- Discord escapes his imprisonment, steals the Elements of Harmony and sows dissension among Twilight's friends to prevent their recovery.
- Cheerilee leads her class through the Canterlot Sculpture Gardens, where they come across a statue of a creature with different parts. It is soon found to be a Draconequus, a creature made up of different parts. When Cheerilee asks her students what the statue stands for, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo get into an argument about it, before Cheerilee tells them that it symbolizes discord, or a 'lack of harmony' among ponies. Unseen (or heard) by the group as they move on, a crack has formed in the statue, and a deep rumbling laughter is heard.
Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, a number of strange things begin happening:
-Rainbow Dash finds numerous pink cotton candy clouds in the sky, that seem to produce chocolate milk.
-The corn on Applejack's farm begins to pop like popcorn.- Fluttershy's bunny Angel suddenly grows giraffe-like legs (along with several other bunnies)
Twilight attempts to use a spell to fix everything, but her magic does nothing.
Soon after, the group is called to Canterlot by Princess Celestia. Celestia tells Twilight and her friends that the strange happenings are the result of Discord, a being whom she and her sister Luna sealed away many years ago.
Celestia asks Twilight and her friends to use the Elements of Harmony to stop Discord, but all are shocked to find the Elements gone!
Just then, a male voice is heard in the room, and in the stained-glass windows in the hall of the castle, Discord appears (just like the statue in the gardens). While almost all of the ponies attempt to verbally stand up to Discord, he seems to ignore their 'taunts,' and shows surprising knowledge of each of their main traits.
He then goes on to say he's hidden the Elements, and offers the following clue:
"Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the elements back where you began."
Heaing the phrase 'twists and turns,' Twilight figures the Elements must be hidden in the nearby hedge maze. As the group goes towards the maze, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are shocked when their wings are removed, and Rarity and Twilight express shock as well when their unicorn horns disappear too!
Discord then appears before all of them, claiming he has given each of the ponies the same advantage to playing 'his game.' There are three rules involved:
1: No flying; 2: No Magic; 3: Every pony has to take part, or the game ends.
The group then attempts to get started, only for each of them to be separated into different areas of the maze. Twilight calls out that they'll simply head to the center of the maze, and regroup there.
As Applejack wanders down her section of the maze, a couple apples roll away from her, and lead her to a small pond, where several groups of creatures in the form of apples (actually puppeted by Discord in secret), show Applejack a vision of her friends renouncing their friendship, and taking off. Applejack does not want to believe this could be the truth, and the creatures tell her that lying would be easier to do. This causes Applejack's coloration to fade, and when Twilight finds her a few moments later, she lies to her friend (as well as shifts her eyes around).
Pinkie Pie finds a small area that looks like a Birthday Party, but ends up falling into a mud puddle, causing the balloons around her to laugh at her. Discord appears, and tells her that her friends also laugh at her, she just doesn't realize it. Pinkie grows upset by this, and Discord's powers cause her to have her colors fade, and grow more serious and less fun.
Rarity finds a rock wall in her part of the hedge maze, and finds 3 diamond emblems on it. Digging away at the wall, she finds a huge, pony-sized diamond, that she attempts to carry away (actually, a large boulder, that Discord has tricked her into thinking is a diamond).
Still wandering around the maze, Fluttershy encounters 3 small butterflies, that tell her that she seems to have been abandoned by her 'friends,' but Fluttershy claims that she's sure they are doing their best to find her. The butterflies attempt to make her think her friends have forgotten about her, but Fluttershy remains positive that her friends are truly her friends...causing Discord to appear and pokes her in the head, forcing her to be cruel instead of kind.
Rainbow Dash soon finds Discord, and is ready to take him on, before he tells her that he is willing to 'help her.' Using his powers, he shows her an image of Cloudsdale collapsing, panicking Rainbow Dash. Discord then presents Rainbow with a box that contains her wings. She can take the wings and save her home, or keep playing the game.
Fearful for her home, Rainbow takes her wings and flies off.
This causes Discord to find the others (who are acting nasty to each other, and to which Twilight Sparkle has no idea what has come over her friends). He points out that Rainbow Dash has broken the 'no wings/no flying' rule, and claims the game is over. With that, the hedge maze disappears into the ground, as Discord cackles that they are in for a 'big ol' storm of chaos.'
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