Three

Bon Bon sat quietly on the bench where she once shared many afternoons with Lyra by her side. It was a strange sight for all to see her there so forlorn and alone. Discord stared intently upon the scene from far away and sighed.

"You know part of your punishment is that you were supposed to provide Princess Celestia with regular updates on Bon Bon's progress." Twilight Sparkle insisted as she approached Discord.

"Haven't I?" Discord asked.

"She hasn't heard from you in over a week!" Twilight pressed her hoof against her forehead.

"Well every time I show up Bon Bon refuses to open up to me!" Discord protested.

"Have you tried approaching her normally instead of just appearing out of thin air, unannounced?" Twilight sneered.

"Why would I do it that way?" Discord scratched his beard.

"Because that's how PONIES do it." She slapped her forehead with her hoof again. "In fact this looks like a perfect opportunity to try it out now." she said insistently.

Discord sighed as he walked down the long path to Bon Bon.

"Hey." Bon Bon said meekly as Discord arrived. "Didn't see you in my breakfast this morning." she continued as she turned her head to him.

"Well I figured maybe you'd appreciate a more subtle approach." Discord sighed. "How is the memory reintegration going?" He pressed.

"Subtle approach, huh?". She motioned her head over to where Twilight was still standing and staring over at them. "Straight to the point." she sighed and paused for a moment. "Is it selfish of me to wish you'd left me in that happy little world of lies?" She snapped.

"Not at all." Discord sighed. "You would have had years to deal with these feelings if it wasn't for me. Not just a couple of weeks."

"I can't ignore my responsibility in all this." Bon Bon sighed. "Right now I'm just worried about Lyra. She packed her things and left and nopony in Ponyville has heard from her. That or they're protecting her from me. I don't know." Tears came to her eyes.

"Can't you tell me where she is? At least if she's alright?" Bon Bon pleaded.

Discord shrunk down and sauntered into a doghouse that appeared beside the bench. "I'm in Princess Celestia's doghouse as it is. The last thing I need is for her to hear that I've been using my power to go around eavesdropping on ponies." Discord protested.

"Some all-powerful being you are." Bon Bon turned her nose up and huffed at him.

"Having great power comes with great responsibility you know. At least if I want to live freely in Equestria." Discord snapped his fingers and appeared normally again.

"I just don't see how you can act so casually about it one moment and then complain about being asked for the tiniest little favor the next." She complained.

"You know, being an eternal lord of chaos with penultimate magical powers isn't all it's cracked up to be. But I wouldn't expect a silly powerless little earth pony to understand." Discord chided.

An angry expression came over Bon Bon's face. She pressed her hoof into Discord's chest and leaned up into his face. "I've spent my whole life facing down creatures like you." She snarled. "And if I had magic as powerful as yours I'd make a better lord of chaos than you ever could."

Discord looked to see that Twilight was no longer watching them and then snapped his fingers. "We'll see about that".

Bon Bon backed off and her face dropped. "What?"

"I played Earth Pony with you back at the archives when we first met. Now you're going to play Lord of Chaos with me." he snickered.

"I don't feel any different." Bon Bon whimpered.

"Where's Lyra?" Discord winked to her.

"Manehatta-" Her jaw dropped. "Lyra!" she called out. She stomped her hoof on the ground and disappeared in a flash, re-appearing a short distance away. She glared at Discord.

"I'm not THAT insane you know. Your powers will only work if you remain within 10 paces of me. I won't have you getting me in any more trouble over this 'tiny little favor'" he muttered.

"If ponies start going on about an earth pony running around using magic all hoofs will be immediately pointed at me!" Discord complained.

"I got this." Bon Bon stomped her hoof on the ground and a horn came protruding out of her mane.

"Not bad..." Discord scratched his chin. "I still can't afford having anybody recognize you. You need a costume... a disguise." Discord snapped his fingers and a mane identical to Rarity's appeared on his head. "It needs to be Haute Couture, tres chic, debonaire..." he raised the pitch of his voice.

"I don't know what ANY of that means..." Bon Bon groaned.

"Neither do I. Let's try this." Discord snapped his fingers and a suit appeared on Bon Bon. He held a mirror up for her to see herself.

"Not bad..." She replied.

"Not disguise enough!" Discord snapped his fingers again and she had bushy eye brows and a mustache.

"Really?" Bon Bon glared at him.

"Do you want to go to Manehattan with me or not?"

"Fine." Bon Bon rolled her eyes.

Discord snapped his fingers and they appeared in Manehattan atop the towering Empire Hay building at the base of the spire. "I've always wanted to visit this place." Discord beamed gleefully. He used his claws to remove a handful of bolts from the spire.

"What are you doing?" Bon Bon raised her eyebrow at him.

"They're for my collection." He boasted.

"You collect bolts?"

"You really never know what the next hot collectors item will be! You have no idea how many fads I've missed over the centuries!" He said in a very disingenuous tone.

Discord snapped his fingers and they appeared down on the streets.

"Can we go find Lyra now?" Bon Bon groaned impatiently.

"I have some official chaos business to tend to first!" He snapped insistently.

"Official chaos business?" She asked skeptically.

"Yes now if you help me out we can go do your thing sooner." Discord handed her a map. "I need you to help me steal all the street-lamp bulbs marked with an 'x".

"Stealing lightbulbs?" Bon Bon rolled her eyes.

As they finished harvesting the last light bulb and placing it in a bottomless saddlebag Discord had conjured up for Bon Bon he picked up something from the ground and held it triumphantly in the air.

"Finally!" he sighed in relief.

Bon Bon came closer and saw that the object of interest was a simple hairpin. "Really!?" She boomed angrily, shaking the ground around them. Every pony on the street stared at them. "Can we do something I want to do now?" she complained.

"Very well." Discord sighed. "In fact, It's all you now. Let's see your chaos." Discord Shrunk and hopped into one of Bon Bon's saddle bags.

Bon Bon immediately stomped her hoof on the ground and they appeared inside an apartment. She was face to face with Lyra who immediately let out a blood curdling scream. Discord snapped his fingers and they appeared out on the street again.

"I know I'm not the one to be giving lectures on subtlety but you certainly failed there." he sneered from the bag.

Bon Bon stomped her hoof on the ground and a piece of paper appeared floating before her. "Looks like she made a reservation. For two." her face drooped.

"Well why don't we break for lunch." Discord winked at her.

The duo found themselves in a fancy downtown restaurant seated some distance from Lyra. After a short while a pony with a nearly identical manestyle and cutie mark (apart from some differences in coloration) to Bon Bon came in and sat down with Lyra.

"What could she possibly see in this mare?!" Bon Bon seethed. "She doesn't even look like her type!"

Lyra and her companion touched frequently across the table as they conversed and giggled. The two had even leaned to each other for a kiss.

"She was never THAT open with me in public!" Bon Bon could barely contain her jealousy.

"And what are you going to do about it?" Discord winked.

"Wouldn't it be a shame if their food TASTED TERRIBLE!" Bon Bon laughed maniacally to herself as she stomped her hoof.

"I wish I could hear what they were saying..." Bon Bon sighed.

"Well you have the magic now. Just be careful when it comes to chaos magic. Silly parlor tricks like teleportation and transfiguration come free of charge but the rest tends to yield...unexpected results." He laughed ominously.

Bon Bon stomped her hoof and they appeared tiny, sitting on the base of a candlestick at Lyra's table.

"The food here is a little disappointing." the mystery mare complained.

"My show tonight will definitely make up for it!" Lyra exclaimed.

"I'll be there for you snookums" the mystery mare replied. The two then broke into a lengthy verbal canoodling match.

"I think I'm to be sick" Discord whispered to Bon Bon.

"I have to use the little fillies room for a second." the mystery mare excused herself.

Bon Bon found herself staring up at Lyra's relatively gigantic visage from the candlestick. She let out a sigh. After a while she stomped her hoof and they were on top of the other mare's head in the washroom. She was just getting ready to turn on the tap to wash her hoofs.

"Oww!" She cried as Bon Bon stomped her hoof.

Discord and Bon Bon appeared out on the street just as a geyser of water erupted from the faucet.

"This is stupid." Bon Bon cried. "I have no right to be so jealous."

"You're certainly getting carried away." Discord nudged her with his elbow.

"Maybe you should put me back to normal." Bon Bon sobbed.

"Oh it's not that simple. The spell I cast on you won't wear out until tomorrow morning's sun starts to peak above the horizon." Discord snickered.

"What!?" Bon Bon lashed at him with her hoof and Discord went flying some distance with the impact.

"Let's just lay low until then. Why don't we go back to Ponyville?" Discord urged.

"I kind of want to see Lyra's performance tonight." she sighed. "Please make sure I don't get too carried away with this magic." Bon Bon pleaded.

"Don't worry. I've already got you covered." Discord winked.

Discord and Bon Bon were about to cross the street when a Taxi pony came screeching to a halt, nearly hitting them.

"I'm walking here!" Bon Bon stomped her hoof and a shock wave shot through the ground, smashing the Taxi Cart. Onlookers nervously backed away from the scene.

"I'm sorry!" She shouted looking around trying to dispel the stares. She galloped off out of sight.

Discord sighed and snapped his fingers. Bon Bon was hiding in a dark alleyway sobbing to herself. "Well things are certainly chaotic now." He jested. "I'm getting you out of here before we lose plausible deniability." Discord reached for her.

"NO!" Her skin began to smolder like lava as she batted his hand away with her hoof. The sky began to grow dark as black clouds swirled into a towering mesocyclone above the city.

"Well I'm just going to keep my distance and then you can't-" Discord began to walk away and realized that he was now attached to Bon Bon with a chain of magical energy. "I thought you said you weren't that kind of pony." Discord snickered. "Well then I'm keeping you right here." Discord produced a large ship anchor and casually tossed it onto the ground. Bon Bon sighed, crossed her hoofs and slumped down onto the ground. The storm clouds continued to gather over the city as the night came on.

"The show!" Bon Bon jumped up as she saw a familiar mare walking past the alleyway (Lyra's date from earlier). Rain poured from the sky but only where the mare tread. She looked drenched and in a state of capitulation about the unnatural weather pattern.

"You're not going anywhere!" Discord fumed. The two began to float slightly above the ground as Bon Bon scrambled to get traction to run off.

One of Bon Bon's hoofs turned into a hand momentarily and she snapped her fingers, restoring gravity. She then stomped her hoof and a spire of earth shot out of the ground underneath Discord breaking the anchor chain and knocking him back.
Discord glared at her. He transformed into a dragon and spat a gout of flame at Bon Bon. The flames broke on a shield of energy around her. She thought hard about the endless catalog of fearsome creatures she had faced throughout the years and there was only one conclusion. She transformed into a dreaded GammaWyvern, 25 hoofs tall, an upright standing wyvern with an extra pair of arms. She took a swing at Discord with her gigantic claw, knocking him out into the main street. Lyra's love interest looked back at the commotion and paused for a moment, and then carried on her way.

"This game is over!" Discord shouted as he conjured a pair of anti-magic shackles and lunged at Bon Bon. With a loud clink he found himself bound by them. "Clever. Looks like you win." He said calmly as Bon Bon shrunk him down and threw him in a pouch at her side.

Lyra's marefriend had already gone into a nearby building. Bon Bon went crashing through the wall and everypony inside stared in awe as she snatched up the mare. "She's mine! Stay away!" she bellowed out in an otherworldly voice.

"No!" Lyra watched helplessly from the stage.

All the while Discord slyly used his tail to maneuver the hairpin that he had found earlier into the key hole of the shackles and went to work.
Bon Bon took back to the streets with the mare in hand. She looked around and none of the street lamps were lit except for a narrow and direct path to the Empire Hay building. Police unicorns had gathered around and started firing horn beams at her to no effect as she stomped toward it. Inside the pouch Discord freed himself from the shackles and then raised a pocket watch to his face. He then pulled out a tea cup and took a sip.

The mare struggled to try and free herself from Bon Bon's clutches as she began scaling the side of the building, a large crowd gathering on the streets below.
As she finished climbing up onto the roof level she found Lyra there waiting for her.

"Unhand Sugar Drops, you fiend!" She demanded.

"Sugar Drops!?" Bon Bon scoffed in her unearthly voice.

Lyra tossed a grappling hook up to the spire and used it to swing toward the hand that was holding Sugar Drops. As she arrived she tossed a smoke bomb and when the smoke cleared and both mares were free on the other end of the rooftop.

"Where'd you learn to do that?" Sugar Drops smiled at her.

"I don't think I'm supposed to tell you..." Lyra explained. The two hugged each other as Bon Bon took notice and started to move their way.

"Lyra, there's something I have to tell you. My name's not Sugar Drops. It's special agent Candy-Gram. I work for a secret anti-monster agency based out of Canterlot." She dressed herself in secret agent attire as she explained.

"That's so heroic!" Lyra swooned.

"OH COME ON!" Bon Bon bellowed and she started stomping toward them quicker.

"Get down to the street and find somepony who can deliver this message to Canterlot on the double. This monster clearly wants a fight." Sugar Drops gave Lyra a kiss on the forehead, handed her an envelope and then turned her attention to Bon Bon.

"I've had enough of you and all your irony!" Bon Bon screamed, swooping her claw downward toward Sugar Drops. She dodged out of the way as the mighty claw smashed against the rooftop and tossed a grappling hook around Bon Bon's towering leg.

Discord checked his pocket watch again and then yawned.

Bon Bon took another swing at Sugar Drops as she made her way towards the spire. As her claw got close Sugar Drops tossed a smoke bomb at it and reappeared at the spire and fastened the rope holding the grappling hook.

"Looks like you're... all tied up." Sugar Drops smirked.

Bon Bon roared as she pulled hard against the rope and the Spire broke free from the roof top with unexpected ease. Sugar Drops jumped off of the spire onto Bon Bon's back as it flew past her and over the edge. She clung for dear life as the weight of the spire dragged her over. Bon Bon dug her claws into the side of the building to slow her descent, sliding down under the weight of the spire. Sugar Drops looked around and breathed a sigh of relief as she saw Lyra hand the envelope to a burly unicorn in royal Canterlot armor.

"Twilight Sparkle!" Celestia's voice called out. Wresting Twilight from a dream.

"Have I been a bad filly again?" The half asleep Twilight asked meekly.

"This is no time for baseless accusations!" Celestia protested.

"What's going on?" Twilight asked as she got out of bed.

"A GammaWyvern is attacking Manehattan. My agent in the area reports that this one is too powerful for her to handle."

"How did a GammaWyvern get all the way to Manehattan without anypony noticing?" Twilight quizzed.

"We can figure that out later. I've been unable to get ahold of Discord or special agent Sweetie Drops, the only pony I know of that has experience with a GammaWyvern." she sighed.

"I'll gather the girls." Twilight offered.

"There's no need!" Celestia explained as they transported to the map room in the Castle of Friendship in columns of light.

"How?" Twilight asked. Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer stood around the map table as everypony arrived in their own beam of light. A column of pale blue light ascended from the Cutie-map and a great projection of Starswirl's face appeared in it.

"Starswirl, what are you doing here?" She quizzed.

"I'm talking to you remotely." Starswirl explained.

"We've reconfigured the magical matrix of the Cutie-map" Sunburst added.

"You should be able to access the powers that were granted to you by the Chest of Harmony through it now". Celestia explained.

"I should be able to communicate remotely and guide you." Starswirl stated.

"Let's go, girls!" Twilight exclaimed as they disappeared in a beam of light, re-materializing on the streets of Manehattan.

Many buildings were smashed up around them. As Sugar Drops and Bon Bon had been tussling for a while.
One of the buildings, a tavern, had it's wall ripped open and the band on stage stared out at the scene as Twilight and the Mane 6 materialized.
"Who are these heroic ponies?!" One of them quizzed. The lead guitarist shrugged his shoulders in reply and started shredding a repetitive heroic guitar melody.

"Go, Go, Pony heroes!" The singer began singing as the Mane 6 transformed into their powered-up forms.

Bon Bon took notice and started stomping towards them. The 6 combined their energy and fired a mighty beam at her and it was barely enough to knock her to her knees momentarily.

"It's not enough." Twilight sighed.

"That's not all she's got." Starswirl's voice piped in. "Combine your magical focus in front of yourselves."

"Right!" The 6 all nodded simultaneously. Their magical energy began to form into a giant purple alicorn made of pure magical energy. Their jaws dropped in amazement at the sight. As the Magic alicorn finished forming together they found themselves inside a common operator compartment. The alicorn lowered it's head and fired a mightier beam at Bon Bon as she finished her charge, knocking her back a ways and onto her back. But she just got up and started charging towards them again.

"We need to use the friendship blast!" Starswirl exclaimed.

"Aye aye aye!" Sunburst interjected. "There's too many bystanders. If we use the friendship blast here we risk hurting them!".

"Girls, lure GammaWyvern out into the open and then use the friendship blast!" Celestia urged.

"I got this!" Rainbow Dash boasted as she reached for a control lever. The mighty purple alicorn began hovering and emitting a trail of rainbow. It flew in circles around Bon Bon, agitating her and she made chase as it flew off towards the horizon. The alicorn fired another beam at Bon Bon, knocking her to the ground and then landed ahead of her on the road. The two forces stared each other down.

All this while Discord continued to patiently check his watch.

"Are you ready, girls?" Twilight asked. The rest of the mane 6 nodded to her and they each pulled a lever in front of them.

The alicorn began raising it's hoof to it's nose as it began building up a tempest of magical energy. Bon Bon could only look in terror. Discord intently checked his watch.

"Oh, all this excitement and I almost forgot!" Celestia piped up and her horn began to glow. The scene became brighter as the sun crept up toward the bottom of the horizon. Discord raised his hand, ready to snap his fingers.

The sun began to peak over the horizon right as the massive energy blast from the alicorn reached Bon Bon and Discord snapped his fingers. In a flash of light they were gone and the storm clouds cleared from the sky welcoming a sunny morning in Manehattan. The Mane 6 reverted back to their normal forms.

"THAT. WAS. AWESOME!" Rainbow Dash shouted.

"I never knew we could do that." Fluttershy said meekly.

"Oooh, Let's never do that again!" Pinkie Pie squeeked gleefully.

"I reckon I see no reason to ever talk about this again." Applejack said.

"Darling, all this excitement has messed up my mane." Rarity complained.

"Then it's settled." Twilight smiled as the Mane 6 all came together for a group hug.

Discord and Bon Bon appeared normal back on the bench in Ponyville.

"I feel so embarrassed with myself right now." Bon Bon sighed.

"But." Discord urged her on.

"But it was such a relief to find out that Lyra is doing okay. And to literally confront my inner demons." Bon Bon and Discord embraced each other in a hug.

"And I'm glad I finally got that timing down." Discord laughed.
"Finally?" Bon Bon whimpered. They then both laughed and learned in to each other for a kiss.

"Sweetie Drops, Discord!" Celestia called out as she approached them. They both blushed and pushed away from each other.

"I was looking for you two all night!" She said with concern.

"We just stayed up all night walking and talking." Bon Bon smiled and looked back nervously at Discord.

"Yes, that's it." Discord chuckled nervously.

"A GammaWyvern, like the one that destroyed your village when you were a little foal was attacking Manehattan. But you'll be relieved to know it won't be bothering anybody again." She explained. "And it looks like you two learned some kind of friendship lesson. I'll be looking forward to your letter about it." Celestia winked at them and then flew off regally back towards Canterlot.

"You know if she ever finds out that was us in Manehattan she'll banish us both to Tartarus for eternity." Bon Bon said. The two embraced again and laughed.

Author's Note

This story was an apology to the readers of the first two who felt that I didn't make Discord Discordy enough.