Discord was sitting on top of a building perched on top of a building looking down at all the ponies. “Screwball what do you think we should do this time?” he asked her, rubbing his paws together.
“I only have two ideas.” She told him. “Turn the buildings to rubber, or sink the island”.
“That gives me an idea” he said stroking his beard. “Screwball have you ever heard of the hippocampus?” he asked her.
“No what is it” she asked.
Discord snapped his talons and one of the ponies that he had been watching appeared in his lion paw. “Well you see a hippocampus is a pony with a fish tail for its back end” he said as he snapped his fingers and the pony’s back end turned into that of a fish. “They also can breathe under water” he said snapping his talons. The whole island began to sink and all of the ponies were turned into hippocampus.
“Where did you learn of these creatures dad?” she asked him.
“They existed during my first reign of Equestria and died out during it” he said slightly distracted.
“And you killed them all off, that’s horrible.” She said.
“Why your older self oversaw their destruction. One of them had offended you and you ordered my Chaos Elementals to go destroy their kingdom in the ocean.” He said clearly focusing on the sinking island.
“My future self did what?” she asked with disgust in her voice.
“Oh yes you are or will be personally responsible for the destruction of two pony races and three different creatures.” He said as he began to laugh at the ponies panicking in the street as they tried to run and flop away from the wave that was about to overtake them.
“What races will I destroy?” she demanded.
Discord turned towards her and drew a pentagram facing upward in the air. “You see the pentagram?” he said. Screwball nodded her head. He pointed towards the center and the image of an Alicorn appeared. “This is the first race it split its self into the five other races” he explained. He pointed towards the top of the pentagram and a image of a unicorn appeared “this is the second race, they focus on magic”. His figure moved clockwise around and the image of a pegasus appeared “this is the race of wind”. He continued clockwise and an image of a hippocampus appeared “this is the race of water” he continued clockwise and the image of an earth pony appeared “this is the race of earth”. He continued to the last point and an image of an earth pony that was on fire appeared “and this is the race of fire”. He turned towards Screwball and said to her “You are personally responsible for the destruction of the races of Hippocampus and the Flame Pony,”
“And now for the creatures” the image of a pony wolf appeared in front of her “the werewolf”.
She stopped him “I thought you said I only destroyed two pony species?” she asked in distress.
“You did, werewolves are a species that wasn’t spawned from the Alicorns”. He stroked his beard “now where was I?” he asked himself. “Ah yes, next species. Let’s see here” the image of a pony with snakes for her mane appeared “the gorgon you destroyed them because they turned your favorite pony to stone if I recall correctly”. The image changed into that of a bipedal creature that only had fur in the top of its head “I never even knew this one’s name but there were only about five hundred or so and you destroyed them on accident if I recall correctly”.
“This is horrible” Screwball said looking down.
“Cheer up, let's go mess with the ponies in Las Pegasus, that will cheer you up I bet”
“Can we rig the slots to spew out chocolate coins only” she said with a holding back tears.
“Of course we can” he said.
“Then let’s go” she said. A look crossed her face and she “why don’t we just teleport there” she asked him.
“Well we fly there so I we can spread chaos along the way.
“Oh” she said bluntly.
“What’s wrong” he asked caringly.
“Well I was hoping you were doing it to spend time with me” she said sheepishly.
“Oh” he said bluntly. Then fixing it “That’s a bonus” he said.
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The good Discord’s power‘s had returned and he was dealing with some annoying Chaos Elementals when he heard a scream. It took a moment then he recognized it as Twilight’s, he teleported to about where he had thought the scream was coming from. He saw twilight with three chaos elementals riding on her back and one looked a lot like that dragon of hers Spike. Discord quickly grabbed all three of them then inhaled deeply over them so that the chaotic power was sucked into him. He always found that he wasn’t receiving the energy he took from the Elementals, he had figured since he wasn’t Chaos incarnate he was transferring it to his worse half.
He sent the birds away and put the dragon onto Twilight’s back. She looked at him annoyed “Why did you do this?” she asked.
“No one told you, I have been split in half into two halves, me the good half and my bad half, he did this” he explained to her and then showed her his half of the necklace ”the other half of me has the bad half”.
Twilight looked at it “why is the gem a such a dark color? it seems out of place in such a bright necklace” she asked him.
“I don’t know. Besides it doesn’t matter.” As soon as he had said this they both heard a scream this time it was Fluttershy discord raced there as fast as he could. When he found her he saw his evil half holding her in his paw and claw. He also saw Screwball “What are you doing here?” he asked her puzzled.
This made Screwball get a confused look on her face. Then she noticed what was his paw “why you both have different colored necklace halves?” she asked the good Discord.
“You didn’t tell her” the good Discord asked the bad Discord.
The bad Discord rolled his eyes “I didn’t think it was important to tell her that I’m only half of her dear daddy Discord” he said to his better half.
“Why would you think that she’s our daughter, she is one of the most important ponies in our life. Not to mention the only consistent pony at that!” he shouted at his bad half.
“What about Fluttershy she’s been there for us ever since you became more prevalent in our life!” the bad half shouted back.
“But we’ve known Screwball for years and dear Fluttershy for only a few” said the bad half as he looked down at the pony in his arms.
“Why are you two even here?” the good Discord asked his bad half.
“Well we were just heading to Las Pegasus to cause some trouble when I heard Fluttershy here scream and I just had to come and help her. But now that I think about it I want her to accompany me and Screwball to Las Pegasus.” He said as he touched his chest with his eagle claw, then it phased into his chest and he pulled it out. Clenched in his talons was a multicolored ball of light.
The good discord realized what he was doing and tried to jump at him. He was stopped by three Chaos Elementals.
The bad Discord flipped Fluttershy over so he was holding her like he would hold a baby. There was terror in her eyes as he plunged his talons into her chest. She was confused, she hadn’t felt anything she looked down and saw that his talons were phased into her chest. The bad Discord pulled his claw out and let his magic begin to work.
Fluttershy was twitching and the evil Discord let her go. Before she hit the ground she began to fly. One of her wings had changed to her bat wing, all of her teeth were pointed, and one of her irises changed to a dark red. Her coat changed into an assortment of colors, her main also turned to a variety of colors.
“What’s happening?” she shouted in terror.
“You’re becoming a Chaos Elemental my dear Fluttershy” the bad Discord said then began to laugh manically.
Screwball was trying really hard not to say anything; she didn’t want to interrupt the timeline. She wanted to exist and if she spoke her mind now she could jeopardize her existence.
The good Discord had beaten the Chaos Elementals but he was too late and he saw what had happened to Fluttershy. He tackled his bad half “stop this right now or I’ll; I’ll…”
“You’ll what, have you forgotten I’m the bad half!” the bad half shouted and shot a beam at his better half, this got the good half off of him and sent him crashing through a nearby building.
“Now if you’ll excuse us” the bad Discord began “We have some chaos to reek in Las Pegasus”.
“No!!” the good discord shouted and flew at his bad half.
Before he got there Fluttershy flew in between them facing the good Discord. She said something incoherent, but the good Discord understood it exactly.
“But he’s just using you” he said to her.
She shouted a bunch of random sounds back at him.
“That’s not you talking it’s the Spark of Chaos he put in you” he said pleading with her.
She said some more random sounds.
“You don’t like being this way, the chaos in you likes it, but you don’t” he said trying to explain to him.
She made more random sounds.
“Fluttershy you didn’t like it when we made you into a mean pony! How could you like yourself like this!?! This time it actually affected your physical appearance.” he shouted in frustration with her.
“Oh please” the bad Discord said as he shot his better half with another beam. “Come on my dear Fluttershy we have chaos to wreak!”
As they flew off the good Discord got up and saw his wings where broken, he went to snap and the necklace half stopped it. His anger grew and he threw the thing down the street. It nearly hit Luna as she rounded the corner but at the moment it would have hit her it returned to Discords hand.
Discord forgot about his broken wings and rushed to Luna “I’m so sorry I didn’t know it was going to hit you” he said, he had seen her flinch.
Luna looked up at him “It didn’t. Do you happen to know where Fluttershy is my sister and I want to send her back to Ponyville so she can prepare for you bad halves arrival?” she asked completely clueless to the situation.
Discord turned away from her “She is with my bad half, he turned her into a Chaos Elemental, then went off to Las Pegasus” he said with tears welling up in his eyes.
Luna put her hoof on his shoulder “Then go and retrieve you love Discord” she said with certainty.
Discord turned to her “what gave it away?” he asked her wiping the tears from his eyes.
“You spent nearly an hour wondering the palace with her, your evil half clearly likes her, and the pain that you’re in now knowing that she is hurt” she said with great sympathy.
Discord snapped his fingers and disappeared. Luna knew this was the right thing for him to do. She needed to get back to her sister so they can show a united front in the relief effort.
But her mind wondered to Discord she hoped it would work out for them in the end and it didn't end up like it had with her and the last pony that had tried to court her.