Discord's Day out

Having organised the DJ and tricked the changeling queen to attempt to eat herself, Discord decided that he needed some fresh produce for his party. He could have just created it out of thin air, but seriously, where would the fun be in that? No, he was going to go buy some apples. With bits he created out of thin air.

For the first time since shooing away Twilight, he was upset that one of his friends who wasn't Fluttershy was gone. After all, Applejack was so much fun to tease. She took everything so seriously. Now the Sweet Apple Acres apple stand was manned by her brother, a huge red stallion.

Discord decided to start by asking the obvious.

"Do you sell apples here?" Discord asked to the red stallion with an apple for a cutie mark, manning a stand filled with apples and decorated with images of apples.

"Eeyup" replied the stallion.

"Will you sell me some?" Asked Discord.

"Eeyup."

"Can you say anything else but Eeyup?"

"Eeyup"

Will you?"

"Nnope"

"Ha! You just contradicted yourself!"

The stallion seemed to be unfazed by Discord's teasing, and gestured a hoof at a sign stating 'Apples, 3 bits a kilogram'

Discord was quite frustrated. This stallion simply refused to get annoyed, not even a little bit! In a huff he slapped some coins on the counter, grabbed some apples and made to storm off when a small yellow earth pony filly with a huge bow in her red hair almost bowled him over.

The tiny filly jumped up and down and spluttered out at high speed "Big Mac! Big Mac! We really need your help! We were trying to get our cutie marks in spelunking, but Scootaloo got trapped under a rock! Sweetie Belle's trying to help him, but she can't do it! We need your help or Scootaloo could... She could..."

The tiny filly burst into tears, and Discord felt something in his chest twinge. It was probably hunger, he reasoned to himself.

The filly looked up at Discord and, wiping tears from her eyes, said "Mister Discord, could ya please help get Scootaloo out? I'm not sure if Big Mac can do it, it's a really big rock. Please?"

Discord tried to say no, he really did, but against his will he felt himself say "Oh, alright."

The filly grabbed his goat leg in a big hug and cried "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"

Grimly, he peeled the filly off his leg and asked "Where is your friend?"

The filly said "Oh, we were in the old diamond dog mines out by the..."

As soon as she said that, Discord dumped his cupcakes and apples and teleported there.

Standing by the entrance to a nearby cave was an equally tiny unicorn filly, possibly even smaller and cuter than the other one.

She jumped to her feet and fell over at the sight of Discord suddenly appearing. Discord sighed and said "Is this Sweetie Belle?"

The yellow filly nodded. "Yup! That's Sweetie Belle and I'm Apple Bloom!"

Discord merely nodded and headed over to Sweetie Belle. Helping her up he suddenly remembered why these fillies looked so familiar. They were the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and a little while ago they'd made him an honorary member. Realizing that one of the first people to ever trust him was in danger he urgently asked "Sweetie Belle, Where is Scootaloo?"

Sweetie Belle gestured for him to follow and lead him deep, deep underground. After about ten minutes they arrived at the site of a recent cave-in. Small, pained whimpers were coming from it, and in horror Discord saw a poor little orange pegasus filly pinned under a rock the size of a royal chariot. The poor, tiny pegasus was flapping one of her wings like it was her only hope, the other was underneath the rock. She looked so broken, so fragile, so helpless that Discord felt something inside him snap.

Reaching out with his magic, he desperately tried to budge the boulder, but instead he ended up turning it into jam. He noticed the filly scream in horror as the red goop poured over her, but then she tasted some, and, realizing it was jam, jump up yelling "Yay!"

She immediately screamed as she accidentally pulled something, and as she fell back to the ground Discord caught her. It was funny, he was so small. He could hold her with one hand. He looked all over her, and found she'd broken many of the bones in her pinned wing, and a few ribs, plus she was cut and bruised all over.

Pulling a few bandages out of thin air, he set to work bandaging the filly, putting band-aids on her numerous cuts, and gently singing to her to help her feel a bit better while he worked. After he was done with that he said "She needs to go to the hospital."

The odd group, Discord and three fillies, one bandaged up like a mummy, headed together back into town and over to the hospital. On the way, Discord found himself feeling... Good inside. Like he was happy or something. He didn't say much, he was just listening to the Crusaders talk.

Scootaloo expressed excitement because Rainbow Dash had also been to hospital with a broken wing. Sweetie Belle expressed relief, saying "It was really scary, she was just... pinned!"

And Apple Bloom? She expressed pride that Discord, who once would have laughed at their situation and probably would have been the cause of it, had now saved Scootaloo from probable death.

Before Discord knew it, they were at the hospital. Sweetie decided to stay with Scootaloo, but Apple Bloom dragged Discord back over to Sweet Apple Acres, saying she needed to talk with her family. Discord said that he would, but she'd need to pay him for his time in apples.

And that was how, after a lengthy conversation, Apple Bloom, Granny Smith and Big McIntosh exited the Apple family barn and said, in unison, "We'd like to declare you an honorary member of the Apple Family!"

Though he felt touched inside, Discord merely shrugged and said "Fine, fine, but can I go now?"

He headed off, hoping nopony had stolen his cupcakes.