A secret so super-secrety-ultra-sequecy-secretee-secret-classified-secret secret, that not even the Princesses, not the Elements of Harmony, not even Fluttershy knew of it.
His brother.
Chaos ensues as said sibling pays Equestria a tiny visit, intent on questioning his brother. Nothing will stand in his way. Not the Princesses, not the Elements of Harmony, and certainly not the pony who reformed his brother.
Then again, he is unpredictable, like Discord. There will be explosions, wacky adventures, crazed puns and fourth-wall breakers where the two siblings wreak chaotic havoc across Canterlot and Ponyville.
Oh! Don't forget the Pinkie Pie-level parties and craziness!
Rating and tags will change according to Trinity's preference. Be Warned.
"He really means it--" Shut up.
Post Season 4 finale.
Anthro ponies.
T for language. "And Violen--"
I said shut up Disarray. Don't make me unleash the Author Pen thingy on you.
"DISCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD!" The call was the only warning before a massive avalanche of marshmallows, jawbreakers, and other sweets thundered towards the peaceful town of Ponyville,
Said Lord of Disharmony looked up, a look of shock on his face as if someone had slapped the expression onto his face. "That can't be right... that voice..." he muttered, his face now a scrunched up mix as he tried to figure out the source of the call. The avalanche thundered on unhindered, and it was only Twilight Sparkle's quick eye that saved the town from being buried under the sweet-treat landslide.
"Pinkie! You're on!"
The moment those words left Twilight's lips, a pink blur swept past, her mouth poised to consume the entire avalanche.
"OM NOM NOM NOM!"
"NOM NOM NOM NOM!"
"NOM NOM NOM NOM!"
After those three sentences, not a trace of the massive sweet landslide remained. Not a single jawbreaker, marshmallow, or lollipop in sight. "Pwah! That was really sweet! Can I have more?!" said the pink pony, flailing her arms about wildly. Her mouth was coated in sweets, but she didn't seem to notice as she kept on running around, the overdose of sugar increasing her adrenaline levels to the extreme.
"Discord!" called the purple unicorn, hands on her hips in a serious manner.
Said Lord of Chaos appeared in front of her, a serious expression plastered on his face like plaster. He sparked a hammer and chisel into existence, and cracked the plaster mold, revealing his face.
"Let's cut straight to the chase. Why'd you do it?" Twilight's finger pointed at him in an accusing manner.
The draconnequus's expression was one of utmost seriousness, one most people would never see. "Twilight Sparkle, I suggest you alert the Princesses. I shall come and explain the situation personally." The moment after, he flashed away, leaving a piece of paper behind.
Twilight, stunned by the sudden order, caught the paper.
It displayed only one sentence.
"My brother has come to town."
A Few Moments later...
"Discord, what is the meaning of this? What do you mean you have a brother!"
The entire counsel was in chaos, throwing questions in ever increasing voices and speed at the Draconequus. However, his serious expression did not recede, and became even more stony than before.
"Quit your antics and TELL US!!" demanded Princess Celestia, her glare hot enough to melt the stone mold off Discord's face.
He was unfazed, still serious. "As dear Twilight here has told you, my brother has come to town."
"You had a brother? We thought you didn't have any parents, much less siblings." said Princess Luna, a worried look spreading across her features.
"That is a secret I preferred keeping. But it seems that the secret itself wants to be revealed." Discord flashed a picture into existence, one that featured said Draconequus in a childish form, with another, darker colored one right below, balancing the young Draconequus on his head.
The Discord in the picture was tugging at the mouth and eyes of his carrier, a mischievous smile on his face.
While Discord in both the picture and now was slender and snakelike, akin to a serpent, the other could pass as a dragon.
With a white goat beard, bushy eyebrows, and antler horns, it could partly pass as Discord's double, excepting the normal azure eyes as opposed to the irregular red ones, as well as its talons supporting the young Draconequus, instead of a lion's paw and an eagle claw.
But the twinkle of madness and mischief in the dragon's azure eyes was so much like Discord that the Princesses shuddered slightly.
They all shared one thought: If they decide to play a prank...
Discord circled the black thing with a red marker. "This is my older brother, Disarray."
"You mean, what you could do, he can do better?" asked Princess Cadence.
"Precisely, and more. I daresay even with the power of friendship, he will be hard to subdue."
"What about us?" asked Princess Luna.
Discord nodded approvingly. "He is powerful, but I doubt he can stand against the full might of the Princesses and mine, adding the POF."
The last part drew a frown from Princess Celestia and Luna. "Are you sure? Fighting your own brother... that is a traumatizing experience." they said, speaking from past experience.
The Draconequus laughed. "Ohoho, you dearly underestimate me, my dear Celestia. He and I had fights all the time. Over who could make the most tear-able puns," -- He tore a piece of paper with the word PUN on it -- "who got to play hopscotch on molten lava, or dancing at the edge of Equestria singing a song about champions. This is no different, except on a more... personal level..." He trailed off, a somewhat sad expression on his face.
Twilight set a hand on the Draconequus's lion paw. "Can't he be friends with us? Fluttershy helped reformed you, so--"
"Twilight, you little pony. How little you know about my brother. One of his prime reasons for coming here would be to question my conforming to pony society." said Discord, settling a talon over the purple pony's hand.
At her confused gaze, he explained, "My brother and I were avatars of Chaos, although he was more... chaotic than I was. My own power was to bend the fabric of reality and the laws of nature and physics, but my brother could... erm... what's that word which is viral nowdays... make all laws of reality his b****. Oh dear me, pardon my tongue."
He stuck a bar of soap in his mouth, and gurgled. It elicited a chuckle from the princesses.
"Discord, this is a nonsensical question but, is your brother unpredictable, as you are?" asked Princess Luna.
The Draconequus looked dumbstruck, before erupting in uproarious laughter that echoed across the room. "Oh! Oh my Princess Luna. What a nonsensical question indeed! Yes, he is unpredictable, even more so than I am."
However, the princesses did not reply, their gazes seemingly focused on something, or someone behind Discord.
The Draconequus looked confused.
"Was it something I said?"
"It appears so, brother."
The draconequus's gaze slowly turned, his head rotating completely to stare at the source of the voice.
"Disarray? Brother?" asked the Draconequus, too stunned to say anything else.
The Princesses were just rendered mute. Whether it was the being's meddling or their own shock was not certain.
A voice, deep and gravelly, sounded from the being.
"Hello Discord, it's been some time."
The Draconequus looked around, feeling the wild, chaotic aura of his brother all around the room.
"It takes quite the amount of chaotic power to utterly freeze time, but then it is only temporary. I don't suppose you know why I'm here?" rumbled the dragon, slithering out of the shadows.
Disarray hadn't changed physically, from Discord's own memories.
A sheen of dark gray scales adorned the dragon, with white hair traveling down the spine of his serpentine body and ending with a tail tuft exactly like the Draconequus's own.
"Do enlighten me." said Discord. Disarray rose onto his hind talons, and snapped his claws, disabling the time freeze. "Can't use much more now. Jeeze, and I rather liked that rumbling voice." said the dragon, his voice noticeably more lighter, but still a tad deeper than Discord.
The princesses only took a second to regain their senses, and when they stared right at Disarray, who fixed them with a mischievous gaze, they all charged spheres of magic on their horns.
"Now now, there is no need for violence." started Disarray, slowly stepping back. He tripped on a stray stick, conveniently placed there by a certain prankster, who was grinning with utter glee.
"Discord you little shi--
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
Discord was currently laughing his own head off, the body part prancing about while the body frantically searched for the head. "Ohohoho! I've wanted to try that prank on him for centuries! And his reaction was just... priceless, HAH!"
His head rolled about some more, before his body picked it up and set it carefully on the stump.
"Hmm? Am I hanging from the ceiling? Everything's topsy turvy."
Giving his head a smack, he righted himself. "Ah, there we go..."
A serpentine shadow slithered out of the cloud of smoke where Disarray had been. It coiled around Discord with startling speed, and the black color peeled off, revealing a rather pissed-off Disarray. "Of all the pranks you could have played on, why the laser?!" He hissed, glaring at the Draconequus.
"It seemed fitting..." choked out Discord, his breathing slowly being constrained.
Disarray sighed in exasperation. "You'd better watch out then brother, you never know when someone is going to shout you out of existence." He slipped away from the Draconequus, making his way towards the four princesses.
He stopped before Celestia, taking in her shocked expression. He scratched his chin, finding a flaw in it. "Ah yes, a smile." Setting his hands on the edges of her mouth, he stretched it into a rather awkward imitation of a smile. He stuck tape to the sides to ensure it didn't drop into a gasp again.
"Perfect."
The princesses chose that moment to snap out of their shock. "How did you escape that - " started Princess Twilight, only to stutter into a halt as Disarray looked into her eyes with his azure own.
"Confusion, anarchy, discord, disarray, chaos, lose control, go insane--" All sorts of chaotic thoughts and instincts entered her head, and her mind began to crumble and shatter under the sheer force of discord.
He infected her mind with chaos, watching with glee as her eyes slowly began to revolve around, the chaos slowly driving her to insanity. "Go on my little pony, embrace chaos. It's too easy." whispered Disarray, chuckling darkly, his personality taking a sudden twist.
Discord himself did not make a move to stop him; his brother was too skilled and unpredictable for even him. He instead contorted his face into a sneer, and watched on.
Twilight's eyes kept on spinning and spinning, her mind dissolving in a similar swirl of madness and chaos.
"Bah, too boring." Snap!
"Huh?"
Crossing his talons, he took a step back.
Twilight shook her head, ridding her mind of any lingering thoughts of chaos. "What was... that?" she asked, glancing at Disarray.
"His influence. He infects people with chaos, turning them into twisted dark forms of their former selves. It's also how he gets his power." said Discord, standing next to the princesses. "Masks anyone? The germs won't get into you through the mouth and nose then." He handed out masks to each. "Trust me, they won't explode in Poison Joke or anything. You have the word of the Lord of Disharmony."
The accusing looks were not convincing.
Disarray grunted, his patience having waned. "Ugh, enough pleasantries and pranks. Discord, you and me are gonna catch up on some family time."
"Wait, what--"
"SKADOOSH!"
In an instant, the dragon had snatched up Discord like an eagle on its prey, spinning around the Draconequus and disappearing with a flash of light.
The princesses were flabbergasted again at the sudden actions of the dragon. The silence was broken, surprisingly, by Cadence. "That was rather... exaggerated for a visit."
A sigh escaped the other three princesses. "That is putting it lightly. I dread to imagine what would happen if he had came along with Discord all those years ago when Luna and I encased him in stone." said Celestia, shivering slightly.
"Even with our alicorn might and the Elements of Harmony combined, it still will be hard to subdue him. Discord said it himself." Luna shook her head, slightly in despair.
Celestia sighed. "As much as I hate to admit it, the fate of Equestria lies solely on Discord's shoulders. If Disarray truly has the power to literally wipe Equestria from the map, we are in peril."
Twilight shook her head, a determined look on her face. "I believe Discord will convince his brother. If Fluttershy could reform him, then Discord surely can reform his brother!"
On Discord's Thinking Tree...
"One pony? One single pony became your friend, and you conformed to pony society? Father Chaos would be rolling his eyes right now, but since he's encased inside this planet I suppose that is a challenge." said Disarray.
The two beings of chaos were seated on one branch each. Discord was sipping from a cup of tea, bees constantly pouring honey into it. Disarray was simply wrapped around his branch, one hand juggling his eyes.
Discord chuckled at his brother's antics. He still took some things literally.
"You should at least try brother, it's not like it will vaporize you, eh?" The draconequus's chuckle was silenced when he noticed the dragon's serious gaze. The last time his brother was that serious, Equis split into three prime lands, one of them Equestria.
"If the EOH hadn't turned you to stone centuries ago, I would have done it personally, and painfully for suggesting such a thing." growled Disarray, the tree slowly shriveling from the chaos leaking from the dragon like a pestilence.
Discord chuckled nervously, a tad shivering from whatever tort--prank his brother had in mind.
The dragon sighed, as if resigned to a fate he had no choice in. "Well, Father Chaos isn't due to rise for another six million years, not unless he gets a triple dosage of chaos enough to ravage Equis completely. I might as well make some good use of it. I've gotten bored of spreading chaos."
It was a wonder Discord's jaw was still on his face.
"Oh, excuse me." His jaw fell off his face like a loose screw.
Disarray chuckled, catching the dislocated jaw with his tail. "Why so serious?" He carefully set the jaw back properly on Discord, chuckling as he did so.
"Hagnalaf Fag nah?"
"Whoops."
"Hummana Hummana?"
Disarray's eyebrows took a noticeable drop. "Now that's a low blow Discord."
The two draconic beings stood silent for a moment, before exploding in uproarious laughter that spread chaos for miles around. The shriveled up tree pulsed with life, and grew a couple feet.
"It's been too long." said Disarray, resting his head on the branch.
"Ohoho, too long indeed." said Discord, his eyes glinting with mischief.
Snap!
"DISCORD YOU LITTLE SH--
"Now now brother, mind your language. We don't want foul words to corrupt our innocent readers, eh?"
"Well, as you can see here, this dragon is my brother, Disarray." said Discord, awkwardly gesturing towards the gray dragon, who was waggling his talons as if in preparation for some unearthly prank or insane plan to literally wipe Equis from the map.
The princesses glared at the twiddling dragon, mistrust and anger clear in their eyes.
The draconequus chuckled in amusement. "Oho, knock it off! He only tried to take over Twilight's mind! Albeit messily..." He flashed beside the purple alicorn, broom in hand, and stuck the hand holding the broom right into her ear. Her eyes twirled, snapped, and shifted there and here while Discord was... cleaning out her head. Finally, he pulled out his hand, and a plume of dust and smoke came with it.
A couple coughs came from both Discord and the princesses. "Oh golly, what a mess your head was." noted the draconequus. He glanced at Disarray, who watched with a perfectly innocent expression.
The serpentine dragon chuckled in amusement. "Oh come on, lighten up! It didn't last! That's a good thing!" he said, coiling around the lavender alicorn. "And even if it did..." He tickled her chin, chuckling darkly. "It doesn't matter to me one single bit." he murmured, now holding her chin, forcing her to look at him directly in the eye.
I'm omni-temporal. And omnipotent. Why should it?
Despite facing dangers like Tirek, Nightmare Moon, and Discord himself, nothing prepared the newly-formed alicorn for the sheer insanity now present in the dragon's eyes. She could not sense any magic of the sort emanating from Disarray, yet the madness in the dragon's eyes almost turned her into a shivering mess. It was only because she had faced a similar sight before, which was why she was able control herself.
The dragon melted into a puddle, reshaping himself beside Discord. "So, where were we?" he asked.
The sudden change from insane dragon to a happy go-free dragon nearly made the princesses shiver. He truly was something else, unlike anything the sisters and Twilight had ever encountered.
"Ah, yes. My little Dissy Brod was introducing me, wasn't he?" Discord visibly blanched at the nickname Disarray referred to him.
This also snapped the princesses out of their stupor, looking at the draconequus with equal parts amusement, shock, and unbidden confusion. "Dissy Brod?" they uttered as one.
Disarray leaned his head to the side, evidently confused. "He didn't tell you? Why is that? I thought friends shared no secrets. Isn't that the, 'Magic of Friendship', as you all call it?" he asked, his body now coiled up like a spring, his face and hands in a familiar, patented I'm Thinking pose.
"Brother... introductions..." From the side of the draconequus's mouth had sprouted another mouth, which was whispering harshly into Disarray's ear.
The dragon bounced up, smashing into the ceiling and back down again, unfazed but looking rather guilty. "Oh, dear me! I digress too much. Introductions are certainly in order."
With a clap of his hands, everything went dark. A spotlight came out of nowhere, showing the dragon in a mystic splendor. His scales glowed with a dark, maligant light. His eyes were doorways into anarchy. Even a look could drive a normal pony mad. His mouth was open in a grin. All this added into an image of nightmarish properties.
The microphone did not help. And he was wearing a suit with a top hat, and pointy leather shoes.
When he spoke, it was distorted and warped, making it a little difficult to make out the words. It may have been the microphone.
"I am Disarray. First-born of Chaos. The World-Eater. Anarchy Incarnate. Chaos Embodied. Arbiter of Concepts. Keeper of The Gates. The Steward of Darkness. Master of Tartarus. Bane of Faust. The Bringer of End. The Unspeakable. Spinner of Despair. The Eidolon Puppeteer. The Sovereign - What the..." The dragon tapped his microphone, his voice now normalized. He cast a glare at Discord, who was waving a power cord at him.
I was always one for dramatics. Got that from Pops.
"No techies allowed, brother! It's not time yet!" he called.
In response, Disarray set the microphone to his throat, breathing in deeply.
"Sonoru - Oh, come on! Give me a break!" he yelled, the microphone now a smoldering mess of wires and metal. Discord had his finger out, energy dancing around it.
The draconequus waved the finger, chuckling. "Ah, ah! No magic spells either!"
The dragon tossed the microphone at Discord in obvious anger, which the draconequus dodged easily. "Go bother someone else! Like Cthulhu! Or Yog-Sothoth!" he yelled.
All the while, the princesses watched with equal parts amusment, horror, confusion, and obviously, suspicion. One with as many titles as his is bound to have had a part in every danger until now, would you all agree?
Discord replied, unamused. "You and I both know they are bad company. Not so good on looks and personality. Things they both inherited from that idiot ancestor of theirs. Only TCC is fun to talk with."
Disarray sighed in annoyance, snapping his fingers and resetting everything. With another snap of his fingers, he also erased all memory of those names from the princesses' minds. He did not need a Great Old One rampaging on this planet again simply because one had mentioned a name. If they even tried to mention Hast - he immediately banished the thought.
Gathering himself together, he propped his chin up on a hand, examining the princesses' reactions.
Celestia had already recovered from the show.
Luna had mostly recovered. Her eyes were still slightly spinning.
Twilight was... she was still hopelessly lost.
A little spark of respect crackled in the dragon's eyes. They were no slouches when it came to recovery, except for the lavender one. Snapping his talons, he erased the confusion in her mind. As they refocused their gazes on him again, he spoke. "Now that you all know who I am now."
He closed the distance between them in a heartbeat, coiling around them like a tentacle. "It's time you all showed me, the Elements of Harmony..."
It's not like it'll be of much use in the long run.
