//------------------------------// // Bye to the city, hello to the town // Story: We will catch you if we can // by proto-alpha //------------------------------// Fernando was once again able to continue his path after finishing the spoon and the bowl. He was holding his stomach in pain while walking, while Discord floated next to him. "I think I may be intolerant to ceramic" he commented in his thoughts, "and may have an overdose of iron". "You'll be okay, so stop whining" Discord answered amused. If Fernando remembered correctly, the train station wasn't that far away from where he was, but there was still the possibility of bring found again. His fear was confirmed when he heard from behind him "There they are!". He didn't have to turn around to know that they where the same six ponies that had to bug him on a daily basis. He stared to run as fast as he could, taking advantage of the distance between them to lose them in the alleys. Twilight tried to block his path by teleporting in front of him, but thanks to the wide alleys, he was able to get past her before she could trap him in her levitation spell. Rainbow Dash tried a more direct course of actions by trying to take him down to the ground, but after two failed attempts that made her hit face first the ground, she thought better of it and tried to just block his path like she did in the castle. Applejack tried to tie him up with her lasso, but she had a bad timing, because she threw it when Twilight teleported in front of him. Fernando ran past her and this made Applejack miss him and ended up tying up Twilight. Fernando could hear the not so faint sound of a train's whistle, so he knew he was close to the station. "I need to distract them with something" Fernando thought. "And how do you plan to do that?" Discord asked. At this moment Fernando noticed that Discord didn't leave him on his own like other times. Fernando then remembered something important "You're the spirit of chaos, so that means that you can do anything, right? he asked, hoping for a yes "Yeah, why?" Discord responded "For this" he said before grabbing Discord by his neck. Thankfully he wasn't at his original size, so this should work for him. He took his tail with his other hand and stretched him. When he did that, Discord went stiff. Fernando bended him at the middle and he then had a Discord angled like a boomerang, and Fernando threw him like one. Discord was aimed to Rainbow Dash, who couldn't evade him in time. She was hit in the wing, and while it wasn't broken, she was thrown out of balance. She fell to the floor, falling on top of Twilight. The two rolled some meters and stopped in the way of the other four ponies, who collided with them. Instead of stopping and falling to to the floor, Discord continued flying and eventually returned to Fernando, who caught him and returned him to normal. When he was back to normal, he glared at Fernando. "You should at least tell me when I'm part of your plan" he told Fernando while floating next to him. "You'll be okay, so stop whining" Fernando countered with a smug smirk. The train station came into sight after a little running. He prepared himself to do a dash when nopony was around, but once again he heard from the sky "There it is!" it was Rainbow Dash, and when they heard her, the other five ponies came running through the alley where Fernando was. He didn't care anymore if he was seen and he ran to the train station. When he entered, he saw how all the ponies stared at him for a moment before noticing Discord. When they noticed him they started to yell and run in random directions. Fernando took advantage of the commotion and ran to the boarding platforms. He heard above the yells of the frightened ponies how Twilight gave commands to her friends "Don't let him get in a train!". Fernando stopped running after he got past the door frame that lead to a train that looked like it was about to depart and turned to Discord. "Hey, Discord" he thought. Discord noticed the floating letters above his head and responded "What?" he asked "You're gonna be part of my plan!" he said with mocking enthusiasm. Before Discord could say anything, he took him again by the neck and the tail and stretched him, but this time he did it in a way that Discord was stuck in the door frame. He then took his arms and extended them, reinforcing Discord's grip, and did the same with his legs. After that was done, Fernando ran to the train, not being noticed by the still freaked out ponies, and jumped in a luggage wagon. The mane six would have been able to stop him, but there was the problem that because of all of the ruckus, Twilight was unable to teleport, and that when Rainbow Dash rammed Discord, he only stretched as if he was a rubber band, and then returned to his original position. For his part, Discord was annoyed at first because Fernando once again used him as a tool, but then, he noticed that he at least got to mess with the ponies, so he didn't mind that much. He laughed when he saw Rainbow Dash being launched off of him and hit the other side of the station, leaving a crater in the wall. The other five ponies saw what happened to their friend, and instead of ramming him one by one, they all went at the same time. When he was hit by they all, Discord lost his grip on the door frame and returned to his normal state. He gave a farewell wave before snapping his fingers and disappearing in a poof of smoke. The ponies where left coughing, and after she could see again, Twilight noticed that the train was too far away now for her to try a teleporting spell, not to mention that it was in movement, and she returned immediately to the inside. The commotion had died by now and the ponies were searching for any chaotic damage. Twilight looked for the counter and went to it when she found it. At first glance, you wouldn't see anypony, but if you looked behind the counter you would see a shaking stallion covering his head. "Hey, excuse me..." Twilight said. She caught the attention of the pony and he took a peek above the counter. He noticed that Discord wasn't there anymore and sighed in relief. After he was again on his four hoofs, she continued "could you tell me where does that train heads to?" she pointed to the platform where there was once a train. The stallion nodded and responded "It's only destination is Ponyville". Twilight gave a quick thank you before running to the crater where Rainbow Dash was slowly gaining consciousness. The pegasus shook her head to clear her thoughts and saw Twilight heading to where she was. "Rainbow Dash," the unicorn started "I need you to go to Ponyville and tell everypony to get ready to stop that human. We can't afford to lose him, especially because he's with Discord now!" she said. Rainbow had a serious look on her face and nodded, but she commented with a thoughtful look "Did you see how he used Discord? I think Discord is with him" "Anyway, just go!" Twilight responded. She didn't show it, but she was thinking to of how Discord looked more of a companion instead of a leader. In the train, Fernando was getting somewhere near barely comfortable in the hard wooden floor of the wagon luggage, hidden away by the big suitcases, when Discord appeared next to him. "You!" he said, pointing an accusatory finger to him, touching his nose because of the lack of space between them. Fernando removed the finger from his face before calmly answering "What seems to be the problem, Discord?" "You used me to get away from those ponies. Me! The spirit of chaos! The bringer of..." Fernando put a hand over his mouth to shut him up. "First of all, do you want them to catch us? he removed his hand to find that Discord was still talking "... Sworn enemy of the harmony! Destructor of the fourth..." he was silenced by Fernando again. "Look, it was necessary. You want to get fun and I want my voice back to normal, so that makes everything easier for us. Besides, I wanted to get some revenge from the bowl and spoon incident. Discord wasn't satisfied with the reasons he got from Fernando, but he let it go. After all, he did get to mess with them. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to prepare myself. Knowing my luck, I'll probably end up suffering from physical pain before this day ends" he then lay down to remember everything he could from the next town. Discord snapped his fingers and teleported to who-knows-where.