A displaced tale with a twist. Going as a character already in MLP.What could go wrong? Read and find out in this displaced with a twist.
Stop me if you heard this before. Guy goes to costume convention as a fictional character. Guy or girl meets a merchant. Get a piece for there costume then goes to Equestria. Here's the thing the guy I am is already in Equestria. Its set in good read the story.
A displaced fic of different direction instead of the usual goes as something else for a change my little pony. Eric Smith went as a MLP character his favorite character. Got some hand made Elements of Disharmony and the rest his history.
Now he is Loki. Let the chaos flow!
Co-written with Thunderclap and our second story together.
"Eric you coming or what?" I heard from below. I had finally got the last piece of my costume finished. "Finally," looking at myself in the mirror I made sure everything was in place. I came walking down as my character. As my friend saw who I was going as.
"So you finished? Wait, aren't you that god from the horse show?" My friend asked. He didn't know what the show was but I told him long ago. He keep on with the whole horse stuff despite me telling him it was ponies.
"It’s Discord and yes." I said.
Might as well not push it. Later on we were at the comic-con. There was dozens of different people there was one I believe was going as Trevor Philips and whoa that guy went as Deathwing? As I wandered around I came to this booth with all this random stuff. Wait are those what think they are? They looked like the Elements of Harmony only darker. hand-made Elements of disharmony?
"I see you’ve taken a liking to the Elements of Disharmony." The shopkeeper said he had on a huge hood and was reading a book.
"How much?" I asked I mean come on what were the chances.
"Twenty." He said reading his book. I pulled it out I don't care if it’s a deal with the devil or not.
"Deal." As I took the gems. As I walked away with my new gifts. I passed by this guy dressed as Deathwing from before in a flash he was gone. Literally gone.
"What the..." A flash blinded me and I felt pain for a moment like I was being ripped into six pieces then darkness. However the darkness soon gave way to light.
(Third person POV 1,000 years later)
Celestia sighed at what was already happening. Discord had taken the elements and hid them and was now taunting them. However, she wondered if that was the only thing he took.
"Before I go Celestia I have a question when I was taking the elements I found these six fine objects." The reality wrapper appeared and a flash appeared in front of him. They looked like the elements only darker and giving off another form of power.
"Discord where did you get those?" She said with fear. She and her sister found those just after defeating him they had no idea what they were but they gave off the same magic as Discord.
"Princess what are they?" Twilight asked.
Discord looked at the gems with a smile. "Do believe that there are some familiar magic in these I wonder." With a tap on the crown the others spun around as a familiar chaos magic was felt until. A massive burst of chaos appeared in the room. Finally a voice was heard.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHhhhh." Appearing was another Discord.
The other Discord landed on his face and stayed there for a while. Everyone in the room blinked at what they were seeing. Even Discord looked confused by what he was seeing. Twilight turned to Discord with an annoyed look.
"Is this something you cooked up?" Discord pretended to be offended by that.
"Oh come now Twilight. I may enjoy the odd bit of chaos every now and then, but this is something I would never do. I enjoy being one of a kind."
The other Discord blinked at what he was hearing. 'Did I just hear them correctly?' He thought. 'Did that guy just say Twilight? Is that John De Lancie, was he even supposed to be at this convention? Wait, what did he mean by all that? And I'm still on the floor of this place, aren't I?' The other Discord then picked himself off the floor and looked up at all the ponies and his eyes literally bulged out of his face.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHhh!" He screamed before passing out.
A cloud appeared above his face and dumped water on him. He stood up and looked around him. He was in equestria. Around him was Celestia, the mane six and Discord. He saw that Twilight was a unicorn and there was the element vault. However before he could fully wrap his head around this he looked at his hands or talons and paw. With a thought a cup of chocolate milk appeared in his hands and he took a sip drinking the glass before dropping the milk it exploded in his face doing nothing. Everything then clicked. 'I have all of Discord’s powers, and judging by the seen this is return of harmony.' He then realized what this meant he knew about Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek, Sunset, the sirens and whatever the other things where.
‘In other words, I have access to all sorts of spoilers… yeah, that about sounds right for Discord. If I don't get myself turned to stone this could be a lot of fun. Hmm, what should be the first thing I do with my god-like powers after the obligatory introductions and explanation of why I'm here. I've already done the reverse glass trick. Maybe I could find the pony Flash Sentry and give him a personality. Nah, there are some things not even a god are capable of.'
"Well, now that you're awake we have a few questions for you." The real Discord said as he lounged on a cotton candy cloud.
"Of course." Eric/the other Discord said as he lounged in mid-air.
'Nice, I just think of something and I can do it. That should avoid the getting used to the powers cliche.'
"Princess what do we do?" Twilight asked.
Celestia was terrified inside. One Discord was more than enough of a scare to her to keep her up at night, but another Discord? It was taking everything she had not to pass the despair event horizon. 'We’re doomed! We are doomed and I know it! No stay calm perhaps Discord would fight him sure the planet would be torn to shreds but at least we won't have two of them.' She'll never admit it but Discord left her with mental scars for a moment she had a wide eyed smile.
"So then who are you?" Discord asked. The other one had to come up with an explanation.
"It would probably be confusing so to put it simple I am a clone of you... Call me Disorder... No let's go with Entropy no that's even stupider, Eris... no Disarray? No… I got it I am Loki!"
"A clone of Discord, that's nuts!" Rainbow Dash called out.
"Well, all things considered I'm a clone of Discord, wouldn't you expect something nuts?"
The newly dubbed Loki said with a smile. Rainbow Dash looked like she wanted to say something about that, but she had to admit it made sense.
"Why have you come here?" Celestia asked carefully.
"I don't really know," Loki admitted with a shrug. "I just sort of wound up here. Oh and don't worry about me being evil. I don't plan on trying to take over Equestria." Celestia let out a little sigh of relief at that. "Though I may do some stupid things every now and then, I mean I can make it rain candy, it'd be too tempting not to abuse these powers a little." All of a sudden, Celestia suddenly felt terrified again.
"Oh lighten up." Loki said. Celestia started glowing. "Well I didn't mean that literally hahaha... Cya." With that Loki disappeared.
Discord gave a laugh. "Oh it's the simple things that matter." He said laughing at Celestia. Loki appeared just outside Ponyville. He knew what was going to happen.
'Ok let's see I can do anything but how long was I stuck as gems?' He asked himself. He didn't need a job because well he was now a god. He probably didn't need to eat because... Well now an avatar of chaos. He looked down. "
I have all the power in the world what is there to do?" He asked himself. As he floated he paused. He remembered this place he was near the tree of harmony. With a snap an idea formed. "I can keep balance of course!"
'Hmm, a spirit/god of chaos keeping balance in the world. I do love me a healthy helping of irony. Well, keeping the balance and messing with the main six and the princesses every now and then. Heh yeah, this is going to be fun. Hmm, what should I do first? I guess preventing Chrysalis from kidnapping Cadance would be good. Though I don't know where she's supposed to be. Or if she hasn't already kidnapped her. Hmm, maybe I should goof off for a bit before I actually keep balance. Wait, I know what I should do!' Loki snapped his talons and a giant wheel with potential actions appeared floating in the air. He then spun the wheel and watched it move. Most of the options were ridiculous like: Make all of the ships canon! (Even all the Rainbow Dash ones) Though a few were responsible actions.
The wheel ended on live in Ponyville as a pony. Loki shrugged.
"Ok then let’s go with that." He waited for Discord’s defeat after a few hours he saw a burst of rainbow energy as Discord was defeated. "Really?" he asked. with a snap he took the form of an Alicorn. However he knew this was too suspicious. In a flash he went unicorn. "Here we go, much better."
He waited for a little while before walking into Ponyville. He saw a Discord statue. "Well now that Discord’s defeated we have Loki to find." Rainbow Dash said.
At that time Loki was whistling to himself as he walked down the main street of Ponyville. 'Well, it looks like I'm the only Discord in this world now. That's good, that had the potential to be confusing. Now, since I admitted to being Discord's clone I should probably be careful to not let the mane six know I'm here. First, I should come up with a pony name. Hmm, how about, Low Key... nah that's just stupid. I might as well just say, Hi, I'm Discord's doppleganger Loki. Now, what should I call myself?' Before Loki could think of anything a voice called out, "Hi, you must be new here. What's your name?"
he pink pony hopped up and down. "Ahhh.... I'm.." Loki thought for a moment. "Best Seller." He said making it up. "Well howdy Best seller." The doppelganger blinked. Did he honestly lie and get away with it? 'Wow I didn't even have to try to lie.' He thought to himself.
He looked around. "I was coming to town to maybe set up shop and I saw all this madness." Loki lied again. Having Discords ability to lie seemed to have made them believe him. He heard a voice coming from the statue nearby. 'I can't believe it too.'
‘Hey, get out of my head buddy. I don't plan on looking around yours.' Loki thought as he mentally scowled at the sealed god.
"That's because you would be brought to the brink of madness if you looked inside my mind," Discord told him with a chuckle.
"You're probably right. Now if you excuse me, I have a party pony to talk to.' Loki said. As he thought that he heard Pinkie let out a loud gasp and rush off, leaving a trail of dust in her wake.
'Oh yeah, I forgot that she did that. Welp, looks like I'm going to have to expect a party in the near future.' Loki then shrugged and continued walking down the street to hopefully run into more ponies.
He came across a unused shop. "Hey." He asked a nearby unicorn. Lyra as the fans said. "Do you know who I have to ask to set up shop?" He asked.
"The mayor." Loki nodded and made his way toward the town hall.
After the whole celebration with Discords defeat Loki had set up his magic items shop. Of course he mostly got these items by being well a reality-warper, he also enchanted some of them. As he had just finished setting his shop the doors opened up.
"Who could this be." he turned to see the CMC. "What brings you three here?" He asked.
"We heard that you had magic items, so we were wondering if you had anything that could help us get our cutie marks?" Scootaloo asked as they all tried to look cute.
'Okay, this leaves me with an interesting moral conundrum. I could give them something to get their cutie marks, but that could end up like Cutie Pox episode. Plus, that could get Twilight and the others to figure out who I am.'
"Sorry girls, but I don't have anything to help earn your cutie marks." The three fillies looked disappointed by this and it made Loki's heart explode.... literally. "Oh don't look like that, my heart can't take it. I can't give you a cutie mark, but what if I gave you three, something else?"
"Like what?" Sweetie Belle asked.
He pulled out a small magical gem. "Here a magical gem that allows you to temporarily turn a cutie mark invisible, use this on a bully." he said using telekinesis to give them. 'That will hopefully help them later.' The CMC knew who to use this on.
"Thanks," they said. Sweetie belle had a few bits with her.
"It’s a gift." Loki said with a smile.
Loki let his time be mostly spent doing business finding rare artifacts and just being lazy. However he finally decided to needed to keep balance. "Ok let’s see what to do.... The ground shook and out came Cerberus."
'Wait a minute, if Cerberus is loose then Tirek will be escaping soon. I should go stop him before he can do anything. But on the other hand, I can watch Twilight steadily go crazy first. Hmm, that is a pretty tempting idea. Maybe I should flip a coin to decide. Okay, if it lands on heads then I watch Twilight go crazy. If it's tails then I go put Tirek back into Tartarus.' Loki created a coin with his magic and flipped it with his hoof. The coin flipped in the air for a moment and landed on his hoof once more. He frowned slightly when he saw it had landed on tails. Loki looked around a little and changed the image on the coin to a head.
"Whelp looks like I get to watch Twilight have a psychotic episode.' He thought with a smile. Loki then whistled a little tune as he closed up his shop. He then slipped into a nearby alley and turned himself invisible so he wouldn’t have to miss a moment of the show he was about to witness.
He laughed at what he was witnessing. You just had to see it in real life to understand the majesty. It was everything the show had made it out to be and more, so much more. The little twitches and spasms of Twilight’s body as she went further and further into the rabbit-hole of insanity was too beautiful to put into words, they should’ve sent a poet. However as he laughed he was watching the whole thing and saw Celestia finally end it, so he decided to go find the magic eater. With his form changed he teleported onto the streets of Canterlot to find his target well wherever Tartarus was anyway. As he did he saw something a changeling in pony form.
'Oh, looks like a precursor to the changeling invasion. Should I go and try to help Chrysalis get some love to feed on so she doesn't have to kidnap Cadance and manipulate Shining Armor. And why did that sound slightly dirty? Oh well, might as well go see what that changeling is up to.’
Loki sank into the city street and snuck up on the disguised changeling. Loki then rose out of the ground right in front of the disguised drone.
"Take me to your leader." Loki said with distortion added to his voice. The changeling started to quiver as they looked up at Loki.
"Discord, what do you want from me?"
"I just told you, take me to your leader."
"But Celestia...."
Loki sighed. "You’re a changeling don't lie to me."
Inside the caves below Canterlot, Chrysalis wondered how this was going to go down. On one hand she had her race to take care off on the other hand..." A flash appeared behind her.
"Who goes...." She stopped. It was 'Discord' The changeling queen blinked.
'How is he free!?' She was afraid of Celestia but she maybe could take Discord? No, nothing short of the elements of harmony could stop him.
"Hello Chrissy." Discord said with a smile.
"How do you know my name?" Queen Chrysalis asked with a bit of fear in her voice.
"Oh, I know lots of things." Loki said with a smile before turning into a triangle and flashing various images on his surface, including one of Chrysalis' defeat. "Lots of things," he said in a distorted voice. "Also, my name isn't Discord. I'm Loki, a sort of clone of Discord."
"A clone of Discord, that doesn't explain much." Chrysalis deadpanned.
"Well, you probably wouldn't believe me if I told you the real story. Anyway, onto why I'm here, I'm sure you're curious about that." Chrysalis nodded slowly at that. "In the near future, you will try to take over Canterlot by kidnapping Princess Cadance, and manipulating the captain of the guard. This will end in failure, and with you being ironically defeated by the power of love."
Chrysalis was defensive about this. However Loki disappeared right then and there leaving Chrysalis alone with her thoughts. Loki was too tired to find Tirek. It was belittling that he couldn't find him after literally hours of searching. "Great it’s getting late."
Loki let out a long sigh as he warped back into his shop. 'Ugh, I failed twice to do anything to help keep the balance.' He thought as he returned to his pony form. 'Maybe it's impossible to change the timeline in this world. Nah, I can't think like that. I just gotta keep my eyes peeled for any other disturbances. But for now, I gotta go to bed. Also, I guess I'll have to fight Chrysalis. Which is too bad, I liked her during the show. And the fanon for her was interesting.' Loki then let out a long yawn. 'Looks like I'd better get some sleep so I can open up shop early tomorrow.'
The next day as Best Seller/Loki was getting his shop ready to open. As he was just finishing up the bell on the door rang.
"See Twilight I told you a magic shop had opened up."
Best Seller/Loki turned to see the element of magic and her dragon assistant entering his shop. Twilight looked around the shop in awe. Unknown to her Loki had stocked his shop with objects he found, enchanted or got using his powers. Twilight blinked was that a Zebra Shaman mask?
“Well hello there, what brings you to my humble little store?” Best Seller asked.
"Oh, I was just curious about your shop, that's all." Twilight replied with a small grin. Loki then put on his best shopkeeper voice and motioned to some of his more impressive items.
"Oh, curious about my curios are you?" He said with a grin. This caused Twilight to giggle a little while Spike just arched an eyebrow at the joke.
"I don't get it," The little dragon said. Twilight then started looking around the shop and regarding the more choice objects with scientific curiosity.
"This is quite the impressive collection you have here, how did you get all this?"
"I'm afraid that's a trade secret. If word got around about how I get my items, then everypony would do it."
'Well, everyone who can metaphorically bend the laws of physics over a table.'
Spike looked at the red gem in a case. "What's this?" He asked. Loki/Best Seller looked at the gem.
"If you gave that to a pony they’ll go insane with power." Loki said. Twilight turned to him.
"Why do you even have that?" Twilight couldn't believe he would have something like that.
"The blue gem in the nearby case negates its power I keep them both in hope of purifying the gem." Loki finished.
In truth he made those gems to do nothing but create flowers and make it rain soda. However he wasn't going to sell them at least until Trixie came back.
Twilight nodded in understanding. "So you're not just sell these items, you prevent them from causing harm."
"Of course, it would be irresponsible not to." Best Seller said with a smile.
'Well, most of the time anyway. Sometimes it's too much fun to mess with people using these things. Like that body switching statue. Actually, I could use that use that to help two transgendered ponies... if that's even a thing here. Note to self, find this out.'
"I've got a question," Spike called out, derailing Loki's train of thought. "How do you think these gems would taste to a dragon?" Loki chuckled at that. "Well, the blue one would probably be pretty tasty, but the corrupting magic of the red one would probably give you indigestion. Unfortunately they're not for sale."
Spike looked down at this. Loki however fished out something. "Here, have a lollipop free of charge." The dragon took the candy goodness. Loki/Best Seller turn to Twilight.
"So do you want to buy something? I believe I have some old books in the back that are on sale." He said well he kinda took them from the castle of the two sisters but nopony ever went there.
Twilight looked up at this. "Really may I see?" With the back open he brought out a few books including one written by Discord himself when he was basically ruling Equestria.
"These are incredible." Twilight enthused as she looked over the ancient tomes. "How much would all of these cost?" She asked with a hopeful expression. Loki just looked at her and thought about a good amount to charge the librarian.
"Well, these are all very rare, irreplaceable books. But, seeing as you're the student to the princess and you've saved Equestria multiple times, I suppose I can give these to you for 60 bits." Twilight's face lit up as she took the books with her magic, threw a pouch of coins on the counter, and wrapped Loki/Best Seller into a big hug. She then rushed out the door with Spike struggling to hold on. Loki then blinked a few times as he watched her leave. "And I think Twilight just made it to best pony." He said to himself.
He wondered what was going to happen next. However he might go find Tirek again. He decided to leave it to chance. He tossed the special dice he had made and it landed on, "Make a favorite OC real." Loki/Eric knew just the OC. In a flash he was gone. In the ruins of the Palace of the Two Sisters he walked around and found the remains of his target. With a flash he used Discord’s time travel astral ability and right as the blast of wave motion cannon happened he intervened. He returned with a little thing in his hands a filly. Nyx was now real.
Aww, look at her. She's even cuter in real life.' I guess this means I'm a daddy now. Wait, am I even ready to be a parent yet?' Nyx sighed in her sleep and Loki's heart nearly melted. 'Damn it, she's too cute for her own good. Okay, I'll take her in. Though I guess I should hide her wings and ethereal mane, otherwise that'll be a little too much to explain.' Loki snapped his talons and in a flash both he, and Nyx were average unicorns back in his home atop his shop. The bright lights caused Nyx to wake up and she looked around in confusion. Loki didn't know if she could talk yet so he decided to talk first. "Hey there, I'm your daddy. Are you okay?" He told the little filly slowly.
"What happened I remember a bright rainbow light." The little nightmare moon said, Loki gave a laugh at that response.
"Don't worry about it that much, it’s a little dreary."
The next day, in her shop Rarity heard the CMC coming in. However there was a fourth filly. The black unicorn filly with them had a purple vest and a long cloth wrapped around her head.
"Who is this girls?" Rarity asked.
"I'm Nyx." Nyx said.
"Her father’s that new store owner."
"You mean that Best Seller fellow?" Rarity asked. "Twilight was telling me about him, though she didn't say anything about a daughter." Nyx looked away from Rarity.
"My father just adopted me." She said.
"Oh, well then, it seems that my sister and her friends have recruited you into their little club.
"Yes, once they noticed my lack of a cutie mark they pretty much grabbed me off the street." Rarity's eyes narrowed a bit. Something seemed familiar about this new filly. But she just shrugged it off.
"Well, I hope the three of you have a fantastic sleepover."
"We will Rarity!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed. "Come on girls!" Nyx trotted along as she and the rest of the crusaders went to the guest room that Sweetie Belle stayed in.
For Loki though, he was sleepy. "Great I'm a powerful being yet I get sleepy." He sighed with a wave of his hooves the sun was lowered and the moon rose three hours ahead of when it should.
'And now I can get some much needed sleep, with the added benefit of screwing with Celestia and Luna.' Loki thought with a smirk. 'Also, I hope that Nyx is doing alright. Ehh, she'll be fine. That girl is surprisingly mature for her age. And she eats like a black hole. Good thing I can warp reality otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford raising her. And I bet that a ton of bronies would be jealous of me right now for getting to raise a pony. Oh, and because I get to have Discord's powers.' Loki then teleported up to his room and flopped down onto his bed.
Back in Canterlot the sudden night was a cause for alarm. Celestia knew no one had found Loki despite being well Discord’s clone. She wondered if he found someplace else to be like another planet or dimension but the fact the sun was lowered and the moon raised against her will meant it was his doing. At Canterlot however a pink Alicorn looked up at the change in the time of day. However she didn't see the flashes of flames. The next day Pinkie pie jumped into Rarities shop, "Rarity... “ and of course saw the CMC with there newest member."
Pinkie Pie's eyes widened as she saw the little filly and started to bounce around the startled foal. "Ooh, I was right! There is another new pony in town." Pinkie cheered. All of a sudden, Pinkie was stopped by a blue aura and placed gently onto the ground.
"Pinkie darling, please calm down. You're making the poor dear uncomfortable." Nyx composed herself and looked up at Rarity with a grateful expression.
"I-it's fine Miss Rarity. My father is very excitable as well."
"Ooh, who's your daddy?!" Pinkie Pie asked.
"The store owner, Best Seller," Rarity answered.
"I didn't know that he was a daddy." Pinkie said with a tilt of the head.
"He just adopted me. Anyway, I have to go. My father will be opening up the store fairly soon."
As the little filly walked away Pinkie blinked and shook her head. She just realized the pony was familiar.
"Something’s not right about that pony." Pinkie Pie went into stealth mode behind the pony. As she entered the shop/home her father owned and her the dark windows made it hard to see. Pinkie pie used her strange pinkie Goggle's to see inside. Best Seller’s voice was heard.
"So how was it?" He asked. Nyx tossed off the clothes revealing her wings and mane.
"It was great," Pinkie was surprise increased as the familiar form of Loki/Discord appeared.
"See I told you."
"Fine, you were right about the crusaders being fun. You don't have to rub my nose in it." Nyx huffed.
"I'm not rubbing your nose in it. I was just trying to show you that I do have your best interests in mind." Loki told her. Nyx didn't know how to react to that and just turned away from Loki.
"I think I'll just have some breakfast now."
"Ok, I'll make you some. I am your dad after all."
"Alright, but can you not use your magic this time. I'm pretty sure I found glitter in my food last time." Loki chuckled and rolled his eyes at the difficult little foal.
"Alright, I'll see what I can do."
Pinkie pulled away from the window and didn't know what to think of what she just saw. 'That was that Loki guy, so why is he acting like little Nightmare Moon's daddy?'
Pinkie Pie’s mind clicked. Best seller appeared right after Discord was defeated while Loki didn't come and set Discord freed as Twilight theorized that Loki could undo the seal from outside. The reason for all that and Nightmare Moon being a friendly filly was one thing. 'Best seller is Loki.'
The reality warping dad was having trouble trying to cook anything. Nyx laughed at her father's failed attempts.
"I can't believe this..." He said. He hit his head on the stove a few minutes later he cried out in pain. "Ahhhh!" Loki screamed as he rushed over to the sink and poured water over his face. This caused Nyx to nearly fall out of her chair from laughing.
"I can't believe that you can warp reality, but you can't make some pancakes?"
"Hey, I think part of the problem is that I can warp reality. Plus, before I came to Equestria I pretty much existed off of frozen and fast food."
"Fair enough, but can you please hurry. Apparently I have to go to school because of you."
"Hey, you missed out on a lot of history. And besides, the other crusaders will be there and you like them.
"Fine, but I still don't see why I can't use my magic on that Diamond Tiara filly."
"Because I'm not going to have you deal with a bully by becoming one." Loki told her with a stern look.
Pinkie Pie ran right into Twilight house/library. "Twilight, Twilight, Twilight!" Pinkie pie screamed. The unicorn came out seeing the jumping, panicking pony. "Pinkie what is it?" Twilight asked. The pink pony took a deep breath.
"Best seller is Loki, Nyx is Nightmare moon!" The pink pony semi-yelled. Twilight blinked there was no way Loki a reality-warper with the powers of Discord could be a unicorn shop keeper. Also who was Nyx?
"Pinkie Pie, who is Nyx? " Twilight asked as she tilted her head at the mare's antics.
"Oh, she's a filly that Best Seller just adopted." Pinkie explained slowly.
"Aww, that was nice of him. Though I wonder how he'll do as a single father," She wondered aloud.
"Twilight, weren't you paying attention? Best Seller is Loki and Nyx is actually Nightmare Moon!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, rearing up on her hind legs.
"Okay Pinkie Pie, what is your proof of all this?"
"I saw it for myself. I thought there was something suspicious about Nyx so I followed her back to her house. And they both transformed, Nyx into an alicorn and Best Seller into Loki!"
"Pinkie, have you been eating raw sugar packets again?" Pinkie had just finished off a sugar packet and scowled at Twilight.
"This has nothing to do with that. Come on, I'll show you.”
Pinkie Pie dragged Twilight with her as they got to the shop the door opened with Nyx in her outfit walking out with Best Seller. "Stop right there." Pinkie pie said. "Go ahead change back to your real form!" Pinkie Pie demanded as she got into Best Seller’s face.
"I have no idea what do you mean?" Pinkie Pie had a smile.
"Really, then what about this!" She removed Nyx’s to reveal a normal mane.
"Why would you do that!?" Nyx demanded. Twilight had to stop this before Pinkie Pie went any further.
"Pinkie stop." Using her magic she attempted to move Pinkie out of the way. "Sorry about this."
Best Seller just smiled as he turned to Twilight. "Don't worry about it. There wasn't any harm done. Oh by the way, I might be getting some more rare books in later this week. So, if you want to come by the store I'd appreciate it. I might even have something about Starswirl the Bearded if that would interest you." He finished.
"Oh, that sounds amazing. I'll be happy to look through your store in the next few days." Twilight said returning the smile.
The two then started walking off with Pinkie Pie calling out, "I know what I saw, Twilight!"
Nyx and Best Seller then started laughing as they started going back toward the schoolhouse.
"You were right, Pinkie Pie did figure out who I was. How did you know that would happen?
“Well, Pinkie might be random and slightly unstable, but she has sharp instincts. And she has certain precognitive abilities. So it’s best to be careful around her"
He then went toward the schoolhouse with Nyx in tow. Ms. Cheerilee was there.
"Hello you must be new here." She said to Nyx. "Hello I am Best Seller and this is my adopted daughter Nyx." Loki/Best Seller said as his adopted daughter was introduced. "Well I'm sure she will make great friends." With that the class began. A solid shadow illusion appeared to take over the shop while he disappeared in his true form he went to the Crystal Empire to see if Sombra had returned. He didn't however. As He simply looked over the frozen wastes
'I guess I have to wait until after Cadance's wedding before I can take care of Sombra. Oh well, I'm not too worried about him. Sombra was like the weakest villain, mostly in development. Though I guess he could've been the weakest in terms of power as well. Oh, I've got an idea! I'll make a scanner and see if I can find out who's more powerful between him and the other villains. Tirek's fully powered form is probably the strongest considering he stole Discord's power too. Okay, my next course of action should be figuring out how to get involved with Cadance's wedding. Actually, I guess I could just warp in once that giant bubble goes up, but that wouldn't be very fun. I know, I'll go as one of the mane six's plus one. And considering I've been giving Twilight books, she might be my best bet.’
With a plan in place Loki was about to teleport but stopped. "Wait what's this." He saw a piece of a magic crystal. "I'm keeping this!" He said and teleported away. He reappeared in the old sister’s library, took a few old books and used his powers to reverse time a bit on them.
'I should test my powers to see how much control I have over the flow of time.'
With that finished he returned to his shop with new books in stock. "Look ma’am your kinda old and… don't touch that!"
He heard his solid illusion scream. In the store was Granny Smith Apple and she was having a senile moment. She was about to break open a jar containing something… Loki had no idea what. When it broke apart granny realized where she was.
"Oh is this the magic store...." However the entity that escaped the jar was a windigo.
"Uh oh, this is bad." Best Seller said, luckily having turned back into a pony already and replacing his illusion. "Granny Smith, you need to get out of here. This thing is dangerous."
"What about you sonny?" Granny Smith asked.
"Don't worry about me. I can handle this thing, just go!"
Granny Smith just nodded and rushed out the door as fast as she could. The windigo moved to follow her out the door, but Best Seller caught it in a magic bubble. Best Seller then changed back into his Loki form.
"Let's see here, what should I do with you?" He said as he scratched his chin thought. Loki then looked over the windigo as it glared back at him. "Awww, you are kind of cute. Ya know for a vengeful spirit that feeds off of hatred. I think I'm gonna keep you." He concluded with a smile. "Nyx! Come down here!"
The alicorn filly came down already having finished her first day at school. She saw the windigo in a bubble.
"Why you have a spirit of hate in a bubble?" She asked. Loki pulled out a spell book. "Let’s see here how to make a familiar ok." With a burst of magic on the windigo it stopped for a moment.
"Nyx I give you, Frieza our windigo pet." He said letting the spirit of hate down. The windigo was soon held tight by Nyx.
"Yes a pet! I get a pet!" She said.
"How did you even get a windigo?" Nyx asked as the new dog licked at her face.
"Well, apparently one of the magical items that I found had an evil spirit trapped inside, and because I couldn't bear to hurt the thing I decided to get us a pet."
"Okay, and why did you name it Frieza? Why couldn't I name it?" Nyx pouted as she looked up at Loki.
"Hey, this is my pet too, and Frieza is sort of a reference. Anyway, you've got to make sure that he's taken care of."
"Okay, I will."
"I know, why don't we go take Frieza for a walk?" "Okay!" Nyx cheered with a smile as Loki snapped his talons to create a collar and leash for the windigo turned dog.
Before they could go on their walk, the shop doors burst open. With a snap Loki was in his Best Seller form and Nyx in her unicorn disguise. The doors burst open with Twilight’s magic at the ready.
"Best Seller Granny Smith told me about the..." She saw Nyx was with her new pet. "What why isn't it causing a world to freeze over?" Twilight asked. Best Seller turned to her.
"Well you see I kinda know how to deal with them there ‘sa lot of crazy stuff you go through with all this so I used a spell to make the windigo my familiar so Nyx and me can have a pet." Best seller said telling a half-truth.
Twilight just blinked at the explanation. "You mean you can just deal with a windigo spirit?" She asked. "Well, I deal in all kinds of magical artifacts Twilight, so of course I know how to defend myself." Best Seller said with a smile.
"So why didn't you just get rid of the windigo?" Twilight asked.
"Well, I figured this would be nicer, and this way Nyx can learn about responsibility." "Hey, I'm plenty responsible!" Nyx pouted.
"Look, if you don't trust that I have this situation under control, why don't you join Nyx and I as we walk our new 'dog'." Best Seller said with a smile.
"And when we're done with that I have some more rare books in stock." He said to sweeten the deal.
Twilight thought about it. "Ok then." Best seller spent his time in Ponyville looking for his targets or selling the occasional things. Nyx got in trouble because Freiza kinda bit Diamond Tiara’s tail turning her to ice for a day. While it was a good laugh Loki, he undid the event and got into life there. However as he was walking he saw Twilight and her friends walking as they were speaking about a wedding.
'So it's almost time for Chrysalis?'
'I wonder if I should ask Twilight out so I can be her plus one to the wedding? Hmm, not right now. It would be bad form to ask a girl out in front of your kid. I'll just wait until we get back to the shop and have Nyx do something.'
"Huh, a wedding, who's getting married?" Best Seller asked with a tilt of the head.
"Oh my brother, apparently he's getting married to some Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, whoever that is." Twilight grumbled.
'Oh yeah, Twilight is a bit overprotective of her brother. I'll just open that can of worms later.'
"Sounds interesting, anyway, I think it's about time to head back to the shop. Nyx needs to give Frieza a bath. And I figured I can sell you those books, Twilight." This seemed to lift Twilight's spirits a bit.
"Okay sounds good."
"Hey, why do I have to give Frieza a bath?" Nyx called out. "Consider it punishment for letting him freeze that filly."
Nyx mumbled something about the whole pet day wasn't her best day. At the shop Twilight walked in to see Nyx giving the windigo a bath in what looked like apple juice.
"Oh Twilight nice to see you’re here, let's see." He pulled out a leather book. Leather wasn't something books had on them in Equestria normally. "This is a book on Star Swirl’s early findings in the fire of Hearth’s Warming Eve and the windigo’s along with some stuff about his life." He dropped it on the table. Also, do you mind me asking you something." Nyx had finally got the windigo into the tub having to use her earth pony strength.
Twilight tilted her head, wondering what Best Seller could want from her. "What is it Best Seller?"
"Well, I was wondering if you'd be willing to go out with me some time?" Best Seller asked with a little smile. Twilight blushed a little and turned her head away from him. "Umm, I don't know what to say. I'm really flattered that you'd want to go out with me."
"Well, if it makes it easier, if you say no I'll stop selling you rare books." Best Seller said with a grin. This got Twilight's attention and she suddenly turned toward him with a panicked expression.
"What?!" She screeched. This caused Best Seller to start laughing and he wiped a tear from his eye. "I was just kidding Twilight." Twilight blushed again and giggled a little.
"Oh, I knew that."
"Sure I guess it can't hurt I guess we can go to the party." She said referring to the wedding, with a smile Best Seller aka Loki had his plan set.
During the trip to Canterlot, Best Seller came with the mane six as Twilight’s plus one. As they got off the train they walked or trotted off a bit before they ended up in Canterlot proper. Loki paused, he saw the royal guard getting ready. Most of them were changelings!
'Yeah, that seems like the season two finale. Now, I'm left with an interesting choice here. I could let things play out the way they did in the show and see Twilight go crazy again, or I could just up and expose Chrysalis right away. Ugh, this is a tough one. Maybe I could wait until Chrysalis is alone and try to talk her out of this again. Or at the very least fight her in secret so as to avoid having that huge battle. I think this is one of those moments where I have to employ chance again.'
"Best Seller, what's wrong?" Twilight asked as she came up beside him.
"Oh, nothing's wrong. I was just lost in thought, that's all."
"What were ya thinking about?" Pinkie Pie asked. Best Seller didn't bother to look at Pinkie. She was still suspicious of him. Of course, she was right to be.
“I was just hoping that the babysitter I hired can handle Nyx. I don’t know how something so small can eat so much.”
This satisfied everyone except Pinkie who just kept glaring at Best Seller as they continued their way through the city.
Later, the captain of the royal guard Shining Armor was giving orders to the guards. Twilight walked up to him a look of anger on her face. "Shining!" she yelled. Unknown to them Best Seller aka Loki had created an astral image of himself and did a dice roll.
"So I wait until after Twilight is sent underground and crash the wedding." His astral self said. "Ok then." He returned to see Cadance/Chrysalis looking at Twilight shaking her butt at her.
Best Seller smiled as he saw this. 'I pick the best moments to walk in on things. I wonder how far I could actually go with Twilight on this date? Probably not that far considering we'll be in the same castle as her brother.' "Cadance" then ignored Twilight's antics and turned to the rest of the mane six.
"So these are the ponies that are supposed to help out with the wedding?" She said with a tone that just scream, "unimpressed.
'Wow, Chrysalis seems cranky.' Best Seller thought. 'Then again, she does have to pretend to love someone that she doesn't even know that well. I guess I can give her a pass on the attitude.'
"Cadance, is something the matter? Don't you even remember me?" Twilight said looking like she was on the verge of tears.
Best seller decided to comfort her. "Don't worry Cadance is on edge she is getting married after all and it's probably stressful." The unicorn said.
"Who are you?" Shining armor asked. Loki laughed shining armor was being protective.
'Oh boy Shining Armor’s being protective... Well let's see male unicorn coming with six mares and is comforting the lead.... Yeah, I get it."
He understood the logic being a reality warper. He laughed in his head. 'Every brony’s dream... Go to Equestria, have Discords vast powers, raise a pony and maybe get 'friendly' with one of the mane six?"
Best Seller then realized that Shining Armor was still glaring at him. 'Oh yeah, I still have an angry Shining Armor to assuage.'
"Oh, hello there," Best Seller said with a large grin. "My name is Best Seller. I own a magical item shop in Ponyville. I'm also Twilight's plus one to this event. It's nice to meet you." He finished as he extended a hoof towards Shining Armor. Shining Armor hesitantly took it and shook the offered appendage.
"Likewise," Shining Armor said before turning back to Twilight. "So, how long have you two been dating?" He asked coldly. This caused Twilight to blush a bit.
"Umm, this would actually be our first real date I guess. He just asked me out a few days ago and this seemed like the best idea seeing as it was so close." Loki’s astral image hit a golf ball with his golf club.
Loki watched the ball and winced at its trajectory. 'Damn, I sliced it. Oh well, I'd better get back to working on my plan... whatever that is.' He thought. After that "Cadance" then turned and started to walk away.
"Well, it was... nice meeting all of you, but I have a wedding that I have to make sure is perfect. So, if you'll excuse me." Twilight frowned as Cadance left.
"What happened to Cadance?" She asked mostly to herself. "She's nothing like I remember." Best Seller put a hoof around her again and offered her a smile.
"Don't worry Twilight, like I said she's probably just stressed. I'm sure you'll be seeing the Cadance you remember soon enough." He said trying to stop himself from chuckling.
"Thanks Best Seller. You might be right. But, I have to admit I'm still a little suspicious.”
After a while Best Seller who was on auto pilot was going about things went as the episode went down. Until the rehearsal. where Twilight accused Cadance of being evil. After the whole event, she went to apologize only to get banished to the underground crystal cave. As the wedding was beginning Loki created a solid illusion of Best Seller in hopes to mess with Pinkie Pie. "Ok so when should I appear?" Chrysalis’ cover was blown and right As Celestia fired Chrysalis countered it. The queen couldn't believe this, she was winning. A laugh was heard in the room.
"Really Chrysalis? I warned you about your own defeat and yet you did the predicable thing and not listen." Everyone there looked around and found nothing. Loki soon appeared, dropping his invisibility illusion. "See I told you...." Pinkie Pie started before she saw "Best Seller"
Pinkie Pie did a double take as she looked between Loki and "Best Seller". "What, but I was sure that I saw..."
"You can have your little moment later Pinkie, right now I have a few things to say to Queen Chrysalis." Loki said as he turned to Chrysalis as she overpowered Celestia. Chrysalis then laughed and turned towards Loki looking smug.
"There's no way I can lose now. Thanks to Shining Armor's love no one can stop me!" She declared. Loki just rolled his eyes at that.
"Oh don't get ahead of yourself. So you defeated Celestia, big deal. I can do that too you know."
"So, do you plan on fighting me?" Chrysalis asked.
"I could, but I would prefer to try to talk you out of this."
"There's no way you can talk me out of this, I'm too close to my goal now." Chrysalis growled.
Loki just smiled at her. "Really?" With a snap of his talons everyone in the room had their astral forms sent into the future. "Welcome to the future." Cadance and Shining Armor sent a massive shock wave sending the changeling race flying. "Well this is about 10 minutes or so, so really ten minutes not a bad record. Though it’s not like you actually have hours like Discord or heaven forbid a whole day." With that they returned. "I warned you, you would so now I just made your little victory become a five minutes maybe or if I wanted to I could just end it right now with a thought." Loki said with a smile.
Chrysalis was disheartened by what she had just seen. Loki had told her that she would be bested by the power of love, but she didn't really believe it until she had seen it for herself. "Why are you helping these ponies?" Chrysalis asked as she looked up at Loki.
"Well, I'm not just doing this to help them. I'm also trying to help you as well."
"What?!" Twilight screeched.
"Why would you want to help her? She kidnapped Cadance and me, and brainwashed my brother!"
"Well Twilight, that's because I know that Chrysalis has a good reason for doing this."
"What do you mean?"
"Her people feed on love, if they don't eat it they'll starve. So, her plan was to take over Equestria to feed on all the love you ponies have."
That kinda made sense. "Wait so why go through with an invasion that makes no sense." Twilight said. Loki rolled his eyes.
"Of course, why? Perhaps it's because desperation, the fact she arrived to see Discord appearing and maybe rivals or a sibling wants her dead." Chrysalis flinched at the mention of a sibling. "I guess you have a sibling that wants you dead then?" He asked.
"Pupa... She wants me dead." Loki didn't turn back.
"Well of course power struggles exist all around us my dear." He finished. "That's why I'm here to keep the balance."
Once everyone heard that a clone of Discord wanted to keep the balance, their heads exploded.
"But why would you want to keep the balance?" Celestia asked as she picked herself up off the floor.
"Silly Celestia, I did tell you I wasn't evil, didn't I?" Loki said with a grin. Celestia just rubbed the back of her head at the mention of that. Loki did indeed tell her that. "Anywho, Chrysalis, would you be willing to give up this whole invasion thing and maybe work out a treaty with Equestria?" He asked as he returned his attention to Chrysalis.
"Wait, what about her crimes?" Twilight asked.
"I mean she did kidnap Cadance and me, and brainwashed my brother." Loki scratched his chin in thought for a moment.
"Well, what if she and her changelings did some community service? You could even have a few of her soldiers work in your royal guard. How does that sound Celestia?"
Honestly Celestia didn't know what to believe at this point. Everything started making no sense the moment Loki said he was going to keep the balance. However she was never one for war or fighting. Discords original invasion took it away from her. "I suppose it’s for the best but what about her sister?" Celestia asked. Loki waved his paw.
"Oh sure one high powered Changeling vs a kingdom with six wielders of godlike gems, three Alicorns, her equally as power sister...." Chrysalis broke in. "She’s more powerful than me."
".... almost as powerful sister, and a reality warping entity who can see though disguises? Yeah there’s a word for a plan like that, insanity." Loki finished. Amazingly that made a lot of sense to everyone there. The fact that a chaos entity made sense almost made Celestia faint.
"That made sense yet your Discord’s clone and he doesn't like making sense." Loki had a smile. "It’s a paradox I know. I wouldn't worry about the ramifications of me behaving paradoxically." He said with a wave of his paw. "It's not like me doing so could rip a hole in the very fabric of reality or anything." This caused everyone in the room to Blanche while Loki just chuckled at them. "Anyway, I don't think I have the time to help out with the treaty or anything, my planet needs me!" He called out as he had a cape appear on his back and he crashed through the ceiling and disappeared. Celestia's eye twitched as a tiny piece of rubble hit her forehead.
'This is the strangest day of my life. I think I'm going to need a lot of rest before I can really comprehend what Loki is up to... and cake, lots of cake.' While Celestia was thinking this, Loki switched places with his Best Seller construct.
Chrysalis let her magical hold on Shining Armor go. He blinked after a few moments.
"What just happened?" he asked. After everything was explained and the invasion ended before it could begin.
Later, Best Seller and Twilight walked down a hall together until Pinkie Pie jumped in at him.
"You explain now!" Pinkie Pie said with an angry yell. Best Seller blinked.
"What do you mean?" he asked. Pinkie Pie’s eye twitched at this.
"You know what I mean, how did you exist in two places at once!" She demanded.
"Pinkie stop, this is insane." Pinkie’s eyes twitched. "I'm not insane." She said as she licked liquid sugar.
"Pinkie, I wasn't in two places at once." Best Seller said calmly. "That was the first time I've ever seen that Loki guy."
"I know what I saw mister. You transformed into Loki and your daughter was Nightmare Moon." Pinkie said with a glare.
"Pinkie, can I talk to you for a second, alone." Twilight stressed as she pulled Pinkie aside into another hallway. "Pinkie, why are you doing this to Best Seller?"
"Twilight, I know what I saw. Best Seller is Loki." "Can you please stop that, I actually like Best Seller, and I-I well to be honest I've never really been on too many dates. So I'd appreciate it if you didn't drive away somepony I like." This caused Pinkie to frown a little. She didn't want to make her friend sad, but she also didn't want said friend to get hurt.
"Ok Twilight." Pinkie pie said. However, she glared at Best Seller from behind.
In the frozen north however a magical spell was soon being undone. Loki knew that soon Sombra would return. However he stopped he waited and remember there was something else he could do. 'Was it find Tirek.... no wait I got it.' He remembered a little town of Disharmony. 'I guess I'm going to omit season 5.''
The ground was being moved as Loki removed his head from the ground and had a smile. The town was right where he felt it. He returned underground and dug though the rocks. The ponies in the town suddenly recoiled from a huge explosion in front of the town as Loki came right out his form longer then before as he gave a laugh. "If it isn’t HINO." (Harmony in Name Only) He said. The mayor of the town was there. He said with a smile.
Glimmer trembled as she looked up at the Discord. This shouldn't be possible. Discord was supposed to be sealed away "What do you want from us?" She whimpered.
"Oh it's just you I want." Loki said as he leaned over the frightened mare.
"We won't let you do anything to the mayor of our town!" A dull white stallion called as he stood defiant towards Loki. He just chuckled as he glanced over towards the stallion.
"I like your chutzpah kid, but this mare isn't worth it."
"What do you mean? She helped free us from our cutie marks and gave us a new way of life through equality."
"So you're all equal huh?" Loki said as he arched his eyebrow.
"Of course," The stallion affirmed. "Well, explain this." Loki said as he snapped his talons and created a few large storm clouds over the town.
The whole town was then drenched in water as the storm clouds opened up with Starlight’s mark washing off to reveal the truth. "Oh poor naive fools what you just been living in is a lie, this is Disharmony the kind me and Discord are made of and even if she removed her mark it’s still Disharmony." Loki said. His magic then lifted to Starlight. "You listen here mortal, no one can change harmony I could remove the element barriers and the royal sisters and rule the world calling my mad world harmony but it will never be harmony, there is only one being that can decide what harmony is and that's the TREE OF HARMONY!" Loki gave a smile. "This town is the largest piece of disharmony in Equestria not counting me and Discord and I can't have another foolish mortal play god." He summoned a ball of chaos.
Loki then took the ball and placed it into Starlight. Her whole body lit up for a bit and after a few moments she was revealed, appearing completely unharmed. She looked herself over and her eyes were widened in shock.
"Wh-what did you do to me?" Starlight asked.
"Oh, I pretty much just sealed away any ability you have for you to use your magic to harm others ever again. Seeing as you liked to manipulate others, let's see how like to be manipulated. Oh, and now there's something else I have to do. Now I'm going to leave you with the ponies you've been lying to for possibly years. There's something I have to do." Loki said as he tossed Starlight into the angry crowd before teleporting into the nearby cave. He reappeared wielding a giant, wooden mallet.
‘Ya know, it’s the little things in life that make it all worth-while. Oh, and eat your heart out Gallagher.”
He smashed the vault. "You’re free! YOU’RE FREE!" he cried as all of the town regained their cutie marks. The ponies all looked at her with anger. Starlight tried some magic. Turns out Loki sealed all her magic.
"Oh sweet..." She didn't get to speak as she had a whole town get her the beating of a life time.
Loki smirked at the situation in front of him, ‘that was beautiful.’
He soon returned home to see Nyx training the wendigo. "Your home so did how it go?" She asked. Loki had a smile on his face.
"It was almost like I had a plan or something.”
Nyx just rolled her eyes at her father’s antics.
Back in the town the ponies had a beaten and bloodied Starlight was now tied up on a wooden streak. "Isn't this a bit extreme?" She asked.
The ponies had lit torches, "Burn the Witch! Burn the Witch! Burn the Witch! Burn the Witch!" The townsponies screamed. Loki was to blame for this giving them the idea.
Loki was looking for more objects for his shop. He came across however a black orb, a cell phone, An eight pointed snowflake combined with a five pointed purple/pink one and a bunch of others.
"What are these things?" He asked deciding to pick two at random he held them up using his powers to figure them out he heard things and saw images.
“To those of you to find this token, to those of you who need a friend, a Guardian or just someone to talk too. I let you know, that I am here. Either come to me or call me. I will not refuse. I am the one of legends, one long forgotten and alone. I am the ageless and the young. I am the one they call Jack Frost. Call me if you need me, for I am one to abide.”
I am Deathwing. Call on me and the very world itself is no longer safe for your enemies. Let my voice be heard on your world! Know this there are lines I will not cross! Let us hope we can be allies.
Loki blinked as he saw dozens of worlds hundreds of tokens flying by and then saw another versions of equestrian. When his vision ended he blinked. 'I'm not the only one?' He thought. He looked at them. 'Well lets see if this works.'
He4 ripped off his fang as a new one grew back. Imbuing it with a connection to him it went off.
I am Loki, Master of Chaos and Defender of the Balance. If you fight for Balance, for Freedom, and for Good, know that I will come to your aid! But know this...if you fight for imbalance or for the forces of evil....be aware that there are many fates worse then Death!
Twilight was waiting at the train station. "Hello Twilight." She turned to see Best Seller. The student of Celestia looked away from the magic salesman. Twilight would be lying if she said she hadn’t developed some feelings for the magic shop-owner. "So why are you waiting here?" He asked. Loki had an idea what was going to happen.
"Oh hello, Best Seller. I was on my way to Canterlot. Celestia says she has some important test for me."
"A test? Well, considering your track record, I'd say you have nothing to worry about." Best Seller told her with a smile." Twilight returned the smile and blushed a little as she heard the compliment.
"Thank you, Best Seller. I wish I shared some of that confidence."
"Well, if it's confidence that you need, I could always come with you." Twilight's smile grew a little wider as she heard that.
"I guess I wouldn't be opposed to a little confidence booster. I was a little nervous about Celestia suddenly summoning me like this."
"You have nothing to worry about. There isn't a test out there you can't pass. You can trust me on that." Right at that moment the train pulled up.
As they both came to the palace Celestia was with Luna and Chrysalis who decided to stay under supervision of the princesses for a while. They were looking out at the stained glass windows and discussing the matters at hoof. "I think we must get Loki." Chrysalis stated.
"Why because you like him?" Luna asked.
Chrysalis’s cheeks darkened and she turned away from the lunar princess. “Of course not, he’s just helpful. That’s all.”
"Princess Celestia." It was Twilight and Best Seller. Celestia had heard about the new store own in Ponyville. How he managed to get all his ware was anyone's guess. However he knew how to use every one of them. He even had a pet Windigo.
"Hello Twilight, I am glad to see you as well." Celestia said as she wrapped a wing around Twilight for a quick embrace.
"And Best Seller, it is nice to see you as well. Though, I didn't see much of you at my niece's wedding."
"Well, I was a little busy. Actually I think we all were considering what happened." Chrysalis turned away from Twilight and Best Seller and appeared to be a little embarrassed.
"Yes well, there is an important matter we must discuss." Celestia interrupted.
"Ooh, I know this one!" Best Seller called out. "Something from about 1000 years ago has returned and is causing trouble." Best Seller called out. Celestia, Luna and Chrysalis blinked in surprise at the accuracy of his guess.
"Yes, it is the Crystal Empire. It and its inhabitants have finally returned." Luna said.
Best Seller the answered. "I'm guessing that the empire’s despot has returned as well? King Sombra." Best Seller answered. Celestia, Luna, Chrysalis and Twilight all blinked at him. "What? I have a lot of old books and know a lot about old Equestria." He said answering there questions. Chrysalis brushed it off as did Twilight. Luna did as well but Celestia was kind of suspicious at this. However, given the threat Sombra posed she brushed it off for now.
Celestia went on about the crystal empire and Sombra which Best Seller knew about as Celestia used her magic to give Twilight the necessary spell she'd need.
"I'm going with you." Chrysalis said.
"Wait, why are you coming with us?" Twilight asked as she got in a defensive posture. Before she could do anything else Best Seller stepped in front of her.
"Twilight, we shouldn't try fighting her. I know you don't trust her right now, but we could use her help when we get to the empire. From everything I've ever read, Sombra's dark magic is very dangerous."
"Alright, you make a good point. I'll trust your judgment on this." Twilight said with a sigh.
"Thank you Best Seller. I will do my best to help. I do have a debt to repay," Chrysalis said with a dip of her head.
"Very well," Celestia said as she stared at Twilight intently. "Twilight, you must find and retrieve the Crystal Heart. That is the source of the empire's magic. And it will help defeat Sombra. Remember Twilight, if you fail this test, all of Equestria will be in danger."
"I understand, Princess." Twilight said as she started to tremble slightly. Best Seller just placed a hoof on her side and offered her a small smile.
"Hey, remember what I told you, there, isn't a test out there that you can't handle."
"Thank you, Best Seller. I needed to hear that."
As the group along with Chrysalis went out Best Seller could sense Sombra’s energies, it was dark and almost unnatural. Once they finally got to their stop they were greeted by Shining armor. On his horn was a black mass something made from Sombra’s own magic. Best Seller was on auto pilot though the whole thing until they finally got to the empire. The crystal ponies looked at the new comers. For Loki, he could sense Sombra was getting closer to the empire or what was left of him.
As they were looking around the library he got away from them and in a flash his true from appeared. However unknown to him a certain Unicorn saw it. Twilight dropped her book as it landed with a loud thud, causing Loki turned to see the element wielder of magic stare in shock.
"See I told you!" Pinkie Pie said from on top the self.
'I really should've thought that one through.' Loki thought with a grimace.
"Twilight, I can explain."
"Save it!" Twilight boomed. "I don't want to hear anything you have to say!" She continued with tears in her eyes. "Was everything we did together just some game to you?!"
"No, that wasn't... I-I never wanted to hurt you." Loki stammered. "I was going to tell you eventually, I just didn't know when would be a good time."
"Save it," Twilight said as she turned away from Loki. "I can't believe I fell for your trick. You're just as bad as the real Discord." The sound of shattering glass could be heard as Loki slumped over completely. He kicked himself for what he had done. He had played one too many games, and now he was paying the price for it.
"Here, this book should be able to help you." He said as he snapped his talons and gave a book to Twilight without looking at her. "I really am sorry, Twilight." He finished as he teleported outside the city.
As he did he saw Sombra’s huge shadow. The shadow stopped as it saw what looked like Discord. Sombra was confused at this. Discord was free? Then why hasn't the planet been turned into a mad world already. Discord sat in the snow. Of course this wasn't Discord but Loki.
'Great I managed to break Twilights heart.... I'm worse than those guys who make her evil.' He said with a tear. However His tear changed the snow below him to give way to green and flowers. Loki looked at his hands.
"No I refuse to be hated." He stood up and saw the barrier collapse. However, right as Sombra went for it Loki appeared right in front of the city and summoned a barrier.
"What's going on?" Twilight asked. A flash later in front of them all was Loki.
"Alright Sombra, you're not going to do anything to this city while I'm here!" Loki called out "standing" between Sombra and the group.
"Crystals!" Sombra hissed.
"Yeah well up yours too buddy." Loki returned. "Now get out of this city before I start to get mad. Sombra's eyes started to glow as he charged up some sort of attack. "Oh good, you wanna do this the hard way. I've got some issues that I need to work out, and your smoky face is the perfect thing to work them out on." Loki said as he cracked his talons on his paw. "Let's do this Smoky the Jackass!" He finished as he charged at Sombra.
Sombra gave a massive blast which Loki countered by firing his own blast. Sombra seemed to be losing. Of course he tapped into more dark magic and emotions. The blast exploded sending them both back Loki got up.
"Crystals!!!!!!!!!" Sombra screamed.
"You want your city back? Here take it!" With that a massive flash happened as the whole city was covered in light. When it was over Sombra looked in wide eyed as what was standing there.
"Sombra let me introduce you to." Lokis voice was heard as a giant robot made from the very empire itself was standing there. "Super Crystal Empire Mecha Force!" The giant robot struck a pose as the ground exploded around them. Another voice was heard everyone in the Crystal Empire were now in the mech.
"LOKI WHAT THE BUCK!"
Loki cringed as he heard Twilight's voice. 'There I go acting without thinking again. Well, at least this time I can do some good.'
"Look Twilight, you don't have to trust me. But, this is a good way to protect the empire and the Crystal Heart. I'll hold Sombra off while you go and find it." Loki told her over a speaker he had made.
"Fine, but you had better make sure nopony gets hurt." Twilight huffed.
"Easier said than done," Loki grumbled before turning his attention back towards Sombra. "Alright Sombra, time to show you what this thing can do, Form Crystal Sword!" Loki brought the arms of his mech together and dragged them apart to create a long, crystal, saber. He then brought the saber down in a wicked slice aimed for Sombra.
The shadowly being cursed from the attack despite not being alive the attack still hurt. "Over the top Lasers Fire!" The mech fired dozens of lasers, Sombra dodged most of them but one did hit him. He reacted by firing a blast of Shadows as dozens of them slammed into the mecha. Inside the mecha Twilight flew back as she suddenly found herself in a part of the city/mecha that wasn't there before. Cadance and Shining found themselves in the control room to see Loki with a suit on as the mecha minic his moves. "Super Crystal Punch!" He punched Sombra. "Hyper crystal kick!" He drop kicked the shadow being.
“Good, the two of you are you here. I’ll need your love energy for this thing’s final attack.”
Both Shining Armor and Cadance blinked as they saw Loki's over the top actions. "What the hay are you doing?!" Shining Armor boomed. Loki didn't even bother to look back as he continued to pantomime actions that the mech mimicked.
"I'm baking a wonderful souffle," Loki said with sarcasm.
"Okay, but why are you fighting Sombra like this?" Cadance asked gently.
"Look, I just didn't think things through. So now I'm fighting inside a giant city turned into a mech. Under normal circumstances I'd find this awesome."
"What do you mean by that?" Shining Armor asked.
"Nothing, now please be quiet so I can concentrate." As he said that Sombra wrapped himself around the mech's neck and started to squeeze. The claxon of alarms went off inside the control room as Loki struggled to remove the shadow.
"Shit, Twilight had better find the Crystal Heart soon."
Twilight was in the room where the heart was kept. "I finally got the Crystal Heart." The alarm went off.
"Twilight hurry get the heart to the power core!" Loki’s voice screamed. He managed to toss Sombra off him but the shadowy being formed into his own mech made out of dark crystals. "Oh shit." Two massive arms came crushing down against Loki’s arm raised like you would a shield. "Shining Nova shield go!" A massive barrier formed as the arms kept smashing against the barrier. Twilight raced with the heart. "Where is the power core? What even is a power core? Why is there even a POWER CORE!?" Twilight screamed/asked.
A map soon appeared showing her where to go. Outside two massive dark crystal swords formed as Sombra ripped them out and slammed against the shield.
On screen. "Shield strengh at 75%" Slam. "63%." Slam. 45% Slam 23% Slam. 1%With another slam They were sent back. 0%
Twilight watched as she was almost there to the core. The mech took off as Spike went flying along with the heart. Sombra readied a final strike.
"CRYSTALS!" However Spike kicked the heart into the power a massive burst of Energy came from the mecha sending Sombra back. "
Time to end this!" The mech floated up. "Super Omnidirectional Final Love Blast!"
The mecha brought took its arms and placed them on its chest. It then pulled open its chest to reveal the power core with the Crystal Heart. The heart started to spin around at blinding speeds and fired a massive beam right into Sombra.
The blast gave way to reveal that Sombra and his mech were no more. Loki let out a sigh of relief as he used the Crystal Mech's periscope to spot the dark crystal horn that was all that remained of Sombra. Loki then used the mech to pick it up.
"There you are you little bastard. Now let's make sure that you never come back again." Loki then teleported out of the mech and grabbed the crystal. "I'll find a way to deal with you later." He continued as he stuffed the crystal into his pocket. Loki then turned back to the Crystal Mech and snapped his talons to turn it back into a city.
'I'd better just leave now. I don't think Twilight will want to see me again, not after lying to her like I did. Maybe I should move out of Ponyville too? No, that would disappoint Nyx too much. I'll just stay out of Twilight's way until she'll accept my apology.'
Loki returned to his magic shop and took back on Best Sellers from. He placed Sombra’s horn in an anti-magic glass and in a safe just in case.
Hours later, Twilight and her friends returned to Ponyville. The CMC and Nyx the newest member where seen trying to do skydiving. "Skydiving cutie marks yeah!" As they each attempted to remove their parachutes while Nyx’s failed. "Oh no...." She tapped into her magic to drop her disgust.
Nyx, now shown to be Nightmare Moon flared her wings out to gently bring herself to the ground. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were wide eyed at the fact that their friend was in fact Nightmare Moon.
"Nyx, is that really you?" Apple Bloom asked hesitantly.
Nyx looked away from the other fillies. "Y-yes, it really is me."
"See, I told you that Nyx was really Nightmare Moon."
"We get it Pinkie, you were right." Twilight snapped "Can we just move on please?" Twilight's friends were taken aback by Twilight's attitude. They hadn't seen her this cranky since she had first moved to Ponyville.
"Why didn't you tell us about this?" Sweetie Belle asked. "My father and I thought it would be best if I remained in a disguise considering who I used to be." "Well, I just have to ask," Scootaloo started, "Are you really our friend?" Nyx and Twilight were both surprised by that question.
Nyx blinded at this. "Yes, why would you ask something like that?" Nyx asked. The three fillies looked at each other for a moment.
"Well we kinda thought you know." Scootaloo said. Nyx shock her head. "My dad had no hand in this he only told me that I may like you, our friendship is real we did not manipulate you." Nyx said.
Twilight saw Best Seller’s shop was still opened with Best Seller or Loki moving around his wares. Of course now Twilight knew how he could have gotten the rare objects having reality warping powers would really help them.
The door opened up as Best Seller took a deep breath. "Welcome sorry the shop’s been closed so long, I was out and..." He turned to see it was Twilight. "Oh." He said when he realized who it was.
"Hi, Twilight, what brings you here?" Best Seller asked quietly.
'Maybe she's here to yell at me some more. Yeah, I deserve it.'
"I'm not here to yell at you, if that's what you're wondering." Best Seller almost chuckled at that.
'I'm starting to wonder if she can read minds. Wait she's a woman... mare, eh, same thing really so yeah she can read minds at least a little.'
"I just wanted to ask you something very important." Twilight said evenly.
"Go ahead,"
"Do you actually like me?" She asked. Best Seller blushed darkly as he was taken aback by the question.
"Y-yeah, I do like you."
"Now this one is even more important, is what I feel for you even real?" Best Seller didn't know how to answer that.
"I never did anything to manipulate your emotions. Whatever you felt for me, or feel for me right now, it's completely your choice." Best Seller answered carefully. "Look, I'm sorry that I lied to you. I really was planning on telling you the truth. I just didn't know when to tell you." Twilight took a deep breath to collect her thoughts.
"You didn't manipulate me at all?" She asked. Best Seller nodded.
"Never," He said.
"Well you did kinda save Equestria twice. So I guess I can’t stay too mad at you." Twilight finished. "I have to ask, how did you get Nyx?" Twilight asked.
Loki gave a laugh. "I went to the place where you defeated Nightmare Moon and went back in time to the event I managed to take Nightmare Moon from Luna and kinda had to get something to stabilize her form. So, I took some hair." She looked away. "Your fur sorry," he said. "If I had used mine well Nyx would have been a Eldritch Abomination."
Twilight let out a sigh at that. "A part of me is intrigued by this, but another part of me wishes you hadn't told me that." Loki let out another soft chuckle at her response.
"Yeah, I just kinda kept going. Thinking things through isn't really my strong suit. I've actually used chance to make some of my decisions for me." Twilight actually giggled a little at that.
"Please tell me you're joking."
"Not even a little. I've use a spinner, a coin toss, even dice."
"Oh dear sweet Celestia, you have Discord's power, and yet you're indecisive. That sounds like a bad combination."
"You forgot impulsive. Don't forget, I fought Sombra with a city turned mech when I could probably just've ripped him apart molecule by molecule." The two shared a fairly wrong laugh for a while.
"So you’re actually going to say here?" Twilight asked with Best Sellers cover blown by Twilight and Pinkie Pie it only seemed logical.
"Well no Nyx has friends and honestly I prefer it here." Best Seller said. Twilight felt happy at this.
'Wait am I actually?' The door opened up with Pinkie Pie.
"So what are you going to do?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Well, I’m going to stay like I just told Twilight because I like it here, that and I can't force Nyx to move away from her friends just because of my problems. That would be an awful thing to do as a parent." Loki said with a grin. Pinkie's mind came to a screeching halt at this piece of news.
"But, everypony in Ponyville will find out who you really are. Doesn't that worry you?" "Okay, what would the town even do to me? I'm pretty resistant. Unless you have plans to try to use the Elements of Harmony on me, I'm not going anywhere." Pinkie tried to sputter something out but Twilight and Loki ignored her. "Anyway, I really am sorry Twilight. And I can still sell you rare books if that would interest you?"
"I don't see why not. Oh, do you think you could get me some extra copies of some of the books you've already sold me? I'd like to put them up in the library." Twilight enthused.
"Well, considering my abilities, I think I can arrange that." He returned.
A week had passed with Best Seller or Loki as a few knew continuing his life in Ponyville. However he knew something was going to happen soon. The six were out waiting for something. He looked as Celestia came with Discord’s statue.
'Oh boy it’s time for, Keep Calm and Flutter On...' Best Seller knew Discord kinda wasn't reformed during this.
"What should I do?" A flash came causing dice to appear which he tossed and they landed on, "Challenge Discord to a fight." 'Twilight’s right, leaving it to chance is a bad idea.' As the chaos entity was freed he used his powers for a bit. However while the strange things appeared in a flash they returned to normal.
"May I butt in?" Best Seller said walking up. Celestia was confused until in a flash Best Seller was Loki. "Discord how about this you vs. me I win you agree to help me with keeping balance and if you win your free to go." Loki said.
"Oh, and who do you think you are to challenge me?"
"I think I'm Loki, don't you remember when we were introduced." Loki said feigning confusion. Discord grinded his teeth a bit in frustration, but decided to ignore it.
"Are you really sure you want to go toe to hoof with me? I have thousands of years of experience under my belt." Loki's smile grew wider as he heard that.
"Oh yes and look where your years of experience landed you, turned to stone twice." Celestia tried and failed to hold back her laughter at that comment.
'Maybe I misjudged Loki.' She thought. 'If he can keep getting reactions like this from Discord then I'd say letting them both run free will be worth it.'
"I may have been imprisoned, but I am still the master of chaos." Discord growled as he got in Loki's face.
Loki just rolled his eyes at Discord. “Oh please, you might be chaotic, but you're about as creative as a wet dishcloth. I mean: chocolate rain, cotton candy clouds, and inverting the personalities of Twilight and her friends. How long did it take for you to think that up? Wanna know the difference between you and me Discord? You see a city and you decide to turn it upside down. I see a city and turn it into a giant mech. Face it Discord, after years of ingesting Japanese media, you're no match for me."
"Oh, we'll see about that."
"Loki, what the buck are you doing?" Twilight called out. Loki turned to Twilight with a weak grin. "Well let's just say you were right about leaving my choices up to chance."
Twilight facehooved at that. "Oh Loki, you are so hopeless sometimes." She sighed.
Both Loki and Discord floated up into the air. "So Loki’s going to fight Discord....." Rainbow Dsah said. They turned to Celestia. "Have you ever seen Discord fight?" She asked. Celestia honestly had never seen him do so. In a flash Loki appeared behind Discord and Judo flipped him Discord landed on a mountain and an explosion was seen. Then another explosion erupted. Loki was then felt his tail be grabbed as Discord tossed him while flying up into another mountain then fired a Blast causing the mountain to explode. Loki got out of the rubble and rushed at Discord. With a burst they both delivered a punch at mach-10. The shock wave was felt all through Ponyville and they were both sent back. Loki then raised his hands causing rocks from the earth flew up to Loki in a flash he was covered in armor of stone.
Loki smirked as he looked Discord in the eyes. "Is this all you got Discord? Because if it is you might as well just help me keep the balance in this world right now."
"Oh please, I'm not finished yet. And besides, I still have a few plans that I need to see through."
"Oh yeah, those plunder seeds!" Loki said with a snap of his talons. "I can't believe that I almost forgot about that."
"How did you know about that?" Discord boomed.
"That's not important right now considering you're late for your flight." Loki said with a grin.
"What in the world are you..." Discord didn't have a chance to finish that sentence because a clone of Loki suddenly revealed itself and glued a rocket to Discord's back. Discord then shot out of sight and possibly into space.
The stone copy became dust and blew away on the breeze as if it wasn't there. With a snap of his talons a screen showed Discord landing on the moon. In a flash Loki appeared. Discord’s tail however shot out his feathers as a hand. He slammed Loki on the moon before flashing and punching him then slamming him through the moon itself!
Luna let out a scream at this far away.
Discord appeared and slammed into Loki sending them beyond the system’s inner to outer-regions and slammed him into another moon on another dead world. Discord floated back.
"What, that’s all you got?" Discord asked the asteroid then shifted and Discord was looking at a mech with a huge laser flashing at him. "Crap." The laser smashed into him and to another world. As Discord got up he received a dropkick from the mech.
However, the mech’s leg was then picked up and slammed by Discord who ripped it off changed its density before smashing it into the mech destroying it.
"I will not be taken lightly!" Discord called out, making the rules of a vacuum feel small and inadequate. Loki popped his head out of the planetary mech's wreckage with a eureka face.
"Ooh taking you lightly, that's a great idea!" He returned, at this point the laws of a vacuum were crying in a corner about how they'd never be pretty. In a flash Loki had turned Discord into a balloon version of himself and took out a safety pin to pop him. Loki watched as Discord zipped around as the air escaped his balloon body. Once Discord was done flying around he returned to normal and scanned around looking for Loki with daggers in his eyes, literally. "Service!" A voice from behind Discord called out and showed Loki in a tennis outfit, complete with headband.
Loki snapped his talons and Discord turned into a tennis ball, though it kept his beard. Loki then smashed the Discord tennis ball as hard as he could with his tennis racket and slammed him into the nearest gas giant. Loki then frowned as he watched Discord fly. "Damn, I sliced it. I knew I should've worked on my backhand."
However before Loki knew it two asteroids slammed into him and covered him as Discord appeared. With a snap of his talons the asteroids broke as Loki was set free. On Equestria Celestia groaned in pain. "Surf’s up." Discord said. Loki turned to get a coronal mass injection to the face as Discord surfed the super solar flare. Discord smiled and went ahead and moved a comet which he set on fire and sent it into Loki. When it was done Loki moved back as he found himself soon slammed by Discord and a comet right into a planet. As he lied down Discord held his hands up. A ball of magic formed. "Good bye!" Discord let it go as the planet glowed as a massive crater formed. Loki was kneeling in it. However with a wave a myriad of arrows appeared around Discord. "Chaos arrow!" He screamed as thousands of arrows attacked Loki.
Loki was on the ground of the planet. Discord floated down and held Loki up by his neck. "Looks like I win." Discord was shocked as Loki eyes opened. They were glowing. Cue a massive eye blast slamming Discord into the planet as Loki unleashed a punch right into his face, time suddenly stopped for a moment as three chaos energy balls formed behind Discord with a massive uppercut time moved forward. Discord was sent flying. He stopped for a moment.
'It can't be is he.... stronger than me?' Discord thought. However, before he could go any farther Loki slammed his feet on Discords chest and smashed him right though asteroid comet and finally going through the planet’s atmosphere just outside Ponyville everypony saw the fire ball as Loki slowed time down and formed a ball of chaos right as Discord landed. When the impact/Explosion was over, Discord was in a crater With Loki standing on his neck.
"Yield," Loki said with magic at the ready.
I.... yield," Discord said weakly.
"Woohoo! I did it!" Loki called out. Celestia, Nyx, Twilight and the others rushed over to crowd around Loki.
"Daddy, you're okay!" Nyx called out as she tackled Loki, causing him to fall over. Loki winced and smiled as he started to gently stroke her mane.
"Hey Nyx, I'm glad to see you too, but I'm still a little sore from that fight. Oww," Twilight came up to him too and glared at him while still looking slightly concerned.
"Loki, what in the world were you thinking when you decided to fight Discord like that?!" She boomed.
"Uhhh," he replied as a thought bubble appeared over his head containing a cymbal banging monkey. A few seconds later the monkey slammed the cymbals down and pointed at Twilight while glaring at Loki. "I wasn't really thinking." He finally answered.
"Can you please be more careful. I was worried about you." Loki blinked in surprise at that.
"You were?" He asked.
Twilight blinked for a moment and said, “Yeah, I was.”
Celestia walked over. She had never seen Discord ever yield or admit defeat. Discord himself got up. "I can't believe I was defeated." Discord gave a sigh. "Well on the bright side it beats being imprisoned in stone." Discord said. Celestia herself walked up to Loki.
"I must say I couldn't believe it myself you managed to defeat Discord." However she saw Nyx and finally realized something. The filly was an alicorn. "I hate to ask." Loki revealed that his little filly was Nightmare moon. Celestia blinked. Somehow Loki managed to give Nightmare moon a chance for redemption and an actual life despite once being a dark part of her sister. An hour later Discord was brought into Loki's shop.
"So then there’s a basement you can have I never used it." Discord looked around there was nothing there.
"Do what you want." Loki said.
"Oh, I will." Discord said with a chuckle as he considered what to do with the living space. Loki just shook his head and left Discord alone. Though he did cast a monitoring spell on the room to keep track of Discord and to make sure he didn't go anywhere.
Loki then returned to his Best Seller form to avoid any confusion considering the two looked exactly the same. 'I really need to do something about that.' Loki thought considering his options. 'I could shave the beard off, but that might not be enough. I'm sure I can think of something later, for now I'll just keep looking like a pony. It's not like my powers are some big secret anymore.' Just as he was about to clean the shop, Twilight walked in. She stopped and appeared to be uncomfortable, unsure of what to say.
"Oh hey Twilight."
"Hello, I know things have been a little awkward between us ever since what happened in the Crystal Empire, but we're still friends right?"
"Of course," Loki answered.
"Good," Twilight said as she appeared to relax a little. "Look, I was worried about you during your fight. And since you did it because you didn't think things through, I was thinking that you should talk to somepony before you rush off to do something." Loki smiled a little and nodded.
"Okay Twilight, I'll be sure to consult you before I do something dangerous, stupid, or both." He stated with a chuckle.
"Well thanks, so where is Discord?" Twilight asked. Loki pointed down.
"In the basement," Discord looked around his room. Gravity was gone and the room spun around. He was in an easy chair while a window showed him space. Twilight blinked at this.
"It’s good to know that Celestia left the elements with us in case Discord gets away from your watch." Twilight answered. Loki gave a laugh.
"Well at least she trusts me enough to keep watch over Discord."
Twilight laughed nervously. 'Should I tell him Celestia doesn't trust Discord to honor this? Yeah no.'
"Oh I'm pretty sure Discord won't really honor this. That's why I placed a spell on his room that will give him a small electric shock if he tries to leave without my permission."
"Do you really think that will stop him?" Twilight asked.
"Well when I say a small electric shock I'm talking comparatively. Really the shock would be enough to kill a number of elephants."
"Well, I guess that's one way to keep Discord in check." Twilight stated, not sure what to think about that.
"Well I have another method I want to employ. Do you think Fluttershy would you be willing to spend time with Discord?"
“Why would you want to know that?”
"Easy my plan is to kill him with kindness. Metaphorically of course...Or literally if he gets too difficult." Twilight frowned at that.
"Loki, you're not going to kill anypony, even Discord."
"Don't worry I won't.... I think..... I mean death would be order and chaos won't I'll shut up now." Loki said with a nervous laugh. Nyx came walking in with the pet windigo.
"I'm back." She said.
"Oh look Nyx is here nice talking I got to go do something bye."
In another part of Equestria another pony was in a magic shop wanting a certain object. With the Alicorn Amulet in hoof she walked out of the shop. "Trixie’s going to show Twilight she is the best!"
'Yes! Twilight is talking to me again!' Loki cheered inside his head. 'Now there's nothing that could possibly go wrong!' He continued as he watched Twilight walk out of the store. A week had past and everything seemed to be looking great for him. His shop doors open up as Nyx came walking out with the family pet.
He then turned to Nyx with a smile. "Hey Nyx, it looks like you've got Frieza pretty well trained there."
"Yup, though he did cause a flowerbed to freeze over when he took care of his business." Nyx admitted with a chuckle.
"Eh, babysteps. Still, things are looking up for us Nyx. I'm friends with Twilight again, you don't have to wear a disguise anymore, and I've actually helped out with some major problems. I think things will actually be calm around here for a while."
"Doesn't that seem like tempting fate?" Nyx asked with a tilt of the head.
"Eh, I don't believe in fate." Loki admitted.
"Uhhh," Nyx started.
However a voice rang out. "Twilight Sparkle!" The unicorn mare turned to see Trixie however there was something with her, the Alicorn Amulet. Loki blinked at this for a few moments.
'I hate you fate I hate you.' Loki thought.
"I knew I forgot to get a magical object out of some ponies hands." Loki said. Trixie walked up to Twilight.
"Twilight sparkle you humiliated Trixie."
Inside his room Discords eye ball flashed an image of what was going on outside. The blue unicorn was going to challenge Twilight to a magical duel. Discord had popcorn at the ready.
Loki walked out of his shop to see Trixie attempt to take over the town. 'Well this shouldn't be too hard to deal with. Just as long as nothing unfortunate should happen. I just tempted fate again, didn't I? Whelp, I'd better just try and deal with this now.'
Loki walked over and stood next to Twilight. "Well, what's going on here?" He asked.
"Loki, do you care to tell me how Trixie got her hooves on a dangerous magical artifact?" Twilight asked as she turned to him with an aggravated look.
"Uh, well I may have missed a few of them... I get distracted very easily." Loki explained with a weak grin. Twilight facehooved.
"Oh Loki, you are hopeless sometimes."
"Who is this Twilight Sparkle, your coltfriend?" Trixie asked. Both Twilight and Loki blushed at that question.
Loki decided to introduce himself. "Hello I'm best Seller but everypony calls me Loki I'm owner of the local magic shop." Loki said. "Now then miss I know this may sound strange but that’s the Alicorn Amulet and you need to take it off before it causes you to go mad with.... you’ve already gone mad with power haven't you." Loki facehooved.
Trixie answered with a magic burst. Loki used his powers to form a shield around him and Twilight. "Yeah she’s been driven mad by the amulet."
"I kind of picked up on that." Twilight snarked with a quick glance.
"Okay, there's no need to worry about this. Do you remember those gems I showed you?" Loki asked.
"Of course, that blue gem you showed me might be able to counteract the corrupting effects of the amulet long enough for us to get it off of her." Twilight enthused.
"Do you think you could distract her while I go get the gem?"
Twilight nodded and replied, "I'll see what I can do."
Loki ripped into his shop then remembered. 'Wait the gem has no anti corrupting effects.' he thought it over for a moment.
"What should I do?" He decided not to leave it up to chance. He opened the safe and removed Sombra’s horn. "I'll just coat her horn in crystal." Loki said he ran out right as Trixie let a spell go into the horn. Loki then ate it. "Well that can't be.... ahhhhhhhhhh!" He collapsed as his form returned Trixie was about to unleash a spell only for her horn to be removed.
"Mortal you do not deserve your little magic!" It was Loki but his head was more dragon-like and his body was now 12 feet long. With magic in his hands he gave a smile. "Turn to stone." Trixie was tapped on the head and the mare screamed as she was turned to stone.
"Loki!" Twilight screamed, terrified of what was happening to her friend. Loki turned toward her and smiled. Except, this wasn't the warm, carefree smile she had come to know from Loki. This was a cold, dark smile, the kind of smile that reveled in the suffering of others.
"Well hello Twilight. Do you wish to join this mare and become a lawn ornament?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Simple, because I can. Now if you excuse me, I think I'm going to go give Princess Celestia a visit. I think she would make a spectacular star, don't you?" Loki asked as he sank into the shadows.
"Loki wait!" Twilight called out, but it was too late he was gone.
'This is awful, what should I do?' She thought. 'I guess I have to go get the elements and the girls, even though I don't want to use them on him.' A tear suddenly came to Twilight's eye as she pictured Loki trapped as a statue.
Appearing in a flash was Discord. "Well I can't believe this." Discord said looking over the stone statue. "No chaos entity would ever do this." Discord said. He saw Twilight crying. "Oh you think he did this consciously?" He asked the unicorn. Twilight blinked. Nyx came running out.
"The safe with Sombra’s horn is open." She screamed running to Twilight
"See Loki isn't in his right mind." Discord said. He decided to show her a little recording showing Loki eating Sombra horn by accident. "What a strange thing Sombra’s dead yet his horn still holds corruptive powers it seems to have made him into wo he wasn't as.... it corrupted glorious chaos!" Discord said. Twilight blinked.
"How can I free him?" She begged.
Nyx jumped in. "True love’s kiss." She said. Twilight blinked.
"She may have a point," Discord said.
"What are you talking about," Twilight started. "That sort of thing only works in fairy tales." Discord just smiled at that.
"Silly little pony, there's still so much you have to learn about magic. Sombra's horn is a corrupting influence. So we need something pure to counteract it. And nothing is more pure than true love."
"Okay, but who's going to kiss Loki?" Twilight asked dumbly. Nyx and Discord shared a look for a moment before turning toward her. Twilight blushed hotly as she understood what they meant.
"I-I can't kiss him. I mean, we're just friends."
"Well somepony has to kiss him or else he'll spend the rest of his days as a pigeon toilet." Discord explained, laying it out for Twilight.
"We better get there fast, he’s heading for Canterlot and he’s taking his sweet time too." With a snap they disappeared only to reappear in the throne room. "We got here first." Discord said.
"Only because I didn't decide to just go light speed." Loki said phasing though the wall as its structure got messed up. "So who here wants be to imprison them in stone?" He asked.
Discord could feel a power rising in him. It was like the opposite of the elements of harmony like he was only this time it was there equal.
"Well that rules out imprisoning him in stone he just as powerful as the elements my dear so if this doesn't work well we’re dead."
"Loki, please just stop this," Twilight pleaded. "I don't want to see you do anything you'd regret." Nyx jumped in as well.
"Yeah, please stop! I want my silly daddy back!" Loki frowned at the filly in front of him.
"Quiet you, I made you and I can just as easily unmake you." He growled. Nyx started to sob. Even though she knew her father wasn't in his right mind, it still hurt to hear.
"Loki!" Twilight screeched. "Do you even hear yourself right now? The person I've come to know would never say something so horrible."
"Oh, my hearing is just fine. I just don't care. All I really care about is amusing myself, and tormenting the mortals of this world sounds like the best way to do just that."
"You really have been corrupted," Twilight stated as a tear fell from her eye. "But I know how I can bring you back!" "Oh, and how do you plan on doing that? You didn't bring any of the elements with you." Loki asked with an arched eyebrow and an amused smirk.
Twilight sighed as Loki was in her face. "With this." With a kiss a strange energy flowed through him. The effect caused a bright flash as Loki was back in his Best Seller form. The corruption of Sombra was neutralized. Discord wiped a tear from his eye. "
Well Twilight looks like you found your true love.... Oh my." He said. Discord’s greatest secret was he was a hopeless romantic. Best Seller of Loki blinked.
"What just happened?" He asked.
Twilight blushed as she tried to find a delicate way to explain it. Luckily, or unluckily for her, Nyx decided to do it for her.
"Miss Twilight gave you true love's kiss to save you from the evil spell you were under so now you're back to normal daddy!" She cheered as she rushed over to Loki to give him a hug. "Does this mean Miss Twilight is going to.be my mommy now?" Both Loki and Twilight blushed while Discord just laughed uproariously.
"Umm, I think we'll have to talk about that later, much, much later. Okay Nyx?" Nyx nodded and continued to hug her father. Loki then turned to Twilight with a blush on his cheeks. "Thanks for saving me by the way. So, where do we go from here?"
Twilight blushed as well and turned her head away from Loki slightly. "I guess we could go on a date and see from there."
"Sounds good, but this time, let's avoid places that are being invaded by changelings." Loki said with a weak grin.
When they got back they found Trixie still in stone. Loki took the Alicorn amulet off the statue before setting her free. Trixie blinked her horn was on her head and yet she didn't have the amulet and she was staring into the faces of two Discords.... "Trixie suddenly feels small." Trixie said. Loki walked up to her.
"Yes you are and you almost became a tyrant by the way." Loki answered. He looked at her and held the amulet with his magic. "You realize that this amulet is evil right? It’s dark magic." He then gave her a glare. "You should be exiled for even using this but I have a better idea." with a snap of his talons Trixie looked as she was in Loki magic shop. "You’re going to be my apprentice as a magic seller."
"What, why in the world would the Great and Powerful Trixie work in a shop with the likes of you?" Trixie asked looking up at Loki in disgust.
"Well it's either this, or I'm going to turn you back into a statue." Loki said flatly.
"Please don't." Trixie whimpered. Loki then went up to Trixie's ear and whispered to her. "Look on the bright side. There might be a book here that can help you become stronger than Twilight." Trixie perked up at that and gave Loki a smile.
"Trixie supposes that she could make do with working here. It is better than that rock farm." Twilight frowned as she turned to Loki.
"Do you really think this is a good idea? There are some dangerous items here."
"Don't worry I'll keep an eye on her." He reassured her.
Trixie had finished her work for the day as she read one of the old books Loki had. Discord was in the shop as well doing tricks as Nyx ate a cotton candy cloud. The wendigo Frieza flew around with a ball. The shop’s owner Loki had finished another date with Twilight.
"Well then my lady I bid you goodnight I hope you can find the spell Celestia gave you." Twilight had a smile.
"I hope so too." Loki went back inside to see Trixie open a book that suddenly had dark laughter. With his powers he closed it.
"I told you some of these things are evil." He said. He felt the magic of the spell being used. "Oh great." He said.
The next day he saw Nyx kicking a cloud out of the way of the shop. "Nyx what’s going on?" The Alicorn filly flew down.
"Rarity’s trying to control the weather."
"Uh oh, are you absolutely sure about that?" Loki asked worriedly. Nyx nodded.
"Yeah, though she's just trying to arrange the clouds into a pattern, it's really weird."
"Well considering it's Rarity her doing that is par for the course for her. Remember the sleepover where she tried to style your ethereal mane." Nyx giggled a little as she remembered that.
"Yeah most of that stuff tickled. Though, I'm pretty sure she tried to use cement at one point. Daddy, is this because of that book Trixie looked into?"
"No, this is something different. I think we need to go see Twilight. She needs to know about this if she doesn't know about it already."
"Okay, but why don't you just help Miss Rarity right now?" Nyx asked with a tilt of the head. Loki chuckled a little at that.
"Well, while I might be pretty silly, there are times that I do, or in this case don't do things for a reason. Now, let's go see Twilight. I bet she'd let you and Spike roast marshmallows with his fire again."
"Okay!" Nyx cheered as she fluttered along at her adopted father's side.
When they got there they saw Twilight singing as she did they followed her. Nyx was going to call out but Loki kept her from doing anything like that for a moment. Finally Twilight saw Rarity with her cutie mark it was not her own.
"What the?” Loki appeared with Nyx. "Twilight I'm guessing the spell may have caused this." Rarity lost a cloud right as it started shooting off lightning.
Nyx jumped upon the cloud and started fighting it. "Frieza, boy come." The little windigo came to help his 'friend' fight the evil cloud.
"Should we be concerned with that?" Twilight asked.
"CMC come help me the cloud is evil!" Nyx screamed.
Loki just rolled his eyes as he lit up his horn and fired a beam into the cloud causing it to dissipate into water vapor. Nyx landed on her rump and bounced slightly as she looked around and noticed the lack of an evil cloud. She then looked up at Loki with a bit of confusion.
"How'd you do that?" Loki chuckled a little at her question.
"Well, I used a flash heating spell to instantly cause the cloud to evaporate."
"That was quick thinking on your part." Twilight said with a warm smile.
"Thanks, I couldn't just let my little girl possibly get hurt."
"Can you teach me that spell, daddy?"
"Later Nyx, right now there are other things to worry about."
"Yes, like why Rarity has Rainbow Dash's cutie mark." Twilight pointed out.
"It's a little more complicated than that Twilight," Loki started.
They walked into a animal settler Fluttershy had. What they saw was rainbow dash trying and failing at what she was doing. Next they came across Fluttershy trying to make comedy. Then they found Applejack in rarities shop. Finally pinkie pie was taking on applejacks job. When it was over Loki had to look at the spell. "Of course Star Swirl never had friends so this spell must have switched their marks.
"Are you saying that I accidentally ruined the lives of my best friends?" Twilight asked as she looked down.
"Don't think about that right now. Right now, we have to figure out how to get them back to normal and finish that spell." Loki told her as he placed a hoof on her side.
"Is there anything you and Discord could do?" She asked. "The two of you can warp reality, isn't there anything you can do?" Loki started to bite on his lower lip. There was something he could do, but he didn't want to interfere with what was going to happen. Loki hated having to lie to Twilight, but he didn't have a choice.
"Under normal circumstances I'd say yes, but these are anything but. You and your friends are tied to the Elements of Harmony. That amount of Harmony magic could interfere with anything we do."
Twilight sighed she couldn't get Discord or Loki to undo this spell. However an idea shot though her. "Harmony? That’s it Loki you’re a genius." She brought the elements out.
"We are tied to elements and it’s our friendship if Star Swirl couldn't use the spell because he had no friends then perhaps our friendship could set things right." Twilight said. Loki thought it over.
"Well that actually could work however you going to have to get them to remember what they truly are."
“And that'll be the easiest part." Twilight claimed with a smile. Loki smirked back at her and gave her a sidelong look.
"Where'd all this confidence?" He asked. She just smirked back at him as she took the elements out.
"I guess you've been rubbing off on me." She stated as she placed her element crown on her head.
"You make it sound like a bad thing."
"It isn't, but if you catch me making my decisions with a dart board then it might be." She returned with a giggle.
"Hey, I've never made my decisions with a dart board, a spinner yes, a dartboard no." Twilight just rolled her eyes as she opened the door to leave.
"Sometimes I wonder what I see in you."
"Me too, now let's go solve this."
"Even Pinkie?" Twilight asked with a giggle.
"I have ideas about that but we'll figure that out later." The two of them went through the whole thing as they sang the song for season three’s ending. As he jumped in he managed to bring Discord and Trixie to join in (much to their displeasure). Nyx came down with the CMC and the clubs mascot Freiza who was actually paying as well. With the song finished they finally got there cutie marks back.
"We actually did it and I have the perfect way to finish Star Swirl’s spell." Twilight said. Back in her home Twilight had finished it. Suddenly the elements flashed as Twilight was flashed away by the elements to ascend. Loki disappeared in a flash with a snap of his talons. In the pocket dimension where Celestia was finishing up the song Twilight caught out of her eyes Loki.
"Well I guess I should call you princess now?" Loki said with a bow.
"Wait a minute, what are you talking about?" Twilight asked as she looked between Loki and Celestia. Celestia smiled warmly as she motioned for Twilight to follow her. Celestia then started to show Twilight images from her time in Ponyville.
"He's right Twilight because of your actions not just today but throughout your time in Ponyville and even before, you've earned the title of princess. And the right to be an alicorn."
"W-wait a minute, I'm going to be an alicorn, and a princess?!" Twilight sputtered unsure of what to make of everything.
"How will I even be a princess? I don't know the first thing about being one." Celestia chuckled as she looked at the image of Twilight meeting the others of the mane six.
"You will learn to be a good princess the same way you became one. By continuing to learn and grow with those you care about supporting you. You've grown so much from the little filly I met all those years ago. I have the utmost faith that you will grow into your new role splendidly." Celestia concluded as she stopped. Loki then placed his paw on Twilight's shoulder as he smiled at her. "She's right, Twilight. You'll do great, and I'll be right by your side whenever you might need me... even if you don't want me to be there."
With a snap they both disappeared. Back in Ponyville the sun had started to set. "I can't believe this." Twilight’s friends were taken into shock at the sight of their friend the way she was. Loki himself looked at his shopkeeper apprentice, his fellow chaos being and even his adoptive daughter.
"Trixie’s eyes must be deceiving her." Trixie said looking at Alicorn Twilight.
"Well this is a strange development." Discord said.
"Well I kinda knew it was going to happen.... oh crap." Loki just remembered. 'Tirek I can't believe I forgot him.......'
Twilight just looked at him with an incredulous look. "What do you mean you knew this was going to happen?" Twilight asked.
"Uhh," Loki started not sure of what to say.
"Loki, you better not be trying to think of a way to either lie to me or escape." Twilight warned him with a death glare that rivaled Fluttershy's stare.
'And while they're distracted by the flying monkeys I can make myself a jet ski and cross the... oh dear god, that face is the window to hell itself!' Loki cried out in his head.
"Well, I may or may not have known about a few of the things that happened before they happened." Loki said with a weak chuckle.
"Like what?" Twilight asked.
"Well, I knew about Chrysalis's invasion, and of course you becoming an Alicorn." He admitted.
"Anything else?" She asked.
"Umm, there may be a monkey, centaur thing that can steal magic on the loose. I've looked for him a few times and I've come up empty every time. And it wasn't for lack of trying, the guy sticks out like a sore thumb."
Discord knew who he was talking about. "I don't think he’s free.' Discord said. "I can sense imbalances as well and he isn't free." Loki had to ask himself maybe he did alter time.
"Well besides that there was this town I took care of it before anything could get bad and I knew Sombra was going to return after the invasion." Loki finished. Twilight blinked at how he knew so much. "Call it time travel in a sense if you must but I've been very active around the world." Loki finished.
"Wait, what was so bad about that town you dealt with?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Well it wasn't the entire town just their mayor. She was stealing cutie marks from ponies and brainwashing them into a sort of cult with a idea what harmony was however it was Disharmony. I revealed that she actually hadn't given up her own cutie mark, released the marks and left her in the capable hooves of mob justice." Everyone blinked at Loki's explanation.
"Wow, that's pretty crazy." Rainbow Dash said to break the silence.
"It's kind of what I do. Anyway, shouldn't somepony start planning a 'My friend is an alicorn now' party?" Loki asked as he turned towards Pinkie Pie.
"Ya know, you and I don't always get along, but you just made a super duper point!" Pinkie cheered as she rushed to gather her emergency party supplies.
Nyx jumped at this. "Yeah mommy’s an Alicorn." Nyx said jumping around.
"Momma?" Applejack asked.
"I was made with Twilight so she’s my mommy." The filly said giving a look of adorableness. "Right." She asked. Twilight couldn't say no to her.
"I guess technically I am your mother." Twilight said.
Loki blinked at this, little Nyx managed to defeat an alicorn, a pony demigod with cuteness.
'If all villains were cute and adorable the universe is doomed.' Loki though
A few days later, Twilight and her friends were called into the Crystal Empire for a princess summit. And of course Loki knew exactly where this was going, As soon as Twilight had told him about the summit he had started laughing maniacally to himself and muttering something about a, "Brad," Nyx was excited because she would be allowed to actually come to the empire this time. The day of the trip, Loki had his magical bag that was bigger on the inside at the ready and could barely contain his glee at the prospects before him.
'Oh boy, I can't wait!' He cheered inside his head. 'Not only will I get to torment both Flash Sentrys, we'll also get to tangle with Sunset Shimmer. And once we reform her we'll only have a short time to wait until we get to go through Rainbow Rocks!'
As the group got to bed Loki himself decided to sleep on a hammock hanging about. He head Twilights yelling. "Somepony stop her... Loki!" She screamed. Loki appeared with a sword in hand however Sunset ran right past him. "Crap." Sunset then passed through a mirror as Twilight stopped at. "Where how?' Loki stopped to look it over he touched it and saw pathways all across the multiverse. He was sent back from a shock wave. He saw the hidden paths between dimensions.
He saw dozens of realities as well as the others. He blinked he was lucky with his Equestria.
Loki just shook his head as he tried to clear his head of the images he had seen. 'I think I just stared into the void, and wouldn't you know it stared back.' He thought with a grim chuckle. "Loki, why didn't you stop her?" Twilight asked. "I'm sorry Twilight, she was too quick for me I didn't have a chance to react." Loki apologized. Twilight let out a small sigh.
"Okay, I understand. I couldn't catch her either. Who even was she?" Twilight asked.
"I am afraid that was an old student of mine," Celestia explained as she and the others walked in. "She was incredibly bright, but her ambition and pride clouded her judgment and had her believe I was holding her back for one reason or another. In the end, she had ran off and I had never been able to find her, until now." She concluded as she cast her gaze on the mirror. "Twilight I am afraid you will have to cross through the mirror and retrieve your element before the portal closes for another 30 moons." Celestia explained.
"I'm going with her," Loki stated. "And before you try to say anything to stop me, just remember that you can't stop me, in any sense of the word."
Celestia had to admit she couldn't stop Discord so she couldn't stop Loki. Spike jumped on to Twilight’s back.
"I'm coming too."
The three then passed though the portal. Loki looked at the strange place until finally they were dumped out. Loki stood up. The first thing he realized he had on a black shirt with Anarchy is Chaos written on it. a Jacket with balance written on it and what looked like the Elements of Disharmony symbol. He had on leather boots and blue jeans. Finally he had long hair with one long bang in the front, and a necklace that showed a star of chaos. Twilight stood up only to collapse soon afterwards. Also, Spike was a dog.
Before Twilight could do anything Loki knelt down beside her and covered her eyes. "Loki, what are you doing?" She asked clearly confused.
"Trust me Twilight, this is for your own good," Loki told her. "Now, this world is a little different than what you're used to. You're not a pony right now, and Spike is a dog."
"Really?" She questioned.
"Yeah," Spike cut in, "you're more like a... I have no idea really." Loki could hear Twilight's breathing start to quicken, but he did his best to calm her down.
"Hey, everything is fine. You're not a monster or anything. Right now you are a bipedal being known as a human, and so am I. Now, I'm going to take my hands away and let you see me, but only if you promise not to freak out."
"I promise." She said. His hands were removed and Twilight could see his punk look. Twilight blinked at this. She looked at her new hands and her outfit. She almost fell over but Loki helped her up. "You seemed to have adapted to this... wait you and Discord mostly stand on your hand legs so this is nothing new for you right?" Twilight asked. Loki gave her a smile.
"You got that right." Spike looked at the two of them.
"You know you really should just get married." Spike answered
Both of them blushed hotly at that comment. "Uhhh now's not the time for that Spike," Loki said to segue away from the m word. "We've got a magical tiara to find."
"Loki's right, we can worry about things like that when we're done here." Twilight agreed. Loki looked over the surrounding area and noticed they were right in front of Canterlot High.
'Okay, so far this is like the show, so as long as we're careful, we can get this done pretty quickly.'
"Alright you two, follow me. Twilight, hold on to me and tell me if I'm going too fast. I don't want you to fall and hurt yourself." Loki told them.
Twilight tightened her grip on Loki and nodded as she followed his gaze toward the school. "Lead the way Loki. I'll trust your judgment on this." She said with an audible gulp. Loki just chuckled and looked her right in the eyes.
"Hey, there's no need to be scared. I won't let anything happen to you. We'll get your crown back in no time." Twilight nodded and the two of them made their way toward the school.
Spike just scratched behind his ear and said, "Oh yeah, they really need to just get it over with already."
The school seemed to have human versions of ponies Twilight knew about. She managed to get use to her new from. As they walked Loki saw this version of Discord. He was the janitor. He also had on a shirt. "Chaos is Anarchy.”
'Well Discord’s the janitor.' They finally found a familiar face, the human version of Fluttershy who was cowering in front of Sunset Shimmer with obvious fear in her eyes. "Leave her alone." Twilight said. Loki himself saw a cart of muffins being pushed by Derpy’s human self. He took one from her blind spot and took a bite.
"Do as she says."
Sunset Shimmer looked at them both. She actually realized. This was the alicorn and that strange thing.
"You have no idea how things work here do you?"
Loki answered, "You rule the school right?" He asked as he took another bite.
"Yes, while you have no idea how things in this world work," Sunset said with a smirk. Loki chuckled at that.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that. I know a lot of different things. And also, your mean girl act doesn't really intimidate me."
"It doesn't have to," Sunset said not even flinching at Loki's attitude, "it works on the rest of the school." She then returned her focus to Twilight. "And in a few days I'll have your crown on my head at the end of the Fall Formal." She concluded as she turned and walked away. Twilight then turned to Fluttershy.
"Are you okay?" Fluttershy just nodded at her.
"So what's your name?" Twilight asked even though she already knew the answer. Fluttershy just squeaked out her name which caused Twilight to smile a bit. "Did you say your name was Fluttershy?"
"Yes," The girl said. Loki had finished his muffin and tossed it behind himself. It hit Bon Bon who slipped and fell. "Who are you both?" The girl asked. Twilight thought fast about the differences in this world’s word choice.
"I'm Twilight and this is my boyfriend Loki."
Loki answered. "Sup." A small dog appeared as well. "And this is Twilight's dog spike." Loki finished. Spike glared at him holding him up. "Hey don't give me that look." He told Spike.
As another cart passed by Loki took a cupcake from it. "These aren't as good as Sugarcube Corner." Loki said taking a bite.
"Loki, do you have to keep taking food?" Twilight said with a frown.
"What? I'm hungry and it won't be a while until lunch." "Can we just please keep focus here?" Twilight huffed.
"Alright, I'll stop taking any more food, but I'm keeping this cupcake."
"Ugh, whatever, just please promise to be on your best behavior while we're here."
"Uh, this is my best behavior, Twilight."
Twilight facepalmed and replied, "That's what I was afraid of." Fluttershy giggled as she watched the two of them.
"Oh um, thanks for standing up to Sunset for me. Nobody does that, nobody."
"Don't mention it," Twilight said with a smile. Loki chuckled at Fluttershy's response.
"It wasn't that big of a deal. I mean, I bet she weighs 110 pounds soaking wet. It's not like she can do anything to us."
Fluttershy blushed and looked down. Loki saw the element of magic. "Hey isn't that the element of magic?" He stated. It was in a box.
"You mean the crown of the Fall Formal?" Fluttershy asked. Loki snapped his fingers then remembered he had no magic. Somewhere in the town an ATM exploded.
"Well this sucks." Loki said he snapped his fingers again. An asteroid gained sentience right as he slammed into another one. He pulled Twilight towards him. "I can't use my magic." He snapped his fingers again. A protest over something ran as their signs attacked them.
"What, does that mean I won't be able to use my magic?" Twilight asked as it looked like she wanted to panic.
"It's pretty safe to assume that," Loki replied. He then noticed the look on Twilight's face.
"Hey, we can get through this."
"Okay, you're right." Twilight replied. She then turned toward Fluttershy with a weak grin. "So what is this Fall Formal that Sunset mentioned?"
"Oh, it's the most important dance of the school year. Every year there's a vote for the princess of the dance and the winner gets a crown. And this is the crown this year," Fluttershy said as she held up Twilight's crown.
"Well then, I guess I have to win the vote." Twilight said. Fluttershy started to panic at that.
"Y-you can't do that!" She 'yelled'. "Sunset Shimmer always wins the vote."
"Because she either forces others or there are idiot lackeys who do it?" Loki answered. Loki also got everything right about this. "Or it’s because she’s the only one who runs right?" Loki asked. Fluttershy nodded.
"Everyone is too afraid to oppose her." Loki snapped his fingers. Far off in another part of the world a stone statue came alive and danced for a few moments. A local physicist visiting the city fainted at seeing the scientifically impossible.
"Ok then who do we have to go to?" Loki asked.
"Principal Celestia." Loki tapped his head.
‘Should I tell Twilight?’ he decided no it would be too much fun. Back at the statue sight the physicist was going mad and had to be placed in an asylum.
"Wait, Principal Celestia," Twilight said as her brain seemed to come to a complete halt. Loki leaned in to whisper into her ear.
"Yeah, you gotta remember that we're in an alternate reality. Even you have a double here."
"Really, do you think we'll run into her?"
"Nope, plot convenience." "Wait, what did you just say?" Twilight asked.
"Nothing, just saying that we won't see her. Which is too bad because two Twilights would be amazing," Loki stated as he started to picture an 'encounter' with two Twilights… Twilight snapped her fingers in front of his face.
"Loki focus, now is not the time for that. We only have a few days to get the crown back. Otherwise, we'll be stuck here for thirty moons."
"Yeah, how long is that by the way? I never really understood that."
"Loki!" Twilight growled.
"Ok fine." Loki said backing off from this. In their little walk around the school however they came across someone in the shadows. Loki was able to get to her and held her up by her shirt. It was Rarity. "Well isn't this a surprise." Loki said.
"Can you put me down you ruffian your outfit is simply..." Loki dropped her.
"Yeah I kinda like my look." Loki said looking himself over. Twilight and Fluttershy finally caught up to him and to this version of Rarity.
"There you are Loki, I was looking for you." Twilight said as she came up to Loki. "Sorry Twilight, you know that I sometimes wander off when I get bored." "Do you even hear yourself sometimes?" Twilight sighed. "I swear I should put a child's leash on you or something."
"Oh is...."
"And don't even think about making a joke out of that." Twilight said, interrupting any joke that was about to come out of Loki's mouth. On his part, Loki just slumped over and seemed to pout.
"Fine, but I'll still think it." Rarity looked between the two of them. "I take it the two of you are dating?" She asked.
"Yeah, is it that obvious?" Loki asked, perking up. Rarity then turned to Twilight.
However the door came open it was human Pinkie pie. She blinked at the too new students. Loki blinked back. "Hello are you both new here?" she asked. They both looked at each other.
"Yes, Twilight and this is my boyfriend Loki." Loki had a juice box he got in secret.
"Sup." Loki said.
"Loki, where did you get a juice box?" Twilight asked.
"That's a good question," Loki replied. Twilight waited for a moment but she still didn't get an answer.
"Well," she pressed.
"Well, what?" Loki asked as he took a sip of his juice. Pinkie giggled at this exchange.
"Hey, I can do things that confound people around me too!" She chirped as she demonstrated this by pulling out a balloon from her hair and made a balloon animal.
"Oh, hello Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy said with some hostility.
'Oh yeah, Sunset has these girls turning on each other,' Loki thought. 'I wonder, if I pushed them a little I could get to watch a catfight? No, Twilight wouldn't appreciate that. Sometimes I hate being responsible.' Loki grumbled in his thoughts.
“Why are you acting hostile?" Twilight asked. Loki had a cookie in his hands. He had no idea where he got it.
"Well they might not be friends here." Loki answered. He took a bite of his cookie. "Where did I even get this?" Loki asked himself as he keep eating the cookie. Twilight looked at him for a moment before looking at the three girls they weren't friends?
"You aren't friends?" She asked. Loki had finished his cookie and was now having a soda. Loki stopped questioning it.
'I wonder.' With a snap of his fingers nothing happened. In another part of the world scientists screamed as gravity and the laws of physics went into the corner of their room and cried.
Loki frowned as he looked down at his fingers in confusion. 'Okay what in the name of... I guess chaos is going on here?' Loki thought. 'Is my magic pretty much limited to me getting snacks? Or is it just not under my control? Oh right, I'd better pay attention to this. These girls are about to have a fight. Though this is a little different than what I remember. I guess my being here has something to do with that.' Loki then remained silent as, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie had a heated argument. Twilight did her best to try and calm the girls down, but she was swept up and lost in the midst of it. Loki cringed and laughed a little as the girls had it out verbally. 'And the temptation to turn this into a catfight is steadily rising.' Loki thought.
"Loki help me." Twilight asked. Loki sighed. A few minutes later Loki held Rarity and Pinkie Pie apart while Fluttershy moved back form the mess.
"You’re pretty strong, what’s your secret?" Pinkie Pie asked.
'Being a physical god has it perks.' Loki thought but didn't want to say they.
"Stronger bones and 30 minutes at the gym every day." Loki said. He placed them both down. "Now then Twilight I'm going to go do something you get them to sit down, magic of friendship, whatever," He said as Loki walked out for a bit. He pulled out another juice box. As he did he saw this dimension’s flash and Sunset shimmer.
"Really?" Loki asked him. He turned to see Loki drinking his juice at him.
"Where did you get the juice box?" He asked. Loki pulled out a cookie.
"That’s a good question a better one is where I got this cookie?"
Flash just blinked at the person in front of him. "Okay, who are you?" Flash asked.
"The name's Loki, what's yours?" Loki asked even though he already knew. "Um, I'm Flash Sentry, and this is my girlfriend Sunset Shimmer. I guess it's nice to meet you."
'Oh it won't be when I'm done with you,' Loki thought with an internal dark chuckle. 'Wait a minute, these two are still together? How did I even have anything to do with that? Maybe my actions in the other Equestria have effects on this one as well. I guess that'll have to do for now. This is some stupid butterfly effect bs right there. So, what, should I do to Flash first?' Loki mulled it over and struggled to narrow something down from the various options that he had. 'Oh man, I really miss my magic right now. If I still had it then I'd be able to use chance to make the decision for me.'
.....
'Huh, maybe Twilight has a point about my indecisiveness.'
"Hey I know you," Sunset said as she pointed to him. Loki didn't care and simply walked to Flash.
"Word to the wise a She-demon is not a good girlfriend." Loki said as he walked away. As the fall former came up Loki watched as Twilight managed to get the human version of mane 5 into being friends again. The Fall Formal happened as he saw until Sunset place the crown on her head beginning to transform into a she demon.
"I was right!" Loki screamed to a horrified Flash.
Loki raised his hands to see that his left had become talons his right had become his paw and he felt his snaggle-tooth. 'Oh great equestrian magic entering this place.’ With this Loki could now use his magic. With a snap of his talons he had a cane in his right hand.
'Huh, definitely going to be keeping this.' Loki thought as he twirled the cane around. Now, would a top hat be too much?" Loki then scratched his chin in thought with his paw to avoid any unfortunate accidents with the talon. 'Screw it, I'm making myself a top hat.' He then snapped his talons once more and a top hat appeared on top of his head. 'Nice, now I'll just wait in the wings just in case my girlfriend needs me. I mean, I could deal with Sunset myself, but Twilight is better than me at the whole reforming magic of friendship speeches.'
Loki then teleported to a secluded spot where he could watch the events unfold without interfering in what was about to happen. Sunset's transformation was complete and she seemed to be impressed with how she looked. Things started to heat up but just like in the show Twilight defeated her leaving Sunset down for a redemption speech. However there was damage to the school.
"Well I see the school needs some fixing." Loki said walking up. "Now that I have better control over my magic." Loki gave a snap and the school was repaired to the point it was brand new again. The other five blinked at this and turned to Twilight then Loki. "Oh yeah I'm a reality warper." Loki said. Rarity was the first to ask for something.
"Can you make me a princess like Twilight?" She asked Loki face somehow had a line mouth no nose and blank eyes for a moment before returning to normal.
"That would be a huge misuse of my powers." Loki answered blinking at that.
Rarity seemed to pout as she turned away from him. Loki rolled his eyes at the girl's antics.
"Wait a minute, you have all your magic back?" Twilight asked. Loki flinched a little at that question and tugged at his collar trying to think up a response.
"Uhh," was all he could get out.
"And if you did have all your magic then why didn't you just snap your talons and solve everything?" Twilight asked as she glared at her floating boyfriend.
"Uhhh," He continued as he tried to think of a way to explain himself. Loki then created an astral image of himself and a wheel that was labeled, "Wheel of Excuses!"
Just as he was about to spin it Twilight called out, "You better not be using chance to try and come up with an excuse!" Loki's expression fell as his astral image popped out of existence.
"I thought that maybe you could get her to see redemption because If I just defeated her it would change nothing?" Loki landed on the ground. "Look Twilight just because I can warp reality doesn't mean it’s a great Idea to do it every time if I solve all problems then no one would learn anything. If I do too much they would become dependent on me." Loki answered using logic... that he got from tv. Twilight blinked that was perfectly logical.
'Wait he actually....' She thought.
"You’re right." Twilight said.
'That actually worked?' Loki screamed in his head. Loki pulled out a watch from his pocket.
"Ok we best get going through the portal." Loki said showing the time. "Although, I can slow down time for us for the moment." Loki finished.
“Why would you do that?" Twilight asked. Loki then gently took her hands and gave her a smile.
"Simple because this is technically our first dance together, and I think it would be nice to have it last for as long as we like." Twilight blushed a little, but smiled as she squeezed Loki's paw.
"I guess that would be nice. But I don't know how well I'd be able to dance while I'm in this form."
'Can't get any worse than your pony dancing,' Loki thought.
Out loud he said, "Don't worry about that and let me take the lead. Do you trust me?" Twilight just nodded and Loki snapped his talons to slow down time to a near standstill. Loki then brought Twilight close to himself and started to slowly dance with Twilight. Loki smiled as the dance started to pick up with Twilight's confidence.
"So, how do you like our first dance together?" He asked.
"This is nice," Twilight admitted. "We'll have to do this once we get back to Equestria."
"I think I could arrange for that to happen."
As the special time bubble gave way the two of them returned element in hand. When they returned Celestia and Cadance saw them and Spike return.
"So?" Cadance asked. Loki pulled out the Element from his personal pocket dimension.
"We got it back.... also Celestia..." Loki was about to finish but stopped. "May I keep the mirror? I feel it would be better to keep it in my shop." Loki said. Celestia knew Loki had a lot of dark magical objects he didn't sell, plus who in their right mind would attack a reality warper?
"Very well." Loki shrank it then pocketed it in his pocket dimension.
"Well my lady may I have this dance?" Loki asked. Twilight gave a smile. Cadance could see the kind of true love between them just like her and Shining. As the two danced into the night Celestia thought to herself.
'Twilight, Loki I hope you both can be happy together.'
The summer sun celebration was soon to be. Twilight walked with her friends and her Coltfriend (who took on his Unicorn from) There was a stain glass image of her ascension. Loki was seen at the top eyes closed as he watched below with Best Seller inside him. Another image showed Super Crystal Empire Mecha Force battling Sombra’s mecha with her racing with the heart.
"So then it’s time for the celebration that made you all friends." Loki said.
"Yeah, though I'm still not sure about being a princess," Twilight said. "I mean, I still can't control my wings." This statement was punctuated by Twilight's wings flaring up on her. "Ugh, why can't these things just won’t' stay down!" She cried as she tried to put her wings down with a hoof.
"Hey, don't worry about this so much," Loki reassured as he used his magic to put Twilight's wings down. "This is a big change in your life. You literally have new appendages and muscles that you need to figure out how to use. Just think of this like when you were learning how to use magic."
"Thanks Loki, though it's not just the wings I'm worried about. I still don't know what being a princess will mean for the other aspects of my life. I have no idea what my responsibilities will be now."
"Just remember this Twilight," Loki started with a warm smile. "Whatever your life throws at you now, you have me and the rest of your friends to help you whenever you need us."
A clock appeared out of nowhere with words saying something in an unknown language. "Well it seems we’re needed for the summer sun celebration." Loki said revealing that the other elements were needed by the town of Ponyville. Loki was needed as well for three reasons. One, ice from his windigo. Two his shop was going to be there, three to keep Discord from turning the town into a giant robot.
"Honestly Discord seems jealous of me for some reason." Loki said.
Back in his room Discord was finishing plans for his newest creation. "I will turn the whole Star System into a giant mech then blast Loki with my Chaosness."
Loki then shrugged it off, 'Oh well, it's not like he's really going to try anything. Even if he beats me Twilight and the girls still have access to the elements, so they can still take care of him. Wait a minute, something about that doesn't seem totally right about that. Let's see, Summer Sun Celebration, Newly crowned Princess Twilight...' Loki's thoughts came to a screeching halt as he realized what was about to happen. 'Oh crap in a hand basket. That thing with the vines is about to happen. Okay, what should I do here? Do I let things play out and risk Discord doing something, or do I try to stop it and take on Tirek by myself if he does show up. Okay, let's think this one through.' A few moments later Loki created a coin with his magic.
The coined landed on do nothing. Loki wondered if this was even the right idea.
"Well I made my choice I better keep it." Loki said. Him and the other elements wielders walked off into the train. "We'll see you back in ponyvile." Loki said as they t.
Applejack turned to Loki. "Hey Loki, ya tossed a coin, ya know somethin’ comin’ right?" Applejack asked.
Loki turned to the other mares. The coin was altered by his magic. "Well it landed on Keep Discord from doing something stupid."
The cover seemed believable after all he was able to lie like Discord.
"Alright, Ah hope ya keep a real close eye on 'im. Ah think Discord is awfully sore that ya beat him in that fight."
"Yeah, but he has made things more interesting around the shop. On the downside, he's also been making Nyx sweets whenever she wants. If he keeps it up I might have a balloon instead of a daughter." Loki said with a chuckle.
"I don't think you have to worry about that," Twilight started. "I've seen the way that girl eats without Discord's help. I'm pretty sure she has a blackhole for a stomach."
"You make a good point. Alright, I have to head back to Ponyville. Are you sure you don't need my help with your duties here?" Loki asked.
"I'll be fine, I think it's best if I do this on my own."
"Alright, but if you need my help you know how to contact me."
"I'll be fine, now go. You don't want to leave Nyx with Trixie and Discord for too long."
The train took off to Ponyvile. However after a few momentd Loki flashed and came to his home/shop. Once he was there he saw Trixie was looking at the newest book.
"Let’s see." Trixie attempted the spell causing a double of Trixie to appear. "Yes the illusion spell works." Discord room showed him writing something about the star system. Nyx was outside with the CMC as they fought clouds going for their cloud cutie marks. Frieza was in his pen which happened to have been frozen into ice. Loki took on his true from. However he looked up after a while to see the sun and moon both up at once. He sighed as he saw the vines.
"Discord come here for a moment." Loki said.
"What is it Loki?" Discord asked even though he knew what Loki was going to say when he saw him looking out at the vines.
"I just have to know, what was going through your head when you planted these seeds to choke the life out of the Tree of Harmony?" Discord flinched as he tried to come up with an explanation.
"Uh, what do you mean by that?" He asked trying to play dumb.
"Well, I was asking because from everything I've ever read about magical physics suggests that the various energies exist in balance with each other. And seeing as the Tree of Harmony is the ultimate manifestation of harmony. And you're this world's ultimate manifestation of chaos. What do you think would happen if the tree suddenly died?" Loki asked evenly.
"I suppose I don't really know."
Loki was about to continue as Discord was dragged by harmonic magic to another location. Loki teleported to find the main six with the elements with the vines all around.
"Discord I know you have something to do with this what are you planning?" Twilight asked.
"These are Discord’s little insurance plan from a thousand years ago." Loki said as he walked up. "These vines are attacking something at the heart of the Everfree forest, the source of the Elements of Harmony." Loki started looking at Discord. "The Tree of Harmony, if it dies it wouldn't be long before the elements lose their powers."
"So the elements are what? Fruit?" Rainbow dash asked.
"Well yes they are in a sense." Loki answered.
"Then we'd better hurry up and save that tree!" Rainbow Dash called out as she motioned for the group to charge into the Everfree Forest.
"Good luck all of you," Discord said as he started to wave.
"Aren't you coming with us?" Fluttershy asked.
"No, you've already got one chaos being to help you along the way. I'll stay behind and help prune these vines from here." Twilight and Loki just rolled their eyes at Discord's excuse.
"Oh please, you're probably just going to keep working on whatever plan you were working on to try and get back at Loki" Twilight said with a huff.
"I wouldn't worry too much about him. I'm pretty sure I can handle his little plan." Loki replied with a chuckle. "He'll probably just make a mech out of the solar system. He's running out of good ideas," he whispered to Twilight. This caused her to giggle a little and with that they headed off into the Everfree.
"Ok then so what does this tree even look like?" Rainbow dash asked.
"It’s more crystal-like, it has three symbols on it, the sun moon and the star of magic however these vines would be wrapped around it slowly killing it." Loki finished. As they got deeper inside the forest the vines got thicker. Loki used his powers to help them until they came to a tear in the ground. "We’re here." In a flash they came to the bottom, there with the vines wrapped around it was the Tree of Harmony. "If we can give it back the elements it should be able to destroy the vines." However at that moment the vines shot out at them. Loki unleashed his magic but it only caused them to move back for a moment. "Crap they’re using the tree’s own magic against me. Hurry, give the tree the elements I'll take care of this." Loki commanded.
"What about you?" Twilight asked as Loki dodged a vine and slashed at it with magic enhanced talons.
"Don't worry about me, just save that tree!" He called out as a vine tried to wrap around his neck.
Twilight nodded as she took the jewels from all of the elements causing them to spin around her as she charged toward the tree. Just as she was about to reach it a group of vines wrapped around her. Loki's eyes went wide as he used his full strength to break the vine at his throat and rushed to free his significant other. Loki made it to Twilight's side at breakneck speeds and did his best to help free her. Their combined effort made short work of the black mass and Twilight finally managed to place the elements back into the tree.
The tree gave off a massive blast as the vines were seen breaking up into nothing but light. Discord who was leaning on the vines saw as they disappeared.
"Oh well." Discord said. Back at the tree it returned to normal however inside its trunk was something a box. The mane six and Loki walked up to it.
"What is this?" Twilight asked.
"This box is both a puzzle and a gift." Loki answered. "If you can figure it out the tree will reward you with something." Loki answered. However right as Loki said that he felt something within him spring out. Six gems the elements of Disharmony they circled around him and one of them glowed. After that they returned to his body. Loki blinked. "Seems I to have my own puzzle to solve." Loki said looking himself over.
"What was that?" Rainbow dash asked.
"The Elements of Disharmony the thing my power comes from." Loki answered.
"That's right, I had almost forgot that we had found you in those jewels," Twilight said as she recalled her first meeting with Loki. "What do you think will happen when you solve your puzzle?" She asked.
"Well, I'll probably get some alternate form that will drastically increase my power. Though, I have no idea whether or not if said form will drive me insane and cause me to go evil. These are the Elements of Disharmony we're talking about."
"Well if they do corrupt you, I might have a solution for that," Twilight said with a little grin.
"Oh really," Loki said with a chuckle as he pulled Twilight in close. Just as they were about to close the remaining distance a quick gagging noise interrupted them.
"Ughh, I know you two have been dating a while, but can you keep that stuff private?" Rainbow Dash called out.
Loki and Twilight let out a laugh. With a teleport they found Luna and Celestia both at the edge of the Everfree.
"What just happened?" Celestia asked.
"Sister," Luna pointed to the fact the sun and moon were both up. Luna then used her magic to move the moon from its place. "Well good to see you both haven’t been sent to the sun and moon." Loki said.
"Before you ask we had to return the elements to the Tree of Harmony otherwise the tree would have died and well then the elements would have lost power anyway." Loki answered.
"This news is slightly troubling," Luna replied. "If we no longer have access to the elements then only Loki will be able to counter Discord's antics."
"Still, if this was the only course of action you had then you made the right decision," Celestia said with a nod.
"That's not all Princess Celestia," Twilight said. "When we placed the elements into the tree a strange box appeared that requires six keys. And when it appeared, Loki's Elements of Disharmony glowed."
"It seems that the two of you and the other elements have another journey before you."
"We were thinking the same thing," Loki said with a nod. "And I don't think that Twilight and the girls will have any trouble with this journey."
"What about your own, Loki?" Luna asked.
"I honestly have no clue about my own however whatever happens I won't change who I am." Loki said with a smile. "Oh boo well at least the elements are gone...." Discord was heard. Loki tossed a rock at his head.
"Hey don't you be getting any ideas just because the elements are gone doesn't mean there’s nothing to stop you!" Loki yelled at him. Discord facetaloned. Before teleporting away. Nyx came crashing down from the sky and landed on Luna. The little Windigo came down as well.
"Oh man I almost got my killing evil things Cutie mark." Nyx said. The CMC were then caught by Loki.
"Really? Fighting a bunch of evil vines?" Loki asked the four.
What, we thought it was a good idea," Nyx said with a nervous chuckle as she hopped off of Luna and fluttered over to Loki. "Seeing as you're my daddy we thought I might be a natural at fighting evil!" She cheered.
'Okay, the cuteness levels are stable.' Loki thought quickly.
"Girls, I don't think you're ready to fight evil like I do." He said as he tousled Nyx's mane. "Maybe you should just leave the fighting of evil to me. I bet you're cutie marks lie outside of that field anyway."
"Okay," Nyx huffed as she looked over to Twilight. "Hey, what happened to mommy's crown?" She asked.
"Well, I had to give the elements back to the Tree of Harmony. And now there's something else we have to figure out," Twilight answered.
Underground a tunnel of earth gave way as the miss matched being came out magic at the ready. “Tirek in the name of….” The being blinked he was in a desert. With nothing in miles. He blinked for a moment. “You're Kidding me.” He poofed into existence a map. “How could I have ended up near the badlands? There no way Tirrek here.” He merged into the ground somehow
He gave a siigh. “Well things can’t get any…. of what's this?” He picked up something and blinked. Holding it up with his magic. As he was writing in the list of failed attempts at finding Tirek he decided to use his magic to figure out who token it was.
"I am the Crimson Avenger Amy Anderson the third. If you need help with fighting evil or knocking the royal sisters down a peg or two let me know and I'll help."
Loki thought this over he needed help finding the master of hiding Tirek. He for a moment remembered the other tokens he had. “Yeah no time…. how do I active this?” He thought for a moment over it over. “Lets go chance.” He tossed a dice it landed on. “Fire your magic at it.” Loki read. “Ok.” He unleashed a burst of Chaos magic hoping it would work.
Finally a vortex or whatever opened and out landed the person right on top of Loki. Back in ponyville a current purple Alicorn faced hooved. ‘Loki you're so hopeless.’
“Ow! Who the hell is calling us RD?” Asked Amy looking at Rainbow Dash who was floating down from the portal.
“I believe it that guy you’re sitting on?” Rainbow Dash answered pointing to Loki.
The being was familiar after all he was Celestia husband (in their world). Loki got up after becoming paper thin. “Ouch stupid dice.” Loki tossed the dice and the far off into the mountain with an explosion . “Twilight right my indecisiveness will be the death of me.” Loki turned to see a human female and a Athro Rainbow dash. “Well hello.”
“Wait Discord was the one that summoned us here?” Asked Rainbow Dash. “Or are you somepony cosplaying as him?”
“Well yes I went as my favorite character from MLP bought Elements of Disharmony got sucked into them and been here ever sense then.” Pulled out a few photos. One even showed him with a giant Mecha made from the crystal empire to him and Discord trading reality warping blows in space, to him watching a town put a unicorn to witch trials, Chrysalis making peace and Finally him at Twilight connotation. Also was a photo of Nyx and her dog which happened to be a Wendigo.
“I’m Loki by the way.” Loki said with a bow.
“I’m Amy Anderson The Third.” She said extending her hand towards Loki. “And this is my marefriend Rainbow Dash, who is my sidekick.”
“HEY! Who are you calling a sidekick?” Rainbow Dash yelled punching Amy in the arm.
“Really? Well then here I thought I wasn’t the only one settling down in this.” A phone appeared as Loki picked it up. “Trixie what is it… what no you don’t sell the mask…. look I’m off finding Tirek.” After a few more more shouts. “Nyx did what?” He sighed. “Tell Twilight I’ll fix it when I get back.” Loki turned t them. “Look I wanted to ask do you have any idea where Tirek could be?”
“That’s it? Sure I can help find him for you.” Amy said snapping her fingers to summon Selena. “Hey Selena mind doing a search for where Tirek is?”
“Give me a second.” She said closing her eyes to find him. “Found him, he’s hiding in castle of the royal sisters dungeon.”
Loki blinked at this. “Oh I can’t believe I forgot to look there.” With a snap they were gone to the castle. “Ok Triek come out or I’ll turn this castle into a giant mech and blast you out… just ask Sombra… or the whole Crystal empire!” They heard noises coming from the walls.
“You think that got his attention?” Asked Rainbow Dash charging her hands & feet with electricity to prepare for something to happen.
The shadows gave way to the rodded figure of Tirek. “Now lets go all destruction “ Tirek said walking out. However Loki realized something. “Get down….”In a flash they were trapped in a magic bubble. ‘Tirek’ gave a laugh as blue flames surrounded him. In the end there was a bigger version of Chrysalis with a blue silk mane. “I can’t believe you actually fell for that.”
Loki glared at her. “Pupa I presume?” He asked
“Yes though I suspected my sister would have gotten the letter so I could end her I have no idea whats taking so long.”
(Meanwhile)
Drepy the mailmare was flying while a letter fell out of her bag addressed to Queen Chrysalis.
(back in the castle)
“Oh well its a good thing I scaled the force field up to Discords level.” Rainbow dash attempted to hit it only to get slammed back. “Thats pure Anti-magic dear.” Pupa answered.
“Question how powerful is your Discord?” Loki asked.
“Not as powerful then me and my family, why you ask?” Said Amy.
“Well…”
(Flashback)
A huge mech flowed through space. “At last I did it Loki can’t stop me now!” A flash latter Loki appeared in the stars core. “Discord did you just turn the sun into a giant mech? Also why is the rest of the system apart of this mech?” Loki asked. Discord blinked with a snap everything went back to normal. “You can’t prove a thing.” Discord disappeared.
(End flashback)
“Mine is the god of Chaos and Disharmony yours?” He asked.
“He is too, but he’s a family man now. Got married to Celestia a few years back.” Amy said knocking on the magic bubble. “So this is anti magic right?”
Loki pressed against it. “Kinda its inside is anti-magic the spell outside is a conversation spell to convert magic into Anti-magic…. the only thing that could give her enough power to do this is a high powerful any source.” he looked down. “I’m guessing this castle has ley lines that get feed directly from the tree of harmony.”
Loki winked as the spell attempted to smash him back. A astral version of him attempted to escape only to be smashed back. “It goes into the Astral plane as well.”
“Interesting...Hey could you two back up a bit? I need to do something….stupid.” Amy asked as she summoned her claymore. Loki blinked as this happened “Hey! Stupid dumbass villain, I’m giving you one chance to let us out or else.”
“Go ahead see what happens.” Pupa said. Loki realized there was something else.
“The bubble rigged.” Cue smash and Everyone screamed. “Anti-magic shock like it?” Pupa asked. “Now then where is my brain dead sister.”
(Canterlot Castle)
Chrysalis looked at her mail. “I think I drop something.” Derpy said.
(Everyone else)
Back in the castle Loki cursed. “Lets see lady chance.” The dice landed on hit it repeatedly. “Oh you have got to be kidding me.” Loki said. He summoned his magic. “Let do this again there has to be a breaking point.”
“I could always use this anti-magic stone that got from Selena a while back?” Amy said pulling out said stone.Loki’s eyes twitched.
“So you really didn’t need to hit it and get us you know shocked?” Loki asked.
“Well I was hoping I didn’t need to use it, plus you never asked me if I had one.”
Loki looked at his dice. One of the sides was “Ask if anyone has any anti magic stuff.” Loki sighed. “I’m going to take those self help groups Twilight keeps saying I should go to.” Loki finished.
“Yeah sorry about her, I think she acts like this due to her mother dropping her on her head twice.” Said Rainbow Dash.
“Um I’m right here you know?”
“Really because I can’t decide anything without it being impulsive or by random chance….” Loki finished.
“You know what I’m heading off to canterlot anyway.” Pupa said as she shapeshifted into Celestia. “Celestia is off to a foreign land isn’t she?” Pupa asked.
“Yes but the newest princess my marefriend Twilight knows that Celestia isn’t suppose to be back until next week.” Loki finished.
“Then I’ll just destroy Ponyvile as Celestia.” Pupa answered.
“That gonna be hard to do seeing how you’ll have to get by our two other friends behind you.” Rainbow Dash said point to Nightmare Moon & Umbra from there world.
Pupa glared at them. “Really?” She asked. Anti magic hands formed in the bubble. “Hey what's going….” A hand entered Loki throat pulling out Sombra horn. “Hey thats a invasion of my very being!”
The horn was dropped next to Pupa who smashed in on the ground. “Well its a good think I know dark magic then.”
With a burst she absorbed Sombra horn.
Back in ponyville Nyx was chasing after frieza. The Wendigo sensed its master in trouble. Taking off he dragged the little filly. “No then lets see.”
“Frieza stop now boy.” Nyx said as the Alicorn Filly of Nightmare Moon was dragged by the Wendigo.
Loki tapped Amy’s shoulder. “I think I can break it give me a moment.” Loki said sensing a weak point.
“Give me a minute I’m enjoy these two getting the crap beat out of them.”
Loki finally to a point opened in it. “Ok then reverse the spell.” The bubble was finally gone. Pupa turned to them. “Your free can thing get any more…”
“Frieza stop!” Came out the Wendigo with Nyx who went flying. Loki caught her. “Hey daddy.” Nyx said with happiness.
“Didn’t see that coming.” Said Rainbow Dash. “I take it she’s your child?”
“Yes this is Nyx, Nightmare Moon reborn and my adopted daughter.” The Wendigo gave killer intent. “Thats my dog.”
“Huh? Nice pet.” Said Amy. “Where the hell did you get a Wendigo as a pet from?”
“Well I got him in a jar that granny smith knock over placed a familiar spell on him and there we go a spirit of anger rage and hatred is now my dog.” The Wendigo glared at Pupa.
Then at Amy and Rainbow Dash. However Nyx pointed at the evil Changeling. “Sick her boy.” Nyx commanded the Wendigo eyes then disappeared.
Pupa sighed. With a spell the dog was in a anti-magic bubble again. “This is getting me no where.” she teleported away.
“Well she gone… I’ll deal with her later its not like.” A voice boomed. “LOKI!” It was Twilights voice.
“Crap.”
Ponyvile was well ice because of Frieza little rampage. Loki appeared to see Twilight looking over this with her friends helping out to there best. Also the cloud Rainbow Dash (his) was on was now Ice. Loki appeared. “I can explain.”
“Dang this place is like a frozen tundra.” Said Rainbow Dash. “And here I thought Amy was the only pony that can damage ponyville like this.”
“Oh please at least I can control myself.”
Twilight blinked at the two. “Loki who are they?” She asked. “Oh well you see this is Amy and this is Rainbow Dash from another universe and for the frozen town…” Loki saw Discord ice skating. “It was all Discord doing.”
“What?” Discord appeared in front of Loki. “You kidding me? I'm not the one with a Wendigo.” The little dog had a cute harmless look with Nyx hugging him.
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly.” Nyx said being cutie talking like a baby with a milkshake in hooves. The towns ponies turned to Discord all with look of anger in there eyes.
“Get Discord!” A pony in the crowd yelled the ponies ran at him Discord ran as well.
“Loki I will destroy you!” Discord said as he ran.
Twilight still glared at him. One whole mess of a story later. “Well sorry about me calling you it seems I wasted your time.” Loki said looking down.
“Don’t worry about it we had nothing better to do today anyway.” Said Amy putting an arm around RD’s waist. “Plus it’s always fun getting called upon by other displaced humans.”
Lok gave a laugh. “Well I guess it kinda is… before you go.” He removed his fang as a new one grew back. “Something to remember me by.” He said giving them the fang.
“Thanks, keep the crimson diamond if you need us to help you with anything.”
With that they disappeared into the vortex back home. Loki gave a sigh with a snap of his Talons ponyvile was back to normal. However appearing was another Element of Disharmony it glowed and returned. "Two down I guess."
Loki pooped his head out the ground. "Ok so lets see where am I?" he found himself in sweet apple acres. "Oh come on I have been digging for hours what could be so important." He saw got an apple hit him on his head. he turned to see Applejack. "Really?" Loki turned to see Big macintosh. In a flash Loki was out the ground fixed and the apple in the bag.
"Hey Loki why ya'll being in the ground?" Applejack asked. "Was searching for something but seeing as I always end up in the wrong place mind if I lend a hoof... or talon in this instance? I honestly could use some time not using my powers to fix all my messes plus." Loki picked an apple right off from the hard to get tree. "I can help get those hard to reach apples." Loki said.
"Really, ya wanna help us out today? Ah would've thought that you'd be in yer store or with Twilight."
"Well, I'm letting Trixie take care of the shop today. It's best to show her some level of trust. Plus, I don't have to spend every waking moment with Twilight. I'm not solely defined by my relationship." Loki replied as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Alright pardner, If ya really wanna help then Ah guess we could lend a... talon in this case."
"Eeyup," Big Mac said as he stepped next to his sister.
"Well now that that's settled let's get moving. We're wasting precious daylight here." Loki said as he motioned for them to get to work. "That's some good enthusiasm ya got there. :let's see how long you can keep it up," Applejack chuckled.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about that," Loki returned.
The trio went to work However aas Applejack and even Big macintosh were getting tired Loki keep going he didn't even look tired. After the two decided to call it a day they saw Loki was still picking apples. "Loki ain't ya tired." Loki turned to her.
"Not really I have near-limitless stamina as long as I don't use my magic." Loki answered. He hit a tree causing it to give its apples.
"Also I seem to have a degree of Super Strength as well."
Granny Smith came walking in. With some kinda drink. "Hey Applejack who that?" Granny smith asked.
Rainbow dash came flying to the farm. "Hey Applejack have you seen Loki I need to ask him something." Rainbow Dash said with her saddlebags with her. Loki came slithering down a tree.
"Yes what is if?" Loki asked. Rainbow Dash pulled out a book from the bags.
"Can you make Daring Do real?" Loki fell over then stood back up.
"Why? Thats a huge misuse of my powers not to mention useless because daring do already exists." Loki answered.
Rainbow Dash was completely floored by that statement. Once she had recovered she rushed up to Loki's face. "Are you serious!? Daring Do, the greatest character in all of fiction is actually real?!"
'The greatest character in all of fiction. I think I need to show these ponies a few things.' "Well yeah, we can just go ask A.K Yearling herself if you really want to know." "Are you kidding, of course I wanna know!"
"Applejack, Loki, come on, let's get the girls. We're going on a road trip!" Rainbow Dash cheered showing her inner fangirl.
"Sounds like fun to me," Loki said. 'This sounds like a great chance to see Twilight's adorkable side,' "Are ya sure about this?" Applejack asked.
"What if this A.K. Yearling don't wanna talk to us?"
"Are you kidding?" Rainbow Dash asked with a laugh.
"She's a celebrity, I'm sure she's dealt with curious fans all the time."
Once they found Twilight and after applebloom came running back for Applejack, Loki thought it was because of something, Loki gave a snap of his talons and then found themselves in the middle of a forest. "Who goes there." Loki pulled back the bushes to revival A.K. Yearling herself.
"Rainbow Dash may I introduce you to A.K. Yearling author of your book which is also believe it or not is real because she is Daring Do." Loki finished. The pegasus blinked at this.
"Whats going on?" A.K. Yearling asked. Loki gave her a smile.
"I give you Rainbow Dash element of Loyalty and your biggest fan, Oh I'm Loki as well."
"What are you talking about?" A.K. Yearling said as she flinched a little as she heard Loki's accusation. "Daring Do is just a character I write about."
"Don't you lie to me," Loki chuckled as he pointed a talon at Yearling. "I know who you really are, and that all of your adventures are real."
"Do you have any proof of this?" Yearling asked.
"Are you really sure about this, Loki," Twilight whispered to him.
"Just watch this," He whispered back. Loki then turned back to Yearling, took a deep breath and blew it out in a fierce gale that ripped off Yearling's outfit, revealing that she was in fact, Daring Do. This revelation caused both Twilight and Rainbow Dash's jaw to drop.
"She actually Daring Do?" Twilight asked turning to Loki. "How you know about this?" Twilight asked. Loki rolled his eyes.
"Its one of those things I just know." Rainbow Dash shock soon gave way to her fanmarism.
"Oh my gosh. Oh my Celestia your Daring Do... Loki you won't kidding." Rainbow Dash just realized something. "Are you writting another book can I be in it..." Loki removed her sound so they didn't have to listen to her.
"Will that was a bad Idea." Loki said mentioning the mess he just created.
"If you thought this was going to be a bad idea then why'd you do it?" Twilight asked.
"Well, when she asked me to take her to meet the author, I knew you'd like to meet her too considering you're a fan of the series too." Loki said.
"Aww, that's sweet of you," Twilight replied with a warm grin.
"Hey, I just like making you happy," Loki said, returning the grin.
"So," Daring Do said interrupting their little moment. "You all know my little secret, what do you want with me?"
"Well, once Rainbow Dash calms down I guess she and Twilight have a few questions for you," Loki answered.
"Well then you're wasting your time," Daring snorted, "I don't answer fan questions. I prefer to be alone."
'Ooh, don't touch that one,' Loki thought, 'she'll freeze you to the bone.'
"Well I'm sure you can stop the sun from burning the world alive... oh wait you're not Celestia or me." Loki snapped his fingers as it was for a moment night then day. Twilight was about to ask then realized he was most likely talking about the future. "Well cya later." In a flash the three where gone. In the library Loki had a cloak. "Give it a few." After a while Loki teleported them again with Daring Do tied up and her arch rival about to burn the world alive. "Sup." Loki snapped his fingers.
"Yes the world will...." The moon replaced the sun.
"What just happened?" He asked.
"I lowered the sun." Loki said. The weird thing moved back in fear. He knew about Discord from his travels. How can he fight a physical god? Thats basically suicide.
"Ooh, I know that look," Loki said as he lounged in midair. "That's the, 'I'm about to fight something I'm woefully unprepared to deal with,' face," he finished with a cocksure grin. Daring Do's longtime adversary quaked quaked as he thought of a way out of the situation.
"Umm, well I..." He stammered as he looked between his lackeys. "Oh don't you worry, I'm not going to kill you." The villain was about to let out a sigh of relief but Loki continued,
"That is, unless you don't stop trying to burn up the world." The villain started to sweat bullets at that.
"O-of course! I was only joking about my destroy the world plan. Boys, untie Daring Do."
"What why?" One of them asked.
"Do you really want to fight a god who can override the Alicorn Sisters for control over the sun and moon?" He asked them the two paled. They untied Daring Do and the villains ran with Loki with his arm out stretched taking the object back. "Well then." With a snap from his tail feathers the sun returned. "I'm going to get a lot of yelling from Celestia and Luna later but given what was going to happen." Loki finished with the object in hand. "Before you ask I'm keeping this like I do all other dangerous magical objects, because really fight a god?" Loki asked.
"I suppose that's a good idea as any," Daring Do said as she popped a few joints. "I was probably going to give it to a museum, but it'll probably be safer with you," she admitted.
"Hey, thanks for that, and as a form of thanks you don't have to include me in your next book," Loki replied with a grin. Rainbow Dash perked up at that and rushed in between Loki and Daring Do.
"If he doesn't want to be in it, can I?" She asked with a hopeful grin.
'Really, you didn't do anything in this version of the events,' Loki thought with an internal chuckle. "Well, what do you say, would you do it as a favor for saving your life?" He asked.
Daring shrugged and said, "Why not, I'll think of something to do with her character."
"Nice, could you do one more thing for me?" Loki asked.
"What is it?"
"Would you let my marefriend and her friends ask you questions about your books?" Daring sighed a little at that and looked up at Loki.
"Sure, why not. I do owe you quite a bit for saving me, and Equestria."
A flash happened as another Element of Disharmony appeared and became active. "I have no idea what I even did to get that." Loki said confused by the whole thing. For Twilight this was kinda a low blow to her as she hadn't even made any progress with her own puzzle while Loki did his without him even knowing.
"Hey Twilight it's not so bad." Loki said. 'Should I tell her about the keys? If I did she'll probably want to know what's inside the chest if I tell her its the rainbow power.... Damn It Tirek where are you!' Loki yelled into his mind.
I guess you're right, I just wish I knew where to even begin with our puzzle," Twilight said with a slightly disappointed sigh. Loki just chuckled as he wrapped his paw around Twilight.
"You're worrying too much about this. All you have to do is believe in your friends and yourself and things will work out, you'll see."
"Thanks Loki, that actually helped a little. You always know how to calm me down," she said with a warm grin.
"It's what I do," he returned with a shrug, "besides, I owe you for all the times you calm me down."
"Well that is what I do. So, do you know what's inside the box?" She asked with an arched eyebrow.
"I may or may not know what is in the box, but I'm not at liberty to discuss that." Twilight's brow furrowed slightly and asked,
"Are you ever going to fill me in on these things?"
"Come on Twilight, you know that's a bad idea. I don't want to risk doing any serious damage when it comes to the fabric of space-time."
Twilight blinked at him. "Don't don't you and Discoed warp reality?" Twilight asked. Loki gave a laugh at that.
"Well yes we do but we don't just cause paradoxes and rip apart the universe to the point it can't fix itself. Loki answered.
Nyx gave a laugh at her father. Loki decided to have a little fun in the shop today as he had music on as he danced on the ceiling for her. In a flash of a vortex he was gone. "Daddy?" Nyx asked.
The fangs shards then became a blinding light as a familiar form cam moonwalking on the ceiling. “Hey where's the music?” He asked then looked down. “CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!” His voice rang out as he fell on the ground…. well though it then appeared back looking at Deathwing and the pony. “Which one of you summoned me? I have you know I was on a family outing…. Little Nyx must be traumatized.”
The mare -now that Deathwing looked at her- stood up, “Not me, I was heading home! I hoped we’d get back! Who summoned me!?” She then looked at Twilight, “Not again…”
However a cough appeared behind them both showing them the metal clad Dragon. “It was mostly me, I kinda smashed the tokens.” Deathwing answered. Loki appeared right in front of him. Looking right into his eyes.
“I know you.” Loki said. The dragon blinked in confusion.
“I don’t know you.” Deathwing answered.
“Oh come on can’t be that long? How long were you imprisoned? One thousand? Ten thousand?” Loki asked.
“I was here when the planet was made around my body.” Deathwing started. “4.5 billion years ago.”
The mare's ears folded at the size of the dragon and what he said, she backed away slowly. The dragon looked down. Loki appeared right next to her. “Hello who might you be?”
The mare jumped, “Why does that keep happening!?” Twilight’s voice came out of the mare. She squeaked.
Loki blinked at this. “Oh my Chaos your Twilight from another dimension… wait Chrysalis, Sombra? You don’t have wings so it can’t be Tirek, or Starlight.” Loki said listing the season villains.
The mare cleared her throat nervously, “I- I have no idea who you're t-talking about…” the black Twilight stuttered.
Then a second voice spoke, “Just beat Discord. And stay away from my Sparkle-Butt!” A mostly male voice spoke.
Loki moved back. “Sorry I had too ask because by now I already stopped the invasion, beet Sombra, exposed Starlight and still can’t find Tirek.” Loki answered. He looked around.
The crystal palace could mean only one thing. “So you already stopped Tirek and Twilight got the Rainbow power?” Loki asked.
Deathwing shook his head. “I woke up after he was stopped.”
“Well you want spoilers then?” Loki asked Venom.
“Stop. Some things we may never see. Not like all universes are the same, and I’d hate for my host to freak.” They spoke, looking back at them. “So you're BOTH Displaced?”
Loki rolled his eyes which literally rolled out of his head grew wings and returned to their place. “Of course, what never seen a person go as a character already in MLP?” Loki asked.
Deathwing was confused. “I already meet two who call me Displaced.”
“What the hell is MLP? I’ve heard of FNAF, TF, PPG, ect. But I’ve never known… MLP…” Lee said, tilting Twilight’s head.
“My little pony… you know the thing we are in?” Loki said, “You know friendship is magic? Alicorns raise the sun and moon, ‘Twilight becomes an Alicorn Princess and ruins it’ stuff?”
Lee’s eyes widened, “I LIVE IN A CHILDREN'S TV SHOW!?!?!?!? How does that make sense! I know things look cartoony, but turning to stone! How is this place even real!? And how come I never heard it before!”
Loki had on a lab coat and a chalkboard. “Simply, for your first part there two theories, one is that there's an all powerful cosmic force who create universes based on what they find addictive or fun of human culture.” Loki wrote down the first theory. “Or two and more possible, everything in games, comics, tv is real and the people who make it really subconsciously view these worlds.” Loki finished.
Deathwing raised a claw. “Are you sure you not been driven mad by your powers?”
Loki had a coin. He tossed it and it landed on, ‘Ignore what the dragons says.’
“It… kind of makes sense… And I’ve heard things that suggest this is the case. I mean, I met a Displaced who called the Element’s ‘The Mane Six’. Its crazy, but we all live in a magical land of colorful talking ponies... “ Lee said. His Twilight was completely confused. “Wait, ‘Nyx’?”
“My daughter, she a little Alicorn Filly…. who happens to be Nightmare Moon reborn.” Loki said as his shadow became Nightmare Moons.
“WHAT!” This dimension Twilight screamed.
“Don’t worry I used my Twilight DNA as a template so she wouldn’t be a hate filled pony.” Loki said.
‘Twi. Why is your face hot?’ Lee questioned, yet didn’t get an answer.
Deathwing gave a sigh. “If you excuse me I have a Volcano to stop.” Deathwing said as in a flash he became an Alicorn with a cutie mark of the planet. As he turned Loki appeared with Venom. Who was confused at how that had happened.
“What's this of a Volcano?” Loki asked.
“When I woke up I tore the world apart.” Deathwing started.
“We are coming.” Loki said.
“What!?” Venom yelped.
“They need the experience and I need my elements to be activated.” Loki said, holding six gems three of which glowed. “Besides I’m more Powerful than Discord so there literally no way to get rid of me!”
“But we aren’t as powerful!” Venom countered. Lee’s Twilight gulped, ‘He’s going to think of something to make me tag along, isn’t he?’
“Come on it's not like a physical god going to be there plus I need to fresh lava for Friezia that Wendigo needs a fresh batch.” Loki said.
Venom sighed, “Fine. But I’m not going to do anything…”
They soon appeared by Loki’s magic to the massive volcano and the little town below them. “Strange the town should be evacuated.” Loki said using a balloon to zoom in.
However Deathwing also noticed something. “I don’t think that Volcano should be erupting, it's almost like…” The mountain face burst open with a changeling Titan. A being bigger than a hydra.
“Oh its a trap.” Loki said.
“I think we know General Akbar. You jinxed it!” Venom snapped.
“Oh my if it isn’t the dragon from before.” A seductive but evil voice said. Appearing on top her titan was a Changeling queen.
“Pupa, Aren’t you dead?” Deathwing asked.
“I have a Pupa as well she's a pushover she not even a…” Pupa jumped down and was gone in a flash with a long skeleton like body and wings of long thin lines. “Is now a demon…. Ok.” Loki said.
The heck is that!” Venom yelled. Looking at the monster.
“It was a changeling queen now its some kinda demon.” Loki answered.
“Oh this is a gift from my masters I could have used it to kill that mortal from before but I wanted to save it for the jailer.” She said pointing at Deathwing.
“What are you talking about?” Deathwing asked.
“You can’t hear their voices?” Pupa asked.
“What did we get ourselves into?” Venom asked, glaring at the Dragon who summoned them, “And what in the name of Luna is she talking about!?”
“Are you sure you're not insane?” Loki asked.
“No, I am not Chaos spawn, when he made the world my masters were imprisoned and they can't reach him because of the other avatars.” Pupa said, her mouth keep moving as a mute appeared over her. Loki had a remote in hand. “What else is on?” Loki asked. In a channel change horrible creatures with three dozens tentacles and six mouths were seen. “Oh Eldritch weddings!” Loki said.
“What are you talking about?” Venom suddenly became more interested in Loki then the demon Changeling.
“Oh I forgot you can’t see the outer dimensions like I can, lets just say if you see what I see you would got mad.”
“Who says I’m not already. I was in stone with nothing to do.”
“Ok then I warned you.” Loki showed him the horror. Venom throw up.
“Give me brain bleach! Twilight’s gonna eat me!” The Symbiote cried out.
Loki removed the thing from his mind. “Hey your luck I have to see the kiss all you saw was them speaking.”
Venom gave Loki a thankful look, then turned their head to Deathwing, “You don’t want to know…”
“I guessed that much.” However Pupa gathered a blast of magic and tossed it at them. Deathwing stomped and a huge wall of rock came in front of them.
“Well looks like we got a fight on….”
Loki was seen crying. “Oh weddings make me….” Before getting a fireball to the face.
“Just us." Deathwing said.
Venom’s eyes widened, “Okay…” Venom shot a web at a bolder and threw it at the Demonling.
Pupa raised her hands up to form a barrier. Deathwing however had an idea. “Her toss this at her.” He brought up another Boulder. Venom nodded, and used both hooves to web it. They spun it around a couple time, then chucked it at Pupa.
While it smashed the barrier it two broke apart.. to revive molten Lava. “Oh great!” Pupa was covered in it. Screaming she did.
“I will murder you!” Pupa’s voice rang out. Loki got back up.
“Who hit me with fire!” Loki demanded. Deathwing pointed with his horn to Pupa. Loki glared, gathering energy. “I’m banishing you bitch!” Loki screamed. Unleashing a massive burst of magic to Pupa sending her into the sun.
“Now that's done.” Loki said as two more gems glowed. “Yes two elements everyone gets gifts!” Loki said.
Venom seemed to deflate, “I guess that's it... not that we did anything…” Even Deathwing felt deflated.
“Yeah lets never speak of this again.” Deathwing said. Loki had tears.
“Fine then see yeah.” He teleported into a vortex back home.
In the vortex Loki ripped off his fang twice and tossed them out. One ended up in Twilight Castle for Deathwing the other heading for Venoms home.
In his home Loki look over the five elements he had unlocked. However the last one the Disharmony of magic refused to listen. "Great I'm still one away and the mane six are one away what could possibly." His eyes flashed as he sensed something. "What was that?" He closed his eyes to search for it. He found... a Unicorn on the ground with no magic. 'Oh god no its Tirek!'
Loki thought in fear. The day came up as he raced to Discords room. He wasn't there. "Celestia!" He screamed and teleported to the crystal palance. Celestia saw Loki appear right in front of her. "Celestia tell me you didn't send Discord off to fight Tirek?" He asked.
"I did actually..." Loki face floored.
"Oh great we are doomed."
"What are you talking about? I thought you, Fluttershy and the others had made great strides in reforming him?" Celestia asked with a look of pure fear.
"More like baby steps. Look, why didn't you just ask me to take care of Tirek?"
"I figured you would be busy. Between your shop, raising Nyx, helping the elements unlock the box, not to mention a relationship with a certain purple princess. I didn't want to impose and thought that Discord would be just as good."
Loki took a deep breath and managed to calm himself down a little. "You know what, it's fine. If I can get to the two of them before Tirek can steal too much magic, I should be able to handle the both of them," he reasoned. "Didn't your last fight with Discord nearly end in a tie?" Celestia asked with an incredulous look.
"Don't worry about that, I have a plan," he lied, he didn't have one, "Now, I'm going to find those two. Do me a favor and don't tell Twilight about this."
Don't worry, I won't," Celestia promised with a warm smile. And with that Loki teleported out of the room. As soon as he did that Celestia's smile fell. "Guards! summon Princess Twilight Sparkle and the other Elements of Harmony, there is news that they must hear."
Discord stopped he could sense Loki was coming for them. With a snap he cast a old spell to hide them a old spell he used to remain hidden for millions of years. "We better get moving." Discord said to Tirek as he drained another group of Unicorns magic.
Loki appeared in the frozen north, then the Everfree forest then the waters of the sea. Loki keep cursing. "Discord!" With a flash he was gone to Canterlot Library. "Ok this is going nowhere." he paused as he felt the princesses magic in one pony. 'Whoa... its not like Tirek a threat now but I got to get Nyx out of here.' Nyx was a Alicorn Filly and she had little control over her magic a prime target for Tirek.
Tirek walked to the Canterlot palace as he did he saw the stain glass windows but ignored them. Celestia was shocked. "What but Loki should have taken care of you? Discord what did you do!" Celestia asked.
Discord then revealed he was one of the images on the stain glass windows and pulled himself out with a grin. Celestia frowned and thought, 'Loki may have a point about Discord's creativity, he's repeating old tricks.'
"Really Celestia, hiding myself from that cheap lookalike wasn't that hard. I just put a dampening spell on Tirek and myself. It basically cloaked our magical auras making it impossible to track us down. I'm surprised he didn't think of it," Discord concluded with a dark chortle.
"Enough of your explanations Discord," Tirek boomed. "I'm here to take what's mine," he finished as he stomped towards Celestia and picked her up in his magic. He then tried to suck her magic out like he had done countless times, but was shocked when nothing happened. "What is the meaning of this?!"
"We gave away our magic." Cadance said. Discord had a smile. "Oh yes to her right." He revealed Twilight stain glass window. "Equestria newest Princess." Discord answered. Tirek looked it over.
"Four Alicorns worth of magic." He was liking the sound of that. Loki teleported into the dream world with Nyx and frieza in hand they would be safe hopefully in this dimension. "Ok please don't tell me time works differently in the dream world." He begged himself in a flash, however it did. He appeared just in time watch Tirek holding everyone hostage, in a way to get Twilight to give up the Alicorn magic. Twilight surrendered it having no choice. As he drained the magic of the four princesses Loki finally snapped. He spend a whole year looking for him to stop this. Loki magic flared up as he charged right into Tirek grabbing his horns, slamming him into the ground hard!
"What in the name of Tartarus?" Tirek managed to ask before he was slammed into the ground once more. Unlike with Twilight that actually hurt.
"Stay the fuck away from my marefriend," Loki growled the air around him twisted as reality bulked under his rage..
Tirek managed to pick himself up off the ground and chuckled at. "So this is what Discord meant by a lookalike," He said as he looked Loki over. "This should prove to be interesting. I now hold all of the magic in Equestria, it should be interesting to see if I can defeat someone that is considered to be a god." "Keep dreaming buddy. When I'm done with you you're going to wish I sent you back to Tartarus," Loki boomed as he charged magic into his talons and paw, Loki then snapped his talons and teleported the both of them into a far off wasteland on the edge of Equestria. Loki didn't want to risk any lives in this fight, save for two. His own and Tireks.
Tirek looked around for a brief moment seeming surprised at suddenly being teleported, he didn't even sense Loki do it.
However Loki gave him a punch right into the sky, the mountain Tirek landed on broke apart. Tirek spat out a tooth.
As Loki flew at him, Triek reacteed with a punch of his own. Sending Loki into a mountain. Loki teleported before the rubble become a squad of mechs before they all slammed into Tirek, the centertar was forced to unleash his magic to break free. He summoned the clouds who unleashed lighting at Loki. As the lighting hit, Loki turned them into solid rock which slammed into Tirek before slamming a mountain into him.
Far off the fact Loki was the only thing standing inform of Tirek and the world was both scary and heroic. Scary as if he failed Tirek could take his magic and be unstoppable, Heroic because the fight would be one for the history books where Loki would if he won Semite his position as Defender of the balance. Shock waves were felt as the two Titans in the badlands tried
Punch after punch each connecting. Finally in the badlands the two gather energy and unleashed a blast of magic. All beings with magic could sense the clash. With a explosion the light could be seen all over the planet.
Tirek was on the defensive after a while Loki seemed unstopped. 'I have all the magic of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, Uincorn, the Alicorns and Discord! How is it that he not only strong enough to face me, but actually overpower me!' Tirek thought. Loki with a massive fist slam knocked Tirek into the ground before flying up he summoned a massive amount of Magic. A huge ball brighter then the sun formed as he was going to end Tirek right here!
Right as he was about to let it go Tirek unleashed a blast into the ball a explosion rocked the world itself as Loki was sent into a mountain injured by his own magic. Loki was barely conscious
Tirek stood up injured using his powers, Loki was leaved up glowing Tirek took this time to attempt to take away his magic. Tirek had to give him credit Loki refused to give his magic even while half way conscious and through willpower was stopping it. However Loki month slowly gave way as coming out of it his eyes and even his body a huge surge of magic. It took far longer then any source Tirek had ever gone. In fact already Loki had more magic the Discord and the combined Alicorns and Loki still seemed to have more much more. After about a minute it became clear Tirek had double his power and by the three minutes mark he had double that! The only reason it seems Loki didn't just end him was lack of understanding just how powerful he really was.
"Oh my this power you have so much magic within you." He said. Loki sighed as He tried to stand up. Tirek gathered magic. "However given how powerful you made me, I think a quick death is in order." Tirek unleashed a blast right into Loki. Twilight, Nyx, Frezia, Discord, the royal sisters, Trixie and a few others felt something a part of them die. Where Loki stood was nothing Tirek had destroyed Loki down to the Atom.
All of a sudden, Twilight just collapsed. She somehow knew what had happened to Loki. Tears started to flow freely from her eyes as she wept for her sudden loss. "No Loki," She whispered softly. All of a sudden she shot up and looked up toward the sky. "Loki! You can't be dead, I need you, Nyx needs you!" All of a sudden her sadness turned to anger and she turned to Discord with a glare. "You! this is all your fault! You let Loki die! We should've never let you out of your statue. In fact, we should've just smashed your statue and we could've been done with you forever."
Discord visibly shrank as Twilight's anger was unleashed upon him. "I-I'm sorry Twilight. I-I just wanted my freedom. And I may have wanted to get back at Loki, but I never wanted all of this to happen."
e looked at his gift from Tirek. He gave it to her. "I don't deserver friendship, and I don’t deserve my title or magic." The object became the key of magic. However for Twilight this mattered not.
In the spot were Loki once was a slight glow could be seen as if something had been there.
"I AM NOW YOUR GOD!" Tirek screamed. As Twilight looked at the key and back at Tirek.
They could finish him but Loki.... A voice ragged out across the skies breaking her form her trance. "FUCK YOU!" Six lights sprang up from the horizon as they all came and landed right in front of the main six when it was done. Appearing before them.... was Loki! He stood with his form changed . With two fangs instead of one what looked light horns of the sides of his mouth with long whiskers like of energy his colors looked darken more diverse like a rainbow. Loki had finally unlocked the true power of the Elements of Disharmony.
"How are you still alive!?" Tirek thundered as his hands glowed with magic. He then formed orbs of magic and then threw them right at Loki. Loki just smirked as he threw up his mismatched arms and caught the orbs in them with little effort. He then crushed them out of existence. "Fuck you that's how," He answered.
Twilight beamed and couldn't believe what she was seeing. "Loki, is that really you?" She asked as she rubbed her eyes with her hooves.
"You got that right," he replied with a wink toward her. "Now you go, I'll hold him off while you and the girls do what you have to do." Twilight nodded and motioned for the girls to follow her to the box that the Tree of Harmony. Once they were out of sight Loki turned to Tirek and cracked the knuckles of his talons. "Let's do this one more time Tirek. Round 2 Fight!"
Triek unleashed a massive blast which Loki countered with a blast of his own. A dark blast that stalemated then over powered Tirek's. "Impossible!" Tirek couldn't believe this he had all of Equestria powers he had all the magic.
He fucking killed Loki! How do you even get better form it! Tirek went to deliver a punch only for Loki to catch it as a shockwave gave way behind him as the country side was destroyed Tirek hit with all the strength he had and, Loki simply gave his own upper cut, sending Tirek all the way into space. A second later a kick hit him as Loki appeared crossing the distance before reappearing in the ground fist raised. Triek gave a cough as blood came right out his month. Loki let him down then started stretching. "You know I haven't even started to warm up and I'm already man handing you." Loki flew up. "Ok perhaps I should hold back even more?" Loki offered.
However another flash of rainbow light reviled Twilight and her friends with the Elements true power. "Impossible! I can't be defeated!" He screamed. Loki got with the Six. "No Tirek your nothing." Loki wasn't kidding on that part. With that they all charged up a single blast Harmony and Disharmony.. Tirek lunched his own... which was overpowered like paper vs a Nuke. Tirek screamed under the force as the magic was literally ripped out of his very body. However even after he had nothing his very atoms were soon destroyed under the onslaught.
With Tirek gone the group land on the ground magic restored.
The seven landed and tried to get their senses in order after everything that had happened. Before Loki could fully recover Twilight jumped on him and wrapped him in a massive hug. "Twi-hurk-light, ease up, I can't breathe." He wheezed as he shakily returned the hug. Tears of joy streamed down Twilight's face as she buried head in Loki's chest.
"I'm so happy you're safe," she said as she eased her grip. "I thought I'd lost you."
"Hey, you can't get rid of me that easily. You're stuck with me for a long time," Loki said with a chuckle as he gently stroked Twilight's head. She just smiled and looked up at him with a sparkle in her eyes.
"You know, I don't think I mind that idea very much," she cooed with slightly lidded eyes.
"Alright ya two lovebirds, that's enough with the kissy faces," Applejack called out causing Twilight to separate from Loki. "Before we can celebrate we gotta repair Ponyville."
When they got there however everything seemed to have been back to normal however Twilight’s library wasn't there and instead a palace stood. "Oh my Celestia." Twilight said. She and the others entered the castle finding that Ponyville had all entered it. They came to a circle of six thrones with a smaller one for spike however Loki noticed another room in it was a throne with Chaos magic it actually was for him with a smaller one with a cutie mark. The dream world opened up as Nyx came out with Frieza.
"Daddy!" She raced to Loki who picked her up. She had a cutie mark now.
Loki smiled as he scooped up the relieved little filly. "Hey there sweetie, wait how'd you get out of the dream world on your own?" He asked as the alicorn filly nestled into his arms. She then looked up at him with a big smile.
"Well, I had this weird feeling while I was there that something bad had happened to you. So I tried everything I could think of to get to you. And eventually I was able to get right to you. And plus, I got my cutie mark because of it," Nyx beamed.
"That's great to hear," Loki said, tousling his daughter's mane as he quickly looked at his daughter's mark. Unsurprisingly, it was nearly identical to Luna's. "I'm proud of you Nyx, and I bet the other crusaders will be too." Nyx's ears flattened at the mention of that.
"I didn't think of that. Do you think they'll let me keep being a crusader even though I have my cutie mark?"
"I'm sure they will, they're your friends no matter what." Loki reassured her. Nyx's expression brightened at that.
However everything was soon stopped as the princesses came with Discord who honestly was sad. "Twilight Discord told us what had happened..." Cadance said the fact her true love died facing Tirek… she didn’t even want to think about how that might feel.
"Well I did die, but I got better." Loki said walking out. Discord looked wide eyed. "How, what why?" Discord asked. In a flash the six elements of Disharmony appeared all of them glowing. "Seems Tirek killing me was what I needed to use the last element..." Loki finished. "That's amazing... you die yet even Death can't stop you." Discord looked down. "Loki I know this may not mean anything but your right.... there was a time I was creative, but no more. I guess I'm no longer meant to be the Lord of Chaos anymore." Loki just put a talon on his shoulder.
"Discord you will always the Lord of Chaos."
The elements started to circle Discord who soon turned into light and with that, the elements entered into Loki. "What just happened?" Discords voice said in Loki's head.
Loki blinked for a bit as he looked himself over. 'I'm not sure, I think we just fused together,' Loki told him.
“Well, this is certainly interesting, I wonder what we could accomplish while we're like this," Discord wondered.
'I don't know, but I really hope you get out of my head soon. I'd really prefer it if you weren't around when I have alone time with Twilight,' Loki could tell Discord was shuddering in his head.
"I agree, let's see if we can put our heads together, to take our heads apart." The two then struggled and strained while everyone in the room just watched as it looked like Loki was just making silly faces in the room.
"Uhh, Loki are you okay?" Twilight asked as she carefully approached him.
"I'm.. huuurk, fine. Just trying to get Discord out of me."
Loki then realized something. "Wait, where is Chrysalis?" He asked. No one wondered where she was during this whole event. A few changelings came in. "What is this?" With them was a message.
"Dear Equestria I Pupa have finally captured my sister while you have been dealing with Tirek I am here to say I have declared war for the imprisonment of my sister...." Loki burned the letter.
"Yeah she’s mostly just making stuff up. Honestly, what is it with this place and power hungry dictators wanting to take over? Give me a moment, I'll get her back." In a flash he was gone then returned with her in hand.
"How did you do that so quickly?" Celestia asked. Loki just rolled his eyes and smiled at her.
"Well I have all of mine and Discord's power. I could probably do whatever I want right now." Chrysalis just blinked as she looked up at Loki with slightly discolored cheeks.
"Umm, can you put me down now? This is a rather embarrassing position to be in," she said.
"Oh sure, sorry about that Chrysalis." Loki said as he gently placed Chrysalis onto the ground. "Okay, now I'm going to try and separate myself from Discord again."
"Wait, considering how strong you are now, do you really think you should separate?" Twilight asked. Loki then gave Twilight a serious look.
"Look Twilight, do you really want Discord living in my head while we do that one thing with the..."
Twilight's entire face turned beet red and she rushed over to make Loki stop talking. "Please stop talking!" She interrupted.
"What do you two even do together?" Discord asked.
'That is for us to know and nobody else to find out,' Loki replied.
Discord sighed and an astral form of him appeared. "Well it seems I can still exist in the astral plane and the dream world actually I believe I have an idea." Loki grabbed his head. Inside his subconscious Discord had his own little room.
"Ok then I'm off to sleep." Discord said as he fell asleep.
"Wait, but what about Pupa?" Celestia asked. Loki rolled his eyes. A letter formed.
"Dear Pupa if you do want to attack remember this, 4 alicorns, a god, and a super version of the elements are all ready to wipe you from the world of the living... also a Dragon god of the earth as well." The last part was confusing but Loki knew the dragon in question well.
"So, what happened to Discord?" Twilight asked hopefully.
"Well, he's still inside my head, but now he's got his own little... I guess apartment would be a good word to describe it, also he's asleep right now." Everyone in the room just stared on in confusion at what had just been said.
"Ya know, this is weird even by your standards." Rainbow Dash said.
"Yeah, I'm hoping that we can separate at some point. Though the power boost should be helpful," Loki admitted.
'Wait a minute, oh man it's almost time for Rainbow Rocks! This is going to be so amazing. I can't wait for this. I'd better get my things together once I get home.'
Loki looked though the bookshelves in the Canterlot library. After putting the guard to sleep he went looking for the book he needed. “Found it!” With that he teleported out of there heading for the new castle of friendship.
He appeared in his room of the castle. "Hey Twilight." He said.
Twilight walked into the room. "Loki, what is it?"
Loki turned to her. "Sirens, Sunset read now."
Twilight picked up the book and blinked as she read it. "Well how are we going to get there, the mirror doesn't open for a while?" Twilight wondered aloud, thinking for a moment she had an idea. "I could try forcing the portal open."
He then looked at the book and back to Twilight. "Actually, I've got a safer idea. This book was able to send a message between the two dimensions. Maybe if we used it as a catalyst we could bypass the portal's reliance on the lunar cycles" Loki explained. Once he was finished his explanation Twilight's wings flared up. She then noticed her condition and blushed a little. Loki then smirked and asked, "I take it you like it when I break out the science talk?"
"Maybe," she admitted, "but let's not focus on that and work on the portal now."
"Sounds good to me, I can't wait to see your human look again," Loki said with a smile.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little excited. It'll be nice to be the same species as you, even for a little while. Also, it'll be good to see those girls again. Actually, we should visit them when they don't have a crisis to deal with, next time."
"Sounds good to me. Now let's do some science!" Loki called out as he snapped his talons causing a lab coat and goggles to appear on him.
Loki pulled out the magic mirror and with the book and strange theories and writing the portal got working. "Ladies first." Loki said. Twilight passed through then Loki. At Canterlot High Sunset and the human five saw the mirror flash as Twilight appeared and Loki alongside her. "We're back." Loki said with a smile.
"Twilight it’s good to see you." Sunset said.
Loki pulled out something from his jacket. "Juice anyone?" Loki asked. The offer of juice from the reality warper wasn't taken up until Pinkie pie raised her hand. Loki tossed her one.
"You won't believe what happened in Equestria while you were away Sunset, Tirek came and I died then came back and we beat him to death." Loki finished.
"What, you died?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Loki then noticed the looks of shock on their faces and said, "I got better." Twilight turned to Loki with a slight frown.
"Could you please not treat that like some joke? I was terrified when I thought I'd lost you." Loki flinched when she said that.
"Okay, the last thing I want to do is to hurt you."
"I know, now let's deal with these sirens," Twilight told him as she took his hand in her own. Rarity smiled as she looked at the two of them.
"It seems you two are even closer than when we last saw you. I can almost hear the wedding bells for the both of you."
"Yeah, it sounds like everything's going great for you," Sunset said with a forced grin. This didn't go unnoticed by Loki and tried to help cheer her up.
"Hey, I know things have probably been tough on you. Just don't give up. Sometimes redemption can feel like it's impossible to earn, but you've gotta keep trying. I actually thought Twilight would never forgive me after a mistake I made."
"What did you do?" Pinkie pie asked. Loki gave a nervous laugh. "You know how I can warp reality? Well I kinda can use that to change my form and I kinda took the form of a Unicorn called Best Seller for months until the crystal empire she learned the truth... and I turned the city into a huge mech and then fought Sombra." Loki answered. Rainbow Dash found the mech part awesome.
"After that we kinda had a minor falling out and if it wasn't for the whole Sombra horn I ate causing me to go evil for a bit until she broke the curse with a kiss, and well we’re together." Twilight decided to switch this conversation.
"Well, I think we should get to work," Twilight said.
"Sounds good to me," Loki answered. "Now, let's see if we can deal with these three quickly."
“Yeah! Now that you two are here we can just zap 'em with that rainbow magic blast thing!" Rainbow Dash cheered.
"Alright, so does anyone know where the three of these sirens are?" Loki asked. The six girls looked between each with an embarrassed look.
"Uh, not really we kind of lost track of them after their appearance in the cafeteria," Sunset admitted.
"Ooh, but I know where they'll be!" Pinkie cheered. "There's going to be a party for all of the bands in the competition. They're bound to show up there."
"Okay, then we're going to attend that party and use the power of the elements on them," Twilight concluded.
'The travel to the other universe woke me up so tell me who am I in this world? An emperor?' Discord asked. Loki had a mental smile.
'A janitor.' Loki answered.
“WHAT! Me a janitor? I don't believe it!" Discord screamed. Loki sighed in his mind. 'Also why don't you just snap your fingers and be done with it?' Discord asked.
"Wait why doesn’t he just use his powers to be done with it?" Rainbow Dash asked pointing at Loki. Loki blinked.
"I honestly could do that but I have no idea what they look like."
"Is that true Loki?" Twilight asked with a stern look. Loki flinched as he realized that Twilight might have seen through him. "
Uh oh, looks like the significant other is on your case," Discord teased.
'Now is not the time Discord,' Loki shot back at the god he was forced to share a head-space with. 'I actually have a plan this time, but it's not ready yet and I don't want Twilight to know about it.'
"Well, sounds like you're playing a risky game," Discord told him with a chuckle.
'I don't need to be reminded, Discord.' "Of course not Twilight," He said aloud with a slightly strained smile. "I've learned my lesson after the last time I lied to you."
"Uh huh, let's just get ready for this party," Twilight sighed, not fully convinced.
Loki was finishing his plans while the band played he would add in a little something. 'It’s a good thing you read Friendship is magic and know their origins.' Discord said. Loki blinked.
'How did you...' Discord had a smile.
“I read your memories..... really? My little pony: Friendship is magic? That’s what my world is called? Also that's how you know so much about the future.... You saw it on a TV.” Discord said. He looked over the memories. 'I must say these fanfics really are bad.... me and Celestia? Fluttershy? Twilight? Luna? Oh my Chaos your world is a horrible place.' Discord said.
'Discord, what did I tell you about poking through my head?' Loki asked irritably. "Well I can't really help it considering we're fused together now." 'Well you'd better cut it out,' Loki warned him. "Oh really, and what will you do to me if I don't?" Discord chuckled. 'Something excruciatingly terrible. Something so awful that I dare not say it aloud.'
"You're bluffing," Loki then started showing Discord images and started playing music that made Discord start to sweat. Eventually, Discord cracked from the short exposure to the atrocities Loki had shown him. "Oh dear sweet chaos! make it stop! Make it stop! Okay, okay I'll never look through your memories again, just please make it stop!" Loki did as Discord asked and let out a sigh.
'I tried to warn you, now let's get ready for this.'
Loki gave a thank you to Justin Bieber the demon he was. Loki was finishing up his magical theory plans. He could alter the spell as they use it. The door opened up as he saw Sunset.
"So, who was Tirek?" Sunset asked. Loki raised an eyebrow at this.
"Why are you asking?" Loki stated. "Trying to start a conversation." Sunset said.
"Tirek was an ancient Centaur prince who drained magic by the time I faced him I had five elements of Disharmony and he held all the magic in Equestria, the Alicorns included and I went to fight him, I held my ground as did he me when my Elements surge gave off he took my vast reserves of magic then powerless he let loose a blast that literally destroyed my atoms.... then I unlocked the last element came back to life and with the other elements gaining the rainbow power returned all the magic he stole as a side note I think I could tap into that form now."
Sunset was at a loss for words on what to say about that. Loki didn't have the same problem though. "So, how are things with the girls going?" Sunset let out a long sigh at that.
"I honestly don't really know. I sometimes think things would be better if I was still the bitch I had been when I tried to take over the school."
"I understand, but believe me when I say that you can't give up."
"I know, I was just thinking out loud. So, let's change the topic from something depressing. What is it like to have all of Discord's powers?" Sunset asked with a good natured chuckle.
"Honestly, it's pretty cool. I mean, sometimes think it would be easier just to be a pony, but hey I make do. Anyway, it's almost time for the battle of the bands. I've got to go cheer on my girlfriend."
Loki watched as things went with the bands as they appeared. Of course he laughed at Twilight’s first failed attempt before snapping his fingers and summoning a camera to record this with a laugh. Loki then appeared he held in his hands something. "Here to defeat them you need music this should channel the magic needed." Loki said handing them his spell. "Also now I got something to keep at home." Loki said with the camera. "I wonder if I should show this..." Twilight slapped it out of his hand. "Hey what's that for?" He asked.
"I don't want you to show that to anyone!" She cried. "Also, what do you mean we need to use music?"
"Well, for some reason their music-based magic seems to be working just fine, so maybe you should try music in order to access yours," Loki suggested.
"What about you?" Pinkie asked. "Aren't you going to help us?"
"Well, I am helping. My chaos magic by itself isn't very good for purifying things. So I figured I'd sit on the sidelines and help you by giving you little things to help."
"Okay, but why did you record us just now?" Twilight asked with a cross look. "Uhh," Loki faltered trying to think of an excuse. "Discord made me do it," he finally said. "I most certainly did not!" Discord huffed inside his head. "Loki, I'm not buying it," Twilight stated firmly.
Loki teleported away. "Loki come back her!" However Loki wasn't gone. He was invisible.
"Damn it Discord." Loki said his voice was silenced.
"Want did I do?' Discord asked. Loki sighed as the girls stopped looking for him.
"Well at least he gave us a way to stop them." Twilight answered.
"Ok so we need to get musical instruments and we can stop them." Sunset said as she read everything over.
Loki hid over before a flash the instruments appeared for them. With a tag that said 'From Loki be sure to use these I made them to focus your magic to a point.' Unknown to them Loki had another spell written into it.
"Well that will help them." Loki said. '
Who them or the Sirens?' Discord asked.
'Both.'
"I keep telling you that you're playing a dangerous game here," Discord told him.
'I know, but you know what will happen if I don't interfere. I don't think the sirens deserve that, they can't help what they are,' Loki told him firmly.
"Oh, I agree with you, I was just making sure you understood the implications of your actions."
'Wait, you agree with me on this? That's pretty surprising for a lord of chaos.'
"Well, I understand being locked away for a long time, so I guess I feel some sympathy for them."
'That's good to hear Discord. So, now that we've given the girls their instruments, do you think we should go talk to the Dazzlings?' Loki asked.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?"
'Not really, but it does sound like fun.' Loki replied.
Loki himself found the tree sirens. "Well give me a moment.... Sirens, Adagio, Sonata, Aria." Loki said.
"Who are you?" Adagio asked. Loki rolled his eyes. He pulled out a coin this is a coin." He flipped it and it became a cookie in the air. "Now it's a cookie and now it's gone." It was gone. However his hands became talon and paw. It was a cue the three sirens suddenly realized who they were speaking with. "Discord?" Sonata said with some fear at him. After all they knew of the reality warping being who simply walked into Equestria and took it over.
"You’re close I'm his successor, Loki."
"Well why don't you come to the battle of the bands then?" Adagio asked. Loki gave it a thought being sure to use his paw.
"I might just take you up on that offer." Loki answered. With a snap he gave them chocolate. "I’m off little Sirens." With a flash he was gone. He however appeared in the park. "I just realize I don't know about this town." However a scream was heard behind him. It was Twilight this world's Twilight. "Oh crap." Loki said.
Is that Twilight of this dimension?' Discord asked.
'Yes she most likely sees of as an Advanced Alien and not a reality warping god. Now, I wonder...'
"Loki, I know where you're going with that and I suggest you stop." Discord stated interrupting him.
'B-but she has the lab coat, glasses and to top it all off the hair bun. How could I resist that?' Loki whined.
'Then just have the Equestrian Twilight wear those things later!"
'But what if...'
"Just stop, this is not a conversation I want to have ever. Oh, and we should say something, we've been quiet for a little while and she's still staring at us."
Loki looked down at the other Twilight and didn't know what to do. In the end he just called out, "Klaatu barada nikto!" He then tried to teleport away but the other Twilight tried to stop him.
"Wait! I have so many questions for you!" Loki then made the mistake of looking at the face the human Twilight was giving him.
So instead he did the only logical thing. "Discord you’re in charge.' Loki said as he in his mental landscape pushed the older god into control. Discord teleported away as he found the Twilight from their world’s signature. He appeared and in the mental landscape grabbed Loki by the neck and tossed him back into control.
'Let’s never do that again.' Discord said.
"Agreed.” Loki answered.
"Loki where have you been?" Twilight asked. "I kinda found this world’s version of you... also Spike’s an actual dog." Loki said. Twilight blinked with this.
"Well what did she look like?" Twilight asked. Loki blinked and with a snap Twilight outfit was changed to her human world version.
"Something like this," Loki said as he looked at Twilight with a smile. Twilight looked herself over and regarded Loki with a curious expression.
"Was it really necessary to change my clothes like this?"
"Yes, for reasons," Loki answered with a slight nod.
"So, did you say anything to her?" Pinkie asked.
"Just one thing, but it was nonsensical."
"Really?" Sunset asked. "I would've thought that you would find it interesting to talk to your girlfriend's counterpart."
"Well, if she's anything like my girlfriend then she would start asking me all sorts of questions, and I don't know how long I could go before she asked me something I shouldn't answer. And considering she looks and sounds like my Twilight I don't know if I'd be able to refuse answering her," Loki said with a weak chuckle.
As they started the whole battle of the bands Loki looked out from the side lines. He used his magic every now and again. For treats or to get the bad bands off the stage. The sirens were after all winning. He recalled the issue here and remembering not even Star Swirl could stop them in music.
As the final battle was coming up the Dazzlings and the Rainbooms Loki readied as the Sirens summoned there forms in magic and the rainbooms summoned an Alicorn. With a snap however the blast wasn't from an Alicorn. It shifted and changed until it was a Draconequus. The chaos being beat them back as they landed. Of course Twilight realized what had just happened.
Her eye twitched for a moment before she took a deep breath and calmly let it out. "Loki could I talk to you for a second?" She asked seemingly calmly. Loki heard her and flinched a little as he teleported to her side with a dejected look on his face.
"Uhh what is it, Twilight?" He asked with a weak smile.
"Don't give me that, do you care to explain what you just did?" Twilight asked with quiet anger.
"Uhh, would you believe me if I told you that wasn't me?" Twilight just glared at Loki for a while before he shrank slightly. "Okay to be honest I used those instruments I gave you to channel my own magic into your spell and change things up a bit."
"And why would you do that?" Rarity asked.
Loki turned on his heel. "Well I decided to do something about their magic." Loki said walked away a bit. "You see Star Swirl attempted to fight them at their own game but always failed however the reason he did was because he was attempting to reform beings who’s magic made it impossible, so I simply did the most logical thing." He turned back. "I used the spell to reverse their magic’s effect they now undo conflict and feed on that instead of cause conflict pretty smart right?" Loki asked with a smile. Twilight had to admit. It was very brilliant. She probably would have attempted to destroy their magic.
"Okay, but why didn't you tell me about that?" Twilight asked. "I would've been glad to help you with that." Loki had to admit that he really had made a habit of doing things behind Twilight's back. That wouldn't be such a bad thing, except the two of them were dating. Communication and trust are supposed to be a given with that. And he didn't really have a good reason for it. It wasn't to protect the timeline considering he had already torn the show's timeline to teeny tiny shreds. He let out a long sigh as he slowly landed on the ground in front of Twilight.
"You're right Twilight. I really should've talked to you about my plans. I'm sorry, the next time I think up a crazy scheme, I'll tell you about it. You can even get involved with one of my little plots if you like," Loki told her.
As they both had their little moment they soon saw the sirens ran off they went back though the mirror with Sunset deciding to send friendship reports back to Twilight.
“Ok if my reasoning is sound this should work.” loki said as he was writing down something. The Astral form of Discord appeared over him.
“So what have you been doing?” He Astral projection of the deity in his body saw Loki get up with his claws at the ready.
“I’m going to attempt Dimensional travel.” Loki ripped into the wall as it glowed into a portal. “What could go wrong?” Loki said.
As he passed though Discord looked around the room. “Did I reminded him to take out the mirror?” The portal flash in a strange light. “Oh no…. ahhhh.” Discord soon dragged into the vortex as he was tethered to Loki.
(Gremmy Universe)
With a thud Loki landed just outside the Everfree forest. “Oh what hit me?” He asked. Astral Discord slammed back into his body. “Other than that.”
Loki stood up and wondered where i was. I seemed to be another Equestria. “I wonder if this one has a displaced? Only one way to find out.” Removing his fang he tossed the thing to home in of a displaced.
“I still don’t get why you agreed to Celestia’s request to stay in ponyville for a while.” Said Liltotto munching on a candy bar. “I mean it’s not like this will help win the elements over in our favor or something.”
“I’m only doing this because I felt nice, plus seeing how we’re here I might as well see how Vinyl is doing.” Said Gremmy.
“Still I don’t like being in this place, it’s…...too colorful.” Said Candice.
“Relax if anything happens we’ll just teleport the hell out of here. Now come on let’s have a look around and see if anything changed the last time I was here.” Gremmy said as Liltotto and Candice followed him.
A fang was seen coming and hit him from behind before falling onto the ground. Above them was a surfboard with a sail that was seen flying around in the sky. “Wow! There’s actually is a displaced you owe me ten bits.” ‘Discord’ said as a astral appearance of another Discord appeared.
“You cheated.” Astral Discord said.
“Yeah whatever.” The fang returned to his month, the board landed as it became a staff. “Sorry about that I guess you’re this universe's displaced?’
“That’s correct, and who might you be? You’re not my worlds Discord seeing how you’re not anthro.” Asked Gremmy.
“Yeah and you’re more uglier than he is.” Said Liltotto.
“I’m going to ignore that, and yes I’m not your universe Discord in fact i’m actually not a Discord, will until I absorbed my Discord.” He said pointing to the Astral being. “This will speak it better.”
He tossed his fang as it started to speak a recording.
I am Loki, Master of Chaos and Defender of the Balance. If you fight for Balance, for Freedom, and for Good, know that I will come to your aid! But know this...if you fight for imbalance or for the forces of evil....be aware that there are many fates worse than Death!
“So you dressed up as Discord? I have to admit that’s kind of…..sad in my book.” Said Gremmy.
Astral Discord started laughing at him. “Ahahahahahahahahahaha, oh thats gold.” Loki seemed to ignore him.
“Yeah whatever.” A song played in his head and Astral Discord screamed.
“No the horror!”
“While I’m tormenting him I’ll try to guess who you are and what this equestria maybe… let’s see it’s a bleach character I think, Nightmare, Discord, Sombra, Tirek, Starlight?” He said taking guesses. Astral Discord attempted to claw out Loki’s eyes.
“My name is Gremmy V Thoumeaux, and there’s are my lieutenants Liltotto G Lamperd and Candice T Catnipp.” Gremmy said introducing himself and his friends.
“Ok I’m Loki and this is my, Discord and former god of chaos, Discord.” Astral Discord was hitting his head repeatedly. “I’m making him listen to Justin Bieber.” Loki answered.
“Look if this is about the whole Tirek and you dieing thing I’m sorry!” Astral Discord said.
“Huh? I would of let him listen to that Doug theme song, anyway care to tell me what you’re doing here in my Equestria?”
“I was experimenting in dimensional travel, ever since I unlocked the elements of disharmony and became his successor.” He pointed to Discord. “I’ve been meaning to see how far my powers could go, now I realize that I may have barely scratched the service of my power.” Loki finished.
“And it took you this long to realize that now?” Said Liltotto. “I have to say, I’m not impressed.”
“One, I couldn’t make up my mind and use the chance to make my choices that was counterproductive, two I was under the belief I was only as powerful as he was and not his better, three I spent a lot of time looking for Tirek, four I’m in a relationship.” Loki answered.
“Uh huh, I’m still not impressed by all that.”
“Yeah not very impressive.” Said Candice.
Loki rolled his eyes. “You know what would impress you?” Loki asked, “Me turning the star system into a giant robot?” Loki asked joking.
“.........Bad pun.” Said Liltotto.
“Well what then? I have to fight someone? If I do does it have to be him?” He said pointing to Gremmy. Astral Discord was about to stop him from doing something reckless. “Shut up Discord.”
Gremmy gave Loki a creepy killer smile at Loki when he heard him wanting to fight him.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you buddy. If I was able to beat Princess Luna and Princess Twilight, then beating you wouldn’t be so much of a problem now should it?”
Loki gave a smile as the laws of physics moved back in fear. His eyes glowed with magic as the world was suddenly altered. Loki floated in the effect. “So what they don’t hold a candle to me.”
Astral Discord sighed. “You're really doing this? It's been only a week since you fought Tirek.” Astral Discord was then forced back into Loki.
Loki eyes glowed as he was first to move as time stopped for a moment with a sword formed as he ran to attack him while time was stopped, Loki delivered a punch to gremmy’s face and threw him to the side as time moved forward.
“Interesting trick you pulled off.” Said Gremmy who was standing next to Loki without scratch on him. “Had I not imagine a clone of myself to take the damage instead of me, then that would of hurt like hell.”
Loki glared as two things flashed over him. What looked like a dark version of rarity and Applejacks cutie marks. Loki gave a smile. Before Gremmy knew Loki stood there.
“Yeah nice idea but I’m not attacking another clone.” With a flash the real one appeared. “Got to thank the elements of greed and lies.” Loki said.
“Then let’s see how good you are when you magic is reduced by half.” Gremmy said as he Imagine Loki’s defenses and offensive powers being weak. “Question have you ever been shot before in your life by bullets?”
“No actually.” Loki realized what just happened. He summoned up another element. Loki coughed ah he was filled in bullet holes. However Gremmy also coughed up blood. “Apathy.” The element in the form of Flutters cutie mark appeared. ‘Discord I’m not healing like I should!’ Discord screamed at the god in his head.
“That’s because I’m preventing you from healing. The power of imagination is pretty useful when dealing with a god like you are.”
‘He cut down your healing factor.’ Discord screamed back.
“You really need to pay more attention to the middle letter in my name, what do you think the V in my name stands for?” Gremmy asked as he patched himself up from Loki’s surprise attack.
A flash later dashes cutie mark flared, Loki stood up. Appearing again was the cutie mark of Pinkie pie suddenly everyone around was depressed.
“Selfish, Depress, Apathy, Lies and Greed.” He said it like he was singing. Suddenly Loki had a smile. With a final flash Loki powers returned to normal. “And power makes it all complete.”
“Why do I get the feeling you’re just like captain planet.” Gremmy said as he started to walk towards Loki.
However Loki had a smile. “Yeah, I’m like that in a way.” Gremmy found Loki claws on his neck. With a burst of strength Loki tossed him before slamming into him. The two slammed into the moon.
“I am after all the elements of Disharmony.” Loki said with his hands raised he summoned the sun fires.
Gremmy sighed as he snapped his finger, causing the fire that Loki summoned disappeared. “You should really brush up on you history a bit, you do know I have domain other the realm of imagination right?”
“Yeah I know that.” Loki raised his claws up to bring in the stars themselves. “However I’m not your run of the mill Reality warper.” The stars were clashed into a point. In a flash appearing was a huge giant robot. “I’m a reality warper with no fear.”
“Then how about this then.” Gremmy closed his eyes as the giant robot started to disappear in a matter of seconds. “Buddy I’m 1,599 years old, do you think something like this would help you beat me? With the power of imagination on my side you pretty much don’t have much a chance with me. For example I could imagine you in a tu-tu right now.” Gremmy said as he summoned a mirror to have Loki look at himself.
Loki rolled his eyes. The Loki then broke into magic particles. A blast appeared behind him. Time stopped for just second but it was all that was needed. “Its called a distraction.” With a flash he appeared over the crater on earth. “So are you done holding back?” Loki asked, “I think you guys have a second from right?”
“That would be arrancars not quincy’s pal, plus encase you haven’t notice but you might want to look on your chest.” He said as he pointed to the X on Loki’s chest.
“Whats this supposed to mean?” Loki asked. Discord realized it before Loki did. ‘Its a trap!’
Loki was a about to will it away but it was a bit too late.
“Here a little bit of lesson about us quincy’s.” Gremmy said as he pointed at the Seele Schneider around him. “We have more than just our main powers to take care of our opponents. Don’t bother trying to use you magic or powers to escape, I’m preventing you from doing that. What you are standing on is trap we quincy can use is called Sankt Zwinger.”
Loki attempted to break it with his powers. At first nothing happened. ‘Discord stop holding out on me!’ Loki demanded him. Loki attempted it again his elements glowing. Amazingly Loki broke it a bit.
“I wouldn’t do that if I was you. Sankt Zwinger is deadly trap that can badly damage any being, including ones that can go between worlds like yourself.” Gremmy pulled out a small cylinder like container of liquid spirit energy. “Now what would happen if I tossed this onto on of my Seele Schneider?”
“I don’t care.” Inside him he got every last ounce of magic he could. “I’ll never stop until I’m dead.”
“Loki what you’re doing is giving Sankt Zwinger more of your spirit energy.” Gremmy tossed the container onto the Seele Schneider. “You might feel sore in the morning after this.” Just as the container this the sword Sankt Zwinger was activated causing tower of reishi energy to surround Loki and hitting him dead on.
“You think Princess Celestia will get made that at these two fight each other?” Asked Liltotto.
“Maybe, but then again Gremmy is making sure no pony in ponyville get’s hurt.” Said Candice watching the fight along with Liltotto. “Why did you think they teleported somewhere else than here?”
“True, though I never thought he would use that move on him. Think he’s going easy on him?”
“Maybe, but this is an interesting fight, but not as good as the fight with Luna.”
Gremy couldn’t see Loki where he was a moment ago. For a moment he almost thought he had killed him. However a voice was heard behind him. “I’ll admit you almost got me there.” Right behind him was Loki. “I’m just as shocked as you are.” Loki said.
(Flashback)
Loki cried one more time. Suddenly the mark was removed off his body. “What the?”
‘Loki!’
‘Oh right.’
(flashback end)
“I have no idea how I did it and probably never will.”
“That would be Nianzol that did that.” Said Liltotto pointing at the human with two tongues and crossed eyes like drepy’s eyes are. “Had he not got you out of there, you would have been rend asunder.”
Loki looked into his mind. ‘Discord was that true?’ Discord thought for a moment. While it did make sense something was kinda off about that explanation. ‘I don’t know your magic was flooding your body and something feels a bit different about it afterwards.’
Loki however shook his head, he had been destroyed to the atom by Tirek himself with no magic. “Yeah that last part is debatable.”
Loki however gathered his powers in his hands. “So you done holding back? Because I really only ever used this once before and I’ll hate to use it not at your best.”
Discord was shocked by this. ‘Loki you're seriously going to use that?’
‘Oh my god yes.’
“*sigh* Fine, but don’t blame me is you get badly hurt.” Gremmy said as he summoned a clone of himself. “Ever seen a meteor up close?”
Loki had a laugh. Each of the elements of disharmony appeared on his body with the element of power right on his heart. In that moment six lights covered Loki.
When it was done however Loki was covered in a aura of of pure chaos. Loki body had lengthen his head was more of a dragon, his claws sharper. He had two horns curved over the sides of his mouth with long whips coming off them. His body was multicolored. The next thing was his power. Just being there was altering the area around him as reality seemed to be off.
“I call this the Chaos Rainbow.”
(Loki’s universe)
“Loki, you here?” Loki’s Twilight Sparkle asked. With her was Nyx his adopted daughter, Nightmare Moon reborn and his pet Wendigo Frieza.
She looked around and couldn’t find him anywhere. Nyx however found something. “What’s this?” she asked as she pulled out what appears to be some kind of brain inside a clear dome like sphere.
Twilight looked it over on the table was Loki’s fang. She used her magic on both to get a idea on what was going on. With a flash she was dragged along with Nyx and Frieza though a portal.
(Gremmy Reality)
The three landed on the ground with a thud. “Loki, what have you done now?” Twilight asked.
She sensed him fighting someone just a bit off. With a spell she teleported in to find Loki in Chaos rainbow facing someone off and they looked evenly matched.
“What’s going on?” Twilight said.
Nyx jumped up. “Daddy fighting someone mommy.”
“......I take it she’s you’re Twilight loki?” Gremmy said as he stopped his attack on Loki.
“That, and my marefriend.” Loki said, Gremmy gave a raised eyebrow. “What?”
“.....She wouldn’t happen to be a racist towards humans does she?”
“What? No, not at all.”
“Good, then I have no problems with her.”
“Loki why are you fighting someone?” She said.
The two looked at the mare for a moment. “Look can we just continue I’ll explain later I promise.” He said with a smile.
“You better, come on Nyx.” The Alicorn Filly just stood there.
“Can’t we just stay and watch?” She asked.
“I don’t see why not.” Said Liltotto.Just as she was about to munch on another candy bar, a magical beam of lavender color energy hit the candy bar out of her hands. “Well it appears the Princess is fully recovered from her battle with you Gremmy.”
“Along with the rest of the Elements.” Said Candice.
“Dammit and I was just enjoying myself.”
“There you are you filthy human!” Yelled Twilight. “You think I’m just gonna let you wander around ponyville after what you did to me!?”
However this Twilight was then trapped in a magic sphere. “Ok, i know this is a different universe and all but I’m seriously like this here?” Loki’s Twilight asked with her horn glowing.
“Hate to say this but yes she along with her friends been harassing me and my ponies in Our Town for the past two to three days. I don’t even know why she’s think all humans are evil, the only info I have was that something happen to her in the mirror world.”
“Buck you human, you might have these ponies fooled but we know what you’re really planning!” Said Rainbow Dash charging at Gremmy.
However she was froze where she stood as the wendigo let loose a blast of ice. “Frieza.” Loki started. “Good boy.” He reached into a rip in tartarus pulling out a weird demon. “Hey you go.” The demon was caught in his mouth.
“....Well...that was something.” Said Gremmy lost at words after seeing that, but was brought back to reality by a kick to the face by Applejack.
“Take that human!” Said Applejack.
“SON OF A BITCH THAT HURT!?” Gremmy said as he looked at AJ feet. “Oh…..one of Luna’s dream weapons….makes sense how that can hurt me.”
“Wait dreams?” Loki asked.
“Luna and Gremmy have the same powers, only Luna can dream of a weapon to hurt Gremmy while Gremmy can make imaginations come to life.” Said Liltotto.
“Ok then.” Applejack was soon swallowed up in the earth. “Yeah you want to postpone the fight, while we you know stop them?” Loki asked, he summoned up a small feather pen and used it to tickle the Pinkie Pie behind him.
“I think we might as well call it a draw, because after we’re done with them I’m not gonna be in the mood to fight you afterwards.” Gremmy said as he dodge a magical beam from Rarity.
“Yeah same here.” causes Pinkie party cannon to fire at her.
“Want us to help you guys out?” Asked Liltotto as her mouth started to stretch, while Candice hands started spark with lightning.
Nyx raised her horn. “Can I try?” She asked. Loki thought it over.
“I guess but no dropping the moon on them.” Loki said. Gremmy raised an eyebrow at that.
“She nightmare moon reborn.” Loki answered back.
“I’m getting the feeling that you got in trouble with your Luna about that?”
“Yes, but she didn’t come and take her, probably because if she did I would banished her to the moon, then destroy it.”
“Makes sense,” Gremmy said as he dodge another beam. “Will you jerks leave me alone already, I mean seriously what did I ever do to you girls anyway?”
Loki levitated up the rarity before imprisoning her in chains. “Well I could use my powers to look into your Twilight's mind… wait were is she?” Two laveder beams were seen hitting him nearby. The two Twilights were having a magical duel up above them.
“Why are you siding with that evil human? Asked AU Twilight. “Can’t you see that he’s evil, I mean look at him he even tried to be a pony just like us.”
“Hey I only did it so I can be with Vinyl you jerk!”
“Like she would ever date a human like you freak!”
“.....Dang I maybe a bitch at time, but even I would never say that to anyone.” Said Candice putting Fluttershy in an electric cage.
Loki’s Twilight blinked at her. ‘If only i brought my friends with me.’ loki’s Twilight rolled her eyes. “So what? Loki was a unicorn for a while, adopted little Nyx and is currently my stallion friend, I think there’s a bit more difference between us then me having four legs and you two.”
“Who’s Nyx?”
“Loki, and my adopted daughter, Nightmare Moon reborn.” Loki’s Twilight answered.
“YOU HAVE THAT ABOMINATION NIGHTMARE MOON!? ARE YOU INSANE? YOU HAVE TO KILL IT BEFORE SHE KILLS YOU!”
“.......I’m starting to wish Cang Du was here, at least he would say something to shut her up.”
Loki appeared right behind Gremmy Twilight. “What did you call my little girl?” loki voice was calm and nice. She turned back as fear entered her. She turned away to see Loki Twilight’s give a death glare. Loki placed a claw on her shoulder. “This will only hurt for a second.”
(this scene was to violate to show even at M rating)
“Okay…...I get that what she said would piss you, but was it really necessary to do ‘that’ to her? I still need her alive you know?” Asked Gremmy.
“Its a part of being a father, plus she still alive even after ‘that’” Loki said. The other anthro mane six members were frightened of him after what they saw him do.
“Great now how am I gonna explain this to Celestia, I know Luna wouldn’t care but her sister on the other hand would be pissed.”
“Plus we still don’t know why she’s a racist jerk.” Said Candice.
“Oh yeah when I was ripping apart her brain I found some emotional, and maybe tainted magic in her.” Loki answered, “Plus a memory when I was making her fears eat her liver.”
“.....question does the other mane six have what she has?” Gremmy asked.
“Possibly it could be a side effect of their connection to the elements and each other.” Loki answered.
“And did you see who did it to her?”
“Yes however there isn’t one suspect, it was a combination of Discord, Sombra, the sirens and a bit of the other princesses magic lifted inside her along with a bit of emotional and stress instability from being a princess.”
“Hm….can you erase her memories about her hate of humans along with the other, and remove whatever is inside her?”
Loki thought for a moment. “Perhaps, however to be sure you kinda need to watch in case it hasn’t caused any permanent damage to her mind, if you do I would recommend a wendigo fragment to warn it would help consume it off her.”
“Noted.” Gremmy pulled out a disk with a cross on it. “This should help.”
Loki snapped his talons. Anthro Twilight reappeared alive and unconscious. Loki turned to him. “Hey you know that fang I gave you, if you need help or want to have a friendly fight or just hang out keep it.” Loki said.
“And that brain your daughter has on her head, that’s my token if you need my help or my lieutenants for help.”
Loki gave a nod. He held up his personal token and with that a portal opened home. With a wave back he entered along with his family.
Anthro Twilight started to awake soon afterwards. “Ugh….my head.” She said as she looked to see Gremmy, Candice, and Liltotto in front of her. “W-Who are you three.”
The sun rose again in Twilight’s new castle. Loki decided to leave the mirror in the castle. ‘Loki why are you experimenting with universe travel again?’ Discord asked Loki.
Loki turned to him. “I think I got it just give me a moment.” With a deep breath he tore open a hole in space-time. “Ok let’s see if I can get this just right!” Loki placed his power into the vortex and was soon sucked up into it.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" With a jump Loki landed in what looked like Ponyville. However. things didn't feel right. His senses felt a huge imbalance in the position of Harmony. With a flash he saw what looked like anthro versions of Celestia and Luna fighting something.
'Whoa, this is trippy.' Loki thought as he saw the anthro princesses. He then shook his head and put on his serious face... literally. 'No time for that, I'd better put a stop to this.' Loki then teleported so that he was above the fight and looked at the scene. As soon as he did he noticed that the two celestial princesses looked like they were about to collapse as they stood defiant against someone in an inky black cloak that hid their face and figure. The only thing Loki could tell about them was that they were able to use magic given the aura coming off of their hands.
"Alright, I think it's about time we put a stop to all this. I'm sure we're all reasonable beings here so I think we can come to some sort of understanding." He said trying to keep up a smile.
"Discord?" All three beings asked in complete shock.
"That's impossible!" the cloaked being boomed as they took a step back. "I killed you."
Loki was confused by the figure's voice. It sounded so familiar, but there was something off about it. "Wait a minute, something killed me in this world?" Discord asked.
'Maybe this is this world's Tirek? He could've stolen your magic and then killed you in this world.' Loki suggested.
"But that voice was clearly feminine."
'Tirek could be a girl in this world. There are an infinite number of possibilities," Loki reminded him.
“Ok one I'm not Discord, I'm Loki and I come from another universe and you are?" Loki asked deciding to get things out there before things get out of hand.
"Another universe?" Celestia asked. "Yes one without this, four legged versions." Loki pointed to their two legs and general figures.
"So, are you Tirek?" He asked. The cloaked came down and the wings came out. It was an anthro version of Twilight. However Loki could feel it. She had absorbed the elements of harmony.
'Oh my god, Twilight? No.' Loki answered with a thought.
'Idiot! She’s about to attack!' With a burst from her horn Loki summoned up a massive shield blocking the rainbow blast. The fact the magic wasn't overcoming the barrier caused Celestia, Luna and afterwards Twilight to blink in amazement.
"What, how can you overpower the power of the elements?!" Twilight growled as she charged up her magic one more time. Loki didn't answer. He was too shell shocked by the revelation. He just fell to the ground and stared off into the distance as he tried to digest this news.
'H-how could Twilight do this? This isn't like her. She would never even think about attacking Celestia. This is all wrong. Something or someone has to be controlling her.' He thought as he tried to find some sort of answer to all this.
"Loki, this isn't your Twilight!" Discord screamed trying to snap Loki out of it. "Loki, do something! She's about to attack again!" Loki didn't bother to respond. His mind was still spinning and trying to find any form of explanation for what he was seeing.
The anthro version of Twilight smirked as she noticed the look on Loki's face. "I don't know how you blocked my magic the first time, but you don't seem to be in any condition to do it again. I already killed one Discord, I can kill some cheap clone from another world. You won't stop me from doing what I have to do!" She bellowed as she fired another rainbow blast that came rocketing towards Loki. Discord cursed to himself when the beam was dangerously close to hitting them and thrust his way in control of Loki's body. He threw up his paw and talon and fired a blast of pure chaos energy to counter Twilight's attack.
The two beams meet and to Twilight's amazement it stalemated the blast. Finally the blast created a dust storm in it Discord in control of Loki teleported him and the Princesses while using his spell to hide their magic. When they were away However Loki attempted to take back control. Appearing as the astral version of Discord which all three could see.
"Loki what's wrong with you? You could have summoned that chaos Power and ended it in 10 seconds flat." Discord said.
Loki turned to him. "I'm sorry Discord but this is not what I was expecting when I traveled across dimensions." Loki answered.
"But you already crossed into three other realities." Discord countered.
"I know, but... I-I... when I saw Twilight fighting Celestia and Luna like that, it just felt wrong. Neither of the Twilights I've met were anything like this. And besides, I can't just use that chaos form. That just destroys things. I can't just kill this world's Twilight, there might be something controlling her."
Luna and Celestia exchanged a sad look before turning back to Loki. "I'm afraid that there is nothing controlling Twilight," Celestia told him. "She is doing this of her own will."
A dark glower overtook Loki's face. "Start the story from the beginning." Celestia nodded and tried to find a way to start.
"Very well, shortly after the defeat of Nightmare Moon, evil creatures were constantly coming to attack Equestria, and Twilight and her friends would need to use the elements. As time went on Twilight studied the magic of the elements and became obsessed with finding a more efficient way to deal with the constant threats. Nopony saw a problem with this considering the research would be very helpful for all of Equestria. Then, something terrible happened once Sombra returned." She said with a slight hitch in her voice.
"While she did overcame his dark magic and helped end him Sombra showed her the future and how pointless it was for her to fight." Luna looked down. "It slowly drove her to the brink and before we knew it didn’t take long before she did something she'd regret..." Loki soon realized.
"She absorbed the elements didn't she?" He said Celestia looked away.
"She did but at the cost of her friends."
Loki looked down. 'Great a Twilight driven to save them goes overboard.' Celestia looked at him.
"If you don't mind me ask but how did you counter the elements powers?" Celestia asked.
Loki blinked. "Well this kinda." Appearing was the elements of Disharmony. "The elements of Disharmony the source of my power."
Both Celestia and Luna seemed to be amazed by the artifacts that Loki was showing them. Luna then turned to the projection of Discord and looked between him and Loki. "What is going on here? I don't think I understand.”
"Well Luna, somehow Loki and I fused together. We've been trying to separate ourselves but we haven't made any real headway in that department," Discord answered with a bit of a shrug.
"Can we please get back on track here?" Loki asked with a bit of an edge to his voice. "We have a serious problem here and we need to solve it."
"Well what do you suggest we do?" Discord asked as he floated over to Loki. "You froze up when you saw Twilight, do you want me to take control and take care of this?" Loki closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"No, seeing as Twilight isn't being controlled by anything we might be able to have her see the breadth of her actions and have her try to atone."
"And what if she's too far gone to listen to you?" Discord asked with an arched eyebrow.
Loki flinched for a moment, but he eventually steeled his resolve and gave Discord a determined look. "Then I'll do what has to be done."
He turned to them. "You better get into hiding I’ve got an Alicorn to talk to." Loki said as the elements returned to him and Discord as well he took off for this universe's Twilight He found her in the vast wastes of Equestria with a landing she turned to him. "Ok listen, I don't want to fight you, this isn't right." Loki started however she unleashed another blast Loki teleported away.
"Enough! I will not hear your lies!" She said with a teleport she kicked him over the head sending him into a boulder.
Loki got up. "Oh great I guess I have no choice." With a teleport of his own a baseball bat was swung over her and into the ground before Loki grabbed her bouch off and dropkicked her.
Twilight had her wings raised and with it rushed him with a rainboom level speed. Slamming into him. Loki was sent right into the nearby town by her. With six lights forming for her horns tip she let loose a blast that after a while grew in size. Loki had a barrier around him when it was down the town was gone.
Loki looked behind him and saw the smoking crater that had once been a town. "Twilight, you have to stop this!" Loki called out. "Can't you see that you're becoming the threat to Equestria that you wanted to stop?!"
Twilight just smiled manically down at him and charged her magic again. "If Equestria wants to see me as a threat, then fine. If a few ponies have to die along the way, then fine. Once I'm in charge of Equestria then nothing will ever be able to threaten us ever again! Now die so I can make Equestria safe forever!" She let the magic loose again and Loki teleported away just as he disappeared from her line of sight due to the size of the blast. Loki reappeared above the clouds to stay out of her sights.
"Loki, she isn't going to listen." Discord told him. "It's time to go all out and end this fight."
'I guess you're right,' Loki thought with a sigh. 'I really wish we didn't have to though.'
With a snap of his talons teleported behind and unleashed a chaotic blast right into her sending her to the nearby mountain before using his powers to form hands out of the mountain’s stone as it hit her repeatedly. However a shield came down and she she came gunning with the clouds striking lighting around him. As she then took this time to smash him over the head. However when he landed with a painful crash on a mountain. 'That’s it I have little choice do I?" Loki asked. He got up and summoned the elements of Disharmony. Right as he was about to summon his powers Twilights blast stuck him sending him through a mountain and into another one and another.... and another and another. He was finally hit his last one as it became rubble around him.
Twilight appeared over him. "Well then you're no longer a threat to this world." However six light passed by her as they came into the ruble.
"You call me a threat, and yeah with my powers I could easy be one but here’s the thing I'm Loki, Defender of the balance." Loki voice was heard before the rocks were blasted away revealing his Chaos power form.
Twilight attempted a full power blast which hit Loki point blank no shield when the dust cleared Loki was standing there unfazed. "Impossi...ahh." She was soon punched in the gut.
"My turn." He said as the shock wave from his speed finally caught up with her.
Loki then reached up and grabbed her by the horn and started to slam her repeatedly onto the ground. After a few seconds he then held her against the ground and pointed his paw directly at her. He then charged up pure chaos magic and allowed it to collect in front of his paw. Once he felt that he had enough he let the magic go and whispered, "I'm sorry," Loki turned away as Twilight disappeared in the blast.
Loki then fell to his knees as he tried to keep himself calm. "Loki, calm down. This had to be done and that wasn't the Twilight you've come to know. They have led two different lives and are two very different people."
'I know that. Look, sometimes there are things that you know consciously, but that your subconscious just doesn't quite get yet.'
"Fair enough, I'm just glad this is… wait, this can't be." Discord and Loki then noticed that they could sense Twilight's energy. Loki looked up and as the dust settled he saw that Twilight was still standing, albeit barely.
'Damn it, I think I held back a little,' Loki thought as he hopped to his feet.
"You said sorry before you hit me with your magic, you've constantly tried to talk me out of my plans, and that shell shocked expression when you first saw me. Why? Why do you care so much to stop me without killing me?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Loki told her as he subtly charged up his magic. "Now, this is your last chance. Stand down or I will have to kill you." He warned her without hesitating.
Twilight readied another blast. "Fine then." Loki let out the same blast he unleashed on Tirek. Twilight screamed as she slowly became nothing. When it was over Loki looked down.
"I'm sorry Twilight." with a flash his form returned to normal as he teleported away. Celestia and Luna saw Loki reappearing. "Well?" Celestia asked.
"It’s done I tried to make her see reason. I was forced to destroy her down to the atom." Loki answered.
Celestia did her best to maintain her composure but it was obvious that despite Twilight's crimes, there was still some affection that was felt towards her. "This may be for the best. Let's hope that she can find some forgiveness in the next life."
"I agree," Loki said as he looked in the direction that he and Twilight had fought in. "Despite everything, she was trying to protect this place. Even if it was in a horrifying way."
"Well then, we shall hold a small service for her and then attempt to repair the damages she caused," Luna said as she looked out at some of the rubble.
"What will you do Loki? We certainly could use your help rebuilding and maintaining the peace. The people of Equestria will certainly see you as a hero," she finished. Loki just shook his head at that.
He ripped off a fang giving them a token of his. A vortex opened up behind him. "Loki." The voice of his Twilight said. "You better be coming back!" Loki gave a salute and hopped right in. With the vortex closed the two princesses held the fang. However in the wasteland where she was defeated A light of rainbows where seen. On the ground was something, someone, somepony.
"I can't believe I let my guard down." Her main became Ethereal.
As Loki traveled back he felt a strange sense of foreboding. 'Discord did you feel that?' Loki asked the deity in his mind.
'Yes you don't think she could come back right?' Discord asked As they came near the mirror.
'No.... at least I hope not.'
“I'm sure it was just some sort of trick to our senses or something like that," Discord reasoned.
'Yeah, only one of us could manage to survive being blasted apart like that.' Loki thought with a strained chuckle. He then let out a long yawn as he placed a paw on the surface of the mirror. 'Uggh, I am completely drained, physically and emotionally. When we get back I'm just going to collapse onto my bed and fall asleep.'
"You know what, after the day you had you've earned it." Discord said with a chuckle. A few moments later Loki returned to the castle where Twilight was waiting for him.
“Loki, why were you gone so long? You told me that you were just going to do some exploring."
"I'm sorry Twilight, I got caught up in something. I'd tell you more, but I'm exhausted, I think I'll just go collapse onto a pillow," Loki said as he let out another long yawn. Twilight's look turned sympathetic and she smiled a little.
"How about this, I'll let you stay in one of the guest rooms so you don't have to teleport."
"What about Nyx?"
"I'll go get her. You two can stay here for the night. You just go and rest."
Night time in ponyville was a calm time. For Loki the whole other equestria twilight made his return to his and his twilight all the more marrer. However for Nyx her dreams usually peaceful wasn't tonight.
"Nyx you can't run from me you can't run from our pass." Nyx turned to see a great shadow.
"No Daddy!" Nyx screamed as she curled up in a ball.
"Oh don't worry I won't harm him after all he saved me but I can't run the risk of him taking away our dream." With a laugh she covered Nyx. While in Loki dream Loki and Discord were playing a game of five dimensional chess. "I attack your knight with my spell card!" Loki said. "Not so fast dice roll five you lose 4 atk." However in the chaotic dream was soon covered in Darkness. "What the...." Loki was soon covered by this Discord was then thrusted out the dream world and into the astral plane.
"What the?" He attempted to reenter and wake Loki up only for nothing to happen. "I'm blocked out!" Next Discord turned as he saw Nyx rising in darkness until nightmare moon appeared!
Discord flinched as he saw the dark alicorn rising up with a devious look on her face. "What have you done with Nyx?" Discord asked with a growl.
Nightmare Moon just chuckled at that. "Well technically I am Nyx, but I've locked that part deep away inside my mind."
"And so you've put Loki into a deep sleep to keep her from breaking free."
"Well he is the biggest threat to me."
"You do realize that the girls have access to a new power even stronger than the elements, don't you?"
"I'm more than aware, but do you think they'd use them on me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well the original elements caused Luna, a full grown mare to revert to a filly. Imagine what their new power would do to Nyx's young body," Nightmare Moon said with a dark smile.
Discord knew what she was doing. Nyx was to young the elements would likely kill her. "You still have to fight four Alicorns." Discord answered.
Nightmare moon had a smile. "Yes but if you recall I'm no orderly Alicorn." Discord blinked. He realized what she meant. Nyx was very powerful, she had the power of a Adult Alicorn as a filly her magic grew as her body aged up. However He doubt she could still take on four Alicorns unless. Nightmare eyes flashed Dark magic as she used her powers to lock the moon as the mare in the moon appeared. "Lets just say I learned a few new tricks." With that she became mist and was gone. Astral Discord went through the Astral plain. He found Twilight and forced himself into her dream though the astral plain.
Discord popped into existence in the middle of Ponyville, or Twilight's dream Ponyville. Discord looked around for a few moments and realized that he couldn't see Twilight anywhere. 'Is it too much to ask to be placed a few feet from the one I'm looking for?' He asked himself. He then floated up and decided to look for Twilight in her castle first. He phased through the door and found Twilight sitting on her throne with Loki off to her side. The two of them were smiling and chatting about nothing in particular as per usual. They hadn't noticed him and before he could do anything he saw dream Nyx running up to them with a piece of paper floating in front of her.
"Daddy, mommy, I made a drawing at school today for you!" The little filly called out as she thrust the paper to her father.
It showed the family with Twilight Loki, Nyx and frieza. "Thank you Nyx." Loki said. However the dream was soon interrupted.
"Twilight you need to wake up." She saw Discord floating there.
"Discord what's going on?" Twilight asked she was then awake with the Astral image of Discord looking over her.
"Your awake that's good now I can tell you, Nyx past self has possessed her and Loki now inside a deep sleep I can't reenter and awake him." iscord summed up what was happening. Twilight heart sank at the idea that Nyx the little filly she saw as a daughter was being possessed by her Past Sins.
"Do you know where she went?" Twilight asked.
"No, but if I had to guess I'd say that she probably went to the castle in the Everfree."
"Okay, let's go get the girls so we can return Nyx to normal," Twilight said with determination.
"Twilight, whatever you do you can't use the power you received from the Tree of Harmony on her," Discord warned her.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you remember what happened to Luna after you used the elements on her? Can you imagine what would happen to Nyx if you used something even more powerful on her?"
Twilight paled as she suddenly thought of the implications of that. "Okay, but I'm still going to grab the girls. They could help think of a solution.”
"Sounds good, I'll go grab the other princesses, they can help us too."
In everfree forest Nightmare Moon waited for them. At the edge the mane six came walking to the forest. "Are you sure Nyx has become Nightmare Moon? I mean you saw how sweet she is." Rarity asked.
"It is possible when Loki got her a part of his old self must have been inside her mind waiting to take over." Twilight looked down. "I can't believe neither me or Loki thought about her past self coming back, I can't even see her like that." Twilight said. She gave a sudden whisper. "She my daughter."
Fluttershy comforted her. "Don't worry I'm sure Nyx is still in there." Fluttershy said.
"I know she's still in there," Twilight replied, "and that's what scares me the most. I can only imagine what Nightmare Moon is doing to her," she finished with a shudder.
"Don't you worry about a thing Twilight," Rainbow Dash told her with a cocky grin. "We've beaten Nightmare Moon once and we can do it again. Besides, Nyx is tougher than she looks. We can do this without the elements or anything else."
"Just remember that we gotta be careful Rainbow," Applejack warned her. Twilight nodded slightly and bit her lip as her mind started to wander.
'I really wish you were here Loki. You'd be able to deal with this in a second. Plus, I could use your confidence.' Twilight then shook her head as she tried to clear her mind of the negative thoughts. 'No, I can't think like that. Nyx is my daughter now too, I have to save her.'
The astral form of Discord appeared with the princesses. "Discord filled us in." Celestia started.
Luna looked away. "Twilight... you know of my own experiences with the nightmare." Luna looked down. Her head told her to help. Her heart was hesitant. On the one hoof Nyx was a little Filly who honestly did nothing wrong even had a chance to have her own life, but she was still nightmare moon, the entity she became that controlled her. "I can't go in.... I can't bring myself to." Luna said.
Cadance walked up to her. "Twilight I know that Nyx is your daughter now."
Chrysalis came to them. "I believe if you're all done I think I may know how to stop this." The changeling Queen turned to Cadance and Luna. "If you can get Nyx and Twilight to feel the love of a mother and daughter I could use that to attack the hate that feeds the nightmare, while it's usually a messy food for us we changelings can eat hate."
Twilight managed a smile and nodded a little at the changeling queen. "Thank you Queen Chrysalis. I don't think I have the words to express my gratitude."
"Think nothing of it. As a mother myself I know what it's like to worry about my children's safety. Now, let's do this before Nightmare Moon can cause any harm."
"Why do you need my help?" Luna asked as she backed away slightly. "You're the only one of us that is capable of manipulating dreams enough to cut through the nightmare that Nyx is likely under. If this is to work then we need to reach out to Nyx."
"Isn't there some other way? I-I can't face Nightmare Moon again. It's too much."
"Princess Luna, please I need your help," Twilight pleaded. "I would do this myself if I was able to but you're the only one that can do this."
Luna gave a sigh. "Ok then I have to face my fears sometime." The Lunar Princess said. As they walked into the everfree it seemed as if the forest was off, not in its natural way. A laugh was heard in the forest.
"Oh Lulu, Tia, Chrissy, Cad, you came as well." They heard Nightmare voice all around.
"Come out here and face us we won't play your games." Celestia said. The laughter was heard.
"Oh so high and mighty are we? Well I'm sure your realized that the Everfree seems off?" Luna looked around her eyes widen.
"You managed to bring the dream world into the real world!" Luna screamed.
"Party now then heros lets see your own nightmares." The trees picked them each up Discord being in astral form went to stop them but a magic bubble from around him.
"Can't let you stop me." Twilight looked around as her friends, and the princesses were gone and Discord as well. Nightmare couldn't bring her to do anything to Twilight for some reason.
Twilight whipped her head around hoping to find some trace of Nightmare Moon. "What's your plan here Nightmare?" She asked the shadows.
Then the voice called out seeming to come from everywhere, "Right now I'm just going to let them all writhe in their nightmares. Then, well I suppose I could try to take over Equestria."
"And why haven't you put me in a nightmare?" Twilight asked with a serious expression. Nightmare faltered for a moment. She didn't know how to respond to that. In the end she managed to collect herself and let out a long chuckle.
"I just wanted to let you hear the sounds your loved ones let out as they live out their worst nightmares."
Twilight could tell that Nightmare was leaving so she called out, "I won't let you get away with this Nightmare! I will get my daughter back!"
Nightmare Moon stopped moving at that. 'Daughter?' She asked.
Twilight realized that she actually caused her to stop at the word daughter. "Nyx listen please." Twilight said. Nightmare Moon turned to her and in a flash appeared over her. Twilight was blasted back. However as she did she wanted to attack but she didn't. "Nyx stop Please!" Nightmare Moon was going to attack her but right as she was about unleash the blast she was being held back tears in her eyes.
"Why.... why can't I destroy her!" Nightmare moon screamed.
"Because you don't want to hurt a pony that actually loves you?" Appearing inside what was her mind was Nyx. Nightmare Moon turned to her. "Your only hate because you haven't been loved right?" Nyx asked.
Nightmare Moon faltered again. She didn't want to admit it but there was some truth to that. In the end she was able to collect herself and glared at Nyx. "How are you out? You should still be in the nightmare I made for you." Nyx just smiled a little as she stepped toward Nightmare Moon.
"I was able to break free. I realized that what you showed me could never happen. And that's because my mommy and daddy love me and will always be there for me."
"They're not your real parents. If you do something wrong they'll turn their backs on you!" Nightmare snapped.
"No they won't because they are my real parents. Even if they didn't give birth to me. They love me, no matter what." Nyx finished as she stopped just in front of Nightmare Moon.
"You don't have to keep fighting it you want to be loved as well." Nyx said. Nightmare moon looked down at the Filly she was mad angry and enraged.
She hated this little side of her. She wanted her gone. She loathed her. Tears formed in her eyes. She was right. "I can't be loved I'm a monster." She answered back. Nyx gave her leg a hug.
"That's not you thats just how you feel, how you choose to be." Nyx answered. Nightmare Moon picked her up.... and hugged her.
"I don't want to be anymore. " With that she became light within Nyx mind. Outside Nightmare moon raised her horn within the friendship castle Loki awoke. Inside the forest the others appeared. Tears were in Nightmare moons eyes. "Mommy I'm sorry." Nightmare said as she returned to Nyx.
Twilight smiled as she rushed over to Nyx and scooped her in warm embrace. "You have nothing to apologize for, I'm just so glad you're safe. I was so worried about you." Twilight told her with a few warm tears in her eyes as she nuzzled the top of Nyx's head.
"I'm sorry I made you worry about me," Nyx replied as she tried to bury herself deeper into Twilight's embrace. "Hush, I already told you that you don't have to apologize for anything."
"This is a sweet moment you two are having , do you mind if I join in?" The two looked up to see Loki come floating down towards them.
"Daddy!" Nyx called out as she scrambled over to him. Loki grabbed the excited little filly and moved to Twilight's side so they could hold her together.
"How did you find us so quickly?" Twilight asked.
"Discord filled me in."
Nyx then looked up at Loki with a pleading expression. "Daddy, can I sleep with you and mommy tonight?"
The sun rose on a normal day in ponyville. Well as normal as it could get with the whole castle of Twilight and the reality warping Loki who made their home there. A mail mare Derpy flew as she delivered letters to the cakes, Rainbow Dash, The apples, The Belles, Fluttershy and off. She finally landed in the crystal empire. Shining armor saw one of his guards coming with a letter. "Sir." He said. Written on it.
You are hereby invited to the wedding of, Twilight Sparkle Princess of Friendship, and the Element of Magic, and the Second Lord of change, Master of Disorder, the god of Chaos, defender of the balance, Loki Chaotic.
Shining Armor who had been sipping on a cup of coffee immediately spat it out onto the guard who had given it to him. Shining Armor scanned the letter again just to make sure that he had read it right. The guard's eye twitched slightly as he asked. "Sir, what was written on that letter?" Shining Armor just ignored the guard and charged his horn.
"Cadance needs to see this," he said as he teleported out of the room. The dripping guard then dropped his stance and a small smirk worked onto his face. "Permission to leave early to take a shower, sir? Granted," he finished in an impersonation of the guard captain as he walked out of the room. Shining Armor then reappeared in Cadance's throne room. The princess of love turned toward the disturbance and noticed the disturbed look on her husband's.
"Shining what is it?" Cadance asked. Shining Armored revealed the letter to Cadance. She blinked as she keep rereading it. "Twily is getting married? That's wonderful." Cadance said with a smile.
However for Shining it kinda wasn't. "Yes to Loki, I mean ahhhh." Shining tired to find a reason why it wasn't a good idea.
"Oh come on Shining way are you so afraid?" Cadance asked.
"Well he... ahh." Shining started, then had to think about it, 'Let's see he a reality warper who died saving us and came back to life.' Shining couldn't find one thing bad about Loki.
"Shiny, are you trying to find something wrong with Loki so you can object to her getting married?" Cadance asked with a little smirk as she walked up to her husband. Shining Armor blushed hotly, Cadance had always been able to read his mind like a book. He didn't have a chance to answer her as she walked up to him and started nuzzling at his neck. "Shiny, you need to calm down and think about this for a little bit. Loki has actually shown that he's a good person. Plus, he makes Twilight happy. Now, you know that Twilight never does anything without thinking it through. And she's a full grown mare now so we have to respect her decisions."
Shining Armor let out a sigh, Cadance was right, even if he wished she wasn't. "Alright, I guess I'll have to go get my suit then."
"And I'll pick up a wedding present from the both of us."
"Do you want any help with that?" Shining asked dumbly. Cadance just chuckled and patted his cheek.
"Shiny, I'm the princess of love, do you really think you can keep up with me when it comes to preparing for my sister-in-law's wedding?" Shining shuddered for a moment, Cadance tended to get... excitable when it came to anything related to love and weddings.
"I think I'll just pack our things while you deal with that."
At ponyville twilight friends came running in. "Twilight darling this isn't a joke is it." They all had the invitations. Even Trixie came through as well. There they saw Loki and Twilight looking planning the wedding with a small model.
"Yes actually." Twilight said.
"We are getting married it's not a joke." Loki said.
Nyx was seen almost bouncing off the walls. "Yea we going to be a actual family... Oh my gosh I'm going to be a princess." Nyx said with a huge grin.
"Are you two sure about this? I mean you haven't been dating all that long," Fluttershy asked softly.
"That's true but we have been through quite a bit in that time," Loki replied.
"You didn't flip a coin or something to decide this, did you?" Rainbow Dash asked with a sly look.
Loki got defensive at that. "No, those seminars Twilight recommended me have been helping me get over that. I actually thought about this for a while."
"And you said yes darling?" Rarity asked with a quizzical expression.
"Yes, I had two big realizations recently. The first was when Loki died. I realized that I want to be with Loki as long as I can. And the second was during the trouble with Nyx regressing into Nightmare Moon. That helped me realize that she really is family to me."
"Plus it doesn't help they are true love after all." The voice of Discord was heard as he was in Astral form.
"You know they say love can make even the most orderly saneist of beings, do the most chaotic and insane, why even in my reign I never attempted to destroy love." Discord said. "Besides if you ask me it's far better to be loved then hated." Discord finished.
"Well you kinda caused Loki to die you know." Rainbow Dash countered.
Discord looked down. "Yes but not that I'm basically apart of him giving my knowledge and my magic to him I can hope to both atone for my past misdeeds." Discord answered before he returned to Loki's mind to go back to sleep. "You know Discord actually a genius... He just has the attention span of a newborn."
"Don't say that as if you're any better Loki," Twilight said with a small giggle.
"That's what I have you for," he replied with a grin, "to keep me on task."
Rainbow Dash then made a slight gagging motion. "Can you two knock it off with the mushy stuff, I had a big breakfast and don't need you all to see it."
Rarity chuckled a little at that. "Don't be jealous darling, I'm sure you'll find somepony to be like that with someday."
Rainbow Dash blushed at that. "Wha- I'm not jealous. And like you're one to talk, how many stallions have you broken up with for one reason or another?"
It was Rarity's turn to blush and the two started going back and forth with each other. Twilight rolled her eyes at the two's antics. "Anyway, I'm glad you're all here, Loki and I were hoping you could help us with the wedding."
"No problem there sugarcube," Applejack said with a smile. "We'll be happy to help."
"Yeah, you can count on me when it comes to anything party related!" Pinkie cheered.
"Oh, speaking of which I have to go send Shining Armor a letter."
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Twilight asked with a slightly worried expression.
"Yeah, this is something that Shining and I have to do."
The crystal empire train came to ponyville junction. Stepping out was princess Cadance and Shining Armor. They came up to the castle of friendship. However a voice rang out. "Frieza bad dog!" The Wendigo came charging out with Nyx in tow. As Nyx was sent flying Cadance used her magic to grab her. "Thanks Auntie Cadance." Nyx said.
The spirit of hate turned to its owner. It had a look of sadness. Nyx was put down. "Frieza bad boy!" Nyx yelled out.
"Oh, you're being too hard on the poor dear," Cadance said with a little chuckle. "It looks like he just got overexcited."
"Okay Auntie Cadance!" Nyx beamed.
"Well if you ask me you need to make sure that he gets proper training," Shining Armor said with a bit of a stern look towards the windigo.
"I've been trying Uncle Shiny, mommy even gave me a book on training animals to help. But, it's been pretty hard."
"Cadance, Shining Armor!" Twilight called out as she rushed towards the train platform with Loki right behind her. Cadence then proceeded to do her special cheer with Twilight. Loki then came up beside Shining Armor and smiled a little.
"Good to see you Shining Armor, I hope your trip was comfortable," Loki said.
"It was, though I did have to slip some sleeping pills into Cadance's drink to calm her down," Shining admitted with a chuckle.
"Uhh," Loki replied while blinking. "Don't worry, I told Cadance about it, and she even said I made the right call. She can get a little too excited for weddings. Especially this one."
"Okay, so did you get my second letter?"
"I did, but are you sure about this?" Shining asked.
"I already ran it by Twilight and she agreed to it. Come on, it'll be fun and good for us." Loki said.
"Alright, I guess a bachelor party could be fun."
"That's the spirit. I was thinking of going to Las Pegasus," Loki told him with a wide grin.
"Isn't that all the way on the other side of equestria?" Shining Armor asked.
Loki rolled his eyes. "For you maybe but I can get us there in a flash." Loki answered. Spike came out with a letter.
"Twilight this came for you." The letter was from Princess Celestia.
Dear Twilight, I just got the invitation to your wedding. I must say I'm surprised by this. Luna herself is kinda a romantic and will be over to throw you a batarlet party. signed Celestia.
Loki appeared as the letter became his face. "You know I wonder if we should tell her that Cadence would be the one to marry us right?" Loki asked as the letter returned to normal.
"I'll be sure to tell her eventually, but I'm more worried about this bachelorette party. What do you think Luna is planning?"
"Well considering she hasn't been around for about a thousand years, I'd say that she's going to reenact things she's seen in chick flicks that have come out recently. If you study up on these then I'd say you'd be fine."
"Well ok, but what if she goes with the traditional practices?" Twilight asked.
"Well then you can study those too. I know you like the idea of studying."
"You're right, but I still don't think I like the idea of this."
"Just think of it like a girl's night out with your friends and the princesses."
"Okay, I will. I hope you have fun with Shining Armor. I would really like it if you two could become friends."
"Anything to make you happy Twilight.” Loki said with a smile.
A week later as Twilight herself got back from Luna party. It wasn't as good as she thought it was. Luna was more traditional in it. She honestly wondered what happened with Shining armor, Spike, Loki. Walking in with laughter was the three. "You know I didn't think that Stallion actually thought he could take you with no magic!" Shining Armor said.
"Yeah then we had a whole brawl by the way kick right hoof." Loki said.
Spike had a huge piece of ice cream with him. "I can't believe I actually got this." Spike said holding a trophy.
"Yeah kinda hard to stop a greed filled dragon." Loki finished.
With a laugh Shining gave a sigh. "Yeah we leaved half the city in ruins.... nice save Loki."
"Oh please, I've looked at eldritch abominations kiss, I think I can handle putting a city back together."
"Still, I think we learned an important lesson," Shining Armor started.
"Spike isn't allowed to enter eating contests anymore." Spike drooped a little at that.
"Oh come on Shining, no one was hurt and I was able to clean up the mess quickly. There's no need to deprive the little guy of his fun."
"Alright, as long as you're around and Spike tries to control that greed of his." Spike perked up and he jumped up.
"Yes! Thanks you guys, does that mean I can enter the ice cream eating contest in Vanhoover?" Both Loki and Shining Armor shared a worried look for a moment.
"We'll think about it little guy," Loki told him. Twilight blinked a little at what she had heard.
"So I take it the party was fun?" Twilight asked.
Loki gave a laugh. "Twilight what we went though is something only brothers could keep." Loki answered holding both Spike and Shining armor in his arms.
"So then whats this about a brawl? Also half the city being destroyed?" She asked.
"Hey the city back to normal and you can't prove that on us!" Loki answered. He made sure to remove all evidence to the whole party. "Sorry Twily but we made a bro promise." Shining answered.
Spike had a mustache on given to him by Loki. "Bros before mares." the dragon said.
"What about you Twilight?" Loki asked. Twilight didn't want to say how boring her party was.
"Everything was fine, though it was nowhere near as exciting as your party sounds. I'm just glad to see you again."
"Same here Twilight," Loki told her with a smile. "I might've had fun, but it would've been more fun if you were there."
"Ahh, thank you Loki. Still, it won't be too much longer until the ceremony."
"Yeah just as long as..."
"Stop right there Loki," Twilight interrupted. "The last thing we need is for one of us to tempt fate and have something crazy happening to interrupt the wedding."
"Good call... wait a second, I just realized something." Loki said his eyes contracting into pinpricks.
"What is it Loki?" Twilight asked.
"This wedding will be the first time I'll have met your parents." Twilight's pupils contracted as well and she started to shake.
"I haven't told them about us." Twilight said. Loki had glasses on so he could move them down.
"Really?" Loki asked, the mare nodded. Loki gave a sigh as he took off the glasses.
"Well this isn't how I picture them meeting there so to be reality warping son-in-law to be." Loki said.
Shining also had a laugh. "I'm sure they would love you." Shining answered.
Loki took a few deep breaths to calm himself down. "You know what Shining, you're right. We'll get through this."
Twilight then shook off her worry as well. "Really?" She asked with a hopeful look.
"Yeah, we're in this together, aren't we?" Loki asked with a small grin. Twilight then returned the smile. "Always, I have to keep an eye on you otherwise you'd destroy half a city."
Loki chuckled and replied, "Hey, I'm not the one who destroyed half a city. I actually put it back together."
"I'm sure you would've found a way." Loki smiled down at Twilight which she happily returned.
"Ya know, you're probably right." The two then shared a laugh while Shining Armor turned to Spike.
"These two really are good together, huh?"
"That's what I've been saying for a while now."
"Yeah, have you ever thought of being a relationship advisor?" Shining asked.
A astral projection of Discord appeared between the two. "Well if he can get rarity to notice him then maybe," Discord was in thought for a moment. "Actually if you ask me her little sister Sweetie seems a better fit if you ask me." Discord said. Shining still wasn't use to Discord appearing in Astral from wherever he wanted.
"Can you not do that it's very creepy."
Discord rolled his eyes. "Well sorry I kinda don't have a body of my own you know," Discord said. "Plus its fun I actually have you ever seen a dragon scream like a little girl thinking I'm a ghost."
"Alright, but it would be nice to have a little warning before you pop in like that," Shining told him with a sigh. Discord rolled his eyes at that. "I'll see what I can do, still I do have a question. How did your parents react when you told them you were going to marry Cadance?" Shining Armor thought back on that and went took a nervous gulp.
"They may have put Cadance through the ringer with questions and acted just a little overprotective. But I don't think that'll happen with Loki. My parents were always easier on Twilight when it came to dating matters."
"Okay, but there is still the fact that she hasn't told them anything about being in a relationship, let alone getting married. How do you think your parents are going to react to that? If you ask me we should be expecting a knock on the door from the mailpony in about..." *Knock* *Knock* "...0 seconds," he concluded.
The mailpony was derpy who held the letter. "This is for Twilight." She said.
Spike came and took it. "Thanks I'll be sure she gets it." Spike opened the letter.
"Lets see, Dear Twilight, we didn't know you getting married? You haven't even told us who he was! We are coming as quickly as we can." Spike stopped reading afterwards. Discord turned to Shining.
"You want to tell them or should I? I mean if you do you could get blasted by magic, for me well other then the song nothing really." Discord said.
"Uhh, I guess I should tell them. You're not really known for being delicate." Shining told him as he took the letter in his magic and walked toward Loki and Twilight. A few moments later Shining Armor was flying through the air and crashed into the wall next to Spike with a singe mark on his chest. "Oww," Shining groaned. Discord then floated up to him with a smirk.
"So, how'd they take the news?"
"Well, Twilight had a bit of a magical misfire, but other than that she took it well."
Twilight then called out, "Spike! we have to clean the entire castle, and prepare some food! Mom and dad are coming and we aren't even close to being ready!" She cried as she rushed into the room and picked up Spike in her magic.
Loki came and calmed her down. "Twilight look breath, ok I got this." With a snap of his talons he fixed the whole castle up. "There see it's clean all things put in place and all the trash has been sent to another dimension." Loki said. In another dimension a bunch of Eldritch beings looked at the trash floating around. They gave a sigh as the knew who sent it.
"Ok now thats out of the way, Shining you ok bro.?" Discord asked. Shining nodded.
Another train was seen a few hours latter as Twilight's parents got off the train and headed for the castle. "I wonder who Loki is actually? I mean I heard that a being named Loki saved the crystal empire and helped defeat Tirek you think it's him?"
"I suppose it could be," Twilight's father said as he scrunched his face up at the castle. "But why do you think she never told us about the two of them."
"You know how she is dear," Twilight's mother said as she patted his shoulder. "She can get wrapped up in things so much that she can overlook certain details. Remember when she didn't eat for a few days when she was studying for a magic exam?"
"Of course I do, but I still wish she had told us beforehand."
"I do too, but that isn't what happened. Now, let's go and find out what kind of stallion has stolen the heart of our little girl."
"For his sake he'd better be treating her right."
Twilight's mother chuckled at that. "Now now dear, there's no need to go that far, yet."
Once they got to the castle they saw the Wendigo guarding/sleeping outside. Inside they saw their son Shining armor, their daughter-in-law Cadance, there daughter Twilight and the god of chaos with Discords astral projection. "Ok then Candace is going to be minister for the wedding so someone, Discord, is going to have to tell Celestia she isn't going to be minister, right Discord." The astral project raised his eyebrows.
"Why?" Loki rolled his eyes.
"Because you got to be helpful so you go tell her, plus if she does get emotional at least you can't be hit." Loki answered.
"Do you really think that could happen?" Cadance asked with a tilt of her head.
"Well considering that Twilight blasted your husband when she got a surprise I'd say it's a good idea not to take our chances." Loki told her.
"I guess you make a good point, but if we did send Shining I could always play nurse and help him recover." Cadance said with a giggle.
Loki chuckled a bit at that as well, "Well you could do that without having Shining get injured." Both Shining Armor and Twilight blushed crimson at that.
Discord just rolled his eyes. "I'll just be going to tell Celestia the news." He then disappeared and Twilight's parents then cleared their throats and caused the group to turn to them. Twilight shot up and ran over to them with a way too big smile.
“Mom, Dad its good to see you." Twilight said, she was soon embarresses at why they were here.
"It's good to see you too Twilight." Her mother said. Her father was the one to finished.
"So who and where is our son-in-law?" He asked. Loki winced a bit at this.
'Now or never.' loki though. Loki walked up with a bow. "That would be me, Loki god of chaos sir." Loki nervousness caused him to spout out another thing. "Or Best Seller, I guessing you have no idea who that is... Oh look at the time lets continue this conversation never." Loki said as his sweat was literally forming a pond in the castle.
"Loki, why are you so nervous?" Twilight whispered to him.
"I don't know, I just don't know what to do around your parents. I want to make a good impression but..."
"Stop right there, my parents will love you because I love you." Loki then gave her a weak grin and nodded at her before turning back to her parents.
"Umm, sorry about that. Hi there, I'm Loki it's nice to meet you both."
"It's nice to meet you too," Twilight's mother told him with a small smile. "Though we are a bit surprised that the stallion our little girl is going to marry isn't a exactly a stallion."
Loki flinched a little at that. 'Was that a thinly veiled insult. Nah, I'm just overthinking that. Normally I'd use my telepathy to find out, but reading the minds of future in-laws probably won't go over well with Twilight.
Astral Discord soon came to where Celestia was rehearsing for the minister. "Ahhhh Tai." She turned around to see Astral Discord. Discord gave a sigh at what he was about to say. "Loki and Twilight are having Cadance marry them." Astral Discord closed his eyes as a magic blast passed through him.
"What but I spent hours getting this down." Astral Discord thanked his stars he was in the Astral plane.
"Well, they figured that as the Princess of Love, performing a marriage falls under her jurisdiction." Discord explained. This caused Celestia to calm down a little.
"I suppose that does make sense. Still, I can't help but feel cheated."
Discord rolled his eyes at that. "I'm sure you'll be able to perform the next major wedding." This actually caused Celestia to perk up.
"You're right. Maybe I could find somepony for Luna! Ooh, after Cadance is done with Twilight's wedding she could help me with this. She always did love to play matchmaker, plus it'll be a type of family bonding. Now that that's taken care of, I'll go get a dress ready for Twilight's wedding." With that Celestia walked out of the room with a strange smile on her face.
The wedding was just about to begin. Loki was in a tex. Next to him was Shining Armor and Spike. Sitting In the crowd was Frieza, Trixie and the Astral projection of Discord. Twilight came up being let out by her dad. Cadance was said the usual equestrian wedding phase and it leaves them both to say I dos. "You may kiss the bride." Of course Loki picked her up and kissed her. Shining had a tear.
A guard came running in. "Help! Princesses."
Loki and Twilight shared an annoyed look before Loki put Twilight down. "Well I guess we should've seen something like this coming," he said with a sigh.
"Yeah," Twilight agreed, "but at least we made it past the ceremony. Though it is a shame we couldn't make it to the reception."
"Eh, I'm sure we can reschedule it a bit. And at least we still have the honeymoon."
"Ooh, that sounds fun, do you have any plans for that?"
"It's a surprise, now let's go and deal with whatever this is as husband and wife," Loki told Twilight with a grin.
Once they got out they saw that the invader was Pupa and her Changelings. "So you really didn't get the memo? You are out matched!" Loki said.
Pupa however had a smile. "Really? I’m out matched?" A great shadow came from around them. Sombra face soon appeared with something in his jaws. It was the crystal heart and it was darkened. Cadance suddenly screamed in pain as her connection to the heart was causing her problems.
"What are you doing?" Shining asked. With a smile the crystal heart became read.
"Beyond the princess of hate." Cadance was covered in dark magic as the Alicorn of Love became the Alicorn of hate.
"Huh, that certainly wasn't something I was expecting," Loki said as he scratched his chin in thought.
"Is that all you have to say, I've turned one of your own against you, resurrected an old foe of Equestria, and I interrupted your wedding and that's all you have to say to me?" Pupa fumed as she flew down and glared at Loki.
"Oh trust me, I'm pissed that you interrupted Twilight and I's special day, but I'm also riding the high that I'm actually married to the mare of my dreams. Also, you have serious delusions if you think that you'll ever be able to intimidate me." Pupa just smirked at Loki and flared her insectoid wings to her sides.
"We shall see about that. Today, Equestria shall fall and I will be its new ruler!" Loki just smirked right back at that.
"Really? I could snap my talons I can teleport you into the void of space there nothing you have that coul....."Loki slowly started to coat. "Why do I suddenly feel weak." Loki asked.
Astral Discord also started coughing. "Loki I think she found something..." Discord coughed.
"Why it's a little something I found like it?" She said with the necklace around her neck. It had a image of Discord.
"It was made with a special gem infused with Discord's blood to slowly kill him while weakening him seeing as how your fused with him now well." Pupa had a smile.
'What?!' Loki boomed inside his head as he collapsed to a knee. 'There's an equivalent to Kryptonite on this world and you never thought to mention that?!'
"I didn't even know that it existed!" Discord cried in his head. Loki then continued to sink to the ground as the necklace influence grew stronger. 'Well, this could be bad.'
"What about those tokens you have to summon others from another world?" Discord asked.
'I left those at home in a hidden little nook.' Twilight just watched in slack jawed horror as her husband was slowly being killed. When Loki was fully sprawled out on the ground and on the brink of passing out from the pain something snapped inside her. She leveled a glare at Pupa with fire in her eyes. That fire then spread outwards as her mane and tail burst into flames.reducing her wedding dress to cinders.
Her wings then flared and she took off towards Pupa. "You bitch!"
Pupa was knocked away with Twilight. The pain finally stopped but Loki was still weakened. 'Well this can't get any..." A blast was seen behind them as Celestia was fighting Sombra and Luna was fighting Cadance.
A dozen changelings appeared around him. 'Oh great I'm going to die.... again." However at that moment the changelings were struck by Lighting.
"Leave my father alone!" It was Nyx who in a flash of night became Nightmare Moon once again. "I will banish you all to the moon!"
'Oh well ponyville going to be destroyed.... again.' Loki finished after seeing this mess.
Once the changelings surrounding him were dealt with, Nightmare Moon came rushing to Loki's side and helped prop him up. "Are you okay daddy?" She asked as she helped him lean against a nearby structure.
"I'll be fine, but I won't be able to help while Pupa still has that necklace. You're going to have to get it from her and break it. Hopefully that will break it's spell and I'll be able to end this in a matter of seconds.” Nightmare nodded and Loki then told her his plan. While this was going on Twilight was still fighting Pupa. She charged up her horn and a boiling inferno formed at its tip. Pupa stood her ground and charged her horn with her own spell prepared. Twilight let the spell go and Pupa's eyes widened when she saw the large mass of fire shooting towards her.
Pupa teleported away from this. 'Ok this can possible get worse.' Pupa asked herself. A blast almost hit her as Nightmare Moon stood next to Twilight.
"My I ask if you can give her a mother-daughter beet down?" nightmare Moon or Nyx asked her adopted mother.
Twilight saw only red on Pupa. "Lets." Twilight said. The two charged up a spell and unleashed two blasts that merged heading for Pupa. Pupa horn flashed as she summoned a shield. The barrier held as Pupa gave a sigh. Only to receive a attack to the back by Chrysalis. The necklace fell off her.
"I have had enough running Sister." Chrysalis said.
"How dare you betray your own sister?!" Pupa cried as Nightmare Moon took the necklace in her magic.
Chrysalis glared at Pupa. "You're the one who betrayed me. All you've ever done is abuse and berate me. Well here I am actually considered a friend and my hive actually has a good life. So I won't let you take that." And with that Nightmare Moon crushed the necklace under a hoof.
Loki felt almost instantly better with the destruction of the gem and shot up into the air. "Oh yeah, that's waaaay better!" He then teleported behind Pupa and grabbed her in his magic. "Hey Pupa,"
"Uh huh?" She asked with a gulp.
"You've lost," she then let out a long groan.
"And now I'm going to send you blasting off into the horizon." Loki then transformed Pupa into a baseball while he had on a baseball uniform.He then wound up like a pitcher and threw the Pupa-ball as hard as he could.
She went flying into the air. "Now then what else to do oh yes." Sombra had Celestia on the ropes until Loki appeared in front of him.
"Sup." Loki said. Sombra let out a scream as Loki blast him point blank with Chaos magic. Sombra was not a plant. he looked at the corrupted Cadance with a touch the crystal heart was purified and Cadance returned to normal. With a huge bug net all of Pupa Changelings were now caught Loki leaned on the next with a glass of chocolate milk in hand. He literally drank it all, glass and milk. "Well that takes care of that."
"Loki!" Twilight cheered as she rushed over to him and jumped into his arms.He gladly wrapped them around her and smiled down at her.
"Hey honey, you didn't think I was going to die on you, did you?"
Twilight shook her head, "Not even for a second. I just hated seeing someone hurt my husband." She made sure to stress the last word. Loki chuckled a little as he looked over the damage from Pupa's attack. "This was one hell of a first day of our marriage, huh?" Twilight giggled a little.
"Something tells me we're in for plenty more like it."
"You're not having any regrets are you?" Twilight just continued to grin. "Not a chance, we still have to try and give Nyx a little brother or sister, don't we?" She concluded with half-lidded eyes. This caused Loki's smile to grow even wider.
"Come on, I don't want to be late." Twilight said, it was the day of a meteor shower. Twilight was so ready for this event to happen.
"Twilight calm down I could get us there." Loki answered. The family appeared to see the space rocks coming down. Unknown to them however in the bright shower one rock slowly came down in the Equestrian outland. It glowed for a moment. "Magic...." A voice said coming from it.
"Oh wow, this is so cool!" Nyx cheered as she looked through the telescope that Twilight had brought. "Yeah, this is nice," Loki said as he lounged on a picnic blanket. Twilight was sitting next to him and was jotting down notes as she stared intently at the falling meteors.
"You're right Nyx, these truly are fascinating. I could tell you more about them if you like," Twilight said as she had a large grin at the prospect of sharing knowledge.
"Twilight, why are you taking notes? Can't you just lay down and enjoy this shower with the rest of us?" Loki asked as he patted a spot next to him. Twilight gave Loki a slight smirk as she looked away from her notes for a moment.
"I am enjoying the shower, just in my own way. I'm noting their angle of trajectory and estimating their entry velocity to see if I can collect any samples to study. I'm curious to see what lies beyond this planet. We might even be able to discover new elements or magical energy different than what we're used to," She concluded with a sparkle in her eye.
"I am dating such a nerd," Loki chuckled. "I bet you a hundred bits that they're probably just made of iron and nickel like most meteorites."
"You're on," she said with a large grin.
They looked around for pieces. It seemed Loki was right on the nose with his earlier prediction and he was happy however Twilight saw something, a glowing rock. She attempted to levitate it but nothing happened. "Loki come see this." Twilight said. Loki flew over to see the glowing rock. "I can't lift it with my magic." Twilight showed as she attempted it. Loki used his senses to check it out. It was magicless yet it seemed to have energy to it. Pulling out of his pocket dimension he had metal gloves and picked it up. "What kind of magic is it?" Twilight asked. Loki turned to her. "Twilight this isn't magic."
In a large meeting room of the Canterlot Castle Loki, the Elements, the princesses, the highest members of the guards and researchers were meeting to discuss Loki and Twilight’s discovery. All while their discovery was placed in a glass case.
"I called you all here because of this, this isn't magic despite your original assumption." Loki with a wave formed a weird sphere with lightning and orbs around it. "This is a magical matrix this thing’s magic is." Loki created another construct. "This is its matrix." The other one looked just like it only opposite. "What we are seeing here is Anti-Magic.... real Anti-Magic with a capital M."
“What do you think this means?" Celestia asked.
"I'm not sure," Loki answered as he stared intently at his findings. "All we really know at the moment is that it seems to cancel out any magic that comes into contact with it. Twilight made a note of a lot of the meteors' trajectories so we could glean a general idea of where it came from." A young researcher raised her hoof and seemed enthusiastic about the prospect that the anti-magic meteorite.
"Do you think we should study it? Who knows what we could learn from such a strange specimen. We could even harness it as a new energy source. A changeling guard stepped forward. "Or we could harness it as a way to detain criminals," she said. Loki grimaced as he heard these ideas.
"I don't think that’s a good idea." Another construct came out from the matrix of Anti-magic. "This is something very disturbing." He said pointing at it. He touched his own head and tossed out a similar construct.
"Hey that’s not fun." The construct said in Discord's voice.
"This thing whatever it is, is both hostile to magic... and it’s as smart as you or me.... everyone here." Loki looked at them all. "I believe we just made first contact." Twilight was wide eyed. "You mean?" Loki nodded.
"This is an alien being not native to our world." He looked at it.
"So, do you think it can hear us?" Chrysalis asked as she warily compared the two matrices. Loki shook his head.
"We have no way of knowing what this is capable of. It might be able to 'hear' us, but if it does communicate it probably does so in a way that is foreign to us. I'd recommend approaching this with extreme caution."
"Don't you think that we should attempt to find a way to communicate with it?" Twilight asked.
"If this is an actual intelligence shouldn't we try to foster a relationship?" Loki considered that for a moment. His inner nerd was screaming that it was a terrible idea. Years of ingesting science-fiction and comic books told him that poking around at the extra-terrestrial materials usually didn't end well. Then again, the idea of contact with an alien species made that same part of him giddy.
“Well yes though I won't even begin to know how to unless...." He took Discord and placed him back inside his head. "I could try to use my abilities to alter my form until I gain the ability to communicate with it, but that could take weeks or." Loki sent an astral projection. "The astral plane seems to be protected from its powers it I can just." Loki astral from touched it as it glowed.
"Magic." The rock broke and a liquid formed before it became a glowing ball. "Where am I?" It said. It somehow saw them. "Magic, magic everywhere."
"Loki what did you just do?" Twilight whispered into his ear.
"Well, I may have used my mind in order to help teach it our language."
"How did you manage that when it cancels out magic?" "Well astral projection doesn't operate via magical energy after the initial spell. I used my astral projection to connect our minds for a brief moment.
"Isn't that extremely dangerous?" Twilight asked getting slightly worried.
"We can worry about that later, right now I should help calm our guest down." Loki then turned to the strange, glowing ball with an apprehensive smile. "Hello there, yes there is a lot of magic here. But don't worry, we're going to help you if we can."
"Where am I?" the orb asked in an androgynous voice.
"This is Equestria. You landed here during a meteor shower.
The entity looked around. The alicorns and Chrysalis had powerful magic. However this thing. Whatever it was it had magic yet it wasn't there. However, whatever it was, it was massive. "You have the largest measure of magic here." It moved close.
"Who and What are you?" It asked. Loki decided that it was best to go first. "I'm Loki, god of Chaos, defender of the balance of magical energy." He said. The glowing ball floated to him.
"A god?” The orb glowed. "I haven't killed a god before." It attempted to smash the glass but it bounced off. "What is this?!" it screamed.
"Well, that is a special cage I had made with the help of these researchers to contain your anti-magic energy. And now I'm glad I did seeing as you tried to kill me."
"This cheap cage won't hold me for long. I will see you ripped apart right down to your very core."
"Well, I would say I didn't see something like this coming, but then I'd be a liar," Loki said with a drawn out sigh. He then turned to the others with a serious look. "Okay everyone I think we need to figure out a way to contain this thing for as long as we can and then deal with this once and for all."
"You won't succeed, I will destroy all of your precious magic and see to it that your kingdoms shall..." Loki snapped his talons so that a soundproof bubble surrounded the orb's cage.
"Yeah I think we should hurry up on this."
The entity attempted to escape out of the cage each time failing. "So long as nothing else happens." The door came open as Celestia and Luna were tossed into the cage. While it didn't break they did scream as cracks formed on the cage’s surface. "Pinkie Pie!" Loki screamed.
A bit later, the cage was fixed and the princesses were in the hospital. "Well they’re ok, the entity did drain them it should be a week before they are back up." The nurse said. Loki paced. "This isn't good they raise the sun and moon who else has the power to do that?" Loki stopped. "It’s time for sunrise isn't it?" He asked. Twilight nodded. "Yes but what does that mean?" Loki walked through the window and with his hands he slowly raised them up as the sun rose up. Without Luna and Celestia he was the only other being able to raise the sun.
"Well that's one problem solved," Twilight said as she looked at the sunrise. "But we still have to figure out a way to deal with that entity.
"We're all working on that, but we have to be careful. One misstep and we could end up like Celestia and Luna. I bet you wish you had actually lost that one hundred bits, huh?" Twilight just smiled a little as she looked up at Loki.
"Not really, I know that no matter what happens we'll be able to stop this. So I think I can live with a temporary threat if it means I can learn that we're not alone in the universe and winning a hundred bits off of you."
"Wow," Loki said slightly surprised.
"What is it?"
"Back when we started dating you'd have a near mental breakdown if someone slightly misplaced your mouthwash. Now you're facing a planetary threat without breaking a sweat." He gave his wife a smile.
“What can I say, being the wife to a god does wonders for a mare’s confidence,” she replied with a chuckle and a smile of her own.
Inside his cage the entity hit the glass over and over again. "Magic!" The entity screamed with a glow it smashed the glass again as cracks started to from. Loki appeared in the room as he let his powers move the Celestial Objects. "Alright I want answers, who are you!" Loki demanded the entity turned to him.
"I am Zel." It said. Loki glared at him.
"I got that much I'm starting to think you are not an alien per say." Loki glared. "An Eldritch Abomination more likely... After all Magic is a part of this universe and you are not magic you're something else."
"I suppose that much is true. But this information won't have much use for you considering your world will be dead soon," The entity stated evenly.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because I can," the entity declared causing a slight shiver to go up Loki's spine.
"Well I'm not going to let you do that. Even if I have to give up my own life I will keep you from destroying this world. And just to let you know, I've died before."
"And how do you plan on stopping me?" The entity asked with a chuckle. "I've already broken free of your little cage and none of your magic can have an effect on me." Loki smirked a little at that as he charged magic into his paw and talon.
"Correction, magic can't affect you directly. I could still lift something with my magic and hit you with it."
The entity gave a laugh at him. "It doesn't matter." Loki reacted by dropping a rock on him.
"Yeah, yeah whatever." A guard came in as Loki had to move out to keep the sun moving. However while Loki left, a small tendril of the entity grabbed the guard. After a few moments the glow of the entity was seen leaving the room.
Loki suddenly felt a huge change in the world. 'What was that?' he asked himself he flew over back to the guard finding him unconscious with his cutie mark gone. Not a bit of magic existed within him.
"Oh no, I can't let that thing spread. I don't know if I'll be able to reverse the effects it has when this is all over. I need to go get Twilight and see if we can find this thing." Loki then teleported back to the Castle of Friendship and appeared right in front of Twilight's throne.
"Twilight, the anti-magic entity has escaped and it's already stolen a guard's magic."
"This is awful, what do you think we should do?"
"I don't know, but magic can affect it indirectly so we can hit it with things that we levitate."
"Okay, I'll send a message to the other princesses and have them help us with this."
"Good call, I'll go look for the thing right now and see if I can slow it down."
"Okay, just be careful," Twilight said with a worried look.
"Hey, I'll be fine. We're in this together after all."
"Always," Twilight said with a smile. "Now go and save the world. I'll be there with the princesses soon."
As the entity moved through A cage was tossed over him. Loki appeared. "So it seems I shouldn't have left you alone." The entity moved through the barriers. "This can't hold me, now then." The entity attempted to attack Loki whole pulled out one of the tokens. With a glow the earth came up and surrounded him.
"Like it? It’s a little gift from a dragon god.”
"It is frail magic just like everything else on this world," The entity said with a laugh as it broke free of the earth cage. "You and all of the creatures on this planet rely on it for everything. But don't worry, I shall free you from it. I am the great cleanser of the universe."
"Well, that was a great little speech, but I like this place the way it is so I'm going to have to stop you," Loki laughed as he charged up his magic. He then picked up a large boulder in his magical grasp and slammed it into the entity. This didn't faze the entity much as it snaked a tendril out of Loki's notice and wrapped it around one of his legs.
"Now you shall have none of your power!" The entity cried. Loki then cried out as he could slowly feel his magic leave him.
Loki tapped into the element of power the sudden rush injured the entity. "What? That actually hurt." It said. Loki sighed.
"Seems you have a limit to how much magic you can absorb? Kinda like anti-matter and matter." Loki summoned the elements powers in a flash he appeared in his chaos power. "Lets’ see how long this will take me." Loki said as he rushed the being. Twilight and the others saw the burst of chaos form Loki as they went to investigate. When they got there they saw Loki slamming a mountain on the entity then slammed another one.
"Whoa, that's something new," Rainbow Dash said as she seemed impressed with what she was seeing.
"This is bad," Twilight said as she felt the energy coming off of Loki.
"Whaddya mean, Twilight?" Applejack asked.
"He's using his elements' powers. That's a last resort for him. We have to hurry, he needs our help." Loki continued to look for things to hit the entity with but nothing seemed to be slowing it down. The entity then lashed out with multiple dark tendrils in an attempt to wrap them around Loki.
"You cannot stop me!" it cried. "Nothing with magic will ever be able to stop me!" Just as the tendrils were about to reach him he teleported out of the way.
"Yeesh, do you just like to hear yourself talk?" Loki asked as he held a bubble full of magma above him. "And I thought Pinkie and I liked to talk." He then let the magma now lava go right onto the entity.
The entity actually screamed under the heat of the molten rock. Loki looked down at the entity. "Well you're no longer a threat." Loki said as he floated a bit off the magma. However several tendrils shot out and covered Loki. He gave out a scream. As both he and the thing crashed into the magma. Within Loki's powers body dimension Discord saw the tendrils closing in on the power matrix of the elements and him.
"Loki!" Twilight screamed she charged up her magic in hopes of saving him. Loki could feel pain he then heard Twilight screaming.
"It’s no use I will destroy all magic.... wait..." The entity magic being started to scream. Something was wrong. "What’s going on.... no it can't... be.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Loki gave a final scream. The magma slid away with Loki in the center.
'Why do I feel so... weak?" Loki asked. Discord was the one to answer.
"Loki that thing, whatever your body did was to late Loki your connection to the elements of disharmony has been...."
"No," Loki said as he looked himself over and tried to use some magic. However, nothing happened. His and Twilight's eyes widened at the lack of anything crazy happening. "I can't believe it."
"Yes, your connection has been severed. You can't perform any magic now." Discord told him.
"Loki, what's wrong?" Twilight asked warily as she approached him.
"It's gone Twilight," he said slowly.
"My magic is gone. That thing took it all." Twilight's jaw dropped when she heard that. She then rushed over to his side and wrapped her hooves around him.
"Oh my goodness, that's awful. But don't worry, we can find a way to do something about this."
"Thanks Twilight, what did I do to deserve someone like you?" He asked with a weak smile.
"You've done a lot. And now I'm going to do something for you."
With Loki’s magic gone the only good thing was that the entity was gone as well. For the stallion that was attacked he was lucky that a small bit of magic still existed in him. For the princesses there was actually one other who could move the sun and moon. Nyx was forced to go Nightmare Moon but she was able to move both objects. It was a loose connection but it would do. Loki was with Fluttershy. "Thanks you for coming by Loki, I heard about what happened." Loki stopped her.
"It’s alright my magic a small piece to pay compared the magic of the world."
"Well, I'm sure living without magic won't be so bad," Fluttershy told him in a small effort to comfort him.
"I think I'll be able to adjust," Loki replied.
'I was able to live without it for most of my life after all.' He thought.
"I just don't like the idea of not being able to help you girls in case something big threatens Equestria again."
"There are more ways to help us then by jumping into the fray with us. Just look at Spike."
"I know, but I still don't have to like it."
"Very true, now let's feed some of my animals. That's something I've never needed any magic to do." Fluttershy said with a giggle.
"Okay," Loki replied as he cracked a small smile. "I think I can handle feeding some animals."
Loki as he was walking out to help saw an image flashed through his mind. It looked like him with in fact it was him. He saw this version ruling Equestria. The image stopped. He shook his head. 'What was that?" He asked. Discord himself also saw the vision.
"Loki, I think that was you or another you." Loki stopped that was him? He had a memory on the old wheel his first attempt at chance was world ruler.
'What does that mean?' Loki asked himself.
"I think it's fairly obvious considering you've been to other universes before," Discord said warily.
'Are you saying that there are universes where I went evil?' Loki asked.
"Considering how vast the multiverse is I'd say there's an infinite number of possibilities."
'And my use of chance probably helped the multiverse branched out.'
"I don't think the multiverse needs help with that, but it does give us some ideas of what other versions of you are doing.” Loki's eyes widened a little as he realized some of the options he had given himself at the time.
'Uhh, this could get weird if we figure out how to get to the other universes that I wound up in.' "You're right, do you think we should visit these other universes? I feel like this vision might be important." Discord thought.
Loki wondered about why he got the vision. However another appeared before him. This one showed during the summer sun celebration. "That’s basically it, Discord has planted seeds and are going to sprout soon so by returning the elements they would die." The image showed him giving the mane six the truth stopping the threat before it became a threat. Loki blinked. Another image showed him in his insane driven rampage from Sombra with the world as his plaything.
"Discord I think these aren't so much visions of random... something’s going on." Loki saw something in each a strange rainbow behind in the background. "I think these are warnings, being sent to me."
"A warning, but of what?" Discord asked.
'I don't know, I think we need some help figuring this out.'
"Hmm, if only someone we knew someone who was married to a princess and an adept magic-user." Loki rolled his eyes at that.
'You don't have to be sarcastic Discord. I'll go see Twilight and see what we can do about these visions.'
"Hmm, who was being sarcastic?" Loki let out a long sigh as he turned to Fluttershy.
"Is something wrong, Loki?" "No, but something has come up. I have to go. I'll be sure to help you later with anything you want."
"Oh, you don't owe me anything," Fluttershy replied with a smile. "Now you go get going, I'm sure whatever just came up is very important."
"Thanks Fluttershy, I'll see you later."
At the castle Loki talked about what he had seen to Twilight. "That’s about it and in each one I see this rainbow it looks just like the Elements of Harmony rainbow though always tainted by something, then nothing. I think my alternate counterparts are warning me of something." Loki finished summing up everything to his wife.
Twilight herself had written it all down. However at that moment Loki received another vision. He saw another version of himself walking the sun set with the rainbow coming right at him and then. The vision ended right there. "Something attacking them each."
"This is so strange. What do you think could be attacking the other versions of you?" Twilight asked. Loki's eyes widened a little as he thought of something.
"I might know..."
'But that should be impossible.' He thought darkly.
"Loki, you don't think?" Discord asked.
"What is it, Loki?" Twilight asked as she placed a hoof on his side.
"Like I said, I might know. But I'll need more evidence before I come to any conclusions."
"Okay, so what do you think we should do about this. I mean, if there's something that can take out alternate versions of you then..." She started as she shook slightly in fear. Loki just grinned slightly and wrapped his arms around Twilight.
"I know, I'm a sitting duck right now. If we're going to be able to take on whatever this is, then I'm going to need my magic back."
"How do you think we'll be able to do that?"
"I don't know, but with the help of the smartest mare in Equestria, I think I'll be able to figure it out." Twilight smiled a little as he said that.
"Well, let's get this research started then."
With the notes from Loki at their side Twilight attempting along with Loki to figure out. With a final look though Twilight believed she found a way to let Loki speak to the visions. The potion was just about finished. "Here I hope this works." Twilight said.
"You and me both." With a drink his eyes glowed. Appearing around him was dozens of himself.
"So you're the original? The Prime of us." He saw them all looking at him. "You lost your magic? We think that’s not true absorbing that thing may have weakened the connection but you are the Elements you can never lose your power."
"Whoa, this is really weird," Loki said as he looked between several different versions of himself. "And if I can't really lose my powers, then what should I do?"
"You have to reestablish the connection to the elements," a color swapped version of him explained.
"And how should I do that? The last time I got them to light up I was just doing random things," Loki explained. A female version of him just smiled and chuckled a little.
"We can't explain that to you, but just think about it and I'm sure you'll figure it out."
"Okay, so do any of you know what's been attacking the other versions of us?"
"We don't know for sure, but we're pretty sure who it is. And we're pretty sure you do too." Loki let out a sigh at that piece of news.
"Yeah, well is there anything else I should know about?"
“Sorry, we don’t have any solid information.”
"Okay, I'll do it. And hopefully we won't actually destroy the universe or something while we do that." Loki said.
"Eh, we figure that we have a 50/50 shot of that happening." A version of himself that was glowing green shrugged off while gesturing with his paw. Loki quirked an eyebrow at him and pointed a talon at him.
"Uhh what choice did you make where you ended up like that?"
"You don't wanna know, but it seemed like a good idea at the time."
"Oookay, well if that's all I should head back to my world. I've got to get back to my wife and see if I can get my magic back. Hopefully I'll see you all shortly. Stay safe and don't let her get you." Loki said as he closed his eyes and started to drift back to Twilight's castle.
"Don't worry, we will." They said in unison.
Loki got up. He knew what he had to do now. ”Loki what’s is it?” Twilight asked. Loki turned to her.
"I have to do something there’s someone I must defeat."
Loki turned to her. "It’s an evil version of you."
"What do you mean an evil version of me?" she asked, worried and confused. Loki then sat down and told her the whole story. When he was finished she was staring at a blank part of the wall with her ears pinned to the sides of her head.
"Oh my, I... I can't believe that there's a version of me out there that could do something as horrifying as all that." Loki smiled slightly and walked up behind her to give her a tender hug from behind.
"The multiverse is a big place, anything is possible. But I know that you would never do anything like that. You're too good of a pony to even think of it. Twilight smiled warmly and nuzzled Loki as she let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank you Loki. It was a bit of a shock to hear that. Now, we've got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to get your magic back."
Loki chuckled a little as he let go of Twilight. "And why are you in such a hurry? We were having a nice little moment there."
"Because the sooner we get your magic back, the sooner you can defeat that evil Twilight. And the sooner you do that, the sooner we can celebrate, and I have a couple ideas what we could do to celebrate."
Loki walked out he wondered where he could go to regain his magic. Strangely he felt a pull. There was one being on the planet that could help him. The Tree of Harmony. 'That's all the way in the Everfree Forest, it's not like it's as dangerous as before.' However Loki knew the fallout from his and Tirek fight and the forest was darker. 'This is going to hurt.' Loki thought. He knew he was going to need to do this himself.
Walking into the forest, Loki the god of Chaos was going to accept his fate, and hopefully it will to stop the Evil Twilight. Loki looked over his shoulder for a brief moment as he considered his decision for a moment.
'Maybe I should tell Twilight about what I'm doing.' He thought as he looked back at the dark entrance to the forest. 'Without my magic I'm pretty vulnerable right now.'
"You know you can't do that." Discord chimed in. "What we're about to do could be considered fairly reckless and dangerous."
'Yeah, you got a point there,' Loki relented with a sigh. 'Here's hoping everything goes according to plan. And if I run into anything like a manticore I'll just run away screaming like a little girl.
"Sounds good to me." Discord said as Loki entered the forest.
As they walked down the path to the tree things started to become strange. The forest was unnatural in this world but now. It seemed as if it was more unnatural to the universe. 'My chaos magic must be in the air, hope nothing… a manticore came out, only this time it looked more... Wild and monstrous, looking. Loki cursed himself. 'Fuck you too fate!' Loki screamed in his head. He went off running and so did the beast that was following him.
'Crap if I had my magic I could just teleport it away but I don't... and this is a dead end.' Loki thoughts finished. The wild beast turned to him and roared. Loki looked back.
"Great if only I had brought a weapon with me like a sword..." Loki's talons started to glow in anti-magic and a sword soon formed in his hand.
"What the hell just happened?!" Loki shouted as he gaped at the glowing sword in his talons. A loud roar from the even more monstrous manticore derailed Loki's train of thought as he brought it up in a defensive posture.
'Guess I'll have to worry about that later,' Loki thought as he strained to hold back the manticore. Loki then hopped back and allowed the manticore's claws to slam into the ground. Loki attempted to follow up with a slash at the manticore's face but was stopped by a lightning fast strike of its tail. Loki grimaced as he tried to think of a way to get past the beast's two pronged defense.
'Discord, got any ideas on how to fight a manticore with no magic?' Loki thought as he made sure to stay out of reach of the manticore's tail.
"Not many I'm afraid. Perhaps attempting to distract it would be best?" Discord suggested.
'And how the hell do you propose I do that?' Loki barked.
"I don't know, just improvise!"
Loki looked around and saw a tree. With a slash the tree was cut and it fell down on the manticore. Loki sighed as he soon got away. He looked at the sword of Anti-magic.
"Hey Discord, you think I might have absorbed the entity and his Anti-magic?" Loki asked. Discord who was with him, gave it thought.
"It would seem so." Discord answered. As they walked deeper and a few more close calls Loki come down to the tree of harmony. Around the tree was a veil of Loki's Chaos Magic.
'Whoa, I didn't think the Tree could absorb my magic like this.' Loki thought.
"Very true, now I'd suggest being careful about getting our magic back. We don't want to cause any damage to the tree."
'Don't worry, I know how to be careful. Unlike some people, I know better than to mess with the Tree of Harmony too much.' Loki shot back with a bit of a smirk.
"You're never going to let me live that down, are you?" Loki shrugged at that.
'I might, all depends on whether or not you keep up your good behavior. Now, I've stalled too much. Let's see if we can get our magic back.' Loki then took a few cautious steps toward the veil of chaos magic and hesitantly placed his paw on it.
'Uhh, I didn't really mean to do that.' Loki thought as he tried sending the planet back to where it was from.
"Perhaps you should try getting your powers under control before trying to fight that evil Twilight?" Discord suggested.
'Good idea. I should go and tell my Twilight that I have magic again. Plus, I just want to spend some time with her and Nyx before I do this. Don't tell her this, but I'm a little worried that...'
"Stop right there." Discord interrupted. "I'm not even going to let you think about finishing that train of thought. Now, go tell your wife and daughter that you have your magic back and that you'll be home by dinner." Discord ordered.
Loki smiled and chuckled at that and with a nod of his head replied, "Alright Discord, sounds like a plan to me." And with a snap of his talons, Loki teleported towards the crystal palace in Ponyville.
That night Loki gave a sigh. He looked out into the night sky and as far as his senses let him go. "Everyone asleep and happy," Loki eyes were closed but with a deep breath he looked up. "It's time." Chaos magic surrounded Loki as he floated up. The Space in front of him wrapped as time itself was ripped open and Loki passed through. The effect was done and Loki was now in the sea of time. As he flew with Discord images floated around. His time in Equestria was laid bare before them.
"Wow... I did so much." Loki looked around and saw so images that made him laugh at his stupidity. Around them the universe was aging as they moved into the future, stars died and where born until the last of them died out. Around the universe died until a opening was seen. Darkness was the only thing. The universe was on the verge of final Death. Loki was in a void of nothing but low energy particles.
'Wow, so this is what entropy looks like. Gotta be honest here, it kinda gives me the creeps.' Loki thought with a shiver that was not due to any cold.
"I have to agree with you on that sentiment. I vastly prefer a universe teeming with activity. Let's get this fight over with as soon as we can and go back to our own time period, shall we?" Discord proposed.
'I couldn't agree more there.' Loki thought as he floated through the dying universe in an attempt to find the evil Twilight. It didn't take the two long before the figure of the Twilight appeared before them. Her back was turned to them and she commented aloud as she looked over the scenery.
"Incredible, so this is what true peace and harmony looks like. No more monsters attacking towns, no more citizens that need protecting. Just silence, for all of eternity. It's truly a thing of beauty. And soon, all universes will be like this." She finished darkly and a chuckle passed through her lips that soon became long, unhinged laughter. Loki shivered again but gathered himself quickly and attempted to subtly gather energy in hopes of ending the fight before it could truly begin.
The Evil Twilight turned to him letting out a harmony blast forcing Loki to block. "This ends here... you die here!" The Evil Twilight said with a smile. Loki floated there as his magic flared out. Evil Twilight's flared out as well. Discord spoke within Loki’s mind. “You’re as powerful as each other, this won’t end fast.' Loki got ready as Evil Twilight was the first to rush him. She started with a punch a kick then tossed him. With her horn glowing a rapid blasts of magic was aimed right at him. Loki flew and dodge around before going for a punch. In a flash he teleported and reappeared behind her hitting in the jaw. She flew around before stopping with her wings and floating back up to Loki.
"Are we done warming up?" She asked.
"If you need a few more minutes to get ready, I'd gladly wait for you." Loki replied with a cheeky grin.
"Cute, but I'd rather kill you quickly and get this over with." The evil Twilight said as she gathered a massive amount of energy into her horn.
"Fair enough, let's do this!" Loki called out as he snapped his talons and created over a dozen clones of himself. The evil Twilight seemed confused for a moment as Loki and all his copies flew around her, but she collected herself quickly and started firing dark beams of magic at anything that moved.
The dozen Loki clones dodged her attacks while harassing her with pranks and bats. Twilight sent a shockwave of energy before glaring at them. "Two can play it that game!" With a spell an equal amount of her formed with Loki. The two grounds went out into a show or magic and fists. Within the fight the copies soon dissipated as Loki and the evil Twilight separated after landing a punch on each other at the same time. Loki floated back.
"Ok then I guess it's time to get serious!" With that his magic spiked and he took on the Chaos Rainbow. Evil Twilight had a smile.
"Good..." Her appearance was covered in Rainbows as she revealed the Rainbow Powered form. Once again matching powers.
Loki looked the evil Twilight over and grimaced. 'Of course she has an answer for my chaos form, I'd be shocked if she didn't,' he thought.
"Well seeing as this fight has taken a turn for the DBZ, what with all these transformations. Do you think we should spend a few episodes screaming while charging up our power?" Discord asked.
'Ooh, somebody's been in my memories again for that joke. But no, we should try to end this quickly.' Loki then brought himself back into the moment and charged at the evil Twilight.
Evil Twilight countered his fist causing a flash of light in the lightly void between them. Loki moved fast using his powers to strike her over and over but Evil Twilight grabbed him and let use a blast point blank into his face. Loki went tossed back into the void as Twilight attack him with punches over and over. "Why don't you just die?!" With that she fired a massive blast. Loki actually slammed into something.
"What the Hell!" Loki screamed. He realized what it was. A cosmic String a long singularity that weighed about as much as a thousand suns. Or what was left of it.
"Loki look up!" Discord voice said. Loki did and dodged Twilight’s dropkick.
'Discord, what do you think would happen if we messed with that cosmic string?' Loki asked.
"If I had to guess, a bang, a very big bang."
'Got it, so we shouldn't mess with it except as a last resort.'
"Here's hoping we don't need to. I'm fairly sure the energy from disrupting the string would be enough to kill even us."
'Yeah, I thought as much. But what am I supposed to do here? She's able to counter any magic I throw at her.' A moment of silence passed between the two and a bolt of inspiration struck them at the same time. Loki cracked his talon and a surge of anti-magic passed through it. In a bright flash of light, Loki was out of his chaos form and he floated in place with a large anti-magic sword in his talon. The evil Twilight quirked an eyebrow at this sudden development.
"What is this? Are you insane? Oh what am I saying, you’re Chaos of course." The Evil Twilight readied a massive blast and unleashed it. Loki raised the blade and meet the blast. To the Evil Twilight's shock. The Blast was being stopped by the blade as Loki forced his way through the blast. With a slash of his paw another blade formed and he cut her arm. The wound was light but for a moment her form dropped. "What was that?!" She demanded returning to her rainbow power.
"Oh, this is just a little anti-magic I picked up a little bit ago. It can cancel out any magic that it comes into contact with."
"What!?" The evil Twilight cried. "How did you get a hold of something like that?!"
"I fell into some lava with an anti-magic alien." Loki answered with a bit of a grin. The evil Twilight furrowed her brow at Loki.
"I am looking forward to killing you."
"You can try, but I've died before and that just made me even stronger. The evil Twilight let out a low growl and flashed a large surge of magical energy into her horn and threw herself at Loki. She attempted to send a blast of magical energy right at his face. Loki redirected the blast and she was barely able to dodge it.
She was sent up as Loki went to attack her again with a slash. Her form flared and was canceled out. As Loki went again. She grabbed both of Loki's Arms and smashed his face with a dropkick and on the string. She hit again as Loki dodged. However something was going wrong as they both stood. A crack started to form on the cosmic string. "Oh Shit!" Loki/Discord/Evilight all screamed. They took off as fast as they could. In the dead reality a massive explosion was seen the light could be seen all around and fora moment it was almost as if a galaxy had formed.
In the waves of energy Loki was bleeding and tired. "That was too close... if we were just a little closer out magic wouldn't save us." Discord answered.
"You think she's dead?" Loki asked. His question was answered as floating out bleeding and broken with a sword in her hand.. it was one of Loki's two Anti-magic blades. Evil Twilight looked him down.
"Great so we’re both Injured..." Loki answered. Evil Twilight gripped her blade. Loki did as well. With a final rush there speeds slowed they swan at each other. They both stopped as the blades pierced their hearts and their bodies broke apart into the elements. They soon broke apart as well. Back in the normal time Twilight could feel it.
"Loki no... please don't die on me." She said, barely above a whisper. "I still need you." Twilight looked up toward the night sky and a gentle stream of tears started to flow down her cheeks. Back in the void, Discord and Loki floated.
"A-are we dead?" Loki asked.
"I don't know." Discord answered. "I might've been the god of chaos, but even I have no idea what the afterlife is like." The two continued to float in silence for a little while longer.
"Do you think it was all worth it?" Loki asked out of nowhere.
"What do you mean?"
"Me coming to Equestria, do you think I actually made things any better?"
"I don't believe I'm the one that can pass judgement on that. Do you think coming to Equestria was a good thing?" Loki thought that over for a little while.
"Heh, I really do."
Outside, the elements of Harmony and Disharmony floated, destroyed. A glow however was seen. A shard of the Element of Power glowed and soon a wave came from it and to the other shards. As this small magic wave hit each shard it glowed and finally coming together was the element of power with both the elements of Harmony and Disharmony soon reforming around it and finally they merged. A new light was seen in the dead universe. Finally it was gone. Darkness filled the corpse of reality. All gave a small light as it went back in time. Twilight saw a small light landed out of a small portal. It soon became a flower. Twilight held it close.
A being in a heavy cloak looked out into the void of space. On the asteroid that they where standing on. The star it orbited was newborn in this universe. It raised its arm up. As a pendant was seen. With a toss it was sent up.
The hand that caught it was not a hand but Talons. With a touch it opened up to show a Lavender Alicorn, and a Black Alicorn filly. "Twilight, Nyx...." The unknown being said. "I will find my way home.
The pendant was closed and pocketed into the cloak. With a jump the cloaked being took off jumping from Asteroid and flying around it, a signal fang and goatee popping out. A voice was hard next to him. "You really think you can even find them? You know how impossible that is right?" The voice asked.
Another one cut it off. "Of course he can after all." A portal soon opened up and a all around seemed to be lights yet not in a void of something and nothing.
"He is Loki." The cloaked being face was seen. It was the once displaced Eric Smith, now know as Loki.
