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// Chapter 23 ~ Magic Milkshake 
// Story: The Matter Of Friendship 
// by HeartShieldFiM 
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Discord stretched his back once again and growled horribly loud. He then landed on four legs and crawled quickly towards Chrysalis, who was completely stunned and petrified.
He hissed and his neck hairs all stood straight up. His tail swooped over the ground as he walked and every step he took was a loud stomp.
'Don't come closer, you... you mishmash of misfortune! You failed experiment!' Chrysalis shouted. 'You... you...'
Cloud Breaker coughed. 'Magic milkshake?'
'YOU MAGIC MILKSHAKE!' Chrysalis continued.
But Discord's pupils got smaller and he flapped his wings open. His lion nails stuck out of his fingers and his sole tooth shone in the light of the late sun. The horn that was left pointed out dangerously to the alicorn and he prepared his body for a direct attack.
The Mane Six plus three just stood there in silence, not able to move a muscle or warn Discord about the dangers of going alone. Well, all of them, except Pinkie Pie.
'HAY!' she shouted, distracting both the alicorn and the draconequus for a moment.
'Go back!' she continued. 'It's too dangerous for you, Discord!'
Twilight rolled her eyes. 'Tell him,' she said.
Discord only squinted as he whispered, 'I don't care. I'm ready for a finale.'
Pinkie tried to say, 'This is not supposed to be a finale at all!' but Twilight had put her hoof over her mouth.

All of sudden, Discord bended backwards and jumped shoulder-first into Chrysalis. Pinkie stood there in utter shock and Cloud walked up to her to calm her down a bit.
The alicorn didn't even protect herself. Instead of that, she made her horn glow and suddenly, there were changelings everywhere.
Discord was distracted, trying to find out what the actual buck was happening, but Pinkie shouted, 'Keep on fighting the queen! We'll fix this!'
She then turned to Cloud. 'Is there a possibility that we'll survive this?'
'Well,' the unicorn replied. 'You're the creative mind here. Ideas?'
Pinkie started jumping. 'Ooh, I've always wanted to bounce around in a giant hamster ball!'
'At your service,' Cloud said, and two enormous, shiny blue hamster balls appeared around the two ponies. Pinkie was the first to stabilize. 'I'm off!' she yelled.
Cloud Breaker bounced to the other side, where Twilight and her friends were still fighting. 'This was not MY idea,' he said, and then turned around to follow Pinkie.
Twilight rised an eyebrow. 'Oh, well. That was strange,' she said.
She then had to protect herself from a pack of Pinkie Pies, so she stopped paying attention to the two ponies running off in their giant hamster toys.
'What are those two doing?' Heart Shield asked Rainbow, while they both were trying to protect Haywing who was fighting against ten - if not more - changelings who looked exactly like him.
'I have no bucking idea, but I don't really want to think about it at the moment. You mind?' Dash replied, and pulled a nomming changeling off Haywing's back.
Heart didn't reply, just watched the two bouncing balls disappear in the sea of changelings. She worried about her coltfriend, but Pinkie was with him so it was fine. She'd make sure he would be safe.
'He'll be.. ugh, he'll be fine!' Haywing shouted out of nothing, as if he was reading his mind.
Heart snapped out of her dooze and kicked two changelings directly in their stomachs.
She then browinged Dash and Haywing and ducked down in the mass of angry ponies.
'Need help here?' she asked Twilight.
The unicorn didn't reply, just pointed at a pack of cheeselegs attacking Fluttershy at once.
Applejack squinted. 'No. Pony. Hurts. Fluttershy.' she said, and snorted.
Heart Shield accompanied her in her clash against the changelings, both were trying to save the banana pink pony who had been so brave.
Finally, they freed Fluttershy, who had ducked down on the ground and was shivering.
Heart Shield wrapped her wing around Flutter's shoulder, and Applejack helped her standing up while keeping the changelings away.
'Get up there,' Heart said, and pointed at Haywing. 'He's cool. You'll be safe up there.'
Fluttershy looked at the colt. 'Who is he?' she squeaked. 'Can we trust him?'
'You bet we can trust him,' AJ replied. 'The colt saved Dash!'
Fluttershy stood up. 'Fine,' she said, and lifted off.
Heart and Applejack were back to back in a very confusing fight between them and themselves, trying to keep each other safe.

'Oh Cloud, this is awesome!' Pinkie shouted, squishing the copycats.
Cloud didn't reply, he was having way too much fun bumping against everything and all the changelings. He saw Heart in the distance, and he was worried for a moment, but Applejack was with her so she should be safe.
'C'mon, go faster!' Pinkie yelled, and bumped down a small hill.
Cloud followed. 'Watch out!' he cried out, but it was too late. Pinkie fell over the edge of the mountain.
'Clooooooooooooud!' he heard her yell, then it was quiet.
Out of sudden, he saw two flashing beams in the sky, one was a rainbow, the other one the familiar moss-green and yellow.
He watched the two dive over the edge of Canterlot - he thought they should really place a fence over there - and then it became quiet. Creepily quiet.
He poofed himself out of his giant plastic ball and walked to the edge. He ducked right on time because suddenly, the two Pegasi came back up, carrying a very scared Pinkie inside a giant blue ball.
'WHOSE idea was this!?' Heart Shield yelled, and put Pinkie back on the ground.
'Mine, sorry,' the pink pony replied.
Heart turned to Cloud Breaker. 'You just... you... ugh.'
'He knows it was reckless,' Dash tried. 'You do, right?'
Cloud Breaker nodded quietly.
Dash stretched her leg and pointed out in the distance. 'And they ran over a lot of changelings, who won't be able to eat solid food for at least a month now!'
She laughed and Heart Shield could not do anything but agree with her. 'Come,' she said to her coltfriend. 'Let's go see if we can help the others.'

'Why isn't he using magic?' Twilight asked astonished. 'He has the most powerful power in whole Equestria, next to...'
She was quiet for a moment, as the wave of changelings had paused. Applejack could read her thoughts.
'The Princess has prohibited any of his magic, Twi,' the earth pony replied, and bit a changeling looking just like her. It also wore a hat. 'Ah'm gonna keep it for Apple Bloom,' Applejack continued.
A blast of light shone over the fields, blinding the changelings and the nine ponies so bravely fighting for their beloved princess.
After the light had dimmed, eighteen eyes were planted on the middle of the battlefield. The alicorn queen held Discord pinned on to the ground, making every move impossible. He was not only held by Chrysalis, but also by a magic lock similar to Twilight's, not so long ago.
The fifteen feet creature was struggling to come free, but it was useless.
'Sorry, Princess,' he whispered, and then passed out...