Afterwards
Discord floated in-between dimensions as he tried to figure out where Twilight went. With a snap of his claws, he conjured up a 3-D map of Equestria. Putting on a pair of reading glasses, he used a magnifying glass to examine the map. "Let's see here...If I were a lonely, eggheaded, and not very original unicorn where would I be?" With another snap of his claws, his Twilight doll appeared on his shoulder.
"I'm so upset! My friends aren't my friends anymore and my teacher is just a lazy alicorn using me to do her dirty work! Oh why didn't I listen to that clever and handsome Lord of Chaos, Discord? Woe is me! I'd better go to my room and cry until he finds me and trains me to be his student of Chaos. Wah!"
"Oh, excellent suggestion, Twilight doll!" He moved his glass over to Ponyville and peered inside the Golden Oaks Library.
"Hmm, well you lose points for that one." Discord said pointing to the floating scoreboard above him.
Twilight Doll: -1 ~ Discord: 0
He looked in a few more obvious places as the doll listed them off. "Castle of the lazy alicorn siblings... nope, Donut shop...nope, thinking spot...nada, Zecora's...zipo, well you're no help." With that he flicked the doll away.
"What we need is a new perspective..." Discord paced in circles as he thought. Suddenly a lightbulb appeared above his head.
"Ah ha!" Snapping his claws, he poofed up another Twilight doll, this one in a lab coat and dorky glasses.
"Where would you go, Twilight Doll 2.0?"
The doll pushed it's glasses higher on it's nose before stating. "As I have just discovered the backstabbing nature of friendship, rather than teleport to a venue that is easily locatable by my former associates, I have resolved to make my way to a secluded location in which I will endeavor to rectify my current situation."
"And that is..." Discord said, beginning to get annoyed at his creation.
"Do to the partisan nature of our relationship, it would be counterproductive for myself to disclose that information." The doll stated smugly as it changed the scoreboard.
Twilight Doll 2.0: 1 ~ Discord: 0
"Okay, first of all, I created you so you have to do what I say. Second, that scoreboard is incorrect as there are two Twilight dolls." Discord stated as he brought back the first doll and changed the board again.
Whiny Twilight Doll: -1 ~ Egghead Twilight Doll: -1 ~ Discord: 1
Both dolls started to protest,
"I'm not whining! I'm complaining! I'll show you whining! Waaah, you knoooocked me ooffff. You're a biggg bullllyyy..."
"That label is highly disparaging and anatomically inaccurate. Furthermore, my previous changes to the scoreboard where correct at the time as the original Twilight effigy had been eradicated by yourself. Therefor-"
"Aauugh, why can't either of you just tell me where Twilight is!" Discord interrupted the dolls by grabbing them and shaking them until they stopped talking.
They looked at each other and responded together, "You created us. How can we know something you don't?"
Discord smacked himself in face, "Oh yeah". With a snap of his fingers, everything disappeared. "I guess I'll just have to use the tracking device I stuck in her mane." He said, poofing up a metal detector and following it's beeping.
"Oh come on!" Rainbow Dash yelled in frustration, kicking the wall next to her.
"Ah can't believe that just happened!" Applejack shouted, stomping her hoof.
"This is the Worst. Possible. Thing!" Rarity declared dramatically as she punctuated each word with a blast to the floating screens. Unfortunately, each shot simply reflected off of them and went bouncing around the room.
"Eep!" Fluttershy yelped, ducking behind Pinkie Pie. Who was currently ignoring everypony as she cried in the center of the room.
Princess Celestia raised her horn and with a powerful spell, dissolved the magic blasts before they could injure anypony. She attempted to remove the floating screens, but her spell reacted in much the same manner as Rarity's, despite her being an alicorn. Princess Celestia quickly cancelled her spell before they got further than a single bounce. "I'm sorry everypony, it appears that Discord's magic has grown stronger than even my own."
"Magic may not do it, but lets see them hold up against my Sonic RainBlast!" Rainbow shouted. Before anypony could stop her, she had flown through the broken window. A few seconds passed before she came barreling back in, hollering a war cry as she aimed a karate kick at one of the screens.
BOING!
The screen flexed like a rubber-band and slingshot her straight into the wall with a crash. "Owww" Rainbow Dash groaned as everypony face-hoofed.
"Oh my gosh, Rainbow Dash, are you alright?" Fluttershy said as she flew to her friend's aid.
"Ya okay there, sugarcube?" Applejack asked, trotting towards them.
"No...problem...hehe...just...awesome..." Rainbow Dash said weakly as the room span and her eyes rolled back in her head.
"Honestly, Rainbow Dash, you need to think before you start flying into things. Not every problem can be solved with violence." Rarity said as she levitated her friend onto her fainting couch.
"What?" Rarity asked, looking around as she noticed the sudden silence.
Cadance shook her head, "Lets just get Rainbow to the infirmary." She nodded towards a couple of guards, who stiffened to attention. They saluted and picked up the duvet and carried it out of the room.
As everypony trailed out of the vault (the girls and Spike following Rainbow Dash, and the guards returning to their posts), Cadance noticed that Shining Armor hadn't moved.
Cadance turned back to see Shining Armor standing in front of one of the screens. Cadance frowned, worry knitting her brow as she walked over to her fiancé. She knew which clip he was watching, even without looking. There was only one that Shining Armor would watch with this level of intensity and guilt.
Shining Armor didn't turn to look as Cadance stepped up behind him. He just stood there, watching that one moment of the wedding replay over and over again. That one moment, when he had given in to the stress and frustration and had taken it out on the one filly he had never wanted to hurt. The one moment he wished he could take back, more than anything.
"Come on, Shining." Cadance said softly, putting a wing across his back. "Let's go."
Shining Armor nodded and allowed himself to be led from the room, his mouth in a tight line as he took one last look at the screen. 'If it's the last thing I do,' Shining Armor silently vowed, 'I promise I will make this right.'
POP!
Discord appeared in the corner of the cave and promptly ducked as a large projectile went flying in his direction. He opened his mouth to protest, only for it to hang open as he took in the mess around him. The walls and ceiling were covered in char marks and there were there was rubble every where. 'How did she manage to burn crystal?' Discord thought in disbelief.
"AUGH!" Twilight let out a guttural scream of frustration and released a powerful surge of magic. It blasted through the far side, creating another tunnel and sending large chunks of debris flying towards her.
Discord's mouth fell open as he watched. In his experience ponies tended to run screaming away from large flying projectiles, not towards them.
Letting out another primal shriek, Twilight bucked pieces away from her, using her magic to fling the chunks she couldn't reach with her legs. With a final cry she sent the largest piece flying through another wall.
Discord continued to watch silently for a few moments before grinning and poofing up some popcorn. He leaned back into his floating easy chair and settled in for the show. 'After all' He thought, grinning wickedly as Twilight destroyed more of her surroundings, 'one must never interrupt a lady.'
Twilight continued her derby of destruction for some time (Not sure exactly how long, Twilight didn't pay any attention and Discord had been too busy enjoying the show to keep track. Not that he would have anyway.) before letting out a final cry of raw emotion and sending one last blast through the ceiling before lowering her head in exhaustion. She panted heavily as slow clapping filled the air. Twilight scowled as Discord appeared, whooping in glee as he joined a thousand pairs of gloves in applause.
"Oh, Well done!" Discord congratulated her. "I must say, I love what you've done with the place! You have turned this drab and boring cavern into a canvas of possibilities. Amazing! Why it's simply astounding!" With a POP! and a puff of smoke he was dressed as an art critic, complete with the beret and clipboard. "What do you call this piece?" Discord asked as he examined a pile of burnt crystal.
Twilight just sighed, she was in no mood for his games. She trudged past him, head down and tail dragging as she walked deeper into the caves.
Discord frowned, and then brightened as he thought of something else. With a snap of his claws he vanished and reappeared above her, "Whatever made you think of using the Crystal Caves beneath Canterlot?"He snapped back into the general's uniform. "I mean, using the place you were imprisoned in as your new headquarters? It's tactical genius! Who would suspect you of hiding in the very place you escaped from?!"
Twilight just ignored him as she kept walking. Blasting the Crystal Caves may have helped relieve her of the anger built up inside her, but now that she had worked off all of that adrenaline, she just felt depressed and empty, like there was a hole in her heart. And now she had no way of filling that hole.
Discord hid a grin as he watched her, his plan was working perfectly. Twilight was so depressed, there was no way she could use her Element now.
'Ehh, maybe too depressed' Discord thought as Twilight retreated to the far corner of the cave and curled up in a ball. For a moment he was worried she was going to get hysterical on him again, but she jut lay there, staring at her broken reflection in the crystal wall.
'Just like my friends.' Twilight thought bitterly as she traced the cracks with her hoof. Suddenly she felt a paw on her shoulder. She looked up to see Discord smiling gently at her.
'Now for phase two.' Discord hid a grin as he looked down at the broken-hearted young mare.
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6275441
I was parodizing a quote from Patton.
You are doing well with this.
6275459 oooohhhh
I kinda want all those dolls now.
6285545 I know, right?!
Thanks for reading!
MeadowRosePony
6294180 Wow...
Thanks for reading!
That is one odd coincidence.
6294970
No problem
Still Celestia needs to learn, and fast, she can't just not admit she was wrong and then not apologize and then continue to expect Twilight to listen to her after.
6297363 Exactly!
Seriously though, I think that was what made me the maddest about that episode's ending.
And I hated it when Celestia said,
Seriously?!? When did Chrysalis "foolishly reveal herself"? Twilight and the REAL Princess Cadance revealed her!
Was Princess Celestia seriously implying that she would have believed FAKE Princess Cadance over REAL Princess Cadance and her own "faithful student"?!?
I mean, COME ON! HOW many times now has Twilight been proved right? Not to mention her and her friends having to constantly clean up messes that should fall under Princess Celestia's jurisdiction. IS ANYPONY ELSE SEEING THIS?!?
*Pant pant* Eh Hem...Okay... I'm done ranting. Thanks for letting me get that out of my system.
Thanks for reading!
Have an Applejack
6298059
Also, Celestia's just being very thoughtless and doesn't seem to care about Twilight at all in this. All she did was
-tell Twilight her anger was blinding her (anger that was only the result of her NOT saying sorry), instead of trying to comfort her
-Not ACTUALLY doing anything to look for Twilight, as in, get off her seat and actually help instead of just relaying on her subjects while she sits and eats cake
-And in this chapter, she seems to be only scolding Twilight, even after the scene thing. And I bet if Twilight had let her speak, it would just the same thing from the first chapter-that her anger is blinding her. No attempt to comfort, no apologies, nothing. Just scolding Twilight for something that wasnt even her fault.
-And what does she say after Twilight runs off? "We would still beat you, even without Twilight" pretty much! News flash, she was taken down by a super charged queen, and couldn't do squat when Discord first got out! What was she thinking? Actually having Twilight replaced?
6306305 Thanks for reading!
MeadowRosePony
6306314 You'll find out...
6306326 Careful what you say. Discord is Discord after all...
Mwahahahaha
Discord! Get away from my computer!
6306345
Ohhh stop it...
You're making me blush...
Thanks for reading!
MeadowRosePony
6298347
I'm not sure what she's thinking. She never seems to tell anypony what's on her mind, does she?
Also, my mind reading spell doesn't seem to be working. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...
Is Sonic RainBlast supposed to be a new move for Rainbow, or did you mean the Sonic Rainboom?
6372900 It's a new move. The sonic rainboom is caused by Rainbow going so fast it creates a blast of sound and color. The sonic rainblast is like a sonic rainboom only not that fast and she's doing a karate kick instead of a dive.