Pinkie Pie crouches next to Pinprick when he stops and kneels by the corner of a brick building that has PIER ONE MANAGEMENT painted on it. Applejack and Rarity come up behind Pinkie Pie, as well, and while Rarity inches closer to their appointed leader, Applejack checks her gauntlets.

“What do you see?” asks Pinkie Pie.

“I see our target, plus a small female with poor fashion sense and a middle aged man in a midlife crisis,” says Pinprick.

“Really?”

Pinkie Pie climbs on top of Pinprick and leans out, seeing twins, the girl from the bus, and Discord chatting in front of an SUV with his cane in his hand while a dozen other SUVs drive off, leaving shipping containers open.

“Hey, its that girl from the bus! I knew there was something wrong with her,” says Pinkie Pie.

“Really?” says Rarity. She slides next to Pinprick and peeks out, as well. “So it is. Her fashion sense is as terrible as her sense in people.”

“Say what?” says Applejack. She pushes Rarity down and uses her body as a prop and Pinprick's shoulder for stability as she looks around the corner, ignoring her teammate's annoyed growl as she stares at the petite girl. “Huh, small world.”

“Why is she with Discord?” asks Pinkie Pie.

“It would only be logical to assume that she is a criminal as well as that Discord person,” says Pinprick. “The twins from what I have gathered are Flim and Flam Sham, suspected of fraud and a dozen cases of murder, but with no solid evidence to prosecute them. Discord has an impressive criminal record and hefty bounty on his head, so maybe if we can capture him and his group we can obtain a cash reward and buy Trixie some much needed chill pills.”

Applejack glares at him. “Trixie is in the hospital and you make that comment?”

Pinprick returns the look. “I do not like her.”

Pinkie Pie smacks both of their heads, but when she slaps Pinprick her hand instantly throbs and she pulls back, seething and holding her red hand while sitting on his shoulder.

“Ahhh-wwwww-ah, what the heck, Pinprick? Do you have a metal skull?” says Pinkie Pie.

“Yes,” says Pinprick bluntly. “It is very expensive.”

“Oh...” Pinkie Pie slides off of Pinprick and pulls the hammer off of the scabbard on her back and elongates the handle. With a quick twirl she has her hammer held tight in her hands and she starts marching towards the group of criminals. “Well, we've sat here long enough. Let's get those creeps!”

The other three follow her out from cover, and while Pinkie Pie marches her eyes keep a lock on the twins. Specifically the one with the mustache, and one of her hands tighten on her weapon as her jaw sets, and the other scratches her hair before taking of her weapon once more. It does not take them long to reach the distracted group, but when they do, the group of criminals stare at her and her team, speechless and perplexed, with the twin without the mustache eyeing the girls, especially Applejack.

Applejack returns his look with a scowl and cracks her knuckles, and he raises an eyebrow, and as this happens the petite girl from the bus sizes up Rarity. Then she tuts and shakes her head.

“So normal,” condemns the girl.

Rarity narrows her eyes at her, and Pinkie Pie and Pinprick focus on Discord, who is now laughing and leaning against the SUV while opening a bottle of chocolate milk.

“Wow, call me insane, but I think we have met before,” says Discord, looking at Pinkie Pie. “You're the one that made a big mess in your town and had to get saved by Lulu.”

“Yeah, I blew up the store stopping you and your crooked friends,” says Pinkie Pie. “And now me and my friends are going to stop you from whatever it is your doing while kicking your cans to next week for what you did to Trixie!”

“And what exactly are you going to stop?” asks Discord. “We already got everything we need, and we're just talking. If you wanted to interrupt our bonding time then you absolutely succeeded at that.”

Pinkie Pie looks at the containers and realizes that they are all empty, and she looks at Discord, jaw to the ground.

“Well, we came mostly to kick your butts for what you did to Trixie,” says Pinkie Pie.

“I didn't do anything to whoever this Trixie is, though,” says Discord. He looks at the petite girl. “Topsy, did you hurt Trixie?”

“I didn't hurt anybody today, daddy,” says Topsy.

“How about you, Flim?” says Discord.

“No,” says the one without the mustache, still eyeballing Applejack. “Am I the only one concerned about how big she is?”

“Yes you are,” says Discord. “How about you, Flam?”

“'Yes, I shot her and it was fun,” says the one with the mustache.

“What!?” yells Applejack.

Her eyes flash and a burst of orange aura erupts around her as she slides into a battle stance with her gauntlets humming and charging, and Discord sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose.

“Great. Topsy, get the goods out of here before they are ruined,” says Discord.

Topsy nods and heads towards the SUV with Flim and Flam following close behind, but a shotgun blast echoes and flaming chunks of concrete erupt in front of the trio. The crooks stop and turn, and Pinkie and Rarity look at Applejack, who has her smoking gauntlet aimed at the three with a fire in her eyes and an ominous glow radiating from her barrels.

“Y'all ain't going anywhere,” says Applejack.

“Is that so?” says Flim.

Applejack cocks her other gauntlet. “Yeah.”

Flam shakes his head, chuckling as he activates his weapon. “This has been one bizarre night, brother. How are we going to solve this one?”

“Simple. Me, you and Topsy-”

Tires suddenly screech and the Twins as well as Discord, Pinprick and Team PART(ie) look at the source and see the SUV speeding away with a trail of burnt rubber and exhaust in its wake. The vehicle swerves around the corner, nearly flipping in the process, and continues driving out of sight. Seconds later, when the noise is really starting to fade, the Twins and Discord look at Team PART(ie) and Pinprick, and the team of students and Pinprick make eye contact with the gang of thugs.

“Well, so much for that,” says Flim.

“Bah, we can take them,” says Flam.

“I doubt it,” remarks Pinprick.

“Yeah, we're going to kick your butts straight to the moon!” says Pinkie Pie. She flips a switch on her hammer and it glows blue and hums, illuminating the vicious grin spreading on her face. “Which one of you wants to suffer first?”

The Twins point at Discord in unison and Discord coolly glances at them while chugging the last of chocolate milk. After finishing, he burps, wipes his mouth and tosses the bottle away.

“All right, this old man will volunteer as tribute,” says Discord. “Even though you two ruined my night.”

“Our fight ain't with you!” snaps Applejack. She points at Flim and Flam. “They're the ones that need to be sent to Hell!”

Discord scoffs, twirls his cane and rests it on his shoulder. “Hey, country patch, I got news for you. We're already in Hell. But feel free to drag those two farther down with you.”

Flim and Flam balk at Discord, and Applejack narrows her eyes while Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Pinprick prepare themselves. Rarity sprouts her blades and a glow appears in Pinprick's hand, and from that glow comes crystals which form into a curved bow, and he takes the appropriate archers stance with an arrow materializing in his other hand. During this, Pinkie Pie's hammer is glowing bright and sparking, and Discord giggles and beckons them with two fingers.

“Your move,” he says.

It is then that Pinkie Pie hears a snap, and out of the corner of her eye she sees Applejack charging Flim and Flam, leaving a pair of indents in the ground. And just as fast as a blink, Pinprick shoots an arrow and Pinkie Pie launches a blue ball at Discord.

In a blur of movement, Discord rolls underneath the arrow and uses his cane to bat the energy ball away. The ball explodes against the side of a crane, sending twisted metal flying and bouncing across the ground. The metal groans and snaps as the crane topples over, and when it crashes into a building debris is launched into the sky and its windows are blown out, covering the pavement in shards of broken glass, brick, metal roofing and wood. Discord then looks up, grinning from ear to ear while still in the kneeling position with his cane out theatrically.

“You're making messes again,” says Discord.

Pinkie Pie's eye twitches, and with rising blood temperature and a vicious yell, she charges Discord with Rarity and Pinprick in close pursuit. She swings the hammer against his head, but he rolls out of the way, leading her to smash the pavement. A shock wave erupts and splinters of asphalt and under-layer pop up around her. The impact brings both of her feet in the air and Discord kicks her in the side.

Pinkie Pie flies away with her hammer still in the ground and side throbbing as her aura shield flickers. When she hits the ground, it cracks, and as she rolls and skids, shards fall and flicker away. She only stops when her back hits a stack of wooden crates, breaking the first and being covered by the rest. And there she lays, twitching and body throbbing and burning from the dozens of scratches that have ripped her skin and clothing.

“Ow...” winces Pinkie Pie.

An explosion shakes the ground, and Pinkie Pie winces and pushes the broken planks of wood aside to witness a ball of fire and a mutilated forklift rolling into the sky with Applejack marching towards one of the twins. Said twin is crawling on the ground towards his pistol, and Applejack pays no mind when the vehicle falls on its nose next to her, crunching it like an accordion. Applejack then hoists the twin up by his shirts, tosses him in the air and punches him with with a ring of fire bursting from her gauntlets. The twin flies away with a whistle, arcs over the building and disappears somewhere in the waters with a distant splash.

“Yeah, she's got that,” says Pinkie Pie.

She stands up, hissing painfully and grabbing her side while clutching a crate for support, and she looks towards Pinprick and Rarity.

Rarity has just been kicked away and Pinprick is pushing himself up from a small crater in the ground. Pinkie Pie's aura then crackles and a shell shimmers around her, allowing her collection of small injuries to heal, and she cracks her back and airs out her fingers before charging Discord again.

She grabs her hammer along the way, and when she reaches him she yells and swings at him, but he leans back so all she gets is air. She takes another swing, which he easily dodges, causing her to destroy the ground, and after she tries yet again to him, Discord grabs her hammer's handle and spins her around, cackling madly as she shrieks. Everything becomes a blur and when she hits Rarity, her hands release the hammer and the two girls fall in a tangled pile as they bounce and roll over each other.

The world spins fast and after Pinkie Pie untangles herself from Rarity she tries standing, but with the ground shifting, all she is able to accomplish is falling on her hands and knees.

“What's the matter? Got two left feet?” taunts Discord.

He kicks Pinkie Pie in the ribs, and she falls flat on the ground, groaning and clutching her side. Rarity, meanwhile, rolls into her ball and zooms towards Discord.

The madman grabs her and grunts as he is pushed back. His feet dig into the ground and his gloves smoke, but he still grins. Even when Pinprick's arrows explode uselessly against him.

“Stop it, that tickles!” laughs Discord.

Another arrow explodes against him, and he brings one foot up and fires off a red beam at Pinprick. The beam narrowly misses him thanks to him rolling out of the way, but it does reduces a pile of crates to flaming splinters.

As this happens, Discord's gloves and sleeves shred, and Rarity unrolls from her ball, kicks him in the face, and as he stumbles back, she back flips to her feet and tries stabbing him. However, he turns his body to the side, grabs her wrist and elbows her in the gut. Rarity gasps and keels over with no air in her, and she is elbowed on the back her shoulder with a loud crack.

The aura shield shatters and Rarity cries out in pain as she falls at Discord's feet with shards of her aura flickering away. She is then kicked away and hits a lamp post, falling limp, and Discord cheers and fists pumps.

“Yes! Lamp in one!” says Discord.

“Rarity!” yells Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie roars and charges Discord again, her teary eyes bright like blue flame and teeth gritted like a rabid wolf. Her hammer leaves streaks of blue and strong gusts of wind as she swings wildly, but Discord's moves are too fluid, too precise for her to hit him. Every strike is a miss or a block from his cane, and his demented smile makes it worse.

“Is this what Celestia calls Hunters now? Pathetic,” says Discord.

Pinkie Pie yells viciously and swings low at his legs, which he has the audacity to jump on and squat as if it is a chair, and he grins and bats his lashes at her flirtatiously while she struggles to keep it held up.

“Oh, why can't I be younger? You're cute when you're mad,” says Discord.

“Get off my hammer!” says Pinkie Pie.

She twists her hammer and Discord rolls off, only to be struck by a trio of arrows that explode against him. When the haze clears, he is brushing himself off and looking at Pinprick with absolute boredom.

“You know your arrows are doing absolutely nothing to me, right?” says Discord.

Pinprick's eyes zero in on Discord and he readies another arrow, but this one glows brighter and crackles with energy.

“We'll see about that,” says Pinprick.

Using this moment as a distraction, Pinkie Pie screams and swings her hammer against Discord, creating a sonic boom, a spiderweb of cracks and a cloud of dust that engulfs the two. When the smoke settles, Pinkie Pie is panting and sweating, and her body feels like it is made of wet noodles. But her tired eyes widen to disbelief and tears trail out when she sees Discord holding her hammer's head, tutting at her. Then Pinprick shoots a large, sparking energy arrow at Discord, which he easily catches.

“Thanks!” chirps Discord, grinning at Pinprick.

Discord then throws Pinkie Pie's hammer aside, grabs her shoulder and stabs her through the gut with it, piercing through her aura shield and body with one strike. She gasps and chokes, and her feet dangle helplessly as drops of red patter and spread underneath her. Her hands grip his wrist and blood pools in her throat, with some trickling past her lips.

Everything begins fading into darkness, but she hears Rarity's scream echo and when she is tossed away time crawls for her. The fall is slow, the screams are slow, and Pinprick and Rarity's charge is like watching people run under water. When she hits the ground next to her hammer she does not feel anything and barely hears the thud of her impact.

Pinkie Pie gasps for air and clutches her gut as she turns on her side. Tears and sweat wet her face and she tries to blink away the darkness and haze so she can see Rarity and Pinprick fight Discord. Rarity slashes at him with her one bladed gauntlet with blind fury being her guide while her other arm hangs limp, and Pinprick is swinging at him with a crystal saber. The blades are moving so fast that they are blurs, but so is Discord's cane and his limbs as he weaves past or blocks the attacks.

After dodging one of Pinprick's attacks. Discord swings his cane again the man's cheek. There is a crack and Pinprick's head snaps to the side at an unnatural angle. He twirls to the ground and lays flat on his face, and Pinkie Pie's mouth opens for a scream, but she cannot tell if she is screaming or not.

Discord then smiles at Rarity, and he spins his cane as he approaches her with slow, heavy steps.

“It is just you and me, now, precious gem,” says Discord. He cocks his head quizzically and wags a finger at her, still smiling. “You actually look quite familiar. You wouldn't happen to be a Belle, would you?”

“Leave her alone!” Pinkie Pie's aura crackles weakly and she grinds her bloody teeth as she grabs her hammer and pulls herself to her knees, panting with sweat dripping off her nose. “I'm warning you!”

Discord waves dismissively at Pinkie Pie. “Stay down and bleed to death in peace, would you?”

A distant chain of pops echo and Pinkie Pie sees out of the corner of her eye Applejack diving for cover while the remaining twin advances on her, wielding a small Gatling gun with an energy pack on his back. The stream of energy projectiles chew up the pavement and reduce everything in its path into glowing, jagged remains, forcing Applejack to seek more cover.

Pinkie Pie whimpers and looks between Applejack and Rarity, heart heavy and slow and her blood soaked hands weak and sweaty.

“Yes, you are a Belle! You are Hondo Belle's prized gem, Rarity,” says Discord. “I thought I recognized that pretty face of yours.”

Pinkie Pie grunts painfully and her wounded gut burns in protest as she flexes her muscles to lift her hammer. During this, Applejack tries taking pot shots at the remaining twin, and Rarity growls and swings her blade at Discord. He turns his body slightly and with no regards to pain he grabs the blade and pulls her close so their bodies are touching and she is forced to look up to his psychotic face.

“Such a shame that Celestia and the rest of those lunatics recruit such lovely bodies for their war on reality,” says Discord. Rarity tries to pull away, but he grabs her chin and keeps her eyes on his and tightens the grip on her wrist, shattering her energy blade and making her cry out in pain as bones snap underneath him. “But they don't want the truth. People like Fuastsends, Belles, Bluebloods, Riches, they want to keep reality away from everybody, but that is where I come in!”

As Discord talks, Pinkie Pie sits crosslegged, barely able to keep her body up, and her trembling finger presses the appropriate button to transform her hammer into its cannon.

“I am an agent of reality, and this agent is going tear down your precious walls!” says Discord.

Rarity kicks Discord away and yanks her wrist away from his grip. She then sprouts another blade and stabs his chest, only for the blade to shatter and for ripples of red, green and blue warp to his figure for mere seconds. Seeing this, Rarity gasps and steps back with her eyes wide with tears pooling and pupils shaking, and Discord snickers and holds out his palm. There is a burst of translucent red, green and blue waves and Rarity is blasted off of her feet. She lands on her back, bounces, rolls and skids for dozens of more feet before coming to a stop with her face laying in the pavement and a trail of aura shards disappearing.

Rarity groans and presses her hands into the ground so she can left her head, and she looks at Discord as he approaches her, pale and shaking with blood coating her hair and covering her face. And for Pinkie Pie, she is muttering banging her fist on her hammer, urging for its blue glow to brighten while Applejack dives for cover behind a metal shipping container to avoid the continue onslaught of endless ammo from the twin's weapon.

Pinkie Pie's breathing is now ragged wheezes, and her chest and eyes hurt from her crying, and her neck and back does not feel too good, either, from her constant switching between Rarity and Applejack.

“Come on, hurry up hurry up hurry up,” begs Pinkie Pie. She then bangs her fist hard on her battery and screams at the top of her lungs. “Come on, you stupid thing, hurry!”

Rarity is now pulling herself backwards as Discord towers above her, his eyes pulsating and his grin impossibly large. In a flash, he has Rarity by her throat and has her hoisted up so her legs are dangling, and her chokes and desperate clawing at his hand and wrists do nothing to faze him.

“But I have talked so much and now it is time for you to talk, so here's a question for you. Have you or any other Belle's ever been inside a burning airship?” says Discord. “It's quite fun!”

Pinkie Pie's hammer dings, and she growls in pain through her teeth as she turns her body to the remaining twin and shoots a blue ball at him. He barely turns his head before the projectile explodes against him and blasts him into the nearby building. Dust and broken brick explode outward in a cloud and Pinkie Pie spins up to her feet and aims her cannon at Discord, keeping her stance as steady as her buckling knees, sweaty hands and failing vision will allow.

“Put her down!” orders Pinkie Pie.

Discord looks at Pinkie Pie with a raised brow, and she steps forwards, eyes bright blue, breathing labored, and her shaky steps heavy.

“I said, put her down!” says Pinkie Pie.

“I heard you the first time,” says Discord flatly. “But need I remind you that last time you tried shooting me it really didn't work very well for you or the crane?”

“I can try again.”

Discord wags his finger. “No, no-no, you either do or you do not. There is no try.”

Pinkie Pie's heart skips a beat. “What?”

Without saying a word, Discord forms a finger gun, and from it comes a red beam that punctures Pinkie Pie's abdomen and blows a hole in a dumpster behind her.

“That is doing,” says Discord after blowing the smoke away from his finger tips.

Pinkie Pie gasps, drops her weapon, and falls to her knees, her arms hanging limp at her sides. She chokes and tries to stay up, but her body swings back and forth and eventually she falls face first into the pavement. Pinkie Pie's teary eyes stay open just long enough for her to see Discord slam Rarity into the ground and for him to grab a pair of dumpsters with blue energy and slam them into Applejack when she runs towards him.

Then Pinkie Pie blacks out.

And stops breathing.