My little pony Tactics by SilverBlaze0ne
prologue: Self-sacrifice

"Now Crow! This is our chance! I'm going to finish it!" I hear from the person next to me. I look at my foe and see my own face staring back at me. All of my mistakes from both time lines flashing before my eyes. I start to charge my dark energy into a Flux spell.

"Crow?! Wait, what-", my friend stutters.

"...What...What are you doing?",asks my future self with a trace of uncertainty in his voice.

"For once, I'm glad that we are the same. Now I can give my life to save my loved ones."

For a minute he looks at me with doubt in his eyes then says, "You would not dare!"

"I would and I will. The evils you would visit upon this world are unspeakable... In some way I share the blame. It's only right we go together!" I state as I attack him with my spell.

As I watch him fade away I felt myself slipping from reality. "Crow! No!" I heard my friend cry.

"Thank you for everything, let the others know that my last thought was of them... may we meet again in a better life."

Darkness, nothing but darkness and emptiness all around me. 'Is this it? Is this what the after life is? Just nothing for eternity?' I thought.

"Well that was a fine piece of chaos if I do say so myself. I mean, how many other people can say that they were the destruction and salvation of their own world. Bravo." A voice said in the darkness.

I try to sense where the voice is coming from but to no avail.

"Who's there!" I yell.

"Who me? Well I'm the the god of chaos. The one, the only, Discord! Now I bet you're wondering what a god of chaos like me wants with you? Well, I've decided to use you as my fail-safe in case somepony figures out a way to stop me."

"Somepony... don't you mean someone?" I asked confused. "Besides, what makes you think I would help you; I've spent all of my life fighting against tyrants!"

"That's the fun thing about it, you won't have a choice. See I can alter your mind and flip your personality to its opposite. Now this is going to hurt, but try to bear through it." Suddenly I felt a lot of pain, then nothing.

"Now let's see, what shall I do with him?" I heard the voice that identified itself as Discord ask as I started to come to. I slowly open my eyes to see an unusual creature made up of different animals sitting on a throne. "Ah I see that you've woken up. Now, proper introductions can be made. I am Discord and you are Crow, the avatar of Grima, dragon of destruction yadda yadda yadda. Now before you say anything you should look at yourself." He says holding up a mirror while holding in a laugh. As I look in the mirror, suddenly I notice a bizarre, young, silver pony with a horn sticking out of its head and a flowing red and purple mane.

"What the-" I squeak out in a higher pitch voice. At this point, Discord is rolling on the ground laughing.

"You should see the look on your face, it's priceless!" As he is laughing, I get up on all four of my legs and take stock of my surroundings.

I see pink clouds with brown liquid falling to the ground, just like rain. There are weird rabbits with long legs wondering around while trees are hanging upside down. Suddenly I hear fingers snap, I turn towards Discord just to notice that he's walking towards me. "I've got it! I'll just take away your memories, then raise you to be my general. Now get over here!" 'Oh dung' I thought as I tried to get away, only to trip in my haste.

"Gotcha, now this wont hurt me a bit." Recalled Discord, as he put one of his talons on my forehead. I began to feel agonizing pain as I felt my memories fade away.

"Discord, let go of that colt this instance!" While the pain slowly fades, I look in the direction of the new voice and gasped. There are two ponies standing in the distance, one is white with multiple colors sifting in her mane, while the other one was dark blue with stars in her mane, both having horns from their head and wings in their back.

"Oh, more playmates! I was just about to make this pony my slave. Say how about I make you two my slaves also?" Discord asked the two.

"No we are here to put an end to your tyranny!" The white one declared.

"Haha-haha that's rich! So, you think you can beat me? The god of chaos? Now, this I've got to see!" Discord states as he reappeared on his throne without a hint of worry on his face. Suddenly a rainbow light emitted from the blue and white ponies connecting with Discord, turning him to stone.

"We did it sister, now ponies can live in peace!" The blue pony said.

"Hmm, who's colt is that?"asked the white pony.

"Excuse me young pony, but do you know where your family is?" The white one asked me. As I think about it, I realized that I didn't have any memory's before seeing them. I started crying as I felt despair welling up in me.

"No, I don't remember anything before you two showed up." I sobbed. The two of them looked at each other, and the white one came over to me and nuzzled my face to calm me down.

"My name is Celestia and this is my sister Luna. Do you remember your name?" She asked. I thought really hard but the only word that came to mind was checkmate.

I looked at her and said, "Checkmate."