The ponies screamed as they were falling towards a floor that seemed to extend further away the longer they fell.
“The floor’s not gonna stretch away forever, he’s trying to kill us with this fall!”
“Come on Fluttershy! We need to take action!”
“O-okay!”
The two pegasi spread their wings to stabilize their fall and they flew to catch the earth ponies. The unicorns, unable to be assisted by the pegasi had to think of a way to save themselves.
“Twilight darling, if there was ever a time for you to have an idea, now would be one of those times!”
“I’m trying to think.”
“The ground’s starting to look awfully large!”
“Aha! Rarity! Let’s combine our magic! Just follow my lead!”
“Alright!”
The unicorns both activated their magic and enveloped each other with a magical aura.
“Alright now, LIFT!”
Using all of their magical might, the two lifted against the force of gravity, but not hard enough to prevent themselves from becoming removable decor at this rate.
“Twilight!”
“I know! Keep pulling!”
Despite their best efforts they were still going too fast.
“Looks like this is it, huh?”
“I guess so...”
They closed their eyes and waited for the end.
And they waited.
It never came.
“Huh...?”
“What?”
They opened their eyes to find themselves floating just above the ground.
“We’re... alive?”
A third aura was covering them, a golden aura.
“Huh... hah... hoo... Thank goodness... you’re ok.”
It was the princess and she was gasping as she gently placed the unicorns on the floor.
“Whoo... I need to... I need to sit down.”
“You really need to exercise more often Celestia. That was only a twelve second sprint.”
“Celestia and Discord? Working together? Did I miss something?”
The cyan pegasus was baffled by the thought. The draconequus then leapt out from the princess’s tail.
“Oh please Rainbow Dash, given the current flow of events did you think that was entirely out of the realm of possibility?”
The pegasi released the ponies they held on the floor and then splayed themselves out on the floor to rest.
“Actually it... it was Discord... who sug... who suggested we come in here to assist you.”
“You make it sound like I wanted to help them, all I merely said was ‘You know if you want to stop them from falling to their deaths you should probably head in as quick as you can’ she then got this priceless look on her face before almost leaving me in the garden. I had to jump in her tail so as to not get left behind!”
The lavender unicorn approached him.
“So Rarity and I have you to thank for being alive right now?”
“Please, don’t mention it. Seriously, don’t mention it to anyone. Ever.”
The princess looked at the group of mares and noticed the elements were absent.
“Girls, where are the Elements of Harmony?”
They all looked to the ground.
“That... thing destroyed them.”
The orange one spoke first and the princess replied, “How is that possible?”.
The lavender one was next to speak.
“We hit him with the elements as hard as possible and he was turned to stone, so we figured he was done for. So we removed the elements and began leaving the room, but as soon as our backs were turned he was already free and in a frenzy, smashing everything around him. When he stopped he used some... force to take the elements from us and threw them away and blew them up!”
“He then used his nasty powers to take out the floor beneath us, and after that is when you came in!”
The draconequus spoke up.
“So my suspicions were correct.”
“What are you talkin’ about Discord?”
“Let me explain this as simply as possible. Chaos and order two are sides of the same coin, you can’t have one without the other. Now Darky, lets call him Chaos for the time being, is almost entirely comprised of chaos with just enough harmony within him to keep his form stable. The Elements of Harmony, in layman’s terms, generate order when in use and that’s only when in use. Now if you were to combine both forces in equal amounts it generates neutral. The elements are capable of generating as much order as he is chaos.”
The lavender one inquired.
“But wouldn’t that mean he’d be neutralized?”
“Yes, but as I said they only produced order while active. Once you deactivated the elements, his chaotic energy began overpowering the harmonic energy around him, allowing him to break free of his imprisonment .
“Then why weren’t you able to break free Discord?”
The princess inquired of the draconequus.
“I create chaos. I’m not made of chaos.”
The lavender unicorn pieced this together aloud.
“So what you’re saying is since Chaos is comprised of chaos the Elements of Harmony are only capable of briefly stunning him. So how do we stop him?”
The draconequus sighed.
“I’m going to tell you now in case you haven’t figured it out. I no longer have access to my powers, Chaos took them when he broke free, this in turn made him an even more chaotic being.”
“Sooooo that means what exactly?”
The cyan pegasus asked, lost as to the point he was getting at.
“It means he’s at dangerously high chaos levels.”
“And?”
“What do you think would happen if you were to apply more chaos to his being?”
“OH! OH! OH! I KNOW! I KNOW! It’s like when you eat too much and you just wanna take that last bite of cake but you’re all like, ‘No you’ve had too much and you’re full. You can’t eat that!’ and then you argue with yourself like, ‘Come on. Just another bite!’ am I close?”
Everyone just stared speechless, and the draconequus was the first to break the silence.
“Uhhh... Never mind. That actually serves as a surprisingly effective comparison to the results.”
“So what y’all are sayin’ is if we were to put more chaos energy into, uh Chaos, it would over-fill em’?”
“That is exactly what I’m getting at Applejack. But that alone wouldn’t finish the job.”
“And what else, pray tell, would we need?”
“I would need to make physical contact.”
The timid pegasus spoke for the first time since the conversation began.
“That’s it?”
“That’s it.”
The princess broke into the conversation.
“Discord. How do you expect them to produce chaos energy?”
“Simple my dear Celestia.”
He made a sly grin and put his hands together in front of his face.
“We’re going to need... the Elements of Disharmony.”