Discord closed the portal behind him, barely observing his surroundings as he searched frantically for his canary horse. He groaned at the obnoxious colors that greeted him. Mostly pink. He smacked a claw to his forehead. How could he have been so careless? Usually that was of the norm, but not when Fluttershy’s safety was on the line!
Looking down, he spotted a butterfly shaped island, with other various butterfly themed architecture. There in his sight were brightly colored flying ponies. He shuddered at the thought of interacting with insipid, bug eyed, four legged--!
Discord stopped himself. Now's not the time to be repulsed. Fluttershy was waiting for him. An image flashed through his mind of Fluttershy being stuck in a technicolor nightmare with no hope of escape as she’s surrounded by copies of the same pony laughing endlessly at everything she said. The thought turned his stomach. With newfound courage, Discord flew down to the island. Better to start there than not at all.
As soon as he landed, Discord was greeted by the shrieks of terror from a multitude of pegasi ponies. Ah, of course. Discord thought to himself. This is the world where things not covered in pink or glitter is absolutely horrifying. Perhaps he was being unfair. But when one lives in a world where it’s already filled to the brim with optimistic friendship worshipping ponies, it’s hard to be kind when they find an even more sugar coated world in more ways than one.
One pegasus fainted at the sight of the draconequus, another dive bombed through the window of her house. Some forgot they had wings and free fell out of the clouds and into the ocean. Discord’s grumpy and stressed attitude did melt a little at the sight. How he missed this. What’s even more enlightening is the fact that this mayhem was merely caused by his appearance. Who’s to say what types of reactions he could elicit from a bit of chaos?
A white pegasus with toothpaste hair flew forward and attempted to quiet the screams and overdramatics. “Ponies please! There is no cause for alarm!” Her voice was evidently different from the others. Where most of the ponies of this dimension were high pitched with stuffy noses, this one sounded like a wispy wannabe Princess Celestia. She continued.
“We have grown past our cowardice with the help of the flightless ponies,” Most of the pegasi had calmed down considerably at this. A complete one-eighty from before. The toothpaste Tia ripoff turned to Discord, her eyes unblinking and static.
“So sorry, my name is Star Catcher. What is yours friend?” Discord grinned, making extra sure his fangs were on full display. Some of the ponies behind Star Catcher trembled in fear, unlike their leader, whose expression remained at the same frame.
“Oh excuse me for not introducing myself sooner,” He bowed in mock respect, pushing his voice to sound far most sarcastic than is deemed possible, “I go by many names, Eris, Tau, Set, obnoxious… but I prefer you address me as Discord.” He struck a pose.
“Master and Being of Chaos and Disorder.” With a snap of his fingers, lightning struck behind him to add to the effect. The effect was well executed, and the pegasi huddled comically behind Star Catcher, forming a pile of fear. Star Catcher simply smiled, and looked up at Discord without a shred of uneasiness. He couldn’t tell she was just brave or stupid for not realizing the possible danger he posed. He went with the latter.
“Well Mr. Cord, what can the pegasi of Butterfly Island do for you?” Ew. How about nothing.
“Yeah yeah I’m just looking for a dear friend of mine. Just tell if you’ve seen her or not.” Discord waved his hands in an act of silencing Star Catcher. He continued to describe Fluttershy in the most basic way possible.
“She’s a yellow pegasus, rosey pink hair with a butterfly cutie mark. She’s got a really soft voice and looks significantly better than any other pony here.” He rolled his eyes, “Or in your case, she looks odd.” He said, finishing off that sentence with air quotes.
The pegasi all looked at each other in confusion, and Star Catcher moved up to Discord’s eye-level and smiled...even more so one would propose. “What is your friends name? Most pegasuses can be found here on Butterfly Island.”
“Yes I know the name of your hovel--”
“Please tell us.”
“Her name is Fluttershy, has anypony seen her?”
At this, there was an influx of pegasus ponies searching the relatively small island for the yellow one. Meanwhile, Discord tweaked a bit of the ponies daily appliances. Simple stuff, like turning their rainbow photo negative, or screwing with the proportions of their butterfly houses, turning them upside down. There were a few reasons he didn’t go all out, but it was mostly due to his impression that it wouldn’t take much to turn these ponies’ world upside down.
A dark blue pony with a yellow teal mane flew up to Star Catcher. “Star Catcher, I've seen no Flutterbutter pegasus.” Another added to the news with the same mane and yellow coat.
“Me neither Splish Splash, no sign of Butterscotch.” Soon a combination of the same ponies with different skins added to the mix.
Have you seen her Scoop Shine?”
“I haven’t Lyra Shine.”
“What about you Royal Rose?”
“Nope Baby Honolu-Loo.”
“You know you don’t have to say your names in every senten--”
Discord was cut off by Star Catcher, thankfully putting an end to the overly fluffy madness. “It seems she’s not on this island Mr. Obnoxious--”
“DIscord--”
“Perhaps she’s in Ponyville, or Unicornia.” Discord raised a bushy eyebrow at the humiliating name. The corniest of the corns indeed. He sighed and bowed, looking for a fast exit. Star Catcher caught his need to leave. This was obvious mostly from Discord twisting his head 360 degrees, prompting his neck crack and fall off his body, leaving his head suspended in the air.
“A short cut to Ponyville is through that rainbow over there.” Star Catcher pointed to the fluffiest, glitter monstrosity of a rainbow Discord had ever seen. He ‘hmmd’ mockingly.
“Yes well, thank you hmmmhmm tra la la…” With that, Discord straightened out and shot like a pistol through the gaping maw rainbow wormhole. Not a goodbye. Lucky for them.
Discord groaned as he left the Celestia-forsaken island, coming out the other side of a rainbow waterfall. Peering over the lazily drawn trees, Discord could see a pink town in the distance. Ponyville. Discord snapped his claw, and cut the butter on this dreadful trip. Absolutely insane, and not even in the fun way. He could only hope Fluttershy was faring better.