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// Chapter 1 The Beginning 
// Story: Discord's Experiment 
// by Red Velvet 
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Discord's Experiment
By Red Velvet
Spitfire flies down from the Wonderbolts Race Track and lands on a small platform with several other Wonderbolts landing behind her. 
Soarin walks up to her looking annoyed. "Well Spitfire looks like you win. Again."
Spitfire nods. "Don't beat yourself up about it. It isn't your fault I'm the best."
Spitfire laughs and kisses him. She walks over to a saddlebag sitting on a bench and pulls out two tickets to see the Royal Gardens. 
Soarin looks at the tickets and shakes his head. "No way Spity thats where Discord's statue is being held. A little scary, don't you think?"
Spitfire sighs. "But you owe me for our last date when you set the restraunt on fire."
Soarin chuckles and then sighs. "Yeah. That was pretty fun though wasn't it?"
"Are you kidding? I've been to funerals more romantic than that!" 
Soarin gets on his knees. "But if Discord gets out again he might destroy us all!"
"Fine then I guess i'll just go alone. There'll be lots of rich handsome stallions there..."
"No! Don't do that. You could get hurt! I guess I might be able to… you know. Possibly accompany you to it maybe?"
Spitfire smiles and kisses him. "I knew that'd change your mind."
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Vinyl Scratch stands on a stage playing music for a crowd of dancing ponies below her. as she walks off the stage to take a break her friend Lyra walks up to swaying like she's drunk with Bon Bon and Cloudshaser trying to help her walk. 
Lyra smiles brightly and laughs. "DJ P0N-3 you are AMAZING! You've got to come with us tomorrow to the Royal Gardens."
Bon Bon nods. "It'll be a lot of fun!"
Cloudshaser smiles and hands Vinyl a ticket. 
Vinyl shrugs. "I don't know. It sounds pretty boring..."
Lyra cuts her off with a whine. "Please Vinyl we need you to come!"
Cloudchaser nods. "Yeah Vinyl. If you don't come then everypony will be going gaga for Octavia!"
Vinyl frowns. "I hate Octavia. Thinks she's so great cause she can play the cello. Cello playing piece of...
Bon Bon purposefully interrupts her. "Come on Vinyl we need to go. Discord's statue will be there and some ponies think he might come back. If he does we need to be ready."
Lyra slaps Bon Bon across the face. "Shut up Bon Bon. Why would that make her want to go?"
Vinyl sighs. "Fine i'll go already. But if they don't have any booze we're leaving." 
Lyra sways back and forth in delight. "Deal!"
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Doctor whooves bucks the manticore across the face and grabs the envelope from its mouth. 
The Doctor shouts at his pegasus friend flying overhead. "Derpy! I got it c'mere quickly before he gets you!"
Derpy runs in zig-zags to the Doctor and smiles.
"Muffin!"
The Doctor sighs. "Wait till we get home Derpy!"
Derpy hangs her head and follows him as they run through the woods away from the manticore. 
Doctor Whooves smiles at Derpy. "Now that we've gotten Mrs. Punch's mail back we can get you a muffin."
Derpy giggles and smiles at the thought of eating muffins. At that moment Berry Punch runs over to them and takes the mail. 
Berry Punch: Thank you so much Doctor and Derpy!
She pulled three tickets out of the envelope and gave two to the Doctor. 
"Thank you both for saving my mail from that beast. Here have these two tickets to Celestia's garden party."
Doctor Whooves smiles and looks them over. 
"Thanks! I wouldn't have wanted to miss a historic day like this." The Doctor said happily. 
Derpy giggles. "If they have muffins then I'm there!"
Doctor Whooves smiles at Berry Punch and leads Derpy to his house where he hands her a muffin. 
Derpy smiles and rips apart the muffin with big pieces of it falling out. 
Whooves sighs. "Come on Derpy! You've got muffin in your hair!"
Doctor Whooves cleans out Derpy's hair and hands her a ticket. "Don't loose this Derpy. I want you there and on time."

Big Macintosh walks through Sweet Apple Acres pulling a plow and plowing up the ground when Cheerilee walks up to him. 
Cheerilee smiles. "Hi Big Mac. I was wondering if you were free tomorrow evening and if you might want to go to the Royal Garden openings with me."
Big Mac replies with his one word catchphrase. "Eeyup."
"Great! I'll see you later Big Mac." Cheerilee says before walking away.
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Spitfire and Soarin walk into the Royal Garden to be greeted by their good friend Fancy Pants. 
Soarin laughs. "Hey! Not much of a surprise to see you here."
Fancy Pants nods. "Yes. I make it a point to come to all the social gatherings that I can. 
Soarin turns to Spitfire. "Hey Spity I'm going to go get us some drinks. Alright?"
As soon as she nods he walks off and passes by Luna talking to Celestia. 
Celestia whispers to her sister. "Would it be all right if I left you to go greet some of the other guests?" 
Luna nods and watches as her sister walks to the reception table. As she turns to leave. She runs into Twilight Sparkle talking with her brother.
Luna smiles. "Twilight? So glad to see a farmilliar face amongst all these ponies."
Twilight turns to see Luna talking to her. "Oh. Hi Princess. There's somepony I think you'd like to meet."
Twilight holds out her hoof toward Shining Armor and Cadence. 
"This is my brother Shining Armor and his wife Cadence." She says proudly.
Luna smiles faintly. "How do you do?"
Shining Armor bows. "Nice to finally meet the princess of the night."
Luna steps back. "I-I need a minute and then'll be right back."
She walks away and sighs as she gets away from them. She walks into Derpy and apologizes profusely for spilling her drink. 
The Doctor sees the commotion with Derpy and walks over to help. "It's quite alright princess. She makes so many spills she might as well not even use cups."
Derpy giggles and turns to see the reception table muffins. Her eyes widen and she licks her lips. 
"MUFFINS!"
She runs as fast as she can to the refreshment table knocking over ponies as she runs. Vinyl Scratch stands up and continues to walk alongside Lyra, Bon Bon, and Cloudchaser. Vinyl looks at the stage to see Octavia playing her cello. 
An evil smile spreads across Vinyl's face. "Hey girls let's throw eggs at her."
Lyra looks at her quizzically. "What eggs?"
Vinyl sighs. "You're right there are no eggs here."
She looks around and sees the muffins on the reception table. 
"Those'll work." She says happily.
Bon Bon nods. "Okay!"
As they walk towards the table they pass Big Mac and Cheerilee walking in. Cheerilee sighs when she spots Flim and Flam messing with Discord's statue. 
"Now what are they up to?" 
Big Mac walks up to them and Cheerilee follows. Flim and Flam look over at them. 
Flim smiles at his brother. "Well Flam we need to create a little chaos to wake up Discord."
"Indeed Flim." Flam replies.
Both brothers run over and start attacking Big Mac and Cheerilee. At the same time Vinyl Scratch, Lyra, Cloudchaser, and Bon Bon start to throw muffins at Octavia.
Octavia screams with rage. "Vinyl! Stop throwing muffins at me!" 
Derpy sees them wasting the muffins and jumps at them screaming. Soon enough a huge commotion had started and everypony was fighting or screaming. Just then a loud laugh made everypony stop and stare. 
Twilight gasps. "Discord!"
The statue cracks apart and the mangled form of Discord steps out into the open. 
"Looks like we're in for a big old storm of chaos."
Everypony gasps and stares at Discord fearfully. 
Celestia growls in anger. "Discord! How dare you try to come back."
Discord just stands there staring at her. "Celestia. How rude that you interrupted me. Now as I was saying, I have a fun little experiment that I've been planning for eons and all of you ponies will be my toys. So I'm going to send all of you party guests to a world I created called Chaosville."
Discord snaps his fingers and all the ponies teleport to a world where everything is made of small cubes. The entire world was a flat wasteland with nothing but cubes and trees. After getting a closer examination Spitfire realized that it greatly resembles the popular game Ponycraft. 
Doctor Whooves stands there looking astonished. "I've been to hundreds of planets but I've never seen one like THIS!"
Discord nods. "Welcome one and all to the unveiling of Chaosville. All of you will be serving as an experiment for me to decide if I should make all of Equestria like this. So have fun, and try to survive. 
At the same time Big Mac, Vinyl Scratch, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, Luna, and Spitfire all say the same thing. "No, Discord. We're going to beat your little game, defeat you, and SAVE EQUESTRIA!"

To be continued...