//------------------------------// // Discord the Joker // Story: Quicksilver // by PredictableOffender //------------------------------// “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!  Run for the fucking exit! Run for the Hills! Run for your fucking lives!” You scream but all your senses are overwhelmed and you soon blackout. ~~~ “Silver. Dear please just relax.” You fidget in your seat, the cool ocean breeze or warm sunlight can’t calm you down. “It’s just... There is too much stress. Work has been hell lately.” You just told her a complete lie. “Thats the reason Fancy Pants purchased this cottage in the first place dear.” That’s exactly why you are nervous, the last time a rich guy let you borrow his cottage he tried to kill you. Those memories are a little too vexing for you to easily forget, you haven’t even met this guy. “Arrghhhh. Let’s go to the beach.” Maybe you’ll forget about all this after a swim or something. “Isn’t it a bit too early for that. We haven’t even had breakfast yet!” “Alright we hit the beach afterwards.” You get out of the lounge seat you had been resting in and walk towards the kitchen where Rarity had been talking from. You get lost in the luxury of the place. Everything around you looked more expensive than anything you own, even down to the wooden floor. You know you have the cash to buy a place like this but honestly you have the fiscal responsibility of a toddler. The threat of arrest is the only thing keeping you from going haywire with you bank account. You had better get to the kitchen. Once you enter you see Rarity dressed in her elegant white bikini with a assortment of pans and ingredients on the counter in front of her. Like always her hair is style exquisitely. “Silver I understand you’ve been stressed lately. Just relax and let me take care of you.” You feel genuine concern in her voice, concern for the completely wrong thing. You chuckle to yourself, because you actually have to go on a raid with some Lunar Guard the day after you get home. You move behind Rarity and wrap your arms around her, she relaxes herself and leans back onto you. “Rarity...” you pause to collect your thoughts. “I love you.” ~~~ You stumble for a few steps before you regain your balance. Your eyes are completely out of focus, all sounds may as well be muffled static and you're too dizzy to really be sure if you are still standing up. You can’t think too straight but in an effort to resist something you begin to take steps forwards. Your mind clears itself with every step, you force one leg before another until you are no longer walking on rubble. You turn around to face what in the hell just happened. You turned to see Twilight’s Library completely destroyed. Nothing smoke, fire and rubble where the Library once stood. The smoke and fire dance in the wind, slowly enveloping and destroying anything thats left of the building. Although you recognize the smell, you didn’t notice it at the time but this is like odor left behind after you cell was blasted open. “Silver while you were napping some of Twilights friends took Caramel and Macintosh away to be kidnapped by something.” Sombra states. “What?” you see green glow on the street ahead of you. “They were taken that way. It wasn’t too long ago and I can sense a truly massive energy signature over there.” “No Bullshit with you.” “Yes.” “Alright it’s a Heist!” You take a began running towards the arrows that Sombra has laid out for you. The city is the exact way Canterlot was, everything was left unattended and there are some of the zombie looking dudes roaming around. Strangely every few buildings you find something completely out of place like a Giant rubber duck or huge amounts of birthday balloons. Most noticeably sections of the road are for some reason had tuned into black and white floor tiles. Before you can think of any concrete explanations of what you are walking though you hear a loud, deep and menacing voice in the distance. Must be Tirek. The voice was accompanied by the voice of an effeminate old man. You can’t make out a word that they are saying so you decide to sneak closer. A nearby storefront had been blasted open and you can see a path to an alleyway behind. You take a few delicate steps and you find yourself in a blasted out corner store, there is glass everywhere so you gotta be careful. You silently scoot your way to the door into the alley, you move through the alley to the building closest to where you remember the voices coming from. The back door was locked but a window was broken so you just climbed through it. You hop into a unremarkable kitchen and avoid a couple of zombified residents on your way to the second floor. On your way to the second floor you notice that this family is well off, you mentally stop yourself from looting the place. You sneak into a bedroom with a big window and a vanity. Rarity is the only reason you know what that thing is called, there might be some jewelry inside that You mentally chastise yourself and get back to work, you crawl up onto the large bed and take a look out the window. You see some strange musclebound centaur guy talking to Discord (who you had the misfortune to meet) in the roundabout just outside the window. You can’t make out much more than muffled shouting and the sound of magical spells being cast and things crashing in the distance. You crack open the window so you can hear better. “Discord remain here and I shall continue to search for the purple one.” “As you say sire. I would leave her until last if I were you she can really be quite a bother.” Discord leans back into the air and begins to float as if he were lying on a hammock. “Discord deal with this intruder please.” The man who you assume is Tirek makes eye contact with you before disappearing in a puff of smoke. “Well well Silver I thought Rarity had already gotten rid of you.” Discord appears behind you. “Say that again Asshole.” you draw Sombra and slash at Discords direction. Strangely you use very good technique and your body automatically followed up with another slash which hits discord but just bursts into a cloud of smoke. “Leave the swordsmanship to me Silver.” Sombra says, you reach into your pocket and grab the jammer. Discord reappears to your left and your body charges him again. “In a bad mood Silver? Did I strike a nerve?” Your body strikes at him again but Discord puffs away again. “Come big guy on we can hug it out.” The draconequus leans back and summons a small watermelon sized cloud above his hand. The ground suddenly turns into pudding and you begin to sink in, it solidifies when you are trapped where you stand. Sombra begins to emit a black mist. “Now you have calmed down we can have a proper conversation like grown ups.” you regain control of your body. “Don’t you fucking insult me like that again.” you sheath Sombra but keep you hand on the handle. “Again with the foul language Silver. Your Ex girlfriend must've hated that.” Discord tosses the watermelon sized cloud in your direction and it stops just to the right of your face. “Stop talking about Rarity like that.” you try to remain civil, Sombra starts pulsating in your hand. “Come on isn’t obvious she ratted on you. You know how strong her sense of justice wouldn’t let her stand by as you walked free and unpunished for your many crimes.” “She let you walk.” “Yes but I never hurt anyone, I have never ended another living beings life. Compared to you I am a saint!” Discord floats up to you and knocks on the cloud. The edge of the cloud flattens and begins to display static. Discord knocks on it a few times before summoning a hammer from nowhere an bashing it, this causes an image to come into focus. It is like bad security footage but you can instantly recognize Rarity and her friend Flutershy. They are both trapped in a large cartoon like cage and Rarity is comforting a the Crying Fluttershy. “I bet here is so much footage of you like this. Maybe masked and ready to do something really bad.” Discord says from somewhere behind you. “She didn’t visit you when you were in jail didn’t she?” “.....” He isn’t wrong. “So Silver I have a proposition for you. Join forces with me and Tirek and you can steal more riches than you can even imagine.” “Did Rarity ever say anything about me when I was locked up.” you fight to hide the sadness in your words. “She didn’t exactly give you a positive review.” you release your grip on Sombra’s handle and place the jammer back into your pocket. “.... Alright I’ll do it.” “Perfect I can tell we are going to be the best of friends.” Discord leaps at you and embraces you like an excited child. You were mistaken to think you can live a normal life.