Fluttershy trotted around her cottage nervously looking for Discord, who was still living with her ever since he was “reformed.” Despite his change of heart, he was still quite the hooffull. “Discord?” Fluttershy called.
“Up here,” Discord said from above Fluttershy. The pegasus looked up to find Discord sitting upside down in a chair that was attached to the ceiling. “Come have a seat. I’m making tea.”
Fluttershy took a deep breath before continuing. “No, thank you. I just wanted to remind you that we were going to go see Twilight today.”
“Alright,” Discord said, sipping his tea that somehow didn’t spill out of its upside down cup.
“Um, if I remember right, that was scheduled for right now.”
“Oh, right.” Discord snapped his finger and all the furniture that was on the ceiling was placed neatly back on the ground. “Must have totally slipped my mind. Alright, let’s go.”
“Wait a second,” Fluttershy said, giving Discord a glare that was a couple tiers lower than The Stare. “You know why we can’t leave yet.”
“Oh fine.” Discord then snapped his fingers and the teapot opened, allowing Angel Bunny to finally crawl out of it. “I swear, he started it this time.”
“I don’t care who started it however many times. You have no right to pick on him like that.”
“Hay, weren’t we going to go see Twilight Sparkle?”
“Yes we were, but what do you have to say to Angel first?”
Discord groaned before turning to the bunny that was still trying to get tea out of his ears. “I’msorryAngelBunny. Happy?” Angel stuck his tongue out at Discord before hopping away. “I swear, Angel, one of these days...” Discord stopped when he realized that Fluttershy was giving him a glare that was now only one tier away from The Stare. “One of these days I’m going to do something really nice for that bunny,” Discord said with a totally not forced smile.
“Better,” Fluttershy said. “Alright, we can go now.” The pegasus and draconequus then departed the cottage.
Rather than fly or teleport, Discord agreed to walk to Twilight’s library with Fluttershy. “What did you want to talk to me about this time?” Discord asked.
“I wanted to talk about your behavior recently,” Fluttershy replied. “You may be good instead of evil, but your antics still get on everypony’s nerves.”
“What are you talking about?” Discord asked. Just then, he snapped his fingers and a nearby bench Lyra and Bon Bon were sitting on started floating.
“Discord!” Fluttershy angrily shouted.
“What? They’re only a few feet off the ground. They can get down safely if they want to.”
Fluttershy was about to respond, but she looked over to see that Bon Bon had gotten down, but Lyra seemed to be enjoying the floating bench. Fluttershy gave a defeated sigh before continuing. “The bench aside, you still tend to get on other ponies’ nerves with your other antics. I don’t think I need to remind you about those cactus muffins last week.”
“That?” Discord asked, obviously trying to keep himself from giggling at the memory. “It’s not like anypony got really hurt.”
“No, but in case you didn’t know, Derpy is still in the hospital.”
“For observation. She’s completely fine now. We could swing by the hospital so I can show you if you want.”
“No, that’s quite alright. Still, there’s also that bit where you painted moustaches on Cheerilee’s cutie mark.”
“It washed off... after a few days...”
“My point, Discord, is that you need to learn to keep yourself from performing such ridiculous pranks.”
“Again, it’s not like anypony gets seriously hurt.”
“Just yesterday. Time Turner and the fake Daleks.”
“Fine! Maybe my pranks get a little out of hoof every once in a while, but I haven’t turned Ponyville into the chaos capitol of the world again, have I?”
“That’s just what I’m afraid you’re going to wind up doing.” Just as Fluttershy said this, the two arrived at Twilight’s. Fluttershy knocked on the door. “Twilight. Are you home?” There was no answer. “Hm. She isn’t home. Odd. She told us she’d be here by now.”
“I’m here!” Twilight called as she flew in and landed in front of the two. “Sorry I’m late. Princess Celestia wanted to talk about something important.”
“That’s okay,” Fluttershy said.
“Now then,” Discord said, “what exactly did you want to see me for, Princess?”
“I wanted to try a new spell,” Twilight said. “However, my magic isn’t quite strong enough on its own to cast the spell. That’s where I’m hoping you’ll come in.”
Discord was about to say no, but looked over at Fluttershy who gave him an evil wink. “Fine,” Discord finally said. “I’ll help you.”
“Good. Now, let’s get out of town. There’s no telling what this spell will do if any civilians are around to goof it up. Then again, there’s no telling what this spell will do if you’re here to goof it up.”
Discord shot Twilight an angry glare, but said, “Alright. Let’s go to wherever we need to be to get this to work ‘properly,’ as you boring little ponies say.” Discord then snapped his fingers and the three were teleported to a field outside of Ponyville. The same one where the Elements of Harmony were used to free Discord a few months ago.
“Okay,” Twilight said. “Just focus some energy on me. I’ll handle actually casting the spell.”
“Very well,” Discord said. He then pointed his paw at Twilight and funneled some magic to her while she began casting the spell.
After a while, Twilight’s horn gained not two, but three layers of overglow as her hooves dug themselves at least two inches into the ground. “Almost... done...” Twilight said while straining. However, before the spell could finish, a huge metal object crashed right where Discord was standing.
“DISCORD!” Fluttershy shouted.
“What?” Discord asked, teleporting behind Fluttershy. “It’s gonna take a lot more than whatever that is to stop me from causing chaos.”
Fluttershy rushed up and hugged Discord, but Twilight was massaging her head and looking over at what the metal thing was. “What the hay is that?” she asked herself. She trotted over to it to investigate it, but when she got to it, she could have sworn she heard voices coming from it.
”You shouldn’t be so surprised, Jean-Luc,” a strangely familiar voice said. ”It’s not like you’re any different”
”Q... what have you done!?” another, less familiar but much angrier voice asked the first voice.
“Discord, Fluttershy,” Twilight called. “There’s somepony trapped in here. We need to get them out!”
Discord and Fluttershy got up to help Twilight, but stopped when they noticed two ponies who appeared out of nowhere a little further away. It looked like one of them was talking, but he was too far away to be heard. The second pony, on the other hoof, shouted at a crystal clear volume, “YEAH! I WAS RIGHT! KISS MY PLOT, BEE-YATCH!”
“None of this was supposed to happen...” Twilight said to herself.