The god of chaos floated forward towards Rose, his eyes narrowed and so much rage boiling beneath the surface that his face had turned purple. Rose smirked at the advancing god, watching as Discord came to a stop halfway between Rose and Celestia. Discord glanced around at all of the damage caused, before he snapped his fingers. The fires went out, the buildings were restored and the rose colored bubbles were popped, freeing the ponies within them. The Ambassadors fell to the ground, unconscious but alive.

"Discord. I was wondering if you would show up eventually," Rose said with a smile to Discord, who chose to keep his angry expression instead of answering. "I thought that you generally avoided these kind of situation, though. All the stress and responsibility that comes with them and all that."

"I do prefer not to get involved in these matters, but even I have my limits to how much I can hang back," Discord snarled, hanging his arms to the side and giving Rose a menacing glare. "And believe me, I've been listening to everything you've said. To the ponies, to Luna and to one of my best friends, Celestia."

"Glad to hear that you don't just tune everything out that doesn't interest you. But just to ease a worry of mine, did you hear about what I did to Thor, the god of thunder?" Rose asked Discord with a smile, which only grew wider when Discord snarled in reply. "Yes, I've taken away yet another god from Equestria. And if you do not leave my sight at once, I will do the same to you."

"Promises, Rose. See, normally I would take your advice and bugger off, but today you've caught me in a bad mood. A really bad mood. And when I get in a bad mood, things get a little...hectic," Discord warned Rose as he cracked his fingers, while Rose's form shimmered slightly. "But seeing as you were nice enough to warn me, I'll return to favor. Release Thor, apologize for what you have done and get the hell out of my nation."

"Oh, a threat. How long it has been since I've heard that from a god of this land," Rose chuckled before her strips turned a deep red color and in reply Discord cracked his fingers, turning the sky into a vortex of bizarre and strange. "See, most gods are smart enough not to mess with me. I may not be the strongest god or have the most influence, I am incredibly skilled at dealing with other divine. Faust, Thor...you don't want me to go for the three-piece, Discord."

"You are welcome to try," Discord spat back.

A burst of red shot out of one of Rose's strips, but by the time it reached Discord he was already in the air. He snapped his fingers and dozens of birds heads began to circle around him, before he pointed his fingers at Rose and the shrieking birds head dived towards her. Rose flickered her form and shot rose magic out of her strips to incinerate the bird heads.

Rose stomped a hoof into the ground and caused a typhoon of petals to erupt around Discord, who quickly glanced around to try and find a way out the trap. The rose petals then launched themselves towards Discord, who crossed his arms before the petals began to slice through his form. In the blink of an eye the petals sliced Discord into tiny bits and pieces, all of which fell to the ground. The ponies let out a gasp of horror at the pieces of Discord, but all Rose did was smirk.

"Come now Discord, we both know that it will take more than that to kill you for good," Rose told the pieces, before the body parts began to form back together until Discord was perfectly healed, minus his mouth. "Your creator made you far stronger than any mortal should have been able to. He made you so that you were able to match the gods. Another offense from Equestria that I will have to seek payment for."

Discord motioned for Rose to bring it and she obliged. While Discord battled with Rose, tearing apart reality around the ponies, the mouth of Discord hopped over to where Celestia was laying. Celestia looked down at Discord's mouth with a baffled expression upon her face, but before she could say anything the mouth began to speak.

"Celestia, you need to listen and listen good. You need to get Luna and get as far away from this battle as soon as you can," Discord's mouth said to Celestia.

"What? No, I'm not abandoning you! I will not let Rose take my nation!" Celestia tried to argue, but the mouth frowned in response.

"This isn't a battle you can win. I'm not sure it's a battle that I can win. But I'm not going to let this striped bitch take away the only home that I have ever know. But if I can't protect my friends, then I'm truly a failure as both a friend and a god. Please, get out of here and let me handle this."

Discord's mouth then leapt into the air and went flying back onto Discord's face, smacking him in the side of his face and spinning his head around. Discord snapped another finger and created a vortex to another reality in front of him, watching as a blast of rose colored magic entered into the portal. Discord then snapped the fingers on his left hand and summoned the portal behind Rose, firing her own blast of magic at her.

Yet even though she never saw the attack coming, when the magic struck Rose it simply entered into her body instead of harming her. Rose glanced casually over her shoulder to see what had happened, before she shrugged and turned her full attention back to Discord, whose face was grim.

"You are starting to see why none of the other gods wished to mess with me, aren't you? I specialize in dealing with other divine," Rose informed Discord, before thorny vines shot out of the ground and wrapped themselves around Discord's feet. Discord snapped his fingers towards the vines to sear them off with fire, but while he was doing that Rose took perfect aim at his chest with one of her stripe.

"And while your chaotic powers might normally protect you from nearly all other forms of attack in this land, I understand how your powers work. And that allows me to counter it," Rose stated before she unloaded with all of her stripes, sending blasts of rose colored magic not just at Discord, but in every direction. Discord saw the attack coming and snapped his fingers once again, creating shields and barriers around everywhere that the magic was flying except where he was standing.

Numerous explosions went off all across Ponyville, but thanks to Discord's godly magic none of the blasts did any damage. Unfortunately for Discord, he had spent so much of his power trying to protect the city and ponies that he hadn't had enough power to protect himself. So as the smoke cleared, the ponies eyes went wide as they laid eyes on Discord.

His body was broken apart and not in the way they were used to, with bits and pieces of him laying around where he stood. White and silver blood poured from most of Discord's wounds, while one of his eyes was rolling around near where Luna lay. Discord let out a pained grunt as he picked up one of his arms and attached it to his side, only for it to fall off again.

"And there is your flaw. Chaos, as unpractical and powerful as it is, can never be perfect. You can't protect everypony here. Your nature won't allow you to. Every time you cast your magic, something has to go wrong or else it won't be chaotic," Rose said as her stripes began to float off of her body and formed a massie X that hung in the air in front of her. "So you would have to make a choice. Protect yourself or protect your friends. And with how you've been acting lately, I knew what you would chose."

"Heh, so you figured me out. This is why it's better to not care about any of this," Discord said with a weak smirk, watching as the red X charged up its power. He snapped his fingers on his right hand, only for the hand to fall off and splat on the ground. The hand then flipped over and crawled off, leaving Discord disarmed. He then looked behind him to see Celestia kneeling by Luna, shaking his head at her. "I thought I told you to leave. Why don't you listen?"

"Because I won't abandon my friends," Celestia told Discord. She then looked from him to Rose, before she closed her eyes and took a moment to swallow all of the fear that she felt building in her chest. She then rose to her hooves and began to walk towards Rose.

"Oh this should be good," Rose said as she canceled her attack and turned to look at Celestia, who couldn't stop her legs from shaking with fear. Yet with her sister out of commission and with Discord barely able to stand, she knew that she was the only one that could do something. "You have something you wish to say, Celestia? Then say it before I slay you."

Celestia opened her mouth to say something, anything, but her voice failed her in the face of a divine being. For a moment she stood there with her mouth open, before she closed it and decided to glare at Rose. Rose threw her head back and began to cackle, before she turned her eyes upon Celestia with menace in them.

"And there it is. The fear you feel while standing before a real divine. Do you see now, Celestia, what it means to truly be in the face of a real goddess?" Rose asked Celestia as she took a step towards Celestia, who backed away with fear in her eyes. "This is the power you wished to wield, this is what you wanted to be, is it not? The power that Faust held?"

Celestia couldn't say anything in reply, as her fear prevented her from doing so. "But you will never hold it. You will never be anything more than the pathetic excise for a ruler that you are. You will never be like Faust. At most, you will be similar to the failure that she was. You will always be remembered as a mediocre ruler and a failure of an attempted goddess. Just as you deserve."

"And the worst part is you will die knowing that you failed in more ways then one. Not only did you fail to obtain the status that you wished for, but you will also have to die knowing that your sister and your failed god will soon follow. You will be remembered the same way Faust was. As a sentimental failure."

Celestia closed her eyes and lowered her head, hiding her eyes behind her mane. Rose smirked at Celestia before she turned her attention back to Discord, who had been slowly piecing himself back together while Rose had been distracted with Celestia. Rose began to channel her power towards Discord once more, only to have her attention taken away from the god by a blast of solar magic that struck her in the side of her head.

"You are right. I will never be the goddess that Faust was. At most, all I can do is follow her teachings and try to be the best I can be," Celestia admitted to Rose, who was now glaring at Celestia for daring to fire at her. "But after having met you, after having met all of the other gods...after having held Mjolnir, I realize that I do not wish to be the god that all of you are. For if you are a representation of what it means to be a divine...then I would rather be a mortal for the rest of my life."

"You dare...?" Rose asked in a whisper, but Celestia wasn't done talking.

"And I would rather be a leader, be the kind of being that ponies looked up to instead of fear. I would rather be a leader that can change the lives of those that need her, instead of ignoring them like you do," Celestia spat back, her rage suppressing her fear. "So when you say at most all I can do is be like Faust, is just live up to who she was, then I am already far beyond you. Even as a sentimental failure, I am already far beyond you."

The ground shook as a rose aura erupted from Rose, who shook with rage as she glared at the insolent alicorn. She took aim at the center of Celestia's head with all of her magical might, summoning enough power to split the moon in two. Yet even in the face of such overwhelming power, Celestia didn't budge an inch.

"What gives you the right to say that about me? What gives you the right to judge a goddess?!" Rose roared as she glared at Celestia, who simply stared back in reply. "You are not worthy to stand in my presence! You are not worthy to be killed by me! So what makes you think you are worthy enough to speak to me?!"

An eruption of magic tore apart the ground as it raced towards Celestia, who glared into the incoming attack without any fear. A massive explosion then consumed the princess of the sun, turning the very sky the color of roses as the explosion rocked the planet. After a few moment the explosion began to die down, getting Rose to smirk as she stared into the smoke. Luna, Discord and the ponies all watched on with terror and horror, all of them knowing that Celestia couldn't have survived that.

Then the smoke cleared to reveal Celestia standing tall, not a scratch on her despite the land around her being decimated. Rose's eyes went wider than she believed they could as she stared at the alicorn, before she noticed what was laying at the princesses hooves. For what was laying at her hooves had absorbed all of her power and might and not been scratched in the slightest. And then Rose remembered what it meant to be afraid.

"What makes me worthy to say all of that about you, Rose? I don't know," Celestia replied as she reached down and picked up Mjolnir, before she pointed the hammer towards Rose. "But I think a hammer decided that."

Celestia then let out a bellow of rage that blazed like the sun as she pulled her arm back, before letting out a scream as she hurled Mjolnir with all of her might. The hammer sailed through the air on a divine course for Rose's head, getting the goddess to see her immortal life flash before her eyes as the hammer that could slay gods came flying towards her.

Yet with the speed of the divine Rose moved her head to the side to avoid Mjolnir, which sailed past Rose and slammed into the ground behind her. Rose glanced over her shoulder at the hammer before she let out a nervous chuckle turning back towards Celestia with a look of rage and relief.

"Nice try Celestia, but simply throwing a hammer doesn't mean you can best me," Rose snarled as she prepared to kill Celestia once more. But to Rose's confusion, she found that Celestia had kept her hoof outstretched even after she threw the hammer. "What are you doing? You missed?"

"Did I?"

Rose caught Celestia's tone and spun around just in time to see Mjolnir come flying back at her. She lifted both of her arms to defend herself, feeling the hammer crash into her and send her skidding across the ground. Celestia caught the hammer and gazed down at Rose, who rose back up to her hooves with a snarl.

"Again, a nice trick, but it take more than a hammer of a god to kill me!" Rose roared at Celestia, who smiled calmly in reply.

"I know that. But I wasn't aiming at you. Just your accessory."

Cold realization sunk into Rose's heart as she looked down at her arms, seeing a shattered mirror held within her grasp. She had just enough time to realize what was about to happen before a massive explosion of lightning detonated around them, followed by a god in a red cape with a winged helmet slamming into the ground near Rose and Celestia. The god of thunder then rose to his full height, standing there for a moment before he slowly turned around to glare at the goddess of the zebras.

"Oh right, a broken mirror is seven years bad luck. But don't worry, Rose," Discord said to the goddess with a smile as the zebra backed away. "I'm sure you won't be around nearly that long."