Ch.9: Aftermath of the Insanity

"WHAAAAAT?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"

"Nope," Illustre said casually, smiling at the shock on Twilight's face when she showed her iPhone picture of Daring and Ahuizotl kissing. "The pairing's pure canon."

"Th-This must be some kind of trick!" Twilight protested. "You Photoshop-ed this, didn't you?"

"Twilight, even you saw that I got it from my photos app."

"Well…Discord! Discord did this, didn't he?!"

"Twilight, remember what happened to him with Celestia at Hearts and Hooves Day~" Seeing that the artistic Unicorn isn't gonna let this up, Twilight growled in frustration.

"I still think shipping's stupid."

"That's not what your fans say about you and Flash Sentry~" Illustre teased. Twilight shot her a look.

"Don't even think about it!"

"Then admit you're wrong about shipping," the Unicorn said firmly.

"Alright, alright, FINE!" Twilight yelled. "I'm wrong about shipping being stupid and it makes me feel uneasy! There, I said it! You happy now?!"

"Thank you," Illustre replied before walking away with a content smile.

"You know, Illustre," the violet Alicorn stated with annoyance, "nopony likes a smart-aleck."

"Oh," Illustre replied, "and you're not with your books, over-studying, and ignoring others while reading when they're telling you something important?"

"Oooh!" Spike laughed at the chagrinned Twilight. "Shut down! Disgrace! In your face!" Twilight then turned to him angrily.

"Illustre, could you excuse me for a while?" she asked calmly through clenched teeth as she brought out a variety of weapons with her magic. "I need to go kill Spike now." Spike's face immediately fell to horror before running off screaming, Twilight and the weapons chasing after him.

"TWILIGHT, STOP! I MEANT IT IN A GOOD WAY! HEEEELP!" Illustre would've helped, but the two of them were already gone. Besides, one must never interfere when an Alicorn's enraged. So she hesitantly left the castle and met up with Discord, who was waiting for her at the bottom of the castle steps.

"So," he asked as they walked towards Ponyville, "how did it go?"

"Eh, she didn't take the loss very well," she answered with a shrug. "She's even trying to kill Spike as we speak after he rubbed it in."

"In that case…" he replied before snapping his fingers.

Spike kept on running before he heard the thudding of a body and the clanging of weapons on the crystal floor. Scared but curious, he stopped and turned around to find Twilight asleep on the floor with the weapons littered around her.

"Uh…that's lucky," he replied with surprise.

"Uh, Discord? What did you do now?"

"Just used a sleeping spell on Twilight to save Spike," he assured her. "She'll be out until dinnertime." Illustre's eyes went wide with surprise.

"Well, that's…considerate of you."

"Just looking out for the little guy."

"Well, either way, I'm positive we can both agree on what we've learned after that insane fiasco back there."

"Yeah," Discord sighed with exhausted relief. "Never mess with love; it'll result in the bad kind of fiascos. In fact, I'm definitely gonna be more careful with my love arrows and only save them for Hearts and Hooves Day. Period!"

"Amen to that, brother," Illustre said with a hoof-bump to his held up fist. "And if you are planning to have some fun with those love arrows, I'd recommend using them on the bad guys in Equestria."

"Such as?" Discord asked with a casual arched eyebrow.

"Tirek and Queen Chrysalis. Can you imagine the look on that Changeling Queen's face when that minotaur/centaur starts making out with her?" Discord stopped suddenly to cover his mouth with a burp.

"I think I puked in my mouth a little…" Pam only laughed in reply before she calmed down with a frown of thought.

"Ya know…all this talk of love arrows got me thinking that…we must be forgetting something else…"

In Rainbow Dash's living room, she and Lionwing were lying on the couch together. While Rainbow was still out, her gryphon pursuer was holding her frontal hoof while kissing up and down her frontal leg.

"I'm sure you'll remember it soon," Discord assured Illustre. "But in the meantime, how about we head over to the Sugar Cube Corner? I could sure go for a snack right now."

"I'm in the mood for some red velvet cake myself," the Unicorn chuckled.