As the rain opens the day, deep in an nondescript city, falling over branch, hovel and lampposts alike, an old-fashioned-looking car with a green-eyed driver looms in the darkness. He slips a CD into his radio and a techno-trumpet solo steals over the air, time seems to slow to a crawl. “I hate the rain. It makes me all sentimental.” The driver sighs. “Things used to be so simple.” The driver pauses and listens to his CD for a few minutes before speaking again to his unseen audience. “I love stories, do you? I know one particular story that I can recite by heart. I often tell myself this story, it helps keep me sane in an insane world.”

'Once upon a time there lived a being of no particular note. He lived among divine beings in eternal bliss. Until one day he was tricked by one of his fellows and was cast into the void.

The being appeared out of nowhere, a bipedal creature wearing living armor and a ridiculously long flowing cape. He also wielded powerful magics and weapons of terrifying power. At first nothing happened, but then he got angry. He was outraged at being cheated out of his place of happiness. In his wrath he went on a decades long path of random destruction and violence in order to vent his frustrations and to find a way home. Years later he arrived in the legendary Dream Valley and after a chance encounter with the even more legendary Magog The Mighty, he stopped his rampage. No one truly knows what the encounter was like but at the end of it the two became fast friends. Adopting the name Spawn, he along with Magog, Danel, Moloch and the residents of Paradise Estate embarked on bringing true peace to Dream Valley and its fellow nations. One day, after years of defeating monsters, curses, abominations, crimes against nature and organizing the ponies; the Rainbow Bridge disappeared along with Magog, Danel, Moloch and the mysterious artifact known as the Rainbow of Light. The Spawn did his best by himself, however eventually he too disappeared, fading into history like a ghost. Some say he is still around to this day, guarding Equestria from the true evils. Others say he is just a myth like Magog, used only to scare fillies and colts into behaving properly lest they be dragged into Mu by the Ghost of Dream Valley.'

The rain stops and the twilight sun peeks out of the clouds. “Interesting story, huh? That being, that "Ghost" is me and right now I've got work to do.” I open the car door, step out and close it behind me. I make a quick survey of the area and spot a seemingly abandoned warehouse. I received a tip that someone was going to attempt to summon Cerberus from his usual stomping grounds. Now we all know that's a horrible idea. Turning invisible I climb to the top-most window of the warehouse to peer inside and see what I'm up against. Aaand.....What the?! I was expecting crazy cultists or grunts from the local city mob, heck even a group of teenagers but not this. Inside was a colt wearing a black robe standing next to a pentagram made of blood that smelled like it was from that one burger chain run by griffons. The colt pulled out a dagger and a medallion and began to speak "By the wrath of Hades, the Damned Souls of Tartarus, By those who swear by the river Styx! I summon thee, Guardian of the Underworld, Cerberus!" The Pentagram burst into flames and the giant figure of Cerberus arose from the fiery depths.

"GROAARRRR!!!!" Cerberus roared out. I was all set to interfere and rescue the kid but something caught my eye that stopped me. The kid calmly walked to an altar that had a stack of papers and spoke to Cerberus.

"Oh Mighty Cerberus! I humbly sacrifice to thee these scrolls of knowledge!" All three of Cerberus's heads immediately tore into the papers.

"GRRR!" NASH, CHOMP!!! After utterly destroying the papers the colt banished the dread dog back to whence he came from. Soon, the colt cleaned up his mess, after which he left the building smiling, this is when I decided to make my entrance. Turning visible again I jumped down in front of the colt who gasped in utter fear. I glared at him for a few minutes, my green eyes fully aglow and said to him sternly,

"Never again." The colt trembling in fear nodded, satisfied I flew into the darkness of the night muttering to myself "Kids today".

The Next Day

"And that's what happened. My dog ate my homework and the Ghost of Dream Valley stole my pencils so I couldn't start over again." The colt said to his teacher. The teacher raised an eyebrow then face-palmed.

"Sit down Calvin." The teacher told him.

The colt went to his desk grumbling, "I knew I should have told her my tiger ate it instead."

Elsewhere

I sat in a lotus position on top of a gargoyle on one of this city's older buildings and began an internal conversation,
"So Lilly. Is today the day I think it is?"

A beautiful, ethereal voice that only I could hear inside my head responded,

"Yes. Today is the day you told me to remember and remind you of all those years ago. The day Discord returns from his thousand year old imprisonment. What are you going to do about it?"

I thought for a moment. This was a good question. What was I going to do about it?

"Nothing. I'll just observe and interfere if I need to." I answered finally.

"Are you sure that's wise?" Lilly questioned.

"Yes. I'm sure. I won't rule out the possibility that things might go awry, which is why I'm going to observe. After all, this Equestria is not the same as the one back home, so it stands to reason my knowledge might differ from the one I know of too."

"Oh? How so?"

"Well for starters, we're not supposed be here. Nor were we supposed to interact with the pony’s ancestors and their heroes."

"You mean Megan and her siblings?"

I paused for a minute and answered stiffly, "Yes. Then there's the matter of the ponies themselves. Last time I checked they weren't anthropomorphic at least not to this degree." I gestured to the inhabitants of city I currently occupied. It was bustling and filled with the activity of ponies of every shape, size and color of the spectrum. They looked almost human except for the fact that some had horns, some had wings and some had none at all but they all had fur and tails.

"Not to mention their tech is slightly like ours." Indicating the vehicles I saw below us.

"Ah, I see."

"Yup. They've certainly come along way since their formative years. Welp Time to go. To Canterlot." With that I teleported to my destination.

Author's Note

Further editing by thtiger.