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// Let the Rainbow Remind You 
// Story: Bring Them Back 
// by somatic 
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He was going to die. He was sure of it. That was the plan.

He was going to die, but something got in the way.

Lavender wings spread over him, sheltered him from the storm.

That couldn’t be right. He was the God of Chaos. No one sacrificed themselves for him. No one sacrificed anything for him. He was evil.

Wasn’t he?

But why did he remember a rainbow spark? That magic wasn’t normal. That was… different. It was powerful.

It fed the machine. Just a little. Just enough to keep him alive.

Something quickened in him. Something lavender. Something that sparkled like a brilliant, prismatic rainbow.

There was life in the old god, yet.

His mind was full of lightning, and he could barely recall anything. He remembered raging across Equestria, dueling the blasted Sisters, years spent in a stony prison…

Then what?

Something yellow flashed before him. It was time to wake up.



A fallen log shifted. Then it shifted some more.

“Oof! I never knew lifting things without magic was so difficult! How do those earth ponies do it?”

Slowly, slowly, a tiny creature pushed its way out of the rubble, looking for all the world like a deflated balloon animal. He rubbed one of his broken-off horns.

“That’ll grow back, I think.” Discord took a deep breath, trying to suck some magic back into his drained body. He still couldn’t remember what happened. Something saved him…? That didn’t make sense. No one would save a monster like him.

He cast his miniaturized eyes around the wreckage in all directions.

“Sheesh. Looks like someone fought a war here. It’s dirty.” He rubbed his small hands together. “I like dirty.”

The immortal trickster god, still small as a beetle, walked off into the sunrise, humming a tune he half-remembered from a long time ago.

In the ashes of the cottage, a yellow pegasus with thorn-pierced skin smiled as she listened.