy as she rushed towards to my side and gaze upon them. "They were here all along! Thanks Ren!"

She hugged me, causing me to smile until I noticed the angry look on Fluttershy. Oh boy, what's up with her now?

"Oh, I see. So now you say I'm the rude one, but you're more ruder than I thought, Twilight Sparkle!" Fluttershy snarled, causing me and Twilight to widened our eyes.

"Doesn't matter. Hm!" She crossed her arms and blew a raspberry at Twilight, who glared at her back.

"This is great!" Spike smiled. "Now you guys can defeat Discord and put everything back to normal!"

"See everypony? We did it! We found the Elements of Harmony! Together!" Twilight announced with a smile until she noticed the unimpressed looks they were giving her. Me, Mason, and Kaede looked at each other in worried, concern, and anger. Twilight soon noticed this and walked towards them and asked "You don't even care, do you?"

Twilight sighed in frustration and said "I never thought it would happen. My friends...have turned into complete jerks!"

"Twilight, don't blame them." I assured with a soft smile. "They're under Discord's influence, that's all."

"Whatever!" Twilight yelled. Jeez, I was just trying to help you all out. Unwilling to hear anymore arguments, she began placing each of the elements on the girls. "Necklace! Necklace! Necklace! Necklace! And big crown thingy!" She placed the tiara on herself. "Come on everypony, let's go!" She began walking towards the door until Spike stopped her.

"Nope." Twilight shook her head. "We've got the liar, the grump, the hoarder, the brute. That just about covers it."

"But what about Rainbow?" I asked in concern. "Surely you didn't forget about her, right?"

As if she answered my question, she placed the Element of Loyalty necklace on me and replied "Well congratulations Ren, you're the new Rainbow Dash!"

"What?!" I exclaimed. "No offense Twi, but I think the one who should be wearing this is Dash! We need to find her!"

"We got no time Ren! We need to hurry in order to stop Discord and his chaotic magic!" Twilight retorted.

"Ren, I'm sorry, but we have no choice." Mason spoke up as he crossed his arms and gave me a hard look. "I need to save my sister and get this over with."

"Good! Now let's go and defeat Discord so that we all will never talk to each other again!" Twilight exclaimed, getting all the girls happy as they raced out of the library. Rarity pushed her giant boulder friend out of the door with a smile on her face. I stood there in shock by what Twilight said. She doesn't really mean that...right?

"We got no time, let's go!" Mason grabbed both me and Kaede's hand and dragged us out of the library. Man, ever since we got back here, we all started acting like enemies instead of friends. Please let all of this end once we defeat Discord, I can't handle anymore fights with my friends.

Later
As we walked through the 'new and improved' Ponyville, as Discord would say, we finally found him. He was sitting in a throne all for himself, and what's worse, he had both Carrie and Kodi trapped in magic bubbles as Kodi kept headbutting his way out of it.

Both Carrie and Kodi noticed us and began happy to see us. "Mason!" Carrie smiled happily.

"Well well well, I see you've finally found the Elements of Harmony." Discord smirked. "How terrifying!" Is he going all dramatic on us in the middle of battle?

"Discord! We've figured out your lame riddle." Twilight responded aggressively. "You're in for it now!"

"I certainly am. You've clearly out-dueled me, and now it's time to meet my fate." Discord placed some red sunglasses and relaxed on his throne. "I'm prepared to be defeated now, ladies. Fire when ready." He snapped his fingers, making a red target appeared on himself.

"Who cares?! Get over here Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called, causing me to sigh. I walked over next to her and glared at Discord, who immediately began laughing at me.

"HA HA HA HA! You're joking, right?! A human...wearing the Element of Harmony?! Oh my, this day just keeps getting better." Discord chuckled.

Soon, Twilight and the girls began charging their attack as Twilight began rising into the air, along with the girls, but I remained on the ground apparently. Is it working because I'm not moving into the air with them? I even noticed Discord lowered his sunglasses in surprised as he witnessed the bright light emerge from them.

"Hey! Maybe it'll work!" Kaede smiled happily. Yeah, could it be our chance to beat Discord? Well...actually, no. Just about as the Elements looked as if they were going to work, the bright light suddenly disappeared and they all fell towards the ground.

"I hate the Elements of Harmony!" Pinkie exclaimed, throwing it into the ground.

Rarity immediately rushed over to Fluttershy's necklace when it landed on the floor as she exclaimed "MINE!"

"Sorry, Twilight." I muttered, taking the necklace off. "I told you, it won't work." I sighed sadly until I was tripped by none other than Fluttershy.

"Oops. Sorry...Rainbow Crash!" She said mockingly as she began laughing at me. I widened my eyes to see this Fluttershy. What happened to the nice friend I used to have? Where...did she go?

"Brave, everypony, bravo!" Discord clapped his hands as he walked towards us. "Harmony in Equestria is officially dead. Discord rules, Celestria drools."

"Ooh, sorry little missy, but I'm afraid you'll be staying with me for a while." Discord chuckled.

"I better go, too. I've got new better friends waiting for me at the farm." Applejack walked out. Rarity was too busy dragging the giant boulder away from us.

"F-F-FINE!" Twilight yelled. "Leave! See if I care! I don't need you guys either! With friends like you, who needs...enemies..." Twilight lowered her head and to our surprise and shock, she began losing color and turned grey, letting out a tear in the process.

"Twilight!" I ran towards her and comforted her. "Please Twilight, not you too!"

"Leave me alone, Ren...I told you before, I don't need friends....just...go..." With that, Twilight pushed me aside and slowly began leaving. I remained in shock and soon began letting out tears.

"No..." I muttered as I fell into my knees. Kaede covered her mouth and tried to held back her tears while Mason darkened his face while gritting his teeth.

"Oh, I feel so bad for you humans." Huh? I glanced towards Discord with a smirk on his face. "So sad to see your own friends to just turned away. All because they're suffering my sanity."

"That's right. I tricked your pony friends to fall under my spell to become the opposite of who they are. The chaotic magic I used are made from the negative emotions I possess, and they're now suffering on how I suffered. And now, you guys are suffering the same pain and despair I felt."

"What? What do you mean? What are you even talking about?" I asked, raising a brow before wiping my tears.

"So...you really don't remember? Looks like it did work after all..." Discord muttered with an evil smirk.

"Enough of this! I'm sick of tired of this!" Mason pushed me aside and grab ahold of his bamboo stick. "Give me back Carrie or face my bamboo pole!"

"Really? You really are gonna so far to hurt me, Mr. Human tool?" Discord smirked, causing Mason to flinch and sweat nervously.

"Mason!" We all looked up to Carrie as she looked at her brother with a soft smile. "It's okay...they need to tell the truth."

"Carrie...." Mason clutched his fist as his expression turned into a depressed one.

"Well if you must know..." Discord turned with us with an evil looking expression. "Your friend here is a bodyguard owned by a royal family!"

"Mason...is this true?" Kaede covered her mouth in shock. Mason looked at us, seeing the fear in our eyes as he sighed and responded "I'm sorry...I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you guys sooner enough. I should have told you all back at Canterlot, but...I was afraid."

"Mason..." I sighed sadly. I don't believe it...our own friend...is a bodyguard from a royal family, along with Carrie? What's even going on anymore?

"I'm such a coward...I can't believe it..." Mason dropped to his knees with a shocked and sad expression on his face.

"Please big brother, don't feel bad! I know it wasn't your fault!" Carrie said, making a glare towards Discord, who blew a raspberry back at her.

"What's the point? I let you all down..." Mason responded, darkening his face. I clutched my fist and said "No, it's not your fault Mason!"

"I don't care if what Discord said about you is true, you're still our best friend." I smiled happily. "Besides, even if I did knew the truth, I would still think of you as a friend, no...more like a brother."

"Ren..." Mason looked at me in shock before smiling softly. "You may be an idiot, but you know how to say the right things."

I sweat-dropped a little and replied "W-well...I guess I'll take your word, at least."

"Ugh...I hate emotional scenes." Discord sighed. "Besides, what can you do? You already lost most of your Hacking Gun's powers', Ponyville has been transformed into my beautiful capital chaos of the world, and now your pony friends are gone. What can you do?"

"I-I find a way to bring them back! And I'm also gonna save both Kodi and Carrie!" I exclaimed in determination before noticing the remaining Elements of Harmony on the ground. I quickly picked them up and put them in my pockets before turning back to Discord. "Say what you want Discord! There's no way we'll ever let you take over Equestria nor hurt our friends!"

"He's right." Mason got back up with a serious expression on his face as he took out his bamboo stick. "Ren, Kaede, you two need to find Twilight and the others and turn them back to normal."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I have something to take care of..." Mason glared at Discord, who waved at him with a smirk. "Just go!"

"We gotta have faith in him, Kaede. I mean, we can't just leave him and not do anything!" I assured with a confident grin. "After all, I know he can do it."

"Alright, you head to Twilight's library and try to turn her back to normal. I'll go and find Fluttershy and the others!" I explained, which she nodded as we began to make our way to find our lost friends. Before I left, I looked back at Mason and said "Oh, and Mason?"

"...Good luck dude." I smiled, which he smiled back and nodded. I then made my way towards my first destination to bring back my friends: Fluttershy.

It was sorta hard to search the place, but I was able to find her cottage. Man, it's hard now that Ponyville is a wretched wasteland...or is it Wonderland? Man, I don't know anymore. I was about to knock until I saw the door slowly opened, revealing a destroyed living room.

"Whoa...what happened here?" I wondered. I stepped inside and looked around, wanting to make sure that Fluttershy might be in here. That's when I heard her.

"Well well well....if it isn't Looney?" I slowly turned around to see Fluttershy in her kitchen, with a book in her hands. She took a photo and ripped it, and the worse part is that it's a picture me, and the rest of my friends.

"What does it look like? I'm getting rid of everything that reeks from those loser ponies! Mostly at you!" She pointed her hoof straight at me, much to my surprise.

"Why? WHY?!" Fluttershy yelled. "You never understood or saw anything that noticed about my feelings!? Did everything we done so far meant nothing to you?! Do you like...Twilight more than me?!" Fluttershy gritted her teeth in anger.

"You idiot!" She pushed me on the ground and looked at me angrily. "I meant love! I love you, you idiot! I'm in love with you!"

"L-l-love?!" I exclaimed in shock. You mean...she like LIKE me?...Oh...crap-baskets....

"That's right! Ever since we were starting to get along with those stupid ponies, I started developing some of these stupid feelings in my heart! I thought you would soon noticed it, but ever since Discord showed me the truth, I realized that you never loved me! Discord also showed me that Twilight also had a crush on you! You never loved me in the very first place! What do you have to say about that?!"

I just sat there on the ground, speechless by all this. Fluttershy...has a crush on me? Along with Twilight? Two ponies...falling in love with a human? I don't believe it...how can I be so blind?

"Fluttershy, I'm serious." I said with a weak grin before sighing "Truth be told, I...really don't know much about love."

"Wow, that's a shocker." I could feel that she's rolling her eyes at me, isn't she? Well, I sorta deserve that.

"It's the truth. I know I may be an expert on video games, but to be honest with ya, I'm terrible with romance games or dating simulators. I'm sorta not very good to understand love, and it's very difficult. But sometimes, I even tried to understand it, but fail to. I'm sorry if I never understood your feelings." I said sadly before softly smiling and showing her the flowery bracelet she made for me earlier. "You see this bracelet?"

"No Fluttershy, this was made from you. You gave this to me because I thought it was a symbol of our friendship, but after what you said, I realized this was a symbol of both our friendship and...love." I smiled happily before I bent down towards Fluttershy's height.

"No...I mean it." I said, feeling sad and at the verge of tears. "You're my best friend, and I should've understood your feelings towards me. I'm sorry..."

"Hmph!...." Fluttershy looking away but noticed my sadness. That's when I noticed that she was...frowning. Huh? Why is she doing that? I thought Discord's magic was too powerful for even them to control. "A-Are you e-even sure?"

"Huh?" I asked myself. Is...Is Fluttershy coming back? I smiled softly and replied "O-of course, well I'm now knowing this, but still...I do care about you, and the others. I want the old Fluttershy back. I want everyone back to me."

Me and Fluttershy looked at each other, and I didn't see cruelty, anger, evil, or any like that. I saw...her true self from her grey area, and that's not all. I don't know why, but something inside is telling me something. I don't what what is it, but...it wants me to do it.

"R-Ren..." She muttered as she saw my eyes and closed them before moving forward towards me. Is this? I think I'm beginning to understand now...

I closed my eyes and moved towards her, and that's when it happened. Our lips made contact with each other, and I felt a great flash emerged around us. The moment as I opened my eyes, I finally saw her...her true self. She wasn't grey anymore, she was back being in full color.

"R-Ren! You're here!" Fluttershy immediately hugged me, causing me to hug her back. "I'm so sorry for what I said! I didn't know why, but all those nasty things I said! I-I-I didn't really-"

"Hey, hey, it's okay Flutters, it doesn't matter. What matter is that you're back." I assured with a grin.

"Ren..." Fluttershy blushed at me. You know, it felt weird. Putting our mouths together like that. Is that what a kiss supposed to be? Man, I need help on researching love. Maybe watching romantic comedies? Nah, I heard my brother once said that nobody likes those kind of things since...ever.

Suddenly, I felt something shaky in my pants as I looked down to see it was in my pockets. I took it and saw it was the Element of Kindness as it was glowing.

"Huh? Could this be the reason why you were changed back?" I wondered. It seems like this Element was...trying to tell me something. That's when I saw my Hacking Gun on the floor, must've fell off when Fluttershy pushed me when she was still in her evil self.

"Do you think it's being connected by the Element of Harmony?" Fluttershy asked.

"Only one way to find out." I said as I grabbed my Hacking Gun, and once so, the Element of Kindness flashed, it's power being absorbed into the Hacking Gun. "Whoa..." I muttered as I looked at my Hacking Gun in amazement. That's when I noticed that one of the dials were returning.

"Hey, what just happened?" Fluttershy wondered as she picked up her Element of Kindness from the ground. "What was that big flash just a minute ago?"

"I don't know, but it seemed to not only turn you back, but restore the Hacking Gun's powers'. Look." I showed it to her, and she gasped upon seeing one of the dials returning. Just let you all know, it was 'Dance' that returned.

"Wow! That's amazing!" Fluttershy gasped. "Do you think it might work with the others?"

"Yeah, I'm positive." I nodded before asking "Wait, you remember what happened earlier?"

"Yeah, I saw everything and all those mean things I said and did. I didn't mean that, but I couldn't control myself." Couldn't control yourself? So there's still in there after all.

"Wait...then what happened just now..." I widened my eyes and looked at her in shock. Fluttershy blushed and glanced away when I asked that. Well, that's sorta embarrassing.

"W-well anyway, let's go find the others quickly!" Fluttershy exclaimed, which I nodded as we were about to race out of the house until she said "Oh, and Ren."

"I'll help teach you about love, and thanks for understanding my feelings." Fluttershy smiled at me, which made me smile back at her.

"Got it, Flutters." I nodded as we raced out of her home and tried to go find the others. Let's head back to the Golden Oaks Library and see if Kaede was doing well trying to help Twilight back.

Me and Flutters finally got back to the Golden Oaks Library, seeing it was the only place not affected by Discord's magic and all, which I'm realizing right now, but anywho, we got inside and became surprised to see a bunch of scrolls all over the ground.

"Ugh...help me Ren..." I heard Spike muttered as he came out of a pile of scrolls and started barfing up more. "I can't take it anymore...Bleh!" He spit out a scroll, which hit my face.

"Twilight?!" Me and Fluttershy exclaimed in shock. It was her, fully back in her color with her bright smile.

"Well, it's sorta a long story..." Kaede sighed before explaining "See, right after we split up and went to help bring back our friends..."

Flashback
Kaede was running as fast as she could towards back to the Golden Oaks Library. Kaede thought that Twilight might've headed back there to be left alone in peace or so The moment she arrived, Kaede gasped in shock upon seeing a mountain full of scrolls filled the living room, and Spike was next to him, rubbing his stomach in pain.

"Spike?! What's going on? And why is there so many scrolls in here?" Kaede asked in concern.

"Uhh...these are messages from Princess Celestia...Bleh!" Spike spat out another scroll, heading straight for Kaede. She immediately dodged it before it hit her face as she looked back Spike as he continued "She kept sending all of Twilight's mesages, every reply of her friendship reports, but it hurts. Make it stop! Bleh!"

Spike spit out another scroll, only this time, it fell right below my feet. Curious about it, Kaede picked it up and read through it as she widened her eyes upon reading it.

"Princess Celestia, this is beautiful. I need to show it to Twilight immediately!" Kaede exclaimed. "Where is she?!"

"S-she's up in her room..." Spike answered, letting out another groan. Kaede ran upstairs before looking back at Spike and said "Thanks and...I hope you'll feel better."

Kaede headed straight for Twilight's room and knocked on her door, but the door wasn't locked as it was slowly opened. Kaede let out a soft gasp before opening it, seeing Twilight, still grey and she was packing some things in her suitcase.

"Twilight!" Kaede called for her as she became relieved to finally found her. "I'm so glad to finally found you!"

Twilight glanced at her before continuing to pack her books into her suitcase, which Kaede noticed.

"What does it look like? I'm packing." Twilight replied bluntly, not caring at all.

"Huh? Packing? For what?" Kaede asked in worried before letting out a gasp in realization. "Y-you're leaving?! But why?!"

"Why? It's simple. I rather go back to Canterlot, where its peaceful than this psychotic place I'm living." Twilight replied, packing more of her stuff into the trunk.

"What friends? Last I check, they abandoned me for stupid reasons. They don't want to be my friends. We're enemies..." Twilight sighed as she finished packing and turned to the door. "Sorry Kaede, but I'm finished. I rather go back to Canterlot and be left alone with my books forever."

"Just get out of the way, Kaede." Twilight sighed in annoyance. "I rather not waste my time with you!"

"Twilight, I understand your angry at what they did earlier, but it was Discord! He tricked them and influenced them with his magic. It's not their faults why they can't control themselves." Kaede explained.

"Yeah, right. You're just saying that to make me stay." Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Twilight...do you remember the times we had here?" I asked, causing Twilight to raise a brow.

"Twilight, the times we had together were amazing. Sure I only met you guys for a short while, but spending time with you all was truly amazing. I thought of myself as someone who can't do anything to help, but I realize that I can try ever since Pinkie's birthday party."

"Well...I think you should read this." I handed her the scroll, which she took from her magic as she floated it towards her as she began reading it.

"What? These are letters I written to the princess since I've lived in Ponyville. But why would she send them back?" Twilight wondered, acting surprise.

"It's because she cares for you, I care for you. After all, that's what friends do. They care for each other and always try to help to cheer each other help." I smiled happily as Twilight looked at me in amazement before looking back at the letter. She cleared her throat and began reading it.

"Friendship is a wondrous and powerful thing
And like the path cut through the orchard, there will always be a way through.
The best thing to do is stay true to yourself.
Everypony has a special magical connection with her friends. Maybe even before she's met them."

Twilight began tearing up with a smile, and soon, Kaede noticed the Element of Magic crown started shining as it was laying on Twilight's bed and soon, Twilight was restored back to normal.

"Twilight! You're back to normal!" Kaede hugged Twilight as they hugged each other, relieved to see that Twilight was back to normal. "I thought I lost you for good!"

"Yeah, but both your words and the princess's letter made me realize that I had such a great connection with you, Ren, and the others..." Twilight smiled, wiping away her tears before gasping. "Of course! This was Discord's plan all along!"

"Of course! He wanted us all to turn against each other because he knows how powerful our friendships are, and he's trying to keep us from seeing it." Twilight explained.

"So that was his plan...actually, speaking about Discord, he told us that his magic were made from negative emotions and that you guys were suffering his sanity." Kaede said, remembering Discord's words.

"What? What does he mean by that?" Twilight wondered until she and Kaede noticed that the Element of Magic started glowing. "Now what's up with this?"

"I don't know..." Kaede shrugged as she picked up the Element of Magic by her hand and looked at it. "Wow...it feels so warm..."

"Really? That's new." Twilight blinked in surprise until they both heard a door opening downstairs. "Great, now what?

"Maybe that was Spike? Come on, let's go check it out." Kaede asked herself as they left the room as Kaede held the Element of Magic crown in her hands as it continued to glow.

"And that's when we encountered you two just now." Kaede finished telling us her story.

"Whoa...so you were able to bring Twilight back to the light!" I exclaimed with a smile. "That's amazing Kaede!"

"Well, I didn't do that much. Just encouraged her, that's all." Kaede rubbed her cheek in embarrassment.

"Yes, and Ren..." Twilight looked at me with a sad smile on her face. "I'm sorry for doubting you."

"Hey, it's okay. We're just glad to have the old you back." I replied with a soft smile.

"Thanks, and Fluttershy..." Twilight turned to Fluttershy, who looked at her with worried. "...I understand if you like Ren more than I do."

"Wait what?" Me and Fluttershy asked in unison, confused on what she meant. Don't tell me that...

"When I was walking back home back when I lost all hope, Discord came to me and showed me that Fluttershy had a massive crush on you Ren." Twilight answered, which made Fluttershy blushed madly. Did Fluttershy seriously liked me that much?! "It made me hurt more badly, but after Kaede cheered me up, I realize that I couldn't change who we are, so I don't mind if Fluttershy likes you Ren. Besides, I never put up much thought of dating or even have a crush on you than Fluttershy. I was embarrassed by how much you keep encouraging us whenever we're in big trouble."

"I see..." I chuckled nervously while blushing a little. Well, this might be embarrassing to tell her what happened earlier. Well, that's embarrassing.

"Yeah, I think it's best if we talk about another time." Fluttershy chuckled nervously before clearing her throat. "Shouldn't we need to find our other friends and turn them back to normal?"

"You're right, let's go." Twilight nodded until we saw another glow coming out of Kaede's sweater pockets.

"Huh?" Kaede took a crown out of her pockets, which I realized that it was the Element of Magic crown. "Now what's wrong with it?"

Suddenly, it let out a bright flash as the Element of Magic's went into my Hacking Gun, restoring more of it's power and returning 'Detect' back on it.

"Hey! One of my truth bullets on the Hacking Gun came back to me!" I exclaimed in both shock and joy.

"It happened the same time when you turned me back to normal, Ren." Fluttershy nodded in agreement. "The Element of Kindness's magic was also sucked into the gun, and brought back one of your truth bullets as well."

"Well, whatever the reason is, we'll figure that out later. In the meantime, we need to find the others and restore them back to normal. Ren, where are the Elements of Harmony?" Twilight asked me.

"There inside my pockets." I said, showing her the remaining Elements of Harmony.

"Alright! Come on everypony! Let's go save our friends!" Twilight declared, which we nodded and ran out of the house. Oh wait, maybe we should go and check up on Spike. You know, to see if he's alright...Nah, I'm sure he's okay.

We began searching for our friends in hopes to restore them back to normal. As we kept running, I noticed that one of the Elements started glowing. Wait, this is the Element of Honesty, so is it trying to tell me something?

"Guys look! It's Sweet Apple Acres!" Kaede pointed out as we saw the farm, and everything was going out of control. Big Macintosh was acting like a dog, some old granny pony is just rocking her chair and sleeping, totally oblivious to the events occurring out here!

"Look! There's Applejack!" Twilight pointed over to the grey farm pony as she was just lazying about on a nearby apple tree.

"Applejack!" I called for her as we ran straight towards her. "Applejack! There you are, so glad to see you!"

"Well I'm glad to see ya too." She said in full sarcasm. "Where you guys when I needed ya? Discord won because of ya!"

"...I'm not sure whether that a lie or an insult." Fluttershy said, sweat-dropping a little. Suddenly, I felt the Element of Honesty shining more, reacting strongly towards my Hacking Gun. Like it's telling me to use it on my Hacking Gun straight at Applejack.

"Applejack, you need to snap out of it! You need to stop lying!" Kaede exclaimed.

"I am fine! I do remember you all!" Applejack exclaimed in anger. While they were talking, I looked between the Element of Honesty and my Hacking Gun as the magic coming from the necklace started going into my Hacking Gun. I think I know what it's trying to tell me to do.

"Please Applejack, we're trying to help you." Fluttershy spoke up with a soft smile.

"Oh please, like I would-GAH!" Applejack backwards as she was hit by an orange blast, which came out of my Hacking Gun. Everypony turned to me in shock as they saw me holding the gun as I expressed a surprise expression as well.

"I-It wasn't my fault! I noticed that one of the Elements of Harmony kept reacting towards my Hacking Gun and it just sorta took a shot! I swear!" I exclaimed in shock. Suddenly, we all took a notice of Applejack and saw her color being restored and slowly started to wake up.

"W-what?" She looked at us before gasping in shock. "Twilight! Kaede! Ren! Fluttershy! Boy am I glad to see all of ya!" Applejack exclaimed, happy to see us as she gave us a big hug.

"I'm so sorry for what I said! I saw a vision of us feuding and fighting! I couldn't face the truth, so I started telling lies. Can you all ever forgive me?" Applejack explained with a sad look.

"Applejack..." I spoke up with a soft grin. "I understand if you were scared of telling us the truth because it might involve us fighting and ending our friendship, but even so, lying will only make things worse than before. It takes them to fully grasp on the truth and to accept it, and once so, we'll understand it and try to change."

Everypony looked at me in shock while I rubbed my cheek in embarrassment and said "D-did I say something wrong?"

"Nothing, just surprised to hear some encouraging words, Renny boy." Applejack grinned.

"Yeah, but still..." Twilight glanced towards my Hacking Gun. "Did you say the moment the Element of Honesty's magic started to go into your Hacking Gun, it shot an orange blast straight towards Applejack?"

"Yeah?" I nodded with a confused look on my face. Twilight started rubbing her chin in thought and began realizing something.

"Of course! Maybe once your Hacking Gun starts to absorb one of the Elements of Harmony's magic, it shoots some kind of energy towards one of our friends who fallen into Discord's influence, and restored them back to normal!" Twilight concluded with a smile.

"Not only that...look!" Fluttershy pointed towards my Hacking Gun as one of the truth bullets dial started appeared again, and this time, it was 'Knock-back' that came back.

"But wait, why didn't it work before when I restored Fluttershy or when Kaede helped restore Twilight? I didn't use it before back then." I asked with a raised brow.

"That, I wonder too..." Twilight rubbed her chin in thought before asking "Wait, how did you restore Fluttershy back to normal then?"

"I-I think its best if we answer that another time, Twilight..." Fluttershy answered, feeling embarrassed. Kaede, Twilight, and Applejack raised their brows towards us in confusion.

"Riiight..." Applejack spoke up before saying "Anywho, we'll figure that out later! Right now, we need to get the others back!"

We arrived to the east side of Ponyville, only to find Rarity with her boulder, 'Tom', as she began mothering it, which was sorta messed up and creepy.

"R-Rarity?! Applejack exclaimed in shock. "What in tarnation do ya think you're doing?!"

"What does it look like?! I'm nursing my beloved 'Tom'! Now back off before I get serious!" Rarity hissed at us.

"Ooookay...." Twilight backed away a little before turning to me. "Ren, do you think you could turn her back to normal by using your Hacking Gun?"

"Way ahead of ya, Twi." I nodded before holding both my Hacking Gun and the Element of Generosity in my hands. Suddenly, the Element of Generosity began doing its work by letting its magic flow through my Hacking Gun, before letting out a purple energy beam shoot straight towards Rarity, bringing her back to her sense and restore her color. Not only that, but another truth bullet came back to my Hacking Gun, restoring 'Paralyze'.

"Huh...that was easy." Fluttershy said, blinking in surprise. Rarity shook her head before looking around for her surroundings, seeing us and 'Tom'.

"...Let us never speak of this again." Rarity spoke up, moving away from the giant boulder and walking towards us.

"We'll explain along the way." Twilight said with a serious expression. "Right now, we need to go and look for the others!"

"Oh...um...okay?" Rarity raised a brow as we headed out and looked for two more of our friends.

We finally managed to find Pinkie Pie, who was yelling at some inanimate objects. We looked at her weirdly and blank stares for her yelling at something that won't talk back.

"Yeah...I'm already on it." I said, taking out the Element of Laughter out of my pockets and allowed its magic to flow into my Hacking Gun, before letting a light blue energy beam shot towards Pinkie Pie, restoring her color and her senses.

In a few seconds, she started to let out a laugh and exclaimed "Wow! Can you all believe it?! I was grey! How hilarious is that?!"

We all let out a sigh of relief to finally see Pinkie back to her old self, and I also noticed that my truth bullet 'Burn' came back to my Hacking Gun.

"So what happened?! Where's Dashy, Masey, Carrie, and Kodi?!" Pinkie asked, appearing behind Kaede, who yelped in surprise.

"Mason said he went to go after Discord and Carrie and Kodi were captured by Discord." I answered, much to everypony's shock.

"I tried to stop him, but he told us that he can handle it. Besides, he seemed really determine to stop Discord and not let him harm his sister, that I can understand." I sighed.

"Well either way, we gotta hurry and find Rainbow Dash!" Applejack said in a worried tone.

"Because she's right over there!" Pinkie pointed upwards to the sky, and that's when we saw a familiar pony tail who was sitting up on a cloud.

"Discord's still on the loose! We need you to help us defeat him with your element, Loyalty!"

"Pfft! Loyalty, schmoyalty! Have you guys seen Ponyville? It's a disaster! I'm staying here in Cloudsdale where everything's awesome!"

I couldn't help but narrowed my eyes at her. That's not the Rainbow Dash I know! She's the one who would never leave us behind nor Ponyville behind! We gotta change her back right now!

"How in Equestria can she think that tiny patch of clouds is Cloudsdale?" Rarity wondered.

"The same way he got you to think that cheap rock was a bona fide diamond." Applejack said in a smug grin.

Rarity looked at her, fuming with anger and exclaimed "I thought we agreed never to speak of that again!"

"Well, time for plan B." I said, taking out the Element of Loyalty out of my pockets and let its magic flow through the Hacking Gun before shooting a red beam of energy towards where Rainbow Dash. It not only shot out the cloud she was sitting on, but on her as well, as she was electrified before falling into a nearby bush.

Everyone looked at me with odd and weird looks as I shrugged and said "What? She asked for it."

"Uhhh...." We turned to see Rainbow Dash as her color was restored and was back to normal, along with the final truth bullet on my Hacking Gun, 'Link'. Yep, that's right. I managed to gain all of them back. "What the? AH! What's going on?! Where are the Elements?! Did we stop Discord?!"

We all became excited and gave her a big hug, relieved to have the whole gang back together.

"Uhh...thanks?" Rainbow asked, still confused about all this. "Seriously though? What the heck is going on?"

"It's a long story, but right now..." Twilight made a serious and confident smile. "We got a spirit of chaos and disharmony to stop."

"You took the words right out of my mouth, Twi." I smirked as we began to make our way towards Discord. Mason, you better hang on tight because we're coming.

Ha...ha...ha...how could he be this powerful? Back when Ren and Kaede went and tried to get our friends back to normal, I remained back here, fighting off Discord to save both my sister and Ren's pet dog.

I don't know, but for a craze chaos maniac of a villain, he's just too powerful! I just don't believe it!

I was heavenly wounded from all his attacks as I fell onto my knees and looked to see Discord laughing as he blew some smoke coming out of his hands. Carrie was in tears while Kodi kept barking angrily towards Discord.

"Oh please, who cares about him?" Discord shrugged with a smirk on his face. "He's nothing but a tool owned by a royal family."

"That's not true!" I heard my sister yelled. "He's not a tool! He's my big brother and a hero to my big sis!"

"Big sis? Oh right, you thought of Elena as a big sister. So stupid." Discord sighed. "It's quite ironic really. You were taken as a little princess into the royal family while your brother was made into a bodyguard so that he could be used by your royal family, named Princess Elena, so that she could be used him for her own purposes and for protection for herself because she was a coward."

That bastard! How dare he talk about her like that?! I tried to get back up, but Discord snaps his fingers, making some weight bars to fall on my back, causing me to struggle to get back up.

"My brother isn't a tool! Elena would never call him that nor use him! She loved my big brother no matter what! She even thought of me as a little sister!" Carrie exclaimed.

"Well, that's too bad. Now you know how I feel. How does it feel to be hopeless, despair, and...the pain that I've suffered." Discord smirked.

"Oh, you're so useless Mason. You proclaim that you can fight against me, but all you're doing is embarrassing yourself. Where's your hope now?" Discord asked rhetorically.

Suddenly, two beams of energy came out of nowhere and broke out of Carrie and Kodiak's prison. Those two landed on their feet and became surprised that they were free, but as more surprise than Discord himself.

"Discord!" I slowly turned around to see Ren, Kaede, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity coming towards me and removing the stuff off my back. "That's far enough!" Twilight exclaimed in anger as Ren and Applejack helped me out.

"Hang on tight Mason! We're gonna deal with this fella!" Applejack assured before glaring towards Discord.

"Ren!" Huh? I was immediately hugged by my little sister as she hugged me tight.

"Mason! Y-you're alright! I-I-I...*sob*!" Carrie started crying, both sad and happy that I was okay, but badly injured from the fight I had with Discord. I smiled softly and hugged her back.

"Ren! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I noticed Kodiak jumping onto Ren's face, causing him to fall on the ground, and started licking him.

"Kodi, thanks for the face-licks pal, but I think that's enough!" Ren laughed. It's nice to see him get along, and so happy.

"It was all thanks to Ren, Mason, and Kaede for helping us. If it wasn't for Ren and Kaede for encouraging me and the rest of our friends to realize that we all can accept who we are, we wouldn't be here right now. Also for Mason for stalling more time to round us up and trying to defeat you!" Twilight explained.

"That's right!" Rainbow Dash crossed her hooves with a smirk on her muzzle. "And it's time to put you in your place!"

"Oh please, even if you're all back to normal, you'll still fail. The Elements of Harmony will never work since you all never understood friendship." Discord sighed before lying on his throne. "But I'll give you one chance. Go on, I'm waiting, and I don't like to be bored."

"You know Discord, you should never underestimate us." Ren smirked at him, causing Discord to look at him with confusion.

"You think friendship is not a big deal, but you're wrong. Friendship is a big deal. It connects us all, it helps us from the hard times, and makes us grow closer than before. It even makes us more than friends, but family!"

"That's right!" Twilight nodded with a confident grin. "We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt it's worth fighting for!"

"Ugh, gag." Discord waved it off. "You're now starting to bore me...Oh well, at least I can do is fight back at least." He snapped his fingers as everyone looked up to see a big storm filled with chaos approaching towards us.

"Ren, Twilight, Kaede, everyone..." I spoke up, gaining their attention. "Take down this crazy fool for me, will ya?"

"Don't worry Mason, we got this!" Ren nodded before turning to his pet dog, my sister, and Kaede. "Hey, can you three watch Mason for us? I think its time to put Discord in his place."

Soon, Ren and Applejack put me on the ground, but Kaede and Carrie helped me as Ren and our pony friends walked towards Discord, ready to finish him off.

"Wait-wait-wait!" Pinkie called before zipping towards a pink cloud and started slurping the chocolate milk out of it.

"Sorry, couldn't help myself!" Pinkie chuckled before zipping back towards them. "Okay! Now I'm ready!"

Soon, the crown and the necklaces that Twilight and her friends were wearing started to glow as they raised into the air, along with Ren as he grabbed his Hacking Gun and aimed it at Discord.

"It's time to finish this!" Ren yelled as his Hacking Gun started to glow with rainbow color.

"Take this!" Discord shouted as he launched his storm of chaos towards our friends, but unfortunately, Ren and the girls shot a powerful beam towards the storm, completely destroying it. "W-what?!"

"Sorry Discord, but it's time for you to retire!" Ren smirked as Ren fully charged his Hacking Gun again, along with the mares as they fully charged the power of the Elements of Harmony and together, shot a powerful beam of a rainbow towards Discord.

"FRIENDSHIP LIVES ON!" They all shouted as the rainbow beam covered Discord as he slowly began turning into stone.

"No...No....NOOOOOOOOO!" Discord screamed before he was encased inside the rainbow. I smiled softly before feeling like my conscious shutting down.

Ren's POV
Yes! Yes! Yes! We did it! Taste the rainbow, Discord! After shooting our most powerful attack at Discord, we slowly dropped to the ground and saw Discord, who was once again back being a statue as it laid on the ground with a shocked expression on his face.

"We did it!" Pinkie exclaimed as we all hugged each other and cheered that we finally defeated Discord. Not only that, we saw that all of his chaotic magic that he spread throughout Ponyville, and possibly, Equestria, was returning back to normal. Phew, we actually did it!

That's when I felt somepony giving me a tight hug as I looked down to see Fluttershy was the one who gave me that tight hug as she smiled happily before realizing that we were being watched by our friends, who were giving us sly looks.

Fluttershy let go of the hug and blushed madly, along with me. Well, this is gonna be a long explanation for them, assuming if they knew this all along from the very beginning.

This isn't the last time we shall see each other. Just remember this, once you know the truth behind the mystery on why you're here in Equestria, you'll suffer more pain and despair than I felt thanks to you nine cretins. You'll be thinking how wonderful it is to live in a wonderful place like this. Until then, sayonara...Ren Loodan...Mwahahahaha....

What? What is he talking about now? Nine cretins? So...does he mean that...there are more humans here in Equestria?

"Mason! Mason!" Huh? Is that Carrie? We turned around to see Mason laying on the ground, not moving and Carrie, Kaede, and Kodi trying to wake him up.

"I don't know, he just went out like a light when you guys turned Discord into a statue!" Kaede answered.

"Oh no! Please tell he's not..." Rarity covered her mouth in shock and at the verge of tears. I checked for a pulse, and luckily, it was still beating.

I let out a sigh of relief and said "Don't worry, he's alright. He's just out like a light, that's all."

"I'll send a message to Princess Celestia and tell her all about this!" Twilight suggested as she raced back to her library. We all remained back here, watching over Mason's unconscious body. Mason...you gave it your all to protect all of us...and I thank you for that...brother.

"Ren?" I turned to Kodi, who had a worried and concern look on his face. "Do you think...he'll be alright?"

Not wanting to ruin the mood, I smiled softly and petted his head and replied "Don't worry Kodi, he'll be okay. I just know it."

I really hope Mason will be okay. Besides, I really want to hear what he says if it's true that...he really is owned by a royal family? Just what kind of childhood did Carrie and Mason had?!

My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria

by MaxTV1234

Chapter 29 - The Return of Disharmony Part 2