//------------------------------// // Moments In-between // Story: The Death of Harmony // by PioneerofImagination //------------------------------// Discord spirit of chaos and disharmony was an incredibly powerful creature, but not even he could stand against the power of the Elements of Harmony. Imprisoned in stone 1000 years only to cause chaos again, but before he could return to his stone prison he teleported away at the last minute. After that he vowed to find a way to defeat the ponies and get even with them, since then he's been keeping an eye on the ponies, trying to figure out some sort of weakness he could expose. He never would have imagined the start of what would be a perfect plan would start with the one who defeated him. "My my," Discord said as he was watching a certain wedding in action. "Throwing poor poor Twilight in the dungeon and leaving like that. That's cruel even for me, I think I could grow to like this side of Celestia, but for now I think it's time I actually help Twilight." With a snap of his fingers Discord appeared in front of Twilight who was in the middle of crying her eyes out. "How could they do this to me?" Twilight asked herself as she kept crying not even noticing Discord. "I thought they were my friends." Twilight then felt the tears in her eyes get whipped away by Discord's tail and when she saw it was his tail she jumped up, or at least tried to but the pain stopped her. "Discord!" "Yes, fancy meeting you in a place like this." "What are you-" Twilight stopped when the pain got even worse and she started crying again. "You poor thing. Let's fix that shall we?" With the snap of his fingers Twilight suddenly felt much better as the pain was finally gone and she managed to stand up. "Thank you." Twilight said sincerely. "No problem now let's get you out of here" Discord said as he once again snapped his fingers and they were gone. Discord would later drop by the library to make a fake note with his chaos magic that would cover his tracks, he would also use his magic to make it look like the note was written by Twilight, but for the moment he took Twilight to his home. Once there Twilight fell asleep as the day was quite tiring for her, so Discord made her a bed and watched the attack on the capital. Curious if the ponies would make it out okay, but would become kind of upset when they were able to fight off the changelings. "What an annoying turn of events, but perhaps I can use this to my advantage." *** After getting hit by Shining Armor's spell the changelings were blasted not only out of Canterlot but also out of Equestria. "How could this be?" Chrysalis asked. "My plan was foolproof!" "Well if it was then it would have worked wouldn't it?" Discord replied, heard but not seen. "Who said that?" Chrysalis said as she looked around. "Who's there?" "Me? Why don't you call me your new partner." Discord answered as he appeared in front of the changelings, some of whom were shocked. "What is that thing?" "Does it want to fight?" "If it does I'll give it one." "That's enough," Chrysalis ordered. "I know who he is, Discord the spirit of chaos and disharmony. What are you doing here?" "Weren't you listening? Call me your new partner." "What do you mean?" "You want to take the ponies down, I want to take the ponies down, I figure together they don't stand a chance." "Well, that sounds rather tempting." Chrysalis said with a sinister smile. "In all honesty I could probably win on my own with the plan I have in mind, but I don't just want to beat them, I want to humiliate them, bury them. And with you I think I can do just that, so what do you say?" "You had me at bury." Chrysalis then turned into Discord so they could shake paws and a deal was made. "So what's the plan?" "Simple, we use their very best weapon against them." Chrysalis wasn't sure what he meant, so he brought the changelings to his lair and saw a sleeping Twilight. "Her?" "Yes Chrysalis her," Discord said as he stroked Twilight's mane a bit with his claw. "She is going to be the perfect key to Celestia's undoing." "How?" "By listening up and following my plan for her." *** Twilight awoke surprisingly feeling much better mostly because the pain was gone. "Where, where am I?" "You're in my new home." Discord answered which made Twilight take a defensive stance upon seeing him. "Discord! You're here and, you healed me earlier," Twilight remembered as she lowered her defenses. "And you got me out of the dungeon too." "Yes I know, I was there." "How long was I out?" "A day or so," Discord lied she had been asleep for moons thanks to one of his spells. He also cast another spell on her that made her sleep without dreaming, so a certain princess of the night couldn't find her. "Why did you help me?" "It's what I'm all about now," Discord lied again. "Oh have you now?" Twilight asked this time, able to tell he was lying. "Don't believe me? Did you forget already who helped you out of the dungeon after your so-called loved ones put you there in the first place?" Twilight didn't say anything but looked down once again feeling rather sad. "When you defeated me at first I plotted my revenge, but when I thought about it I saw how strong the magic of friendship was. So I decided to give it a try." "You did?" Twilight asked surprised but still had her doubts. "Yes," Discord replied as he teleported himself and Twilight. "After I escaped being put back in my very uncomfortable stone prison, I came across these creatures known as the changelings. Poor creatures cast out by others, how unlike any pony I know." Twilight then looked around seeing the changelings Discord was talking about and how they worked together around Discord's lair. It reminded her of the times she worked together with her Ponyville friends. "Yes well, Discord, thank you for helping me but it's time for me to head back to Equestria and set things right with everypony." "Why bother, they've already abandoned you" Discord replied, stopping Twilight in her tracks as she already started leaving. "What? That's not true." "I'm afraid it's all too true." Discord said. He then snapped his fingers and took Twilight into the past where she saw her friends had already gone back to their normal lives after what she believed was mere days after she was gone. Discord then showed Twilight how Princess Celestia already found a new student Forest and that broke her heart most of all. "No," Twilight said in tears once again after Discord brought her back to the present. "She wouldn't just find somepony else to be her student, she, she wouldn't do that to me!" "Oh, I know it hurts Twilight. I'm sorry that you had to see all that but it was for your own good, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind." Twilight then ran off to be alone and continue to cry after which Chrysalis flew over to Discord. "You let her sleep for moons on end just to do that?" "Patience Chrysalis, I'm working my magic or at least I will be. Trust me it'll all be worth it in the end." "Are you sure you can even pull it off?" "Of course manipulation is like comedy, you just have to know your audience." *** The next few days Twilight would just stay in the bed Discord made for her barely eating. She mostly cried herself to sleep and during that time Twilight stayed there Discord would continue to keep an eye on Twilight's former friends. "He kissed you!" Applejack said in surprise while having a bit of a lunch with Rarity who was telling Applejack what recently happened with her and Spike. "The poor dear was in such a depression and he sort of did it out of nowhere." "Well did ya push back to make him stop?" "What? Of course not!" "What do you mean?" "I can't Applejack. Spikey Wikey is so vulnerable right now, it would break his adorable little heart. I just hope he can keep it together until Twilight finally returns, I figure it should be any day now." "What are you talking about? It's been half a year, she's not coming back!" "What are you talking about? She may have been gone a long time but that doesn't mean she'll never return." "She's gone and you know what if she's gonna run off and forget about us, then I say who needs her!" Applejack said in a huff, hearing that Rarity decided to cut the lunch short and head back to her boutique. "Oh what, suddenly I'm the bad guy? She was the one that ran away and wrote she never wanted to see us again, well fine if that's how she feels, I hope she never comes back." "O-h, be careful what you wish for Applejack." Discord said as he closed the portal he used to spy on them. He then went to check on Twilight who was still in bed. "Why won't you come out of there already Twilight?" "What's the point my friends don't miss me one bit?" "Oh come now you don't need them in your life you got along fine without them before." "I didn't know the magic of friendship before." "Doesn't matter you're better off, you can stay here and have a new beginning with us. Together we can do so many things." "Oh yeah like what?" SLAM "Like figuring out where exactly that came from and what it is," Discord replied. Twilight then finally got out of bed and saw there was a dragon attacking Discord's lair which was the inside of a mountain. The changelings could do very little to fight back against the dragon, that is until Twilight arrived and unleashed some powerful spells on the creature but even then Twilight was smacked against the wall. "What's the matter is that the best y'all can do," the Applejack in Twilight's mind said. "I guess you wouldn't know how to fight if it came up and bite ya." Suddenly Twilight saw her other friends who mocked her as well but that only got her angry and it gave her a boost in power to fight off the dragon. She only gave off one shot, but it was enough to fight off the dragon. "Yeah, take that!" Twilight said as she collapsed to the ground but still awake. Discord smiled happily that his plan started working, he had been subtly brainwashing Twilight to resent her friends for what they did. He could tell it was working by the look of hate that was in her eyes, while Twilight would grow closer to the changelings her hate would grow. Discord kept his brainwashing up while Chrysalis helped intense it, in time Twilight came to hate the ones she loved for what they did. "Well it's been a long time coming but Twilight has practically become part of my hive." "Yes, but we still need to add a few more touches," Discord said. He would give Twilight a pair of black wings that were bent near the end and infused with his chaos magic. When Twilight got those wings she also got rings of fire around her eyes and a serious boost in magic that made her strong enough against several dragons that would come too close to the mountain. After Twilight fought them off all by herself Discord showed Twilight her old friends having a funeral for her. "They don't look for me and now they just want to act like I'm dead," Twilight said and without another word left to crash the funeral. "If this goes as planned Chrysalis she'll be too tired to finish them off now and tell them to come here to finish what she's about to start." "So does this mean we can put everything into action now?" The changeling queen asked the spirit of chaos. "Yes Chrysalis I think it's time to finally start the endgame."