Chapter 45
I waited with the rest, Sunset was sitting between me and Sparks, on Sparks other side was Mirror Twilight. Luna and Celestia was talking quietly to the side of the table.
The rest of the Elements were on the way to Canterlot along with Starlight Glimmer, and Fluttershy were bringing Discord. The Twilights had been working through the night, and still discussing spell equations but they were fairly stuck.
Hope right now was that Discord could send Twilight and Spike back to their rightful place. If that didn’t work, that’s why Starlight Glimmer was coming as well.
Sparks was hoping our Stalin Glimmer could give some insight into the spell. I was dubious, most likely was that Twilight’s Starlight Glimmer had stumbled onto some sort of ancient spell than figuring it out on her own.
…but I also didn’t really want to give the crazy mare any ideas.
“So, think it’ll work?” Sunset asked me quietly.
I sighed, “I hope so.”
“But you don’t think so?”
“…not sure,” I admitted, “I think Discord might have the power to do it, he got her here after all. But I don’t trust him to not fuck it up somehow.”
“Well, there is that.”
We got spared more discussion by the doors opening and Rarity leading the group inside, Discord trudging around behind her next to Fluttershy.
The two Twilights jumped up and quickly made their way over to them. I made my way to follow them over, Sunset bringing up the rear,
Just giving the Elements a smile and a nod as they crowded around the Twilights, I made my way directly to Discord, “I get it,” I told him, “Me being here changed a lot of things. You made your point. Now send them back.”
He looked between me and the Twilights before he shrugged, “Well, I’m sure I could, but where is the fun in that!” he said with a grin, “This is great! Twice as much book-horse!”
“Discord!” Fluttershy exclaimed and turned to him, “That’s not very nice! Her friends are waiting for her back home!”
The chaos god grumbled, “Fine,” and raised his hands before he frowned and looked at his hand.
“What?” I asked him.
Discord hesitated, “Well… I didn’t actually bring them here,” he admitted, “I just redirected their spell from where it was going. I could… maybe send her back, but I have no idea where to send her.”
I gaped up at him and Twilight rushed over to stare up at him,
“What!?”
“The spell parchment was your anchor,” he explained, “It tied you to the stone table, that’s why you always landed on one when you arrived even if there wasn’t one where you was going.”
He sounded like he was making a lot more sense than normal. Sadly, I didn’t like anything he was saying.
“Are you saying that even if they remake the spell parchment, she can’t go back?” I asked slowly as I took half a step back.
“…Don’t know. But I can’t send her back as it is…” Discord admitted and crossed his arms, floating slightly off the floor.
Twilight made a small distressed sound, her eyes widening as she slowly sunk onto the floor. Sparks and Celestia quickly moved up to her, Celestia putting her wing over them both.
Sunset snarled at him, “You were wondering why nopony like you!? This is why!”
Discord shied back and then disappeared in a flash.
The rest of the girls stuck close to the three Princesses on the floor, Luna hovering close as well. Fluttershy looked distressed about the entire thing and I couldn’t blame her.
She was his friend and he just did something… well, evil to one of her friends. Alternate version of her friend anyway.
Seriously, making Fluttershy cry was like kicking a puppy, it was just wrong. I had to say something even if I didn’t know her that well.
I moved up to her, “Fluttershy, It’ll be fine, Twilight is the smartest pony I know and now there are two of the…” I started to say before I trailed off.
What?
There was something… what? As I got closer to Fluttershy, it felt almost like I was going crosseyed for a second, seeing a super imposed image. It was still Fluttershy, but I got flashes of fluffier ears and bat like wings along with red eyes and fangs.
She looked at me and both versions of her blinked, “Lord Page?” she asked. One version of her looked almost like one of the batpony illusioned guards of Lunas Guard.
What in Equestria was going on?
Whatever it was, this was the completely wrong place to alert everypony on a possible impostor, so I sighed, “…I’m sorry about Discord, Fluttershy. But I’m sure we’ll figure this out.”
She hesitated and raised a hoof a bit off the floor, shying back a bit, “…He’s supposed to be better now.”
“Yeah.”
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Stalin Glimmer 10/10 exactly how I feel about her
Did Page just see Fluttershy as Flutterbat?
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I think he did. What could this mean I wonder?
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Maybe he's seeing things from the other Timelines that Canon-Twilight has been too, after all Flutterbat could have been one of Nightmare Moon's guards and there could be a 'Lord Page' in that timeline too.
Needs another editing pass.
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Getting a new beta process after this story.
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That's a good possibility. I am sure we will find out somehow in a later chapter.
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I'd be happy to help out if you want.
That's never a good sign...
See exhibit A.
The double image of Fluttershy almost sounds like Mirror-Twilight is causing a localized effect, bringing her own "timeline reality" into this one. If that's the case, it might provide the means to find Mirror-Twilight's own timeline and by extension, a location. Namely Flutterbat.
A different result could be timelines blending/overwriting each other but I'm fairly confident this isn't a [dark] story with someone ceasing to exist from a paradox. On the bright side, when you play with time, you can usually get back the moment after you left so to everyone else there, you were never gone despite the hours or years spent elsewhen.
I think at this point they really should have a trial for discord i mean what he did just did is many shades of bad. Know if he could just teleport alt twlight back home thats fine hut he cant
Uhoh........
At this point Discord is more trouble than he is worth keeping around, he needs to be either re imprisoned in stone, sent to Tartarus with his powers sealed up, or just straight up executed.
This chapter possess one major imperfection: not enough of lovesucking shapeshifting bug-ponies.
Seriously Twilight need to meet Skitter and Chrysalis.
Otherwise great chapter as always.
So...what this chapter is REALLY telling us is that alt. universe Twilight is going to get together with this world's Luna and Page's harem will increase by another pony through Luna.
You can't fool me author, with your Flutterbat red herring. I see exactly what you're doing.
On another note, Discord doing something and realizing later that, "oh yeah. Maybe I shouldn't have done that" Is very "him". Props for that.
Uh oh. We got some wibbly wobbly time wimey problems going on here.
Something something flutterbat something something future plot point something something.
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oh yes twiprime meeting skitter and chryssy, especially with her can-do attitude. I still love the chapter where skitter stood up to her authority and chryssy gave her a hive.
Is Page the key to the multiverse?
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Well, it would be more fitting if it was talking about Starlight Prime, but it was the one that didn't communize
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Yep. It's never up to us to pass judgement on others.
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Seconded!
This. Must. Be. A thing!
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And also why I don't like the character even after being reformed. It's not so much him being reformed as it is 'What can I get away with doin?'. If the only thing that keeps him in check is the favor of one pony that's not being reformed. Honestly I'm a fan of Delancey and like Q but could never stand Discord.
...I'm sorry, but this made me giggle for a full twenty seconds.
So.. is Flutters a Vamp with a pony illusion/disguise?
Why would Flutterbat be superimposed on Fluttershy, and why would this be manifesting as the usual timeline instability trope?
"Bats!" was resolved in Season 4 Episode 7; Tirek was defeated at the end of Season 4, so "Bats!" would have happened in Pageverse, too.
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I feel like people are a little too harsh on Discord in this story and in the comments. Despite his appearance, Discord is mentally a child. He's selfish and prone to act without thinking, but he isn't malicious or outright evil. He's also entertaining to watch. I remember when he first showed up, he made a glass of chocolate milk, drank the glass, then threw the milk and it exploded.
I feel like in any world of order there needs to be someone saying, "F*ck yo sh*t. Imma make this table a pizza with goat legs." Chaos and Order balance and all that.
9234984 But what he did was remove someone from their timeline just because he got jealous of someone doing his job better without even doing any harm to anyone and still make friends. He burned pretty much every bridge he got so it is about time he gets his comeuppance and either get imprisoned back in stone again or sent to Tartarus for eternity.
I am also waiting for Page to walk up to Celestia and tell her 'I told you so.' and walk off, Page knew that Discord was more trouble than he is worth, Luna knew it as well but Celestia has her blinders on and thinks that Discord is of use even when the first thing he did was join with Tirek and nearly brought Equestria to ruin not once, not twice, but three times.
He used his three chances, its time for him to pay the piper.
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Discord is minimal above thousend years old, very probably much older. It's no way he could be still ingorant to standards of morality and society after such long time, unless he actively don't want to learn this, what is morally questionable itself.
He was consciously fu***ng reality while watching others screaming and protesting and he was ignoring it for sake of self-amusment. During Twilight travel through different timelines he was clearly showed humilating Celestia and Luna for fun.
Joker is too, but it mean he isn't monster?
Discord is hardcore chaotic neutral character with strong chaotic evil tendencies. Here he never get Tirek's betrayal medicine, so he still is villain with morality pet in form of Fluttershy.
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Considering your response I'm guessing you don't know who Q is. Quite simply Discord is almost everything about Q done wrong. Same powers almost the same abilities but the Q half the time has a good hidden reason beyond sh*ts and giggles and realizes when he's f*cked up and either cleans up his mess or gets the Enterprise to do it but he does see to it that it happens. Heck one of the canon Star Trek games is about him taking your character through time to save a federation ship and ends with him transferring the ship at the time it's destroyed to the future to avoid causing problems while saving everyone. Everything about Discord is just a poor knockoff of Q with the exception of Fluttershy. Q is chaotic neutral leaning heavily towards good while Discord is straight up chaotic neutral leaning towards evil. He enjoyed the suffering of others too much. There are stories on this site that handle his redemption in a manner that makes it believable or altered how he handled his reign/escape even providing good reasons for what he did. Those versions are awesome but canon Discord was originally written to be an all out villain. The reason for his redemption was a lot of people enjoyed the reference to Q and/or are Delancey fans and it was the only way they could make use of Discord as a semi-regular character instead of a villain.
TLDR; People liking the concept of Discord doesn't make the canon version a good being given his track record and reasoning for his actions.
I mean, we've already established that timelines can branch off from the canon, so bringing the alternate Twilight here was probably a safer bet than having her teleport randomly and ending up in a horrid situation. Seriously, give Discord some slack on this one, it isn't that bad.
Stalin glimmer?
Gotta admit it made me chuckle.
KEK
He is, but he's still a maturing godling who has yet to fully understand that actions have consequences, and that when the consequences are the result of someone like him acting without thought the problems born from them are not so easy to fix
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the higher existence a being is, the more severe and damning the consequence to any action. or, the greater the result from any action-good or bad
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Problem here is from the places in the show she could come BACK. She DID - before the TREE destroyed the scroll. Here... Discord is such an asshole. The world were the other Twilight is from is now without an Element of Magic. Forget her faimly, who have their daughter MIA, possibly KIA, forget BBBFF, who lost his sister, forget her five friends - who will never again have fun with Twily. Forget Celestia, who lost her second student. I haven't read the latest-latest story, and so far Twiligth is stuck forever here. Discord really needs to have a new one ripped. Painfully.
Quote from an Avengers cartoon.
"This is no mere mischief, Loki. This is evil..."
Tried to find the clip, couldn't.
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Not to mention her cult's ideology and how she was running it too
YEAH!!! Bats are forever!!!
Were and was somehow managed to get swapped throughout the entire story, and not even consistently.
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English isn't their first language, and in their mother tongue Was and Were are the same word so it's tricky for them
Two Spike's still no development time for any
You can torture kill blow up entire cities but kicking a puppy is just pure evil even your most loyal minions will see you as a n evil villain if you kick puppies
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... that's actually a very astute observation. In the long list of "(and Spike)" fics, this is now "(and two Spikes)". That's just saaaaaaaaad.
Damn... Did Blank Page learned to see through illusions or Shapeshift? Would be quite impressive.
the horror 
Sooo... Discord is on the leash of another Hive?
The horror
Guess the comment section has to take over Spikes development...
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Indeed... Comment section need to unite to unmade this plot development hole!
Flutterbat is best pony.
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