'Pinkie,' Chaos said, sadly. 'I just have to see, I just have to know. It doesn't seem fair that he won't be given another chance. And you all keep saying I'm 'Discord's Chaos'. What does that really mean? I just don't know, I don't even know why I'm here! He probably won't do anything too bad....' She looked at Discord, eyes pleading.
'Right?'
'Oh well you certainly do know how to ruin one's fun,' he huffed. 'Though I suppose for now I could not do anything....How was it you put it? Oh yes! Too bad.' He laughed. 'Now what that means...' He moved away from Chaos and shrugged.
'You must get some rest as it is,' Princess Luna said. 'We will stay here with them for the night. In the morining, you can return. But there is not much we can do right now.'
'But...' Rainbow Dash interjected, but Twilight Sparkle cut her off.
'She's right. I just hope you can talk some sense into her, Princess Luna. Otherwise, we'll have to find a way to trap her as well.' The ponies left, sadly and slowly.
The animals however, waved goodbye to the strange Pony Chaos before grouping around a sad and confused Fluttershy. They didn't quite see it the same. Chaos was still the same pony that they liked before, they could sense she was a friend to animals and probably ponies everywhere. To them nothing had changed, but they could tell that to Fluttershy much had changed.
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'Turn Princess Luna back into Nightmare Moon.'
'You wouldn't dare! 'Tis only out of understanding and repect of Chaos' feelings I will try to make sure my sister does not get involved!' Princess Luna was shocked and furious. And just a little scared. But a tiny part of her was...
Excited?
'What are you...' Chaos began. 'Oh wait, I think that I remeber you showing me about that. Hey, I'm not going to do that, but...' She looked at Princess Luna. 'Don't you feel a little...incomplete?'
'We are fine,' Princess Luna said softly. 'We are...'
'Do you really think so little of us?' Her own words came back to haunt her. She was trusting Chaos enough that she could possibly help Discord gain rule over all of Equestria before they really got serious about stopping her, yet wasn't willing to trust her with honesty.
'Sometimes we do feel a little strange,' Princess Luna confided. 'We aren't sure if it is incomplete. But what difference could it possibly make? What is it that you indend on doing if I did? Make us Nightmare Moon, as Discord suggested?'
Chaos straightend herslf up, regally. 'No. What good would that do? But I can do something...I think...' Her face grew serious. 'No, I can do this! I know I can!' She flew at Princess Luna, horn appearing and glowing.
It appeared as if she stabbed into Princess Luna, but there was no pain or blood. Memories swirled in Princess Luna's mind, ways of thinking became something new. And old. It was unusual, but as scary as it was it was also vaguely pleasant. Like being reunited with a long lost friend or relative. She felt good, but she also did feel a little bad. Because she felt a little darker.
'We thank you for this Chaos,' Princess Luna said. 'Though this will take some time getting used to.'
'There's the moon that really is and really should be!' Chaos exlaimed, exctited.
'What did you do Chaos?' Disccord asked, mild interest in his voice. His eyes sudddenly widened. 'Oh this is just great! She's both of them now! How will this make her act? Maybe she'll like me more now. Maybe I can...'
THUD
Princess Luna had kicked Discord.
'Hey what kind of a friend are you being?' Chaos cried out as she flew over to Discord. 'Sheesh.'
'We didn't think it wise for him to continue. Besides, he was getting his hopes up for nothing.'
'So you couldn't tell him to shut up?'
'He wouldn't listen.'
'I wouldn't listen,' Discord chimed in, laughing. 'Oh, never fear dear Chaos. She didn't kick me that hard. And it's nice to see somepony getting some guts. That was quite...unexpected.' He began laugh again.
'Oh Discord, you...Hey! Why do you keep calling me 'dear Chaos' for? Are you going to start that too?' Discord got a look of mock surprise as he got back up quickly.
'Start what, dear Chaos?'
'The stuff that Twilight Sparkle pony was.'
'Oh THAT,' even more mock surprise, bordering on the most sarcastic-sounding voice. 'No. But wouldn't you like to know why?' Chaos turned her head, puzzled.
'That's...why...I..' She stopped and began to laugh. 'Oh you...' Discord grinned.
'Who else wants some popcorn? I'm sure that's not too bad.'
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'You might want to suddenly get better at stealth,' Discord whispered to Chaos. 'Or just fly.' Chaos blushed.
On the way to Sweet Apple Achres, Chaos had been the loudest as she tried to quckly and quietly sneak. 'Oh...Shut up you.'
A sigh. 'You both shut up. We are not even sure why we are going along with this, or allowing you to.'
'Because it's only going to be some of it,' came Chaos' reply. 'That's just good fun with a snack to boot! Who are we hurting?'
'Half,' Discord said.
'A fourth,' Chaos replied.
'Just enough, we think,' Princess Luna chided both of them.
'All,' Discord said, grinning.
'Half,' Chaos said, fighting full-blown laughter.
'A fourth,' Discord said. He got a mock look of surprise. 'Oh no, you've beaten me.'
'Just enough to make a small wave of it. That'd be super fun!'
'I love the way you think, dear Chaos. Perhaps you won't kill the fun after all!'
Princess Luna sighed. This was partially fun, that was true. It was also kind of anoying, like having to pony-sit some particuarly obnoxious foals. 'Mayhaps we're already there.' She pointed.
The moonlit field was strangely eerie and starngely lovely. Discord flew over to the corn, followed closely by Chaos. Princess Luna was being more cautious, another sigh excaping her. Did they really want to get caught or something? How could they be so careless?
Yes, this was excatly like Princess Luna imagined foal-sitting would be.
POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOP
Princess Luna facehoofed. This wasn't going to go well. She had to wonder why she hadn't though about that part.
'Has being around them already affected us so?' She wondered. Then she realized she still wasn't used to thinking of certain things, like sneaking. And popcorn.
POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOP
'Ah-ha ah knew it, you varmit. Ah knew you'd be up to your old tricks again.'
'Oh crap, it's that hornless Applejack pony!' Chaos exclaimed.
'Fly, you foals,' Princess Luna yelled as she took off. The last thing she heard while still in range made her stop and facehoof. It was Chaos and Discord in unison.
'And leave the popcorn? No way!' A fit of laugher afterwards.
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'You varmits better clean up this mess!' Applejack yelled.
'Of course,' Discord said, mock offence in his voice as he swam in popcorn.
Chaos popped her head out of the popcorn. 'Duh.' She dove back in.
'And they ya'll are going to plant more for all the corn you popped. Discord suddenly stopped swimming, and Chaos popped back up.
'Bor...'Discord began.
'Ing,' Chaos finished. They both began to laugh. Applejack sighed.
'Too bad. Stop acting like a couple of foals and get to it.' She yawned. 'Ah'm so tired. You better do it though. Ah can find you, and besides ah bet Princess Celestia would love to hear about this.'
'Luna Wouldn't like that,' Chaos said, reproach in her tone. But Applejack was on her way back.
'Mess, clean, plant tomorrow.'