//------------------------------// // Final Act: Blood, Sweat and Tears // Story: Fade Away // by JoeBobWhitney //------------------------------// Discord. A God of Chaos. He was created with the intent of chaos. His entire life was filled with chaos and he enjoyed every second of it. However, being stoned or killed in this case - to put it lightly - sucked. Being stuck in stone was torture. He was stuck by himself with no way to cause chaos. It was the exact of him. Normal. But, being "killed" was partially worse. Gods aren't mortal and therefor, he couldn't be killed. So, what was the situation that he was in currently? His own subconscious after being knocked out. Yes, knocked out. He was alone in his own mind. And that was not pretty in his current state. He sat in the darkness for what seemed like years, a blinding light appeared to the right of him. "Ugh, turn off the lights." He groaned as he shielded his eyes. "I'm afraid I can't do that, Discord. " The light spoke. Turning his head, he found it to be Princess Celestia. His mouth curved into a smug smile as she walked forward. "Hello 'Celly', what brings you here?" He asked, said smile curving into a unamused frown. "For you, Discord. I have so much planned for you, but yet you deny what you can become. I wanted you to reform. Your powers would be better off used for the light of good." She explained. He scoffed. "So? I'm sure the world would be thousands BETTER without me. Trust me, I know." He then summoned a wooden chair to which he then sat on. "I've heard everything that ponies say when I'm gone. 'Oh, I'm glad that stupid DIPcord is gone' or 'He just caused chaos, he was EVIL and he deserved it'. You can't fool me, Cel'. I know who I am; and I deserve to be stone according to your little ponies. Well, thousands beat one don't they? Isn't that how votes work? You're wasting your time anyway." "Discord, I have all the time in the world to talk about this. Your magic could be used to influence thousands of ponies alike. You have the ability to do anything you want. That, alone, proves that you do what you want because you can. Tell me, you cause chaos because you think it's fun. Others don't think as much. So, that must means you only care about yourself Discord. You've lived by your own rules and only yourself listened to them." "Duh." "Discord, I know from this, that you're just lonely. You use your magic for your own amusement and you don't care about others. Discord, if you wanted friends, you should've just asked." "Is it really that easy? Is it, Celestia? Do you think that I can just walk up to somepony nowadays and ask, 'Want to be my friend?'. Do you know what they'll say in response? 'AH, IT'S DISCORD, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!' It's not that easy as you think it is." "Then join us. Fluttershy thinks as you as a friend and I'm sure you wouldn't like to be stone again." He weighed his options and he leaned towards freedom. He sighed. "Fine. If you think it's that easy than let's get out of here. Honestly, I'm just bored of everypony thinking I'm evil. I just want to have fun." He stood up and as he did, his eyes widened and stared at the Princess. "H-how..." "Let's go, Discord." She smiled and walked into the growing light. He shook his head and followed. As they entered the light, he was blinded once more. He awoke after being blind for so long. His eyes were adjusting to the sudden light change. Not to mention, the remaining pain in his body. Getting up, he stretched, happy to be finally in the world of the living. As he stretched, a loud explosion was heard, causing his ears to ring. He turned his eyes towards the gaping hole in the wall as Cole was slung into the ground, tore up to hell. He looked out the hole and saw a severely pissed Sombra who was turning the entire castle into darkness. He then grabbed Cole by the arm and teleported away to the Elements who were currently recovering from the previous battle. "Discord!" Rainbow prepared to fight. "What did-" "Shut up." She stopped at his serious tone. "I'm helping you. Cole is injured and King Sombrero is angry. What do we do?" He asked. They all seemed apprehensive at his sudden change. "Ah believe you. Ah am tha Element of Honesty. I know when yer telling a lie." Applejack spoke up. "Thank you, AJ. I am severely grateful for your trust. Now, Cole?" He cleared his throat. "I can heal him but it will take some time." Celestia spoke up. "Healing him will be difficult. You all need to keep King Sombra away. I will fuel Cole with enough energy if you can be successful." They all nodded and headed out. "Don't worry, Princess!" Rainbow saluted her before she headed out. "Wait, ponies salute?" JoeBobWhitney thought. "Yeah! We'll get that super meanie head!" Pinkie stated as she followed the group. Celestia took one last stare at Discord and nodded. He nodded back. They all left through the large hole in the wall. "So, any ideas?" He asked them. They all had their Elements on. They heard a teleport happen suddenly and they saw Shining Armor and Princess Cadence standing there. "Shiny!" "Twily!" They both hugged as Cadence stared at Discord. "I'm on their side. Don't even start Costanza." Discord scoffed. She ignored the name and turned towards the enraged ex-King, Sombra. "Sorry we're late. We had problems with changelings at the Crystal Empire. We found a end to them and now, we're here to help." Cadence explained. "Yeah. Now's it time to defeat Sombra. C'mon!" Shining ran out to battle and everyone followed. Discord stuck behind as to remain hidden. He planned his own attack and that would be stealthy. They all ran to into battle and got their asses handed to them by his rage-filled power. Attacks did nothing and were shrugged off. For minutes, he watched them all battle and they were defeated easily. They each were laid out on the ground, injured except the standing Shining. He was the strongest, being the Captain of the Guard. However, that didn't matter. He fell just like the others. Sombra stood there, laughing at their useless attempts. Discord smirked and teleported behind him, unbeknown to the dark unicorn. He reared his hands back and bared their claws and then brought them down on the unicorn. He dragged them deep in his flesh and threw him away. The dark unicorn gained balance and saw his attacker. "Discord. You traitor." He growled, horn flaring to life with a smoky, crimson aura. "I don't care what you think." He spoke back. "You're worthless." Sombra fired a blast of dark magic at him and he smacked it away and kept walking towards the unicorn. Blast after blast, Discord moved or smacked them away. He neared the unicorn and Sombra was starting to fear him after throwing away his attacks. Then, the God teleported behind him and grabbed the "King" by the neck. They stared at each-other, gazing into their souls. King Sombra's stare began to falter as he began seeing the darkest regions of the god's soul. The horrible, truly evil thoughts that he had thought of were the most vile, disturbing thing he'd ever seen. Discord smirked greatly. "Sombra, there's no fate worse than death, but I'll tell you something. Life can be hell and yours...is about to be." Discord began flooding magic into his hands, sending lethal charges into the Unicorn. "You will see my pain and why I'm choosing to do this." They all awoke moments later and saw Sombra howling in pain as Discord held on him as pink magic bolted into Sombra like electricity. Discord said one last thing before the king passed like ashes, "Adiós, hijo de puta.." With those final words, Sombra exploded in a flash of bright light. It blinded everyone excluding Discord as the energy lashed out and created even more explosions. He laughed as destruction ensued. After the light faded, everyone saw only Discord. "Pinkie, do you know what time it is?" Discord asked the pink mare. "Adventure time?" "No. It's party time." She gasped at those words and pulled out her party cannon from her mane (SOMEHOW) as he smiled. Hours later, the party began. Ponies celebrated their victory over against their enemies and partied hard. Discord was sitting outside away from all the ponies as they got a little too rambunctious for his tastes. He stared up at the dark sky and simply chuckled to himself. He then heard the door next to him open and saw Cole walking out, then take a seat next to him. "So, Discord, how did it feel being the good guy for once?" Cole asked. "It felt weird. Celestia said I did the right thing but, I mean it was simple. I'm hundreds stronger than he will ever be." Cole chuckled at Discord's honest words. "I know that feeling, bro. It felt strange too when I did something good for once after being so...evil. In a weird, twisted way, Discord, we're alike. Both of us were once evil but now we're trying to be good guys. I think you'll be a very good samartitan for this world." Cole took a sip of the fruit punch he was drinking. "What do you mean?" Discord asked the Conduit. "I'm not staying here. This world has it's 'Shepherd'. I mean, I DO have a life in my world. I can't stay here. So I'm just hoping you can be the hero Equestria needs and deserves." He explained. "You can't pin all that on me!" Discord falsely cried. Cole just chuckled and so did Discord. "I'm sure I'll be fine. So, to heroes?" He poofed a drink to him. "To heroes." They bumped glasses and took their drinks. As they poured the sugary beverages down their gullets, Twilight walked out "Hey, you two. You're missing the party." They looked at each-other and shrugged, saying why the hell not? They stood up and headed in. The awesome party was definitely lightened up after those two came in. For now, Equestria can rest easy. Hopefully. I don't know about Discord, honestlySure, the God may caused plenty of mayhem in the past but now, we can assume he changed for the better. THE END...