Have you ever met someone who could change your life at the drop of a dime? Someone like a celebrity on television, an idol you adore, or even the President? And for whatever reason, they put their full attention on you at that moment, and decides they want to change your life? Let me say it is a hodgepodge of both delight and terror. You suddenly feel all nervous and clammy with your mind racing fast to come up with a response. Imagine that feeling, but a hundred times more intense, and the important person is a kind of god that will quite literally do whatever he wants at the snap of a finger (or talon in this case).

My day had started out... average I should say. Relatively unnoteworthy and mundane as can be. In any case, there certainly was no sign of supernatural forces at work literally AT ALL.

I got up, showered, got in my soul-sucking employee uniform, and worked at my job at Burger King for a couple of hours. If anything it was duller that day than usual. With only fifteen customers and zero drive through recipients, my shift practically breezed by.

Note: Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a fast-food restaurant next to a mortuary ought to have lost his job. It always made me crack a smile thinking about how efficient it was, however, *Wink.

I had a shitty discussion with my boss about politics, but luckily I was saved from that by my shift ending. Not so luckily, that's when and the real hell approached.

Not owning a car can be a pain sometimes, especially when you live in a dirty city known for a crime occurring in every corner, the sun is setting in the horizon, and your apartment is twenty blocks away. All I had for transportation was shitty Frankenstein of a bike to get around. It wasn't pretty, but it served it's purpose well. The real problem was caused by my impatient during nights like those. If I'd been normal and traveled along the lit sidewalk where people could see me, I could have gotten there in less than an hour. Unfortunately, that wasn't good enough for me and made a terrible habit of cutting corners around alleyways to get to and back. Thinking about it now, it was a miracle I hadn’t ever gotten mugged before, but luck changes as I had soon found out.

Over the last couple of years that I have lived in Manhattan, I had made it a prerogative to memorize the layout of all the nearby streets, and stuck to the cleanest of alleys to traverse. But with the setting sun, I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in one of the rather longer and nasty looking alleys. It was filled with all kinds of debris and filth. The smell was beyond nauseating, likely fermenting in there for months or even years. Despite my instincts to turn away, I did my best to power through it. That was a big mistake.

I quickened my pace and made halfway across when I noticed a guy sitting next to one of the dumpsters smoking crack, and he wasn't alone. My skin crawled and my heart pumped even harder when I heard his slimy voice as he heard me, “Where you goin’ little girl.” I ignored him and tried to move faster. The other two little aways must have heard him and responded by blocking my only exit. I started feeling an iciness that made my hair stand on end. Oh God! They each held a sickly gappy grin.

Without thinking I backpedaled into the guy who spoke before. "Off the bike." I took a breath and looked behind. He patted his side, where a gun resided. I eyed it and felt everything shut down. I slid off quietly. He was trying to make me afraid. I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.

I turned and looked back him stoically, and his grin faltered a bit but remained. He ran a hand through his greasy and unkempt hair and his bloodshot eyes bore down upon me with a sadistic glare. He chuckled darkly, "I like em when they think they're tough.” He tried to run his oily hand across my face but I jerked back.

It probably wasn't a good idea to antagonize him, but any scenario for me at the moment was looking pretty bleak. I know I should have been terrified beyond belief, but I absolutely refused to feel at that moment. He wanted a reaction to make him feel powerful, but he wasn't going to get it from me.

I admit I may have a few psychopathic traits.

I stared at him with dead impassiveness and relaxed, which actually made smile faltered completely. "You want me to be scared." I said coldly, "You want me to beg for my life because, at the moment, you hold the power to take it." I gave him my own twisted smile, "But it is fleeting isn't it? You and your friends may be able to overpower me and take whatever you want, but you will still, and always will be empty. You will die completely and utterly worthless and forgotten with only the knowledge that your breath is wasted."

He wasted no time to punch me to the ground. The adrenaline was still coursing through me so I didn't feel it. I got up and looked at him impassively again making him grit his teeth in frustration. In hindsight that was really stupid, but If I died, at least I would know that my words and face would forever haunt him. I apparently hit a nerve so I continued.

"I adamantly refuse to be a willing victim to someone so pitiful. I will not beg, I will not cry, I will fight you till the bitter end. And I will win. Maybe not here and now, but I will be laughing because scum like you will be burning in hell."

He pulled out his pistol from his pants. I saw him seething. I heard a click and he pointed it at me before looking at his goons. He smoothed his hair before he turned back to me, "I wasn't goin' to kill ya girlie," He lied, "But someone gotta put a psychotic bitch like you in your place!"

I braced myself when some sort of strange heat found it's way into the alley, "Well who is going to put you in your place?" A voice out of nowhere said before letting out a dark chuckle.

“What the fuck!” My attempted murderer suddenly tried to jerk back but found himself stuck in place.

The two others must not have heard the voice, “Aye boss, if you're goin' to blow 'er brain out, quit fuckin’ around and kill the bitch already.”

He jerked around wildly and I quickly backed away from him in confusion. Suddenly the voice echoed through the alley. I found it very strikingly familiar, “Such a violent mind,” the voice said, “You blame everything you have become on your abuse and neglect." He was suddenly lifted from the ground and the gun dropped. "I myself can sympathize with that, but it hardly an excuse for multiple rapes and murders.”

The two guys looked around in horror at the scene pulling their guns out. When their weapons disappeared, they're faced contorted into that of disbelief and tried to bolt, but they too were now held in place, “Ah ah ah. I won't have any of that running away now.” The two joined their leader in floating. I couldn’t help but gape.

“Now how should I deal with such scourge?” The voice pondered.

The men were screaming now, some of them prayed, one of them yelled, “Holy son of a bitch!”

I heard a snapping sound and the voice turned dark, “Excellent idea.” In a flash were once were three men were three dogs. They suddenly dropped to the ground howling before running off in every direction.

I could literally feel the dark glee in the air, “Wonder how many litters they will have.” The voice said now behind me.

I gasped and turned around to meet the gaze of a very strange, yet familiar man. His skin was tan and his hair completely white, as were his beard and long eyebrow, but the most striking feature about him was his red eyes and yellow sclera.

“W-who are you?” I cautiously asked him. If he says satan I am literally going to reconsider my religious views and bolting to the nearest church to pray.

He chuckled as if hearing my thoughts, “Your people have called me by many names; Juracán, Typhon, the Leviathan, Lóng, etc. but if you must call me anything, I preferably go by Discord.” He did a mock bow, "Anyway, I must congratulate you for how you handled those brutes. You certainly know how to keep calm in the worst of situations."

"Thanks..." I replied. I took a moment to process what he said, and suddenly recalled why he looked and sounded familiar, “Discord? Like the show ‘My Little Pony’?” As soon as that left my mouth I felt stupid but was surprised by his response.

He chuckled, “So you're a fan I see. That makes things much easier.” He snapped his fingers, and we suddenly found ourselves in a void of sorts. I gasped as I saw him shifting and contorting into a familiar draconequus shape that I never thought I would see in real life.

He stretched, “Oh that is so much better. I always found that form quite constricting. Too many complicated joints and organs to think about. not to mention how easily it bruises. Speaking of.” I felt a warmth spreading across my face, "All better."

I floated in silence for a moment trying my best to push down the shock I was feeling. I opened my mouth to say something.

“No this is not a dream.” He said.

I closed my mouth before opening it again.

“No those brutes did not kill you either. This is very much real.” He smirked.

I closed my mouth again, but once more opened.

“No, I am not reading your mind. I just happen to have a lot of experience in explaining myself to your kind. Though not to say I couldn’t read your mind.” A file appeared out of nowhere and he began working on his claws.

“Actually I was going to ask if there was a bathroom in this place.” I joked.

He stopped momentarily before blinking once. A large smile overcame his face before giggling, “Oh you are definitely a keeper. This will be quite fun indeed.” He snapped his claw and we were suddenly inside an all too familiar house, “Welcome! to my humble abode ms…”

“Eris,” I replied. I realized the coincidence of that, then wondered if it was a coincidence at all.

Again he blinked as if stump, and smiled deeply, “Well well, would you look at that. Seems like fate we meet now doesn’t it.”

“Perhaps.” I diplomatically answered, “May I ask what my… purpose of being here?” And other things.

“But of course.” He handed me a glass of water and waited until I began drinking, “I want to give you all of my powers and live in the magical realm of Equestria.”

I finished off the water without issue, which made him look somewhat disappointed that his gag failed.

“I’ve watched a lot of cartoons in my life,” I said proudly of myself. But then processed what he said and dropped the glass in shock. That made him smile.

“My Little Pony being one of them I see.”

“Indeed.” I replied, “My brother introduced it to me seven years ago. Still, watch it to this day when life feels unbearable. Can you explain how you are real?"

He suddenly snapped his fingers and I was suddenly sitting in a chair holding an empty wine glass. He poured a cup of red wine in it of which I immediately drained."

"In a moment. But this is the part where you release all of that emotional stress that you've bottled up."

"Wait, Wha..." I felt the dam break in my head and the terror and fear I felt flooded over me. I wrapped a fierce hug over the nearest thing, which just so happened to be him. I felt the tears streamed from my face as it all came out at once.

It was quite intense. There is no feeling like coming to terms with death only to find you were given another chance to live. I don't remember what I said, but I immediately felt better. It was like that for ten minutes, but it might as well have been an eternity. I could hardly say that before this my life was hardly well lived. I did nothing of significance. I had dreams to do great things, but I never did anything. For the longest time, I was trapped in a rut that I had no idea how to get out of. Even so with my insignificance, I had managed to attract the attention of a cosmic being who thought my life worth enough to save.

My thoughts were broken by his voice.

“Feeling better?” He asked as his serpentine form found its way on his couch which hung on the ceiling.

“This... this is a lot to take in.” I replied as soon as I could take a breath and recompose myself, “Everything I thought possible was wrong. The fantasy world I always dreamed of going is real, and you want to give me your powers. Why me, and why would you?”

He stroked his beard in thought, “To your first question, it’s cause you have admirable traits that I believe would complement the powers of chaos quite nicely. Humans are the most naturally occurring chaotic species I have ever seen. You being naturally attuned to it will make the instinct much more manageable. That mixed with your individual temperament makes you the perfect candidate. To your second question, I simply wish to retire from my role and grow old with those dearest to me.”

I thought of that for a minute, “Could I ever return to Earth?” This was the most unique opportunity in the world but I'd be hard-pressed to just up and leave my loved ones just like that.

He began drinking cup from a juice, “Of course my dear. You’ll only have the power to make anything you desire to occur. But I would recommend you not flaunt your newfound abilities when visiting. I rather enjoy your world's... unique form of chaos. I would be sorely upset if you tampered with that.”

I bit my lip in thought, “Okay, I accept.” It was probably too hasty and impulsive, but at the moment I didn't care.

He smiled and snapped his talon, appearing in front of me with a duplicate of himself, “Excellent! So here is how things are going to go. When I transfer all of my powers to you, I shall revert to my original form. My duplicate here," The other bowed, "will send me off to my destination when the deed is done, then he will send you in my stead at the moment the Elements of Harmony released me from stone. I decided to spare you of the nastier qualities of my powers, so he will be here to contain that."

"The nastier qualities?" I questioned wondering too late what I had gotten into.

Chaos was an entity of itself before it became me." He answered. "It's not alive per se, but it does have it's own memory. Let's just say they are extremely unpleasant. It is also eons old. That much memory alone would most definitely bring derangement to your mind. Don't you worry though, this Discord construct will fade over time without me maintaining it, and with it those memories of chaos? He only has a fraction of chaos, but he will be of aid if you suddenly find yourself in a pickle, deal?”

“One question,” I asked.

“The show. Our worlds are loosely connected by an interdimensional interlapse. Because of it, memories of each world are exchanged when they pass through each other. It's why your kind has legends of all of the race in Equestria, and why cities like Manehattan exists. They are mostly faint memories, so I had directly interfered in the minds of the creators to improve the accuracy of the show. It took a few attempts and a number of failures," The past generations I guessed. "but it all paid off in the end. Obviously some things in it either didn’t happen or really happened but in a more... realistic way. Unfortunately, there is only so much you can allow children to see." The clone rolled his eyes, "The nightmare moon fiasco, for example, lasted about a week instead of a single night, and was much more extraneous journey to the castle. There were actually seven members originally of the group that went out on their journey to save the day, but the last one well…” He scratched his neck.

My eyes widened, “Really?”

“Yeah… anyway, I think you have a pretty decent idea as to how certain events will occur. Does that sound acceptable?”

I nodded.

He gripped both of my shoulders, “Good. Now I'm going to warn you that you might experience some new personality quirks with your transformation.” Before I could reply, he suddenly clenched tightly and his eyes began to glow a fierce yellow. His mouth opened up and a tendril of purple energy shot out. I was about to yell in fear but the tendril shot right in my own mouth. The feeling was extremely unpleasant as it slithered through my body. It latched onto my soul and felt a deep bubbling reservoir of power building up inside me. I didn't feel quite so solid anymore. Soon the stream receded completely. The lights in his eyes flickered off and turned into a normal white. Imagine my surprise when he fell back and started changing. I was so focused on that I didn’t even notice my own changes. I blinked and suddenly there was a petite snout in front of me, and a draconian tail forcibly peeking out of my pants.

I gasped as I looked at myself, “Holy… I, you didn't tell me I was going to physically change!” I don't think it would have stopped me from accepting the offer, but it would have been nice to know beforehand!

The clone took that moment to say something. For whatever reason he was a bit snarkier than the real one, “Well, power of chaos does require you to take the form of chaos, though I must say you look quite stunning as a draconequus." He got in my face, "In fact, I think the divided power allowed you to retained a mostly humanoid figure if those hips and breast of yours say anything.”

I blushed profusely at that and looked myself over nervously. Suddenly he got swat at by a levitating newspaper in a blue aura. “I will not tolerate you sexually harassing my guest after what she has been through.” A young voice said. I turned to see a young tan Alicorn colt with a tornado cutie Mark.

“Oh shit.” I said with surprise, “Discord?”

“In the flesh. Diddy Tune now actually. He turned to his wings and squinted at them." He looked back to his doppelgänger, "Little help. I would be quite annoying to explain to everypony why I'm an alicorn." Discord clone sighed and snapped his talon. In a flash, his wings were gone. He looked back to me, “You will see me again pretty soon. Tell me if my clone is misbehaving, I'll put him in his place. I wish you luck Eris, may you find true happiness in life.”

He vanished instantly, leaving me alone with his clone. He turned back to me with a not so pleasant looking grin. I wonder why this one was such an asshole, then I remembered that he holds more unpleasant memories.

He chuckled, “I thought he would never leave.” In a flash, he was in a tan suit and red bow tie. I guess he was going for the teacher look, but it made me think of something else. There was a stir in the reservoir inside of me and A fez suddenly appeared on my head. I gasped, losing my balance on my newly mismatched feet. I was caught by a couch for that hadn't been there before.

He chuckled but then cleared his throat trying his best to look dignified on a podium I swore also wasn't there before, “Chaos 101 he said." He paused until I looked at him, "Self Levitation." He rose from the ground, “For one of a draconequus shape, using limbs as they are meant is a challenge when going by the normal rules of reality. Though if I assessed correctly, your humanity has managed to slip in and made you a bit more balanced. So walking may not be such an issue.”

I looked over my foreign appendages. All of them had different weights to them which was of course extremely uncomfortable. Now I knew why Discord hated gravity. Don’t even get me started on the wings that were uncomfortably stuck in my shirt.

“Most of your abilities you will find to be instinctive in nature.” He continued, “If you so much as think, it can occur if you desire it enough. The trick is to maintain it.” To demonstrate he made a triad of singing ginseng tea bags. The song they sang was quite catchy, to be honest. “Unless you can give the construct its own power, it will fade rather quickly." He looked away from his creation and it disappeared. "If you so desire to make it more permanent, you need to put a piece of your power within it. I myself am an example of it. It will, of course, fade away with time depending on the amount of energy it retains. Noe attempt to exert your will on reality, and believe you are in total and control of all of the forces. Can you do that?”

I shrugged, “I’ll try.” I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I extended my mind into the reservoir. The gesture made me think of a Tibetan monk meditating in the air, and I suddenly took lift. I looked at myself and gasped. I was wearing the robes I was thinking about and in midair. I squeeze in glee. The discomfort from all of my mismatched parts was gone as I floated around the room. I thought of something interesting and snapped my talon to make Gen 1 Optimus Prime appear.

“One shall stand, One shall fall!” He said, and transformed into a truck. I giggled in delight before snapping my fingers again to find they held a sonic screwdriver. I pressed the button. It whirled and every door in the house opened and closed. With another thought, it turned into the elder wand. I did a dramatic circling motion, “Expecto Patronum!” To my surprise, It came out as a spectral discord.

“Having fun?” He said before turning normal.

“You bet I am!” Directly from the wisdom of Chris Pratt, I said with eyes wide, “I am going to make some weird shit!”

He laughed hell of hard at that one, "Maybe later. Try changing your appearance now."

I nodded and made and a mirror appeared before me. I looked myself over feeling quite drunk on my newfound power. I didn’t look that bad actually, it was just different. It was like I was looking at one of those gender-bent portrayals of Discord I would find on Deviantart that I might or might not have thought looked cute. I didn’t quite like the white hair too much though, and the robe looked awkward. I thought back to my human appearance and morphed back. It was a little off. My hair was trying to turn white, so mixed with my natural black coloration it looked grey. I was a bit taller than I remembered, and most notably were my eyes. No matter how hard I tried they remained red and yellow. That was going to be difficult to explain to my parents. I lost focus for a minute and reverted back to my draconequus form. It would definitely take some time to get used to. I made the mirror disappear with a thought and turned to the clone feeling excited.

“I think I got it down.” who would have thought a Burger King Cashier, would become the Goddess of Chaos. I didn't think I could feel any better!

“Excellent. Lesson’s over for now, hope you enjoy your time in Equestria.” He laughed, then snapped his claw before I could think, and I blinked to look at six familiar little ponies below me. Also, the clothes I was wearing were gone. Not that they were really any good anymore, but my human modesty still remained. Discord Clone, you are an official asshole.

It took a minute to recover from my shock at the transition. They were the first to recover from theirs, “Dis-cord?” Twilight asked.

With a quick look, I noticed they looked slightly different from their cartoon counterparts. Most noticeably, their cloven hooves.

I bit my lip as I thought of what to say. The ponies I have watched for eight seasons and a couple of movies were right in front of me. I pushed down my shock and embarrassment and tried to come up with ways to explain myself to them.

“Oh um… no actually.” I tried to find a follow up to that but Rainbow Dash got all up in my face. Getting a faceful of rainbow-colored feathers.

“Don’t you play games with us Discord. We know what you're playing at.” I blinked and teleported away from her instinctually.

Quick note: I’ll just say now that teleportation is a very jarring experience for those not used to it. I almost forgot to levitate when I reappeared.

“Whoa whoa, I'm really not Discord I swear. I'm just his successor. I have no intentions of causing any trouble!”

I don’t know if it was the sincerity in my eyes or my non-discord like behavior, but they suddenly looked back at each other confusedly. Twilight stepped up cautiously, “Okay…” She said cautiously, “If your not Discord, can you explain why you were in his statue and not him, and what do you mean by, successor?”

“Don’t listen to a word of that lying fleabag Twi.” Rainbow said, “He’s just trying to throw us off guard by pretending to be a mare!” She glared at me.

Twilight ignored her and looked up to me. Getting a good look at her, I noticed that her legs were thinner and longer than her show counterpart, and also had a couple of freckles on her face. Despite that, her expression had a hardness to it, and her demeanor certainly read to me as a firm leader.

“Well," I scratched my neck, "I don’t think I was actually in the stone. I don't know the details, but he definitely brought me here to replace him.”

Twilight frowned, “Okay, well, what happened to Discord then?” Everyone looked at me with anticipation waiting to see if this was a ruse.

“I don't kid a whole lot about it, but he told me that he wished to retire from his role as the God of Chaos. He chose me to inherit his power. Just putting it out there that I really don’t mean you any trouble.”

“Hmm” She looked away in thought, “AppleJack, What do you make of it?”

I looked over to the earth pony. Her expression was stoic, and she was much bulkier than I thought (though it made more sense for the farm pony) and had a couple of white patches on her. “Well, strangely enough, I ain't sense no lie from her. I can hardly believe that Discord would up and ‘retire’ like that but my element’s telling me that she's speakin’ the truth.”

“Oh! Oh!” Pinkie exclaimed, “My element tells me she is also very excited to see us!” I jumped back in surprise when I saw her. She was a bit plumper than I was expecting. Guess she’s not immune to weight gain from all of those sweets after all.

“Um,” I started, “well I have heard about you all and the things you have done. I and plenty of my kind have the utmost respect for you.”

They all blinked, “Okay” Rainbow said, “Timeout, this is hurting my head. I don't trust her, but I know for a fact Discord would never say anything like that even if it were to throw us off.”

Twilight bit her lip, and kicked her front hoof in thought, “Indeed, I haven’t even heard a single snark, quip, or pun. I doubt even Discord would be so desperate to pass any of those up.

Oh, Burn. Twilight is a savage in real life.

“In any case, I’ll need to write a letter to Princess Celestia as soon as possible.” She said before looking me up and down, “I don't know what is going on, but I think it would be best if you would comply in us supervising you until we figure this out.”

Common Sense? Who are you and what have you done with Twilight Sparkle?

Fluttershy cleared her throat. She was definitely the shortest of the group, and her wings had pink highlights and were significantly smaller than Dash’s, “S-she could stay at my place for the meantime. Celestia did give this task to me after all, and I bet Diddy would be interested to see her.”

My ears twitched at that last part and formulated a hypothesis.

I’ll admit this now, but the real Fluttershy was so much more adorable than she was in the show.

“I’m cool with it.” I replied, “I promise not to disturb the peace.” And I most definitely don't want to be stoned.

…

So this is my life now. Better get used to daily puns.

“That's actually perfect. He should know what to make of this.” She turned back to me, “we shall escort you to Fluttershy’s house. Stand in the middle of us. If your really not Discord, I hope you can understand our caution.”

Seriously that's more common sense than I expected of her. Of course, my basis for all of them was a kid’ cartoon show. She was always shown to be smart but oftentimes made very obvious mistakes in the show.

I complied with her wishes nodding. They soon had me surrounded again, but much closer. Immediately I felt an almost tingly sensation in my neck and felt very tired. If I had to guess, I'd say the elements formed a harmonic field around me that drained my chaos magic. Unfortunately, that was a sound guess as I couldn’t float anymore. They started moving in one direction and I tried following along forgetting about my mismatched legs. I tripped immediately.

Rainbow Dash burst out laughing, “What’s your problem?”

I groaned. This was not how I envisioned this meeting going in my head, “Give me a break. I’ve only been a draconequus for not even a half an hour.”

“What were you before darling?” Rarity asked as she extended a hoof to help me up. I took it and dusted myself off.

I nodded thanks, “Human. Discord left out the part of me turning into this,” I gestured to all of me, “when he offered.”

“That certainly sounds like him,” Twilight replied when we started moving again. I barely balanced myself using my draconic tail to keep me up. “But my question is how he could contact you when he was in stone.”

“I believe it was Discord from the future after he was reformed. Once he gave me his powers, he put me here in his stead within his timeline.”

“Interesting.” She was quiet for a moment, “Can you prove any of this?”

I stroked my chin in thought, “That's a really tall order. From what I understand, It’s really difficult to provide solid evidence for something when you can quite literally cause the most unbelievable things to happen. For chaos, the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. I could very well say the sky is purple and it might be the next time I look up.” They all looked up quickly just in case but were disappointed to find it still very much blue.

“I can't really prove anything to you, you can only have faith that what I say to be the truth.”

She didn't look too happy about it but turned and said, “fair enough.” And didn't press the issue.

The field we were in was not that far from Fluttershy's house at all so we made it fairly quickly. My ears were suddenly assaulted by a familiar voice humming a familiar song.

“Hmm little pony, hmm, hm, hmmm hmmm hmmm, hmm Oh!” The voice said. I see you have brought guest Fluttershy.”

I blinked at him and it all suddenly made sense. Damn, there goes my Celestiacord ship.

He looked much older than when I last saw him, and he also sported a dark extended goatee and was currently watering a strange-looking plant.

“Oh, I hope you don’t mind Diddy. But we’re dealing with a little situation and we all need to stay at the cottage for a little while.”

“It’s all fine my dear.” He walked over and rubbed noses with her. Everyone awed at that and he chuckled while she turned away embarrassed.

‘Sly dog.’ I thought to myself.

“It's your house anyway, but I suppose we will have to make some sleeping arrangements. I assume you all are staying overnight?”

A large blush was on Fluttershy’s face, “Uh-um, maybe.” She squeaked, which made Diddy Chuckle again. “Very well my dear, I will get everything situated just in case.” He looked at me, "Why hello there, I don't believe we've met." He gave me a look that told me to play along.

"Oh, um no. My name is Eris. Happy to make your acquaintance."

"Professor Diddy Tune, chaos researcher extraordinaire." He bowed, "Likewise."

Professor? I thought.

Twilight cleared her throat, "I need an opinion Diddy, She says she is the new goddess of Chao inherited from Discord herself. The only problem is that Discord was trapped in stone, so that shouldn't have happened."

Diddy looked in thought, "Hmm, interesting." He looked to Twilight, "Do you know why Chaosology is such a difficult field to understand Twilight?"

"Because we as Unicorns hail only to the energies of nature, and thus cannot draw from any other source?"

"That's one of them, but that is more of a difficulty to perform it than understand. No, it's because chaos is a spontaneous force of disorder and change. Natural magic, or more empirically, Elemental magic follows the rules of reality within certain limits, while chaos magic completely disregards them. If say you used elemental magic to make an apple into an orange, you need to know what makes an orange look and tastes like an orange, then rearrange the matter within the apple into the structure of the orange. For chaos magic, all you have to know is the idea of what an orange looks and tastes like to make one. You don't even require an apple or any other material to make it because it is not an actual orange, but the idea of one. This plant here for example. "

He touched the purple bulb on it, and it suddenly turned into a cornucopia of fruit. The other girls oohed at it. He took a grape and put it into his mouth. "Magics like chaos and harmony aren't typically in fauna like you and me, but they are very abundant in flora."

I felt that this was as much a lesson for me as it was for Twilight.

"That makes no sense though," Twilight replied.

"Exactly my point," He rebutted, "That's because it doesn't need to. Anything is possible for the one who wields chaos."

"If anything is possible, then why do the elements of harmony work on creatures like Discord?"

He gave a sly smile expecting the question, "The elements of harmony are low grade conduits of Harmonic Magic. From what little is known about them, they seem to corner and irradicate the idea of discord, hence why Princess Luna's insanity and desire to solely rule Equestria under an eternal night was completely gone after they were used." Everypony shivered.

"There are two sides to every coin. If I am correct, Discord, and now you" he looked at me, "embody chaos itself. As a force of nature, a being such as this cannot be destroyed. So they instead locked its entire presence through time and space for the duration of which that being was turned. That's how I understand it anyway. If you want to learn more about harmonic magic, I would recommend you talk to Wheeler."

He looked me up and down. He was selling this Professor thing pretty well.

Twilight nodded, “That's difficult to conceptualize, but I think that helps. I hate to ask, but I was also wondering if it would be to much trouble if you could fetch Spike for me. It would be unwise to let this one,” She pointed to me, “Out of any of our sight.”

He shrugged, “Very well. I was intending to head to the library anyway and ask him if I could borrow his fifth edition copy of Ogres and Oubliettes.”

Twilight rolled her eyes, “Make sure to tell him to bring all of the writing equipment.”

“Will do.” He said. He winked at me and trotted off.

“Such an ingenious Gentlecolt.” Rarity said. “Honesty Fluttershy, I can’t help but be quite jealous when I think that the two of you are together.”

Her blush got even redder and turned away, “L-lets go inside.” They all shrugged and proceeded.

For whatever reason, I felt quite antsy and yearned to do something. As soon as the circle broke, I teleported off to the couch feeling much better seeing their surprise. A thought occurred to me then. In the show, Discord had to perform acts of chaos in order to continue existing, was that true in real life? I suddenly felt insecure about it and huddled on the couch.

I noticed that they continued to stare at me.

“What?” I asked. They shook their heads.

“By now Discord would have given up the guise. When you teleported we were all expecting you to reveal yourself and explain your elaborate plan to separate us.”

“That is a very cartoony kind of evil. Just how well do you even know this guy, I mean, you only met him once right?”

Twilight sighed, “Believe me when I say that we have had plenty of time to get to know him.” She shivered, “I can hardly believe that Celestia would even suggest setting him free with all of the trouble it took to put him there.” She had a thoughtful look, “You did say that the Discord you saw was indeed from the future correct?”

I nodded. I felt thirsty and unconsciously made a cup of red wine appear in my claw, taking a sip, “He wasn't acting like too much of an asshole so I assume it was him after his reformation." His clone though was a big dick though. "In fact, this was supposed to be the episode of his reformation.”

“Episode?” Twilight replied.

I took another sip, “I guess I should explain myself. My place of origin is... somewhere far away in time and space. My kind has made a show of sorts that details a lot of what happens here in Equestria. Until recently I had assumed it was all just fantasy.”

“Huh.” Twilight replied, “If your from another dimension, how do your people even know about us?”

“Discord said something about our world's inter lapping with one another.” I replied, “Other than that I don’t really know.”

“Can you show us?” She asked.

I thought of the implication of showing a cartoon character their own cartoon show, and a wide grin spread across my face. I snapped my fingers and a large enough television set appeared in front of them. I sat right next to them as the first two-parter episodes played.

By the end of it, they had all manner of reactions, not many looked pleased to my dismay. Twilight’s expression was unreadable, Rarity was frowning, Rainbow Dash looked dumbfounded, Applejack looked bored, and Pinkie Pie at least looked mildly intrigued. Fluttershy was especially unhappy at the idea of thousands watching her through time and space and left midway to hyperventilate.

Twilight was the first to respond, “That was… interesting. Condensed significantly, very important events and ponies were cut out and had a lot of inconsistencies with the timing of events. But accurate enough. I assume this was meant for children.”

“Accurate enough?” Rainbow Dash responded, “It completely cuts off Silver's part in Luna’s redemption and Stary Heart wasn't even in it!" A few looked away at that.

Twilight cleared her throat, “I mean it has the basic idea of what we did and the end result. I won't say I agree with how we were all were represented. I know I’m certainly not so stubborn and anxious as what is portrayed.”

Rainbow scoffed, “Actually I think they got you down to a T Twi. Don't think I don't remember you quite literally breaking down when you ran out of those reports of yours to the Princess.”

The other snickered at that.

“Hey! I thought we agreed never to talk about that!” She complained, which made the rest of the group giggle more at her suffering.

I snickered, “Actually I think that's also an episode.”

“Really!?” Rarity squealed. They all joined her in a gasp of delight while Twilight looked about me in abject horror.

Luckily for her Diddy chose that moment to appear with a familiar purple dragon talking to him about something geeky. He eyed the TV and smirked at me before getting back into character.

“Why what manner of contraption is this?” He said in a voice of wonder. Spike looked in wonder as well.

“It called a TV!" Pinkie answered, "Our friend here was showing us a cartoon from her world about us!” She got up and bounce but then stopped before looking at me with shock, “Oh my gosh!” She yelled.

The others jump, “What is it Pinkie darling?” Rarity asked ready for a fight.

“We need to give her a Welcome to Ponyville Party!”

They all blinked before settling down, realizing it was just Pinkie being Pinkie.

I smirked. Despite them being more realistic and rational than I anticipated, it was nice to know that some things were still the same about the group.

They shrugged and settled back down. The purple Dragon which could only be Spike approached her with the requested materials. She looked at it in thought for a moment before sighing and looking at me, "I guess since you are not Discord we don't really have reason to keep you here."

“Yes,” Rarity bowed, “You've certainly proven to be much more pleasant company than that old geizer.”

Diddy harrumph quietly. I shrugged, “Well, I don’t suppose you will ever experience it now that the timeline is different, but he did seem to get better over time from what I know of him in the show, and he did save me from possible rape and murder before he offered me his power.”

They were all silent at that one. I realize what I said and blinked in surprise at the nonchalant in my voice. It hit me like a bus. I lifted another cup of wine to my mouth. At this point I didn’t think I was capable of getting drunk. I tried anyway, “God, this has just been a roller coaster of a day.”

It was silent for a bit, but Fluttershy spoke up, “Um, are you okay?” She looked concerned.

I thought about that, “I don’t know. I've been here for only a couple of hours. I don't really know anyone in this world, and I now have an eternity of living here waiting for me. In the heat of things I completely forgot I almost just went through a pretty traumatic experience and left everything I knew behind.”

"Can't you go back, dear?" Rarity asked.

"At any point yeah. But I don't think I really have a place there anymore." Not to mention how shitty it was. A single college dropout with a dead-end career flipping burgers people! "Going back to my normal life at this point could very well destroy me as I am, and that isn't even mentioning that I'm not even my own race anymore. If I even so much as reveal what I am, and what I could do to my world, it could cause all kinds of pandemonium. So I'm afraid my only option is to take residence here."

Twilight looked at me curiously and sympathetically. She closed her eyes, took a breath, and lifted herself up before walking towards me. She lifted her hoof and smiled. I took it.

“As the element of Magic, I vow to devote my time to make sure you get accustomed to our world and help you in your hour of need. I know you can make it through this. It was a pleasure meeting you Eris. You are welcome anytime in the Golden Oak Library. Have a good night.” She walked out, and started a chain, several shook hoofs later and it was just me, Diddy, Spike, and Fluttershy.

“Wow, I’m impressed,” Spike said, “It’s very rare that Twilight extends anyone into her inner friendship circle.” He looked at me, “Are you really not Discord?”

“Nope. Promise.”

He nodded, “I better head on back. It was nice meeting you.” Once again I made another handshake and he was off. Fluttershy moved into another room to do something, leaving me with Diddy.

The room was silent for a moment before he decided to talk, “Quiet a debut. I honestly couldn’t do any better. Thank you by the way for not exposing me.”

“I wouldn’t dream of it after what you have done for me.”

He grinned, “You're certainly a better person than me that is for sure.” He sighed, “Can I make a request?”

I looked at him, “Sure?”

“Be more present than I was. Make friends, have fun, and enjoy life. Help them when you can. You know some of what's ahead.”

I nodded. “Can do. Question though, weren't you a colt when you transformed?”

"For you, it was hours ago, for me it was twenty-three years."

"Oh." It was quiet again.

Once more he broke it, “Anyway, I would not recommend you show them any more of that cartoon. I don't want the timeline to shift too dramatically after all.”

Before I could respond, Fluttershy came back with a plate of decrusted sandwiches and tea.

I had a feeling that things would go quite well for now on.

Author's Note

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