~.Equestria approximately 1 hour ahead.~
Celestia and Luna were returning from the lookout of the castle to the throne room. Discord sits on Celestia's throne , a grin spreads wide across his face.
Celestia's face however, was the opposite of his. Her face was one of complete outrage "Discord! Just what do you think you're doing!? I thought you said you would only use your
magic for good!" The only response he gave her was a snort in laughter " I also said "Most of the time"." He looks through the stained windows at the storm, fuming and loud, like a large barking dog.
" I didn't make this storm, All it takes to make everypony go running is a little noise and wind? might as well expose them to your snoring." A brighter shade of red couldn't be found anywhere, than the one on Celestia's face. Luna had to stifle her laughter by covering her mouth, but a small giggle slipped out anyway.
"How dare you disrespect me in my own home !" Discord simply waved her off and hopped out of the throne, the guards moved in on him, their spears pointed directly at his gut. "Discord . . how about you go and stop the storm, if my sister can't do it, then you're the only option left."
He teleported himself up into the air, floating ,and crossing his legs , while laying his head back. The guards were dismissed by Celestia , against someone like discord they wouldn't be much help anyway.
" I don't really think I want to stop this storm . Its been a while since I've been able to watch some good ol' fashioned chaos"
"But you have to, you swore you'd use your magic for good." Luna says trying to be as diplomatic as possible about this
" Oh-ho-ho, i said "only" for good . . .sometimes, I chose when to use my powers."
Celestia stomps her hoof, and then she got an idea .
" It really is a shame you wont help us Discord."
Discord his head high with a toothy grin.
" And there's nothing you can do about it ."
" Yes, and its also too bad you wont be able to pull pranks anymore ."
The chimera looked at the princess with bewilderment, and distrust.
" I can do anything I wish, if i wish it, but just in case I was interested . . .why not?"
The room was silent for a moment , the silence's only filling was the thunder from outside, getting louder and louder each time, the number of booms was also growing,
Becoming a more pressing issue, the booms were now rattling the walls of the castle. Luna was the only one really paying attention to the storm, she shuddered at the thought of what that storm was probably doing to Ponyville, and Canterlot right now .
" Because , discord, What good are pranks-" The princess pauses interrupted by the thunder . "- if there is no one left to play them on? "
Discord had to think for a minute, Stop the storm , or keep enjoying the fun he was having.
" DiscooOO- oord! " Celestia yelled, after having been shaken by the rumbling of the thunder from outside.
A deep sigh came from discord, he didn't really want to stop the storm, but he wanted to be alone again even less.
" Oh . . .fine, but you both owe me, since I am the only one powerful enough to stop this ."
Normally the one to give orders, Celestia couldn't stand to for once be at the mercy of someone else's whim, but there was nothing she could do because her magic wouldn't work on the storm. Discord on the other hand was now flying directly towards the sky outside, The thick turbulence made it annoying to get inside of the thundercloud. But eventually after what discord would later come to call "Minor effort" he made his way inside the thick black clouds.
Inside the cloud there was virtually no wind at all, and the only source of light was a large pulsing sphere of red energy, it beat like a heart, and every time it did, more thunder roared through Equestria. Thunder took its toll on discords hearing, and that was getting to be rather annoying. Blasts of magic seemed to do nothing to shut the pulsing off, in fact it increased their speed, it had taken him 5 minutes to absorb a fraction of the energy this storm possessed , and he wasn't about to be outdone by some silly storm, in fact he bet he could create a better storm himself.
Then the idea hit him, He would counter-act this storm, with another one. Gathering his own magic, The powerful chimera combined it with the fraction of the original storm's power, making himself his own storm, this sphere was smaller, not to mention blue. " This will have to do, nobody's magic is better than mine! not even nature's!"
Small and crackling with lighting, the blue sphere was naturally attracted to the red sphere, and was sucked inside of it. For a moment all thunder stopped, and the wind in Ponyville stopped too, all the towns-ponies looked outside to see if it was over, but their hopeful eyes turned to ones of dread when they realized that they were only in the eye of the storm.
Magic from discord was now in the sphere and it was pulling him in as well now. " I'm discord! some measly storm can't destroy me!". After the two spheres had combined their color turned to a deep dark purple, creating a vortex under the storm cloud, unfortunately for discord, he was too busy being pulled into the sphere to notice.
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Dimensional Gap
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"What am I even doing with my life? working in some rinky dink pizza joint to help pay my way through art school , because i could never pay enough attention in class to go to a real college." I was the textbook definition of a real life burnout, and I knew it, I was the guy who had the brains, and the ability to get there, but I wasted it , because I was lazy.
There was a first boom, it sounded like thunder that struck close to the store, then there was a second, a huge explosion.
An explosion that rocked the store.
The pizzeria shook all around me, and I had to hold onto the counter table to keep from falling on my ass. Those horns, those annoying horns from the cars that were flipped over. I tried to leave the pizzeria, but the door wouldn't open, like it was locked or something, and the back was now full of broken dishes, fallen trays and toppled boxes, I am NOT going back there.
Well, after a few minutes of noise my ears adjusted, I pulled my self up from the counter top . Felt really . . .weak, when i did it too, I figured i suffered from heat exhaustion because it looked like the dough had rolled itself into the shape of a humanoid and was doing a dance routine "The hell, dancing dough ? I must have a concussion." Then the coffee machine started spurting out diet Pepsi, DIET Pepsi , which oddly enough I happen to enjoy quite a bit. Then ,all the sodas in the store started pelting themselves at me, this was beyond ridiculous.
" KNOCK IT OFF !" I yelled at the top of my lungs, and for a split second I felt a heat all around my body, I closed my eyes for a moment because of the sudden light in my eyes. When I reopen my eyes the entire store is scorched, my work clothes are half burnt off, and in front of me , stands a giant dragon, eagle, snake . . thing! Whatever it was, the creature looked none too happy with me, apparently, if it had eyebrows, I scorched them off. I couldn't apologize, because the creature waved its hand, and my mouth was gone, not like shut, it was just skin where my lips should be.
I Honestly thought the creature was going to eat me, It was a huge mish-mash of monsters after all. " I'm a creature you haven't heard of though you do know of where I'm from, had you paid more attention you'd know all about me and what I do". Okay, so not only does this creature know me, and who i am , but he knows what I'm thinking?! " The dragonoid monster smirked at me. "Oh and to answer what you're thinking right now, small creature, I can't read your thoughts, but i can read YOU" The amount of fear in my eyes must have been funny for him because he was laughing the entire time he was in the room.
I was about to reach for the burglary alarm when my arm stuck to my side, the next thing I knew , my body was standing at attention, and being lifted into the air, nobody would bother looking in here or coming inside after that explosion, they all wanted to see what it was, or if they had good sense they were running away still.
After I was lifted 4 feet off the ground my body layed back. It was being flipped in multiple directions by this dragonoid thing, He looked like a scientist ready to dissect a foreign life form, I knew it was a he, because of the facial hair and the voice, so there was no mistaking that.
" Curious that something as small and weak as you could be the source " Source? What was he talking about? Most likely my BO, that's not my fault though honest! I shower twice a day! This pizza place is so hot and i sweat so much that by the end of the day It starts to smell, usually I manage to get home before that, but now, now I haven't exactly had a chance to leave.
My vision starts to get a bit hazy, the feeling of having one eye see something completely different i saw from the left, it was, painful. . . my brain couldn't handle it and it gave me headaches. In my left eye I saw something, it looked like an abandoned village, or town, I was floating above it, and everything was so dark, it looked terrible. I almost was about to shut my right eye when i realized, the image of the pizzeria it was getting cloudy! The image in my left eye was pulling me in, and to top it off the dragon-thing ,and I were both fading . Yet on the other side we were fading INTO existence, the less of my hand I was able to see in my right eye, the more of it I could see in my left! The final thing I saw in my right eye was the store crumbling onto itself, would anyone know what happened to me? Would anybody even care? Probably not, they'd most likely assume i was crushed in the rubble.
Eyes clenched shut in fear, thats how the hero of this story came into the world that I would later come to know as "Equestria". After a few minutes I finally worked up the nerve to open my eyes and see where I was, I was greeted by an image of The dragonoid from earlier and someone else, he was cloaked in a blue aura, but from what I saw he was a human like me.
His voice rang out like the booming of thunder, in this stange void. " So you're supposed to be the one I have to worry about, psshh, forget that, You look pathetic"
What was this guy even talking about? If I wasn't in need of some answers I'd walk- . . .float? over to that guy and show him who was the king of the jungle- . . .errrr cloudy void thing?
A vortex opened up under me, swirling towards the ground, but stopping halfway, "What is going on!?" I SPOKE! with my mouth! My mouth was back! That poser with the blue aura was happy to answer, by blasting me with a bolt that sent me flying into a purple sphere. Did i mention how much that hurt, imagine dropping a radio that was plugged in straight into your tub while you were in it, and NOT dying, though, I don't know if that was the bolt or the series of painful shocks I got after I got blasted from the sphere by another shock.
The lightning hurtled me toward the ground. My hair was in my face, my chest was on fire . I wanted to call out to someone for help, this couldn't be real. I'm not supposed to die like this, I can't just die with no answers or explanations, this wasn't the end right? When I tried to call out to someone all that came was a scream of pain. Hitting the ground with a "PHOOM!" everything around my impact radius shook, and before I completely blacked out I swore a heard a voice, like a little boys voice say " I swear, I saw him ride the lightning down here! I saw the who-" Enough of this, sleeping now. . . My eyes wouldn't open and my thoughts wouldn't gather , my body was in automatic shutdown mode, but this was different than regular sleep. This was as if someone pulled the plug on my body, and the last thing to lose power was my brain as it slowly went black, and my thoughts went quiet.