Rogue Chaos

by FrostTheWolf

May the battle never end

Rogue Chaos- May the battle never end

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After Discord found his way back home with the Rogues and the rest of the Battleborn right beside him, a lot of things began to change in the months that followed. For a start, even after the ship was eventually fixed, some of the Battleborn decided that it would be better for them to stay here and possibly include Equestria in future talks amongst the factions since some battleborn in the factions were considered to be from Equestria itself. It was something that sort of seemed… crazy at first, but Ghalt was more than willing to take the idea under consideration.

As for the Battleborn that did decide to stay, they were allowed to be able to live in Equestria under the condition that if they were called by Ghalt or any other faction leader for an assignment that was offworld, they would have to respond immediately. The intent of this was so that way they could try and keep the conflict with the Varelsi and other foes away from Equestria, since the planet itself was in a time of peace… despite several ‘instances’ of the occasional bad guy that tried to take over Equestria and so on.

As for the rogues themselves, Reyna and her crew thought that Equestria would be a place where they can be able to catch a breather every once in a while. Sure, the Detritus Ring sort of was like a home to them, but in Equestria, they did not really need to worry so much about thieves trying to take their credits or someone trying to steal the Fortune’s Favor. Of course, out of all of the members of the rogues, there were two of them that decided to actually stay in Equestria. First, there was Shayne and Aurox. Even though the two of them did agree to help the Battleborn whenever they were called by Ghalt, they thought that it would be better if they decided to stay with Discord here and help out a little around Equestria while they were staying here.

Secondly, there was Orendi… who spent most of her days having fun with her new ‘friends’ in Tartarus. And by fun, that meant making them scream in agony.

Yet, aside from those two, there were some other Battleborn that did make some more frequent visits than others. Some of the Eldrid would come time to time in order to research the Everfree and learn more from Zecora, while Boldur would be wrestling the biggest and nastiest creature that he could find. As for Kleese, despite how insufferably cold the Crystal Empire was, he was curious about if some of the crystals in the empire and the energy that they produced were similar to the shards that the Battleborn would use whether to activate equipment or to activate their own gear in combat. When it came to the UPR, Ernest saw it as his duty in order to be able to try and whip the Royal Guard into fighting shape after realizing just how lazy and unprepared they were for if someone was going to launch an attack against the capital.

Most of the Jennerit thought it would be better for them to not try to meddle with the affairs of Equestria’s home planet, given how Tempest itself was in a state of array after Rendain’s fall. But there was one who actually thought it would be good for the Jennerit to rebuild their relationships with other factions, that being none other than the spymistress Deande. Not only did she personally saw it upon herself to go to Equestria herself from time to time, but also take part in conversations with the princesses as well. At times, even Eris would come with her and the two of them would even give them advice on how to approach particular situations. Some of which actually helped them when Princess Twilight and her friends discovered that the Pillars of Equestria were alive all this time, just because Deande told them that ‘nothing always is what it appears to be’.

However, over the last couple of months or so, things had become rather… quiet. Aside from the occasional visit from Whiskey Foxtrot for tea, there wasn’t really a lot of things that was going on as of lately. Yet, to Discord… it felt like there was something that he should be getting ready for-

“Um, Discord?” He looked up to see Shayne come into the living room of his home in Chaosville, the small pocket dimension where he resided and a place where only those he trusts and see’s as family or friends could enter, and held up a couple of envelopes. “Did you happen to notice this in the mailbox this morning? It looked like some kind of invitation.”

“Pfft… really?” Discord originally just shrugged it off. “It’s not one of those invites that leads me to being trapped inside Sugarcube Corner so that way Rarity could-”

“It’s from Princess Celestia.” That comment immediately turned around his thinking and had him immediately stop what he was doing. His ears stood up on end like a dog whose was asked if he wanted a treat as he looked back to the teen and the guanyota that was behind her.

“Cae Cae sent us an invitation?” He asked. “What is it for…?”

“Hang on, I’m about to have a look at it right now,” She told him, using the edge of her boomerang as a letter opener to open up the invitation so that she could be able to read it. “Hmm… It appears that she’s hosting a huge celebration in Canterlot called the Friendship Festival. All of us, including Fluttershy and your friends, were also invited and… wow, she even went as far as to invite the rogues as well… I wonder how well that’s going to go down.”

“When is it even going on?” Aurox then asked. That was when Shayne began to look at it some more… and realize something big about it.

“Oh… crap…” She replied, before looking back at him. “It’s… going on right now.”

Now Discord was back on his feet, springing out of his chair as he kicked it down the hall. Exploding into pink smoke as he looked back at Shayne and Aurox. “Well, what are we waiting for?! Let’s celebrate!!!”

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Upon arriving… it turned out that some things were not what they originally expected. Sure, there were games, celebrations, special booths, souvenirs and even live music from the Equestrian pop singer called Songbird Serenade (Or as Discord described it, Sia Pony). Even Orendi herself was able to take a break from her friends in Tartarus to come join them as the Mane Six were just greeting them.

However… there was one thing that Discord was not really a fan of. And that came when the songs that were being played seemed less somber… and more like dj music. “Out of all the things in Equestria that I thought I missed… it turns out this was not one of them.”

“Oh come on Discord. Dancing is not that bad.” Shayne tried to tell him, even though he just sighed as he looked at her as well as Aurox and Fluttershy.

“Oh, it’s not like I don’t like dancing…” The draconequus replied as he conjured what looked like a lawn chair with his chaos magic while he was drinking what looked like a wine glass filled with chocolate milk. “It’s that I don’t like this kind of dancing. I’m the kind of guy who likes to dance with a partner, like traditional dancing would be,” In that moment, he conjured what looked like a recreation of what appeared to be Celestia in a special gala dress and Discord in an orange suit as the two were dancing in sync on the arm rest of the chair. “Do a tango, maybe a waltz if the mood is right… But this? This form of ‘dancing’ looks like it just came out of a Fortnite dance battle. It’s degrading, meaningless and makes kids not understand that they were all original pop culture references from other things…”

“It hasn’t stopped you from trying that before when we were trying to fight against Rendain.” Aurox deadpanned.

“That was when I was younger. Plus, I didn’t want to feel left out,” He admitted, with Fluttershy chuckling at that as he blushed a little. Which even made Shayne giggle a bit as she looked back at him.

“Come on, it’s not something to be ashamed of. It’s supposed to be a huge party. What’s the worst that could happen-?” However, it was just as the rogue said that, big huge storm clouds began to form over the capital of Canterlot. Some which crackled with lightning as it caused everypony to stop what they were doing and for Shayne to look back at Discord. “Did I speak too soon?”

“Well, if that’s not a huge steaming ball of foreshadowing like the Juggernaut was,” Just as he said that, a huge shadow of what appeared to be a battleship in the distance began to emerge over the city. Leading to Discord immediately dismissing his lawn chair as he got back up on his feet and looked directly towards the ship. “Then I think that is.”

As the ship began to land right in the middle of the courtyard, the drawbridge began to extend forward, setting down as several different fuzzy yeti like beasts emerged from the ship. Twilight and her friends wanted to come out into the courtyard in order to see what it was, but Discord extended a paw as a signal for them to stay right next to him. Only to see what looked like a unicorn with a broken horn and some kind of pug like hedgehog with a white hairstyle.

Which… to the draconequus, was not entirely impressive. “Wow… just as impressive and anti-climatic of a reveal as Kylo Ren…”

“And just when I thought that things were actually going to be rather simple…” The unicorn muttered, before looking around and noticing the… odd figures that were the two rogues that were standing next to the draconequus. “Listen up, all of you! My name is Tempest-”

“Fizzlepop Berrytwist…” That statement from Discord actually left the unicorn a bit shocked in response. “Either that or Fizzy Popsicle.”

“H-how did you-?” The unicorn asked, before shaking her head for a moment. “Nevermind that… I’m here because there is something that I want. And in order to get what I want, I need your total and complete surrender.”

“Oh? And what is it that you exactly want?” Shayne then spoke up, as Aurox folded his claws and looked back at him.

“Well… you seem to be using all of your power and magic on just parties when-” The unicorn blinked for a moment, before then asking something. “I’m sorry, but who are you supposed to be? The Storm King’s information said that there were only supposed to be ponies at this event.”

All Shayne just did was groan a little bit as she and Aurox looked back at her. “Really now? Just because the country is named Equestria doesn’t mean that only Equestrians live here… whoever this Storm King is, he really must be judging the book by it’s cover on that one.”

Tempest herself, just ignored what she said and then went on to give some kind of ‘prepared speech’ as more troops began to pour out of the transport in single file formation. But it was only thirty seconds afterwards that Discord just snapped a talon and within seconds, had the ‘terrifying’ and ‘all powerful’ Storm King that she was going on about appear right next to her. Which was a shock to the unicorn personally.

“W-what-!? How in-!?!”

“Don’t mind me… I’m just fact checking to see if what you say is true or not.” The draconequus replied back.

“Who dares bring me here without my consent!!?!” The satyr like creature roared, which caused a few windows to crack as Discord just scratched his chin. “I’m in the middle of rebranding the slogan for my campaign of conquest!!!”

“Oh boy… I have a feeling of where this is going to go.” Shayne rolled her eyes in response. Aurox himself did not really seem impressed either as they watched the Storm King glare directly at Discord.

“Hmm… not what I expected personally… but not impressive either.” Discord shrugged.

“Who are you to try and judge me, you little wretch!?!” He yelled. Just like Tempest, he was going into another prepared speech, issuing what was supposedly a declaration of conquest and how he had been preparing for this moment. And once he stole the magic of the princesses-

“GIMME YOUR NECK!!!”

It was midway through the Storm King’s speech that Orendi attempted to try and attack him the same way that she blindsided Chrysalis. This time though, the Storm King pointed a finger at the vampimorph and let out a bolt of lightning. Throwing her backwards as he smirked. “Oh you sly little thing… you got me monologuing! Now… what to do with the rest of you…?”

And now was when Discord decided to actually speak up. “Syndrome did it first.”

“Excuse me?”

“The whole line about monologuing…” The draconequus replied back. “Syndrome from The Incredibles said that first.”

“But that’s not the same-”

“After you mentioned that you were trying to steal the magic of the princesses, which sounds exactly like what Tirek did… and look where that got him.”

“Wait…” The Storm King blinked for a moment, before he looked back at them. “I thought he succeeded in his plans!!”

“Technically, I let him think that…” Twilight soon spoke up now as the alicorn looked back at them. “But afterwards, he was defeated and sent back to Tartarus. And we did not need magic in order to do that.”

“So this is completely different!!!”

“Yeah… no. Think of it, you have yourself a faithful servant who you absolutely lied too in one form or another to get yourself an apprentice, have disposable troops that are just as useful as storm troopers and furthermore, you are trying too hard in order to make yourself sound like a feared villain and there doesn’t really seem to be any kind of backstory or motivation at to why.” Discord’s remark had Tempest’s eyes twitch a little, was causing the Storm King to become increasingly frustrated and also made his soldiers look back at each other like they were confused at to what he was talking about.

Though, there was one final remark from Discord that tipped things over the edge. “Face it, you’re just as unneeded as Snoke in the Last Jedi.”

“SHOT’S FIRED!!!”

“Okay, that’s it!” The Storm King snapped, before pointing what looked to be a large staff towards where Orendi was. “Burn the witch!!”

“I WANT A FAIR TRIAL!!”

“And now, the fighting begins…” Shayne said as she pulled out her Boomerang. “What exactly is your plan here?” All Discord did was smirk for a moment, conjuring what looked like a crossbow like contraption on his arm, along with what looked like a lit flare as he aimed it up into the air. Firing it as the Storm King soon shouted something towards the draconequus.

“Oh, it’s just so cute how you think you can be able to stop me…” The Storm King demanded. “Canterlot… will fall!! And you don’t have an army that can face me!!”

Discord just rolled his eyes as he looked back at him. “Really now? Your trying lines from Rendain now… Brilliant,” There was a smirk that could be seen on the draconequus face, “If you really want an answer though, let me tell you something then… I don’t need an army.”

In that moment, an all too familiar ship was now hovering over them, going as far as to shoot down the Storm King’s vessel as it crashed landed at the bottom of the mountain. Within seconds, many other figures stood next to Discord’s side as he looked back at the Storm King. “I have a family… one that was born for this.”

“So Discord, care to explain the emergency beacon you shot up a few minutes ago?” Reyna soon asked.

“This guy, despite how stupid his thought process is, wants to basically conquer Equestria and steal the magic from the Princesses… That and he kind of sounded like Rendain for a moment.” Shayne clarified.

“That’s all I need to hear. Let’s tear them apart!!” Whiskey Foxtrot declared.

“Yeah, what he said!!” They heard Oscar Mike declare as all of the Battleborn readied themselves for combat. Even Ernest rallied the Royal Guard members that he personally trained to take up arms.

All of this… was something that the Storm King was caught off guard by. Out of all the places in the world that he had conquered, he thought that this one would be the easiest. However, instead, one Draconequus was able to rally an army behind him that could be able to challenge his own. Which, lead him to ask one final question. “And just who in the world do you think you are?”

And for Discord to provide one final answer as they charged directly at the Storm King and his army. “We’re the Battleborn!!!”

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Author's Note:

And with that, this story is completed. I want to thank everyone who's read this story and has been there every step of the way. Both MrAquino and I tried to pull out all the stops in order to make sure that this story reaches a fitting conclusion. We even have some appropriate credits music.

Thank you very much for everyone who's enjoyed this journey with us. See you around in Solus... or what's left of it of course.
-Frost

Comments

[ShadowsInTheDark]

Yay

[Silent_Knight]

This was a fun ride im glad i read it

[FrostTheWolf]

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I’m glad that you liked it

[Silent_Knight]

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I would b begging for a sequel but at its current place in the series i dont think there is much else to b done uness u make up scenarios and adventures for them to take... Now i think on that i would love to see discord and the battleborn meet up with ratchet and now that the universe is bak veldin is lookin mighty ripe <wink, wink>

[FrostTheWolf]

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Honestly, as much as I would like too, this story is now in the books. I have other things that I’m putting my focus into, but I’m glad that you enjoyed it.

[FrostTheWolf]

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You can thank MrAquino for that one xD