Luna yawned as she made her way to The New Castle of Chaos, She had taken another potion so she could stay awake, specifically after being told through a letter from Havok that today's disaster was going to be special. Upon Approaching Luna noted that the Castle it self hadn't changed much since her last visit. The Only Difference was the front yard was now a Dance floor, and some of the living Armor sets where using it with some Wild Everfree Animals. Luna walked around it, not wanting to interrupt the Break dancing Manticore or the Armor's clapping for it.
"I am here," Luna announced upon arriving in the throne Room, in the corner she saw Shade and Rot working on what looked to be a Organ of chaos, Havok and Storm however were by the thrones talking with what looked to be Another Rot, this one's mane was different however, It was Shorter than Rot's usual mane, however upon looking at the other Rot she now had a Large Bow set in her mane. "Why are there two Rot's?"
"No that's Rot," Havok said pointing to the one with a Bow "This is our newest Member, Rust,"
"Oh," Luna said turning to the new comer "And who are you beneath the Rust?"
"Apple Blooms Cousin Babs," Rust replied, changing back to her usual self and then back to Rust.
"Why Rust?" Luna inquired.
"I ask the same thing about Shade, Storm and Rot I get since there going against Rainbow and Applejack, but how does Shade equivalate to Rarity?"
"I was gonna go with Black for Black Magic," Shade replied "but it felt to evil for me, so I went with Shade, for being Shady,"
"Still..." Rust muttered.
"Oh come on, how does Havok equivalate to Twilight?"
"Why are you throwing me under the bus?" Havok demanded.
"Alright," Luna said, "I have only one last Question, Why the bow?"
"Because without it they kept confusing me and Rust with one another, even with the differences in our mane styles, and it felt like the obvious choice,"
"50 bits Applebloom get's caught first," Storm whispered to Luna "So far Havok's the only one who has faith it won't be her, but with that bow and how bad she is at lying it's only a matter of time,"
"your on," Luna replied.
"What?" Rot asked, turning to Luna with a perked ear
"Nothing," Luna replied "So is this new member of yours the special part of your next prank?"
"Oh no we just wanted to give you these since this will be an across Equestria Prank," Havok handed Luna some Ear plugs and she looked at them. "Trust me, we're all wearing em to, save for me, I have Protective headphone's since my ears don't work the same as the rest of you," Luna put the ear plugs in and nodded.
"Well thanks for the heads up," She lit her horn and was about to teleport home before adding "Oh, and the Break Dancing Manticore is very Random, good job," Luna teleported away and the Team of Chaos all sat in silence for a moment.
"There's a Manticore Break Dancing out there?" Rust demanded. The Team of Chaos all rushed outside and ended up joining the Armor in cheering on the break dancing Manticore that they oddly had nothing to do with.
Twilight was with Rarity in her Boutique, getting a dress made for Twilight's Birthday the next month. Rarity was humming along as she took Twilight's Measurements, while Twilight was talking about the plans for her party.
"Don't worry Darling," Rarity said as she marked the measurements down "This time I'll make sure to finish it before your party,"
"I liked the last one you gave me," Twilight said with a smile "Even if it wasn't finished,"
"Still, this time around I think you'll enjoy it even more," Rarity put the measurements in and nodded "Same as last time, you've done a great job of taking care of yourself,"
"That might just be the Alicorn in me," Twilight said "You've seen how fit Celestia is even with the amount of Cake she eats, there's no other explanation," The two friends laughed at the thought of Celestia stuffing her face with an entire cake. Before more could be said they heard an electric sounding song in the distance that was slowly getting louder.
"And here come's Vinyl on her mobile DJ booth again," Rarity sighed when Fluttershy opened the door.
"The Team of Chaos is about to start something," She said out of breath, "I heard Shade practicing this a few days ago for their next disaster, a song of hypnosis,"
"Oh no," Twilight said at the word Hypnosis and ran outside with Rarity, the rest of the elements where already gathering. Along with most of the town as the music got louder and louder. Shade was playing her Organ, which was floating in the air, it had spotlights as storm clouds where gathering around her. Directly beneath her was a smoke cloud hiding the road from view. Once she was a few meters away from the team of Harmony she stopped moving, but continued using her mane to play the organ. Twilight waited in silence and sure enough Havok emerged from the smoke cloud wearing headphones, along with Storm. They proceeded to walk out of the way and Harmony went wide eyed when Rot and Rust emerged.
"Oh my stars there's two of them," Applejack said with a groan "I thought duplicating was Storm's thing,"
"Well we can all do it, Storm just likes doing it more," Havok said.
"I'm Rot," Rot declared "And I now wear a bow,"
"And I'm Rust," Rust added "I don't even go here,"
"Boo," Storm called out "get off the stage,"
"Well what would you have said?" Rust demanded.
"I'm an OG, I don't gotta say nothing,"
"Anyway," Rust said "I'll be taken on Pinkie,"
"I get my own Bad guy!" Pinkie Cheered. "Applejack our bad guys look like twins!"
"We're not twins," Rot corrected.
"We are related though," Rust replied.
"Yeah but we ain't sisters,"
"Falling asleep up here," Shade called "Can we get to the fun part?"
"Oh yeah," Havok said sliding in "Behold, the song of Brutal Honesty, whoever hears this song will be forced to tell the most brutal of truths, and nothing but that," Havok pointed to Applejack.
"Test someone,"
"Who where you before you became a god?" Applejack demanded.
"Not us, where immune," Havok replied instantly
"Rainbow," Applejack looked to her friend suspiciously "did you play fairly last poker night,"
"I cheated," Rainbow said and instantly covered her mouth.
"I knew it," Applejack said angrily.
"All you have to do to stop us, is tell a lie," Havok smiled "In other words you gotta find a away to block out the music, and effective Immediately," Havok Snapped and nothing seemed to happen, Shade however stopped moving but the music continued, Havok also removed his headphones and made them vanish "And the only one who can do that in all Equestria, is Vinyl Scratch"
"What kind of random placement is that?" Rainbow Demanded.
"Ain't random at all, just have to find her and tell her that her gift from chaos will stop all this," Havok smiled and snapped "Oh, but if you fly or Teleport you'll be sent to the Crystal Empire,"
"Oh come on," Rainbow complained "What am I suppose to do then?"
"Walk," Havok suggested.
"So what are you lot going to do?" Twilight asked suspiciously.
"Oh simple, we'll be asking you uncomfortably personal questions that you'll be forced to answer honestly,"
"I'm out," Rainbow declared, flapping her wings and disappearing from sight.
"Hu," Havok said "I was expecting Twilight to be the first to give in,"
"Pardon me, but I'm the Princess of Friendship, and no matter how much you degrade me I will not abandon my friends,"
"Have you ever broken a Pinkie Promise?" Havok asked.
"I told Photo Finish about Spike's Crush on Rarity!"
"I remember that," Pinkie said "Fore shame Sparkle, Fore Shame!"
"Spike is so very sweet," Rarity Laughed "Maybe if he was older, but I'd never be able to see him as anything other than the cute little helper he is," and then shoved her hoof into her own mouth as both Harmony and Chaos stared at her. Havok looked hurt for a second but hid it before harmony could see.
"Alright," Twilight said looking over to her friend "We can talk about that later, but first we need to find Vinyl," The 5 remaining members of Harmony all made their way to Vinyl's homestead as fast as they could, with Chaos following them from a distance.
"You need a moment?" Shade asked, patting Havok's back.
"No...no I'm fine," He said, his wings where limp and his eyes had turned blue.
"Uh, here," Rust held up her hoof to Havok's face and a pair of shades similar to Vinyl scratches materialized on his face "Should help to hide the eyes from Harmony," Havok sighed and snapped, he and his team where now all wearing the shades, along with Pink Bow ties with white collars.
"Alright, let's make things awkward,"
"So Applejack," Rot said walking in stride with the Earth Pony "On a scale of one to ten, how much do you love Pinkie's Parties?"
"4," Applejack replied.
"She's a hard one to get right," Pinkie agreed as Storm flew over head.
"Rot I know you wanna fight her but making the element of Honesty be Honest isn't gonna have much of an effect,"
"Fluttershy what do you think of Rarity's dresses?"
"Oh, I don't really care for dresses, I only really wear them for big events or if Rarity asked me to,"
"I've noticed," Rarity replied.
"Rarity," Shade said "How do you feel about your Sister?"
"She's annoying and constantly gets in the way of my work, and her cooking is ghastly, Luckily Spike can enjoy eating just about anything so I usually just give it to him, But she's my sister and I love her, despite her many flaws," Shade just walked on in silence and the rest of team chaos began following her lead.
"So Applejack, feelings on your little sister,"
"I love mah Sister," Applejack replied "And she doesn't have to worry about much, I'll always be around to save her from trouble, and if anyone tried to hurt her I'll break 'em in half like a twig" Rot just snorted, she wasn't sure what she expected from her over protective sister, but that response probably should have been it. Storm just grumbled at Rainbow's escape before she could question her, Rust decided to walk over to Fluttershy.
"What do you think of us, the Team of Chaos?"
"Oh, I think your all very nice, your always polite, and you always tell us how to stop the messes you make, and I don't hold it against you since you need Chaos to live an all,"
"Do what now?" Rust asked.
"Did we not tell you about that part?" Rot asked "If we stay normal for to long we'll phase out of existence,"
"Oh, yeah that's not terrifying," Rust said "Thanks for the heads up, what you couldn't fit it on your edible card?"
"I still can't believe you actually ate it," Havok said with a chuckle.
"Oh don't worry," Fluttershy said sweetly "Discord almost disappeared once but I managed to stop it, so long as at least one of you have your powers even the tiniest bit of chaos should reverse the process,"
"Alright less scary," Havok said "That said we should consider sleeping in our base from now on, don't wanna be killed in our sleep with normality,"
Luna was doing all within her power not to laugh at the huge mess that was now Day court, she was watching from behind a false painting eating popcorn as the Noble all shouted at one another, It had all started when Celestia had been unable to lie to their honest questions and they where all now blaming one another for her harsh words.
"She was clearly talking to you," One of them said.
"So I sound like a mewling calf?" The accused noble said in an impressively whiny voice.
"More like a choking Weasel," Celestia had taken the smart approach and had escaped into her secret tunnels, resulting in her running into Luna.
"What are you doing up?" Celestia demanded.
"I like to sleep in here sometimes," Luna replied "Scares the hell out of the maids, I was awoken by all the screaming and Techno Music," Luna continued eating her popcorn and Celestia sighed.
"Well it's gonna take a while before they notice I've left, would you like to go get some food,"
"By food, you mean stuff your face with several days worth of Cake,"
"Yes," Celestia said sweating "So what, I like Cake,"
"Your lucky Alicorns can't get Diabetes," Was Luna's only reply as they made their way to the royal kitchen, only to find the chefs where also yelling at one another.
"What do you mean there's to much salt?" One of them demanded.
"Exactly what I just said you blistering idiot," The Head chef said angrily "The recipe called for a tea spoon of salt, not a table spoon,"
"Oh like anyone will notice,"
"I clearly Noticed!" Luna chuckled and Celestia sighed.
"The Bouncy castle I could live with," She said "But I can't go around telling the nobles how annoying they are, it could start a riot,"
"From what I've heard our new lord of Chaos is almost certainly in Ponyville, with a clearly marked way to stop this,"
"Then that is where I'll be going," Celestia replied as she lit her horn, in a flash of light she found herself in the middle of the Crystal Empire, with an alarming number of Pegasi and Unicorns, all of whom backed away from her in an instant, not wanting to crowd the princess,"
"Aunty," A Voice called to her, Celestia looked and found Cadance flying to her. "Do you know what's happening?" Unicorns and Pegasi are being pulled from all around Equestria to the Empire," Celestia looked around and lit her horn, after a second she found one of the ponies she was looking for and in a flash Rainbow Dash appeared mid sentence.
"Leave my mudda out of- oh what the hell?" Rainbow looked around for a second as Celestia surrounded the three in a sound proof dome to avoid being disturbed by the massive crowd that was only growing in size "You know, if I'd known this curse was effecting everyone I'd have just stayed to search for Vinyl,"
"Curse?" Cadance demanded "What curse, what's..."
"The new God of Chaos is playing a game, and didn't want us to fly or use magic, points for not copying discord and just snapping them away, but this is just stupid," Cadance blinked.
"What happened to Discord?" She asked in concern "Can gods die?"
"He just retired," Celestia replied "It's very hard to do but even you and I could do it, Just have to have no desire in your heart to keep your powers,"
"Whoa," Rainbow said making a Time out motion with her hooves "You saying your a God to?"
"The Goddess of the sun," Celestia replied "But it was a terrible mess when that was common knowledge, so very few know that now,"
"The hell are you telling me for then?" Rainbow demanded, Both Celestia and Cadance looked at the Rainbow mare, then to each other, then back to her.
"Twilight," Celestia sighed with a head shake "Never mind that for now," Celestia looked around "It seems the Empire has been spared from that terrible song,"
"Did the bounce house thing happen to you?" Rainbow asked Cadance, who just looked at Rainbow like she was crazy "Taking that as a no," Celestia lit her horn and attempted to teleport to the elements, only to end up in a different part of the empire, she tried teleporting back to Cadance and succeeded in doing so. "Yeah, Havok said if you tried to use magic or fly you'll be sent to the Empire,"
"And since he hasn't done anything to the empire his magic must not be able to touch it," Celestia rubbed her chin "He only became the god recently, he probably hasn't noticed and as such hasn't put in the extra effort it would take to get past the Crystal heart,"
"I'd recommend the train, but it shouldn't be that hard to find Vinyl,"
Havok and his team where now all riding in Shade's Organ and chatting it up while the Mane 6 made their way to her house.
"You get what you wanted from this?" Havok asked Shade.
"Yes," She confirmed "Thank you for letting me pick the Disaster, even if it was just to find out how Rarity felt about me," Shade looked at Rarity with a frown "Annoying am I? let's see how annoying I can be when I actively try to be,"
"How about you Spike," Rot asked before clearing her throat "I mean, Havok,"
"I kind of figured," He said with a sigh "Just kind of hoped it would go more my way I guess,"
"Want I should summon a soda storm to cheer you up?" Storm asked "Cause I've been practicing and I think I can..." Storm held her hoofs up and a handful of Black clouds formed above the Elements still in the game, and proceeded to rain down Soda upon them. "Alright I did it," Pinkie licked her lips then spat the drink out.
"Sugar Free and Diet," She cried out "Your so evil,"
"Your Welcome," Storm called back, Rarity made to cover herself with a spell to save her mane, and proceeded to disappear.
"Ha!" Rust cried out "What a Mook,"
"What's a Mook?" Fluttershy questioned as she shielded her eyes from the soda pouring down on her.
"It's a Manehattan thing," Pinkie replied.
"Oh," Fluttershy said "Well Shade did say Havok was going to Manehattan to look at potential candidates for his team, guess one of them worked out,"
"You didn't think to mention that at some point," Applejack said with a sigh "Is that why you did that weird song and dance with Babs, where you trying to recruit her?"
"She declined," Havok replied "Such a shame, but that was still a lot of fun," Applejack turned to her friends.
"Keep an eye on those close to you, don't want him pulling one of our sisters into this and tainting them with Chaos," Rot chuckled at that but was quickly shushed by her friends.
"Should we try and stop them?" Rust asked.
"Nah," Havok said with a yawn "honestly this has just been boring and hurtful, We can fight back when Vinyl begins playing but I'm kind of over this prank, That said if any of you wanna try and make it last you go for it, I won't stop you," Rot instantly jumped out of the Organ and coated her hooves in Chaos, making Apples and Pears of all different colors grow out of the ground, Some grew Spider like legs and began crawling away, making any unicorn or Pegasus who was still left in town banish themselves to get away from them. Rust watched from the air and rubbed her chin.
"So Rot has the farming thing down, what should my thing be? I don't wanna just be a Pinkie clone," Rust tapped her chin in thought. "Maybe I should ask Luna, she might have an Idea or two,"
"She might," Havok agreed as Storm flew out of the Organ and landed on the small cluster of clouds raining on the Mane 6.
"Come on regular soda," She said as she bounced on it, only for it to begin raining tea "Oh come on, that's not even close,"
The remaining elements picked up the speed, Applejack hit a pink apple and ended up coated in Glitter, while Fluttershy was Feld by a Honey Apple, and while attempting to free herself she ended up disappearing as well. Applejack, Pinkie, and Twilight made it to Vinyl's home, Instead of the DJ it was Octavia who opened the door. She froze at the sight of what was going on and frowned.
"Are you the one's playing that dreadful music?" She asked the Team of Chaos.
"Yeah that's us," Shade called back, waving to identify witch one she was. "Sorry 'bout that,"
"Please Tell me Vinyl is here," Twilight said with a groan.
"I'll go get her, just...stay here, I don't wanna have to clean what ever that is raining on you out of my carpet," After a moment Vinyl opened the door, using her magic to hold a bottle she was drinking from.
"How come she gets to use magic?" Twilight demanded.
"Cause," Havok replied simply.
"Uh, you need me for something already?" Vinyl asked the Team of Chaos.
"Yeah, we made it so your the only one who can end the song of Brutal honesty,"
"do what now?" Vinyl asked in confusion.
"That record I gave you in exchange for favors," Shade called back, Octavia instantly returned to the door.
"Favors?" She demanded "Who is this mare?"
"Not like that," Vinyl said quickly "I agreed to be on the reserve team for when they wanna give Harmony a break but still feel like causing Chaos,"
"We always feel like causing Chaos," Havok called back. Vinyl just sighed and walked back into her home, after a minute she returned with a record player on wheels and began playing the record. The same Electric song began playing and Twilight sighed as she felt the curse lifting, only for Shade to start playing her Organ and drown out Vinyl's record player.
"That's Cheating," Pinkie called back.
"How many times are you gonna say that before just accepting that we'll always cheat," Havok called back "We've cheated every time thus far, at least we aren't playing keep away with Vinyl,"
"True," Pinkie confirmed, Only for Vinyl to stand proud.
"God or not, no one out plays me, Tavi get your Cello," Vinyl ran inside with Octavia following after her. after a Second The Record player stopped and Vinyl's magic grabbed the record and put it into her Mobil DJ booth player, along with one of the copies she had made of it and the music notes she had translated so Octavia could play the Cello version of it as best as it could be translated. The Two Began playing against Shade, and it began dispersing Chaos from the area, destroying the apples and clouds Storm and Rot had made.
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire, the Elements who had lost where talking when Fluttershy began slowly disappearing.
"Um," She said "What's happening?" Celestia frowned and lit her horn.
"Havok's spell is falling apart, and all the ponies he sent here are slowly being sent back from whence they came, but still we should make sure everypony makes it home, with the Crystal heart blocking him some might get left behind,"
"Oh I'll tell him about the Crystal heart so he can make sure everypony gets home," Fluttershy said as she finished phasing away and found herself standing before Vinyl and Octavia playing away while Shade played her odd Organ and the rest of team Chaos hit pots and pan that made instrumental noises.
"Now this part I'm enjoying," Havok cheered, Fluttershy rushed to the Dragon and tapped him, "Yes?" he asked.
"Um, the Crystal Empire is blocking your magic, if you don't focus your powers extra hard some ponies could end up left behind," Havok frowned.
"Mind covering me for a moment?" He asked, handing her a set of Drum sticks, Fluttershy took them and began lightly tapping a pot. His part of the mess covered Havok teleported to the Empire, and appeared next to Celestia with a telescope.
"So," he said to get her attention "I'm guessing the Crystal Heart doesn't like me to much,"
"Probably not," Celestia agreed as Cadance inspected Havok.
"I wasn't expecting a Dragon," She noted "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, even if you caused this mess,"
"Ah, no worries," Havok put his hand in the snapping position and pushed his fingers together, energy began glowing from his hand and after his arm was mostly covered he snapped and ponies began disappearing instead of slowly phasing away, "There you go," He cheered before vanishing, Fluttershy returned his drum sticks and he joined back into the music battle as the last of the Elements reappeared.
"Man that sucked," Rainbow Declared, "What'd I miss?"
"This," Twilight replied as Vinyl and Octavia began beating out team chaos, who's own song was losing power. Shade's organ began smoking as the song of chaos began losing.
"So did you lie yet?" Rainbow asked, making Twilight face hoof.
"I knew I forgot something, I hate reading!"
"I was bored of this anyway," Shade said as she disappeared with her instrument, having been the only one with an instrument the rest of team Chaos didn't even have time to say anything as they where also sent away by the power of Octavia and Vinyl. Octavia stopped playing and, after a second poked Vinyl.
"We won, you can stop," Vinyl blushed a little and laughed.
"Oh yeah, ha ha,"
Luna was sitting in her throne at Castle Chaos, Reading a book while waiting for them, and jumped when Shade's organ appeared in random pieces, With Shade appearing last.
"I was afraid of this," She said looking at her broken instrument, as she inspected it's broken pieces the rest of Team Chaos appeared all looking confused.
"Drat," Havok complained as he turned back into Spike "I didn't get to explode into anything," Spike snapped and a Tapestry with Shade playing her Organ appeared on the wall. "Sweetie you might have put a little to much magic into the Record,"
"I noticed," Sweetie said as she turned back into her and sighed "Well, this can easily be fixed," Sweetie tapped a piece of the Organ and it began rebuilding itself.
"So," Luna said "Have you managed to track down a 6th member yet?"
"Not yet," Spike sighed as he made his Chicken Gavel appear in his hands and made a Lectern grow out of the floor. "I would like to call a Meeting, all gather in disorder," Luna stayed seated as the other members of Chaos dropped their disguises and gathered around Spike.
"Alright so as I said earlier I would like to propose we sleep here every now and again, that way we don't have to worry about being killed by Normality in our sleep, Yay or nay?"
"Yay," The Team replied.
"What days should we sleep here?" Scootaloo questioned.
"Whenever you feel like it," Spike replied "Just remember to leave a Doppelganger in your stead, don't wanna cause a panic with your family," Spike looked around for a moment before banging the gavel "Alright on to our next subject, we need to fill our final member slot, any suggestions on how to do so?" There was a very loud mumble from the group before Scootaloo waived her hoof and motioned her friends to move in and they whispered so Luna couldn't hear them. Luna smiled as the team began chuckling to themselves.
"Should I be worried?" She asked.
"Maybe," They all chuckled back to her.
Rarity and Twilight sat in silence at her Boutique, Rarity was still working on the dress, but they where no longer participating in idle chatter, After a while however Rarity spoke up.
"I....I did mean to tell him," She said looking back to Twilight, who just frowned.
"Doesn't change the fact that you didn't though," she replied, looking out the window she saw Spike and Sweetie Bell running past, neither adult said anything as Sweetie walked in, she ignored her Sister's greeting and made her way up the stairs.
"I'm sorry," Rarity said quietly.
"Its not me you need to be saying this to," Twilight said as she watched Spike make his way towards the Castle.