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"This is probably not a good idea."

Everyone glanced about the circular table in Twilight's castle, hooves in their laps as they nervously looked about. They'd thought about it, thought about it, and thought about it. And the solution that kept on popping up in the back of their head was the same, again and again.

Calling upon the spirit of chaos and disharmony, the being known as "Discord", for help.

"He's almost as alien as the alien threat we now face is!" Twilight admitted as she waved a hoof in the air. "He's unpredictable and we can use that. Unpredictability is a great tool we desperately need."

"Besides, he's nice now." Fluttershy added cheerily, everyone giving her a slightly worn look as she nervously smiled. "Nice-ER now. He wouldn't want to see Equestria destroyed now, he just likes to really fool around with it and play games."

"His "games" are sick sometimes. We ain't forgotten what happened when...sigh." Applejack muttered. "Then again, this Huntsman's pretty twisted too. I guess we could try fighting fire with fire."

"Fighting fire with fire just means more fire!" Rarity proclaimed. "I don't think he'd turn on us, but I'm afraid he may make things even worse." She remarked as she waved a hoof in the air, sighing as she held her head in her hooves. "He does have a tendency to do that, you remember. Even when he's supposedly "helping"."

"Ohhh, you're all just being party poopers." Pinkie Pie said, blowing a raspberry, waving a dismissive hoof in the air. "We should give him a chance! He's our friend, and he's got a great sense of humor. I'm sure he's got some creative ideas to deal with the Huntsman."

"Yes, I'm sure he does. Perhaps we should ask him."

"Well, I dunno." Rainbow Dash murmured. "What do you think, Disc-" She began to say, turning her head, suddenly realizing, along with everyone else in the room, that Discord had poofed himself to the table without anybody even noticing. "Woah!"

"One for me." Discord said, taking a few photographs of her expression in that one shocked moment before passing out a copy on the spot to the gang. "And one for all of you! I know you've all got photo albums. This'll look great next to the one of you in that pale blue party hat with the green kazoo and face paint, Pinkie." He admitted to her.

"How does he know the contents of your photo album?" Twilight asked of Pinkie Pie as Discord turned around, two eyeballs popping out.

"I see everything. I've got eyes in the back of my head. And my hands!" He added, holding up a paw and showing off another eyeball before turning around and then snorting, two eyeballs appearing in his nostrils. "And my nose!"

"EW-EW-EW-EW-EW for the love of all that is sacred, put your eyeballs back!" Rarity screeched, reeling back from him as Discord sighed and deeply inhaled, his eyeballs returning to their normal sockets as he rested on the air, floating about around them as the ponies of Ponyville murmured amongst each other.

"I understand you've a mean, nasty-wasty alien you want help with." Discord inquired, bobbing his head back and forth. "And he's hungry enough to eat a horse. Literally." He sighed suddenly, sitting down on his rear in the center of the table, snapping his claws as a dictionary appeared. "Do you know we no longer have a proper definition of the word "literally"? They've recently included a definition to mean what most people say when they use the word "literally", by which I mean not literally at all. So we literally do not have a word that means "literally" anymore. Ohhh, the loss of culture. You kids today."

"Uh, look, as saddened as I am by the butchering of the Equine language, we've got a real issue on our hooves." Twilight insisted, shaking her head back and forth. "Can you actually help us with the Huntsman?"

"Boys and girls, I can do more than that." Discord proclaimed, putting a taloned hand on his chest and beaming proudly, the draconequus's whiskers wiggling as his yellow eyes gleamed mischievously. "Besides your elements, I can grant boons to all of you which I know you'll find immensely useful!"

He bounced over to Rainbow Dash and then promptly squeezed her nose. "Honk." He proclaimed.

And with a crash of thunder and a cloud of dust, Rainbow Dash was now looking down at her slightly glowing piercing blue hooves, her eyes having an unusual twinkle to them as she gasped in surprise. "What the? What did you do to me?"

"The Huntsman wields "Tantric Energy", correct?" Discord chuckled. "I got in touch with another you and put her into YOU!" He proclaimed, patting her atop the head. "Now you have the same gift of tantric energy manipulation he does, and all the perks too. But why stop there? It's a two-for-one deal! Sh-sh-sh-sh-Shazam!" He proclaimed, waving his arms in the air before thrusting them at Pinkie Pie. With a spray of confetti and party streamers, she was suddenly surrounded in a cloud of pinkish/white dust, and emerged from it considerably different!

Indeed, she was now the color of the beautiful night sky, stars twinkling about her fur, her eyes a pale shade of blue as she rubbed herself, "oohing" and "aahing". "Wow. We feel great! Wait. WE?" She murmured, tilting her head slightly to the side. "Oh! Oh my, I've got the Huntsman inside me! Kinda thought it'd be the other way around."

"Now you are the you from yet another alternate reality my dear, where you and he merged together!" Discord said, striking a bodybuilder pose alongside Pinkie Pie as the two flexed their respective muscles. "With your new strength and might, he surely won't stand a stance!"

"Does everyone have some kind of alternate version of themselves with superpowers?" Twilight asked as Discord wafted over to Fluttershy, giving her a cheery smile as he held up an enormous, gift-wrapped bow the color of the starry, starry night.

"Oh, no. Fluttershy has them!" He proclaimed, two young ponies with starry bodies popping out of the box, spreading their arms wide, beaming happily. "Ta-daaa!"

"Heya, Mom!" The young girl proclaimed

"Wow, you looked so pretty when you were young! Your hair is, like, glowing!" The young boy admitted as they hopped out of the present and trotted around their mother, Fluttershy blushing at the implications.

"Oh, my! Well! This is just such-I mean, my goodness!" Fluttershy murmured, holding her head in one hoof, blinking in astonishment as her children stood by her, cheerily smiling at the gang as they waved their hooves at the others.

"With your powers combined, you'll be captain of the planet's defense!" Discord wisecracked. "Now all we need is somebody who has the power of "Heart"." He added, gesturing over at Spike, who gave Discord a look that seemed to ask if the spirit of chaos was making fun of him. "Ah, I can't very well leave you out of this!"

"I doubt I've got any powers you could give me. Even my comic book counterpart didn't have any." Spike sighed quietly, scratching his head.

"Luckily, that's where I come in, dear boy! I know someone who can get you flying high, now." Discord remarked, snapping his fingers as a portal shimmered and sizzled into being, Discord whistling sharply as a yellow-horned, purple dragon with deep indigo eyes and a majestic body peeked inside, glancing about. "High Elder Spyro, I hate to interrupt your alone time with your dear little firefly friend, but Sparx's stand-up routine is simply going to have to wait."

"It is quite alright. He's been off his game lately, his voice sounds all strange." High Elder Spyro admitted as he turned, blinking in surprise at the sight of Spike. "Ah, I remember seeing you hanging out with that idiotic Crackle. You're little Spike. My grandson!"

Spike gaped in surprise. "G-G-Grandson?" He quietly asked, eyes slowly turning wide as saucers as Spyro smiled, stepping out of the portal and standing tall above everyone else on legs thick as tree trunks, spikes running down his mighty tail, wings folded to his sides so that he wouldn't accidentally hit anybody with them.

"One of many, in fact. As chief of the dragons I get to enjoy multiple wives. I'd been wondering where you were...so your egg ended up with one of the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony? A lucky place. You could have been sold to changelings, they would have had you scrambled for breakfast." High Elder Spyro remarked.

"So you allow your grandchildren's eggs to go to ponies? Why?" Twilight wanted to know as Spyro smiled.

"A show of good faith on our part that the central government of my people don't want to harm yours. Celestia in turn helps me with the occasional favor and Luna helps my people have nice dreams. Did you know that eating amethysts makes you sleepwalk?" High Elder Spyro remarked.

TWO YEARS AGO

"Bunnies...bunnies everywhere." Havok the Dragon muttered, walking along the edge of the volcano, eyes closed in slumber as he shook his head back and forth, the smoke of the volcano rising high into the night sky before he moaned, flopping down, down, dooooown into the magma below.

"Oh crap, we've lost another village elder!" Cynder screeched out, her taloned hand grasping at the air Havok had been just seconds before, her husband holding her back as Spyro groaned, shaking his head back and forth.

"That's it. I'm banning amethysts. I don't know why, but I've got to find out why they keep making us sleepwalk. Put our top scientists on it, Sparx." He inquired of a tiny, fluttering firefly, who thoughtfully rubbed his chin.

"I would think you'd ask why are they always dreaming about bunnies."

"It's a sordid story, Sparx. Before your time." Spyro murmured, clutching himself and shuddering. "And at nights, I can sometimes smell the bodies in the streets."

PRESENT

"What in all blazes was that?!" Rarity remarked, all of them glancing about at each other as Pinkie Pie nonchalantly munched on some popcorn she'd somehow gotten ahold of, Spike inching away from Angel the bunny as he nonchalantly whistled and slowly made for the door.

"I can see as Gods do, my dear. But you've got a long day ahead of all of you! So no doubt you'll want to get used to your new powers and your new, ah, additions to the club?" He cheerily remarked, giving all of them a bow before vanishing an instant later. "Ta-ta!"

"The Elements of Harmony, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie having new powers, and Fluttershy has two children with Huntsman blood in them." Twilight murmured as she put her hooves together, thoughtfully looking the scene over. "I've got a good feeling about this."

"Looks like Discord did us a real favor, I reckon." Applejack remarked as she took off her hat. "I takes my hat off to 'em. I'm beginnin' to think we might really gotta chance."

Quite some time later, and not too far away, the starry-bodied being that was the Huntsman sat down on the roof of the diner, resting his head as he stared up at the skies above. His bright blue eyes watched the soft twinkling of the stars, biting into his lip before he felt his voice beginning to crack.

"I never thought I would see you again."

"It's a big universe."

"Yes, it is." Neh-Buh-Loh quietly sighed as he hung his horned head. "I searched for centuries to find out. Planet after planet. Galay after galaxy and it always seemed like every time I got close to you, you were long gone." He murmured softly.

"I can understand." She quietly remarked, turning onto her side, head rested on her palm as a smile spread across her features. "Hey. Remember when we were kids and we'd take turns naming the stars our parents taught us? And then we'd go back home to mom and dad and we'd see how many of them we got right?"

"Yes." The Huntsman admitted, a chuckle rising up from his throat. "You always got more than I did right. But you never got the Hunter right."

"Kinda ironic, I know." his sister Nee-Buh-Loh sighed. "I could never get the ones in that constellation right. She admitted as she waved a braceleted hand in the air, gesturing at the stars. "There's new ones up there tonight. What do you think their names are?"

"I'm guessing they have to do with horses." The Huntsman remarked, the two of them laughing as they sat up, cozying up next to each other as he put an arm around his sister's shoulder and she rested his head on his. "I'm just really, really grateful to have my sister back."

"I'm glad to have my big brother back." The Huntress admitted too, her voice quiet and contemplative as she closed her eyes, and the two simply let the chirping of crickets and the soft night wind bring them into dreamland.

Elsewhere, Rainbow Dash was nervously fooling around with a few apples in Applejack's barn, attempting to concentrate and blow one of them up with a burst of tantric energy from her hooves. The magical power coalesced around her form, shooting up her arm and whizzing through the air towards one such apple, but time and time again the blast just-kept-missing. The darn tantric energy continued curving to the right.

Pinkie, on the other hand, was playing patty-cake with young Junior, the pale-blue-eyed little Halfling cheerily bouncing hoof off of hoof with her whilst Fluttershy and Christabella sat together, little "Chrissy" pouring her mother some tea she'd pulled from her chest.

"You can just do that kind of thing?"

"Oh, yes." Chrissy remarked. "It's like I've got infinite pockets! In fact, I've got pockets in my pockets!" She added, pulling out a pair of shorts and holding them over her rear. "Mom, be honest. Does this make my butt look fat?"

"I'm sorry, I-I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but...it's a little jarring to me to hear you call me "mother"." Fluttershy admitted quietly. Yet even so, there was a sweet warmth in Chrissy's eyes, the flow of her mane, the big smile she had was so much like her own. And, amazingly, butterflies and moths were fluttering around her, resting on her body like a bird rested within the mouth of a hippo to help clean its teeth out. "So, you're what was left of Chrysalis after the Huntsman changed her?"

"Yes, he took pity on her, on me, I guess, and made me his child." Chrissy admitted as her mother sipped from her cup of tea, Rainbow Dash letting out a "Oh, BUCK" in the background as another thrown blast struck a barrel instead of the apple she wanted, Applejack cringing a bit.

"Don't mean to criticize, but I'm a-runnin' outta barrels and kinda runnin' out of barn."

"You need to think of the energy as an extension of yourself." Chrissy spoke up, turning her head to glance back at Rainbow Dash. "Think of it as part of you. Picture yourself, like a little tiny you, shooting out and whackin' into that apple."

"Just right into the apple?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking down at one of her glowing hooves, taking in a deep breath.

"Do that, and it'll go from apple to applesauce." Chrissy promised, Rainbow Dash holding her hooves up in the air, spreading her wings wide and letting out a loud, powerful breath as a pulsating blue blast of tantric energy shot forth like a bullet, slamming into one of the apples. With a mighty crash of thunder and a very loud KER-SPLORCH, the apple exploded on the spot, making it rain apple cider as Pinkie Pie and Junior held up mugs respectively, Chrissy reaching into her body once again to pull out a cup for her "mother" to enjoy some.

"Not what people usually mean when they say to "make it rain", but I'll take it!" Discord remarked, cheerily appearing by Rainbow Dash's side as he sipped on his appletini and grinned cheekily at all of them. "The Huntsman and his sister are just so adorable when they're asleep. I almost felt bad about drawing private parts on their faces. Then the ink kept sinking into their cheek and I just gave up about five tries in." He sighed, slurping up the glass of his appletini as if it was a milkshake, sighing as he shrugged.

"I'm surprised they didn't wake up despite you drawing on their faces five times." Twilight remarked before blinking a bit. "Wait, did you say "His sister"?"

"Oh, yes! She's been at the Griffon Kingdom for quite some time! They're lovely people, really. Fascinating culture. Just slightly vilified when it comes to their eating habits. So I suppose the two have something in common!" Discord added with a small chuckle.

"I don't believe Griffons ever ate a planet." Rarity remarked.

"As far as you know. Ohhhh, the things I could tell you about the multiverse. Why, I've even been to a dimension filled entirely with shrimp!" Discord remarked. "But there was this annoying beetle-esque tentacled demon thing named Illyria already there so it wasn't quite as fun. She kept eating all the shrimp. And me." He added, the gang noticing he was suddenly wearing a shirt which read "BuffyxAngel" on the front. He lifted it up, showing off visible bite marks which pulsed for a few minutes before vanishing anew. "Ever seen a shrimp's eyes, chief? Kinda like doooooll's eyes." He added with a faint accent and a chuckle.

"I'm glad to see you're helping us." Fluttershy insisted as Discord nervously rubbed the back of his neck. "And did you have something to do with the Huntsman finding his sister again?"

"Well, I...I kind of had a lot to make up for." He quietly muttered, an odd guilt ringing about in his tone that somehow made Fluttershy worry.

"It's nice he found his sister again. Dad really missed her. She's all he has left of his family." Junior admitted, the Halfling pony and Pinkie Pie now looking over a photo album he'd pulled out from his body, Junior showing off several pictures of a much younger-looking Huntsman and his sister, the two of them by a campfire with their parents. It would have been very sweet to see the four of them together, illuminated by the flames in the background, big smiles on all their faces if not for the fact you could clearly see they were all looking extremely gaunt and barely had any meat on their bones.

"Why are they so thin there?" Pinkie Pie asked before stiffening. "Ohhh. We remember. Our combined soul now understands! That was when the starving time was happening on their planet and everybody had begun eating each other to stay alive. Y'know, Cosmo Sapien doesn't taste like chicken."

"Pinkie Pie, why do you know what chicken tastes like?" Twilight wanted to know as Pinkie Pie shrugged slightly, Twilight and the others deciding they'd rather not know, hoping it was just a part of the shared soul Pinkie now had. "At any rate, I'm feeling good about our chances tomorrow. I think we can do this."

THE NEXT DAY

"We are so bucked."

Standing by the Huntsman on the plains outside Ponyville was a sight they hadn't expected. They'd been prepared for his sister, the jewelry-wearing, more slender yet mighty Huntress who stood by his side with almost cute pink eyes. She waved cheerily at the group, giving them a slightly sheepish, almost apologetic smile, two little adorable horns poking up from atop her forehead as she stood by her big brother. It was kind of a cute scene.

Or at least it would have been, had our heroines not seen the other figures standing by them, tall, proud and very, very pissed.

Queen Chrysalis's green, slimy mane had an odd, energetic shine to it as she "harrumphed" and snorted, glancing over at the armored, cape-wearing unicorn by her side. The black-maned, green-eyed, red-pupiled King Sombra, the Shadowlord, seemed to be in full power and he looked amused at the assembled young lasses and lads before him. His gauntleted hooves jingled a bit as he tried to suppress his laughter, looking all of them over.

"I believe, perhaps, we should request a box of thin mints from these girl scouts before us?" He inquired of the armored alicorn of darkest night, her deep blue mane flowing freely, eyes a piercing blue. Night Mare Moon stood in her full dark attire, grinning her fanged grin, her slender legs keeping her mighty form high as he sneered at Twilight.

"Miss me, my little foals?" She remarked, putting an armored hoof on her chest and giving them a big, leering smirk. "We have soooo much to talk about! Like how you killed me. Mostly how you killed me. I'm very angry about that."

"I cannot believe it myself, sometimes. Defeated by pastel ponies that could double in a gay pride parade." A dark, gravely voice coldly remarked, throwing off the dark brown hood he wore, exposing his horned, reddish head and his thick, grey beard. Tirek's eyes were a foul black with eerie golden-yellow pupils, and he folded his arms across his currently well-built chest, his tail nonchalantly swishing back and forth with obvious amusement at the scene before him.

"Oh, seriously?! You're not just mean, you're a homophobe too!?!" Pinkie Pie growled out.

"Well now, that language is just uncalled for." Rarity said with a dark glare at Tirek. "How uncouth. You keep very, very questionable company, Huntsman."

The Huntsman actually looked hurt about this as he bit his lip and glanced to the side. "It isn't personal." He murmured. "But who am I to turn down those that wish to make this an even more amazing challenge, especially with the understanding that should they lose, I'll consume them, but if they win, I will grant them anything they'd like that's within my power? They couldn't resist."

"Let's get these creeps." Rainbow Dash proclaimed. "I'm about to turn you Cosmo Sapiens from "endangered" to extinct!"

"Sweetie, we're the species that endangers you." The Huntress said with a bit of a smirk. "And this prehistoric bitch is gonna show you how we do things downtown." She added, an enormous bow and arrow set emerging from her chest, the group scattering as an enormous flurry of arrows shot through the air, intending to skewer them as Discord stood nearby, dressed in cheerleader attire and commanding an array of Discord clones.

"Go ahead! Make them quake! Stick the Elements in that snake! Goooo Ponies!" He proclaimed, spinning through the air as his clones launched him up again and again, spelling out the letters to "Ponies" with each toss whilst Junior and Chrissy ran alongside their mother, Fluttershy's element of Harmony bouncing about on her body as The Huntsman raced alongside her, looking down at the kids.

"Are those-?"

"Yes. They are." She admitted, the Huntsman looking guilty as they came to a halt, with him holding up his spear and flinching.

"You wouldn't hit a kid, would you dad?" Junior nervously asked, he and Chrissy immediately putting on some positively adorable little dresses and suits as their eyes went was big and wide as saucers with expressions that would give Bambi himself a run for his money.

"Well, I really shouldn't." He admitted, lowering the spear.

"That's what I was counting on!" Chrissy remarked, headbutting her dad squarely in the crotch.

"Ooooooh! He ain't havin' any kiddies in this timeline!" Discord remarked from the sideline, the Huntsman clutching his "Crown Jewels" and moaning in agony as Fluttershy put a hoof over her mouth.

"Oh dear. Please forgive me, I know they hit you very hard!"

"When people say kids will break your balls, they're not supposed to mean it so literally." The Huntsman managed to grunt out as he struggled to get to his feet.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were standing together, Rainbow Dash looking over the Huntress as she readied some more arrows. "Pinkie, you gotta plan?"

"Oh, you know it." Pinkie Pie proclaimed, giving Rainbow Dash a big grin. "We've been thinking about it long and hard, and we've got a great idea!"

"I'll stall her. You get started on it." Rainbow Dash whispered to her friend, barreling forward, her body glowing with tantric energy as the Huntress blinked in surprise. She reeled back again and again, Dash swinging her hooves through the air, the Huntress trying to block the sudden, surprisingly swift flurry of attacks. "You're not touching my friends!"

"Wow, you learned how to manipulate tantric energy? Such raw spiritual power, such magical intensity! Too bad I've gotta kill you." The Huntress admitted with a sigh as she suddenly headbutted Rainbow Dash back, putting up her own dukes as she put the bow and arrow away, the two circling each other as now it was Dash who was under assault from a flurry of punches. "But I've got to end the catfight jokes before they start."

"You had dived into my lair, and you had endured quite a scare. But will you share in my nightmare shall be my only question?" King Sombra whispered to Spike and Twilight as Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis chased after Rarity and Applejack respectfully, the two elements of Harmony expertly diving and dodging the blasts of dark magic being thrown at them. The monstrous king slammed his hoof down into the ground as a chasm opened up, hellfire spitting out from within as Spike and Twilight rolled away, Spike growling as his claws dug into the grass.

"Oh, you like to play with fire, do you?!" He snarled, belching a greenish fireball at King Sombra, who batted it aside only for Twilight's potent lightning spell to slam into him and send him spiraling through the air. He re-righted himself, landing on the ground, twitching slightly from the electrical stimuli as his eyes brightly glowed, Twilight staring into his eyes-

Before suddenly finding herself in a large, blood-and-rust-covered room, enormous beetles sitting in chairs around her, one of them dressed in a psychologist's suit whilst holding a clipboard and leering darkly at her as ugly slime dripped from its mandibles. "Hewwo, Twilight. Welcome to dah black bug room! Everybody's got a black bug room! Dis is yours!"

"Behold, dear readers, the very nature of war! For it is not merely a struggle against one's enemies, but a struggle against one's very being!" Discord proclaimed, speaking, somehow, to people who weren't even there as Rarity, currently pinned to the ground by Night Mare Moon, struggling to get the being off of her.

"You had made a fine host before, and I'm sure you'll make a great one again. I mean, just look at our hair." She darkly chuckled, turning into "Nightmare Rarity", long, flowing purple locks bouncing about as she poofed them a bit. "However do we get it to shine so amazingly? We were made for each other."

"I apologize for doing the only unrefined thing I will ever do in my entire life." Rarity proclaimed, promptly biting Night Mare Moon on the leg, making the entity howl and reel back, Rarity's knee then coming up into her face, sending her flying back as Chrysalis and Applejack tried to forces the other down, Chrysalis mockingly using Appleack's visage. Wait. Which one was which?

"Hmm." Tirek murmured, looking left, then looking right. "Which one, which one."

"I hate how he's looking at us like we're a buffet table and he's trying to choose the special or his usual favorite." The first Applejack muttered.

"Yeah, don't tell me. Men like him are disgusting." The second Applejack agreed.

"I'm going to stomp your head in! Hold still!" King Sombra roared out, his hooves coming down on Spike again and again as the little dragon kept rolling away, Twilight sitting on her butt to the right, muttering to herself.

"Spike, Spike we should talk, the bugs, the bugs all say-"

"Snap out of it!" Spike yelled. "I'm getting killed over here by tall, dark and spooky!"

"You haven't seen Tall Dark and Spooky." King Sombra growled, his body beginning to shift and change, now forming into a towering mass of black smoke that was rising high above Spike.

"Look out!" A cheery voice remarked, Rainbow Dash going flying through the air, slamming hard into the Applejacks, one of them popping back into Chrysalis's form as Tirek smirked darkly, grinning at the real one and lifting her up by the neck, slamming her into the ground again and again.

"Oh come now, what happened to all that spirit? Is this the best you can do?" He asked with a sneer before Applejack struck him in the face, making him drop her and take a few stunned steps back before she swept her leg, knocking him onto his back as Chrysalis rose back up, fuming as she glared at Rainbow Dash, Rarity racing over to Pinkie Pie.

"I could use some assistance!" She remarked before realizing Pinkie Pie now looked quite different, actually. She appeared to be dressed in blue and gold and white attire, her hair tied into pigtails as ribbons that held them together cascaded through the air, the Huntress gaping at the sight.

Then Pinkie Pie spun about on the ground, right on top of her head, legs held out. The Butterfly Kick spun her around and around like a record baby, right round, right round, right into the Huntress, kicking her in the face again and again and again as Chrysalis and Rarity gaped at the sight, the Huntsman finally rising to his feet to look at the scene before him as well.

"Oh my." He murmured.

"Discord, I don't mind you being so passionate about this, but-" Fluttershy remarked as Discord finished up his cheer, the Huntsman turning in his direction as well, both he and Fluttershy saying the same thing.

"Are you just going to stand there or are you actually going to help?"

The two then blinked, Fluttershy finally being the first to respond, an ugly thought rising in her head as she looked from the other villains to Discord, her eyes narrowing. "Discord? Did. You. Bring. Them. Here?!" She said, her voice soft but with an edge.

"I couldn't help it. The idea of all of you fighting the worst threats Equestria ever had all at once?" Discord remarked with a shrug of his shoulders, Rarity tugging on Chrysalis's mane as loud, cat-esque shrieking filled the air, Pinkie Pie and the Huntress deciding to just enjoy the sight as the Huntress shared some popcorn with the transformed, soul-sharing Element of Laughter. "It was just too cool to pass up, dear Fluttershy!" He proclaimed, spreading his arms wide.

"I'm going to punch your face with my face!" Applejack snarled at Tirek, headbutting him only to reel back, howling as she held her face. "OWWW! What the heck do y'all eat for breakfast!? Bricks?!?"

"Five dozen eggs and I'm roughly the side of a barn." Tirek proclaimed, holding up a clawed fist and slamming it into the ground as a pulsating reddish/black shockwave of energy rippled up from it. It surged forth, slamming hard into Applejack and sending her spiraling backwards through the air as Spike launched himself at Twilight, shaking her over and over as King Sombra advanced.

"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" He yelled out. "I could really use your help!"

"You brought back our worst enemies because you thought it would be fun?!" Fluttershy groaned, tugging her face down before Discord was promptly kicked right in the balls by the Huntsman this time, making him reel back, groaning in agony as the Cosmo Sapien "harrumphed".

"You didn't have to do that." Fluttershy remarked, Junior biting into Chrysalis's leg, making her bounce about in agony whilst Rarity's horn sparked and Chrysalis's own hair began to tie her up, little Christabella tugging on the shadowy form of King Sombra, trying to tug him away from Twilight and Spike, Twilight slowly recovering her senses.

"Sometimes "Bad Discord, bad" isn't sufficient." The Huntsman remarked before Fluttershy walked over to Discord and knelt by him, whispering in his ear. "Are you trying to apologize for me? Look, Fluttershy, don't-"

"Actually, I wanted to ask him a favor in exchange for me forgiving him." Fluttershy admitted, suddenly picking Discord up by the leg and flying right up into the air. "I am so, so very sorry for this!" She added, the Huntsman gaping stupidly for a minute before realizing what she was about to-

WHACKA-WHACKA-WHACKA-WHACK! She began hammering the Huntsman over the head again and again, pounding him into the ground like a nail through a block of wood, using Discord like a gigantic hammer. The Huntsman groaned, stars swirling around his head as Discord spat out a tooth, licking the empty space where it had been with his tongue before cringing.

"Ohhh, now I have to go see the Dentist. And Dr. Sweet Tooth is insane!" The Spirit of Chaos muttered.

"I'm siiiiingin' in the raiiiin! What a gooooreist feeling!" King Sombra laughed, his cloudy form sporting spiked tentacles, slashing and slicing at Twilight, Spike and Chrissy as they bolted away from him, Rarity now leaping on the back of Tirek, covering his eyes as he angrily growled and tried to rip her off. Eventually he did, holding her up and smacking her in the face back and forth.

"Naughty girl." Tirek chuckled coldly before, luckily, Junior had grabbed hold of his butt and bit hard into it, making him howl as Applejack held her back hooves up, Rainbow Dash resting on them as they prepared themselves, Night Mare Moon staring in surprise at the two.

"You cannot be serious." She remarked, Applejack kicking Rainbow Dash through the air like a football, Dash surrounding herself in potent tantric energy. She shot towards Night Mare Moon like a fired cannonball, enveloped in a light bluish/red blaze, eyes faintly aglow as Night Mare Moon raced towards her, her form surrounded in a dark miasma of black magic.

Pinkie Pie, meanwhile, was playing a game with the Huntress, and had just put down her latest assault. She'd been missing a bit more than her opponent, unfortunately. And unlike her-

"B-12." The Huntress remarked, Nee giggling a bit as Pinkie Pie folded her arms across her chest and sighed, hanging her head.

"A hit! And my favorite vitamin I might add!" She admitted before putting down a small red piece on her display screen. "A-1!"

"Oh! You sank my battleship!" Nee-Buh-Loh proclaimed, whacking the sides of her cheek in surprise as Pinkie Pie threw her arms up in the air.

"Woohoo! I am the smart! I am the smart! I am the smart!"

"Once I've killed you three, I will mount your heads atop my castle ramparts so that I will always remember the time we shared together." King Sombra cheerily remarked, Twilight stepping forward, her eyes faintly glowing as the Element of Harmony on her chest sparked bravely.

"I've gotten far stronger than I was when I met you, Sombra. And you! Don't! Scare me!" She roared out, purplish/black energy swirling about her like a maelstrom as she rose higher and higher into the air, thrusting her hooves forward as he launched himself at her, Sombra's smile beginning to fade when he realized she was beginning to overpower him. And then his smile turned into a scream when Junior held Spike up like a bazooka, the little dragon letting out a furious, potent roar, as a wave of green flame slammed into Sombra like he'd been shoved into a furnace. King Sombra screamed and screamed, his body turning back to normal as he struggled to put out the flames all over his body.

Night Mare Moon, meanwhile, was rolling around on the ground with Dash, who was punching and kicking at her as best she could, Night Mare Moon biting into Dash's body again and again, trying to rip her into pieces whilst Tirek had slammed Rarity and Chrissy's heads together and had tossed their unconscious bodies to the side. He began walking towards Pinkie Pie as she faced him down, the Huntress wisely standing far, far away from the two before Discord suddenly rose up from between them, now dressed in samurai attire, holding a katana high. "No. I finish this. You betrayed me and you hurt my friends, and I owe you a beating." Discord remarked darkly, spinning the katana blade on one claw digit before pointing it at Tirek, who cracked his knuckles and spread his arms wide, two swords of magical energy forming on the spot in his grip.

"Stop pretending you're the good guy. You were happy to bring us here in the name of an interesting fight. You only care about your own self-interest." Tirek said with a cold smirk. "You just like pretending you're so much better than that when you're as horrible as we are."

Their blades clashed, Tirek trying to shove Discord down, Discord trying to force Tirek back, two bearded badasses locked in deadly combat, the others gathering around as Dash finally just HEADBUTTED Night Mare Moon so hard her helmet shattered and she was knocked unconscious, Dash standing triumphantly up before racing to the others, looking nervously at Tirek and Discord's brawl.

"Can we take the shot?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I don't think we can attack using the Elements of Harmony without hitting Discord!" Twilight admitted.

"This is between us!" Discord insisted. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!"

"Oh, you mean like turning people's brains into jello? Mind-raping little girls? Shutting down entire power grids in cities and transforming oceans into molasses for fun?" Tirek sneered darkly, Discord's face beginning to turn pale with a mixture of horror and fury. "I've read the old tales of what happened when you reigned. Do you know how many people died because of your "fun"? 10,192 from the "cute, fuzzy creatures" you made into killing machines because you thought it'd be funny to give squirrels sabretooth fangs. 200,931 dead when you made the mountain ranges to the west into chocolate. They all melted, caused a flood, and drowned entire towns! And then, of course, when you returned and bounced about Ponyville, the entire hospital staff here became babies. Would you like to know how many died because their doctors weren't tending to them? How many children died? One minute they're being operated on, the next, their chest cavities are open and the doctor is bawling about his diaper!"

Everyone was quiet, their faces showing taut lines, Fluttershy looking horrified as Discord became more and more pale, and was quivering, as if about to fall apart. His body felt like it was on fire as he gripped the katana tightly.

"If you really wanted to do the noble thing, you'd lay down and die, and bring reeeeaaal harmony to this pretty little world." Tirek hissed, Discord gritting his teeth, almost on his knees.

"Not! My! Style!" Discord managed to get out before he suddenly leapt high, high above Tirek, mouth opening up as an enormous stream of confetti piled right out of his mouth and on top of Tirek, burying him in the confetti. Tirek's furious face popped out of the pile and Discord, swinging his fist around and around like a little tornado, popped the ugly monster right in his puss with a potent punch, a satisfying ring of a boxing bell letting him know the big guy was out. "But that? Is my style!"

"You are quite impressive." The Huntsman admitted, pulling himself out from the ground, bleeding atop the head where Fluttershy had used Discord on him. "And you've beaten me and my sister. I've got to say, it was quite enjoyable to actually witness others fighting for once, rather than engage in a fight myself. You caught me quite off-guard."

"Using me as a hammer was brilliant! And creepy. Maybe I'm a bad influence on you." Discord admitted to Fluttershy as she nervously blushed.

"Definitely." Applejack intoned.

"We will bury you!" Chrysalis growled out, still tied-up but now in a pile with Tirek, Sombra and Night Mare Moon as the Huntress stood by them, cheerily smiling at our heroines and heroes.

"You've all done so well. You're real credits to your species." She admitted. "And since you beat us, a deal is a deal. Whatever you want, you'll get from us. But first we should deal with these punks." She remarked, jabbing her thumb down at the assembled villains.

"And make things right by returning you two back to normal and you two back to your rightful homes." Discord remarked, poofing himself between Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, and then between Junior and Chrissy, giving the two noogies atop the head.

"You may with to leave whilst we show these four their fate." The Huntsman added as he nodded in the direction of the downed villains. "We warned them that if they lost, their lives were forfeit."

"Yes, ah, this next bit ain't for kiddies." Discord remarked, quickly ushering everyone away as the Huntress and the Huntsman turned on the four incapacitated forms beneath them, the two licking their lips.

"Well?" The Huntsman asked. "Ladies first. And I mean that both ways." He remarked, Nee-Buh-Loh going towards Chrysalis, lifting her up into the air and giving the Changeling Queen a big, dark grin.

"Y'know, your race prides itself on changing their appearance. Now you'll get to change mine." She commented with a slight giggle. "What are you doing!?" Queen Chrysalis exclaimed, her voice muffled by Nee-Buh-Loh's considerable bosom as she was shoved head-first into the Huntress's chest.

Nee shrugged. "Something my mother showed me how to do quite some time ago. See, all I do is just push you down, concentrate a bit and-" Queen Chrysalis's head popped into a space she realized must be the inside of Nee-Buh-Loh's breasts. The warm confines of the jugs were dripping with milk, and almost comfortable, actually, even though Chrysalis was well aware of the fact she was being shoved! Into someone else's breasts!

"Are you bucking crazy!?" Hollered Queen Chrysalis. She started flailing her arms around as Nee-Buh-Loh pushed her father in. Nee-Buh-Loh stopped which caused Queen Chrysalis to stop too as she felt a soft tingly sensation around her chest. Nee-Buh-Loh was massaging her, cooing tenderly. Pleasure and disgust mingled in Queen Chrysalis's mind as the massage commenced. Orgasmic spasms ran through the Changeling's body, and she shook and squirmed. She didn't like feeling so violated.

Outside, Nee-Buh-Loh was getting more pleasure out of it than Queen Chrysalis. Her chest engorged by it's flailing prey, she massaged one of her nipples with one hand and Queen Chrysalis's rear in the other. "See now, this ain't so bad. I'm really gentle about this. Far too nice a fate than you deserve, everything considered. At least I'm honest about what I am and what I do. I don't stab people in the back by pretending to be something I'm not just to get close to them. I'd rather have someone look me in the eye and tell me they'll fuck me than smile and say they won't right before they stab me in the back."

Chrysalis snarled at her from inside the breasts, the Cosmo Sapien frowning a bit, Night Mare Moon trapped in the Huntsman's grip as she struggled to get away.

"I suppose playtime's over." Nee-Buh-Loh said abruptly as she grabbed Queen Chrysalis again, hoisted more of her body up, and continued stuffing the changeling down her hungry cleavage. Nee-Buh-Loh's breasts slowly slurped up Queen Chrysalis's chest, struggling to get her in. But soon it was inside alright, the Changeling Queen's entire chest and head pushed farther into the interior of Nee-Buh-Loh's bosom, which churned around, pushing it's prisoner to and fro.

"You're insane! Completely insane!"

"Mmm, no matter how many times I do this, it always feels great!" Nee-Buh-Loh moaned.

"Don't do this! Please!"

"Don't. Please. Stop. Bet you heard THAT a lot, huh!?" Nee snarled. "Now you're helpless and you have the girl balls to beg? Shut up and take it like a wo-man!" The Cosmo Sapien snapped. The queen's torso was almost completely inside Nee-Buh-Loh now, and soon all that was left of the queen were a butt and a pair of legs, the rest now contributing to a pair of massive mammaries. Proud of her achievement, she grinned devilishly, squeezing Chrysalis's behind.

"Oh, look at this cute little ass." She teased.

"Sister, come now." Neh-Buh-Loh remarked. "I think you've "played with your food" quite enough."

"You're right. I might as well finish her off." The Huntress admitted, finishing pushing Queen Chrysalis into her ever-growing boobs, the queen now being massaged on all sides in the milk-filled, dark expanse that was here breasts, Nee sighing blissfully as the Huntsman looked down at Night-Mare Moon, now stripped of her armor, trying even now to get free.

"I'm going to give you a gentle end. Take comfort in that, if nothing else." He insisted to her.

"Don't you condescend me you-" She began to snarl before the Huntsman thrust her head down, something rising up. And with a careful, tiny little "pop", his cock had very gingerly engulfed the villainess's head.

"Ohhhh, yessss!" The Huntsman growled aloud, as his entire body shook from the pleasure. This was what he'd been waiting for. No small fry. A real meal for his loins. True satisfaction. Gritting his teeth - he had to hold out until the monstrous mare was entirely in his balls - he shoved slightly further, squeezing in the shoulders as he did so. As they slipped in, he began humping into the air in time with his pulling, sending Night Mare Moon through his slit with a push, then back, then a push, then back. Each motion sent the Huntsman through reels of pleasure - but even that was just preparation for the best part.

"Almost there!" The alien hunter roared in pleasure, as his entire body tensed in pleasure of what would have been an orgasm had he not had a very large evil alicorn been blocking his shaft. The moment Night Mare Moon's head reached the cum in his balls, she'd realized her struggles were futile. It was almost a shame, her struggling had a massaging effect on his manhood, but all good things have to come to an end.

Neh-Buh-Loh remained put for a moment, just relishing the surge of emotions. The evil villainess was in his shaft up to her chest buckle and was helpless to do anything. His cock was hungry and it was going to eat, slurping her up of is own accord. It worked its way up, taking in her torso fully, then her legs, and then she was fully curled up inside his sack.

"Dinner and a show." Nee-Buh-Loh giggled, turning to Sombra and Tirek, rubbing her chin as the two villains struggled to get up, their bodies worn out and just about helpless from the fight. "I'll take the unicorn, you get the centaur."

The Huntsman cracked his knuckles. "I'm afraid that you aren't getting off easy." He remarked darkly to Tirek whilst Nee dragged Sombra away.

"Gah! Wait! No! You can't! Stop!"

"I'm going to make sure you ain't hurting anybody else ever. again." The Huntress remarked with an air of faint menace.

"And what do you intend to do with me?" Tirek muttered darkly. "Where's your sense of honor? Killing an opponent you know who cannot fight back?"

"You're trying to weasel out of the fact you lost to the others and know you don't stand a chance. My powers don't come from magic, they're natural biological functions on a level you can't understand. Much like how you don't really understand honor. Or compassion. Or even friendship." The Huntsman added with a small smile. "And you know, one day they might even forgive you for what you did. But me?"

The Huntsman raised a clawed hand up and it sliced downward, Tirek howling in agony as one of his horns went flying off, blood splurting forth from where it had been moments before, the alien hunter's eyes cold and pitiless.

"I don't like cowards who take power from others. Like my sister, I'm honest about what I am and I hate what I do. You, though?" A smile without humor spread across his features as his other hand shot forward, snapping Tirek's other horn off as the centaur screeched. "A little something to remember me by before you meet your face." He proclaimed, holding the terrified Tirek up into the air before thrusting him into his chest. "It takes incredible effort to send something down to a specific planet, but luckily the souls within me had a fine idea of where to put you!"

Tirek struggled to get free, howling and screeching, his many legs flailing as he kept spiraling down, down through the infinite darkness, tugged along by thousands of invisible hands, furious growls and snarls echoing in his ears. He was going to be punished for his lifetime of cruelty by the one place he'd never be able to escape. And since the Huntsman had already "just ate", he didn't need to claim Tirek's body. It would take quite some effort to not consume the stranded Tirek whenever he got hungry again, but the Huntsman was determined to keep the monstrous sorcerer trapped inside him for the rest of his miserable life. Not that he'd let Tirek knew that.

"You should consider yourself lucky I decided not to just absorb and digest you." The Huntsman's voice echoed above the chorus of the others as Tirek moaned, rubbing his head in agony as he tried to stand up in the grassy plains he'd landed on. "I could do it at any time, "outlander". But instead I'll leech off your magical power and spiritual energy every day to satiate me whilst I keep you alive and helpless in your new home!"

"I'll find some way out of here." Tirek swore, trying to form a small fireball in his clawed hand, growling angrily as he rose up, glancing around the oddly pastel land, a sickening smell of strawberry drifting through the air. "Where is "here" anyhow?!"

"Hiya!" A cheery voice remarked, Tirek turning around to see a bear with a big red heart on its chest grinning up at him, surrounded on all sides by similar bears in odd colors, all of them cheerily waving at him. "I'm Love-A-Lot Bear! This is True Heart Bear, and that's-"

Tirek's mouth hung open so wide you could have shoved a watermelon into it.

_"Oh you sonofa-" _

Meanwhile, Nee had returned and was cheerily smirking, turning around for her brother to take a good look. "Notice anything different about me? I'll give you a hint. It ain't a haircut."

"Is it me or is your rear considerably-oh!" Neh-Buh-Loh blinked in surprise. "You did that? I didn't think you'd ever do that. I mean, that's an exceptionally unpleasant way to take in our prey."

"For them. Not for me." Nee remarked. "Though his horn would be a problem, but I did it!" She proclaimed, rubbing one of her butt cheeks and smirking a bit as it quivered slightly.

Indeed, she had. Resting her body on the ground, lifting her legs up to show off her anal slit, she'd pushed Sombra's muzzle into it with one of her clawed hands, the other resting on her stomach. With a happy moan and a soft sucking sound, his head had gotten pulled inside the massive hunter's butt. He gasped in shock, immediately feeling the powerful muscles of her ass working around his head. It was very tight and hot in there, and rather unpleasantly so, like being stuffed in a tight furnace of flesh as his shoulders were sucked in, now they too were working past her tight hole.

The Huntress rose up, panting happily as she shoved her plaything deeper inside her rear end, his chest already gone and she was now nearing the stomach. She could hardly wait for the moment where her toy would be locked inside her intestines. The tunnel sucked him in deeper still, starting to pull in Sombra's hips next as they slipped inside, then the legs began to slowly enter.

"Ohhh my. You've no idea how this feels." Nee-Buh-Loh remarked, Sombra screaming at the top of his lungs inside of her rear, more and more of him being drawn in by the second, more of the intestinal walls working him into her. The hot, muscular insides were hungrily devouring the unicorn sorcerer inch by inch, getting him closer and closer to his final resting place. With a deep, exotic moan, his hooves now vanished inside her rear, and all that remained was a very lovely booty that was visibly bigger, the Huntress rubbing it proudly.

"Just finish him off." The Huntsman remarked.

"Did you finish your own meal off?" She asked of him as he sighed, shrugging.

"Good point. But I want him to understand he deserves his fate by having him suffer longer."

"Same with me." She reasoned, folding her arms over his chest. "He treated people like crap his entire life. Now he gets to know what it feels like for once. He shouldn't get to complain."

"We should return to Ponyville. No doubt our little friends wish to make their requests of us." The Huntsman admitted, Discord suddenly appearing right next to them, with everyone else by his side. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie appeared to be normal again, and Fluttershy's possible children were no longer there, but despite everything being settled, they seemed...nervous about something. "What is it?"

"Well, we got to thinking. We'll never have to worry about those big jerks ever again because of you." Rainbow Dash admitted.

"You're both incredibly strong, and have a surprising amount of, well, chivalry." Rarity admitted.

"And if it wasn't for the fact you kinda eat people, we'd love for you to stay." Applejack admitted. "We feel bad for you, but we're still really scared of whatcha can do. So we don't know what to ask of you."

"So we asked Discord if maybe he could help, but he said he tried when you two were asleep. And he gave up and just drew penises on your face." Pinkie Pie added, the two Cosmo Sapiens whipping their head in his direction, growling a bit.

"Hey, you kept absorbing the ink, so it's all good!" He insisted.

"But though he may not be able to do anything on his own, much like perhaps I couldn't help you on my own, we'd like to ask this. Would you, uh, that is..." Twilight nervously bit her lip and glanced to the side. "We think there's so much good you could do for Equestria if you stayed. Would you do that? Stay here? Make this your new home? At least for a little while whilst we work on making sure you don't need to keep eating people?"

The Huntsman glanced over at his sister as she gave him a small smile, and he turned to look at Fluttershy. "Well, I...there's some very lovely reasons to stay." He admitted as she blushed, seeing him smile warmly at her. "I'd be willing to try to put my trust in all of you. But I should warn you, others did try before. They couldn't find one even after several years of searching. And I was practically starving through it all." He added with a nervous rubbing of the back of his neck.

"Being friends means taking a risk with your heart. It means trust." Fluttershy admitted quietly. "And I'd like to start from the beginning. I'm Fluttershy." She said with a smile, extending a hoof as the Huntsman got to one knee, and took it in a gigantic hand.

"Neh-Buh-Loh." He remarked. "A pleasure to meet you."

And so it was that that night Discord was at the far end of Ponyville, atop Twilight's castle as he helped her set up a telescope, smiling broadly as he peeked in through the other end. "There's Sirius, right on schedule. There's Betelgeuse, right on schedule! And finally?"

He grinned broadly, pulling the telescope down to peer across Ponyville and towards a particular hill quite some distance from the town. "There's Fluttershy and her new beau at Make-Out Point, right on schedule."

"Whaaaaaat?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I'd suggest giving me a Zoom lens, but we both had a big lunch today and I don't want to upset you." Discord laughed before Twilight whacked him over the head with a copy of the astrology book "Seeing Stars", irony immediately making him drop to the ramparts of the castle.

Meanwhile, the starry night skies twinkled high above Ponyville as Neh-Buh-Loh and Fluttershy laid on the hill above the town, a single tree providing some shade for the two as they sat together, the Huntsman pointing at one star after another.

"And that one, what's that?"

"That's the constellation Equestris, named after the ancient city that sank into the ocean." The yellow-furred pony informed him. "See, there's the tower, there's the steeple, there's the little buildings all about it, and there are all the people!" She added, gesturing at the constellation high above their heads and slightly to the right, the alien nodding as he "saw" what she saw.

"I see, I see. And that one over there, it sort of resembles a dragon with that little red planet off in the distance."

"Ooh, you guessed right! We call that one "Spyrokan and the Angels". It's an old dragon legend that's been passed to ponykind as well. It tells of a nice dragon who had two wonderful friends that helped him do nice deeds for other people. See, they're there in his palm and he's holding them tight to his chest to protect them." Fluttershy explained as she waved her hoof to outline the constellation properly, the Huntsman taking notice of a particularly nice-looking star twinkling brightly just to the right of the moon as it hung softly in the night sky.

"And what constellation does that little blue one belong to?"

"Oh, that's Blue Breezy. The Breezies are cute little fairy creatures, and the Blue Breezy is a magical one that turned a toy pony into a real one!" Fluttershy admitted as she tapped her hooves together, the Huntsman putting an arm around her shoulder and smiling down at her. "He went from being a plushy to an alicorn! The first first male alicorn ever."

"I can't wait to play "guess the constellation" with Nee tomorrow night. I'm going to blow her away." The Huntsman bragged slightly before he slightly hesitated and then spoke, his tone becoming softer and quieter. "You know, Fluttershy, I have a good feeling about this. I'm...I'm really happy I stayed."

Fluttershy smiled, resting her head against the side of his body, nuzzling up against the soft black satin of his skin.

And she whispered "Me too."