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Hooves of ice

by Fictional Fanatic

Chapter 4: 4) Another one. What about you? (part 2)

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Hooves of ice
Chapter 4
Another one. What about you? (part 2)



World: Equus. Land: Equestria. Location: Canterlot Castle, The Royal Gardens. Year: 1001


3rd person POV (Following Discord)


"Boooorrrriiiinnnng!" Discord mentally screamed. He had been stuck in this stony shell for almost one thousand, five hundred years. All because his lifestyle didn't fit those stupid ponies. And now, all he could do was stand completely still and look at anything that entered his vision. He could also hear sound and his sense of touch worked as well; he hated it during the times it rained in Canterlot. Perhaps one of the very few things he found that he had in common with the ponies of Equestria.

However, the one thing that Discord could do during his imprisonment that brought him any kind of joy was to plan what he would do once he finally escaped. He didn't know why he had retained conscious during his time as a lawn ornament. Perhaps it was intentional or it was an effect of his chaos magic. But no matter what caused it, it was as much a torment as it was a blessing. Had he not been able to plan his way through Equestria after escaping, he would have had the same mindset as he had back then. And that wouldn't have been beneficial to him in the least.

And as always; our favorite Lord of Chaos himself came up with more amazing and mind breaking ideas for his 'master plan'. Had it not been for the fact that the guards were unaware of Discord's presence, and the fact that he could hear them, he would not have known about the new 'Bearers of Harmony', Nightmare Moon's banishment, return and her purification. Something that had given Discord ideas of his own. "Corrupting the bearers, now that sounds promising." Discord once again told himself. There was, after all, no one else to listen to him.

However, Discord was brought out of his scheming as he heard something unusual; a scream. Screams themselves were not that unusual. The thing was that being stuck in a garden that was meant to be seen as calming didn't bring out screams from ponies. So being placed in said gardens had resulted in a lack of screams. Back to the screaming.

“AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! Are you kidding me!?!” Could be heard to the left of Discord, at least from his point of view. The voice also seemed to be coming from a higher elevation, signifying that somepony was probably falling from the sky. But what got Discord's attention was the sudden use of unidentifiable magic he could feel.

Shortly after Discord felt something slamming into the pedestal his statue was standing on, followed by a voice from whoever it was.

“Oww… my head.” The voice continued, something that amused Discord. He was all for seeing others cause themselves misery. Or, in this case, hearing them.

“Hey, would you look at that. It’s the voice that’s inside my head,” the voice said, resulting in Discord's immediate confusion and curiosity. "I didn't leave any parts of my mind lying around. Did I?" Discord questioned himself while focusing on continuing to listen to the voice.

At this statement, Discord could once again feel the unidentifiable magic flare up and skyrocket, yet it suddenly calmed down and only a small amount of it slipped into the spell itself. Resulting in the sudden decrease of warmth around the immediate area. Discord was starting to get very annoyed at the fact that both the voice and source of magic were outside of his field of vision.

Just as Discord was about to make a joke about the sudden change in temperature somepony beat him to it, somepony whose voice he could recognize. “Brr… Who turned down the Thermostat? Isn't it supposed to be summer around now?” came the voice of Lord of Chaos, Discord himself.

"Okay, this doesn't make sense. And that is my job!" Discord exclaimed. Something was going on, and he would get to the bottom of this. So to gather information, he could start by listening in on this conversation.

“Possibly,” The voice answered the second Discord’s question. “Then again, we’re probably in another Equestria like what happened to Nicko, so maybe the circumstances are different.”

“Could be. Still, it’s a lot warmer inside your head then out here Anson.” Second Discord replied before adding- “Oh boy… That… could be problematic.”

"Ah, so that's it. I should have figured such a thing out myself." Discord chuckled to himself.

“Did you hear that?” Discord heard the other him ask the first voice, apparently called Anson.

“Hear what?” Anson asked him, sounding slightly confused.

"Huh? Is he able to hear me? That should be impossible while the Elements still power my prison. Is he more powerful than the elements in his Equestria?" Discord asked himself, before perking up at another thought. "With this Discord here I might get out faster than ever, be it from him creating Chaos or letting me out! Hey! You gonna let me out?"

“I thought I heard somepony talking just now.” The second Discord explained.

After a moment of silence, he was heard again. “There it is again.” The second Discord stated and then paused. “Okay, either somepony is playing around with my head or I think a pile of snow is talking to me.”

"Playing a prank on the Lord of Discord and pranks? Somepony is in for a very unpleasant day if he finds them out." Discord stated, comparing the situation and how he would react. "But I have to give them cred, unless me is going insane. I'll have to watch out for that."

“My… it did. I’m quite impressed. Would you mind doing that to my friend as well so he doesn't think I’m going crazy?” It would seem the pranksters had reviled themselves. "And somehow not been blasted by some nasty Chaos magic, why wasn't this other Discord... well, Discording stuff?" Discord asked himself while continuing to listen.

“Convince him, you say?” The second Discord asked, seemingly conversing with somepony that Discord was unable to hear.

“Discord, who are you talking to?” Anson spoke up, picking up on the fact that his Discord seemed to be in conversation all of a sudden.

“Oh, sorry about that Anson, I was just talking to…… what’s your name?” The second Dis- (Know what? The second one will now be known as Dissy.) -sy asked the unidentified prankster.

“I was talking to this guy named Jack Frost. He’s the one that made that frozen slide that you landed on.” Dissy told Anson.

“Oh? Then why can’t I see him?” Anson asked him.

“He says that he can only be seen or heard by those that believe in his existence,” Dissy stated, making Discord raise an imagined eyebrow. "That's useful, being invisible and unknown, yet still able to use one's powers to affect the world, I think I'm envious." Discord thought to himself.

The next thing Discord heard was, “Holy crap, it worked!” as exclaimed by Anson.

"It did? Maybe I should try, I believe in Jack Frost. There's plenty of proof for his existence after all." Discord thought to himself and went back to listening.

"-sound weird, but may I try and touch you?” Discord suddenly heard a new voice speak, presumably Jack Frost.

"Head out of the gutter." he thought to himself.

“Umm… Okay, I guess? Just the shoulder please?” Anson replied.

After a short while of silence, about the time it took Discord to start suspecting the trio had left somehow, Jack once again spoke up.

“I-It has been so long… so long since I was able to touch someone… Thank you.”

“Y-you’re welcome… I guess?” replied Anson, sounding unsure of what to say.

After a while, Jack seemed to recognize the need to explain himself. “Oh, I should probably explain that. You see, when no one can see or hear me, it goes the same for the other senses. Meaning I’m unable to touch them as well. I haven’t felt human- no, any contact at all for quite a while. It gets depressing after a while.”

“I see. Just out of curiosity Jack, how long has it been since you last… well… felt human?”

“You mean as in touching another human or feeling like one myself?”

“Does both count?” Anson asked.

“Well, no. They are two different questions entirely? Okay, now you got me confused.”

“Ah, that does make more sense. Well, I always feel human… But I haven’t touched any other human ever since coming to Equestria. Let’s see… I think it was about fifteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven years ago? Wow, I’m getting old!”

An awkward silence followed and Discord found himself as baffled as the rest of the bunch, save for Jack. Who seemed oblivious to what he had just said.

However, Anson soon interrupted the silence. “Holy sh*t! Ahem. Please excuse my poor choice in grammar. I was just really surprised by what you just said.”

"Wow, goes to show you can't judge somepony by their voice." Discord thought to himself.

“Oh, yeah right, I almost forgot humans only have an average of 205 years' lifespan. I must be old by your standards.”

Discord didn't know what these humans were but it made him conclude. Either both Jack and Anson were humans or just Anson. Otherwise, he could not see any reason to bring the age of an unheard creature up.

“That’s way more than old. That’s like Immortal if you ask me.” Dissy said.

“Yeah, kinda comes with the job” Jack replied.

As curious as Discord was he could not ask the question, thankfully he didn't have to as the human, Anson, asked it for him.

“Job? What kind of job?” Anson asked. Sounding rather curious.

“Well, yeah. I didn't get these powers just to kill time, did I? They come both with responsibilities and the burden of eternal life…” Jack mumbled the last part making it impossible for Discord to hear what he had said at the end. Discord could not avoid suspicion as Jack had not said what his 'job' was.

“Well, we’re here now,” Dissy said cheerfully, apparently doing something that caused the sound of snowflakes twinkling. Which made no sense at all, since snowflakes didn't have any specific sound. Yet, Discord knew exactly what it was. "Weird." He stated to himself.

“And I believe what Anson found was the reason why.” Dissy continued.

“Really? You guys know how to travel the void to different dimensions? That’s kinda cool!” exclaimed Jack.

“Yeah. This though was our first time. It happened once to my brother already, but the guy he met turned out to be an Elder Dragon who had very strong magic.” Anson said, pausing for a while before continuing. “This may take a bit to explain, but let’s start with just a simple question. Are you familiar with something called the Multiverse?”

“Of course. It was just a theory at first until it was proven by a scientist called Mengar Blugten in the year 2067. It was quite a big subject in school.” Jack said. While Discord did not know about any scientist by the name 'Mengar Blugten' or why Jack spoke about the year 2067, he did understand where this conversation was going. Other possible universes. This could be a great addition to his knowledge.

Anson continued. “Well, for us, there are multiple forms of Equestria that are at different locations in time and space. Now, for another question… Would you have happened to end up here after purchasing something from a weird merchant?”

“Weird merchant?” Jack asked back with a slightly hostile voice. “Not really, I didn't purchase anything from the asshole. He tried to take my staff. So naturally, I fought back, punched him in the face and froze him solid… And then I kinda blacked out and found myself here in Equestria.”

“Well, even though you and I ended up in our version of Equestria under different circumstances, we are both referred to as Displaced or short for dimensionally misplaced.”

“Interesting, I take it this merchant guy is behind this then?”

“Honestly, I don’t know,” Anson told Jack. “But what I do know from my brother is this. Displaced have something called a token that represents themselves and can use the tokens of other Displaced to summon them and have them fight alongside you in battle. However, it works two ways and unfortunately for me, the second way was what happened to Discord and I. Instead of us summoning something to where we were, we got pulled in to where you were.”

“Hence, falling out of the sky,” Dissy added on for what Discord recognized as comical effect.

“Oh, I’m sorry for that. I think I might be the one at fault here. You see, I felt the tugging that I guess was meant to summon me. But I was not sure of what it was so I did what anyone who wants to stay does, I pulled back. And suddenly, you were falling out of the sky.” Jack said with a tone of embarrassment in his voice.

“Well…… this is awkward,” Dissy mumbled as it got a little silent. “I guess it explains why it backfired though.”

“Yeah, I think so,” Anson said. “Say, since we are here, why don’t we do something and have fun with Jack? I mean, this is the first time in a long while that’s he’s ever had people be with him before.”

“Really? You’d do that for me?” Jack asked with a voice full of hope.

“Oh, this will be great!! But we should go someplace else first. There’s a high risk that both Princess Celestia or Princess Luna notice Discords presence and I don’t think that would be a good thing.”

“Princess Luna? Who’s that?” Anson asked.

But Anson's question went by unanswered.

“Okay, now. I’ll give you guys a ride, just keep your arms and legs out to the sides and you should be fine.” Jack said before a powerful gust of wind was heard and after the wind died down there was only silence.

"Ah, alone again, guess I'll have nothing better to do... one, two, three, go! When you're rife with devastation-"

Author's Notes:

For those still unaware, this is still a crossover chapter with FrostTheWolf's story "Swords, Sorcerers and Shenanigans" .

I know this chapter was just the same as the last one and does almost nothing for the story. But I had to write this from Discords perspective. Now, let the story continue on...

Also, over 300+ likes? Thank you all! I'll get going on writing the parts after the crossover now.

Thanks to my pre-reader/editor Greycait.

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