> Revelations: Discords Ascension > by Thunder Chaser > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The marketplace was busy as usual, as it was a monday afternoon in Ponyville. Unlike most days however, very few ponies were focused on their work or shopping and instead had their eyes turned to a large stage at the front where Trixie was performing. Applejack scoffed loudly and said "Come on guys, lets see what this con artist is pulling now" guffawing "Yeah, ill bet shes pulling rabbits out of hats now" Rainbow Dash said laughing. The 6 friends trotted towards the center and saw Trixie, performing some strange new trick. All that was on stage with her was a single vessel of water. She began pouring some into a clear glass of water and said in her trademark pretentious whine"Now, the great and powerful Trixie will do the impossible!" Applejack scoffed, waiting for Trixie to pull of some corny trick. What she saw than amazed her and all of her friends. With one wave of Trixies hoof, the water became chocalate milk! The audience cheered, never having seen prestedigitation. Twilight looked around nervously. Last time they crossed paths, it was affirmed that Twilight was the superior sorceress. Now, it had appeared that Trixie had mastered prestedigitation. The last time Twilight tried that, she created some nauseatingly, unearthly awful rat-horse hybrids. But beyond her inferiority complex, the chocalate milk itself, and the energy she projected on stage made Twilight nervous. It reminded her of some previous terror, but what? While the rest of the gang walked home, talking about Trixies great tricks, it seemd as though Twilight was the least humble this time. "Well you saw it didnt you Twilight, she turned water into Chocalate Milk!" Rainbow Dash said excitedly "Well that could be any illusion guys" Twilight said defensively "Aww, look Sugarcubes, dont get jealous now. Not only are you the beter sorceress, your our best friend!"Applejack said, patting Twilights back. "Thanks Applejack"Twilight said smiling. The group trotted in silence home for a few minutes. "It was so awesome when Trixie had that guy in the audience, OW!" she said after having her foot stomped on by Applejack. Twilight payed little mind, trying not to become jealous Trixie and raced home, wanting answers. She knocked oen the door with such a thud, it nearly awoke Spike from his slumber as she manically looked through her books. Transforming an object into another object was something that only gods knew how to do, people like Celestia, Luna or...Discord? All of these possibilities were ridiculous to Twilight who chuckled a bit, climbing into her bed. "Trixies just a hack trying to make a few bits by pulling off some illusions, shes not connected to any divine energy." she reassured herself, quickly falling asleep. Trixie cleaned herself up and hopped into her carriage, heading for the Everfree Forest. After making it 5 miles in, she signaled he cabbie to "stop" and stepped out, wandering off into the trees. She stripped off her hat and began dancing a wild dance of pent up energy, her salacious dance amongst the trees finally making an image appear projected onto the stone. There he was, Discord, his image projected onto the boulder. "Did you thrill them today" asked Discord seriously "Yes your excellency, I did!"Trixie said proudly "Good, Good!, maybe soon I can get unstuck from this stone and become free sometime in the next F**** century!" "Of course master, I know what to do tommorow" "See to it." Discord said before flickering out. Twilight awoke from a fitful sleep, all she could dream about her red eyed white horses screaming ad whinnying about world destruction, nightmares where all was in suffering around her. Twilight shuddered from the vague rememberances and left the library early simlpy yelling "Theres a roll for you in the fridge spike!" "Sweet!" yelled Spike enthused. While everyone else was off doing something alone, Twilight decided to head to Trixes show again. This time it appeared she was growing carrots from seeds to tubers in 10 seconds flat, another impressive trick. Suddenly Scootaloo, who had been in the audience with the rest of the crusaders collapsed to the ground in a horrible mess. While everyone else was crowding around the dead pony, crying around her still body and hanging tongue, Trixie simply said "leave everything to me!" trotting over and raising her horn and casting a blue light downward. Scootaloo arose coughing before saying "Thank you Trixie!" and running off with her friends. Trixie bowed genflectivly and the crowd cheered deafeningly. She yelled out to the crowd. If you ever want to be free of disease, fear and obtain true glory come to the order of the Red Goat meeting next wednesday. The crowd cheered before bowing before this mysterious figure, who was this unicorn who could seemingly cure death and defy physics. "Why Trixie, you must be on almost equal par with Celestia!" a rather stupid colt said. Twilight looked shockingly on as the wholo crowd tolerated and seemingly agreed with his blasphemy. What came next was a true shock though. "Almost as equal to, why im greater than Celestia!" Trixies said in a terrible sneer. The crowd cheered even wilder than before and carried her on it's shoulders off somewhere leving only Twilight behind. If there was one thing Twilight learned, it was too never underestimate the power of a good show.She trotted home, disgusted by this new fad. Surely it wouldnt all last, the towns gratitude for saving one of its favorite daughters could only go so far.Yet, she couldent shake the feeling that this was the beginning of something far, far worse. She ran frantically inside, the stress killing her and ran into the restroom. The very fear taking over her body, irrational and unfounded it was was still filling her with nauseating stress. The vomit came exploding out of her body, her disgust with Trixies pretention splattered about the walls of the toilet bowl. She wiped her mouth and rinsed out her oral cavity, saying "Now its time to hit the books" looking for books on the powers of Celestia. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight had spent two days isolated from her friends, reading nearly every book in her library. Yet the only indivdual who had ever generated chocolate milk was Discord, his tradmark chocolate milk rainfalls punctuating her memory of that adventure. Yet that made no sense unless...Discord had escaped and was disquiesed as Trixie! Twilight ran out of the door, finding the fastest chariot driver she could find and paying for a trip to Canterlot Gardens. The trip raced by as her thoughts wandered, what would she do if he was gone?As soon as she arrived, she leapt out of the window and ran into the gardens. Before being stopped by the Discord Statue. She was shocked by how unchanged it was, still in the pose he was last time, the garden pristine as usual. Laughing a bit, Twilight wandered back to find that the chariot had left. Shrugging off the inconvenience she walked into a nearby inn and paid for a night, falling asleep easily, knowing Discord was still in stone. Screwball flew through the dark night on her hat into the garded towards the statue. Looking up sadly she asked "when are you coming out of their daddy?" pleadingly "Soon my dear, soon.Once Trixie fools the stupid citizens of this town and our fellows are in the majority, the stone will crack, as the prophecy dictates. Than we will truly 'make it rain'". A voice emanated "Daddy, why cant I just dupe the masses?" Screwball pleaded "Because you lack the magical capacity and frankly your not pretty enough." the voice said callously Screwball looked down sadly, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. She had already heard her dad call Trixie the "daughter he never had" and now this. Screwball felt nothing but massive jealousy and simply said through her tears "Goodbye Daddy." before running off to the city to her tiny apartment. Twilight awoke to see Celestia standing in her room looming over her bed. Mildly startled she asked "What are you doing in her?" nervously "Twilight we need to talk, you know of this pony, am I right." holding up a photo of Trixie. "Yeah thats Trixie why?" Twilight asked. "Look Twilight, Trixies converted the entire town to her 'Order of the Silver Goat', shes been conducting miracles beyond our abilities and shes been challenging our authority, last night the whole town converted, while your friends escaped and are on their way, those who refused to conform were shot." Celestia said sullenly "Oh dear, youll have to send the Royal Guard!" Twilight said, stricken by the deaths of who knows how many ponies, either their bodies or their souls were dead. Deeply worried, Celestia continued her talk. "Look Twilight, Trixie isnt an ordinary cult leader,shes fulfilling the Prophecy of The Ursa Major?" "Whats that" Twilight asked, feeling dumb. "It stated that when the end of the world was ahead, a charismatic leader who appears to know the path to salvation will come around and try to show us the way, once his numbers reach a large number (its never specified) Discord will be united from his tomb and NightMare will appear riding in a chariot with four Unicorns each destroying Equestria in its own way" she said pausing to breathe "Lunas already dissapeared and The Discord Statue dissapeared this morning. "Oh No." Twilight said > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Discord statue in the middle of Trixies carriage was furiously grumbling back and forth from within. Luckily it was nightime and all of Trixies fanbase was asleep unable to notice the ungodly noise from the trailer. Finally the stone crtacked and Discord emerged, exuding an aria of chaos and power. "My god, its such an honor!" Trixie said, kneeling before Discord and showing her first sighn of humbleness.. Discord said simply "You have labored well for me disciple. Now lets consumate our union." "You mean..." Trixie asked bewildered "What the hell do you think I mean?!" Discord said, stealing a long spirited kiss from Trixie. They continued long into the night. Screwball walked by the trailor and said "uuuhh daddy, im glad your free, do you wanna play some ball me?" before realizing she was ignored and trotted off sadly. Twilight, meanwhile was rushing back to Equestria to fetch her friends and preache Celestias ways and fight Trixie.Upon arrical, she leapt out of her carriage and into Ponyville, in time to catch Rainbow Dash and Pinkie about to prank Applejack."Guys stop!" Twilight screamed, causing Rainbow Dash to drop the bucket of water from the door onto her own head. "Oww, geez Twi whats up?" Rainbow said grimacingly. "Look huys Trixies not what she seems." "You mean shes worse than just a pretentious bitch?" Dash said laughing, Pinkie giggling madly "No, shes alied with Discord!" Twilight said frightfully "That could mean the end of the world if Discords getting a big following!" "How do you know about the prophecy Pinkie?" "I know things"Pinkie said proudly as they made their way. Applejack came out yelling "what in tarnation is a-goin on?!" Twilight explained the situation and they immediately all ran for Trixies next big show. They caught up with Fluttershy there while Trixie appeared to be curing a blind man. Twilight said to Shy, "You cant trust this agent of Discord" "Well of course I dont and im certainly not with her order, shes just fun to watch" "We need to plan to stop her" Rainbow Dash said. "How about we meet tonight inside of my shed!" Fluttershy suggested rather boldly "Alright" the gang said collectively Fluttershys shed was big but still rather cramped for the 4 and no, there were no bodies inside. Suddenly Fluttershy appeared inside with Snips, Snails and Trixie following begind. Before they could react, Trixies horn lit up purple and began draining the life force from the 4. Fluttershy apoligized "Im sorry guys, but when Trixie saved Angel Bunnys life, I owed my soul to Trixie forever. Feeling lightly ashamed Trixe now began her cruel laughter "You figured me out right way didny you Twilight, you smart bitch! hahaha, Luckily im the better mage! Dont worry friends tonight you will be reawakened...as SLAVES OF DISCORD!" screaming with laughter as Twilight slowly felt her life drain. Looking at the four dead ponies, Trixie turned to Snips and Snails and said "Take the slave to the carriage" "Yes trixie" they replied in their retarded voices Fluttershy turned to Trixie and simply said "I am innocent of the blood of these just ponies; see ye to it" > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At this point it seemed like the whole town was out for Trixies show, 90% of them wearing Order of the Star Hoods. Trixie stood before the hushed crowd exclaiming "You may think you've seen my greatest works when I changed water to chocalate milk, when I moved rope, when I revived Scootaloo. However, watch as I revive and bring back the 'Elements of Harmony' from their death and convert their evil souls. I found these 4 gathered in a shack dead after attempting to sacrifice a colt to Discord!" displaying a scarred Snips from behind her. "Dont get mad though my fellow ponies, these are just a few more victims of 'Celestial Thinking'. The fact is Discord and Celestia are one of the same, these two are two sides of the same con artists duping you into false worship of the overrated phenomena of sky control. I am all there is and they will know it upon revival!" she shouted before the cheering crowd. She clapped her hooves and Snips and Snails quickly wheeled out the comatose bodies of Twilight, Pinkie, AppleJack and Rainbow Dash. She kicked the bodies off of the gurney and held up Rainbow Dash by her neck and said "With the almighty power of Trixie, I revive you and cleanse your soul!" both of their eyes becoming a plain green until Rainbow Dash finally awoke with a sad look in her eyes and a grey complexion, kissing Trixies hooves and pledging her eternal alleigance before Trixie conferred a blue robe of the order unto her before the ecstatic crowd. The ceremony continued for the next few until it was Twilights turn.At this point Trixies smile was visible to even the farthest back audience members as Trixie said in an enormously satisfied tone of voice "Now, the most awful pony of all, who lied to you all about being a good magician, who bought an Ursa Major to 'tame' and save the town is now going to be saved" The brainwashed townsfolk cheered happily as Trixie repeated the ceremony. Twilight crashed upon the ground and noticed the strange crowd cheering. She saw her gray friends and noticed her own body was gray but most of all, she felt a strange love and admiration for the tall mare standing before her. She said "In the name of Trixe, I pledge my devotion!" and began weeping at Trixies feet. All of Ponyville cheered and accross Equestria, news of this happening had cropped up and chapters of Trixies Order began cropping up across Equestria in Manehattan, Fillydelphia and even Canterlot. Accross Equestria, Trixie toured displaying her magic abilities with Discord hiding in her carriage, where he would watch her and later "discuss plans" with her in the night while Screwball sat outside. Thsi cycle continued every night, Trixie showing off her increasingly ill looking zombie slaves and bragging about how Celestias biggest followers had betrayed her. One night in Canterlot the show was going as usual. Each of the 4 were performing their usual routine. Applejack was busy attempting to bend a metal bar while trixie bent it with her magic, ZTwilight was busy speaking praise of Trixie(something Trixie loved making Twilight do) when Celestia made her way into the crowd, wearing a trenchcoat to hide her face. She said telepathically "Wake up Twilight, I know that your there somewhere" "Huh, Oh my god where am I?" Twilight thought back