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// Prologue  
// Story: An Unexpected Detour 
// by bluemoon1996 
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Discord, the Lord of Chaos, rode through the skies on a jet ski while peering down at Equestria below. It had been a year since his reformation and as much as he hated to admit it, he was bored out of his not so sane mind. He had not been able to do anything deliciously chaotic since he bodyswapped the Royal Sisters and was getting bored with spicing up life for those who were too set in their ways to have a little fun now and then. Such as making all the sofas in Sofas and Quills sentient and temporarily turning Filthy Rich's bits into chocolate coins. 

However, it was the nature of chaos to want to do more than trivial pranks all the time. So, it was during one of rare moments of deep thought that he began pondering a way to entertain himself. "All these ponies are a fun bunch to throw a curve ball at every now and again, but I feel like something's... lacking." 

A second smaller Discord blinked into existence in front of him, sitting on the handlebars. "Indeed. We could always relocate some individuals here and watch the fireworks." The original draconequus was silent for a few seconds, thinking. "Isn't that a tad bit... unoriginal. I mean the last time we did this all we ended up with was a lizard...minotaur thing who sent ponies flying by shouting at them and pony in armor who kept running about screaming 'praise the sun' .'" "I don't see you coming up with any better ideas," the miniature Discord said, putting his hands on his hips. "How could I argue with such a handsome individual," the original Discord said earning a blush from his duplicate. "But how to choose, how to choose?" he added, scratching his chin with his talon. 

The smaller discord opened his hand and large swirling black orb appeared in his hand. "Ah, my Interplanetary Viewing Ball! Let's take it for a spin shall we?" 

The larger Discord used a cloud as a ramp and vaulted it while the second Discord threw the Ball up into the sky and blinked out of existence. The second one then reappeared full size and caught it in hand again. The black orb suddenly began hovering in the air above his hand and spinning wildly. Planets began flickering wildly as the ball spinned till it finally slowed down, settling on one that was a majestic blue marble. 

The original Discord landed the jet ski with a double somersault and a trio of flying tuna give him a ten rating all round, cheering in approval. He gazed down upon the multicolored marble, able to see is inhabitants below. "Some sort delightfully chaotic race of hair and furless minotaurs, what fantastically odd creatures. But there's so many of them, how to choose?" 

He then slapped the orb sending it into a rapid spin. After several seconds, he poked the spinning orb with one of his talons. The ball stopped dead in its tracks and zoomed down to a bird's eye view of the planet's surface. It now showed a long white, yellow and black mechanical contraption driving along a paved road. 

"I think we got our lucky winners," Discord said, chuckling. 



 
It had been a long day for everyone in Mr. Jameson's high school robotics class and they were all happy to be back on their way home. They had just spent the day on a field trip to an R&D lab for an electronics company. And now, the eleven students and their teacher rode along in a bus back to school along a country road. 

As they drove along, the bus suddenly began to lurch violently and came to a stop. Confused, the driver and Mr. Jameson get out of the bus to inspect the engine. As the two men pull open the hood, little do they notice the brief flash of light from inside the bus. And after a few minutes of poking their heads around and not finding anything wrong, the two men close up the hood and reboard the bus. 
Only to find it empty.