Incognito and Mimic were standing outside of Canterlot in their normal Changelings forms, waiting for Lavo to arrive and take them back to the badlands, they were both sitting on these two small boulders that were out on the rocky plain whilst they were waiting for Lavo. Mimic was thinking about what he saw back at the palace and then that led him to think more cautiously about Masai's Project Anarchy,
"Hey Nito" Mimic said.
"Yeah, Mimic?" Incognito asked.
"How do feel about about Project Anarchy?" Mimic asked back.
"I think you asked me about this this morning, I said I'm willing to do it, I feel optimistic about it" Incognito said, "How do you feel, Mick?"
"Excited.." Mimic replied.
"That's good, brother" Incognito nodded.
"..but it's not a good kind of excited" Mimic continued.
Incognito let out a deep breath, "How so?" He asked.
"I....I feel like this is the kind of excitement you get going into battle, a battle which you feel you're going to win but ultimately die in the end. Nito, I feel like my life will inevitably lead to that moment, I want to see the Changelings and Ponies get what's coming to them and then I'll die..." Mimic said.
"Look, Mimic. All of us have been affected by what's happened to us after the genocide incident, you've been affected after your uncle got killed, I've been affected after they killed my wife. But Masai is a ticking time bomb and brother, I'm sorry, but we're going to be there to witness the boom" Incognito told him as he leaned forward.
Mimic nodded slowly as he looked to the ground, he then looked back up at Incognito,
"What about Oz?" Mimic asked.
"What about him?" Incognito questioned.
"He's power hungry, as you said earlier, he might betray Masai" Mimic said.
"If Ozymandias had the faintest fuckin' idea on how to betray Masai, we'd all see it coming, if Oz even tries something like that, he's officially labeled a dead Changeling even before Masai gets to him, and if Masai does get to him I don't even want to think on what the consequences may be" Incognito said.
"Yeah, but Oz isn't scared of Masai, he openly taunts him in front of all of us. I've seen how just coldly stares him right in his one good eye and openly tells him what he thinks of Masai's plans and Oz thinks he's a better leader than him" Mimic said.
"Look, Masai knows what he's doing, but he's very unstable, but his plan will work" Incognito said.
"What about Discord and the...the fucking machine we saw just there? Discord is the goddamned embodiment of chaos and fucking Nikola what-what back there has a powerful piece of machinery" Mimic said, "I think Masai is carrying a crazy hoofful of nothing"
"Discord isn't chaos anymore, he hasn't been chaos for a long time" Incognito explained.
"What if he kills us? He's powerful, he's god-like for fuck sake!" Mimic shouted worryingly.
"Discord hasn't killed anyone in years, decades, centuries, eons, the list goes on. Besides he won't kill anyone for a long time now, he's gone soft" Incognito said.
Just then, a bright green flash occurred about two feet away from them, as a figure was silhouetted in the green mist that the flash left behind, the mist cleared revealing the figure to be Lavo,
"Hey, brothers" Lavo greeted.
"Hey Lavo" Incognito said.
"What's up, man?" Mimic asked.
"I'm doing fine. Cite anything unusual?" Lavo asked.
"Yeah, we did actually" Mimic replied.
"What did you see?" Lavo asked again.
"You'll never fucking believe it" Incognito told him.
"I don't fucking believe it" Masai said.
"Masai, trust me it's true" Lavo said.
"I double checked with my mind projection spell, it's real, Masai. And it's amazing" Kephri said.
"Let me look for myself please, brother" Masai said.
"Of course" Kephri replied.
Incognito came over and offered himself for the mind projection spell,
"Keph, do the projection spell on my mind" Incognito said.
"Of course, Nito" Kephri replied.
Kephri shot a bright array of purple light from his crooked horn against Incognito's temple and then the projection played out against the wall of the hut, it got all the Changelings' attention spans, including Ozymandias and Masai,
"Are you watching closely?" Nikola Tesla said on the projection.
They all watched the projection play out, they saw Tesla placed Luna's slipper into the machine, turn on the machine and finally the watched the streams of bright yellow electricity vanish the slipper,
"What the fuck..." Masai uttered.
Kephri knew it would take a while before the slipper would reappear, so he fast forwarded the projection until it was thirty seconds before the slipper reappeared. When Masai saw it, his mouth was open and he looked like he was lost in a daze, but the sudden dryness of his eye made him snap back to reality,
"What was that pony's name?" Masai asked.
"He's not a pony, he's from a different world" Mimic said.
"His name, not his origins" Masai ordered.
"It's Nikola Tesla" Incognito told him.
Masai chuckled once, then gave an evil smile,
"Brothers, I'm going to make some alters to Project Anarchy" Masai said, "We will get this Tesla after we get Discord, tomorrow night. I called him for a 'Business Arrangement'"
Masai didn't sleep the night before Discord was going to arrive at the hut, Project Anarchy became his current obsession, he couldn't stop thinking about it, the thought of Equestria burning makes him feel excited and joyful, he also can't wait to manipulate Discord, the thought of that also makes him feel excited, if he gets Discord to join him, then Masai will see that as a great feat and will then feel more confident in his Project. Most of his Brotherhood are willing to go through with the Project, they greatly respect Masai and Masai respects them, except from Ozymandias. Ozymandias hasn't showed any significant amount of respect to Masai since they were banished, and they used to be good friends when the two were in the army, they had each other's back and all that, but after they were banished, it all changed, Masai went mad and wanted Equestria in ashes and Ozymandias became hungry for power over Equestria.
Masai and the rest of his brotherhood stood outside the hut, awaiting the famed and legendary Draconequus. The clouds were dark, the sky was a pea-soup green color. The Brotherhood heard thunder, it was going to rain later. Masai stood in front of the Brotherhood and saw Discord poof amongst the trees and walked over to the Brotherhood,
"You must be Masai" Discord said.
"That I am" Masai replied.
"I'm sure I don't no introduction" Discord told him.
"Some of my brothers don't know who you are, if you kindly introduce yourself to them, I'd be much obliged" Masai replied.
Discord looked at the rest of the Changeling brotherhood and then grinned,
"Of course" He said to Masai before turning to the Brotherhood, "Gentle- uh...lings. I'm Discord for those who don't know"
The Brotherhood said nothing, they just stood there. Discord just nodded there silence off as he asked Masai,
"Should we discuss the business arrangement inside?"
"Of course, if you would follow me, Mr. Discord?" Masai asked back.
"Lead the way" Discord said as he started to float in the air in his coiled, snake-like form.
Masai turned around facing the door, he nodded to signal the Brotherhood to go inside, he followed after them and Discord followed after him. Once they were all inside, Masai led Discord to a table with two chairs, both on opposite sides of the tables, Masai sat down,
"Take a seat" Masai told Discord.
Discord sat on the seat opposite Masai, Masai had his forelegs crossed and Discord had his hands on the table,
"So you called me over about a business arrangement, wasn't it, Masai?" Discord asked.
"Yes, I want to discuss something with you" Masai replied.
"Something about the cosmic post office and you want a package sent over somewhere confidential?" Discord asked.
Masai chuckled, "No, that was a lie, Discord. The thing I'm actually wanting to discuss is a Project I want you to be apart of. You are, what they say, is chaos, correct?" Masai asked.
"I am chaos" Discord happily explained, "But I don't do that stuff anymore, I'm reformed"
"You don't understand, Discord. This isn't a matter of me asking you to help me, you ARE going to help me" Masai said calmly.
Discord got out of the seat and approached the door, but all of the Brotherhood, apart from Ozymandias and Masai,
"If you don't cooperate with us, Discord. Innocents will die" Masai told him with a smile on his face.
Discord looked down, he felt regret, he didn't want innocents to die, but he thought Masai was bluffing,
"Get out of my way" Discord told the Changelings at the doorway, "If you all know what's good for you"
"Not going to happen, chaos" Vaako said with bravery as he shook his head.
Discord tried to teleport out of the hut and make his escape, but it didn't work, he made several faces of concentration, wanting to escape from everyone in the hut, but as much he tried, he was met to no avail,
"Trying to escape, Discord?" Masai asked sarcastically, "My brother there, Lavo. Enchanted our area, so that no magic, from any being, whether that would be Alicorn, Unicorn or even Draconuus would work, except of course, Changelings. It's pretty high standard magic, but it gets the job done"
Discord was close to losing his cool, something he never usually does, but he felt uneasy around the Brotherhood,
"Have I got your attention now Discord?" Masai asked.
Discord looked down at the ground once more, but regained his cool, he turned his neck over to Masai and said to him,
"Yeah, and your brothers are going several broken bones so I have YOUR attention, Masai" Discord said as he smiled evilly.
Masai wasn't phased. But his brothers were, they knew their plan of action. Attack. Vaako charged towards Discord and attempted to upper cut him, his attempt, failed. After he tried to uppercut him, Discord dodged to the left and gave Vaako a rage-fuelled smile before swiping Vaako across the face with his right fist, his lion paw, breaking several of Vaako's teeth, and knocking Vaako to the ground. Discord shifted his small red irises towards the other four, targeting them all with laser like eyes. They all charged at him, thinking they could get him all at once, bad idea. Discord swung his tail taking out Incognito and Lavo, the force of his hit was strong enough to send them flying over to the wall, then bucked Kephri with his horse leg, before finally grabbing Mimic by the neck and slamming him against the wall, off the ground, with his lion paw,
"Discord, you do anything to Mimic and I swear to fuck...!" Masai began to say.
Discord didn't listen, he got his eagle claw and jammed it into Mimic's forehead, almost sickly enjoying what he was doing, he haven't done anything like this in centuries, it felt good for him, but for Mimic, it felt like three claws piercing through his skin and slowly tearing open, releasing blood as he felt Discord's claw scrape against his skull, it was safe to say that Mimic was feeling like shit,
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Mimic released a bloodcurdling scream.
"DAMN IT, DISCORD! CUT THIS BULLSHIT OUT, RIGHT NOW!" Masai yelled with fury, "Or else the innocent ponies that will die, will begin with your best friend" Masai said as he seethed his teeth, then laughed maniacally.
Discord stopped instantly, he froze. He let Mimic go, as Mimic slid down the wall, crying, screaming, his forehead a mess. Discord turned around slowly with his mouth slightly gaped open, he couldn't possibly believe he meant who he thought he meant,
"You..you don't mean.." Discord started.
"Yeah" Masai nodded, out of breath from his yell, "Fluttershy"
Discord crunched his knuckles, he looked at Masai with rage, then at Ozymandias, who was sitting on the couch, oddly relaxed. Oz , whilst looking at Discord tilted his towards the direction of Discord's chair,
"You best sit down, Starswirl" Ozymandias said, calmly.
"What did you call me?" Discord asked softly, but with anger still in his voice.
Masai stood up, he pointed at Discord,
"You! Sit your snake ass in that fucking chair" He ordered.
Masai then pointed at Ozymandias,
"And you, Ozymandias. Shut the fuck up! Or I'll kill you right where you're sitting"
Ozymandias gave a smug grin, he didn't care. Masai sat back down in his chair, as did Discord,
"Listen Discord. If you don't cooperate with us, I'll make sure one of my boys here tortures Fluttershy before leaving her raped, beaten corpse in my meat locker downstairs, in which I'll want to feed it to the dragons all the way across in the other mountains" Masai told him, "If you still don't cooperate, I'll make sure to do it myself"
"I'll kill you" Discord replied.
"Kill? When's the last time you killed anyone, great and powerful Discord?" Masai asked sarcastically, "Last time I heard you killed anyone was back over ten thousand years ago, and even then that was an accident. You probably don't even have the guts to kill anyone anyways, they made you soft"
Masai got up from his chair and walked around the table to get behind Discord,
"Think it about, Discord, let it be one last chaotic antic. Is that not what you want, to return to your roots?" Masai asked, "You've became pathetic, Starswirl. I know you hate that name, after the whole curse thing, you've left that persona, pursued chaos, got turned to stone, a wonderful legacy to leave behind. But when I hear that the great Discord gets released from his stone prison, starts terrorizing Ponyville, I was like, 'this is legendary', then you let yourself lose. Pathetic" Masai said.
"Get to your point" Discord said.
"If you do this one last antic with me and my brothers, I'll make sure no harm goes to any of your friends" Masai lied.
"You promise me?" Discord made sure.
"I promise" Masai lied once more.
Discord sighed, "Okay" He said slowly, "What do you want me to do?"
"It's a project called Project Anarchy for starters, what you need to do is..." Masai began.