Discord's New Plan

by powerpony


Chapter 4

The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked around the cave they were in. The walls were gray, with small torches attached to them to light up the room and in the middle of the cave was a small pool of water. To their right were the three Diamond Dogs who just starred at them with evil grins on their faces.

"Who are you?" asked Apple Bloom.

"And what do you want from us?" asked Sweetie Belle.

The dogs kept smiling as they all said in unison, "We're the Diamond Dogs."

"Diamond Dogs?" said Sweetie Belle. "Wait, now I remember who you are. My big sister Rarity told me about you."

All three smiles on the dogs' faces disappeared when they heard what the young unicorn said.

"Rarity is your sister?" asked Spot.

"That's right," said Sweetie Belle. "She told me all about how you kidnapped her and forced her to find gems for you."

Fido then glared at Rover and asked, "Did you know about this?"

Rover shook his head. "Of course not. I was just following Discord's orders. He told us the names of these three fillies and told us to capture them."

Sweetie Belle and the other Crusaders were a bit confused about what the dogs were talking about and asked them why they were so upset.

"I'll tell you why we're upset," said Rover. "It's because having Rarity with us was a living nightmare. She was nothing but a whining, spoiled brat!"

"Don't you say anything bad about my sister," said an angry Sweetie Belle.

"Oh yeah?" asked Fido as he walked up to Sweetie Belle. "What are you going to do about it?"

Sweetie Belle replied back by kicking Fido in the shins with her back legs. Fido jumped up and down, holding onto his shin and repeatedly said "Ow," over and over again, until he growled at Sweetie Belle and was about to grab her when Rover and Spot held onto him.

"Easy Fido," said Rover. "Remember what Discord said. We cannot harm the fillies. We must watch them until he returns."

Just as Fido finally calmed down and the other two dogs let him go, they heard someone say, "I'm back." from behind them. They turned around and saw that Discord had returned.

"Welcome back Master Discord,' said Rover as he and the other dogs bowed their heads. "We did what you asked. Here are the three fillies you wanted."

Discord got a good look at the Cutie Mark Crusaders, making sure the dogs got the right ones, and then a big smile appeared on his face.

"Excellent work Rover," he told the lead Diamond Dog. "You and your friends have pleased me very well."

"Does that mean we get our gems now?" asked Spot, a little excitedly.

"Patience my little friend," said Discord, patting Spot on the head. "You'll get what you disserve. But first, I need you to do one more thing for me. I need one of you to guard the entrance you've made for the six ponies. If I know them, they'll be here looking for their little friends and they will have the elements with them."

"And when they get here, you want us to bring them to this area, right?" asked Fido.

"No, and don't interrupt me," said Discord in a firm tone.

Fido quickly apologized, fearing Discord would do something awful to him if he didn't.

"When they get here," Discord continued. "I want you distract them. Don't tell them where the fillies are until I arrive."

The dogs were a bit confused at what their master was telling them, but they dare not question his orders.

"I'll do it," said Rover, thinking that if he did this, Discord would give him the most gems when this was all over.

Discord then excused Rover who left the cave. Discord then walked up the Cutie Mark Crusaders with a cheerful smile.

"Greetings little fillies," he said. "Allow me to introduce myself.."

But before he could say his name, Apple Bloom cut him off.

"We know who you are," she said. "You're that creep who tried to turn Ponyville into a funhouse. Discard, right?"

"That's DisCORD. With an O," Discord corrected the young filly.

"Whatever," said Apple Bloom. "I still remember what you did. You turned my sister into a liar, and you made my big brother act like a dog."

"Oh yes," said Discord with a chuckle. "That was priceless."

"And you made my sister fall in love with a rock," said Sweetie Belle.

"Actually, it was a boulder," said Discord.

"And I still remember what you did to Rainbow Dash," said Scootaloo. "I saw her sitting on a cloud and I asked her to help with all the chaos that was going around, but she said that it was Ponyville's problem, not hers. She would never abandon the town like that."

The three young crusaders started going on about all the awful things Discord did to their friends. Apple Bloom mentioned how she told Fluttershy about a sick mouse she found and Fluttershy said to tell the mouse to "suck it up." Sweetie Belle said that she went to Sugarcube Corner to ask Pinkie Pie to help her throw a party for her parents' wedding anniversary and Pinkie said that she hated parties.

"All in good fun my little fillies," said Discord. "As a matter of fact, I should be thanking you for all that chaos I caused."

"Thank us?" the crusaders all said at once.

"Of course. Don't you remember? When you all went on that field trip to the Canterlot gardens and you had that big fight by that big statue of yours truly?"

Discord then snapped his fingers and two puppets appeared on both of his hands. The puppet on his right hand looked liked Scootaloo and the one on his left hand looked like Sweetie Belle. He then moved his tail in front of them and it had a puppet of Apple Bloom on it.

"It's not chaos, you dodo," Discord said through the Sweetie Belle puppet.

"Don't call me things I don't know the meaning of," said the Scootaloo puppet.

"You're both wrong," said the Apple Bloom puppet.

Discord then made the puppets act like they were fighting each other until he made them disappear. Fido applauded as Discord took a bow. Spot then stared at Fido with a weird look as Fido said, "What? I like a good puppet show."

"And that little fight was enough to release me from my stone prison and let me spread as much chaos as I wanted," said Discord.

The three fillies all hung their heads in shame as they remembered that day until Apple Bloom spoke up.

"That's doesn't matter," she said. "Because my sister and her friends were able to beat you that time and they forgave us for what we did because they care about us. I bet they are looking for us right now and when they do, you're going to be very sorry."

Discord cheerful face suddenly changed into a sad one.

"I'm afraid you are wrong about that," he said. "Because I just talked to your sister and her friends and told them that I had you and they said that they don't want you around anymore."

"That's a lie," shouted Scootaloo.

"I'll prove it to you," said Discord as he went up to the small pool in the cave and touched it with the tip of his finger.

The water then started glowing a bright purple, then yellow, then red and then blue again.

"I've placed a spell on this water," said Discord. "It will show you the past of any time. I have put it at just a few minutes ago when I talked to your friends and you can see what they said."

The Cutie Mark Crusaders slowly walked towards the water and looked into it. There was an image of Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie standing outside of Twilight's library with Discord standing before them.

"I have captured the Cutie Mark Crusaders," the image of Discord said. "And you are more than welcomed to rescue them. If you can stop me."

"We don't care," said the image of Twilight. "Those three are nothing but trouble."

"I know," said Pinkie Pie. "Even I'm not as annoying as those three are."

"I can't believe I volunteered to baby-sit them that one time," said Flutterhsy. "They gave me such a headache with their constant running around."

"That sister of mine is such a handful," said Applejack. "I can't get any work done on my farm without her getting in the way."

"I couldn't agree more," said Rarity. "Sweetie Belle is always getting into my things and wrecking everything."

"And that Scootaloo is a total pain in the neck," said Rainbow Dash. "I can't go five minutes without her bugging me."

All six ponies then looked at Discord and said all together, "YOU CAN KEEP THEM!" And then the image disappeared.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were all shocked when they saw this.

“Is that what they think about us?" asked Scootaloo.

"I thought Applejack loved me," said Apple Bloom.

Sweetie Belle didn't say anything. She just looked down at the ground with a sad face.

"Aw, you poor little fillies," said Discord. "Here you thought everypony cared about you when in reality, all you do is cause trouble and make them all mad at you."

All three fillies lowered their heads in shame and tears started to drip from their eyes as their bodies quickly turned a dark grey.

Fido and Spot, who were watching the whole time, walked up beside Discord and took a look at the three grey crusaders.

"What did you do to them, Master Discord?" asked Fido.

"Oh, just a little spell I know," said the chaos spirit. "Now for a little something extra."

Discord then stuck out his eagle hand, which started to glow a bright green, and stroked it across the fillies' manes.

"I guess they don't care about us," said a sad Apple Bloom.

"Pinkie Pie is probably throwing a big 'Glad that the Cutie Mark Crusaders are gone' party for everyone." said Scootaloo.

"Can you blame them?" asked Sweetie Belle. "You heard them. All we do is cause trouble."

"Oh, this too perfect," said Discord gleefully. "Not only will I have the Elements of Harmony, but those six ponies are going to be in for a big surprise when they come to rescue their little 'fans.' It's the perfect revenge!"

Discord then let out a huge evil laugh that echoed through all of the underground tunnels.