It's funny how things work in Equestria. Big Macintosh found Twilight and the other ponies before they found him. "Twilight! Spitfire's gone! She was walking with me, and then the air shimmered around her, and she was gone!"
Twilight huffed. "Chaos magic. She's been taken, most likely to room 207. She'll distract Soarin' for a bit, just enough time for us to get there. Come on, everypony!" Now all five ponies ran towards the tall, towering minarets of the Royal Canterlot Inn.
Spitfire had done an excellent job distracting Soarin'. In fact, she even managed to light the room on fire. Twilight didn't realize this until she got to room 207, and busted down the door. Flames came billowing out into the hallway, and began to spread.
Spitfire was like a demon, leaving fire everywhere she stepped. Discord was in complete control of Soarin', because he was using chaos magic, and he didn't have a unicorn horn. Every time fire came near him, the air around him shimmered with yellow light, which bent the flames like a photograph in a magnifying lens. Trixie was the first to react, and she used her magic to rip open a pipe on the ceiling, spraying water everywhere, putting out Spitfire, along with the rest of the room. "Alright, Discord! The Great and Powerful Trixie has arrived, and I've got a score to settle with you, for trying to corrupt me, and turn me gray!"
Trixie was on a roll, doing what she did best: boasting. "Whatever magic you've got, I've got better!"
"Yes Trixie, show me your magic," Said the voice inside her head.
Trixie let loose a beam of bright-red energy that raced toward Soarin', but the air in front of him thickened into a shield, absorbing the energy. Trixie yelled in frustration, and summoned a storm cloud, throwing it at Soarin', striking him in many different places with white bolts of electricity. Soarin' yelled in pain, with Discord's voice, and not his own. He stomped a hoof, and Trixie flew backwards into the wall, cracking it along the edge of her body.
Twilight began preparing an attack of her own, but Trixie wasn't done yet. Trixie somehow got up, and tried her magic again, but all she could produce was some pink and blue confetti. Twilight shoved her out of the way as a hoof came down where her head had been sitting. Twilight turned around, and got slammed against a wall, making her vision go blurry. When she regained focus, Rainbow Dash was standing in front of her, still gray, and very angry.
Soarin' lifted Twilight up, effortlessly, and showed her to the other ponies: Big Macintosh, Octavia, Vinyl Scratch, and Spitfire. They all gawked at her, too stunned to react. "This is what happens when ponies oppose me," Discord said. His voice was smooth and calm, like that of someone sophisticated, maybe like a gambler playing poker who has just cheated to win the money. "Twilight was unfortunate enough to have tried to stand up for Trixie, however, there was never any hope for their friendship," he continued. "Let this be a lesson to all of you: don't cross me, and don't listen to Twilight." With that Soarin' tossed Twilight out of the window on the seventh story of the Royal Canterlot Inn.
Twilight saw many things as she fell. Her life flashed before her eyes, all her friends, that she never said goodbye to. One thing made her happy, though, and that was the fact that she'd die as a heroine of Equestria. She closed her eyes, and prepared to hit the ground. Suddenly, she heard the flapping of wings, and then, she no longer felt the air rushing past her, and she no longer felt gravity pulling her down. She opened her eyes, and saw a pair of wings, a blonde mane, and an upside-down eye.
Twilight was speechless. She just cried and hugged Derpy Hooves for all she was worth. "It's okay," Derpy whispered in her ear, "I didn't give up on you." Derpy circled around, and threw Twilight back in through the window. She landed on the floor with a thud, and casually brushed herself off. "Now, where were we? Oh yeah, we were at the 'don't listen to Twilight' part."
Trixie and Spitfire were out cold, and the others were still standing in the same spots as when Twilight was thrown out the window. Rainbow Dash and Soarin' were together again, both glancing back and forth between the three remaining ponies and Twilight.
Twilight knew somepony would make a move, but she didn't expect for it to be Octavia, the calm and collected musician. Octavia took something out from her pack, and began to play. It was only a cello, but it sounded like an entire orchestra. It had a rich and deep tone, and the element of music was helping her, because the air around her shimmered with various musical notes.
Twilight heard a fast, dramatic tune that sounded like a call to arms, but for Discord, it was a calming, gentle song. When Octavia finished, everything was different. The room was brighter, Twilight felt stronger, and by the looks of it, it had done the same to the three other ponies. While it may have not been dramatic, it changed the mood, and made everything seem a lot...better! The two things Octavia hadn't changed were Soarin' and Rainbow Dash. "Oh, please," Discord said, "music is not nearly enough to get rid of me. Come on Octavia, play us something...chaotic." Octavia gulped. Then she stood firm, "I've got it! Chaotic music? Meet Vinyl Scratch, my roommate!"
The door to the bedroom flew open, where Vinyl had been setting up her equipment. In the door were two large speakers, painted blue and white. The mare behind the equipment tipped her purple glasses, and said, "are you ready, Big Macintosh?"
"Eeeyup!"
"Are you ready, Twilight?"
"Yes m'am!"
Rainbow Dash huffed. "How much longer is this going to take? I'm tired."
Vinyl Scratch laughed, and hit the on button. "This is something I put together just for you, Discord. It's called 'exorcism'!"
The bass literally blew Soarin' away. Like a dusty pillow that has just been hit, a cloud of purple smoke was expelled from his body. Soarin' immediately collapsed, and slid to the floor. The cloud of smoke floated to the ceiling, and hovered there. As for Rainbow Dash, she tried to fly out the window, but there was no escaping the element of loudness. The sound waves reached her, and she too was buffeted by the force of pure noise. Like a insect coming out of its shell, the grayness began to peel off, bit by bit, until she was back to normal, rainbow mane and all. Octavia caught her before she hit the floor. Just like Octavia, the element of loudness was at work with Vinyl Scratch, feeding her with energy, and making the air around her shimmer with blue light.
In all the time Octavia had been living with Vinyl, she had never seen her be this happy. Realizing that Discord was gone from inside Soarin', Vinyl Scratch reluctantly hit the off button, and took off her glasses. The energy around her faded, and she returned to being just a free-spirited unicorn.
The cloud of purple smoke, no longer restricted, floated down to Twilight's eye-level. It condensed into the shape of Discord himself. He appeared as a tall dragon with small bat wings, large ears, and an odd twisted horn. When he spoke, it was no longer a voice in their heads, it was a deep, resonating voice that all the ponies heard. "So, Twilight, still causing trouble, huh?"
"That's coming from a spirit of chaos that was trapped in stone for 1000 years." Twilight fired back.
"I'm surprised, Twilight. I was sure Trixie was done for, but you managed to save her with your petty parlor tricks!"
Twilight's horn began to glow brightly, casting deep purple shadows on the wall. "We've got the six elements, we're all together, and that means another 1000 years punishment for you, Discord!"
Discord just laughed. He laughed for a long time. He finally gathered himself, and said, "you're wrong! I'm surprised you didn't realize earlier!" Twilight's horn glowed even brighter, and she planted her hooves. "You don't have the most important element," Discord continued, "your own: the element of knowledge!" At this, Twilight's magic got away from her, and her eyes glowed pure white. She was surrounded in an aura of pink light, and when she spoke, her voice was like Discord's: deep and resonating. "I am Knowledge. I took my pill," Discord bit his lip, "you've plagued Equestria for two years, and this time, you won't be put in a rock for 1000 years, you'll be completely dispersed, spread so thin, you will never reform."
Discord suddenly changed from being a deceiving cheater, to being a cruel and hateful figure: a true spirit of chaos. He turned into a tornado, and barreled towards Twilight, who easily side-stepped. With renewed vengeance, the other ponies joined the battle, all four of them. Discord didn't make it easy, though. He began to divide into multiple forms, engaging each individual pony. While the five ponies struggled with keeping the various Discords at bay, Twilight was dissipating fragment after fragment of Discord's being. After much effort, the six ponies cornered the two remaining forms of Discord, which merged back into one, tired, beat-up looking chaos spirit.
"Gaaahhhh," h
e yelled. Twilight signaled for Big Macintosh, who was breathing hard. He stepped forward, and didn't even bother to aim for a window, kicking Discord with all of his might, directly through a wall. Discord smashed through wall after wall, finally coming to a stop five rooms away. His form flickered, but he got up, and began to strut towards the six ponies that were standing in a room that was on fire, and glowing purple from Twilight's magic.
Vinyl Scratch planted her hooves, and put in her earbuds. Octavia was cowering behind her, shivering. Suddenly, Discord turned around and slammed something against the wall. Derpy Hooves had been trying to play the heroine, and save her friends from the evil chaos spirit, but she wasn't stealthy enough.
Twilight lost her concentration, and her magic faded. "Derpy! No!" Time seemed to slowed down as Twilight galloped toward her friend, and Discord's eyes lit up with fire, as he prepared to annihilate her. Twilight had almost reached Discord, but then her world turned rainbow colors, and her friend disappeared. Twilight screamed for a long time, until she had to stop and catch her breath. When she stopped, she realized that Discord was screaming too. He turned around, and the entire front of his body was scorched black. Twilight stared in awe at Discord's burned chest. Suddenly, a familiar voice said, "and that's what you get for hurting my friends!"
Rainbow Dash hovered proudly above Discord, clutching Derpy in her arms. Twilight clapped her hooves joyfully. "Yes! Yes! I knew you were healed! I knew it!" Rainbow smiled slyly, then glared back at Discord, who looked at his burned chest, then at Rainbow Dash, then at the seven angry ponies that were staring him down. He sighed, and relaxed his muscles, and said "well played, Twilight. Well played."