Cucumber Sandwiches

"So, first things first. I have to," Discord consulted his mind, "create a bunch of rocks?" He had never used this sort of spell before and it was confusing to know what it was trying to tell him. It took a lot of focus and also access to the deepest part of the user's mind. "Do I really have to create a bunch of floating rocks? Okay..." he snapped, creating trillions of rocks of varying sizes and shapes. "I now have to," he focused in his mind again, "make some of them out of ice? I hope I did this spell correctly." He snapped again, turning a few of the rocks into ice. He consulted his mind yet again, doing what it told him to do. He continued the lines of instructions that instantly snapped into his mind, making some of the rocks have gravitational pulls, increasing the sizes of some of the stars, and creating many different types of materials.

It was all going fine, him doing what his mind told him to do. He didn't know how long he had been doing it for, but it felt like forever. He just kept snapping and snapping, that is, until one set of instructions passed his mind. They were odd and not what he had been expecting. They were the instructions to turn some of the bigger rocks into planets, including one that needed to have Water and Earth, one of the well known pairs. This planet he was guessing was Equestria. Following what his mind told him, reminding himself that this was how he was going to get the knowledge he chased, the knowledge that his emotions were forcing him to chase.

The planet was made out of a slightly smaller rock than he was guessing it would be. Then again, it was still huge compared to him. As he snapped, water, dirt, and life bursting out of the ground, a new set of instructions passed his mind. They told him to go to the planet he just created and create many different organisms. He snapped and reappeared on the surface of this new planet, the grass soft on his toes. He snapped, rabbits and deer and other creatures popping into existence. The next set of instructions appeared in his mind, the instructions to create the reining beings of this planet, but not in the form he was expecting. He created an earth pony, a unicorn, and a pegasus. They looked nothing like they did on the present Equestria, but they were what he was told to make, so he did.

After the instructions of making this planet, he was told to move on to the next. Then the next. Then the next. He had not been aware how many planets there were. Boy, would he have a lot to tell Twilight when he got back. He kept moving, thousands of planets bursting into existence by his claws. He started to think. He was basically just riding along time. He was not actually doing this in the actual reality. Was this wrong? He was taking away how everything should've come along and forcing it to come along. As he thought about this, that one emotion, guilt, was getting stronger. He pushed the question aside and kept working.

All was going well. He created planet after planet and was going along with what had to be done. He finally came to the last planet, one that would be made out of a huge rock, about two thousand times the size of Equestria. He focused on what he had to do with this one. The instructions floated their way into his mind. This would be a cold planet, snow and ice covering the ground year round. He thought to himself that this had to be one of the planets that didn't matter. He would just freeze it and move along with the path. He snapped and the rocky surface slicked over, a white powder covering some of the planet. He was about to snap to leave this planet when more instructions regarding this planet passed his mind. This had to be a mistake. What could be so important about this place, a floating snowball?

He just had to finish this and he could get back on track to finding out what he needed to know. He had to create mountains, caves, icebergs, and plenty of other things. He thought it was all just a waste of time. He thought that the entire time he was working on this planet. He thought it all until the last set of instructions came in. He stopped just to focus on what he was thinking. Could this actually be? Was this actually the place...

He immediately started to work on this instruction. He had to focus on this very intensely. He had never made an organism this complex before. It combined many systems of different animals and had a very weird bone structure. He couldn't believe what he was actually doing, but it was what his mind told him to do. He snapped, the effort of creating these things taking the breath out of him. For a minute, nothing happened. But then the things burst into existence.

There was Discord, standing in the freezing weather of this planet, staring at a herd of about twenty of them. The things... they were...

They were draconequii. Discord had created his own species. He created them on an icy planet about a light year away from Equestria.

The instructions stopped flowing through his head. Unfortunately the only thing he had solved was opening up more questions. He wouldn't answer any of them, though, at this time. He had to speed up time. For every minute he thought, a minute passed in Equestria. Every minute he was here, a minute passed for Fluttershy.

With the thought of his friend controlling him, he snapped, and time went flying forward. Further and further he went, until he stopped. He didn't know how long he had just been standing there, for when time finally went back to normal, he was in a glass box, being stared at by little draconequii. He had been standing here long enough to be turned into a relic. As he started to move, the shock of what had happened draining from his body, the children started to whisper to others around them. Discord snapped and reappeared outside of the building, a huge structure made out of snow and ice. He looked around. There were many buildings along with caves that were lit up. This had to be the right time. It all seemed so familiar. He looked around more, a certain mountain catching his attention.

More importantly, there was a cave near the top of that mountain that was lit up with a warm and inviting yellow glow.

He started heading there, leaving the building alive with commotion as the most mysterious relic had just disappeared.