//------------------------------// // A title similair to the title of the second chapter. // Story: George 'Fixes' the season finale. // by LucidTech //------------------------------// Music lulled about, lazy as it was in the air. Air that was thick with pea soup. Or had been, moments ago, until George had recieved a stern talking to about mixing food with oxygen necessary for ponies to breath. He hadn't let any of them suffocate of course, for a few glorious moments all the ponies nearby were breathing pea soup. Honestly, it seemed most of them didn't even notice, very few cared about how particularly green the air had become and even less seemed to have noticed the oversized green beach balls that had replaced the clouds. Most likely because it was limited to Ponyville and they were used to this sorta nonsense by this point. They were kinda like "Hey, the librarian became an alicorn, neat." But now George was relaxing. A hammock stretched languidly between two clouds, and those two clouds were linked to two more clouds, and those two clouds were tethered with three inch thick iron cable to the ground and the ground was connected to just about everything else. Well, it wasn't connected to George, who hovered a few inches above the hammock, drinking out of a strange fruit that looked like a tomato had beaten up a pineapple really bad and the tomato had bruised his fists in the occurrence and the pineapple had a bruised cheek, facts which didn't actually affect the look of the fruit, but is vital for the side story about inter species fruit relationships. Next to him floated a pink cotton candy cloud, raining chocolate milk, and on that cloud was Discord, who was also leaning back and relaxing. Below said cloud was a small inflatable swimming pool that seemed to have no bottom, which was good, since it was continuously being filled with chocolate. Pinkie Pie had come around for a while and taken a few strokes through the pool before heading back to work, everyone else had avoided the area like the plague. George sighed and stood up, his feet still a few inches about the hammock as he did so. He jabbed his arm into a nearby cloud and pulled out a pair of diving goggles, which he slid easily over his face. He pulled another pair of goggles from a nearby cloud and offered them to Discord, who declined. George slid them easily over his first pair and then walked to the edge of the hammock, eyeing the swimming pool below. Taking a deep breath, George jumped. He fell for what felt like ages, he checked his watch on the way down, making sure he wasn't going to be late, and then eyed the pool again. Gravity took it's course but George still found time to take a sip from his strange fruit drink that might serve as a catalyst to a revenge movement from the pineapples against their evil tomato overlords. Then, he flipped once and splashed easily into the pool. A huge splash erupted from the pool, shooting a giant jet of chocolate milk straight up into the air, it shot through where Discord relaxed, but what happened to him no one could know as the chocolate was far too thick for anything to be seen inside of it. Then, the chocolate felt the necessary urging of gravity. But the chocolate was like "Awww, one more minute? Please?" And gravity smiled kindly and was like "Alright, one more minute." and the chocolate milk was like "KABLOOOSH!" and then after a while gravity was like "Alright, its been a minute." and the milk was like "Aww, already? Just a little longer?" And gravity was like "Nope, you already got your one more minute, you have to come down now." and the milk was like "Fiiiine." in a whiny tone. And then it collapsed perfectly back into the inflatable pool, not a drop out of place. Discord remained relaxing on his cotton candy cloud as if the forces of the universe hadn't just spoken to each other and he remained there for a while merely leaning back into the cushion of the cloud that was his go to 'screw you' to the universe. He waited, and waited there alone. Nothing interesting happening, only the sounds of birds carrying up from below. "Hey, Discord? Is George up there with you?" The person being questioned looked over the edge of his cotton candy cloud, seeking to answer the question of the person who had asked about the person was the subject of the question. Below he spotted Twilight Sparkle, who was squinting up at Discord, unable to see him very well with the sun directly behind him. From Twilight's perspective Discord reached over to where the sun was and moved a dimmer that she hadn't seen. The sun became less intense and Twilight was able to see Discord much better. "I'm afraid you just missed him." Discord shouted into a megaphone he had made with some quick thinking, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone. He had gotten the idea from a kindly barbarian he had met once. "He actually just dived into that chocolate milk swimming pool and he hasn't come up yet." Twilight looked warily at the swimming pool in question. Well not really in question, more like in statement if you want to get technical. "How long has he been down there for?" "Oh about... five. I would think." Discord said, taking a look at the dim sun that floated in the sky. "Five minutes? He should be up soon then." "Five hours actually." "What?!" The shock in Twilight's voice would've been enough to kickstart a car engine. Unfortunately, not only were there no cars around, but crowd funding car engines was never really a big thing to begin with. "Five hours?!" George walked out from around a building rubbing his head with a chocolate brown towel. He tapped Twilight on the shoulder, she turned around and looked relieved. "So you did come back up." "Nope." Twilight seemed unable to process that for a minute, but all credit to her she did manage to work past it. Jokes on her, I don't like my credit, it is literally the worst. She's so screwed when banks become a thing. "Right, whatever, we'll talk about that later. Or not, preferably not. I was wondering if you wanted to help me with a quick trek to the castle of the royal pony sisters." "Oh, Tia and Lulu's old place? I haven't been there in AGES!" He shouted the last word loudly for emphasis out loud. Twilight looked at him sidelong for a moment. "Of course, this being a new dimension and all, I guess I've never been there to begin with. I'd love to join you for a romp through memory lane, I hope I won't end up feeling extremely sad due to reminiscence like I have for the past few weeks." Before Twilight could ask him about that he continued on. "You wanna come Dizzy?" "Nope." "What about you Discord?" "Nah, I'm fine as well." "Alright then, let's get going Twilight." Twilight looked up to the cloud to see who Dizzy was but the sun had been turned back up and thus she was unable to see anything. She began to follow after George as he made his way towards the Everfree. Her gaze lingering on the strange hammock and the cotton candy cloud she was leaving behind without someone to keep it in check. George snapped his fingers and the hammock, as well as accompanying clouds and iron bars, disappeared suddenly. Luckily he had remembered to keep the earth in place and Twilight was none the wiser about it.