"You can't do this," Twilight called out only for all of her friends and herself to be dropped to the ground, She attempted to flap her wings only for bubbles to burst forth, upon hitting the ground they all began bouncing as Spike simply shook his head.
"I'm not in the mood to deal with you anymore," Spike decided as he began curling his serpentine body around the castle "Come back when you're ready to stop acting like a rampaging toddler," Spike thoroughly covered his head and said nothing more as Twilight slipped and bounced about as she desperately tried to steady herself. After some Chaos, she managed to get her magic to work and grabbed herself and all her friends to stop them from being tossed around by the heights of their bounces. Twilight had just gotten everyone to the ground when Pinkie bounced toward them with a very unPinkie-like look on her face.
"What did you do?" Pinkie called out as she motioned around "A repeat prank? He must be peeved off with you if he can't even be bothered to do something new,"
"He's calling this one the Chaos Carnival,"
"Actually," Rarity cut in, "He said Chaos Carnaval, not Carnival, on top of that it sounds like he's forgone the democratic process he usually uses to pick a prank and instead told all his teammates to just go crazy,"
"Oh let me guess," Pinkie gave Twilight a once over "You tried to dispel his charm,"
"Actually," Rainbow cut in "she threatened to atomize him with the Crystal Heart,"
"Twilight I love you," Pinkie said in exasperation "And I'm about to use that love to smack some sense into you since you seem to be devoid of an, the heck Twi!?
"Havok," Twilight called out to the God of Chaos "You have to stop," Spike ignored her, before Twilight could speak again she was hit in the head with a Hot sauce and butter Pancake. "Real original Havok," Twilight called out as the Rain that had been Havok and Co's first prank hit Ponyville for the second time. "I'm gonna go to Canterlot," Twilight decided "Hate me or not we need to try to find the Elements, come on girls,"
"You are so lucky I already handed Gingerbread off to the Cakes," Pinkie shot back as she began skating around on the bouncy soap ground, stopping only to let Rainbow get on her back since the Pegasus was having a time trying to stay upright. As the Mane 6 headed out, some less willing than others Spike peaked out and sent out a Havok clone before getting comfy. With the Mane 6 heading to Canterlot Havok decided to take the time he now had to check in on his team and snapped over to Rot and Rust, who were having a time of the lack of rules in Manehattan.
The city now had a spiral-like pattern covering it, parts of it overrun with Vines and insect-like Apples and Pears, other parts seemed to have been transformed into physical representations of art, Some ponies could be seen enjoying the chaos, and most could be seen panicking.
"Vinegar flavored," Rot noted as she tossed a purple and white pear with a bite in it over her shoulder, the pear grew wings and flew off as Havok arrived. "What up Doppelganger," Rot greeted "I'm a Doppelganger to! I think, honestly we're all so split up there's like thirty or so Team Chaos Members all across Equestria right now so jurys out on who's even the original anymore,"
"Just thought I'd check in," Havok noted "Twi is going to Canterlot so try not to burn yourselves out, this one is looking like it might be an all-nighter,"
"Oh trust me," Rust called out, Rot and Havok turned to her and watched as she used a small paint brush to draw a Picasso-style bird and threw it out into the city, upon hitting something an entire Building and all its inhabitants were converted into the stylings of Picasso, "I can do this for a good long while, gonna use this to test out some of my denied prank ideas,"
"I mean honestly," Rot looked out at the art Rust had been making thus far and nodded "The 'turn the world into a painting' prank sounded kind of lame when you suggested it but...hmm...gotta be honest seeing it in action it's kind of funny, hey can you do a noir styling over there? I bet Aunt Orange would look great in black and white," Havok chuckled and left the two agents to mess about with Manehattan and proceeded to fly out across Equestria, he spotted Vile making it snow Ice Cream in Philadelphia and saw Storm causing a cotton Candy Tsunami in Las Pegaus. Havok was about to start heading to Canterlot when he noticed a very lost Braeburn of all ponies walking out of a Cashino and looking endlessly confused.
"Hey there cow polk," Havok called out, scaring the Apple Family member as he did so "Las Pegasus hu? a little far from Appleossa ain't it?"
"Its the darkest thing, it started raining pie, and then some spooky child started singing and I felt the need to walk into a nearby door, and...now it's raining Cotton Candy I guess?" as Breaburn tired to figure out what was even happening Havok teleported to Applelossa and found an empty town with Storm taking a few deep breaths.
"Oh," Storm chuckled before turning back into Scootaloo, Havok showed her the same curtosy and became Spike,"Hey Spike, I was just...trying out a teleporting Door prank Rot suggested a while back,"
"Oh!" Spike laughed "That's why Braeburn was in Las Pegasus, man today is crazy," Spike opened the closest Door and found himself looking out over Viles Ice Cream storm.
"Hey Spike," Vile cheered as he and a couple dozen children had a time with it "Why you in a bookstore?"
"I'm not," Spike laughed as Vile poked his head through the door.
"Oh woah, is this Rot's Teleporting Door prank? oh this is so much cooler than I thought it was gonna be, of I'm changing my vote." Spike looked out across the empty Appleloosa and then to Vile before sighing.
"Alright," He groaned "Vile this one's for you buddy," Vile looked confused for a second before Spike pointed to the sky and declared "Let there be Cheese!" at once globs of melted cheese fell to the ground, Vile let out a girlish scream and ran out into the cheesy field, dropping his disguise and become Rumble.
"Oh it's everything I've ever dreamed of!" he cried out "Quick, We need Ground Hay and Chips, Applesloosa's about to become Nacholoosa!"
"That's what you wanted to do!?" Spike demanded 'Dude I'd have voted for turning Ponyville into a Nacho Plate, elaborate next time sweet mother of-" Spike was cut off as a hole in reality appeared and Discord stuck his head out and looked down at Spike, the two stared at one another before Spike caught a glob of cheese and threw it in his face "Yeah I'm your replacement you wad," Spike declared upon remembering what Discord had seen to make him his replacement "Go on get out of here,"
"I mean if you agree to it then cool," Discord shrugged as he licked his lips and went back to the past. Spike just smacked his own face.
"Dagnabbit did I just agree to it," He realized "That son of a...Discord you suck"
"I know," Discord called out, Spike looked at and saw him floating on by holding up a bucket to catch the cheese rain "Thanks for agreeing to the job,"
"I hate that guy sometimes," Spike grumbled as Rumble held up a giant chip and began making a town sized Nacho plate. "Hey Rumble," He called out "set me up with a chip you've gone and made me hungry, oh and add some Sour Cream and Jalopenos to the list, maybe a few tomato bits and a soda lake to,"
Luna looked out across Ponyville, she could see sevreal Storms and Viles all flying around Canterlot seemingly having a game of Dodge ball, everytime one of them where struck out they would explode into a cloud that started casuing random chaos, she could spy the Canterlot falls flowing up into the sky, now made of some sort of Orange liquid she figured was either Soda or Juice or some horrible combination of both.
"The hell did Twilight do?" Luna questioned the 6 children who where still spending the forseable week with her.
"She threated to kill Havok with the Crystal Heart," Sweetie said simply as she rolled the dice and moved her piece on the board.
"Knowing full well who I am," Spike added "There's denial...and then there's...whatever that is, I mean honestly that was completly uncalled for," Spike rolled, moved his piece and took a card "Go to jail," He chuckled "Some one take a note, board game prank, us verse both Back-up and normal Harmony, oh that one's gonna be sick," Luna just groaned.
"Sometimes I want to smack that Pony," She noted "How can somepony be that smart, and yet that crazy?"
"They're here," Scootaloo called out as she rolled and failed to escape her pre established stay in prision, "I have been in prision for twenty mintues," She added angrily "If we make a prank out of this we're using the get out after three turns rule, Rumble's fake rules are stupid,"
"They are kind of fun though," Applebloom defended as Luna made her way to the throne room, where Celestia was with the Superior Seven, all members had been in Canterlot dealing with the political aftermath of the Waterpark and where now split over the Element of Magic.
"-Maybe they should have taken his threat seriously," Maud said calmly at Prince Blueblood.
"He broke the Element of Magic," Blueblood said sething with rage "There is no higher crime I can think of then destroying ireplacible magical arrtifacts, he has lost his right to reform and needs to spend a few hundred years in stone for this!"
"And how do you plan to 'stone' him without the elements?" Carrot Top inquired.
"There are other methods," Bon Bon shot back "we could look into useing those Enchanted Comics as a prision, might even be able to make it so they never even notice there in a prision come to think of it,"
"Why do you always try to turn fun things into ways of imprisonment?" Octavia inquired. The group turned to Photo Finish for her thoughts but she made it very clear she couldn't care less.
"Look at that skyline," She cired out as she pulled out a camear from her right most saddle bag and used it until it was out of film before putting in in the left satchle and replaced it with another from her right "Disposable cameras, never have I ever been so happy to have these cheap trinkets, Oh I hope Havok was serious when he said he'd start sending Disaster photos,"
"Can we kick her off the team?" Spitfire inquired of Celestia "She's only here to be a tie breaker and now she's on Luna's side so-"
"Twenty bits says you'd be all fine if she suddenly went all in on Celestia," Maud shot back instatnly as door to the throne room opened up and the monotone pony instantly lost intrest in Spitfire and saluted as Luna walked in.
"What is happening?" Celestia deamdned of her sister "You heard his anoucnment right? Spike is Havok!?"
"How..." Luna took a deep breath "Who didn't already know that?" She demanded with sensarity, the rest of the ponies in the room stood in silnce for a moment before Photo Finish spoke up.
"I mean I found out during that time with the Yodeling cows, but-" Photo stopped talking as the throne room was suddenly filled with the sound of Distant yodeling "-wait did I just summon a disaster?"
"I think you did," Spike agreed as he and his friends crowed around the Window to look out at the stamped of cows, dancing atop the stamped was the Kirin version of Havok, playing his Banjo and calling out to Photo with a wave.
"I was Prepared," he sang out as the Stampede danced into the roads of Canterlot.
"I want a secondary Chaos form," Rumble muttered.
"Then Make one," Spike said flatly "I'm not about to stop you,"
"It kind of feels gimmicky if it's not for a prank," Sweetie countered.
"That Kirin form is a gimmick," Spike pointed out. "Fully made and produced for the sake of a gimmick,"
"Is it weird I think Spike's kind of hot as a Kirin?" Applebloom asked earning a glare from Sweetie "Maybe I just like how he's dressed I dunno,"
"He is on fire," Babs chimed in "But we both know it's the hat, even I think he kind of looks hot with it, Hey Spike summon a Hat and settle the debate," Spike did as he was requested and both the Apple's nodded.
"It's the hat," Applebloom confirmed.
"Yeah," Babs agreed "Alright you can ditch it," Spike tossed that hat away and smacked his hands clean of it as it grew wings and flew away.
"Winged hats," Photo whispered as she snapped a few pictures of the hat flying away "Genious," Sweetie placed herself between the Apple Cousions and Spike as he walked forward, turning into Havok as he did so and inspecting the Broken Element of Magic.
"Wow, I really messed it up didn't I?" He chuckled "Oh well, good luck turning me to stone now,"
"Wait," Blueblood spoke up as he looked at Celestia "Isn't he your child legally speaking,"
"I am," Havok chuckled "Oh wow, what a messed up family,"
"Spike," Celestia motioned around at him for a second before speaking up "You could have told me, would have made this entire ordeal easier on us all,"
"Yeah but I wanted to start out with some Drama," Havok chuckled "Don't tell anyone about my friends, I want them to come out as Chaotic only when they're ready or when they can get away from their family if they reject them,"
"Spike we have a castle," Babs pointed out before swearing under her breath "Havok, we have a castle, jeez My head is starting to hurt with the back and forth on the names, stick to his Chaos Name when he is as such please and thank you,"
"Alright, Havok," Celestia turned to the God of Chaos as she spoke "Is this Chaos Carnival you're coming out party then?"
"How did we get stuck with this of all things as a metaphor?" Rumble demanded "Seems kind of out of left field,"
"No," Havok chuckled "I'm just doing this because Twilight threatened to kill me knowing who I was, and I took it personally," Celestia just groaned at that information and Luna chuckled.
"Bet you're happy you held off on Retirement now," Luna noted, earning a few concerned and confused responses from those present.
"Oh, you're retiring?" Havok asked "I had not heard," Havok supponed a ban of beans and poured it out onto the floor "Come on then spill the beans, don't tell me you're sailing the white flag cause you're legally my mother, that would be a hollow and admitatly funny victory if I'm being honest,"
"Fine," Celstia Groaned "Since Luna's probably just going to tell you anyway, here's the truth-"
Twilight and her Friends arrived in Canterot after what felt like an hour, With the Train now being a Giant Cat Twilight and her friends had been forced to jump with Teleporting, and due to Havok's Carnival being in effect Twilight could only muster it in relatively short distances compared to her usual ability. The Trip had been uneventful save for them teleporting into a storm of what seemed to be Candle wax and chew toys.
"They are really just throwing out anything and seeing what will happen," Pinkie noted as she looked out at the Orange Upwardly flowing waterfall.
"We could end all this," Rarity said calmly "if someone just apologizes to a certain dragon,"
"He is not Spike," Twilight said firmly.
"Twilight he's not even in disguise, I mean his head spines are dark green, honestly Darling you need to apologize and talk this out, I talked things out with Shade and we've at least started working through her animosity towards me,"
"Who cares one way or the other?" Applejack demanded "Havok is Spike, Havok Isn't Spike, what would he even get out of this? I mean honestly Twilight he has no real reason to lie, and I think I'd notice if he was lying," Before Twilight could say anything the sound of yodeling could be heard in the distance.
"Oh he isn't," Rainbow laughed when she saw a hord of dancing cows with a Kirin jumping around on their backs "Hey Havok, Can I join your side? This side's too denial-heavy,"
"Sure," Havok called back as the bubble curse keeping Rainbow from flying was lifted "You can have a Carnival pass, feel free to race Storm and Vile or something, in fact, you're all free to do as you wish, this ends when Twilight Apologises and not a moment before, so this is gonna take a while"
"Oh thank Celestia," Rainbow Cheered "Anything better than hanging around here," Rainbow took off to see what Storm and Vile were up to in the sky, and Havok howled with laughter.
"Look at that, Loyalty just ditched you Twi, How funny is that?" Havok sighed "Discord would be proud, but also screw that guy," The Kirin Havok went back to yodeling with the cows as a Dragon version of him materialized out of Twilight's Shadow "I am curious though, what do you think my 'end game' is so to speak?"
"I'm not giving you ideas," Twilight replied coldly as she marched down the streets of Canterlot, now being informed they had no current role to play with the prank at hand the rest of the mane 6 split apart to try and find their counterparts just to see what was going down with them. "I'm closing in on the element," Twilight noted, earning a laugh from Spike, Twilight jumped at the vocal change and looked back to see Spike instead of havok chilling on her back "Twilight the element of magic won't do diddly squat without the rest of the elements, and even if it did I would just yeet it again, or maybe I'll just go full throttle and destroy 'em,"
"Try it," Twilight shot back "My Friends might have been fooled by your act but once I prove you're lying the last thing you're seeing in the bright light of friendship united against you,"
"Dramatic," Spike noted casually as he materialized a book and tried his best to read it before tossing it away "I can never get the books right, they're always full of gibbous," Twilight lit her horn and tossed Spike away, who was snatched out of the air by the Yodeling Kirin hopping by.
"See you at the castle," Spike called out as the Kirin effortlessly hopped onto a building and began dancing a little jig with Spike, the cows in the street following the leader and doing the same with the closest none cow in their proximity. Twilight ignored them all and made a B-line to the castle. Twilight was met with no opposition on her path save for several dozen different Spikes all casually partaking in the chaos. A Spike drinking a neon blue milkshake even opened the door for her and Twilight was forced to face some semblance of truth as she looked at him.
"Are...you the real Spike?" She asked nervously.
"Oh your denial has screwed you hard," Spike chuckled "Since Havok and I are one and the same your never gonna be able to find me without excepting the truth," Twilight rushed past Spike as he called out to her "Just accept it, the longer you say no the worse this is going to be for us all, but mostly me!" Twilight rushed to the throne room and found Luna and Celestia talking with Havok.
"Twenty bits," Havok informed Luna, Twilight didn't slow at all and proceeded to blast Havok with a spell, causing him to explode into popcorn.
"I could have sworn he was the original," Luna muttered in mild confusion "But more importantly I just won twenty bits, told him you'd blast him, he was so confident you were gonna levitate him up and chuck him into the nearest wall,"
"Twilight," Celestia sighed "You have to apologize to Spike," Twilight looked at Celestia for a moment before Celestia spoke up "Yeah go ahead blast me, see how that goes for you," Twilight chose to believe that Celestia really was Celestia and motioned to the element of Magic.
"Princess, we need to fix the element of magic, Havok needs to be stopped,"
"He's promised to clean everything up when you apologize," Celestia replied calmly "So, how about you go ahead and get onto that?"
"What's up with you?" Luna questioned at Celestia's lackadazicle tone.
"I'm still mad at you," Celestia replied curtly "Not telling me about Spike while you knew the entire time, almost giving me a heart attack with that time scroll," Celestia let out a huff in annoyance "Spent the last several weeks in a frenzy only to find out it was Spike the entire time,"
"He's not-" Twilight tried to cut in.
"I challenge you to prove that," Luna said at once "Spike and Havok are both dragons, so just have Ember use her staff to Summon Spike and, ta-da, you're proven wrong,"
"Havok's probably already thought of that," Twilight snapped back.
"Alright," Luna noted "I gave you a reasonable way to prove yourself right, and you ignored it, proving to me you already know you're wrong and are just clinging onto the faint illusion that it's somehow a lie, I can't help you and I will not be dragged into your crazy," Luna lit her horn and waved Twilight away "Luna out, peace," Luna teleported away and Celestia just shook her head.
"I'll look into fixing the element but for the moment all I can tell you is that you really need to apologize to Spike, I did warn you that they were only doing this to keep from fading out of existence, it's a shame you didn't keep my words in mind, my dear friend." Twilight made several angry noises and ran out of the throne room. Spike popped into existence behind Celestia's throne and chuckled.
"She is driving herself mad," Spike noted casually "Taking all bets, she's gonna try one last crazy plan before giving me the most insincere apology in the world," The other members of team Harmony all began existing around Spike, and began calling out bets on what Twilight was going to do.
"The Ember plan," Scootaloo declared "It's the only plan that makes sense,"
"Speech," Rumble called out "She's gonna try to talk Havok into admitting he's not Spike," As the team began coming up with ideas for what Twilight's final gambit might be Celestia just sighed.
"She's gonna do something insane," She decided "That creative brilliant mind of hers can be so wonderful, and such a pain all at once,"
"That counts as your bet," Spike noted.
"I'm good for it," Celestia assured Spike.
Havok and Rot were sitting on a pair of swings, watching Iron Will and Trixie Command opposing Pillow armies, Rot was waving a flag for Iron Will while Havok was wearing a duplicate of Trixie's hat.
"It's almost midnight," Havok muttered as he looked up at the full moon "Also I hate to admit it but I stopped paying attention to her for a few hours when Rust and I competed in Lars's tri-town dance competition, and I completely lost track of Twilight, none of the me's can find her so until she calls out to me this is just gonna keep going on,"
"on the bright side you came in second place," Rot noted.
"Can't believe I lost to Derpy," Havok muttered "How was I supposed to compete with a Muffin dance!? She should have been a judge not competing,"
"Let it go, man," Rot sighed "You got outdanced, live with it and move on, or do what Rust is doing and go make random ponies dance to the pony-pokie out of spite,"
"That loss was her fault for not magically making herself good at dancing," Havok noted with a shrug. Havok and Rot sat back and enjoyed the sensation of swinging before speaking up again.
"Should we do a Swining Prank?" Rot asked "Could we do a Swing Prank? What...what would that even entail?" as Havok and Rot enjoyed their shared love of swinging by trying to figure out how a Swing prank could even functionally come about, a different version of Havok was having a very important diplomatic meeting with an old friend.
"When were you planning on telling me you were the God of Chaos?" Ember inquired of her friend, Havok didn't respond immediately as he was enjoying the satisfaction of being treated like a God by other Dragons.
"About now-ish," Havok replied as he accepted the gift of a Ruby from one of the many Dragons trying to earn his favor and ate it merrily "Had to wait till Twilight found out, what with you being terrible at secrets and whatnot,"
"Hey," Ember snapped back before pointing to the gem pile "You gonna share some of those or what?" Havok flicked his wrist and several marvelous gems began floating around Ember, who gladly partook of the sparkling treats sent her way "So, want I should go give Twilight a thrashing for ya?" Ember asked after a few bites "Because, If I can be frank with you, the Dragon scepter says without a doubt you are Spike, or at least part of him?" Ember shook her head at the confusing question of multiple Spikes all being equally Spike and not Spike "Regardless the Scepter says you are Spike and Frankly I can't fathom why she thinks you're something or someone other than Spike,"
"Denial," Spike noted casually "She is deep in the dark pit that is Denial, either that or she's so full of herself she can't even fathom that she's the one in the wrong,"
"Don't suppose she'll do something dangerous do you?" Ember asked with concern.
"I'm sure she won't hurt herself," Spike was confident in his response but Ember quickly corrected him.
"I don't give a shit about her, I'm worried she's gonna do something that'll hurt you," Spike shrugged at the idea and earned a scowl from Ember "I feel like you and your friends should relocate to the dragon lands, Hell I got hit with that bouncing thing and it was epic as hell for Lava diving, and if anyone talked shit you could just throw a gem at 'em and they'll play whatever game you want them to,"
"But that's too easy and impersonal," Spike challenged "Not very Chaotic, Chaotic enough to live off of maybe, but just organized enough that I fear with time I might go full Discord and try to take over the world, or at least become a dangerous kind of stir crazy if I did it too long, It may seem fun but Chaos is dangerous, hold back to much and I'll start going a bit mad with it, but go too hard to often and I'll get bored and just become the next Discord complete with an ego that'll get me put in stone for a thousand-ish year,"
"Frankly it just sounds like you're thinking about it too hard," Ember retorted blankly.
"Probably," Spike shrugged "But hey I'm young, it's a tad unreasonable to expect me to pick the right path without fail,"Spike punctuated his sentence by taking a bite out a Fire ruby,"I used to love these but I've spoiled myself in them and now their flavor is growing dim," Spike muttered "A solid example of what I mean," Spike tossed the half-eaten ruby aside and proceeded to materialize a carrot in his hand before munching on it "It's different," He decided as he kept eating it.
Fluttershy sat in her garden with Discord, who was nodding slowly, holding his hands out with his thumb and pinter finger making mismatching L shapes as he used his hand as a frame. "I don't know Vile, I feel like the Slide is a bit too tacked onto the side," Vile was at the moment trying to help Discord by making his a Man Cave with the theme of Chaos to it, a rip in the fabric of the universe revealed Discords old home in the Chaos Dimension. Having given up his powers Discord assumed his pocket dimension had ceased to exist with his godhood, instead, it had just gotten boring without him.
"Maybe a tiny volcano?" Fluttershy recommended, making both Discord and Vile smack themselves in the face.
"Tiny Volcano," Discord said exasperated as he looked at Vile, who shared his opinion entirely.
"How did we forget about that?" Both felt ashamed of themselves for having to rely on Fluttershy for their craft project but Vile's multiple denied pranks and Discord time in retirement had caused both of them to doubt their ability to the point of undermining themselves.
"Oh I'm sorry," Fluttershy muttered sheepily, "I know you both are trying your best, maybe we should take a tea break?"
"Fluttershy my dear you've nothing to apologize for, Vile and I are both just going through a bit of a funk and your help is beyond appreciated,"
"Yeah it's been a long day and frankly I'm kind of running on steam, my Cheese Rain prank finally passed the trial period but I doubt it'll see the light of day for a long while, after the mime incident we kind of went crazy and now we have a backlog of suggestions from random colts and fillies half a mile long at the moment, and I doubt the Comic book prank is gonna be put on hold for much-" Vile covered his mouth and chuckled nervously "uh, hey Fluttershy could you forget I said that. We have a code of conduct for spoiling a prank and...I don't wanna get penalized again,"
"Again?" Discord chuckled "What did you do to get penalized the first time?" Vile turned red and looked back to Discord's home, adding a Chimney-shaped Volcano to it before confessing his sins.
"I, maybe kind of sold some information to a few kids in my class for some favors," Vile muttered darkly, earning a snicker from Discord "It was like my second day as Vile, don't judge me, the power went to my head and Havok made me pay the price,"
"What exactly is the price?" Discord asked.
"I had to do ninety-six dancing sets with Larz in a tutu," Discord chuckled and was about to say something when Vile added one more piece of information "If you're wondering who was wearing the Tutu me or Larz, the answer is yes," Discord howled with laughter and Vile angrily insisted it wasn't funny as Fluttershy looked back to her house as the sound of soft chimes filled the air.
"Alright boys, Angel's ringing the chime, tea's ready,"
Shade and Havok were floating through the air on their thrones, Shade doing a wonder rendition of Moonlight Sonata meets Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer using only her prehensile mane, and was talking with Havok over the soft tune.
"Seems fishy, Twilight being in the Empire," Havok nodded, having finally found Twilight after she had set off a magical flair in the sky just outside the Empire's protective dome. Shade looked over the Havok, still smiling merrily, as though he thought it was just another game, the other agents of Chaos were already on the sense ahead of time, Havok had wanted to give her some time to prepare her intimate trump card.
Shade had decided to accompany him, using her authority as the second in command to have the other agents try to discover Twilight's plan. Reports had returned that she was standing, in wait, next to the crystal heart.
Havok seemed certain Twilight was banking on the heart, rending his Chaos powers to a weak enough state that he would be forced to show his true face, and Spike would stand before her ready to accept her overdue apology.
Shade and all the other agents had a horrible feeling Twilight, the Princess of Friendship, and known control freak, would attempt to take control of the situation in a far more drastic way, They had even taken a step past safety and had enlisted the other elements to talk to their friend before they arrived.
And to slow Havok Down Shade was purposely flying at a snail's pace, and Havok had matched it without complaint as he basked in her music.
"Remind me to get a demo disk from you sometime," Havok noted with a yawn "You're soothing tunes are just what I need to help me get a good night's sleep,"
"I'll find a more chaotic way to play you to sleep," Shade replied happily "Just give me some time to think up something juicy you'll like," Havok accepted the deal without hesitation and the two flew through the fields of endless snow without any roadblocks, finally arriving at the outside of the barrier where everyone else was waiting, Shade waved a hoof and her throne vanished, Havok chose to stay in his and took the lead with his team following behind him, Storm and Vile flew on either side of him, Rot and Rust stood to his side, and Shade acted as the rear guard, making sure no one took a cheap shot at Havok while his back was turned.
The Crystal Empire was seemingly devoid of life, without a single Crstyal Pony showing so much as a stand of mane, Allowing Team Chaos to approach the Crystal Heart with ease.
"Just apologize," Rainbow Dash groaned as she and the other elements crowded around Twilight, Gingerbread the Mare could be seen enjoying the wonders of grass not too far off from the group. "Seriously you're getting dangerously close to ruining my day off from work,"
Twilight didn't say anything and instead stared down Havok as he approached her. Havok parked his throne a few feet from her and swung it around, leaning his belly against the backrest and stuck his head under the upside down heart gem as he looked at Twilight with a smile.
"You ready to apologise?" He asked happily "Or do you wanna try some last gambit of proving I'm not me?"
"You are not Spike," Twilight said firmly, her eyes sparkling with a determination that Havok could easily call denial, "I don't need to prove it, I know it's true,"
"Oh come on I flew all the way out here for this Twi, I could have just snapped you to me, I'm trying to meet you halfway, letting you pull your little trap and whatnot, but this is the last time I give you any leeway, yeah I'll admit I might have already said that before but this time I mean it, After this your either apologizing or I'm putting you in a time-out snowglobe until you do," Havok held out his hand "But I'll still try for Peace, I have done nothing but try to be amicable, Appologise and admit you where wrong, and we can all go home and be done with this game,"
Havok looked at Twilight hopefully but slowly deflated as her expression remained hard, "Can't say I didn't try," He sighed "Alright let's get this over with, what's your game,"
Twilight lit her horn and shot out a spell toward the sky, a star sparkled in the air due to the firework-like spell. Havok watched and turned back to question it, only to find Twilight bowing with her nose touching the paved road.
A horrible chill fell over Team Chaos as the air suddenly started feeling heavy, and the Crystal Heart slowly began spinning faster. Storm made a movement like she was about to puke, only to forcefully snap out of her Chaos Form and plummet to the ground as Scootaloo, Vile tried to help her but as he moved she snapped back into Rumble and the sudden weight change resulted in him plummeting to. Luckily for the two of them, Rainbow Dash caught them and at least gave them a softer place to land as she tumbled into the grass with them,
All attention quickly turned to Rust, the only member of Team Chaos who had actually been standing on the paved road she let out a guttural scream as the paved road began burning her hooves, Pinkie swiftly swept her off her hooves just before she snapped back into Babs seeds who's hooves where badly burned. Havok had tried to help but his Throne had dropped at that moment and he had almost face-planted into the pavement himself, Rot had just managed to grab him before snapping back into Applebloom, Shade quickly falling back into Sweetie belle, Havok was the last one still in his Chaos form, but his scales where slowly cracking revealing hues of Green and Purple.
"You're gonna Sombra me," Havok realized in terror "You're actually trying to freakin' kill me,"
"You've manipulated children, my friends, and the princesses, and stolen my brother," Twilight spat back, a crazed look in her eye "You've left me no other option,"
"Run," Rainbow Demanded as she passed Rumble to Fluttershy, the other Elments doing the same, Leaving only Havok to move himself as he managed to get his shattering thron air born and high-tailed it for the barrier.
"It's too late for you Havok," Twilight noted as they ran "I win,"
The streets were now full of Crystal Ponies, all participating in Twilight's plan.
"She probably told them they were saving Spike," Rainbow noted angrily,
"Rainbow Stop," Scootaloo cried out, rainbow followed Scootaloos eyes and saw the source of her panic, Havok had Slid to a halt turned around, and was heading back to Twilight.
"Oh Celestia Dammit, hold on tight," Rainbow shot off at full speed to the edge of the Barrier, "Tuck an' roll," She called out, Scootaloo did just that and was dropped like a bomb, landing less than softly onto the snow-covered ground outside the Barrier, Scootaloo gave no complaints as she watched Rainbow curve upwards and sling-shot herself back towards Havok.
Rainbow slowed down as she caught up to Havok, who was barely hovering on a few shards of his throne. "What the Hell-?" was all she managed to say before Havok snapped back at her in a panic.
"The Gingerbread Mare, She's made of Chaos, if she's inside the Barrier when the Heart sends out its pulse wave-" Rainbow looked up at the grassy area, where Gingerbread the mare sat looking pale and feeling hoppling around, calling out to Pinkie that her sides hurt.
"Oh Celestia Dammit all," Rainbow Flew over the Gingerbread and had to help her get onto her back before taking flight, only to find Havok, Still large in size but now fully in Spikes Color, about to lose the last tiny bit of throne left and drop onto the pavement, Rainbow let out an enraged sound and flew to him, he grabbed her hooves with his hands and she used all her might to try and keep both him and Gingerbread airborne.
The glow was rapidly getting stronger, they had less than a minute but for a few glorious seconds Rainbow thought she was about to pull it off, but the combined weight of Spike and Gingerbread was to much and Spike's foot brushed against the ground, instead of burning he stuck like glue, It was like hitting an invisible rock as Spike let go to late and both Rainbow and Gingerbread where sent flying, only barely managing to make it outside the barrier.
"Gingerbread," Pinkie cried out "I completely forgot she was made of Chaos, Spike I'm so sorry," Pinkie told Gingerbread to lay still before rushing back into the Batrrier and trying to pull SPike free, Team Chaos where forced to aid Rainbow and Gingerbread as the rest of the elements ran to help Spike.
"Rainbow?" Scootaloo asked her idol nervously. "are you ok?"
"No," Rainbow decided after a moment "Pulled muscles and maybe a broken bone or two, help me move kid I landed on a rock and it sucks,"
Cracks began forming in Spike as the Elements tried to move him.
"I'm sorry," Rarity cried out as she desperately tried to push him with Fluttershy while Applejack and Pinkie used a rope to try and gain some sort of leverage. "I'm so sorry, I should have been a better friend to you, I should have let you down as soon as I realized you were pining after me, I'm so-" Rarity stopped as Spike patted her head and looked her in the eye.
"All in the past dear friend of mine," Spike said as a horrible sound hit their ears from the direction of the Crystal Heart "Take care of my agents for me, and Guys" Spike turned to his friend as his death approached, "Sweetie's in charge till I get back, give Twilight hell for me," Spike grimaced and let out a scream as his body began breaking apart "Damit Twilight!!!" The Shockwave hit and Spike the God of Chaos exploded into millions of tiny shards that were scattered across the Frozen waistland outside the Crystal Empire.