Feather Duster chuckled, letting Eclipse burn through his rant. He told her she didn't really need to listen, but she decided to anyway.

"The only way this could get more freaky is if the whole mythical creature bullshit actually turned out to be true. And then if we got the changelings involved. Maybe get Discord to turn evil again or something." He muttered, attempting to capture a few stray strands of Feather Duster's mane. "Why not just go ahead and--" Feather Duster's sharp 'ow!' brought him back to reality.

"Sorry, sorry..." he apologized, pulling the mane through an elastic band. "Why'd you talk me into doing this anyway?"

She rolled her eyes. "You're the one who mentioned this manestyle."

"I didn't think you'd nag me over it." He defended. "Though I stand by this over that weird style you had before. Sheesh, I don't know how to describe that other than 'maid style'. Seriously, curls and I-don't-even-knows everywhere."

"I think it looks good on me." Feather Duster insisted, looking herself over in the mirror.

"As your stallionfriend, I am legally obligated to say that everything looks good on you. Even maid style."

"I was referring to this 'ponytail'." She pouted. "But thanks."

Eclipse raised his hoof into the air. "Achievement earned! Successfully earn any amount of brownie points!" He conspiratorially leaned towards Feather Duster. "I still have no idea what those are."

The mare gently facehoofed, but smiled all the same. The two ponies brief moment was interrupted by a loud slam and a small tremor as Luna slammed open the door and walked into the room. "Eclipse! My sister and I have a new... Am I interrupting something?"

The night Princess' entrance had been rather forceful, to say the least. The shockwave had knocked both Eclipse and Feather Duster against the wall, with the latter landing on top and leaving them in a rather compromising position.

Eclipse shook his head, trying to reboot part of his brain in an attempt to compensate for the physical trauma he had just endured. Feather Duster had fared little better, her eyes spinning in circles as she tried to stand. Instead, she ended up falling back onto Eclipse, groaning. Luna's face flushed a bright red and the princess slowly retreated back through the door, closing it behind her.

By now, Eclipse finally pieced together what had just happened. "We have maybe five minutes before--" he was cut off by instantly recognizable laughter. "...Damn it."

Discord pulled himself out of the wall, still laughing. "I must admit, I was genuinely worried about keeping a decent level of chaos around this place when I moved in, but things seem to go along quite fine without my intervention." He slowly clapped, several random items appearing in the room as he did so.

Eclipse groaned. "Something you want?"

"Well, for one..." Discord suddenly appeared right next to the pair, holding a sock over their heads. "You could put one of these on the door. You know, to warn passersby?"

Feather Duster put her snout next to Eclipse's ear. "My right wing. First pinion's loose. It needed to be pulled out anyway."

Eclipse lightly plucked the indicated feather from its position, pulling out a small bow and firing the feather at Discord as if it was an arrow. The dark blue feather seemed to shorten and turned white as it neared the draconequis, who by now had retired to the bed sipping on sweet tea. You'd be surprised how chaotic sweet tea was in its spare time.

Soon, the projectile slowed down and spun its way into the Lord of Chaos' mouth, now a simple cigarette. Discord plucked the cigarette from his mouth, frowned at it and flicked it away into a recycling bin, which spawned a loading screen that said 'deleting file' over it. "Ack. Horrible taste. I knew I should have made a piece of gum instead."

He glanced over at the two ponies, now simply sitting next to each other and his eyes widened as if he was noticing them for the first time. "Say! I should thank you, Eclipse. That 'internet' you mentioned a few days ago really was the best thing over. I simply can't wait to try some of it out. I mean, just look at some this! It's ridiculous even for me!"

He pulled out a laptop and opened it. A few seconds later, he was showing a picture of several people waving around rainbow colored signs with various derogatory messages written on them. "I'm sure that there's some sort of ironic symbolism or something at work there. There's simply no other excuse for something so brilliant! Look, it even says they protest at funerals!"

Eclipse chuckled nervously. "Actually, that's the Westboro Baptist Church. And they're completely serious."

Discord blinked. Turning the laptop back to face him, he squinted at the picture. After a few moments of idle thought, he finally gave Eclipse a very disapproving look. "I've lost all faith in your kind." He then disappeared in a puff a whitish-blue smoke with an accompanying *poof* sound effect.

Eclipse sighed, gathering his cloak and HUD unit. "I should probably go see the princesses."

Putting the glasses on, he was startled when Discord's face popped up on the screen. "Oh, by the way, I was looking up some of the things humans do in their spare time and was wondering--"

"No drugs, Discord."

The draconequis pouted. "Pleeeeeeease? I'll only do it to Miss Sunnybuts."

Eclipse sighed. "Fine." A brief pause to review the conversation revealed one glaring detail he had overlooked. "Wait, why are you asking me for permission on anything?"

Discord tapped his chin in thought, one of his eyes slowly beginning a long march to look at the ceiling while the other remained staring at Eclipse. After a few tense minutes in which absolutely nothing of interest happened, he finally shrugged and disappeared from the HUD.

Luna had no idea how to deal with her new situation.

When she had returned to the throne room, Celestia's eyes had turned an odd red. She also claimed to have reached the peak of omniscience. The fact that she had referred to Luna's comment on her red eyes to be 'deep' was proof of anything but.

The fact that Discord was tap dancing in the corner and singing "Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli, lolli, lolli, lollipop. Ba bum bum bum" was certainly not helping. Especially since several lollipops were dancing along with him.

Just her luck that Eclipse chose that moment to walk into the room. As if she needed to add 'awkwardness due to walking in on two ponies' to her current list of woes.

Call my baby, lollipop.

He took one surprised look around and seemed to instantly piece together what was going on. Before he finally reacted, he glanced at discord and muttered something about sunny buts. Luna was sure it was some sort of slang she was not privy to.

Tell you why.

One crash course on a new meaning of the word high later, Luna had several of the guards escort Celestia back to her room.Her reaction to the golden 'Lights at the end of the tunnel' was to run around screaming. Well, there was one reason to let the guards slack on their armor polishing.

Her kiss is sweeter than a cherry pie.

Eclipse quickly spawned one of his dark clouds and rode it to the ceiling of the room to escape the yellow lances of magic the princess fired at her pursuers.

And when she does her shaky rockin' dance.

Luna had to personally pin down her sister. Luckily, Celestia's fear was soon overridden by forgetting her pursuers altogether. "Lulu? Is that you?"

Luna bit her lip, praying that nopony had heard that.

Man, I haven't got a chance

This time, Luna put Celestia into a magically induced slumber and had the guards carry her to her room.

I call her

"Shut the flying fuck up!"

At the sound of a record scratch, all movement stopped and every head turned to face Eclipse, who was on the ground with a hoof pointed at Discord. Even the guards who were halfway out the door with a twitching Celestia turned, almost dropping the diarch. The black cloud Eclipse had been riding on was laying on the ground nearby, weeping while its ears bled. Luna had not known clouds even had ears.

Discords dancing--and more importantly, singing--screeched to a halt. Even the dancing lollipops around him (which by now had been joined by pies, presumably cherry) stopped and fell to the floor.

Despite this, Eclipse developed a scowl. "The flying fuck, too."

Now noticing the buzzing that was filling the air, Luna watched curiously as Discord revealed a remote control unit, moving a pair of joysticks until a hovering block was visible in the air. The block, with its namesake word taking up both of the larger sides, landed in Discord's lion paw.

"I see how it is." The Lord of Chaos sniffed. "But I'll have you know that I won't be giving it to anyone." With that, he pulled out a small device unfamiliar to Luna. "Beam me up, Scotty." A few seconds later and Discord was gone.

Eclipse took a deep breath, calmly inhaling and exhaling in a manner similar to what Cadence had shown Luna when the latter had almost lashed out at a frustrating noble.

"We have received a letter of distress." Luna explained, laying out a map of Equestria and several of its surrounding neighbors. "Here, in the mountains separating Equestria and the frozen north is an independant town roughly the size of Ponyville. Nothing of any major note happens there, other than the town's tendency to keep to itself and the fact that it's such uncommon knowledge that most maps don't even mention it."

Eclipse nodded. "And you think that the Dawn's Light are attacking it?"

"Actually, the letter specifically mentioned changelings." Luna responded coolly.

"Que?" Eclipse asked, temporarily forgetting his ethnicity.

"You needn't worry." Luna assured. "Both Dust Demon and Sagebrush have picked up slack since you ended your last mission and brought them with you. They each have their own missions."

The light green earth pony raised his weapon. One half of the weapon's shaft ended with a morning star, while the other had an axe blade on one side and half of a war hammer plumb on the other. "Come you dogs! Taste the wrath of a berserker!"

The hammer crushed the skull of one enemy, while the morning star soon swung around and caved in the chest of another. The axe swung around, separating a third's head from his shoulders.

With a fierce war cry, Sagebrush charged his scattered foes, the weight of his thick armor seeming to have no effect on his speed.

Eclipse silently 'ooh'ed, wincing at the thought of what those two might be doing at that moment.

Luna either didn't notice or didn't care. "My sister and I need you to go to the town of Vangar. For this reclusive town to request help is enough to cause worry, but the fact that the changelings have already regained enough power to stage another attack so soon since their defeat at Canterlot is what truly concerns me." She gave Eclipse a hard stare. "Save the town if you can, but do what you must."

The pony saluted, quickly spinning and leaving the room.

Once he was gone, Discord stepped out from where he had been eavesdropping. He had a pipe in his mouth, bubbles coming out the end that wasn't in his mouth. "Aren't you ever going to confront him about it?" He asked, fully aware that she would know what he meant.

"It's entirely possible he does not even know." Luna said, still holding her ground as she had the last several times they had this argument.

"One does not simply get injected with honesty magic and not know." Discord said, his eagle claw forming an o shape.

"Shush!" Luna hissed. "Most ponies are not aware that there are actually six harmony magics rather than just one. Tis knowledge even the bearers do not know."

"Oh, Luna." Discord chuckled, smoking his pipe as several winged insects flew out of it. "Don't forget the changeling and unicorn magics, now."

Luna was becoming increasingly agitated. As if she would have actually forgotten! "Dost thou wish to start a fight with me?" She hissed.

"I believe it's 'Dost thou wish to do battle with me?'" Discord chuckled, though he was becoming increasingly transparent. Literally. Within moments, he was gone from the room, leaving the Lunar princess to brood.

Author's Notes:

I know what you're thinking right now, so let me just say it.

Yes, I am enough of a malignant, evil stain on mankind to put you through the 'lollipop' song. If you enjoyed it, could you please put in a good word with the devil for me, cause you ain't human and I'm obviously not going to heaven.

Also, Fateweaver's lessons ring true! I hope none of you have forgotten.