The train stopped at the Manehatten train station.
"Talk about 'surprise me', seriously." Discord said as he went outside the car. Luckily for him, the Princess announced his reformation, so that means no one will run away upon seeing him. At least. The bored draconequus looked right and left. He could not find what he was searching for. A ray of good energies. But he knew what to do. "Roam the town without showing hint of your aims!"
But then, after three minutes, he stopped.
He found somepony. An amaranth-maned gamboge filly wearing a red cape. The filly was leading a group of colts and fillies who had no cutie marks yet. That was so because she had no cutie mark too. The spirit of chaos was intrigued. He approached the group.
"Hey, little colts and fillies! What are you up to?" he asked.
"We're gonna jump off that pedestal and survive!" one said.
"Maybe we'll get a lemming for a cutie mark!" another added.
"A lemming? But don't they--WAIT!" Discord shouted.
However, two things prevented him from doing something. One, was that the foals were already up the pedestal. Second, his tail started to hurt. As he looked behind, not just as 'I can't look' gesture but also to check his tail. It was receding into his flanks. "Uh oh." He zipped to the landing spot and provided himself as a makeshift cushion for the plummeting foals.
Ouch. And by that, he meant a whole parking lot of ouch.
The chaos creature was relieved to see the foals okay. Thrilled to see one earn her cutie mark, which was thankfully not a lemming but a parachute, for the blanket she always carried made a good parachute. "In retrospect, my folks were wrong for scolding me for bringing blankie everywhere!" she said to herself.
The filly with a cape, Babs Seed, approached the downed draconequus. "Hey, sorry about incon, uh incun, um--"
"Inconveniencing me? Nah, it's okay." Discord interrupted. Babs pointed at his head and said, "Good, cause I didn't know you had white hair." She turned to the others and said, "Now that Skydive has graduated, we must go and find our cutie marks! Now, what do we do now?" she finished somewhat heroically.
One colt with a red and blue streak on his mane raised his hand. "Yes, Double Strike?"
"We could do a marathon!" One filly protested, "So what?" Double Strike added, "Blindfolded!"
All the other foals said 'ooooooooooh.' Babs knew where to go. "Hey, lets thank mister over here for cushioning our impact!"
All the foals said in sync, "Thank you, mister!" and left.
"White hair?" Discord said to himself. "I don't have--" He was shocked when he looked into a puddle. His head was more of a young pony's than an old horse's, his eyes were yellow with white whites and his tail was a pony's tail, all long with hair! He was also pissed. "Is this some kind of cruel joke? JUST BECAUSE I'M CHILDISH DOESN'T MEAN MY BODY HAS TO BE A YOUNG COLT'S!!!!!!"
Discord checked in to a nearby hotel. He purchased some apple cider from a stall. "Thanks for the discount." he said. "Nah, you were a pretty good negotiator," said the vendor, "even though that's Apple family cider, and not that Flim Flam rubbish." The draconequus' eyes widened. "Did you say Apple family?" he asked. "Eeyup, that's what that big Apple stallion keeps on saying. He's as red as an apple. Now what was his name, MacBook Pro? iOS 5? Steve--"
"Big Macintosh." Discord whispered. "Aha, that was it! Yessiree." the vendor said. "He almost always delivers apples here to Manehatten. Sometimes his sister, with a cowpony hat!" he added.
"Here's exact price for a quart of that stuff." Discord took out all his money, ran to the desk to cancel his check-in, and waited for the refund. Then, he took the refund, and the cider, and rode the train to Ponyville.
"I can't believe I forgot that place! I should go back!" he said to himself.