There were not enough words to describe the absolute mess that Ponyville was in right now. The ground had been given a checkerboardish, purple pattern, cotton candy clouds flew nonsensically across the skies and raining down chocolate milk on unsuspecting victims, and buffalos dressed in tutus danced ballet through town. The little town of ponies was in, for lack of a better word, a state of complete unrest and chaos.
It was perfect.
Among the madness sat the very creature responsible on a dark red throne in the middle of Ponyville, laughing out loud at the ponies’ misery and the chaos he had unleashed upon them. At the very sound of his laugh, the sound of thunder echoed in the skies and a flurry of pies began raining down onto the city streets, amusing the master of chaos even further.
To say that Discord was pleased with himself would be an understatement.
He’d finally managed to escape his stone prison after nearly a millennia, taken Ponyville for himself and re-created it to his personal taste, and even gone as far as to take the very mares that threatened to imprison him again out of the equation. Seeing them fight each other like that would have been worth it alone, but seeing the ringleader of the group, Twilight Sparkle, finally abandoning all hope?
Delicious.
Just as Discord was recalling the day’s events, a cotton candy cloud passed him by and stopped right at the side of his throne. Feeling a little parched, Discord summoned a glass and held it below the cloud, filling it up with its chocolate rain contents from the top, down.
“Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing~” Discord mused to himself, putting a paw to his chest. Just as Discord was about to take a drink though, he heard the absolute last thing that even the God of Chaos himself would have expected to hear.
“Not as wonderful as friendship!” a very recognizable voice shouted confidently at him. Discord quickly turned to see the very six mares that he had thought he’d gotten rid of stepping forth to oppose him.
‘Hm. Some ponies just don’t learn from failure I suppose. Oh well, might as well give em a show.’ Discord thought to himself with a roll of his eyes.
“Oh this again.” Discord said with a growing smirk, putting his glass of chocolate milk to his lips. The glass portion then quickly vanished into his mouth, leaving the chocolate milk portion seemingly frozen in his claw. Discord took one look at it, shrugged, and absentmindedly threw it behind him.
Not even moments later, an explosion was heard in the distance.
“That’s right! You couldn’t break apart our friendship fer long!” Applejack yelled, stomping a hoof on the ground.
Still very much unintimidated, Discord only reached out a lion finger, which glowed a little. “Oh Applejack, don’t lie to me.” Applejack’s Element of Harmony started to glow the same color as Discord’s finger and dragged her over to him, her struggling proving futile against Discord’s magic. Applejack was now levitated in front of Discord, giving her a sadistic grin. “I’m the one that made you a liar~” Discord then reached out his eagle claw, and the rest of the ponies, save for Twilight, were dragged upwards towards him.
Their struggling only made Discord snicker. “Will you ever learn?~” He asked the mares, an obvious taunting and condescending tone present in his voice.
Twilight now feared greatly feared for her friend’s safety and the pained look her friends were making at being seemingly violently dragged into that position only made her feel worse. She had to act now or else Discord might bring them harm.
Thinking quickly, Twilight teleported to her friends and used her magic to summon a glowing, pink bubble around them, using it to float back down to safety with her friends. As the bubble made contact with the ground, a portion of the purple, checkerboarded pattern returned to the state of natural grass.
Discord was a little shocked by this, and quite frankly, a little irritated that Twilight had to go and mess up his playtime with his new toys. Nevertheless, he had to remain looking confident, so he quickly put a finger to his lips and made gave the ponies an amused and taunting face.
“I’ll tell you what we’ve learned Discord! We’ve learned that friendship isn’t always easy, but there’s no doubt it’s worth fighting for!” Twilight yelled confidently, stomping both hooves down in front of her. Her friends quickly trotted by her side, all of them smirking and ready to face Discord.
Discord fought the urge to heave at that. This speech of Twilight’s was almost sappy enough to make him wretch in disgust. Instead though, Discord teleported down to the mare’s level and stuck out his tongue. “Nnnngh, gag! Fine, go ahead and try to use your little elements, frenemies~ Just make it quick” Discord taunted, teleporting back to his throne. “I’m missing some excellent chaos here!”
‘Maybe once you fail again we can give peace a chance and you six can get out of my hair.’ Discord thought to himself.
“Alright ladies, lets show him what friendship can do!” Twilight shouted, her friends surrounding her and ready to fire…
All except for Pinkie Pie.
“Waitwaitwait!” Pinkie shouted, making everypony, Discord included, flinch a little. They all looked to the left and saw Pinkie Pie quickly indulging in one of the chocolate milk clouds with her tongue hanging out of her mouth in delight.
‘Well at least SOME ponies have good taste.’ Discord mused. If she wasn’t one of the wretched mares trying to get rid of him, he probably would have considered taking that one on as an apprentice of some sort. Ah well, it is what it is.
Once Pinkie had finally drank her fill of chocolate milk, she hopped back beside her friends, fully prepared to face Discord. Now that her friends were assembled together, Twilight lit up her horn. A bright purple, magical aura surrounded the group of ponies and began to charge.
Discord, still very much unafraid, only yawned in response. ‘I guess these ponies just don’t know when they’re beaten. Though it is rather amusing to watch them struggle to dethrone me. Oh well, perhaps this last little defeat will get it through their thick sk-‘ Discord was suddenly torn from his thoughts when he heard a slight “Whoosh” sound fly by his ears. Quickly opening his eyes, Discord looked around and saw that several glowing lights in the shapes of the Elements of Harmony were flying around him, one that would’ve made contact directly with his head if he hadn’t ducked out of its path.
Now wearing a very confused and disturbed look, Discord leaned forward in his throne. “Hm? What’s this?” Discord asked nopony in particular. He looked onward to see that the Elements around the ponies’ necks were glowing brightly and shooting the glowing, cutie-mark shaped lights around him.
Discord’s eyes widened and ears folded in realization.
The Elements were working again.
“…No…”
The group of ponies was lifted up into the air, all of their eyes glowing a bright white color, and the aura around them growing ever brighter and stronger. And then, after a few more seconds of charging, a bright rainbow erupted from them and flew across the sky. The rainbow then reeled downwards like a speeding roller coaster and was heading straight for its target.
Discord himself.
At this point, Discord was paralyzed with fear, far too much to try to escape. It was as if his body wasn’t listening to him as he told it to try and flee from the magic friendship rainbow of death. All he was seemingly able to do was scream. “NOOOOOO-“
The rainbow had finally hit its mark, and all of a sudden, Discord’s entire world went black.
Beach City could be considered far from normal. If one were to simply look at it, it would appear just as any normal, beachside little town. Not heavily populated, right by the water, it overall looked very calm and serene…
This is very misleading.
For a very long time, some of the most bizarre things imaginable have occurred in this small little town due to the presence of four specific residents. They may have lived there for a VERY long time, but they could still be considered “From out of town”
Though “From out of planet” would probably be a better word. At least for two of them.
For the specific two that were actually born on Earth though, their lives were just as unusual as the ones that were not. Right now though, they were just enjoying a relatively simple afternoon where they were enjoying each other’s company and indulging in donut holes in front of the local donut shop.
And overall having fun with it.
Sitting at a table in front of said donut shop was a young boy with curly black hair wearing a red shirt with a star symbol in the middle of it, blue jeans, and a pair of sandals. The other was a purple-skinned, long-haired woman, not much taller than the boy himself, wearing a black tunic with purple leggings that had black star patches at the knees. The most noticeable feature of the woman however, was the purple gemstone sitting at the very top of her chest.
The boy at the table had a bag filled with donut holes held tight in his hand and had an ever-growing smile on his face. “Alright, Amethyst, are you ready?” he asked the woman.
The woman identified as Amethyst gave the boy a slight smirk and a chuckle. “I’m ALWAYS ready Steven.”
Steven nodded and reached into the bag, pulling out a small, glazed donut hole, and held his hand that was holding it back. “Alright…Fire in the donut hole!” he shouted as he tossed the glazed desert at Amethyst. Amethyst’s smirk grew and a very bright, white light surrounded her, her shape appearing to change from the inside of it. When the light cleared, in Amethyst’s place was a small purple frog that had her gemstone at the top of its chest.
Amethyst had shapeshifted.
With the donut hole coming her way, frog-Amethyst quickly shot out her long tongue and latched onto it, pulling it into her mouth quickly. She then returned to her normal form and chewed on the donut hole with a satisfied look on her face.
Steven seemed to be ecstatic over this as his eyes were practically beaming with wonder. “Woooah, nice catch Amethyst!”
“Hehe, hey well ya know. It’s a little too easy when you can shapeshift.” Amethyst said, shrugging her shoulders a little.
Steven smiled a little at that. Out of all of his friends in the Crystal Gems, Amethyst had to probably be the most fun to hang around. Mainly because she was the most like him and was the most laid back of the group. It almost felt like the same way he hung out with his dad.
Heck, Amethyst even had the same long hair.
Steven reached into the bag for another donut hole for himself, but noticed something very strange when he felt around in it.
The bag was completely empty.
Steven looked in the bag with a confused look on his face, and sure enough, his fears were confirmed. “Whaaaat?! How could we already be out of donut holes? There were so many in there a second ago.”
Although a little miffed that they were out of donut holes, Amethyst tried to keep her humor up for Steven’s sake in this situation. “Hehe, hey maybe some kind of evil Gem monster snuck over and took them when we weren’t looking.”
Steven blinked a little and tilted his head. “…Do Gem monsters even eat?”
Amethyst shrugged. “Hey, I’m no monster, but I’m a Gem. I eat all the time. I don’t HAVE to but still. Eating’s fun.”
Steven put a hand under his chin and kept his eyes glued on the bag. “Gotta agree with you there…still, what happened to the rest of our donut holes?”
Just as Steven asked that, both of them heard a light “Poof”, followed by a slightly loud rustling coming from the side of the Big Donut building. Amethyst’s head perked up at the sound and she got up from her seat, ever so slowly walking toward the source of the sound. Steven cautiously followed her, and both of them found that it was coming from the dumpster. This was confirmed when they saw the dumpster shaking a little and heard the “Poof” sound again, only this time, they could see a small flash of light coming from the dumpster.
“Ummm…Amethyst I think something’s in there…” Steven said a little nervously.
Amethyst, knowing that Steven could be in danger from whatever was in there, put a hand to the gem on her chest, making it glow a little. She then pulled back, now drawing a whip from the gem that had small, purple gems studded on it. Now with her weapon in hand, she approached the dumpster even closer and looked inside, fully prepared to smite whatever monster was inside.
Well, there was a monster in the dumpster alright. It was just not what Amethyst was expecting at all.
Whatever it was, it was without a doubt one of the strangest creatures she’d ever seen (and considering what herself and the other Gems face on a regular basis, that’s saying a lot). It had some kind of strange, snake-like body with a reptile-like tail, a goat hoof and a reptilian leg, a lion paw and an eagle claw, an oversized blue bird wing and bat wing, a deer antler and goat horn, and the head of some kind of horse. And given the small size and huge, cartoonish eyes the creature had, Amethyst could pretty quickly figure out that this thing was probably still in its child years.
The creature looked up at Amethyst with a slightly irritated look in addition to puffed out cheeks. “Mmmph…do you mind? I’m-Mmmph-trying to eat here.” It said in a squeaky voice that was slightly muffled from his mouth being full. Amethyst noticed that the creature was chewing on donut holes, presumably the same ones she and Steven had been eating.
Normally, she would have been ungodly mad about this, but she was a little too focused on the fact that this thing could talk.
“WHAT THE WHAT?! IT CAN TALK?!?” Amethyst practically yelled.
The little monster then stood up in the dumpster and crossed his arms. “I’m not an “It”, I’m a “He” thank you very much.” It said with the same look that Amethyst couldn’t label as angry or sarcastic.
Steven seemed to be just as shocked at seeing this new creature as Amethyst was, as he was staring wide-eyed at it with an open mouth. “…Woooooah, what is THAT?” He asked.
“I don’t have a clue but…wow it’s freaky looking…and strangely cool. It’s like someone took a bunch of animals and stuck them in a blender.” Amethyst said, looking him over and taking note of the creature’s interspecies body parts.
The monster rolled his eyes at the pair’s curiosity. “Yes yes, I’m a wonder, I don’t need to be told that…although I don’t mind the occasional praise~” the creature then smirked and seemed to snicker a little. “I’d LOVE to tell you all about me, but frankly, I can’t.”
Steven almost immediately looked disappointed. “Awwww, why noooot? You’re so cool looking!” Steven whined.
“Well the thing is…I don’t even really know enough about myself to tell you.” He said with his ears lowering to his head and his mouth turned into a frown. Amethyst and Steven both looked at each other for a moment before turning back to him.
“Soooo like…you have amnesia? You seriously got nothing?” Amethyst asked.
The creature shook his head. “Very little. Just the fact that I can do this.” The creature then snapped its fingers and the entire dumpster he was standing on was engulfed in a bright flash of white light, making Steven and Amethyst, with Amethyst tightening the grip she had on her whip.
When the light cleared, the dumpster was completely gone, and in its place was a big cube of cherry-flavored gelatin, with the creature still standing on it. “Impressive huh?~” it said with a smirk as he started to bounce up and down on the gelatin with a big smile, holding onto his feet as he did so.
If Steven and Amethyst weren’t stunned by the sudden appearance of this thing before, they definitely were now. Whatever the creature was, it had just turned a dumpster into gelatin with seemingly no effort on its part at all.
“…..Uuuuh…and you’re sure you have no other memories at all?” Steven asked.
The creature put a lion paw to his chin and had a look that conveyed he was thinking hard about him, though he never stopped bouncing up and down. “Hmm…just my name.” The creature cleared his throat. “Discord, spirit of chaos at your service sir and madame.”
Amethyst raised an eyebrow. “Spirit of chaos huh?” Her eyes then lowered down to look at the cube of gelatin and them back up at Discord’s very odd anatomy. “…Yeah I can see where that comes from.”
Steven looked up at Discord and smiled big, mainly happy to meet a new friend, but also that he was able to do some pretty cool things with whatever powers he had. It was a spectacle alright. “Nice to meet you Discord. My name’s Steven, and this is Amethyst.”
“Yo.” Amethyst said putting up a hand.
Discord himself was then engulfed in the same white light that the dumpster was and disappeared from sight and reappeared in Amethyst’s hair. “You don’t mind if I just sit here do you? I’ve spent hours sleeping in that garbage and it was soooo uncomfortable. Hours I tell you!”
Although Amethyst was a little weirded out by Discord wanting to stay inside her hair, she figured it couldn’t do any real harm. “…Alright…but I want something for letting you stay in there.”
Discord rolled his eyes a little. “You want that big cube of gelatin don’t you?”
Amethyst said nothing but nodded in agreement.