//------------------------------// // Chaos Vs Order, Harmony Vs Disharmony // Story: Chaos is Displaced. The Tale of Loki! // by Mega NewWays97 //------------------------------// With Loki’s magic gone the only good thing was that the entity was gone as well. For the stallion that was attacked he was lucky that a small bit of magic still existed in him. For the princesses there was actually one other who could move the sun and moon. Nyx was forced to go Nightmare Moon but she was able to move both objects. It was a loose connection but it would do. Loki was with Fluttershy. "Thanks you for coming by Loki, I heard about what happened." Loki stopped her. "It’s alright my magic a small piece to pay compared the magic of the world." "Well, I'm sure living without magic won't be so bad," Fluttershy told him in a small effort to comfort him. "I think I'll be able to adjust," Loki replied. 'I was able to live without it for most of my life after all.' He thought. "I just don't like the idea of not being able to help you girls in case something big threatens Equestria again." "There are more ways to help us then by jumping into the fray with us. Just look at Spike." "I know, but I still don't have to like it." "Very true, now let's feed some of my animals. That's something I've never needed any magic to do." Fluttershy said with a giggle. "Okay," Loki replied as he cracked a small smile. "I think I can handle feeding some animals." Loki as he was walking out to help saw an image flashed through his mind. It looked like him with in fact it was him. He saw this version ruling Equestria. The image stopped. He shook his head. 'What was that?" He asked. Discord himself also saw the vision. "Loki, I think that was you or another you." Loki stopped that was him? He had a memory on the old wheel his first attempt at chance was world ruler. 'What does that mean?' Loki asked himself. "I think it's fairly obvious considering you've been to other universes before," Discord said warily. 'Are you saying that there are universes where I went evil?' Loki asked. "Considering how vast the multiverse is I'd say there's an infinite number of possibilities." 'And my use of chance probably helped the multiverse branched out.' "I don't think the multiverse needs help with that, but it does give us some ideas of what other versions of you are doing.” Loki's eyes widened a little as he realized some of the options he had given himself at the time. 'Uhh, this could get weird if we figure out how to get to the other universes that I wound up in.' "You're right, do you think we should visit these other universes? I feel like this vision might be important." Discord thought. Loki wondered about why he got the vision. However another appeared before him. This one showed during the summer sun celebration. "That’s basically it, Discord has planted seeds and are going to sprout soon so by returning the elements they would die." The image showed him giving the mane six the truth stopping the threat before it became a threat. Loki blinked. Another image showed him in his insane driven rampage from Sombra with the world as his plaything. "Discord I think these aren't so much visions of random... something’s going on." Loki saw something in each a strange rainbow behind in the background. "I think these are warnings, being sent to me." "A warning, but of what?" Discord asked. 'I don't know, I think we need some help figuring this out.' "Hmm, if only someone we knew someone who was married to a princess and an adept magic-user." Loki rolled his eyes at that. 'You don't have to be sarcastic Discord. I'll go see Twilight and see what we can do about these visions.' "Hmm, who was being sarcastic?" Loki let out a long sigh as he turned to Fluttershy. "Is something wrong, Loki?" "No, but something has come up. I have to go. I'll be sure to help you later with anything you want." "Oh, you don't owe me anything," Fluttershy replied with a smile. "Now you go get going, I'm sure whatever just came up is very important." "Thanks Fluttershy, I'll see you later." At the castle Loki talked about what he had seen to Twilight. "That’s about it and in each one I see this rainbow it looks just like the Elements of Harmony rainbow though always tainted by something, then nothing. I think my alternate counterparts are warning me of something." Loki finished summing up everything to his wife. Twilight herself had written it all down. However at that moment Loki received another vision. He saw another version of himself walking the sun set with the rainbow coming right at him and then. The vision ended right there. "Something attacking them each." "This is so strange. What do you think could be attacking the other versions of you?" Twilight asked. Loki's eyes widened a little as he thought of something. "I might know..." 'But that should be impossible.' He thought darkly. "Loki, you don't think?" Discord asked. "What is it, Loki?" Twilight asked as she placed a hoof on his side. "Like I said, I might know. But I'll need more evidence before I come to any conclusions." "Okay, so what do you think we should do about this. I mean, if there's something that can take out alternate versions of you then..." She started as she shook slightly in fear. Loki just grinned slightly and wrapped his arms around Twilight. "I know, I'm a sitting duck right now. If we're going to be able to take on whatever this is, then I'm going to need my magic back." "How do you think we'll be able to do that?" "I don't know, but with the help of the smartest mare in Equestria, I think I'll be able to figure it out." Twilight smiled a little as he said that. "Well, let's get this research started then." With the notes from Loki at their side Twilight attempting along with Loki to figure out. With a final look though Twilight believed she found a way to let Loki speak to the visions. The potion was just about finished. "Here I hope this works." Twilight said. "You and me both." With a drink his eyes glowed. Appearing around him was dozens of himself. "So you're the original? The Prime of us." He saw them all looking at him. "You lost your magic? We think that’s not true absorbing that thing may have weakened the connection but you are the Elements you can never lose your power." "Whoa, this is really weird," Loki said as he looked between several different versions of himself. "And if I can't really lose my powers, then what should I do?" "You have to reestablish the connection to the elements," a color swapped version of him explained. "And how should I do that? The last time I got them to light up I was just doing random things," Loki explained. A female version of him just smiled and chuckled a little. "We can't explain that to you, but just think about it and I'm sure you'll figure it out." "Okay, so do any of you know what's been attacking the other versions of us?" "We don't know for sure, but we're pretty sure who it is. And we're pretty sure you do too." Loki let out a sigh at that piece of news. "Yeah, well is there anything else I should know about?" “Sorry, we don’t have any solid information.” "Okay, I'll do it. And hopefully we won't actually destroy the universe or something while we do that." Loki said. "Eh, we figure that we have a 50/50 shot of that happening." A version of himself that was glowing green shrugged off while gesturing with his paw. Loki quirked an eyebrow at him and pointed a talon at him. "Uhh what choice did you make where you ended up like that?" "You don't wanna know, but it seemed like a good idea at the time." "Oookay, well if that's all I should head back to my world. I've got to get back to my wife and see if I can get my magic back. Hopefully I'll see you all shortly. Stay safe and don't let her get you." Loki said as he closed his eyes and started to drift back to Twilight's castle. "Don't worry, we will." They said in unison. Loki got up. He knew what he had to do now. ”Loki what’s is it?” Twilight asked. Loki turned to her. "I have to do something there’s someone I must defeat." Loki turned to her. "It’s an evil version of you." "What do you mean an evil version of me?" she asked, worried and confused. Loki then sat down and told her the whole story. When he was finished she was staring at a blank part of the wall with her ears pinned to the sides of her head. "Oh my, I... I can't believe that there's a version of me out there that could do something as horrifying as all that." Loki smiled slightly and walked up behind her to give her a tender hug from behind. "The multiverse is a big place, anything is possible. But I know that you would never do anything like that. You're too good of a pony to even think of it. Twilight smiled warmly and nuzzled Loki as she let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you Loki. It was a bit of a shock to hear that. Now, we've got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to get your magic back." Loki chuckled a little as he let go of Twilight. "And why are you in such a hurry? We were having a nice little moment there." "Because the sooner we get your magic back, the sooner you can defeat that evil Twilight. And the sooner you do that, the sooner we can celebrate, and I have a couple ideas what we could do to celebrate." Loki walked out he wondered where he could go to regain his magic. Strangely he felt a pull. There was one being on the planet that could help him. The Tree of Harmony. 'That's all the way in the Everfree Forest, it's not like it's as dangerous as before.' However Loki knew the fallout from his and Tirek fight and the forest was darker. 'This is going to hurt.' Loki thought. He knew he was going to need to do this himself. Walking into the forest, Loki the god of Chaos was going to accept his fate, and hopefully it will to stop the Evil Twilight. Loki looked over his shoulder for a brief moment as he considered his decision for a moment. 'Maybe I should tell Twilight about what I'm doing.' He thought as he looked back at the dark entrance to the forest. 'Without my magic I'm pretty vulnerable right now.' "You know you can't do that." Discord chimed in. "What we're about to do could be considered fairly reckless and dangerous." 'Yeah, you got a point there,' Loki relented with a sigh. 'Here's hoping everything goes according to plan. And if I run into anything like a manticore I'll just run away screaming like a little girl. "Sounds good to me." Discord said as Loki entered the forest. As they walked down the path to the tree things started to become strange. The forest was unnatural in this world but now. It seemed as if it was more unnatural to the universe. 'My chaos magic must be in the air, hope nothing… a manticore came out, only this time it looked more... Wild and monstrous, looking. Loki cursed himself. 'Fuck you too fate!' Loki screamed in his head. He went off running and so did the beast that was following him. 'Crap if I had my magic I could just teleport it away but I don't... and this is a dead end.' Loki thoughts finished. The wild beast turned to him and roared. Loki looked back. "Great if only I had brought a weapon with me like a sword..." Loki's talons started to glow in anti-magic and a sword soon formed in his hand. "What the hell just happened?!" Loki shouted as he gaped at the glowing sword in his talons. A loud roar from the even more monstrous manticore derailed Loki's train of thought as he brought it up in a defensive posture. 'Guess I'll have to worry about that later,' Loki thought as he strained to hold back the manticore. Loki then hopped back and allowed the manticore's claws to slam into the ground. Loki attempted to follow up with a slash at the manticore's face but was stopped by a lightning fast strike of its tail. Loki grimaced as he tried to think of a way to get past the beast's two pronged defense. 'Discord, got any ideas on how to fight a manticore with no magic?' Loki thought as he made sure to stay out of reach of the manticore's tail. "Not many I'm afraid. Perhaps attempting to distract it would be best?" Discord suggested. 'And how the hell do you propose I do that?' Loki barked. "I don't know, just improvise!" Loki looked around and saw a tree. With a slash the tree was cut and it fell down on the manticore. Loki sighed as he soon got away. He looked at the sword of Anti-magic. "Hey Discord, you think I might have absorbed the entity and his Anti-magic?" Loki asked. Discord who was with him, gave it thought. "It would seem so." Discord answered. As they walked deeper and a few more close calls Loki come down to the tree of harmony. Around the tree was a veil of Loki's Chaos Magic. 'Whoa, I didn't think the Tree could absorb my magic like this.' Loki thought. 'Then again, harmony and chaos aren't necessarily always opposites, huh Discord?' "Very true, now I'd suggest being careful about getting our magic back. We don't want to cause any damage to the tree." 'Don't worry, I know how to be careful. Unlike some people, I know better than to mess with the Tree of Harmony too much.' Loki shot back with a bit of a smirk. "You're never going to let me live that down, are you?" Loki shrugged at that. 'I might, all depends on whether or not you keep up your good behavior. Now, I've stalled too much. Let's see if we can get our magic back.' Loki then took a few cautious steps toward the veil of chaos magic and hesitantly placed his paw on it. 'Uhh, I didn't really mean to do that.' Loki thought as he tried sending the planet back to where it was from. "Perhaps you should try getting your powers under control before trying to fight that evil Twilight?" Discord suggested. 'Good idea. I should go and tell my Twilight that I have magic again. Plus, I just want to spend some time with her and Nyx before I do this. Don't tell her this, but I'm a little worried that...' "Stop right there." Discord interrupted. "I'm not even going to let you think about finishing that train of thought. Now, go tell your wife and daughter that you have your magic back and that you'll be home by dinner." Discord ordered. Loki smiled and chuckled at that and with a nod of his head replied, "Alright Discord, sounds like a plan to me." And with a snap of his talons, Loki teleported towards the crystal palace in Ponyville. That night Loki gave a sigh. He looked out into the night sky and as far as his senses let him go. "Everyone asleep and happy," Loki eyes were closed but with a deep breath he looked up. "It's time." Chaos magic surrounded Loki as he floated up. The Space in front of him wrapped as time itself was ripped open and Loki passed through. The effect was done and Loki was now in the sea of time. As he flew with Discord images floated around. His time in Equestria was laid bare before them. "Wow... I did so much." Loki looked around and saw so images that made him laugh at his stupidity. Around them the universe was aging as they moved into the future, stars died and where born until the last of them died out. Around the universe died until a opening was seen. Darkness was the only thing. The universe was on the verge of final Death. Loki was in a void of nothing but low energy particles. 'Wow, so this is what entropy looks like. Gotta be honest here, it kinda gives me the creeps.' Loki thought with a shiver that was not due to any cold. "I have to agree with you on that sentiment. I vastly prefer a universe teeming with activity. Let's get this fight over with as soon as we can and go back to our own time period, shall we?" Discord proposed. 'I couldn't agree more there.' Loki thought as he floated through the dying universe in an attempt to find the evil Twilight. It didn't take the two long before the figure of the Twilight appeared before them. Her back was turned to them and she commented aloud as she looked over the scenery. "Incredible, so this is what true peace and harmony looks like. No more monsters attacking towns, no more citizens that need protecting. Just silence, for all of eternity. It's truly a thing of beauty. And soon, all universes will be like this." She finished darkly and a chuckle passed through her lips that soon became long, unhinged laughter. Loki shivered again but gathered himself quickly and attempted to subtly gather energy in hopes of ending the fight before it could truly begin. The Evil Twilight turned to him letting out a harmony blast forcing Loki to block. "This ends here... you die here!" The Evil Twilight said with a smile. Loki floated there as his magic flared out. Evil Twilight's flared out as well. Discord spoke within Loki’s mind. “You’re as powerful as each other, this won’t end fast.' Loki got ready as Evil Twilight was the first to rush him. She started with a punch a kick then tossed him. With her horn glowing a rapid blasts of magic was aimed right at him. Loki flew and dodge around before going for a punch. In a flash he teleported and reappeared behind her hitting in the jaw. She flew around before stopping with her wings and floating back up to Loki. "Are we done warming up?" She asked. "If you need a few more minutes to get ready, I'd gladly wait for you." Loki replied with a cheeky grin. "Cute, but I'd rather kill you quickly and get this over with." The evil Twilight said as she gathered a massive amount of energy into her horn. "Fair enough, let's do this!" Loki called out as he snapped his talons and created over a dozen clones of himself. The evil Twilight seemed confused for a moment as Loki and all his copies flew around her, but she collected herself quickly and started firing dark beams of magic at anything that moved. The dozen Loki clones dodged her attacks while harassing her with pranks and bats. Twilight sent a shockwave of energy before glaring at them. "Two can play it that game!" With a spell an equal amount of her formed with Loki. The two grounds went out into a show or magic and fists. Within the fight the copies soon dissipated as Loki and the evil Twilight separated after landing a punch on each other at the same time. Loki floated back. "Ok then I guess it's time to get serious!" With that his magic spiked and he took on the Chaos Rainbow. Evil Twilight had a smile. "Good..." Her appearance was covered in Rainbows as she revealed the Rainbow Powered form. Once again matching powers. Loki looked the evil Twilight over and grimaced. 'Of course she has an answer for my chaos form, I'd be shocked if she didn't,' he thought. "Well seeing as this fight has taken a turn for the DBZ, what with all these transformations. Do you think we should spend a few episodes screaming while charging up our power?" Discord asked. 'Ooh, somebody's been in my memories again for that joke. But no, we should try to end this quickly.' Loki then brought himself back into the moment and charged at the evil Twilight. Evil Twilight countered his fist causing a flash of light in the lightly void between them. Loki moved fast using his powers to strike her over and over but Evil Twilight grabbed him and let use a blast point blank into his face. Loki went tossed back into the void as Twilight attack him with punches over and over. "Why don't you just die?!" With that she fired a massive blast. Loki actually slammed into something. "What the Hell!" Loki screamed. He realized what it was. A cosmic String a long singularity that weighed about as much as a thousand suns. Or what was left of it. "Loki look up!" Discord voice said. Loki did and dodged Twilight’s dropkick. 'Discord, what do you think would happen if we messed with that cosmic string?' Loki asked. "If I had to guess, a bang, a very big bang." 'Got it, so we shouldn't mess with it except as a last resort.' "Here's hoping we don't need to. I'm fairly sure the energy from disrupting the string would be enough to kill even us." 'Yeah, I thought as much. But what am I supposed to do here? She's able to counter any magic I throw at her.' A moment of silence passed between the two and a bolt of inspiration struck them at the same time. Loki cracked his talon and a surge of anti-magic passed through it. In a bright flash of light, Loki was out of his chaos form and he floated in place with a large anti-magic sword in his talon. The evil Twilight quirked an eyebrow at this sudden development. "What is this? Are you insane? Oh what am I saying, you’re Chaos of course." The Evil Twilight readied a massive blast and unleashed it. Loki raised the blade and meet the blast. To the Evil Twilight's shock. The Blast was being stopped by the blade as Loki forced his way through the blast. With a slash of his paw another blade formed and he cut her arm. The wound was light but for a moment her form dropped. "What was that?!" She demanded returning to her rainbow power. "Oh, this is just a little anti-magic I picked up a little bit ago. It can cancel out any magic that it comes into contact with." "What!?" The evil Twilight cried. "How did you get a hold of something like that?!" "I fell into some lava with an anti-magic alien." Loki answered with a bit of a grin. The evil Twilight furrowed her brow at Loki. "I am looking forward to killing you." "You can try, but I've died before and that just made me even stronger. The evil Twilight let out a low growl and flashed a large surge of magical energy into her horn and threw herself at Loki. She attempted to send a blast of magical energy right at his face. Loki redirected the blast and she was barely able to dodge it. She was sent up as Loki went to attack her again with a slash. Her form flared and was canceled out. As Loki went again. She grabbed both of Loki's Arms and smashed his face with a dropkick and on the string. She hit again as Loki dodged. However something was going wrong as they both stood. A crack started to form on the cosmic string. "Oh Shit!" Loki/Discord/Evilight all screamed. They took off as fast as they could. In the dead reality a massive explosion was seen the light could be seen all around and fora moment it was almost as if a galaxy had formed. In the waves of energy Loki was bleeding and tired. "That was too close... if we were just a little closer out magic wouldn't save us." Discord answered. "You think she's dead?" Loki asked. His question was answered as floating out bleeding and broken with a sword in her hand.. it was one of Loki's two Anti-magic blades. Evil Twilight looked him down. "Great so we’re both Injured..." Loki answered. Evil Twilight gripped her blade. Loki did as well. With a final rush there speeds slowed they swan at each other. They both stopped as the blades pierced their hearts and their bodies broke apart into the elements. They soon broke apart as well. Back in the normal time Twilight could feel it. "Loki no... please don't die on me." She said, barely above a whisper. "I still need you." Twilight looked up toward the night sky and a gentle stream of tears started to flow down her cheeks. Back in the void, Discord and Loki floated. "A-are we dead?" Loki asked. "I don't know." Discord answered. "I might've been the god of chaos, but even I have no idea what the afterlife is like." The two continued to float in silence for a little while longer. "Do you think it was all worth it?" Loki asked out of nowhere. "What do you mean?" "Me coming to Equestria, do you think I actually made things any better?" "I don't believe I'm the one that can pass judgement on that. Do you think coming to Equestria was a good thing?" Loki thought that over for a little while. "Heh, I really do." Outside, the elements of Harmony and Disharmony floated, destroyed. A glow however was seen. A shard of the Element of Power glowed and soon a wave came from it and to the other shards. As this small magic wave hit each shard it glowed and finally coming together was the element of power with both the elements of Harmony and Disharmony soon reforming around it and finally they merged. A new light was seen in the dead universe. Finally it was gone. Darkness filled the corpse of reality. All gave a small light as it went back in time. Twilight saw a small light landed out of a small portal. It soon became a flower. Twilight held it close.