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// Chapter 7: Discord and Lyra's Excellent Adventure! (part 3) 
// Story: Doctor Whoof presents:Discord in Time! 
// by Muleicous 
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Discord and Lyra’s Excellent Adventure!
(Part 3)

(Anypony know what I’m gonna put here? That thing about Legacy55 coming up with the idea for this fic? Yeah, it’s all true, and here's his page!)

Lyra sneaked through the brush outside of Canterlot, leading a group of the freedom fighters to the meeting point. The mint green pony shuttered as she looked behind her at the starved looking ponies. Many of them hadn’t used magic to fight their entire lives, and this included Lyra. The musician unicorn sighed as her thoughts turned toward Bon-Bon again. She wished that her wonderful marefriend could be there to give her confidence, but if this battle didn’t turn in the resistance’s favor there mite not be a Bon-Bon... Lyra growled and stood just as a pair of Discorded guards walked by. The unicorn blasted them with a strong telekinetic wave of magic, sending the two armored ponies into a wall and knocking them out right away. Then Lyra sent up the signal, a single shot of pure green magic into the air. She hopped that the others weren’t too far behind.
Just then, a second shot of magic erupted in the air, but this one was a dark blue color... Luna was in position. Seconds later, a rainbow colored magic beam shot into the air, Princess Celestia had given the sign to attack. 
Lyra reared back and called out, “CHARGE!” She galloped forward, blasting any guard she could see with her knock-back spells. She noticed how the earth ponies would run head on and buck the guards, while the unicorns other then herself would stay back and shoot knock out spells at the guards of heal the injured. Lyra would’ve looked up at the pegasi battling, but she had to stay focused. The fight would be a long one, each guard would shake off the spells eventually and keep on defending their despot until he was either over thrown, or the ponies themselves would die. The minty green unicorn shook her head, trying to erase the idea of anypony dying from her mind. She just charged at the ponies of the past and kept on blasting, trying to keep her thoughts on one thing and one thing alone... Bon-Bon.

***

“There’s the signal princess.” a pegasus resistance fighter said as Lyra’s green shot flew into the air. Luna nodded and shot her own dark blue magical blast after, and kept her eyes to where her sister and that monster from the future where. Though her sister had told her that they needed to trust the future Discord, Luna Beambright had doubts about the beasts intentions. She felt that the monster could turn on them at any minute, teaming up with his past self and ruling all of Equestria with an iron paw. However, since Celestia was the eldest of the two alicorns, she had the full right to command the freedom fighters. 
“She had promised that she would consider our opinions on matters such as these.” Luna said under her breath, tightening her jaw as she breathed heavily. The lunar princess’ skin felt as if it was going to burn right off if the battle didn’t commence at once, and then she saw Celly’s rainbow beam shooting into the heavens. “ATTACK!” shouted Princess Luna, her wings spread as she took to the skies to aid the pegasi in battle. She had always preferred being along side the sky-loving ponies, it felt like they had a sort of kinship with her. The pegasi grouped up in a 'V’ formation as they flew, pulling up as they got close to a group of Discord’s aerial assaulters and letting a hail storm loose on their heads... Literally. The airborne ponies began to jump on the clouds above the enemy guard’s heads, letting the stored up lightning and hail strike and fall on their unsuspecting opponents. If Commander Hurricane could see them, Luna thought, he would be proud of his descendents.   
The princess, on the other hand, flew straight into the masses of grey guard ponies. The surrounded her, smiling and laughing at the small mare in front of them.
“Ok men,” a female pegasus capitan called out, “you have your orders! Lord Discord wishes for all these traitors to be deposed of...” the mare looked into Luna’s eyes, “No prisoners.” As the hord of pegasi charged at the princess, Luna created a magical bubble around herself. The attackers who didn’t bounce right off of the shield became stuff, and that’s when the dark blue filly unleashed her fury. Luna cried out as she closed her eyes, her horn erupting in a light show of sparks. The sparks electrified the bubble, shocking the metal wearing guards into submission. Slowly, Luna started to relax, but this was short lived. Suddenly, the princess’ heart started to beat faster and faster, like she had just finished the Running of the Leaves. She felt her bones crack and grow quickly, and a black, velvety substance extending down her hooves and up her wings. Her mane became dusty and long, taking on the appearance of the night sky, and finally her horn grew to the size of her sisters. 
Nightmare Moon opened her eyes and laughed, her voice sounding like the cackle of some creature from before time began. “You think that you can defeat me so easily?!” the queen of darkness rushed at the capitan pegasus and lowered her head quickly. The guard capitan screamed, then coughed and gaged as her own blood filled her mouth. Nightmare Moon’s horn had gone straight through the capitan’s armor and lung, and to make matters worse the horn was still electrically charged. Moon sent another lightning spell through her horn, making the pegasus on the end of it dance in pain. The mare in the moon then lowered her head once more, letting the mare slip off her spear of a horn and through the air. The pegasus capitan looked up at her killer, just as the color was returning to her coat and mane. The cyan pegasus just smiled as she fell to the ground, her subordinates calling out her name. The guard capitan died smiling, happy just to be free.
Soon, the princess returned to normal, her body reverting to a filly’s body. However, each of Discord’s pegasus guards turned tail and ran screaming while Luna returned to battle.

***

Celestia shot her beam into the air and turned to Discord, the draconequus cracking the knuckles in his lion’s paw. “Discord...” the sun princess said, her eyes on the creature she had thought would always be her enemy, “do you know why it came to this?”
Discord sighed, closing his eyes. He turned, an uncharacteristically serious look covering his face before he spoke. “You don’t remember when we met, do you Celly?”
“It comes and goes... I remember you and Luna and I, but that is all.” Celestia Beambright took a step closer to her old enemy, her new ally. She studied his face for a sign that she was even close to being right.
“Yeah,” Discord said with a heavy sigh, “all three of us where there. Is that really all you remember Celestia? Nothing else?”
“No, I’m sorry.” the alicorn replied, a truly sad look in her eyes.
Discord turned from her and nodded, “That’s ok... Are you ready?”
Celestia nodded, then a bright white light enveloped her and the draconequus as they where teleported to the throne room of Discord’s fortress.

***

Half of the throne room was dark and foreboding, while the other half didn’t seem to be there. Discord and Celestia took a few steps towards the gaping hole in the wall, the sounds and sights of battle could be seen all over and above Canterlot.
“Do you like it?” a voice from behind the two called out. The past Discord stepped into view, a dark smiled on his lips as he glared at the two. “I thought you two, especially you... me, could appreciate the pure and utter chaos of something that hasn’t happened in centuries. Ponies fighting each other for something meaningless.”
“Freedom isn’t meaningless Discord!” Celestia replied, her eyes staying on the creature in front of her, “Something you’ll apparently learn in time, according to your future self.”
“Bah! What does he know? Or should it be ‘what do I know’?” the past draconequus put his eagle’s claw to his chin and thought for a moment, before waving it off, “Either way, I doubt that he can see how beautiful this moment is... I can thought. I can see the art of ponies bashing and bucking each other, the powerful dance of your friend Lyra wanting her poor Bon-Bon, the sight of your sister Luna loosing her mind, and, of course, the irony that I’m going to fight myself.”
“What happened to you Dizzy?” the princess said as she walked towards the past Discord, “When we where children, we used to be friends. You never talked like this...”
The past Discord’s eyes shot up and looked straight into Celestia’s, then he teleported to where his face was inches from hers. “WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ME?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WENT THROUGH CELLY?! DO YOU?!” the past draconequus snapped his claws and sent the alicorn princess flying into a wall, the sound of crunching bone filled the room. “You rejected me from your perfect life! You life of order and friendship! I don’t need your pity any more... Not yours... Not anypony’s...” He then turned to his future counter part. “I know that you can’t kill me, but I can still kill you!” He lunged at the future Discord, his claws bared.

(From this point on, Discord, the good one, will be F.Discord. While past Discord will be P.Discord. Thank you, Muleicous)

F.Discord snapped his claws, teleporting himself to the other side of the chamber as P.Discord fell out the gap in the wall. Knowing that he had little time, the draconequus from the future headed down the stair case to the main hall of the castle. F.Discord began to pant as he skidded to a halt in front of a pair of large, wooden doors. He knocked hard and waited, and then the small pegasus opened the door. Her coat was still a shade of bright yellow, while her mane was a bright pink. The filly smiled and looked up at the creature in front of her.
“Hewwo Mistah Discowd.” the filly said, her big bright eyes shinning.
“Hello Butterflight, is your papa home?” F.Discord asked, panting still as he tried to catch his breath. The little filly went inside and called for her father, Heartfelt, who dashed out the door and bowed as quickly as he could.
“Please sire!” the grey pegasus pled, “Don’t punish my little girl for not bowing, I... I’ll do anything...”
“Shut up and listen then,” the draconequus said, he knew he had no time to loose, “I need the jewels from Celestia and Luna’s crowns, now!”
“Sire...” Heartfelt swallowed hard, “You told us to give the crystals to the wizard.”
“Wizard? I never had a...” that’s when it hit F.Discord like a ton of bricks. he turned, facing the figures that he knew where going to be behind him. “Hello, Blackspine.”
“Ah, Discord, good to see you.” the blood red pegasus smiled eerily as he dropped the bag in his teeth, the Elements of Harmony inside it. Behind the colt was the cloaked pony he called assistant, some how wrapping Discord’s past self in a large rope.

(We now return to your normal way of saying Discord’s name, thank you.)

“How did you...”
“Your magic, ‘Lord’ Discord.” Blackspine said, his smiled growing, “I’ve almost gotten it all. At least from this one.” He nodded over to the Discord behind him. “Now... Surrender and I’ll end this war, today.”
“The war’s going to end today either way, you bag of...” 
“Silence!” the malicious pony called out, “I’ve out smarted you Chaos God! I used the Time Vortex to my advantage, and this time I’m keeping my hold on the high ground... I doubt you could understand it all any way, draconequus...”
“Oh?” Discord asked, “Try me.”
“... With your powers, the ones I posses, I was able to ride the currents of time easily.” Blackspine closed his eyes for a moment and paused, picking his words carefully before he continued. “I was able to infiltrate your past self’s inner circle by pretending to be a wizard, it was pretty easy. All I had to do was contend with you and him,” the colt pointed at Heartfelt with his hoof, “After that, it was simp...” Suddenly, Blackspine was blasted away by a wave of rainbow magic.
“Oh...be... quiet...” Celestia gritted her teeth as she leaned against a wall to support herself, “Am I late?”
“Nope, right on time.” Discord said as he charged at the assistant. However, Blackspine had recovered quickly and tackled his former master hard, knocking them both into a wall. 
“You really though that Princess Celestia could defeat me?!” Blackspine smiled and laughed manically, “Especially now?! With a broken leg!” The colt bucked Discord in the chest, knocking the draconequus down before he could answer. Slowly, the Chaos God looked up at his former underling and smiled.
“No... But I figured Lyra could...” he replied. Blackspine turned to see his assistant just standing there as the mint green unicorn used her magic to levitate the jewels to Princess Celestia and Luna. The Elements of Magic, Honesty, and Generosity landed on Celestia Beambright, while her sister gained the Elements of Loyalty and Kindness. However, the Element of Laughter just hovered in the air, as if it’s owner wasn’t present in the small chamber.
Blackspine Mulicious began to laugh again, his eyes growing wide as he fell to his knees. “REALLY?!” the colt couldn’t hold back, “After all your plans and precautions, you’re stopped by THAT element?! The most useless element of all of them!? This is too rich!” Then, in a streek of light blue, the Element of Laughter flew past Blackspine’s head and landed on Discord’s neck. 
“Well...” Lyra sat down, just staring at the necklace on her friend, “I actually think I saw that coming...”
Suddenly, the room filled with a bright light. Luna and Discord flew behind Celestia, and all three’s eyes turned bright white as a beam of rainbow energy careened toward’s Discord’s Past self and Blackspine.
“Oh no! Not again!” the colt dashed through the main hall and grabbed his assistant, then plunged into a hole in time. However, past Discord couldn’t be saved. The rope that bound him broke, and just as he was standing to stretch the beam hit him and turned the draconequus to pure stone. 

***

Lyra and Discord left as soon as they could, after handing the Element of Laughter back to Celestia of course. The mint green unicorn smiled as she rode on her friend’s back through time, but still her thoughts wen to Bon-Bon.
“Hey Discord...” Lyra said, “I... I think I want to go.”
“Go where? We can go anywhere we want Lyra.” Discord smiled, their newest victory had made him feel invincible... Even if it was against himself.
“Home, Discord.” the mint green unicorn finally choked up, “I want to go home. I miss Bon-Bon, and I want to at least... you know... Pop the question.”
Discord screeched to a halt, even making the sounds of a cart screeching as it stopped. “Are... are you sure?”
“Yeah... You can stay if you want. I think after I tell Bonny all the stories, about our traveling and stuff, that she’d be more then happy to let you stay in our house.”
“You think?” the draconequus’ ears went up, he was getting a bit tired to running too.
“Of course!” Lyra smiled.
“Alright then! Next stop, Ponyville!”

Next time, the furthest thing from Ponyville...