Up through the dark valley, a group of six ponies stalked through the dark woods. None of them showed an ounce of delight, just emotions that matched the darkness of the land as they went onwards.
Ahead of them was a blackish-grey male unicorn with a leather jacket, he had a dyed green gelled mane that formed upwards and his eye sockets were ink black. On his hind, he had the cutie mark of a broken teacher stick and crumpled hat.
Next to him though, was a dark blue male Pegasus that had his mane and tail painted into black and blue strips. He had a cutie mark of a red card being held up a hoof.
He walked up closer to the darker pony and tripped him up. He then dashed forward ahead and yelled, “Yes! Now I’m ahead!”
“Foulhoof! You jerk! Wait until I get my hooves on you!” shouted the pony as his head spun.
Behind him, laughed out loud another Pegasus that was tanned coloured and had a long red mane over his left eye and was a male. His cutie mark was a shadowed pony head with an evil grinning smile.
“Stop laughing, Trample Jerk!” yelled a female black pony, with a bizarre bed-hair style black mane, her eyes peeled back and looked at the pegasus intensely. She had the cutie mark of balloons that popped.
“Are you blind or something, Frownie! Or are you just being a party pooper again!”
“Yo, Rotten Tim! Would you stop Frownie and Trample Jerk from fighting again, so I can kick Foulhoof’s ass?”
“Oh do it yourself, Dawnshade!” said this huge powerful dark brown pony that brooded. His cutie mark was a hoof slapping away another hoof.
“For peek sake, how is it that we’re even all friends!”
“Well duh,” said a grey male unicorn with greasy black hair over his head and quite a bad smell. His cutie mark was a green splodge. “Each of us, is like, some reject from all the other ponies and have, like, formed together so we can’t be alone.”
“We’re not rejects, Glomun or at least not me. I’m just someone who refused to conform to such a lame society with its dumb rules and its backwater style. But if you want to believe the rest of you are rejects, be my guess, I’m not arguing.”
“Then how come you go on about how you had it going back at that School for gifted Unicorns?”
“I did having it going, it was a nice dig, with some pretty ladies and stuff. I left it though because everyone there expected me to conform and work hard, no way. I should’ve been able to do what I wanted and when I wanted. I bet Discord would’ve made that possible, if those wimpy six Elements of harmony hadn’t imprisoned him again. I would’ve been some kind of lieutenant, because I’d really be able to get down with his anarchy and no rules, not even laws of nature and garbage like that.”
“Yeah, would be really awesome to have the dude, certainly wouldn’t have fashion be a big deal.”
“Heck, I’d like this Discord guy only because he looked out for no one but himself, just the way I like it,” said Rotten Tim.
“I bet he’d give us something all to do other than make each other laugh. I really don’t see why people laugh, there’s nothing special about it!” screamed Frownie.
“Oh you mean like laugh more, especially at the sucker who gets the wrong end of the stick!” said Trample Jerk.
“You’re about to get the wrong end of the stick!”
“Would you two stop fi-!” Shouted Dawnshade, just before he got struck in the head by an acorn.
“I’d hope Discord would bring some real sport, you guys are just no fun!” said Foulhoof.
“Dude, I think the rest of us are all better athletes than you, Foulhoof, you just cheat all the time.”
“I don’t see what cheating has to do with being the better athlete.”
“Um, Rotten Tim, could you help me out here?”
“Nope.”
“Why do you always have to be a selfish jerk?”
“You just don’t know anything about laughter, Frownie, you’re just a mopey pants.”
“Am not! I just don’t see why people need to laugh all the time! It’s so stupid!”
Their arguing was soon overcome when they heard this loud growl and looked to see Dawnshade with his teeth gritted, his eyes wincing, his body shaking and most of all his horn glowing into black light.
“Oh no! Dawnshades doing it again,” said Foulhoof just before he gulped.
They grouped around Dawnshade just before he exploded out into destructive energy that consumed kilometers over the landscape and removed trees from their roots, burnt floors, and dug up earth.
Soon as everything relaxed, the ponies came out from their cover to see Dawnshade, huffed and panted inside this large smoulder crater.
All of a sudden though, flashed and glowed in front of Dawnshade in this darkish purple light formed this grim black crown with a snapped magenta star gem on top. Similar glows of light appeared in front of the ponies, but formed in black spiked necklaces with snapped gems on them.
“What the heck are these?” asked Foulhoof.
“Looks like broken up pieces of the Elements of harmony,” replied Glomun.
“Not exactly,” echoed the items and caused the ponies to go back behind cover, all except for Dawnshade.
“It can’t be?”
“Hallo, if you are receiving this, then the worse news has happened,” said an image of a chimera like creature on the items. “I, Discord, for all the tragedy, have been defeated, once more.”
“Wait, did he just say he’s Discord?” asked Trample Jerk.
“Shush,” said Frownie.
“What a pity- what pity, the world left without I, the real enjoyment and freedom of this world has been locked away. Although it was very unlikely and perhaps should’ve been impossible, I left myself with a backup plan in case this outcome did happen, no matter how improbable it was. You see, what I have done, is that while I had the Elements of harmony, I duplicated them and added my own touches to form what you have in front of you, the Elements of Chaos.”
“Elements of chaos- rad,” said Glomun.
“These Elements of Chaos are everything like the Elements of Harmony but have been modified to seek out those that would fit my qualifications, if I were to be defeated. And so, whoever has found these-”
The ponies were then elevated off their hooves by a dark shroud that coiled underneath them.
“Means that I have presented you, not only with the means of power-”
The necklace and crown then latched over their respective pony and caused a whoosh of flame to erupt around them, in the form of a dark aura.
“But with the means to rescue me from my imprisonment and be unleashed once again.”
Discord then erupted into laughter as all six ponies were dropped back onto the ground with tendrils of flames that still danced around them.
“You know, why don’t we just go for the part of power and forget freeing Discord?” asked Rotten Tim.
“Oh yes, one thing I almost forgot to mention in this recording. For any of you who plan to cross me, the Elements of chaos have also been formed to be practically chained to you and will bring a similar fate onto you that I have right now, unless you are able to free me within thirty-six hours.”
“Alright! A real challenge!” shouted Foulhoof.
“Oh, I love Discord’s nastiness.” said Trample jerk.
“Heck, I’m just glad we have something that we can laugh about, but smiling will be good enough.”
“Yes-yes I don’t believe it. A way to free us from the imprisonment of society, a way to truly express ourselves and a way to make people embrace chaos!”
*
Walked up to her next tree, a brown horse, with a blonde mane and wore a cowboy hat braced herself and bucked. Apples fell down and with them, landed this pink pony on top of her back and startled her.
“Um, Pinkie pie?”
“Hey Applejack.”
“Mind telling me what you were doing up on that tree and now doing on my back?”
“Oh, I was looking for you?”
“So you went up a tree and figured you’d find me there?”
“Don’t be silly, I knew you were out apple harvesting, so I knew you’d come to this tree eventually.”
“Sigh, well it’s nice to see you Pinkie pie, but why did you need to see me while I was harvesting?”
“Oh yeah, because Twilight needs to see us?”
“What? Now?”
“Yes, it’s urgent!”
“Urgent!” Applejack then rocketed forward, but then halted for a second. “Um, Pinkie pie, mind getting off my back?”
“Oh, sorry.”
*
Arrived in Twilights home, all of the six ponies of harmony and the baby dragon Spike were gathered together, with Applejack and Pinkie pie only just now arrived.
“Hey, Twilight, I came as soon as I heard, what’s the problem?”
“Yeah, I’d like to know what interrupted my awesome practicing. I was just about perfected my super cool manoeuvre.” said a light blue Pegasus with rainbow coloured hair, named Rainbow Dash.
“You’re fancy manoeuvre, please, I was just in the middle of producing my top new design to unveil tomorrow.” said a white unicorn with fabulous purple hair named Rarity.
“Um, maybe if we let her say, what she’s trying to say, maybe we’ll find out, if that’s alright.” spoke this quiet yellow pony with pink long hair named Fluttershy.
“Thank you, Fluttershy, and thank you for all coming. I’ve received a letter from Princess Celestia that we need to go and see her urgently.”
“What!? You mean we have to go all the way to Canterlot!?”
“Rainbow Dash! This is Princess Celestia we are talking about!” said Rarity.
“I’m sorry, kind of just came out of me.”
“It’s alright; it’s strange that Princess Celestia would summon us when all is quiet.”
“Well, let’s get going and find out what her majesty’s wanting.” said Applejack.
*
After a long trip, with the help of Celestia’s carriage, the ponies and Spike had arrived into Canterlot’s palace where they were met by the princess herself. They all bowed respectively to her and followed her through the white corridors of her home.
“Thank you all for coming, my little ponies.”
“The pleasure is ours princess, but what seems to be the problem?” asked Twilight.
“Another unfortunate event has transpired, one that could grow to be just as great as Princess Luna and Discord.”
“Oh, is it Princess Luna and Discord put together?” questioned Pinkie Pie.
“Well, no and not that great either, but it could still spell the end of Equestria.”
“Don’t worry your highness, we ponies are here and are up for any challenge that comes at us.” said Applejack.
“So how about telling us this problem so that we can straighten it out for you?” asked Rainbow dash.
They had entered into the great halls with the circular table, where each pony took a seat at.
“Thank you for your ray of confidence, Rainbow dash and Applejack. But make no doubt that this here will be a challenge. You see, even though you have defeated Discord, he has fiendishly managed to keep one of his claws latched onto this world that could be enough to pull the rest of him back out.”
“I’m afraid I’m not good with riddles, your majesty. Could we just get to the heart of problem without having making guesses, if you don’t mind me saying?” requested Rarity.
“Very well. But the point is that even though you have imprisoned Discord, thanks to his magic once more, he is not fully defeated.”
There was an echo of gasps that sounded throughout the room.
“But how, your majesty? I thought that when Discord was defeated, all his magic was locked away with him.”
“So did I, but Discord seems to have broken that rule and breaking rules is his specialty. You see, while Discord had the Elements of harmony, he had managed to make a copy of them somehow and formed what has been named as the Elements of Chaos.”
“The Elements of Chaos?”
“That’s right, a completely different set from the originals that feed on the spirits of misery, meanness, isolation, ugliness, cheating and chaos. All six of which Discord had hidden and could only be uncovered once a group of six ponies with spirits that matched these qualities and would be made to free Discord.”
“How do you know all this?” asked Twilight. “If you don’t mind me asking.”
“That’s alright, Twilight. We managed to pick up a recording in process that was made by Discord himself, being played out to the founding six.”
“In process? Does that mean that there are six ponies already been found to try and free Discord?”
“Correct.”
“Okay, so we know why six ponies would be off to free Discord because they are being made to. But what six ponies could there possibly be that would match these Elements of Chaos thing? Sounds as if Discord should’ve just left the part of forcing ponies to free him?” questioned Rainbow Dash.
“A good question, Rainbow Dash. My other subjects have already looked into this and have come up with six possible ponies that could match their qualities. It also happens that each one of you know one of them. So I’ll hand out their gathered Intel sheets one by one of the possible six.” Princess Celestia had then picked up the first sheet and threw it across the table to the other ponies.
Looking at the ID photo of the first one, Pinkie Pie let out a scream and frantically said. “Frownie?”
“Frownie?” asked Spike.
“Yeah, Frownie, back when I first started having parties, I’d invite her to see if I could turn that frown she always had. She didn’t want to come, but her Mother made her show up and when she did, she’d always be the party pooper. She’d never smile no matter how much fun we had, always criticised what we were doing and would get so mad if we wouldn’t stop laughing.”
“She was a party pooper alright.” said Applejack.
“What’s more is, she hated laughing so much, she left town.”
“We’ll assume she’s Misery then, if she’s one of the Elements of Chaos,” said Twilight.
“Here’s the next one.”
“Oh no, not her!” said Fluttershy and partially hid her face underneath the table. “Trample Jerk, she was mean, very mean. She’d always pick on all the little creatures as part of her sick twisted humour. She eventually left after all the creatures had enough of her and were able to chase her out of town.”
“So she’ll probably be the spirit of Meanness.”
“What the, Foulhoof, you can’t be serious!” shouted Rainbow Dash.
“Foulhoof?” asked Applejack. “Never heard of him?”
“That’s because he only hung around Cloudsdale before everyone kicked him out for all the cheating he use to do. He’d always boast at how he was the greatest and most athletic, but whenever he’d try to prove it, he’d do some cheat trick in every competition. Eventually no one wanted to play against him anymore, that he left. I was hoping the guy would’ve learnt his lesson.”
“So in other words, he might be the Spirit of Cheating.” replied Applejack.
“Might be, he practically is!”
“She means if he’s one of the ones that wield the Elements of Chaos.”
“Oh, still.”
“Next one, girls.”
“Wait, that’s Rotten Tim.” said Applejack.
“Are you the one that knows him?” asked Twilight.
“Not exactly, but I have heard of him. During a harvest meeting, one family would complain how they had this no good son, who was so big and strong, but would never accept help or give it. Eventually he stopped helping his family entirely with the apple harvest and just scuttled out of town. I bet the low down varmit’s Isolation.”
“Second last one, girls.”
“Oh my, isn’t that Glomun?” questioned Rarity
“Who?” asked Spike.
“You haven’t heard. He was on the fashion magazine for one of thy most, if not thy most, unfashionable pony in all of Equestria. The pony had no taste whatsoever and would make no attempt to do something about his unhygienic form or consider the latest fashion, in fact, word is that he detested fashion and saw it as nothing more as waste of time trying to look your best.”
“We’ll assume that he’s ugliness then,” said Twilight.
“And here’s the last one, girls.”
“Oh, please no, not him...” said Twilight.
“Woah, it’s that guy- again- what was his name again?” asked Spike. “Oh yeah, Dawnshade.”
“Yuck, what an atrocious taste in fashion. Black eye lid and jacket, so last century,” said Rarity.
“Hold on, I’d like to know who Dawnshade is?” asked Applejack.
“Dawnshade was one of the students at the school for gifted unicorns. He had so much potential. But was never one for rules or taking orders that he often talked back at the teachers, harassed students and disrespected all our codes and rules. After we warned him to stop, he left the school.”
“So what’s with the reaction, Twilight? Do you hate bad boys that bad? Although I will have to say that he doesn’t look that much of a bad boy with those painted eye lids.” questioned Rainbow dash.
“Actually,” said Twilight, before she cringed for a moment. “The guy had a crush on me.”
“What!?” shouted all five ponies.
“Yeah, before he left the school, he’d always hit on me and it was so gross.”
“Heck, I’d remember how he’d treat you as if you already were his girlfriend, guy was such a dork.”
“Dork is right, but nonetheless, a guy who doesn’t respect rules and codes sounds like the chaos one.”
“And so you have it. All six of these ponies could possibly be those who have been chosen to be Discord’s Elements of chaos and quite possibly have already formed together. All six had left the kingdom, which means they could’ve possibly all been together.”
“So we’ve got six bad apples trying to free the rottenness of them all.” said Applejack.
“Where is Discord anyways?” asked Pinkie pie.
“Back in Ponyville, - being put up for display,” said Twilight slowly. “For a while.”
“I think it was maybe a bad idea asking you all to come to Canterlot.”
“I think it was a bad idea bring to Discord all the way there to be put out in the open.”
“Rainbow dash!” said Rarity.
“Well it is true isn’t it?”
“Doesn’t matter, majesty, thank you for summoning us, but we’ll be having to take our leave.” said Twilight as they began to charge back out.
“It’s no problem, Twilight, and good luck to all of you!”
*
Shadowed over from the ledge of a hill top all six ponies, now wielders of the Elements of chaos, looked down with mischievous smiles and grins on their faces at the quiet village, Ponyville.
“Isn’t it great to be back and to be the bringers of a new age of chaos?” said Dawnshade.