Seven colorful teens sat in a train one early afternoon, each of them excited.
Pinkie was jumping in her seat with a giant smile plastered on her face.
“OOOOOH are you girls as excited as I am?” She turns to Fluttershy who was sitting next to her, making the shy girl jump a little and letting a small squeak. “I heard they put in a new ride in Discordia.”
“The Ghastly gorge, it’s over five hundred feet tall and you also do a triple loop and a reverse drop.” Rainbow Dash says. “I’m itching to give it a try.”
“Well ah’m more excited to do some of them games.” Applejack leans forward to look past Rainbow. “this year that giant apple doll is mine.”
“Really?” Rainbow turns to face the farm girl. “Out of all the prizes you want a giant apple plushie?”
“That apple has always kept on slippin through ma hands like worms in the rain.”
“Why must you put such a disturbing image in my head?” Rarity asks with disgust sticking out her tongue as if she ate something fowl. Shaking her head, Rarity looks over at Fluttershy who was watching her pink haired seat buddy with a smile. “Fluttershy, doesn’t one of your friends from your weekly animal tea parties work at Discordia?”
“Oh yes,” The shy girl nods her head. “He actually owns it.” Just then she really wished she hadn’t said that because immediately her friends surrounded her, each of them giving her a bewildered look.
“Wait! Are you telling me that you know the person who owns Discordia?” Rainbow Dash almost yells. “Why haven’t you told us about this before?”
“Well…I thought that it wasn’t that big of a deal and I didn’t want to bother anyone about as small as this.” Fluttershy says as she covers her face with her hair.
Sunset watches as the rest of her friends begin to interrogate the poor animal enthusiast. She turns to look at Twilight who is sitting next to her eyes on her phone. Sunset playfully rolls her eyes as she could exactly guess who she was talking to.
The trip to the Discordia amusement park was planned out by Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash about a week ago. Luckily, everyone was free on the date chosen so they all agreed to go on the train all together and spend some time talking before they’d arrive.
Sunset heard a small ring come from her phone. Pulling it out of her pocket, she taps the screen to see a picture of Flash. Unlocking her phone, Sunset reads the message he sent her.
Hey, you guys here yet?
No not yet, but we’ll be there in about twenty minutes. The train is almost there.
Alright, the rest of us are here, we'll wait for you guys at the entrance.
“GUYS GUYS GUYS I see it!” Pinkie shouts.
Sunset taps out of her phone and looks up to see what the commotion was all about.
Everyone looks out the window to see a giant amusement park with a few large roller coasters poking out from the distance. Though the one ride that popped out the most was a tall tower that stood in the middle of the park.
“The Chaos drop is one of the tallest rides in the whole park,” Pinkie begins to speak in a serious tone. “People say that it’s so tall that when you reach the top you can see above the clouds.”
Every other girl looks at their usually happy go lucky friend, each of them confused by her sudden mood change.
“Okay…So Rarity Applebloom told me that she and the others will be meeting us at the park too?” Applejacks turns to the fashionista.
“Yes, Sweetiebelle told me the same thing I believe she said that she would be coming with Scootaloo.” Rarity says.
With the train coming to a stop, everyone walks out, each of them excited in their own way for what is to come. It took them some time to reach the ticket booths, but in no time, they were standing before a giant line of people waiting for their turn to get in.
“I can’t wait to ride every…single…thing here!” Rainbow almost cheers but, before she can go off in a sprint she is stopped by Sunset who grabs her arm.
“Wow there, we still need to wait for the others before we go in.” Sunset points back at the other girls who were waiting by a rather small statue.
Walking over to the rest of the group, Sunset couldn’t help but notice how similar this statue was to the one in Canterlot. Though, she can barely remember how it was shaped. And for a split second she swears that the eyes blinked. Sunset takes a moment to rub her eyes and stares at the statue for a few seconds to make sure that what she saw was real.
“Sunset!”
Hearing her name, Sunset turns around to see Flash along with the Applebloom and her friends walking over to her group.
“Sup Flash it’s about time you showed up.” Rainbow says.
“Rainbow Dash Rainbow Dash!” Scootaloo shouts jumping up and down to grab the rainbow haired teen’s attention.
“Hey Scoots,” Rainbow rubs the younger girl's head. “How’s my number one fan doing?”
As the younger girl went off, Flash walked over to Sunset.
“I hope you guys didn’t wait too long.” Sunset says.
“Meh it wasn’t a big deal,” Flash shrugs his shoulders. “Scootaloo and her friends were having a nice time.”
“Well that’s good, I guess we should get going, no need to wait any longer to go in.” Sunset says, nodding her head towards her friends. “So how was the drive all the way here? Since it was just you and the three rascals?”
Flash lets out a small sigh and then laughs.
“I guess you can say that it wasn’t…boring,” he says. “Hey when you get one the other two are not far behind.”
Sunset laughs and lightly punches his arm.
“Come on, you're the lead guitar in a loud rock band. I'm sure you can handle a few loud teens.” Sunset teases.
“Ha ha ha, very funny.” Flash says with a blank expression.
The two of them stare at each other for a bit before they both begin to laugh. The teens walk over to the rest of the girls, but unknown to them a certain fashionista was watching the two of them very closely. They grouped up around the statue and began to discuss.
“Well then since we’re all here why don’t we head on in.” Twilight says.
“Now now my dear no need to rush, don't you want to take a picture with a living statue?” Says a voice behind Twilight while placing a hand on her shoulder.
Immediately, Twilight lets out a small yelp and jumps away from the statue. Everyone else follows her leads and jumps away from the statue…everyone, but Fluttershy. The “statue” hops onto the ground and with the sound of the tip tap of his shoes he walks over to Fluttershy.
“Now that wasn’t very nice sneaking up on my friend like that.” The animal lover kindly scolds with her usual soft voice.
“Why my dear Fluttershy it was only a small tease.” The statue man says. He turns to face the others while lifting his top hat he bows and greets the others. “Why hello there Discord is my name and chaos is my game.”
“Wait…you’re Discord…as in the guy who owns Discordia?” Rainbow almost shouts but she is soon silenced by Discord himself who ran up to her and covered her mouth with his hands.
“Now now let’s not share it to the whole world now.”
Fluttershy walks over to the two and a small smile on her face.
“I wasn’t expecting to see you until we entered the park.”
Discord turns around and gives her a hurt look. It was almost exaggerated by the way he places his hand on his chest and the other over his mouth.
Seeing this Pinkie nudges Rarity and whispers ‘he does it better than you’ which got her a dramatic gasp from her as she places a hand on her chest.
“Why would I wait inside when I could wait out here?” Discord walks over to a worn-out door and opens it. “If you all would kindly come this way then we can start this day off.”
Fluttershy was the first to walk over to the door while the rest of the group just stares in confusion. She turns around and just smiles at the rest of them as if this was a very normal occurrence.
“So, we’re all just going to walk into a random door with a man who was pretending to be a statue for who knows how long?” Sunset asks. Everyone else just shrugs their shoulders seeing that the shyest person in the group seems comfortable with it.
One by one, everyone follows behind Flutter and walks into the opened door.
Discord gave every single person a smile as they passed him.
Upon entering the group was greeted by a room filled with…pink cotton candy?
“What in tarnation?” Applejack scans the room more confused than amazed. “There is no way this is what I think it is.”
Not to everyone’s surprise Pinkie Pie was the first to take a bite on the fluffy pink walls of sweetness.
Twilight walks over to her with a disgusted look.
“Pinkie there is no way that is sanitary.” The bookworm questions.
“On the contrary my dear Twilight most of the sweets here are quite up to the standard food safety protocol…well perhaps not the ones on the floor.” Discord rips off a piece of cotton from the walls and throws it in his mouth. He then walks over through the candy room and towards another door. “If you all would so kindly follow me through the exit.”
While the older CHS students followed Discord the younger students all began to jump around the room as the sweets on the ground were quite bouncy.
“Sweetie hurry up darling, it's time for us to go.” Rarity calls to her sister.
“Aww can’t we stay for a little longer?” Sweetie asks.
“Don’t you want to go to the park?”
As if never even seeing the cotton candy room, the fashionista’s younger sister stops her bouncing and walks over.
“You too Applebloom.”
The younger farm girl walks over to her sister leaving only Scootaloo.
“Hey Scootaloo, come on don’t want to wait too long in lines.” Flash says.
“But it’s so fun here.” Scootaloo says.
“Yea but…” Flash tries to finish, but to his misfortune he loses interest.
“Come on Scoots,” Rainbow Dash calls from the exit. “The rides are waiting!”
Immediately, the young purple hair teen ran out the exit leaving Flash.
“Coming Rainbow Dash!”
Flash watches as she sprints out leaving him with her dust. He lets out a sigh and slowly follows her. Sunset gives him a little shove on the arm and gives him a sympathetic smile.
“Still having a hard time with her?” She asks. “I guess it happens when your younger cousin’s biggest hero is Rainbow Dash.”
“We used to be so close,” Flash says with a small frown, but then comes a smile. “Guess I need to be “20% cooler” hmm?” he says quoting Rainbow.
“Hey if it makes you feel any better I think you’re decently cool.” Sunset says, patting his shoulders. “But then again it’s hard to be cooler than someone like Rainbow.”
“I…uh…” Flash just goes quiet and takes the defeat.
Sunset laughs at him and guides him outside where the rest of the group was. Just as they came out the two noticed Discord giving everyone a gold colored card.
“And if you need anything else just show a worker this card and it should happen.”
Rainbow’s eyes were about the size of saucers; it was as if she just received a gift from god.
“Oh, Discord, you didn’t have to go and do this for us.” Fluttershy says.
As soon as she said that Rainbow shoots her gaze towards her and grasps the gold card like it was her life.
“Now now my dear Fluttershy what are friends for and besides our little animal tea parties are just the highlight of my week.” Discord says. “Now I hope you all enjoy your day ta ta.” Bowing his head, Discord walks away.
Everyone waves the park owner goodbye thankful for the gift that he left them.
“Well now that we’re inside,” Twilight says, pulling out a notebook. “I have a nice schedule for us to follow to have the maximum amount of fun.” Twilight clears her throat. “First we can do some rides then play some games and then go back on some rides and…”
“Uh Twilight darling,” Rarity places a hand on the notebook and pushes it down. “As much as we all cherish your…advanced organizational skills I believe we all have our own plans for the day.”
Twilight looks up to see her friends all grouped up, each of them planning on doing what interests them most.
“Oh…of course.” A blush grows on Twilight’s face as she puts the notebook away.
“Well if you'll excuse me I’m going to make my way to the game stands.” Applejack says.
“Oh, that sounds fun. I wouldn't mind winning a fluffy teddy bear.” Fluttershy says following the farm girl.
Rainbow and Pinkie along with younger kids all made their way towards the rides.
“Well guess it’s just the four of us.” Sunset says.
“Twilight darling, why don’t we go to the fun house?” Rarity says pulling the egg head away from Sunset and Flash. She meets Sunset’s gaze and gives her a secret wink before walking away with Twilight. Leaving the bacon haired girl confused and lost at what she was trying to do.
“Oh…uh okay,” Twilight says. “Sunset are you…” Before she could finish the fashionista had already dragged her too far away to be heard.
“Hmm, guess it’s just the two of us then.” Flash says. “Want to just walk around and find something interesting?”
“Sure,” Sunset says, leading the way. “It’s an amusement park. I'm sure we’ll find something interesting.”
The two teens walk off unaware of the two pairs of eyes watching them.
“Rarity I thought we were going to the fun house?” Twilight asks, sounding a little disappointed.
“Hush darling, I think I just discovered something much more interesting than a fun house,” Rarity makes sure that her two friends were far enough to begin her advance. “Come on!” Hn��!'