Chrysalis and Twilight walked into the royal dinning room in a manner much more relaxed than the previous night where a grand entrance was announced. A whole evening dedicated to the arrival of the changeling swarm had turned into a night all about the new couple. Whilst the pair was very happy to be with each, and had no reason to hide their love, all the enquires over their relationship from ponies they didn't even know quickly grew tiresome.

And the questions about how they first met were a little awkward to answer. They had agreed when they got back to their room afterwards that they needed to come up with something better than what had happened when they first met, and better than fobbing off the question with varying lies.

However, the couple had loved spending time with Twilights friends, even if Chrysalis still felt a bit of distrust coming from most of them, and fear from Fluttershy. And they hoped breakfast with the Princesses and Discord would be just as enjoyable - a chance of just being a couple together round friends.

The three other royals were already eating when they had arrived. Celestia was daintily eating some toast with a number of preserves, whilst Luna was having her main meal of the day. Seeing the two sisters on such different timetables made Twilight glad she and her special some-changeling were both day creatures. Discord was happy with a giant stack of donuts in front of him, and the four alicorns were envious that they couldn't eat without thinking about their weight like he could.

The pair sat down as the three others just watched in silence with Celestia keeping her calm expressionless face, Luna smirking slightly and Discord eying the pair up. Chrysalis and Twilight levitated a piece of toast each and started preparing their breakfast.

“So, are we cool?” Chrysalis asked the rest of the room as she buttered for breakfast, desperate not to have a long awkward silence.

“Yeah we’re cool…” Discord replied “…just try to stop scaring poor sweet Shutterfly”

“Fluttershy” Twilight deadpanned in replied.

“It’s lovely whenever any of my subjects are this happy. Just don’t let it interrupt your studies too much Twilight” Celestia added with a hint of smile, but her eyes still bore a little hint of deeper emotion towards the changeling.

Luna looked over from her salad “I don’t see why one would have an objection to this union…” she continued with a smirk “…especially one that revels in the night like yours do!”

Twilight and Chrysalis both blushed in response, something Discord was more than happy to follow up on “It’s so cute to see you two little love-birds embarrassed and blushing so!”

“I’m not blushing that much…and I’m not cute!” Chrysalis tried to snarl back.

“I’m afraid you are my love.” Twilight teased, before kissing her on the cheek. Out of the corner of her eye, the pony princess noticed her mentor face suddenly fall before it recovered. “Are you okay Princess?” Twilight asked the white alicorn.

“Yeah, it’s nothing” Celestia tried to smile, but Twilight knew her too well to let it. She just looked at her fellow princess, until she gave up and let out a sigh “It’s just, Nopony has ever said they loved me” Celestia slightly moped.

“Tis a lie, dear sister. Our subjects tell us that they love us all the time!”

“Yes, but that’s a different sort of love, the love towards a ruler, a mother…not a lover!” Celestia was almost sighing by the end and the others gathered all looked at each a little awkwardly. “I’m sorry to darken the mood Twilight, Chrysalis. I didn't mean for this old maid to bring down you youngsters. And Luna, I have no issues with the ponies you have dated over the centuries…” Celestia apologised.

“Have you really never been in love?” Twilight asked “I mean, romantic love? I know you love everypony, and you loved me as a filly but you're so caring and beautiful I can’t believe you’ve never had a special somepony.”

“No, I haven’t” Celestia replied with “And nopony has ever even said they loved me…” the princess paused for a second “Wait a moment …I have a faint memory of somepony saying it!”

“That’s nice - ” Twilight replied “ - so there was one?”

A look of concern washed over Celestia’s face “No, you don’t understand, I’m only just remembering this. It’s like a deep memory…somepony saying they loved me when they thought I couldn't hear it?” Celestia spoke slowly and the others could see that she was racking her brains. Suddenly, her face dropped in astonishment and she pointed at Discord “You! I remember you saying it! At some point you told me that you…you love me?”

All eyes turned to the draconequus whose face was at first surprised. A flash of some sort of memory seemed to shot over his face and within moments Discord bent over and started to throw up. After a few seconds he collapsed on the floor.

“What is he up to?” Luna asked a little surprised but used to some unusual antics from the god of chaos.

Twilight rushed over to her stricken friend and carefully picked up his head in her hooves “This is no joke, something is seriously wrong with him!”

The four alicorns and Spike were gathered round Twilights bed, where Discord was lying. He had woken up after fainting and had stopped being sick, but still felt awful. The doctors had visited, but with draconequus biology unknown to them they were a little lost. But one thing was sure, something was seriously wrong with him causing a physical, potentially life threatening, reaction.

“Discord, what’s wrong?” Twilight asked gingerly, gently stroking his head.

“I don’t really know” he whimpered “I have some form of repressed memory that’s making me feel this way! It practically eating me from within!”

“A repressed memory of what?” Celestia asked a little nervously.

“I don’t know, it’s so locked away from me that can only mean one thing…I did something so awful I had to prevent myself from ever remembering it!”

“What could it be?” Luna asked “I mean you done lots of bad things in your time, but nothing that I would think could cause this?”

“I must have done truly awful, something so hideous that I had to hide it from myself, something I can't live with. That’s what’s making me ill I think.”

Twilight turned back to her fellow princesses “What can we do? Discord can’t live with this mental imbalance!”

“Well, somepony needs to do something. Can't we go into his mind to help him? Isn't there some sort of spell lying around that can do that? And if not, why not?” Chrysalis banged her hoof on the ground as she spoke, causing the others to look at her in a little surprise “What? As a fellow reformed enemy I feel for him!”

“Actually there is a way of exploring another’s mind” Luna replied “But who should it be?”

“I don’t think it’s right it’s either of us –“ Celestia motioned to her sister “- there is a very good chance it involves us in some way…back in the darker days.”

“I can do it,” Twilight took charge “It can’t have been to me as we know what he has done since I’ve been born! But how do we do it?”

Celestias horn glowed and a small vial appeared in front of her “It’s a potion like Zecora gave you, we’ve kept a few around for such events. Discord, do you consent for Twilight to see your memories?”

“I can’t remember what happened…” the draconequus meekly replied “…but I trust Twilight. Afterall, she trusted me!”

Twilight readied her spell, and turned the potion from purple to white. Carefully taking a large sip, she fell through the looking glass and into Discord’s memories.

Celestia and Luna readied their horns and blasted Discord with all their might. A torrent of flame and ice pounded the draconequus's body, causing him to roar with pain. After fifteen seconds of concentrated blast, the spell finished revealing the God of Chaos looked a bit beaten and battered, but still alive.

He got himself back onto his feet “You…tried to kill me?” he rather blankly stared at the two alicorns.

“Dammit Tia, it didn't work?” Luna turned to her sister with concern.

Celestia panicked “It should have be enough…I…I don’t know what went wrong!”

“YOU TRIED TO KILL ME?” Discord shouted. Having gathered what had happened, he was livid at the action of these two pony princesses – they had been an amusing pain for many years, but never had they tried to actually kill him. With rage burning in his eyes, he blasted them with the full force of his power and the two ponies fell to the ground. Discord prepared to cast another spell but seeing the two sisters were unconscious quickly composed himself. He was livid, but there was no point torturing the two creatures if they couldn’t feel it.

“You two have been an annoyance, but this crosses the line. But what to do with you to? I can’t kill you…but that doesn't mean I have to let you live well! I need time to think…” he spoke to himself, before looking over to the two ponies “…but first to make sure you two don't escape”.

He conjured up two canisters of something ponies had only just invented, anaesthetic. He placed a mask over each of the Alicorn’s muzzles and the unconscious mares were helpless to prevent breathing in the sedative, ensuring they would not wake. I guess I just need to keep them out of my way for a while, then I’ll come up with something. Discord opened a pocket dimension and teleported the three of them into it, closing it behind him so no mortal pony could follow.

Discord took his time to carve runes into the ground, customising each circle to specific nullify the light magic of Celestia, and the dark magic of Luna as well as all general pony magic. He placed the sleeping alicorns into each circle, and instantly could feel their power dissipate. Chaining each of the alicorns hooves, wings and necks to a sturdy ring embedded in the ground, the draconequus stepped back out of the runes.

He looked over the two sleeping princesses completely trapped. Without magic, they would not be powerful enough to break the chains holding them down. And there was no way they could overpower the magic runes from within them. But all of it was redundant as there was no way they could wake themselves from his sleeping gas anyway.

And nopony else was powerful enough to enter this dimension to help them.

“That’s it Discord, you’ve won!” he gloated to himself out loud, his voice echoing around the empty dimension. He circled round the two princesses lying in front of him and there was a part of him that enjoyed having the two mares so vulnerable to any whim he may have.

“Hmmm, perhaps I can make them suffer even more, to completely break them mentally as well as physically trap them. Won't it be fun to completely drain them of all hope! But which one first?”

He looked over the two sleeping beauties, and one of them naturally came to mind Celestia is the more powerful of the two…but that just adds to the challenge. Besides, I can use their sisterly love against them, and big sisters are always the most protective!

He conjured up a frame similar to a gynaecological bed, but in a more sitting up position. He untied Celestia and lifted her into the frame, threading her wings through holes in the back. He then took his time to slowly strap the alicorns body, neck, head wings and hooves to the frame, completely immobilising her - even her mane was tied back to hold her head still. He took great delight in tying off the lower limbs, spreading her thighs wide and exposing her marehood and udders, tying her long tail well out of the way to prevent any modesty.

He removed the mask from Celestia face and teleported himself out of the dimension. After a while Celestia woke up from the gas and tried to get her bearings. She found her body was bound and she reached out for her magic to find it completed suppressed.

She struggled in her bonds, exploring how thoroughly they were before giving up as her physical strength was not enough. She called out for the darkness, but no pony responded. Only once she stopped did she notice the rather exposed position she was in, a thought that filled her mind with fear as she waited for whoever had done this to her to return.

It seemed like days had passed and whilst Celestia had been able to take the occasional nap, the boredom was starting to slow eat at her mind. Without being able to do anything, with nothing but an inky blackness surrounding them and her sister sound asleep, she was desperate for some form of stimulus.

But having her body displayed as it was causing her great alarm for she knew whomever had done this to her had done so for a reason…one she was not looking forwards to finding out. The captor was either Discord, who had defeated them, or some other unknown powerful creature that had come across the two sisters after Discord had left them. Either way, what they had planned for her exposed as she was played on her mind.

She looked over to her sleeping sister with a tinge of jealously, for she knew that instead of going slowly insane like her she was blissfully unconscious. The fact the elder alicorn had not seen her sister in the dream world indicated she was completely out cold. And as she waited she also thought about her little ponies, as defenceless against the God of Chaos as much as she was helpless now…

Celestia wondered what going insane would actually feel like. She hadn't eaten, drank or moved for a long time, and any normal pony would have collapsed, or died, by now. But her immortal status gave her no rest, no escape….

Suddenly a flash of light blinded her and once her eyes had recovered she knew who her captor finally was. “Discord” she croaked through a parched mouth “Why?” is all she could say.

The draconequus conjured up a glass of water and held it up to the pony’s lips. Despite being desperate for a drink, she was hesitant. “Celestia, I promise this is just water. Even if it wasn't, I could force anything onto you. I just want to talk but can’t stand a raspy voice!”

Knowing her options were limited, Celestia took a few sips of the water before discord removed the glass. Over the next hour the two enemies just looked at each other in silence, Discord occasionally giving the alicorn a few more sips. Celestia was torn between being grateful for the company, but worried why his was watching her in silence.

Eventually, Discord conjured up a spell in his claw, before throwing it over the prostrate alicorn. “That was a truth spell. I am going to ask you one question, which you will now answer truthfully no matter what you would rather say.” A wicked smile grew across his face. “I can leave you alone, or you can ask me to stay and give me permission to do anything you want to you! Which would you prefer?”

Celestia’s eyes went wide and she knew the words she wanted to say, but with her magic suppressed other words came out of her mouth “I would prefer anything to be left alone again! Please don’t leave me! Please!”

Discord laughed and put his face within touching distance of his captive “Remember that Princess, that you wanted my attention, you begged for it. It may have been a spell that forced you to tell the truth, but the truth it was.”

If Celestia could have dipped her head in shame she would have, as she knew the answer was genuine. “Discord, what do you want?” she replied as bravely as she could

“Revenge” he cooed back into the pony’s ear, flicking it with his claw as he did “I know you tried to kill me, and I aim to make you pay for that. Discord ran his tail across her taunt belly, his rabbit like end tickling her fur as it did.

“I will admit without a spell on me that I would rather you were here than me alone!” Celestia tried to sound confident, but was struggling to suppress a giggle.

Noticing that Celestia was ticklish, he started moving his tail again “Why would you admit that?” Discord asked with a little surprise.

Celestia by now had started to laugh, physically unable to prevent the tickling from having an effect on her. Through the fits of laughter she managed to blurt out “Whatever you’re chaotic plan is, the loneliness is much worse! Why would I lie at whatever is an enviable fact?”

“Hmmm, you are strong to admit that Celestia. And so I’m going to take great delight in breaking you.” He finished tickling her, allowing her to regain her regal composure “And to help me I’m going to give you a choice, one you can take at any time. You can stop whatever is happening and let it all happen to Luna instead. I’ll place you in the deep unending sleep and she will take your place.” He leaned right in “Don’t worry, she would never know it was your choice!”

Celestia looked at Discord with a passion in her eyes “I would never let you harm my sister instead of me!”

Discord laughed and turned away “Maybe, but that little seed will grow in your mind, the ability to stop this at any time will be great temptation. Perhaps you need time to think about it?” and slowly started to walk off.

“Stop!” Celestia cried out, causing the draconequus to smirk as he turned around. “Don’t leave me!” she added rather pathetically.

“Sorry, I have things to do, chaos to cause! But I suppose I better leave you with some company.”

Discord snapped his fingers and a round stone object, in the shape of Celestia’s sun cutie mark with straps tied to it, and appeared. He strapped the object over the top of Celestia’s marehood, the pony looking down at it with a sense of bewilderment. Given the intimate area it was being attached to she dreaded what it was, but she was equally as curious as to what was about to happen to her.

“Time to go!” Discord dramatically announced and he flicked the object which started vibrating softly.

“No, please!” Celestia called out but it was too late, Discord left her alone with her tormentor. The object shook slowly to tease the alicorn, a personal feeling she had never experienced before. She tried to dislodge the object but failing to do so, Celestia’s eyes closed as she experienced the unique pleasure of her intimate area.

Just as it was starting to feel good, the vibrations stopped and the object started let off little sparks, causing tiny bolts of pain to shoot across her skin. It quickly switched back to vibrating, switching regularly between teasing and torturing her delicate area. As sparks flicked across her marehood, Celestia cried out in pain, a cry nopony was around to hear…

With no sense of time, Celestia had no idea of how long she had been tormented, Sleep was impossible with the regular doses of pain, and she expected her sanity to seep away even sooner than the loneliness alone. She envied her sister sound asleep, but was willing to endure this if it meant it protected her.

Discord eventually reappeared in front of her, and after watching her cycle through the pleasure and pain a few times, clicked his fingers to stop the object.

“Thank you” the princess looked at her tormentor humbly, the effects of the loneliness and sleep deprivation starting to subdue her spirit.

“So, how was your first day?” Discord asked as casually as a pony asking about the weather, despite noticing Celestia’s mane had a tiny bit less colour than usual.

“A day?” Celestia’s eyes shot open, as she was convinced it was much longer.

“Yes dear princess, just one little day!” he laughed “and there’s plenty more where that came from. But, I've decided to step it up a notch, as after all you did admit I could do anything to you!” He slid up next to the Princess and cupped a claw under her chin “Unless, of course, you would rather Luna took your place?”

“Never!”

“Good, now, there is something I want from you that you can’t give willingly, so I’m going to have to take it!” The Draconequus snapped his fingers and a muzzle appeared in his claw, with a tube sticking out of the middle of it.

“Please don’t gag me!” Celestia begged, and clamped her mouth shut as Discord tried to put it in her mouth.

“Oh, you want to resist do you?” Discord laughed. He moved his other claw from under her chin to over her mouth, making sure to squeeze the pony’s nostrils shut. Celestia’s eye grew wide as she tried to breath but could force the air out of her lungs. After a while her lungs were burning, and she started trying to thrash her head about to dislodge the claw, with little success.

As the pain grew, Discord suddenly let go and Celestia let out her breath. As soon as she did Discord grabbed her muzzle and nose again, preventing her from breathing in this time. The pain in the pony’s lungs grew such that as soon as Discord let go, Celestia gasped for breath, any thought of protecting her mouth out of the window.

Discord quickly inserted the tube into the Princesses open mouth, securing the muzzle around her head. “You must know by now resisting me is useless, my slave!” Discord laughed, licking the side of her face. He placed a flexible tube into the mouthpeice and hooked up to a box that appeared attached to the frame.

Clicking his fingers again, a large a bag of fluids on a stand appeared, and discord hooked a tube up from that to the box. “This is a special mix of hormones and nutrients for growing fillies” Discord tapped the side of the bag “and don’t worry, it magically refills” Discord activated the box and the fluid poured into her throat. Not being able to do anything, there was nothing else for Celestia to do but swallow the foul tasting liquid.

“This is a timer box, which will turn on and off the fluids, giving you just the dose you need” Discord mocked the pony as she struggled to learn how to swallow and breathe through her nose at the same time. Celestia looked up at Discord with a look of begging as she struggled.

“Do you think those soft pleading eyes will work on me?” Discord scoffed before moving behind the pony where she couldn’t see. Without warning, the Draconequus placed a blindfold over Celestia’s eyes, and with a final click of his fingers to activate the stone over her marehood as he left.

Celestia whimpered softly as the dimension grew silent, leaving her alone with her new predicament…

Unlike last time, the vibrator along with the fluids turned off for long enough for the pony to catch some sleep. All sense of time was lost as she drifted between pleasure, pain, sleep and boredom. She found herself getting used to the intruder in her mouth, almost welcoming sucking on the tube when it released fluid. And she began to look forwards to the attention of the stone on her marehood.

Celestia could feel that whatever she was being force fed was having a change on her body, and suspected it was also having a mental impact. But in many respects it didn’t matter as there was nothing she could do to prevent herself from being fed, that whatever was changing her had become inevitable.

She heard a pop sound, and hoped it was Discord returning to her. The fluids stopped and she felt a tug on the blindfold as it was removed. She blinked as the light assaulted her eyes, and then saw Discord smirking and looking down at her intimate area.

“Enjoying yourself slut?” he cooed.

Celestia looked down at her and noticed a small pool of fluid beneath her marehood, causing her to blush slightly as her body clearly betrayed any chance of her pretending she wasn’t being impacted by what was going on. She noticed that her teats also looked slightly plumper than before.

“I bet you are wondering what’s in that fluid you’re drinking?” Discord asked, with Celestia timidly nodding in agreement “Well, there are a number of hormones that have an exciting…” he patted the sun-stone as he spoke to emphasise the point ”…effect on you. But there is one aphrodisiac that’s even more potent to ponies, which the other hormones will help me extract!”

Discord snapped his fingers and another machine attached itself to the bed frame, one with a large empty jar attached and two tubes sticking it with half spheres on the end. The Draconequus picked up one of the spheres and placed it near Celestia’s left udder. She could feel air being sucked into the sphere and after lining it up, Discord let the sphere latch onto the skin. The cup started sucking on the teat and Discord picked up the other tube, repeating the process on the other side.

Celestia watched submissively as her previously untouched teats were magically sucked by the machine, another new experience she had always wondered what it would feel like. After a few minutes Celestia eye grew wide as the first spurts of white liquid leaked from her teats.

“Huzzah! We have milk” Discord cheered “It’ll take a while to get a decent harvest as the hormones have only had a limited affect on you, but you’ll soon be producing a decent tasty crop” He levitated the blindfold back over Celestia’s eyes and sat down to watch the pony being relentlessly milked by the machine.

Trapped back in the darkness, Celestias knew her body was betraying her mind. The sucking on her udders combined with the pleasure and pain from her marehood, and the artificial hormones racing around her meant that any thoughts of her subjects had left her, all that existed in her mind was her body and what was happening to it.

It took many hours, but once the jug was filled, Discord stopped all the machines and removed the blindfold. He picked up the jug to show Celestia her own milk “I would love to have a taste, but I have other plans for this first batch” Discord cooed, replacing the jug on the machine with an empty one.

“You see, an alicorns milk is both an aphrodisiac to pony’s but also causes them to produce milk. It was very handy for wet-nursing, although has the side effect of making them very horny!” He removed and dismissed the tube and bag of nutrients from her mouth and was about to hook up the jug when he had a brainwave.

“Now, I could make you drink it, but there is a much more efficient way of getting this into your bloodstream!” he laughed. Discord materialise a tube and pushed one end of it into the tap at the bottom of the jug. He placed a smooth but large cone over the other and slowly lower the other end towards Celestia’s exposed lower body.

Celestia struggled against her restraints in vain as Discord placed the object to her anus. Celestia tried to resist but it was impossible to keep the cone out of her and soon it was pushed in to its limit, Discord wrapping some rope around it to keep it in place.

“Oh, but of course this milk is fresh and warm, and that’ll feel rather nice. We better changed that!” Discord tapped the side of the jug and Celestia watched as beads of ice formed on the outside of the jug.

Discord slid up next to the princesses face “Of course you can prevent this happening…you can switch out for your sister? Why should she get to sleep peacefully whilst you take all this pain? Do you want to switch?”

Celestia head dropped as far as it could and she shock her head to accept her fate. Discord opened the tap on the jug and the white liquid started flowing down the tube towards her. Unable to do anything to stop it, she braced herself for an experience she couldn’t couldn’t even imagine.

The freezing cold milk entered her and instantly her body started to cramp up, but no matter what the milk kept flowing in. The cramps were unimaginable painful, but unfortunately for Celestia she was unable to black out as the freezing liquid tormented her insides. She screamed into her gag, but discord just looked on with mocking concern.

Celestia’s mind couldn’t process the pleasure and pain from everything properly, but even her befuzzled mind she knew that her milk would be soon having an effect on her. As the liquid poured into her, after a while her belly began to bulge as it filled.

“Awww, look at little celly’s pudgy little belly…its like you’re pregnant” Discord rubbed the swollen stomach as he spoke. Celestia tried to look away but discord held her muzzle in her claw to grab her attention “Maybe someday I’m try implanting my seed in you…I can have a whole slave race of Alicorns providing me with tasty milk to help enslave the other ponies.”

A small tear leaked out of Celestia’s eye, and Discord gently lapped it up, laughing as he did. It did not take long for her own milk to have it’s effect, and soon Celestia was lactating a steady stream. Discord poured himself a glass and tasted it, smacking his lips as he did.

“Wow, this is even more delicious than I expected. Would you like a taste?” Discord asked, magically dismissing the muzzle from the Princess’s mouth.

Celestia knew it was a trap, but she was too weak to resist. She opened her mouth and willingly accepted the drink. Celestia looked into Discords eyes as they started to spin. She wanted to resist, but her mind and body had given up. Her own eyes started to spin in return and she could feel herself slowly starting to be locked up in her own mind.

Just as the last of her control was leaving her, Discord had one final thing to say “Oh, and just so you know. Now that you’ve completed broken, I’ll start on your sister…you’ve let her down!” Discord laughed manically “Goodbye forever, Princess!” and with a final push of his magic, all the remaining colour drained from Celestia.

Discord stood over his vanquished enemy – if she wasn’t helpless to start with, she was now gone. He looked over to the younger sister and laughed “One down, one to go!” he patted himself on the back, literally.

He took another sip of the delicious alicorn milk And then what? he thought to himself Wheres the fun once they’ve both gone? Discord looked back at the white pony, once a powerful leader of an entire kingdom now turned into a helpless milk producing animal. Her beautiful body was still as amazing as ever but there was no smile, no sparkle in her eyes…the pony he knew was gone. The pony he loved was gone.

Discord froze in shock Love? Where did that come from? Do I love Celestia? Is that why I was so angry with her, because the one pony I love tried to kill me. And just look what I’ve done to her now! He looked at the glass of alicorn milk in his claw, and for a long time battled himself mentally. He then threw it away before teleporting away the machines hooked up to Celestia, before tenderly placing the anaesthetic mask back over her face. Soon the now feeble animal was soon sound asleep sleeping. I will not cause you any more pain, dear princess.

He undid the bounds holding the pony to the frame and took Celestia down from the exposing position she was in. He laid her with dignity on the ground in a pose much like her sister before carefully chaining her up in the same way, moving her hooves and body gently as he did.

Over the next few days he let Celestia’s body recover naturally from it’s changes, sometimes using his magic to assist but making sure the recover was complete so there was no sign of the things he had done. All the natural and artificial hormones were purged from her system, and eventually she was back to her usual self.

Discord carefully tended to both sleeping alicorns during this time, the guilt of what he had done heavy on him. He had tortured creatures with chaos and disorder for centuries, but this was unlike anything he had done. All he knew is no pony must ever know.

Discord prepared a spell and wiped Celestia memory of everything that had happened between capturing her and now, including wiping his discorded control over her. But unfortunately for the Draconequus he could not wipe his own memory, but had another spell which would suppress the same memories from him forever as soon as he left the dimension. Our ignorance will be bliss, a bliss we can never share!

With everything prepared, he removed the gas mask from the alicorn and paused for a second “Both of us forgetting this is my gift to you…” before leaning in a planting a kiss on her forehead “…I love you Celestia”

After a while the pony slowly came around and once Celestia recovered her senses she tried to escape the physical and magical bonds holding her. But Discords trap was so secure she was unable to and she looked up at the god of chaos towering over her, fearing the worse. But to her surprise Discord didn’t to hurt her but instead explained that he had kept the two princesses tied up and sleeping for weeks in this pocket dimension, and that there was no means of escape.

“So, you woke me up to gloat?” the white alicorn snarled at the enemy.

“No…I want to offer you a deal”

“A deal? You can’t expect me to surrender to your chaos, to let you torment our little ponies for generations to come?”

Picking up the mask he started moving it towards the alicorn face “I can simply place this mask back over your muzzle and let you and your sister sleep for rest of eternity” Discord snarled back, playing the part of an evil villain even if he didn’t mean it.

“Do what you want with me…just leave Luna alone!” Celestia try to command, but there was a hint of pleading in her voice

Even now, she’ll protect her sister…how must it feel to have somepony love you like that “Look…I have no wish to permanently harm you, or anypony, but first of all you have to admit I have won this war between us!”

“You’ll never win!” Celestia replied.

Discord slowly walked over to the sleeping Luna, and lying down next to her, started to gently stroke her mane.

“Leave her alone!” Celestia shouted out

“Make me!” the draconequus purred back with confidence.

Celestia tried to use all her magic and physical strength to break free, but couldn’t. She broke down into tears, realising her efforts were useless “Please…you win…just don’t hurt her!”

“I have no wish to hurt either of you, so will you hear me out?” Celestia meekly nodded in response, and Discord left Luna’s side and approached the larger princess.

“I may have won the war…but I don’t want the game to stop so let’s change the rules. You cannot do anything to permenantly harm, injure or incapacitate me, and in return, I can’t do the same to you.”

“That…sounds remarkable fair” Celestia replied a little in shock “But what about other creatures?”

“Hmmmm” Discord thought to himself, tapping his chin “Let’s says I will be able to cast spells on them that can only be done by the highest order magic…but nothing permanent that either you or your sister can’t undo.”

“Why would you do this?” Celestia asked, not really believing her enemy.

“I am the God of Chaos, but without somepony trying to bring order to chaos then it won’t be any fun. This is why I called it a game, one the three of us is locked in for the rest of eternity.”

“You do realise it’s our duty to try to stop you?”

Discord couldn’t help but laugh “Of course but every time you fail to beat me, you have to wait another year before trying again. You can plan, prepare etc during that time, and protect your precious ponies if you can, but can’t confront me!”

“What if we beat you?”

“As long as whatever you do isn’t permanent, than we play again. Afterall, we have all of time and space to battle in, there’s no escape…for any of us!”

Celestia pondered for a second “How can I trust you?”

Discord knelt down next to the alicorn and cupped her face with his claw, Celestia unable to move away from the contact. “You can’t, but you don’t really have a choice do you?” He started unchaining Celestia’s hooves, the alicorn a little wary if it’s a trap but not going to pass up the chance of escaping.

“I agree to your terms, and will make sure Luna understands”

Having finished unchaining the white Alicorn, she struggled to get to her hooves, and Discord actually helped her up. “Thank you” she replied curtly as she slowly walked out of the rune circle, feeling her magic return. Celestia walked over to her sister where discord had started to unchain her, before carrying her out of the runes. Celestia removed the mask from her sister and picked her up in her aura placing her across her back “Return us to Equestria, and we’ll see you in a year!”

He curled up round the two princesses “ No escape…remember I had you completely subdued…try anything and I’ll make you both pay!”

Celestia looked over her shoulder to her sleeping sister “You have my word!”

Twilight snapped out of the memory, completely exhausted from experiencing the long memory in what was only a few second of real time. She slumped down on her haunches, trying to process everything she had seen. She looked over to the draconequus and didn’t know what to think of him.

Part of her was disgusted at what he was done, but he was obviously disgusted with himself and had come good. And her own lover had done something not to dissimilar to her in many regards. The confusion was making her feel ill, so understood what it was doing to the Draconequus mind. “Discord, when you defeated Celestia and Luna, how much of what happened do you remember?”

“Apart from them attacking me, and then later me releasing them when I had them helpess? Nothing. Why? Is it bad?”

Twilight was offered a drink by Spike, and she gladly accepted the contents “Yes…yes its bad.”

“Well, they did try to kill me!” Discord defended himself.

“We did…so I expect the retaliation was pretty bad, but how bad could it be?” Celestia added.

Twilight thought back to what the draconequus had done to her beloved mentor, and visibly shuddered “Perhaps it’s best that you don’t know…sometimes ignorance can be bliss!”

“Is it worse than what I did to you?” Chrysalis meekly asked with concern.

Twilight hold her lovers face with a hoof “You did what you needed to survive…it was very different!” before she looked around the creatures gathered in the room. There’s no way I can let this get known…Discord has been reformed and I’m sure he really regrets it…the half memory is practically killing him! “He may have done some bad, but came good in the end. And us ponies all believe in redemption”

Twilight’s horn let up and she blasted Discord with a spell, causing him to cry out in pain. Everypony else gathered was too shocked to respond and the spell finished quickly. A small bubble floated out of Discords head and landed on Twilight’s horn, before sinking in.

Suddenly feeling a lot better, Discord sat up “What? What was that?”

Twilight went up and put a hoof round her friend “Sorry, but I had to catch you by surprise for the spell to work. I have actually taken the memories from you so there is no chance of you ever remembering!”

Twilight then turned to Celestia “Princess, Discord permanently wiped your memory, and that’s the way I’m going to make it stay.”

“I trust your judgement in this matter, Princess” Celestia bowed to her former student before turning to Discord “And whatever happened between us, I consider that the past. We tried to kill you, you obviously did something hideous in retaliation…but that was a long time ago. Can we still be friends?” Celestia asked, placing a hoof on his bed.

Discord gently put his claw over the offered hoof “Agreed, I always had respect for you two…and whatever it was I am truly sorry!” he smiled at the pony.

“I want to know what happened to me” Luna interrupted the moment.

Twilight turned to the slightly smaller alicorn “Luna…you were knocked out by the blast and kept unconscious the whole time, so there’s nothing to remember. But, as a younger sibling myself, I want you to know something…”

Twilight looked at the two sisters who had looked at each other with sisterly concern “Discord used Celestia’s love for you…the need to protect you…to break her spirit. Celestia was willing to go to tartarus for you…”

“And then I turned on her as Nightmare moon? Oh Tia, I’m sorry” Luna rushed over to give her sister a hug, one equally given back.

After a few moments, Luna had a little smile on her face and looking over her sisters’ shoulder asked loudly “But Discord, did you really say you loved Celestia?”

The draconequus blushed briefly, and without a word snapped his fingers to teleport himself far away. Well, that answers that! Luna smiled in response, noticing that her sister seemed very stunned Oh, Celestia, you’ve had somepony love you all this time.

Author's Notes:

This whole chapter was based on a single piece of art that I stumbled across.

I'm not a Celestia hater. Far from it, I think she's a wonderful leader etc. I know Celestia has been treated harshly so far in this fic, but don't worry, she gets some nice treatment in the next chapter as well the titled protagonist.