//------------------------------// // Chapter Five: Not ready // Story: The Four Humans of Chaos // by GamerstarOmega //------------------------------// High above the Badlands  "Dude we've been flying for hours now, I'm pretty sure we're far enough." Riot said. It had been several hours since the group fled the castle. Just to be safe Trastorno told Fukakaina to fly as far away as possible. The sun had begun to rise to the sky signaling the morning dawn. Trastorno looked around at the vast desert and nodded. "Ok think we're safe now." Trastorno pointed his leopard finger at a tall mountain with a cave. "Let's land over there." Fukakaina nodded and directed her hawk to land at the entrance of the cave. Once they landed the shadow hawk opened its beak wide open and the draconequi stepped out. Riot stretched his mismatched arms. "Finally, thought we'd be flying forever." He snapped his dragon claw and a sandwich appeared. He took a bite out of it. Trastorno turned to him. "Well, better safe than sorry. So better extremely far away from Equestria than be somewhere close where someone might find us." Trastorno said. Riot shrugged and returned to his sandwich. "Alrighty, Mischief." "Right here." Mischief answered in a mock salute. He pulled out Discord and placed him on the ground. "So how do we get him out?" Mischief asked. "With this." Trastorno snapped his bear paw and a ray gun appeared. He turned the dial on the gun, setting it to "destone". He pointed it at Discord and fired a white beam. Cracks began to form and eventually the stony outer layer broke and Discord was free. "Hoo being stuck in stone again can really give you a crick in the neck." Discord said. "But I guess it all worked out in the end. Plus, I had front row seats to your little spectacle."  "Wait, you mean you were watching us this whole time?" Fukakaina asked. "From the moment Shortie over there found me then taught Celestia and Luna how to play the piano." Discord began to chuckle at the memory. "And I must say, it was definitely a good idea to have you humans come and bail me out. The way you all showed those ponies chaos was incredible." He began laughing and placed his lion arm around Riot. "Especially when you gave Tia and Lulu quite the makeover. Bwahahahaha, it was too funny!"  Mischief spoke up. "For the record, I only acted out of sheer terror." Riot began to laugh as well. "If you think that was funny, you've got to see their reactions." He pulled out his phone and replayed both of the sister's reactions. When it finished Discord and Riot laughed until they fell to the ground trying to catch their breaths. The others tried to suppress the urge to laugh. Mischief began laughing while Trastorno and Fukakaina eventually gave in as well. After a few seconds of laughing, Trastorno spoke up. "How did you even get this?"  "After we splitted up in the castle I took the liberty of putting some cameras all around. Just so I can keep an eye on my targets." Riot said. He pressed a spy camera icon on his phone and it displayed various rooms around the castle. "Ooooo interesting idea." Discord commented. "Let's see how our lovely princesses are doing." "Ok, hey Siri, show us Celestia and Luna."  The phone spoke with a woman's voice. "Ok, showing Celestia and Luna." The screen shifts to Celestia on the left side of the screen while Luna is on the right. Celestia is in the bath furiously trying to remove the paint splotches on her body as well as getting the feather beard off her but to no avail. Luna is constantly removing the clown costume off her but try as she might, another clown costume kept taking its place. The two alicorns shouted with frustration and anger at the fact they can't remove Riot's "makeover." "Ha! They can try all they want, but that stuff ain't going nowhere unless I say so."  "Now I'm really starting to like you." Discord complemented. "I think it's time to show equestria how chaotic a human mind can accomplish."  "Right, but first there's something I need to do first." Fukakaina said. "Fine, what is it?" Discord asked. Before anyone could say anything, Fukakaina fiercely wrapped her fox tail around Discord's neck, strangling him. Discord struggled to remove her tail but to no avail. "Before we do anything." Fukakaina spoke up, shadows covering her glowing red eyes. "I think you and I need to have a little talk." She snapped her tiger claw and her shadow got bigger and she and Discord began to sink in. Before leaving she turned to the boys. "You three don't mind waiting, do you?" She asked with a friendly yet menacing smile. "No, take your time, we'll wait." They all said in unison. Fukakaina then sunk into her shadow with Discord in tow. The three draconequi look at the shadow wondering if Discord will be still alive before turning back to the screen. They watched as ponies in different areas in the castle. In one area pony guards are being thawed out of ice. In what looks like a hospital room ponies are bandaged up. In the garden vines, branches and other things are being cleaned up. And finally a kitchen area with fridges that look empty. As they watched Trastorno's eyes noticed a particular group of ponies. "Wait, Riot can you zoom in on those ponies?"  Riot tapped on the screen Trastorno pointed and enlarged it. The screen displayed six pony mares running to the castle gates. A purple unicorn with a dark purple mane with a pinkish streak in the middle and a star with little white stars around it on her flank. A white unicorn with a purple curly pristine mane and three blue diamonds on her flank. An orange earth pony with a yellow mane and tail which both have red bands, she wore a cowboy hat and had three apples on her flank. A cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and a rainbow lightning bolt on her flank. A pink earth pony with a poofy mane having a darker shade of pink and three balloons, two blue while one was yellow on her flank. And lastly a yellow pegasus with a curly pink mane and three butterflies on her flank. "Those girls are the ones we need to be careful of. They're the elements of harmony and they're the ones who sealed Discord in stone." Trastorno said. "Really?" Riot asked skeptically. "They don't look anything special. But if Discord lost to them then I guess we need to watch our backs." The trio looked at the screen showing the elements. "Ooo it feels like we're super villains spying on the heroes so we can thwart their attempts at defeating us." Mischief mused. Riot smiled at that. "That's cause we're about these girly horses what real power is." He spread electricity throughout his entire body for emphasis. Trastorno rolled his eyes and continued to monitor the screen. Canterlot castle halls Twilight and the rest of her friends ran through the halls of the castle. After receiving a letter from princess Celestia, she felt her blood run cold. Discord had escaped, not only that but it was the work of four different types of draconequi. And if that wasn't bad enough, they even left the princesses with some kind of curse. The thought of more draconequi like Discord scared her, especially if they all decided to turn her world into their own playground. Twilight immediately gathered her friends and they set out for Canterlot. "Come on girls, we need to pick up the pace!" Twilight frantically said, trying to quicken her pace. "Twi, ah know yer worried but you need to calm down sugar cube." Applejack said. Twilight stopped in her tracks, the others stopped as well. "Calm down…?" Twilight muttered in a low voice. "CALM DOWN!!?" She then exploded in a fit of anger, her mane becoming a frazzled mess and her left eye twitching. "The princesses were attacked by four unknown draconequi who have the same powers as Discord and we almost lost to him. What are we supposed to do against four of them!?" She began hyperventilating. "Twilight darling, we understand you're worried but panicking won't help us." Rarity said.  Pinky bounced over to where her panicking friend was and gave her a hug. "Yeah Twily , you're freaking out like when I have to plan a super duper surprise party for ponies. Ooo, maybe I should prepare a "we beat Discord and his meanie pants friends party!" *gasp* Maybe I should start baking the cake! Or maybe-." Before Pinky could ramble on more, an orange hoof covered her mouth. "The point is we need to calm down and breathe." Applejack said. Twilight breathed a few breaths and calmed down. "*sigh* thanks girls, I really needed that." Rainbow Dash flew up in the air. "And besides, we've taken down Discord before. We kick his sorry flank and take down his new pals." She threw a few punches as if fighting an invisible enemy for emphasis. ~~~~~ Riot chuckled. “Heheh, kick our asses she says. Keep telling yourself that skittles.”  Mischief pouted. “Meanie pants? We haven't even met them yet and they're calling us meanies?” ~~~~~ Twilight began to calm down. “Thanks girls, it's just that we just defeated Discord yesterday but now that more of his kind are on the loose, I don't know how we can handle them.” “The same way we beat Discord, one blast from the elements and they're done.” Rainbow exclaimed with confidence. “And I'm sure that as long we're together those chaotic ruffians won't stand a chance.” Rarity said, flipping her mane. “A-and I'll try my best too… if that's ok…” Fluttershy said. To this, Twilight smiled. “Ok I feel a little better now, let's go see the princesses.” The main six proceed to enter the castle. ~~~~~ “Uuuuugh, I can't watch this…this…what do I even call this sunshine bullshit? Next I guess they'll say something along the lines of: “we'll stop you guys with the power of friendship” or whatever.” Riot said with annoyance.  “Well I mean Discord lost to said power of friendship so I guess it wouldn't be too far fetched the same could happen to us and…” Mischief was cut off when he noticed the deadpan expression on Riot's face telling him he wasn't helping. “I'll stop talking now.”  “We can literally just snap our fingers and we'll be done with this, so what's stopping us?” “Even the most powerful of beings can fall to the littlest, most unsuspecting things no matter how pathetic or even cringe the protagonist is because of arrogance and/or stupidity.” Fukakaina spoke up. The trio turn to see Fukakaina step out of her shadow carrying an unconscious beaten to a pulp Discord. “Anime villain logic 101.” She sets Discord aside. The boys winced at the mangled form of Discord, his body was violently twisted and tied up into a knot with several painful bruises all over his body.  Taking his eyes off Discord for now, Trastorno asked. “What are you saying?” “I'm saying I don't think we should do anything to this equestria place, at least not with the way we are now.”  “Are you suggesting we're weak?” Riot asked, feeling offended. “I'm suggesting we take our time and hone our powers more before we're ready to do anything.”  “But what's there to-.” Riot was about to say more when Trastorno cut him off. “Actually, Fukakaina is right. Even with these powers, we could've been wiped out. We just don't have experience.” “Seriously!? One snap and those horses are done!” Riot exclaimed. He points to Trastorno. And you said it yourself that as long as they're far away from each other they can't stone us.” “Even then what would you even do? I'm pretty sure most of us had to think about what we wanted to happen for our magic to activate or something.” “W-well I would…um…I would…huh.” Riot tried to come up with an answer but his mind was coming up blank. “And if Trastorno didn't stop Celestia when he did, what would've happened to you?” Fukakaina asked, one eyebrow raised. Riot fell silent. It's true, if Trastorno didn't stop Celestia at the last moment who knows what could've happened. He sighed in defeat. “So what's the plan then?” He asked. “Simple, chaos magic training. And to do that we're going to need someone who has more experience than us.” She turns to Discord who is still unconscious. “Is he dead?” Mischief asked. Fukakaina ignored Mischief's question and called out. “I know you're hiding somewhere you Frankenstein freak, so why don't you come out already?” The boys looked at each other in confusion before Discord appeared before them in a flash. “Not bad, how'd you know?” Discord asked. “You could've easily gotten out of my shadow any time you had the chance. Admittedly I was too angry to notice until I calmed down.”  “Quite the perspective eye you have.” Discord complemented. “And smart to boot.”  “Don't flatter yourself.”   Discord simply shrugged. “You all seem to have the idea of how to use my powers, so what's the problem?” “Uh, in case you weren't watching, Mischief could've gotten seriously hurt, I took a painful burn to the side not to mention a serious punch to my stomach.” “Technically a kick to the gut. Ponies don't have hands.” Trastorno pointed out. Ignoring Trastorno's fact, Fukakaina continued. “And Riot would have also been killed if not for Trastorno. You may have given us your powers but you sure as hell didn't teach us how to use them in situations like that, so I'd say that's a HUGE problem.” Trastorno spoke again. “I agree with Fukakaina on this. We need more practice before we're even close to being able to handle ourselves.”  Mischief also chimed in. “Yeah um, I really don't want to ever end up like that ever again, it was too scary.” He shivered, remembering almost getting his head blasted off by Luna. Riot looked down at the ground, crossed his arms and sighed. “And as much as I hate to admit it, I got really scared thinking I was going to die when that Celestia horse came at me.” His face then took on a slightly fearful expression. “Now that I think about it, I'm starting to think pissing them off was a really dumbass idea.” “See? Even Riot thinks this is dangerous. You said you wanted us to help you cause chaos, but with the way we are now that'll be difficult. So unless you train us, we want no part of this.” Fukakaina sternly said. Discord groaned in annoyance. “Must you be so dramatic? Ugh, I guess someone should teach you all the ropes of chaos.” He turned to see his clone slowly regain consciousness. But when he saw Fukakaina he screamed in terror and immediately disappeared in a flash. “I guess I'll do it then.” He snapped his eagle claw and the draconequi were all teleported to Discord's chaos space. They all stood on a large rock that acted as their platform. A couple of training dummies in the shape of ponies appeared. Discord turned to the group. “Now then who's first?”