//------------------------------// // Plan and Battle // Story: It Was A Misunderstanding // by GarfieldThePony //------------------------------// Everypony was already in the dining hall eating breakfast when Fluttershy came in. "Oh, Fluttershy, your here I was just about to send Spike to wake you up." Twilight said, taking a sip of orange juice. "Do you want..." "I know who's doing this." Fluttershy said solemnly. The girls just stared at Fluttershy like she was crazy in silence not until Twilight broke the silence. "You do! Who and how?" "I spoke with Discord last night and I know it sounds strange out loud, but he came to my dream and told me, he also stopped my nightmare." "What did he tell you?" "He told me that Eris, his female counterpart, is doing this." "His female counterpart?! Is it his feminine side?" Rainbow asked in confusion. "Anything else he said?" "He also finished what he was going to say before he got turned to stone." "And that is?" said Rarity, eagerly waiting. "Oh, never mind that. What's important now is how are we going to stop Eris." Fluttershy said as her face grew beet red. But what Fluttershy didn't notice was that Rarity was whispering into Twilight's ear saying- "Discord told her that he loved her, didn't he." with Twilight responding. "Yeup." Then both started to giggle. "And how are we going to do that? We don't exactly have a plan." Rainbow Dash asked. "I agree with Rainbow, without the elements and the Rainbow power, we are defenseless," she gasped dramatically. "this has got to be the worst possible thing!" She pulled out her fainting couch from out of nowhere. There was long silence for a little while until Twilight burst out saying: "I've got it! First we need to gather up one-third of the castle guards and then we need to prepare for battle, even though it's sounds risky I know we might win- but we have to try." "Your right Twilight- we have to try for us, for Discord, for the Princesses, for and Equestria!" Rainbow said, standing up taller. "YEAH!" they all exclaimed. The mane 6 parted their ways to get ready. Twilight went to call upon the guards, Pinkie Pie went to get her Party Cannon which she set it to total party mode, Applejack went to get some equipment, Rainbow Dash got war paint on, Fluttershy went to get ready, and Rarity was getting dressed. And they all met up at the back gate of the castle. "Alright soldiers- I summoned you all here for a battle as you know that Equestria is under attack! And I'm the only leader left and we need to win for Equestria!" All the guards yelled in pride as they got ready to get into battle. "Girls, we need to get Eris to appear, any ideas?" "No, but why don't you ask her!" Pinkie Pie shouted, pointing across the bridge. All heads turned to who was Pinkie pointing at and gasps fled through the air as they saw Eris right in front of them. She was a female draconquss that looked exactly like Discord, but only with a white mane. "Eww! She looks just like Discord, but more uglier and filthier." Rarity gagged. "I see you ponies have found out that I've been doing this the whole time."said Eris grimly. "Eris!" Twilight started. "We demand you stop this chaos at once or we have no choice but to attack you!" "I don't feel like doing that right now, I'm feeling quite lazy, ask another time." "Fine then, ATTACK!" Everypony started charging across the bridge with mighty roars with mane 6 leading them head on. "Heh foolish ponies." Eris whispered as she got ready to snap her claws With a snap of Eris' claws, she trapped the guards with her magic and then throwing them off the bridge. Since half of them were pegasi they flew back up, but the rest were unicorn and earth ponies, so they keep falling, so Twilight and Rarity used their magic to catch them. "You think you can stop me? A clone of one the most powerful magical users in Equestria!" "We don't think, We know we can stop you!" yelled Twilight, blasting a beam to Eris Eris just simply dodged the magical blast. "You ponies just don't know when give up-..." Boom! OW! Who did that! "There's more where that came from bub!"said Pinkie Pie with her party cannon. "You think a simple party cannon is going to stop me? You should see my party cannon." With a snap of Eris' paws she conjured up a party tank- it was much bigger then Cheese Sandwich's party cannon and more powerful. "Let's see what this baby can do!" Eris primed her tank and then pointed it at the guards, shooting it caused a massive explosion of confetti balls. All the guard scattered everywhere to escape, but it was too late, they all got shot and got blown back into the castle. "Eris! We demand that you stop this at once!"yelled Twilight. "But I'm having so much fun destroying you" "Your more annoying then Discord when he was reformed!" "I know isn't that great."said Eris pointing her tank at the mane 6. Twilight put up a magical shield right before Eris shot them. "You know what would be better right now?" "No, we don't and we don't want to know." "This!"shouted Eris as she snapped away Twilight's wings and horn and Rarity's horn and Fluttershys and Rainbow's wings. "Not this again! Are you giving them back at the end of the game?"said Rainbow. "What game? I'm never giving them back." "Why not? You not being fair!"yelled Twilight. "Who said I had to play fair? I'm just making sure I can win!" "She doesn't seem like Discord at all."Rarity whispered to Twilight, which she responded in a sarcastic tone- "Really? I never knew." "Well, time for this to end." Said Eris, shooting the mane 6 with explosive confetti balls. Each one of the mane 6 got blown back by each one. "RETREAT!" yelled Twilight. The mane 6 retreated back into the castle and away from a laughing Eris. "Ha ha! Foolish ponies, now I'm free forever!"said Eris disappearing with her laugh echoing. Back in the castle the mane 6 were talking about what had happened. "Well that was a complete bust." said Rainbow. "I think that was our first retreat, do you you think, girls?" Rarity asked. "Your right!" Pinkie piped. "We never retreated before." "Well girls, I guess we have to get use to the new order of Equestria." "Wait, are we really giving up hope?" "Yes, we have no other options and we have no magic, it's completely hopeless." Twilight lowered her head. The mane 6 decided to go to back to their rooms and to get some rest and to think about what to do next, not knowing what will happen the next day.