Authors Note:
So after much consideration and after tallying up your votes I will be keeping it anthro. Also please be aware I am some what distracted by another story I am working on so this chapter will not be as long. I'm honestly not satisfied with how it turned out either way and I will come back to edit it one day. This chapter was really frustrating to write, if you have any ideas for how to improve it them please let me know in the comments. Anyway I'm done rambling and I hope you enjoy.
Twilight growled as the dodged another floating sink. When Generosity and Greed had warned her to mind the sinks Twilight had been confused, they could have told her they exploded. Twilight dodged again and the sink impacted the ground releasing a fireball.
"The next time I see a sink I'm gonna smash it befo-" Twilight froze as she stared at a toilet with dog legs and a tongue made of toilet water.
Somehow she knew it was staring at her and not in a good way. The dog charged and Twilight summoned several crystal shards and fired them at the toilet. The shards bounced off the porcelain appliance and Twilight's eyes widened before she turned and ran.
"FFFFFFFUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK MEEEEE!" She screamed as she ran.
Several hours later Laughter and Sorrow slowly approached a large toilet with dog legs, underneath it a vary angry alicorn screamed obscenities.
The toilet dog simply ignored her content to use her as a pillow.
"When I get out from under you I will smash you to pieces!" Twilight screamed as she hit the large toilet.
Suddenly the toilet caught sight of the brothers and bound over to them only to be crushed by an enraged alicorn half way there. The toilet shattered at the alicorn meteor hit it.
"Well you certainly have a temper." Laughter grumbled.
"You try being stuck under a toilet for an hour!" Twilight yelled as she turned to him angrily.
Laughter burst out laughing as Sorrow sighed.
"So uncivilized." He said sadly. "Welcome to the chaos realm Twilight Sparkle."
"Mind if I call you purple butt" Laughter asked as he rested an arm around Twilight and leaned on her.
Twilight growled and grabbed Laughter and flipped him over her shoulder. Right before Laughter hit the ground he disappeared and them walked out from behind his brother.
"Well with the pleasantries out of the way, greetings I'm Pandemonium but you know me as Laughter." He said and waved his hand. Pandemonium wore a simple pair of jeans and a light t-shirt
"I am Anarchy but you may call me Sorrow." The other man said. Anarchy wore a full uniform of ancient Romane Legionary armor.
"Right so as you know we will be teaching you the meaning of our power and other stuff." Laughter said with a smile. "Like for instance I will be teaching you how to be unpredictable and adaptable. From what We've heard you like everything orderly and listed set to a time scheduled. So our turn with you was bumped up to break those habits."
Sorrow nodded. "While my brother does this I will be teaching you tact, subtlety, as well as how to act in high society places. You will be learning everything from social standing to the political game. In short my task is to insure that you have what you need to be a ruler when you return."
Twilight tilted her head. "So I'm learning chaos magic from laughter and order magic from sorrow. Why do am I not surprised by this." She sighed and face palmed.
Time dilation for Equus: 4 months, 08 days
Total duration for Changeling War: 9 months, 13 days
Fluttershy lay in her cottage beside her Discord paced while she glared at him. "Discord I have to be out there. she growled at she tried to rise only for Discord to snap his fingers and freeze her.
"Fluttershy, your in your second term, you can't fight." He said as he leveled his gaze with her. "I'm not letting the baby get hurt. Besides it will take more than they have to stop me." Discord said as he turned to the door.
"Discord if you die I will go to wherever your soul goes and drag you back myself!" Fluttershy screamed and he walked out and closed the door. After a moment Fluttershy burst into tears. "Please be safe, I can't raise them without you."
Discord sighed as he slowly walked out the door and down the path. As he reached the town he sighed and looked up to the sky. "Were ever you are Twilight know that I will protect her. Funny how the happiest day of my and Flutters life was the same day you had to go. If this was some punishment for what I did in the past then I would have accepted it but this was just to unfair."
A bird quickly flew down and landed on Discord shoulder tweeting quickly. Discord sighed and nodded. "Thank you." He said as the bird flew off its message delivered.
Chrysalis was indeed still alive. Discord had heard about what had happened in Appleloosa. He had hoped it was simply him being paranoid but in the end he had been right. Chrysalis' death had been a setup, damn shapeshifters. Discord turned to see the swarm approaching and at its head was the bug queen herself. As the swarm descended outside of Ponyville Discord snapped his fingers and appeared in front of them.
"Long time no see Spirit of Chaos." Chrysalis said as she stroled over to him.
"What do you want." Discord asked.
"Rude and here I am the one who permanently broke the Elements. I figured you would be bouncing for joy." Chrysalis said with a smile. "Come on Discord, it has been over a half a year. I figured you would have done something by now but instead you continue to play the act."
Discord frowned. "So that's what you thing this is, an act?" Discord began to chuckle but it slowly devolved into a mad laugh. "Oh, my dear you have it all wrong. I genuinely care for the ponies. As for the Elements, call them what you will but in the end I saw them as friends. I mean, Twilight was more of a rival but still I would never have done this."
Discord glared at the queen. "When you have to see the ones yo care about suffer, to see the mare you love nearly kill herself, it makes a man think. There are few powers I can't change. Reality is my play thing, time an ocean that I sail freely and space is putty in my hands but even with all my power I can not heal their pain. Pain that you have brought to them." Discords glared at the queen his eyes full of hate. I can't stop you but I can slow you down."
Discord snapped his fingers and a large fish bowl appears covering the town. "May I make a suggestion? Run." He said as he summoned a baseball and threw it. As soon as the baseball left his hand it caught fire and slammed into a changeling before exploding.
Chrysalis snarled as she drew a sword and charged the Draconequus. He quickly drew a sword fish and as she thrust her blade he parried it. "Tell me did you sacrifice one of your changelings to deceive poor Braeburn?" he asked a she casually parried the queens strikes.
"Of course I'm not going to confront those beneath me." Chrysalis laughed.
"Didn't really fool anyone you know. We hoped that it got you but oh well." Discord said as he yawned covering his mouth with a paw. "A shame you fell, Chrysalis; had you followed the path of Celestia, or even Luna, we might have once been friends."
"I remember a time when you sided with me. Remember the Dark Empire?" The queen asked as she backed away from him. "You, Sombra, Tirek, the Nightmare Forces, the Pony of Shadows, Grogar the Ram, the Changelings, We stood for something!" She yelled yelled as she charged again.
Discord growled and summoned several cotton candy clouds that shot forward and exploded in the queen's face throwing her back. "That was long ago, the dark Empire fell from our own arrogance. While you all tried to continue I simply moved on and became a solo act, had a good gig till the sisters came and ruined it. But times have changed, now I have someone I love and she loves me. Plus I have to grow up anyway, I got a kid on the way and I plan to do right by them."
Discord snapped his fingers and storm clouds gathered above them unleashing lightning that rained down attempting to strike the queen. As Chrysalis dodged the bolts Discord teleported around of her delivering punches and kicks constantly knocking her off.
Chrysalis growled as a portal opened under her and she jumped in appearing several feet away. "This isn't over Discord. I will have Canterlot and when I take it all of Equestria will bow to me! I will drain the ponies of their love and leave their withered husks to rot in a pile!" She screamed as she took to the air and pulled away from the town.
Discord watched them leave with a frown. "I hope you fail Chrysalis, not because I'm against you but because I fear what will happen if you get that close to success. There are powerful forces at play and I fear that if you continue a great force will be unleashed upon this world though whetherr they are friend or foe even I can't say.
Time dilation for the Void: 1499 years, 12 months, 30 days
Twilight groaned as she awoke and looked around before snapping her fingers and a calendar appeared. "Why of all the days they let me sleep in today, it's my final exam today." She growled as she rose and snapped her fingers. Immediately her clothes appeared on her and she walked to the door a toothbrush appeared and began to automatically brush her teeth.
As she exited the door the floor dropped out from under her and she began to fall. Twilight sighed and snapped her fingers when she hit the floor it bounced her back up and she walked into the kitchen to find sorrow and Laughter sitting at the table.
Laughter staring at a waffle. "All these squares make a circle, all these squares make a circle, all these squares make a circle..." He muttered as Twilight simply stared at him.
"Ok, I'll bite what's wrong with him?" Twilight asked as she stared concerned at Laughter.
Sorrow sighed. "Oh don't mind him, he just got done dropping a gallon of LSD."
"Oh- WAIT A GALLON!" Twilight exclaimed in shock and turned to stare at Sorrow.
"A literal gallon, from a milk jug. I don't even know were he got it. He hasn't left the kitchen." Sorrow explained as he examined his brother.
"Sorrow I need you to tell me I can leave the kitchen!" Laughter exclaimed as he looked at Sorrow.
"Laughter you can leave the kitch-"
BITCH DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Laughter yelled before returning to stair at the waffle. "All these squares make a circle, all these squares make a circle, all these squares make a circle..."
Sorrow sighed. "SO, today we-I'll be sending you to your next mentors."
"Wait aren't you going to test me?" Twilight asked confused.
Sorrow chuckled. "You mastered order from me and you have to master chaos to freely move around this place so there's no need to test you. Actually to be more specific, this whole place is the test. The fact you survived means you passed. I'm so proud of you. You mastered something that not even we, the elemental embodiments, can. If anyone is worthy of the title if Alicorn of Harmony it is you, I've never had a better student."
"So who are my next mentors?" she asked.
"They are Kindness and cruelty." He said as he approached Twilight.
Twilight smiled and hugged Sorrow. "Bye Sorrow, I'll miss you."
Twilight slowly let go of him and moved to the door. She took a deep breath before opening it and walking out.