My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 17

The Tome

Discord appeared in the skies above Manehatten with a hateful snarl.

“damn. This could be a problem.” he muttered to himself. “I never knew that that girl could have that frightening a power inside her. And by the sounds of it, nobody did. And to top it off, I got Eris going crazy.” he was so busy talking to himself that he didn’t notice a quick spiral flame of darkness appeared behind him and someone float out. “this is not working out like I planned.” he bit his finger in worry as his eyes darted back and forth. “I know. I’ll leave the planet.” he snapped his fingers and summoned up a suitcase. “yeah. Yeah, I’ll go to another planet and start up the Draconequus’ there. That’s better then hanging around here.”

“how sad.” a deep and booming voice said. Discord screeched to a halt in mid pack and looked back. “the great and might Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony is afraid of a little human girl.” a human with some very weird hair said.

“exactly who are you?” Discord asked.

The human chuckled with a different voice; this time feminine. “someone who’s going to make you a lot more powerful.”

“and to be frank, we’re so sad you don’t remember us. Especially after all we’ve been though.” a calm, cool, and collected voice said.

“but if you are curious, our collected name…” a dark orb appeared in his hands. “… is Orochi.”

Req fell onto her back and sighed deeply. She had been casting cure on everyone from their fight with Catalyst non-stop for the past half-hour and she was dirt-poor tired.

Aura picked her up and put her on his back. “thanks, Aura.” she weakly said before falling asleep.

Lloyd winced as he rubbed his leg. “damn, that guy was tough!” he groaned. “exactly how were you able to beat him?” he asked the earth-based members of their group.

“a whole lot of luck.” Jax replied, pressing his right arm into it’s socket until it cracked. “ah, that’s better.” she sighed. She moved it around, making sure it was in place. “how did we beat him this time?”

Everyone shrugged. They had no idea how. “I think Req knows…” Aura looked back to her sleeping form on her back. “but she’s out cold right now.”

Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Armor, and Chrysalis knows what happened. They saw every horrid detail of what Requiem did to Catalyst. They’re so horrified, they didn’t want to say what they saw. And I wasn’t able to write it; It was that disturbing. They knew Req wouldn’t normally do something like that but… for her to snap like that but not remember… they’re now very, very afraid of her.

“so…” Applejack sighed with a yawn. “we got another flight of stairs to go up.”

“but it looks like it’s a short one. Compared to the others.” Emil said as he started up the stairs.

Ash started when he looked back at the armored behemoth that was cut in two back before Catalyst revealed himself to everyone. Something about it felt… familiar. “eh. It’ll come to me.” he muttered as he started up.

“oh, that’s right.” Trixie used her magic to summon up the box with the Alicorn Amulet. “I got this for you in Manehatten.” she opened it up and revealed it to Luna.

“what is it?” she asked.

Trixie pulled it out and showed it to her. “some kind of amulet I found in a thrift store.” Trixie remembered how much she paid for it and chuckled nervously. “you might get a check for a few hundred bits in the next couple of days.”

“What?”

“it was really cute and I thought it would make a perfect gift for you.”

“Trixie…” Luna chuckled and kissed her on the forehead. “you don’t need to give me a gift. Just being with you is good enough.” Trixie smiled and nuzzled her. “plus, where would I put it? All this jewelry has to be kept on for us to retain our regal and glorious looks.”

Trixie didn’t buy that for a second. “Luna…”

“it’s true. Just ask Tia.”

Trixie sighed. “well… guess it would make a good gift to one of the kids; considering he or she is a Unicorn or Alicorn. I hear this thing is to amplify powers. And I think that part is true.”

The gang neared the top of the palace, something that had taken them a combined 10 hours to do, and were ready to finally leave this place. Req woke up half-way up; still not remembering what had happened to make Catalyst go bye-bye.

Ash, however, was still thinking about that armored monster when he finally placed where he remembered it from. “oh, crap.”

“what?” Sora asked.

“you know that armored thing that Catalyst chopped in half and threw towards us?”

“Yeah? What of it?”

“I just remembered when it was from. It was a Hunter from Halo.”

“a Hunter?” Aura and Bahamut repeated. The gang reached the second to last veranda when they said… “Don’t those things usually work in pairs?”

Ash forgot about that. “uh-oh…”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myb0gwAjYZs

Hunter - Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Unofficial OST
(what unofficial means in this case is that it’s ripped from the thing. So… you have sound effects. In this case, it helps.)

Sure enough, their fears were realized when a Hunter approached them and growled.

“That ain’t good.” Fox gulped.

The Hunter snarled and powered up it’s fuel rod cannon.

“Move!” Zel yelled. The Hunter fired it’s cannon into the center of the group, making a green explosion that sent everyone in different directions.

Gourry quickly drew his sword of light as the Hunter powered up it’s cannon again.

Ash quickly got up, pulled out one of it’s pistols, cocked back the hammer, and proceeded to fire at the alien, making it angry.

Gourry charged at the Hunter, much to the alien’s amusement. Gourry jumped at the beasty but the Hunter smacked him with his shield, sending him crashing into Chrysalis. The Hunter powered up it’s cannon again and decided to overload it.

“This is getting us nowhere.” Sora yelled.

Aura drew his lance and charged at the monster. The Hunter snarled and aimed it’s cannon at her. Aura jumped over it, getting the attention of the Hunter just as it fired it’s cannon. It hit Sora’s position, causing a green explosion.

The lancer landed on the Hunter’s back and powered up his lance with fire. He stuck it in it‘s back, causing fire to spread all throughout the Hunter.

The smoldering behemoth fell over and died from it’s burns.

End Song.

Aura sighed and pulled his lance out. “that wasn’t that bad.” he joked. Sora screaming ‘bloody murder’ said otherwise.

“AHH! MY LEG!” she yelled, holding her messed up leg. The Hunter’s attack hit her there, causing it to become horrible mangled, burned, and twisted. It was so bad, that a few of the gang, one of them being the toughest in the gang, to throw up.

Aura rounded round, saw the leg, and gagged. “my god.” he gagged again and felt a little bile in his mouth.

“it hurts!” Sora yelled, trying to hold back tears.

“I could imagine!” Gilda exclaimed. “your leg is messed up.”

“thanks for pointing out the obvious!” Sora snapped. She whimpered as she hit the part of the thigh that wasn’t messed up. “can’t you cast cure or something?” she asked Req.

“I’m only good for wounds and broken bones. When it’s something as bad as this, I tend to falter. The only one who could possible fix this is Uriel or Gabrille but they’re back at Luna.”

“beg pardon?” Princess Luna asked.

“what? Oh, oh. No no. Luna’s what we call our moon.” Req explained. “and I mean it. Gabs or Uriel could do something like this in their sleep.” A.J. was about to ask a question and Req already knew that. “and I know. I may be a Goddess but I’m still getting in touch with my powers. Those spells you saw me pull; Seraphim Blade, Judgment Ray, Angel Feathers, Cure- those are all I know. And the level you intensity you see them as are all I can muster.”

The princess’ and Twilight looked at each other. They know that’s not true.

Adolf snapped his fingers, remembering something that could help. “I can tell Gabs or Uriel if they come by.” he suggested.

“they come by?” Ash asked.

“Periodically. But when they do come, I’ll tell them that Sora is horribly mutilated and tell them you’re on Equestria. But… for now…” Sora yelled in pain. Adolf winced. “I’m afraid that you’re gonna have to wince your way though it.”

“WHAT!?!” Sora yelled. “You have no idea how much this hurts! AH! Nothing hurts this bad.”

Cadence scoffed and crossed her front legs. “Really? Cause I can think of one thing that hurts worse.”

“Not now!” Sora growled.

During this time, Ash was tinkering with one of his pistols, putting in a combination into the jewels encrusted on the handle. It took and the jewels momentarily glowed. He spun the gun and pointed it at Sora’s leg. He fired, hitting the leg square in the center.

“What was that for?” Dash yelled.

“wait for it.” he said.

“Wait for what!?” Sora yelled. “For you to add mo--” she stopped yelling as she felt the pain recede. “oh. The pain’s gone.”

“how did he…” Manni muttered.

Ash spun the pistol and gave it to Sora. “just fire every time the pain hits again and you should be fine.”

“t-thanks.” Sora replied with a slight blush. He was really looking out for her. Outside the bedroom. Guess he really does care.

Ash helped her up and put her on his back. “Come on. We got a tome to get to.” he walked up the last flight up stairs as everyone watched on.

“they make such a cute couple.” Amelia commented.

“Like Req and Aura, huh?” Riku chuckled.

Everyone walked up after them. Everyone but Jax, that is. “Ash… is mine!” she snarled to herself. “and it’s gonna be a cold day in hell when my sister gets him instead of me!”

The gang walked up the last flight, growing hopeful with each step. Each step is one more closer to home and the friends they left back on Equestria.

During the climb up, Twi couldn’t help but ask her mentor. “Celestia?”

“?”

“why didn’t you tell us that Cosmos was Discord?”

Celestia gasped and stopped. “sister?” Luna asked.

“how did you find out?”

“there’s a pool in the town we came from…” Soarin’ started. “with the ability to show us events and people happening right now. We just said Cosmos’ name and Discord’s image popped up.”

“why didn’t you tell us?” Twi asked again. Celestia looked away from her, not wanting to answer the question. “Princess?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” she said. “I just… don’t want to.”

The ponies looked at each other with concerned expressions but they didn’t go any further. If she didn’t want to say, she didn’t want to say.

Jax, however, got a idea. There’s more then one way to get info.

After a half-hour of climbing, they reached the top floor. And the tome. Everyone whistled when they saw what it was.

A giant, shiny, green sphere hovered in mid-air with a deep drone whispered out of it.

“This is the tome?” Hiccup commented. “Funny. I expected it to look like a book.” some of the others nodded and murmured in agreement.

Twi’s pupils went wide when she saw the intellectual treasure trove in front of them. “this contains all the knowledge in the universe and is getting more every single second. Just one hour alone with this would make one the wisest person on their planet. Can you imagine what a lifetime of studying would do?”

“Focus Twi.” Halo said. “we’re here to find a way home. You can have fun with this after you die.”

“I know. I know.”

Fox scratched his chin as he looked at it. “so… how do we do this? Do we ask all formal like, with the ‘thee and thy and thou’ crap or just flat out ask?”

“one way to find out.” Jax said. She walked up to it and it lightly shone. Req and Chrysalis whistled. “let’s see… how do I word this…?” Jax muttered.

Celestia said, “just ask it how we can get home from this Afterworld.”

“right. I know.” Jax turned back to the sphere and pondered on how to word it. “um… oh great and powerful tome…”

“hey. That’s copyrighted.” Trixie said. Armor sighed and bonked her on the head.

Jax rolled her eyes. “oh great and powerful tome… reveal to us…” she glanced back to Celestia. “… the entire history between Celestia and Discord.”

“What!?!” Celestia exclaimed.

The sphere glowed bright as it fulfilled her wish. It shone so bright, everyone had to cover their eyes.

Author's Notes:

oh, great. i could never keep track of origin stories. everyone, take notes. this is gonna be complicated.