Corruption and Chaos

by Peridork

The End and A Historical Note

Chroma woke up.

She looked around but saw nothing. When she tried to move, she couldn’t. She tried to speak, but no sound came out. The only thing she heard was hoofsteps coming ever closer. Her heartbeat was eerily silent.

“Hello?”

She heard no echo.

“What are you doing here, Chroma?’

Chroma turned and saw a figure that she hadn’t seen for a while. “Aunt Scootaloo?”

The orange alicorn grinned. “The one and only. Though I do wonder how you entered my domain. Most ponies don’t enter here until their...” Scootaloo stopped her sentence and turned away.

“Until what?”

“Chroma, I know this will seem a little bit crazy,” Scootaloo stroked her own mane trying to find a way to word the next part of her sentence. “but I think you are close to death.”

“No, this can’t be happening. I can’t be dead!”

Scootaloo chuckled, but soon stopped. “Sorry its just that you sound like I did when I met Princess Luna in my dreams...ten years ago? I acted the same way.”

“How do I get out of here?”

“Well, it seems that you actually have a small connection to the world of the living because of your Light, I do know that there is a way...but it is pretty dangerous,”

“Well I guess we have to do something about Chaos, even if it is dangerous.”

“Nope. Not doing it.”

“But, you said you’d do anything...”

“Aunt, I don’t even know what that thing is, if that is a pony...that is like nothing I've ever seen.”

“I know that. But, Harmony is the only being that can enter and exit this place at will, besides yours truly of course.”

“But. do I have to? Can’t I talk to my friends about this?”

“There already with you in your heart.”

Chroma sighed. She had thought that there would have been a better way. This was a dangerous idea that might not work. Not to mention what she was going to put on the line.

Her existence.

Some Time Later

A collection of wires surrounded the bodies of Chroma and Harmony. One of the wires was connected to the yellow foal’s chest and another was connected to the horn of the Elder God. Chroma could feel a connection to Harmony that was just beyond her reach. She just needed a push of great power to wake him up.

“Ready?” Scootaloo asked with her hand on a lever that controlled the power supply to the wires.

“Ready as I’ll ever be...”

“Okay! See you on the other side.”

That was when the pain began to overtake Chroma’s senses. It felt like time had stopped and that her heart would stop and then she heard it.

“Hello Little One”

Back In the Real World

The five foals tried to wake up her friend using any method possible. But, there was no sound coming from their unconscious friend. Right when they had given up and began to mourn the loss, they heard movement.

“Why Are You Sad? Was My Wife Not Defeated Yet?”

The foals took the possession of their friend in stride and shook their heads.

“Well Then, Tally Ho!” Harmony grew wings and a horn and blasted off towards Chaos.

“Anypony want to explain what just happened?” Scale Harmony asked. Nopony tried to answer for they couldn’t come up with any reasonable answer for their friend to be possessed by a bumbling idiot, even if he was an Elder God.

“So...everypony happy with never bringing this up again?” Everypony agreed in order to keep their sanity.

“Chaos! This Was Not Part Of Our Plan!”

“Oh, hello again Harmony. How was your nap? Was it harmonious? Because i was so unhappy that I was stopped by you last time. I won’t listen to your talk of harmony anymore...let’s settle this.” She stared down Harmony and began to get ready to strike.

“Let’s Make A Bet. If I Win, Peace Will Come Back To This Land.”

“And if I win, I’ll destroy you and every race on this planet shall bow down to their master.”

The two Elder Gods charged. Chaos was at a disadvantage because of her previous battle with the magebot, and was on the defensive. It was not enough. They traded blows for a good while but slowly Chaos was pushed to her knees and was beaten.

“So Your Arrogance Provides Your Fall.” Harmony said briefly before finishing off Chaos and turned away from the body that was rapidly decomposing. Harmony grimly said one final thing before he handed control back to Chroma and disappeared for the final time.

“The Time Of Gods Has Ended. Now I Give Control Of Your Destinies. Do What You Can To Make The World A Better Place.”

And with that, the Elder Gods passed from the Age of Ponies into legends. But, all legends had a grain of truth to them...at least in Terra.

Chroma just smiled sadly. She was glad that it was over and turned towards her friends and family. “Let’s go home.”

End of Equestrian Arc

100 A.C. (After Chaos)

From “The Equestrian Magitech Revolution- 1st edition by Historical Accuracy” Epilogue.

“There were three mares that were called the Mares of Invention that spread much of their knowledge across the globe: Vinyl Scratch, Applebloom, and Twilight. Without their study of what caused the Discordant Stones to crash upon our land, they would not have laid out the framework of our new study of scientific pursuits (Physics, Biology, Aerodynamics, etc.) and create a society that Princess Celestia has called “the perfect society, a society that I have always wanted...” As such we have to thank our saviors of the world, the Element Bearers and their foals the Lights of Reason without them.”

“Now, dear reader, I get to the last known facts we truly know of the Lights of Reason and their kin. The Apple Clan rose to even greater heights with Apple Cider and Zap Apple, their diversification of the crop into different fruits and vegetables helped save their clan from bankruptcy during the Great Drought that was 20 A.C This helped spread their influence, but those two never lost sight of their moral code. Now, in our age we have the technology of Stables and they rose out of the brain trust created by those two. A few years later in 30 A.C. Bloom Industries and Sweet Apple Acres merged into Apple Corporation. They now control most of the food production of Terra.”

“Chroma became the ambassador to Zebrica because of her travels to the territory of the Zebras, She was instrumental in ending the Equestrian-Zebrican Conflict where Zebrican revolutionaries attempted an overthrow of the Lady of Zebrica. Equestrian military soon was dispatched to protect Equestrian interests in the area. If not for Chroma, the Conflict would have spread into all the surrounding colonies of other nations and would have caused a Terran War. A monument to her actions was erected in Old Canterlot.”

“Prince Eros of the Crystal Kingdom became the head of his mother’s Night Court. She rules the day while he rules the night. He rules fairly and justly and helped create a sense of connection to his subjects. He acts as go-between our Princesses and his mother. There has been rumors where he might assume the rulership of the Crystal Empire...”

“Scale Harmony and Midnight Snack were special cases of the Lights of Invention. While the others went off and did held various government positions or positions of power; those two did not. Sure, Midnight Snack ran his chain of successful bakeries and was well off, he was never rich. He became more known for his creation of the science of Partyology. Now many colts and mares spend their days learning about how to be a successful party planner. Scale Harmony, on the other hand, became headmistress of the Ponyville Music Academy, which now turns out the best and brightest music students in Equestria.”

“Woefully most of the documents pertaining to the years right after Chaos’ fall in regards to both the Lights of Reason and the Element Bearers have been lost. Therefore, most of what I, as a historian, can tell you is limited. The period from the immediate Fall of Chaos to the Creation of Apple Corporation in 20 A.C. is a blank slate, no records have survived.”

Author's Note:

It is finished

If you don't pick up the reference: Equestrian-Zebrican conflict is the thing that caused the landscape of Fallout: Equestria, still a great fanfic and the fanfic that put me on the path to begin writing my own stuff.

Thanks for the ride. Next up is Twiight Sparkle: Appleloosan Sheriff.

And I put that 20 year gap of unknown dates in the last paragraph or two if I ever feel like I have any more stories up in this universe. Don't count on it though because I feel that this is a complete work that stands on its own.

Comments

[lillytheomegawolf]

it is a complete work and stands up well. I don't expect anything to be added. And um.. you can change the incomplete lable to complete now on the main page of the story

That had a epic style taste to the end of it. Nicely done.

Anything more with Flutterdash... and Ill read it.
Thanks for giving me such a nice read from this long time running story.

Chur.

[Peridork]

4050445

Yeah that scene made me feel awful while writing it, It gets weirder,

[Peridork]

4065823

Well as I said before- this is a very early story of mine. (Sooner or later I might remake it cause it is still one of my favorites in terms of plot.) And it was an experiment in world building as well. And it was just me being silly- I like references to stuff.