My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 20

From Terrifying to Nightmarish

The train headed to Manehatten screeched to a halt, sending it’s passengers, Scootaloo and Babs included, flying forward. The locomotive halted just before it went over a break in the line and over a cliff.

“whoa.” the engineer whistled, looking over the edge. That… would’ve been deadly. The passengers looked out their windows or the breaks between cars and whistled at how far they would’ve dropped.

“AHH! Look at Manehatten!” one of the passengers yelled.

The entire city was turned into chaos central with buildings as high as the atmosphere and creatures better off in stories floating around. What was even more odd is a continuous beam that kept shooting into the sky. A pulse went up into the air though the beam. When it went into the clouds, it went ‘boom’ and spread more chaos out into the world. That one turned Feather Top into a giant bird bath.

Babs’s heart sank when she saw her home like this. “Mom…”

“Wait. Babs. Look. The farm. It’s still in one piece.” Scootaloo said, pointing to said farm.

Babs breathed a sigh of relief. “thank goodness.” she and Scootaloo exited the car they were on and looked down at the cliff though the break. “Now… how do we get down?”

Scootaloo thought about it and looked around to try and find anything. Unfortunately, she didn’t. “Guess we’re gonna have to rough it.” she told her.

“rough it?”

Scoot’s term of rough it is sliding down the side, using your hooves as breaks. “ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow…” they both went ow ow ow as they slid on down. They should’ve looked around for some shoes.

When the two arrived at the farm, they saw that almost everyone from Manehatten had taken refuge there.

“wow.” they both said, surprised to see the place like this. They moved though the crowd and headed up to the house.

“caring for 50000 people is no easy feat.” Babs’s mom sighed as she slunk over the kitchen table, her feet aching for relief.

“tell us about it.” the colts and fillies of the CMC said, having been helping her take care of the refugees. Pinkie and Marble are also helping and their hyperness is just what was needed to help perk everyone’s spirits.

“I know it’s been tough, but there’s was the closest place we could go to, what with Discord having taken out the train tracks.” Golden Day said.

“I’m still surprised he did that.” Applebloom said, stirring a pot filled with noodles. “Applejack told me that Discord wasn’t like that when he was released last time.”

“Yeah. It was after everyone died that he changed.” Sweetie Belle said. “he changed for the worst.”

“he became like Eris.” Dinky sighed.

Marble moved though the crowd of refugees that had set up camp and found Diamond sitting around a campfire with several other ponies with Helios sleeping not that far from them. He walked up behind her and hugged her. “Oh. You surprised me, Marble.”

“Sorry. And how can a hug scare you?”

“it just does. That’s the scary part. You don’t know.”

Marble rolled his eyes and scoffed. “Listen…” he sat down beside her. “I know that… my initial reaction to you being engaged to Green Block and carrying his baby was a bit… negative--”

“you yelled.”

“Yeah. I yelled. But… that was because I wasn’t sure you were making the right choice, after what he did to me.”

“I remember.”

“but… after some thinking, and some nudging from Pinkie Pie, I decided that I would… give your relationship with him a try.”

Diamond smiled and patted her brothers head. “thanks, Marble.” Marble looked up and smiled at her. “and whole knows; you and Block could become good friends.”

Marble’s eyes got that fazed look. “I’m giving him a chance. Isn’t that enough?”

Diamond giggled. “yeah. Guess that’s enough… Uncle Marble.” Marble playfully scoffed. That’s gonna take some getting used to.

Suddenly, a pair of fillies ran by, getting his attention. “Scoots?”

The door to the house slammed open and the two fillies ran in. “We got trouble!” both Scoots and Babs said.

Nobody asked but their innitial reaction to this was… “SCOOTALOO!” her friends exclaimed. They ran over and hugged her.

“Babs!” her mother shrieked happily. She hugged her daughter and kissed her over and over and over.

Babs struggled to get loose of her mothers death grip. “mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom…” she did get loose and wiped her face off. “you’re embarrassing me.”

“I was so worried! When you and Scootaloo disappeared, we feared the worst.”

“how’d you disappear, anyhow?” Applebloom asked.

“Eris kidnapped us.” Scoots explained. “She took us to some island to kill us then… something happened.”

“what happened?”

Marble burst in. “we got trouble outside!”

Lightning fell from the sky and fell around the barn, striking everyone outside, causing them to yell out in pain.

One such bolt fell towards Diamond but her fiancée pushed her out of the way, making him take the blow instead of her. “Block!” she yelled out. Another bolt fell to her but her brother flew in and picked her up just before it hit her. “Marble! Block, he…”

“I saw.” he replied. They flew into the house and quickly closed the door.

“what happened out there?” Babs yelled.

“I don’t know…” Marble put Diamond down and quickly pushed the table in front of the door. “but I got a good feeling about what’s coming next.” he pushed a chair in front of the table as Golden Day walked to the window and looked out. When he saw made all color flush from his face.

“what’s going on?” Pipsqueak asked.

Golden Day couldn’t describe what he was seeing. It was too horrific for him to repeat.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIFo75_3NH4

To Hunt L’Cie - Final Fantasy XIII OST

0:00.

Outside, innocent ponies were turning into horrifying and dangerous monsters in ways to horrific to describe. And… even if I could, it would give kids nightmares for months to come.

“My Faust…” Babs’ mother gasped when they all saw what was going on outside.

Another Lightning bolt struck just outside the house and who should come out but Discord himself. But… something was off, really off, about him, and Pinkie was the only one to notice it. “is that… the same pentagram Dark Chrysalis had?” she muttered.

The Pentagram in Discord’s forehead glowed yellow, as did his eyes. Whatever Orochi did to him certainly took effect as a loud boom echoed from underneath him, flattening the ground beneath him.

“it… is all over.” he told everyone inside. “everyone on the whole planet have been turned into savage beasts, ready to do my bidding. Your friends are dead, sent to the Afterworld where nobody can return. The only reason I didn’t turn you is because I need some witnesses to observe the rise of my new empire! HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

“he has officially gone insane.” Sweetie Belle tried to joke.

Pinkie snarled and walked out to confront him. “Hey!” her yell got his attention. “I thought you were a spirit who loved to have fun! Where’d that guy go?”

The Pentagram on Discord’s head glowed again. “he… is long gone.” he pointed his hand at her, causing lightning to appear in it.

“Pinkie!” Marble ran out a few feet to get her but quickly stopped and ran back in when Discord blasted her right though the door. She hit the cupboard and fell to the floor. “Pinkie!” Pinkie groaned as she struggled to get up. What happened next, nobody saw coming at all.

Pinkie placed one of her hooves onto the table to help up when it suddenly, and painfully, split open to look like a the barrel of a rifle, causing everyone to scream. “OH MY GODS!” Pinkie, who didn’t feel a thing, looked at her hoof and screamed as well. Soon, all her hooves split open.

1:02.

Babs’s mom quickly put the table cloth over Pinkie as Marble angrily sneered at Discord. “You…” he unfurled his wings and flew on out. “BASTARD!” he tried to ram Discord but was stopped by a invisible forcefield. He screamed as he was sent back into a stack of firewood.

The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony snapped his fingers, bringing Marble over to him. “you want to join her?” Lightning appeared around Marble but it didn’t hit him. “so be it.”

“DISCORD!!!”

Celestia’s angry and irritated voice filled the air, surprising him and everyone who didn’t change.

The Black Hole that had destroyed the Orion reappeared over the sea when it first appeared. The creatures inside the city stirred and snarled. They had a pretty good feeling of what’s going to be coming out of that thing.

Discord, and everyone else, is confused on how that thing reppeared. “How…?” Discord looked to Marble. “This was your doing, isn’t it?” he asked the Pegasus.

“How can I? don’t use magic?”

The Black Hole suddenly exploded in a show of force that nobody on the ground did.

1:30.

The Orion flew on out of the explosion and quickly pulled up before it hit the water, making a straight bee-line for the city.

“Impossible…” Discord gasped. “They were dead!”

Inside, everyone’s hopes were brightened. “THEY’RE ALIVE!” they all cheered.

Discord snarled and tossed Marble to the side. “Kill them.”

1:44.

The creatures in the city moved to attack the Orion. They opened their mouths and powered up what beam attacks they had.

The Orion was the first to attack as it’s cannons fired and hit every creature in the town. It turned hard right and headed straight for the farm.

The ponies were still in the painful process of transforming so they couldn’t do anything about it. Discord still snapped his fingers, however.

A dragon from Skyrim suddenly appeared and slammed into the ships front. It roared as it powered up it’s fire. The Main Cannons fired and sent the dragon out a ways before exploding.

The ship slowed down and turned hard on it’s left.

2:12.

Req, Jax, and Celestia fell from the ship and straight for the Draconequus.

Req slashed down at Discord but he quickly dodged to the side. One of Jax’s chakrams missed his head when he dodged but she tried to attack him with the other. That also missed. Celestia’s magic hit him square in the chest, sending him skidding back a bit.

“Impossible…” Discord snarled. “…I killed you.

“believe it. We’re back.” Jax said as she caught her other chakram.

“Next time, you might want to be more thorough.” Req commented. She spun her sword and pointed it at Discord.

“Dis… please, stop this.” Celestia pleaded.

That name… he hadn’t heard that in a long while. If psychological warfare is their game, then they’re going be sorely disappointed. Discord scoffed. “I haven’t the time for this. Stay tuned.” he snapped his fingers. He, and all the other ponies, disappeared.

2:41. End Song.

The Orion touched down as Req was the first to comment, “is it just me… or did he go even more insane?”

Marble grunted as he got up. “No. he went insane.”

Derpy was the first on off when she was ran into by a squealing Dinky. “MOMMY!” the two rolled on the ground a ways before stopping. “Mommy, you’re alive!” Dinky happily squealed as she hugged her mother tight.

“Applejack!”

“Rarity!”

Sweetie Belle and Applebloom joined in and hugged their sisters.

“RAINBOW DASH! Scootaloo jumped at Dash, causing them both to fall off the ramp. “You’re alive! You’re alive!” she cheered as she hugged Dash.

“Good to see you too, squirt.” Dash got up and was able to push Scoots off. “it’s so very good do se--” she noticed Scootaloo’s cut up hooves. “wh… what happened?”

Scoots looked at her hooves and went ‘oh.’ “un…. It’s a long story.” Dash raised a eyebrow as only a mother would. “it is.”

“and we can’t wait to hear it.” Manni said as she jumped down to them.

Scootaloo closed her eyes halfway. “oh. You. Un, Dash. Did you have to bring her back?”

“Squirt!”

“what?”

Dash sighed. “Listen… there’s something you need to know.” Scootaloo tilted her head in confusion. “Scootaloo… you still have family out there.”

“Yeah. You, Shadow, and Eris.”

Dash shook her head ‘no’. “No, Squirt. Biological family.” she got up and walked over to Manni. “Manni… Manni is your aunt. Your biological aunt.”

Scootaloo went into shock when she heard that. She still had family? And Manni was it? Is that why she tried to take her all those times? “y-you’re kidding, right?”

“nope. Manni is the only family you have left in this world.” Scoots looked to Manni who glanced away. “so… Scoots… you have a choice. You can stay with me… or the only family you have left.”

“Dash…”

“there’s no pressure.” Manni said. “We both agreed to fully support what decision you make.”

“So… it’s up to you.” Dash said.

Scoots couldn’t believe this. Why are they making her choose? She sucks at choosing. “(Dammit, why are they making me choose?)” she doesn’t’ want to disappoint either of them.

“oh, you have no idea what a relief it is to know you’re all alive.” Golden Day said with a sigh of relief.

“You have no idea.” Halo said. “where we went was a bit… trippy.”

“where’d you all go?” Applebloom asked, hanging off of Applejack’s back.

“the Afterworld.” Req explained. “We ran into a few old dead friends, found a tome that has all the info in the universe, had a rematch with my brother Catalyst which we still don’t know how we won, learned about Discord’s history, and we now know how to beat him.”

Those who didn’t go just stood there, not sure how to react first. “Un……….” Dinky shook her head. “if you say so.”

Marble chuckled. “Pinkie would be so lost with this.” he then remembered that Pinkie was transforming. “Pinkie!” the foals yelped and ran with him into the house.

“Oh, crap!” Golden Day winced.

“What’s going on?” Fluttershy asked.

“eh…”

Marble ran into the kitchen and towards the shifting table cloth that Babs’ mother had put over the changing Pinkie. “Pinkie! Pinkie! Are you okay?” the only response was a demonic sounding growl. That growl was something he didn’t expect to hear. “P-pinkie?”

Pinkie got up from the floor and the table cloth fell off. What Marble saw made him gasp. Pinkie asked in a growling matter but that’s all that came. Growls. And her looks weren’t exactly Pinkie anymore.

“you flew too fast for us to catch up, Marble.” Sweetie Belle said from outside. “what’s go--” she and the other members of the CMC ran in and yelled. “P-pinkie?”

Bahamut came in, confused as all sin as to what‘s going on. “just what is going on-- oh…. Oh my god… is that Pinkie?”

Pinkie made a confused growl then looked around for a mirror. She looked into it and saw a mutant pony standing where she was. There was nothing that even remotely resembled a pony in this new look. She gasped in fear when she realized that it was her. She looked at what was once her hooves in horror.

“Pinkie…” Marble softly said.

“What’s going on in there?” Shadow asked.

Marble glanced to the exit, then back to a horrified Pinkie. “un… I… um… it’s better if I show you.” he responded. Pinkie backed up into the corner. “Pinkie… they’re gonna see this one way or another.” Pinkie growled at him and he understood it. “It’s okay. I still love you. Although I consider this a test of our relationship.”

Marble walked out. “Um… something… happened to Pinkie so you’re gonna have to promise not to yell.”

“Yell?” Hiccup asked.

He nodded to the human then turned back to Pinkie. She slowly walked out, revealing her new form to everyone else. Nobody yelled but they did gasp in fear. Rarity even fainted.

“that’s Pinkie!?!” Dash exclaimed. “What in Equestria happened to her?”

“Discord. Not long after you died, he snapped. Not sure why.”

Pinkie yelped, getting their attention. She used her new reptilian tale and drew a picture into the ground. And that picture was a Pentagram.

“wait… isn’t that the same symbol Dark Chrysalis had on her forehead?” Gilda pointed out.

“it is.” Req said. “whatever happened to her also happened to Discord. That’s gonna make our plan even more difficult.”

“gonna make him as sadistic as my dark self?” Chrysalis asked.

“Or as Eris.”

Eris… Eris… oh, right. They forgot. “Oh, crap. Eris!” Scootaloo and Babs exclaimed. They got the attention of everyone there. “Something bad is happening to Eris.” Scootaloo said with worry. “Something really, really bad.”

Author's Notes:

whoa. that sucks for Pinkie.

and i hope you brought a tissue because you're gonna be crying next chapter.