> The Tag Team From Tartarus
>  by PonySage86
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> Inner Turmoil -revised-
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	Discord walk's down the road outside of Ponyville, glancing around at the trees of the forest and listening to the chirping of the birds.It had been two months since the defeat of Tirek and peace has returned to Equestria. But peace had not returned to Discord, over these last two months he had been spending time with Fluttershy and no pony else. He had given her gifts and put on shows for her, anything he thought of to make her smile. He did it so she would forgive him for betraying her, she kept telling him that she already had and Discord believed her, he just wanted an excuse to make her laugh. His thoughts took a dark turn as he thought of the other elements and the princesses, they had been happy with him after the fact saying they had forgiven him as well. But he didn't believe them, over the last two months he kept excepting guards, or the princesses or someone to come looking for him wanting to punish him for his betrayal. But no one had, he kept waiting for vengeance that never came, he was even ready for it and everything. He had braced himself for the worst comments and even knew exactly what to say back to get them to shut up. Oh if they only knew the secret he was keeping in the back of his mind, they wouldn't be plotting the cunning revenge he knew they were totally planning back in town, or castle. He hadn't been to Ponyville or Canterlot in the last two months, but had seen a few towns pony's on the road to and from Fluttershy's house, they hadn't said anything, they only looked at him with fear and crossed the street. But he didn't care about them they probably weren't involved with the princesses plan to destroy him, probably. Discord's head suddenly turned to the right as he heard a familiar voice.

"Discord!" Fluttershy called, not quite a shout but not a whisper either. Discord smiled and walked the short distance off the road to the picnic blanket Fluttershy was sitting on. The blanket was set in a flowery meadow only a short distance from Fluttershy's cottage. Discord glanced over at the house and locked eyes with angel bunny who sat on the window, he could've sworn he saw that little rodent point one of his paws in the air. Discord gave a slight wave back but his paw froze in midair and his mouth dropped open as he saw that only one of the rabbits fingers... toes... things were pointing in the air. As one of the few creatures in the world with fingers he knew what that sign meant.

"Why you little-" Discord began clenching his paw into a fist. He was about to march over there and strangle that little bunny when he felt a hoof touch his side.

"What are you looking at?" Fluttershy asked poking Discord in the ribs. He glanced down at her puzzled expression and for a moment thought about telling her what her rabbit had just done. But decided it would be best to ignore it for now.

"Oh... I was just... um... looking at your lovely home." Discord said with a smile. " It looks much more amazing with the new flower bed in front." The thought just popped into his head, while had hadn't been thinking about that, he did believe her house looked better with the new bed of tulips growing near the bridge.

"Oh thank you Discord." Fluttershy said with a small smile on her face. "Now let's sit down and have some tea." Fluttershy reached up for his paw, he unclenched it and took her hoof and followed her to the blanket. She sat down on the right side and Discord sat down on the left his back to her cottage. He snapped his fingers and a teapot and cups appeared in mid air. Tea came out of the teapot and spilt in two filling both cups at the same time. The teapot floated to the ground as the streams of tea finished filling the cups, one cup flew to each of the picnic goers. They both grabbed their cups and each took a sip sighing happily at the warm feeling.

"So how has everything been?" Discord asks Fluttershy this question with a small smile and an arched eyebrow. Fluttershy lets out a small chuckle and then looks up at her friend. 

"You ask me that everyday." Fluttershy laughs, and then takes another sip of her tea. "And you've been with me all the time these last two months. so you should know it's been great." She gives him a big smile, as more tea streams into her cup. Discord chuckles slightly and then takes a big sip of his drink before replying. 

"My dear Fluttershy, what I meant is how has everything been when I'm not with you, like when your in town or in that shiny new castle." 

"Oh well everything's been fine, nothing much has happened since the castle showed up."

"No torches, or pitchforks, or say some kind of magic trapping genie bottle or something?" Discord asked well running his finger around the rim of his cup and glancing around as if he was following a fly. Fluttershy just tilted her head to one side and raised her eyebrow at her friend. An awkward silence fell over the picnic as neither knew what to say next. Discord just glanced down at his tea cup, then glanced up at his best friend he took a moment to gaze at her teal eyes shining in the sun light. He stifled a chuckle as he stretched his talon arm across the picnic blanket stopping right in front of Fluttershy's face. She blushed at the hand mere inches from her face. she opens her mouth to speak but is cut off when a napkin appears in Discord's hand he gentle rubs it on Fluttershy's upper lip. A second latter he pulls it away, Fluttershy gasp's as she sees a smear of tea on the napkin. 

"Oh my did I..?" Fluttershy began to ask but was cut off by Discord's laughter.

"Yes my dear, you had a tea moustache." Discord throws his head back into a hysterical laugh. Fluttershy didn't think it was that funny but she can't help but giggle along with him. Discord leans his head forward again and wipes a tear from his eye. He gazes at his still giggling friend, her laugh was so - some movement in his peripheral vision caught his attention.	

Fluttershy stops  giggling a couple seconds after she hears  Discord stop laughing, she opens her eyes and looks at him. She flinches in concern, his eyes are wide with worry as he looks down the road behind her. She turns fearing what could make Discord look so scared, but her fear vanishes as she sees who is walking down the road toward them. 

"Hey Flutters!" Rainbow Dash shouts as her and the rest of the elements of Harmony walk up to join them. Fluttershy exchanges greetings with her five friends. They all begin chit chatting sharing some laughs about a couple things that happened on their way to Fluttershy's house. 

"Welp I should probably get going." Discord says standing up and stretching his arms out. Fluttershy turns to look at him with a frown on her face. The other ponies all look at Discord with raised eye brows. Discord turns away from them and walks a few feet away and raises his hand about to snap his talons. 

"Wait! Discord don't leave." 

"That's very sweet Flutter-" Discord's eyes widen. That wasn't Fluttershy's voice. He turns around and looks at the source of the voice and see's a purple alicorn looking at him. "What?"

"Why are you leaving?" Twilight asks with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah don't ya wanna have a picnic with us?" Applejack asks stepping forward. Discord just gapped at the ponies in front of him, they all looked so confused as to why he wanted to leave.  He saw Fluttershy smiling happily at this display. 

"You want me to stay?" Discord asks looking from one pony to the other.

"Well of course ya silly billy!" Pinkie shouts while jumping up and grabbing Discord's talon and dragging him back to the blanket. Discord just sits down dumbly next to Fluttershy. He snaps both his hands and the blanket grows large enough for the seven of them to all sit on and a variety of different food appear on the now larger blanket along with enough cups so everyone can have some tea.

"Why this all looks simply amazing Darling." Rarity exclaims cheerfully as her cup is filled with a stream of tea, she reaches for a small cupcake. What is going on right now? Everypony sits down and begin eating and drinking.

"Hmm these little sandwiches are so yummy." Pinkie Pie says her mouth full to bursting. Why aren't they mad at me? I betrayed them. I nearly got the whole world destroyed.

"Rainbow dear what are you doing?" Rarity asks raising an eyebrow at Rainbow Dash who keeps throwing her cup of tea into a near by bush just so it can be filled up again with more tea. I only apologized one time and only really to Fluttershy and the Princesses at that!

"I don't like tea, I'm hoping if I keep dumping it out something else will fill it back up." Rainbow Dash says holding her cup upside down so that when the tea magically flows in it, just falls right back out onto the ground. They threated to turn me back to stone after I froze sweet apple acres, but nearly causing Armageddon... gets me a picnic!

" Sugar cube why don't you just ask Discord to get ya something else?"  Applejack says sliding away from the growing puddle of tea on the ground. I don't understand! They should be mad! Why aren't they mad? Discord snaps his talon and suddenly Rainbow Dash's cup is right side up and full of soda.

"Wow thanks Dissy." Rainbow Dash says sipping happily on her soda, She gives a big grin when the cup just fills back up after she's done. Wait a minute they are mad aren't they? they're just trying to lure me into a false sense of security!

"So Fluttershy how are the animals doing with the summer starting?" Twilight asks between bites of her cucumber sandwich. Yes that's it I'm sure any minute now Celestia will storm in with Luna and try to trap me in a bird cage or something.

"Well I don't have as many animals around anymore there were a lot more adoptions this spring then I thought there would be. I only have a few chickens and a few fish left." Fluttershy says smiling brightly. Fluttershy gasps has she realizes she was having so much fun with her friends she had been forgetting to talk to Discord. She looks up at him and is surprised to see  him with a worried face like somepony was about to  shoot him or something. She  glances around at all her other friends they are smiling and laughing and talking, so what was wrong with Discord. Why are they so calm so happy, they don't already know my secret do they? They have to, only Fluttershy could forgive me that easily. They are totally plotting my down fall right now they have to be. They can't actually be my friends now can they? No they can't I mean hello freezing a farm, death glares for months with no trust. NEARLY DESTROY THE WORLD AND ALL MAGIC AND.... AND... I...... I..... . Discord suddenly stands up and throws his hands in the air tilting his head toward the sky

"WHY DO I GET A PICNIC!!!!" Discord yells so loud and powerful, that everypony has to cover their ears from it and bark starts peeling off the nearby trees . He then blinks his eyes and looks down at the ponies sitting around him. They take their hooves off their ears and look up at him with raised eyebrows. He looks over at Fluttershy and sees a look of worry and concern. He puts his paw on the back of his neck and gives her a fake grin trying to seem nonchalant when he hears a laugh. He turns to see the other elements giggling at him, Smiling at him. Okay yep....... I  am officially terrified now.

"Discord are you okay?" Fluttershy puts her hoof on his eagle talon. He gazes back down at her  and he can see the concern for him  reflecting in those shimmering eyes of hers, he grips her hoof and gives her a genuine smile.

"I'm fine my dear, I just have something I need to do." Discord says quickly before bending down and giving Fluttershy a quick hug before letting go of her and vanishing in a cloud of smoke leaving a wade of cotton candy behind. Fluttershy gazes where he use to be and pouts a little at his sudden disappearance. She looks over at her friends to see if they could offer some answers, what she sees puzzles her even more, her friends seem to be breathing a sigh of relief except for Pinkie who doesn't seem to be aware Discord has left as she shovels more sandwiches into her mouth.

"Well that happened." Rainbow Dash says leaning back on her forelegs. The rest give a little chuckle at this, Pinkie looks up from her gorge fest at the sound of laughter and joins in with a hearty chuckle. 

"My I can't believe how loud that was, I wish he'd given us some kind of warning." Rarity says smoothing some of her hair back into place.

"Well with Discord you can never be too sure what he's gonna do." Twilight says using her magic to repair the slight damage to the nearby trees. 

"Well that's why we gotta keep him happy so he don't do somethang he regrets." Applejack says walking over and picking up her hat. Fluttershy looks at her friends with  a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah but we were being nice so why did he freak out?" Rainbow Dash asks, trying to  chug her cup one more time. she puts it down with a frown on her face. "Apparently he took his magic with him." Rainbow dash says looking at her now completely empty cup. 

"Maybe he doesn't want us to be nice?" Pinkie Pie sadly chirps in, looking forlornly at the now forever empty plate of sandwiches. 

"Well why wouldn't he want us to be nice?" Twilight asks looking back at her friends. "Us not being nice to him is why he betrayed us in the first place."

"What?" All the elements flinch and turn to look at the butter-cream colored pegasus that had spoken.

"That's why you guys were being nice to him today?" Fluttershy asks her sad expression looking at her hooves. 

"What no, no, no." Twilight says giving Fluttershy, a bit to wide of a smile.

"Yes darling we just wanted to make sure Discord knew we were his friends this time." Rarity says putting her hoof to her chest and forcing a smile.

"  Y-yeah sugarcube we don't want him feeling like he ain't got any friends." Applejack says a grin on her face. Fluttershy looks up at all her friends her face no longer sad. it isn't happy either.

"So that's why you guys didn't see that look on his face while we were having  our picnic?" Fluttershy says looking from one of her friends to the next. Her friends all raise an eyebrow and look at each other.

"Face?" Rainbow dash asks with her hoof to her chin. Fluttershy sighs she can't blame them she didn't notice either till it was too late. A thought then crossed her mind.

"Are you guys still mad at Discord?" Fluttershy asks looking at her friends with a quizzical 	expression on her face with a hint of sadness. Her friends all shift around awkwardly Twilight raises her left hoof.

"Well-" Twilight is suddenly cut off before she can speak. A couple miles away a giant ball of magical energy suddenly appears and explodes sending out a shockwave so strong even from where the elements are standing they have to dig in their hooves and brace themselves against a tree to not be knocked over, the dishes on the blanket fly and smash into some trees, as the blankets blows  away into the wide blue yonder. When the shockwave passes by the mane six look in the direction the blast came from, they all immediately start running toward it.

The six arrive near a large crater in the forest the explosion was clearly the cause., As they go over some downed trees to get a closer look they hear a small buzzing sound and then the sounds of a teleportation spell. They push their way into the clearing and gaze at the destruction, the crater is nearly three hundred feet across and trees are either blown over or at least leaning over for a good fifty feet beyond the edge of the crater. The interior of the crater was devoid of any trees at all, they gazed at the craters center  which was about twenty feet at the deepest point. There laying in the center was a familiar Draconequus. 

Discord was just laying on the ground with his hands behind his head gazing at the clear blue sky. He blinks and is suddenly staring into two shimmering pools of teal. He just stares at them with a raised eyebrow at their sudden appearance but smiles non the less. He could lay there all day gazing at those beautiful pools, but a voice suddenly makes him realize what he's been looking at.

"Discord are you okay?" Fluttershy's voice says coming from above Discords head. He suddenly sits up, his head vanishing and reappearing so he doesn't  hit Fluttershy in the face. His head rotates like an owl to look back at Fluttershy, Fluttershy wears her normal worried expression, he glances over at the other elements walking up to them, Pinkie was hopping along happily, Applejack and Rarity are glancing around at the destruction, while Rainbow and Twilight are looking right at Discord, as they walk over.

"Okay so what happened?" Twilight asks is an accusatory tone, while raising an eyebrow. To Twilight's surprise Discord seems to smile at the disapproval in her voice. A silence hangs over the area as the ponies all stand around waiting for Discord to speak, Discord gets a smug grin looking at their stern faces waiting for his reply, he contemplates just ignoring the question just to annoy them, when he feels a hoof touch his talon. He looks down at Fluttershy's pleading eyes and gives a defeated sigh.

"Oh ok I'll tell ya, but you won't believe it." Discord says looking away from Fluttershy and looking  up at the other Elements. None of them seem to be mad at him, although as they glance at the destruction around them, they do  seem concerned at the sight, but when they glance at him their faces show more suspicion then concern.

"Just try us." Rainbow Dash says folding her forelegs and giving Discord a hard look from her position in the air.  Discord gives a sigh, Sure now they're mad, now that I've done nothing wrong.

"Okay so I was just minding my own business, not causing any trouble ." Discord begins, everypony (except Fluttershy) roll their eyes at him. "I was I'll have you know." Discord saying putting his hands on his hips..... while lying. 

"Riiight, so then what happened?" Rainbow Dash asks rolling her eyes again. Discord glares at the cyan Pegasus before looking at Fluttershy who gestures for him to continue. Discord sighs heavily.

"I was attacked by Chrissy." Discord says glancing down and wincing waiting for their gasps or shouts, but he hears nothing. He opens his eyes and looks back at the ponies, they all have their heads tilted and eyebrows raised in confusion.

"Who?" Fluttershy asks, raising her hoof up to her chin, a strange look in her eye. Discord looks slightly confused at them, then he gasps placing his paw in his talon in realization and lets out a small chuckle. 

"Oh right, you've never heard her called that, I meant Queen Chrysalis. " Discord says holding up a tiny version of the changeling queen, then he gets the reaction he'd been hoping for complete shock and terror. All of them shouted the name Discord had just spoken, quickly talking to each other coming up with theories as to why Chrysalis would be so close to Ponyville.  Fluttershy looks worriedly at her friends then glances back at Discord who seems pleased with the panic he had just created, she opens her mouth to speak but is cut off by Twilight.

"Why would she randomly attack you." Twilight asks a hoof to her chin and a contemplative look on her face. Discord looks away, Should I tell them the real reason she was here? No best keep that a secret for now. He glances back at the ponies.

"She was up to something, I couldn't get her to tell me what and then we kinda ended up fighting, She's more powerful then I remember her being so the fight ended in a stale mate." Discord says scratching his neck with his eagle hand. He glances at Fluttershy who looks a bit scared, Discord smirks and then flexes his muscles at her. "Then again I was just going easy on her, she still doesn't stand a chance against me." Fluttershy giggles at his display a smile appearing on her face.

"Well Discord I guess we owe you a thanks for driving her off." Twilight says a smile appearing on her face. Discords eyes snap open. What?

"Yeah Dissy thanks a ton." 

"Well done Darling."

"Good on ya Sugar."

"Three cheers for Discord." Pinkie says, preforming the cheers herself very quickly. Discord stares at their smiling faces as they begin to talk to each other. They believed me? With no questions? Even from Twilight?! She always asks me questions whenever I do anything. so why not now?  Discord looks at Fluttershy as she talks to Twilight he doesn't pay attention to the words their saying  he just looks at her smile, it was the same sweet smile he'd seen a million times. Maybe they finally trust me as much as she does. A smile appeared on his face at this, but then he looks at the others, and his smile turns into a frown. They all wore smiles too but except for Pinkie Pie's their smiles looked off to him. He had seen a smile like it before, smiles that looked nice but felt wrong, insincere, fake. Then he remembered where he'd seen smiles like that, from himself, it was the I'm happy and nice we should be friends even though I don't really like you smile. He had given all of them that smile at some point even Fluttershy. He hung his head as they all began walking back toward the picnic area. They don't trust me, they're just walking on eggshells so I won't betray them again.  He sighs at this thought, and stops walking behind them. Noticing Discord  disappearance from her peripheral vision Fluttershy stops walking too.

"Are you alright Dis-" Fluttershy says as she turns around, but stops short as a frown appears on her face. Her favorite Draconequus was nowhere to be seen and the crater was now gone. She hears her friends call her and she turns to join them but takes one more sad glance at where Discord had been.

20 Minutes Earlier

Discord suddenly appears in a cluttered forest area growling in frustration, he waves his hand and a nearby tree turns into a large lollipop. He pounces at the large candy and begins viciously chewing on it, his long tooth cracking it with each bite. Soon the confection has been reduced to rubble, Discord vacuums up the rest with his mouth and then shrinks the lollipop stick and begins picking at his teeth with it.  Discord then looks up at sky and let's out a long sigh while flicking the stick into a nearby tree, the lollipop stick explodes into confetti. 

"Well what luck, just  the Draconesqe-, Draconopu-, Draconidi-.... man I was looking for." A familiar voice calls from a short distance away. Discord turns to find the source and sees Queen Chrysalis laying down on a tree branch looking down at him through some strands of hair in her face. Discord rolls his eyes around his head a half a dozen times before looking back at Chrysalis who is now walking across the grass toward him. He snaps his claw and Chrysalis bumps her head on a wall of peanut brittle that suddenly appeared right in front of her. Discord chuckles, but stops when the wall turns green and then explodes , he raises his paw and catches a piece of shrapnel before it hits his eye, he throws the burnt piece into his mouth and chews thoughtfully. He nearly chokes as he begins laughing at Chrysalis, who glares daggers at him in annoyance. 

"Sorry Chrissy couldn't resist, you always fall for that one." Discord wipes a tear from his eye. Chrysalis flinches at the nickname and flinches again as Discord suddenly reaches toward her with his paw and takes  a piece of peanut brittle off of her horn. Gasping at this, she fires a blast of magic at the Draconequus sending him flying embedding him in a nearby tree his head sticking out one end his tail out the other. Chrysalis smiles at this and walks over to his head and bends down to eye level.

"I hope that taught you a lesson Discord." Chrysalis says smugly, her teeth gleaming in the sunlight. Her smile vanishes as Discord reaches out of the tree and grabs her nose.

"Honk, Honk." Discord says playfully, squeezing Chrysalis nose. Chrysalis growls and then she rears back and kicks a hoof at Discord, right before it makes contact a portal appears in front of Discords face and Chrysalis feels her hoof connect with her own flank, sending her flying through the portal in front of her. She comes out of the portal falling on her face back near the shattered wall of peanut brittle. Before she can move Discord suddenly warps right in front of her face causing her to jump back in surprise. 

"Oh I hate you." Chrysalis snarls at Discord, taking a few steps away from him.

"Really then why were you looking for me?" Discord asks, while scratching his back with a candy cane. Chrysalis looks away slightly embarrassed at the question.

"I... well... I..." Chrysalis stammers avoiding eye contact.

"Well what?" Discord asks raising an eyebrow at her, Chrysalis gulps.

"I need your..." Chrysalis stares at the ground in shame. "Help." Discord's jaw drops at this. An awkward silence forms between the two as Chrysalis avoids eye contact.

"What could you possibly need my help with?" Discord asks finally breaking the silence. Chrysalis locks eyes with the Draconequus with fire burning in her eyes.

"Domination!" She shouts a toothy grin showing on her face. Discords puzzled face falls to one of boredom.

"What?" Discord asks dryly. Chrysalis doesn't seem to notice his tone of voice as she stands back up onto her hooves.

"Yes! Domination with your power and my army we'll be unstoppable! I don't know how you got free from your prison a second time but now that you are, we can join forces and destroy those accursed ponies!" Chrysalis shouts, laughing manically and the end of her speech, Discord makes some lighting strike for the fun of it to make her laughing for dramatic, but then puts his paw to his face. Wow Chrysalis's spy network has really lost all its creditability.  

"Sorry but no." Chrysalis's pupils turn to little dots and her mouth forms a small circle as Discords voice registers in her ears. She turns to look at the very bored face of his.

"Come again." Chrysalis says her face turning to one of frustration as she growls out the sentence, Discord just looks at her while filing his paw's claws with a large macaroni.

"Yeah I don't want to help you take over the world." Discord says glancing down at his paw with a pleased smile on his face. 

"What? But? Why not!?" Chrysalis yells stomping her hoof on the ground. Discord chuckles at her, then stops, I wonder if I look that childish? 

"Not telling it's my little secret." Discord says stretching to his full height and reaching toward the sky. Without looking away from the sun he sticks his talon out  toward Chrysalis, which causes a shockwave as one of Chrysalis's hooves slams into his open claw. He looks back down from the sky at the changeling queen, she's standing on her hind legs standing nearly at eye level with the Draconequus her right hoof stuck in Discord's claw, she glares at him fire in her eyes. Discord is about to make a comment about a pony standing on her hind legs when she suddenly swings her left hoof up, upper cutting Discord sending him flying into the sky, she propels herself into the sky with a single flap of her wings, she spins quickly and delivers a powerful kick with her back right leg sending Discord flying diagonally through the air straight into the ground. Chrysalis flies down hovering near the trench Discord created with his face, a sinister smirk on her face.

"Well if you won't help me then I'll just destroy you as practice, for Celestia." Chrysalis sneers at the hole in the ground. I swear this women is bipolar, but... if it's a fight she wants. Suddenly Discord appears above Chrysalis and karate chops his paw onto her back sending her plummeting to the ground. She stands up from the ground just as Discord appears in front of her and shoves her backward with both his hands, sending her flying through the underbrush of the forest. He smiles smugly Then I'm happy to oblige.

Chrysalis stands up out a thorn bush and rises on her hind legs once more, positioning herself so her side is facing Discord, but her head is turned to look at him, she raises her fore hooves and spits some green blood onto the forest floor, Discord copies her stance and spits some fluorescent rainbow blood onto the ground near him. They both glare at each, then it's like a bell was rung as they both jet forward slamming their fists together like the most aggressive fist bump ever. Both of them start glowing with their signature magic glow as they both vanish at the same time, they reappear in the air and clash fists again, then they vanish and reappear again clashing with their feet this time, they continue vanishing and clashing causing shockwaves each time, they get going so fast it sounds like exploding popcorn. After clashing for the fiftieth time  they just glare at each other both panting heavily. 

"Ready to finish this?" Discord asks between breathes.

"Yeah I think you've had enough." Chrysalis laughs panting heavily. Suddenly they both vanish one more time, Discord floating just above the tree line, Chrysalis flying right next to him both of them glaring at the sky. Slowly they turn to look at each other their angry glares lifting slightly, They stare awkwardly at each other.

"Oh I kinda thought you were gonna go up there." Discord says pointing up into the sky.

"Yeah I got that, I just thought you'd go up there so I came down here."

"Did you want to be down here?"

"What? No it doesn't really matter to me."

"Ok so can you take the sky I kinda had my heart set on the tree line."

"Oh... um... sure yeah, one sec." Chrysalis warps up into the sky. "How's this?"

"Uh... a little to the left." Chrysalis flies slightly to the left.

"Here?"  Discord shakes his head.

"Sorry I meant my left your right." 

"Oh right." Chrysalis fly's to the right a bit further then before.

"There thank you, that's perfect." Discord gives her a thumbs up.

"Your very welcome, now where were we?" Chrysalis asks putting her hoof to her chin in thought. "Oh yeah now I remember!" Chrysalis shouts happily, looking back toward the ground. 

"DIE!!!" They both shout in unison, Chrysalis fires a large beam of green energy from her horn down at Discord, who returns fire by creating a ball of blue energy in his hands and launching an equally  large beam up at Chrysalis. The beams collide halfway between the two and seem to emerge into a giant ball of energy that almost immediately explodes sending Discord back first into a crater created by the blast, while rocketing Chrysalis high into air. The blast destroyed everything in a three hundred foot radius of the point of origin. Discord lays on his back in the middle of the newly formed crater wounds from the battle cover his body and dirt clings to his fur. He snaps his fingers and a large pillow appears on the ground right as Chrysalis was about to eat dirt,, she eats pillow instead. Discord glances over at her and she returns the look.

"Soooo? We good?" Discord asks sitting up from his spot in the crater, Chrysalis rises to her legs as well, and huffs pointing her snout in the air. 

"For now but don't forget Discord you will join me or you will be destroyed!" Chrysalis says this smugly looking over both her own wounds and Discords injured body. Suddenly he snaps his fingers and all his wounds are gone, Chrysalis just glares at him, as she uses her forked tongue to clean a wound on her left hoof.

"Look it ain't gonna happen I'm not trying to rule the world anymore, I think you'd have better luck with someone a lot darker then me, joining your side." Discord said this with a touch of sarcasm. Chrysalis's ears perked up at this comment and her eyes gleamed as an idea seemed to pop into her head. Discord however did not seem to notice.

"Very well then I shall take my leave for now, but remember you can always join up if you get bored." Chrysalis begins hovering in the air looking down at Discord, he just lays back down on the ground as waves her away with his paw before placing it behind his head and staring at the sky. Chrysalis hears a snapping branch and senses some ponies approaching through the forest, she quickly teleports away before they enter the clearing.

Chrysalis lands on the edge of a cliff and whistles, some changeling drones come out of a nearby cave and begin applying some kind glowing goo on the queens open wounds. She feels the pain from them begin to fade as the goo repairs the damage, Chrysalis faces back toward Ponyville and a sinister smile appears on her face. Someone Darker eh?

"Thank you Discord, I believe I know just the pony." Chrysalis begins laughing manically, but stops short as she realizes that no lighting bolts are striking this time, she shrugs and continues laughing, but then stops almost immediately. She let's out a deep sigh "Great now he's ruined evil laughter."
> Darkness Returns
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	A loud knock on the door causes Spike to open his eyes from his peaceful slumber, He groans as he rolls over on his bed and glances around his simple room in the castle of harmony or friendship or whatever the castles title is. Because his old room got destroyed by Tirek Spike's room is basically empty and matches the other rooms of the castle in design. Another knock on the door causes Spike to sit up in bed and rub his eyes, he throws his blanket off his small body and swings his feet over the edge of the bed. He's about to doze of again when the knocks come a third time. Still half asleep he quickly but still sluggishly makes his way to the door. The knocks keep coming every time Spike almost asleep on his way to the door. When he arrives at the door he turns the handle and opens it slowly.

"Good morning Spikey Wikey." Twilight says, beaming at him with a Pinkie Pie sized smile on her face. Spike's eyes widen slightly but are still less then half lidded. Spikey Wikey?

"Twilight do you know what time it is?" Spike asks closing his eyes and rubbing them with his claws. Twilight's smile doesn't waver but her eyes dart about quickly as if searching for the answer. Her eyes focus back on Spike beaming like before.

"About two thirty am." Twilight says happily, Spike puts his claw up to his face and sighs heavily.

"Okay Twi what's got ya freaking out now." Spike groans lazily followed by a big yawn, Twilights smile just gets bigger.

"Well Sugar Cube I believe you mixed up some books in the library, so you need to come reorganize a section or two." Twilight says with a bright smile and a farmers accent, Spike just stares at her with a frown on his face.

" Can't this wait till morning?" Spike asks hanging his head.

"No Spike the princess will be up in the morning we have to do it now." Twilight says a bit of urgency entering her voice. Spike sighs, there's no arguing with Twilight when Celestia is involved.

"Okay let's go." Spike groans, is Twilight's smile could get bigger if it would have.

"Alright let's go!" Twilight nearly shouts, as she begins hopping down the hallway like Pinkie Pie.  Spike just stares at his bouncing friend in confusion as he lumbers his way down the hall. It takes a little longer to get to the library then Spike remembers it might be the fact that Twilight doesn't seem to know where she's going. Spike just shrugs, after all he doesn't remember the layout of their new home either. Soon the two of them enter the library Spike looks around the Library marveling at how similar it looks to his old house.  After a couple of seconds he glances up at Twilight, she's just staring at him with that never ending smile, she glances between him and the shelves of books as if she's excepting him to do something, He just blinks at her in confusion. 

"What do you want me to do Twilight?" Spike asks in a dry voice before giving her a big yawn. Twilight gestures her head toward the books. "Yeah I got that but which ones am I fixing?" Twilight gasps in realization. 

"Oh well I need you to make sure that the summoning tomes volume one through six are in the right place." She says her smile never faltering as she gestures her hoof at the  shelves.  Spikes eyes widen a bit more at this.

"Why do you need those none of the summoning spells work anymore?" Spike says scratching the back of his head. "Well except the one to summon Discord." Twilight's right eye twitches at the comment. 

"I don't need them Spikey I just need you to make sure their in the right place." Twilight says, her eye continues to twitch, as she grinds her teeth, but continues to smile. Spike looks scared as he's seen Twilight look this manic before, now fully awake he runs off to a section of the library Twilight follows quickly behind no longer hopping. Spike looks through a big book labeled index and then runs over to a different part of the library and starts combing through the shelves and stops and then scratches his head.

"Um Twilight all six volumes are right here, where there suppose to be." Spike gestures toward six books on a shelf all by themselves, their colored Blue, Red, Yellow, Pink, White, and Black. Suddenly the black book is surrounded by a green magic, and is  lifted into the air as Twilight begins laughing evilly. Spike looks at her his eyes full of concern and fear, Twilights happy if a bit creepy smile has turned to a sinister grin, and her bright wide eyes are now narrowed and full of malice. Suddenly green fire engulfs Twilight as she continues laughing her voice distorting, just like her body, to that of Queen Chrysalis. Her piercing eyes seem to be burning a hole in Spikes soul, she glances at the book now floating next to her and then back at Spike with a smug grin joining her fiery gaze. Spike's mouth is gaping open in horror, sweat running down his entire body as his eyes start to water, he slowly raises a hand up in the air.

"You'll nev-" Spike is cut off as Chrysalis swings the book down at him and everything goes black as it makes contact with his skull. 

Hours Later

"Alright Spike what happened?" Twilights asks her face hovering inches above Spikes face. Spike clutches the large bump on his head and laughs nervously.

"Promise you won't be mad?." Spikes says with a guilty grin on his face. Twilight narrows her eyes at him. 

Hours Earlier In A Hidden Cave.

"Yes! That was even easier then I thought it'd be!" Chrysalis yells as she teleports into a large cavern full of supplies and changelings, the drones all hop back at the sudden surprise. One drone that is a bit larger then the others and one of the few changelings that have hair on their heads steps forward toward the Queen and  bows upon getting close enough.

"Then the information we collected was helpful ?" The changeling says his red cobweb hair moving slightly as he straightens up, Chrysalis looks down at this changeling her grin dropping slightly.

"No you fool it was all my perfect acting that fooled that dumb dragon, although you're sure Twilight is the one that bounces around and says darling all the time right, Commander Moth?" Chrysalis says raising her eyebrow at Moth, Moth seems to glance around nervously at the question.

"Um yes your majesty, I... I think so." Commander Moth says avoiding eye contact with his queen, Chrysalis doesn't seem to notice his hesitance as she let's a out a big sigh. Oh our spy network has been very poor since the ponies defeated us in Canterlot, for all I know I could've be acting like one of Twilight friends, I don't really remember how she acted at the wedding, only what she looked like. I'm glad that Spike didn't seem to catch on when I was getting annoyed there at the end, Maybe the princess actually acts like that some times? Oh well. that doesn't matter now, I have the book, time to get to work. Chrysalis gestures with her hoof and drones all buzz about excitedly grabbing supplies and moving objects around, as Chrysalis walks slowly to the center of the cavern flipping through pages of her book. She places the book on a podium that some drones just moved in front of her, she continues flipping frowning at every page as she goes.

"I wish that damn dragon wasn't telling the truth, any of these summoning spells would be very helpful." Commander Moth takes notice at his queens annoyance. 

"What do you mean my Queen?" Commander Moth asks buzzing into the air to get a better look at the spell book. "Why wouldn't these spells work."

"Well my dear Commander everything in this book is either sealed away by magic we can't break or has been dead for far to long to revive." Chrysalis says nonchalantly, casually flipping through the second half of the book. Moth's ears perk up at her answer.

"Revive? Your Highness?" Moth asks raising an eyebrow at his queen, she chuckles lightly.  

"Yes Commander if something has powerful enough energy and you can grab onto it's soul before it departs to the afterlife you can revive certain magically creatures." Chrysalis explains nearing the end of the book. "Lucky for me the being I wish to summon is suppose to be very powerful and his soul should still be floating around our plane of existence."

"Oh I see, and your sure it's wise to revive a powerful being you've never met?" Moth inquires looking rather nervous. Chrysalis glares at him out of the corner of her eye, sweat forms on Moth's forehead. 

"Need I remind you commander that I just faced off against a god yesterday?" Chrysalis turns her head so she can give Moth the death stare, Moth floats back town to the ground and bows his while walking away apologizing repeatedly. Chrysalis turns back to the book flipping to the last page and smiling. Ah here he is. Chrysalis looks to her drones and nods her head they all begin flying around quickly grabbing supplies and drawing strange symbols on the cave floor in chalk. Chrysalis takes her position in front of the circle drawn on the floor and gives a toothy grin.

"Your Majesty can just one pony really preform this kind of spell by themselves." Moth says his voice uncertain, Chrysalis looks back at him and he flinches but then relaxes when he sees her eyes are not full of anger and her smile almost seems happy. Chrysalis gives him a light chuckle.

"My dear Commander, I am not but one pony, I am the Queen of the changelings, we are a hive mind, therefore I am thousands of ponies all at once I can cast this spell easily." Chrysalis let's out a triumphant laugh and the drones all cheer along with her, Moth smiles at his queen but is still unsure. Chrysalis lowers her horn and touches the chalk circle, eight drones run up and pour different powders around the edge of the circle each one evenly spaced from the next. Chrysalis begins chanting in a low voice, the words (if they even are words) cause shivers to run down Moth's spine. A green flame sparks into life at the tip of Chrysalis's horn, She lifts her head and takes a step back as the fire begins to spread around the chalk circle igniting the powders around the edge as it goes the eight powders each ignite into different colored flames, red, yellow, blue, purple, brown, white, orange, and  pink all join the original green flame Chrysalis had created. The nine flames all begin moving around the edge of the circle, like train cars on a circle track,  soon the flames begin blending together, all the different colored flames fuse into one black ring of fire that continues to move around the edge of the circle.  With more distorted chanting, Chrysalis's horn begins to glow and the black flames begin spreading to the chalk lines that make up the pattern inside the ring of black  fire. Soon all of the chalk is aflame with the black fire, drones back away in fear of its heat but Chrysalis seems unaffected by it. Another distorted verse, again accompanied by Chrysalis's horn glowing, this time the flames rise up to Chrysalis's height and then they fold inward forming a bubble of black flame, the fire continues to rage as it swirls inside the bubble. Suddenly a horrible sound, like scraping a knife across a blackboard while baboons shriek in a jungle, echoes through the cave many drones cringe, others hold their hoofs to their heads and Moth flinches sweat returning to his brow. The Queen seems unaffected at the noise as both her smile and eyes widen. Now we've got him.". Suddenly the flames stop moving and seem to harden into stone, the sound ends as abruptly as it had started. The changelings all gaze at the black sphere that now sits in front of them, the cave goes silent as they wait to see what happens next. After about a minute the drones begin looking around quizzically while Chrysalis continues beaming at the sphere in the center of the cave. Commander Moth steps toward his Queen and decides to be the first to speak. 

"Did it wo-" Commander Moth gets interrupted as a large crack suddenly appears near the top of the bubble, black smoke begins pouring out of it. All the changelings gasp in surprise, and Chrysalis's smile widens.

Meanwhile at that same time in Discord's Dimension and Celestia's Bed Chamber

Discord sit's up in his bed suddenly awaken by a giant tip in the balance of magic, he gazes out his dimensional window toward the night sky of Equestria, as  miles away Princess Celestia does the same in her own bed  (except a normal window not a dimensional one.)

"Well that can't be good." They both say at the same time.

Back In the Summoning Cave

Cracks continue forming in the black sphere, as they do the cave begins rumbling and the smoke pouring out of the sphere covers the cave's ceiling, suddenly the rumbling stops as the sphere stops spewing smoke, as it clears the changelings can see that the sphere is covered in cracks so small that it doesn't look possible for the sphere to hold its shape. The top of the sphere begins slowly disintegrating , but suddenly a deep sinister chuckle comes from within the sphere, the black smoke covering the ceiling quickly pours into the top of the still disintegrating sphere, as the last of the smoke enters the sphere the chuckle rises into full blown laughter. The cave begins shaking violently as the sphere begins glowing with black energy, the drones all cower retreating into the corners of the cave. The black energy explodes outward destroying the sphere and sending crystalline shrapnel flying through the cave, many drones are hit, some only get a scrap while others receive gaping wounds in their legs or wings. Chrysalis just stands there as the shrapnel fly's past her, the same sinister grin on her face since the ritual had started. Chrysalis gazes into the remaining black cloud as it fades from existence a lone silhouette stands in the center of the cloud, it's pony shaped but is a bit larger then a normal pony, not as tall as Chrysalis herself, but still an imposing size for a pony. As the smoke fades complete Chrysalis smiles smugly at her completed summoning, The being is a dark grey pony wearing  black armor on his legs and chest, his mane is black as night, his unicorn horn curved and red slightly covered by the crown he wears, his pupils are red as blood the whites of his eyes are a neon green. Chrysalis looks at the strange purple streams of energy that seem to be coming from the corners of his eyes, and the sharp vampire like fangs coming from both his top and bottom rows of teeth. The stallion narrows his eyes at Chrysalis and bears his fangs at her, Chrysalis returns his toothy grin.

"Well hello to you too." Chrysalis says jokingly, waving a hoof at the Stallion. 

"Who are you and what do you want from me?" The Mysterious stallion asks his voice deep and menacing, his eyes narrowing at her.. Chrysalis gives the stallion a sinister smile and then taps her hoof on the ground, fifty changeling drones and Commander Moth fly behind the queen and bow respectfully. Chrysalis turns and walks toward the entrance to the cave, when she reaches the doorway she turns and looks back at the stallion with half lidded eyes. 

"Well Sombra if you can defeat my little welcoming party I might just fill you in." Chrysalis says putting her hoof up to her mouth and winking at Sombra . He flinches at her strange behavior but shakes his head and turns to look at the battalion in front of him, the changelings all look ready to pounce and the larger red-haired one in front seems to show anger but a hint of fear, Ah a leader changeling  a rare few that are capable of emotion unlike the average drone.  Sombra flash's an evil smile at the leader. I'll enjoy breaking him

Suddenly the cave door closes removing the changeling queen from Sombra's sight, as soon as that happens half of the battalion fire blasts from their horns at Sombra well the other half take to the sky and begin diving toward him. Sombra grunts as he throws up a shield of dark energy in front of him reflecting the energy blasts back at the casters, most get out of the way but three drones are still taken out by the volley. The twenty five drones in the air fly over the barrier and dive at him theirs hooves ready to connect with Sombra. Sombra raises a hoof and five black tendrils shoot out the shadows on the floor grabbing five of the changelings by the back hooves and flinging them into five of the changelings that had fired blasts earlier. Thirteen down thirty eight to go. Sombra dissolves into the shadows of the cave just as the remaining twenty flying changelings crash into where he was standing, their hooves crack the ground with the force of the blow. 
The changelings all begin looking around for their target, non of the changelings notice as one of Sombra's hooves extends out of the ground and grabs one of the changelings by the back leg, the changeling glances down at the touch, but is dragged into the ground before a scream can escape his lips. Sombra continues grabbing one changeling after another until the red leader changeling let's out loud shriek, suddenly all of the changelings ignite their horns immolating the entire room removing all shadows, as the shadows disappear several changeling bodies appear from the shadows and finally Sombra appears in the far corner coming out of the shadowy floor just before the light touches it. He stands there his fangs gleaming in the light, his mouth in a cruel smile.

"Thirty to go." Sombra laughs, his dark voice echoes through the cavern. He stands up on his hind legs and positions himself ready to attack, the red changeling leader follows suit standing up on his own hind legs, the drones remain on all fours. Sombra chuckles at the leader and then vanishes, appearing above two changelings he slams his fore hooves down on their heads, their heads collide with the floor cracking it, he flips forward flinging their bodies at two more changelings. Sombra leaps into the air as a green blast fly's by, it hits a near by changeling that had been about to attack Sombra, once in the air he slams his back hooves into two more changelings and then vanishes in thin air as an array of magical blast's fly by. He reappears a few feet in front of a large group of a dozen changelings, they all glare in his direction, he runs toward them and then leaps into the air spinning as he does so. He seems to collapse into a small black spiral that passes through the changeling group without causing any damage, once he's through he changes back and lands on the ground on all fours skidding to a stop.  He glances back at the group of changelings, who look at him  with raised eyebrows, he stomps his hoof on the ground and the changelings explode into a blast of dark energy. The remaining changelings dog pile on Sombra and begin swinging their hooves and blasting magic at the Stallion at the bottom of the pile. Suddenly a large black pillar shoots out of the pile, forming into Sombra's head on a large black neck. Giant Sombra begins thrashing and biting at the few remaining changelings, he swings his head and flings the last two into the cavern wall and then reverts to normal size. Giving a sigh at all the unconscious changeling bodies around him. Too easy. Suddenly he feels a sharp pain hit the back of his head snapping his neck forward so he is now looking at the ground, he turns his head to the side looking at his attacker, and almost laughs. There is the red changeling leader, in mid air with his left back hoof on the back of Sombra's head, Sombra warps a distant away so that the two are standing facing each other once more. Again they both rear up on their hind legs.

"Looks like I forgot about you little red." Sombra says grinning smugly, the Changeling Leader just glares at Sombra. The leader takes a step forward but stops when he notices Sombra raise his left hoof into the air. Sombra slams his left hoof into the once again shadowy floor, his hoof seems to sink into the floor like clear black water, his hoof comes back out stretching up and hitting the leader changeling under his chin sending him bending backwards as he fly's through the air, as the leader fly's backward he's suddenly looking back into Sombra's eyes, his own eyes widen.

"Too. Fast." The leader says, right before Sombra delivers a flurry of punches with his fore hooves and then spin kicks the leader into the cavern wall. The leader Changeling tries to dislodge himself from the wall but fails to move, he glances up from his wall based prison when he hears hoof beats walking towards him. Sombra reaches out and grabs The Leader by the neck and hoists him into the air, wincing in pain the leader gazes down at the large shadowy figure holding him. Sombra flashes a toothy grin as his eyes seem to burn through the changeling's soul. Suddenly a large blade In the shape of Sombra's horn appears over Sombra's shoulder. The Changeling leader's eyes open in terror as he sees more of those blades appearing all around him, he's so terrified he doesn't even notice that Sombra has let go of his neck and he is now being held in mid air by a black aura as Sombra walks away. Sombra stops a few feet away and his smile turns into a frown.

"Zero" Sombra utters, as all the blades plunge inward at their target, causing a muffled cry of pain, green blood begins falling from the body hovering in the air. Sombra glances back a look of pure joy in his eyes as the Changeling leaders light goes out leaving the cave almost completely black, all that can be heard is the dripping of blood and a cruel laugh. 

Sombra turns as a new source of light suddenly appears almost right in front of him, he gazes up at the Changeling Queen her eyes shining from the glow on her horn, her mouth in a mischievous smile on her face as she looks down at Sombra. Sombra looks slightly to the left and can see a large black book with the number six written on the binding floating right next to her. He gazes back at the Queen narrowing his eyes at her.

"Now what do y-" Sombra is cut off as Chrysalis swings the book down hard, everything goes black when it connects with his skull. 

Three hours after Sombra is summoned , local time: 6:27 AM. Fluttershy's Cottage. 

Discord stands outside Fluttershy's front door his lion paw quivering in the air a couple inches from the door, Discord seems torn, literally as his head is literally spilt in two the half with the big eye and antler, looks over at the half with the spiral horn, small eye and large fang. 

"We need to talk to her as soon as possible." The Antler half says, crossing the eagle talon across his chest.

"But we don't want to wake her." The Horn half replies, pointing the lion paw at the other half. 

"But this is really important, besides it's not like she'll be mad at us." The antler half retorts rolling his eye.

"It's not about her being mad at us it's about interrupting her sleep, she deserves to rest." The Horned half says, he then looks away. "Besides she's really cute when she's sleeping."

"And how would you know that?"  The Antler one asks raising an eyebrow.

"Oh don't give me that we're the same person you know how I know that." The horned one glares at his other half, the Antler one brightens up.

"I got an idea why don't we just leave a note on her nightstand?" 

"Oh yes good idea that'll work best I think." Both halves of Discord give a pleased smile at this idea, Discord places a hand on each side of his head and slams them back together. Discord looks up at Fluttershy's house a smile on his face, He snaps his finger and he suddenly appears in the middle of Fluttershy's room. Discord takes a second to look around the room a larger dresser in the top right corner the door to the room in the bottom right corner, the bottom left corner holds a folding door leading to the closet, he then turns his attention to the left wall where the bed is, some light from the rising sun has begun shining into the room onto the beautiful mare sleeping in her bed, her silky pink mane seems to glow from the light of the sun as it cascades down her back as she lays with her back to Discord. Discord quietly floats over to the side of her bed and he lowers his body so  he is hovering at eye level with the sleeping mare. He flinches as she suddenly rolls over in bed, he breathes a sigh of relief as he sees her eyes are still closed. He gazes at her as her body lowly rises and falls with each of her gentle breathes, her pink mane frames her face perfectly as the sun shines on her pale yellow fur. Discord gently reaches toward her and brushes some of the hair out of her face and behind her ear, a small smile appears on her face. Discord moves to pull his talon away when Fluttershy's hooves sudden grab his hand and pull him toward her surprised by this Discord gets flung forward his head landing on the bed right next to Fluttershy's face. He looks down at her hooves squeezing his arm tightly, a smile across her lips. Fluttershy moves his talon over her body so it is draped across her back, Discord blushes as she seems to snuggle up to his face. He looks down at his talon gently wrapped around her  small body he gently squeezes her, his eyes widen as he hears a small chuckle, he glances back up at Fluttershy's face her left hoof is up to her face trying to stifle a giggle. Her eyes pop open revealing her shining pools of teal, Discord's eyes widen as a blush appears on both their faces.

"Good morning Discord." Fluttershy says chuckling slightly avoiding his gaze, Discord just stares at her.

"H-how long have you been awake?" Discord asks his eyes wide.

"Since you were outside my front door." Fluttershy says giving him a big smile.

"What?" Discord asks staring at her.

"Well you weren't exactly being quiet you know." Fluttershy says, giggling. "Besides I got up at six this morning." 

"W-what then why were you in bed?" Discord asks raising an eyebrow at his best friend, Fluttershy gives him a sly grin.

" I heard you say you didn't want to wake me up so I thought I'd get in bed before you teleported into my room." 

"You knew I was gonna teleport up here?" Fluttershy nods. "How?

"Well I'm a very light sleeper and your teleports aren't exactly-" Fluttershy pauses and blushes  "Silent."

"W-wha-" Discord stammers as thoughts of other times he's... uh... totally not spied on Fluttershy while she's sleeping. Discords entire body turns red in embarrassment. He just looks at Fluttershy who somehow looks more embarrassed then Discord, even though her entire body can't change colors. Fluttershy looks around nervously and then stares at Discord with a raised eyebrow.

"S-so why are you h-here this morning?"  Fluttershy asks her eyes shining in the morning sun. Discords blush turns a deeper shade of red, as he averts his gaze, then his blush begins to dull as he remembers the actual reason he came here is nothing to be embarrassed about.

"Fluttershy we need to talk." Discord says removing his arm from around her and sitting up on the side of the bed. Fluttershy pouts slightly at the removal of the comforting appendage, but a smile returns to her face as she sit's next to Discord on the side of the bed.

"What do you want to talk about?" She chirps looking up at her friend with a smile. Discord returns her gaze but doesn't smile instead he frowns, Fluttershy's smile falters at the look, as concern over takes her joy. 

"I have to leave for awhile." Discord says looking away, Fluttershy's eyes widen and tears form in the corners of her eyes.

"Wha-what no you can't leave!" Fluttershy nearly shouts, Discord flinches at her sudden out burst, he rises a claw to speak. "I know that things have been kinda weird but I'm sure everyone has already forgiven you for taking that big risk with Tirek and all but that doesn't mean you have to-"

"Wait, wait, wait, wait." Discord cuts in placing his paw over her mouth so he can speak. "What do you mean risk with Tirek?" 

"Well that plan you had to defeat Tirek, I thought it was really risky especially when he stole your magic too, but I knew it would all work out in the end, your plans always do." Fluttershy says after moving Discord's paw off her mouth, she glances between him and the floor as she talks, Discord just stares at her with his mouth gaping open. 

"Plan?" Discord asks trying to seem confused but his smaller eye twitches slightly. How- how does she know? I never told her.

"Well yeah I mean you gave that hint about how to open the chest, right before we used it to defeat Tirek, and you're the one who gave Twilight the last key object. Most importantly you can sense magical imbalances so you would have been made aware of what Tirek was doing from the very beginning." Fluttershy speaks nonchalantly as if everything she says is completely obvious, Discord's eye continues to twitch. 

"Y-you really noticed all that."

"Yes."

"And you trusted me the whole time?"

"Of course."

"B-but what about when you cried when I 'betrayed' you?" 

"I knew you thought your plan wouldn't work if Tirek didn't believe you had actually betrayed us, so I made sure he did."

"Y-you-"

"Although the one thing I'm still not sure about was you losing your magic, was that part of the plan?"

"If I hadn't lost it Twilight would've defeated Tirek in her super charged state."

"Oh then no one would've gotten their magic back."

"And Twilight would've had to personally guard him, because no prison could've held him."

"Oh I see."

"Look I know the whole thing was risky and stu-" Fluttershy bonks him on the forehead. "Ow"

"Stupid doesn't begin to describe it, you could've been killed, Equestria could've been lost, why didn't you just defeat Tirek when the Princesses first asked you to?" Fluttershy asks her eyes pleading for an answer, Discord shy's under her gaze, he turns away and sighs deeply.

"If I defeated him when I first found him then the ponies he'd already drained would never have gotten their magic back."  Discord wincing waiting for another smack, but instead he hears a giggle, confused he turns around to see Fluttershy with a smile on her face.

"I knew it!" Fluttershy proclaims jumping up and wrapping her hooves around Discord's neck. "You're such a sweetheart."

"Th-thank you." Discord stammers out, he slowly returns  Fluttershy's hug. I can't believe This mare, how did she do it, I know Fluttershy is no idiot but she managed to piece together my entire plan, not even Twilight or Celestia were able to figure it out how did she-.  Discord turns his head as Fluttershy begins happily nuzzling the fur on Discord's neck while continuing to giggle. Discord tightens his grip on her and nuzzles the top of her head in return.Of course she figured it out she actually likes me, she trusts me. He pushes Fluttershy away so he can gaze at her beautiful eyes sparkling in the sun light. He smiles at her with half-lidded eyes and she returns his gaze. Her eyes then snap open as she remembers something.

"Oh, right I forgot." Fluttershy's happy expression returns to one of concern. "Why are you leaving?"  Discord blinks at her, then it's his turn to remember what they had been talking about.

"Oh right I forgot, I have something really important I need to take care of."

"What is it?"

"I don't want to worry you it's best if you-" A pale yellow hoof makes contact with his fore head once more. "Ow"

"Tell me or I'll worry more." Fluttershy says this almost like it's a threat, Discord can't help but laugh at the thought that it actually was a threat.

"Ok, so when I fought Chrysalis yesterday she asked me I'd join her in trying to take over Equestria." Fluttershy tilts her head in confusion raising an eyebrow. "Yeah I know right, she's got to upgrade her spy network. Anyway when I obviously told her no that's when we fought each other, it was pretty awesome actually you should try it sometime. Any-who after our fight I may have jokingly told her to find someone else to work with her." Fluttershy's eyes widen.

"Oh my Celestia, who did she recruit." Discord marvels at how fast Fluttershy catches on to where he's going with stuff, most people need him to finish first before understanding what he means.

"I'm not sure yet. That's why I need to go stop her and her new teammate before this get's out of hand." Discord says finally remembering he's still holding Fluttershy in the air he lowers her back down to the bed. 

"Your sure you can handle this?" Fluttershy asks, her worry reflecting in her eyes. 

"Yeah I got this." Discord gives his smuggest grin at his friend, she gives a sigh of relief and looks down at her hooves a smile on her face, while looking down she fails to notice Discord is crossing his talon fingers. 

"Well thank you for letting me know." She looks up at Discord, concern still in her eyes, Discord looks down at his friend and snaps his fingers and a small black box appears in his lion paw.

"Here I got you a little something, so while I'm gone you can relax." 

"How so?"

"When you wear this." Discord opens the box and pulls out a long sliver chain with a smooth golden ring  hanging loosely on the chain. Fluttershy's eyes widen as her cheeks turn a deep crimson. Discord seems to ignore her embarrassment and places the chain around her neck the ring hangs in the middle of her chest. "You'll always have a piece of me with you."

"Discord do you know what this-" Fluttershy's blush becomes even redder, Discord gives her a gentle smile.

"Promise you won't take it off. ok?" 

Fluttershy just nods her whole face has turned red.

"I'm serious Fluttershy you can't take it off ever, even if Celestia herself orders you too, even if I tell you too." Fluttershy looks up at him surprised. "Only you will know when to take it off okay? You have to promise me."

"I-I-I." Suddenly a sly smile appears on her face, although the smile only seems to make her face redder. When she continues her voice is low but confident.  "on one condition."

"What?" Discord looks at her with raised eyebrows, Fluttershy looks at him with determination. 

"I want you to help me go back to sleep." 

"What?"

"You woke me up so the least you can do is l-lay down with me until I fall back asleep." If her face could get any redder it would have. 

"B-but I can't-" He stops as Fluttershy begins pulling the necklace up around her head. Oh she is good. "Okay, okay, just please leave it on." Fluttershy looks pleased and lowers the necklace back down around her neck, she lays down on her bed and Discord coils his serpentine body around her, Her head resting on his chest listening to his heart beat. What's the worst that can happen if I'm a little late fighting those two. Discord looks at Fluttershy's contented smile, and slowly closes his own eyes. Probably something really bad, but I officially don't care right now.

Changeling Hive Throne Room: Local Time: 6:30 AM 

Sombra gazes around the room, it looks exactly like the throne room in Canterlot but changeling-ier, with black spikes, green goo and lot's of cobwebs. Sombra then turns his attention to the queen sitting in the throne who is currently ignoring him talking to a drone, the one who summoned him, then immediately sent a battalion after him, sure Sombra had defeated them easily, Hell I even left most of them alive. But something was off,  that magic book had temporarily knocked him out, a feeling he has not felt in a long time, and when he had awoken not long later he was laying on the floor of the throne room in the spot he now stood. The queen had been sitting in the throne then too, but they haven't spoken a word to each other since he woke hours ago. Sombra looked down at his hooves for whatever reason he could not move them forward, hell he couldn't even speak. Sombra looks back up at the Queen, the drone she had been talking to was now gone, Sombra glares at her. Why can't I launch any spells? I can't even move, well except my neck.

"Oh will you stop glaring and bow already." Sombra is surprised by the Queens sudden words and raises an eyebrow at her.

"What?"

"You are a guest in my kingdom and you don't even have the manners to bow before the Queen?" The Queen says dryly, she then shrugs. "I guess dead people just forget their manners."

"What?" Sombra's eyes widen at her last statement.

"Is that all you can say." The Queen sighs. "I was hoping my new compatriot who be more of a conversationalist, changelings only have so much to talk about." The Queen looks down at her guest, he's just staring at her with a wide confused look on his face, she returns his puzzled look.

"What did you say about me?" His face doesn't change as he speaks.

"Oh you mean the compatriot thing well that's why I brought you here so you can -" 

"No the thing before that." The Queen looks at him in annoyance.

"Ok you mean the part where I said you have no manners which I realize is more true then I first thought." Sombra groans in anger, rolling his eyes.

"I meant the part about me being dead!" Sombra shouts at the Changeling Queen, She looks at him with wide eyes, then a smile begins to form on her face, that quickly changes into a large grin, right before she bursts into laughter. Sombra growls at her, bearing his teeth, but then stops when he realizes that he's been talking. Wait I couldn't talk until she talked to me first, Why? The Queen stops laughing wiping a tear from her eye.

"I suppose I should explain a few things huh?" She asks crossing her right hind leg over her left and leans back in her throne. 

"Yes you should." The queen smiles at him.

"Bow." Sombra's eye twitches.

"What?" 

"Bow and I will answer any questions you have." She shrugs, her smile turning smug. 

"I am the Lord of Darkness and Shadows I do not bow to anyone." He glares at the Queen, she places her hoof on her face and sighs.

"You are just as stubborn as mother use to say." Sombra blinks at this Wait I've only ever met one changeling queen before and she only had one royal child. So this must be...

"Chrysalis?" Chrysalis looks up at the sound of her name, she gives him a toothy grin.

"It's about time you recognized me." 

"So you are Arachna's daughter." 

"Yep that's me." Chrysalis nods happily, then her face sours. "Now bow your head already so we can get on with this." Sombra grumbles but then quickly bobs his head up and down. Suddenly he can feel his legs once more and stumbles as his right fore hoof collapses under him. Damn thing fell asleep. Sombra growls as he hears Chrysalis laughing once more.

"What the hell just happened?" Sombra asks as he turns his leg into shadows and then reforms it effectively waking it up. 

"Alright I'll tell ya the rules, every time you enter my throne room you must bow within five minutes or your body and magic will be paralyzed, also you can't talk from the moment you wake up until you hear the sound of my melodious voice." Chrysalis laughs at that and grins, she looks at Sombra whose horn his glowing black, she blinks as she notices that a blade in the shape of Sombra's horn is shaking in the air a few inches from her face, her grin turns into a smug smirk. "Oh yeah and you can't hurt me with your magic, or anything for that matter."

"Ho-how did you curse me so?" Sombra asks his blade vanishing into the shadows, Chrysalis's eyes now match her smug smile.

"Well when you revive someone from the dead you get to make a few rules, not a big deal really, I mean you do owe me your life now so a couple small rules shouldn't be too much of  a problem." Chrysalis gestures with her hoof as she talks, punctuating each point. 

"Revi-"

"What's the last thing you remember?" Sombra blinks, he taps his hoof to his chin and thinks back to before he showed up in that cave that Chrysalis had summoned him in. All he can remember is the blinding light and pain as the crystal heart... killed him. His eyes widen as the thought comes to him. I died. He glances at Chrysalis And she revived me? For what purpose?

"Why did you revive me?" Sombra asks raising his eyebrow.

"Well I need some help." Chrysalis stands up slamming her hooves into the ground, cracking the ground. "TAKING OVER THE WORLD!!" Sombra just stares at her and starts laughing, Chrysalis crosses her fore hooves and pouts at the Lord of Shadows. After awhile Sombra stops laughing a wipes a small black tear from his eye.

"Look I'd like to help you, hell I could use some help of my own considering I don't have an army of my own right now, and people who have been revived can't go out in the sun, and the forces of light have no doubt gotten stronger sense I've been dead, But..."  Sombra snaps his mouth shut, Chrysalis pout turns into a smirk.

"But, what Sombra?" Chrysalis asks though half lidded eyes. Sombra's eyes dart around the room as if the throne room could provide some answer some reason he didn't have to-. Sombra blinks again and slaps himself in the face. There's really no reason not to team up with her, she just wants to use me for my power and vice versa, and maybe I can find some way out of her rules if I can see that book of hers.

"But nothing I'll join you." Chrysalis rises her hooves to her face and shakes them about and let's out a squeal like a school filly. Sombra blinks at her, Chrysalis blushes, while looking away, she lowers her hooves to her arm rests. 

"Sorry it's just no one has ever joined me willingly before." Well this isn't exactly willingly but oh well.

"Anyway what all do we have to deal with exactly?" Sombra asks trying his best to ignore her outburst. Chrysalis gestures with her hoof and a drone fly's in and gives her a piece of paper.

"Luckily Captain Night Fly just returned an hour ago with all the info she could on our enemies. We have the six elements of Harmony who have gotten a power boost after defeating Tirek." Sombra raises an eyebrow and puts his hoof to his chin. " The two princesses obviously, the royal guards, don't have to worry about the crystal empire, and lastly.." Chrysalis crumbles the paper up and blasts it with her horn. "Discord!" 

"Discord? Really?" Sombra taps his hoof on his chin." That does complicate things slightly."

"Slightly!? Now we have to deal with three godly powerful beings to deal with instead of two." Chrysalis shouts smashing the arm rests on her chair with a swing of her hooves.

"Don't worry Chrysalis I happen to know a certain centaur-type creature that'll be perfect for our little team." Sombra's eyes shine brightly, Chrysalis rises an eyebrow as Sombra starts laughing.

> Team Ups and Preprations 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	The elements of Harmony (minus Fluttershy) are all gathered in the castle of harmony throne room, Twilight has an image of the black book that had been stolen last night floating in the middle of the table. Twilight sits silently flipping through summoning volume 5, with a frown on her face, Applejack nods along as Pinkie Pie whispers in her ear, while making crazy hoof gestures, that resemble a wrecking ball. Rarity and Rainbow Dash sit in their chairs chatting with each other, occasionally Rarity will laugh at something Rainbow Dash says. Twilight closes the book and looks up at her friends.

"Okay so I've read every single word in all five books in the series before volume six, and it does not help at all." 

"What are ya talkin' bout Twi?" Applejack asks pushing Pinkie Pie away from her. 

"Yes Darling I thought you said they would hold some answer as to what Chrysalis is trying to do?" Rarity inquires gesturing toward the black book. 

"I thought it would, but each volume is completely separate from the others only having to do with the spells within their own pages." Twilight says placing her head on the table. 

"Come on Twilight you've read all these books there's got to be something you know that can help us." Rainbow Dash says waving off their worries with a swing of her hoof. 

"All I know is that whatever she's up to it can't be good, each volume talked about something older and more dangerous creatures, I don't want to know what she wanted to summon from volume six." Twilight says slightly muffled by the table. 

"Maybe we should consult the princess?" Rarity says placing her hoof to her chin.

"Why don't we just ask Discord?" All the elements turn to look at the pink party pony hanging upside down from the top of her chair. "I mean he's been alive for like ever maybe he knows something about the book, heck maybe he helped write it." Pinkie says swinging from side to side. 

"I don't know. Discord never seems to give us the answers we need or even the ones we want." Twilight says lifting her head off the table. 

"True but we need ta tell the Princesses about this as soon as possible." Applejack says putting her hooves on the table.

"You're right I'll send a letter to-" Twilight is cut off by a familiar belching sound, they all look at Spike who was just walking in the room when he spit out the letter.  Twilight grabs the letter with her magic and brings it to her face, unraveling it she reads it quickly, two seconds later her face goes pale.  "Rainbow go get Fluttershy."

"What?" Rainbow says raising an eyebrow. 

"We're gonna need her." Twilight holds up the letter so the others can see, they all gasp.

Elements. Canterlot. NOW!

Minutes Later Outside Ponyville

Rainbow Dash fly's over the land at next to top speed (If she did a Sonic Rainboom she'd over shoot her target.) she sees Fluttershy's cottage in the distance and moves in, bursting through the front door while still in flight. She looks around the room and sees nopony except Angel bunny sitting by the fireplace nibbling on a carrot. Rainbow Dash fly's up stairs and sets her sights on Fluttershy's bedroom door. 

"Flutters wake up we gotta go!" Rainbow Dash yells bursting in the door, Fluttershy and Discord both sit up in surprise, Rainbow Dash looks over her shoulder out the door while pointing." Come one Twilight's waiting for-" Rainbow Dash looks back at Fluttershy who is now alone in her bed, a big nervous smile plastered on her face, sweat dripping down her face. 

"Good morning Rainbow, what brings you here." Fluttershy says her smile not wavering as her eyes dart about avoiding eye contact.

"W-was that Discord?" Rainbow Dash asks her eye  twitching and her mouth gaping open. More sweat begins forming on Fluttershy's forehead. 

"W-what o-of course n-not Rainbow Dash, don't be silly." Fluttershy says waving her hoof frantically and laughing nervously. Rainbow Dash just looks at her friend then shakes her head. Can't worry about that now we're in a rush.  

"C'mon Flutters we gotta go, Celestia needs us in Canterlot right away." Rainbow Dash says pointing out the door. Fluttershy's nervous smile fades away as she hears this.

"Oh okay I'm coming." Fluttershy says throwing her blanket to the side and hopping of the bed. As they make their way to the stairs, Fluttershy looks back at her bed one more time, a smile and a blush appearing on her face. 

Minutes Later Ponyville Train Station.

Four of the elements of Harmony are gathered, Rarity is sniffing some tye-die roses she has, Twilight and Applejack are talking near the gate, while Pinkie Pie seems to be trying to roll into a ball pulling her hair to try and make herself a perfect sphere. they all turn to look as two Pegasi land nearby. 

"Hey guys sorry we're late I had to get lazy bones here out of bed." Rainbow says gesturing toward the other Pegasus, Fluttershy looks down embarrassed. 

"Sorry everyone, I uh went to bed late." Fluttershy says rubbing her right hoof with her left. 

"No problem sugar cube." Applejack says with a smile.

"Yeah it's not a problem."  Twilight reassures.

"No problemo  Fluttershy." Pinkie Pie chirps. 

"Hey Rare you ok." Rainbow Dash asks, putting her hoof on Rarity's shoulder, Rarity stares at Fluttershy specifically at a certain accessory her less fashionable friends have failed to notice. Rarity looks at Rainbow Dash and puts her hoof up onto the hoof Rainbow Dash put on her shoulder.

"I'm fine dear." Rarity smiles at Rainbow Dash and then looks back at Fluttershy. "I'm just admiring Fluttershy's new necklace." Everypony looks and finally notice the gold ring hanging on a sliver chain around Fluttershy's neck. Everypony but Rarity and Rainbow Dash gasp. 

"Oh my god Fluttershy that's beautiful." Twilight exclaims smiling.

"Yeah sugar cube that's real purty." 

"Oh my gosh did Discord make that himself?" Pinkie Pie jumps up and down an inch in front of Fluttershy's face. Everypony else's eyes widen.

"W-wha- h-how did you know?" Fluttershy asks her face turning beet red. 

"Duh silly it says so right here." Pinkie Pie lifts up the Ring and points to an engraving on the inside.

To My Best Friend Fluttershy, With Love Discord.

"Awww" Fluttershy says a gentle smile crosses her lips. She looks up at her friends, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Applejack all look aghast, while Rarity shares Fluttershy's aw face, and Pinkie Pie continues jumping up and down happily. Lucky before  her three disgruntled friends can ask any questions, a steel grey colored unicorn with a chrome colored mane and a caboose cutie mark, comes walking up to the Elements of Harmony, drawing all of their attention, the stallion wears a conductors hat.

"Hello ladies I am Iron Sprocket." He bows respectfully, the elements nod in greeting. "I am a private train conductor, I drive a smaller but faster train for important politicians and performers, I must say it is an honor to have the elements of harmony themselves aboard my train." Twilight blinks at him.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asks puzzled, Iron Sprocket glances at her in surprise.

"Oh I'm sorry I had thought the princess had told you, I'll be acting as your personal transport too and from Canterlot for awhile until some crisis is taken care of, My train is small only five cars counting the engine but, for only the six of you I hope it will be enough room." Iron Sprocket explains bowing once more, Rarity's eyes are shining.

"Well it's about time we started getting some special treatment." Rarity says running up to Iron Sprocket. "Now Darling where is this train of yours?" 

"Oh it's that one over there on the second set of tracks." Iron Sprocket points to a small chrome engine with four cars hitched too it, each car is made of steel and chrome and painted with the Equestria flag. 

"Oh it's lovely." Rarity squeals, she reaches to her side for one of her friends and she grabs the nearest hoof without looking , she smiles while dragging Rainbow Dash off toward the train. "Come on Rainbow my dear." The other elements all laugh and follow after them.

Iron Sprocket gives them a quick tour of the train the rear car is a storage room for all their luggage, the third and second cars have a small hallway and three private rooms each, the car right behind the engine is the dining car with a small kitchen corner. The elements each take a room and store what few things they brought, before heading to the dining room to eat the small meal Iron Sprocket has prepared. Twilight gazes out the window as her friends eat. This train is much faster then the common train, we'll get to Canterlot twice as fast in this thing.  Twilight glances over at Fluttershy and looks at the necklace around her neck, Twilight raises a hoof to speak, but Fluttershy speaks first.

"Oh this wheat soup is so delicious." Fluttershy says smiling, she looks down at the soup. "Although some cinnamon would make it perfect." As she finishes that thought a bottle of cinnamon suddenly appears above her bowl, and sprinkles some into her soup and then disappears into smoke that smells of pine trees. Everypony looks around for the Draconequus but they don't see him anywhere. 

"What the hay just happened?" Applejacks asks an eyebrow raised at Fluttershy.

"Yes it's not like Discord to hide himself when he does something like that." Rarity says before taking a sip of her tea, Twilight leans forward and looks at Fluttershy.

"Is there anything else you want Fluttershy?" Twilight asks bluntly, Fluttershy looks at her startled by her question. 

"What do you mean Twilight?" Fluttershy asks avoiding her gaze.

"I want you to wi-" Twilight gets cut off by Iron Sprocket opening the door to the engine car.

"Whoa is it hot in there, darn vents busted gotta get a screwdriver to fix it, any of you got some water I could have? I'm parched." Iron Sprocket says this while fanning himself with his hat, suddenly there's a small rumble and Iron Sprocket looks up to see a rain cloud has formed over his head, rain starts pouring out of it onto his head. He puts back on his hat and looks confused at the elements. "Well not quite what I had in mind but thanks anyway." He walks off toward the storage car the rain cloud follows him but disappears as he leaves the train car, the water on the floor quickly evaporates into flower petals.

"Ok so what did that guy do to get on Discord's bad side?" Rainbow Dash asks pointing at where Iron Sprocket had gone.

"I don't know my dear although that was rather tame for him wasn't it?" Rarity gestures to the room, "No mess."

"It wasn't Discord." Everypony looks at Twilight when she says this, Twilight raises a hoof at Fluttershy. "It was Fluttershy."

"What?!" Everypony gasps.

"It's the ring he gave her it must contain part of his magic." Fluttershy looks down at her necklace So that's what he meant when he said part of him would be with me. Twilight continues, "Somehow Fluttershy can tap into the rings magic when she wants something, like seasonings in her soup or cooling some pony off."

"Woowee that is one mighty fine gift." Applejack says whistling at the necklace in question.

"I knew it! I knew it! I knew that ring was special!" Pinkie Pie shouts, hopping up and down in her chair. 

"We'll have to tell Princess Celestia about that too, see if it could be dangerous." Twilight says bluntly, Fluttershy looks at Twilight in surprise.

"What? Discord wouldn't give me something dangerous." 

"Not on purpose I'm sure but with magic like Discord's you can't be too careful, you should probably take it off unti-." Twilight is interrupted once more.

"No!" Fluttershy shouts a little louder then she had wanted to, her friends all flinch at her sudden out burst. "I'm not going to take it off."

"But what if you accidently-" Twilight begins by raising her hoof but clamps her mouth shut as she sees a fire in Fluttershy's eyes.

"I'm not taking it off." Fluttershy glares at Twilight, who just chuckles nervously. The rest of the ride to Canterlot was spent in peace talking about their up coming mission or stories of the past but the matter of the necklace wasn't brought up again.

In The Deepest Bowels Of Tartarus 

"Are we there yet?" Chrysalis groans, while walking next to Sombra on the brimstone floor, Sombra is grinding his teeth while his eye twitches. 

"Almost." Sombra growls. "Same as the last eight times you asked that." 

"But this place is soooo boring." Chrysalis whines, Sombra groans throwing his hoof into his face.

"Your just doing this to annoy me aren't you?" Sombra asks pinching his eye brows with his hoof. 

"Maybe I am a little." Chrysalis says looking at her hoof as if checking a hooficure, she then sighs heavily. "But this place is really boring." 

"Yeah it's really gone down hill since I was last here." Sombra looks around at the dark brimstone cave with chains hanging from the ceilings and stalagmites and stalactites placed all around so the path looks like a giant mouth. "Not a single screaming pony skeleton since we got here." 

"Yeah I mean what is this, this is the big bad Tartarus my hive is scarier then this." Chrysalis laughs, Sombra grins.

"Yes and I've given people nightmares a hundred times worse then this." They both burst into laughter, after a minute Sombra and Chrysalis each wipe a tear from their respective eyes. Then Chrysalis looks down at Sombra in surprise. 

"Are- are we bonding?" Chrysalis asks with a raised eye brow, Sombra glares at her.

"Of course not!" Sombra growls, he looks forward. "Now shut up we're there." Chrysalis blinks.

"Really how do you know?" Chrysalis looks forward and bumps into a large black object, she gazes up and sees three large black dog heads looking down at her. "Oh ok I guess Cerberus is a good indication that we're there.." 

"Get back!" Sombra shouts yanking Chrysalis away from Cerberus's jaws that snap shut where she just was. Cerberus growls at them, and Sombra retorts with his own growl, Chrysalis blinks at Sombra again.

"You just saved me." Chrysalis states dumbly pointing a hoof at Sombra, he turns to look at her.

"Yeah now we're even." Sombra says coldly before jumping back to avoid a swipe of Cerberus's paw. 

"So what's the plan?" Chrysalis asks buzzing into the air.

"You see about freeing Tirek I'll handle Fido, Spot , and Lucky here." Sombra growls and then disappears into the shadows, and then remerges in his giant form, snarling at Cerberus. The three headed dog leaps at Sombra biting for his neck with all three heads, Sombra's body curves around Cerberus's jaws, Sombra bites down on Cerberus's right neck and pulls Cerberus away and then heaves Cerberus into the cavern wall, Sombra charges forward with his horn aiming at Cerberus's chest, Cerberus kicks out with his paw slamming into Sombra's head, sending Sombra reeling in pain, before he can recover Cerberus bites into Sombra's ethereal body causing black blood to pool under Cerberus's fangs. Sombra growls in pain, he stretches out some of his black body forming It into a larger version of his hoof but this one holds one of his knifes, with a quick stab he plunges the blade into Cerberus's side the beast howls in pain releasing it's grip on Sombra's neck, taking the chance Sombra slash's Cerberus's middle head with his horn and then slams his head into Cerberus sending the beast flying into a near by wall. 

Meanwhile Chrysalis has found her way to Tirek's cage and looks in at the Creature inside, a red frail old centaur-type creature looks up at her glaring with piercing eyes. Chrysalis pretends to gag at the sight of the creature but frowns when he doesn't seem to care.

"Hello there my name is Queen Chrysalis and you're going to help me take over Equestria." Chrysalis grins at her soon to be partner, who just looks back at her in surprise. 

"Get straight to the point don't you?" Tirek says rubbing his chin.

"I pride myself on being blunt." Chrysalis says nonchalantly Of course I could've been less blunt when I was pretending to be Cadence but oh well.

"So you're here to free me?" Tirek asks a wicked smile appearing on his lips. 

"Yes we have need of your talents if we hope to win the day." Chrysalis says studying the lock on his cell.

"I don't need help taking over Equestria." Tirek says smugly, Chrysalis looks at Tirek with a bored look.

"Bold words for a guys who lost after getting help from an all powerful chaos god." Chrysalis says smugly, Tirek stammers but then glares at her. Chrysalis blasts the lock with a beam from her magic and then the cell opens, Tirek steps out of the cell and turns to Chrysalis who is suddenly holding a large black book with her magic, Tirek opens his mouth to speak, but Chrysalis swings the book at him.

"Stop!" Sombra's voice interrupts Chrysalis's attack as she turns to look at him, Sombra crashes to the ground nearby standing on top of an unconscious Cerberus. "We need him awake so he can feed." 

"Oh alright." Chrysalis turns away from Sombra and pouts, Tirek looks at Sombra  quizzically.

"Feed? Feed on what?" Sombra gestures his hoof at the large unconscious three headed dog beast next to him. Tirek grins as  he steps forward and sucks the energy out of Cerberus, while he does that Chrysalis leans over to whisper in Sombra's ear.  

"I know what your thinking Sombra." Chrysalis whispers with a grin.

"And what's that?" Sombra asks looking at her out of the corner of his eyes. 

"You plan on having Tirek feed on me so I won't have power over you anymore." Sombra Flinches. " I see I hit money, don't worry though you can keep your little energy sucker but remember, I revived you so we're connected. If I lose my magic, what will happen to my new  little bosom buddy?" Sombra's eyes widen.

"What kind of resurrection spell did you use?" Sombra asks glaring at Chrysalis.

"That's something you'll have to figure out on your own." Chrysalis walks past Sombra and flips her tail in his face, and then raises the book once more as she sneaks up on Tirek, who has begun laughing manically. Sombra just stands there deep in thought thinking over what Chrysalis had said. I'll have to think of a different way around her. He face hoofs when he hears the smack of the book and the sound of Tirek falling over, Sombra groans as he walks over to transport Tirek back to the Hive.

Meanwhile with Discord Wherever He Is 

Discord is just sitting on a tree looking out over the Equestrian landscape when he feels the all to  familiar imbalance of magic that can only mean one thing, he glares out in the direction the imbalance came from. Chrissy why did it have to be Tirek.

Canterlot Castle Secret War Room

The room is a simple circle shaped room with a large glass dome ceiling letting in the light of the sun, a large round table with a dozen chairs sits in the middle of the floor. Celestia and Luna sit on the left side, the six elements of harmony sit on the right, Celestia's concern is obvious and Luna looks nervous as well. But not nearly as nervous as Twilight does, the other element's are calm enough even though Fluttershy keeps looking at the table. Pinkie Pie smiles and seems oblivious to the whole situation. 

"We decree this meeting shall commence now." Luna says breaking the tension in the room.

"Yes sister you are right." Celestia turns to Twilight. "Sombra has been revived." Twilight's face sinks. 

"At present the identity of his summoner is unknown but we shan't stop unti-" Luna speaks proudly but is soon interrupted. 

"It's Queen Chrysalis." Twilight says hanging her head. Celestia and Luna blink at her.

"Twilight how do you-" Celestia begins.

"She broke into my castle and tricked Spike into giving her the summoning book volume six." Twilight looks up at her mentor with a sad look in her eyes. 

"Wonderful, Chrysalis has revived Sombra. I don't know how it could get any worse." Celestia says placing her hoof to her forehead.

"Pardon me, but where is Discord?" Celestia looks up at the sound of her sisters voice, and then searches the room for the Draconequus.

"Yes where is he? I would think he'd have come with you." Celestia asks, continuing her search, Fluttershy frowns down at the table, Oh no.

"I ain't seen him since yesterday." Applejack says scratching her head.

"Yeah none of us have seen him since he-" Twilight pauses her eyes growing wide. "Since he 'fought' Chrysalis." Oh no, oh no, oh no Celestia and Luna gasp, the other elements (minus Fluttershy) gasp as they realize what Twilight meant. 

"So you believe Discord could be cooperating with Chrysalis and Sombra,?" Luna asks her eyes narrowing.

"Well he did say he ran into Chrysalis, the day before she stole my book and now he's nowhere to be seen." Twilight says deep in thought.

"It would seem Discord might not be as reformed as we might think, we must prepare to impri-" Celestia suddenly stops talking as her mouth is zipped shut. Everypony in the room gasps at this.

"DISCORD COME OUT HERE THIS INSTANT, OR THOU SHALL FACE MY WRATH!" Luna screams in her Canterlot voice.  The elements all turn to look at Fluttershy who has hidden her face behind her mane. Twilight looks at Celestia who is trying to undo the zipper while Luna fly's up into the air searching for the culprit. 

"Fluttershy!" Twilight shouts at her friend, Fluttershy yelps but moves her face out of her mane to look at her friend, the princesses look at them puzzled. "Undo it." Twilight points to Celestia, who tilts her head in confusion. Fluttershy sighs and grabs hold of her necklace and breathes deeply, Celestia's mouth unzips revealing the frown she's wearing.  The elements of harmony all avert their gaze from the princess, who looks between Twilight and Fluttershy frowning with a stern expression on her face.

"Explain." Celestia states in a demanding tone. Twilight looks up nervously.

"Well Discord gave Fluttershy a necklace that contains Chaos magic." Twilight gestures to Fluttershy who stares at the table. " And now she can use it when she wants something, although she doesn't have complete control over it." Celestia's eyes widen, she turns to face Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy you must remove that necklace immediately." Fluttershy looks up in surprise at Celestias stern voice.

"Wha-what? Why?" Fluttershy stammers out.

"I concur." Luna says gesturing toward Fluttershy "Until we know we can trust Discord, you can not wear that."

"B-but I promised I'd never take it off." Fluttershy says turning toward Princess Luna.

"You must! We can not trust Discord ri-" Celestia begins, but is cut off by Fluttershy slamming her hooves on the table, Causing everypony in the room to flinch.

"Yes we can! We've always been able to!" Fluttershy shouts glaring at the princess, the ring on her neck glowing gold, a storm cloud starts forming in the air above the table occasionally sparking with lightening. "He didn't betray us! If you actually paid attention you'd notice all he did was planned from the start, so that everyone could get their magic back!" Lightening strikes the center of the table surprising everyone, except Fluttershy. Celestia locks eyes with Fluttershy.

"Remove the necklace Fluttershy." Celestia threatens, her eyes narrowing at the Pegasus, who wavers for a moment but then returns her gaze. 

"No." Fluttershy says lighting strikes once more charring the center of the table, suddenly the storm cloud vanishes as Fluttershy's ring stops glowing, with a click, she gazes down to see a pair of hoof cuffs with symbols in them have been placed on her hooves. The other elements gasp at Princess Luna whom stands right next to Fluttershy gazing down at her. Fluttershy looks around in surprise at her hooves and then the charred mark in the center of the table. She feels Luna nudge her fore leg and looks up at the princess who then gestures toward the door. Fluttershy stands up and follows Princess Luna out of the room. Tears begin forming in the corners of her eyes as she heads out the door, I think I just made things worse. As the door closes silence takes over the room, as everyone looks around uncertain what to do or say next. After a few minutes of silence it's Applejack's turn to slam her hooves on the table.

"What in tarnation just happened?" Applejack exclaims looking to Celestia for an answer., Celestia turns to look at the element of honesty.

"We have placed Fluttershy under house arrest until we can determine that she and Discord are not a threat." Celestia says firmly, causing the elements to gasp. 

"B-but Princess Fluttershy didn't mean any harm." Twilight says looking frantic. "I don't know what came over her, bu-"

"It was Discords magic." The element all stare at Celestia as she interrupts Twilight. "Having an artifact with such power on her has made Fluttershy's emotion more powerful, her angry at us for not trusting Discord was far more intense then it normally would've been." Celestia looks around at the elements of harmony. "Until she can control herself she is just as dangerous if not more dangerous then Discord himself."

"So why don't we just take it off her? no more necklace, means  no more magic right?" Rainbow Dash asks, waving a hoof nonchalantly.

"That won't work it is a chaos artifact only Fluttershy can remove it once it is placed around her neck." Celestia looks at the elements who all stare back in surprise. 

"Then what are we going to do?" Twilight asks, looking distraught. 

"You and Applejack shall help Fluttershy gain control of her new abilities." Celestia points her hoof at Twilight and then to Applejack, both look surprised. "I believe Twilight's ability in magic and Applejack's calm demeanor will be the most valuable tools to helping Fluttershy gain control over the chaos magic." Twilight and Applejack nod their heads, Luna finally returns to the room taking her spot by her sister, everypony nods in greeting. 

" What should we do then your highness?" Rarity asks gesturing to herself, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, Celestia smiles at them.

"I need you two." She points at Rarity and Rainbow Dash. "To go to the Crystal Empire and inform them of what's happening, and see if Cadence and Shining Armor can offer any assistance." 

"You got it Princess." Rainbow Dash salutes at the Princess. Celestia turns in Pinkie Pie's direction and is greeted by two giant blue eyes mere inches from her face, Celestia jumps back in surprise. 

"What do I get to do!? What do I get to do!?" Pinkie Pie shouts her smile growing bigger, Celestia sighs  heavily.

"Pinkie Pie I'm afraid I have to give you the most dangerous job of them all." Celestia says looking at Pinkie Pie's big eyes that only seem to get more excited. 

"With your Pinkie sense, flexibility, and general weirdness I believe you are the only one who can do this job." Pinkie Pie begins vibrating in anticipation. 

"I need you too-" Pinkie Pie's smile can't get any wider.

"Find Discord." Celestia finishes, Pinkie Pie's smile turns into and tiny circle and her eyes shrink to a portion of their original size. 

"Huh?"  Pinkie Pie utters sweat appearing on her fore head.

Changeling Hive Throne Room.

Sombra comes walking into the throne room and nods his head at Chrysalis who returns the gesture, before returning her attention to the centaur standing in front of her. Sombra joins Tirek at the bottom of the stairs that led up to the throne. 

"So your really giving me my own battalion of changeling's." Tirek asks raising his eyebrow at Chrysalis, who smirks down at her comrade.

"Of course! You're basically acting as one of my leadership cast of changelings although due to you not being a changeling you can only have twenty under your command at a time." Chrysalis gestures toward twenty changelings clinging to the nearby pillar, the changelings buzz over and land near Tirek bowing their heads to him, Tirek gives a wide grin and gives a deep laugh. Sombra glances at Tirek with a raised eyebrow, How did this guy trick Discord into teaming up with him? He doesn't even realize that the squad is so Chrysalis can keep an eye on him. Sombra feels eyes on him and turns to see Chrysalis standing right in front of him a smug smile on her face.

"What?" Sombra asks glaring at her, Chrysalis  places her hoof up to her mouth and giggles.

"A little jealous are we Sombra? Can't say I blame you after all you were my first teammate and yet I give Tirek a squad first." Chrysalis says, before throwing  her hoof over her face. "Oh I'm such a terrible friend can you ever forgive me!?" 

"Chrysalis..." Sombra begins placing his hoof to his face, then he stops short. Why hasn't she given me some changeling's? I know she knows she doesn't have to worry about weather I trust her or not, but it actually is a sound plan to have your comrades have some troops to assist them with their plans so why-. Sombra is interrupted from his thoughts when a feminine voice calls out.

"Lord Sombra!" Sombra looks at the source of the voice and sees a tall thin female changeling buzzing toward him through the air, with her purple cobweb hair in a braid hanging to the side of her face, the changeling stands a bit taller then the lord of shadows, shorter then Chrysalis but  still very tall. Her thin frame makes her look extremely fragile, Sombra ponders how she could be a leadership class when she looks so incapable of fighting when he recognizes her from Chrysalis's tour of the hive.

"Ah Captain... Night Fly was it?" Sombra asks turning his body to look at her as she lands in front of him, a grin on her face. 

"Aw my lord you remembered me!" Night Fly giggles at him, Sombra rolls his eyes and then notices that Night Fly is holding a letter in  her purple magic. 

"What's that?" Sombra asks gesturing toward the letter. Night Fly looks at the letter and then gasps remembering why she was looking for Sombra in the first place.

"Well sir I was supervising some drones as they cleaned your chambers, a letter appeared in a puff of black smoke so I brought it here as soon as I could." Night Fly floats the letter over to Sombra, who grabs it with his hoof and tears it open with his horn using his magic he unfolds the message inside, as he reads a frown appears on his face, at the end of the letter his face is a weird mix of annoyed and pleased. Chrysalis leans over his shoulder to try and read the letter, but Sombra destroys the letter with black fire from his horn, Chrysalis frowns at him.

"My, my keeping secrets are we?" Chrysalis asks raising an eyebrow, Sombra chuckles.

"Not quite, I'll tell you what the letter said." Sombra turns to look at the Queen. "After all the information from my friend in Canterlot is for all of us." Chrysalis and Tirek stare at Sombra in surprise. 

"You have somepony inside Canterlot?" Tirek asks in shock.

"You have a friend!?" Chrysalis nearly shouts in amazement, Sombra just face hoofs at this comment. 

"It's just an expression, its just a fellow darkness user." Sombra groans, " Anyway they sent us some valuable information, they didn't go into specifics about everything but it's mostly good news."

"Okay like what?" Chrysalis asks raising an eyebrow. 

"Discord is not working with the Princesses, matter of fact they think he's working with us, they know about me, but don't know about Tirek." Chrysalis grins at this information. "Three of the elements are stuck in Canterlot for the time being and the other three have been sent on special missions, the pink one left immediately, my contact has no idea where she's going other then she's looking for Discord. We'll ignore her for now, the other two are headed to the crystal empire to request aid, they leave in two hours." Tireks ears perk up at the news.

"Hmm what should we do?" Chrysalis asks  tapping her hoof on her chin.

"We do nothing for now." Sombra says a smug grin appearing on his face. Chrysalis raises an eyebrow at him.

"What? but their forces are divided we should strike now shouldn't we?" Chrysalis asks a frown forming on her lips, Sombra shakes his head.

"While divide and conquer is a good plan theirs a certain wild Draconequus we need to deal with first." Chrysalis's  eyes widen in realization. "Until he's taken care of we can't make any plans, he's a wrench we do not want in our plan."

"Your majesty?" Night Fly chimes in.

"Discord knows about Tirek  but he probably doesn't know about me, if we have Tirek leave and drain someone maybe Discord would come here to stop you while he's gone." Sombra rubs his chin in thought.

"My lady?"

"Hmm yes then while I battle him, you can surprise him, taking him out of the equation for good." Chrysalis says a smirk across her face.

"Sire?"

"But there's no guarantee that Discord will wait for Tirek to-" 

"Your highness?"  Chrysalis and Sombra turn toward Night Fly.

"WHAT!?" They shout in unison, Night Fly flinches in surprise her purple eyes wide in terror, slowly she clears her throat and then points across the room.

"Tirek is gone." Chrysalis and Sombra turn to look where Night Fly is points, they both face-hoof, and sigh deeply as they notice that Tirek and his squad of changelings have vanished. 

"Great now we have that to deal with." Sombra groans, he turns to look at Chrysalis who has closed her eyes in concentration, she opens her eyes and a grin appears on her face.

"Never mind him he's just going to board a train, more importantly a guard just informed me we have a very tall guest. Coming to see us." Sombra gains a sinister grin to match Chrysalis's.

"Well then." Sombra begins fading into the shadows. "Let's prepare our surprise." They both begin to laugh manically. 
> The Train Sequence
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Iron Sprocket stands up wiping the sweat off his brow, he glances down at his handy work, the train engine shines brightly in the afternoon sun. Wiping the grease off his hooves he turns his head as he hears hoof steps approaching, smiling he waves at the elements of generosity and loyalty who are chatting as they walk towards him, He walks over meeting them half way.

"Good afternoon ladies what can I do for ya?" Iron Sprocket inquires tipping his conductors hat at them, Rarity smile's at the gesture.

"Hello there darling." Rarity says, while Rainbow Dash shakes Iron Sprocket's hoof. "We need to charter a trip to the crystal empire."

"Well alright when ya need to get going." Iron Sprocket asks smiling brightly. 

"Right now if possible." Rarity states. "If that's not a problem."

"Of course it ain't a problem right Sprocky?" Rainbow asks a wide grin on her face, Rarity scowls at Rainbow Dash.

"Now, now my dear there's no reason to be rude, Iron Sprocket could be busy." Rarity turns back to Iron Sprocket. "We don't want to be a bother." 

"Oh it's no bother. Driving you guys around is my job for now." Iron Sprocket laughs off Rarity's concern and gestures too the train. "Come on I just finished cleaning the engine she's ready to depart." Iron Sprocket leads the two element's onto the train.

"Thank you very much darling." Rarity says sitting down in a window booth in the dining car, Iron Sprocket smiles.

"No problem transporting ponies  is what I do." He turns toward the engine car, and calls over his shoulder. "If you need anything you'll know where I'll be." 

"Thanks Sprocky ." Rainbow Dash calls out as Iron Sprocket leaves the room with a wave. 

"So my dear what do you think about this whole mess?" Rarity asks stirring some sugar into her tea, Rainbow Dash sits down across from Rarity.

"I don't know, I mean our worst villains from our past are joining forces." Rainbow Dash shakes her head. "And too think we trusted Discord again."

"Actually my dear I don't think Discord betrayed us this time." Rarity says after taking a sip of her tea, Rainbow Dash raises an eyebrow at Rarity.

"You serious Rare I mean it seems pretty obvious to me." Rainbow Dash says scratching her neck with her right hoof. Rarity shakes her head.

"Yes I agree with you the dots connect easily." Rarity says her hoof on her chin and her eyes closed, deep in thought. "Too easily."

"Except..." Rarity opens her eyes and looks at the rainbow maned Pegasus sitting across from her, Rainbow is scratching the back of her head. 

"Except?" Rarity inquires raising her eyebrow.

"Well you see, I think I saw something that kinda pokes a hole in this whole thing."  Rainbow Dash says, a blush appearing on her cheeks. Sensing some gossip coming up Rarity inches as close she can and leans across the table toward Rainbow Dash. 

"And what was that my dear?" Rarity says her eyes sparkling at Rainbow Dash.

"I don't know if I should-" Rainbow Dash stops talking when she sees Rarity's eyes looking at her pleadingly, Rainbow Dash sighs. "Okay, okay you know I can't say no to that face."

"Yes my dear I know." Rarity smiles at her. 

"Okay so earlier when I went to get Fluttershy she was still in bed." 

"Really? Fluttershy usually gets up so much earlier then that."

"Yeah but the weirdest thing is that when I first opened the door to her room, she wasn't, well I mean she wasn't.... alone." Rainbow Dash says cringing slightly, Rarity's eyes widen at this.

"What do you mean?" Rarity asks intrigued.

"For a split second I thought I saw... Discord... in bed... with Fluttershy."   Rainbow Dash says obviously very uncomfortable. Rarity covers her mouth trying to stop herself from squealing, it doesn't work. 

"I KNEW IT!!!" Rarity squeals at the top of her lungs, forcing Rainbow Dash to cover her ears, Rarity continues happily giggling like a school filly. Rainbow just looks over at her. 

"What's gotten into you?" Rainbow Dash asks raising her eyebrow at Rarity. Rarity coughs stopping her giggling.

"Sorry my dear, I just love being right when it comes to romance." Rarity says sighing peacefully "A beauty and a beast how romantic."

"Do you think this means Discord didn't betray us." Rainbow asks rubbing the back of her neck. Suddenly the air get's cold causing Rainbow Dash to shiver, she looks over at Rarity whose happy face has turned to a dark almost terrifying stare. 

"If he actually has betrayed us after giving Fluttershy such a lovely gift and cuddling with her in bed." Rarity's voice drips so much poison, that Rainbow Dash covers her mouth and nose thinking it might be  airborne. "Then he better pray to Celestia that he gets turned back to stone because if he breaks Fluttershy's heart I will personally see him suffer pain that makes eternity in stone look like an all expense paid trip on a luxury cruise to Hoofalulu!" 

"Uh..." Rainbow Dash utters taking one hoof away from her face to speak, but she can't find the words. Rainbow Dash just stares at her eyes wide as Rarity's eyes seem to be burning a whole through her very soul. Suddenly Rarity blinks and her eyes return to normal she rubs the back of her head and laughs nervously.

"Sorry Dear I think I forgot something in my cabin." Rarity quickly stands up and runs to the door that leads to the sleeping cars, she opens it up and quickly Dashes inside. The door swings shut with a thud. Rainbow Dash just stares at where her friend had gone, she shakes her head and chuckles. Rarity really takes romance seriously. Rainbow Dash looks out the window and sighs. But I guess that's one of the reasons she's so cu-. Aloud thud coming from the next car grabs Rainbow Dash's attention, she stands up and walks her way over to the door, but just before she reaches it, the door opens and Rarity walks through closing the door behind her. 

"Rarity you okay? I heard a crash." Rainbow Dash looks worried at her friend. Rarity looks her in the eye and smiles. 

"Oh I'm fine don't worry darling." Rainbow Dash's eye twitches." I just dropped one of my suitcases."  Rainbow Dash look's at her skeptically but then smiles and flaps into the air and starts flying toward the engine room.

"Hey Rare." Rainbow Dash calls over her shoulder , Rarity who is quite a few feet behind Rainbow Dash walking slower then her brightly colored companion, looks up at her.

"Yes Darling?" Rarity asks smiling brightly, Rainbow Dash doesn't look back but keeps flying.

"You know what's something weird I've noticed about you?" Rainbow Dash asks stopping a few feet away from the engine door. Rarity stops walking as well, only about half way across the room. 

"What's that darling?" Rarity asks a quizzical smile across her face. Rainbow Dash lands on the engine door bracing herself against it, Rarity raises an eyebrow at her. Rainbow Dash makes eye contact for the first time since Rarity reentered the dining car, Rarity gasps a the look of anger and hatred burning in Rainbow Dash's eyes.

"RARITY NEVER CALLS ME DARLING!" Rainbow screams as she launches herself off the engine room door, causing it to dent inward, as she fly's across the room at blinding speed. Rarity can't even gasp as Rainbow Dash slams into her chest with her fore hooves, carrying her across the room Rainbow Dash and Rarity break through the door to the sleeping car, Rainbow Dash flaps to a stop sending both Rarity and the door flying across the room. As Rainbow Dash lands she see's Rarity and the door slam into three figures down the hallway, the bag they were carrying sits in the middle of the hallway thrashing wildly. Rainbow Dash fly's over to the bag glancing over at Rarity, who bursts into green flames changing back into a changeling, the changeling is laying on top of the now dented door, which is crushing three other changelings. Rainbow Dash opens the bag and smiles brightly at the pale white unicorn smiling back at her. The real Rarity jumps out of the bag and throws her hooves around Rainbow Dash's neck. 

"Oh thank you my dear." Rainbow Dash returns the hug a gentle smile on her face. " Thank you."

"Hey guys what's taking you so-" Rainbow Dash look over at the voices and sees three more changelings walking through the door to the next car. "long" Rainbow Dash's face turns angry as she sets Rarity down to the side and ready's herself to pounce, the changelings all run back down the hall panicking, Rainbow Dash grins over at Rarity,  Rarity giggles at her.

"Go ahead my dear." Just as Rarity finishes that sentence, Rainbow Dash bolts through the doorway, the door slams behind her rainbow trail. Rarity just shakes her head while smiling and walks back into the dining car. She stops moving as she hears the sound on metal bending, and hoof steps above her. Rarity looks up just in time to see the ceiling rip apart as a large red hand reaches in and grabs her around the waist, she struggles with the hand as it pulls her up through the ceiling, but the fingers wiggle her around in their grip pinning her fore hooves to her side,  when Rarity makes it through the hole in the ceiling she is gazing into the piercing eyes of Tirek.

"Hello Weakling." Tirek sneers, Rarity's eyes widen at the sight of the centaur.

"Wh-what?" Rarity stammers out horrified. What's Tirek doing here with- oh my god he's working with Chrysalis too?! But how!?

"Surprised to see me are you?" Tirek gloats a smug grin on his face. "Yes I'm back and there's nothing you pathetic ponies can do to stop me, especially when I drain one of you six fools." 

"We stopped you before we'll do it again!" Rarity shouts, her horn charging with magic, Tirek just yawns. Rarity shoots a blast of magic at Tirek but he blocks it with his hand and when she stops shooting Tirek is holding a small purple ball of glowing magic. 

"Pathetic." Tirek huffs at her, He leans his head back to pop in the ball of magic, he stops when he hears a beep. Looking up he searches for the source when he hears it again he sees a flash of red in his hand. Tirek opens his fist to look at the ball of magic he is holding, it flashes red and makes a beeping sound, and then does it again, and again, again, again, Tirek raises the ball to his face, as it rapidly switches between purple and red, beeping unstop. "What's going-" Tirek is interrupted by the ball of magic in his hand exploding into a giant fireball , that engulfs his upper body the explosion causes him to drop Rarity she falls to the roof of the train and starts scrambling away, but is stopped by something grabbing hold of her left hind leg. 

"You little bitch!" Tirek growls between his teeth, he lifts Rarity up to his eye level. "Just stealing your magic is too good for you."

"What do you m-" Rarity is interrupted by Tirek sinking his claws into her back leg, she screams in pain, a wet feeling begins pouring down her leg down toward her chest, as tears begin forming in her eyes, Crack, Rarity cries out again as she feels the bones in her leg snap.

"Yes scream you pathetic worm scre-" Tirek is cut off by a blue hoof slamming into the side of his face, His head jerks to the side as he drops Rarity once more, but before she sits the ground Rainbow Dash swoops down and catches her placing her gently on the ground.

"Rainbow... your here." Rarity exclaims weakly, tears of joy joining her tears of pain. Rainbow Dash's eyes are full of tears and they begin streaming down her face as she looks down at Rarity's bloody broken leg. 

"I'm so sorry Rarity!" Rainbow Dash cries. "I shouldn't have left you alone."

"It's okay my dear your here now." Rarity uses her hoof to wipe Rainbow Dash's eyes.

"Yes very touching now you can die together!" Rainbow looks up to see Tirek running at them, Rainbow Dash fly's up and dashes at Tirek his fist and her hoof collide, they waver for a second but Tirek's superior strength sends Rainbow Dash flying backward to the front of the train, where do to her loss of altitude causes her to land on the front windshield. 

"What the heck!?" Iron Sprocket exclaims upon seeing the element of loyalty slam into the front of his train. He reaches for the brake but stops when he hears a familiar voice. 

"Don't you dare stop this train!" Rainbow Dash yells through the glass lifting herself up onto her legs. All Iron Sprocket can do is look at her in surprise as she begins to crawl back up toward the top of the train, he turns to go out the engine room door but remembers he can't do to the door being dented inward. Back on top of the train Rainbow Dash peers over the top and can see Tirek reaching for Rarity again, Rainbow Dash glares at him before flapping into the air and flying at top speed back at Tirek. Tirek looks up just before Rainbow Dash slams into the center of his chest sending him flying backwards, he would've flown all the way off the back of the train if he hadn't grabbed onto the railing at the back of the train. Tirek pulls himself up slightly so he can see the top of the train the elements have disappeared, he grinds his teeth as he begins fighting against the wind to drag himself back up on top of the train. 

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash lays Rarity down on the bed in one of the sleeping cabins, upon setting her down all the way Rainbow Dash begins putting her Wonder Bolt survival training to good use and looks for something to clean, dress, and set Rarity's leg. Rarity winces in pain as the train rumbles across the tracks. Rainbow Dash returns to Rarity's side with a first aid kit, quickly Rainbow Dash cleans the wound as fast as she can and gets it all bandaged in almost no time at all, quick but not painless, indicated by Rarity's cries of pain the whole time. Once she's all done Rainbow Dash sits on a chair facing Rarity's bed, and sighs heavily. Rarity gently takes Rainbow Dash's hoof in her own and smiles at her, Rainbow returns with a weak smile back.

"What do we do now?" Rainbow Dash asks hanging her head. "I can't beat him alone." 

"Your not alone my dear." Rainbow Dash looks up at Rarity who has sat up in bed, Rainbow Dash's  eyes are wide.

"Oh no, your too hurt to fight him." Rainbow Dash exclaims lightly pushing Rarity back down on the bed by her shoulders. 

"At Tirek's current strength it'll take the power of at least two elements of harmony too defeat him now." Rarity groans out in pain. 

"So we're screwed huh?" Rainbow Dash jokes hanging her head once more, chuckling a little.

"Not quite my dear." Rainbow Dash looks up at Rarity.

"Rare I already said-" Rainbow Dash begins.

"Just come here a moment."  Rarity says waving Rainbow Dash over, when Rainbow Dash leans closer to Rarity, she grabs the sides of the Pegasus's head. Rainbow Dash looks at her with a raised eyebrow, but her eyes shoot open when Rarity suddenly sits up and kisses Rainbow Dash on the lips. Her surprise doesn't last long as her eyes become half lidded and she wraps her hooves around Rarity  pulling her into a tender embrace, Deeping the kiss between the two. Rainbow Dash feels Rarity's horn touch her forehead, she feels magic surging through Rarity's horn but she doesn't care, what she does care about is the fact that Rarity has loosened her grip on Rainbow Dash's face and her kisses have slowed down, but most alarming it feels like Rarity is going limp in Rainbow Dash's arms. Rainbow Dash pulls away from Rarity and looks at her face, he eyes have dark lines under them making her look extremely tired and her skin seems to have some how gotten paler. Rainbow Dash looks at her in horror, be her gaze wonders to her own hoof holding Rarity's head the tops of her hooves are glowing purple.

"What did you do?" Rainbow Dash exclaims in amazement as she feel power coursing through her body, Rarity giggles dryly.

"Remember when Twilight said the princesses all transferred their powers to her?" Rainbow Dash nods. "Well I just transferred all my power to you my dear."

"What? How did you do that?" Rainbow Dash asks bewildered. 

"After Twilight told us what the princesses did I looked into how to do the spell myself." Rarity giggles. "I'm not exactly the best fighter we have so I thought the best way for me to help when we don't shoot giant rainbows at people, would be to boost your abilities. So you can do the fighting for me." Rarity laughs with a smile, Rainbow Dash looks at Rarity with a tender gaze. 

"I love you Rarity." Rainbow Dash says tears forming in her eyes, Rarity returns her tearful gaze

"I love you too Rainbow Dash." Rarity's eyes narrow and a smirk appears on her face " Now go kick that guys ass." Rainbow Dash get's a huge grin on her face.

"Yes ma'am!" Rainbow Dash shouts launching herself through the ceiling.

Tirek turns at the sound of metal bursting open, as he turns his head Rainbow Dash slams into his chest, causing him to bend over and  clutch his gut, she then swings her hoof down driving his head into the top of the train, spinning in the air she kicks him, sending him across the train his face grinding on the roof, the whole way. Tirek stops just short of the engine car, he rips his head out of the roof and launches a barrage of fire ball's in the direction of his opponent, instead of simply dodging it Rainbow Dash charges forward and the purple glow on her hooves intensifies as she punches through  each fireball, as she does the fireball poof into smoke. before punching the last fireball Rainbow Dash ducks down avoiding a swipe from Tirek's claws as it passes through his own fire ball. She slides across the ground and then pushes off the roof with her wings and flips through the air kicking Tirek under the chin lifting him into the air, she then moves too fast for the eye to see kicking him back down to the ground, as he falls Rainbow Dash seems to vanish once more. Tirek opens his eyes as he falls, he sees past the rear of the train and his eyes widen as he sees a rainbow dot moving at him insanely fast, as the blur reaches the rear of the train a rainbow seems to explode out from it and it seems to sudden move twice as fast. Tirek feels a  impact on his front, and then several more blows hit him across his entire body, then one final drop kick is delivered directly to the center of his chest sending him flying at the speed of sound flying past the engine of the train several miles away.

Iron Sprocket stares in amazement at the creature that fly's down the train track's ahead of him, he jumps back in surprise as Rainbow Dash smashes her hoof through the windshield of the train.

"Hey is there any way to make this thing explode?!" Rainbow Dash shouts at him, Iron Sprocket just stares at the rainbow Pegasus with glowing purple hooves that's yelling at him. "Train! Explode! NOW!" 

"Oh, um, if I throw all the coal into the engine at once and then clog the exhaust vent and overload the electronics the train would explode upon impact with any sturdy object." Iron Sprocket says quickly, Rainbow Dash tilts her head and raises an eyebrow. 

"How do you?" Rainbow Dash asks pointing a hoof at him, he blushes and looks away.

"Let's just say I had a really bad first day on the job." Rainbow Dash shakes her head. 

"Not important just do it, that guy-" Rainbow Dash points down the train tracks. "-Is getting blow'd up."

"Ok I'll do it you and miss Rarity get out of here." 

"What about you?" Rainbow Dash asks pointing at him.

"I'll teleport." He gestures to his flank. "Transporting ponies is my specialty."  Rainbow Dash gives him a slight laugh and fly's back to Rarity, while Iron Sprocket get's to sabotaging his own train. 

Down The Train Tracks

Tirek stands up out of the dirt and looks down the tracks at the on coming train that seems to be moving even faster. He stomps his hooves into the dirt rooting himself to the spot he places his hands in the air. Think they've stopped me! I'll kill them both them! The train slams into the palms of his hands his hooves slid backward, but the metal of the engine begins to bend as the wheels squeal with effort, a sinister grin appears on his face, but it suddenly turns to a frown as electricity sparks through the machine and fire begins to erupt into flame, suddenly an explosion incinerates everything in a fifty foot radius.  Tirek lays on the ground unconscious charred black. Suddenly a buzzing noise fills the air  as Tirek's squad of twenty changelings land on the ground around him, one of them tilts his head into the air, after a second he nods and they all grab hold of Tirek and fly off with him in their hooves. 

Miles Away In The Sky

Rainbow Dash holds a still weakened Rarity in her fore hooves princess style, they both gaze off into the distance at the castle of the crystal empire in the distance. Rainbow Dash looks down at Rarity who returns her gaze, Rarity smiles gently and then nuzzles her face into Rainbow Dash's neck, Rainbow Dash smiles and holds Rarity tighter as she fly's off into the sunset toward the castle. Down on the ground Iron Sprocket looks at the two of them fly of with a smile on his face, before walking off in the same direction.
> The Trap That Bonds
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Chrysalis sits on her throne, in the throne room of the hive, her hind legs are crossed over each other and her fore hooves are sitting on the chairs arm rests. Chrysalis ponders why she made her throne so she could comfortably stand on her hind legs, when she's interrupted by a giant lollipop and licorice chandelier bursting through the ceiling of her throne room. Dangling from the chandelier is a Tirek piñata, some bats come out of no where and beat the Tirek piñata until it bursts open and Discord falls out landing on his legs as he hits the ground. He brushes some popcorn off his shoulder as he glares at Chrysalis, who just looks bored. 

"You know I have a door right?" Chrysalis asks raising an eyebrow and a hoof at Discord. Discord gestures to himself and then to the door, his own eyebrow raised up. "Right, right, nonsense I forgot. So what can I do for you Discord? Did you rethink my proposal?"

"No I have not." Discord says taking a step toward Chrysalis. "I just came to ask what is wrong with you?"

"Wrong with me?" Chrysalis puts a hoof to her chest in mock hurt. "What ever could you mean?"

"You summoned Tirek!?" Discord exclaims thrusting his arms in air of emphasis.  Chrysalis just looks at him bored again.

"What of it?" Chrysalis asks dully.

"Your spy network must really suck if you don't know why that's a bad idea." Discord says face palming, Chrysalis looks annoyed at this comment, Okay so my information network was lacking a bit until recently. Chrysalis looks over in the corner of the room at the thin frame of Captain Night Fly, who is standing at attention. I don't know who she talked to at the spa to get all that information about the elements and Discord, but I guess it doesn't matter. Chrysalis looks back at Discord.

"I know everything I need to know about Tirek, to know he can be of assistance to me." Chrysalis says  a grin on her face. 

"You don't know anything." Discord says narrowing his eyes at her, Chrysalis sends Discord her own glare.

"I know more then you know." Chrysalis says a sinister smile on her face, Discord doesn't seem to get her meaning.

"Yeah, you know something i'll never know." Discord Smirks, Chrysalis raises an eyebrow. "How to suck. Boom!" Discord starts laughing hysterically, while Chrysalis starts grinding her teeth.

"Very funny Discord." Chrysalis hisses at Discord, her eyes go half lidded and a smile appears on her face. " I bet Fluttershy finds you hilarious." Discord's mouth clamps shut and his eyes dart at the Queen.

"What did you say?" Discord's surprise is obvious in his voice. Chrysalis smirks at him. Everyone has a weakness Discord, and I've found yours.

"Yes that adorable little friend of yours." Chrysalis stands up from her throne and begins walking toward Discord. "Of course that's all she is isn't she." 

"Y-yes..." Discord stammers, Chrysalis reaches the bottom of the stairs and begins walking in a circle around Discord. 

"Yes that's all she is, but that's not all you want her to be." Discord's eyes widen. "But you can never have her, you know that."

"Shut up!" Discord shouts turning his head to look at Chrysalis as she continues walking around him. 

"Touch a nerve did I?" Chrysalis laughs. " But it's true look at all you've done, the taking over of Equestria, several times, what you did to her and her friends when you first met." Chrysalis smiles. " Joining Tirek."  Discord clenches his fist's.

"Fluttershy's already forgiven me, she knows the truth!" Discord shouts, bearing his fangs at Chrysalis. Chrysalis returns with a sinister smile.

"Does she now? Let's see you met me in the woods, and then I stole a book right out from under their noses, and used it to summon in old friend of theirs, some on your quite acquainted with." Discord growls. "But what matters most isn't weather Fluttershy believes you it's the others, all they know is that I have gathered a villain or two and you're nowhere to be seen." Discord's eyes widen.

"Oh no." Chrysalis laughs at Discord.

" Yes 'oh no' indeed! How long will Fluttershy continue to believe in  you when no one else does, they'll turn on you before you know it." Chrysalis leans over and whispers into his ear. "And Fluttershy will join them." Chrysalis teleports just as a lion's paw swipes through the air where her face had been. Discord glares at the changeling queen who is back in front of her throne.

"I'll defeat you and capture Tirek!" Discord grinds his teeth and clenches his fist's. "Then they'll never doubt me again."  Chrysalis throws her head back in a laugh. 

" You really think stopping me will make anypony truly trust you?!" Chrysalis laughs, before glaring back down at Discord her eyes burning. "Then by all means." Chrysalis launches into the air, her fore hooves from the 'elbows' burst into green fire revealing two dark green blades where her hooves should have been. Chrysalis screams at the top of her lungs at Discord "GO AHEAD AND TRY!!!!!" 

"Look's like someone's learned some ne- OH SHIT!" Discord jumps out of the way as Chrysalis's new blade arms crash into the ground where he had just been. Her hooves still driven into the ground Chrysalis glares up at Discord with a sinister smile on her face. Suddenly she disappears, reappearing behind Discord she swings her left blade at his head. Discord throws up his lion paw to block it, just before the blade hits Discords arm his paw turns to diamond and the blade makes a little tink sound as it hits the gem. Growling Chrysalis kicks him in the back of the head sending Discord hurtling toward the wall. Instead of hitting the wall Discord fly's through the wall reemerging underneath Chrysalis he delivers a punch with his eagle talon that is now made of titanium right to Chrysalis's gut sending her hurtling up through the air causing her to crash into the chandelier Discord had summoned earlier. Chrysalis smashes right through the giant confection hitting the some how un-damaged ceiling, lifting off the ceiling she hovers slightly glaring down at Discord. Placing her hind hooves on the ceiling Chrysalis bends her knees and pushes off the ceiling while flapping her wings, launching herself at Discord. Discord throws up his hands to catch her blades, but she vanishes just before impact reappearing behind him, when he quickly snaps around she's already gone, appearing above him Chrysalis kicks him in the top of the head with both her hind legs sending him straight down toward the ground. Stopping himself before hitting the ground he glances back up at the changeling Queen, who returns his gaze with a smirk.

"How do you like that Discord? I'm faster then when we last met." Chrysalis mocks down at him, Discord huffs back.

"I guess I underestimated you." Discord admits, Chrysalis grins at this statement.

"Just something we have in common." Discord raises an eyebrow at her, Chrysalis continues her voice becoming cold. "Ponies always underestimate people like you and me, weather it's our fighting ability." Chrysalis gestures to herself. "Or how good we can be inside." She gestures toward Discord a smirk on her face. "All they see is a villain." Discord growls up at her bearing his fangs, but his eyes show is belief in her words, Chrysalis smiles when she looks at his eyes.

"Well they'll see what I can really do, I'll make them." Discord says looking down at his hands. "I have to."

"Funny that sounds like something a villain would say." Discords eyes snap up to glare at the Chrysalis, who still has that smirk on her face. Discord snaps his fingers and two giant polka dotted logs appear on each side of Chrysalis smashing toward her, her blades transform into saw blades as she holds them to her sides cutting the logs in half so that when they collide they only hit each other, not her. Chrysalis fly's up through the hole in the logs. When she fully emerges she glances around for her opponent, suddenly Discord appears right in front of her face, her reflexes kick in and she slashes out with her left blade. Her blade arm cuts through Discord's torso with no effort at all, Chrysalis's eyes widen at the Draconequus who explodes into cotton candy shortly after her blade exited his body. Chrysalis looks down at her blade, cotton candy flesh and chocolate milk blood dripping off it, confused she shakes her blade clean. Suddenly her ears perk up as she hears a familiar laugh, turning to look at the ground, her eyes widen again, as she sees the throne room full of dozens of Discords all laughing up at her. Chrysalis opens her mouth to speak but is suddenly cut off by a large rubber mallet hitting her in the back of the head sending her flying down toward the ground. Another Discord swats her from the side with a giant fly swatter, sending her into another Discord her slams her back into the sky with a candy cane, but before the next Discord can  hit her with a cactus, Chrysalis teleports out of the way back to her throne. The Discord's all turn to look at her smug grins on all their faces.

"You challenged a chaos god." The Discords all gesture to the other Discords in the room. "This is what you get." Chrysalis glares at them, she dashes forward and slashes at the nearest Discord with her right blade, he blocks her blade with a diamond coated paw. Another Discord swings his talon hand at her and she blocks it with her left hand, another Discord hits her back with his rubber mallet, Chrysalis struggles to stay on her feet, wincing in pain she teleports once more. Chrysalis appears in the middle of the air and immediately blocks a paw from another Discord, her back legs transform into blades as well, Chrysalis begins swinging all of her blades wildly blocking blows from Discords attacking her from all directions, she can't block them all she feels some blows make contact on her back, chest and non blade parts of her legs. Chrysalis's angry burns through her body, building to it's climax she releases a huge wave of green energy blowing all the Discords away, as they regain their composure Chrysalis half fly's half falls down to the ground, she pants heavily her back legs returning to normal, her knees buckle under her weight. She glares at the Discords her face coated in sweat her hair obscuring much of her face, the Discords all smirk at her.  

"You think your funny don't you!?" Chrysalis shouts, her eyes burning with Hatred. The Discords all look at each other nodding their heads. A smile appears on Chrysalis's face, she tilts her head back and laughs, the Discord's faces all turn to one of confusion.

"What's so funny?" The Discord's all ask in unison, Chrysalis stops laughing and look at the Discords.

"You say you want to change. You say you want to be friends. You say your not a villain anymore." Chrysalis's gaze turns harsh and her smile turns wicked. "Yet hear you are beating on a woman fifty to one."

"B-but you-" The Discord's all begin, but Chrysalis cuts them off.

"Look at yourselves especially the original." All the Discord's look amongst themselves and shrug. "Your uninjured." The Discord's eyes widen. "Now look at me." The Discord's all gasp as they see the bruises all over her body and the crooked condition of her wings.

"I-i'm sor-" The Discord's begin, but Chrysalis continues. 

"Don't apologize Discord it's unbecoming of a villain of your caliber." The Discords glare at her. "Besides I'm not some weak little girl, although this should give your little element friends something to think about." Chrysalis laughs. 

"If you can do this to someone as powerful as me." Chrysalis spits some green blood onto the floor, her wings then burst into green flames and reform as unbroken hummingbird wings, the wings beat ridiculously fast lifting Chrysalis into the air. She glares hard at the Discords, bearing her teeth in a wide grin. "What could you do to them?!" Chrysalis dashes forward moving nearly three times faster then she ever has, her blades cut through Discord after Discord, but none of them can compete with her speed. Soon Chrysalis stands alone in the throne room cotton candy and chocolate milk are scattered across the floor. Chrysalis pants heavily, her wings and legs return to their normal state, she glances around the throne room, suddenly she feels a cool claw grip her neck and slam her against one of the pillars in the room. She faces her attacker and glares into the red and yellow of Discord. He glares back at her bearing his teeth.

"You were holding back!?" Discord shouts tightening his grip on her neck. "You were just trying to make me angry so I'd go all out! Why!?" Chrysalis laughs causing her to cough up green blood, Discord's glare intensifies. 

"Your smarter then you look." Chrysalis wheezes. 

"Why did you do this what are you trying to do!?" Discord screams, his talon starts to drip green blood, Chrysalis smiles at Discord blood streaming from her mouth. 

"More importantly what are You trying to do Discord." Chrysalis coughs again, Discord's glare doesn't let up as he raises an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" Discord growls at her, Chrysalis looks at Discord her hair in her face, her eyes shining with triumph.

"Look at yourself Discord." Chrysalis's horn glows and a mirror appears next to them. "Really look at yourself." Discord looks out the corner of his eye and then back at Chrysalis, his eye flicks back to the mirror and turns to look at the reflection. 

"What?" Discord looks at the sight in the mirror and what he sees horrifies him, their he stands a giant creature, his fur and feathers standing on edge, his teeth sharp and jagged, his eyes angry and piercing. I look feral. Discord's eyes wander to the other creature in the picture, while large the changeling queen is still smaller then the creature pinning her to the pillar her neck and mouth dripping green blood, her body covered in large sores and bruises that have begun bleeding, her wings bent and cracked. 

"I wonder what Fluttershy would say about this?" Discord's eyes widen as he glances back at the changeling queen her eyes are hidden behind her cobweb hair, but he can see a small bloody grin on her face. His eyes lower as he imagines Fluttershy's beautiful eyes streaming tears down her face. Discord loosens his grip on Chrysalis letting her fall to the ground, she lands on her flank and massages her neck with her left fore hoof. Discord looks down at her his eyes full of regret his mouth curved into a frown. 

"Chrysalis I'm..." Discord screams in pain as he feels a sharp blade pierce his back, his head jerks to look behind him at the source of his pain. Discord's eyes widen as he sees lord Sombra standing behind him his left hoof holding the hilt of a large black and red knife, a sinister grin on his face.  Discord's mouth falls open as he stares at lord Sombra "W-what are you doing here?" 

"Smarter then you look but still an idiot." Discord turns at the sound of Chrysalis's voice just as she punches him in the chest sending him flying. He doesn't fly that far but he does land on his back causing the blade in his back to be pushed further into his body, do to his tube like body the blade is poking through his front as well as protruding from his back. Discord looks down at the tip of the blade poking through his belly. 

"Huh... well that.... hurts?" Discord's eyes widen. "So that's what pain feels like?! ..... I don't like it."

"Not many people do." Discord looks up at the dark voice of the lord of shadows standing over him. Sombra's got a evil glint in his eyes and a sinister smile on his face, he pulls Discord's head off the ground, with his right fore hoof,  bringing him up to eye level. "You know Discord I've always wanted to make a god bleed." 

"Guess you got your wish." Discord growls at Sombra, he glances down at the wound on his chest. Discord had been wounded before in fights against other powerful beings like Celestia or Chrysalis, but they had never truly hurt him and the blood if he had bleed during the fight was just chaos magic not his real blood, Discord had long pondered if he even had blood, turns out he didn't. Discord looks at the strange golden energy flowing out of his stab wound, it flows down his body like blood but it just looks like magic energy similar to the glow on a unicorns horn. It hurt for Discord to move or even breathe, he snaps his talons and teleports out of Sombra's grip, near the door way. Now standing on his legs he glares across the cotton candy and chocolate milk soaked throne room at the two sinister creatures grinning at him. Discord snaps his fingers and the blade in his chest disappears, snapping once more...., nothing happens, he looks down at the open wound on his chest, he snaps again and the wound continues 'bleeding'. Discord continues snapping both his fingers but the wound keeps going unaffected by his magic, He looks up when he hears Chrysalis coughing and laughing. 

"You don't get it do you Discord?" Discord shakes his head. " You have been injured, I must say I was beginning to think nothing could actually hurt you, but it turns out even god's can be killed." Chrysalis glances over at Sombra, a smile on her face. "Well done."

"No you did your part well." Sombra's eyes meet Chrysalis gaze. "I've never been able to study Discord's energy so close before, you gave me more then enough time to find an energy that could hurt him." Sombra looks back at Discord a sinister smile on his face. Discord glares back at the pair, he suddenly vanishes appearing to Sombra's side he swings his paw down at Sombra, but is cut off by Chrysalis appearing beside him punching him lightly in his open wound, Discord flinches from the pain and then gets flung backward as Sombra slams his chest with one of his hooves, Discord crashes through one of the stone pillars of the room and lands belly down on the ground. He clutches his wound with his talon but suddenly cries out in pain as another blade pierces the palm of his paw hand. Discord looks up through the tears in his eyes at the dull look of Sombra staring down at him, Discord growls up at the lord of shadows.

"You bas-"

"What happened to you Discord?" Discords eyes widen at the comment. "Here lays the great god of chaos, bender of reality, the fabric of the universe is your play thing and yet here you lay wounded, at my feet." Discord growls, his eyes narrow. Sombra's dull look curves up into a smile.

"It's that Pegasus isn't it?" Discord's eyes widen once more as he grinds his teeth, Sombra's starts laughing manically. "Yes that's it isn't it?!"

"Of course Fluttershy." Discord tilts his head to see the wounded Queen. "She's made you soft, she's made you care."

"You can't unleash your full chaotic power because she's in your mind, she's made you less chaotic." Sombra says his smile vanishing. Sombra floats another blade into the air.  hovering a few feet above Discord's head. "I've made a god bleed, let's see if I can kill one too." 

Discord closes his eyes, What, what do i do? Why can't i think of a way out? My magic doesn't want to work. Is it the pain? is it tampering with my magic? Are they right? has friendship made me weak? Maybe I can't do this... maybe this is the end of the god of chaos... oh well I had a good run. Discord opens his eyes wondering why he isn't dead yet, his eyes widen at the sight in front of him, Everything has turned black and white and nothing is moving Sombra stares down at Discord his face unmoving his blade frozen in midair, Chrysalis is further away sitting on the ground frozen in the act of trying to hide the fact she's eating cotton candy. Discord eyes widen as he hears a familiar angelic voice. 

"Discord are you ok?" He turns at the sound of Fluttershy's voice, he sees a glowing white light appear nearby, the white light spreads out covering the room, Discord shields his eyes from the light and when he reopens them he's suddenly in a flowery meadow a bench sits in the middle of the field, Discord gazes at the pale yellow Pegasus with a silky pink mane sitting on the bench staring off into the distant suddenly sensing his presence Fluttershy turns to look at the Draconequus. Her face brightens at the sight of him, she jumps off the bench and zooms into his arms for a hug, she nuzzles against his chest, tears streaming down her face, Discord tenderly wraps his arms around her a smile comes across his face as he lays his head on the top of hers. 

"Fluttershy..."

Earlier That Day Shortly Before Discord's Battle With Chrysalis 

Fluttershy lays on the bed of one of the castle guest rooms, she's staring at the ceiling a frown on her face. She lifts her fore hooves up toward the ceiling so she can inspect the hoof cuffs with strange markings. Fluttershy's frown grows, sense they had been put on her she left different like a warmth in her chest was gone. I wish these things were gone. Suddenly her ring glows dimly and the hoof cuffs transform into butterflies that then fly out the window, Fluttershy's eyes widen in surprise. 

"Oh... oh no that's not good." Fluttershy says whimpering, she turns her head to the side at the sound of the door to the room opening. She smiles at Twilight and Applejack as they enter the room, her smile gets a little bigger as the warmth in her chest finally returns. Twilight raises an eyebrow in surprise as she looks at Fluttershy. 

"Fluttershy what happened to your cuffs?" Fluttershy's face turns red. 

"Well... um..." Fluttershy tries to hide behind her mane, I wish once this would work. Fluttershy moves her face out of her mane as she hears her friends gasp. 

"Fluttershy?" Twilight asks looking around the room in confusion, Fluttershy raises an eyebrow at her. 

"What the hay just happened where'd she go?" Applejack asks walking over to the bed Fluttershy is sitting on. 

"Guys I'm right here." Fluttershy mumbles raising a hoof, Twilight and Applejack jump in surprise. Applejack reaches out a hoof and pokes Fluttershy in the nose. "Ow!" Fluttershy cries at the poke to her nose. "Applejack why did you do that?" Applejack jumps away from the bed in surprise. 

"Sorry Sugar cube." Applejack says her eyes wide. "I can't see ya."

"What?" Fluttershy asks, she looks down at her hooves and all she can see is the blankets laying on the mattress, she yelps in surprise, right after she does her hooves return to view as Fluttershy becomes visible again. 

"Very interesting." Twilight says rubbing her chin. "Applejack can you give me and Fluttershy a moment?"

"What?" Applejack asks turning to look at the princess.

"This is a magical matter I think I'll be able to help her on my own for now." Twilights says walking over to the window sill, Twilight looks out the window and frowns. "Besides I think there's another pony that could use your help more then me." Applejack joins her by the window and looks down to see a pink party pony hopping along, defiantly looking for Discord and not chatting with a certain other party pony, Applejack groans.

"Alright I'll go get the little missy back on track." Applejack sighs as she walks out of the room. Twilight looks back at Fluttershy who smiles sheepishly. 

"What happened to the cuffs Fluttershy?" Twilight asks bluntly, Fluttershy looks flustered and then mumbles under her breathe.

"It turned into butterflies." Fluttershy looks down at the bed. 

"I knew it." Fluttershy looks up at Twilight, who is just rubbing her chin in thought. 

"What?" Fluttershy asks moving herself off the bed. 

"Well the cuffs sealed your magic, like the stare and the magic you created by using your emotions and the necklace." Twilight points at the necklace around Fluttershy's neck. "But the necklace has power of its own, it's like a genie, it'll grant any wish you want and since it's a separate entity it wasn't affected  by the cuffs.... fascinating." 

"What did you mean my emotions and the necklace?" Fluttershy asks looking at her friend pleadingly, Twilight breathes sharply looking away. I wonder if I should tell her my theory. What if her emotions run wild again? No she deserves the truth.  Twilight sighs looking back at Fluttershy.

"I believe you can control the chaos magic in the ring, but the chaos magic causes your emotions to be much stronger then normal, like when you got angry at the Princess earlier, I've never seen you get that angry at anypony who didn't hurt your friends." Twilight says speaking low but clear enough for Fluttershy to hear.

"But she did hurt my friend." Twilight's eyes widen at her comment.

"Fluttershy what do you mean Celestia wouldn't hurt any of us." Twilight says quite flustered, Fluttershy frowns at Twilight.

"Not physically but she hurt Discord's feelings." Fluttershy says sadly. 

"Fluttershy she has a right to be suspicious I mean he did betray-" Twilight begins but then her mouth clamps shut as Fluttershy interrupts her.

"Why do you keep saying that? You know he didn't Twilight, I know you know!" Fluttershy screams at Twilight, Twilight becomes even more flustered. Maybe this isn't just a magical problem, I wish I hadn't sent Applejack away. 

"What do you mean? What do I know?" Twilight asks bewildered.

"You know that Discord was just doing a stupid plan to defeat Tirek using the tree of harmony's locked chest!" Fluttershy shouts her eyes narrowing, Twilight raises a hoof to speak. "You came back from the Princesses super powered after Discord had joined Tirek but you didn't tell us that, I mean why keep that a secret if you didn't know about Discord's plan!?" Fluttershy screams the last question at Twilight her eyes burning. Twilight just stands there unsure of how to answer the question, Twilight blinks Why did I keep it a secret? Fluttershy looks down at the ground in a huff, her eye catches sight of the ring around her neck. She looks at it and then frowns, what Twilight said earlier about her emotions going out of control repeating in her mind. 

"Flutter-"

"I don't want to keep losing control like this." Fluttershy says tears building up in her eyes, Twilight gives her friend an apologetic frown. 

"I'm sorry Fluttershy but the only way for the ring to stop affecting you like that is to take it off." Twilight says in a regretful tone. 

"I'm not taking it off... I promised I wouldn't." Fluttershy says holding the ring in her hand a warm smile crosses her face as she reads the inscription. 

"Discord made you promise?" Twilight asks wearily. 

"He told me to never take it off no matter what you guys, or the princesses said, he said I shouldn't even take it off if he tells me to." Fluttershy says not taking her eyes off the ring. Twilight raises her eyebrow at that last comment. 

"He said that." Twilight asks confused. 

"He said only I would know when to take it off." Fluttershy clutches the ring to her chest, a thought pops into her head. "I wish the ring didn't affect my emotions toward my friends." Twilight looks at Fluttershy quizzically. the ring glows faintly as it always does upon granting a wish. 

"Did it work?" Twilight asks looking at her friends hoof where the ring is.

"I guess we won't know until someone says something to make me angry." Fluttershy says opening her hoof to look at the ring, her eyes widen at the sight in her hoof, the gold ring has dulled and has one large crack in it, gold magic energy seems to be leaking out of the ring onto Fluttershy's hoof , it flows like blood, Twilight's eyes widen at the sight.

"What's going on?" Twilight asks reaching out to the ring, suddenly the ring cracks again this time unleashing some kind of energy, as it nearly breaks in two. Twilight gasps as Fluttershy suddenly falls over landing on her side in the bed.  Laying completely still Fluttershy's mouth begins to move, Twilight strains her ears to listen.

"Discord are you ok?"

Back In The Meadow

Fluttershy and Discord hold each tenderly neither wanting to break the embrace, suddenly Fluttershy pushes off of Discord as she feels something flowing down her back, she reaches over and grabs his paw before he can hide it behind his back, his talon is holding Fluttershy in the air so she doesn't have to flap her wings. She gasps as she sees the golden energy flowing from both sides of his paw.

"What is this?" Fluttershy asks somewhere between concerned and confused, Discord looks down at his paw and then shrugs his shoulder's.

"I guess it's my blood." Fluttershy gasps at this but then raise an eyebrow. 

"But I've seen you bleed before like when you cut your hand in the kitchen, or when you fight with Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy asks tilting her head, Discord grins.

"I just made that blood with my magic, I've never actually felt pain before today." Discord looks at Fluttershy's big teal eyes, remembering the tears he has caused in them, he frowns. "Physical pain anyway." 

"So wait, you didn't actually hurt your paw when you cut it in my kitchen?"

"Nope." He smiles smugly. 

"Then why did you let me nurse you back to health for two days?" Fluttershy asks pointing a hoof accusingly at him, his grin only grows.

"Because I like making you spend time with me." Discord laughs, Fluttershy smiles and giggles along with him. A thought pops into her head that makes her smile vanish. She frowns and looks down at Discords body, she runs her hooves through his fur, gazing slightly further down directly below her hind hooves, her eyes widen as she sees a large wound on his torso pouring out golden energy. She looks back at his face, sweat begins dripping down his face as he continues smiling. 

"Discord how did you get hurt?" Fluttershy asks, her normal look of concern and worry across her face. Discord sighs as he looks into her pleading eyes.

"Well as it turns out Chrysalis summoned Lord Sombra from the dead and he used his dark magic to create blades that can hurt me." Fluttershy looks at Discord her eyes wide and full of fear. Discord winces as he for some reason continues. "And he's about to kill me." Discord cringes as he excepts her to cry or scream basically freak out like she always does when he delivers shocking news like this, but he doesn't hear that instead he hears laughter. He gazes down at the Pegasus he's holding in his talon, her angelic laughter bubbling into his ears, as her silky mane bounces slightly as she laughs. 

"Oh Discord you're so silly." Fluttershy giggles, Discord just stares at her. 

"I'm not joking Fluttershy I'm lying on the floor of the changeling hive throne room about to be stabbed in the face and or decapitated." Discord says deliberately trying to get her to freak out by telling her the truth. Fluttershy just looks at him a smile on her face. She reaches up and cups his face with her hooves. 

"You'll get out of there just fine, I know you will." Her tender smile warms his soul.

"How do you know?" Discord says his ears drooping and his face in a frown, he lifts his paw up to his face. "I can't seem to focus while feeling this pain." 

"Then just focus on this till you get out of there." Fluttershy says her eyes becoming half lidded. 

"Focusing on wh-" Discord is cut off by Fluttershy pulling his face to hers kissing him passionately on the lips, he barely has time to register what's happening and return the kiss before the meadow their in begins to fade, he has a huge grin on his face as the world goes white. 

Back In The Changeling Throne Room

Sombra swing's his blade down at Discord's head an evil grin spreading across his face as the blade get's closer to the Draconequus. Suddenly his blade stops in mid air as an eagle talon launches through the air grabbing onto the blade, golden energy starts dripping down the blade onto the floor. Sombra grunts at Discord's sudden action, before he can speak Discord's paw grab's the leg that's not holding the blade, the blade in the paw stabs into Sombra's leg causing black blood to flow out of the wound. Discord looks up at Sombra who matches his gaze, Sombra flinches as he sees a wide grin on Discord's face. 

"Why are you smiling?" Sombra asks glaring down at the Draconequus. Discord says nothing but swings his tail whipping Sombra across the face, stunning him for a moment , Discord bends his legs through the floor kicking Sombra into the air, Sombra's leg gets torn open as the blade slashes through as he fly's, the sudden movement causes him to release the blade in his hoof. Sombra collides with the wall and glares back up at Discord who is holding his side. Sombra glances over at Chrysalis who is still badly injured, also she has some cotton candy in her teeth. He then glances down at his hoof, the black blood pouring out onto the floor. 

"Well I'd love to stay but I think I've done enough damage here for today. Now if you don't mind I have someone far more important to be with then you guy's." Discord says dropping the blade he's holding in his talons onto the ground, using his talon he rips the other blade out of his paw, throwing it onto the ground next to the other one.  Discord snaps his paws fingers summoning a large pink boat with hearts on it, he opens the side and hops in like a car and then the boat starts to rumble. The boat rockets though the air like a space shuttle smashing through the ceiling as Discord makes happy noises the whole way. Sombra stands there staring up through the gaping hole in the ceiling, he hisses in pain as the sunlight touches his skin, he quickly moves back into the shadows. 

"I guess he hadn't actually done enough damage for one day." Sombra looks over at Chrysalis who just looks bored. She stomps her hoof and a horde of changeling's fly in and immediately begin repairing the damage to the throne room and ceiling. Sombra uses his magic to bring over the two blades Discord had left behind. 

"Well I can't say it was a complete failure." Sombra says gesturing toward the blades he's holding. Suddenly Chrysalis snatches one from his magic, gazing at it intently she hands it off to captain Night Fly who bows and then fly's away. 

"Yes I suppose your right the trap didn't quite go as planned but at least we both survived." Chrysalis looks down at all the cotton candy being swept up by some drones.  "Next time I won't let some weak duplicates get the better of me, next time I'm going one hundred percent." 


"Hopefully this fight will keep Discord distracted for a while so we can begin carrying out our own plans." Sombra says walking up behind Chrysalis. He tilts his head and raises an eyebrow. "Speaking of, how do you think Tirek's doing?"

"Well I'm sure he's...." Chrysalis stops as she tilts her head into the sky. Sombra recognizes the look as the one she uses when talking to her subjects through their mental connection. 

"Well what is it?" Sombra asks walking up to stand next to Chrysalis. 

"It's Tirek's squad reporting on how the attack went." Chrysalis says sounding distance. 

"Well that's good." Sombra says looking around the badly damaged throne room. "We could use some good news right now."

"WHAT!?" Chrysalis shouts her eyes burning in anger while grinding her teeth.

"What?" Sombra asks turning to look at her. 

"HE, LOST!!!!" 
> Healing Up And Chewing Out
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Discord smiles brightly as he fly's through the air in his love boat, car, rocket thing. His mind races as his thoughts turn to the beautiful Pegasus waiting for him in Ponyville.  He pulls on the controls of the vehicle turning it into a loop de loop, he glances out the window and he sees Fluttershy's cottage down below, he grins as he lands, he marches up to the door, and then turns around at the sight of the letter on the door. Discord hops back into his vehicle, his mind a buzz with the Pegasus waiting for him in Canterlot. He quickly turns the key and the boat launches back into the sky turning toward Canterlot. 

"Of course she's in Canterlot I'm such a...." Discord suddenly feels light headed, he puts his talon up against his face. He moves his talon away from his face as the sensation subsides he glances at his talon, his eyes widen at the sight of the gold energy flowing from his fingers, he glances up at his vehicle, it begins fading in and out, before finally vanishing, leaving Discord flying through the air at the speed he had been flying. But Discord was dizzy and didn't notice that his vehicle had disappeared, what he did notice was the trees he crashed through as he fell from the sky. He felt the branches collide with his body and he felt the trunks he bounced off of but mostly he felt the ground as he slammed into it sliding a few yards before coming to a stop in his new personal trench. Discord opens one of his eyes, he looks around his eye showing his annoyance. Okay why did that happen? He looks over at his lion paw bent into the air in front of him, his golden energy blood dripping onto the ground, he tilts his head at the sight. Huh.... I wonder if that has anything to do with it? If I remember correctly Fluttershy said blood was important for something. A wave of lightheadedness over takes Discord, he closes his eye, but right before he loses consciousness he hears hoof steps approaching, he try's to open his eyes but they refuse to open, he begins slipping away but he hears a voice before he completely blacks out.

"Looky what I found." A high pitched voice squeaks.

Right Outside The Changeling Throne Room

Princess Celestia gives a gentle nod of her head and the Captain of the royal guards shouts to his men, who then blow open the throne room doors, with a blast from their horns. The royal army rushes through the open doors their weapons at the ready, the unicorn's horns glowing. they all stop as they gaze around the room and see a pile of cotton candy that looks like it had been swept up in a hurry, a half mopped up puddle of chocolate milk is spread across the floor. the ceiling has a giant hole in it, a pillar is smashed, large polka dotted logs hang in the air, and a confection chandelier hangs in several pieces from the ceiling. The captain of the guard walks up to Princess Celestia, he salutes at her, she nods in acknowledgment. 

"Your majesty there is no sign of Queen Chrysalis, Lord Sombra, or any changelings for that matter." The captain gives his report while looking around confused, Celestia looks around concern on her face. 

"Thank you captain please continue your sweep of the hive." Celestia says, while sighing deeply, the captain salutes and marches off. Princess Luna walks up to her sister, placing a hoof on her shoulder. 

"What art thou thinking sister?" Luna asks looking at the concern on her sisters face, Celestia looks at her sister and frowns.

"They have left." Celestia looks down at the ground. "Did they know we were coming?" 

"Impossible we told not a soul, not even Princess Twilight and her friends." Luna glances around the room at the large mess across the room, Celestia's eyes narrow. 

"I believe I know someone who could know the impossible." Celestia says gesturing toward the mass of cotton candy in the center of the room. Luna looks at the mess and back at her sister. 

"Sister we mustn't  jump to conclusions, we must focus on what we know." Luna says patting her hoof on Celestia's shoulder. Celestia looks back at her sister and gives a small smile. 

"Your right sister we must focus." Celestia's smile turns to a frown. "But where could they have gone?"

Meanwhile In The Middle Of Some Forest A Few Miles Away

The changeling empire marches through the forest, thousands of changelings march in single rows of five, a very large changeling wearing armor with blue cobweb hair poking out from the back of his helmet leads the march at the front of the army. Rows of changelings march behind him until their broken up by another large changeling this one smaller then the first massive changeling this one is still larger then the other changeling's he wears no armor but his hair is long and silver, after more rows of changeling's the forces are broken up once more by Queen Chrysalis riding on a throne with a canopy, the throne is being carried by a group of ten changelings, Sombra stands to her right, next to her throne. A wagon pulled by three changelings  follows close behind the throne, Tirek's charred body lays in the wagon some nurse changelings stand over his body, one applies some glowing green goo to parts of his body. Behind Tirek's wagon is more rows of changelings, Captain Night Fly stands behind them, and one more large changeling follows the last group of changelings, this one is also female, she's barely taller then the drones, her golden hair almost touches the ground, and her body shines brighter then any other changeling. Queen Chrysalis sighs and Sombra turns to look at her. 

"Ugh this is soo boring." Chrysalis whines laying down in her throne, her head bent over one arm rest her hind legs dangling over the other. Sombra raises an eyebrow at the undignified position the queen as taken. She looks like a large child. Sombra shakes his head as he looks away from the changeling queen giving an annoyed sigh, Chrysalis's ears perk up at the noise.

"You're the one that decided not to fly." Sombra says studying the marching formation of the changelings, Chrysalis raises an eyebrow at him. 

"Well if we flew you'd either burst into flames, or have to walk by yourself." She puts a hoof to her chin. "Oh also Celestia would see us and attack."

"Right I forgot about her." Sombra sighs looking down at his bandaged hoof. Seems my blade doesn't just negate Discord's healing powers. He glances over at Chrysalis observing the wounds across her body. "I guess we aren't in a position to fight princesses right now."

"Are you just realizing that now?" Chrysalis asks straitening her top half back into the throne, her hind legs still dangle over the arm rest. "I mean it was your id-.... I'm sorry your informants idea to leave my beautiful hive." Chrysalis says pouting, she crosses her hooves and bends back over the arm rest with the last statement, Sombra rolls his eyes with a huff. 

"Regardless, the Princesses were coming to attack, if they had arrived while Discord was still there, or if he had stuck around." His eyes narrow as he bears his teeth. "We would've lost."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I just don't like the idea of going to the old hive again." Chrysalis says uncrossing her hooves reaching over her head trying to reach the floor of the throne. Sombra looks over at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Old hive?" Sombra asks, looking into the upside down face of the queen. Chrysalis turns to look at him and then laughs.

"Ok wow, first you don't remember why we left now you don't even know where we're going?" Chrysalis sits back up in her throne and tilts her head back in laughter. "You're so adorable when you're clueless." Sombra glares at her. 

"Just shut up and tell me where we're going." Sombra demands, Chrysalis frowns at him but then just shrugs her shoulders.

"As I said we're going to the old hive, its been abandoned for centuries now. So it's probably full of Celestia knows what, but it's built into the ground so it's a much better hiding spot then the current hive." Chrysalis sighs at the thought of the beautiful beehive shaped building she had spent years crafting with her subjects. 

"What does it look like?" Sombra asks turning his head back toward the front of the forces. 

"You'll recognize it when you see it." Sombra raises an eyebrow. 

"Recognize it?" Sombra asks staring back at her, Chrysalis stares back at him like his heads on fire. 

"Yeah you've been there before fifteen hundred years ago when you met my mother and me." Chrysalis states raising her own eyebrow. Sombra tilts his head at the news. 

"We've met before?" Sombra asks putting a hoof to his chin, Chrysalis rolls her eyes a frown appears on her face. 

"Well I guess it wasn't that important I don't remember why you wanted to talk to my mother, however I am hurt you forgot me, after all..." Chrysalis locks eyes with Sombra, her eyes half lidded. "I remembered you." For some reason that comment makes Sombra's uneasy. He quickly diverts his eyes, he looks back at Tirek. 

"So what are we going to do with sleeping beauty there?" Sombra asks, trying to change the subject as he points to the centaur in question. Chrysalis looks back at Tirek and sighs. 

"We'll just set him up in the infirmary until he wakes up." Chrysalis says shrugging her shoulders. Chrysalis suddenly twists her head to look at the front of the army as it comes to a stop. The giant blue changeling quickly buzzes back to the mobile throne as he lands he bows his head, now that he's up close Sombra can see just how large he really is, this changeling is slightly larger then a Manticore, his torso, legs and head are covered in thick plate armor, he has three pairs of large insect wings on his back, his large body must require the extra lift to fly.  

"Your majesty we've arrived at the old hive." The large changeling salutes his queen.

"Thank you General Stag Beetle." Chrysalis waves her hoof and he fly's back to the front of the army. Chrysalis stomps her hoof and the large silver changeling and the small gold changeling fly over landing in front of their queen they bow just as General Beetle had. 

"Yes your majesty?" The two leader class changelings say in unison, Chrysalis gives them a pleased smile.

"Lieutenant Lightening Bug, Colonel Dragon Fly, I need you two to search the surrounding area to make sure theirs no new holes in my hive." Chrysalis speaks in a regal tone, but her words make the two changelings glare at each other. Chrysalis clears her throat getting their attention she glares at the two of them. "Now!" 

"Yes your highness." The two changelings speak in unison once more, they take off at the same time but fly off in different directions around the nearby mountain. Suddenly Sombra and Chrysalis turn at the sound a high perky voice. 

"O your majesty! Lord Sombra!" Night Fly shouts as she fly's up to them a smile on her face, Sombra blinks as he sees her purple hair is no longer braided but simply tied back in a ponytail. Why would a changeling care so much about their hair.

"Ah Night Fly I was hoping you'd fly up here." Chrysalis says smiling at her, Night Fly giggles and waves her hoof.

"After I saw Lightening Bug's little golden mane fly past me I knew you'd need me next." Night Fly puts a hoof to her chest in pride. 

"Your instincts are sharp as ever Night Fly I need you to come with me and Sombra." Chrysalis says walking off of the mobile throne, Sombra melts into the queens shadow so he can follow her into the sunlight,  Night Fly skips after them humming a happy tone. After a few minutes of walking they arrive at the front of the army, Sombra looks out of the shadows at the mountain in front of them, it's just a normal mountain except for the dark green changeling cave at the bottom that they are currently standing in front of. As Chrysalis walks into the shade Sombra emerges from her shadow to stand next to her. 

"So what now?" Sombra asks looking at the cave and then back at Chrysalis. Chrysalis chuckles before looking at Sombra. 

"You Somy are going to use your powers to search the hive to see what, if anything we have to deal with." Chrysalis says pointing into the dark cave in front of them, Sombra just stares at her, an annoyed expression on his face. 

"Somy?" He asks raising an eyebrow, Chrysalis and Night Fly both laugh at Sombra. 

"I'm sorry Somy do you not like your new nickname?" Chrysalis asks in a joking tone. 

"Oh dear my queen I don't believe he does." Night Fly Replies in mock sadness. 

"Whatever shall we do." Chrysalis says putting her hoof over her face in a dramatic fashion, as the two of them continue mocking him, Sombra turns to the cave mouth, he huffs. So that's why Chrysalis wanted her to come. Reaching out into the darkness with his magic Sombra scans the interior of the hive quickly, soon he turns back to Chrysalis clearing his throat to get her and Night Fly to stop laughing. 

"There's only one life sign in there that's not a tiny bug, although it is a big one." Sombra says dryly. 

"Oh great what massive creature took up residence in my hive." Chrysalis exclaims annoyed.

"I meant big for a bug." Chrysalis raises an eyebrow at Sombra. "It's a changeling." 

"What!?" Chrysalis exclaims in surprise, she turns her head focusing her hive connection into the structure, but she can't feel any changeling presence in the old hive. "Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure." Sombra says rolling his eyes. Chrysalis whistles and a drone comes flying over, Chrysalis points into the cave and the drone salutes and fly's off, shortly after he disappears into the cave Chrysalis can see blasts of green energy blasting in the cave. Soon a cloaked figure tackles the drone out of the cave throwing it across the grass at Chrysalis's feet. The cloaked figure stands on it's hind hooves everything above its knees are hidden behind a ripped black cloak. The figure moves a black hoof out from under the cloak, the hoof holds a makeshift spear made out of a stick and a stalagmite tip. Chrysalis glares at the figure, she charges her horn with power the figure spins the spear in his hood pointing it at her. Sombra rubs his chin watching the scene with amusement. 

"Ok enough of that little one." Night Fly is suddenly behind the figure, she pulls the hood off of its face. Chrysalis, Night Fly, and even Sombra gasp at the sight. The cloaked figure is a changeling drone, except his eyes are like Chrysalis's except red instead of Chrysalis's green. His horn is nothing but a bump on his head, if you can call it a horn. The drone's eyes open wide as he takes a good look at the creature behind him and the queen in front of him. 

"Y-you look like me?" The drone stammers looking from Night Fly to Chrysalis. 

"Of course we do silly , we're changelings like you." Night Fly chirps happily, the drone stares at her confused. 

"What's a changeling?" Chrysalis and Night Fly just stare at each other and then back at the drone. 

"It's what you are." Chrysalis says stepping toward the drone, his eyes widen at her statement, a smile pops up across his face.

"What? I am? I can't wait to tell-!" The Drone shouts happily but he stops mid sentence. He looks between the two female changelings standing near him. "Uh I'm sorry but who are you anyway?" Chrysalis's eyes widen in surprise. 

"I am Queen Chrysalis." 

"And I'm Captain Night Fly." The drones eyes widen again. 

"A Captain and a Queen!? Oh my goodness I'm so sorry for my rudeness my name is Bug Bite, it's a pleasure to meet you." Bug Bite says excitedly he bows down once to Chrysalis and then again to Night Fly, Chrysalis stares at the drone.

"You have a..." Chrysalis begins but she is cut off by a sudden voice.

"Your majesty I've captured a pony intruding nearby." Chrysalis turns to see General Stag Beetle carrying a pony in his hoof, Chrysalis takes a step forward to look at the mare Stage Beetle is holding. She's a young adult earth pony, her fur is a light purple, her hair is red with pink streaks, her eyes are a light brown color. The mare is quivering in fear, her eyes darting between General Stag Beetle and Queen Chrysalis. Chrysalis looks her over once more and notices that she is holding a brown paper bag full of vegetables. Hmm just a pony walking home with her groceries. Suddenly Chrysalis hears a shout and turns her head.

"Cherry Blossom!" Bug Bite screams as he jumps through the air his spear head colliding with Stag Beetles helmet, causing him to stagger backward dropping the mare. Night Fly quickly runs over to check on Stag Beetle as he rubs his head. Cherry Blossom runs to Bug Bite's side gripping his fore hoof tightly with her own. Bug Bite smiles at her before spinning around to glare at Chrysalis. Chrysalis returns the glare her eyes burn in anger. 

"You dare to stand against your Queen!?" Chrysalis shouts bearing her teeth at Bug Bite, Bug Bite grinds his teeth. 

"No one hurts my wife or they answer to me!" Bug Bite shouts glaring at Chrysalis. Chrysalis, Night Fly, Stag Beetle, and Sombra all of their eyes widen as they stare at him in surprise, they all open their mouths at the same time. 

"WIFE?!?!" 

Two Days Later: Canterlot Castle East Hallway

Twilight Sparkle sits on a bench in the hallway, she occasionally looks up from the book she's reading to stare down the hall at the door to Fluttershy's prison room. She continues reading the book in her hoof A History Of Chaos Magic, she turns her head at the sound of hoof steps, she smiles at the sight of the princess of the sun. 

"Oh hello princess Celestia where have you been?" Twilight says closing her book and standing up off the bench, Celestia gives her a smile. 

"I had some important matters to deal with." Celestia says, before glancing down the hallway at the prison room. "How is she?" 

"Oh well Fluttershy's doing fine only one out burst since the war meeting." Twilight says quickly and nervously. "O-of course she's been sleeping a lot since then to." Celestia raises an eyebrow at Twilight before walking past her and gesturing for her to follow, Twilight follows her down the hallway.

"I will speak with her, see how she is doing." Celestia says opening the door to Fluttershy's room, she tilts her head in confusion at the sight in front of her. Fluttershy is covered in the blanket sleeping peacefully, but what's odd is that she's floating in mid air her body bent in a way that makes it look like an invisible person is holding her princess style. Her head and fore hooves are leaning up and to the side like their resting against this invisible person. Celestia can see she's holding something in her hoof but the blanket is obscuring the view, so she can't tell what it is. Celestia just looks at Twilight for an answer Twilight rubs the back of her head nervously. 

"Well she's been doing that for awhile, she keeps waking up for a little while but then the ring glows and then she passes out again." Twilight says looking up at her floating friend. "I scanned the ring hoping to find some answer but I can't seem to figure it out."

"Her dreams are powering Discord." Twilight's eyes widen as she turns to the princess.

"What?"

"Dreams are the most chaotic part of anypony, the ring must put Fluttershy to sleep so that her dreams chaotic energy can power up Discord." Celestia says narrowing her eyes at the ring Fluttershy is wearing, Twilight looks at the princess with concern. 

" So Discord's using Fluttershy as some kind of battery?" Twilight asks raising a hoof to her chin. 

"Yes it would seem so." Celestia puts a hoof to her chin as well. "But in all the time I've know Discord he's never needed to charge."

"So what do you think he's doing?" Twilight asks looking back at Fluttershy, concern etched on her face. 

"Discord seems to be building his power for something." Celestia grinds her teeth. "I just pray that he can only take the power from her dreams and not Fluttershy herself." Twilights snaps her head back to look at the princess. 

"What if it is?" Twilight nearly shouts fear entering her voice, Celestia looks at Twilight a stern expression on her face. 

"We don't take the chance." Celestia turns her face toward Fluttershy her horn and the ring glow golden, the ring moves slightly before suddenly replacing the gold glow with a red glow. Small bolts of red lightening crackle around the ring before focusing into a single large bolt that shoot's out striking Celestia in the chest sending her crashing into the door to the hallway. Fluttershy opens her eyes suddenly as she falls out of the air back onto the bed, she sits up and looks around the room. Fluttershy looks at the princess Celestia with concern.

"Oh my goodness what happened?" Fluttershy asks holding her hooves up to her face, Twilight raises an eyebrow at the small Discord plushy Fluttershy is holding In her right hoof. Celestia stands up off the floor brushing some soot off of her breastplate.

"A certain Draconequus." Celestia glares in Fluttershy's direction, Fluttershy can tell she's not actually glaring at her but the look unnerves her anyway. Fluttershy thinks about the princesses words and looks around the room for Discord, her face slightly angry as she has some words to say to him for whatever he did to Celestia.  Fluttershy is confused when she can't find him, she turns back to the princesses with a raised eyebrow. 

"Discords not here." Fluttershy says both sad and confused, Twilight stifles a giggle.

"Well techiancally he is." Fluttershy looks at her friend confused, Twilight points at Fluttershy's hoof, she follows the hoof and her eyes widen and her face goes red as she sees the small Discord plushy she's holding in her hoof. 

"O-oh well that's..." Fluttershy says flustered, looking down at the bed, her eye keeps wandering back to the doll in her hoof. 

"Fluttershy you must tell me everything you know about what Discord has been doing these last couple of days." Fluttershy turns at the stern voice of Princess Celestia. Celestia is looking at the Pegasus with the same concern that she had when Discord was first released. Fluttershy looks back down before starting. 

"Discord said he accidently gave Chrysalis the idea to summon someone more, and he wanted to go fix it himself before she could do anything too bad, but when he came to stop her instead of Tirek like he thought it turned out she summoned Sombra, who used his dark magic to craft some blades that could hurt Discord, he said they were about to kill him, I told him he'd get out of there safely." Fluttershy's eyes begin to water.

"But I haven't heard from him the last couple days." Her face brightens once more as she closes her eyes and smiles. "But I know he's ok, when I'm sleeping he feels so close that I can touch him, and when I'm awake I can feel him whenever I touch my ring."

"I see." Celestia looks at Fluttershy her face not giving away what she's thinking, She turns to Twilight and smiles. "Well Princess Sparkle why don't we give Fluttershy some time to rest she looks tired." Fluttershy and Twilight both raise an eyebrow.

"Your majesty I don't feel-" The necklace suddenly glows with golden energy, Fluttershy looks down like she just heard a cry for help, then she suddenly closes her eyes and falls over onto the pillow, she pulls the Discord plushy to her chest as a smile appears on her face. Twilight looks at her friend with concern, but then follows princess Celestia out the door into the hallway.

After walking a way down the hall Celestia turns to look down at the shorter princess. Twilight feels her gaze and turns to meet the princesses stare. 

"I want to believe Fluttershy Twilight." Twilight eyes widen at the princesses words. 

"Then why don't you?" Twilight asks looking down at the ground sadly. 

"The same reason you don't." Celestia says looking at Twilight with narrow eyes, Twilight returns her gaze with wide eyes. 

"I trust Fluttershy I just don't-" 

"Trust Discord?" Celestia interrupts.

"Exactly!" Twilight shouts, she then looks away sadly. Celestia looks at her pupil with a knowing look. 

"Fluttershy believes everything he says." Celestia sighs deeply. "But everything she's telling us was told to her by the chaos god himself, the trickiest creature to ever walk Equestria." 

"The only way to know if we can trust him is if he comes and talks to us." Twilight says, before sighing deeply. "And I don't think he'll do that, he prefers to do things in a stu... pid... compli...cated... way." Twilight's eyes widen as her mind jumps back to what Fluttershy said about Discord's complicated plan to defeat Tirek with the tree of Harmony. Celestia looks at her with a raised eyebrow. 

"Twilight are you alright?" Celestia asks reaching out to her student with a fore hoof. Twilight is snapped back to the present from the sound of Celestia's voice. 

"Oh um yes Princess I'm fine." Twilight says hastily, she looks away from the princess. "Its just that..."

"What is it Twilight?" Celestia asks placing a hoof on Twilights shoulder.

"Well..." Twilight begins, trying as hard as she can to avoid eye contact. 

"You can tell me anything Twilight, what is it?" Celestia asks a smile appearing on her face Twilight smiles back nervously. Twilight takes a deep breathe and opens her mouth to speak. 

"I believe Discord!" Celestia's smile disappears as her eyes narrow at Twilight.

"Except That."

Somewhere In A Random Cave In Some Random Small Mountain That Is For Some Reason In A Random Forest That May Or May Not Be The Everfree 

Discord groans, the lightheadedness fading once more, he opens his eyes and looks around the cave he's in. He's laying on a large pink blanket, a large puddle of golden energy is shimmering around him, but doesn't seem to affect the blanket. The cave is small and has even less space to move in due to all the pink medical equipment crammed into it, it all looks functional but Discord doesn't think any of its been used. He looks down at his wound on his side, smiles that it's finally been bandaged up, he sighs happily as he checks both his hands and sees they've been bandaged up as well. Discord can't remember most of the last couple... minutes? Hours? Days? Discord couldn't tell how long he'd been laying in this cave but he could till it hadn't been more then a couple days. He remembers coming in and out of consciousness, but he'd just get lightheaded again and pass out, every time he did he'd only dream of one thing, Fluttershy. He smiled happily as he remembered the dreams, not much happened he'd just hold her in his arms for minutes or hours, most of the time she just slept in his arms but once or twice they had talked, nothing important just talked. Holding her had made him feel better like holding her gave him strength, he tilts his head in confusion, every time he held her it actually did feel like he was regaining strength.

"I wonder why?" Discord asks no pony but the wind. He looks down at his paw, deep in thought, so deep in thought that he didn't even notice the pink party pony hop into the cave. 

"Oh good you're up!" Discord flinches at the sudden voice, he looks up and bears his teeth in defense, he relaxes when he realizes who it is.

"Oh hello Pinkie." Discord says dully, then he raises an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"

"I've been taking care of you silly." Pinkie Pie squeaks happily. Discord rolls his eyes as he realizes why he's felt so weak the last couple days. 

"How long did it take you to bandage my injuries?" Discord asks flatly, Pinkie Pie laughs nervously while rubbing the back of her head.

"Well first I threw some 'get well soon' parties, after those I couldn't figure out why you weren't getting better so I needed to find out what happened, so I went to fimfiction and caught up on 'The Tag Team From Tartarus' it wasn't until chapter five that I figured out what was wrong, I didn't know you could get hurt, actually I didn't know you couldn't get hurt either, so I had to remember all the wonderbolt survival training Rainbow Dash did so I could bandage ya up." Pinkie Pie smiles brightly after her bout of exposition, Discord just blinks at her. Why is it I am the lord of chaos and yet there's still a creature that's more confusing then I am?

"Anyway Pinkie thank you for helping me but I should be fine on my own you can go." Discord says, wanting to get on his way once more. Pinkie Pie just blinks at him and tilts her head raising an eyebrow. 

"I can't do that Princess Celestia told me to find you." Discord looks at Pinkie Pie blankly. 

"Well you found me.... Now what?" Pinkie puts her hoof to her chin and thinks hard. 

"I... don't..... know.... The princess didn't tell me that part." Pinkie Pie and Discord just stare at each other for a minute before bursting into laughter. 

"And old Tia yells at me for being cryptic!" Discord laughs, he clutches his side as his wound flares up, but he keeps laughing anyway. Pinkie Pie laughs with Discord her grin wide. 

"Yeah she's all like don't listen to Discord he can't be trusted." Pinkie Pie bursts into laughter while rolling on the floor, she doesn't notice that Discord has stopped laughing.

"What did you say?" Discord says stunned, Pinkie Pie stops laughing and looks at Discord. 

"Oh did you not know Celestia doesn't trust you?" Discord averts his gaze from the pink pony.

"No I knew, I just didn't think she'd say it out loud." Discord says sadly, Pinkie Pie frowns at her friends frown. 

"Don't take it too hard almost no pony trusts you." Pinkie Pie said it to comfort her friend, but it only made Discord feel worse. He looks at the party pony smiling at him. 

"Do you trust me?" Pinkie Pie gives him a big grin, Discord returns the smile until.

"Nope." Discord's smile drops at this comment. 

"What?" Discord asks in disbelief. 

"I don't trust ya, I mean you did betray us to Tirek, and you vanished right after Chrysalis summoned Sombra, and most importantly you got Fluttershy thrown in jail." Discord's ears twitch at the last idea on Pinkies list. 

"What?" Discord asks his eyes widening, Pinkie doesn't need to ask what he means. 

"Well that necklace you gave her made her act really mean to the princesses and Celestia said she could be even more dangerous then you so she locked her in one of the guest rooms." Pinkie Pie looks at the ground sadly, Discord does the same, but he lifts his face up at Pinkie's next comment. "She believes in you more then anypony."

"Yeah she believes in me more then I do." Discord says a tear entering his eye. I gave her that ring to keep her safe. How did she use it in that way? Is the ring also the reason it felt like I was getting stronger when I held her in my dream? What the hell kinda ring did I make? I wish chaos magic wasn't so uncontrollable when I'm not using it.He looks into Pinkie Pies eyes. "Why did you help me?" 

"Cause we're friends silly." Pinkie Pie smile brightly. 

"But you don't trust me?" Discord raises an eyebrow.

"Nope." Pinkie Pie's still smiling. 

"How does that work?" 

"Because I like you."

"You do?" 

"Of course ya silly billy filly." 

"I don't get it Pinkie you don't trust me, but you still call me a friend?" Discord says his confusion obvious in his voice. Pinkie's face falls in a blank serious stare.

"I like having friends." Discord's eyes widen at the serious voice Pinkie Pie is speaking in. "Trust is something your friends have to earn. But friends don't have to believe everything their friends say, what matters, what makes someone your true friend  is the knowledge that they'll be there for you when you really need them. That you can count on them and they can count on you." Pinkie Pie smiles and returns to her normal happy voice.

"And despite everything that's happened, despite the fact I don't trust everything you say, I know you'll be there when we really need you." Pinkie Pie's eyes go half lidded and she gives him a big grin. "Especially Fluttershy." Pinkie Pie wiggles her eye brows suggestively. Discord blushes and looks away once more. 

"Thank you Pinkie Pie that means a lot." Discord says smiling happily. He looks down at the ground as a thought crosses his mind. "I've been causing Fluttershy a lot of problems haven't I?"

"Yep." Pinkie chrips, once she sees Discord's frown Pinkie Pie tries again. "But you cause ponies trouble all the time so don't worry about it."

"Thank you Pinkie." Discord says this half heartedly, just wanting the mare to stop trying to make him feel better. 

"You're welcome Discord." Pinkie Pie says a big grin on her face. Discord moves to stand up but is surprised when a pink hoof pushes him back down. 

"What are you doing?" Discord asks surprised, Pinkie Pie smiles but also glares at him. 

"If you move to much before the wound heals you'll just open it again. " Pinkie Pie says a little to happily, Discord rolls his eyes. 

"Okay nurse Pinkie how long do I have to sit here?" Discord asks slightly annoyed, Pinkie Pie looks down deep in thought. 

"Probably another couple days." Pinkie says after a minute of contemplation. 

"What?" Discord nearly shouts, Pinkie just puts a hoof over his mouth to prevent him from talking. 

"Yep and not too much magic either." Pinkie Pie says smiling, Discord looks flustered.

"B-but Fluttershy's got to be worried sick by now!" Discord exclaims. "There's gotta be....something... I can... do."

"Huh?" Pinkie Pie says tilting her head to side at Discord as a smile crosses his face.  

"I'll use the connection with the ring to communicate with her through her mind!" Discord exclaims his smile turning to a grin.

"You can do that?" Pinkie Pie asks raising an eyebrow.  

"Well I think so, we've connected through some joint dreams the last few days so maybe I can talk to her without putting her to sleep." Discord says crossing his legs and putting his hands together. 

"Think that'll work?" 

"Well it's worth a try." Discord says closing his eyes, Discord hums quietly as he begins feeling the chaos of the world flow through him, he can feel all the magic around him, he breathes deeply expanding his range trying to find the chaos held by the ring. 

"Is it working?" Discord's focus is broken as he's dragged out of his meditation. He glares over at Pinkie Pie who just holds up her hooves confused.  Discord closes his eyes once more, he quickly expands his aura again, begins searching for the ring, soon he can feel the familiar chaos energy of the ring. Discord smiles and reaches out with his mind to make contact with the ring, just before he does he gets snapped out of his mediation again by a very loud familiar voice. 

"IS IT WORKING!!!" Pinkie yells through her mega-phone right in Discord's ear. Discord jumps in surprise smashing his head on the cave ceiling, he falls back down to the ground clutching his head. Pinkie Pie just rolls her eyes. "I know you can't feel pain."

"Yeah well I can feel annoyed." Discord grumbles lifting himself off the floor. Pinkie Pie smiles at him excepting an answer. 

"Well is it working or not? You were really zoned out that time I called for ya like eight times before I busted out the pink-a-phone." Pinkie says happily holding up her mega- I mean pink-a-phone.

"It was until you interrupted me." Discord says annoyed.

"Oh so should I...?" 

"Stop talking? Yes." Discord says bluntly.

"Okie Dokie Lokie." Pinkie Pie chirps happily, she gives Discord a salute and pretends to zip her lip. Discord smiles awkwardly and returns to his mediation position.  

"Okay third times the charm." Discord says  sighing heavily before closing his eyes. In no time at all he has relocated the source of the ring. Now let's see if we can even talk through this thing.

Canterlot Castle Fluttershy's Room

Fluttershy and Twilight sit at small table set up on the terrace, Fluttershy is smiling happily as she talks with her friend, Twilight is smiling as well but is a bit uncomfortable because of the talk she had with Celestia earlier. Twilight looks at Fluttershy as a thought crosses her mind. 

"Hey this is the longest you've been awake." Twilight says happily, Fluttershy tilts her head in confusion. 

"Huh, I guess you're right. I wonder why I was napping so much?" Twilight looks around nervously, wondering if she should tell Fluttershy her theory.  

"Well I think Discord was using the chaotic energy from your dreams to fuel his power." Twilight says nervously and avoiding Fluttershy's widened gaze. Twilight winces at the overly protective outburst that Fluttershy always goes into when someone accuses Discord of something, but instead she hears. 

"Oh that makes sense." Twilight widens her eye and looks at the content smile on Fluttershy's face. 

"You're not mad?" Fluttershy looks confused and a little sad at her friends words. 

"I'm relieved." Twilight tilts her head in confusion. "I was so worried when I saw Discords blood I thought he'd lose to much and he'd... he'd...." Fluttershy shakes the thought out of her head. 

"But if my energy kept something terrible from happening to him then I'm glad I could help." Twilight just stares at her friend in amazement.

"You're amazing Fluttershy." Fluttershy blushes and looks away, Twilight's lips start moving again but Fluttershy is distracted by a different voice.

"Fluuuuttershy..." A spooky but familiar voice says out of nowhere, Fluttershy yelps in surprise and looks around frantically for the source of the voice. Twilight jumps at her friends sudden noise. 

"Fluttershy are you ok?" Twilight asks concerned, Fluttershy opens her mouth to speak. 

"Fluuuutershy... it's meeeeee." Fluttershy's eyes widen and a small smile appears on her face.

"Discord..." Fluttershy whispers, which for her is nearly silent, Twilight tilts her head and raises an eyebrow. 

"What did you say?" 

"Oh, um, I..." Fluttershy stammers awkwardly avoiding Twilights gaze. 

"Send her awaaaaaaaay I need tooooooooo taaaaalk to yoooooouuuuu." Discord's spooky voice echoes through the room. 

"I'm just really tired could you come back later Twilight? I think I need to lay down." Fluttershy says looking down at the ground, Twilight looks at her skeptically but shrugs her shoulders.

"Okay Fluttershy I'll bring you some dinner later. okay?" Twilight speaks while standing up from her chair and turning to leave.

"Oh yes thank you Twilight." Fluttershy gives her friend a smile as she leaves the room. 

"Wow you're a lot better at lying then I remember." Discord's voice says dropping the spooky accent, Fluttershy huffs and looks around the room.

"Oh stop it, now where are you?" Fluttershy's slightly mad expression turns to one of confusion as she can't find Discord anywhere. 

"I'm in some random cave somewhere sitting on a blanket covered in my weird golden blood stuff. But enough about me I want you to close your eyes." Discord's voice utters quickly, Fluttershy tilts her head.

"Why do you need me to close my eyes?" Fluttershy asks, while sitting down on the bed. 

"Just do it it's a surprise." Fluttershy begins closing her eyes slowly. "Oh wait first ya gotta cross your hind legs and put your fore hooves together."

"What why?" Fluttershy asks giggling slightly. 

"Trust me it's a good surprise." Discord pleads at her. 

"Okay, okay." Fluttershy smiles and gets into the position Discord told her to, next she closes her eyes, all she can see is black. "Um, Discord?"

"Just one second." Fluttershy feels something pulling at her mind. 

"Discord what are you?" Fluttershy asks concerned. 

"It's ok, just let me take you." Fluttershy blushes at the way he phrased that, but she nods and lets the force pull her. Suddenly she can't feel the bed or the air from the window. The darkness behind her eyelids is replaced by a familiar flowery meadow with a bench. She looks around at the meadow, she remembers talking with Discord here and this is also where all her dreams have been taking place the last couple days, her face reddens at the thought of all the dreams where Discord had been holding her realizing that they weren't dreams but some kind of connection between the two. Sudden her visions goes black again she would have been scared that she lost her connection to Discord, if she couldn't feel a scaly talon and a furry paw covering her eyes, she smiles.

"Discord?" She asks slyly already knowing the answer, she can hear Discord make a fake gasp from behind her. Discord moves his hands from her face and bends over her to look her in the eye, upside down. 

"Aw man how did you know?" Discord says in mock innocence, Fluttershy just grins.

"Well it was a lucky guess you know how many lord's of chaos I know." Fluttershy says in a joking tone, her and Discord share a laugh. Discord bends his body through the air so he's in front of Fluttershy his head and body turn one-hundred and eighty degrees so their right side up facing at Fluttershy. 

"You're probably wondering what's going on huh?" Discord asks rubbing the back of his head, Fluttershy smile slyly at him. 

"It has something to do with this right?" Fluttershy asks holding up the ring around her neck, Discord smiles and nods at her observation. This mare really knows how I work.

"That's right." Discord says smiling even wider. 

"So what's going on? Did you defeat Chrysalis and Sombra.... and Tirek?" Fluttershy asks her face and voice full of concern, Discord looks away ashamed. 

"Unfortunately no." Discord hangs his head. "Sombra surprised me and I couldn't keep fighting them with my wounds." Discord puts a claw up to his chin. "Well I could have kept fighting through the pain, but sense I collapsed from blood loss two hours later chances are things wouldn't have gone my way if I had." 

"Well at least you're ok." Fluttershy says tilting Discord's head back up to meet her gaze, Discord stares at her shining teal eyes. The look in her eyes and the gentle smile on her face eases Discord's shame and warms his heart, yet he can't help but feel a little sad, a frown appears on his face.

"I don't deserve a friend like you Fluttershy." Discord says breaking eye contact, his pupils turn to look at the ground. Fluttershy puts her hoof on the side of his head, drawing his eyes back to her, a tender smile across her lips. 

"You let me decide that." Fluttershy says her eyes becoming half lidded. Discord's eyes widen as he suddenly reaches out and grabs the sides of her face, Fluttershy jumps from the sudden movement. 

"My turn." Discord says a mischievous grin appearing on his face, before Fluttershy can attempt to say something Discord closes the small gap between them and kisses her passionately on the lips. Fluttershy's eyes widen at the sudden kiss but they quickly flutter closed as she wraps her hooves around Discord's neck. They stand there in a tender embrace for a minute or two before breaking apart, both of their faces are red and Fluttershy quickly looks away embarrassed by Discords gaze. Fluttershy leans her head against Discord's chest and nuzzles his fur, she closes her eyes and sighs contently.

"I'm glad you're here Discord." Discord chuckles.

"You know I'm not actually here right." Discord feels a small hoof lightly thump his side, Discord chuckles. "Ow." 

"Don't ruin this okay?" Fluttershy asks looking up at him, Discord can't help but smile at her. 

"But I'm not you know?" Discord speaks snickering at her, Fluttershy huffs and pushes off of him with one hoof.

"Well when are you getting here?" Fluttershy asks, while pouting and semi glaring at Discord, Discord just chuckles again. 

"In two days I should be back up to one hundred percent. Then I'll meet you in Canterlot." Fluttershy frowns at his answer. 

"It's really gonna be that long?" Fluttershy asks looking at the ground sadly. 

"Don't worry my sweet I'll keep in contact through this mediation state we're in." Discord says grinning big, Fluttershy looks up at him with big pleading eyes. 

"You promise?" Fluttershy asks her eyes beginning to water. Discord just keeps grinning. 

"Of course my sweet." Discord says reaching out a talon and stroking her mane, she leans into the touch and smiles. After a minute Discord takes his talon out of her hair causing Fluttershy to frown. 

"Right now my sweet I must teach you something important." Discord exclaims, Fluttershy just tilts her head and raises an eyebrow. 

"What's that?" Fluttershy asks putting a hoof to her lips, Discord just grins at her confusion.

"I'm going to teach you how to control chaos magic!" Discord shouts happily, Discords giant grin causes Fluttershy to grin awkwardly back at him, sweat starts forming on Fluttershy's brow. 

In The Old Changeling Hive Infirmary

Cherry Blossom stands in a empty dark room with her fore hooves crossed, she's looking disapprovingly at PonySage86's twin brother. He shifts his weight from one hoof to another under her gaze. He's sweating profusely avoiding her stare, after a minute he throws his hooves in the air.

"Fine I'll fix it!!" 

"Thank you." Cherry Blossom smiles happily. 

In Cherry Blossom's New Refurnished Rest Area

Chrysalis looks around at the room she's standing in, she remembers the old changeling infirmary, it was a large black stone room with stalactites dripping goo adorning the ceiling, and rows upon rows of black slabs of rocks shaped like beds all draped in cobwebs. Now she looks at Cherry Blossom's newly refurnished rest area, all the goo dripping stalactites have been removed, the rock slabs have been moved into a stack to form a large series of book shelves, the walls have been painted like a forest of cherry blossom trees, the ground is covered in a bright white carpet, with several floral rugs around the room. around the largest floral rug are four couches and six easy chairs forming a circle. Chrysalis would've cringed at the sheer amount of girly stuff in this once horrifying room, if it wasn't for the fact she was laughing hysterically at the sight before her, sitting up on a pink floral fold out couch is the mighty Tirek, his lower half is covered by a fuzzy quilt designed with hearts and pink roses.

Tirek sits there scowling at the laughing changeling queen, he occasionally glares at a nurse changeling with pink eyes and hair that is checking his vitals. Tirek glances out the corner of his eye and turns to look at the lord of shadows standing in the corner, Sombra stands there staring at Tirek, his face is neutral and unwavering. Tirek turns back to the nurse changeling as she puts a red heart shaped bandage on the spot she just drew blood from, hearing a grunt Tirek turns back to Sombra, his eyes haven't changed, but his mouth is quivering as it fights the urge to bend into a smile, Tirek growls at his comrades and shakes the nurse changeling away from him before she can measure his blood pressure. 

"This is no laughing matter!" Tirek shouts slamming his fists into the couch bed, the force of his punch causes the bed to spring up and try to fold back up into a couch. Chrysalis bursts into another fit of laughter as she looks Tirek who is scrunched between the mattress and the couch, it makes him look like a Tirek taco. Sombra looks away and steady's himself  against the wall he shakes violently trying to stop himself from laughing. 

"Oh I beg to differ!" Chrysalis shouts, clutching her side as tears start forming in her eyes. The nurse changeling fly's up to the queen and bows.

"The patient is fully recovered your highness." The nurse changeling says grabbing her bag off the floor. Chrysalis stops laughing and looks at the changeling in front of her. 

"Oh, um, yes thank you Lady Bug your dismissed." Chrysalis says, while wiping her eyes. Lady Bug bows her head once more before buzzing through the large black and pink curtains covering the exit to the room. Tirek's taco bed suddenly bursts into flames, Chrysalis and Sombra look at the fire, it rages for a few seconds and begins fading away, as the flames go out they reveal Tirek, who is standing in the ash with a scowl on his face. Tirek opens his mouth to yell his fists clenched at his side, before he can speak a stern voice catches his attention. 

"You had better replace that." Chrysalis and Tirek raise their eyebrows at the lord of shadows, who just stares at them blandly.

"What!?" Tirek shouts bewildered, Sombra just continues staring with no emotion on his face. 

"We are staying in someone's home, it is polite to replace what we break." Sombra states in a flat tone, Chrysalis's eyes widen at Sombra. 

"This is my home!" Chrysalis shouts confused, Sombra turns to her and raises an eyebrow. 

"Last time I checked two other ponies are letting us stay in their home."  Sombra states somewhat smugly, Chrysalis narrows her eyes at Sombra. Sombra gets a slight smile at the annoyed expression on Chrysalis's face, he turns to look back at Tirek and Chrysalis joins his gaze. 

"So... wanna tell us what happened?" Chrysalis asks raising an eyebrow at Tirek, Tirek growls and clenches his fists once more. 

After Tirek Tells Them The Events Of The Train Sequence. 

"How did you get beaten by a single pony!" Chrysalis shouts throwing her hooves in the air, Sombra sighs. 

"Clearly I overestimated his power if a single element could defeat him so easily." Sombra puts a hoof to his head and slowly shakes his head as he speaks. Tirek growls while grinding his teeth. 

"Or perhaps you underestimated the strength of the these ponies!" Tirek shouts stomping a hoof on the floor, Sombra puts a hoof to his chin in thought. 

"Perhaps." Sombra looks over at Tirek an annoyed look in his eyes. "Or perhaps someone shouldn't have run off before eating something other then a dogs power." 

"Technically three dogs." Chrysalis interjects, Sombra glares over at Chrysalis. 

"Thank you, Chrysalis." Sombra groans at her. 

"You're welcome Somy." Chrysalis says happily, while smiling, Sombra flinches at the nickname but ignores it for now. 

" Well clearly we need a plan." Tirek says, ignoring that the other two had been talking to each other, Sombra rolls his eyes at Tirek. 

" I already have a plan, you idiot." Sombra says dryly, Chrysalis raises an eyebrow, while Tirek growls in anger.

"You do?" Chrysalis asks skeptically, Sombra looks at her annoyed. 

"No Chrysalis I've just been sitting around doing nothing the whole time since you revived me." Sombra says sarcastically. 

"I knew it!" Chrysalis shouts pointing a hoof at Sombra, Sombra intensifies his annoyed look. "Here I thought you'd be helpful and yet you haven't even been thinking of a plan! Why did I revive you anyway!?" 

"Yes why did you?!" Sombra shouts in response, Chrysalis takes a step back, surprised by his outburst. 

"What..?" Chrysalis replies dumbly, Sombra glares at her. 

"You revived me Chrysalis, but why?" Sombra asks, his own curiosity obvious through his glare. Chrysalis's surprised expression is replaced by a mischievous smile, her eyes half-lidded, Chrysalis steps towards Sombra and leans in close to his face. Sombra's eyes widen as the changeling queen positions her muzzle an inch away from his own.

"Because I like you Somy." Chrysalis chirps happily, she walks past Sombra, she flips her tail in his face as she walks out the curtain doorway. Sombra just stares at the curtain swaying from her departure, his mouth hanging open, and his eyebrow raised. That... that stupid... idiotic... be-.  Sombra is interrupted from his thoughts by a certain centaur. 

"If you two are done talking can we get back to planning?" Tirek says, clearly not paying attention, Sombra's eyes narrow as they glow with anger, he bears his teeth and grinds them together.

"GRR! I'm surrounded by morons!" Sombra shouts in annoyance, Tirek raises an eyebrow. 

"What?" Tirek asks confused. Sombra begins walking out the room, his body glowing with black flames. 

"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!" Sombra screams, before exploding into darkness and vanishing into the walls. 

"Uh...ok?" Tirek asks confused as he looks around the now empty room. 
> Unexcepted Gifts
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	Sombra unexplodes into existence, he looks around at his surroundings and sighs, Never shadow warp while mad, it's always a misfire.he's warped himself to some random hallway in Bug Bite and Cherry Blossom's home. He gazes at the cool black stone and green glowing stalactites illuminating the corridor, he assumes Cherry Blossom hasn't gotten to this section of the old hive just yet. He looks down both directions of the corridor. I can't believe it not a single flower rug or frilly lamp anywhere. Sombra smiles. Finally. Sombra begins walking down the hallway, pleased at the corridor most ponies would find horrifying. His ears perk up at the sound of somepony talking, he glances further up the corridor and groans at the sight of a magenta carpet and light purple walls, brightening up the dark corridor. shaking his head he looks at a cloaked figure standing on his hind hooves talking to some drones, the drones seem to be ignoring him as they  break open a stalactite and grab some glowing stone from within. Sombra wonders what Chrysalis wants with that as the drones buzz back down the bright hallway, the cloaked figure sighs and turns in Sombra's direction, Sombra takes note as Bug Bite's eyes brighten as he spots Sombra in the hallway. 

"Mr. Sombra." Bug Bite says happily as Sombra closes the distant between them, Sombra grunts. 

"It's Lord Sombra." Sombra says annoyed, Bug Bite bows. 

"Sorry, Mr. Lord Sombra." Bug Bite says while straitening back up while smiling, Sombra rolls his eyes.

"Must every changeling I meet be so annoying?" Sombra asks walking past Bug Bite, Bug Bite begins walking beside him down the hallway. 

"Something bugging you?" Bug Bite asks, trying to hide a chuckle at his own choice of words, Sombra simply groans once more.

"Just an annoying mare I have to deal with." Sombra says dryly, Bug Bite chuckles. 

"Yeah wives can be a real pain." Bug Bite chuckles some more, Sombra's eyes widen at him. 

"What did you just say?" Sombra asks narrowing his eyes at Bug Bite, Bug Bite raises an eyebrow at him. 

"I said wives are a pain." 

"What wife? I don't have a wife!" Sombra exclaims confused, Bug Bite's eyes widen at him as he begins to panic. 

"Oh! I'm sorry! I just assumed you and Chrysalis were-." 

"What!? Married?!" Sombra interrupts, Bug Bite just nods. "Why would you think that!?"

"Well you and her get along, and she is always smiling around you..." Bug Bite suddenly stops panicking and blinks before raising an eyebrow at Sombra.

"What now!" Sombra growls at the cloaked changeling. 

"Why are you so mad?" Sombra blinks at him, his anger fading. 

"What?" 

"It was a simple misunderstanding why did that make you so angry?" Bug Bite asks his confusion overpowering his fear of the much stronger pony. Sombra just blinks, Why was I so mad?

"Never mind that what are you doing here anyway?" Sombra asks in a regal tone, Bug Bite just looks at the lord of shadows with a bored expression. 

"I live here what are you doing here?" Sombra face hooves. 

"Right you're not just another drone." Sombra chuckles to himself. "You're more like Chrysalis or the leaders." 

"Y-yeah I guess." Bug Bite says sadly, Sombra looks at the changeling, his face is lowered hidden under his hood. Sombra rubs his chin with a hoof and huffs. 

"You want to know why, don't you?" Bug Bite looks wide eyed at Sombra. "Why you're different then the others?" 

"Yes I would like to know." Bug Bite takes his hood off. "I've never known there were creatures like me, and when I finally find some they either barely look like me or..." 

"Or they're just mindless drones." Bug Bite nods. 

"And they look exactly like me!" Bug Bite shouts, looking down at the ground a moment he puts his hoof up to the tiny bump on his head. 

"Well I think I can explain." Bug Bite looks at Sombra hopefully. "All changelings are connected by something called the hive mind, it's a mental connection between the queen and her subjects, leadership class changelings listen to the queen but also help her by helping control the changelings, so that she doesn't have to monitor them all at the same time. Drones don't have much if any free will as all they do is follow orders."

"Ok but why am different? I don't feel any mental connection." Bug Bite looks down at the ground. "I never have."

"Of course you haven't." Bug Bite raises an eyebrow at the lord of shadows. "Clearly your egg was left here by mistake, or possibly it had some defect, most likely it did evidenced by your lack of a horn. Regardless you weren't joined into the hive mind upon birth possibly because you were too far away or maybe because of your lack of a horn. As for your eyes maybe it has something to do with not being part of the hive mind, maybe the other drones lack of pupils indicates their status. But I can't explain why you walk on your hind hooves." 

"Oh I can explain that." Bug Bite suddenly stops walking, Sombra stops walking as well looking back at the changeling. "It's because of her." Bug Bite points up at the wall, Sombra turns to look at the painting he's pointing at. The painting is of Chrysalis's mother Queen Arachna she's standing  on her hind legs, while throwing her fore legs into the air and laughing, lightening bolts strike in the background.  The paintings dark colors and black frame clash with the wall that has been painted with white lilies.

"How does this explain anything?" Sombra asks raising an eyebrow at Bug Bite, Bug Bite blushes and looks away. 

"When I was really young I saw this picture and thought that I was suppose to walk like that." Sombra's jaw drops. "So I taught myself how, and now I can't walk on all fours anymore, it feels weird." 

"That's unbelievable." Sombra says both impressed and amused, he stifles a chuckle as he starts walking down hall once more. Why could anypony make such a stupid mistake?

"Hey speaking of weird physical traits." Sombra looks over at Bug Bite as they walk through a curtain doorway into the throne- I mean living room. Sombra looks at the large room the walls painted with an elegantly painted memorial of a cherry blossom orchard in mid autumn, Sombra is still amazed at the detail with individual petals floating in the breeze against the setting sun background, each blade of grass and flower on the ground is detailed, the ceiling is painted blue with white clouds, and the floor is covered by green carpet that looks like grass, it's difficult to tell where the grass on the floor ends and the grass in the painting starts. He looks at Chrysalis, Night Fly, and Cherry Blossom who are all sitting around the coffee table each on their own floral couch. Sombra takes a second to look at Cherry Blossoms cutie mark, it's a paint brush painting a cherry blossom tree on a canvas. Suddenly Sombra remembers what Bug Bite had said. 

"What about weird physical traits?" Sombra asks turning to look at Bug Bite, Bug Bite coughs and looks nervously at Sombra.

"Well I was just wondering...." Bug Bite taps his fore hooves together,Sombra gestures with his hoof, interested to see where this is going. Bug Bite shallows and looks at Sombra with determination. When he speaks he nearly shouts. "What's with those things on your eyes!"

"What?" Sombra blinks, and the girls turn to look at the boys. Sombra raises an eyebrow and stares at Bug Bite. "What things on my eyes?"

"Those purple things on the corners of your eyes." Bug Bite points a hoof at Sombra's face. 

"Yes I've been wondering that too." Sombra turns to look at the sound of Cherry Blossom's voice. The three mares have stood up and are walking over to the two stallions. 

"Wondering what?" Sombra asks very confused. Chrysalis steps forward and places a huff on his shoulder.

"Somy they mean the magical purple energy thingies coming from the corners of your eyes." Sombra just blinks at her. 

"What the hell are you talking about?" Sombra asks his confusion masked by his annoyance, everypony blinks at him. Chrysalis turns to Night Fly who returns her gaze. 

"He doesn't know?" Night Fly asks.

"I don't think he does."

"How could he not know?" 

"I don't know!"

"Should we tell him?" 

"Of course! Night Fly go get a mirror!" Chrysalis squeals, Night Fly giggles as she buzzes away. Sombra just glares at the changeling as she fly's away. As she leaves the room he turns back to the other three ponies in the room, they're all looking at each other trying not to laugh. 

"What the hell is wrong with you people!?" Sombra shouts throwing his fore hooves into the air, Cherry Blossom giggles slightly and turns away she gasps as she looks at a nearby clock. 

"Oh my goodness I have to go!" Cherry Blossom begins to run toward the curtain that leads toward the exit, but is stopped by Chrysalis who teleports in front of her. 

"Where do you think you're going?" Chrysalis asks her gaze piercing into Cherry Blossom's soul, Cherry Blossom cringes in fear at her stare. 

"Well I have to go to the crystal empire to pick up my order." 

"That can wait." Chrysalis's eyes narrow, but then her face suddenly brightens as a smile crosses her lips. "Somy's reaction is gonna be priceless." 

"But the store will close in a few hours." Cherry Blossom says smiling at the giggling changeling queen. 

"How about this, if you stay just until Somy freaks out I'll send Night Fly and Stag Beetle with you. Stag Beetle can pull your carriage much faster then you." Chrysalis says smiling. "I need as many ponies as possible to laugh at his reaction." 

"Um ok I guess I can do that." Chrysalis pats her on the back, and nods approvingly. They both turn at a high pitched voice coming from across the room. 

"I FOUND ONE!!!!" Night Fly squeals in delight, she looks down embarrassed. "Okay it was in my room I knew right where it was." 

"Will somepony tell me what's going on!" Sombra shouts, Night Fly quickly buzzes up to the lord of shadows and shoves the mirror at him. Sombra looks at himself in the mirror he hadn't used one of these since before he became the lord of shadows, he looked the same as he remembered except the whites of his eyes are now green and he had..... purple wavy things.... coming off his...

"What the hell! It looks like I've got magic mascara on!" All the ponies in the room burst into laughter, Sombra glares at them and Cherry Blossom and Bug Bite run out of the room laughing, Chrysalis turns to yell at them as they leave. 

"Night Fly will be right out!" Chrysalis manages to shout through fits of laughter, her attention is brought back to Sombra shouting some more.

"How long have I had these things!?" Sombra asks kind of freaking out. 

"As long as I can remember." Chrysalis answers calmly, a smug smile does all her laughing for her.

"How can anypony take me seriously with these ridiculous things coming out of my eyes?" Sombra asks, worried about his reputation as lord of darkness. Chrysalis turns to Night Fly, she gestures with her eyes at Sombra, Night Fly nods in response and heads out the door following Cherry Blossom and Bug Bite. 

"Somy..."

"Stop calling me!" Sombra shouts, Chrysalis pouts at him. 

"Somy?"

"Stop it."

"Somy?"

"I said stop it!"

"Somy!?" Sombra sighs in defeat. 

"Yes Chrysalis?" Chrysalis smiles at him. 

"I take you seriously." Sombra raises an eyebrow at her.

"Really?" Chrysalis just keeps smiling. 

"I know it may not seem like it but I do take you seriously and so does all of Equestria. Regardless of your silly eye energy or not, millions of ponies fear you." Sombra looks away from the queen. 

"Even Celestia?" Sombra asks over his shoulder without turning back to Chrysalis, Chrysalis just rolls her eyes.

"Especially Celestia." Chrysalis says smiling at the back of Sombra's head. Without saying another word Sombra begins walking toward the curtain doorway that leads to the sleeping section of the hi- house. He stops and turns to look back at Chrysalis, she raises an eyebrow it looks like the purple streams on his eyes have gotten smaller and the neon green of his eyes seems to have dimmed, she shrugs her shoulders and smiles brightly 

"Chrysalis?" Sombra's voice is low, Chrysalis continues smiling. 

"Yes Somy." Chrysalis says batting her eyelashes at him, Sombra has no reaction. 

"There's something I want to tell you." Chrysalis raises an eyebrow but keeps smiling. "It's really important and I won't repeat it ever again."

"W-what is it?" Chrysalis asks her smile disappearing, Sombra stares into her eyes, sweat forms on Chrysalis brow from his piercing gaze.

"I'm sorry." Chrysalis's face turns red and her eyes widen. 

"W-what?" Chrysalis squeak's. 

"I'm sorry." Sombra breaks eye contact. "F-for killing that guy." 

"I-I-I-It's okay." Chrysalis stammers, she looks toward the ground as her face gets even redder. 

"D-don't tell anypony I apologized." Sombra says facing back toward the curtain, Chrysalis looks up from the floor. 

"O-oh of course." Chrysalis stammers out clearly flustered. 

"I'll talk to ya later." Sombra says, as he walks out the doorway, Chrysalis just stares at the swaying curtain, her face burning red, she narrows her eyes and pouts her lip. 

"Not fair Somy." Chrysalis shakes her head. "Not fair."

On The Road To The Crystal Empire

A small redwood carriage with a pink canopy moves at a brisk pace down the road, a large dark brown buffalo wearing a spiked helmet pulls the carriage, his heavy hooves leaving deeper dents then the wheels of the carriage are. Cherry Blossom sits up front looking through a coin purse in her lap, she nods happily and then turns to the Pegasus mare siting next to her. The Pegasus has black fur and a bright purple mane that's been done up in two long braids rolling down her shoulders nearly touching her fore hooves, her cutie mark is a silver mirror, the glass in the mirror almost seems to actually reflect like a real mirror. The black pony turns to look at Cherry Blossom. 

"What are we doing?" The black pony asks raising an eyebrow, Cherry Blossom chuckles slightly.

"Night Fly I already told you, we're going to the crystal empire to pick up a present for Bug Bite." Cherry Blossom smiles at her. "And Miss Chrysalis said you two were willing to help me." 

"Oh yes I remember." Night Fly says looking over at the disguised changeling pulling the carriage. 

"Although I am curious." Night Fly looks back at Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom looks away from her gaze. "Why are you guys disguised right now? We won't reach the crystal empire for awhile."  Night Fly chuckles. 

"Well I have some personal reasons for taking this form, but Stagy is just making sure we aren't noticed by anypony before we get there." Night Fly looks at the uncomfortable pony sitting next to her. "The transforming thing weird's you out doesn't it?" 

"W-well I-" Cherry Blossom looks up at Night Fly both embarrassed and sad, Night Fly just laughs, the buffalo, aka Stag Beetle, turns his head to look at them. 

"You're married to a changeling and yet transforming surprises you?" Stag Beetle asks raising an eyebrow at Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom looks at him in surprise. 

"Well Bug Bite has never transformed before, or done magic of any kind." Cherry Blossom looks down at the carriage floor, Night Fly puts a reassuring hoof on her shoulder.

"That's because he doesn't know how." Cherry Blossom looks at Night Fly's tender gaze. " He wasn't raised by the hive and he doesn't have a horn, so it's really surprising that he even survived." 

"Yeah his strength has always surprised me." Cherry Blossom smiles at the thought of her husband, Stag Beetle grunts. 

"I'll admit it surprised me when he managed to hurt me, even if it was with a weapon." Stag Beetle turns  his head back to the road, Night Fly giggles at him, before turning back to Cherry Blossom. 

"He's got a point I've never seen anyone other then a leader class changeling hurt Stag Beetle before." Night Fly smiles happily, Cherry Blossom looks at her in surprise. 

"Are leader changelings really that powerful?" Cherry Blossom asks impressed, Night Fly stares down the road in thought. 

"From research I've done I think we're on par with the power the elements of harmony." Night Fly shrugs. "Or something like that."

"Wow I can't believe it." Cherry Blossom stares wide eyed at Night Fly, she'd only heard the stories and rumors about the elements of Harmony but had never actually seen them in action herself, but she was still very impressed. Cherry Blossom looks at Night Fly and can't believe she could have that much power. She looks so fragile but I guess I shouldn't judge her by her looks. She's interrupted from her thoughts by Night Fly laughing. 

"Of course I'm not anywhere near that strong." Night Fly giggles happily while rubbing the back of her head, Cherry Blossom just raises an eyebrow in confusion.

"You're not?" Cherry Blossom asks confused.

"Nope I'm as weak and fragile as I look." What she says sounds bad but Night Fly just keeps smiling anyway. 

"But how is that-" Cherry Blossom just blinks at Night Fly in bewilderment, Night Fly interrupts her before she can finish her question. 

"Do you know why I choose a disguise that looks almost exactly like my changeling form?" Cherry Blossom blinks at the sudden question. Night Fly doesn't wait for her to respond. 

"I want to be a pony." Cherry Blossom raises an eyebrow. "Not transform into a pony, actually be a pony, I want this fur instead of a carapace, a lustrous man instead a stringy web like one, these lovely feathers instead of bug wings." 

"Ok..." Cherry Blossom says, curious as to where this is going. Night Fly sighs.

"So I've taken steps to make myself more like a normal pony, my first step was leaving the hive mind." Chery Blossom blinks at her. 

"You can do that?" 

"Any changeling can choose to leave the hive mind, but drones don't have strong enough free will to do so, leadership class changelings like myself can leave to start their own hives but it hasn't ever worked out." Night Fly smiles and sighs happily. "But I didn't want to leave the hive just lose the mental connection so Chrysalis let me stay, and because of my rank the drones still listen to me for the most part." 

"Is that what made you weak?" Cherry Blossom asks, raising an eyebrow, Night Fly smiles at her. 

"No I'm weak because I also gave up my power." Cherry Blossom gasps in surprise. 

"How did you do that?" Night Fly chuckles at her surprise. 

"I transferred my powers, except for my transformation ability." Night Fly glances down at Cherry Blossom, her eyes half-lidded, she smiles slyly. " I transferred it to my mate." 

"What?" Cherry Blossom eyes widen. "You have a mate?" 

"Of course why do you think I'm pulling this thing?" Cherry Blossom turns to look at the changeling disguised as a buffalo who is pulling the wagon. 

"You're her mate?" Cherry Blossom stares from one changeling to the other her eyes wide, Stag Beetle rolls his eyes and grunts, while Night Fly just laughs.

"Is it that surprising?" Night Fly asks turning her now half-lidded eyes at the creature pulling the wagon. "He is quite appealing in any form after all." Stage Beetle grunts happily and pulls the wagon slightly faster.

"It's not that." Cherry Blossom chuckles nervously at the look in Night Fly's eyes. "I thought all changeling's were related."

"I understand why you'd think that." Cherry Blossom looks at Night Fly who has dropped her gaze from Stag Beetle. "We're all born from eggs laid by Queen Chrysalis, but the eggs are created by the energy she gathers from ponies emotions, so each changeling may look similar in appearance but we're all as genetically diverse as you ponies are. Leadership changelings are born when the queen has gathered large quantities of love, and royal changeling eggs can be made in two ways. One is mating with a pony, and way number two is the same as leadership changeling's not even the queen knows if one of the special eggs will be a leader or a royal until it hatches." 

"Wow." Cherry Blossom says looking at the extremely talkative changeling. She didn't need to explain all that. Cherry Blossom smiles, But I'm glad she did, it's nice to know more about Bug Bite's people. Cherry Blossom looks up the road and can see the crystal empire gates fast approaching, she smiles. "Hopefully Copper Bolt's store is still open." 

Crystal Empire Main Street

Rarity sits on a crystal wheelchair with a colorful rainbow quilt covering the lower half of her body hiding the cast on her leg. Rainbow Dash is flying directly behind the chair pushing it down the road, they stop to look in a few store windows, but they don't enter any shops. Rainbow Dash fly's slightly higher in the air so she can look down at her new marefriend, she smiles tenderly, and sighs blissfully. Rarity turns her head back to look at the sighing Pegasus, Rainbow Dash blushes, but keeps smiling when Rarity giggles.

"Something on your mind Rainbow Dear?" Rarity asks a bright smile on her face, Rainbow Dash's smile turns into a grin. 

"Just thinking about how lucky I am!" Rainbow Dash shouts, her grin begins to fade as Rarity pouts at her. Rainbow raises an eyebrow. "What?"

"Does this look lucky to you?" Rarity points a hoof at the blanket covering her injured leg. Rainbow Dash laughs nervously and rubs the back of her head.

"I said I was lucky." Rainbow Dash's chuckle sounds even more nervous. "Your kinda unlucky."

"Well I suppose." Rarity smirks as Rainbow Dash frowns. "Although it's not the leg that makes me unlucky."

"Huh?" Rainbow tilts her head to the side and raises an eyebrow. Rarity turns away from Rainbow Dash and sighs heavily.

"I'm unlucky in romance." Rainbow Dash's eyes widen. 

"B-but it thought you wanted to go out with me?!" Rainbow Dash blurts her limbs flailing wildly, Rarity doesn't look back at her, so she can't see her playful grin. 

"I do dear it's just." Rarity sighs wistfully, Rainbow Dash fly's around to look Rarity in the eyes, Rarity quickly hides her grin replacing it with a frown.

"What!? What is it?!" Rainbow Dash shouts frantically shaking Rarity, Rarity tries her best to not laugh at the reaction. Rarity puts a hood to Rainbow Dash lips to get her to stop shouting, Rainbow Dash she looks at her pleadingly, Rarity grins before she speaks.

"You know Rainbow Dear." Rarity sighs heavily. "I was hoping that'd you'd make the first move not me. and that I wouldn't need to be maimed first."

"Oh.... but... that's..." Rainbow Dash looks sadly at Rarity, she then turns her gaze to the ground.How do I tell her that me, Rainbow Dash the fearless awesomely humble pony was too nervous to make any move at all.

"Although." Rainbow Dash's ears perk up.

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash looks up from the ground, she jumps slightly at the starry eyed look Rarity has on her face.

"I absolutely love how we got together." Rainbow Dash just blinks at her, Rarity continues before Rainbow Dash can say anything. "The way you snatched me up, saving me from Tirek and then whisking me away to safety, bandaging me up and showing me a side of you I've never seen before, and then I." Rarity points to herself dramatically. "The beautiful maiden sacrificed herself to aid her lovely knight, you know except without the messy dying business." Rarity sighs blissfully. "So romantic."

Rainbow Dash just stares at Rarity, Rarity matches her gaze and blushes, suddenly embarrassed by her romance rant. As what Rarity just said sinks into Rainbow Dash's head, her face flushes as she remembers the transfer of power on the train, Rainbow Dash nods her head with confidence as she decides to finally get something off her chest. 

"Rarity?" Rainbow Dash asks looking away from Rarity her face blushing, Rarity looks at Rainbow Dash quizzically. 

"Yes my dear?" 

"There's something I've been meaning to ask you about our first kiss on the train." Rarity perks up at this. 

"Yes my dear?" Rarity asks smiling, her eyes go half lidded. "It was wonderful wasn't it." Rainbow Dash gets a big grin on her face.

"Yes it was." Rainbow blushes again and looks away. "But that's not what I was gonna ask."

"What is it dear?" Rarity asks getting a bit concerned, Rainbow Dash shifts around awkwardly, as she looks around avoiding eye contact.

"Well... was the kiss part of the power transfer?" Rarity's eyes widen. 

"Rainbow Dash you don't think I only kissed you to give you my power do you?" Rainbow Dash looks at Rarity's hurt face. "Because I care about you very much Rainbow Dash."

"Oh no, no, no, no!" Rainbow Dash says flailing her limbs wildly. "It's just you said you learned the transfer spell from what the princesses did for Twilight."

"Yes I did. Why?" Rarity asks raising an eyebrow, Rainbow Dash looks around nervously, embarrassed by her own imagination. 

"Well it's just that you said the princesses did the same spell to Twilight and I thought..." Rarity's gasps in realization of where Rainbow Dash is going.

"OH MY CELSTIA!!" Rarity shouts , dozens of crystal ponies in the marketplace turn to look at the couple. Rarity continues her point quieter. "You thought the princesses made out with Twilight to give her their powers?!" "Rainbow Dash smiles nervously and rubs the back of her head.  

"Kind of..." Rarity just stares at her in disbelief, Rarity's mouth curves upward slowly, soon she starts laughing uncontrollably, Rainbow Dash blushes but soon joins in the laughter. 

"That's why you were so awkward around Cadence when we gave her our report." Rarity says between fits of laughter, Rainbow Dash laughs with her while still rubbing the back of her head, before she can confirm Rarity's thought a familiar voice fills the air.

"Look honey I'm sorry!" Rainbow Dash and Rarity look at the source of the voice, down the street they can see the steel grey fur and chrome hair of Iron Sprocket, He's standing in front of an engineering shop with a toolbox for a sign, standing in front of Iron Sprocket is a crystal pony mare, her fur is a sparkly copper, and her mane is a shiny bronze, her cutie mark matches the toolbox sign over the shop, her green eyes are staring into the dark blue eyes of Iron Sprocket. Her cheeks are puffed out and her eyes are narrowed at Iron Sprocket, who stares back at her nervously a sweat drop running down his face. 

"You'd better have a good explanation for blowing up my train!" The mare yells staring daggers at him. "I spent two years building that thing!"

"I know honey I helped you design it." The copper mare's eyes get more narrow, suddenly her face turns into a frown as her eyes turn sad. 

"That's why I can't believe you blew it up, it was our baby." The mare looks at Iron Sprocket  with sad pleading eyes, Iron Sprocket sighs.

"An element of Harmony told me to." The mares eyes widen at this statement, as her jaw drops. Her eyes start twinkling even brighter then her skin. 

"The elements of harmony were on my train?" The mare asks excitedly, Iron Sprocket nods.

"And Princess Twilight rode it too." The mare squeals happily, while jumping up and down. 

"Oh my gosh! They did!? They all did?! Did they like it!?" The mare fires off her questions happily, but freezes at a new voice answering them. 

"Why yes darling, it was delightful." The mare slowly turns her head toward the sound of the voice, her face expressing her awe at seeing the element of generosity and the element of loyalty standing right in front of her. she reaches her hoof out and grabs ahold of Iron Sprockets shoulder and begins shaking him as a huge smile appears on her face, she looks between the stallion on her right and the mares in front of her, Iron Sprocket smiles and nods at her and the mare squeals once more. 

"So Sprocky are you gonna introduce us?" Rainbow Dash asks pushing Rarity's chair closer. Iron Sprocket bows at the elements. 

"Of course, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, this is my wife Copper Bolt." Iron Sprocket gestures toward the mare next to him. Rainbow Dash raises a hoof to shake Copper Bolt's hoof. Copper Bolt stares at the hoof in front of her and happily shakes it with both hooves. 

"Miss Rainbow Dash I am such a huge fan of yours." Copper Bolt looks past Rainbow Dash looking at Rarity, she smiles brightly. "All of you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Rarity says smiling brightly, Rainbow Dash fly's back to Rarity's side. 

"Yeah nice to meet ya." Rainbow Dash smiles when she says this, but frowns afterward. "Sorry about your train."

"Oh don't worry about that if it was an element of harmony I'd sacrifice all the trains I've ever built." Copper Bolt waves off Rainbow Dash's apology. She turns back to Iron Sprocket as a thought crosses her mind. "Honey? What were the elements of harmony doing on your train anyway?" 

"Well Princess Celestia commissioned me to drive them wherever they need to go for the foreseeable future." Iron Sprocket looks down cast. "But now I guess I can't do that." 

"It's alright Sprocky it's just me and Rare I can fly her where ever we need to-" Rainbow Dash stops talking as Copper Bolt is suddenly right in her face, a huge grin plastered on her face. 

"Nonsense I'll have another train ready for you by the time your ready to leave the Crystal Empire." Copper Bolt exclaims happily, Rainbow Dash blinks at her, but it's Rarity who responds.

"Darling we couldn't possibly ask you to do that we're only here till tomorrow." Rarity says trying to wave the offer away, Copper Bolt turns to look at Rarity a look of Determination on her face. 

"Don't worry I've already got a train mostly done I'll have it ready by tomorrow morning! Your gonna love it even more then the last one!" Copper Bolt shouts happily jumping up and down, Rarity raises a hoof about to try and persuade Copper Bolt to not worry herself, when Rainbow Dash covers her mouth with a hoof. 

"Thanks a bunch Copper!" Rainbow Dash says smiling, rarity is about to protest, but she stops when Copper Bolt let's out another happy squeal, once more shaking her husband happily, Iron Sprocket just chuckles happily. They all turn as a new voice enters the conversation.

"Oh Copper Bolt good your still here." Every pony turns to look at the new voice, walking toward them is two mares one a normal light purple pony with red hair with pink streaks, walking next to her is a tall black mare with long purple braided hair, Rarity smiles at the black mare.

"Night Fly what a surprise." The black mare blinks at Rarity and then smiles wide.

"Rarity oh my goodness what are you doing here?" Night Fly asks walking up to her, Rainbow Dash raises an eyebrow at Night Fly.

"Who are you?" Rainbow Dash asks coldly, Night Fly smiles at her.

"You must be Rainbow Dash, Rarity has told me so much about you while we were both hot and covered in oil." Rainbow Dash's eye twitches, she steps threateningly at Night Fly but stops when Rarity grabs her hoof. 

"She meant massage oil." Rainbow Dash narrows her eyes at Night Fly, Rarity sighs heavily. "We've hung out at the spa in Ponyville." 

"Oh..." Rainbow Dash laughs awkwardly. "I knew that." Rarity nuzzles Rainbow Dash's face.

"No you didn't." The elements share a laugh, Night Fly giggles as well. 

"Cherry Blossom hey, what's going on?" Iron Sprocket asks shaking her hoof, Cherry Blossom smiles at Iron Sprocket. 

"I came to pick up my order." Iron Sprocket blinks, while Copper Bolt puts her hooves together. 

"Oh yeah your order." Copper Bolt exclaims happily, Cherry Blossom and Iron Sprocket turn to look at her. 

"Does that mean your not done?" Cherry Blossom asks concerned, Copper Bolt shakes her head. 

"No I got it done I just forgot you were coming to get it today." Copper Bolt turns to her husband. "Sweetheart could you go grab the gift box from inside?" 

"Sure thing honey." Iron Sprocket walks into the shop. Copper Bolt looks over at Night Fly who is still talking to Rarity. 

"So who's that?" Copper Bolt asks raising an eyebrow. Cherry Blossom looks at the changeling in disguise.

"Oh.. she's... Night Fly, she's... um... Bug Bite's sister." Cherry Blossom stammers out unsure of her answer, Copper Bolt glances between Night Fly and Cherry Blossom. 

"I didn't know Bug Bite had any family." Copper Bolt asks, looking at Cherry Blossom. 

"Oh.. they don't get along very well, but... uh a few of relatives are staying with us to try and patch things up." Cherry Blossom avoids eye contact and focuses on the ground. Copper Bolt nods happily.

"That makes sense." Copper Bolt looks over at Night Fly. "So that's kinda what Bug Bite looks like?"

"Huh?" Cherry Blossom tilts her head at Copper Bolt. 

"Well I've just never seen Bug Bite without his cloak on so I knew he had black fur and red eyes but I've never seen anything other then his legs." Cherry Blossom rubs the back of her head and laughs. 

"He's a bit self conscious about his appearance." Cherry Blossom blushes. "Although I don't know why." 

"A on side note did you bring the payment for your order?" Copper Bolt asks gesturing with her hoof, Cherry Blossom nods her head and begins rummaging through her saddle bag. 

"Yeah I've got it right in here." Cherry Blossom keeps sifting through her saddle bag, she stops when Copper Bolt raises a hoof. 

"Actually I don't want your bits." Copper bolt says, smiling. 

"You don't?" Cherry Blossom raises an eyebrow. "Then what do you want?"

"I want to hire you." Copper Bolt puts out her hoof. "Your order will be payment." 

"Um...ok." Cherry Blossom shakes Copper Bolt's extended hoof. "What's the job?"

"I just need you to help me get a new train up and running by tomorrow." Copper Bolt smiles as they finish shaking hooves. 

"But I don't know anything about trains." Cherry Blossom says frowning, Copper Bolt just giggles. 

"No silly I need you to paint some stuff for me." Cherry Blossom brightens up, a smile on her face. 

"Of course I'll do that!" Cherry Blossom shouts excitedly, Copper Bolt smiles at her. 

"Perfect come with me and I'll show you what I need ya to do." Copper Bolt leads Chery Blossom into the engineering shop, she reaches out and grabs Iron Sprocket who was just coming out of the shop holding a long box wrapped in ribbon, he opens his mouth to speak but no words come out before his wife pulls him through the open door and it slams shut. Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Night Fly all turn at the noise, they all shrug and then turn back to one another, Night Fly smiles at the elements.

"So you actually transferred your power to Rainbow Dash?" Night Fly asks raising a hoof, Rarity nods her head while blushing. 

"Yes it was the only way to defeat Tirek." Rarity looks away sadly. "Although it's probably not the last we've seen of him."

"No it's not." Rainbow Dash and Rarity look at Night Fly, they both raise an eyebrow. Night Fly's face is in a deep scowl, she blinks as she realizes what she just said. She rubs the back of her head and laughs awkwardly. "What I mean is you guys never seem to get off that easy." 

"Yeah what's up with that anyway?" Rainbow Dash asks pouting her lip, Rarity joins her pout.  

"Yes why can't we all just get along?" Rainbow Dash and Rarity look at Night Fly once more. 

"We'll never be at peace until the villain's of our world find something more important then domination." Rainbow Dash and Night Fly stare at Rarity after she speaks. 

"Yeah Rare and what could be more important to villains then world domination?" Rainbow Dash asks rolling her eyes, Rarity smiles up at her from her wheelchair. 

"Love." Rarity smile turns sweet, Rainbow Dash and Night Fly's eyes widen. 

"Rarity I don't think villains care as much about stuff like that as you do." Rarity shakes her head. 

"It worked for Discord." Night Fly's eye twitches, neither element seems to notice. Rainbow Dash sighs deeply. 

"Yeah, yeah." Rainbow Dash pats Rarity on the head. "Won't let that one go will ya?" 

"Nope." Rarity smile smugly at Rainbow Dash, Night Fly stares off into the distance. If what she's saying is true maybe our kingdoms could be at peace some day. Night Fly's face suddenly curves up into a sinister smile. Of course with how the Queen as been the last couple days with Lord Sombra we might not have to wait that long. Night Fly giggles to herself.

Discord and Fluttershy's Meadow

Discord and Fluttershy are sitting on a picnic blanket in the middle of the field, Discord is holding up some puppets with his magic, his puppets seem to be reenacting Discord's battle with Chrysalis, a more slap stick version that involves dynamite and pianos. Fluttershy giggles at Discords display. After the puppets finish their battle Discord makes them disappear with a wave of his hand, he looks down at Fluttershy, a smile on his face. 

"Alright Fluttershy it's time to teach you how to control your power." Fluttershy looks at the ground. 

"I don't know Discord didn't it take you a long time to control your powers?" Fluttershy asks looking up at him sadly, Discord just chuckles.

"Oh yes my sweet, centuries!" Discord exclaims laughing, Fluttershy pouts at him. 

"Discord we don't have centuries the villains could attack any day." Discord strokes Fluttershy's hair with his talon, she smiles and leans into the touch. 

"Don't worry my sweet." Fluttershy looks up at him with a twinkle in her eye. "This will be much easier then you think." 

"How so?" Fluttershy tilts her head to side. 

"Normally to control chaos magic you have to channel it through your body convincing the fabric of reality to bend to your will, for nature to accept you as its equal. I won't go into the really complicated stuff because it doesn't matter as none of that applies to you." Fluttershy just blinks at him.

"Why doesn't that stuff apply to me?" Discord smiles at her.

"Because you are wielding my chaos magic. Which means you don't need to get the magic to obey you like I did." Discord looks away from Fluttershy, he blushes slightly. "After all I already do." Fluttershy blushes and looks away from Discord. 

"So what do I need to do?" Fluttershy asks looking at the ground. 

"You just need to focus on the energy from the ring, you should be able to feel it inside your body like a-"

"Like a warmth in my chest?" Fluttershy interrupts, she holds the ring to her chest, Discord smiles at her.

"Yes exactly." Discord nods in approval. "Now close your eyes and focus on that warmth. Then just tell it what to do."

"That's it?" Fluttershy asks as she closes her eyes. 

"Well for you that's it. Your ring will power anything you want to change, summon, or create you just got to think it." Discord says nodding happily. Fluttershy focuses on the warmth in her chest, she feels the warmth warp around her like a blanket, it makes her feel good like she can do anything. 

"Okay what do I do now?" 

"Just try controlling it, you told me how you've used it by accident a few times, well I want you to try doing it on purpose, just focus on something you want and try to create, summon and or move whatever it is you want. Now we're in a dream like state so-" Discord vanishes before he can finish his thought he's suddenly sitting on the grass right next to Fluttershy, his paw arm draped over her shoulders. He looks down at her and she blushes with a tender smile on her face. 

"I wanted a hug." Fluttershy giggles, and Discord just smiles at her. 

"Ok good job, but this time try something that you can't just ask me to do without magic." Fluttershy closes her eyes and try's using her magic once more. Suddenly she and Discord disappear they reappear sitting on the bench in the meadow, Discord holding Fluttershy in his arms. Discord rolls his eyes at Fluttershy. 

"Sorry it was the first thing that came into my mind." Fluttershy says blushing and looking away from Discords eyes. 

"Maybe you should practice back in Canterlot so I don't distract you." Fluttershy turns back to look in Discord's eyes. 

"Do I have to?" Fluttershy asks while pouting. 

"It's probably for the best." Discord feels outside the meadow with his magic. "Besides I think somepony is bringing you your dinner." 

"Oh my gosh Twilight I forgot." Fluttershy puts a hoof up to her face. " I guess I do have to go."

"Don't worry my sweet it's just a couple of days before we can see each other in person." Fluttershy smiles at Discord, Discord returns her gaze, Fluttershy looks away and hides behind her mane. 

"Can I try my magic one more time before I go?" Discord blinks at her. 

"I suppose so." Discord shrugs. "What do you have in mind?"

"Ok here it goes." Fluttershy closes her eyes and scrunches her nose, Discord raises an eyebrow at her blush intensifying. Suddenly a pair of pale yellow hooves appear out of nowhere and grab the sides of Discord's head, another pair also grab Fluttershy's head. The hooves push their faces together, their lips are pressed against each but they aren't kissing, Fluttershy just giggles as her blush gets stronger, Discord rolls his eyes.

"I thought I said something you can only do with magic." Discord says his voice slightly altered due to his face being scrunched up. 

"But this is what I wanted." Fluttershy looks down at their muzzles pushed against each other, her blush somehow gets redder. "Well not quite exactly what I wanted." 

"Oh I see." Discord chuckles, her snaps his fingers and the hooves holding their heads together disappear, Discord quickly replaces the hooves that were holding Fluttershy's head with his own hands. He puckers his lips and Fluttershy laughs at the feeling of his lips kissing her closed mouth, she puckers her own lips joining in the kiss. After a minute Fluttershy's eyes widen as she feels something make contact with her tongue, she giggles to herself as her eyes flutter closed again. 

Canterlot Castle Fluttershy's Room

The Princess of Friendship Twilight Sparkle stands in the door way to Fluttershy's room a tray of fancy food hovers in the air surrounded by her magical aura. The Princess is just standing there her head tilted to the side, her eyebrow raised at the sight in front of her. Before her is Fluttershy surrounded  by a golden aura and floating in the air slightly above her bed, her eyes are closed, her hind legs are crossed and her fore hooves are together. But that's not what has Twilight confused, she's staring at Fluttershy's lips, their open slightly and puckered, Twilight blushes as she realizes that it looks like Fluttershy is kissing an invisible pony. Twilight widens her eyes as she sees Fluttershy open her mouth more, Twilight can see her tongue moving around her mouth.

Suddenly the magic holding the tray disappears as Twilight covers her eyes with her hooves, the tray crashes to the ground and the tea pot and cups on the tray shatter on the floor. Fluttershy's eyes snap open and she falls onto the bed, she bounces off the mattress and lands on her flank hitting the floor. Fluttershy looks at her Alicorn friend and then turns her gaze to the tray on the floor. Twilight moves her hooves to look at Fluttershy, she raises her eyebrow at the look on Fluttershy's face, her eyes are closed and her nose is scrunched up. Suddenly Twilight can see the tray she dropped rise off the floor, the shattered glass reforms into the tea pot and cups, the tea returns to the inside of the teapot, and all the dinnerware turns pink and the sandwiches turn green with yellow polka dots, the tray its self turns orange with blue strips. The tray stops glowing and begins falling to the ground once more, but Twilight catches it with her magic before it hits the ground. Twilight looks at Fluttershy in surprise, Fluttershy just opens her eyes and grins happily a the fixed tray. 

"Fluttershy you did that?" Fluttershy nods happily. "Without wishing for it?" 

"Yep!" Fluttershy chirps happily. 

"That's really good Fluttershy how did you learn how to do that?" Twilight smiles happily. "Is some of the magic advice I've been giving you helping?" 

"No it's not that." Twilight frowns at her smiling friend. "Discord taught me." 

"Oh." Twilight blinks and her eyes are wide open. "He did?" 

"Yeah he contacted me through the ring and explained how it works." Fluttershy looks down at the ring around her neck. "He says it's easier for me because all I have to do is think of something and the ring will take care of the rest. It's actually super easy I just have to think and stuff happens." One of the green sandwiches puffs into Fluttershy's hoof, she smiles and takes a bite.

"Whoa." Twilight blinks at her, she frowns. "I wish magic actually was that easy."

"Oh I'm sorry Twilight." Fluttershy apologizes  suddenly feeling bad about her bragging, Twilight waves a hoof.

"Don't worry about it Fluttershy this is a special situation, you should be happy." Twilight grins, Fluttershy gives her friend a smile in return. 

" I am Twilight." Fluttershy smiles and touches her lips. "I really am." 

"Good." Twilight doesn't seem to notice what Fluttershy means by that. Twilight blushes as something crosses her mind. 

"So you were talking to Discord?" Fluttershy nods. "Oh so that's why your lips were moving."

"What?" Fluttershy's eyes widen, Twilight doesn't seem to notice her friends surprise. 

"Yeah only your lips were moving, it looked like.... well it looked like you were kissing some pony." Twilight looks away embarrassed and Fluttershy turns red as a tomato, Twilight turns back smiling. "But since you were just talking to Discord it makes since that your lips were moving, I'm just being silly." 

Twilight giggles and looks up at her friend, Fluttershy is just staring at Twilight, her face is bright red and steam coming off of it. Fluttershy laughs nervously and avoids making direct eye contact with the Princess. A nervous grin appears on Fluttershy's face, Twilight just smiles politely, ignorant to her friends nervous behavior. 

"YEP!" Fluttershy shouts loudly, she nervously laughs as she talks. " We were just talking that's all nothing else, just that, nothing, not hugging, or kissing." Fluttershy rubs the back of her head and laughs awkwardly, Twilight just raises an eyebrow, she shrugs and takes a sip of some tea, she turns her quizzical gaze to the tea cup after she's done sipping. 

"Huh?" Twilight smacks her lips together tasting the tea. 

"Tastes like....." She smacks her lips again, and smiles happily. 

"Donuts?"
> The Plan Begins
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Twilight sits nervously in her chair, she glances around Princess Celestia's private study, it's largely unchanged from the last time she was her, same bookshelves, same desk, even the same telescope in the same spot. But what wasn't the same was the look on the princess's face. The Princess had a serious stare on her face, but she isn't actually staring at anypony shes just glaring into space. Twilight's not sure why the Princess called her in here or why she seems so upset, but before Twilight can ask Celestia finally decides to speak. 

"Do you want to know why I don't trust Discord?" Twilight flinches at the sudden question. 

"Um.. is it because of Ti-"

"No it's not because of Tirek." Celestia looks away from Twilight. "But that did not help."

"Then what is it?" Twilight asks raising an eyebrow, Celestia sighs deeply and then matches Twilight's gaze. 

"After I'm done telling you, I want you to go find Pinkie Pie." Twilight puts a hoof to her chin.

"Why do you want me to find Pinkie Pie?" 

"Fluttershy has revealed that Pinkie Pie has indeed found Discord, so I need you to find them and bring them back to Canterlot before anything bad happens." Celestia's glare returns to her face. 

"Oh, um, yes Princess of course." Twilight bows her head, when she look back up Princess Celestia is rocking back and forth her hoof tapping against her chin, one of her eyebrows is raised high in the air.

"Now where to begin the story of how literally everything is Discord's fault." 

In The Sky Above Some Random Forest

"Okay Lightening Bug where are we?" A tall sliver changeling asks his small golden companion, Lightening Bug turns to look at him. 

"We're over some Random Forest." Lightening Bug rolls her eyes at him. "Duh."

"Yeah I know that sis." The silver changeling takes his turn rolling his eyes. "I thought you said you knew where we were going." 

"Dragon Fly." Lightening Bug squeezes her eyes with her hoof. "Tracking fourth wall breaks is not an exact science."

"Oh my god that's how we're searching? With your stupid made up system?" Dragon Fly gets smacked in the face by a white hoof glove. Dragon Fly looks confused over at his sister. She puts the glove behind her back  and it seems to vanish into thin air, Dragon Fly just shakes his head and continues asking questions. "So why are we searching for 'fourth wall breaks'."

Lightening glares at her brother as he hoof quotes the words fourth wall break. "Remember what Lord Sombra's informant said? The pink one is looking for Discord, the pink one must mean Pinkie Pie the element of laughter. She breaks the fourth wall better then anyone I know." Lightening smirks happily. "Who also happens to be my personal inspiration."

"Inspired by a pony!?" Dragon Fly snaps at his sister. "That's ridiculous, we're changelings we feed off ponies, we don't-"

Lightening Bug throws up a hoof to silence Dragon Fly. "There she's doing it right now." 

"Where?" Dragon fly asks as both changelings stop moving, Lightening Bug surveys the land, her face brightens into a large smile as she points toward a small mountain. 

"There she is." 

Inside The Mountain Lightening Bug Is Pointing At

Discord sits on the cave floor in his meditating pose, the upper half of his body is covered in cupcake frosting, above him is Pinkie Pie who is hanging off the ceiling like a bat. She's holding a giant half empty tube of frosting in her hooves, and a huge grin on her face, suddenly Discords eyes snap open and he immediately turns his gaze to the party pony defying gravity above him. It's as if being caught in the act makes Pinkie Pie lose her anti gravity powers she instantly plummets to ground, she lands with a thud right on top of Discord. The tube of frosting seems to have vanished during the fall. Discord looks dully at the cave wall in front of his, he lets out a heavy sigh.  

"And your positive you don't have chaos magic?" Discord asks as he snaps his fingers cleaning all the frosting of of him, Pinkie Pie just giggles at him.

"Don't be silly Discord only you have chaos magic." Pinkie Pie points a hoof at him, Discord rolls his eyes. 

"Okay so how do you do all the weird stuff you do?" Pinkie Pie puts a hoof to her chin in thought, after a minute she points her hoof at the cave wall. 

"That guy." Discord's eyes widen as he searches the cave for the intruder Pinkie Pie is pointing at, he raises an eyebrow in confusion. 

"What guy?" Pinkie Pie grunt in frustration. 

"That guy." Pinkie Pie increases her pointing power. "The one on the computer writing all this stuff." 

Discord just stares at the pink party pony, he raises a talon to question further, but Pinkie Pie's neck suddenly coils up like a spring. Discord's eyes widen as Pinkie Pie's head spins around like a tornado, her head stops spinning after a couple seconds and Pinkie Pie is just smiling like nothing happened. Discord just gapes in confusion at Pinkie Pie, after a minute he finally decides to speak.

"What the Tartarus just-" 

"You should rest up." Discord blinks at the interrupting pony.

"What why should I rest now?" Pinkie Pie smiles up at the confused Draconequus.

"If you rest for the next couple hours you'll be all better and can go to Canterlot." Discord smiles at this news.

"Really you think so." Pinkie Pie nods happily at him, giving a triumphant laugh Discord quickly conjures up a bed for himself, he curls up under the covers with a Fluttershy plushie. He yawns before looking up at Pinkie Pie. "Let me know if theres any trouble okay?"

"Of course Discord." Pinkie Pie smiles happily, as Discord nods off for a quick nap. Once shes sure he's asleep Pinkie Pie turns her attention to the mouth of the cave, she slowly walks to the opening and smiles brightly, then she speaks in sing-songy voice. "There's another ooooonnne."

In The Air Above The Cave 

Lightening Bug and Dragon Fly look down at the cave, Lightening Bug stares determinedly her eyes  never moving off the opening, while Dragon Fly has a bored expression on his face , his eyes occasionally move from the opening to glance at his sister.

"What are we doing?" Dragon Fly asks after sighing heavily, Lightening Bug doesn't move her eyes off the cave.

"She sensed me. She'll be out here soon enough." Dragon Fly just rolls his eyes.

"If she knows we're here why would-" Dragon Fly stops talking as he catches a glimpse of movement by the cave, looking down his eyes widen as a pink pony walks out of the cave and toward the forest. "Well what do you know that is the element of laughter."

"See I told ya." Lightening Bug chirps happily, Dragon Fly raises an eyebrow and points a hoof.

"Where's she going?"  Lightening Bug looks to where her brother is pointing, her eyes widen as she sees Pinkie Pie heading toward a bush at the edge of the forest. Lightening Bug whistles loudly catching Dragon Fly off guard. 

"Attack quickly!!" Lightening Bug dashes down toward Pinkie Pie, a dozen changelings burst out of the tree line and launch themselves at Pinkie Pie as well. Pinkie Pie just giggles happily as she dives into the bush, Lightening Bug and the changeling's fire energy blasts from their horns, the beams hit the moment after Pinkie Pie disappeared into the bush. The beams vaporize the bush, but no pony is standing there. 

"What the?" Dragon Fly joins his sister near the bush, Lightening Bug grunts in anger. 

"She disappeared." Lightening Bug turns toward the forest. "Everypony search the forest shes around here somewhere!"

"Yes ma'am." The changelings all say in unison, they quickly split into groups of three and spread out through the forest. Lightening Bug smiles out into the forest. 

"I knew she'd make this interesting." Lightening Bug squeals happily. "This is gonna be so fun!"

Meanwhile On A High Branch Of A Tree

Pinkie Pie sits on her rear, with her hind legs dangling off the branch, she leans back on her fore legs humming happily, suddenly she turns her head to the side and seems to smile at you. 

"Oh hi how are you?" Pinkie Pie chuckles happily "I know this chapter is all about me." Pinkie Pie's eyes dart from side to side. 

"Okay but it's about me right now so deal with it." Pinkie Pie looks down at the ground and smiles wide. "Oh sorry I gotta go, there are bad guys to beat up."

Pinkie Pie stands up on the branch, she balances on her hind legs and hold her fore hooves out to her sides, she takes a deep breath.

"Maximum effort." Pinkie Pie speaks as  she slides forward off the branch sending herself plummeting toward the ground. Pinkie Pie lands hooves first on top of a changeling, the two changelings standing on either side of that changeling turn in surprise at the sudden attack. Pinkie Pie swings her hooves through the air hitting both changelings before they can react, they fly through the air and slam into a couple trees. Pinkie Pie turns at the sound of shouting, another patrol of three changelings is running her way, she smiles and dashes towards them. The changelings fire beams from their horns at the charging pony, but Pinkie dodges all of them, her body bending in bizarre ways to avoid damage. When she reaches the changelings she jumps over them, she spins around quickly and grabs the middle ones tail, she quickly jerks the tail to the right, flinging the changeling into his comrade. Pinkie Pie blocks a hoof from the remaining changeling with her back leg, she quickly kicks him in the face several times with her other back leg, she upper cuts him with her back leg sending him flying through the air. She turns her attention back to the changeling whose tail she is holding, she jumps between him and the changeling next to him, she grabs their heads and bangs them together.

"There she is!" Pinkie Pie turns toward the voice and smiles at the last batch of six changelings running at her, she folds herself into a ball and begins spinning rapidly, she builds up energy but doesn't move. A couple of the changelings halt their advance at the sight, the remaining four continue their charge. Pinkie Pie suddenly shoots off like a pink ball of doom, she dashes past four of the changelings and crashes into the face of one of the two who had stayed behind, spinning ball Pinkie Pie turns through the air and slams into the other one that had stayed behind. Pinkie Pie suddenly pops out of her ball form and body slams onto one of the remaining changelings. She kicks off the changeling she crushed with her back legs sending herself through the air at one of the remaining changelings, she grabs hold of his horn and spins around in a circle kicking the other two changelings multiple times in the face. She slams her back hooves into the ground she comes to a stop to the right of the final changeling, he quickly swings a hoof at her, in one swift motion Pinkie Pie grabs his hoof and flips herself and him onto their hind legs, she holds his hoof against his back, he tries to move but Pinkie Pie bends his leg causing him to stop struggling because of the pain, the changeling looks back at her.

"What are you?" The changeling asks panting heavily, Pinkie Pie just smiles at him. 

"Your worst nightmare." Pinkie Pie flicks her hooves snapping the changelings leg, he screams in pain right before Pinkie hits him in the back of the head causing him to lose consciousness, she gives him a wide grin. "An element of harmony with absolutely no self control." 

"Oh that was wonderful!" Pinkie Pie turns at the sudden voice and is greeted by a pair of bright yellow changeling eyes, anypony else would've jumped back in surprise but Pinkie Pie just smiles. 

"I know right it was super fun." Pinkie Pie and Lightening Bug give each other a high hoof. 

"Let me just say miss Pinkie Pie it is such an honor to meet you, your utter hatred of the fourth wall is a huge inspiration for me." Lightening Bug's eyes sparkle, Pinkie Pie blushes and waves a hoof dismissively. 

"Oh it's nothing." Pinkie Pie looks off into the distance a dreamy look in her eye. "My dream is to one day break the fourth wall so bad our world pours out into the real world."

"Wow." Lightening Bug stares at Pinkie Pie her eyes shining like stars. Lightening Bug looks down at the ground sadly. "Hey Pinkie Pie, I uh... have to take you prisoner." 

"Yeah I know that." Pinkie Pie smiles at Lightening Bug, who just looks at her in surprise. 

"Really." Lightening Bug blinks. "Sooo... um... can I?" 

"Hmmm." Pinkie Pie puts a hoof to her chin, her expression brightens as she takes her hoof off her chin. "On one condition."

"What's that?" Lightening Bug asks raising an eyebrow, Pinkie Pie smirks at her. 

"You gotta take her out first." Pinkie Pie points into the air, Lightening Bug follows her hoof her eyes widen as she sees the purple alicorn princess glaring down at them, sweat appears on Lightening Bugs forehead as Twilight's horn starts glowing. 

"Alright changeling step away from my-" Twilight is cut off as a silver changeling dashes behind her and smacks the back of her head with a large black book, Twilight immediately loses consciousness and begins falling toward the ground, Dragon Fly swoops down and grabs her with his magic. 

"Huh?" Pinkie Pie looks up at her unconscious friend, she turns her attention back to Lightening Bug. "I didn't see that coming." 

"Me neither." Lightening Bug blinks up at her brother and then turns her attention back to Pinkie Pie. "So are you my prisoner now?"

"Hmmm." Pinkie Pie looks between Twilight and Lightening Bug. "Well I guess so, you did take her out first." 

"Hooray!" Lightening Bug jumps into the air and squeals happily. 

Bug Bite and Cherry Blossoms Home... AKA The Old Changeling Hive

Sombra is sitting on one of the couches in the throne room turned living room, his eyes are fixated on the coffee table in front of him, nothing is on the coffee table, but the table has been polished and cleaned so well he can see himself in the wooden table. His eyes have a hint of sadness in them. 

This is the second time I've seen myself since I became the lord of shadows. Sombra thinks to himself. He scowls as he remembers the first time he had seen himself, how Chrysalis and the others had laughed at him, his face turns thoughtful as he remembers the queens laugh, it was a pleasant sound, he found that he liked it more then the other ponies laughter, Sombra shakes his head. 

No that's not way it's in my head. Sombra looks around the room making sure he's alone. At least not the only reason. Sombra turns his attention back to his reflection, something about that laugh was familiar to him, he had heard it before he was sure of that, long ago before she had revived him... possibly even before he had been sealed by the princesses. Sombra thinks back to before he had been sealed, before he had become the lord of shadows, his eyes widen as for the first time he notices gapes in his memories. Sombra rubs his head in thought, it felt like somepony had been removed from his memories, all he could see were flashes of black skin, and green eyes. Sombra grinds his teeth in anger. Who is it? Who's  missing from my memories!? Suddenly everything goes dark as a pair of hooves covers his eyes. 

"Guess who!" A familiar voice squeaks happily behind him, Sombra is surprised, not by the voice or the sudden lost of vision, but once again by the familiarity of the situation. Normally Sombra would groan and refuse to play along, but for some reason he can't quite explain he decides to do the unexpected. Sombra puts both his hooves behind his back, they sink into the shadows behind him, suddenly they shoot out the back of the couch and grab the sides of the stomach of the pony blinding him. 

"What are you-" The pony blinding Sombra is interrupted as Sombra begins tickling her stomach, she releases his eyes as she bursts into laughter. She jumps back out of his grip, she giggles for a little longer as Sombra retracts his hooves through the couch and turns around to look at his 'attacker'. 

"Is it Chrysalis?" Sombra smirks at the changeling queen who coughs to stop her giggling. Sombra raises an eyebrow, he had expected Chrysalis to scowl back at him, but instead she's smiling and... Sombra squints at her barely able to make out a slight tint of red on her black skin. Sombra suddenly averts his gaze from Chrysalis. Why did I just do that? Sombra taps his hoof against his head in anger. And why do I feel like I've done it before!?

"Hey Somy." Sombra turns back to Chrysalis, she smiles sweetly at him, some of her cob web hair has fallen over her face hiding one of her eyes, Sombra feels his face heat up at the strangely familiar sight. 

"What is it Chrysalis?" Sombra asks after coughing away in the strange heat on his face. 

"I have something for you." Chrysalis holds out a box wrapped in black paper, bound by red ribbon, Sombra looks at the present quizzically before grabbing it with his magic. 

"What's this for?" Sombra asks turning his gaze to Chrysalis, Chrysalis continues smiling at him, her blush deepens.  

"Just something I've been meaning to give you for awhile." Sombra raises an eyebrow at the comment but shrugs and rips the wrapping paper off with one quick swipe of his horn. He opens the box with his magic and stares at the object inside. 

"A sword?" Sombra reaches in and grabs the blade out of the box, the hilt has been specially designed for a hoof to hold it comfortably, the hilt is designed to look like black flames a glowing green crystal is embedded at the base of the blade, Sombra recognizes the stone it's the same one he saw those drones grab from the stalactite a couple days ago. The blade itself resembles Sombra's horn, although it is much longer then his horn or any of the blades he has conjured before. Sombra looks at the sword, his eye stings as a tear try's to form in it, but his dark powers refuse to let it. 

"Yep I designed it myself, although the drones helped actually forge it, numbers 318 and 587 were really excited they seem to like forging stuff, their the ones who forged Stag Beetles armor. They used that blade I took from you back when Discord attacked the new hive." Chrysalis smiles brightly at Sombra, her eyes sparkling. "So what do you think?" 

Sombra looks between the sword and the Queen, he smiles at her. "I like it." 

"Yes!" Chrysalis squeals like a little filly. "I knew you'd love it." Chrysalis looks at Sombra's eyes, the green in his eyes have faded quite a bit the purple energy coming off his eyes have shrunk to tiny stubs of purple, her smile continues as Sombra stands up on his hind legs and gives the sword a few practice swing's. 

"Excellent the balance is amazing, you changelings are master craftponies." Sombra gives the sword another thrust, a sinister smile appears on his face as he imagines his foes on the end of his new blade. He turns to look at Chrysalis, her eyes stare blankly into space, Sombra can tell she's communicating through the hive mind, he looks to his side and small black portal appears in front of him, he thrusts the sword through it and the sword and portal both vanish. He turns back to Chrysalis so seems to be done talking through the hive mind. 

"It's time." Chrysalis says grinning, Sombra matches her grin

"Discord is alone?" 

"Yes the twins are bringing two elements in as prisoners." Sombra puts a hoof to his chin. 

"Two? That's unexpected." Sombra chuckles to himself. "But not unwelcome." 

"So is it time?" Chrysalis asks raising an eyebrow, Sombra nods.

"Yes it's time for my part." Sombra looks at Chrysalis, the green returning to his eyes. "Make sure Tirek doesn't drain them until i give the word." 

"What?" Chrysalis blinks at him. "Why?" 

"Because Chrissy, Discord will sense the magical imbalance and until I've dealt with him we can't risk him finding out where we are." Sombra speaks matter-o-factually, he rolls his eyes before vanishing into the shadows. Chrysalis just stares at where he had been standing a blush visible even on her dark skin, a tear forms in her eye and a small smile is on her lips.   

"He remembered my nickname." Chrysalis hums happily as she walks off to find Tirek. 

Discord's Random Cave

Discord lays in his conjured bed mumbling happily in his sleep, he is so content he doesn't notice the lord of shadows appear near him. Sombra grins down at the spirit of chaos. 

"Having pleasant dreams Discord?" Sombra's grin turns sinister and the red of his eyes begin to glow, he shoots a blast of dark energy from his horn, Discord lets out a groan and moves around restlessly in his bed.

"That will keep you asleep until I find a way into that demented little mind of yours." Sombra laughs as the cave becomes shrouded in darkness, he and his laughter fade into the shadows.

Canterlot Castle Fluttershy's Room

Fluttershy looks out the window of her room, the sun has just begun to set and the moon as started to raise into the air. She sighs deeply as her thoughts turn to her friend who should have been here by now. Twilight had left to get to Pinkie Pie and Discord hours ago, according to her locating spell they should have been back an hour or two ago.

"What's the matter? Concerned for your friend?" Fluttershy turns away from the window and searches the room for the voice that had spoken. 

"Who's there?" Fluttershy calls into the room, the room gets darker and darker as the sun sets. Soon the only light in the room are a few candles on the table and the walls. A gust of wind blows through the room, it blows out the candles and chills Fluttershy to the bone. Fluttershy lets out a squeak of fear as a pair of red and green eyes appear in the dark. 

"Go ahead cry for help." Fluttershy's lips quivers at the harsh tone of the voice. "Call for him and you'll be spared." 

"What do you mean?" Tears form in Fluttershy's eyes as a large red and black blade appears in front of her face, the pair of eyes narrow at her. 

"Call for Discord!" the blade gets closer to her face.

"Call him!" Tears begin streaming down Fluttershy's face as more blades appear around her. 

"DO IT NOW!!" The voice shouts at Fluttershy, she closes her eyes. 

"HELP ME!!" Fluttershy keeps her eyes closed. 

The pair of eyes stare at the necklace around her neck, the second she shouts a magical signal shoots out from the ring normally invisible only certain ponies can see these signals, a black glow catches the signal as it leaves the ring, the sinister voice begins to laugh, the blades vanish as Sombra steps out of the shadows. Upon hearing the laughter Fluttershy opens her eyes and jumps back in surprise at the sight of the lord of shadows. Sombra grins down at her.

"Thank you." Sombra gives a throaty chuckle. "Now I can finally deal with that fool." 

"You leave Discord alone!" Fluttershy glares at Sombra attempting to use the stare on him, Sombra throws his head back in a laugh. 

"I see why Discord likes you, you've got spunk." Fluttershy blushes at the comment, but she shakes her head realizing that now is probably not the best time. 

"You don't stand a chance against Discord." Fluttershy shouts intensifying her glare on Sombra, he doesn't seem affected though. 

"In a fair fight no I don't." Sombra smirks at her as his horn starts to glow, he blasts her in the forehead and she immediately loses consciousness.

"Then again I don't play fair." Sombra let's out a maniacal laugh as he transforms into shadow and seems to fuse with the magical signal he caught earlier, the invisible signal shoots out through the air toward the cave where the lord of chaos happily sleeps.  
> Dreams Of Reality
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Discord looks around him, he's standing in a clearing of the Everfree forest, he can tell he's dreaming, being the spirit of chaos makes it so all his dreams are lucid dreams. He had been enjoying a lovely picnic with Fluttershy until he had suddenly been transported to the  Everfree forest. Discord knew somepony was messing with his dreams, he had tried to leave the forest but only ended up flying around for hours without getting anywhere, he just kept coming back to this clearing over and over again. He puts a talon to his chin trying to think of who could be messing with him, he scowls as his mind wonders to the pink pony who had been in the cave with him. She'd better be okay.

"HELP ME!!" Fluttershy's voice rings through his ears, Discord looks up toward the sky where the voice had come from. The sky rips apart as a golden bolt of lightening shrouded in a black shadow bursts through the air, the message plays again as the bolt strikes the ground in front of Discord. He shields his eyes from the bright flash of light, after a moment he moves his hand and is surprised to see that the forest is gone and he is now standing in a empty black void. He glares angrily at the only other pony standing in the void, Lord Sombra. 

"Hello Discord." Sombra says, as he smirks at Discord, Discord narrows his eyes at the lord of shadows.

"Sombra how did you get in my mind?" Discord's claws pop out of his paw, Sombra chuckles evilly. Sombra's horn glows and an image of Fluttershy appears in the air near him.

"She invited me." Discord flinches at the appearance of Fluttershy, he growls in anger as Sombra reaches out and puts his hoof on her chin."She is very pretty Discord."  Sombra pulls the image of Fluttershy with him as he dodges a swipe of Discord's claws. 

"Please Discord don't get mad." Discord blinks at the sound of Fluttershy's voice, he looks away from Sombra and toward the image of Fluttershy, tears have started to well up in her eyes. 

"But Fluttershy he's hurting you." Discord's ears droop, and his eyes burn with anger.

"I haven't hurt her." As Sombra speaks one of his blades appears behind Fluttershy, he grins as he continues. "Yet." 

"If you hurt even one hair on her head I'll-" Discord growls out in anger, but he's interrupted by Fluttershy. 

"What are you going to do Discord?" Fluttershy's eyes looking at him pleadingly, Sombra chuckles. 

"Yes Discord what will you do?" Sombra says as the blade inches closer to Fluttershy's chest. 

"Don't lose your temper Discord." Closer. 

"Aren't you going to save her Discord?" Closer. 

"Stay calm this isn't real." Closer. 

"Let loose Discord It's the only way to save her." Closer. 

"She needs you Discord only you can save her." Closer. 

"The real Fluttershy is fine Discord don't lose control." Closer. 

"Isn't she worth protecting no matter what?" The blade is touching Fluttershy's chest right above where her heart is, Discord clenches his fists and shakes with rage. 

"No I'm not worth it." Discord's eyes widen, he knows this is all fake, he knows that isn't really Fluttershy, but at that moment he doesn't care. His paw stretches out and punches Sombra in the face, while his talon grabs the blade and throws it away before grabbing the image of Fluttershy and bringing her close to him. He looks down at Fluttershy and gives her a tender smile. 

"Are you ok?" The image of Fluttershy looks up at him with sad eyes.

"I told you Fluttershy's not worth it." Discord scowls at the Fluttershy he is holding, but chuckles slightly at the knowledge that the real Fluttershy would say something similar. 

"Yes she is even a fake Fluttershy is more important to me then anything." The image of Fluttershy can't help but smile at Discord's words. 

"Then this should be easier then I thought." Discord turns to look at the source of the voice but stops part way as a knife fly's through the air striking the image of Fluttershy in the chest, her body starts turning black, Discord and her lock eyes, her eyes are full of fear. 

"Discord don't lose control I'm not the real Fluttershy, stay calm, don't-" The image of Fluttershy bursts into smoke and fades away. Discord spins around and glares at Sombra his eyes burning with rage, for the first time Discord doesn't care what Fluttershy just said, the only thing he cares about is killing the pony standing in front of him. 

"What's the matter Discord? Not real enough for you?" Sombra laughs manically. "If you want I can go get the real Fluttershy and we can start the game over ag-" Sombra is interrupted as a paw slams into his chin sending him skyward. 

"I'll make you regret coming anywhere near her Sombra!" Discord shouts at Sombra as he swings his talon hand at the lord of shadows. A small black portal appears and Sombra draws a long black and red blade from the portal blocking Discord's attack. Sombra smirks at Discord, who takes a second to roll his eyes despite his anger. What is up with villains today and wielding swords. Discord puts his talon fingers together and his talon arm turns into serrated steel, his talon arm pops off and grows a hilt shaped like an ice cream cone, he wields the new talon arm sword in his paw hand, he grows a new talon arm. Sombra glows black and stands up on his hind legs so he's closer to Discords height, while Discord glows red to match his anger, they both swing their blades at each other sparks fly as the blades collide over and over again, the two strike so fast that normal ponies wouldn't be able to follow the battle. With each strike the void of darkness surroundings them cracks under the power the two beings possess. They both swing their swords once more the force of the blow shatters the dark void leaving the two in a colorless limbo, they hold their swords together they lean into their blades pushing against each other. 

"Good at sword fighting to? Is there anything you can't do Discord?" Sombra asks jokingly a sinister smirk on his face, his smirk widens when Discord only growls in response. Suddenly Sombra kicks out his hind hoof hitting Discord in the chest, the blow sends the spirit of chaos flying through the air, he collides with a dream copy of the bed he conjured in the cave. Standing up from the bed he glares at Sombra bearing his teeth at the lord of shadows. Sombra laughs and dashes away from Discord flying over the forest the two have suddenly appeared in, Discord narrows his eyes at the retreating pony. 

"You can't get away!" Discord shouts as he lunges toward Sombra flying through the air at speeds that rival a sonic rainboom, but no matter how fast Discord goes he can't seem to close the distance on Sombra. After a few minutes of flying Sombra suddenly stops, Discord notices his opponent stop but doesn't slow down as seconds later he slams into Sombra sending the lord of shadows hurtling through the air, Discord lost all momentum when he collided with Sombra so he just floats in place as Sombra falls from the sky and crashes into a large rock quarry. Discord takes one second to look around their new battle arena theres nothing around but giant rocks most are as big as houses, Discord returns his gaze to the pony attempting to stand up, he throws his talon sword down at Sombra, and then quickly dashes after it, the blade pierces Sombra's back, and only a second later Discord slams his fist into the hilt with such force that the blade goes all the way through Sombra's body leaving only the hilt visible, the blow also caused a crater to form around Sombra. Discord grins down at his handy work, but his grin disappears when Sombra turns his head back to look at Discord, his own grin on his face. 

"You didn't think it'd be that easy did you?" Sombra laughs manically as he fades into the shadows, Discord slams his fist into the hilt of his sword sending it borrowing into the ground, he looks around the rock quarry, his eyes widen at what he sees. Dozens of Sombra's are emerging from the large boulders that make up the quarry they're all staring at him malice in their eyes and their smiles. Discord narrows his eyes at the advancing forces. 

"Oh you all want a piece huh?" Discord flashes the Sombra's a toothy grin. "Then let's dance." Discord dashes forward and punches one of the Sombra's in the chest sending him hurtling into a nearby boulder. He swings his tail slamming two more Sombra's into the ground. Discord teleports behind another Sombra and claws his back with his paw, he then turns toward a group of Sombra's that have started laughing, Discord charges energy into his talon and chucks a bolt of lightening at the crowd, the force of the blow sends them all flying through the air. Discord snaps his head toward the sound of hooves marching, a crazed look enters his eyes as he sees a battalion of Sombra's wielding their signature blades. Discord inhales deeply and breathes out a giant stream of purple fire that engulfs the battalion. Discord laughs manically as he watches the Sombra's burn, his laughter stops and his eyes narrow as the large boulders of the quarry begin to shift into copies of Sombra's giant form. 

"Your really good at messing with dreams Sombra, but I can keep this up forever." Discord lunges  forward and slams his fists into one of the large Sombra's, he instantly crumbles into stone. Discord continues zipping around the quarry slashing Sombra's with his claws and smashing giant Sombra's with his fists. Discord fly's into the air and floats above the rock quarry, he looks down at all the Sombra's glaring up at him, and all the giant Sombra's roaring up at him. Why is he sending this weak clones at me? He knows I don't tire out. Discord shakes his head.It doesn't matter! I'll just destroy them all! Discord puts his talon into the air and begins channeling energy into the air right above his palm, a ball of red energy begins forming above him, he glares down at the army below him. Suddenly a voice pierces the veil of darkness surrounding Discord's dream.  

"Discord!" Discord looks around the sky for the source of the voice. 

"Luna!" Discord shouts as a scowl appears on his face. No! She can't stop this dream yet, I can end it all here I just need to find the real Sombra. Discord catches sight of something flying towards him, another Sombra except this one has large smoke like wings. 

"Hello again Discord." The winged Sombra hisses at Discord a sinister smile on his face, Discord returns with his own toothy grin. 

"There you are!" Discord shouts as he hurls the incomplete ball of energy at Sombra, the red ball is meet with a beam of black energy and explodes in mid air. Discord dashes through the smoke and swings his paw fist at Sombra, who block it with one of his hooves. Sombra looks at the paw that collided with his fist. 

"Ooo, soft." Sombra says sarcastically, Discord growls at the lord of shadows. Discord jumps back and opens both his hands, the fingers on his talon hand and the claws on his lion paw turn into solid gold. 

"I'm going to tear you apart!" Discord lunges at Sombra once more swiping his claws at the lord of shadows, Sombra dodges swipe after swipe, and then blasts Discord in the chest with a beam from his horn. Discord fly's away a short distance, Discord blinks at Sombra as he regains his composure. That was weak is he even trying to hurt me.

"Discord you must stop!" Discord flinches at the sound of Luna's voice. "Sombra is in your mind, you must fight him!" 

"What do you think I'm doing!" Discord screams as he dashes at Sombra once more, Sombra holds up a hoof to block Discord's attack, but Discord teleports just before they collide, Sombra's eyes widen as he turns his head to look behind him for the spirit of chaos. But Discord didn't teleport behind Sombra, Discord reappears in the same place he had been before vanishing. He swings his talon and slashes Sombra across the face, Sombra roars in pain as he clutches his left eye. Discord punches Sombra in the chest, Sombra reflexively clutches his stomach revealing his now bleeding eye, red blood drips down his face from the large gashes on the left side of his face, his eye refuses to open due to them. Discord grabs Sombra around the waist with his tail and slams him into the nearest boulder, and then swings him around into another boulder.

Discord releases his hold on Sombra and stabs his talon into Sombra back, and then flings Sombra across the quarry toward another boulder. When Sombra reaches that boulder Discord is already there and swipes Sombra into the air with his paw, red blood fly's through the air as his claws slice through Sombra' chest. Discord teleports into the air and grabs Sombra by the throat with his talon hand, he turns Sombra toward the ground and dives. As they plummet jets of fire shoot out of Discord's feet propelling them toward the ground faster, when they are a few feet away from the ground, their speed doubles like a sonic rainboom and they cause a giant explosion when they make impact with the ground. Discord and Sombra are now in a giant crater that has taken the place of over fifty feet of the rock quarry, rubble is scattered around everywhere. Discord glares down at the several wounded lord of shadows he's still holding by the neck, he digs his talons into Sombra's neck, red blood begins streaming down Discord's talon. 

"D-Dis-cord." Discord's head snaps up at Luna's weak voice. 

"Lulu?" Discord searches the area around him. Did she get caught up in that? Did Sombra hurt her when she tried to interfere?

"P-please... s-stop." Luna's voice echoes through Discord's ears. Suddenly Sombra starts laughing manically, causing Discord to glare down at the lord of shadows. Discord raise an eyebrow at the lord of shadows, his voice seems completely unaffected by the talon on his throat. 

"What is so damn funny!?" Discord shouts at Sombra tightening his grip on his neck. Sombra smirks as he glares at Discord. 

"You want to know what's funny?" Discord narrows his eyes at the lord of shadows and tightens his grip even more, causing more red blood to begin leaking out of Sombra's mouth, for the first time Discord notices the blood. 

"Red blood?" Discord raises an eyebrow. "But I thought your blood was-"

"You still think your dreaming." Discord's eyes widen at this comment, and his grip loosens. 

"What do you mean?" Sombra bursts into laughter. 

"You'll find out in a minute." Discord opens his mouth to speak but is cut off by a blinding light ripping through the dark of night, Discord looks toward the light expecting to see Luna freeing him from his dream, what he sees instead causes his eyes to widen in panic, the sun raises over the horizon. As the light from the sun bathes the land the rubble of the rock quarry turns in debris from destroyed buildings, the giant Sombra fade into Canterlot houses and the Sombra clones become the citizens and royal guards of Canterlot. Discord takes a moment to look at the devastation the city has endured, tears well up in his eyes as the realization that he is the cause of it dawns on him. He catches sight if a figure approaching him, he turns and locks eyes with Princess Celestia. Her eyes burn with rage as she glares down the side of the crater at Discord. 

"Release her." Discord flinches at the demand. 

"W-what?" Discord stammers out, Celestia narrows her eyes at him. 

"Release my sister." Celestia stomps her hoof and her horn begins to glow."NOW!"

"Your sister? I don't have-" Discord  stops short as a thought comes to him, he slowly turns his head toward his talon, he gasps in horror as the bleeding and beaten body of the lord of shadows has been replaced with a different pony. Tears begin flowing from Discord's face as he gently removes his talon from around her neck, he stares at his bloody talon, his talon drips with blood, but that's not what has Discord the most concerned, his fingers which he thought he had turned into gold were instead curved and colored black and red matching the lord of shadows horn. He returns his gaze to the body lying in front of him, her eyes are closed, although only one is by choice, her body scarred in several places. Discord's tears fall onto her dark blue fur as he covers his eyes, and screams. 

"Luna I'm so sorry!"
> Return To Form (unfinished)
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	Princess Luna is flying through the sky, she looks down and smiles at the homes of her sleeping subjects, pleased that everypony seems to be having pleasant dreams. A minute later she lands on a nearby cliff and looks out over the forest, a small frown appears on her face as she thinks of the nightmare she had sensed not to long ago. Luna had felt it somepony had infiltrated  somepony elses dream, she couldn't tell who the attacker or the victim were but she knew it couldn't be good. The dream only lasted a minute and she felt nothing from the dream realm, the victim must have... Luna is taken from her thoughts as she senses a large number of ponies leave the dream realm all at once, she turns toward Canterlot and launches herself off the cliff into the night sky. It doesn't take her long to get to Canterlot, but Luna wasn't prepared for what she sees hovering above the capital. Discord is floating above the city a giant ball of red energy hovering just above his talon hand. 

"Discord!" Luna shouts in surprise, She begins flying toward him. Discord looks up from the ground and begins searching for the source of the voice. 

"Luna!" Discord looks around a second longer before his eyes lock onto Luna, Luna gasps as she gets a good look at Discord's eyes, the yellow of his eyes have turned neon green and purple streams of magic are flowing from the corners of his eyes. 

"Sombra has a hold of his mind!" Luna slows herself down, as Discord flashes her a toothy grin. 

"There you are!" Discord throws the incomplete ball of energy at Luna, she quickly blasts it with her dark blue magic causing the ball of energy to explode. Luna sees Discord dashing through the smoke just in time to block the attack with her hoof. Discord growls at Luna before jumping back from her. He flexes his fingers and the fingers on his talon hand and the claws on his paw hand transform into red and black blades that resemble Sombra's horn, Luna gulps at the sight.

"I'm going to tear you apart!" Discord screams as he lunges at Luna swiping his claw at her, she dodges each swipe and then blasts him with a blast from her horn. Discord fly's back a short distance, he corrects himself and looks at Luna slightly confused. Luna grimaces, her plan was to weaken Sombra's hold on Discord with that blast. 

"Discord you must stop!" Luna shouts at him, she smiles when she sees him flinch in response. "Sombra is in your mind, you must fight him!"

"What do you think I'm doing!" Discord screams as he dashes toward Luna again, She holds up a hoof to block Discord's attack, but Discord teleports just before they collide, Luna's eyes widen as she snaps her head around predicting him  to reappear behind her. But Discord didn't teleport behind her, Luna's eyes widen as she sees Discord reappear in the same place he had been before vanishing. Discord swings his talon and Luna feels his claws rip through the left side of her face across the face, She screams in pain as she instinctively clutches her left eye. Before she can react Discord punches her in the chest, Luna reflexively clutches her stomach, she tries to look at Discord but her one eye is forced shut by the wound, and the blood makes it hard to see out of her one good eye. Luna feels Discord grab her around the waist with his tail, the next thing she knows shes being flung through the air into a nearby building , and then she feels the air rush pastas she is flung into another building. Luna begins desperately charging magic into her horn. 

Luna feels Discord unwrap his tail from her body, she takes in a deep breathe and focuses more magic into her horn. She gasps in pain as Discord suddenly stabs his talon into her back, she feels herself flying through the air as Discord flings her across the street. Luna braces herself for the collision with the next building, but instead of hitting the building Luna feels Discord swipe her across the chest with his claws, the force propels her into the air. She doesn't fly up too long before, she feels Discord's claws grip her throat, she then feels air rush past them as they plummet back toward the ground. Luna diverts a small amount of magic from her horn to create a safety bubble that she hopes will lessen the blow, suddenly she feels their speed double kind of like a sonic rainboom the next thing she feels is the impact on the ground, and the sound of an explosion. Luna squints through the blood in her good eye, she can make out the blurry image of Discord glaring down her, she feels him dig his talons into her neck, she feels her blood pouring out of the fresh wounds.

"D-Dis-cord." Luna pleads.

"Lulu?"  Luna gives a weak smile at the nickname, and the concern in Discord's voice.

"P-please... s-stop." Luna begs, her hopes of breaking the curse, are dashed as Discord suddenly snaps his neck down to glare at her.

"What is so damn funny!?" Luna gasps as Discord tightens his grip on her throat, she begins to panic, the force on her neck is making impossible for her to focus on her spell, she can barely breathe, she can't even talk.

"Red blood?" Luna raises an eyebrow at Discord's sudden question. "But I thought your blood was-"

"What do you mean?" Luna  hears Discord ask, she gasps as the pressure on her neck is suddenly lessened, not wasting a moment Luna unleashes her spell, she does something she has never done before, something not even Celestia has done before. With all her strength Luna raised the sun... two hours early. The bright light from the sun momentarily blinds Luna, she goes limb from the effort of raising her sisters celestial body while lowering her own at the same time, she begins to black out, all her energy is spent and her wounds have finally caught up with her, before she loses consciousness she smiles at the blurry sight of Discord's normal yellow eyes.

It's up to you Celestia bring Discord back from the darkness.
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"Luna I'm so sorry!" Discord screams at the unconscious princess of night, he turns his attention to his hands, he gazes at their red and blacks blades. He whispers in horror. "What have I done?"

"The same thing you always do." Discord turns his gaze from Luna toward the cold voice that had spoken, he stares up at Celestia who just glares down at him. 

"Look Celestia this was-" 

"I know what's going on Discord." Discord blinks up at the Princess of the sun. 

"Y-you do?" Discord ask nervously, Celestia slowly makes her way down the crater, stopping a short distance away from Discord and her sister. Discord and Celestia stare at each other, the lord of chaos filled with anxiety and fear, the princess of the sun filled with rage. 

"Step away from my sister." Celestia demands, her eyes narrowing at the lord of chaos,  Discord blinks at her, and then glances back down at Luna, before returning his gaze to Celestia. 

"L-look Celestia I can fix this! I can repair the city, I can heal Lu-" Before Discord can finish his thought Celestia launches a hoof at his face, the force sends him flying through the air colliding with the wall of the crater. Discord wipes some dirt off his face, he stares at Celestia in surprise, her eyes are glowing like the fires of the sun. 

"Do not say her name." Celestia's glare intensifies. "You no longer have the right." 

"Look Celestia I know i screwed up her but it wasn't me Sombra was tricking-" 

"I told you i already know what's going on Discord." Discord blinks at Celestia baffled by her comment. "I know Sombra was influencing your mind."

"Then why are you so-" Discord begins raising an eyebrow at her. 

"I also know that if Luna hadn't raised the sun early that you would have killed her." Discord winches at that. He silently curses himself, he glances down at his talon and paw and quickly returns his claws to their normal state, he looks toward Luna and snaps his fingers... but nothing happens. Discord's eyes widen, he snaps his fingers again... once more Luna remains unhealed, becoming more panicked Discord continues snapping his fingers trying to heal Luna, after a whole minute of snapping Discord becomes aware of Celestia standing over him. 

"I-I don't know what's going on." Discord stammers looking between Luna and Celestia.

"Fluttershy told me that you were wounded by Sombra's blade and that you couldn't heal yourself afterward." Somehow Celestia's  glare gets more hate filled. A bead of sweat appears on Discord's forehead. 

"Celestia I can fix this really I can, I just need a chance to-" 

"I've given you enough chances!" Discord flinches from her outburst, Celestia shouts at Discord once more. "I don't even know why Luna wanted to give you another chance Discord."

"Wait Luna gave me another chance?" Discord asks turning his gaze to the Princess of night. 

"Yes it was actually her idea to try and reform you." Celestia turns a her gaze to her sister. "I don't know why... after all of our problems can be traced back to you." 

"What do you mean! What have I done!" Discord shouts standing up to his full height. 

"You mean other then the two times you took over Equestria!" Celestia spits at Discord. 

"Y-yes other then those." Discord curses himself for that momentary stupidity.

"Hmm let's see!" Celestia shouts sarcastically. "Too name a few, your the one who gave Sombra access to dark magic!"

"Okay i may have-"

"You 'blessed' Tirek with the power to drain magic." Discord's eyes widen.

"I did that?" He asks trying to remember. 

"Yes you did. You also wrote the resurrection spell that is causing our current problems, I believe you also wrote a time travel spell, forged an evil amulet you named the alicorn amulet, and also created a mirror that transports ponies to some bizarre place called high school." Both Discord and Celestia take a second to shutter at the thought. "But do you know your biggest crime?" 

"What?" Discord asks, the memories of all his crimes replaying in his head, how had he forgotten all this? Celestia turns her face toward the ground.

"You corrupted my sister's mind and caused her to become Nightmare Moon!" Celestia returns her glare to Discord, the fire in her eyes burning brighter. "I lost my sister for a thousand years because of you Discord! And here I find you trying to take her from me again!" 

"Celestia don't lose your temper Sombra might try to-" Before Discord can finish, Celestia suddenly fires a blast of golden energy at a near by building, she doesn't hit anything, but Discord can make out the pained cry of the Lord of Darkness. 

"I am light and he is darkness, he can try to manipulate my mind all he wants, but it will never work." Celestia shouts at Discord, but loud enough for Sombra to hear from his hiding spot.

"If you know where he is why don't you deal with him now?" Discord exclaims.

"Because Discord, you need to be dealt with first." Discord grinds his teeth together, he's about to reply when he's cut off by a voice in his head.

"We warned you Discord." Sombra's voice echoes through Discord's head. 

"Leave me alone Sombra!" Discord mentally shouts back at the Lord of Darkness, Sombra chuckles in his brain. 

"You heard her Discord, they don't care that you've changed, they still blame you for everything." Discord scowls at Sombra's words. It was true Celestia is blaming him for all of their problems, and Discord hadn't even done all that stuff she said... at least he doesn't remember doing them. 

"Your always so easily distracted Discord." Discord's head snaps up at the sound of Celestia's voice, he gasps as he sees her charging magic into her horn. He teleports away making some much needed distance between them. As soon as he reappears he throws his paw into the air, just in time to block a golden beam of light shooting from Celestia's horn. Something happens that surprises Discord, when the beam collides with his open paw it hurts. It hurts a lot , in fact it burns like Tartarus, Discord takes a second from the pain to wonder if this is what ants felt like when kids burned them with  magnifying glasses. The beam doesn't last too long, and once Celestia stops firing Discord looks at the palm of his paw, the fur has been burnt off, and the skin underneath is charred black, small streams of his golden blood begin pouring out of small cracks in his flesh. Discord's eyes widen at the sight, he slowly turns his head to look at Celestia, who stares back at him the fire still burning in her eyes. 

"Oh my Celestia... Celestia is trying to kill me." Discord whispers to himself, fear lines his voice. 

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