Recap: Discord threatens to end harmony and logic in Ponyville forever, while Sai, Yamato, and Sakura begin their mission to rescue Naruto and Sasuke.
Note: I admit I've rushed the two previous chapters so I'm slowing down for this one, giving them time to soak up the environment. So...you're welcome;)
Thoughts=(italics) I've decided to combine them both from now on.
Twilight and Sasuke stopped walking when they saw a hedge just beyond them, magically fall down. Twilight trotted up ahead, she saw a familiar apple cutie mark and started galloping towards her.
"Applejack!" Twilight exclaimed, she slowed down her pace and happily approached the country pony. "Applejack, I'm so glad to see you! You will not believe what I've been through!"
Sasuke smoothly trotted up to Applejack, with a suave smirk and look on his face. "Heh, no wonder they call you Applejack because you are the apple of my eye." Sasuke said in a flirtatious tone.
"Sorry Sasuke. I'm already with someone."
"Huh?"
"Wait...since when?" Twilight confusingly asked.
Applejack shook her head and started to avert her eyes again. "Let's...um go."
On the other side of the hedge, Naruto laid unconscious on the cold ground. (...g...e...t...u...p) Naruto slowly opened up his eyes and looked around, still the same maze.
Suddenly, Naruto stood in front of Kurama's cage, he was barely awake. "Naruto...you finally wok...e..."
"Will you...stop calling me...Naruto!"
Kurama slightly grunted in confusion. "...?"
"My name is Menma you useless piece of shit, because of you I can't even use my full power."
"You little...I mean...I did it to save your life."
"...sure whatever but you'll be useless for years now."
"...bra...t." Kurama managed to cough up, before he, out of complete exhaustion, fell back to sleep. But...though he didn't want to admit it Naruto was right, it would take years to replenish all of his chakra.
Naruto finally got himself, he trotted around the place until one of the columns collasped. Finally, he found Twilight, Applejack, and Sasuke walking around the place. (Meh. Useless.) Naruto turned around and tried to walk away from them.
"Naruto! I'm so glad to see you!" Twilight exclaimed as she and the others ran up to him.
(I suppose I'll use them to get my horn back.) Naruto glared at Twilight. "Idiot. My name is Menma."
Twilight stopped. She arched her eyebrows and looked skeptically at him. "Um no it's not. Your name is Naruto. Not Menma."
"Stop talking to me you useless piece of shit!" Naruto hissed.
Sasuke glared at Naruto, he walked over and stood in front of Twilight. "Don't talk to malady like that! You ass hole!"
Naruto kept on walking. Dismissing what Sasuke said.
Sasuke glanced at Twilight, she looked like Naruto just tried to kill her. The pure hurt in her eyes made Sasuke even more mad at Naruto.
"Stop it now Naruto! We still have to be a team! And I won't let you just walk away on me!" Sasuke yelled.
Naruto turned around to meet Sasuke's deep black eyes. "We were never a team! I've always hated you, I don't even know what I was thinking, trying to go after you all those years."
"I never asked for you to chase me! I never asked for any of that! I barely even knew your last name because I just didn't give a shit about you!"
Naruto kicked Sasuke out of the way, making him crash into a nearby hedge. "I'm going to get my horn back and...I'm going to kill you Sasuke."
Twilight lightly stared at Naruto, she quietly sighed. (He's changed but...) Twilight looked to Sasuke who was flirting with Applejack yet again. (He's changed as well but perhaps...for the better.)
Everyone continued down the long path. At the end of the path, a hedge gave out, revealing Pinkie pie just trotting around with a fixed glare on her face. Twilight galloped up to her, relieved to have finally found a sane pony.
"Pinkie pie! Are we glad to see you!" Twilight exclaimed.
Pinkie pie brushed past Twilight. "Yeah, just to laugh at me." Pinkie coldly stated.
Sasuke held up another rose for Twilight. "Twilight, that sparkle in your eye makes my heart-"
Pinkie pie got up in Sasuke's face. "And why don't I get a rose?! Why don't I get flirted with?! You think you're just too good me?! You think I'm ugly?!"
"On the contrary. Pinkie pie, I think you are absolutely the most beautiful pony I've ever laid my eyes on."
"No one asked you what you thought about me! Jerk!"
Twilight turned her head to Applejack. "Hey, Applejack, don't you think she's acting a little off?"
"No. She's perfectly fine to me." The second after Applejack said that, she darted her eyes and scrunched her mouth, making Twilight question
Naruto stared down at a puddle on the ground. A reflection of a younger Naruto popped up. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! My dream is to be hokage! Dattebayo!" The reflection proclaimed.
Naruto looked up, he walked through the puddle, trying so hard to forget his past self.
"What're you looking at?!" Pinkie pie demanded.
Naruto groaned. "Ugh...you're still so damn annoying..."
"Annoying?!"
Naruto continued walking "You heard me."
"What do you mean?! You're the most annoying pony I've ever met in my life! You know how annoying it is being named after fishpaste and whirlpools?!" Pinkie pie yelled.
"...no. Stop calling me Naruto...I'm tired of telling you...my name is, UZUMAKI MENMA!"
Applejack pointed in a random direction. "Look! It's Rarity."
Everyone looked to where she was pointing. All they saw was a heap of rock coming up their way. Twilight scowled. "That's not Rarity, Applejack."
"What- I never said that." Applejack quickly rebutted.
Pinkie pie glared at Applejack. "I hate people who lie!"
"I'm not a liar. I've never lied in my entire life."
Much to Twilight's relief, the giant boulder was actually just Rarity lugging the huge thing for some reason. "Rarity! I'm so happy to-what the...why are you carrying that thing?" Twilight asked in a confused tone.
Rarity flipped the large boulder off her back. She started to stroke it. "What do you mean boulder? This big, beautiful, hunky rock is a diamond! And it's mi-" Rarity stopped at mid-sentence when she saw Sasuke talking to, no, flirting with Applejack.
Rarity ran over to them and bumped Applejack out of the way. "And do you want to know what else is MINE, Twilight?" Rarity asked.
"No."
Rarity started to violently hug Sasuke. "SASUKE! SASUKE IS ALL MINE!"
"Of course baby. I'll always be there for you." Sasuke took out another rose, wherever he gets those from. "For you. A rose almost as pretty as you."
"HEY! You said that same thing to me!" Pinkie pie yelled.
"Guys, let's keep on walking." Twilight sighed, her patience was getting to the imits.
The group kept on walking through the maze. Nothing changed. The same constant fighting. As they all turned a corner, the hedge just beyond them retracted into the ground, revealing Fluttershy just walking about.
Twilght started to pick up her pace, going faster and faster as each hoof pressed on the ground. A smile formed across her face, she was completely confident that Fluttershy was still her nice, kind self.
Twilight looked behind, everyone was still going at their normal walking pace. Not even caring whether Fluttershy was dead or alive.
"Fluttershy! I'm so glad to see a friendly face! This labyrinth is getting to everyone..."
Fluttershy turned to face Twilight, her tone was reeking of sarcasm and venom. "Awww, too bad. Why don't you wave your stupid little horn and making everything all better?"
"But..."
"Oh, my mistake." Fluttershy started walking off. "You can't." Fluttershy then whipped her tail across Twilight's face, making it very clear to her that she's changed as well, much to Twilight's dismay.
"What is happening to my...friends?"
As Fluttershy reached the group, she bumped Pinkie into the nearest hedge. Making Applejack die of laughter. "HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Who are you laughing at?!" Pinkie pie demanded.
"Compact systems." Applejack hastily answered as she glanced away.
Rarity helplessly looked to Sasuke as she held the massive boulder. "I bet with your intensely strong muscles, you could easily hold this big bad diamond up."
Sasuke's flirtatious smile, dropped. "Hell no, do it yourself."
"...HEY! TWILIGHT! GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE!" Rarity hollered.
Twilight galloped over to Rarity. "Yes Rarity?"
"I need a little help."
Twilight got under the boulder, helping Rarity hold it up. "Thanks, Twilight."
"You're welcome." Twilight warmly said.
"But..." Rarity creepily glared at Twilight. "Don't get any ideas about my gem because I know where you live and I will find you." She said in a creepy tone.
Despite everything, Twilight still kept on walking. "I have too keep on going...for you Rainbow dash!"
Naruto stopped, he shook his head. "No. Finding her is pointless. She'll just betray you."
Twilight kept on walking. "I don't care. Even if she does betray me, finding my friend is the only thing important to me and I never, ever give up on my friend."
"And if that means...death?"
"Then it does."
"...but..."
"She's my friend, don't you get it? So give up on making me try to give up."
That's when something broke. Naruto stood there, dazed.
"Now let's go, Menma."
Before they could continue any further, Applejack pointed her hoof up into the clouds. "And there Rainbow dash goes! What a traitor!"
Twilight laughed. "Now I know that's a lie." Twilight flipped the boulder, Rarity made her carry, off her back and looked up. She softly gasped.
"You're...right." Twilight saw Rainbow dash fly out of the maze.
The entire maze, retracted under the ground showing only the bare dirt earth along with a couple of cracked statues. Discord rose from the earth with his paw and claw behind his back. "Well-well. Somepony broke the no wings, no magic rule."
Discord snapped his fingers, returning all wings and horns back to everyone. "Game's over my little-"
"RASENGAN!" Quickly Naruto blasted a Rasengan straight into Discord's body but he merely smirked.
"Ha. I knew you would do that." He disappeared and reappeared onto a cotton candy cloud.
"You underestimate me." Naruto turned to meet Discord's eye. "Because I knew you would do that!"
"Huh?"
"BIG BALL RASENGAN!" Several hundred Naruto's yelled, Discord looked behind him. A tower of Naruto clones, shadowed over him. A mass of them were coming at him with their Rasengan.
"Wha- AHHHHHHH!"
All of the Rasengan clashed into Discord, resulting in a huge explosion. Everyone stood back and watched as an explosion of light started to burst past them. When the explosion started to cripple away only a crater, stained with blood, was left.
"It's fine Twilght...I'll never hurt you." Naruto reassured, feeling Twilight's uneasiness.
Twilight looked at Fluttershy. "Fluttershy..."
"And what do you want?" Fluttershy rudely asked.
"Well. Nothing's changed Menma."
Naruto shook his head. "No. My name is...Uzumaki Naruto." His color finally and fully returned as he once and for all said his true name.
Twilight warmly smiled. "I'm glad you're back, Naruto."
"But no one else is." Naruto sighed.
A large fox paw emerged from the ground, another larger eagle claw emerged from the ground as well. In seconds, the ground started to rumble, revealing Discord was not only back but changed. Naruto could tell from his features, he was getting eaten up by what little chakra he stole.
"You can't...kill me that easily." Discord's tone kept on rising and lowering with each word he spoke, as if his speech itself was drastically changing.
"What the flying feathers is that?" Fluttershy asked.
Naruto started to retreat back. "The nine-tails demon fox."
Discord started to fall on the ground, laughing. Fluttershy nudged to Naruto. "Hurry up idiot! Get him while he's down with your gum-gum bouncy ball thing." Fluttershy demanded.
"I can't." Naruto admitted. "I don't really have enough chakra."
Sasuke's ears perked. "Then use Kurama." Sasuke suggested.
"Kurama used the last of his chakra during our fight. It'll take years for him to get it back."
Twilight turned her attention back to the still laughing Discord. "Discord. Why are you laughing?" Twilight flatly asked.
"Because! You ponies are the most fun I've had in EONS!"
"Well stop. Stop it right now Discord! You better not laugh at the Pink...ie pie!"
Fluttershy devilishly smirked. "Oh yeah? Well then, ha-ha."
"Shut-up."
"No. Ha, ha."
"Shut-up!"
"No. Ha, ha."
"SHUT-UP!"
"No. Ha, ha-ha, ha, ha, ha-ha."
Applejack bumped Rarity out of the way. "So Sasuke, Rarity told me she hated you so why don't you repeat what you said about my um hair?"
"Of course. Your hair is the most beautiful-"
"HEE-YAH!" Rarity yelled as she kicked Applejack out of the way.
"Get your hooves off of my Sasuke! He's MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!" Rarity turned her attention back to Sasuke. "Isn't that right Sasuke?"
"Of course baby, I'll always be by your side."
Naruto was tired of Sasuke, fed up by his constant smooth talk. "Shut the hell up Sasuke! Stop acting like some kind of hot-shot playboy."
"Ha-ha, ha. Are you jealous of my sexiness, Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"STOP LAUGHING!" Pinkie pie yelled.
*vein pops* "SHUT UP! You annoying little duck-ass!"
"Man, Naruto you don't have to be such a dick."
"DAMMIT! Now you're acting like Sai! Just shut the hell up already!"
Rarity gasped. "I know what to name my diamond!"
Discord slammed his eagle claw on the ground as he laughed mockingly at the group of ponies. "This is just too funny!"
Naruto gritted his teeth in frustration. "Shut up Discord! We were promised the elements! You need to keep your promises!"
"Ha...ha...HA HA HAHA! You honestly think I play fair and I...keep my promises?!" Discord brushed some dirt off and stood up. "Helloooo. I'm Discord, element of disharmony. It's not that hard, well...maybe for you it is."
Twilight shook her head in disagreement. "How are we suppose to find the elements of harmony when you took the labyrinth away?!"
Discord started to lightly chuckle. "You honestly believe the elements of harmony were in the labyrinth?!" Discord poofed up a mirror in his paw and showed Twilight a flashback of the riddle.
"I never even said they were in the labyrinth. Keep trying Twilight and maybe with the Magic of Friendship you can fix this somehow. Ciao my friend." With a snap of his paw, he disappeared leaving behind a trail of cotton candy and chocolate milk.
"..." Twilight sighed again, she looked towards her friends who were still...different. "Then what...think Twilight! Think!"
Pinkie pie scowled at the puddle of chocolate milk. "I hate chocolate milk! Ugh!"
Fluttershy pushed Pinkie pie into the puddle of chocolate milk. "How about now?" Fluttershy nastily asked.
Sasuke clenched a carnation between his teeth as he bent over to Pinkie pie's level. "Pinkie pie, have I ever told you how gorgeous you are when you're wet?"
"NO!"
Rarity kicked Pinkie pie out of the way. "MINE! STOP TOUCHING HIM!" Rarity screeched as she plopped the rock back onto her back.
Fluttershy flew over and knocked Sasuke on the head. "Ha-ha. I'm touching him."
"STOP TOUCHING HIIIIIM!"
"Ok." Fluttershy flew over to the boulder Rarity was heaving on her back and started to touch that instead. "I'm touching your little rock."
"I'm not!" Applejack chimed in when she clearly was touching the rock.
"Stop it! You filthy little dogs!"
"No. Ha-ha."
Pinkie pie stood up. "Who you laughing at?!"
Twilight stared at the bare ground, she couldn't believe what her friends had turned in to. "I just...I just want to go home. Wait! That's it! Back where you began!"
Ponyville...
"In Ponyville! Of course!" Twilight exclaimed as the group started walking back to where they started. Just as she said that, a group of rabbits, led by Angel, trampled over her and smothered her face on the ground.
Fluttershy smirked. "Good boy Angel! Mama's so proud!"
Instantly, the sun dropped below the horizon while the moon rose up, darkening Ponyville in seconds. "Wow!" Applejack boasted. "I can see so much better now!"
Applejack ran into the back of Pinkie pie making everypony fall down. Sasuke rubbed his head and got up. "Oh yeah, nice one Applejack."
"I uh...meant to do that."
Twilight slipped and fell onto the ground, the sun darted up into the sky revealing new soap roads instead of the dirt. "Dang it! Discord's changed the dirt roads into soap roads!"
"No shit!" Sasuke yelled.
"Ughhhhhhh. Looks like that hasn't changed. Right Naruto? Naruto...?" Twilight looked over to see that Naruto was arguing with Sasuke, again. For the fifth time already. "That's it. I'm done."
"Discord! Change the roads back!"
Discord rose from the ground, again. For the fifth time already. "That would be a no. It's so much more fun like this, wouldn't you agree Twilight?"
Pinkie pie started skating by on the soap. "This isn't fun! Nothing is fun!"
Applejack slid past Pinkie pie. "You're doing it wrong ya' know!"
"Is that a challenge?!"
"Ugh." Twilight groaned.
Discord picked up Twilight by the mane only for the sun to dart below the horizon. "Picture this place, the chaos capital of the world."
"I can't picture anything. Too dark, remember Mr. Disharmony?"
Discord dropped Twilight into a random puddle. "Then wait you little brat. You'll see the sun rise, or not."
"Ponyville won't become the chaos capital of the world. Not if I have anything to say!" about it!"
Fluttershy skated by, she started to manically laugh. "Don't worry, you won't."
Twilight's Library...entrance...
Twilight sighed one more time. "We're here. Now can everyone just please, please, please go inside? Please?"
"I absolutely refuse." Applejack remarked as she trotted in.
Fluttershy trampled over a bush before entering. "With pleasure."
"Anything for you, my love." Sasuke flirtatiously remarked.
"I hate libraries!" Pinkie yelled as she trotted in.
Rarity walked over with her rock tried to pushing her boulder through the door, it wouldn't budge.
"Pleasse. We have to hurry." Twilight begged.
"Don't try to patronize me!"
"You're not even using the word right."
"Never mind that! I know what you're up to. Once I go in, you'll have your little slave Spike come and take my Gary Dahl. I'm not falling for that! Not today!"
"Gary Dahl?"
"Mm hm."
"...you're not going in are you?"
"Nope."
Twilight hoisted the boulder onto her back and walked through her door. The boulder on her back felt immediately lighter, she looked to her left to see that Naruto was helping her hold it.
"I thought...you would need some help."
Twilight looked at Naruto and smiled. "...thank you Naruto..."
Fluttershy poured a bucket of cold water on a still sleeping Spike. She smirked in victory. Spike jumped up and shook the water off like a dog. "Why...why did you that Fluttershy?" Spike asked.
Fluttershy slammed the bucket over Spike's head. "Because I could and you looked so peaceful, idiot."
Spike pulled the bucket from off his head, he was pretty hurt. "...what is happening?"
*crash*
The frame of Twilight's door broke off as Twilight and Naruto carried the boulder through the door. "Careful Twilight. You'll ruin Gary's beautiful finish!" Rarity called out as she trotted in, finally.
"Will you please just shut the-"
"Twilight!" Spike cut off. "Why does everyone looked so...gray and...why was Fluttershy so mean?"
"Don't ask. Also, Naruto, Spike. Spike, Naruto. Done."
Fluttershy hung over Twilight with a nasty scowl on her face. "Hey Twilight. Guess who's about to feel the worst pain in her life?"
"Fluttershy, I am tired of your-"
Fluttershy slammed a paper bag with an angry cat over her head. "You!"
Naruto pulled off the bag with his teeth, he winced at Twilight's scratched up face due to the cat in the bag. "Stop it Fluttershy!" Naruto yelled.
"No. Ha-ha."
"STOP LAUGHING!" Pinkie screamed.
"Spike...can you please...please get the reference guide to the elements of harmony. Please." Twilight begged.
"Of course! I know exactly where that is!" Spike ran off then came back with a book in his hand. "Found it!"
Fluttershy snatched the book from Spike's hands. "Keep away!" Fluttershy yelled as she tossed it to Pinkie pie.
Pinkie pie then tossed it to Applejack. Twilight ran up to Applejack. "Gimme that book Applejack!"
"What book?" Applejack asked as she tossed it Sasuke.
Naruto galloped towards Sasuke. "Give that thing back!"
Sasuke balanced the book on his horn for a bit before tossing it back to Fluttershy. Naruto jumped on Sasuke's head and tried to reach for the book between Fluttershy's hooves. Before Naruto could reach the book, Fluttershy dropped it in front of Rarity.
Rarity lunged for the book and selfishly hung on to it. "MIIINE!"
"You don't even like books!" Twilight yelled.
"No. But if you want it, I WANT IT!"
Twilight started to run after Rarity. "Give me my book back!" Twilight stopped to look around, she was gone.
"Where is she? Where is Rarity?!"
"Beats me." Applejack said.
Twilight lunged for Applejack. "Liar!"
Twilight raised her hoof, a book was clenched between her teeth. "This is my book and I will READ IT!"
Twilight flipped open the book, the elements were all lined up neatly in one little opening of the book. "...so all that trouble...was for nothing."