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“You are absolutely radiant.” Rarity trotted around the angelic form of Lero as she glanced up and down. “I think you are brighter than Princess Celestia. Wooo, I have so many new ideas to dress you up in.”
“Thanks.” Lero answered. His voice ringed pure and true.
Lyra immediately sat on her haunches, her tongue lolled over the side. “I can’t stand up. I’m indecent now. Your voice is just so harmonious.”
Lero yelped when he felt something moist clamp down on his left wing. “R-rainbow! That’s sensitive.”
“Oh I know.” Rainbow Dash answered with eye lids half shut. Her sultry look not missed by anyone. “Always wanted to return the favor.”
“Not in front of our friends.” Twilight blushed as she tugged Dash off.
“So can we do this to anypony?” Applejack asked as she wondered the implications of immortality being given to everyone. “It took a lot out of us, but it might be possible.”
“Sorry, we are already tuned into harmony’s magic. It wouldn’t do anything to us.” Twilight answered as she watched Lero flutter his wings. “The only reason I became an alicorn is because I fully understood the magic of friendship. We just forced harmony to connect Lero to it and this is what we got.”
They stared in awe as Lero finally lifted himself off the ground with his wings, and then they winced when he gracefully crashed into the ceiling and smacked face first on the floor. “I’m ok!”
“I’m so jealous that dirt can’t cling to him now.” Rarity muttered.
“Well what’s all this?” A familiar laughter filled the room as the ponies groaned. “Fluttershy you didn’t tell me you were having fun.”
Discord blinked into existence next to the angel. “I thought I felt something funny. Turns out I was right!”
“Um hey. Why are you here?” Lero leaned back as Discord casually invaded is personal space.
Discord simply hemmed for a few moments. He randomly disappeared and reappeared all over Lero in several blinks of an eye. “Well Twibright and Raintie I do believed you just murdered your stallion. He’s dead.”
“What!!!”
“Excuse me; I’m standing right here and perfectly fine.” Lero shoved Discord’s face away, but the body remained in the same spot.
“Discord you’re being mean again.” Fluttershy frowned. It was lost on Discord as he literally flicked the reprimand away.
“He’s actually more like me then he is any of you. He’s a spirit now.”
Lero blinked several times as the truth settled in. “So I died?”
“Nope.” Discord smiled widely as he rustled Lero’s hair. “You skipped the whole gasping for your final breath moment and went straight to ascended form.”
“That’s strange.” Twilight rubbed up against her stallion between him and the odd beast. “A spirit of what though and why did the Elements of Harmony turn him into that?”
“Spirit of Sexiness?” Lyra suggested.
“Hopefully he won’t end up like you.” Rainbow stuck out her tongue to Discord.
Discord was about to return the favor when he froze into a statue. He bent forward into an odd thinking pose that only Lero recognized. The ponies shared a look with each other before Fluttershy step closer.
“Discord are you alright?”
“Woohoo!!!” Discord leaped up into the air as he grabbed Lero. “I have a baby brother!”
“What!!!”
”I always wanted a little bro of my own! Now I get to be big brother and watch your every move. We’ll play sports, rough house, make each other eat dirt, and talk about girls and how icky they are.”
Discord held Lero like a baby as he danced around the room. The music of harmony started to kick in.
“You ain’t had a brother like me.”
Lero slammed his wing on Discord and completely disrupted the song. “Stop. No singing Disney songs in the house.”
Discord physically drooped (as did Pinkie). “Aw, you’re no fun.”
Then an idea bounced into Discord’s head after it opened up his skull. “We are going to be the best siblings Equestria has ever seen. Oh, I just have to rub this in Celly’s face.”
“I don’t think--.” Discord and Lero disappeared in a flash as Rainbow dived for them. “—so! Darn.”
“Twilight, catch them before something bad happens” Lyra urged Twilight on.
Over at Canterlot Castle, Celestia had a new problem. Discord held Lero like a long lanky cat and rubbed him into Celestia’s muzzle. “Look who’s got a new sibling. You see him uh? Uh, uh, uh, uh, uuuuuuhh? He’s way better than yours.”
The ever calm Solar Princess raised an eyebrow as the former human smashed up next to her. Luna glared at Discord. “What do you think you are doing?”
Discord dropped Lero and twiddled his thumbs. “Well, I just wanted to share something nice with all of you.” Discord kicked Lero lightly. “Come on, tell Luna that I am a much better older sibling then Celly ever was?”
Lero’s zombie gaze met Luna’s. “Am I going to have to put up with this for the rest of my life now?”
A paw patted Lero’s head. “Come on now don’t you love your dear older brother?”
“I do, but I haven’t seen him as I’ve been stuck in Equestria.” Lero folded his arms and glared at Discord.
Discord pointed a claw at himself with a smile. Lero shook his head. “Already the younger sibling resents the older one. Oh if only I had seen the signs I could have saved you from the path of darkness.”
Lero faceplanted with both palms. “You are impossible.”
Discord sniffled as crocodile tears (“They are not!”) trickled down his cheek. “I do it because I love my little brother, but the good of Equestria I must do the necessary deed.”
His countenance brightened up considerably as he pulled out a yellow fruit. “Would you like a banana?”
Lero tilted his head as his brain process slowed. “What?”
“Would you like a banana?”
“Um, I’m not really hungry right now.” Lero looked to Celestia and Luna for an explination. They only shared his bewildered look. Well, Luna looked like she was about to blow up.
“I’ll take that as a no.” Discord pulled a lever down. The floor disappeared beneath Lero as he fell into the pit. A large cannon rose from the hole with the poor angel inside it.
“To the mooooon!” Twilight teleported in as Discord shot Lero to the moon.
“What’s going on!?” Twilight jaw dropped as her stallion took an extended vacation.
“Oh Twilight it was just awful.” Discord wrapped his beloved sister-in-law in a hug. “Lero had to be banned to the moon for the good of tiny horses everywhere.”
“I find this display of tomfoolery of events that I suffered most grating on my nerves.” Luna growled as power flickered from her eyes.
“You’re just jealous of our bond. Now if you will excuse me I have to go find six spunky mares with attitude to manipulate into saving my dear brother before he returns, tata!” Discord snapped his fingers and disappeared.
Twilight stared up at the moon as a bright light flickered on it. “How are we getting him down?”
Luna sighed. “Don’t worry Twilight. I’ll go get him.”