It was a nice and peaceful day in Equestria. Cheerilee had taken her class to the Canterlot Sculpture Garden for a fieldtrip, Cheerilee was showing her class all of the known statues in the garden. The Cutie Mark Crusaders had gotten into a couple of arguments with eachother after they had seen a few of the statues and wondered how cool it would be to have some of them as a cutie mark. They were called over to see another statue in the garden.

The statue that was seen was said to be a draconequus. The creature’s head was horse-like, it had a deer antler on the right side, and a goat horn on the left side. It also had one long fang, a snake tongue, and a beard. It’s body had a lion’s right arm, an eagle’s left claw, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. The creature had mixed wings, the right wing was a bat, while the left wing was a pegasus, and it had a snake's tail.

Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom got into a fight with each other after naming a few of the draconequus’ mismatched body parts and what it represents. While they were fighting with one another, the statue had a faint purple glow on the chest. Cheerilee broke up the fight after telling the Cutie Mark Crusaders that they were each right with what they were arguing over. The creature was known as Discord, he was a spirit of Chaos, Disharmony, and everything related to negative feelings of Harmony. Cheerilee assigned each of the CMC’s with an assignment of how they “knew” what disharmony was. While Cheerilee was taking the class of fillies to another part of the garden, the Discord statue started cracking, an evil chuckle followed afterwards.

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Everything seemed normal around Ponyville; Rainbow Dash had been clearing the sky, and had been flying around. While she was flying, a pink cloud zoomed past her, making her spin and become dizzy in the process. After regaining her composure, Rainbow Dash chased down the pink cloud, and caught it, however, she got stuck in it. She tasted it and it tasted like cotton candy, leaving her confused. Multiple cotton candy clouds started flying past her in all different directions. One cloud hung over her head and started downpouring chocolate milk on her.

The clouds started moving through Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were concerned over the weird weather. Rainbow Dash left and attempted to stop the strange weather. The chocolate rain however, started having its effect on the food. All of the corn was beginning to pop and became popcorn, which Pinkie was swimming through. Pinkie Pie was enjoying herself with what was going on and drank some of the chocolate rain while it was downpouring. Rarity was there, attempting to calm Applejack and help out in anyway possible, without getting herself dirty. The apples grew in great size, and bent the trees they were on. The squirrels were eating the super-sized apples. Fluttershy’s rabbit Angel also joined the squirrels and was eating the apples. Fluttershy tried to convince Angel to stop eating the apple, but Angel’s legs grew to the size of a deer. Other rabbits were seen having the same effect after they ate the apples.

Twilight Sparkle and her assistant Spike arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, hoping that they can fix the problem. Twilight skimmed through a page in a book she brought with her, and found a spell she believed was going to fix everything. She charged up her horn, and fired a stream of magic across Sweet Apple Acres, enveloping everything in a bright purple light. After the flash subsided, Twilight was shocked to see that her fail-safe spell had failed. Spike thought they should give up after Twilight’s spell didn’t work. Twilight glared at Spike in annoyance.

Rarity gave Twilight her umbrella and encouraged her to come up with another plan to stop the madness at Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight thought for a few seconds and came up with a new plan. Twilight had Rainbow Dash collect all of the cotton candy clouds and placed them together in one area. Applejack used some rope to tie-up the clouds and brought it down to the ground, leaving Pinkie Pie upset over the chocolate rain stoppage. Fluttershy baited the animals from eating the apples and had them go eat the cotton candy clouds instead. Twilight was then telling Spike that as long as you work together with your friends with any kind of problems, you should never give up. Spike then burped up his green fire, revealing a scroll from Princess Celestia. Twilight read the scroll over, and was shocked to see it was an urgent message. She and her friends rushed over to Canterlot.

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Celestia paced back and forth in her palace, waiting as patiently as possible for Twilight and her friends to arrive. Once they arrived, Celestia started explaining what was going on in Equestria while walking through the castle, painting a picture of past events to the Mane Six with stained glass windows. Celestia had said that the reason for the animals misbehavior, the chocolate rain, and Twilight’s magic not working were all from an old foe she had believed she defeated years ago, Discord. Discord, as Celestia described him, was a mischievous spirit of Disharmony. Before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna’s time, Discord had ruled Equestria with unrest and unhappiness. With all the chaos Discord had, he made life miserable for earth ponies, unicorns and pegasi alike. Not wanting to stand by any further with Discord’s torture, both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna discovered the Elements of Harmony and used their combined power to seal Discord in his stony imprisonment as seen in the Canterlot Gardens.

Unfortunately, after the events of Luna’s transformation to Nightmare Moon, they lost their connection to the Elements of Harmony. The spell placed on Discord was broken because of this, and he was set free from his imprisonment. Celestia led Twilight and her friends to Canterlot Tower in it lay the Elements of Harmony that was used last on Nightmare Moon. Celestia wanted them to wield the elements once again to put a stop to Discord, before his chaos can spread even further. Twilight and her friends accepted the task at hand.

Celestia then put her horn into the lock of the chamber, she then used her magic to unlock and open the door. She pulled out a case that contained the elements. After opening the case, everyone was shocked to see that the elements weren’t in the case. Celestia was left wondering what had happened to the elements. She said that she was the only one that could open the door. After a few moments, laughter was heard in the castle, Celestia stopped in her tracks and looked around the castle in anger, knowing whom the laughter belonged to.

Discord taunted Celestia and the Mane Six, echoing his voice throughout the castle. Discord then revealed himself on one of the stained glass windows that he was painted on and had animated himself going from one stained glass window, to another. Celestia questioned Discord of what he did with the Elements of Harmony; he responded by saying he is “borrowing” them for the time being.

“You’ll never get away with this Discord!” Celestia declares in anger.

“Oh, I’ve forgotten how grim you can be, Celestia. It’s really quite boring,” Discord nonchalantly states, earning glares from the other ponies.

“Hey! Nopony insults the princess!” yelled Rainbow Dash.

She then flew at the stained glass window that Discord was on. However, he disappeared before she got to the window, having her crash face first into nothing. Discord then re-appeared on the same stained glass window, bigger than he was a while ago.

“Oh, you must be Rainbow Dash, Famed for her loyalty, the element of harmony you represent.” Discord stated.

“That’s right! I’ll always be loyal to the princess!” declared Rainbow Dash.

Discord then disappeared from the stained glass window he was on. “We’ll see about that,” he said in a challenging tone.

“I can’t believe your wasting our time talking to a tacky window,” said Rarity in disbelief of what she was seeing.

Discord then re-appeared on the stained glass window behind her and said, “The beautiful Rarity, representing the element of generosity, if I’m not mistaken.” Applejack then walked up to the window Discord was currently on. “So you know who we are, big deal,” Applejack concluded, not impressed with Discord knowing who they were.

Discord grew taller on the window and continued his knowledge of the ponies and said, “Oh, I know much more than that, honest Applejack.”

“You seem to know our strengths too,” stated Twilight.

Discord teleported and re-appeared on a different window that had the mane six on it. He had shrunk himself to fit on the window. “Yes, Twilight Sparkle, and yours is the most powerful and the most elusive element, magic. Fluttershy’s is kindness and Pinkie Pie’s is a personal favorite of mine, laughter.”

Pinkie snickered after Discord’s statement, causing Twilight to turn her head in Pinkie’s direction after hearing her. “Pinkie!” she shouted in annoyance. “Ha-ha-ha! He’s standing on your head!” Discord, as said, was on Twilight’s head on the stained glass window and was dancing in place on it, making Pinkie laugh even more.

Getting tired of Discord’s antics, Celestia got back on topic with Discord taking the Elements of Harmony. “Stop stalling Discord! What have you done with the elements of harmony!?” she demanded.

Discord stopped his dancing and was un-amused from her behavior. “Oh, so boring Celestia, really. Fine, I’ll tell you, but I’ll only tell you my way,” he said before disappearing from the stained glass window, and re-appeared again in the other windows.

“To retrieve your missing elements just make sense of this change of events. Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the elements back where you began,” he concluded his riddle with a chuckle, leaving the ponies alone to try and solve the riddle.

“Can we go home now?” asked the worried Fluttershy once she and Applejack walked up to Twilight. “What do you reckon he meant? Twists and turns and then back where we started?” questioned Applejack.

Twilight walked to the window thinking about what Discord’s riddle meant. “Twists and turns. Twists and turns,” she said to herself in deep thought. After arriving at one of the windows, she looked out and spotted the labyrinth outside. An idea hit Twilight the moment she saw the labyrinth. “Twists and turns! That’s it! I bet Discord hid the elements in the palace labyrinth,” she said in excitement.

Princess Celestia nodded in agreement to Twilight’s answer, thankful that the knowledge of the elements whereabouts had been found. “Good luck my little ponies! The fate of Equestria, is in your hooves,” said Celestia.

“Thanks princess, we wont let you down,” Twilight said with confidence, and with that, the mane six rushed out of the palace and headed to the labyrinth.

They arrived to the labyrinth, and were about to enter, but Fluttershy started feeling scarred of the idea of entering the labyrinth. Rainbow Dash assured her and the rest of the ponies that she will do a quick fly over the labyrinth, when all of a sudden, her wings vanished and she fell to the ground. Rainbow Dash was shocked to see that her wings disappeared. A few seconds later, the same thing happened to Fluttershy’s wings, also shocking her. Both Twilight’s and Rarity’s horns vanished afterwards. “Your horn! My Horn! Aggghhh!!!” they said in unison.

A bright ball of light appeared before the ponies, and in a flash, Discord revealed himself laughing at the pony’s misfortunes. “You should see the looks on your faces! Priceless,” he said in amusement.

“Give us our wings and horns back!” demanded Twilight.

“You’ll get them back in good time,” he said before teleporting to Applejack. “I simply took them to ensure there’s no cheating. You see this is the first rule of our game: No flying, and no magic,” he finished after running his lion finger down Twilight’s chin, causing her to feel uncomfortable.

“The first rule?” questioned Rainbow Dash.

“The second rule is: Everypony has to play, or the game is over, and I win. Good luck everypony!” he concluded in laughter and suddenly disappeared, leaving the ponies scarred.

“Never fear girls! We have each other.” Twilight assured her friends. After calming down herself, Rainbow Dash helped her and said, “Yeah, like Twilight said. There’s nothing we can’t overcome, if we all stick together.”

“Alright girls, lets do this!” said Twilight.

“Together!” they said in unison after they took their first step into the maze. Suddenly, multiple hedges sprouted out of the ground and separated the ponies from one another, causing them to panic from the separation. Twilight calmed the others down and told them to meet each other at the middle of the maze as fast as possible.

The challenge proved to be tough for the ponies. One by one, Discord worked his magic on the ponies, using each of their cutie mark symbols to lure them into each of his traps. He started with Applejack, turning her a liar after having her see a puddle that revealed the future of her friendship with the rest of the group. After tricking her to believing that lies are easier to take than a truth, her coat and mane faded into a light grey-ish color.

Pinkie Pie was the next victim to Discord’s tricks. Pinkie saw a balloon party, and was instantly happy to see it. She tripped and fell into a mud puddle and was being laughed at by the balloons. Discord revealed himself to Pinkie, and twisted her thoughts on having a good laugh with friends, and being laughed at into two different things. The talk ended up leading Pinkie to believe that her friends laugh at her all the time. Pinkie turned grey-ish as well, and lost her personality.

Rarity was next in line for Discord to toy with. Rarity bumped into a rock wall that had three diamonds imbedded in it, making Rarity swoon over their beautiful glow. Rarity tried her best to resist the gems, but greed got the best of her and she started digging them out of the rock wall, turning her white coat and purple mane into a grey-ish color as well. After digging the wall out, the tree gems ended up being a giant diamond, but “diamond” was actually a boulder.

Fluttershy was next. Discord disguised himself as three butterflies, and was attempting to make Fluttershy angry. His attempts were to have her believe that she was intentionally left behind, that her friends see her as a weak and helpless pony, and that her friends always point out her flaws. But Fluttershy, the ever kind-hearted pony she is, didn’t fall for any of the tricks at all. This caused Discord great frustration over the fact that he wasn’t breaking Fluttershy. He then turned back into his somewhat normal self and forced her to become a cold-hearted pony with a simple touch, making her coat and mane fade into a grey-ish color.

Rainbow Dash was the last pony that Discord can mess with. He lured her into his trap with a cloud that was shooting rainbow lightning. Rainbow Dash chased the cloud down and spotted Discord resting on a cloud, like if it were a hammock. After seeing Discord, she took a fighting stance and was ready for a fight with Discord, but Discord had other plans for Rainbow Dash. He snapped his fingers, and pulled up the cloud Rainbow Dash was chasing, it showed her a vision that her home Cloudsdale, will crumble without her being there. The vision, shocks Rainbow Dash. Discord then reveals a present to Rainbow Dash, he tells her that her wings are in it and leaves her with two choices: She could either take the wings and leave the game, or she could continue wandering in the maze.

Twilight and her friends continue to going through the maze, until Applejack said that Rainbow Dash was flying away. Twilight, not believing her, also sees that Rainbow Dash was flying away; she also turned grey from Discord’s trickery. After she was out of sight, storm clouds gathered over the maze and it suddenly disappeared and caused a dust storm. Discord revealed himself after the dust settled from the maze’s disappearance.

“Well, well, well. Somepony broke the “no wings, no magic” rule.” Discord said in a fake upset tone. He then snapped his finger and restored the horns and wings for Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy.

“Games over my little ponies. You didn’t find your precious elements,” he simply stated. He then pulled out an umbrella and opened it in an inverted fashion while stating, “Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of chaos.”

Discord laughed in victory, while leaving Twilight in shock.