Chapter 3
"Princess, what are we doing in the Canterlot archives?" Twilight asked.
"We need to find a spell to undo the reforming spell you placed on Discord" Celestia said. Twilight was confused about why the reforming spell was a bad idea.
"Princess if I may ask, why do we need to undo the spell?" Twilight asked. Celestia didn't turn to Twilight.
"My dear student, you should know the reason" Celestia said, walking over to some shelves. Twilight started wondering why, maybe the side effects would be too harsh on Discord. Then a horrible thought came to Twilight's mind, this was cheating. Of course, using a spell was cheating! She cheated on one of Celestia's tests!
"Keep calm" she thought to herself, if she undid the spell it wouldn't count as cheating right? Maybe the princess would forgive her if she undid the spell soon. She quickly began looking.
"Look, I appreciate the concern but I'm fairly certain this won't help" Discord plainly said, wiping off the apple sauce on his face. Pinkie was disappointed at his lackluster reaction.
"C'mon, give it a try!" Pinkie pleaded as she put on her fake mustache.
"You aren't even licensed to do this" Discord responded.
"There's a first time for everything" Pinkie responded.
"This is pointless" Discord groaned, putting a paw on his head.
"Please Discord, I'm really worried" Fluttershy pleaded, she looked as if she was on the verge of crying. Discord shook his head annoyingly.
"Fine" Discord sighed. Pinkie cheered.
"Alright, according to this book I need to begin asking you questions" Pinkie said as she looked at a book that probably wasn't even meant for therapy. "So how was your day?" Pinkie asked.
"Ok, I guess" Discord replied.
"OK? Everyday should be at least super!" Pinkie exclaimed, then looked back at her book. "Alright, what's your favorite drink?" Pinkie asked.
"I'm not really sure" Discord bluntly said.
"I thought it was chocolate milk" Fluttershy told Discord.
"I don't know, it doesn't seem as good to me anymore" Discord replied, looking straight up.
"Do you have any hobbies?" Pinkie asked.
"Nope"
"Isn't 'spreading chaos' a hobby?" Fluttershy asked, Discord shrugged.
"What is your favorite color?" Pinkie asked.
"Erm… blue?" Discord asked.
"You don't know?" Fluttershy asked. Discord shook his head.
"Try again" Pinkie said.
"Um… Pink." Discord guessed.
"Thank you!" Pinkie cheered then looked back at the book. "Are you interested in signing up for weekly papers of- Oops! I'm reading the wrong page!" Pinkie laughed. "Ahem, do you believe you've been wronged?" Pinkie asked.
"Yes, No, um… kinda?" Discord went.
"Discord, I'm concerned about how you couldn't answer most of the questions" Fluttershy said.
"Do you believe you've been wronged?" Pinkie asked again.
"I- I don't know" Discord said, feeling another headache coming.
"Discord, do you feel you've been wronged?" Pinkie asked. Discord put both his hands on his head, feeling an intense headache.
"Discord?" Fluttershy called. He didn't responded.
"Discord, do you feel-" Pinkie started but was cut off by Discord's loud groan.
"Discord are you alright?" Fluttershy asked.
"NO!" He roared, shaking the whole house.
"Well that's strange" Applejack thought to herself. She was walking down Ponyville but nobody was around, the only ponies she saw were ponies selling things. Her stand hasn't sold a single apple all day and nobody looked like they were willing to converse with her. Come to think of it, she didn't feel like selling anything either, nor talking to anybody.
"I guess I'll close up early today" Applejack sighed.
"Do you remember which spell you used?" Celestia asked, looking around.
"No, it's back in the library but I could ask spike to send it to us" Twilight suggested.
"No, some scrolls are too fragile to be sent through spells and I don't think Spike's dragon fire is an acception" Celestia said.
"Maybe we can teleport back to the library and get it" Twilight suggested.
"I'm afraid I don't have enough magic to teleport us there and back" Celestia sighed. Twilight was growing increasingly worried, she felt like she was making things worse.
"I guess we should keep looking" she sighed. She really wished Spike was here.
Rainbow didn't even feel like sleeping, whenever she tried she would be asleep for at most 10 minutes and her dreams were boring to say the least. She already cleared the clouds she needed too for today and now she was out of things to do.
"I wonder how Fluttershy is doing" she thought out loud. Wait, Fluttershy was with Discord. She thought Fluttershy could use some help so she decided to fly to her cottage.
"I'm sorry, I have no idea what has come over me" Discord said, seeing how much he startled them.
"Um… Hold up I lost my place" Pinkie said, flipping through her book. Fluttershy looked terrified.
"I'm sorry" Discord repeated, placing a hand on his forehead again.
"Aha! Alright, what's your favorite phrase?" Pinkie asked. Discord wasn't paying attention to Pinkie, he was looking at the trembling Fluttershy.
"Please forgive me" Discord said, afraid to approach her.
"Who is your best friend?" Pinkie asked as Rainbow flew in through the open window.
"Rainbow?" Discord asked.
"You" Rainbow harshly said.
"Hey that's two answers!" Pinkie complained. Rainbow saw Fluttershy and gasped.
"Fluttershy! Are you ok!?" Rainbow yelled as she flew to her. Pinkie just now turned and saw how frightened Fluttershy looked.
"Fluttershy, deep breaths" Pinkie said as she hugged Fluttershy.
"What did you do!?" Rainbow yelled at Discord.
"I…" was all Discord could manage to say.
"I knew you were nothing but trouble!" Rainbow yelled, as she flew up to prepare to pounce on Discord.
"Calm down Dashie, it wasn't his fault" Pinkie defended, stroking Fluttershy's mane to calm her down.
"No, she's right, I'm nothing but problems" Discord sighed.
"You sure are!" Rainbow yelled.
"I'll- I'll show myself out" Discord quietly said as he flew out the window.
"Wait" Fluttershy whispered, nobody heard her.
"No, no, no, no!" Twilight yelled, flipping through all the scrolls. She couldn't find the correct one and she was getting increasingly annoyed. Why didn't they think to bring Spike along? He was probably at home eating the meal that she should've been eating, instead she was here fixing the problem she was making.
"I'm such a screw up" Twilight bitterly thought to herself, she shouldn't have cheated, she shouldn't have picked the easy way out, why did she get herself into this mess. If the Princess said it was a problem, the she knew she messed up.
Princess Celestia started feeling a dark aura and looked up. "Oh no" she thought to herself as she approached her student.
"What a student I turned out to be, I'm such a joke" Twilight thought to herself, growing increasingly mad. Twilight felt a hoof on her shoulder and flinched a little, she then looked up and saw Celestia, which calmed her down a bit.
"Twilight, don't let the chaos consume you" Celestia said. Twilight was confused.
"Chaos? Wait, Discord!" Twilight yelled. Celestia shook her head.
"This is not Discord's doing" Celestia said. Now Twilight was really confused.
"It isn't? Then who is?" Twilight asked.
"You see Twilight, Discord played a major role in our way of life. Harmony cannot exist without Disharmony, or in this case chaos. Discord currently isn't spreading any chaos at all and as a result, our harmony is emitting dangerous amounts of chaos to try and keep balance" Celestia explained.
"So… Discord kept balance?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, which is why we need to fix this before ponies begin to turn on each other" Celestia said and smiled. "Do not worry my faithful student, if anypony can fix this it's you" Celestia warmly said. Twilight responded by smiling back.
"Don't worry Princess, I won't disappoint!" Twilight cheered.
"Dashie that was real mean" Pinkie said, looking mad.
"Who cares? Look what he did to Fluttershy!" Rainbow responded. At this point Fluttershy was calm enough to stop shuddering.
"He didn't do this, if you just listened to me you would've known that" Pinkie said, not a hint of humor in her voice.
"Well if you would've explained quicker then maybe I would've known!" Rainbow harshly responded, Pinkie gasped and released Fluttershy from her hug.
"Well maybe if you weren't so hot-headed then you would've been calm enough to actually pay attention for once!" Pinkie harshly yelled back.
"Is that so!?" Rainbow yelled.
"Yeah!" Pinkie yelled back.
"Girls!" They heard Fluttershy yell. They both turned to her but their mad expression didn't go away. "This is my fault, I shouldn't have overreacted, I'm sorry" Fluttershy said, hoping to make them stop arguing. Rainbow's face eased up and she rubbed her foreleg.
"Sorry Pinkie, I don't know why I-" she started as Pinkie pounced her in a hug.
"I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me! Friends shouldn't fight friends! I'm sorry!" Pinkie yelled, tightening her hug and tearing up. Rainbow laughed as she returned the hug. Fluttershy was relieved, that is until she remembered about Discord.
Oh boy, more of that splendid chaos! Good thing Discord was forcefully reformed, otherwise he'd probably just shrink Rainbow or something.