//------------------------------// // Clash With The Rainbow, Talk With The Moon // Story: What Is This Strange Feeling? // by PonySage86 //------------------------------// Discord flashes into existence high above the harbor of Manehatten, he takes a deep breathe of the salty air, Discord has always loved the ocean,and why not it's water something ponies usually see as safe and refreshing that is the exact opposite, very chaotic. Discord shakes his head, "Focus Discord, now is not the time to get distracted." Discord turns around and looks at the open ocean, in the distance, but not nearly as far in the distance as he thought it was going to be, was the fast approaching hurricane, hurricane Sparkle as the ponies called it. Discord chuckled ad he imagined is purple friends face when she found out about that one. "Hmm." Discord puts his talon up to his chin and thinks for a minute. "This is a lot more serious then I was expecting." "Maybe we should have let Rainbow Dash come help us." Tiny Discord says while suddenly appearing in Discords field of vision. Discord scowls at his tiny replica, Discord puts a paw up to his head as the throbbing pain in his head returns. "I don't need Rainbow Dash." Discord says while he crosses his arms. "I can handle this all on my own." "But we know how hard it is for us to dispel one of Moonlights storms." Tiny Discord looks nervously out to see. "Do we have enough time before it hits the city?" "Of course we do I'm Discord I can do anything." Discord smiles smugly. "Besides even if we don't have enough time I can just make more." "More time?" Tiny Discord asks with a raised eyebrows. "But of course." Discord says with a shrug. "Um we know we can't do that right?" Tiny Discord asks a bit confused, Discord scowls once more at his mini me. "Don't tell me what I can or can't do." Discord snarls at Tiny Discord. "I can do anything." "What is up with us today?" Tiny Discord shakes his head in annoyance. "Why are we so snippy." "I'm not snippy your snippy!" Discord shouts at Tiny Discord. "Are we kidding us!?" Tiny Discord shouts back. "We are the same Draconequus!" The two Discord glare daggers at each other, they would continue on like that but something brightly colored makes herself known. "Um... am I interrupting something here?" Both Discords turn to look at the new pony in the air, Tiny Discord smiles at his rainbow colored, while normal sized Discord scowls. "What are you doing here Rainbow Dash?" Discord says a bit snarky, Rainbow Dash ignores his snark. "Well duh I'm here to kick hurricane booty." Rainbow Dash stretches her wings and forelegs, she looks between the two Discords. "So uh we doing this or what?" "No I'm doing this." Discord points at Rainbow Dash with his paw. "You're going home." "Huh?" Rainbow Dash blinks at Discord. "What do you mean by that?" "You'll have to excuse us Dashy." Tiny Discord jabs a thumb toward full sized Discord. "We are being a bit of an ass today, we're glad your here to help." "Hey you don't speak for me." Discord grabs fun sized Discord and throws him straight down toward the ocean. Discord points a talon at Rainbow Dash and growls "And you." "Huh?" Rainbow Dash blinks in confusion as Discord brings his talon fingers together, she realizes what he's about to do and dashes at him. "Go home." A loud snap rings through the air, Discord smiles smugly as Rainbow Dash is enveloped by the light of teleportation, much to his surprise however she doesn't teleport, instead his magic is repelled by a sudden burst of rainbow energy in the shape of a lightening bolt. Before Discord can so much as blink in confusion or utter a puzzled comment he is rammed into by Rainbow Dash. She pushes Discord back a ways and pins him to a storm cloud. "What is your problem dude!?" Rainbow Dash shouts over a sudden gust of wind, Discord glares down at her. "Your my problem, I can handle this myself!" Discord shouts back. "That doesn't matter dude!" Rainbow Dash jabs a hoof in the direction of the approaching storm. "That thing is almost here, so we don't have time for you to be an idiot!" "Your the idiot for getting in my way!" Discord growls at his friend, Rainbow looks sternly at him, she suddenly releases her grip on him and floats away from him. "Fine." Rainbow Dash says coldly her face not changing, Discord blinks in confusion. "What?" Discord asks a bit surprised by the sudden shift. "Go ahead." Rainbow Dash she jabs her hoof toward the hurricane again. "Stop it." "Oh." Discord looks over at the hurricane, he smiles smugly. "Fine I will." Discord throws his hands up toward the hurricane, his hands start glowing golden followed soon by the hurricane, Discord glares at the hurricane as it continues approaching, his hands begin shaking as he pumps more and more magic into the vortex. The hurricane is nearly upon the city now, the winds and waves begin shaking the boats around the harbor, heavy rain is pouring all over the city, the wind has begun picking up smaller items near the ocean. Discord notices this and starts pouring more energy into the hurricane. "What's taking so long Discord!?" Rainbow Dash shouts over the howling wind. "This isn't as easy as it looks ya know!" Discord barked at his rainbow colored friend, truth be told dispelling a magical hurricane really wasn't that hard... when you can sense the source, but since Discord can't sense the magic keeping this storm together he's left with two options. I can try overloading it like I did the last one. Discord shakes his head with a scowl. No that won't work this storm is too big, it would take way to long to find the right amount of magic, overload it by too much and I could make things even worse. Option two... spread my energy out as much as I can and hope I stumble upon the source. "Or option three we get Rainbow Dash to help us like last time." Discord scowls at Tiny Discord as he returns to the sky. "What? We did say she made things easier last time." Discord jabs a finger at Tiny Discord. "Look buster that was diff-" "ARGH!" Both Discords turn to look at the screaming mare, Rainbow Dash is vigorously rubbing her head with het hooves while she screams, she stops and locks eyes with Discord. "I am tired of hearing you bitch!" Both Discords flinch from the sudden outburst and stare wide eyed at the rainbow pony. "If you ain't gonna stop this thing, I will!" Rainbow Dash suddenly flaps her wings and bolts straight toward the hurricane. "Rainbow Dash!" Both Discords shout as they watch the rainbow trail vanish into the vortex. The Eye Of The Storm Rainbow Dash flaps her wings as hard as she can as she flys in the opposite direction the wind is spinning. Rainbow Dash mentally scolds herself for not building up a sonic rainboom before coming in here. Rain pelts her wings making it harder and harder to fly. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." Rainbow Dash states out loud, now that she thinks about it, she didn't have a plan at all, the idea in her head was to fly in the opposite direction and get rid of it like her and the other pegasi did with that tornado a while back. But this is completely different, this time the vortex was much larger, she was all by herself, and it's really wet inside a hurricane. For one moment Rainbow Dash thought about giving up, flying out of the hurricane and just leaving it to Discord... but only for one moment and after that moment had passed she slapped that thought right out of her head. "I ain't giving up that easy! Every ponies counting on me!" Rainbow Dash exclaims to herself. Rainbow Dash begins flapping her wings even harder, but no matter how hard she flaps she can't seem to gain much if any speed. Until suddenly the dark interior of the storm begins to be illuminated by a bright glow, Rainbow Dash looks down and notices that the bright light is coming from her chest, right where her element use to hang. Rainbow Dash feels the power of the element building up inside her just like when she was with her friends fighting villians. But Twilight wasn't here to control the energy like those other times, this time Rainbow Dash had to do herself this time. So she closes her eyes and focuses on the energy welling up inside her, she calls it forth, she feels a sudden bolt of energy jolt through her body, her once wet and tired are instantly dry and flapping harder then ever, she feels her mane and tail grow longer and when she sees a small bolt of lightening zip past her eye that's when she realizes what that energy was. "I activated my harmony form!?" Rainbow Dash exclaims both confused and over joyed. "I didn't know we could do that." Filled with renewed conviction Rainbow Dash flys even faster against the wind, she feels her speed jump ad she suddenly starts a sonic rainboom. Rainbow Dash knows that she can't stop the hurricane this way but it's all she can do to help without Discord. Suddenly Rainbow Dash's eyes go wide. "I am such an idiot there is something I can do!" Rainbow Dash shouts over the wind. She quickly makes her circle smaller and smaller until she is the center of the vortex. "Alright." Rainbow Dash tucks her legs up into her chest and summons up her most powerful technique. "HERE GOES NOTHING!" The hurricane is filled with an intense light as Rainbow Dash unleashes her buccaneer blitz. Outside The Vortex "Will we please stop being so stubborn and please go save our friend?" Tiny Discord asks in exasperation, Discord just scowls at his mini self as he continues to scan the vortex for it's source. "It was her decision to go in there she can save herself." Discord says dismissively. "Then can't we at least create the ball of energy so Rainbow can buccaneer blitz it away like with the tornado?" Tiny Discord nearly begs to his larger self. "And give Dashy the satisfaction of thinking I need her for this?" Discord scuffs at tiny him. "Please." "Oh for the love of Luna, is our pride really worth the life of our friend?" Tiny Discord asks beginning to get angry. Discord opens his mouth to respond but is cut off by bright flash of light from inside the hurricane, the storm seems to wobble slightly but the vortex continues on its path, Discords eyes go wide as another flash goes off inside the hurricane. "That's Rainbow Dash!" Discord blurts out, Tiny Discord nods. "She must be using her buccaneer blitz." Tiny Discord frowns as a third flash goes off. "We've got to do something, who knows how long-" "I SEE IT!" Discord interrupts as loud as he can, Tiny Discord blinks in disbelief. "We see the source?" Discord nods. "How?" "Whenever Dashy uses the buccaneer blitz, her magic envelopes the entire cyclone." Tiny Discords eyes light up as he catches on. "And sense we can't sense the Element of Sin." Tiny Discord says excitedly. "The spot that I sense as blank is the spot where the source is." Discord finishes with a smug grin. "So where is it?" Tiny Discord asks with a happy sigh. "I need Dashy to use her blitz one more time to be sure." Discord says while never taking his eyes off the vortex. "But that would mean five buccaneer blitz's in just a couple minutes, even with her harmony form does she have that much energy?" Tiny Discord asks nervously. "She does." Discord says confidently, but his face shows concern. The two Discords watch the hurricane, in mere moments it will make land fall and cause devastation to Manehatten, then after two minutes of agonizing waiting Rainbow Dashs fifth buccaneer blitz goes off, the flash illuminates the vortex once more, in that instant Discord spots the ring of magic he couldn't see before he quickly grabs it with his magic and shatters it before the buccaneer blitz was even done. The hurricane vanishes as the final buccaneer blitz fades out of sight, the seas begin to calm and the rain lessens, but Discord doesn't notice that the only thing he notices his brightly colored friend falling from the sky unconscious. "Rainbow Dash!" Discord shouts as he dashes toward his friend, he reaches out his talon to grab her but when his talon makes contact with her giant harmony fueled hair he recoils in pain as the electricity in her mane snaps him, Discord glares at is hand but shakes the anger out of his head. He reaches for her again this time with his paw but right before he grabs her she is caught by somepony else, Discord stops and stares at the pony who caught Rainbow Dash, a yellow pegasus he was not expecting to see here. "F-fluttershy?" Fluttershy is floating in the air holding Rainbow Dash in her hooves, she smiles sweetly at Discord, at the same time Rainbow Dashs giant hair shrinks as she reverts to her normal form. "Hey Discord." Fluttershy closes her eyes and smiles even sweeter. "I'm glad your okay." "Uh, um." Discord just stares dumbly at Fluttershy, the throbbing pain that has been bothering him all day lessens. "Fluttershy what are you doing here?" "Discord could you teleport Rainbow Dash to Twilight's castle please?" Fluttershy holds Rainbow Dash out to Discord, seeming to be unburdened by the weight. Discord blinks in confusion, then he suddenly he realizes what Fluttershy asked, he quickly snaps his fingers and this time Rainbow Dash does teleport. "Now Fluttershy what are you doing here?" Discord asks with a raised eyebrow. "I wanted to come and make sure you and Rainbow Dash were ok." Fluttershy says happily, Discord smiles at Fluttershy the throbbing in his head lessens. "Oh we're just fine Fluttershy." Discord says a bit nervously, he looks around to make sure Tiny Discord doesn't rat him out, oddly enough Tiny Discord is just floating to the side watching the conversation. "I'm glad to hear it." Fluttershy says with a smile. "I'm glad my friends are ok." "Yes your... friends." Discord says a bit sadly, he flinches as Fluttershy is suddenly floating right in his face. "Oh are you a little disappointed Discord." Fluttershy says while smirking. "I um uh what?" Discord says sudden a bit flustered. "Do you want to be more then friends Discord?" Fluttershy asks floating slightly closer. "Oh uh well you see..." Discord stammers out. "Go on Discord you can tell me." Fluttershy says as she floats even closer, her eyeing becoming half lidded. "Y-yes! I-I mean no, I mean yes, I-I mean-" Discord chuckles nervously. "What was the question?" "Well if you do want to be more then just friends." Fluttershy closes the distance between and whispers into his ear. "Prove it." Fluttershy moves away from Discords ear and back to his face, Discord becomes immediately aware of two things one Fluttershy has her eyes closed and two, and far more important, she has her lips ready for kissin. Discord gulps down the lump that has formed in his throat, Discord is more nervous then he has ever been in his incredibly long life, and he's not even sure why, him and Fluttershy did almost kiss on Hearths Warming and he wasn't nervous then so why now? Steeling himself Discord leans forward... but right before his lips make contact with hers Fluttershy suddenly blurts out. "Found it!" "Huh?" Discord stares at Fluttershy in confusion, the voice that just came out of her mouth was familiar but not Fluttershys. Before he can ask her anything the voice continues. "Don't worry my friend this won't hurt a bit." Fluttershy averts her eyes and whispers in the non-Fluttershy voice. "Proably." "Wha-" Discord suddenly feels intense pain it's as if something just shot straight through his brain, although it only lasts a second it does cause him to stumble forward and for his mind to go blank for a moment. When his vision returns to him, he finds himself laying face first on the ground, he quickly gets up and looks around for Fluttershy but she is no where to be seen, however he does find the source of the non-Fluttershy voice. "Ah excellent your awake." Princess Luna says from her position nearby. "Luna?" Discord asks a bit confused. "Whats going on?" "Ah good it also seems I did not accidently lobotomize you." Luna smiles proudly. "Go me." "Lobotomize?" Discord raises an eyebrow. "What are you talking about? Where's Fluttershy?" "Fluttershy?" Luna looks a bit confused until something seems to dawn on her. "Oh was she what you were daydreaming?" "Daydreaming?" Discord scratches his head in puzzlement. "Yes daydreaming." Luna nods, again seeming proud of herself. "What ever you just saw was nothing but a datdream created by me." "What?" Discord asks with a raised eyebrow. "Why?" "Well I needed to get in your brain and the only way I can do that is when your dreaming." Luna waves her hoof nonchalantly. "And I didn't feel like waiting for you to fall asleep tonight." "Sense when can you even create daydreams?" Discord asks suscpially. "Well after you left the library I did some research to see if I could help you with your little mind problem." Luna explains causally. "So I flipped through my brothers book on dream magic, and that gave me the idea to use daydream magic." "That's a thing?" Discord asks a bit surprised. "Apparently." Luna says with a shrug, suddenly something Luna said finally clicked in Discords mind. "Wait you were in my brain?" Discord asks feeling bit violated. "Well I had to get the corruption out of your brain somehow." Luna explains as if it's the most obvious thing ever. "Corruption?" Discord asks a a bit puzzled. "You didn't think all your yelling today as been a bit weird?" Luna makes a grumpy face ad puts on her best Discord impersonation, which isn't very good. "Grr I'm Discord, I'm awesome, I can do anything and don't need any help from anypony, grr." "Oh uh." Discord rubs the back of his head a bit embarrassed. "Right, sorry about that." "It's okay I figured out what was going on pretty quickly." Luna shrugs. "That's why I just gave up in the middle of our argument earlier." "Oh ok..." Discord scratches his chin in thought. "But what exactly happened." "Near as I can figure out the Element of Sin probably got into your brain somehow." Luna puts a hoof to her chin as she speaks. "The resulting corruption seemed to heighten two sins inside of you, those of wrath and pride." "Yes that certainly explains all the yelling." Discord nods in understanding, he winchs in discomfort as a pressure appears in his head. "But what I haven't been able to figure out is how it got in your system and why the bearer even did this too you." Luna looks at Discord hopefully. "I don't suppose you know?" "Unfortunately no I don't." Discord says sadly, the pressure seems to get warmer. "Okay and your investigation into who the Element of Sin is?" Luna looks at Discord curiously. "I was investigating that?" Discord asks a bit confused, he can no longer feel any pressure on his head but head feels much warmer. ""You don't remember?" Luna raises an eyebrow at Discord. "That's what you said you've been doing sense we got back from your mothers." "My mother?" Discord wipes some sweat from his forehead. "Why would I take you to see my mother?" "Discord." Luna looks at him sternly. "If this is some kind of joke you need to knock it off." "Ugh..." Discord closes his eyes as his head grows even hotter. "Discord?" Luna looks at the Lord of Chaos with concern. "What's wrong?" "My brain feels like it's on fire!" Discord groans in pain. "Oh this is not good." Tiny Discord says while biting his nails. Luna turns to acknowledge the mini lord of chaos which she as been ignoring this whole time. "What is it?" Luna asks with growing concern as her friend seems to clutch his head tighter. "It appears that the corruption in our brain wasn't the real plan." Tiny Discord says a bit agitated. "What do you mean?" Luna asks. "When you entered our mind and destroyed the corruption, it must have left our mind open to outside forces, although only momentarily." Tiny Discord rubs his chin in thought. "She must have known all this would happen and set her real plan to activate once the opening was made." "Okay so what is 'she' doing to him?" Luna asks frantically, Tiny Discord looks at Luna his eyes grave. "She's burning away our memories."