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// Chapter 59: Nice To Meet You 
// Story: Quest For Equestria 
// by Skyguy626 
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"And then there is you. How do we even begin to account for the turns your life has taken since you first arrived at the Academy?" The Grand Keyblade Master, Nuelo Dolros said to Marc. True to Lily's word, The Outsiders could not stand against the might of their combined forces and where swiftly defeated. They were now standing in the Canterlot Throne room where they were celebrating their victory, and thanks to their services everyone involved in this final battle received the Mark Of Honor, the highest honor the Council could give to outsiders. 

From what Celestia understood from the hierarchy of the Keyblade Council, Marc was one rank away from being a Keyblade Master, only those on the Council itself and within that the Grand Master ranked higher. One think Celestia did notice was that Lily had disappeared after they had claimed victory and hadn't been seen since.
"I sense your ambition growing. I can no longer ignore it. We wanted so much for you to become a Keyblade Master, but you are not ready.", the Grand Master concluded much to Celestia's surprise. "That's a lie, I've done more for the Worlds than the whole Keyblade Council combined.", Marc stated in his usual stoic voice. From what Celestia had heard from the few soldiers she had spoken to from Marc's Legion, they had been losing against the Outsiders till Marc had taken charge and made a alliance with the Superius Order and only then had they began winning.

"Please, do not make this any harder than it is. There will be other opportunities to prove your worth.", Nuelo ordered, from what Celestia had heard was they Nuelo Dolros and Marc Morgenstern didn't see eye to eye much. Before Marc could say anything, Celestia herself spoke up for him, "Master Dolros, Marc is one of the greatest heroes we've ever had. He deserves recognition for his victories and efforts.".
The Grand Master eyed the sun princess for a moment before reluctantly saying, "Fine. By the authority of the Council, I hereby grant you the honorary rank of Keyblade General.".
Celestia didn't know how high said rank was but much to her surprise Marc spoke up and for the first time some form of anger sipped through his stoic voice, "What a worthless title. No one salutes an 'honorary' officer.", he sounded offended even, even during fights his had shown nothing but calmed. "We will speak of this another time, Morgenstern. For now, let us mourn what we have lost and celebrate all we have gained. For this one moment, the Worlds are save.", Master Dolros said, but Marc had already stormed out of the room.

A few minutes later Celestia had ran into Lily, she had been looking for Marc but couldn't find him anywhere. Noticing the inner turmoil in the young Superius Lady. It didn't took long before Lily softly asked. "Why did she have to die? Why couldn't I save her? I know I could have!". Lily explained what had happened to her mother, she had died shortly after Lily had arrived, apparently they had drained her from all her life-force. "Sometimes there are things no one can fix.", Celestia said trying to comfort her young friend but she shook his head.

Lily's amber eyes started to water but she tried to keep them at bay, "Well, I should! Someday, I will be powerful enough to stop people from dying!".
Celestia saw that there was something more to her grief and rage than her mother dying, but before she could ask about it, Lily suddenly became enraged, the air around her started to crack with power, "I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men... but the women and the children, too. They took my last living relative from me and in return I slaughtered them like animals!", suddenly, the young woman dropped to her knees as she started to sob, while Celestia placed a wing around her. "I'm a Superius. I need to rule my emotions, not let my emotions rule me. I know I'm better than this."


Back in the present, the gang are riding the train back to Ponyville, currently Celestia had fallen asleep against a sleeping Griffifth. Before rolling her head against him, Celestia had sown to have a bad dream but after she had rolled against him, she had calmed down. She had even smiled for a while. "This is so going on my Wall.", Skywalker said as he took a picture with his phone. Suddenly Phoenix comes running in, "Look what I bought back at the Beach Resort!" show four bandanna mask in the colors blue, red, purple and orange. "Dude no way!", Skywalker, McGrath and Sutakira exclaimed as Phoenix handed the red one to McGrath. "Raphael? The hot head? Sounds like me.", McGrath said smugly. Phoenix nodded as he handed the blue one to Skywalker, "Leonardo for Skywalker, the trusty leader.".
Skywalker took the bandanna in his hand, "Ah thanks.", he gave Phoenix a smile while the other dropped the purple one in Sutakira's lap. "I'm obviously Michelangelo. The funny one.", he said tying the orange over his eyes before letting out a laugh. Seeing no reason not two, Skywalker and McGrath also tied their bandanna mask over their eyes.
"B-But why am I Donatello!?", Sutakira protested as he waved his bandanna mask in front of Phoenix. "Because your kinda the party pooper.", McGrath said as the other two agreed. "You four are dorks.". Rainbow said as the others let out another laugh.

Skywalker stopped laughing as his advanced hearing picked up panicked screams, coming from Ponyville. "Something wrong?", Twilight asked as Skywalker gave a dismissive nod as he removed his eye mask, "It's nothing. If I'm not back when the train arrive's, please take my bag with you.", he muttered as he climbed out of the window and started to run towards Ponyville, quickly leaving their line of sign.

A few seconds later, Skywalker arrived in Ponyville and the first thing he noticed was the collateral damage that wasn't his fault. The perpetrator wasn't difficult to find, a large black dog with three heads was rampaging about as a tanned young lady was trying to hold him back with a combination of the four elements, earth, fire, air and water. "What's a minute... I know her", Skywalker thought to himself as the girl failed to dodge a swing from Cerberus pawn, sending her flying through the air. Reacting quickly, Skywalker caught her bridal style mid-air as he landed back on the ground. "Man, you really are completely lost without me, Avatar Korra.", he said teasingly as the girl surprised expression turned into a smug grin.

Skywalker placed her back on his feet, as he raised his fist, "Now lets kick this dog back to Tarturus!", his friend gave a nod as the two charged Cerberus. The guardian dog attacked first, using it's three heads it tried to bite into its opponent's, but Skywalker used his natural agility to not only dodge the attack, but as a leaf in the wind flowed on top of Cerberus head. As he was about to drop out of his flow, Skywalker landed a powerful kick on Cerberus left most head as Korra with a swift kick sending a boulder against the right most head scored a hit. With two of the three heads in a dizzied state, Cerberus reared up and slammed the ground, sending a shock wave towards the heroes, which Skywalker dodge by taking to the air as Korra used the very earth to launch herself in the air. The middle head's mouth opened as it spewed black fire balls from  its mouth. Quickly flying down, Skywalker grabbed Korra before taking to the air. "Let's do this!", Korra said as he nodded at this. Charging down, Korra started to bend the air around them in as Skywalker added his own lightning to it. Their combined abilities created some sort of typhoon, the dark fire was parted away as they landed square on the middle head, knocking the mighty guardian of Tartarus out. 

Landing back on the ground with a thud, Skywalker gave one last look over the defeated guard dog before turning to look at his friend. The two stared at each other for a few seconds before they rushed at each other, Korra hopped into his arms wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his hips as he wrapped one of his arms around her her back and the other under her legs to steady her as he twirled around, happy to see his friend. "Oh yeah, the dream team is back together!", they both shouted, before gazing deeply in the others eye. Their moment was broken when a loud voice was heard, "Ya just couldn't wait to destroy some building, couldn't ya!". Turning around it was Skywalker's other friends who had arrived safe Griffifth and Celestia, and it was Big Mac who said that. "It wasn't my fault! It was already like this when I arrived!", Skywalker said defensively, forgetting he hadn't put Korra down yet. "Say who is that girl your holding, Jason?", Rainbow asked before breaking down into laughter at the blush on her best friends face. Quickly putting her down, Skywalker introduced his friends to Korra and vise versa. 

"Anyways, how did you get here, Korra?" Skywalker asked as his friend explained what happened. After their battle against Vaatu and keeping the Spirit World open, she had been investigating the rumor's of a strange white door that had appeared and let strange creatures through. It didn't took long for the gang to figure out what kind of door that was. "Korra, can you show me where this door is? Its very important we close it before any spirits or more of our creatures make it to the other side.". His tanned friend gave a nod, before leading them the way.

A few seconds later they arrived at where the door should be and there it was. Twilight gave it a look over before confirming it was indeed similar to the doors she and the other EOH's could open and close. "Korra, if you want to go back now, I suggest you go now.", Skywalker said, but he was surprised at his friends chuckle, after confirming her question that they could create a portal back to her home at any time, she said she wanted to stick around and see how Skywalker's World worked.

Skywalker nodded, as with a wave of his hand, Sutakira closed the door. "Well, if your gonna stick around for a while. You can stay in my room, Korra.", Skywalker said, making the rest chuckle at what he suggested. A blush creeped on his face as he realized what he said, "Uhm I mean... You can sleep in my room Korra and I'll sleep on the sofa!", he quickly corrected himself as he scratched the back of his head.

And so their live's returned to normal, most of the time when Skywalker was off to save the day, Korra accompanied him. But their normal days soon ended when Celestia requested the Harmonic Heroes to gather in the Openfields, just outside of Ponyville.
"Why would she wants all of us? Why did she wanted all the Element Users in one place?", Sutakira said as sat down in the grass, they had agreed to meet her at 14:00 hour, but she hadn't arrived yet and it already was 14:15. "I'm surprised she's not here yet. It's not like her to be late.", Twilight noted. Skywalker took another look over his friends, noticing they weren't complete yet, apparently Fluttershy was still detained helping Applejack with a mishap at Sweet Apple Acres.
"But, I still don't get why the Princess would be so late.", Sutakira wondered as he turned his head towards Canterlot Castle.

"Maybe she's bringing an important visitor, maybe it's somebody so terribly important, she still had many more terribly important things to do before she got here." Rarity suggested as she laid her head in McGrath's lap while he stroked her manes. Sutakira took a loud gasp before raising to his feet, "Maybe the visitor has a deer antler, a goat leg, a bat wing, and a snake tail!", he shouted as everyone save him and Korroa burst out in laughter. "Funny story, Star! That's Discord!", Phoenix said whipping a tear from his eye.
From what Skywalker had told her about this Discord, Korra knew he was bad news. "Why in the wide-wide world of Equestria would Princess Celestia bring along someone like that?", Rarity asked as the princess herself landed along with two guards who guarded the stone statue of Discord.

"Maybe you should ask her." Sutakira suggested dryly as Skywalker leaned over towards his best friend. "Dashie, get AJ and Flutters... Dubble time...", he whispered as Rainbow flew off towards Sweet Apple Acres. Meanwhile, the young knight turned to his mentor as he shouted, "Tia!? Why in blue fuck would you bring Discord here!?". It was enough that he had to contend with the usual dangers that threatened Equestria, but he didn't want some god of chaos added to that list as well.
"I'm fully aware that the last time Discord was here, he created serious havoc.", Celestia tried to explain her story but she was interrupted by Sutakira.

"If by 'serious havoc' you mean turning Ponyville into the chaos capital of the Worlds and going Godzilla while destroying most of Ponyville!", Sutakira recounted. "And making yummy delicious chocolate milk rain all over the place without a single dollop of whipped cream to go with it anywhere in sight! Not a single dollop!", Pinkie added dramatically. 
"Yeah, that's some 'serious havoc'.", Griffifth replied dryly as Pinkie nodded. "Yes, I understand. But I have use for Discord's...", Celestia started as Phoenix scoffed, "So you want him to clean your pipes? Roll your oats, Polishing the foot stones? Tapping the midnight still, if you will Forging the moaning statue? Bucking the forbidden horse? Donning the velvet hat?", Phoenix said as everybody gave him a puzzled look.
"Are you just making these up right now?", Korra asked as the red head shook his head. "Nope. Been saving them.", he answered as the sun princess continued. 
"I have use for Discord's magic if it can be reformed to serve good instead of evil. This is why I've brought Discord here, because I believe that you are the ponies and humans who can help him do just that.", Celestia explained.
The gang thought if over for a while before Twilight answered, "...I suppose we can just use the Elements of Harmony against him again if it gets out of hand.".
"...Or we can just kill him?", Griffifth suggested but the others found that idea too complicated, "Too fun more like it.", he snarked as he placed his hands in his pockets. But this raised the question what to do if Discord got his hands on the EoH. Celestia had already thought about this, "I've cast a spell so Discord can't take them and hide them again. Now where is Fluttershy? I believe she may know best how to begin reforming Discord.".
"Fluttershy? Really?" , Big Mac said dryly, "Eeyup, Celestia is going senile."

A little later after Applejack and Fluttershy arrived back with Rainbow, Celestia explained her intention to her. Fluttershy was unsure about this, "I realize that this is a tall order, but I wouldn't ask if I weren't confident you could get him to use magic obediently of his own free will.", Celestia said encouragingly. "Now, I must return to Canterlot for Equestria's royal summit. You may release Discord when ready.", the sun princess said as she and her guards took to the skies.
"What do Dumbledore, Zordon and Celestia all have in common?", Phoenix asked, his pink friend was the first to shot an answer. "All three are wizards!", Pinkie said, Phoenix was about to say that wasn't true but in hindsight it kinda was.
"All three send a bunch of teenagers to fight their battles for them.", Skywalker said as he place his EoH around his wrist as he looked over at the statue. "I can't believe we're about to do this... Keep your element on at all times till further notice.", Skywalker ordered as his element started to glow and soon the others followed. A large rainbow energy beam shot at the Discord statue as the stone shattered revealing the god of chaos himself.
"Well, it's about time somebody got me out of that prison block. What a relief!", he said as he stretched his back, "When you're a creature of chaos, stone bodysuits aren't your typical go-to fashion choice."
"Shut up Discord, this is whats gonna happen.", Twilight ordered as he explained what was gonna happen.

"Well, I guess I could let you boys and girls try to reform me. I guess I shall be crashing at Buttershy then? Of course if your fearless leader allows it." Discord said as Skywalker shot him a death glare and for a moment and Discord actually felt fear. Skywalker wasn't sure if Discord wouldn't harm Fluttershy during his stay, he had sworn nothing bad would ever happened to his friends again, not after not Claire was taken away from him. "I'll go along with whatever you think is right, Fluttershy.", Skywalker said reluctantly before adding, "But I like to have a word with Discord, alone. If that's okay with you.". Giving a nod, the others left for Fluttershy's Cottage to prepare for the guest. When they were out of hearing distance, Skywalker turned to the god of chaos, glaring at him once again, "Let me tell you something, right now. You make one wrong move, one slip-up, give me one reason to think you might hurt Fluttershy, and you won't have to worry about being locked up in stone anymore. Because I'll make sure to end you... right then and there.", Skywalker threatened him, and for a moment even the god of chaos was scared of the young knight, as he gestured him to follow him to Fluttershy's Cottage.