This is War!

Discord was casually floating down the hallway. This certain hallway led to his room, which was quite the room. If one could even call it a room of course. It may as well have been a living room. Man you could fit a 80 inch flat screen in there!

Annyway.. his room is where he spent much of his time after his "reformation". He had expected to do a great deal of pranking, but without getting crap from the princesses... or a rainbow beam of death to his face. But alas, Celestia was a step ahead of him, and kept close watch. She had been kind at first, and allowed small, friendly pranks. She knew how much he loved to prank. However after that stunt he pulled at the gala with his new human companion she had basically cut him off from the rest of the ponies. Yes he certainly got the short end of the stick on this whole reformation thing.

That reminded him. Where was James? James was thought to be under some kind of mind control spell, he insisted otherwise, but that only further convinced the princesses that he was being controlled by the lord of chaos.

That reminded him again. "Oh!" Discord exclaimed as he suddenly remembered he was to report to the throne room. See, they were going to 'release' James from his hold. Even though no mind controlling was being done, Discord obliged. But only because he had an idea for a wonderful prank. The rules Ol' Celly had set out for him were quite specific. However, Discord, being the cunning and handsome draconequus he was, had found a loophole. Sure he couldn't prank any ponies, but the rules never stated anything about pranking the royal sisters themselves.

Discord chuckled to himself "Well, I'd better get going! Wouldn't want to keep thunder flanks waiting!"

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James was not pleased. I mean, being teleported to the land of his dreams was still a great choice in his mind. He regretted nothing, but these princesses were really pissing him off. No matter how much he insisted he was not being controlled by Discord, he could not get them to believe him. In fact it achieved the opposite. He was now in the throne room chained to the ground, and waiting for discord to 'free' him from his torment. They kept telling him to hold on, and keep fighting it.

Now James was type who really enjoyed pranks. I mean, did you SEE the gala a few weeks back!? Best moment of his life by far. There was no doubt he was the best prankster of his generation, which is why he agreed to play along with Discord's idea.

'ugh, discord better get here quick... I've got a huge wedgie' James thought as he tried to shift his boxers into a more comfortable spot, which is not easy when you are chained to the ground with two immortal goddesses staring you down.

The doors to the throne room swung open revealing Discord. "Sorry for the delay everypony! Got held up in the bathroom. Note to self... chili does not go well with hot sauce."

Celestia stiffened "Enough of your games Discord, release this poor creature from your control at once!"

"Yeah! Or I'll have to use THIS on you" The cyan pony known as Rainbow Dash flew in, gesturing towards her element

Behind her the rest of the mane six came through the door with looks of disgust, all pointed at Discord. "You should be ashamed Discord!" The shy, meek, yellow pony, or Fluttershy scolded "This is a new low, even for you!" She turned toward James and proceeded to stroke his head. "Oh you poor creature! forced to work with mean old Discord"

Celestia stepped up in front of the group. "It is time, we will free you from Discord's control now." She said to James. "All of this will be over, and you can return home" Her horn began to glow as the spell began to form. Discord was engulfed in Celestia's signature golden glow as was James. You know, Celestia truly was beautiful. It almost made James regret what he was about to do... almost.

As James' vision began to white out, he could feel a warmth inside his noggin. It was... creepy at first, but as the warmth spread through the rest of his face and body, he felt... relaxed. He could've fallen asleep right there. He would have too, if the spell hadn't ended. His vision exploded back to the cartoony world he currently resided in, and the warmth faded away.

Celestia was standing in front of him with her hoof held out. He looked down at his shackles only to find them gone. He smiled and took Celestia's hoof and stood at his full height. He was slightly taller than Celestia, which he could tell irked her. She had taken pride in being the tallest.

She held her hoof out again... holding... the element? Of loyalty? James looked up to Celestia who only nodded and said "A test. I trust you with this element, what will you do?"

James took the magical element of magicalness and held it out, before turning to Discord and nodding. "Well I think I'll.." He reached into his pocked, which Discord had magically expanded, and pulled out his very own... beloved... bazooka. He stuffed the element down the barrel of the destructive weapon and aimed it at the window. "Do this" He pulled the trigger and squeezed his eyes  as the recoil caused him to take a step back. A loud bang erupted throughout the throne room. As the missile with the element currently wrapped around it exited the tube it made a whistling noise and blasted through the window, speeding away from the castle.

He turned towards the dumbstruck ponies. "Fetch"

Rainbow's eyes widened and she rushed after the element turned projectile.

Celestia shook her head in disbelief "I-I don't understand! The spell should have worked!"

Jame's tsked at her. "It's not that it didn't work, its that it didn't have anything to work on. Now if you'll excuse me..."  He ran towards Discord "Lets RIDE!"

Discord nodded, still laughing uncontrolably. With a flick of his fingers a red ferrari popped into existence and they both hopped in, with Discord in the drivers seat. The two pranksters embellished shades onto there faces and looked to the group of still dumbstruck ponies.

Discord pulled down his shades revealing his yellow eyes. "Don't wait up" Was all he said before he gunned the throttle and drove straight through the glass of the throne room.

The car landed with a thud on one of the many garden paths and began to blast there way through towards the city.

James took off his shades and looked to Discord. "You know what this means right?" He asked

Discord nodded cooly "Indeed I do James, this means war"

James chuckled "Well since we're the antagonists we better start causing trouble before those six stop us" His expression changed to confusion "Or... are we the protagonists... that's how it works here right?"

Discord merely shrugged "Hmmm... I dunno. I usually just wing it "

James put his arm on one of the doors "Eh, fair enough" He quickly recoiled back inside as the sped out of the gardens and straight into a melon stand.

"My melons!" The shopkeeper knelt down next to one of his fallen melons and embraced it crying softly as the strange red contraption sped away.

James shook his head as he whipped some melon off his shirt. "Man, that's like the most comical thing ever... hit the melon stand while racing away from the crime scene. Wow"

They both shared a chuckle as the sped further into the city. In both of their minds however that were not chuckling... they were laughing harder than should be possible. They both knew what they had started... and it was gonna be a blast!