Discords Day Out

Discord and Screwball stood on the top of a cotton-candy cloud overlooking Ponyville, from there they could see all the ponies in town running in fear, darting in between the buildings and dodging the others in the mob that was trying to get indoors.

“I wonder if they remember me.”

“Oh I don’t think so,” Screwball replied sarcastically.

He then spied a small carriage pulled by two guard pegasi coming from Canterlot. He figured that the bookworm Twilight had written to her precious princess to request the Elements of Harmony to defeat him, again. He knew they wouldn’t recognize him unless he came out he knew though. Screwball however, if the princess had remembered her they might be looking for her.

“How much concentration does your disguise take up?” he asked.

“I can cast simple magic with it on, but spells like this I take it off beforehoof.”

“Try to avoid larger spells for a while, I believe that carriage holds the Elements, and if Celestia checks the garden she’ll see I’m still there. If she remembers you, they might be looking for you.”

“Nothing I hadn’t figured out myself.”

It then landed, and the two pegasi began unloading their cargo and taking it up to the door of the library.

“Can you summon some lightning?”

“Not without losing the disguise, and it wouldn’t feel good to fall off a cloud.”

“Fair enough, how about I hold you?”

“Oh right, because that wouldn’t be weird at all.”

“Fine, how about you yank it out of their grasp and fling it across town.”

“That could work.”

Twilight rushed to the door. The Elements were finally here, and they could take care of the problem. Finally.

The rest of her friends had shown up and she explained the situation another three times. Since Discord himself wasn’t out causing trouble Pinkie Pie was fairly impartial to the ordeal, and she just sat outside with her mouth hanging open drinking up all the rain-milk she could. Rarity had a fairly stylish raincoat on that was, of course, encrusted with lapis lazuli gems to “match the rain of course.” Rainbow was unhappy because she couldn’t fly in these conditions since her feathers didn’t repel milk like they did water. Fluttershy was doing her best not to cry from the experience of her thinking Discord was back. And finally Applejack was just rinsing the milk off her Stetson in the kitchen sink.

Just as Twilight opened the door a magic aura appeared around the chest with the elements and it was whisked straight up into the air, where it landed on a cloud and stayed there until it suddenly flew off of it and landed somewhere on the other side of Ponyville. Both the guards simply gawked and rushed inside as a bolt of lightning came down and left a patch of ground covered in fur instead of grass.

“Rainbowdash!”

“Yeah?”

“What are you doing upstairs?”

“Uh… Reading. What else would I do in a library.”

She smirked, although she was glad her racer friend had finally gotten into more things than just Daring Do, it could get irritating sometimes since she just read whenever she felt like it and ignored whether it was a good time or not.

“Stop reading your Marevel comics and get down here!”

“I’m not even reading that,” she announced as she came down the stairs. “I was reading…”

“Doesn’t matter, the Elements just flew all the way to the other side of town and we need you to go get them.”

“I can’t fly in this weather, my wings don’t repel chocolate milk, sorry.”

Applejack cut in then, “Dagnabbit, wer’e gonna have tuh’ go all the way across town to get em? Who knows what could happen while were doin that.”

“Applejack is right, but we don’t really have a choice do we?” Stated rarity.

Luckily for them, nothing big happened during their trek across Ponyville to reclaim the elements. They found them undamaged inside Timeturners house. “I recognized them from when you defeated discord the first time so I brought them inside for you.” He said slightly nervously.

They all put on their respective elements, and set off. They had no plan for finding the cause of the rain, other than looking for random chaotic events throughout town and paying close attention for the ponies that Applejack had described. It seemed to be useless, they had caught a few brief glimpses, but they couldn’t charge up the elements and hit them in time before they flew away. Which Rainbowdash was very chagrined about.

“How come they can fly in this rain but I can’t?”

“Well they obviously have a spell preventing it from soaking them, I don’t know why Twilight would just administer one to Rainbow though, I’d expect you to know something that simple Twilight,” Rarity said with a bit of contempt and confusion.

Upon this Twilight immediately and forcefully face-hooved. “How could I have forgotten that?! Your right rarity, I should’ve done that hours ago! Stay still Rainbowdash.”

Her horn glowed softly for a few seconds, and suddenly Rainbowdash was completely dry. All the raindrops around her simply disappeared when the came close, and reappeared under her. “Aw yeah.” She said while putting on a cocky grin.

“C..Could you put the spell on me too Twilight, if it isn’t too much trouble I mean…” Fluttershy said quietly under her breath.

Before Twilight could finish on Flutters, Rainbow was already off and searching for the two suspects of the chaos going on around them. After a minute of circling she suddenly made a sharp turn and went straight to the ground. After a second or two they heard a loud crash.

“Groooooaaaan…”

Discord opened his eyes, in front of him was a very angry looking cyan pegasus, she was only a few inches from his face, he couldn’t help notice she was also wearing her element of harmony. After a second or two of him staring fearfully into her pink eyes she raised a hoof and brought it down on his head, making a loud crack.

Suddenly, he was staring at a cloudless sky, devoid of the natural or the sugary type. He couldn’t move, and he heard commotion behind him. He couldn’t see anything, but he could hear Celestia giving instructions, and clanking armor, suddenly there was a loud thud, of stone hitting dirt. After a second it sounded as though they were dragging it towards him. He felt something bump up against his pedestal, and then being lifted onto it.

“Hi daddy” said a voice in his head.

“Hello sweetheart.”

“Looks like we’re going to be spending a bunch more time together aren’t we.”

“We sure are, we sure are.”