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// Chapter 15: The Finale 
// Story: True Chaos 
// by Woolytop 
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	Horns lowered and pointed at the door as they were slammed closed and magically sealed. This was primarily to buy time for the bearers to form a plan. Through the stained glass, changes started to become visible, most obviously the sky turning a lovely shade of emerald green.
“Alright, so we need to activate the elements of harmony with chaos magic. Problem is, Moonstruck is the only one here who can use chaos magic,” Twilight described.
“Maybe I could try using the Element of Magic?” Moonstruck suggested.
“The elements don't work that way.” Twilight shook her head. “You can't just swap one bearer out for somepony else.”
“The elements started to work without Rainbow Dash. Maybe we could have Moonstruck charge 'em up, then toss the tiara back to Twilight to use it?” Pinkie Pie suggested.
“I don't think it's a good idea trying to go around their rules like that,” Moonstruck said. “They may backfire.”
“Even if that doesn't turn Moonstruck into a statue, or turn all of us back into fillies, we'd have to do it perfectly, with no practice, on the first try. Discord's not going to give us another shot after last time,” Twilight agreed.
Rarity, meanwhile, had been looking over Moonstruck with a critical eye. “That is a unicorn's horn on your head, correct?” she asked.
“Yep,” Moonstruck nodded.
“Twilight, darling, do you remember last week when I had worked myself into a magical exhaustion on a dress order?”
“I remember that!” Pinkie Pie piped up. “You were acting all kinds of silly!”
“Pinkie, magic exhaustion is a very serious condition,” Twilight admonished. “I remember, what about it?”
“Do you remember how you helped?” Rarity lead further.
“Of course, I gave you a little bit of my energy until you could recover naturally,” Twilight replied.
“So, wouldn't it be possible for Moonstruck here to give you a portion of her energy to power the elements?” Rarity asked.
“That could be risky,” Twilight said.
“What's gonna be risky is Discord bustin' in here before we're ready,” Rainbow Dash pointed out.
“Rainbow's right, Twahlight,” Applejack said. “Ah dunno much 'bout magic, but this 'ere sounds like the bes' plan we got so far.”
Twilight thought for a moment. “You're right. Moonstruck, can you loan us some of your power?”
“Of course,” Moonstruck said with a nod. “It's my fault he's free, so I'll do anything I can to put him away again.”
At that moment, the vault door burst open to reveal a triumphant-looking Discord. With the exception of Princess Celestia and Moonstruck, everypony let out a shocked gasp or shriek of some kind and whipped around to face him. Moonstruck had been facing that direction anyway, and Celestia very calmly turned around to face her age-old foe.
“Hello, my little ponies!” he exclaimed gleefully. He tutted as he looked over the fortifications on the entrance. “Come now, you didn't honestly expect me to come in the front door, did you?” He let out a hearty laugh. “How did I know you would come cowering for your elements of harmony? You won't be able to use them since my dear girl Moonstruck destroyed the leyline node.”
“That was you?” Twilight hissed.
“It was an accident!” Moonstruck defended herself. “Come on, we don't have much time.”
Moonstruck wrapped her arm around Twilight's shoulders and began to pour energy into her. The elements began to glow and resonate with one another. Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Applejack were slowly lifted into the air as a white aura of magic surrounded them. Twilight and Moonstruck, both enveloped by the same aura, were still on the ground.
Discord's brow furrowed. “Hmm. That won't do.” He snapped his fingers. A golden bubble appeared around the seven of them, then shattered as tiling in a perfect circle around where the bubble had been vanished.
“You've forgotten somepony, Discord,” Celestia said with a deadly serious look in her eyes. Discord put his finger to his chin for a moment.
“Of course. How is young Luna doing? I missed her last time around.” Discord's head vanished as a golden beam of magic blasted past, then poked out of his shoulders as if he were a turtle. “My my, Celestia. If you wanted to dance, you could have simply asked.”
Being inside the activation of the Elements of Harmony was a unique experience for Moonstruck. She was aware of what was going on around her, but everything had a sense of rightness to it. She felt like she was one with the six mares around her.
“What's the hold-up, Twi? The Elements should have gone off by now,” Rainbow Dash's voice cut through her mind.
“I don't know!” Twilight replied. “The power's here, Moonstruck's given me more than enough, but it's...not cooperating.”
“Stop fighting with it,” Moonstruck thought as she picked up on what Twilight was doing wrong. “It's not order magic. You can't force it to do what you want.”
“What do you mean? Am I supposed to just let it run rampant?”
"Well, no, but..."

Discord, meanwhile, had shattered through a dozen magical barriers Celestia had erected between them, and with a final snap of his fingers, turned her into a lithe, white house cat. She pounced at him, but he simply dodged aside and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck.
“Now then, as for you seven...” Discord lifted his lion's paw and snapped his fingers. At the same time, Moonstruck snapped her eagle's talon. What looked like a tuna fish with a top hat and a monocle appeared halfway between them. It stood up on it's fins, tipped its hat, and shuffled away.
“Oh, like THAT,” Twilight's voice filled Moonstruck's mind. The power of the elements began to swell. Rather than lifting the unicorn and draconequus into the air, the magic of the elements began to force a crater into the floor as the six white auras merged into one. A double-helix of rainbow light shot into air; The two points met at the ceiling and became one, then fired straight down at Discord.
Celestia swiped Discord's claw and jumped away just as the beam hit. Everything in the hall that wasn't nailed down or being suspended in the air by magic was violently forced away from the epicenter. The stained glass windows blew out as Discord's screams filled the hall. Just as suddenly as it had begun, it ended.
Moonstruck fell into the crater with a heavy thud. She felt exhausted all of a sudden, and her body was heavy and unresponsive. She glanced up at where Discord had stood. It worked! Where the lord of chaos had stood, there was a statue, frozen with a lion's paw covering its face and an eagle's talon, opened from a surprise strike.
“Is everypony okay?!” Twilight shouted from somewhere behind her. There was a collection of groans from the door.
“Oh my... The elements have never been this destructive before...” she barely heard Fluttershy whisper.
“We ain't never used 'em wit' chaos magic 'fore, neither,” Applejack answered.
“Or in a space this enclosed,” Rarity added.
Moonstruck stopped listening so much at this point. She couldn't feel her feet, or the tip of her tail.
“Well, I hope you're pleased with yourself,” Discord hissed at her.
“You know what? I am,” Moonstruck thought.
“Look at yourself! I'm not the only one in this room getting stoned, my dear,” he said. Moonstruck rolled her eyes down towards her lower body. Sure enough, grey rock had replaced her legs up to the knees and most of her tail already.
“...Oh. Horseapples,” she thought dully.
“Indeed,” he replied spitefully. “I cannot think of better proof for you. Chaos is who you are. When it comes down to that, the two of us aren't different at all.”
“Hey, is Moonstruck alright?” Twilight's voice cut through the fog that was beginning to cloud Moonstruck's mind.
“Oh my...her legs!” Fluttershy squeaked.
“Hang on. Maybe I can break her out,” Rainbow Dash said.
“Slow down there, sugahcube. Ya migh' wind up breakin' her,” Applejack said, muffled by a mouthful of what was probably tail hairs.
“Look at how fast it's climbing!” Pinkie said.
“Oh dear. Did the elements do this?” Rarity chimed. Moonstruck's view was obscured by a procession of hooves along the rim of the crater. She looked up into Twilight's eyes, and smiled.
“That may be true,” she thought as she raised her hand towards Twilight, “but do you know what the real difference between the two of us is, Discord?” Twilight lifted her hoof, hesitated for a moment, and then rested it in Moonstruck's hand.
“I have friends.”