Chapter 11
Disk gasped for air, not from the magic he had to use but from the intense thought process he just went through. Disk was sure he made the right choice, now he actually had a chance to live, he could actually make something of himself instead of what others expect of him. But, why does he still feel so guilty? Well it doesn't matter now, he made his choice and now he and Cord were home free.
"Good choice my comrade" Cord congratulated as he harshly patted Disk's back.
"I thought about it, and you're right, I had no other choice" Disk said, sounding more disappointed than happy. Cord frowned at this, man was he such a sissy.
"Well, good luck in whatever you're going to do" Cord said as he began floating away and waving.
"What? Wait where are you going?" Disk asked, he didn't expect him to stay with him, but he was still curious of what he would do. Neither of them could use magic after all, well one could but chooses not to use it.
"Not sure yet, just going to wait until my magic returns, maybe capture Ponyville afterwards" Cord went, not really thinking much into it.
"Capture Ponyville? Why?" Disk asked. Cord turned and arched an eyebrow to Disk.
"Why do you care?" Cord responded. Disk wasn't entirely sure why he cared, they were the reason he was split in the first place. He shouldn't care, in fact he should hate them. But he does care, and he hated himself for caring.
"I mean… with having half of your magic, won't it be nearly impossible to capture it?" Disk asked, not really thinking much into what he said, he just wanted to give a reason without sounding like an idiot. Cord opened his mouth to respond, but his eyes widened. He, was right! Cord was going to yell in frustration, but then another thought came to him, which relaxed him and gave him his confident smile back.
"You're right. But if I'm stealthy and careful, I won't need my full magic." Cord said, crossing his arms with a smirk. If he didn't encounter any resistance, it would be easy to just poof away their magic and place them in sound-proof cages. Heck, he could steal some cages if he wanted to save the magic.
"So you're going to be stealthy against all 6 of them? Don't you think they'll notice?" Disk asked. Cord mentally groaned, this 'Disk' was really pointing out the flaws to his plans. Wait, maybe he doesn't need to capture all of them.
"Again you're right, I'll just capture one of the Princesses" Cord said. If he caught one of them, then he'll just threaten her life and they'll back off. Maybe he could force them to find a spell to restore his magic.
"Alright. So what should I do?" Disk asked, being genuine with his question. He didn't like the idea of Cord causing trouble, but he preferred he attacked the Princesses rather than Ponyville. Well, unless it was Luna, but he doubted he'd target her. If she's the 'Princess of the Night' then it should be hard to sneak up on her, since she IS the night…
"I don't know, and frankly I don't care" Cord harshly said. Disk frowned, he was still thinking about what Celestia told them. What if she was telling the truth? If cord was so calm, he assumed he'd be calm also. Besides, he could always just use his magic if it gets out of control.
"Well… Good luck…" Disk said, turning the opposite way.
"I don't need luck, I need chaos" Cord responded as he turned away also. They both began heading their separate ways, both pursuing their own goals. Two different beings, two entirely different paths.
"They ain't following us?" Applejack questioned, looking behind them. They've ran for a few minutes now and they expected at least Rainbow to catch up, but there was no sign of either them.
"Perhaps not, you think they came to their senses?" Rarity asked as they stopped running and turned towards Ponyville. It wouldn't take them this long to escape the streamers, maybe they gave up or lost sight of them.
"Let's not take the chance, we need to find Twi'" Applejack suggested, adjusting her hat a little. Surely Twilight would have a spell to fix this right?
"Yes, but…" Rarity said as she sighed, realizing Twilight's house was in Ponyville. Applejack frowned as she looked over to Ponyville.
"She wasn't home when I checked earlier, and neither was Spike" Applejack said.
"Spike? I think he's with Sweetie Belle." Rarity replied, not putting much thought into it. Applejack turned to Rarity questionably.
"He is? Why?" Applejack asked.
"Sweetie Belle always goes to Spike when she's… upset." Rarity clarified. This made Applejack even more confused, first off if that was true, wouldn't that mean they'd be at Twilight's home? He either wasn't home or they didn't hear her. Second, Sweetie Belle was upset? Third, she goes to Spike when upset?
"Well they ain't in Ponyville by the sound of things" Applejack thought out loud. If she didn't know any better, she'd thing Sweetie Belle and Spike were-
"Girls!" A familiar voice said, cutting off Applejack's train of thought and making both Rarity and Applejack turn around with smiles. It was Twilight and Fluttershy.
"Oh thank heavens" Rarity sighed.
"Ah' was so worried for ya'll" Applejack greeted with a smile as the both ran up to them.
"What are you both doing here?" Twilight asked with a happy look on her face.
"And why are you covered in confetti and glitter?" Fluttershy added, noting that Rarity and Applejack had some party decorations stuck on their mane.
"I do?" Rarity asked as she pulled out a mirror (from out a nowhere) and gasped as she looked in. Her beautiful mane was messy! Rarity then used her magic to poof up a hairbrush and hair drier and immediately began fixing it. Applejack rolled her eyes.
"Rainbow and Pinkie have gone crazier than Granny Smith on Apple Cider season, they both attacked us sayin' Discord told them to capture us" Applejack explained. Fluttershy gasped and Twilight frowned.
"Discord…" Twilight growled, she couldn't believe he faked them. Fluttershy on the other hand was wondering what went wrong, it looked like the spell worked to an extent. Not that she liked what the spell did, but she still hoped to reform him. The Princess entrusted her with this important task and she was going to see it through.
"We should warn the Princesses before Discord attacks them" Twilight said.
"Fire in the hole!" A voice yelled out. Before any of the four could react, they were blown away by a large pack of confetti, streamers, and cake, effectively tying the 3 up by surprise.
"What the…!" Twilight trailed off when she saw both Pinkie and Rainbow behind Pinkie's party cannon, they both smiled at each other and hoofed bumped, as if mocking Applejack and Rarity.
"Nice shot" Rainbow complimented, Pinkie turning her cannon away in response.
"Thanks!" Pinkie chimed as they both walked over to the tied up bunch. The only one who was struggling was Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy looked on with looks of shock while Twilight just frowned at them.
"I thought we lost you two" Rarity whispered to herself. Of course, they should've kept running instead of just wondering what to do, she would've facehoofed herself is she wasn't tied.
"Nice job distracting them Fluttershy" Rainbow said, patting her on the back. Fluttershy felt immobilized, she didn't even noticed that Pinkie deliberately missed her and she wasn't tied. Of course, they didn't know she wasn't on their side anymore.
"I…" Fluttershy trailed off, not knowing how to response.
"Rainbow, Pinkie, snap out of it!" Twilight tried, wanting to get the attention of Rainbow. Rainbow waved her hoof in dismissal.
"Yeah yeah we heard it before" Rainbow said as she rolled her eyes. Twilight responded by lifting up Rainbow with her magic as she poofed away the streamers holding her in place. Rainbow sighed.
"Pinkie! I thought your streamers were magic proof!" Rainbow yelled without turning around, not that she could anyway because of the magic.
"Magic Proof? That's silly!" Pinkie laughed. Twilight was about to use the memory spell she used on Fluttershy but Rainbow glowed a dark aura and it somehow forced Twilight to let her go. Before Twilight could react, Rainbow tackled her down and pinned her.
"Nice try, not really, I'm just too awesome" Rainbow said with a smile of confidence. Twilight mentally groaned, this really was Rainbow Dash huh?
"Careful Dashie!" Pinkie said, sounding a little afraid of what her friend would do.
"I know I know, don't worry abou-" Rainbow began but suddenly stopped, confusing all the ponies around them.
"Rainbow?" Applejack called out. No response. Pinkie looked just as pale as Rainbow did. The tied up elements eyed each other with worried expressions, then the two of them fell down face first.
No matter how hard Cord tried, he found himself wanting really badly to use his magic. It was like, an itch you weren't allowed to scratch, and if you scratched it would only make it worse. Needless to say, Cord was frustrated with this. Why was his magic regenerating so slowly? Wait, scratch that, he knew why. Cord wished Disk could give him his half of the magic back, it's not like he would use it anyway.
"I guess I'll check on the other two" Cord thought to himself as he slithered his way up a tree. He began focusing his eyes on seeing through his minions eyes, with no avail. He tried again, nothing. What's going on? Why couldn't he see through them? Was it his magic being nearly drained? No, if that was the case then the spell would've worn off. Wait…
"GAH! THE SPELL WORE OFF!" Cord exclaimed as he slammed is fists down on the tree, knocking over a branch and sending it down, nearly hitting a bunny as it hastily hopped away. Great, now he was out of magic and out of allies, if he could even call them that. He was just a sitting duck until his magic came back. How could this get any worse?
"Cord!" A familiar voice called out, making Cord instinctively snap his fingers to try in vain to poof away, but what happened instead was he let go of the branch he was holding and he fell down, landing on the branch he dropped down not a few seconds ago. Cord looked up and saw both Luna and Screwball looking down to him.
"How did you find me?" Cord asked, being genuinely confused. Luna continued frowning.
"Both of you didn't teleport far, it appears Disk isn't very well trained" Luna said. Screwball was snickering at how Cord fell down. Cord frowned and immediately began flying off, if he couldn't teleport away he'd just outrun them.
"Screwball, he's getting away!" Luna yelled as she flew after him. Screwball was still chuckling and wiped away her tears before taking a deep breath and following them.
School will definitely be slowing down my (already slow) story updating progress. Some of you might wonder what happened to Celestia, well I'll explain next chapter. :D