Kamina, Spike, and Game all appeared in Ponyville to their surprise, and concern. Already Discord was at work; the town was in utter chaos. Buildings floated upside down, they were turned into functioning gingerbread houses, likely to mock Sugarcube Corner, and they saw various ponies they knew screaming, crying, and several were even transformed into something else; even inanimate objects with their crying eyes.

“No! Cup Cake!” Game ran over to a baby carriage which judging by color, and her cutie mark on the sides, plus her tearing eyes on the top of the shade looking down into the bed of the carriage which held her unborn twin foals in suspended embryos safely, which were being mentally stimulated by a puppet show that was playing in front of them, making them shift gently. “What has he done to you?!” Game patted Cup's cover, and she turned her gaze to him pleadingly. “We have to stop this!”

“Hold on!” Kamina rushed over after getting over the initial shock. 'That sick fuck! He did this to a pregnant mare with full intention!' {Yes, but look; the foals are safe, and he chose a form that could sustain them temporarily at least. Also she would have changed back after a short time.} Animak informed him after they scanned her with a spell. 'Not soon enough, can we change her back safely?' {Yes. It seems our Spiral Power instantly overwhelms his magic, since it lacks connection to the Spiral at all.} “You'll be fine Mrs. Cake, just wait a second.”

Kamina focused his raw magic and a hint of Spiral Power on her, and in a pop; Cup Cake was back to normal, panting and probing her belly frantically. “I'm fine! M-my foals are fine...we're fine...thank you!” She hugged Kamina as she cried, sobbing into his neck. “I thought my foals would....” She lost the ability to keep speaking, and Kamina pat her back as he looked back out onto the town, seeing several ponies he knew in similar, but not nearly as dire straits.

“That rat fucking bastard! I'll rip his lungs out for this!” Spike shouted, his draconian rage shining through as his horn spirals lit up. Kamina was going to have to get used to that.

“Bro, chill. You need to cool your head. Look; just send a pulse of your Spiral Power into anything or anypony changed, and they'll turn back to normal.” Kamina shot a weak laser blast at a crying mailbox, and it turned back into Derpy Hooves, who sniffled and took out a comfort muffin from her mailbag.

“Oh~ I wish I had Spiral Power right now! I'd be able to help!” Game bemoaned, but then he perked up, and grinned deviously. “Actually...can you cast Spiral Power through a medium besides your horns?”

“Of course. Back home, Simon; my other brother, used his Spiral Power primarily through a little drill key. So long as the object has some sort of spiral design; I think it can be used as a conduit.” Kamina explained, and Game clopped his hooves together in excitement.

“Yay~! My Fourth Dimension bending skills can come in hoofy! Hold on!” Game jumped into the air, and his body literally shattered to the two brother's horror, only for his crystal parts to reshape, and come back together to form a drill-tipped satellite dish, and he landed back in front of them. “Hey! Hello? Hello~? Can you hear me?” Game's voice echoed from the odd contraption, getting the brothers to look at each other in bemusement.

“Y-yeah we can hear ya.” Spike replied in confusion.

“Good, because I can't see anything like this. My body should act as an adequate sort of thaumatergical broadcaster for your Spiral Power. Just send a pulse into me and I'll spread it as far as I can.” Game's plan got both Kamina and Spike excited; if it worked, this would be a totally satisfying “fuck you” to Discord.

“Hey big bro? Would you do the honors?” Kamina jokingly asked his 15-foot tall kirin brother while still consoling Cup Cake. In response, Spike grinned and fired a weak blast of his magic, infused with Spiral Power at Game.

“Whoa~! That's trippy~!” Game cheered a second before a corona of pure magical aura launched from him, spreading through physical objects as if they weren't there, changing everything and everyone back to normal within a several mile radius, which was most of Ponyville. “Why is everything spinning? Spinning infinity boy~, the wheel is spinning me, it's never ending, never ending....”

“Yeah; that'll go away. That's how I felt when I got my first taste of Spiral Power.” Spike informed, only to cry out in pain as a massive weight landed on his back, smashing him into the ground.

“Spike!” Kamina called out as Cup Cake took the sudden turn of events as a sign to run.

“How...dare...you....” Discord was standing on Spike's back, between his wings. With a gaze that could murder. “Do you KNOW how hard it was? To spread my gift so quickly? And you get rid of it all with just a stupid, simple, FLARE of Spiral Power?!” Discord stabbed his lion paw at Kamina, sending a paw-print shaped blast at him. Kamina barely dodged, and the paw-print indented into the dirt, and it seemed to simply cease to exist. “You damned little neophyte! You remind me way too much of myself when I was your age!”

“Yeah; just goes to show how much of a little shit you were huh?” Kamina shot back, and Discord roared before he literally fired laser beams from his eyes so intense; they glassed the dirt they hit as Kamina frantically flew around to avoid it. “What's the matter Dizzy?! The past hurt?!”

“Of course it does you ignorant whelp!” Discord stopped his eye-beams and snapped his fingers, making Kamina scream as his wings suddenly turned into octopus tentacles, writhing as if they were still trying to fly. “Can you imagine? Working SO hard, so damn hard to become the greatest, that your whole world just forsakes you out of fear? That the mere whisper of your name would make even former friends, and loved ones cower, when you didn't do ANYTHING to harm them?!” Discord stomped over to the hissing Kamina, who was trying to reach the tentacles on his back to purge them, and he grabbed the chimeric hippogriff up by the throat, and glared into his eyes. “You WILL know it! No matter what you do; those you love and care for will betray you! They'll break your heart, and move on without you.”

“Y-you're wrong! None of my friends, or my mares would do that to me!” Kamina choked as Discord's talon tightened; clearly it had the same locking grip as his own.

“Such naïvete. I remember being so naïve once. I was but a child. And I was crushed for my ignorance. Once by those I loved, and again by those I feared.” Purple light began spreading from Discord's talon and into Kamina's body, making the prince scream in pure agony as his spirals were broken by random patterns. “I'll save you the torment! I'll cut out the fat, and show you how the multiverse REALLY is! Will can only get you so far!”

“No...Will can take you as far as you want it to....” Kamina coughed, and glared his eyes at the ancient beast, one his blue dragon eye, the other a red toad eye from the corruption. “Like through you, for instance.” A long, lance-like drill made of familiar diamond crystals stabbed clean through Discord's chest, making him drop Kamina in shock, and teleport a short distance away, holding his grievous wound as it began to heal in spite of the copious amount of blood and purple Anti-Spiral Power pouring from it.

“Sorry we're late.” Spike grunted out as he hefted the giant drill-shaped cavalry lance onto his shoulder, the blood and purple Anti-Spiral Power evaporating as Spiral Power emitted from the spinning groove on the lance. Spike seemed to have become more dragon than kirin, as he was standing bipedal with claws to dextrously handle the weapon.

“Had to wake up sleeping beauty here.” Game's voice echoed from the lance. “This whole Spiral Power thing is a real trip. I'm feeling really...good about myself right now. Actually; let's see about getting you up to par hm?” Game stated, and Spike lightly touched Game's tip to Kamina, and pulsed his Spiral Power into him, purging the corruption and turning Kamina back to normal.

“Thanks.” He stood back up, and turned to face the grim-faced Discord, who took in the scene with smoldering fury. “See? They won't abandon me, because I won't abandon them. Loyalty is a powerful thing. Honesty is something to cherish. Kindness is a form of strength. Generosity is a sign of character. Laughter is held between those willing to be kin. And Magic is the spark that makes it all feel worthwhile. You don't know these things Discord, and that's why even if you're so much more powerful; you'll lose.”

“You think I'm blind? Think I DON'T KNOW these things?! The Elements of Harmony, how quaint.” Discord growled, and cracked his knuckles. “But you're missing something. You ponies have forgotten the one thing that truly binds it all together. It isn't Magic, Magic is just the result!” This surprised the three heroes; a Seventh Element?! Is that what Discord was saying? “The only reason Celestia and Luna actually hit me with the Elements was because I underestimated their power. Not because I was ignorant, but because I thought that without the final element I hid away; they wouldn't have the power to harm me.”

“What?! You mean the Elements are...incomplete?” Kamina asked in shock; they seemed to be a perfect set to him.

“It wasn't always the Elements of Harmony. That's just the cheesy little name those sisters gave them. They were once, all together, known as the Rainbow of Light. I once used it myself to banish some of the greater evils of this universe from Equus, and once witnessed a few brave ponies use it to defeat and banish Tirek to Tartarus.” Discord informed them, and this made the trio confused.

“Wait...you mean you once protected Equus? So why are you doing this? Why did you do this over a thousand years ago?” Kamina asked in confusion, and Discord sighed in exasperation.

“I SAID, my amusement comes first. I'm OLD you foal, not senile, or stupid, just. Very. Bored.” Discord snapped his fingers, and a mug of hot chocolate appeared in his paw, and he daintily sipped it. “Ah~...well. I don't feel like fighting now. You've got this old goat all nostalgic.”

“Sorry, but you've given us another reason to fight.” Kamina prepared his stance to charge, Spike did so as well, his giant form able to cross a great distance with ease, and with the scaled-up Game Lance; he was even more of a threat. “Now we have a responsibility to find that last element, so we can put you away for good.”

“And fighting me will help you how? I can crush you like ants.” Discord was about to snap his talons, but was interrupted by a shotgun blast of telekinetic lances that perforated a nearby house, which like the rest of the town; was evacuated by now. Discord looked at his missing talon, his gored torso, and seemed only annoyed at how it seemed about a quarter of his body was just annihilated in an instant, and his narrowed his remaining eye at the aghast warriors that were arrayed against him. “You've done it now....”

===//////>

“Where we began...where we began....” Twilight mused as her and her friends had returned to the library, to find that Trixie and Zecora were hiding in the apothecary cabinet, scared out of their minds. 'What could he mean? He spoke to all of us, not just me, not just one person, but all of us. That could mean either any one of us separately, or all of us together....' Twilight's fiery mane shaped into a light bulb, and she beamed. “Pinkie!”

“It was under E again~!” Pinkie produced The Elements of Harmony: a Reference Guide again, and dropped it before Twilight, who squeed.

“You are so dependable Pinkie!” Twilight opened the book...or, at least tried to. “Huh?” She tried pulling it open with her magic, and then got violent with it since the book was just a standard, easily replaced copy. “Why. Won't. It. OPEN?!” She slammed it hard on the floor, and looked about to Shift and burn it when Trixie nuzzled her, and steam hissed from their cheeks as Twilight calmed down. “Thanks Trix.”

“Somepony needs to be the cool-headed one around here.” Trixie cheekily snarked, and Twilight rolled her eyes before she frowned back at the book.

“But that's clearly the answer then. The book! But WHY isn't it opening?” Twilight looked on the back to see a message.

'Well done! You found the Elements, but, they can't be used as they are! You're still missing something. To find it, you must go to the place where Loyalty was tested, there you will find the truth, in stone rested.'

“Another riddle? A lot's happened since Nightmare attacked last year. I'm kinda fuzzy on what it means.” Blitz groaned and scratched his head.

“I remember clearly. You refused to abandon us for a chance at fulfilling your dreams.” Fluttershy reminded him, and he preened in pride.

“That means that ruffian is telling us to go to that bridge.” Rarity realized, but Zecora knew that wasn't right.

“No...he means the crevice it crosses. Discord has whatever it is he desires to show us hidden down in the canyon.” Zecora figured out; why else would he mention stone? The bridge was a rickety old rope bridge, no stones about it. “Since I know the Everfree, it should be I who will guide thee.” Zecora was about to groan at her rhyme, but finally decided-. “Buck it. I'm tired of fighting it.”

===//////>

A massive gout of purple and green fire cleansed an entire half-acre of Whitetail Wood. The source was the panting pair of Kamina and Spike, who'd both breathed into a sort of spiral-engraved crystal funnel; clearly Game. “We get him?” Spike asked with a croak; his flame sac feeling about to rupture like it did last year.

“No! If you have to ask; the monster is never dead! It's a fact!” Game shouted at them, and surely, the chimeric demigod of chaos literally sprouted from the settling ashes like a sprouting tree, posing as if performing yoga. “See! Stop tempting the Fourth Dimension! I know these things!”

“What things?!” Kamina shouted in aggravation. Game was an immense help; what with his ability to transform into nigh anything so long as it was crystal, and he amplified any magic or Spiral Power pumped into him. But DAMN was he annoying!

“Y'know...stuff! Look, it's a very, very long, very, very convoluted list of...well, rules of sorts, that govern all realities.”

“Oh, great. One of THEM. No wonder you've been holding up so well if one of THOSE beings are helping you.” Discord turned to the air-. “Stop pretending I can't see you. Just be glad I can't breach the barrier into your reality.” Meep! I-I'm just documenting! “Right~.”

“Don't ask who he's talking to. His answer might destroy your minds!” Game warned the brothers. “Look; all I can say is if I say not to do something; seriously consider my advice.”

“Noted. You've really been helpful in this battle.” Kamina groaned as his body's exhaustion was beginning to wear him down. Spike might only be just starting in Spiral Power and magic, but his natural dragon and kirin physiology granted him immense physical prowess and stamina, so he was doing the heavy physical contribution to the struggle, while Kamina supplied as much long-range help as he could, and Game shifted forms to help them however he could, being used by them both.

“It's a crystal pony thing really; we can all do this, I'm just better at it than most because of my ability to interact with the Fourth Dimension.” Game changed back into a pony, his hair, eyes, and just about everything a normal living being needed or had was gone, he didn't have a nose, mouth, or even anything at the rear, and he looked more like a ponnequin of crystal with glowing spirals running from snout to flank than an actual pony. “I hope this isn't permanent, just how potent is this stuff anyway?”

“Oh~ he's evolving already? He must have been overdue.” Discord teased, and sighed as he cracked his neck. “Okay, you boys have been fun and all; but I've got Chaos to wreak, and you've been serious downers. It's about time I put you down properly.” Discord knew he'd have to take a more direct approach; his powers were useless against these three because of their Spiral Power, and even should he alter their bodies and corrupt their connection, he couldn't do it to them all fast enough before one of the others injected Spiral Power into the afflicted to return them to normal.

“Okay...I've got a crazy idea, but it's all I've got.” Kamina whispered to them, and they all grinned. “Okay! Everyone! COMBINE!”

Spike fell to all fours, turned back into a giant Kirin, and aimed his whole body at Discord. Kamina grabbed Game and flew to the top of his skull, where Game transformed into a giant drill, reminiscent of the ones Kamina grew up with in Jeeha Village, only much bigger. “Just what, pray tell; are you doing now?”

They all smirked. “Commence SGK Combo~!” Kamina shouted, and they all began to glow profusely as their Spiral Power flared to their strongest, and Discord was about to move, but found himself in pain, screaming as he felt something stab through his arms and legs, and he looked to see what seemed to be pure Spiral Power shaped into Kamina's choice eye wear holding him in midair, and he couldn't move. “SURE KILL!”

“ENTEI~!” Spike shouted as his horns began to glow with both magic and Spiral Power, and he breathed his fire between his horns, where it was collected into a ball and constantly compressed.

“DRILL~!” Game began spinning, in spite of Kamina not doing so.

“BREAKER~!” Kamina focused all his energy behind him, practically turning into a jet engine, being the one propelling and guiding Game forward. They launched through the giant condensed ball of flame which coated and joined with Game in a cone of burning, drilling energy, and pierced clean through Discord so completely, all that remained was his head and limbs, the rest incinerated on contact, and they landed behind where they impacted the demigod, who's limbs proceeded to explode, but the head remained as it fell, screaming in agony.

“Damn it! He's still alive!” Spike shouted in fury, and rushed to stomp the screaming head, only for Kamina to hold up his hand to stop the raging kirin. “What? Why? We've been trying to stop him.”

“Just...trust me, hm? Game, can you turn into a cage or a box?” Game was too tired from that last attack, and so just turned into a solid box with a spiral-shaped aperture that opened up, revealing the inside to have glowing spirals on the inner walls. “Perfect.”

===//////>

“Okay, we're here. What's so special about this place?” Blitz asked upon them arriving at the old bridge in the Everfree.

“This you may not know, but there is a path to the ground below.” Zecora then guided them off the path to the right, and they all saw that there was a very small, thin, recessed stairwell leading down the canyon wall. “I have not ventured below before, I felt a power I worried was a thing of lore. So I did not my instincts betray, so that I might live another day.” Zecora felt so much better since she gave up and accepted that she ultimately loved to rhyme.

“So what he wants us to find is down here?” Twilight asked in confusion, but lead them down, Trixie and Zecora still accompanying the six friends to add more protection to the group. Upon reaching the bottom, it wasn't hard to see a small cave entrance ahead, and figuring that was where they needed to go, they went inside, and found something spectacular. “Wow....”

“Oh~ my!” Rarity beamed in utter joy at the sight. The whole interior of the cave was made of crystals, shining as if it were daylight inside, even though there was no overhead source of light. In the center of the massive cavern was a giant tree of crystal.

Said crystal tree had numerous crooked branches arrayed in a star-like pattern, with five of the branches having bulbs that seemed to be missing chunks from them, and the center point of the trunk where the branches all met was shaped like a star, gaping, as if something was taken from it. However, lower on the trunk were, shockingly; Celestia and Luna's cutie marks, and below even that, at the base near the roots; was a glorious and beautiful inset pearl, which made them all feel...like...like everything was going to be okay.

“Who goes there?” A soft, ethereal voice called out, echoing from the whole cavern, making the ponies all frantically shift around to find the source. “Do not be alarmed...I only wish to know who brings back what was stolen from me.” They turned back to the tree; the only obvious source, and witnessed a faint incandescent light form in the gaping hole in the trunk.

“Stole? Who are you, and what was stolen from you? Was it Discord who stole it?” Twilight asked, only for them to get a sigh.

“No. It was not dear Scoddri.” The light gently formed into a body, that began to walk down the air as if there were invisible stairs, and gained definition the closer it came. The light became a crystal white-blue reindeer doe, who oddly had beautiful giant antlers, reminiscent of the branches of the crystal tree, and had water drop-like icicles dangling from them in multiple places. Her vibrant rainbow eyes were tired, and dull, yet warm and caring. “I am Harmonia; the Spirit of Order. I am bound to the Tree of Harmony to contain the wild, natural Chaos of the Everfree from spreading across the land.”

Trixie squealed in excitement to everypony's confusion. “Harmonia is the Governing Spirit of Order! She's in the oldest history texts, detailing how she granted the creatures of Equus with the powers that let them manipulate the world around them.”

“Yes. While Scoddri gave them new forms, fresher, brighter minds; I gave them the ability to assert their dominance in a cruel world.” Harmonia's antlers faintly flashed, and suddenly the book holding the Elements fell out of Twilight's saddlebags, and shot open. The Elements then suddenly flew over to Harmonia, and she smiled gently at the sight of them while everypony got nervous. “My...they've become so beautiful. Your hearts have touched my elements at their very core.”

“Your Elements?” AJ asked, honestly in surprise since she knew Harmonia wasn't lying in any way since she first spoke. “How are they yours?”

“I am the one who bore them to the world, gave them form, definition. Harmony, can only be truly achieved if all seven Elements of Order are assembled.” To demonstrate, Harmonia floated the necklaces and tiara over their proper places on her physical body. “The embodiments of the Sun and Moon stole my Elements as I slumbered, and I only stopped them from taking the last, and most crucial of them upon awakening, and branded their marks on my trunk to forever implicate the thieves that tried to take Order from my hooves.”

“B-but they needed them to stop Discord! Did they even know you are who you are?” Fluttershy interjected surprisingly, and Harmonia became imperious to the question.

“Scoddri did NOT need to be stopped! None would call him friend, none would accept him because he was different; because he was Chaotic! They did not understand that some forms of Chaos exist for a reason, for if there was no chaos; life could not exist.” She calmed down when she noticed Fluttershy cowering, and she sighed. “I'm sorry...but Scoddri is one of my few friends, and I won't let you mortal's narrow views paint him in an evil light, simply because he is different.”

“But he's already done horrible things to ponies. How can we be friends if he's just so...volatile?” Twilight asked, since she was starting to get why Discord led them here; to show them Harmonia, to hear her take.

“His very nature has been twisted, it has always been since even I had met him at the dawn of my birth. I held the means of his freedom, and yet, I withheld it from him; because I came to care for him, and could not bring myself to try what he wished in the case that it destroyed him.” Harmonia let a single, elegant tear from her eye, and sighed. “And now; he forces my hooves at last. His last attempt was clear a thousand years ago; likely he directed the Sun and Moon to me. But now...I am left with little choice.” Harmonia looked back to her physical body, and the magnificent pearl at her trunk's base was released by the crystal retreating around it, and her manifestation instantly faded away as it floated to the group. “I will not be able to hold back the Everfree much longer without my Elements, so please; return them when you have finished your task. Know, however; that only one who retains Hope in the face of all odds can use it.”

Twilight reverently took the pearl into her magical grasp, and instantly felt reassured, and smiled contently. “Wow...Hope.”

“But we need a Bearer for it! We can't use it against Discord as it is.” Trixie reminded, only for Twilight to press the Element to her, and Trixie to hum at how wonderfully warm it was, but it gave out a sensation of discontent. “No, not me.”

Then she tried Zecora, who chuckled with humor at the gesture, and it seemed much more receptive to her presence than Trixie's, but they could tell while it liked her; she wasn't able to bear it. “I appreciate the gesture, but I believe to find the bearer requires conjecture.” Hope pulsed when she spoke, and she blinked in surprise. “Well, now, what is this?” She touched it with her hoof, and Hope pulsed and sent out an amazing sense of contention.

“It likes you. But why can't you bear it?” Rarity asked in confusion as she touched it, and it pulsed just the same. “Perhaps...it's reaction is gauged by how potent someone's Hope is? I know I have rather high hopes for the future....” Rarity envisioned her future, and smiled as she idly rubbed a hoof to her tummy, getting happy looks from her friends. “Someday....” Hope pulsed again in joy.

“Wait....” Twilight stated, and she beamed at the realization. “I think I know!”

===//////>

Things were dire; they should have just ended him. “Oh....” Kamina groaned, he tried to push himself up, only to grunt as a hoof forced him into the dirt.

“You silly mortals. Always thinking you're so clever.” Discord sneered down at the fallen prince as Kamina regretted his decision to spare him. “I mean; sure, a box laced with Spiral Power would have worked, if I wasn't awake.”

Game was shattered, scattered over the town square as they'd made it back to Ponyville. The only indication that he was still alive were his snorts and grumbles of sleep echoing out of the innumerable fragments. Spike was missing his left foreleg; Discord ripped it off like all that muscle and scale was tissue, and threw the removed limb aside like it was meaningless. He was bleeding out nearby, but he still tried to stand on his remaining legs. 'I failed...damn it....' {I'm more concerned for bro; his leg's gone. Unless we get to him, he's going to be lame the rest of his life.} 'I know! But this bastard won't get off me!'

“Oh, how you amuse me so. But, really.” Discord summoned a purple sword of pure Anti-Spiral Power to his talon, and readied to stab Kamina through the skull. “I'm done with you.” Discord was suddenly gored through the chest by a massive horn, and he sighed in annoyance. “Really? I've already torn off a leg; what more will it take to get you to stay down?”

Spike glared at the monster impaled on his horn; uncaring for how his blood practically poured from his missing leg like a waterfall. “You'll have to kill me! I'd sooner die than just sit by and let a thing like you do what you want!” Spike then surprised Discord by twisting his head, and tilting his horn up and began chewing him from the legs up, making the demigod scream in agony. The impalement wasn't anything new; being eaten? New.

“Damned dragon! DIE!” Discord managed to free his talon, summon his sword, and stabbed into Spike's snout, getting him to roar in pain, launching the horridly mutilated embodiment of Chaos across the square, where he immediately began reforming again. “If you won't stay down; I'll just make sure you can't get up!”

“Even if you rip off all my legs, my wings, I'll drag myself to you with my chin and still bite you to death!” Spike's leg suddenly sprouted back out in an explosion of bone, sinew, and scales. His Spiral Power was accelerating his natural regeneration to a point of near alicorn levels. “If you kill me; I'll drag my damned soul from the afterlife to curse you until you die! If you capture my soul; I'll eventually break free!” Spike roared as his scales seemed to have spiral designs begin to shine out from them, shocking both Discord and Kamina. “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?! I'M SPIKE THE KIRIN! AND THIS IS MY DRILL!” Spike charged Discord with such a burst of speed the much smaller being had a hard time bringing up his guard and blocking the wall of sheer force that Spike was emitting.

“Impossible! Nobody can evolve that fast!” Discord was baffled; Spike was growing even faster than he had!

“Nothing is impossible, or unreachable!” Spike shouted before he breathed fire, forcing Discord to leap back and grow to match Spike in size so he could more properly fight the clearly more dangerous threat. “I was just a baby dragon a few months ago. I was small, weak, lonely. I didn't want to be anymore! Now; I'm big, strong, and have the mare of my dreams! If a weak little nobody like me can become this, then what does that say about possibility? It means; that ANYTHING is possible! You're weak Discord! Because you've limited yourself with such closed minded thinking! You lost so much when you became an Anti-Spiral, didn't you?”

Discord choked, and his face became so livid it almost seemed like it would explode he turned so red. “I'LL SHOW YOU WEAK WHELP!” Discord was about to charge, but was blasted back instead by a concentrated beam of pure fire and magic; sending him plowing through town and into the Everfree, leaving a several foot thick line of scorched earth and burning houses and trees between where he halted and Spike.

“Bro....” Kamina gawked at his little brother, and then smiled with pride. 'In the end...my brothers are always greater than me....' {Nothing wrong with that. We made them who they are....}

“Aniki.” Kamina jolted at hearing Spike speak Neighponese, as his adopted sibling looked down on him in worry. #Are you alright?#

Kamina saw Simon's face for a second, and smiled sadly. #Could be better little bro.# Kamina grunted as he stood back up. #Game has gone to pieces sadly.#

“I'm fine...sort of.” Game's pieces drew back together, and formed back into his golem-like body, grunting the whole time. “I can't do much more...I'm too tired.” His spiral stripes ceased to glow, and he plopped onto his diamond flanks. “I'm spent...I can't keep going right now.”

#You two just rest a moment. I've got this.# Spike turned back towards the direction that Discord had been launched, and he blinked at seeing a familiar group running towards them from the Everfree. “Hey! Everyone!” Spike's call drew Kamina and Game's attention to see the ladies running towards them.

Shortly, their galloping got them to the guys, and Kamina found himself pounced by four worried mares, Game by Pinkie, and Rarity was hugging Spike's right fetlock, rubbing her cheek into his scales as he looked down at her lovingly. “Oh~ Spiky Wikey! I was so worried!” She then noticed the enormous pools of blood, and saw his dismembered leg a short distance away, making her go even whiter. “D-did you-?”

“Yes, I lost a leg Rarity. But it grew back. I'm fine.” He lowered his head to her, and gently smooched her body, making her blush and giggle at how he had to kiss her like she was a toy pony. “Where are the Elements? We've butchered him hundreds of ways by now; but we can't keep this up forever...or at least they can't.” Spike said teasingly towards Kamina and Game, who were getting up from the relieved smooches their mares were giving them.

“Hey! I resent that!” Kamina shouted up at his brother, but grinned. “We can't all be as great as you bro.”

“Hey. I haven't evolved THAT much unlike you two...I still have a low limit.” Game grumbled, and then chuckled as Pinkie tried kissing him where his mouth used to be. “Pinkie...I don't have a mouth anymore.” Suddenly, his lips reappeared, and she took him. “MPH! Mm~!” They started making out, and the others promptly ignored them; this was a common occurrence since Pinkie lost her virginity.

“They're right here!” Twilight levitated Hope along with the other Elements out of her saddlebag. “And if I'm right....” Twilight then touched the pearl to Spike's hoof, and it practically exploded with light, which blinded everyone for a few seconds. “Ow...yes!” Twilight stated at seeing Spike reduced down to normal size for the time being, and he now wore a golden peytral with Hope in the shape of a drill on the front. “Okay everypony! Places!” Twilight yanked Pinkie from her embrace with Game, and then put the Elements on their respective bearers. “The moment Discord appears; we fire!”

“ALRIGHT NO MORE MISTER-oh they're here!” Discord shouted as he finally recovered from the shock of the last attack, and shrank upon noticing Spike wasn't all huge anymore. “So, did you give up? If you lose you can't-.” They instantly began charging the Elements, including Spike's Hope, and he grinned. “Oo~ about time. I'm immune to the Elements just so you know.” Discord put on a blindfold, and then got into a pose of sensuously twisting his serpentine body. “Fire away!”

“Don't mind if we do!” Twilight shouted mere moments before the rainbow of the Elements appeared, only even brighter, and had much more vibrancy to it's colors. It hit Discord, and to their surprise...it did nothing. “What?”

Discord then jolted slightly, he began hissing, and growling, as if becoming feral. “Y-yes! F-f-finally!” Discord's body began glowing the tell-tale purple of Anti-Spiral Power, and he roared as his body began to shift and grow, but a small piece of him fell off before the rest of the growing and mutating purple body flew off into the south towards the desert to their worry. “Finally....” They looked to the source of the voice, and saw to their surprise...a pale, unassuming albino reptile that seemed to be a sort of cross between pony and dragon...rather close to a kirin, but not like Spike at the same time, beings he had no wings, and his red eyes were like a pony's, but were clearly tired, and thankful. “Thank you.”

“Discord?” Everyone gathered around, worried as the wingless kirin seemed about to keel over any second.

“N-no...I'm Scoddri. I'm who Discord used to be.” He sat on his flanks, and shuddered as his Spiral Power flared. “G-gonna have to get used to that again....”

“Wait...so...what was that giant thing that took off just now?” Trixie had the wisdom to ask, mere seconds before a giant purple explosion shook possibly the whole of Equestria, and glassed a good portion of the San Palomino Desert far, far to the southeast.

“...The Anti-Spiral known as Discordant.”

Author's Notes:

Whew! Be glad I even got this out! Work is driving me into the dirt like I'm a slave, that's holiday retail for you.

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