“Oh no, it’s raining chocolate milk, it must be another Discord prank.” Sweetie pretended, badly, that she was actually frightened and angry at the chocolate raining on her. After a while, she sighed, and stood still, narrowing her eyes. Great, making fun of him hadn’t drawn him out. Kicking a bucket, she watched as it banged against the ground.
“Just great. He won’t come when called OR when made fun of. How the hell does one summon this freaking Chaos God?” Sweetie growled in irritation, wincing as a spike of pain laced through her head. Sweetie reconised the pain instantly, and sighed. Great, another chore she would have to do.
“You could always try asking politely you know. I do have feelings.” Turning, Discord’s pouting face swam into view, and Sweetie smiled sheepishly. Whoops, looks like Fluttershy was right. Sweetie quickly composed herself, and pulled out the two books she had ‘borrowed’ from Twilight during the previous loop.
“Fancy some light eating?” Sweetie smiled innocently as Discord mused, glancing the books over. Tossing them aside, he snapped his fingers and transformed them into flying doughnuts. Sweetie watched them fly around a few times, before breathing in, and getting to business. Discord was currently eyeing her saddlebags, full of paper. It would be best to not let him get any ideas.
“Discord, I am-” Sweetie blinked as she was cut off, her mouth zipping up like a pair of pants. Unzipping it, she tilted her head as Discord regarded her, and gave a yawn.
“Stuck in a time loop, forced to repeat the same time over and over again, I’ve heard it before. You remind me so much of the grizzled old goat, no sense of fun left in you. Blegh.” Discord shuddered, his arms falling off and beginning to bounce along the ground. Discord watching them begin to dance to a tune coming out of thin air.
“Wait, so you know about it?” Sweetie leaned forward, eyes sparkling with hope. Discord narrowed his own eyes, and snapped his fingers in between a backflip and split as the dance continued. Sweetie found herself wearing a pair of sunglasses, covering her eyes. Pulling them up, she realised Discord was no longer looking at her.
“Of course I do, you don’t think I’d notice the magic slamming through the air with little care for any magic in its way? Anyone with some sense of Chaos could detect it. It slides along my back like someone stroking a cat the wrong way.” Discord shuddered again, and snapped his fingers. Hands back on his body, he flew over to a house, and turned it into a bubble. Blowing on it, Discord watched as it flew away.
“I imagine your tiny head is exploding with questions, so let me answer them quickly for you so I can get back to ignoring the elephant standing right next to you.” Discord glanced scathingly toward Sweetie’s right, and she blinked, there was an elephant right there. Sweetie glanced upward as it suddenly began to rain elephants, causing untold panic. Sweetie couldn’t resist the slight upturn of a smile.
“Yes I can survive the loop reset, no I don’t want to, no I don’t have memories from previous loops, yes I used to know Starswirl, no I don’t know how you cast the spell, and yes English Literature is my favorite.” Discord snapped his fingers, and a piece of paper appeared in front of Sweetie. Taking it, she saw it was covered in a crude drawing of Discord. Folding it up, she wondered how Discord had guessed her last question.
“If that is all, I’d like to go cause some lovely chaos in New Griffonia. Those Gryphons served me bad cheese last time I was there.” Discord paused just long enough to snap his fingers, and return everything to normal. Fluttershy would scold him if he didn’t clean up his mess. Well, Discord had only sworn not to cause Chaos in Equestria. The Gryphon Kingdoms on the other hand…
“Uh, see ya…” Sweetie watched as Discord vanished, and realised she hadn’t actually gotten a chance to properly talk to him. Sitting down, Sweetie sighed as she wrote down everything Discord had said, cataloging it as she mused on her notes. Looking over them, she bit her lip and scratched her head.
“Alright, so Discord can survive a loop reset, but doesn’t want to. He doesn’t keep memories from previous loops. He knew Starswirl, and called him a ‘grizzled old goat’ I think. Okay, so what does that tell me. Come on Sweetie, think.” Sweetie leaned back, and pursed her lip.
“Discord likes chaos and disharmony, something like time looping would make any chaos he did become boring or similar if he did it too many times. So maybe that’s why he doesn’t want to come with me to a loop reset? I guess that makes sense.” Sweetie glanced to the sky, and winced as another slice of pain hit her head.
“Right, priorities.” Sweetie stood up, and headed toward Twilight’s. Knocking on the door, she quickly wrote the letter as she waited for Twilight to answer. Holding it out to Twilight, Sweetie opened her mouth to speak.
“Twilight, can you send this to Celestia? I need a new shield spell.” Sweetie winced, the pain was starting to occur more often. Twilight nodded, but levitated over a scroll instead of allowing Sweetie inside. Opening it, Sweetie saw a complicated spell, and tried to understand what it did. Thankfully, Twilight came to her rescue.
“This is a shield spell that will create a bubble in a sphere around you. It will take some time before you can control it enough to make it skintight, but it should do you for quite a while.” Twilight tilted her head and gave a smile. Sweetie nodded, and tried to cast it. A tiny bubble flickered to life around her, and her headache cleared.
“Thanks Twilight,” she spoke, giving a warm smile as she put the scroll in her saddlebags. Sweetie waved goodbye, and turned, heading home to where Rarity would be waiting. The strain was immense, and she had to stop a few times. Sweetie was also positive it wasn’t very strong either. Both things that gave her something to work on.
“I’ll try talking to Discord again next loop.” Sweetie still had questions she wanted to ask.
Hmmmm.
Starswirl as an old goat...
Time spell consuming the magic around her...
Tirek?
Awesome, just when I'm about to go sleep this chapter pops up, awesome, very awesome just like this story.
Well I'm going to sleep, goodnight!
(Nice chapter by the way)
I feel that she's doing too much serious stuff. She seems to be closing in on the cure, but isn't having enough fun! Go have a rodeo on Discord's back, then sow untold chaos across the world as the Draconeques Rider! Who knows? Maybe Sweetie can give D some ideas to use later on
with little care for any magic in it’s way
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I... What?
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They grow up so fast... Still, innuendo for the win
imho
Discord being flat because you're in a funk totally works.
No srsly it makes sense. He doesn't want to be anywhere near Sweetie's timeloop hell and it showed.
He's not flat, he's simply not amused by it and couldn't care less, Gods of Chaos have better things to do!
5563392 As sweetie points out, and 5564063 too, He doesn't want to be in the time loop because he likes attention. He likes people reacting to his chaos. But every week people will forget what he did, no matter what he did. That is something Discord can not stand, being instantly forgotten and all that hard work going away.
Im still holding onto hope that starswirl is discord, wait, what if getting out of the time loop somehow turned starswirl into an draconiques
I say Discord freed Sweetie from the death loop, because even he wouldn't want that to happen to cutest crusader
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I always thought it was the unfinished "Magical Mystery Cure" spell that did that. You know what I'm talking about. "from one to another, another to one, a mark of ones destiny singled out alone fulfilled". That spell.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed (hooves crossed?) for a few things.
1 - Starswilrls spell isn't completely decoded or at the very least is a riddle of some kind. Please let this be the case. If it isn't, then that would make Starswirl a bigger troll then Discord.
2 - Sweetie Bell should use the mirror pond and try bringing one of her clones through a loop with her. I want to see if it would work.
3 - I’ve got an idea about how Sweetie Belle could successfully take another pony through a loop with her. We know that the loops reset exactly at the stroke of midnight and, during the following minute afterwards, everything with magic (including other ponies) gets drained of its magic resulting in it immediately aging, withering, and dying. If Sweetie is indoors, the magic draining is confined solely to the room that Sweetie is in and everything outside that room doesn’t loop. I suggest that some other pony should stand just inside the door to Sweetie’s room at the stroke of midnight (when the loop resets) therefore traveling into the next loop but jump into the hallway within the first second or two. They should then run the BUCK away from that room until the first minute is up. If anypony can successfully pull it off, than they should end up in the next loop with their magic and lives intact. While I don't see any reason why this couldn't work, I does seem pretty risky. Darting out of the room too early would mean that they won’t loop and doing it too late would kill them. Because of the precise timing required, It'd be best to try this out on somepony who’s well known for being very agile with very quick reflexes such Rainbow Dash or Scootaloo.
5566489 Heh, you match the name. Never would that thought come to my mind! You're... a thoughtful brony. Speaking of, I was wondering if older girls are also called bronies, or if that's only guys. If the latter is correct, what are girls called? Ponies?
(The last part was a joke.)
at the rate Sweetie loops, maybe she could save a couple of souvenirs and her room could be little, what about asking Celestia a room for the loops?
Also... Is she going to try to make Philomena loop again in future loops?
Discord at last appear, and now that he appear, the theory about him being the mastermind is off. Waiting next chapter...
Discord could be of use later...
You know what would be amazing? If Discord decided to survive a loop reset so there would be two of him.
And then three.
And then four.
5564416 called it!-ish, I guess I said that starswirl WAS discord instead of saying he CREATED discord, but maybe I was warewolves inspiration for having discord be created by starswirl escaping the loop
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Generally they're considered Bronies as well although a lot of them prefer Pegasister. Personally I think that's a terrible name though. It would be much better to call them Fronies. (Based off the first half of the pronunciation of the Afrikaans term Vrou, originating from the Dutch word Vrouw meaning woman or wife, combined with the later part of Pony)
--Sollace
I really enjoyed Discords somewhat cynical attitude
I know now! Remember that time when Sweetie was stuck in a death loop with Philamena and someone opened the window? That was Discord!
5626728 Woah. Discord is awesome
5626728 As easy as that would make things, there's a hole there. If Discord never chooses to keep his memories, and Sweetie died repeated untold deaths, what would make him suddenly decide to help her out in death loop infinity-1 after she'd died in exactly the way so many other times? He wouldn't even know that he was getting reset so often.
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Its more like popusfly forgets. Them.the memerioes I mean.
Although l geuss that he could do something different every loop. He also could ingnore the drain effects so...
5566801 I LOVE how you had to include older. you could have just said female, but I suppose you dont know that word.