Prologue: What's On Tonight?
Discord, strung lazily about his couch, flipped through channels on his TV. It was a new plasma-screen, with surround sound and HD picture. Of course, his powers gave him interdimensional reception with no blackout dates and free On-Demand movies. These same powers had also allowed him to remodel himself, or rather his petrified body, into the ultimate draconequus-cave for his miniaturized consciousness. He had struck upon the idea a few centuries after his initial imprisonment. After all, staying frozen in one pose for several millenia was both too boring and too orderly! Of course, he had to remodel after the Cutie Mark Whatevers accidentally freed him, but he considered the trade-off more than worth it.
So, now that he was back to his old, stone-sealed self, locked in seclusion in the mines below the royal palace, he had more than enough time to kill. Occassionally, Pinkie came by to visit, and they played Call of Duty. But today was not such a happy day. Somehow, despite having access to millions of channels from across the space-time continuum, he could find nothing to watch. It was a frequent problem: there were just no decent shows these days! Not to mention the good ones always got canceled. The only solution here was obvious: channel surfing. He jumped from Man vs. Food (he could gorge on the chaos in that fool's stomach!) to some endless show about a man named Truman. Apparently, people were actually entertained by just watching him live, even though he had no idea his life was scripted from the start. Discord jumped at the word scripted. All that could come to his mind after that was the DVR: his collection of ever-enjoyed classics he could always turn to in such a situation. Of course, it's contents were entirely random.
As he irrritatedly ran down the list, a small orange dot caught his eye next to a show. It meant he had a recording unfinished, and he recalled just how it became that way: It was what he was watching the second he absorbed enough ambient chaos to free himself. He had thrown the episode aside to focus on old plans for revenge, but he now realized that he was ignoring success as it stared him in the face. He just had to rip a page from this show's playbook (more like play-pamphlet) for his own use. It would pit friend against friend, sister against sister, and start a free-for-all of chaos across Equestria. And he would reign supreme in just such an environment. All he needed was a chance.
Discord turned quickly through the programming guide, looking to Canterlot Today. All of the afternoon was filled by a single block, labeled Royal Wedding/Changeling Invasion. Just perfect, he thought to himself. Equestria was being invaded on the same day his high-school sweetheart was getting hitched. Unless it's Luna, he reminded himself. Wonder who the lucky stallion was? Maybe some Griffanian king, or another diplomatic union. How petty, if it were the case. She deserved better. She deserved him. But as he pulled up the description, he found both of his assumptions incorrect: Princess Cadence was marrying Shining Armor. No international politics, no old wounds from childhood, just the overblown union of two ponies he'd never heard of. A few years ago it could've been just the same for him. A princess and her stallion, nothing but true love between them. Until the accident. Until she decided to spurn him. He had yet to make her regret that decision, but when he did, he would make her pay dearly. But Discord had to snap out of that train of thought before it wrecked at the station of his opportunity. His broken heart would have to take back-seat to his need for freedom. An invasion meant the chaos of war, especially with those shifty, gimmick-stealing changelings. It meant escape.
Yet the thought of her, an idea came to his mind. He could avenge some old heartache and watch his recording at the same time. As he flipped over to Canterlot Today, he got a clear shot of changelings smashing through the palace's shields. How convenient. After returning to his unfinished recording, he looked down to his remote, finding a button he had been just dying to press: Export show. He raised his claw up dramatically, extended his index finger, and dropped it straight on the button. Pure chaos energy charged through his body, forming a pathway between the TV, him, and the outside world. His draconequus-cave began to warp, as did the rest of Equestria. The image on the screen expanded incessantly, focusing on a small group of letters with a bright orange dot next to them. It was the recording title. It read: Deadliest Warrior.
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Back at the royal palace, Celestia, Chrysalis, and the Mane 6 were all feeling the effects of the recent reality-warping. Armies of changelings disappeared as quickly as they had arrived, as did almost all other ponies. The ground beneath them began twisting downwards, spiraling into a huge funnel to oblivion. All remaining (except Pinkie) slid down the grade into the depression; Rainbow could not muster any propulsion from her wings, nor could Twilight generate a single spark of magic. Pinkie was unaffected, however, and casually watched her friends' descent. She bent down on her knees in midair, and took off toward the center of the room in full gallop. Right as she crossed over the pitfall to nowhere, she lept up off her back hooves, bringing her front hooves together and pointing them straight down. Diving as gracefully as a Pinkie Pie could, she dropped into the hole, entering a much larger group of ponies. She splashed at the bottom as if impacting an invisible liquid (a sensation none of the others had encountered), and promptly surfaced and climbed back onto solid ground. Rarity and Applejack turned around to see the disturbance, only to find large white signs, labeled 10.0 on the front, clamped in their mouths. Both spit them out, and glared at Pinkie with absolute confusion. Their lines of sight were soon cut off, as walls of darkness rose from the ground and sealed each of them off from the others. Inside each of their tight, cubicle-like cells, a large image appeared in front of them, similar in appearance to a TV screen. The only light to be found, it quite clearly showed Discord, wearing a snazzy business suit. Their reactions to this were quite varied, but his message to them was all the same.
"Greetings, my little ponies. I want to play a game. Each of you is now on your own, so forget about all of this magic of friendship nonsense. Forget family, forget relationships, and by all means, forget love! There's no room for that if you want to survive. I am going to send you all at each other in a tournament of 1-on-1 combat. No rules, no safety, no mercy; it'll be a duel to the death every time. Thus, we will decide who is the Deadliest Pony!"
A shrill scream broke even the confinement of darkness with its shear volume, and everypony could quite easily identify where Fluttershy was in the group. This knowledge was short-lived, however, as each of them simultaneously keeled over on the ground, unconscious.
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premise is pretty cool, story is better.
I look forward to the upcoming deathmatches.
Deadliest Warrior!
Now I gotta read this.
on hiatus already? D:
wait...
on hiatus at ALL? D:
Oh I have been WAITING for this cross-over
a deadliest warrior crossover.
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THERE IS NO THUMBS UP BIG ENOUGH!!!
could they? would they? should they?
506573 Yeah, I was wondering how long until someone would notice that. I'm not sure how I'm going to balance this story with The World-Jumper, but what I may do is alternate chapters for each until the first ministory in The World-Jumper is done. After that I'll work on this exclusively.
506603 They don't have a choice.
ok, as long as your not dropping it just because it didn't get a whole lot of attention at first, heh
507085
its a duel to the death.
to find out which ponies will be getting cut open like pinatas.
After reading this story, I had to go to wikipedia to check up on DWs status.
IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
I WILL FLIP ALL THE TABLES NOW
508815 Allow me to smash them to tiny bits when you're done.
509315 WHAT!!! I love that show.
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510819 You mean like this? And yes, This fits perfectly.
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Deadliest warrior?!
have few ideas:
Celestia vs Luna
Twilight Sparkle vs Shining Armor
Doctor Whooves (Dr Who version) vs Queen Crystalis
Pirate Pipsqueak (Grown Up) vs you choose
521559 I thought I fixed that, but don't worry, it's not on hiatus. I'm trying to balance it against my other story, so updates will be infrequent for a while. Hopefully not too long, though. The ideas seem deliciously chaotic. (Discord emoticon goes here)
Oh, I am looking forward to this! How are you going to decide who fights who? Are you going to position the ponies to achieve maximum drama potential, or are you just going to roll the dice on it, which could potentially unleash even more drama potential? Also, are you going to use Equestrian historical figures, like Chief Thunderhooves, Starswirl the Bearded, or Daring Do?
Whatever this is, I am so excited for the next chapter now.
531749 A mixture of both. You'll see some classic clashes that Lauren Faust never saw it fit to give us, such as Celestia vs. Nightmare Moon. Then, there will be some symbolic battles, such as order vs. chaos (Discord, of course, vs. I'm not sure who, maybe Twilight?
) And occasionally, I'll just mix things up with a random fight, but I'll try to keep some kind of method behind the madness (though with Discord at the controls, you never can tell). As for your second question, I'll generally keep to the Mane 6, major supporting characters, the Mane villains, and popular background ponies (DJ PON3, Trixie, Derpy) during the first season, for the benefit of bronies less familiar with the show. But in season two (if it comes), as I exhaust character reserves, I'll add another element of fanfic to this and create what isn't given about those more obscure characters when they battle.
Keep in mind that as of now I promise nothing except the appearance of characters in the summary (which has been severely limited by the new regulations).
532188
That's so cool!
533360 Most definitely; I find that to be half the fun. Pinkie may get a guest commenting appearance once and a while, but she won't be on the main staff. After all, she's a combatant. But don't expect a lot of plot from this story; it's mainly going to be the episodes Discord produces.
I dunno... It seems interesting but he outright stated they have to kill each other. I'll wait 'till we see if they're revived after death before giving it a thumb up 'cause personally I don't want
nodead Dashie.Seriously though, despite my caution, it looks like an interesting premise. If they manage to get out of there alive/respawned. *Thinks* Whiiich given their friendship he'll have to agree with if he wants anyone to so much as lift a hoof against each other. Chrysalis doesn't count.
553893 Don't worry, Dash looks to be a top contender against just about anyone else
, and how will I do a Back for Blood special/rematches and repairings if they stay dead? And for the motivations, this is probably going to play out a lot like Saw; they don't initially want to hurt each other, but once it dawns upon them that only one is walking out alive (as far as they know), self-preservation instinct kicks in. 
And with a little mental de-inhibition, courtesy of our host, anything can happen, right? 
554256 (Hesitantly) ... Alright, ya got me mate. I'm tracking. But at least one of them's going up against an alicorn and that's hardly fair to anyone. "Forget about love" implies Chrysalis no longer has amplified power and considering her surprise in the show itself, it looks like Celes will have to fight one of the M6. And this version of Discord seems sadistic enough to pit her against Twilight. Even though Dashie's high on the list of contenders and in TVtropes terms is "Made of iron", it's been shown magic can restrict and prevent her movement and she's the physical embodiment of Loyalty, so she'll probably refuse to fight unless her opponant attacks first, Chrysalis excluded.
Once again, I sincerely hope they don't stay dead, and a respawn system could work with rematches/repairings, given that they now know death isn't permanent in the games and have less incentive to not fight. Hold up... No sad, grimdark or tragedy tags? My hope has been reinforced
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554358 Well, if you look back to S1 (ages ago, I know), one character was able to handle Tia (albeit not in outright combat). Come to think of it, Discord did too (breaking her magical lock on the Elements). Hang on a sec...
First time vs. Luna/Nightmare Moon: uses Elements
Second time vs. Luna/Nightmare Moon: Presumably loses, needs help of M6 and Elements
Vs. Discord: Needs Luna's help and Elements
Vs. Chrysalis: Loses because Chrysalis is hyped up on super-love
(Realization) You know what, we have never seen Celestia in combat except w/ an overpowered Chrysalis, and never even heard about it except when she uses the Elements! For all we know, minus the Elements, she could completely suck at fighting! Mind=blown
I'll leave the rest to be seen.
So our little ponies are going to fight to the death, be resurrected, and forced to fight again? How diabolically twisted!
Also, I demand Cutie Mark Crusaders vs. Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and... I dunno, Pipsqueak?
617212 A team battle might be interesting, given each of them don't have enough distinction or experience to give them solo battles. Thanks for the idea.