Chapter eight: A Little Detour
By the time John began to realize what Celestia had in mind, A loud poof was heard just outside. He looked out the window to see...nothing.
"Boo." said a new voice just behind John causing him to jump. As he turned, his suspicions were confirmed.
"Discord." John said casually.
"Why hello there, it seems that I'm just in time!" Discord said ecstatically.
"What's that supposed to mean?" John asked curiously.
"Well the show is about to start, you've been up here talking to Celly for so long you almost missed it!" Discord said.
"You almost sound like Dimentio." John said with his face in his palm.
"C'mon, hurry back downstairs!" Discord yelled as he dragged the human back to where the party was. Somehow while they were gone, a small stage had been set up. John wondered how this was possible, a moment later he just chalked up as a Pinkie Pie thing.
"Ooh, you made it in time!" Pinkie said clapping her hooves together. "I was about to have to come get you and the princess, I thought you might enjoy a magic show since you appeared...like magic!" Pinkie finished without even being out of breath.
"Woo?" John said with questionable enthusiasm.
"Hoo!" Pinkie Pie finished excitedly.
"Quiet now, the show is about to begin." A voice came out of nowhere. The voice sounded familiar...despite the fact that John had only heard it twice.
Suddenly, there was a puff of smoke on the stage and once it cleared a light blue unicorn stood in its place.
"Presenting, The Great and Powerful Trixie!" Exclaimed the blue mare.
"Oh joy." John muttered to himself as he purposely distracted himself.
"And her new assistant! Dimentio!" Said a second voice as a mask flashed on Trixie's face.
"Wait what?" John asked, startled back into coherence.
"You heard right, The Great and Powerful Trixie has found an assistant!" Trixie boomed.
"No..." Was all John could muster as he realized Dimentio had truly escaped his mind.
"Aw, don't worry John. I haven't completely abandoned you." Dimentio said with a chuckle from within John's mind.
"Wait, what the hell?" John asked confusedly.
"What?" Twilight asked John as she shook herself free from the shock of Trixie's new 'friend'
"He's in my head as well." John muttered almost inaudibly.
"But how? There's no way he could be in several places at once!" Twilight explained.
"Ooh, but I can! I simply left a bit of myself within our mutual friend here and voila." Dimentio said as he laughed through Trixie.
"What do you want?" Twilight asked nervously.
"Oh, not much thank you for asking...well, actually there is one thing." Dimentio said casually.
"Yes?" Twilight proceeded cautiously.
"Just to destroy everything and rebuild a new, perfect dimension that I can rule...like I said, it's not much. I'm very easy to please." Dimentio said with a shrug.
"Wait, you want what?" Trixie's voice interrupted, temporarily breaking the mask over her face with a look of terror. She began to struggle to no avail to expel Dimentio from her mind.
"You heard me. Sorry everyone, good help can be very difficult to find." Dimentio said.
"You're the assistant Dimentio, you are supposed to be the 'help'. We were supposed to put on a show here. I won't let you hurt anypony." Trixie said angrily.
"I merely said I would assist you. The show on the other hand must go on...or begin in this case." Dimentio said as he teleported a helpless John up to the stage.
"You're insane!" Twilight yelled as her horn flared to life. She didn’t know how powerful Dimentio was, but she sure as Tartarus knew she wouldn’t allow Dimentio to destroy everything.
"Please, if I was 'insane' as you so bluntly put it, you would probably all be dead... Speaking of which, I'm off schedule." The mask on Trixie's face seemed to smirk. Trixie's horn glowed ominously as a bolt of magic formed above her, she was forced to aim at John. Simultaneously, a yellowish barrier formed around the crowd.
"As am I." Discord said as he appeared in front of Trixie. He caught the fiery bolt in an old fashioned pipe that seemed to appear in his hand. He began to smoke the pipe which inexplicably released bubbles instead of actual smoke.
"What the?" Dimentio's smile lapsed for an almost imperceptible amount of time to a look of pure shock at the sudden intrusion upon his personal space. He quickly recovered and matched Discord's grin.
"I think it's a bit early for this story to end, don't you?" Discord said as he snuffed Trixie's magic with his fingers.
"Why, not at all. This has dragged on much longer than it should have. Besides, the human is of no use to me. In fact, he has no use to any of you, therefore, I am doing everyone a favor... By ending his game!" Dimentio responded with an evil chuckle.
"But his mind is full of such juicy chaotic potential!" Discord protested jokingly.
"Hey, you two leave me out of this!" John yelled at the pair.
"But he's sooo annoying." Dimentio groaned.
"I'll have to agree with you there." Discord said and rolled his eyes.
"So, let me just kill him already... While I'm at it, why not just let me destroy everything like I originally planned." Dimentio suggested, slightly agitated.
"That's another reason I came here, you're too uppity about killing." Discord scolded.
"Is that so? Well... Perhaps you're right." Dimentio said with a frown.
He looked as if he truly had to think about his life. It seemed that this was the end of our story, Dimentio becoming a nice guy.
Who would have thou-"MAGIC!" Dimentio yelled as he laughed maniacally at the ponies who seemed to honestly think that he might reconsider his tenancy to destroy. Several bolts of murderous magic formed and began to fire in every direction. Trixie continued to struggle in order to save everypony.
"Not this time! Discord chuckled and snapped his claws causing Trixie/Dimentio (along with all of the impending projectiles) to disappear in a puff of smoke. The ponies at the party stood awestruck as they tried to piece together what had just happened. The magical barrier around all of the ponies slowly dissipated afterwards
"What the hay just happened?" Rainbow Dash said to break the ice.
"Heck if I know sugarcube... Seems we owe you an apology John." Applejack said solemnly.
"Don't worry about it. Discord, did you just... Get rid of them?" John asked curiously.
"What? I would never do anything so barbaric. Bad human, bad." Discord said appalled. He rolled up a newspaper and smacked John on the nose.
"Then what did you do?" John asked as he quickly grew tired of Discord's antics.
"I simply teleported them to the middle of the Everfree Forest... And scrambled Trixie's sense of direction a bit." Discord said with a chuckle.
Minutes later in the center of the Everfree...
"You should have warned me about that Discord fellow." Dimentio huffed.
"Yeah, because I definitely knew that the god of chaos would be showing up. Besides, I'm glad you weren't able to kill anypony." Trixie said.
"You really aren't any fun." Dimentio groaned.
"Sorry my definition of 'fun' doesn't involve killing things." Trixie shot back angrily.
"So am I." Dimentio said as if he pitied the unicorn
"ugh! Get out of my head you sick twisted freak!" Trixie stamped her hoof and tried to suppress the malicious jester.
"Insults? Really? I thought you were better than that. And quit trying to resist, I'm afraid you don't even have the brainpower of that human... That truly does make you pathetic." Dimentio mused.
"Well, let's get going. My plans have already been delayed twice." Trixie tried to convince herself to sit down and refuse to go anywhere, but something in her mind seemed to compel her to get back to Ponyville.
"Make that three times." Trixie said as she looked at her unfamiliar surroundings.
"What?" Dimentio said with a hint of confusion.
"I have no idea where we are." Trixie said solemnly as she looked around her surroundings.
"Oh well, that just means we have time to get to know each other!" Dimentio said ecstatically.
"Great." Trixie rolled her eyes and huffed soon she began to reluctantly trudge in a random direction hoping to find a way out of the forest.
Proofread by-Nightingalehound
Revised by Setheroth