//------------------------------// // Venting the chaos // Story: Friendship is absolute chaos: Part 2 // by Aether Spark //------------------------------// Twilight trotted with the others out of town, she hated to admit it but the ponies actually seemed relieved that they were going someplace else. “Ungrateful little, next time a catastrophe happens they’ll want us back,” RD mumbled “Don’t be bitter Rainbow, we’ll be to and fro in a jiffy,” Rarity said “Let’s hope this works,” Applejack said “Where are we going Twilight?” Fluttershy asked “Yeah, you never really said where we’re going,” RD said “Ghastly Gorge,” Twilight said and everypony but RD froze. “Wait, why are we going to that place?” Applejack asked “It’s a big empty gorge with little in the way of life in it besides Quarry Eels, it seems like the most harmless place to dump our excess chaos,” Twilight said. “Without hurting the eels right?” Fluttershy asked “We’ll do our best, but it’s either there or a random field.” Twilight said “Ok…” Fluttershy said The group trotted for what seemed like a few hours before arriving at the Gorge. “Alright girls, it looks like we’re here,” Twilight said “Finally,” RD said “So how are we going to do this?” RD asked, before Twilight could answer Pinkie ran up to the gorge and yelled into it. “Echo!” Pinkie yelled “Echo echo echo!” She repeated getting an echo each time. “Pinkie! Be quiet! Remember where we’re at?” Twilight said before a roar came from the Gorge and several Quarry eels came out. “Oops…” Pinkie said “What was that bout the gorge being empty?” Applejack asked “Well I said mostly empty” Twilight shrugged. “Look out!” RD said as the group dodged away from the eels. “I got this!” Pinkie said but Fluttershy shut her mouth with her hoof and shook her head. “Aww man, I only got to use it during the start of the story!” Pinkie whined “Regardless, Pinkie,” Fluttershy flew up to the eels and used the stare. “Go home, we’re leaving soon after we’re done,” Fluttershy said The eels slinked back into their nests, to avoid Fluttershy’s stare. “Good work Fluttershy.” Twilight said “Twilight we need to think of another place, this area is inhabited,”  “But where else can we go?” Twilight asked. “Oh oh I know!” Pinkie said “Yes Pinkie?” Twilight said Pinkie wasted no time and stomped her hoofs and they were at the ocean. “Ah!” Everyone splashed about in the water. “Nothin but fishy’s out here!” Pinkie said “No!” Fluttershy yelled “we’ll hurt the fishes!” “Theeeeen,” Pinkie clapped her hooves and teleported them in the middle of the rainforest. “No Pinkie!” Fluttershy insisted “Here?” Pinkie took them to the dragonlands “No,” Fluttershy responded “Here?” Pinkie took them to the ponyville again scaring a bunch of ponies. “No,” Fluttershy responded “Here?” Pinkie took them to Yakastan  “No,” Fluttershy responded “Here?” Pinkie took them to the human world “No,” Fluttershy responded “Here?” Pinkie took them to the Storm Kings lair “No,” Fluttershy responded “Where the hay are we?” Applejack asked “Whoops, series hasn’t reached that point yet!” Pinkie stomped again and they were taken to Cloudsdale. “How about here?” Pinkie asked “No!” Fluttershy said getting a little impatient. “Here?” Pinkie took them to Gravity Falls. “No!” Fluttershy responded “Here?” Pinkie took them to Canterlot. “No!” Fluttershy responded.  “Here?” Pinkie took them to Saddle Arabia “Pinkie! Nowhere inhabited!” Fluttershy responded, at her wits end. “Can ya’ll make up yer minds!” Applejack shouted, “Sorry if I don’t want anypony getting hurt!” Fluttershy bit back Pinkie offered a sundae on a parfait and they both begrudgingly ate some. “Where can we go?” RD asked “Hmm…” Twilight thought. “Oh oh!” Pinkie hopped in place “No Pinkie!” Twilight said loudly “Aww…” Pinkie said “....Fine, but if it’s Ponyville again-” Twilight warned, “Let’s open a portal and send the chaos magic to outer space, there’s nothing out there!” Pinkie cheered. “No-.... actually...You know that might just work.” Twilight thought about it “But we don’t have enough experience in chaos magic to survive in space,” Twilight said before getting an epiphany “Unless… the mirror portal!” Twilight exclaimed, “Pinkie your a genius!”  “Thanks” Pinkie smiled “Pinkie, can you get us back into the castle unseen, we can’t afford interruptions,” Twilight said “Right on it!” Pinkie said stomping her hoof… and winding up in a cave. “What the? Why did you send us to a cave?” RD said “I dunno, must have gotten my hooves crossed, let me try again-” Suddenly they heard a growl and turned to see an Ursa Major growling at them. “Pinkie… Pinkie get us out of here!” Twilight cried “Okie doki loki!” Pinkie said before teleporting the away just as a giant paw nearly crushes them. --- Twilight and her friends were sitting in the mirror room, Twilight was in front of the mirror portal doing some minor modifications. “Change the magical influx, reverse polarity, set coordinates, mocha,” Twilight took a sip of a cup of mocha next to her before resuming. “Hey egghead, is it almost ready?” RD asked before wincing as the disloyal voice sounded off again. “Who cares about her, let’s go take a nap elsewhere,”  “Shut up!” RD yelled “Pardon?” Twilight glanced back with a raised brow. “Not you,” RD sighed “You done yet? The sooner this voice goes the better…” RD said “Reconstructing spatial polarity isn’t exactly easy you know,” Twilight said “We get it darling, take your time,” Rarity said, still looking sad. “Come on Rares, it can’t be that bad,”  “Not that bad? Tell me darling, if Spitfire was coming over to appraise your work and your negative half went ballistic on her and scared her off how would you be feeling,” Rarity said with some bite. “Spitfire never gets scared!” RD said back ‘Say she did, what then? Surely your future would be in ruin,” Rarity said “So? I’m awesome enough to make up for any slip ups,” RD said “Sorry if I don’t have your oblivious confidence,” Rarity said “What was that?” RD said getting mad shown by her eyes turning red. “Pinkie!” Applejack said “On it!” Pinkie pulled a rope and made a giant ice cream scoop fall on them. “Aaah!” they all cried. “Pinkie!” Twilight yelled as she wiped mint chocolate chip off of herself. Pinkie poked her head out of the ice cream mound. “Sorry!” Pinkie said before swimming around in the ice cream “Ugh, ah’m startin to hate these powers alot,” Applejack said escaping her ice cream prison. “Ditto” RD said --- After getting themselves cleaned up and removing the ice cream [Pinkie eating most of it,] Twilight finished. “Okay, now girls, I’ve managed to reconfigure the mirror portal to lock onto a vacant area of outer space, if we’re lucky an area vacant of even astroids that will detain all of our rampant chaos magic harmlessly and non-negatively,” Twilight said. “And what’s stopping us from bein sucked out there?” Applejack asked “A valid observation, I thought ahead and prepared a spell that would allow only enough space for our magic to seep through but not us, that should suffice,” Twilight said “Let’s try it! I wanna go to SPAAAAAACE…..I don’t know why I yelled that,” Pinkie giggled “How do we drain our magic?” RD asked Twilight pulled out the book again and flipped to the page she needed to get to. “It says here to concentrate our powers and focal them through our magical conductors to fire it at-” “For those of us who aren’t unicorns?” RD sarcastically said “...You feel the pent up magic right?” Twilight sighed “Yeah,” RD said “Just let it out from your hoof or something and let it flow into the mirror, stop resisting it and let it flow out of one point of your body,” Twilight clarified. “Ok,” RD nodded “Ok girls, i’m about to open the portal, are you ready?” Twilight asked They all nodded and Twilight responded with her own nod before opening the portal and quickly putting up the barrier that would protect them from being sucked out into space. There was a slight breeze leading into the portal. “Alright, remember what you need to do,” Twilight said lining up with her friends. “And GO!” Twilight and the others focused and held out their hooves or horns and let the chaos magic pour from there into the portal. “It’s working!” RD said “Don’t lose focus! Who knows what will happen!” Twilight said “Don’t cross the beams!” Pinkie added. “Gotcha!” RD said before pouring more magic through her hoof and the magic flowed through the transparent barrier and out into space. The magic flowing out into space seemed to turn into a yellow cloud of magic and it seemed to float away. “It’s working!” Twilight said As Twilight continued this process her tail morphed into a finger and snapped before going back to normal. After a minute of this their trickle of chaos magic slowed and stopped. Panting Twilight made her way over to the portal and switched it off. She turned to her other friends who seemed tired as well but relaxed as if for the first time in weeks. “Well girls?” Twilight asked “The voice… it’s gone!” Fluttershy cheered “Yeehaw!” Applejack cheered as well. “I’m free of that horrid alternate me, that is enough to make this lady happy” Rarity sighed in relief. Pinkie and RD high hoofed. “That is good, we have our method of controlling ourselves, Discord made a fatal mistake in this bet by telling us this, I say we do this once a day and we’ll be sailing smoothly,” Twilight said “Agreed,” Rarity said “I feel as though a great weight has been lifted, with this done I bet nothing can go wrong no-” Suddenly there was a teleported letter that popped out of thin air and it landed on the ground in front of Twilight. “Huh? What’s this?” Twilight said, picking it up and reading it. As she read her face paled and she began to show signs of panicking. “Twi? What is it?” Applejack asked Twilight nonverbally shook her head and showed her friends the letter. Dear Twilight I have been trying to contact you for ages now, but for some reason none of the messages I have sent via Spike’s messenger fire have gotten any response, so I personally teleported a letter. Luna has fallen unconscious and will not wake, I managed to hear a hidden message she most likely sent before whatever happened to her happened. She spoke of chaos magic and danger, if her message is to be belived then I have no doubts Discord has done something, there may be the possibility he has gone rouge. Luna is stable for now, so I will be arriving shortly to assess the situation, have the elements ready! Be ready my beloved student. Love Celestia  “....Should we start panicking?” RD said nervously. “Celestia is coming here!? Nonononono! This is a disaster!” Twilight yelled. “C-calm down Twilight, perhaps if we just-” Rarity began but Twilight bolted for the exit. “We need to stop her! If she finds out about our current state and the damage we’ve done, we’re doomed!” Twilight panicked “The plot thickens…” Pinkie said before bolting after Twilight. “Wait up!” RD said as the others followed. As they left the room a portal opened up and a familiar yellow cloud snuck back in, and it headed for the ball of contained chaos…