Discord laid back in a tree just outside the Everfree drinking a glass of chocolate milk.
“Ah, what a fine day. The only thing that could spoil this is six irate mares coming to nag me. You would think they would appreciate my making their dull little lives more interesting. Ah, and here they come to thank me."
Discord chuckled before teleporting to them. “Hello, my dear friends! How may I-” Discord began before Rarity ran up to him and jammed her nose against his.
“GIVE ME MY MANE BACK!” the irate mare yelled, which just earned an eye roll from Discord.
“Aww… but my fifth-dimensional chinchilla simply adores it,” Discord said, pulling out a strange looking chinchilla wearing Rarity’s mane.
“DISCORD!” Rarity shouted again, clearly not in the mood for games.
“Fine fine…” Discord sighed and teleported Rarity’s mane back onto her head.
“Thank you…” Rarity seethed before stepping back and producing a brush out of her purse to straighten it out.
“Well, now that that’s out of the way,” Discord said with a knowing smirk.
“You know why we’re here, right?” Twilight said glaring at the draconequus.
“Ah yes, you're all here to scold me for having a spot of innocent fun,” Discord said with a sigh. Rainbow wasted no time zipping up to his face.
“You had me chased down by freaky talking clouds! What were they going to do to me if they caught me?” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“Disperse because they’re nothing but water vapor” Discord said cheekily before pinching her cheeks and earning a growl from Rainbow. “I would have thought that would be obvious to a pegasus.”
“You nearly ruined the party I set up.” Pinkie cut in, “I had to set it up again and was too exhausted to party with the birthday boy!”
“Oh come now, anypony with your stamina could pull it off,” Discord said with a dismissive wave.
“You messed up all the book sorting that Spike did; he worked hard to get them organized so well,” Twilight added. Before Discord could reply, Applejack interrupted.
“Not to mention you defiled mah family’s stock! You better turn it back or else!” Applejack yelled at the draconequus, at this point all of the mares were complaining to Discord, minus Fluttershy who was getting more and more frightened by the second before shouting to her friends.
“STOP IT!” The others paused and looked over to Fluttershy, who was panting before she straightened up and trotted over to Discord.
“Hmm? Can I take them out now?” Discord said removing a pair of earplugs, which annoyed the mares even further.
“Discord, I think this is a sign you need to stop. Or at least calm down with all the pranks,” Fluttershy said calmly.
“Oh, dear Fluttershy. I am sorry that I got a tad overzealous with the prank I played on you; however, I must inform you all that I did what I did since I have chosen a peaceful lifestyle among you harmony users. I have to spread some chaos or I'll go mad with boredom.”
“Can’t you just get a hobby and stop bothering us with your usual brand of insanity?” Rainbow Dash said irritated.
“Rainbow!” Fluttershy said, offended by her harshness but Discord put his hand on her shoulder before she could begin scolding her rude friend.
“It’s quite alright dear,” Discord said before turning to Rainbow. “And I do have a hobby. Chaos!” Discord said jovially causing some fireworks to shoot into the air.
“I mean a less annoying hobby,” Rainbow said.
“Oh, come now. Is a spot of fun such a crime?” Discord said, crossing his arms.
“No, but we’d prefer it if you would stop interfering with our daily jobs. Most of us have hobbies too,” Twilight said
“Yeah, ah would also appreciate the returning of my family's crops to normal!” Applejack said, not willing to let Discord skip out on fixing what he did to the apples.
Discord sighed and looked out at the mares with an unusual expression.
“I know you're all tired of my little jests here and there, but I assure you it’s necessary and quite out of my control.”
“Out of- that is the lamest excuse ever,” Rainbow said, clearly not buying it. However, Twilight noticed how serious Discord was being, and trotted up to him.
“Using our magic is a choice we all make. How can it be out of your control?” Twilight said, genuinely curious.
“Let me put it this way.” Discord snapped his fingers and conjured in the middle of the dirt road; a plank of wood to one side and a pile of grease to the other.
“Um… what’s that going to prove?” Rarity said, taking a cautious step away from the grease.
“Alot!” Discord snapped his fingers and set both on fire. The mares jumped in surprise and began making moves to put it out but Discord stopped them. “Ah ah ah, this is part of the demonstration.” He snapped his fingers and conjured two buckets of water.
“These fires both represent the natural urge to release pent up magic and the water represents the effort to resist it. The urge to use unicorn or alicorn magic can be easily resisted through simple meditation and self control, due to it being limited based on the emotions and capability of the projector,” Discord explained, dousing the first fire easily. This lesson quickly flew over the head of all but one of the mares who was drinking in this philosophy Discord was presenting.
“And the grease fire?” Twilight asked
“Is a representation of chaos magic, my little pony,” Discord dumped the last bucket of water on the grease fire, which only succeeded in spreading it over a larger area.
“Chaos magic works differently, the more you try to suppress the urge the more it spreads throughout you. Like some kind of itch that won't go away but only gets worse. Eventually your mind will give in and you’ll spread chaos, whether you like it or not,” Discord said knowingly before making the objects and fire disappear.
Twilight mulled his demonstration over and turned to her friends. They chatted among themselves and turned to Discord a minute later.
“We’ve talked about it” Twilight said
“And?” Discord said with a raised brow.
“We’ve decided that isn’t a valid enough excuse to pardon the constant interruption in our schedules,” Twilight said with finality. Discord was shocked and sputtered for a moment before face palming.
“I’m supposed to be the complicated one, not you six.” Discord sighed
“Chaos magic may be different but it’s still magic. Self control can be taught to any magic,” Twilight said knowingly.
“Chaos magic is a different matter,” Discord said sternly. “It can affect your mind if you don’t vent it,” Discord insisted but Twilight shook her head.
“What I’ve always been taught is that any magic can be harnessed by a strong will and stable emotions. Chaos magic shouldn’t be any different,” Twilight said, and before Discord could get a word in she cut him off.
“I’m sorry to sound rude Discord, but we’ve all got important events coming up eventually and we need to be prepared. So can you undo your pranks so we can get back to it,” Twilight said, hoping to avoid a debate so she could get back to her studying sooner.
Discord grumped and snapped his finger undoing the results of his chaos magic pranks.
“Thank you,” Twilight said as she and the group began to walk away, but Twilight paused and looked back. “We can talk about this tomorrow but today we’re busy,” she said before continuing on home.
Meanwhile, Discord huffed and teleported back to his dimension.
“Well, that took a turn for the worst… usually Fluttershy defends me but even she’s irate with me now…” Discord said, looking morose walking through an upwards opening door in the wall rather than his front door and sat on his inverted couch with a sigh.
“They don’t understand that chaos magic is a magic unlike theirs…” As Discord pondered for the next hour or so for how to resolve this he thought back to when he ruled Equestria.
“Back when I was in charge making sense didn’t make sense, nopony even got irate with me, well mostly because they were too scared… But most of all if one wanted to try and oppose me I'd give them a fighting chance out of personal boredom-” Discord’s eyes widened at that particular memory, mulling over the specifics he recalled just how he gave them a fighting chance.
“Would it work? Is it a good idea?... hmm, I sense somepony is writing a Fimfiction here with such a crazy idea entering my noggin.” After a few moments of pondering, a big smile appeared on Discord’s face. “Yes, it could work indeed. If they refuse to see chaos magic based on their lack of understanding of it… then I’ll let them see for themselves what chaos magic is like!” Discord said eagerly before snapping his fingers and teleporting away.