After he prevented the catastrophe from happening, Discord quickly teleported back to the bleachers before sitting next to Fluttershy. He still had his baseball glove on, with a bottle he was still holding like he had caught a foul ball. The game was still ongoing, with Zecora’s team struggling since they were low-one members.

“So you're able to stop it?” Fluttershy asked.

“Got it right here,” Discord proclaimed, showing his lucky catch. “And uhh…, somebody might be dropping by in a minute.”

“Who’s coming?” instantly, Twilight teleported in front of them getting right into Discord’s face, who barely flinched.

“Her,” he pointed.

“Discord!” Twilight roared. “What did I tell you about staying away from our visitors!?”

“Let me remind you,” he gestured his paw before her face. “I stopped that bottle from making your castle go WAPOW, and the destruction that comes after.” The princess was about to speak up again, but Discord stopped her. “And before you say I was the one who nearly blew it up, it was a misfire from Smolder.”

“Oh no, don’t you dare shift the blame on me!” Smolder cried.

Princess Twilight glanced at her former castle, which had been set into an O&O set for LARPing. “Fluttershy, I thought you said you would keep him in line.”

“I did,” Fluttershy replied, “but I can’t control everything he does. Besides, Discord won’t exist if he doesn’t act chaotic.”

“Plus, the visitors of Zebrat are enjoying it,” Discord added. He pointed back to the game, where it looked like the Young Six had the edge.

“Can we have a time-out?” Cactus Rose asked, “I think there’s something important going on.”

The visitors of Zebrat and the Young Six stopped what they were doing as they saw Twilight angrily staring Discord down with Fluttershy trying to calm things down.

Thankfully, Spike flew in, fairly out of breath from how soon he had to get from Canterlot to Ponyville. “Hold on,” he panted, “Twilight, I’m sure that Discord…” He paused when he saw what Discord had done. “Wow, you’ve been having fun.”

“Thank you,” Discord said, “Glad someone here appreciates what I’m doing here.”

“Discord, if you had hurt any of the visitors…!” Twilight cried.

“He didn’t,” Melody Brook called. “We’re actually having fun.”

“Yes!” Dust Devil agreed. Twilight was perplexed until Discord turned her head to make her look at the rest of the creatures sitting on the bleachers. Most of them were talking amongst themselves about various stuff. Rarity was having a chat with Indiana and Jennino about various fashion designs, Capper, Chummer, and Shadow were talking about old times, Andy was helping to show more engines on Absynina’s railways, and Boyle was also showing off his new arm thanks to Gadget.

“If you must know, Princess,” Discord said, “I’ve only been watching them up till now. I don’t want this to drag out into multiple chapters, so I’ll let you know while I have had ups and downs, the same could be said for you.” With a smirk on his face and a snap of his fingers, Discord summoned a floating holographic screen with footage of Applebloom and her friends playing catch until Twilight teleported in, bursting their ball in the process.

“Hi, girls!” Twilight said, looking like she was on the brink of insanity.

Everyone looked to watch this and was mostly confused. The ponies, however, knew what was happening, especially Applebloom, who remembered vividly that incident. “Oh, boy, not this,” Applebloom sighed.

“What be… goin’ on there?” Captain Celaeno asked.

“Twilight was running late with a friendship report and tried to make a problem so she could make a report,” Rainbow Dash explained. They took a glimpse at the flashback with Twilight using the I-Want-It-Need-It spell on her old donkey doll, with the CMC loving it too much. And most of Ponyville too.

“Heh, wished I had some popcorn to watch this,” Capper chuckled as he watched the chaos ensue. It was humorous to some, but Twilight had already seen enough.

“Okay, we get the picture,” Twilight responded, “Cut the film.”

“Alright, fine,” Discord groaned. He cut the film while slipping a film realm away behind the bleacher. “You do know you stopped before my favorite part.”

“I think you should get to the point,” Spike stated, not wanting any conflict.

“How about we have the other leaders decide on that?” The Draconequus pointed to the front of the castle, where the rest of the Kingdom Leaders were located. All of them, especially the newcomers, were shocked to see what Discord was capable of. Thorax seemed to be the only one calm about this.

“Hi, Discord,” the changeling king said.

“Hello, again, Thorax,” the draconequus responded, “Long time no see. How are you and Ember doing together?”

Ember blushed a little bit as this felt too personal. Novo was quick to butt in. “I know they’ve been a couple for a while, but what’s with you and Fluttershy taking so long?” she asked with a bit of sass.

Discord wasn’t expecting this response, nor did he expect to hear most of the students failing to hide their laughter, including Gallus and Smolder. “I miss the days when there weren’t so many creatures with sass,” he grumbled.

“Explain what’s going on here,” Gilda requested.

“We were having a live-action role-play session of Ogres & Oublettes,” Crystal said. This got Marini very interested. While the other creatures wanted to know what was going on, the zebra tribe leader tried sneaking over to her friends to join in.

When she did, she passed through some wave that instantly gave her a suit of armor and a new sword. “Whoa!” she gasped, “Did he do this?”

“Discord can often cause some annoyance here and there,” Zecora admitted, “We’re happy that you’re here now, so our game will be more fair.” Both zebra looked back to the Young Six, now that their teams were even.

“So, do you want to carry on?” Sandbar asked.

Zecora and her friends looked to a confident Marini, who held up her sword. “En garde!” she proclaimed. The battle continued now with Marini in a clash with Sandbar. Both of them clashed their swords together as the creatures from Zebrat now had an even chance.

“That looks fun,” Ember commented, watching the battle unfold.

“Yeah, Spike’s told me about this O&O thing before,” Thorax said, “and I never had a good chance to try it before.”

“Well once their session’s over, I’ll prepare you a match,” Discord proclaimed.

“Are you doing this to all of the students?” Twilight questioned.

“Of course not. I’ve planned to return my old maze from when we first met.”

“Without any mind games?” Fluttershy reminded.

Discord took a minute before he responded. “Okay, I might need to work out a few bugs.” Fluttershy raised an eyebrow as she wasn’t sure if this was trustworthy. “What? I haven’t used that maze in years, okay?” Discord pulled out a map of his maze, which was about his size.

“So what exactly have you got planned, Discord?” Spike asked.

“Well, I’ve already planned a simple house of mirrors… like this” He summoned one of the mirrors again, one that made Spike look like a Pegasus.

“Woah, impressive!” Thorax and Ember took a look in the mirror, seeing what looked like a unicorn and a Pegasus.

“How does this work?” Ember questioned.

“I think you throw out logic once Discord is involved,” Thorax guessed.

“If you think that’s good, take a look at this.” He flipped the mirror around and now it showed them all as changelings. This didn’t mean much to Thorax, but for the dragons, it was a surprise.

“Is that what I look like as a changeling?” Ember questioned. She glanced towards Thorax, who looked to have been blushing when he saw Ember’s reflection.

“I think you look good as a changeling,” Thorax commented feeling flustered.

“By the way, Dragon Lord,” Discord said, “I’ve heard about your little adventure with Rutherford and Wilbert and I’ve been thinking about how big dragons get.”

“What?” Ember questioned.

“Well, we’ve had an issue with dragons at the school. Not to be offensive, but it’s their sizes that are the problem.”

“You mean with the parents?”

“Exactly. I’ve prepared a demonstration for you to see.” Discord snapped his fingers again, teleporting himself, Fluttershy, Spike, Starlight, Twilight, Thorax, and Ember away. This left the other leaders to sit and watch the show.

Novo took this chance to sit down with her daughter and check in on her. “So, how was Ponyville so far?” she asked.

Discord and the six creatures were taken into the school’s teacher’s lounge as he prepared a short film.

On the screen, it showed a couple of pictures of the young six and their parents. “You know that height isn’t much of an issue for students and their parents,” Discord explained, “But there are the dragons.” He showed a picture of Smolder and her parents.

Unlike the other students who were side by side with their parents, Smolder was up in the air flying next to her parents’ heads giving an example of the sheer differences in size. “Most dragons care about their children and thus want to participate, but their size is a real problem. But thankfully their leader Dragon Lord Ember has found a solution.”

He then showed the topaz responsible for her and the other two leaders going on a small misadventure. “The Incredible Shrinking Topaz.” A clone of Discord showed up on the screen and attached a larger necklace that was the size of a birthday banner before carrying it over a dragon, looking like the one responsible for spreading smoke across Equestria.

“With the TIST you’ll be able to be your big mighty self or more down to earth with your children.” Discord’s clones helped place the collar around the dragon with the topaz on the front. “Just simply wear the TIST and tap on the gemstone like a button.” The dragon did this exact action as Discord explained. This caused the dragon to glow as it quickly began to shrink.

It showed a pony, a hippogriff, and a yak nearby watching the dragon shrink down to their size. The dragon was now about Discord’s regular height as the said draconequus popped up again. “Now you and your little friends don’t have to worry about you being thirty times their size. And it’ll especially be help for things for your children, like parent-teacher conferences or something you’d actually enjoy like school plays.”

The creatures watching the video were very interested. “This actually would be pretty helpful,” Starlight commented. “We’ve had issues with the dragons taking up space outside of the school and ponies complaining about them getting in the way from their last meeting.”

“Plus smaller bodies mean they won’t have to worry about hunting as much food, right?” Thorax asked.

“That’s true,” Ember confirmed. “Most dragons also ask me to help check their kids, so if they can shrink down to their size it could help in the long run.”

“Is there any catch?” Twilight asked.

“Oh come on Twilight,” Spike said, “Discord’s brought Fluttershy here. What would he gain from lying to her?”

“It’s true,” Discord said, “I learned my lesson after the map.”

“How’d that go?” Thorax asked.

Discord simply glanced at Fluttershy, who gave him a low brow. “You don’t wanna know. What should be known is that the TIST works. Observe.” Snapping his fingers, Discord summoned a Ursa Minor, who looked rather confused.

“Discord,” Fluttershy said sternly.

“I’ll put him back after the demonstration. Now who wants to put this collar on him?” Discord showed the banner-sized collar that has the topaz on the front.

Spike and the others looked over to Ember, who seemed to be the only one brave enough to put the collar on the Ursa Minor. She managed to fit it on with little issue and clicked the collar to keep it in place.

“Okay, now what?” Ember questioned.

“Just press the gem, like in the demonstration.” The Dragon Lord did so, and the second she did the Ursa Minor shrank in seconds until it was Spike’s size. “And presto! You have yourself a new little teddy bear.”

Discord petted the little bear, which didn’t hesitate to bite his claw off. “You probably should’ve seen the coming,” Spike noted.

Fluttershy helped to take care of the Ursa Minor as Discord pulled out a new claw and just placed it on the stub. “Well, I think we’ve seen enough here,” the draconequus said, “Shall we return to the castle?”

“I think that would be wise,” Fluttershy said. “After you turn this little one back to normal.”

“Okay, fine, but only because you ask nicely.” Discord changed the Ursa minor back to its regular size before sending it back to where he found it, then he teleported all of them back to the castle.

When they got back, they could see the fight was over with the Young Six being victorious. “Gotta say it was nice to have a battle,” Smolder said.

“Yeah, it was,” Dust Devil cheered, “We should try this again sometime.”

“I’m curious about those mirrors,” Medley Brook said, “How did they work again?”

“Oh, let me show you,” Discord said, pulling out the mirror again. This mirror showed them what they’d look like as seaponies.

“Wow!” Medley gasped.

Silverstream looked at the mirror, only to be disappointed it only showed seaponies. She then flew over to Discord. “You think you could make this into a house of mirrors?” she asked.

“Actually, yes,” Discord responded. He then quickly pulled out a blueprint before unfolding it to the point it was taller than himself. “Now I was planning on the house of mirrors with the old maze.”

“What’s in the maze?”

“Oh, that’s what I showed Twilight and her friends when we first met.”

“One where you messed with us,” Twilight muttered.

“And you followed the rules so much that the students literally crashed the party,” Discord reminded. “No offense, kid.” Silverstream shrugged as she remembered when she and her friends first ditched class.

“So what else were you planning?” the excited hippogriff asked.

“Let’s see, I plan on having a target game. How about one for trivia?”

Twilight just simply stood back and watched the draconequus planning out things with the students. “This went better than I was expecting,” Spike commented.

A few hours later, the creatures from the other kingdoms began to show up in Canterlot. A couple of them were starting to chat at the station before heading to the castle.

Terramar was chatting with Garble, whose parents were rather hard to miss. “So, Garble,” the young hippogriff said, “How have you been?”

“I’m fine,” the dragon said, “You seem to be interested in my parents.”

“Yeah, they’re…. Big to say the least.”

“I know, and I told them their size was going to be a problem.” They heard a slight crunch as one of the other parents looked to have broken part of the train station.

“Why don’t these ponies use stronger materials?” he questioned. Garble rubbed his brow as he knew how stubborn most dragons could be.

“I don’t know why they were invited,” Garble muttered, “They won’t even be able to fit into the castle.”

“Well, maybe they would just have them out in the garden,” Terramar guessed. He looked over to a couple of kirins who were already making their way to Canterlot Castle. “Those just showed up.”

“Smolder wrote about them being socially distant,” Garble commented. He looked over to see some griffons, including a mail griffon. “Oh, hey, Gabby, what’s up?”

“Oh, I came to see what other creatures were visiting here,” the griffoness said, “Haven’t seen Gilda or Gallus yet.”

“Yeah, you think they would’ve been here to greet us.”

“Maybe they’re still at school,” Terramar guessed. “I thought they would get off so they could be at this party.”

“Maybe there’s somebody that would meet us here,” Gabby guessed. She looked around a little bit until she could see a purple dragon flying toward the station. “Look, here comes Spike!”

He soon landed and shared a quick hug with Gabby before he addressed everyone else. “Sorry if I’m late everyone,” he proclaimed, “But we had a minor complication with the party, but it might’ve turned into a bonus.”

“What are you talking about?” Garble questioned.

“If you all follow me to the castle, you’ll soon see.” He looked up at most of the grown dragons, seeing that their size could be a bit of a problem. Most of the adult dragons decided to fly over the city, which caused a bit of wind to blow.

It wasn’t anything like a hurricane, but it was hard to miss. Garble got close to Spike to whisper. “What the heck are we supposed to do about the parents?” Garble questioned, “They’re probably bigger than the castle.”

“Don’t worry, a friend of mine brought up an idea to help with that,” Spike responded.

“Hey, is that a Ferris wheel?” Gabby questioned. There looked to be a sudden extension to the castle as an entire fair seemed to have been built around it. Along with the Ferris wheel, there was a house of mirrors, a hedge maze, and even a roller coaster.

“Wow, they really went all out for this,” Terramar commented.

“Did your friend do this?” Gabby asked.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure,” Spike confirmed. He looked around for where he could be until everything went dark like someone had turned out most of the lights in a room. Everyone was confused, except for Spike, who knew who was responsible for his. Some spotlights then shined down from practically nowhere as they moved around to get the crowd’s attention as drumroll could be heard.

“Welcome and all to the funniest and most chaotic place in all of Equestria,” called a voice, “Hosted by the one and only master of chaos…”

“Get on with it!” cried some voices, which sounded like Gallus and Smolder in unison.

Discord just groaned as he missed the days when there weren’t so many snarky creatures in Equestria. “Ignore them,” he proclaimed, “Anyways, presenting…” He paused so the “lights” could come back on to reveal, “The Chaos Carnival!” Now the crowd had a good full view of the carnival.

Garble still had one major problem to point out. “Hey, dude, how are our parents going to fit in that?” he asked.

“Oh, I’m glad you asked. Oh, Fluttershy, Spike!” The two said creatures flew in with one of the large necklaces that had the topaz attached to it. “Now, do I have a volunteer?”

The dragons weren’t too sure about this and Spike began to worry. “Maybe we should get one of the students to help with this?” Spike suggested.

“I thought of that,” Fluttershy noted. Looking back, they could see all of the dragon students approaching them. One of the parents was a big red dragoness who carefully stepped forward. “Hello, Copper.”

“Good day, Ms. Shy,” the big mother dragon said, “This is safe, right? I want to see my daughter while I’m in one piece.”

“We can assure you that these are safe. Right Discord?”

“You saw the Ursa Minor yourself,” Discord recalled. “I wouldn’t do something like that because I know it won’t end well for me.”

The dragon students had come over to see how they were going to make the adults fit. “So what are they going to do with my mom?” Pyther asked.

“Hard to say with Discord,” Smolder noted. They watched as Spike and Fluttershy attached the necklace to Copper.

“Now just try rubbing or pressing on the topaz,” Spike instructed. The mother listened as she was instructed and thus her necklace began to glow.

The glow engulfed her just like the hippogriffs’ pearl shards, amazing the students and the other creatures to see Copper shrink down just below Discord’s size.

The dragoness was shocked when she stopped shrinking. Everything looked so much bigger now. “Mom, are you okay?” Pyther gasped. She flew over to her mother, feeling concerned about how she would react.

Copper’s shock quickly turned into joy as she scooped up her daughter, who she was still taller than. “Oh, I wished I had something like this years ago!” she cheered. “Do you know how much I’ve wanted to hug you without crushing you?”

Spike flew down to Smolder to ask something. “Does that happen often in the Dragon Lands?” he whispered.

“Honestly, I think my parents hid those details from me,” Smolder responded quietly.

Discord stepped over to Fluttershy, “See, I told you it was safe,” he stated. He was taken by surprise when Copper suddenly pulled him into the big with Pyther.

“Thank you for allowing me and my daughter to be closer than ever before,” the mother cheered.

“Eep! You’re welcome,” Discord wheezed. He quickly deflated so that he could slip out of the dragon’s grip. Once he got back into shape, he snapped his fingers to summon more of the necklaces waiting for the larger dragons to wear. “Feel free to ask all flyers for assistance.”

Fluttershy and Spike helped each of the full-grown dragons put on the size-changing necklaces. Just like Copper, they all shrank down to around Discord’s height, allowing them to interact with their children and the environment much more easily.

Tanzanite's parents were impressed. “Hmm, this could make meals easier to manage,” his father noted, “We could gather fish in our regular size and then feast on it for weeks.” He looked over to Sage, another dragon who was similar to him.

However, Sage was more interested in his daughters, now that he wasn't twenty times their size. “So, how do you feel, dad?” Emerald asked.

“It’s odd,” Sage admitted, “I feel we’re more vulnerable.” He was taken by surprise when he felt Peridot hugging him. “Then again, that isn’t always a bad thing.”

“This will make things much easier and better for us,” their mother Jade commented.

All of the dragons were happy to have this new ability to shrink down so relations and duties would be much easier. Discord was admiring his handiwork. “Good use of those Jades,” Spike commented.

“Well, you just keep those dangerous things in the back of the castle waiting for someone to steal them,” Discord proclaimed, “I had to find something good back there.”

“...Remind me we need to hire better guards.”

“You’ve been getting that reminder for years.” Spike just rolled his eyes before he went to check on the students in the park.

The rest of the dragons and visiting creatures weren’t too far behind as they were excited to see what the fair had to offer.

Over by a strongman’s game, Boyle was giving his new prosthetic talon a test by trying to slam a mallet on the bar to launch the weight up, almost making it to the bell. “Ugh, just short,” he groaned.

“Let me try,” Max proclaimed. He was handed the mallet and gave a whack at the weight, giving him a similar result as Boyle. “Drat.”

“Eh, let me show you boys how it’s done,” Moonbeam proclaimed. When she was given the mallet and slammed it onto the scale, just ringing the bell. “That’s how it's done.”

“YAK SMASH!” Suddenly, Rutherford came running up and stomped on the weight, making it launch up so fast it broke off the bell and shot off like a rocket.

“...You guys made of lead or something?” Boyle asked.

Elsewhere in the park, there were some wooden cutouts of villains, such as Tirek and Chrysalis moving about until they were shot by jets of water. Silverstream and Skystar both positioned water canons to shoot at the cutouts. Kelpie and Rusty walked over to them with the hippogriff feeling a little nervous about being so close to the princess.

“Um hey, Silverstream,” Rusty said, “Can we join in?”

“Sure, there are two more cannons,” Silverstream explained. She pointed over to the other cannons, which the hippogriff and unicorn quickly fired up. They each began blasting at targets, ones like sirens, an obese dragon, Cozy Glow, and even the Storm King.

“Ooh get him!” Skystar cried. Each of the hippogriffs wasted no time blasting the cutout of the infamous king. The combined pressure of the water caused the cutout to break off its stand. Celebration noises could be heard as the hippogriffs cheered.

“Oh, man, that felt good,” Silverstream sighed.

“Yeah, I want to do more stuff like this!” Skystar cheered, hugging the two hippogriffs beside her. Kelpie blushed as red as a tomato.

In another part of the fair, Smolder brought Garble over to a maze where Gallus and his parents were about to enter. “Hey, Smolder,” Gallus said, “Wanna see who can get through first?”

“You bet!” Smolder proclaimed, giving the griffon a fist bump.

“Ooh, Pyther, look at this!” cried another voice. They could all see Pyther and her mother Copper flying over to the maze. “This could be the first activity we can do together.”

“Heh, it’s got to be easier than teaching you ballet,” Pyther chuckled. The families were about to enter the hedge maze when they heard a loud buzzing sound, followed by a flashing red light.

Discord suddenly appeared in a security guard uniform holding some sort of metal detector. He held it up to a confused Garble. The detector went off when it hovered over his wings. “Sorry mates,” Discord said, “But to enter the maze you can’t have any magic or wings.”

“Yeah, alright, get it over with,” Smolder muttered. Discord just shrugged before he pulled off Smolder and Garble’s wings as if they were nothing but stickers. While Garble and Copper freaked out a little bit, everyone else was pretty calm.

“You get used to things like this in Ponyville,” Gallus noted. He stayed still as Discord removed his and Gadget’s wings. He was about to remove Glynn, who held his talon up.

“Hold on, allow me,” the griffon proclaimed. Given that his wings were prosthetics, his wings could be removed whenever.

“Oh, thank you,” Discord remarked. After collecting all of the wings, he allowed the families to enter the maze.

“And I thought being shrunken down was weird,” Copper admitted. She rubbed her back where her wings used to be.

“Be happy that he has control of his magic this time,” Pyther said. Her mother and Garble looked at her in confusion. “Long story.”

“Hey, is that Emma?” Smolder questioned, pointing up. She pointed to a portion of the maze that defied gravity where the green dragons were wandering about.

“Hey, Smolder!” Emma called, waving back. “Some maze, huh?”

“Tell me about it. How are you doing so far?”

“Pretty good actually. Keep an eye out for some puzzles, they can help give you clues to the center.” Smolder gave a thumbs up as her group carried on with their trip through the maze.

There seemed to be other creatures wandering around inside Discord’s maze, each one having a fun time looking for the path to the middle and enjoying the puzzles along the way.

Outside, there was a simpler game of throwing balls at some bottles. Molly was trying to hit a couple of them, but either her aim was off, or the ball didn’t hit the bottles hard enough. Molly sighed as Chummer tried to think if there was some trick to it.

The diamond dog princesses soon walked over to them. “Hey, what’s going on,” Amber asked.

“These bottles are indestructible,” Molly groaned.

“Hang on, let me try.” Amber picked up one of the balls and chucked it at the bottle, shattering them upon impact. Discord popped in and was surprised at how strong the diamond dog was.

“Well, the goal was to knock over the bottles,” the draconequus remarked, “So here’s a prize.” Snapping his fingers, Discord summoned a selection of plushies of the various leaders, to which Molly picked out one of Thorax.

The kitten was happy to have her changeling toy as the princesses kept on walking as Capper and Rarity showed up. “How’s it going?” Capper asked.

“Well, Molly’s having a good time,” Chummer said, “Despite how odd this is.”

“He’s got good tastes in snacks,” Shadow called as she walked over holding some cotton candy. “You know he had some clouds that are made of this stuff?”

“Honestly, that doesn’t sound so far-fetched,” Chummer admitted.

“You know, he’s asked me about some dating advice,” Capper proclaimed.

“Seriously? Who’s he dating?”

“Why do you think he only listens to Fluttershy?”

Elsewhere, Amber and Fiona explored the park until they came across the ring of mirrors. Celaeno and Ocypete were looking at the one that made them look like dragons. “Gotta say no one would take our bootie if we were like this,” Celaeno chuckled.

Ocypete checked out the mirror that made her look like a changeling. “Hmm, I wonder how I would be like this?” she pondered. Then she looked to see two blonde changelings enter the picture.

“Uh, sorry, were we interrupting anything?” Fiona remarked.

“Oh, no, we’re just having fun with these mirrors.”

“Yeah, these do look pretty fun,” Amber commented. She looked around until she found the diamond dog mirror and had the avians standing in front of it.

Celaeno and Ocypete found it pretty amusing. “How about we see what you two look like if you were avians,” the pirate suggested. She looked to see where that mirror was at and had the twins step in front of it.

“Hey, so this is what we look like as avians,” Amber commented.

“You think there could be a way we’d actually change species?” Ocypete questioned.

“There are the pearl shards,” Celaeno noted, “But I doubt they have anything else safe.”

Elsewhere, Zecora and Marini were in a mini arena looking over some plans as Geena and Garry were getting a little impatient. “So, how long do these sessions usually start?” Garry asked.

“We don’t normally use chaos magic to play,” Marini proclaimed.

“We have already picked out our preferred classes,” Zecora noted, “The question is if you think that you can pass us.”

“Unlike you, we’ve been doing real training,” Garry boasted. The two zebra looked at each other, and then their old friends.

“So, are you ready?” Marini asked.

The griffons looked at their teammates, who consisted of Grace, Terry, November Rain, and Strawberry Scoop. “Yeah, I’d say we’re ready.”

“Perfect!” Marini slammed her hoof down on a button and the arena changed into that of a forest, with the Zebrat creatures all getting their O&O gear. They looked around as they knew the students would soon find them.

“The students don’t have as much experience as we do,” Cactus Rose said, “But this game does have a major experience change.”

“Eh, we can handle them,” Dust Devil shrugged. They soon heard some rustling from the bushes, notifying something was moving around. Zecora was being cautious as she was waiting for the enemies to come from any direction.

They suddenly heard the trees rustling again until Garry lept out and launched a set of shurikens at them, which Dust Devil helped push Zecora out of the way before getting hit. The zebra then threw an explosive potion at the griffon ninja, which he tried to slice in half with a katana, only for it to blow up in his face.

Cactus Rose looked behind her to see Terry using a spell from a book, hitting her with fire. Medley Brook ran up to the minotaur swinging her battle ax to strike him back as an ambition broke out. The crowd that had formed while the match was being planned, as they technically were still in a stadium.

It all looked like this was a massive success. Discord was watching his hard work pay off. “You did a great job on this fair, DIscord,” Fluttershy commented.

“Thank you, Fluttershy,” the draconequus replied, “Honestly, I was starting this just to get under Twilight’s skin, but then I wondered about what the students would like. I mean, I heard that you said you were worried about the dragons and their size.”

“I know, having them fit in the audience for the play was hard enough.”

“Plus, those gems that the three tiny leaders found were just too fun not to play with.” Fluttershy gave him a lowbrow before he continued. “Look, I only used them to mess around with Angel just once. Plus, it was underwhelming, to say the least.”

“Hey, Discord!” Spike called. He flew over to the being of chaos with Twilight by his side. “This carnival is awesome!”

“Why thank you, Spike. Have you had your fun?”

“Yeah, I’m going to mess around with those mirrors before I head to the O&O stadium.”

“I’ll meet you there.” He grabbed his body before ripping off fake skin to reveal his Captain Wuzz outfit.

“You sure that this has no tricks?” Twilight asked.

“None for them, but if you want some tricks, my dear princess, I’ll see what I can cook up.” He quickly got a low brow from Spike and Fluttershy. “Oh, come on, she makes it too easy for me.”

“...You’re not wrong,” Spike admitted.

“Spike, who’s side are you on?” Twilight questioned.

“Smarty Pants and the Crusaders, all because you were tardy.” Twilight didn’t say anything to this.

“Well, there’s no fun if there’s no challenge,” Discord shrugged, “So Garbuncle, shall we see if Sir McBiggen and have the whole guy’s night team?”

“You bet, Wuzz!” The dragon and draconequus shared a fist bump before they walked off to see if they could find their friend.

Twilight just sighed as she watched them go. “Just let it go, Twilight,” Fluttershy said, “Everyone’s having fun, so we should as well. I’m going to see how the other leaders are doing.”

“I guess we might as well.” With that, the two went off to join in the fun with all of the other creatures.

Author's Note

Finally, this story is finished. This and the comic rewrite stories took way longer than I thought they would be. Things such as life for both me and Greg slowed things down along with a couple of personal problems. But now I can hopefully I'll have some good luck with the progress in whatever comes next. Thanks for reading.