PLEASE READ IT ALL! It isn't all thoughts this time, I swear- it has mushy love and stuff, the things I know most girls out there like... I know I do! ;) Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!


That fool.

Babble was silently floating above the ground and making the wall black and transparent- to her.

Doesn't that idiotic draconequus realize the closer he gets to that pink mare, the harder it will be to let her go?

Ah, well. The more of a fight that he puts up, the funner it'll be to take her.

Since she's been trapped in Discord's body for over a thousand years, she knows his strengths and weaknesses, and his darkest secrets: he likes to knit and crochet checkered blankets, he doesn't melt under pressure, and it now seems he'll do anything for love...

Hm. Maybe she could use that last one to her advantage.

"I wonder how he's been able to change so dramatically in a matter of a year,"she wondered out loud quietly. "Surely this pink pony couldn't have melted him on the inside. Now he seems so... confident around her." She chuckled. "Certainly not the Discord I knew before we were let out."

She began to wonder: What could love do to you? What kind of crazy was love? It certainly didn't sound very pleasing, or even flourishing for that matter. Your heart skipping beats...? That most certainly wasn't healthy.

Babble watched as they slept together, seeming blissful to be around each other even they weren't awake. "How could it be that this seems to natural?"

Discord's ear twitched as though he had heard something, but remained coiled around Pinkie. He raised his head for a moment, then fell back asleep.

She held in a laugh.

She thought it was funny when he did that- it was ironic, really. He was so harmless, but all of Equestria thought he was a monster. Just another scab they had to deal with every time he did something wrong.

Babble chuckled. "It's beneficial being one of the only villains in Equestria those royal maggots don't know about."

Her thoughts began to drift off to her childhood nearly ten thousand years ago- her parents always telling her to never meet any other alicorn for her protection, training her how to possess other creatures, teaching her the fine art of villainous actions. Was her mother even alive anymore? A thousand years in stone (and in another body) makes things like this hard to tell. Really, it would be a devastation if her only mother had died without her even knowing it, but her ten thousand, four hundred sixty-two other fathers weren't much of a big deal. She had gotten used to them dying. Mortals' lives were usually so predictable- birth, eighteen years wasted living with parents, another four wasted going to college, getting a job you don't like, living with that for the next thirty years of your life, retirement, then death. Only a few of her fathers (two hundred ninety-one) had slightly interesting lives where they would either have jobs they enjoyed or some other questionable events, but her mother had always wanted more out of life. Forever is only so long, and eighty years for a mortal already seems like an eternity. Once you grow to be about a hundred thousand years old is when you get the slightest limp- or so her grandmother had told her. She snickered at the thought.

A loud thump startled Babble out of her thoughts. She squinted to get a better look inside, and found Pinkie wrapped in a white, fuzzy blanket.

Huh? Where did Discord go?

"What are you doing here? And why are you watching us sleep?"

Holding in laughter, Babble turned to find a glaring Discord hovering above a tree branch. "Oh, just wanted to see how you'd try to hide your crush."

He blushed, then furrowed his brows. I knew this wouldn't be a good idea... "You'll never get to her. I won't let you. She doesn't deserve to live with a monster like you."

Babble snickered. "Honestly, I don't know how you can call me the monster- I'm not the one who tried to take over Equestria twice."

Discord shook his head disapprovingly. Through clenched teeth, he spat out, "Yes. You. Are."

She grinned cunningly. "I am, aren't I?" She flew closer to him until she was just inches away from his face. "What are you going to do about it?" She chuckled and backed away. "You're helpless! And the sooner you accept it, the sooner that you'll realize I will get what I want."

He scowled. "But you won't."

"Oh, how so?" She smiled foxily. "Explain yourself." After a few moments of silence, she laughed. "You can't. And do you want to know why you can't?"

"Because you're helpless." He swiped at her face with an eagle claw, causing three red marks to appear on the side of her muzzle.

She held it in her hoof and winced, then turned her glare back to the draconequus who was now lounging in the fork of the tree, smirking. She shook her head as a wild grin spread across her face. "Good game."

He rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "Please- you don't want to see me trying to play hard."

"Go big or go home, Dizzy." She chuckled. "How could you think you could hide from me? And more importantly, why would you even try?"

He narrowed his eyes. "Because I know I can beat you. I'm stupid, but not that stupid."

Babble laughed. "I'm most certain you are. I've seen your memories and your knowledge-"

"I don't need knowledge." Discord furrowed his brows. "I've made a decision while spending time with that pink mare in there. Love is greater than any magic or force. Harmony may be strong, but love is even stronger."

She snickered. "Too bad for you- there are no Elements of Love."

"There are. All over Equestria there are- even a princess to prove it. But if you think you'll pull this off, then you must be the idiot." He paused. "I've seen things that you might not understand or even know about, and maybe I don't know too much about it. But I certainly know enough about it to defeat you. Evil can never overpower love." He raised himself into the air and summoned a door on the side of the wall where Babble was spying on him and Pinkie just moments before. He opened it and stepped one foot in, and before closing the door behind him, he whispered, "So don't even try."


By the way, I just wanted to mention that a week from now I'll be leaving for Vermont with my family. So don't think I've gone away when I don't post for four days, but when I get home, I'll post the next chapter as soon as I can! :D