"How the heck did you manage that?!" Sunset shouted upwards towards the cloud. Specifically the cloud where Rainbow Dash was stuck in, hanging upside down.
"Does that really matter? Help me get out of here!" Rainbow shouted down.
The students watching the scenery weren't sure whether to be worried or laugh their asses off. Sunset facepalmed. There were only two ways to get Rainbow Dash down to not cause a scene to the entire world. She could either transform into her Daydream Shimmer form again or they somehow managed to produce a huge-ass ladder. However, none of those were to her liking. For one, if she transformed in front of the student body without any help, they'd know she was basically a powerhouse, who could make their lives really good or really miserable. And huge-ass ladders just are not stable and hard to handle.
She was just about to go with the safer option, when she heard a tambourine playing. A few more students turned their heads just in time to see Fluttershy pony-up. Sunset almost slapped herself again.
"Are you sure, you want to do this Fluttershy?" Rarity asked. "We all know about your fear of heights..."
"I-I....I'll manage." she smiled weakly, sweating bullets.
"Just don't look down." Sunset advised. "Or think of your birds!"
"I'll do that. Thank you."
With that Fluttershy took off towards Rainbow Dash. Everybody watched with fascination, as the shy girl fluttered her way too small wings and still somehow managed to get airborne. She easily reached Rainbow Dash.
"Wow Shy, I'm impressed. So uh...are you going to pull me out?"
"I...but what if I can't hold you and drop you to the ground? I am not as strong as you or Applejack."
"Oh right. Gimme a second." the blue girl bit her tongue, thinking. "I got it. Just push me through! That way, I'll land on the cloud."
"But, how will you get down?" Fluttershy asked. "I'd still need to carry you and...you know me..."
"Nah, don't worry. You see, uh...Discord told me, how pegasi slept on clouds and how clouds are the most comfortable thing in the world, so I thought I should give it a shot. I pony-up-ed and...I guess I enjoyed flying a little bit too much." she admitted sheepishly.
Fluttershy giggled a little, before she started pushing Rainbow Dash. It turned out to be easier than any of them expected. As if someone had rubbed butter on the walls of the cloud, Rainbow's slim body easily slipped through, with her ending up on top of the cloud.
"Few, my wings are stiff. Thanks shy." Rainbow Dash stretched herself, before she just leaped off and caught herself in mid-air. Fluttershy let out an "eep", when her longtime friend appeared in front of her in the air.
"Come on, Shy. Let's get down there. We got PE next and that's one subject I don't want to miss."
Celestia closed the curtains to her office and slumped down onto her chair. In front of her sat a man, who wore a brown sweater, darker brown pants and dirty, white sport shoes. A few minutes earlier he had placed an application, complete with curriculum vitae on her desk.
"See Celly? I told you, there was no need for those firemen. Why do you call them firemen anyway? Not that I'm complaining about contradictions, but it would be way funnier if they actually were lit on fire or their tubes actually spit fire. No their firetrucks should be fire-breathing dragons!
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No, on second thought, that's not original enough. That sounds wayyyyy too common. Fire breathing dragons, got enough of them in Equestria already. Don't even understand the simplest of jokes."
"Urgh..." Celestia didn't even try to hold back the sigh. "Mr. Discord...why do you even want to become our janitor? I understand that your presence is needed in order to keep an eye on Sunset and Twilight, but that doesn't necessarily requires you to actually get a job, does it?"
Discord in return shrugged. "Why not? Just imagine it! Every damage that ever happened in school, every little explosive crater that's going to appear in the future...just disappear with a snap of my finger. Like that coffee stain on your table."
Discord snapped his fingers and in the blink of an eye, the coffee stain that Luna accidentally made a couple of weeks ago was gone.
"Every little explosive crater?" the principal quoted. "I have faith that neither Sunset nor Twilight will turn into demons ever again."
"Oh, I'm not talking about that." Discord smirked. "I'm talking about their current powers."
"Current powers? Control of the sun and moon?"
"Oh what, you think that is everything?"
Celestia tensed. She had a very, very bad feeling about this.
"Sunset may have a little more control, after all, she was Sunbutt's student after all. Sunbutt even planned Sunset taking on the Element of Magic at first. Well, THAT went well as we all know. Ah, wish I had been there. Alas, I had to buy the DVD."
"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing to bother your poor little head about. In any event, aside from raising the sun and moon, which is quite easy might I add, the two ladies have been blessed with for humans unimaginable power. Their magic is so great, it can be accessed as easily as if they were in Equestria. However, it's like someone just gave an AK-47, a bazooka, a 50 caliber sniper rifle and a party canon to someone who's not quite right in the head. What do you think would happen?"
Celestia swallowed.
"Luckily, as I said, our dear Sunset has a lot of experience in controlling magic and she was quite the power house as a unicorn, from what I heard. As for our dear Twilight..."
"...She doesn't have any kind of experience." Celestia breathed out.
"I'll be honest, Princess Twilight is anything BUT a stable pony. She panics quite easily and tends to do really stupid things, when she panics. Did you know, she brainwashed an entire town, because she was late for an assignment? That was before she had the power Sunset and this here Twilight have."
"She what?! Y-you're joking, right?"
"Eeenope." For some reason, Discord turned his head in that of a red horse, with yellow mane and green eyes, causing Celestia to jump a little.
"Just like that. Sunbutt herself needed to get down and clean up her mess. She hadn't had an episode ever since, but they built a bunker, just in case Twi-Twi goes coo-coo again."
He's pulling my leg. He must be. Princess Twilight seemed so...well not completely mature, but more than the students. She also always seemed to know what she was doing. Except the time we first met. But then again, I haven't seen her that often...
"Whatever, my point is, if Princess Twilight is unstable, then Twilight Sparkle is a ticking time bomb. Don't get scared just now, as long as she doesn't tap into her magic reserves, she'll be fine. But once she does, which will be, when it's time to raise the moon...ooh boy, maybe I should build a fallout shelter. Then again, it won't do us any good, when she crashes the moon on the planet. Or the magic will consume her again and she'll go mad with her studies again. Maybe this time she won't destroy one reality, only to get to Equestria, but dissect our atoms, in order to understand the meaning of the universe?"
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Celestia trembled, as she drank from her tea.
"Hahahaha, you should see your face. Don't worry, that's why I'm here after all. I'm stronger than any prissy alicorn. Sunny and I will assist little Twily. So, back to that job."
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"I'll consider it." As well, as considering retiring early. Or change jobs. Maybe I should become a teacher at an elementary school.
"Good!" Discord clapped his hands. He then snapped his fingers, after which he and Celestia were standing in front of a mirror, which suddenly appeared in Celestia's room. Discord wore now and expensive tuxedo, the same one he wore at the gala, complete with hat, pants and shoes this time around.
As for Celestia, she was sure she belonged in the asylum now. She wore a beautiful white dress, a white flower was stuck in her hair, glass shoes, golden lipstick, a little bit more makeup overall, her nails were polished, she also wore golden bracelets on the upper half of her arms and an expensive amethyst was hanging down a golden necklace.
"A little too white? Don't worry, we still got time before my housewarming party starts. How about..."
Heads up for the readers, a lot of this story still needs to be edited and my editor broke his laptop a couple of weeks ago. It might take a wile for everything to get fixed.
Well at least you're feeling better. Kinda wondering where the next chapter was.
Poor Tia, she'll survive Sunny and Twilight but end up dying by stroke.
Yeah, I'm really worried about human Twilight's freak outs.
I realized something - this is still the same day, right? So... our totally scared, freaked out Human Twilight will have to raise the Moon at the night!
I wonder how it would go...
And poor Principal Celestia...
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It'll look just like when our Twilight did it.
In other words, just like Luna after a bender.
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Just call in Piccolo
I like your Discord here, specially because the points he makes are all true and make sense.
As a future scene, I can see Discord borrowing Sunset's magic book temporally to write a letter to pony Fluttershy (he's going to miss their regular meetings with his stay at EqG!Earth)
great as usual
Discord needs to take principal Celestia out on a lunch date
Did Discord have just given Principal Celestia the attrie of her Alicorn Pony Princess would be wearing in the human world?
I'm pretty sure this will go viral on the student body and may accidentally or intentionally call her "Princess Celestia" instead of Principal from time to time.
Tia? Here's a bit of advice. Discord loves to troll. Take everything he says with a very, very liberal pinch of salt.
However, yes, Twilight is a neurotic little girl who has suddenly turned into a magical powerhouse. Fortunately, the Magic of Friendship is stronger yet and she has six good friends who are there to help her keep grounded.
Regarding the closing scene... Hmm... Dislestia hint maybe? Perhaps he feels that the 'Princess' of the school should look the part?
6677393 This chapter was worth the wait! I can't wait for the part where a cult worshipping Sunset and Twilight springs up with Human!Starlight Glimmer as the Prophet/head priestess (or something like that inside the school and maybe the whole town. I can also see Discord at some point being seen as the cult's the devil from either Sunset or Twilight trying to kill him out of frustration at his antics or some sort of shenanigans and the rest of the Human!Mane Six being seen as angels or like the primarchs from Warhammer 40k.
Also you can use these ideas in your story when those parts come around if you want.
6679768 I wanted to make the cloud incident a separate one-shot story. Buuut, I never reached 1000 words.
We need to see Twilight's parents find out about the events in the games and their reaction to Twilight's status as a moon goddess.
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I was confused by his word choice
Loved how escalation puts the party canon as the stronger and most dangerous weapon in the list.
bummer but il say best story by far
6680135 When is the next chapter coming out?
6778357 I hope before new year.
Enjoying this story I can't wait till the next chapter. Keep up the good work.
One too many 'after all's I fear.
I don't think this joke really works from an in universe perspective because, while random, it's just that; random. Principal Celestia has no frame of reference for it and I think Discord was trying to crack a genuine joke, but I think he could have done something she would have comprehended rather than random Big Mac.
7707823 it's discord why would he make any sort of sense
Shipping senses tingling! Do I see a CellyCord?
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Lets hope so!
That was done in 60-ies or even earlier