"So...a god?" Clover repeated with an exasperated scowl as they sat around the magenta camp fire, courtesy of Discord, "How, exactly, am I supposed to rationalize that?"

"I'm sorry; do I come off as an entity of rationality?" Discord asked in mock surprise, "If so, I do apologize. I try hard not to false advertise."

"Clover, have you even bothered to ask how his magic works?" Starswirl asked with a raised eyebrow.

Silence and smirks all around.

"In fairness, neither did we," Celestia added in with a shrug.

"We still don't understand how we're immortal and everything," Luna elaborated while eating what she didn't know to be called a marshmallow, "So it doesn't bother us as much," She mumbled out past the confection.

"It doesn't bother you that he defies all known rules of magic?" Clover reiterated in annoyance.

"Nope," Luna, Celestia and Starswirl all answered in sync.

Clover's eyebrow started twitching at that, "You know-"

"STARSWIRL! GET OUT HERE NOW!" A voice yelled urgently, followed by the trampling of many hooves, "SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH THE SUN AND MO-OH SARD!"

Save Clover, no one else was particularly alarmed by the outburst. But they were amused by the stallion toppling over Clover when he galloped into the camp, four other unicorns frozen with wide eyes not far behind him.

"Was wondering when they'd get here," Starswirl murmured as he drank from a bowl of chocolate milk.

"Oh...Hi, Clover," The dirty orange coated and white maned stallion greeted sheepishly, their noses almost touching.

"Copper, get off me," Clover said flatly.

"Sorry, sorry!" Coppercode apologized as he quickly helped her up and awkwardly dusted her off.

"That normal?" Discord asked offhoofedly, using chopsticks to eat something he only referred to as 'The forsaken Mexicolt child of Ramen and Gummy Worms,' whatever that meant.

"Is Celestia uptight?" Starswirl answered pointedly. Celestia chose not to dignify that with a response…or try the black and orange "salad" Discord had given her. Mostly because she was sure something was moving in it.

"I'd say she's just a tad...grim," Discord said with a smirk at the mare, enjoying his inside joke.

"...Discord, you got the right voice there, but that's not a line to try and seduce a lady with," Starswirl informed with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh, right, STARSWIRL!" Coppercode yelled, suddenly remembering why he was here, rushing over to the elder mage, who calmly put his empty bowl down, "Starswirl, the sun went down on its own! And the moon just...popped right into the sky! Did you do that?! Did the Guardians!? Did-rmrmmrhrm!" he asked rapidly in alarm, only for Starswirl's hooves to physically jam his mouth shut. The bearded stallion said nothing, but smirked as he slowly turned Coppercode's head to the only non-pony in the group.

"Yo," Discord greeted with a peace sign. He cocked an eyebrow as he looked at the group, looking back into his relatively-ancient memories of the original time line, 'Asterordo, the colt-band name Starswirl gave this merry band when he formed it to help him keep the day and night cycle pedaling on. Thanks partially to me, partially to Nightmare Moon, the aftermaths of both and partially to everything else these five mostly ended up forgotten last time around. Of the near hundred unicorns from across the lands that volunteered to aide Horn-Hat the Swirly, these were the six picked from the twenty-some that had the skill and power to actually be of any help.'

"...Somepony want to explain why there is a giant whatever-it-is in our camp?" A mare asked for the new arrivals.

Starswirl chuckled at that, "Unicorns of Asterordo, meet Discord the Draconequus. He's an Immortal, the ruler of these lands, much crazier than me, the one who dealt with the sun and moon for us tonight...oh, and he apparently is the local god around here," He explained nonchalantly, before going back to his chocolate milk.

Stunned silence, and face-hoofing from Celestia and Clover.

"Not going to lord it up?" Luna asked curiously, tilting her head.

"No, we're just going to calmly sit here and watch the fireworks of their freak-out," Discord answered with a small smirk as he slurped his saucy, gummy, noodles and mentally went over who these ponies were.

'Silkdial: Originally Silk Dialect, but shortened it after joining this motley crew- not an uncommon practice, really, ponies slightly modifying their names to fit their occupations. She is a grey mare with a very dark red mane suffering from microcornus, a birth defect that gives her a very tiny horn but has no significant effect on her ability to use magic. She originally only tried to join for the reactions of an "earth pony" trying to be part of a unicorn group and was completely stunned by getting accepted. Starswirl was soooo happy when he found out she was powerful enough to keep on with the others. Dies from a bad pie at an eating contest a year after I was turned to stone. Though, she still won, to my eternal amusement. Cutie Mark:...It's a yellow ball. Easily top ten vaguest marks I've ever seen.'

"You...had me up until the "god" part," She commented with wide eyes as they slowly wrapped their head around all of that.

'Nodus "Azimuth" Style: Who are we kidding? This stallion was born and named for this job. Bears a strange resemblance to Time Turner, AKA Doctor Whooves, but with a bit of grey to his coat and a lighter mane. Starswirl took one look at this pony and hired him on the spot. Currently in the process of ironing out a spell for long range, instant communication- note to self, make sure that spell doesn't get lost this timeline. Cutie Mark: Do I really need to say it? It's a bucking sun dial!...At four o'clock, for some reason.'

The brown stallion snorted at that, "Speak for yourself, Silk. The god part I get, but crazier than Starswirl? Is that even Equus still?" he answered with a small smirk, despite his confusion

'Count Lumen: Last member of a noble unicorn house that has lost all of its wealth and influence, but is still held in somewhat high regard by unicorns, nobles and commoners alike, due to past actions. White coat, short striped mane of dark golden and sunny yellow, wears a red coat of rare Evergraze cotton. You can just smell the "nobility" coming off this one when he walks in. He became a member of this astromagic club purely just to be of help. I spoke too soon, you can smell the altruism too- though, both smell like pickles. He goes off into retirement and winds up as the inspiration for many ponytales. This gentlecolt has the esteem of having the grand and majestic oil lantern as a cutie mark.'

"Well, the Guardians certainly have not spoken out against...any of that," Lumen pointed out, carefully and diplomatically, stroking his chin, "I do not think they would joke about something this serious..."

'Lily Frost: The youngster of the group and very much Twilight's equal in raw power. Her snow white coat and soft green mane with icy blue strips fit her name all too well, predictably enough. Also gained her cutie mark before her first word, said mark being- you guessed it- a frozen lily. Ancestor of Twilight's Canterlot friend, Minuette, discovered the island between Equestria and Griffinstone and founded Tigguo Coltbuck, which would eventually be renamed Trottingham.'

"I think they would joke about it, Lumy, but you're right, I don't think they'd let a lie like that go,"" The young mare commented with a grin at the Alicorns, which Luna returned.

'Coppercode: Named so for his coat with -code likely added on off the top of his parents heads to feign originality. Curiously, he's a direct ancestor of Twilight Sparkle, but he lacks her "need to understand" issue and merely desires to know what caused something rather than why. Joined up after losing a drunken bet and went on to create spells for identifying metals and co-create a long-lasting anti-rust charm. I wonder how long I'm going to be triggering his bipolar personality until he gets used to me? Cutie Mark: A gushing melting metal furnace.'

"Oh? Okay than. I'm Coppercode, nice to meet you," The brown-orange colt greeted with a smile.

"Just like that?! None of that even phases you!?" Clover exclaimed in frustration and disbelif.

'And of course, their leader…Starswirl: The Legend himself. Originally named Stars Whirl, but came to accept Starswirl as his name after it became well known. Long time yet mysterious friend and advisor to Celestia and Luna before and at the beginning of their reign. While never able to take me on himself, this coot always seemed to know more than he should. Unknown, unpredictable and many other things I like. Not even "I" am really sure what ultimately happened to him...but I'm fairly sure he found out about the Tree of Harmony before Lulu and Celly did, somehow.'

The elder mage laughed heartily as Copper shrugged in response to Clover's outburst, "You're bucking at the barricade, Clever! Code couldn't be bothered with details like that if his flanks were on fire!"

"He'd be more worried about why they were on fire than the fire itself," Celestia quipped good naturedly.

Coppercode pouted at that, "Now that's just taking it a bit too far," he protested with a huff.

"...Discord, don't even think about it," Celestia warned, glaring at the tent nearest Copper, an eagle claw sticking out of it. Everypony turned and blinked as Discord's claw shot back in, a 'shclurp!' sound erupting as it did. They turned and saw him, still sitting where he had been, grinning and waving his talons at them.

'They're no Elements of Harmony like Fluttershy and company, but an interesting enough group nonetheless,' Discord mentally summarized to himself.

"I'm still not convinced you're a god," Silk refuted with a raised eyebrow at him.

"I said the same thing about ponies being sentient for the longest time," Discord retorted with a shrug.

"What? That is a horrible claim to make!" Lumen accused with a scowl.

"How long ago was that?" Luna asked in interest.

"Oh, about...ten, twenty thousand years ago? It was whenever Boar-Lions and Scorpion-Dragons were still a thing," Discord answered thoughtfully.

"Hahahah!...Oh shit, you're serious," Starswirl said in surprise.

"Occasionally, if only to keep you all on your hoof tips," Discord answered with a smirk, twirling his chopsticks on a probably impossibly long worm…one which seemed to now be crawling up his arm as he twirled his utensil.

If Celestia had been eating or drinking, she would have spat it out. As it was, she sputtered for a moment, "...Sacred sard, we are infants to you," she realized in shock.

"Celly, I'm not a foalphile," He retorted bluntly, pointing a talon at her.

"You're pulling our horns," Coppercode denied with a grin, "There's no way you're that old."

"What part of immortal are they not understanding?" Discord asked with a raised eyebrow, "Should we change it to Unmortal or something else more blunt? Or should I just use the word Eternal?"

"Don't look at me, I just work with these heretics," Azimuth responded with a sly smirk.

"Don't worry, I don't judge by association," Discord assured cheekily, pointing a chop stick at him…the same one with the worm, which was now changing colors rapidly, red to green to hot pink…

"You five can debate his godhood all you want," Starswirl interrupted sharply, "But the tribes already more or less acknowledged him as the ruler of these lands and are negotiating with him," He pointed out with a smirk, "So keep that in mind."

"...Okay, he's the king here," Silkdial admitted with a shrug, "And he can raise the sun and moon, which is impressive. He's immortal, even more impressive. But I'm not seeing any proof of divinity yet."

"He got on Commander Hurricane's good side," Starswirl informed bluntly.

"...Nice to meet you, your holiness," Coppercode greeted with a smile, sticking his hoof out.

"It involved Private Pansy spitting all over Princess Platinum," Luna added in wickedly.

"I reserve judgment for after I have inquired with the Commander on that story," Count Lumen answered calmly.

"I'm with the Count," Silkdial answered, trying and failing to imagine that scene.

"...Discord, can I borrow the sun?" Celestia asked blankly.

"Wait, WHAT?!" Everypony else asked in shock, even her sister.

"Hit the deck!" Nodus yelled, jumping into his tent.

"Sure thing, Princess," Discord answered cheerfully as he pushed the chopstick deep into the bowl, sticking his whole arm into it, before plucking out a roaring ball of burning light that lit up the camp light like day.

"...I was expecting a bit more," Copper commented cautiously as Luna peaked from over the log she was hiding behind.

"Are we dead? Are we burned to less than ash yet?...Are we fireproof?" Nodus asked as he reemerged from his tent, shoving off a colorful scarf back into it, "Oh thank buck, he contained it."

Discord rolled his eyes, which kept spinning as he tossed the sun up and caught it with his blue feather tips, "Ponies, who the buck do you think I am?" He asked pridefully, putting on a pair of shades to sell it while his bat and bird wings tossed the orb between their farthest tips...and eventually began playing keep away from his tail, "Even at that size, it'd still blind and charbroil most of the world if I wasn't holding most of its power behind a sphere of magic."

"Oh, that makes sense," Starswirl decided idly, checking his pulse just to make sure he hadn't died of a heart attack without realizing it.

"You Mean We Have A Fire Ball Of Death Here?!" Clover exclaimed in fear and shock.

"Oh, sard, you're right!" Discord exclaimed in shock.

"Wait, I am?" Clover asked, surprised he was taking her concerns seriously.

"No, he is!" Discord corrected, pointing to a blinking Starswirl, who stared back at his lion finger, "You see what you ponies do to me!? I'm supposed to be NONsense! Stop making me make sense!" He yelled

"Then stop making us make no sense!" Lily Frost yelled with a grin.

"Fair enough," Discord granted begrudgingly, "Hey, Celestia, you still want this?" He asked over his shoulder, waving his tail tip with the sun nestled in it.

"No, no, I think we made our point," Celestia answered in amusement.

To that, Discord shrugged and ate the sun whole, "Tastes like peppers…or maybe Siracha…"

At this point, Coppercode noticed that Clover's eye twitch was turning into a full blown seizure.

"Celestia pulling a prank?" Lily Frost mused with a smirk as she sauntered up to Discord, "Now you're definitely a god. It takes divine work to get her loosened up," She joked.

"Really? All I had to do was offer her cake," Discord asked in mock surprise as he floated off the ground effortlessly.

"...Okay, I'll admit, that is cool," Copper admitted as the serpentine being floated on his back, doing a backstroke through the air.

"Discord, you threw cake at me. With a catapult," Celestia reminded evenly.

"Offer, assault. Potato, tomato. Albino, cappuccino," Discord responded dismissively, waving his talons back and forth.

"Discord, slumlord, whipcord, smorgasbord," Starswirl listed off smugly.

"A player that can keep up," Discord mused, stroking his beard in interest with his tail while continuing his mid-air swim, "I feared they all went extinct."

"Aren't you supposed to be the one worrying about Discord being a bad influence on me, Sister?" Luna asked with a raised eyebrow, sitting next to her sister, "Because currently I'm worried about that with you."

"On you? Luna, I'm more worried about you being a bad influence on him," Celestia countered plainly, giving her sister an accusing look, eliciting a pouting glare.

"Count Lumen?" Nodus asked with a small smile as he watched the Immortals.

"Yes, Nodus?" Lumen answered, having a good idea where this was going.

"Have you ever seen them this happy and relaxed before?" The brown unicorn asked curiously.

"...The Guardians do seem to be in cheerful moods," the count agreed with a smile of his own.

"I wasn't talking about just them," Azimuth informed, nodding towards an amused Starswirl the Bearded, sitting and leaning back in a strangely bipedal-like positioning.

"WEEEWOO! WEEWOO! WEEWOO! DANGER, DANGER WILL DISCORDSON!"

"What the actual sard is that?" Silk asked in alarm as Discord pulled a pocket watch out of a pocket that shouldn't exist in his fur.

"Your name is Will?" Celestia asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No, no, it's a joke," Discord answered, distracted, waving her off as he stared at the watch. If anypony saw it, they'd noticed it had five hands, the numbers were all out of place and the hands spun around and stopped at seemingly random points, "Oh, yippee, something pissed off an Ursa Major again," he muttered in annoyance, "I'll be back later. Celly, Lulu, I'll see you in the morning. Horn-Hat, ponies I still need nicknames for? It was nice meeting me," He bided farewell with a smug grin before vanishing with a duck's quack.

"...Celly and Lulu?" Silkdial repeated with a knowing look.

"When's the wedding?" Lily teased, getting glaring blushes for her remark.

"Don't you mean the sacrifice ceremony?" Clover corrected in annoyance.

"Huh?" The entirety of Asterordo, sans Starswirl asked in confusion.

"Luna promoted to our new glorious overlord the wonderful idea of asking for virgin mares sacrifices as part of the negotiation," Starswirl informed with an eye roll and heavy sarcasm.

"Milady, I didn't know you had it in you," Lily praised with a giggle.

"...Why Would You Do That?" Coppercode asked slowly, and alarmed.

Luna shrugged, "The tribes were technically trespassing, he was being very nice about it all and he called off the Strangeness," She listed offhoofedly.

"...Wait, what do mean "called off" the Strangeness?" Count Lumen asked with a head tilt.

The Alicorn duo and master-apprentice duo all blinked before face hoofing, "I knew we forgot something," Clover murmured.

"In fairness, we've told this story three or four times now in less than a day," Celestia pointed out with a sigh.

"The Strangeness was caused, controlled and stopped by Discord's power," Luna explained bluntly.

"...Next time you want to prove he's a god? Lead with that," Nodus suggested blankly.

"Also, about the mare sacrifice thing?" Lily asked slyly, "Do they have to be virgins?"

Luna looked thoughtful at that, "Well, no, Discord said that was more of suggestion than-"

"Wait, why?" Celestia asked suspiciously, narrowing her eyes at the mare.

"I'm in," Lily declared with a raised hoof.

"...What?" everypony asked numbly.

"I'm in," Lily repeated with a wide smile.

"For being a mare sacrifice to...whatever he said he was?" Sundial asked skeptically.

"Umm, let's see, do I want to be sarded, repeatedly, by a god?" Lily asked in mock consideration before staring at the elder mare flatly, "Yes, very much so."

"Are you even sure it would work, you know him putting his...you know, in you?" Coppercode asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Copper, he shrunk the sun down to grape size and ate it. I'm pretty sure he can change his dick or my cunt," Lily pointed out.

"...You're crazy, you know that?" Clover asked in disbelief

"Why? Because I'm attracted to the most powerful male I've ever met?" Lily asked with a smirk, "Why do you think I joined this group to begin with?"

Nobody commented about Starswirl going wide eyed and stiff at that confession.

"Ooooookay then. Assuming Discord goes for her, we officially got a voluntary sacrifice," Luna summarized, still surprised, before looking to her sister, "I...legitimately have no idea what to do now."

"...Sard it all," Celestia grumbled as she got up and trotted to a tent, "I'm going to sleep. If anypony wakes me up, I will drop you in a lake from above cloud level," She warned tiredly, deciding to just give up on the day. Luna looked between the unicorn and the tent her sister went into before trotting after her, somewhat awkwardly.

"So, Starswirl? What's the plan now?" Nodus asked curiously.

The mage yawned and stretched, "Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to move back in with the rest of ponykind and watch this madness unfold," He explained contently.

"Huh...I just realized we're pretty much out of a job," Coppercode realized.

"THAT is what you're concerned about?" Clover asked with an annoyed scowl, "Not the mare sacrifices? Not the supposedly omnipotent ruler we have to live under now? None of that bothers you?!"

"A colt's got to eat, Clove," Copper reminded, patting his belly.

"Look at it this way, Clover," Azimuth spoke up with a smirk, "With him being so much older than the sisters, why, just imagine all the knowledge in that skull of his," he pointed out temptingly.

A light seemed to go on behind Clover's eyes, "...He might have the very secrets and answers to life as we know it," she finally realized in curious wonder.

"Nodus, stop playing my apprentice like a fiddle!" Starswirl scolded territorially, "That's my job."

"...I am not becoming a mare sacrifice," Silkdial stated flatly.

"So you claim," Lily Frost acknowledged mockingly.

"That said...give me details afterwards?" Silkdial asked, unwillingly curious.

"If my mind isn't reduced to goop from sacred sarding," Lily promised with a smirk.

"...What strange times we live in," Count Lumen summarized, looking up at the moon.

Author's Notes:

Beta: DragWiz91

New chapter! Not quite as fast as the last one, but still fairly quick. Anyway, this scene chapter was kind of a must- Starswirl had a small team of Unicorns that helped him move the sun and moon before Celestia, so it seemed impossible for Discord to meet Starswirl, turn day to night, and not run into this merry band. Hope you liked them all, especially Discord's....fanmare? Potential concubine? Lily Frost.

Next chapter we get back to negoation and other good things.

Now, I would just like to take this moment to thank you all. Discord's Rewrite is now my most popular fimfic far none, andthanks to all of you, it now ranked 120 last I checked.

And get this, its the SEVENTH top Discord Fic here!(Fimfiction) Meaning it might be in the top rated section soon. I...I was not expecting that, ever, to be honest, let alone so quick and soon. Thank you all for your support, interest, and comments. I have plenty more planned for this: Lots of it funny and a bit epic.

Merry Christmas, Happy Heath's Warming, and Happy Holidays everypony!