'Canterlot.
'Fancy fancy stuff everywhere. The kind of city Rarity dreams of. The city where the Wonderbolts, Rainbow Dash's idols, train most of the time. The city where the Princesses live in, if Princess Cadenza isn't counted, she's up north in the Crystal Empire. Contains exotic creatures that would make Sister Fluttershy run for her wings to befriend.'
"THIS SUCKS! WHY AM I HERE?!?!?"
Ponies were startled and stared at the colt responsible.
"If you do want to know, squirt, Princess Luna and her sis will examine you." Rainbow Dash smirked.
"Examine?"
"Yeah, you know, cut you open, take notes, and cut you some more, and Twilight will be joining too, and--"
The used-to-be chaos lord ran to behind Fluttershy, knowing that she is the only one Rainbow Dash couldn't answer back at, ever since the magic box thing.
"Dashy, what did you say?" she asked.
"Nothing, just--"
Pinkie appeared from nowhere. "First she said things about cutting the squirt open, then taking down notes, then Twilight having a turn, then the Sisters and Twilight will be cutting him like forever, and--"
"Rainbow, were you trying to scare him?" Fluttershy asked, her eyes brimming with concern for Discord, disappointment and sadness at Rainbow Dash, and overall cuteness.
"You're cute today."
Fluttershy turned red.
"Uhh, you okay?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Fluttershy fainted.
"Ooooh, you broke her, you broke her, don't have any money to fix her!" Discord sang in an annoying tone that youngsters would normally sing.
"She's not a toy! Plus, she just fainted, which is bad news for you..." Rainbow Dash grinned.
BOP
"Owww..."
"He got hit! Home run!" Pinkie said.
"It's not baseball." Rainbow Dash said. "Oh, and could you lift up her left side?"
"Oh, okey dokey lokey!" Pinkie smiled and proceeded to lift Fluttershy's left legs.
Applejack noticed that they were falling behind. "Hey y'all, better hurry up there, an' what in the hay's happened to the filly?"
"I'm not a filly! I am a lord of chaos!" Discord shouted.
"Not anymore you aren't." Princess Luna said. "You're most likely law and order now."
"What?"
"Not explaining anymore." Princess Luna replied.
"Aww, man!" he groaned.
"Twilight Sparkle, meet me in my room tonight." Princess Luna let out a smile.
"Uhh, okay." Twilight nodded.
"Looks like someone's a favourite." Rarity said to Applejack.
"'Ah don' get it." said a confused Applejack.
"Hey, guys! Rainbow Dash is getting tired, can some pony sub her, carrying Fluttershy's right side?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"NO, I WANT to carry Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash said. "I can do it on my own!"
"Okey dokey lokey!" Pinkie said, with Rarity correcting Fluttershy's position.
"Thanks, Rares." Rainbow Dash grinned.
They didn't know that they reached the castle until Princess Celestia spoke.
"Sister. Took you a while." Princess Celestia said. "So, what's happened?"
"So, it all started when..." Princess Luna explained, with the six ponies adding in with information. None of them noticed that Discord wandered away from them, for boredom-related reasons.
He wandered until he saw the two stallions from in the train before.
"Hey, you're the guys on the train!" he said.
"Hey, kid, wanna play some cards?" the unicorn asked.
"Okay!"
They played a game of Go Fish, with bets. They played for several rounds, with Discord winning.
"Ha! I win again!" said the Alicorn while magically taking all the bits.
"Hey, how did that happen?" asked the pegasus.
"Don't know," said the unicorn. "Hey, it's your marefriend."
A pink mare with a red-magenta mane and a pair of two white eyes approached.
"Broke again, huh?" she said.
"The kid's a genius!" said the pegasus.
"And he just heard the rules once." added the unicorn.
"You guys are inseparable, even when losing your bets." she said while chuckling. She turned to the colt and asked, "Hey, little guy, where are you supposed to go to?"
"Uhh..." he pointed to the castle.
"Really?" she asked.
"Come on, let's go check." said the Pegasus. "After we eat."
"No dude, we need to return him now." said the unicorn.
"You guys have been playing for six hours. He's clearly hungry!" the mare glared at the two stallions.
"Told you we need to eat." smirked her coltfriend.
"Donut Joe has good doughnuts." said the unicorn.
The four ponies headed to Donut Joe's, where they saw two mares bummed out, one stood out as she was clearly of royal stature. A bow commences from the three but--
"Save it for my sister," she said with a groan, "Hey, Twilight Sparkle, how about coffee?"
"Don't mind if I do," said the unicorn with her.
"Hey, Twilight." Discord said.
"And where were you?" Twilight raged. "Princess Celestia was looking for you all day! She even went outside Canterlot, for Maverick's sake! And you were--"
"Playing cards?" the male unicorn said sheepishly.
Twilight's appearance changed. Her hair turned into flame, her eyes burned with crimson, and her coat was amber-white.
"YOU WERE PLAYING CARDS?"
Donut Joe pulled out an umbrella, knowing that Twilight would set off the sprinklers.
The unicorn took the brunt of the rage, while his dating friends proceeded to Donut Joe.
"Oh, one of this," the mare said.
"And this, and two medium coffees." the stallion added.
"That'll be thirty bits." Joe said.
The stallion brought out forty, in case of the fire that Twilight made creates any damage.
"Keep it, she might cook something." the stallion said. Then the couple proceeded to the table adjacent to the table Princess Luna and Twilight were sitting in.
"So, your Nightsomeness, how's the weather?" the stallion asked.
"Let's say my mare here--"
"D'awww! Princess Luna and Rapidash together!" the mare interjected.
"Water surround fire! Opposites cancel!" the unicorn said in a dodgy, quick, ninja sort of tone. Twilight was drenched with water.
"Whoo, that was refreshing..." Twilight said, her features and colour scheme returning. "Why were you playing cards?"
"I was bored, alright? Then I wandered, see? Then I found Romeo and Kenji--"
"Name's Icarus." said the pegasus.
"Jack is me, I am Jack." said the unicorn.
"Name's Magenta." said the mare in advance.
"--and they asked me to play cards. I won, and didn't even cared to listen to the rules." Discord smugly smiled. "Then Magenta came and asked where I came from. So I told them but we ate first."
"Yeah, one triple chocolate and a coffee." Jack said to Joe.
"So, you only observed the first moves of your opponents in a game and knew the rules off the bat?" Princess Luna asked.
"Yeah, and I won, hello?"
"Yeah, good." Princess Luna said without listening. "I have to tell Sister."
"Uh, where are the others?" the colt asked.
"Asleep." Twilight said. "They were tired from searching."
"Oh, how's Sister Fluttershy?"
"You have a sister?" asked the couple.
"Not exactly..." Twilight said. "Fluttershy was the only one who put up with Discord when he was a bad egg."
"More like an egghead." Jack commented.
"Ouch..." Twilight said.
"I was talking about the kid!" the unicorn stallion defensively retorted.
"Oh." Twilight realized. "Anyway, remember the Chaos Lord?"
"Oh, you mean that guy?" Magenta said. "Yeah, you and five friends stoned him, then what you said, he got rehab."
Every pony stared.
"What? I'm not the kind to play cards all day." Magenta said in defense.
"Ouch..." The stallions said.
"But...why am I an Alicorn colt?" Discord asked.
"You're an Alicorn due to your ancient power. You are a colt due to your mentality." Princess Luna said.
"That for real?" Twilight asked.
"Makes sense to me." Icarus added.
"Hey, Icarus, almost bed time." Magenta winked.
Twilight, Discord, and Princess Luna left ahead of Icarus, Jack and Magenta, who tipped Joe since they were the last customers.
"They sure love giving tips." said a confused Princess Luna.
"And cards." Discord added, holding a deck of cards.
"Enough with the cards!" Twilight said.
Silence ensued, until Discord asked another question.
"Princess Luna, what does a marefriend and coltfriend do in bed?"
"Well, you see, that's umm..." the Alicorn of the night stuttered. "uhh, well first, there's the part where they..."
The sun rose from the east, waking Discord who slept by the windowsill, making him fall down, making a mess of his cards.
"too...early...why...did...I...fall..." he groaned.
The colt looked at his position.
"Guess I slept at the windowsill, huh?"
He crept out of the room, careful not to wake up Twilight and Princess Luna. Which he realised,
"I snoozed at Luna's room?" he whispered.
He proceeded out, while peeking at the next room.
He saw Pinkie sleeping on a big pillow, Applejack sleeping on another big pillow, Rarity sleeping on a bed, and--
"Dashmeister and Sister Fluttershy are like pancakes." he said, looking at Rainbow Dash sprawled on top of Fluttershy.
"Girls are weird."
He went on.
Until someone noticed his being awake.
"Pretty early for a colt to be awake."
It was Princess Celestia, who didn't even look at Discord when she found out.
"Uh, I fell." he attempted to play it like a child.
"I see." she said, still not turning from her scoping of the horizon. They were in the balcony where the Sisters change the time of day.
"But I remember my student providing you the extra bed, and choosing to sleep beside my sister." she added. "Let me guess, you were sleeping on the windowsill?"
"How did you know?" he asked.
"Cards."
"Cards? What card--"
He realized that he fell on top of a house of cards.
The princess let out a mere chuckle.
"My sister lied about the reason why you were transformed into the age you are now, former chaos lord." Princess Celestia continued. "The real reason is that you have become the opposite of chaos, but not completely, as you still need to learn your true self."
"True self, you mean my cutie mark?" he asked. "I get to get one?"
"Yes." she calmly said. "So--"
"Wait a sec." he interrupted. "That means I'm like, a pony now?" he asked. "But, I was, used to being, chaotic and stuff! I was in the--"
"Hold it, colt." she said without stir in her voice. "Do you know why the bizarre machinery fell from the sky?"
"No, why?"
"It was the last of your uncontrollable powers." she answered. "It took devices that would be invented in a timeline of the future. Which is an old trick to stir up chaos."
"Wait, am I 'orderly' now?" he asked, with fear in his voice.
"No." she said. "I said uncontrollable powers. Not all of your powers left, you know. You gained replacement abilities, plus your powers that stayed."
"But I can't use them yet, right?" he asked.
She nodded. "Just because you cannot perform something today does not mean you will never achieve it."
"I have to unlock it first?"
She nodded and panned her vision from left to right, enjoying the fruit of her responsibility.
"Thousands of years ago, my sister and I sealed you into stone." she said. "Recently, you escaped, then got sealed back again shortly."
"Your point?"
"And I only realized weeks ago, that you could live not as evil, but good." She turned around, and stroked the colt's mane with her hoof. "This is good, isn't it?"
He nodded, and asked, "What is?"
"Being good."
"Don't know yet." he said without care.
"I see," she calmly replied. "It's a good thing you are a colt now, as you'll need to know how to live like a pony." She put her hooves together. "Well, Twilight and her friends do have an impact on you. Stick with them for a while."
The colt scratched his head using a rake he pulled from nowhere.
"So, is Twilight a princess?"
"Where did that come from?"
"Well, her power felt different from other unicorns, and--"
"I meant the rake."
"Oh." he chuckled. "That guy."
He pointed at the groundskeeper.
"Where's my rake?"
"Here it is, sorry." he sheepishly levitated the rake to its user.
"What was that about my student?" the princess asked.
"I was just wondering if she became an Alicorn, she and I would be the Super Alicorn Duo! Working for the great Princess Celestia, and protecting the innocent from the evil forces of evil! Ba da da daaah!"
"SAD? And you said evil twice." The princess mused at the childish statement.
"Aww, you think it's dumb!" He pouted as if he was a colt who couldn't reach the cupboard.
"I'm just musing at the idea of you and Twilight wearing matching outfits!" she laughed louder. "It's okay if it's for show, but you're thinking for real, and it's funny!" She was laughing uncontrollably, something a princess would rarely do.
She stopped after a while and said, "I haven't laughed that hard since, uh, oh. I can't remember. Well, then, Discord? Thank you for making me bust my guts."
"Thanks, Princess," but then he realized, "Ew, for real?"