“Alright Spike I want you to come at me with everything you’ve got, don’t hold back.”

The drake nodded, his new training outfit having a slight flow to it, the sleeveless top and baggy pants giving him additional movement. “Ok here goes.” He rushed forward with an arm reeled back and threw a punch at Zeko but it was caught with relative ease.

“Come on Spike focus your energy and make yourself stronger otherwise you aren’t going all out.” Zeko’s words made Spike close his eyes to focus.

Spike felt his energy from his stomach move towards his arms, flowing like a river through his upper body and giving him the strength to overpower Zeko and push him back. “Whoa! I did it! Does that mean I’m stronger than you?”

As soon as the words left Spike’s mouth a hand hit the back of his head. “Don’t say that until you can land a hit hard enough to hurt me.”

Spike was confused until he looked and saw the Zeko he knocked back was now a pile of sand on the forest floor. “Oh right that substitution thing. How am I supposed to do that anyway?” He got a light punch to the arm.

“If you’ve been practicing you should be able to replace yourself with something related to you, it’s been a week so you’ve had to have made some progress.” Zeko said while looking at the sky.

Spike focused and tried to think of a way to replace himself with something he had and he managed an idea. “Zeko! I think I got something, I want you to hit me.” There was a short lived silence after the request but Zeko quickly struck Spike’s chest but as soon as his fist made contact scales dropped to the ground. “I did it!”

Zeko picked up the scales and put them into the pouch on his thigh before looking back at Spike. “Yeah you did but try to substitute as late as possible next time, that way an enemy thinks they got you and you have time for a counterattack.” Before Zeko could offer any more advice Ano decided to make herself known to the pair by stepping out of a tree.

“Something is very wrong, my forest is disturbed and the clouds nearby aren’t making normal rain.” A Timberwolf emerged from the thicket and stood next to its master. “I’m not able to leave the forest for long so I’m sending this one to go with you.”

Zeko raised an eyebrow at the proclamation and glanced at the Timberwolf. “You’re ok with this coming with me? Pretty sure I destroyed the last ones I saw.” He referred to his introduction to this world but Ano seemed to have no issue

“Those were rogue wolves,made by malice, this is one of my own and has remained loyal.” She pointed at its eyes and both Spike and Zeko noticed they were a calming blue rather than a vile green.

“I guess we can go find the girls, something tells me that if you noticed then Celestia should’ve by now.” Zeko turned and jumped into the trees.

“Wait! How am I supposed to- Woah!” The Timberwolf bit the neck of Spike’s shirt and tossed him on its back before running after Zeko.

“This Magic seems unorganized and possibly chaotic, be careful.” Ano warned the trio as they went through the forest, looking for the ones who bore the Elements of Harmony.

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(Canterlot Castle)

“Someone I thought I had defeated long ago, has returned. His name is Discord.” Celestia explained to the girls as they walked down a long corridor and Fluttershy looked at a large stained glass window of a man with various different body parts, she hid behind her friends quickly. “Discord is the mischievous spirit of disharmony. Before my sister and I-“

Celestia was interrupted by the door being opened loudly and she saw Zeko with... a Timberwolf accompanying him. “Sorry I’m late but it was a rough week, so what’s going on with this crazy weather?” He pointed out a window towards a pink cloud that was raining a brown liquid.

“I know! Cotton candy clouds with chocolate milk rain!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed

Celestia cleared her throat and brought attention back to herself. “As I was saying, Discord ruled Equestria in a state of unhappiness and unrest, luckily Luna and I discovered the Elements of Harmony and turned him to stone.

“So let me guess... The spell you used to trap him is broken because these six are with the Elements now?” Zeko gestured to the mane six and earned a nod from Celestia. She walked to a wall and placed her horn into a slot, in an uncomfortable position for her head at that, the wall opened to reveal a gilded box upon a pedestal.

“Now you can put a stop to Discord’s actions using these.” She opened the case but it was empty. “That... That doesn’t make sense! The room was locked by magic only I could use.” A cackle broke the tension in the room.

“Oh what fun is there in making sense?” They looked up and saw a figure in the window and he was... moving from portrait to portrait. “I’ve always-“

*Crash*

Zeko threw a chakra rod as big as himself through the window but missed the figure entirely. “You sound just like that guy who gave me a token!” He prepared another rod but Applejack grabbed his arm

“Now hold on partner! Ya can’t just break windows and try to beat him.” Applejack reasoned, calming Zeko down from his nettled state.

The figure laughed more before stopping in a window with the Elements beneath him. “You should listen to her Zeko, just breaking things can’t stop me. To think such a strong ninja would be willing to stay in a world so peaceful... a waste of talent. As for you little ponies...”

“They’re still like people, why are they called that?” Zeko though as Discord told them about his imprisonment and where he decided to hide the artifacts, but as a riddle and he quickly teleported the mane six away. “Hey!” Discord looked back at Zeko. “You can have them do that riddle but what’s stopping me from fighting you here and now?”

Discord paused for a moment and seemed to contemplate his actual options since he’d observed that the shinobi can and will stop his plans if given a chance, but he thought of something that would give him plenty of time to put his plan into motion “Oh don’t worry kid...” He snapped his fingers and made a mirror appear, it went to the floor and glowed for a moment before two figures stepped out what took Zeko by surprise is that the ones who stepped out were him and Kotetsu wearing blue robes with black pants and crimson sandals but what stood out most was that their eyes were switched. Copy Kotetsu’s right eye was his Sharingan while copy Zeko’s left eye was a Rinnegan.

“So I got made by that loser? I’m just gonna beat him or whatever.” The copy Zeko said, sounding bored while the Kotetsu copy stood and looked at his surroundings.

“It seems that we were made with the purpose of beating him. I’d wager that this would be trivial.”

Zeko wasn’t able to understand what he saw nor could he process what he was hearing. Seeing he and his cousin’s polar opposites angered him to almost no limit. “So your plan was make copies of us to fight us?” He vanished only to crash into the floor heel first, making the copies dodge. His eyes widened once he realized that they somehow had Dōjutsu and could read his attacks. “This is gonna suck isn’t it?”

Discord only started laughing at the attempt. “Oh come now Zeko you should know it wouldn’t be so easy. Every little jutsu I’ve seen you and your cousin use they can do it too.” He proclaimed right as Zeko launched a fireball at his copy who used his own to counter it.

“Oh that’s great... Wait every single jutsu?”

“Well I did have to come back to my statue to re-energize.” He turned himself into a lightbulb to demonstrate. “So there were times that I missed, I didn’t see too much of when you left and came back with that Celona and after the Gala I did notice a few large powers but I wasn’t able to get there quick enough but I think these two will be enough to keep you out of the way and maybe get you out of the picture.” He reverted back before teleporting away.

“I think that we’ve had enough talking for now.” Copy-tetsu lunged and clashed his sword with Zeko’s chakra rod. “I’m rather invested in this fight and let’s not ruin it with unnecessary words.” The two tried to strike each other but each hit was dodged or parried entirely and Zeko was so enthralled in the sword fight he’d managed to forget about his doppelgänger.

“Just get hit so I can be done here.” Monstrous sand arms burst from the ground and tried to catch Zeko, but he disappeared in a crimson blur while Copy-tetsu was grabbed and pinned into the floor. “...Whoops.” He lifted the arms away and walked to his partner.

Copy-tetsu pulled himself from the crater in the floor and glared at his partner. “I would’ve preferred that you notified me of that attack.”

“Was too much work. So where’d he-“ A chakra rod cut through the sleeve of Copy-ko’s shirt and managed to graze his skin. The pair looked up and saw Zeko standing on the ceiling, Copy-ko used lightning chakra and burst up to strike Zeko but only hit the bricks of the castle.

“That’s a fast technique but mine is better.” Zeko was on the other side of the ceiling with a chakra rod in his hand. “Tossing these with Raijin marks might be my best bet at living, but if these guys are our opposites then...” Zeko jumped through the window he broke earlier and landed in the courtyard. “They’d kill innocents to lure me into a fight, gotta get to a less populated area. Oh no!” He dodged an oncoming fireball with an air bullet behind it

“Can you not keep running? I just wanna get this over with.” Copy-ko still had his lightning armor and he and Copy-tetsu slid down the side of the castle.

At that moment Zeko had an idea that he normally wouldn’t consider against the toughest enemies he’s faced, much less himself...and it was, “Run!” He bolted away from the castle and jumped onto a building in the upper district of Canterlot. He jumped from roof to roof while dodging fireballs and air bullets. “That’s right, away from the city and into the wasteland.”

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“The plan is coming along perfectly! Now I just need to make those five forget about who they are and then I’ll be able to rule forever!” The Draconequus teleported into the hedge maze and followed through on his plan and found his first target; Applejack, alone among trees...

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“Would you mind slowing down some so that we can-“ Copy-tetsu’s request was interrupted by an air bullet that he managed to evade but Copy-ko’s sand platform took the hit and he was thrown to the ground.

After rolling for a bit he recovered and stood up to survey the area and noticed that they were in a field and he saw a pond. “I know every jutsu you know so just give up so I can go sleep.” He weaved hand signs that Zeko recognized. “Water style: shark bomb.” A shark shaped bullet of water came from the water and headed straight for Zeko.

“That is an interesting move, I’ll add on to it.” Copy-tetsu shot a chidori spear at the water projectile and amplified it, making it look more dangerous. Zeko’s eyes widened as the attack got closer but his instincts kicked in once it was ten feet away.

The attack collided then exploded, a sphere of chakra was created and a crater formed in the spot. “Good we win, let’s go tell the dragon guy.” The clones turned but the sound of air being sucked away snapped their attention back.

When they looked back they saw Zeko with a hand outstretched and the air was heading towards it, upon using his ability he figured it was time to annoy. “If you thought i would be annihilated, then you should know your chakra was incorporated into my body and unlike yours isn’t a copy.” Copy-ko’s left eye twitched and saw that Zeko did in fact absorb the chakra from the attack

“What the? What jutsu was that? Almighty Push!” Zeko jumped to escape the attack made from the clone’s frustration but it was short lived, he noticed the air near his leg swirling and looked at Copy-tetsu.

“Kamui!” A hole opened and started to pursue Zeko while siphoning air into it, he already didn’t like going into Kotetsu’s dimension but this wasn’t his real cousin so there was no telling where it lead and he didn’t want to find that out the hard way. He leapt backwards to keep dodging but the vortex got closer and closer.

“Shit! Wait...” Zeko looked and saw that the clone’s eye was... bleeding? He’d never seen that happen to Kotetsu but started to put it together but as he was focused on cause he didn’t see effect and the hole got closer. “No!” His leg was sucked into the kamui and the hole closed. Zeko turned into a cloud of parasprites to the irritation of his opponents.

“I think he got away, maybe the attack landed.” Copy-tetsu was holding a hand over his right eye while blood flowed down his cheek. “Hopefully we can-“ The clash of weapons made him turn and see the Rinnegan users clashing with chakra rods.

“By taking part in this you made a mistake, I’ll just use jutsu never seen by you fakes.” The two tried to stab one another but only clashed further while Copy-tetsu watched in pain. Zeko broke his clone’s focus with a feint strike to the head and managed to stab his arm and jump back and look at Copy-tetsu. “He can end this by looking at me so I gotta take care of him, he held that kamui for thirty seconds so he’s done for a while.”

“Ok I guess I need to care to win.” Copy-ko summoned a Cragadile and made it rush Zeko who smirked.

“Its wrong to think that he could do me any harm...” He weaved ram, horse, serpent, dragon, rat, then tiger and inhaled. “Have a taste of fire style: dragon flame bombs.” A sea of fire engulfed the Cragadile and headed for the doppelgängers, swallowing them as well. Once the flames died out there was molten glass and roasted spiders. Zeko turned and saw his clone healing Copy-tetsu’s eye, which opened and showed that he could see again.

“That rapping is annoying and I’m not doing it but I can just copy what you do.” He crossed his arms and shut his eyes, slowly a familiar orange aura started leaking from his skin until it encased him. “I’m just as good as you, maybe better since I didn’t even need to train so just give up.” He disappeared in a blur and punched Zeko, who crossed his arms in defense and used his own lightning style armor.

“Not a bad hit!” He spun and kicked his copy in the head, making him stumble. “But that’s the problem.” He followed up with a punch to the stomach, cheek and finished the combination with a kick to the chest, sending his opponent flying into a tree. “You just got what you know by watching while my team practiced.”

“Chidori.” Copy-tetsu tried to stab his hand into Zeko’s back but only made it an inch or so into his skin. “It seems I miscalculated the strength of-“

“Eight Trigrams air palm!” Copy-tetsu looked and saw a bullet of air right before it crashed into him and knocked him away from Zeko who turned and saw Jenki, Nouka and Kotetsu. “So what’d we miss and why are there...” Jenki looked and saw Copy-ko and Copy-tetsu picking themselves up. “This is making my head hurt.”

Copy-ko’s Rinnegan eye was twitching and his other eye’s iris turned yellow. “Now we gotta deal with you idiots?” His aura flared and made winds push everyone else on the battlefield, Zeko and Copy-tetsu mimicked him.

“HOLD ON A DAMN MINUTE!” Everyone focused on Kotetsu as he pointed at Copy-ko. “That’s you! And he’s as strong as you!” He pointed at his doppelgänger. “And is that me?! Why is he stronger than me?! I’m gonna kill myself!” He encased his hand in lightning then stabbed himself in the chest and fell to the ground. Everyone stared in shock at the apparent death of Kotetsu until Zeko spoke up.

“Shit... Nouka take him and lead Copy-tetsu away, Jenki we’re handling this guy.” Zeko looked at his clone and saw sand whipping around him violently. “I’m getting a bad feeling.”

Nouka’s bird grabbed Kotetsu and flew off as small projectiles blew up near Copy-tetsu. “I suppose I don’t have a choice but to follow.” He turned into a bolt of lightning and pursued them from the ground.

“Well guess what?! You’re dealing with me so get ready...” Copy-ko surrounded left arm in sand, creating a vicious claw with chakra rods as his nails. “Cause I’m not holdin back now.”

“Can we take this guy before he- You know?” Jenki questioned as he got into his fighting pose.

Zeko created three chakra rods, holding two in his hands and one in his teeth. “I don’ kno.” His words were muffled but he stared down his enemy and flared his chakra once again. “Buf I’m shtil fightin.”

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Author's Notes:

Yes this is happening, by popular demand keeping these short and sweet unless it’s something huge.

See you next time (Wednesday maybe)