Twilight was particularly chipper this morning. “Alright, I’m off to Canterlot. Are you three going to be able to hold down the fort while I’m gone?”

Starlight spoke up first. “Yep, I’m just going to some new materials to make kites. Shouldn’t be a problem.”

Twilight simply nodded in approval. “Sounds good, have fun. Jake, Spike, are you guys sure you can keep the noise down while you’re playing Ogres and Oubliettes this afternoon?”

Spike, despite his habitual need to keep everyone happy, answered this with as realistic of an answer as he could think of. “Twilight, as much as I would like to keep it silent, you know how Discord gets when we get caught up in the action. However, I think we can keep him reeled in given the setting that I have in mind for today’s scenario.”

I, however, could only feign my interest at this point. “Yep, today’s game shouldn’t get terribly out of hand.”

However, I kept his silence about my honest opinion. Especially since I have a good idea of what this game is. I swear, having to hear my little dragon half-cousin harp on about Dungeons and Dragons fanfare like crazy is not something I’m looking forward to. The Renaissance fair was bad enough during high school.

Twilight, who had me read like a book, knew exactly what I meant by that. “Oooookay. I’m hoping that my parents are at least a little calmer after we saw them last.”

Spike just brushed off the comment. “Come on, they're you parents. They can't hate you forever.”

Twilight said, “Thanks Spike. Well, I better not miss the train. I know I can teleport long-distance faster, but I’d rather not stink up their house from my sweating with a spell that drains my energy like that. I’ll see you this evening!”

With that, Twilight took off.

An hour later…..

Spike and I were wrapping clearing up Twilight’s notes from yesterday’s “study marathon” when the sound of thunder came from overhead. I had originally suspected Rainbow Dash of attempting another ill-attempted prank and was ready to give her a bored look.

Spike, however, was smirking, “Captain Wuz has entered the game……a bit early for once.”

The clouds cleared with Discord descending towards the floor.

“Garbunkle, you really know how to spoil my fun with the newcomer. I see that Sir McBiggun is running late. I guess I should fix that.”

With the snap of his lion paw, there was a flash of light near the door that revealed Big Mac in full armor, but he wasn’t alone. He was lip-locked with Sugar Belle and had his eyes shut: the lovebirds oblivious to where they were.

That is, until Discord spoke up again with his usual mischievous grin. “Oh my!”

The lovely couple opened their eyes and froze, thus causing us three stooges to crack up laughing. Big Mac and Sugar Belle broke apart with blushes on their face.

Sugar Belle, however, took the opportunity to take a good look at him in his armor. As she was leaving, she gave him “the look” that drives all men crazy, and further proceeded to sashay out the door.

Big Mac was flustered to the point of shaking. I stepped in and said, “I may not be into this kind of game, but you really should be overjoyed. She clearly likes what she sees now.”

Discord followed up with a jab, “Oh, I bet she tackles you to the floor when you get home, thus I suggest you keep it on when you get home. Hahahaha!”

I suddenly had a look of fiendish delight, and without missing a beat, Discord floated over to him. “I sense a disturbance in the chaos in the vicinity of your skull. Care to enlighten me, oh thief of nerdy hearts?”

I responded, “Hold that thought for a couple minutes.” I ran out of the room with a laugh to only-I-know-where. After five minutes of the guys setting the room up for the first round of Ogres and Oubliettes followed by waiting, I returned with Starlight in tow and the biggest smile she had ever seen on my face.

“Discord, come over here for a second.” The avatar of bedlam came over and joined what was now a huddle. “Okay, since Twilight is supposed to come back later, I say we pull a fast one on her. Now listen carefully….”

Spike and Big Mac, unable to hear the conversation, were getting a little anxious. Their wariness suddenly skyrocketed when they saw the lightbulb appear over Discord’s head, followed by Starlight’s giggling.

Now Discord decided to pipe up, “Listen boys, I know we normally jump straight into the skeleton battles at this point, but Jake has made the perfect recommendation to shake things up a bit for the late hours……..MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

That evening…..

Twilight had just walked in the foyer, when she heard a commotion coming from the one room that should never be the source of any racket. She teleported to the library door, where she found Starlight, struggling to get the knob to turn.

“Starlight, what in Celestia’s sunrise has gotten into those guys!?” she shouted.

The unicorn turned to Twilight and said “I have no idea. Why else would I be trying to get in!?”

At this, the purple princess charged up a spell, blasted the door open with more force than a pack of C4 in the hands of Wile E Coyote, and flew straight into the last thing she would have suspected.

The floor had been turned into a makeshift American football field with Astro Turf and all the yard markings. The boys were playing two on two and were all decked out in professional football gear with copies of Discord serving both as referees and the pep band. It seemed like they had been at this for hours, since there were several books that had fallen to the floor and had the look of being trampled several times. The boys were mid play and tackling each other senselessly.

In short, the library was a wreck, and Twilight went full-blown ape shit.

“WHAT!? I LEAVE FOR A DAY AND YOU GUYS HAVE TURNED THE LIBRARY INTO A CAGEMATCH ARENA!? HOW COULD YOU GUYS EVEN THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I REALLY CAN’T LEAVE YOU ALONE!!! MEN ARE SO DUMB, I SWEAR!!!”

To this, the boys had ceased their antics and the stadium had reverted to normal (compliments of Discord, of course).

After a tense moment silence, the room was filled with the laughter of five voices simultaneously. Twilight turned around to see her herd-mate struggling to stay upright.

“You can’t be serious, Starlight. How do find this remotely funny?” Twilight shot with indigence.

“Oh, Twilight,” the unicorn started with a smirk. “I was in on this prank. Jake talked us into it to get his revenge for the cuddling prank a few weeks ago. To be honest, doing this in the library was brilliant. I couldn’t have staged this better myself! Bahahahahaha!!!”

Twilight had the biggest deadpan look on her face, followed by, “Ugh, I swear I’m going to turn grey faster than my mother did.” She walked out the door in a huff.

Everyone only laughed even harder at this. Then everyone but Big Mac shouted simultaneously, “TOTALLY WORTH IT!”

Author's Notes:

Shout-out to Heartland Picker for this latest chapter. If you haven't already read his story, Starlight's New Drinking Buddy, you totally should. It's hilarious.

Anyhow, I feel I should mention that you readers can still contribute to this story. Just type something up, and PM it to me