"Discord!" Twilight said clearly shocked and a little afraid as her friends got together. It was bad enough that Equestria was being attacked by Dr. Wily and his robot army but now the spirit of chaos and disharmony had returned. And with the Elements of Harmony gone they might not be able to stop him.
"Hey relax I'm here to help," Discord said as he flew over to them and levitated a bit.
"Do you honestly expect us to believe that cow manure!" Applejack snapped.
"How did you even get free from your stone prison?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Quite a story actually," Discord answered as he sat down next to Mega Man. "I was freed from my stone prison when the robots attacked Equestria it caused more than enough chaos to free me."
"Does Princess Celestia know about this?" Rarity asked as Spike was holding her front right hoof to help her stay calm.
"Of course you see when I was freed I tried to find the source of the robots for quite a few days but not even I could find them."
"Okay, but why are you here?" Fluttershy asked rather politely.
"After I couldn't find the hideout of Prof. Wally.-"
"Dr. Wily," Mega Man corrected.
"Oh right whatever," Discord continued. "When I couldn't find him I went to Celestia and Luna and after telling them what I told you already I told her that I wanted to help them defeat the robots. After all, I would much prefer Equestria all to myself at first they didn't trust me-"
"No surprise there," Pinkie Pie added.
"Yes I supposed," Discord continued again. "However as Celestia put it disparate times call for disparate measures. So to see that I was true to what I said she asked that I go around Equestria finding those willing to help her fight the robots even go a little beyond if I wanted to. And that's how they all showed up I figured it be easier to teleport all the willing fighters here at once when I finished my search."
"Unfortunately he didn't say when he was going to do that," Braeburn said.
"Braeburn is that you?" Applejack asked as she ran over to her cousin.
"Howdy cous, yeah it's me. I want to teach those robots a lesson for what they did to my town."
"So you actually want to help us?" Twilight asked.
"For now anyway," Discord answered.
"So do I!" Trixie said in the distance.
"Trixie?"
"Yes remember me Trixie the great and powerful was the Element of Magic for a while, I have been living in Ponyville for about 3 years any of this ring a bell?"
"Well yeah Trixie of course," Rainbow Dash answered.
"Then way did I follow you all here after seeing you all run off? Why did none of you come and get me?" She asked clearly mad.
"Sorry Trixie we kind of forgot about you."
"You and the writer," Discord added.
"What?" Trixie asked.
"What?" Discord said as if he himself did not understand what he said.
"Anyway," Trixie continued. "What is going on?"
"The princesses are gone," A royal guard said. "We're still looking but we're pretty sure they've been taken."
"Then that means that they've been taken to Dr. Wily's fortress and we still don't know where it is," Mega Man said.
"Actually as I was about to say before I saw Discord Sheep Man was telling us-"
"Uh actually I don't think he can talk," Applejack interrupted Twilight.
"He was telling me his own way. Pointing to the mountain Canterlot was founded on."
"But we're on the mountain Canterlot was founded on," Rainbow Dash said.
"He was pointing straight down," Twilight replied. "And I figured he meant the mines beneath Canterlot."
"What how did you figure that?" Asked Pinkie Pie.
"I'm smart!" Twilight said clearly mad. "Now stop interrupting me!"
"Yes because that's really annoying isn't it?" Discord added Twilight then took a deep breath taking in Discord's point and calmed down. While she did that Sheep Man saw some paper and quill next to the debris caused by the robot attack. He decided to write down a copy of a map of the mountain Canterlot was made and a series of secret entrances that Dr. Wily showed all his robots. Luckily for Sheep Man he had a really good memory being a robot then he gave it to Twilight.
"What's this?" Twilight used her magic to hold up the paper to look at it then gave it back to Sheep Man.
"Was that a map?" Spike asked.
All right listen up!" Twilight said getting the attention of every creature. "The royal pony sisters have been taken and we have to rescue them as soon as possible before their magic is stolen from them, and when that happens who knows how much harder Wily will be to defeat. So we need to head beneath the mountain and rescue them who's with me?" After asking that all the royal guards and other ponies cheered to show they were ready to fight as well as some Buffalo and Yaks.
"YES YAKS HELP PONIES FIGHT ROBOTS!" Yelled a Yak.
"Um, I'm sorry do I know you?" Asked Twilight.
"You not know me but me Prince Rutherford! Prince of Yakyakistan ponies and yaks friends for a 1000 moons! We fight robots for ponies!"
***
Twilight used the blueprints Sheep Man wrote down to find the closest entrance to the mines and lead everypony, buffalo, and yak through there. She also told the entire group to stay together and real close because it's easy to get lost. They all stopped to rest for a while because some thought Wily moved his fortress to the very bottom of the mountain but still carried on. Trixie eventually decided to go to the front to talk to Twilight. "Are you feeling all right Twilight?"
"Not really Trixie I'm worried about what's going to happen when Wily steals the magic from the princesses."
"Do you think we can make it time."
"At this rate I really don't think so."
"Oh come on you can't give up hope all your friends look to you for that."
"Well isn't that nice?"
"You haven't forgiven them yet have you?"
"What?"
"You haven't I can tell."
"How can you tell exactly?"
"I know what it's like for them and you. It can be difficult to earn another pony's forgiveness. When I left Ponyville I became a laughing stock I was made fun of everywhere I went. I even had to take a job on a rock farm just to make a living, a rock farm! All the while I blamed you for it."
"Me?"
"Yes but after a while I realized the reason I felt that way was because I was jealous of you."
"You were?"
"Yes you seemed so perfect at everything. So eventually I came to Ponyville to make up for the things I did. But you weren't there anymore I wanted to tell you all this all the way back then and to tell you that I wanted you to forgive me. If that means anything." Trixie then started to walk away from Twilight but then Twilight pulled her back.
"Thank you for telling me that Trixie and I do forgive you." As Trixie and Twilight decided to hug out their feelings while still walking Discord in the back decided to start a conversation of his own.
"Hey Mighty Mouse."
"Mega Man."
"Oh right whatever, do you think we'll be able to beat this guy and his robots."
"Well with this much help I'd say so I just hope Wily doesn't cause anymore trouble in other worlds after this. It's so much worse than last time."
"Last time you mean something like this was happened before?"
"Sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Well it wasn't to this scale at least."
"So what happened?"
"Well before all this happened Dr. Wily went to another world that was actually a parallel version of mine and it even had it's own Mega Man."
"Interesting."
"Yeah there I got into a serious fight with Bass the robot Dr. Wily created for the sole purpose of defeating me. In the end I fought him off once again but I was badly injured. The Mega Man in that world brought me to a lab and repaired me, by the time I got repaired Wily was gone. So when I was back to 100 percent I needed to get back to stopping Wily, luckily I was able to help me."
"Ha I see what you did there," Discord replied.
"Thanks I thought it was funny."
"It was."
"Anyway, after he repaired me we both decided to look for Bass and Wily. But they were gone so I just went home Dr. Light the scientist that created me told me that we believed Dr. Wily as well as his entire robot army went to another world yet again. While searching we believed that Wily must have found this world first and then the parallel one and that he only went their with Bass as a diversion so he could take his army here and make it harder to track them. It took us months of looking but we were finally able to track down Wily and I was sent here. And that's pretty much how I got here."
"I see. But 1 thing how did you manage to track Wily to this world?"
"Dr. Light had a portal of his own that Dr. Wily stole he can track those who went through it in case someone got lost. Wily tried to destroy it with a timed bomb but ironically couldn't install it in time because I showed up and he had to go through the portal before I grabbed him. So he just yanked out the tracking device of the portal then went through it and it closed after that. Afterwards I brought the portal back to Dr. Light and he repaired the tracking device and then we started looking. The tracking device wasn't as good, but we still managed to find him also you're probably wondering how Twilight was missing for 3 years while Dr. Light and I searched for months you see-"
"Oh no need to explain that," Discord interrupted. "I've traveled to a few other dimensions myself I know how that works."
"Oh really?"
"Yes so since we both know how it works neither of us have to explain it."
"Yeah." After that the ponies finally found the fortress of Dr. Wily where Twilight saw 2 robots carrying Princess Celestia and Princess Luna who were both bound and gagged by the same type of chains that held her and Princess Cadence. Neither of the robots noticed the small army so Twilight decided to inform them all of a battle plan focused on the element of surprise.
"YAKS SMASH!" Cried Prince Rutherford as he ran straight for the fortress and all the yaks with him followed.
"CHARGE!" Twilight yelled out deciding just to go with it, then all the others followed her behind the yaks as they stormed the fortress. Except for Discord who wasn't a fan of physical violence and walked towards the fortress and enjoy the scenery of the ponies, buffalo, and yaks attacking. Hearing the attack Pharaoh Man and Napalm Man remembered their orders and ran to Dr. Wily who was already giving counterattack orders. Pharaoh Man and Napalm Man were ordered to fight off the intruders while Bass was ordered to find 2 unicorns and bring them where Wily was to take their magic as well as the princesses.
"Are you sure about that ,if I leave there won't be any robots to protect you?"
"Don't worry after I take the princess's magic I can power up my Wily Machine 8 and I'll be more then capable of defending myself." And with that Bass ran off to follow his orders then Wily got out the special hose and containers while the princesses struggle to get free, but the chains were too strong even for them. They both tried to talk and Wily was sure it was things like our friends will stop you or you'll never get away with this but he ignored it and set the hose and containers. "Hello ladies, the doctor will see you now."
Elsewhere in the fortress Trixie somehow found herself facing the Robot Master known as Napalm Man. A Robot Master for a reason as he almost blasted Trixie away with numerous attacks. However Trixie was quick on her hooves and was able to dodge all of them. "You'll have to do better then that," she said to Napalm Man clearly trying to mock him.
"I plan to," he responded.
"Oh really?" Trixie said clearly mocking him more.
"Yes," Napalm Man answered "Really!" Napalm Man then tried to fire several small missiles but Trixie fired spells at them making them blow up right next to Napalm Man then Trixie cast another spell pushing Napalm Man back.
"Trixie saw that coming a mile away. Your attack strategy is too simple not to predict."
"Now I'm really mad." Napalm Man fired so many missiles that he even hit a few robots by mistake. Since the missiles weren't all coming right at her Trixie made a shield strong enough to protect her from the missiles that did come her way. Then she fired another spell that not only pushed him back but damaged him more. "This isn't working I need a plan."
"Before you think of a plan how about a magic trick."
"What?"
"Now you see me now you don't." Suddenly Trixie vanished.
"Oh this is an old one." Napalm Man then noticed Trixie was right in front of him.
"Then how about I make you disappear instead?"
"What?" Before he knew it Trixie blasted Napalm Man similar to how Princess Cadence blasted Guts Man. Napalm Man was knocked through a wall and landed in pieces.
"What an excellent performance but what else can be expected from the great and powerful Trixie?" After stroking her own ego Trixie fell down as that powerful blast took a lot of her energy. "Okay maybe Trixie should have held back a little." Just then Bass jumped down right next to Trixie. After just seeing that blast he figured the unicorn that fired that would be low on energy and easy to capture.
"Hello there," Bass said then he picked Trixie up. "One down one to go." But then Trixie disappeared then reappeared next to Bass and fired another powerful magic beam at Bass. However Bass blocked the beam with his hand right before it hit his face.
"You blocked that?"
"Yeah you'll have to do better than that."
As she attempted to fire another magic beam Trixie first took several deep breaths. "I don't think I can."
"Well that just makes it easier for me." Bass tried to grab her but she teleported again a few feet behind.
"What do you want with me anyway?"
"Dr. Wily needs your magic for his portal's new function."
"Function?"
"Tell you what you can ask the doctor yourself when I bring you to him." Bass then charged at Trixie several times but she kept teleporting away. She also tried an attack or two but none of them even slowed Bass down. Trixie knew she had to find a way to defeat Bass and do it fast since she couldn't dodge him forever. While she was thinking several pegasus and earth ponies as well as yaks and buffalo attacked Bass all at once but he took them down without even breaking a sweat.
"How did you do that?"
"Oh please none of this creatures have a chance against me. I'm the greatest and most powerful robot ever created I will defeat all that get in my way."
"How can you run around with such an ego like that?" As Trixie took in the irony of her sentence, Bass then fired several energy blast attacks of which she dodged all but one of them. But Trixie still had some fight in her and got back up.
"I'm Impressed," Bass said. "Not even the 2 royal ponies I've fought have lasted this long with me."
"Well what else can be expected from the great and powerful Trixie?"
"Yes but I have better things to do then to spare with mini horses so I'm ending this."
"Mini?" Was all Trixie could say as Bass rushed at her and as she dodged Bass hit her with an energy attack stronger than the ones before that forced Trixie to hit the wall. After that Trixie passed out and Bass picked her up then carried her off. Elsewhere in the fortress Twilight had found herself fighting the Robot Master Pharaoh Man while Rarity was fighting the strange robot known as the Yellow Devil. Both robots giving the unicorns a hard time.
"Why don't you save me the trouble and give up now?" Pharaoh Man taunted.
"Not a chance!" Twilight responded. "This is payback for locking me up for 3 years!" Twilight then fired several magic beams at Pharaoh Man who dodged them by teleporting. He also levitated a foot or two above the ground to make it easier to dodge attacks.
"Is that all you got?" Pharaoh Man asked.
"All right how about this?" Twilight then fired another beam of magic and Pharaoh Man dodged that as well by teleporting.
"You never...learn?" When Pharaoh Man reappeared he noticed Twilight was gone and was then hit from the back by a powerful magic attack. After getting hit Pharaoh Man fell down and could hardly move, the spell stunned him.
"You sure about that?" Twilight said. "When you were teleporting before I noticed you kept moving a few feet to the right every time. So after firing at you again I made sure I'd teleport several feet behind the spot you would appear to catch you by surprise."
"Very clever," Pharaoh Man said. "I'm not even sure I can levitate or teleport."
"Good to know, now to end this," Twilight said and then charged for an extra strong attack.
"I shouldn't have said that." Pharaoh Man then summoned an eye shield in hopes that it would endure the attack. But he wouldn't find out because in that moment Yellow Devil was reforming near Twilight to get some space from Rarity and a piece of him hit Twilight. after getting knocked down the stun spell Twilight used wore off and Pharaoh Man levitated into the air. " I don't know if that was an accident or on purpose but I owe you one Yellow Devil, but first." Pharaoh Man was about to fire fireballs at Twilight but before he could a pegasus royal guard hit Pharaoh Man with the spear to his back.
"Not on my watch!" The guard said.
"Ah not again," Pharaoh Man said as he fired at the guard instead and fell down. The guard was hit by the fire and landed to stop, drop, and roll after putting out the fire he was attacked by several other robots and he decided to focus on them.
"Twilight darling are you all right?" Rarity asked as she helped Twilight up and Twilight walked forward to aim her horn at Pharaoh Man.
"I'm okay but I still have that robot to deal-" Just then Yellow Devil slammed his hands down on Twilight and Rarity. Then he picked the 2 unicorns up and held one in each hand.
"Nice work Yellow Devil since they're both unicorns let's bring both of them to Dr. Wily."
"Not on my watch!" Spike said as he jumped on Pharaoh Man's head to jump again but higher. Spike then took a deep breath and let out a huge breath of fire right in Yellow Devil's face and landed right in front of him. After taking serious damage Yellow Devil released both Twilight and Rarity. Rarity who was right next to Spike fired a magic beam right through Yellow Devil's eye as Spike breathed more fire on the robot.
"Keep it up Spike!"
"I don't think so time for me to return the favor!" Pharaoh Man prepared to attack the 2 but saw Twilight about to fire a powerful spell. Out of instinct he didn't stay to teleport or levitate but got out his shield again. But sadly for him Twilight's spell was more then strong enough to not only break the shield but also break Pharaoh Man and he blew up as Yellow Devil did as well. The 3 then got together after the defeat of the 2 meddlesome robots.
"Nice work Twilight!"
"Thanks Rarity but we aren't done here yet."
"And let's not forget you either my brave and glorious Spikey Wikey who saved us both," Rarity said in a bit of a babyish voice then kissed Spike right on his lips making him fall down.
"Oh Spike," Rarity then giggled at the adorableness of her favorite dragon.
"Come on focus you two we still have a lot more robots to defeat."
"Quite right Twilight."
"We should try to find the others to see how they're doing," Twilight said to which Spike and Rarity nodded their heads in agreement then took off with Twilight to fight more robots and find the other Elements of Harmony. While they were doing that Dr. Wily had taken the magic from Trixie who afterwards was bound and gagged next to Sassy Saddles in the corner. Both unicorns were in the same room as the royal pony sisters because Dr. Wily wanted his prisoners to stay were he can keep an eye on them thinking he might have use for them later.
"Just one more unicorn and the new function will be operational and then my army can rise again and again. Then all these intruders won't stand a chance. But before that I have an upgraded Wily Machine 8 to test out," Dr. Wily said as he brought out his machine. Dr. Wily then entered the Wily Machine 8 and powered it up, Dr. Wily was just hoping an intruder would come into the room so he could test the new abilities of the Wily Machine 8.
"Well that's an interesting choice of transportation personally I prefer to appear and disappear at will."
"What in the world are you?"
"I am Discord spirit of chaos and disharmony and I guess you must be Prof. Willy."
"Dr. Wily!"
"Whatever."
"You have so many different body parts composed of all kinds of different animals how does your body function?"
"You may be a doctor but don't I need to make an appointment with you before I tell you things about my body."
"Oh real funny I suppose you want to stop me and my army from taking over?"
"The thought had crossed my mind."
"Well I hope you have powerful magic because I need to do a little testing on my Wily Machine 8 since now it has alicorn magic."
"Well I'd love to play with you a little but I'm afraid the chapter is over."
"What?"
"What?"