My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 9

From Worse to Terrifying

The golden robot known as Koloktos exploded into pieces that evaporated before hitting the city. Orion quickly flew away from the explosion and over the mountains separating Manehatten- and Equestria -from the Dragon’s homeland known simply as the Badlands.

“Well that was an explosive way to leave.” Shadow said.

“Discord must know we’re coming for him.” Req suggested. “otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent that.”

“Which means we can expect a lot of trouble in the Badlands.” Aura said.

“yeah.” the humans sighed.

“I just hope Pinkie and Marble will be okay.” Fluttershy said, looking back. “We left them back in Manehatten quite suddenly.”

“we had no choice.” Sora said. “it was either leave them there or risk losing the city. Besides, they can take care of themselves. Isn’t Pinkie a Element of Harmony?”

“good point.” Riku said.

Spike sighed and turned to their guide. “okay, Garble. How much do you want for helping us?”

Garble jumped onto a railing and thought about it. “hmm…. About 200 bits.”

“200 bits!? Spike and Rarity exclaimed.

“a hour.”

“A HOUR!?!” all the ponies exclaimed.

“Are you kidding us?” Dash exclaimed. “you’re gonna drive us into bankruptcy.”

Garble chuckled. “Sorry, but that’s my price. Besides, I’m sure royalty…” he looked to Trixie. “… can surely pay the price.”

“you have got to be joking.” Trixie and Twilight said in unison.

“nope.” Garble chuckled. “that’s my price. And last I checked, you agreed to it.”

“that was before we knew the price!” Applejack exclaimed. “and because we were in quite a rush. Remember the giant robot?”

“I remember. But I stand by my price. Either you agree to pay up or else I’m jumping ship.”

Ash and Fox gutturally growled at each other. This was highway robbery but they needed a guide. “*sigh* deal.” Ash said.

“Ash!” the humans exclaimed.

“we either go around wandering the Badlands and just wait for the end of the world or we have a someone show us where to go.”

“t-t-that’s something I want to know.” Zilver said. “why do we need a guide into the Badlands, anyway? Why not just look for large places that could house a bad guy?”

The ship passed over the mountains and the expanded splendor of the Badlands opened up to them. “That’s why.” Lina droned.

A single red hazy cloud stretched all over the Badlands, covering the entire land. Nothing, not even the tallest mesa, could break though the red cloud.

“That’s why we call it the Badlands.” Garble said. “the entire place is covered by one big red cloud that hasn’t disappeared or showed any signs of disappearing in 2000 years. And under that cloud, there’s a whole lot of mountains, mesa’s, pillars; basically anything that would give this ship a hard time.”

“…oh…” Zil droned. “that… would do it…”

Satoshi leaned on a console and sighed. “down into the clouds?”

“down into the clouds.” Garble instantly replied. Satoshi sighed, not wanting to get the ship wounded again; with what Oscurita did to it. But, they had a world to save.

Orion droned down from the sky and into the low clouds that covered the ground from 150 feet above. It broke into a section, causing the cloud to quickly engulf it.

“They left us!” Marble angrily exclaimed. “I can’t believe they left us!” he angrily kicked a basketball into a wall. It bounced off and hit him in the head but he wasn’t fazed a bit.

“well, they were in a hurry. Remember the robot?” Pinkie asked.

“yeah. I remember. They still could’ve tried to come get us, though.”

“I don’t think they had time.” Diamond suggested.

Marble moaned and sat down. “a little warning could’ve been nice.”

Pinkie and Diamond groaned in unison. Suddenly, Pinkie’s entire body began shaking. Violently. “Pinkie?” Diamond nervously asked.

Marble looked back and nervously exclaimed. “uh-oh.” Marble gulped. “Pinkie Sense.”

“Pinkie Sense?”

“something that nobody can ever explain.” Marble sighed. “and by the looks of it, it’s a Doozy.”

“I-I-I-I-I-it’s a b-b-b-b-b-b-big o-o-o-one.” she shakingly said. “t-t-t-there’s a v-v-v-v-very b-b--b-big d-d-d-d-doozy coming.”

Marble gulped and nervously looked to his sister. “and she’s never wrong.”

The Orion turned past a large rock pillar it was barely able to avoid in time and continued on.

“whoa! I didn’t even see that thing!” Sora exclaimed.

“Which is why you brought me.” Garble said. “dragons born and raised in the Badlands become intune to the place; knowing where everything is. Speaking of which, turn to the left!”

Satoshi did just that, narrowly avoiding a mesa’s wall. The ship scratched up to it and only lost paint. “oh, man. I-I just repainted that.” he whined.

“but we don’t even know where to look for him.” Edge pointed out. “he could be anywhere in the Badlands.”

“if there’s one thing we learned from bad guys, they always like large places; castles, comets, weapons. The list goes on and on.” Req said. “so, if we look for the largest pillar or mesa, we’ll find Discord and Eris.”

“well why didn’t you say so?” Garble said. “the largest mesa in the place is about 5 miles south.”

They all looked at each other then up at Satoshi. “already turning.” he said, turning the wheel.

After 10 minutes of flight, they came across the largest mesa on the planet; 7 miles wide and 5 miles tall. “Holy… that’s huge…!” Halo gasped, looking up and not finding the top.

“that’s a mesa for ya.” Garble said.

“and there’s only one way to find out if Discord’s up there.” Jax said. Satoshi turned the wheel and the ship flew up to it’s top.

The anchor from Orion fell and crashed into the mesa’s flat top. The ramp descended and everyone walked down. “trekking across this place is going to take forever. How are we going to find him?” Fluttershy asked.

“Simple…” Eris said from behind.

Begin Song:

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

Key of Darkness - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST

“…we’ll find you.” she raised her hand and a pulse shot out of it. The pulse forced everyone to the ground in a violent manner. Eris chuckled and floated up. “I must say, I commend you for coming all this way just to deal with us. It shows just how Celestia is keen on keeping her tyrannical rule.”

“what?” Twi asked in a mix of confusion and anger.

“you heard me, ‘precious student’. she was willing to eradicate the Changelings, she was happy when Nightmare Moon was killed for good, she locked Papa Discord in stone. She even tried to kill me when I was just a baby, Or did you forget that?”

They didn’t forget. Seeing Celestia like that really shook her up. “but… that still doesn’t explain why Discord is doing this.”

“yes it does.” Discord said as he appeared behind them and pulled the same move Eris did earlier. “I’m trying to return this world back to the way it was; a free world where anything and everything can happen-- Not where it is under the constant tyranny of those loathsome Alicorns.”

“you’re not making any sense.” Req groaned, holding the side of her abdomen.

“Do I have to spell it out?” Discord sighed. “when the world was under the rule of the Draconequus’, there was freedom for all, including nature. If a building wants to float upside down, why not let it? If a bunny wants to grow legs as long as a giraffe, so be it. But with the Alicorns; all they want is rules, rules, rules. Bleh bleh bleh bleh. they hated it so much, they called it Chaos. So, we took that name with pride. And look at what happened with Equestria; ponies in control of the weather, animals so helpless they need the ponies help, wars breaking out between countries, Celestia and Luna raising the sun and moon. All of it, rubbish. The Alicorns hated our rule so much, they wiped all of us out. Well, all but me and Eris.”

Dash groaned as she got up. “why didn’t they kill you?”

“simple. I’m the only one who knows where Celestia’s little husband and daughter are hidden away. Nobody, not even Eris, knows. That’s why she kept me in stone; so she can find the information and go get them herself. But, we Draconequus’ are stronger then we appear. 2000 years later and all she got was a recipe for chicken pot pies. As for Eris, I’m not sure how she survived. Maybe a spell was used to make sure she would disappeared then reappeared 2000 years later; hopefully when Celestia’s rule met it’s end. Guess that was too much to ask since it endured this long.”

Twilight couldn‘t believe what she was hearing; neither could the other ponies. “you’re insane, Discord. Rules exist for a reason. If they weren’t around, we’d have anarchy.”

“So?” a unknown voice said. They looked to see Babs standing in another section. “why shouldn’t the world turn into chaos?”

“Babs!?!” Applejack exclaimed. “come on. Your mother is worried about you. We can--”

“I’m not going back, Cousin A.J.” she said in a snarky and mean tone.

A.J. was shocked to hear that. “w-why not?”

“because young Babs Seed here…” Discord walked over to her. “…knows to true fate of the world belongs to Chaos and wants to have some good fun in the process.”

“Yeah. Now scram before I turn you into a toaster or something?” she threatened. When Discord and Eris weren’t looking, she winked at A.J. with a slight smile.

“Well, enough lolly-gagging.” Eris yawned. “it’s time to spread some glorious chaos.” she, Discord, and Eris turned to leave.

“Wait!” Req exclaimed, pulling out her sword. Discord snapped his fingers. A invisible force hit Req and sent her flying into Garble and Trixie.

“I think you need a friend.” Eris evilly snickered as she snapped hers. All 3 of them disappeared in flashes of light.

End Song.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHncR_7k-08

The Human Reaper - Mass Effect 2 OST.

0:00.

“a friend?” Hiccup muttered. “what did he mean by that?” nobody knew. It could be anything.

Suddenly, the mesa began to shake and crack into pieces. “oh, crap!” Req said. “Back to the ship!” she yelled.

And just in the knick of time as…

0:13.

The ground burst open and a Reaper from Mass Effect crashed out, destroying the middle of the mesa and sending rubble flying.

It let loose it’s trademark horn and turned to climb out of the mesa.

“oh, Crap!” Ash yelled. “Not one of those things!” he yelled as he and everyone else booked to the Orion.

“What is that!?” Gourry yelled.

“Not something you want to face one on one.” Req yelled back to him.

0:37.

The Reaper Capital Ship climbed out of the hole it made in the mesa and let loose it’s horn again. It showcased it’s body as it slowly moved to face the fleeing group.

“that can’t be good!” Riku yelled as he looked back.

It spotted them, powered up it’s laser, and took aim.

0:56.

Once locked, the Reaper fired it’s laser at them.

Everyone quickly climbed onto the ship. Satoshi quickly ran up to the wheel and immediately started the ship up.

The laser scorched along the ground as it neared them.

“HURRY IT UP!” Trixie yelled, looking as the laser neared them.

“I’m trying!” Satoshi yelled back. “It takes time.”

“then we’ll give you time!” Req exclaimed. She and everyone else who can cast barriers ran to the edge and cast them. The barriers combined into one super barrier and blocked the laser. The sheer power of it made the casters tire easily.

After just 3 seconds, the barrier broke and the laser hit the ground below the ship, causing a explosion that sent the ship, and it’s passengers, yelling over the side.

1:34. End Song.

The Reaper horned and took to the air.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ITutywYGA

Reaper Chase (suite) - Mass Effect 3 OST

0:00.

Pinkie’s shaking got more violent to the point of scaring anyone nearby.

“is she going to explode?” a Gryphon asked.

“un… no…” Marble said, unsure if she will or not. “but… all the while I’d stay back.”

“t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-the d-d-d-d-d-doooozy is g-g-g-g-g-getting c-c-c-c-c-closer!”

The Reaper shrieked though the air, completing ignoring the mesas and pillars It flew right though them, destroying them on the way.

Discord, Eris, and Babs reappeared above Manehatten. Discord snapped his fingers and summoned a couch. “This should be a interesting show.” he snickered as he summoned up popcorn. He and the other 2 sat down.

“(hope they don’t find out.)” Babs thought to herself. Her mind flashed back to when that knight kidnapped her.

“Listen Carefully…” Tsylatac said as his cape fluttered in front of the camera.

“I want you to say you hate Celestia’s rule and become one of Discord’s prodigies.”

“What?” Babs yelled. “there’s no way! He’s a sadistic a-hole that just wants to turn the world into his playground. Why would I join him!?”

The knight sighed. “so you can keep tabs on him and inform me of his movements.”

“but why? My friends told me you’re beat up this girl named Requiem.”

The knight stayed silent for a moment. “that was for something else. But I do not seek the end of Equestria. I wish to save it, from Discord and from another threat.”

“another threat?”

“That’s a story for another day. Right now, you should focus of Discord.”

Babs sighed. She didn’t want to be put in danger; her mom would flip. But, then again, how many times are you called a hero for saving the world. She sighed again. “what do you want me to do to get on his good side?”

Discord shook Babs out of her little daydream. “wha-what?” she said, breaking out of her trance.

“watch. The show is about to start.” he snickered as he drank out of a soda bottle.

Babs looked down and gulped. She hopes her family and new friends will get out okay.

A loud foreboding horn echoed though the city scape. Nobody knew where it came from but they were scared just the same. They hoped it was friendly, too. Boy, were they off the beat.

Pinkie continued shaking. Apparently, this isn’t the doozy. But it’s a big threat none the less.

“What was that?” Diamond said in fear.

“nothing good.” Marble gulped.

1:50.

The horn echoed again and a large shadow covered the city. Everyone looked up and instantly got scared.

“oh, shit.” Marble gulped.

The Reaper descended from the heavens and touched down in the middle of the city. It let loose it’s trademark horn and powered up it’s laser.

“not again!” a whiny earth pony said as she and everyone on her block were instantly incinerated by the laser.

Eris laughed with glee as the Reaper went about it’s business. “Oh, now that’s good comedy.” she laughed, popping in some popcorn.

“hard to find good entertainment these days.” Discord laughed. At first, he was scared by Eris’ personality. But, if you can’t beat them, join ‘em. Turns out this kind of chaos is fun.

The Reaper bellowed as it fired it’s laser again into the city, destroying entire city blocks. The residents ran as fast as they could for shelter, not wanting to get killed by the giant robot. They just went though one giant automaton, they don’t want to deal with another.

Diamond’s wheelchair tripped on a rock, causing it to tip and fall over. She fell out and roll to a stop. “Help!” she called out.

Her brother heard her, looked back, screeched to a halt, and ran to her. A Pegasus, Green Block, flew past him and picked her up with great concern in his eyes. He noticed this and the thankfulness and sweet pleasure in Diamonds eyes.

“what was I doing?” he muttered, thinking about how he was mean to Diamond being engaged to Block. He shook his head, grabbed the still shaking Pinkie, and pulled her away.

A explosion sent all 4 of them, including a large number of the populace, to the ground. They quickly looked up and yelled as the Reaper walked over them.

3:46.

The Reaper let out it’s horn and was about to crush them when a explosion came from it’s top most point. It didn’t damage it but it got it’s attention.

More, smaller explosions riddled down it’s side all the way to it’s tentacles.

The Orion, now in space mode, flew out of one of the explosions and into the robots field of vision.

“HEY!” Satoshi yelled. “You have us to deal with!”

The Reaper bellowed and powered up it’s laser. Satoshi quickly cut the power to the engines. The Reaper fired it’s laser as Orion fell to avoid it.

The engines reignited in the knick of time just 5 feet over the river. The ship entered a sonic boom just as the Reaper fired it’s laser again, hitting where it was.

“Come and get us!” Satoshi yelled as he slammed the throttle forward as hard as he could.

“they’re alive!” Eris exclaimed. She growled and rubbed her hands together. “I have to rectify that.” she snapped her fingers.

The Orion zoomed along the river, just skimming the surface, leaving a big wake behind it.

The Reaper’s horn bellowed as it took to the air and went after them.

It fired it’s laser down at the ship but the Orion was too fast for it to hit so it just shot into the water.

“HA! You couldn’t hit a warship if it was caught on flypaper!” Satoshi yelled to it.

“Are you trying to egg it on!?” the mares all yelled, not wanting to be killed anytime soon.

“you want to get it away from the city, do you?” he yelled in reply. The mares shut up and let him do what he does best.

The Reaper fired again and again and again but the Orion was just too damn fast. So, it decided to ram it. It powered up it’s engines and flew after the ship as fast as it could.

“Perfect.” Satoshi muttered. “now to get him away from the city.”

The Reaper fired it’s laser yet again. The Orion quickly dashed to the right and kept on flying.

The two space-craft eventually exited the river, which lead out into a large ocean bay. Orion flew up into the air, followed by the massive robotic Reaper Cuttlefish.

“I hope you have a plan.” Spike yelled, hanging onto the ship and holding Rarity close at the same time.

“yeah. Don’t get killed.” Bahamut yelled.

“good plan.”

Every citizen in the city gather at the eastern-most part of the city to see the fight take place.

“Come on, guys! Kick it’s butt!” Pinkie cheered with pompoms. Marble face-hooved and sighed.

The CMC and Babs mother also watched from the farm as the Orion and the Reaper flew into the air above the bay.

“no way they’re going to lose to that thing.” Scootaloo said with hope in her heart. “there’s no way.”

“they’re doomed.” Eris and Discord said in unison, popping more popcorn into the mouths. Babs, however, is like Scootaloo, hoping for them to win.

The Orion zoomed up into the clouds, leaving the Reaper in it’s dust. The Reaper bellowed it’s horn and fired it’s laser into the clouds, hoping to hit it in a blind fire. It hit something, causing it to explode.

“Nice try!”

The Orion zoomed down from behind and fired it’s main cannons into the Reaper’s back. It hit but didn’t leave a dent. The robot monster quickly turned around in a u-turn that would tear a normal ship in half, and fired at Orion. The ship quickly turned right to avoid it.

The Reaper turned to follow the ship, still firing it’s beam in the process.

“Everyone hang on to something.” Satoshi warned as he pulled back on all throttles and levers.

Orion banked up and pulled a dangerous loop-de-loop that allowed it to miss the laser by a few close inches. Those on board could feel the heat emanating from the laser. The ship turned upright and flew down the monsters infrastructure.

“That thing is massive! How are we supposed to take it out?” Emil exclaimed.

“the thought way that thing is built, it’s going to take more then the Dragon Slave to take it out.” Lina theorized. “please tell me you know how to take it out.”

“yeah. How’d they take it out in the game?” Rarity asked.

Aura shrugged. “I don’t’ know. Un… I think they went after the firing chambers as they were priming.”

“But ugly’s here is under that front tentacle.” Halo pointed out, having seen it fire a few times. “how do you propose to get at that?”

The ship flew underneath the Reaper, showcasing a few large glowing cylinders underneath it. “take out the eyes and it’ll be exposed.” Req smirked as she looked to the pilot.

Satoshi nodded at the idea and turned the ship around.

Orion pulled a major u-turn and sonic-boomed out from underneath the Reaper and out quite a ways.

The Reaper bellowed and turned towards them as Orion turned up, flipped around, and headed back towards it. The Reaper fired it’s main cannon and the Orion moved to dodge.

6:48.

“Take this!” Satoshi yelled as he pressed both fire buttons.

All cannons on both sides fired. The shots homed in on the Reaper and hit it in the eyes. The Reaper bellowed and fired blindly into the sky.

Orion fired it’s main cannons and all the secondary ones at the firing chamber.

The shots hit square on, destroying the chamber. Secondary explosions followed as the Orion zoomed underneath it and out the other side.

The Reaper, or at least the bottom half, exploded in a torrent of fire and metal.

7:37. End Song.

Everyone onboard cheered and sighed with relief. They destroyed something that was originally indestructible. So much for that claim.

“Whew.” Twilight rolled down to the floor. “that… was a lot of fun.”

“think I tossed my biscuit’s a few times.” Garble groaned. He gagged and held his mouth.

“you learn to get used to it.” the earth part of the gang said. They’ve been though all this before numerous times.

“yes!” the CMC all cheered. “♪nobody beats bad guys like our guys.♪” they cheered and danced. During which, Feather Weight grabbed and kissed Scootaloo. All by mistake. He realized what he did and quickly let her go.

“un… s-sorry.” he nervously said. Scootaloo blushed as well and scratched her cheek.

The crowd in the city cheered. 2 robots dead in 2 hours. This was a new record for the city. Marble cheered but noticed that Pinkie was still shaking. Apparently, the Reaper wasn’t the doozy. Then… what was?

Babs, internally, was relieved they won, but outside she panted like a worry-wort.

“calm, Babs.” Eris chuckled. “this is far from over.”

Clouds quickly moved all around the Orion, leaving everyone on board confused.

“What’s going on?” Spyro asked.

“how should we know?” Zel said, a bit frightened by this.

One cloud ran into the ship and washed over it. ot floated on away and showed everyone where the sudden gust of wind came from.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzer8ZCW-Ys

Fall - Tron Legacy OST.

A large dark hole appeared where the Reaper was and absorbed everything in the immediate area, the Reaper corpse included.

“is that… a black hole…?” Fox asked like he saw a ghost.

Even those who never been to space knew that Black Holes are bad news. They slowly looked to each other and, in unison, “GET US OUT OF HERE!” they all yelled to Satoshi. They didn’t need to tell him twice.

The engines kicked into the highest gear possible but the pull of the Black Hole already reached them. At best, they were only delaying the inevitable.

“no…” Marble gasped.

“they… they can’t…” a defeated Scootaloo said.

Discord and Eris chuckled evilly as they watched the pitiful humans trying to escape. “try to run like the little ants you are. You won’t get far.” Eris evilly chuckled as she snapped her fingers.

The Black Hole’s pull grew even stronger. Everyone on the ship felt it and knew their rime was almost up.

“Come on! Come on!” Satoshi grunted, not wanting to give up. He never gave up before and he won’t know.

The Orion shook and buckled under the pressure as it tried to escape but everyone knows nothing escapes a black holes pull; not even light.

“watch closely, Babs.” Discord said. “this…”

The Orion’s wings broke and were pulled into the hole.

“is how you…”

The ship inched closer and closer to it’s inevitable doom.

“Deal with trouble-makers.”

The Engines sparked and failed, and with that, sealed their doom.

The ship was pulled back into the black hole, spinning around like a top.

Everyone yelled as they were pulled into oblivion. Once the ship was in…

End Song.

… it clapped shut with a loud clap of thunder.

Celestia gasped in fear as she heard the same thunder. Luna and Cadence also sensed it.

Something very horrible happened today. They weren’t sure how but… they sensed that the Elements of Harmony… are dead.

“YES!” Discord and Eris cheered. They high-fived and pulled a victory dance.

Nobody could believe that they were dead. It didn’t seem like it. Pinkie had stopped shaking as soon as the Black Hole dispersed. The death of all their friends was the doozy.

“she… she can’t be dead…” a soulless Scootaloo said with tears running down. “Dash can’t be dead… she just became my mom.” she fell to her knees, not wanting to believe it.