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// Overload 
// Story: The Haven 
// by Original Usermane 
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	It started with a weird tingling sensation up and down the back of his neck. Scratching at it didn’t help. And, of course, it all had to reach a climax when they were in the dead center of Ponyville.
His arm spasmed violently all of a sudden, a huge burst of chaos magic flying out the end and giving several houses legs from various animals. Mortified, he hurriedly took them away with a snap.
“Discord?” Fluttershy asked worriedly, “What-” Another burst left through his foot and turned the ground into jello, which he also quickly reversed. “What’s happening!?”
“I don’t know, I can’t control it!” Discord exclaimed irritatedly as several ponies shot him worried looks. Discord looked down at his body as if checking for leaks. He saw arcs of energy crackling over the surface, and he, too, started to get worried. “What the-” All of a sudden, he was surrounded by the chaos magic as it burst out of him and spread into everything around him, effectively turning Ponville into the chaos capital of the world again. He couldn’t move. let alone stop it, as the excess magic continued to stream out of him and make sporadic changes. His eyes glowed white, much like Twilight’s did when she was overcharged with magical energy.
Fluttershy, not knowing what to do, finally had the presence of mind to run off for help when his magic turned her mane into yarn and pink taffy. She knocked hurriedly on the door to Twilight’s library.
“Fluttershy, what’s wro-” Twilight asked, opening the door to see exactly what was wrong.
“He’s not doing it on purpose, I swear!” Fluttershy said, tears streaming down her face. “It just happened all of a sudden, I don’t know what to do!”
“Stay here and try to make him stop, I’ll go get help from Princess Celestia,” Twilight said, taking charge and teleporting away with a burst of light. Fluttershy obediently ran right back into town and cautiously approached the still-glowing Discord, trying to ignore the fact that her wings had vanished and moustache glasses had appeared on her face.
“Discord, Twilight’s going for help!” she called out through her terrified sobs. “Hold on!” Several scared-looking Earth ponies flew through the air off to the left, and some of the rocks appeared to be playing leap-frog along the side of the road, which was covered in orange peels. The characteristic pink clouds were just beginning to form in the sky when Celestia and Twilight appeared.
“Fluttershy, stand back!” Celestia ordered. Fluttershy reluctantly skittered away from him after only a moment’s hesitation. “I had hoped, with as long as he’s been reformed, that we’d be able to avoid this, but evidently his chaos is even more a part of him than I’d thought.”
“Wh-what do you mean?” Fluttershy asked.
“Chaos is a force of nature, and one it may have been wise to more carefully the implications of reigning in. All this time of holding back his chaos magic has caused it to build up inside of him, to the point where he can no longer control it.”
“But he uses it all the time!” Fluttershy squeaked. “When he’s working for you, or-” she cut herself off from mentioning the haven, remembering that Twilight didn’t know about it.
“But even there, his magic was being used for logical, structured things. It didn’t allow an outlet for the true chaos.”
“Isn’t there anything we can do!?” Fluttershy asked.
“Don’t worry, I have a plan,” Celestia sighed. She pulled some sort of sphere out of the saddlebags that Fluttershy had only just noticed that she was wearing. She carefully levitated it towards Discord and gently pressed it against his forehead. The chaos magic was immediately sucked into the ball, and Discord finally collapsed in an exhausted heap on the ground, though all of the chaos his magic had already created remained.
“Discord!” Fluttershy said worriedly, whizzing back to his side. “What’s wrong! Why did he pass out!?”
“He’s just dealing with the shock of his magic being taken out of his body,” Celestia sighed.
“You… took away his magic!?” Fluttershy and Twilight exclaimed in unison.
“Temporarily,” Celestia assured. “At least until his body can regain enough control to keep it under taps. And even then, we may need to loosen the reins a bit on his magic, or things like this may happen with greater intensity and frequency.”
“But he’ll be alright?” Fluttershy insisted. Celestia nodded.
“Unfortunately, he will be unable to use his magic again for a few days,” Celestia sighed.
“How is that unfortunate?” Twilight asked, irritated at the whole situation.
“Because it means he can’t help with putting things back to normal,” Celestia said.
“Oh,” Twilight said unenthusiastically. “Right.”
The rebuilding efforts began the next day, and as the Elements of Harmony, the six ponies were naturally looked to to lead, as always.
“I can’t believe after all that hooey about apologies he went and pulled somethin’ like this!” Applejack snarled in the morning as they met together in the castle to make plans and divide up jobs.
“He couldn’t help it,” Fluttershy said distressedly, fighting back more tears. She’d been a wreck ever since Celestia left with Discord, planning to keep an eye on him at the Canterlot Castle. She was so worried about him, and she couldn’t even share her worries with her friends, because they didn’t know anything about their true relationship.
“Well he should’ve been more careful!” Applejack spat. “Ya don’t just not notice massive magical build-up like that! He could’ve hurt somepony!”
“He would never do something like this on purpose!” Fluttershy defended. “He’s changed!”
“Yeah, I can tell,” Rainbow said irritably, gesturing to both of their bare backs and Fluttershy’s still-chaotic mane. “He’s like a whole new master of chaos.”
“We don’t have time for this,” Twilight snapped, and began divvying up responsibilities as any hopes Fluttershy had for her friends reconciling with Discord were brutally put on hold.
Discord didn’t regain consciousness for three days, so Fluttershy spent the three lonely days at home alone,  when she wasn’t helping put Ponyville back to normal. She missed him more than she thought possible, and more than once she cried herself to sleep and woke up from nightmares of what had happened.
When Discord woke up, he found himself in an unfamiliar room, completely alone. Thinking he just didn’t remember redecorating the haven, he left the room and began trying to find his way out. It took a full three seconds for him to realize that he was actually in Canterlot Castle, and for him to remember why he was there. He tried snapping, but nothing happened. Horrified, he set off to find Celestia as quickly as possible.
“Celestia, what happened!? How’s Fluttershy!? Why can’t I use magic!?” he demanded, bursting into the throne room a few minutes later.
“You’re finally up!” Celestia said, relieved. She calmed him down a bit and explained what had happened and why, exactly, his magic wasn’t working. “I can’t return it all to you, yet, but you should be able to handle a little bit. No long-range teleportation or large-scale chaos, but you should still be able to materialize or alter small items and transform. Anything beyond that will have to wait until you’ve recovered more.”
“How’s Fluttershy?” Discord repeated, as Celestia pulled out the orb and let a small stream of magic filter back into Discord’s body. 
“Shaken, but relatively unharmed. Her mane is a bit of a mess, though, and I believe she’s been enjoying three days as an Earth pony,” Celestia informed him. He paled.
“I have to get back!” he exclaimed. He snapped, but nothing happened.
“Long-range teleportation,” Celestia reminded him. “I’m afraid you’ll have to take the train.” He was gone without another word.