Author's Notes:

Another long chapter, but it was needed. I am still worried about people liking this story or not, I don't think this fear will ever go away...

Can someone tell me how to properly upload files here? I am tired to copy/paste the text, I spend an hour just to separate parts and add the BOLD or ITALICS manually to the various parts...help?

This the story I have posted in my main account on FF.net, I was suggested to post it here as well, but I am not sure if you all will enjoy this, I am not a great writer (nor is English my main language), but it's worth a try.

Pairing: Naru/Main 6 (minus Rarity, but with Trixie filling the "Empty Slot")

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or My Little Pony and I don't make a profit out of my stories.

The prince of storms Chapter 8: Let there be Chaos.
Canterlot – Castle – Throne room -

Celestia could feel it: it was just like a faint tickling on the back of her head, but the by-now faded-away link to the old spell she and Luna had used so many eons before to seal away a great Chaotical Evil was still working with enough power to tell her that the seal they used when still in possession of the Elements was eroding away at a faster rate than anticipated.

“SISTER! Something horrible is happening!” Luna yelled as she barged inside the room with a frantic expression.

“I know, Luna. But what can we do about this?” the Sun Alicorn said sighing.

“We shall banish the Element Bearers on the Moon for their transgression!” the other answered snarling.

“Yes, there is no other...I am sorry, what?” Celestia asked taken aback.

“You heard me, your student Twilight Sparkle and the others have gone too far this time, I demand retribution!” the Moon Alicorn said huffing.

“Sister, we have more pressing matters to worry about.” the other said slowly.

“You mean that having those dirty mares plan to rape my son is not important enough to have me worried?! I saw their dreams last night! Sure in there my sweet son was consensual, but only in those girls' depraved minds somepony as Pure and Innocent as my Maelstrom would be happy to be subjected to those perverted ideas...especially the dirty filth I saw in the Element of Kindness' mind...that mare spend too much time with animals, her mind is filled by depraved fantasies she wishes to try on my baby! AND I WANT THEM PUNISHED EN MASSE!” Luna answered offended.

“They are teenage girls, bound to be curious about that kind of things...no matter how surprising it is hearing about Twilight and Miss Fluttershy being that perverted, but the fact remains that we have Discord to worry about,” Celestia answered tiredly massaging her temples.

“What about that stoned fool?” Luna asked.

“Concentrate! The Seal holding him is almost broken, we need to act fast and contact the Elements to reinforce it before it breaks completely,”

“And once free he may seek revenge on us...you especially, dear sister.” the Moon Princess said.

“Why me?”

“I had been banished on the moon barely few years after his imprisonment, so it was all YOU the one that decided to move his statue in the gardens, being subjected to birds' excrements for a thousand years will certainly not make him open to dialogue, at least with you.” Luna answered.

“Ah! I-I didn't consider that up until now...that will make him kind of against the idea of resolving this pacifically.” Celestia said with a grim expression.

Forcing someone to spend one thousand years being used as toilet by generations of birds was not a nice way to make a friend, that was certain.

Canterlot Gardens – Discord's statue -

In an hidden corner of the ample gardens stood a rather 'Peculiar' statue, representing a being seemingly made by casually stitching together parts of different animals, THAT Was the petrified body of Discord, Chaos entity and former “Mad Ruler” of Equestria.

Curiously two wrapped gift could be seen sitting innocently at the feet of the statue, one with Celestia's name on it and the other with Luna's.

“Gifts?” the Moon Alicorn said with narrowed eyes.

“Let's open them from afar, if nothing happens they are harmless, but we can't risk being an early attack from him.” the other sister answered.

Concentrating carefully on the wrapping Luna slowly undid the ribbon making a cloud of smoke shot-out of the small package before returning to sit still under the statue.

“Uhm!...some kind of smoke based curse?” Luna said uncertain as her shadow slowly grew larger.

“Sister?” Celestia said worried.

“Yes? What do you nee-SPLAAAAAAT!” the Moon Princess had the time to say before over fifty kilograms of pie fell on her like a meteor burying her in cherry-flavoured frosting.

“BLEAGH! HELP! I am drowning in cheap pastry!” the Alicorn shrieked as she dug her way out.

“It's certainly the work of Discord,” Celestia said making her own present blow-up in a flare of Magic making the box' lid placidly fall at her hooves.

“AH! I bested you this time! I WO-WHAM!” the Sun Alicorn said in triumph, cheering until from the box' lid a boxing glove at the end of a long spring went shot-out at light-speed nailing Celestia's face fully and launching her high in the sky.

In that moment the statue exploded in a colourful display of fireworks in every possible shape, colour and size shooting flames and sparks everywhere until the last rocket, the biggest and most noisy one exploded with enough power to shatter every window of the castle and showing it's message proudly in bold red letters:

In the silence that followed both Alicorn Princesses limped their way towards each other once recovered enough from their 'presents' and once sure no other surprises had been left behind for them.

"Discord, then?" Luna asked while removing the last remaining frosting from her face and mane.

"Who else?" Celestia answered gravely while nursing her black eye with a wince.

"We need the Elements Bearers, and we need them now!" The Moon Princess said.

"By the time they reach us he will be already around wrecking havoc in half the land,"

“The problem is that we can't know where he will strike first, that is a terrible advantage he has on us.” Luna answered displeased.

“Unfortunately we'll need that first strike to understand where he is and what his intentions are...” Celestia answered going wide-eyed as a first, terrifying idea struck her.

“Unless...”

“THE ELEMENTS!” both Princesses said at the same time.

“He knows that the Elements of Harmony are the only thing able to stop him, he will probably track them down to firstly removed them.” the Sun Alicorn said horrified.

“Then our first stop is Ponyville as he too will probably move there, he may be able to sense the power of Harmony inside Twilight Sparkle and the others!” Luna added.

Said that both Alicorns immediately rushed out of the Castle, determined to reach the small town before the Chaos Entity could possibly attack the girls and corrupt them with his powers to then bring desolation in all Equestria.

Meanwhile - Ponyville – Dash and Gilda's Apartment -

Twilight sighed as she and the other Element Bearers were sitting around the small living room of the apartment with Gilda while Maelstrom and Dash kept arguing loudly in the near bedroom about the new trouble they all were facing.

What problem? Apparently both Prince and Rainbow-maned mare had been secretly dating for quite a while, the problem was that in the meantime the stallion had spent some time helping the others resulting in Twilight herself, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie Pie to also develop romantic feelings for him, all without him openly trying to court them but just by acting as he normally would.

The problem was that without a law such as the 'Law of Refusal' giving to the other mares an opening, no matter how forced upon Dash it would have been, the fact remained that now five of the Six Elements of Harmony (minus Rarity that preferred seeing Maelstrom as just a Big Brother) were all interested in the same stallion, and Dash was not open to share and nor was the Prince himself open to idea.

From that the current predicament with the blond Alicorn and Pegasus yelling at each other behind closed doors.

“Darn it, we reached the third hour of no-stop yelling,” Gilda said impressed.

“This is not a matter that can be resolved easily, so I am not as surprised as you are,” Rarity answered sighing while offering some tea she liberated from the kitchen to the others.

“I am not trying to break-up with you!” Dash was heard yelling in despair.

“Then why are you setting me up with your friends then? If it is not in the hopes to have me fall for one of them then why?!” Maelstrom asked.

“I-I-I don't know okay?! I want to stay with you, but I want my friends to be happy and they won't bulge about not staying with you...I don't know what to do!” she answered with a sob.

“Shucks...we are making more damages than good,” AJ muttered flinching.

“It was a bad idea telling him,” Pinkie said sighing.

“It was the right thing to do instead, going behind his back would have been worse,” Fluttershy answered shaking her head.

“Do you...Dash, do you really love me?” they heard the Prince ask with a worried tone.

“YES, FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE! I do love you!” Dash roared in answer, clearly offended by the question.

“And I love you, what do we do then?” he answered sighing.

“I don't know.” Dash answered sobbing, unseen by the others the Alicorn had hugged her and was now consoling the distraught Pegasus as she cried on his shoulder.

“Hoy, Dash! Come out, this thing needs to be discussed with the interested ones all present,” Gilda said knocking on the door.

“Do we have to?” Dash asked back as both she and Maelstrom walked out, the girl hidden under his wing as she leaned close to him.

“Sigh! You ponies do things differently, I get it. But we griffins follow the 'right through might' rule in this case; we have on one side a powerful male (do not deny it, Mister pretty wings! now is not the time to play the humble horse) and to the other the bearers of the Elements of Harmony that even we griffin know and respect,” Gilda said.

“So?” Twilight asked confused.

“I say to give this...'Group relationship'? Idea a try; people would find it strange at first, but the fact that he is a Prince, so royalty, and you others the Elements of Harmony may be what it takes to curb bad-mouthing almost to nothing as it would be a group formed by 'Special Ponies' and so akin to act...in an eccentric way?” Gilda said.

“'Eccentric' may be a good way to describe it, yes,” Rarity said nodding.

“And why should me and him accept this?” Dash asked with her puffy red eyes now filled with annoyance.

“You are all friends, not strangers; you know each other well enough to not over-step or voluntarily hurt the others. Maelstrom? The others do feel something for you, try giving them a chance.” Rarity added.

“And then? What if I too start feeling something? And if instead I keep seeing them as just friends?” he asked back.

“Then Ah will step back...even if Ah won't like it, admittedly.” AJ muttered in answered.

“Me too,” Fluttershy said.

“Ditto...” Pinkie added whispering.

“I ask for a small chance, nothing more.” Twilight said.

“I never was in this kind of situation before, neither in a normal relationship before coming here, situation with Hinata notwithstanding...I don't know what to do,” the Prince answered sighing.

“Do you trust me?” Dash asked.

“Implicitly, with my life and more.” he said immediately.

“Then...then let's try this group thing...even if it will mean lose you to one of them,” she said looking away.

“THIS WON'T HAPPEN! I won't stop loving you! Never!” the Alicorn yelled in horror.

“You cannot be sure,” Dash said with a sad smile.

“Nnnngh!...Girl, you don't know the guy then. If he says that he won't, then he won't stop loving you even if he loses his memories.” Maelstrom answered with his eyes getting red and his voice coming out distorted.

“Are you influencing my colt-friend, furball?” the rainbow-maned pegasus asked with narrowed eyes.

“He is pretty agitated at the moment, taking over for a little is not hard if he is stressed like this. Remember, I can 'see' his heart, Rainbow Dash...he may “add” some space for the others, but other than his mother, the biggest slice of his Love will always be yours and yours alone, unless YOU are the one breaking-up with him...otherwise you won't get rid of him that easily, he is stubborn like that.” Kurama answered with a feral grin.

“I don't like that Fox guy, it makes me feel uncomfortable.” Gilda muttered.

“But if what he says it's true, then we have a confirmation that Dash has nothing to fear.” Rarity said with crossed arms.

“Can you confirm that?” Dash asked hopeful.

“Girl, he is so much into you that it's at the same time Cute, Pathetic and Diabetes-inducing. Do shut-up and help him understand that you are going nowhere either before he gets depressed. I hate depressed people, they make me feel bad myself.” Kurama answered annoyed.

“Then give him back control, so I can kiss him senseless,” she answered with a devious smile.

“One love-struck blond coming!” the Biju said laughing before the Alicorn's eyes returned being blue.

“That bastard!” Maelstrom cursed wincing.

“I love you for that as well, because even with a grumpy over-sized furball in your gut you can still be considerate and adorable, so please, never change.” Dash answered with a loving smile.

“So? What now?” he asked sighing as he leaned his forehead on hers.

“We try this whole sharing nonsense and see where it does bring us, to be sure we will keep this to ourselves and do not divulge the idea until we have a clear image of what this will mean for all of us. What do you think?” she asked.

“As long as you are happy, I'll do everything.” he answered kissing her.

“Do keep repeating that and you'll regret leaving me that freedom of choice.” Dash answered chuckling.

“So? Can we come closer now?” Twilight asked.

“Yes, but hooves where I can see them,” the mare answered with narrowed eyes.

“Okey-dokey!” Pinkie said smirking.

“...Pinkie? What are you touching?” Rarity asked sighing.

“His flank...why?” she answered dumbfounded.

“Dash meant that until she feels at ease with this you others are not free to touch any 'forbidden' place on his body.” the Fashionista said.

“But my hooves are perfectly visible and where she can see them!” the pink pony said whining.

“That is the problem exactly...” Dash hissed.

“Oh, poo! Okay...but it's a very toned flank.” Pinkie said pouting as she removed her hooves from Maelstrom's backside.

“Thank you...” the blushing stallion muttered uncertain.

“I am already regretting this.” Dash sighed in defeat.

It was in that moment that a blinding light engulfed all of them, making them fall in the middle of Ponyville's main square as soon as the light dispelled and right in the middle of a wide stage all of them were sure it wasn't there that morning.

“WELCOME! Welcome Stallions and Mares tooooooo 'Discord's Game of Love'!” The Draconequus said with a thousand-megawatt smile as he appeared on the stage wearing a blinding-yellow suit with red polka dots while twirling around a microphone.

His head was horse-like, he had a deer antler on the right, a blue goat horn on the left, one long fang sprouting from his lips and different-sized pupils; a snake tongue peaked-out at each word while his goat beard shook at each new laugh just like his white bushy eyebrows.

He had the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard and the left leg of a goat; in addition, he had a bat's right wing and a Pegasus' left wing, a horse's mane, and a dragon-like snake's tail with a white tail tuft.

The Stage itself was an huge Heart-shaped construction with several seats, one for Maelstrom and one for each Element of Harmony interested in the stallion with a tall, red wall separating him from the girls and with a towering heart-shaped screen showing a picture of each pony with a brief summary of their Bio.

“Today, as a special treat to celebrate my return, we will have a nice little show about Love Affairs and Questions of Heart, what do you think?” Discord said as he moved the microphone in front of a bewildered earth pony making her face appear on the heart-shaped screen.

“I'm...eeeehm! I am...happy to be here?” the poor girl said in discomfort.

“WONDERFUL! I love when the audience is enraptured by my shows! Now. We have here Prince Maelstrom Knight, proud son of Princess Luna and...Fierce Storm? Never heard of him, must have been cannon fodder.” the entity said.

“HOY! That's my father, you bastard!” Maelstrom yelled, surprised to feel himself glued to the seat.

“Let him talk, I am trying to break us free.” Kurama muttered.

“As I was saying, our Prince here enjoys training, and if you see his muscles you girls can see that he does get results; he also enjoys learning new things, romantic walks/flies and good music...” Discord said as the screen showed footage of said things.

“WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU GET THOSE IMAGES?! AND WHY ONE IS OF ME UNDER THE SHOWER!?” the Prince yelled in embarrassment, especially while the shower one had an overly-exaggerated blur on his crotch area (and while flattering, the blush on the faces of the various mares in front of the stage were still embarrassing to watch).

“Next! We have not one, but FIVE of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony fawning over him...here showed without make-up or in various others embarrassing moments they would never want people to know about,” Discord answered.

“KYYYYYAAAAAAAH!” Twilight, Dash, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Applejack screamed in horrified shame at the same time.

“And one clip-show of Rarity Belle without make-up and stuff...like that, just to be a bother.” the Draconequus added smirking.

“NOOOOOOOOOOO!” said Unicorn screamed as a short clip-show of her without make-up, while wearing beauty mask and slices of cucumber on her face or several with her mane in disarray went rapidly showed.

“Now the fun part! Guess what? Those wonderful six ponies decided to form a nice little herd, what do you think? Will they manage to find an equilibrium? I say that instead our Studly Prince should settle for just one of the girls! Who do you think should stay with him? Let's have a vote people! LET'S VOTE!” Discord said laughing as he released the trapped group that immediately jumped in front of him.

“So you are the Chaos King Discord?” Twilight asked with narrowed eyes.

“Chaos GOD, girl! I wish to underline that other than me there is no-one more skilled in the arts of Chaos.” he answered proudly.

“DISCORD!” Celestia yelled as she and Luna joined the scene.

“Celly! Lulu! I am so happy to finally meet you two again as well! Those thousand years had been merciful with you, Moon Princess! You look divine! Even giving birth did nothing to your figure!” Discord said ecstatic, then he looked at Celestia and grimaced.

“Good heavens, Celly...what happened to you? You look like your own grand-mother instead, never thought about a diet or beauty treatment? You are a wreck!” he then said shaking his head.

“Enough foolishness! What are you planning?” the Sun Princess asked snarling.

“What I am planning? But finishing the job I started so many years ago, which is bring to this world some well-deserved Chaos to spice-things-up! But first, away with the Ninja!” the Draconequus said snapping his fingers making Maelstrom disappear in a puff! Of smoke.

“NOOOOO!” Luna and Dash yelled in horror at the same time.

“He'll be safe...oh well, he should be safe where I sent him. Done that, I'll gently take away to Elements of Harmony and start my wonderful game!” Discord answered unconcerned as with a new snapping of his fingers a white aura covered Twilight and the others before shooting high in the sky and disappearing without trace.

“THE ELEMENTS! What do you plan to do with them?! And what game are you talking about?” the purple Unicorn said worried.

“I want to challenge you all: win my game and Equestria will be safe; as for my Plan for the Elements? That's so simple I can even write a riddle about it: Twists and turns, are my master plan. Then find the Elements back where you began. Simple right? I'll be waiting for you others, my precious little mares!" Discord answered smirking before disappearing together with his 'Game of Love' stage.

“Twist and turns...Canterlot castle's labyrinth. He must have hidden the Elements in there!” the purple Unicorn said with wide eyes.

“Maelstrom...” Luna said sobbing in sorrow.

“We'll save him, sister. We will bring him back and-EEEEEEP!” What Celestia was about to say stopped when the terrain under her hooves moved by itself.

“DOTON: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu!” (Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)” the Prince yelled as he resurfaced from underground with a scream of elation.

“MEALLY!” Luna squealed as she hauled him out to hug him with all her strength.

“I switched with a clone the moment we got free,but I didn't expect him to attack my clone like that. I had to wait for him to leave to come out otherwise he would have made me disappear as well or worse. I am sorry.” he wheezed before breaking free from the crushing hug.

“It's okay! I don't care if you were hidden, all that matters is that you are safe!” Luna answered kissing his forehead.

“We need to stop Discord, should he 'grow bored' of his game he will start corrupting everything with his powers,” Celestia said hurriedly.

“Me and the others will accept his Challenge and retrieve the Elements from the Castle's Labyrinth, but we need somepony to distract him long enough for him to not cheat and try to stop us himself,” Twilight proposed.

"Then I'll buy you some time myself!" Maelstrom said in determination.

"NO!" Luna yelled immediately.

"You told me about him, he will be able to take away my Magic if he wishes...but he doesn't know I also have Chakra in me, I should be able to use that advantage and several tricks I know to keep him occupied for a little while...if worse come to worse...Kurama can still take over and show him why a Biju is feared as a walking weapon of mass destruction, just be fast though..." The stallion answered.

“There is no way for me to stop you from doing this, am I right?” Luna said hugging him.

“I would never leave my friends in danger if I have even just a chance to help them, it's not who I am.” he answered with a small smile as he hugged her back.

"Sigh! Then pay attention, I don't want to lose you." she answered sighing.

“Then it's decided, you girls will accept to follow Discord's game, me and Luna will stay hidden ready to intervene should any of you need help while Maelstrom will try and distract him long enough for you six to recover the Elements. It's all clear?” Celestia asked.

“Yes!” the group answered as one.

“Pay attention.” Dash pleaded as she kissed her colt-friend, uncaring of Luna's growl.

“You too, return to me in one piece, it's all I ask.” he answered nuzzling her.

“I will...we all will be, together.” the rainbow-maned pegasus answered making the other girls smile.

“We'll talk about this 'herd' thing later, now we have more pressing issues.” Luna muttered scowling.

In a flash of joined teleportation of both Princesses the Elements plus Shinobi appeared at the entrance of the Castle's labyrinth, Discord already waiting while sitting on a floating chair munching popcorns; luckily with Maelstrom diving for the trees before he could be spotted by the Chaos God.

“GOOOD! For an instant I thought you all had chicken-out of my little proposal, I am glad I was wrong. So? Shall we begin?” he asked eagerly.

“Yes. What are the terms of the game?” Dash asked with a challenging tone.

“Oh! That's easy, you need to find your Elements in this funny little labyrinth, to prevent you all from "cheating" in this "game"...I'll just magically remove your wings and horns.” Discord answered smirking, making said body parts disappear with a new snapping of his fingers.

“This will enforce the first rule of his game: no flying and no magic! The second rule is that you must all play the game, or else I will win.” he then said opening his arms wide to give a bow.

“...We accept the rules and the challenge!” Twilight said for the others after a short consultation between the girls.

“Then, off you go! Chop-chop! Those pretty Elements won't come out by themselves!” he answered making the Element Bearers disappear in an instant.

“We will wait here, we trust them to win this thing,” Celestia said sitting on the grass near the hidden Maelstrom.

“We will win this time too, Discord. It's inevitable.” Luna said as she did the same.

“Tch! We'll see.” the Chaos Entity said with crossed arms.

“He is planning something...” the hidden shinobi muttered.

“He has physically separated them in different areas of the maze, he will probably confront them separately with trials created to make them question themselves, causing them to contradict the elements they represent.” Luna answered.

“He did that when we personally faced him, so he will theoretically try the same trick on them,” Celestia added.

“Then the Elements are not in there? Why risking them to find those? Or is he so full of himself to believe he will win even with those in there?” the blond Alicorn asked.

“He is both full of himself and a master of deceit, we cannot be sure, but he never was one shy of cheating whenever a situation did not suit his plans,” Luna answered, as to confirm her statement Discord had started frowning before rapidly entering the labyrinth himself.

“He is trying something directly, he has already decided to cheat!” Celestia said with wide eyes.

“Then I'll cheat too. I'll attract him outside and distract him, you enter there and save the girls, if the Elements are really in there you should be able to find them by working together.” Maelstrom said jumping out of his hiding spot.

“We won't be able to use Magic or flying in there, just in case he has a way to detect both things, so we'll need time.” Luna answered.

"Then I'll try to buy you as much time as I can; both of you will he able to teleport the girls here as soon as you found them." He answered nodding.

"We will be as fast as we can, but you need to pay attention!" Celestia said nodding and surprising the other two by hugging Maelstrom.

“You too, break the girls free and reach me fast,” he answered getting a little tense at the sudden contact.

“I...I am sorry for not telling you the truth, f-for dragging you here without an explanation and for pretending you to just drop everything and move back here,” the Sun Alicorn said sighing loudly.

“Celestia?” he said shocked.

“Just return to be my nephew too, please? I want us to re-connect, to become a family again! It hurts to see you so warm and smiling with everypony just to drop everything and treat me like a stranger...I am sorry for what I did, now just forgive me.”

“You'll need to talk to my friends as well, to Hinata...I am not the only one that got hurt...” Maelstrom said sighing.

“We will, together...I will explain everything and take the blame that will come from that. Now please! I am sorry!” Celestia said sobbing.

“Sister...” Luna muttered sadly.

“I-I...”

“Maelly?” she asked pleadingly.

“Can we talk about it once this is over?” he asked.

“We will talk about everything you want,” she answered nodding.

“Just tell me why you did this, just the simple reason that had you 'rush' to bring me back here without checking first...”

“We...We are Alicorns, Maelstrom...our Life-span covers centuries the same way minutes pass for normal Ponies! To me and Luna those thousand years of her Banishment counted just like few months do for Twilight and the others...I was...I was just feeling so darn alone! You and my sister are the only ones at the moment that won't be out-lived by myself...I was just tired to be alone....and made an horrible mistake in my haste to fill the void..."

“Sigh! It was painful recognizing that I have lost what I believed was my life back in Konoha.”

“And I am deeply sorry for that; I acted blindly, only interested in calling back the two people I loved the most from what I believe were prisons, I never thought that your Village would have become your home. It was a mistake I did just because I believed that I knew best, and I regret the way I decided to bring you here without considering your feelings.”

“We'll talk more later, now go you two! And pay attention.” the Prince answered.

“We will, let's go, Sister!” Luna answered dragging the Sun Alicorn behind her.

“Maelstrom?” she said hopeful.

“...Go and save the girls...auntie,” he said with a small smile.

“Thank you, N-Nephew.” the Princess answered with a small sob breaking her voice and happy smile.

“I knew you would have forgiven her sooner or later, you never were one to hold a grudge forever.” Kurama said chuckling.

“She was misguided by her own hype of being an infallible Princess of Wisdom...I guess that I can give her a second chance, if she really talks with the others as well.” the former shinobi answered.

“She will. I am ready to bet that she will beg them for forgiveness even just to show you how much she wishes for you to return her affection. Now, enough sappy crap and let's kick ass!” the Nine-tailed Fox said cracking his knuckles.

As on cue the Chaos Entity reappeared near the entrance of the Labyrinth with an amused air that had the Prince's blood boil in rage.

“Now let's see how much good those mares are! Even the Element of Kindness won't last long now!” Discord muttered triumphantly.

“FUUMA SHURIKEN!” the blond Alicorn said creating a Shadow Clone, turning it into four blades composing an huge-sized shuriken he then covered in Wind-Element Chakra and grabbing it with his mouth to launch the sharp weapon towards Discord with all his strength.

The twirling weapon rapidly reached behind the smirking draconequus when the Prince's whistle grabbed the mismatched creature's attention.

“Oooh, Dissy!?” Maelstrom called with a sing-song voice.

“Who dares call me Diss-YEEEUCK!” Discord said turning around with a snarl only to drop down barely an instant before getting beheaded, the weapon only shaving his head bald while cutting a deep gash in the labyrinth wall before dispelling.

“I am here, Dumbass! CATCH ME!” the Prince said before running away.

“As if you can escape me! Why would I waste time hunting you down?” the Chaos Entity said challengingly, gaining a swishing sound as an answer as a kunai flew towards him.

“AH! I got it! Not so cool now eh!?” Discord said smirking as his hand caught the blade in mid-air.

Pffffff!

“Why this knife smokes?” he asked curious.

KRATABOOOM! The answer was an explosion that burned away the creature's goat-like beard and removed his fuzzy eyebrows in a flare of fire blackening his face completely.

“It's an explosive note, Dissy! It explodes on contact!” the disembodied voice of Maelstrom answered.

“Now you are exaggerating! YOU DARE RUIN MY BEARD?!” the still-smoking draconequus said biting down on his thumb and blowing, making beard and hair re-grown in an instant.

“Since it sucks I feel obliged to remove it! So much Suck-itude can't be allowed to exist, so I'll cut every single hair that I see on your head!” the voice answered.

“That does it! COME BACK HERE!” the angry Chaos God said as he gave chase to the blond Alicorn, so angry to not notice Luna and Celestia use the hole opened by the first Fuuma Shuriken to enter the labyrinth.

Inside the Labyrinth – with Luna and Celestia -

“We need to be fast and find the Element Bearers, how can we track them down?” Luna asked.

“I don't know, but we need to hurry, Discord can't be left unchecked too long, the damages would be incalculable.” Celestia answered worried.

“What are you two doing here?! This is MY place! MINE! You have no right to come here, I am not sharing!” a known voice said in fury.

“Miss Belle?” Luna said with wide eyes.

“Discord managed to corrupt her,” Celestia answered grimacing.

The former Unicorn (now deprived of her horn) was glaring at both Princesses from a pile of rocks her distorted mind was picturing as her personal treasure, one the now completely selfish mare had no intention of sharing.

“This is my treasure! My labyrinth! IT'S ALL MINE! MINE!” Rarity bellowed hugging the stones close to her and hissing at the Alicorns.

“Rarity...” a new voice said sadly.

“Miss Fluttershy! Are you okay?” the Moon Princess said relieved.

“Discord tried something with me...I remember his eyes shining and my being unable to look away...then-then he said something about griffin intruders and abandoned me.” Fluttershy said.

“He must have been trying to personally brainwash you, you resisted his poisonous words, right?” Celestia asked.

“Y-Yes, he tried convincing me that being Kind was not my true self, but I kept denying and he grew angry and left after doing something to the labyrinth...what happened?” the shy pegasus asked worried.

“He is very impatient, your Corruption was taking too long and he tried forcing the issue, luckily me, my sister and my son managed to reach here in time to distract him before he could finish hypnotizing you...can you help us returning Miss Rarity to normal?” Luna answered.

“I-I can try!” Fluttershy said with a determined nod as she neared the Corrupted Fashionista.

“Rarity? Rarity it's me! Fluttershy! Do you remember me?” she asked.

“GO AWAY! This is my treasure! I won't give it up! It's mine! It's my prrrrecious! Gollum! Gollum!” Rarity answered hugging the biggest rock to herself before coughing-out that 'kind-of-copyrighted' name.

“Ugh! I can already feel the lawyers breath on our neck for that...” Luna said grimacing.

“No Rarity, that is not a treasure and you know it, just like you know that you are not really that selfish or that nor we or Sweetmiss own the works of Tolkien so to freely use them without risk of getting sued for copyright infractions...” Fluttershy answered patiently.

“I am just being honest! I want everything without bothering to share! What is so wrong in me to admit that I am just a selfish mare that only seeks personal gain?” the corrupted mare answered with a deranged smile.

“This will take too long!” Celestia said worried.

“I'll try to save her, you please hurry-up and help Twilight and the others!” Fluttershy asked.

“We will, pay attention and try to not be seen by Discord should he return,” Luna answered as both hurried away.

Not far away the two Alicorn could see Gilda herself struggling to keep Rainbow Dash down as she tried to reach for a glass panel containing the mares wings.

“Miss Gilda? What are you doing here?” Celestia asked.

“I heard that you all would have come here and wanted to help so I got close enough to get transported here to hide close to the labyrinth, as soon as I saw that guy take away Dash wings and start filling her head in nonsense I tore my way inside at the first sign he went away, now help me! If she gets to her wings she will break one of the rules and make that crazy thing win!” the griffin said while biting-down a shriek as Dash started biting her arm to try breaking free.

“Rainbow Dash! Why are you trying to get her wings?” Luna asked as both Alicorns too pounced on the girl, knowing well that any spell they use may be sensed by Discord and alert the Draconequus of their presence in the labyrinth.

“I NEED THEM! LET ME GOOOO! He says that Cloudsdale will burn to the ground if I don't fly there as fast as I can!” Dash answered with a desperate voice as she struggled harder.

“Your man is out there trying to buy us time and help you, do you want to waste his sacrifice by making us all fail?!” Gilda said with narrowed eyes, actually roaring in anger as the mare gained even more strength in her struggle.

“MAELSTROM! I NEED TO HELP HIM! I NEED TO HELP CLOUDSDALE! LET ME GOOOO! I NEED MY WINGS!” Dash yelled in hysterics.

“DAMN MY STUPID MOUTH! I say that you have to CALM THE -Censored- DOWN!” Gilda bellowed as she finally lost her patience, headbutting Rainbow Dash to unconsciousness with a loud Gong-like sound.

“It was certainly an unconventional way to resolve this problem, but was the cursing really necessary?” Luna asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I am not in the mood for niceties...now, if you excuse me, I have a friend to snap-out of her brainwash.” the griffin said grabbing Dash with one of her talons to use the other and slap the Holy Hell out of her.

“YOU! SLAP! NEED! SLAP! TO! SLAP! RETURN! SLAP! TO! SLAP! NORMAL! SLAP! UNDERSTOOD!?” Gilda yelled while accompanying each word with a powerful slap to the rainbow-maned mare's face.

“OKAY! OKAY! I AM FINE NOW! Stop the slapping!” Dash said nodding frantically.

“Good! Do not force me to use bad manners then!” the griffin said smirking.

“Those weren't the Bad manners!?” both Princesses thought with wide eyes.

“What Happened?” Dash asked while massaging her abused cheeks.

“Discord managed to manipulate you into going against your own Element of Harmony, from there he Corrupted you using his powers,” Celestia answered.

“He wanted you to grab your wings and break the 'no flying' rule of his Game,” Luna added.

“And Maelstrom?” she asked.

“Out there trying to distract him, now help us freeing the others, Miss Fluttershy was the only one able to resist Discord and is now trying to have Miss Rarity return to normal.” Celestia answered.

“Want me to use the same method on her?” Gilda offered.

“I think we can trust the Element of Kindness for that, thank you!” Luna said immediately.

“Maybe AJ will need a strong hoof too I fear, she is an head-strong mare by default, I can only imagine how BAD that monster managed to get her to become.” Dash said worried.

“Ooh! I can't wait to help her!” the griffin said in glee.

“I swear, I don't think I ever saw anypony so eager to hurt somepony else and get away with it,” Celestia muttered sighing.

Few minutes later and a voice scarily resembling AJ's screams echoed in every corner of the labyrinth followed by the dull sound of a face getting slapped to Oblivion and low curses of pain being yelled immediately after by the same mare.

Meanwhile – with Discord -

"I got you finally!" Discord said in elation as he grabbed Maelstrom by the back of his neck.
He had discovered that the Alicorn Prince he was chasing was apparently an hidden pyromaniac, there wasn't a single thing he threw at the Draconequus that hadn't exploded at least once; kunai? Kaboom! shuriken? Blazing flare of fire. A birthday present? The little thing exploded with enough power to shot him high in the sky in a shrieking ball of fire! And what about A WHOLE DAMN TREE covered from roots to the tip of its branches in dozens of sheets of explosive paper? THAT HURTS!

The Chaos Entity was just sure that if things continued in that fashion the damned blond stallion would find a way to make air explode as well, and Discord already had his 'Bad-mood eye tick' return with a vengeance from his teenage years half an hour ago; he was plainly sick of the whole damn thing!

"NOPE! Wrong one, Dumbass!" the Real Stallion said from the other side of the garden before letting out an infamous "BEEP! BEEP!" call as he sprinted away with enough speed to have the grass under his hooves catch fire.

"Sigh! And what about you?" The draconequus tiredly asked to the clone in his hands, almost fearing the answer.

"I am a Bomb! CLONE GREAT EXPLOSION!" the Mael-clone said as it blew-up with a flare of super-hot flames and a shock-wave that momentarily had the whole castle 'jump up' from the ground of few meters.

"...Of course you realize, This means war!" Discord, his face now blackened and still smoking, said reaching behind his head to set-back a duck bill in front of his face, his own sprint to chase the escaping stallion leaving behind a tall wall of dust.

-One Hour later – With Luna, Celestia and the Element Bearers -

"Hurry! Maelstrom won't be able to keep him occupied for long!" Luna said as her Magic blew an hole in the labyrinth wall.

"We are coming, Princess!" Twilight answered.

“I'll go see if I can find more guards,” Gilda said rapidly flying towards the castle.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" A long laugh echoed from the other side of the gardens.

"Noooo!" Luna yelled in horror as she hurried towards the source of the voice.

"That was Discord! Something must have happened!" Celestia said with wide eyes.

But when the group reached the source of the laugh a surprising show was waiting for them, as apparently Discord had witnessed Maelstrom's cloning abilities enough times and decided to do the same to "Fight" the Prince...if what the two were doing could be even remotely be considered fighting.

In fact, as soon as the mares entered the gardens they could see a Discord-clone and a Malestrom-clone fighting in a setting resembling a mockery of a "Cheap 70's king-fu movie"; out-of-sync voice acting, crappy special effects and costumes, bad dialogue and ruined back-ground music comprised.

In another corner another pair of clones had apparently decided that a "Disco-dance" show-down was what they needed to settle things down, with the Discord-clone sporting an over-sized afro hairstyle too.

“WHAT'S THIS GARBAGE, DISCORD?! That apple pie is so raw, fruit bats are trying to steal it! And that's what you call crust? I call it shit!”

“I AM SORRY, CHEF RAMSEY!” another Discord yelled in shame with a voice broken by barely-restrained tears.

Behind the kung-fu fighters the group of mares found other two clones dressed as chefs standing to attention while a mysterious human was verbally destroying Discord for his badly-made dish while praising the Shadow Clone of Mael for his good recipe, the Draconequus keeping his head low and muttering "I am sorry, Chef Ramsey." from time to time with a defeated voice.

Passed the two clones going through a freestyle rap battle, the two Princesses and the Element Bearers could see Five Shadow Clones wearing skin-tight spandex suits in different colours (and calling themselves the "Stallion Rangers") facing a Discord wearing a flamboyant cape flapping around by itself even in the total absence of wind before "Somehow" ending with both groups having a Giant Robot fight with the rangers piloting a giant robot-Alicorn and Discord a giant robotic version of himself.

"Okay...this is getting ridiculous..." Twilight muttered as the group passed an ALL-FEMALE version of the previous thing, this time with five FEMALE clones of Maelstrom (Called "Sailor Mares" apparently) fighting Discord with the supposed "Power of Love" of their heart-shaped weapons.

"I guess Maelstrom is trying to fight Chaos with Chaos..." Celestia tried saying.

"He is doing a darn good job at that!" Applejack answered sarcastic while watching transfixed the pie-eating contest two copies of both Dragonequus and Alicorn were going through.

"At least is not Karaoke," Rarity said.

"Nope! they are doing that too! Mister Discord has a great voice!" Pinkie answered smiling while pointing in a far corner of the gardens.

"Shhh! Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits!" came a voice from behind the group scaring them, it was another Discord; this time dressed as an hunter while carrying a long weapon.

"What the..." Dash was about to say before a short laugh interrupted her.

"Hey! What's up, Doc?" A Shadow Clone of Maelstrom with bunny ears replied from afar.

"Thewe it is!" The Discord Hunter said as he started chasing the Clone while shooting streamers and confetti from his hunting riffle.

"We are getting close, the less sense things make, the closer Discord is...this way!" Celestia said as the group moved faster towards the real duo after passing the TWISTER show-down between two clones of both Discord and Maelstrom and side-stepping the tango contest right after that.

"Where are they?" Luna asked confused.

"Excuse me? We were looking for the real Discord and Maelstrom!" Pinkie asked to the closest Draconequus clone.

"AAADRIIAANNN!" the Discord clone, completely trashed after an evident beating, with two black eyes and few missing teeth, yelled in answer while rising both his boxing gloves to the sky while flashes of photographers came out of nowhere around him.

"Thank you! He said to look that way!" the pink pony said pointing at her right.

"You understood that?" Twilight asked surprised.

"It was very clear, why?" Pinkie asked back dumbfounded.

"Never mind...I think we should just continue on," Twilight said sighing.

Further down the path, another pair of the Discord and Maelstrom clones burst into their path; these two wearing some odd clothes, Discord was wearing a black uniform with a metal badge on his chest while Maelstrom was sporting black, thick material jacket and boots and sun-glasses; he also had a strange metal tube on his back that Twilight could tell focused magic.

“An invention of Discord, no doubt...” Celestia muttered with narrowed eyes.

Discord-clone had one as well, smaller and in a different shape though, as he pulled it out and started squeezing the trigger it unleashed shots of chaos energy hitting Maelstrom in the face but leaving the Prince unscathed, although shocking the ones watching as where the shots had hit, the ponies could now see metal beneath the Alicorn's flesh and a shining red light acting as eye.

As if offended by that wound (or the destruction of the sun-glasses) Maelstrom-clone grabbed the tube on his back, threw the lever on the bottom, and shot his chakra out of it at Discord's head; To both Princesses and Element Bearer's shock a large hole opened-up on the Chaos Entity's head as it turned him to the side, before Discord straightened-up showing that beneath his skin there was some kind of liquid metal.

Facing his friends and family Maelstrom-clone shot again and again until Discord fell the ground and didn't move before opening his mouth to speak in a strange, strong German accent. "Ev'ryone, come vith me if ya want to leeve."

"No, I think not," Discord said, coming back behind the stallion with the holes refilled and morphing his right arm into a large blade to stab the Alicorn Prince in the back, making Maelstrom spin around, barrel placed to his forehead of the Dracoonequus, and fired again splitting the other in half.

"...Better to keep-a moving then," the Prince stated still in that strong German accent.

“Ookay...I think we can leave them do their thing.” Dash proposed unnerved as the group discreetly crept away from the crazed duo that kept shooting each-other while spewing macho, testosterone-filled one-liners.

"We are almost there! The sky looks like jelly and the grass is made of clay, they must be close," Luna said as the group kept trotting at top speed.

When they finally got to the duo of Real Mael and Discord, the mares could see that they weren't even trying to fight, apparently happy to just leave the clones deal with that for them.

"Hahahaha! I can't believe it!" Maelstrom said with watering eyes.

"It's true! I even got pictures!" The real lord of Chaos Discord answered with a similar laugh and producing a stack of pictures.

Both were sitting on comfy chairs (probably that used to be a pair of guards as those were still 'wearing' helmets) while drinking tea and chatting like old friends, apparently exchanging stories and or jokes of their past.

“MAELSTROM!” Dash yelled as she dived for him, enveloping him in a 'four-legs hug' making both fell to the ground while burying her face on his neck.

“I am here, I am here. I am happy to see that you are fine.” he answered with a soft chuckle as he happily kissed her forehead.

“Don't you dare scare me like that ever again, if you fight we do that together!” Dash answered angrily.

“Keep the shows of affection to a minimum...I still have to give my blessing to this situation.” Luna said bitterly making the rainbow-maned pegasus detach from the Prince with an un-lady-like grumbling.

"Changing topic; Celestia? You never told me you used to wet the bed even after entering your teenage years! Are you okay now?" Maelstrom said grinning.

To the others surprise the Sun Alicorn simply blushed while looking down, unable to even defend herself out of embarrassment.

"Okay! That's it! What in Equestria's name is happening here?!" Luna demanded.

"Well, you were taking an awful lot of time coming here, so I had to improvise and tried to just talk to him," the blond stallion answered shrugging.

"From behind an army of copies of yourself," Discord added with a jokingly accusatory tone.

"Can you blame me? You manipulate reality!" Maelstrom answered with a jab of an hoof.

"Yes, and it was kind of surprising see you drop almost dead when I removed that strange energy from inside you." the draconequus answered.

"YOU ALMOST KILLED MY SON!" Luna roared as she pounced on Discord.

"WAIT! WAIT! I didn't do anything after that! I put everything back together after he collapsed, I swear!" the chaotic entity said backing away from the rabid Princess as Celestia and the others were having troubles restraining her.

"You screamed like a little girl when I collapsed!" Maelstrom said grinning.

"I did not!" Discord said before slapping the other with a salmon that wasn't in the draconeequs' hand before.

"Yes you did, I could almost count the freckles too! and I swear I got a glimpse of a teddy bear as well!" he answered laughing.

"Your son has no manners, Lulu! He got your temper as well," Discord said offended.

"What happened exactly?" Celestia asked while Luna kept confronting Discord while the mismatched creature just settled with changing the Moon Alicon's appearances every now and then while she verbally chew him alive.

"After he took away my Chakra I saw him panic, I guess that with all his power he was not used at having people die by his hands since he can 'control' whatever chaos his powers produce. But chakra was something he didn't know so he couldn't know that removing it could have been a too big shock for me to handle.”

“I see...”

“But what I don't understand is that...he is not THAT BAD as you others draw him. I mean, yes his “Pranks” are destructive and most of the time tasteless...but he is not bad per se. He seems to me that he is more “Chaotically Good” than fully Evil.” Maelstrom said confused.

“He is Evil! He is a creature unable to feel Compassion and Love,” Celestia answered.

“HEY! I can hear you, you know?” Discord said from the sidelines.

“A Monster that only loves himself, a parasite that feeds in other ponies' fears.” the Princess added.

“I am like...at barely a feet from you.” the Dragoonequus muttered.

“A disgusting creature whose twisted mind can only devise methods to bring sufferance, despair, ruin and anguish and destroying everything it touches,”

“Can you please stop tap-dancing on my feelings? Please? It hurts!” the Chaos entity asked with a loud sniff.

“A crazy freak of nature that-”

“WOH! I got! You have not an high opinion of him, okay!” the Prince said covering her mouth with an hoof.

“You were not there during his first “rule”...Equestria had been on the verge of destruction with every single pony waiting in anxiety for the moment where he would bring things too far and cause the end of the world.” Luna added as she finally returned to normal from being a toaster.

“I was not that bad,” Discord said with childish stubbornness.

“You used to turn unicorns into arrows so to play archery! And pointing them at the sun!” Luna answered with narrowed eyes.

“Yeah. Not my brightest idea that one...but at least they never left the atmosphere! Few pegasus could always fly up and help them re-enter from their orbiting around the planet!” he said with a nervous smile.

“And then there was that 'Everypony become mares' last joke.” Celestia said bitterly.

“Ow, come on! It lasted a week! Are you really going to be angry for that?” Discord said in disbelief.

“A week?! A WEEK?! IT LASTED FOR ONE YEAR, YOU DUMB IMBECILE! It was a miracle me and Luna managed to create a ritual to have at least one colt being born every ten pregnancies!” Celestia roared in a surprising show of anger and shrilly voice.

“Eh? One Year?...wait a minute.” the Draconequus said taking out from behind his back a tall, wooden longcase clock to look at it in surprise.

“Aah!...My watch is broken so I calibrated the spell the wrong way...oops?” he then said with a nervous laugh.

“GRAAAAAAAAAH!” both Princesses bellowed in fury as they pounced on the creature, making him shriek in fear and try to crawl away from under the assault.

“It's strange, Princess Celestia in her lessons described him in a worst light, even the books talked about Discord as of a mad, merciless ruler of Chaos.” Twilight said confused.

“Ah can freely say that he is a meanie, but Ah have cousins in Manehattan more 'evil' than him, sugarcube.” AJ answered shrugging.

“Can it be that the Princesses' low sympathy for him influenced the books to leave a bad impression?” Rarity asked, all of them ignoring the various rude epithets both Alicorn were using for Discord while beating him.

“I would say no, Celestia herself always preferred to leave ponies get their ideas about something or somepony by themselves without influencing it.” Twilight answered.

“Now she does that, but in the past?” Maelstrom asked.

“You don't like her too much, one may say that you too are biased,” Pinkie Pie answered.

“We are...we are making peace, I even started calling her aunt once again.” he answered sighing.

“Good, it will be good for both of you to finally get closer,” Dash said kissing his cheek proudly.

“Thanks.” he said smiling.

“Just because Ah'm curious...how did tha Princesses defeat the guy?” Applejack asked.

“With the Elements of Harmony; the two of them used to be the Bearers of them before...well, before Celestia had been forced to banish Luna, then she said that the lost of Harmony between them and the huge power requested from the banishment caused the Elements to lose their powers, until we arrived of course.” the purple Unicorn answered.

“Wait, now I remember! Mother said they used the Elements alright...but, wouldn't that...HOY! You two! Stop that, ya crazy women!” the Prince yelled as he ran towards the Princesses.

“Whaf?” Luna asked with he mouth still occupied by biting down on Discord's tail trying to tear it off.

“We are kind of busy now,” Celestia added with her hoof still posed to strike the Draconequus' face while the other had a strong grip on his hair.

“WAIT! TIME-OUT! PEACE! PARLAY! That thing were both parties just talk pacifically! You can't hit someone wearing glasses! And I am wearing six pairs of them!” the Chaos Entity, sporting two black eyes and other bruises, said frantically.

“You two used the Elements to turn him to stone, right?” Maelstrom asked.

“Yes?” Luna said confused.

“So he was encased in stone...made by the condensed Magic of the Elements of Harmony instead of normal rock...right?” he clarified.

“Exactly,” Celestia answered nodding.

“And he had been encased in there for...” the Prince said.

“Thousands of years,” Luna answered.

“One thousand and seven years, six months, two weeks, three days, four hours and thirty-seven-and-an-half minutes...but who's counting when conscious and trapped in rock,” Discord said sarcastically.

“You were conscious the whole time?” Celestia asked curious.

“Yes...” he said bitterly. “And my nose started itching after the first week, I got the occasion to scratch it only once I broke free. This not considering all the pidgeons that used my whole body as a toilet...” he added.

“That's not what is important now. What I mean is, he has been trapped in a cocoon of pure Harmony Magic for a thousand of years, right? The same Magic that purified Mother from being Nightmare Moon, am I wrong?” Maelstrom asked.

“No, it was the very same power,” Luna answered.

“Can it be that, you know...after all that time in contact with all that Harmony Magic Discord here has become...not 'Good'...but at least 'Less Evil' than before?” he asked.

“Impossible, he is evil incarnate.” Celestia and Luna said at the same time.

“HOY! I like to point-out that I am CHAOS! And as such I am neither bad or good...okay I now feel like a tiny bit more Good than what I was before, but this doesn't mean I'll be all Hero-like, I love my games thank you very much...and by the way, you wanted the Elements back? You HAD TO show that you all were worthy of it, I can't have the only thing able to stop me in the hands of hormonal teenagers without being sure they can use them properly.” Discord said huffing.

“But you cheated! You almost had to personally brainwash Fluttershy to have her fail her trial!” Dash pointed-out offended.

“And we are not Hormonal,” Rarity added.

“That too.” the rainbow-maned mare said.

“I saw your dreams...you dirty miscreants,” Luna muttered while glaring at the mares interested in her son.

“Can you blame me? She can put sugar to shame with her exaggerated sweetness! It was the only way to even the play field.” the Draconequus said offended.

“We cheated too...I distracted him while Luna and Celestia broke-down the labyrinth and showed Dash that Clousdale was not in ruins...” Maelstrom admitted.

“SEE? He is a good one! He admits his mistakes! Now...since that means I won...how to turn this little castle in the focal point of the Chaos Capital of the World...” Discord said with a triumphant smile.

“TIME-OUT!” Luna yelled crossing her hooves.

“What now?! Can't a Draconequus bring chaos to the world without being interrupted?” Discord said with an exaggerated whine.

“We still have the Elements and-” the Princess began when the Chaos God started laughing.

“They weren't in the Labyrinth! I fooled you!” he said grinning.

“I know, that's why I sent a clone to take them while I was in there with my friends!” Twilight said smirking herself.

“You perfected the spell? Cool!” Maelstrom said amazed.

“Thank you, it's very useful to cut-down my work and-”

“WOH! WOH! WOH! Wait a minute...you knew they weren't there?!” Discord said.

“Pfeh! That riddle was easy, who do you think I am, a fool?” Twilight answered offended.

“Then why you accepted my challenge?”

“I needed you to be occupied so to grab the Elements, I knew you wanted us in that Labyrinth so I played by your rues while breaking them at the same time,” the purple Unicorn answered proudly.

“Eh! A damn fine Kunoichi in there!” Kurama muttered grinning.

“I second my Biju Tenant, that was a damn fine ninja-like tactic,” the Prince said.

“Thank you, I am sorry though that you all got corrupted, I didn't know he could do that,” she answered while looking down with a sorry expression.

“It's okay, Twilight...at least we are all fine now,” Rarity said.

“See? You have three Alicorns AND the Elements against you, are you sure you want to bring Chaos?” Luna said smiling wickedly.

“IT'S UNFAIR! YOU CHEATED AND NOW PRETEND ME TO STAND-DOWN? Where is justice in that?! What am I supposed to do to pass time, eh? I hate to feel bored!” Discord said petulantly.

“If you promise to use your powers for good causes...most of the time,” Maelstrom offered, adding the last part at seeing the small frown on the Draconequus' face.

“Yes?” Discord asked.

“I offer you two things, want to know what those are?”

“I am listening,” the other answered taking out of thin air an huge horn and positioning the smallest part in his ear and almost covering the Prince's whole body with the widest one.

“My friendship-”

“Tch!”

“Don't be like that, I know you enjoy company! I guess Fluttershy too may be open to give you a chance,” Maelstrom answered scoffing.

“I know you can be a sweetheart should you try hard enough,” the shy pegasus said.

“I am Disqord...Discord, I am a badass Chaos God! not a sweetheart!” he said offended.

“Stuff it and admit you feel lonely, you can't hold moonshine worth a damn and admitted it before sobering-up!” the shinobi Alicorn said.

“You cheated, Healing Factor trumps getting wasted.” Discord said offended.

“I am a ninja, I cheat every time! We don't follow rules unless it suits us! Unless is a romantic relationship, then we are the most faithful ones around,” Maelstrom answered proudly.

“Whatever...the second thing?” the Draconequus asked uninterested, although a small tugging of his lips betrayed his wish to smile at the offer.

“Wait a minute here,” the Alicorn said before disappearing in a burst of speed, returning barely five minutes later with a dozen books.

“Those books?!” Dash said with wide eyes.

“Hoy! It was a joke present, I don't read that stuff but Kakashi-sensei is fixated with them, if more than half the Elemental Countries goes crazy for them, maybe he will like them himself.” Maelstrom answered shrugging.

“Books? I am not one for books!” Discord said offended.

“Try to read one, just use the Draconequus-kind instead of humans.”

“Uff! Whatever! How good can they...oh!...oh, my!” the Draconequus said before reading few lines before falling silent, take-out a pair of reading glasses and sitting down on the grass to read, the giggles he left-out every once in a while unnerving the others not knowing the books.

“I have all twenty of the old series, now my friend Ino has took over and keeps writing them, be good and help us in times of need and I'll have her send me a signed copy at Day-One whenever she publish a new issue.” Maelstrom offered.

“...Throw in you, the Shy one and the other Element Bearers taking part to one of my games once a week without cheating and we have an accord, now be silent; I want to see if Megumi manages to ensnare Toshi with her 'naked apron technique'...” Discord answered without stopping reading.

“Friends then?” the Prince asked grinning.

“Whatever,”

“I'll take that as a yes.”

“Naked Apron? What are talking ab-OH SWEET MOTHER OF HARMONY!” Luna yelled in horror at reading a book herself.

“Never read them. Never liked them. My sensei Kakashi gave them to me as a joke. It's his fault!” the Alicorn Stallion said immediately.

“I'll be right back, sister. Please take care of the rest.” Luna said with narrowed eyes as a portal appeared behind her.

“So...I guess then that Discord will stay around? Hopefully not causing trouble.” Celestia said unsure.

“Keep those books around and I'll think about it. But don't bring your hopes too high,” he answered unconcerned.

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“FINE! I'll use it! My Forbidden Technique...” Maelstrom said angrily.

“Forbidden Technique?” Celestia said curious.

“Cover your ears everypony...I am gonna use my Talk no Jutsu at max power...” the Alicorn said in determination.

“NO, YOU IDIOT! It's too dangerous! Even Kaguya and the Uchiha could not resist that!” Kurama said horrified.

“It has to be done...girls? Aunt?” he said sighing.

“Ears covered...” Celestia said as translucent bubbles appeared around her and the other mares' heads.

“Good...Discord?” Maelstrom said.

“Yes?” the Draconequus said finally giving his attention to the Alicorn.

“Friendship is one of the most...” the Prince said as he started talking with his most heart-felt, convincing tone.

The full speech had been censored from the story though, as a measure to stop the readers from embracing their computers/tablet/phones/reading devices and professing their undying friendship to Maelstrom and Ponyville as a whole for the rest of their lives; there are already too much Brony around the globe without this story increasing their numbers tenfold thanks to the shinobi OP Speech Perk.

Fifteen minutes later a slack-jawed, wide eyed Discord finally stopped nodding along and took in an huge breath, making the Sun Princess drop the silencing bubble around the mares' heads.

“Okay...that was...surprisingly convincing. I think...I think I can give friendship a try an lend an hand once or twice should you need it. Not too often as I don't want to be 'reformed' completely...but okay, I guess I'll try to make a friend or two.” the Chaos entity said slowly.

“Eh! Better than nothing.” Maelstrom said deflating a little, his tongue hurting from all the talking he did.

“Amazing results. But where will Discord live?” Celestia said in wonder.

“H-He can live with me if he wants, I-it's not a problem.” Fluttershy offered.

“Won't your colt-friend here be jealous?” Discord asked smirking.

“HE IS MY COLT-FRIEND!” Dash said roaring.

“Oh, come on! A standard 'Harem Ending number 3'! The one with the girls accepting to share but maintaining a small form of rivalry (mostly comedic) to be the favourite girl of the clueless male behind the scenes! What's wrong with that?” Discord said whining.

“His idea! Don't look at me!” Maelstrom said itching away while rising both front hooves.

“Even then, I would of course being the favourite one!” Dash answered huffing.

“Eeyup, sugarcube! Don't tha sound meanie...but Ah would be a better candidate for that,” AJ said while distractingly clearing her throat.

“In virtue of what?!”

“Ah am more family-oriented and he wishes to have a big family,” the farm-mare answered.

“And how do you know that?” Dash asked with narrowed eyes.

“Ah have ma sources!”

“Don't look at me, I am not selling info.” Rarity answered while still counting the roll of bills Pinkie gave her in exchange of a sealed envelop with “Info” written on it and with the Prince's cutie-mark on the front.

“...I hate you, Discord.” Maelstrom said with a glare.

“Come on...it was meant as a joke...” he answered with a grimace.

“Then help me calm them down,”

“Fine! But just because I like you.” the Chaos God answered sighing.

Said that the Alicorn and Draconequus duo joined the frantic Celestia in calming-down the arguing Element Bearers before the mares could reach the point of going for physical assault instead of keeping to only use mean words and rebukes.

Omake 1 – Maelstrom VS Discord Deleted Scenes – Courtesy of my friend Foxcomm -

Showdown 1-

"What did they add now?" Celestia said stopping before another new addition to the garden: a stone wall was now blocking the path with a set of stairs leading underground.

"Can we go 'round it?" Applejack asked noticing how the way was blocked.

"Without flyin' Ah mean."

"There might be a way around, but that would mean have us going back through a dimension of purest chaos, the place from which Discord called the wall from," Celestia told them.

"Last one that managed surviving a trip through the 'World of Imaginary Numbers' was a really dark guy named Alucard, and I'm not sure you others could make the trip like me and Luna." the Sun Alicorn then added.

"He is my beloved son that is fighting that abomination, we shall go and check to see if it is safe!" Luna said in determination.

Taking a deep breath she walked down the stairs into the delve, coming to an end she looked around curiously and almost didn't spot the group of Maelstrom and Naruko clones up ahead waiting for her.

"...AND YOU NOTICE AN ALICORN COMING UP BEHIND YOU. SHE HAS ALREADY SPOTTED THE PARTY." Discord's voice thundered all around there, but not painfully so, but almost like the source was much larger than the Alicorn herself.

"IS THE ALICORN HOSTILE?" This time it was Maelstrom that was talking.

"NO, SHE APPEARS MORE CONFUSED THAN ANYTHING."

"THEN MY ELF 'ALIIZSA: THE SPELL THIEF' WILL APPROACH HER."

At those words one of the Naruko clones turned around and walked towards Luna, carefully watched by the members of the party.

"What brings you down here to such a dangerous place?" This Naruko clone was a slender mare with red mane, green eyes, and her ears came to a point way longer than normal; she held a staff on her back and several daggers and a short sword at her waist.

Luna looked around a little confused for a moment as the scene seemed all too familiar for her.

"I-I am trying to find safe passage to the heart of the garden," she said, unsure as to why she felt the need to say it like that. "When We came upon this...passage, I felt it better to look before all others entered as well."

"ROLL INTELLIGENCE CHECK FOR ALIIZSA," Discord ordered, followed by a very familiar clattering.

"I MADE IT."

"YOU NOTICE FROM HER SPEECH AND POSTURE THAT THE ALICORN HOLDS HERSELF WITH MUCH REFINEMENT AND PRIDE. MORE OVER, NOT A HINT OF DIRT CAN BE SPOTTED ON HER DESPITE THE TRAVELING AND SHE IS IN INCREDIBLE HEALTH. YOU DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE SPEAKING TO A TRAVELING NOBLE."

"...Wait a second! I GOT IT!" Luna yelled looking up, she wasn't surprised to see that there was no roof to this place, instead, she just saw a giant Discord sitting behind a DM's screen and a giant Maelstrom looking over his character sheets with a frown.

"THE ALICORN HAS JUST SHOUTED IN DENIAL AND SHOCK, HER VOICE ECHOING DOWN THE CORRIDORS AND ALERTING EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE THERE."

"NICE GOING," Maelstrom grumbled facehoofing.

Luna looked to the two of them a moment before turning around and walking back out of the dungeon.

Did she think bad of her son for playing this? No, she played it too and was a veteran of that kind of games, but was she going to reveal this to anypony other than him? Nope!

"Sister, is the way safe?" Celestia asked worried

"Not in the least," Luna stated, which was true, if that was a dungeon crawl adventure then that meant traps, monsters, unfair DM and bad voice acting.

"We'll go around it." Luna answered shaking her head, secretly wondering just where she had left her character sheets and dice; it had been a thousand years since she had used them.

Maybe she could join in later after she had found the real two?

Showdown 2 -

Twilight was leading the others around yet another corner to evade a new bunch of crazy clones of an Alicorn and a Draconequus when suddenly they were no longer in the garden.

“What the hay...” the purple Unicorn muttered with a raised eyebrow.

The surroundings had abruptly changed into some kind of...ship bridge out of an old TV Series.

Looking behind her she couldn't see the garden or the others anymore, but they quickly joined her from a near door, all to her elation.

On the deck they could see many Maelstrom clones sitting at high-tech stations, in the center of which was a copy of the Alicorn Prince lacking his mane but with a red uniform, next to him a clone with a beard and behind them one that was striped like a zebra, this one sporting a gold uniform and a sash across his chest and back.

Up front, looking at a large screen, two more clones in gold uniforms were waiting for orders, one with some kind of strange glasses and the other with a combed-back mane, pale skin, and strange golden eyes.

"Mister Data, where is the 'Warbird'?" the bald Maelstrom asked.

"Position unknown, Captain! subspace scanners are not finding any trace of the Draconian vessel."

Suddenly the screen changed and a picture of Discord appeared, standing in a rather squarish uniform with a subtle smirk on his face.

"I see you, Maelstrom. But do you see me?" he asked amused.

"DisQord! What is the meaning of attacking my ship!? Why take control of a Romian ship!?”

"Oh come on captain! this is how you truly prefer it, is it not? A great battle to the end is the only thing fitting a warrior such as yourself. Once more into the breach!"

"Q! I will not be part of some game!"

"Au contraire, mon capitan! The game has already begun and there is no stopping it. And so it begins." Discord answered before the communication went closed, making the screen go back to showing a starry sky.

"Shields up! Mister Data, begin a random firing pattern to optimize zones our phasers can reach!"

"Yes Captain."

"Number One, take command of the Battle Bridge."

"Yes Captain," the one with the beard said nodding.

"Mister LaForge, you're with me." as soon as the bearded clone turned around he saw Luna, Celestia and the Element Bearers and stood to attention.

"Ladies, if you come with us, we shall get you on your way." he said with a gentle tone.

"Mister Worf, fire a barrage," In the meantime the Captain ordered as the battle continued.

"Firing... No effect."

"Royal Canterlot Garden." 'LaForge' said as the door slid shut behind the group before re-opening to show a long hallway.

"Just step right through," the clone simply told them.

"...Maelstrom, you...this..." Luna sighed in defeat.

“Yes?”

"Are you and Discord the Best of Enemies or the Worst of Friends?"

In answer the speakers came to life with the Captain's voice barking orders with a sharp tone.

"Hit right!" he said making the two clones jerk to the right.

"Hit left!" Now making them move to the left.

"Shimmy!" he then ordered.

"...Your son is having too much fun with this," Celestia stated before walking through the door leading the group of mares back into the gardens.

"That he is, sister, that he is..." Luna replied sighing.

"But I must admit it, his 'Worf' alter-ego did seem quite studly."

Omake 2 – what Luna was doing while Maelstrom and the others talked with Discord -

Konoha – Hokage Tower – Kakashi's office -

Kakashi was finally taking a pause after another LONG day as Hokage, having discovered that no-one was fool enough to take the job after Naruto's departure to Equestria and so leaving him without a future leader ready to learn how to take the mantle (hopefully before/without Kakashi himself kicking the bucket) had him throe himself into the secret mission of making being Hokage appear to be the 'Coolest Job Evah!!!!' so to finally find a successor.

He was versing himself a new dish of sake when Sakura's voice drifted inside from her postation as his secretary.

“No, please understand, Luna-san! Kakashi-sensei can't receive you at the moment! Please take a seat and he will be free in a moment!” the girl could be heard said with a frantic voice.

“Luna-san...where did I heard that name before?” Kakashi muttered frowning.

“That deranged fool of thy Leader dared try to try tarnish my dearest son's name by dragging it into the mud of his sinful books! I cannot condone this felony to my family! I demand retribution!” the other woman answered with an high, booming voice that rattled the windows.

“Eh?” Sakura asked confused, expression mirrored by Kakashi.

“I shall explain in terms you people will understand...” the mysterious woman said bitterly as she clearly took-in an huge breath.

“THE BASTARD GAVE MY SON SOME PORNOGRAPHIC BOOKS AS A PRESEEEEEENT!” the same voice bellowed at inhuman volume and rage, literally making Sakura fly against the door, tearing the thing from its hinges and making both girl and wooden structure tumble inside the office.

“Aah! THAT Luna-san...Naruto's real mother...” Kakashi dead-panned, forced to ignore Sakura's whimpers of agony to focus on the furious Alicorn marching in his office.

“What can I do for you?” he asked curious.

“You gave to my sweet, innocent son those books...you will pay for that.” Luna answered with venom-coated voice.

“What books are we talking about?” the current Hokage asked, ready to swear the other shinobi in the Tower and even the pictures of Minato and the other previous Kages were stealthily inching away from her.

“Icha-Icha...” Luna hissed.

Yep, angry mama-bear mode. Every available ANBU and shinobi (and the Kages in the pictures as well surprisingly) choose to dive for the nearest exit instead of doing their duty, soon leaving Kakashi alone to face the full wrath of the mare.

“Ah!...those books...what about them?” the masked man said.

“I'll give you a ten-seconds-head-start, then I'll show you what I think about people trying to corrupt my baby.” Luna answered, unknown to her gaining the spectral form of Kushina hovering behind her with a similar angry expression as a form of blessing from the dead human woman (and fellow over-protective mother of the same blond).

Kakashi saw that ghost instead, and also saw what was the right choice to take in that situation to show all his abilities when faced with that fierce enemy standing in front of him.

“...KYAAAAAAAAAAAH!” with an high-pitched scream the current Hokage of Konoha jumped through the reinforced glass of his office's window to run away through the streets of the Village while shamelessly screaming his terror to the Heavens.

“COME BACK HERE, YOU MONGREL!” Luna roared as she threw herself into chasing him as a bullet of dark-blueish energy of maternal fury.

Two Hours of gratuitous violence and huge amounts of property damages later – Konoha's main square -

“Burn them!” Luna ordered to the broken Hokage standing in front of her.

“NOOOO! Please no!” Kakashi pleaded between tears, looking at the pile of his beloved Icha-icha books with horrified eyes.

“I say that you have to burn those filthy books! NOW!” the Moon Alicorn ordered as she kicked the nearest book on top of the pile of wood she had forced him to amass in front of everyone in the Village.

“I can't watch this! this is just too cruel!” Kiba muttered looking away while being consoled by Sai.

“Everything but not this! Pluck-out my eyes! Tear-off my tongue! Smash my testicles with an hammer...but don't make me to burn my books! I beg you!” Kakashi pleaded pathetically.

“Had you kept that filth to yourself this won't have happened, but you had to try and ensnare my son Maelstrom with that so called 'literature' of easy sex and tasteless pornography, now you must pay the price for your sin. BURN THEM!” Luna answered merciless.

“No...nononono! I can't!” Kakashi said in denial.

“There is no other way for you, be a man and burn those yourself, or I'll do that in your place and then force-feed you the ashes.” Luna said.

“I am sorry, my dear, precious Collector's Editions signed by the author...I have no choice, but at least it will be by my hands that this happen...I love you.” Kakashi said lighting-up the match and throwing the little thing on the pile of wood.

Soon an imposing column of fire enveloped everything, blackening every book and rapidly turning them to ashes.

“Let this be my last warning, pull off something like this again and the punishment will be even harsher. To you others, sorry for the sad spectacle, but as a mother I have a sacred duty, protect my beloved son from everyone that may wish him harm. Have a nice day.” Luna said with a little bow before disappearing in a new portal.

All that was left to do was for few Jounin to accompany the heavily sobbing wreck of their Hokage to the Hospital to recover from the traumatizing event, few of them forced more than once to drag Kakashi as his body got shocked so hard by his sobs to make it impossible for him to walk by himself as he just kept wailing in despair.

Luna's name will soon become legendary as the one that defeated the son of the 'White Fang' and Hokage of Konoha forcing him into a long stay in the hospital, fortunately for Konoha no-one ever discovering that all was about few books getting burned instead of some unseen battle; otherwise the Village's credibility would have took a crippling strike lasting until a new Hokage was elected.

End of the Omake.