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// Chapter 9 - Operation Dragon Horde is GO! Part 2 
// Story: MLP: Age of Chaos 
// by religarro 
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Ponyville; Castle of Friendship:
“Twilight, I’m not sure this is such a good idea…” said Blueblood; super secret super spy and secret agent extraordinaire “Why don’t we put this on hold, go back to the drawing board, and brainstorm? We’ll come up with a new plan and try again tomorrow, what do you say?” 
“Oh come now Blue, you’re supposed to be an elite soldier right? Master of espionage? I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve had to infiltrate a compound by sneaking in the third floor window” replied Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship and current wearer of a black skin tight leotard; because stealth. 
“Obviously not, but I would still strongly suggest caution. Please think a little more about what we are attempting to do, and more importantly who we are trying to do this too, after all this is a god of chaos...and I barely survived the last three attempts!”
“Blue, you’re just being paranoid, and coming from me that’s saying something” the purple alicorn sighed “Look, if something happens to you, I’ll pay all your medical bills and compensate you with some new crystal tech or something, how does that sound? Just ask and it’s yours”
“You better…” grumbled the blonde haired secret agent as he checked and double checked his equipment; a harness and high tension rope along with a special grappling hook and launcher. He had also decided to wear an emergency parachute just in case and was also dressed in a black skin tight bodysuit, though his was more tactical than a conventional leotard. 
The duo slowly began their assent, climbing up the ‘trunk’ of crystal structure before making it to the walls of the castle proper. From there, they added an emergency anchor to the castle side and proceeded to slowly make their way over to Disaray’s window. 
“See? What did I tell you? Nothing to worry abou-” Twilight began, but stopped abruptly as the window opened and the barrel of a comically large cannon swivelled out and pointed down at them. 
A low hum was heard as the cannon looked like it was sucking up light itself as the inside of the barrel glowed. The two’s horns lit up as they instinctively erected shields. 
“See? Still nothing to worry about….” Twilight nervously said, more for reassurance that any actual belief. 
Blueblood just sighed, resigning himself to his fate, his mind wandering to thoughts of retirement.
The cannon finished charging and there was a few second of silent stillness before both ponies were overtaken by a blinding flash. Slowly they managed to regain enough of their sight to look around them. They were currently in a tree. More specifically they were currently in an apple tree on the Apple family orchard. An apple tree that was right about to be bucked by one Big Mac. 
The farm stallion bucked and apples fell, along with two ponies, landing perfectly in the laid out baskets. 
“I told you it was a bad idea from the start….” sighed Blueblood
Twilight remained silent for a bit before sighing herself “Back to the drawing board?....”



Back with Team Chaos at the Pony Ponymeron:
Team Chaos was excited, they were going to a luxury nightclub! They quickly made their way to the back of the line of waiting elites. That is, until Mael gestured to them to follow. The group walked past the long line of ponies right up to the roped off entrance and the large minotaur bouncer, who gave them a look before nodding and undoing the rope, letting them pass. Behind them they could hear various stuffy ponies complaining and trying to raise a fuse, only to be silenced by the unamused snort of the bouncer. 
The whole place seemed...rather cheesy. There was loud disco music, an old school light up dance floor, an open bar, and even a disco ball. It was the kind of place you’d expect from stuck up nobles who were out of touch with the times. It was sad really, more like a fancy expensive disco hall than a modern luxury nightclub. Their smiles slowly started to fall as they looked around. 
“I can’t help but feel that the luxuries of our own headquarters has spoiled us to what would be considered high class luxuries here…” muttered Disarray, the others nodding in agreement. 
“Well, we ARE the ultimate force of change right? There’s gotta be something we can do about this...whatever this is supposed to be” added Blitz, gesturing to the club. 
“This...I think this is what happens when a bunch of old rich ponies try to act ‘hip’...dagnabbit, I grew up on a farm and I’m not this out of touch!” added Seed
Maelstrom just smile and looked over to Pop, who looked back and grinned, a sparkle in the shadow pony’s yellow eyes “Just say the word boss…” 
“Party Pop, show these uppity ponies what a REAL nightclub should be like” 
With a salute, the yellow party pony was gone in a blur. The group watched as the blur moved around the club at breakneck speeds, a whirlwind following in its wake. Decorations were replaced. Lights were switched out. The dance floor was replaced with a bright LED one. Even the walls were seemingly replasterd and repainted. 
“Ok you ponies!” screamed Party Pop from behind the new, larger, DJ booth. There were mutters of confusion as heads turned, then murmurs of excitement as the faces in the club recognized the Master of Mayhem. “Who’s ready to PARTY?!” she screamed, getting cheers from the growing audience. 
“You all are the elite of the elite! You came here to experience the best of the best; and there ain’t no party like a Party Pop party!” Pop continued on, spinning some of the records on the table. At this point the crowd was really started to get hyped. They WERE the elite of the elite, and this WAS supposed to be the best nightclub in the world! Many ponies shouted and cheered out in agreement to the yellow chaos goddess. 
“So I’ll ask you again...WHO’S READY TO P-TO-THE-A-TO-THE-T-AND-Y?!” Party Pop screamed into a mic at the top of her lungs. 
“Why?!” the crowd chanted back. 
Party Pop just grinned darkly “Because we gotta….” she said before bass boosted music began to wub out of the speakers “Who am I?!” she yelled. 
“Party Pop!” the crowd yelled back. 
“Awwww here we go” said Maelstrom, moving towards the stage. 
“Let’s do this!” said Blitz, grinning and dragging Chimera along. 
“Woo!” cheered Seed. Her, Hymn, and Disarray making their way towards the stage as well. 
The crowd was going nuts! Not one, but ALL of the gods of chaos here?! To throw them a private party?! This was worth every bit they paid to be here!! Party Pop looked at her friends and grinned before starting to sing. “Party Pop is in the house tonight! Everypony just have a good time! And I’m gon’ make you lose your mind! Everypony just have a good time!” 
“Clap!” commanded Hymnphonic to the crowd. They didn’t have to be told twice, partly because of the hype and partly because of Hymnphonic’s powers, and all began clapping their hands and stomping their hooves to the beat. 
“Party Pop is in the house tonight! Everypony just have a good time! And I’m gon’ make you lose your mind! I just wanna see ya….hehehe...Shake That~”
Disarray looked over at Hymn. They both grinned and said the same thing; “Erreh day I’m shufflin!’” 
As Party Pop preformed, as the crowd danced and partied away, and as the staff who were busy serving drinks were off trying to find the resort owners to let them know what was going on, a duo of mares were off in a private corner booth, glaring with hatred at an oblivious Team Chaos. 
Honestly, even if they knew that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were plotting their undoing….they were currently having too much fun to care. So ‘Party Pop’s Pop Up Party Palooza’ began in earnest, and all the elite agreed, it was the best all nighter they’ve ever attended. 



Back in Ponyville; the following morning:
Blueblood was enjoying a very fine cup of amazing coffee in the cafe attached to the inn, after the most delightful night’s rest when Twilight furiously teleported in with a burst of magic. 
“Blueblood! I waited up for you the whole night!” fumed the purple princess. 
The super secret super spy just took a sip from his coffee, decreatly casting a sound suppressing spell around them so no one could listen in.
“I needed a rest Twilight...after what happened I think it’s the least I deserve, don’t you?”
Twilight couldn't help but deflate a little bit, her anger slipping away. Blueblood was right of course. She never would have guessed Disarray’s room would have been so well guarded and have so many traps. Sure she suspected a few, but it seemed everything they came up with Disarray had a contingency for. She was beginning to think she might have been underestimating her baby brother. 
“Yea….” she finally said, sighing “You’re right, of course. I was just hoping to call in a quick and easy favor, I never could have guessed it would have ended up being this hard” 
The white stallion smirked “Yes, who would have thought that breaking into a young dragon’s bedroom in a princess’ crystal castle would have proven to be thee most difficult task of my career”
They both shared a chuckle before Blueblood continued “However, that night’s rest and time to step back and think did allow me to have a clearer idea of what we’re dealing with” 
Twilight nodded in agreement “When you didn’t show up, I took the opportunity to think up a few new strategies myself. I also took the liberty of working on couple of inventions to aid us...and to also say I’m sorry for dragging you in this mess. Though, the knowledge of who the Masters of Mayhem are is invaluable to putting a stop to them once and for all.”
Blueblood nodded and took another sip of his coffee “Yes. As you know, I have several agents stationed in Ponyville, but even they were unable to find anything” he said, finishing his coffee and standing up. “Now, shall we make haste to your castle? Burning daylight and all that” 
Twilight smiled and nodded, admiring the Prince’s sense of duty and wit.
The duo made their way to the Castle of Friendship for the next, and hopefully final, round of Disarray’s traps. This wasn’t going to be easy, but with determination, they would succeed. For the good of Equestria, no, for all of Equis. 
Twilight kneeled down a little ways away from Disarray’s door, Blueblood was next to her. The two had spent almost half an hour setting up Twilight’s new invention, positioning various sensored and thingamabobs in key locations and erecting a small blast shield in the hallway. 
“It’s now or never” she said, taking another small object and tossed it over to the door. The object hummed before emitting a burst of magic energy, triggering the door’s many traps. Honey and feather fell from the ceiling, the floor turned to soap, the doorknob sparked with electricity, and fire shot out from around the door frame; however this time the duo weren’t affected. 
Twilight smiled and checked the readings from the sensors, nodding to herself as she wrote down calculations on parchment and double checked them with the readings. 
“Well?”asked Blueblood.
“Well...it seems the door itself is the trap. I suspect it’s the same with the windows, which is why we couldn’t get in that way. He specifically enchanted the items themselves, so I think the only and safest way to proceed would be to create a hole in the wall. I don’t think he expects me to intentionally destroy my own castle. I know a spell that will repair the damage...I’ve had a LOT of practice using it….”
Blueblood thought it over and nodded “Sounds like a plan, and crazy enough to work. Do you know a laser spell that’ll cut through the castle’s crystal?” 
Twilight shook her head “I have laser spells, but they would blow away the whole room, not just cut a small hole in the wall.” 
Smiling, Blueblood straightened his tie and fired up his horn “Then allow me” he said, the tip glowing brighter and a small beam of light shooting out and hitting the crystal wall. It was slow work, but eventually a hole was carved. 
“Annnd there we go. Ladies first”
“Oh no you dont. I’m just a lab agent, you’re the field agent” 
“I’m also the head field agent, so I’m ordering you to go first” 
“Well, I’m a princess so I don't have to listen to your orders and am instead ordering YOU to go first”
With a sigh, Blueblood grumbled and nodded, before straightening his shirt and tie and stepping through the hole, ready for anything. 
As soon as he had made it through, the hole sealed itself behind him. He could hear Twilight’s muffled gasp as he rolled his eyes. He knew this was a trap. The dragon lord of chaos had been extra thorough so far. If Disarray had magic in place to prevent ponies from teleporting into his room, there was no way he hadn’t thought about something coming through a wall. 
The prince was curious though. Why go through all the trouble? What was it the drake was trying to hide? He began poking around while he was able, looking for any sort of folders or documentation...and of course that one special item he was tasked to find. 
“Candy...Candy of All Candies….where would you be…” he muttered to himself, putting on a special pair of glasses that allowed him to slightly see through objects. Nothing, just as he had feared. “I guess Disarray just makes the candy appear on the spot when he needs some, not stores it anywhere. Which makes the most logical sense when you think about it…...Oh well, lets see if we can find any documents” 
That also proved fruitless. To Bluebloods trained eyes, the room just looked like the normal room of a young adults. Action figures, comic books, various posters. Nothing out of the ordinary. A part of him wondered if it was all just a trick to hide something greater. Another part of him was beginning to believe this was just a normal bedroom. Why go through all the trouble of keeping ponies out then?
He moved to the door, reaching out to try and open it but deciding better of it. 
“Hmm, I’d better not...and I don’t think I should try cutting through the wall again...how to get out…”
He moved around the room, inspecting everything one again. He thought about using the window, but remembered that it would be trapped as well. Wait! The bathroom! Disarray’s room had its own bathroom, there might be a way out in there! 
Blueblood quickly made his way over and opened the door and slowly made his way inside, eyes scanning the room. As soon as he was over the threshold, the door slammed shut behind him, looking him inside. 
“Should have figured…” he said, his ears picking up the sound of running water.
He turned and saw both the sink and tub overflowing onto the floor, tempting to drown the prince inside the small room. 
“Huh, pretty generic but rather dark...drowning huh?...Maybe I can get that bathroom window open..”
Moving over to said window, Blueblood attempted to open it with both his hands and magic, failing to get it to budge. He was about to try again when a foofing sound from above caught his attention. He looked up just in time to see a snow of white powder coat him and everything. 
Slowly, he brought a finger up to his mouth and licked. “Baking soda?...Why would….wait….” he said, looking down at the fizzing and bubbling that was happening at his hooved.  More powder appeared and both the sink and tub began unleashing their contents in a massive torrent. 
“Well played Disarray….well played….”
Outside, Rarity and Applejack were walking to Twilight’s palace. 
“So little Bloom is sick as well? Poor thing, Sweetie has been down with a horrible case of the sniffles herself” said Rarity to her friend. 
“Gosh darn it, I keep tellin ‘er to be more careful when they’re out there doin their ‘crusadin’ and the like. Gotta remember to check in with Dash about Scoots.” replied Applejack with a huff. 
“Well, they aren’t little fillies anymore, a head cold isn’t going to do them in. Though, I don’t like seeing my sweet little Sweetie suffering so, Also, did you say crusading? While it does lead to them in quite the...mess...it’s good to hear they’re back to being their old selves.” replied Rarity. 
“Old selves?” asked Applejack
“Oh, you didn’t know? They had stopped after the...Candy of All Candies incident…” they both shivered and Rarity continued with a soft yet overly dramatic sigh “I figured it was because of them finding out one of their best friends had turned evil. The three had grown really close to little Spikey Wikey over the past few years, so him turning into that...Disarray...must have really hit them hard. Especially Sweetie, she had a crush on him you know” 
“Naw, I didn’t know that…huh….How did YOU know?” Applejack replied.
Rarity’s eyes lit up and she was about to go into Gossip mode when a giant stream of foam exploded out of one of the castle’s windows, expelling a well known and well dressed white unicorn right in front of them. Said unicorn was very thankful that there was so much foam that it cushioned his fall somewhat so he didn’t break anything. 
“....Blueblood? Is that you?” asked Rarity cautiously. 
“Good Morning Miss Rarity Belle” responded the prince, as he stood up and carefully began wiping the foam off this soaked clothing. “Miss Applejack as well, always a pleasure”
With a pop, Twilight teleported in, immediately flying towards the stallion. “Blueblood! Are you alright?!”
He smirked and nodded, continuing to clean himself off as Twilight continued to ramble on. 
“Oh I’m so sorry! When the hole closed behind you I tried to open a new one, but some sort of shielding stopped me and then I tried yelling, but I think it was soundproofing the room, then I tried-”
Blueblood cut her off, shaking his head “It’s alright Twilight, but I am curious. How much respect did you and Spike have for each other before he turned into Disarray?” 
The question caught Twilight off guard and she could only stutter “Huh? Um..w-why do you ask?” 
“It’s just a thought really” shrugged the prince “He’s gone through a lot of trouble to keep people out of his room. I don’t think Canterlot Castle has this much security, not to mention all the failsafes. I might be completely wrong in my way of thinking here, but I don’t think he’d go through all the effort if he truly trusted his family.” 
Twilight just sighed and glanced down. 
“It’s just a thought though” said Blueblood. “Either way, I declare this mission a failure. I’m packing it up and heading back home” 
Twilight just nodded “You dismissed Agent Blueblood…Thanks for all your help” she said at the prince nodded and walked away, muttering about how many showers he’s going to need to get the vinegar smell out of his fur. 
“Mission a failure?” asked Applejack.
“Agent?” asked Rarity. 
Twilight had forgotten they were there. She looked at her friends, then looked at her castle and the stream of foam still coming out the one window. She smiled a little and turned back to the mares. Normally she’d have to keep things like the ESS a secret. But they were both her bestest friends and fellow Elements of Harmony, if anypony needed to know, it’d be them. 
“Yes, Agent Blueblood of the ESS...It’s a long story...over tea?” 
“That would be lovely darling”
“Only if ya have apple spice”



Canterlot Castle; Celestia’s private study: 
Blueblood entered the room, holding several folders in his magic and smelling very clean. 
“Hardest weekend of my career and if I’m being honest I don’t know if you’ll be satisfied with the results…” he said, placing the folders on the desk in front of the smiling princess. “As you ordered, a copy of everything we’ve managed to find out. Princess Twilight is still waiting on my report. Unfortunately I couldn’t locate any of that Candy of All Candies but this is as far as I’m willing to go on the matter. Now, I’ll be taking me leave. Princess Twilight bought me a cruise to a luxury resort, supposedly the best on Equis, as an apology for all I had to endure. If you’ll excuse me, my princess.”
With that, Blueblood turned on his hooves and left without another word. Celestia smirked and opened the first of the folders. While it was truly a shame she couldn’t get her hands on one of those candies, this will have to do. 
As she read on, her smirk turned into a frown. There was little to no useful information in the files. Nothing about their whereabouts. Nothing about their identities. Nothing about future plans. However, what was there, caused her great concern. The Masters of Mayhem were more powerful than she had originally given them credit for. They could pose a massive threat to her little ponies. 
She read through each of the files, finally getting to the one on Maelstrom; the being that started this whole fiasco. 
She was about to open it when Luna appeared behind her, offering her a single brown candy on a small silver saucer. 
“Is….is that…”
“The Candy of All Candies? Yes dear sister”
“Lulu! How did you get this?!” asked Celestia, practically leaping at her younger sister, who stayed out of reach. 
The princess of the night just shrugged “I asked Disarray for some. Unlike you, I still possess my common sense” 
Celestia stared at her sister, teary eyes full of gratitude. She reached out to take it, but Luna pulled the saucer away. 
“Not so fast, give me that folder on Maelstrom” 
Celestia frowned. 
“Luna, why? What would you possibly want with that folder” 
“That's for me to know and you to find out. I told you, I have some personal theorems to confirm. Now give me the folder if you want the candy” 
It was by far one of the hardest choices Celestia had ever had to make in her thousands of years of life. She weighed pros and cons, she argued with herself in her head, but in the end the Princess of the Sun gave in, and gave Luna the folder. 
“Little sisters…” the sun princess grumbled, taking the candy and popping it into her mouth “they can be such a nuisance at times…” she muttered as waves of euphoria washed over her. Truly this was bliss. This is what she had been missing. This. This. This! 
Luna just smiled sweetly as she turned and began walking out of room, mumbling “Oh you have no idea…” 
Turning back to her older sister, Luna grinned darkly “Oh, by the way, I was only given the one piece. He said it would be enough for you to figure out how to reverse engineer it. Or you could just eat it, your choice really” she said innocently, leaving the study and closing the door behind her. 
Celestia just stared, glassy eyed. That was the only one. Months of failure, months of going without sweets. Months of no candies and no cakes! She had had the answer in her grasp! She had been so close and now it’s gone! SHE ATE HER LAST CHANCE! 
“No…” she muttered, eyes tearing up. “What have I done….” She could taste the flavor of the ultimate candy slipping away on her tongue. “no no no No No NO NO NO!” 
From outside the room, walking down the hall, Luna smiled “It’s my turn to play, big sister, and this time I’m playing on the winning team” she whispered to herself, as Celestia’s voice echoed through the halls. 
“NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!!”