Chapter 10

"Ah' thought you had better aim than that Rainbow!" Applejack taunted as she casually jumped out of the way as Rainbow swooped down, missing her target yet again.

"Just hold still will you!?" Rainbow yelled in frustration, it was bad enough she was dodging her but now she's taunting. She was so mad she just continued blindly trying to swoop in, making her patterns readable and easy to dodge.

"Didn't ya'll want to be in the Wonderbolts? How can ya' do it when you're so slow?" Applejack taunted. She must've hit a nerve because Rainbow swooped it with such speed that Applejack barely was able to dodge her, the wind almost knocking off her hat.

"Gah!" Rainbow yelled, she was on the verge of pulling her mane. Meanwhile not too far away, Rarity was doing her part of the plan as she hid behind some barrels.

"Pinkie perhaps we can talk this out?" Rarity asked and immediately ran away as the barrels seemed to explode, but when the smoke cleared up they were only covered in confetti.

"Sorry!" Pinkie repeated as she aimed her cannon and loaded it up again. Rarity looked over to Applejack, who responded by tilting her hat a little. She was giving her the signal.

"Eek!" Rarity shrieked as she heard the cannon fire again and she jumped, the cannon barely missing her.

"Ah' was hoping you'd be better at this by now" Applejack taunted as she ran towards Rarity. Rainbow huffed a little and began flying straight at her.

"Oh no, I sprained my hoof" Rarity lied as she slowed down a little, Applejack almost reaching her.

"Gotcha!" Pinkie cheered, but sounded more disappointed than excited, as she aimed the cannon and shot her confetti. Both Applejack and Rarity turned to each other and smiled as the both leaped out of the way.

Rainbow Dash had no time to react as the streamers reached her, wrapping her up and sending her tumbling to the ground. Pinkie only had time to gasp as Rainbow crashed into her, sending both of them spiraling towards nearby (and confetti covered) barrels. Both Applejack and Rarity hoof bumped as they smiled to each other, their plan worked. Both Pinkie and Rainbow looked dizzy and were tied up with streamers, the spinning must've tied Pinkie up also.

"We should leave, before they wake up" Rarity suggested. Applejack nodded in agreement as they both took off, they didn't know where they would need to go, but if they were following them it would be best if they headed away from Ponyville. Besides, everyone there was acting weird today anyway.

"Uhhh my head… H-Hey! Where'd they go?" Rainbow exclaimed as she looked around, half of her happy that they escaped. Pinkie (literally) had small barrels hovering in circles above her head like in cartoon, Rainbow wasn't even sure how that was possible.

"No more Apple Cider for me thank you" Pinkie said, sounding like she was half asleep. Rainbow struggled a bit in the confetti prison, snapping Pinkie out of it.

"C'mon Pinkie! They're getting away!" Rainbow said, struggling a bit harder. Pinkie then started giggling, then her giggling got louder as it turned into laughter, she was laughing really hard.

"We look so funny!" Pinkie laughed.

"Pinkie! I said they're getting away!" Rainbow yelled in frustration, not getting Pinkie to stop her laughing. She sighed to herself, she chuckled a bit herself. It was kind of funny. If they weren't careful, they'd be there all day laughing. Letting them completely escape. Was that such a bad thing?

Both of the Discords stared at each other in disbelief, even though one of them have heard of the other, he was still shocked to say the least. They all felt the confusion and tension in the air and Screwball began wondering what was going on in their heads.

"Screwball, is this the Discord that placed the spell on you?" Celestia whispered to her. Screwball wasn't entirely sure, they both looked similar enough like twins.

"I… guess?" Screwball whispered back.

"It appears our theory was correct" Luna added, not getting the attention of any of the two Discords, who were still staring at each other. Finally, the Discord who was near Luna gulped.

"So… You're me?" The first Discord asked, he was used to cloning himself with his magic, but those duplicates felt like shells filled with magic, but this one felt real. In fact, it felt too real.

"Where… Did you even come from…?" The other Discord replied.

"I… Where did YOU come from?" The first Discord countered.

"Take it easy Disk" Screwball said, patting the Discord near Luna on the back, earning a glare from all of them.

"Disk?" They all asked in unison. Screwball shrugged in response.

"They can't both be Discord, and since they were split in half then one should be Disk and the other is Cord" Screwball nonchalantly said, as if it was common sense. In a way, it was.

"So I'm Cord, and he's Disk?" Cord asked, Screwball nodding in response. Discord, no wait, 'Cord' calmed down a bit, his day seemed to get stranger and stranger by the minute. First Cord was intimidated by a cute little pegasus. Wait, did he just call her cute? Second he now has a duplicate? At this point Cord began wondering if it would be easier to just go back to being a statue.

'Disk' on the other hand didn't have it any easier. Not only was he dealing with internal conflicts of his origins, completely shutting out the chaos part of his job, but now he has a twin? He was told he needed to do this job, even though others would despise him for it. He didn't want this, he didn't want anything to do with chaos anymore. Maybe this is what drove them apart. Maybe his twin could do his work?

"Disco- I mean 'Cord', were you the one who placed the spell on Screwball?" Celestia asked. Cord began stroking his beard as if thinking hard.

"Maybe I did" Cord taunted. Celestia tilted her head a bit, now this Discord acted the way he usually did.

"So… You like using your magic?" Disk asked, still unsure what to think of Cord. On one hand, he could totally take over for him and be the Spirit of Chaos everyone wanted. On the other hand, he would be using his magic to hurt others. Disk wasn't sure he liked that. He wasn't sure he liked Cord.

"Of course I do, why wouldn't I?" Cord asked, sounding a bit insulted. So Disk didn't like using the chaos magic that was gifted to him? Why not? Chaos magic is a wonderful thing! Cord immediately knew he wouldn't like Disk.

"I can't believe we were joined" both Disk and Cord thought to themselves with a frown.

"Well, time to rejoin your bodies" Screwball said with a smile, making both the Discords turn to her with shocked expressions.

"What!?" They both exclaimed. The others responded with confused looks of their own.

"What? Don't you want to rejoin?" Screwball asked.

"No!" Both Discords responded.

"It's not safe if you stay apart, you both have a vital part of both of your existences" Luna said, stepping over to Celestia's side as if to emphasize the importance.

"Yeah right, you probably just want us to rejoin so it'll be easier to statue us" Cord accused as he crossed his arms.

"I don't want to go back to spreading chaos" Disk added, crossing his arms. Cord responded by uncrossing his arms and pointing at Disk.

"You see? He's a pushover! No way am I rejoining with him!" Cord harshly said, making Disk huff a little at the insult.

"Disk, Cord, you both will need to combine once more. Disk, you're reluctant with using his chaos magic, Cord, you're too willing to use it and don't limit yourself. Both of you combined will know the perfect balance of chaos to use, we don't need Disk and Cord. We need Discord." Celestia explained. Disk listened to this explanation very well, it indeed sounded realistic, for being split in half that is. Cord on the other hand was just yawning and cleaning out his ears, as if saying he didn't care.

"Cord, you'll run out of chaos magic and disappear. Disk, the chaos magic will overwhelm you and ultimately destroy you." Luna said more plainly and harshly, getting both of their attentions with a snap. Cord shook his head, as if trying to clear his mind.

"You're lying. My chaos magic is endless!" Cord accused, muttering 'and I'll prove it' under his breath as he snapped his tail hair as if they were fingers, making all of them flinch. He expected Celestia and Luna to turn into fillies for him to destroy, but what happened instead is… nothing.

"Um…" Disk went, both Luna and Celestia sighed, and Screwball was laughing histarically. Cord snapped his talon arm this time, nothing! He snapped his paw, he snapped both of them at the same time, he tried summoning another ball of energy, but nothing came!

"You're already too low on chaos power Cord, it's regenerating very slowly because of you being split, you can only fix this by rejoining" Celestia said, motioning for Screwball but didn't get her attention, as she was still laughing. Cord growled, he wasn't running out of chaos magic, he was just… worn out! Yeah, those 2 powerful attacks he formed earlier took a lot out of him, he just needed some time! Wait, he didn't have time! They would put him back together!

"I need to get out of here" Cord thought to himself. Let's see, he couldn't flash out of here without his magic. Screwball didn't look like she was under his spell anymore, she wouldn't help him escape. There is only one thing he can do. Cord hovered over to Disk.

"Listen, you don't want us to rejoin right?" Cord asked him. Disk frowned a little.

"Yeah, but it looks like we got no choice" Disk sighed. Celestia was turned to Screwball, trying to get her to stop laughing so she could use the spell, Luna was turned, but she was listening to them.

"Teleport us out of here" Cord whispered.

"What?" Disk responded. Luna didn't hear what Cord said, so she leaned in a bit so she could hear this time.

"C'mon I know you can, just snap your fingers and we're out of here" Cord said. Luna frowned at this, Disk wouldn't betray them would he?

"But, we'll both die if we don't rejoin" Disk responded, looking a bit confused.

"What she said is a load of chaos and you know it, we're immortal, hence we can't die" Cord said as he rolled his eyes. Disk normally would agree with this, but if they were split does that mean they were still immortal?

"I don't know…" Disk trailed off.

"Ugh, don't tell me you still actually care for them. We're the Spirit(s) of Chaos for chaos sake, they mean nothing to us. You mean nothing to them." Cord harshly said.

"That is false Cord, we cared deeply for Discord before…" Luna trailed off, looking down a bit. Disk did the same and looked down, earning a growl from Cord.

"We don't have much time, if we rejoin they'll just statue us again. Do you really want that?" Cord asked.

"We won't statue you again, I won't allow it" Luna said, looking up to them with hope in her eyes. Discord was her friend, one of her closest friends, when she heard of this reformation thing she was thrilled to hear it to say the least. She was a little upset that Celestia chose Fluttershy instead of her, but she was happy to get her friend back.

"Yeah right, as if we'd believe you" Cord said, rolling his eyes. Disk wasn't sure who he believed, after he was imprisoned he had vowed he'd never trust any pony again.

"Trust us, we want to help you" Luna tried, looking up to Disk this time.

"Don't, she only wants your downfall" Cord retorted. Disk felt that was true.

"We care for you" Luna replied, not paying attention to Cord. Disk didn't think that was a lie either.

"If she cared, why did she help you get imprisoned for years in a statue huh?" Cord harshly pointed out, if he could he would flash Luna's mouth away.

"I…" Disk trailed off, not knowing what to say.

"Alright alright enough of… Whatever this is." Screwball said, cutting of whatever Luna and Cord were going to say. Screwball began lightly glowing, she knew the spell would force them to rejoin and fix them.

"Do not worry, everything will be back to normal" Celestia tried to comfort. Normal. That word echoed to Disk. Normal meant he'd be joined with Cord again. Normal meant he'd be a villain again. Normal meant he'd be stone once more. Normal meant, he'd never have a friend again.

"No…" Disk went, looking down and away from Luna.

"What?" Screwball asked. Cord perked up and smiled, he immediately grabbed a hold of Disk, knowing very well what he was going to do.

"No!" Disk yelled as he mindlessly snapped his fingers for the first time in what felt like centuries. A bright flash and they both vanished, leaving a stunned Celestia, a confused Screwball, and a hurt Luna.

I was like 'Alright, so their split in half, I'll just name them Dis and Cord' but Dis sounded a bit weird, so I went with Disk (because Disc looked a bit weird). Anyway, if you weren't getting it yet, Disk is the one who we originally saw after the spell was placed, and Cord is the one who placed the spells on them and tried to capture Celestia again. So Disk is (somewhat) good, Cord is (very) bad. Thanks for reading, school is back so… sorry for the late update again.