Homura had left the conversation while Twilight still looked flustered, as expected she went back to crossing ideas over with the only listening ear there - the pet dragon, which she though was quite impressive in concept, she hoped that this ponies dragon would grow into a great weapon one day. She continued to watch Twilight's bantering brainstorm until one of the Clara dolls tugged at her arm.
"What is it now?" Homura was scared that there was yet another disaster that might of been due to her unintentional doing - this demon thing still needed some getting used to. The clara doll made a television screen appear that featured the one and only Discord. The Clara Doll took a remote that had come out of thin air and rewind to the proper segment that the doll thought it important for her to see. Homura was uncomfortable when she saw that there wasn't just one Discord standing in front of her, but at least five, and they continued to walk through his door.
Discord was almost where he wanted to be. Playing detective was going to be fun, and if he could also find out where this magic was coming from, and why it made him change forms and how it was more powerful, then that was a bonus. Honestly, the more he thought about it, the more he thought about this whole situation, the more he liked it. And somehow he managed to convince himself that feeding his curiosity was in no way betraying his beloved Fluttershy, out of all of them, she was the only pony who understood that despite Discord becoming reformed, he would always be a creature of chaos by nature.
Terik had no trouble agreeing to help Discord, although Discord was still a little hurt by the betrayal. In all honesty, getting Terik to help him was just for the sake of gloating-now the real challenge would be to find a way to create ponies with a sort of magic that will make him grow, but still remain weak - of course all of this would have to be achieved without draining Discord’s magic in the process. This was a challenge that he was willing to accept, if worse came to worse, he could always go to the Celestia’s dungeons and steal a pony or two from there and tweak them up a bit before handing them off as Terik’s dinner. There was no harm in giving bad ponies the fate they deserved - if anything, he was giving them a second chance to gain their own freedom, without magic they wouldn’t be a threat and could roam freely among the other ponies.
Once Terik had accepted Discord’s alliance, Discord made it clear that he would be coming back to him soon, and while he waited, to think hard about anything that would be deemed as useful - he even mentioned something about bonus ponies if the info was especially juicy; but until that time came, it was time for Discord to do some major brainstorming. Of course doing so would involve an invite to his other brainstorming buddies.
He patiently waited at his throne like chair up against the magical map he had created that was floating in the center of five more chairs that had yet to be filled. There was then a knock on the door.
“Well, don’t bother knocking on the door, it will just make you later than you already are!” Discord exclaimed.
“I would say sorry, but it would make no difference with you, you of all people should know that it has been a very rough morning for us.” A hoard of Discord’s pushed through the door and took their seats - each of them putting on different colored pretentious reading glasses that hung from the tips of their noses.
“And on top of that there was this creepy thing that has been following us all day.”
“Say what now?” Discord had a newspaper opened in his lap that was tall enough to cover half of his body, he folded the paper so that he could see the other hims who surrounded him.
“Yes!” another shouted out, as though it was the top of all gossip right now. “It keeps a rather large distance away from us, but it is impossible to not feel those dark magical eyes staring at our backs.” The Discord speaking brought his hands to his shoulders and shivered to the lingering thought of it.
“Ah, yes I see.” Discord mumbled.
“Well, much like me, I am feeding my curiosity - so I can hardly be mad, if anything I am honored that our little friend wishes to keep an eye on us.”
“Alright, well let’s get down to the core of our session here.” One of the Discords spoke out with an mallot in his hand that he proceeded to hit against the table.
“Right, well we’ve got Terik wrapped around our finger. Now what we have to do is figure out how we are to go about feeding him without causing a Terik war 2.0, we also need to know how we feel about this new magic and all that.”
“Well I personally think it’s all fun, but I think it’s wrong that we are leaving Fluttershy in all this, we just gained her trust back.”
“Yes I know,” Discord sighed.
“One the other hand, it has been a while since we’ve been able to have any fun, and pinning all of our nature up inside us is a huge disaster waiting to happen, this is an opportunity and we should take it.
“Take it?” another asked. “You mean becoming alli’s with that . . . thing?”
“That thing, looks like us - speaking of which, I love the new form.” Another one chuckled.
“No no, I have a better idea, let’s figure out why she’s here -”
“How are we going to do that?” one of the Discords interrupted. Discord gave him a sour look that forced the Discord to slump down into his chair.
“Out of all of you, I was the only one that was there. The girl was being strategic, she’s hiding something. There is a reason that she claims is more important than herself. I think we should find that reason, maybe get a leg up on the situation -”
“ooh , and then we can dangle the answer over the ponies head and make them play for it?” Another Discord exclaimed.
“Exactly!”
“Wait, then why are we siding with Terik again?”
“Because there are clearly things about Dark magic and chaos that I am unaware of. And me - a God of chaos, can't just walk around unaware of what he represents.” Discord said.
“And it’s interesting that Equestria clearly wasn’t as lighthearted of a kingdom as Celestia and Luna would want us to think.” The Discord with the professional looking glasses stated.
“Well that’s al fine, Luna has already shown that she’ll share her sisters secrets under the right circumstances.”
“Exactly.” the profesional Discord said.
“And Celestia knows that, which means she herself has secrets. Think of it, she used to be much more powerful and now she has to rely on six ponies to use elements and save the world when she used to be able to do ten times as much as they could, on her own. You need to figure out what Celestia is hiding, you need to learn more about dark magic and the darker ages from Terik, you need to learn why those dolls are traipsing around Equestria and you need to figure what that thing wants and maybe figure out her name !” One of the Discord was typing up everything on a typewriter.
“Hmm, all of those are valid points,” Discord started. “Which is why you’re my favorite!’ He exclaimed and hugged himself, the others sulked a bit to his favoritism.
“Last question before the meeting adjourns - should we, or should we not use prison ponies as Teriks reward, and if we do, how are we going to prevent his magical enhancement?” Discord waited for the vote, he scurried through the ballots that they all handed over to him. “Alright, prisoners it is. Next meeting make sure to come up with ideas on how to prevent the enhancement.” Discord said. The other hims, all nodded and then vanished into thin air. “And now, should I start with stealing those ponies, or should I snoop around in Celestia head for a while?”
How could these ponies trust such a creature like Discord, yet they refused to accept her? This creature wished to use their own people as bait for the sake of feeding his curiosity? But at the same time, he was powerful, there was no doubt that in the future, his loyalty would be based on self benefit, but he would all in all be a powerful ally to have if things came to the worst scenario such as war, although she didn't think it would be too much of a fight to begin with.
For now on, Discord would be a priority for her, and the idea that she could sense her Clara dolls watching him was also alarming, with this creature she didn't have the upper hand, the only thing that gave her a chance at the moment was because Discord had decided not to tell the ponies anything and Discord decided not to block her Clara dolls away.
Living in peace with these ponies would be a bigger challenge than expected.