Author's Notes:

The Next chapter won't be published as fast as this one. I felt like writing a lot when I finished this and I did it to the point I felt dizzy making this chapter. So that seemed to take away some of my determination to write. So don't expect the next chapter soon (Like within the next 2-4 days.)

Also I might make the next chapter after this one the last one and write a season 2. Or not and just continue this.

Daniel and the others were approaching the entrance to the palace maze. As they got closer Daniel remembered a trick he was taught about mazes.

"Keep following the right side wall and you will eventually get out" Annabelle knew this too as he told her on the way here. So he felt confident that they wouldn't get lost. As they approached it they were all taken aback at how large this maze was. It was like the one if that harry potter movie, goblet of fire as this put all human made mazes Daniel could think about to shame.

He quickly closed his eyes to see his clone had just entered his house and he quickly went to the lab. Thankfully his kids didn't go outside and the lab wasn't a giant mess so he revealed himself.

"Daddy?" He heard Freddy say when he saw him.

"Hi Freddy. I need you to do me a favour. Tell all my kids to stay in the lab. Something has come up and I have to deal with it."

"Sure thing." Freddy rushed off to tell the others and Daniel moved his clone so it was standing in the lab.

"Alright. My kids and the lab are all how I left them. Now to check on Brago and Thag." Daniel sent his clone through the doors that lead to the dogs underground, where he saw the Diamond dogs putting dirt over holes that lead to the outside in order to stop the chocolate milk rain that had dampened the floor of their home and was now mud.

"Are we going to go in there?" He heard Fluttershy ask so he refocused and looked to see her looking really nervous.

"Looks like we will have to Fluttershy."

"I don't think so Cosmos, dopey Discord forgot about these babies." Rainbow flapped her wings but Annabelle said something that made all of them look at her.

"Isn't one of the rules of a maze, no flying?"

"Yeah, but this isn't a game. So you just stay here. A quick fly over and we'll have the elements in no time." She flew into the air, intending to deal with this herself but her wings quickly vanished. As she fell Daniel moved to catch her and did so with one hoof.

"You alright?"

"My...my wings!" Daniel looked back at the others and saw Fluttershy lost her wings too and both Twilight and Rarity lost their horns.

"Wait. Does that mean..." Daniel looked at Annabelle as she was a Pegasus and she still had her wings but she looked very discomforted about them. Rubbing them like they were itchy and Daniel felt the same with his horn.

It was like someone put itching powder all over it and it really bothered him but after a moment it looked like it disappeared, but he could still feel it. Moving his hoof up, he felt it was indeed still there, just invisible. He looked at Annabelle and she was doing the same, her wings were invisible too but still there.

"What...just happened?" She asked, just as confused as he was.

"No clue. But perhaps we'll find out-" A glowing light appeared at the entrance to the maze and left in its place when it vanished was a creature that was made of so many parts from other creatures it would be hard to describe fully. As it laughed lightning struck the area before it pointed at them with a smile. "-soon enough." Daniel finished his sentence.

"You all should see the looks on your faces! Priceless!" Twilight didn't look amused at all.

"Give us our wings and horns back!"

"You'll get them back in due time." As he said that he was serious for a moment before he disappeared. Daniel saw him look at him and his sister with a serious look before he teleported to Applejack with the smile back on his face. "I simply took them to insure there's no cheating. You see this is the first rule of our game." He moved to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy."No flying." He then moved over to Daniel and said sternly. "And No Magic." He face was turned away from the others so they didn't see his serious expression.

"The first rule?" Dashed looked confused and Discord laid down on a maze hedge.

"The second rule is, everypony has to play. Or the game is over and I win." He said with a grin.

"So what's the stakes?" Daniel asked and they all looked at him. "What will we get if we win? I have a feeling this maze isn't where the elements are so what if they aren't here and we win?" All of them looked back at Discord.

"Oh, well..." He made a chair appear but it was upside down and he did a perfect imitation of the thinking man statue which made Daniel smile a little. "Alright then. If I win then you have to give up looking for the elements for a time. But if you win I will just tell you straight where they are and won't move them."

"How long?" He asked Discord.

"About 3 days. Good luck Everypony." He cheered and laughed before vanishing.

All of them looked worried but Twilight spoke up, encouraging them to get through this.

"Never fear everypony. We have each other." After more encouragement from Rainbow Dash they lined up at the entrance to the maze. Annabelle standing right next to Daniel and Twilight at her other side.

"Together!" The moment they said that more hedges appeared and started to separate them. Daniel quickly grabbed Annabelle and put her on his back. He managed to get her in time before the hedge separated them.

"He's trying to separate us. So don't move." While Daniel could just go through the hedges he wanted to play this out and see how this would go. He heard his friends panicking until Twilight told them to meet at the center and then after a few more words he heard them all run into the maze, all except Fluttershy who screamed.

"So now we have to go through this maze?" Annabelle asked and tried to jump off him but he stopped her. Worried that if she jumped off that another hedge would separate them.

"We'll move in a moment." Daniel went back to his clone and saw that the dogs had just finished sealing the last of the tunnels.

"Daniel. What happening?" Brago was with his guard dogs who had just moved a bolder in front of a passageway to block it off.

"Some joker called Discord is making this happen. If you are having trouble containing the milk then head to my lab and close the door. I will clear it when I'm done. I also have to check on Thag." As he was about to leave he saw some pups that were in a corner, scared and confused from the panicking the adults were doing.

As he looked back at the dogs he realised that this could collapse the tunnels and make tunnelling difficult thanks to the mud and because they were underground. "Air...they will struggle for air." He made a decision to keep the large door open, that way the air from Aperture would be connected to the underground, eliminating that threat.

He rushed back to Aperture and went into the door that Thag and the Timberwolf citadel was behind. What he saw made him worried. The citadel was located lower than ground level, in a narrow valley in the forest so if the rain kept going it could be worse for them.

"Daniel. We could use your help."

"Sure thing Thag, what do you need?" Thag looked outside at the bridge that was getting raised and at the water that surrounded their citadel.

"Can you stop the rain? I don't know if your powers can do such a thing but...it would be appreciated." Daniel looked up and the clouds from where he stood in the citadel. He stood there for a moment and thought about ways to get rid of these clouds and eventually his mind went to destroying them.

He went to the window and put his palm outwards and shot energy blasts at the clouds and they were fried upon impact. He stood at the window then moved outside then started to fly in the air. The whole time he kept shooting the cotton candy clouds.

After a few moments he couldn't see any more and went back into the citadel.

"You did it. Thanks."

"You're welcome Thag, now please don't disturb me unless it's important." Daniel closed his clones eyes and went back to the real him who was still in the maze.

"Ok. Follow the right wall." Daniel started to walk with Annabelle on his back, making sure he followed the right wall just like he remembered.

"About time you got back, I was getting bored." He rolled his eyes at Annabelle's complaint.

As he kept following the right wall for what felt like 10 minutes he and Annabelle kept talking along the way. She mostly was talking about how his fight with Blade went and how he looked 'So cool' with that form he was in.

"So you don't remember anything from your fight? You looked so awesome, like a superhero." He chuckled.

"I'm no hero, I'm just a older brother doing his job and watching over you." He took her off him and gave her a noogie which she laughed at before putting her back on his back. "And how's your training coming along?"

"Well I can control energy blasts better than I could before." She made a energy orb with her hoofs and threw it in the air a few times but on the 5th time she didn't catch it properly and it slipped out of her hoof. Landing on the ground and with a small explosion which covered Daniel in dirt.

"You need more practice little miss." They kept walking for a little longer but then Annabelle asked him to stop.

"Do you hear that? It sounds like rocks collapsing." Daniel listened and heard it clear as day, there was even some dust that went up in the air, showing it was a good bit away from them. "I hope none of our friends got hurt."

"Annabelle. We know them, they are tough as nails. Do you think a simple rock fall would stop them?" She smiled after his reassurance.

"You're right. It's nothing to worry about. But...do you think they have met up with each other? I don't like to think how Fluttershy is handling being alone in this maze." He stopped in his tracks when she mentioned that. Fluttershy was very sensitive and if she was alone in this maze for a good while then could it do some psychological trauma?

"Then let's pick up the pace." Daniel started running and the speed at which he ran caused Annabelle to put her front hooves around his neck just to say on.

As Daniel ran for about 3 minutes he soon stopped when the maze started to fall into the ground. Looking around he saw the maze wasn't changing but disappearing as it went into the ground and saw no more hedges raise.

He looked across the flat dirt land and saw Twilight with the others, the only one who was missing was Dash. As the dust settle Discord was seen coming out of it and flying.

"Well, well ,well. Somepony broke the no wings, no magic rule." With a snap of his fingers the horns and wings appeared back on his friends and the invisibility spell on his and Annabelle's wings were removed. "Games over my little ponies. You didn't find your precious elements." Daniel felt Annabelle's breathing become different, like it was jumpy so he looked back at her and saw she was holding in a laugh.

"What's so funny?" He asked and she whispered in his ear.

"We're not ponies. So does it count for us?" He grinned, seeing her point.

"I don't think so."

"So...are you going to deal with him? You know, fighting him?" Daniel thought about it for a moment. So far all Discord has done is just prank and joke around so he didn't seem like that bad of a person.

"Perhaps. I want to get to know Discord, see if he's really as bad as they say he is." It was at this moment when he looked back at his friends that he saw something was wrong. Fluttershy was laughing at Pinkie mockingly and Pinkie was angry. Both of them were almost in each others face and Fluttershy seemed to like annoying Pinkie with her mocking laughs.

Rarity was defending a rock, of all things. She looked dead serious about it too as she karate kicked Applejack in the face to keep her away from it. "Back off. He's mine! All mine!" She then kept trying to hit Applejack in a very pathetic way.

Twilight was trying to get them to stop and her eyes soon landed on him.

"C-cosmos. Are you...?"

"What's going on with them?" She sighed in relief.

"I have no clue, but whatever's got them. I'm happy to see it's not gotten you. Or your sister." Twilight looked over to Discord who was eating popcorn and sitting on a seat that looked like it was ripped out of a cinema. Laughing and their friends fighting and mocking each other. "Stop it Discord, you're not playing fair."

"I'm not playing fair? Perhaps we haven't met. I'm Discord, spirit of 'Chaos' and 'Disharmony'. Hello?" The last part he said as he pushed his face forwards, almost touching Twilights.

Twilight went on to ask about the elements and how could they have gotten them if he stopped the game mid way through. But he just laughed and snapped his fingers. Daniel could see Twilight and Discord turn blue and transparent, then the area changed a little. It looked like they were back in Canterlot with Celestia but they were just like Twilight. The walls, Celestia and all his friends were transparent and blue. After hearing Discord from the past repeat the 'Twists and Turns' saying, all the things that were blue and transparent disappeared.

"I never said they were in the labyrinth. Keep Trying Twilight Sparkle. Maybe the 'Magic of Friendship' can help you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some chaos to reek." Discord gave Daniel another menacing glance before he teleported away.

"Twilight."

"Yes, Cosmos?"

"You find the elements. I'm going to have a chat with Discord when I next find him." She tensed up when she heard that.

"Cosmos, there's no way you can defeat Discord alone. We need to stick together." He turned around and looked at her with a smile.

"Twilight. I trust you. You will find them. I'll look for you after a while." She was about to object but she decided to let him try what he was planning. Cosmos was different than other ponies in the way he handled things so she trusted him too.

"Alright. Good luck. Please don't end up like them." She said and indicated to her friends.

"I won't."

Daniel decided to head to ponyville to think about his next move. He needed to find Discord, but where would Discord choose to be? Where would someone chaotic be when he is turning the whole world on its head? Just as he thought that he heard a noise behind him, one that he heard before. The sound that Discord made when he teleported.

Turning around he saw Discord, looking at him with his arms crossed and his eyes narrowed. Daniel put a smile on his face when he saw him as it saved him the trouble of hunting for him.

"Nice day today, ain't it Discord."

"No more games Cosmos. What are you!?" Daniel kept smiling when he saw Discord so serious.

"My, my. What do you mean Discord? I'm Cosmos, and this is my sister Strawberry." Annabelle was looking at him with a smile to but the way she said 'Hi' showed nervousness in her voice.

"No, No, NO! I mean it! What are you!? It's bothering me so much." Discord held his head and Daniel saw one of those toy hammers appear and start hitting Discord on the head. "It's been so long since I had to actually think of something that wasn't fun. But I'm not playing around with you." Daniel chuckled when he saw the hammer hit Discord on the head.

"Oh, well I'm Luna's student." The hammer vanished.

"Do you take me for a fool!? Listen, I can see when something is in disguise. I can see a changeling and if I see a ghostly pony that mimics the changelings actions perfectly then I know that changeling is in disguise. I know every single animal in Equestria and none of those that can camouflage or change themselves can hide from me. But you, I can see energy around you, holding you in place. So this clearly isn't the true you but that's all I can see as there is no ghostly version of anything around you. So Cosmos. I will ask you this once more. What. Are. You!?" Daniel grinned, he wanted to play around with Discord to see how he reacted.

"Oh, you would like to know that, wouldn't you. But where's the fun in just telling you? It's more fun to find out yourself, is it not?" Daniel changed his powers to be used by his thoughts and made 10 bottles of soda appear over Discord. "I mean, there is very few things that rival the sweet and fizzy taste of victory." Discord looked confused until he saw he was looking above him and just as he looked up the bottles opened and soaked him in soda.

"What the?" Daniel and Annabelle both laughed at him. He was laughing at his friends a moment ago but now the tables have turned. What Daniel didn't account for was that he was on a hill and the soda made him slip and slide downwards and land in a road made of soap. He looked around the area and saw things were completely messed up. Houses were flying, roads were turned to soap and the grass turned into what looked like checkerboards.

He looked back up the hill and saw Discord look angry for a moment before he started to chuckled, and a moment later it turned to full on laughter. As he watch him laugh Daniel did the same and Annabelle followed suit.

With a snap of his fingers Discord made some candy clouds appear but they started to morph into dogs. He then blew a whistle and they went towards Daniel and Annabelle.

Daniel had a grin on his face as he took some of the soap and changed the structure of it to make it into a bone. He then threw it at Discord and all the candy dogs stopped and turned to look at Discord before running after him.

"So you can change things too?" Discord got rid of the dogs and the bone with a snap of his fingers. "How about this?" Discord grinned and 10 catapults appeared, loaded with pie. "Fire!" They launched the pies at Daniel who made a gum bubbles around them which made the pies bounce back but there was still some on the bubble from the impact. Daniel punched the bubble and it exploded. Sending what looked like cherry pie everyone in the surrounding area.

"Oh, Finally. Somepony with a sense of humour!" He heard Discord say as he made cabbages armed with carrot spears appear before he himself put on a watermelon helmet. "I hope your ready, cause captain melon head is here."

"I have an idea." Annabelle said with a grin on her face.

"What might that be?" She whispered in Daniels ear and he chuckled.

"Alright." Daniel made 5 trolls made of hard candy appear that were about his size and were armed with candy canes.

Both of their armies charged at each other.

"Alright sir. The doors will open soon." The Ravenger had its weapons ready and fully functional. A scythe that was made of hardened carbon atoms and the ending where the blade was had a machine at the end. Combining heat with electricity and vibrations will allow the weapon to cut through almost anything as it's main weapon.

It had 3 smoke grenades and even 2 EMP grenades in the case they encountered machine resistance.

It's final weapon was a plasma pistol that was almost as big as it's hand and you could see the power battery and blue electricity in it through the glass.

The armour the Ravenger wore was bulky, built to take hits as the shoulders and the helmet were circular and heavy but this connected to the torso and was fitted on by straps under a layer of torso armour. The hands and legs didn't offer much in terms of flexibility but they would take a lot of punishment.

The Prototype only had his claws, speed and camouflage but that's all he needed.

Jerik has his laser rifle loaded and ready and his armour was fully repaired. But the best weapon he had with him was the fire in his heart. He failed to stop the prince from escaping so he needed to show he could still be counted on.

This was his chance to show the King and he was not going to let a planet of lifeforms with little to no knowledge in tech stop him.

The doors to the shop opened and they were greeted with a landscape of checkerboard hills, soapy rivers and flying trees. Along with upside down buildings.

"Are...we sure this is the right planet?" Prototype asked.

"Was something put in this ship's air system?" Ravenger followed up.

"Both of you. We have a job to do and we're not going to let this child stuff stop us." Jerik looked at the castle in the side of the mountain in the distance. "There. That's our destination." They stepped outside the ship and looked around. It wasn't just this location on the planet that was like this, but the scans from his wrist device showed the whole planet was like this. "Well I won't deny, this is the 2nd weirdest planet I have ever been on."

"Only the 2nd?" Jerik looked back at the Ravenger who asked that.

"Long story. I'll tell you when our mission is over. Now let's get going." Jerik and the 2 others headed to Canterlot, doing their best to not draw much attention until they had the leader in custody.

"Come on, the magic source has moved close to ponyville." Bravacho and Darvia were running over hills, avoiding the soapy roads as they made their way to ponyville. The magic source that they have been following has been moving around frantically. It was at Canterlot, in the main castle at first then behind it then at ponyville and now just a little away from ponyville.

"If only this thing would stay still. Everything would be a lot easier." As they approached the location they saw something that made them stop in confusion.

There were cabbages and trolls made of hard candy fighting each other. The trolls had candy canes and the cabbages had sharpened carrots. The ground was littered with mostly bits of cabbage but here and there was chunks of hard candy.

"What...is happening?" They saw a cabbage on top of a candy trolls head and stick the carrot in it's eye socket before pulling. The cabbage lost its arms and the carrot was broken in half but half of the candy trolls face was lost too.

"Your guess is as good as mine." He looked at his device and it was pointing to a creature that looked like a mixture of many others and was wearing a watermelon helmet. "That's who the device is pointing to."

"Ehh...dear." She nudged him and he looked over and saw the same pony he had seen at the Gala, the one who acted strangely. This same pony was fighting that strange creature as he clashed with it in a sword fight but it wasn't swords they were using. The creature was using a sugar cane and the pony had a pizza shield with a coconut mace.

"I...don't even..." Both of them clashed and by the end if it when all the cabbages and trolls collapsed into pieces, both of them stopped and had a laugh. The only one who wasn't fighting was a smaller Filly at the side, drinking chocolate milk from a cloud and watching the show.

"What do we do about this?" Bravacho looked at the bag he had that contained a heart piece then back at the two who were laughing.

"We wait for that snake things to leave, then we confront that pony. We need to know if he is the heart bearer once and for all."

"Alright Daniel, where are you?" Xaveroth was currently flying over ponyville as he could sense Daniel around this area. He was certain Daniel would want to know about what he discovered.

As he looked over the landscape that was Discords doing, he laughed at how childish it was.

"Well I guess being in stone with nobody to talk to and nothing to do other than think for 1000 years will do that to you." This is when Xaveroth saw 2 other ponies watching the battle from a good bit away and he felt a similar energy he felt at the crystal tree. "Oh, Another one? Oh boy, today is turning out to be so much fun!"

He made a chair appear and a glass of lemon juice then sat down and watched the show from the sky.

"I bet 50 that Daniel will win." A smaller version of him popped out of his lemon juice.

"I'll take that bet."

"Hey, who are you?" He asked.

"I'm you silly." Xaveroth chuckled.

"No your not, only I'm me." The small one laughed.

"Well if you are you and I am I then who am I to you?" Xaveroth shrugged and ate the small him along with the juice and the glass it was in before he sneezed up sand.

"Glass. Always has a sandy aftertaste."

Daniel was laying on the ground, his sides killing him from laughter. Discord was quite a funny guy and this kind of fooling around was a load of fun. Even Annabelle was having a blast as this provided great entertainment for her but she ended up being tackled by a puppy made of soap that Daniel made after he said she needed to clean herself up after she spilt chocolate milk and some got on her.

"Sahahahp it!" She laugh as she struggled to get the soap puppy off her and it licked the chocolate milk off her."

She managed to get out of it's tackle and moved to the side but it just ran after her. As she ran from it both Daniel and Discord looked at her with smiles.

"I must say Cosmos, you're the only pony who knows how to have fun. But, what are you. No normal pony can do the things you do." Daniel didn't know if he should tell him or not, but he didn't seem like that bad of a guy so he decided to tell him a little.

"Well...it's true I am no pony. Guess that means I was excluded from your maze game." He said with a grin which caused Discord to look a bit more serious.

"Speaking of that, what have you got protecting you. I couldn't remove your horn or your sisters wings." Daniel chuckled. Wanting to keep him guessing.

"Keep trying Discord. It's no fun if I just tell you now, is it?" Discord looked disappointed and glared at him.

"You're finding this funny, aren't you?"

"Hey, I'm sure you would have done something similar." What happened next caused Daniel to look at discord with some concern. He turned wobbly and started bending in strange ways. Ways that Daniel didn't think possible. "Hey...are you alright?"

"Oh, they found the Elements. Well I guess I better go and congratulate them. Be back soon." With a snap of his fingers, he disappeared. Daniel stopped the soap pup that was chasing Annabelle and it became a puddle on the ground.

"Aww. You just had to ruin the fun, didn't you." She looked at him grumpily.

"Did you really just want to play chase with that the whole time?"

"It was a load of fun." Daniel got up and was going to walk to her after he changed his power back to the use of will but he then heard footsteps behind him. He turned around to see the 2 ponies he saw at Donut Joe's after the Gala.

"Hello. Can I help you?" He asked with a smile.

"Excuse me but, is your name Cosmos?" The mare asked.

"Yes it is." The Stallion spoke next.

"Cosmos. We have something that might belong to you." Daniel felt worried. He could feel himself getting drawn in again, just like before. He did the same thing he did before and tensed his muscles up in response to keep himself rooted.

The Stallion reached into the bag he had and pulled out...another heart piece. Daniel felt himself drawn to it even more, with how close he was and how nothing was obstructing his view from it only made it harder for him to stay where he was.

His hooves were going back and forth on the ground, him pulling them back when they themselves pulled him forwards.

"Bro!" Annabelle was running up at him, her eyes fixed on the heart piece. She didn't fully know what it was but she could see it was causing him distress.

Darvia jumped in her way to stop her and Annabelle tried to get pass her but Darvia held her in place.

"We need to do this."

"Let go of me!" Annabelle struggled in her grasp and when she said that Daniel looked over to her. Daniel didn't see Annabelle struggling against a mare but he had a flashback to when they were still on earth and she was grabbed by law enforcement. The feeling of being drawn to the piece started to fade and got replaced by fiery determination, as he stepped towards Darvia who was holding Annabelle.

"Let. Her. Go!" A red aura was starting to show itself around Daniel and Bravacho knew he had to act quickly.

"Cosmos, catch." Bravacho kicked the heart piece over to Daniel who caught it on instinct and he felt himself tightly grip it as his vision got brighter.

Daniel found himself in a strange room. It looked empty except for a single bed and a hooded figure that he knew was the previous bearer and Nature was there with her.

"So let me get this straight. You won't remember a thing?" Nature asked.

"No I won't. I am going to disconnect myself from the heart. With it being in it's weakened state its too busy focused on repairing itself. But I also can't stay like this, the energy I was blasted with is destroying my body. I need to use the heart to repair me but in doing so it will break down. I will lose my connection to it." She informed Nature and held her chest.

"But surely you can keep your memories?"

"I would rather not take the chance. If I go back to normal and keep what I know. I fear things might change. That I might try to change them."

"I see. So this is goodbye." Nature had tears in her eyes. This was the first time he had ever seen Nature cry.

"I'm afraid so my best friend. But don't worry. Remember what I asked. Take care of Daniel and his sister. Train him. Keep them happy and Daniel will finish what I didn't." The previous bearer hugged Nature as she cleaned the tears away from her eyes.

"I'll...do my best." The bearer smiled at her when she said that and held out a glowing orb and then another started to assemble itself.

"That first orb is the first message, and this one that is being built is the current message. I need Daniel to know he can fully trust you, as I do."

"And the last message?"

"The last message will be a time link. Daniel will be able to talk to me but..." She stopped.

"A time link?" She nodded.

"We will be speaking through time in the last message. I have so much I want to say to him. After the last message is done. I'm going to go to Archie as I need to tell him something." Nature started to leave the room but before she closed the door she took one last look back at the previous bearer before closing it.

Daniel was currently on the ground and holding onto the piece tightly as streams of energy went from the piece and into him.

As soon as the link was established the energy went crazy and a beam of energy shot up into the sky which also destroyed most of the ground in the area from the sheer force alone.

"Is this suppose to happen!?" Darvia shouted as the pillar of energy Daniel was in made a lot of noise in the surrounding area.

"I don't know, but hey! We found the bearer!" Bravacho shouted and shielded his face from the gale for winds that accompanied the wave of energy.

Annabelle stood in Darvia's grasp, looking on at her brother laying on the ground and holding that heart piece tightly as streams of energy went from it and into him.

"BRO!" She shouted. Trying to get him back to normal.

"Just wait! He will likely recover from this very soon. Just hold on!" Annabelle looked at Daniel once more with teary eyes. Worried as she has never seen him like this before.

"Sister! Do you see it?!" Luna had just ran into the main hall after she saw a pillar of power in the distance.

"I see it Luna." Celestia was looking out from a window that was removed because it literally sprouted legs and walked off wearing a top hat. Celestia also just finished sending a letter out.

"What was that?" Luna asked, indicating to where the letter was a moment ago.

"I fear Discord may try to break up Twilight's friendship with the others, so I'm sending her back all her friendship reports. With any luck it will help her remember what friendship truly is and undo anything Discord may try to do to separate them." She went back to looking at the pillar after she said that. Seeing that it's source was coming from Ponyville.

"And what of that? Is it Discord's doing?" Luna asked as she stood beside her sister and looked at the pillar.

"Unlikely. Discord would never make anything like that and that isn't chaos magic. Whatever this is, it's not Discord." Luna got worried when Celestia said that.

Did something happen to Daniel or was this him fighting Discord? The elements of harmony have been trying to stop him for some time now but to no success so far.

"So what do you think we should do about it?" Celestia spread her wing and took flight.

"Let's go Luna. The Elements will handle Discord. We will handle whatever this is." Luna was hesitant but she soon took flight with Celestia and headed to ponyville.

Jerik and the others had just made it to the front gates. Where they got strange looks from the guards which were ponies. They looked like they hadn't even invented weapons that could be used for ranged weapons outside of bows, be they longbow or crossbow.

"You two. We seek who is in charge." Jerik told them

"The princess isn't seeing anyone currently, if you want us to tell her a mes-" They were silence as one of them points something that was metal at them.

They got into a fighting stance and the unicorn put up a shield but it was all for naught as a red beam appeared for less than a second, went right through the shield and hit the spear of one of the guards, which turned the spear to ash.

"I said...we want to see her NOW!" Jerik said more threateningly.

"W-we'll go and get her." Both of them ran off to get Celestia but their hearts sank when they couldn't find her in the throne room. They were shaking and fearing for their lives.

These foes had weapons that could easily destroy their shields and turn their weapons into ash. They knew they had no chance to stop them without taking a lot of casualties.

"What do we do? She's not here and if we go back to them then they might-"

"Might what?" Jerik and the other 2 followed behind them and they saw the main room was empty.

"S-she's not here." The guard pony was shaking in fear, more than ever before in his life which might be about to end.

"Prototype. Search the area." The strange multi-limbed creature zoomed off at speeds that would make the wonderbolts jealous and after 2 minutes it was back at the leaders side.

"Only more of them, maids and cooks. No prince or princesses here." It said in a raspy voice. Jerik walked up to them and held one by the throat.

"Where are your rulers!?" The guard pony couldn't speak, all that came out were sounds of asphyxiation and Jerik let him go. But then pointed his rifle at him. "You have till 10 to tell me where she is."

"I have no clue!" The guard pony covered his head and the rest looked away in fear.

"Wrong answ-" Jerik saw a light flashing on the palace floor and he looked up to see a pillar in the distance. "What is that?"

"We don't know. It just appeared recently." Jerik and the other 2 went to the window and he used his wrist device to scan it. After a moment it bleeped and showed the results.

"Cosmic energy? You can't even make a simple gun and there is Cosmic energy on this planet?" He looked at it for a little longer. "Troops. New objective. Find the source of that pillar."

All 3 of them flew out of the palace, shattering a window in the process as they headed to the source of the pillar.

As Annabelle watched Daniel hold onto the piece she soon saw it was starting to settle and as it did the pillar, the noise and the wind also started to fade. When it was fully gone she pushed Darvia out of the way and went over to Daniel.

"Bro! Are you alright?!" Daniel groaned in pain when he opened his eyes.

"I feel like...someone fed me a full dinner then threw me in a giant washing machine." He held his stomach and head with both his eyes closed. "What...happened?" He asked as he slowly opened one eye and his vision returned to him.

"My fault. Sorry about that." Bravacho stepped forwards. "I understand if your angry. But hear me out. Please." Daniel sighed. Not finding the strength to argue.

"Fine. What is it?" Bravacho smiled and Darvia walked over and stood beside him.

"My name is Bravacho and I've been looking for you for a while. Heart bearer." Daniel's eyes widened when he heard that. "Yes. You're the heart bearer. Me and my fiancé have been trying to fight King N but I realised to do so we needed to either remake the old heart and have it choose a host, or find the current host to the other one. Heart bearer. I ask you to help me defeat King N." Daniel didn't know how to take what he was hearing. This was someone who had been fighting King N and was asking for his help.

Before Daniel could answer, he heard a familiar voice. A voice that belonged to Luna.

"Cosmos!" Luna and Celestia were flying towards him at a very fast pace and when Luna landed she looked over him. "Are you alright? What was that Pillar?" Celestia looked at him then at Bravacho, Darvia and Annabelle before her eyes fell on the heart piece that was laying on the ground.

"Is that what caused it? What...even is that?" Daniel didn't know what to do. He never planned for this to happen at all. Luna too was looking at the piece that was on the ground but then another familiar sound was heard.

"Cosmos. I go away for a moment and you wre-" Discord had teleported back to him and both him and the princesses locked eyes instantly.

"Discord! What is that!? Is that one of your creations!?" Celestia indicated to the heart piece on the ground.

"Well...that is interesting. I'm sensing no magic coming off of it." He held it in his hand.

"So you didn't make that!?" Discord tossed the heart piece away over his head but thankfully Annabelle caught it.

"I got it." Luna looked over to her.

"Careful with that Anna- I mean Strawberry. You don't know what it is." Annabelle was about to object but remained silent when she saw her brothers face.

"Discord...what have you done with Twilight and her friends!? They should have stopped you by now!" Discord chuckled and had a grin on his face.

"Oh I just showed them how good 'Friendship' really is. So long to make, so easy to break." This caught Daniels attention.

"Wait...the way they were acting in the maze. You made them like that?" Discord had a guilty look on his face. "Discord. I was starting to like you. You seemed like someone who just needed a friend. That all this chaos was just your way of coping with the pain of loneliness." Discord looked at the ground, not saying a word. "Is it? Do you make all this chaos as a way to cope with the pain of loneliness?" Celestia stepped forwards.

"Discord. You have gone too far. Pranking to the point of misery is one thing, but intentionally manipulating others to break them apart for your own amusement is too much. This end now!" Celestia and Luna's eyes turned white and both of them had an aura surrounding them.

Celestia's aura was a fiery yellow and her mane turned into an Inferno while Luna's Aura was like Daniel's shadow form but nowhere near as dark and her mane became a very bright blue.

"Bring it on princess!" Discord said menacingly. Daniel wondered if he touched a nerve when he asked that.

Discord turned their hair into clown wigs before he laughed at how stupid they looked.

"Nope. Still the same." Daniel thought as Luna launched a blast at Discord but as it impacted him it burst into a stream of flowers which showered the area. Discord zapped Luna and she was held in place by sticky honey which even covered her horn. Celestia charged up one of her blasts and shot it at Discord but he fired a beam back at her and both had a struggle.

"Are you going to help us?" Luna asked Daniel.

"I...I.." Daniel wanted to give Discord a chance, while his friend were changed, he could change them back and still wanted to get to know Discord more.

He hasn't caused any irreversible harm to come to them, all he did was turn his friends into their opposite selves which could be reversed.

"I want to give him a chance." He said to Luna.

"You can't be serious!" She was looking at him like he had just said a downright awful joke. Celestia and Discords beam struggle came to an end and Celestia lost as Discord's beam hit her and trapped her in jelly.

"Discord. Wait." Discord looked at Daniel. "Listen, I could tell you were having a great time when we were having a chaos battle. But I'm asking of you as a friend. Please turn my friends back to normal." Discord raised and eyebrow at him.

"Wait. You want me to turn your friends back to normal?" Discord laughed but Daniel wasn't having any of it.

"Fine then. I won't ever have another chaos battle with you. I'll find my friends and seal you away again."

"You can''t. Remember the game we played. The rule was-" Daniel grabbed his ear and pulled it towards him and whispered.

"If you remember. You said 'Everypony has to play' and I'm not a pony so I'm exempt from the rules." He grinned when Discord realised what he said was true.

"Fine then. I'll turn them ba-" He was interrupted by Twilight's voice.

"DISCORD!" He looked to her and saw all his friends and they lost the grey shading they had on them previously. Twilight was also carrying his own element with her magic. The golden heart crown.

"Oh my, well look at that. You've come back for another try. Well...good luck girls." Discord chuckled and put on sunglasses. Twilight looked over to Celestia who was trapped in jelly and Luna who was covered in honey then at Daniel with a smile.

"Cosmos. You're still your normal self. Now come on. Let's deal with Discord. I have your element right here."

"That's right. Discord couldn't break apart our friendship for long." Daniel tried to object but Discord lifted his hand and Applejack was lifted towards him.

"Oh Applejack, don't lie to me. I'm the one who made you a liar." His whole hand was now glowing and all of them were lifted up to him. "Will you ever learn?" Daniel looked at Celestia and Luna who were back to normal and out of their sticky traps with smiles on their faces.

Twilight teleported to her friends and put them in a bubble which seemed to stop Discords magic from working and they all lowered back to the ground. The strange part was when the bubble touched the ground it turned back to grass.

"I'll tell you what we've learned Discord. We've learned that friendship isn't always easy. But there's no doubt it's worth fighting for." Discord just looked disgusted with her statement.

"Fine. Go ahead. Try and use your little elements 'Frenemies' Just make it quick." He stood in his spot with confidence. "I'm missing some excellent chaos here."

"Alright everyone. Let's show him what friendship can do." While the elements charged up, one that was worried about the situation was Luna. Would Daniel really do this if he wanted to Befriend Discord? While it sounded silly, Daniel himself was unlike anything she had seen so befriending Discord didn't seem that far fetched.

Bravacho and Darvia watched from the sidelines. To them all that mattered was talking with the heart bearer when this was all over. But as Bravacho's wrist device beeped, he had a look of fear in his eyes.

"Cosmos. Take your element and join us!" Twilight and the others started to float and glow but the Elements didn't shoot off. They still needed that one that was missing and Discord seemed to have a look of fear in his eyes, genuine fear.

"I...I..." He looked between Discord and his friends. He didn't know what to do. But then he heard an unfamiliar voice.

"Are you the leader?" All faces turned to see 2 figures in strange armour. But Bracacho knew them all to well.

"Why here and why now? Damn it!" He hit the ground in a fit of anger.

"Did you have a plan for this?" Darvia asked, hopeful for a 'yes' but he didn't so he just hung his head low and she knew what it meant.

"Yes. I am princess Celestia. And you are?" She asked.

"I'm Captain Jerik. I was sent here to talk to you. Let me put it simple. Our King is looking to expand his empire. He is willing to leave your planet alone if you show undying loyalty to him." Jerik was nudged by the prototype.

"Sir...is that..." He looked to where the prototype was pointing and Daniel's heart sank. He was pointing to the heart piece that Annabelle was holding.

"A heart piece!? We found one. Filly. Give us that object you have. Now!" Annabelle backed away, shaking in fear and not even knowing what she was doing. Jerik pointed his rifle at her. "I said give it to me!" Daniel jumped in front of his view.

"You leave her alone!!" Jerik aimed at Daniel's head but he didn't move.

"WHO DOSE THOE THINK THEE ARE! COMING HERE AND DEMANDING THINGS FROM US!" Luna shouted with a powerful voice but she was soon silenced when a red flash was seen and she had a burn in her side. She collapsed in pain but the injury didn't look like it was something she wouldn't heal from.

"Shut up!" Jerik shouted and turned to Celestia who was back to how she was when fighting Discord.

"HOW DARE YOU!" She fired a blast at Jerik but he shot her with his rifle after he dodged it. The blast hit her horn and she screamed out in pain before collapsing. The tip of her horn was burnt to a crispy black.

"Stay away from me!" Daniel heard Annabelle shout and he looked back at her. The strange multi-limbed creature was close to her and trying to take the heart piece off of her.

"Leave her alone!" Daniel shouted and he saw Annabelle charge up a cosmic blast when she freed one of her hooves but he then saw Jerik aiming at her and his world seemed to stop.

A single flash and he saw Annabelle's eyes widen and she collapsed with a burnt hole in her back.

"A-a-Annabelle?" Daniel walked up to her slowly. Not caring that he just said her true name out loud. "Annabelle!"

"ANNABELLE!" Nature shouted. Annabelle had just called out telepathically for her help and she was suddenly cut off. She stood up from her chair in panic and teleported to her location as quickly as she could.

When she arrived she saw Annabelle in her pony form, laying on the ground with a burnt hole in her back and Daniel was holding her and he was shaking violently.

As Daniel looked at Annabelle he felt like he lost the only thing that was holding him together, From the start Annabelle has been with him. She was his light, his reason to keep going. He wanted to keep her safe and happy and he failed.

He had so many tears going down his face that even Nature had never seen him this upset before.

"Oh no. Is he about to...to let all his emotions out?" As she saw him holding Annabelle's limp body she saw his aura, it wasn't red. It was black and she saw his breathing became heavy.

"Good work Prototype. Our King will be happy to have another piece of the hea-"

"You!" Daniel shouted. "You...you...took her away from me." Jerik just looked at his two troops and laughed.

"Oh, the weak morning over the weaker. Pathetic." Daniel stood up and he did so in a calm manner. His violent shaking had stopped and as he looked at Jerik they saw his eyes were Grey, but not a dull grey, a shiny grey.

As Jirek looked at Daniel he soon felt his hand become lighter and looked at it only to find the heart piece missing.

"Where did it go?!" He frantically looked for it until he saw it was in Daniel's hoof. "Why you..." He fired his rifle at Daniel but it didn't leave any visible damage. "What..." Jerik was speechless when he saw that but then the Revenger charged at Daniel. The scythe was lifted up and brought down on Daniel's neck but the moment it made contact it bent out of place and left no scratches on him.

Everyone was looking at Daniel with expression of amazement, those weapons that hurt Celestia and Luna had no effect on him.

Jerik and his soldiers were all beside each other, looking on at the pony with a Dark aura.

"Boss...what do we do?" The prototype asked,

"I don't-" Jerik was cut off.

"Die...you can...you can..." Daniel's memories flashed through his head. Annabelle first being born. Her first day at school. Her first A on a test. Her first holiday to an amusement park and fancy hotel. Her talking about what she wanted to be when she grew up. Then escaping the destruction of their home, meeting Twilight and the others, discovering their robot kids for the first time. Brago and Thag. Nature and the others. All of it while it made Daniel happy, it also made him more angry.

His aura grew and soon the area around them felt like a tornado and an earthquake were happening at the same time.

"YOU CAN DIE!!!" Daniel shouted and charged at Jerik.