Author's Notes:

As it turns out, I only have one class on tusedays and thursdays for a while so... probably expect updates then depending on the workload

“You know, Nightmare, you don’t look like you’re enjoying this family reunion when you should be,” Discord said as he brushed his hand through her starry mane. They were curled up beside each other on the ground, one of his arms around her neck, paw still closed over her mouth, keeping it shut. Nim tried to grit her teeth or shake him off, her wings flapping against her back as she tried to scramble away from him.

His grip was hard as steel and she wasn’t moving an inch.

“Oh come on, my little Nightmare, don’t you want to talk to dear old daddy Discord?” Discord asked, a pout on his face, his free hand still running through her mane. Nim let out a snort of anger and began to yank away from him as blades, guns, lasers, and plasma rifles started to stab, blast, shoot, and boil his flesh.

Discord seemed to take this unsettlingly well. A bolt of plasma shot at his face and he opened his mouth to catch it, chewed it once, and then blew it into a sickly green bubble of boiling energy. A giant sword stabbed into his chest and he chuckled lightly as he pulled it out with his mind and used it to cut his nails. Two dozen missiles slammed into his stomach but the explosions turned to a light gust of wind and flowed around him.

“Oh good show, but are you done yet?” Discord inquired with an amused smirk. “I mean a lot of these are imaginative I guess, but they’re not really up to par with-”

A giant metal boot slammed down on him, crushing him flat as a pancake. Then it lifted itself up and came down again. Hard. Nim let out a small cheer and her wings flapped, sending her soaring away as Liberty Prime stomped Discord into the ground.

“COMMUNIST ENGAGED!” Liberty Prime proclaimed as his boot slammed up and down. Nim smirked and began to look for where Sarah had ended up within her own mindscape. “I’M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT~”

Nim froze in mid air, turning back to see something that made her heart drop out of her chest.

Liberty Prime was standing there, no longer crushing Discord.

Instead he was wearing a tutu and had one hand on his hip, the other arm straight out.

“HERE IS MY HANDLE! AND HERE IS MY SPOUT!”

Nim stared in horror as the giant robot skipped away, still singing, tearing down trees as he went. Then she felt a familiar paw on her shoulder and she had only half a second to realize she was back where she started.

“Heheh, amusing little piece of iron,” Discord commented with a chuckle. “I’ll have to see about getting one for my manor wherever in the sky I decide to put it.” Then his voice turned serious. “Now then, I think you’re done aren’t you, Nightmare?”

“My! Name! Is! Nim!” Nim roared angrily at him. “I am not a Nightmare!”

“Nim?” Discord asked, raising an eyebrow high. “You mean to tell me that you went to all the trouble of giving yourself a new name, getting rid of Nightmare, which is a FINE name by the way, and you settled on NIM?!” he asked, sounding incredulous and quite a bit miffed. “You didn’t even go with something creative like Eris or Titty Sprinkles or hell, you could have just gone with a classic and picked Discordia?”

Nim glared daggers at him. “I do not know what madness you have been speaking of for these last few minutes but I promise you, I am no relative of yours!” she exclaimed angrily, a mini nuke exploding against his face and doing absolutely nothing. “If I am anyone’s daughter then it is Luna herself!”

“Nah, you’re my kid,” Discord replied with a small chuckle. “I mean come on, the family resemblance is uncanny!”

A giant funhouse mirror appeared in front of them and Nim glared at it for a moment until she felt her features elongated and became more and more Draconequuish with every passing seconds. The mare let out a scream of agony and terror as her body twisted and shifted into a hideous mockery of the alicorn she’d once been.

Sure, her fur was still black, where she had any at all instead of scales, but instead of her normal graceful wings, she possessed a single black raven’s wing one side and draconic purple one on the other side. Her dark green eyes were now a vivid yellow and shone with malevolent light. Her starry mane flowed around her head and now shoulders though now instead of simply containing stars it possessed galaxies and swirling supernovae.

Most bizarre of all was that she now possessed arms and legs. They were not normal arms or legs though, no of course not, that would have been merciful. Her right arm was covered in black feline fur and ended in a large and clawed cougar’s paw while the opposite was covered in snow white owl feathers and ended in three curving talons, one of which appeared opposable. Her legs were a different story. The right leg was covered in black and white zebra fur while the left was that of a ram, muscular and full of power.

Her mouth, which was currently open screaming with pain, displayed a full set of vicious tearing teeth along with one snaggled, off center one at the front, something she’d had all along. The top of her head was topped by a swirling ram’s horn on one side and a doe’s horn on the other. Her ears were still her own, oddly enough. The new Draconequus’s tail was that of a snake’s, thin and tapered to a tip, covered in scales as black as midnight.

She felt Discord’s arm wrap around her. “Ah there we go, my little Nimmy-Cup now you look like the Draconequus you were always meant to be!” he exclaimed with a grin. “Isn’t it great?!”

Nim screamed and tried to claw him off of with her new missmatched cougar and owl talons. Sadly, they simply bounced off of Discord’s arm and he chuckled again.

“Oh come on, Nimmy-Cup, stop that, it tickles a little,” he said as he spun her around in a circle. “And now isn’t the time for that kind of game, heh.”

Nim’s glare would have killed a full grown dragon but the effect was ruined by the tears of pain running down her cheeks. The transformation had been... incredibly painful which made no real sense... nothing here was real! Why on Earth would it have hurt her?!

A pained breath left her and she let out a scream as she launched herself at Discord again only to find him evading every slash of her claws, as if she was moving in slow motion. This went on for some time until Nim ran out of energy and with a pained mewl she collapsed on the ground in front of Discord.

“That’s a good girl, you done your little tantrum now?” Discord inquired as he settled down beside her and scooped her into his lap. “There there,” he said, stroking her mane in an almost fatherly way. “You’ve got some real anger issues in you, kid, probably thanks to spending so much time in hot headed little Lulu but that’s okay, I can adapt.”

“What... what’s happened to me?” Nim asked slowly, trying to wriggle out of his grasp but it was impossible. His hands were just too strong... and a part of her didn’t really mind the way that he was stroking her mane. It felt... like something she’d been missing.

“You spazzed out and tried to hurt your daddy,” Discord replied with a small affectionate chuckle. “Not that I really mind, it was kind of funny really.”

“You’re... not my father,” Nim growled, though it was much more difficult to deny the truth of his words now than it had been before.

“Yes you are, silly goose,” Discord stated with another affectionate chuckle as he stroked her mane. “I created you quite some time ago.”

“I don’t... I don’t believe you,” Nim said as she tried snapping at his fingers, finding only air. A deathclaw jumped out of the woods at Discord but it was turned into a harmless salamander in mid air, which then fell into Nim’s jaws and without realizing what she was doing, it was down her throat, cut into a dozen pieces.

“Heheh, you’re quite the biter aren’t you, Nimmy-Cup?” Discord asked as Nim squirmed while the salamander trickled wetly down her throat. “Probably something else you picked up from Lulu.”

Nim glared at him and remained silent in his lap, doing her best to ignore both his hands and the salamander which had hit her stomach.

Discord rolled his eyes. “Fine, kiddo, I’ll give you proof that you’re the fruit of my metaphorical loins,” he said, snapping his fingers. A projector screen appeared in front of them along with a projector behind them.

A long time ago in an Equestria far far away...

Nim looked at him with an irked glance. They were in Equestria. There was only ONE Equestria!

“Oh shush, it’s a classic,” Discord said, rolling his eyes and pointing her head back at the screen.

Luna hung in the air, suspended on chains made of pink bubblegum. Her mane was limp and her breathing heavy. She had just spent the last two days trying to escape from her restraints, twisting and tuning in a futile attempt to break free of them. She stared up at the constantly switching sun and moon in the air and let out a little whimper. Tia was assuredly dead by now without her to watch her back. Everything and everyone she’d cared for was dead or in the process of being driven irrevocably insane by the vile demon who had come to plague Equestria.

A slight whistling caught her ears and she drearily looked up to see Discord strolling up to her, a honor guard of dancing buffalo pirouetting around him. His grin was the size of a house as he sipped chocolate milk from a bendy straw.

“Oh hello there, little Lulu, I just wanted to drop by to see how you were doing,” Discord said with a snakish grin. “I mean, besides wet and sticky of course.”

On cue, a raincloud appeared above her and chocolate milk rained down on the mare.

“Of course, that’s how I leave all the mares, and the stallions too,” Discord said with a smirk as he sashayed up to Luna and took her jaw in his talons. “Though you... you’re quite a catch you know that? So much magical potential, so much raw untapped power. So much.... venom!” he finished as the mare tried to snap his talons in half with her strong flat teeth.

“Let me go!” Luna raged quietly, knowing better than to hurt her throat by yelling.

“Now now, you know I won’t do that so I’m not sure why you keep asking me to,” Discord said with a small chuckle as he plunged a cotton candy covered hand through her neck fur, leaving pink smears as he went. “Not after you and your dreadful big sister tried to attack me. I’m just defending myself like any reasonable citizen.”

“You are not a reasonable citizen!” Luna snapped.

“Quite right, why would anyone want to be reasonable?” Discord replied pleasantly, a smooth smirk on.

Luna practically vibrated with anger in her gum prison but the globs of gum didn’t budge an inch. Discord stood there gloating in front of her ineffectual rage before he chuckled lightly. “Hmm... yes, yes I think I’m right.” A small spark of black energy appeared in his hand. “This little bit of energy is a piece of me that I hold very close to my heart.”

Luna glared at him, her eyes locked on the energy. “And... what do you plan on doing with it?”

“Why putting it inside of you to let it grow of course,” Discord answered as if that made some kind of sense.

Luna began to squirm violently against her restraints, her eyes widening even further. “You will do no such thing!” she shouted, panicking.

Without waiting, Discord grabbed her face with one hand and forced the spark of energy into her forehead. “There you go, all set. I can’t wait for my little Nightmare to drive you insane. Heheh, even if you end up beating me in the end, you’ll turn on your sister one day and in the resulting strife, I’ll be let free and then with my daughter riding you around by the haunches we’ll clean Tia dear’s clock, heh.”

Luna stared at him blankly. The moment that Discord’s energy had traveled inside of her, the mare’s mouth had dropped open, a line of drool running down the side of it. He smirked, she’d never remember any part of what had happened and when her ‘subconscious’ started leading her down the path of destruction, he’d be there to laugh, one way or another.

Nim stared up at her... father. He grinned down at her, snaggletooth on full display.

“Told ya you were my girl,” he told her.

“That... that changes nothing!” Nim protested, feeling hot tears rush to her eyes. “You-you’re a vile creature-I-I want nothing to do with you!”

“And yet, you have everything to do with me,” Discord replied with a smile. “Whether you like it or not, Nimmy-Cup, you’re a Draconequus through and through. Once you absorb enough magic you’ll be able to leave this puny little alien’s head and make your own body, and don’t worry, this will always be the default. No matter what spell you cast or how you reshape yourself, you’ll always come back to this form within a few hours.”

Nim stared at him, unable to contain her self loathing. She was... she was everything she hated. The most horrible being that she could think of was her father. She’d tried every bit of mental magic she knew but nothing was working against him. He was... just too strong.

“I...I don’t want that...I... I want to stay with... with Sarah!” Nim growled slowly, gritting her teeth and trying to make her unfamiliar eyes stop leaking.

“Well tough luck, kiddo, once you absorb enough magic, something that’s going on right now actually because I’m pretty sure ‘Sarah’ here is sleeping with her face buried in Lulu’s magic mane, you’re going to emerge from her mind like a bat out of Tartarus!” Discord exclaimed with a big grin on his face.

“I... will I hurt Sarah when I... come out?” Nim asked, her voice hoarse.

“Meh,” Discord replied with a small shrug. “It probably won’t though I don’t know why you’d care about this pathetic little alien.”

“Because I love her,” Nim stated, her eyes cutting into Discord.

“Hah, love, now there’s a thing to go mad for,” Discord replied, a cheerful grin on his face. “Kind of like why I’m here, heheh. I was just mad enough in love with myself to create a mini-me.”

Nim ground her teeth against one another and tried to squirm out of his grip again but accomplished nothing once more. “Just... what is your plan anyways... father? And... how are you here in the first place? Last time I checked you were hidden at the bottom of an enchanted well.”

“Oh, Tia moved me at some point and no matter how good the runes are, they can’t keep all of me contained,” Discord answered breezily, a light smile on his face. “Especially when I have a light like yours to follow, Nimmy-Cup. I just had to reach out and pull myself to you. As for my plan? Hah, you’re going to leave this little whelp’s brain, go into Lulu’s head, and wander downstairs. Then you’ll crack open my prison and we’ll go from there.”

“I’m not going to do that,” Nim said defiantly, her eyes narrowing. “You can rot wherever Celestia has left you.”

Discord frowned at her and his lips tightened. “No actually, you’re going to do what I tell you like a good daughter would,” Discord said, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and pulling her up so that his mouth was on level with her ear. “Or I’m going to kill this ‘Sarah’ that you seem to care so much about,” he whispered darkly.

Nim’s blood froze in her veins. “You... would.” There was no use denying it. Discord would kill entire countries if he wanted to. What was the life of the one woman that his ‘daughter’ loved to him?