Apple Bloom stood up and backed away slowly. “You two have been apart for a long time! Why don’t ya’ll catch up with each other?” Sweetie took the point and followed Apple Bloom. Scootaloo, on the other hoof, stayed and stared and Discord and Pinkie. AB and Sweetie walked over, grabbed her tail, and pulled her off with them. Much to the dismay of Scoots, who groaned. Pinkie had a small giggle fit after this. Discord eyed her and smiled.
“Watch this.” He said. Pinkie looked over at him with obvious curiosity. He smiled and took her hoof, then all of a sudden, she felt wind in her face and everything went white. She was surrounded by white, enclosed by it. She looked around for Discord and the labyrinth but they were nowhere to be seen, she suddenly felt something underneath herself, she looked down.
“A bubble?” she stuttered out between giggles, yes, it was indeed a bubble, and it was under her. She took a step forward…huh? She tried to go forward but went backwards instead, this was too weird. She tried to go backward but went forward. She giggled, she actually liked this! “Hey!” she called out into the blankness, “I’m in opposite world!”
A voice answered her, she immediately recognized it as Discord’s, “But, of course!” the bubble suddenly turned green and it had a smiley face on it. Pinkie winced in fear and backed up a little.
“Please don’t laugh at me! I don’t wanna-”
The bubble, who was now a balloon, cut her off, “Pinkie, it’s ok.” The balloon morphed back into Discord, “It’s only me! Why would I ever go through that wretched balloon garden scene with you AGAIN? No, my dear, that’s past Discord.” He made a face, “But now, I’m nice! Ah, ah, ah! But don’t think I’m too nice, if I were then I’d be just plain…” he slumped his shoulders, “BORING! And what fun is there in that? I can still be chaotic without having to be mean!”
Pinkie wanted to leap around him, but instead of doing so, she backed up and ducked. “Oops!” she giggled “This is OPPOSITE! I’m suppost to try to do this, and then end up-”
“Jumping up and down? Yes, it’s hard at first, but once you get the hang of it…” Discord flew towards her and scooped her up, “It’s as easy as pie!” he then threw her up in the air and she whooped with joy. She stopped in midair.
“Uh…Dissy? I think it’s broken.”
“What’s broken?”
Pinkie looked around, “Opposite world.” And then she giggled, “The walls are so boring…they need color!” she then dropped back down and Discord caught her.
“Color, eh? You know this is basically the sky.” He floated around, “You can’t paint the sky.”
“Could you MAKE it walls?” Pinkie asked, “Pretty please?” she tilted her head and gave him her signature puppy dog eyes.
He laughed, “Why, of course!” he threw her up in the air and she stopped. “Wait there.” Discord turned around and motioned to the sky with his claw to come forward it seemed to shift and morph into something solid. Pinkie cocked her head and watched intently, tilting her head up to make it go down, and vice-versa. The draconiques soon flew up to her, “It’s ready!” he said chuckling, “Sorry to… leave you hanging!” Pinkie got the joke and laughed along. She then tried to go down…but went up.
“WOAH!” she quickly stopped herself, “D-Dissy? Is this such a great idea?” Discord flew up to her.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean I think you c-can handle this better than I can…” she smiled nervously.
“Hm, I thought you might say that.” He gave her a serious look that made her flinch. Was he mad at her? “Ah, no problem, then!” he clapped his paws and Pinkie could fly down when she wanted to actually GO down.
“This is much better! Thanks a bunch!” she said floating around. He chuckled and took her hoof, guiding her to the wall. She smiled and then frowned, “How are we going to paint without…you know, paint?” Pinkie asked him, tilting her head.
*Snap* All of a sudden paint buckets of every shade of every color lined up before the two. Reds, oranges, pinks, greens, grays and every other color in-between! Pinkie gasped at the wide aura of colors and she flew up to a shade of sunny yellow. “Ooh, I love hoof-painting! But we’ll need water to wash off when we’re done with a color.”
Discord shook his head, “No, we don’t! Dip your hoof in that and paint a little hoof-shaped dot. Pinkie did as she was told and as soon as she pulled away from the wall, her hoof became clean. She gasped and looked over at him beaming.
“This is so cool!”
Discord smiled with pride, “Thank you! I can do all this and more!” he said flying circles around her. She giggled and jumped into a paint bucket, the bright pink stained her hooves and she stood on her hind legs and put her hooves onto the wall, making pink swirls everywhere! Discord watched her with a dreamy look in his eyes, Pinkie turned her head slightly toward him and he pretended to look away.
“Dissy!” Pinkie teased. He looked back at her, “Come on! Don’t you wanna paint with me?” Discord beamed and flew up to a shade of green a little ways from his little artist.
“Let’s do it!” he stomped his paw into a neon green and made a paw print on the wall. Pinkie smiled and jumped up and down.
“Great job! Great job! Now watch this!” she dug her hoof into a yellow and flew up a little ways on the wall. “WHEE!” she suddenly darted along the wall, her hoof still on the wall, making a bright yellow streak go on and on. She turned around. “Isn’t this great!? See, see?” he nodded in approval and stomped his hoof into some blue paint and dragged his claw down the wall. Pinkie frowned when he reached her. “Uh, Dissy? I think you ripped the wall.” She pointed to the wall they had left behind and suddenly they both started laughing, the wall had indeed torn open. There were three big cuts running down the length of the wall. “The wall was paper?” Pinkie asked, clueless.
Discord shrugged, “I make random things! I pay no attention to the material I put in them, unless it’s food of course. Pinkie giggled and flew up to one of the cuts and stuck her head in it. “NO, WAIT!” Discord flew up to her but she zoomed off into the cut. He groaned and darted after her. “Wow…” he looked up at the vast expanse of black and navy blue sky, stars were dotted everywhere. They were flying in space! He looked around for Pinkie. She floated frantically in the sky, trying to get to him. Her face was frantic and she tried to speak but covered her mouth. Discord cocked his head. “Huh?” he flew up to her and she pointed to her mouth. “AIR!” he facepawed, “Of course! There’s zero oxygen up here!” he tapped her head and she sprung back to life.
“There’s no air up here…” she said.
Discord laughed, “I just gave you the ability to breathe where nopony else can!” Pinkie’s smile jumped back onto her face.
“Ooh, neat! So we can stay here awhile?” her blue twinkling eyes darted around, “It’s beautiful!”
“Sure we can!” he patted her on the head, smiling. “For as long as you like!” Pinkie jumped onto him with a hug.
“YAY! Thank you! This is the best day ever!!” she twittered, making Dissy beam.
“We’re only getting started!” he took her hoof and started to fly off to something. Pinkie couldn’t quite get what it was. Was it a white ball of some sort? Was it a planet? She got closer with every guess and was about to ask what it was when they reached it’s soil. She made hoof-contact, but not for long, she soon floated right back up in the air. Discord smirked and took her hoof. “Welcome to the moon, my dear!”
“OOOOOOOOH! So, it’s the moon, huh?” he nodded.
“The one and only! The one the princess raises every evening!” he turned in a different direction. “Look, there!” he said pointing to a planet. Pinkie didn’t know what it was at first but then it hit her.
“Home! HOME! Is that earth?” she asked, he nodded.
“Beautiful, isn’t it?” Pinkie tried flew up to it, the distance was unreal, it was farther away than it looked. Discord rolled his eyes and flew up to her, taking her hoof. “Hold on tight.” Pinkie nodded and held on with both hooves. They were suddenly there. Close to home. Pinkie gasped at the size of the earth. They were very close! Twilight had told Pinkie about something called an “atmosphere” that surrounded the earth and made the air breathable. Pinkie didn’t see anything abnormal. But, on the other hoof, she wasn’t looking for anything irregular either.
“It’s lovely!” she finally exclaimed, hugging Discord. He laughed and hugged her back. Pinkie looked over at the moon. All of a sudden it was surrounded by a navy blue aura and moved across the sky. The pink pony cocked her head and Discord looked over at it, too.
“Hm, must be night time somewhere in the world.” He mumbled. As soon as the word “Night” was out, Pinkie yawned. He chuckled and wrapped her in his arms, smiling. “Shall we go back to where we started?”
“Paint World or Equestria?” Pinkie asked sleepily. Discord shrugged. “Hm…” Pinkie seemed to consider where they should go. “Paint World, I guess. We’ll go back home in the morning.” Discord nodded and they both teleported back into the world of painted walls. The draconiques set Pinkie down on…the air and looked around for a place to sleep.
“Where would you like to sleep? More importantly, what would you like to sleep on?” Pinkie looked around and noticed the rip in the wall; she scanned that over and then remembered that she could sleep on anything she liked, wherever she liked.
“Right here!” she curled up right where she was and yawned, “I’ve never slept on a water bed before!” Discord smirked and made one appear right under her.
“I’ll be over here.” He announced, making a cotton candy cloud appear. Pinkie giggled.
“That’s predictable! Ooh, and I love this bed!” she tapped it with her hoof and it wiggled.
“I knew you would, it’s one of my favorites.” He made some shades appear and put them on, “Have a nice sleep!” Pinkie nodded drowsily.
“Will do…” she rested her head on the silky bed of water and drifted off to sleep.
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Her beautiful navy blue wings graced the sky as she moved her glorious moon over Equestria, the land in which she lived. She sighed at the beautiful night and came to rest on a cloud. “Very good, Luna.” Exclaimed her elder sister, Celestia. Luna smiled gratefully and nodded.
“We saw something up there when we raised the moon.” Said the night princess. The elder smiled.
“What? A falling star?” asked Celestia, giggling softly. Luna’s expression became cross.
“Hasn’t thou noticed something seems missing? From the statue garden?” asked Luna, “We have.”
Celestia turned to her with a slightly alarmed expression, “What would that be, little sister?” Luna flinched, “Is something wrong?”
Luna was about to speak when something deep within her mind told her to remain silent. She indeed knew it was Discord, why wouldn’t she want to alert her elder sister? She remembered the day precisely six months ago when she had gone to bed feeling guilty for having betrayed a good friend of hers. Pinkie had helped her a great deal one Nightmare Night. But, how was Luna to repay her? By setting her best friend in the world back to stone? She couldn’t bear to dismay her friend again. So, Luna smiled nervously at her sister. “One of the statues, sister. One of them needs to be repaired. Stone is chipping off of…er…Victory…yes, Victory.” Celestia’s expression softened.
“Ah, I see. We will have that one repaired tomorrow.” She let out a small yawn and proceeded to excuse herself. “Well, I am tired for now, are you not, either, Luna?”
Luna nodded, “It has been a busy day, hath it not? We shall turn in soon.” Celestia nodded her head and spread her wide wings. “Good night, Celestia. We shall see you in the morn.” Celestia nodded and flew over to the balcony, winking at her little sister and walking behind the silk curtains of her bedroom suite. Luna smiled and winked back, turning her attention downward.
“We are most sincerely sorry to the stone mason…but I must do what has to be done.” Her horn glowed a beautiful navy blue and she shot the statue of Victory, knocking it off it’s pedestal and chipping it. She looked up at the sky. “Ah, Discord. You shall owe me for this.” She laughed and then flew off to her bedroom to get some shut eye.