A little know thing about the city of Trottingham was that it is extremely rich, due to one of it's major exports; Chocolate. The most famous chocolate producing company in all of Equesteria was based there; Horshy's. Horshy's chocolate was started by a stallion named "Cocoa Horshy". You worked for the company, which was now ruled by a greedy CEO.
Mr. Prickly Offer Nemgnat Yunoi was a greedy and slightly cruel man. He preferred to be called Prickly Offer, for whatever reason, and often times you saw him firing people. Not you, though, because you were a central worker for the main Horshy's factory in Trottingham. You were the only unicorn who could process cocoa as well as you did, for your specialty was just that. In fact, your cutiemark shows cocoa separated from dirt. Which you could do. Your handsome, brown yet slightly caramel coat was a familiar site around the factory, as you often won "Employee of the Month", as well as your darker mane and tail, smooth as the flowing liquid chocolate you see when walking to your station. Mr. Prickly Offer didn't let any of that stop him from being cruel to you, even if it was tiny. Today, however, something terrible happened.
It was a Monday, so you already were more tired on days like that. Today also was a day where huge orders of Horshy's chocolate were made, and you had to get to work earlier. You were a highly productive worker, and fought that all off. However, one parasprite exactly the shade of the cocoa dust you had to sort, came through. You immediately noticed your mistake when it was too late, for you saw a blue blob in the pile too. Attempting to get help, you told the operator that you accidentally let a parasprite through, but he didn't respond. The fact that he was staring at his laptop, which were never found in Canterlot, as they had been banned, or small towns, and the way his face looked, told you it all. You strongly disliked this pony. He masturbated at work way too much, and often got other people fired. He was never blamed though. Not once. You sighed, and hoped no one would notice. Today, however, the Parasprite Removal Service came to Horshy's, and could easily see the Parasprite. They told Mr. Prickly Offer, and his shout told you it all.
"You moron! You let a parasprite through? I am so annoyed right now, in fact, you should be fired! Yeah, right, I can fire you! YOU'RE FIRED!" screamed he. Devastated, you attempted to not show it, and accidentally looked like a Canterlot pony from that. You got your things, and left the factory. When you exited, you began crying. Crying because you were fired from the perfect job. Crying because you had no hope for a family anymore. Crying because Discord was looking right at you.
"D-D-Discord?" you asked, looking at the chaos god staring over you.
"Assuming I know my own name, yes, I am Discord. I heard you were good at sorting chocolate, and I figured you could sort other things too. My one question is, would you be willing to help me?" asked the spirit of disharmony.
"No! Never! I would never ser-" you attempted to say, but Discord shoved a paper in your face and sighed. You read it.
Hello, my subject who my friend here is attempting to recruit. I know you have heard bad things about him, but he has changed, and is using his magic to save Equesteria now. I ask that you help him, listen to him, believe him, and then you will also help me...
Signed,
Princess Celestia
Of course, you skipped a bunch, as princesses usually go way too far into detail when talking about their requests. However, you got the general idea; help Discord. You never noticed a purple unicorn mare with a dark aura with green outlines around it floating around the city; you would regret that sooner or later. For now, of course, there was not much to worry about.
Two hours later, you were eating lunch with Discord and those ... animals who were following him. Then it happened; a beam of black aura magic blasted down from the sky and made the picnic table explode, and formed a black crystal, which started spreading in a black line to the quartz statue at the center of the Trottingham Scientific Park; an odd unicorn pony, who seemed to have a curved head. When you read about this place called the "Crystal Empire" in the newspaper, you figured out who it was, and why it suddenly disappeared one day and then reappeared, accompanied by some odd sort of Aurora spreading out; it was a statue of a tyrannical unicorn king named "King Sombra". The crystals started going towards the statue, getting bigger and creating a wider and wider cone. You started to scream, when Discord put his lion paw over your mouth and said, "Shh, be quite, I'll stop this." Suddenly, he turned red and blue, with all other sorts of colors, and raising up in the air, and BOOM! a giant beam came from his eagle claw and blasted the crystals away. He then looked at the purple mare in the sky.
"Oh Twilight, I knew this was bound to happen the moment I saw your eyes when I was turned back to flesh and bones! The dark magic took hold of you! This is hilariously expected! Now, I just have to stop you before I have to do more work than needed," he sighed, and then he turned to you. "Ah, yes! Perfect! I need a life form to use this spell!" exclaimed the Draconequus. You started trembling with fear, when he started laughing hysterically, and turned to a blade of grass, shooting green beams out of his eyes and then, like a tractor beam, pulled them back, and shot them at the purple mare.
"Wha-what happened? I was reading a book, and then I passed out, and now I'm in Trottingham!" said mare named Twilight Sparkle, as you recalled from the newspaper. Then she looked shocked.
"Why is Discord here? Who is that guy? What are those-" she tried to say, before falling asleep.
"Erm, we should go now. Leave it to her friends to find her here. To Alicornin we go!" shouted Discord, and he started flying, after looking at you and seeing that you weren't able to fly. "Oh, yeah, that ... I know, I'll make you a pegasus pony!" he announced, and suddenly, you had very long wings.
"Wow," you simply exclaimed.