Discord hopped around the gardens. Spring was in the air and he just loved the looks the gardeners gave when they found their brand new rows of flowers turned into what could only be described as the entire box of seeds thrown on the ground and left to grow. He gave a content sigh. His little chaos garden was so beautiful.
He entered a currently neat clearing by a sitting area. There were stone tables and benches scattered around. His favorite new friends were all sitting by one of the tables. He waved and ran up to them.
"You're all here! That's great. So, given the success of our last little game, I've invited you all back for a nice, calm game of Scrabble." He announced.
"Scrabble? That doesn't sound that bad." Twilight remembered the last time they played a game chosen by Discord. They eventually made up but it was still a big sore spot.
"Of course not! Not after last time." Discord grumbled the last part. He ushered them to two other tables. He split them up into two groups of three. "Okay then, let's make this extra fun with a little wager."
"Like the one you made with Celestia last time?"
"No, no. One like, the winner..."
"Gets a wish!"
"Um no..."
"Gets a bicycle?"
"I don't know if ponies can ride those..."
"Doesn't have to play with you anymore?"
"Hey!"
"Ooo, ooo, let me think." Pinkie crossed her arms and leaned on a hoof. Discord crossed his own arms and waited, rolling his eyes. "Hmm, how about..."
He gave up on patience, "The winner gets to think they won the Monoploy game and everypony else thinks they lost."
Gasp!
"Hey! I won that fair and square." Pinkie yelled.
"Yes, and if you want to stay the winner, you have to win this game."
"But I barely even know my own language!" Pinkie complained and face planted in despair. Even Discord didn't know where she was going with that so he shrugged.
He clapped his hands, "Let's play!"
"That's not a word!"
"It is so a word."
"Let me check."
"Oh yeah, let's let the egghead check, that way she can look up words for herself!"
"Will not! And I've got to check... Darn it."
"Ha! It's a word. There it's settled."
"You can't put those letters together!"
"Yes I can!"
"It's not possible."
"You're making things up!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are, Yes you are..."
"No, no, no!"
Fluttershy had lost the round against Twilight and RD so she sat out with Rarity and Discord. He had snapped up some tea from her house. "This is just delightful!" Eventually Rainbow joined them. She grumbled about eggheads with no social life.
Twilight gave a stern look at her pieces. She will win! She had to. Well, she wanted to. Her evil side rubbed its hooves together. She wanted to win. That Monopoly game should have been her's.
The tiles were all lined up and down. Words filed out accordingly. Applejack was just scrapping by. Eventually she had to admit defeat again her two opponents. She wondered over to eat sandwiches with the losers.
Twilight stared at Pinkie. She had managed to beat out the others with words like Conceptualizing, so she was sure about her win. Pinkie sweated a bit. She had just scrapped by in the first round but now was up against a trained scholar. Pinkie had only a few tiles left but by the look on her face, she could only hope to add to words.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm?" Pinkie turned her head side to side. Then her face lit up.
"Oh! I know."
She happily placed down a P, B, Z and E. It turned all the smaller words in to Oxyphenbutazone. Twilight stared. Blinked. Then stared some more.
"I give up."
"Does that mean I win?"
"Yes."
"But I don't want to win by default!'
"It's not Pinkie." Twilight put her hoof on Pinkie's shoulder, "It's just..you win. Okay? Be happy cause you won."
She then turned and joined the losers picnic. Pinkie smiled and went to join her.
"Woo! I won. I was so lost but then I realized that the little words looked like this one big word I saw on one of Grey's medicine bottles."
"So, you don't even know what that word is?"
"Nope! Why?"