It was just before sunrise as Princess Luna gently nudged open the door to her sister's bedroom. She poked her head through the doorway and saw her sister asleep in her beautiful purple velvet bed, her face adorned with a small smile from good dreams. Luna felt a spark of happiness in seeing her smile, that she almost wanted to let her to sleep in. But she knew how ponies would react if the sun didn't rise. They would overreact and cause a riot that would most likely cause millions of bits of damage throughout cities in the process. Then they'd have to sign a bunch of legal documents which would get the two in an even MORE tired mood. Which would lead them into sleeping in even more. Blah, blah, blah. Big cycle. Mass hysteria. Just a normal Monday considering how crazy everypony was in Equestria.

Luna trotted towards her gorgeous sister with a glowing horn and nudged her side gently with a hoof, prompting her to awaken. Celestia responded with a flinch and a yawn as she slowly got up from her slumber. She rubbed her eyes and turned her head towards her younger sister, smiling a bit. "Is it time?"

She nodded in response, contracting her contagious yawn as she answered, "Yes it is. I'm going to sleep a bit myself if it is quite alright."

"Yes, Luna. You have definitely earned a good rest." She scratched her back before getting up and stretching the rest of her body, getting the blood flowing throughout her limbs. She made her way down the hallway and into the kitchen to get her daily coffee. Surprisingly, she was greeted by a white mug with steam coming off from the top. She stepped closer to it and noticed that there was already a steaming hot cup of espresso awaiting for her. She skimmed around the room to see if any guards were around to claim it, but saw no one. When she turned her head back to her cup, she noticed something that wasn't on there before: a bright, yellow sun that matched her cutie mark. Normally she would be a bit startled with its sudden alteration, but instead she stared at the cup and exhaled, as if she was annoyed by someone or...something. She levitated the cup slowly over to her muzzle and took a sip. A spark of energy surged through her as she felt more alert and awake. Although, it wasn't the caffeine that got her adrenaline pumping. It was the hellish burning that her mouth was undergoing.

She didn't care though! There was something about today that made her feel all fuzzy inside, like everything was going to be okay. Second degree burns wouldn't put her down in the dumps! She casually walked towards her freezer and levitated a few ice cubes in her coffee to cool it down. She blew on it once, casually walking past the sudden appearance of a draconequus who was glaring at her.

"Seriously? You aren't even going to acknowledge me OR my work?" it asked.

"Your work? You're referring to a magic mug appearing out of nowhere with my cutie mark on it? That surely can't be the best prank you can pull."

The draconequus folded his arms grumpily and looked away. "Fluttershy says that I have to make my pranks less 'scary' for others after I traumatized a colt at his birthday party. I honestly don't see what so scary about a giant, 30-foot, clown with sharp teeth."

She took another sip of her coffee as she continued to make her way out of the kitchen and into the observatory. "Yes, I do wonder what could've gotten into the poor thing," she said sarcastically, looking back at him.

"It's his loss. I would've loved to have one at my birthday party." He snapped his fingers as a cloud of smoke in the shape of his silhouette appeared and slowly faded. He reappeared with a flash above Celestia, lounging back and levitating above her. "So, are we about to raise the sun again, my sunny little friend?"

She rolled her eyes at Discord's request. "I suppose you can accompany me, this time. Just to reward you for trying to better yourself," she smiled.

Discord's smiled a bit more and responded, "Thank you, my dear." It had been two months since Discord had been universally declared reformed. However "reformed" is a term loosely used. Although he had learned about the importance of friendship, his chaotic personality was still present. He always enjoyed a good prank, and would typically involve either the princesses, or on a less common basis, the Elements of Harmony. Besides that though, he had a decent heart and it became more and more apparent as time went on.

The two of them kept walking until they came across a dark purple door with miniature stars scattered randomly on it labeled "Observatory." The door didn't have a door handle on it, closing off the entrance for anypony. That is, anypony who wasn't an immortal goddess. Celestia's horn glowed, causing a golden, luminous aura to encase the door. With her magic, the door slowly opened, leading into a colossal black room with a giant sundial in the center of it. The sundial had words engraved in it that were from a language long gone and had small depictions of a sun and a moon on opposite sides of it, a small arrow pointing towards the moon. The walls on the black room was illuminated with a brilliant, white moon and a few stars, making it very hard to see. Celestia stepped towards the table as her horn glowed once more. Slowly but surely, the sundial's arrow turned counterclockwise as it made its way towards the sun's illustration. The room slowly grew more and more bright and bluer while the stars faded away. The moon gradually shifted into an image of a blinding sun and a few clouds drifted into view.

Celestia stopped focusing her magic once the arrow had pointed to the sun and glanced over at Discord. He was staring directly into the sun, his eyes sizzling like eggs on a sizzling frying pan. "Discord, what have I told you time after time?"

"Don't stare at the sun," he answered as his eyes melted from his sockets. He wiped his face of his liquefied eyes with a claw as new eyes rolled back into his head from the inside. She sighed at him but smiled again, leading Discord to raise an eyebrow in curiosity. "What's with that grin of yours? You're not usually this cheerful in the mornings."

Although it was hard to believe, it was true. Contrary to popular belief, Celestia actually wasn't a morning pony, and preferred to sleep in most of the time during the winter before raising the sun because it was so cold and her bed was so warm. She was usually groggy and the mornings and hardly spoke to anypony until it was closer to noon. But today, she felt different. "I don't know! I had a wonderful dream last night and that just led me into a good mood!"

"Dreaming about me, eh?" Discord asked with a smirk.

"I said I had a dream, not a nightmare," she joked, rolling her eyes at him.

"Tia, how ruuuuude!" Discord whined, feigning being offended while folding his arms.

She responded with a quiet giggle and said, "You're too goofy sometimes..." She shifted her body around, making her way to the door that was no longer a shade of dark purple with stars on it, but rather now a light blue door with tiny clouds replacing the stars. She used her magic to push the door open as they both walked out of the observatory. "But really, I think that today's going to be a terrific day!"

"Oh really? And what gives you that guarantee?"

"I'm not quite sure, but I can feel it in my bones that today's going to be perfect! I've just got this feeling, you know?"

"I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch," Discord said, now suddenly adorning a farmer's outfit and a basket full of eggs. One of the eggs started to crack open, revealing a gray chick with Discord's head. "They could become rotten eggs."

She rolled her eyes and turned around. "Well, if you're done making silly puns, I'm going to catch up on some reading. Try not to disturb me, or I'll have a guard come at you with a cattle prod."

"Oh dear, that does sound quite shocking..."

She physically gagged at the pun, trying her best not to throw up. "Gah, what does he know about what the day will bring? Today's going to be great!" she exclaimed in her mind with another big smile. "I'm sure of it!"

---Episode 1: Luce Cannon---

A few hours passed as Luna hesitatingly opened her eyes. She looked around her dark purple room and sat up in her bed, yawning and stretching her front limbs up in the air. She pulled the covers off of her and stood up on all fours, checking the clock. "12:24. Time for lunch," she thought to herself.

Still a wee bit tired, she trotted towards the kitchen lazily, passing a few open doors. However, one of these open doors made her halt in place, as she could of sworn that one of those rooms were...glowing?

She backed up slowly and turned her head to the left to discover that there was a giant, green, glowing, oblong fastened to the wall. She backed up a bit in surprise before gradually inching towards it once more. She entered the room and took a closer glimpse at the wall. "Is this...a portal of some kind?"

She slowly reached out a hoof to make contact with it when its luminosity started to increase. She quickly backed up from the portal as a brown blur expelled from it, making contact with the door on the other side of the hallway and breaking it open. Luna flinched with a slight shriek from the portal's sudden discharge as it quickly collapsed in on itself, leaving no sign of a portal ever existing on the wall.

Yet, the other room was a complete wreck. The blur had smashed the door in half and knocked into a wall, leaving a big and eye-catching dent into it. Luna, who was still in shock, slowly walked towards the room and noticed that the blur that had shot out of the portal was a creature laying on the ground and holding its leg. He had a brownish, thin and tall body, similar to that of a snake's, but the rest of his limbs were much different. He had the front paws of a lion and a fox, the tail of a dragon, the legs of an alligator and a bear, the wings of a pegasus and a bat, and the horns of a deer and a goat. His head was the only thing that made him resemble a pony, which was colored a dull-gray. His mane was black, messy, and in dire need of a trip to the barbershop. Everything else was a mess of various animal parts, like if several animals were put into a large blender and instead of making a big, bloody mess, it made a normal-sized, living and breathing mess. This creature was no doubt a draconequus.

However, this one was different than most draconequui Luna had seen. Well, to be honest, Discord was the only draconequus she had ever knew, but he still had some differences compared to him. Besides the animal parts that constituted him being different than Discord, he did not have a full grown beard, but instead had stubble on his chin. He also was about the size of a full-grown adult pony, which was much smaller than Discord. She couldn't tell if he was young or a midget who had a hard time shaving.

Luna fumbled with her words while staring at the injured draconequus, trying her hardest to think of what to say in this situation. "A-Are you...Are you alright?"

The draconequus immediately responded with an angry, slightly prepubescent tone. "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M ALRIGHT! I THINK I BROKE MY FREAKING KNEE! SON OF A BITCH!"

Yep, he was just young.

"Young man, there is no need for such language," she said in a stern manner.

"I'M SORRY, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU'RE THE ONE HERE WITH A BROKEN KNEE!"

Luna looked at the young draconequus's knee. It started to bruise a bit, but it didn't look fractured in the slightest. For good measure, her horn glowed as she tried to analyze the state of his knee bone. "It's okay, it's not broken. Only bruised."

"W-Well, how do YOU know? Are you a doctor?!"

"No, but I AM the ruler of Equestria," she answered.

"BUT YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR!" he yelled, freaking out even more.

She rolled her eyes and decided to try to get some information from him. "Little one, I would to kn–"

"AGGGHHHHHH! IT HURTS SO BAD!"

"...I would like to know–"

"OH JEEZ, I THINK I NEED TO GET IT AMPUTATED!"

"YOU'RE FINE! NOW WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!" she yelled. Realizing she had lost her temper, she quickly coughed and tried to calm down. "Please tell me your name..."

The draconequus slowly stopped whining and answered, "I'm Lucid, Prince of Chaos."

She rose an eyebrow a bit. "Wait, the Prince of Chaos?"

"Yep. I'm trying to find my dad but," he slowly got up from getting flung at a wall and continued, "I haven't been successful yet."

Luna hesitated a bit before asking, "Your dad's name wouldn't happen to be Discord, would it?"

Lucid's eyes immediately widened in surprise. "Yes! Do you know him?"

"Unfortunately, yes. He barges into the castle so often, it feels like he practically lives here."

His eyes immediately lit up after her statement. "Could I see him? I sort of have some business to take care of him. Just family stuff, you know?"

"Oh, of course! I understand completely!" Luna said. "You just want to catch up on what he's doing and give him a hug or two, right?"

"S-Sure! Something like that!" he responded.

"Well, last time I saw him, he was in the library with my sister. We should see if he's still there."

"Alright, lead the way!" he cheered in an over-enthusiastic tone, giving off a smile that looked so wide that it was a wonder that his mouth wasn't in severe pain.

Luna gave an awkward smile back as she made her way to the library. As Lucid followed her, she decided to start up a conversation. "I'm Princess Luna, by the way."

"Lucid. Buuuut, I kinda mentioned that already."

After a few moments of silence, Luna spoke again. "Discord never really mentioned he had a son. I knew he had a young daughter, but she's in another dimension right now where everything's made up of candy."

"Heheh," he chuckled. "Yeah, ol' Pop never really talks about his teenage son. It makes him feel old."

Her awkward smile shifted into a more genuine one as she ruffled Lucid's mane gently. "You know, you're a very sweet draconequus wanting to see your dad again."

"Believe me, your highness. The pleasure is all mine~"

~~~

The two of them finally made their way to the castle library, where Celestia was reading a book intently. She was so captivated in her novel that she was hardly paying attention to her surroundings, such as Discord about to pour a bucket of ice cold water on her. A few minutes before, Discord was thinking of pulling the classic "set-a-bucket-of water-on-top-of-the-door" prank but then decided to settle with taking the door out of the equation.

He was about to splash the cold liquid on the princess when he moved his head up towards Luna and the draconequus. His pupils shrunk as he dropped the bucket straight on Celestia's head, causing her to yelp in pain and rub her head. "GAH! Discord? What is the meaning of–" She paused as she noticed the other, smaller draconequus standing just outside of the library. "Oh, g-good morning! I am Princess Celestia, ruler of–"

"...Equestria. Yes, yes, Luna told me," he interrupted. Celestia looked taken aback as he walked up to the other draconequus, who had his mouth wide open still. "Dad?"

He closed his mouth and gulped. He nodded slowly and started to stammer. "L-Lucid. Oh my gosh it's been so long! I missed you so mu-GAAAAAAHHH!" He screamed in pain as the draconequus kneed him in his...avocados. He crumpled to the ground, groaning loudly and holding onto his crotch.

The younger draconequus kept kicking him while he was on the ground and started screaming at him. "YOU BASTARD! WHY THE HELL DID YOU THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO ABANDON ME TO LIVE IN THAT AWFUL, HORRIBLE DIMENSION?!" His face reddened with rage as he kept kicking Discord while he was down. Discord didn't fight back or even use his chaotic abilities to escape his situation. He just held tight onto his guacamole sack and prayed that the princesses would pry him off.

But they didn't. They just watched the scene with wide eyes and open mouths. In their whole lifetimes, they have never been more surprised at the draconequus's sudden outburst.

"I HATE YOU, YOU UGLY, FREAKING, FLYING SAUSAGE! YOU SUCK! YOU SUCK SO HAAAAAAAARD!" The draconequus, although not spectacular at insulting ponies, had made his point. His physical violence had done most of the talking for him. He stopped attacking Discord and stomped off in anger, exiting the room and leaving his father on the ground.

The two princesses shook their heads quickly and tried to process what just happened. After realizing the swift aggression was indeed real, they rushed over to Discord to help him up. He was breathing heavily, trying to recover from the attack. "Discord, are you alright?" Celestia asked.

Discord nodded in response as he gently sat up, crossing his legs. "I wanted him to break the ice with me, not my balls..."

Luna and Celestia didn't even have the energy to laugh sarcastically at him. "That was terrible," Luna said.

"IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FUNNY! I WAS KICKED IN THE NUTS BY MY SON!"

They both flinched at his yelling as Celestia asked, "Who was that?"

Discord sighed and lowered his volume. "Lucid, my son..."

Celestia looked even more surprised than she had during the draconequus's assault. "Y-Your son? I thought Screwball was your only child."

"I wish...he really is my teenage son and..." He stopped and let out a sigh. "...I'm his horrible father."

Luna frowned and put a hoof on his shoulder. "I'm here if you need to talk."

Discord looked towards her and then at Celestia, who was also ready to listen to him. He took a breathe in and out. "Okay. I'll tell you what happened." Discord snapped his fingers as he teleported out of sight and into a big, red, velvet chair wearing a monocle, fez, and a red robe. "Gather round as I read you the story of my dear son, Lucid." He brought a pipe to his mouth as he blew into it, bubbles floating towards the sky. He pulled out a fancy, embroidered book from thin air and opened it to the first page.

About 700 years ago, there lived a handsome teenage draconequus named Discord. Discord was a free spirit, always taking life by the claws. He was always getting into trouble and always meeting new ponies so that he could terrify them. However, there was one pony who surprising didn't defecate themselves in fears. Micro Manage, or Miss Manage as he liked to call her. They were a cute couple, or at least as cute as a pony and an abomination of animal parts could get, and they were happy. One thing led to another, and before you knew it, they were breeding like rabbits.

Celestia thought of the image of Discord doing it with another mare and gagged a bit. "I...really didn't need that image in my head."

"Too bad, it's in there now. Anywaaaay..."

Unfortunately for the two of them, they forgot one thing. Condoms. Miss Manage wanted to keep the child, as she felt that they would be great parents. She was wrong. Well, SHE was a great parent, but Discord? He was filled with doubt that he would be a terrible father. These fears were strengthened when the child was finally born. Miss Manage had died while giving birth.

Discord paused a bit and coughed, dropping his smile. He continued, trying to brush off this feeling of sadness.

The child now only had a father to look up to. But how could he, the embodiment of disharmony raise a child and expect him to have high aspirations? What if his child wanted to grow up to be good unlike him? He decided that he'd need the child to be raised in a contained environment. He used his chaotic magic to send him to an alternate universe completely void of life. He set him alone with a projector that played Equestria's entire history so that he would be well-educated. With the child in care, the father tried his best to repress the memories of the child he failed to take care of. However, several years later, a thought came into his mind. What if he were ever to perish somehow? He needed someone to take over the chaotic business. So he conjured up a pony made of pure chaos. She would be just old enough to take care of herself and gain her creator's passion for chaos. Her name was Screwball, the princess of Chaos, and she would become queen when and if Discord ever fades from existence. And they all lived happily ever. Except Discord, who was forever troubled with the thought of being a jerk to his only son. The end.

Discord closed the book and stood up from his chair, his clothes disappearing from his body. "That's the story," he said, leaving Celestia and Luna to look at him with saddened faces.

"Discord...why did you never tell us?" Luna asked.

"I don't like talking about it. I never really like speaking about personal matters like this."

"...Wait a minute, if it's been 700 years then how come Lucid's still a teenager?" Luna asked.

"Time moves slower in that universe. I wanted to forget about him as much as I could so I didn't have to remember that I'm his father..." He paused a bit before looking at the two once more. "I'm even more horrible now than before, aren't I?"

The two sisters turned their heads to each other before focusing their attention to Discord. "We both think that your actions are rather...well, stupid..." Celestia admitted.

"Yeah, I mean you've gotten most of the things about being a parent right except being present for him, which arguably is the easiest part of being a parent..."

"But with all that aside," she continued, glaring at Celestia before looking back at Discord, "we know you were scared and wanted the best for him. We won't hold you against that."

Hearing this, Discord sighed in relief. "Thank you." He smiled a bit before frowning once more. "But still, I'm sure he hates my guts right now."

"Considering he almost liquefied your water balloons, I would believe so," Celestia said, wrapping a wing around her chaotic friend. "But it'll be alright! We'll help you two get your relationship back on track in any way we can!"

Discord quickly at Celestia and surprised. "You'd really help me?"

"Of course we would!" Luna responded cheerfully. "Anything to help a family get back together!"

Discord's frown slowly shifted into a smile at hearing this. He opened his arms and brought the two together in a tight hug. "Thanks, you two!"

Celestia and Luna both returned the hug and smiled back at him. They both shared a group hug before Celestia's eyes widened. She held her stomach tight and quickly ran to the royal bathroom.

"Oh yeah, I put laxatives in her coffee too," Discord snickered to himself.

Luna sighed and put a hoof to her forehead. "I should be mad but..."

"Hilarious, right?"

"Very hilarious," she chuckled.

~~~

After beating up his dad, Lucid stormed quickly to the room that he crashed into from shooting out of the portal. He saw down on the ground and crosses his arms angrily. He was so pissed at his dad that he wanted to scream. "That son of a bitch," he thought. "How could he be pulling pranks while his son was missing for over 16 years?!"

He sighed loudly and curled up on the floor, holding his legs. He didn't know what to do next, so he just laid there to wait. A few minutes passed before he heard hoofsteps. He heard the familiar voice of Princess Luna and cringed a bit. "Lucid, your dad wants to talk to you."

Lucid just curled up tighter and covered his eyes with his legs. "If I can't see you, you can't see me."

Celestia sighed a bit. "That's not how it works, Lucid." Her horn glowed as Lucid was enveloped in a golden aura and lifted up from the ground so he could face the two princesses and Discord. For the first time in his life, he had never seen Discord actually look serious.

Discord poofed up some note cards out of nowhere and started to read them. "Lucid, I'm really sorry for being a terrible father. I was a truly horrible being for putting you through that heartbreak and I hope we can make amends because I love you, Lucid. I want us to be a family again."

There was a moment of silence as Discord lowered his arms and tried to hug him. But before he was able to do so, Lucid quickly interrupted him. "Woah, woah, woah! That's it? You wrote your entire emotional speech on ONE index card?"

"Well, I was short on time and wanted to use the rest of them for drawing pictures of us doing all the fun things we're going to do together!" He brought one of the cards up to his son and showed him a crudely drawn picture of the two of them on a roller coaster colored in crayons. Lucid glared at the picture and then his dad. "Do you like it?" he asked with a big smile.

"YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO MAKE ME ACCEPT YOU AS MY FATHER?!" he yelled. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT UNIVERSE WAS LIKE? IT WAS DARK AND COLD! THERE WAS NO ONE TO TALK TO! I HAD OATMEAL EVERY DAY FOR MY WHOLE LIFE! BREAKFAST WAS OATMEAL! LUNCH WAS OATMEAL SOUP! DINNER WAS A DAMN OATMEAL SANDWICH! GUESS WHAT THE BREAD WAS MADE OF? FUCKING OATMEAL!"

Discord's ears flattened. "I'm not a good cook, okay?"

"YOU'RE A GOOD DICK, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!" He angrily stomped out of the room again before walking back into the room. "CAN I STAY IN THE CASTLE FOR A BIT? I HAVE NOWHERE TO LIVE!"

"Y-Yes! Just please don't yell anymore!" Celestia pleaded.

"THANK YOU!" He quickly stormed out of the room once more and entered another room a few doors down the hallway.

Celestia and Luna slowly exchanged worried looks as they frowned. "I'll talk to him," Celestia volunteered as she walked out of the room and knocked on the one closed door in the hallway. She knocked on the door and called out, "Lucid?"

There was a whimper from the other side. "GO AWAY!"

Celestia's ears lowered as she sighed. She opened the door and saw Lucid holding a box of tissues close to him. Lucid quickly sat up and hid the tissues behind his back. "Lucid, it's okay to cry. You've been through a rough life, I can see. I won't judge you."

"I-I wasn't going to cry..." he admitted.

"Then, what was with the tissues f–" She quickly stopped herself and realized the real purpose for the tissues. "Gr-Gross."

"Yeaaahh...so what do you want?"

"L-Lucid," she began, trying to rid her mind of the dirty urges the teenager was about to succumb to, "I want you to give your father a chance."

"Give him a CHANCE?! Did you listen to the speech I just gave back there? OATMEAL!"

"I know, I know! He screwed up and you don't have to apologize! Just consider..." she paused for a bit to think before continuing, "...just consider the possibility of forgiving him in the future, okay? He truly is sorry for his actions."

Lucid calmed down at hearing this and averted his gaze from her. He opened his mouth to speak, but instead sighed. "You do realize there was literally a MILLION different ways he could've handled this?"

"Lucid, your father is the Ruler of Chaos, not the sharpest tool in the shed." She whispered a bit into his ear with a slight giggle, "Don't tell him I said that..."

Lucid tried his best not to laugh, but he couldn't help snicker a bit at that statement. "I-I'll try not to."

"Feel better?" she asked, patting him on the back gently.

With a deep inhale and exhale, he responded, "I'd feel better if I...you know..." He trailed off, grabbing the box of tissues from behind him.

Celestia withdrew herself and took a hoofstep back from the sheer awkwardness of the teen's request. "S-Sure. I'll give you some privacy." She covered her eyes with an arm and backed out of the room hastily. Before she left though, she left him with one last word of advice. "Think about me while you're doing it and I'll slap you across the face."

"U-Understood."

Celestia nodded understandingly and closed the door. She leaned on the opposite wall and let out a long sigh. "Today was NOT a good day..."

Author's Note

So I decided that instead of making this a two-parter to merge an edited first chapter with the second one. I felt as if Discord wasn't written well enough, so I changed his dialogue slightly and made him seem more...chaotic I guess. As always, provide criticisms in the comments. I forgot to mention this is my first time focusing on story that's more comedic than slice of life, so please tell me where I should improve and all that