Stealing Harmony
Chapter 28: Double Trouble
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You sigh and close your eyes for a moment. your eyelids are heavy and they feel fatigued enough to keep them closed, yet they refuse to stay that way as they open back up. you groan with annoyance, but when your eyes fully open again, something feels off. It was darker a second ago in your room, now a faint blue glow fills your room. It confuses you as you have nothing that can set off a glow like that, and as you look around from your laid down position, you notice the source of the glow is coming from the foot of the bed. reluctantly you start to get up as you swing your legs off the bed and onto the floor, causing yourself to come up to a seated position, and it's from that spot you turn your head to fully see what's there.
"What the fuck?" You whisper under your breath as you see a blue floating flame hovering at the foot of your bed.
It bobs up and down aimlessly, almost like it's unphased by you looking at it, however in that same sense, you feel it looking at you. You stare at it for a few moments longer, wondering if you actually managed to fall asleep and now you were in a dream, yet you feel fully in control of your senses as you climb to your feet. As you rise up, the fiery flame stops bobbing and begins to float towards your door, almost like it wanting you to follow it. Normally something like this would put you on edge, however an odd feeling rushes over you, prompting you to trust the orb. Without hesitation, you grab your bathroom robe, put it on, and start to follow the light out of your room. For the next few minutes your follow it as it leads you down stairs, through both the living room and the kitchen, before it speeds up and flies into the basement, leaving your sight completely.
"Wait up will ya," You mumble as you turn the corner and get ready to travel down the stairs, however just before you do, you see a bright white flash and a magical pop. You freeze up, experiencing a little PTSD from back when Dinky first lit up her horn and hit you with her magic. That was what the magical pop sounds like and despite feeling your heart skip a beat, you steel your resolve and begin your decent into your basement... and it isn't look before you see a new face sitting on your couch.
"Well, well, well... we finally meet in the flesh... well mostly," the voice spoke up as you make it half way own the doors before you see a blue apparition of some kind sitting on your couch.
You pause as it speaks to you and your eyes grow wide as a sense of recognition washes over you. You know this creature, something you learned about Rainbow's arrival some time ago. You knew her origins thanks to looking stuff up on the internet and studied the contents of the show thoroughly enough to know that a certain draconequis was now sitting on your couch. the only difference was, this one looked like a ghost.
"Discord?" You mumble as you rush down the remaining steps.
"The one and only," Discord replies as he brought up his lions paw to his chest. "It's nice to finally meet a fellow being of chaos."
"What do you mean by that?" You cock your brow at his words.
"it means what it means," he chuckles as he waves his hand in a circle, causing something of a shimmering mirror to appear floating in mid air. "What other kind of being can do this to an Element of Harmony?"
At first the reflection in the magical mirror is muddled, until it starts to come into focus to reveal an image of Rainbow Dash sleeping in the shed. She's wrapped in an old blanket, the same you had your dog sleep in when you had one a long time ago and the reddish glow from a portable heater lights up the area. Despite being covered up, you can see her breathing heavily from the endless pain she has to endure. You blink a few times before you smile at the image.
"She's there because she's stubborn and refuses to drop her insufferable ego," You say as your smile fades and you turn to Discord. "But I don't think you came here to applaud my handiwork... also why are you a ghost?"
"oh this form is nothing special," Discord replies as he floats into mid air. "I need to be in many places at once, like dealing with two princesses that want to put me back in a stone coffin, and meeting with my fellow chaotic beings across the multiverse. Quite handy really."
"Hmm," you mumble as your smile comes back. "Must be nice to be in multiple places at once."
"Oh it quite is," Discord snickers as he brings up one of his fingers. "Would you like to see?"
Before you can answer the hum of magic fills the air and with a flick of his finger, Discord fires a magic spell at you. Your eyes go wide and as the spell hits you, and your vision goes completely white for a few seconds, before everything start to return to normal.
"Damn, what did... you... just do?" You stare to speak, however you heard yourself speaking twice.
You blink a few times as the white fully leaves your vision and you look to your side at the extra source of your voice, only to be taken back by the sight of a pony standing beside you. A light blue coat greets you, almost similar to how Rainbow's coat looks, and green eyes stare back up at you, slightly obscured by a brown mane that has a horn poking out from it. Both you and the new pony don't say a word for a few moments as you continue to study each other until the pony seems to realize that is in fact a pony and begins to look over it's own body.
"Huh, is this what I look like as a horse?" the pony speaks in your voice.
"Wait... is this me?" you reply, completely confused by the situation.
Suddenly another magical hum fills the air and you quickly turn to Discord thinking he's the one doing it, until you look back at the pony and see it's own horn is lighting up in a golden glow similar to Discords earlier.
"Oh shit, I'm a unicorn!" the pony replies excitedly as it's eyes seem to be staring at it's horn.
"Hey, careful with that thing?" you speak up, worried that you may end up getting rocked by magic once again. "Do you even know how to use magic properly anyway?"
"I... think so," the pony replies as it looks around the room, until it stares at a lampshade on a nearly table. "Hold on, let me try..."
Your heart skips a beat as a golden layer of magic wraps around the lampshade, before getting gently lifted into the air.
"Yeah, I can control this easy," the pony says as he moves the lamp back and forth, spinning it in circles in the process.
"How are you doing that?" you ask, amazed that this pony version of you can use magic quite easily.
"I don't know how to describe it," pony you says as it puts the lamp back down. "I just feel like I have a basic understanding of how telekinesis and other spells work. Almost like magic itself is an extension of my mind and body where I can simply reach out with my mind and will it to obey me," the pony says as he pauses for a moment further. "Kind of like how you extend your arm and hand to reach out and grab something, but instead of actual limbs, you just use magic... hold let me try something else."
The golden layer moves away from the lampshade and floats like a small blanket in mid air. You turned your eyes to the pony beside you and get ready to ask what he's going to do, until you notice the magical aura wrap and contort itself into something new... specifically a hand with five fingers.
"Ahhh this feels more familiar and... right," pony you says as you notice the fingers on the hand wiggling back and forth before it makes a bunch of gestures.
"Odd way of describing it," you note as pony you cuts off his spell. "But how are you able to do it so quickly?"
"A small gift from me to be precise," Discord finally speaks up, causing both you and the pony you to turn your attention back to him. "Just the basics mind you, if you want to learn better spells, that can be arranged."
Pony you smiles in response, however you realize things are getting sidetracked rather quickly.
"Enough of that for a moment, you still haven't told me why you're here anyway," you speak up as pony you nods in agreement.
"True, I did come here to discuss some matters with you, as well as show you a few things happening in Equestria," Discord says as he waves his hand again and the magical mirror that was showing Rainbow, now shows a completely different scene. The scene shifts to what looks like the inside of house of some kind, before you realize that you're looking at the inside of Twilight's treehouse library.
"Wait, what?" you reply and your voice trails off into thoughts. "Wasn't that destroyed at some point in the show?"
You barely have time to dwell on your thoughts as a unicorn Twilight Sparkle and Spike are seen frantically reading books. The room itself in a disarray as endless amount of books are sprawled across the floor and you note that both Twilight are Spike look very wary and tired.
"What are we looking at?" pony you say out loud.
"Look at the object hanging around there necks," Discord replies as the magical mirror seems to zoom in on Twilight's chest.
Slightly obscured by purple chest fluff, you manage to make out a small amulet of some kind with a light blue gem in it.
"What is that?" You ask, never recalling such an object from your endless hours of studying Equestria.
"An object that stabilizes magic, and as you can imagine all the townsfolk in Ponyville currently have one," Discord replies as he waves his hand and causes the magical mirror to disappear. "More importantly it's an object that will keep a portal open, should someone decide to steal a few ponies for themselves."
Your eyes widen and you quickly realize what he is saying. Looks like your pony stealing antics never went unnoticed.
"Funny, weren't we actually going to grab Scootaloo in the morning?" Pony you speaks up as he looks up to you.
"We were," you sigh as you realize you may have to wait longer until your shed can have more guests. "What would happen if we brought Scootaloo here?" you ask Discord.
"Oh you know, the portal would stay open as long as someone with those amulets stays on the opposite side of it, thus leaving a permanent link between here and Equestria. And the worst part about it is that it sends off a beacon to other amulets, informing others that a portal has entered."
"Hey that could actually be useful to have," pony you speaks up. "Imagine if we could come and go from Equestria as much as we wanted."
"Yeah but having to monitor it 24/7 is something me and you wouldn't enjoy doing," You tell yourself. "And I don't want to deal with a pissed off Twilight Sparkle, murdering me for raping her friends."
"Yeah but imagine the possibilities this opens up, we could travel that world and pluck any ponies we want from it," pony you replies.
"You quickly forgot all the ponies have those amulets and having a portal open will attract unwanted attention," you tell him as you kneel to the floor so you are both eye level.
"Just Ponyville ponies," Pony you replies with a sinister grin and growing excitement in his voice. "Discord never said that ponies outside of Ponyville have those amulets. Plus if we really wanted, we could go into town and yank off those stupid amulets any pony we wanted, right? can't stabilize a portal if the means of stabilizing it is gone, right??"
You both turn to Discord, who just smiles and nods his head in return.
"See? and with me having access to magic, we now have equal footing with unicorns," pony you says as he brings a hoof up to his jaw and looks away like he's going into deep thought. "We can now have fun with ponies like Rarity, Trixie, Lyra, even Starlight Glimmer and any other pony we come across, and-and If I can get my hooves on it, didn't that changeling broad have something in her big ass hive that cuts creatures off from using magic? Imagine if you had piece of that here! We could definitely move unicorns and maybe even alicorns here if we play our cards right!"
You open your mouth to give your thoughts on the idea, however you stop as pony you rushes towards Discord.
"Hey, you can open a portal for me can't you?" pony you says with a big grin on his face.
"Wait, you're really thinking of going there?" You say as you approach him. "You don't even have a home or any kind of base over there so just chill for a moment."
Pony you quickly settles down and realized you're right, before looking back up at Discord.
"dammit, got too ahead of myself," pony you says with a sigh as he sits on the ground.
"Actually this brings me to why I'm here," Discord speaks up as he floats between the two of you. "I was hoping to make this little story a bit more interesting."
"Story?" both you and pony you say at the same time.
"Indeed, watching everything you've done is like reading a book. It's rough and a bit amateurish in places, with a few plot points that could have been expanded on, but it's a truly fascinating thing to follow," Discord starts as he wraps his arms around the both of you and draws you close. "You spread chaos so well here that I can only imagine the fun you will make doing the same in Equestria... if not even better. Don't worry though, I'll make sure this little version of you have a place to set up shop," he finishes as he bops the pony version of you on the nose.
Hearing that puts the grin back on the pony's face.
"Fuck yeah, I can't wait to get my hooves on some unicorns," he says as he looks at his hooves and starts to laugh.
"Why wait?" Discord's hand lights up and a small portal quickly appears right underneath the pony version of you. "Let's go spread some chaos."
"W-wait hold up! I wanted to- AHHHH!" pony you starts to say but it quickly cut off as he falls into the portal before it quickly closes behind him.
As that finishes an odd silence fills the air as you quietly stare at the floor where the portal once was, before you feel Discord unwrap his arm around you and move back to sitting on the couch.
"Is he going to be alright?" you asked, slightly worried that not even 10 minutes have past since the pony version of you came into existence.
"He'll be fine, he's got all your memories and survivability skills at hand," Discord nonchalantly notes.
You go quiet as you start to wonder what the pony version of you will end up doing. If anything, you hope he doesn't bite off more then he can chew.
"Now with my business here concluded, I'll return to Equestria and help your little friend get more acquainted. Feel free to call me anytime if you want anything," Discord as he snaps his fingers and disappears, leaving only a small piece of paper in his place as it floats to the floor.
"Wait, I wanted to ask some things," You speak up but ultimately your words don't reach him in time. "...Fuck."
Despite all that just happened, you find yourself left with more questions then answers, and hope the next time Discord decides to show his face, you can get straight answers. Looking down at the paper that he left behind, you happen to notice several numbers on it, wondering what it means, However as silence fills the air, you find yourself finally starting to feel tired enough to get some sleep.
"Ughhhh," you groan as you stretch your tired limbs and stare at the stairway going up to the main floor. "Whatever, I'll deal with this shit after I get some shut eye."
You start to walk towards the stairs, however you find yourself way more tired then you first expect. Looking at the couch you see a small throw blanket on it, and quickly decide to crash there for the night.
"Man," you say as you lay down and stare at the ceiling. "A lot just happened in the last few minutes that already feel like a blur."
You decide to not dwell on your thoughts anymore and begin to close your eyes...
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