Opening my eyes, I yawned and stretched before rolling out of the guest bed and stretching my wings as well.
We had all stayed up late last night, mostly talking.
Both about us and of course about the griffons. Unsurprisingly Sparks wanted to know everything.
I’m actually surprised I didn’t hear much after Twi and ‘kitten’ went to bed. But their dream portals didn’t appear until late so I very much suspected more than cuddling went on.
Grinning to myself at that idea, I started down the stairs, keeping quiet. Not that Luna and I didn’t spend most of the time in similar activities. In the dream realm, of course.
I moved carefully, not wanting to wake either of them.
Now for the real goal… tea!
Heading for the kitchen, I quickly brewed myself a cup of black tea I found in one of the cupboards. Sparks wasn’t much of tea pony so she didn’t have much variety home.
We were going to stay here for a couple of days and then all head to Canterlot for Hearth’s Warming so that meant I needed to go find a source of tea. Rarity should have a source, I needed to visit her anyway to find a present for Luna. Kind of short of time this time around which I kind of felt bad about, but things had been a bit hectic.
As I poured my cup, I headed out into the main room, the library. Grinning, I looked around. There are some massive pros to living in a library!
Smiling to myself, I walked among the shelves until I found a copy of the latest Daring Do book before heading to light the fireplace with a spark of magic.
“I don’t understand, how do you do it?” a sudden voice asked behind me. I give changelings all the credit for me not jumping and screaming like a little filly, after years with them I’m basically immune to jumpscares. Seriously, my tea didn’t even spill.
I turned to look at the mismatching pile of parts in the general shape of an elongated eastern dragon laying across the back of one of the armchairs, “What do you want, Discord?”
He looked at me before he slipped down from the chair, “I’m curious. You are spread chaos, yet they love you. Why?”
I blinked at him, “Chaos?” I asked before I frowned and glanced down at my tea.
Maybe should have asked before picking something from Sparks kitchen to drink. For all I knew, this was ‘special’ tea from some experiment or whatever.
Discord shifted, flowing to peer at me from centimetres away, “I’m a being of Chaos, you shine of it. You always have. You Change Things.”
I frowned at him as I sat down, sipping my maybe tea, maybe something else as I looked at him. He didn’t seem here to cause trouble, at least not intentionally, so I wasn’t about to antagonize the most omnipotent being around just because I didn’t like him.
“…You’re talking about the timestream,” I finally said as the maybe caffeine got my brain in the game, “Me arriving in Equestria changed things in unpredictable manners.”
Discord disappeared in a flash before reappearing again, this time with his arm around my shoulders, “Indeed, my prime primate. You were not meant to be here. I can feel the world changing, has changed.”
I glanced at him, “Without me, Tirek would have won. I hope you realize that he would have betrayed you in the end. Equestria, the rest of the world would have been his playground.”
Shrugging, Discord shifted back, “Perhaps. Wanna find out?”
“Not particularly, no,” I admitted.
Discord laughed and floated into the air, “But I do! And I know how! Something is coming, and it can show you.”
With that he snapped his fingers. The air in the middle of the open space in the middle of the library started to shimmer before he disappeared in a flash of light.
Oh fuck.
Setting the cup down, I readied myself, “Sparks! Sunny! Get your tails down here!” I yelled quickly.
There was a snap of displaced air and suddenly there was a massive round crystal table sitting there on the floor, tall enough to reach my neck and maybe four pony lengths across.
I blinked in surprise.
What?
What did a crystal table have to do with me not being in the timeline? Why did he… what did any of this have anything to do with me spreading chaos?
Frowning to myself, I slowly approached the table.
This didn’t make any…
Suddenly the air above the table crackled, a blue portal snapping open. I quickly took a step back and charged my horn as I spread my wings, ready to throw myself out of the way of any danger.
The portal stabilized and out fell…
Twilight Sparkle and Spike.
I blinked in surprise. The Twlight on the table rubbed her eyes and sat up before startling when she spotted me, “Wha…” she started to say.
Amber jumped in front of me, wings buzzing as she hovered, “Sir, get ba…”
That’s about as far as she got before the alicorn on the table screamed and cast a spell. Amber threw up a green shield, but it was like tissue-paper against a firehose.
Before I could reach, the beam of force smashed Amber backwards and into and through the closest bookshelf.
Motherfucker!
Casting myself to the side, I spun illusions in all directions before returning fire with a spear of ice.
Dupli!Twilight scrambled and shielded before throwing another spear of force towards one of my illusions.
The fight was on, spells going all over the place and I did my absolute best to not be where those spells hit. She was strong, as strong as the real one. But worse, she didn’t have Sparks training.
Ice spell towards the left, she’ll shield and then…
I charged a teleport, teleporting onto the table before throwing myself forward, tackling her as she reappeared from her teleport and I quickly hit her with my strongest sleep spell.
She threw it off like nothing, sending me flying with a shockwave of force and I hit the closest bookshelf, knocking it over.
Ow.
Okay, that’s it.
I started to pick myself off the bookshelf, spreading my wings for balance.
No more mister nice pony.
“WHAT IN EQUESTRIA IS GOING ON HERE!?” Sparks yelled as she charged down the stairs, Sunset close behind her.
Dupli!Twilight paused and picked herself off the floor, looking between us all, “What?”
Still a better love story than... Wait...
Dunno if thats a bad thing if 'Kitten' is involved.
I don't know why "canon" twilight would show up. Your timeline wasn't caused by what's-her-face messing with things.
So now it's when Starlight got Starswirls Time Travel spell and altered it and used the Cutie Map to try and go back in time to alter history but somehow on a return to the present they got sent here to the Hiver Equestria instead.
Discord you asked how Page got away with it and you did not, well this is why.
Gah! That was so good! I got goosebumps reading this chapter, can't wait to see what happens next.
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If the 'time' spell was basically actually a Sliders spell, then it makes sense, with the reversion being Starlight accepting her original reality.
Now things are getting interesting again.
That was unexpected.
Dis gon be good.
Ooooooohh. This is gonna be GOOOOOD!!!
What a clever back door to canon!
Hiver! You magnificent Brony!
Note to discord: This? Right here? This thing you just did? This is why they hate you.
D*****, Discord! Why u do dis?
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Are we sure this is Discord's doing?
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I imagine that Travis Morgan would feel quite at home here.
So this is the shoot first, ask questions later Twilight.
You don't know how to occupy the time before next major plot point?
Ask Discord!
Okay, this was truly unexpected. I cannot wait to see what you have up in store for us!
Okay... I was just wondering where the story would go from here, worried it would slip into the more typical ruts of a shipping fic.
And damn of you didn't slap me in the face for having wavered in my faith in you!
Oh ho HO, this is gonna be interesting
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To be fair, she has been jumping back and forth in various alternate timelines, and at least one of them had Chrysalis and her changelings conquering Equestria, and the first thing she saw was a changeling only a few meters in front of her after being in a fight or flight scenario with Starlight, so the adrenalin was probably still running through her veins
O.O
OH NOES! MY LUV STORY! IT! GOT! PLOTED!
Please continue. This is rather interesting.
Ha! Was wondering how, or if, you were going to do this plot given Starlight was already taken care of. Rather brilliant to tie it directly into the canon of Twilight hoping timelines.
You have opened the scary door.
Okay, now you get your thumbs up back, Mr. Typo King-lord-master-person!
Hijincks are a go!
Well that just happened
So did Discord just fuse two timelines together or what? Either way this is gonna be a weird ride.
well buck this just threw the hole story upside down and shook the crap out of it.
the purple plot has been doubled
You know, I had almost started to think that this story didn't have anywhere else to go. Glad to see I was dead wrong, this is brilliant! Can't wait to see what cannon twi thinks of the pageverse, keep up the great work!
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Nah, It looks like Discord just dragged a canon!Twilight during her battle with Starlight to Pageverse.
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That can't be it. If Discord had just pushed her into the Pageverse then there would no Friendship Castle. Either Discord merged it into this universe or he transported Page to another universe.
Canon-Twilight was getting pulled back to the table each time. Discord seems to have yanked the table into the Pageverse library. Or maybe conjured the local version out of the chest - they do have that in the Pageverse, although they still haven't opened it yet. Something about Twilight not having had her test yet since Tirek didn't live that long.
Canon twi is gonna get it mahahaha
Huh,i did not see that coming. Virgin Sparks vs. Sunny Sparks next chapter?
More please
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Do you really need the third one?
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The Hurdy Gurdy is a fairly complicated and expensive musical instrument.
It's clearly being used as a pun for Page's now-forming herd of marefriends, which would also be a fairly complicated and expensive thing in our eyes (even if all of the mares in it are totally worth it!).
It also implies he'll be playing them like an instrument.
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Yup indeed
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Welp, had to guess that myself. Instrument is indeed quite complex, but I never thought it's hard to play, though. Not like I have any experience.
And now he have to deal with two Twi. <_<
Ha that was amazing and completely unexpected
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It is pretty clear that Pageverse Twilight is still there.
And Crystal castle thing is just a sort-of manifestation of the upgraded EoH.
MEANWHILE....
Sunburst: Starlight? What are you doing?
Starlight Glimmer: *hiding under a massive pillow fort* I felt something...like I'm going to be hurt and maimed for something I didn't do...or was gonna...do??? I'm not exactly sure but DON'T HUG ME! I'M SCARED!
Moar please
Very interesting! The lack of the friendship castle made me completely ignore this possibility! Well done!
Also, regarding this part:
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You do know is more then our universe and there universe there is infinite universes and discord may just opened portal and sucked the table twil and starlight or gone to canon and fucked with time, you never know unless the chaos God tells you
Skips internal screaming, and just lets it all out.
Discord, buddy! How have you been?
So Twilight and Spike from the show-timeline appeared in what I'm calling the Page/Alicorn of Imagination Timeline.