***3rd person, Mindy***
Mindy bounces along a path, she recognizes this path. She's home, back in Wyoming. This was the path from the party supply store she worked at, back to the apartment she shared with her sister. She hums a happy tune as she bounces along. Curious that she's not seeing any humans or any ponies. But that doesn't matter. She's going to her apartment.
A quick hum of magic and her key opens the door.
"I'm home!" She shouts.
Her sister comes into the living room, an angry look on her face. She smiles as she chirps, "Hi not-Mary."
Her sister looks confused, "I'm Mary, your sister for the last eighteen years."
Mindy rolls her eyes, "Yeah, sure."
Mary looks serious, "Mindy, you were so kind, so loving, so full of fun. What happened to you?"
Mindy decides to play along, "I became the pony I was before you were born."
Mary furrows her brow, "You aren't my brother anymore."
"Of course I'm not. I'm your pony sister. And you had better listen to me like you listened to me as your brother."
"I'm trying to tell you something, something very important."
Mindy gives an exasperated sigh, "No, you aren't. You are trying to make me feel down. I don't want to feel down, so I'm not playing that game."
"This is very serious, the brother I knew and loved is gone."
Mindy smiles, "No, I'm not. I'm right here. Don't you see me?" Her horn lights and her sister is picked up in her magic. She's floated to the magenta unicorn, "I'm right here."
"You don't love me anymore. You would rather be a pony."
"Of course I want to be a pony, being a unicorn is awesome!"
Her sister shakes her head, "That's not what I meant."
"Yes, it's exactly what you meant, you said I liked being a pony, and I do. What is the problem with that?"
"Everything!" Mary shouts.
Mindy smiles at the woman who purports to be her sister as she sets her down gently. She then takes the woman's hand in her magic and places it on her mane, "What do you feel?"
"Fur."
"This is the fur I had up until twenty-five years ago. I've got it back. I like it. But that doesn't stop my relationship with you, not-sister. I know you believe you are my sister, but you are made up."
A growl emanates from everywhere and everything around Mindy shatters like glass.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, are you going to try to scare me next?" She calls out into the darkness.
Lightning Dust appears out of the blackness, "I thought you were my friend." She says.
Mindy cocks her head to the side, "I am Lightning Dust's friend, I don't think I'm yours though."
Another growl, and Lightning Dust disappears in a flash of light, being replaced by the scaly form of Discord.
"You are the most frustrating…" He screams at her, pulling on his cheeks in frustration. She reaches up with a hoof and bops him on the nose.
"And you are the most mean meaney pants there is, Discord. You are not my friend."
"Arrrgh!" He screams as white light envelopes everything.
Suddenly she's in Baltimare, she looks down, she's a filly again, a filly Lightning Dust is sitting next to her. She looks around, she remembers this. One of the few times Double Trouble actually got caught. They are sitting in a Royal Guards extension office in Baltimare. This had to be the time they were able to turn half the buildings on the west side of town bright red.
Lightning Dust nudges her, "Well, we had a good run."
Mindy's ears fall flat, "Discord, you bastard."
Dust looks at her quizzically. "Who is Discord?"
Mindy hops off the chair, ignoring the Royal Guards calling for her to sit back down, "Not this Discord. I know it's you."
"What are you talking about Mindy?"
"Mindy!" She hears that voice. No, not him, anypony but him.
Her plea goes unmet as the door opens and a white pegasus strides into the room, he pulls off his armored helm of an officer of the Royal Guard and the enchantment on the armor fades, turning his coat back to its natural light gray.
Mindy's voice gets very small, "Hi Daddy."
She closes her eyes as she hears the words he says. On how he's so disappointed in her, that his daughter should do so much better, especially since her father is an officer in the Royal Guard.
Tears leak from her eyes, this stunt actually cancelled his promotion to work in Canterlot. He started drinking after that. Nothing was the same after that. Dust was the only one she could hold onto after that.
She whirls away from her father, "This isn't real. Discord, you bastard. You can't have my memories."
She hears her father in the background, lecturing her. Telling her what he told her all those years ago.
She sits on her haunches. Wait a moment. She's not twelve anymore. She's an adult. She looks down at her body, a mare's body is there. She turns back to her father, and gives him a hug, interrupting his lecture.
"I love you Daddy, and I'm sorry what I did made your life miserable. But you can't make my future miserable." She charges her horn and teleports.
***
She appears in blackness. The few tears she shed have dried. She's not afraid of what Discord can do to her. She turns, and the monster is there. Staring in wonder at the magenta unicorn with the bouncy, tangled white mane. She bounces up to him and again, bops him on the nose.
"I know this is a dream Discord. And once we get out of this dream, you are going to get it."
The draconequus stands to his full height, towering over her. She giggles, this is a dream, so she can do that too. She doubles, then triples her height, looking at him in the eyes. "You are in my head, Discord, so I can do to you what I want.
His eyes widen momentarily until she focuses on him, and suddenly a baby draconequus is sitting on the ground. She returns to her normal size and then concentrates for a moment, she shifts like Irony does, and reaches down and picks up the babbling, drooling monster. Not nearly as scary now as he was just a few minutes ago. She cuddles him.
"You are so cute when you are this small. It's too bad you have to grow up." The baby's head falls to the side a bit, not understanding her words, just the playful tone of voice. She feels her muscles tense, can she end this now? It would be so easy. But that is a passing thought, Mindy wouldn't harm a baby, even one to grow as evil as Discord.
She gets an idea. She concentrates and a hole opens in the dream. Nothing wrong with throwing out the trash, right? She tosses the baby draconequus at the hole. As he passes through, his body reverts back to normal.
She looks at him, and the stunned look on his face, "You can't have my dreams either, Discord." And she slams the hole closed mentally.
Mindy giggles as she wills herself to wake up.