They hurried down the steep hillside of Mt Aris, each helping the other to hold the baby in their magical auras. One side of the baby's body was encased in a green aura from Snips' magic, and the other half was encased in purple aura from Snails'
Unlike the Gods and Goddessess on Mt Aris, mortal unicorn ponies only have the ability to use basic magic, Mainly levitation. They couldn't teleport themselves or other objects. It wasn't that they were not allowed to, it's just that mortal unicorns didn't have the ability to do that kind of magic.
"We did it, Snips! Sombra is going to be so proud of us!" In his excitement, his aura that was helping to hold the baby started to falter, beginning to flicker in and out like a lightbulb.
“Just hold on to the kid, Snails!” Snips shouted. As they neared the bottom of the mountain, Snails tripped over a large rock, causing both him and Snips to tumble and roll the rest of the way down the rocky terrain. The auras holding the baby disappeared as their wielders lost their concentration. Just like his captors, the baby fell from the air and tumbled the rest of the short way down.
They all rolled to a stop when they reached the bottom. As one could imagine, baby Discord immediately began to cry. There were no amusing sights or sounds that came along with it this time. Only a loud, ear piercing wail. Snails pulled himself up from the ground and rushed over to the baby’s side, frantically trying to calm him down.
“Let’s just kill him and get it over with,” Snails said, trying to hurry Snips along.
Snips placed a rubber nipple on the bottle of the bright pink formula. “Here you go, little buddy, a little Equestrian formula for ya!” he said as he shoved it into his mouth. Once it was in his mouth, Discord immediately stopped crying. To the relief of both Snips and Snails, he began to suck on it.
“Look! He’s changing!” Snails said with relieved excitement.
Sure enough, the baby's godly glow started to fade away. Like a pool filling up with water, it started at his feet and ate away up the rest of his body. During all this, baby Discord didn't seem to care about what was happening to him. He just continued to contently suck the contents of the bottle like it was milk.
At this point, his glow was gone from the neck down and the potion's effects started working up to the rest of his face.
"Can we go now?" Snails asked anxiously while frantically looking around to make sure they haven't been seen
"No, no! He has to drink the whole potion. Every last drop."
But just as the last bit of magical glow disappeared from his nose, a booming voice full of irritation was heard in the distance.
"What's all that racket?!" the voice shouted in the air.
Both Snips and Snails panicked and ran off as fast as they could. In their mad dash for escape, the bottle Snips was holding to the baby's mouth dropped to the ground, immediatly breaking into pieces. As if on cue, little Discord started to cry again.
However, a tear sized drop of pink potion clung on to a broken shard of glass, before falling to the ground and evaporating into nothing but a thin trickle of pink smoke.
An elderly donkey stepped out from the corner. His eyes widened when he saw the baby. "Matilda, over here!" he shouted over his shoulder.
Just then, a slightly younger female donkey came up from behind him. She wore round blue earrings and white ruffled lace draped over her shoulders. Sitting in the center of the fabric, was a beautiful brooch with a silhouette of a donkey on it. She followed her husband's gaze to the crying baby laying in the dirt. She immediately went over to the infant. “Oh you poor thing!" she said as she picked him up.
As soon as her hooves touched him, Discord stopped crying. Matilda continued to cradle him in her arms and talk softly to him.
"Is anypony out there?" the other donkey shouted into the air.
Snips and Snails watched the whole scene unfold from behind a nearby rock.
"Now?" Snails asked.
Snips gave him a devious smile. “Now."
They found two rattlesnakes, the most venomous snake known to pony. While the two donkeys were distracted over the baby, Snips and Snails quickly levitated the snakes in front of their rock shield and watched as the snakes slithered toward the couple.
Meanwhile, the donkey known as Cranky Doodle, looked over his wife's shoulder to take a closer look at their discovery.
"He must have been abandoned," he said. "Though I can see why..." he mumbled under his breath. Hearing what her husband said, Matilda glared angrily at him and shielded the baby in her arms protectively.
"Doodle, for so many years we prayed to the Gods to bless us with a child. Perhaps they've finally answered our prayer," Matilda said with tears of happiness and love for this precious gift, shimmering in her eyes.
"Perhaps they have," Cranky Doodle said as he examined the golden medal around the baby's neck. He flipped the medal over and read the name engraved on the back, "Discord..."
"You should be thankful they answered our prayer, not criticizing their blessing. There is more to this child than what is on the outside." She scolded and looked down at the baby fondly.
Before he could reply, hissing sounds sliced through the air. Matilda turned around and gasped in fear as two rattlesnakes stretched up so tall, she felt as if they were looming over her. They opened their mouths to let out another threatening hiss, exposing their razor sharp fangs. She clutched the baby protectively to her chest, but little Discord didn't need protecting...
As the rattlesnakes darted toward them, little Discord happily grabbed them as easily as he would've snatched up an offered toy. Matilda dropped the infant in surprise and ran into the protective embrace of her husband. The two clutched to one another as they looked down at the display in fear.
Oblivious to his audience, he took the tail of one snake into his mouth and blew into it like a balloon. In fact, That was exactly what he was doing! With each blow, the snake grew rounder with air. The long thin body was now round and fat. The head was still its normal shape and the rattle-like tip of the tail stuck out on the end of it in an almost adorable way. When he was satisfied with the size of his balloon, he tied the tail into a knot to conceal the air and tied a string on it. He held the string attached to the balloon for a second, as if examining his work. He nodded his head in approval, then turned his attention to the other rattlesnake.
He did the same thing he did with the first rattlesnake. This time however, instead of simply tying a string after blowing it up, he took the inflated snake and twisted and turned it in all directions until it was in the shape of a...fish? He tied another string to the end of the snake's tail, which made up the bottom of the fish's tail. With each hand holding the strings of his new toys, he bounced them into each other like punch balloons, giggling all the way.
He finally let go of the strings and watched them as they floated higher and higher up into the sky.
The donkeys saw this too, their mouths agape as they looked down at the baby in shock and utter belief.
He waved a farewell to his balloons before he noticed the two donkeys staring at him. He put a claw in his mouth and began to suck on the digit, with an innocent look on his face.