//------------------------------// // Enter the Chaos King // Story: Starlight's Remark // by Bonk6 //------------------------------// Chapter Three: Enter the Chaos King With nothing to do, helpless in her own castle, Celestia rests on the cage floor. Her sister had done it. Canterlot was overthrown, and she had brought upon everlasting night. It was all hopeless now. Hopeless... "Well, this sun doesn't seem bright at all. Too busy being eclipsed by the other celestial rear end of the moon?" Discord floats beside the princess, laying on air with his hands on his chin as if to listen. "You know, they say disharmony only brings more trouble, but I just don't see it!" "Discord..." Celestia doesn't seem surprised, nor does she turn her head. "I cannot stop you from doing as you please.. I only beg that you do not hurt the ponies of Equestria." "A favor? Really?" The Draconequus taps a talon to his chin. "That's funny. I leave for, oh I don't know, eons was it? And the moment I return, you already need me! I don't even recall why I was gone, Celestia knows why. Oh! That's right! You are Celestia! Yesyesyes, I remember now. Locked away in stone." With his sudden change in tone, Celestia knows he's in no mood to listen to what she has to say. 'My embarrassment is little compared to their safety..' The princess goes over in her head. "I.. Will be your loyal servant, never will I go against your word, if you keep them safe..." Discord snorts. "Oh please, if I wanted to I could warp your mind at any moment! Then you wouldn't want to disobey me!" 'It needs to be more...' Going against her own instincts, she attempts to play the affection card. Leaning in, Celestia kisses his lips. "A bit half-(PG)ed, don't you think?" Celestia opens her eyes, revealing that she's kissing Cranky Doodle Donkey. Quickly she rears her head back in surprise, too stunned to apologize to the borough. "You think I wanted to kiss you, Celestia? You believe that I would just fall into your hooves, and do as you asked because you came onto me? How assuming and sexist of you, their supposed leader!" Discord rants from outside the cage, a closed paw to his forehead in disgust. "Plus, you are downright ugly. Have you forgotten a couple decades of shampoo? Your mane seems to go just about everywhere on its own." Nightmare Moon comes to the sound of the commotion, instantly spotting the abomination to nature. "Halt, Discord! Be gone from thy castle!" That only makes him chuckle. "Your castle? You've got it all wrong, you see! The sky isn't even night anymore!" Cracking his neck, the sun comes back up. Nightmare gasps, looking out at the sight. "You will NOT take my reign from me!!" Acting rashly, she fires a beam in his direction. It goes right through him, naturally, and destroys the lock on Celestia's cage. Slowly turning back to see, Discord places a paw to his mouth. "Did I do that? Oh, terribly sorry, Nightmare was it? I would certainly hate to ruin all your fun, I'll go. But before I do, to make it up to you somewhat, you have something on your face." "We.. We do?" Nightmare tries wiping her face with a hoof, confused. "Yes! Let me just get that for you real quick. Seems to be a nasty spill of darkness." Before she can object, a beam of light shoots out of Discord's open paw, vaporizing the evil confined in Luna. "NO! NOOOOOORAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!!!" After it has all dissipated, Luna falls to the floor, clean of her dark curse. "Discord.. You've done it!" Celestia hurries to her sister's side, overjoyed. "You're right! I did do it!" Another, bigger cage comes up from underneath the princesses, imprisoning them once more. "I finally took over this dump to be my own chaos capital of the world! How kind of you to celebrate with me, a true sport!" Starlight grumbles over not getting to see Celestia again. Ever since Glimmer was dropped from being her number one student, not even glimpses of her came. Did she resent her for it? Of course, it was even why she formed her own philosophy of equalism with herself on top. But that didn't mean she didn't want to see her for celebrity reasons. "Attention, citizens of Ponyville!" Blinking out of her deep thinking, Starlight looks up at the many holograms of Discord around town. "You are now the citizens of Discordville! It's the wonderful town you'll never want to leave, because wanting to leave will put you in jail!" Walls rise from all sides of the town, until Ponyville is in a bubble of glass. Starlight starts putting two and two together, remembering Nightmare Moon's threat, and changing Twilight's past, and now this. "...Crap."