Author's Notes:

This chapter is going to be written in third person, a style I am not 100% used to so expect a few mistakes here and there.

Sorano just stands there, staring at Twilight as she looks them dead in the eye, an unreadable expression on her face.

’Ummm...busted.’ Sorano thinks in worry. Natali quickly comes to her senses and takesover their body and tilt their head to the side with, what she hopes is, a curious expression.

“What do you mean Twilight? I told you who I-“ “I wasn’t talking to you Natali. Who is She?” Twilight interrupts, giving them her serious Twi glare, causing Diclonius duo to flinch.

“Umm, w-well, uh...” Natali stutter, trying to find a reasonable excuse. ”Whoa, tread lightly Nat. Tread lightly.” Sorano stresses, causing Natali make an annoyed face. ‘Ya think?!? We both know what she is capable of and her past experience with alternative personalities.’ Nat think back to her, remembering their encounter with Nightmare Moon.

“Wait, what is going on?” Rainbow asks, just now managing to right herself and not cringe in pain. The others look at her, before Twilight explains. “Every time Natali helps with getting one of us back to normal, she is using some weird magic I don’t recognize and seemingly turns into someone else when she is using it.” Twilight tells her, Rainbows eyes widening as she remembers her ‘fight’. “Oh you mean those wierd invisible things right? The ones that let her fly, hit me in the gut and pinned me?” Rainbow says.

Twilight nods and goes to explain more but gets interrupted, ”Vectors.” Sorano said, once again in control. “Pardon?” Twilight says. ”They are called Vectors. Think of them as invisible arms with incredible strength that can vibrate at different frequencies.” Sorano explains, Twilight looking at them with curious eyes.

“Vectors. I have never heard of such a spell as that.” Twilight says in thought. ”That’s because it isn’t a spell. It is a natural ability of ours, the same as with Pegasi walking on clouds, or Earth Ponies with helping in agriculture.” Sora explains to her, Twilight poofing in a notepad and quill to take notes of what they say.

“But you still haven’t introduced yourself, silly!” Pinkie says bouncing around the Diclonius. The others look on in shock as Sora wraps a Vector around the pink mares torso and lifts her up.

“Hey! Let her go!” Rainbow shouts, prepping to launch herself to ‘save’ her friend. ”Calm down. I just told you. The Vectors are like arms, I am just using them to lift her.” Sorano explains coldly, Pinkie giggling all the while as she is being lifted off her hooves.

“Wheee! This reminds me of when I was a teenee pie and my momma pie would lift me up.” This causes Sorano to give a small smile and rock and toss Pinkie around like she was a little kid, the pink mare enjoying it all the while. The others look on, Fluttershy, Rarity, AppleJack and Spike gaining smiles of their own looking at their friend play around.

The group relaxes as Sora places Pinkie back down on the ground next to her friends, much to her disappointment. “Aww! I wanted to play more!” She whines with a childish pout, causing everyone to giggle.

”Maybe after we take down Discord, I’ll let you play with them some more.” Sorano says with a smile, patting the pink mares head with a Vector. ”But for right now, my name is Sorano. Think of me as a second, more confident Nat.” she says with pride, only for her eyes to gain more life to them as Nat takes control. “Yeah, more confident. But you are also pretty cold when it comes to fights.” Nat says, coming back with a smirk.

The group look at the Diclonius with a slightly worried gaze, but before they can ask some questions, they are brought back to the situation at hand when a trio of buffalo in ballerina outfits dance by. “I promise, we’ll explain what is going on with us later. But right now we need to put a certain Draconequus back in stone.” Natali says, the group looking back at each other, still worried about their new friend.

”How about this. I will Pinkie promise that we will explain later.” Sorano says looking back at the group, who all nod at the Diclonius. ”Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Sora says doing all the motions.

With all said and done the group of eight begin to run into Ponyville proper, intent on finding a certain spirit of chaos, unaware of a pair of red and yellow eyes watching them from when Sorano and Natali explain their powers. “Interesting, looks like I’ll have to careful for once.”

It takes a few minutes but eventually the group finds the Spirit of Chaos atop his throne next to a literal house of cards, with pies falling from the sky and a glass of chocolate milk in his talons. “Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing.” He says aloud, going to take a sip of his chocolate milk.

“Not as wonderful as friendship!” Twilight says, the other Elements standing beside her, Spike and Nat just standing off to the side.

“Oh, this again?” Discord says in mock exasperation, before drinking the cup of chocolate milk. The glass itself, not the drink. Before tossing the chocolate behind him resulting in a random explosion.

“That’s right! You can’t break our friendship for long!” AppleJack says in defiance, stamping her hoof on the ground.

Discord’s claw glows gold and said aura surrounding AppleJack’s element, dragging her to the mismatched creature. “Oh, come AppleJack. Don’t lie to me.” He says mockingly before surrounding the other girls element and dragging them to him as well. “Won’t you ever learn.” Twilight prepares to use a spell to get her friends, but Natali beats her to the punch, by running forward and sending a Vector to wrap around each girl, while slapping Discord’s hand as though he had it in a cookie jar. He merely rubs his paw and looks on, soon gaining a dopey grin.

“I’ll tell you what we’ve learned Discord! It is that friendship isn’t always easy. But there is no doubt its worth fighting for!” Twilight says in pride as the other come up beside her, Spike and Nat included. Discord just stretches his neck out to be face-to-face with the purple unicorn.

“Urgg, gag! Fine, go ahead try and use your little Elements. ‘Friend’ me. Just make it quick.” He says before teleporting back to his throne. “I am missing some excellent chaos here.” He says, gesturing to the odd landscape.

’Hey, something is off here.’ Sorano tells Nat within their mind. ‘What do you mean? It is following the shows story right now.’ Nat responds, once again confused by her companion. ’I mean in terms of magic. Right now that Discord only has about half as much magical power as Twilight.’ Sorano explains. Natali’s eyes widen before focusing on her ‘Magic Vector Vision’ and looking around, finding that Sora is right. ‘But that means...’

“Alright ladies, let’s show him what friendship can-“ Twilight wasn’t able to finish as Sorano quickly rushes past them and towards the draconequus.

“Sorano?!? What are you doing?!?” Rainbow yells at her. The others didn’t get a chance to comment as Sora jumped, closing the distance and sending a couple of Vectors at ‘Discord’

“Oh and who are y-“ he gets cut off by the Vector separating his head from his body. The others look on in shock as the Vectors cut the draconequus arms, legs, and wings off before slicing his serpentine body into thirds. Sorano landed softly and continues on to inspect the corpse.

It was at this point both Fluttershy and Rarity fainted, Spike and AppleJack fanning the unconscious mares, Rainbow and Pinkie turning from cyan and pink to green and Twilight just numbly walking to the Diclonius in absolute shock.

“Sorano. Why?” She asks in a numb disgust. Sora doesn’t respond for a few seconds before standing up with a angry scowl on her face. ”I knew it!” she yells getting everponies attention, Rarity and Fluttershy just now waking up.

“Knew what?” Spike asks in disturbed confusion. Sorano turns back to look at the group.

”Look at this ‘corpse’. Anypony notice something missing?” she says causing a few to look at the mismatched pieces on the floor. They look for a bit before Spike’s eyes widen in realization.

“There’s no blood.” He says in shock. This causes the others eyes to widen and look closer and realize he is right.

“What the? So, what? Discord doesn’t bleed or something?” Rainbow asks confused, before AppleJack walks up and grabs the lions paw and immediately feels what wrong.

“What in tarnation? It’s made of wood!” She exclaimed in shocked confusion.

This immediately causes all those present to look at her in shock. “Wait. You mean to tell me this Discord was just a puppet or something?!?” Rainbow shouts in surprise.

“Wow, even I didn’t see that coming!” Pinkie says, causing the others to raise a brow, before shaking their heads, looking back at the broken puppet.

“B-But if this is j-just a p-puppet, wh-where’s the real Discord?” Fluttershy asks while trembling. This causes the others to tense up and begin looking around the area frantically.

‘This is not good. Where is Discord?” Twilight thinks worried. The group begins to get close to each other in fear. While looking around, Pinkies tail begins to twitch rapidly.

“Twitchy Tail!” She exclaims, everyone looking at her then above them, then immediately paling. Above them a hundred swordfish were falling towards them rapidly. “What the?!?!” Rainbow yells in shock.

”I got it!” before the ponies and drake have a chance to react, Sorano sends half a dozen Vectors to act as a shield, blocking the swordfish and throwing them around in different directions.

After the last fish was repelled, the group begins to look around for any sign of what just happened. “What the buck was that?!?” Rainbow yelled in a panicked voice.

”Swordfish. Looks like the Spirit of Chaos isn’t taking any chances.” Sorano says in a monotone voice.

“Ya’ll mean to tell us that Discord just tried to kill us?!?” AppleJack shouts in alarm. While they were panicking at this information, Natali was using her MVV to look for any large sources of magic. It takes a second before finding what they are looking for, and quickly taking control.

“Well? Are you going to just hide behind your cards? Or are you going to come and face us?” Natali says, looking at the nearby house of cards. Everypony then turns to look at where she is looking, being rewarded by a familiar laugh.

“Oh, and here I thought I could keep myself hidden and turn you into a group of kebabs.” the voice says as the familiar mix mashed creature walks out from his hiding place. Looking at the draconequus, the group could immediately tell, something was wrong with him. His eye colours have been inverted, with glowing red sclera and pale yellow pupils.

‘Um what? Why is Discord looking borderline evil instead of just being mischievous?’ Nat thought to Sorano as they switch again. ’Yeah, something is definitely wrong with him.’ Sora thinks back.

“Discord! Surrender now! We have restored the power of the elements and will not hesitate to use them against you.” Twilight says to him, seemingly full of confidence. It immediately turns to confusion and worry as Discord just laughs, but not the mocking or joyful laughter they had been hearing up to this point. This was a genuinely maniacal laugh, which caused all present to tense up and for a certain yellow Pegasus to begin to tremble in fear.

“You think those multicoloured rocks can possibly stop me?” He suddenly stops laughing and gained a deadly serious expression. “Then it looks like I’ll just have to take you all out of the equation.” he says raising his lion paw before snapping and summoning several medieval era ranged weapons, bows, crossbows, and a few cannons, all of which are pointed at the group. The girls look at the potential barrage of weapons that were about be launched at them in shock.

“Buck.” Spike says, the others not caring if he curses.

”Twilight! Shield! NOW!” Sorano yells at the unicorn who snaps out of reverie and begins to cast her spell. Before it can close, Sorano jumps outside the shield, much to the shock of the group.

“Sorano, what are you doing!?! You can’t fight Discord alone! Just wait so we-“ ”Twilight.” Sorano interruptes her, causing her to shut up and listen.

”Can you guys charge your petrifying spell, while holding up that shield?” Sorano asks in a cold seriousness that demanded an answer. Twilight stops to think for a minute before answering.

“Yes, but while splitting my attention, it will take twice as long to charge.” Twilight says, Sorano just nodding before looking back at the mad Chaos spirit. From here the Diclonius can see an almost unnoticeable, turquoise ring around Discord’s eyes.

’You see that Nat?’ Sora questions, feeling Natali nod within her mind. Getting into a combat stance, her right leg forward, bent slightly, arms up and tucked in near her chin, Sorano stares down her opponent. Discord looks on with a cold gaze, the floating weapons prepping to fire. Time itself seemed to freeze, the wind, clouds, all the chaos around them just stopping, seemingly scared at the stand off between the two titans of chaos.

Then at the drop of sweat from Twilights brow, all the weapons around Discord fire at the Diclonius, causing a large dust cloud to kick up around Sorano, the girls looking on in shock and fear waiting for the cloud to clear. A few seconds later, all that’s left from where Sorano stood was a scorched crater with tons of arrows imbedded in the ground.

“So much for that.” Discord says in boredom, looking at the group who all stood, eyes wide, looking behind him. Discord raises a brow in confusion, before getting a strong feeling of dread.

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”Agreed, I expected a bigger explosion.” Sorano said in a monotone voice, barely an inch from Discord’s ear. Before he could turn, Sorano launched a few Vectors sending him flying a few blocks away, barely able to right himself before Sorano was in front of him again. ”Then again, this chaos is childish compared to what we have seen back home.” she mocks, wrapping him up.

“Hmm. I see your Vectors are a rather handy set of tools. I wonder what you would do without them.” He says with a maniacal grin. Sorano’s eyes widen as she quickly puts distance between the two of them, throwing Discord one way and launching herself another. Discord rights himself and summons a few candy cane trees with sharpened tips and throws them at Sora who just uses her Vectors to shatter them in midair.

‘Be careful, we don’t actually know how the Vectors would react to normal magic, let alone chaos magic.’ Natali says in thought, trying to think of a proper plan to stop this Mad Chaos Spirit. She is thinking back to every opponent Lucy has faced in her story and trying to think of any comparison to their current enemy.

“Well now. Let’s see how you like getting wrapped up!” Discord yells summoning several plunder vines from below them to wrap and stab Sora up. Sorano uses the Vectors to punch back the vines around her, before two large ones take up position beside her.

”Get back!” she yells, using two large Vectors to crush the vines while lifting herself up into the air. Without missing a beat the vines begin to climb their Vectors, Discord thinking it would drain them.

“I’m going to put you in the ground!” He yells threatening. Sorano just scoffs and vibrates her Vectors, causing the vines to explode into dust, Discord’s eyes widening in shock. “Impossible! My vines are supposed to drain you of your magic!”

”If you had been paying attention, then you would realize that our Vectors aren’t magical, and aren’t coming from our body itself.” she says, secretly slithering a Vector behind the Spirit of Chaos. While doing this Natali notes that the Elements rainbow blast looks to be about 5/6th charged, the only element not glowing being Twilights as she is still holding her shield. ”But explaining it would be useless on a soon-to-be pigeon perch.”

Discord’s eyes widen and he looks back at the main six, seeing their elements glowing and Twilight lowering her shield. “No! I won’t allow it!” He roars in rage, snapping his fingers, intent on destroying the elements and their bearer. Only for nothing to happen. “What?” He asks breathlessly, snapping his claws again and again. He looks back a Sorano, seeing a smug and mocking grin. “What did you do to me?”

“It is really simple when you think about it.” Nat says, taking control. “Our Vectors vibrate at different frequencies, allowing them to do different things, such as turning intangible.” Discord raises a brow, before thinking and realizing what they are saying. “It smart right? All we had to do was find the organ that generates your magic and move it just a little bit so it wouldn’t kill you, but blocks you from using your magic.” She explains, distracting Discord from the rainbow blast about to be fired.

DIscord just looks at the young women in shock and awe, before giving a genuine smile at her actions. “Well done.” He says, moments before the blast hits him, turning him into a statue once more. After he is petrified all the chaos around that begins to disperse, the trees and earth straitening out, the animals shrinking back to normal, the skies clearing up. Nat walks up to the statue, sensing that whatever was corrupting his magic was being destroyed.

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“Don’t worry Discord. You won’t be stuck in here for long.” She whispers in promise. Nat turns to walk away, only to be tackled by six ponies and one drake. “Nyu!” She shouts in alarm, the group falling to the ground in a big hugging pile.

“Your okay! Don’t you do something that dangerous again, you here us!?!” Twilight yells with the others giving their own input. The Diclonius duo just stay there for a moment, before using their Vectors to lift everypony off them and standing up. They look at their new friends, all held aloft in their grip, before bringing them in and using their Vectors for a true group hug.

“Sorry, but you should know that it will take more than a mad Chaos Spirit to take us down.” Nat says in pride and full of an unknown confidence. ”Yeah, we are made of pretty tough stuff, and we’re stubborn enough to give AppleJack a run for her bits.” Sora adds, the group now used to the alternate personality.

“Hey!” AppleJack says, realizing the last thing she said. This causes all present to begin laughing.

“Well, now that everything is back to normal, we should send a letter to the princess and tell her of your guys victory against Discord.” Nat says to the group. Before they can respond however, there is a flash accompanyed by a duck quack as something falls on Natali’s head “Nyu!” She exclaims. Looking down they see what it was that fell on their head. “My purse?”

On the ground before them was a scarlet red hand purse with the image of a pair of horns on the front side. Attached to the purse was what looks like a letter, just that was made out of cut outs of magazines pieces. Spike picks up the letter and begins to read aloud.

To whom it may concern,

If you are getting this that means I have been defeated and you are getting you stuff back. Hooray for you! Anyways, sorry I didn’t return this to you, but there was just such interesting items in this little bag. A device that can hold hundreds of songs? Yes please! Also I like the picture of you and your two friends. Such an odd trio.

Anyways, despite what some may think I hate the thought of stealing, so I am only going to hold onto this stuff until such time I am defeated or I find one of the three being in the photo. If it is the former, the bag has been teleported to the area I have been beaten in so the ‘heroes’ can find it and return them to their rightful owners.

Anyways, I can only use so much space on a sheet of paper, so I’ll just finish up by saying good luck and may the chaos guide you.

Sincerely yours,

The Spirit of Chaos, Master of Mischief, and inventor of cotton candy clouds, Discord.

After Spike finishes reading the others looks at one another in confusion before looking back at their new, pink haired friend, who was looking though their bag. Nat quickly pulled out their IPhone 5s, fully charged (Likely from Discord) with headphones, their wallet, and the one thing they wanted to see most. The photo of themselves, Lex and Adam they took before getting displaced. Both personalities smile and look back at the Now petrified spirit.

‘Not so evil after all”