//------------------------------// // Episode 1 // Story: Kingdom of Crazies // by mojomcm //------------------------------// Discord grinned in an almost-evil-but-mostly-crazy-but-not-really-since-he-had-turned-nice-although-still-crazy sort of way as he looked at his partner-in-crime. Her green eyes focused on him as she stared at the crude image he had drawn on the door to the Solar Tower, which housed the bedroom of Princess Celestia. The draconequus stepped back to admire his work, and to take a bite of cotton candy that floated near his head. "Are you absolutely sure that this won't get me in any trouble?" she asked nervously. "And aren't you supposed to be reformed?" The draconequus pouted, "Aw, Chrissy! Don't ruin my fun! Besides, graffiti isn't evil, just annoying. Even teenagers do it sometimes." Queen Chrysalis, for that was Discord's partner's name, frowned as she studied the image. "Princess Celestia sure won't be happy." "Says the bug pony who trapped her in a cocoon not too long ago at a royal wedding. I mean, what were you thinking?!" Chrysalis rolled her eyes, "At least I wasn't imprisoned in stone for it." Discord held his paw to his chest. "You wound me, Chrissy. You really do." The changeling queen simply rolled her eyes again, at his lame jokes. Discord pouted as he turned back to the door. His eagle claw held a dripping paintbrush that he used to write his name on the door, along with a message for Celestia, were she to see their hoofwork. Chrysalis pointed to his writing, "Why are you doing that? She's not supposed to know who did this!" Her hooves frantically gestured to the markings. "What?! Then how will she know who spent their time making this masterpiece? A waste it would be if she didn't know who to thank." Discord's mismatched eyes glared at the changeling queen who dared to mock and defile his logic. What little he had, anyways. "At the very least you would avoid punishment." Discord thought about this for a second. "I already avoid punishment all the time. No point in doing extra avoiding for the same amount of punishing. It just simply doesn't add up." Right at that moment, the midnight blue alicorn of the night, Princess Luna, happened to walk past the two bickering sort-of-ex-villains. Her eyes widened to see Queen Chrysalis in Canterlot Castle, especially after the invasion; as well as Discord, who was most likely doing someprank he shouldn't. "Halt!" Luna stompped up to the two, passing two small cans of black paint as she got right up in Discord's face. "Just what doth thou thinketh thou art doing?!" "Again, in Equestrian?" Discord asked; the "thee's" and "thou's" were throwing him off and confusing him to the angered mare's intent. Luna sighed, "What art thou doing?" "Painting stupid pictures of your sister on her door," Chrysalis answered with a yawn. "Really?" Luna's voice had way too much enthusiasm for somepony who was supposed to be good and not at all evil. "We mean, what doth they look like?" "See for yourself," Discord said with a toothy grin. Luna leaned in to see that the usually white door had a crude painting of Celestia on it with the words "Discord is Best Princess", "Discord rulz, Celestia droolz", and "Chrysalis thinks Celestia stinks" on it. The alicorn grinned as she read them, "Hoof us a paintbrush, will thou?" Discord and Chrysalis shared a look and shrugged before giving her a paintbrush. The two ex-villains snickered as Luna wrote the words "Luna waz hereth" across the bottom of the picture. "What, did thou forgeteth that we used to do this kind of thing all the time when we were Nightmare Moon? Besides, our sister Tia needs somepony to keep her ginormous ego down." Certainly Celestia would not be pleased to hear what her sister was doing. "And what are you doing?" a voice asked from just out of the three's vision. Standing behind them was none other than the alicorn of the sun, Princess Celestia. Her multicolored mane and tail billowed in an unseen and unfelt wind as she walked up to the threesome. Celestia frowned, seeing the dripping paintbrush hanging from Luna's magic. Chrysalis looked ready to panic or faint, Discord smirked like he had planned this (though he hadn't and was really as scared as the others), and Luna looked stricken. Her eyes darted from the door to her sister as the brush clattered to the floor. "This isn't what it looks like!" Luna pleaded. "Oh?" Celestia frowned. "Three trouble-makers are tagging my door with silly images of me and getting black paint all over the floor and their hooves while they do it." "Okay, so it is what it looks like." The draconequus, changeling queen, and alicorn hung their heads, waiting for the on-coming punishment. They were surprised to see the paintbrush be lifted in a haze of gold magic. It hovered in front of the door just long enough to draw a mustache on the drawing of the solar diarch. Three heads spun 'round to see Celestia's magic fading as she lowered the paintbrush. She smirked as she said, "Can't let you guys have all the fun." Luna's jaw dropped, and she knew that Queen Chrysalis and Discord's jaws were dropped, too. Who knew that Celestia had actually developed a sense of humor during the years of her imprisonment on the moon? Certainly not any of the three of them. Princess Celestia's tail swished back and forth as she walked away. The last words anypony heard before she left were: "You three had better get some rest. Princesses Cadence and Twilight are moving in tomorrow, and you don't want to be back on their bad sides."