Chapter 4: Discord's Guilt: Pt. 1
TWO DAYS LATER
It had been two days Since the funeral and six days since Equestria had lost Spike. Everyone was still sad, but they were trying their best to move on with what happened, just like Spike would've wanted them to do.
There was one creature who had felt more awful than anyone and found himself unable to move on. It was none other than Discord. Ever since he had heard about Spike's fate at the top of that hill, he'd never felt so guilty in his long life. He had tried to boost Twilight's confidence by banding the Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, and Tirek together under the guise of an ancient, Cornflower blue Ram named Grogar so the lavender Alicorn and her friends could get a confidence boost. Unfortunately, his plan went off the rails when the vicious trio found him out and stripped him of his chaos powers and the Princesses of their magic. Lucky for Discord, however, the Legion of Doom didn't get to overthrow all of Equestria, but that was because one of his closest friends had lost his life saving all of them. The Draconequus had no doubt in his mind that Twilight and her friends hated him unconditionally. Discord believed he was fully responsible for what happened and knew it was best not to make any contact with them again.
Hearing Discord's situation and feeling bad for him, Celestia and Luna had a spare room in the castle and offered it to Discord. He said yes without hesitation and made a mental promise to stay away from the Elements, Celestia, and Luna whenever he could.
THREE DAYS LATER
True to his promise to himself, Discord stayed as far away as he could from Twilight and her friends as well as the other Princesses. He had never felt so alone.
Celestia and Luna thought the ancient Draconequus would eventually snap out of it, but as time went on, the two Princesses noticed Discord seemed even more downtrodden with each day that passed. Finally on the third day, the royal sisters decided they had enough of seeing Discord moping around and blaming himself for something he couldn't have prevented. They decided that tommorrow, they'd pay a visit to The Friendship Castle.
THE NEXT DAY
The second Celestia woke up that morning and Luna was off duty for being Equestia's dreamkeeper, the two quickly freshened up, had a quick breakfast, headed outside, and got in the enchanted chariot that was waiting to take the royal sisters to the Friendship Castle. They landed in front of the large building where Twilight and her friends resided. After ordering the Pegasai who pulled the cart to wait for them, they both slowly walked to the entrance of the Friendship Castle, looked at each other, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.
Twilight was walking down the hall when she heard a knocking on the front door.
"I'm coming," she called as she rushed to the door.
She opened the door and saw the two royal sisters standing before her.
Hey, Celestia and Luna. What can I do for you?" Twilight asked. She did still seem a little sad.
"Hello, Twilight. May we come inside, please? We need to talk with you and your friends," Luna responded calmly.
"Certainly," Twilight smiled. "Can we discuss it in the map room?"
"Of course," Celestia replied.
With that said, Twilight rushed off to gather her friends and the Princesses headed to the map room and patiently waited inside. It didn't take them long to notice a stone chair smaller than the other six. On head rest was a picture of Spike, he was looking at the camera with a big smile. On the seat of the chair were several bouquets of flowers with a golden medal on the top, it was the Royal Advisor medal Twilight had given Spike no more than ten days ago. On the armrests sat two lit candles, one purple and one green, for each side. Below the picture sat a shiny golden plaque which was reflecting some of the yellow glow of the small candle flames. There were cursive letters carved into the plaque, they were easy to read with the help of the light of the candle flames.
Spike The Dragon
Beloved Friend, Brother, and Hero
The Princesses teared up a bit at the bittersweet sight of all the things that decorated Spike's chair. They heard a door opening as Twilight walked into the room accompanied by Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Starlight. They took notice of the Princesses staring at the Spike's adorned map room chair and they all began looking longingly at it, feeling all the good memories of their fallen friend come rushing back and hitting them right in their emotions. Not a word was said as the nine ponies all continued to stare at the perminantly vacant stone chair. If a pin was dropped, everyone would've heard it. After 45 seconds of pure, dead silence, Princess Celestia finally cleared her throat and got the other eight Ponies' attention.
"Ahem, now that we got that out of the way, there's something that I need to talk to you all about," Celestia spoke up.
"Sure thing, Celestia. What's up?" came the heavy southern accent of Applejack.
"It's about Discord," Luna started.
All seven ponies winced slightly as they heard Discord's name. If the truth be told, Twilight and her friends did harbor some anger toward Discord as they held him partially responsible for what had happened.
"What about him?" Rainbow Dash asked with a hint of bitterness in her tone.
"Well, you see, he's taken Spike's death just as hard as you girls," Celestia said.
"Hmph, I should hope so," Rarity huffed. "He's the reason why our Spikey-Wikey is gone in the first place."
"I don't even know why were even bringing him up in the first place," Applejack added.
"Because he was trying to help you. We miss Spike just as much as you all do, but clinging to the past won't do any of us any good," Celestia said curtly.
"Oh, and how did he "help" us as you put it?" Rainbow dash asked, the bitterness in her tone becoming a bit more evident.
"Remember how he realized his mistakes and how he promised to make it up to everyone?" Luna asked.
Rainbow fell silent, she remembered how Discord swore to them that he'd make it up to them, how the cyan Pegasus herself told him that, "it would have to be a pretty epic make-up". The ancient creature, however, was true to his word. He grabbed a crystal rock while trying to work out a bargain with the three fiends, eventually getting into a verbal fight with, and eventually angering Tirek to the point where the rejuvinated Cenataur tried to blast Discord. At the last second, Discord stuck out the crystal rock, Tirek's blast hit the rock, it ricocheted off of the object's reflective surface, and it ultimately obliterated the shard of Chrysalis' old throne that was subdueing Starlight in her cage, causing her to break free and the pink unicorn was able to break out every other creature. When Rainbow Dash, as well as her friends, thought about that way, they realized that while Discord may have gotten them into his mess, he managed to get them all out of it.
"Do you also remember what Spike said in his final moments about you all being hard on Discord?" Celestia added.
The seven ponies all joined Rainbow deep in their thoughts.
"Listen, please don't be too hard on Discord, alright? He never intended this to happen.”
It was painful to remember his voice and seeing him dying on the ground right in front of them, but at the same time they realized that unlike them, Spike held no ill will toward Discord and knew that the ancient creature had good intentions.
"Huh," Said Applejack. "When you put it like that, I guess he did really try to help us, he just didn't plan for the villians to betray him so suddenly."
"Precisely," Celestia said. "Discord wasn't trying to bring you down. He just didn't think it through."
"He's in our castle right now in a guest bedroom. Celestia overheard him one time saying to himself that it was best if he never talked to any of you again," Luna added.
"Well, I think it's time we paid him a visit," Fluttershy spoke up, her meek tone replaced with a determined one. "He needs to know that his heart was in the right place and that Spike, like the kind, caring soul he was, held no hate towards him"
Everypony agreed. With that being said, the nine ponies raced outside to Celestia and Luna's chariot, climbed inside, and they rode back as fast as they could to Celestia's and Luna's castle, determined to go find Discord and sort things out with him.
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That is true.
That is also true.
Well, that was easy.
Yeah right, that amoral manipulative garbage discord.
So apparently Discord felt really bad what happened to spike he never went near to Twilight or her friends because they will blame him for a Spike's death but Princess Celestia and Luna needs him to snap out of it so they went to Twilight and her friends to talk to him some of them had mixed feelings about him understandable but they need to put this behind them I'm sure that's what Spike wants and I wonder how this will work out I guess we'll find out next time
Nice story, but I not some errors.
It's lavender, not lavandar
And it's pegasi, not pegusai.
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Oops, thank you for that.
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You're welcome.
I just noticed something, my father’s birthday is on February 8th!
bruh, longer chapters are better.
Couldn't prevented my ass!
Discord whole plan made no sense at all.
Confidence in what exactly? See that's the main problem. What confidence was he trying to help them boost? You can't say it was to help her rule, because Twilight was learning all that on her own by working in the castle and overtime build her own confidence.
Fighting yet another threat to Equestria doesn't mean anything. Sense Twilight been doing that very thing since Nightmare Moon return. So what does all her past victories don't mean anything anymore, She and her friends saved a equestria a thousand times, including defeating Discord; who by far is the most powerful of all the other villans.
All Twilight needed to know was two things. How to run a country. Which is the one and only princess thing she never done, which is why she said she wasn't read
And two. Learn that she and her friends don't need the elements to use the magic of friendship. Which seems to be what Discord was really trying to teach her. But instead of just talking to her about it. He gamble with everyone lives by giving the legion of doom a chance to take over.
Spike would still be alive if he didn't do what he did in the first place. Twilight had already build 9 years worth of confidence with every villian she defeated and she learned how to rule a country and gain confidence in that.
Thus Discord plan seved no real purpose and Thus making Spikes sacrifice pointless and unnecessary.
Discord should be tried for treason and accessory to murder.
Hey, listen, everyone. I've been really busy this past week, so my 2nd part of Discord's Guilt has been moved to February 11th. Sorry for the inconvienience. Also, I made slight edits to Chapters 1 and 3 so that it would make a little more sense. Thank you.
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Please, stop making fun of Discord.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/327143/discord-dont-die
I want to feel bad for discord but I can't because he decided to play God just to try and boost twilight's confidence which never needed it because she knew that if she had her friends by her side that everything would be OK but now spike's gone and there's nothing he can do.
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I'm not making fun of him. I'm just using logical facts to explain how pointless his plan is.
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Yeah, I can see that.
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Good. So why didn't he throw the bell at the beam and fly away before it exploded?
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He wouldn't have had time to fly away. He'd have to make a U-turn instantly after the bell left his hands and he was already going too fast to stop. Let alone turn around.
That really doesn't make up for his mistakes though. Its a start but that alone isn't enough.
All it did is stop the mess of his plan from getting "worse", its not going to let him go free.
That literally doesn't make his plan ok. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
In fact his plan should most likely destroy Luna and Celestia's confidence due to his plan made them look like absolute failures once again(and on their last days as rulers. No, distracting the trio doesn't fix that). Even if his plan didn't go haywire, most likely the sisters would look like failures.
I feel like the sisters shouldn't be brushing this off on how they failed.
Especially Luna(due to she already got the short end of the stick).
Heck, I feel like they feel guilty horrible due to they failed so many times, now this time their failure caused someone close to pay the price.
In fact, they might feel horrible due to its this stupid retirement crap that led Discord to pull this plan.
The sisters really shouldn't brush this stuff aside.
You repeated "and headed outside", you should erase that.
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Thanks for that. I just went ahead and corrected that.
Discord's plan was to force four of Twilight Sparkle's worst enemies to work together to attack her.
Yes, FORCE them. He FORCED them into this plan. That they ended up willing to attack Equestria after Discord lost control of them doesn't excuse this fact. Nor that he, apparently, planned on them getting killed or worse in the process, judging by how Sombra didn't get revived by him even after he said that's what he would do. Nope, Sombra got killed, and I don't doubt Discord was ready for the other three to die as well, all to be literal cannon fodder for Twilight's ego. That didn't need boosting in the first place, as others pointed out.
I am very curious what his excuse will be here.
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he thought that she would win easily enough. He just wanted it to look good before they got their butts kicked. He had the crazy idea that it would help twilight become more confident about being in charge. She was pretty nervous about being charged. I admit that it was a stupid idea but what you expect from the lord of chaos. Chaos finds him if he tries anything.
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Yeah.
So?
What I EXPECT from a REFORMED(!) Chaos Spirit is to value the lives of others more than as simple cannon fodder. Even if they are villains.
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Smolder: Yes, Twilight was defending Equestria early on, but that doesn’t mean she was ready for Luna and Celestia to drop the bombshell that they were retiring that year. Also, he didn’t do this solely to boost Twilight’s confidence. He did it also to reform all three villains.
Smolder: Which is the whole reason Discord did this in the first place. He knew Twilight wasn’t ready and wanted to do something nice and reform three others in the process.
Smolder: And what would’ve happened if those words didn’t work? Then, what? Also, if he did just talk to her about it, Cozy would’ve never gotten a second chance. You have to also remember here that the Legion only betrayed Discord because of a book they stole on how to use the bell.
Smolder: Yet, she still seemed unready to take the throne and Discord only wanted to help out, not realizing that the villains were planning on overthrowing him.
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Raven: Yet another wise person speaks the truth.
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Raven: You always been talking about this thing with Luna and I believe the author of my stories finally thought of a way to utilize it.