OUT OF FRAME

Well hey everyone, I'm finally back from the grave where I was stuck for so long. So we've got a new story this time, a journey of my OC and my cowriter's OC, sure the mane six will be in here too but, they'll be more background for a while.

Now I'm sure I'd bore you all by prattling along so yeah. Without further adue, let us dive into the new story, The Midnight Scrolls of Stella Fly.


Chapter 1: Introductions of a Strange Kind

Chaos, that's the only word that could be used to describe what was going on in Ponyville currently. The sky was discolored, the clouds were pink, the ground resembled a checkerboard, and at the center of it all was a dark coated stallion's destination. Discord, the God of Chaos and Disharmony. This stallion was of an average size, dark brown coat that would sometimes resemble the color of a certain black licorice flavor he found absolutely dreadful. His mane was not particularly taken care of, it would appear as if he simply ran a comb over it every morning to slightly spike it up. His eyes were a deep and unsettling shade of red, which had put him in good favor with a residential DJ when he first arrived, although he barely interacted with her.

He was of the unicorn breed, not pompous about it however like many in Canterlot were. His cutie mark was of a pitch black circle surrounded by a crescent, his parents believing it resembled a meteor going through a crescent moon that his mother remembered seeing on the night he was born. Thus, in their mind, they believed it was destiny to name him Midnight Meteor.

While most of the ponies Midnight saw were galloping away in fear from some monstrosity that was pursuing them, he was simply trotting towards the cause of the problem. He had decided to take matters into his own hooves after witnessing a fight that Equestria's so called "Heroes" had gotten into and caused them to separate.

Midnight was not in particular the one to even attempt to play hero, but if he was to fulfill his dream of, well, BEING the villain to conquer Equestria, he just could not do with having some mismatched freak tearing it asunder before his plan was near fruition.

However, due to the failed attempts of the villains who were defeated, Midnight had a very useful set of notes that would serve to ensure that he would not make the same mistakes as his predecessors had.

The current notes on Discord detailed that it was incredibly effective to keep the bearers split apart by altering their personalities, rendering their ultimate weapon useless and leaving the villain unopposed.

As he was moving, Midnight as stopped by a seemingly panicked mare with a light green coat, panting as if she had flown a marathon. "W-what..." she began, fatigue clearly evident in her voice at first before she took a few deep breaths, "What are you doing idiot, that's where Discord is so stay away from there!"

The only response she had gotten however was a shove aside as he spoke in a dark tone, "I am aware that is where the cause of this destruction is from, and it is exactly where I intend to head since your so called 'heroes' have abandoned you over their petty squabbles. However unlike the rest of you foolish ponies, I am not going to allow pathetic emotions such as Fear to stop me from halting and reversing this destruction." As soon as that sentence was finished, Midnight about faced and continued his steady march towards his foe.

Of course, the pale green pegasus wasn't just going to just let this crazy stallion before her head to his death. "W-wait up! I'm coming with!" she shouted before using her wings to gain a big enough boost of speed to catch up, "No pony could do something like what you seem to be bent on doing alone."

Seeing that she was basically volunteering her services (mostly as cannon fodder) Midnight regarded the mare silently. She had a rather unruly, hot pink colored mane, it was as if she had given up on keeping it neat and just let it go whichever way it so chose. Her eyes were a dull shade of yellow, almost amber in his opinion. The cutie mark adorning her flank was a white cloud with two light blue wings attached to it. Overall she wasn't much to look at, but since his opponent would be a god, Midnight could use her as a pony shield.

"Fine," he began slowly, "You can accompany me, but do not get in my way. Do you understand me, Mare?" This prompted a huff from the addressed pony which was followed by, "My name is Stella, thanks for asking by the way."

Turning away, the dark brown pony responded with a short, "I don't care," before he resumed his trek, now with a slightly ticked Stella in tow. "Do you even have a plan for when you do reach him?" she inquired, "I mean seriously, a unicorn against a being like that? It's a death sentence!" A snort resounded from her brown acquaintance before he spoke, "Of course I have a plan, I'm not suicidal after all."

In a strange way, it comforted the light green pony that this crazy stallion she chose to help had thought up a plan before charging into battle. "Well," began the mare as she stretched her wings as they moved, "You going to let me in on it?" The only response being a resounding, "No" before the party fell into a deafening silence. Neither spoke, mostly because Midnight was too focused on the task at hand while Stella just couldn't think of anything to say.

After a good twenty minutes or so, the duo finally laid eyes on Discord himself, but he wasn't alone. The group of mares that Midnight had spoke of before seemed to be back into the swing of things and charging up their weapon, while the villain it was aimed towards was currently suffering from a fit of laughter.

"I think that lot has you covered..." Was Stella's unnecessary comment as a rainbow was fired from their direction, turning the draconequus to solid stone while simultaneously reversing all of the modifications he had made to Equestria.

A quick glance was all Stella needed to see that Midnight seemed to be taking notes on the spectacle, before stowing the notepad..somewhere. He then turned and started walking away, "Seems they managed to pull themselves together, my efforts were not needed."

"Well I could have told you that..." Stella said as she turned to follow, only to find that Midnight had vanished. "What..." she slowly said while looking around, "Where did...who was that colt?"

"What a strange mare..." was Midnight's only spoken words as he made his way towards the edge of town, heading back to camp to rest for a while.


"Well there you are!" Sounded a familiar voice from behind Midnight, prompting him to turn from looking at the water flowing underneath the bridge to Stella. In a bitter tone, Midnight spoke tiredly "Oh, it's you Mare, shouldn't you be celebrating your precious heroines' victory over Discord? Dancing and singing about the 'Magic of Friendship' and all that garbage?" Sitting down beside him, the pegasus replied, "Nah, that's not really my thing. I mean I like friendship and all but don't shove it in my face, you know what I mean?"

This caused a silent chuckle to escape from the red eyed unicorn beside her before he nodded, "I do know what you mean, not to mention their absolutely terrible singing voices, claws on a chalkboard if you ask me." This in turn caused the mare to laugh softly, "See we have one thing in common! So do you think...you could maybe...tell me your name?" Stella nervously asked, looking down at the rushing water below to avoid the stallion stranger's gaze.

She had lost hope after a few minutes of silence so she looked up, only to see a piece of paper on the ground where he was, which she picked up and read aloud to herself, "Midnight Meteor...so that's his name...what a weird stallion."


OUT OF FRAME

And that's a wrap! Hope you all enjoyed and I'll see you in the next chapter!