Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
Casting Sweet Casting
[ Seshat, One Week after the events of Our Town, nearing the end of summer.]
Twilight let out a sigh as she looked over her notes, trying to organize them.
She was not proud that she had a panic attack at a crucial moment, but then again that was the issue with panic attacks, she couldn't control them. It had been a while since she had even had one. Really with everything that had gone on in her life, that she had not freaked out more was more surprising than anything else.
Rahs and Spike both were hovering over her for a few days and she finally had to physically throw them out of the room she was in one day to get any peace. Thankfully they got the hint.
And just sicced Seshat on her.
At least the tree was quiet most of the time.
Granted Twilight planned to have the tree keep an eye on Spike when it was just him and Applebloom here so quiet helped.
They trio were still settling in, most everything was moved in now, though the Mayor had argued that a large number of the books that Twilight took from Golden Oaks library , belonged to the Library.
And by a large number, the Mayor pointed out there were no books in the library.
Mayor Mare was not happy with Twilight's insistence that the mayor needed to stock the library either.
With the fraction of her collection returned to Golden Oaks were they were supposed to be Twilight had searched the tree to find a spot for a lab.
She had found a fairly large room in one of the root areas that formed a basement. Twilight was fairly certain that the area was on the other side of the great hall from Rahs' theater, and Seshat had informed her that the area was reinforced from any explosions that might happen.
The fact her new home talked didn't even rank on the weird meter for her any more. It was just one more thing to adjust to.
Twilight paused a moment as she thought about that. When exactly did her perception of what was normal get so skewed?
“Oh right. Dscord.” Twilight considered.
“You rang?” Dscord stated, stepping out of a door that wasn't there before to a chorus of canned laughter and cheering at his arrival.
Twilight took a few more notes on her work, unphased.
“Hello Dscord. I might have, but not intentionally. Did you need something?” Twilight offered moving a few pages to read a note she left before on the formula.
“Well.... that was a lack luster response. Still, not sure I like the new digs you moved into, makes me itchy. I take this is the fabled Familiar spell you are working on here?” Dscord questioned, suddenly wearing a lab coat and large protective goggles as he looked over her shoulder.
“It is....” Twilight considered. “I don't suppose...”
“No.”
“No?”
“That spell was put together by Law. It's not something I can mess with or would even want to.” Dscord huffed. “ I've had enough 4th dimensional ulcers lately, thank you very much.” Dscord huffed.
“Hmm, figured I would ask any way.” Twilight sighed continuing to work. After a moment of Dscord standing there not doing anything but knitting a scarf with his thumbs Twilight sighed again.
“Dscord I'm going to lay this out to you. It has been a very bad few weeks and if you are here to cause trouble I am not in the mood for it at all.” Twilight pointed out.
“Mmm, so I have heard. And before you ask, yes I hid from Tirek. Do you really want to see what he could have done with my power?” Dscord questioned. “I mean, no one wants to see what 'I'
can do with my power most of the time."
“No. I expected that though, given how many other gods fled, but why are you here?”
“What?! I can't come and visit to see your new tree house?” Dscord mock gasped.” To be fair I liked the other one better, though this one is much more roomy.”
“I suspect you can. But I also suspect you didn't.” Twilight offered.
“You know. You are making it very hard to have fun with you.” Dscord huffed.
“Don't care.”
“Fine. I came by because I have a favor to ask.” Dscord harrumphed snapping his lab coat away.
Twilight paused her reading, and set down the paperwork to look at the God of Chaos. This was going to require her full attention, particularly since Dscord had been...subdued since he got here.
“And what is that?” Twilight questioned, certain she was not going to like this.
“Simply put, if you encounter the Sirens again, I would request that you do not go full Sparkle mode on them.” Dscord stated. “Better still I would prefer if you just ignored them and left them alone.”
“WHAT?!” Twilight jumped up on her back hooves smacking her fore hooves on the table, her chair falling over behind her.
“I'm asking you this as one god to another, to let them be. Drive them off if you have to, but don't hurt them.” Dscord asked simply snapping Twilight's chair back upright, though the wood was a bright blue now.
Twilight stared at him a moment before sitting back down and taking a moment to calm herself as Dscord sat there while she composed her thoughts.
“Okay.... you do know what those three have done right?” Twilight demanded.
“Yes.”
“And the amount of damage they did?”
“Also yes, it was only slightly more than what usually happens when a fight breaks out in this town on a Tuesday.” Dscord pointed out. “This town is great like that.”
“Ponies could have been hurt or even killed during that riot they caused.” Twilight snapped.
“No. I stopped that.”
“What?”
“Sparkle I highly enjoy this town and most of the ponies in it. “ Dscord waved a clawed hand. “And let's face it, corpses don't make much chaos. I do my best to make sure I don't create any no matter how weird it gets. I also made sure that when you lost it, your attacks didn't hit anything important.”
“I knew you were involved in that! What, did you create them and turn them loose to spread more chaos!?” Twilight growled.
“In a manner of speaking.” Dscord smirked.
“Dscord those three are dangerous, and like everything else we've encountered they need to be put down.“ Twilight growled her ears flattening to her head. ”You're going to have to give me a very VERY good reason to ignore them or worse, let them go if I meet them again.”
“They are my daughters.” Dscord stated.
Twilight stared at him a moment her eyes narrowing. “You're joking.”
“Not about this no. I generally do not joke about family as I have so little of it.” Dscord offered his usual jovial tone darkening. “And despite my asking for a favor in this, if you actually managed to 'put down' any of them as you say, you will find that you would much have preferred if I stayed a mere annoyance rather than the direct enemy I would become.”
Twilight continued to stare at Dscord.
Dscord stared back.
Twilight turned away first.
“They're not Celestia's are they?”
“By the stars no. Sun Butt was my rebound girl after their mother and I split due to.... differences of opinion.” Dscord frowned waving his paw in the air, the brief moment of tension gone.
Twilight rubbed her temples. “As much as I feel I may regret this. If I am able, I will 'TRY' to avoid maiming them. That said if they managed to seriously hurt or even kill any of my friends or family....”
“Yes, that in itself is the issue.” Dscord sighed. “I am trying to give them the freedom they want, but at the same time I really should reign them in more. That said I have warned them to stay away from you, hopefully they will take the hint and I am keeping an I on them at the moment.”
“I feel like that was a pun, but I don't know why.” Twilight grumbled.
“That's because you are still a dabbler in the art of chaos.” Dscord grinned.
“Right. If you can keep them in check and away from Ponyville we'll be fine, I won't actively go to stop them, though Seshat has decided she's going to send us out on various missions when something goes wrong.”
“Who?”
“Me.” the tree offered from a wall.
Dscord raised an eyebrow.
“She does that. She's Harmony's child.” Twilight explained.
“Ahh and like the Elements he's got his daughter doing a bit of spot cleaning. Typical really, worse still that he's got to lean heavier towards order since Law is still missing.” Dscord nodded.
“I've heard that before, what do you mean missing?” Twilight asked.
“Really i don't care if any one finds her. Simply put though no ones seen her for a long time. I think the last any one heard of her was when Tamberlane was still around.” Dscord considered.
“Tamberlane?”
“Home of the goats, and rather funky cheese. Not all the goats mind you, just the Rupicaprinae, which had their own god apart from Billy. Great guy billy, will eat anything. I gave him the nickname , matter eater lad, but no one gets the joke. The Rupicaprinae were supposedly wiped out in the Shadow war, but they were all dead quite a long time before that.” Dscord nodded.
“Hold on I don't recognize the name, but the Rupicaprinae were still trading with the buffalo right up until a group of Dreadnoughts destroyed their village in the mountains.” Twilight frowned.”Iinii was quite sure of that when I spoke with him about his history.”
“Oh yes, they were still moving around and trading all the way up to the point Solomon was killed.”
“You just said they were dead.”
“Yes.” Dscord grinned. “But enough about that. I'm glad we could come to some sort of arraignment. Though if you'll excuse me I need to go turn Applejack's orchards into cupcake trees.”
“One tree.”
“Calling in the favor already?” Dscord shook his head.” On such a little thing too.”
“Not at all. Just change one tree, and have the spell move to another tree every once and a while. If she finds it she'll be annoyed it vanishes before she can deal with it, particularly if all she finds are fallen cupcakes. And if it moves she can't eat the magic to make it stop if the spells not where she thinks it is.” Twilight explained.” You' have to figure out how to hide the scent yourself, but she can't smell or taste the magic in the apples she's helped grow personally.”
Dscord blinked.
“I'm still not happy with her about the whole ankle biter scenario with Tirek.” Twilight explained further.
Dscord smiled. ”I knew there was a reason I liked you.”
With that the god of chaos vanished with a snap.
Twilight sighed and shook her head a little. This was something she hadn't expected, though having Dscord on her side or at least viewing her favorably was good. And it was a interesting thing to know those three were his kids. Not that she knew what to do with that information. This did explain why he hadn't been around pranking any one in a while though.
She also wondered why his name sounded odd to her today.
Shaking her head Twilight looked back to her notes and stopped dead, one eye twitching.
The perfectly laid out and organized notes that she wrote in black ink, were still perfectly laid out and organized as before.
They were just now all in red ink.
“DSCORD!!!!!”
My sides are in orbit!
Dscord ndeed. XD
As to the Sirens, I'm still kinda hoping it's Sonata, and not Glimglam who ends up as Rahs' 6th girlfriend, the purple maniac doesn't need that sort of attention.
Discord being written as Dscord throught the chapter made me imagine Twilight was talking to a giant Nintendo DS
Dscord must be flying blind here, since he seems to have lost all his 'I's.
It could be worse, Twilight.
All your notes could be in Comic Sans now.
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I didnt notice that till i read your comment
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No, he's just keeping it on the Sirens, like he said.
At least with the Golden Oaks library still existing to serve as the town's public library, Twilight has no excuse not to give the castle decent security so certain wanted criminals with stolen time spells can't just walk in.
(I mean, we know she still starts up the time travel shenanigans, but she should at least work for it this time.)
How would this Twilight react to her canon counterpart? the neurotic mess that she still was without Rahs. The twilight that doesn't treat Spike as an annoying brother but assistant.
A cupcake tree?
Pinkie thanks you!
That pun made me cry out in pain irl. I actually took some psychic damage from that
I take the missing letter across the chapter was his doing? But I still don't get the point.
And it still didn't explain replacing 'eye' with 'I' either.
Another thing I noticed was why this lone sentence was not in red?Seemed to be corrected already.
Never change Discord, never change
Discord has an i in it
Ok, I'll admit seeing Discord be chaotic in any fanfiction isn't unusual, but dear lord, this chapter's punchline was amazing, especially since I didn't even notice the missing I until the end. Bravo TDR, this world is the epitome of "Crackfic taken seriously" and I utterly love it for it
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Intentional, as he is keeping his i on the Sirens
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Ohhh ok thank you for explaining
Both for the usual "Keeping an eye on your just about to hit puberty younger sibling and his girlfriend" reasons... and to make sure they don't find a way to create anti-matter or something.
Well, if looked at in a certain way, as the Princess of Books, don't all books ultimately belong to her in some fashion?
WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh.... interesting. So what did Luna and Tia's mom want to keep around?
I love that 'Full Sparkle mode' is a thing. And Discord.... you have not built up anywhere near enough goodwill or owed favors from her to pull that one off. Not unless you first get the fishies to knock off doing things that will piss off the Why-Isn't-She-The-Goddess-of-Anger-Issues.
Yes, yes it is.
..... okay that.... that is a very good reason there.
Wait..... he?
.... oh...... oh no...... ohhhh crap that cannot be good..... and this went from "Law is just off doing somethingand ignoring things" to "Oh fuck there's a very good... and also very BAD reason Law is MIA."
Yeah.... that's what happens when your god is also the God of Necromancy.
...... Yeah this Twilight is much more sinister then canon Twilight..... and I am fully okay with this.
Sometimes.... it's the little thing that troll the best.
So... more mention of Tamberlane, and this time in the context of one of the most important Gods on the planet having last been seen there before disappearing..... oh this is building up to some very not good thing. Yeah, totally expecting the season 9 big bad to not just be Discord doing something well meaning but very poorly thought out.
As for the ep.... given this was a choice to move and not dealing with the tragic lose of the place they called home for the past several years... yeah the main plot was never going to happen. Still nice bit of exploration of the castle, some great character stuff between Twi and Dscord, and some foreshadowing drops. Very nice.
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This is Twilight Tuesday Sparkle, by all rights the simple fact it is her home should be all the security needed. Also the Castle being sentient kind of helps with that as well.
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This Twilight is way more neurotic and has much bigger issues then canon Twilight.
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Yes, but he said the he is keeping his "i" on his daughters.
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Dscord's keeping his i on the sirens. Think about it.
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He said he was keeping his "i" on his daughters.
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Because I'm so used to reading poorly written works of fiction, It took till reading this post, before realizing Discord was miss spelled the whole time with the missing I, cause my mind just corrected it in my head automatically.
Holy stars, I didn’t realize it!
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Same, I didn’t catch it until Twilight did, then I double-checked to make sure it was consistent.
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O...kay? I could see the relation ...somewhat.
Dscord should get an i-patch for that missing i.
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It's a pun. He's keeping his i, litterally the i in his name, on his daughters, so it's missing from the text.
i am liking Twilight and Discord respecting each other this is going to be a grate story.
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Meanwhile, back with the Siirens...
Now that I say it, it reminds me of the Star Wars Legends clone saga naming scheme.
Okay, the missing 'i' took a while :D
It makes me wonder. Is it Adagiio right now? Or maybe Ariia? I'm not sure how you could stuff an i into Sonata ...
Good ol Dscord.
Twiggles knows how to be a magnificent bastard sometimes
Ya cheeky bastard
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Soinata
Discord comes and asks Twilight for a favor... while also mercilessly trolling her. As expected.
I wonder if Twilight got the context that the sirens' mother would react differently to her daughters being around. Twilight should have asked for a direct line to Aqua in exchange for not maiming them. Discord could have added a side condition that she would not use that line unless the sirens made a move against Ponyville again. Oh well, wasted opportunity.
Oh so that's where it was this chapter
That is very concerning
He knows what he said
That's because he's keeping an I on his daugthers
I wonder if anyone's done a "Disco RD" joke yet.
I literally got to the end of the chapter before I realized the 'i' was still missing and I am royally pissed.
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I'm imagining that Starlight will probably not be playing around with time... I can't imagine White would much appreciate it, He'd probably be there waiting with a bunch of Vorpals (and Angel) and cut that shit right out.
I get it! A impressively obscure episode, but for some reason it flashed through my mind just earlier today (or maybe it was yesterday? hard to keep track when even my brain stops doing things in chronological order).
Now waiting for the situation that requires dissapearing reappearing ink.
The punchline to this chapter was brilliant. Bravo!
Discords power legitimately has me with a headache....
Somehow I saw the I in his name until I got to
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So I guess I'm the only one who remembers the Sparkle sibs encountering their map table time traveling selves in a previous season?
We already know she's going to pull off the time travel shenanigans. The only question is the specifics on how it all goes down.
Not sure if there was an error at the beginning because the whole Dscord thing threw me for a loop.
Here it is. Twilight.
Edit: Just realized I read all the chapters already.
Better keep an eye out for that I. Might be watching you. Hehe puns
For a sec I thought, "Why didn't Twilight wonder who the Sirens' mother is?" Then I realized that would require Twilight to wonder who Discord copulated with to create the song fishes and I was like "Ahhhh, yeah I wouldn't try to imagine Discord copulating either."
Comes to think about it. Does Mayor need to look for a new town librarian too?
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I would make them right justified and throw some badly programmed auto-hyphenation in there too.