Now. Before this chapter begins for real, I have something to say as the author.
Pointed out to me by the good fellow "kotor511" This chapter has a sudden twist some readers would rather not experience so suddenly. Some may experience this one scene as "dark" or "gory". Something that can come as rather unexpected as the story so far has been rather calm and cheery. Because of this I am warning that people who are extremely uncomfortable should try and skip that part.

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Jack was worried. He had felt the chaos magic as soon as Discord had freed himself. Unable to spy on what was going on in Equestria, Jack had to sit and wait it out. He felt guilty being unable to help the ponies. However, Jack's thoughts wandered back to his talk with the Mare in the Moon and decided that he would listen to her and ignore Discord, for now at least.

Even during such a time Jack found enough peace to calm down and eventually return to working on his Avatar. He was truly trying to make it as realistic as possible, going as far as to re-engineering his old DNA that gave him his appearance.

Working on the Avatar was both time and energy consuming. Jack eventually found himself so engrossed in his work that he didn't notice a large concentration off chaos magic coming his way. Therefore, he was quite surprised to hear a loud and clear *POP* behind him in the otherwise dead silent chamber.

As he turned around he felt the magic, and as he saw what had made the noise he froze. Behind him stood the one and only "Discord."

"Hello Jack."

Discord was having the time of his life. The element bearers were discorded, he really liked that term, discorded and the Princesses were unable to leave the castle, courtesy of Discord himself. But nowhere Discord looked could he find the one called Jack Frost. He had been able to follow the residual magic of his other self, but he only ended up somewhere near a town called Ponyville where the trail suddenly ended. He assumed they had left this world. Something he should look into.

But this Jack Frost character was someone he couldn't ignore. He would have to find him. Discord looked around at all the chaos he was causing, yet the one called Jack Frost was nowhere to be found. The element bearers hadn't known of him and neither had the Princesses. He must be hiding. Discord concluded, and found himself flattered that he was seen as a threat by a being that had been alive for almost sixteen thousand years.

But to hide from Discord would have required planning ahead, something that required knowledge about the fact that Discord would have freed himself. Yet this Jack Frost, the one to have claimed having responsibilities. Why not warn the Princesses? Discord really couldn't understand that.

But back to the problem at hand: to find that little runt.

Discord looked around in wonder. Just a second ago he had no way to find Jack Frost, now it was suddenly crystal clear to him as to where Jack was. The Frozen North. "Chaos magic, you are soooo random." Discord told himself with a smile, flying off towards his newly set destination.

"Hello Jack." Discord said with a grin on his face.

"What do you want Discord?" Jack asked, putting up a brave front. In reality he was afraid. He had no trouble dealing with Discord's antics when he couldn't see or hear him. But now, now Jack was in for quite some trouble. Without the elements to defeat Discord he could do nothing.

"Oh nothing, just looking for someone to even the odds." Discord said, holding an umbrella the wrong way, sitting upon a thunder cloud that was discharging it's lightning upwards, avoiding the umbrella.

"What do you mean?" Jack asked suspicious of the supposed 'god' of chaos.

"Well, two against one isn't really fair. The element bearers are out of action and there's only me and the Princesses left. I need a companion. What do you say?" Discord reached out his lion paw towards Jack, offering him to join his forces.

"You really think I would join forces with you? Whatever possessed you to think I would help you? You have done nothing that would allow me to see you in a positive light and now you ask me to betray all of Equus? What ever happened to you Discord, what made you so hell bent on trying to make the lives of ponies so miserable?" Jack almost screamed at him.

"You wound me Jack. I just want what's would be best for the ponies. You see, harmony cannot exist without Chaos. Besides, the two Princesses have ruled far too long. Any longer and the ponies will suffer from it. Now join me Jack, help me drag the Princesses down back from their pedestals and I'll promise I'll hold back my powers." Discord said, crossing the digits of his talons behind his back while a halo floated above his head.

"I won't believe your lies. I have seen what you did before the Princesses sealed you; I know how you treat the ponies. The answer is NO. Now leave, I'm busy." Jack said, turning his back towards Discord.

"Fine! What do I care." Discord said, turning around himself as if to leave. "But I can't leave without leaving a present, now can I?" He said. Before Jack could ask him what he meant Discords tail sprung up before him from the floor and restricted his movement. Before Jack could cast any spells and free himself he felt the tip of the tail touch him on the forehead. Jack's mindscape exploded with activity, it was twisted, torn and beaten in all possible ways. Discord smirked; he had done what he came here for. Now all he had to do was leave and the discorded Jack would meet his demise at his own hands. Discord had this in the bag. That is until he tried to leave.

"Huh?" Discord said dumbfounded as he snapped his claws, only to find himself standing in the exact same place.

"So, where do you think you're going, Discord?" A voice said from behind him. However it was not the voice from the one called Jack Frost.

Discord turned around to see where the voice was coming from but only saw the unconscious body of Jack Frost. Nothing seemed out of place, until Discord saw that Jack's clothes had taken on a black color, something that shouldn't be an effect of the discording. While thinking about this he was still trying to leave and find the source of the voice. He was after all the incarnation of chaos, so a little multitasking was nothing for him. Discord floated over to the body of Jack Frost, wondering if it was possible that Jack had somehow produced the mysterious voice.

Suddenly Jack grabbed Discord's left leg. Discord immediately tried to get away, only for a chunk of ice to form and encase his whole leg. Looking back at Jack, Discord saw that Jack had lifted his head from the floor and was looking at him with a wicked smile. His eyes were red, his skin was grey and his clothes were black. The discorded form of Jack was now before Discord, and right then, when he should be celebrating having beaten an opponent far older than himself. Discord could only wonder if what he'd done had been wise.

"So, you're not running away after all." The darker voice of Jack Frost said. "I was hoping for a warm up, so please, don't die to fast," He continued with another smile that made Discord want to hide under his bed. Discord didn't even have the time to blink before he found himself suddenly embedded in the wall of the room. And it hurt, a lot. That immediately set the Draconequus into panic mode. He didn't feel pain unless he wanted too, and this, this was unbearable. The chuckling coming from right next to him didn't help.

"Poor Discord. Completely lost without his powers." Jack said in his darker voice.

"W-what did you do?" Discord asked, hopefully able to find a way to get his powers back before this got any more dangerous.

"Not much, just made sure you wouldn't be able to use it properly. And now, I'm able to do what I want with you. You realize that while I might be grateful for the fact that you loosened my mind, I can't hold back. You must also understand that I'm still a Guardian, and you are still a threat." Jack said before he created a blade of ice in his hand.

Quickly bolting to the side, Discord narrowly dodged the blade as it got thrown his way. Unfortunately he fell over as he avoided the blade.

"Aww, you don't want to play pin the tail on the pony? Then I guess we could play catch!" Jack said, this time starting to run towards the Discord as he was getting up.

"Wait, Jack. Let's be reasonable, I you-" Discord started to try and calm Jack before he interrupted him.

"Jack Frost? Lame. From now on, call me Black Frost!" He exclaimed, completely ignoring Discord's try to settle it differently.

Discord immediately bolted from Black Frost as he was distracted with choosing his new name. He didn't get far as he suddenly felt a cold and terrible pain cut through his right leg. Screaming in pain he looked down to see a terrible sight. His right leg had been cut off with another sword of ice, and the blood was pouring out at an alarming rate. Without the leg as a support and no chaos magic to levitate himself Discord fell over and continued screaming from the terrible pain.

"How the mighty have fallen." He heard coming from on top of him. As he looked up he expected to see Black Frost standing there with a weapon ready to turn him into kebab. But as he looked up he saw that Frost was unarmed. At first he was a bit confused; didn't Frost just try and kill him, why was he delaying it now?

"You know Discord, I decided I might not kill you after all. I can have all kinds of fun with you after all." For a short moment Discord's hope about getting Frost as an ally returned, only to be crushed by what he said next. "It just won't be fun for you." Frost said as he pinched the tip of Discords left horn. Once again Discord screamed out in pain as his horn began to disintegrate into small particles.

"There we go. It's no fun when they don't scream." Frost said, with his still devious smile. Discord could not believe this, how could a creature become so cruel, so heartless, so evil from becoming the opposite of them self? It took Discord a while to figure out as his horn was being disintegrated, but he eventually came to a conclusion, and it scared him. This being before him, the one he had created, had before been as equally nice and peaceful as the one now before him was cruel and sadistic. But the one thing that really made Discords bones shiver was that being discorded could not make an individual do something they weren't capable of doing; Jack had been able to be like this if only he wished to.

Discord had at this point stopped screaming, but he still was in the most horrible of pains. All where his horn should have been he still felt it, and all of it hurt as much as if he still had his nerves, but on fire.

Meanwhile Frost was beginning to grow bored of his toy. He was about to throw out the trash before he reminded himself, trash can always be recycled and used for other purposes.

"You know Discord. I'm bored of you, I don't need you but I'm not a monster. So let's see you stay here for fifty or so years without powers, can't imagine it being to fun but oh well. I'll give you some hope." Frost said as he summoned a sphere of pure chaos magic. "Here, I'll be leaving this here, not that you'll be able to do anything with it." Frost said as he conjured up a flake to record and report what was happening to Discord.

"Bye!" Frost said in a far to cheery manner as he left through the ceiling. Leaving Discord to his own demise.

Looking at the orb of chaos Discord saw one hope in how he could stop Black Frost. He wouldn't like it, but he could. He would reunite the elements and ask them for help. Discord felt disgusted with himself for even considering such thoughts, yet he knew it was the only way if they wanted to beat Black Frost. And to motivate himself he thought of all that happen here and how much he himself wanted revenge. But one thing stuck out, this was his fault.

"Oh god, what have I done?!" Discord asked himself as he began to slowly crawl towards the orb of chaos. His own, and quite possibly Equestria's only salvation from the Guardian turned mad.

Author's Notes:

So... I really didn't intend it to grow this dark. I won't add a dark tag or anything like that. I just hope you guys enjoy this sudden plot twist.

Now, anyone who predicted this happening?

So all of you guys have stopped guessing about the ships huh? Well, anyone who still wants to try I'm accepting guesses until the actual ship begins. So keep them coming. And what's with the lack of comments people? I quite enjoy reading those, you realize they motivate me right? This chapter could have probably been out a while ago... So comment, give something to work with. Tell me what I'm doing right, and what I'm doing wrong.

Any of you ready for crossovers after the next chapter?

Thanks to Greycait for helping me make this as enjoyable as possible for all parties involved.