//------------------------------// // 5.The Sacrifice // Story: The Pegasearch // by The Dashie //------------------------------// “No! How could you do this?” I screamed in great rage. “How could you just mutilate every single pony and human in such a detestable fashion? It’s not just for chaotic reasons. There is another motive behind something that is that vile. Why are you really showing me this world, Discord?” He smiled, not a sound left his face, and said, “Oh, Dash. For the first time in my life, I am actually telling the truth and you don’t believe me. The reason I am doing this is because I want chaos. Why is that so hard to believe?” I was getting pissed by that point. “Discord, don’t you play games with me. Why are you doing this?” He lost his happy appeal and said, “Dash, I really only want the chaos. I am actually trying to tell you the truth this time, and it is honestly hurting my feelings that you aren’t trusting me. Why everybody else tries to tell the truth is beyond me, but if a human can’t believe that the god of chaos only wants chaos, why should he tell the truth? I only want chaos. That’s it. That is my ultimate purpose in this seemingly infinite existence: To cause chaos. If you don’t want to believe me, that’s your problem, but I know what I want to accomplish from…” He stopped mid-sentence, and I didn’t know why, but then I turned around and saw something I never thought I would see before. It was a pony, but it wasn’t a mutant. Well, not a grotesque one. That innocent looking orange alicorn had somehow appeared in this vision world, and was walking towards me and Discord. “Hey Dad. Hi Dash! What are you guys talking about?” Both I and Discord looked at her with total shock as it would seem impossible for her to be able to do what she has done. “Discord, did you bring Scootaloo here?” “If you can trust what I’m saying for once, then no. I did not bring her here.” Scootaloo squeed rather loudly and said, “No he didn’t bring me here. I used my new magic to get here! I knew it was that time of the month again, so I experimented with my newly mastered magic and tried to enter your mind telepathically and see what you saw during the harvesting periods. What is this place? Doesn’t look anything like Ponyvi…” She turned her head and looked about; viewing the horror of this desolate land. I saw a tear come to her eye and she said, “What is this horrible place, guys? I don’t like it here at all. Let’s go home. I want to go home now, guys.” Discord looked at her and said, “Dear Scootaloo, this soon will be home. I am making a chaotic paradise for us. Wont that be good?” She started getting angry. “No, I don’t want this. This is wrong. I don’t want all my friends to be all deformed and hurt like this. I want them to be happy and healthy and…to like me. They wouldn’t like me if my dad did this,” and she pointed her arm to the deformed pony/humans. “I want to be able to play with my friends. I like the thing that we have going where I can play with Rainbow Dash and Dash in their cell, and we can be a group of friends together. Why can’t we just keep it like that, Dad?” “Because I think you would be happier in this new world. I had planned to spare Dash and Rainbow Dash so that you could be happy.” She still looked troubled with this. “No, that’s still not good enough a reason. What about Applebloom and Sweetie Belle? We are a team. I can’t just let them get turned into… well, them. I couldn’t bear it. I’m sorry, Dad, but I can’t let you do this.” Discord looked at her with such a serious face, so serious it scared me a little bit. “I believe you will.” He then snapped his fingers, and Scootaloo screamed in pain as Discord’s spell was stilling her, but I could tell she was fighting it. “Dad, what are you doing? This is cruel punishment. What have I done wrong but spoken out against your vision which, by the way, is vile?” “You have done more than that. You have openly defied your father in his work place and, while normal father's would just send their daughters to their room, I would rather kill the rebellion at the source. Plus I need you for another plan I would like to do. Actually, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while.” While he was saying that his voice went up an octave or two, which actually made him sound like a girl. As Scootaloo had finally been frozen, I see a magic aura surround her, a mist like enclosure forms around her, and blood curdling scream is heard, while through her body, the spawn of Discord arrives. I couldn’t believe what I saw at first, but there she was, with her purple coat, swirly eyes and her propeller hat. It didn’t seem real, but there she was; the daughter of the god of chaos, Screwball.