Chrysalis couldn't believe her bad luck. First, what she thought would be an easy meal ended up slapping her across the face. Second, she met the stallion who used his love magic to evict her and her hive from Equestrian soil. Third, she just got tackled and sent flying by a massive earth pony stallion.
She was almost amazed at how much she could think of before she made contact with a tree, face first. She shook her head in an attempt to clear her head of the pretty little birdies circling it, growled and stood up and faced the stallion. Discord gasped and harrumphed in a poorly executed attempt at not laughing at the changeling queen. Big Macintosh snorted a small cloud of smoke from his nostrils and hoofed the ground impatiently.
With a victorious ”Eeeyup!”, Mac charged once again toward the changeling. Chrysalis rolled her eyes and sidestepped. Big Mac charged past her and headbutted a tree instead of harming the queen. Discord burst out laughing, slapping his knee and fell down to his back, rolling around whilst barely being able to breathe. Big Macintosh collapsed after his stylish move.
Discord looked up to see Shining Armor and Spike glaring at him. Discord sighed and snapped a claw, teleporting himself to stand next to Chrysalis. Discord cleared his throat and hesitantly gave her at pat on the back.
”You do realize that you have pretty much no chance at all with defeating us, right?” Discord raised an eyebrow. Chrysalis opened her mouth to retort, but was silenced as Discord held a claw to her lips. ”It was a rethorical question. First thing's first, I'm Discord. Spirit of Disharmony, God of Chaos and I look damn good with sunglasses.” He snapped a claw and the aforementioned headwear appeared on his face.
”That little fella over there...” Discord pointed at Spike, who crossed his arms, puffed out his chest and glared at Chrysalis. ”He's pretty much princess Celestia's son. I shouldn't have to point out the fact that he's a dragon, which means that he has quite a short fuse and he can do a nice trick with that flame of his.” Discord lowered the glasses and looked straight into Chrysalis' confused eyes. ”He can send anything to Celestia... Anything...” He whispered. ”Oh, and I should mention that the lavender unicorn you sent down in the crystal caverns beneath Canterlot is also pretty much his sister.” Chrysalis gulped at that.
”The next participant in our merry little gang is prince Shining Armor of the Crystal Empire.” Discord grinned. ”I believe you lovebirds have already met before in a more... Controversial setting...” Discord pointed at Big Mac, who was standing up on shaky legs. ”That freight train of a pony is Big Macintosh Apple, also known as 'Big Mac'. If you have failed to notice, he could easily find out what's in your head with a well-placed punch.”
”Alright, I give...” Chrysalis muttered and scooted away from Discord. ”I will not bother you anymore with my presence, so I shall take my leave at once.” She started walking to the treeline. She looked back over her shoulder at Discord.
”I never heard from you again afterward, Dissy...” She said with a sly smirk and disappeared into the heavy shrubbery.
”What was that about?” Spike raised an eyebrow as he asked Discord, who was whistling innocently.
”NothinginterestingreallynowcomeonwemustcontinueTALLY-HO!” Discord continued down the path at a brisk pace, not looking back at the ponies and the drake. They glanced at eachother momentarily, chuckled and followed Discord.
”Let's not tell Cadence about this...” Shining Armor begged. ”You wouldn't want to know what she said she would do to that changeling queen the moment she got her hooves on her for destroying her wedding...”
”Deal.” Spike nodded.
”Eeyup.” Big Macintosh nodded.
”Awesome.” Shining Armor smiled.
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire palace, princess Cadence's ear flicked unvolintarily and she froze.
A guard noticed her sudden behaviour and voiced his concern. ”Your highness, is something wrong?”
Cadence blinked. ”No... Well, I don't know. It feels like something I really should know about just happened somewhere...”
As night fell, the odd group decided to set up camp next to a small creek. Discord had spawned a few tents and supplies. ”So... How long is it until we're at that temple?” Shining Armor asked. Discord ran a claw through his beard.
”Well... If we continue at the same pace as today, we should be by the temple around this time tomorrow. But in order to do that, we'd have to get going early in the morning.” Discord shrugged. ”I would recommend that we would go around half the distance left tomorrow, so we can relax and prepare ourselves to face off against that draconequus, whoever it may be...” He sighed. ”Let's just go to sleep and worry about it tomorrow...” Discord trudged into his tent, leaving the rest mildly confused.
Discord laid down and put his talons beneath his head. He hated to admit it, but he was afraid of who, or what he would be facing in the temple. He feared that the draconequus could be one of his childhood friends... He shuddered and closed his eyes, sighing. It didn't take long for him to fall into a restless sleep.
He heard somepony tap their hoof to the floor slowly. He opened his eyes and took a look around, only to see that he was in the throne room back in Canterlot. It was obviously a dream, but a strange one. ”Wait a minute... If I'm dreaming, who was tapping a hoof to the floor..?” He thought. The answer came as somepony cleared her throat and Discord gulped, coming face-to-face with nopony else than princess Luna.
'Oh crap...' Discord forced a smile. ”Well hello there, dear!” Discord looked around nervously. ”How are you here? I mean, this is my dream, right?”
”You seem to forget that I'm the princess of the night, meaning that I protect my sister and I's subjects as they sleep, helping them handle nightmares and so forth.” Luna took a daring step toward Discord and poked her hoof to his chest. ”You better have a good reason for ditching me like that after what happened...” Her ears splayed back.
'Dammit, I knew that I forgot something...' Discord thought bitterly. ”Don't you worry, Luna. I got this under control. I translated the text on the note that was in Era's room. Her foalnapper wanted to get to me by taking from us... And to make things worse, the one who sent it is a draconequus like me, possibly with the same strength as me or possibly stronger then me...” Discord sighed. ”It's currently waiting for me at the Temple of The Matrina.”
”Where is that exactly?” Luna asked, ”I will dispatch a unit of my lunar guard and join them on their way to you.”
”No!” Discord raised his voice without even noticing it. ”You will stay in Canterlot, because this is my mistake. I pulled Era into this mess, and I intend to face what I have done, only so I can save my daughter... I don't know what could happen... I just...” Discord wrapped his talons around Luna, who started stroking his short mane in an effort to calm him down. ”I just can't lose any of you again...”
”It's okay...” Luna hugged him back. ”I'll stay in Canterlot and do the best I can to keep you updated of what's going on in our end, as long as you stay in touch with us. All you need is some kind of paper and Spike can send it directly to Celestia.”
”That's good to know. I promise that I'll let you know as soon as I get Era back.” Discord nodded.
”So, did anything interesting happen on your way there?” Luna asked. ”Have you encountered some kind of monster or anything like that?”
Discord's eyes shifted from side to side. ”Uh... No. We've been lucky so far, we haven't been attacked or attacked any monster. Nope.” He scrunched his nose.
Luna's eyes narrowed. ”I get a feeling that you're not being completely honest with me right now, Discord... Is it something you want to tell me right now?” She took a step forward and Discord gulped.
”You see, I really should get some proper sleep now before we head out again tomorrow early in the morning... ” Discord smiled sheepishly. ”So... I'm gonna go ahead and take my leave now. I'll keep you and the rest back in Canterlot updated on our progress as we go! Ciao!” After giving Luna a peck on the cheek, Discord faded away.
Luna sighed and her ears fell back. ”Be careful, Discord...” She closed her eyes and focused her magic, taking herself back to Canterlot where she would continue her duties.
Wait............what happened between them two?
Procrastination, why put off today what you can put off tomorrow!!
2431806 have I ever told you the definition of
insanityprocrastination?2431895 My definition of insanity is as follows: An insane person is not a person who has gone crazy, bent on destroying the world, no that person is not insane,in fact that person is Sane, and here is why. An Insane person is one who falls into a pattern, everyday doing the exact same thing, at the exact same time, of every single day. An insane person ceases to live, they just exist in our realm of life. so then comes the question...if this person just exists, bottling up any and all emotions...what would happen when they snap...? that is a very scary thought....
2431929 An insane person is someone who does whatever makes them feel what they want to feel, no matter what the effect on others it has. For an example, a person who is insane and like to hear the sound of screams would have no trouble going out on a slaughterfest, not caring about others.
But that's just my opinion.
2432082 well no, thats just psychotic, a physco forms their own little world in which only their rules apply, this lets do whatever they want. An insane person loses himself comepletely. The difference here is a psychotic person is born out of extreme depression and solitude (most cases). Insanity is born out of the norms of everyday society. that is the major difference.
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The TRUE definition of insanity is doing the same exact thing, the same exact way, over and over again and expecting a different result. For example, walking into a brick wall, and every time you walk into it, you expect to go through the wall. Or repeatedly hugging a cactus, and each time you hug it you expect it not to hurt the next time you hug it. Or looking in the pantry/cupboard/cabinet for a snack, not finding one you want, then closing and re-opening the cabinet repeatedly, expecting a snack you want to magically appear in the few seconds that the cabinet was closed.
2432211 thats what i was trying to get to but yes in a sense, i basically described insanity in its begining stages. but i am correct when i say it would be scary to see if that person one day snapped...i'd take a car over that any day...
2432211 I see someone plays Farcry 3.
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I have never played Farcry 3 in my entire life. I have heard the games title before, but beyond that I know nothing about that game.
I am being honest.
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THe original quote about the definition of insanity comes from Albert Einstein. Not everyone who uses good quotes is a devoted gamer. Some of us are just erudite.
2432211 but the crazy part is: that that is possible take the cupboard and the snack, this could be one of the harder ones to prove my stament as it requires the uncertancy princeable (you cannot say with 100% certancy where a partical is at at any given time) its theoretically possible that after opening the cupboard and finding no snack one could reopen it and find the snack (although the the probability that a single atom will teliport to the other side of a brick wall is so little that one would have to wait longer than fourteen Billion years for it to theoretically happen twice [the universe is only around 13 billion years old])
a cactus' prickles may have follan off during your previous attempts and so this time may not hurt you
oh and that saying: if at first you don't succeed, try try agen
2432169 2432224 by your definition i think im going insane, cant you hear the voices too? what even scarier than a total emotional brake down? feeling your sanity slipping day by day, i dont want to wake up to be a jibbering mess
oh Celestia do i love ponies
YES
yes i do
(no im not going to post adorable Pinchy hugs image)
no im not typing this to seek attention, i just typed (no, just no) whatever came to mind(s)? (shuld that question mark be inside the paerethasis
2432763 the easiest way to overcome insanity is simple, change up your lifestyle. a simple example could be : everyday you wake up, go to the bathroom brush your teeth, take a shower, and eat breakfast. if you truly are going insane, than something simple as changing up the order in which you do those 3 things can help, for instance you could take a shower, eat breakfast, then brush your teeth, and vice versa. Honestly im over simplyfying things, but its the same concept. If think you are going insane, plan for something different, do something wild on the side, go skydiving, cliff diving, hang gliding, find a girlfriend(or boyfriend) do all those things i mentioned with said girl/boyfriend. insanity is easy to cure...but hard to accomplish.
2432644 Yes, but what is more likely. A person heard that from Farcry 3, a popular game that is somewhat infamous in today's culture, or as a quote from a dead guy?
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Depends on who you ask and what audience.
Until I used it in a story and someone mentioned the reference, I'd never even heard of the Far Cry series, let alone knew that Far Cry 3 used it.
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Although I have no idea in the slightist what you are talking about with the "snack and cabinet" thing, I can comment on the other two parts.
-If the cactus' prickles were to fall of it would mean that the cactus was dead for the prickles to fall off that easily, and I personally would not hug a dead thing, mainly because of all of the insects sucking at the dead things rotting corpse. Also, the only ways that the prickles would have fallen of would be for them to have been knocked off. If you were to hug the cactus, the prickles might come off that specific area, but they wouldn't fall to the ground. They would stay stuck in you, meaning that anything you hugged until said prickles were removed would still be painful.
-As for "If at first you don't succeed, try try again," that does not perfectly apply to this scenario. If you didn't succeed the first time, it's because you did something wrong, so you are going to do whatever it is to get to your goal in a different way. The thing about insanity is, it doesn't come with the giant figurative sign that says in big bold letters, "HEY, LISTEN! YOU JUST SCREWED UP WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO DO, SO THAT OBVIOUSLY IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT! TRY DOING IT A DIFFERENT WAY!!!!". It's like putting a random doorway in the middle of a empty field with a sign on it that says "Free cookies on the other side of this door", but whenever anybody touches the doorknob they get shocked. A sane person would try turning the doorknob, but would get shocked and say "Maybe I shouldn't go through the door if I want the cookie. That would hurt," then they would walk around the door to get the cookie. An insane person would try to turn the doorknob, and would get shocked, but they would say "I want a cookie, so I am going to open the door. I would never get shocked twice for touching the doorknob." So they would grab the doorknob again, only to be shocked with electricity. So they would say to themselves, "I want a cookie, so I am going to open the door. I would never get shocked three times for touching the doorknob", and so on and so forth.
2433054 nah, im insane and by touching the doorknob with a claw made of grass I got me a cookie
the true version of insanity is thinking far out side the realm of acceptable plausibility, like if one was to say that the easiest way to make a cold person warm was to start them on fire or vice versa, I'm frankly quite insane but think way to much about every little outcome of every little thing, wrong or good. insane people think too much, sick people and sane just accept.
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However, you didn't do it the exact same way as you did it the first time, so therefore the insanity of the situation has been negated.
I like cookies.
2433398 ahh, but insane people Ignore the simple logic and keep trying ways that a sane person would be like "why not just go around", instead they find more creative ways of getting around it than the obvious solution. and I indeed love cookies too.
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I personally would walk around the door, but ignore the cookies. Then I would somehow deactivate whatever is putting electricity through the doorknob, walk back on the side of the door I started on, only then would I walk through and grab a cookie. Or I would Spartan Kick the door until it broke and then get the cookies the sign promised me. Both ways work.
I decided to put cookies on the other side of the door for a special reason. Originally, there was going to be a pie on the other side of the door, but then I realized that I prefer cake over pie. Then I realized that the cake is a lie, so I decided to go with pie again. That was about when I realized that people would think that the pie was attached to a spring, so people would think that as soon as they opened the door, BAM! Pie to the face. So I looked for other sweets to put behind the door. I eventually came down to either cupcakes, brownies, or cookies. Cookies come in many different varieties, so I decided that that was the best bet. Then I found five dollars in my back pocket.
To understand the above paragraph to the fullest extent, you must read it as fast as you can in 's voice. All you have to do is replace the word "dollars" with "bits", and replace "back pocket" with "pocket dimension".
2433632 but not all people are that gullible, but it would be funny if you did put both cookies cupcakes and pies on the other side then when the door is opened they have to choose which is the best in order or else they will get a life time supply of rubber chickens so they could open the door and get more see the point?
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Although I would like a lifetime supply of rubber chickens, it was only an example. I didn't want it to be TOO complicated.
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I have no idea of what's going on in the comments...
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It is like watching youtube videos. The recommended videos at the beginning are directly relevant to whatever it was that you were watching, but then half an hour later you are watching something that has absolutely nothing to do with what the original video was. That is basically what happened.
Also,
And this is out now...
Fucking yes.
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”I never heard from you again afterward, Dissy...” She said with a sly smirk and disappeared into the heavy shrubbery.
”What was that about?” Spike raised an eyebrow as he asked Discord, who was whistling innocently.
”NothinginterestingreallynowcomeonwemustcontinueTALLY-HO!” Discord continued down the path at a brisk pace, not looking back at the ponies and the drake. They glanced at eachother momentarily, chuckled and followed Discord.
What's going on here ?
And also...Thank you for the new chapter
I think your stories are
the first Discord ones I've liked
and having him with Luna makes
just all the better!
This is good, although I must admit I was hoping to see Chrysalis join the team. It would have been a lot of fun to see her messing with Shiny, and her power could definitely come in handy.
Also, I am wondering when the next update will be because it has been a very long time since the last one came out.
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I'm writing it, but it's incredibly slow to write... And I got a case of the procrastination.