Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Discord sighed as the violins playing random music and the chaotic nonsense of his chaos realm was fast losing his interest and attention. He couldn’t really believe it, but random nonsense things that made little sense even to himself were losing their charm inside his own realm. The chickens with pony heads had clucked for hours, everything that had been upside down before like a portrait of a famous artist pony was now right side up and was simply boring that way. No pony had visited or knocked on the upside-down door to his realm all day. Not even his beloved Fluttershy had swung by and all the chaotic things going on around him could not stop him from a sigh of loneliness.
Discord wondered how long he had been meddling with things inside his chaos realm, but it wasn’t like there was an accurate and working clock inside his realm and to summon one just because he could somehow didn’t seem helpful. He found himself stroking his beard with his lion paw with sad frustration that nothing seemed to be amusing him. Maybe, he needed a pony friend to hang out with, but who?
Discord snapped up a purple sofa and sat on it and then snapped up a ball of pink yarn and began to knit something completely random without much care or thought as he dwelled on who he could hang with.
“Hmm,” he started to ponder as he searched his mind.
“I could hang with Fluttershy, but she hasn’t even wanted to visit me today. That means she’s likely with another pony friend of hers or away somewhere,” Discord commented to himself. He felt lonely again and just knitted a little bit more with his pink yarn to take his mind off that thought and concentrate on who else he could hang with.
“How about Twilight? I’ve always enjoyed appearing at random in her castle and given her a fright or a scare, but she’s so smart, she always has a quip and is somehow ready for my appearances,” Discord commented and growled and he remembered Twilight never seemed best pleased by his random appearances. She didn’t understand that his random appearances were sometimes with the intention to make her laugh or to surprise her in a good way and not to get on nerves. Discord eliminated Twilight as the pony he would hang with as he began to think of others he knew.
Somehow Rarity came up next in his thoughts as he was tempted to scramble something with a whisk as he felt his mind was a bit scrambled. However, he didn’t whisk anything and instead knitted a bit more and decided to take a little more time to think about hanging with Rarity.
“Hmm, likely she wouldn’t be best pleased to see me either, but perhaps me and her have a bit more in common than me and Twi. I’ve heard about the manipulative way she leads on poor Spike to think he might date her one day, plus despite her fancy talk and dress sense, I wonder if her way of speaking actually hides a more manipulative trait,” Discord pondered with seriousness.
The knitting process sped up as he considered this option. Still, Discord knew he had to consider Rarity might gab on about fashion and dress sense, plus she had views on sophistication too that would bore him half to death. Still, perhaps if he got her to speak about topics he liked and maybe played to what he felt was a cunning side of her that knew how to capitalize on Spike’s affections for her, maybe they could get along. Then, the idea no longer appealed to him and he briefly stopped knitting and moved on in his mind.
Applejack came to his thoughts next. Like Twi and Rarity, she would not be best pleased to see him appear onto her farmland or in Sweet Apple Acres. Discord sighed as he judged by the time she had stopped being frustrated and using her country voice to yell and belittle him, he would not fancy much to hang around her. While, he quietly respected her honest and hardworking attitudes, it did come with flaws like a severe dislike of any pony who interrupted her chores without good reason.
Discord briefly considered he could appear to her while she was managing her apple stall in town during market hours. There away from her farmyard chores, she might talk to him at least a little as she might be tempted to get him as a customer to buy an apple. At least there would be a chance to have a decent conversation with her and that appealed to him. Still, he really had no clue when market hours were and without opening the upside door in his realm to Equestria, he had no idea what time it was either.
Discord sighed again and noticed while thinking about spending time with Applejack, he hadn’t knitted at all. The idea of being around her simply didn’t seem appealing enough as he began to knit again just to feel a void of feeling a bit disappointed.
Discord decided to check the time outside of his realm before considering Pinkie or Rainbow as he felt if it was late at night, then the only ponies still awake might be his bookworm friend, Twilight, and Princess Luna. Discord simply didn’t know any other night-owl ponies other than them and he had already eliminated Twilight as he snapped his talons and appeared at his upside-down door to his realm.
Discord yawned as he opened his door, something made feel it was likely night time outside of his chaos realm, but a startling bright light soon changed that feeling. Discord growled as he hated when his feelings were wrong about something as sunlight pierced past his door and into his realm.
“Typical,” he snorted and reluctantly poked his head out to get a more accurate measure on the time of day.
The position of the sun suggested it was around mid-day, but he could also see clouds lurking about in the skies of Ponyville. It appeared Rainbow Dash had slept in or was taking a mid-day nap. He knew she only did that if a big Wonderbolt event was coming up or she had been active for a long time the day before. Otherwise, she would be awake and she would lead the weather team to clear up the clouds.
“Hmm,” Discord pondered as a wicked idea to prank her appealed to his mind. No pony had even seen him exit from his realm yet or so he thought.
“Hi,” greeted Pinkie with a smile and a wave.
Discord grumbled, she had interrupted a forming idea about pranking Rainbow Dash and that made him displeased to see her.
“I was beginning to think I wouldn’t see you around this morning,” Pinkie chirped and kept up a mischievous glint in her blue eyes.
“Why would you think that? It’s not like Fluttershy hasn’t decided to visit me today,” Discord grunted as he rolled his ugly eyes.
“Oh, didn’t you know? Fluttershy told me she had told you that was visiting her friend Tree Hugger today, remember?” Pinkie said and tried to be helpful.
“No, she didn’t tell me and she didn’t even drop by,” Discord revealed with a grumble.
“Oh, really?” Pinkie questioned and found that a bit odd for Fluttershy. She tilted her head with curiosity and stared her blue eyes into Discord’s as she was keen for an answer.
“Really,” Discord confirmed with a growl and a snort and shot a glare toward Pinkie.
“Hmm, maybe she just forgot, but at least you know now,” Pinkie bounced up and down once and tried to be positive.
“Pfft,” Discord scoffed with dissatisfaction.
“Well, any who, since you’re out here and I am too, do want to collaborate and prank Dashie? She has been asleep all morning,” Pinkie said and offered a tempting prank option.
“Hmm,” Discord pondered and stroke his grey beard with intensity. The offer was hard to refuse, plus he could ask what prank Pinkie had in mind. However, just before he spoke again, he noted Pinkie had read his mind as he had previously thought about pranking Rainbow.
“So, what will it be?” Pinkie chirped and interrupted with a keen and playful interest.
“Hmm, perhaps,” Discord puzzled.
“First tell me something…” Discord began to elaborate and put what he was thinking into words.
“Can I read minds?” Pinkie guessed what his question would be with accuracy. Plus, confident she was right, she bounced up and down twice with enthusiasm.
“Yes, that,” Discord confirmed and sighed a little. Pinkie predicting the question somehow ruined how he could had gotten the question across his way.
“The answer is no and yes,” Pinkie happily chirped out a complicated answer.
“Sometimes, my tail gets tingly or I can predict what another pony might say, but I’m not correct all the time and I like to be wrong at times too,” Pinkie continued her answer and kept her cheery attitude.
Discord snorted and turned his body away from Pinkie in a huff.
“So, what about my offer?” Pinkie asked and then bounced around Discord to face him again.
Discord looked down into her mischievous blue eyes and they had a playful glint, he somehow felt he could not refuse.
“Fine! What did you have in mind?” Discord snapped as he still felt a bit cheesed off about Pinkie predicting his question earlier.
“I threw a pastry and a pie up to up, you catch it in mid-air and then throw it at Dashie,” Pinkie revealed some of her silly master plan.
“Aim for the face and it’s guaranteed she would be mad. She’ll chase us for sure. Then, afterwards when we’ve calmed her down, we could hang together for a bit,” Pinkie then elaborated a bit with a giggle at the end.
“Hmm, a pie in the face,” Discord considered.
“I like it,” Discord sniggered with glee.
“Great!” Pinkie cheered on his enthusiasm to be part of the prank plan. Then, she turned and led him to where Dash was sleeping….