//------------------------------// // L37 // Story: A little loopy. // by FaelaArts //------------------------------// “Oh no, it’s raining chocolate milk, it must be another Discord prank.” Sweetie pretended, badly, that she was actually frightened and angry at the chocolate raining on her. After a while, she sighed, and stood still, narrowing her eyes. Great, making fun of him hadn’t drawn him out. Kicking a bucket, she watched as it banged against the ground. “Just great. He won’t come when called OR when made fun of. How the hell does one summon this freaking Chaos God?” Sweetie growled in irritation, wincing as a spike of pain laced through her head. Sweetie reconised the pain instantly, and sighed. Great, another chore she would have to do. “You could always try asking politely you know. I do have feelings.” Turning, Discord’s pouting face swam into view, and Sweetie smiled sheepishly. Whoops, looks like Fluttershy was right. Sweetie quickly composed herself, and pulled out the two books she had ‘borrowed’ from Twilight during the previous loop. “Fancy some light eating?” Sweetie smiled innocently as Discord mused, glancing the books over. Tossing them aside, he snapped his fingers and transformed them into flying doughnuts. Sweetie watched them fly around a few times, before breathing in, and getting to business. Discord was currently eyeing her saddlebags, full of paper. It would be best to not let him get any ideas. “Discord, I am-” Sweetie blinked as she was cut off, her mouth zipping up like a pair of pants. Unzipping it, she tilted her head as Discord regarded her, and gave a yawn. “Stuck in a time loop, forced to repeat the same time over and over again, I’ve heard it before. You remind me so much of the grizzled old goat, no sense of fun left in you. Blegh.” Discord shuddered, his arms falling off and beginning to bounce along the ground. Discord watching them begin to dance to a tune coming out of thin air. “Wait, so you know about it?” Sweetie leaned forward, eyes sparkling with hope. Discord narrowed his own eyes, and snapped his fingers in between a backflip and split as the dance continued. Sweetie found herself wearing a pair of sunglasses, covering her eyes. Pulling them up, she realised Discord was no longer looking at her. “Of course I do, you don’t think I’d notice the magic slamming through the air with little care for any magic in its way? Anyone with some sense of Chaos could detect it. It slides along my back like someone stroking a cat the wrong way.” Discord shuddered again, and snapped his fingers. Hands back on his body, he flew over to a house, and turned it into a bubble. Blowing on it, Discord watched as it flew away. “I imagine your tiny head is exploding with questions, so let me answer them quickly for you so I can get back to ignoring the elephant standing right next to you.” Discord glanced scathingly toward Sweetie’s right, and she blinked, there was an elephant right there. Sweetie glanced upward as it suddenly began to rain elephants, causing untold panic. Sweetie couldn’t resist the slight upturn of a smile. “Yes I can survive the loop reset, no I don’t want to, no I don’t have memories from previous loops, yes I used to know Starswirl, no I don’t know how you cast the spell, and yes English Literature is my favorite.” Discord snapped his fingers, and a piece of paper appeared in front of Sweetie. Taking it, she saw it was covered in a crude drawing of Discord. Folding it up, she wondered how Discord had guessed her last question. “If that is all, I’d like to go cause some lovely chaos in New Griffonia. Those Gryphons served me bad cheese last time I was there.” Discord paused just long enough to snap his fingers, and return everything to normal. Fluttershy would scold him if he didn’t clean up his mess. Well, Discord had only sworn not to cause Chaos in Equestria. The Gryphon Kingdoms on the other hand… “Uh, see ya…” Sweetie watched as Discord vanished, and realised she hadn’t actually gotten a chance to properly talk to him. Sitting down, Sweetie sighed as she wrote down everything Discord had said, cataloging it as she mused on her notes. Looking over them, she bit her lip and scratched her head. “Alright, so Discord can survive a loop reset, but doesn’t want to. He doesn’t keep memories from previous loops. He knew Starswirl, and called him a ‘grizzled old goat’ I think. Okay, so what does that tell me. Come on Sweetie, think.” Sweetie leaned back, and pursed her lip. “Discord likes chaos and disharmony, something like time looping would make any chaos he did become boring or similar if he did it too many times. So maybe that’s why he doesn’t want to come with me to a loop reset? I guess that makes sense.” Sweetie glanced to the sky, and winced as another slice of pain hit her head. “Right, priorities.” Sweetie stood up, and headed toward Twilight’s. Knocking on the door, she quickly wrote the letter as she waited for Twilight to answer. Holding it out to Twilight, Sweetie opened her mouth to speak. “Twilight, can you send this to Celestia? I need a new shield spell.” Sweetie winced, the pain was starting to occur more often. Twilight nodded, but levitated over a scroll instead of allowing Sweetie inside. Opening it, Sweetie saw a complicated spell, and tried to understand what it did. Thankfully, Twilight came to her rescue. “This is a shield spell that will create a bubble in a sphere around you. It will take some time before you can control it enough to make it skintight, but it should do you for quite a while.” Twilight tilted her head and gave a smile. Sweetie nodded, and tried to cast it. A tiny bubble flickered to life around her, and her headache cleared. “Thanks Twilight,” she spoke, giving a warm smile as she put the scroll in her saddlebags. Sweetie waved goodbye, and turned, heading home to where Rarity would be waiting. The strain was immense, and she had to stop a few times. Sweetie was also positive it wasn’t very strong either. Both things that gave her something to work on. “I’ll try talking to Discord again next loop.” Sweetie still had questions she wanted to ask.