Hey guys! So guess what? I met a girl at a fourth of July party. She said she'd help me with my OC problems. So I'm gonna be running a review channel of my own around August. We will also be Collabing on a bunch of Fanfics together. Our screen name is Golden Oak and Miss Marvel. She'll probably change her name later, but we have some big plans for both Pony fics and Marvel fics. There might even be a crossover in store. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy :)
Midnight tossed in her sleep, dreaming of her old school. As she walked down the hall, she waved at Moon dancer. She didn't even acknowledge her. She sighed and entered her classroom. Taking her seat, she looked up at her teacher's desk. "Wait, why is Mrs. Candence here?" She thought. "This is Sombra's class."
"Good morning class. Mr. Blake is out sick today-" She was interrupted by a cheering student. The principal walked over and handed him a pink slip. "As I was saying, Mr. Blake is out sick today, so we have hired a substitute teacher." She called through the open door "Mr. Cipher. Will you come here, please?"
Mr. Cipher was a rather spry looking man with an odd sense in fashion. "Class, this is-" The new teacher ran in front of her, shaking hands with every student in the room.
"Nice to meet ya. Glad to see ya. My mother owns a pizzeria. I'm Bob. I'm Ted. I'm Fred. I'm Larry, but you'll like Tom." He slammed his hands on her desk. "I drew a banjo on my mom."
Speeding back to his desk, he jumped up on top and said to the class. "The name's Bill. Bill Cipher. But you can call me Discord." He hopped into his chair, pulling an apple out of his pocket and crunching down. "Any questions?" Everyone's hand shot up.
Mrs. Cadence stepped out of the room, a little worried about him. She shrugged. "If he does anything wrong, I could always fire him." With that thought, she headed back towards her office.
"Right, first question." He pointed at the hand right beside Midnight's. "You there."
"M-me?" He stuttered. Composing himself, he asked. "I was- I was just wondering, Why does your suit look like that?" He pointed at the green pant leg, then the brown one. Next, the brown left sleeve, then the gold right one. "It's all just so…"
"Chaotic? That my friend, is exactly why I like it." He cackled, and then grabbed four pieces of chalk. Juggling them through the air, he ran back and forth at the blackboard for a solid five minutes. When he stepped back, we were all met with a grand masterpiece.
"Welcome," He said with a bow. "To Chaos 101."
Midnight looked around at all the other students, to find they had all vanished. "What!"
Discord looked directly at her. "What are you doing here?"
"What do you mean?" She looked around. "Is- is this a dream?"
"Well, I don't know. Whenever I come here, I always make the students disappear." He peered at her. "So why didn't you?"
"Wait. Are you real?"
"Of course I'm real! I wouldn't be talking to you if I wasn't real."
"So, if you're Discord, prove it."
"How?"
"Supposedly, you're a spirit of Chaos. So, snap your fingers or something. Leave me something for when I wake up."
"Like what?"
"I don't know. Pick something."
"Fine!" He concentrated. "Done."
"Alright then. If I find something in front of me when I wake up, I'll know this was real."
"So how are you here? I come here only when I miss meddling in human affairs."
"Wait. What?"
"I said-"
"Did you bring me here?!" She shouted, pushing him up against the wall.
"Whoa." He teleported away, landing on a desk in the middle of the room. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Me and Sunset have been spending the past few days trying to stop your rampage! What have you done?!"
"Wait. Sunset? Sunset Shimmer?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Oh. I get it. You just happened to fall through Starswirl's portal just as Fluttershy decides I'm not good enough for her. Typical."
"Look, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm just trying to stop you and get home. Now can you help me or not?"
"Well…"
Just then the dream began to ripple. "What's happening?!"
Discord disappeared, leaving her alone in the class room. "Discord? Discord!"
She sat up screaming. "Help!" Looking around, she saw a spilled glass of chocolate milk where she had lashed out. "So it was real." She thought of her old friends, even though they had forgotten her long ago.
"When will I see them again?" She mumbled, rubbing her eyes and standing up. Sunset had left a few hours ago, presumably to make sure the Timberwolf had gone for good.
Midnight sat up and began to make a fire. It was actually quite warm when the sun was down. But every few minutes it would come back up and then it got really cold. She was rubbing two sticks together when Sunset walked back into the cave.
"It's gone." She said, lighting the fire with her magic. "Pick up a torch. We gotta get moving."
"Why? What happened?"
"That thing spent the whole night trying to wait us out. We need to get moving."
"Where do we go?"
"To the last place I saw Discord. The middle of Ponyville."
"Are you sure?"
"It's better than nothing."
The two mares galloped out of the forest at full speed.
Applejack stepped off the train, immediately slipping into a chocolate puddle. "Ew! What's up with the sky?" She said, shaking her pelt. "Is this normal?"
"No. Discord's really messed the place up."
"So what do we do?"
"I suppose we should try to find them."
"So, you're familiar with this place, where do we look first?"
Flash glanced around, looking the chaotic mess that used to be Ponyville. "I guess we could start at the Library."
"Right, let's go."
They ran towards the library, avoiding the occasional tap-dancing buffalo. Arriving, they paused to figure out how to get in. "Where's the door?"
"Discord." Flash grumbled. He flew up and around the top of the tree, finally finding the door in one of the branches. "Found it!" He called, pulling the branch down to ground level. "Step in." They walked in and came up out of the floor. "Hate it when Discord wrecks the place." They searched the library, and naturally came up empty hooved. They left the library and searched each of their houses in turn.
"I don't know what to tell ya. They seem to have vanished."
"Let's at least go ask the mayor if she's seen them."
"Sure." They galloped towards town center.
Night Light and Sweetie Drops stepped out of the mirror and onto unsteady hooves. "I swear, I did not sign up for this." Sweetie said, looking down at her hooves in shock. Normally, she would've screamed at the sight of it. But she was working. She needed to act professional. "So, where do we start?"
"Well," Night said, slowly getting accustomed to his new hooves. "We could always ask someone over there." He pointed at some of the patrolling guards. Noticing the two ponies standing in the throne room, the guards galloped over. "Thank goodness. We're looking for-" He was cut off when the guards placed magical hoofcuffs around their legs and cast a disabling spell on his horn. "Wait, what?! Why are you cuffing us? We were just looking for-"
"Save it. We know all about your involvement with this."
"What?! B- But, we just got here!"
"Save it for the Princess, Bud." They marched them off towards the dungeons.
"I'm telling you, whatever you think we did, we didn't do it!"
Locking up the duo, the guards transformed back into Changelings and flew out of the castle. Landing in an alleyway, they met Colgate with her 'Packages'.
"Need your help guys. I brought these two here, now the queen wants them back in Ponyville. It was hard enough transporting them the first time. This time it'll be impossible."
"Right, I'll take Luna, you two take Celestia. We'll fly them back."
They hefted the two cocoons onto their backs, transformed into Pegasi, and flew towards Ponyville. They made sure to be as careful as possible not to be seen.
