I see people are still welcoming this story with open arms. So far, writing this story has been a true delight. I couldn't stop laughing at those bloopers for Episode seven of the Audio drama version of Bride of Discord. I have to give props to those voice actors. I couldn't stop laughing at various parts. I couldn't imagine doing my own bloopers someday. I tend to mess up a lot as well. But I do hope everyone does a great job for Episode eight. I also give credit to those artists as it must not be easy doing artwork for Bride of Discord. I mean it in the aspect of actually drawing the background of the characters. To top it off, Disney Fanatic 2364 probably is trying to keep it together in that chaotic project. Here's to a new day; now for my feedback.

Guest: I understand I deal with impatient people sometimes. It's like the old adage goes, "Good things come to those who wait". Yea, I just feel songs translate better to listening to them rather than reading them. Eris is a little bit of a Tomboy when it comes to wearing dress.

Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to My Little Pony. I also don't own the rights to the Gender-Swap Ponies.

Chapter 4: The Proposition

Eris's unspeakable acts of villainy started to take form as her chaos was running rampage all over Equestria. Apples were transforming into oranges, trees being turned into candy canes, birds were flying north for the winter, Earth ponies having the ability to fly, and the endless chocolate rain that was happening all through the land.

"O my goodness, I just love it when I win" Eris chuckled as she couldn't believe her eyes seeing so much chaos in the land. "I feel right at home. Now let's see"

Her magic conjured up a list that she slowly checked off while wearing her reading glasses.

"Step One: come up with a great plan to rule Equestria. Check. Step Two: make a grand entrance. Check. Step Three: make sure no pony can stop you. Double check. Step Four: Evil laugh" Eris checked off all but that particular one that she was going to do in seconds. "MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Check"

"That should cover just about everything" Eris smiled as she felt accomplished. She covered just about everything that she wanted to do.

Suddenly, Eris began to hear a pair of giggles that got her attention.

"Do I detect a sense of enjoyment that I am not apart of" Eris grinned. A delightful evil grin entered the draconeqqus's face. "Opportunity, my name is Eris"

She saw the couple that was the source of the laughter. Eris recognized them to be that local school teacher and Applejack's sister. It seems they were out on a romance date. Eris smirked seeing how happy the two were.

"Ah, aren't they having a lovely time" Eris said as she formed her own cloud in order to spy on the two ponies, who were unaware of her presence.

"It was nice of you to plan this picnic, Macreina. Did your Pappy Smith make this pie?" Cherryloo asked

"Yup" Macreina smiled

"Gorgeous evening and wonderful weather we are having?" Cherryloo smiled looking into the sky. Eris ducked her head making sure Cherryloo didn't see her spying on the date.

"Yup" Macreina responded

"O don't just sit there looking wise and otherwise, say more. Say that he looks handsome, or that he makes you laugh." Eris commented on the date as she conjured a bag of popcorn to better enjoy the view.

"What are you doing" a small voice emanated from Eris's shoulder. This turned out to be the voice of a devil version of Eris.

"Ah shoulder devil, what great timing" Eris smiled "How's it going"

"Well, I finally burn my last dress with my new pitchfork" the shoulder devil grinned an evil grin

"Oooohhh, pointy" Eris felt the tiny pitchfork the shoulder devil was holding in her arms.

"That is not the matter at hoof. Those two are having a nice romantic evening. Ruin it" the shoulder devil wasn't too wasteful of why she was there.

"Oh yes" Eris realized as she tried to think of a way to crumble Cherryloo and Macreina's date.

"I heard your brother and his friends are at the Grand Galloping Gala" Cherryloo looked upon Macreina.

"Yup" Macreina nods

"Well, why weren't you invited" Cherryloo said before Macreina suddenly burped in front of him.

"Macreina" Cherryloo spoke surprised at the mare in front of him.

"Pardon" Macreina held a blush

"Oooooohhh, he is going to dump her now" Eris squealed like a little school pony.

"I guess some pony has had too much champagne" Cherryloo smiled pulling the champagne bottle towards him.

Eris's face went from confusion to anger as she didn't like how the situation had turned out "O yea, let's see how you like it"

Her snap turned into a burp coming out of Cherryloo's mouth as he was talking about Macreina's other brother.

"Now, she will dump him" Eris giggled and hoped that the response she had been waiting for would come up.

"I guess I had too much champagne as well" Cherryloo smiled looking down feeling quiet embarrassed.

"Yup" Macreina nodded with agreement. Both ponies laugh at this response.

This gesture made one of Eris's eye twitches with anger. She couldn't believe nothing was working on these two ponies. She stopped on the cloud she was using and thus causing it to rain chocolate milk.

"Ahh, I could have sworn it wasn't raining a second ago" Cherryloo pondered out loud as he and Macreina were running to seek shelter. Eris couldn't help but dance the dance of gloating as she had ruined the date between the pair. However, her shoulder devil made her look at the couple once more.

"What is he doing" the shoulder devil asked about Cherryloo was doing to Macreina

"He is giving her his coat" Eris couldn't believe the nobleness of Cherryloo. Their hiding place was the barn at Sweet Apple Acres, where the date took place.

"I guess this must be one weird storm" Cherryloo nervously said to break the silent between the two.

Macreina, now wearing Cherryloo's coat over her body, was looking at Cherryloo and then at the rain "Yup"

"I guess I must have not prepared for this well. I am sorry I am such a klutz Macreina, you must think I am some kind of weirdo" Cherryloo asked

"Nope, you are special in your own way Cherryloo, that's what I like about you" Macreina said before kissing the stallion on the cheek before they began to watch the rain together.

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Eris's eye was twitching with confusion and disbelief. She couldn't believe that no matter what she did, she couldn't ruin the date of two ponies that were meant to be with one another.

"I don't get it. I humiliated them, literally rained on their parade and they are still happy. I seriously don't understand. Did relationships change the last time I was free?" Eris growled as she paced back and forth trying to find a reason for this even happening.

"Yea, sickening isn't it?" the shoulder devil crossing her arms seeing Eris was pacing around the cloud trying to understand why were they so happy.

"Yea…" Eris looked down viewing Cherryloo and Macreina comforting one another. She sat down on the cloud and let out a long sigh twirling the piece of the cloud around "…Sickening"

"You don't sound so convinced" Her shoulder devil noticed Eris's depression.

"You see the way they hold one another. Why do you suppose in this big wide world that no ponies has ever looked at us with the same eyes" Eris's eye stared down at the pair that were laughing and saw Cherryloo's eyes looking at Macreina with such a look that Eris was jealous of. To have some stallion looking at her in that way would be a dream come true.

"We are too majestic for that kind of sappiness" Her shoulder devil stuck her tongue out at the couple, who still didn't realize that Eris was looking at them.

"I am talking to a miniature version of myself. Can you think of anything more pathetic?" Eris growled

"Dating the teacher for extra credit" her shoulder devil replied with a wink

"That's it; I am done talking to you. I have an audience I need to gloat too" She said flicking the shoulder devil off the cloud and riding off into the night back to Canterlot.

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"How could I let this happen" Dusk shine looked down in doubt

"Will you just stop it already; you have been saying that for the past few hours" Barbara said "It isn't your fault"

"It is Barbara. Prince Solaris left me in charge of running the kingdom for a few days and I manage to let it all run wild in the span of a few hours. Some leader I turned out to be" Dusk Shine yelled

"It's Eris's fault, Dusk" Exclusive spoke

"Yea, it's her fault for delicious chocolate bunnies, cats, and dogs running around being so edible, evil and easy to eat" Bubble Berry smiled

"Umm, Bubbles isn't that….on your face" Exclusive pointed out Bubble's face being covered in chocolate.

"Nope" Bubble Berry spoke licking all the chocolate off his face.

Just go with it Exclusive told himself as he turned his focus to Butterscotch "We are sorry we didn't believe you"

"It's ok" Butterscotch nods "I just can't believe she held me like that"

"Well, she is never going to do that again" Exclusive said

Suddenly, Applejack, Rainbow Blitz and Prince Tempo had returned.

"The Orphans are all safe, underground" Applejack nodded.

"However, it's not looking good outside. The streets had been turned into lard, the houses into peanut brittle. It's starting to attract bugs" Prince Tempo spoke

"We have to stop that big bully" Applebuck announced to Dusk shine

"I am aware of that, but we can't use the elements without my horn" Dusk shine felt the place where his horn use to be.

"Well, Butterscotch can use his stare" Scooteroll smiled

"I am not sure if that will work against her" Butterscotch feared

"How about I just punch her in the face" Rainbow Blitz suggested

"What good would that do? Even if she did get hurt, she would heal herself with her magic" Applejack looked up at Rainbow Blitz.

"Do you have any other bright ideas" Blitz asked

"Umm….Dusk shine, what do you suppose we do" Applejack looked towards his friend

"I don't know, I just don't know" Dusk shine feared

Suddenly, a laugh came roaring in as Dusk shine and every pony in the room were fearful of whom that voice belonged to. "Giving up already, Dusky; so out of character for you"

"Come out you big chicken" Rainbow Blitz said before yelping after being touched by Eris's claw hand.

"A Chicken? You might be right about that" Eris smirked looking at her claw

Rainbow Blitz growled as he uses his speed to catch Eris off guard. Eris snapped her finger appearing in a ballet outfit and skipped to one side of the room causing Blitz to hit the wall in front of him.

"If you don't hand over my wife right now" Prince Tempo growled as his horn lit up to face the goddess of Chaos.

"Yea, yea whatever" Eris blew off Tempo and stared at the other ponies in the room.

"We don't need your gloating, Eris" Dusk Shine walked towards the goddess of chaos.

"I am not gloating, but if you want me gloating" she clapped her hands together causing the floor to be very slippery due to the wax.

"Cut it out, you big bully" Applebuck shouted

"O, that's a lot coming from the pony who picked on his own cousin" Eris retorted

"Hey, you leave my brother and his friends out of…whoa whoa whoa" Applejack was slipping on the floor.

"Friends you say, that's an interesting choice of words as it was their quarrels that got me out of my prison" Eris smirked looking at the three stallions that were dumbfound.

"What?" Sweepy Belle asked

"Think about three years back; in the Garden. School fieldtrip" Eris was helping them remember their quarrel

"You mean" Scooteroll hesitated "you were that funny looking statue"

"Ding ding ding, some pony better give these kids a prize. If it wasn't for you three, I would still be outside those gardens overlooking visitors" Eris smiled patting the three colts on their heads.

Butterscotch has had enough of Eris's games. "That's it missy. You think you can imitate poor defenseless colts and get away with it"

"O no, not the stare" Eris feared as Butterscotch was using the stare on her "O pleases anything but your disapproving eyeballs"

Eris pretended to go along with Butterscotch's act. "AHHHH o pleases I will do anything you…I will stop my takeover….Fix everything I did wrong….bake cakes in a dress"

Eris giggled before bursting into roars of laughter "my goodness that was too much"

"What, that should have" Butterscotch announced before Eris was looking at Butterscotch with a smile

"You are a laugh dear Butterscotch" Eris winked "Actually, you aren't that bad to look at"

"What did I tell you" Blitz zoomed to hit Eris again.

"Can't get me" Eris smirked before teleporting to another part of the room.

Blitz stops in his tracks letting out a growling irritation "I hate it when she does that"

"Eris, enough games, what do you want" Dusk shine glared

"I want to strike a deal with you ponies" Eris said acting like a mastermind

"A deal?" Dusk shine said in a confusing tone

"You know, make a trade, a small deal, an exchange." Eris offered

"What are you talking about" Dusk shine looked to his friends and back to Eris.

"Look, you want peace and harmony in your kingdom right? I don't want to get turned back into stone. So, why don't we make a trade?" Eris offered

"This isn't one of your tricks" Blitz crossed his hooves not believing a word she says

"No it isn't my dear Blitz" She said patting him on the head and waves a white flag "You want me to stop wrecking havoc on Equestria, I only wish for something in return"

"Eris, you better stop this insanity right now. Return the Princes or else" Dusk shine ordered

"Or else what, turn me into stone. Can't do that without the horn" Eris smiled poking at the spot that once held Dusk shine's horn.

"You monster" Prince Tempo tried to blast Eris away, but she teleported out of the way in time.

"Here you stallions are, I offer a white flag and you threaten me with violence" Eris whimpered her lip "Elements of Harmony indeed"

"Get out" Dusk shine and the others ordered

"Fine fine I can take a hint. I hope you all enjoy the dark" Eris almost left, but not before Dusk shine wondered the meaning of her words.

"What do you mean" Dusk shine asked

"O you haven't figured it out yet" Eris smirked

"Are you still here" Applebuck darted his eyes at the draconeqqus

"Ok, I am going" Eris smiled

"Wait" Butterscotch said "I am surprised at you Dusk shine. Aren't you the one that always says not to judge a book by its cover?"

"Yea, but…"Dusk shine said

"But, despite Eris being unworthy of our trust…" Butterscotch said

"You know I am right here hearing what you all are saying" Eris spoke

"…that doesn't mean we shouldn't hear Eris's words out. I say we should give her a chance to explain herself before judging so harshly" Butterscotch spoke

"Why thank you dear Butterscotch" Eris smiled putting her eagle claw on Butterscotch

"Touch me again or I change my mind" Butterscotch hit the eagle claw off his shoulder

"Still think we should trust her" Blitz asked Butterscotch

Dusk shine looked at Butterscotch and sighed for a moment "What are your demands Eris"

"That's Queen Eris" Eris smirked with a clever smile

"Don't push it" Dusk shine hissed

"Ok ok, the way things are. There are three things you want from me. Dusk shine's horn, order in your land, and the safe return of the princes and the mother to be. The last one is three things but you get my point" Eris told them "So, I want three things in return"

"My my, aren't we greedy" Exclusive shook her head in distaste

"What are your demands" Dusk shine continued to ask what it would take for those demands to be met.

"Let's start with your horn" Eris pointed her eagle claw towards Dusk shine "You all must make the promise never to use your elements of Harmony against me"

Everyone but Eris gasped at this request.

"You have got to be kidding, me there is no way we will" Blitz said

"Fine, you want a countermeasure ok then. If any pony goes back on their words during each deal, then you can do with the Elements as you will" Eris said annoyed by this request

"Done, what is your next one" Dusk shine said

"I require a bit of land for myself. You see I am the spirit of chaos. I would need a place to keep me occupied" Eris nodded

"That demand is quite…reasonable and quite fair" Dusk shine pondered at the idea

"But, what about Gleaming, and the Princes" Prince Tempo asked Eris "What will it take to get them back?"

"I am thinking" Eris realized she didn't have a back up plan for the three requests

"You mean you don't know" Barbara said in a confusing tone

"I am thinking of it" Eris roared

"What else could she want" Exclusive said "Gems"

"O please, I can summon all the gems in the world whenever I want" Eris let out a sarcastic smirk

"Maybe she wants a party" Bubbleberry shouted

"Again anytime" Eris spoke "Why didn't I think this part through? I need to make this good. Something is missing in my new life; but what?"

"I still think we shouldn't trust her" Scoteroll spoke to his two friends

"No wonder she doesn't have any friends" Applebuck replied

"I bet the only person that loved her was her mother" Scoteroll said

"Not even" Sweepy Belle said

"Why those little brats…" Eris growled under her breath until their arguing gave her an idea of what she wanted. That's it

"Ok, I know what I want for the princes and the mother to be. You are all going to enjoy this. I will even make this a three for the price of one stallion" Eris cheered

"What do you mean… the price of one stallion" Dusk shine raised a brow

"For Solaris, Artemis, and Gleaming Shield, what I want from every pony in here is….a groom" Eris smiled

"A groom" Dusk shine was confused

"Yes, anyone home in there" Eris knocked on Dusk shine's head "Yes, I want a groom"

"And what pray tell would you do with a groom" Exclusive asked

"What would any pony do with a groom, I would marry him" Eris told them "Being a lady of chaos is a rather…lonely occupation. So, it would be natural if I wanted someone to spend the rest of my life with. Get married, raise a few brats…I mean children"

"You would make a terrible mother" Sweepy Belle added

Eris glared zipping up his mouth. Exclusive was shocked "Sweepy Belle! You are a monster"

"I have been called worse believe me" She said unzipping Sweepy Belle's mouth

"This groom has to be a stallion" Dusk shine gulped

"Of course, I wouldn't marry a rabbit or a snail now would I? The only preference is that he has to come willingly. That means no bribing, swindling, or forcing. He must come of his own free will" Eris smiled

"Who would want to marry some pony like you" Exclusive said

"I don't know, what about you lucky stallions" Eris curiously said

Eris got a striking glare from each stallion as she knew that she wasn't going to get a yes from each of them. She suddenly looked to Butterscotch. It was something about him that has gotten braver over the years, that she is now taking notice. She smiled at him.

"What about you Butterscotch" Eris opened her lion paw to the yellow Pegasus

"GET OUT" Dusk shine ordered her

"Ok ok, I see you all need some time to think about this. There is a cave in the mountains; when you want to talk, I will be up there" Eris smiled as she snapped her finger making her exit.

All the stallions looked at the place in which Eris once stood. The only question remained.

What were they going to do?

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This seems like a good stopping point for now. What do you all think? Eris was very crafty to make her plans. I think my favorite part of writing this chapter was during the beginning when Eris was jealous that she didn't have a stallion to call her own.

It was such a treat writing chapter four. I know I got a few details mixed up, but all within reason. I am going to enjoy writing the next couple of chapter for this story.

So tell me your thoughts on this story and just one more thing. Here's to the next episode of Bride of Discord Audio Drama. Additionally, I tip my hat to Disney Fanatic 2364 for working her butt off to make BoD audio drama for us. Keep up the good work, DF.

So, take care and until then, see you all later.