Whatever Happened?

After Rainbow Dash got Scootaloo's food ready, she wanted some for herself.

"Lessee. Chips and tuna, or chips and a sunflower sandwich?" She quietly asked herself.

"Do the tuna. Sounds better." Scootaloo said.

"Tuna it is. I guess." Dash got prepared and very melodramatically made her early evening Dinner. She ate it pretty fast, very soon after Scootaloo finished her salad and soup. And she had way more food than Rainbow.

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Back at the castle I napped for another three and a half hours. It was a great nap. I woke up to a lovely dinner of hay fries and leaf greens  with a berry salad. I had lovely conversations with my family when dinner started. The door knocked a few bites in.

"Oh that must be Photo Finish." Cadence exclaimed.

"Why are you having her for dinner?" I asked.

"I have a shoot with her in a few days so she wanted to get to know me more." She said as she completely reset the table. She even smoothed out the dips in our salads and spaces between our fries. She opened the

"door and I saw the  blue pony walk in.

"Photo Finish! Has arrived!" She exclaimed. Cadence led Photo to the dinner table and quickly made her up a plate. Se came back with a perfectly set plate. No food was touching the other, not a single leaf out of place. But, there was something else on it.

"I made you a special rose stack. It's a red rise petal with a few dandelion shreds, a pink petal, more dandelion, a dead pink petal, those are always good the right way as long as they are still a little soft. There is an orange petal and more dandelion then with final red petal to top it off." She said. Wow. That looked good. After Photo tried some and loved it, cadence brought her another one along with eight others for us. She placed two on each of our plates. When I tried it, it was delicious. I smiled at the taste and burped a little. I blushed. Then Photo burped louder.

"Oh we are doing that ehh?" Shining said. He burped louder and longer. Cadence then joined in with a small yet loud burp. I made a very loud and very long burp and everyone stared at me.

” 'Scuse me." I said shyly. Everyone burst into laughter. Including me. When Spike burped, he burnt a little bit of the table. We were busted laughing. We talked about the photo shoot with the new royal family, that means me and mom and dad too. I wanted my friends to be in there too but she said no. I finally talked her into letting them being at least background ponies. We finished our dinner with another burping contest. Surprisingly, Cadence won. With a total of six seconds and a burp that you can hear from the next room. I would know because I was IN the next room when I happened. I laughed very hard and came out. We thanked Photo for coming and she left with a thanks. I went back to the room with Spike.

"Why the hay were you so quiet there?" I asked him.

"Well, I was shy. And my dinner wasn't really... Suited for a dragon." He replied. I chuckled at his remark and got into bed.

"You are never shy, remember your birthday, "hey it's my birthday everyone give me stuff!!"' She mocked Spike from his birthday. "The dinner I understand though. In the other hoof, I need more sleep. Night night Spike Spike." I closed my eyes until I felt a soft hug and kiss on my cheek. Spike said goodnight back to me and went back to bed.

"I love you Twilight."

"I love you too Spike."

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While Scootaloo was fast asleep, Rainbow Dash was carefully sneaking out.

"What am I doing?" She whispered softly. "In on a cloud for pony's sake. She trotted out of her house and flew to Ponyville's remains. She saw Discord sitting lonelily on a rock there.

"So it was YOU!" She said, startling Discord and making him jump.

"What?! What did I do this time?" He said really truly clueless.

"This! You destroyed Ponyville!" She said poking him with a hoof.

"Would I have done this with my dear Screwball here? Huh?" He pointed down to a body. Dash scooted  closer because it was dark. She saw with little pink filly who looked alike of Diamond Tiarra, yet different. Especially the cutie mark. She was a pretty filly, but quite beat up. Her rib cage was dented while she had bruised and cuts all over her.

"She looked worse before I cleaned her off." He said shakily. Dash noticed that he looked like he was crying. She immediately put on a sympathetic face and said,

"So. You, didn't do this?"

"I thought we cleared that when I pointed." He said tearing up a little.

"Where were you when this happened?" She asked. Discord turned around and started looking at Screwball. I was in the forest. I saw some smoke and waited a while to go just to be sure that everyone evacuated, or they would've thought it was me. I knew they'd be evacuated because there was a lot of smoke. When I came, everything was destroyed. I looked further and saw bodies. I went to see if... Fluttershy was ok. I saw her in the rubble and had to pull her out some. I put her in a more peaceful position. I couldn't get her out all the way because I lost my strength to sadness. Yes, me. Discord, lord of chaos. Sad, terrified, an most of all, confused. Not even the OLD me would've gone this far. I wanted to scare ponies, not kill them. Please believe me, when I saw Screwball here, it went too far. I couldn't bear to look at any other body. I had just enough strength to clean her and bring her over here. I... I just... Can't take the pain of losing the two best and may I say, only friends I have ever had." He barely whispered his last sentences. Dash, for no reason, went to him and hugged him. He burst out into tears then and there.

"We'll if it helps, Twilight, Spike, and Scootaloo are still alive. Twi and Spike weren't there, but Scootaloo was, an I don't know how she lived." She said. Discord looked at Dash and smiled sadly then left.