I walked out after some time, mortified as I had gotten what I had always despised. All I know is that I couldn't look at Dash anymore without feeling like I was going to break down.
I was depressed now, but still knew I had to do what I have to for their sake, no matter how guilty I was. I flew over to Sugar Cube Corner, at a leisurely pace, not really wanting to face them after what Celestia had done to me.
I eventually made it and walked inside, trying to hide my depression, which is really nothing new to me as I did it all the time back home.
"So what did Celestia want?" asked Twilight as soon as she saw me.
"Oh, nothing, she just asked me a few questions was all."
"She didn't ask who you were related to did she?"
"Well, she asked who my parents were and I told her I was Discord's son."
"Why would you tell her that? I'm surprised she didn't lock you up for that, being such a threat to her and all."
"Actually, she trusts me solely for my intentions to protect you guys from Discord."
"Well that's a good enough reason for me." said Rainbow, nuzzling me a little. I felt uncomfortable knowing that I would soon have to face the reality of what occurred, later.
"Are you alright? You don't look so good." asked Pinkie.
All eyes were on me now, only worsening my feeling.
"I'm fine, just nervous about the fight."
"We all are. They were tough enough by themselves, but now this will be the biggest thing we've ever done."
"Anypony have any suggestion about how we could even out the fight?"
They all started thinking. Twilight was the first to speak up.
"Since Chrysalis gets stronger with more love, maybe we could try reducing that so at least one of the two will be easier."
"Great idea, but how can we reduce the love?"
"Simple, we get everypony else mad until the invasion starts, the hard part is getting them all mad and keeping them that way."
"I know how to get people riled up."
"I don't really see it."
"Oh trust me, he can, I know from experience." said Red.
"Alright then. So does everypony have their crystals?" They all nodded.
"Ok, go do what you can to get everypony mad."
"I'll get right on that."
Twilight continued giving out her plan while I went to the town square to start up the crowd, only to remember its night and everypony's asleep right now.
Then I got the idea. I flew up to Cloudsdale and grabbed a large piece of cloud and brought to the square. I kicked it hard and it sent a bolt of lightning out, waking everypony up in a disgruntled mood.
"What's the big idea, waking us up in the middle of the night?"
"I wanted everypony up for my announcement."
"What's your big announcement, then?"
"Oh, just that I plan to take over ponyville and that you will all become my slaves is all."
This got some angry responses, but not as many as I was expecting.
"Yeah right. If you're so big and powerful, show us an example then."
I couldn't without weakening my powers.
"You will get an example in due time, but for now, I need to conserve my strength."
"I'm sure you will. Come on, let's go back to bed."
I knew I was losing them, but I couldn't risk this for their attention, so I did the next best thing, I tackled one of the earth ponies and lifted her up in the air.
"Aahh! Put me down! Put me down!" She struggled to get free.
"Let her go!"
"You wanted an example, and she will be the sacrifice."
"No! Let me go, please! I don't want to die!" I looked down at the crowd and was tackled from behind, dropping the earth pony.
She screamed as she fell and luckily was caught by the crowd.
I was able to spin around before I hit the ground and used my momentum to kick off the green Pegasus that had tackled me. Now that I had enraged the crowd, all I had to do was run away until the invasion started.
I ran around Ponyville for what seemed like a couple hours until I took a wrong turn and ended up in a dead end with wall of pegasi blocking a flying escape route.
"End of the line buddy."
The ponies charged at me and I closed my eyes and shielded myself, bracing for impact. I didn't feel anything for a while and I opened my eye to see that they were frozen just a few inches away from me.
I tried to squeeze my way out of the group to go warn Twilight and the others. I ran to the square where they were waiting for me.
"Ok, I enraged the townsfolk and probably branded myself a terror pony for life, but it's done."
"Good, now we wait."
We waited a couple minutes, and we could see a few moving shadows and Discord appeared in front of us along with Chrysalis.
"Hello all. It's so wonderful to see you this one last time."
"I completely agree. My changelings have been starving for love, but I think they'll settle for some fresh meat instead."
"You just don't get it do you Dad?"
"What don't I get?"
"You were the one who brought me here, you gave me these powers, and then you attack my friends and expect me to stand idly by while you hurt them. If you ever really loved me at all, you would back down right now and just walk away to actually be happy for once in my life."
"Sadly, I can't do that. I've worked too hard trying to regain my place here to just let it slip away."
"See, that's your problem right there. You only care about yourself and you hurt others when you don't get your way. You would probably have me on your side if you had stayed with me, but no, you had to go off and 'keep control' over the place that didn't even want you ruling, which ended in your defeat anyway."
He teleported over to me and lifted me up with his claw.
"I don't need to be taking any of this, especially not from you."
I scorched his talon and he let me go and I looked over at my friends, who hadn't moved since we saw them. Now I thought that the crystals had only delayed the effects of the time spell, but still took over them.
"They can't help you now, they're frozen and you're done."
Discord changed the world around us, making it daylight and all weird looking, and place a large barrier around the two of us and closed the changelings with the seven frozen ponies.
Discord said in a deeply menacing voice. "Let the games begin."
Author's note: Any ideas at all of what Celestia did to me? Feel free to review and tell me what you think happened and see if you got it right next chapter. Finals start tomorrow for me and I have an author study essay I have to write over the weekend, so the next chapter might not be up until Wednesday of next week which is the 20th, giving you guys plenty of time to poll your thoughts.
