Chaos. One may call it madness, others insanity, I call it freedom from the mind. Madness is often described as a state or a disability that won't allow an individual to be a part of society. I call it a blessing. Madness enables one to see things far clearer by seeing through the curtains of deceit that were put upon us by the world and others.

Not only that, but a 'normal' being has far less imagination, too chained to their boring world, to be truly free in their mind. But once you are 'mad' enough... oh-oh-oh, then the fun begins. Then no one can say what you can and can't do. You'll make the rules, the same laws of their false view of the world that made one an outcast, until you'll eventually have your revenge and make all of them strangers in a chaotic world.

But will they then see a clear reflexion, or a shattered image when they look into a mirror?

-Discord

Shortly after the girls have left the princesses and the others, they had to face the madness that was spreading throughout the capital. Lunacy was perhaps a better fitting word. The cutlery was flying, the bakery was burning, the lottery was glowing, and the shop-ery was empty... and no sale happened!

The gardeners were attacked and beaten by their own plants, pets turned to abominations that attacked civilians, houses started to scream, the ground would crackle (a mixture of cracking and chuckling) the clouds were crying fire and acid. No one was safe!...

Well, not everyone... Apparently, the mansion of Blueblood was still intact as he was apparently that much of a bastard that not even the abominations wanted to be anywhere near Forever Alone Horse.

Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Gilda, Trixie, Mellow Hoof, and Swift Tail ran through the streets, dodging the madness, jumping over the chaos and sprint past the insanity to the best of their abilities. Rainbow and Gilda kept the sky clear from any toxic clouds while Twilight, Rarity, and Trixie would keep a shield around for those with no wings or magic... and those who were afraid to fly.

Their lungs were burning as they ran through the streets, closely followed by abominations that made Discord look like a masterpiece of art. A quick left turn through an alleyway was their choice to escape the flood of hungry beasts.

"Ah' don't know if Ah' wanna' know how many of these vermins are after us!" shouted Applejack as she bucked a, what looked like a yellow pig on 2 legs with a green beaver head and purple tentacles for its arms, out of the way into a trashcan.

Fluttershy hid her eyes behind her mane and tried to escape this nightmare. The only thing that kept her from falling behind was Pinkie Pie who held her hand firmly.

Pinkie Pie was not bothered by the hordes of monsters and bounced happily after the rest of the girls with a thrown cupcake in a monster's face here and there.

*Crack*

A loud crack was heard at the end of the alleyway through which our heroes were fleeing. The left side of the wall was starting to vibrate and rumble under an intense barrage of punches of whatever tried to get through.

"Come on! Just a little bit more!" pleaded Trixie with desperation leaking from her voice.

The flood of monsters that chased them had realized that the ponies were close to losing and picked up everything they could find: Rocks, bricks, junk, even the small abominations and threw them at the shield in an attempt to slow them down.

Although the impact of one object was not hard, the continues less attack fire was starting to wear down on the shield, and so on the unicorn that powered it. More and more cracks began to appear on the shield, but that was the least of their worries at the moments. The wall was now thumping and rumbling with each thrust that left the entire building to which the wall was connected slowly fall apart. Adrenaline was pumping through the girls' veins as their hearts were beating a hundred pumps a second, sweat was seemingly shooting off their fur, and the wind rushed past. Closer and closer did the females come to the exit of the alleyway, ever so closer to their finish line as their competitors were hissing, and screeching and growling after them. The sound of the monsters' stomps came closer and closer, and the wall was falling more and more apart, the entire building, in fact, was about to collapse and bury everyone in the thin path. In the last possible moment, the girls jumped forward, a real leap of faith, only a moment before the wall burst open and bathing the way in dust and hiding the creatures from sight. Yet, the moment of triumph of the monster that broke through the wall was cut short, and a loud creaking noise was heard above. The mysterious monster had not even gotten a chance for action before the building collapsed, burying it and the other monsters altogether.

*Crash*

*Thud*

*Shatter*

The girls collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily, their lungs on fire, their hearts hurting and their limbs killing them. But besides that, they now stood at the edge of Canterlot, not far away from the train station that would bring them to Ponyville, the center of madness and the only hope for their freedom. There where the elements were hidden.

"T....t....t-that! was not... cool!" huffed and puffed Gilda as she was lying on her back and having her wings spread out to cool her body off.

"Pfff! Really, Gilda? Come on, we used to do this every morning" boasted Rainbow Dash.

Swift Tail sighed loudly and exclaimed ."We don't have time for this right now!"

"Yeah!" shouted Mellow Hoof, who quickly hid behind Swift Tail when she realized that she just screamed.

"Anyways, Trixie would like to know what we are going to do next," said Trixie

Twilight answered. "We have to go back to Ponyville in the same way we came." Twilight then turns around and points her index finger at the train station. "And we go home by train."

"Ehm.. are you sure it is safe?" asked Fluttershy quietly.

Pinkie happily bounced around and said."Of course not! Trains are the safest way to travel besides metal boats!"

Everyone stared at Pinkie, wondering what and how that would work. Applejack reassured."No need to worry, Sugarcube, together we'll make it through this."

Rarity smiled and said. "Applejack is right. we just have to stick together." everyone nodded to that and walked towards the trains station and entered.

Once inside, Twilight walked toward the stationed train and tried to open the door, only to see that it was locked and would need a key to open it, "Girls! The door is locked."

"And thus Twilight Sparkle, realized that all of her attempts to open the door were futile. Luckily they found a clue in the form of a snake statue on which was a riddle engraved. The riddle would lead the mares to three water temples, in which they would find three keys in total which they then could use to open the box under the cash register. In said box then would be the keys to the train door. And of course, these mares would do it because they were too stupid to just blast open the door."

"Who said that!"

"these words were shouted by none other than Applejack."

"What the buck? Who just said that?"

"And thus the wannabe Wonderbolt swore once again. I wonder if the rumors are true that you are into mares, you already have a stallion's foul mouth."

"Hey!!!"

"Denial? I can see you beet-red flustered face."

"The girls furiously looked around, trying to find the source of the mysterious, masculine and truly sexy narrative voice of the world's most well-known narrator. Me!"

As the scene continued to play out in this weird and annoying way, Pinkie Pie was laughing loudly and punching the wall behind her repeatedly.

*Thud*

"All eyes were directed at the card box wall, that was a perfect replica of an actual train station wall that has fallen. And now, they could see a small glass window that showed the small. Ehem! Great and glorious office of the most beautiful narrator... OH LOOK AT THAT! It seems like my shift is done. Goodbye!"

And thus, the Narrator stood up from his chair, turned around, and ran out of his office, to never be exposed again... for now.

The Girls stared at the small office in which the weird creature once was, before all of them shook their heads, trying not to get a headache from the madness they were exposed to.

Twilight turned around and ignited her horn with a purple aura before firing *Boom* *Crash* at the thin metal door of the train, destroying it and opening the way for them. With no more time wasted, the girls entered the train and drove towards Ponyville... after of course, they read the training manual of course.

Yet, unknown to the girls, a pigeon was flying hundreds of feet above them, with a weird harness around its beak. Once the bird was perfect position over the train, the rope was tightening more and more, making the bird panic and squawk. After five seconds of this torture, *Rrrriiiiip* the birds head was brutally ripped off, and a small figure jumped off its dead back. It was Ketos, bathed in the dust as if he has been buried underneath a house. In just a few seconds, the Letter hit the roof of the train with a quiet

*Thud*

"Did anyone hear that?" asked Rarity to which the rest of the Girls shrugged.

Canterlot Castle

"Dragon lightning!"

*Bzzzzzaaaappp*

Discord howled in pain as he was hit by a lightning strike that Darkness shot at him. His fur was now charcoal black, and he was not happy. "Is it just me or did you Ponies find out even more ways to be a pain in the arse! while I was gone?"

Discord was never hurt by a pony before, well, at least not after he became the god of chaos, not even the alicorn sisters could beat him after 28 battles which he allowed them to fight against him. And now, a random bat pony was hitting him like your average bulgar? UNACCEPTABLE! Discord then saw that Darkness was about to fire another spell at him, to which he snapped his fingers and*Poof* created a magic suppression collar around Darknesses neck, canceling the spell and taking away the mare's magic. And just to be safe, he-

*Poof*

*Poof*

*Poof*

*Poof*

*Poof*

-Created five more collars that would keep the mares in check. But now that the ponies were defenseless, what would he do? "Hmmm... what to do?... what to do?... what to d-Oh I know!" Discord then reappeared in front of Anubis and Midnight Watch and said."You two don't belong here, so I am going to bring you back home. Oh, and please greet Dainn from me." And with a bright flash, the two ponies were gone. Of course, Discord knew that the other Equus was now slavery-free, but he had no interested in wasting his precious time in other worlds businesses... at least he thought so since he didn't really care where they would end up, another Fall of Equestria world, or just some random and disturbing fanfiction world. Ewww!

"Now, what am I going to do with the rest of you?" asked Discord loudly. To be frank, the draconequus didn't think this far; actually, he didn't plan anything at all, most of the stuff Discord did was just done in the heat of the moment.

Darkness grit her teeth angrily before spitting on the ground in front of Discord and snarling."When Mathael finds out that you tied us here, he is going to kick your flank!"

The Thestral's words stopped Discord right in his tracks, it was not feat that stopped him, but an idea. No, not just any thought, it was the evilest and cruelest and most disgusting idea he has ever had. A wicked and malicious grin spread across his face as he turned toward Darkness. "So, you could say he cares for you so much that you are the center of this world? Oh... I am sure he would love to see you again after I am done."

The girls gulped and crawled together, shivering in fear as Discord was slowly and menacingly approaching them while his paw and claw were crackling and glowing with magic. His dark chuckling was like nails in a mixer, and the look in his eyes just shouted pain. Discord raised his claw and was just about to strike when-

*Boom*

"For the Princesses!"

-As the door exploded. Dozens of Solar and Lunar Guards stormed the throne room. They all were wearing their new and improve Crush Turtle armor and Leo Dragon blades and charged Discord as their battle cry filled the air.

Discord only chuckled, this time in amusement. "Welp looks like you ponies became even more arrogant than you were a thousand years ago... or just dumber... or both." with one last shrug and bored look at his captive, he prepared for a bloodbath. His last words, before the battle began, were. "So.... who wants to be my first new toy?" with a smug grin.

Back to the Girls

The train was slowly, but steadily rolling on the tracks while everywhere else disgusting monsters were ravaging the land. A land that could be best described as a nightmare ... or what Pinkie sees when she has a sugar rush. The girls were nervous and worried about how they would react to seeing their town in shambles, all because of that monster Discord. Luckily the continuous thumping and huffing of the train were calming their nerves a little bit.

*Thud*

"Eep!"

Fluttershy shrieked loudly when she heard something hit the window beside her. She hid her face while slowly turning around, only to see a grotesque 1-foot long squid with rows upon rows of sharp teeth was sucking on the window. *Crack Crack Crack* and was rapidly jagging its teeth on the glass. Fluttershy jumped away in the last possible moment before the squid broke in.

*Crash*

Fluttershy scrambled on the floor, trying to get away from the beast that was ripping her former seat into shreds of springs and cotton. It only took the creature a few seconds before realizing that it was tearing apart the wrong prey. The monster jumped off the seat and quickly charged towards Fluttershy who was begging for her life. Just as the Squid was about to leap on the poor butter-colored mare, the mighty foot came to save her.

*Squash*

Gilda saw what the monster was about to do and stepped on the Squid and dug her sharp foot claws into the barely alive Squid who screeched in pain. "Get outta here you Thing." before kicking the air in front of her and using the momentum to throw the Squid out of the same window it came from.

Gilda then looked down at the crying mare, not sure how to respond,s os he tried her best. She crouched down and petted the mare on the back, hoping she would stop crying. The other girls joined Gilda and tried to make Fluttershy happy-er again.

The rest of the trip was silent, nothing happened besides the girls hoping for the best, not wanting to admit their fear. After about hours of running through Canterlot and another hour with the train, the Girls have finally reached the ponyville train station. The girls got off the train, and the eyes widened, while their jaws dropped to see what has happened to their home, or what was left of it. Houses were floating, random things were floating through the air, and chaotic, but thankfully less hideous beast was roaming through the town while ponies were screaming and running through the streets or hiding on their homes. At least those on the ground.

The Girls looked at another and gulped loudly. The girls decided to split up and get the elements as fast as possible. Trixie and Twilight went to the golden oak library. Rainbow and Gilda went to Rainbow's cloud home. Rarity and Mellow Hoof went to the boutique. Fluttershy and Swift Tale went to Fluttershy's cottage while Applejack went alone back to her family's farm to deal with the vermins. Pinkie, on the other hand, bounced off to sugar cube corner before anyone could shout after her.

Pinkie Pie's POV

Pinky happily bounced through the street, always dodging any danger that came at her while humming and giggling. In only a few minutes, she reached Sugar Cube Corner. When she entered the backer, nothing seemed out of place or anyway more odd than usual. First looking left, then right and left again like she was taught as filly before bouncing towards the kitchen.

The kitchen was a mess. Bags of flour and sugar were ripped open and emptied, eggs cracked, all tool dirty it was a miracle that the entire house wasn't infected with insects yet. *Cling* Pinkie heard something to her right and saw that an in cake battered bowl was shaking. With a shrug, she walked towards the mysterious object and was surprised with the sight of a muffin. A muffin with eyes and razor-sharp teeth.

The cupcake opened it's empty and soulless eyes and roared as loud as a manticore and with enough force to blow Pinkies hair and tailback.

"WOW-ie! SOmeone really needs to use toothpaste." said Pinkies to herself as she waved the air in front of her nose in hope to lifted the horrible stench of rotten eggs.

Suddenly the Cupcake jumped at Pinkie pie like a starved animal, trying and hoping to sink its teeth into her flesh.

Pinkie gasped loudly before opening her mouth, trying to scream, but instead caught the cupcake monster with her mouth and *Nom* and ate the Cupcake thing. Pinkie eyes widened at the taste of the truly monstrous, evil and dis-."That... was... TASTY!" or it tastes yummy for the backer pony, apparently. Pinkie licked her lips at the delicious taste as her stomach suddenly began to rumble and burped out... AND BURPED OUT HER ELEMENT!

"Uhhhh~ Found it!" Shouted Pinkie Pie before picking the element of laughter up and bouncing back to her friends.

Rainbow's and Gilda's POV

Rainbow Dash and Gilda arrive at the cloud home of the speedy pegasus, or rather what it now was. The cloud home and all nearby clouds have been turned into a giant spider nest, cobwebs were everywhere! And in the middle was probably the most gigantic spider in the history of Equestria.

The monster was a huge, 25 feet huge spider that was covered in a very thick carapace shell, and covered in long hairs. Three large eyes were on its head instead of the regular eight. Its head looked like a mix between a hydra head from Starcraft and a predator while green and most likely toxic goo was dripping out of its mouth. It will be called Giga Spider.

Both girls gulped at sight, but were too thick headed to run away now, their friends were counting on them after all. Rainbow and Gilda looked at another before nodding and charging towards the beast. [size=1.5em'Shreeeeck' the Giga Spider saw this and screeched at the two invaders before firing a huge ball of acid at the flying mares. Rainbow and Gilda flew in each other's opposite direction to split up and to evade the attack. The Giga Spider looked between the two mares before deciding to go after Dash.

The Giga Spider jumped towards Rainbow and soared through the air, trying to catch the pegasus. Rainbow's eyes shot wide open as she did a barrel roll to the right and evaded the incoming spider leg by the skin of her teeth. Yet, the Giga Spider was not stupid, instead of falling hundreds of feet to the ground, it landed on another one of its webs.

Gilda shouted at Rainbow Dash. "Hey, Dash! Would 'ya distract that beast?! I think I know how to get that thing!" Rainbow looked at Gilda and gave her a shaking nod.

Rainbow looked down at the Giga Spider who was preparing to leap again, but Dash reacted faster and flew with full speed down and hitting the Spider with her hoof on its head *Bash* *chhhhhhhhh* The Giga Spider hissed loudly in pain and the cracks on its head spoke for themselves. The Giga Spider now only saw red and swiped through the air with insane speed, its attacks almost invisible for the eye. Dash had a tough time just dodging the attack, and she knew that one hit was enough to end the game.

This game of attacking and dodging only lasted a few minutes. Rainbow was getting tired fast, her breath began heavier with each second, sweat was running down her whole body and her muscles burned from evading all those hits. Eventually, she got careless *Slash* "Ahhhh!" and was hit

Rainbow was able to evade a leather slash, but only barely, and was grunting and moaning in pain. A large wound went across her chest and was losing blood quickly. Her t-shirt was ruined as well, and so was her bra, her left breast was now almost visible if it wasn't for the blood.

"Get over here Dash! Let's finish this monster" shouted Gilda, not having seen what has happened to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow gritted her teeth, trying her best to hold back tears from leaking. 'How can Mathael stand these wounds?! It hurts so much, and I feel so sorry for him having to get damaged so often.' thought Dash about one of her friends as she was trying to fly as fast as possible towards Gilda.

The Giga Spider saw that its prey was trying to escape and readied itself to leap once again. It lifted its rear high in the air and lowered its head before jumping with high speed toward Rainbow Dash and the nearest Net. Closer and closer did the blue Pegasus came, yet in the last moment, a pair of avian claws grabbed the wounded mare and pulled her out of harm's way.

The Giga Spider growled in anger and would be ready to jump again, but when it landed on the net, something unexpected happened. *Rip* the loud sound of something ripping apart could be heard and was soon followed by many more of these sound. *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* *Rip* The Net was ripping apart, every single thread broke at the same time as if someone has cut them to the point that they were just able to support their own weight.

The Giga Spider tried to jump again, but it was too late as the net finally collapsed under the monster's weight, and the Spider gave out one last *Raaaaaaaaarhgggg* as it was falling to its doom.

...

...

...

*Thud*

The Giga Spider was no more...

Gilda said."Hah! In your face, you bug!" (Spiders are no bugs, but okay...) Gilda grinned as she saw her work, she felt alive, was this how Mathael felt after every battle? Gilda turned her eyes from the monster corpse to Rainbow Dash and gasped when she saw the huge wound on her chest. "Oh my god, are you okay Dash!?" said Gilda as she tried to get a closer look on Rainbow Dash.

"DO I LOOK OKAY!?!" shouted Rainbow Dash as she forced out her sentence before clenching her teeth again. Gilda backed away from Rainbow Dash in shock and fear. Rainbow looked at her friend and said quietly. "I-I am sorry, it-it just hurts so much..." and began sobbing.

Gilda was very sad to see Rainbow Dash like this and hugged her, she didn't care that her feathers were now colored in her friend's blood, she just wanted to make her feel better. Gilda stopped the hug after a few moments so that Dash could put her arm on the wound so she wouldn't lose too much blood. Gilda grabbed Rainbow and lifted her in bride style before flying her to the pegasus's house. Once inside, Gilda walked to the nearest curtain and ripped a large piece of cloth off and walked back to Dash.

Gilda looked at Rainbow and asked."Do you have some alcohol here? You know, to disinfect the wound?" Rainbow nodded weakly and pointed at a near closet.

Gilda walked up to the closet and opened and was rewarded with a large bottle of apple cider with a lot of alcohol in it, probably has been kept there for bad times. Gilda grabbed the bottle and walked back to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash looked very tired and close to falling asleep. Gilda touched her shoulder and shock a little and said. "You can't fall asleep now." Rainbow nodded. Gilda looked at the bottle and said. "I am going to pull your shirt off now." Rainbow nodded again.

Gilda put the bottle of cider on a near table and tried to lift the bra, but Rainbow gave out a sharp breath. Gilda knew that her friend was in much pain right now and decided to take another way. She led her hand behind Rainbow's back and poked on her lower back before tracing it up to her neck, cutting her upper bodies clothes open. Rainbow's t-shirt and her bra fell to the ground, and Gilda gasped at the sight and put a claw on her beak.

The wound was deep, and Rainbow left was not only cut in half, but her left breast was almost halved as well. Gilda gulped loudly and looked around and found a rectangular door stopper made out of wood. She grabbed it and put in Dash's mouth. "I am not going to lie... this is going to hurt... a lot." Gilda looked at her friend's tired eyes before opening the bottle and lifting it over the large wound "I am sorry." before emptying the bottle on Rainbow Dash's chest. Rainbow's scream was ear-piercing and made Gilda look away, she couldn't look at her friend's pain.

Once the bottle was empty, she saw that Rainbow Dash held her legs close to her, curled up to a ball with the door stopped broken in several pieces lying next to her, but luckily it didn't splinter. Gilda said to her."Dash, can you please show me your chest, I still need to bandage it." Rainbow Dash hesitated at first, but slowly revealed her wound again, a green liquid was seeping out of the injury and was slowly vanishing from the cider. Gilda took the cloth and wrapped it around the wound and her breast while trying to not get distracted by Rainbow's sharp breaths and moans of pain. Once her chest was bandaged, Gilda took a step back to give Rainbow a bit space, but accidentally tripped *Shatter* and dropped the bottle before it shattered into hundreds of shards. But in the middle of the shard laid the element of Loyalty.

Rainbow's eyes opened widely when she saw it and tried to grab it, only to feel a spike of pain in her chest and yelping in pain.

Gilda said."Dash you need to-" but was cut of Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash said with a smile. "I can do it, Gilda. I just need to do things slowly, and maybe a bit of help would be appreciated as well. Can't leave our friends alone, can we?" Gilda gave Rainbow a worried looked before sighing loudly and picking up the element herself. She then lifted Rainbow gently before flying towards the other girls while carrying Rainbow in bride style once again.

Fluttershy's and Swift Tail's POV

Fluttershy and Swift Tail arrived at the butter-colored mares home and gasped at the sight her former home. Plants from of the Everfree. The house was barely visible under the jungle that grew there, but Fluttershy wasn't worried about her home, but for her animal friends and- "Angel!" and the demon rabbit.

Swift Tail put her hand on Fluttershy's shoulder and said. "Carefully Fluttershy, we don't know what lurks in there." The Doe was worried as well, she knew the Everfree was one of the most dangerous places in all of Equestria but paired with the chaos god's magic? No one could know about the dangers.

"B-but, Angel?" asked Fluttershy in a sad, almost heartbreaking voice. SwiftTail actually felt her heart being clenched for a moment and said. "I. I know, but we just have to be careful, and we will find him."

Fluttershy shyly nodded to Swift tail, and both of them slowly walked towards the cottage, or what was left of it. Luckily, there was a path the led deeper into the exotic garden, the way the two of them followed. The plants were alive and had sharp teeth.

The deeper the two of them walked into the miniature forest, the darker it became and the thicker the plant walls were. The plants growled and snarled after the two girls. Fluttershy hid her face behind her mane while Swift Tale walked in front of her. After a few more steps, Fluttershy stopped, and Swift Tail turned around.

Swift Tail asked. "Why did you stop, Fluttershy?"

Fluttershy was shaking and trembling but managed to reply quietly. "I-I am too scared. I think I go back now." but before the mare could turn around, she was stopped by a firm grip on her hand.

Swift Tail gripped Fluttershy's hand and said with a smile. "We all are scared, but we can't just abandon our friends, can we?"

Fluttershy gulped loudly, but in the end, nodded and said. "Ok"

With no more seconds wasted, Fluttershy and Swift Tail ventured deeper into the miniature forest, a little adventure that took surprisingly long to just reach the Cabin's door, far too long to be realistic to be exact. Once they reached the house, they noticed that it wasn't touched by nature, at least, not more than it already was. There was a large open area surrounding the house, and seeing as nothing was different, the two girls entered the home, and-

*Clung*

...

*Clung*

*Clung*

*Clung*

"Oh, right. I forgot I locked the door when I left." said Fluttershy quietly as she reached under the doormat and pulled out the house key before finally opening the door. Yet, the moment the door was open, the girls gasped at what lurked in the cabin.

A huge, 25 feet large monster plant had grown in the middle of Fluttershy's living room. The beast had no arms or legs but was instead made out of long and strong tentacles and a gigantic maw filled with sharp teeth and acid that oozed out of its mouth. The monster would be called Plantorum. Somewhere else, a cold shiver went down the overpowered protagonist's spine from the mentioning of 'tentacles.'

Both girls stared at Plantorum in fear and shivered. The beast didn't wait long and send one of its long tentacles after the mares. Swift Tail managed to push Fluttershy aside in the last moment before evading the attack herself. Yet, as fast as her reaction time was, the Doe was not prepared for a smaller tentacle to burst out of the floor and slap her across the back.

Swift Tail gasped out loud in shock and bolted away, not even seeing the other tentacles that went after her. The sharp pain of a whip being slashed across her back woke very very bad memories and made her fall into panic.

Fluttershy could only stare in shock and fear at Swift Tail running across the large room, running for her life while she just sat there. But just as Fluttershy was about to fly somewhere to find help, the Plantorum opened its mouth. The butter-colored Pegasus expected it to snap at her friend or spit acid at Swift Tail, but not in her wildest dreams could she have imaged what she saw next.

Inside of the Plant's mouth sat a small white figure, sleeping, not even reacted to the battle and chaos that was happening around it. The creature was little, white, had a big furball on its butt while two long ears rested on its head. It was a rabbit, it was none other than Angel.

Fluttershy shouted. "Angel! No worries, mommy come to save you!" before flying towards the Plantorum with far higher speed then what she was used to.

The monster saw this and shoot several of its tentacles after Fluttershy, One after one till it where dozens of Tentacles burst out of the ground and with each second it became more and more. Fluttershy dodged every single one without being touched by a single one of them. The Plant was not happy about this and shot its head towards Fluttershy in an attempt to bit her in half.

As if time has slowed down, Fluttershy came closer and closer to Angel, but so did the teeth that descended with high speed towards Fluttershy. Yet, she made it, even if her hooves now were a little bit short. Luckily, horse or even pony hooves weren't made out of flesh or bone, but just keratin. At least the lower part is.

Swift Tail suddenly stopped when she heard many loud *thuds* behind her. The tentacles that have followed her had all landed on the ground, motionless. She looked around to see why, and when her eyes fell on the plant's mouth, she knew why. Tears formed in the corners of her eyes and she began to cry over the loss of her friend.

Swift Tail said full of anger and sadness. "Why?! Why did you do that, why give up your life for a rabbit?!" Just as she said that she saw Angel hop towards her with a giant carrot in his mouth, before jumping up in the air and *Slap* slapping her across the cheek with his ear. A significant red mark was left behind on her left cheek.

*Thud*

A loud thud echoed through the room which practically forced both of them to stare at the source of the sudden sound. The gigantic monster plan, Plantorum, fell to the ground and in just second withered away to dust, like all the other plant outside of the house. That was clearly visible because the room suddenly got much brighter.

When the monster's head finally withered away completely, it revealed Fluttershy who happily sat there on a pile of dust, hugging... Another Angel?!?!? häääh!?!

The ANgel that sat beside Swift Tail glared at the imposter and charged at the doppelgänger. Once he reached his Fluttershy, he jumped up, kicked the Fake away, and hugged the pegasus himself.

*Clung*

A weird sound of something substantial hitting the floor could be heard when the imposter hit the ground. Swift Tail raised an eyebrow and stood up, but not before wishing away the last few tears. She walked up to the fake ANgel, and saw that it was a toy! The Doe grabbed the toy and saw that it had a small opening on its back, out of which she pulled... *Chest opening sound* ... Fluttershy's element!

"My element!" shouted Fluttershy

"Quick Fluttershy, we can't waste any more time. Let's go back to our friends" And so the two of them walked back to where they last see their friends, but this time, with the element... and the demon bunny.

Back to Discord

Several limbs and wings of Solar and Night Guards were littered on the castle's floor, but thankfully they were still alive. Having their bones broken, wings ripped off, and legs cut off made them immobilize but still breathing. The unicorn guards had their horn broken. It was mostly thanks to the armors made from Mathael's gift that have saved their lives.

Discord looked at the mess of blood and bones with a bored look, he had no interest in playing them. Sure, breaking their mind apart was always fun, but doing it on guards was annoying, and now even more so. They became so much more arrogant, so many times cocky and self-loving bastards. There was only a hand full of things that he really could do to change their world view, and he did it already so many times, it was just boring up to this point.

Discord was about to teleport all of them into a house-sized furnace, but then, he heard a loud shout, filled with anger and incredible amounts of malic and pure hatred

"Arrrrrrgh!!!! Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiscoooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrd!!!!!"

Discord froze for a moment, not in fear, he was far too old and powerful for that, but the realization that his stone dummy cover had been blown a tad too early was still an unpleasant surprise. Discord sighed, rolled his eyes and waved at his captives. "Well, it seems like I can never have just one moment of peace. See ya later ladies!" before vanishing in a great flash which blinded the princesses like a flashbang. He did it on purpose.

When Discord reappeared, he was greeted with a rather... bulge-y surprise.

Mathael was Pissed! In fact, he was so angry that his "Killing Intent" was leaking beyond what he normally should be able with this little power at the moment. He was outplayed by a creature that looks like Timmy's first Play-Doh set, a mere insect that has been around for less than a fraction but managed to outplay him and even made him consider to end this peacefully. Not even after offering help during the gala and now where he has spent all this time talking nicely. Yet, there was one question that remained.

Discord smiled widely and said in the most annoying way possible, in a very stretched way. "Yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees?" all while having the smoggiest looks on his face that were in any way possible for him to even have!!!

Mathael questioned between huffs and growls."Why. Did. I. Not. Feel. What. Was. Happening. Around. Me!?!!" which almost sounded demonic

Discord grinned and teleported a few feet away from Mathael. Discord then tapped the air with his finger, but something was happening. Like the tap on the surface of a pond, the small disturbance traveled in the air, forming a dome-like construct.

Discord said. "Let me present you, start drum-roll, the soundproof bubble. It can not only block all sounds but can also replicate them, and if you touch it, you feel nothing, as if there was literally nothing!" and finished his sentence with a loud laugh at Mathael.

Mathael's eyes were twitching, his neck was twitching, his teeth were gnashing, his hooves were furiously taping on the ground, his tail was furiously moving up and down. HE WAS SO FUCKING DONE!!!!

While Mathael was getting closer and closer to his breaking point, Discord snapped his fingers silently, and something started to form behind the stallion. It looked like a massive gate with one side decorated after the sun, while the other was decorated like the moon.

Mathael turned around to be greeted with the sight of the newly appeared object. The door slowly opened and revealed something genuinely nightmarish. Something that has haunted the dreams of thousands of children. Mathael turned around, only to be greeted with the sight of Discord, wearing what looked like a spartan outfit.

Discord shouted loudly. "This is Chaos!!!" before kicking Mathael into the gate with his dragon foot. Mathael's eyes widened and tried to teleport away, but the door had already closed. Discord laughed maniacally while rolling on the ground and pounding the dirt under him. It took him about one minute before he stood up and snapped his fingers to get rid of the clothes and tears.

Discord said happily. "Welp! I hope the old edgelord likes to experiences My Little Pony generation one to three. Let's just hope he gets his anger under control, I mean, damn! He is going to have a stroke if he doesn't start visiting a therapist." Discord was silent for a moment before realizing that he didn't care if Mathael had a stroke or not, and thus, he just shrugged before teleporting back to his victims.

When he reappeared back in the throne room, he saw a white unicorn in the standard captain uniform. 'It has been a thousand years, and they still didn't change that old piece of scrap? oh well, not my problem if he gets crushed during my fun.'

The stallion knew as Shining Armor then looked at Discord in disgust and shouted. "You dirty thing may have beaten my guard and the princesses, but I will not just stand there and do nothing. I will break you worthless animal and show you how you are nothing compared to a unicorn."

Discord stared at Shining Armor for a moment as the cocky words were slowly absorbed into his shattered mind. 'A unicorn supremacist?' Discord grit his teeth in anger as he hated nothing more than this kind of pony, those who were responsible for his first banishment before being turned to a garden ornament. He snapped his fingers to create a nutcracker and cracked his knuckles with it. Discord said in the lowest and most aggressive tone he could muster. "I think I will deal with you with my own two hands..."

Mathael's POV

Mathael landed with a very, very loud thud on the ground, still fuming with pure rage. Small lightning of demonic energy crackled on his skin. His teeth became longer, his eyes even redder to the point even the white in his eyes became a pale red tone. Spikes grew out of various places on his body, and his claws became longer and sharper as well. Lastly, his demon tail grew again, ripping a hole in his pants which were luckily filled by the tail.

Thousands of thought of how to rip that Thing coursed through his skull. But just as he was about to get going, he heard a very annoying noise.

"Wanna have a hug?"

Mathael's head slowly turned to the origins of the voice. He was surprised with the sight of a generation one pony and oh boy, oh boy was he angry. He slowly stood up, petted the pony on the head and walked away, trying to find a way back. He just hoped he could keep his anger under control... for now...

Rarity's and Mellow Hoof's POV

Rarity and Mellow Hoof stood in front of the fashionista's home. From the outside, it looked like it always would, except that the shop windows were empty. Rarity gasped loudly and began to worry for her newest clothes being damaged in any way. If there were even one spot on the fabric, she would do unspeakable things to that demon Discord.

Mellow Hoof put a hand on Rarity's shoulder to try and calm her friend down a bit. It helped a little bit.

Mellow Hoof said to Rarity with a smile. "Just remember..."

Rarity smiled and nodded. "Yes, you are right. Stress and make-up don't pair well."

Mellow Hoof's smile dropped, and she said in a disappointed tone. "Actually I meant that you count on me, but ok."

Rarity's eyes widened. The fashionista chuckled in embarrassment and replied. "Oh, how could I forgot that Darling. I mean, I know I can always count on you and thought I wouldn't have to repeat it because it is so obvious... so obvious."

Mellow Hoof hummed. "Mh-hm" with not a lot of trust in her voice.

Rarity wasn't sure how to defuse the situation, so she tried to change the topic by just opening her door-

*Bash*

*Thud*

-Only to be hit by a pillow that traveled by the speed of a car and the force of Scooter riding her scooter and falling to the ground. Rarity grumbled a bit before prying the pillow off her face, only to see that it now had her makeup on it, an exact copy of her makeup was now stained on the silk of the pillow. Rarity then stood up and glared angrily at the one who threw the pillow, only to not believe what her eyes saw. One of her Mannequin threw the object at her, and when it noticed Rarity seeing it, it bolted away.

Rarity shouted angrily. "Hey, come back here you-you-you THING!" and formed her hand into a fist which she waved in the direction where the Mannequin ran away.

Rarity jumped up and ran after the animated object with anger. But, the second Rarity ran past the door, water rained down upon the mare, and a burst of playful laughter echoed through the home. A Mannequin had waited on the wall for Rarity, but just as it wanted to run away, a white aura grabbed it and *Crash* smashed the creature into the ground where it shattered into millions of pieces.

Rarity huffed angrily, and her look could kill. Her entire body, fur, and clothing alike were drenched in water that skunk unbearably bad. At this point, all of her makeup was running down her face.

Mellow Hoof carefully walked up to Rarity and asked. "Ehm... Rarity? Are you.. alright?"

Rarity's head snapped at Mellow Hoof, and she answered with a great, broad and mad grin while her left eye was furiously twitching. "Oh DARLING!, I am more than JUST alright. In fact, I feel soooooo FINE that I FEEL like I could CRUSH anything between my hands!"

Mellow Hoof's face froze, and her heart was filled with fear as she took a few steps backward. Not that she feared for her life. 'No.' She just wanted to take a little bit of distance, in the form of walked back about 7 feet away.

Rarity then ran after the rest of the Mannequin while Mellow Hoof just stood there, hearing the destruction that Rarity was currently causing while her imagination was working over-over-time.

*Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash* *Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash* *Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash* *Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash* *Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash* *Bash* *Boom* *Crash* *Thud* *Bash* *Shing* *Thud *Crash*

*Silence*

After ten whole minutes of rumbling and fighting, there was silence, a very uncomfortable silence. Then, out of nowhere, a Mannequin head rolled down the stairs. The head, which usually wouldn't have a face, had a horrified look on its face. Mellow Hoof could only stare in fear.

Rarity then happily hopped down the stair, looking her usual self with new makeup on her face and new clothes on her body while her element was in her hand.

Mellow Hoof raised her finger and opened her mouth, but Rarity replied too fast. "Oh, one of these brutes had swallowed this cute little thing, so I didn't have to do a lot to get it back. Also, be a dear and don't walk into my room? Ok? Thanks!"

Mellow Hoof was more scared of this warning than any Bronie would be about a sign which read 'Don't enter the shed.' But, she was quickly forced back to reality when Rarity lifted the Doe up with her magic and walked back to her friends.

Back to Mathael

Mathael was not having a good day... like the one before that...... and before that. He was already stuck for 14 weeks in this hellhole, and every time he teleported, he just popped up somewhere else in this world. He was trapped in some kind of pocket dimension, but luckily, he was able to find another gate... when he 'accidentally' blew up an abandoned castle ... At least he hoped it was 'abandoned.' but at least the gateway was able to get him to another world.

Now he was already seven hours in the new world, and just as he expected and feared, it was the second generation of my little pony. He found it quite weird to see ponies live in a town that seemed to be from the 70/80s but then again, he has seen worse.

Now? Now he was walking through the streets. Well, stomping would be more fitting considering he was making large holes in the ground with every step. The ponies, those that walked on four legs, watched Mathael in fear. He wasn't interested in them, just how long it would take for him to find the next portal.

"Now now, don't you know it's not nice to destroy public property?" said an incredibly annoying voice.

Mathael looked at the owner of the voice, police... pony wearing the typical 80s police uniform. Mathael crouched down and said. "I have no time for this right now, capiche? Now, just a tip, don't stand my in my way, or you will be buried under my path?" Mathael knew he sounded like a huge plot hole, but he had no interest in dealing with this right now.

"If that's how you are going to act, then I am forced to use more direct means." said the pony as he was he pulled out a small police club and bashed it on Mathael's head. The club broke, and Mathael didn't even look bothered. The police pony's eyes bulged when he saw his stick that snapped in half.

Mathael sighed loudly and lifted his hand before putting it on the ponies head. Mathael then applied pressure and practically pressed the pony into the ground until only his head remained above the ground. Mathael then turned around and walked away in search of the next gate.

Applejack's POV

"Yep... Ah, think Ah now know what it feels like to be Big Mac." Said Applejack as she stared at her family's farm with no feelings inside of her, or at least not really bothered at the moment. Not that her home became madness incarnate wasn't angering her, but she just didn't have the patience for this right now.

"If Ah were some shiny jewel, where would Ah be?" asked Applejack loudly to herself as she watched a swarm of apples with bat wings fly through the air.

Applejack looked around and saw various chaos-fied things: The family house that walked on chicken legs. The barn that was spitting out animals. Lastly, there also were the apple field.

Applejack may not be an adventurer, but she knew that larger space meant that it was harder to find anything. With one last nod, she ran towards the apple trees in hopes of finding her element as fast as possible, she had to get back on her chores.

Applejack reached the tree in no time, but something seemed off upon nearing the fields. Everything looked too normal. The tree wasn't touched by the magic in the slightest, but something must have changed, why else would this be the only not chaotic place in ponyville, maybe even in whole Equestria!?

*Bash*

"Ouch!" shouted Applejack as she felt something hit her in the back of her head. When she turned around, only to be greeted with an apple twice the size of a regular apple with gremlin arms and legs. The apple then almost split in two, revealing teeth made out, well, apple, and laughed maniacally.

Applejack shouted. "Come here ya little vermin!" and ran after the monster.

The Gremlin saw what Applejack was about to do, and jumped away in the last moment before the earth pony was able to buck the three on which it hung. All of the fruits on the tree fell down, but instead of apples, it was oranges that fell from the trees.

Applejacks gritted her teeth in anger and shouted while pointing her fist into the air. "When I get ya little rat, I'll gut ya till there is nothing left of ya!"

Applejack ran after the gremlin which threw more and more apples at Applejack and dodging every attack. Applejack, on the other hand, jump-kicked every tree to which she came even remotely close. The earth ponies speed kicked up with every buck, and her strength increased seemingly without any limit in sight. After a few minutes in which the mare didn't get any more tired, she was now breaking trees in half.

The Gremlin wasn't even bothered by the enraged mare, it was just jumping, throwing and laughing more and more with each passing second. And then, Applejack snapped. She caught an apple that almost hit her face and threw it back at the Gremlin. The Gremlins laughter died out when it saw the apple flying towards it.

*Bash*

*Thud*

Applejack smiled widely and ran towards the Gremlin which was scrambling on the ground, trying to get back on its feet. Applejack was having none of that and lifted her hoof the second she came close and *Splash* *Clung* smashed the gremlin into a mash of fruit. But inside of the monster was something hard, and Applejack was now jumping on her other leg while holding her hurt leg. The Gremlin gave out one last mocking laugh before it crumbled to dust, leaving behind Applejack's element.

Applejack quickly grabbed the element and ran out of the apple Forrest. The thought of being surrounded by millions of oranges was a nightmare for a member of the apple family.

Back to Mathael again

Mathael has been walking from town to town in search of the next portal but didn't find anything. He has already been stuck in this damn place for a total of 15... months... The only reason he hasn't snapped yet or was worrying himself sick was that he 'deactivate' his emotions of anger, worry, love and the other stuff that could make him suffer. Now, this may sound like something completely inhumane... in-pony-ane? Whatever, but it was not that back.

After all those months of search, he just decided to take a break and entered a local cafe. But, the moment he entered the place, all customer ran away, besides the employee who was shaking and looking like she was trying to not piss herself. Mathael rolled his eyes and sat on a chair.

Mathael said with a sigh. "I take the strongest drink you have."

The mare gasped loudly and said. "But, that's too dangerous. Myths say that those who drank this drink have never returned!"

Mathael looked at the pony with absolutely no emotions in his face and body. He replied. "Ya know... this is probably exactly what I want."

The mare gulped loudly and walked inside the kitchen. The sound of heavy machines rang throughout the entire cafe. The sound of locks being unlocked and metal falling to the ground echoed through the building as well. After five minutes the mare came back with a completely normal looking glass with a lid on it.

Mathael grabbed the drink, opened the lip and just as he was about to drink it, he looked inside it, and his jaw dropped. Inside of the glass was a miniature version of a gate. Mathael stared at the glass for a few more seconds before saying without any care. "You know what? Fuck this shit, I'm out." and touched the gate, before disappearing in a flash of light.

The mare just stood there with a broad smile and said happily. "I am mentally scarred for the rest of my life!"

Trixie's and Twilight's POV

Twilight and Trixie stood in front of the golden Oak library that looked utterly... the same as if nothing ever changed. Yet, the girls knew that the evil letter army was still somewhere around, or worse, Ketos. Twilight and Trixie slowly walked towards the door and opened it, only to be greeted with the sight of a completely alien room.

The inside of what once was the golden Oak library was now a library... a different library. Said Library was HUGE, more significant than the Canterlot library, bigger than the library from that crazy owl from Avatar, more prominent than anything you have, or will ever see. Rows upon rows of books and tomes stood there, placed with care, on purpose, after a simple system that was at the same time complex and flexible. The ceiling was an ocean of stars and in the middle of it was the galaxy in which the pony world was, instead of a vortex, it looked more like waves that circled a cluster of stars. The ground was covered in a sound dampening carpet, and the tables and chairs were made out of the most expensive materials. And there was even a kitchen with dozens of fridges.

Twilight stared at the sight in front of her with great anticipation before running inside, ignoring Trixie's warning without another thought. Once inside, the young unicorn grabbed the most exciting things she could find. "The ancient tombs of great mage Sac'rum? The ultimate guide to arcane magic? Starswirl's compendium of toenails and beard growth elixirs? I am in heaven." Twilight squeaked loudly while darting at the books with hunger in her eyes.

Trixie walked up to Twilight, carefully not to accidentally startle her, and asked. "Starswirl's compendium of toenails and beard growth elixirs? Twilight, I never heard of that, and I never would've ever thought that this would exist." Said Trixi with great confusion as her eyebrows rose higher and higher.

"I know, right?!" Twilight squeaked even louder as she grabbed more and more books until she formed a small castle out of them. "Can you believe it? All this knowledge, some that I never even heard of! Just think of the possibilities." Twilight grabbed five random books and read them at the same time, not carrying for the world around her anymore.

Trixie stared at Twilight for a moment before sighing loudly and walked around the library on her own. There were books for all kinds of subject, perhaps even every matter that existed. From books about cooking to nature magic, from dark magic to a weird book bound in leather with a very creepy face on it, and so much more. No matter how far the unicorn walked, she couldn't find the ned, Trixie couldn't even see the end of the library.

After finding nothing but more and more books, Trixie decided to take a different approach, instead of searching for the end, she searched for the middle. She walked past Twilight who seemed close to finishing the five books and continued walking without any second thought. Trixie walked past many shelves and chairs, books and more, while her only friend at the moment were her own thoughts. ' What is Discord planning? Twilight will finish the books sooner or later unless he plans for her to starve while she read... that is pretty likely knowing her, but there must be more, no one would give her books without a deeper thought behind it. Celestia did it to make her stronger, Mathael did it because... I don't know why he did it, but I just know that he always has a reason for everything he does, but what does Discord have in mind?'
questions a lot, questions aplenty raced through her head on the long way to her destination.

At long last, Trixie found the middle and gasped at what she saw. In the middle of the entire library, was an hourglass, a gigantic hourglass that reached from the ground to the high ceiling, but no sand inside of it. Yet, there was one thing inside the time measurement device. Spike. Spike banged on the glass and screamed, but no sound came through.

Trixie ran towards the glass and banged on it loudly with her fists, but it had no avail. Trixie knew that she couldn't tell him to get away from the glass, so she walked up to the glass, breathed against it, and drew backward. 'Spike, go away from the glass. I will try to blast you free.' It took Spike a few minutes until he realized what Trixie had in mind, but once he did, he ran faster to the other side than he ever ran in his whole life.

Trixie exhaled loudly, before lowering her head and pointing her horn at the glass, before charging up as much magic as she could. Her horn glowed with magic, and sweat began to run on her forehead while she tried to compress as much magic as possible. After what felt like an eternity for her, to about five seconds in the real world, she let go, and the spell flew without warning towards the glass. But nothing happened. Trixie lifted her head once she realized that there was no sound, and her jaw dropped when she saw that her spell didn't do anything.

Trixie stared at Spike with an apologetic look, but this moment was ruined when suddenly a pop interrupted the silence. Both Drake and unicorn looked up and were confused when they saw a book floating above Spike. The books read 'Starswirl's compendium of toenails and beard growth elixirs,' but then, the books crumbled to sand. Both of them looked confused, but then more and more books started to appear and falling to dust as well. Trixie realized what was happening with horror. 'Every book that Twilight read fills up the hourglass more and more until SPike suffocates!!!'

Trixie looked around in panic and walked left and right not sure what to do or think, but when another book worth of dust filled the hourglass, and the sand already went up to Spike's knees, she ran off to find Twilight. Trixie ran and ran like she never did before, and when she reached the spot where Twilight was sitting earlier. "Twilight, you have to stop-!!!" She saw that her friend has already left.

Trixie was panic and hyperventilating. Then, she heard giggling, loud giggling and her head snapped to the left, and on the far off left wall, she saw a shadow with several books shaped shadows in tow. Trixie ran after Twilight, but when she arrived there, she saw, again, only books lying on the ground, all with their last page open. Trixie's eyes shrank to the size of pinpoint while her nails ran across her cheek in despair, almost making herself bleed. Trixie's head snapped left and right before she just ran in a random direction and occasionally sight of the sand growing, and Spike getting more desperate with each second as the sand had already reached his shoulder. Spike looked like he was about to cry.

After a few more moments, she found Twilight, reading twenty books at once and was close to finding them. Trixie wasted no time and fired weak magic bold at Twilight. Twilight didn't even notice Trixie before she was hit and knocked to the ground. Twilight looked angry and was about to shout, as she suddenly felt a firm grip on her arm before she was teleported away.

In a bright flash, Trixie and Twilight appeared out of nowhere. Twilight tried to say something, but Trixie was faster again as the turquoise colored mare grabbed Twilight head, and forcefully made her look at Spike, who was already buried to the point only his snout and his eyes were above the sand. "Twilight, with every book you read, you buried Spike more and more! You have to stop!"

Twilight rolled her eyes and said. "Trixie, I am sure you just misunderstood something, there must be something else than-" *Slap*, but a hard slap to the cheek interrupted the purple mare. Twilight was stunned by this attack and rubbed her red cheek with a substantial hand mark on it.

Trixie was not interested in an answer and grabbed the nearest and this book she could find. Said boom was only two pages long, and she just skipped most of it, and once she finished, two or three pages worth of sand filled the glass more.

Twilight stared at the Hourglass, then at Spike, then at Trixie, and finally at all the books surrounding her. She almost killed her own brother for a bunch of books. Twilights eyes began to water. She slowly walked to the Hourglass where Spike was barely visible and banged her fist against the glass. "I don't want these books!" *Crack* Twilight caused a large crack to appear on the glass with just her fist. "I don't care for the knowledge! *Crack* If it means! *Crack* That I lose! *Crack* My Friend! *Crack* *Shatter*

The Hourglass shattered into millions of pieces and tons of sand covered the ground surrounding the middle of the vast library. Twilight didn't wait for a second and ran towards Spike, and gave him the most forceful hug she was able to offer while more and more tears left her eyes.

Spike, who only was able to get a bit of air in his lungs when the glass shattered said as loud as he could, which was not loud considering he was receiving a full-body strangling treatment by his sister. "Twilight... You're... choking me... with your love!"

Twilight said between sobs. "I know! *Sob* and I will never- 'Sob' never let go of you again!"

Trixie looked at the scene in front of her and shouted. "Twilight! You are literally choking him! His scales already turned blue!"

Twilight's eyes snapped open and let go of her brother, who was know wheezing on the floor and shouting. "Sweet, sweet air! I missed you so much!" Trixie gave Twilight a look that meant 'I told you so' to which Twilight blushed in embarrassment.

But the moment of victory only lasted long as the ground, the walls and ceiling started to shake and vibrate. All that was in int library was crumbling to dust and disintegrating away, leaving behind the Golden Oak library.

Twilight stared at the room surrounding her with sadness, seeing all these books die was a sorrowful sight for her, but she knew there was no other way. But then, Twilight gasped in joy when she saw the last few piles of sand vanishing, leaving behind a tiara, her tiara. The element of magic.

Twilight walked up to her element and picked it up with a small smile on her face. "Let's go, Spike, Trixie, we still have to deal with Discord." Twilight then walked out of the library, closely followed by her friends.

You know the rule of three. Mathael's Pov

*Crash*

*Bang*

*Thud*

Mathael landed in the dirt like a meteor, fire, and dust were thrown in all direction, but luckily there was no tree in sight. The Thestral Pony grumbled under his breath as he was slowly picking himself off the ground. The world around him looked normal, at least more reasonable than it was before he came to this new place.

Mathael was not sure why, but his emotions suddenly came back to him, but the one that towered them all was not anger or sadness, but great worry as his senses screamed for danger around him. Mathael looked around but saw nothing, and he was confused why his senses would be warning him, he just landed in... generation... Oh no... oh nooo. Oh noooooooooooo!

A small hoof tapped on his shoulder... Out of every pore in Mathael's body was sweat coming out and his throat suddenly dried out. He slowly turned around, and his pupils shrank to the size of a pinpoint, his hands were shaking, and his breath was sharp.

"Do you want to be my friend?" Said A pony of Generation t- said a pony of generation th- said a pony of generation thr-!

Mathael realized what was going on, why his senses were screaming at him to run, to get away from this world. He was thrown in a place worse than hell, worse than any hell that existed, WORSE than any other place in the creation... Mathael, the edgiest creature in all of history... was stuck in Generation 3 of my little pony.

Mathael almost fell to his knees, with his knees only hoovering centimeter above the ground, as he threw his fist into the air. Mathael screamed at the heavens and hells. perhaps his voice even reached the past, the future and other worlds."Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Back to the Girls

After the girls have finally gathered all the elements of harmony, the Girls went back to where they saw each other the last time. Upon sight, they began to celebrate their victory by cheering and talking to each other. But the joy quickly ended when they saw what has happened to Rainbow Dash and promptly began to comfort her (Despite her protests).

After the comforting finally ended (Much to Rainbow Dash's joy), Swift Tail asked with concern in her voice. "Wait a moment, Discord said that we could only do it alone, but I don't think anyone of us could've done it on their own?" There was a dead silence, and then-

"Well, I am sure I could- *Smack*"Rainbow Dash was saying but was cut off when Applejack slapped her on the back of her head.

"I think we should stop talkin' and get goin' girls. This little Vermin had been doing it little tricks for far too long' now." Said Applejack as she cracked her knuckles in appreciation.

The Girls nodded, and with no more words to say, the Girls walked towards the center of the chaos. How did they know where it was? Simple, there was a colossal sunbed with an even larger towel on it which read 'Discord's property! NO TOUCHY!!!'

Discords POV (Too many POV changes...)

*Crack* *Crack* *Crack*

Discord cracked his knuckles with a satisfying look on his face while the moans of pain from the weird skin bag behind him filled the room. In front of him were the princesses and the look on their faces was priceless... no one would buy to see such a disgusting look.

But just as Discord was about to attend certain matters with the princesses, he was again interrupted when his body suddenly began to furiously shake.

-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-!

After a few more moments of shaking, DIscord finally snapped out of it and put two fingers on his chin. "Hm... I felt a disturbance in the fudge." Discord then turned back to his hostages and gave them a very creepy smile. "Now, I think it's time to end this little scavenger hunt, don't you think?" to which the Princesses gave him a confused look.

Discord rolled his eyes in annoyance, he has been waiting for this moment for over a thousand years, but so far it has been way more annoying than fun. With one last shrug, he said. "Oh, Betty! Wait, Batty the Bat Pony? Ok, your new name is Batty!"

"My name is- !" Shouted Darkness, but was quickly silenced when Discord closed her muzzle with his claw.

Discord pulled out a sock with bat ears, eyes, and two long teeth, and put his paw into it."Yeah yeah, I am not this, I am not that, I want you to turn my husband back from a twenty-six-limbed octopus to a Stallion, blah blah BLAH!" Said Discord. "Anyways, I am going to take you with me, just in case. But, if you're not needed, then, well, you get to meet one of the best fudge users in the whole galaxy, master Yogurt!". When Discord finished his sentence, he suddenly moved his face away from the ponies and spoke quietly in his hand ."I don't want any legal issues."

The Princesses, Eris, and Darkness looked at Discord in confusion, but before they could even come remotely close to ask a question, both Darkness and he vanished in a great flash, leaving the Princesses, Eris and the moaning bag of skin, blood and pain alone.

In a great flash, Discord appeared twelve feet in the air, sitting on his floating throne which not only looked like a creepy face on it but also had horns on it that looked similar to those that its creator wears. Yet, there was no sight of Darkness, in truth, the mare in question was trapped in an invisibility bubble that also blocked Darknesses screams. Not to confuse with an invisible bubble, because then you'd still be able to see the Thestral.

Discord looked down at the Girls with a smug smile and said happily. "Oh, look at that! You have survived the games I set up for you in less than two minutes. CONGRATULATIONS! Sadly, you still have lost." Discord snapped his fingers, and the Elements disappeared in several flashes of light and reappeared beside Discord and floated in the air.

"Hey" "What?" "How!" "But-But!" "Why!?" "Damn you little-" any many more shouts of disbelief and anger were shouted at Discord who lazily looked at the girls with have closed eyes.

After the Girls stopped their screams, Discord let out a loud yawn, and .... and pulled out two large chunks of cotton out of his ears. "Did you say anything?" The Girls stared at Discord in disbelief and mimicked fishes with their mouths.

Discord rolled his eyes and said. "Anyways, you all broke the rules of my game! Did you not listen? I said you have to do it alone, and you all broke them! Which means you'll be punished for doing so. First, I am going to- *Cracks*" Discord tilted his head to the left and looked at his fingers, surprised from the sound since he hasn't done anything and slightly worried that he accidentally broke his fingers from all the snapping today.

*Creeeeeeck*

The ground was trembling, and even the very air was vibrating from the extreme amount of power that suddenly entered the world. Discord and Girls looked for the source, and shortly afterward found it. There was a large golden door that was decorated after the sun and moon, and it was slowly opening.

Through the crack, a wasteland of storm, destruction, and fire raged across a seemingly endless realm. Two black, clawed hands grasped the two parts of the door, slowly pulling them apart while more and more cracks began to gradually appear there where the hands pushed. Out of the destruction, two glowing red eyes slowly came closer and closer. After a few more moments, sharp teeth were visible, then along black muzzle, and then the entire face was visible. It was Mathael, but, his eyes were empty, filled with immeasurable pain, hatred, and anger that was so close to close to erupt in a wave of malice.

*Boom* *Thud*

Mathael applied even more force, and with one last push, the gate snapped open with such force that not only the door was now completely covered in cracks, but the hill on which the door rested as well. "Thirty-two years..." Mathael walked two steps towards Discord, each movement was executed with all of his willpower. Mathael then *Boom* snapped the doors shut with such force that the entire gate crumbled to dust. "Thirty-two years have I been stuck in this hellish realm of yours..."

Discord blinked loudly in a very cartoon-ish way and said bluntly. "To be honest, I didn't expect you to get out at all."

Mathael looked even angrier and grit his teeth, his body was no visibly trembling in fury. Mathael slowly walked towards Discord, every second his body was screaming for the sweet release of his anger this went to the point energy wave leaving his eyes like smoke. "I will make you pay for every second I was trapped in that hellhole."

Discord shrugged and said. "To be honest, that place was a dump anyways, even before the secret show finally of generation 3, in which the world exploded, but oh well, what's your point?"

Mathael was quietly growling, but his inner hatred was overshadowed by his ferocious snarling. "Keep talking, just keep talking and see what my wrath will do to you."

Discord looked at Mathael, slowly coming closer and closer, to which he replied with crossed eyes and a very idiotic voice. "D'okay" before grabbing a small vial with a white liquid and threw it at Mathael.

Mathael grunted in anger, and his hand shot with such speed towards the vial that the wind not only broke the flask but also smashed a hole in Discord's throne.

*Shatter* *Sssshhhhhhh* "Ahhhhh!"

Mathael screamed in pain as the liquid splashed across his face, but his when his virus absorbed one droplet, it just found out that it was water with salt in it.

Discord chuckled loudly, before laughing loudly and punching the armrest of his chair while he cried tears. "Oh, oh, oh the LOOK on your face is PRICELESS!" After a few more moments, Discord finally calmed down and said to Mathael, who was still rubbing his face in pain. "Oh, suck it up buttercup, I just sneaked into the basement of the Catholic church in this place called Italy and grabbed a vial that was labeled as 'the Savior's tears.' No biggy"

Mathael's breath picked up, and now he was screaming in rage and throwing his arms in the air, slashing and bashing and thrashing everything around him, even though there was nothing around him. The liquid didn't just blind him, it also prevented him from using any vision enhancing ability and damaged his demonic soul. He knew that he was hitting nothing, but the rage kept going and going while the wind that was caused by his attack was slowly, but still rapidly destroying the hill on which he stood. "Once I get my hands around your neck you disgusting, selfish, arrogant, cocky piece of shit I will make sure you will never hurt anyone ever again!" and many more curses shouted Mathael.

And then, he hit something. He heard a loud thud, a muffled scream and a liquid splashing everywhere. The weird liquid hit his face and the burning pain- that was not shame - suddenly vanished, but he was confused as for why the air smelled like iron. Mathael brought his hands slowly to his face and wished them clean... and then gasped loudly.

The grass was colored in red, shreds of clothes and metal laid scattered across the field. A few patches of grey fur and flesh rested on the ground. Organs and blood everywhere. The sweet, and yet at the same time the sickening smell of meat, as well as the gasps of the Girls and the chuckling from Discord, filled the air. Blue, slit eyes, filled with tears and betrayal looked back at him, while his knees were shaking. A large hole was embedded in the body, out of which blood and organs gushed out and tainted the ground. There she laid of what remained, of Darkness Bloodheart.

Mathael wide eyes slowly looked down at his claws, covered in blood and bits and pieces of flesh and skin. He heard nothing anymore, but a faint, yet loud and constant long, flat and ear-piercing sound was all he heard. He felt nothing but a cold and suffocating feeling of dread was spreading across his whole body. His breaths became faster and faster, and his eyes teared up, all that he now saw, heard and felt, was what he has done. He murdered Darkness, he killed her without a second thought.

Mathael slowly brought his hands up to his face and covered his eyes before falling to his knees for the first time in his life, and just looked at his beloved one's corpse through the gaps of his fingers. Mathael shook his head, not wanting to accept it, not wanting to understand it, didn't want to think about it. And yet, it was inevitable what has happened.

And then, he mumbled something so quiet, not even a mice could've heard him, and then he said it louder, again, and again, and again. Faster and faster the words left his lips until everyone could hear what he was saying. "I don't care anymore! I don't care anymore! I don't care anymore! I don't care if I have to destroy this entire universe, I will fucking kill you!!!!!

Mathael stood up in one less than a second, and his hand was suddenly set aflame by dark fires. The mysterious flames then vanished in a second and revealed Hell's Vengeance appeared. Mathael's eyes were empty, there was nothing but rage and pain in them. His entire body crackled with unholy energy, his body moved on its own, his power levels began to rise.

What many failed to realize what that his anger, determination, and forms didn't just add more power, they multiplied it up to unimaginable levels, meaning that even with 1%, he could do more damage than with a million percent of his base power.

Slowly, he crouched down, his blade ready, and will set to kill, and yet, there was one thing that stopped him for just a moment. There was still the little part in his mind, that knew what would happen if he turns into a monster again, what he would become, and so, in his last act of his own, he limited his power to 1%, in hopes to minimize his next actions as much as possible.

Mathael pulled his blade even further back, and the lighting power intensified more and more with each passing second as time seemed to have slowed down. Once Mathael reared his sword back as much as he could, he gathered all of his strength and readied himself to kill Discord in one slice.

But just as Mathael was about to swing this unholy weapon, the eye of Kroggar opened on its own and, released an ear-piercing screech, The Girls and even Discord jumped back in shock, while Mathael could only stare at his weapon, as ethereal red tendrils latched onto his arm, and then his whole body. The demonic energy that once coursed through his body was being absorbed into the sword. Mathael screamed in pain, as his demonic power was directly connected to his soul, yet instead of continuing, the sword suddenly stopped and shattered into dozens of shards.

*Shatter* *Shing* *Shing* *Shing*

The shards carelessly levitated through the air, before shooting towards Mathael and penetrating his flesh and bone, embedding themselves in his body, and yet, there was still one whole piece of the sword, that would join just a heartbeat later. The Eye of Kroggar, shot towards Mathael's chest like a cannonball, and embedded itself in his chest as well and knocked him dozens of meters back. All of this, happened in such a short amount of time, that no one was even able to realize what occurred before it was too late.

The Girls stared at Mathael in horror, while DIscord only stared at Mathael with an emotionless expression. Discord muttered half loud under his breath. "Wow, you made the god of chaos speechless..."

Blood was running down Mathael's body while he was trying to rip the chunks of the sword in his flesh, but with only so little of his power available, his attempts were futile. The blood slowly formed a puddle under the dark stallion's hooves, but it didn't end there. The condensed itself into a wax-like substance, and formed itself to become some kind of text, that after a few more seconds became a pentagram.

The pentagram glowed with demonic power, and only a short time later, a wave of hellish flames burst out of the ground from the deepest levels of hell. Mathael screamed while everyone stared in horror, minus Discord, as his fur burned away and his flesh, melted, but just as it liquified, it started to expand and deform. A large cloud of smoke erupted from the pentagram, and the smoke hastily formed some kind of gigantic cocoon, made out of dark smoke, that developed into a void-like rock, and just as the smoke hardened, blooded chains broke through the ground and encased the prison.

No one was sure what to say, nor do or think of what just happened. The Girls slowly backed off, knowing full well that it was not a good idea to interrupt Mathael, but Discord had other plans. The Draconequus flew towards the cocoon and knocked on the giant stone. First, he snapped his fingers, and changed his clothes and created various objects which he used to interact with the shell, like as an Italian cook with a mustache, a doctor with a stethoscope and a baseball player. But he got bored pretty quickly and just kicked the egg in boredom.

Suddenly, a large white pentagram with a star in the middle appeared on the egg, and an ice cold, yet almost bone-chilling, wind coursed through the land, as the moon slowly rose, and the sun fell. Not very soon after, total darkness spread across the sky with no stars to guide, the only light being the moon, but that was changed rapidly. The mark that was on the cocoon, slowly bled onto the surface of the moon, covering its whole front, in a blood-red tinge.

Suddenly an ominous, deep and yet smooth voice rang through the dark night. "When hope is gone... Undo this lock... On a moonlit walk..." As the bodiless voice reached this point in his sentence, the cocoon cracked, and a wave of red energy spread across the world and dyed the sky in red light. "...Release restraint... ZERO" and a powerful roar that made the world tremble soon followed.

Cracks started to form on the shell as the cocoon crumbled apart and released a dark cloud, out of which three red glowing eyes stared back. Slowly, the eyes traveled higher and higher and soon powerful, earthshaking footstep was hearable as well.

Out of the shadows, a 35 feet high form menacingly walked out of the shadows. The creature was a huge demon, covered in dark grey spikes and red scales. Its feet were raptor-like feet with large claws attached to them. Although its arms didn't look very muscular for the creature's size, they still looked powerful and were very long. On the backside, there was a long and muscular tail covered in spikes. On the back, there were long and thick spikes that almost looked like ballista spears. The whole body was decorated with symbols and lines what looked like molten fire, and the most exciting thing was a huge eyeball in the middle of its chest. And the face looked like the skull of a monster, no visible flesh but only scales and two holes of fire that resembled eyes, lastly two large horns grew on both sides of the head up and down, and a sizeable jagged horn grew out of the forehead. What had Mathael become!?!

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Embodiment of Hatred

Faction: Hell

Rip and tear! Slash and break! Slaughter and slay!
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No there, was no Mathael present, only the Embodiment of Hatred remained in his place, and the demon looked Pissed! The Embodiment of Hatred growled as it stared at Discord while it slowly flexed its muscles and limbs, trying to gain more control over them.

Discord tilted his head in confusion and flapped his wings towards the Embodiment of Hatred and said while inspecting it. "Hmm, now I must say you are a fascinating creature... Yes, I have seen demons pull the weirdest stuff, but you top that and to be honest, I am not even sure how you survived that, so as a reward, you get a painless death. So, wanna see if a potato can replace a heart?" Discord then snapped his fingers and.... nothing happened.

Discord suddenly became a bit paler and gulped. Discord snapped again, nothing, he snapped again, Nitto, Discord snapped again and, something happened! Oh wait, that was just a fly... Nothing would happen... No matter what he did, his magic didn't work...i

Discord became frustrated, he planned everything perfectly, but this little nuisance just had to get into his way. He screamed in anger. "Why won't you just die already?!! And more importantly, why does my magic not work on you!!!!"

The Embodiment of Hatred growled loudly and formed one of its claws into a fist and *Bash* uppercut Discord dozens of feet into the air.

But was not all. The Demon jumped up and appeared next to Discord in a heartbeat. The Demon *Bash* punched Discord, but instead of being punched away, Disocrd was *Bash* hit by another punch from the other side, and then from the next side. What really was happening was that the Demon moved so fast that it created afterimages, it looked like there were dozens of him beating the living shit out of Discord.
*Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash*

The Embodiment of Hatred finished its attack with a drop-kick. The kick was so powerful that it shattered the sound wall and shot Discord, with the speed of mach 4, towards Canterlot castle.

With no more need to stay airborne, the Demon let himself drop to the ground, and earth under it cracked upon impact. The Embodiment of Hatred wasted only one second of staring into the distance, Canterlot castle to be exact, and began to walk towards the edge of the hill.

"Wait!! Mathael, this isn't you! You have to stop!" Shouted a familiar voice which's the owner was Twilight.

The Embodiment of Hatred had no interest in wasting its time with this punny mortal, and carelessly moved it its tail towards the owner, not even carrying if it would hit the annoying fly or not. *Bash**Crash*

The Demon hit Twilight, and despite her creating a shield in the last moment, the shield was destroyed and thrown with such force that she was thrown away and hit a tree. But Twilight was flung away with such force that the tree was snapped in half.

The Girls rushed towards Twilight and gasped when they saw that blood was flowing out of her mouth. But, they knew that Twilight had the luck that she 'only' received so 'little' damage compared to what Mathael was able of doing.

Hate, wrath, anger was everything Mathael knew. His vision? Red. He didn't know anything else but fighting, no other thoughts flew through his mind. There was barely any sentients in him, and to be honest, he didn't care. He didn't care if some ponies will die, he didn't care for the destruction, he just didn't care for anything but to kill Discord.

The Embodiment of Hatred stood on the edge of the hill and growled at the distant mountain. The Eye of Kroggar glowed with an unholy light, and an ominous voice spoke "Sanguinem ejus cadunt. et oriri cruor.", and when it finished its sentence, The Embodiment of Hatred turned into blood, which fell onto the grass and was seemingly absorbed by the ground.

Canterlot Castle

Blood and severed body parts were scattered across the room, and the disgusting smell of rotting flesh filled the chamber. Midst it all were the princesses and Eris who after many attempts finally managed to get the chains off their bodies. The three of them looked around the room in horror as they now could see all the pain that Discord caused.

Just the three of them were about to help them, they heard some sounds like something was breaking through many walls. As the listen carefully, the sound became more significant and then suddenly, *Crash* the castle's wall burst open, and something came crashing on the floor of the throne room. When the dust settled, Eris and the princesses gasped at what they saw.

In the hold on the floor, was Discord with a very swollen face, several missing teeth and some bones sticking out of his body. Parts of his clothes were ripped and had several bruises and cuts on his body. Probably from crashing through several walls. The princesses were shocked to see him in a state like this. Never before have they seen Discord bearing bruises like these as he was stronger than the princesses combined.

Discord for the first time in his life has felt pain. He could not believe what just happened. With his magic, he can bend reality to his will. He can do anything! Even protecting himself from being hurt but the creature he met not only defied his magic but was able to hit him as well! He felt anger at the thought of a mortal to hurt him like this. He used his magic to heal himself and regrew his missing teeth.

After healing himself, with a grunt, he walked out of the hole and then saw the princesses staring at him. He became angry at the thought that seeing his bruised body must be a good thing to them.

Discord conjured up a sword in his hand and said, "You think seeing me in this state is fun?! I should've just gotten rid of you when I had the chance! Now I will make sure you will suffer and... and... it's standing right behind me, isn't it" Discord muttered the last part of his sentence.

True to his words, a large puddle of blood formed behind him, and the blood formed into an exact replica of The Embodiment of Hatred, before it morphed into the real demon. The Demon's shadow loomed over Discord whose last sight was the horrifying looks of the Princesses and Eris, before *Bash*, a powerful spiked tail bashed against the side of his head and shot him out of the Castle. In fact, the attack was so powerful that *Shatter*, that about a third of all pillars and all glass in the castle exploded from the shockwave and bathed the room in the dust.

When the dust settled down, the princesses gasped at what they saw. It was a 35-foot tall being with a slender, yet muscular body with red scales and spikes and very dangerous looking eyes. The princesses were afraid at what was standing there who had just slapped Discord away as if he was nothing. They felt unbridled rage, hate, and malice coming from this being but something caught their eyes. Luna looked closely at the being's face, and a few seconds later, she recognizes who this being was. It was her Coltfriend, Mathael!

The Princesses and Eris stared at The Embodiment of Hatred in fear, but one of them could see who really stood in front of them. Luna said fearfully. "M-Mathael?" Celestia and Eris stared at Luna, before looking back at the Demon and realized the truth as well. But why did he look like this? Both the princesses and Eris realized that something may have happened to
Darkness and that triggered Mathael into becoming whatever he is now.

The Demon was stopped in its tracks for a moment, and slowly and menacingly turned its head towards Luna. There was no sentience in his eyes, and only his growling broke through the silence. The Hatred snarled before snapping its head towards the ceiling and letting out a mighty roar *Rooooooaaaarrr* which threw the girls back and made the very mountain shake. The Embodiment of Hatred then crouched down on all four of its limbs and charged towards Discord.

The Demon didn't care for the walls it broke through, nor the guards it threw away, only the death of the abomination Discord was on its mind. With one last mighty leap, the Hatred leaped forward *Crash* landed in the middle of the street and created a crater under each of its feet.

The Beast slowly rose to its full height, barely visible from afar due to the blood red moon and the dark sky. The creatures burning eyes stared at a large hole in the skyscraper in front of it, rubble was shuffling, and groans escaped the rocks.

*Boom*

The pile of rubble suddenly exploded, and out of levitated a clearly pissed off Discord. The mere sight of Discord enraged the Demon even more. The embodiment of Hatred gritted its teeth and formed its claws into fists as an unholy aura that made all mortal life flee as far away as they could, this power affected the whole mountain and the land surrounding it in a large radius.

Let the slaughter begin

Discord pointed his index finger at the Demon and fired a beam of chaos energy at his opponent, but to his surprise, the shot evaporated upon touching the scales. Discord gritted his teeth and fired a barrage of dozens of beams at Mathael.

Mathael's instincts picked up and dodged the beams so fast, it looked like he teleported. Mathael pulled his fist back, and his left arm bulged to five times its usual size and *Bash* punched Discord with such force in the fact that he broke out almost all of his teeth. But that was not all, he pushed even further and further till the world picked up with his speed and strength, and flung Discord through five buildings. *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* *Crash*

And yet, even that was not enough for the Embodiment of Hatred. It used "Soru" to appear just a couple of feet behind Discord as he was still flying through the air and grabbed Discord's head, almost snapping his neck. The Demon then *Bash* slammed his head into the ground, creating an almost perfect duplicate of the Spirit's ugly face, and the *Bash* slammed his head into the ground again. *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash* again *Bash*.

With the last slam, Mathael buried Discord's head in the street. Mathael then lifted his foot and was about to crack Discord's skull open, but before his sole connected with his head *Crash*, Discord disappeared with a flash of light, and the ground was hit instead.

Discord teleported himself several hundred meters in the air and healed his head and regrew all of his missing teeth.

Mathael looked around, no Discord in sight and he couldn't even smell his blood anywhere. Suddenly, the Eye of Kroggar snapped wide open and looked up began to glow with a yellow light. The Demon looked up and saw a huge tower flying towards him. The eye of Kroggar then fired a "Eye Beam" which not only evaporated the building in an instant upon touch *Zap* but also burned a hole into Discords stomach.

Discord yelled in pain and vanished in a flash of light. Mathael looked around, but no Discord in sight, not even the Eye of Kroggar saw him. But then, the Demon heard something behind him, but before he could react *Shing*, he suddenly couldn't feel his tail anymore.

Mathael could see the damn cocky grin of Discord's face with when he activated his "Byakugan", and he was pissed off! Mathael grabbed his right fist, and with full force, *Bash* *Crack* **Crash slammed his elbow with full force into Discord's rips, shattering them, and throwing him through yet another building.

Mathael stared at the building through which he punched Discord, and saw that the sword he used to cut off his tail. It was a Leo Blade that was heavily infused with chaos magic. Mathael growled with such a deep tone that it was impossible for any mortal ears to hear, this THING dared to use one of HIS creation that was meant to protect the weak to KILL HIM!

Mathael then saw Discord's ghost form with the Eye of Kroggar and his "Byakugan". Discord had healed his wounds and cast an invisibility spell again, but this time Mathael was prepared.

Discord grinned devilishly as he thought he found a way to kill this monster, Discord actually wanted to backstab the Demon, but the blade just bounced off the beast's scales, but at least now it was only a matter of time till he would kill it. Discord walked behind Mathael and created a blade purely made out of chaos magic, but just as he was about to stab Mathael, the beast turned around with neck breaking speed and revealed something terrifying.

The moment Discord was behind the Embodiment of Hatred, the Demon charged up his right arm and used his virus to create more and more muscle mass until it grew so big, it looked like he ripped it off from a giant and stitched it to his body. Sadly, due to him not having a clear mind, or a mind at all, mind you, it turned out to look rather... Disgusting. Scales broke off, and veins were clearly visible across the whole arm, cracked open skin, and dozens of bones and spikes have grown out of his limbs as well, but it would do the job.

The Demon used the second of confusion and roared in an unholy scream which translated meant Times 20 Explosion Punch before turning around and punching Discord in the chest. Discord reacted quickly and created a shield made out of his magic, but *Shatter* it was only able to block the first five hits. *Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash**Bash*

Each punch was stronger than the one before, and Discord shot across the street while jerking furiously. The force of the blows ended up being so intense that even the buildings on both sides collapsed. In the end, the attack not only destroyed the main streets but also obliterated 37 buildings!

*Sploööört*

But the Demon's action didn't come without a cost. The arm that he 'improved' with his virus exploded into a fountain of blood and flesh, and he didn't care. A tentacle then suddenly grew out of his spine, there where the tail was once connected and shot towards the separated tail. The tendril stabbed itself into the backbone of the tail, and pulled it back to where it belonged, connected both wounds and allowing the virus to stitch the lost limb back to the main body. Only a second later, the tail moved again and was under full control, thanks to the virus which healed the damage.

Mathael then looked at the puddle of blood that once was his arm, and commanded the virus with all of his free mind's power, to recreate his lost arm. In just seconds, the blood grew into another arm. Mathael grabbed the severed arm and pushed it against the stump of its shoulder. Thousands of tiny tendrils shot at the arm and stitched it back to his body. The Embodiment of Hatred slowly and forcefully closed its fist and formed it into a fist, to see if it worked. It did.

Discord stood in the middle of the street with his eyes wide open and his jaw literally on the ground. That thing just regrew its limbs after he liquidated them! What did he have to do to kill this MONSTER! Deep fry it!!??!! ... That might actually work! Discord snapped his talon and a great flash of light blinded all of Canterlot!

A few moments ago...

Eris was able to destroy the collars that took away her magic and freed Celestia and Luna. Sadly, Eris didn't know how to heal others, so she was only able to heal herself, so it was up to the Princesses to deal with the injured, while Eris went outside to look for Mathael. Celestia and Luna managed to heal themselves to the point where they could at least walk but were still very much hurt. They healed the guards' wounds and cuts but could do nothing about their sever limbs, wings and broken horns. With the help of the castle's staff, they put all the guards in the hospital wing. After that, the princesses heard several explosions and felt the ground tremble. They went outside of the castle to find Discord and Mathael.

Celestia and Luna came into the city and stopped when they saw Eris standing in the path like a statue when they reached her, they saw why. They now saw all the destruction that was made from the fight. Several buildings were collapsed, and some were pulverized. Entire streets were destroyed. And yet, the most disturbing thing was the sky. A blood red moon and darkness covering the sky. When Mathael forced an eclipse, it was scary, but this was even more horrifying, it was almost like the world was trembling in fear. They looked around to find the ones responsible for the destruction and changed the sky. They then were blinded by a great flash of light. When the flash of light faded away, the Princesses gasped at what they saw.

A massive 80 feet tall dragon appeared out of nowhere, and yet, there was something off. The monster stood on four legs and had not a sliver of sentience in its eyes. The Dragon roared at Mathael, who growled back even louder. The dragon accepted the challenge and fired an enormous blast of fire at Mathael, one, that even melted the ground that was several meters away in a heartbeat.

Mathael just stood there like the giant wave of fire shot towards him in slow motion. The Eye of Kroggar shrank a little, not in fear, but for a different reason, and that was to shield it from the counter-attack...

The Princesses gasped loudly as the fires consumed Mathael, making him disappear from sight. Eris fell onto her knees and began to cry aloud, thinking he first love had already perished.

Discord laughed loudly with the smuggest grin any shit-eating face could have and giggled like a madman while floating with his back pointing to the ground. After a few seconds, Discords celebration stopped, when he saw that the dragon was still shooting its flam blast.

Discord shouted. "Oi! Would ya stop already? He's already dead!" But the dragon ignored his command. Discord glared at the dragon while he was slowly getting extreme hatred against anything with scales... anything that wasn't him... so nothing changed at all. But then he realized something, the moon didn't change back, which meant... oh no! Discord's head snapped back and saw that the fires just disappeared in the air and that the flames' range decreased more and more with each second, and a loud stomping was now hearable aswell.

Suddenly, two scales and picked arms shot out of the fire, *Bash* *Bash* *Crack* and punched the dragon's snout, breaking it and breaking all of its teeth. When the dragon stopped breathing fire, it revealed Mathael, with his mouth wide open, and a radiant fireball rested in its maw, absorbing all the flames that still lingered in the air.

Mathael had been eating the fire, and now the collected flames would soon come into use. The Demon grabbed one side of the jaw with each hand and forcefully opened it. Mathael then snapped his maw wide open, and a brilliant light illuminated the mountain. A powerful beam of fire shot out of Mathael's mouth, burning the insides of the dragon, and its body in one go, but it didn't end there, the beam of fire continued its destruction and pulverized the tops of three mountains before the burning crusade finally ended by evaporating a large lake.

The Princesses and Eris looked at Mathael, they were speechless. He had just eaten dragon fire that was stronger than Dragon Lord Torch's flames like it was warm air, and then blew it back with more than 10 times the power! Eris only now began to realize just how strong Mathael was.

Discord's neck was twitching, while his fists were bulging, his toes were curling, his eyes were growing, and his anger was exploding. Discord screamed in anger and *Riiiip* ripped out his own eyebrows, no magic, he ripped them out with their root.

Mathael, who had been hungrily staring at the slightly burned dragon head, heard the pleas of the abandoned eyebrows thanks to his "Superhuman Hearing" and decided it was not the time to stare. Mathael rammed his arms into the dragon head, embedding themselves into it, before tendrils shot out of Mathael's arms, spread just under the scales. The dragon head vibrated furiously as it began to shrink.

When the dragon head was finally absorbed, everyone looked at Mathael with a flabbergasted expression. His fists turned into smaller dragon heads, filled to the brim with rows upon rows of razor sharp teeth that even went down their throats. The dragon fist screeched loudly before shooting towards Discord as if the arms were made out of rubber.

Discord yelped loudly and tried to evade the first maw fist, but the head was a bit faster *Chomp* *Crack* and bit off donkey leg. Discord screamed in pain, but before he could react, the second maw first bit into his tail, and *Crash* slammed him into the ground.

Mathael used this situation to let his other maw first bite into the dragon leg to make sure Discord wouldn't just fly off. Mathael then began spin around on the spot, at first, the Princesses and Eris looked at Mathael in confusion as for why he was dragging Discord across the ground, but their question was answered just a few seconds later.

Mathael rotated faster and faster with each second, as what started as a little circling, ended with a tornado. Discord screamed as he had no idea where up and down was, while his vision was spinning faster than he could think. An enormous tornado grew and absorbed the nearby rubbled in it, just to make this even worse for Discord.

After a few more moments, Mathael stopped... He just stopped in his track, and absorbed the kinetic power from the tornado, as well as Discords rotation speed, and released it all when he slammed DIscord head into the ground. Mathael screamed as all the power traveled through his arms, and back at Discord and the entire mountain trembled. *Crack* Discord was buried over a 100 feet into the ground!

Crack

Celestia asked with concern in her voice. "Did anyone else hear that?"

*Crack*

Luna said. "I think I can hear it too!"

The entire mountain trembled with such force that the very air vibrated. A colossal crack formed there where Discord hit the ground, and it spread in a fine line to north and south. At first, the Princesses and Eris thought their eyes were playing a prank on them, but then they realized they weren't. On the other side of the crack, the mountain was moving away, before finally stopping after a few feet...

...

...

Mathael split the mountain in two!!!!

The Princesses and Eris couldn't believe their eyes. Mathael had just split a whole mountain into two pieces with what looked like barely any effort, They couldn't imagine how powerful he indeed was. No one could.

A loud scream of anger came out of the Abyss. Suddenly, Discord appeared in a flash of light a few hundred feet above mount Canterlot. Discord snapped his fingers to regrow his eyebrows and screamed. "I am done! I am done, and done, and done! I don't care if I kill you all, if I can't have this mountain, then no one will! Even if I have to kill you all!"

Discord then snapped his fingers, and seemingly nothing happened... and then everything suddenly became even darker than it was before. All citizens of Canterlot, the Princesses, and Eris looked up to the sky and gasped in shock. A colossal mountain, more than twice the size of Canterlot was falling towards them!

This scared everyone as they saw the mountain falling down on them. The ponies screamed as they tried to run for their lives, but it was all in vain, as the colossal rock covered all of Canterlot. The Princesses and Eris fearfully looked at the incoming doom, but their eyes went back to Mathael who stared down with a dark look on his face, not even his glowing eyes were visible anymore.

Mathael stared at the ground, his hatred burned like an inferno of cataclysmic size, while Discords words rang through his mind. "Even if I have to kill you all!"... "Have to kill you all! ... "Kill you all"... "Kill"... As long as Discord lived, he would just take his loved ones away, one by one. Even now, that was precisely what he was trying to do...

Mathael grit his teeth to the point that cracks formed on them. Mathael's arms suddenly bulged to double its size, and a white sphere appeared around his right fist, and a black sphere around his left fist. He pulled his right arm as far back as he possibly could, and then punched the air in front of him. *Crack* To everyone surprise, a vast crack formed in the air, but was by far not the end.

The cracks spread through the air, some of them spread across buildings, others across streets, but almost all of them traveled towards the falling mountain. *Crack* *Crack* *Crack* *Crack* *Crack* The second the mountain was covered by the cracks, *Boom* it exploded with a massive shockwave, which made all the buildings around Mathael shatter to millions of sharp and broken pieces of stone.

Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the mountain being destroyed into pebbles and rocks. They were about to die by the falling mountain but were saved by none other than Mathael. This being held so much destructive power that it blew their minds away. But then, they began to wonder what the black sphere was for?

Mathael growled "Black Hole" then slammed his left fist into the ground, and a puddle of dark smoke formed under him. But this puddle then exploded into an ocean which covered a large portion of Canterlot, and absorbed all the rubble that laid lose there, as well as a cabbage cart?

"My cabbages!!!"

The darkness then suddenly traveled back, but there where the darkness once was, now only bare rock laid, the smoke even took the streets with it! Mathael absorbed all the smoke back into his left fist and then pointed it at Discord. The smoke in his first formed into a massive wall out of which then all the rubble shoot like a machine gun.

Discord stared at Mathael with great confusion, as for why he was cleaning the city, but when he realized what Mathael had in mind, it was already too late. Thousands upon thousands of sharp piece of metal and stone shot towards him and penetrated his body, rippling muscles and blood out of him. He was lucky that he was so far away and that the aim of the smoke sucked, or else he'd be nothing more than a puddle by now.

Discord snapped his fingers to heal himself, and then snapped again, but disappeared. After a bright flash, Discord reappeared on the ground, but now his entire body was covered in muscles. Everyone gasped when they saw Discord becoming a hulking figure that looked far stronger than Mathael. They thought that he will be using supreme strength against him and cause even more destruction.

Mathael roared in anger and charged him. Discord, with his new speed, evaded the attack and grabbed Mathael by his tail. Discord then threw Mathael over his should so that Mathael's *Crash* head hit the ground, but kept a firm grip on the Demon's tail, but when Mathael's head hit the ground, he felt painful burning and stinging. In truth, Discord had turned the ground around him into a scarce metal from the high heavens, pure silver.

Discord then slammed Mathael on the silver ground again like a club, *Crash* again, *Crash* and again, *Crash* and again... Mathael was getting angrier and angrier with each second, to the point that his wrath became so hot, that his body heated up more and more until the silver slowly started to melt.

Discord continued to use the edgiest club for a few more seconds until the entire ground was covered in cracks and a lot of Mathael's scales and spikes were broke off. Discord then gripped Mathael's tail with both of his massive hands, but just as he was about to slam Mathael in the ground with full force, Mathael *Bash* *Bash* brought both of his legs down on Discord's head like a double jackhammer.

Discord's *Crack* skull broke, and so did his jaw and teeth when his head crashed into the ground. Mathael landed a dozen feet away, and boy oh boy did he look pissed. He released an *Roar!!!* incredibly deep and mighty roar that launched all the garbage, rubble, silver around him, as well as Discord (more garbage) of the mountain.

Mathael growled and huffed in this moment of peace, and he was pissed off by it! He formed his claws into a fist and began to bash them against his own chest. His action made him angrier by the second, and that was what he wanted. The more upset he got, the hotter the fire that flowed through his veins burned. His eye, that now where holes filled with molten fire, began to glow even brighter till it became an almost golden color. But that was not all. His scales and spikes regrew as a golden light took the former place of the once intimidating keratin, and when the fire died out, the spikes and scales were back in place. The heat had other effects as well, his entire body turned charcoal black as if it was burned out... or perhaps heated up?

Let the slaughter continue

Discord had healed himself and then teleported himself back up to the mountain, but before he could react, he heard something shatter, *Shaaaaaatteeerrrr* and as if the world had slowed down, he saw a giant black fist, less than an inch in front of his eye, that was slowly crushing his muzzle. But the fist was so fast and powerful that the sound wall hadn't even caught up yet. The fist continued to drill deeper into Discord's face until it was half buried in pure ugliness before the sound wall reacted. Discord's face then was *Boom* forcefully ejected off Mathael fist and was blasted away with the speed of sound.

Discord flew through Canterlot with neck-breaking-speed, but before he hit a building that would've stopped him, he *Bash* felt another fist punch him in the back, launching him in the opposite direction. The attacks were wild, uncontrolled, filled with fury, and yet, all of his attacks made Discord rise higher a higher into the air.

Discord was barely able to move, nor react, or do anything to stop this rampage. It had been over a thousand year- minus the thousand years in stone- since the last time he was truly helpless. It saddened him for a moment, those painful memories, but in the end, he was even more pissed off. And yet, he was in this situation now, but this moment of, in comparison 'peace,' was quickly ended because what he saw next, truly terrified him.

In a blur, Mathael appeared above Discord and lifted both of his bulged fists. Everything happened so fast, but all of what followed happened in just a few heartbeats. Mathael released a deep, almost earthquake-like growl as ina almost dark scarlet aura formed around him. The aura spread rapidly and covered the sky in just a few moments. The aura formed itself into a gigantic, demon-like creature, that looked almost identical to Mathael, that lifted its fists as well. It was the Devourer.

Suddenly, both of Mathael's, as well as the Devourer's fist burned with demonic flames. Mathael and the Devourer growled simultaneously. "Extinction" and brought their fist down on Discord. A huge shockwave, paired with a wave of flames was emitted from the punch. The burning shockwave was so powerful that it destroyed almost the entire sky as clouds were burned away, Rainbow's house was incinerated, and Cloudsdale took extensive damage, almost having it's cloud antigravitation machines melted. But that was not all. When the four fists made contact with discord, they set him aflame with demonic fire. He flew down like a meteor while screaming in pain, hundreds of smaller meteors from off the fist meteor and crashed into the land around mount Canterlot.

When Discord finally hit the ground, and incredibly hot and destructive wave of fire was released that snapped almost all of Canterlot's skyscrapers in half, and destroyed all the streets and house in central Canterlot. Discord was not stopped there, as the attack was so strong that Discord broke through dozens of feet of stone and reached a crystal cave. Sadly for him, the flames exploded under him when the fire touched the crystal. It was a miracle that no civilian was killed.

Discord was catapult back up with almost the same force and was face to face with Mathael again. Mathael and the Devourer then shouted together "Big Bang". They then gave a devastating uppercut to Discord's abdomen with their huge fists. From that attack, a loud *BASH* emitted and a shockwave was released from it that not only destroyed several buildings' windows and mirrors or any other glass object but actually launched the snapped in half skyscrapers off the mountainside. Everyone in the city closed their eyes and covered their ears from the huge noise.

After a few seconds, they opened their eyes and look at Mathael, who had dispelled the Devourer, and was now gazing at the blood moon. Then they thought about one thing. Where is Discord? They looked around but could not find him anywhere. Where could he be?

*crackle*

They all heard a small sound crackling coming from the sky. When everyone looked up, they gasped in shock and utter disbelief. The civilians in other cities of Equestria also heard the sound of something breaking emitting from the sky and look above only to gasp in total disbelief and fear. The Kingdom of Deeralios, Minoros, the dragon kingdom, and any other countries heard the sound, and when they all looked up, they had the same reaction as the rest.

The moon in the sky had been Cracked. No seriously. That is what happened. From the center of the moon, several cracks began to spread around the entire planet like a spider web. Then the whole moon broke into several huge planet pieces. Equis only moon has been split into several pieces right before the inhabitants of the planet.

Eris, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna had their jaws on the ground, and their eyes were bulging out of their eye sockets. Luna fell onto her knees and threw her hands into the air while screaming in at the sight of her precious moon, shattered in pieces. Even the nobles and civilians in other city and other kingdoms had the same reaction as the princesses. Everyone looked at the broken moon in utter shock and disbelief. They could not believe what they were seeing. Never would they even dream of seeing such a thing happening right in front of them but there it is. A broken moon.

The nobles and princesses then realized what happened. Mathael punched Discord with such strength that the spirit of disharmony was launched into the sky and into space. Discord then collided with the moon like a powerful meteor and not only destroyed the planet, but also ended the blood moon.

Discord was severely wounded. The chaos Spirit's is body looked like it was crushed into a paste, but he still lived. He used his magic to heal his body back to normal and then teleported back to Equis. Discord appeared near the Embodiment of Hatred and said with rage, "I don't know what you are, creature, but I have had enough of being humiliated by the likes of you! If I can't hurt you with strength and a bit of magic, I'll simply use all of my power to blow you, and this whole country away! Literally!"

Discord was done, done and gone! All those years of planning, his victory gone, but that would not mean he would just give up! That thing may have survived his magic, but nothing, but the snooze is resistant to magic, but even that gelatin pile could swallow that much magic before it was defenseless. Discord then brought his hands closer and began to gather a lot of his chaos magic into a huge ball and condense it into a 25-centimeter ball. Sweat was running down his forehead from collecting all of his magic, but it would pay off in the end!

Discord looked at Demon with a smirk and said, "I have to say that you put up a great fight with me. However, it seems that I need to finish this right now. I got a lot of chaos and madness to spread across Equestria, so you need to how you would say, disappear." He then showed the magic orb to the creature and said, "See this. This is an orb made up of pure condense chaos magic. You may be tough and able to resist my magic. However, with this much magic condensed into it, even you won't be able to stand against it."

When the princesses heard what Discord said, they became worried about Mathael's safety. Will he be able to stand against that much chaos magic? Or will he die from it?

Discord lunged at Mathael with such speed that he was not able to dodge. Or did he even wanted to dodge at all? Discord thrust the chaos orb right into the creatures face. And and AND! *NOM*...

...

...

All jaws dropped when they saw what has just happened. Discord was just about to thrust the orb of chaos magic into Mathael's face when the demon just opened its jaw and ate it with one bit! Discord stopped in his tracks when he saw this, he just flapped his wings in front of Mathael, who stared at him with a deadpan look on his face... Or whatever you want to call that look.

Discord said as if he was dead inside, with barely any emotions while pointing his finger at Mathael. " This is getting ridiculous... Aren't you at least gonna... Ya know... gonna blow up?" Mathael shook his head. "This will hurt a lot, right?" Mathael nodded

Mathael pulled his fist back, as his entire body was surrounded by a red aura, that was even deeper as when he summoned The Devourer. Mathael growled in a demonic way, which translated into "Time 35 Explosion Punch" and punched Discord, who didn't have the reflexes or magic at the moment to evade the Demon's attack, right into his abdomen. But because of the Demon's fist, it hit all of Discords front.

When Mathael's fist hit Discord, it almost looked like nothing happened, but *Boom* then a powerful shockwave exploded, originating from Discord. Discord's entire body was still in place, but the ground under him cracked, and blood was pouring out of his nose and mouth. Discord slowly looked up and saw something that scared him to death. The Embodiment of Hatred... smiled... that was the last he saw, before *Boom* another shockwave followed, and he was thrown into the air. Dozens of shockwaves followed, each of the stronger than before. Discord was not able to resist and was shot off Canterlot like a rocket, all while more and more explosions coursed through his body.

*Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Crash*

With the last shockwave, Discord crashed into a mountain that was several miles away from Canterlot.

The Demon stared into the distance, there where Discord was flung away. The Demon listened carefully, and he heard breathing, a heart beating, and sadly not a lot of flowing blood. Blood... Suddenly a sharp pain drilled through the Demon's head, and it's/his eyes flickered, and the golden fire, was replaced with a red glow. Mathael breathed as a raspy sound surprised him, it was his own breathing. Mathael was not sure if he was dreaming, or was in a living nightmare. He stared down at his hands, blood... His vision flickered for a moment, replacing the broken streets under him, with the sight of Darkness, bleeding out on the ground in front of him. Those eyes, those tears, and a slightly agape mouth. He could've sworn, he even heard a soft 'Why?'

The Princesses and Eris stared at Mathael, who froze in place. Eris used this moment to teleported to Ponyville and find the Darkness in hopes that with her help, they might be able to calm Mathael and bring him back to normal.

Mathael grit his teeth, he could feel control slipping away again, but he didn't care. Something in Mathael remembered his master, his words and lessons, but he didn't care. His treasure was gone, and he was not sure if even he was now able to bring her back since his attack was powered with such anger, that her soul probably didn't even make it. Gone, she was gone. Mathael looked towards the dark sky and released an ear-piercing screech, his hands the side of his head, and his claws in the skin of his head. His anger was replaced with despair. And yet, he feared something even greater than his loneliness. His grip on his power was losing.

1%

n...noo...

2%

s-stop, this is too much power!

3%

The world won't survive any more than this!

Demonic energy crackled through the air and across every scale and spike of Mathael's/The Demon's body. H slammed both of its claws into the ground with such force, that the cracks spread across the whole mountain, base to top. The Embodiment of Hatred then pulled, but its claws would only move bit by bit, but what did it try to lift? The ground began to shake as the Demon pulled with more and more force until the top of a huge orange orb of light was revealed. With one last pull, the Demon pulled out a gigantic 10-meter orb. The orb floated above the Demon's two lifted palms.

The Embodiment grit its teeth, and growled "Globe Of Annihilation" as it pushed the orb towards the mountain on which Discord was placed. With one push, the orb flew towards the mountain like... like a peaceful butterfly... no, seriously, that thing was damn slow and was stable enough to not even make a sound. That was a boring, and disappointing attack... or was it?

Ponyville

Eris, Celestia, and Luna appeared in Ponyville and immediately began to search for the girls. After a short time, they finally found the girls but gasped at what condition they found some them in. Both the princesses were horrified to see younglings with such wounds. They immediately began to heal the wounded ones to save their lives.

After healing some of their severe wounds, the girls thanked the princesses. Gilda asked, "Where is Mathael, Princesses?"

Celestia said, "At the moment, he is engaged in beating Discord mercilessly."

Rainbow grinned and said, "Way to go Mathael! Beat that thing and make him pay for what he did!"

Some of the girls agreed with her, but Mellow Hoof asked, "Princesses. When Mathael came here, his body changed into something before he fought Discord. Do you know what happened?"

Luna frowned and said, "I do not know why. He must have seen or witnessed something so horrifying and cruel, that he snapped and undergone some disturbing changes. Or perhaps, this is what he meant when he said that part of him was of the demon kin?"

Twilight looked down, took a deep breath, before walking a few steps aside, revealing the mutilated corpse of Darkness Bloodheart.

The Princesses gasped at the sight of what had been done. They knew just how much Mathael cared for Darkness. Darkness was the one string Mathael was always attached to, the one thing that kept him from falling into his wrath and bloodlust, but now? Now he had no more reason to hold back.

Twilight added with sorrow. "Discord tricked Mathael, and in the end, Mathael... killed Darkness himself accidentally..." The Princesses's and Eris jaw hung even lower.

Celestia looked away, trying to process these dark news, but now was not the time to mourn. She nodded sadly, knowing full well that if they don't act quick, that Equis end would be nigh. Celestia said, "We need you, girls, to come with us and help Mathael."

The girls became confused at why would Mathael need help when he is beating Discord into a bloody pulp? Trixie asked, "Um princesses. Not to be rude but why does Mathael need our help when clearly he is winning against Discord?"

Celestia said, "I believe that when Mathael had ended Darkness's live, he became mad with rage and has set his mind on killing Discord no matter what. Even if that means destroying Equestria." The girls were stunned to hear that Mathael would destroy Equestria just to kill Discord.

Swift Tail asked, "Why would he destroy Equestria princess? He won't do that because he lives here." The other girls agreed with her.

Luna said, "Why don't all of you girls look up at the moon." She pointed towards the sky with a single tear flowing down her cheek.

The girls became confused at what she means by that and looked up at the sky. They all gasped when they saw the broken moon. Their eyes bulge out of their eye sockets, and their jaws hit the ground in utter disbelief.

Mellow said with shock, "Is that ..."

Gilda shook her head in disbelief and said, "No. It couldn't be ...."

Trixie asked, "How did that happen?"

Eris said, "Mathael punched Discord with such strength that he was launched towards the moon and destroyed it."

The girls looked that the princesses like they grew another head. They could not believe what they were hearing.

Twilight splutter, "Mathael.. punch ... break ... moon... He did that?"

The princesses nodded, and Twilight said, "That can't be possible!? Do you even know how much strength you would need to destroy something as big as the moon!? An unbelievable amount of strength!! That much!!"

Luna nodded and said, "This is why we need all of you to come with us and help calm him down before he destroys Equestria or Equis for that matter.

Eris said quietly with sadness. "Yes, before he does something that he might see himself as a monster too"

The girls were shocked to hear that. Will Mathael really go all the way to kill the one who made him murder his love? Fluttershy said with determination in her eyes, "We must go to him, girls. Mathael desperately needs our help."

Rainbow asked, "What do you mean that he needs us Fluttershy?"

Fluttershy and Rarity looked at each other and nodded. Rarity looked back at the girls and said, "Girls. You have no idea how precious Darkness was to Mathael."

Pinkie Pie said, "Well of course she is! She's was part of his herd!"

Fluttershy shook her head and said, "That is not the only reason he loved her Pinkie."

Eris asked, "I may not know everything that has happened here in detail, but I know that he loves me, and I love him. I mean, he is the first being to not see me as a monster, and he saved me from those rapists! But, I also know that he loves Darkness much more, even if he doesn't want to show it to the rest of his herd."

Rainbow said, "So if Mathael does not love Darkness because, well, the way she is, then why does he love her?"

Rarity said, "When Mathael came to this world, he saved many lives and all of Ponyville. But what you all don't know is that when Darkness became part of his Herd, she saved not only this world but also Mathael himself."

The girls and princesses were confused at that. How did she save him? Was he suffering from something? They knew that he had a very dark past, but how bad was it for him? He rarely shows how hurt he is.

Celestia asked, "What do you mean that he was saved when Darkness became part of his herd?"

Fluttershy and Rarity then told them what happened at the spa with Mathael. They told him about one of the few times he told them just how hurt he was, how far he had been driven throughout his whole life that not even nearly infinite powers couldn't even give him a glimmer of joy in his life. Then he arrived in this world, Equis to get revenge on this world for ruining his second chance, but he found Darkness instead, and thus found a new life.

The princesses and the girls had tears flowing down from their eyes when they heard Mathael's true feelings. They didn't know how much he was suffering, they just knew what he was suffering from, and coming to this world has saved him. Now they understood why Mathael to be with them. He wants to be with the ones who gave him hope. He wants to love and care for them. He wants to protect them. Even if it means becoming a monster himself in doing so.

Rarity said, "Do you understand now girls. He loves you, the Princesses, Eris, and Midnight Watch, with his heart but when Discord made him do something so horrible, he lost the one he loves most and gone mad with rage."

Pinkie then added randomly. "Wait, can't Mathael just resure- Resurec- Bring dead ponies back to live?!" Pinkie tried to pronounce 'resurrect' but failed, so she chose an easier word. Silence. Everyone was stopped in their tracks when they realized what Pinkie said.

Fluttershy said, "We need to go to Mathael bring him back to his senses. Darkness can still be saved! But, we have to be fast before things get even worse."

Eris asked. "How can this get any worse?"

Pinkie pointed her finger behind the Eris and shouted with a huge grin. "That's how!"

The Girls looked at Pinkie with a confused look, but once they all turned around, they realized two things. A) Pinkie was right and B) They might have just dislocated their jaws. A vast, ever growing, sphere of some kind of orange energy was flying peacefully through the air, not a single disruption in its flight, nor even a single uneven change in height did it make. They also could've sworn that for a second, a peaceful music was heard in the background.

And then, there was silence. Sweat started to form on Celestia's forehead while the world had seemingly stopped. Droplets were already forming and rolling down the white alicorns cheeks. All sound was gone, so was all movement and even smell and sight dulled just for a second. The sweat drops gathered and when they became too much, left the old mare's body behind. The sphere was only inches away from touching the mountain that it was floating towards. The sweat had touched the ground, and a faint, yet all overshadowing and very strong 'ping' sound, was all that was heard before everything went white.

*Boom*

The white light took away all sight, the explosion, and the rumbling of the earth, took away all hearing and feeling, and lastly, all that was there to smell was the scent of burned rock. For a moment, all of the creatures in a several miles radius thought that the world was about to end, but then, the light faded, only for all life's joy to turn into horror as they saw the destruction of the sphere.

The mountain was gone, only the base was left, but even that was barely standing. All of the mountain that once touched the sky was incinerated, gone, perhaps forever, and yet, there was the distinct feeling lingering in the air, that maybe something, or someone survived this explosion?

It took the girls several minutes to regain their senses, and a few extra moments to even hear and see again after the powerful wave of destruction. The magic in the very air was somehow paralyzed from the sphere, so magic was no option as well. In the end, they just had to sit it out.

Eris was the first one who recovered, and quickly, and conceivably sternly said, "Come and join your hands with me girls. I am going to teleport all of us at Mathael's location."

Luna said, "Also, bring your Elements of Harmony with you. We need to use it on Discord. And maybe ..... on Mathael too."

The girls became sad. They need to save Mathael and bring him back to his senses. They can't lose someone like him they genuinely care about. They pray that they don't need to use their elements on him. The mane 6 then picked their elements that were scattered across the ground after Discord 'left so fast' and joined hands with the princesses. The rest of the girls joined their hands with the princesses too, and in a flash, they were gone.

???

'Where am I? So cold, so empty, so... lonely?' These words echoed through an ocean of eternal darkness, not a single light, nothing to be seen, even if there was anything to be seen. And yet, there was one entity that lurked in this darkness, but only the eyes were visible, rest was cloaked well by the shadows. ' What happened to me? What is this place, where am I?' More words wandered through this of all life devoided void, an eternal emptiness, to never let another ear hear these messages.

"Hey Bro, why do you always train, and never come and play?" said a mysterious voice with no body or origin. And yet, these words sounded like they came out of the mouth of a child, still so naive and innocent.

The lost being that travels through this emptiness was surprised, maybe even startled by the unannounced voice, but it was a welcome surprise, as it now could see a light source. The source of the light was a large panel, showing a picture of a white alicorn boy, sitting on the grass of a meadow, and a bigger human kid, sitting on a boulder and was sharpening a blade of an unknown metal.

The entity walked towards the image, it's light shone at the lost being, enveloped its body with the light, and revealed the form of a humanoid or anthropomorphic mix of a bat and a pony. The creature was clearly female, and the look in her eyes showed hints of recognition were directed at the white alicorn boy. The entity was Darkness Bloodheart, who fell by the hands of her loved one, Mathael Matthew Roberts.

The human kid smiled at his younger brother, related by blood, as unbelievable as it seemed, it was true, two completely different creature born from the same womb and seed. The Kid replied with a short, and somewhat vague answer. "It's simple, so you don't have to!" the smile was broad, and the cherry of the ice cone was that he touched the nose of his younger brother.

The younger brother was not pleased with that answer and weakly slapped the finger away, stood up, and asked with a more direct approach. "That is not what I meant! You never play or do anything fun, you just swing your sword around all day, and read all those dusty war books at night! C'mon, what up with you!?" the little brother whined.

The bigger brother sighed before he hopped off the rock, and patted his furred brother on the head, but still was extra careful not to impale his hand on the horn... he didn't want to relive that experience again... "I am training, so you don't have to fight one day. I am growing up now, so I can have a childhood, and have fun."

The younger brother snorted loudly and replied. "That's stupid! Why should just you get strong to protect everyone else, who can't save their own butts? Everyone should be able to protect themselves, it's not that hard, I never once fought, and I still can cast Babflefire!"

The older brother snickered loudly and replied while ruffling through his brother's mane, much to his displeasure. "It's Balefire. But, do you want to fight for your own safety, or like your dream restaurant?"

The younger brother huffed loudly, and crossed his arms in a very immature manner, but didn't resist as he was well aware that in terms of strength, his brother was far superior. "No, but I still think everyone should at least be able to protect themselves, on not depend on others to skip all fun."

The older brother smiled and pulled his hand back, before letting himself fall onto the grass next to his sibling. "Yeah, but that's not going to happen. Some people just hate fighting, some others just want to have fun, and others just aren't able like us who had such a big headstart in power."

The younger brother huffed and said. "Hmpf, if they don't want to fight, then they should run, but then they shouldn't complain when they die or annoy someone that saved them so many times from a forest beast. And YOU, are not going to live long if that is your plan in life."

The older brother gave his younger sibling a wicked smile, which was somehow able to even make the white fur look even paler than before. The human took a small sack of his pocket and pulled out the content. It was a magenta orb with a mysterious glow inside.

The human held the orb loosely in his left hand and held it just inches away from the pony's eye. "I found this in a cavern a few weeks ago. It's a soul stone. Father said that it can be used to revive someone with no drawbacks."

The pony stared at the orb with fascination, to see such a rare treasure was rare, and it was even more unusual to see it falling to the ground and- what!? The human had purposely dropped the relict. The animalistic brother caught the orb in the last moment and pressed it against his chest. He let out a long sigh, before glaring at his older brother.

The younger brother barked. "Are you insane?! You almost dropped the orb, the only way to save your sorry butt from one of your future suicide trips!"

The human kid replied with a smirk. "What orb?"

"The orb I am holding right now, it's right here-." The alicorn cut himself off when he saw the last few sparks of the orb phased into his chest, or more precisely there where his heart should be. The looked back at his brother with a shocked look and wide open mouth.

The older brother chuckled loudly, before bursting into laughter. "T-the-the look on your face is priceless!!!" It took him several moments to calm down, to finally satisfy the hunger for knowledge of his younger brother regarding his acts. "The orb only works if the one using it is still alive, ya know? And now I made sure that you will always have to worry about me! Ouch!" but his joy was cut short as his younger brother poked him on a very sore spot.

"How do you know that anyway? I mean, that would mean that there were some people dumb enough to follow someone as reckless as you into battle." Asked the younger brother

"Yup" answered the older brother, short, but effective.

The younger brother sighed loudly and stood up from his position. While he was slowly walking away. "Some people are stupid."

"Yeah..."

"What you were talking was stupid too."

"Maybe that's true, so yeah..."

...

...

"You're stupid too."

"Yeah... WAIT WHAT!?"

The older brother jumped up and sharply looked back, only to his brother already flying away from him. He frowned and glared at his brother when he heard his pony sibling yell. "Last one home is a rotten eyeball, Damius!"

The older brother jumped on his feet and shouted angrily while charging towards his brother. "I'll get you, Mathael!" Sadly for him, his brother had wings that made him much faster than he was.

Darkness at the image for a few more second, even though the boys were already gone from sight. The panel slowly blurred, before vanishing in a wave of smoke and dust, only to leave behind a small, fist-sized, magenta orb. Darkness knew that she had to come back. She couldn't even imagine how hurt Mathael must be, he killed her, and knowing him well, he is not going to forgive himself that easy.

Darkness crouched down and grabbed the orb firmly with her two hands. The Thestral mare then straightened herself back up once again and held the jewel tightly to her heart. She managed to whisper a few more words- "I'll come back to you Mathael, I promise." - before the void was drowned away by a divine light.

Destroyed Mountain Area

Discord had been severely wounded, bruises and cuts all across were littered. Discord was unable to move, due to the immeasurable pain coursing through his body, that had shrunk back to its original size. His body almost liked a mummy, dried out, practically wholly devoided of life, bathed and caked in blood at the same time. It was a miracle, or perhaps some dark god's joke to have let him live, there, where the mountain was not as unfortunate. Although, was it really luck that allowed him to survive, only to suffer more pain, although, he didn't wholly survive as some of his limbs were turned to ashes. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

But the lord of chaos was not that easily beaten. With a loud and not so satisfying crunch, he closed his palm, and his magic began to heal his broken and dehydrated body, regrew his missing limbs, and 'repaired' his 'beautiful' face. While it wouldn't take long for his body to heal his wounds, the magic bomb that was dropped on him seemed to have severely drained his magic, almost as a chunk of his magic was destroyed. But that didn't matter at the moment, as the draconequus' thoughts were only filled with anger, annoyance and perhaps hints of despair. The reason was simple, all of his hard planning, all of his evil thoughts and dreams, everything ruined by the Embodiment of Hatred, the thing responsible for his current state. What did this thing think it was to just pop up out of thin air - which was only fair for him to do - and ruin his plans by beating the ever living crap out of him. At this point, he didn't even care if it suffered, he just wanted it dead.

Discord turned his back to Canterlot before he put two of his eagle claws on his chin and thought. 'Hmm... I wonder if I can get a few of those holy wooden stakes, but where would they be?' Unknownst to Discord, several light reflections flashed thousands of feet away but were advancing rapidly towards him.

*Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Shing* *Schlik* *Thud*

Discord screamed as he felt searing hot spikes penetrated his flesh and bones, ultimately impaling his body and almost binding him on the floor by bringing him down to the floor. Discord howled in pain as he felt his flesh slowly being cooked. He *Snap* snapped his fingers and... nothing happened. WHY DID NOTHING HAPPEN! Discord desperately snapped in snapped his fingers, but nothing happened, he couldn't even teleport away, even his already casted healing spell had lost a lot of its power. At least the spikes cooled off at a swift pace. When Discord looked down at the blades he was penetrated with, his pupils shrunk when he saw that it were... it's spikes.

*Crash*

Discords pupils shrank to almost nonexistence, and he slowly turned his head around, to see what had landed behind him. A small part of him knew what it was, but a big part of him wanted it to not be accurate. But, before Discord could even get a glimpse of the being behind him, a strong hand grabbed his entire face with a firm grip, almost crushing his head. He screamed in pain, and in fear of suffocation, he, scared of not having enough air, in fact, he didn't actually breath in over a thousand years.

The Demon feared as The Embodiment of Hatred held his prays head with an iron grip, and there was nothing that would make it escape now. Mathael, was silent, inside the beast, as he had no interest in interacting now, now that the moment he waited for far too long was nigh. Mathael threw Discord in front of him, making him hit a large boulder that survived the explosion. The spike only drilled deeper by the sudden force but also colored the stone with various tones of blood, everything from pale to dark and rotten. And yet, one of the liquids of life's force was purple, leaking out of Discords chest, and a poisonous purple light weakly shone through the fur.

And yet, Mathael felt no pity for Discord, to be honest, he didn't even care if this was not even Discords fault, he didn't care if this world would be destroyed, he just didn't care. There was no more sadness him, at least nothing directed for the damage he caused or will cause in the future, there was nothing, but pain and unyielding, unbendable, untamable unlimited and unending rage.

The Demon slowly made his way over to Discord, who desperately tried to crawl away. To the chaos god's surprise, he actually heard the monster talk for a moment, but the words, they were not happy. "Come here little lamb, come, come to the slaughter."

Discord screamed inside and tried to crawl faster away, but his attempts were futile, because only a second later, a strong grip entwined his tail, and he was lifted up, and to be slammed to the ground again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And so many more time more than almost all of Discord's joints were destroyed. The Demon lifted Discord's face one more time, this time, to see him direct in the eyes, to bath in the despair. A dark chuckle escaped the Demon, as he saw the still living body hang there, and the sight of seeing him fall to the ground like a trash bag was even more delicious.

The Demon lowered his body lower, and placed his claws, one after another, on Discord's chest, before slashing them all the way down to his tail. Discord tried to scream in pain, but all that escaped was a weak cry. The wound was not deep, but only so more painful and ensured that he would not bleed out. And with this last wound, the healing spell had finally worn off.

Mathael grinned, and lifted his claws, before furiously slashing and bashing, and punching Discord's beaten body. Bits of fur, skin, scales, feather, flesh, and blood were thrown into the air, and splattered and scattered in the surrounding area, while a weak cry of pain was heard every time after the huge claws connected with the covered beneath the demon. And yet, every time his claws connected, he saw a vision. An image. A picture. His treasure, his love bat. Her smile, her laugh, her joy. His attacks became more and more inaccurate, often hitting the ground and rock around Discord, than actually him, but at the same time his attacks picked up in speed as well. But, all while this was happening, hot tears ran down his face, not molten fire, not some kind of some of energy or smoke, but real tears, that burned holes into the ground and Discord's flesh upon touch.

After a few minutes of merciless beating, he could barely see, not from the blood, but his own tear, so he stood up, turned around and walked a few steps away. He glared down at his hands, covered in blood and his tears. The Embodiment of Hatred clenched its fist and tears with all the strength it could must, before releasing a mighty shriek of pain and anger. Suddenly, a blade-like bone busted out of its left wrist, the wrist-sword was surrounded by a red glow, demonic energy, which it would use to end the thing that caused it so much pain.

But.

When he turned around.

He froze in place.

And stared at what, or rather who was in his path.

In front of the monster, Discord, there stood a group of mortals. His friends and members of his herd. And yet, why were they standing there, in his path, they couldn't possibly... protecting IT!?

Celestia looked away for several moments, waiting for Mathael to do the first step, but it seemed like she needed to start with anything. She said looked him dead in the eyes and stated. "Mathael, this needs to end now!" Mathael was surprised, but in the end not even fazed a little bit.

Luna said. "Look around you, and the destruction this battle has already caused! All of mount Canterlot was in shambles, the land around it is ruined, and not even the heavens were save when you cracked the moon! How long will it take for you to stop!?"

Mathael looked bored at the ponies, he was actually amused by the fact that they believed that they had any power over him. But then again, they were just mortals and had no idea how much power he possessed. The Demon slowly lifted his lest arms, and pointed his index finger behind them, he pointed at Discord. Mathael then slowly brought his finger up to his throat and mimicked a decapitation.

The other girls looked away, they were not sure if interfering now was a good idea, Discord had done terrible things to them. The Princesses looked at the Girls for support, but they just looked away. But one being walked forward, in front of the group of Girls. Eris.

Eris sighed loudly, before saying with determination. "Mathael, this may not change much for you now, but I want you to compare yourself with Discord..."

The Demon stared Eris, he stared at... at... at that BITCH! She dared to compare him to that monster!?! The Embodiment of Hatred clenched his fest and bared its fangs, before releasing a low, and yet dangerously loud snarl at the female draconequus.

Eris said. "I know that you must hate me for saying this, but, but just think about it. How many have you killed? How many homes have you burned down? How many families did you split? How many worlds have you erased?" The Girls stared at Eris with shock and fear, they were scared just how much she just angered Mathael, or what was left of him.

The Demon was beyond pissed now. The Monster was done!!! The bone blade on his wrist started to vibrate and glow with an eye-paining red light, before a red aura formed around the blade. The Demon released a mighty blow of steam out of his nostrils before walked towards Discord, and perhaps, over those in his path as well.

The Bearers of the elements of harmony stared at the Princesses, who gave them a sad nod. The Bearers walked in front of the group and put on their elements. They gave Mathael one last apologizing look before they floated into the air. The other girls looked away, not wanting to see what would happen next. The elements glowed in their own representative color before a beam of color flew out of the elements and connected with the element of magic. The element of magic shone with power and fired a rainbow at Mathael, and blinded all mortal and immortal eyes.

The Girls looked away, every last one of them, and yet, there was one being that watched the elements as they hit Mathael. Discord. Discord spoke in a d barely audible voice and a smile, or as close to a smile as it got with a broken face, "...Yesssss..."

The blinding light of the elements lasted moments, that felt like minutes, and when the light finally had died down it revealed... Whaaaaaaaaaa!?!?!

The Demon stood there, he didn't even move or tried to evade the attack. But now it was clear why he didn't dodge. The elements weren't even able to leave a scratch on him, or do anything else. The Girls stood there with their jaws on the ground, their eyes bulging and fear started to spike. The elements... have failed.

Yet, the most shocking thing was revealed when the girls looked up, and saw a rainbow colored sphere resting in Mathael's mouth, before *Crack* *Shatter* he closed his jaw and shattered the orb. That was the second magic sphere he chewed down today.

Discord spoke in a d barely audible voice and shocked look on his face, or as close to a shocked expression as it got with a broken face, "...Nooooooo..."

Mathael crouched down and rested on his right arm. He lowered his upper body and lifted his rear. With one motion, he catapulted himself forward with such speed, that the wind was strong enough to knock the Girls dozens of feet away as he flew past them towards Discord. A broad smile spread across Mathael's face as he extended his left arm toward Discord in hopes of cutting him vertically down in half.

But just a millisecond before Mathael reached Discord, a great flash of light appeared in front of him, he, at first, didn't care who was going to be skewered, but in this short time window, he realized who stood in front of him. In the last possible moment, he pushed himself to the right, just barely avoiding the being, only slightly cutting the left cheek. Mathael continued to fly towards Discord, but with his abruptly changed course, he was just able to sink his wrist blade a quarter inch into Discords chest, knocking a purple crystal out of his rib cage, and finally, landed in a giant pit of mud.

Discord screamed in pain as purple lightning crackled across his body, his powers diminishing and weakening significantly before the loss of power became too much, and he fainted.

The being that saved Discord, no, the person that saved all of Equuis was a thestral mare. Darkness Bloodheart. All eyes were on her in disbelief- But she died! - Were a majority of the thoughts that traveled through the heads of the girls. Darknesses whole body was covered in blood with the former exception of her face where now a bit of blood was flowing out of the cut on her cheek. The mare was pale, her fur seemed almost white, her eyes were empty as if she could barely stand, and she looked worse with each passing second. Her legs were shaking, just like her whole body, as if she was holding onto the last string of her soul, the last drop of her life's energy with all her strength. But in the end, she collapsed on the ground.

Mathael slowly rose from his position, not sure what just had happened, and looked in Discords direction, in the hope of seeing a split carcass, but what he saw, what he saw made his jaw drop. His precious love was standing, barely alive, but she was still there. Mathael spoke, a sliver of his sentience, a shard his consciousness and a piece of his mind came back to him. "You.... you were on my side all along... My second savior... My guiding moonlight..." The girls could barely take it anymore, it was all getting just too much for them.

Mathael rose slowly, trying to stay calm, and in the end, he sat on his knees, and extended his right hand to the heavens, the dark sky. A weak pure light descended from the sky, enlightening Mathael's right hand, and somehow making the form of a silver sword appear. The light forged a sword, or perhaps it was just summoned? Mathael gripped the mysterious blade tightly with both of his hand before he rammed it in his own heart. Mathael ignored the gasps of shock, and grit his teeth as the pain was raining down upon him, but he knew it had to be done. The scales, the spikes, all the demonic parts on him were burning away, disintegrating to ashes, but not fading away. After only seconds, only Mathael remained, his clothes torn, his top hat and bowler hat was gone, his tuxedo ripped apart and barely recognizable, just a piece of fabric that once represented his pants covered his crotch, without it, only his fur, and the mud covered his body.

Shards of his demonic form survived, and glowed brightly, before reforming themselves back to the demonic sword it once was. The eye stared at Mathael for a moment, before the eyelid closed, and sword returned back to the Nephalem's pocket dimension.

Eris, Mellow Hoof, Swift Tail, Gilda, and Trixi stared at Mathael in shock an alicorn, but they knew very well not to say anything now.

Mathael wobbly stood up, almost falling down twice while attempting to rise to his height. He felt empty, a combination of dread, horror, disgust, all directed to himself, to just become a monster again, what would his master say now... He would say, that he should stop to mourn and try to do amends...

Mathael walked towards Darkness, he ignored the looks, the gasps, the very shaking of the other Girls, and only focused on his destination. Each step felt heavy, so slow, but there was a fire in him that kept him going. When he finally reached Darkness, he fell down onto his knees again and pulled the mare's head onto his lap. Darkness looked so weak, so fragile, and yet, she spared the energy to smile at him... she smiled at the same entity that murdered her not even hours before.

Mathael looked at Darkness, into her eyes, those eyes that let to a kind soul, kind enough to see past the monstrous outside, she saw what lied under the monster, and saw a good stallion. Mathael closed his eyes and lowered his head until his forehead touched darknesses. A tear began to form, and shortly later flow from both pony's eyes. Mathael did not know how his love survived, or rather came back, but he knew that she wouldn't stay long, her soul, her spirit was cracked, and the energy was leaving so rapidly. He just wished, Mathael just wished he could take her place, even if it meant to never see her again, the Stallion would have done it at any time of the long and lonely day he would be alone without her.

Tears. The tears that dripped down Mathael's face landed on Darknesses, a sight to behold if it wasn't a fading one. The heartbeat of the mare was becoming slower and slower, soon, it would be over for her, and this time, nothing could bring her back. No afterlife, no reincarnation, no rebirth. It would be over. And yet, she was not giving up, she was not letting herself be embraced by the cold arms of the void, she clings tightly to reality, just to make these last few moments last a little bit longer.

Mathael gave in, and let it all out, he wrapped his arms around Darknesses head, trying to keep her close. His heat was as close to hers as it was possible, his body hugged as much of hers as he could. He didn't want it to end, this moment, those few seconds that felt like hours, a time of bliss and yet heartache. Mathael didn't care what it would cost, he didn't care what he would lose, he just wanted to have his Darkness back. Power, money, fame or even his past life's memories, he'd even give himself away to save her.

Mathael's eyes slowly became dryer, his tears were almost all gone, and yet, he tried to not break or fall. He grit his teeth, clenched his lips close, sniffed to try to not let any more liquid escape. He was ready to give all that he had, just to save this one, poor little soul...

Darknesses breathing became inconsistent, and her heart's beating was diminishing more and more with each moment while her body grew cold. With every tear that left Mathael's eyes, that's how much closer the mare came to her eternal rest.

The last tear came so soon, but, what was that the tear that was spilled was different. The drop, it was so much purer than its brethren, It was a true tear. A tear from someone willing to give his life to whoever it was spilled for. It fell and landed on Darknesses muzzle.

Mathael saw only darkness with his closed eyes, he didn't want to see his love die in his arm once again, he wouldn't- he couldn't even bear the thought. His tears were gone, so he tried to find a ray of sunlight in his memories. But he knew he couldn't hide in the images of the past. But, all of his sadness suddenly vanished and was replaced with curiosity, when he felt a soft hand touch his left cheek. He opened his eyes, and his mouth opened just a little bit when he saw Darknesses wounds, both physical and soul heal, and a kind look staring back at him. Darkness pulled Mathael closer to her with the little strength she had left and kissed him, and he kissed her back.

The Girls around the kissing duo stared in shock at the scene in front of them. There was no better way to describe what had happened in front of their very eyes other than to say that the tears of the ancient demon had healed the thestral mare's body, and perhaps soul, to the point that she looked like she was never hurt in the first place. The two glowed with a brilliant, almost celestial light, as the fluid repaired the two broken bodies of the warrior turned demon, and guard that became a savior.

And yet, as beautiful as the moment may be, it was brutally interrupted as a cone of black flames shot towards the sky a mere dozen feet away from the two love birds, and an exhausted figure stepped out of the fires. The being that destroyed this peace was Erebus, who looked just as happy as exhausted when she appeared, which quickly turned to a perplexed look when she watched all eyes turn to see her. The draconic mare was confused why she suddenly became the point of attention, but those thoughts were hastily swept away the moment she inspected the surrounding area, the land, the mountains, and the sky, before turning to the in mud and rags covered stallion and asked one question.

"Did I miss something?"

To everyone's surprise, a weak voice broke through the awkward silence. "...Yeeeesssss...". Now all eyes were turned to Discord, who, to everybody's joy, was unconscious.

Mathael gave out a low sigh before he pushed his hands under Darknesses back "H-hey, wait!", But Mathael did not listen to his lover's words and stood up with his mare in arms. To his own surprise, the mare felt heavy- not that he meant that Darkness was heavy or even anywhere near being fat- but he too felt a tad, weak. Perhaps, right... the sword...

The old stallions closed his eyes and ignored everything around him. The way the power limitation worked was nothing magical, or technical, or had even to do with anything physical, it was a question of the mind. Restraining his mind off his immemorial wisdom of young and old, as well as his nearly unrivaled mind, was an effortless task, compared to the restriction of the physical power and energy-based power.

And yet, it was a simple as breathing. Close your physical eyes, and open your spiritual gates, see your power and who you are, wrap your arms around it, and grasp it with your hand. Then stare into the void that you created, by you taking the light source of your inner self by closing of you, and believe, think and imagine what you want to be capable of doing, before slowly opening your hands, releasing just as much of yourself in your inner void as you need.

But this was different now. There was a long silver crack that ran across this light, that nearly impersonated the glow of the golden sun. The crack was the mark of... the sword... and it would not go until the one who used it on him, or herself, would find a moment where the being was in full control of body, soul, and mind. Just a splinter of a second of peace was needed to release this 'curse.' In other words, forget everything, just for a moment, and yet, hold all you care for close to your heart. For Mathael that was easy to say and do, he did, after all, learn under his master, but true peace, that which only his mentor and a few selected being in the whole creation had ever achieved, was far far out of his reach.

In just one long, deep breath, Mathael had lifted this 'curse' done to himself by... the sword... and opened his eyes. He gave Erebus a glance and said. "Yes, you missed quite a lot, but now is not the time to talk. But, I think a few seconds to collect everyone's thought, and perhaps conceive a plan on how to proceed would be most appreciated by all members of our little meeting here." And yet, all he gained from his calm and intelligent speech was a collective stare of confusion directed at none other than him.

"He's saying that you should stop asking questions and just think how we are going to continue now that all is somewhat safe," explained Darkness in an annoyed tone as her entire body, even though it was healed now, was very sore.

"Ohhh!..." was the sound that was emitted by everyone present.

Princess Celestia looked over to Discord, before quickly turning her gaze away. She said in a somber tone. "I think we need to imprison Discord once more, it is not safe for him to be left unguarded in his state now, nor do I think the population of Equestria would appreciate him running freely now."

"Do you ever listen to the bullshit you say?" Said Eris in an outraged tone.

Princess Luna gave Eris an understanding look, she too was somewhat displeased with her sister's wording. "I too, think that Eris has a point. Causing this great tragedy, only to then Ignoring the problem, or even outright forget about it was what had lead to Discord rise in the first place. And the second time just waited for it to go away, and unintentionally poked in the hornet nest."

"You are basically telling Germany's history in both world wars.." muttered Mathael quietly, so that no one was able to hear him, but Darkness who had her left eyebrow rise as high as it possibly could.

Mathael cleared his throat loudly, thus gathering all attention he needed, and said. "I agree, Discord perhaps does need help, considering that all of this wasn't really his fault... even though that was really painful to say" the stallion muttered the last part of his sentence.

Celestia looked at Mathael as if he had grown a second head, not that he wasn't able to do that, and asked in an unsure tone. "But... But after all, he had done, you are just going to forgive-"

"NO!" Mathael's sudden outburst shocked everyone to the core. "No, I never even once mentioned anything even remotely close to forgiveness, I merely suggested that perhaps a different approach would be better. And as for forgiveness, no, it has to be earned, no one just receives it." Mathael spoke every word, every letter in a very firm and direct way. But before even one could question why he would give Discord a second chance, Mathael flicked his right index finger, and the seed of corruption that had previously been knocked out of Discord levitated in front of all witnesses' eyes.

Erebus looked at the crystal and said bluntly. "That is a seed of corruption. I assume you ripped it out of his chest?" to which Mathael nodded, before opening a small portal, though that the crystal was pushed through and landed in the safe containment sphere where the other seeds of corruption had been imprisoned as well.

Mathael looked around the land. Destruction. Fire. A ruined kingdom. Mathael usually could easily repair all the damage that had been done with less than 8% of his basepower, but he was tired of the day, tired of the night, and just wanted to go to bed. So Mathael just tapped into 20% of his base power, and released a powerful, and yet completely harmless pulse of white energy that traveled all across the land. At first, nothing happened, but only a second later, all debris that was broken off structures, all the mass of the area that had been moved was slowly and carefully levitated into the air, before it flew back to its designated spot and reconnected to the greater thing it once was. As for all disintegrated objects, mainly the mountain they were standing on, it began to grow back to its former size.

The Girls were wondering why the land around them was sinking, or why the ground was becoming smaller with each second, but then they realized that they were rising, and looked at Mathael who had a cheeky smile on his face. In just seconds, the mountain had achieved its former height, but the final mind breaking event had yet to come. Mathael looked to the sky, and so did all his friends, as well as almost every being on Equus, and millions of jaws dropped. The moon was slowly being put together by a 'to almost all creatures unknown force.'

"My Jaw!"

And there was the first dislocated jaw, just nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine more dislocated jaws to go until Mathael wins a t-shirt!

Mathael looked to the stars and was deep in thoughts. If he remembered correctly, this was almost like in Don't Get Cocky, it was almost frighteningly similar. His knowledge of the future did not help him today, it did in the past, and perhaps it will work in the future, but it failed today. How many times will this insight help him, and how often will it fail him? He had already chosen several different paths, choices, and approaches on his journey, so how much did the future that was already written by Nosferus change? It was a mystery to him, but now he still had to deal with the Guards, at least he didn't have to deal with the nobles now, or there would be a public execution in just a few seconds... speaking of murdering someone in front of children, it was now time to deal with Shining Dick!

Mathael's eyes lazily wandered towards Discord, who was still impaled by his spikes and was bleeding out fast. He sighed and asked. "Eris, would you mind taking Darkness off my hands for a moment, I just need to quickly deal with the symbol of space heretics for a moment."

"Ok" Answered Eris casually.

"Hey, I can stand just fine on my own!" Protested the weak mare, and huffed loudly at the end of her sentence. Eris only rolled her eyes, before levitating the thestral mare to her.

Mathael walked towards Discord, and once he stood in front of him, he looked down onto him, not in anger, or in pity, but in truth, he felt nothing. He pointed his open palm at the draconequus and used his psionic powers to pull out the spikes without deflating Discord by taking all the blood out of skin ballon. Mathael then absorbed the spikes with his virus and then healed Discord with just magic. It was nothing special, he just used powerful equestrian magic. After that was done, he extended his arm forward, so that his palm was directly over Discords neck. A small, black blob dropped out of the stallions hand and fell onto Discord. The blob then quickly ensnared Discords neck and solidified itself into a collar. Mathael could not risk Discord unintentionally cause harm.

Mathael then turned around and asked Eris once again. "I am sorry for asking so much, but would you be kind enough to bring the Girls and Discord to Canterlot castle? I have some business with the Guards to attend." Eris nodded, and with a flash of light, they were gone. Well, everyone except Mathael, who stared at the spot where the girls once where.

"Wow... I haven't felt like this since I was a human... Why do I feel so depressed right now? Why am I holding conversations with myself again is the better question..." Said Mathael to himself, before he loudly sighed. He maybe should've just gone along, but...

His moment of peace was interrupted when he felt an all too familiar liquid run out of the corner of his mouth, running down his lips and chin. It felt so soft and warm and comfortable. He sighed and wished the mysterious golden substance off. 'That was too much, too many emotions, too much inner peace. I need to calm down, a bit of anger is in need.' He couldn't, or at least shouldn't allow this power to take hold of him now, or he might risk losing everything he had build on this world. Mathael rubbed his forehead and began to think.

So many things to do, so many things to consider and plan in advance... But first, clothing was in order. Mathael swiped his left arm to his left side, and hundreds of cloth shreds flew towards their place, and instantly sew together with the other parts. In just second his tuxedo was back. Suddenly, Mathael's left-, as well as his right hand, caught something. In his left hand, was his bowler hat, and in the other, his trusty top hat. He put both on, in precisely this order, to hide his horn.

Mathael suddenly jerked to his full height, visibly angry and perhaps even disappointed. He pointed his finger at the air in front of him, and a hologram of a skype call magically appeared, with the other person being Andros. "Andros, I need you to create blueprints for a gravity nullification platform, as well as a frame, able to endure extreme levels of pressure, preferably able to withstand an exploding star, for a mountain with the size of 1000 foot of height and probably 2000 foot of width. I also want you to be able to control my Units, at least the mechanical ones to defend control points in a short time. And... can you please tell my warrior that I would very much advice them to train harder and perhaps let them know that I'd like to have a talk with them on a later date?"

The robotic voice that came from the hologram was clear as daylight and understood his master's orders. "Roger Roger." and thus the call, as well as the magical window, were ended.

Mathael let out a puff of white smoke. ' They could have at least tried to stop this... me, the monster, but they were nowhere to be seen. They better have a damn good excuse, or I'm about to whip somebodies ass!~' The tired stallion gave in, and let out a long and dry laugh. After a short round of amusement, he sighed and snapped his fingers, before vanishing in a bright flash, as he knew that two of his friends left his world due to Discord, and it was now time to retrieve them.

???

"You won't get away with this!" screamed Midnight Watch while she trashed at the bindings that rooted her into place. She was still clothed, a miracle, considering where she stood. She, as well as Anubis, were chained to the ground in front of King Dainn, another Dainn to be exact, as well as dozens of high ranked military members of the Caribou.

Anubis shouted with anger. "Yeah, when Mathael hears about this he'll kick your flank into a new world." She had spent such a long time in the Caribou grip, and now to be stuck in such a situation again was a nightmare for her.

"Enough!" screamed Dainn in anger which silenced the two angry mares for a few moments. "You mares are worth nothing and have no purpose other than to serve us males, and your tongues should be used to please us, not to annoy us with your lies! Now tell me about your supposedly 'Coltfriend' and why I should believe I should fear him?"

"You should consider reconsidering your opinion of others, King Dainn, or those might be the guidelines that you'll take with you into your grave." Said a ghostly voice, sounding from every corner and speck of dust in the room. The Guards looked around, trying to find the one talking, but in the end, it was him, who found them.

"Hi there, fellas." Said a voice behind King Dainn, more specifically, from his throne.

The Caribous turned around and saw a Thestral stallion sitting on the king's throne, lazily waving at the King, while his head rested on his fist. Dainn snorted, and walked up to Mathael, already aware that he was not under his influence, and glared down at Mathael.

"I assume you are this 'Mathael'?" asked the King.

Mathael's dull look changed to a cocky grin, but only a second later, he vanished. The Caribou turned around and saw that Mathael stood next to the two mares, whose chains were gone, not shattered, but disappeared. "You should know one thing about me, slave king, I don't like other people mistreating my friends."

The Caribous laughed and snorted, already knowing that this was just going to be an empty thread. One Caribou asked. "Oh yeah, and what if we don't care!?"

Mathael's grin turned to a full smile, and he said. "Simple, you will have seen what I do with bastards like you." Mathael then grabbed both Girls and vanished in a flash of light. The Caribou looked in shock to see that the three of them had disappeared, and just as the King was about to send his Guards, all Caribous suddenly became transparent, before vanishing.

What had happened, you ask? Simple. Mathael traveled back in time, to the day the Caribous entered Equestrian ground by traveling through the icy tundra, and since it was so cold, there were only volunteers there, not a single slave. Mathael just created an extra... *many times extra* extra strong storm in which the temperature was similar to that of space. Now, there were a lot of ice sculptures standing in the frozen landscape. And since nearly almost all males, at least the assholes, were now dead, the females started an extremely efficient revolution with the nice Caribous. In other words, problems solved.

After the problem was dealt with, Mathael teleported both Anubis and Midnight Watch to the castle, but before he could do that, he received two surprisingly strong hugs. Of course, that was not all, as he also gave them a particular spell in return. A soul spell.

A soul spell was a spell that anyone can cast, for no mana or even concentration. The only problem with those spells was that making them was hard, not really for Mathael though, and usually weren't that powerful. The soul spell that Anubis and Midnight Watch received was 'dimensional translocation,' a teleportation spell that could transport the user to any mortal world, and since the spell was made by Mathael, the spell was not manipulable and had only a second cast time and two seconds cooldown. Now those two would be saved from any dangerous world, at least he hoped so.

After the problem was dealt with too, Mathael teleported to the next place he was needed.

Canterlot

Mathael reappeared in a dark alleyway, which brought a lot of memories back, memories he didn't care for at the moment. He casually walked towards the street and was greeted with a street filled with nobles looking at their mansions in shock, as the magic reconstruction pulse he sent out favored small houses first so it would take about half an hour before they would be able to a place to live in. To be honest, he thought that only Ponyville and Canterlot were affected by the chaos, but in truth, all of Equestria became a mad land. As it turned out, Discord needed chaos to become stronger, in other words, he needed to first invest said magic to later earn more. To be honest, he didn't even want to know how long the battle would've lasted if he sat on his butt for a few more hours.

As Mathael casually walked through the streets, he was mostly ignored by the ponies around him. He had little concern for them, and wouldn't even if they talked to him right now, but just to be sure, he used his "Life Erase" as well as his "Kamui" to be practically invisible and literally untouchable. Perhaps he should consider using these broken abilities in fights, just to ensure his victory, but wouldn't that be boring? Well, he just had to see, but then again, these abilities weren't broken, he was just so powerful that they are now, as the youth would call them, overpowered.

While walking through the streets, he overheard the nobles talking, and it was so, so annoying! 'MY home!' 'My precious collection of some shit I don't care about' 'Whoever is responsible for this will pay in gold and blood, but most importantly gold!' These ponies are just worth killing for. Yes, you lost your home, but a) You have enough money to build three more of those, and b) You should be more worried about your life. There were even some wealthy looking families who crawled out of a small cave made out of debris, and the father didn't even look at his bleeding and crying son. Well, it was not a lot of blood, more like a cut, but still!

Anywho, Mathael ignored the rest of the population of Canterlot and walked straight towards the Castle. Once he arrived, he spotted a single male unicorn guard at the castle's door. The guard was injured with a broken leg and broken horn and was keeping himself on his hooves by using his spear as a form of a walking stick. From the looks of it, he was exhausted and was staring to the ground. Mathael knew precisely who it was... Well, at least he believed to know who it was, although he did not remember whooping his arse like he did with the other guards so it could be someone new, or just someone else. The Stallion in question had white fur and a short grey mane.

Mathael approached him and asked, "May I ask you why you are standing outside here? Wouldn't it better if you would rest like, at least I hope so, the guards?"

The Guard jerked, and became stiff for a moment, before slowly lifting his head and looking at Mathael. To Mathael's surprise, he didn't relax in the slightest, in fact, he began to sweat. "Ehm... please don't eat me?" He said while his legs were shaking.

Mathael rolled his eyes and answered. "Pony doesn't taste that good." The Guard let out a loud sigh, before freezing in place. "Just kidding pal! I haven't tried, nor do I plan to. Although, I must ask why you would question me this?"

The Guard answered with no emotions. "You were there, you were the Demon, am I right?" Mathael's eyes widened by just a micromillimeter, as he was surprised he would be recognized that easily, but he nodded in the end. The Guard continued. "I was there with the other guards, in fact, when you arrived in the throne room, I was lying between your feet..."

Mathael was feeling kind of sympathetic for the pony, he was a scary being, even if happy when he was pissed then other people see him as a terrifying beast, but this was a new level of pissed. He answered. "And now you are scared of me? Then let me put it this way, if I wanted you dead, what would I gain from that?"

The Guard asked in confusion. "What?"

Mathael rolled his eyes again. "Boy, I can do anything, literally, as not even the elements of harmony were able to do anything to me, so I ask it differently. What would stop me? I could do anything, from enslaving this entire world, to burning it down, raid every shop, murder every creature, young and old, as well, I don't know, molest or even rape everything that walks. I could do it, but I don't, and there would be no stopping in me." The Guard looked at Mathael with pure fear, no doubt he was close to urinating in his own armor.

"BUT! I don't do that, I have my reasons, but, well, there is no but. I can't guarantee you that I won't do these things, but I can say that I don't plan to ever do them, and that is the best I can give. It may not be much, but the trust of others, truly believes in me, I can't falsify that, so as long as there is still one person believing in me, then you know 100% for sure that I am not the bad guy, even if it's just one guard who is close to pissing himself." Explained Mathael, which surprisingly calmed down the guard more than it should have. Now thinking about his wording, he was surprised that the pony in front of him didn't faint.

But this peace was ended by the Guard who asked. "Wait, if you're here, where is Discord!?"

Mathael grabbed the pony by his shoulder to close the distance before he answered. "He is no longer a threat, as it turned out, the so-called 'god of chaos' was a marionette, hell, I don't even think he can remember half of what has happened. Or in other words, it wasn't his fault."

The Guard was not pleased and retorted. "Not his fault?! Okay, I understand the Nightmare moon incident, but that was not like this! If you just looked into the castle, then you would see hundreds of ponies crippled! I don't know if you care about it, but every single one of them, including me, has a life, a story, or even a family, and they all will never be able to do the things that they loved most. How do you even know it wasn't his fault anyway, and who is this puppet master you talk about?"

Mathael stared down at the guard, not in anger or pitty, but just because he needed to reconsider his answer. It was true, every one of them had a story, one that will last only a fraction of his, but will end most likely much later than his own if this war continues, but there was also the faint after taste of sadness in his throat. He answered dryly. "Yes, I sometimes forget about that, but not this time. I can heal them, the horn to the wing to the bone, all wounds I can make undone, so no, their lives have not suffered any real impact, besides possibly mental damage.

Mathael's look darkened, and yet his face was like a stone wall, he said in a dry and dark tone. And as for the puppet master, kid, just let me tell you one thing. I faced creatures as old as time itself, capable of breaking an iron mind with just them being present, and having the power to do nearly anything, even destroying whole worlds with just a snap, hell, I even murdered beings that make Discord times forty look pathetic. Do you want to know how hard that was for me, or how scared I was of them? Not a single bit, but the puppet master, the corruption, I fear it, I fear it a lot because I have witnessed what it was capable of, then I must ask you, if I fear it, me, who done all of that? What do you think Discord or even a mortal being like you would be able to do against it?"

The Guard stared at Mathael with an open mouth, not sure how to say anymore, but to say one thing. "I'm sorry."

Mathael smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "No need to worry pal, but just so you know, Discord is under my protection until this is done, so please tell your comrades this as well. Now, I have a few Guards to heal, so direction would be appreciated. You don't mind, do you? Since you don't have to stay here anymore."

The Guard nodded and showed Mathael the way to the other guards, and walk beside him. Mathael didn't need directions, but he just wanted to give him some company. There was something in his eyes, perhaps the same thing that made Asura put him in his 'Monster Hunter' squad.

The Guard snorted halfway on the walk towards the injured Guards.

Mathael asked confused. "Is something wrong?"

"No no, It's just, ha, It's just You, and Discord, and everything, or maybe just the realization that I almost died today. Well, almost, thanks to this armor." Explained the Guard, repeating himself and chuckled nervously

Mathael chuckled dryly, "No, that was you on your own, sure, the armor helped a lot, but in the end, it's just armor and a sword, only the wielder decides what they are capable of doing." The Guard nodded.

Mathael smiled inside, he was surprised to be able to hold a conversation with these ponies. 'these Ponies', that sounded so weird. Sure, the background characters of Don't Get Cocky were kind of dry, but they were actually pretty nice and... oh shit he forgot. The old stallion seemed to have forgotten that his companion still was horn-less, so he decided to surprise him. He used his "Crossfade" ability which allowed him to hum a song to heal the guard in a super quiet tone, and used "Amp It Up" to boost this power as he didn't have all the time in the world... well, he did, but he didn't want to wait.

Mathael smiled as he saw a golden light that grew out of the stump of the horn take the shape of a horn in just seconds. Mathael then pulled out an apple out of his pockets, that he created with his magic, and said while tossing the apple to the Guard. "Catch!"

The Guard reacted out of habit with good reflexes and caught the apple with his magic. "What's wrong with you! You almost scared me... to... death?!" The Guard's eyes widened in shock and surprise when he saw the able float with a gray aura surrounding it. He slowly brought his hands to his head and felt his horn. "But. You. I. HOW!?"

Mathael smiled, it was a soft and rare smile. It was the smile of a person who knows that he has just done something really kind to a person who doesn't have it easy in his current life situation. "Seems like I care enough to heal your broken horn without you noticing, huh? Now, let me do the same to your friends."

The Guard stared at Mathael in disbelief, he didn't cry, perhaps because he was still absorbing everything that had happened, but it didn't matter in the ned, as the two of them walked the rest of the way without saying another word, and yet, both of them were smiling.

Once they reached the recovery room, Mathael stared at the injured guards, all beds were filled, and some were even laying on piles of pillows, but there was no Shining Armor to be seen? He was feeling happy and sad at the same time. The bastard was not here to receive a good portion of the Guards mind, or would he have even said that now?

Mathael turned to the Guard and asked. "Hey Silver Streak, do you know where Shining Armor is?"

The Guard confirmed Mathael's guess from Don't Get Cocky when he turned his head to the overpowered stallion and said. "I am not sure, but I think he's in the bed over there." He said as he pointed his spear at a bed with... a mummy?

Mathael and Silver Streak walked over to the bed, and a small sign on which 'Shining Armor' was written confirmed the Guards guess. Shining Armor was in a full body cast, and only his eyes and two holes were his nostrils were could be seen. The captain glared at Mathael and grumbled something, but due to his 'condition,' no one understood him. Well, Mathael could've if he really wanted to, but he didn't.

A Unicorn doctor walked over to Mathael and Silver Streak, and greeted them and asked. "Hello Gentlecolts, may I know why you are disturbing the captain rest?" Either he had nerves of steel, or he was utterly oblivious that pony satan was standing in front of him.

Mathael asked with faked concern in his voice. "I would just like to know what has happened to him."

The Doctor cleared his throat and pulled out a piece of parchment before he started to read. "Well, in short, every bone in his body is broken, his skull in cracked 47 times, his joints are basically liquified, the skin has been disconnected to the flesh on several places on his body. Oh, and as for organ damage, one of his kidneys was damaged, but we were able to save that, oh, and this poor soul had also suffered damage in his, ahem, nethers." Mathael and Silver looked at each other in discomfort, as well as in confusion. The Doctor sighed and explained. "His penis was more or less knotted like a balloon animal, unknotting became some of the most uncomfortable minutes in my life, and his balls were busted, in other words, he is completely infertile now."

Mathael stared at the Doctor, who took his leave, with an empty look. He was not angry, he was not happy, he felt nothing, literally, nothing! The only reason he left that piece of shit alive was because of Flurry, and now that she is gone, he had no more use to him. Wait, what about Cadance!? Damn, what will he now do?! Either Flurry will never be born, which is unlikely because there was no way in Heaven that Cadence would just give up all hopes to become a mother, or he needed to 'help' her, by helping Shining Armor, which he wouldn't do, or at least doesn't want to. Argh! Why did fate take Don't Get Cocky and throw even more obstacles in his way! It didn't matter, future Mathael would take care of that.

Mathael said out loud. "I am sorry to disturb this somber and dull moment of yours, but I shall still ask. Who want to be healed?" All Guards, except for Silver looked at him in confusion.

Silver groaned loudly before shouted. "He is asking if you want your horn and wings back!" The Guards looked at him in shock and confusion. It was impossible for broken horns and ripped off WIngs to heal, so this sounded as wrong as Christmas in July. "It's true, look at me, he healed my horn too!"

How dare this mortal rat think he to talk in my name! Would've have been Mathael's thoughts if he was an A-class asshole, but in truth, he was just mildly infuriated by the fact that already TWO people have already spoken for him today, which was weird, really weird.

The Guards stared at Mathael in silence, that was until Mathael said in an almost cocky, and slightly France accent. "Well? Shall we?" before the shouting hell broke loose, all of them wanting to be healed first. Mathael grinned sheepishly, but in truth, he was trying not to grin like an idiot. Mathael then used "Crossfade" as well as "Amp It Up" again to heal all Guards at once, but this time, he let the music play. Well, he healed all Guards but one.

The Guards were confused at first where this music came from, but they stopped caring when they saw a golden light taking the form of their lost body parts. This light turned into their presumed lost friends for life, and almost all of them cried like children, but then again, horns and wings were parts of their life, almost like family.

Mathael's joy instantly died when he turned his attention to Shining Armor who glared at him with all of his hatred. Mathael asked in a serious tone, no joke or fun involved. "I can heal you too if you want."

Shining Armor grumbled, loudly, which roughly translated to 'Keep your filthy magic off me!' and many more insults.

Mathael shrugged and just said. "It was your choice, and I won't heal you after this."

Mathael turned around and took one step forward so that his mouth was directly beside Silver's ear. "When the false god darkens the sky, and his slaves flood the land, don't be a fool. You friends will charge into battle, and they will die, you need to be smart, or you won't outlast the day. Listen to my words carefully, and remember them at all times."

Silver Streak listened carefully as if he was glued to the air around him, and once Mathael stopped talking, he spun around, only to see that Mathael was gone. Silver looked confused, and then he asked himself loudly. "What the hell was he talking about, and how did he even know my name? I never told him?" In the end, Mathael left the young Stallion with more questions than answers.

Somewhere in the castle

In a small room in the castle, Darkness Bloodheart was lying in a very comfortable bed, and she was not really happy about it. The doctors and nurses told her that even though she was healed, which was a miracle on its own, she needed bed rest, alone time, and lots and lots of silence.

Darkness sighed, as she put away the book that lied on her lap, she tried to read something before going to bed, but she got bored after the first page. The thestral mare sighed loudly, before mumbling. "I wish Mathael was here."

"Be careful for what you wish, dear treasure of mine."

"Huh?" Darkness was surprised to hear a response, from his love nonetheless, 'But where did it come from-and he is walking through the wall' Darknesses question was answered when she saw Mathael casually walking through the wall, as if it was just plain air, with a kind smile on his face. She had really gotten used to his supernatural abilities.

Mathael said softly. "You have no idea how happy I am I hit the right room on the first try." and joked a little, of course, he checked, he was no pervert after all, but it still brought a smile to the face of his love. He slowly walked to her bed and sat on the edge of the bed. He asked. "But, I did not come here to stay long, you need rest, and yet, I couldn't get this question off my mind, how did you survive?"

Darkness mood was not damped by much, she was just as clueless as he was, but in this case, she at least knew the frame of the story. "I don't know really, I was in this empty voice, and then I saw, what I think a memory of you and your brother, as kids."

Mathael still smiled, but seeing as he put his right hand, on his left hand's wrist, and pressed in firmly, showed that he was not ok. "Please continue dear."

Darkness obliged, if not a bit corned though. "I saw you and your brother talk about the strong who protect the weak, and then there was this magenta pear, something about a soul stone was said as well."

Mathael loosened his grip on his poor wrist, and was relieved, but surprised that the artifact survived. And yet, it saddened a bit that one of the few remaining objects of his family was now gone. "It's an artifact that can resurrect those who fell not so long ago. It was a present from my brother, and I am happy that it finally came to use for a good purpose." the first part was a lie, the second wasn't

Darkness smiled, she could only imagine how close the orb was to his love's heart, but to hear that he was happy that she lived, not even mourning over the object a second, warmed her a heart. But, she too had a question. "Mathael, what happened when you held me, how did you save me?"

Mathael sighed, and answered calmly, yet blunt and vague at the same time. "The Heal-Heal fruit." Mathael was silent for the next few moments, before adding more information. "The Heal-Heal fruit allows the user to heal nearly any wound with his tears, but for that to work, the user has to shed true tears. Not tears that an artist or actor cries, but true and genuine tears. It's one of the few abilities I could never use, due to me not finding inner peace, or having a reason to cry in this case."

'Inner Peace?' Darkness was not sure what Mathael meant exactly, but she could see how tired he looked, and decided to not push it any further. "I think it's time to sleep Mathael, good night." and she smiled at the sleepy stallion.

Mathael sighed, before replying with a smile. "Good Night to you as well, dear Darkness." He then walked through the same wall he came through, leaving Darkness alone. But, the mare fell asleep with no problems only seconds later.

Mathael phased through the wall, snapped his fingers to change to his sleeping shorts, and walked towards the bed that was given to him from the Princesses, who knew very well that he would stay in the castle until Darkness was well of, and the Discord scenario was dealt with. Speaking of the devil, he got his own room where he slept, one that was secured with enough enchantments to keep him safe while Discord sleeps, but also keep him in when he finally wakes up.

When Mathael laid down, he was surprised to feel a warm, and comfortable blanket... that moved?! Mathael' head snapped back, but before he could react, a soft snake coiled itself around him, revealing none other than Eris with a grin on her face.

Mathael said bluntly. "I can't feel any magic, so I guess you are very flexible?"

Eris giggled and said. "You could say that. I'm sorry, but I just can't sleep alone anymore, or do I just don't want to?" She said the last part in a cheeky, if not almost childish way, before pulling the blanket over the two of them.

Mathael sighed, he just gave in, he didn't want to ruin this moment, for both of them. He actually quite enjoyed this, as Eris was really soft, exactly what would help him with his sore body. And thus, both of them fell asleep, just like the rest of the Canterlot after an eventful day that surely would go into history.

Black Hole.
Mathael is cable to cover his hand in darkness, which he can use to absorb large quantities of nearly anything, liquids, matter, energy, light, perhaps even sound, before releasing it at any future point.

Shockwave Punch.
Mathael is capable of releasing extremely powerful shock waves that travel through the air like cracks, and are capable of creating earthquakes and destroy mountains.

Energy absorption.
Mathael is capable of absorbing primal and simple energy sources that he can use for later purposes.

Fire Beam.
Mathael can fire a beam of highly concentrated heat, capable of not only melting steel in a second but also powerful enough to pulverize most metals.

Limb Manipulation
Mathael is capable of transforming every part of his body into something of his choice.

The Embodiment of Hatred
Transform into The Embodiment of Hatred and increase his strength by several folds. How to use: Unknown. Very dangerous

Extinction.
Mathael is cable to transfer huge amounts of demonic energy into a single object, or entity, which will crash to the ground like a meteor, melting everything in its path.

Big Bang
Mathael punches his target with such force that his enemy will land on the moon.

Globe Of Annihilation.
Mathael sents out a slow moving, but nearly unstoppable orb, of pure demonic energy, to a certain location before the sphere will explode and leave behind a large dead area.

Crossfade.
Mathael can switch between a song that will either heal or boost the speed of his allies in the area around him.

Amp It Up.
enhances the songs of the ability 'Crossfade.'

Many hours later, when almost all of Equestria was asleep, a small entity crawled through the window, of the dark stallions room. The entity was well hidden in the shadows, but what did it plan? Something Evil? Malicious? Oh what lurked in its mind?

The being climbed up the bed and jumped on Mathael's chest, before wandering towards his face, and jumping on his muzzle. On top of Mathael's nose stood Ketos, wielding a large ink pen that was covered in hundreds of runes. Ketos lifted the pen high up, it crackled with lightning.

The Spartan glared down at his prey, full of anger and rage, and was about to bury his blade, the Blade of a Libraria, in the eye of the god of darkness. But just as he was about to finish the deed, a stormy wind, in the form of a sneeze, originating from the nostrils of the dark Pony, blew him, as well as his weapon, out of the same window he came from and fell into the abyss. All that was heard from him was a loud scream. "Zeuuuuuuuuuuuuuus"

But... Was this the last of Ketos? Or would he return in a sequel?

Author's Notes:

This is how Mathael looked like when he ripped open the gate:

First off, I am terribly sorry that this Chapter took so long to make, or 3 to 4 months to be exact. I just wanted to tell you that I am sorry, but the last school (10th grade) is kind of killing me at the moment with the reparations our teachers are shoving us through so we would manage to get good grades. One downside to that is that I literally can only work on weekends.

I just wanted to tell you this because I still love to write this story, and while a new story now, perhaps another one in the future comes, I will not abandon it in any way, shape or form, nor love it any less.

Yours sincerely,
Zwillingen700

In the next episode of Dragonball Z Chapter of Don't You Dare... Mysteries of the past are lifted, while others will be discovered. But most importantly, a great breakfast talk will take place with the best food available, made by none other than Mathael. This and much more, or perhaps less, in the next episode of the anime that to 90% consists of screaming! Chapter

Ps, the reason why It changed between The Demon, Mathael, It, and The Embodiment of Hatred, was to clarify just how much of Mathael was in control at the moment. Also, the girls didn't ask any questions regarding Mathael, because they knew that now was a terrible time to ask personal questions.