WARNING: PLOT TWIST!

Oh. And I should've mentioned this earlier- I don't own Hasbro or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Discord looked around his old tree house in wonder.

What had happened to it? Where were all the checker boarded walls and staircases leading to nowhere? And what about the doors? Where were they? The entire thing was just wood- like any other old tree house!

Had someone somehow renovated it, or does magic just always expire after a thousand years...?

He shook his head with regret and recreated as much as he could remember with ease. He smiled at the chaotic scene. This was always his home away from home. This is where he came to escape from reality and pressure from the real world.

This was the spot where he made the decision that would change his life forever.

Shaking the thought from his mind, he walked up the one staircase that lead to what he remembered was his "idea spot."

Walking into the dull, irksome room, he tapped his chin and summoned a bed on the ceiling with a blue and green checkered cover.

He never knew what it was with him and checker board patterns. He just liked them- a lot.

Then he made a purple vanity with a pink vase of dead sunflowers appear in the corner of the room, and a window on the floor. He added turquoise carpeting and made the walls become striped with different shades of orange and yellow. After a few more finishing touches of what he thought made everything perfect, he looked down at the window. The EverFree Forest was a gloomy sight, but he promised Pinkie that he wouldn't get caught. He made the window disappear with a sigh and looked around. Something didn't feel right- and for Discord, that's an unusual feeling.

He rushed downstairs and cracked the front door open, peering out with curiosity.

What were those glowing yellow dots staring back at him?

No. Not now.

He ran outside in anger, clenching his fists together tightly, digging his talons and claws into the palms of his hands. "What are you doing here already?"

An alicorn molded from black clay walked out of the bunch of trees and smiled evilly, her sharp teeth glimmering in the faint light that was shining down from the moon. "Well, well, did someone forget about our little deal we made way back when?" she asked in a dark, smooth voice.

Discord tapped his foot impatiently. "No, of course I haven't, Babble."

She glared at him. "Call me that again, you idiotic draconequus."

"Calm down!"

Babble sighed. "Fine, fine. But now it's time for you to pay up for that little favor."

The spirit bit his bottom lip to keep from screaming in anger. "That little favor you did for me ended up in both of us being trapped for a thousand years in a cold stone prison!"

She shrugged. "It was your call."

"I never said the job had to end in me being ruler of Equestria. I didn't ask for anything close to that- you took over my body so you could be the new ruler, and you know it."

The strange creature grinned. "That's what I recall."

"You made all of this world think I'm evil- and yet, you made it worse again not long ago!" He stepped forward with a threatening look on his face. "I am not paying you back."

"Either you give her to me-" She smiled calmly. "Or I'll take her by force."

Discord stared at her, unsure of what to do, then looked away. "I won't- I can't..."

"I'll give you one more week, Discord." She narrowed her fierce, transparent eyes at him. "You promised me the Element of Laughter, and now that she's that Element- she belongs to me, whether you're on my side or not." Babble laughed maniacally and disappeared in a cloud of black smoke, leaving the spirit behind.

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