//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: The Elements of Chaos // by CarmenColor //------------------------------// "Rainbow Dash! Get out of my boutique!" screamed the fashionista, her normally beautiful purple hair was frizzed and muddy. A rainbow blur burst out of the front door of Carousel Boutique. Rarity glared at the spot where the rainbow maned pony had been before turning around and trotting into the bathroom. The shower turned on with a hiss of running water and she got in, letting the warm water wash the dirt out of her mane and coat. Rarity thought of the state Rainbow had been in when she'd crashed through the boutique window. Dirty, messy, and her mane had been a disaster! And then she gotten her filth all over Rarity! The fashion pony shivered at the thought of her mane being so disorderly. She simply could not stand that Rainbow Dash. As the cyan pegasus raced away from Carousel Boutique, she thought of Rarity's face at the sight of the mud. She sighed. That pony couldn't get her hooves dirty. Rainbow glared at the sky ahead of her. Rarity was so impossibly girly. She couldn't take it! She couldn't stand that prissy Rarity. ----- "Applejack! Hey, Applejack!" Pinkie Pie called to the farm pony. Applejack looked up from a basket of apples. Pinkie bounced over to her, a grin spread wide over the pink pony's face. "You ready for my best party ever?" "Aw, shoot, Pinkie. I can't be partying today. I got lots of apples to buck." Pinkie frowned sadly. Suddenly, the party pony had a suspicious look in her eyes. She leaned in close to Applejack and slowly raised an eyebrow. "Okey dokey lokey...." Pinkie said slowly, walking away with her eyes still locked on Applejack's. Pinkie still remembered the last time Applejack had had an excuse for not coming to her party, and she was suspicious. Her birthday wasn't anytime soon. Why wouldn't Applejack want to come? Did she hate fun? Pinkie gasped. Maybe Applejack really did hate fun. She was always working. Maybe she works all the time because she hates fun. Pinkie bounced away from Sweet Apple Acres as fast as she could. She couldn't stand being around anypony that didn't like fun. Applejack sighed. Pinkie threw parties everyday. It was tiring and she had work to do. She couldn't go to all Pinkie's parties. It could ruin the farm. The apple bucking would never get done. The thought made her sick, and the thought of a pony that didn't know the meaning of a day's work didn't make her feel to great either. She was glad that Pinkie had left. She couldn't spend another gosh darn minute with a pony who'd never had to work. ----- Twilight groaned at the sight before her. Animals running wildly around her library home. Fluttershy was trying to stop them, but they didn't pay her whispered words any mind. Twilight was getting tired of Fluttershy's quiet way of doing things. It often didn't work and Fluttershy would normally just give up, but the animals were in the library now, not out around her cottage like they usually would be. "Stop!" Twilight yelled at the animals. They all ran and huddled in the corner. Fluttershy joined them. "Now then," Twilight began, "All you animals need to go home to the cottage. You can't stay here. I'm done watching you and Fluttershy is going to take you home, now." The animals hurried out the door,and Fluttershy followed. "What a meanie," she whispered to herself, "Twilight doesn't care about the animals at all, does she?" The thought of Twilight being an animal hater made Fluttershy cringe. She had a friend that hated animals! She couldn't stand being near anyone who hated animals. "Fluttershy is so unassertive," Twilight said to herself, "and she was willing to let her animals keep tearing up my books! How could she do that?" Twilight used her magic to clean up the mess. It took forever, since Spike wasn't around that day. Twilight wasn't sure where he was, but she wasn't thinking about that at the moment. She was thinking about how Fluttershy let her shyness handicap keep her from controlling the animals that Twilight had spent all morning watching for her. She must not care about her books at all! How could she be friends with a book hater? Sure, Rainbow didn't used to like books, but she never would let anything destroy them if she could stop it, would she? Twilight simply could not stand to be anywhere near someone who would let her books be destroyed. ----- "What's this?" Discord asked, laughing evilly. He could feel the energy holding him prison waxing and waning. It had happened before, but never to this extent. The energy he regained when the prison energy waned was invigorating, and, after a few calculations, he figured it would be just enough to put his plan into action. Nopony heard the roar produced the embodiment of chaos as he used all the power her could muster to bring out the most chaotic thing anypony in Equestria had ever seen.