Chapters Star and Marco vs The Forces of Harmony
The Voice inside your Head
Marco tossed and turned in his sleep, as if trapped in a nightmare. Within his dream he saw a world, young and filled with happiness. Soon, a shadow assuming the form of a creature made up of pieces from others descended. All around him the landscape changed, buildings floated, grass turned to carpet, and animals were altered about. He laughed as the clouds rained chocolate milk and became cotton candy.
Suddenly it seemed as if the sun and moon appeared in some way and faced the invader. Their magic was strong but it became clear that the entity was the victor. With the two gone and tossed away, he soon took control of the world itself.
The inhabitants, ponies, pegasi, and unicorns, all lived under his rule until the two he banished returned bearing six gems with them. Not even caring, he started to sing then a flash of rainbow nothing was felt until Marco awoke feeling as if he was smashed to pieces.
”Boy that was some dream,” Marco said to himself, however it felt so real that it was almost like he was there.
‘Really? You think that's a dream?’
He smacked his dry lips, randomly craving chocolate milk. “I wonder what weirdness Star has in store for me today. Maybe something to do with giant tacos.” In a flash, a giant taco appeared over his head, floating for a minute. “Ah oh,” Marco said as the taco few on top of him. “Star!” Marco screamed out, smothered by the taco’s weight.
“Yessss?” She leans into his eyesight, smiling, her body shaking with barely contained energy and magic. It's a regular day for her, a regular morning, the regular morning chaos that will lead to the noon chaos, which walks right into afternoon chaos.
‘My favorite Princess, which is not really saying much,’ a voice said in Marco’s head which he could only ignore.
“Star, why did a giant taco appear over my bed?” Marco asked.
“What's a taco?” She tilts her head, her fountain of blond hair staying down due to the hideous effects of gravity.
“You known the thing you had your wand make that is currently all over me.” He pointed to the taco parts all over his chest and legs.
“What are you talking about? I don't see anything!” She begins to pout, the pieces of taco guts and filling gone, his clothes and bed cleaned suddenly from the deliciousness caress of the hallowed taco.
“B-but t-the.” His head and eyes dart across the once soiled bedsheets, trying to see what was there only a moment ago. He knew it was real. Maybe it was one of the hallucinations that plague his existence. Star grabs his hand, pulling him out of bed with her ever-present grin.
“Come on! We will be late to school if you don't get off your butt!” She drags him to his closet, then throws him in it, not very lightly, “Move move, move!”
In the bathroom, Star was busy with her hair as Marco was brushing his teeth. Star let out a low growl as her hair brush got caught in her long hair, yet again, “I will win this and you will look pretty!” she screams at her hair in a fit of energy induced rage.
Marco turned to her with a sigh then looked back at the mirror. Staring at him was his reflection, but… off. Part of his hair was a different color, and his eyes seemed yellow, filled with pus or bloodshot to a point that they seem infected. Then the small, almost unnoticeable bumps on top of his head along with horse ears extending out of the top of his head. A single fang could be seen out the side of his mouth. The reflection gave a smile and a waved. “Hello Marco, we finally meet,” the reflection said.
Marco jumps violently, backpedaling in pure terror, tripping over Star, who was laying on the ground, wrestling with her hair, “Ah!” They both let out a small scream, Marco from the image in the mirror and the sudden fall. Star, form the random weight on her. “What was that?!? Star, did you do something to the mirror?!?”
“What was it, Marco?” She looked at him, slightly worried.
“Oh, you know, looking at a thing of absolute manliness,” the mirror reflection said as he struck poses and grew huge muscles which each flexed before turning back to normal. “I’m hurt Marco doesn’t know me even after he saw our death at the hands of the ‘Sun and the Moon’.” He had fake tears at this.
“Don't you see it?!? In the mirror?!?” He begins to descend into a full blown panic attack. “The other me!”
“Well no duh, I see it, it's your reflection!”
The reflection laughed at Marco. “She can’t see me, Marco, but I am here, so don’t worry you're not mad,” the reflection said with a smile, “well, not very much.” The reflection gave a laugh at the last part.
“That does help,” he said with a low voice at the reflection. “What are you? Don’t tell me you're the monster arm?”
“Kinda, but then again you would be unstable if you awoke as an arm on someone, but no, I am... or was Discord, Spirit of Chaos.” The newly-named Discord then smiled at Marco, “Oh, and I’m your past life.”
Marco proceeded to pass out, the shock finally reaching him while Star just looked at him, helplessly confused, “Is he ok?... I wonder if he's ok.” She poked his cheek once, then again, then again.
“Wake up, Marco,” the voice of Discord said, as Marco was thrust awake.
“Oh, my head,” Marco said holding his head.
“I know, right?” Discord said in his head, “Being forced awake is painful.”
A mismatched being similar to the one he saw as himself in the mirror simply floats above the bathroom counter, drinking a shake. Everything of his that he once put somewhere is different, the labels simply reading ‘chaos is next to godliness.’
“But you aren't REALLY awake, you were in your mind!” It does a loop, it and the shake going upside down yet it never falls out, and seems to never lose any of itself even after Discord took a long slurp from it.
“M-my mind?” Marco asked as Discord nodded, giving him a trophy. The little man then danced on top, dancing a random jig.
“Yes, now this must be life changing having me as your past life, but it gets better, you know. having the vast powers of Chaos to learn and grow.” Discord was now wearing a teaching outfit with a chalkboard and an eraser that drew and check that erased.
“You’ll be able to make the ground into a racetrack, get dogs and mailman to be friends to stop the cat rebellion, and make the moon into actual Cheese! Beautiful cheese! Lulu was very mad about that one, though,” Discord said.
“This doesn’t make sense,” Marco stated, looking at Discord and everything he was doing.
“But dear, sweet, naïve Marco, what’s the fun in making sense?” Discord said with a smile, eating the chalk down to a nub, “Drat, there goes the chalk.”
“Ok, can you just make sense just this once? I have no idea what is going on!” Marco screamed, Discord’s expression changed to being as serious as he could get.
“It wouldn't be VERY chaotic if I didn't make sense once in awhile, do you know about ideas, Marco?” Everything around them disappeared, leaving a large, blank plane.
“Like thoughts?” Marco tilted his head, confused.
“No, no, no. Ideas. Things that exist because they are impossible to kill or destroy. Harmony and Chaos, for instance. If one exist, the other must surely exist. There is no such thing as total chaos, or total harmony. They broke my form, so I simply was reborn, as you!”
Marco started to put some of what he was saying together. “Ok I’m starting to get what you're saying.” Discord gave a nod.
“Yet you want to know what I mean by form?” Marco was stunned by this. “Don’t be too surprised I am you, but yes I was turned to stone by the Elements of Harmony then smashed by the wielder of the Sun and the Mover of the Moon. With no body, my essence had to be reborn somewhere. Strange that I kept my mind, though.” The white expanse manifested into the backyard of Marco’s home, “Ah, time for you to wake up now. Tell that pretty little girl I said ‘Nuclear chocolate milk bomb.’”
Macro awoke sitting up and said, “Nuclear Chocolate Milk Bomb.”
“Nuclear Chocolate Milk bomb?” Star’s wand started to glow when she asked that, and a small brown-colored bomb simply manifested in front of them, a timer counting down from three. “Oh no.”
A few moments later, the chocolate milk drained to the point that it was around their ankles. Discord gave a laugh at the whole thing. “Well things will be more fun than those * boring** ponies.”*
‘I somehow doubt that,’ Marco thought as the milk slowly lowered away and out of the house.
“I CAN FIX THIS! Clean up le ness!” The wand glows for a moment before a giant vacuum manifested and began to suck the chocolate milk out of everything before dematerialzing, taking the chocolate milk with it, “Yay I cleannnneeddd!” Star let out a giggle before going back to work on her hair.
“Oh look, you’re finally talking to me,” Discord said with happiness.
‘Yeah, that’s my mistake,' Marco thought back to him.
“Then why are you still doing it?” Marco ignored him. “Fine, I won’t tell you how to use your chaos magic.”
Marco bit his lip, torn between telling Discord to screw off or to give in to the temptation of magic. He decided to ignore him, not like he would ever need it, “You'll give in soon!~”
At school, everything was uneventful. That is, it was was uneventful in a boring lecture with Star. Discord was heard banging his head in Marco’s mind. “No more! This is so boring!” Marco rolled his eyes.
‘Well sorry that it isn’t exciting,’ Marco countered back.
“Screw that, monster attack now, universe!” Discord screamed within his mind.
The wall got kicked in by Lodo, followed by a horde of monsters, Star jumped to the top of her desk while screaming out ‘narwhal blast!’ over and over again. Marco jumped to his feet getting into his combat position. “Snap your figures!” Discord screamed as him.
‘Why?’ Marco asked, ‘That would do nothing.'
“Just do it!” Discord demanded. Macro did so, and the desks jumped up alive and rammed into any nearby monster. Macro was surprised by this. “Nice, eh? This is Chaos Magic. Your magic. Our magic. Snap again!” Marco snaps, this time the desk grow faces that sing very, very badly. This makes Lodo scream out and retreat, leaving another hole in the wall.
“Wow, Marco! How did you use magic?!?” Star jumped in front of him, smiling widely.
“Ah…” Discord knocked on his head.
“Don’t worry, I got this… hello Star, can you hear me!” Discord screamed into her mind. Star heard him her head at this. “Yay, mind talk is working, Hello Star Butterfly, my name is Discord, Spirit of Chaos, Marco’s past life and the source of his new magical powers.”
“Neat! You seem nice and fun and not boring and not evil like most past lives are!” Star’s eye twitched slightly as her innocent smile remained.
“Oh I can just tell this will be fun.” Discord said with a laugh. His laughter grew. but as soon as Marco turned to (Troll teacher name, not good with names) he let out a scream, “Sweet Celestia ass, that is an ugly troll!”
‘That’s my teacher.’ Discord was quiet for a while.
“That’s...cruel...forcing you to look at THAT! I have to go breach whatever keeps my memories.” Discord went silent and normality returned for the rest of the day.
Star and Marco vs The Forces of Harmony
In an alley, under the cover of night, a portal ripped open. A cloaked figure stepped out... and seemed to almost fall over on her own two feet. “Okay, going to take some getting used to,” the feminine voice said as the cloak was pulled down to reveal red and yellow hair. “Now where is Discord’s vessel?” she asked.
“Star, really?” Marco asked. The house was covered in wild vines which seemed to grow continuously. As for how this happened... leaving your spare charger with plants and a bit of day old yogurt was a terrible combo.
“It's not REALLY my fault that the magic reacted to the charger! Do the little snap, snap thingy to make the plants dance away or something funny like that! Narwhal blast!” Narwhals shot out of her wand, their horns cutting through the plants, making adorable noises as they did so.
“I like this one, so fun and random! Not completely chaotic but that's OK. In time, dear friends.”
Marco let out a sigh, cutting the advancing plants with a large kitchen knife, “We are not friends and you are not touching her! Besides, I bet this was all your fault anyway!”
“Oh no, dear boy, this was all you and your friend Star. I am an artiste! I will not take credit for another's art!”
“You’re technically me!” Marco exclaimed as he cut off a vine that tried to grab his arm.
“Yes, so if it is my fault doesn’t that make it your fault?” ...Discord had a point, Marco would give him that.
“Well then how about making these vines disappear?” Marco gave a snap, instead of the vines disappearing they morphed into a plant dragon. Marco and Star went wide eyed at this.
“Well that would be no fun would it? You're still learning boy! You ARE pure chaos! Stop being so picky and orderly.”
The plant dragon advanced on them, being held back slightly by the flying, cutting hearts and narwhals, but ultimately advancing. “Marco if you have a plan USE IT!” Star cried out as she was grabbed, the wand falling out of her hand and skidding across the room.
Marco looked at Star before screaming. “What am I supposed to do then, Discord?!?”
“First off, relax. Angry chaotic magic is very bad, eldritch horrors and all that. Take a breath, calm down, and just follow the flow of the magic. It's smart, it'll think of something. Think of it like improv comedy, roll with the punches.” Marco looked at the plant monster holding his best friend in its grasp. He took a long and deep breath, following the mental guiding hand of Discord as he brought up his hand and snapped.
The dragon turned into a bunny with flowers for eyes and vines making up its body. It tried to roar, but only a squeak came out. “Now the joke.”
“I guess that dragon got a little harey at the end, huh Star?”
“That’s a terrible pun.” Discord deadpanned.
‘I’m not great at comedy.’ Marco thought back.
“Well then I know what our next lesson will be.”
The next day, as Marco waited by the lockers to see Jackie (like always,) Discord decided to speak up. “You realize that you have no chance right?” Discord asked him, “Also this is boring and too routine.”
‘Hey I do have a chance!’ Marco snapped back at him.
“Keep telling yourself that, and you’ll be insane in no time. No wait, that would mean you’d be fun. Wait... never mind, insane humans are scary.”
Macro looked at his watch. ‘Strange, she’s late.’
“Or maybe you accidentally slowed time?” Finally Jackie could be seen leading a girl with bacon colored hair and what seemed to be yellow skin. “You have got to be kidding me,” Discord said.
“What? Jackie showing a new student around, what’s so strange about that, besides the obvious?” Marco asked him.
“Look closely and focus only on her,” Discord said with a stoic voice. Marco did and nothing seemed strange... until an image of a yellow unicorn with a sun tattoo on her butt appeared over her for a moment.
“...Why must it be unicorns? Always. Magic things are scary!” He remembered back to the pixies, the marriage rituals.
“Well, she's from the world that shattered my body, watch out and be careful, by which I mean act normal for you. She’ll see Star and try to approach, she’s most likely cut off from her magic but will have other tricks. Chaos is your last resort in this case, understand?”
“Wow... that's pretty logical for you…” Marco rubbed the back of his arm, not liking the idea of putting Star in danger.
“Next lesson. As in harmony, there is a place for logic in chaos. It helps you make long term plans.”
The girl looked at Marco. She saw him looking at her. ‘Hmmm.’
“So what do you have as first period?” Jackie asked the disguised unicorn.
“I haven’t gotten my schedule yet,” she replied.
“Okay Sunset, let’s go get it,” Jackie said as Sunset followed her.
As Marco and Star took their seats, their teacher turned to them. “Alright class, we have a new foreign exchange student, please welcome Sunset Shimmer.” Walking into the classroom was the girl from before.
‘Great what else could go wrong?’ Marco asked himself.
Star jumped up to great Sunset. “Never. Tempt. Fate.”
“HI! My name is Star Butterfly and, who are you and, how is your skin so orange, and why does your hair smell like bacon?!?” Sunset was taken aback for a moment by Star’s questions.
“You remind me of a friend of mine... who also doesn't know the meaning of personal space.” Sunset pushed Star away a bit, not to reject her but to gain her personal space back.
Star gasped and got in her face once more, then smiled widely. “So you WILL be my friend?” Star bounced in place, her blond locks bouncing with her.
“Yes?” Sunset let out an utterly confused answer which prompted Star to seemingly fly back to her desk with the widest grin possible for her.
Miss Skullnick let out a sigh, then Sunset turned to her and let out a small scream. “Troll!”
“I am not a troll! You can sit by Marco, that's the only free desk in the class.” Miss Skullnick sighed and pointed to the the free desk at the front of the room. “Damn kids…”
Sunset awkwardly walked to her desk, wondering why magic was coming off so strongly form the two humans beside her... Star and Marco. “Um... have you two seen anything strange? Clouds that rain chocolate or dancing chairs?”
Just before Star could answer, Macro interrupted. “No, there hasn’t been any of that,” Marco said with an awkward chuckle. He whispered to Star, “Don’t tell her anything, I’ll explain later.”
Sunset gave them both a glare. ‘He’s hiding something.’
‘Why is she glaring at us?’ Marco asked.
“She can sense the magic coming off both you and Star, we are lucky that the magic happens to be the wand’s that she’s sensing and not your own,” Discord commented, “We need a distraction… where is that imp?”
“Ok, so, Marco, what was that you needed to explain?” she asked.
‘Hey Discord you mind explaining it?’ Marco asked. A minor twinge in his head was felt as Discord accessed the telepathy to Star.
“I’ll explain, Star you know that my body was destroyed then I was reincarnated as Marco? Well now you're not the only girl from another dimension in town.”
Star looked to Sunset and began to smile, and then she jumped over Marco to tackle hug the new arrival. “YAY! Oh I have so much to show you, come on!” Star jumped up, took out a pair of scissors, cut a hole open in the air, then jumped through with Sunset in tow while Miss Skullnick kept teaching the rest of the class. Everyone was used to it by now.
Discord began to laugh, “Oh how I wish I was that girl. Almost as chaotic as I. Almost.”
“Star’s alone with someone who could hurt her!” Marco’s fist tightened as he jumped through the portal impulsively in pursuit of the two girls. Marco fell into a roll and landed where Star was forcing Sunset to dance to the club music.
Discord sighed in his head. “Poor impulse control, boy, going after Star and Bacon Bits.”
“Marco, hey! You followed us for a dance party?!?” Star asked. Sunset looked reasonably creeped out.
‘She’s too chaotic... wait could she be Discord?’ Sunset asked herself. Another tear opened up as Ludo and his men appeared.
‘How did they find us?’ Marco asked.
“About that, you don’t think you're being watched, do you? Like, right now?” Discord asked.
“What’s going on?” Sunset asked, turning to Star and Marco.
Star let out a ‘bleh’ sound. “It's that creep Ludo, he wants my family relic wand.” She took it out and shouted “Narwhal blast!” knocking some of Ludo’s men off, who fell into a portal they made. Marco proceeds to drop kick one off.
“You missed the perfect chance for a falling pun.”
“Shut up Discord! This is your fault!” Star was also beating on most of them with a combination of attacks, the rave in the background only getting more extreme as Sunset watched from the sidelines in a state of confusion as the epic battle played out with Star and Marco winning, as usual.
Star did a little dance then blew a raspberry at them in the most insulting manner she knew. Ludo was getting mad, on the verge of throwing a tantrum. “Enough, grab the other girl!” Ludo yelled, pointing at Sunset.
The horn-headed one grabbed her. “Hey, let me go,” Sunset growled.
“Give us the wand and your new friend doesn’t get hurt!” Ludo tried to ransom.
Discord laughed within Marco’s head. “Wow he must not be that bright.”
‘What is that supposed to mean?’ Marco asked.
“Watch.”
Sunset rolled her eyes. “Yeah, how about no?” With a flash in her eyes she disappeared and reappeared behind the monster to blast it with a magic beam.
“Not another one!” Ludo said with a desperate tone.
Star and Sunset stood back to back, Star’s wand out, Sunset pointing a finger gun at Marco. Magic gathered on the tip of Sunset’s finger while the sound of nachos was heard from Star’s wand.
“Am I hearing... nachos?”
“A woman after my own heart.”
“Nuclear nacho cheese ray!” A large projectile of nacho cheese hit Ludo, while Sunset’s magic looked tiny by comparison. The platform was covered by cheese while the portal closed. Everyone kept partying, even eating the cheese, except for one sentient slice of cheese that was screaming and sobbing.
“The horror!” it cried out as it melted to join the hot cheese covering the floor. Star giggled and patted Sunset’s head.
“Why is she so bad Marco?” Star tilted her head, smiling.
Sunset looked at Marco, then she scanned him for a moment and felt it. She felt the chaotic magic coming off him for just a moment. ‘He is Discord!’ She was shocked that the chaos entity was not the chaotic girl! Then it hit her, ‘Of course he’s hiding in plain sight.’
“Ahhh,” Marco started but Discord then spoke up.
“Take the scissors and leave now!”
‘That’s a terrible idea,’ Marco countered.
“Yeah, well, I think Star may have blown your cover.”
“Well, is that so bad? Show them I don't mean any harm.”
“You have no idea do you?”
“DISCORD!” Marco took a magic blast to the chest, not taking any damage as it simply bounced off.
Sunset took out what looked like a mirror. A portal opened up and she dove into it. “What just happened?” Star asked.
“We’d better be ready, in your current state Celestia and Luna are going to have a field day with you.”
‘Who?’ Marco asked.
Star and Marco vs The Forces of Harmony
The Sisters and Chaos Dimension
“In the Equus Dimension, the main inhabitants come in three flavors, earth ponies who are strong, and endurable who can pound rocks into pebbles like it is nothing, pegasi who can control when it rains, lighting, blizzards, and fly as fast as your jets, and finally unicorns who manipulate the energy of magic though their horns.”
Marco was, somehow, in his mind sitting on a desk with Discord dressed as a scientist drawing on a chalkboard.
“Now then, what happens when you combine the three and turn that power up to let’s say... move the Sun and Moon, what do you get?” Discord asked.
“Really powerful ponies?” Marco asked.
“You get the royal sisters, Celestia and Luna, immortal pseudo-rulers, who are, yes, really powerful,” Discord said as he drew Celestia bringing the heat of the sun on a whole field, and Luna letting creatures from nightmares into our world. As for who they were attacking... it was Discord.
“Wait, so they destroyed you?” Marco asked.
“No, they injured me with my own fears and the energy of the sun, but they are not in themselves what destroyed me, you’ll learn that bit later,” Discord said.
The battles were long and fierce, once or twice Discord lost a hold on his temper, making the relatively innocent weapons he was fighting with into things much, much more fierce and overall evil looking but they soon returned to the colorful glitter cannons and the pie catapults with sunscreen and fire retardant as filling. But the sisters won with a rainbow coming from six pendants, catching Discord off guard.
“Wow... you seem to fight like Star...”
“To a point, yes. But I also twisted their minds, turning them into the opposites of their strongest and best qualities, in their eyes.”
“That sounds kinda manipulative,” Marco pointed out. “Also, what was that rainbow blast anyway?”
“That was a Harmony blast channelled through the Elements of Harmony, though I theorise that the elements are no longer tied to them. I get this feeling something happened and I’m rarely wrong.” Discord then drew Marco, Celestia and Luna. “However, the thing is, in your current state as a beginner they won’t need the elements.” The drawings came to life as Celestia blasted Marco to ash.
Discord reshaped the ash and smiled at him. “BUT Star’s wand naturally amplifies and focuses magic. Look at how she uses it and tell me it is not reality-warpingly powerful?”
“It is...”
“Add that to your reality warping chaotic powers and you could make the Princess harmless to both you and Star. Besides, if they find out that you were with her for so long, she IS going to be blasted with the Elements, she IS going to go through a instantaneous version of the wayward princess school, and she will not be Star anymore. Not your best friend, not your mess twin, she will be a proper princess.”
Marco looked at Discord in horror, he coudl begin to feel tears form, the heat pricking the points of his eyes, “N-no...”
“You will listen to me. To save Star, understand Marco? Chaos is Anarchy, Harmony is Conformality. Do not feel anger, that is not a human's most chaotic emotion. This magic you were born with is completely contradictory to itself. This is your lesson for today, take heart in it.”
Marco turned to ask Discord something. “What is humans’ most chaotic emotion, then?”
Discord just smiled. “Love makes a man do things he never dreamed of.”
Back in Mewni, Ludo was having another breakdown. “It’s bad enough Star has the wand, but the boy has strange abilities and that girl, what’s next?” Ludo got the answer as a shadow forced its way into the castle.
The shadow grow eyes and fangs, then slowly the head of a demonic looking unicorn formed. “We must talk ,” the shadowy being said, its voice dark and echoey.
“Ahh sure... who are you, Mr. dark shadow?”
“My name is Sombra, and I have a deal for you .”
Marco awoke from his mind in his room. Star was looking over him. “Marco! Are you alright! You just fainted!”
Discord spoke into her mind. “Sorry, we needed a chat, something from our past is coming soon.”
“Like what, Uncle Discord?”
“Well first of all I love the sound of Uncle Discord. So when is the little chimera due?”
Star and Marco looked at each other confused for a moment, then they both get it at the same time and blush badly as they start to sputter in an embarrassed way that makes them even more embarrassed about the situation but they get out in sync, “It’s not like that!”
Discord laughs in their heads. “Teen love. Oh so charming. Anyway, Star, give him your wand.”
“Wha- what?” Her face is still red for the heart shaped blushing growing and taking over most of her cheeks, the idea of her and Marco still confusing her mind as Marco gently takes the wand from her.
“Listen to the voices in my head, Star. Wow, that sounded better in my head.”
“Why yes it does, anyway what I was saying? Oh right, Marco is going to need the wand just in case Celly and Lulu show up,” Discord stated.
“Well, how dangerous are they anyway?” Star asked.
“Other than the powers of the sun, moon, and a whole army? Six magical gems that turned me to stone and could permanently turn you into whatever that floating head was at Saint O’s.”
Marco shivers. “Anything, anything but being... that.”
“Then saddle up cowboy, and be ready to break in some ponies,” Discord said sounding like a cowboy. Marco somehow pictured Discord as a cowboy riding himself with a saddle on his black and reins in his mouth.
‘Somehow I can see that making perfect sense for you,’ Marco thought back. Discord then paused and blinked.
“You can see me while I’m doing this?” Discord asked.
‘No,’ Marco lied.
“Okay then, also before we face them you need to learn how to teleport as well as open portals, Marco, just in case.”
“Wait, you can travel to other worlds without dimensional scissors?’ Marco asked.
‘Yes but it’s more complex because of it. You are going to exist in the two universes at once, then erase the one who stayed behind.”
“Wait, really?’
“No, you simply need to know the structure of the dimensions and their energies or vibrations, you know the closest thing I can tell you is comic logic.”
‘That makes even less sense, Discord.'
“It’s chaos! Let it do its thing, just like with the chair. Think of an outcome and let it do what it wants. This is the best way for a beginner like you.”
'Any recommendations?'
“No place like home.” The image of Discord’s grin was stained in Marco’s mind as he just thought of his home, vaguely. He took a deep breath then snapped his fingers, closing his eyes on instinct as the sense of weightlessness overtook him and continued. He opened his eyes to see the inside of what looked, to be his home but everything was floating.
“Discord... Where are we?” An astral projection of Discord sat on the couch that was slowly tumbling in the air.
“Home, dear Marco! A place where no form of harmony can exist for long. A whole UNIVERSE of chaos to be played with like a toy box! A place where you are, truly, a god."
Marco looked out the window and saw a strange place with flying fish monsters with dozens of heads, faces, and one looked like it was an eyeball with a mouth. The sky was everywhere... and was that a green blob of slime eating gems? “So this is your dimension?” Marco asked.
“Well, no Marco, it's your dimension now. Entering here takes little effort as your essence is tied to it,” Discord stated. “Other dimensions, however, are more difficult to travel to. You’ll have to rip open a portal with your claws to travel to them.” Discord then remembered. “I guess you could use something like a knife to do that.”
“Okay, so what do I do with this dimension anyway?” Marco asked.
“Oh, it reacts to your wishes, at one point I had a castle in here but decided on a cottage as the whole thing was a eyesore.”
Marco closed his eyes for a moment before opening them to a perfectly organized castle, perfectly symmetrical towers covered in beautiful symmetrical black and white til- he looked to his feet to see one tile out of place. This beautiful monument to tidiness and symmetry RUINED by one tile. Discord’s laughs echoed though the new wide halls. “Chaos in its finest form! Subtle!”
Marco dropped to his knees, trying his best to fix it, but every time something else messed up in some small way, “W-why... Why Discord?...”
“Chaos is that way, dear Marco boy!” The form of Discord snaked around Marco, smiling, “This place is CHAOS’ and by extension, YOURS. Go make some tea, boy!”
“Um, why Discord?” Marco tilts his head.
“Oh, we have visitors coming!~”
Outside the castle two floating balls of energy appeared. One was burning like the sun, the other glowing like the moon. In a flash an alicorn made from heat and light appeared with a smaller blue glowing one alongside. “Do you really think Discord could survive that?” the blue one asked the light one.
“I hope not Luna, but we must confirm if it is indeed true, for our subjects’ sake,” the light one replied.
The blue one pointed at the castle. “Sister, didn’t Discord have a cottage?” She asked.
“Last time I checked, yes.” Marco looked from the window and was a bit thankful the sisters hadn’t seen him. However, something wasn’t right.
“He's alive? That demon still lives!” Luna screamed.
Celestia ground her teeth slightly and nodded. “He is, how even infuriating it is the draconequus is much stronger than us, and at the same time cunning. Be careful for traps that will steal your spirit in this accursed realm.”
“Of course, Sister. The castle looks to be the best place to search for clues,” Luna said as the two astral projections walked to the castle through the front gate. Luna looked to her hooves and let out a scream. “The tiles! They’re evil!”
“What is it, Sister?!?” Celestia looked down to see that ONE tile out of place, no matter what, that one misplaced tile always at the corner of her eye. The type of thing that will drive you mad SLOWLY. “Discord has gone too far... This... This is madness, not simple Chaos, but a force to drive ponies crazy...”
