This is War!

Luna was walking up the spiral staircase that led to her royal bed room (Yes it DID have to have a royal in front of it). As she neared her door she remembered by instinct to lock her doors... that prank Discord pulled with the oil would stay in her mind forever. Well at least she didn't have to think about- NOPE too late here it comes.

FLASHBACK...of flashbackness

Luna had finally woken up, it was about.... eleven in the morning. She didn't take pride in sleeping in... it took much of her day away from her. This is why she stayed up late, to enjoy more of her awake time... kinda a double edged sword. That didn't matter, the more time sitting here thinking about her questionable sleeping habits was not going to get today's princessy chores done, she'd better get to it.

She hopped off her bed and slipped into her royal shoes. They were quite elegant, the only drawback is being bad with slippery surfaces... luckily none of that would be a problem today right? Wrong... as Luna took her first step forward her hoof immediately slipped out from under her causing her to stumble forward. She tried to steady herself with her hind legs, but those slipped as well causing her to fall on her side, knocking the wind out of her. Luna, in her groggy morning thinking state, tried to stand again only to slip, stumble, and step on a random rock that was placed in her room for no apparent reason, twisting her horse ankle. Realizing she had been injured in what had been a pathetic excuse for a struggle (which was going to be her excuse) She crawled out her room. Once she was safely out of her room she stood on all fours. Wanting to see if her ankle had sustained any real injury she put pressure on it... causing it to slip again, this time causing her to fall immediately... into the wall.... horn first... knocking her out. The end

END OF FLASHBACK

"Ow!" Luna yelped as the door to her royal room kicked her out of dreamland. She gave the evil door a glare, it was not the first time Mr.Royal Door had rudely interrupted her thinking time. Before turning the knob she looked to the wall to the left of the door. She gave this wall a glare too... it serving as a painful reminder why falling horn first into a wall was a bad idea... it took hours for the fireponies to unstick her horn from the wall.

Wait! That reminded her! She could not go to bed yet! She had important matters to attend to. She nodded her head and ran off back down the stairs, ready to complete whatever task she had laid out for her.

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James was sitting on a balcony that had a near perfect view of Luna's tower. Discord had opted to do this one himself... considering that he could just poof in and not worry about any possible security that they may have run into were they not to teleport.... wait... he could just teleport him with him. Well it didn't matter, James was fine sitting here and being lazy. It used to be his profession you see.

James sat back on his lawnchair and waited for Discord's return....and waited..... and waited.... and waited some more. James could not wait anymore... sure he'd only been waiting a few seconds, but patience was not his thing. He'd need something to think about or he'd go mad!

Wait! Yes their was that one funny thing Discord had said while making the plan. Heheh yes it was quite the joke. What was it... OH yes, it was that he didn't know the difference between a block of C4 and firecrackers! Could you imagine?

James sat back further in to his chair of lawn, and silently rethought what Discord had said.... and realized WHAT he had actually said.

"Hello my friend I have returned" said Discord as he popped up in front of James' lawn of chair. "I have just finished setting those firecrackers! I know you like explosions, so I got the best I could find!"

James slowly and calmly got up from his chair "Discord... where did you get these "firecrackers"

Discord floated in thought for a moment "Hmm what was it... oh yes, well you see I know you humans love your firecrackers so I took a trip to the army barracks and snatched up a few"

Before James could panic and tell him what sort of 'firecrackers' he'd obtained, Discord gave him more good news.

"And it even comes with a remote control!"

James leaped at Discord attempting a slow motion snatch and roll, unfortunately he had forgot to calculate his trajectory and dived straight into a poll. After removing his face from said poll, he attempted one last attempt, diplomacy. "Discord no!"

It was too late, Discord had pushed the big red button, the one that said DO NOT TOUCH. James looked in horror and suspense at the royal lunar tower. He knew what was going to happen, but the suspense still hit him full speed. This was the climax!

He closed his eyes as he heard the deafening... small pop. He open his eyes to see the tower completely intact. He breathed a sigh of relief, thanking whatever higher power was out there, that it was a dud. Well his relief was short lived as the higher power he had just thanked dropped a giant dodo on his head.

The explosions ran up the spiral staircase of the tower, each *BOOM* about a half a second apart. The chain of explosives had reached the top.... all was silent. He breathed yet another false sigh of relief. Discord must've not hooked up the pile of explosives at the door to the rest-

*BOOMPOWWAMMACOWSHAMAWAMMADINGAWONGAWOOSHAPOWASCREWYOUA*

The once elegant tower had exploded. The top of the Royal lunar tower had exploded into a great ball of firery death and destruction. James watched as the tower finally gave way, crashing to the ground. As it fell it knocked off other sections of the castle. One in particular had a pony bathing in it, as he could see the bath the pony was residing in slowly fall off the edge into a two story drop. The pony landed confused... and then walked away staring into space.

Finally tearing his eyes away from the burning mess of death, he turned to discord who was more confused than shocked.

"Now I know you humans love your firecrackers... but that was a bit big, even for me"

James facepalmed "Man how many you think we killed?"

Discord blew his dark question away with a wave of his paw "I wouldn't worry about it, this universe isn't capable of death"

James raised an eyebrow at him. "So... everyones just gonna climb out of the rubble?" He asked looking for signs of survivors.

Discord shook his head. "No, the ponies probably wandered away from the blast zone for no apparent reason."

James sighed then walked back to his lawn chair collapsing into it "So we're good then? No Sun-Butt wanting revenge for her fallen sister?"

Discord shook his head again and took on a worried expression "No, but something just as bad" He said pointing to a very pissed off lunar princess who was carrying what looked like a laser pointer.

DISCORD!

"Ah yes, she even has the Royal Death Ray! See you can tell it's important cause its capitalized" Discord said shoving a script in James' face.

James stared at the angry Lunar Princess for a moment. He didn't quite know what to do... maybe Discord knew.

"So, uh Discord?"

"Yes James?"

"Should we be running?"

"Yes James"