The Strange Switcharoey

by Mousei11

Chapter Two: Maud Meets Discord

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After Maud's presentation on the rock cycle, the ponies were brain-dead for about fifteen minutes. (Ponies didn't learn about the rock cycle in schools until about 1156 years later) When they woke up, Twilight being the first to do so, she lead them back to Sugarcube Corner. When they arrived, there was a strange sound.

"What was that." Maud said, barely sounding like a question from her monotone voice.

"Discord..." Twilight said. The sound happened again, followed by a deep, sinister laugh.

"Discord, you got done scaring us when you were turned to stone...for the second time." Rainbow Dash said.

There was a poof of smoke, from which Discord appeared. He put on a pouty face as he said, "Aww that wasn't nice. I guess that's because you aren't the element of kindness, like my dear Fluttershy." He poofed away, and poofed back beside Fluttershy. "Isn't that right, my dear?" He chuckled with a sly grin as he poofed back into the air, and appeared hovering above them. He looked at Maud. "Oh dear, who is that." He poofed to her, and started circling around her, studying her.

"My name is Maud." she said.

"Sorry, could you please repeat that?" Discord asked.

"My name is Maud." Maud echoed.

"Oh my, I am so, so sorry, but I can't understand voices that only stay in one tone, I get bored past the first syllable." Discord said, he started to laugh, and then stopped when he saw everypony giving him a grim stare. His face turned dull. "Oh I've forgotten how grim you could be..." He sat in a big poofy chair that poofed out of the poofy air. He poofed his poofy self in and---

"Wow, you hired a terrible narrator." Discord said, interrupting me JUST LIKE PINKIE! "Oh I'm sorry, you can continue narrating, just don't say 'poof' so much, and why do you keep trying to spell narrator like 'nararator?'" How about you stick to your dialogue and stop pointing out my mistakes. By this time, the ponies were wondering who Discord was talking to, and where this strange voice was coming from---oh wait a minute. I muted myself from the characters. Alright, that was a major crashing of the fourth wall...but ANYWAY, back to the story.

"So Maud..." Discord asked. "Where are you from, may I ask?"

"I live on a rock farm...with rocks." Maud says. "It's where I got my pet, his name is boulder, he's a rock." Maud took out the rock.

"Pfft!" Discord exclaimed, and laughed. "That's not a boulder! This is a boulder, my dear." He poofed---made the rock into a boulder. Maud's eyes went wide. She instinctively struck the rock with one hoof, shattering it to pieces. Then she got the one piece in the middle, which was her pet rock. Discord stared in amazement.

"That was fun to watch." Discord said. "Well, I'd better get going. Unless you needed my help with anything like perhaps, a spell?" He raised an eyebrow to Pinkie, who looked back at him.

"Maybe, but not now!" Pinkie said with a smile.

"Call me when you need me!" Discord exclaimed laughing.

After he left, Twilight asked, "Pinkie, are you crazy?!"

"Yeah, just a little bit." Pinkie replied.

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