"WHAT!?" said Celestia.
"The clouds," said Pinkie Pie, pointing out the window. "They're made of cotton candy."
Immediately the other six rushed over to the window and sure enough, the clouds were made of cotton candy which was one of the signature moves of...
"Discord," whispered Celestia.
"In the flesh!" said a chillingly familiar voice from behind them. The seven ponies turned around to see the gleefully evil Draconniquus standing behind them with a gigantic grin on his face
"Discord!" repeated Celestia.
"You already said that Celestia," said Discord. "You shouldn't repeat yourself like that."
"Behind me, now!" commanded Celestia. Twilight and her friends immediately went behind Celestia, each knowing that this was a futile effort. Apparently Discord thought so too so he snapped his fingers and in an instant, the Mane Six suddenly appeared behind him. The six of them gasped when they realized that they weren't behind their beloved monarch anymore and they began running back towards Celestia, hoping that she wouldn't be too caught off guard to stop Discord from pulling another stunt like that again.
At it just so happened, she wasn't and before they got two feet, Discord snapped his fingers with an evil laugh and the six appeared behind him once more.
"Stop that at once, Discord!" said Celestia angrily as the six and Discord repeated the process.
"Oh Celestia, why would I do that? This is far too fun!" said Discord happily. "I mean, you should have seen the looks on your faces when I did it the first time!"
"Let us go, Discord!" said Twilight.
"Why?" said Apple Bloom. "You're probably safer behind him then behind such a weak ruler, don't ya think?"
"Seriously girls, can you stop just popping up randomly?" asked Rainbow Dash.
Indeed they had popped up randomly, along with Nightmare Moon and between the five of them, they surrounded the six. Twilight looked desperately at Celestia, her eyes pleading her to help them out of this situation. However, the battle with the Crusaders had clearly weakened Celestia, and there was no way that a severely weakened Celestia could take on 5 powerful beings alone without the Elements of Harmony.
"Well, well, well, Celestia, it seems that the shoe is on the other foot now, isn't it?" said Discord smugly. Before Celestia could respond, Discord snapped his fingers and instantly all of the books in the library sprouted wings and began flying around. Another librarian, a tired looking brown Earth Pony stallion, walked by the group and saw the twelve powerful beings all ready to do battle and the books flying around. He sighed to himself.
"I knew that my spilled coffee meant that I'd have a bad day," he mumbled. "I gotta get that Ponyville transfer"
"Never!" said Twilight, "That library's mine!"
"We have bigger issues at hand right now sugar cube!" said Applejack.
"Like what!?" sad Twilight, wheeling around to angrily glare at Applejack now. The room was dead silent for a moment before Twilight realized that four ponies, six demigod alicorns, and a Draconniquus were all looking at her with bewildered looks on their faces. "Oh."
"Are...are you okay?" asked Apple Bloom.
"The child is right, do you really obsess over your library like that?" asked Nightmare Moon.
"I'm fine," said Twilight. "Really I am."
"I mean jeez, it was just a passing comment meant to cope with what he was seeing, calm down Twilight Sparkle," said Discord.
"Okay, I get it, thanks," said Twilight.
"I knew I should have arranged for you to room with Pinkie Pie when you first came to Ponyville," said Celestia as she facehooved.
At that moment, Twilight's mind left her body and she suddenly experienced the alternate timeline that occurred if Princess Celestia had indeed arranged for Twilight Sparkle to become Pinkie Pie's roommate when she had first come to Ponyville.
However, at that moment, a bizarre version of SOPA appeared which stated that nopony who has a pen name beginning with the letter 'B' can expressly describe that situation. As such, the details of what Twilight saw were lost forever.
As it was, she woke up on the floor with her friends (and enemies) standing over her with worried looks.
"Are you alright, darling?" asked Rarity.
"Connect-six with a scrunchie band on the underwater moon," mumbled Twilight.
"Speak a little more rationally if you please," said Discord. Twilight glared and stood up.
"Where were we?"
"Tangenting," said Pinkie Pie.
"Ah yes," said Twilight. She cleared her throat. "You'll never get away with this, Discord?"
"That's the best you can come up with?" asked Discord who promptly turned Nightmare Moon's helmet into the one Sauron wore. "I think that you will find that we are more...imaginative than that."
Twilight and her friends formed a tighter circle as the five evil beings came closer to them.
"I call Rainbow Dash!" said Scootaloo.
"Uh...what!?" asked Rainbow Dash weakly.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!!" said Celestia angrily. "I will not let you harm them!"
The five turned to Celestia with evil grins on their face.
"And how are you going to stop us in your weakened state without the Elements of Harmony?" asked Nightmare Moon.
"Yes Celestia," said Discord. "I could make them endure the torture of being turned to stone for thousands of years. It is truly maddening but you wouldn't know because like I said before, I don't turn ponies into stone!!!"
"Uh, 'scuse me, Mr. Discord?" said Apple Bloom. Discord turned to look at Apple Bloom with a look of utter bewilderment on his face. Clearly he had never been addressed as 'Mr. Discord'.
"Y...yes?"
"So you say that you don't turn ponies into stone," said Apple Bloom.
"Yes, that's right," he said.
"Why not?"
"Huh?"
"Why don't you turn ponies into stone? Do you have the power to do that?" asked Apple Bloom. Everypony in the room began looking at Discord curiously. Discord looked deep in thought but he slowly began nodding. He turned to Celestia and snapped his fingers.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!" said Twilight, reaching out to Celestia.
"Again, we really don't mind if you're overly-dramatic and stereotypical," said Sweetie Belle.
However, despite Twilight's dramatic display, the goddess of the sun, the ruler of all Equestria was turned, not into stone, but into a giant Celestia plushie. Twilight's eyes widened in horror.
"Uh Discord, that's not stone," said Scootaloo.
"I know," said Discord, walking up the plushie with an evil grin on his face. "But she has the consistency of stone!" He rapped his paw on Celestia and sure enough, she had the consistency of stone. Scootaloo shrugged.
"Close enough," she said.
The six friends stared in horror at their solidified leader, each silently wondering what in Equestria they were going to do now. Applejack leaned in next to Pinkie Pie.
"Uh Pinks, anytime you want to use your physics breakin' powers would be okay with us," she whispered.
"I can only do it when it's funny," she whispered back. Applejack grimaced.
Unfortunately, their whispers had attracted the attention of the evil beings in the room. They stared at the helpless ponies with looks of evil joy in their eyes.
"Isn't it so fun being evil?" said Discord.
"Oh yeah, this is great!" said Apple Bloom.
"I don't know why we didn't try to get our cutie marks in evil before now!" said Sweetie Belle.
"This is way more fun than zip-lining!" said Scootaloo.
"The night will last forever!" said Nightmare Moon. She then burst out into evil laughter that struck terror into the hearts of the six ponies lying helplessly on the floor. They didn't know what to do! Rarity leaned in next to Twilight.
"Twilight darling, do you think you could teleport us out of here?" she asked. Twilight blinked for a few moments before she facehooved.
"Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that!" she said. She fired up her horn and began the mass teleportation spell. Thankfully the five evil beings were still laughing so the initial part of the spell went unnoticed. However, they were not nearly as unobservant as Celestia could be at times so they noticed what Twilight was doing pretty quickly.
"Hey!" said Sweetie Belle. "You can't leave yet!"
However, Twilight's spell had reached its full potential and the six teleported out of the library. However, the last thing in the library that Twilight saw was Discord grinning at them and snapping his fingers.
The six landed somewhere outside the gardens. Thankfully, nothing much had changed outside (it seemed Discord only had time to change the clouds before the confrontation) and the five evil beings had not come after them yet. They all stood up and dusted themselves off.
"Thanks for remindi...huh!?" said Twilight. Her eyes widened when she got a good look at her friends who were all looking at each other with looks of horror on their faces too.
"What did he do to us!?" said a horrified Twilight.
Author's note: I am writing this to do two things: First, I would like to thank everypony who has read this. It means a lot to me that people read my stories like this and genuinely enjoy reading them. Secondly, I know that I put out a lot of chapters but I am going to have to inform you that I am not sure how frequent I can be in the near future. You see, in a move tat Scootaloo herself would be both proud of and embarrassed by, I crashed on my scooter (a simple razor scooter) and instantly snapped my left clavicle in half. As such, this chapter was written with one hand or with both, the other one just being in a sling. I would also like to attribute anything you found too weird to the pain meds I am on. Now, I can continue to write like I am now, but I may need surgery to fix my clavicle so don't be surprised if you don't see anything from me for a small while. Thank you for your understanding and above all, thank you for reading!