What do I do? What do I do?

She looked up to the sun, which seemed to be in the same position since like a while ago.

She had been there for a possibly a few hours? Or maybe a few minutes. However long it had been, it felt like damn ages. Her phone time was all hay-wired for some reason, making checking the time there useless. She sighed. Poor thing can't figure itself out. She looked back to the sun. "Wasn't the sun supposed to set hours ago?" she said, confused.

"But then the day would end. And I'm just having too much fun today!" said a familiar voice. "Have you found a way to your so-called ‘home’ yet?" said Discord as he hovered atop of her.

She blinked, but didn’t react much as she felt tired with his antics at that point. “I……oh, you won’t get it.”

"Oh, but maybe I will! Come on, we won’t know if we don’t try….” he mused. She merely rolled her eyes.

“Leave me be already, patchwork. I’m tired.”

"Names won’t repel me, my dear. It’s still so early in the morning!” he exclaimed as they looked up to the sun.

"Well, no shit, you left it that way,” she deadpanned. She started to walk away, trying to get out of the conversation as she felt more and more annoyed the longer he stayed by. “I’m heading this way. You go do your chaosing elsewhere, please.”

"...oh hoho, you really mean that?” he asked, starting to perk up slightly as he had a sudden plan in mind. He grinned, although it went unnoticed for the pony.

"Have a blast, patchwork. Not like I care,” she said, not even batting an eye as she went her merry way. Or at least, tried to.

However, she gasped in surprise as she felt herself being lifted up. Discord held her up as if she was a cat. “Ooh! What a grand statement you have made! I wonder how Sunbutt would react to your words- shall we see for ourselves?”

“What- hey! Drop me, you big jerk!” she struggled in his grasp, however with their size differences, it didn’t work. He didn’t even flinch, it just made him grin even more.

This time, he rolled his eyes. “Stop squirming, will you? It’ll be a quick in and out of the castle- not biggie!”

“In and out? Castle?!! Where are you planning to take me to?!!” she shrieked, hitting every part of his body visible to her. He wasn’t affected at all.

“Wait and see~” was all that he said before snapping his talon, teleporting them.

---

In a flash, Crystal’s eyes widened as they were indeed teleported to….somewhere. The room that they were in was big and fancy looking, as if they had walked into those fancy old fashioned mansions. “W-where?”

“Here my friend, is the castle of Canterlot. Home to only the snobbiest of ladies-“

“DISCORD, RELEASE US THIS INSTANT!!!” boomed a voice in a deafening volume. Crystal looked around in surprise, not knowing where the voice came from.

“-and the loudest of royal tongues. Really Lulu, is there no volume control to that mouth of yours?” he panned up to the ceiling. Crystal furrowed her brows in confusion and panned up as well. And there, she saw what the whole commotion was about.

Three other ponies were…..stuck onto the ceiling. And with what she could tell is….gum? A huge load of it apparently. One of them had a pure white coat, with chewing gum wrapped around her horn. Her mane was a mixture on blue, yellow and pink. Her condition was similar to the one beside her, whose mane was a beautiful night blue, her coat was quite similar actually. On the other side of the white pony was a pink one, her mane a beautiful mix of pink, purple and yellow. However, as wondrous as the colors of their manes may be, it was then ruined by small sticky parts of gum.

Crystal could tell which one of them was the one that yelled bloody murder, as the blue one glared down at Discord menacingly, huffing from the possible anger she had just let out. She eyed the white one again, who surprised her as it stared back eye to eye with her.

“….wait, who’s that wth you?” asked Celestia, looking at her with question and suspicion. Crystal gulped, but was surprised when Discord suddenly pulled her face up beside his. Holding her by her cheeks, he mocked.

“Aw, you mwean thwis wittle twhing?” he cooed, however retracting his paws as she tried to bite his fingers. He looked down at his light blue friend, who stared back daggers at him. “Hmpf, rude.” His gaze reverted back to Celestia, who raised a brow. “This is- what is your name again? C-C-C? C-C-C-C-Crystal! Yes! Oh, but only three Cs though, I only added an extra for effect.”

“Once I learn how to use my magic properly you’ll watch as I make you c-c-cry……” she grumbled. He responded with a pat on her head.

“I’m afraid she’s been a little grumpy from the ride to here,” he joked, and this time however, she managed to kick his hip in. “OW!~” He looked down at the pony, who in returned blew a raspberry. “….whatever. Anyway, hello my dear Princesses! How is the view from up there?”

“Don’t play these games with me, Discord!” Celestia spat. Her gaze was still fixated on Crystal, who was mildly confused and uncomfortable from it. “You better not have hurt her….”

He shook his talon in defence. “Oh- no no no! It’s nothing of the sort! I’ve been nothing but friendly to her-“

“Friendly my arse-“

“-and that’s that. No, I’ve brought her here because I want to state a case,” he simply explained. Cadence raised a brow this time.

“Come again?”

He cleared his throat. Luna sighed. He was obviously preparing for another stunt of his. And she was right, as he dropped Crystal and clapped his hands. At that gesture, the room suddenly went dim, and a showlight shown onto him. “Well, let’s start from…..exhibit A,” as he said that, another light flashed, and this time a projector screen appeared. From a ‘pocket’ of his, he pulled out an extendable pointer. As he tapped the pointer onto the screen, an image showed. It was a view of Ponyville, covered in all kinds of chaos. “This is Ponyville now.” He then tapped the pointer again, and the slide changed to an image of a poorly drawn pony crying. “Exhibit B! This is a sad pony. Now, you have always said how ponies are affected by my chaos in bad ways and how ‘Discord, you should stop your nonsense’ blah blah blah….” He mocked in the voice of Celestia, which made her huff. “However! I have a statement to make. You had always said how ponies hated chaos, they want none of it- nadda. And I’m here to prove you wrong.” He tapped his pointer again, and the image changed…..

Celestia squinted in suspicion. Crystal, who was momentarily dusting herself off, paused abruptly at his words. She panned over to the screen in suspicion as well. Wait…..

It was a still image of her, at the forest previously with him. “Let’s play the footage shall we?” he said, smirking at Crystal as her eyes widened.

“You go do your chaosing elsewhere, please.”

"...oh hoho, you really mean that?”

"Have a blast, patchwork. Not like I care.”

And after that statement, the video ended. She stared. Mouth agaped. “…..there is no context to the video, I’m being accused, I swear!” she looked up to the princesses, who stared back at her in surprise.

“However, there is no defense behind the phrase that you didn’t care. You didn’t care of the chaos I wreck. And even if you do have a defense, what could it possibly be?”

She hesitated to answer. “I…….freedom of speech?” she laughed nervously. She watched as he panned up to the princesses with a grin.

“As you can see from this short presentation I had prepared less than a few minutes ago, it is clear to say that my chaos is perfectly fine, and that your citizens are just whiny snowflakes.”

“I-“ Celestia was interrupted by Luna.

“Is no one really going to question that she’s an alicorn as well??” she exclaimed suddenly. And on double inspection, Celestia realized it was true.

“….in my defense, I thought you two had already noticed,” was all that Cadence had to say about it.

“I….that’s not important now!” said Celestia. “What’s important now is that you release her and us. I don’t know what you are planning, but whatever it is can’t be good.”

Discord stared at her with a dead look of boredom. “….you’re really going to just gloss over my case like that? Really?” he said as the room slowly lit up again. “Pah! Whatever, I’ll leave you three here to mope all you want about it. See if I care!” he picked Crystal up once more, who was trying to escape at that very moment too late. “I think I’ll be off now. I have some more chaosing to do, as my buddy would say!-“

“Don’t you buddy me!” shrieked Crystal.

“What-ever! Goodbye, too-da-loo, my fellow girls! Let’s see how your little purple smart would stop me this time!” he waved a goodbye to the princesses.

“You coward, don’t you dare teleport-“ he didn’t hear the end of Luna’s cry as he teleported the two of them back to Ponyville.

---

They reappeared in front of a large oak tree.

As if on cue, in the distance stood five other ponies, four of them grayish in color. However in the midst of them stood a purple pony, who saw and stared at him in surprise momentarily but immediately glared at him. “Discord!”

Discord dropped Crystal into her own personal lawn chair. "Enjoy the show, Miamori~ Watch and learn from the expert himself!” he said, striding over to the group of ponies. She didn’t respond, clearly starting to grow dull with his antics already.

Once he approached them near enough, he snapped himself up his own lawn chair, along with a pair of cardboard 3-D glasses and a bag of popcorn. “Hello to you too, Twilight. I see you have the whole gang with you….” He looked to the four others standing behind her, who all seem uninterested in the whole event. “Or- more or less most of them. Welp, here’s a target, ladies,” he gestured to his chect, where magically a target appreared. “Have a blast.”

“We’ll still stop you no matter what!” said the purple pony. Her mane was a dark purple completed with pink highlight streaks in the front. She wore a crown with a pink gem embezzled into it. Another princess perhaps?

"I didn’t even get popcorn….” mumbled Crystal.

"Everyone, places,” called out Twilight, and on cue the others just…..stepped a few steps forward. They had their own jewelry, amulets. Although, compared to Twilight’s, they were also colorless and dull much like the owners. As she looked back at her ‘friends’, she shook her head as she noticed something. "Rainbow Dash! Get over here!" she called out again, and from behind one of the dull ponies came running a blue dragon, also wearing a dull amulet. Only difference is that he himself wasn’t dull, which was quite confusing for Crystal.

".....what kind of gay name is ‘Rainbow Dash’? Rainbow Dash? R-R-Rainbow- who names their child Rainbow? Unbelievable. Discord- who names their kid Discord??.... This place is wack,” she said, leaning back into her lawn chair as she didn’t care to know what’s up with the place anymore.

For a moment, she noticed a look of hesitation in Twilight eyes, however she shook it off as her horn lit up, magically glowing up the gem in her crown. And from there, a rainbowish aura was created as it was released from the gem and reaching towards the other amulets, as if it was connecting them somehow. The magic content in the air was high too as Crystal’s pendant could sense it somehow. Well, it was no wonder, Twilight was even beginning to float from the sheer strength of her magic.

Crystal then looked over to Discord, whose calm and mischievous façade earlier slowly turned to a worried look as the glow of the magical rainbow aura grew stronger. But, as the glow grew brighter and brighter, it……was no use.

Suddenly, Twilight’s eyes flashed into panic as she fell from the air from floating, landing dizzily onto the ground, along with the rest as well. The aura dissipated as fast as it appeared. Crystal tilted her head in confusion, and slight disappointment. Well darn, that anticipation for nothing. She saw as Twilight’s eyes wore the look of confusion, and worry, and disappointment herself.

"I-I….but I thought it would work......" mumbled Twilight disappointingly. She turned back to her friends, who began to walk away, tossing their amulets aside, with one of them trailing from behind catching all the thrown amulets.

Twilight looked at them helplessly, and began to chase after them. Discord grinned wider, getting off of his lawn chair and following her along from behind. Crystal couldn’t help but feel bad for her….whatever she was trying to do.

…..wait a minute.

"….what am I still doing here?! This is my chance to escape!" she told herself as she crawled off of her lawn chair, looking back to Discord from time to time hoping he didn’t notice as she snuck herself away to the forest.

---

She thought back to the incident, and how Discord reacted to the pony’s disappointment.

….was he always that cruel?

Perhaps it was because she had only been there for awhile. She didn’t know him long enough to know how his personality actually was like. From first sight, she thought he was just some candy-crazed mischievous maniac. Not…

Not that.

The grin he had.

It was almost sinister.

She shook her head, trying to stop thinking about it. She should stop thinking about it, he’s not a good person to begin with. Hell, she saw the princesses trapped on the ceiling earlier. Why…..

…why didn’t it feel right?

It didn’t feel right to think of him badly for some reason. Maybe it was just the situation they met up in. You know, he was joking a lot, the place was just candy- it didn’t seem that harmful at first. But…. Now that she thought about it, she kind of understood why ponies would be afraid. Hell, if it was her, she’ll be scared too if her hometown was invaded by candy canes.

She tried to think of other things, maybe for a place to rest at least. She felt quite tired with the day. She sighed, she also needed to figure out a way to charge up her warp pad. She didn’t know how to create a charge or rather create the charger itself for the warp pad from scratch, since the person that made it first was actually…..

No.

The trip was to get her mind off of him.

She should stop thinking about him.

Anyway, she first thought of the clouds, since she could actually attempt to fly with her wings…..somehow. However, she was reminded that the clouds were cotton candy. She shivered at the thought of having candy stuck onto her fur.

She lurked around in the forest some more. The trees were all candy canes, she noted. And if she wasn’t wrong, the ground was probably some sort of Nesquik of something as she remembered tasting a little as she fell face flat into the ground earlier.

As she lurked, she noticed something in the distance. Curious, she went ahead and headed towards it. She didn’t seem to fear getting hurt by anything or anyone. It’s a town full of fluffy cuddly ponies, what harm could there be? As she reached it, she realized it’s a cave.

“Bingo!” she celebrated in her mind. A cave sounds like a secluded enough place to rest for a bit. Quickly, she entered it. She noted that it didn’t seem to be affected by any chaos related magics at all, which was good. She thought of curling up in a corner somewhere in it. Maybe nap a little. She felt exhausted.

However, as she did found a spot, she felt….off. She looked around, however could not pinpoint what was wrong. Well, it didn’t help that the cave was very dark as well. Suddenly, she felt like something was amidst the darkness, watching her. She squinted. “….h-hello? Uh…..anybody….there? Out of nowhere however, a ridiculous stench hit her. “W-what in the….” Was there an animal in there with her?! Perhaps decided to do the loo in the cave because of how normal it was? She backed up a little, and realized the stench was growing stronger. Even with the agaped opening of the cave, the smell was suffocating.

With a hoof to her nose, she tried to run out of the cave, but was scared shitless as she suddenly heard a growl. She looked around worriedly, wondering from which part of the darkness the growl came from. Little did she know that it was merely inches away in front of her…..

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