My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 19

The Leap Home

The tome shut off and hovered in mid-air.

Dumbstruck, everyone just stood there they were, still trying to wrap their minds around the story. Celestia, however, was angry as hell at Jax for making everyone see that.

“un……………” Jax shook her head and tried to piece together what they all saw. “so… let me see if I got this straight…” Ash groaned and pulled out a notepad. He knows where this is going. “… the reason Discord is going all apes hit because a certain princess didn’t even bother to open her eyes when she kissed him 2000 years ago!?”

“I’ve heard of really stupid reasons to have a personal vendetta against someone but, in this case, I can sympathize.” Aura angrily exclaimed. Everyone agreed with him.

Lina chuckled viciously as she turned to Celestia. “you know. This whole mess could’ve been avoided… if you had just talked to him after you found out! But no… you had to keep it a secret to when you got pregnant and when war broke out! No wonder he snapped the way he did! How stupid were you!?”

“Enough!” Luna yelled. “blaming my sister for this won’t change anything! Could any have you have seen this coming if you were in her shoes?” nobody answered her. They also made some crummy choices that resulted in something they never saw coming.

Req pinched her eyes and sighed. “ugh. Fine. We can berate her when we get back to Equestria. Now… what do we know?”

Ash took out his notes and began to write down as Twilight began to talk. “well, we learned that the dragon Oscurita was originally created 2000 years ago as a soulless beast of destruction. And that he was brought here by Discord.”

“but… he can’t be soulless.” Derpy said. “Dinky said that he was kind to her.”

Ash looked at the camera with a raised eyebrow. “I’ll… just put a question mark after soulless…” he did just that. “Anything else?”

“well, we learned that Discord had romantic feelings for Celestia, before all that mess happened.” Sora said, still on Ash’s back due to her bum leg. “if we can play that on him, we might be able to change him back.”

That was a plan; play his feelings. Although the Ponies aren’t exactly big fans of manipulation.

“what else?” Ash asked.

“Cosmos was never sent to a Chaos Realm, but rather into a black pearl Discord is keeping inside his body.” Riku said. “getting to that is going to be a problem.”

Jax wickedly sneered her teeth as she spun her chakram around her finger. “just leave that to me. One Personality Shift and good Discord will let Cosmos go.”

“my biggest concern is Erys.” Luna said. “that really didn’t explain what happened to.”

“actually, it did.” Twi said. “the way she disappeared is the same way that Discord sent Oscurita to our time. So, she’ll end up coming here. And remember, discord had some plan for her so he wouldn’t have killed her.”

“if that’s true, then she should’ve reappeared the same time Oscurita did.” Cadence muttered. “then… where is she?”

Everyone thought about that; Where would she reappear? Dash got a sinking feeling that she did reappear, just not as a Alicorn.

Jax turned to ask the time how to get back when she noticed a rainbow tail go down the stairs. “(where’s she going?)”

Groaning came from Scootaloo’s mouth as she woke up. Water erupted from her mouth as she coughed. “Ugh. Oh, god.” her chest hurt as she gagged and coughed up more water. “oh, Faust.” she coughed inside her mouth and shakingly exhaled. She put her head to the ground and closed her eyes. “oh, man. That hurt. Ugh… what happened? The last thing I remember was…” she gasped and quickly turned around to the ocean. “ERIS!!!” her voice echoed. Only thing that replied was thunder off in the distance. Groaning came from Scoot’s right. She looked and saw Bab’s waking up, feeling as bad as Scoots did just a few seconds ago. “Babs!” she ran over to her.

“Ugh… emmm…” Babs coughed up water. “egh… Wgat gappened?”

“huh? Oh. ‘what happened.’ well…” Scoots helped Babs up. “I’m not sure. But I’m more worried about Eris.” she looked out to the sea. More thunder rumbled off in the distance. “she’s losing it. I’m not sure why but I think her powers are going out of control.”

Babs cleared her throat and coughed again. “you think that‘s what‘s going on with her?”

“can’t think of anything else.” she sighed as she sat down. “we just need to figure out a way back.”

Babs coughed one last time before looking around. She recognized the area. “wait. I know where we are.” she pieced the surroundings with images in her memory. “we’re just outside Clopdon.”

“Clopdon?”

“yeah, yeah. We used to come here all the time for summer vacay.” Babs got up. “on foot, we’re about 2 days away from Manehatten. But if we get to the train station in time, it’ll be a few hours.”

Scoots nodded. It’s a lot better then sitting around here. “if we can get back, we can have Pinkie or Golden Day sent a letter to Celestia, let her know what’s going on and help Eris.” Babs started to run off. Scoots ran after her. “You know where you’re going?”

“I’ve been here ever since I was a baby. I know Clopdon as well as I know Manehatten.”

Scoots’ hopes Babs was right, for Eris’ sake. She glanced back as she ran, seeing more thunder rumble. “please, be safe Eris.”

Celestia stormed down the stairs, angry as can be at Jax. “Hey!” Jax called out, walking after her. Celestia ignored her and kept on walking. “Hey!” they reached the veranda. “I’m talking to you, Celestia.”

Celestia snapped and used her magic to pin Jax up against the wall. “why did you do that?” she angrily asked the human. “why would you do that!? You had no right to reveal all that!”

“And you had no right to keep something that big a secret from Dis. If you had just told him sooner or bothered to open your eyes, you could’ve avoided all this!”

“Shut up.”

“listen. We all make mistakes when it comes to romance. I did. Req did. Everyone else you know did. We know that feeling.”

“NO YOU DON’T!” Celestia yelled. Tears began to fall from her eyes. “You have no idea how that feels.” her voiced quavered. “You don’t know how it feels to… to be enemies with your best friend… to have those you loved most taken away from you…” Celestia rubbed her eyes but the tears kept falling. Her magic faltered, causing Jax to fall to the floor. Celestia also fell to the floor. “to have your own child ripped away from you… to be all alone for 2000 years…”

Celestia sobbed as tears fell like waterfalls. Jax rubbed her neck and glanced away; she couldn’t bare to look at anyone when they cry. “Celestia… we all make mistakes. We either own up to them or accept them and move on. Yours are still around and can be fixed. You got Luna back after 1000 years.” she patted the princess on the back, who sniffled and looked at her with tear filled eyes. “trust me. You’ll get Cosmos back, you’ll get Erys back. And you’ll get Dis back.”

Celestia sniffled again and wiped her eyes. “y-you think so?”

Jax smiled with confidence. “have we ever let you down?”

She certainly had her there. Not once have they ever let Celestia, or the world, down. In fact, these humans may have been the best thing ever to happen to their world in a long time. “no… no, you haven’t.” Celestia replied, finally being able to smile.

The 2 walked back up to the tome just as everyone was starting down. “Whoa whoa whoa, where are you guys going?” Jax asked.

“back to town.” Adolf said.

“but don’t we need to get the way home first?”

“just got it.” Req said as she was one of the last ones down with Twilight. “I’ll explain it when we get back.”

Twi stopped in mid-step and looked back at the two of them. “where did you two disappear too?”

Jax and Celestia looked at each other for a moment. “Just… out for a walk.”

“oh. Well, hurry up.” she ran on down the steps, leaving both of them behind. Jax started after her when Celestia stopped her.

“thanks… for not telling them.”

“about what, the crying?” Jax laughed with a scoff. “trust me, Tia. You’re not the first ultra-powered ruler to break down and shed a few tears.”

The sand skiff pulled away from the high palace and headed back to the town. On it, they discussed on what to do with Discord.

“Okay. So we know that Discord was in love with Celestia.” Req said. “Maybe, if some residue of his feelings are still in there, we can use it to make him see the error of his ways and let go of his pursuit of revenge.”

“yeah, that’s a good plan and all, but you’re forgetting that Cosmos killed his parents and helped slaughter his species.” Armor said.

“Right. Right. Forgot about that. Well, then Jax can do her Personality Shift on him and we’ll destroy the evil half before it has a chance to go berserk like Chrysalis’.”

“there’s a bit of a problem with that plan.” Celestia interrupted. “Cosmos is no slouch when it comes to fighting. If you use that spell on him while he’s still in that pearl inside Discord, he’ll turn evil too. And I hate to imagine what he would act like if evil.”

“I think I know how to deal with that.” Lloyd said. “we saw that Discord put that pearl thing near his heart, right? And we saw where. And from what we all experienced, if the prison is destroyed, the prisoner is, well, released.”

“I get what you’re getting at.” Bahamut said, chiming in. “if we get lucky and destroy the pearl while it’s inside Discord…”

“then Cosmos will be released easy peasy then Jax can shift Discord and we can get rid of the evil half just like *snaps fingers* that.”

“but remember, Discord’s no slouch when it comes to fighting.” Luna said. “remember, it took me and Tia 900 years to defeat him.”

“so?” Req asked. “I’ve only been fighting for 2 years and I beat Gods and Goddesses more times then you can say ‘Mary Poppins’.”

“there’s still Eris we have to deal with.” Dash interrupted.

“oh.” Req had hoped Dash wouldn’t bring her up. “Right. W-well, we can just Personality Shift her, too.”

“no!” Dash exclaimed. “just… just let me talk to her. Try to get her to break loose out of whatever programming Discord put in her head.”

“Dash… *sigh* okay.”

“that still doesn’t help on how we’re gonna get back.” Garble asked. “and besides that, you still need to pay for my services, plus extra for this unexpected detour into the Afterworld.” everyone groaned in agony when he brought that up. Spike sighed and bonked Garble hard on the head, knocking him out.

“thank you.” everyone said in unison.

“we’re leaving now?” Satoshi asked in surprise as everyone started climbing back onto the ship. Spike and Gilda carried Garble’s unconscious form onto the ship.

“yep. Found the way back. Now start the ship up.” Req ordered.

Satoshi looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “did she just order me around?” he asked. Ash rolled his eyes and pushed him up the ramp.

“Do you have to leave now?” Adolf asked Req, Aura, and Bahamut. “you just got here. We got so much to catch up on.”

“I know. And I don’t want to leave either.” Req said with lament. “but… Adolf, you know that we’re not ready to come here yet.”

“I know, sis. I know. But… I’m gonna miss you.”

Req smiled and hugged her brother. “I’m gonna miss you too, kiddo.”

“And hey, It’s not good-bye forever.” Aura said. “we’ll die someday and rejoin you.”

“but it’s gonna be a long wait.” Adolf sighed.

“you waited this long to see us again. What’s another 80 years?” Bahamut said with a wink.

Adolf sighed as he pinched his eyes. “figures you would say something stupid like that, Bahamut.” the 4 laughed with delight as they said their final goodbyes for the next few decades.

And they weren’t the only ones.

“I can’t believe we have to say goodbye again.” Dash sadly said to her brother and mother. “I still couldn’t believe you guys were dead when it happened.”

“we know Dash, but you know we can’t go back.” Soarin’ said. “we can’t leave. No bodies to go back to.”

“besides…” Shine lovingly covered her daughter with her wing. “you have two important people waiting for you back home.”

Dash nodded with a chuckle. She had Scootaloo and Eris and Shadow waiting for her. And besides, it’s not like this is going to be a eternal goodbye. She knows where to find them.

The Orion flew up into the air and hovered 1000 feet above the town.

“so… how do we get back home?” Applejack asked, looking down from over the railing.

Requiem drew her blade and powered it up. “it’s a simple process that can also be deadly.” she said. “it requires a god or goddess to do it but the pool that allows those departed to see our worlds can be powered up to allow those like us to pass though it and return home.”

“Oh.” everyone said in unison.

“It can work like that?” Edge asked.

“yep.” Req jumped up onto the outer mast. “in a few seconds, Soarin’s gonna ask the pool to focus on Manehatten cause that’s where we need to go.”

Nexus Ultimus glowed bright as Aura remembered something that she had just said. “wait. You said it was dangerous. How is it dangerous?”

Req looked back and painfully smiled. “If you’re a demi-goddess, it takes away some of your life.”

“what?”

A bright green light shone from below. They all looked to see the pool light up and focus on Manehatten.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ZyTN7eGNg

Lasky - Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Unofficial Soundtrack
(just like with hunter a couple chapters back. It has sound effects. And again, it helps.)

Req swung her sword to the right. “hope this works.” she held her arm out, spinning her sword around as fast as possible. Energy gathered into the blade in the form of ice crystals. Req silently grunted in pain as it did indeed what she said and took some of her life.

She swung once above her head and shot the ball of ‘ice’ down to the pool.

The ball hit, causing the pool to glow bright. A whirlpool extended out of the pool and extended wide enough for the Orion to pass though.

“holy crap, it worked.” Trixie commented.

Req held her heart in pain as she looked down at the portal. “Celestia. It’s your world. You give the order.”

The princess stared at Req for a moment, a bit surprised that she would ask her, given what she did in the past. She toughened up and nodded. “Satoshi, Take us in! it’s time to take my world back!”

“Roger that.” he pressed a button on his little console, causing the ship to shake a bit.

The Orion quickly entered space mode, with the wings successfully reattached by Satoshi. The engines kicked into gear and the ship blasted off. It pulled up and pulled a u-turn before heading down to the portal.

Everyone in town looked to the sky nervously. Nobody’s ever done this before.

The crazy lady that gave them the directions to the tome melted away, revealing her true for underneath. “Good luck, my darling daughters.” the female Alicorn softly said.

The voice reached both princess’ ears. They looked at each other with concern then over the side. “Mother?”

The ship turned down and shot bow first towards the portal.

“better hope this works!”

The ship spun around and powered up it’s main cannons as it shot right into the portal.

End Song.

Author's Notes:

yeah yeah yeah. it's rushed. so sue me. i have off days.

and only 3 chapters till the end of this side-story.