The Four Humans of Chaos

by GamerstarOmega

Chapter Two: New world, new bodies, and new names

It was daytime, the sound of birds were heard as they flew through the forest, little rabbits were hopping along the grass, and two squirrels were having a nice conversation with each other. It was indeed a beautiful day until the two squirrels heard groans from somewhere.

*squeak squeak* "(what was that?)" One  squirrel asked the other.

*squeak squeak squeak* "(I don't know, but it sounds close.)" 

*s-squeak squeak squeak* "(y-you don't think it's monsters do you?) 

*squeak squeak squeak* "(or maybe there could be some animals who might need help, let's go)."

The squirrels then proceeded to run to the source of the sound. The two kept running until they spotted an unknown creature they never saw before laying on the ground. It looked like a monster with different animal body parts. It had the head of a donkey with two mismatched horns on its head. The left horn belonged to a goat while the right horn belonged to a bull. Its torso and left arm had spots on its body resembling a big cat and its right arm a black bear claw. It had a hairless dog leg on the left, and right is a black cloven hoof. Two wings were seen on its back, the left having black and tan feathers, while the right had green feathers. Finally, its tail was long and black like a snake.

It also wasn't alone. There were three more of those monsters laying on the ground, each with different animal parts on their bodies as well.

The second one was sitting against a tree unconscious. It had the head and long neck of a giraffe with a rhino horn near its nose. On the left side of its head was a moose horn and on the right a buffalo horn. Its body and right arm was a  dragon, while its left arm was a wolf. It sported two mismatched wings on its back, on the left, a brown bat wing, and the right a crow. Its right leg was a hawk, and its left leg was a cow. Lastly, its tail was a shark.

The third one laid on its back having a feminine look. It had the head of a doe with purple hair with a dragon horn on the left and a small horn with frontal ridges on the right. Its body and left arm were a white tiger, while the right arm was a raccoon dog. Its left leg was a zebra, and its right leg was a rabbit. It has the left wing of a crane and the right wing of an owl. Lastly, it had the tail of a fox with sky blue fur.

The last one is on a tree branch, seemingly looking younger than the others. It had the head of a sheep, though its wool was all red and a lonely tusk on the right side of its mouth. It had the left horn of a deer and the right horn of an oryx. Its left arm and body was a monkey, and its right arm was a mole. It had the left leg of a pig and the right leg of a poodle. On its back, it had the left wing of a pigeon and the right wing of a blue jay. Finally, it had a tail belonging to a rat.

The two squirrels who found the unconscious mismatched creatures were hiding in a nearby bush shaking with fear. 

*s-squeak squeak squeak squeak* ("I-I just knew they were monsters, c-can we run now?") 

Before the other squirrel could respond, they both heard a groan coming from the donkey headed creature.

Alejandro felt pain in his head. As he slowly regained consciousness, he could tell he was in a forest. He rubbed his head to ease the pain only to feel something weird on his head. Actually, he felt his whole body was strange, like they were all different. His brown eyes were opened, and he could see a… snout? 

"Wait, what?" Was all Alejandro could say before looking at his hand that finished rubbing his head and saw that it wasn't his hand at all but a bear claw. The look of utter shock was on his face, which only added when he saw that his entire body was now a draconequus with different animal body parts much like Discord.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Alejandro screamed, causing nearby birds to fly away. His screams also startled the others who were beginning to wake up. 

"Mmmmmm…five more minutes…" The giraffe headed draconequus with a teenage voice mumbled in his sleep. 

The doe headed draconequus shot up from her sleep. She looked around, and she saw she was in a forest. When she turned around, her gaze fell upon Alejandro, who was now a draconequus. She screamed, alerting Alejandro, who also screamed upon seeing her.

"Who are you!?" She demanded, pointing her finger, which she noticed is a tiger claw where her human arm should be. Fear and shock were clear on her face as she looked at her entire body. Another scream was heard throughout the forest. 

The scream finally woke up the giraffe headed, draconequus, who was not happy having been awoken from his sleep.

"Can you shut up!? I'm trying to slee- whoa whoa whoa whoa- oof!" The giraffe headed draconequus leaned his head forward to shout at those who interrupted his sleep only to feel a sudden weight, making him lose his balance and fall to the ground due to his long neck. 

He turned his head back, and he noticed his long giraffe neck alone with the mismatched body attached to it. He screamed, and he started to freak out.

"What's going on!? Why do I look like a science experiment made by a dumbass!?" He tried to stand up but proved very difficult with the different limbs and long neck, which made him fall down again. He turned and noticed the two draconequi staring at him. "And who the hell are you guys!?"

Before any of them could respond, they heard the sound of branches cracking, and the young draconequus with the sheep head fell onto a bush, shocking the three.

"Ow ow ow!! That huuuuurt!" The sheep headed draconequus cried out with little tears forming in his eyes from scraping his knee from one of the branches on the bush. He noticed the weird tusk on the right side and realized it was in his mouth. He reached to touch it, and he saw what was once his right arm was now a mole arm. 

Unlike the other three, who screamed at the sight of their own bodies, this one looked at his body silently. He touched his mismatched body a few times before thinking to himself.

"For a dream, this feels so real not to mention… *looks at rat tail* weird." 

"WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!?" The doe headed draconequus shouted with anger and frustration. 

Alejandro looked at the upset draconequus and noticed her hair was oddly familiar. He started to put two and two together, and he needed to confirm it.

"Himiko… is that you? He asked her.

Himiko thought she recognized that voice from the donkey headed draconequus. She started to calm down, and she asked. "A-alejandro…?"

"Wait… AL?" The giraffe headed draconequus questioned while still struggling to stand on his two mismatched feet. It was still difficult with each body part having a different weight to them, so at this point, he gave up trying.

Alejandro turned his attention to the giraffe headed draconequus. "Yeah, and you must be Tyson." He turned to the sheep headed draconequus. "And Theo."

"Is this really all of you guys?" Himiko asked. "Dear god, what the hell happened to us?"

Alejandro closed his eyes for a moment and scratched his head.

"I think Discord happened." 

Discord appeared in his chaos space, fiddling with the four small orbs holding the humans in his lion paw, still having a smile on his face.

"Alright, little humans, it's time to wake up." 

He threw the orbs, and they shined brightly. When the flash ended, the four humans appeared, each with looks of fear, surprise, bewilderment, and confusion.

「どうしたの!? ここは何なの!?」(translation: What's going on!? What is this place!?) Himiko asked in her native language.

"Esto no puede estar pasando, esto no puede estar pasando, esto no puede estar pasando." (Translation: This can't be happening, this can't be happening, this can't be happening.) Alejandro also spoke in his native language.

"Ok, now this is the coolest thing ever." Tyson said, admiring the chaos space.

Theo was completely in awe with everything happening that he could only whisper "woooooow." 

Discord clapped his lion paw and eagle claw together, getting the attention of the group.

"Alright people, now's not the time for talk. Instead, the time for chaos is now."

The group saw Discord and immediately pointed at him.

"¿¡Tú!?/あなた！？/You!/You?" They all said in unison.

「あなたは私の部屋にいたのと同じ怪物です！私に何をしたいのですか！？」(Translation: You're the same monster that was in my room! What do you want with me!?) Himiko demanded, still shaken from the sudden capture.

Discord ignored her outburst and rubbed his chin. In his mind, he thought he should first do something about the language barrier before anything else. He snapped his eagle claw.

"ANSWER ME!!" Himiko shouted before covering her mouth from shock at suddenly speaking english. 

"Huh!? How am I speaking english!?"

"Oh, no need to make a fuss. I only made it so you and the Spanish boy over there can speak the same language as the rest of us." Discord explained. 

"Really?" Alejandro asked. Sure enough, he no longer spoke Spanish. 

"Hey!!" Tyson called out. "Can we stop stalling and get on with getting awesome powers!?" Tyson was growing impatient over not yet getting Discord's powers.

"Wait, we're getting super powers!?" Theo was fantasizing about being a superhero.

Discord appeared behind both boys and placed his arms around them.

"Don't you worry, we'll get to that, but first introductions."

He snapped his lion paw, and everything went black. Then he spoke like a studio announcer.

"Live from within my realm of chaos. It's Discord's chaotic giveaway." 

(Applause)

The group was taken aback with the sudden shift from being in space to being on a TV show. They all sat in chairs questioning what was even happening anymore. Discord sat behind a table wearing a suit and tie.

"I'm your host, Discord the lord of chaos. For tonight's show, I've brought four individuals to become new lords of chaos."

Nothing was said among the group after hearing what they just heard.

"Now then, why don't our honored guests introduce themselves. " Discord teleported to Alejandro's seat and held a microphone near his face. "What's your name, human number one?"

Alejandro was hesitant to answer. He looked to the "crowd" only to see more Discords staring at him. Eventually, he gave his name.

"I'm Alejandro Delgado, but you can call me AL." 

"AL, got it." He disappeared then reappeared next to Himiko's seat. "And what's your name, little lady?" 

Himiko was calm when she answered. "First of all, don't call me,"little lady. " Second, my name is Himiko Sakai. And third, IF YOU DON'T SENT BACK HOME THIS INSTANCE, I WILL– " She was about to finish her sentence, but Discord snapped his eagle claw, putting duct tape over her mouth.

"Ok, I see you're a rather feisty one, so let's move on." 

Discord then moved to Tyson's chair. Himiko tried to get up and attempt to strangle Discord, but she couldn't even get out of her chair. In fact, she felt as if she was glued to her chair. To say she was angry was an understatement, and the laughter from the crowd only intensified it even more.

"Alrighty then, why don't you introduce yourself, kiddo?" 

Tyson grabbed the mic from Discord and smirked.

"I'm Tyson T. Henderson and you better not forget it." He got up from his chair and walked to the edge of the stage. "Let's just say once I'm the new chaos god, no one's safe from me, if you know what I mean." He walked back to his seat, handing the mic back to Discord.

"I think I made the right choice when I found you. Well, you heard him folks, he said no one will be safe from him, what do you all think?" 

The crowd of Discords all clapped and cheered at Tyson's answer. This only inflated his ego more as he listened to the cheers.

Discord then moved to the last chair where Theo sat. "And what's your name, little boy?" 

As soon as all eyes were on Theo, he immediately sat there frozen while sweat was coming down his face.

"Hello? Helloooo anyone there?" Discord called out to Theo while knocking on his head.

"M-m-m-my n-n-name is The-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the…" Theo constantly kept repeating the first three letters of his name without pause.

Discord was getting impatient and opened Theo's head like the hood of a car. It revealed a record player on top of Theo's brain on looping at the beginning of Theo's name. Discord removed the record, cleaned it, placed it back in the record player, placed the needle on the record, and closed Theo's head.

"My-my name is Theodore C-campbell, b-but just Theo is ok." Theo managed to say, still stuttering. 

"Great, now that we all know each other, let's get down to business."

Discord snapped his eagle claw, and the whole studio turned back into his chaos space. Himiko was still glued to the chair and had the duct tape to her mouth. Her face was turning a shade of red from anger, and a vein was forming on the side of her head as she was now staring daggers at Discord. He simply ignored her.

"As you can see, I've brought you all for an emergency."

"An emergency?" Alejandro asked.

"That's right. You see, as the lord of chaos, I've spread chaos throughout the plain and boring world of ponies just to make everything more exciting. However, it seems Tia and Lulu didn't appreciate my improvements and decided to cast me away to stone for a thousand years." 

"Gee, I wonder why." Himiko thought to herself. She stopped her frantic struggle and just listened to the story while trying to carefully get the tape off her mouth.

"During that time, I sent my mind to wander other dimensions to pass the time, and I happen to come across a world that houses beings that are just as chaotic as I am. Of course I'm talking about you humans."

"Well, I guess he's not entirely wrong, I mean, there was that terrorist attack on the news in Philadelphia." Said Alejandro.

"Exactly. The fact that you humans can be so chaotic without having magic is impressive." Discord praised.

Himiko finally got the tape off her. Pain was evident on her face when she removed it, but she held it in. "Even though that's true, I at least want to know why you chose us." She asked.

"Oh, I just chose you all at random, that's all." Discord nonchalantly said.

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"And out of all the other humans on our planet, it also had to be me?"

"Correct."

Himiko closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She smiled. "Be thankful I'm still stuck in this chair. Otherwise, lord of chaos or not, *opens eyes* you will know pain like you've never known before."

That sentence ALONE was enough to send everyone, including Discord, a shiver down their spines.

It was then Theo poked Discord to get his attention. He motioned Discord to let him whisper something in his ear.

"Um, maybe you should probably get to the point immediately before we…um…make her more mad?" 

"I think you're probably right." Discord said with a nervous tone.

Discord then wasted no time telling the group the reason for bringing them here. He explained that after a thousand years, the seal broke, and he was free. He planned to spread chaos in equestria again, but first, he needed to deal with the elements of harmony. He had a plan, but in case it fails, he'll summon the group somewhere far while also transferring his powers to them. Once that happens, they need to go to the Canterlot garden and free him again.

The group fell silent when Discord finished his story. They each had different thoughts on the matter.

Alejandro knew this happened because it all played out in the show, Himiko was thinking how this guy pretty much just asking to be a statue, Tyson was thinking of showing those elements of harmony ponies his style of pranking, and Theo was trying to count in his head how much is a thousand years.

 Tyson then broke the silence and asked a question.

"We still get to keep the powers after we free you, right?"

"Who am I to take someone's hope to also spread chaos too."

With that, Tyson pumped his fist in the air, happy with the answer. He already started pondering what he can do as the lord of chaos. Alejandro interrupted his train of thought and asked another question.

"Ok, but how do we even control your powers? And what about our home? You seriously can't expect us to leave our friends and family behind." 

"Not to worry, with my power, you can easily return home whenever you all please, though I'd appreciate it if you could free me first. " Discord reassured them. "Now then, I believe I've explained everything, so it's time to go." He threw the orbs that each kept the group inside, and they each started to shine.

"Wait!! You still didn't tell us how to use–." 

"AT LEAST GET THIS CHAIR OF–!!" 

"Hehehehe, time to cause some trouble."

"A thousand years sound like a lot, huh?"

When the flash ended, they were all in the orbs again. Discord snapped his eagle claw, and in a flash, he was gone.

Everyone was at a loss for words when the flashback ended. Then a sudden rise in temperature was felt. The three draconequi turned and saw that Himiko's hair rose up.

"It's one thing to kidnap me from my home. It's another thing to have me glued to a chair, but turning me into some mutation for your little plan…" 

A pillar of fire erupted from the ground beneath her, revealing Himiko's face having a more demonic raging face.

"You better start praying." She said with a demonic voice.

At that time, Theo hid inside his wool while Tyson unknowingly summoned a large bible in front of him and a cross in his dragon claw shaking like a leaf. Alejandro was left to face the now enraged Himiko. Gulping, he decided to try and calm her down.

"Ok, Himiko, I know you're really upset right now, b-but let's just calm down for a minute, and we can - hrk!?" Alejandro's sentence was cut off when Himiko's fox tail wrapped around his whole body. She stared at him with flaming eyes. 

"We're stuck in the middle of some forest. We probably don't have any way home, we've been turned into circus freaks, and you're telling me to calm down?"

Alejandro was sweating bullets upon looking at the burning draconequus. His eyes darted back and forth, trying to find an answer.

"Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit!! I just made her even more angry! Come on, AL, think of something fast, something anything!"

Then, an idea struck him. It was a long shot, but he needed to do it. He closed his eyes, concentrated on the image in his head, and snapped his bear claw. 

The sound of something appearing caught Himiko's attention. She turned around, and a demonic version of herself was staring back at her. She screamed in terror, dropping Alejandro, and the doppelganger did the same.

Upon closer expectations, she noticed she was looking at a mirror. The demonic features slowly went away as her anger also subsided. Alejandro dusted himself off and saw Himiko staring into the mirror.

Tyson poked his head up from the bible when he felt the worst had passed. Theo came out from his wool and saw Himiko staring at a mirror. The three walked up to the mirror to look at their new bodies. They all had different animal body parts on each of their bodies. They had different thoughts about their looks.

Alejandro noticed how his body was made of animal parts from Mexico. Tyson marveled at how he didn't look that bad and did some poses. Himiko couldn't help but think that despite turning into a draconequus, her doe face was cute to look at. And she sees her left  eye is like a cat. Theo looked at the tusk that replaced where a regular tooth originally was. He noticed the mismatched wings on his back and shuddered when they moved.

They all stared at their reflections for a few minutes before Alejandro cleared his throat to get their attention.

"Look, I know this is a lot for us to take in. But freaking out about it won't help." Alejandro snapped his bear claw, and the mirror disappeared.

"How are you even doing that?" Theo asked.

"Yeah." Tyson chimed in. "You seem to get how this power works."

Alejandro rubbed the back of his head. "To be honest, I didn't think this was going to work. I just thought of a mirror, snapped my fingers, and poof. A mirror."

Three exchanged looks of surprise to each other. They were all curious about what they could do. They all closed their eyes, concentrated on what they were thinking, snapped their fingers, and sure enough, they all created what they were thinking. Alejandro made sure to tell them to keep the creation to a minimum to not attract any unwanted attention.

Himiko created butterflies made out of light. Tyson created a motorcycle with flaming tires. And Theo created a cloud that he could ride on. The cloud also had a straw protruding out from which he could sip from it.

Everyone was in awe with the powers that were given to them. Soon, they were trying what else they could do. This went from cloning themselves to attempting to turn back into their human selves, to giving trees life, and making a plant pod, which makes ice cream out of nothing.

"This is the greatest thing to have been given to me!!" Tyson shouted in happiness.

"I've always wished to be taken out of my old life and into a new one, but I never thought this would be it." Theo said with tears in his eyes.

"Ok, I'll admit, I also never thought I'd have power like this. I thought everything was over, but I guess it just got better." Said Himiko. "But what are we supposed to do?" She asked.

Alejandro put his leopard paw on his chin and thought about it. "Well, Discord said he wanted us to free him again since his first plan failed. So let's go from there."

Tyson scoffed at the suggestion. "Pfff, that's easy. We'll just go over there, make some noise, find Discord, and boom, we get to do what we want." 

"And what do you think will happen if we just charge recklessly?" Himiko asked. "I'd rather we come up with a plan and follow through with it." 

"Come on. Where's the fun in- uhh!?" Tyson was going to reply with snarky sarcasm when he saw Himiko staring at him with an icy glare.

"So what's the plan?" Tyson asked with a nervous smile.

Alejandro looked at the sky and noticed the sun was starting to go down.

"First let’s find a way out of this forest before it gets dark. We'll figure out what to do once we find ponyville." 

The others were confused as the town they were looking for had a weird name.

"It'll be a bit easier for all of us if I explained some things along the way." 

The group walked in a direction they thought led to ponyville. It was then Theo grabbed their attention telling them to wait.

"Wait! What should we call ourselves?"

"What do you mean?" Himiko asked.

"I mean we just became lords of chaos and um…well I thought we should have names that go well for us…?" Theo pressed his monkey finger and mole claw together hesitant from asking.

The group was silent for a moment before Alejandro spoke up.

"It's an interesting thought Theo, but I don't think-" 

"I WANT TO BE CALLED RIOT!!" Tyson shouted, cutting off Alejandro's sentence.

"Hmmm." Himiko pondered for a moment. "Fukakaina."

"Fuka-what?" Tyson was confused at the name.

"It's the Japanese term for cryptic." She replied.

"Ok well then my name will be mischief." Theo called himself.

The three turned to Alejandro who hasn't picked a new name for himself yet. He sighed in defeat. 

"Trastorno. It's Spanish for disorder." 

As the team of draconequi made their way through the forest, the two squirrels that were hiding in the bush were shaking with fear at the events that transpired. They knew something big was going to happen and they knew whatever it was, it couldn't be good.