Shards of the fourth wall

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CHAPTER 5

          The time Pinkie had finally finished explaining in excruciating detail about the parties they held, we'd come out pf the wormhole. I had an really annoying question buzzing about my head which I needed to ask the princess desperately, but I held my tongue until she'd finally released us.

           Suddenly, I realised something. I looked... stranger. I raised my hands to see that they'd been elongated. Quickly turning my head, I looked in a shop window. There was me, except I was taller and slimmer. My rounded ears had took on a more pointy state. Looking through my glasses, the world was fuzzy. I took them off, to find that I could see properly. Huh. I thought. Guess I can't be a human in a world full of mythical creatures. What am I, an elf or something? Looking round, none of the ponies noticed the change.

           "Princess Celestia?" I asked, then covered my mouth. Wow! Even my voice sounded different! More melodious, somehow. She turned her head at me. "Yes?"

          Deciding not to ask about my new (and improved) body, I said,"You've told us that we need the Elements of Discord, but who's going to wield them? And why do we need them?"

           Everypony turned around, their ears perked up. Twilight looked very interested in what the princess was going to say, Derpy's eye rolled around, and even the Doctor seemed intrigued.

           "Well," Celestia started. "According to legend, there was a riddle. It went 'The Discord elements can only be found, by the people who want them safe and sound. Harmony and Chaos must vanquish a mighty foe, but amidst the battle the Elements will flow. Two seventh elements will appear, and destroy ponykind's greatest fear.' However, many wise ponies have not been able to work out what this means. I afraid not even I have the slightest clue what will happen apart from that when all the elements are connected, a seventh element of harmony and discord will appear."

           I thought hard about this. I used to be good at riddles. I could solve a Professor Layton game in 3 hours (which is actually pretty quick) and could solve a lot of puzzles my friends gave me. So the wielders of the Elements of Discord must work with the mane 6 to repair the fourth wall. But the riddle said, Harmony and Chaos must vanquish a mighty foe. But the broke fourth wall wasn't A mighty foe. So what was it?

           "Well, we've got to get to the Elements of Discord. But can't you just magic it over?" I asked. Celestia shook her head.

           "There is a strong magic aura protecting the Elements. And we can't teleport you over because of the aura."

           "Things are never easy, are they?" Twilight sighed. The others shook their heads. They all looked so dejected and blue.  I suddenly remembered something.

            "Hey! Where's Spike, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo?" I cried. Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow all looked at eachover in surprise. Fluttershy's eyes grew wide and she squeaked, "Oh no!"

            Applejack rushed back to the farm, Rarity to her boutique, Rainbow flew around town and Twilight galloped to the library. I decided to follow her, jogging lightly. Man, were these ponies small! They were, like, three feet, and not all that fast. Still, they were excellent climbers. That mountain they were climbing in Dragonshy? Skyrim level!

            Anyways, so we reached the library. Spike was on the stairs, staring at the door and when Twilight galloped in he yelled her name loudly and clasped onto her.

            "TWILIGHT! I'm so glad you're okay! After Princess Celestia came I tried to find something about those glowing white cracks. I couldn't find anything, I'm sorry, but when I looked up you'd all gone, and then I couldn't find you, and then, and then..." He broke off sobbing. Twilight smile wanly, her magic drying his face.

            "It's okay Spike. I'm going to need you to fend for yourself a while, though. By the way, this is my new friend Anne Banks."

            Spike looked up at me. I smiled warmly and said, "Hiya, Spike. I'm Anne. How are you holding up?"

            "I'm okay now. But what did you mean, "Fend for yourself for a while"? Are you going somewhere?" He asked, confusion written across his tiny face.

             "Well," Twilight started, "Me and the girls-"

            "The girls and I," I corrected. She glared at me and continued.

             "Anyway, the girls and I, and Anne are going to find the Elements of Discord to help balance out Equestria."

            "Wait a sec," I said. "What about Derpy and the Doctor? Aren't they coming?"

             "No. They can't: The magic aura stops the Doctor from going there, and Derpy has a daughter to look after. She volunteered to stay back with the Doctor."

             "Oh. Well that makes sense."

             I saluted at Spike and marched out the door. Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack were there, each talking to their own little sisters (apart from Rainbow Dash, but their like sisters) and explaining the situation at hand. When the three little fillies saw me, Sweetie Belle hid behind Rarity, Apple Bloom grinned and said in an southern accent, "Well howdy there miss!" And Scootaloo just nodded her head to me.

              "Come on Sweetie," Rarity sighed, pulling her sister out from behind her. "She's not going to bite."

              Sweetie stared up at me with wide eyes, and I grinned, showing my teeth. Everypony winced as they saw them, and I facepalmed. Of course they were gonna be afraid of my teeth, I have freaking Canines!

              "What are those teeth for?" Scootaloo asked. I looked to my left nervously to see Twilight coming out of the library.

              "Good now everypony's here now let's go!" I screeched. The older ponies stifled a giggle as they young fillies stared up at me questioningly.

              "But you didn't-"

              "They're not important right now. I'll tell you after the adventure's over!" I beamed. I silently prayed to Celestia that I'd be sent straight home after the adventure was finished. I was not ready to tell the equivalent of eight year-olds the fact that over 7 billion people in my world ate meat.

              Pinkie Pie pulled Fluttershy out from behind a building that she was cowering behind. Really, though? She works with animals. Some of the animals she cared for eat meat, so why was she afraid of me? She just looked so adorable though, I wanted to hug her. But I brought my mind back to the task at hand.

              "Right. Where's the Princess?" I asked Twilight.

              "Most of her power lies in Canterlot, so she headed there to tap into some energy reserves to delay the End."

              And the way she said end just made me think Capitalised. But the end in not nigh!

              "Well, it's nice to see you're all raring to go!" A voice called. For some reason he reminded me of Q from Star Trek. I slowly turned around, wondering who could be behind me.

              To come face to face with a very familiar Draconequus.

              We all stood there in shock as Discord fell about laughing. I had no idea what he was laughing about, for the situation seemed very grim.

              "How did you escape?" Yelled Twilight. Discord stopped to wipe a tear from his eye and answered in a helping voice-which-makes-you-think-it's-not-going-to-be-helpful-at-all, "I have my ways, dear ponies."

              Rainbow Dash recovered, shouting, "Why are you here?" She made a threatening stance, knocking two hooves together which somehow made a hit-someones-head noise. I didn't think it was very scary, but the other ponies all winced.

              "Well, my little ponies (and human), I simply came to watch you all try to find the Elements of Me. Not that you'll succeed, anyways!" He replied cheerfully.

              "But, Discord," I asked. "Why are you against us? If we fail, everypony will die, including you!" Discord leered at me.

              "My dear Anne, I won't die. Neither will Celestia or Luna. We are immortal, after all. Even though you all will die, we be still alive." For some reason a song came into my head.

              "Whatever," Twilight said, shaking her mane out of her face. "We don't have time for this." She tightened the straps on her saddlebags and motioned off into the distance. "We've got to find the Elements of Discord." We all nodded in agreement. I held out the map I had conveniently found and stared at it. The mane 6 looked at me and I sighed, "Fine. Here you go, Twilight." Discord had been watching this with amusement. I found it tiring how one Draconequus could be such a dick.

               "Anyways. Onwards and upwards, ALLONS-Y!" I cried. Discord rolled an eye at me and stood  up straight, saying, "Well, I'd best be off. Chaos doesn't wreak itself you know!" With a snap of his lion claws he was away.

               We all looked at eachover, then shrugged.  Rarity opened her saddle-bag and pulled on a familiar looking pink and white scarf. "What?" She said indignantly. "I don't want to get cold! And this is very fashionable."

               I facepalmed.

              So we were off! Rainbow Dash and AJ kept up an athletic talk. They were talking about an Iron-pony competition. I wasn't good with sports, so I stayed away from their conversing. Sure, RD was my fave pony, but she talks about sport like it's her heroin. Not that it is a drug, but to her it seems like it. And to Applejack, she kicks ass! Bucking those trees LIKE A BAWS!

               I saw Fluttershy quietly talking to Rarity. I heard a few word like, "Great style", "A bit scary", "We'll be okay darling" and other stuff like that. I thought Fluttershy was still scared of me. She kept on stealing a few frightened glances at me, but even when I smiled kindly she still whimpered.

             "So, Anne," said Twilight. I jumped with a start. I hadn't realised she was next to me. "Do you have magic in your world?"

             "Oh, no. But we have all types of technology. For example, you know carts?"

             "Of course. But what about them?"

             "Well, my kind have created a cart which does not need anyone to pull them. They run on oil."

             Twilight gasped loudly, her face betraying any interested emotions at that moment. "Oil? But that's worthless!"

             "When it's crude it is. But we distillate it into two different types of oil: Diesel and Petrol. Different types of cars use different types of distillated oil. My car runs on diesel. Since diesel is rarer, it is more expensive. But it runs better than cars on petrol. But we also use oil to keep the different parts of the car running so they don't grate off on eachover."

              Twilight, by then, had pulled out a purple notebook with a lilac star and had begun to make notes in it with a white quill. I wanted to ask her if she had that specially made, but kept on talking about cars. I'd nearly finished talking about Lamborghinis when Pinkie Pie said excitedly,"Twilight? Are we lost?" Twilight stopped, then looked up from her book, eyes wide.

             The other girls looked expectantly at her. She looked like she'd been caged, then glared at me. "Anne!" She yelled. "If you hadn't been distracting me, we wouldn't be lost!" I held up my hands.

             "Woah, wait? This is my fault? You're the one who wanted to know about cars!" I argued indignantly. The others all scowled at me. "HEY! I wasn't the one- UGH!"

             I stormed off into some undergrowth. I didn't hear Fluttershy say quietly, "Anne! Wait!" I was engrossed in my own anger. I would've stayed lost if I hadn't looked up to see five sets of glowing yellow eyes peering out of the bush. I stumbled back as five massive diamond dogs jumped out.

             "Well, what have we here?" A large grey one asked, walking slowly towards me. "Food, perhaps?" I stood my ground, waiting for the inevitable end, as the Diamond dogs leapt at me, their claws outstretched and their teeth sharp.

             Suddenly, a brown and grey blur shot past me and hit them. They all yelled and tactically retreated (ran away) growling curses as they went. I ran over to where my saviour was. It was a Pegasus, who casually flicked her mane out of her face.

             "Nice to see ya," she said. "I'm Do. Daring Do.