//------------------------------// // Intermission I - Meanwhile... // Story: Not So Regular Romantic Comedy Show // by Morex25 //------------------------------// Intermission I or Chapter 3.5 : ...back on Equestria. “Finally! It’s all done!” Twilight said triumphantly as she placed the last piece necessary for her settlement inside the Everfree Forest. Establishing a habitable camp the forest had not being easy for the purple unicorn. First she had to locate an area that had enough clear space for her to move around. After that she had to move large heavy rocks and fallen trees out of the way and even out the ground. That was the easy part. The hard part was setting up a perimeter to make sure no random or dangerous creature end up stumbling in her camp while she was tired, sleeping or simply away. Thankfully she came prepared. Twilight brought with her, a special set of crystals, that when set properly and charge up with magic, it would activate a special charm and form an invisible protective barrier that lead of intruders without any of them noticing. It was a neat special charm that not only protected her, but also didn’t disturb the wildlife inside the forest. The only drawback thought was that the crystals required to be charged every 24 hours and required a large amount of magic. For the regular unicorn of course, for her the drawback was the fact that she constantly needed to remind herself not to forget to charge the crystals, no matter how busy she was. And the hardest part of all? Shelving all the books she had brought with herself to this makeshift research camp. And believe it, there were a lot of books. She simply couldn’t decide the way in which she wanted them to be ordered. By title? Or Author? By topic? Maybe by relevance? Or a combination on all four? If only Spike had come with her. No. it was safer for him to remain on Ponyville. Besides he seemed to be happy when he heard he was staying with Rarity while she was here. “Now that everything is ready, I can finally begin my research!” Twilight said as she magically reached for her saddlebag to start exploring more deeply into the Everfree and maybe take some samples. She noticed something strange happened to her saddlebag. “What? It.. it turned into rock!” Yes, her saddlebag was no longer made of cloth, now it was made of heavy rock. “How could it be? It was fine a second ago…unless…DISCORD!” “Why hello~, Twilight! Long time no see!” Discord, master of chaos, greeted with sly grin. “Discord! Turn my saddlebag back to normal!” Twilight demanded in a foul mood. She really didn’t have time to deal with any of the draconequus antics. “I need to start working, and you should too.” “Well, excuuuu~uuusme, but that wasn’t the deal! You are here to work. I’m here just to supervise.” Discord explained with the grin still plastered in his face. “That means you do all the work, while I just observe.” “Turning my saddlebag into stone isn’t just observing!” Twilight complaint must to Discord’s amusement. “And you seriously expect ME to sit idly by watching you work and do NOTHING at all? And they call me crazy!” The master trickster laughed while he made a buffoon hat appeared on top of Twilight. “You could work, that’s what you could do if you’re bored!” The irritated unicorn responded as she let the hat fall into the ground only for it to appear again on her head. “Twilight, my dear, we gone over this, my job is to watch you do all the work! Haven’t you been paying attention?” Now Discord was drinking mayonnaise and wearing a shirt that said ‘I’m with stupid’ with an arrow pointing at Twilight. “Ugh! At least do me a favor and turn my bag back to normal.” Twilight ended with a sigh of defeat. It was no use to try to make Discord behave, besides if she kept responding like she did, it would only encourage his behavior. “Let me think about it…mmm…nope!” The draconequus answered as he made his neck grow larger and large to comically proportions. “Figures.” “Look at it as a test!” Discord explained. “I heard that you have been taking lessons on Chaos magic and from Celestia no less.” Really, Sunbutt giving lessons about chaos magic. Who would’ve thought she had it in her. Though he did feel offended that she didn’t ask him to help. He would’ve say no, but still, she should’ve at least asked! “So?” Twilight responded failing to see his point. “So? Use your fancy new magic to turn your bag back to normal.” He said like it was the most obvious thing on the world, which in turn made Twilight blink several time trying to process what he just said. “That make sense, I guess.” Which was weird coming from someone who loved not making sense whatsoever. “Just don’t go around saying that to ponies.” After all, he got a reputation to uphold, you know. “Well, time is running out, intermission is about to end, so I better go.” “Intermission? What are you talking about? And aren’t you supposed to stay and watch me transform my bag? You said it was a test after all.” Why couldn’t he stay still on a topic for more than a second? He was worse than Pinkie Pie on a sugar rush. “I prefer the hands off, or as you ponies say it, hooves off approach style of teaching.”He explained off handedly “Now off I go to try to find out why XeroM is such a female dog! Bye!” And with a flash of light he disappeared. …Well that didn’t make any sense at all, no matter how hard Twilight tried. But what else would you expect from Discord, the master of chaos? How about appearing a second later in another flash of light? “By the way, if you’re going to talk to that Zebra friend of yours, please do it off-script. The author sucks at rhyming. Bye!” And for a second time he disappeared in a third flash of light. “You know what. I’m not even going to bother with that last one.”