Emerald grumbled to herself as she flew towards the library.
"Celestia had better have a damn good reason for pulling this shit. The support staff are supposed to be ready to go tomorrow and I don't have time to be playing her games." She groused out loud as she touched down outside the library, finding Twilight and the girls standing outside talking to Celestia while a pair of guards removed a statue from a second transport.
"But Princess, are you sure about this? This is Discord we are talking about." Twilight said.
"Don't worry Twilight. I have every faith that you and your friends can reform him." Celestia said with a kind smile.
Emerald bristled. Twilight and the others had explained about Discord to her.
"You do realize that as soon as you break that seal, him and I are going to be at each other's throats?" Emerald said heatedly to the alicorn.
"I sincerely doubt that." Celestia said, smile still on her face.
'Machiavellian little shit.' Emerald thought. Out loud, she said: "Fine, believe what you want. But whatever happens, it will be on your hands."
Celestia's smile slipped a little before she had Twilight and the others put on their Elements and release Discord from his prison.
A wave of Harmony and Chaos washed over her.
Once it cleared, Emerald saw Discord in all his twisted glory.
The chimera blinked his eyes and looked around.
"What in the..? What has my minion been doing?" He asked out loud.
"One, I am not your minion." Emerald said, glaring at Discord. "Two, I have been starting a technological revolution."
"Oh, and how is that creating chaos?" Discord asked.
Emerald smirked. "It changes the status quo. It challenges the pegasi dominance of the skies. Most of all, it makes ponies start to think, 'What if?'". She replied.
"Bah, that isn't the kind of chaos I want. And you should be bowing before me minion!" Discord shouted as he launched a psychic attack at Emerald.
Emerald grunted in pain as the attack slammed into her mental shields, which she had let down over the past few months as she had no enemies that could attack her mind.
Channeling her magic, she reinforced her shields, making them nearly impenetrable, expelling Discord's influence.
Breathing deeply as her magic healed the minor physical damage, she growled out. "Stay the hell out of my head."
"Hmm, this won't do at all. I guess I will just have to destroy you, since you aren't worth anything to me." Discord said.
Emerald merely growled and with a twitch of her hand, snapped off a wandless silent Banishing charm, knocking Discord back before charging forward.
Her fist swung forward to deliver a punishing, magic enhanced, blow when a blast of Chaos energy slammed into her chest, sending her flying back and slamming into a stand in the market.
Extricating herself from the debris, Emerald wiped some blood from her lips and smirked wickedly.
"So the whelp has teeth. Time to get serious then." She said as she looked up at Discord who had taken to hovering above the ground.
With a powerful flap of her massive wings, she shot up towards Discord, now over a hundred meters off the ground. She had almost reached him when he snapped his fingers and the sudden sensation of missing limbs registered with Emerald.
Taking a chance, she saw that her wings had indeed been stripped from her. Her momentum however would still allow her to deal a massive blow.
Turning back towards her target, her eyes widened and she barely got a shield up in time to block another powerful blast of Chaos energy.
Emerald slammed into the ground, causing the cobblestone road to crater from the force, knocking the wind out of her.
'Damn, that actually hurt.' Emerald thought as she stood up and fired her own blasts of Chaos energy. Most missed, but several hit in rapid succession, causing Discord to fall from the sky.
"So that's how it's going to be then." Discord said before snapping his fingers.
Emerald paused for a moment, wondering what Discord had done, when Twilight suddenly started screaming.
Her eyes widened as she saw her marefriend drop to the ground, writhing in pain. Turning to Discord, she summon the seven Chaos Emeralds from their storage.
"That is it! Now you die!" She shouted as the Emeralds began to spin faster around her. "Chaos, CONTROL!"
There was a flash of light and Emerald was in her kitsune form, her eyes now glowing pools of emerald and sapphire, glowing with arcane power and rage.
Discord gulped at the power the other Chaos avatar was putting off before she vanished in a blur of speed. Suddenly his world turned into one of pain as Emerald struck with the force of a bomb.
Emerald didn't let up on her attacks, coming in at every conceivable angle, never settling into a pattern.
Finally, a massive hammer blow to his head sent him to the ground at just under the speed of sound, causing a massive crater to form.
As Discord cleared the stars from his vision Emerald appeared over him, booted foot in the middle of his chest. He raised his hands to snap his fingers, but Emerald grabbed his arms just below the shoulders.
"I don't think so." Emerald snarled before she pulled.
Discord screamed as he felt his arms ripped from his body.
Emerald then held the limbs up and channeled her magic. "Fiendfyre." She hissed out, the cursed hellfire immolating the limbs to nothingness before she crushed the flames from existence.
Kneeling down, she drove the claws of her right hand into Discord's chest.
"It is one thing to fight me. It is another to hurt someone I love. Now, I am going to finish you off. But first, Chaos, SIPHON!" Emerald finished with a shout.
Discord screamed as he felt the Chaos magic being forcibly removed from him. After a couple of moments, the pain of being drained stopped and was replaced with the feeling of pain and cold that came from bleeding out.
Emerald stood up, and with a flick of her wrist, the massive Gravity Hammer appeared in her grip, ripped from another reality.
"Now you die." She said flipping the hammer over so the bladed portion was facing down before raising the hammer above her head and slamming it down, splitting the chimera's skull in two.
Breathing heavily, Emerald powered down from her Super form and dismissed the hammer. Climbing from the crater, she stumbled over to Twilight, who had stopped screaming after Emerald had drained Discord's magic.
Pulling the still twitching mare into her arms, she began to channel healing magic into the unicorn, who began sobbing.
"It's okay love, I'm here." Emerald said as she ran her fingers through Twilight's mane.
Princess Celestia and the other Bearers stood in shock at the violence that had just occurred in front of them as the residents of Ponyville crept out of their hiding places, eyes wide at the end result of the short, but violent battle.
Emerald scooped up Twilight in her arms, and sending a glare that promised severe amounts of pain to Celestia, carried her mate to the library.
Once inside the library, Emerald carefully made her way upstairs and carefully lay Twilight down after casting a few cleaning charms and a switching spell that swapped Twilight's day clothes for her pajamas.
Emerald lay down next to Twilight and after pulling the blankets over them, wrapped her arms around the unicorn.
The pair soon dropped off into an uneasy sleep.
In space, far outside the orbit of Terra's moon, a barrier that had kept the planet out of phase from the rest of the galaxy fell apart, bringing the planet back into sync with the rest of the galaxy.
Just outside of Ponyville, on a small hill, a massive ring appeared. After a moment, a strange mechanical sound issued from it and a massive wash of energy came forth from the center before settling in a shimmering blue surface. From the ring a small machine appeared and began recording.
