Chaos couldn't dodge the magebot flying straight towards her. She attempted to deflect it, but the flames surrounding it made it difficult to do so. She screamed in anger as she smacked the magebot a good distance away from her.
“Buck this. I’m getting serious.”
“Everyone okay?”
“Aye, captain.”
“Prepare the Tartarus Cannon.”
Zap Apple pressed a couple buttons on her console. “Here’s how I think of y’all”
The cannon fired.
Discord saw the cannon beginning to charge and he did the first thing he thought of. He teleported straight in front of it and he began to feel his body disintegrate. He knew how it felt to die, he already had. He had been the newest Titan, for one reason, and one reason only It was very difficult to transcend the mortal form. He had been a pony once, a pony that Celestia had loved. A pony that Twilight Sparkle admired as a researcher of multiple magical disciplines.
He was once Starswirl the Bearded.
His corruption began a long time ago. A normal pony, even as powerful as he was, was never supposed to love an immortal. For death always took mortals be it sooner or later.
He had found a way to beat death. It was by sacrificing to the Elder Gods, the Gods between the void and existence. He saw things that should never have done it but he was desperate.
He just had to break Celestia’s heart by providing a blood sacrifice of their foal.
The Past
“Daddy, where are you taking me?” an alicorn foal that looked like a small version of Celestia asked her father.
“Somewhere beautiful, my darling” Starswirl tried to fight back tears.
“Okie, dokie lokie.”
Starswirl, bring the foal to us. You shall be rewarded...
“Daddy why are we in the tower and why is there weird drawings on the floor?”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Starswirl pulled the knife out of its hiding place and thrust it towards its new home.
“Daddy, why?” the foal tried to to get back on her feet, but her golden blood made it too difficult for her to stand. She died while seeing her lifeblood drain out of her tiny body. Starswirl began the ritual.
“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.”
That was the last time Discord called himself Starswirl the Bearded. In that tower, surrounded by the golden blood of his daughter. Corrupted into the form later known as Discord and dreading the hoofsteps coming towards him.
“Starswirl?” Celestia stared at the scene before her and her heart broke.
The being formerly known as Starswirl floated towards her. “Look, Celly! We can be together forever! Isn't it great?”
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?” Celestia screamed at him. “If you are Starswirl, and if you caused this, I will hunt for you to the ends of Terra and when I find you...I will make you wish you never loved me.”
“But...”
“But nothing, she WAS A FOAL! Do you think I want to rule forever and see the ages pass? I was going to pass the rulership to her, my daughter Natura, and you had to kill her for your schemes. I will forever remember that my husband and daughter died on the same day. GET OUT!”
Discord blinked out of the castle and Celestia began to cry over the body of her dead daughter.
The Present
Discord lay in the snow as his death came closer. He felt his connection to the mortal plane weaken and once he died he could no longer walk in this plane of existence. He would only be a whisper on the wind, a memory of days long gone, his journey was almost over.
He turned his head and saw a hallucination. It just had to be. His daughter now fully grown walked towards him, her aura of godhood shooting off beams of light. Where the beams hit, there were flowers and joy followed her every step. It was similar to when he saw Celestia for the first time.
“Hey Daddy, ready to go?” Natura radiantly smiled at her father.
“Yes, just tell your mother I love her.”
“You’re silly. She always loved you.”
“Not after your death...”
“You know that you didn’t have to kill me. You could have just asked Mom to make you an alicorn. She had told me that she had a spell to do that.”
“C-can you forgive me?” Discord coughed blood as he spoke.
“Yes. Grab my hoof and let us walk into the sunset.”
“Natura, I would follow you anywhere.” Discord smiled at his daughter.
They both walked off into the sunset.
A grove of Pranking Joke flowers sprung up where the Spirit of Disharmony had fallen.
Ponyville
Celestia felt Discord’s death as she was coming off her hangover. It hit her hard enough that it sobered her up the rest of the way. She also felt a presence that almost never came out on the mortal plane.
“Discord, no Starswirl. If you never had done what you did, we would be either enjoying what our subjects call retirement and see grandfoals of our own or we would be ruling together in Canterlot and i would never be bored with you around.”
Celestia looked out of the closest window and sighed.
“Natura, my daughter, I hope that being the Alicorn of Nature helps you in the long run. I know you love Starswirl and, knowing you, you aren't mad at what he did. You are always in my heart and always in my actions. I wish I could see you more often, but you know how hard it is for me to visit you. I just hope your dad keeps you company.”
Celestia didn't go out that day, for she had to deal with feelings that she hadn't felt for many years.
Chaos was furious. Her son had sacrificed his life for her. She was going to avenge him. She charged straight at the offending ponies.
“I will destroy you.”
The magebot met the Elder God in battle.
“Everypony who isn't a Light of Reason...use the escape hatches.” Chroma yelled above the din of the bells that told of imminent failure.
Everypony knew what to do.
The parents quickly hugged the foals and entered the pod.
Nopony knew if they would see each other again.
“Captain, the pod has deployed.”
“Good. Everypony back to battle stations.” Scale Harmony was now unsure if they would win without casualties.
“I hope we make it.”
The pod crashed into the ground. A group of ponies trotted on out.
“Ah really don’t like this. Those foals were too calm. Like they knew that they were going ta not win.” Applebloom was fuming.
“Ah know sis, but we can’t do anything. It was their choice to protect us.”
“They defeated Discord as well.” Dash butted into the conversation.
“Yes, and I can tell that the natural order of things is somehow stronger than before, but I sense chaos in nature now. I’ll need to study it once we are done here.” Twilight looked around at nature.
“This is not the time Twilight. Our foals need our support.” Rarity countered.
The mares stared at the battle that would decide the fate of Equestria.
An Hour Later
Chaos was winning the battle Albeit just barely. Every time the swords cut into her she caused the same amount of damage to the magebot.
The magebot was on its last legs. Most of its armor was destroyed, and two arms were missing.
Chaos saw her chance and aimed directly at the head.
The horn speared through the cockpit.
The last thing they heard was the metal ripping apart. The foals went towards the blackness.