Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Howx4xXD4lo

Transforming into a Monster - Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike OST

From the reaches of space, one can clearly see that Equestria was f**ked up. Not just the country, but the whole entire planet. And it was only getting worse.

In a spot, black clouds formed in the sky, covering a large patch of green.

Dark clouds shot out from underneath Discord, who was laughing up a storm. The clouds washed over everyone and the ship was forced away by the shockwave.

*cut to black*

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Discordian Troubles

Requiem cut though the darkness to see Discord hover up into the air.

*cut to black*

Final Chapter

The tubes holding both Alicorn Erys and Draconequus Eris disappeared in flashes of white and reappeared in orbit around the planet.

Discord laughed as he felt the power of darkness flow though him. “this power… Hahaha. He was right. The power of darkness is truly amazing! It feels so right and it feels so wonderful! Hahahaha!”

“He?” Jax muttered. “he who?” she asked Amelia. she just shrugged.

The dark clouds swirled around until it shrunk to where it resembled a snakes body. The only thing that remained of Discord was his upper body in place of the head.

“HAHAHAHA! The world will once again belong to the Draconequus! And you will be naught but a distant memory!”

Dark tendrils shot out of the cloud and slammed into Spike and Chrysalis.

“Spiky-Wikey!” Rarity exclaimed. A tendril shot to her but Spyro got to her in time before they hit.

“Hahahaha! Darkness & Chaos. Chaos & Darkness. Such a combination! Together, there is nothing that can stop such unbridled power. I will have to thank him once this is over!” Dash flew up to hit him from behind but was struck by a tendril. “And once this is over, I plan to take a more grown-up Eris as my bride.”

That plan made Dash furious. “There is no way you’re gonna touch Eris!”

Suddenly, her Element of Harmony appeared and blasted the tendril away.

The other Elements of Harmony suddenly appeared on their respective owners, even Mutant Pinkie’s.

Discord reacted and retreated back a bit. The Mane 6 looked at each other and smirked. “Game over, Discord!”

“haha. It’s only over when I say it is, Twilight Sparkle.” Discord’s eyes glowed yellow, same with the Pentagram on his forehead. “And it is far from over!” Darkness shot out of the clouds and struck everyone like a locomotive.

*cut to black*

Discordian Troubles

1:55. End Song.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cuSAINnARk

Chaos Vortex - Kid Icarus: Uprising OST

0:00.

The dark tendrils shot though the air like bullets out of a gun or cannonballs out of, well, cannons.

“Wind Blade!”

True to it’s name, blades made entirely out of wind shot out of Jax’s chakrams and cut though the tendrils but there were so many.

“Well… least it’s not that monster form of Catalyst’s.” Aura commented, running along the side of the tower.

Emil agreed with him as he cut though a tendril. They fought two; Chrysalis’ and Catalysts, and the earth members of the gang went up against another version long before they all showed up.

The cannons from the Orion fired automatically at the encroaching Darkness. Her leg may be out but Sora was still capable of using her bow and arrows. She took aim and fired bomb arrows into it. They penetrated and exploded.

Discord slithered on up the tower to his palace, laughing up a storm.

Satoshi, his gray brick thing now transformed into a Scythe, ran up the side of the tower and up after him. He jumped off and swung his scythe at Discord. He just retreated back and sent a tendril of darkness to slam him though the tower and out the other side.

Fenrir ran along side the tower’s rim as Cobalt flew alongside him. Both of them seemed to glow a bit.

Discord snarled as he slammed a tendril into Lloyd when a roar reach his ears. He looked to see a Chimera jumped at him and tried to bite his head off. Discord stopped him and shot him back into the palace.

“You never told us that Fenrir and Cobalt can merge into a Chimera.” Fox panted as he and Ash pulled out their guns.

“Didn’t I?” he asked as he cocked his pistols. He spun them around and fired at Discord. The shots bounced off a invisible barrier but it got Discord’s attention. 2 Tendrils shot out and 2 tendrils hit them both.

Spyro and Bahamut rammed into Discord from behind, making him stagger a moment or two. he grabbed them both and launched them into the tower.

Magic artillery from Luna and Trixie struck against the dark body, causing some damage though a roar it itself made. Discord snarled and got angry. He snapped his fingers, summoning up a replacement Nightmare Moon. Luna gasped in fear and went wide-eyed. “not again.”

Nightmare Moon roared instead of talked. It powered up a magic attack with it’s horn and shot it towards the two. It hit, causing a big explosion.

“Luna!”

“Trixie!”

Discord evilly chuckled. At least one nuisance was long gone.

2:45.

The darkness that hit the two swirled around like a galaxy before being burst open. Luna and Trixie breath a sigh of relief, glad they weren’t hurt, as something shiny and bright flew out of it and straight for Discord.

Now in full Goddess mode, Requiem is gonna give this asshole the pounding he deserves. ……. That sounded a little wrong, didn’t it?

Nightmare Moon roared and shot towards Req like a shrieking missile. Req flapped her wings and streaked though the air, Nightmare Moon in hot pursuit.

The Unicorns and Alicorns fired at Nightmare Moon but both her and Req were moving too fast to get a clear shot.

The cannons on the Orion tracked Nightmare Moon and fired. It’s shots hit the boogey-mare but it didn’t effect her. She continued after Req with blazing speed.

“Don’t you ever give up!?” Req yelled back at her. That’s when she got an idea. “Hehehe. That could work.”

Req stopped in mid air and retracted her wings. Nightmare Moon was about to nab her when Req suddenly fell into free-fall. she quickly summoned her wings and flew underneath the shadow serpent.

“What?” Discord growled. Nightmare Moon shot for the body, which Req was planning for.

The goddess burst though the other side and sank her blade right into Nightmare Moon’s chest. They flew on up into air. Nightmare Moon tried to bite Req but she binded her mouth shut.

Req spun around like a ballerina and swung her blade, sending Nightmare Moon falling to Discord.

Nexus Ultimus glowed as Req spun it around in her hands. “Take this…” she swung it down and pointed it at Nightmare Moon. “Judgment Bind!”

A beam of light shot out of the blade and struck Nightmare Moon. She roared as she was sent into Discord. Nightmare exploded, making Discord lose his focus over his darkness & chaos and fall to the ground below.

4:17. End Song.

Req landed and retracted her wings and panted. “Whoever put that Pentagram on his forehead… really knew what he was doing.” she put her blade away and panted some more as she walked back over. “this guy is a hassle.”

“it sounded like you said Judgment Bind.” Lina commented.

“I did. I only used once before. Takes a lot out of me but it’s pretty effective with distracting some tougher enemies. We should have ten minutes before he attacks us again.”

Ash reached back into his pocket and pulled out the black pearl. “which should be enough time with how to open this thing. We could use the extra oomph.”

“Okay. So… anybody got any ideas?” Cynder asked.

They all thought but they couldn’t come up with anything. Celestia couldn’t think of anything either. At least, until she looked at Riku’s weapon. “I never noticed this before but is there a reason why that sword is shaped like a key?”

“?” Riku glanced down at his Keyblade and raised it. “yeah. It can open any lock, such as doorways to the hearts of any world.”

“Any lock?” that gave Celestia an idea. “think it can open this?” she gestured to the pearl.

“hmm… maybe. Won’t really know until I give it a try.”

Riku stood at one of the palace’s edge with the Elements of Harmony. As Riku was from a foreign world, he was going to need some help when using his Keyblades power.

“let’s hope this works.” Riku muttered to the Mane 6. They nodded to him and he nodded back. He pointed his Keyblade at the pearl, which glowed and had a keyhole suddenly appear on it’s surface. The Elements of Harmony glowed and gave power to the weapon.

A beam of light shot out of the Keyblade and hit the keyhole. The sound of a door unlocking caught most of their attentions. The pearl glowed bright, bright enough to force everyone to cover their eyes. The sounds of glass shattering littered their ears for a moment.

A few minutes later, the glow stopped and everyone was able to open their eyes.

In place of the pearl, which had shattered and dissolved into a million pieces, was the unconscious form of one black Alicorn. “Cosmos!” Celestia exclaimed. She ran over to him. “Cosmos! Cosmos!”

Cosmos grunted as he woke up from what felt like a long, long nap. He opened his eyes to see a tearful but delighted Celestia right over him.

“C-Celestia…?” he hoarsely asked. “you look… different.”

Celestia smiled wide with a gasp and hugged him. “It’s you. It’s really you!” she cried once but with happy tears.

“it worked.” Riku cheered. Cosmos looked to see a human high five a mutant pony and 5 others he didn’t recognize. He looked around and saw others he didn’t recognize.

“Un… Celestia? Who are these people? And why does Luna look older?”

Celestia gave a gasping chuckle. “it’s a long story. It’s just great to have you back.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_4FvRY-eKw

Truth in Lies - Wild Arms XF Theme.

0:00.

A flash of light appeared beside Riku and the Mane 6. “Dammit! I was too late.”

“Dis!!” Cosmos exclaimed in anger. Discord snarled as the Pentagram on his forehead glowed. Cosmos got up, only to collapse again.

Req’s blade came down in front him, scaring him. “relax.” she said with a wink. “just leave this to us professionals.” she walked out a ways and pointed her blade to Discord. “You… you caused all this devastation… all this heartbreak… all because of a miss-placed kiss.”

The rest of the humans got their weapons. The Mane 6 and the Dragons also got ready for a rumble.

“there is a word for someone like you. It’s called a monster.”

Discord scoffed at her comment.

“be ready, Discord…” she swung her blade and took her battle stance. “for this is the day your reign of tyranny ends!”

She and the rest of the humans charged at him.

0:36.

Celestia helped Cosmos up. He watched the fight in confusion, wondering where the humans had come from. “Un… Celestia. Just who are these people?”

Celestia looked at him and smiled. “friends of ours. Very powerful friends that, without their help, the world would’ve fallen many times before.”

“Powerful? How powerful?”

“Very powerful.” Cadence commented as she helped Celestia.

“another Alicorn? Don’t remember seeing you before.”

Celestia rolled her eyes. “we’ll explain later, now come on.” they proceeded to take him to the Orion, which had docked with the tower a few moments ago.

Req yelled as she swung her blade down at Discord. He dodged it and struck her with a blast of chaos.

Emil slid in between Discord’s legs and kicked him in the back. The spirit grabbed Emil’s foot and swung him right into the tower.

Ash took aim and fired non-stop at the spirit. Discord quickly spun around to avoid the Mana Bolts. Discord appeared behind Ash and karate chopped him in the neck.

A arrow hit him in the shoulder. Sora drew another one and fired again. Discord caught that one and snapped it in two.

Several magic whips grabbed Discord’s legs and tripped him up. Twilight and Rarity pulled their whips, Discord along with it, and slammed him into the tower himself.

Discord shook his head and snarled. He snapped his fingers, causing the base of the tower to explode.

1:51.

The explosions spread up on the tower, eventually reaching the top. The tower crumbled and fell apart, the remnants falling to them.

The Orion’s cannons fired at the rubble as the Alicorns got Cosmos on board.

“Ugh…” Garble bit his finger, wondering how to work the controls. “How does that Satoshi guy even work this thing?”

With her eyes half-closed, Gilda walked up, grabbed the wheel, and spun it.

The Orion moved back to a safe distance as it’s cannons continued to destroy the rubble.

Satoshi jumped thought the rubble and swung his scythe at Discord. It connected with the spirits neck. Satoshi spun around and sent Discord flying down into his palace.

Spyro, Cynder, and Bahamut fired blasts of fire down into the hole Discord made. All 3 blasts went in, causing a big explosion. Discord reappeared behind the three, grabbed their horns, spun around, and sent them down into the explosion they created.

Riku, Gourry, and Zel fell from above and stabbed Discord in the back. He roared in pain as he snapped his fingers. A pair of boxing gloves appeared and knocked both of them off his back.

“Fireball!” Lina, Aura, and Amelia sent fireballs at Discord but they just bounced off. Fox fired up at Discord along with Ash but, like before, they all bounced off. Discord just shrugged them off with a invisible hand like a hand to lint.

“This… is starting to get annoying…” Aura panted.

“you think?” Bahamut moaned.

Discord laughed as the Pentagram glowed even brighter.

Jax grabbed her chakrams. “that’s it. Time for Plan B.”

3:13.

“Plan B?” Applejack asked as a glyph appeared beneath Jax. “What’s Plan B?”

“Just hold him down like we did with Chrysalis while I take him out!” Jax closed her eyes and concentrated on her spell.

Dash sighed as she lowered her head. “can’t she say anything?” she asked. Rarity and Twi just shrugged.

Discord laughed as he shot chaotic fireball after chaotic fireball at the group. “This world is mine and will always belong to the Draconequus, now and forever more!”

A magic whip shot out of Celestia’s horn and wrapped around Discord’s neck. Magic whips shot out of the other Unicorns and Alicorns, holding Discord in place. “What is this?”

“A way to make you come back to your senses, Dis!” Celestia yelled. “I’m sorry it came to this, Dis. But you left us with no choice!”

“what?”

The glow from the glyph, caught Discord’s attention.

3:43.

The glyph gained power as Jax’s spell finally began to cast.

“Oh Powers of the Infinite Mind that we can only Dream of grasping…”

Discord struggled to get loose. Req, Lina, Amelia, Zel, and Riku added their own magic into the mix, holding the bastard in place.

“Let us break the Bonds of Reality and bring back the ones with Love or separate the Good from the Evil…”

“(You deserve this! We… deserve this!)” that same voice from before said.

“Damn you.” he snarled.

“…let us dive into the stream of Time and Space and do the Impossible!”

Jax’s eyes snapped open as a white blade materialized in front of her. She spun around, grabbing it in the process, and pointed it to Discord.

“it’s time for you…”

4:09.

Jax swung the sword and charged at him. “…to face the truth!”

Discord struggled again to get loose but the whips and bind spells hand him locked tight.

Jax jumped into the air, bypassing Discord entirely.

Jax flipped upside down and landed on the bottom hull of Orion. She jumped off it and swung the blade in front of her.

Discord roared as he tried to get loose again.

“PERSONALITY SHIFT!!!”

The blade went right though Discords chest.

A blast of light shot out from the other side, covering the entire battlefield in less then a few seconds.

A shockwave shot out and quickly covered the world.

4:55. End Song.

The tubes Discord sent into the atmosphere disappeared as soon as the shockwave finished covering the entire world.

When the light dispersed, Discord was seen unconscious face-down on the palace roof with a equally tired Jax right beside him. And it wasn’t the only thing that was different.

“ha… ha… ha… whew… that’s… that’s how we get it done.” she panted as she slid down the wall and fell asleep upon reach the floor.

“Yay!” Pinkie cheered as she looked her body over. “I’m back to being a pony again!” she laughed and hugged Marble, who laughed as well. “And if I’m fine, all the other places and people effected by Discord will be undone as well.”

“Like Eris with that island.” Babs said.

“but… aren’t there supposed to be 2 Discords now? A good and a evil one?” Hiccup pointed out.

Darkness seeped out of Discord’s mouth and into the air. “not if he was possessed.” Req commented. “but still…”

Discord groaned as he woke up. “ow… my head…” he rolled over and held his head in pain when he noticed everyone standing over him, pointing weapons at her. “who… are you all?”

“What?” Req and Lloyd looked at each other for a moment before putting their weapons away. “You don’t remember us?”

Another headache hit Discord. “s-should I?” he looked around. “where are we?”

The Orion flew up and Celestia flew off. “Discord?”

“Tia! Whoa, what happened to your hair?”

Celestia looked at her hair and got confused. “It’s been like this for 1500 years.”

“1500 years?! We’ve only been alive for 17 years.”

What? That’s the word everyone was murmuring. Luna approached and curiously looked at her sister. “What… year do you think this is?”

“year? Un… 7547, right?”

Celestia and Luna looked at each other. “that was 2000 years ago. This is the year 10003.”

“what?”

Celestia realized what was going on. She chuckled. “I’m afraid your suffering from a case of amnesia, Dis.”

“Amnesia? Guess that explains your hair. So… what happened these last 2000 years?”

Everyone looked at each other and chuckled. “Un… nothing much. Just a war here, a new species there.” Luna said.

Discord raised a eyebrow in disbelief. “I can tell when your lying, Lulu.”

Celestia chuckled as she helped him up. “We’ll explain later. It’s just great to have you back, Dis.”

“Back? Was I gone somewhere?”

Hiccup and Zel looked at each other. “You… could say that.” Hiccup said.

“well, I lost.” Ventus sighed as he gave up his bits to the other Orochi personalities.

“So did you, Kyra. Pay up.” Aqua said.

“wait wait wait. I said someone was going to die. And last I checked, they have a choice to make.” she said as she sat back.

“a choice?”

Suddenly, the tubes reappeared where Discord had summoned them earlier. Both Alicorn Erys and Draconequus Eris were still in there.

“I was wondering where they went.” Req said. She summoned her wings and flew up to the tubes. A console appeared in front of her. She looked at it and gasped.

“Requiem?” Celestia asked as she and Dash walked over. “What’s wrong?”

“Um…” she looked back to them both then to the console. “we have to make a choice.”

“a choice?” Dash asked.

“remember what Discord said? She said that Eris, the Draconequus, was Erys the Alicorn. And… there can’t be two of them in existence if they’re the same person so…”

The revelation hit them both like a bag of bricks. “we have to choose between the two.” both Celestia and Dash sadly glanced at the ground, then at each other. “isn’t there anyway to get both?” Req shook her head ‘no’.

Dash flew up to the console, not wanting to believe her. Turns out she was telling the truth. There was a switch with pictures of a Draconequus and a Alicorn between the switch. A big red button was below it. That was probably to activate and confirm which one was what they wanted.

“What’s going on?” Luna asked as she and everyone else walked over.

“We have to make a choice.” Req said.

“A choice?” Aura asked.

“between Eris or Erys.”

“well, that’s simple.” Pinkie said. “go with Eris.”

“but if we do, Celestia will lose her daughter for good.” Halo said.

“But Dash already lost Eris and she likely doesn’t want to lose her again.” Scootaloo yelled. “And I don’t know about you, but I’m not keen on losing my sister again.”

Dash glanced back at the arguments then back at the console. She could get Eris back. But… Celestia would lose her daughter forever. And the same holds true vice-versa. Either way, someone’s gonna end up disappointed. She took a deep breath and sighed. “I’m sorry…” she said to herself as she flipped the switch in one direction and pressed the big red button.

Dash sat at the edge of a hill, overlooking the flower fields that she, Scootaloo, and Eris found. She looked at the flower she found on the beach back at the island for a moment before putting it back into her hair. Someone approached her from behind.

“hey there, Rainbow Dash.”

Dash looked back and smiled. “hey there, Erys.”

The maroon Alicorn filly with purple hair walked up to Dash and looked at the flowers. “pretty flowers.”

“yeah. Eris loved them.”

Erys glanced away from the flowers for a moment. “Dash… I don’t know if mom or dad told you this but I still have all the memories from when I was Eris.”

“You do?”

“Yeah. And I thank you for everything you did for me. And I’m sorry for causing all that trouble.”

Dash playfully scoffed as she ruffled Erys’ hair. “it wasn’t your fault, squirt. It was Discord’s. and besides, I don’t care if you’re my daughter or someone else’s, I still love ya squirt.”

Erys smiled and hugged Dash. “I love you too, Dash.” Dash smiled and hugged her back.

After a few moments, they broke the hug. “So… you gonna come?”

“Yeah. Just need to say goodbye.” Dash walked up to the cliff and took a deep breath. “Eris… it’s been a blast… and I’m gonna miss you.” she looked back to Erys and smirked. “You ever tell anyone this, I’ll deny it.” Erys cocked her head to the side, not sure what she was talking about. Dash turned back to the flower fields and took another deep breath.

“♪the sun goes down, the stars comes out.
And all that counts is here and now.
my Universe… will never be the same.
I’m glad you came. I’m glad you came…♪”

A single tear fell down Dash’s face but she rubbed it away.

“Dash… that was beautiful.” Erys said.

“Thanks.” she unfurled her wings and took to the air. “now come on. We’re gonna be late for the party.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cx-IONXyvw

Glad You Came by The Wanted

Erys unfurled her wings and joined up with Dash in mid-air. “Then what are we waiting for?”

Dash smirked like her normal self and Erys chuckled. “okay, squirt. Let’s see you pull this move.” Dash flew on off to Ponyville.

Erys chuckled and flew after her. For such a young filly, Erys was pretty fast and caught up to Dash. “haha. That’s nothing.” Erys joked.

Dash laughed and Erys joined in.

3 months after the final battle with Discord, the world turned back to normal. And, as you can obviously tell, Dash decided to finally let go of Eris and let Celestia have her daughter back.

After 2000 years, they were finally together again.

Cosmos and Dis heard the story of what happened these past 2000 years and couldn’t believe it. Dis dismissed it as a poppycock fairytale but the lack of Draconequus’ is certainly something to be concerned about. He’s currently looking for a way to bring them back without causing a big incident like Discord did.

Diamond and Green Board got married, much to Marble’s slight dismay. The two are planning to move to Ponyville in the coming months, saying it’s a great place to raise their coming foal. Pinkie is ecstatic for their return.

Rainbow Dash and Golden Day partially made up. He still had to make up for leaving both her and Soarin’s families but helping out with her own family is a good enough start.

Scootaloo and Manni are hanging out more, as Manni was the last family Scoots had in the world. And Scootaloo’s choice? She went with Rainbow Dash. Manni may be related by blood but she never bother to look for her. Dash is the only mother she needs and both of them couldn’t be happier. And to make matters worse, Manni is started to become infatuated with Golden Day.

Despite Orion being fixed, the humans still can’t leave until they get that part that the dragon Oscurita took.

Speaking of which, where was that guy? He wasn’t seen at all during this whole chaos fiasco. And who was the girl they met in Manehatten? Is she in league with that knight they ran into during the Winter War? That was the question of the century but nobody paid it much attention.

There were plenty of unanswered questions, like what happened to eTu`nes, who the knight is, who that girl was, or what happened to Catalyst during his and Req’s rematch. and with no way to get back to the Tome in the Afterworld or to contact Adolf, Soarin’ or Shine, they can’t transmit the information. Well, whatever the case, they’ll meet it head on.

Down in Ponyville, the Electronic Symphony club was in full swing.

All of the cast in this story gathered on the dancefloor and danced to the song that was currently playing.

Cosmos and Celestia danced close to each other, as did Luna and Trixie, and Armor and Cadence.

The humans pulled their own individual moves. Some, in Gourry’s case, being so, so embarrassing.

Erys laughed as she danced with the CMC.

Dash danced up to Shadow and grabbed his hooves, pulling him close. Scootaloo jumped onto Dash’s back and laughed. Dash exclaimed, pulled her down, and gave her a noogie.

Back at the flower fields, a single petal touched down on the cliff. The petal was picked up by a invisible hand and hovered in mid-air.

“bye, mommy. And thanks for everything…”

The petal floated off and into the air, up to the sun.

the story continues in Friends from Unexpected Places starting with chapter 'Game Night II'

Author's Notes:

well... there you go. that's the last side-story. from this point on, it's Friends from Unexpected Places. and it's not long till we reach the end of that as well.