As the girls walked up towards the maze, Fluttershy could not help but ask. "Do we have to go in there?"
Rainbow smirked while flapping her wings before taking off. "Discord forgot about these babies; I will just fly over and see where the Elements are."
As Rainbow was in the air, her wings disappeared, causing her to hit the ground, which stretched and bounced her up and down. She quickly looked at where her wing were. "There gone… my wings are gone."
Fluttershy blinked in shock before she felt her own body lose a bunch of weight as well; she quickly turned nervous about what most likely disappeared. She let out in a low whisper. "My wings are gone."
Twilight and Rarity sat there in shock before they felt a weight from their head disappear. Twilight closed her eyes nervously. "Rarity, please do not tell me our horns are gone as well."
Rarity let out a low whimper, and she saw Twilight's horn was gone, which meant Rarity's most likely was as well. "Can't do that, Twilight."
Pinkie and Applejack snickered quietly at their friends freak out before Discord Teleported in front of them while laughing. "Y-you should see the look on your faces. Priceless!"
Discord snorted out a peel of laughter before Twilight stomped her foot and looked up at Discord in annoyance. "Give us our horns and wings back!"
Discord stopped laughing before looking at Twilight in surprise before smiling in remembrance. "You will get them back in due time."
Discord started moving around the girls quickly; he stopped at Applejack and spoke up. "I just took them away, so there is no cheating. This is the first rule of the game we are playing."
He slowly moved by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy before poking Twilight Sparkle before Rainbow spoke up in question. "The First Rule?"
Discord smirked before looking at the ponies in front of him. "The second Rule is, of course, that all of you have to play or the game is over, and I win."
Discord jumped into the air before teleporting away in a flash of light. "Good luck, everyone."
Twilight looked up at the sky in thought before stomping her foot in determination gaining her friend's attention. "Never fear, Girls, as long as we have each other."
Rainbow pumped her fist, trying to get her friends excited. "Yeah! Like Twilight said, there is nothing we cannot overcome as long as we stick together."
Twilight quickly led the girls to the entrance as they lined up; Twilight was quick to speak encouragement. "All right, girls, let's do this together."
As they stepped into the maze, the grass wall separated them, causing them to scream in fear. Twilight quickly shouted out reassurance. "Be calm Girls, all of us should head to the center and meet and regroup there."
Everyone but Fluttershy quickly called out their acceptance before running off, leaving Fluttershy alone, who promptly called out before screaming in fear. "What that? Who is there?"
---Applejack---
As Applejack was running through the maze as quickly as possible, she quickly noticed three apples on the ground and stopped to look at them in confusion. "What in tarnation?"
She quickly took off after the apples and landed in a small orchard before a serious of Apples fell on her head, making three creatures made of apples that were laughing. Applejack let out a confused. "What are you?"
"The keepers of the Grove of truth, you may ask us… one question… past, present, or future." The three apple creatures answered together before continuing. "But be warned… that the truth… may be unpleasant."
Applejack nodded, seeing that the creatures were not really lying about their words, but it still felt like a trick for some reason. "Alright then. I do not trust this place worth a hill of beans, but I got a real bad feeling about this Discord fella."
Applejack watched them spin around her while snickering. "What is going to come of this mission of ours."
The creatures led Applejack to the water and smiled at her. "For the answer, you seek… Go ahead, take a peek."
As Applejack investigated the water in thought, she was surprised to watch her friends fight amongst each other in surprise along with her. What was confusing her was that there was no Onyx and that the girls in a herd were fighting. Applejack turned away from the pool before one of the creatures spoke up in her face. "Well, all the truth does… is make the heart pay."
"Sometimes a lie is easier to take." Discord spoke while trying to hypnotize her.
Applejack jumped backward at Discord's voice. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted some apples that I did not raise."
Discord blinked in surprise before noticing Twilight and scowled while teleporting away.
Twilight was confused at Applejack standing there scowling. "Applejack, I heard you talking. What happened?"
"Discord was trying to do something to me, but for some reason, he did not show me a correct future." Applejack spoke at Twilight, extremely confused, and described what she was shown.
Twilight blinked before she realized something. "He does not have perfect information."
---Discord---
"What the heck just happened?" Discord scowled and moved toward his next victim in thought. "I was certain that was perfect to affect her enough for me to hypnotize her."
---Pinkie---
As Pinkie bounced around a corner, and saw a massive balloon party. With laughter pouring out of the entryway. "This is the greatest Balloon garden I have ever seen; it is also the first one I have seen, but still."
Pinkie blinked as she was tripped and falling into a puddle of mud. "Hey! What gives?"
Discord teleported in and smiled at Pinkie Pie. "What is the matter Pinkie Pie? I thought you appreciated a good laugh."
Pinkie looked at Discord and scowled at him. "This is way different. They are laughing at me, not with me."
Discord smirked down at her. "It is so hard different after all your friends laugh at you all the time."
Pinkie narrowed her eyes at Discord. "My friends laugh with me, not at me."
Discord looked at her through the balloon and started making the other balloons take on her friend's faces before making them laugh at her. 'I am certain this will work.'
Pinkie blinked and looked at her friend's faces that are laughing at her and raised an eyebrow at their strange laughter because she knew her friend's laughter, and that was not it. Pinkie looked at the Discord balloon in mocking. "Is that the best you can do that is nowhere close to my friends."
Discord scowled before he noticed Twilight and Applejack appearing and moved on before the girls could corner him. When Twilight and Applejack appeared, they watched the illusion float away into nothingness. "Pinkie, are you okay?"
Pinkie looked at her friends and hugged them tightly, and smiled at them. "I am so glad you guys are my friends."
Twilight and Applejack were really confused.
---Discord---
"Okay, Twice I got this wrong; if I am wrong a third time, I am seriously going to get annoyed." Discord scowled that he was getting this wrong; he quickly pulled up the files he had made about his information. "Let's go through this one more time."
---Rarity---
As Rarity was walking through the maze, she was surprised to see three diamonds on a wall and looked at them. Discord appeared in the diamonds before smiling at her. "Well, Rarity, it is your lucky day; you found the one thing in Equestria that could rival my beautiful face."
Discord shined a light into her eyes and smiled as the effect started showing. "So, what do you think? You like?"
Rarity started walking towards the diamonds while speaking. "Yes. I like this very much!"
Rarity quickly shook her head and turned away. "I will not be turned by the sheer fabulousness."
As Rarity walked away struggling for some reason. "Must get to the center and meet the others."
She blinked once before moving back to the wall and attacking it with a cry. "Mine!"
"Well, Rarity, It took forever, but it was worth it." Rarity looked at her damaged nails before sighing. "It was worth it for this massive diamond."
Rarity picked up the diamond before a wall fell and let her friends in. Twilight blinked, seeing Rarity carrying a big rock and looking really grey as well. "Rarity, are you okay?"
"Of course, I am fine, Twilight. I have a massive diamond, and I found my good friends." Rarity smiled while looking at the diamond. "I am not sharing with any of you, just so you know."
Twilight blinked and realized that Rarity was not even willing to offer to share. She peered at Applejack and Pinkie in thought and realized what Discord was attempting to do. She moved back and looked at Applejack and Twilight. "Discord is trying to change us so we do not affect the weapons because it looks like Rarity might not be able to wield Generosity right now."
Applejack and Pinkie nodded their heads while looking at Rarity carry a boulder and sighed because it looked like she was hypnotized.
---Discord---
"Alright, so I got one of them because I did not target her friends." Discord hummed while looking at Fluttershy's file in annoyance because he can not really find an excellent way to affect her. "Let us see this is looking more and more annoying."
---Fluttershy---
Fluttershy was following butterflies through the maze and was surprised that she lost them. As she looked around for them, she heard them speak up from behind. "Fluttershy, it looks like you have been left behind by your so-called friends."
Fluttershy smiled at the butterflies that were worried for her. "Oh no, I am sure they are looking for me to the best of their abilities."
The butterflies started spinning around Fluttershy in humor. "Well, it must be so annoying to know how weak and helpless they think you are."
Fluttershy smiled at the sky happily. "Not at all. I am generally weak and helpless, so I thank them for understanding my weaknesses."
The butterflies sputtered while in the air and leaked out Discords' voice. "Yes, well, I am sure it burns you up inside, that they always are pointing out your flaws, right."
Fluttershy was so confused with what her butterfly friends were saying. "Not really; I actually greatly appreciate them pointing them out because it shows that they care and want the best for me."
Discord exploded out of the butterflies and looked at Fluttershy in annoyance and decided to just force the issue, but before he could touch her, he heard Twilight called out. "Fluttershy, can you hear us?"
Discord scowled before moving on, leaving Fluttershy alone as the girls showed up.
---Discord---
"Okay, should have known Kindness was not going to be easy to infect. I expected that, but the girls were able to move quicker than I thought." Discord breathed out in annoyance. "Need to get Loyalty, and I have a full-proof plan."
---Rainbow---
As Rainbow chased after the weapon, she was surprised to see Discord lying on clouds and smiled at her. "I can see why you like clouds so much—So plush."
Rainbow scowled before yelling at Discord. "Get off there and put 'em up! Come on! Let's go!"
Discord held up his hands and smiled at her. "Hey, I am just here to deliver a message."
Rainbow growled back. "I got a message for you, too!"
Discord smirked while looking down at Rainbow. "Listen Closely. This is important."
Discord moved to stand next to Rainbow and smirked down at her. "A weighty choice is yours to make—the right selection to make or a big mistake."
"If the wrong choice you choose, the foundation of the home will crumble without you." Discord smirked before snapping his finger and showing Cloudsdale falling apart without her there to help protect it.
Rainbow screamed out in shock. "NO!!!"
Discord snapped his finger and showed her a box, and smirked. "In this box contains your wings, your choice to leave the game or stay."
Rainbow quickly reached out for her wings.
Discord burst into silent laughter at the fact that Loyalty was so easy to break.
---With the girls---
As they watched Rarity struggled with the boulder, Applejack quickly noticed something strange. "Twilight, is that Rainbow leaving the game itself?"
Twilight and the rest blinked and watched Rainbow fly off into the sky. "No way he broke her; he must have shown her something to make her struggle with loyalty."
The maze started falling away around them while a storm gathered in the sky with rain and lighting. Discord smirked and started talking. "Well, well, well. Somebody broke the "no magic, no wings" rule."
Discord snapped his fingers, giving everyone their proper parts back. "Games is over, my fine friends."
He smirked in madness. "You did not find your precious weapons."
Discord took out an umbrella from somewhere before opening it up, he said. "It looks like we might be due for a big storm of Chaos."
As he burst into laughter, Twilight was confused on why he had opened the Umbrella at all. Discord laid on the ground laughing at the girl's various reactions. "Oh, you girls are just the most fun I have had in eons."
Twilight watched Rarity struggle with the boulder before looking at Discord in annoyance. "Stop it, Discord; you are not playing fair."
The girl's sans Rarity were quick to agree because the hypnosis was not fair at all. "Yeah!"
Discord smirked at them with laughter in his eyes. He slowly marched up to the girls that were not hypnotized. "I am not playing fair; perhaps you missed my introduction. Discord Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony."
He quickly bowed while the girls growled at him, Twilight promptly complained. "How are we supposed to find the weapons when you disappeared the maze?"
Discord blinked in confusion before realizing what she meant and burst into peals of laughter at her. "Oh my, did you think I put the weapon in this here maze."
Discord was still laughing as he Teleported Twilight and himself back to when he was informing Celestia and them about his riddle before teleporting them back to the maze where the rest were waiting, Discord leaned down next to Twilight and smiled at her. "I never said the weapons were in the labyrinth."
Twilight sputter in shock while Discord walked away while humoring her and spoke. "Keep trying Twilight Sparkle; maybe the Magic of Friendship will help you."
"Now, if you excuse me, I have some Chaos to wreck." Discord teleported away while snapping his fingers and smirking at her. The pink clouds quickly covered Twilight and her friend and covering them in Chocolate milk.
---Ethereal Realm---
Harmony looked at the rigged game in annoyance. 'Your agent cheated Discord.'
Discord looked just as annoyed as Harmony. 'He should know better than to cheat.'
'I mean, he had the manipulation down; he just did not do enough research, but I guess that is what you can expect from a man in a statue for a little over 1900 years.' Discord sighed in annoyance at the level he had to stoop to.
Harmony nodded and looked at her uncorrupted Elements and the corrupted Elements. 'I am still calling this round in my favor, just so you know.'
Discord looked at her annoyed and sighed because the weapons were not there in the first place, and Discord's goal was to corrupt 5 of the Elements and only got 2. 'Yup, this round is yours.'