//------------------------------// // A Chaotic Fairy tale // Story: Spike: The Unwilling God of Chaos // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// Havok and his team where cleaning up from their house warming party, otherwise known as sitting around and letting a Manticore eat several cakes. "Oh man," Shade said laughing "Did you hear the sound Rarity made when she saw the Living Armor wearing the wig you made with Babs?" "I heard it both in here and all the way up in the tower," Havok replied with a laugh "Oh man, I wish I could have seen the look on her face," Before they could continue Luna teleported in, looking less than jovial. "Your mad about the beans aren't you?" Rot asked, looking at the angry Princess "Or is it cause we moved your throne?" "I don't care about the throne," Luna replied "I actually like this set up better," "So the beans then," Havok noted. "You couldn't think of anything else?" She demanded. "I didn't make you stick to the story," Havok said in defense "You could have made up your own story," "Beans," Luna repeated as she shook the sack at them "Why magic beans of all things?" "Miss Cheerilee assigned book reports," Havok replied "And Storm asked me to help her with hers on Jack and the Bean stalk since the Doppelgangers cant keep an entire books worth of information in their heads and pass it on to us, yet," "So you made me the laughing stalk of the other Princesses because of a book report?" Luna demanded "Celestia won't stop laughing, Cadance has sent me several different invites to go drinking so she can see me drunk, and Twilight is trying to get me to enroll in A.A," Several members of team chaos began chuckling. "I'm sorry," Havok said as he failed to hide his laugh "Oh man, that's to good," Luna groaned as she tossed the beans to Havok. "You can have those back free of charge," She said irritably "I don't know what they do but so long as I have them my sister will never leave me be, use them for some prank or something, just keep them away from me," Luna teleported away still clearly angry and Havok smiled. "Say, you all read fairytales for your report's right?" Everyone save for Rust confirmed this, "Didn't we agree to do a book themed disaster?" The rest of the team smiled as they picked up what he was selling them. "Alright," Havok said "So who's getting who? Back up or normal Harmony?" "We've only used back up once," Storm said " and now we have a full team so I think we should use them again," "Alright let's scheme," Havok said, he was about to snap when Storm held her hoof up. "Whoa hold up, we still gotta figure out who's getting who, I don't it's fair for Cheerilee to have to go up against you, since it limits to you just playing keep away with her," "Oh I have a 6th member lined up, I have a great game for her," Havok smiled as the other's talked about who should get who. "Well, my scheme's are the best so I should stick with Thunderlane," Storm said "He'd be bored out of his mind with the rest of you," "Oh yeah, a race," Rot said "How original," "Oh and what would you do," Storm asked "Let me guess, a fight? If I was you I'd come up with a more original contest," "Is that a challenge?" Rot asked, Havok clapped to get their attention. "Now, now, lets solve this chaotically, we'll all make our scheme, then pass them around at random and what ever you get stuck with you gotta see if you can make it work," "Oh, I'm in," Vile said "First mission and where already mixing things up," Havok stood in Ponyville park and stretched before calling out loudly "Attention all members of Team Back up Harmony, guess what day it is?" All around Ponyville the members stopped what they where doing. "Early Recess," Cheerilee said with a sigh before disappearing from her school house. "Yeah," Bulk cried out from his workout bench on the outskirts of Ponyville before disappearing. "Alright, Time to Shine," Thunderlane said as he rubbed his medal from last time before disappearing. Vinyl was rocking out to some beats and had failed to hear Havok as she was summoned to his game. "Oh boy," Doctor Whooves said as he set down his spoon, leaving behind a half eaten breakfast as he joined the game. The all appeared outside The Spa, Vinyl took her headphones off and looked around. "Oh, alright then," Havok smiled and the 5 waited for him to speak when a 6th pony materialized in front of them, looking confused. "Uh?" Trixie said in confusion "Where is Trixie?" She demanded in more Confusion. "Trixie," Havok cheered "I must have forgot to tell you that I added you to team back up Harmony," "Do what?" Trixie demanded "Trixie never agreed to this," "Neither did most of them," Havok replied "But hey, your replacing Twilight," "Of course Trixie is replacing Sparkle," Trixie said "Who else would you pick," "Starlight!" Havok declared. "Then why didn't you pick her?" Trixie demanded. "Eh, I felt you'd be a lot more fun," Havok smiled, he'd failed to find the spy in time for the game, and he'd ended up choosing Trixie after she won the team vote. "Anyway let's get started, Today's theme is-" Havok snapped "-Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes!" all around them Ponyville was turned into an amalgamation of locations from various Fairy tales. "Bulk, Rot is waiting for you down at Sweet Apple acres, Cheerilee, Rust will meet you at Sugar Cube Corner, Thunderlane Storm will be at the Spa, Doc our new friend Vile is waiting for you down by the stream, Vinyl Shade's waiting for you at Rarity's Boutique, and Trixie you'll be facing me right here!" "Of course Trixie is pitted against the lord of Chaos," She cheered "Tell Trixie her challenge so she may march her way to victory," "Simple, you have to take this flute away from me," Havok said holding up a simple looking wooden flute "The flute of the Pied Piper," Havok smiled "Or should I say the flute of the Pied Pinkie Pie?" Havok began playing and instead of a flute it sounded like an random bundle of instruments, as soon as he began anything and everything sugary began moving in time with his song and began converging on them. Trixie looked around, trying to figure out what the flute was doing, and only just managed to duck out of the way of a Pie flying at her face, she put up a small barrier as several cup cakes dive bombed her. Trixie ran to Spike, who casually jumped over her and began walking away still playing the flute. Trixie attempted to take it in her magic to no avail and gave chase to the dragon. Bulk arrived at Sweet Apple acres and found the 4 members of the Apple family angrily facing down Rot, who was standing her ground. Bulk could easily see the cause for the anger as all of Sweet Apple acres now seemed to be Sweet Pumpkin Acres, even the Apple family barn was now a large Pumpkin. "Look, I'm sorry but I couldn't find a better place for this," Rot replied. "What makes you think we'll let you do as you please on our land?" Granny Smith demanded. "Cause if you don't It won't ever change back," Rot replied, earning a gasp from Granny Smith, Fake Applebloom was the first to notice Bulk and tapped Applejack. "I don't think your it today Sis," She said getting her family's attention. "You could have mentioned it wasn't my problem to fix," Applejack said irritably. "I tried to but you where to busy telling me off to let me do so," Rot turned to Bulk "Bulk your task for today is to smash Pumpkins and try to find the Golden Apple Hidden inside one of them, once you find it take the Apple and throw it against the giant pumpkin that was once the barn, doing so will turn Sweet Pumpkin Acres back into Sweet Apple Acres. Bulk cheered and Ran off to begin smashing Pumpkins, the Apple Family following after him to cheer him on. Bulk shamed the Pumpkins in the fields at a fast speed, basically just running through them screaming yeah as he did so. "Oh my poor fields," Granny cried out "Defiled by Pumpkins!" Rot chuckled at that and felt her Gran's gaze fall upon her, before Granny Smith could give Rot a mouth full however Bulk suddenly screamed out. "Come back," The Apples watched as Bulk gave chase to a Pumpkin that had turned into a Carriage and started driving away from Bulk, Big Mac joined in the event and the two Stallions began attempting to break the Pumpkin Carriage. Granny turned back to Rot and found she had disappeared. "No good cowardly..."Granny muttered angrily as Applebloom silently patted her, out in the field Rot appeared at the head of the Carriage and began steering it away from the two chasing Stallions. Big Mac managed to catch up to it and grabbed the back of it, digging his back hoofs into the ground as he held the back of the Carriage. "Why are you jumping aboard?" She demanded "Why did you turn our orchard into a Pumpkin Patch?" Applejack called from where she was standing "Actually Storm did this," She called back "We didn't pick our own pranks this time around, Sorry," The back of the Pumpkin broke off and Big Mac was left behind as the Carriage drove through the Pumpkin Patch only for Bulk to slam into the side and fly through, breaking the Carriage in half and grabbing the Golden Apple, Rot was sent flying and ended up sitting silently in the broken front of the Carriage looking at Big Mac, Who just stared back at her in silence. "I see you stole Applebloom bow," He noted. "Me and Rust look identical, needed something to distinguish us," Rot said as her tail grabbed a lever and pulled it, ejecting her from the Carriage, Vines burst from the ground and Rot landed on it, giving chase to Bulk, Apple's of random colors grew and where launched at the buff pony, Bulk ended up covered in Glitter, Honey, Feathers, and Rubber Chickens before throwing the Golden Apple. Once it hit the Giant Pumpkin the world around them shimmered and turned back into an Apple farm. "Good," Rot said "This place was weird without the tree's," "You get down here and apologize this instant," Granny called angrily. "Oh no, Sudden Explosions'," Rot cried "Good job Bulk," Rot exploded into Pumpkin Seeds and Granny frowned. "Have a good day," Bulk said as he made his way to go find Havok. Cheerilee made her way to Sugar Cube Corner and found it was made entirely of Ginger bread, Rust was stationed outside with an Oven and had a Candy coated Paint Brush in hoof, paining something that she had just pulled out. "Oh good," Rust said when she saw Cheerilee "I hope your ready to run," "From what?" Cheerilee asked nervously. "Oh not you," Rust said "Your job is easy, you just have to catch the Gingerbread Mare," A Flat Mare made of Gingerbread jumped off the Stove, only having two legs she moved oddly as she looked around in confusion, She was decorated with Frosting and was mostly brown in color, With Cheerilee's color pallet covering her like a frosting outline. "What is this?" She asked in confusion. She Only had one Eye on her decorated side so she had poor vision coverage, She had a little Bow Tie an was shaped exactly like Cheerilee, in place of a Cutie mark she had a few Gumdrops on her flank. "Life," Rust cheered, "But you have to run, that mean old mare across the way want's to eat you," the Gingerbread Mare looked at Cheerilee looking hurt. "She does!?" "No," Cheerilee defended. "Alright, then prove it and don't chase her," Rust demanded, the Gingerbread mare smiled at that and Cheerilee sighed. "Alright, it's only a chase if you run, so just stay there and I'll come to-" The Gingerbread Mare screamed and ran away from Cheerilee, crying tears shaped Gumdrops as she ran. "Really?" Cheerilee demanded. "I didn't wanna do that," Rust said "This was Rot's idea not mine, I kind of feel bad now honestly," Cheerilee shook her head and gave chase to the living cookie, she was easy to find due to the fact that she was bawling her eyes out. However problems arose immediately when Pinkie burst out of the bakery. "Whos crying?" She demanded, a box of cheap gags on her back. She stopped when she saw the Cookie running away feebly on it's two legs with Cheerilee running up to her. Pinkie ran at super speed and picked up the Crying cookie. "Ah, there there," She said rocking it like a baby "Tell me why you are crying, oh magic talking cookie," "I don't wanna be eaten?" She sobbed out. "I'm not gonna eat you," Cheerilee said with a groan. "Then why are you chasing me?" Before Cheerilee could defend herself Pinkie zipped away with the cookie mare in her arms. "Oh come on," She cried out, Rust ran past her. "Pinkie, I'll help save the talking cookie," "Atta Girl Rust," Pinkie called back. "oh this is gonna be a long day," Cheerilee said before running after Pinkie, Rust, and the Gingerbread Mare," Thunderlane flew to the spa and found it was now a large hot spring, the two Spa twins where working away like nothing had happened and Storm waved to Thunderlane from a Large Lilly pad. "Your task is simple," Storm said with a smile "And based on the old Pegasus Fairy tale of the first rain fall," "Oh no," Thunderlane said, his ear's going flat as Storm smiled. "You must become one with the water, slow your mind and your soul, and gain the trust of the hot spring so that it will do as you beg of it and become a cloud, only in this instance instead of a cloud you need to convince it to turn back into a Spa," Thunderlane sighed. "Yep," He said shaking his head as he made his way into the water and sat looking at Storm. "So what will you be doing to stop me?" "Nothing," Storm said with a shrug "Vile chose this one for me, and honestly this Lilly pad is the bomb, so good luck trying to find inner peace or whatever that story was about," Storm lay back on her Lilly Pad and Thunderlane submerged himself until only the upper part of his head was above the water, he breathed slowly through his nostrils and tried not to think, There was silence, the air was clear and void of any noise, the water was nice and warm and flowing around him slowly, it was calming, peaceful, and boring," Thunderlane felt like he had been sitting still for hours but upon surfacing Storm chuckled. "7 minutes probably ain't gonna cut it," She mocked as she put her hoof into the water and lazily spun her lily pad around, "Come on, even Rainbow could spend hours just chilling in this hot spring, surely you can do it long enough for the water around us to turn back into a Spa," "How long will that take?" Thunderlane demanded. "I dunno I didn't read the story," Storm replied as she lay on her stomach and used her 4 wings to paddle along the water surface with ease. Thunderlane groaned and sat back in the water, trying to stay calm. Storm continued paddling around when she heard crying and watched as Pinkie Pie and Rust ran past holding a crying cookie, with Cheerilee trying to catch up to them. "Oh come on, I couldn't have gotten that one?" She complained "That's it this write each other's scheme's thing is a flop, Vile this plan sucks, although I guess you did make it with Fluttershy in mind so there's that," While Storm tried to guess why Pinkie was helping team Chaos Thunderlane was now floating on his back, staring up at the clouds in the sky, He watched a few birds fly by and watched the clouds slowly float on by, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Please be a spa when I open my eyes," he begged, he opened his eyes and found himself laying on the floor of the spa. "Fastest Zen out ever," He said with a sigh as he continued lying on the floor, across the room Storm was still laying on her large Lilly pad in a hot tub. "Just pretend I exploded," She called out "I'm enjoying this thing to much to leave it behind," Vile looked at what he had been given to work with and chuckled when he saw the Doc coming his way happily. "Greetings," Doctor Whooves said with a wave "What might I be expected to do on this fine day?" "Alright doc," Vile said putting his arm around the good Doctor "This one is simple, easy and straight to the point, all you have to do is listen to my little word puzzle and try to pick the right Magic Bean and throw it into the river" Vile presented The Doc with a small table that had Five Beans on it, a Red one, a Yellow one, a Orange one, a White one, and a Pink one. "Are you ready?" Vile asked as he looked at his little card and read what was on it aloud. "Five Beans, all sat in a row, pick not a one with 6 hidden in it's name, pick the one with a number below 4 in it's name, white has no friendly neighbor," Doctor Whooves looked to Vile, then the beans. "Yeah I'm gonna be honest I have no idea witch is the right one, Havok wrote this and I can not for the life of me-" Doctor Whooves Took the Red Bean and threw it in the River, and the surrounding buildings turned back to normal. "How?" Vile demanded in confusion. "Well the number's through me off for a second but after a moment I tried spelling the words and both Yellow and Orange have 6 letters so it couldn't be them, White had 5 so the second line cut it out, and pink was next to white, so it was clearly red," Vile just stared at the Doctor for a second before sighing and walking away, dragging his wings along the ground. Doc frowned for a moment then got it "oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to defeat you so quickly on your first time around," "It's fine," Vile said "Next time I'm picking my own scheme," as he was walking away he saw Pinkie and Rust run past with a crying cookie. "Vile come join the fun, where playing keep the cookie away from Cheerilee," Vile smiled and took flight to join in the chase. "Oh, I'm on my way," Doctor Whooves called as he ran to help Cheerilee apprehend the sobbing Gingerbread mare Shade sat in silence as Vinyl made her way down to the Boutique, she could feel Rarity glaring at her from the large boot that was now her home. "I know you did this," She called out to Shade irritably. "Trust me I had something way funnier in mind," Shade said as Vinyl approached and took off her music, "Alright let's see," Shade said as she looked at her notes "In order to fix everything around us you need to..." Shade frowned and mouthed what was on the card before laughing "...You need to make Rarity look like an old mare," She laughed "Oh I'm gonna enjoy this," "What?" Rarity demanded as she burst out of the boot that was now her home "You can't do that," "The Story is the Old Mare who lived in a shoe," Shade said happily "Of course you could refuse and continue to live in a boot, I'm sure you sister will be so very happy to hear you chose to leave your home as an old boot instead of what basically just boils down to playing dress up with Vinyl," Before Rarity could reply she was enveloped in Vinyl's Magic. "Come on, I got a gig tonight, some make up and the right clothes should have you looking like an old lady in no time," Rarity cried out as Shade followed her into the boot, Rarity was set in a chair and Shade tapped her hoof to the ground, providing Vinyl with the tools to turn Rarity to an elder, as Vinyl got to work on a very uncooperative Rarity Shade turned into a Doppelganger and appeared in her room as Sweetie. She took out a Camera and did her best to get a good angle of her room, since She, Spike, and Applebloom where all planning to spend the night at the castle to see how it would go, She was going to make a copy of her room and then Spruce it up with Chaos and needed a Picture for reference," She had just taken it and was about to head down when she heard the pitiful squeak of a toy and looked at her hooves, finding a little Spike plushy Rarity had brought back from the Crystal empire. She frowned as she thought back to something that had happened earlier in the day. -Earlier at the Castle of Chaos- Spike was sitting in his throne watching Rumble and Scootaloo as they looked over the plans for another floating tower that would be attached to the other Floating tower with a very creaky and unsteady rope bridge, unaware that Sweetie and Babs where both watching him in silence from across the room. "He's still just sitting there?" Applebloom asked as she walked up to her friends. "He's just been lounging about ever since Rarity...let him down easy after being blunt to his face as Havok," "This is my fault," Sweetie groaned "If I hadn't come up with that stupid song-" "Then he'd be happily pining after an impossible dream," Babs said "Listen I've seen this, he's just processing is all, I mean he's probably got a lot on his mind, he's the only one here who didn't agree to this after all if what you all told me is true, Discord just kind of gave him the powers and he was stuck with 'em. And then Rarity turned him down," Babs and Applebloom sighed, and after a moment looked to see Sweetie had left and was now walking up to Spike. "What up Sweetie," Spike said merrily "If you have any ideas for the tower you might wanna talk to Scoots and Rumble, Ever since Rumble joined they've been planning more and more rooms and expansions. "You seem very happy," Sweetie noted "Something good happen lately?" "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys, I won an argument with Twilight as Havok!" Spike laughed "Oh man, it was awesome, I can't describe the feeling but it was epic," Spike smiled as he took a gem out of his chair and started munching on it "How about you, you seem pretty happy yourself," "Oh I'm just happy to see you so happy," She replied with a smile. -Back to the Present- Sweetie smiled as she set the little Spike Plushy on the bed, "Don't worry Spike, Me, the girls, and Rumble will make sure your time as the God of Chaos will be nothing but happy memory after happy memory," She chuckled as she heard Rarity screaming and suddenly the Shoeness of the house disappeared. "Should probably take another none shoe picture," Havok and Trixie had been joined up by Rust, Vile, Doctor Whooves, Cheerilee, Pinkie, And The Gingerbread Mare, With two different tasks needing to be done, and Pinkie still convinced that the task was to eat the Gingerbread Mare not just catch her, the park had dissolved into Chaos. Trixie was covered in frosting, sticky soda residue, and crumbs and was still trying to get Havok, who was easily avoiding her, having run out of sweets in the area and not wanting to throw the Gingerbread mare at them Avoiding was all he had left. Cheerilee was running in circles with Pinkie outpacing her easily, and Doctor Whooves trying his best to help. The event was stacked in Team Chaos Favor, until Trixie tried to grab Havok by the waist, he easily jumped over her, but had failed to notice Bulk had arrived to lend aid, the large Pegasus slammed into Havok and the Dragon was sent flying with the Pegasus, his flute spun in the air for a second and Trixie grabbed it with a cheer. "Yeah" Bulk said before noticing he had crushed the Dragon he got off and Havok lay of the ground for a second. "Rot was right," Havok declared "That is a lot of fun," "Told you," Rot said as she appeared from the tree's and sent Bulk flying towards Trixie, Bulk was grabbed out of the air by Vinyl and Shade teleported in next to Havok and put her hooves on his face. "You ok?" She asked. "Better than ok," He cheered "That was epic, Rot you and I are fighting later," "Oh hellz yeah," Rot said "Chaos Fight club," The Two cried out and dog piled Bulk, who held nothing back as he fought back against them. Storm teleported in and tackled Vinyl, who accidentally blasted Bulk and sent him into the trees. Trixie Meanwhile was trying to play the flute she had snagged from Havok and the Gingerbread Mare's ear's perked. "What a Pretty sound," She said with a tremble in her voice. "You brought the Cookie to life?" Rot asked as she ran next to Rust. "Was I not suppose to?" Rust asked. "No, you where suppose to make it run, not bring it to life, that thing only had two legs how is it suppose to run?" "Your Instructions just said Running Gingerbread Mare," Rust replied "Maybe be clear next time," "Thanks for the Flute," Havok said to Shade "It was a lot of fun," "I didn't even get to do anything," Vile said irritably "The Doc figured out your Bean puzzle almost as soon as I finished reading it," "Sorry," Havok called back "Vote of yay or nay, was this trade schemes thing a good idea?" "Nay," most of the team replied. "I mean I like it," Shade said "Thanks Rust," "I was really hoping you got mine," Rust said with a laugh "Did you get a picture of Rarity?" "Sadly no, she teleported to her bathroom and tried to make herself stop looking old," Trixie took a deep breath and tried playing the Flute again, this time the music made the Gingerbread pony jump off Pinkie's back and hobble over to the magician, who tapped the cookie. "Trixie has caught the cookie," There was a flash and in the distance, they could see Sugar Cube Corner return to normal. "So it's over," Rust noted as she looked at the Gingerbread Mare "What...what do we do with her?" "Wait is that Cookie actually alive?" Havok demanded, "Not just moving with magic it's actually alive, We can do that?" "I thought that's what I was supposed to do," Rust called back "What now, we can't just leave it like this, the first animal that finds her will just eat her, or she'll break!" "Don't worry," Pinkie said to the sniffling Cookie mare "I'll keep you safe, we can store you in the freezer, you'll last forever there," "Better Idea," Havok said as he tapped the Cookie's nose, the Gingerbread Mare began cracking and suddenly A mare stood before them surrounded by Cookie Crumbs, her mane, tail, and fur where all brown on the left side of her body while the Right side was colored with the same shades of Pink that made up Cheerilee's body, she had a little bow tie around her neck, her Cutie mark was Gumdrops, her left eye had no pupil and provided her no sight, her right eye had a sparkling red pupil. she was looking at her two front legs in confusion. "Alright now we just need to find her a place to call home," Before anyone could say anything to that Pinkie slid in and took the Mare in her arms. "Me, she's living with me," She declared "Come on Gingerbread the Mare, Let Pinkie Pie show you the wonder of not being a Cookie, we'll start with eating and drinking!" Team Chaos and Replacement looked at one another as Pinkie and Gingerbread walked away. "Can Trixie keep this?" Trixie asked holding the flute. "Sure," Havok said before he and his team all exploded into cookie Crumbs. Team Replacement harmony split apart and in the Distance Pinkie and Gingerbread the Mare walked off into the Sunset.