Here's How I Began This Delightful Little Train Wreck!
It was a warm summer day in Canterlot, with not a cloud in the sky. At least, not a normal cloud in the sky. In a small, clearly marked field surrounded by a fence with plenty of signs indicating the field's purpose, a large number of cotton candy clouds gave a heavy downpour of chocolate milk. In the center of the field an inside out umbrella slowly filled as it protected a floating upside down table and three floating chairs, upon which sat Discord, Discord, and Discord. The chairs were all the same, but each Discord was different. One wore a top hat and a suit, and stared at the cards in his hand through a monocle. Another Discord wore sunglasses and a classic Hawaiian shirt, and while his eyes were hidden, the large smirk on his face hinted that he had a good hand. The third wore no clothes, but upon close examination, would reveal to be a life size wooden puppet of Discord, with thin strings going from his joints and face up into the cotton candy clouds, where they seemed to disappear.
The Puppet Discord glanced at his cards, a blank expression on his wooden face, and casually pushed three cupcakes towards the center of the table. At this, Fancy Discord's face fell. Literally fell of his head and landed onto the green and purple checkered ground.
"I fold." His face spoke from the ground in a dejected tone, and his body placed his cards face down onto the table before picking his face off the ground and slapping it back on. Vacation Discord gave an even bigger smirk at the news, and slowly pushed four cupcakes towards the center of the table.
"Well I call your bluff." Vacation Discord said as he slammed his cards onto the table face up. "Full house!" He declared with a laugh, motioning to the 13 cards he placed. Rather than a number, each of them held a picture of some odd combination of a fruit and a piece of furniture. Puppet Discord finally broke his blank expression with a grin as he placed his own 13 cards onto the ground.
"Bingo!" Puppet Discord shouted, as his cards proceeded to EAT the other cards, and Puppet Discord began to reach towards the cupcakes, a smirk on his face as Vacation Discord watched in stunned silence.
"You cheated!" Vacation Discord declared, recovering from his earlier shock, and slapped Puppet Discord's hand away with a fish.
"Cheat? Me? Why, I'm shocked you'd accuse me of such a horrible crime." Puppet Discord said, his voice dripping with sarcasm, and earning himself a slap in the face with another fish.
"I'll teach you to cheat when playing against ME!" Vacation Discord said, slapping the two fishes together, causing a chain to connect their tails and forming a set of fish nunchucks. Before any more words could be said, Vacation Discord leaped at Puppet Discord, and the two began to battle, slowly leaving the area of the field protected by the inside out umbrella.
The battle was very one sided, with Vacation Discord using the fish nunchucks effectively against Puppet Discord, and slapping him in the face multiple times. Eventually Puppet Discord leaped back, chocolate milk rain hitting his face.
"That's it, I'll teach YOU what happens when you fish slap ME!" With that, Puppet Discord reached behind him, and pulled a giant toy hammer out of nowhere.
"No! Wait! You can't use that! You'll destroy us all!" Vacation Discord said, dropping the fish nunchucks. "I surrender!" He said, raising his hands and falling to his knees.
"IT'S TOO LATE TO SURRENDER NOW, FOOL!" Puppet Discord said, and without further comment flattened Vacation Discord into the ground.
The impact created a shock wave, however, and caused the table to flip over so it was no longer upside down, causing the cupcakes to fall to the floor, where they promptly exploded from the impact. The table served to contain the explosion, but was launched up like a rocket, and smacked against the giant inside out umbrella, which slowly teetered, chocolate milk sloshing inside it.
"Oh my." Fancy Discord said from his chair, pulling a smaller inside out umbrella and using it as a shield as the giant one finally toppled over, slamming Puppet Discord with a flood of chocolate milk rain, which covered the entire field but stopped at the fence surrounding it.
After a few minutes, the chocolate milk began to sink into the green and purple checkered earth, and once it disappeared, none of the three Discords remained, and neither did the table, the umbrella, or the floating chairs. The cotton candy clouds also stopped raining, and slowly began to fade away, as the Original Discord slowly levitated down from above the clouds.
"Now that was some entertaining chaos." Discord said with a grin that quickly turned into a frown. "Though it isn't as great the 10th time around."
Discord had ceased his evil uncontrolled ways and was undergoing rehabilitation under Princess Celestia's slightly paranoid and almost constant supervision. Following Fluttershy's advice, the Princess had given Discord a place where he was free to use as much chaos as he liked, provided he didn't alter anything that would affect anything outside the field. He could control the weather and create or destroy or do whatever he wanted so long as it was inside the fence of the field. The field was a few acres big, and Discord appreciated having his own place to let loose, and occasionally show off the few times ponies were curious enough to wander over here and watch, but after a few weeks the field was beginning to feel constricting, and he found himself repeating the same skits on occasion.
Princess Celestia also began showing Discord how he could use his powers in a constructive way, by giving him an hour every other day to fill requests any ponies in Canterlot had that his powers could fix. Discord certainly enjoyed how grateful everyone was when he used his powers to fix or improve a house or airship or some other thing, but the requests were often all very similar and Celestia and Luna were both very hesitant to let him fulfill a request that wasn't something they could easily do themselves. It was necessary though, or at least that's what they said. The general population still needed some time to adjust to Discord being a good guy. Centuries of being a renowned villain weren't undone in a day, or even a month. Probably not even a year.
Discord didn't think he could stand this for a year, though.
If there was anything that really got under Discord's skin, it was the realization that everything around him, and even including him, was beginning to become repetitive.
Still, as he said once before, Friendship is Magic. He was genuinely reluctant to harm the friendship he had with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie(who was quick to befriend him once she began to believe he truly turned over a new leaf), and the friendships he was beginning to make here in Canterlot, all for a brief taste of unrestrained chaos.
Discord had a mental battle going on in his head, as the part of him desiring friendship fought the part of him demanding more chaos. For now the side of friendship was winning, but he doubted it would last much longer.
He could always ask Princess Celestia for a bigger field, or for bigger requests to fulfill, but he doubted either of those would work for more than a few weeks. What he needed was to do just one big, absolutely insane thing, that wouldn't threaten or terrify anyone, at least not to the point where he couldn't get away with claiming it was meant to be a harmless joke. Something to add some more chaos into his day to day life without raising any alarms.
For weeks he plotted the perfect plan to push his power to its limit. It would have to be something incredible, something that he never even imagined possible before. It also needed to be something subtle, that could blend into the world around it when needed. Last, and most important, the result would need to be unpredictable. He wanted to be just as surprised by what his chaos did as anyone else would be if they ever found out about it. His mind was constantly at work on devising the perfect scheme as he went about his life, and as he created the Puppet Discord again to prepare for another skit to pass the time by, inspiration finally struck.
"It's brilliant! Positively brilliant!" Discord declared, throwing his puppet self into the air in triumph as the plan revealed itself in his mind.
"I'll create life. True, sentient, fully free thinking life! I've altered enough preexisting minds to know how they work, but I've never made one entirely from scratch before! This is so exciting!" Discord said to himself, his voice much quieter now to prevent anyone from overhearing. He picked up his puppet self again, which had fallen to the ground while Discord spoke his plan aloud, and looked into the puppet's hollow eyes.
"Of course, a mind needs a body. I could use this, but a second me constantly running around is hardly subtle. A Pony body, on the other hand, would be perfect. It could blend into the crowd when necessary, and no one would instantly suspect me for any crazy thing it decided to do. Now I just need to decide what to use for the pony's body." Discord said, dropping the puppet again and putting a hand on his chin, appearing to be in deep contemplation. Puppet Discord got back on its feet of its own accord, and mimicked his original's stance for a few seconds before snapping with his right hand. With a small flash of light, a large boulder appeared in the air above the center of the field, and fell to the ground with an audible thud.
"Why, that's perfect!" Discord said, patting his puppet self on the back. "What better tool to use for a new experiment than the one I used to trick the Element of Generosity? I can easily sculpt a pony out of this!" He said, throwing the boulder into the air at the last word, and keeping it hovering a meter above him once it had begun falling. He took a second to give an evil mischievous chuckle, but was quickly brought out of it by his Puppet self, which elbowed him an pointed to the small crater the boulder had made when it landed onto the ground.
"What? What is it? What are you pointing at-oh!" Discord said, sounding annoyed until the end, at which point his tone and expression changed to one of surprise.
"What do we have here?" Discord asked rhetorically, as he levitated the object from the crater. It was an old, raggedy, now mostly flattened doll, with one of its button eyes hanging off its face, and with bits of dirt in its mane. "I remember you." Discord said with another evil mischievous chuckle.
Discord didn't sleep the first time he had been turned to stone, and he didn't sleep the second time either. Shortly after returning to his stone form, something in Ponyville had caught his attention. He could sense the potential chaos that had begun to build as Twilight had started to panic in her desperate attempt to avoid becoming tardy, and had seen the chaos Twilight had caused with the spell she placed on her old doll. Discord reflected on the entertaining memory for a few seconds, before realizing the meaning behind the presence of both Smarty Pants and the boulder once known as Tom.
"You want me to create TWO ponies, don't you?" He said with a glance at his puppet counterpart, which only nodded sagely in return. "You sir, are a GENIUS! I can't believe I hadn't thought of this myself." He said, despite the fact that he DID come up with the idea. His copies were often no more sentient than the boulder currently hovering above him, but they did on occasion act upon thoughts and ideas he himself hadn't decided to act upon just yet. The puppet didn't come up with the idea of making two ponies, or of having them be made from two objects previously used to cause chaos either intentionally or accidentally, but it HAD decided that the idea should become reality, which the original Discord had still only been considering. His impulsive yet not actually sentient alter egos were a concept that Celestia still couldn't quite wrap her head around, which suited Discord just fine. It would hardly be fun to use them as often as he did if they were easy to make sense of.
The complexities of his copies would pale in comparison, however, if he managed to make fully sentient free thinking ponies, and this caused another short chuckle.
"I suppose I should get started." Discord said, popping his knuckles and making a large clock appear on the ground in front of him. He only got a glance before the boulder above him fell diagonally on top of the clock and crushed it, but a glance was all he needed.
"I only have an hour left before Celestia summons me for another hour of ridiculously boring requests, so I better make this quick." He said, and the puppet and crushed clock remains disappeared as he drew in every ounce of chaos he could. He felt a one liner would be appropriate right about now, but through a combination of being pressed for time and eagerness to get the experiment started and to let loose with the chaos, he reluctantly decided to skip it, and instead only took a cautious look around to make sure no one was watching nearby before holding his hands out towards the boulder and puppet now only a foot away from each other, and sending a large blast of chaos energy right at them. The sheer amount of energy he was using made it become visible, and the beam switched from various patterns and colors every few seconds, at first being a red and white spiral, then a black and white checkerboard, and third being a blue lightning bolt with an orange background. The patterns and colors continued for what felt like a solid minute, and Discord found himself sliding back across the ground, as he began to near the limits of his strength, he could feel that the chaos hadn't fully taken hold yet, and with a determined look he began walking forward against the pressure pushing him back.
"You are going to work, you hear me? I'm Discord, Master of Chaos! You. Will. WORK!" With that, and a final surge of strength, the beam doubled in width, becoming as wide as he was tall, and changed into a broken mix of various patterns and colors, making the previous patterns look organized by comparison. Finally, with a sound like thunder, what appeared to be a nuclear explosion occurred within the field, the mushroom cloud dissipating at the edges of the fence. Discord was sent flying back several feet but quickly recovered, as the blast had been more sight and sound than actual pressure. He waited for the large cloud of smoke contained in the field to slowly dissipate, and resisted the desire to simply make it go away. He still held a small amount of chaos energy within himself, just enough to probably complete any tasks Celestia had for him. The sight and sound he could easily explain away as his usual antics if Celestia asked about it later, but if during his hour of fulfilling requests she noticed him trying to get out of using his powers or failing to do any of his usual antics when he was around her, she would likely become suspicious. The only plus side to his temporarily small level of energy was that he almost KNEW the trick had worked. He wouldn't quite believe it till he saw it, but he thought he felt the fabric of reality finally bend to his will at the end.
As the smoke finally cleared, he noticed that while the boulder still looked the same, the doll now held the shape and size of a normal pony, and upon closer inspection, he noticed it was also breathing.
"YES!" Discord said with volume just below a shout as he jumped into the air. "I did it!" He said much quieter than before, still wanting to try to be subtle despite the fact that he knew Celestia couldn't hear him from Canterlot Castle, the explosion, sure, but not him shouting unless he was intentionally amplifying his voice.
He waited as the young mare slowly opened her eyes, and noticed that they were the same two different colors as the buttons. In fact, the only differences Discord noticed from the doll and the pony's appearance was change in size, the absence of patches, a mane and tail slightly longer in proportion to her pony form than they had been in her doll form. He also noticed, with a held back laugh, that her cutie mark was the image of the same pair of pants that the doll had been wearing.
He waited as the doll turned pony continued to blink and rub her face with a hoof, as if she was still trying to wake up and her vision wasn't yet in focus. Discord forced himself to wait patiently until her eyes finally focused on him, and once they did, he grinned and waved.
"Hello there, my little pony." He said with a short laugh. "Welcome to Equestria. I am Discord and I," he said with emphasis, his voice suddenly a bit deeper and ominous. "Am your father." With that, he gave a round of pretend villainous laughter. While he did so, the newly created pony stood up, her height about three inches shorter than the average adult mare. Once she was on her feet, she did something even Discord hadn't expected to happen.
She frowned, narrowed her eyebrows, and with an annoyed tone, said her first words.
"What? No you're not."
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2796407 That sounded much creepier in my head than what I think you wanted it to sound like when you typed it.
Seriously tough, thanks! You're the first person to favorite this story!
I WILL TRY NOT TO LET YOU DOWN!
Interesting. And hilarious. Don´t worry, you can take all your time in making Discord lines if they turn out this good. I must admit this promising beginning could at least compare to Keep Calm and Flutter On (I don´t mention Return of Harmony for now because quite frankly that is an episode difficult to top, but who knows if you can do it as the story goes).
I wonder how Discord will react that his own creation seemed to renegade him (I can already tell who she sees as her mother and father), not to mention how this will affect the lives of ponies of either Canterlot or Ponyville (unsure where the next part will take place). And of course how Discord will try to distract both Celestia and Luna for what he did, at least until he can find a good excuse.
So yeah, keep let them coming. I want more. MOOORREEEEE!!!!!!!!!
2796759 Your comment is awesome, I mean, I'm probably reading too much into it, but if you just honestly compared this chapter to an actual episode of the show then my gosh I'm flipping out in excitement here.
It also makes me really nervous, because honestly this story wasn't ever even supposed to be ABOUT Discord, I was going to have him in like, maybe one or two chapters, just enough to create the two and for them to begin doing their own thing, but he sort of took over the story as I wrote it (I mean I seriously couldn't think of how to write the beginning, so I thought "What would Discord do in his free time?" and began making stuff up off the top of my head), and what should have been a few paragraphs and a quick disappearance turned into all of this.
I wasn't planning on having him do much more than send them on their way with maybe some kind of quest, and then maybe he'd show up again at the end, but I'm already predicting like two more chapters with him in it before I'll be able to separate him from the two characters I wanted to focus on, and now it only seems natural to have a few parts throughout of him possibly trying to track them down while not appearing suspicious in front of the Princesses...
Okay I'm sorry if I'm starting to not make sense but my stories tend to write themselves as I try to explain them, at the beginning of this comment my plan was to have discord willingly send them away for a specific reason but now I'm thinking it'd be more hilarious if they ran off on their own or due to some random event, especially because that would make it easier for me to throw in more Discord moments if he's trying to subtly find them while covering their tracks... Huh...
I will say though (and please respond to this at your earliest convenience) who do you think Smarty will see as her parents? I'm asking this out of a genuine "I have no idea where I was going with this but I knew she wouldn't accept him as her father so I made that line and it seemed like a great time to stop and end the chapter but oh gosh I have no idea how to even continue that conversation" moment I'm having. I really can't stress enough how much this entire story was made up as it was typed, and how clueless I feel about where to continue it. I have a variety of ideas but nothing has jumped out at me yet (except for the idea I just mentioned earlier in this comment about how they separate from Discord) so honestly if you wanna toss some theories around with me PLEASE do so because I could use as much fuel for my brain as possible...
The only thing I have planned that's definite is that they will AT ONE POINT attempt to get to Ponyville for various reasons, and that both Tom and Smarty Pants have odd powers due to the amount of Chaos Energy stored in them. (I can tell you what my ideas are currently for those powers if you want but I don't want to spoil them without being asked for them)
ANYWAY I think that's it, thanks a ton for your comment and for reading my story!
Only you? I also write fanfiction for a long time and how many things have changed from what I planned and end up present? By experience I would say it is a good sign of writing actually. Like you said it is a product of our reflections about the characters and how they would react, to the point that seem to gain life for their own. And in Discord case I can almost see him writing his own lines for himself, or sitting on your shoulder whispering ideas, right?
Seriously now, as for Smarty parents I thought it was evident. Twilight as the mother
and Big Macintosh as the father
. In fact it would be hilarious if you put one scene in which she tries to join them together as an item (and perhaps involve the CMC too 
).
And I would recommend that her and Tom do hightail from Discord, putting him in a mad search for them while avoiding Celestia and her growing suspicions. I can already see some of their intercalations.
wow continue,,,
wow great history
I hope the cap NEXT
includes bloomer (no kidding the now lives happily in Appleloosa)
who won
spike vs tom
2797416 Hmm, I dun mean to be a jerk, but I don't think I'll be taking the story in the exact direction you have guessed. I mean, honestly thanks a ton for that comment too, because reading it and thinking about various stuff helped me figure out what direction I WILL be taking it in, so I certainly owe you one, but Smarty Pants is now physically (and to some extent, mentally, that part's a bit more difficult to just casually explain) only a few years younger than Twilight, like, maybe three years? I dunno, but ANYWAY, point is I now have various ideas thanks to your awesome encouragement and help, and shall now ATTEMPT to type the next chapter, which, with any luck, will be released on the 27th of June.
2797466 I uh, I...
I really REALLY don't understand this comment... Uhm... Thanks?
OMG, Keep It up cus' this is good stuff!
Do you plan to continue this?