Sparks continued flying through the room where the hole collapsed.
Princess Luna and I were dismayed. Ordain was able escape.
Luna said, "Moonlight, focus your magic on the sparks."
"What is that going to do?"
Luna said, "Try and move the energy waves."
I concentrated on the point where the portal closed. My vision of the room turned into the night sky. The tears in space began to converge on the point where the portal closed. I could now see clearly the ripples of electricity that were flying in the air. I moved the sparks closer together. The ripples converged and exploded into a giant portal.
"I did it, Luna. Come on!"
Luna lifted her body up and gravitated towards the portal.
I looked behind me and saw Night Star still frozen. "We will come back for you!"
I ran through the portal and landed right beside Luna. The portal collapsed behind me. We ended up back in the middle of Canterlot. Although out of breath and now unable to stand, I still was able to observe the guards encircling around Ordain.
Ordain raised his arms up. "Citizens of Ponyville, I have returned."
Shining Armor asked, "Who are you?"
Ordain dropped his arms down in dissappointment. "I'm Ordain."
The guards began talking amonst themselves.
Ordain waved his paws around. "You know, the spirit of order."
The guards could only respond by shaking their heads.
Ordain continued in his frustration, "I outsmarted you all. I rearranged Equestria to my liking. I have the power... what is the deal? Have you all lost your memory?"
With her head on the ground, Princess Luna said, "No... but you have. You don't seem... to recall what you did to history."
Ordain turned around towards Luna. "Didn't I leave you in a cave?"
Hearing Luna's voice, Shining Armor said, "That isn't Nightmare Moon. Who is she?"
Luna said, "Moonlight, now is a good time to trap him in the book."
My stomach churned. "Oh no. I left the book back in the cave."
Ordain gave out a chuckle and said, "Poor Moonlight. Did you lose a little bit of your memory too?"
That moment, Ordain's face was hit by something juicy. He wiped it away from his face and licked his paw.
"Is that blueberry?"
"It's razzleberry!" Pinkie Pie shouted.
I looked over to my right. Pinkie Pie was holding onto her party cannon. Pinkie Pie wasn't alone. Rainbow Dash was flying on top of a lightning cloud. Rarity was holding her hooves up in the air. Applejack, Fluttershy, and Cadance were also present.
Applejack said, "I may not know who you are, but you clearly don't know who you dealin' with."
Twilight walked over and put her hoof on my back. "Just hold on."
I rolled my head over. "Twilight? How did you get out of the dungeon?"
"Don't worry about that right now. We have more pressing matters."
"Let's see how tough you ponies are after I'm done with you," Ordain said.
Ordain jumped up and floated in the air. He clapped his paws once, twice, and then let out an energy shockwave. Shining Armor rushed over inbetween Twilight Sparkle and I. He generated a force field that covered over the three of us. The shockwave flashed over the rest of the ponies. All of them lost their wings and horns.
Pinkie Pie looked at herself. "Nothing happened."
Rainbow Dash shrieked, "My wings!"
Reactions could be heard all throughout Canterlot. Ordain looked down at Shining Armor and saw the force field he generated.
"Well, it looks like I missed a couple."
Shining Armor stomped the ground and commanded, "Ordain, you return them back to normal this instance."
Ordain landed onto the ground. "Or what?"
Cadance said, "Don't do it, Shining! He's taunting you!"
Ordain shot a beam at Cadance. Before the beam could hit her, Shining jumped into its path. Shining dropped to the ground, and the force field that was protecting Twilight and I fell.
Cadance looked down at Shining in tears. "Why, Shining?"
"I couldn't bare to see you get hurt again. I love you, Cadance."
Cadance cried while enwrapping herself around him. "Oh Shining."
Ordain mocked, "Isn't that just so sweet?"
Twilight took a stand in front of Ordain. "Hey! Leave them alone!"
Intrigued by Twilight's sudden outburst, Ordain asked, "What makes you think you can stop me?"
"I've spent sleepless nights in a library, imprisoned in a dungeon against my will, and watched you attack my friends! I'm not about to give up now!"
Ordain was surprised by her answer and then decided to put it to the test. He tore up ten rocks from the ground and threw them at Twilight. Twilight bucked three of the rocks, dodged two, and then striked two with her magic. Then she grabbed hold of the tenth rock and repelled it back to Ordain. Ordain dodged it. He smiled. Clearly he was amused by Twilight's performance.
"You sure are a quick one. Can you do it again?"
Ordain lifted up another ten rocks and threw them at her. Twilight Sparkle dodged three, slid under one and blasted an energy wave through the other six. Ordain applauded.
"This is quite entertaining. You are just full of surprises."
Princess Luna moaned, "No, Twilight. Ordain is just messing with you. You can't win."
I said, "Luna, we need to come up with a plan. Twilight can't keep this up forever."
Ordain formed another wave of rocks and combined them together. Ordain sent the giant rockmass towards Twilight. Twilight tried to grab hold of it with her magic, but it was too much. She shot a beam at the last second that broke it apart. A large cloud of dust filled the air.
I asked, "What about the Elements of Harmony?"
Princess Luna said, "He is immune."
"What if I reversed their effect?"
"Even if you had the strength to do that, we still don't know where the Elements of Harmony are in this timeline."
A thought rushed through my mind. "That's right. We don't know where the Elements of Harmony are."
"That is what I said."
The dust began to clear.
I shouted, "Hey, Twilight! Did you ever come across Discord?"
Twilight asked, "I don't think now is the time to be asking that."
I proposed my question to the rest of the ponies. "Does any pony know Discord?"
All the ponies simply shook their heads from side to side.
Rarity asked, "Discord? Who is he?"
A voice in the air asked, "Did some pony say my name?"
Ordain dropped his head down to his chest. "Oh no. Not him."
Discord appeared leaning over Ordain's shoulder. "Are we having fun?"
Ordain rolled his eyes back at him. "What do you want, Discord?"
"I wanted to see how you were doing. Can't I check in with my little brother every now and then?"
Rarity asked, "You mean they're brothers?"
Discord responded, "Can't you see the resemblance?"
Ordain shook his head. "Why show up now? Can't you see I'm having a moment."
Discord said, "It isn't easy breaking out of a stone prison. So tell me, what have you been up to for the past thousand years."
Ordain said, "None of your business."
Discord said, "Alright, let me guess. You trapped yourself in time."
"No."
Discord tried another idea. "Did Princess Celestia banish you to the moon?"
"No."
"I got it! Some pony outwitted you."
"Ugh!"
Amused, Discord said, "That's it, isn't it? How did they do it?"
Ordain mumbled, "I don't want to talk about it."
"He was trapped in a book," I said.
Discord laughed uncontrollably. "A book?"
Ordain responded, "I said I don't want to talk about it."
"Decided to do a bit of reading, eh my good chum?" Discord joshed.
"Well at least I wasn't frozen in stone," Ordain rebuked.
"At least I left in style."
"Can I please go back to what I was doing?"
Discord snapped up a chair and some popcorn. "Alright. Have your little fun. You aren't going to win."
Discord watched as Ordain clapped his paws together.
Discord tossed the bag of popcorn and got up from his chair. "Wait, you still haven't learned how to snap?"
"Don't be telling me how to use my own abilities."
"But things go by much quicker."
Ordain attempted to clap his paws together but was interrupted by Discord again.
Discord snapped his fingers. "Like this."
The sun suddenly came up and every pony shielded their eyes to adjust to the light.
Rainbow Dash asked, "How is this possible?"
Discord snapped again. "Or like this!"
Rainbow Dash's cloud turned pink. "Ew, what is this?"
The cloud rained over Applejack's head. "That's odd. Tastes like chocolate."
Pinkie Pie glided over and bumped Applejack out of the way. "Let me see that!" She flipped over and opened her mouth. "It is!"
Ordain shook his paw in anger. "I told you stay out of this."
Discord said, "I have to ask, what was your plan after all this?"
"I was... I was... I... I can't remember."
The sun quickly dropped down, and it became night again.
Fluttershy said, "Night again, already?"
Discord said, "I thought the spirit of order would at least have a plan."
Ordain scoffed, "At least I wasn't defeated by a couple of princesses."
Discord scorned, "Well at least I actually ruled Equestria for a time."
Ordain teased, "For being the spirit of disharmony, you sure were horrible at it."
Twilight asked, "Can I say something?"
Both Ordain and Discord responded, "Stay out of this."
Trying to gather his thoughts, Ordain asked, "Now where were we?"
Discord said, "You were throwing a tantrum."
Ordain stomped in the air. "I was not!"
Ordain had enough. He used his powers and sent an energy wave against Discord. Discord disappeared and reappeared behind Ordain.
Discord said, "Don't deny it. You are just too slow."
"Enough!" Ordain shouted.
He generated an enery ball so powerful that lightning started to strike in all directions.
Discord simply stated, "Always the dramatic. Well I think that's enough fun for one day. Hey, Ordain!"
"What?"
"You have a page!"
He summoned a giant book and closed Ordain inside it. The lightning strikes stopped and the energy dissipated. The book shrunk to normal size and dropped down to the ground.
Discord said, "I don't know who came up with the idea to trap him inside a book, but I find it hilarious!"
Discord dropped down to the ground and picked up the book. "Now let me show you how it's done."He threw the book over his shoulder and snapped open an umbrella. "I think it is time for a little bit of chaos."