“Sometimes I wonder,” Discord mused as he watched the ponies battle the beast. “If I should ever interfere in these events.” A banana split appeared in front of him, and he started slurping the ice cream up like it was milk.

“But then,” he threw the bowl aside and it exploded as it made contact with the floor of the platform he was watching the events from. “I wouldn’t have as much fun watching them causing chaos. Such delicious chaos,” he laughed. “Next time, I should bring that god from the greek world along…”

He paused. “What was his name again? Right, Chaos. He’d probably appreciate this.”

“But then again,” a pair of glasses popped into existence on his snout and he flipped through a book of greek myths. “He’s just a sentient being, so I probably wouldn’t be able to bring him here. Maybe Set from the Egyptian world, he’d appreciate this too.” He rubbed his hands in anticipation. “I really need another chaos god to enjoy this with.”

“Hmm…” he sighed. “It is a little boring just watching them fighting. Perhaps...a little extra?” He snapped his claws.

“Get his legs!” Twilight shouted as she flew above the beast firing beams of magic at his face. Everytime a beam connected, the beast flinched but there was no other visible damage.

Starlight nodded, materialising a lasso made out of raw magic. She focussed and threw the lasso, wrapping the magical rope around the beast’s front legs.

Just then, an anvil landed on Sunburst’s head as he moved in to help, knocking him cold.

“Well,” Discord stared at the scene. “I intended for a mountain of banana peels, but an anvil will do.”

“But I do want more bananas.”

“What the-” Starlight gasped as she looked at the unconscious Sunburst. “Where did that come from?!”

“Something’s messing with us!” Twilight shouted. “Probably one of his minions!”

The beast blinked in confusion, but it was wiped away by a look of smugness. “Yes!” he lied. “My minions are here!”

Suddenly, an avalanche of banana peels was dumped on Twilight’s head, and she squawked in surprise as the banana peels prevented her from flying well and sent her spiralling to the ground.

“Now that,” Discord cackled in glee. “Now that is chaos. But I can’t make it too obvious it’s me…”

“What the buck,” Starlight swore. “Who’s messing with us?!”

“Yeah, stop!” Twilight agreed as she freed herself from the pile of banana peels. “This beast is about to destroy the world!”

At this point, the beast just stood still, bewildered at the sight of banana peels.

“This is hilarious,” Discord doubled over laughing. “Look at their confused faces-”

“What are you doing?” A stern voice said behind Discord. A voice he recognized, and feared. He turned around slowly to stare the alicorn known as Harmony in the eye.

“How many times have I told you this?” Harmony demanded. “Do not interfere when they’re trying to save the world unless it’s time for your villain arc!”

“Faust gave me permission…?” Discord said weakly.

“I did not,” a dry voice said from behind Discord. Discord spun around again to see a stark white alicorn with a maple colored mane, a quill cutie mark on her flank.

“I did not give you any permission whatsoever,” Faust said. “As you can see from the script…” she flipped through the script. “It says here that you were only supposed to come in during chapter 14 and then flood the place with water.”

“I can flood it with water now,” Discord offered. “Anyways, who needs a script?”

“I say we do,” Faust threw the script aside, and it vanished as it disappeared into her subspace. “Anyways, I will make it so that you appear in chapter 15 now, since you disobeyed my holy script.”

“But there’s only 14 writers!” Discord protested. “There can only be 14 chapters!”

“Yeah, your own fault,” Harmony said sternly. “You know, I could just turn you to stone now and prevent you from doing anything.”

“Aw, party pooper,” Discord wrapped himself around Harmony. “As Pinkie Pie said, the party must go on!”

“It would be more interesting to the reader if we went Discord’s way,” Faust admitted. “According to polls, easy fixes are never interesting. I could write in an anti-hero arc for Discord.”

“Did I hear my name?!” a pink earth pony poked her head through a rift in the space-time continuum. “Who was talking about me?!”

“Ah, Pinkie Pie,” Harmony straightened up, pushing Discord off her with her magic. “You know, we could use an Element’s opinion.”

“I’m ready for anything!” Pinkie bounced over. “Hit me!”

“You asked for it!” Discord said gleefully, blasting Pinkie Pie with a shower of cupcakes. Pinkie giggled as her mane grabbed the cupcakes and launched them back, turning the chaos realm into a cupcake battle.

Faust and Harmony sighed as errant cupcakes splattered into their coats. Harmony rolled her eyes, before materialising a shield to protect them. “We should never let Pinkie Pie and Discord have a scene together,” Harmony suggested.

“Agreed,” Faust materialized the script again and cancelled something out. “They would just destabilize time and space. Hasbro would be on my ass for not being ‘kid friendly’. Honestly, I still think they wrote Tirek wrong.”

“What can you do?” Harmony shrugged. “I had to make a cameo to bust their asses out of the trouble they found themselves in.”

“And yet here we are,” Faust mused. “Breaking the fourth wall.”

“Eh,” Harmony took a bite out of one of the cupcakes. “That’s quite decent, actually.”

“Of course!” Pinkie popped up inside of their shield, and the two alicorns jumped. “The cupcakes are from the Sugarcube Corner!”

“Of course they are,” Faust scribbled something on the script. “And now it’s time to get back to the main scene.”

Twilight fired a fireball at the beast, and it stumbled backwards and slipped on the banana peel, slamming its head on the ground and knocking itself unconscious.

“Or maybe we come back here,” Faust shrugged. “Discord’s interference made the win easy.”

“At least I get a break,” Harmony said happily. “I don’t have to appear for the friendship laser!”

“Yeah, yeah,” Discord snapped his fingers. “Onto the next writer!”

Author's Note

Written by iAmSiNnEr.