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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Kefka's friendship problem 
// by The Lutece twins 
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"I see you don't find much humor in humor." Discord said.

"When you're a insane person mad with power, humor just doesn't matter to you." Kefka said.

"So I see." Discord said, shrugging. As they enter sugercube corner, Kefka notices that it was dark inside.

"Why is it dark in here?" He asked.

"Welcome to Ponyville party." Discord said.

"Wait what?" Kefka asked.

"Happens to everyone new in town." Discord. Pinkie pie suddenly emerged from out of nowhere.

"WELCOME TO PONYVILLE!!!!!!" She yelled. Kefka jumps back in fright.

"Whaaah! Protect!" He yells. His horn glowed and a shield made of hexagonal like shapes appears in front of him. Discord stares agape.

"Well now. Our friend has quite the powers!" He said. The rest of the ponies stared in shock and silence. Kefka looks around.

"Huh wha? Noponies attacking?" He asked.

"Nobody hurts anybody here." Discord said. Kefka's horn stops glowing and the shield dissipates slowly. He sighs in relief.

"Okay. Sorry, I get a little bit jumpy when something like this happens." He said.

"How did you do that!?" Pinkie pie yelled. Kefka looks at pinkie pie.

"Um, with my magic." He said. 

"Nopony has THAT much magic! Unless you're an alicorn!!" She yelled. 

"Well, I was a mage where I was from. And I can do much more then summon shields. I can summon ice, fire, lightning, gravity, etc." He said. 

"But you aren't an alicorn..." She said. 

"I can show you that I can do that type of magic." He said. Pinkie sits with her hindlegs crossed like a human. Kefka thinks for a second. Then he has a idea.

"Ahh I have one." He said. He looks around and sees a cupcake. His horn lights and the cupcake lifts from the table. He brings it over to himself. "Gravity!" He yells. His horn glows a deep purple and a purple sphere covers the cupcake. The cupcake flattens into a pancake.

"Wow! Twilight would love to see that!" She said. Kefka lifts the puncake closer to him and eats it.

"Probably." He said. 

"That will be four bits!" Pinkie said. Kefka chokes on the cupcake and coughs. Discord pats his back.

"Something wrong, bud?" He asked. 

"I don't have any money to pay for the cupcake." Kefka said. 

"Dont worry! You don't have to pay it's a party!" Pinkie pie said. Kefka glares at her. 

"You could have told me!" He said. 

"...I just did..." She said. Kefka facehoofs.  Pinkie pie holds out another cupcake. Kefka takes it with his magic.

"Thank you." He said. Pinkie smiles. Kefka eats the cupcake. 

"Like it!?" She asked. Kefka shoves more cupcakes into his mouth.

"Wow you're really packing them away!" She said. Kefka takes a break from eating.

"I... I never had a cupcake before." He said. 

"I take it you like them?" She asked. Kefka nods. 

"Good!!" She yelled. Kefka sees a punch bowl and walks towards it. As he nears it the punch bowl punches Kefka.

"Ow!" He yells. He rubs his muzzle. Discord rolls on the floor laughing. Kefka glares at him. 

"I made the PUNCH bowl PUNCH you! HAHAHahahahhaaaa!!!" Discord roared. Kefka's horn glows a bluish color and he has a snowball in his hooves. He chucks it at Discord, causing it to smack against his face.

"So that's how you want it?" He asked. 

"You started it." Kefka said. Discord makes Kefka a mare again. Kefka facehoofs.

"Not this again." She said. 

"You have to stay like that the whole day." He said. 

"No, you change me back, right now!" She yelled. Discord walks out. Kefka chases after him.

"Change me back, now!" She yelled. 

"Nah." Discord said as he keeps on walking. "You're pretty this way." He said. Kefka is furious.

"Change. Me. Back. Now." She demanded.

"What do I get i I change you back?" He asked. 

"I don't know...." She said. 

"Then you're out of luck." He said, shrugging as he continues to walk. Kefka sits. Discord sighs and sits in a chair.

"God of chaos to just another chump among ponies, wither all their love and precious freind ship." He said. He rolls his eyes. Kefka sighs and walks back over to table filled with food. Pinkie pie pops up next to Kefka.

"Hii" She yelled. But Kefka doesn't say anything.

"Don't worry about it! Discord usually genderbends somepony, but turns them back within the first twenty four hours." She said. Kefka looks at her.

"I hope so." She said. Pinkie groans.

"He made me a stallion for a whole week. " She said with a bemused expression. Kefka slightly laughs at that. "You'll do fine." She said, patting Kefka's back.

"You're cuter this way anyway!" She said. She giggles and trots off. Kefka facehoofs. Discord comes back in.

"Hey, how ya doin?" He asked.

"Still slightly mad, but better." Kefka said.

"Good." He said. Discord ruffles her mane.

"Can you please not do that." Kefka said.

"Why not?" He asked.

"It gets a little annoying." She said.

"How about this?" He asked. Discord scooped Kefka into his arms, rubbing her stomach. "No pony can resist belly rubs. " He said, smirking.

"No! Let... Me....go...." Kefka said. She relaxes in his arms. Discord chuckles.

"Point proven." He said. He keeps rubbing.

"I hate you." She said.

"No, you can't hate me. If you hate me it means you're not my friend." He said. He smirks and rocks Kafka like a baby as he rubbed her stomach.

"Can you please let me go, it looks weird." She said.

"Nopony is even looking." He said. Kefka sighs and relaxes. Discord sits in a nearby booth.

"So what was it like in your world?" He asked.

"It was filled with fighting, one side after another. There was also a large war that happened as well, called War of the Magi. It was a terrible war. Thousands if not more people lost their lives. That was a long time ago." Kefka said. 

"Sound like my kind of place!" He said. He chuckles and sets Kefka next to him, leaning back in the booth with his hands behind his head.

"Yea it was the empire vs the returners, a type of resistance. And I was with the empire. I was power hungry and insane." She said. 

"Just like me!" He said, patting Kefka on the back. "Well...we used to be." He said. Kefka nods.

"Yep. After you lose to the heroes so many times, you tend to just say forget it and join the good side. I didn't do that until you brought me here." She said.

"Same thing happened with me and these ponies...I was defeated by PONIES!" He yells. He slumps down and a paper bag appears on his head with holes for the eyes. Kefka sighs and slumps down as well.

"I know how that feels." She said.

"Embarrassing..." He said. Kefka nods again.

"Yea." She said.

"Nopony is scared of me anymore." He said.

"Same here when I faded from my world." She said. Discord sighs.

"This bites." He said.

"It does." Kefka said.

"What are we gonna do now?" He asked.

"I don't know." She said. Discord ruffles her mane again.

"We'll figure something out." He said.

"We might as well enjoy the party." She said. Discord sits there.

"So how's being a mare going for ya?" He asked.

"It feels weird. It's so much different then being a stallion." She said.

"I bet you want to change back?" He asked. Kefka nods.

" I do." She said. Discord smirks.

"Too bad." He said. He chuckles and changes her back.

"Thank you." Kefka said. Discord fights a laugh. Kefka tilts his head in confusion.

"What's so funny?" He asked.

"I made you a stallion, but you still look like a mare!" Discord yelled. He laughs aloud. Kefka deadpans.

"Really..." He said. Discord fully changes him back.

"Couldn't help it. God of Chaos remember?" He said. Kefka sighs and shakes his head.

"What?" Discord asked.

"Nothing, nothing." Kefka said.

"Look at us. Chumps in a town of over loving and accepting horses...no offense to you, though!" Discord said.

"None taken." Kefka said.

"Good. This perty is getting kind of lame. Shall I spruce it up?" Discord asked. Kefka smirks.

"Do it." He said.

"I shall!" Discord said. He smirks and everypony becomes the opposite sex. Kefka bursts into laughter. Discord watches as they all stared confused. Kefka falls out of the booth, laughing. Discord shakes his head. Kefka slowly stops laughing and gets up. Everpony glares at them. Kefka sees them glare at him and Discord and gives a look saying that he didn't do it. Discord chuckles to himself. Kefka hums to himself as he fiddles with his hooves. Pinkie Pie approached.

"Discord, change us back. Now." He said in a deep voice. Kefka sarts to laugh again.

"Hmmm, I'm gonna have to think about that one." Discord said in pinkie pie's normal voice. He put a talon to his chin. Kefka takes deep breaths to calm down. Pinkie pie's eyes slowly turn to a glare. Kefka looks and sees the other ponies close in on them.

"Um, Discord." He said. 

"Okay, anypony ever hear of a personal space bubble?" Discord asked. Kefka's horn glows and the shield appears in front of him again. 

"I think it would be a good idea to turn them back." He said. Discord sighs. 

"Pinkie has really lost her touch." He said. He seemed upset as he undid the spell. Kefka horn stops glowing and the shield dissipates slowly again. He sighs in relief.

"I can't even pull silly tricks." He said, sighing heavily. "I really hate these ponies." He said. Kefka puts a hoof on Discord.

"Hey, it's going to be okay. You have me, I laughed at your silly jokes." He said. 

"Just one pony out of millions." Discord said. Kefka sighs as he removes his hoof.

"Is there anything that will make you happy?" He asked. Discord shrugs.

"Dont know really. World domination isn't allowed, so..." He said. 

"You just want to walk around?" He asked. Discord gets up from the booth.

"Let's go somewhere else." He said. Kefka gets up and follows him.

"Okay." He said. Discord removes the bag from his head and walks out. Kefka follows Discord out. As soon as he walked outside, there was a bright flash.

"My eyes!" He yells. Discord watches. 

"What is it? Oh you can't see it, haha." He laughed. Kefka blinks multiple times and shakes his head. His vision clears and he sees a object crash into the hill next to the town.

"Wait a minute, I could have sworn that I've seen that shape before." Kefka said. Kefka runs towards the object. Discord follows. Kefka makes it to the crater and sees the object slightly lopsided in the dirt. His eyes widen.

"No, what's this doing here!" He yells. 

"What is it?" Discord asked as he lifted the strange object out carefully. 

"It's... it's Magitec armor." Kefka said. 

"Yours I presume?" Discord asked. Kefka shakes his head.

"No, I never drove one." He said. 

"Then how did this get here? It certainly wasn't me!" Discord said. 

"I don't know. But if it's here, then it's for me." Kefka said. 

"Who knows I brought you here?" Discord asked. 

"I don't know. But when I was knocked out in Rarity's store, I met a pony. Her name was Princess Luna. We watched my old self destroy a castle." Kefka said. 

"Maybe she was the cause, but why just toss it into a hill? Luna kind of sucks with her magic besides raising and lowering the moon." Discord said. 

"Besides these being used as weapons of war, they were also used as heavy lifters for cargo and things." Kefka said. 

"Wanna test it out? Say on...That tree?" Discord asked. He points to a lone tree at the top of the hill. Kefka nods. 

"Sure." He said. He walks up the the Magitec armor and climbs into its open cockpit. He pulls a couple of levers and the armor rumbles to life as some smoke pours from the pipes on its back. Discord sits on a lawn chair he spawned. Kefka pulls some levers and the Magitec armor begins walking towards the tree at a fast pace. What he didn't know was that as he was heading towards the tree, Twilight and her friends came to see what the object was.

"Discord." Twilight said. Discord turns to see them.

"Oh hi! Me and Kefka are just checking this thing out." He said. Kefka is right next to the tree. Pulls some levers on the side of the cockpit and the right arm raises. The claw like grabbers grab the tree and uproot it. Twilight's jaw drops.

"Hey! You cant do that!" She yelled. She takes the tree in her magic, and sticks it back in the ground.

"Huh?" Kefka asked. He pulls some levers and turns around. He sees Twilight and her friends. "Oh, hey Twilight!" He yells. He makes the right arm wave hello.

"What are you doing in that thing!?" Twilight yelled.

"Using it obviously!" Pinkie said. Kefka pulls some levers and walks back towards Discord. Discord makes the machine trip.

"Whoaaaaa!" Kefka yells. He and the machine hit the ground with a loud THUD. Dust went up everywhere.

"HAHAHAHAA!!!!!" Discord roared with laughter. Stars danced around Kefka's head. He shakes his head and pulls some levers, causing the machine to get back on its feet. He glares at Discord and shakes his head. Discord smirks, giving a look as if to do something else. Twilight sighs.

"Boys will be boys." She said. Kefka looks at her.

"Hey!" He yells.

"And girls will be girls." Discord said.

"Touche." Twilight said. Kefka laughs at that part, nearly falling out of the cockpit. Discord laughs slightly. 

"Just dont go destroying buildings with that thing...whatever it is..." She said. Kefka pops right back up. 

"It's called a Magitec armor. It combines magic and technology." He said. Pinkie pie appears behind Kefka.

"Ooohh!! What's this one do!?" She asked. She pulled a lever. Kefka gasps.

"No, don't pull that!" He yells. A red laser fires into the sky.

"OOOH!! Lights!" She yelled. She repeatedly does it again. Kefka grabs pinkie pie with his magic.

"No, stop! These are not lights, okay. What you are firing are actually weapons." He said. 

"Like this one!?" Pinkie pie asked. She goes into a small compartement, and pulls out a cannon, firing it, and confetti bursts out. Kefka shakes his head. 

"No. These are worse. They can melt through mountains, freeze a entire town, electrocute alot of ponies, etc." He said. 

"Oh...that's bad..." She said. 

"Yes, that's bad. That's why only I know how to control this machine. Now, are you going to be a good little pony and not touch any more levers?" He asked. Pinkie pie touches a lever. Kefka sighs in irritation as the spotlights come on.

"What did I say." He said. Pinkie pie shrugs. Kefka places pinkie pie next to Twilight and points at her.

"Stay." He said. Pinkie has a blank face as she sat. Kefka uses a metal claw to lightly pat Pinkie's head.

"Good girl." He said. 

"Ruff!" She barked. Kefka blinks in confusion.

"Umm, okay then." He said. He looks at Twilight. "Now what?" He asked. Twilight shrugs. Discord spawns a small body of water, with a set of train rails leading to it. Ontop of the rail, furthest away from the water, appeared a cart, and in that cart, he snapped hi talons and an enderman appears. He looks to Kafka.

"Push him into the water." He said.

"Wait what?" Kefka asked. 

"Just do it! In another world, it's some sort of a glitch I guess in a game called minecraft. Look into his eyes." Discord said. Kefka looks at the enderman's eyes. It's mouth opened in a funky way, making stangre sound, unmoving his gaze from Kafka. Kefka pushes the cart. Upon contact, the enderman began to scream, attempting to teleport out of the water, but was bound back to the cart submerged in water. Purple puffs of smoke where scattered as it teleported into many different nearby spots in vain attempts to free his inevitable tomb. Kefka looks at Discord.

"What was the point of that?" He asked. Discord facepalms. 

"You don't see all the cool puffs of smoke around?" He asked. He sighs. "It looks better at night." He said. He makes his creations disappear. 

"Umm, okay. Shall we head back to town?" Kefka asked. 

"Yeah." Discord said. 

"Leave that thing here, I won't allow it in town." Twilight said. 

"If I leave it here, who do you think would come across it and use it and discover it's destructive abilities." Kefka said. 

"I'm taking it to my castle where it will be safe." She said. Kefka nods and gets out.

"Okay." He said. Twilight lights her horn and the machine disappears.

"There! Problem solved!" She said. 

"Also, I would like to put the Magitec armor in my care as well, since I am the only one who knows how to use it." Kefka said. 

"I have to do few things first. Like studying, see how it works, and what not, remove all lethal weapons, etcetera etcetera." She said. 

"You can't remove the weapons, they're built into the machine." He said. Twilight shrugs. 

"I'll just take it apart completely, take all the weapons out and put it back together." She said. 

"That's not exactly what I meant." He said. 

"Whatever it meant, I can't allow any dangerous contraptions such as this to be let loose around town. Which is why I'm stripping it of any weapons." She said.

"Actually, I know how to turn off the weapon systems until they need to be used." He said.

"I can't allow any risks." Twilight said. "As a princess of Equestria, it is my duty to protect, conserve, and protect the ponies of Equus, and to keep them from harm. I hope you will understand." She said.

"Then I will just tell you. In the middle of the base of the controls, you will see a small switch. Flip the switch and you'll disengage the weapon systems." Kefka said.

"Thanks, but anyone who knows about this thing, say Discord, can just flip the switch again. I have to remove the weapons." She said. She lights her horn and teleports home to avoid further conversation over the matter. Kefka looks at Discord.

"I was going to tell her that she can't remove the weapons, because the armor is the weapon." He said.

"Twilight is stupid." Discord said. Kefka laughs.

"I can see that. She's the type that would not listen." He said. Discord sighs.

"Twilight is stupid, Pinkie Pie is over active, Applejack has an insta period, fluttershy is too quiet, Rainbow Dash is annoying, and Rarity complains too much." He said.

"I see. Well, is there anything that you want to do?" Kefka asked.

"Dunno." Discord said, shrugging.

"Let's just head back to town for now and see what we can do next when we get back." Kefka said.

"Sure thing." Discord said. Kefka begins walking back to the town.

"I hope Twilight gives that armor back to me." He said.

"Yeeaahhhhh pobably not." Discord said.

"So she's one of those people eh?" Kefka said.

"Yeah, she'll probably find out more about that thing than you ever have, or ever will." Discord said. 

"Oh, I was actually at the factory that made them." Kefka said. 

"She has her ways." Discord said. 

"I see." Kefka said. 

"Let's get going, shall we?" He asked. Kefka nods. 

"Let's." He said, as they made their way back to town.

TO BE CONTINUED