Apple of Discord’s eye

by General Alduin

Rating: teen
Tags: Profanity, Discord, Screwball, Alternate Universe, Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy
Length: 1306

One day when Twilight just wants some peace and quiet, all of Ponyville is plunged into chaos and anarchy. She and her friends summon Discord to answer for his pranks. However, he claims innocence for all the pranks and realizes who is responsible.

Twilight was ready for a relaxing day of peace and quiet with only her books for company. Fate had other plans however as a new wave of chaos washes over Equestria.

Clearly this is the work of Discord, who else could be capable of this kind of chaos? But when Twilight and her friends confront the Drconaquus, he denies all responsibility.

However, after some more prodding, he realizes just who's responsible for their current predicament.

Published 2022-05-17 23:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2022-05-17 23:00:00 UTC

Discord’s at it again

“Scrolls?”

“Check.”

“Quills?”

“Check.”

“Ink? Twenty candles? Double checking the checklist to see if we forgot to check anything on the checklist?”

“Check, check, And, Uh… Check!” Spike looked up from the unnecessarily long checklist. “Looks like you have everything Twilight.”

Twilight smiled and sat down at her desk, levitating a group of books next to a piece of paper and placing a quill in an inkwell. “Thanks Spike, I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

“Yeah, you’d be even more of a nervous mess than you already are.” Spike laughed as he rolled up the checklist, stopping at Twilight's annoyed look. “So, since you’re going to be reading all day-”

“You can leave and do whatever you want, I’ll send Owlicious to find you if I need you back.” Twilight levitated a book and opened it to its first page. Spike fist pumped in celebration and ran off. “Oh and Spike!”

Spike stopped and looked back to Twilight. “Yeah?”

“Try not to swear your loyalty to Applejack again, ok?”

Spike blushed and rubbed the back of his head nervously. “H-ha, sure thing Twilight.” He looked away and ran to the library doors.

When he finally reached them, he put his hand on the handles, opened them, and was immediately run down by a stampede of oddly formed animals.

Twilight immediately looked to the commotion and took to the air, quickly picking up Spike so he wasn’t trampled. “Spike? What’s going on?”

“How should I know?!” Spike declared as he and Twilight stared at the chaos below them, suddenly getting stuck in a fudge cloud.

Twilight struggled for a few seconds before finally freeing herself, dodging another fudge cloud, then another, then another. Soon, Twilight's entire library was full of stampeding animals and fudge clouds.

Spike stared at a pale pink liquid on his hand and gingerly tasted it. “It’s strawberry milk!”

“Strawberry milk?”

“Twilight!” Twilight looked down to see Applejack running backwards into the library, Rarity’s mane and coat color switched, and a light yellow and pink bunny riding on Raritys back.

“Girls?” Twilight flew down. “What happened to you all?”

“Take a wild guess.” Applejack huffed in annoyance.

“This has Discord’s name written all over it.” Rarity harrumphed indignantly. “Really, I can understand the occasional prank, but I thought being reformed meant you couldn’t plunge Equestria into chaos again.”

“Maybe it wasn’t him?” Bunnyshy offered quietly, though she didn’t seem too sure herself.

“Maybe it wasn’t him? Just how in tarnation could this not be Discord?” Applejack challenged. “Just look around yah ‘Shy!”

“W-Well, he does hate Strawberry milk…” Bunnyshy trailed off.

Twilight groaned in annoyance. “Alright Girls, let’s gather the others. We’ll summon Discord and have him explain why he’s doing this.”

Applejack and Rarity nodded, Bunnyshy merely twitching nervously, and they all ran out of the library.

After a full hour of making their way through the newly chaotic landscape to find the rest of their friends, all the mane 6 were eventually gathered.

Pinkie Pie had been turned into living cotton candy and was happily munching on her mane, while Rainbow Dash couldn’t stop flying forwards and was tied to a rope held by Applejack so she wouldn't wander off.

The girls gathered in a circle and Twilight closed her eyes. Soon her horn began to glow and she and her friends began floating in the air as a rainbow swirled around them.

Twilight finally opened her eyes to reveal they were glowing brightly, and the rainbow struck the ground and swirled into a tornado.

After the rainbow dissipated, Discord was sitting on a foldable chair, eating a tv dinner, and watching a tv intensely. “Oh, I do so hope Rosemary has her baby…” it took him a few seconds to realize he was no longer home, causing him to fly up into the air and snap away the chair, his dinner, and the tv. “Really Twilight, I thought we talked about this! You have to give me a heads up before you summon me, I could’ve been doing anything! And I assure you there are some things you don't want to see me doing."

“Knock it off Discord!” Discord was perplexed by Twilight's sudden bout of anger, she hadn't treated him like that since Tirek. “Care to explain this?” she held up a hoof and gestured all around.

Discord looked around and saw a world gone mad: large colorful bubbles that encased ponies and flew off with them, smiley faces carved into the mountains, the ground turned into a sheet of black and white hexagons, etc.

“Beats me. I don’t remember leaving any seeds, artifacts, or chaotic magic that would do this.” Discord looked back to Twilight and shrugged. “Though I do so love what you’ve done with the place, you don’t mind if you keep-”

“No!” All the mane 6 sans Bunnyshy yelled.

“Ugh! Fine.” Discord crossed his arms childishly. “You’re all no fun.”

“If it isn’t yah, then who could it be?” Applejack asked angrily, stepping forward. Or, well, backwards.

Discord struggled to keep his laughter in check as he stared at Applejack. “While I understand why you’d all blame me for this, I deny all responsibility for sprucing up the place. There are other reality warpers out there in the multiverse you know.” Discord snapped his fingers and was in a prisoner's uniform and handcuffs. “I’ve been framed!”

“Oh yeah buster?” Rainbow Dash flew right into Discord’s face, having to be wrangled in by Applejack. “If this was somepony else's fault, then why are there fudge clouds with strawberry milk rain, hexagon tiles, and a nasty rash between my-”

“Wait.” Discord snapped his fingers and Rainbow's lips were zipped closed by a zipper. “Did you say… fudge clouds and strawberry milk?”

“She did.” Twilight stepped forward. “Do you know who’s doing this?”

“I’m afraid that I do.” Discord groaned and slumped over so much he stretched to an impossible length. “It’s my wife… Eris.”

“Oh, was Strawberry milk really the only hint he picked up? Really, does my husband just not know me?” A female Draconequus that looked almost exactly like Discord said while she was looking over a crystal dodecahedron showing Discord talking with the mane 6. However, she had long white hair on her head, a slender body, and longer eyelashes.

“Maybe I should have dropped a golden apple on his head, surely he would’ve gotten the message.” She snapped her fingers and a golden apple appeared in her hand. She took a bite from it and dropped the apple on top of the crystal dodecahedron. “Ah well, better late than never.” She said before beginning to laugh hysterically, snapping her fingers and teleporting in a flash of light.

Author's Note

Hello again readers, I've made yet another story.

So, while I was watching Eris from Sinbad and gawking at how they animated her hair, I thought that somebody must've made fan art of them together.
Turns out they did! But I also found Eris was also basically a genderbent Discord. There didn't seem to be any common interpretations of what Eris could be to Discord, but fics rarely explain where Screwball came from, so I decided to make Eris Discords wife.

The golden apple is a reference to the Greek goddess Eris, the goddess of discord. She threw an apple at the gods and they ended up having Troy and Greece fight to settle who's more beautiful.
The gods were jerks.

Discord talking about Rosemary's baby is a reference to the film of the same name. Figured it was in character for Discord to reference something from the human world and root for the devil child to be born.

Pretty short chapter admittedly, just trying to set everything up.

Thanks for reading my fic!