Kingdom Harmony

by Kingdom Harmony

Chapter 4: Chaos in Canterlot

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“It’s a pleasure to finally meet you,” said an ominous voice to Sora side Celestia’s side, “Princess Celestia,” They immediately turned around to see a unicorn completely shrouded in a black cloak.

“Who are you?!” Celestia demanded to know as Sora summoned his keyblade.

“You can call me Xabmors,” the cloaked pony announced.

Sora threw his keyblade at Xabmors only for it to be blocked by a rock in its path being held by a dark violet aura. “Aren’t you going to show us your face,” Sora asked impatiently, “Nobody?”

“Clever child,” Xabmors snarked, “but why would I ruin the fun so soon.”

“Silence!” the princess ordered. “State your business here!”

“You honestly think you're prepared for what’s coming.” Xabmors taunted. “Then tell me princess, are you prepared… for this!” At that moment black explosions started happening all over the city.

“You!” Celestia shouted with untold rage in her in eyes. She charged up magical energy in her horn and fired a beam of energy straight at Xabmors. However a tall black shadow quickly rose out of the ground and took the blast instead. After that more and more of them began to appear.

“Neoshadows,” Sora shouted before summoning his keyblade once more.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t stay and chat. I have some business to attend to,” Xabmors gloated. “But don’t worry. I’ll make sure you have plenty of company.” A black portal appeared in front of Xabmors and when it closed he was gone.

“Sora, we have to split up,” Celestia told Sora.

“What!?” Sora asked in shock.

“Our first priority is the civilians!” Celestia hastily elaborated.

“Okay, got it,” Sora agreed.

“There’s nothing like Canterlot materials,” Rarity said as she walked out of the store, carrying a few bags of fabrics and other clothing material with her magic. “I can’t thank you enough for helping me Pinkie.” Pinkie bounced out of the store, carrying a number of bags as well.

The two were stopped short when black smoke exploded in front of them. The smoke quickly dissipated and an unbelievable amount of heartless were in its wake. The creatures were ghostly and floating in midair. They wore a purple shirt that bore heartless emblem. Their white claws floated, just barely detached from their arms, and one of their yellow eyes hung out, only connected by a chain.

They faded from existence and then faded back in at different locations. They were heading toward different places. Some were leaving the area, some were attacking the buildings and a group was heading straight towards Rarity and Pinkie.

Rarity swatted at the ghosts with her bags of fabric to no effect. “Back you vile beasts,” she shouted. “Back I say!” One of the ghosts slashed at her with their claws and knocked her into the fabric store wall.

Rarity heard the familiar sound of a confetti explosion as she got back up and saw Pinkie with her party cannon, which she pulled out of thin air as far as Rarity knew. “Leave my friend alone you meanies!” Pinkie shouted as she fired the cannon again and knocked one of the ghosts back.

Rarity noticed a metal pole, that was once part of a fabric rack, as it rolled over to her. She picked it up with her magic as another ghost made it’s way over to her. She looked at the ghost and swung at it using the pole like a bat. The creature was sent flying backwards and after its regained it's control, it faded from existence once again. Rarity looked from side to side, waiting for it to reappear. The ghost faded back into reality to Rarity’s right. “Begone you vile creature!” she shouted as she trusted the metal pole into the heartless, causing it to burst into black smoke.

She moved closer to Pinkie as more of the ghosts came towards them. “Say on your guard!” Rarity advised.

Pinkie squint. “Okie-Dokie-Loki,” she said slowly.

Rainbow leaned against the railing in the VIP box. She couldn’t believe that Spitfire asked her to watch the derby.

“Ready! Set! Go!” the announcer started the race. The Wonderbolts took off with Spitfire in the lead. Rainbow watched as she neared the end of the first lap when the sound of a massive explosion shook the the entire stadium. As Spitfire was about to cross the finish line, creatures came flying through the clouds that made the track.

Rainbow admittedly noticed the emblem on their chests. “Heartless!” she shouted. The creature were were shaped somewhat like a wyvern and had red skin and the same glowing yellow eyes as the other heartless.

The wyverns took off in all directions. The Wonderbolts were quick to resound, taking off and flying straight into the beasts, knocking them back. Meanwhile, Spitfire and the pegasusi of the royal guard evacuated the civilians. The wyverns didn’t take long to regain control of their flight and dashed back at their targets in a corkscrew motion.

“They’re not going to get away from me this time!” Rainbow Dash proclaimed as she took to the skies and to join the fight. She flew into one making sure to just skim it at high speed. It started to regain control of it’s flight “Not so fast!” Rainbow yelled, and before it recover she turned around and flew by it again. She repeated this a few times as the wyvern let out a bloodcurdling screech. “Take this!” she shouted as she flew directly at it this time and after making contact she pushed it into the stadium wall. As Rainbow crushed it into the wall it died in a puff of black smoke.

“Way to go!” Soarin called over. “Alright everypony, follow her lead!”

Applejack never really cared all too much for city life. Even so, she thought better on her hooves and decided to take a walk around the city. She would have done so with her friends, but they all had something to do. There was certainly a lot to take in. Not mention Sora was still hiding information from them. She had to wonder about the organization that Rarity told them was after Sora. If the heartless were really as mindless as Sora said, then they can’t be it.

The sound of explosions demolished Applejack’s train of thought as a wave of black smoke passed by her. When it cleared there were tons creatures with the heartless emblem on their chest. The heartless were huge, at least twice Applejack’s size. However, they were incredibly fat, being just as wide as they were tall. They each had a tiny black head with a pair of menacing yellow eyes. They wore purple clothes with blue armor on the sleeves and in the front. To top them off, they had cuffs on their enormous arms, each with severed chains.

The fatsos began to waddle in different directions and a group focused their attention on Applejack. One charged at her and Applejack rolled her eyes, turned away from it, and when it was in range, she bucked it in the chest. She then felt a sharp pain in her hind legs as she jumped forward and turned to face the creature. She noticed it was completely unharmed. “What the hay!?” she exclaimed. “What in sam’s hill that armor made out of?”

The heartless jumped into the air and started to come back down when Applejack saw that they had was no armor on their back. She got in position and as it neared the ground, she bucked it in the back, sending it flying into the nearest building, where it exploded into a puff of smoke.

Applejack turned to the others, “So which of ya’ll is next?” she taunted and all of the fatsos left came at her at once.

Shining Armor and Cadence were just going to get some fresh air and relax outside as they sorted out the news they just received. Then the explosions started

“What’s happening?” Shining Armor asked, some what panicked, as one of the explosions happened right in front of them. When the smoke cleared there were floating creatures with black bodies and and glowing yellow eyes. They were covered in yellow robes with the heartless emblem on them and they were carrying a book with a light purple cover with the same crossed out heart on the front cover as well.

The book users started to scatter and large group focused their attention on Cadence and Shining Armor. They started shooting fireballs at them and Shining Armor quickly put up a barrier to block the blasts. Cadence then released a bust of magic energy. When it made contact, the creatures hissed in pain and backed away.

“How’d you do that?” Shining Armor asked his wife.

“From the way Sora explained them, they seem like a mindless version of Sombra. I figured if my love and light cloud repel him, it might work on these things.” Cadence explained.

The creatures moved around to the point that they had Cadence and Shining Armor surrounded. They started to rain down lightning while others shot more fireballs, and about half of them remand still. Shining Armor quickly rose a bubble barrier around him and his wife. As soon as the blasts stopped the creatures that were standing still starting to do the same attacks as the ones that just finished took a rest.

“I don’t know how long I can keep this up!” Shining Armor struggled.

“What about your city wide barrier?” Cadence asked in desperation.

“I need a little time to pull that off, and these thing aren’t giving us second!” Shining Armor explained still struggling to keep the barrier he had up.

“Save the princess and the captain!” ordered a unicorn in the royal guard to a squad. As they got close some of the soldiers Sora had told them about appeared out of balls of dark energy to block their path. “You will not stop us!” the royal guard proclaimed as one.

Discord stood over his map of Equestria as he talked with Fluttershy. He was happy that she seemed to have forgiven him, or at least was attempting to rebuild the bridges his betrayal had burned.

“What!?” Discord said interrupting Fluttershy's story.

“Is something wrong?” she asked.

Discord didn’t answer, but the answer was yes. He felt a large spike in heartless energy, but when he looked at the map there wasn’t a sign of the aura. “But that would mean that…” Discord’s eyes shrunk as he realized the threat. “Get down!” he screamed and an explosion of black smoke filled the room.

When the smoke cleared Fluttershy was hiding behind Discord. “Not again,” she panicked quietly, gesturing at a large number of heartless standing near a hole in the the wall, leading both to the outside and the castle’s hallway. The creatures were had some kind of monkey form with blue fur, the heartless emblem on their chest, and a black face with glowing yellow eyes.

“This way!” Discord directed as a door knob appeared in thin air. He grabbed it and opened up the air itself. Fluttershy ran through the opening and Discord followed slamming the door shut behind him.

He came out in the main streets where he was surprised to see how many heartless, let alone types, there were attacking the city. He saw the monkeys, some kind of bookkeepers, fatsos, ghosts, wyverns, as well as the soldiers and taller versions of the shadows that Sora had told them about.

Right when Discord came out the door, the heartless noticed him and began to make their way to him. Discord snapped his talons and a glass barrier appeared around Fluttershy.

“Discord!” Fluttershy panicked.

“Don’t worry, that will protect you,” he reassured. “Meanwhile I’ll take care of these pests!”

As a few monkeys got close a ten ton weight fell on them. The wyverns flew right over it and a tree immediately sprouted out of the weight into them. A few leaves got stuck to them and when they recovered from the spin out, the leaves burst into flames that quickly engulfed the entirety of the wyverns. The tall shadows and soldiers came at him from opposite sides and when they attacked him Discord turned out to be a cardboard cut out and all the attackers were blasted with lasers that came out of the wounds left in the cut out. Discord reappeared dancing on a large copy of the heartless emblem. The bookkeepers fired fireballs at him and he just ate them. His mouth puffed up and he burped up a blast of icicles, which impaled the bookkeepers. The ghosts appeared behind him, but were dazed the bright flash of a giant flashlight being shined on them. In a flash of light Discord was wearing a red vacuum cleaner back pack and sucked up the ghosts. He then took the vacuum off and threw it to the side. When it hit the ground it blasted off into the sky and exploded in a colorful fireworks display. Discord then summoned a glass of chocolate milk and drink the glass away. Afterwards he looked at the milk as if it was an empty glass before tossing it behind him where it landed in between a bunch of fatsos coming at him from the back, where it promptly exploded.

Fluttershy sat there in awe. She had forgotten how powerful Discord really was.

“Discord!” Luna ordered his attention as she flew down to meet him. “I’m glad I found you. I need you to evacuate the civilians.”

“But I can handle these things easily,” Discord argued.

“That’s exactly why it needs to be you,” Luna shot back. “With your chaos magic, you are the only one capable of doing so.”

“She’s right Discord,” Fluttershy spoke up, “and I want to help.”

“But it’s too dangerous,” Discord attempted to stop her.

“Not everypony knows about the heartless,” Fluttershy explained. “With all this chaos going on, many would be quick to wrongly accuse you. But I can convince them to evacuate in an orderly manner.”

“She’s right,” Luna agreed. “But as soon as the civilians are safe, I want you to evacuate as well. As one of the elements, we can’t risk your safety, especially since you don’t know how to fight on your own.”

Discord begrudgingly made the glass protecting Fluttershy disappear as Luna flew off. “If you don’t stay close to me to avoid danger, I will throw you through a door back to ponyville without a moment's hesitation,” he told her.

“Fine,” Fluttershy quickly agreed.

Twilight just wanted say hello to her parents when the explosions happened. She could see the chaos speed throughout the city and took to the skies where a wyvern type heartless was soaring and she promptly blasted it with her magic, making it disappear in a puff of smoke.

“So you must be Princess Twilight,” said an ominous voice below her.

Twilight looked down to see a unicorn shrouded in a black cloak. “Who are you?!” she demanded to know as she flew down to face him.

“My name is Xabmors, but you can call me…” He paused as his shadow began to expand. “YOUR DOOM!”

Discord opened another door sending more civilians to the Crystal Empire, as he knew it would be the safest place, being protected by the Crystal Heart. He even sent a member of the royal guard to explain the situation. “Okay that’s the last of them,” Discord announced and looked at Fluttershy “Now it’s your turn. Wait in the Crystal Empire and I’ll come get you when this is all over.”

“No, I refuse to wait that far away. I insist you find a safe place just outside the city,” Fluttershy augered.

“What?!” Discord repaired in shock.

“What if my friends need me? I am still an element you know.” she continued.

“Are you sure? I mean...” Discord tried to reason.

“I’m sorry Discord but I’m afraid I must insist in this case.” Fluttershy held her ground.

“Fine I’ll agree on one condition. You must take this,” Discord said as he held out his lion’s paw and in a flash of light a golden horseshoe appeared in it. “If anything tries to attack you, I want you to take this and step on it, hard. It will then take you to the Crystal Empire. If you want to wait that close you must pinkie promise you’ll abide by these this term.

“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye,” Fluttershy agreed and took the horseshoe.

Discord closed the door and reopened it. “There you go,” Discord notified her.

“Thanks,” Fluttershy said gently and ran through.

Discord closed the door one more time when we felt a sudden magical disturbance. “No! It can’t be!” he said as he looked to his side and saw a cloud of smoke rise from a few streets over. “Twilight!” he screamed.

“You think they’ve forgiven you?” said a voice echoing in Discord’s head. “After what you have done? Don’t kid yourself. You’ve always been better at being evil.”

“No,” Discord mumbled.

“Of course they haven’t forgiven you. You can’t even forgive yourself,” it continued.

“Stop it!” Discord yelled.

“And why should you? You can’t even save one of your closest friends.” it finished.

Discord froze in place, unable to move or even speak. He felt his heart pounding as everything faded to black.

Fluttershy had a bad feeling. She could just feel that friends was in trouble and needed her help. However, Discord just got her here. Still the whole reason she wanted to stay close was just in case something like this happened. “And if worst comes to worst, I can just use the horseshoe Discord gave me,” she told herself and ran back towards the city.

Sora ran through the streets towards the most recent blast. Somehow it seemed from the others. It happened way after the original blasts and the smoke didn’t dissipate like the others.

As he traveled he was surprised by the number of different heartless attacking the city. There were neoshadows, soldiers, search ghosts, wyverns, large bodies, power wilds and even, bookmasters.

He made his way to the blast site were he saw the cloaked unicorn once again. “Xabmors!” he shouted.

“Well, hello again. I’m sorry to say but my business here is already complete,” Xabmors stated before stepping aside to reveal Twilight floating stomach up with her heart floating above her in a pink magic bubble.

“Twilight!” Sora screamed.

Xabmors laughed quietly to himself. “Perhaps we will meet again,” Xabmors gloated as the black portal engulfed him, “keyblade wielder.” And then portal closed.

Sora ran towards Twilight when giant pieces of metal fell out of the sky. There were two boots that were red and silver with yellow and blue highlights, two arms that were silver with yellow and blue highlights, and one giant silver, yellow, blue, and red cylinder, with the heartless emblem engraved upon it. Sora instantly recognized it as the Guard Armor and the pieces assembled themselves. The head fell right onto its torso and the pieces floated in place.

“How many time do I have to kill you!” Sora shouted, recalling his past fights with the thing. “Get out of my way!” he added before drawing his keyblade.

The Guard Armor clenched it’s fists and punched at Sora, who jumped backwards to avoid it. He noticed that it never did that before. “So you have so new skills” Sora commented. “Well so do I!” As the second fist came at him, Sora used quick run to dash forward without touching the ground. The fists came back to the armor and it tried again now that Sora was closer and slowing down from the quick run. Sora quickly used his high jump ability to jump over the attack. However the creature was prepaid for this, as it used it’s other fist to try and hit Sora in mid air. Sora used aerial dodge to jump in mid air and avoid this attack as well. He then used glide to get in even closer, until he was right in front of it’s head. He tilted his head so the keyblade pointed directly at it and used sonic blade to dash straight thought.

The Armor fell apart and Sora began to make his way to Twilight when he was hit from behind and was sent flying. He got back up to see the the Armor had reform and was charging a ball of energy in it’s hands that were raised above it’s head and it threw it at Sora.

“Defense!” Sora shouted as a barrier appeared around him. The blast hit and the Sora’s reflect spell absorbed the the damage and caused an explosion around him. When the dust settled one of the armors boots came from behind and kicked Sora into the air. The creature dashed over to Sora at a speed it didn’t possess before, and slammed Sora down with both of it’s fists. When Sora hit the ground it started to fall right on top of him. Sora tried to get out of the way and the armor did miss him, but the shock wave from the impact sent Sora flying, Sora used aerial recover to get back on his hooves but the armor already had another fully charged energy ball and threw it at Sora. Sora didn’t even have enough time to cast reflect. He braced for impact and closed his eyes, and when he opened them again he seemed to be flying. He looked up and saw a familiar rainbow maned pegasus.

“Rainbow Dash, what are you doing here?” Sora asked in shock.

“Saving your rump, what does it look like?” Rainbow replied arrogantly.

“How did you even find me?” Sora asked as Rainbow placed him on top of a building a few blocks over.

“Are you kidding, you can see the explosions all across the city,” Rainbow explained as the armor started to tear it’s way through buildings to make it to them. “I’m sure everypony’s on their way here now.”

Sora decided to take advantage of Rainbow’s presence while he still could. He didn’t want to ask for help but he had no time to lose. There was no telling what would happen to Twilight if he took much longer, and the Guard Armor was a lot more powerful than the last time Sora had faced it. It felt like someone took the Guard Armor and Opposite Armor mixed them together and amplified the strength ten fold.

“Rainbow, I need your help,” Sora admitted.

“Obviously,” Rainbow joked. “So you have a plain?”

“Sort of,” Sora began. “It’s weakest point is it’s head. If you can fly me in close I should be able to knock it away from the rest of the body, at which point it’s movement will be limited until it gets it back…”

“And if we destroy it, we win, right?” Rainbow guessed where Sora was going.

“Exactly!” Sora confirmed. “But for it to work you need to get me in past it’s attacks. You keep saying how good of a flyer you are and after that save I believe it. You're the only one who has enough skill to get me that close.”

“Guilty as charged,” Rainbow gloated as the armor tore through the last of the buildings. Rainbow quickly flew around and grabbed Sora by the fore hooves. “Let’s do this!”

The armor stretched out it arms and many small balls of energy appeared in a half circle which went from wrist to wrist and pasted over its head. It’s clapped its hands together, causing a shock-wave to head towards Sora and Rainbow as well as make the balls of energy shoot at them. However, this was no match for Rainbow's ability. She swerved to the right to avoid the shock wave and dove down to dodge the first of the energy blasts. She then pulled back up in a zigzag motion to avoid the rest of the blasts.

Rainbow spun around and threw Sora at the Guard Armor’s head. Sora spread out his wing and glided at high velocity at the head of the armor and the second he was in range he swung at it with all his might, knocking it right off the torso of the creature. The armor’s head flew through the air and the armor quickly moved an arm to catch it.

“No ya don’t!” said a familiar western accent as a lasso caught the head and pulled it away. However, the head slipped out and flew straight into a cannon, brought there by Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie looked at Rarity, who was holding a metal pole with her magic. “Ready Rarity?” she asked as she pointed the cannon at Rarity.

“Ready,” Rarity replied, pulling the pole back a bit.

“Then, FIRE!” Pinkie shouted as she fired the cannon and the armor’s head as well as tons of confetti shot out. Rarity thrusted the pole straight through the creature's head.

“Heads up,” she said tossing the pole with the head still attached at Sora. Sora used quick blitz and smashed the head against the ground causing it to crack in half. The other parts of the armor rattled in place for a few seconds before falling to the ground and a glow began to admit from the torso as the pieces of armor started to fade away. A large heart was released and floated into the sky.

Sora looked at the ponies who just showed amazing coordination. Applejack stood to the side and Fluttershy came up next to her. Rarity walked alongside Pinkie Pie. And Rainbow Dash flew down to meet with the rest of them.

“So, have any of ya’ll seen Twilight?” Applejack asked. “I could have sworn she’d be here already.”

Sora’s face grew incredibly serious. “Yes,” answered softly and pointed a hoof to Twilight, still floating in the bubble.
All of the ponies gasped in horror and shock at the state of their friend and ran over to her.

“What happened?” Fluttershy asked, extremely panicked.

“She was targeted,” Sora explained angrily. “And I got here too late. The only thing keeping her from becoming a heartless is that magic bubble.” Sora slammed his hoof against the ground.”

“I don’t want to hear you self criticism!” Rainbow yelled back. “Get your keyblade swinging head thinking how how to help her!”

“I don’t know…” Sora stopped short as he remembered his own transformation into a heartless. “That’s it. In the end we might be lucky. Because her magic is still connecting her heart with her, we might still be able to save her.”

“How?” the five asked in unison.

“Get around her and will her back. Use your hearts to guide hers back.”

“Beg your pardon?” Rarity asked confused.

“I know it sounds corny,” Sora replied, “but it’s the only way. Close your eyes and let your hearts speak to her.”

The five ponies gathered around the the bubble and closed their eyes. “Twilight,” the whispered in unison. Twilight’s heart began to lower towards her and upon contact, a light began to admit, blinding Sora. When Sora could see again, the bubble was gone and Twilight was slowly floating towards the ground before gently landing.

The five opened their eyes. “Twilight!” they shouted in concern.

Twilight’s eyes twitched and then opened. “What happened?” she said, slightly dazed.

“You're okay!” her five friends reacted and gave her a hug group hug.

“We almost lost you there,” Fluttershy stated, revived.

“You almost lost your heart and became a heartless,” Sora notified Twilight. “It was Xabmors, wasn’t it?”

Twilight’s friends stopped their hug and stepped back. “Yes, but how do you know him.” Twilight answered

“He appeared before me and Princess Celestia and started the invasion himself.” Sora explained.

The six ponies gasped. “Ah guess that explains the scale of the attack.” Applejack commented, being the first to recover from the shock.

“There you are,” Princess Celestia said as she and Princess Luna flew down to them.

“The invasion has been dealt with but I’m afraid that we have dire news.” Luna updated them.

“What is it?” everyone asked in concern.

“It’s Discord,” Celestia spoke, “he’s appears to have fallen into some sort of coma and we cannot wake him up.”

“WHAT!” Fluttershy shrieked, sounding more angry than surprised, which stuck Sora as odd. She was the shy pony and from what he figured out, the least likely to get angry.

“We must reconvene at the castle immediately,” Luna continued. “We will do what we can to help Discord, but until he wakes up we must find out how to protect Equestria so he still has a country to wake up in. Cadence and Shining Armor are already waiting there.”

“Okay,” Sora and the others agreed.

As the walked back, Sora stayed in the back right behind Fluttershy.

“They won’t get away with this,” Fluttershy whispered angrily, “I’ll make sure of it.”