After the brawl with the monsters, Scootaloo was fiddling around with her Element of Harmony.

"Hehe, looks good on me, huh, Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo chuckled, sticking out her chest proudly as the red lightning bolt glimmered in the Sun. Sweetie nodded, polishing off her own tiara. Zecora had mentioned that letting the Elements rust was bad, so polishing was needed. "These babies will let us take back Equestria" Sctooaloo boasted.

"Slow down. You aren't doing that alone" Babs muttered, leaping down from a small cliff just above the pair.

"Right, we wouldn't want to take all the glory for ourselves, right?" Scootaloo laughed, causing the brown earth pony to roll her eyes.

"Same old, same old, huh?" Babs smirked, shaking off her smile and returning to her regular stoic look. "Anyway, we need some more food. Want to go forage with me?" Babs asked Scootaloo, pawing at the ground a bit nervously.

"Of course, that sounds cool. Hey, Sweetie, stop polishing that thing and tag along" Scootaloo barked out to the pale unicorn. Sweetie Belle nodded, putting the crown away in a saddle bag. Babs scowled a bit at this new tidbit, making Sweetie cock her head slightly at the earth pony's sudden sour face.

"Are you okay with it?" Sweetie asked, looking at her old friend curiously. Babs shook it off and gave a short nod and smile. "Okay then, let's go" Sweetie declared, setting off towards the Everfree forest.

A small bird tweeted from the branches of a tree, its bright feathers fluffing up. Suddenly, a spear sprouted in its chest and it was knocked from its perch, landing on the forest floor. Babs picked up another javelin from the pile next to her, hefting the throwing weapon and impaling a cockatrice.

"Nice shot" Scootaloo whistled in appreciation, looking at the clean kills. Babs basked in the compliment and shifted a javelin over to the pegasus.

"Let's see if you're any good at this" Babs giggled, stepping back, expecting Scootaloo to fail miserably. Scootaloo let out a somewhat evil sounding laugh as she picked up the weapon and tossed it straight up. "Yeah, it takes a lo-NO WAY!" Babs sputtered, realizing that by sheer and total dumb luck, the fall of the javelin happened to hit another, low flying bird.

"Oh yeah, I'll go get it!" Scootaloo crowed, jumping down from the hill they were on to pick up her kill. Her wings fluttered quickly, weaving in between the trees and taking her to a small puddle. The birds's body lay in the puddle, the javelin still stuck inside of it...and a candy cane? Why was a candy cane embedded inside the bird. Scootaloo's gut practically screamed at her and she ducked backwards, just barely avoiding a blast of purple and green magic. "Alright, who's there?!" Scootaloo snarled, magenta eyes flicking in between the trees, trying to find her assailant. A flash of brown from the corner of her eye was the only thing that alerted her to a red, scaled, tail swinging in the air, aiming for her head. The pegasus ducked underneath it, deflecting a second swipe with her wing before rolling away, getting a proper look at her attacker.

"I'm impressed" the assailant mused, straightening up to a height easily twice that of Scootaloo's. A goat like head sneered at her, the compliment clearly fake.

"You...I know you! Discord" Scootaloo gasped, remembering exactly who the draconequus was.

"Aye, it's me. I'm so happy you remember too" Discord chuckled, leaning down to look the pegasus in the eye. "You were a nice kid back in the day, and Fluttershy liked you, so I'm giving you a chance. Hand over that bird, it was my dinner" Discord ordered, holding out an eagle like talon. The bird had other plans though and began squawking with renewed vigor, apparently still alive. "YOU TRICKED ME!" Discord roared, slapping the bird aside with a lion's paw, black magic gathering in his other hand. Scootaloo leaped back once more, drawing the sword on her side in preparation.

"What happened to you Discord?! You were reformed! And it wasn't on purpose" Scootaloo snarled, holding in her wing to leave her hooves open.

"When Fluttershy disappeared, I lost my only friend" Discord growled out, creating a large spearmint to battle with. He slashed down with it, just barely missing Scootaloo's flank. "Fluttershy was all I cared about!" he snapped, deflecting a blow of Scootaloo's sword with his spearmint and slashing her side with his dragon foot. "Without her, why should I be good!?" he hissed, the eagle claw, catching Scootaloo mid jump to slice open part of her ear.

"STOP WHINING!" Scootaloo yelled, using the candy cane that had been in the bird earlier to stab the spirit of chaos in the shoulder, stumbling him back. Fortunately for Scootaloo, she had picked it up, assuming she'd be hungry later. "Look Discord, I don't know what happened exactly, but we can help you" Scootaloo offered to the wounded beast.

"Impressive, you hurt me a bit. But it won't work too well, hitting me with my own attacks" Discord chuckled, regenerating the small wound easily. He let out an animalistic roar, charging forward, ready to impale Scootaloo on his spearmint. Scootaloo mentally cursed herself. Why had she left the Element back with her saddle bags.

"Scootaloo!" a high pitched voice called, followed shortly by a purple shield that slammed the draconequus, knocking him away.

"Nice save, Sweetie" Scootaloo complimented, sheathing her sword.

"I was grabbing berries and heard shouts" Sweetie explained, a pop coming from Discord as he teleported onto a nearby rock.

"The Element of Magic?" he sputtered, eyes wide as he tried to process his greatest enemy. His reverie was interrupted as a javelin nearly impaled him, only missing due to him teleporting away. Babs growled in frustration at her missed shot as she tried for another. "Some rebels? Hehe, and I was just getting bored" Discord laughed, growing a few feet for every laugh. In no time, he was enormous, the draconequus reaching over the trees.

"Here!" Babs called, tossing the Element of Loyalty to Scootaloo. The pegasus snapped on the necklace and formed the combat avatar of red energy, reaching up to Discord's neck.

"So, the Element of Loyalty too" Discord boomed, looking at the combat avatar with amusement. "Am I too tall? Here" Discord mocked, creating a second face in his neck to talk to Scootaloo face to face. Scootaloo wasn't in the mood for games and threw a ferocious punch. Discord laughed, easily catching the punch in his left hand. "You were pretty good on the ground, but you can't use the Element right yet!" Discord cackled, slapping her away with a kick from his goat leg.

"Stop it, you creep!" Sweetie screamed, her drill bubble flying straight for Discord. Discord merely created a hand on his tail, blasting a stream of chocolate from it, knocking Sweetie from the air and into the ground.

"Take this, CANNONBALL ATTACK!" Scootaloo yelled, picking up Sweetie Belle's bubble and flinging her at Discord. Discord snickered, his eyes flashing as he used telekinesis to simply slam the bubble into the dirt. His arm stretched to impossible lengths, picking up Scootaloo's avatar and yanking her over, just so he could smash her into the ground with a fierce elbow strike.

"I GUESS FRIENDSHIP CAN'T SOLVE EVERYTHING!" Discord laughed, opening his mouth and firing a massive wave of chaos energy, warping and distorting everything in its path. A flick of his hand and the smoke cleared, revealing nothing where Sweetie and Scootaloo should be. "Where did they go? Bah, I'll find them later, it's dinner time" Discord grumbled, shrinking back down to normal and stomping off, picking up some berries on the way.

Out of the ground, came a small, purple, drill, revealing Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle hiding underground.

"W-why? Did I run away again?" Sweetie whimpered, holding her head in her hooves

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