//------------------------------// // TMP Prompt #147: Silly Bit of Nonsense [Humor] // Story: Tales of Little Consequence and Other Such Nonsense // by littlerobotbird //------------------------------// The Prompt: Discord saves the day! “You are kidding, right?” She shook her head, smile widening. “A thousand years of chaos? Mass destruction of all of ponydom?” She considered this a moment, shrugged and continued smiling hopefully. “Master of Trickery? Lord of Misery?” Another shrug. Another smile. “You’ve freed me…knowing all this…for what?” ”My tea party ran out of chocolate milk,” the tiny filly replied, lower lip trembling. “Your…tea party…ran out of chocolate milk?” "Yes, Mr. Discord, sir.” “Tea party…chocolate milk…” “Please, Mr. Discord. Pleeeeeeease.” “Oh, fine!” the draconequus declared, the delighted smile on his snaggletoothed face a mismatch for his harsh tone as he snapped his fingers. “But I best get the nicest cup and not Mrs. Higglebottoms. I mean, look at her hair, it’s positively dreadful. The nerve of someponies to attend a social function in such a state.” The filly watched in awe as the world spun about them, the grassy surface of the statue gardens becoming a posh dining hall carved from a candy store. She blinked, jaw open in a most unladylike manner as chocolate began to drizzle down from ceiling tapestry spun of cotton candy and attached by caramel-coated pretzels to chocolate marbled walls. “But, I suppose, exceptions will be made for the sake of propiety, milady,” Discord presumed, peering down through a monocle as he took a look sip of tea, his chimeric form now dressed to the sixes and sevens in Canterlot’s finest as imagined by a deranged sugarsmith of the highest order. The filly cheered, hugging her flowery dress around her before taking a bite of it. It was made of daisy-flavored gummy! “I do say, my dear little pony, we will have to talk about expanding your guest list.” More ponies? This was going to be a the best tea party ever! [Original]