Return of Harmony pt2
Discord had succeeded in breaking the bond that Twilight and her friends shared. The Elements of Harmony are still missing.
Cosmos hoped that their bond would be untouchable, but her hope had been shattered by the disfigured monster.
It appeared that Chaos’s newest minion was able to succeed in weakening Equestria. It would not be long until the God of Discord decimates Equestria.
Twilight Sparkle and the Warrior of Light were left completely unaware what Discord had done to their companions. Warrior marches to the pool in the Grove of Truths to figure it out.
Warrior finally arrived to the pond and stared at the clear water then he peered into the pool to find out what happened to the others. The reflective waters began to project an image which began to tell Warrior what happened to the ponies.
He saw Applejack surrounded by three piles of apples, these plies were in fact alive! They were piled on top of each other in a way that gave them eyes and a mouth. They surrounded Applejack and began to mock her. Warrior was stunned at the living piles of Apples.
"Go ahead, take a peek." Spoke a pile of light red apples. Applejack peered into the same pool that Warrior was currently looking into.
She saw a horrible image of her image of her friends ending their friendship at the end of this mission.
"No! My friends! Our friendship, over!? What about joining Cosmos?" She had another thought that frightened her. "What will happen in this war?" Applejack panicked, she saw the image of Warrior abandoning them.
"How could you do this to me!?" Warrior shouted and he walked away leaving the group with sad faces. The next vision she saw was the horrifying image of Cosmos being engulfed completely in flames.
"No! This can’t be true. It just can’t!" Applejack yelled she took her stetson off and held it over her heart. The piles of apples continued to mock her.
The three piles smirked at her. Then they all spoke. "When all the truth does..."
"...is make your heart ache, sometimes a lie is easier to take." The pool showed Discord speaking through the apples and working his mesmerizing words to manipulate Applejack. Applejack lost her orange coat and turned grey.
Warrior looked up from the pool and growled bitterly. The same trick he tried to pull on him he pulled on them, only this time Cosmos wasn’t there to save them. He made her succumb to deception! He gazed back into the pool and it projected the image of Pinkie Pie being surrounded by balloons with faces on them. They were all laughing hysterically at her. Pinkie Pie was face down in the mud she looked at the balloons with great confusion.
"Hey, what gives?" Pinkie Pie asked.
Discord was standing a few feet away from her. "What's the matter, Pinkie Pie? I thought you appreciated a good laugh?"
"It's different. They're laughing at me."
Discord moved his head off his neck and placed it on a balloon. "It's hardly different. Your friends laugh at you all the time."
Pinkie Pie knew that statement wasn’t true. "My friends laugh with me, not at me."
"Oh, really?" Discord questioned. The Balloon he possessed started spinning around Pinkie Pie with great speed. Discord began to work his powers on her. The laughter began to affect Pinkie Pie badly, she began to hear hurtful laughter that is meant for the expense of others.
Pinkie Pie lowered herself and started cowering. "No! Stop it! Stop laughing at me!"
Discord gave her a concerned look. "Oh, poor Pinkie Pie. And here I thought laughter made you happy." He stared at Pinkie Pie in the eyes and began to manipulate her.
Pinkie Pie lost her pink put on a seriously angry face. "Happy? I don't think so."
Warrior raised his head away from the pool and growled.
Discord had reappeared in front of Twilight, after she tried desperately hard to get her outrageous friends under control. Discord was sitting on a purple sofa and snacking on popcorn as he watched Twilight’s friends fight each other.
"You ponies are the most fun I’ve had in eons!" Discord mocked. Fluttershy was busy laughing at Pinkie Pie which in turn made her very angry. Applejack was trying to use tricks to get Rarity’s so called diamond, which caused Rarity to kick her away trying to protect her boulder. Rainbow Dash was still missing.
Twilight glared at Discord. "Stop it, Discord. You're not playing fair."
Discord scoffed. "I'm not playing fair? Perhaps we haven't met." The spirit began making hand motions to represent what he was talking about. "I'm Discord, spirit of chaos and disharmony, and the god of discord’s newest ally." He got in Twilight’s face to remind her who he was. "Helloooooo?"
Twilight growled at the spirit. "How are we supposed to find the Elements of Harmony when you took away the labyrinth before we could get to the end?"
Discord laughed as it turned out Twilight had it all wrong. "Oh, wait, did you...? How funny! You thought the Elements were in the labyrinth?" Discord snapped his fingers and took Twilight back in time when he spoke his riddle. "Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the Elements back where you began." He returned Twilight back to the present time. "I never said they were in the labyrinth." Warrior heard that and roared in rage at the spirit.
Discord smirked at Warrior. "Oh Warrior, don’t be mad at me because you misinterpreted my message."
Twilight was taken completely by surprise, she had it all wrong. "But...but..."
Discord shrugged and walked away from Twilight and continued to mock her. "Keep trying, Twilight Sparkle. Maybe the magic of friendship can help you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to report my success to Chaos. You better prepare to die!"
"What!?" Warrior shouted.
"The warriors of chaos would love nothing more than to make you pay for defying Chaos. It won’t be long until they ravage this world, burn every inch of Equestria down and kill each and every one of you!" Discord pointed to each of the ponies and Warrior to tell them that they will all die. "Not only that I also would like to wreak a little chaos myself before this world burns to the ground."
"I totally love fire! I can totally take the heat!" Applejack said, continuing to lie.
"Good! Everpony will die, no more laughing!" Pinkie Pie said harshly.
"I can’t wait to see everypony in pain!" Fluttershy said. Twilight and Warrior were stunned at their friend’s behavior.
"I don’t care just as long as the fire doesn’t hurt my precious diamond!" Rarity said petting her boulder. Twilight trotted over to Warrior with a look of despair on her face.
Twilight was having trouble talking. "Warrior….I’m afraid…..look at everypony, they don’t care if our home is destroyed or not!"
"I fear the same, I just hope whatever’s happening to them can be reversed." Warrior said.
"We’re running out of time." Twilight said. "I need to figure out what Discord truly meant." Twilight began to pace the ground and attempt to figure everything out.
Warrior peered into the pool again to get more answers. He saw Discord circling Fluttershy and he simply tapped her head with his claw, and began manipulating her.
Discord spoke in great anger. "Oh, for goodness sake! You've been kind for far too long, my dear. Time to be cruel."
Warrior began to shake in rage as the pool began to tell what happened to Rarity.
She was staring at a stone wall that had three large diamonds in it the way they were assembled closely resembled Rarity’s cutie mark. She was completely enticed by the sheer size and beauty of the diamonds. All of a sudden Discord’s face appeared on the diamonds surfaces. He snickered and spoke to Rarity.
"Welcome to your lucky day, Rarity. You've found the one thing in Equestria that could rival my face for sheer beauty. What do you think?" Discord began to work his evil powers and began to manipulate her. "You like?"
Rarity began walk sluggishly to towards it with hungry eyes she was falling right for his trap. "Yes... I like very much…" Luckily she managed to snap out of it. "I shan't succumb to such fabulousness." She started to walk away from it, but she kept looking back and eyeing the diamonds and found it hard for her to walk away. "Must... get to the center... to meet... the others." She sadly succumbed to greed and leapt at the stone. "MINE!" She lost her color and began violently digging at the stone wall. After some time she managed to unearth the large boulder she dug out, but Warrior gasped as the pool showed him the boulder changing into a giant diamond. Rarity was covered in dirt and panted from the exercise. "Well, Rarity. It took forever, but it was worth it. She eyed her giant prize and began to pet the front of it. Who knew three little gemstones would turn out to be this handsome hunk of a diamond? Now to get you home."
Warrior looked at the ponies giving Twilight a hard time. Warrior sighed as he gazed into the pool again, the pool began to tell him what happened to Rainbow Dash and where she may have gone to.
Rainbow Dash was throwing punches at Discord as he gave her a serious stare. "I'm here to deliver a message."
"I've got a message for you too!" Rainbow Dash argued, continually throwing punches at the spirit.
"Listen closely, this is important." Discord smirked as he began to speak in another riddle. He moved around Rainbow Dash and kept smirking at her. "A weighty choice is yours to make. The right selection or a big mistake. If a wrong choice you choose to pursue, the foundations of home will crumble without you." Discord moved in front of Rainbow Dash and snapped his fingers. A cloud appeared in front of Rainbow Dash and began to spin very fast it projected the image to Rainbow Dash. The image of Cloudsdale crumbling, with all the pegasi fleeing in panic.
"Cloudsdale? Crumble... without me? No!" Discord used this opportunity to use his powers to manipulate her.
A gift box appeared in front of Rainbow Dash that was wrapping in blue paper and yellow ribbon. "That box contains your wings. You can take them and leave the game, or you can carry on aimlessly wandering this maze. Your choice." He ran his finger across her face and his powers took effect. Rainbow Dash lost her colors and opened the box and her wings reappeared on her back.
Warrior growled and rose up from the pool. "Discord you bastard!" Unfortunately the dark sky above them became covered in pink clouds and began to rain chocolate milk.
Pinkie Pie looked upwards in disgust. "Chocolate milk? I hate chocolate milk!"
Twilight struggled to figure out the riddle. Her eyes were closed shut and she tapped her head to get her head to figure it out. Think, Twilight, think! "Find the Elements back where you began. Back where you began."
Applejack and Fluttershy were teasing Rarity by constantly touching her rock. Warrior marched back to Twilight and tried to go and clam down the other ponies.
Twilight saw them fighting. "Ugh. I just want to go home..." That word really spoke to her. "Wait a minute... Home! 'Back where you began!' The Elements must be in..." She turned to her home in the distance. "Ponyville!" Ponyville was horribly disfigured. Buildings were floating in midair, trees and objects were covered in polka dots and the ground was covered in pink and red checkered floor, while other parts were covered in light blue and dark blue checkers. Other parts had chocolate raining down on it. "Come on, girls." Twilight lead the way back to Ponyville, Warrior finally managed to calm the others down and get them to come back to Ponyville. "I'm certain this is what Discord's riddle really meant. If we get back to the library, I have a book that I just know can give us a clue." All of a sudden a huge flock of bunnies with long legs like before, they all trampled Twilight. "Ah!"
"Twilight! Are you ok?" Warrior said helping her back to her hooves.
"I’m fine but I’m still worried about what’s gonna happen." Twilight sighed.
"Right. If we don’t hurry Chaos’s army will arrive and decimate this world."
At the Edge of Madness Discord just finished reporting to Chaos everything that had happened in Equestria. Discord was bowing before the evil god with a proud smile on his face.
"Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu." Chaos laughed. "Well done, wayward spirit. You have ended the friendship of the six mares."
"You’ve proven yourself to be of use to us." Garland said.
"It was no trouble at all!" Discord smiled picking his head up.
"However you did fail at getting the warrior to join us." Garland pointed out.
"You can thank Cosmos for that!" Discord hissed.
"No matter." Chaos said. "With their powers gone, Equestria can easily be destroyed."
Discord frowned. "Not quite, Twilight Sparkle still believes in her friendship, so her powers are still intact. Not to worry though, it won’t take long until her spirit breaks. Until then I’ll wreak some chaos in Equestria, and don’t worry once she breaks I’ll leave them to you, to execute one by one. However before you go and do that, I would like to use the Warrior of Light as a guinea pig."
"For what?" Garland asked.
Discord smiled evilly as he took out a piece of the crystal ore that forms the manikins. Then he vanished and returned to Equestria.
At the Lunar Subterrane, Kefka was stalking Terra, he was pleased to see that his original puppet had returned. He was eager to attempt to get her under his control again. Terra was returning to the Sanctuary as well as the other warriors of Cosmos. All of a sudden Jecht appeared behind Kefka.
"Glad to see her again?" Jecht asked.
"Oh yes." Kefka smiled. "She’s a lot more fun to torment then the pretty pony, but that’s not to say that the little princess doesn’t have a little fight in her." He turned to Jecht. "What about you? If I recall I saw your boy on Cosmos’s side."
Jecht scoffed. "That little brat needs to stay out of my way, otherwise I’ll have to give him a good beating." He smiled and slammed his fist into his hand.
"I just hope you’ll make him beg for mercy, or make him bleed for making him want to fight you so badly. Hmmmmhmhmhmhmh." Jecht was disturbed by Kefka’s words but decided to leave it alone.
Back in Equestria The daylight instantly switched to nighttime.
"His powers are getting out of control fast." Warrior said. "We’re in big trouble if he really can manipulate the weather like this." Unfortunately the ground around them suddenly became soaked in slippery soapy water. The group was struggling to stand and the nighttime immediately switched to daytime.
"Wah! Ahh! Whoa!" Twilight slipped and fell on her face, she struggled but finally managed to pick herself up. "Discord's turned our dirt roads into soap!" Then Discord appeared behind them and skated on the soap like it was ice. Warrior slipped and fallen on his bottom and glared at the evil spirit.
Discord moved in front of the group and moved his arms and presented Ponyville in all its disoriented glory. "Beautiful, isn't it? This is the new and improved Ponyville, and these are only my first of changes."
Pinkie Pie also skated around on the soap with her angry look on her face. "This may look like fun, but it's not." Pinkie Pie growled. Twilight sighed bitterly and Discord appeared right next to Twilight and placed his arm around her neck.
"Take your arm off her!" Warrior threatened, standing back up but only to slip and fall again. Discord scoffed at Warrior and placed his hands around Twilight and lifted her up. He reached out his arm and smiled at the chaos that his ponyville. He spread his arm around in a presenting fashion.
"Picture it. The chaos capital of the world!" She held out Twilight to see Ponyville, however the daytime instantly changed to nighttime.
"I can't picture anything. It's too dark." Twilight grumbled. Discord dropped Twilight and she landed on the ground with a loud splash.
"Well, wait a few minutes and you'll see it in the beautiful light of day." Discord smirked. "Or not. Chaos is getting ready to burn this world to ashes!"
Warrior struggled to get up and this time he managed to stay standing up. "What’s stopping him? Why doesn’t he just invade this world already?"
Discord pointed at Twilight and Warrior. "Because you two are still in the way, Twilight won’t pose much of a threat, but you Warrior of Light could be a great annoyance. Which is why I have a new toy I want you to play with."
Warrior stared him down. "What?" Discord snapped his fingers and a new crystal figure appeared in front of Warrior’s eyes, then the group’s jaws all dropped.
"What!?" Twilight shouted in disbelief.
"A new manikin!?" Warrior shouted. Indeed it was a new manikin, which resembled Discord.
"Yes, one molded in my image!" Discord smiled he patted its head. He gave Warrior a maniacal smile. "You see once you’re out of the way, my associates will show up here and kill every pony in this world! Before they can do it, you need to die! My new toy will see to that! Let’s see if you can deal with a more deadly and merciless version of the master of chaos!" Discord stared at his manikin then pointed at Warrior. "That knight, kill him!" Discord vanished.
"No!" Warrior shouted.
"Warrior!" Twilight said in a concerned tone.
Warrior drew his weapon. "Run! Get to the Library and get the Elements of Harmony. It’s after me not you!"
"Hope you get hurt puny little squire!" Fluttershy mocked.
"I believe in Warrior, he can beat this monster!" Applejack said. Warrior wanted to believe her, but he knew at the current time she couldn’t be trusted.
"I hope I don’t have to see that stupid armor of yours again!" Pinkie Pie growled. Warrior was a little hurt at their cruel words, but remembered that they’re not responsible for their actions.
Rarity panicked when she figured out a fight was about to happen. "No! I must get Tom away from this battle before he gets hurt! Warrior rolled his eyes, she actually named that stupid boulder Tom?"
"I won’t leave you!" Twilight cried.
"I will defeat this foe." Warrior assured. "Go! Get your elements back! Warrior drew his sword and shield and Twilight reluctantly gathered the others and took them to the Library."
Warrior stared down his new enemy and charged right at it. Warrior swung his sword at the manikin but it vanished in a puff of smoke before Warrior could damage it. The manikin reappeared above Warrior and sent purple colored lightning at him. Warrior didn’t see it coming so it electrocuted him.
Warrior quickly shook it off and dug his sword into the ground and used his light wave attack. "Bathe in the Light!" The light traveled upwards and touched the manikin and it shattered into pieces and scattered around the ground. Warrior felt proud of himself and decided to move towards the Library. Unfortunately he failed to notice the crystal shards sinking into the ground and it reformed itself. With it concealed in the ground it crept over to Warrior, he never saw it coming and the manikin punched through the ground and hit Warrior in the mouth, he was sent flying through the air and he landed on his back. Warrior grumbled and raised himself. He saw his opponent and growled.
"Persistent!" Warrior shouted. Guess this opponent has Discord’s power to warp reality. He got back on his feet and the manikin vanished and reappeared behind Warrior and extended its claws, Warrior turned his head and the manikin scratched Warrior across the face. Warrior touched his face and felt his own blood on his hand. Warrior quickly acted and used his Shield of Light attack. "Shine!" The light shot out unfortunately the manikin vanished and the light missed. Warrior cursed under his breath as he looked around for his enemy. The manikin reappeared behind Warrior and smacked Warrior with its tail, launching him several feet away. Warrior slid on the ground and slid on his back until he hit a tree. He moaned in pain when he felt intense agony from the impact. Warrior staggered until he final managed to climb back to his feet.
He paused for a moment until something happened in his mind. The voice of Twilight began to speak in his mind.
"Welcome to Ponyville, in the world of Equestria."
Warrior stayed still until he figured it out…some of his old memories have returned to him!
"I guess my will to protect these ponies and this world must have been some sort of catalyst for remembering." Warrior said to himself. Warrior saw the enemy vanishing and reappearing all around him, Warrior finally saw his chance and acted quickly. He waved his hand in the air and used a red fang. "Give me strength!" Several flames appeared and slightly burned the manikin, Warrior then leaped at the manikin and used his shield of light attack. "Shine!" Unfortunately the manikin vanished an reappeared in front of Warrior once his attack ended. The manikin inhaled and started to breathe fire at Warrior just like a dragon. Warrior wasn’t expecting it so it hit him right in the front and he was in searing pain caused by the scorching flames. He would have screamed but the manikin quickly swung its tail and knocked Warrior to the ground. Warrior quickly opened his eyes and saw the manikin right in his face with his claws ready to impale Warrior in the neck thus finishing him off. Warrior tensed up, fearing the worse when all of a sudden….
"Fire!" A large stream of fire shot out and incinerated the manikin finishing it for good. It was reduced to a smoldering pile of dust before Warrior. Warrior breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Twilight rushing to his rescue. She cast a powerful Fire spell to defeat the enemy. Twilight stood over Warrior and chanted her Cure spell and healed Warrior’s wounds.
"Are you ok?" Twilight said in a very worried tone.
"I’m fine." Warrior said, coughing slightly. "You know white and black magicks?"
"Yes!" Twilight said. "Rarity and I have been practicing the arts so we could help you out. Cosmos and Princess Celestia gave us some tomes to study, and thanks to a friend, I’ve been researching ways to create my own spells." Warrior inspected each of them and found out that the Elements of Harmony are around the ponies necks, and Twilight had her tiara on. "In fact, that fire spell seemed much more powerful than usual. Maybe it’s just like my Blizzard spell, it too must have gained a level."
Warrior explained the rest. "In that case your Fire spell is now called Fira."
Pinkie Pie looked like she wasn’t happy to see Warrior alive. "Good you survived! I don’t wanna hear any laughs from you!"
"I’m glad you’re safe but stay away from Tom!" Rarity warned. Warrior rolled his eyes again.
Fluttershy hovered above Warrior’s head while holding a bucket of water. "Say Warrior what’s soaking wet and completely clueless?"
"What are you babbling about?" Warrior asked.
"Warrior don’t!" Twilight shouted. But Fluttershy dumped the water on Warrior soaking him completely.
"Your face!" Fluttershy said feeling proud of herself. She slammed the bucket on Warrior’s helmet. The two gold horns at the top of his helmet pierced the bottom and the bucket made it all the way to his face. Warrior grumbled and pulled the bucket off.
Twilight face hoofed. "I’m sorry, she did the same thing to me earlier!"
"It’s alright." Warrior assured, he took another glance at the pieces of jewelry. "Those are the Elements of Harmony?"
"Yes, you have no idea how hard it was to get everypony to put them on!" Twilight sighed, but quickly smiled. "Fortunately though, I did manage to solve Discord’s riddle. The Elements were hiding in a book I was reading this morning!" Warrior noticed something off about the whole set up.
"Where’s the Element of Loyalty? Where’s Rainbow Dash?" Twilight used her magic and pulled Spike out from behind her, he was wearing her Element of Loyalty.
"She’s still missing, so for now Spike will take her place." Twilight explained. Spike looked extremely nervous. Warrior shook his head, they both knew this wasn’t going to work well. All of a sudden Discord appeared in front of them, not pleased that his manikin failed to defeat Warrior. He smiled at Twilight and laughed at her for finding the Elements of Harmony.
"Well, well, well, I see you've found the Elements of Harmony." He said. "How terrifying!" He turned his attention to Warrior. "How pathetic, you would have died if these ponies had not stepped in!"
"Maybe you’re not as powerful as you thought you were!" Warrior said coldly.
Twilight stepped forward. "Discord! I've figured out your lame riddle. You're in for it now!"
Discord started acting sarcastically, like he truly was defeated. "I certainly am. You've clearly out-dueled me, and now it's time to meet my fate. I'm prepared to be defeated now, ladies." Discord put on a pair of red sunglasses to shield his eye from the bright light, and moved his hand over his chest and target appeared on his midsection. "Fire when ready."
"Formation, now!" Twilight ordered.
"Eh.." The others went in unison, they clearly didn’t care if they won or not. Spike was not in Rainbow Dash’s spot. "Rainbow Dash! Get Over Here!" Spike crawled out from behind Tom and began shaking, he slowly took his place between Twilight and Applejack. All right, let's get this over with.
Back at the Sanctuary Onion Knight was the first of the other warriors to arrive. He marched up to Cosmos and knelt.
Cosmos began explaining things to Onion Knight. "A new world is on the verge of destruction by Chaos, you must assist your fellow warrior to prevent this disaster from happening." She raised her arm and motion where he must go in order to enter Equestria. "What you’re about see will shock you at first, but that doesn’t change the fact that this new world needs us." Onion Knight’s curiosity peaked, he rose to his feet and walked in the direction were Cosmos was motioning.
In Exdeath’s Rift. Squall Leonhart was marching alone, something that’s not unusual for someone like him. He was returning to the Sanctuary and was thinking about this other world that Cosmos was talking about.
("Equestria? What a odd name, I just hope it doesn’t mean what I think it means. Equestria? I hope it has nothing to do with those horses that were fighting on Chaos’s side.") All of a sudden a Discorded Equine appeared in front of him. Squall cringed as he stared at this alicorn shaped manikin. ("Is this stupid thing really gonna try and kill me?")
Unbeknownst to him Trixie was watching him from the roof of the castle from above.
The manikin fired a lightning bolt from its horn. Squall quickly took out his Gunblade and swung it at the bolt and sliced it dispelling the attack. The manikin took flight and soared around Squall’s eye line.
"All right." Squall said, accepting this enemy’s challenge. "This is…." Jumped up and launched himself at the manikin with the blade put forward. "….The End!" He soared at the Equine with incredible speed, but it vanished before Squall hit it. Squall stopped when he noticed that one of his most deadly attacks had missed.
The manikin appeared in front of him and quickly shot a fire beam at Squall. He didn’t have time to react and ended up getting hit in the stomach and ended up getting slammed against one of the castle walls. Squall got angry and he gripped his gunblade tightly. The Equine began to zip around the air again trying to stay out Squall’s eye line so he couldn’t focus on it.
Squall jumped up and threw his hand forward and began casting his Mystic Flurry. He shot out icicles powered up with lightning. The manikin slowed itself down but not fast enough to avoid the attack, the electricity shot out and electrocuted the Equine, the icicles exploded and slammed the manikin against the ground. Squall took his chance to finish off his opponent. Fire traveled down his arm and covered the blade of his weapon. He raised his blade and began to use his Blasting Zone. "How do you like this!?" He brought his fiery blade down on the manikin, and incinerated it.
Squall looked over his enemy’s remains and rested the dull side of his weapon on his shoulders.
("I think maybe, this confirms what I’ve been thinking. My god, I hope I never see this world.") He continued onward and Trixie just laughed at him
"Oh he’s strong!" Trixie laughed. "He sure loves being alone! Taking him down will be easy!"
"Don’t do it!" The voice inside her called. Trixie got a headache and shook it off.
Back in Equestria, The ponies began to rise in the air and their eyes began to glow. The Elements began to glow and Warrior stared in awe, then all of a sudden it all stopped. The ponies all fell to the ground and Discord started laughing.
Twilight picked herself up and was greatly confused. "What's going on?"
Applejack glared at Twilight. "Mine's workin'. There must be somethin' wrong with yours." Twilight glared back at her.
"I HATE the Elements of Harmony!" Pinkie Pie snapped she removed her Element of Laughter and threw it on the ground and spat on it.
Fluttershy took hers off and threw it away. "Hmph! Garbage."
"MINE!" Rarity screamed as she dashed and picked up the Element of Kindness as it hit the ground.
Spike laid down the Element of Loyalty. "Sorry, Twilight. I guess I'd better get back upstairs and clean up the library." He started running back to the Library. "Good luck with all this–" He wasn’t looking so Fluttershy used her tail and tripped Spike. whoa! He fell on his face and picked his head back up feeling dumbfounded.
Fluttershy mocked him. "Oops, sorry, Rainbow Crash."
Discord gave applause. "Bravo, ponies, bravo!" He stopped in front of Twilight and Warrior and smiled devilishly at them. "Harmony in Equestria is officially dead. Discord rules, Celestia drools. Cosmos has lost another war! Score one for Chaos!" Warrior and Twilight gritted their teeth and glared at him. "At this point it doesn’t matter if Warrior lives or not. Equestria’s most important means of defense is no longer active. So It’s time for this world to be destroyed! I’ve had plenty of fun here, but now is the time for this world to taste the hellfire! I have much BIGGER fish to fry." "And a position that I must claim." Discord created more soapy ground and skated away on it.
"It's your fault it didn't work!" Pinkie Pie yelled in the direction Discord left.
Twilight was confused. "Who are you talking to?"
She turned to the whole group. "Any of you! ALL OF YOU! I'm outta here!' Pinkie Pie hopped away.
"I better go, too. I've got new better friends waiting for me at the farm." Applejack turned away and trotted back to Sweet Apple Acres. Rarity just rolled Tom back to her boutique.
"Yeah! I'm sick of you losers." Fluttershy mocked as she flew away. Warrior felt concerned of the whole situation.
"FINE!" Twilight Yelled. She became overcome with anger of the others. "Leave! See if I care! I don't need you guys either! With friends like you, who needs..." She just realized that her friendship with her friends has officially ended. "Enemies...?" She hung her head and was overcome with loneliness. She lost her purple color as tears ran down her face. Warrior was overcome with fear and sadness as he saw this. He rushed over to her and held up her face with his hand and looked her in the eyes.
"Twilight! We can’t quit now!" Warrior said in an encouraging tone.
"I’m sorry Warrior, it’s all over." Twilight sniffed. She removed her head from Warrior’s hand and turned around, she began trotting slowly back to the Library.
Warrior looked around and saw all the ponies moving away from him. "He couldn’t believe this was happening. No! You guys! You can’t! You can’t give up! YOU CAN’T GIVE UP!" He screamed but the ponies either didn’t hear him or didn’t care enough to answer him.
Cosmos sat on her throne, she also shed a few tears after what happened to Twilight’s friendship.
"It’s all over. Chaos has ended the friendship and broken the Elements of Harmony. Only the two who are there can only stop the inevitable destruction of this world. Unless…..Celestia has a plan."
Back in Equestria, Warrior ran to the Library to convince Twilight to keep fighting. He burst through the doors as he saw Twilight getting suitcase ready and a huge pile of brown scrolls laying next to Spike. Spike was curled up and looked sick as a dog.
"Twilight!" Warrior called, he saw her putting her tiara into a trash can and started putting her books into the suitcase. "What are you doing?'
Twilight sighed. "Spike and I are leaving, there’s nothing more for us here!"
Warrior’s eyes bugged out. "Why? Where would you go?"
"Back to Canterlot maybe." Twilight guessed. "That’s where my family is, so I guess me and Spike could crash there for a while." Twilight hung her head and sighed again. "Who am I kidding though, I don’t really know where I’m going."
"How do you know this is the right course of action?" Warrior asked. "Discord is still out there and Chaos is about to destroy this world!"
Twilight sighed again. "Warrior, I never told this to anypony, but before I met all the others. I was just like you." Warrior looked at the gray unicorn and she gave him a sad face. "I was only caring about my obligations and duties, I had no time for friends nor did I ever care for any. I was perfectly content only being under Princess Celestia’s wing, but I failed to realize that I needed more. I ignored it, but I guess I felt a little lonely but I never understood it until I met the others. At first I only wanted friendship because that’s what Princess Celestia wanted me to do, but I now realize I love friendship, and I love my friends."
"Twilight." Warrior sighed. He turned and stared at his reflection in a window. He realized he’s very much like the unicorn.
"Now it’s over, all I have…is Spike, and you." Warrior turned and looked at the unicorn with a sad face. He felt a tear run down his face as he felt the warmness that only his old memories knew. He was confused as to why he felt this way, he didn't know why. Twilight walked up to Warrior and tears began to wallow in her eyes. "Warrior….come with us!" Warrior’s eyes bugged out again. He just realized how much this unicorn trusted him. "I don’t want to be without friends, let’s leave all this behind! You, me, and Spike, the three of us can be happy together! So, please come with us! Forget the war, forget you being a soldier! Come with me and Spike!" Warrior closed his eyes and paused, he put on a determined face, he opened his eyes and turned to Spike and walked over to the pile of scrolls and began unraveling them and started reading them.
Spike groaned in agony of constantly burping up the scrolls. "Can't...move. The princess...has been sending these...since I came back upstairs." Warrior figured out that these were old reports on friendship that Twilight’s written over the course of her friendship.
"Real friends don't care what your cover is."
"Friendship is a wondrous and powerful thing."
"And like the path cut through the orchard, there will always be a way through."
"The best thing to do is stay true to yourself."
"Everypony has a special magical connection with her friends. Maybe even before she's met them."
Warrior then read the few reports Twilight’s written on lessons she’s learned thanks to Warrior. He figured out what the princess’s plan was. There was one thing he had left to do.
"Spike, pull yourself together." He walked over to Twilight and to her, Spike, and even Warrior’s own surprise, he reached out and hugged Twilight. Twilight shed tears of joy and she hugged Warrior back. "Twilight, I’m sorry but I will not be running away with you." He released her and turned around. Twilight felt her heart sink, she began to think that she just lost another friend. "I must go and defeat Discord, I couldn’t face Cosmos if I had just forsaken my duty."
"You can’t!" Twilight said. "His manikin was too hard for you! The real thing will massacre you!"
Warrior turned and walked towards the door and paused. "I have to try though, in the meantime I suggest you go through those scrolls and see why you even became friends with the others in the first place." Warrior opened the door and walked out, Twilight trotted over to the scrolls and started reading them.
Warrior tensed up as he saw a lot of inanimate object come to life and go wreak havoc in Ponyville, along with several chocolate milk storms in several random spots.. Several random objects were just floating in midair. Saw many ponies fleeing in terror of giant objects that were pursuing them, it was strange though, objects like giant pepper shakers, and pies. Several other ponies began to feel the effects of the insanity. They began acting like other animals or just plain crazy, Warrior knew he was running out of time. Warrior arrived at town square and found Town Hall floating upside down in midair. He furrowed his eyebrows and drew his sword.
"DISCORD!" Warrior called out. "Spirit of disharmony, come out! It's time for you to face justice!" Discord appeared in a flash in front of Warrior.
"Bold words Warrior of Light!" Discord taunted. "I guess this is your last ditch attempt to save this world?"
"You’re insanity will end now!" Warrior said, giving him a death look. "Remove your chaos and return the land to normal! This is your only warning!"
"Oh!" Discord said mockingly, faking sounding afraid. "You’re threatening me?"
"If I have to, I will take you down. Your chaos cannot touch me!"
"You seem confident." Discord smiled. "You think you can dispatch me!? You fool, I’m the living embodiment of chaos!"
"All the more reason to take you down!"
Discord’s smile became bigger. "You see Warrior, like light and darkness, good and evil. One cannot exist without the other. You and your goddess cannot exist without me! Even if you do defeat me I will still exist. You cannot win!"
Warrior stared down the spirit. "Simple, a bond that was shared between six ponies and me is something you feared."
"Oh? You say yourself? I thought you didn’t remember anything!"
"Your little minion unearthed hidden secrets that I had forgotten." Warrior said. "At first I thought it was completely insane that I had befriended ponies, but now I see that what they said was true, I don’t exactly remember anything or even who they really are. I do know however that you truly feared the friendship these ponies shared, after all why would you try so hard to break it?"
Discord smiled evilly. "But I did manage to break it didn’t I?"
"Sadly you did, however I still stand and your attempt to turn me against them failed. So now’s the time for me to avenge their honor and put an end to your sick games!" Warrior raised his sword and shield and Discord gave him a ‘bring it on’ look. Warrior gave his battle cry and leaped into the air with his sword ready to take Discord’s head off.
Warrior attempted to decapitate Discord but once his sword made contact with Discord’s body, he vanished in a puff of smoke. Discord kept reappearing all around Warrior and he kept swinging his sword at the spirit and he kept disappearing each time. Warrior was getting more and more frustrated with each miss.
Discord reappeared behind Warrior and yawned. "Go ahead keep swinging that stick of yours. I’m sure eventually you’ll give me a nice small knick." Warrior swung and missed again, Discord reappeared at his side. "Oh so close!" Warrior swung and missed yet again. "Don’t you ever learn? You’ve swung that blade at me several times and missed every time. You know, they say I’m crazy, but they say those who continually do the same thing hoping for a different result are truly insane!"
Warrior dug his sword into the ground and tried his Shining Wave. "Bathe In the Light!" His attack traveled at Discord, he didn’t see it coming. Discord’s eyes bugged out in surprise when the light burned him and launched him back several feet. "You made the mistake of underestimating me! I am more than capable of learning!"
"Alright!" Discord sneered. "Now you’ll suffer my wrath!" Discord vanished and appeared all around and cloned himself several times and Warrior began to get lost in the sea of Discords. They all made mocking faces at him. He grunted and stalled, he knew in order to defeat Discord he needed to find the real one. He staggered back when all of a sudden, the real Discord appeared in front of Warrior and breathed fire at him. Warrior raised his shield and had it glow with light as the flames burned Warrior’s shield. Warrior tensed up in fear as he felt the heat and the force of his powerful breath pushing him backwards, his hair blowing all over the place. All the Discord clones started laughing at him. Warrior saw them making fun of him and growled, he dug into his items pouch and waved a White Fang in the air.
"Give me strength!" Icicles rained down and smashed Discord in the head. All the clones vanished and Discord was staggering while rubbing his head. Warrior saw his opportunity and in the great hatred he had for the spirit he charged at Discord, raised his sword and successfully managed to sever his head from his neck.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH!" Discord’s head roared. His body leaked blood like a river, and fell limp on the ground. Warrior stood tall over his defeated foe. But unfortunately, his victory was short lived when the head opened its eyes and floated up and smiled evilly at Warrior and the body stood back on its feet and the wound instantly closed up. Warrior felt disgusted, but understood that this creature couldn’t be killed so simply.
Discord’s head flew around in an influent manner like a bug while shooting yellow magical spheres from its mouth. Warrior raised his shield and perfectly blocked the spheres. However it was more made to be a distraction. For Discord’s body quickly slunk around and without Warrior noticing, its serpent body attempted to wrap up Warrior, but he saw the body and leaped away. Discord’s eyes flashed and the surrounding area was covered in soapy water and Warrior slipped and fell on his bottom. The body then wrapped itself around Warrior binding him tightly. Warrior grunted as he flailed and struggled to break free but it was of no use.
"So much fun playing with you Warrior of Light, but now it is time for you to die." Discord smirked as he reattached his head to his body. Warrior struggled harder and his helmet went flying off his head and landed in a chocolate puddle. Discord squeezed Warrior’s body harder and Warrior screamed in agony. Discord’s eyes flashed and lightning shot from them and electrocuted Warrior. He screamed even louder, things seemed bleak for him when all of a sudden…..
"Breath of Ice!" A familiar voice shouted, a mid size icicle flew right at Discord and struck him in the back of the head. The impact caused Discord to release Warrior and look around for the culprit who attacked him.
"Who dares to be so cowardly and attack me from behind!?" Discord yelled.
"Singe!" The voice yelled and a large fireball launched at Discord and blew up right in his face. Warrior landed on the ground hard and began coughing. He looked up and saw the one of his allies, the one who in the last battle he defeated, the Onion Knight. Onion Knight charged to Warrior’s side and helped him to his feet. Discord growled at the two soldiers who now stood before him.
Warrior finally managed to catch his breath. "Normally I would question how you got to this world, but I’m far too grateful for your actions to care."
"Don’t mention it!' Onion Knight smiled. Warrior reached and picked up his helmet and placed it back onto his head. The two knights looked at each other, then at their enemy. Discord sneered at the two, they raised their swords and then the two charged at Discord.
Back in the Library Twilight was reading her reports to herself and all of a sudden she smiled and she regained her purple color and placed her Tiara back on her head. She placed the reports down and smiled. "Spike! Spike, it's all so clear! Can't you see?" Twilight was so excited, she picked up Spike with her unicorn powers and spun him around the room, and Twilight was skipping around excitedly. Since Spike was burping up scrolls for log hours, he looked like he was about to hurl thanks to Twilight spinning him.
"Discord's trying to distract us from what's important. He knows how powerful our friendships are, and he's trying to keep us from seeing it." She caught Spike and hugged the dragon. "Do you remember what I said the first day we arrived in Ponyville? I told you that the future of Equestria didn't rest on me making friends. But the opposite is true! The friendships I've made since I've been here are what saved Equestria from Nightmare Moon. And now they need to save it from Discord!" She placed Spike back on the bed and he gagged and moaned. Twilight heard Spike make a noise but she didn’t care what it was. "You're right, Spike. I've got to fight for my friendships. For them. For me. For Cosmos. For Equestria!" Twilight stood tall as she looked back at Spike who continued to moan in sickness, as he curled up on his bed and rubbed his belly.
Twilight giggled slightly at Spike’s appearance. "Oh...uh...why don't you just stay here and rest? I'll take care of the whole fighting for friendship thing myself." She gasped as she remembered something. "Warrior! He’s fighting Discord! I gotta hurry!" She gathered the Elements of Harmony and ran out the door.
She first arrived at Sweet Apple Acres. Ironically, pigs grew wings and were flying. Big Macintosh was acting like a dog, digging holes and panting. Granny Smith was holding a cane and dancing around. Applejack was sitting against the barn eating apples.
Twilight approached Applejack with a big smile. "Applejack, I'm here to fight for our friendship." Big Macintosh popped his head out of the ground below, panting happily and licked Twilight’s muzzle.
Applejack glared at Twilght. "Oh, now you want to fight." She then started punching the air. "Where you went when I was battlin' Discord?"
Twilight tackled Applejack to the ground. "Snap out of it. This isn't you! You're not a liar." Her horn started glowing and she touched Applejack’s head with it. Her magic helped remind Applejack about what made them all close friends to begin with. Applejack was faced with all the happy memories they all shared. Applejack’s orange color returned to her and Twilight smiled warmly.
Applejack felt light headed, she felt her head and quickly regained her senses. "Wh-what happened? Twilight!"
"There’s no time to explain!" Twilight said. "Warrior’s in terrible danger! He needs our help, we need to get the others!"
The team moved from Sweet Apple Acres and moved to Fluttershy’s cottage. Once they got inside Applejack had to wrestle her to the floor and hogtie her legs. Fluttershy squirmed as Twilight reminded her of their friendship like she did Applejack. Her yellow color returned to her.
"Oh no! Twilight, Applejack, I just had the worst dream!" Fluttershy cried. They smiled as they untied her legs. Then all of a sudden cracks were heard. Fluttershy gasped in excitement. "Oh! It must be hatching!"
"What’s hatching?" Twilight asked. Fluttershy dashed to a warm lamp in the corner of her cottage. The Chocobo egg, which was sitting in a small wooden box filled with hay, she stared at it excitedly as it started to hatch. The other two gathered around and watched. The egg shell cracked some more and a small yellow beak was revealed, then two small wings then the whole body was revealed, a Chocobo chick was born. Fluttershy’s heart melted at this cute miracle of life. "Oh my, it’s so cute!"
"Peep, Peep, Peep!"
The others agreed that it was cute but one thing greatly confused Twilight. "Fluttershy, what is it?" Fluttershy tensed up when she remembered that her friends are with her and what happened the last time she brought a strange foreign creature into Ponyville.
"It’s a…a….Chocobo chick." Fluttershy confessed.
"I’ve never heard of a Chocobo." Twilight admitted.
"Neither have I." Applejack said.
"Where did you find the egg?" Twilight asked.
"I…I…Fluttershy." stammered. Twilight smiled and placed her hoof on her shoulder.
"It’s ok tell me." Twilight assured.
Fluttershy sighed. Yuna took me to a Chocobo nest when she and I were searching for the Cosmos reports in World B. "I…Was afraid to tell you, because I remembered the incident with the Parasprites."
"Did Yuna know that you had the Egg?" Applejack asked. Fluttershy nodded.
"That’s good enough for me then." Twilight said. "If Yuna trust you with this creature, then she clearly knows that these creatures are nothing like Parasprites, so I’m sure this little bird will not be any trouble at all." Then she remembered what was going on. "Wait! Come on! Warrior’s in danger!" They rushed out of Fluttershy’s cottage and ran to the Rarity’s boutique. They returned her to normal with little trouble once she found out her precious diamond was really a just a rock. She pushed it away feeling embarrassed about how she got so obsessed over it. She was also glad to have her white color back.
Then they went Sugarcube corner and managed to change Pinkie Pie back to her old, pink, optimistic self. Once she was told everything she started laughing uncontrollably and they ended up hauling her around in a carriage since she just couldn’t stop laughing. They then went to Cloudsdale to find Rainbow Dash. Luckily the city wasn’t touched by Discord’s chaos. Twilight and the others searched from the ground while Fluttershy searched the clouds.
Fluttershy poked her head into a nearby window and searched for their missing friend. "Uh? She's not here."
Twilight groaned. "Without Rainbow Dash, we can't use the Elements."
"She could be anywhere by now! We're never gonna find her." Applejack panicked.
"Yeah, we will, 'cause she's right there!" Pinkie Pie said pointing to a cloud. Rainbow Dash was relaxing in it and not bothering to look at her friends, without a care about what could be happening anywhere or to anypony else.
"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called, happy to finally find her friend.
"Hey, guys!" Rainbow Dash said, still not looking to them.
"We've been looking everywhere for you!" Twilight said.
"That’s nice." Rainbow Dash said still not caring.
"Discord's still on the loose! We need you to help us defeat him with your element, Loyalty!"
"Whatever." Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Pfft. Loyalty, schmoyalty! Have you guys seen Ponyville? It's a disaster! She shot her friends a serious look. I'm staying here in Cloudsdale where everything's awesome." She went back to relaxing.
"Warrior’s fighting him right now! He could be dying again for all we know!" Applejack called.
"Good for him. "Rainbow Dash said. The others couldn’t believe she just said that, it wasn’t like her to be so quick to disregard a friend’s life.
"Don’t you care if he’s okay?" Rarity asked.
"Why bother? He doesn’t even remember us!" Rainbow Dash argued.
"But he’s still fighting for us!" Fluttershy said. "He hasn’t given up no matter what has happened to him."
Twilight smirked. "Guess it’s time for Plan B." They all plied into the hot air balloon and floated up next to Rainbow Dash who had just fallen asleep. Applejack had a rope ready and was standing on top of the balloon. Fluttershy climbed out of the basket and hovered right next to the balloon.
Twilight whispered to her. "Okay, Fluttershy, you grab Rainbow Dash and hold her down. Applejack will lower me down from this rope so I can cast the memory spell on her."
"Got it!" Fluttershy saluted. She flew down to Rainbow Dash and poked her with her hoof and woke her up. "Um...I'm just wondering if it's okay if I hold you down against your will for a little bit?"
"UGH!" Twilight groaned as she facehoofed.
Rainbow Dash flew up and laughed at Fluttershy’s attempt to get her to come back with them. "Nice try! Ponyville's your problem, not mine." Rainbow Dash said throwing her hooves in her body. Rainbow Dash threw herself back on the cloud and dashed away on it.
"Come on, Fluttershy, we've got to catch her." Twilight threw out some rope and Fluttershy grabbed it with her mouth and pulled it forward. Rainbow Dash flew upwards and around the top of the balloon. "Applejack!" Applejack waved around her lasso and he caught Rainbow Dash. The bottom of the rope was sitting unsecured right at Rarity and Pinkie Pie’s legs. It wrapped around them and they were pulled out of the balloon basket and were hanging down in midair screaming, while hanging from Rainbow Dash’s midsection.
"PINKIE! You were supposed to secure the ROPE!" Rarity screamed.
"Oops." Pinkie Pie squeaked.
"Rarity, Pinkie, hold on! Y'all are slowing her down!" Applejack called.
"Oh, Fluttershy, would you be a dear and FLY FASTER, please?" Rarity yelled.
Fluttershy didn’t like being yelled at and she started to feel nervous again. So she started crying. "I can’t!"
"If you can't catch her, Discord wins and Chaos will destroy this world!"
Those words alone woke something up in Fluttershy. "Those big... dumb... MEANIES!' That gave Fluttershy the drive to speed up.
Twilight tossed Applejack more rope. "Okay, Applejack, last rope! Make it count!" Applejack threw another lasso and it also wrapped around her midsection again. Rainbow Dash began to slow down until she suddenly came to a screeching halt. They landed and Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie all were holding ropes that were holding Rainbow Dash to the ground as she flailed and struggled about.
"Lemme go! I don't need you guys! Leave me alone!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Twilight approached Rainbow Dash with her horn glowing and touched her with it. Rainbow Dash’s blue and rainbow color returned and she returned to her normal self. She felt her head as she felt woozy. "Wh-what happened?" She gasped, as she remembered what’s happening. "How's Ponyville? Where are the Elements?! Did we stop Discord? Where’s Warrior? Is he alright?"
"Warrior’s fighting Discord!" Twilight said. "We gotta go help him!" The team all turned around and marched to Ponyville Square to help their friend.
Rainbow Dash looked down in shame. "I feel so bad. I didn’t care if he was hurt or not."
"Can’t believe him." Applejack smiled. "He doesn’t remember us, but he never gave up on us."
"Even now, he fights for us still despite what we’ve done to him." Rarity smiled. "He’s such a dear."
Back at the battle, things were starting to get easier. Onion Knight was skilled in magicks which Warrior figured out was his true weakness. During the fighting Warrior got more headaches, and more memories had returned.
“Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Twilight Sparkle!”
“I’m Fluttershy.”
“I’m Rarity, who you will be interesting to learn fashion from!”
"I’m Applejack! If you’re ever get hungry, come pay a visit to Sweet Apple Acres. We got the finest orchard of apples in all of Equestria."
"I’m Rainbow Dash."
"I’m Spike!"
"Hi, nameless creature. I’m Pinkie Pie!"
"Of course…." Warrior thought to himself. "It all makes sense now, who they are…what they are."
"Stars Unite!" Onion Knight called, he was using his Comet attack. He spun around on his side and black hole opened up in front of him. Several small fire balls launched out of the hole and Discord vanished as the fire balls missed him completely. When they stopped Discord appeared in front of Onion Knight and started mocking him.
"You missed!" Discord said.
"Burn it up!" Onion Knight shouted. Then a large fireball shot out and slammed into Discord’s midsection. It exploded on him and burned him harshly.
Discord roared as he rubbed his face to clear the burn he suffered. "I will not be humiliated by the likes of you!" Discord vanished and a large pink cotton candy cloud appeared above them.
Warrior knew what would be coming and raised his shield. "Onion Knight! Run!"
Onion Knight thought he was overreacting. "Don’t worry it’s just a candy cloud!" It started pouring it’s chocolate milk on the heroes. He was greatly confused. "One that can rain chocolate milk?"
"Use your magick on it now!" Warrior called.
"Why?" Onion Knight asked. Then the cloud shot a big lightning bolt and greatly electrocuted Onion Knight. He was stunned at what just happened. Discord’s face appeared in the cloud and started laughing at Onion Knight.
"You think you’re so bright boy, but it seems the one with the frail memory is much smarter than you!"
Onion Knight shook it off and rose to his feet. "Well I would have guessed that you have some impressive power. But I could never have guessed Chaos would enlist the likes of you!"
Discord noticed the ponies galloping towards the battle. "Speak for yourself! Take a look at the help you’ve gotten!" Onion Knight saw them and his jaw dropped and was completely shocked at what he was staring at. The ponies galloped over to Warrior and looked over him and inspected his minor wounds.
They noticed the second human, Twilight walked up to Onion Knight to see who he is and who’s side he’s on. "I saw you in that fight! Are you a Warrior of Cosmos to?" Onion Knight was too stunned to respond, the mere fact that they were talking shocked him even more.
Pinkie Pie hopped over to him and inspected his armor. She couldn’t take her eyes off his helmet. "Hehehe. I like how your plume is all sprouty like a flower!" Onion Knight still couldn’t believe it.
"This is insane!" He finally managed to say. "Horses can’t talk!" Twilight rolled her eyes and the rest of the ponies just scoffed.
Rainbow Dash flew up to Onion Knight and got in his face smiling. Maybe she would have some fun with the child. "Anything else that we shouldn’t be able to do?"
"You’re colors are waaaay off. I mean since when did horses come in blue, purple or even pink? And what’s with those pictures on your butts?" The ponies blushed at Onion Knight’s use of the word 'butt' and looked at their cutie marks.
"ENOUGH!" Warrior yelled that snapped their attention back to Warrior. "Onion Knight! To be inquisitive mind is not a sin, but have you forgotten we have an enemy to defeat?" They turned their attention to Discord who was busy mocking them, he made a glass of chocolate milk appear in his hand and began to drink.
"Isn’t it ironic?" Discord said, he vanished and reappeared behind the ponies. "To Onion Knight, these ponies mere existence is a symbol of chaos!"
"I think his name is a pretty good symbol to." Rainbow Dash muttered to herself. "Seriously Onion Knight?"
"Don’t you see though?" Discord smiled. "Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing!"
"Not as wonderful as friendship." Twilight said boldly she used her unicorn powers and placed the Elements of Harmony around their necks.
"You did it!" Warrior said. "Your friendship has been restored! Discord! Your powers are weak they couldn’t break their bond forever, in fact I’d like to say you only served to make it stronger!"
"That's right. You couldn't break apart our friendship for long." Applejack added. Discord snapped his fingers and pulled on the Element of Honesty and dragged Applejack to him.
"Oh, Applejack, don't lie to me. I'm the one who made you a liar." He pulled everyone but Onion Knight, Warrior, and Twilight, towards him by pulling on their Elements. "Will you ever learn?" Twilight vanished and reappeared in the center of her friends.
"Shell!" She called and the ponies were encased in a protective pink sphere. Twilight moved them down and placed them safely on the ground.
The ponies all glared at Discord and Twilight began to explain the one thing that binded them all together. "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." Warrior stepped to their side and stared down the spirit.
Onion Knight walked next to Warrior and also stared down Discord. "I may not know what’s going on here, but I’m gonna help them stop you!"
Discord rolled his eyes. "Fine, go ahead, try and use your little Elements, frenemies".
"All right, let's show him what friendship can do!" Twilight called. The ponies rose into the air and their Elements of Harmony glowed and their radiance left the pieces of jewelry and to everyone’s surprise it traveled into Warrior. Then several smaller lights left Warrior and one went into Onion Knight, and then traveled to World B and went to each of the warriors of Cosmos.
The warriors were intimidated at first but felt great warmth from the light and understood that it was on their side. The lights traveled into Firion, Squall, Cloud, and Tidus’s weapons. The others traveled into Zidane, Terra, Onion Knight, Bartz, Cecil, and Warrior’s bodies.
"What happened?" Warrior asked. Discord growled in rage.
"No! The moron actually did it!" Discord screamed.
"I don’t know but I feel as if some hidden powers have been unlocked!" Onion Knight said. "I know exactly what to do! Let’s end this!" He changed his class from Onion Knight to the Sage job class. His helmet changed to a sage miter and his red armor changed to white robes, his sword changed to a staff. He charged at Discord and the spirit started blowing fire from his mouth at Onion Knight and shooting lightning from his eyes. Onion Knight moved from side to side to dodge. He found his opening.
"Breath of Ice!" Three midsized icicles pierced Discord’s fire breath and smashed in his face. Discord was left staggering and Onion Knight took time to cast an advance spell. "Holy!" Divine light surrounded Discord and exploded. "Best yet to come!" Then he cast the meteor spell. "Burn it up!" A large fiery meteor appeared above Discord and smashed into him. Discord roared in agony as the impact and the searing heat greatly damaged him. Onion Knight rejoined the team and reverted back to the Onion Knight class. Discord was left smoldering on the ground. The spirit of chaos had been defeated.
"That was incredible!" Rainbow Dash said. "What was that?"
"I don’t know." Twilight said. "It looked as if our Elements of Harmony gave you power."
"Cough cough." Discord went picking up his head. "Of course, that was the Experience Burst!" The group glared at Discord. "When you can turn your experiences into power, sadly this means that the Warrior of Light has accomplished his mission in Equestria."
"He has!?" Pinkie Pie cheered, she started to bounce up and down excitedly. "WOOO HOOO! Mission accomplished Warrior!"
"Do as you wish!" Discord said. He raised more of his body but still couldn’t pick up his whole body, he was still very much wracked in pain. It doesn’t matter, the conflict still goes on. "There are still many more of my allies what want to challenge your powers!"
"Bring it on!" Rainbow Dash said. "I’d like to say that after we beat you, there’s no ally of yours who can beat us!"
Discord was amused at her ignorance. "Hmmhmhmhmhmhm. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"What’s so funny?" Applejack said.
"You know nothing about who you have yet to face." Discord said. "Didn’t Princess Celestia tell you all about the warrior of Chaos who tried to blow up Equestria with a meteor? Or how about what it means to face death itself? You know nothing!"
"It doesn’t matter." Twilight said. "We are all on the side of Cosmos! We will put an end to this madness that trying to destroy Equestria!"
Discord just smirked and burst out laughing. "Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmh.HAhahahahaha. HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The heroes were greatly disturbed by this. "You just don’t get it!? Tell me ponies, what if I told you that in order to end the madness, you must sacrifice someone close to you?" The whole team gasped.
"What in the hay are you talking about?" Applejack asked, sounding worried.
"Simple, to say hello…eventually a goodbye will have to be said as well." Discord smirked even bigger. "Fear not my little ponies, this isn’t the last time, we’ll see each other again. Warrior of Light, don’t celebrate just because you figured unlocked the power you were sent here to find!"
"What are you talking about?" Warrior questioned.
"You still don’t know who you truly are!" Discord said. "Have you forgotten? If you accepted my offer I would have told you everything you wanted to know!"
Twilight stared Discord down. "And just what about Warrior?" Discord just smiled and started laughing.
"Hhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Discord vanished leaving the team alone. The ponies tensed up, they feared that this would be one riddle they would not want to know the answer to. Not only that this won’t be the last time they see Discord. However since Discord’s influence over the Equestria has ended, the Elements of Harmony spread a holy light across the land and it slowly began to return to its true self. The checkered ground returned to being grass, the cotton candy clouds stopped raining chocolate milk and returned to puffy white clouds. The animal’s bodies returned to normal as did their behavior. The building floated back down and sat in the earth they way they should.
Onion Knight looked over the place in awe. "I must admit, when I arrived I already guessed that this world’s distorted appearance was how it was supposed to be." He noticed all the ponies leaving their houses and cheering at how Ponyville has returned to normal. Onion Knight couldn’t believe his eyes. "Are you sure that Discord guy still hasn’t have some sort of influence on this world?" The ponies started laughing. "I’m sorry just how exactly can a world of horses build all this? There’s no way you can properly use a hammer and nails to build all these houses!" Onion Knight was greatly trying to make sense of all this and ponies couldn’t help but laugh.
"Well, Equestria has pegasi and unicorns who can use magic like myself and Rarity. Most of the hard work like building and farming is handled by earth ponies. Twilight explained.
Except Cloudsdale! Rainbow Dash added, rudely butting in. We Pegasus ponies built that place, after all only me and Flutteshy here can walk on clouds! Fluttershy smiled at Onion Knight. Onion Knight was only confused even further.
Onion Knight rubbed his head and tried to make sense of this. "So... let me get this straight. This place, Equestria is ruled by ponies."
"Um. Yeah." Rainbow Dash said rolling her eyes.
"...And besides the normal ponies, there's also ones that can fly, and ones that can use magic, right?"
"That's right." Applejack said.
Onion Knight pointed to Twilight since she was the closest to him. "And you're one of the... magic types?"
Twilight smiled. "Well, I am a unicorn. And quite a prodigious one. Not to brag, hee hee."
Onion Knight rubbed his head again. "I guess I can get that, but there's just something that doesn't add up here. How is it that you horses can do all that stuff? I mean, you don't have fingers... you don't even have thumbs!"
Twilight took time to explain on the ponie's behalf. "Well, you sort of learn. And we do have our teeth for grabbing and carrying. And unicorns like me can always use spells that act like telekinesis to lift things like so." Twilight picked up Onion Knight off of the ground with her unicorn powers.
Onion Knight squirmed around frantically. Alright, alright, put me down! Twilight put the boy back down on the ground while the ponies burst out loughing. "...But one more thing...How is it that the earth ponies built those buildings of theirs? They don't have magic. And I'd think SOME of the work would be pretty hard to do without it."
Twilight was dead silent she had no answer. "Umm..."
"And another thing...if a Pegasus in your world can walk on clouds, what's to stop them from being cemented inside really damp air and rendered completely immobilized?"
"That's enough!" Warrior said loudly. "Intelligence is not a sin either, but can you create an explanation of how enemies we defeat carry weapons, armor, or even Gil?" Onion Knight fell silent. Warrior turned towards his ally and knelt before him. "However, I am grateful for your assistance."
"So Warrior, who's this cute little guy?" Fluttershy said at the young boy. Onion Knight blushed at being called cute.
"This is my comrade. The Onion Knight." He turned to boy and presented the ponies. "These are the six ponies of Equestria. As you just witnessed, they have great power, and have been blessed by Cosmos."
"Blessed by Cosmos?" Onion Knight questioned. "So…they’re like us?" Warrior nodded. Pinkie Pie walked up to him and inspected him closely.
Onion Knight leaned back as she leaned inward. "What are you doing?" He asked feeling his space violated.
"Onion Knight?" Pinkie Pie wondered. "Am I gonna start crying if I smell you?" She took a big inhale and Onion Knight backed away.
"Get away from me your crazy horse!" He said moving away from her only to have the pink pony fallow him. The others started laughing again.
Twilight smiled and approached the young man, she glared at Pinkie Pie and she stopped fallowing him.. "You know, I like you. It seems that you also like to think things logically and you value intelligence. You’re a bright boy."
Onion Knight sighed and smiled at the unicorn. "Thanks." He turned to Warrior. "Cosmos knew what was happening and called to us to come here and help you. She said an innocent world was on the verge of destruction." He looked at Ponyville and huffed in amusement. "I guess this place is innocent enough for me." He turned around and began to march back to the Sanctuary.
"You can’t leave now!" Pinkie Pie whined. "We need to have a party to celebrate me making a new friend!"
Onion Knight turned to the pink pony and smiled. "How nice of you! But hey, if we really are allies now…odds are you’ll see me again. Now if you’ll excuse me the nonsense of this world is driving me insane." Twilight had a question that needed to be answered. Something seemed off about Onion Knight.
"Wait!" She called, Onion Knight stopped and turned towards the unicorn. She galloped to him and the other ponies fallowed Warrior stood behind and watched. He felt that whatever she needed from Onion Knight was none of his concern.
"What is it?" He asked.
Twilight began to whisper to him. "He referred to you with your title."
"So?" The other ponies caught on to what Twilight was after.
"Are you….you know, like Warrior?" Applejack asked nervously.
"Do you not remember your true name?" Rarity asked.
Onion Knight raised an eyebrow. "Of course I remember, my name’s Ingus."
Rainbow Dash was confused as well as the others. "How come he didn’t call you by your name then?"
"Everyone does that." Onion Knight said. "It doesn’t bother me at all, they just don’t know my name because they never asked."
"Well…okay then!" Twilight smiled. "Thanks for helping us out, Onion Knight!" The boy smiled and walked away. The ponies went back and rejoined Warrior. He put on a sad face, and the mares returned it when they saw him.
"What’s wrong Warrior?" Applejack.
"I owe each of you an apology." Warrior said. "I’m so sorry." The ponies looked at each other in confusion.
Fluttershy smiled at the knight to help him feel better. "Sorry for what?"
Warrior sighed and began to explain what just recently happened to him. "Battling Discord, and his manikin, helped awaken some lost memories of mine, ones that involved you. The ponies lit up in joy. I’m sorry for the way I treated you."
"I owe an apology to everyone to." Applejack said. "I saw a vision of us feudin' and fightin'. I couldn't face the truth, so I started tellin' lies. Can you ever forgive me?" The team all nodded, with everypony smiling to. "I also saw a horrifying image of Warrior leaving us and Cosmos getting burned alive! Could that be a sign of things to come?"
"I wouldn’t worry about it." Twilight assured. "It was all Discord’s powers. You can’t take what he says too seriously. Unfortunately for a short time, Ultimecia was right." The ponies hung their heads in shame, Warrior didn’t know what she was talking about. "But at the same time we proved her wrong."
"The Emperor was right to." Rainbow Dash sighed. "My loyalty was my own downfall. I’m glad that you showed me the way Twilight."
"Discord made me see a sight of myself that I didn’t want to see." Pinkie Pie confessed. "For a moment it seemed that Kefka was right. I didn’t care what happened to anyone. I completely disregarded all life. I’m so happy that I was able to start laughing again." They turned to Warrior and smiled they wanted to know what Warrior remembered from the past. "What do you remember?" Pinkie Pie asked.
Warrior looked aside and began to think. "I don’t remember everything…but the things about you ponies that I should know I believe I now remember."
"Rarity is a fashionista, who’s generous, she likes thing to be pretty and will help her friends in doing so."
"Pinkie Pie loves to laugh, she also loves parties and her friends. It slightly irritates me that she doesn’t take things seriously, but in turn…it’s also her greatest strength. It seems as if she can never see the negative side of things."
"Fluttershy is kind, she prefers the company of animals compared to other ponies. She’s a docile and an extremely delicate soul, but a great pony to be friends with."
"Applejack is honest, she’s a hard worker and very family oriented. She has a strong resolve to always follow through on what she says, and for that she’s truly an admirable pony." Applejack blushed and lowered her stetson so no pony could see her face.
Rainbow Dash is loyal, she’s athletic and like Applejack , she is also very strong willed. She’s quite competitive and somewhat of a showoff but, in the end she can back up everything she says."
"Twilight Sparkle is intelligent, she studies always thinks things through. She’s under the teachings of Princess Celestia and lives with the young dragon Spike. She wields the Element of Magic and her current area of study is friendship, she reports on her learning’s to Princess Celesita. She’s the one who found me when I first arrived in Ponyville." The ponies all shed tears of joy, the old Warrior’s back. They all went to Warrior and hugged him tightly.
"I’m so happy!" Fluttershy sniffed.
"I knew you’d come back to us eventually!" Rainbow Dash said trying to hold back her tears of happiness but failing miserably.
"I also knew you would remember, there’s no way you could ever forget me!" Rarity cooed.
"I believed in you, your one of my kin!" Applejack smiled as tears rained down her cheeks.
Pinkie Pie broke from the hug and bounced up and down. "Time for a party! A 'Warrior remembered us' party!”
Twilight sniffed, then just remembered something important. "Wait! We managed to share the power of the Elements of Harmony with you and Onion Knight. This would only happen if he acknowledged us as friends."
"Well we are friends." Warrior pointed out, the ponies put on big smiles. "You helped me feel better about the fact that even though I may not know who I am. It made me feel more than just a soldier for Cosmos. That’s when I understood that you ponies are my friends." The ponies hugged Warrior even tighter and Warrior hugged them back.
The next day, the heroes arrived at Canterlot and marched into the throne room. Princess Celestia called a large ceremony to celebrate the hero’s victory over Discord. They marched over the red carpet towards Princess Celestia. A crowd of cheering ponies surrounded them on both ends of their path. The ponies smiled at Princess Celestia as she returned a big warm smile to the heroes. Warrior simply nodded his head to the Alicorn.
Trumpets played a loud fanfare as Princess Celestia made her announcement to the cheering crowd. "We are gathered here today to once again honor the heroism of these seven friends who stood up to the villain Discord and saved Equestria once again from the God of Discord, Chaos." She used her unicorn powers and opened a curtain. It revealed a new stain glass portrait which portrayed the six ponies shining light on Discord as Warrior stood below as he raised his sword against the creature. The crowd cheered for their heroes and threw confetti in a large celebration.
Several hours past and the celebration ended and they were finally left alone. Twilight had several more questions about the Experience Burst that Discord was talking about. She just finished telling the Alicorn everything that happened.
"I see." Princess Celestia said. "The Experience Burst. Warrior, one of your allies managed to unleash it?"
Warrior nodded. "A radiance left the Elements of Harmony and went to me and my ally, several other light went out to places I haven’t seen. I suspect that it traveled to my other allies and went to them as well."
"I do feel that you are correct Warrior." Celestia nodded.
Applejack walked up to Warrior and playfully punched his arm. "Mr. Serious finally accepted us as his friends. So his mission in Equestria is over now?"
"I’m afraid not." Celestia said. "Chaos is still trying to destroy us. Not only that, the Experience Burst is when your experiences turn into power. Sadly for Warrior he still has no memory of his true self. His allies already have some memories so they have some experience already. Since Warrior still doesn’t, he must build more, so you must continue your lessons of Friendship and have him assist you in everyday life."
Twilight had a idea. "Princess Celestia, Warrior still doesn’t remember things. Would he remember them he I cast the memory spell like I did with the others?"
"I’m afraid not." Celestia sighed. "Warrior, along with his allies, lost their memories in a very unique way. Casting your spell will do nothing. Continue having him assist your lives and fulfill your roles as warriors of Cosmos." Warrior did feel a sting from those words but he chose not to ignore it.
"This sounds really difficult." Fluttershy said in a concerned tone.
"Come on everypony." Rainbow Dash said. "We’ve dealt with worse than this! We can handle anything they wanna throw at us!" The ponies smiled at Rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow Dash is right." Twilight said. "We can’t let Chaos get ahead like this! We must work together and the other warriors to stop this war!" Just then Cosmos flashed into the room, she had a big smile on her face. They all bowed to the goddess. Cosmos and Cleestia smiled at each other.
"I’m proud of you." Cosmos said. "You managed to pull your friendship together after Discord managed to destroy it. This alone proves that you are worthy to be on the side of harmony." Her look turned serious. "Chaos’s army is gaining power, now is the time for you to do the same." Cosmos flashed away and a transparent image of her remained in front of the heroes. Cosmos’s image appeared in front of the other warriors as well. They each have formed their own teams, except Squall.
"All existence is on the brink of doom. Ten of you remain-and you are the last hope left to this world. I implore you. Obtain the light. That even in a broken world could never fade. The light of the crystals. The crystals embody the strength to face despair. With ten gathered, there is hope yet to save the world. The path to your crystal will be perilous…and different for each and every one of you. But you must believe in and fallow your own path. Even if you know not where that path leads. Your protection is needed of another world. Chaos has his eyes fixed on an innocent world. You must protect it from him, the world of Equestria."
"Hmph." Squall went. Resting the dull side of his Gunblade on his shoulder. "Not a problem, I’ve always gotten by on my own."
"If a treasure hunt were really that easy to find, it wouldn’t be a treasure hunt, would it?" Zidane smiled. "If any world, or person was easy to protect then there wouldn’t be any real need for us to do it is there?"
"No horsing around though." Bartz said in a serious tone. "This isn’t the time for games." Then he instantly smiled. "It’s time for some serious fun!"
Terra was looking worried but Onion Knight placed his hand on her arm and smiled at her. "You don’t have to worry. I’m here with you. If it gets scary, just believe in me!"
Terra smiled back to him. "I’m counting on you."
Cecil understood the difficulties of this quest and was determined to face it."The paths to our crystals may be different for each of us, and protecting this world of Equestria will maybe difficult. But we’ve strength in our allies."
Firion had a determined look on his face to. "And if we put that strength together, we’ll have nothing to fear."
"I don’t know." Cloud said. "The god, Chaos, is leading his forces of disorder-and they’re headed straight for us." He grasped the hilt of his Buster Sword and put on a serious face. "But I’m ready for whatever comes my way."
Tidus slammed his fist into his hand with a big smile on his face. "The tougher the enemy, the more fired up I get!"
"I thank you all." Cosmos said.
The image before Warrior and the ponies flashed and she became solid again. "Be careful now, just because you’ve discovered the Experience Burst. Chaos’s troops have already attained it. They still have a distinct advantage over you. Also remember, my little ponies. Since you have the Elements of harmony, you do not need to seek out any crystals.
"We understand." Twilight nodded. We’ll all stay in Equestria and help build experiences for Warrior, but we'll help out the other warriors whenever we can."
Building experiences for Warrior won't be that easy." Cosmos said. "Warrior needs to obtain his crystal to, but fear not. My other warriors will assist in protecting your world. She focused her gaze on Warrior. Though what remains of this world is on the verge of collapse…Equestria is still fully intact, keep it safe. For I must hold this world together until you find your crystals…forgive me….I want to be with you…but allow me to rest…then soon…"
"Cosmos." Warrior said. "Your radiant light shall always be with us." She flashed up into the heavens. All the Warriors of Cosmos walked out to find their crystals while others went to the Sanctuary.
"Let’s do this!" Rainbow Dash said.
"It’s party time!" Pinkie Pie cheered.
"Chaos can’t scare me away from this rodeo!" Applejack said determined.
Fluttershy sat next to Warrior and smiled at him. "I won’t abandon my friends. I feel as long as you’re here I’ll be safe."
Rarity inspected herself in a mirror she pulled out from under her mane. "I won’t allow my beautiful face to get ruined, but I would never forgive myself if I just sat and did nothing."
Twilight smiled at Warrior. "I’m ready, let’s go!" She said. Warrior nodded to the ponies and turned towards the way to World B.