Mischief is a wonderful thing.
Whether it was replacing the sugar with salt as someone made their morning coffee, or changing an army’s spears into rubber chickens, mischief was one of my specialties.
And now I had replaced an ancient steel helmet with a banana cream pie at the most opportune moment.
I stood there laughing hysterically as Luna proceeded to slam the pie down upon her head, smearing her navy blue coat with whipped cream and custard. The other bits of armor she had been wearing fell away, and her face contorted with a mixture of embarrassment and confusion.
I clutched my sides and doubled over, practically crying as I laughed. I wiped the tears from my eyes and they burst into flames upon the cobblestones. I looked up to continue savoring my comedic handwork, but I was unfortunately clouted across the cheek by a rather angry lunar goddess.
"What are you doing here Discord?"
I tried to stifle my giggles. There was still whipped cream dripping from her muzzle. I just couldn't take her seriously. I burst into chuckles yet again, only to graced with another vicious slap from the princess. Luna never could take a joke.
"Oh, just having a bit of fun. And stopping you from making a horrible mistake. Other than that nothing much."
She looked devastated. Her body seemed to slump upon hearing my words, and she slowly sank to the ground in a huff. I couldn't tell, but I almost swore I saw tears running down her cheeks. It was in that moment I saw the weight of our situation fall upon her shoulders.
"Where is the helmet, Discord?"
"Gone. It could be anywhere now."
Her eyes took on a look of anger. She sat bolt upright, then lunged for me. She struck at me, but was far too slow. She lashed out with both hoof and spell, but to no avail. I was four thousand years her elder. I wasn't going to fall to a flurry of angry punches.
"Without that helmet I can't become Nightmare Moon!"
I dodged another hoof blow, and Luna instead struck the pillar that had been behind me. With one punch she shattered it.
"Without that how am I to defeat Twilight?"
A bolt of lightning arced past me, followed by a gout of fire, which engulfed me entirely. With a snap of my fingers, I doused the flames with a glass of strawberry soda. Luna again charged me, and this time I had to physically restrain her from striking me.
She screamed, blurting out something that was nearly incomprehensible, then melted to the ground. She lay in a crumpled heap, her entire body shuddering. Even though her face was pressed to the ground, I could tell she was crying. I don't think I had ever seen Luna cry,
Luna had always strove to be a paradigm of godlike strength and pride. Her face was always hard set, her posture always rigid, and her voice always booming. In the ancient days, when she and her sister had rebelled against my tyranny, it had been Luna who lead the army to victory. She was a strategist and a warrior through and through. She had spent centuries fighting, whether it was against me or later against her sister.
Now however, she was cut off from her source of power. Her throne, her crown, her title, her palace, her kingdom, her sister, her moon... all of these things had been stripped from her. For the first time in her life, she was powerless. Abandoned in a new world of gods and monsters without direction.
So lost was she that she would turn to Nightmare Moon, the icon of her greatest folly, simply to feel powerful once more.
All these things I pondered in my mind. I kicked at a pebble on the stone cobbles, and promptly transformed it into a goldfish. It flopped about uselessly for a bit, until I decided it should swim in air rather than water. As I turned my attention back to Luna, I realized she needed to do the same thing.
If you cannot breathe water, breathe air.
I placed a claw upon her shoulder, and she looked up at me with tear filled eyes. Here were sat, two former enemies forced together by a greater evil.
"I couldn't stop her."
Luna sniffed, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"There was nothing I could do to stop her. She’s more a goddess than I ever was. She has more magical talent in her right hoof than the rest of the Equestrian Pantheon combined. She’s everything we trained her to be. She’s our greatest success, and our ultimate demise. Perhaps Nightmare Moon could have given me the edge I needed to defeat her, but now we’ll never know.”
“Nightmare Moon couldn’t stop her. I’ve experienced the power of both firsthand, and I know which outweighs the other. You would have only brought more misery upon the land had you donned that armor. Darkness clashing with darkness does not breed light. Not unless I make it so of course.”
Luna sighed, hanging her head low. I placed a hot fudge sundae in front of her. She only stared at it blankly, as though I had handed her an empty glass. I grabbed a spoon and promptly shoveled a bite of it into her mouth.
At first she recoiled at it, cringing like she had a mouth full of poison. Slowly however, her grimace melted away. She swallowed, and for the first time, I saw Luna smile.
Despite all she had been through, all she had lost, she smiled. It wasn’t a wide smile by any means, but it was a smile nonetheless. Through the hurt, through the pain, she smiled.
Somewhere deep inside, she had hope.
“Where do we go from here?”
“That’s the nice thing about starting from rock bottom. We’ve only got one place we can go. Up.”
twilight needs to die. slowly, painfully, and utterly alone. she needs to see that she has no one, because no one wants her. i want her to have everything she's gained ripped away from her so she can know true defeat before she was sentenced to the Eternal Sidelines. she'd be forced to watch as the world moved on around her, and she would be powerless to have any effect on it.
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3526563 I still think you should be dead.
I take it you chose 1024 words because 2^10 = 1024? The computer scientist in me couldn't help but notice that.
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And what purpose will there be to this justice?
Would it make anything right?
Would it bring back the lost?
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Well she definitely needs to be stopped and while I do feel BPM is going OD, in this fic she's crossed the line and must be stopped (Even if the emans is by death)
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Death is fine if that is the only way to stop her.
But is suffering necessary?
Does it serve a point?
Does it Fix anything?
3527943 Which is why I said his post was OD. Quick kill is what should happen.
3527115 no, but it'd get rid of a great evil, and would free Equestria from her grasp.
NOOOO, the streak of chapters at exactly 1000 words long is broken! Other than that, loved the chapter as always.
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When the 'author' is Discord, it's supposed to be slightly different, because Discord screws the rules.
1024!?!?!? At least it's a power of 2...
3526588 If dead should be given, it should be given as swiftly as possible.
Because its the right think to do and because it make us better than the one we sometime need to kill.
3530412 while i do believe that, i also believe that there comes a point where that person (pony, whatever) no longer deserves that right. maybe that's just me, but if i lost everybody i cared about to someone, and it was done deliberately, i would make sure that they quickly learned to regret what they did to me.
3530463 thats...logical..i think...maybe...
aniway chrismas song!
3530474 honestly, it's not logical. but it's how i view things. can't really help it.
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it is logical, because its emotion logic...so it doesn't make sense...but it does!!!
Aniway, has it become a spam thread on a gore magical-lovey-dovey pony fanfiction website? Because if it has I SOOO want to know!
3530501 to be honest, i have no idea. sorry.
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I know that impulse well.
I have it.
But i recognize it is this impulse which creates blood feuds, hundred year wars, crusades and jihads.
It is a crude instrument that is noble in how it gave civilization a foundation to be built upon.
But it is ultimately an ancient and unthinking instinct, to be tempered and restrained unless you can know it truly furthers the good of all.
The funniest thing here is that the death is only easy way out for Twilight now. But she won't take it until she is defeated and crushed so utterly that suicide or death from anypony or anything else (no matter how long the agony will take) will become her preferable options. I see no possible way to her to return things as they were (except 'magic' cliche), therefore I'd personally want to see Twilight not dead, but remorseful of her actions one day. This may be cruel, but I'd want to see her one day feeling repentance for her actions, being remorseful for all the deaths she caused - because in that case there still will be hope for her soul. It's the hardest road any person can possibly endure - but it is the road to recovery, eventually.
Maybe I'm writing all this to show my dissaproval of people who want to see TS dead? Maybe I want to see her suffering more than anyone who offered to make her suffer for what she did? Or maybe I still want to give her a one last chance after all, despite hating her for her actions with passion? I wish I knew...
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There is the old saying about this case: "He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself". Sapienti sat, dixi.
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Many many old sayings about this matter.
Many attempts have been made to say it.
Still the message seems lost.
So The lessons continue to try and be heard.
As we make the mistakes.
But I've got hope.
We can be better.
So i ask these questions.
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"Do not repay evil unto evil. But overcome evil with good."
Dogs get put down, yer goin down Twi!
Am I the only one who wants Discord to point out, "You know, maybe killing your friends, the ones that could've been used to your advantage in about 6 billion different ways other than killing, wasn't the best idea (points to the overrunn everfree and the box with six locks) Just saying, for all of your 'logic' you really didn't think the entire "kill the five friends' plan through."
Am I?
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You're applying season 4 logic to a story that hasn't updated since season 4 began.
Nice (not really) try, but it doesn't work.
I doubt this story will contain events from Season 4 as it pretty much counts as AU (despite the lack of an AU tag, at least in my opinion).
And if it contains S4 events, I'm pretty certain they will go much differently, as for one thing, Discord is working activity against Twilight Sparkle now... And for another, well, where are the other five Elements now? Obviously everything changes without her friends: Name one episode that would have been the same without her friends. (I don't think the first story mentioned Twilight gathering the Elements from their corpses, did they pull a "Sword of Gryffindor" and vanish?)
Does it even matter when Twilight is depicted as powerful to kill Discord when it comes to dealing with disposing of his idle antics? Discord is totally going to have to step up his game.
I'm pretty sure the first two episodes of Season 4 would slap Twilight in the face if they happened. The Tree of Harmony would likely violently, or at least definitively, reject Chaos-Twilight! Maybe actually physically slapping her, just for laughs.
Some people haven't watched Season 4, so I went Spoilers on pretty much everything relevant to it.
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There will not be any season four materiel appearing in this fanfiction. This is done for two major reasons.
One, attempting to change the plot around the evolving events that take place in the new season is an absolute nightmare. The story would quickly derail into "Season Four: BUT DARKER!" which isn't at all my intent.
The second is that, to be blunt, I don't watch the show anymore. I watched season three, and hated the vast majority of the episodes. I really stopped watching after the massive disappointment that was the season two finale. Thus, I have no idea what's going on in Season four. So yeah, its not gonna show up here.
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As a fellow hater of Season 3 [literally loathe it with the furry of a thousand suns, and even though it would create an alternate timeline than affecting this one, but if I ever discovered time travel and could bring massive wealth stolen from other timelines with me I'd eradicate that Season. Just to know that there was a universe without that unholy stain on a great show]. I can say that Season 4 was great.
Every show has at least one flop season, that all in all sucks horribly. But Season 4 made up for the utter filler-filled swill that was S3. S4 really did out do themselves. Sure the first two episodes were ... decent, not perfect by any means, but decent. But 95% of S4 was as good as the first two seasons if not better for most of the episodes. So yeah you might want to give it a shot.
I just noticed that the Discord chapters are the ones that don't have exactly 1,000 words.
Nice touch.
Luna and Discord chapter...
I'm usually a 'Fluttercorder,' but right now, I want to ship the Night and Chaos...
5922552 So you want to do what the ancient Greeks did.
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Oh, that sounds like a great idea.
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Wait.. Actually, that is a good idea.
Here's the kids Nyx (night) had by herself:
Moros (doom, destiny), Ker (Destruction, death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame) Oizys (Pain, distress), the Moirai (Fates), Nemesis (Indignation, retribution), Apate (Deceit), Geras (Old age), Eris (Strife), and others. Not too positive there.
However, if you start some shipping, you get Aether (Brightness) and Hemera (Day), which are positive. Huh! Sounds like a good pair to me!
~SoDF
I should have known Discord would turn up.
now let me halt you right there sometimes it does take darkness to beat darkness
you can destroy the rock and go down
Hah! You’re forgiven, Discord. Just make sure that Luna doesn’t tread the path of good intentions to Tartarus.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
This needs to be a quote or motto somewhere. It seems like one of those iconic lines that only can be found in some great novel series like Harry Potter or the Hunger Games