Prologue: Disguise
Discord looked at the checkerboard sky and sighed. It’s so much fun to spread chaos across Equestria, he thought as he sat on his throne overlooking Ponyville. The newly crowned Chaos Capital of the World, Ponyville was full of his glorious work. Discord’s personal favorite was the pony who sneezed and knocked over all of the buildings around her. On his throne he felt safe from the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, they had been changed into their opposites anyway. Approaching hoofsteps brought Discord out of his chaotic thoughts. He looked up to see the Elements of Harmony returning, they had already tried once, he felt safe that they would fail again. Then he noticed that the blue mare with rainbow hair was there, they all looked like their old selves. He froze in a moment of terror. Had that pesky, purple unicorn managed to reunite her friends? Twilight Sparkle, the annoyance that she was, glared at Discord.
“You’re going down Discord!” She closed her eyes and fired up the Elements of Irritation. A rainbow began to slowly circle each of the girls before going to Twilight. The purple unicorn opened her eyes wide, now a glowing white. A rainbow shot from her crown and streaked towards Discord, he pressed his back into his throne in a desperate attempt to escape. The rainbow hit him, it burned his skin as he screamed in agony and it… tickled? Something was not right, Discord opened his eyes and saw that the rainbow was not quite right. One of the Elements is not trying to hurt me? Could that really be it? But who… Discord pondered this question as he looked around the six ponies who were trying to imprison him in stone once again. He saw one pony whose face was not as determined as the rest, Fluttershy. The rainbow was weaker and paler around her than the others. Discord smiled slowly, then letting out a great cry of false agony, he vanished, leaving in his place a stone statue of himself and returning the world to normal. The six hovering ponies floated gently to the ground, cheering when they noticed that a tear was trickling down Fluttershy’s muzzle.
Twilight stepped up to her, “What’s wrong Fluttershy?”
Rainbow Dash joined her, “Yeah, don’t tell me that you liked that stupid dracone- whatever”
Twilight looked up at Rainbow, “Draconequus”
Rainbow snorted in frustration. Fluttershy looked up at them, “Oh no, it’s… it’s not that. I just… he sounded like he was in so much pain. I feel sorry for him, that’s all.”
“Anyway ya’ll should hurry up, we need to get this over Canterlot before Discord breaks out. Again” Applejack’s countrified accent interrupted Rainbow and Twilight’s argument. A purple glow wrapped around the draconequus’ statue and Twilight’s magic levitated the statue into the air as two pegasus guards come to land in front of them with a chariot hooked to their back. In the chariot was Princess Celestia. Her pastel rainbow of a mane flowing over her back as she walked slowly over to Twilight and her friends.
“Well done, Twilight Sparkle. You have made me proud once again, as have your friends.” In the background the soldiers loaded Disord’s faux statue into the chariot. Celestia led the way as the three ponies flew back to Canterlot, the guards to put Discord back into the garden, Celestia to arrange a celebratory feast. As the six mares and Spike walked back to the newly restored Ponyville, nopony noticed a small gray colt materialize where Dicord’s statue had manifested.
“Now, it is time to observe these pesky little ponies.” With a smile and a maniacal laugh Discord teleported away in a small puff of confetti.