Discord was taking a stroll through Ponyville, hoping to get his mind off things, when he saw Applejack running toward him.
"Whoa there, cowgirl!" Discord said, stopping her with his paw. "What's the rush?"
"Oh shoot," Applejack muttered under her breath.
Of all the folks she could bump into, it had to be him! She put on her best poker face, which was not very convincing.
"Oh, uh, howdy partner! I was just, uh...I have to, uh...I left the bath water runnin'! Yeah, I gotta get home, see? So, uh...bye!"
She thought she was free until the draconequus picked her up by the tail.
"Element of Honesty, huh?" he smirked. "So what's really troubling you, AJ?"
"Uh..." Applejack gulped. "I don't really wanna talk about it!" She started sweating. "Plus, it doesn't concern you!"
Discord shook his head in amusement. "You know I can always just peek into your head and discover what you're hiding?"
"No!" the cowgirl shouted, kicking her legs desperately. "You're not gonna like it!"
"Ooh! That juicy, huh? This is gonna be fun!"
"Discord, trust me on this! You don't wanna..."
"The more you say that, the more I do wanna!"
Applejack had no chance against the Lord of Chaos. He tapped his claw on her head and accessed her most recent memory. The scene shifted and he found himself standing beside Applejack in an alley. She stood there slack-jawed, staring intensely at something in front of her.
Discord looked in the pony's direction and soon his expression matched hers.
An orange stallion was pressing a mare against the wall, kissing her passionately. The mare had her forelegs around his neck as she returned his kiss with pleasure. Discord had never felt more disgusted about anything in his life.
For that mare was his wife.
"Fluttershy?" Applejack uttered.
The pegasus pushed the stallion away to look at the stunned cowgirl with those once innocent teal eyes. She rolled them in annoyance.
"Uh, hello?" she said in a tone that was very unlike her. "Do you mind?"
She was about to pull the stallion in again when Applejack cut between them.
"What is this?!" she demanded. "Who is this?! What about Discord?! And Screwball and Zany?!"
Fluttershy scoffed. "They'll be fine, so long as they don't find out. And if they do, they'll get over it."
Applejack could not believe it. "What's come over you?! Do ya have any idea what Discord will do if...?"
"Move aside, will you?" Fluttershy snapped, shoving her friend. "We were in the middle of something!"
Discord had seen enough and flashed back to reality. Applejack was still hanging from his paw. The shock in his face struck fear in her heart.
"I...I'm sorry!" she stammered. "I...I wanted to tell ya but...I didn't know how to..."
She yelped as he dropped her. She rubbed her head and sat up.
"Discord, are you...?"
The draconequus screamed as his body erupted into flames. In a few seconds, there was nothing left but ashes. Applejack knew he had not really burned to a crisp, but it was not a good sign. The cowgirl buried her face in her hooves.
"Oh, Fluttershy! What have you done?!"
Once she was sure Applejack was gone, Fluttershy wrenched herself away from her lover.
"Hey, Stinky! Ever heard of a breath mint? You smell like a Timberwolf!"
The stallion scoffed. "What about your horrible acting skills? You really think that's how the wimpy pegasus would act?"
"Hey, it worked, didn't it? In a matter of minutes, that cowgirl will be spilling the beans to Discord. Since she's the Element of Honesty, he'll believe her."
"Queen Chrysalis will certainly be pleased."
They both laughed as they changed into their changeling selves.
"Now let's get out of here before things get ugly!" the male said.
The female nodded in agreement. "Yeah. I wouldn't want to be Fluttershy right now!"
Meanwhile, the real Fluttershy was in the steam room with Rarity.
"So have you talked with Fancy Pants yet?" Fluttershy asked her friend.
The unicorn sighed. "I was going to, but..." She stomped her hoof. "The minute I walk in...she's there! Oh, she was all over him!"
The pegasus gasped. "Oh, goodness! What did you do?"
"What else could I do? I threw the divorce papers at him and left!"
"Oh, Rarity! I'm so sorry! What did Fancy Pants say?"
"Heck should I know! Pardon my French. I stormed out before he could say anything!"
"You didn't give him a chance to explain himself?"
"There was nothing for him to explain!"
"Maybe he had nothing to do with it."
"Maybe..." Rarity's face fell. "Huh. I hadn't thought of that. Oh, I screwed up again, didn't I? I have to make this right. How are your troubles working out?"
"Screwball and Discord still won't talk to each other, but we're going to sort it all out tonight."
When Fluttershy got home, a chocolate rain storm was brewing above the castle.
"Oh goodness," she uttered. "I hope they haven't gotten into another fight."
She opened the door to find her husband sitting in a circle of fire in the middle of the room.
"Discord?!" she asked in shock.
The draconequus turned at the sound of her voice. As soon as he caught sight of her, the flames extinguished. Fluttershy cautiously approached him and gingerly put a hoof on his shoulder.
"Are you alright?"
He jerked away from her. Discord stood up and clenched his fists. He tried so hard to keep his anger contained that all he managed to say was:
"Why?"
Fluttershy tilted her head in concern. "What?"
Discord gritted his teeth. "I gave up everything for you. I devoted myself to you." He spun around, his eyes burning with fury. "And when we made the vow to love and honor each other for all eternity, I assumed you would do the same!"
His wife blinked in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
"But that was never enough for you, was it?! WAS IT?!"
"Discord I don't..."
She squealed as he grabbed her foreleg.
"Who is he?!"
"Discord, you're hurting me!"
"WHO IS HE?!"
Fluttershy was taken aback. He had not raised his voice at her like this in a long time.
"He?"
"That stallion! The one that you were playing tonsil hockey with!"
Her eyes grew big. "What?! Discord, I don't know what you..."
"You were kissing him! I saw you!"
"Discord, I...no! You're the only one I've ever kissed!"
"Don't play innocent with me! I saw you! Applejack saw you! You calling Applejack a liar?!"
"What...I..."
He let go of her forleg and lifted her by the diamond and gold rings around her neck.
"Does this mean nothing to you?!" he bellowed. "After everything I've done for you, after having my children, this is how you repay me?!"
"Discord, please!" Fluttershy begged. "There is no other stallion! My heart belongs to you!"
"Oh, is that so? Well, how about the rest of you?!"
"Discord!"
Tears formed in her eyes. She did not understand what was happening. How could Discord have seen her with another stallion when she was at the spa all day? She had not even talked to another stallion on her way back!
"Discord, you have to believe me! I love you and only you!"
She squeaked as he dropped her to the floor and turned away. He could not bear to look at her.
"Apparently, you didn't love me enough!" He removed the gold band from his finger and threw it at her. "You will regret this. YOU ALL WILL!"
He burst into flames and vanished from sight, leaving Fluttershy in a saddened and confused state.
Screwball sat on the park bench, her brother in the baby buggy beside her. She reached in and tickled his stomach. He giggled, which made her smile a bit.
"Sometimes," she said, "I think you're the only one who understands me, bro."
A pink ball rolled up to her feet. Screwball glanced down as a filly rushed up to retrieve it.
"Hey, Prism," she said.
The multi-colored filly looked up and grinned. "Hey, Screwy! Whatcha doing?"
"Just...taking Zany for a walk."
"But you're sitting."
"Well, I'm resting. What are you doing here?"
"Playing catch with the Tri-Pies and," she grimaced, "Gemstone. Well, not so much with her, cuz she's afraid she'll break a hoof if she touches the ball. Our parents are all busy today, so we decided to hang out."
"Where are the twins?"
"They're having a race somewhere. They didn't invite me along because..."
She brought out her wings. Even though Prism was nine, she could not fly yet. It was embarrassing for her, considering every pony in her family was an accomplished flyer.
"I see," Screwball said.
"Well, I gotta get back now. See ya!"
"See ya."
The pegasus filly was about to leave when a drop of water splashed on her nose.
"Hey," she said. "It's not supposed to rain today."
The two looked up at the sky as it clouded in pink. A few seconds later, it started pouring down chocolate milk.
"Not funny, Screwball!" Prism exclaimed, placing a hoof on her hip.
"I'm not doing it!" Screwball insisted.
She looked at Zany, but he was huddling under the buggy's canopy and sticking out his tongue in disgust. Strange, he loved chocolate milk.
"Hey, Screwy?"
She glanced up to see a gray stallion in front of her.
"Do I know you?" she asked.
"I'm," he cleared his throat, "MB?"
Screwball saw his eyes flash green. It was Mothball.
"Prism, I think you'd better get back to the others and go home."
The filly raced back to her group. The Tri-Pies were sticking their tongues out and collecting as much rain as possible, while Gemstone was squealing under a tree.
"What are you doing here?" Screwball asked the disguised changeling.
Mothball glanced nervously at the stroller. "I need to talk with you alone."
"We can talk here. It's only my brother."
"No, you don't understand. That baby is..."
He was interrupted when Discord materialized in front of them. Mothball yelped and ran away from him.
"Wait!" Screwball called, but he was gone in a flash.
"Why hello there, Screwy!" Discord said in a crazy tone. "You like what I've done with the weather?"
The young mare looked at her father curiously. "You okay, Dad?"
"Oh, I'm fine! Hey, honey! I'm sorry about our little fight last week! How about we make up over some father-daughter bonding? You want to help your daddy make a cola storm in Manehattan?"
Her eyes lit up. "Cool! But...wouldn't Mom get mad?"
Discord tensed. "Forget about your mother! She's of no concern to us anymore!"
"I, uh...what?!"
He scooped her in his arms. "But we don't need her! We don't need any pony! All we need is each other! We can be one big happy family without your mother! You hear me? ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY!"
Screwball cringed. "Uh, Dad? You're really starting to creep me out."
He held her in the crook of his arm and gestured to the ponies running from the chocolate rain.
"We will rule this world together, my dear! I will be King and you," he turned her hat into a tiara, "will be the princess! And this little scamper," he picked up Zany and made a tiny crown appear on his head, "will be a prince!"
The infant gurgled in delight while Screwball's stomach churned.
"But Dad, you promised you wouldn't..."
"Our first order of business will be to have revenge on those colts who bullied you in school!"
With that idea in mind, Screwball's mouth broke into a devious smile. "What are we waiting for then?"
Discord laughed in a way he hadn't in a long time. "That's my girl!"
"Though Dad...I just have two things."
"Anything, my dear."
"First, you promise we won't seriously hurt any pony?"
He batted his eyes innocently. "Well of course not, sweetie!"
"Second..." She tapped her tiara and turned it back into her propeller hat. "Don't ever touch my hat again."
Discord laughed maniacally. "Come, my little abominations! We have chaos to wreak!"
Mothball had watched the entire scene from behind a tree. He hung his head shamefully.
"I'm too late!"
ok and i love it
Lets go murder Chrysalis, everyone!
I LOVE POKEMON AND MLP AND MANGA AND CATS AND elephants.:trixieshiftright?
Yay, finally caught up! But that means less updates =(
3074991 i just watched the equestria girls movie with your link
3078575that was it thanks
I like this story so far
Man, wou are the master of cliffhanger-ness. Just sayin'
No! What!? How!? why!? AHHHHHHHHHHHH-
Only one little thing...
If that's the case, why didn't he just check to see if Fluttershy was lying? I think Discord would want to make sure, especially when they just found out there were Changelings in Equestria.
3082887 The dude's not thinking clearly. What can you do?
I NEED MOAR EPISODES
Found it!
Dude! I love where this is going
Discord.all day.every day.
I think it's interesting how the real Discord was underneath the entire time, such a thin coating like that chocolate crust over a drumstick. It didn't take much to bring back the Lord of Chaos.
On the other hoof I really do hope that Fluttershy can get him to see the truth.
Also Fancy Pants and Rarity need to be happy again!
I just discovered and read this and your other two fics here. Because of a discussion about whether or not Discord could handle a serious relationship. I honestly still don't think it would happen, but I have very much enjoyed these stories nonetheless.
I'll admit that I started groaning when I saw that this story very quickly turned towards "everypony gets married to each other and has kids and they all live happily ever after," because as much as I would love for that to happen to everypony, for whatever reason it tends not to be what I enjoy reading. But I've enjoyed this story anyway. It probably helps that the mane cast are mostly background or at least minor characters here, but I think what I liked most about it is that you didn't give everypony a perfect relationship. Again I'd love for everypony to have one, but that typically doesn't make for much of a story. So from the standpoint of someone who enjoys a good story, I like that Rarity and Twilight at least have to struggle a bit in their relationships. As long as it works out in the end.
But I am very disappointed by the lack of Rafiki-Zecora in this story thus far.
I WANT A TRAGIC ENDING NOW ! :flutterrage
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Exactly! What can you do? Prepare for a big old storm of chaos!
(Besides there needs to be some conflict, and the logic is sound.)
3102688 I deny ev..... Um....okay, you got me! It is my favorite movie anyway!
3102879 when's the new chapter comeing
Please new chapter I'm dieing to read what will happen next Please give me more!
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is ther gunna b moorree cchhppttrrss???
I see no possible way this could ever end well...
Boy is Chrysallis' plot doomed to crash and burn in a most spectacular way. Even though things are going according to plan now, there's no way in Tartarus Discord's not gonna find out sooner or later, and when he does his retribution will be anything but a game. It's best to leave sleeping draconequii lie.
Oh my, this is not going to end well, Discord is mad... CHRYSALIS! YOU DIS FOR THIS!
*evil laugh*
Yes! Evil Discord is back! And a darker turn eh? Ohhhhhhhh screw revising for exams I'm gonna keep reading!
I just realized that maybe Screwball is just a discorded DT.
This what I don't like about the story, I just don't think Screwball would be so easily persuade into going bad after everything she's been threw in her life, she knows better, did she forget everything Twilight said?
Again with the lifting fluttershy by the rings on her neck. What the heck discord u need new tricks
I am looking the story so far, I am just having trouble keeping tracks of who is who with your oc's. There are a bit too much to keep track @~@
Van't wait to see what will happen next
This is me when someone says not to read a book 'cause it's not appropriate yadda yadda yadda. I love books.
AND DISCORD IS BACK! YES! TAKE OVER EQUESTRIA AND DOUSE ME IN CHOCOLATE RAIN!!!
Plothole! continuity error! Oh no!
"She looked at Zany, but he was huddling under the buggy's canopy and sticking out his tongue in disgust. Strange, he loved chocolate milk."
We all can asume that that´s because it was Chrysalis, not Zany but chocolate milk tastes just like love and she eats love so I don´t see why she´ll hate it
5579353 it is angry discord version
"Ruh-roh" would be an understatement right about now. They were obviously changelings (and I'm betting even what Rarity saw with Fancy Pants was changelings' work), but I suppose once you see something like that, you can't exactly think clearly for a while.
Oh my, This reminds of of the Killing Joke!
One. Bad. Day.
Oh Boy!
This won't end well...
5579353 Mothball is the only changeling who knows that. True, he told his mom, but she probably dismissed it as silly rambling.
Oh boy.
This is gonna hurt the feels for a few chapters...
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OMC! I've read this so many times and I never get tired of it! But This part isn't exactly my favorite not because it's not happy but it's because it takes forever for them to find out the truth!!!!
4505968 Screwball just wants to play a few pranks on a few ponies. She is Discord's daughter, after all; the Princess of Chaos. She has no idea what Discord really intends to do.
omg fluttershy changeling fiasco!
7511857 Discord, you are a grade A MORON! You just had to deal with a changeling situation and not once did you consider that? You really have so little faith in your wife?! Sheesh.
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Honestly, we know from this story that discord is a tad bit... Unhinged.... He's very self conscious and gets alot of flack from most of the pony world..
That combined with pure rage, it's very difficult to snap out of that kind of state of mind... You could say discord is going through the worst kind of shock... And may I remind you... Shock is a very serious mental state
YEEEEEEES!!! CHAOS IS BACK IN STYLE FELLAS!
Like I said Rarity you really need to think first before you act
Oh my God this is really not good at all so many misunderstanding so it looks like Discord was walking around until he saw Applejack and he was about to ask what's wrong she tried to deny nothing is wrong but Discord used his magic spell to see what Applejack is seeing and what he saw did not go very well he saw Fluttershy with another guy thinking she doesn't care about him or her children what a fit of rage he disappeared meanwhile Rarity and Fluttershy having their spa treatment and once again Rarity jumped the gun again not giving him any chance of explaining but once Fluttershy got home Discord was very mad at her of the Betrayal thinking that she never loved him and now he's going to create chaos around screwball and zany basically just sitting around and everything until they saw their father acting a little strange than usual but somehow wanting to create some practical jokes to everybody and mothball was too late to warn them I'm sure he tried his best all because of those changelings pretend to be Fluttershy curse you chrysalis