Discord's Last Riddle

Perspective: Third-Person perspective
Location: Twilight’s Library
Time: Afternoon

Eileen stopped running to catch her breath. She frowned as she thought about Tiffany leaving her. She sat on the ground, beside Pinkie Pie. “Want a cupcake? Cupcakes always make me feel better when I’m sad!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, holding up a cupcake. Twilight walked up to Pinkie. “Yeah, I don’t think she wants one...” Pinkie stared at Twilight. “Oh well! More for me!” Pinkie giggled, shoving the cupcake into her mouth.

“Pinkie, dear. You’re getting all the crumbs all over me..” Rarity sighed, scooting away from Pinkie. Pinkie just stood there for a moment, her mouth full. She swallowed it and giggled, “Oops!” Aj walked through the door, panting. “Aj! What happened?” Eileen asked, rushing over to Aj. “I.. tried.. ch.. chasing her.. but.. she.. was.. really.. fast..” Aj replied, out of breath.

Rainbow Dash came flying through the window, crashing into a bunch of bookshelves. “Dashie! That’s not the front door!” Pinkie laughed, hopping over to her. Rainbow looked at her and groaned, letting a bunch of books fall on top of her. Fluttershy flew through the window, landing on the books, not realizing Rainbow was under there. All the ponies stared at her.

“W-what..?” Fluttershy stuttered. “Is there something on my face?!” Fluttershy looked around for someplace to hide and she dived into the books, whimpering. Rainbow Dash groaned as Fluttershy dived into the books. Tiffany suddenly come bursting through the window, crashing into the books. Fluttershy squealed, jumping out of the pile of books before Tiffany could hit her. Tiffany crashed into Rainbow, who groaned one last time before getting up.

“Uh, yeah. I’m probably gonna have to clean this aren’t I..?” Twilight mumbled, picking a book up with her magic. Eileen stared at Tiffany before jumping onto her, spewing tons of tears upon Tiffany. “Woah, woah... Calm down!” Tiffany groaned, trying to push Eileen off. “Help me..?” Twilight used her magic to get Eileen off. While floating in the air, Eileen trying moving towards Tiffany but failed.

“Anyways, I want to get home. Y’know I got my parents and siblings at home waiting for me...” Tiffany mumbled. She looked at Twilight and mumbled something that was barely audible. “Sorry, could you say again a little louder?” Aj asked. “Sorry, I can lose patience sometimes..” Tiffany mumbled, louder this time. Twilight walked over to Tiffany and nodded. “Spike, book.” Twilight ordered and Spike quickly brought the book to Twilight.

Twilight turned the book page to step 3 and began to read aloud, “Step 3. Go into Everfree Forest and get Poison Joke.” Every pony was silent for a moment. Then every pony gasped, “Everfree Forest?!”

Location: Everfree Forest

Time: Afternoon

Every pony stared at Everfree Forest. Twilight looked back to see if she had everyone. “Rainbow, Eileen, Tiffany, Pinkie, Rarity, Aj, and...” Twilight counted and groaned, kicking the closest tree to her with her hoof. Fluttershy squeaked as she fell out of the tree. “Fluttershy, you have to go with us.” Twilight groaned, making her float with her magic.

Tiffany happily trotted into Everfree Forest, leading the group. “Uh, do you even know where you’re going, dear?” Rarity asked, nervously. “Nope!” Tiffany happily chuckled. Rainbow Dash started to panic, but pretended to be brave while exclaiming, “It is dangerous, though! Many ponies go in there, but never come out! It is known to be haunted. Things aren’t normal in there, they say that the clouds move by themselves!” Eileen rolled her eyes and states, “Clouds do that all the time, and it is not because of ghosts, it is because of the wind.” Fluttershy becomes terrified and yelps “The wind?! Eeek!”

“Yes, my friend, the wind!” Rainbow yelled. “The wind is known to find little ponies like you, and gobble them up!” By this point, Fluttershy is about to explode with fear. “Rainbow Dash! Stop making such silly stories, and let’s go!” Rarity demanded. “Ye’ should let Twilight lead, Tiff.” Aj advised. “She’s too busy with Fluttershy.” Tiffany said, look back at Fluttershy, who was floating, trying to run. “Wait.. Where’s Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and Eileen..?” Tiffany groaned and facehoofed.

Suddenly, Eileen jumped in front of Tiffany. Tiffany screamed and jumped into Aj’s front hooves. Rainbow Dash walked out, cracking up. “Y-you w-were right Eileen! S-she is a s-scaredy cat!” Rainbow laughed, holding her stomach. Pinkie and Eileen were also laughing. Tiffany hit them each on the head and continued to walk.

“So, what do these plant flower thingies look like..?” Eileen asked, rubbing her forehead with her hoof. Twilight got the book from her bag and showed it to Eileen. “Let me see. I’ll fly up with Rainbow Dash and see if I can find it.” Tiffany stated, walking beside Twilight. She studied the flowers for a bit then shot up into the sky, Rainbow Dash following.

Tiffany looked around for a moment. “Isn’t it that..?” Rainbow asked, pointing to a field of flowers. “Yeap.” Tiffany mumbled, shooting towards it. Suddenly, Rainbow realised something. “Wait T-” Rainbow Dash began but saw that Tiffany was already in the field of flowers. Rainbow Dash didn’t realise she was in it too. (Note* If you don’t understand, go watch episode Season 1, Episode 9 {It’s the flower thingies.})

“What’s up Rainbow Dash?” Tiffany asked, picking some of the flowers with her mouth and putting them into her bag. “It’s these flowers again..” Rainbow Dash sighed. The other ponies walked to the edge of the field. “Oo! Pretty flowers!” Pinkie and Eileen giggled, about to hop in. “Wait, don’t!” Rainbow yelled but they went anyways. Fluttershy flew above it, not touching the flowers.

“Fluttershy, dear. Make sure you don’t fall in...” Rarity called out. Pinkie and Eileen were hopping around, playing together in the field of flowers. Pinkie lost her balance and knocked into Eileen, shooting Eileen into the air with great force. In fear, Eileen grabbed onto Fluttershy. Fluttershy couldn’t hold Eileen and fell into the field of flowers. “Oh dear...” Rarity mumbled.

Eileen got up stopped for a second, and looked at the flowers for a second time. “These flowers... they seem... familiar...” Suddenly, Eileen remembered the exact episode. “Tiffany! These flowers! Zecora warned not to step in them!!” Tiffany eyes widened and shrieked as the two ponies began panicking and ran out of the field of flowers. “Get it off me!” Screamed Eileen.

“Okay, I think Tiffany got a good amount of em'...” Rainbow Dash called out to Twilight. “Yeah, but ...um...We’ll just have to go see Zecora again..” Applejack sighed. Rainbow Dash studied the two. “Discord sent them so they’re bound to do something chaotic...” Rainbow thought.

After Tiffany and Eileen were done with their drama scene, Pinkie Pie screamed, and procrastinated, “Oh nooo! My tongue will be all BLLEEEH and I won’t be able to talk! If I can’t talk, that means no one will understand me! I love talking and I will be sad without talking because it is cool and it let’s out my feelings and if I can’t show my feelings I will become frustrated because I can’t-”

“PINKIE PIE!!!” Everyone yelled at once. Pinkie stopped at once and stared at the other ponies. “Well, you didn’t have to yell.” Pinkie giggled, happily trotting away. Twilight groaned. “Well, we got what we needed.. I think we should.. go...” Fluttershy whimpered.

Rainbow Dash spoke up and stated, “I bet Discord knew that Poison Joke was part of this! I bet Eileen and Tiffany knew too!” Eileen became crossed and yelled, “Rainbow, we love you, but seriously, stop predicting we somehow work for Discord!” Fluttershy began to speak on the two ponies behalf, until halfway into her sentence her voice became deeper than usual. “Rainbow, they are right, we just have to calm down and-” Fluttershy quickly covered her mouth.

“It’s happening again, isn’t it?~” Tiffany sang. Yes, sang. “Oh dear..” Rarity mumbled. “Oh my celestia!” Eileen shrieked. Every pony looked at her, only to see her all gray. “I’m so.. SO... PLAIN!” She continued to shriek, running into a tree. “THEPLH PSHOTHIN PLUHK!” Yelled Pinkie, who was trying to say something. “LOOK OUT!” Rainbow Dash warned, with her wings attached to her stomach. As Rainbow crashed into the group of ponies, Twilight rolled her eyes and “Let’s... just... get to Zecora...”

“Good idea!~” Tiffany sang again. “Fast too, because even though I love music, I don’t want to sing for the rest of my life!~” Tiffany sang like she was in an opera. Twilight nodded and guided them to Zecora’s hut.