I will kill you yet, Discord!

by IMN


Prologue: Party planning in Ponyville*

“Today is the day, my dear Fluttershy.” Discord was prancing around in his best friend's cottage, which, to the suggestion of his partner Cheese Sandwich, was temporarily turned into a semi-observatory, semi-war room with maps and plans and timetables in preparation of this particular event, “Today is the anniversary of my reformation.”

“And I’m so happy for you,” replied Fluttershy, “But isn’t this a teeny tiny tad excessive? I mean you have balloons, streamers, party cannons (and I must say there are a lot of them), three roller coasters, a circus, a bungee jumping towers, a pool filled with jelly, another filled with punch, and yet another filled with raspberry pie. Not to mention the bowling alley, bagpipe parade, tunnels of love, fear, laughter, books, and nursing, as well as drag queen, clown, and mime shows,” She paused a bit to catch her breath when she noticed something on one of the telescopes, “and what are those mares doing over there?”

Discord scooted to the particular scope Fluttershy was viewing, “Oh! Those are for the gentlecolt party. You girls aren’t invited there.” Fluttershy shrugged at the notion, “Besides, I want this party to include everypony; and I do mean everypony.”

“And it sure will,” Cheese Sandwich's head popped in the window next to Fluttershy, balloons in hoof and streamers in another, “Thanks to your Chaos magic, I can throw the biggest party Equestria have ever seen.”

“Oh Cheese,” Discord chuckled, “you really are a hoot. By the way, the girls for the gentlecolt party are here, better go check on them.”

“Righty-O, partner,” And, with that, Cheese Sandwich was off to where the wild girls are.

“I know you two only want to make the very best party in history, but there seems to be a lot of activities. How many ponies are you planning to host again?”

Discord gave Fluttershy a pointed look, “Well, I’m glad you asked...” a thin scroll appeared next to him. However, the moment he opened it, it strolled out from the war room, out of the door, and kept going all the way toward Ponyville. “We have Princess Celestia, Luna, and all the royal guard. You see, after you reformed me, the princesses had their top lieutenants keep following me around like some sort of a baby that needs constant watch. So, I’m going to show them that they don’t need to do that anymore.”

“Princess Cadence, Shining Armor, and the Crystal Empire?” Fluttershy asked as they reached the front door.

“Well, I went there to help after the Sombra affair, but they kicked me out. Something about the threat being long gone and nothing for me to do other than be a disturbance. Do you believe their nerve?!”

Fluttershy sighed.

"You did take the crystal heart for one of your sculptures..."

"Only after they told me they were unsightly," Discord huffed in irritation.

Fluttershy shook her head, she decided to skip until a familiar name comes into view. She struck gold half way toward Ponyville.

“That’s … that looks like everypony in Ponyville”

“Well you wouldn’t expect me to forget about my favorite friends in my favorite town now do you?”

“Who else is on that list?”

“Just some ponies I helped here and there.”

“Like who?”

“Oh, you know... The Wonderbolts, Daring Do, the Pie family, some Appaloosans, dragons from the south, all my friends from here and there.”

“You do seem to have made quite a lot of them,” the pegasus congratulated.

“I learned from the best,” Discord gave Fluttershy a bear hug, “I just hope that nothing goes wrong.”

“Don’t be silly; nothing will.”

She had no idea how wrong she was.