If I could step back and watch myself; I would notice that my bright, vibrant color was slowly fading away; losing its brightness. I was becoming grey like the other ponies. I sighed when I realized what was happened. Discord was getting under my skin and trying to break my spirit. Lifting my head and looking at the dastard in the middle of a victory dance, I switched my thoughts to chocolate rain and the burning desire that welled within me to go and dance in it – to eat it. I stepped forward to do so, and the grey-line of color-bleaching halted; going no further down below my bony pony knees.
"Alright, Discord. You seem to enjoy creating and stewing in random craziness, how about I turn the tables? Dance with me."
"What?" He halted his dance and whipped his head at me.
"Let's sing." I repeated in stronger voice. "I love your idea of chocolate rain coming from cotton candy clouds. Makes my teeth shiver in delight. Pure genius actually. If I had that kind of power, I WOULD abuse it greatly."
I now had his complete attention. His one-fanged mouth was open in astonishment. Stepping forward next to him I once again surveyed the village scene. A group of pink-tutu-wearing buffalo danced by; followed by a group of long-legged bunnies and squirrels.
"As for the rest of your handiwork; nice." I forced a smile up at him; but he only laughed in glee.
"Really Glittermind, is that the best plan you could come up with. You've can't throw me for a loop, I am the entity of Discord. I wasn't expecting you to compliment me, but it was nice anyway."
I blinked, deflated. I sighed again and lowered my head. The rest of my color faded away. He was right. My plan of 'try and confuse the enemy' had failed miserably. It wasn't worth the effort I gave it.
Minutes ticked by as night fell, walked across the sky and gave way to day. I couldn't think of what to do next, so I just stood there, stewing in my own little world.
"Alright, Discord! Your time is up!" Twilight Sparkle's voice rang out again.
Turning around to view the five, plus one, ponies again; I lifted my head. The colors of the six ponies were bright and distinctive. Twilight Sparkle had her purple hues back; her head lifted proudly with its crown of Element of Magic.
Rarity was beautiful! Her elegant white gleaming coat shined in the sunlight. Her lustrous amethyst hair wasn't mused and now was perfect. She wore the Element of Generosity.
Fluttershy's yellow coat was soft and clean, her once cruel eyes were lasered on Discord; their intent clearly evident. She wore the Element of Kindness.
Applejack was her sassy, confident self; her colors back and she stood with gumph. Her element of Truth sat on her neck.
The newest edition, Rainbow Dash, stood there in all her rainbow-ish glory. I felt excitement blossom in my chest. Rainbow Dash was even cooler than the cartoon version. Like Color Jam, the blue pegasus wore the color spectrum nicely. Her mane was red, orange, yellow green and blue. Her tail was those colors plus purple and violet. I wanted to go over and glue my equine eyes on her awesome rainbow mane and tail. Her pony hair gleamed like satin; it was that groomed. Her blue body gleamed less so, but still impressed me thoroughly. The Element of Loyalty and its red lightning bolt sat on her chest. I giggled with glee.
"Oh, hi there, new pony." Pinkie Pie's voice turned my head over to her and she made me smile. Thank the GODS! Her restored color was not an eye-blinding pink; but a more natural carnation pink. Her wild flouncy mane was a darker shade of rose; which was the same hue as her bouncy tail. The Element of Laughter wrapped around her neck.
"Uh. Hi there, Pinkie-Pie." I answered. The pink-crazy pony squealed in joy.
"SHE KNOWS MY NAME!" Pinkie-Pie laughed even more. "How cool is that!"
"There you are!" Another, buttery voice entered the fray. The Mane Six ponies and I turned in surprise as Color Jam and Butterpond raced up to our group.
"Oh, hay there, R-Dash." The black-pegasus said as she flew above the gold-yellow pony, Butterpond.
"Oh, it's you, C.J." Rainbow Dash flounced into the air and greeted her fellow pegasus. "Whatcha doing here?"
"I was looking for that pony there; I think her name is Glittermind." The altered-rainbow colored flying horse tossed her head towards me. "She was being bullied by that jerk over there." She tossed her head to Discord.
"Oh, so that's her name." Pinkie Pie giggled at me.
"EVERYPONY, get in your formations!" The dialogue between the bad guy and heroine had gone down already, and now Twilight Sparkle was serious. I had totally missed the exchange of pre-battle pleasantries.
"WAIT!" Pinkie Pie interrupted. She had dragged me under a low-lying pink cloud and plopped down next to me. Lifting her long head skyward to the raining chocolate, she opened her equine mouth, sticking out her fleshy tongue.
Shrugging my pony shoulders, I followed her lead; gaping my mouth cloudward, allowing the ecstasy of tasty chocolate to fall into my pony body. It was so very satisfying, the moment dragging out forever. The grey of my body reversed itself; the line retreating to my head, leaving behind the natural pony color of my body.
"Ok! I'm ready!" Pinkie Pie swallowed her mouthful of liquid chocolate; wiping her lips on her foreleg and jumping into position next to her friends. It might have been the craziness that Discord was making; but I swear I heard Pinkie Pie give a very impressive, very realistic; very loud pit-bull growl.
Deciding not to leave the spot under the chocolate-raining cloud, I gulped down my own mouthful and shivered in delight. Praise whatever equine gods there were in this dimension; but Pinkie Pie knew exactly what she was doing. (Sharing her randomness with me was the first step in her 'initiate new friend' plan.)
I glanced at Butterpond, who politely kept out of the cloud-shadow, and the Color Jam parts that extended over the small pink cloud she reclined on above me. Together we watched as the Mane Six got their groove on and started peppering a truly surprised Discord with their working Cutie-mark shaped Elements of Harmony-colored lasers. Then the light show really started – the representing colors of the elements shot forth from their jeweled elements and rose into the sky.