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// Intermission: Discord 
// Story: Then Everyone was an Alicorn 
// by CluelessBrony 
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	Discord sat in his stone prison, waiting. Waiting for chaos. Waiting for strife, waiting for disorder. Even a small skirmish would do.

The princesses had moved him to an unpopular part of the garden. Many ponies wondered why they didn't just lock him up in a vault, away from everypony else, away from the possibility of freedom. It's probably my devilishly handsome face, he thought.

Discord sighed. Mentally, of course, seeing as his mouth was encased in stone. Nopony ever walked by his statue anymore! It was depressing, standing still for all eternity, not even having anything to watch. Not to mention that strange flux of magic he felt yesterday, the one he couldn't even go investigate.

He heard a commotion coming from his right. "I'm telling you, Windy, this is too good to be true! We'll all turn back to normal soon, I'm sure of it."

Discord heard a second pony sigh. "Why can't you just accept that we're like this now? Everypony else is happy, why do you have to be so... different than everypony else?"

The second pony sounded like a mare. Discord would have smiled. This was a perfect chance for him to get enough chaos to free himself!

"Well, maybe I don't want to be like this for the rest of my life! I want everything to go back to normal!" the first pony said.

"This is a good thing! Ugh, why did I even marry you?!"

Discord could feel his stone prison start to crack. Soon, he would be free to cause as much chaos as he wanted!

"Oh, so you regret marrying me now?"

"I didn't say that!"

"But you meant it!"

"Well, maybe I did!"

He heard the sound of hoofsteps stomping away angrily. Another crack appeared in the stone, this time on his lion's paw. He flexed his paw. The stone cracked even more. Flakes of it started falling to the ground. With a massive heave, his entire right arm was free.

He used his right arm to break down the weakened stone that covered the rest of his body. A hit here, a whack there, and the stone was crumbling around him. "I'm free...", he said. "I'm free! Muahahahaha!" He burst into a fit of coughs. "Oh, I need to work on my evil laugh.... I am so out of practice..."

Discord snapped his claw and teleported away. He re-appeared at his desired location, the middle of Canterlot Castle. He narrowed his eyes, looking at all the ponies standing around in the room. "Now, little ponies, I am free again! Now you lives will be turned upside down with all my beautiful chaos! I'll... I'll..."

Discord trailed off as he noticed something wrong with the ponies. Had they gotten taller since he had last seen them? Why had they all turned into unicorns, and where'd they get the wings?

Wait...

The group of Alicorns turned to face the avatar of chaos, horns glowing. "Oh, crud..." mumbled Discord. He teleported back to the garden and got back on his stone altar. "I'll try again later..." he mumbled to himself.

With a snap of his claw, he was once again encased in his stone prison.