Discord and Chaos

Chapter One

My cutie mark. If it hadn't been for my friend Rainbow Dash performing a sonic rainboom, I wouldn't have gotten it.
Now I rarely see her anymore.
Because of Discord's evil reign upon the pony kingdom, we are now separated from each other. Me and my other five friends.
Discord has created a marked territory for each type of pony. Unicorn, Pegasi and Earth Pony. No pony is allowed to visit any other type of pony, and no pony is allowed to take one step across the line that mark the territories.
Discord has done this in the hopes of destroying Equestria's united ways and dividing the three types of ponies again.
Only one pony can help us. Or two.
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
But none of us know where they are now.
Discord has hidden them somewhere dark. Somewhere evil. None of us Earth Ponies can access or see it. We are hoping that the Unicorns and Pegasi will serve some purpose to help us find out where the two princesses are trapped.
My name is Applejack, and I live with my family and my other Earth Pony friend Pinkie Pie. We live in the hope that we will be able to contact the other types of ponies someday.
Until one day.
At dinner, Big Macintosh decided that we needed to find out how to get to the Unicorns and Pegasi now.
And that's when everything started. Our family, Pinkie Pie, and a Earth Pony called Bon Bon formed the Resistance. We resisted against every evil force that hit us from that moment on. And more earth ponies decided to follow us. The unicorns, having heard of our resistance, formed one of their own, Twilight Sparkle being the leader.
And I'm happy today that the Pegasi did too, using my friend Rainbow Dash as their leader.
I was the Earth Pony leader.
We resisted Discord as long as we could, and we even stopped bothering to wear the dark, uncomftarbly scratchy uniforms Discord made us wear.
Discord's security cameras couldn't see much, because the unicorns enchanted normal cloaks and made invisibility cloaks out of them. They passed them with their magic to us. And to the Pegasi, too. United as one, we all resisted against Discord.
And we even had co-leaders-Pinkie Pie as the Earth Pony co-leader. Fluttershy for the Pegasi.
And Rarity for the Unicorns.
One day, we decided we could all go underground and meet each other. So it was our job (and the Pegasi's job) to dig a large tunnel leading underground. Then the Unicorns would teleport over and dig a giant room with their magic (well, Twilight Sparkle, of course) and Rarity would find gems to decorate our room. The rest of the Unicorns would dig wherever Rarity said there were gems, and Twilight would even it out with her magic by digging deeper.
We all took part. When Twilight was done digging, Rarity embedded gems into the walls to symbolize the Unicorns. Each unicorn stuck one gem into the dirt wall. The Pegasi each stuck a feather into the wall across from the Unicorns, symbolizing the Pegasi Resistance.
Every pony in the Earth Pony Resistance stuck a small line of sticks right into the ground, and embedded the tops of the sticks into the walls so they looked like little bended rods. It represented the Earth Pony Resistance.
We never had to hear of Discord again-until one day, when security cameras mysteriously all appeared, embedded into the walls of our tunnels and in the room we had created. Everything we had decorated the walls with lay fallen on the floor.
We all knew that Discord had struck again. The Pegasi and Unicorns retrieved the cameras from the walls, and we, the Earth Ponies, carried them outside, where we gathered them into a large pile and burned them.
Discord, knowing this, installed security cameras all over the walls the next morning. We couldn't see even a tiny piece of wall, for the whole wall was covered with cameras.
There was no way we could possibly remove and burn them all, but Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash proved themselves helpful as a leader by automatically burning off the cameras with magic, or dashing them off, in the case of Rainbow Dash.
I even helped, proving myself worth of being a great leader.
I bucked those cameras off one by one. Fluttershy noticed that some of the cameras were locked into the wall, and helped pick the locks.
Pinkie Pie helped by shooting her party cannon at the cameras.
And when Rarity dug for gems, cameras went flying.
We were of a big help to our Resistance, because we cleared all the cameras off in one day! And Discord seemed to have given up, because the next day, it was obvious that out room had been done no harm. No cameras, nothing.
Until the time when Pinkie Pie realized something.
"Look! It's a tiny microchip thingy!" she exclaimed one day.
After examining it closely, Twilight Sparkle explained that it was a bug, used for listening in on people. In fact, Discord was hearing us talk at the very moment, probably hoping to eavesdrop on our conversations and figure out or secrets. But that was not going to happen. We found even more bugs in the walls, and Pegasi found some on the ceiling. Earth Ponies found lots on the ground and inside the ground. The Unicorns were fastest, dutifully finding millions of bugs clustered together in one side wall, obviously put together by Discord to create the largest listening device ever possible. We all noticed that Discord had quite a bunch of powerful items in his collection.
We all knew that Discord was a villain to never be underestimated, which explained how we had prepared our room so well for attacks.
Except that we didn't get any.
All we got were spurious disguises and listening devices.
It wasn't very promising to live underground, but at least we were safer from Discord and his henchmen than we would be outside. It didn't help that we were cramped in large beds. We decided to make a large network of tunnels throughout the ground and dig more rooms. Then we wouldn't be so squished inside the only room we had.
So that's exactly what we did. While we and the Pegasi dug tunnels, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and the unicorns helped by digging rooms with their magic as best as they could. We ended up with a secret network of rooms and tunnels, and each 5 ponies got their own large dorm room, with two bunk beds and one normal bed.
And the leaders and co-leaders got their own giant room. Me and Pinkie had our bunk bed, Rainbow and Fluttershy had theirs, Rarity and Twilight had theirs too, and it was very easy to notice Rarity's gleaming gems that beautifully decorated the walls. They gave the room a rainbow-colored gleam, almost as if there was a rainbow right in our dorm room.
It reminded me of the sun and rainbows, out in the sky. Rainbow particularly liked how it looked so much like a rainbow.
Oh, Princess Celestia..
I wished she were with us so badly.
She could have helped us return to the life we knew..
I climbed out of my bed and down the ladder-I was on the top bunk. My alarm clock was ringing so early in the morning-no, it wasn't my clock. It was Rainbow Dash's. She was the type to wake up early.
I groggily climbed back up the ladder and snuggled myself back into the various quilts I had.
Now wasn't the time to wake up.
Yet.
In the next few minutes, two alarm clocks started ringing, both with slightly different tones. I looked at mine. Nope, still not ringing. Good. Fluttershy and
Pinkie's clocks were the ones that were ringing.
Pretty soon I was the last one still sleeping. I eventually saw that my alarm clock was already past the time it was supposed to ring, after waking up from my fourth dream I'd had since 7:00. I'd overslept.
Maybe I set my clock wrong.
I got out of bed, only to find that my friends had woken at the wrong times as well. Twilight examined our alarm clocks for us, as we had no idea why all of us would have set it at the wrong time. Twilight later concluded that there was nothing wrong with the clocks, but she could sense something wrong flowing throughout the room. It wasn't even 5:00 yet-our alarm clocks all said it was 7:00 when they rang, but really, now it was only 4:30.
Twilight suddenly woke me up again at what felt like sixteen minutes later. I could hear ponies groaning in the background, and various alarm clocks ringing loudly.
"All the other ponies are having the same problem as you guys-their alarm clock is off-time. I think that Discord has somehow managed to jinx our time zones, which means he changed all our time zones so we would be waking up at strange times. It's just like him to pull a big trick on us at a moment when we think he's gone for good."
I nodded. "It's probably not going to last for long, so lets try and figure out what our current time actually is."
Twilight nodded, jumping out of her bunk bed beside me and levitating her groggy self down the ladder. She then let go, and she dropped to the ground. Trotting over to the table, she picked up her comb with magic levitation and combed her hair a little.
"It may be too late to do that," she said as if it were too late already.
"But maybe we can hack through the time zone.."
Twilight's voice was abruptly cut off, for a deep rumbling sound could be heard throughout the tunnels. "This has to have something to do with Discord," Twilight said, worried. "Everypony keep watch for approaching enemies." She hopped slowly onto a large rock sticking out of the dirt.
The rumbling abruptly stopped as Twilight stepped forward, feeling something being pushed down beneath her feet. She turned around, feeling the small thing that lay on the ground underneath her foot. Lifting her hoof, she saw a small control panel embedded into the ground, and that she had stepped on a red button that was on the controller.
Picking up the controller with her levitating magic, she examined it closely and concluded that the controller must be for a machine deeper down underground, and that the controller must have been lost years ago.
The controller was very rusty, which was why Twilight had concluded that it must be years old. She looked the controller over again, and saw that it was merely just a controller, nothing strange about it. Yet she couldn't stop feeling that this single controller was vital to the ponies living along with her in the tunnels. She felt as of the controller must have something to do with..
Princess Celestia?
That was when she noticed the large crack in the controller.
And I saw it too.
Twilight pried it open and we all saw a small piece of paper sticking out the crack. Twilight disassembled the controller and threw the wires to the ground.
I picked the wires up, thinking that there could be something in them. But Twilight levitated the piece of stuck paper out of the now totally broken controller, reading it.

And that was the complete answer to all of our problems.