A/N: APPULS

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Star Swirl soared above the forest, leaving Clover behind on the road to the castle. He was getting closer to town, and soon all sorts of commotion could be heard. The draconequus landed in the outskirts of the forest, silently observing what was all the fuss about. Many ponies who were trotting across the roads squirmed and flailed about as they tried to stay upright and in-balance in the dirt-turned-soap road. Some were gawking over at how the grass and stone was different of how it used to be, as well as how some plants nearby had become rock-solid crystals. But most were worried at the floating houses which were literally uprooted from the ground, the pegasi trying to save as many ponies as they could and the unicorns fruitlessly trying to bring everything back to normal.

The draconequus brushed his goatee with his hand and looked at all the damage, grinning slightly. All this mess... This chaos was just amusing to him. It seemed that when he brought the library back to normal, he forgot to turn everything else back. Star Swirl hummed as he observed two ponies rushed towards his library, probably looking for his aid. The draconequus got angry and teleported himself towards the main door of his house, there was no way anypony would be allowed inside, not even if they shaved his non-existent cat and called him grandpa.

The ponies who rushed towards the library were no other than Private Pansy and Smart Cookie. That said though, they still hadn't seen Star Swirl.

"Shouldn't we seek Clover first?" Gasped Pansy as she ran along, looking at Cookie.

"I saw her hanging out with Star Swirl earlier this day," Smart Cookie replied, "If we find that wizard I'm pretty sure we'll find Clover too!"

Pansy whined and looked forward, then, along with Smart Cookie, did a screeching halt as they saw the draconequus in front of her.

"EEK!" Pansy screamed, "What is that?!" she exclaimed, pointing at who neither of the both knew it was Star Swirl.

Star Swirl, crossed his arms and huffed, "Not a what, but a who!" he retorted, "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Smart Cookie snarled.

"I asked first!" Star Swirl huffed.

"Well, I asked second!" Smart Cookie snarked, "This isn't your house, is it?"

Star Swirl's eyes widened in shock for a bit then relaxed, "No, of course not!" he lied. Of course this was his house, but he just wasn't going to let that slip up. He was well above honesty if it didn't help his cause.

"Then what are you doing here blocking the entrance?" Smart Cookie asked, confused.

"And who are you?" Pansy added.

"None of your business for either of you two," Star Swirl sneered, "And if I were you, I'd leave." he glared at the two mares in front of him.

"What if we don't?" Smart Cookie asked, Pansy on the other hand was looking at her friend and the draconequus back and forth, then gasped.

"Well, then you risk being wingless," Star Swirl added, out of nowhere Pansy's wings appeared in his hand, demoting the mare from pegasus to earth pony for the moment, "And perhaps even worse!"

Pansy was touching her back in despair and looked at Star Swirl with a distressed face, "A-Ah... Maybe we should leave..." she eeked, Smart Cookie bit her lip and nodded.

Star Swirl grinned and with a flash Pansy's wings returned to their proper place, the mare flapped them to check if they were OK, then looked over at Smart Cookie, who was looking at her with guilt. The two mares looked at Star Swirl and gulped, and in an instant they fled from the library. The draconequus held a smug grin and waved his lion paw, soon the two fleeing mares were flailing and skating over a road of soap which appeared by surprise.

"Hahahah, I have a feeling this will be fun." Star Swirl added, teleporting inside of his library. The draconequus kicked around some things that were scattered across the ground and made his way upstairs. Peeking out from his bedroom's window, he saw all the mess that he had created once more, and laughed at some of the ponies who struggled to move about and repair the damage. Star Swirl turned around and walked towards his mirror. Now that he was taking a second look at himself, he didn't look that bad. It was truly a shame that this had happened to him, but on the other hand...

The draconequus peeked out the window once more and looked over at a small grove of trees near his house, with a wave of his hand, some trees began to float, and others were turned into crystal.

Well, who needs good looks when you have such great control over such great powers, anyway? Star Swirl leaped from his window once more and began to fly without a set direction. All this madness was so amusing, perhaps this town could use some more of it?

MEANWHILE

"G-Get your hoof out of my ear!" Pansy exclaimed, both her and Smart Cookie had crashed with some trees after losing control while on the soapy road.

"Y-Yes, as soon as you stop tickling my nose with your wings!" Smart Cookie added, and in a pathetic display of flailing and tumbling, the two friends stood up and dusted themselves off. "Ah, there, that was something else that's for sure," Smart Cookie scoffed, then looked at Pansy, "What will we do now?"

Pansy hummed, then shrugged in confusion, "I think we should look for Clover...? And maybe some help..." she offered.

Smart Cookie bit her lip and looked at the town, it seemed everything was getting worse, then looked back at Pansy, "I think we may need to look for the princesses first, that mismatched creature guy doesn't give me a good vibe, he may have something to do with this-"

CRASH!

Smart Cookie and Pansy jumped and turned around, it seemed one of the houses had jumped out of its place and landed near them. Alright...

"Help first, Clover later." Smart Cookie said at Pansy with worry, Pansy looked over at her friend and nodded, and so the two mares dashed off into the Everfree Forest.

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Star Swirl lifted up some more houses and began to switch up some more things. Soon some ponies began to float around, a house was turned into a pile of playing cards, and a bakery's goods began to attack some of the closest passerbys. The draconequus laughed, but it was cut short when he forgot to move out of the way and got hit with a flying house. With a cough he groaned and kept on flying across the town, causing more and more pranks. Below on the ground some ponies noticed the strange silhouette flying over them, so some of them began to shout things at the creature that they thought was a pony. Some unicorns were even reckless enough to shoot laser beams at it.

Star Swirl evaded all the attacks, and decided to retreat, so in a hurry he teleported back to his library. The ponies all were left with confused or angry expressions, and went back to trying to fight back the effects Star Swirl had done to the town.

The draconequus reappeared inside his room and sighed in relief. He needed to be more careful about this, the townsfolk were beginning to notice all of this was his doing.

"...Oh!" Star Swirl eeked and bit his lip. He needed to erase any connection with his old self. The less the ponies knew, the better. He needed to create a new identity, or at least stop anypony from putting two and two together. Although the latter would be difficult, just ask Clover how much of a nuisance she was...

Clover...

What did she matter, anyways? Her memory was wiped clean from any sort of event of today, no need to worry. Who cares if he left her in the Everfree Forest?

...

Maybe he cared, just a little bit...

...

No, no he didn't. She earned that, and right now he had other problems to take care of. Discord peeked out of his window once more and chuckled at all the squirming and panicking ponies. All of this chaos, disharmony even. Hmm...

"Discord," Star Swirl muttered, that was the word on the tip of his tongue. He actually liked that word, quite a lot in fact. It described the madness that was going on outside quite nicely. "That's such a beautiful thing~" He cooed. This gave him an idea.

He already had the looks, he already had the powers, and he already had the ability to convince ponies of what he wasn't. Nopony would associate this with a scruffy old guy like Star Swirl the Bearded. They would associate it with something powerful, something that was unstoppable and chaotic.

The draconequus teleported himself into a plaza, causing the ground beneath him to turn into a blue checker pattern. This caused all the ponies nearby to notice him and approach him with anger, immediately linking him to all the new randomness that was going on.

"Hey you!" A stallion exclaimed, pointing at Star Swirl, "Who are you? What are you doing here?!"

Star Swirl looked over at the red stallion and grinned evilly, then rushed towards him and looked down at him, "Oh, me?" he laughed, and flapped his wings to hover off the ground.

"I'm just having a little fun! As for who I am..." Star Swirl smirked, and with a snap of his fingers, the sky grew cloudy, and thunder began to roar nearby. Soon all the ponies near Star Swirl began to float, just like the first time he had casted a spell after becoming an alicorn. This caused the townsfolk to panic.

"You can call me Discord," Discord replied smugly, causing everything around him to go completely haywire, "The Lord of Chaos!" he laughed ominously.

...

"Goodness me, that sounder way too cheesy..." The draconequus thought after throwing a coughing fit from laughing so much.

This was going to be a painful, long night for everyone.

Everyone except Discord.

MEANWHILE

Pansy and Smart Cookie managed to escape the madness that had become the town. Running across the forest, they were talking to each other.

"I tell you Pansy..." Smart Cookie panted, "There is something weird about that guy we met earlier, I think he's behind the town's current state..."

"But who is he?" Pansy replied, almost tripping with a tree branch, which forced her to fly instead of running, "Where did he come from?"

"I don't know, but if we don't stop this soon, something terrible might happen-" Smart Cookie gasped and stopped running, looking at the road, "Clover?!" she gasped and trotted over to the mare with Pansy following.

Clover was lying on the ground, seemingly asleep. Smart Cookie poked her and shook her lightly, which caused Clover to groan and begin to wake up.

"U-Urgh... Wha- Where am I?" Clover asked and looked around, making eye-contact with her friends, "Smart Cookie? Pansy? What are we doing here?"

"You don't remember anything?" Pansy asked, gasping.

"...Not really," Clover whimpered, "What's going on?"

"Some crazy creature is wrecking havoc across town." Smart Cookie explained.

"Crazy creature?" Clover asked tilting her head, "I... I'm not very sure, but I think that rings a bell..."

"It does? Do you know anything about that creat-"

"BUNNY STAMPEDE!" Pansy screeched, pointing at a distant point on the road and causing Smart Cookie and Clover to look at her with confusion.

"Pansy- What in the world-" Clover got cut off.

"RUN!" Pansy screeched and began to flee. Soon enough the other two mares realized what was coming their way.

A horde of bunnies with horse legs, were stampeding their way towards them.