Discord sat down. He sipped his tea casually. "Our son is being a very naughty boy."
Nightmare spat her tea out. "Don't call it that!"
Discord chuckled. "Oh, come now Nightmare, tell me you don't feel the least parental pride. We merged powers and out came this immensely powerful universe destroying menace. I may not agree with his methods or goals, but you have to admire his dedication. He set out to end the universe, and here he is destroying it one piece at a time."
Nightmare growled. "He's destroying the moon and stars!"
Discord smiled fondly. "Yes, he has the keys to the universe, and is wrecking everypony's toys. Still, he is a naughty child."
Rarity sipped from her cup. "Really, I don't mean to interrupt this truly horrifying display of pride, but I must insist on an explanation here. Why are you two apparently imprisoned inside the chest of the monster we just now drilled into?"
"Oh, is this that scene then? The villain explains how his plan went horribly wrong? How he created his own prison? My, doesn't that sound perfectly boring. How about we do something interesting instead, we go outside that door you kindly made, and send my son to his room. You can speculate on my motivations the whole time while I am doing it." Discord flashed a winning smile, his one fang somehow gathering the light in the room to flash impressively.
Sapphire glared at him. "As if we could trust you!"
Discord sipped his tea again. "You'd be a fool to trust me, but just because you can't trust me doesn't mean you don't need me. Come now, you tried the Elements and failed didn't you? Then you tried drilling through his armor to see if you could get past the barrier enchantments by force, correct?"
Rarity nodded. "Yes, that's it exactly. We'd be trying the elements on the hole left behind right now if I hadn't found the two of you here."
Discord nodded. "You're thinking about this all wrong. Let me venture a guess, Twilight Sparkle found out the armor absorbed magic?"
Rarity nodded hesitantly.
Discord smiled encouragingly. "So you came to the perfectly logical conclusion, remove the armor, and win the day? Yes, that would make sense wouldn't it? That is, it would, if you weren't dealing with a being of pure chaotic energy empowered by another of hate fueled magical potential. No my little ponies, logic will not help you here."
Rarity could not believe what she was hearing. "I refuse to believe this ruffian is invincible!"
Discord shook his finger. "I never said that. I said logic will not help you here. Logic has in fact fled the scene, probably off playing cards as we speak. What you need is right here."
Rarity looked at him nervously. "Give me one reason."
Discord laughed. "I'll give you several! I am chaotic my dear, what that monster out there is attempting will reduce the universe to pure uniformity, there is no more perfect order than nothingness! Perhaps that is not the most noble of reasons, but it's what you're getting. Also, while I have certainly delighted in turning your world upside down, I find live victims far more amusing than dead ones. Finally, while it may not seem important to you, it would not be boring!"
Rarity looked him in the eye, studying every twitch. "I believe you, it makes no sense, but I believe you. I am not certain if that makes me more insane than you at the moment."
Discord just smiled. "What fun is there in making sense? Nightmare, would you care to join us?"
Nightmare looked pensive. "Join the very ponies I was trying to kill, against a being trying to unmake everything with my power and yours combined? I supposed it's better than being banished to the moon again. Although I expect that's coming anyway."
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Everypony stared at the dark hole in Omega's chest. This... Was not what they had expected to happen.
What followed was easily the second most improbable thing to happen that day. From the hole popped four ponies. Well, two ponies, a draconequus, and a pony shaped spirit of malice. Discord flew up into the face of Omega, hands on his hips.
"Son, I am disappointed."
Omega looked down his nose. "You."
"Yes."
"You are irrelevant. I have your power."
"Do you?" Discord snapped his fingers, and an anvil fell from nowhere and smashed into Omega's head. Upon impact it turned into one million lightly fried eggs.
Omega glared, not hurt so much as surprised. "How? That doesn't-"
"-Make sense? Really now, does nopony get the concept of chaos?"
"Fine, if I cannot take your power, I will have hers." He pointed at Nightmare, and her dark flames began to flow towards him.
Nightmare screamed as her power was taken from her by force. She looked at Discord in pain. "I trusted you! Why was I so foalish?"
Discord leaned in, "Trust me again for one moment. Don't fight him, give him everything. Give him your pain, your anger, and all of your sorrow. Make him choke on it."
Nightmare stared for a moment, then her dark fire flared, and the stream of power headed towards the colossus became a torrent. His dark armor cracked under the strain of the energy pouring in.
At that moment third most improbable event occurred. Celestia and Luna teleported to the scene at that precise moment. To say they were shocked at the scene would have been an understatement. So instead, we will go with flabbergasted.
Discord snapped his fingers, and the armor plating turned to pudding.
Celestia opened her mouth. "What-"
Discord shook his head. "No time, you have exactly one shot at this, everypony gather and put every bit of energy you can into the elements.
Twilight looked at Dawn, who nodded, they began gathering energy. All of the bearers and elemental alicorns gathered into a group and poured their energy into their respective element of harmony. Celestia and Luna joined them, adding their own power to the blast. The rainbow that came from the combined powers held every color imaginable, and several beyond imagination. It struck the giant, and Omega exploded into pure energy.
All around them, the missing parts of the world and the sky were restored. The sky was awash in color. The moon hung in the sky, visible despite the sun shining high in the sky.
In the aftermath, an alicorn flew unsteadily where the figure of Nightmare had been. She had a dark mane full of sparks and a black coat. The dark fire that had covered her was gone. She looked confused. Discord patted her mane. "Well done."
Discord looked at Rainbow Dash. He nodded at the sunglasses on her head. "Mind if I borrow those?"
Rainbow looked at him as if he were mad, then remembered whom she was looking at. She shrugged, reached up with a hoof, and tossed them at Discord.
Discord placed them on his head. He posed casually. "Make it quick will you? I would at least like a better pose this time. It gets so tiresome spending eternity looking as if you just had a bucket of water splashed in your face."
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Celestia stared long and hard at the one entity she ever truly hated. She still was not certain what had happened. However, she had an obligation to her people to deal with threats to their lives and sanity. Nightmare and Discord were both. Yet she was hesitant. She had just witnessed the single most improbable event she ever expected to see. Nightmare and Discord had just worked together, to destroy a threat greater than either of them had ever represented.
"Princess."
Celestia looked at Twilight Sparkle.
"We shouldn't do it. Neither of them represent a threat we cannot overcome at this moment. I need to tell you about something before we make any decisions."
Celestia still had little idea how to process these series of events, but she trusted Twilight without question.
"Discord, Nightmare, you are hereby placed under arrest by the authority of the crown. You will be held unharmed until such time as a trial can be convened to decide your fate. Resistance will be met with immediate punishment. Do you both understand?"
Discord lowered the sunglasses. He nodded slowly and carefully.
Nightmare was still confused, she wanted to feel something, but she just felt empty. She realized she had no idea what it felt like to not be full of rage constantly. She nodded as well.
Celestia looked back at the mountain where her home should have been, the facade of her castle had apparently been eliminated in the explosion of magical energy just now. "Oh yes, would somepony mind getting my capital out of that snow globe?"
Discord snapped his fingers.
So much win!
Ah, yes I'd almost forgotten about that one snowglobe...
Great work on the chapter by the way, I hate seeing the story come to it's end.
(in a good way)
woah
words! they're insufficient for how i felt about that chapter!...it was 'hilariously awesome' will have to do!
I think fake would work better than facade castle. I'm liking this ending so far. I mean it actually seems chaotic. Who'd seen Discord helping take out the world-ending monstrosity and NMM actually getting a chill pill coming?
wow?
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yeah, I think I can go with wow for this one
So if it had all the extra colors, does that mean octerine was included?
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Actually, facade fits perfectly there as fake would only fill half the meaning.
Awesome.
Where does the "your pain, your anger, and all of your sorrow" line come from? It's recognizable, but I can't remember what from.
Son.... I am disappoint.
Go Discord!!
Seriously. Well played.
First, I have no words to describe just how awesome that was
Second, "At that moment the third most improbable event occurred."
Third, the chapter felt a bit rushed in places.
Otherwise, I look forward to seeing how you wrap this up
Loved this!
DELICIOUS PUDDING!
'nuff said
461226 Exactly what I was thinking. Epic job, good sir. I rate this 5 mustaches.
dafuq
Where exactly did Rainbow's Sunglasses come from?
I come home from the busiest 4 days of my life and find a new chapter? All my win!
I'll be on Google Talk when I get home from work this afternoon, if you'd like.
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TAKE MY PAIN, MY ANGER, AND ALL OF MY SORROW!
SHINING... FIIIIIIIIIIIIINNGGGEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My gosh... I just love that line.
Discord:
"Son, I am disappoint."
I see it like this...
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This is amusing indeed. and Nightmare Moon even got a personality change thanks to Discord's tomfoolery? Now I wonder what ELSE could happen...
ALL MY LOVE.
well, not literally all my love. that shit has to be spread around. but slightly more than is normally reserved for any given update of any given story.
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Everytime I hear this, "oh, immortality is bad because there would be too many people and it would be crowded!" I think to myself 'are you retarded? Seriously, are you hard of thinking?' I really say that to myself.
The answer is as simple as not taking your dick out, or keeping your legs crossed. Better still, instead of simple self-discipline, how about birth control? Or reversible sterilization? Only allow babies when immortals are destroyed beyond recovery? It's called taking responsibility for having children.
I agree, immortality is not right - for you. You would not work as an immortal.
But for those of us who can control our need to pop babies out like bullets from an automatic rifle, for those of us with that little bit of imagination enough to say 'Hey, if everyone became immortal, maybe we shouldn't use sex for reproduction, and only use it for pleasure', well, I think immortality would be just about the best thing ever, basically because it would be the best thing ever.
What. Is. WRONG. With. You. People? The ones that go 'immortality would be bad, because the world would become crowded.' No it wouldn't. Not unless all the immortals had I.Q.'s of seventy and drooled on their shoes.
Yes, Mankind breeds like flies already, and we're headed for a crash. But humans know they are going to die, and so they are trying to have immortality through lots of offspring. I think that just might change if they knew they, personally, could avoid death. Immortality by proxy is a poor substitute.
Man, that attitude makes me angry.
462058 Oh yeah, now I remember, thanks.
462138 Before you go hating on someone for their beliefs, get your god damn facts staight. When I said that, it was in the context of "It would suck to be immortal and have all of your friends die before your eyes while you stay in your prime."
Immortality for all? Sign me up skippy. Immortality for some? Dear god no.
Immortality can be a blessng or a curse
Please, please, please, with sugar on top, do not turn this into a sappy happy end, where Discord gets to stay as long as he promises to be a good doggy.
This story is far to good to end it with a "and they happily lived ever after".
Epic as all f***. Looking forward to the conclusion.
The chapter could use a quick once over and a nice coat of polish.
Nothing glaring, but some sub par sentence structure and repetition.
WHADAFAQ?!
461930 I concur
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Erhem.....
"This hand of mine burns with an Awesome POWER!!!!!!! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take This, My Anger, My Pain, and all of my Sorrow! Shining Finger Sword! Go! Go! Go!"
That's where it comes from.
poor NMM she finally vented her anger, and changing habit so abruptly can be difficult
nice job as always, I look forward to the conclusion now but I'm also sad but I guess the right length is the right length
Oh...well indeed logic has left the scene, but I think it commited suicide in the midst. Wow...simply wow. Honestly the the sense that doesn't make sense is the sense that works best for the sense of the story. Screw LOGIC! See you on the next chapter! Also, tea party conversations inside a giant monster for the win!
Discord: Son, I am disapoint.
SO MUCH WIN!!!
That single line made the entire chapter awesome for me. Keep it coming!
462341 Discord getting off with a slap on the wrist? Nothing so simple. The only reason pigeons aren't shitting on his head again is he helped clean up his own mess for once.
To borrow from MST3K:
"Words cannot describe it." "I'll speak in whole numbers."
Awesome story so far. Can't wait to see how this all turns out.
Lol, a Gundam reference... the one with... the shining finger... uhngh, I cannot recall the specific Gundam Series. But I watched it...
BURNING FINGER!
i love how the first scene is just rarity and comp sipping tea a acting like nothing is wrong..hehe funny.
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"you have to realize. death is for the best, If there was no death there would be ten time the people on the earth." - Ferote
This is the exact line I was responding to, nothing else you had to say. Just that one, single claim. If you don't want to outlive others, well, that's nice. That's your choice, and I respect it. It hasn't anything whatsoever to do with what I was referring to, of course. Should be obvious, really, because one of your two statements is about population, and the other is about outliving, and I never referred to the second statement once.
There, all the god damn facts are straight.
Also, I think I grasp now the root cause of your initial adamant viewpoint. Confirmation of initial assessments can be very gratifying, so thank you for that.
Dude.....I neeed MOOAAARR!
464727 Thank you as it turns out I had a lot more pony in my brain than I suspected when I put out that little one shot guide book. Epilogue still to come, then more stories. I am not ruling out revisiting this universe for sequels, I did after all create a world full of godlike creatures and madness. First I have another story in the works, something quite different from this.
Didn't see this here... heh
I have nothing else to say, so here's spike with a moustache kissing Big Mac
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EDIT: SO REALISTIC
464744 I hope you still make it comedy, love the style of writing.
also
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So many references. So little care for the fourth wall. So. Much. WIN!
I am absolutely loving this. I eagerly look forward to the thrilling denoument.
463805 I had no idea that I referred to both immortal for one and immortal for all.
Can't always be right, now can I?
Looking at the immortal arguement going on, I say one thing, and that is:
If you're immortal, you never die. Simple. So if you don't want to outlive your friends, KILL YOURSELF PROBLEM SLOVED. >_<
466958 ...That was an illogical statement. if one is immortal, one cannot die. Killing oneself requires one dying. Thus, if one is immortal, one cannot kill oneself.
462138 Maybe you'd be coolios with never having a child. I know many people who Don't want children and never will. However, I know More who Do want children. Forbidding people from having children would be denying people from having free will. It's a basic part of human nature. say the 7 billion people on earth did become immortal. Lets work through some stuff. First: It'd take a while for the news that everyone WAS in fact, immortal to srpead. Call it, say, 2 months. Now, lets assume the Beurocrats argued about stripping people of one of defining traits of mammalian existance for, maybe, 5 months, before agreeing, Yes, thats what they had to do. Now assuming that they actually Agreed yes, and pushing aside the probability the world fallen into anarachy when people realised they no longer needed to eat or drink, and assuming the police force had some means to keep the now invincible populace in control. How long would it take for the measures required to be implimented? call it four month before the "No Sex" patrols had been established, Noting that NO form of birth control is 100 percent gauranteed, minus utter abstainance. Now, Every month, roughly 10.6 Million children are born. SO! Call that 11 months + another 9 for all the pregnancies that started before the patrols to finish up (abortion wouldn't be an option any longer. You'd end up with undying Foetuses crawling around) So, 20 months of 10.6 million new births is an addition of roughly 212 Million children. Then assuming only a tenth of the amount of births could occur in the people who decided that not being allowed to give birth was inhuman and ran, there'd still be a steady flow of 1.06 million kids per year appearing. Say it took what auhtorities there were 20 years to track down every last kiddie wanter, then there'd be another 254.4 Million kids in the world. That thar brings the worlds population to over 7.5 billion. Now, the Immortal kidde havers would eventually be let out of their punishments. Say after, maybe, 20 years. THEIR kids would probably be Pro having children, they'd still be pro having children. Say that means theres 1.5 increase in the amount of kids being had. Now, that'd mean every 20 years, there'd be a spike in population, which'd get bigger every time. And thats not even taking into account the people who'd get pregnant against the rules because they wanted to. Simply speaking, people aren't all you and they don't act rationally
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I agree with you. Most humans are far too stupid and driven by base biological drives to ever be deserving of immortality. They'd just waste such a gift complaining about why they can't have an endless stream of babies like some barnyard animal, instead of, say, doing something interesting and useful with their lives. Humans would suck at immortality. Most of them.
But not all. Not... all.
Oh how I enjoyed this chapter. Not that it wasn't unexpected, by all means I saw this coming back in the Twilight vs Dawn chapter where Pinkie had the party for "sixteen guests of honor" regardless I really do enjoy how you pulled it all off, specially Discord helping NMM with her anger issues. Can't wait for the epilogue.
468768 lol opps must have gone to chapter 16 subconsciously. *scratches rump with a 'hand'* Hummm effective.
468775 quite alright, thank you for reading the madness I call fiction. enjoy your stay, check your sense of logic at the door. It won't help you here.
468779 What is this logic you speak of. Is it where I had Shipped Bon Bon with vinyl logic or what?
468882 You'll fit right in.