When Twilight, her friends and the toa arrived at the castle, they met an unwelcoming sight. Fifty armed guards surrounded the castle and they had no intention of letting anyone without authorisation in.
“Err, what happens now?” asked Hewkii.
“Don’t worry, I have authorisation with the princess,” said Twilight as she walked up to a guard, “Hello, I’m here to speak with Princess Celestia.”
“I’m sorry but the Princess cannot speak with anyone right now,” said the guard.
“What? Why?” asked Twilight.
“Sorry but its classified,” said the guard.
“But I’m her personal student!” protested Twilight.
The guard raised an eyebrow, “name?” he asked.
“Twilight Sparkle,” she replied.
“Who are the others, specifically those four behind you,” asked the guard.
“Oh, um, Pinkie pie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow dash, Fluttershy and…”
“They are Hahli, Nuparu and Hewkii. I’m Matoro.”
“What are you supposed to be exactly?”
“We are toa. They’re here on a rescue mission and I’m currently dead,” replied Matoro.
“Likely story,” said the guard, “identification.”
Twilight sighed; the guard really had no intention of letting them in, “we don’t need identification because we are the elements of harmony,” she replied. The guard stared at her and her friends. They indeed matched the description of the elements of harmony.
“You six can enter. The other four however, must stay outside,” said the guard.
Twilight glanced at Matoro; he shrugged and said, “We’ll be ok out here. Just tell her that the others are here.”
“Ok, maybe it’s better if all the ponies in the castle didn’t see four giant robots walking through the castle,” said Twilight as she and her friends walked off. When they were out of earshot Nuparu said, “You sure have some strange friends here Matoro.”
Matoro shrugged, “they were the first people I met when I arrived here. Just wondering, how did you five get here anyway?” he asked.
“Brutaka used his Kanohi Olmak,” replied Hewkii, “he seemed pretty certain that it would lead us here.”
“Wait, Brutaka? Why did Brutaka help you?” asked Matoro.
“He saw the error in his ways and rejoined the Order of Mata nui,” said Hahli.
“The Order of Mata nui?” asked Matoro, “what is that?”
“Kind of like the Brotherhood of Makuta, except it’s for Mata nui instead,” replied Nuparu.
“Ok…” said Matoro.
About ten minutes later Jaller and Kongu arrived with the Cordak blasters and toa tools. They handed them out to the other toa.
“Ok, here the plan, we go in, speak with this Celestia and find out if she really is a tyrant,” said Jaller.
“What?” asked Matoro, “Princess Celestia, a tyrant? Who told you that?”
“Some big mix-n-match guy,” replied Kongu, looking suspiciously at Jaller.
“Mix and match?” asked Hahli.
“Yeah, he looked like the statue I quick-looked at yesterday,” replied Kongu, still keeping an eye on Jaller.
“Statue, what do you mean statue?” asked Matoro.
“He means the funny looking statue we saw yesterday when we arrived,” said Hewkii, “it looks like eight different things mashed together.”
“Did he say his name?” asked Matoro, having a feeling that it might be.
“Disco or something like that,” replied Kongu.
“Was his name Discord?”
“Yes,” said Jaller, “he said he was the true ruler of this place and this Celestia and Luna usurped him during the Great Cataclysm.”
“How on Mata nui did the Great Cataclysm hit here?” asked Nuparu, “were nowhere near Metru nui or the southern continent.”
Matoro was silent. Discord had freed himself. Matoro’s only question was why hadn’t he done anything yet? From what he’s heard, they should have been bombarded with chocolate rain and candy clouds.
“Are you sure his name was Discord?” asked Matoro.
“Yep,” said Kongu.
“Not good,” muttered Matoro, “this not good at all.”
“Why not?” asked Jaller, “he’s the true ruler of this place.”
Matoro glared at Jaller, “do you know anything about Discord? I’ve been here for six days and from what I’ve heard, he’s on level with Makuta.”
The five other toa stared at him. They could tell that Matoro was being dead serious.
“Jaller, where did you meet this ‘Discord’?” asked Hahli.
“In the room where we quick-found the toa tools,” replied Kongu.
“Hmm,”
The toa waited about a half hour when Twilight, her friends and the princess came outside of the castle. Kongu noticed Jaller’s eyes flicker when Celestia appeared. Something was up.
“So you are the other toa,” said Princess Celestia, “I hope that you didn’t see much trouble from the guards.”
Nuparu smiled, “nah, we didn’t have much trouble, right?”
The other toa nodded.
“Uh Princess Celestia, these are Jaller, Hahli, Kongu, Hewkii and Nuparu,” said Matoro, “They helped me get the Ignika from the Barraki.”
“Well, it’s a pleasure to meet you all, but there was a problem with the security last night. Something about an armed attack on the protection shield,” said Celestia.
The toa looked away sheepishly. Princess Celestia then walked off to resume her meeting.
“So uh, were exactly will you be staying?” asked Twilight.
“I don’t know,” said Hahli.
“Maybe you could stay in the town,” suggested Matoro.
“The town?” asked Jaller.
“Yeah, Ponyville is not very far away,” said Pinkie pie, “I could throw a party!”
The other ponies groaned while the toa looked confused. “Party? What is a party exactly?” asked Nuparu.
Pinkie pie stared at him in shock. “How could anypony not know about PARTIES?!”
“Yeah I’m with Pinkie pie on this one, how can you guys not know about parties?” said Rainbow dash.
The toa shrugged, “is it like a celebration?” asked Hewkii.
“YES, and they can be for a million billion other reasons too!” said Pinkie pie.
“Uh huh,” said Jaller, “the plan was to find whoever we were looking for, which we assume is Matoro, and then were leaving by the end of the week.”
“Well that leaves plenty of time for a party!” said Pinkie pie.
As the group of twelve left Canterlot, Pinkie pie went on and on about parties. After a half an hour, all but Kongu had managed to tune her voice out of their heads.
“…and that’s how Equestria was made!” she finished.
Kongu nodded, ‘she sure is energetic’ he thought, “that reminds me of a great celebration when Le-koro defeated the Rama swarm,” he said.
“What’s a Rama?” she asked.
“A Nui-rama is a great wasp from the jungles of Le-wahi,” said Kongu, “many of my fellow villagers were quick-snatched by the swarm. Not even the ever-brave Toa Lewa could help us. He too was taken by the swarm. A brave Matoran of fire helped us save-rescue our Turaga and fellow villagers. There was a great battle with Toa Onua and Toa Lewa in the heart of the rama hive.”
“Aren’t all Toa friends with each other?” she asked.
“Many toa have teams, some do not. Toa Onua was trying to save Toa Lewa from the evils of Makuta who had corrupted him. Onua emerged victorious and a great party-celebration followed after the victory over the hive-swarm,” said Kongu, smiling as he remembered, “That was when I was still a small Le-Matoran.”
“You weren’t always a Toa?” asked Pinkie pie again.
“Most Toa start off as Matoran,” explained Kongu, “we were ever-searching for the missing Toa Nuva when a red lightning bolt hit the Toa canisters me and the others were quick-traveling in.”
“Can I become a toa?” she asked cheerfully.
Kongu chuckled, “I’m not sure, maybe if you hope-believe enough you might.”
The two stopped speaking until they got to the borders of Ponyville. Jaller, Nuparu, Kongu, Hahli and Hewkii looked into the small town.
“Here we are, this is Ponyville,” said Twilight.
The Toa glanced at the buildings; they were the size of most Matoran huts, just big enough for them to fit inside. Pinkie pie of course, started to set up the welcome party for the six Toa.
“Hey frosty, why didn’t little pink throw a celebration party for you?” asked Kongu.
Matoro shrugged, “Twilight wanted my presence to go mostly unnoticed. Unfortunately, the first day I arrived all the townspeople saw me.”
“Well I don’t think we have time for this,” said Jaller.
“Why not? We found Matoro or, he found us, anyways we have six extra days here Jaller, why don’t you relax a bit?” said Hewkii.
Jaller glared at him and resumed walking. Hewkii walked up beside Kongu and asked, “What’s up with him?”
Kongu shrugged, “he’s been like this ever since we met mix-n-match.”
“This ‘Discord’, he seems suspicious,” said Hahli.
Matoro chuckled slightly, “if who you and Jaller did see was Discord, then we are all in for some huge trouble.”
The group continued to walk until they arrived at Sugercube corner. “WERE HERE!” shouted Pinkie pie upon arrival. The Toa looked at the strange building.
“Is that… edible?!” asked Nuparu.
Pinkie pie laughed, “Of course not silly, that’s where I live!”
The Toa glanced at Matoro, he shrugged, “hey, first time I’ve been here too.”
The six Toa had to duck down to get in through the door way. The Toa stared in surprise as they were greeted by the entire town of Ponyville.
“How on Mata nui…” said Nuparu.
Applejack walked up to him, “best not to think ‘bout how Pinkie pie does things.”
Nuparu sat down in a booth and nodded. Physics seemed to work differently here. He looked over to see the other Toa being bombarded with questions from the citizens. He watched a small filly with a red bow and mane walk up to Kongu.
“Howdy mister, I’m Applebloom,” she said.
Kongu looked surprised at how small she was, “uh… hello. I’m Toa Kongu.”
“Err, Mr. Toa Kongu, how’d you get yer cutie mark?” she asked looking at the symbol on his legs.
“My what?” he asked looking at his leg. Sure enough, the symbol of Le-koro was carved into the armor on his legs, “how..?”
Nuparu looked at his leg as well, and, there was the symbol of Onu-koro carved into his armor as well. He was surprised, ‘that wasn’t there when we left…’ he thought about it some more and concluded that the laws of physics here had somehow changed them slightly so they would fit in more. ‘It still doesn’t explain how they got there without anyone noticing.’ He resumed thinking and overheard someone talking to Hahli.
“WOW, cool wings!” she said.
“Oh, hello, their actually fins, said Hahli.
“Why would you have fins if you’re on land?” she asked.
“We were on a mission underwater when we changed and looked like this,” Hahli replied.
“Changed?” she asked.
Hahli nodded, “a mask called the Kanohi Ignika changed us to become immune to the mutations’ waters of The Pit.”
“Oh… Ok, bye,” she said as she walked off to see her friends. They were two small ponies, one a unicorn and the other that was talking to Kongu. Nuparu smiled, the people of the town hardly seemed phased at the appearance of the Toa. Maybe it was because they had met Matoro before? No, he said he spent most of the time in Twilight’s house and mostly going out at night. Nuparu settled on that they were just friendly people. He turned to see Hewkii walking over to him.
“Wow, there sure are friendly huh?” said Hewkii.
Nuparu nodded in agreement, “yeah, they sure are.”
“Hey, have you noticed that we each have they symbol of out village on Mata nui carven onto our legs?” he asked.
Nuparu chuckled, “it’s kind of hard not to notice, Hewkii.”
Applejack walked over to the two Toa.
“Howdy there! Uh, I recon I’ve never really introduced mah self to you their toa so… hi, I’m Applejack,” she said.
“I’m Toa Nuparu, pleasure to meet you Applejack,” replied Nuparu.
“Hi, I’m Toa Hewkii.”
“Well, ah hope you toa like yer stay in Ponyville,” she said as she walked with to speak with Fluttershy.
Meanwhile, Kongu was again speaking with Pinkie pie.
“This is a great party-celebration Pink,” said Kongu as he made a small wind open a window.
“Ooh, cool! How’d you do that?” she asked.
“Well, as an air-toa I can control and manipulate air,” replied Kongu.
“Can I do that?” Pinkie pie asked excitedly.
“I’m not sure; you can always ever-try,”
Pinkie pie got up on her hind legs and tried with all her might as she tried to open a window with air. Twilight walked up and asked what she was doing. Kongu laughed, “Pink here is trying to be an air-toa.”
“Hmm, we don’t have Toa here,” said Twilight.
“Well, she can always ever-try,” replied Kongu as he watched her continue to open the window, “here, try to move your arms apart a little,” said Kongu as he tried to help her move her arms into a position where she could get a good attempt with the wind. Suddenly, the instant Kongu touched Pinkie pie’s arm, he saw a bright Pink Toa with a Kanohi Kualsi. At the same time, Pinkie pie saw a dark green and grey Pegasus with a mane that looked like the wind itself. A second later, Kongu shot across the room and hit the wall while all the nerves in his body were going out of control. Pinkie pie on the other hand had somehow opened the window.
“HEY! I did it! I opened the window!” she said turning to see Kongu having a small seizure across the floor with his mask grey. The last thing he said before blacking out was, “good job Pink…”
It took exactly 3.5 seconds for everyone to panic.