“I’m going to tell you a little bit more about tall, dark, and ugly. The one you saw fly off of course, because as you’ve all witnessed he is nowhere near me in terms of beauty.”
The draconequus ran one hand over the back of his head as if it was covered in full, luscious hair.
“Where darkness grows and chaos begins, now born is a new kin-”
“Dispense of the riddles!”
“Fine, fine! So boring.”
He didn’t like being told how to tell his story, but he had no choice considering he no longer had access to his powers and he wasn't exactly an intimidating size.
“Now as I was saying. That thing that broke us out was actually the other side of me. My little dark side, although he isn’t so little anymore.”
The cyan pegasus spoke up.
“We noticed.”
“Don’t interrupt me!”
He placed a pondering index claw on his chin.
“Where was I?”
A metaphorical light bulb illuminated above his head.
“Ah yes, You see whenever something angers me or I end up hating something or the like, I passed those emotions off to my dark side, and he doesn’t forget them. You do know that trapping someone in a statue can really tick them off, right!? And do you know what I hate most? NOT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING!”
He glared at the alicorn who sheepishly avoided his gaze.
“Discord. The first time Luna and I had no choice. You were far too chaotic!”
“Ah yes, the good old days when I ruled Equestria. But then there was a few months ago.”
The draconequus turned and shot a menacing glare at the six ponies.
“Discord, are you saying we’re responsible for this?”
“In a way, yes. Yes you are. But it wasn’t just you, it was also those ACCURSED ELEMENTS!”
He pointed at each of the elements the six wore.
“Too bad they won’t help you much this time.”
“We’ll see about that!”
“If your minds are set on failure be my guests, but if you want my advice Darky’s probably on the second floor of the castle blowing holes in the walls or something.”
“You heard him everypony! To the castle!”
“Woah now, y’all sure Discord’s the best fella to be takin’ advice from?”
“It’s the only lead we have on stopping that psycho!”
“Well, when you put it that way, I guess we should get goin’.”
As the six wielders of the elements ran off the draconequus looked up to the princess.
“You know as well I do that they’re gonna fail miserably, right?”
“That may be so, but I can hope for better. Good luck my little ponies.”
Inside the castle the six ponies were now entering the entrance hall.
“Alright, we gotta head up to the second floor and see if Discord was telling the truth!”
“Okie-dokie!”
As they ascended the steps they all noticed something was amiss.
“My, this castle has certainly seen better days hasn’t it?”
On the second floor almost everything had at least one hole in it, was broken and lying on the floor, or generally unrecognizable due to damage, and the floor was riddled with holes.
“What happened here?”
“It looks one wild party went down!”
“I don’t think any party could’ve been th-this bad.”
“Parties? Ha! Forget about partying, I’m more interested in the destructive aftermath!”
“Brace yourselves everypony!”
They all took combat stances and on the other side of the room from the largest hole emerged the creature they were looking for, although it was much larger, so large that its horns scraped against the ceiling.
“Who dares oppose me!?”
It lowered its gaze and noticed the six.
“Oh. It’s just you.”
It raised its right arm, breaking it through the floor, and held it out so that its fingers pierced through the wall. It then raised the blade of its tail just enough through the floor for the tip to be jutting out, it then began walking towards the ponies through the floor leaving massive destruction in its wake as pieces of the floor, wall, and ceiling fell as structural integrity was being lost. It stopped in front of the ponies and lowered its head to meet their gaze.
“Do you think you can stop me? Oh, what’s this?”
It acknowledged the elements that they wore. It broke its other hand up through the floor and daintily lifted the element of magic off of the leading unicorn’s head and shook it around a little before just letting it go and land wherever, which was almost through a hole in the floor next to its owner who then picked it up and reequipped it.
“So... you think these are enough to take me down?”
“The Elements of Harmony have never failed us!”
“Is that so?”
It began laughing to itself triumphantly.
“You’re going down whatever your name is!”
The creature backed up as the six mares activated the elements and fired them at it full blast. A layer of stone began covering the creature as its movements were rapidly slowing to a complete halt. Then like that the creature was no longer animate and a statue like Discord was.
“I don’t see why Discord made such a big fuss over this guy.”
“Yeah, he didn’t take as much as he was made out to take.”
“Let’s go report this back to princess. She’ll be glad to hear it’s over.”
The heroes removed their elements and began walking out of the room. At that point, unnoticed by the ponies, the eyes of the statue flashed and pieces of stone began chipping off quickly.
“HuuuuuuuuAAAAAAAAA!”
The creature’s voice boomed throughout the room.
“What!?”
They about-faced to find the creature no longer encased in stone and was now thrashing about breaking whatever was left of anything around it, the walls, floor, and ceiling, nothing within its arms reach was safe from its flailing body. It then stopped thrashing and locked its gaze upon the six ponies.
“I’ll take those!”
It thrust its arm forward and a pulse came from it, causing the now unequipped elements to float to it and it grabbed them once they were within arms reach. It then threw the elements out through one of the inexistent walls which was followed by a bright flash of light and the sound of an explosion.
“I was going to let you live, but now...”
The floor beneath them melted away and all but the pink one fell through. The pink pony looked down and realized she was standing on air. She gasped and then fell.
“...NOW YOU DIE!”
Not bothering to check if its attempt on their lives succeeded it chuckled to itself.
“Now that those nuisances are gone I think I’ll go see what the rest of this world has to offer for me to destroy.”
It hoisted itself up onto what remained of the floor and shrunk itself down to normal draconequus size while doing so, brushed itself off, and flew away.