"I…I really do hope you can forgive me, Coco," mumbled Rarity, wringing her hooves together. Capper placed a comforting paw on her shoulder.

Coco, who was in a hospital bed, laughed softly. "Don't worry, Rarity. I'm not angry at all."

"But…Darling, I attacked you! And in the end, I couldn't keep you out of what happened with Capper and I!"

"And you didn't mean to. I can't be angry when all you've wanted is to protect me." Coco smiled. "Besides, I've been able to talk with the other victims of the night. They're all very nice creatures, and we've had a nice stay here, after they moved Quivering Chassis to the mental ward."

Rarity lowered her head. "How long…"

"Just a few more days, they said. This week has mostly been them just keeping an eye on us, making sure we remember everything about ourselves. Even with both heads of the Lunar Guard reversing the gems, they don't want to take any chances."

Rarity sighed in relief. "That's good to hear."

Capper tapped her on the shoulder. "Rarity, it's almost 9:30."

She gasped. "Oh, goodness! I almost forgot!" She turned to Coco. "I'm afraid I have to leave now. But promise me we'll get in contact with each other soon?"

Coco nodded, waving goodbye as Rarity and Capper left the Canterlot Hospital.

Rarity looked up to her husband as they walked along. "You don't need to come with me, you know. I'm the one they assigned this too."

Capper's ears went back as he responded, "I'm coming because I want to help. I couldn't help you when you were being blackmailed over what I did, so I'm going to help now. Especially since I know what's going on."

Rarity sighed. "I'm sorry, Capper. I didn't tell you about that awful business because I…I didn't want you to worry."

"And how do you think I felt last week, when the Lunar Guard called to say, 'We have your wife, come get her'?"

Rarity lowered her head. "I…I am truly sorry. I…I promise I won't hide anything anymore."

A pause of silence. Then, Capper swept her into his arms, lightly kissing her lips. Her saddened expression dropped as she laughed, playfully pushing him away.

"Capper, we're going to be late!"

"Oh, we already are. What's a few more minutes?"

Fluttershy paced, her expression nervous. "Oh, I hope she didn't get lost on her way here."

Twilight looked up from the list she was reading. "That's highly unlikely, Fluttershy. This is a fairly well-known institution in Canterlot."

Fluttershy whimpered, "But then…What if she ran into some kind of trouble? And we don't even know while we're waiting here!" Her pacing became faster.

Discord flew over and scooped her up into his arms, crushing her against his chest. "She's fine, Flutters," he groaned. "What did we talk about?"

She blinked up at him. "How you need to stop pranking new members of the Lunar Guard?"

"Wha—I told you I stopped doing that! I mean about what did we talk about concerning you?"

"Oh. That, um, that I s-shouldn't worry so much? That I need to let go of my anxiety?"

"Bingo!" With a flick of his tail, confetti showered on the pair, and applause came from nowhere. "Rarity will be here any minute, and then you'll see there was no reason to worry."

The door creaked open, and a flush-faced Rarity and Capper walked in. "Sorry we're late!," said Rarity, smoothing out the hem of the simple lavender dress she wore. "I lost track of time visiting Coco, and then we got distracted."

Capper smirked.

Fluttershy jumped out of Discord's hold. "Well, now that everyone's here, we can get started." She looked around the room. "I'm…very grateful that you all chose to volunteer for the Equestrian Society for the Preservation of Rare Creatures. I really do appreciate all your help."

Applejack smiled. "Aw, shucks. Ah figured working here would be a good chance to see you again. Besides, this place was named multiple times in the program for community service. Seemed like they really wanted us to be here."

Fluttershy blinked. "Multiple—" She whirled around to face Discord. "Discord, you change those programs back to how they were!"

Discord raised his hands to protest. "The other things are still listed! I just tried to give ponies a little extra nudge in this direction!"

Fluttershy sighed. "I know you like to help, but I'd feel awful if some other organization didn't get the help they needed, while we got too many ponies to know what to do with. Please change those programs back."

Discord sighed and snapped his fingers. "Honestly, I just wanted you to have some more hooves on hand to prepare for the migration of the Breezies."

Fluttershy smiled. "I know you do. And I appreciate it, but I'm sure other organizations have big things to prepare for, too." She reached up to gently pat his paw.

Rainbow gagged. "Ugh, can we just start working without all this mushy stuff? Bleh."

Fluttershy pulled away with a light blush on her face. "Right, of course. Well, the main thing we need to do is prepare signs for the Breezies' migration route, so ponies can know to stay clear. Discord, could you—" She turned around to see him holding a large pile of supplies. "Oh, thank you. And we're out of the way enough, so we can make as many signs as we possibly can."

After distributing supplies and giving instructions on what the signs should say, the eight creatures began to work. Twilight turned to Discord.

"I know you and Luna began the Lunar Guard together, but the history books don't say much beyond that. Could you tell me any details? I'm very curious."

Discord shrugged. "Not much to tell, really. So here's how it went." He lifted his hands, which had sock puppets of Luna and Celestia on them.

The Celestia puppet said, "Discord is causing chaos through the land! We must find a way to stop him, even though we are terribly weak compared to him!"

The Luna puppet responded, "I agree, but I'm secretly sick with envy over how you are always hailed as the victor with your plans, and the ponies like the day more than the night!"

Discord lowered the Celestia puppet, and raised his tail to show a sock puppet of himself on it. The Luna puppet said, "I want to best my sister. Instead of defeating you, I shall use your powers for the benefit of Equestria! What if I gave you a position of authority in a new organization I've thought up? I call it the Lunar Guard."

The Discord puppet responded, "Pfft, No way. I don't listen to anypony, so if I'm gonna be in an organization, I'm in charge. Sounds boring anyway."

The Luna puppet replied, "It is a crime-fighting organization. You can use your powers on vile villains without ponies getting angry at you for it. And fine, we can both be in charge."

The Discord puppet's head perked up. "In that case, I accept! I already have ideas for the guard uniforms…"

The puppets disappeared with a pop. "I mean, it took longer than that, but you don't want to hear all the boring details," said Discord, leaning back. "And if you do, ask Lulu. She's better at talking about all that stuff. Paychecks, scheduling, appointments, interviews…she takes care of all that."

Twilight raised an eyebrow. "And so what do you do as a leader of the organization?"

Discord smirked. "I'm the one who captures most of our targets. I'm also good at coming up with unique plans to get our ponies, our spies, into areas, and inventing undetectable spells to take out the baddies. Like last week, for example." He pulled out a bad crayon drawing of Chrysalis and a ball of energy. "I made a basic sleep spell designed to hone in on an undisguised Chrysalis, which would keep her asleep for 48 hours."

He chuckled. "You should have seen her when she woke up in maximum security prison. She was absolutely furious, screaming her head off at everyone there."

Capper looked up from his sign. "I heard most of this story from Rarity, but there's one thing I don't understand."

"One thing?," Rainbow grumbled under her breath.

"Why was Fluttershy sent in? She has no connection to the Lunar or the Royal Guard, and Rarity said you two were married."

Discord growled as he jabbed holes through his sign with a pencil, "Because dear Chrissy only invited ponies who QC blackmailed or got blackmail info from. Lulu had one of the guards let the fact Flutters was asexual "slip" to QC, who used it to blackmail her. It was only for about a month, but it was enough that Queen Cheeselegs invited her, and I think you can see the rest of the plan."

He sighed. "We also used a spell to record everything that happened that night. Now we just need to wait a few months as Goth Princess gets all the information together so both QC's can be tried in court for their crimes against Equestria."

Applejack spoke up. "What about that poor unicorn, Key Keeper?"

"And the victims of that night?," asked Rainbow.

"And how can Fluttershy be ace after last week's Very Public Display of Affection?," asked Pinkie. The others stared at her. "What? I'm curious."

Fluttershy's ears lowered. "Princess Luna found out that Key Keeper didn't have any family. He had some friends before…before QC…they're mad at themselves for not looking more into why he suddenly pushed himself more for working for QC, and they're organizing a funeral for him."

The group paused, their ears lowered.

Twilight coughed into her hoof. "Well, both changelings will pay for that crime, too."

Discord nodded. "A rather significant item on an already-long list. Treason, kidnapping, blackmail…and that's just this decade."

Twilight turned to Rainbow. "And didn't you know? All the victims are fine. They're just spending some days in the hospital to make sure everything goes well. I thought all of us had visited them already. I caught up with Spike yesterday."

Applejack raised her hoof. "Ah talked to Sugar Belle and Big Mac the day after we were all interviewed."

Pinkie nodded. "I went to see Soarin' right after our interviews with a 'Sorry I Attacked You' peach pie and a 'Get Well Soon!' apple pie!"

Rarity whispered to Capper, "I'm glad I wasn't the last pony to go and visit them."

Rainbow rubbed at the back of her neck. "It's just…I'm worried that Scoots won't…" She lowered her head.

Discord scoffed. "Please. All you ponies are just too forgiving when it comes to other ponies. A pony uses dark magic? Oh, they were sorry for it, we forgive them! A tall, dark, and handsome draconequus tries to innocently check up on his dear wife? I should have turned you to stone like Celestia said!" He crossed his arms with a scowl.

Fluttershy reached over to pat him on the shoulder. "There, there. You know Princess Luna didn't mean it like that. She apologized for that and let you do your community service here, remember?" Discord grumbled a bit, but still nodded an affirmative.

Pinkie let out a squee. "You two are adorable! But like I said, how can Fluttershy be ace? Last week, she started that intense make out session that definitely heated up once you left. I thought being ace meant you weren't interested in having—"

"Pinkie!," cried Fluttershy, burying her scarlet face into her hooves. Discord leaned over to her.

"Is it alright if I tell them?," he gently asked. When she nodded, he straightened up and cleared his throat. "So the basic synopsis is this: She thought for years she was ace, and had come to terms with that, though only her close friends slash co-workers knew about it. I was in trouble for causing a little chaos among civilians, and was sent to do community service for the hundredth time, this time at a new place: The Equestrian Society for the Preservation of Rare Creatures."

He laughed. "Basically, Flutters saw me and turned bright red—like she is now—and tried to avoid me the whole time I was here. Once I got sick with it and confronted her, she confessed about how she was ace, or thought she was, until she saw me."

"Her friends call it odd, I call her the one pony with any good taste. Turned out she's not attracted to ponies, or dragons, or griffons, but the lovely combination of all the above." He pointed at himself, a bright grin on his face.

"Though when she was confessing that to me, I had to admit she was more attractive than most ponies. So then we talked a little more, went on some dates, eloped and had her move into my dimension last year…" He turned to Fluttershy, whose blush had died down a bit. "Did I miss anything, dear?"

She smiled. "Only how much of a sweetheart you are." Discord smiled and placed his claw over his chest. Rainbow gagged and made retching sounds.

Discord leaned against the wall. "Nopony really knows about us because A: all the news hounds are more interested in Luna than me, and B: Lulu is very good at keeping personal information about us and the organization secret. I can give her credit for that."

He quickly stood up. "Fluttershy, why don't we go out for an early lunch? The signs can wait a little, can't they?"

Fluttershy's eyes lit up. "Oh, you're right, Discord, it's almost noon. Why don't we all go out together to eat?"

Pinkie leapt to her hooves. "I could whip something up at my place! I've been trying to dial back the parties a bit, make them less crazy, and trying new things! Like being a restaurant with food other than desserts! You can tell me how I'm doing!"

She bounced out the door, the others following her path, chattering amongst themselves. Fluttershy waited so she could be the last out the door. As she closed and locked it behind her, she said to Discord, "You did very well. You answered all their questions without any pranks or japes. I'm proud of you."

He huffed, but had a small smile on his face. "You were right. They are nice ponies, and I suppose I could tolerate their presence if I had to."

She smiled. "I'm just glad you're willing to expand your friend circle a bit. Just you wait, I'm sure we can all become great friends. Now come on, we don't want to get left behind."

"We certainly don't want that, do we?" He scooped her up into his arms and rocketed towards the group of ponies, Fluttershy laughing as he did so. Naturally, they quickly caught up, and easily joined in the conversation as they continued onward.

The End, for real this time!

I hope this epilogue answered any questions you may have had, and I hope you enjoyed reading this story!