Rogue Chaos- Raising Chaos… Literally
The time spent with Discord was… well… chaotic. Some time after they fell asleep, Shayne and Aurox were awoken by the sound of a rumbling stomach and to seeing Discord looking at them with a small pout on his face. “Mama, I’m Hungwy.”
“... Can't you make more Chocolate Milk?” Shayne muttered, somewhere in between sleeping and waking up.
“I'm Hungwy, not thiwsty!”
“... Get some… Cotton Candy then.” She practically went to sleep, only to hear Discord being insistent as he nudged her head with his nose..
“Nuu!!! I'm Hungwy!!!”
“... Bother… someone… else.” she snored away, turning her head away from the direction of the little one.
“Ma? Mama!?” Discord repeated himself and trying to wake up the teen. “Dwo you have mowe candybaw-?” He asked, trying to sniff around the teens pockets on a search for food. “I’m too hungwy to thwink.” That had the teen and Djinn realize something. For being a very young being that could conjure anything that came to mind, not eating in long amounts of time could affect not just him, but what he could do. Rubbing the temples of her eyes, Shayne springed up to her feet, looking down at the youngster as it leaped off of her to let the angsty teen to get up.
“Okay, okay… Let’s see what we got in the kitchen.” She said, only for Discord to cheer happily and disappear in front of her, only to reappear on Shayne’s head.
“NOM!” he bit into her hair
“Heh… Easy there, Dissy… Wouldn’t want to ruin your appetite by chewing my hair now, would you?” She said, ignoring the bits of pain from her hair, feeling like it was being torn out of her skull.
“Heh, I'm enjoying this.” Aurox said. “What's her hair taste like… Dissy?” he internally cringed.
“Tastes wike peppah!” Discord cheered.
“I hope so! You better cover that bald spot, though.” Shayne rolled her eyes as she walked into the kitchen and looked around.
“Okay, if you two hotheads can simmer down a little, maybe you can help me find some food to make something for Dissy.” She said as the teen opened up another cabinet to look at the contents inside and try to find something. Only to hear the Djinn say something that made her turn around and raise an eyebrow.
“Hey, I'm just saying, you better wear a hat or something.” Aurox replied. “And why not give our small monster here the souls of our enemies?”
“I don't wike feet, though.” Discord said.
“Aurox, he’s a child. Can we not try to teach him cannibalism?” Shayne sighed, looking through the cupboards and trying to find something. One thing in particular stood out to the youngster and, with a snap of his paw, not only did Shayne feel the small bald spot on her head get covered, but saw the youngling hold something in his paw. A box of Pancake mix.
“Pancakes!” he cheered.
“... Where did he-?” Aurox began to ask, but was interrupted by Discord when he spoke up again.
“PANCAKES!!!” He threw the box at Aurox, which hit his head and left a bruise on his skull and a little bit of mix on his head.
“Ow!” Shayne herself chuckled a little, rolling her eyes as she rubbed the top of Discord's head and set the box on the counter. While she turned to get a mixing bowl and spoon though, the young teen soon heard another snap and all of the ingredients were neatly laid out on the counter. With each quantity being for making the most amount of servings on the side of the box.
“Wow… You are just full of surprises.” Shayne chuckled, looking back at the youngling as she set the bowl down on the counter. “I’m beginning to like you already.”
“Nya!” Discord replied, suddenly with ears, nose, paws and a tail that were that of a cat before turning back to his original self.
“That’s… just weird.” Aurox commented.
“This coming from the Djinn who’s basically tethered to my torso and startled Toby so many times that I’ve personally lost count,” Shayne slyly remarked, looking back at Aurox before beginning to stir the ingredients together. “Trust me… weird is technically normal in these parts of the galaxy. I mean heck, look at Orendi.”
“… Fair point.” The Djinn growled, turning around and looking outside the door. “Speaking of which, where is everyone else?”
“Hell if I know, Aurox,” Shayne grunted. “Maybe they’re out collecting Starshards from Chunk Braxon III.” Chunk Braxon III was the name of one of the major mining stations out on the Detritus rings. Even though the main operation was set up there by the Last Light Consortium, or LLC for short, the Rogues have been known to borrow some of resources and dip into their cash flow to keep their operations going smoothly. Not only that, but starshards and the the energy inside the crystals could be used in the creation of energy based weapons and also power up some of Reyna’s own tech like her command glove on her left arm.
That… was exactly the case as Discord soon heard a familiar waddle enter the kitchen and pounced on the individual that walked inside “Uncle Toby!!”
“GAHH!!” The Penguin shouted, startled by the youngling’s surprise attack. “Seriously kid?! You scared me!”
“Sowwy,” the young child pouted. “Mama and I are making pancakes!”
“… Do we even have the ingredients to make such things?” Toby asked, looking at Shayne with a raised eyebrow.
“Apparently we do…” She sighed, looking back at the penguin. “Toby, where are Reyna and the others?”
“I honestly don’t know where Reyna is, Foxtrot is passed out in his room after going up to the bar for a drink and I honestly don’t really pay that much attention to what Orendi’s doing. Most of the stuff she does is just either disturbing or creepy.” The Penguin sighed, using a contraption at the side of the table so he could raise himself up and sit on the counter while Shayne was putting in the pancake mix and Discord himself cracked the eggs and made the shells explode once they entered the trash bin.
“Toby, you know that unless she is on a mission with us, we need to keep an eye on her. Remember what happened the last time we left her out on her own?” The Teen reminded him as she looked back at Discord. “Nice shot, kiddo.”
“Don’t remind me… Why else do you think the LLC called her a four armed psychic murder storm and clinically diagnosed her as bat@%# crazy?” The Penguin said, only for Shayne to flick him in the beak. “Oww, what was that for?”
“Language Toby,” Shayne sighed, tilting her head to Discord. “You forgot that we’re raising a kid now.” The penguin just shrugged it off, waddling a little to where the youngling was to watch them while they were working.
“What does bat@%# mean?” Discord asked “And why's it censawed?” That just got Shayne to look back at Toby as she narrowed her eyes and gazed in his general direction.
“Now you see what you’ve done?” The teen sternly spoke.
“What!?” Toby asked with a shrug. “I was telling the truth.” Orendi, very quietly and creepy like, came out of the ground and sent chills down the Penguin's spine.
“Don't trust everything people say, our little Discord!” She said. “Just like how my parents told me to never sell my soul! I sold my soul long ago! I'm fine!” her scarf fell, revealing her shark-like teeth. Discord stared, but smiled.
“I wanna seww my sow!” he cheered.
“OFFER ME YOUR SOUL, CHILD!!!” Aurox demanded.
“Oh for the love of-. Everyone calm down…… Orendi, I thought you were with Whiskey and Reyna.” Shayne commented as she began stirring everything to prepare the griddle for making pancakes. “Why are you here?”
“I just wanted to see our sweet, little hellspawn!” Orendi replied, ruffling Discord’s head. “‘sides, you know today's Whiskey’s ‘Alone Day’. Don't wanna go in there, not unless you wanna get shot.” she began to rub the fur on Discord’s belly. He fell over and accepted the belly rub, literally turning into a dog.
“Aren’t you a little bit worried that Reyna might need your help right around now?”
“Oh relax, if there’s anything about her, there’s nothing she can’t handle.”
“...... Why do you sound so confident in saying something like that?” Shayne asked, only to take back what she said. “You know what? Don’t answer that.” Next, she took out her boomerang instead of the whisk, since she saw Discord licking the batter off of it, and began to use it as a spatula in order to help flip the pancakes as they were cooking. However, the only problem was that it wore down the medical tape on her hands and soon, her fingers ached a little.
“Hey Toby, can you and Orendi watch Discord for a minute? I need to take care of something real fast.”
“So I'm watching both?” Toby asked, crossing his flippers together like arms.
“NOPE!!!” Orendi shouted, taking Discord. “Come on! Let's have some fun!”
“Fun!!!” Discord cheered.
“Oh no you don't!” Toby snarled. “You're not going-” Discord sneezed. He and Orendi dissappeared in a flash of light.
“... Oh s**t.” Aurox spoke.
Orendi and Discord found themselves in a dark room,though a horizontal line shined into the room.
“You can teleport!? Orendi asked “Cool! Let's have some fun!”
“Fun!” Discord cheered.
“Now… where are we?” At that moment, music played in the room.
Both peeked out to see that they were in Whiskeys room. His ‘alone time’ was really him getting buff so that, one day, he'd kill his ‘Faker’, or as everyone knew him as Oscar Mike. Whiskey was already posing in front of a mirror while taunting a poster of Oscar Mike.
“You think you're so tough, Oscar!?” Whiskey growled while flexing. “You know nothing about me… but I know all about you, Oscar! And it's not because we're clones… kinda… it's because I'm a better badass than you! It's… dammit! I gotta work on my words! Don't you agree, Fluttershy?” He pulled out a stuffed animal that was a butter yellow Pegasus with a pink Mane & tail, and had large, blue eyes. Both Orendi and Discord laughed. “WHO’S THERE!!!”
“Escape!!!” Orendi yelled. Discord, unsure on what to do, snapped. They teleported before Whiskey saw them and then, for a legitimate cover story, began to act like they never left the kitchen.
A couple of minutes earlier...
Toby was about to protest, but in moving his head, the teen thought that the penguin was nodding yes and then left the room with Aurox accompanying her. Once in her room, she found what she was looking for and applied the athletic tape she needed to the parts where the old tape had burned off.
“There we go, good as new…” She said, moving her hand a small bit before something in the air caught her attention. “Hunh?” She sniffed it once or twice before looking back at Aurox. “Something’s burning…” Given the fact that anything in the base revolving around fire was not always good, both of them raced back towards the kitchen. Only to see a sight that just baffled them.
Discord was wearing a chef’s hat and on a plate was a leaning tower of pancakes that was next to him. While on the ground, Toby himself was covered in a pile of flapjacks to the point that he couldn’t even waddle out of it because of the sheer weight of the pile. All of this while Orendi was laughing hysterically. “Look mama!” He said cheerfully as he used his magic to duplicate a ball of pancake batter before cooking it in a matter of minutes. All with just a paw. “One paw!”
Shayne chuckled for a moment, before looking at Orendi and folding her arms. “I thought I asked you to watch him.”
“I was… He was putting on quite a show.”
Shayne facepalmed. “That wasn’t what I meant…” The door crashed and Whiskey came in, holding his assault rifle fully locked and loaded. Startling them as he went into a personal fit of anger and rage.
“ALRIGHT!!! WHO ENTERED MY ROOM DURING MY ‘ALONE TIME’!?!?!?”
“Uh… what?” Whiskey pointed at them all.
“IF NO ONE ANSWERS, I'M GONNA DESTROY YOUR WAFFLES!!!”
“Pancakes.” Discord corrected the clone.
“Whatever!” He snapped back.
“Dude, chill out. I just went to get some athletic tape for my hands. Toby’s been with Discord and… Wait…” Shayne paused for a second, looking back at the where the only other rogue in the room used to be. Since Reyna was gone… that only left one possible explanation. “Where’s Orendi?” All that could be heard shortly afterwards was her insane laughter echoing throughout the base as Foxtrot soon chased after her. Firing his gun at her while she just easily dodge any bullets coming her way.
“Well, just great…… Wait til Reyna gets back and finds the mess these two are going to cause.” Shayne said to herself, before taking up a plate and putting some pancakes on it. “Well, maybe these two could provide us with some entertainment until she gets back.”
“I'm gonna need mow Popcone!” Discord said, hold an empty bucket of popcorn almost as big as him.
“I thought you just said that you wanted Pancakes?”
“And where did he get that?” Aurox added.
All sat down and were entertained by Orendi being chased by Foxtrot, who spewed some nonsense that may or not be weird slang for inappropriate actions. That however, was interrupted as they felt the ship land, and heard a set of familiar footsteps. As soon as both of them saw Reyna enter the hangar bay, Whiskey and Orendi stopped their chase and stood attention.
“Aw!” Discord whined. “I wanna see the viowence!”
“Alright, Lazy asses!” Reyna ordered. “Get our take back into the bar! That includes you… whatever you are, Discord.”
“YAY!!!”
“Where are you gonna be?” Shayne then asked before walking over to the others. “We have a mess to take care of in the kitchen-.” Reyna was going to ask… all before she noticed a few pancakes on Toby’s head that he was struggling to get off and then decided not to for the sake of her sanity.
“You can get to that afterwards,” She sighed. “I’m going to take care of some things in my office. Do not come in unless I ask you too or if it’s an emergency. Understood?”
“Yes ma’am!” Everyone replied, Discord himself adding to it as he did a fake salute before they went off to take the cargo off of the ship while the leader of the rogues walked to her office. Setting her gun back in her holster and looking at the Holo-screen. Noticing a new number above the envelope Icon, she pressed a finger to read who sent it to her. When she saw who is was, all she did was sigh.
“Ghalt… Too eager for his own good…” She groaned. Only to think it through before actually considering to see the message.
“Reyna,” it read. “I don't want to say this, nor do I agree with it, but the circumstances call for it. I want to call a meeting between the factions, not to settle any scores or anything, but to come together for one common purpose. I don’t have much time to send this, but meet me at these coordinates on Bliss. I will explain everything to you once you are there. In addition, you are allowed to take one of your crew with you… Except for Whiskey. I rather not have him go on a killing spree after seeing Oscar Mike.
-Captain Trevor Ghalt.”
The Valkyrie sighed after seeing the message. A meeting between the factions would always lead to pure chaos, whether it was political or not. But if there was someone that would actually get someone to sit down and talk, it was Ghalt. Personally, with everything going on right now, she just needed a drink of water to calm herself down.
But as she had set out the cup she was going to drink, filled it up with water and began to drink it, what she tasted was anything but water.
Outside, Shayne and Aurox, along with everyone else were calm and having what was left of the Pancakes Discord made. That was, until they heard Reyna shout from her office.
“OKAY, WHO’S IDEA WAS IT THAT MESSED WITH THE TAP WATER?! IT NOW TASTES LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK!!!” Discord giggled while twiddling his claws like an evil mastermind. All the teen could do was sigh a little as she and the Djinn looked back at him.
“Raising you is either going to be really interesting… Or really stressful.”
“Probably both.” Toby replied.
Shortly after her outburst, Reyna quickly found out about Discord’s ‘prank’ and had him sit in the Time Out corner, facing the wall. All while Shayne was looking at her. “Is this really necessary?”
“Do you want me to shoot him?” Reyna asked, pulling out her pistol. “‘Cause I will!”
“... Okay, nevermind.” Shayne sighed, changing the topic for a moment. “So, why were you out earlier?”
“Turns out, what we were picking up in the mines was a signal to all the factions… Tomorrow, I’m taking Orendi with me to investigate. Which means I’m letting you, Whiskey and Toby take care of… this rascal.”
“You think it might be a trap?”
“Could be… But right now, it’s unpredictable… Which is why I’m bringing Orendi…” The commander told her, causing the teen to fold her arms.
“Because she’s unpredictable?” Shayne asked, looking back at Discord while doing so.
“More that you would think.” Reyna sighed. “I’m the one who's going to have to tell her. Especially when she wants to pull out the intestines of any fool that leaves their mouth open when fighting her.” With that, she began to walk away and go off in the direction of Orendi’s room. In doing so though, Shayne thought of something as she looked at Aurox.
“Hey Aurox… What do you think about getting Discord started on his training soon?”
“Right now?” the Djiin replied, turning to Discord. “Alright… son. Give your old man a good punch!”
“Aurox, I was thinking tomorrow. Like after he gets some sleep. You saw what he was able to do today and he’s probably kind of exhausted.”
“Nonsense! Come on! Punch me!” Discord tilted his head. A pitcher filled with juice appeared next to him. “... What's this?”
“Punch!” Discord replied.
All the teen could do was chuckle in amusement before facepalming herself. “...... I was going to mention that he might not exactly know what you mean… He is a child after all.” Shayne chuckled. “Come on, Dissy. Let’s go back to my room. You can get out of the corner now.”
“Yay! Thanks Mama!” Discord cheered, hoping onto her shoulder while tossing the pitcher at Aurox’s face. “Ooops… Sowwy Papa.” Aurox sighed, taking a moment to taste the punch dripping all over him.
“Hm… not bad. Could use some more sugar.”
“Let’s not try to make another mess today you two,” Shayne reminded them. “Besides, we got a long day ahead of us tomorrow.”