Part two of four
"This certainly cannot do, I refuse." Fluttershy told herself as she paced around her cottage. "No pony, not even Discord should spend Hearth's warming alone without friends. Sure he is kinda cranky and a bit of a trouble maker, but maybe if I can be the one that befriends him maybe he will no longer hates Hearths Warming so much?" Fluttershy turned to all her animal friends who had been watching her pace back and forth for several minutes. The animals all gave her a confused look not sure if her plan was going to work.
"Well I got to at least try," Fluttershy replied "I will never forgive myself if I don't at least give another pony a chance to change their ways." Her animal friends applauded her after hearing that and Fluttershy instantly flew off to find Discord.
Discord was in his house, playing chess with another copy of himself. His table and chairs were floating near the ceiling.
"And, checkmate," Discord laughed as he trapped his duplicate in a no escape situation.
"You cheated," his duplicate scolded.
"Oh come on now, I'm you. What makes you think I would cheat myself?"
"You did just last month on your diet."
"It was just one itty bitty scoop of ice cream. Come on, give a lord of chaos a break will you?"
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Did you order pizza?" Discord asked his duplicate.
"Now, why would I do that? It goes against your diet."
"Enough with the diet will you?" Discord growled as he got up from his chair. "Seriously, why do I even bother inviting you over for game night if your only going to scold me about my eating habits?"
As soon as Discord opened the door he was surprised to see Fluttershy standing at his porch.
"WHO DARES ENTERS THE DIMENSION OF THE MIGHTY LORD OF CHAOS?!" Discord shouted as lightning formed behind him, attempting to scare Fluttershy away. At first Fluttershy crouched in fear but she quickly gained control of herself, she didn't come all this way to just be scared away.
"Good evening Discord, I would just like to invite you to a Hearth's Warming celebration with me and my friends tonight."
Hearing that Discord just burst out laughing. "HA HA HA HA HA! I'm sorry, but I thought Pinkie Pie was the only prankster in your sad little group? Unless you are Pinkie Pie? Discord picked Fluttershy up and started pulling at her main trying to see if it was Pinkie Pie in a Fluttershy mask. After a couple of pulls Fluttershy slapped Discord's hands away and started giving him the stare.
"I'm serious Discord, me and my friends are having a party tonight at Twilight's castle and I am inviting you to join us."
Discord just stared at Fluttershy in confusion for a second, this pony couldn't be serious could she?
"Oh I see what's going on here, this is payback right? You and your friends are upset that I messed up your little shopping spree or whatever you was doing so your going to get revenge on me by pretending to invite me to your little party only to pull some type of sick joke at the end in hopes of making me feel humiliated and remorseful for what I did. Well it ain't going to work, you can't out chaos the lord of chaos.
"That would be unkind and dishonest if I did that. I just can't help but notice that you seem to spend all your holidays alone and I felt if I show you how much this holiday means to every pony, maybe you can find the holiday spirit in you also."
"But it's not even Hearth's Warming Eve yet? That's tomorrow!"
"I know, but with Pinkie Pie and Applejack's families spending Hearths Warming together, as well as Twilight's family coming to spend the holiday at her castle, we all decided this year to celebrate it together as friends a day early so. What do you say?"
Discord didn't say anything for a second before finally speaking up.
"Hold on just one second," Discord suddenly slammed the door shut, making Fluttershy instantly think Discord was turning her offer down.
"Sigh, it was worth a try, I guess Discord just really doesn't want to give friendship a chance." Fluttershy was starting to turn and leave when Discord suddenly opened the door again, holding a list with his schedule for the day.
"Hmm, well tonight is usually when I decide to go scream into nothingness, but I guess I could push that back to tomorrow morning? But what would I wear to such a formal event?"
"Oh, it's not formal," Fluttershy laughed. "Just come as you are."
"Okay, fine, since I have nothing better to do."
"That's great, but just make sure to bring a gift and a entree. This is a Hearth's Warming Party after all. Party starts at five, don't be late."
"A gift huh?" Discord thought out loud once Fluttershy left. Suddenly a mischievous look formed on his face and he ran his hands together as he let out a wicked chuckle. "I got just the one."
The mane six plus Spike all gathered at Twilight's castle around five, each one of them bringing food plus a gift to be exchanged later.
"I BROUGHT CUPCAKES!" Pinkie screamed as she arrived to Twilight's castle.
"Mmm... Those look as good as always Pinkie, set those on the table and we will get started once everyone arrives."
"Ain't a Holiday's party without some of Sweet Apple's Acre's famous Apple Cider," Applejack replied as she brought a whole barrel full.
"Are you sure one barrel will be enough?" Twilight laughed "You know how much Rainbow Dash and Pinkie love your cider."
"Well this year they are just going to have to be generous."
"Oh Twilight, I hope you don't mind but I decided to invite a friend at the last minute." Fluttershy asked when she arrived, carrying a plate full of cucumber sandwiches.
"Not at all Fluttershy we always welcome new friends. So who is this new friend of yours?"
"You'll see, it's a surprise."
A few minutes later, the rest of the main six arrived, Rainbow Dash brought a veggie platter, while Rarity brought twelve quarts of ice cream.
"Alright, let's get this party started," Rainbow Dash shouted "This Pegasus is ready to do have some fun tonight."
"Hold on every pony, we are still waiting for a friend of Fluttershy's to arrive."
"Ooh, who is this friend darling?" Rarity asked
"You'll see,"
"Well, whoever it is I know they are going to be awesome!" Rainbow Dash replied.
"Well thank you Rainbow Dash," Every Pony's eyes widened when a familiar voice spoke up behind them. Turning around they all gasped when they saw Discord, carrying a bowl of cheese dip and horseshoe chips. "I would describe myself as that as well!"
"Wait?" Spike asked before turning to Fluttershy "Discord is your friend you invited."
"Oh did Fluttershy not tell you?" Discord asked sarcastically. "I thought she would have told all her friends about me. Not to worry though, I'm sure she just ran out of time as she worked hard to get these delicious looking cucumber sandwiches ready." Discord took the plate and poured every single sandwich down his throat.
"Hey, those sandwiches is for every pony!" Twilight scolded
"Oh not to worry," Discord snapped his fingers and more sandwiches appeared "I can always conjure up some more."
"Fluttershy darling I hate to sound rude and all but are you sure about this?" Rarity whispered in Fluttershy's ear.
"Of course I am." All of you admitted yourself that Discord never had a friend to celebrate Hearth's Warming with so I thought why not change that starting today?"
"Well yeah but..." Rainbow Dash hesitated "It's Discord."
"I'm sure once we all give Discord a chance you will see he's not really that bad."
"Oh, not a bad looking tree?" Discord replied, looking at Twilight's Hearth's Warming tree. "But it's missing one thing." With the snap of his fingers a little decoration of Discord in a ballerina outfit appeared on the top of the tree. "That's better."
"I hope your right," Twilight told Fluttershy, "I hope your right."
As the party got started Pinkie Pie started playing the best Hearth Warming songs to dance to, as the ponies all got on the dance floor Discord decided to try to liven up the dance floor.
"You know what would really liven up this dance floor?" Discord asked Rainbow Dash
"No what?"
"Roller skates!" Discord suddenly conjured up roller skates on every pony causing them all to start skating out of control.
"Whoa, how do you stop these things?" Rainbow screamed as she slid all the way to the snack bar and toppled over face first into the cheese dip. Rainbow Dash growled as she got up, her face dripping in cheese. She growled even more when Discord rubbed his finger through the cheese on her face and licked the cheese off his finger.
"Mm. Still delicious."
"Really?" Pinkie asked "Let me see?"
Pinkie stuck out her tongue and licked all the cheese off of Rainbow Dash, causing her to nearly gag out of disgust.
"Mm. He's right still delicious." Rainbow Dash just shivered over what just happened, feeling violated.
Next up was Heath's Warming day games, first up was pin the tail on the reindeer. Applejack spun a blindfolded Spike around three times before watching as the dizzy dragon tried and failed to put the tail on the right part of the Reindeer. He ended up putting it on the nose causing the ponies to laugh in good fun.
"Aw man," Spike whined when he saw his epic fail.
"Aw don't feel to bad Spikey Wikey, I'm sure you'll do better next game," Rarity ensured.
"Your turn Rarity," Applejack called out. "Give it your best shot." Blindfolding Rarity and giving her the tail Discord watched as Applejack spun her around three times.
"Ugh, this game is so boring," Discord griped before snapping his fingers, "Let's lively it up a bit."
Suddenly the deer came to life and the second the blindfolded Rarity stuck the tail on it's backside the deer squealed and went wild.
"What the...?" Rarity lifted up the blindfold and suddenly screamed in terror as she saw the terrified reindeer lifting it's front legs. The deer leaped over Rarity and started wrecking the palace, knocking over the table with the food over, head butted the tree, causing it's horns to get stuck in it, resulting in the reindeer to go in a even bigger panic.
"Now this is what I call a party," Discord laughed.
"Discord!" Applejack scolded, "He's wrecking the entire palace!"
"Oh what good is a party if things don't get broken?" Discord scoffed.
Fluttershy worked frantically to try to calm the deer down, but with it's horn entangled in the tree, there was no calming it down.
"Oh, we really need to get this poor thing unstuck," Fluttershy said concerned.
"This is your fault Discord," Applejack scolded "You need to fix this!"
"Oh fine," Discord groaned as he snapped his fingers again, causing the tree to magically separate from the deer. With the tree gone the deer ran out of the open palace door and into the forest.
Every Pony minus Fluttershy turned and gave an angry glare at Discord's direction.
"What?" Discord asked confused "Oh come on now where's your sense of fun?"
"You could have gotten some pony seriously hurt Discord!" Twilight scolded.
"Oh come now I would have intervened before it got to that point, I'm not heartless you know."
"NOOO!" Every Pony heard Rainbow Dash cry. Turning around they all saw Rainbow Dash crying over the spilled barrel of Apple Cider that the deer knocked over. "The Apple Cider, it's ruined. You monster Discord, you monster!"
Twilight just rolled her eyes over Rainbow Dash's over dramatics.
Lastly was the gift exchange. Each pony put their gifts in a pile and drew a number out of Applejack's hat, the lowest number would go and take a gift from the pile followed by the next lowest and so on until there was one gift left.
"Oh, looks like you get to pick first Twilight," Rarity replied seeing that Twilight drew the number one.
"All right let's see what I grab." Twilight grabbed a long thin gift on the top of the pile. Opening it she saw a signed picture of Rainbow Dash in her Wonder Bolts uniform.
"Oh wow..." Twilight snickered. "Just what I need to decorate the hallway with."
"Seriously Rainbow?" Applejack asked.
"What? I needed to get something quick. Plus who wouldn't want to decorate their home with a picture of me? I am awesome."
"I'm next," Spike said getting up and grabbing himself a gift from the pile. "Please let it be a Power Ponies comic, Please let it be a Power Ponies comic." Unwrapping the paper, Spike saw a medium sized cardboard box. Opening the box he found a cowboy hat similar to that of Applejacks.
"Aw, sweet." Spike put the hat on and gave a little pose to the mirror. "Now I'm ready for the rodeo."
Twilight couldn't help but snicker as she rolled her eyes. "Oh Spike."
"Who was in a rush to get a gift now?" Rainbow Dash teased to Applejack.
"I guess I was more focused on getting gifts for the family that I ran out of time." Applejack chuckled in slight embarrassment.
As each pony got a gift, soon there was only one gift left and one pony left to pick, Applejack. Rarity had gotten a book from Twilight, Rainbow Dash had gotten a fancy scarf made by Rarity, Pinkie had gotten a fluffy pillow with a bunny knitted on it from Fluttershy while Fluttershy got another Fruitcake from Pinkie, and Discord got a Power Ponies comic from Spike.
"Whelp I got the last one it looks like." Unwrapping the box Applejack gave a confused look as she took out three little jumping beans.
"What are these?"
"Why they are jumping beans of course." Discord replied "I grow them myself in my chaos garden."
"Chaos garden?" Applejack asked concerned.
"Oh yes, see the bigger the enclosed location is, the more room they get to jump. And the way I see it this castle has a lot of room for them to jump."
"Uh oh?" Twilight gulped.
Suddenly the beans jumped out of Applejack's hoof and took a big jump, reaching the top of the castle ceiling, they soon started jumping all over, wrecking everything in sight, the tree the decorations, the furniture. Every pony had to duck for cover as these magical jumping beans wrecked the entire castle.
"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight screamed "Get them to the door!"
"On it!" Rainbow Dash opened the door, and as soon as she did the jumping beans soon jumped out the door and out of sight. Rainbow Dash quickly closed the door back so the jumping beans did not get back in, then she and every pony turned and glared at Discord.
"Look at this place!" Twilight scolded "Fluttershy invited you to our party, I allowed you into my castle, and this is how you repay our kindness?"
"Oh please, your an Alicorn princess, you can just magically fix this up within seconds."
"Your missing the point here," Applejack scolded.
"You have caused nothing but trouble the moment you have arrived," Rainbow Dash scolded "and as a result have ruined what was supposed to be a fun party with friends."
"Well you know what? I'm glad I did!" Discord yelled back, causing every pony to gasp. "This whole Holiday is stupid, stupid, stupid! You go frolicking around wasting your hard earned bits on useless junk the pony your buying for don't even need. You waste your time decorating a stupid tree with junk, slave away for hours decorating your house, and for what? So you can get up in the morning and see what new toys that some pony got you that will only be stuffed in your closet within a week and never touched again. This whole Holiday is a complete SHAM!"
"I'm going to ask you leave," Twilight ordered, opining her door and pointing her hoof to the exit.
"No need to, I was already on my way out." As Discord left Fluttershy held her head low in sadness, while every pony else just shook their heads in disbelief and disappointment. All Fluttershy wanted was to teach a pony in need the magic of the holiday as well as friendship, but instead all she did was ruin their fun time and make every pony mad.
As Discord sat alone in his house, thinking about this Holiday he hated more than any other, he made a promise to himself that this would be the last year he put up with this.
"Tomorrow is Hearth's Warming Eve, it's practically here. Tomorrow they will get up and they will all sit at their tables and dine, on hot rolls, molten cider and double baked pot pies. Oh that Hearth's Warming feast, that is something I can't stand the least. But first all the colts and fillies will wake up bright and early and they will rush for their new toys, then all that noise, noise noise. Oh all that noise will drive me completely crazy. They will play with their jing jinglers, they will blow on their toot tooters. They will ring their ring ringlers and dance with their shing shinglers.
"Um Discord," One of Discord's duplicates called out. "You've stopped making real words."
"I have?" Discord realized "Curse this Holiday it's got me talking nonsense. Ugh, for centuries I have put up with this now. I've got to find a way to stop Hearth's Warming from coming. But how?"
Suddenly several rows of Discord duplicates popped up and started waving their hands all excitedly.
"Um yes, you in the back row?" Discord pointed at.
"Why don't we just make Hearth's Warming," The Discord took out a coffee cup and a white rag, he placed the rag over the coffee cup and waved his hand. Then when he removed the rag, the mug was gone. "Disappear."
"No, no, that will never work, unless..."
Narrated by Spike
It was right then Discord had an idea, an awful idea. He had a absolute horrible, awful, idea.
End Narration
"That's it, We are going to steal Hearth's Warming. Once they wake up tomorrow morning, there will be no presents, there will be no feast, there will be decorations or trees or lights of the least. Get ready my fellow Discords cause tonight, we pull off a heist!"
The other Discords cheered as a spotlight shined on Discord who suddenly broke out in a song.
They call me the lord of chaos. A title I have worn quite proud.
But the real chaos is that Holiday, and all that noise quite frankly is kinda loud.
It's time that we do something about our pain
It's time we bring the storm, we bring the rain.
It's time that this Holiday comes to an end.
Let's steal this Holiday, come on let's begin.
No more Hearth's Warming from here on out,
No more Hearth's Warming for me to cry about
For after tonight I can honestly say
There will not be this cursed Holiday
No more Hearth's Warming when I'm done
No more Hearth's Warming to spoil my fun
For once I rid Equestria of this day.
There will not be anymore of this Holiday.
Discord and his duplicates conjured up a sleigh, Discord then put on a red suit, red stocking cap and a beard, and put his duplicates in charge of pulling his sleigh, just for the fun of it, Discord put deer antlers on the top of his duplicates heads.
"Let's go everyone, their's no time to waste." With a flick on the reigns the duplicates took to the skies as they traveled from their dimension to PonyVille
No more Hearth's Warming from here on out
No more Hearth's Warming for me to cry about
For after tonight I can honestly say
There will not be this cursed Holiday
No more Hearth's Warming when I'm done
No more Hearth's Warming to spoil my fun
For once I rid Equestria of this day.
There will not be anymore of this Holiday.