Dearest Celi,
It’s a perfectly boring sunny day, I'm currently on a hilltop overlooking Maritime Bay with two pegasi, a unicorn, an earth pony, and a part-time Alicorn playing a game I’ve never heard of before, Power-pass. It’s basically Buck-Ball with fewer rules, so it's much better.
But anyway, I believed that since magic was driving ponies to hurt one another, ~~the only way to protect those closes~~ Oh who are we kidding, the only way I could protect Fluttershy was to remove magic from Equestria forever. For what it's worth, I still believe that I’m right, but the aforementioned unicorn reminded me that the most powerful magic of all is friendship.
But only because she used Fluttershy.
Don’t tell Book Butt I said that. She becomes so insufferable when she's proven right.
But anyways, these plucky ponies might have a long way to go, but I think they might just work something out, and make plenty of chaos along the way.
Paradoxically yours,
Discord.
Snap
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Snap!
Flames consumed the scroll in Discord's paw, just thinking of how Celestia was going to have to burb that up brought a chuckle to the aged Draconaquis as he set down his oversized pencil that had been fashioned from a branch, transforming things was much easier than simply creating them after all. With his friendship lesson reported it was time to go visit Fluttershy for some tea.
Snap.
…
Snap!
… …
Snap?
That was strange, magic in, snap reality, make new reality.
But no Fluttershy.
Looking around, Discord saw his five new friends still playing, they’d offered to wait for him when he said he needed a short rest, his current withered form wasn’t good for long bouts of sports after all, but he told them to continue. He didn’t want to be a party pooper after all and he also wasn’t very good at short bouts of physical activity either.
But it was only now that Discord truly LOOKED at them.
The Pegasai, Pony Princesses of a city he didn’t remember being much more than a place Cloudsdale could park near for cloud maintenance, then there were their wings. Zipp’s wings were much more refined and sleek than even Paint Buckets, not to mention the colouration of her wings was something he’d never noticed in a pony before, and Pipp’s wings looked so airy that she might actually be part cloud, he definitely would remember ponies having wings like that, imagine Celestia getting stuck because her wings had become clouds, he’d have to try. Then there was Izzy, the unicorn, her horn had seemingly suffered significant decay, he could see her exposed leylines running up the length of her horn… or maybe without magic, the unicorns would file away the soft protective coating on their horns, or, if horns weren’t being used for magic, maybe they could no longer produce a protective layer over their horns?
But what was most important, all of them only had a single Cutie Mark. He was fairly sure Sun & Moon Butt had two. He’d used Twili’s Cutie Marks to make star glasses once, so she definitely had two, and as for Fluttershy…
Let's keep this rated Teen and not go there.
But he knew there was nothing strange about that, he’d certainly have been switching the side of a pony’s cutie mark just for a little spot of harmless chaos, so how did these ponies, from three separate places all have the same difference…
Unless.
No, but that would mean.
Maybe he hadn’t noticed but then…
Snap?
SNAP!
Snap Snap
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It was a simple thing he was trying to do, it truly was. Destroy all of reality and rebuild it around himself with the exception that his new position would be next to Fluttershy, and everything else would be a little bit displaced.
But nothing happened.
It wasn’t that his magic hadn’t worked, it just WOULDN’T work, it was impossible, and wouldn’t do what he wanted it to, he’d never had his magic react like that before.
And the ponies had changed so much. How long had he been gone? If he’d been gone for a very long time… He knew Celestia had been around for a while, one doesn't get a butt that big by spending only a few decades on a comfy cushion, but, he also remembered Appleciders parent, the one who made the fun jam, withered and old, had died of age.
Age… if ponies die of age, then… no, certainly not. Twilight would never allow…
No.
He’d been gone for a very long time, so long that the very genetics of ponies had changed… so long that maybe Fluttershy had…
“Lead with your heart Discord. It will always show you the way.”
The very last words he’d ever hear her say, and while he was trying to take away magic, she’d left him, but he’d abandoned her. His closest friend, the one pony whom he loved more than everything, and he had left her and never looked back, and now it was too late to beg her forgiveness, to tell her he was wrong, to spend even a second in her company.
Discord looked to his new friends, though he had to wipe the tears away first, she’d be so proud of them, and yet she’d never know if any pony would stop him from taking away something she cared about so much. They reminded him a lot of Fluttershy and the add-ons, he’d had fun with them truth be told, and over the years they had grown on him. Maybe he could make do, settle down, make new friends and start fresh.
Discord chuckled at himself, and how stupid that sounded.
“Hey, Dizzy, are you alright?” It was Izzy. The game the ponies were playing had come to a halt. Instead of playing, they simply stood transfixed, looking at the weeping Draconiqus, except Izzy who now stood before him.
“No, my new friend. Thank you for everything, I want you to know that I am truly grateful to you and your friends, but I’ve made a terrible mistake, and I’m going to make things right. Goodbye.”
Before any of the ponies could react, reality was rent asunder with a thunderous:
Snap.
Author's Note
Many fans have their own views on G5, and while I think it missed the mark (Intended and no apologies), I hoped for better.
As for this story, I am honestly angry at how dirty they did Discord in the comics, so with my powers as a fanfic writer, time to add my ending.
Hoping to write the second chapter before the end of the month, which will end the story. This is not turning into another one-shot becoming a 6 chapter story.
