The earth pony and the spirit of chaos stared each other down. "You do know you don't have a chance of beating me, right?" Discord asked. "You're right. Me beating you wouldn't make much sense. But I reckon you like it that way." Applejack said with a smirk. Discord smiled. At the snap of his fingers, the whole room started getting all mixed up. Pieces of the ground rose and floated in the air, parts of the room were spinning and everything was upside down. It took Apple Jack a little bit to adjust to the messed up ground beneath her hooves.
"Do you like it?" Discord asked "cause what you see here is just a sample of what I'm going to do to Ponyville when Drab takes over. Imagine it, left in chaotic ruins." "Like heck you will!" Apple Jack whipped out a lasso from under her hat and tried to lasso Discord. It wrapped around his waist, holding down his arms. She gave a tug on the rope to pull Discord toward her but when she did, she heard a ripping. It was then she realized that her lasso had been turned into a streamer. Discord chuckled. "My turn" Discord spoke as the streamer turned into a chain that wrapped around Apple Jack, the other side of the chain being wrapped around Discord's fist.
Discord reeled her in and had her hanging from the chain. Her face level with his. "Oh come on, Apple Jack. I was sure you'd put up a better fight than that." He taunted. His eyes started spinning. Apple Jack looked away, aware he was using his personality-changing spell. "You can't look away forever."
All hope had seemed lost. Except out of nowhere, a figure comes flying through the air and kicks Discord in the face. Immediately, another figure rams itself into his stomach (he felt a small poke with that one). Another bucks him in the shin. He dropped Apple Jack to examine the attackers. At first, he saw nothing. Until he looked down. There, low to the ground were the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Apple Bloom? I told you to wait at the train station!" Apple Jack boomed but was ignored. "So now my opponents are three unmarked pipsqueaks? Ha, this'll be easy." Discord said. "You'll regret putting down the Cutie Mark Crusaders" Scootaloo warned. "Ooooooh. I'm horrified." Discord countered in a mocking way. "You will be if you don't give me my sister back." Sweetie Bell threatened.
That's when the talking stopped and the fighting started. For a few minutes the fight was just the crusaders attacking and Discord easily dodging over and over again. Until the crusaders hatched a plan. Sweetie Bell charged at Discord. Discord prepared to counter the attack when she suddenly jumped into the air and her magic to cause a really bright flash of light. Discord flinched at the light, which is when Scootaloo and Apple Bloom went in to attack. Scootaloo rammed into his stomach and Apple Bloom followed with a second ram and an uppercut. Soon they Sweetie Bell joined in the attacks and they had Discord pinned where they wanted him. Every time he tried to alter reality he was interrupted by either a punch to the jaw or a kick to the shins. Discord escaped this trap. Anger and frustration filled within him. "You brats are annoying" Discord said, "I didn't I'd have to use these."
Discord then snapped his fingers and two necklaces appeared. Nopony there knew this but they were two Elements of Disharmony, Voracity and Vanity. He put them both around his neck. A huge flash of energy emerged from his body. "Now it's my turn" he spoke, except it didn't sound like his voice, it was different kind of like the difference between Luna and Nightmare Moon's voices. Discord shot energy in the form of electricity out of his hands. The crusaders tried to avoid but Sweetie Bell was the only one who managed. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom went flying through the air. They left fairly big craters into the wall they hit. "Apple Bloom!" Apple Jack screamed, still tied up. So there Sweetie Bell was, all by herself at the mercy of the Lord of Chaos. "You're Rarity's little sister if I'm not mistaken" Discord said with interest "I have something special in mind for you." He pressed his right index finger on her horn, right at the tip. He shot an incredible amount of negative energy into her mind.
Sweetie Bell's Mind…
It was Ponyville. The place was covered in smoke and fire. Everypony she knew was completely slaughtered. Her friends were cut open from their stomachs. But the last part was the absolute worst. She managed to ignore all that destruction and emotional pain just from one sound. Rarity weakly calls her name. She follows the sound to find Rarity lying in the grass. She was covered in bruises and blood. Sweetie ran to her body crying loudly "it's okay. You're going to be fine." Rarity pressed her fore hoof onto Sweetie's lips to silence her. She then coughed up a considerably amount of blood. "I…love…you." She said then closing her eyes, for the last time. "No. No, this can't be happening. No, it's not real." She would tell herself. At least, she was pretty sure this wasn't real. She started to cry out of controllably.
In reality…
Sweetie Bell was on the ground screaming, squirming, and crying. "What did you do to her?!" Apple Jack asked. "Oh, I just showed her a little vision of watching what matters to her most slip away" Discord explained "She won't be waking up anytime soon. Unknown Rarity and Drab were watching the battle from the balcony at the top floor. "Sweetie Bell!" Rarity screamed, "please, make him stop." "I can't." Drab said simply. "Why not?!" Rarity yelled. "The Elements of Disharmony make you stronger by putting negative energy into your blood which increases all of your attributes, both physical and magical. The more elements you use, the more negative energy that enters your system. If the energy too much for your body or mind to handle, it corrupts you and you kind of lose control of yourself." Drab explained. "There has to be something you can do!" Drab shook his head. "I would but that'd get in the way of my goal, so I won't." Rarity continued to scream out to Sweetie Bell.
In Sweeties Mind…
She was crying her eyes out over her sister. She was convinced that what she was seeing was real. When suddenly in the distance, she heard Rarity's voice calling for her. She then realized, that all of this destruction, it was fake. It was all just a nightmare. She used her magic to awake herself.
In reality…
Discord was unaware of her conciseness. Sweetie reached and pulled an the Element Vanity from around his neck and kicked him off of her. She started to put it on but Discord interrupted. "I wouldn't if I were you" he had turned back to normal, as if he could manage all the negative energy that only one element gave him. "The power in that element is definitely going to be too much for a youngling like you to handle." "I don't care!" she snapped, "That nightmare you gave me was unforgivable. At any cost, you will pay!" She then put on the element. He body shape changed. She changed from a young filly to a full grown, beautiful mare. "Now suffer!" She yelled with her voiced sounding like thousands were speaking with her all at the exact same time. She shot a blast of magic at Discord. Discord fell asleep but soon, started screaming louder and louder. They were screams of fear and pain. As this went on, scars appeared all around his body. After the dreams and his screams had ended he looked her. "I'm sorry! Please, no more!" he pleaded. Sweetie smiled. "Okay, fine." She then turned Discord back to stone and took off the element. She passed out immediately.
With Rarity and Drab…
"I can't believe your little sister actually defeated Discord." Drab said with amazement in his voice. "Neither did I" Rarity said. " Well, when one of them wake up, they'll untie Apple Jack and try to catch up to Twilight and Pinkie Pie." Drab said with certainty. "I'm going to take a guess that Luna will be waiting for them, won't she?" Drab smiled really wide. "Am I that predictable?"
To Be Continued…
