A few days had past since Midnight had split into separate ponies, one of chaos, one of magic. During those days however Midnight had lived his normal life with his daily routine. Helping out around Ponyville and being with his loved ones. Flame however was a different story, Discord had managed to build up his own chaos energy, as well as Screwball and Flame. I took almost a week to finally get enough power from just the three of them so that when combined it had finally released the seal on Discord's power. Upon release though Discords power began to regenerate at an alarming pace. Within a few days he would be at full power again, and with the combined power of Flame and Screwball, he felt he had a chance to finally take over this world, but not without having an ace up his sleeve just in case.

"So you understand the plane Flame?" Discord snickered happily watching Flame nod. "Good, now all we have to do is wait until Celestia finally pops so Midnight will be out of the way temporarily. That bothersome purple unicorn will still be busy with her studies, while he is at the castle with her royal pain in the ass." He chuckled but stopped just as he noticed Midnight leaving the library at a fast pace, leaping into the air with a flap of his wings, then vanishing in a bright flash. Discord looked back down to the library as Twilight exited looking for Midnight.

"MIDNIGHT! I WANTED TO GO TO!" Twilight shouted, giving a snort of annoyance as she stomped back into the library slamming the door behind her. Discord smiled hearing this, as now his plan would be far easier to pull off than first anticipated.

"Change of plan my boy." Discord giggled as he leaned down to speak the new plan into Flame's ear. Flame stood there as everything had been said, giving a nod he teleported to just outside the library and heading inside through the front door. He took a deep breath as he began to switch his personality to that of the good Midnight.

"Sorry for rushing out like that Twi *WHAP*" He back peddled as a small satchel was launched into his face, a strap holding the bag up as he wrapped around his horn.

"No time to argue, Celestia is in labor and I don't want to miss this. I am her star pupil and best friend, I must be there for her while she is having your foal. No time to argue." She said as she jumped up and onto his back, pulling the bag to her with her magic and holding onto it. "Let's go, no time to waste." She spoke out giving Midnight a gentle kick in the side to get him moving.

"No problem." He snickered as he turned around and quickly made his way out the door, launching himself into the air. At this point Twilight felt a sudden pang of alarm as Midnight hadn't teleported to the castle with her. She spoke out over the wind that was rushing by them.

"Midnight? Why haven't you teleported to the castle? We need to get there pronto. Celestia is...........having..." She trailed off as Flame turned his head giving an evil sneer, his yellow eyes glowing as his horn lit up casting a sleep spell on the purple unicorn.

"Time to sleep little one." He cackled as a beam of energy shot from his horn onto Twilight knocking her out cold. He gave a smirk as his horn lit up once again, teleporting Twilight and himself to Discord.

*FLASH*

Discord smiled as Flame appeared with Twilight upon his back. "Good work my boy, couldn't have done this without you."

Flame just gave a smirk as his horn lit up grabbing onto Twilight with his magic and tossing her onto the ground before Discord, a soft thud escaping as she hit the soft ground. "What now my king?" he asked as he lay down onto a grassy area looking to the unconscious unicorn before him.

"Now we wait once more, Celestia will have that foal soon enough, and when she does her power will falter. Then we can strike." He cackled madly as he walked over to Twilight placing a talon onto her forehead and sending a jolt through her entire frame. A soft groan escaped her as she awoke, slowly pulling herself to her hooves as she spoke.

"How can I be of service my king?" She spoke out in a monotone looking forward into nothingness.

"Walk with me Twilight my dear." He giggled as they began to walk away from Flame and into the thick woods just outside of the grassy knoll. Flame watching them as he began to think.

"That stupid idiot really thinks he has me under his control." He snickered. "But we shall see who has the last laugh when the shit hits the fan. Just as long as he continues to believe he has control over me everything will go according to plan." He smiled wickedly as he lay his head down onto the soft grass giving a yawn as he felt sleep take a hold of him.

"Where is Celestia?" Shouted Midnight as he appeared in a flash inside the castle spooking a couple guards.

"Halt right thACK!" The guard was pulled up to Midnight's face with a grasp of magic as he snarled into his face.

"I know she is having my foal and I want to be there with her when she has it! So you have two options. Tell me where she is or I will personally turn you into a mare and have my way with you for a week straight." He snapped causing the guard to squeak, his tail instinctively pulling up and between his legs.

"She is in her quarters." He squeaked out as Midnight let him go and teleported before he even hit the floor. The guard next to him giving a sigh and shaking his head as he looked at the rookie guard.

"I think you need a little more training son." The older guard chuckled looking at the pony in the fetal position on the floor sucking on his hoof.

Midnight appeared just outside the door to Celestia's chambers with a snap. Several guards stood there slightly stunned as he appeared but bowed to him, opening the door as he walked toward the door heading into the room. As he entered Celestia's chambers he heard a loud shriek of pain. He trotted quickly to her side as she lay on a large medical bed that had been placed in her room for this special event. She gave a pant and smile seeing Midnight had finally arrived motioning for him to come to her side. As he came to her he placed his head next to hers giving her a comforting nuzzle.

"Everything will be ok Tia, I'm here now and I won't leave you." He smiled as tears welled up in his eyes.

"I'm frightened, I have never experienced nnnnnnnngh this type of pain before." She panted out as another wave of pain hit her. Midnight lay at her side trying his best to comfort her, he look to the doctor who was sweating while doing his duty to help birth the foal. After the wave of pain finally subsided Celestia began to speak once again.

"Midnight, thank you for allowing me this. Although I could have done without the pain, I am happy to be a mother at last." She smiled as tears streamed down her face. Midnight pressing his forehead to hers as tears finally escaped his eyes as well.

"I am just as happy as you. This will be my first child as well. I am glad that it was with you though." They both chuckled softly before another wave of pain hit her.

"The foal is crowning, I can see his horn." The doctor announced happily. "Come one princess, give us another good push and it will all be over with."

Celestia's expression changed to that of determination as she took in a breath pressing her head to Midnights chest. She let out a shriek of pain as she pushed hard finally pushing the little one out and into the world. The doctor along with a couple nurse's began to work quickly with the foal as a soft cry was heard. Celestia fell limp, completely exhausted and breathing hard as the pain began to subside.

"You did great Tia. I'm so proud of you." Midnight smiled, tears still streaming down his face as he nuzzled her.

"I don't think I could have done this without you Night." She smiled weakly.

"Night huh? Is my non formal approach finally corrupting you princess?" He smirked causing her to chuckle.

"Maybe, but for now it just feels right." She smiled brightly giving him a kiss.

The doctor gave a smile as he approached the two Alicorns. "Congratulations, you two have a healthy colt Alicorn." He said as he levitated the foal into Celestia's arms. Upon seeing the foal finally it hit her and Midnight hard as they burst into tears of happiness. They were now parent's, and nothing could ruin this moment.

"Knock knock." A voice echoed into the room causing everyone to gasp aloud.

"My my my, what a beautiful moment. A mother and father finally holding their first born. You know I am quite jealous actually." The voice stopped as Discord appeared a few yards away.

"Discord?" Midnight spoke as he looked at the draconequus. His expression turned from confusion to anger as his memories of what had previously transpired flooded into him like a roaring river.

"GUARDS!" Midnight shouted as a line of Unicorns in heavy armor entered the room. "Guard the princess, put up a shield and let nopony, even me, get near her." He snapped as he stood up, his mane and tail an inferno of flames as he stepped past the unicorns just before they put up a shield around themselves and the princess.

"Midnight? What's going on?" Celestia spoke out in confusion and fear.

"Discord has betrayed us, and I fear now that he has broken his seal somehow." He snarled to Discord as his wings flared open, his horn glowing brightly.

"Ah ah aaahhh! You won't be fighting me my friend. I have a special present just for you." Discord chuckled as he snapped a talon making Flame appear just a few yards from Midnight.

"You see, I know I cannot defeat you for several reasons, one is because of how powerful you are. Two: I can't fight a friend." He stopped as he was cut off.

"A friend doesn't threaten his friends in any way, shape, or form, and you have the gall to appear just as my first child is born. You have not only fucked up royally." Midnights eyes, mane and tail flared out, his wings bursting into flame along with them. "But you have also seen your last day." He shouted as he bolted past Flame toward Discord but stopped only an inch away as he froze in mid air as Discord held out Twilight in front of him in his taloned paw. Midnight gave a loud snarl as he backed away landing back onto the spot he was previously in. His inferno of magic still whipping around him.

"Now you see, I don't intend to fight you Midnight my friend, because I know I will loose. This is why I have not only snatched your little playmate here." He chuckled tossing her toward flame, she landing right next to him in an offensive pose while her horn began to glow. "But I intend on her fighting Celestia while you are fighting your better half." He began to chuckle but it quickly turned into a mad cackle.

As Discord was laughing himself silly Midnight disappeared in a flash of light only to reappear moments later with Luna at his side. He nodded to her then to behind himself as she looked back and bolted into the sphere surrounding Celestia. Her horn lit up as another shield surrounded the entire group. She looked back to Midnight nodding, a smirk across her face. The smirk vanished quickly as it turned to shock, Midnight saw this as he began to turn around only to meet a wing across his face launching him hard into the shield surrounding the princess' and rebounding him straight up through several floors and out of the roof of the castle into the sky.

Midnight winced in pain as he was suddenly sucker punched by what felt like an atomic bomb as he hurtled through stone and air. He managed to pull just enough magic to shield the next blow as it sent him further into the sky with a crack of thunder. Flame leveled out as Midnight began flapping his wings and shaking his head to clear the fog from the blow.

"Well now, seems like now is as good a time as any to cut loose and take your place in this world." Flame chuckled as he watched Midnight finally regain his senses.

"Tell me." Midnight began as he glared at his counterpart. "What makes you think you can beat me?" He snarled.

"Well for one, I'm smarter, two: I'm stronger, and thr*BAM*" Flame was cut short as he was hit hard by a wave of continuous fire being bellowed from Midnights horn. He continued the assault until a smoking trail of Flame's body fell from the threshold of fire toward the ground below. He grinned and bolted after the smoking trail, his horn lit up as magic enveloped his wings as he made a quick dive passing by the trail as his wing sliced straight through it. After making a quick turn and hovering, he watched as the trail of smoke began to clear into nothing.

"WHAT!?" Midnight shouted as he began to look around quickly, his horn lighting up as he was trying to put up a shield but stopped as a flaming blur busted by him. Midnight watched as if the world came to a crawl. His hovering position changed as with the next flap of his wings he was launched onto his side. Another flap,and he turned upside down as he began to fall from the sky. Then the pain set in as he looked up to the evil sneer spread across Flames face, and a falling black wing that began to flip through the air slowly after him.

"No...................." Is all he managed to mutter before Flame hit him square in the stomach with as much force as he could give, Both rocketing quickly toward the castle. *BOOM* They broke the sound barrier as they continued their decent hitting a tower causing it to explode in a fiery blaze as they impacted the wall of the mountain the castle was attached to. Flame detached himself from Midnight who was now in the crater his body had made into the mountain. Flame gave a loud laugh as his horn lit up pulling the badly damaged Alicorn from his makeshift grave as he flew through the holes made through several floors back into Celestia's Chambers. He smirked as he dropped the Alicorn at his hooves in front of Luna, the guards, and Celestia. They all looked in shock at the fallen Alicorn, his mane and tail flickered with little life as he lay there.

"Midnight?" Celestia spoke in fear as she looked from one of the dark Alicorn to the other.

"That would be this one love." Flames grinned kicking the Alicorn at the shield expecting him to bounce off only to gasp as he fell through it, landing at Luna's hooves. He charge the shield only to bounce off snarling, he continued attacking repeatedly as the others began talking inside watching the guards strain with each blow to the shield.

"MIDNIGHT!? Please don't die!?" Celestia cried out in horror seeing him bleeding badly from the stump that was once his wing. She gently pulled him to her with her magic as she nuzzled his head crying.

"I............I'm sorry.................I should.............have............been more careful............... I underestimated myself." He gave a pained chuckle at his terrible joke. "I'm not going to be...........of much use...............now am I?" He spoke through pained breaths.

"You're not worth shit now!" Flame yelled as he continued striking the shield surrounding them. "And once I finally beak through this shield, those little sluts will die, but not before I tear your foal limb from limb." He cackled for a moment but stopped frozen in the air as a loud heartbeat could be heard resounding through the entire castle.

*BADUM* Midnight's horn began to glow softly at first, gaining luminosity with each beat.

*BADUM* He began to slowly rise from the floor next to Celestia as his body began to glow.

*BADUM* "No one, even God himself will threaten my family, my foal, or my friends."

*BADUM* "And noone who does, will survive to tell the tale of how they did."

*BADUM* "and survived." He finished as the venom and ice from his very words seeped through the air causing Discord, Screwball, and even Flame to back away in fear. They continued to back away as they watched the stump on Midnight's back begin to heal, forming a new wing in a roar of flames.

*BADUM* "Luna." Celestia began as she caught her sisters attention. "Take care of our foal, we are going to end this once and for all." Celestia spoke as her horn glowed brightly as she placed the foal into Luna's arms. Her own magic healing her body as best as it could from just having give birth.

*BADUM* "Joining the fight are we?" Midnight grinned to Celestia.

*BADUM* "Even with our combined power I don't know if we will be strong enough." Celestia recoiled slightly at the thought of her only child falling into the hands of evil.

*BADUM* "I think we will have a chance if we........." She trailed off as a nervous thought crossed her mind.

*BADUM* "You want me to become you sword and shield don't you?" Midnight finished causing her to gasp softly.

*BADUM* "I am very afraid of what will happen if that occurs." She spoke but stopped as she noticed Flame backing up toward Twilight.

"That's not a bad idea, I think this one will have just enough power to bust through that shield and kill you all at the same time." Flame cackled as he began to glow brightly and envelope Twilight.

"What are you doing?!" Shouted Discord. I don't want to kill them, I just want eternal chaos for all Equestria." He shouted but suddenly froze in thin air as he was enveloped in magic from the now combined Flame and Twilight.

"To bad gramps, I'm sending you packing instead." The two spoke out in unison as they all began to glow a bright white. As the light faded the armored Twilight cackled as a now completely stone Discord fell to the floor bouncing slightly as he impacted the floor. They turned just in time to see the brightest light that had ever graced the universe to envelope everything around them.

"What is that light?" Rarity shouted as she ran outside of her boutique. As she rounded the corner she stopped in awe as she looked toward Canterlot, the entire city was completely enveloped in a bright white light. The rest of the girls except for Twilight all gathered within minutes of seeing the light to talk.

"Girls, I think something bad has happened. We should get to Canterlot pronto." Rarity spoke nervously just before Rainbow Dash busted through the door of the boutique.

"Twilight's gone, I found this note in the library." Dash said as she began to read it.

"Gather the elements and get to the castle. the fight has already begun. Twilight has been captured." "That's all it says." Rainbow said in shock turning the parchment over, hoping to find more words.

"Girls, let's get goin!" AJ spoke up causing them all to nod. They all quickly left the boutique to gather their elements and then head to the castle. They knew not what fight they were about to head into, but they were ready to fight for each other, for their friends, for Equestria.