//-------------------------------------------------------// The Finding Of Order -by NaughtSought- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 1 //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 1 Congratulations! You have found a story! Have a cookie! Feel free to hate it! Disclaimer: I am NOT Lauren Faust, I do NOT own my little pony, and I don't know the whole continuity so I do NOT know all the likenesses of the characters. If this is similar to any other fanfictions that might be because it might be similar to others. Dear Princess Celestia Once again I learned to trust in your friends. They only want what is best for you and will always come through for you. This letter might be shorter than my previous ones as I am being asked to help out concerning a rash of break-ins. It is quite odd however. Nothing is being stolen and instead it appears that everything in the houses is being fixed. It is almost as if a cleaner is breaking into the houses to clean everything. Anyway, sorry for rambling on, Pinkie Pie is calling me to hurry. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle Princess Celestia stood on the balcony of her room in silence, a grim look on her face stared out in the direction of Ponyville. Slowly the door behind her opened as Princess Luna strode in. "Thou hast called me?" Spoke Luna Still staring at Ponyville, Celestia answered "Would you read what is written on my desk?" Luna walked over to the fore-mentioned desk and began reading, "The blade sunk into the blue pegasi's wing as p-" "Dear me not that one!" cried out Celestia "We shall be dealing with that later! The one beside it." As Luna read the letter, a look of dawning comprehension crossed her face. "You do not suppose this is..." Luna trailed off as Celestia only nodded. He was back. "And that was how he accidentalyd the Equestria!" shouted Pinkie Pie, startling Twilight Sparkle out of her thoughts. "What are you talking about?" asked Twilight staring at the pink mare with a look of confusion. "Oh, nothing!" giggled Pinkie, "Just messing with the watchers." Twilight face-hooved at her friend's newest exclamation of the famed audience. "Pinkie there are me you the Cakes and Lyra over there and no one else." Ignoring Pinkie being Pinkie Twilight asked "What happened here anyway?" Both of them stood inside Sugarcube Corner; the latest scene of the rash of break-ins. The entire place was spotless and if Twilight didn't know better she would have assumed there was nothing wrong. "Elementary my dear Twatson!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, now wearing one of the most absurd outfits Twilight had ever seen. A hat that looked like it could be worn backwards and forwards sat perched atop her head. She wore a plaid cloak and stood there with a bubble pipe in her mouth which shot out pink bubbles with every puff. If Twilight didn't know any better she would have thought Pinkie was impersonating somepony. "The perpetrator..." Pinkie began once more snapping twilight out of her thought bubble, "clearly broke into this shop during the night and began to sort all the cakes, and pies, and cupcakes, and cakes into size, weight, and alphabetical order." "Pinkie, you said cakes twice." pointed out Twilight "Of course! That is how i knew he also can travel through time!" continued Pinkie barely registering Twilight's confused look, "So we are looking for a time traveling male pony who compulsively fixes everything he sees and knows the princesses!" Twilight merely stood there in silence "How is he a time traveler..." Trailed off Twilight. Pinkie lowered her head shadowing her face in darkness as her voice gained a more serious tone, "He some how knew what my newest creation was." Twilight said nothing as Pinkie continued on "I only just decided on the name of my newest creation as Gummy was gumming my head this morning. I came down to place the AA Apple Axtravaganza Assortment card under the cake when i saw it..." Twilight was about to speak up when Pinkie shouted "The cake was on the farthest right!! It was already in its place!! He saw the cake in the future, went forward to the past and sorted it!!" "You're telling me-" began before being cut off once again by Pinkie "Exactly dear Twatson! This person knew what I would call it when they broke in last night, so obviously he's a time traveler!" "That still doesn't explain how you came to the assumption he knows the princesses." said Twilight "Really my dear Twatson, I don't want to insult your intelligence by pointing out everything." yelled out Pinkie Pie already bounding out of the shop and down the road yelling as she went "BEWARE THE HOUND!!!" "You are so random Pinkie." laughed Twilight as she began to leave the shop. "WAIT A MINUTE!" she yelled as a thought struck her. "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT NOT INSULTING MY INTELLIGENCE!? DID YOU JUST CALL ME-! WAIT UP, WHO IS THE HOUND!!" Authors Note: Me no has profreeder. I alows miself and OC to fix. In all seriousness though I have no one to proofread this so if it is horrible it is only my fault and should never see the light of day. This story will continue even if it is never read, just don't expect the updates to be anything but sporadic. I really haven't seen many episode so if the characters are out of character, oops. //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 2 //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 2 These chapters are extremely short. This is one thing I hope to improve on, but until then feel free to hate. I love criticism. Many people say it is strange how i take criticism but I feel it prevents me from getting angry at others. Throwing my feelings at books also helps. I am also looking to find a good description for my original pony character. Celestia and Luna walked out to the courtyard to the statue that housed Discord. Celestia placed a hoof atop the pedestal and sent a portion of her will into it. Immediately she felt the presence of the dis-harmonic being reacting to her. "Ah, hello again dear Celestia. Might I just say what an honor it is to be graced by your presence. You would not believe how lonely it gets being trapped in stone." without warning, his voice took on a more sinister tone. "I assume this visit is due to something I did but what about what you did to me? Being trapped in stone is ever so boring. Even I would never turn some pony to stone as it takes all the fun out of everything. I'm sure you wouldn't mind letting me out for a little bit of fun at some point, right?" "You know I can not do that. I've seen what you do to any normal ponies you come across in your outings. I have come to ask you to take back your little creation." Celestia replied with a huff. "If you are talking about little old Screwball, I am sorry to say she is busy elsewhere bothering one pony too much to listen to me." Discord said with a laugh "Other than that, there's no pony else." Celestia frowned. "I am talking about your opposite you made. The one you made specifically to clean up after the messes you cause. The one who fixes your chaos allowing you to inflict more!" at this point Celestia was getting tired of Discord's antics and was about to simply sever her connection. Discord went silent for a few moments. Celestia was about to simply leave when he replied. "I am not apologizing for him. Order is my only creation that has a complete will of its own. I have no control over him. Goodbye." With that his presence retreated leaving Celestia standing with one hoof on Discord's pedestal. "Well? Did he get rid of him?" asked Luna with an imploring look on her face. Celestia shook her head "Looks like we will have to deal with him on our own. I do not expect Twilight to know what to do with him even if she does catch him." "Pinkie! That's the fourth wall you've destroyed!" yelled out Twilight Sparkle staring at the pink party pony's latest escapade. "Oh relax Twilight. I will pay for it later. Its not even like it was in good condition anyway." responded Pinkie giggling merrily while swinging the hammer. Pinkie Pie had swung at yet another building in her search for the mysterious fixer and had destroyed another wall of a different building. The occupants inside were terrified at first but after seeing that it was only the resident party pony they quickly went back to their monotonous lives of waiting for something new to happen. Twilight stared in wonder at how well ponies would take the things that happened in Ponyville. She would have expected some screaming but most residents took it like yet another day. Some even seemed to have expected it like it had simply been an event happening over and over again in a well known story. "Anyway Twilight." began Pinkie snapping her out of her wonderment, "It is obvious we need to go to Carousel Boutique!" Twilight didn't even shrug as she followed Pinkie Pie. She had decided to go with what Pinkie said without any argument after Pinkies last round had sent them to Fluttershy's Cottage where they had seen all the food and animals sorted in order from size with the animals to price of the food at basic exchange rates. Twilight had asked her then how she knew to go there and Pinkie's response had been something about a script and cues. As Twilight was lost in these thoughts Pinkie was thinking about other things entirely. "I wonder just who this pony is? Is he friendly? Would he like a party? Is he allergic to anything? Would he prefer pecans or macadamias? Why was Twilight not watching where she was going? Is she thinking about the party too? The word too is funny! Too, two, to, tutu! Why is the author writing this? Ooh, Derpy will be angry she isn't getting a cameo! Who is that entering Carousel Boutique?" the last of these thoughts she spoke aloud, snapping Twilight out of her daze. Looking ahead they both saw a pony entering the Boutique just ahead of them. unfortunately they were not able to get a clear view of him due to the author's ipod failing to tell him if the photo he found was actually turned negative and therefore easily able to be used. "Oh no! we have to help Rarity!" yelled out Twilight Sparkle, bursting ahead of Pinkie and plunging into the boutique. Behind her, Pinkie was shaking her head "Really get creative! Make your own!" then she too plunged inside. //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 3 //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 3 Princess Celestia and Luna made their way through Ponyville; their eyes scanning around for signs of Order. However this posed a problem due to the lack of disorder in the town. As they crossed the center of town;; dozens of eyes upon them, they spotted a disturbance. Pinkie was bouncing along a path toward Carousel Boutique. This wasnt the disturbance though. What was the disturbance was the slivers of energy that seemed to be radiating from the building itself. The alicorn sisters stared in horror for a moment before they bolted toward the boutique. On the other side of Ponyville, Rainbow Dash was in a bit of a bind. Somepony had decided to be funny and rile up the clouds near the Everfree Forest and she had been forced to fix them. As she caught the last cloud and sent it on its way, she happened to glance down and spotted Fluttershy carrying a large round object. Flying down, Rainbow Dash saw what exactly it was. It was a giant cookie! "What are you up to?" asked Dash, a quizzical look on her face. Fluttershy jumped a few hooves into the air, letting out a small squeak. "I'm sorry! It's not my fault!" she squealed hiding behind the giant cookie. "I was just on my way to give this to arackn-" Rainbow Dash's quizzical expression turned into a frown. "Who is that? I've never heard of them before." A look of comprehension came across Fluttershy's face but quickly changed to confusion "What do you mean you've never heard of him before? He has been in Ponyville for years?" Suddenly Rainbow Dash understood "I told him not to involve us!" she yelled flying over to a nearby tree and kicking it. From out of nowhere a rip appeared beside the tree she kicked and inside it appeared a small room "I know you are in there!" Dash yelled "And I told you not to bring us into your stories!" From off to the side just out of sight came a male voice. "Is that you Rainbow? I'm busy reading! What are you talking about!?" Rainbow Dash flew inside leaving Fluttershy gaping at what she was witnessing. She heard a faint thump then a strangled cry come from the room then the sound of hushed whispers. Just as Fluttershy was about to go in and see what happened, Rainbow Dash flew back out. "I knew it! I knew it!" yelled Dash, fumes rising from her ears. "Fluttershy, you go deliver that cookie to arac-whatever and then go home!" "What about you?" questioned Fluttershy to which Dash only set her face into a determined frown before flying off leaving the tear in reality to continue remaining open. Twilight feared the worst. When she saw the mysterious pony enter Rarity's boutique she didn't know what to expect when she made it inside. However this still did not prepare her for what she would find. Entering the building she found the main room deserted. Looking around she saw everything in pristine order, this did not tell her much though as Rarity generally kept her shop in the best shape it could be in. As Twilight continued to make her way inside she could hear voices coming from the back room. Without thinking of the consequences, she burst through the door; magic flaring through her horn ready to do whatever she could. What she was met with, she did not expect. Rarity was standing in the center of the room with her back to Twilight. Her horn was also lit with a purple glow surrounding it. "-And another thing. What were you meaning by cleaning up my mess?! I keep my shop in pristine order and I do not need somepony I have never seen or heard of cleaning up what is not a mess! Twilight stared ahead at the bearer of Rarity's wrath and saw a sight she did not expect she would ever see again. Ahead of her was a colt that was standing up on his hind hooves although this was not by his choice. Rarity had used her magic to bind him up in ribbon and prevent his movement. He also was obviously trying to hide himself from Twilight as he had his head turned in such a way that if it wasn't for Rarity having just moved aside, Twilight would only have seen his mane and little else of his face. As it was, Twilight could now get a proper look at him. His coat was a light shade of brownish amber just a tad lighter than Time Turner's. His mane was disheveled and if Twilight would have to compare it to anything, she would say it looked like hers when she hadn't brushed it. and instead let it fall down across her face. It was shaded a very dark brown, almost black except for how it caught the light of the boutique showing its actual color. His tail was a different color from his mane, a light shade of blue that she assumed was dyed. His wings covered his cutie mark and; except for a light coloring of grey, she could see nothing else of it. As she looked into his blue eyes, she could not help but be unnerved. While his eyes showed his nervousness at the current situation, they also seemed to betray another emotion. Twilight couldn't help but feel like she had just glimpsed into an unending abyss that seemed to give off some raw, unfettered emotion she couldn't place. "Excuse me. Ms. Sparkle?" spoke up the colt snapping her out of her staring "Could you tell Ms. Rarity here to let go of me? I meant her no ill will." Rarity turned to look at Twilight awaiting her say-so of whether to let him go. Twilight slowly nodded her head and Rarity let the magic fade and the ribbons fall to the ground. The colt stood up and looked at both Twilight and Rarity. "Well this choice of venue could have gone better huh?" he grinned sheepishly. "So you admit to being the one we are searching for?" asked Twilight prepared to channel magic if the colt planned to escape. The colt then grinned "I admit to nothing, but what do you mean we? Rarity had nothing to do with you until just this second. I assume you mean Pinkie Pie but where could she be?" At this moment, Twilight could not have known that not only had Pinkie gotten lost walking through the door, but that they were all about to be visited by a angered Rainbow Dash and two scared Princesses. This was not what was on her mind though. "How did you know I was with Pinkie?" she asked The colt laughed. "Call it a hunch or what have you but I feel that I need to leave this instant. Give my regards to Celestia and Luna. Oh and you might want to duck." Then the wall to the boutique exploded inwards. //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 4 Wherin we find out about Order //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 4 Wherin we find out about Order This might not be the best time to write a story considering my mental state concerning things IRL but since when have I ever tried making sense, even in story. Now is where tears will be shed... By me. While Twilight had no reason to trust the strange pegasus, she still knew that when somepony tells you to duck, you duck. At the same point in time, somepony was out in Canterlot when he heard somepony else yell "Duck!!!" to which he did. However he ended up sticking his face into a duck that had been waddling by at that exact moment and instead of dodging out of the way of something, he simply ended up getting a face-full of feathers. This was not what happened to Twilight who; instead of faceducking, ended up preventing her head from meeting the walls of Carousel Boutique on a very personal level. As the dust settled, Twilight saw what had happened. When she found out this was the set of a new action movie she was not thrilled. Ahead of her stood Princess Celestia, her horn glowing a heavenly light that seemed to radiate nuclear heat from it. "Where is he?" she hissed, her eyes glowing a blinding white. Luna stood off to her side a few hooves and seemed to be shying away from her enraged sister. Pinkie Pie had other plans for the alicorns. Instead of helping them find their quarry, she instead hopped down the stairs of the boutique and tossed a large cupcake into the center of the room which, to everypony's surprise then yelled out "Distraction!" In this moment, multiple things were noticed. One was that Pinkie was random. Two was that Rarity was on the ground spazzing from the mess that was now her place of business. Three was that The cupcake had begun eating itself. Four was the distinct lack of sense everything had, and fifth was that Order was nowhere to be seen. "Words were spoken, threats were made and Pinkie laughed. After this mess of a scene was finished, Twilight made her way back to the library. She had been told by Celestia that the alicorn sisters would handle the search for Order. She had also been told a little about him as well. She had been told his name and that he was older than he looked. She had also been told to stay away from him at all costs because nothing more was truly known about him other than that he was a machination of Discord's." "Pinkie.. I really do not need you retelling my experience I just had." Twilight said, her face cast downward. "I am not in the mood. Rarity is in the hospital for mental scaring and I can't help at all. I just want to be alone" Pinkie gasped "NO! You can't get depressed! I need to get a party ready! STAT!" before Twilight could say anything, she was already gone. Twilight sighed as she entered the library. This day could not get any weirder. Twilight realized as soon as she said this that reality loves when you tempt it considering the scene that lay before her. Order was in the center of the room. He was also floating... Upside down... Without using his wings.His mane, which had previously been almost black was now a light shade of gray nearing white. His tail had also changed to a light orange with a pink streak curling around it. He also had a tea cup in hoof; held upside down completely filled with sugar and a single drop of tea on the top. "Hello again Ms. Sparkle. Might I just say how perfect your library is. Every book in place... except for the one under your mattress. Quantum Physics by Fortee Tu; I believe it was. Twilight gaped at the sight before her. Her mind unable to process the amount of Pinkie this colt was channeling. In seconds she had passed out. "Yeah I sorta should have seen that coming." Order huffed "Well about 18 minutes and 71 seconds should do it." Twilight woke up in the same place she had fallen in. What surprised her more was that Order had apparently not moved since she had dropped. "Congratulations you have order! You may applaud as you see fit!" boomed Order knocking Twilight back a hoof from the sound. "What are you doing here!?!?" Twilight asked immediately "First you break into places, then you clean them up, then you are at the boutique and then Celestia blows down a wall!" Twilight stood there breathing heavily from the outburst she just made while Order stood still as a statue. "Yeah, she has not gotten over her issues since I have been away has she? I suppose this is the part where I tell you everything about me. Then you say it is impossible. Then I rip a hole in reality, yell at the author to get on with the story then we continue right? Well I fixed this before and I can do it again!" The author glared at his computer screen before continuing his story from a better point. "You see, i am not what you would call normal. I am what you would call a mistake or the result of many mistakes." Order began his story at the most logical point, the moment he was created. "I was made when Discord grew bored. Did you know that there is only so much you can mess with before everything goes kablam? Well Discord found that out after he defeated the princesses the first time." Twilight sat at the table, mesmerized by the story that was about to unfold. She was paying so much attention to the story she ailed to notice that Order kept glancing out the window. "When the princesses were defeated, Discord was left free to do whatever he wished. This unfortunately included disharmony across all of Equestria. After he did this he ended up finding out that Disharmony everywhere meant no more room for more of it. After about a year of slowly going more insane, he created me. My role was to fix all his disharmony he created so he could make more. So I set out on my duty he had given, fix his mistakes. After half a century, the sisters had regained most of their power and had started fighting him again. However while they did this an idea struck me years prior. Why was I fixing anything, only for Discord to break it immediately after. With this thought in mind I went about creating a new world behind his back. Fortunately he didn't notice until it was almost too late." At this point Order stood up from the table they were sitting at. And moved his wing aside showing the place his cutie mark would be at. "Up until this time, my cutie mark had never appeared which was one reason I never thought what I did was right. However it was during The Great Shift that it appeared. I had finished moving as many sane beings as I could into this "New Equestria" when I was discovered. It was not by Discord because if it had been, I would have been gone in an instant. However I was instead discovered by the two alicorn sisters. My thought had been to keep them here in the original Equestria because they had spent too much time near Discord to not affect the world too much. I realized how much of a mistake I had made. In old Equestria, the time of day had changed so much, so often, I had neglected to put any thought into how it would work in "New Equestria". I quickly worked up a deal with them which basically amounted to, control the celestial bodies and do not interfere in mortal ponies affairs. However before I could send them through, Discord showed up. Through a fight far to elaborate to explain, I was able to get a small portion of the alicorn sister's beings into "New Equestria" and sealed the way, before we were beaten by Discord. Unfortunately, you know he was able to get some of himself here too but not enough that he would resurface until the sisters had grown stronger. This did not save me from the portion of Discord that was still in Equestria. Sure, I tried to run and hide, but he always found me anyway. There was also nopony left in Equestria for him to disharmonize so all his attention was on me." "Eventually he simply destroyed everything there was in this world. I still have yet to know why he did this but it simply became the shattered plane you saw New Equestria become when you fought and defeated him. I had no power in that shattered existence and slowly withered away. Eventually I had little else left and gave up. It was at this point however when things changed. Apparently, a link was formed with my created world and another. I found this out one existence when I was approached by an entity. It came heralding its World of Illogic as a blessing.I initially turned it down fearing it was Discord trying something on me but this turned out not to be the case. Discord captured me the next day and left me within Equestria's ground to rot. The entity came to me again, claiming its lack of anything to do with Discord and also giving me a glimpse of the World of Illogic. It had apparently existed for an inordinate amount of time before I had even come around. Creating a new reality had allowed it existence into any reality it wished, and yet it still could not take what it wanted. It had gained a host in my created world and had sparked within a being connected with the alicorn princesses. Branching paths had begun to take hold within New Equestria and nothing was set in order. It then offered its world to me yet again. All I would have to do would be to give it my sanity which at this point seemed so negligible a trade to give for all I would gain. Who was I to argue with one who had so easily broke its way into what I had worked so dearly to create." Order lowered his head and spoke in a whisper. "And now I am here before you today. I lack any of what I once had and yet have gained much more. I still wonder just what sanity it took from me. Maybe what it took was instead a sane link between me and anyone I interact with? But here I am now and nothing will change this." Order finally looked up at Twilight awaiting a response from the lavender unicorn but instead found himself face to face with something entirely different. He found himself staring at the one thing he could not expect to find. Pinkie Pie. This chapter was written under the influence of a week of school and life dropping a bombshell. What of it? Now really go ahead and hate this chapter! I dare you!!!! I laugh at other peoples opinions but I do take them seriously. Who said what? Where am I? Maybe I should not have tried red bull, 2 five hour energies and a coke! //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 5 where the story continues //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 5 where the story continues "Hi! It's nice to meet you Order! My name is Pinkie Pie but you probably already knew that huh? Anyway what are you up to? I heard your story and knew you planned on doing something so what is it? Do you plan on going on a whirlwind adventure with the Mane 6? Are you some figment of an authors imagination and you escaped? Are you the author inserting himself in a story? Wait... Is this the beginning of season three? No that would be silly, season three is already planned and you aren't in it. Are you Discords alter ego? Never mind I just remembered you said he made you." All this was said in a single one of the Pink pony's breaths. Twilight sat away from the party pony reading a book through her entire spiel. Order was slowly backing away from Pinkie and his wings had taken a defensive fight or flight position. Twilight extracted Pinkie from in front of Order using her telekinesis and began talking. "So I assume it is safe to say you don't mean us harm. However this does not explain why the princesses fear you or why they told me to stay away from you. Twilight said calmly still flipping through her book. Order coughed twice then began talking again. "I am not sure why the princesses are after me. It is possible they know of the bargain I took and are after me for that. As for why I am not to be near you, I could say it is because it could break continuity with this timeline, but Pinkie here has already smashed it being herself." he stared at the pink pony who seemed to be intent on cutting through some invisible object with a butchers knife in hoof while whispering about viewers. "Well in that case shouldn't i be running away to get the princesses?" asked Twilight Sparkle putting down the book she was reading. Order's face went pale "You can't do that!" he gasped out. "And why couldn't I? asked Twilight who was slowly making her way toward the doors. That was, until a pink blur crashd into her, knocking her to the ground. "NO!!! You can't do that Twi! Then there would be no story!" cried out Pinkie "If there is no story then what will happen to us? We could cease to exist!" "Pinkie! we aren't in a story! If I turn him in we just continue on with our lives!" Twilight struggled to get away from Pinkie but the stubborn earth pony refused to let go. Twilight was about to push Pinkie away when a rainbow blur shot through the window, took out a flower pot, and hit Order in the side. "I knew I would find you here! All of you go straight for Twilight whenever you come!" shouted Rainbow Dash as she made her way over to where Order had been thrown "Now listen here Dash! I have done nothing around here that wouldn't have been done at some point anyway! I don't see what you have to complain about!" Order had stood up and brushed himself off and was now staring daggers at Rainbow Dash who was returning the stare twofold. "Well I know for a fact that I should be sleeping and the only reason i'm not is because you are here! Now you had better leave now before I get Celestia to get rid of you!" Rainbow Dash's eyes seemed to be smoldering with rage. That or sleep deprivation which no one ever seemed to be able to tell the difference between. "OHMYGOSH!" Pinkie Pie cried out taking everyone's attention. "I just realized Order isn't being Illogical! If he isn't then how did he get here in the first place?" "Pinkie! stop breaking story flow!" cried out Order "I don't feel like explaining and all it would do is release Discord for some inexplicable reason." "Oh I believe it is far too late to prevent that." snarked a voice they all immediately recognized. In a puff of chocolate scented smoke, Discord appeared in the room. "That wasn't supposed to happen for three more chapters!" yelled Pinkie "The author must be running out of ideas!" "Be quiet Pinkie."spoke Order before the world shattered. Yes this chapter was written while i'm still recovering from life. Is this chapter bad? Well then tell me! I can handle a negative vote if you tell me why. In the meantime, why are you reading this when any number of other authors have made stories that have cover arts? Oh yeah because you people don't need art to see what is said in the story. So good on you all!