Discord Breaks Free:
Ponyville 1400
Chatterjoy had been playing with her Luna doll, when the chaos had been unleashed upon Ponyville. "Shall we play hide n' seek or shall we have a party. No, Luna not the tea party. Tea parties suck. I love peppermint tea just as much as the next mare, but I don't want to pretend tea. No, I'm not saying this is a pretend party either! There will be cake. Can't have a party without cake. Or ice cream for that matter. What was that? You want to play hide n' seek. I can do that. You hide and I'll count."
Chatterjoy closed her eyes, while she held the doll within her mouth. Mentally, she counted down from ten. When she was done, the pegasus spun around three times and walked in a specific direction with her eyes still closed. She got to the door of her house, when she ran into the door.
"Therish a door heresh," Chatterjoy scolded to herself. She opened it before flying out. Her eyes remained closed as she spun around three more times. Then with a mighty swing she flung the doll. She counted up to ten to make sure that the doll had landed, before she opened her eyes again. "Ready or not here I come!"
She gasped in horror at what she saw next. Ponyville had been enveloped in different colors. Some hills were plaid colored, and there were ballerina buffaloes among flying pigs. Getting over the horror, Chatterjoy shrugged her shoulders before continuing her game of hide n' seek.
Chatterjoy landed on the ground and began to search for the blue fur of her doll. "Here little Luna doll. Come out! Come out!" The sound of a snap echoed behind her, and the pegasus lifted her head and turned to see what caused the sound. A creature with different animal parts stood looking at her with maniacal eyes.
"Can I help you?" Chatterjoy asked tentatively.
"Why, yes my dear. I think you can," he replied. He snapped his eagle talons, and her doll appeared in his claws. Snapping again, the Luna doll came to life and became life sized. "I want you and your little partner here. To delay some ponies."
"But that's not nice," Chatterjoy replied still gazing in wonder at her now life sized and very much alive doll.
"That is exactly the point."
Discord was already losing patience. He had no time to try and trick the mare into becoming gray. Like he did with Fluttershy, he tapped his talon on her head, causing her eyes to become hypnotic. "Now listen my dear. You are going to delay those ponies!"
Chatterjoy began to rapidly lose her color till she was nothing but a gray scale of her former self. "I don't have to do what you want!" Chatterjoy growled after her transformation. She kicked her doll to the ground, "And I don't need this stupid doll!" She flapped her wings and flew off.
Jazzy had been running around Ponyville. She had tried to find her friends, but she had no luck. A shadow crossed over her, and she looked up to spot Chatterjoy. "C.J.! Hey! Wait! Come back here! I've been worried!," Jazzy yelled, galloping after her friend. Chatterjoy glanced down and glared at the unicorn.
"You can't tell me what to do! Your not my mom!"
"What in the hay are you talking about?" Jazzy yelled back up the pegasus. Chatterjoy growled and landed right in Jazzy's face.
"You can't tell me what to do!" she ground out while stabbing her hoof in Jazzy's chest.
"What's gotten in to you, and why are you gray?"
"Gray is the new Chatterjoy," Chatterjoy sneered before pivoting on her front hooves and bucking Jazzy into a nearby apple cart. "There. Is that amusing enough for you!"
Wordplay had been doing the same thing Jazzy was and happened to hear her friend's voices. She came to check out the commotion, when she saw a gray version of her friend and a knocked out Jazzy Mellows.
"Chatterjoy! What is going on? Why are you gray?"
"None of your business!" Chatterjoy growled out to her friend. Wordplay recoiled at the harshness of Chatterjoy's voice.
Jazzy moaned in pain, as she struggled to open her eyes. Wordplay looked back at Jazzy, but the other unicorn couldn't move yet. She managed to croak out Chatterjoy's name.
"Why did you kick Jazzy. Isn't she your friend? Aren't I your friend?" Wordplay questioned Chatterjoy who was busy trampling some nearby flowers.
"You know. I am sick and tired of these questions! Why Chatterjoy this, and why Chatterjoy that! Well, maybe it's because I'm sick of being used as a toy! The only reason you guys keep me around is, because I amuse you isn't it! Well, am I amusing enough for you now? Maybe gray is my true color Wordplay. Have you ever thought about that!"
Wordplay couldn't interject as she continued to hear her friend rant out grievances. When the pegasus paused long enough Wordplay interjected, "You're wrong!"
"Am I?" Chatterjoy interrupted and glared full force at the pair of unicorns. During her rant, Jazzy had managed to get up and face her friend. "Aren't you always patting my head and treating me like a filly! I'm not a filly! I am a grown mare! I don't need you! I don't need Jazzy! I don't need anypony! And least of all, I don't need the Luna doll!"
"Chatterjoy! You need to calm down. You've been spelled or something. We are trying to help you," Wordplay pleaded with her friend. Jazzy was still trying to regain her breath. Never would she have thought that Chatterjoy could release that powerful of a kick.
"Maybe," Chatterjoy sneered, "My eyes have been opened to the truth! And this is boring. I'm going to go torment ponies or something." The pegasus took off, before Wordplay or Jazzy could respond. They looked at each other with determination in their eyes.
Discord Breaks Free:
Ponyville 1500
The pair of unicorns had been searching for their spelled friend for an hour. They heard a commotion near the town square, and they galloped as quickly as they could to see what was going on. Chatterjoy was there dumping chocolate rain on the ponies all over the square.
"Chatterjoy!" The unicorns exclaimed at the same time.
"What in the nine hays is wrong with her!" A familiar voice growled out. It was Golden Silence using a table to shield herself from the sticky mess. "I called out to her. Asked her why's she gray. Then she goes all haywire!" Golden Silence said adjusting her shield to block the masses of cotton candy being thrown at her from said pegasus. "Now that I mention it, there are a lot of gray ponies running around Ponyville. Is it some kind of illness?"
"No. Some kind of spell," Wordplay answered, "And Chatterjoy got hit by it."
"Well, reverse it or something," Golden Silence grunted out.
Squeaky steps were heard behind the trio, and they turned around to see what it was. It was Chatterjoy's Luna doll. Now life sized and alive. "Discord did this to her," the Luna doll said with a small voice, "He wanted her to delay some ponies."
"Um," Jazzy said still in shock at the appearance of a talking doll, "If Discord turned you into this, why are you helping us?"
"Because, I may not be the real Luna, but I am still Chatterjoy's doll, and she had always showered me with love. Even though there are times that she is rough with me. Still, I love her, and I want to play with her again like we used to. I do not like this new Chatterjoy!"
Wordplay nodded, "We need a plan."
"And what would that be?" Jazzy asked, "Do you know a reverse spell for what Discord did?"
Wordplay did not answer immediately. She tapped a hoof on her chin. "We'll need to capture her. I imagine the elements of harmony are already doing what they can against the spirit of chaos. When they fix this, Chatterjoy should go back to being her normal self."
"Uh. Capture Chatterjoy? How in the hay are we supposed to do that?" Jazzy exclaimed frustrated.
"I have to agree with Ms. Pink here," Golden Silence chipped in.
"A distraction," Luna doll said, "If I can distract her, one of the unicorns can hold her down with magic. She's never escaped magic before, so it should work."
"With Chatterjoy struggling most of the time keeping the magic up around her will be difficult," Wordplay replied, "And I don't know how long we would have to hold her for."
"And none of us know how to make a shield," Jazzy put in.
"I can hold her," Golden Silence said, "She hasn't ever been able to escape my wrestler moves, and I have the stamina to hold her too."
"Then it's settled," Wordplay said, "Luna doll, you'll distract her. Golden Silence, once the opportunity presents itself, you grab her and hold on to her for dear life. We're going to have to count on Twilight Sparkle and her friends to be able to use the elements to stop Discord."
"Got it," Everypony said at the same time.
The Luna doll ran up to Chatterjoy who was now mercilessly kicking over food stands. "Chatterjoy stop this!" She cried out. Her squeaky steps stopped as she bunched up her legs and pounced on the pegasus, which resulted in an overwhelmingly cute sound from the stuffed animal.
"Get off of me you stupid doll!" Chatterjoy yelled trying to get the offending cuteness off of her.
"Not until you turn back to your normal self!" the doll squeaked back.
Chatterjoy was having none of it. She managed to get the doll off of her, then she pivoted on her hooves and delivered a powerful buck to the doll. A squeak left the doll as the hooves connected with her plush, and she fell to the ground. A tear left the hand stitched eyes.
Golden Silence had taken this as the moment to strike. She charged at the pegasus, and knocked her to the ground. She had managed to get Chatterjoy in a vice like grip, but it seemed that everything had become unnecessary.
Twilight and her friends must have defeated Discord, because a rainbow had erupted across the town and enveloped it in a bright light. Chatterjoy stopped struggling long enough to see it.
When the light had diminished, Chatterjoy remained unmoving, but she was still gray. Golden Silence got off of her. "What are you doing?" Jazzy asked cautiously. The Luna doll had returned to normal, a tear still in its hand stitched eye. The rest of the town was normal looking.
"It's over," Golden Silence replied, "Look." Just as she finished her sentence, Chatterjoy began to regain her color, starting from her tail. When the color had fully returned to her, the pegasus groggily opened her eyes and rubbed her head.
"Ugh, what happened," she moaned. Then she gasped, "My Luna doll!" She frantically looked around till she saw it laying on the ground a few feet from her. It had a water drop on it's eye, and Chatterjoy lovingly wiped it away, as she carefully picked it up. Then she brought it in for a death hug not minding the dirt getting on her fur.
"Yeah, hug the doll first before your friend," Jazzy complained rubbing her chest, "Don't even apologize. Like a 'Hey, Jazzy, I'm so sorry for bucking you in the chest.' "
Wordplay backhoofed Jazzy playfully, "Leave it. We have our friend back and that's all that matters."
Chatterjoy continued to hug her doll close, and a small smile turned on the doll's lips.