Boncord: The Pre-Sequel

"Thanks for letting me crash on your couch. Feels good to get out of that empty house." Bon Bon said to Discord, the two stood in the living room of his chaotically appointed house in the heart of the chaos dimension.

"Are you leaving already? Aren't you going to stay for tea?" Discord begged as he snapped his fingers and a table set with a pot of tea and two teacups materialized.

"I guess. If you want me to." Bon Bon said as she took a seat across from Discord.

"Is something the matter?" Discord asked with a sigh.

"No! I had a lovely time with you. I just-" Bon Bon paused.

"Thinking about Lyra, still?" Discord reached over and poured a cup of tea in front of Bon Bon.

"I'm just-" Bon Bon paused again.

"Jealous of that mare she is dating who looks like a cheap knock-off of you?" Discord asked smugly.

"She looks nothing like me!" Bon Bon snapped. "I know- I have no place being so jealous. I know that me being here is entirely my own fault. I feel so petty." Bon Bon sniffled.

"I just wish all this time we've spent together over the last few months has been as adequate a distraction for you as it has been for me." Discord sighed.

"I didn't mean it like that!" Bon Bon reached one of her front hooves across the table. "I guess I'm still adjusting. When Lyra was around she always kept me in order and- well-" Bon Bon took a sip of her tea.

"And I facilitate the side of you that craves disorder." Discord said with a smug grin as he reached over and touched Bon Bon's hoof.

"This chaos tea is really something." Bon Bon said with a flirtatious smile.

"Yes." Discord sighed. "Rancorous Rooibos; Fluttershy's favorite"

"There you go, mentioning Fluttershy again!" Bon Bon complained with a roll of her eyes.

"This hardly seems fair, you wouldn't stop talking about Lyra last night!" Discord huffed.

"You're right." Bon Bon sighed. "It hasn't been very long and maybe we're both just not ready to move forward with this yet."

"I just don't understand." Discord complained as he raked his beard with his claw. "We get along so well when we have some kind of crazy adventure to go on; but when we finally have time to relax-"

"It's just gone." Bon Bon conspicuously turned her head away. "Maybe we just need to back things up a bit."

Discord snapped his fingers and the lighting dimmed. "Well before you go, how about for old time's sake we-"

"No!" Bon Bon protested angrily. "Just send me home!"

"Fine!" Discord snapped his fingers and nothing happened. "That's odd." He said ponderously as he snapped his fingers again.

"The old cart's out of cider routine, huh?" Bon Bon rolled her eyes.

"No- something wrong is seriously going on!" Discord insisted as he tried again. "Something is draining all of the magic in Equestria so I can't send you back there."

"Tirek!?" Bon Bon gasped.

"It feels like the same kind of arcane disturbance." He raked his beard in contemplation and paused for a moment.

"But?"

"This has too much panache behind it to be his work. Tirek is bold and brutish. He would take the magic one pony at a time, face-to-face- assuming they survived the endless, meandering diatribe he would no doubt start out with; but this is different." Discord explained.

"Well then how are we supposed to get back?" Bon Bon complained.

"I suppose we'll have to wait until some pony else fixes it." Discord said smugly as he pulled a newspaper out from nowhere and kicked his feet up lazily onto the table.

"I can't accept that. What if no pony can?" Bon Bon fretted.

"Well I can't send you back to that Equestria." Discord smirked.

"But?" Bon Bon stared intently at him.

"What if we traveled to a parallel world?" Discord tantalized.

"A parallel world?" Bon Bon seemed confused.

"Yes, where it was the same year and you were the same pony- but everything else was different." Discord explained. "I call it gliding."

"How is that supposed to help?" Bon Bon rolled her eyes.

"I don't know! But it beats being stuck here in this awkward situation." Discord rolled his eyes and then snapped his fingers and a tunnel-like disturbance opened up in the air- wind and small debris rushed past them into the disturbance.

"What's that?" Bon Bon stepped back cautiously.

"This portal will allow us to glide into another parallel world." Discord explained.

"Are you sure it's safe?" Bon Bon stared skeptically at Discord.

"Just trust me!" Discord grabbed onto Bon Bons hoof and pulled her through the portal as he jumped in.

After a long, meandering journey through a tunnel of light the duo found themselves in the halls of Canterlot High, still in the form of a Pony and a Draconequus respectively.

"Lyra would like it here." Bon Bon sighed as she looked around and observed the colorful humanoids going about their business, manipulating objects with their hands .

"Whoa, is that a pony!?" A male voice called out excitedly as a mob of students approached the odd couple.

"It's so little!" A female voice added.

"It's my little pony now!" The male person shouted as he reached for Bon Bon.

"Let's get out of here before I have to endure another title drop!" Discord cringed as he pushed the crowd away from Bon Bon.

"No pets allowed in the school!" A voice boomed angrily- Vice Principal Luna walked hastily into the scene.

"Follow me!" Discord sprinted through the front doors of the school toward the statue out front as Luna pursued along with the mob of students. Bon Bon galloped hastily in an effort to keep up but then slid to a stop when she saw they were heading for the base of the statue out front.

"What are you doing!?" Bon Bon shouted as Discord ran into the base of the statue with a thud and fell over.

"I feel like there's supposed to be a portal that leads home here." Discord pondered as he stood up again. "But it must be effected by the magic drain too. Maybe if we broke it open somehow. Look around and see if you can find a cannon!"

"This is a high school." Bon Bon rolled her eyes. "You're not going to any cannon here."

"Students! Get back to class!" Luna ordered. The crowd doubled back toward the school- but she continued her pursuit.

Discord snapped his fingers and the inter-dimensional portal appeared beside them. "There's no time for this." He said. "We have glide out of here before we're caught."

Luna's jaw dropped as she watched the odd couple disappear into the tunnel of light before it closed up behind them with a flash.

"No portals in front of the school!" She shouted furiously.

After a journey through the meandering tunnel of light the two landed, rough, on the ground at the other end. They were surrounded by metal catwalks and strange machinery. Two cylindrical vessels the size of cider kegs, but made of some strange metal alloy with a scaly green patina, lay before them. The sounds of industry buzzed around them but there was not a pony in sight.

"That creature." Bon Bon struggled to catch her breath. "It reminded me of Princess Luna."

"Well, duh! It's a parallel world. Alternate versions of ponies are all over the place. So try to avoid running in to yourself- the results could be disastrous." Discord cautioned.

"Wouldn't the alternate version of you sense something amiss now that you're here?" Bon Bon pondered.

"I'm not from Equestria!" Discord rolled his eyes. "You'd have to go to an alternate version of the chaos dimension to find another me."

"Let's just go over this one more-" Bon Bons complaint was cut short by Discords finger pressing against her face.

"Just be careful." he whispered. "We don't know anything about this world."

"Well if you don't know anything about it how did you know to send us here?" Bon Bon whispered back.

"There's a magical disturbance in this world and it has something to do with these vessels." Discord explained.

"What's inside?" Bon Bon asked as she reached for the heavy looking lid on top of one.

"I don't know. That's what's so odd. Any attempt to sense what's inside is being blocked. This alloy- it reminds me of the stone that Queen Chrysalis' throne was made of." Discord pointed his finger at the vessel and a blast of energy swirled and dissipated into it.

"I guess we have to do this the earth pony way." Bon Bon rolled her eyes and casually knocked the lid open with one of her front hooves. A shimmering red light pulsated from inside the vessel.

"Oh dear." Discord muttered as he reached in and pulled out a small pulsating red crystalline shard.

"What is it?" Bon Bon stared intently.

"Arcanium." Discord examined the shard closely.

"Arcanium?" Bon Bon looked at Discord awaiting an explanation.

"Arcanium is made by refining and crystallizing arcane energy. Once a source of magic has been made into arcanium it can't be returned to it's original form." Discord crushed the small arcanium shard between his fingers and it dispersed into a flash of brilliant light.

"Equestria's magic..." Bon Bon trembled.

"Don't worry. That wasn't it." Discord eyed a series of metallic conduits snaking along the wall. "This way!" Discord slowly followed the catwalk until it overlooked a large pit. Bon Bon followed. A translucent sphere of bright light floated near the bottom of the pit and strange machinery surrounded it.

"All of Equestria- our Equestria's magic is coalescing in this location. It's causing the barrier between the dimensions to weaken and that's why we can see it." Discord explained.

"What's here on the other side?" Bon Bon pondered.

"I believe this whole complex is where Twilight Sparkle's school stands in our dimension." Discord explained. "But why would somepony send it to another dimension to have it refined into arcanium?"

"Why don't we ask Tirek?" Bon Bon smirked.

"Good idea!" Discord snapped his fingers and the duo vanished in a flash of light.