Concord: Save the World

Concord opened his eyes, and he saw Equestria. His Equestria. Relief flooded him, until a wave of chaos spread around him. Concord looked around in bewilderment, before realizing Solar and Umbra had complete control already. He sighed.

“Wait, why am I here?” asked Concord to himself. He raised his paw, and realized it wasn’t there. It was an empty space. He blinked, and realized this was a dream. Perfect opportunity to figure out what Solar and Umbra are planning.

Concord thinks of his palace, and he appears before it. It was upside down, floating above the rest of the chaotic Canterlot.

“Does somepony have something healthy to eat?” called a small filly below.

“Nope, just cotton candy,” replied a stallion sadly. Concord winces, as he realized the ponies were rather pudgy now.

“We’re all going to have heart attacks at this rate!” cried an old mare. “In my day, ponies would never eat one bite of candy, knowing what it would do.” Concord looked away. So, Solar and Umbra must have been feeding them rather unhealthy food. He would fix that when he came back. Concord flew inside the palace, and was met face to face with Solar.

“Gah!” Concord yelled out. Solar didn’t bat an eyelash. She brushed her fiery, orange mane out of her face, and walked along. Her old white fur was now stained from chocolate milk.

“Sister! Umbra!” shouted Solar. “Why have you spilt chocolate milk on my fur?”

“Aww, Soley,” pouted Umbra, appearing upside down. “I thought you loved a little chaos in your life.”

“I do, but not when I was relaxing in a popcorn bath!” replied Solar. “Now my popcorn is soggy.” She crossed her hooves, her bottom lip popping out in a pout.

“You are so much of a child,” said Umbra.

“As you are!” finished Solar.

“Oh, come here, you imbecile!” said Umbra, and she chased after Solar as she dashed away. Concord was tempted to follow them, until he heard a familiar voice.

“No! Let me go,” pleaded the soft voice. Concord’s ears pricked up; or his ears would have pricked up. He floated toward the voice, and saw the mare. Posie. Concord’s jaw dropped as he saw she was in full color.

“We can’t let you go,” said a harsh voice. Firefly. Discord peeked in, and saw the new gray coat of Firefly.

“Not until you succumb to Solar and Umbra,” said Twilight Twinkle. She was an alicorn, like the other Twilight in the other Equestria. In fact, they were just like the six in the other Equestria he was staying in.

“I will never, not after what they did to Concord!” replied Posie. Tears welled in her emerald green eyes. “Well, I don’t know what they did, but they did something bad.”

“Well, I guess we have to give you the punishment,” said Twilight Twinkle. “Firefly, Applejack, show her the consequences of not following our rulers.” She shut her eyes, and walked away.

“Aww, this will be fun!” exclaimed Firefly.

“Can Ah get the first hit this time?” asked Applejack. “Ah, uh, was told by Queen Umbra to lash her.”

“Cut the lying, we know that’s your element,” said Firefly, flicking Applejack’s muzzle with her tail. She brought out a whip, a black whip with red crystals embedded all over it. Concord reached out, shouting.

“Keep your hooves off her, you nasty-” He realized they couldn’t hear him. Concord flinched every time they brought the whip down on Posie’s back. Tears streamed down her face.

“CONCORD!” sobbed Posie, though her tone knew it was pointless.

“Posie…” Concord collapsed. Suddenly, the lashing stopped, and the only sound was choked sobs from Posie. Concord looked up.

“We’re not going to kill you,” said Firefly. “You may be very valuable to us, according to Twilight.”

“Eeyup,” agreed Applejack.

“P-Please, I was y-y-your friend,” pleaded Posie. “Let me go.”

“Never,” hissed another voice. Umbra walked in. “Concord will be drawn to you, like a mouse is with milk.”

“Isn’t a cat drawn to milk?” asked Applejack.

“Silence!” snapped Umbra. She turned her attention to Posie. “So, you will be very valuable indeed. Concord cares about you, don’t you, Concord?” A wild emotion swept through Umbra’s eyes, as she looked directly at Concord. His breathing quickened, but the others tilted their heads in confusion, not seeing him. Umbra lunged at Concord, and he braced for a terrible pain, which did not come.

“CONNIE!” yelled a voice, and Concord yelped, flying out of the bed.

“Woah, WOAH!” shouted Concord.

“Ha, I scared you,” said Discord, laughing, swirling in the air in circles.

“Don’t do that!” said Concord. He narrowed his eyes.

“Come on, time for breakfast, grumpy,” said Discord, rolling his eyes. He teleported them downstairs. “What for breakfast?” Concord didn’t hear his question. His mind raced through the memories of the dream, seeing Solar and Umbra, Posie being tortured, and Umbra lunging at him.

“CONCORD!” Concord’s attention snapped to Discord. “What. Would. You. Like. For. Breakfast?”

“Oh, er, some pancakes?” replied Concord, nervously looking around the room, sweat dripping down his forehead.

“Somethin’ wrong, Coney?” asked Discord, as he flashed in two plates of pancakes, a smiley face made with syrup on Concord’s.

“N-Nah,” lied Concord. “Not very important.”

“I can tell it’s not important by the way you’re sweating and your eyes darting around the room,” replied Discord. He smirked.

“Well, I would prefer to not talk about it right now,” replied Concord, He picked at the pancakes, taking occasional bites.

“Don’t forget your meeting with Starbutt,” reminded Discord.

“You must call her that every time?” asked Concord.

“Why, of course!” replied Discord, taking on a posh accent. “I simply must!”

“What’s with the accent?”

“None of your business, buddy,” scoffed Discord. Concord returned to his pancakes. He took a few more bites.

“Well, can you teleport me to the door of Princess Twilight’s castle?” asked Concord.

“Righto! Arrivederci!” Discord snapped his talons, and Concord found himself staring at double doors with a fancy design. He looked up, to see a tree castle with a blue crystal shape inside. He knocked on the door, and a purple dragon answered.

“Yo, Discord, I don’t think it’s guys’ night yet,” said the dragon.

“Um, I’m not Discord, and who might you be?” asked Concord.

“‘Not Discord’, you know me, I’m Spike!” replied Spike.

“My name is Concord, and I’m here to see Princess Twilight, for a meeting she has requested,” said Concord. Spike laughed. “I fail to see what is so funny.”

“It’s hilarious how you think changing your colors will make you ‘Not Discord’ and acting so regal will convince me! Twilight hates you, why would she invite you, of all ponies?” Spike laughed.

“That is a very rude thing to say,” said Concord. “I outta teach you a-”

“Oh! I’m so sorry about Spike,” said Twilight, rushing to the door, and shoving the small dragon aside, giving him a stern glare. “Come on in, Concord.” Spike’s jaw dropped.

“Oh, um, awkward…” said Spike. “I’m sorry, nice to meet you, Concord! Hope we can be friends, but for now, a bowl of gems is calling my name.” He rushed away awkwardly.

“Charming young drake you have there,” said Concord.

“Yeah, I know he can be rude, but he has a good heart,” said Twilight, smiling warmly in the direction where Spike had left.

“That’s nice,” said Concord. He looked around, and gawked at the scenery. “For a Princess of Friendship, you have a nice castle.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” asked Twilight.

“I never imagined a ‘Princess of Friendship’,” replied Concord. “My version of you is the ‘Princess of Magic’, from her element.”

“Oh,” said Twilight, looking down.

“Don’t get me wrong, friendship is a good thing to be a princess for too!” added Concord quickly.

“You don’t need to cover it up,” said Twilight, smiling at him weakly. “Friendship is what everypony least expected. But, I take my role with pride. Friendship is as important as the sun and moon. Ponies couldn’t live without it, because there needs to be somepony else than family to look out for them, and help them get through tough times. Without friendship, there would be no harmony, as everypony would probably be enemies.”

“Very inspiring,” said Concord. He was truly impressed. This mare, a new princess, had convinced him his job was as equal as to her own.

“Well, tell me about your Equestria,” said Twilight, opening a door, which lead to a library. She opened a book, with no title, and it was revealed to be empty. “I could make a book about this discovery. An alternate Equestria. Who would have thought of that?”

“Okay, then,” replied Concord, clapping his paw and claw. He sat down at the table in the center of the room, Twilight following. “Where do you want me to start?”

“From the very beginning,” replied Twilight, leaning on her hoof as she levitated a quill, dipping it in ink.

“Three ponies founded Equestria, and they realized they needed a ruler. I happened to stumble across Equestria, and many ponies have been asking about me,” said Concord. “They were impressed with my magic, and I started helping many ponies. My name means ‘agreement’, which lead ponies to think I could help them with their arguments. Soon, the three founders heard of me, and they gave me a test. Princess Copper, here named Princess Platinum, told me to lower the moon and raise the sun. I did so, and they crowned me ruler. Some ponies that did not know of me were angry, and tried to assassinate me, but I’m immortal, and whatever they threw at me didn’t affect me. I made them serve some community service. Then, Solar and Umbra came to power. We had many names for them. ‘The Sisters of Chaos’ was the one we used the most. I took them down the first time, but my energy was sapped for a good century. Even before they took almost all of my magic, it hasn’t recovered completely since, making me hand off the Elements of Harmony to the next generation. Then, Solar herself corrupted the Elements, as her chaos speciality was to mess with minds. They lost their color, and their eyes turned crimson, Solar’s favorite color, to show she had control over them, but Umbra is the ‘Second in command’ for them. I was ambushed by them, and I was sent here, and found by Discord.”

Twilight scribbled down more words, her eyes crossed in effort. She put down a dot, and smiled. “Well, thank you Concord. I look forward to hearing more soon.”

“Yeah, well, I better get going,” said Concord.

“Alright. It was nice talking to you,” said Twilight. She scanned over the pages of the book. “Goodbye.”

“Discord! Send me home?” called Concord, and he flashed away.

“So, what ya think about Concord?” asked Spike, walking in.

“I-I don’t know,” replied Twilight, turning pink. “He is very smart, and a respectable po-draconequus.”

“It looks like somepony has a crush,” said Spike.

“Um, n-no I don’t!” cried out Twilight.

“Sure,” said Spike, walking away. Twilight groaned, her head flopping down on the table.

"Discord, thanks for the teleportation, but did you have to send me through that world with the talking puppets?" asked Concord, as he appeared in the house. But, there was no usual loud greeting from Discord. "Discord?"

No sound. Concord looked around. "DISCORD! Is this some kind of prank? I don't find this very funny..." He paused as he found a note. He read it aloud. "'Connie, I'm going out for a bit, for a reason I can't tell you. Don't panic, 'kay? I know you love me, but I will be fine. Signed, Discord." Concord scowled. "Really?!" He crumpled the note and tossed it behind him. Well, he was sure to be bored for awhile.