Eris, Empress of Chaos, laughed with glee at the madness around her. A cotton candy cloud came to rest next to her. Clicking her talon, a glass appeared in it, which she held under the cloud, filling it with chocolate milk. “Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing,” she said, leaning her head back to drink.

“Not as wonderful as friendship,” a male voice she hadn’t expected to hear said.

Eris glanced ahead and saw the six stallions she’d dealt with standing before her, looking as they had before she corrupted them, each wearing their respective Element.

She rolled her eyes. “Oh, this again?” she drank the glass, leaving the chocolate milk, tossing it aside, where it exploded behind her.

Applejack nodded, the stallion placing a hoof on his Stetson. “That's right. You couldn't break apart our friendship fer long.”

Eris just leered. “Oh, Applejack, don't lie to me,” she said, her finger glowing with a yellow light, one that surrounded the orange stallion’s Element and pulled him towards her until he was hovering in front of her. “I'm the one who made you a liar.” Then she held up her claw, it glowing with a similar light, which encased the Elements of the other four of the stallions she’d corrupted in the maze, pulling them towards her until all five were floating in front of her. “Will you ever learn?”

There was a purple flash and Dusk Shine appeared within the circle of his friends, a purple bubble expanding out from his horn, taking them all out of her grasp and lowering them to the ground, where the bubble popped left small circle of un-chaos effected grass appeared.

“I'll tell you what we've learned, Eris,” he said, giving the dragonequus a firm looked as he stood with his friends, meanwhile the dragonequus put a finger to her mouth, giving a checking little smile. We've learned that friendship isn't always easy. But there's no doubt it's worth fighting for.

Eris thrust her head forward and stuck out her tongue “Ugh, gag. Fine," she righted herself, her arms folded, "go ahead, try and use your little Elements," she made quotation mark with her fingers, "frenemies. Just make it quick.” She vanished and reappeared on her throne. “I'm missing some excellent chaos here,” she finished as a group of winged pigs flew across the way behind her.

“All right, boys,” Dusk grinned, taking as stance as AJ and Elusive stood either side of him, whilst Butterscotch and Rainbow Blitz hovered above, “let's show him what friendship can do!

“Wait-wait-wait!” Berry Bubble called, causing them all to turn and watch as Berry gulped down some chocolate milk rain.

Dusk gave him an unamused frown, before Berry bounced back over and took a stance, growling at the female.

All six suddenly became enshrouded in a purple light, though Eris just yawned at this, knowing it wouldn’t work.

As she thought this, however, she sensed something she hadn’t expected, directing behind her, on her on throne. A small hole in reality, surrounded by Chaos Magic.

Now, this wouldn’t have surprised her, if it weren’t for the fact that she could sense this wasn’t her own Chaos Magic, but someone else’s.

She didn’t really get to think much more on this, before each of stallion’s Element shone, shotting beams of their colour, in their shape, flying through the air.

“Huh? What's this?” Eris said, noticing what was happening.

More and more small beams kept shooting out of the Elements.

“No,” she gasped, realizing her mistake.

The six stallions came together in an aura of purple magic as Dusk Shine’s eyes glowed with white light, before an outward explsion of a rainbow came from them, followed by a beam of rainbow light soaring into the sky, heading right for her.

“NO!!!” She couldn’t got back to stone. She’d waited too long for her revenge. Now she would be trapped within stone again, the chances of freedom coming again slim to none...

Before she remembered the hole within reality. Wherever it led, the Elements would no doubt seal it once they washed their magic over the world to rid it of what she’d done.

Well, wherever she ended up if she went through it, it couldn’t be worse than winding up in stone again.

Under the cover of the rainbow light, she slipped through the hole, leaving her own world behind.

“Hey, where’d Eris go?” Rainbow asked once everything had cleared. “Shouldn’t there be a statue right where she was when we hit her?”

Dusk looked around, suddenly worried. Rainbow was right. Eris should’ve turned to stone again and been right there. Where was she?

Later that day, after the celebration over Eris defeat, Dusk and his friends met with both Prince Solaris and Prince Artemis in Solaris’ personal chamber.

“Are you certain you hit Eris with the Elements?” Artemis asked, his short starry night-sky mane and tail billowing.

Dusk nodded. “I could see the beam hit where she was, but I don’t know what happened after that.”

“You... y-you don’t think she’s still somewhere in Equestria, do you?” Butterscotch asked nervously, his ears pressed against his head.

“If she is, we’ll just beat ’er again,” Blitz sneered, punching one hoof against the other.

Solaris shook his head, his flames of a fire-like mane, coated with reds, oranges, and yellows, billowing as he did so. “When Eris broke free of her prison, both my brother and I were able to sense her presence within the world. That is something she could not hide.”

Applejack raised an eyebrow. “An’ what do ya mean by that, yer highness.”

“Neither I, nor my brother, have been able to sense her since the explosion that cured Equestria of her Chaos Magic.”

All six stallions and the dragoness’ eyes widened as they looked to Prince Artemis, who nodded solemnly to confirm what his brother had said was true.

“B-but... where could she have gone?!” Dusk demanded, shaking his head. “Are you saying Eris went into another dimension?”

Solaris nodded, his expression of deep sadness. “My creator have mercy on their souls.”

The anthropomorphic ponies and dragon in the cage watched, wide-eyed and in horror as Tirek sucked Discord’s Chaos Magic right out of him, before letting the now magicless dragonequus drop to the ground.

As the centaur turned and started to walk away, Discord struggled to push himself up, breathing heavily with exhaustion. “But you said this was a sign of your gratitude and loyalty,” he managed weakly, holding up the pendant Tirek had given him back at Canterlot Castle. “A gift from someone close to you.

Tirek stopped. “My brother who betrayed me,” he turned to look back at Discord over his shoulder. “It is as worthless as he is.

With that he walked off, intent on confront Princess Twilight to take her Alicorn magic, not yet knowing she possessed the magic of all four Alicorns.

“Surely you saw this comin’?” Applejack asked, her hands clasped on the bars.

Discord looked back, his expression one of sorrow, before looking up at the sky, taking the pendant in his lion paw. “I didn't. I truly didn't.

They all remained there, watching until Tirek was out of sight. Then as they heard and saw the battle between Twilight and Tirek.

“Gotta admit,” Rainbow said as she watched Tirek get slammed to the ground by a blast of Twilight’s magic, “Twilight’s pretty badass.”

After a particularly large explosion of magic, they all suddenly vanished, leaving the area empty.

A pair of red and yellow eyes appeared in the air where Discord had hang in Tirek’s magic, a grin appearing underneath it. “Ooh-ho-ho. This is going to be fun,” a feminine voice sneered.

Author's Notes:

And here's the first chapter of a story that i thought up on the third of July that's been nagging in the back of my head til i get at least a bit of it out.

This one's going to be a lot darker in some ways than what i usually write, so bear with me on that.

So, just what will Eris do now she's in Twilight's world. What does she have planned for the princesses and the Bearers? Will she try to convince Discord to betray his friends again, or leave him to share their fates?

Hope you liked this and, til next time, later everypony