Chapter 12! I'm so glad I've finally made it this far so please review and let me know if the story's ok! :3

Discord leaped out of his recliner and snapped his fingers causing electric shock callers to appear around every pony (and dragon's) neck.

"Now... You will keep running or else this sensor will detect how slow your going and zap you with 500 volts!" Discord informed. "And each time it zaps you, each time another chunk of Princess Idiot's bubble will be taken away." "It's Princess Celestia!" Rainbow Dash retorted sharply. "Oh is it RainbowButt?" Discord replied quite harshly, causing Rainbow's face to turn a bright red. "CUT IT OUT!"

"Now thanks." He sneered leaping back into his recliner. "Now get to it!"...

Discord sat in his chair for a minute, listening to the clattering of hooves while the ponies ran... And yet another sly idea slowly came to mind. "Hmm..." He thought aloud. He then decided to give them all a much slower yet painful torture. Snapping his fingers, he instantly changed the level from 6 back down to 2, making all ponies break into a trot. "I want yall to trot like this for exactly one whole hour before the pony resting in the bubble is aloud to switch places with someone. Then after another whole hour they'll be able to trade places with one of you again and so on and so on..." Discord explained.

"WHAT!?" The all gasped at once. "But that's not fair!" Spike spoke up as he fast walked at a someone slow rate. "Well that's the point dufus!" Discord flashed back at the baby dragon. "So yall will just be trotting for a straight hour before yall get the chance to trade, so you better choose wisely Applefat." Discord reminded the orange earth pony rather harshly.

Applejack felt complete anger crawl up her throat at the nicknames Discord had been given them, except she couldn't hide the blush that reddened her face from the one he'd always call her by.

Well... At least it's not as bad as Rainbow's...

Turning back to the pony's she had to choose from she just couldn't put her hoof on the one that needed a break the most. But she knew she had to make some kind of choice. "I'll choose Pinkie Pi-" "WAIT!" Twilight interrupted her. "Choose Spike again. I just don't think his little legs could take it."

Spike's face also grew a deep red at this. "HEY! I can fast walk with yall! It's quite simple!"

"Yeah but for an hour?" Rainbow reminded him, causing the dragon to just sigh in defeat.

"I take Spike's spot." Applejack declared, appearing in his spot, while he appeared in her spot.

"HEY! BUT YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO CHOOSING ME!" Pinkie Pie piped up from where she trotted. "S-sorry..." Applejack muttered, realizing though that she could do nothing to take it back if she wanted to.

"Have fun My Little Ponies!" Discord mocked once more as he landed squarely back in his recliner.

As the ponies trotted on through the night, Discord was already fast asleep again and about only 10 minutes had passed when Pinkie Pie began complaining. "My hooves ache SO badly!" "You're telling me hon!" Rarity spoke up from where she trotted, glancing down at her precious white hooves. Twilight was slowly beginning to break into a sweat, while Rainbow Dash was panting quite heavily, and Applejack seemed fine other than the cramp that bothered her in her side.

Everypony was feeling totally miserable. "Don't we at least get a sip of water?" Rainbow whined, wiping her brow off from the pool of sweat that now streamed down over her face.

"If we did have the chance?... I'd be over at that water fountain right now." Rarity replied rather selfishly. "Oh yeah? I'd be over there about an hour before you'd even take your fist step." Pinkie Pie exclaimed, giving a quick smirk.

Rarity just gasped dramatically. "WELL!"

"I can't believe Discord put Fluttershy back asleep. Or two of us could be resting at the moment." Applejack stated gloomily. No one responded to this except Twilight was getting an idea in mind. "Hey... What if we tried to wake up Fluttershy!"

They all turned their attention on her. "HUH!?"

"Yeah! And then she could possibly pursue Discord into letting us go."

Everyone thought about it for a minute before agreeing.

"But how in tarnation are we gonna wake up Fluttershy who's on the other side of the room, without waking up Discord right beside us?" Applejack asked in total confusion.

Twilight then realized her friend was right. "I... I don't... Know."

They all sighed as each and every stupid idea came to mind, but none just seemed to fit the ticket.

About another 10 minutes had passed when suddenly Rainbow lost her footing and fell face forward, causing the electric collar to trigger sending 500 volts shaking her whole body. "WHAAAAAAAAAAAA! HE-HE-HE-HE-LP-LP-LP ME!"

Twilight gasped, along with the others from Rainbow's sudden fate until it suddenly stopped leaving the pegasus more exhausted than ever before, as she began trotting again. "I... I don't think I can do this."

Pinkie Pie just suddenly began singing one of her most favorite and popular songs to brighten up the mood. "When I was a little filly at the sun was going dooo-ooowwwwn!" "Tell me shes' not..." Twilight began. "The darkness and the shadows would always make me froooo-owwwwn!"

"She is!" Rarity answered Twilight just like she had done so many moons before on their first adventure ever.

"I'd hide under my pillow, from what I thought I saw... But Granny-pie said that wasn't the way to deal with fears at aaaaaaalll!"

"Ok can you just shut up?" Rainbow quickly interrupted, causing Pinkie Pie to glare at the cyan pegasus. "WHAT!? I was just trying to help!"

"Well you're only making things worst!" Rainbow informed, narrowing her magenta eyes.

Not another word was spoken from anypony as more time just ticked and ticked by.