Away from Home

Mush Presents

A ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’ Fanfic

‘Away from Home’

Back in Equestria

Celestia just got Discorded.

The Spirit towered over the once great leader, laughing his manic laugh. Celestia stood still, defeated and not quite feeling herself.

“Oh come now Celestia, it’s not all bad. You still have a sister to talk to, go and tell her everything is okay.” Discord teased, flying around the throne room casually eyeing the stain glass windows. While he was looking at his own stain glass self, admiring how his horns have been represented, Celestia teleported off to Luna’s sleeping quarters.

***

A bright flash filled the small room, the Princess of the Night was woken from her daily slumber by the sudden flash caused by the arrival of her sister.

“Cele... Its 11am, what do you need?” Luna groaned and shielded her eyes from the light streaming through the curtains.

“Oh... Luly. I just wanted to see how you are.” Celestia teased, she used Luna’s least favourite nickname for a reason. “Are you enjoying it down here, in Equestria? Better than the moon any night, am I right?” Celestia leaned forward and elbowed Luna in the side, punctuating her teasing question.

“Cele, you know how I feel about that subject, please do not bring it up again around me.” Luna took a good long look at her sister, her eyes adjusting to the light. “Cele... are you grey?”

Celestia looked herself over, noticing that she was indeed grey. “Does it bother you Luly? Do we not like grey, because it reminds us of the moon?” Celestia teased further, bringing in the Royal We to poke at Luna more.

“Cele, please stop. Are you feeling alright?” Luna was getting worried, sure her sister played jokes on her, but this was too far, even when Celestia was... intoxicated.

“Oh, I have never felt... Crater. You could say this feeling... Rocks!” Celestia was trying not to smile at her bad lunar puns. “You know, I feel freer than ever right now, like I have all of the... Space I need. And, by the way, thanks for the... Comet on my colour, it really is quite suiting. I just hope my better looks don’t eclipse yours.” Celestia was throwing pun after pun at Luna, her face was distorting from suppressing her laughter. Meanwhile, Luna was crying into her pillow, bad memories re-surfacing. Celestia saw this, and considered her job done. She cantered out of her living quarters, still laughing her flank off.

Discord was watching the whole thing from outside the window, he too couldn’t stop laughing. He decided to follow Celestia to see who else she would antagonise; unfortunately for Discord... she spotted him.

“Oh Hello Discord. Lovely day, isn’t it?” Celestia said, giddily. “Me and Luna were having a discussion about a certain giant rock in the sky.”

“I know, my dear Celestia, and what a fantastic show it was.” Discord clapped his mismatched hands together, producing a different sound each time.

“I agree, my puns... rock.” Celestia said, her face contorting again at the pun.

“Now now, let’s not over do it. Chaos needs to be different to be funny. So stop the puns and cause some chaos worthy of a Goddess.” Discord announced, trying to stop the bad puns.

“Okay, I pumice I will stop. Let me just magma mind up about what to do next. You know, these puns are your fault. You’re at the epicentre of all of this. Do you want a drink, I have a glass of tectonic. I lava good joke, don’t you? I think I am driving you mantle.” Celestia kept throwing horrifically bad puns at Discord, who was getting very annoyed. He put his hand to her mouth to make her stop talking and leaned in, quite angry.

“You know Celestia, since you like rocks so much, how about you BE ONE!” With this Discord grabbed Celestia’s horn with his eagle claw and shot a burst of magic into her. The Goddess’s eyes shrank as she realised what was about to happen.

It started from her hooves. A small crusty exterior expanding up her legs toward her body. Within a few seconds her lower portion was rock hard and cold, even her tail had frozen in place, drooping without the solar wind. The crust inched its way up her neck toward her face, and started to solidify her hair. Her face froze quickly, in a permanent expression of horror, looking up toward her horn. Her horn was the last thing to crust over beneath Discord’s claw.

Discord opened his eyes to look at what he just did, a very evil smile crept across his face and a glint of insanity flashed across his eyes.

“I may not turn ponies into stone, but you’re not a pony, Goddess.” Discord spat out the last word with discuss. He wheeled around to walk away, when he noticed a crowd of very, very angry ponies looking back at him. It just hit Discord that he turned Princess Celestia to stone in the centre of Canterlot. ‘Should’ve banished the residents of Canterlot instead...’

“How DARE you!” A white unicorn pony with a monocle and a top hat in the crowd yelled out at Discord. “How DARE you turn our beloved Celestia to stone! Take this, foul heathen.” He lowered his head and shot a bolt of magic at Discord, who continued to stand there looking at the pony, smiling like a fool.

The magic blast hit him square in the face, and did absolutely nothing. “Oh come now, a puny pony trying to take down the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony. This is pathetic.” Discord mocked.

“You will crash and burn, I swear. You will not be long for this world.” The pony retaliated.

“Oh, and just who are you?” Discord leaned in inches away from the unicorn.

“My name is Fancy Pants...” The pony replied, looking quite scared now, but he stood strait and spat in Discord’s face. “And you will go down, draconequus.”

“Oh yeah, you and what army?” Discord mocked, looking around as if an army were to appear. Fortunately for him, only one pony strode through the crowd. 'I thought armies of hundreds were meant to appear when I say that...'.

This white unicorn was wearing platinum Royal Guard armour, and was closely followed by a pink Alicorn. “Oh Mr and Mrs Armour, we meet at last. I am Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, how do you do.” The Spirit lowered his eagle claw for a shake. Shining Armour refused. “Whoo. Somepony is uptight today." Discord held his hands up in defence "Well, that’s the reaction I’d expect from a pony whose sister I just banished from this world... Whoops. Let that slip, sad.”

“You WHAT?!” Shining armour yelled. “YOU DARE HURT TWILIE...” Shining Armour let the threat hang as he charged his horn. This is when Cadence stepped forward, furious.

“And we will make you pay.” She said quietly and calmly. The calmness of which made Discord look a little worried at the sincerity.

The two ponies stood side by side, aiming their horns at Discord, they slowly touched their tips together. Now, with a two horns combined pointing at the Spirit, Discord was growing worried, he got his claw out ready to snap himself away to a safe place. However, at that moment the duo let their spell loose. It was the same spell they had used against Chrysalis a few months back.

Discord put up a fight however, his own magic holding back the blast. The other ponies in the crowd noticed this, and all unicorns pointed their horns and Discord also. The Pegasi readied and Arial bombardment while the earth ponies formed a charge. United, they could overthrow the king of Chaos.

Almost at the same time, the unicorns all let out their most powerful defensive spell they knew, some just tried to levitate Discord. The extra magic collided with Discord’s hands, as that is what he was holding back the blast with. He slid back across the street back toward Canterlot tower under the force of about a hundred unicorns attacking him. The Pegasi were coming in hot toward Discord, Soren leading the ‘attack force’. Just before the Pegasi collided with Discord, she managed to snap his fingers together for a teleportation spell.

‘Anywhere but here, anywhere but here, anywhere but here, anywhere but here’ He thought over and over again as the spell was taking effect. His vision went white as he phased from one spot to where-ever he was going to end up.

He never got to see the humorous sight of around one hundred Pegasi collide with a massive chocolate cake.

A/N: There, the Equestria chapter. Right, now to do another few 'Pony arrives somewhere' chapters and back to this.

Don't forget to point out any errors you see, I am not the best at scrutinising my own stuff.