My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 15: Return of Disharmony Part 1

Recap: Last time, Twelve-year old Toby Morrison, manages finally destroy Lord Tirek using the Rainbow of Light. But the land of Equestria was still greatly damaged and left in a state of instability due to the Rainbow of Darkness. In order to restore the land to its natural harmony Toby used the full power of the Rainbow of Light to heal the planet back to its former state, apparently sacrificing himself in the process. However, instead of destroying him the Rainbow of Light actually transported him back to Earth, where he continues to work on a way to get back to his friends, who all believe he is dead, except for Twilight who also searches for a way to bring Toby back to them.

That was three years ago…

While the house of the Morrison's had not changed during those years, the inhabitants inside certainly have, especially the now sixteen-year old Toby Morrison, who was just exiting his house to go to school.

"See ya, later Dad!" he called out just before racing down the pathway and then down the sidewalk towards his school.

Now sixteen, Toby was even taller, standing at five feet and six inches and had gained longer arms and legs and possessed a lean yet muscular build. His attire hadn't changed much, as it was still in shades of red, white and blue. He now wore a sleeveless puffy vest over a long sleeved pale blue shirt, along with brown pants with pockets near the end. His shoes were both black built for running and were perfectly clean. The only thing missing was his red and blue cap, which he left in Equestria.

He raced down the sidewalk as fast as he could till reached the corner of the street where a friend of his was waiting. A sixteen-year old Jamaican boy named Tiberius Hardy AKA Tech-Head.

Tech-Head was around Toby's height, had dark skin and long dreadlocks that partially covered his two dark eyes. He wore a red, yellow and green striped t-shirt, bellbottom pants and on his feet he wore sandals.

Toby waved to him "Hey Tech!"

Tech-Head turned and smiled as soon as he saw his friend approaching.

"Yo, Toe, ready for the science fair, man?" he asked with a Jamaican accent.

"Sure am!" Toby nodded.

"Then let's get a move on, no delay's man!" Tech-Head said as he and Toby raced down the crosswalk.

"So, you think Boston's wormhole generator's really gonna work?" Tech-Head asked.

Toby seemed to be muttering to himself, "It'll work. Has to work. Has to work." He said "And don't worry, Boston knows what he's doing,"

Tech-Head nodded "Yeah, your right man,"

Tech-Head then noticed the peaceful smile on Toby's face.

"You know, you've sure have changed quite a bit, man," Tech-Head remarked.

Toby raised a brow "What makes you say that?"

"Well back in Elementary School you looked so lonely but once we got into High School you completely changed!" Tech-Head "Your now one of the smartest kids in class, you volunteer at the animal shelter, you've joined the sewing club, the track team and your friends with almost everyone in class!"

"Not to mention you always pack apples in your lunch every day," he added.

Not wanting to tell Tech-Head that the reason he joined all those places and did all those things was because he was inspired by his friends from Equestria, Toby simply shrugged "What can I say?" he asked "Middle school changes you,"

"Word up," Tech-Head nodded.

Toby never really talk about his time in Equestria, for the time he spent their with the Mane Six and Spike meant a lot to him and he greatly preferred keeping those precious memories to himself.

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Back in Equestria…

While Lord Tirek, the Lord of Darkness had been destroyed, little bits of his essence still lingered throughout the land as forms of red electricity. Usually these little energy bursts were harmless, but that was because they weren't near any living thing… or anypony that was sealed away.

In the Canterlot garden, where several stone statues were placed all over for everypony to see and behold. A small piece of electricity travels through the garden, slithering around and over them like a snake in a field of grass. It seemed to be looking for something, or someone.

Eventually the red energy had finally reached something that seemed to excite it. A large statue that looked to a chaotic amalgamation of various creatures or a draconequus; a creature with the head of a pony and a body made up of all sorts of things. It also had a scared look on its face.

The red electricity, slithered up to the chaotic statue and began to slither around and around the statue till it finally glowed with a brilliant red light. The statue then began to slowly crack up like an cake, and it did so a feeling of dread began to spill out onto the land.

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Meanwhile, at the same time, back on Earth…

Toby was walking through the stands with various science projects set up on the football field. There were projects such a volcano, a potato clock and even a red ant farm, just to name a few.

He eventually reached the stand where he and his friends had built their wormhole generator. Tech-Head was also there, along with several other kids who previously ignored him, they were all hard at work making the finishing touches on the generator which resembled a giant metal ring set on top of a medium sized metal stand. There was also a computer right next to it as well, all ready to set in the coordinates for the wormhole to open to.

Toby soon reached the other and noticed many of the folks that were walking by were gazing at their project with wide eyes of wonder.

"Boy, ain't this thing popular?" Toby remarked to his friends.

"No joke man, this machine has totally captured folks imaginations," Tech-Head said.

"Yeah, thanks for the help Toe," A kid with glasses said thankfully.

"No problem Boston," Toby nodded.

Toby glanced at the machine for a bit, lost in his thoughts, before turning and heading over towards a large oak tree. Tech Head noticed this.

"Hey, where ya going man?" he asked.

Toby turned to him "I'm going to go take a nap by the tree, I was kind of up all night coming up with the final calculations for the machine," he explained, rubbing the back of his neck. "Pretty delicate stuff you know,"

"You're not gonna watch?" another questioned.

Toby continued on his way and gave them a two finger wave.

The other kids look a bit confused by Toby's suddenly distant behavior.

"Interesting… he was the most enthusiastic out of all of us when we first came up with this idea," Boston remarked.

Toby set his back against the tree and put his hands behind his head basking in the shade of the large tree. He stretched out one hard towards the sky with a sad longing look.

"As hard as I've worked… I still haven't managed to get back to you guys…" he muttered.

For the past three years Toby has been working on finding a way to get back to Equestria and see Spike and the pony gang once again. While he did enjoy being back on Earth and hanging with his school friends, deep down he felt like something was missing from his life and left a big hole in his heart.

He gazed at Tech-Head and the others getting ready to start up the generator, though deep down Toby felt like it wasn't going to work and it didn't want to be around to get his hopes up when it did and he certainly didn't want to tell that to his friends, as he knew it would break their hearts and crush them.

He continued to look up at the blue sky, hoping to see the blue butterfly, the one he saw right before he came to Equestria but instead he saw nothing but clouds.

"Man… I miss you guys," he said quietly "I'd give anything to be back there with all of you… anything…"

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As he sat underneath the tree feeling sad, back in Equestria somepony else was feeling a similar feeling. It was Princess Celestia, standing on top of the balcony just like she did before Toby arrived all those years ago. The hoof steps of her younger sister Luna were heard as she approached.

"Sister?" she spoke up.

"Yes, Luna?" The older sister said, not bothering to turn around.

"I have heard that Twilight Sparkle has not yet found solid evidence that the young Toby Morrison is still alive," Princess Luna said.

Princess Celestia nodded "Indeed, and many of her friends are beginning to accept that back that… Tobias may not be coming back," she stated, with tears starting to form in her eyes.

"But Twilight… she still hasn't given up, despite these constant failures has she?" Princess Luna inquired.

"No, she can't be persuaded," Princess Celestia told her. "She's convinced that Toby is alive somewhere, she even told me that she has dreams about him, just like her friends do,"

"I have seen those dreams for myself," Princess Luna stated. "They all miss him terribly… as do I,"

The Princess of the Sun once again nodded a sad nod "As do I…"

While the two Princesses were talking amongst themselves a shadow figure cackled quietly before disappearing in a flash of light.

The snake like figure then appeared on the outskirts of Ponyville and snapped his fingers, and in a flash of light a fifty foot black and red dragon suddenly appeared and it was angry.

"Maybe this will get their attention," the stranger said evilly before disappearing. The dragon then began to make its way towards the town. The stranger then disappeared in a flash of light.

At the same time, back in Ponyville…

Applejack walked into Sugarcube Corner, the bell tinkling happily as the door closed behind her. Fluttershy was there, sitting at a table and gulping down the contents of a large mug. The yellow Pegasus smacked her lips and lightly placed the empty mug down.

"Uh, another chocolate milk please, Pinkie Pie," Fluttershy called out, albeit politely and somewhat quietly.

"Okey, Dokey, Lokey!" Pinkie Pie chirped happily. She slid another mug full of chocolate milk freshly made. "Here you go!"

"Thank you," Fluttershy nodded as she took her drink. The two then noticed Applejack approach.

"Howdy, everypony," Applejack said "What's up?"

"Oh nothing much!" Pinkie Pie replied with her usual cheery attitude.

"I mean what's up with Twilight?" The country pony inquired "Is she…?"

"Still studying at her house?" Fluttershy finished with a nod "Yes,"

Applejack sighed and shook her head as she glanced at Twilight's place from one of the windows. "Ya think the Princess would've been able to get Twilight to come out. But all she…"

"She still believes that Toby's alive," Fluttershy told her.

"Yeah, and he is alive, he has to be!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

"I wish he was y'all, believe me, I do," Applejack said to them, her next words were with a resigned tone. "But Toby really is gone. We were all there, we all say it,"

"Tell that to Twilight…" Fluttershy said depressed.

All three of them sighed in depression.

"How about Rainbow Dash? She doing ok?" Applejack inquired.

"If you ask me, I think she's taking Toby… 'disappearance' harder than anypony," Fluttershy said. "Well, next to Spike anyways…"

"Well where's Rarity?" Applejack questioned.

"She went over to Twilight's to help cheer her and Spike up," Pinkie told her, then she got an idea. "Hey! Maybe a party might cheer them up!"

"Maybe… but without little Toby… it just wouldn't be the same," Applejack said depressed.

The others also lowered their heads in depression as well as in agreement.

Meanwhile, inside Twilight's library, the purple unicorn herself was levitating flipping through various books looking for something, but every time she looked she found nothing then tossed the book aside and started on a new one. She also had dark bags over her eyes, as if she hasn't been sleeping in like forever.

Her young baby dragon assistant, Spike, walked over to her worried.

"Uh… Twilight?" he asked "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, sure, why wouldn't I…" Twilight Sparkle started before she suddenly fell asleep standing up. Spike rolled his eyes and gently shook her awake.

"Twilight, you have to get some sleep," Spike told her.

"I can't!" Twilight Sparkle protested "Not until I find the spell that will allow me to locate Toby and bring him back!"

"Oh…" Spike said understandingly and sadly. "So your still searching for him?"

"Yeah…" Twilight Sparkle breathed sadly as well.

"But Twilight… he's…" Spike began before a rumbling was heard outside. Alarmed, Twilight and Spike quickly rush to the door.

When they exited the tree they saw all of the townspeople running around, screaming their heads off as a large dragon began to approach the town, roaring angrily.

"DRAGON!" Fluttershy screamed, she quickly zoomed over into a well and hid inside.

The others quickly gather around Twilight and gaze towards the dragon.

"What in the hay is a dragon doing here?" Applejack wondered "There hasn't been a dragon attack since Toby left,"

"Maybe he wants to celebrate Twilight's cheering up party!" Pinkie Pie suggested happily.

"Cheering up party?" Twilight Sparkle echoed confused.

"I really don't think it's here for that Pinkie Pie," Rarity told her nervously.

"Whatever! We can take it!" Rainbow Dash declared confidently before zooming straight towards the dragon.

"Rainbow Dash, wait!" Twilight cried.

Rainbow prepared to smack both of her front hooves in the dragon's scaly face but the giant lizard merely backhanded her and sent her flying. The others grimace sympathetically.

"Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark!" Spike remarked.

Fluttershy shook in fear as he looked up at the giant roaring dragon "Oh… I wish Toby were here…"

A small tear dropped off the edge of Fluttershy's face and hit the ground. The small sound emitted from the teardrop couldn't be heard by anypony, except however, a small blue butterfly which was resting on top of small daisy. The small sound causes it fly off the flower and into the woods.

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Back on Earth, whilst Toby's friends were just about to activate their wormhole generator, Toby napped nearby in the shade of the oak tree until however a small noise that sounded like a teardrop was heard by him and only him.

"Wha…" he mumbled as he sat up, only to notice that everything and everyone around him was frozen in place. "What the… frozen? What could do this to them?"

Both he could begin to ponder the many possibly of what was occurring just now a large circle of light appeared right in front him, much to his surprise.

As he sat up he looked closely at the circle and noticed a vague image appearing in it, the image was blurry but he could see what appeared to be a large piece of land that looked greatly familiar to him.

"That's… Equestria!" Toby realized.

The image then suddenly changed and then he could see an image of the dragon that was currently attacking Ponyville, his eyes widen with shock.

"Oh man… Ponyville! They're in trouble!" Toby exclaimed. "I got to help the girls!"

Toby then started to sprint towards the portal as fast he could.

"Hang on guys, I'm coming!" he cried as he jumped through the portal. As soon as he did the portal vanished and everything started to move again.

"And… go!" Boston cried as he pressed the button to activate the wormhole generator. The machine crackled with energy but after a few moments it suddenly shut down, much to the disappointment of the kids who built it. Tech-Head turned to where Toby was but was surprised to see that he was gone.

"Huh? Now where did he go?" he wondered.

While Tech-Head pondered where his best friend disappeared to, Toby was travelling down the rainbow tunnel towards Ponyville only now instead of tumbling down screaming his head off he was flying straight down it whooping with joy.

The small ball of white light, also known as the Rainbow of Light, then appeared once more and phased into his body like it did before.

"Yeah!" Toby cheered, he smiled when he saw the circle of light coming up. "Equestria; here I come!"

Toby then vanished right through the light circle.

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While Toby was travelling through the portal, the dragon had just started to tear up the town of Ponyville. The inhabitants ran in fear while the Mayor herself attempted to escort them all to a safe location.

The Mayor had a gray mane and tail, blue eyes and a pale amber coat. Her cutie mark was a tan scroll tied with a blue bow.

"Everypony, stay calm and make your way to the safety shelter!" she told them. "Hurry!"

Meanwhile, the Mane Six and Spike all stood their ground as the dragon made its way towards them.

"Uh… what's the plan?" Spike inquired.

"That's easy! We fight!" Rainbow Dash declared. "That's what Toby would do and that's exactly what I'm gonna do!"

"Except this is the dragon who knocked you back over seventy-three times," Applejack reminded her dryly. Rainbow Dash frowned.

"Oh… now I really wish Toby were here…" Twilight muttered sadly.

"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear!"

The Mane Six all looked shocked, confused and disturbed, including the dragon and the ponies of Ponyville.

"Who said that?" Rarity inquired out loud.

A Then, suddenly, a small hole appeared in the sky and a rainbow appeared soon afterward. They all gasped in shock as a two legged being slid down the rainbow like a steep slope before jumping into the air, then somersaulting and finally enlarging both of his fists before diving straight for the dragon. He made a large shockwave when his fists impacted with the dragon before knocking right on to its back.

The townspeople stare out ahead in surprise, the seven friends themselves were also bugged eyed as they saw someone standing in the middle of the dusty cloud. Spike was the first he regain his power of speech.

"Toby?" he breathed.

The sixteen-year-old himself stood not too far away, amid the clearing dust and smoke created by his assault.

Toby smirked "Hey, guys. Miss me?"

Toby then disappeared then reappeared right in front of the dragon, it looked at him with a snarling face which made Toby merely smirk.

"And hello monster guy, I'm Toby Morrison," he said. "Now thrill me!"

The dragon growled as it slowly stood back up and roared at him.

"Alright, fine." he said "I wanted to do this the easy way, but the hard way is ok by me!"

Toby zoomed over to a tree and ripped it right out of the ground before positioning it like a bat. The dragon flew straight for him.

"Fore!" he cried before swinging the tree and smacking the dragon right in the side of its face, it flew far and right out of the town.

Toby chuckled to himself. "I forgot how much fun this is!" he remarked.

The dragon immediately recovered leaped into the air and landed right in front of Toby, looming right over him like a giant.

"This is the great 'Toby Morrison'?" The dragon questioned. "Bearer of the Rainbow of Light? Savior of Equestria?"

Before the dragon could say any more Toby gave the oversized lizard a strong kick to the gut that sent it tumbling before crashing into the base of the mountain where Canterlot was set upon. Toby disappeared and reappeared right in front of it.

Toby approached the dragon with his hands on his hips, he smiled confidently "And don't you forget it buddy," he told the dragon. "You think you're the only dragon I've ever dealt with? Pfft! It's gonna take a lot more then you to surprise me,"

"Indeed," The dragon growled as it stood up and much to Toby's surprise the dragon began to grow and grow till it reached the height of a full grown Ursa Major. Toby looked up at the large dragon but instead of fear, he smiled, overflowing with excitement and anticipation.

"Yes! I'm getting excited!" Toby exclaimed. "Let's kick it up a notch, shall we lizard breath?"

The dragon breathed out an a large gust of flames at Toby, but before it could fry him to a crisp Toby super leaped upwards till he was looking the dragon in the eyes. While a look of fear appeared on the dragon's face, Toby smiled a large smile before punching the dragon upside the jaw, then in the side of its face. He teleported down and punched then elbowed the dragon in the gut.

As the dragon recoiled from the strong impacts and fell downwards, Toby grabbed it, hoisted it onto his small shoulder and began to charge like a football player till he reached the edge of town.

"And… touchdown!" Toby announced as he slammed the dragon head first in the ground, creating a massive shockwave. When the smoke cleared Toby was standing on top of the defeated dragon victorious.

"And that's all she rode," he said simply.

Toby then noticed the loud cheering and smiling faces behind him. Everypony in Ponyville was waving and congratulating him on his return.

Toby waved back at him "Ho-ho, Holy Guacamole, it is good to be back!" he cried happily.

He jumped off the dragon and began high hoofing each of the townsfolk till finally he sees his six old friends standing together, they looked like they couldn't believe their eyes and were all struggling to contain their unbridled happiness.

Toby smiled and gave them a two finger way "Sup, guys?"

The six ponies immediately rushed towards Toby, pulling him into a strong lovingly group hug "TOBY!" they scream in delight. Toby cried out in pain as they squeezed him with their tight hug.

"Your safe!" Pinkie Pie cheered "I'm so HAPPY!"

"Oh, thank heavens your alive!" Rarity cried.

"Girls… your… crushing my ribs…" Toby squeaked in pain.

"Oh Toby, we were all so worried about ya!" Applejack remarked teary eyed.

"We're so glad you're safe!" Fluttershy added.

"Yeah, where ya been?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "It's like been so long since we've seen you!"

"Are you ok?" Twilight asked concerned.

"Ugh… I can't breathe!" Toby cried, gasping for air.

After about 5 minutes of hugging, nopony wanted to let go of their long lost friend but eventually they did when his face started to turn blue. He gasped for air deeply.

Fluttershy was the first to notice something about him. "But… you've changed!" she stated.

"Yeah… you're like… taller now!" Rainbow Dash commented in shock.

Toby laughed in amusement "What? Ya'll thought I'd still be a runt when I'm sixteen-years-old? It has been three years ya know," he reminded them.

"Yeah but… we all thought you were… gone," Twilight Sparkle admitted.

"You did?" Toby inquired surprised.

"Indeed," Rarity nodded "After you used that spell to fix the damage done by Tirek, none of us could find you anywhere, we thought you had been… destroyed,"

"But Twi here couldn't believe it," Applejack continued. "So she's been working tirelessly on finding a way to find you and bring you back,"

Twilight nodded in confirmation. Toby gazed upon all of their faces and saw how deeply there were affected by his apparent 'passing'. He smiled sympathetically.

"I see. I'm sorry I put you guys through all that, it was wrong of me, and I'm sorry," he said.

Rainbow Dad turned away seemingly angry, which worried Toby a little.

"Don't let her fool you," Twilight told him.

"Yeah, she took your 'death' harder than any of us," Applejack added.

Toby raised a brow, interested. "Really?

"No! No, I didn't!" Rainbow Dash denied. "I-I knew were alive the whole time!"

"Sure," Toby smiled, allowing her to keep her pride intact.

"So… where did you go?" Rainbow Dash asked him.

"Well instead of vaporizing me to kingdom come like I thought it would, that spell merely sent me back to my world," Toby exclaimed. "My father told me I did it subconsciously, plus I couldn't get back the same way I came because I lost the Rainbow of Light when I arrived, it seems that was the price I had to pay,"

"But you got it back now, huh?" Pinkie Pie questioned happily. "I mean look at what you did to that dragon! He's out cold! Like ice cream cold, cold"

Pinkie licked her lips hungrily and smiled. "Mmm, ice cream…"

Toby smiled, amused by her usual zaniness which he had long missed..

"Seems like," he nodded. "So, what's new? Anything else happen since I've been gone?"

"Well for starters… everypony in town loves you!" Twilight Sparkle told him.

"Really?" Toby inquired surprised.

"Yeah, so much so they built you a statue," Rainbow Dash added, gesturing to the giant statue that resembled Toby just a few feet away. Toby also saw the cheering crowd nearby.

Toby was stunned "Wow… who knew all it took for them to like me was for me to disappear?"

"I'll say," Applejack remarked.

"Yeah, after you defeated that creep Tirek the stories about you spread from Ponyville, to a few other towns to every corner of Equestria!" Rainbow Dash added.

Toby smiled proudly, then when he heard somepony clearing their throat behind him he turned around and smiled when he saw his old scaly friend.

"Spike!" he exclaimed happily.

"Toby!" Spike cried, equally happy. He jumped into Toby's arms and hugged him before fist bumping.

"Ah, good to see you brother," Toby smiled.

"Yeah, likewise," Spike nodded.

"Ooh, you know what this calls for?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly.

"Yes, I have a feeling your gonna tell me anyways." Toby smirked.

"A WELCOME BACK PARTY!" Pinkie Pie cheered loudly before blowing a kazoo.

"Sounds great, really missed your parties Pinkie," Toby admitted. "But can it wait for a teensy, tiny bit? I'd like to look around my old house, for old times' sake,"

Pinkie Pie paused for a minute before speaking and smiling. "Okey, Dokey, Lokey! Let's go reminisce!" she said happily before bouncing off.

"Ha-ha, race ya guys!" Toby exclaimed before zooming after Pinkie.

Applejack sighed "Yep, that's Toby Morrison alright," she remarked wistfully.

"Still as energetic as ever… and very handsome…" Fluttershy mused, she blushed madly when she realized what she said. "I mean… for a human boy… I… I…"

Fluttershy squeaked and sunk down in embarrassment.

"Yeah… anyways, let's try to catch up with him!" Twilight told the others.

"Oh yeah, time for a rematch!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she zoomed right after him, the others soon follow. While they left, the draconequus watched them go and cackled lowly in the shadows.

"So… the stories are true, Toby Morrison is an interesting opponent, after all," The draconequus remarked. "But let's see how well he does against the master of chaos!"

The strange being laughed evilly and manically as dark thunder clouds boomed around him "Time for phase two," he whispered before vanishing in a flash of light.

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Later, the girls, Spike, and Toby had just arrived at Toby's old two story wooden house. It looked exactly as it did three years ago and looked almost untouched, even the old sign 'Nick of Time Odd Jobs' looked exactly as he left it.

Toby smiled at it nostalgically. "Ah… I remember this place, good times, good times,"

One by one they all bounced up onto the deck, via the large bouncy mattress, aside from Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash who flew up.

Twilight lead Toby inside.

"Everything's exactly how you left it," she told him. "We didn't have the heart to change anything…"

Toby gazed around "Looks good," he said.

"We even took care of your pet goldfish while you were away," Fluttershy added, standing next to the fishbowl where Toby's pet goldfish Irene swam inside. Toby looked at the bowl closely.

"Hey, Irene! Good to see you girl!" Toby smiled. He then noticed a letter enveloped in a magical aura float over to him, he saw that Twilight was the one who gave it to him.

"I… found your letter… a year after you left… the one you wanted us to send to your father in case… we couldn't send you back." Twilight Sparkle said slowly.

Toby took the letter and smiled a small smile. "Thanks, Twi,"

She returned his smile and nodded.

"So… what have you been up to since you've been gone Toe?" Rainbow Dash asked him.

"Eh, you know… doing this and that, and that and this and thanks to you guys I now have lots of lots of friends!" he explained.

"You… do?" Fluttershy inquired a bit worried.

"Yeah, mostly because you guys taught me the importance of caring about other people and now I know what real friends look like," Toby stated. "Yeah, I guess you can say my life on Earth has turned out pretty well,"

"Ah… that's wonderful news to hear, darling," Rarity said smiling a nervous smile. "Bravo!"

While Toby continued to look around his old house, the others seemed to have sad and somewhat guilty looks on their faces for some reason. Toby turned to them and saw the looks on their faces.

"Girls? What's the matter?" he questioned.

"Huh?" Twilight said snapping out of it. "Oh, nothing! Nothing!"

"Yeah, completely nothing!" Spike added.

"Ok…" Toby started to say, then he heard cheering from afar and smiled when he saw a crowd of townspeople nearby. "Excuse me, my public awaits!"

Toby zoomed out of the house and towards his new fans. They watch as he greeted each of the other ponies, shook their hooves and chatted with them happily.

Rainbow noticed the sad look on Twilight's face. "Aw, don't worry about it Twilight. So Toby's letting the whole 'Folk Hero' thing go to his head a little. He's just new to this,"

"I'm not upset about that," Twilight stated half-truthfully. "Well… maybe a little bit. But what I am upset about is that we might have just pulled him out of his now great life against his will, and he hates us for it,"

"Come now dear, Toby doesn't feel that way!" Rarity insisted. "Why on the way here he told us all about how he'd been trying so hard to get back to all us, just like how you've been working so hard to get him back,"

"Yeah, maybe… but how he got back in the first place was a total accident, not something we can just recreate…" Twilight Sparkle said.

"What are you saying?" Spike inquired.

"I'm saying… that Toby might never, ever get back home again… and it might be all our faults…" Twilight Sparkle muttered. "All I wanted was to get back, to have him with us again… but I never considered the fact that… maybe he was happy there… maybe… I was just being selfish,"

Applejack patted her on the back "Now come on Twi, don't be like that, you know that's not true and that Toby wanted to come back here more than anything," she told her. "Look at him,"

Applejack gestured to the happy Toby, obviously enjoying his new found attention and fame.

"He's having the time of his life," Applejack added "All we can worry about is that he doesn't became a big headed jerk and that's never gonna happen,"

This seemed to cheer Twilight up a bit. "Yeah, your right, that is probably the only thing we have to worry about right?"

The others nodded in agreement. Suddenly the clouds begin to shake and rumble, much to the alarm and confusion of everypony around. Then one by one each and every one of the clouds instantly became pink and smelled like candy. Toby sniffed the air and recognized it.

"Cotton candy?" he inquired out loud.

A few seconds later the clouds started to rain, all on their own, only the weird thing was that it wasn't rain but instead it was chocolate milk.

Toby stuck his tongue out and tasted it "Chocolate milk?"

Twilight looked around worried. "Cotton candy clouds… chocolate rain…"

They then saw Pinkie sliding in a chocolate puddle yelling 'Whee!' and whooping with joy.

"Pinkie, what are you…" Toby started to say before he stopped himself. "Ugh, never mind!"

Things only got weirder when he saw several bears in tutu's tap dancing by, followed by rabbits with very long legs walking right past them.

"Ok… now this is weird," Toby stated. "Even by Equestria standards,"

The others all bounce downwards to join him and look at all the weird and chaotic things that were happening around them. Squirrels had become muscular jerks, wagons were now made of licorice and Big McIntosh himself was running by barking and panting like a dog.

"Oh no… no… it can't be!" Twilight Sparkle breathed out.

"What? What's wrong?" Toby questioned his now concerned friends. "What's going on? Who or what is doing this?"

They all gulped. "Discord…"

Toby looked a bit stunned, he seemed to know who they were talking about "Oh…crud,"

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It had only taken Toby and the others a short while to get to Canterlot and enter the throne room of both Princess Celestia and Luna.

Both Princesses look especially pleased to see their old human friend again and smile at him warmly.

"Tobias, it is so good to see you," Princess Celestia told the sixteen-year old. "And my, look at how much you've grown,"

"Thanks, Princess C." Toby smiled "I guess you could say I… hit a growth spurt,"

Princess Luna walked up closer to him and scanned his new taller body. "Yes, you did," she remarked. "You did indeed,"

"Luna… you look… exactly the same," Toby smirked.

Luna smiled, slightly amused. "Good to see you've matured Tobias," she said. "Now judging by these strange anomalies I assume you along with the rest of your friends know that Discord is back,"

"Yeah, but I thought the girls turned that freak to stone," Toby pointed out. "It even shows it on the wall,"

Toby gestured to the stain glass picture of the Mane 6 defeating Discord right next to him.

"He was, but somehow something caused his stone prison to break and now he's more powerful than ever," Princess Celestia said.

"What? What caused this, Princess?" Twilight Sparkle inquired concerned.

"We believe… it was the residual energy of Lord Tirek himself," Luna said gravely.

"TIREK!?" Everypony besides the Princesses exclaimed shocked.

"But I thought you blew that freak up!" Rainbow Dash said to Toby.

Toby nodded "Yup, blew him up, mangled up and sent him packing. Your welcome for that by the way," he added.

"Yes, well, while Tirek may in fact be dead some of his dark energy still exists and has broken the seal that contained Discord," Princess Luna continued.

Toby folded his arms with a frown "So even in death this guy still manages to torment me. Great."

"Indeed, and now with Discord once again on the loose you must be ready," Princess Luna told him.

Toby didn't seemed to be bothered and worried by her warning and just nonchalantly shrugged. "What? I'm supposed to be afraid of some clown who can make it rain chocolate, turn clouds into candy and make all the animals act all wacky?" he questioned. "Big deal, I'm shaking,"

"Morrison!" Luna snapped, she gave him a glare seemed to scare him a bit. "Listen well boy, Discord, is the master of chaos, an enemy unlike anypony you've ever faced as I'm sure you've heard from Twilight Sparkle's story's so for your sake you'd better take this more seriously,"

Toby raised his hands. "I know, I know, it's always serious. And I always win." Toby stated.

"With some help." Rainbow Dash added.

"Exactly," Toby nodded "Trust me, I can handle this,"

"How can you now?"

Everypony was stunned into silence as a weird chuckle echoed the room.

"Who said that?" Rarity inquired again, only a little bit more scared.

"Who do you think?" the voice questioned. "Surely you remember little old me,"

"Discord!" Princess Celestia exclaimed.

The stain glass image of Discord suddenly came alive and started talking.

"Bingo! We have a winner!" he smiled evilly.

"So it is true! Tirek's dark magic did free you!" Twilight Sparkle realized.

"That's right my little pony," Discord nodded while moving from glass to glass. "Any who, did you miss me Twilight Sparkle? I missed you,"

"So your Discord, eh?" Toby inquired.

The smoke like image of Discord suddenly appeared right beside Toby.

"And you must be the great 'Toby Morrison'," Discord added. "A pleasure to meet you, my dear boy," he added in a patronizing tone.

Toby frowned. "Feeling's not mutual and might I say you are just about the ugliest thing I've ever seen in this world! I mean seriously, do you own a mirror?"

Pinkie Pie chuckled a bit but Rainbow Dash nudged her to be quite.

"Well I for one think I look dashing," Discord stated smugly while admiring himself using a hand mirror he conjured up.

"Then you're the only one," Toby told him.

"And that's just how I like it," Discord said bluntly. "Deal with it, two legs,"

"Ok, let's cut to chase freak, what do you want?" Toby demanded.

"Oh, no, no, no, you see it's not what I want," Discord stated. "But it's what your friends want,"

And with that last word, his smoke disappeared and faded with the wind but everypony knew that he was still in the room.

"Let me guess; you took the Elements of Harmony away like you did last time, am I right?" Toby inquired.

"Ah, bright boy, not wonder you defeated Tirek," Discord's voice remarked slightly mockingly. "Must make you feel… invincible doesn't it?"

"Why don't you show your ugly mug and find out?" Toby challenged him.

The stain glass pictures then rearranged themselves into an even larger image of Discord.

"Well that's no fun," Discord stated. "And this is coming from the master of chaos himself. I mean even I'm not that dumb,"

"Ok, enough dancing around it! What did you do with the elements of harmony!" Toby demanded. "What's your plan this time?"

Discord raised a brow. "Do I really look like a guy with a plan?" he asked flatly.

Pinkie Pie thought for a bit. "Nope! Not really!"

"I'll second that," Applejack added.

"Exactly!" The Draconequus exclaimed. "You know what I really am? I'm a like a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just do things!"

The image returned to normal.

"The ponies have plans, the princess's have plans, even the other villains you've defeated have plans," His creepy voice echoed. "You see their all schemers, schemers trying to control their little words and keep everything harmonious and orderly or whatever,"

"But me? No, I'm not a schemer, as a spirit of Chaos I try to show the schemers how pathetic, their attempts to control things really are,"

"And what exactly do you plan doing with the Elements?" Toby questioned. "Hide them, like you did last time? Or have you found a way to destroy them? Is that right?"

The girls gasped, horrified of the idea of the Elements being destroyed and their only method of defeating Discord gone and all hope lost.

"Oh, me?" The voice of Discord inquired before an animated shadow of him appeared on the ceiling above them. "Why I'm not gonna do anything to them,"

Everypony looked confused by this statement.

"Destroying the elements now wouldn't be that much, now would it?" Discord asked. "I did hide them however,"

"Where?" Toby asked.

"Depends,"

"On what?"

"Well they could be in one place, or several, and if you want to prevent me from doing anything to them I suggest you hurry and find them, I'll even let you use your magic and wings to do so. Sound fair?"

This caught Toby by surprise "What? But… that doesn't make sense… you made sure the girls couldn't do that last time… so why now?"

"Like I said before, boy; 'it wouldn't be much fun'," Discord echoed, as his shadow slithered down the ceiling and the walls till it appeared in front of Toby and loomed over him. "And besides… what's so good about things 'making sense' anyways?"

"Good luck, everypony!" the freaky creature proclaimed one last time before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"That dude… is seriously weird," Toby stated. "Not to mention freaky,"

"That's putting it extremely mildly," Rarity remarked.

"As you can see my little ponies…" Princess Celestia began, Toby cleared his throat roughly and gestured to the obvious fact that he was not a pony. "And human," he smiled gratefully. "It is imperative that you find Discord and the elements and steal him back into stone permanently,"

Toby saluted. "Will do Princess! And good news to all of you, I have a plan!"

Princess Luna raised a brow. "Oh? And what is this plan of yours?"

"Well it's quite simple really, hold on," Toby told them before zooming out and zooming back in with little game pieces similar to him, the girls and Spike. He set them up on the ground. "Ok, listen up; imagine this ugly piece of Discord,"

The girls nodded as Toby placed a one of the pieces down, then put another piece in front of it then put the dragon piece far off from the other two.

"Now, while we have Spike search for the elements the rest of us well track down and beat Discord, that way we can use them on him without him even putting up a fight," Toby explained. "First, I'll go out and make sure he doesn't go anywhere, then once I've stopped him A.J and Pinkie will jump him from up front, Twi and Rare will appear from the side while Dash and Flutter come up on his flank then when I give the signal we'll all attack! And he's history! See? Simple. So any questions?"

"Just one; when do we get going?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly. "Ooh! The suspense is killing me!"

"My word, I'm in shock!" Rarity exclaimed.

"Yeah, this plan looks like it could actually work," Twilight Sparkle remarked.

"Totally! Especially since we can use our wings and horns this time!" Rainbow Dash added.

"I don't know sport… there's still one problem…" Applejack pointed out.

"What problem?" Toby inquired.

"Well… you see… Discord is a spirit of Chaos so…" Fluttershy began.

"So he is able to practically bend reality at will and change anything into anything else," Princess Luna finished bluntly. "He is almost impossible to catch without the elements of course,"

"Yeah, well he's never met me and there hasn't been a single monster I couldn't beat or catch!" Toby proclaimed.

"He may be a monster but he's not like any monster you've ever faced," Twilight Sparkle stated.

"I know enough about him, so it'll be simple!" Toby said folding his arms.

"He sure is confident!" Pinkie Pie said to Fluttershy.

"Yes, but I wonder why…" Fluttershy mused.

Princess Luna frowned and walked past Toby rather angrily.

"Tobias, we need to talk," she told him.

Toby sighed annoyed. "Fine," he said as he began to follow her.

"Luna, Tobias…" Princess Celestia started to say, saying the obvious tension that had appeared between the two.

"Don't worry sister, we are just going to talk," Princess Luna assured her older sister.

"Yeah, if she's lucky that's all we'll do," Toby muttered.

When the two exited the throne room, everypony looked towards the doors greatly worried and concerned.

---

Toby and Luna soon arrived in a dark part of the castle. Luna still had he back turned to Toby, who was getting pretty annoyed with the Princess's attitude and questioning his plan.

"Ok, so what's up?" Toby asked her.

"Why do you think you're here Toby?" Princess Luna inquired.

"Well, duh, to save the world," Toby replied simply. "You know, just like I did last time,"

"You act as if this time isn't going to be hard, like you don't know what is really at stake this time," Princess Luna told him. "Discord isn't like Tirek, he doesn't want to destroy Equestria, he wants to rule it and turn it into his own personal playground of pandemonium and misery,"

"I'm not stupid!" Toby exclaimed. "I know the risks!"

Luna finally turned to him. "This time I really don't think you do,"

"And why is that 'your majesty'?" Toby questioned in a slightly mocking tone.

"Well you have gone for nearly three years so it's clear that you've forgotten how dangerous these events can be due to living in peace for so long," Princess Luna stated, Toby frowned at her last remark, insulted. "There's no second chances if things go wrong here, if your plan fails it's all over!"

"Yeah… I-I know!" Toby stuttered.

"Then how can you just risk your friends alive on some plan you only assume is going to work!?" Princess Luna demanded. "Listen to me Toby, long ago Discord was one the most dangerous adversaries me and my sister every faced. He is unpredictable, manipulative, ruthless and he will not hesitate to turn your whole world upside down,"

Toby thought for a moment and started to see a little just how right she was "Yeah, ok maybe it's risky..." he began before his confidence restores itself. "But… we're the good guys! We don't lose! There has to be a way to take him down!"

"He's too powerful to do that!" Princess Luna insisted.

"I know he is but every time me and girls go up against something that's more powerful than us we worked together and everything's turned out fine!" Toby stated. "And I really believe if we all attack at once we can't lose!"

Princess Luna sighed and turned away from him again. "You just don't understand anymore…"

"What was that!?" Toby shouted.

"Just do me a favor Tobias," Luna said. "It's clear you don't care about yourself, but can you promise me Twilight Sparkle and her friends will not be harmed? Because if you can't, then you'd better just go home because I won't have you risk their lives and I just remember; you may have defeated Tirek but you are not invincible."

Toby just grunted and walked right past her without saying a word, then he magically teleported away leaving Luna alone in the dark.

He then appeared back in the throne room.

"Toby!" Twilight Sparkle remarked.

"So, what the Princess want to talk to ya about, sport?" Applejack questioned.

Toby advanced to the door. "Doesn't matter, come on, let's go find this son of a jackal,"

The girls all nodded and start to follow him.

"Uh… Toby? Do you really think we can beat Discord this time?" Fluttershy inquired nervously.

Toby smiled at her. "Don't worry Fluttershy, once we put my super awesome plan into action he won't know what hit him!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah!" The girls cheered.

Princess Celestia watched them all go. "My… he is confident,"

"Yes, too confident,"

Celestia turned to see her sister standing behind her.

Luna's eyes narrowed "And that is exactly what worries me…"

---

Later on, Toby and the Mane Six had just reached the spot where Discord presence was reported to be and from the looks of things the report appeared to be right as the clouds were all circling that one spot and purple lightning was striking the ground all over. All in all, it appeared to be a very chaotic spot.

They all peeked out from behind a rock and see Discord himself laying on a couch seemingly fast asleep.

"He's asleep! We can take him!" Rainbow Dash declared quietly.

"Hmm, this is still too easy and nothing's ever easy," Toby stated.

"You think it might be a trap?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"Probably… or maybe he's just misleading us into thinking it is when in actually… it isn't!" Toby said.

"Ooh! Sneaky!" Pinkie Pie said in awe.

"Rather low if you ask me," Rarity stated.

"So what do we do?" Fluttershy inquired.

"We stick to the plan, whether it's a trap or not, he won't see are plan coming," Toby proclaimed. "Remember; we're the good guys, we got this. Now go, get ready, I'll take it from here."

The girls nod and ran off to get to the positions that Toby had instructed them to go to, while Toby leapt over the rock and began to sneak over to Discord.

Pinkie Pie and Applejack were the first to get into position.

"I sure hope the plan works," Pinkie Pie said.

"It had sure better work, it's all we have really," Applejack stated.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy watched from their spot as Toby continues to sneak over to Discord. Rainbow Dash noticed Fluttershy shaking nervously and put a hoof on her shoulder to comfort her.

"Hey, don't worry Fluttershy just stick to the plan, it's a good plan," Rainbow Dash assured her.

Fluttershy nodded and smiled, comforted by her friends words.

Toby then began to run towards Discord.

"Ok, ugly, take this!" Toby declared as he leapt upward and prepared to land an axe kick on Discord but his attack phased right through him as the image of Discord disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"An illusion… figures," Toby muttered.

"Ah, you are a bright boy,"

Toby turned around, startled. He began to look around for the source of Discord's echoing voice but he sees nothing around.

"Or a complete fool, history will be our judge,"

"Show yourself!"

"My, my, you are a fool. Don't you realize that because I'm a spirit of chaos I can pretty much do… whatever I choose pretty much, I can appear in any place I want. In short; I can be anywhere."

Suddenly Discord appeared right behind Toby.

"Even right behind you,"

Toby spun around and attempted to strike the chaotic spirit but Discord vanished in a flash of light just like he always does.

"No! I can't lose!" Toby exclaimed.

While he seemed confident on the outside, inside Toby was shaking in fear and uneasiness.

"But how can I win?" he thought.

Discord then started to appear then disappear all around Toby, who attempted to land a blow on the annoying creature that was Discord but every time he tried to attack he ended up missing and wearing out his own energy. Eventually he started to pant, exhausted.

Discord then appeared above him and yawned.

"You done yet?" Discord asked bored.

"He's so strong!" Toby realized.

Inside, Toby was shaking in fear, more than he was a minute ago.

"I can't beat this guy!" he realized in his mind. "There's just no way,"

Discord laughed and cackled as he lowered himself in front of Toby. The human then saw that it was the perfect opportunity for the girls to attack him and smiled a bit.

"Ok girls! Let him have it!" Toby cried as he jumped out of the way.

Twilight and Rarity magically tossed boulders at the draconequus, Applejack bucked two apples, Pinkie Pie fired her party cannon and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy blew harsh winds at him with their wings.

All six of their attacks collided with the master of chaos, creating a bright flash of light.

"Alright!" Toby cheered.

When the flash of light finally faded everypony was surprised to see that Discord wasn't there and instead a large crater had replaced the spot he had previously stood.

"What?" Toby cried.

"He's gone!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

They all hear a whistle and see Discord floating above them all.

"You know Tobias, I hear that if you spend too much time in a peaceful environment like you did on Earth… then you're fighting skills truly suffer," Discord told him.

Toby gulped in shook in fear as he realized just how out matched they truly were.

"You see my boy, this was a trap from the start, can anypony tell me how?" Discord asked.

"Of course!" Twilight Sparkle realized. "All this time we were worried what tricks Discord might use on us but really Discord's real secret weapon was Toby! He used his own over confidence against him!"

"Exactly! I was all… part of the plan," Discord exclaimed with an evil smirk. "And now thanks to your 'protector' all of Equestria is mine for the taking but don't worry boy, you're going to relieved of your guilt… the hard way!"

As Discord cackled, a giant black dome surrounded him and quickly expanded. It didn't take long before the dome began to consume each of the Mane Six one by one. They all screamed as they were consumed by the darkness and Toby eyes widen with fear as the darkness also consumed him as well…

To be continued…