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// Aftermath 
// Story: Love is Chaos 
// by Brock Lesnar 
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Chapter One part 1 ~ Aftermath


Celestia cautiously walked down the halls of her palace. If one were to look at her, they would immediately notice a look of slight fear upon her face. The small feeling of discomfort in the back of her head had shot forward into panic after Discord's return. All of a sudden, a slight 'click' rang through the halls. Celestia's eyes widened, as she attempted to avoid the projectile she accidentally triggered, but she just wasn't fast enough.

The pie struck her straight in the face.

Celestia groaned. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash were famous for two things. One was that they both held one of the six Elements of Harmony. The other? They were master prankers. And now that Discord had joined them in their mischievous exploits, nowhere was safe. Celestia made a mental note to find out how to temporarily disable the draconequus's teleporting ability sometime in the near future.

Celestia had to admit, it was rather fun having Discord around. The spirit of Chaos had taken to randomly sending chaos everywhere across the land, although Ponyville seemed to be affected the most, although that was probably Pinkie Pie's fault. He also made the castle a lot livelier. Celestia was looking forward to the next Grand Galloping Gala, as Discord had decided to attend and would defiantly wreak havoc.  She did, however, wish he would get rid of that statue in the garden. He had once animated it and put it in his place. It had taken a while for anyone to notice the difference, as the statue acted as random as Discord normally would. In fact, the only reason someone did notice the difference was because the statue got chipped.

Of course, with all the fun comes the problem of the pranksters. While they might occasionally slip something into one of Twilight's letters, they hadn't really pranked Celestia much. But with the addition of Discord to their ranks, they were able to infiltrate the castle at any time. Which brings us to our current situation. They had set up a colossal amount of pranks inside the castle, and Celestia had no clue where either the pranks or the pranksters were.


Now if you were a group of pranksters who had just pranked one of the most powerful beings in Equestria, where would you be? Certainly not in her bedroom, that's for sure. But that is where our trio of misfits currently resides, as they knew Celestia would never look for them in there. Our three heroes; Discord, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, had just laid siege to the royal castle and set up numerous pranks, like the pie that got Celestia in the face. The bedroom was surprisingly neat, considering who was currently occupying it. However, outside the room, you could hear crashes, small explosions and muffled curses.

Four hours, twelve pies, six-hundred water balloons and an incident that would have probably turned Luna back into Nightmare Moon had she been anywhere near it, a soaking wet, very annoyed Celestia finally found and forcefully evicted the pranksters, while screaming at Discord to remove the cotton-candy cloud above her head that was drenching her with chocolate milk. Sighing in relief, she turned around, only to receive another pie to the face. Discord, who had just teleported back inside, smirked at her before quickly warping away. Celestia's curses could be heard all around the palace.

Chapter one part 2: Operation C&D, Alpha Stage.


The three pranksters were quite happy recounting their tales of exploits when the topic suddenly shifted to a point that Discord had regretted ever bringing up: his crush on Celestia. Yes, you read that right. But then again, I've announced this is a DiscordxCelestia fan-fic, so don't act all surprised. Anyways, the three of them had decided to tell a few of their secrets to pass time during a daring prank-spree on Rarity's boutique. While the angry unicorn stormed around, looking for them (and trying to find a way to get the cloth that had been glued onto her hoofs off), the three decided to tell secrets to pass the time. Many were exchanged, such as Pinkie Pie's Pinkimena persona, Rainbow Dash's stage fright, Discord's greatest prank on the Princesses. Actually, that last one was how the ball got rolling. When Discord mentioned he had gotten Celestia with a bunch of exploding chocolate hearts, Rainbow Dash had jokingly asked if that meant he liked her. Of course, that idea went from joking to serious when they realized that question had caused Discord to go as stiff as (pun intended) a statue. 

So the trio had been brainstorming ways to help Discord get with Celestia. However, this was not as easy as it seemed. Especially since Discord never actually removed the chocolate raincloud from above Celestia's head. Which he was quick to fix when the others pointed that out.

Now, getting an ancient creature composed of multiple creatures a date with the sun goddess who hated him for over a millennia was not an easy feat. So they had composed a plan. A great plan. A brilliant plan. And, since this is also a humor fic, the plan will obviously hit some major and hilarious problems. But that's for later chapters. Now we focus on their current situation.

"Look, I'm just saying that maybe we should let Celestia cool off before we enact… the PLAN." Discord argued with his companions. 

"I think you're right about… the PLAN… but you should really stop trying to avoid this." Pinkie Pie commented. 

"Ok, this has been annoying me for a while." Rainbow Dash groaned, "Why do you constantly pause and then ominously intone 'the PLAN'?" 

"Oh, don't worry Rainbow Dash, it's just a Fourth Wall thing." Pinkie explained, with Discord nodding. 

"Fourth Wall? What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow Dash asked. 

"If we tell you, you'll be scarred forever. Do you really want that?" Discord questioned. 

"Yeah, sure, it can't be that bad."

Half an hour later,

the talk finished. Rainbow Dash shivered, paler than she was when she was corrupted, before slumping over in a dead faint. The two conscious members of the elite pranking squad looked over at her. 

"Poor Rainbow Dash. She never stood a chance." Discord commented. 

"Ah well, she'll get over it. So, tomorrow we will begin Phase Alpha of our plan." Pinkie Pie exclaimed. 

Discord groaned. There would be no persuading her, so he grudgingly agreed. Deciding to meet back at the mysterious underground cave from the first story, Discord teleported off while Pinkie Pie dragged Rainbow Dash to her place.


Discord groaned in his room in the palace. He had been granted a room with the deal he made with Celestia a while ago, which also granted him a good look over Equestria. While reminding himself to put the chocolate rainclouds Pinkie Pie requested (Ponyville seemed to get more chocolate rain than normal rain nowadays), Discord mentally went over the plan. After coming to the conclusion that it was going to fail horribly, he sighed in resignation and fell asleep.