Of Gods and Monsters

Author:

Redskin122004

Editors:

Doctor Fluffy

DrawDex

Inquisitor-Awesome

TheClosetBrony

Guest Author:

Red Bomber

“All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.”

― Santosh Kalwar

The Void

“No...” *Snap*

“No...” *Snap*

“No...” *Snap*

“No...” *Snap*

Discord was on a mission. A long, incredibly tiring mission of starting a war. He wasn’t attempting to make an enemy by any means; what he was doing was finding where that enemy was located. And in the multiverse, finding a specific one is already a job of its own. So the easiest way was to register something unique to the multiverse’s additions.

This case being humans.

But now what Discord had discovered was the sheer amount of the little buggers humbling about the entire place. It was almost like the multiverse favored them for some odd reason. Given the vastly different worlds he had seen, even though each one held humanity as one of the leading species, they were far and apart from one multiverse to the other.

Magic being wide spread in one world.

Technology in another.

A mix of both.

No magic or tech at all.

And it was just the basics on which everything was designed. Thinking of what every single one was doing was a hell hazard. And trying to find a huMan multiverse that wasn’t on a war of some sort was as hard as looking at the stars in the universe with the naked eye and finding your favorite.

Blind.

And so he narrowed it down even more. Discord was thinking in the beginning, a human universe with magic and technology, but that was just adding variables to the search. So he aimed for things that he could recognize easily and assurance of simplification. That being humans fighting another species.

That narrowed it down to about fifty eight million.

A small number that was growing and quickly at that.

Everyone believes that parallel and alternate universes were separate from one another on a different plane of existence.

What an idiotic concept. Multiverse meant just that. Multiple universes reside in one big chaos filled void. All “could have”s, would be's, should have been's, and everything that could be applied.

He needed a new way to search because this was going to take time.

“No-- Ohh?” Discord was in his usual movement in between connections when he found one with the particular patterns of humans at total war against something not human, chaos magic, and many species in the interaction. “This feels promising.”

Focusing his power one one node of existence, Discord felt every molecule of his body being pulled in, and with a groan, he found himself slowly acclimating to it. Colors, senses and laws of physics changing in accordance with the laws in place there. Which by Marcus’s definition were likely equal to the Equestrians.

And once the pulling stopped he opened his eyes.

And then raised an eyebrow.

What he saw was something he would not think of involving...  robot aliens?

Perdus Rift; Tau Empire Sector

But when he took a look of his surroundings he viewed a...very silly looking army of blocky soldiers with a circle emblem on their shoulder pads as they loudly march within the jungle. Curious Discord listened in to what exactly was going on.

“Commander? Why are we walking in this accursed jungle instead of flying into our destination?”

“Because we have the element of surprise on the humans if we flank their fighters in the east, and this way we could surround the Gue’la army into submission. And in order for this to happen we had to leave our transport vehicles and battlesuits in order to successfully go under their radar.”

“Ah, so what happens if we get found out Commander?”

“We won’t, our stealth scouts have recon the area and then reported back that this area is perfectly safe. There's more than enough foliage to fool the Imperials sensors,” the commander explained.

“Ha! It sounds like a great plan!”

“I believe so, I just wonder why we haven’t peacefully integrated these Gue’las (humans) into our society. They’re so… thickheaded, as a race. They rely on obsolete technology that we would see in history books, but sometimes they bring out a ludicrously overpowered weapon that puts us to shame. They shoot first and it’s rare if they ever ask questions… I don’t believe I’ve ever seen such a xenophobic race. To spread the greater good throughout the galaxy will be quite the trial.”

“I know commander, but still what would happen if we lost this sept(Star system)?”

“Then the Imperials would have a perfect staging ground onto our inner systems. But we won’t let that happen, this defense was planned by both our Ethereal and our commander Shas’O Brightlance, we will prevail!”

“So with this plan we can push the Imperials out of our territory?”

“Not by far, but it would be a start.”

“Very well, but quick question commander.”

“What is it?”

“Why do we have Gue’vesa’s(Tau human auxiliary soldiers)? I heard from my cousin that you can’t trust them… he once had a regiment surrender, just so they could get pulse rifles! And what about our kroot allies?”

“Stop being paranoid! These soldiers have sworn to serve the Greater Good just like you and I! Remember, Unity comes to all things in time, and for our kroot allies, they were needed to fight these Imperials on the east. We didn’t have any more to spare for this mission.”

“Ah, yes.”

It was obvious that Discord wasn’t in the correct place, but he was entertained with something new so he decided to stay for a moment. They continued to march for almost ten minutes before Discord got bored and was going to call it a waste of time. Until something finally happened.

Ka-BOOM.

“Wha-” the Tau commander exploded on the spot. What could make someone simply explode like that?! Discord wondered. He’d seen human weapons in action, but this was a whole new level of mess. Human weapons tended to leave a hole on the way out, but that wasn’t a hole… by saying “hole,” that implied there was a back left for a hole.

“Its an Ambush!” yelled a fire warrior.

“Form ran-” Cried a Gue'vesa'ui(Human auxiliary sergeant) before being smashed by a hidden surprise.

“Surpwize wittle bwoks we want to play!” yelled a slab-faced humanoid creature, one of the many coming out of the foliage.

“Where are they coming fr-Oh no! Ogryn!”

“Tim to smash da litle dings for da Emphra!” Shouted the Ogryn commander as he lifted his “Brutalizer” Rippergun, a Cadian shotgun designed specially for Ogryns, and emptied it at the Tau fire warriors in front of him. Running at them, finger twitching over the trigger, quickly closed up into melee, smacking Tau soldiers left and right with the ungainly thing’s heavy stock.

“Charge you cowar-” yelled a Commissar leading the Ogryns, before he fell to the ground from a plasma blast. It could have been the Tau, or it could have been the Catchans. In the heat of battle, it was uncertain who did it-the Catachans could have hit him with their plasma weapon, and the Tau had plasma as standard armament. Not to mention, of course, that officers with black coats and very fancy hats make for delicious targets, for friend and foe alike.

“We sure he’s dead?” one Catachan yelled.

The response was a short burst of Imperial lasfire.

“Retreat! Retreat!” Shouted the ‘new’ Tau commander.

“But we’re surrounded!” one Tau protested.

“What was that about never getting close to you in combat?!” one Catachan sergeant laughed, unsheathing his Force Sword and trading his bolter revolver out for his Hellpistol. He didn’t feel like reloading.

“Gun em down Catchans! Kill them all!”

“This is easier than killing grox as a kid! Hahahahahaa!” A soldier laughed, emptying her autocannon at the Tau, its heavy rounds shredding them into hamburger. To say that the Tau were caught off guard would be an understatement, given their slow reflexes, and the fact that the were surrounded Ogryn and some of the more melee happy Catachan Jungle fighters... The Tau were in essence screwed.

After five more minutes of intense fighting, the battl-ehh, the massacre was over. Discord was left with a bloody scene and a understanding that these were absolutely not the humans he was looking for. Brutal, and able to win the Conversion War in a timeframe that would scare him but perhaps not the best not to think on it too hard.

“Quickly, move it Catchans! We are to be at the next ambush site by tonight! Move, move! Move it you sorry fething excuses of Catachans!” yelled the Catchan commander,  especially to the Ogryn team as they tried to move as fast as they can to try and relocated to their next ambush site.

“B-But I want to smash da funy lokin choaz ding der!” The Ogryn soldier said as he pointed his stubby finger to Discord.

“WHAT!!!” yelled the entire army as they turned to where the Ogryn pointed. Discord was somewhat in the same place of thinking. He didn’t even notice his cover had been completely consumed by a recipe of bullets by the battle had been so brutal and onesided.

“Whhaaa-aahhhhh!” the Ogryns said as they charged in the way of everyones aim, but one leading the charge tripped on a dead tau body creating a chain reaction of trips until it turned into a pile of Ogryns wanting to ‘smash da funy lokin ding’. Only one Ogryn went around the mass of piled bodies and went inclose to Discord who was laughing at the so called warriors.

“Prepare to die funy ding! *Clikck-CLick-Click* Ahhhh! You please, waiti finich rewoading to kill you!” Discord couldn’t help but laugh harder as the Ogryn just took that as a yes, “danx and no taky backs.” The Ogryn quickly said the last part as he reloading in front of Discord.

“Frakking Ogryns. Just Smash the fething daemon!” the Catachan sergeant sighed.

“AHH I want to shot it width ma boom stick!”

“No! Pulverize him!”

“Wat?”

“This is truly ridiculous and comically brutal! I love it, it’s almost like vacation to me! But time is of the essence, and bullets give me indigestion.” With those very wise words, Discord slowly floated backwards away and over a small hill he had come to know as his ‘hiding spot’.

“Kill it! Kill it quickly before daemons pop out!” shouted another sergeant as everyone started to shoot at Discord. Unfortunately for Discord this are the Catachans which had a field of range upon him.

“Damn.”

Discord couldn’t help but give a small whistle as the entire forest erupted in gunfire and was washed over with enemy fire. So massive and powerful the force of fire, Discord couldn't get more than a couple nanoseconds without a new wound he needed to heal himself from. These humans definitely seemed to know their wounds… he was definitely experiencing a wide variety of them, though most of them amounted to burnt, or exploded from the inside.

“Ow-ow-ow-Ow I liked that finger you brutes!” Discord screamed at the Catachans who are still shooting him with everything they got.  “Forget this, I hope you like being armless for the next couple of hours!”

Discord sent chaotic energy towards the Catachans. The Catachans would have turned into armless and helpless soldiers were it not for a certain individual who had a knack for gold items on himself.

“You won’t harm my comrades on my watch, daemon!” screamed the one who seemed to have a next generation style of sunglasses, or visor, or whatever he had on his head, as he blocked Discord’s attack. This surprised the draconequus to a great extent, his powers were blocked by this mortal? Interesting.

"Hello, now that is a very interesting ability you have there." Discord snapped his refixed claw and appeared before the human, shocking the human at his appearance. "How did you do that? I never met another creature that could control chaos, good for a mortal though."

“Begone daemon! I will not be tempted, for faith is my shield!” the strange human said as he tried blasting Discord with his psyker ability.

"Tempted?" Discord swiped the blast aside, shaking his claw at the burst of energy. Said blast slammed into an Ogryn and sent it flying.

“Owie owie owie! It hurtz. WAHHHHHHH!” cried the Ogryn while the Catachan commander repeatedly slammed his head on a tree muttering, “I fething hate fresh recruit Ogryn. Why didn’t you let the commissar live Staunt? I hate dealing with these Ogryns without ‘em. ”

Discord finally remembered where he was at, seeing the dozen of weapons being pointed at him. "Ah....eh...Toodles!" Discord vanished. But to the ‘warrior’s’ horror, he had taken the Psyker with him.

The Pysker, one named Teilos, found himself lying down on a comfortable lounge chair, staring at the ceiling with fluffy pink clouds painted on them.

“Now mister human what is wrong with you?” Discord snapped up a clipboard and glasses.

“Uh, where in the warp did you teleported me, daemon!” The poor Psyker had absolutely know idea what was happening at the moment.

“Daddy issues, hmm. Check. Anything else?”

“I’ll kill you!”

“Anger management...Needs Improving. Go on, don’t let me stop you.”

“RAHHHH!”

-

Outside a strangely colored building with a large name, Discord Psychologist, 'Where the crazy one is the doctor 'who isn’t certified in (99.9x10^19)% of all of the multiverse’, on its side and the Catachans had their sights on it.  

“Alright, Ogryns go through the front doors and do what you do best inside of there, the rest of us will scale the building and try to find Teilos, understood?!”

“Yes, Sir!”

“Then what are you waiting for?!” the Catchan commander ordered, his men stormed the building to rescue their trusted psyker from possible corruption.

-

“Ok, last question. How did you get your powers?”

“Like I’ll tell something as obvious as that to you?!”

"Listen, to get better, we have to share something. I mean, you're obviously lack sexual driven urges. Repressing that can't be good for you."

"FETHING DEAMON! MY SEX LIFE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"

-

“We’re here!” Roared the Ogryns as they charged through, only to find themselves in a slightly smaller than comfortable waiting room.

“Please take a number and wait your turn please,” said a female attendant looking Discord, filing her claw with a look of boredom.

“Oh, ok, sowey,” said one the Orgyns. The rest of his fellow proceeded to take a number and tried to sit on the too small chairs. Some looked at the pictures of magazines with ‘prety ladiz’ and other played at the children section doing ‘hard puzlez’.

All the Orgyns had just gotten comfortable when a door open and Discord walked through. "Alright Mr. Neo. I want you to take a long vacation and some rest. All this 'Hail the Emperor' and 'Hersey' nonstop can not be good for your mental health. I should know, I’m pretty loony myself. And don’t forget to also calm down when using your powers, it helps with the flow, and keeps your head from exploding! Good flow equals major chaos! Next!" Discord said to the psyker who was gagged and screaming, while being tied to a wheeled bed as Discord pushes him to the side for an attendant to take him away.

“Whoz next?” Cried one of the Ogryns.

“Number 2.”

“Wut iz da numbah 2?”

“This is the nu-” Discord was about to continue, but every Catachan soldier that could burst through the windows and entrances, their weapons ready to mow down daemons, only to see the sight before them.

“Uh, commander, best if you don’t come in here.”

“The Ogryns are being stupid again?”

“More stupid actually.”

“Why did you have to kill the commissar, Staunt?” The commander said as the soldiers clearly heard  loud repetitive knocks.

"Gentlemen! I sense a lot of negativity with all of you, if you just take a number-"

"Kill it!"

Discord held up his arms, a torrent of bullets and chaos energy slammed into him, sending him through a door and obliterating the wall in the process. Several grenades were thrown in for good measure in the newly formed hole. The sheer force of the concentrated fire disintegrated the supports of the entire section, knocking it down.

“Is it dead?”

“That was quite uncomfortable gentlemen, real uncalled for, and you torn down part of my building, I’ll sue you for this!” Discord's voice echoed from beneath the rubble.

“Kill it! Kill it with Promethium!” screamed a Catchan pyrotechnician as he unleashed the flames of the Emperor onto Discord.  “WE DON’T NEED NO WATER! LET THE MOTHFRAKER BURN!” he yelled. But what they heard was not something they thought would happen...Ever.

“I’m dancing in a infernoooo-- OHO, I’m dancing in a inferno!” sang Discord while the flames cover the entire office that contained him. When the flames stopped, Discord responded in kind,“AHHH!” Cried Discord covering himself with a towel as he only has his rubber ducky and a shower cap on himself. He stared at the soldiers and responded with, “Have you gentlemen ever heard of knocking? I swear this is more indecent than when I was going for beauty pageant queen and I had a wardrobe malfunction!”

Another salvo of rounds and grenades were unleashed, but with something extra. “Plasma time mutha-fetha!” Cried out a heavy weapons soldier who fired his plasma shot at Discord, hurtling him inside the already mushed up building. The groan of weaken wood and stone caught their attention, forcing the soldiers to flee the building.

"Bring it down! Bring the entire chaos cursed building down!" Commander cried out. Hundreds of guns went off, rockets flew through the air, making the building all but vanish from existence.

"Is it gone?"

"It has to be? I doubt even a Tyranid Carnifex could survive that!"

"Gentlemen." A dark voice came from the smoke, causing the entire army to freeze at the voice. It sounded annoyed.

And quite alive.

"I am annoyed now." Discord walked out of the smoke, his arm at an odd angle, but he simply snapped it back into place by flicking said arm like a whip. "And I don't have time to play games with you lot anymore. But this offence can not go unpunished."

Discord watched as several of them intensified their glares, but remain where they stood trying to reload as fast as possible. He gathered his chaos, his eyes narrowing at them as the chaos floated off him in waves. 'Wonder what they would do when I change their boots and pants in high heels and dress?'

Discord held out his claw, a smile on his face as the energy around him concentrated on his extended appendage and thoughts molded their purpose. And with a final sinister grin he snapped.

Nothing happened.

The Catachans had tensed, ready for anything the daemon would unleash on them. But nothing happen, they watched as the creature looked at them strangely, then its claw and proceeded to repeatedly snap his claw several times before he look around in annoyance.

"What's it doing?"

"Playing some mind game perhaps, Emperor guide us."

Sanctioned Psyker Teilos, who was rescued surprisingly enough by the Ogryns when they fled the building, glared at Discord with all his hatred. He focused himself, attempting to perceive what the daemon was doing.

Teilos smiled viciously, which caught the Commander's attention.

"Teilos, what is it? What do you see?"

"I see a daemon without chaos. As mortal as any of us."

“The Emperor is with us men, quickly kill it while its weakened!” Commander cried out, Discord’s eyes wide in surprise before he focused and snapped his claws, vanishing from view.

Only to appear next to the smoldering ruin of his creation.

"After him!"

A bullet grazed Discord's shoulder, causing him to hiss in pain, he drop to the ground and race into the jungle, the sounds of explosions and gunfire right behind him.

By Mother, he’d actually been HURT! It wasn’t closing up! It was physical feeling!

"Okay, not good not good." Discord muttered as he raced away, the humans and Ogryns right behind him, whooping and hollering as they chased after him. Discord snapped his claw several dozen times, but only managed to teleport several feet ahead of him.

"Something is blocking Chaos from me." Discord gasped. But who or what was strong enough to stop his powers from functioning? It was something that Discord worried greatly and for good reason, chaos was everywhere, and now he couldn't even feel it.

After some more time running, Discord look behind him to see several figures crash through the brush and aim their weapons at him. Discord only spread his arms, closed his eyes, and beg for forgiveness for failing his duties when he reached the afterlife. There was silence, no sound of a weapon going off, no screams of daemon and Hersey, just silence. Discord open a single eye, then opened both to squint at the scene before him.

“Looks like I am in the mind of a hippie again!” Discord groaned as he looked around at the random amounts of colors that swirled around him. “I did NOT like the last one…”

“Well, well well who do we have here, thinking they can do my job?” Discord heard a raspy voice echoed out from behind him. He turn around to see a massive bird like creature behind, looking down with a curious look on his.

“And who are you?” Discord asked, holding down his lunch, the thing was extremely ugly, like a wax model of a bird that had been shoved in an oven, and it took all of Discord’s self control not to vomit. He might as well try to see what's going on, but he was kind of hoping for a better looking person to speak to.

One without the screaming faces fused into his skin.

“Who am I? Oh I am Tzeentch! The Lord of change! The Changer of Ways!” The creature replied, waving a putrid hand as he stated his title.

“Ok?” Discord grimaced slightly at what he said. “What kind of change?”

“General Change.”

“What is general change then? It can be change that leads to order, which thus cannot make you a chaos god or whatever you call yourself, so you can’t be that powerful.” Discord said with a wave of his paw at the bird creature that was just silently staring emotionless at the mix match creature. "If you're for evil change, then you are just a psychopath on a power trip, which means you are really... powerful... You're the latter aren't you?"

“Ah, then you are a creature of thought, already you are smarter than Khorne and Slaanesh, hehe.” Tzeentch chuckled with some amusement, “Not ones for intellectual conversation, those two. So why don’t you introduce yourself creature?” Tzeentch said as he continues to stare at Discord, not missing a detail on his new ‘Friend’.

"Great..." Discord muttered under his breath. "I am Discord! Lord of Chaos from my neck of the woods! Sometimes called The Deceiver, and Lord of Change and Chance from time to time, Oh and lets not forget Disco champion as well, I am quite proud of that title really." Discord said with nostalgia.

“Neck of woods? Ah, then you're not from around here then, are you? Do tell, where are you from really?” Tzeentch said with interest as he looked at Discord trying to tell if he was telling the truth.

"Ha ha... You never kiss and tell on a first meeting, now do you?" Discord frown as he felt the chaos gently float just out of his reach, the longer he stayed, the more uneasy he felt around the large bird man thing. "Tell you what? How about we part ways like friends because I have a schedule to keep. Don't want to let them down…I have friends who are at the mercy of a dark power that you can only-" he stopped. “Wait, nevermind. Given what I’ve seen so far, the word for what I’m talking about is probably a normal Tuesday for you, but it’s still very bad!”

“I don’t think it would be in your best interest to do that right now.” Tzeentch calmly explain as he showed Discord a small battle scene of some golden clad man fighting a red-armored technoorganic monstrosity, with weapons bursting from every surface of its body.

"Oh...that's..." Discord watched as the golden clad man eviscerate the corrupted being with a sword on fire. Discord swallowed before looking back at Tzeentch. "I got the feeling you will throw me at the guy..."

“Yes, definitely smarter than Khorne.” Tzeentch gave him a small vicious smile. “You see, this man here, hates chaos creatures. He absolutely despises them, and looking at you, he wouldn’t hesitant to pull out your spine and beat you with it.”

Discord was starting to regret choosing this universe. He was also getting irritated by the being, but kept his mind full of chaotic thoughts, no need to give the guy a free peep show. "Alright, alright. Doesn't take a genius to figure out its you blocking my powers. What do you want?"

“Now to answer my previous question, where are you originally from? What are you?” Tzeentch said a little more calm than Discord liked.

"For me? I am a science experiment gone wrong, you know the Colonel has to stop using those new spices." Discord told him bluntly with a grin on his face. “As for where, I come from beyond your means of travels and comprehension.”

“I do not appreciate jokes Discord, now give me a REAL answer and I may not let that man tear you apart.” Tzeentch calmly told Discord as he again showed him the same man, killing a pus-filled daemon with eagle like talon claws.

"That is a real answer... Okay so the Colonel thing was bit much, but its has much truth to it as well." Discord yawned, looking at the scene with a disinterested glance. "You got anything else to watch? This channel is boring. Beheadings and gore is so ancient history. Where are the lasers and huge battleships? I liked that part!"

The bird creature eyes twitched as if having enough of Discord’s explanations.

“This. Is. Your. Last chance before I just let the man kill you, where did you come from!” Tzeentch yelled angrily at Discord, the threat of the armored man was becoming less terrifying... And repetitive.

Discord looked at the golden man, before looking at Tzeentch, and finally decided he just had to push the last button. "Does he get better channels? I'll gladly change for someone else, because you are just so rude! I mean really! I'm a guest and this is how you treat guests?!"

“You know what? I had enough of niceties.”Tzeentch snapped its talons and Discord ended up in a table extremities strapped to length. “If you won’t volunteer to give me my answers I’ll just get them.”

"Hmmm... Kinky." Discord smirked a bit, but inside he was panicking, he was desperately trying to find himself out the situation and needed one fast. "When will it be my turn to play the dominator?"

“HRGHRAHH!” Tzeentch  yelled as he forcibly entered Discord's mind.

Only to find himself surrounded by inane thoughts and fluffy pink clouds. He growled in annoyance as he attempted to push them away, but found himself unable to locate the true thoughts of the little chaos creature. Finally, a stray thought passed him, speaking of some matter of importance, he latched on and followed, only to find himself outside Discord's mind, with said draconequus giving him a small smile.

"Had fun?" Discord smiled up at the disgusting bird creature before the Tzeentch roared in anger and tried again.

“RRR! I WILL UNLOCK YOUR SECRETS DISCORD, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES!”

One Hour later, though time is rather abstract within the warp so really, it’s anyone’s guess

“How are you repelling my mental attacks! Only the corpse Emperor could do it!” Tzeentch  yelled in frustrations as he repeatedly tries to force Discord’s mind open.

"What was that? Did you say something?" Discord asked, blinking at the enraged chaos god. Discord couldn't help but chuckle a bit. Tzeentch did get inside, but the poor fool got lost until Discord ejected him by tricking him into believing he was entering his mind. When he was actually leaving.

“Hahaha this is fun! You amuse me, some powerful ‘chaos god’ can’t even get in my mind. Bad show, my good sir, bad show! HAHA!” Discord laughed as Tzeentch was going mad in repeated failed attempts to get his information. Thank you Mother!

"Who is Mother?" Tzeentch said in Discord mind, apparently that one thought managed to catch Tzeentch’s attention. Discord felt him get a foothold within his mind, and Discord was helpless to stop him as he followed the trail to his center.

"Ah...crud." Discord said before his entire mind felt like it was on fire.

Several Abstract Hours Later

After hours of constant fighting, tricks, and insults; Tzeentch was surely winning as Discord's mind breaks, slowly and painfully as possible. Tzeentch had to admit, for a chaos youngling, Discord was able to thwart his attempts early on, a powerful mind indeed. Even now, with his mind breaking, Discord was resisting his attempts, even if he wasn’t fully aware of what he was doing.

“Hehehe, just a little more!” Tzeentch began to salivate as victory grew near, the very world he saw within Discord’s mind was perfect, easy to corrupt and spread his ‘change’ onto it. All he needed was to find out where it was located at and he won. Well, he would have, if there wasn’t a loud and very destructive sound resonating in the area. Tzeentch turned to find two beings standing behind him.

The one with gold armor, the other in armor some unremarkable, unpainted shade of gray between bone-white and dark gray with a banner on his back. Tzeentch growled in anger at the interruption, bearing his claws at the intruders.

“Is this the one we are supposed to help my Emperor?” The white grey armored figure asked. “All I see is Tzeentch playing with a pawn.”

“Aye my son, tis the being we seek. He alone holds many secrets beyond our world and the Warp. If Tzeentch breaks him… it does not bear thinking on. Free the being, Tzeentch is mine.” The Emperor said as he charged at Tzeentch while the bone white armored dashed to Discord.

Tzeentch's eyes widened in shock as the Emperor swung his sword. Cursing, he jumped away, his wings flaring as he launched a warp spell at the Emperor, only for it to be batted away.

“So this is where you hide, Tzeentch?” The Emperor growled as he sent a blast  to Tzeentch bared himself against it before roaring out and attacking him.

"Look mommy... A knight in shining armor." Discord mumbled, his eyes caked with tears as his nearly shattered mind began the process of building itself back up. "I can be a knight too and defeat the evil freak, right?"

The ‘Knight’ frown somewhat at this, shaking his head as placed his hands on Discords and muttered some words, after some time Discord was finally getting more sane.

Well... Sane for Discord.

After some time, the white-grey armored figured stepped away as Discord finally recollected himself and looked around him.

“Who are you people?” Discord asked as the ‘knight’ frees Discord from the table. His mind was scrambled and flambéed, his movement sluggish but his natural healing ability was taking care it.

“I am known as Draigo of the Grey Knights, and that is the Emperor of Man fighting Tzeentch, come let us finish this.” Draigo said as he unsheathed his sword ready to charge into the fray.

"Sorry, but I have to leave." Discord said, cracking his neck.

“I assure you, you won’t leave the warp with an angry chaos god on your tail. It will be in your best interest to stick with us.” Draigo simply explained to Discord as if telling a child.

Discord chuckled a bit, snapping his claws as Draigo's sword appeared in his claw, much to Draigo's disbelief at the bold move. "Believe, me, Sir Draigo. I am quite capable now that Tzeeny is focused on your leader."

"Wait?! What are you-"

Discord snapped his claws once more, appearing right before Tzeentch, the flaming sword stabbing it directly into Tzeentch‘s left eye. "How does that feel, feels good huh?!" Discord yelled as he swirled the flaming weapon in the socket. Tzeentch screech in anger before teleporting away, knowing he is outnumbered and not having the advantage. The corpse Emperor was too strong, the trapped Knight too skilled, and Discord... Discord was just crazy. Who knew what he could come up with if he fought with them against him. Even all the time he had ripping into his mind, he didn't even have a clue what Discord could pull off. It was like he was trained with a madman on a power trip and serene goddess at the same time with his mental defenses.

Discord popped back next to Draigo, handing him his weapon back. "OK, now I can leave."

“No, We have answers for you to hear. Answers that can help you find what you are searching for.” The gold clad person explain to Discord.

"What I am searching for doesn't exist here." Discord explain patiently. "Listen I am glad you helped me and NOT turn me into a beef patties, but I have to leave."

“Yes and I know something that might be useful for your search.” the Emperor stated, giving him a small playful smile. "Avoid worlds like this one."

"Gee, what a wonderful fountain of information you are." Discord deadpanned, Draigo bristled at this slight, but the Emperor only raised his hand to stop him, chuckling somewhat.

"I wouldn't have come if it wasn't for the heavenly voice begging me to save you." The Emperor told Discord.

"Heavenly...voice?" Discord blinked at that, confusion apparent on his face.

"Indeed. You have someone looking out for you. She begged me to save you from Tzeentch, before Tzeentch learns of the secrets and powers of the Multi-verse, powers that can topple even myself." The Emperor stated, Draigo looked stunned at this, before staring at Discord in new light. "What you search for is beyond the mortal realm, even beyond the Warp. My powers allows me to see these other universes, but I can never be there in person. One day, when I vanquish the chaos gods for good, I may construct a means to visit the other realms and even help out my own counterparts, perhaps create the Imperium of which I originally dreamed, or even… or even be a better father like Roboute would have wanted,” he sighed. “But until then I remain.”

Discord blinked several times as he thought over what the man said, Mother? Did you... Discord look to the Emperor as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a medallion.

“Take this.” Discord grasped the odd medal, looking it over with its strange symbol etched onto it. “If you ever find yourself in a world like this one again, this medallion will signal my counterpart to it. Since you are holding it and not screaming in agony, you are worthy being to be known.”

“Uh… Thank you.” Discord decided to wrap the medallion around his wrist. “Thanks for kicking Tzeeny out.”

The Emperor chuckled at this. “Not many beings can survive what you went through. Or even have the gall to call Tzeentch, the Chaos God of ‘Change’, Tzeeny.”

“My Emperor, Tzeentch will come soon.” Draigo respectively cut in. “And he will bring an army with him. He must go, and go now.”

“Of course, my son.” The Emperor agreed. “Go Discord. Find the world you seek. You may be a chaos creature, but from what I can see, you are the only one worth anything to Fate. We will hold them back.”

“Thanks…” Discord turned around, focusing himself. Ok, lets see where I am...Ah, a different realm. Oh goodness, I hate multiple realm universes. Let see, all I have to do…

“NO! HE IS MINE!” Tzeentch roared out as he appeared, his army was massive in size as they all rushed as one to the three.

“You must go!” Draigo yelled. “We cannot defend ourselves and you at the same time against this horde!”

Discord gave a look of annoyance at Draigo, before snapping his claw. The veritable tide of daemons and corrupted beings found themselves slipping and sliding across the ground as the floor become slick with soap. The Emperor laughed out loud as even Tzeentch slipped and crushed several of his minions.

“In thousands of years, I don’t think I have enjoyed myself so!” The Emperor laughed, using his Psyker powers to explode several daemons with the force of his mind.

“Thanks.” Discord snapped his claws as a portal open between the universes. Tzeentch found himself staring at the portal, his eyes trying and failing to understand what he was seeing.

“Sayonara, Tzeeny! Stick a flaming sword up his rectum and give it a good twist! For the Emperor!” Discord shouted as jumped in and closed the portal, but not before he snapped his claw and a giant black ball with a fuse burning appeared over his head and landed right on Tzeentch.

Tzeentch barely had time to grasp what he seen before the large black ball slammed onto his head and exploded, covering his face in pink bubble gum. Tzeentch roared in anger as he tried to wipe it off, only for it to spread. This in turn caused the entire horde to pause as they tried to avoid their flailing leader.

Draigo and the Emperor could only watch as Tzeentch stomped around in the growing pink stuff, slipping from the soapy ground, and either crushing his minions or gathering them up in the gum.

“My Emperor..”

“Yes?”

“I…Should we attack?”

“Hmm… Let Tzeentch suffer this humiliating venture a little longer. I find this amusing.”

“Of course.”

The Void

Discord closed the portal, giving a small grimace as his head exploded in pain. He gave a groan as he floated in the void, he summoned a red paint can and simple threw the can 'onto' the 'wall', marking the world off with a clear X.

"I'm hungry." Discord muttered. "Also in pain."

Discord raised a claw and snapped, summoning a tub of popcorn and glass of chocolate milk. Discord took a swing, only spit it right back out. "Bleh! Tastes like dirt!"

Discord sniffed the popcorn before tossing that away as well with disgust. "Great. My powers are not up to speed just yet. Guess I'm going to a world then, better avoid ones like the last one."

Discord searched for while, finding a few worlds, but lacked a diverse species for him to blend in. After a couple of other unfit search’s, Discord finally found one to rest and recover in.

Sammy Bar/Grill/Hotel!

Discord walked through the doors, finding well over a dozen species inside having a good time. There was even a few scattered humans with them as well. Discord walked by, not a single person paid any attention to him as he sat at the bar. The multiarmed bartender raised an eyebrow as Discord slammed his face onto the bar.

"Rough day buddy?" The bartender asked, looking at Discord with amusement.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe the day I had so far." Discord muffled voice from his planted face. "And my brain is killing me."

"Ah... Ran into a telepath?" Bartender began to mix some alcohol together, not even looking away from Discord and still cleaning the glass in hand. “I'm amazed you got away. Must have a pretty strong will to resist them.”

"Sort of." Discord looks up with a small grin on his face.

The Bartender laughed as he set the glass before Discord. "Name’s Sammy. Owner of this here Bar/Grill/Hotel. Take a drink my friend, on the house. Telepaths run rampant in these parts and they abuse their ability. Bastards have their robots running about causing havoc for the good folk around. This place, my pride and joy, is a safe haven for these people. Keeps them hidden from their wandering minds. I concocted this drink to help those that had their minds' being thrown into a blender."

"Thanks." Discord took a sip and started coughing immediately, thumping his chest with surprise. Sammy laughed as grabbed a notepad and began to jot down several dishes.

"Careful there, old man. Quite strong drink, but it works. Now, let's get you something to eat." Sammy chuckled as he ripped the note and sent it to the kitchen.

"I don't have anything to pay with." Discord rubbed his head, somewhat embarrassed with his conduct so far. Here he was, Lord of Chaos, and he couldn't even handle a drink. Maybe he was still off his game.

"Ah, no worries. I can see you're busy man. Its in your eyes, very important to you. Eat, drink, sleep and be on your way." Sammy gestured as he poured another drink for a customer.

"That's... Quite kind of you." Discord tilted his head in confusion.

"Mmm." Sammy nodded his head. "Kindness can go a long way, with Aku spreading misery everywhere, its important to know that helping others will get us by."

"Aku?" Discord muttered to himself, wondering who this Aku was. He shrugged, wasn't his deal and these people were making it by.

Sammy had just served him a bowl of miso soup, somewhat spicy if the smell and taste was anything to go by, when the place turn silent. Discord had just began to scarf it down when he looked up from his bowl, noodles hanging from his mouth as he turned to the side and glanced to the entrance to see whatever caused the silence.

Standing at the door was a human, wearing a white kimono, a straw hat, and a katana strapped to his side. Discord immediately took note of the sword, the pureness it radiated felt so similar to Harmony that he nearly drop his bowl in shock.

"I can't believe it." Sammy whispered as the human slowly made his way to the bar. "He's here."

"He?" Discord looked to the human taking his seat next to Discord.

"Samurai Jack." Sammy whispered in awe. "It is an honor to be your presence."

Jack merely gave a warm smile and nodded his head. "Water please." Jack requested, before looking to Discord, more specifically, his bowl. "Is that... Miso?"

Sammy nodded his rapidly. "Yes sir! Would you like some!?"

"Tell me." Jack looked to Discord, a warm smile on his face. "How does it taste for you, Dragon."

"Dragon?" Discord blinked at the name before looking at his bowl. "Taste pretty well made actually. Somewhat spicy, but that gives it a good kick rump for weary travellers."

"I see. Yes. I shall have one." Looked to Sammy and placed several coins on the table. "A room as well if you have any to spare."

"Oh no! You don't have to pay, sir! Its on the house." Sammy waved his multiple arms wildly.

Jack only blinked before placing his money back into his pouch. Discord had decided to take the time to savour the flavor of his food, slowly making Miso his favorite dish with every bite. Discord looked to Jack with a question in mind.

"Who are you? Why do these people revere you so much?" Discord asked, pointing his chopsticks at Jack.

"My name is Jack, although it is not my birth name, I simply took as my own for the people of this world to call me by. And you my odd dragon friend?"

"Name is Discord. Just passing through on my way in a search for something," Discord stuck out his claw and Jack gave a small shake.

"A quest?" Jack asked, giving Discord a once over. "Of what kind?"

"A simple search. Nothing more," Discord gave him a small smile. "Just taking a break at the moment."

"I see. I pray yours is a success then," Jack answered, nodding gracefully as a warm bowl of Miso was placed before him. "As for the praise, I fight against Aku, I have come close several times in slaying the demon, far closer than anyone has before."

"Huh. Well how long you been trying to do that?" Discord asked as he raised the bowl to drink the flavorful remains.

"Hmm... By my estimation. Several thousand years." Jack answered, calmly eating while Discord spat out his drink on a passing robot waiter, causing it to short out. The robot beeped out a warning, eyes blinking as it raced out the door before sound of a muffled explosion and an arm sailed back inside.

"Wow, really?" Discord blinked as he looked closely at man. "You look good, I aged horribly on the other hand." Discord pointed to his face, wrinkles spontaneously appearing on his face.

Jack have a small chuckle. "I am accounting all of history into this. In reality it has only been a few years. Aku, in an effort to save himself, threw me into the future where he was at his strongest."

"Whoa, wait wait wait!" Discord stared at human in surprise. "This demon just ripped open time to get rid of you? Why didn't he just throw you into space or under the sea?"

Jack shrugged. "Aku believed in facing off against me when he was at his most powerful. To cast me down at the futility of my mission to stop him."

"That's... That just stupid. That's like Evil Overlord mistake number... Hold on." Discord snapped his claw as a book appeared in his claw, causing Jack to raise his eyebrow at the title.

'Evil Overlord List'

"Six, thirteen, forty one..." Discord muttered as he flipped through. "Huh... Well, I wouldn't really call myself an 'Evil Overlord', but I made couple mistakes myself. Eh, I'll be sure to look through it again if I really need to."

Discord banished the book as he looked back to Jack. "Still, you had to be a thorn in his side to be causing this kind of reaction?"

"I find it more troubling that you reference to such a book in the first place," Jack said quietly as he took a bite.

Discord gave a small chuckle as he looked to the ceiling. "Let's just say my job back at home requires me to be a fair hand at dealing chaos. At least it was until I was stoned and placed as a garden ornament for a thousand years or so. So I wasn't exactly happy when I was freed."

Jack gave him a long look, which caused Discord to grimaced slightly as he ran the last few sentences in his head. "Oh. Well that might appear bad, but I defend that I was created by accident and was later tasked in making sure certain parameters were followed. I didn't go around in spite... Not initially anyways. Something or a certain someone got too uppity for their own good and I paid the price for it."

Jack slowly nodded his head, calmly eating as he listen to Discord's tale. "And your job entitles you to cause wanton destruction?"

"No." Discord grumbled as he answered. "My job was to regulate to weather, make sure certain aspects of the world function as normal as possible. Things like that."

"I see." Jack calmly drank his water. "And did anything happen to cause this person to see you in bad light?"

Discord open his mouth to answer, his scathing reply cut short as he remembered something Celestia had yelled at him sometime ago.

'I was there Discord, I saw you bring the storm the day the Wendigos appeared!'

Discord had initially ignored what she had said in a fit of anger. He never willingly brought any creature that could hurt his mother's people. But now to think on it, it made some sense. The storm was weakening far too quickly and Discord had to keep the balance of the world in check. To make sure that ponykind strived beyond themselves.

Perhaps this was his fault to begin with. He just pushed the storm a little further before leaving. Had he know the Wendigos had manifested within the storm he would have banished them without thought. The storm may have united ponykind through hardship, but it was Celestia who capitalized on it and demonized chaos.

Essentially blaming him for it.

When Scribe demanded Discord to retrieve Celestia and Luna, he was confused to see the sisters in charge of a growing country. It infuriated him to see the two pass knowledge without the ponies learning through trial and error. He appeared and demanded they leave, and was attacked on the spot by pony guards.

Discord sighed, rubbing his head. "I guess. Wouldn't be the first time I did something without thinking it through or seeing the results."

"Hmm." Jack only hummed at this. "Even the most wisest and elder beings can make mistakes in a moments folly. All you can do is grow beyond it."

"Kind of hard for me." Discord groaned as he rubbed his face in annoyance. "They all think I'm this super evil creature of death and darkness."

"Are you?"

"What?! No! Of course not. I'm fair! I can perform good deeds if I tried, but I don't because its not what chaos do. Its neutral, it doesn't side with anyone or anything." Discord sighed as he looked to the mirror of the end of the stall, seeing his aged and withered face looking back at him. "But I can't be evil. I seen evil first hand, it killed my Mother, nearly destroyed my world. But... I have to do bad things to keep the world turning."

Jack said nothing to this. He saw the conflict of emotions running through the odd being's eyes, but let it go as it’s not his place to dig deeper. On his grim reminder, Discord's eyes fell once again onto the sword of the warrior, the feeling of harmonious power in such simple steel rising his curiosity once again as he asked.

“And what of you, man out of time? For what I can sense you are not holding a sword of steel only, are you?” At the mention of his sword, Jack’s palm touched it’s handle, Discord for a moment thought he had said something wrong, but it appeared to be only a subconscious reaction.

“Yes, this magic sword is Aku’s weakness and fear. Passed through many evils, corrected many wrongs, all in search of a way back to correct the evil Aku has unleashed.” Jack’s words were sturdy, and eyes determined. His mission was going to be complete, eventually.

“Huh, so how do you find these ‘evils’? You just go about your merry way and they find you?”

“No, I search for a way to return to my own time, but once I do there’s innocents captured, villains in rule. I can’t let them be. It’s in my duty to help those in need, even if it means to lose my only way back.” Jack’s determination didn’t even witter, but his eyes sadden, probably by the sheer amount of times it has happened.

“Huh...” Discord was about to note that if Jack did go to the past, all of his actions and all the ‘evils’ he corrected would have been for nothing.

He would essentially erase them from history, not just the evils either, but the people he saved as well.

But telling such a thing would make Jack, a warrior that apparently holding the equivalent of a weaponized Element of Harmony on his waist, react rather poorly, if not traumatize the man. He needed something to believe in, and to tell him that would be…. well, that would be truly evil. Discord didn’t know much of the human, and he was not going to take that risk. “Just for curiosity has there been any stunningly good looking ‘dragons’ like myself in your travels?”

“Well, I have seen many creatures of various sizes and looks, I could tell you about the dragons I have met, if you share the same about anything of anything that could help me on my quest for a way back.”

“Deal.”

Several Hours later

Discord couldn't help but be amazed so far at the stories Jack told him. This human was the pinnacle of the human body and spirit, and he only got better as time went on. If he had to guess, in a fight between him and Marcus, Jack would win with pure skill alone.

No offense to the Colonel, Jack fought monsters the size of buildings and robots in droves and still came out on top.

Still…

Marcus was growing in skills and he survived this long, that along with his runes to back him up, so maybe he shouldn’t be counted out just yet.

Discord had just finished weaving his own tale of his journey to find the human world that Marcus hailed from. Jack held his cup in his hands, his face filled with regret and sorrow.

“I find it disturbing that such a pure being fell into corruption.” Jack murmured softly before taking a drink.

“The Bag of Tirek is a powerful artifact of a jealous being.” Discord tilted his head back as he looked to the roof. “His grab for power and his envy of my mother created the monster I know. I can bet even this Aku character would have a hard time in defeating him, if even that.”

“Aku would no doubt try and hold a partnership with him” Jack tilted his head, but Discord only gave a dry laugh while shaking his head.

“Oh no, there is no ‘partnership’ with Tirek. Either you fall in line or be drained of everything you hold dear, becoming a puppet for his anger.” Discord's eyes held a haunted look before he shook his head. "No matter. I just need a good rest before I leave once more."

Discord pulled on odd looking pocket watch and took a peek at it. Jack couldn't help but stare at the confusing clock face. It made little sense and Jack couldn't help but blink away tears that began to pour out. Discord look at him with surprise before shutting it closed. "Sorry."

"Uh..." Jack held his head, blinking rapidly. "What was that?"

"A watch linked to my original timeline. Tells me how much time has passed in my world. Only a chaotic mind can make sense of it." Discord put the watch away before looking around in confusion. "Hey, why did it get quiet all of a sudden?"

Jack and Discord turn around to see everyone staring at the entrance, looks of fear on their faces as they stared at the three very short humans looking back at them with vile grins on their faces.

"So Sammy, thought we couldn't find this hole in the ground eh?" The middle dwarf called out. "You should know better than that."

Sammy gritted his teeth, his hands slowly reaching for a  hidden weapon  beneath the bar, only for the wall to explode and three large robots step through. "Damn you Jarrel. Leave this place."

"I don't think so, Deserter." Jarrel sneered, pointing his finger at him with disgust. "You hid our prizes from our minds, but not our eyes."

Discord looked around to see everyone tense up, the fear surrounding them escalated, some even bursting to tears. Sammy roared in anger as he pulled out what appeared to be a heavy machine gun and fired. The three heavy duty robots were standing before the midgets by the time Sammy took aim, taking the rounds with ease. "Curse you and your slaver partners."

"Slavers..." Jack voice echoed out, slowly standing from his seat, his eyes zeroing in on the three. "You enslave people?"

"For money, power, heh, even pleasure." Jarrel chuckled darkly, causing Jack to draw his sword. "Oh, watch out fellas, he has a itty bitty sword."

Jack scowled before rushing to them, sword trailing behind him as he neared them. Discord watched on, frowning as his conscious began to poke at him, demanding that he interfer.

Jack swung his sword at the approaching robot, only for the robot to jump back in mid swing, barely grazing the metal chassis. By the time Jack realized what happen, the robot was swinging its own punch and took the punch to the chest, sending him flying backwards.

Discord watched as Jack flew through the air, flipping around until he landed gracefully on the ground, a scowl on his face. Jarrel and his cronies began to laugh at this.

"Alright hero, what makes you think any moves you have is going to work when facing against a telepath?" Jarrel smirked as his robots pistoned there arms, jets of steam flaring from their ports. "Our minds are linked to the machines and our mind is far faster than your reactions."

Discord stirred his drink, looking to Jack as he stared hard at the robots before a smirk appear on his face. Discord couldn't help but smile as well. "What a bunch of idiots." He whispered as he drain the rest of his drink.

Jack jumped off, racing back into the fray. Jarrel roared out in laughter as Jack neared them. "Idiot!  I said you can't win against a telepath, we know your every move before you even-!"

Jack swung his sword, slicing through the robot with complete ease. The robot on the other hand seemingly punched the air for no reason, missing Jack completely. The second robot raised its arms to crush him before it rotated its entire upper half and slamming the ground behind it. Jack swung the blade upwards between its legs, cutting it half as it tried to turn around to grab him. Jack rolled to the side and sliced the third robot's leg off while it raised its leg up to crush Jack before it lost its supporting leg and toppled over.

Jack stood back up and slammed the blade into its chest, deactivating it before placing the sword away. He turn back to Jarrel and his cronies, his eyes narrowed into slits as he made his way towards them.

"But...But how?!" Jarrel spluttered in shock. "We saw what you were going to do?!"

Discord couldn't help but laugh out loud at his shocked face. "Because Jack here is a trained warrior, he cleared his mind while thinking up false movements to trick you. And you fell for it, like he knew you would. Some 'great' telepath you turn out to be."

Jarrel took several steps back before giving an evil grin, causing Jack to pause at this before he ducked a swung chair. He turn back in shock to see a women with four eyes staring at him with a blank look. Jack looked around to see a dozen of the bar occupants grabbing weapons and made their way to him. Another few stood before Jarrel and his sleazy friends.

"Jarrel!" Sammy roared in anger as he pressed his index fingers to his temple and tried to break his customers free from their control, sweat beginning to bead on his forehead. "Release them!"

Jarrel ignored him, smiling sinisterly at Jack, gripping his sword uselessly. Jack couldn't hurt these people with his sword, but maybe with his martial skills he can put them down.

"Thinking you can knock them out? Won't happen. We're in complete control of their bodies, they won't fall until they die. What you are going to do now hero?" Jarrel lean back and gave a bark of laughter, only to freeze in horror as Discord stood before him. His face hidden in darkness and his eyes glowing with sickly yellow light.

"I've done bad things in my life." Discord's voice was soft, but held a large amount anger. "I am not innocent of taking a beings mind and tinkering with it. But I just ramp up a single emotion until its the only thing they feel. I'm guilty of such a thing, but in the end, I paid for it, still am."

Discord looked down at them. "But I don't enslave a mind. Controlling a thinking, breathing being against their will is the most heinous thing a living being can do to another."

The three attempted to subdue Discord with the mental powers, only to freeze in horror as they felt Discord snap up their consciousness like mere paper. Discord couldn't help but give an evil smile to the three telepaths, holding their minds in his grasp.

"You think you can control me? I don't think so. For this insult, let's take away the one thing that makes you special." Discord gave a dark chuckle, the three telepaths’ faces grew from horror to pain as they screamed in agony.

Jack watched as the enslaved civilians blinked as one, their eyes filled with fright at what had almost happened, immediately apologizing to Jack. He looked back to the three telepath, now falling to their knees, their faces filled with horror and pain as they snarled at Discord. Discord held up a single claw, a small glowing orb held within.

"This is the power you love to abuse so much and enslave others with. " Discord stated calmly, as if he was talking about the weather. "This is what happens to your abilities when you go against someone who can take them away from you."

The three yelled in denial as Discord cracked the orb in his grip, it gave a flare of light, vibrating, and then exploding, vanishing from sight. "Good luck. You have a lot to answer for."

Discord walked away, his eyes trained on Jack, ignoring the civilians as they glowered in anger  enclosing the three former telepaths. Jarrel spluttered out mercy, but realize none were to be had as they were grabbed and dragged outside.

"Cruel." Jack said once the yelps of pain from the three became part of the background.

"But necessary." Discord closed his eyes before taking a small huff of annoyance. "The gall they had, trying to control me."

Jack said nothing to this, only to blink as Discord held out his claw to Jack. He looked to Discord who had a small smile on his face. "Yes?"

"This is where we part ways." Discord said, his smile becoming a wide grin. "It was good to meet you, Samurai Jack. Have a safe journey and a successful quest."

Jack gave a soft smile in return and took his claw and gave it a single firm shake. "And you in return Discord, Daimyo of Chaos."

Discord turned to Sammy, his multiple arms wringing nervously before the human and draconequus. "Thank you... Both of you."

Jack stood straight before bending on a dignified bow to the alien bartender, while Discord gave a salute before snapping his claw, a swirling white portal opening behind him. Both Jack and Sammy watched as Discord floated off the ground before flying into the portal and snap shut.

"Good luck, Discord." Sammy said quietly as he turn to walk, only to struggle to not fall from something he tripped on. Sammy look down, his eyes nearly popping out of their socket to see a stack of gold bricks at his feet.

Jack reach down and pulled the note attached to them, giving a quick read before smiling and handing the note to Sammy.

Sammy blinked in confusion as took the note and gave it a read.

Dear Sammy,

This pile of bricks made of the Element Au is the illicit funds for the three short stacks. I know of your past, thanks to the little mind rush I had with them.

You grew beyond them and helped many people. So in return for your brave deeds and helping yours truly, I give you this stack on the floor before you.

Oh yeah!

One of your robot waiters should be freaking out now because they found your office filled to the brim with the rest!

Your friend, Discord

P.S. Give Jack some gold bricks, tell him he might need it later.

The Void

“Hmm...This maybe?” Discord muttered as he vanished into one world. A few scant seconds later, Discord reappeared, snarling as he fought off the biped that was grasping him.

Discord attempted to kick the humanoid off of him, but the black tendrils exploding from the being’s back latched onto him.

“Let go of me, dummy reject!” Discord snarled at the blighted thing.

The white faceless being only grasped him harder, attempting to pierce his scales with his claws. Discord growled, and with a snap his claw, vanished from the strange monsters grasp, only to appear behind him and lash out with his tail. Discord scowled as he held out an arm and magicked up a bat. But then looked at the bat, then back at the thing.

“...Bigger.”

The bat grew in size to about the size of a small tree.

“Bigger.”

Now it was as large as a redwood tree in its prime.

“Bigger!”

Discord smiled as his bat was now the size of a supertanker, giving the vile creature floating helpless in the void a rather vicious grin.

“Coming up to the home plate, is number 16, Discord!” Dozens of Discords -and a few Qs who just happen to be moseying about came to see the spectacle- cheered in the distance, waving flags and number #1 hand foams. Discord could only chuckle as he pulled the absurdly large bat back.

“The wind up!” The tall, faceless monster tumbled through the void, unable to regain its bearings in such a voidless existence.

“The pitch!” Discord stuck out his tongue, squinting at the floating monster.

“Discord swings!” The large bat swung forward with an impossible speed belying its size. The slender being barely had time to react to the massive bat before being slammed and sent flying across the white expanse at nearly supersonic speeds.

“And it going! And going! Aaaand it’s outta here!"

Discord raised his arms as the crowd of Q’s and Discord's cheered before he snapped his claw and vanished the summoned Discords. Several Q’s waved goodbye to him as they made their way back to their worlds, all but one.

“Very impressive." Q said quietly, giving a small bow to him. “I say he might be regretting with messing with you.”

“Q, you flatter me, you really do.” Discord said with a smile. “Its been too long.”

Discord gave him a humble hug, which Q return with equal familiarity. Even though there was multiple universes along with other Qs and Discords, this Q and Discord knew each other due to one solitary being.

“Faust contacted me.” Q replied quietly. “Wanted me to check up on you.”

Discord lowered his head, rubbing his head. “Ah Mother, even in the Eye of Harmony, she still looks out for me.”

Q looked out to the white expanse, remaining silent for a moment before looking back to him. “She is ashamed how your life turned out.”

“I’m fine.” Discord said, but Q held him by the shoulder and looked directly into his eyes.

“No, you are not. You suffered, not just being called a monster, but you saw a version of yourself die. I doubt even I can say that and not be somewhat squeamish about seeing your own self die in the most agonizing way possible.” Q closed his eyes and gave a frustrated sigh. “And now you are roaming the multiverse, facing monsters that would give me trouble. Discord, your mother worries about you. You are her child, even if you started off as an experiment. She loves you and will never be far from you.”

“Is that the reason you are here? Because you worry for me? Where were you when I was trapped in stone?!” Discord scowled angrily. “I was turned to stone and I couldn’t even sleep. I was forced to be awake for over a millenia, do you know how hard that is for a being such as myself. To never sleep, to never dream. To always be aware and unable to move!”

“You know the reason. I cannot interfere with a world outside my own. The Q Continuum had barely allowed me to help train your abilities with Faust’s constant prodding and pleas. She even begged them to allow you under my care at the time of Tirek’s rampage.” Q lowered his head. “I am glad they didn’t. I wasn’t the best person to be around. So full of myself and my own ego.”

Discord gave a frustrated groan, before letting his head slump to his chest. “Sorry. I’m just…”

“I know.” Q gave him a small smile. “I understand. However, there is another reason to why I am here.”

“Oh?” Discord perked up at this, seeing a mischievous smile on his teacher’s face.

“I want to say that this will be the last time we meet. As teacher and student, I mean. I wish to part ways as friends.” Q said quietly, giving him a bright smile. “I have a son to look after, and I have to be sure he is on his best behavior. Can't leave any regrets before I do this.”

“You… Have a son?!” Discord stared at him with shock. This was definitely news to him!

“Yes. He has passed a test, but the Q Continuum is not to sure about his character. So they directed me into keeping an eye on him, to be sure he is on the right path.”

“So… This is goodbye then.” Discord said sadly, frowning even more as Q gave him a sad smile.

“But, not forever, I should think.” Q walked off, giving a small skip as he turn back to Discord. “I’m also passing some information to you as well. There is a world filled with Ninjas that may hold something interesting for you.”

“Really… Ninjas?” Discord couldn’t help but quirk an eyebrow at this information.

“Oh believe me, these are not the ninjas you are thinking. One of these worlds hold a hero with a certain skill that may help you in your quest. Just keep a look out for blue eyes, blond hair, loves Ramen noodles, and has an unhealthy love for orange.” Q said with a smile on his face before leaving, causing Discord to shake his head but smiled none the less.

“A world filled with ninjas, huh.” Discord said as he opened another world. “That will be one to look out for.”

-Equestria, Canterlot-

-Third POV-

Discord frowned as he appeared in the middle of Canterlot, he turned to see dozens of ponies freezed in place as they took note of him.

"Eh. Did I go back? No, this is a different Equestria. Ponies look a little larger. Oh well, lets try this again." Discord held up his claw to return to the void, but a spinning black portal appeared several yards in front of his person, much to his surprise. "Well... This is new. A multiverse transition portal?"

Discord raised an eyebrow as a human tumbled through. His odd clothes made him appear to be some sort of hero. Discord watched as he dusted himself off before tensing at the sight of him.

-Jarel POV-

Its been a while since the portal spat me out like this, I usually land on my feet... and it's the first time I've appeared so publicly. The ponies are bigger here than the ones in the last dimension, if there's one inconsistency that's consistent between each Equestria I've been to, is that the ponies' sizes are always different.  It's like each version has their own definition of "little pony" and now these guys are closer to my chest than my stomach.

But I better get out of here before... And Discord is right there staring right at me with a raised eyebrow. Aw nuts, I need to get away from him. I better make a quick and soft escape.  Yeah, that's right, walking away in fast pace and not looking back won't totally make him interested in me to mess with me... right?

I fought a Discord before but that's only because that one was playing a game with me.  He's the only one capable of physically stealing the orb that allowed me to harm powerful beings like him and Celestia and granting me immunity to some of their powers, mainly just telekinesis and transformation magic.  Especially transformation magic, since those will kill me instead of changing me.  While I read and heard about some Discords turning people into things, I really don't want to find out what this Discord is like.

-Third POV-

Discord watched as the human tried to walk as robotically possible away, sadly this human couldn't win a game of poker with a bag over his head and a voice scrambler if his life depended on it.

Discord snapped his claw, porting right in front of the human’s path. The odd man slammed into him and tumbled to the ground, rubbing his nose in annoyance before looking up to Discord.

Whatever the human was going to say apparently died on the way out if the small squeak he coughed out was anything to note.

Discord lean in close, his eyes narrowing at the suspicious dimension hopping human. "And who, pray tell, are you, my odd dimension hopping human."

-Jarel POV-

"Oh! Um... Hi Discord," Crud, I don't think I was supposed to say that because now he is looking at me with more interest. Darn, too late now.

"I'm a dimensional traveler, well more like a journeyman or something like that now, and I'm trying to find a way to go back home through specific portals and stuff."  My nervous laughter isn’t helping, trying to look away from Discord isn’t helping either, stop it brain! I feel very afraid of him and the only thing I can think of right now is to not tick him off and use his powers on me, or at least not ‘powerfully’.

-Third POV-

"Hmm..." Discord walked around the human, his paw to his chin as he examined him. The human journeyman gulped as he gripped him from the scruff of his shirt and lifted him to his own eye level.

The surrounding ponies had all but fled at this point and replaced with a dozen guards. Discord had ignored them in favor of the human in his grip. Slowly searching for something only Discord could see. After a moment, he gave the human a confused look.

"What an odd dimension traveler you are." Discord quietly mutter. "Whoever put you on this journey really hates you."

Discord took a one last look on his face before dropping him on his rear. "Eh, its this world's current problem. Good luck fighting the white blood cells."

-Jarel POV-

I rolled my eyes and nodded as I felt inclined to agree with him on a guy really hating me, after all, the one who started this dimension hopping adventure found out I have the potential to stop his evil plans.... Wait, what was that about white blood cells?

"What is he talking about?" I asked before noticing the guards surrounding me.  I really hope he just meant the guards.  "So, um hey guys... I guess I'm under arrest now, huh?  But um, under what charges?"  I tried to give a small smile while hoping the guards will at least listen to reason first.

-Third POV-

Discord smirked slightly as he heard the human’s question. He stood perfectly still, ignoring the guards as they arrested the confused traveler for no apparent reason. He closed his eyes and focused himself, only for that to be shattered by a bellowing voice.

"DISCORD! WE WILL STOP THEE BEFORE YOU RAIN DESTRUCTION ON THIS FAIR CITY!" Discord rolled his eyes as he watched Luna racing towards him from above.

Possibly looking for some impressive landing to endear her to the guards and populace, adding more regalness and powerfulness to her already alicorn standing. But all Discord saw an opportunity to be a pain.

Discord snapped his claw and stepped to the side at the same time, watching Luna land before him, only to slide wildly out of control towards the human and Royal Guards.

The crash of bodies and shouts of surprise nearly brought a tear to his eyes. Discord watched with amusement as Luna found herself on top of the human, a flustered look on his face for his closed proximity to the Lunar Princess.

Discord laughed out heartily as a spinning white portal open behind him. An evil prank idea just appeared within in his mind. Oh, he couldn’t pass it up! As for the human, Discord believes he can talk himself out of it. He felt like a goody two shoes and all. "Good luck human! Do everything I just told you as planned! You can rule the world with an iron fist! The pony princesses are just some weak fools! Make them your concubines if you are feeling randy!"

Discord jumped through, laughing the entire time while the portal closed.

-Jarel POV-

No... Discord did not just say what I think he just said. There’s no way Luna would-  Oh no, why is she looking at me like that?

"SEIZE HIM!" Luna screamed in her Royal Canterlot voice. "THOU DARE MAKE ME YOUR CONCUBINE FOR YOUR PERVERTED FLESH! WE SHALL SMITE YE TILL NOT BUT ASHES REMAIN CUR!"

And this is where I start running and screaming, “BAD DAY!  BAD DAY!  BAD DAY!”

-Grand Temple; Turin, New York-

Deep underground, Desmond swallowed nervously as his father, Rebecca, and Shaun trailed behind him, making their way deeper into the Temple. But as they walked Desmond paused, causing the others to stop as well.

"What is it, Desmond?" William muttered, gripping his pistol while Shaun and Rebecca tensed up, ready to fight.

Desmond looked around, a frown on his face as he searched the cavern. "I... I don't know. I feel like I'm being watched."

"Perhaps it’s Juno?" Shaun tried to answer cheerfully, "After all, she absolutely loves us- ugh! Really?!"

"Shut up, Shaun." Rebecca said, retracting her elbow as Desmond shook his head at Shaun.

"No... This is something different. But..." Desmond frown and shook his head. "Nah, its nothing."

William reached over and clamped his hand on Desmond's shoulder. "Son... What is it?"

Desmond couldn't help but rub his head at the gentle prodding. "It sounds stupid, but it feels familiar."

"Excuse me, did you just say it 'feels' familiar?" Shaun couldn't help but place a hand on his forehead. "Maybe you are just a little lightheaded. We can take from here."

"No." Desmond brushed the hands away. "Come on, we don't have much time."

Had Desmond concentrated to use his 'Eagle' vision, he would've taken note of a human figure standing off to the side, staring at him. The invisible figure smiled as the group walked on by, his eyes giving a faint yellowish glow as they made their way deeper.

"Finally. Its about time this little side trip is over."