“What’s this?” Discord just barely noticed the element of loyalty trying to hit him, just then a barrage of missiles from the elements showered him left and right.
“Oh no.” Discord couldn’t believe what was happening, how was it possible for the elements to reunite again? It was unthinkable that little Miss Sparkle butt could defeat his spell, could she?
But before he could react, an explosion came from the bearers that showered Discord with a friendship rainbow in the likes of which he had never experienced.
The rainbow covered the entirety of Ponyville, cleansing it from the chaos that seeped into its core. The only thing left was the dying scream of the lord of chaos.
“We did it girls!” Twilight’s cheer was promptly joined by her friends in a jovial group hug as everything around them seemingly turned to normal. However the cheer suddenly died down as they realized that a certain statue was missing.
“Where is Discord?” Rainbow Dash flew in urgency hoping to spot the sneaky draconequus before he could escaped.
“We didn’t... you know... kill him... did we?” Fluttershy meekly shrunk back behind Applejack who was nervously on the lookout for any signs of the trickster.
“We shouldn’t be able to,” Twilight replied despite her own struggles of doubts, “the elements are supposed to turn him to stone like they did with the princesses.”
“Then why isn’t there any stone statue of him anywhere?” Rarity said while retreating, forming with the rest of the bearers a protective circle as they all expected Discord to come popping out of nowhere.
Silence fell on the group, all eyeing their surroundings, hoping, praying that their foe has been defeated and not frolicking around with them.
A tumbleweed rolled iconically as nothing seemed to happen.
Just then, Fluttershy noticed something amiss, “Look,” she pointed the group toward a basket that appeared where Discord was standing. The basket in and of itself was nothing special, it was made of straws and had a white sheet wrapped around something in the middle.
Tentatively, the mane six slowly crept toward the basket, their heart racing, their nerves on edge, expecting a blast of chaos from a sneaky draconequus at any moment.
Upon reaching the basket, they stood in utter readiness to leap into action at any second.
“Would somepony take a peek already,” the tension seemed to have gotten to Rainbow Dash first.
Twilight looked to her left and right. With her friends nodding in encouragement, she carefully levitated the sheets, only to find a big, white, round egg placed casually in the middle. Twilight exhaled deeply.
“All clear girls,” Twilight smiled at her friends, their sighs, ‘oh goodness’, and smiles calmed her racing heart further, “No sign of Discord yet…”
As if on cue, the egg started to wobble, causing the poor unicorn to jump back in fear and her friends to freeze in their places. Then a loud crack rippled through the egg, “Everypony hid!” was all the warning her friends got before the egg exploded in confetti, licorice, and popcorn.
Grunting, Twilight casted a spell to remove the confetti from her mane, “I knew it!” she stomped toward the basket, her mind set on blasting Discord to the moon this time, “I don’t know how you escaped Dis…”
For the second time her speech was stolen from her as what she processed what was in front of her. There, in the basket, was a yawning Discord, only it wasn’t the Discord she and her friends came to know. This Discord was small, too small in fact to be any threat to anyone. His big toothy head only accentuated his big eyes as he rubbed them sleepily with his little paw, while his tiny claw slumped lazily on his side, same as his bat and feathered wing.
He looked up at Twilight who seemed even more willing to flee before her heart melted in this adorable puddle of a draconequus foal. His pupils grew thrice their size as he gave Twilight Sparkle the biggest, toothiest smile she had ever seen since they threw that party to Pinkie Pie. Then, with a single declaration and open paw and claw waiting his hug he declared, “Mommy!”
That was all it took for Twilight.exe to stop functioning, resulting in an extremely nervous laugh. Twilight addressed the draconequus foal in her highest pitch yet, “Discord, stop it already. If you think you can turn into a foal and play your little parenting game with me, think again,” Twilight knew the moment she laid eyes upon that egg that the trickster was up to no good, “I’m on to you buster, don’t think you can fool me.”
The little draconequus brought down his paw and claw, seeing his mother scolding at him confused him endlessly. He tilted his head displaying more of his big red eyes as he asked in bewilderment, “Mommy?”
Twilight kept eyeing the foal when she heard a loud gasp from behind her.
“What in tarnation?” Applejack was the first to peer the little monstrosity and she was not too pleased.
“What in Tartarus is that?” Rainbow simply stared at the thing more perplexed than threatened.
“Uuuu,” Pinkie Pie approached the foal, mesmerized by what had transpired, sticking her face so close that it made the draconequus foal giggle. He then touched her nose with his claw, “Boop,” Pinkie declared seemingly oblivious by her friends’ aghast, causing the foal to giggle more in return.
“Pinkie, stop that!” Twilight pulled her away with her levitation field, causing Pinkie to sadden in return, “Discord, enough games already, turn back so we can blast you already!” Twilight completely missed when the draconequus foal’s expression turned sour as he gave her long droopy stares.
“Well, this certainly is an interesting development,” Rarity remarked as she scrutinized the foal.
“Really? Because I find him adorable,” Fluttershy walked toward the little guy and cooed at him while stroking his mane, with him melting in her petting in response.
Everypony stared at Fluttershy in astonishment.
“Ah’ beg yer pardon Fluttershy,” Applejack echoed everypony’s thought, “There is nothing adorable about that monster.”
“Applejack!” Fluttershy immediately closed the foal’s ears, which she didn’t think were fluffy at all, mind you, “not in front of the foal, please!”
“Fluttershy,” Rainbow Dash flew in, “he’s Discord; how can you not see it?”
“No,” Fluttershy’s initial boost of courage was quickly dismantled, as she shrunk back into her shyness, “I- I don’t think he is, I mean…”
“On what grounds don’t you think he is Discord?” Twilight asked, “Discord is nowhere to be found, and instead of him we have this draconequus foal, Draconequii don’t just fall of the tree, you know.”
“It’s just that,” Fluttershy gulped, “as you said, he’s just a foal.”
“Twilight darling, you have to agree she has a point.” Rarity walked toward Fluttershy for a closer look, “Now that I look at you, you don’t look as threatening as mean old Discord at all, don’t you?” with a scratch under his chin, the foal started wagging his bushy tail merrily.
“This is getting us nowhere,” Rainbow Dash groaned, “What do you make of this Pinkie?”
Pinkie Pie put on her thinking face for a moment, then her expression suddenly lit up with a broad smile and sparkle in her eyes, “Girls, I know how we can be sure that this little guy isn’t Discord!”
All heads turned toward her in silent approval, Pinkie bounced toward the draconequus foal, lowering her head to meet his, and smiled ever so widely, “Hi.”
“Hi,” keen to imitate her greeting the foal replied with the same high pitch voice and finished it with the same awfully big smile on his face.
“Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Applejack think that you are a mean Mc meanie pants named Discord, but Fluttershy and Rarity don’t think so,” Pinkie pointed at each of her friends in return, then suddenly turned toward the foal with an accusational hoof pointed straight at his face, causing him to stare at in in utter confusion, “So I’m going to ask you once, are you Discord?”
The foal immediately shook his head with a resounding “nope.”
Pinkie Pie eyed him suspiciously, “do you Pinkie swear?”
The foal scratched his head for a moment then turned a determined glare at Pinkie, “I do.”
“Then repeat after me,” Pinkie stood tall as she reiterated her Pinkie swear, “Cross my heart,” she crossed her hoof across her heart, “and hope to fly,” she shot her hoof at a random direction, “stick a cupcake in my eye,” she stuck her hoof in her eye.
The foal winced, “that looks painful,” he said with concern over Pinkie’s eye written all over his face.
Seeing the foal near tears, “Oh no it’s not,” Pinkie removed her hoof from her eye revealing that it looks normal, “you just place it gently,” she repeated that last motion much slowly just to put his mind at ease, “now you do it.”
Hesitantly, the foal imitated, “Cross my heart,” he made the same crossing gesture with his paw, “and hope to fly,” he then sailed his paw to the same direction as Pinkie’s, “stick a cupcake *glup* in my eye?”
Seemingly satisfied, Pinkie turned with a triumphant posture and declared, “He’s not Discord,” to the obvious relief of the young foal.
Rainbow Dash slammed her hoof on her face, while Applejack simply shook hers. Twilight groaned then faced the foal one last time, “Then what is your name?”
The foal put on his best impression of Pinkie Pie’s thinking face, then turned toward Twilight with another big toothy smile, “Pandemonium,” he declared with everypony cringing.
Rainbow Dash leaned toward Rarity, “What does that means?”
“It means chaos on a grand scale.” Rarity whispered.
But before this scene ends, Pandemonium let out one final surprise by pointing straight at Twilight and declaring for the second time, “and you are my mommy!” with a cheerful attitude that made Twilight.exe crash.