When Species Collide (A Fluttercord Story)

……………………………..I’ve been turned into stone, twice. I’ve been betrayed by Tirek who I thought was my friend. I’ve had my chaos magic drained from me, twice and I’ve been chained by villains who I united, all of which were extremely painful, more pain than an average pony would and should ever experience. With all that I’ve been through, I thought I could handle anything………………… yet, I was wrong.

This was far more painful than being turned to stone, forced to stay in one single position for over a thousand years. This was more painful than when Tirek betrayed me after he gave me that medallion from his brother. This was more painful than having my magic, something exclusive to me be ripped from my own body twice, none of which were pleasant and this was far worse than being chained up by my own failed plan.

Yet, a simple sentence was enough to set the record for the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. I didn’t want to ask it at the time but, how was that possible? I know it’s because I loved Fluttershy so much, but at that moment, I had no idea how being stuck in stone was better than hearing that I was too late.

“Who……………………………….who is this….pony?” I asked, trying my absolute hardest to keep my tears from pouring…even though the glass was already upside down.

“Oh, his name is Lucifer, I met him just a few weeks ago and he’s the nicest pony I’ve ever met and-” Fluttershy went on about this ‘Lucifer’ pony and how he was so sweet, bought her flowers and took her to see this new show or something ridiculous like that. He may have sounded like a nice guy and in retrospect, he probably was, but I didn’t see it like that.
As Fluttershy described Lucifer, I saw an evil pony, using her to get to me, or a very ugly pony with a crummy job and who lives in an alleyway, or with his parents.

“Oh…….If you’ll excuse me, I must comfort that pony sobbing in the bathroom.” I said as I couldn’t hold back my tears any longer.

“I don’t hear anypony in their Discord,” Fluttershy said as I got up.

“You will in about ten seconds!” I said as I stood up and ran towards the bathroom, closed the door, and then cried a little of my many tears before I teleported out of there.

I couldn't think of a better place to be alone than my home as I teleported myself to my front door and I opened the door ever so slowly and quietly. I couldn't hold back my tears as once that door closed, I cried. I cried a lot. I cried more than I ever have in my whole, immortal life. I’ve never really been one for crying. When you're the lord of chaos, crying isn’t something you typically do, this was an exception to this rule as all I did was cry on my floor.

I don’t know how long I was crying, enough for my eyes to start hurting as all the liquid in my body came out through my tears. When I had cried out all that I had, I looked down and saw that my tears had created a large puddle. Normally this is something that I would have loved, the more chaos the better…that didn’t happen. I wanted to snap this puddle away, toss it under the rug, bury it, burn it, all of those things…yet when I positioned my claws, ready to snap them, I couldn’t snap, like something….or somepony was preventing me from doing my signature snap…yet nopony was.

“I’ll never get over her,” I said in a lower voice as I walked to the kitchen when I heard something.

“Captain Wuzz! We have a mission for you!” I could hear my other dear friend, Spike call my name.

“It’s not like I have a date…or Fluttershy to attend to…” I said to myself as I snapped my fingers, this time, they worked and in less than a second, I was in Twilight’s castle, standing in front of Spike and Big Mac. Looking back, I should have known that Spike would ask the question…yet I wasn’t ready to say a word about it yet…yet I did.

“So…how was your ‘tea party’ with Fluttershy?” Spike asked as the look on his and Big Mac’s face changed from excitement to a mix of worry and sadness.

“....” I couldn’t respond. Not even a word, I could say.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Spike asked as I knew I had to say something…even if I didn’t want to.

“Another…..asked……..out…” I said as I thought some of the liquid in my body came back as I felt more tears beginning to form.

“I’m…so sorry Discord,” Spike said as he and Big Mac comforted me as they helped a little…but nothing could fully help this time.

“I…I didn’t think this was how the story was supposed to go, I thought Fluttershy would have said yes….” I said as a few more tears then fell from my eyes. I didn’t see it but I could feel my eyes turning pink from all the crying…was that supposed to happen? I’ve never cried this much before.

“It’s not easy to handle rejection, I know what that’s like,” Spike said in a smooth voice.

“Like….when….Rarity rejected you for that Capper?” I asked, still speaking with tears in my eyes.

“Why I outta!” Spike exclaimed as Big Mac held him back.

“How about we walk into town to stop ya from crying?” Big Mac suggested.

“I…suppose that would be…nice,” I said as the three of us walked out of Twilight's castle and into the evening streets of Ponyville. A few ponies were walking about but it wasn’t anything too interesting. It was just the same regular town and the same regular ponies…and yet…every time I looked at a female pony…all I saw was Fluttershy. It was like this town was full of changelings and they resembled Fluttershy.

“I don’t think this is helping me that much,” I said, holding back my tears in public.

“Hm, how about we go out, and have an emergency guy's night?” Spike suggested.

"Eyep!” Big Mac said in agreement.

“I guess so,” I said as in a few minutes, we went into this new restaurant that had just opened called: “Marebles”.

“Table for three please.” Big Mac said to the front desk and in a few minutes, they showed us to our table and we then took our seats.

“Wow, I didn’t know Marebles looked so nice,” Spike said as I looked around the room.

“I guess it’s pretty nice,” I said as I opened their menu to see what was available.

“Hayburger, salad, soup…” I said to myself as I saw their menu selection until something unexpected happened…moments before disaster. I looked over at the front door and saw a Unicorn with a black coat and a black mane with red highlights and he looked good-looking. He was wearing this white suit with a top hat as if he were attending some kind of fancy event, not dinner, and not here.

“Table for me and my lovely girlfriend.” I heard the stallion say as his supposed girlfriend stepped forward…and I saw Fluttershy.