Discord was busy doing, well, Discordy things. That was what he always did whenever he was in his own dimension and had nothing better to do. He wasn’t due for one of his Tuesday Teas with Fluttershy, there were no big disasters that required his intervention, and the next Guy’s Night was still a ways away.
So it was that the spirit of chaos went about dirtying up his dishes, giving the dust bunnies under his couch more companions, unsorting his mail, and giving his clean windows lots of soap and suds to cover them up. All the usual chaotic things he did when he was alone.
Although, come to think of it, Discord was getting the strangest nagging feeling that he was forgetting something. But what could it be? Oh well, it was no use dwelling on the matter. If it was important, he was sure he would’ve remembered it by now.
Suddenly, however, the spirit heard what sounded like a scream! Somepony must’ve accidentally stumbled into his dimension and gotten lost, again! Well, there was only one thing to do: His guilty conscience wouldn’t leave him alone until he rescued that poor, helpless pony and pointed them in the right direction.
Discord immediately stepped outside his house, and when he did so he saw at once who the pony in need of rescuing this time was. It wasn’t just anypony. It was Shining Armor. What was he doing here? It wasn’t like the prince of the Crystal Empire and the old captain of the royal guard to just stumble into Discord’s dimension unannounced.
Well, those were thoughts for another time and place. Right now, what mattered most was rescuing the prince. Fortunately for Discord, the rescue itself was an almost literal piece of cake. With a simple snap of his talons, he brought the price to him and had him standing firmly on the ground in front of the cottage.
“Discord! I should’ve known!” Shining groaned once he had gotten hold of his senses.
“Whatever do you mean?” Discord innocently asked. “I’ve not done anything… yet.”
Shining was anything but amused if the frown upon his face was any indication. “Very funny, Discord. My daughter just flushed me down a toilet by accident, and I know that as magically gifted as she is, there’s no way she could magically enchant a toilet so its drain could suck down a full grown pony. It was your chaos magic that made it possible!”
The spirit gasped in exaggerated worry! “Oh dear! I guess maybe some of my magic got away from me in the brief amount of time it was being held in Grogar’s bell. Never would’ve thought it would get all the way to the Crystal Empire, though,” And he sincerely apologized. “A thousand apologies, Shining Armor. I assure you, I never intended for any of that to happen.”
The prince just narrowed his eyebrows as he glared at the spirit. “Yeah yeah, I’m sure this is all just another ‘happy accident’ to you. But it’s not every day that you get flushed down a toilet. And what’s worse is that Flurry Heart probably thinks she did it and that she sent me away. Her potty training is hard enough as it is without complications like this. I don’t need her growing up afraid of toilets. If that happens, she'll never want to get out of diapers.”
Discord nodded his head as he tried his best to look like he was taking the whole thing seriously. “Right, right. I know. I’m guessing you want me to send you back now?”
“If you wouldn’t mind,” Shining Armor insisted. “And please take that chaos magic away with you. I don’t need this happening to anypony else.”
“Oh, not to worry,” Discord innocently replied. “It’ll be like it never even happened. In fact, I’ll make it so you won’t remember any of this at all.”
Before the prince had a chance to ask Discord what he meant by that, he was teleported away with a snap from the spirit’s talons.
Shining Armor blinked as he found himself standing in the bathroom, staring at the toilet while Flurry Heart was already seated upon her potty chair. “Huh, where was I?” He asked himself as he tried to get his bearings.
Flurry just giggled. “Daddy said he gonna show me how mommies and daddies go potty. Where mommies and daddies do pee-pees and poo-poos.”
It was then that the prince suddenly remembered. He’d had to go to the bathroom, and had decided that since he did he might as well use the opportunity as a teaching experience for his potty training daughter. After all, Cadence had been getting on his case about needing to do more to help make the process go smoothly.
“Oh, right,” Shining realized with a blush as he used his magic to pick up a copy of The Equestria Daily that he always kept for occasions such as this. “Just get comfortable, Flurry and let Daddy do what he has to do. Remember, it’s your potty time as well. That is why you’re sitting on your potty chair, after all.”
Flurry Heart nodded. “Uh-huh, me know, Daddy.” And then she picked up the book she was always given to ready for potty time: Everypony Poops.
Smiling, the stallion whistled a cheerful little tune to himself as he moved to sit down on the toilet seat. As he did so, he felt the faintest sense of deja vu, as if he’d already done this today. But that couldn’t be.
Unknown to either father or daughter, Discord was watching them through manners similar to what he had used during his masquerade as Grogar. He’d already taken care of the chaos magic. All was as it should be. “Good,” He said to himself. “They don’t remember a thing,” Then a rather mischievous idea came into his mind as he thought. “Although, Shining Armor didn’t say anything about doing this to other ponies,” And he began to scheme. “I wonder, who would be the perfect unsuspecting pony to send on a trip down the drain next?” It would be a shame to let such good chaos magic go to waste, after all.