Chapter 42
Twilight walked down the stairs, not really paying attention to anything. She walked into the kitchen to get a cup of tea. As she walked out again she took a long gulp, letting the tea warm her up. Only then she noticed that something was missing in her living room. Her favorite human had disappeared from his spot on the couch, leaving only the blanket. After a scream and a broken cup on the floor she rushed to Spike.
She had a letter send within minutes.
Two doors shattered on contact with the wall. Luna flew through, her horn still going from recently using magic.
Celestia was lying in her bed at the moment, sleeping sound. This didn’t remain the same for long. The dropping of a scroll on her face and the destruction of her two doors woke her from her sleep almost instantaneous and her mood wasn’t good at all.
“Who in Tartarus dares to wake me up?!” She yelled as she shot up.
Luna was standing on the end of the bed, yelling at Celestia. “Celestia, I believe Discord is loose.”
Celestia, even though she was mad, listened to her sister. “Luna, are you sure?”
Luna was a bit hesitant to say that she had been rummaging in the mind of Martin, but she had to say it someday and today is as good of a day as any. “I was wandering around in Martin’s mind, why I’ll explain later, and I found records in his mind showing that Discord has been doing something.” After this rant the adrenaline left her system and she crashed down. “Martin never loved me. It just was Discord talking.” Tears streaked her face and she closed her eyes. She crawled over to Celestia and hugged her.
Celestia was blown back by this and was speechless for a second, but she recovered soon enough. She was tactful enough to start with the broken heart. “Of course he loves you. He spent so much time with you.”
“I know he did, but he doesn’t love me. Discord made it so. I saw it myself. His preferences were altered. The real Martin doesn’t love me.” She sobbed into Celestia’s coat, leaving large wet stains.
“Shush, shush. I understand, but if Discord is truly free we need to focus on that now.” Celestia said as she padded Luna’s back.
Luna replied with nothing else other than a few sobs. Celestia patted her on the back as she floated the scroll to her face. ‘A letter at this time can’t mean anything good.’ She thought as she opened the letter and read it. Her face turned grim. ‘This isn’t good, not good at all.’ She padded Luna on the back and laid her down on the bad and stood up. She had a lot of stuff to do.
Discord was rummaging with some matter as he floated around. Martin was just staring at him, wondering how he was able to breathe, among other things. Every time he wanted to say something Discord snapped his fingers and Martin suddenly lost the desire to speak.
After a few more minutes. “You know. I can brake time. We could be here forever and nobody downstairs would notice a thing, but that would make things to easy. So I left time nice and flowing so we can spend a few nice hours together up here.”
“What do you want, whatever you are?” Martin snapped at Discord.
“Oh, I feel vaguely insulted that you don’t know who I am. I am Discord, turmoil among ponies and other species. And I must say, the way you brought turmoil to these ponies. The mind of that pretty Luna is all stressed out.”
“What did you do to my Luna?!” Martin yelled at Discord.
“Oh, I forgot. Let me fix that.” Discord snapped his fingers and Martin’s eyes flashed bright white. When his eyes went back to normal he blinked a few times. “Better now?”
Martin just glared at him. He shook his head one last time and started speaking. “What did you do to me?”
“Oh, just the general. Made you fall in love with a pony princess and I gave you those lovely destructive powers you have. I never liked that couch in the library.” Discord said as he ticked the things of off his fingers. “I made things a bit easier and made you forget all of the time and feeling you had for Luna. But she’ll remember them. That ought to cause a nice bit of pain on her part.” Discord smirked.
Martin gaped. He tried to remember the days that he knew he had spent at the castle, but he drew a blank. “Why would you do this?” He asked angrily.
“Oh, when you’re as old as me you tend to get bored and what is more fun than messing with the lives of the other immortals I share my endless life with.” He smiled at the human floating in front of him.
Martin tried to float closer to Discord and take a swing at him, but each time Discord was within arm’s reach he just seemed to float away. “Come here and fight you coward.” Martin yelled at him.
“I don’t think so, in Germany we don’t hit little girls.” Discord said with a fake german accent.
“Don’t you dare quote ERB to me!” Martin said angrily.
“Oh, just stop. You can’t beat me.” Discord said smugly. “If you stop being such a pain in the ass I might even send you back home in a few years.”
That shut Martin right up. He would love to go home, but just in a few years. He thought that Celestia or Luna could think of something earlier than that. But, he thought, it’s better to have something other than nothing.
“Fine, what do I need to do? I just want to go home.” Martin finally said with a sigh.
“See that’s the spirit. Now, I am going to send you back. Give you some even
more destructive powers and you’ll have to do something when I ask you to.” Discord said as he gripped a red ball of energy in his paw. He threw it at Martin and Martin caught it in his chest.
Martin cringed as the ball hit him. Discord snapped his fingers and Martin was flown back at the planet.
It was good that Discord protected him with that nice red ball of energy, otherwise he would’ve burned up or been flattened against the wall he now crashed through.
Fortunately the wall he crashed into was adjacent to a room which contained one single white pony named Celestia.