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// Prologue: Return of Harmony? 
// Story: Friendship is Chaos 
// by Word Worthy 
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	Discord was at it again. After over 1000 years of imprisonment in stone, his opportunity at freedom had finally arrived.

It would seem three fillies squabbling nearby was enough to crack the now brittle stone. Once free, he had immediately set out changing the land in chaotic, impossible ways. When he was finally challenged by these new bearers of the Elements of Harmony, it had been a simple matter to lure them into his chaotic maze. By now they were fully in disharmony. Discord had to admit, it had been quite the laugh seeing the Elements falling into disarray so easily.

The Draconequus reclined in his throne as he observed the amusing changes his magic had made on Ponyville. A trio of Bison performed ballet as a crowd of rabbits rushed past with legs like a giraffe's. Buildings and trees floated around in the sky without explanation, a life-sized house of cards dominated the foreground, and the sky was raining delicious apple pies.

"Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing." Discord said with an insane chuckle. He reached out at a passing cotton candy cloud with a glass, and sure enough, rather than rainwater, the glass was filled with chocolate milk. Before he could drink, a voice interrupted his celebration. 

"Not as wonderful as friendship." 

Discord looked over, only to see his greatest opponents, Twilight Sparkle and the Elements of Harmony. The six mares gazed at him defiantly. Discord regarded them with a bored, amused look on his face. "Oh, this again?" Discord drank the cup, then tossed the chocolate milk away, which then disappeared in a medium-sized explosion.

Applejack was the first to speak: "That's right. You couldn't break apart our friendship for long."

"Oh, Applejack, don't lie to me. I'm the one who made you a liar. Will you ever learn?" He retorted as he used his magic to levitate them into the air.

Twilight ignited her horn and the Element of Magic on her head to form a magical shield around her and her friends. Using the shield, she moved them away from Discord back to the ground. Regaining her confident gaze, Twilight said, "I'll tell you what we've learned Discord. We've learned that friendship isn't always easy. But there's no doubt it's worth fighting for." By now all six were again standing with defiant looks on their faces.

"Ugh, gag. Fine, go ahead, try and use your little Elements, "frenemies". Just make it quick." Discord teleported back to his throne with a flash. "I'm missing some excellent chaos here." A group of pigs with wings flew by behind him, coincidentally serving to emphasize his point.

"All right ladies, let's show him what friend ship can do!" Twilight proclaimed.

"Wait-wait-wait!" Pinkie Pie squeaked as she fanatically tried to drink the chocolate milk that was falling like rain from the strange cotton candy clouds, much to her friends' irritation. Pinkie finished then joined her friends, turned to face Discord, and growled like a territorial dog. As one, the Six Elements of Harmony combined their powers into a spectacular show of color and light. Discord merely yawned at this however, unimpressed.

The lights of their magic began to revolve around Discord. "Huh. What's this?" He said, becoming alarmed. Reaching a critical level of concentration, Twilight's eyes lit up with pure magical power. A second passed, and another, then finally a rainbow tempest of magical energy channeled from the center of where the six mares were now levitating. The rainbow made in arc in the sky, before coming down right at Discord. "No, NO!" He bellowed as the energy enveloped him.

That's when something truly strange happened. The lights and energy of the Elements of Harmony temporarily became as bright as the sun, cascading across Ponyville, then fading away. But, where there was now supposed to be a statue of Discord, there was just bare grass. No trace of the Draconequus was anywhere to be found.

"What happened? I thought we were supposed to turn that creep back to stone or something!" Rainbow Dash said. All six of the friends looked at each other in confusion. "Well, Ah reckon this couldn't be a bad thing, at least everthin's back to normal." Applejack said. Everyone seemed to agree with this as relief settled over the group gradually.

However, given her inherently skeptical nature, Twilight still couldn't help but feel a little worried. "Guys, I think we may have defeated him, but I still feel we should tell Princess Celestia about this. He wasn't supposed to just disappear like that, and only she would know if we've dealt him for good." For a moment nobody said anything else. Then: "Oh, oh I know! We should throw a party for defeating Discord!" Pinkie exclaimed excitedly. She began bouncing up and down. "Oh Pinkie Pie..." Twilight groaned, "Alright, but only after we get this sorted out with the Princesses."

The Six friends then set off toward Canterlot. There was no chocolate milk rain, animals were their normal selves again, the roads were no longer made of soap, and buildings stayed on the ground where they belonged.

Everything was, at least for the moment, back to normal. Equestria could now celebrate Discord's defeat in peace. However, In the Everfree Forest, where nopony could hear them, a mysterious being laughed maniacally, their sounds echoing across the forest.