Las Pegasus, Neighvada. Rainbow Dash, Applejewel and Twilight were driving their cars through the streets of the bright city. Even though one of the many casinos of the town was going to host the most dreadful of the events that ever happened in that sinful town, the ponies in there were still acting like it was just another average day, working, gambling, dating, hooking up.

After a few more minutes driving, they parked their car on the parking lot of a rather large casino, where many other cars were already parked and, in the middle of everything, was a very out of place wooden cart with a stage right in front of it. On top of the stage was a blue unicorn mare, making magic tricks and amusing the other participants before the tournament started.

"Funny!" Twilight said. "I didn't took her for the showmare type."

"Even with all the third person crazy talk?" Braeburn asked.

"Well, many ponies from Canterlot speak like that!"

"Yer from Canterlot? Coulda fooled me!"

Twilight chuckled while blushing lightly. "Well, I kind of traded almost every kind of relationship for knowledge during my time there, spending more time with books than ponies, so I didn't had much time to assimilate the native behavior."

"Yer friend is... Different!" Braeburn whispered to Applejewel, who chuckled.

They all got out of their cars and approached the performing mare. The moment Trixie saw them, she immediately stopped the show, jumped down the stage and approached the three mares and the stallion.

"And you finally arrived." she said. "Took you long enough. For a moment, The Great And Powerful Trixie thought you were afraid of facing Trixie and ran away."

"I didn't know you were in the show business, Trixie!" the Alicorn said with a warm smile, apparently ignoring her last statement. "Do you do something besides performing magic shows? Like acting, or singing? You have a beautiful voice."

Trixie blushed a little. "Th-The Great And Powerful Trixie is flattered. Not that Trixie is not aware of that fact. After all, Trixie is great and powerful, therefore all of her skills are astonishing!"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "Are you friends with this show-off?"

"Of course we're your friend, Rainbow Dash." Applejewel teased.

"Ha-ha-ha!" the pegasus laughed sarcastically.

"Did you got yerself a car, miss?" Braeburn asked. "How are ya goin' to compete?"

"Of course The Great And Powerful Trixie got herself a car. Trixie thought she needed one of those fancy metal cars, when the only one Trixie actually needed was hers all along."

"Really?" Twilight asked, looking left and right. "Which one is yours?"

She pointed at the wooden cart behind her. "Behold! Trixie's mobile stage and Twisted Metal weapon, Magic Trick."

"That's... A very creative name!" Twilight said. "But it doesn't look... Well, safe or... Durable!"

Trixie kicked one of the legs of the stage, making the whole structure retract into the cart. Once Magic Trick had its original shape, small holes appeared on the wooden walls, revealing several crossbows pointed at several directions.

"Scared, Sparkle?" Trixie asked with a smug smile on her face. Twilight smiled and turned around, walking back to her car. Her friends followed her. "Do you finally understand now, Twilight Sparkle? The odds are always against you when you're facing The Great And Powerful Trrrrrixie!" she stood on her hind legs while speaking her name to emphasize it.

"Why are we walkin' away, exactly?" Braeburn asked. His companions all shared a small chuckle.

"She doesn't stand a chance!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Do you think we should keep an eye on her?" Twilight asked. "Just to make sure she makes it?"

Applejewel looked at her, puzzled. "You want to protect her? Even after all those alwful things she said the last time we met?"

"I know she wasn't the most pleasant pony to speak to, but if she has something against me, she must have her reasons, and I'm going to find out what those reasons are."

"And then?"

"Set things right, obviously!"

"Same old Twilight." Rainbow dash said. "If it was me, I would just knock some sense into her the hard way."

"Because you are a brute, Rainbow Dash." Applejewel said.

Rainbow Dash chuckled. "I'm sorry, Rari-- Applejewel, but it just sounds weird when you see Applejack calling you a brute!"

"Well, with luck, this won't happen anymore for long. Specially now that I have somepony else to compete with me!"

Braeburn wrapped a foreleg around Applejewel. "Anythin' for my dear cousin's friends."

Fireworks lit the sky and the doors of the casino were opened, revealing a mountain of poker chips with a slots machine on top of it; Discord was sitting on it.

"Hello, little ponies! Sorry for the delay, but this city is just so much fun." he pointed at the chips. "Look at all this! And all in one night. Unfortunately, I have no use for these, so let's make things a little more interesting: the winner gets not only his or her wish granted, but my hundreds of thousands poker chips here. So, if your wish is 'I want to be rich', you just got a second wish completely free of charge! Am I not generous?"

Discord snapped his fingers and, even though physically impossible, all the chips disappeared inside the slots machine. After a second snap of his fingers, the machine disappeared as well.

"Now please, do come in! Twisted Metal is about to start. Sadly, Elvis Pranceley won't be singing for us tonight, but I can marry a few couples after the tournament is over for this month if any of you ponies is interested."

He snapped his fingers once more, and this time he was the one who disappeared. All the cars then entered the casino.

The inside was very bright, so all the contestants were blinded for a few moments. Once they could see again, they all noticed that the inside of the casino was a very big pinball table, with all the main parts: the ball shooter, the bumpers, the flipper bats and the out hole. In the center of the room was a bright yellow hydraulic excavator with a yellow and pink pegasus inside.

"Fluttershy?!" the three mares shouted.

"Where have you been? And what are you doing here? Again." Rainbow Dash asked.

"I... I think she is working with Discord!" Twilight said.

"Don't be silly, Twilight." Applejewel said. "She is our friend, she would never join forces with that fiend!"

"Last contest I lost the competition because she hit me with her car while saying something about a 'bargain'."

"So she's in cahoots with our enemy?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No, she can't be!" Applejewel said, her tone suggesting that even she wasn't sure of her own affirmation. "I mean, she is Fluttershy, right? The kindest pony in all of Equestrian history. She would never betray her friends like that. Would she?"

"My old foalsitter once told me that love can make ponies do all sorts of crazy thing." Twilight explained. "Some of them are good, some of them are not."

"And she really wanted to revive Big Mac last contest, didn't she?" Applejewel said.

"Mah cousin?" Braeburn asked. "Then that means she's an ally, right?"

"In theory, yes." Twilight said. "But after what happened in those past few months, with Pinkie Pie and all... I guess this tournament really changes ponies."

"The Great And Powerful Trixie shall destroy this beast!" Trixie shouted before charging toward Fluttershy's vehicle. The pegasus mare simply grinned before moving a few levers, making the cabin spin, hitting Trixie's Magic Trick with the bucket of the excavator. The cart was sent flying to the other side of the room and it hit one of the flipper bats before sliding into the out hole.

"Told you she didn't stood a chance." Rainbow Dash said to Braeburn with a grin.

"Let's split up now, girls!" Twilight said. "Be careful now and do your best."

Applejewel and Rainbow Dash nodded before driving away in different directions. Braeburn opened the window and placed a foreleg on top of the jewel launcher on the side of the car.

"Remember, darling: shoot first, worry later!"

Braeburn nodded while aiming the weapon at the closest car. When a car got close enough, he pressed a button, making the jewel launcher shoot diamonds at the othe contestant; since the weapon was aimed at the wheels, they were destroyed, making it impossible for the driver to keep participating.

"Good job, Braeburn! You have a good aim."

"Thanks, miss! Back in Appleloosa we have those shootin' contests ev'ry two weeks an' Ah don't wanna brag, but Ah got first place four times in a row."

Applejewel chuckled. "Well, looks like I got paired up with the best, didn't I?"

Braeburn smiled. "Thanks, miss!"

Twilight was standing on front of the excavator, staring at Fluttershy, who was just staring back.

"I can't believe you're doing this, Fluttershy. Siding with our enemy like that!"

"You wouldn't understand, Twilight."

"Then try to make me understand."

"If I defeat all of you, he will be back to me. Do you understand that? That's all I have to say. Now let's do it, Twilight."

Twilight sighed, then accelerated toward the excavator, Fluttershy kept trying to hit the car with the arm, but the alicorn was driving in circles around the vehicle, making it really hard for her to aim and attack.

"I'm sorry about this, Fluttershy, but I have to knock some sense into you. It's not wise to join forces with Discord. Remember Pinkie Pie? She is now in an asylum. And Discord will mess with your head as well. Just like he did to Pinkie. Just like he did to me."

"You don't know him like I do. Discord can be a good pony. You just need to take your time to get to know him!"

"You're wrong, Fluttershy! Discord is bad, this will never changed. We tried, remember? We sided with him, and he betrayed all of us for his own greed!"

"He... He did, yes, but--"

"No buts, Fluttershy! You know he is bad."

"But he will bring Big Mac back to me! That's all I care about for now."

"I will regret saying this..." Twilight thought before taking a deep breath. "Even if he does bring Big Mac back to life, what makes you so sure that he will love you back?"

The hydraulic excavator suddenly stopped moving; Fluttershy had let go of the controllers and was now in deep thought. Twilight stopped driving as well.

"Flutershy? Are you--"

Her car was smashed by the bucket, and then picked up by it. Twilight was barely conscious, but enough to see the angry look on her friend's face.

"You shut up now! He is going to love me, I know that. You don't know what love is!" she waved the arm, throwing Friendship Report at the out hole. "Now get out of my sight!"

Twilight finally lost consciousness when she was sliding down the tunnel of the out hole.

The whole scene was being watched by Rainbow Dash, who immediately jumped out of her car and flew to the cabin.

"Fluttershy, what were you thinking?! That was Twilight, how could you do that to her?!"

"She hurt me, so I hurt her back! I believe that's a fair trade. What about you? Are you going to hurt me as well? I won't let you!"

Fluttershy started swinging the arm of the excavator before Rainbow Dash had a chance to explain herself. The cyan pegasus was doding the swings, while trying to convince her that she didn't wanted to hurt her, but her pleas were falling in deaf ears, until suddenly the arm stopped moving.

"Nice shot, Braeburn!" Applejewel said while patting the back of her partner, who was still aiming the jewel launcher at the excavator, whose joints were now full of diamonds, making it impossible for it to move. But Fluttershy wouldn't give up so easily, so she started moving the excavator itself toward Rare Gem. Rainbow Dash started flying in front of the cabin.

"Fluttershy, snap out of it. We're your friends, remember? We're not going to hurt you. And I don't know what Twilight said, but she probably didn't meant to hurt you either. Please, listen to me!"

"My friends or not..." she turned on the lights above the cabin, forcing Rainbow Dash to shield her eyes. "You're still between me and my one true love."

"Argh, my eyes!" Rainbow Dash fell to the ground, still shileding her eyes with both forelegs. "I think you blinded me, Fluttershy. This hurts so bad!"

"How are we gonna stop that massive monster?" Braeburn asked. "Stoppin' that arm thing from movin' is one thing, it had weak points, but what about this?"

Applejewel smiled. "I know what to do."

"Ya do?"

"Get ready to shoot!" Applejewel accelerated and contoured the excavator. In the back, she pointed at a metal grid on the back of the vehicle. "If I'm not mistaken, that's probably where the engine is. Remember: no matter how powerful a car is, it's useless without its power source. Now shoot!"

"Right away!"

Braeburn pointed at the grid and shot a rainbow of different kinds of gems at the grid, perfurating it and the engine inside. There was a metallic sound and the excavator stopped moving a few moments before smoke started to come out of the hole on the grid.

"We... We won?" Braeburn asked.

Applejewel got out of the car and walked to where Rainbow Dash was lying; she was still covering her eyes.

"It hurts like buck..." she cursed.

"Now, now, Rainbow Dash. Don't worry, everything is going to be fine. I promise you that. They were only lights, I highly doubt the damage will be permanent."

"Yes, but I lost. Now I can't keep the promise I made to Scootaloo."

Applejewel helped her up and guided her to Rainboom. "If... If you want me to, I can bring Scootaloo's body back. How does that sound?"

Rainbow Dash smiled. "Generous as always, huh, Rarity? It's a great offer, but no, thanks. Go and get your body back. You earned it, and I can't take it away from you. And there's always next month, right?"

Applejewel smiled and nuzzled her friend. "Thank you, Rainbow Dash. After all, you have a huge ego, but an even bigger heart."

The pegasus chuckled. "Enough with the mushy stuff. Go and get your wish!"

Applejewel nodded and helped Rainbow Dash sit on the driver seat of her car. She then approached the hydraulic excavator.

"How is she, Braeburn?" she called.

"Ah'm not sure." he said, coming out of the cabin. "She just keep cryin' and won't answer any o' mah questions."

Applejewel sighed. "She will understand we did this for her own sake."

"Ah hope so."

"This month was boring!" Discord said as he appeared on top of the cabin, startling Braeburn, who fell from it. "Things sure aren't as fun when little Pinkamena is not around. Even when she stole my throne for a while, I was still able to participate. It was my first time, but it sure was fun. I have to do that more often!"

"So this is that Dicord fella..." Braeburn said while getting up.

"Yes, that's me. And you are the one who helped the fair Rarity to achieve victory, am I right? This means either of you can make the wish. But only one wish, remember that! Now, which one of you will have the honor?"

Braeburn and Applejewel looked at each other. Braeburn smiled.

"Well, Ah believe we both came here with the same wish in mind, only with different words."

"Undoubtedly!" she said, then cleaned her throat. "Discord, hear us, for we have our wish."

"We wish for ya to split mah cousin Applejack's body and miss Rarity's soul."

"But don't try to trick us and making Applejack an empty shell and me a wandering ghost. No, we want you to give my body back and allow Applejack to be able to control her body again."

"An' if ya don't do as yer told, we'll come back next time to kick yer flank!"

"Oh, and don't forget to give my horn back. It's important!"

"Ok, ok, alright, fine, whatever." Discord snapped his fingers and Applejewel's body turned into a sphere of white light, which split in to smalled spheres; one was made of orange light and the other of purple light. While still in mid-air, the spheres took the shape of ponies and slowly returned to the ground. The purple one turned into a white unicorn mare with purple mane and tail, which were a little longer than they used to be, and the orange one turned into an orange earth pony mare with blonde mane and tail, which were flowing due to the fact that they weren't tied like usual; her hat was missing as well. Braeburn slowly approached the duo.

"Y'all okay?" he asked.

"I...I..." Rarity said, looking at her body. "I'm me again!" she touched the horn on her forehead with her right hoof and sighed in relief. "One hundred percent me!"

The stallion smiled. "That's good. Now, what about...?" he looked at her cousin, who was lying on the ground. She wasn't moving, but she was breathing. Braeburn glared at Discord.

"Don't worry, apple horse, she is fine. It's not my fault she decided to take a nap." Braeburn looked back at his cousin and hugged her. "Well, looks like we're done here for now. Unfortunately, no one wanted to get marry and, even if somepony wanted, they're probably dead by now. Anyway, I am Discord and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal."

He snapped his fingers and everypony and their cars disappeared.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes. She was feeling pain, but not enough to keep her from crawling out of her car. Once she was out, she stood up with some difficulty and noticed that she was in front of a now barred tunnel located in an alley. Next to her was Trixie's smashed cart. She levitated wooden pieces way from the wreckage, but the only thing she found were more wooden pieces and no sign of Trixie, except for one thing: Trixie's certificate of graduation from Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns.

Author's Notes:

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Ideas, creativity, why are you leaving me? I have a crossover fanfic to write, and I need your help!

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Also, since this fanfic takes place in an alternate universe, I took the liberty of altering a few details of the canon version for the sake of the plot. Simple details, but of major significance; you already saw a few of them, such as Trixie not visiting Ponyville before this chapter. Other changes will be revealed later on (revealing them here would result in spoilers). Not sure if it will take long or not, but they will happen before the fanfic is over, I promise you that!