CH. 2 Boredom and Discord
A sunny afternoon in Equestria, the birds were chirping, the weather Pegasi were busy making sure the sky stayed just right, and you could smell the wonderful baked goods from Sugarcube Corner.
“AND IT’S ALL SO BORING!” Anon said in a huff, “All of the wonderous creatures, and beautiful scenery is just…..just….BORING!!!”
Anon laid on his back on the couch in his living room staring at the ceiling contemplating whether he should fix the one crack he noticed. Looking away from the dazzling scenery of his living room, he looked out the window towards the Town Square.
“All of these ponies have jobs or lives or WHATEVER to keep them from getting bored, and what do I have?” Anon asked no one in particular. Then suddenly and idea struck him, well more like a book fell and struck him, but he got an idea either way.
“I could go for a walk to the market, I haven’t really eaten in, like, forever. Or I could visit the Library, OR I could even…” Anon was interrupted from his loud thinking by a raucous bang in the middle of his living room.
Feeling rightly frightened, Anon leapt behind his couch in a defensive position holding a fire poker and wearing a metal colander on his head. Slowly and cautiously he peeked out from behind the couch to see a very odd creature standing in the middle of his living room.
“Discord?” Anon whispered.
Discord turned around at the mention of his name and gave a big ol’ toothy grin at Anonymous. Anon instantly became nervous at the smiling Draconequus, as he wasn’t too sure he liked the grin he was receiving. Anon slid a bit further behind the couch as Discord drew closer to him, the smile never once faltering.
“My, my, who do we have here?” Discord asked rhetorically.
Anon waved slightly, “H..how are you doing on th….this fine d..day?” His voice wavering some as he spoke.
“Well, I was on my way to do something,” Discord pondered, “But now that I’ve found you, I don’t really care what I was doing beforehand.” He said mirthfully.
Anon raised his eyebrow, “Found me? What could you possibly want with me Discord?”
Discord started inching closer to Anon, his smile all the while getting a little wider, “Well that would be the interesting thing, as there is so much I could want you for.”
Anon visibly gulped and stared straight into the Draconequus’ eyes, getting all the more nervous the closer Discord got. One thing Anon has learned in his time here is Equestria was never underestimate the God of chaos that stood nearly nose to nose with him right now.
‘Please don’t rope me into anything traumatizing, I still can’t get rid of the images of all that chocolate sauce everywhere.’ Anon thought to himself.
5 minutes later
Anon sat upon his couch with his arms crossed, staring intently at the shivering mess next to him. Discord looked up at Anonymous and instantly burst out laughing simply pointing at Anon the whole time. Once it seemed like his latest fit was petering out Anon opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by a final snort.
“Are we done now?” Anon asked irritated.
“Oh my, yes I do believe I am..*ahem*.. done, my fine victim.” Discord said.
Anonymous uncrossed his arms and took the colander off his head. Looking at Discord he decided to start with the obvious.
“Why are you just randomly in my living room Discord?” Anon questioned.
“Right to the point then? Well I was on my way to Twilight’s castle and I guess I veered off course due to spacing out.” Discord shrugged when Anon gave his ‘Are you kidding me’ face, “Twilight can be very boring at times,” Anon opened his mouth to disagree but fell short.
Anon sat there with his mouth agape and his hand pointing, “Ok, I’ll give you that much, her lectures can get downright grating.” He conceded.
Discord polished his monocle, that wasn’t there a second ago, “Exactly my point, dear boy, so my mind started focusing on something that was more fun than that and here we are.”
Anon lowered his hand and sighed, ‘Well I was feeling pretty bored earlier.’
“Fine, what do you want to do today Discord?” Anon looked over towards where Discord stood and immediately regretted asking. They were no longer in Anons living room, in fact that weren’t even in his house. Anon looked around the area and saw that they were in the middle of the Market. Confused Anon turned back to look at Discord but couldn’t find him.
‘Aww man!’ was all Anon could think.
“Wait, why would he put me in the middle of here if….” Anon trailed off as he looked towards the sound of an oncoming train, at least where the CMC are concerned it was like that, and could only watch helplessly as he saw what seemed to be his untimely death unfold before him.
‘I am going to murder that idiot.’ Was the last thought to enter Anon’s mind before closing his eyes and waiting.
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“Why does the anticipation have to be the worse part?” Anon asked to no one in particular.
But to his surprise, and his relief, nothing happened. Anon slowly opened his eyes, to only then peer into a pair of yellow eyes.
“BWWAHH!” Anon yelled as he jumped back, accidentally tripping over a random passing pony, then causing said pony to bump into a barrel of apples, which then caused….
10 minutes later………
Anon sat upon a hill overlooking the town, with his head in his hands.
“I just don’t know what went wrong!?” he asked exasperatedly.
A grey blonde-maned Pegasus pony fluttered up next to Anon. She landed on her haunches and winced when Twilights castle, somehow, burst into flames. She then put a comforting hoof on Anons back. Anon looked up from his hands to the sympathetic pony next him.
“I just don’t know what went wrong.” He said with a quiver in his voice and a teary pout on his face.
Ditzy wrapped him in a hug as the Town hall crumbled.
“I know that Feel bro.” she whispered softly.
They both turned to look out at Ponyville, well except Anonymous, who put his head back into his hands after he saw Spike futilely try and put out the castle fire only to watch it re-ignite five seconds later.