Discord's Experiment
By Red Velvet
Flim and Flam run up to Discord happily.
"Discord. Since we set you free we were thinking we could rule with you?" Flim says smiling.
Flam nods his agreement. "In chaos?"
Discord laughs and points at the Flim Flam Brothers. "You? Want to help me? Unfortunately for you I don't need any help."
"But you needed help getting out of stone." Flam replies.
Discord narrows his eyes at them and then turns to the rest of the ponies.
"Well everypony it's time to start our fun. Nineteen of you will die and the one survivor will be aloud to leave. Good luck everypony! and remember I'll be watching."
Spitfire watches as Discord vanishes and she turns to Soarin.
"Worst. Date. Ever."
Soarin smiles and kisses her.
Soarin nods. "How about I make it up to you by defeating Discord?"
Spitfire smiles. "Perfect."
Soarin looks around at all the cubes. "What is this place? It's so strange."
Doctor Whooves runs up to them and shakes Spitfire's hoof.
"Hello I'm The Doctor." He introduced himself. "I believe Discord has taken us an placed us in a world meant to resemble the popular video game, Ponycraft."
Spitfire nods. "If that's true then there may be plenty of monsters roaming around."
Everypony turns to Celestia as she climbs onto a tall stack of cubes.
"Everypony must remain calm!" She began. "We've devised a back-up plan in case Discord were to return."
All the ponies started murmuring quietly as Celestia pulled out a book.
"This book contains the only way to reverse the effects of Discord's chaos and..."
As she was talking Flim used his bright green magic to rip the book from Celestia. As soon as he had it in his hold the two brothers ran off until they could barely be seen. "The Book?!?!" Twilight screams.
Vinyl Scratch points at where they were last seen. "After them!"
Celestia shakes her head. "Wait. They could be armed and dangerous. If we're going to go after them then we need to do it correctly."
Celestia hops down from the hill and walks up to the ponies.
"A group of ponies, led by my sister, should go after them while another group, led by me, shall stay here to wait for their return. Any pony interested in hunting down Flim and Flam go with my sister Luna, if not stay here with me."
Soarin, Spitfire, Big Mac, Vinyl Scratch, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, and Shining Armor walk over to where Luna is sitting.
"I don't want to be responsible if I'm leading us to our deaths." Luna whispers to herself. As Luna's group walks away from Celestia's Derpy walks up to The Doctor excited.
"Yay! Doctor we get to go on an adventure."
Doctor Whooves smiles at Derpy and tussles her hair. "Yes we do, Derpy."
Luna notices that everypony has someone to talk to but her and she lets out a sigh. Vinyl hears Luna sigh and walks up to her.
"So princess." She begins trying to make small talk. "What are we going to do with the brothers when we find them? I think we should kill them."
Luna shakes her head. "When we have the book we will take it and go back to the others. I'm sure leaving them in this wretched place is punishment enough."
As they walk along the endless plain of multicolored cubes they start to hear a loud cry/screaming sound coming from up ahead. Derpy stops walking and cowers away.
"I'm not going any closer to that scary sound." She whispers quietly.
Doctor Whooves goes over to Derpy sighing.
"Derpy, we've gone on hundreds of adventures together and do plenty of scary things. That." He says pointing his hoof toward the sound. "Is just a somepony screaming. They were probably banished here like the rest of us."
Derpy shakes her head and stares at her hooves. "I refuse to go any farther!"
Vinyl sighs. "Let's just leave her here."
Whooves rushes to stand at Derpy's defense. "We can't leave her by herself! I guess I could stay with her."
Shining Armor walks over to The Doctor. "I think it'd be safer if two others stayed here with them. Maybe me and Big Mac?"
Big Mac nods. "Eeyup."
Luna stands there for a moment not realizing everyony is looking at her.
"Ok. I guess. So me Soarin, Spitfire, and Vinyl Scratch will go after Flim and Flam while you three comfort Derpy." Luna says after a while.
Spitfire whispers to Soarin as they start walking again. "What are they all afraid of? This place is completely empty."
Soarin shrugs and keeps on walking. "Prolly PonyCraft monsters."
After a while the small group comes to a mountain made out of the cubes with the screaming coming from the other side. After the ponies spread an anxious look Luna leads the way over the mountain. When they reach the bottom they turn to see Flim laying on the ground in a puddle of blood. After closer examination the ponies realize his right back leg is all mangled and ripped with a steady stream of blood flowing out.
Spitfire rushes to his side. "What happened?"
Vinyl wrinkles her nose. "You were the one making that awful noise?"
Flim looks up at the ponies and begins to explain. "It was a big... green monster... and when I bucked it... the thing... exploded."
Vinyl frowns. "Where's the book?"
Flim gasps for air and then continues talking. "Flam... took the book... ran."
Vinyl stands up and starts walking of. "If Flam has the book then lets go. We don't have any use for Flim anymore."
Luna thinks for a moment before nodding. "I guess we have to leave him here."
Flim starts making the "crying" noise as the four ponies start to leave.
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Derpy was right about to continue adventuring when the noise started again.
The Doctor facehoofs. "So close."
Shining Armor jumps and points a hoof in the air. "Ghost!"
Doctor Whooves stares at him curiosly. "Are you sure?"
Shining Armor nods. "Of course. It was big and black and flying around the sky!"
The ghost appears again and flies around the terrified ponies.
"Eeek!"Was all Derpy said before she tucked her head under her hooves.
The ghost flies down to Shining Armor and punches him. The ghost then pries open Shining Armor's mouth and slithers down his throat. Shining Armor falls to the ground for a few seconds and his mane and tail begin to turn black while his eyes turn red.
Shining Armor stands up and smiles. "I'm not a ghost you idiot. I'm a BodySnatcher."
All three ponies gasp and stare at him with wide eyes.
The Doctor is the first to speak. "A B-BodySnatcher?"
Shining Armor nods and smiles.
Doctor Whooves soon regains his fearless composure and looks straight into the BodySnatcher's eyes. "Well. Lucky for us I know how to get BodySnatchers out. You just have to..."
The Doctor was interrupted by a BodySnatcher flying down and climbing into his open mouth. Within seconds Doctor Whooves has an all black mane and tail with piercing red eyes.
Derpy looks up at The Doctor and starts crying.
The Doctor laughs. "Don't be sad m'dear. Your body will be used too."
Another BodySnatcher flies down and possesses Derpy. Big Mac takes off running in fear that the BodySnatchers will take him next. At first he easily outruns the BodySnatchers but as he takes a turn around a corner Discord's leg appears out of nowhere tripping Big Mac. Before he can stand up two black hooves pry his mouth open and slide down his throat.
A few seconds later the new Big Mac stands up happily. "Finally. I've found a body worthy of me. The king of the BodySnatchers."
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Vinyl Scratch follows behind the other three ponies drooping her tail in the dust.
"Are we there yet?" She complains loudly and annoyingly. "Flam can't have walked this far already. It's so far. Can I take a break?"
Spitfire nods he agreement. "Yes. A break would be nice. May we have one Luna?"
Luna nods and sits down. Spitfire lays down with Soarin and starts whispering to him.
Vinyl sighs. "These ponies are the worst. Why'd my girls have to go with Celestia."
Vinyl stands up. "I'm going to go look for water. Be right back."
Vinyl starts walking toward the sound of rushing water, where she assumed a river would be.When she finally reaches it she notices a large hole nearby.
Vinyl nods in respect. "That's a nice hole. Looks like somepony dug it. Wait. I just realized I'm talking to myself about holes. I really need to get back to civilization."
Vinyl turns toward the river but slips on the wet cubes and falls into the hole.
"Stupid hole." She mutters to herself.
As she stands up she turns to see Flam trying to read a book.
Vinyl shouts in excitement. "Flam!"
Flam looks up and smiles at Vinyl.
"Well well well. Looks as if you've found me. Now what?"
To be continued...