Error In The System

by PyraFlare

And along came Discord

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"H-H-Hey Tori, I'm b-back." Error called as he walked through the cave halls. When he got no response he frowned and began glitching around his home, checking every room but finding nothing. "Strange..." He checked the kitchen last, finding a plate of hot food waiting fir him on the kitchen table with a note beside it. He picked up a slice of pie in one hand while he read the letter in the other. "S-So, she's gone wi-wi-with Author to figure some-some stuff o-out? Wonder why s-she didn't come t-to me."

He set the note down and finished his meal before glitching it over to the sink and glitching over to his bed.

"It's b-been a pretty t-t-tiresome day, if Tori is-is with Author I-I don't need to worry-y." He lay down abd threw the blanket over himself before closing his eyes and falling asleep.


The next morning on the surface

Twilight took a sip from her morning coffee and sighed happily. "I have a good feeling about today."

"Why's that?" Both Starlight and Spike asked as they sat down at the dining room table with their own drinks.

"I don't know, I just feel as if today will be a good day."

"Y-You know something is-is going to go wrong because you s-s-s-said that right?" Error asked as he glitched into the room, causing the three to jump.

"Error? What are you doing here?" Twlight asked as she regained her composure.

Error shrugged and took a bite from a donut he pulled out of some code. "I was b-bored and Tori is-is-isn't home so I thought I-I'd hang out with you-you guys."

"Well, if you're wanting to hang with us that's fine, but I think we'd all appreciate it if you didn't just appear out of nowhere like that." Spile spoke up as he finished his gem flavoured tea.

"Asking m-me to stop doing stuff-stuff like that is like-ike asking Discord to st-stop bending reality to s-suit his own needs."

As if on cue, the spirit of chaos appeared in the middle of the room. "Is someone using me as a comparison to something again? Honestly, you'd think after all this time we'd be last such petty insults-" Discord stopped as his eyes landed on Error. "Oh, it's you again, finally decided to crawl out of your little hole did you?"

Error smirked. "Well well w-well, if it-it isn't the sub-par reality b-bender. I see you're n-no longer encased in s-stone."

"Sub-par? I'm the spirit of chaos! Manipulating reality is what I do best!" Discord and Error slowly began walking towards each other.

"L-Last I checked you got-got whipped by t-that shy pegasus girl and got y-y-y-your ass handed to you by a-a pathetic magic stealing centaur-aur."

"What are you saying exactly?" Discord demanded in a low but dark voice as they reached each other, Discord glaring down at the skeleton while Error held the same smug expression.

"W-What I'm saying is, no matter-ter how much you change t-the world around you, you can't-can't change the fact t-that you lost every single time."

Discord growled and snapped his fingers, causing an anvil to appear over Errors head. Error glitched behind Discord, jumped up and spin kicked him in the back of the head. Discord grunted and turned with hate in his eyes, he summoned a cupcake in his hand and threw it at Error, exploding on impact, however Error glitched just to the side and glitched the explosion to Discords face.

"If you're gonna fight take it outside!" Twilight yelled in frustration.

"O-Oh alright." Error wrapped his ropes around Discord and threw him out the window. "I won't r-ruff him up a lot, j-just enough to get a point across-oss."

"Thank you, I'll go get Fluttershy to calm him down." Twilight sighed as she teleported away.

"Can we watch?" Starlight and Spike asked curiously.

"Sure, why-why not?" Error glitched them all outside, with Spike and Starlight now holding popcorn and sitting in lawn chairs.

Discord summoned giant scissors and cut the ropes, freeing himself. He then snapped his fingers and the ground around Error began to glow red before exploding. Error dodged the attack, only to be suprised as the flying debris were turned into flaming birds that flew right into him and exploded. He killed a few with his Gaster Blaster but a few others managed to hit, as to humour the Draconequus.

"Alright Discord, I'm a-actually impressed, that was-was clever."

Discord smirked, but his smile soon faltered as ground below him turned to ice and trapped his feet.

"B-But you're still not good-ood enough." Error snapped his fingers and the ice turned to boiling oil, causing Discord to almost scream in pain before teleporting out if the pit of oil and using his magic to heal himself. He growled and teleported behind Error, summoning a giant rubber chicken and striking him with it like a baseball bat. As he was knocked away towards the mountain, Error glitched to behind Discord who instantly turned around, only for Error to glitch behind him again and punch him in the spine.

Discord snapped both of his fingers and the area around them turned red. Two rocks that stood beside Error shifted into stone hands and grabbed him, holding him in place. Discord then changed the clouds into thunder clouds and placed them above Error before sticking explosive cotton candy to his back. With a snap of his finger, the stone fists began to crush Error, the clouds struck him with lightning and the cotton candy exploded.

When the dust settled Error was gone. Discord smirked only to scowl as Error appeared in front of him and blasted him away with a Gaster Blaster. "Y-You need to learn how-how to really shift reality i-in combat Discord."

Discord was about to give some sarcastic remark until they both felt a corrupt presence. Turning their attention towards the new arrival they looked to each other. "Temporary truce?"

"T-Temporary truce." Error nodded with a smile.

They both took fighting stances as they stared down their opponent. The dark figure glared before taking its own stance.

"This is gonna be awesome." Spike muttered as he shoved some popcorn into his mouth.


Author's Note

I know I kinda downplayed Discord a bit, but I have a bit of a difficulty writing him into a fight.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the wait. Please point out any mistakes you find. Thanks you and I hope you enjoyed.

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