//------------------------------// // Interrogation // Story: The New Substitutes // by Chemtest //------------------------------// Discord sits across from Principle Celestia, his usual grin bigger than usual. Celestia looks at him over the desk, “I assume you know why you are in here, Discord?” Discord grins, and shrugs, “Can’t say I do, dear Celestia. Mind enlightening me?” She shakes her head, “Please, don’t call me ‘dear’. Those days have passed, Discord.” Discord smiles, “Oh, there is a pause, yes. But those days could come back.” Celestia smiles, “Well, it has been a few years.” She shakes those thoughts out of her head, “No, you’re trying to distract me. I called you in here because I’m afraid that you might have caused a bullying campaign against one of our students.” Discord recoils in mock shock, “Bullying? Moi? Come now, Celestia, I thought you knew me better than that. Such an accusation! Oh, you wound me!” Celestia crosses her arms, “Come on.” Discord continues on, “You besmirch my good name! You rend my honorable moniker useless! To sully my-“ Celestia has had enough, “Discord!” He stops, putting down his hand from his fake cries, “Yes?” She puts a list of names down, “Hall monitors have been listening, Discord. They wrote down a list of names of those who seem to constantly insult the student, Sunset Shimmer. If you look closely, all the Chaos clique you founded are on this list. And a large majority of the so called ‘Scarlet Chorus’ and ‘Disfavored’. Both of which, need I remind you, originate from your class. It is not that hard to draw the conclusion that you probably set them up to do this. Tirek was also called into here earlier because of his clique’s involvement. He wouldn’t admit it, but I hope you will, Discord.” Discord leans forward, “Admit it? Admit what, Celestia? You have no reason to suspect me.” She sighs, “Discord, you are a God of Chaos in a parallel universe. I think that is reason enough to think you might be behind this.” She holds up her hand to stop Discord before he begins to speak, “I know that you change when you come here, Discord. You told me all about this... I still remember. I trust you when you say you are good. I ask you to trust me the same. I know this has something to do with that world. That’s where you disappeared to, isn’t it? And now that you’re back, you get a few cliques to harass a student? This isn’t normal from you. Not the Discord I know. He would need a reason to sic the clique. You talk about the old days? Then provide me a reason, and I can determine if you’re the same Discord I know.” Discord takes a second to make his decision. He leans back in his chair, dragging his hand down his face, “You’re right, Celestia. Like usual. There is a new student, Twilight Sparkle. She isn’t from this world, though. She came through from my world, in pursuit of a stolen artifact.” Celestia catches a hint of something in Discord’s voice, “This Twilight Sparkle, you knew her, didn’t you?” Discord nods, “She was a friend. Keyword being ‘was’. She was best friends with my best friend, and we became kinda friends. I betrayed her, and all of them. That is why I am back here.” Celestia nods, “So I assume you are helping her get back the artifact? Might I assume Sunset Shimmer presumably took the artifact?” Discord leans forward, “Good observation. She stole a crown, which is a very powerful magical artifact. Now, I have to admit, I like her style. She stole something, and yet she placed it in a position that she would have to earn.” Celestia squints, “A crown? Well, I know the Fall Formal crown looks a lot more shiny, all of a sudden.” Her eyes widen, “Oh, so Sunset Shimmer stole the crown and placed it into the Fall Formal’s place?” Discord nods, “That way, if anyone were to follow after her, they wouldn’t be able to reclaim it. Sunset Shimmer always wins the Fall Formal, she always gets the crown. So if Twilight were to try and take the crown back, she would get stopped and look bad. If she takes it from Sunset after she gets it, it looks bad. If she takes it out of the case, she looks bad. And when Sunset Shimmer wins it, Twilight will seem like a raving madman if she tries to claim that Sunset is a inter-universal thief.” Celestia grins, “Well, if nothing else, Sunset seems to be very clever. I’ll take that as an accomplishment of my school system.” She pauses for a second, “So, the reason you have sent cliques after her is so that she will lose the Fall Formal, and the crown can go back to it’s rightful owner? That’s a pretty good plan. Much too organized for you, Discord.” He shakes his head, “Oh, no, it’s actually only my plan. Organized chaos is still chaos in the end. I just got Tirek, Chrysalis, and Sombra to all work together so our attack could cause more damage.” Celestia smiles, and writes something down, “Well, Discord, I like what you’re trying to accomplish here. I’ll tell the hall monitors to turn a blind eye in the future.” Discord smiles, “So, Celestia, about those old days.” She shakes her head, “Not yet, Discord.” Discord leans forward, “I didn’t hear a ‘no’.” She smiles, “You have a class, Discord. I recommend you get to it.”