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// Antics in the Attic 
// Story: Breaking Chaos 
// by KiaraKovu123 
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After an hour of being in Discord’s “reality” Pinkie and Discord returned to wake up the twins. Pinkie sighed, “I can’t believe how fun that was!” she grinned. “I enjoyed it so much!”

Discord nodded, “I did too! We should do that again. Did you wanna wake up the twins now?” Pinkie smiled.

“Sure! Let’s go!” she marched upstairs, followed by Discord who had a spring in his step. Pinkie opened the twins’ bedroom door, “Rise and shine, little ones!” she scampered into the room and over to their crib. “Wake up, sleepy heads!” she giggled.

Discord smiled and walked over, too, “Naptime’s over!” he said, smiling down at the twins. Pound opened his eyes and looked up. He let out a giggle, on which Pumpkin awoke, too. She smiled up at Pinkie and Discord.

Pinkie plugged her nose as a nasty smell filled the air, “Now it’s diaper change time!” Discord winced. Pinkie noticed and giggled, “Don’t worry. I’ll do it.” She picked up Pound and brought him to the changing table, changed his dirty diaper, and put a new one on. She did the same with Pumpkin. “Alright! Now, it’s playtime again!” she ran into the twins’ closet and returned with a floppy-looking toy chicken and a stuffed monkey. She set them down in the twins’ crib. Pumpkin grabbed onto the chicken and started chewing on it and Pound hugged his monkey. Pinkie and Discord watched in silence, giggling occasionally when one of the twins smiled up at them.

“You know,” Discord started, “This is actually fun. I like foalsitting for them!” he smiled at Pinkie. Who laughed.

“Why do you think I offered to foalsit? It’s so awesome, of course!” she looked at the two babies playing. “I’ve always loved doing this. It really is fun.” Discord beamed and nodded. Pumpkin looked up at him.

“Dissy!” she said, laughing. “Funny!” Pinkie looked at Discord with a sparkle in her eyes.

“I agree.” She said. Discord raised an eyebrow.

“Me? Funny? You’ve only scratched the surface, you two! I can be much funnier than this!” Pinkie gave him a look.

“Prove it.”

Discord smirked, “Challenge accepted.” He hoof bumped her. 

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Pinkie searched through the upstairs, downstairs, and even the basement of Sugarcube Corner. She was playing hide-and-seek with Pound, Pumpkin and Discord. She wasn’t sure where to look next until she heard a giggle. “Pumpkin” she said to herself as she followed the noise upstairs and into the bathroom. “GOTCHA!” she shouted. Pumpkin tumbled over laughing.

“I hide!” she squealed. Pinkie laughed and scooped her up.

“You betcha! Now, let’s find Dissy and Pound!” Pinkie searched the rest of the bathroom. When she decided the two were not upstairs, she decided to look downstairs again. “Come on, Pumpkin!” she said to her little friend. Pumpkin smiled and leapt on Pinkie’s back. Pinkie trotted downstairs. “Ok, Pumpkin, go look for your brother! I’ll look for Dissy.” Pumpkin nodded and crawled under the table. Pinkie heard a squeal then giggles. You find him?” she looked under the table. “Pound Cake! We found you!” she said. Pound smiled and crawled out from under the table.
Pinkie looked around, “Now where is Discord?” she looked up, well, he could fly. Was he somewhere up high? Then Pinkie had a thought, she grabbed Pound and Pumpkin. “The attic!” the uppermost part of Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie was slightly afraid of going up there. But it wouldn’t scare Discord, she knew. She galloped up the stairs and walked down the hall. The pulled on a small rope and a staircase came down from the ceiling. Pinkie bit her lip, “Here we go…” she walked up the stairs, the twins were silent. “Dissy? You up here?” she looked around the old attic. Then she heard a low

*Creak.*

She whirled around. “I got you now, Discord! Um…Discord? Dissy?” she searched the dark and empty attic with her eyes and then she heard a sound. It sounded like a howl. Pinkie felt a shiver creep down her spine. Pound whimpered. “It’s ok, Pound Cake. He’s up here, I know it…” Pinkie whispered. The attic was bigger than it looked from the outside. It was pretty much empty except for a rag or box here and there, but pretty empty. Pinkie walked to the end and she turned her head to see a mirror with her reflection. The mirror was broken. And her reflection looked shattered, Pinkie kept on walking. Pumpkin whimpered and buried her face in Pinkie’s mane. “It’s ok. We’ll be alright, now. Don’t be…scared.” Pinkie laughed a little to cheer Pumpkin up, but it didn’t work. “Discord…I know you’re up here…”

“RAR!” Pinkie jumped a foot in the air.

“WHO’S THERE?” she looked around, the twins screamed and Pinkie spun around. A black figure was standing in front of them. He roared again. Pinkie screamed and backed against the wall, making herself as small as possible.

The creature collapsed on the floor, laughing. “You…you…you FELL for it! LITERALLY!” yes, it was Discord. Pinkie flinched and then sighed with relief. Pound giggled, but Pumpkin had a serious and not amused expression on her face.

Pinkie stood up straight and marched over to laughing Discord. “You scared me, Dissy!” she said, frowning. Discord stopped laughing.

“Oh, come off it! I was just having a little fun with you!” he covered his face with his lion paw and started to laugh again, “And it was PRICELESS!” he cackled again. Pinkie couldn’t help herself; she started to laugh, too. And Pumpkin smiled. Pound beamed and fluttered his wings with joy.