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// Discord's Modern Life 
// Story: My Little Pony: Generations are Magic 
// by The Doctor's Companion 
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Chapter 3: Discord’s Modern Life
Sometimes Discord missed his days of creating chaos and tormenting the princesses. 
And being all mismatched. That had been fun. But being an alicorn was alright, he supposed. Better than being frozen in stone for all eternity. 
He had her to thank for that. If she hadn’t shown ol’ Tia that it was possible for someone to care about someone like him, he’d still be a statue. True, he’d lost most of his powers, though he was still able to cause a little chaos every now and again, since Tia had decided that there needed to be a balance between chaos and harmony. 
And she’d loved him for him, can’t forget that. Without her love, his chance of remaining unfrozen would’ve gone right down the drain. She was the first pony in millennia to care so deeply about him, the first to show him compassion, to not treat him as though he were simply a monster, a creature of chaos.
There had been a time when he’d been foolish, thinking he could return to power, but… without Discord realizing it, she’d become so much more important to him than even ruling the world. He’d only realized it when he’d nearly lost her, how much he needed her in his life, how much he loved her back. 
Still, even with that in mind, he still missed his days as a powerful spirit of chaos, when everypony feared and respected him.
“Daddy!”
But then his darling Swirl Blitz would tackle him from seemingly out of nowhere (actually, it probably was nowhere, knowing his daughter. She was so weird), and Pinkie Pie would bounce into the room and start babbling aimlessly about whatever had just happened in town, and he’d think to himself, I couldn’t ask for a better life.

“SWIRL!”
The off-white alicorn looked up at the sound of her name. “Who is it?”
“It’s the pizza stallion. Who the bloody hell do you think it is?!”
Swirl bounced over the door, much like her mother always would. “Hiya, Andy! What’s up? Ooh, did you find another book on those weird cupcake thingamajigers?”
“No, and for the sake of all that’s good in the universe, I hope never to do so. Why was I here… oh, right. THEDOCTORISREALANDHE’SMYSIREMYMUMWASACOMPANIONCANYOUBELIEVEIT?!?!”
The alicorn blinked, trying to process what her friend had just said. “Hon, I have no clue what you just said. Take a deep breath.”
The unicorn filly inhaled deeply and held her breath for a few minutes until she turned purple.
“… Now exhale.”
Andy gasped nearly immediately. “The… Doctor is… real… and he’s… my sire… Mum… Mum was a companion…”
“Oh, that. Well, duh! Jeez, even I knew that, and I’m as ditzy as the mail-mare can be!”
The filly stared at her older friend, jaw hanging open. “THE HELL?! YOU KNEW?! H-HOW?!”
“I’m an alicorn. I know lots of stuff. Did you know that dolphins have the best hearing of any animal? I did!”
“B-But... he didn’t even know! How did you figure it out?!”
“Cutie Mark. Only Time-Lords have any kind of hourglass Cutie Mark, duh!”
Andy blinked. “…T… T-T-Time-Lord… wha…”
Swirl took on a serious expression. “You’re a Time-Lord, Andy.”
“SWIRL! THIS IS NO TIME TO BE MAKING HARRY TROTTER REFERENCES!”

Meanwhile, at the library

“Well. That could’ve gone better, now couldn’t it?”
Twilight glared at her former mate. “Shut up. How was I supposed to tell her that her sire is the one person she’s been searching for since she could read? Oh, sweetie, I know I’ve told you otherwise, but guess what? The Doctor is real and you’re his child! Like that would have been any better!”
The Doctor chuckled nervously. “Heh, I suppose you’re right, love. You always were the smart and logical one.”
Twilight blushed. “Sh-Shut up. What’re you even doing here, anyway? Don’t you have some species to be saving or Nightmares to be slaying or whatever?”
“… Did you know that the tango looks a lot like the Cloptroian war declaration dance?”
Twilight stared at him for a minute, then face-hoofed. “Oh my Celestia, do you go looking for trouble or something?!”
“Oh, trouble’s just the in-between bits! There’s more to be seen, then can ever be seen, more to do, than can ever be-”
“Doctor, that’s The Lion King.”
“It is? Sorry, my mistake. But the point still stands! I’m an explorer, and explore I must!” As he stated that, the Doctor leaned onto the TARDIS, which immediately let out a huge cloud of smoke.
“Once… once that gets f-fixed, of course.” He added in-between coughs. Quickly, his former companion opened a window. Almost immediately, the smoke cleared out, though outside you could hear some pegasi complaining.
“And what about you, Twilight? How have you been? Besides, of course, Andy.”
“Oh, well, I went into research, mostly on the history of Equestria. I wrote a couple books… bestsellers, actually.”
“Really?! That’s brilliant, love!”
Again, Twilight blushed. “I-It’s not that big of a deal. Really, I’m just glad that I’m making a difference.”
The Doctor smiled at her. “Same old Twilight, eh? Glad to hear it! Well, since the TARDIS probably won’t be up and running for a bit, how about you show me round town? I’d love to see how the old place has changed.”
“Sure, why not? I’ll have to warn you, though; things have changed since the last time you were here.”
“Oh, come on, how different could it be?”

 Fifteen minutes later…

“Stay behind me, everypony! This is a dangerous spirit, and he can’t be trusted!”
Twilight face-hoofed and groaned, partially at the Doctor’s actions, but also at her lack of foresight. She probably should have explained about Discord prior to visiting Sugarcube Corner.
The aforementioned alicorn, however, only looked extremely amused. “Oh, Doctor. For someone who has so much to do with time, you don’t seem to be keeping up with it.”
A slight look of confusion passed over the Doctor’s face, but he quickly straightened and narrowed his gaze. “Don’t try to faze me, monster! I won’t fall for it!”
Twilight sighed, trotting over to her former mate and taking the Sonic Screwdriver from him. “He’s not trying to trick you, idiot! Discord isn’t bad, hasn’t been for years!”
The Doctor blinked a few times and stared at her. “What, seriously?”
“Yes, seriously! For the love of Luna, he married Pinkie Pie and had a kid!”
“I’m not a baby goat!”
“Not that kind of kid, Swirl.”
"Oh."
Still a bit wary of the former spirit of chaos, the Doctor lowered his guard. "Erm. Well, then. I apologize, Discord."
The alicorn laughed a bit. "Actually, I expected that sort of reaction from you. Really, I'd have been surprised if you'd said 'Hello' and-"
Suddenly, Pinkie Pie gasped. "OOH! Twitchy tail! Something BIG's gonna happen! And soon!"
Everypony in the room (with the exception of the Doctor) froze. The aforementioned Time Lord looked around in confusion. 
"What? Why are you lot just standing 'round like a bunch of logs?"
Suddenly, outside the house, somepony screamed. 
"What was that?"
Again, nopony answered him as they all ran through the door of Sugarcube Corner, only to be nearly run over by a stampede of ponies. 
"HOLY-"
Suddenly, Pinkie gasped again. This time, her tail was twitching and her entire body was shaking. "That wasn't it!"
"What?! What's bigger than a stampede-?"
"GIT BACK HERE YA NO GOOD FLYIN' VARMINTS!"
"Applejack?"
Said mare was currently chasing after something unseen, which soon came into vision. 
A horde of parasprites.
Still Pinkie's shaking didn't cease. "Not that either!"
Twilight turned to her, eye twitching. "But... how can it not be the parasprites?! That's a pretty big thing-"
"EXTERMINATE." A thousand robotic voices monotoned at once. Twilight's ears fell as her eyes widened.
"Doctor." She said in a scarily calm voice.
"Y-Yes, love?"
"Please tell me those aren't what I think they are."
"... Are you thinking that they're daleks?"
"DAMMIT I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ME THAT!"
Finally, Pinkie stopped shaking. "Ooh! So the scary robot things are the surprise! Cool!"
"No, Miss Pie, this is not cool. This is about a bus, three walks, and a long cab ride from cool. Because at the moment, since the TARDIS is dead, I do believe that we are screwed."