As Far as I am aware Faust or Hasbro own My Little Pony. I own nothing. Not even this computer.
Luna looked up from the papers that she was reviewing. Frankly she did not understand all of the paperwork that her sister had her do, something or other about treaties and how they must find out if there were any insults. It all came back to the threat, that strange little death threat. Chaos, destruction, it was bizarre and Luna only enjoyed the bizarre in dreams. Having it in the waking world made her uncomfortable and nervous.
She stood and trotted in a circle attempting to think and organize all of the information that she had had to go through that day. It had been so many days seen she started that frankly she was becoming tired of the entire thing. Her sister had mentioned some sort of detective to be arriving to help them, some pony that she had faith would work on it quietly and put a stop to it. Luna felt as if she knew who her sister would choose. She hoped that it would not be him, her sister was a little too trusting when it came to him and his resourcefulness.
A polite knock at the door and she gave permission for them to enter. A large guard pony in the armor of one of her personal escorts entered with a bow.
"Your majesty. Princess Celestia requests your presence in her private chambers immediately." She gave a curt nod for dismissal and waited until he left to begin preparing to see her sister. Although it may not be formal Luna donned her crown and brushed her mane quickly, in order to be presentable to her elder sister.
Luna went through the castle quickly, stopping for nothing and arrived at her sisters chambers, with an air of dignity she knocked politely before letting herself inside. Celestia was standing in the center of the room, she looked exhausted, Luna knew when her sister did not sleep, she could tell that just by being in the general vicinity of ponies. The two sisters approached each other and gave bows and touched horns in greeting.
"Why did you summon me, Celestia?" Celestia smiled and walked over to a chair, there was a small teapot with a sugar and milk pot. She poured a cup of tea and began preparing a second. There were three cups to be used.
"I have contacted the one who I wish to investigate the...matter that threatens us and the other princess's." Luna stood still for a moment, she sipped the tea that Celestia passed to her in a glow of magic, she felt...perturbed. She did not enjoy the thought that her sister chose the one to delve into this matter without even talking to her about it, Luna felt as if she were just barely being included in the decisions, as if she were not in control of the situation, that her sister was attempting to control the entire situation without her.
"Whom did you choose? They must be very adept at situations such as this that you did not think it would be wise to converse with me on the subject?" Luna spoke with a forced air, she made sure that resentment was evident in her tone. Celestia had the good graces to appear apologetic. Luna was distracted by how tired her sister appeared. Bags under her eyes, her coat seemed to have lost some of it's bright luster, even her marvelous hair hung limp around her face.
"I apologize for not including you in the proceedings, but I feared that you might have held...reservations towards his loyalty." Luna raised an eyebrow and placed her cup down firmly. She knew without a shadow of a doubt who her sister must have chosen. It seemed shortsighted.
"He might be strong enough to do this, but he is untrustworthy. He has betrayed us before."
"And he has come to his senses and returned to our side."
"With much coaxing and threats. How did you even get into contact with him?"
"I have my channels. It was difficult to track him down, but not impossible." Luna sighed and turned towards her sister. She looked her up and down, she looked so tired.
A flash of light and a strange pop came from behind Luna, Celstia looked around her little sister while Luna looked behind herself. Somehow a sewer grate had been inserted into the floor, from it drifted the sounds of laughter and a strange carnival music. Approaching it cautiously Luna felt a small stream of water against her legs, a little paper boat went by and down the drain.
"Luna! Get back here!" Celestia hissed at her curious little sister. Luna squinted into the darkness of the grate. Something was bobbing up and down, something in the water, and something in the air.
"Sister. There is something in there. Something floating."
"What is it?" Celestia called to her sister. Luna looked deeper into the popped up from nowhere. Looking up was a mismatched face wearing ghastly clown looked out of the storm drain with a giant carnivorous grin.
"Don't you know that we all float down here my dear?" With a giggle Discord appeared in the room with a handful of balloons that he tied to the back of Luna's wings, with a yelp the helium in the pieces of plastic caused her to begin ascending and to float around the ceiling.
"Discord. Bring her down. Now."Celestia gave the order calmly but there was ice in her tone and malice in her eyes. Discord frowned and rolled his eyes before compiling.
"Well your no fun." With a snap of his fingers for show, the balloons and storm drain disappeared and Luna dropped a few inches before catching herself with her wings, she slowly glided down to the floor.
"Now, how may I be of service to you two on this fine day?" He asked with a mock accent and bowed deeply.
"We nee-" Celestia was cut off, from Discord's back popped a small green alligator, he had no teeth and eyes that faced two different directions. He looked around before he began to wander off to some unknown destination in the room. Watching the small reptile for a moment Celestia turned back to the still bowed "reformed lord of chaos" "What we need from you is a favor, and a chance to proof yourself worthy of freedom and our friendship."
"Ugh. Again? How many more times do we have to do this until you prove it to me?"
"Listen here spawn." Luna said angrily, flapping her wings so that they were face to face. "We need you to undertake a secret mission for the good of all of Equestria. We are placing more then just our trust in you."
"We place our lives." Celestia finished. Discord was speechless for a moment. He did not expect them to be so brutally open with him. For a moment he was actually intimidated. He did not like that feeling.
"Well then. Explain the situation to me." He sat back on a wingback chair that materialized from nothing. The alligator appeared in his lap where he absentmindedly stroked it's scales. The alligator purred.
"We have received a threat. A promise. From an unidentified source. They have made many dangerous remarks, we need you to track down and subdue this foe. We have the paper that he sent right here." With a glowing horn Cekestia opened up the top drawer of her desk and removed the scroll. She passed it to him. Discord took out a pair of glasses and looked over the entire letter. He frowned.
"Is it enough to go off of?"
"Yes I can make this work." He remarked looking closely at the writing.
"This mission is of the utmost importance, and you are to keep it a secret. From everyone."
"Even dear little-"
"Yes. We do not know who, or how powerful this threat is. If it is nothing then we apologize for wasting your time. If it is not..." Celestia trailed off into silence.
For an evil villain this was a new one. A terrorist threat was what it was, and he had never had to deal with one of those so openly before. It should be if it left Princess Celestia and Princess Luna as frightened as all of this.
"Well then you have no fear. Discord Holmes and Doctor Gummy are on the case." He stood up and there was a black trench coat around his shoulders, a deer cap upon his head and a scarf around his neck. Gummy the alligator had a bubble pipe, a cap and a dress coat. He hissed at the two princess's as Discord raised his cap and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The two princess's coughed on the remaining smoke confined in the room. Luna managed to open a window and looked out into the daylight.
"Do you think we can trust him?"
"Do we have a choice?" Celestia responded. Luna could not answer that.
"Where in all of Equestria did he find a toothless alligator?" Luna wondered aloud.
"So how long has it been since I last said that I really really really don't want to go through with this?" Shining Armor asked his wife, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza , Cadance to her friends and family. She merely responded by rolling her eyes and adjusting his medals across his chest. All needed to be just so, they were having a very important guest for the next few months and she had to continue to give a good impression.
"I know that he can be...difficult."
"To put it mildly." Cadance glowered at this and stuck one of the medals pins in sharply. Shining Armor yelped in pain and gave a little jump. It wasn't that it hurt, more that it was unexpected.
"But he is part of my family. Please be nice to him."
"I'll play nice if he does." Shining Armor picked up a brush and levitated it over to his wife, she took it with a smile and began to gently go at her mane. Shining Armor did not like Prince Blueblood, he reminded him of old classmates from academy. Pompous, too sure of themselves, never having to work for anything in their life.
Cadance noted that her husband had a faraway look in his eye, she sidled up to him and wrapped a soft downy wing around his shoulder.
"Look, I know that he is...pompous. But he's my cousin, and he means a lot to me. I promise you that he won't get too out of hand." Shining looked over at his wife and nuzzled her nose against his.
"Fine. Fine. I can put up with him. It's not going to be for that long right?"
"Wellll...Aunty Celestia wasn't clear on that...she just said that it would be a good idea if he had a little vacation in the Crystal Empire for a little while." Shining Armor nodded inwardly he was thinking
'Probably made every pony go crazy back in Canterlot, just spreading it around.' This did not stop him from following his wife into the grand hall and standing next to her as she sat and prepared for her cousin's entrance.
He had insisted on a grand entrance so they had to think of something. The military ponies standing at attention and blowing their horns were his idea. The multiple crystal ponies going down the indigo carpet throwing white roses had been hers. Frankly it suited Blueblood just fine. The large snow white stallion strutted down the aisle with a head held high and a confident smile across his face. He had half lidded eyes as if everything was beneath his attention.
Cadance stood up and trotted down to where her cousin was leisurely walking along. He only began to speak when she got too close.
"No touching dearest. I just had my coat done and I have no intention of soiling it yet." Cadance continued to smile and nodded her understanding.
"Of course, I understand. It is very good to see you Blueblood, it's been a very long time."
"Naturally it feels good to see me Cadance, I look astounding on this fine day." Shining Armor walked over with a neutral expression.
"Good morning Prince Blueblood." He said as politely as he could muster. Prince Blueblood looked his in law up and down for a moment, as if attempting to recognize him. When he finally did respond it was courteous.
"Why good morning my fine Commander. How are you today?"
"Fine. Perfectly fine." Shining Armor gritted his teeth and counted backwards from ten.
"Well then you must be famished from your travel. There is some food prepared in case you were hungry, I can show you to your room and then afterwards have something to eat?"
"Why don't put yourself to any trouble Cadance. Simply have one of the help prepare and send something up."
"It's really no trou-"
Blueblood interrupted her before she could finish. "I think that a fine prepared garden salad, with two chopped beets, a single pitted cheery, and a carpet of hay exactly four and a half inches for each stalk would quench my taste buds. And a glass of sparkling water, to quench the thirst." With that to be his departing line Prince Blueblood departed in some direction, confident that he would find the right room.
The guards looked around nervously. Uncertain what to do or how to react. Shining Armor rubbed his eye with his hoof.
"Okay you and you." He pointed at a pair of unicorns. "Find his luggage and bring it to his chambers." The two nodded and were off.
"You and you." He pointed at two crystal servants that were coming through. "Please prepare his snack."
"And you." He finished pointing at an earth pony. "Please find Prince Blueblood and bring him to his chambers." Cadance went up to her throne and sat heavily, already exhausted by the short meeting that she had with her cousin.
Shining Armor walked up beside his wife and sat next to her.
"Told you we shouldn't have gone through with this."
"So you did." She said testily "But he's here and we need to make the best of things."
"Do you think that he got better since the last time that we saw him?" The two exchanged looks before she cracked a grin and shook her head.
"If anything he's gotten worse." The alicorn princess and her husband gave little chuckles at that before they both stood up.
"Come on we don't want all of the food that they prepared to go to waste do we?" Cadance asked.
"Spike?" Rainbow Dash said confused at the bizarre sight in front of her. The dragon was on his knees holding his head and seemed to be...sobbing, but it was much more violent then that. Tears were streaming down his face, they were so hot that they produced steam when they touched the air. A few ponies were gathered around, but many more were wondering away, not making eye contact. They didn't want to be involved with this, this was private.
"Hey dude, you alright?" She moved closer to his overgrown shuddering form and tentatively touched his shoulder. He looked up shocked. He wiped angrily at his eyes.
"I'm fine." He muttered out. He did not make eye contact when he said this. Rainbow Dash gazed down at him, knowing that he was clearly lying.
"No you're not. What's the matter dude?" He stood up and began to trudge away. Slowly, not looking at where he was going. Getting frustrated Rainbow Dash ran to be in front of him and stood blocking his path so that he had no where to go.
"You aren't getting away with that. Now what's the matter?" Glowering Spike turned and tried going in the other direction. He was surprised to see Soarin standing there also blocking his way. Although he looked much more...relaxed, nervous about standing up to a teenage dragon then Rainbow Dash did.
"You aren't going anywhere. Now spill." Spike began to breathe heavily, he glared at Rainbow Dash and Soarin changing his eyes from one to the other. He looked like a cornered bear. He snorted and steam actually blew out of his nostrils, he didn't think he had ever done that before.
"I keep telling you. I. Don't. Want. !" He shouted in her face. Rainbow Dash reared up and looked him in the eye as much as she was able to.
"Well you don't get a-" She stopped when she saw who was running down the street in their direction. A worried look on her face, and her eyes actually seemed wet. Her face flushed from the exercise and emotion.
"Spike! Please I am begging you! Allow me to explain!" Rarity called out to him. He looked at her once and he visibly chocked up. A lump appeared in his throat and more steaming hot tears streamed from his face.
"You broke me." He whispered as he looked directly at her approaching form, there was no way that she could hear him. But Rainbow Dash heard every word. "You broke me right here." He tapped his chest before he turned towards his pushed past Rainbow Dash and ran and ran until he disappeared towards the castle.
Rarity came to the duo of pegesai and nearly collapsed from the amount of speed that she employed.
"Oh dear. Oh Dear. I am too slow." She panted out with great fatigue. A handkerchief began to levitate and she wiped away at her face. It was barely damp with perspiration. "Oh what that poor boy must think of me." She gave a little hiccup and pressed the handkerchief to her mouth.
"Alright Rarity, what the heck happened." Rainbow Dash demanded pushing her face into Rarity's personal space and giving her the old stink eye. "Spike was seriously freaking out! What dod you-" An idea came into Rainbow Dashes head and she began to shake her head. "Oh shoot. You did not turn him down that hard did you?! Jeez Rarity!"
"What? NO! I didn't even have time to turn him down I-" Rarity stopped her sentence when she saw Pinkie Pie walking down the street, a tin foil sombrero upon her head and Cheese Sandwich walking beside her, both smiling and marching in sync. They both bounded over once Pinkie Pie recognized her friends.
"Hey guys! Whats Shaking?" She remained oblivious to their incredulous stares at her bizarre head gear and companion. "Oh! You remember Cheese Sandwich right!" She displayed him with a flourish and he bowed with great pomp and circumstance.
Rainbow Dash was the first to break the silence. "We should definitely discuss this another time, but first what the hay did you say to the poor guy?! He looked like you broke his heart."
"WHAAT!" Pinkie Pie shouted gaining the attention of a passing mare who picked up her pace as she went past. "You didn't let him down easy! Rarity what's the matter with you! I mean jeez!"
"If you let me finish I can explain. I didn't even have the chance to let him down. He...he uh...walked in with me and Fancy Pants in a rather...compromising-ahem- situation one might say."
"A compromising situation like you were braiding each others hair? Or a compromising situation where you were told a very deep, personal secret were half an inch apart and looked like you were going to kiss?"
"The uh second one Pinkie." Rarity said dumbfounded. The handkerchief was in midair and she rung it back and forth looking at it with despair.
"Ohhhh I knew he had a crush on me but I never took it seriously. Maybe I should go after him or?"
"I can tell you now that that is a huge mistake." Soarin spoke up. Everypony looked at him, frankly they had forgotten he was there.
"How do you figure?" Rainbow Dash asked in confusion.
"My own past experiences tell me to leave them alone for a little while to cool down. You risk having a few lamps and bookshelves thrown at you if you are too persistent." He got a faraway look in his eye as every pony else stood around awkwardly, wondering what kind of experiences he might have had that made him so knowledgeable in that sort of situation.
"I-I suppose that you have a point. I really must return to the boutique. I need to finish Fluttershy's dress for her big date with Big Macintosh." With a quite sniffle the white unicorn walked away. A few little gulps of air heard under her breath. Rainbow Dash stood still for a moment when she realized what Rarity had just said.
"Wait! Fluttershy! Date! What!?" She zoomed off after Rarity. If her oldest friend was going on a date she wanted details! Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich looked after Spike for a moment before they exchanged a knowing look and with Pinkie Pie hopping and Cheese Sandwich marching they went off in search of some party supplies.
Soarin stood around for a moment awkwardly. He looked left, he looked right. He sighed. "Might as well go for a run to Sweet Apple Acres." With that he went to find the one landmark in this town that he knew about.
In a dark room, all of the curtains closed. There sat a figure in a cloak. He gazed into a crystal ball swirling with dark purple. It caused his eyes to glow an eery supernatural color. Not of any known world.
"Where did it all go?" He hissed at the terrified stallion who sat shivering somewhere on the other side of the orb. "Where did all of the energy disappear off to?!" The stallion sighed and rubbed his head tiredly.
"I warned you how unstable the properties would be. I mean tapping into an unknown element in a single mare's pancreas via a parasite? It seems a little far fetched, even in a science fiction story."
"No one asked you your opinion Pointdexter." The figure hissed again. Pointdexter rolled his eyes, that was exactly what thus clown was doing but who was he to judge?
"Look, we can find other means of getting the remaining amount, and we already have more then enough from her so I don't see what the entire problem is."
"I did not employ you to tell me what is in my best interests."
"No you threatened my friends and family and ponynapped me to work for you. On something that again I doubt will work."
"Just find a way to make certain that it is ready in time for the trial run!" The cloaked pony almost bellowed at Pointdexter.
"I have a question. Why do you go to so much trouble to disguise your voice? I mean I know who you are...it just seems to take up more energy then it is worth."
"Silence your insolent tongue worm!" He hissed out, the s coming strong between his clenched teeth. "Just find a suitable substitute to power the machine. I want it ready for the experiment in Ponyville."
"Yes my malicious Emperor of terror." Pointdexter said sarcastically as he faded from the inside of the crystal ball.
The Discord scene is influenced from the movie "IT" My Little Pony is owned by Hasbro or Faust I cannot remember which one. It does not belong to me. I own nothing, not even this computer.