Pinkie Pie had a plan, one for a party, she had focused her mad planning skills to do the best Welcome-to-Ponyville party she could possibly make. When she was a filly she lived at a... 'rock farm', spending all her time digging for rocks, turning rocks over, and picking choice rocks to be sold in garden shops elsewhere in Equestria, she for one, however, not meant for that job. Her special talent had always been to party, and when she was old enough she moved far away, not in anger against her family, but she couldn't stand a place that was so gray all the time.
She found her way to Ponyville, and after discovering a second talent for baking, she was given a room and a job at the Cake family's restaurant. She became a caterer, the counter mare, and a delivery mare, (and had self-appointed herself the official taste tester, to the Cake's misfortune). In her job she was involved in the plannings of many parties, and she got to use her special talent at least weekly. But a few months after coming to Ponyville she became best known for her welcome-to-Ponyville parties, which she threw for her cousin when she first arrived, the party went awesomely, and soon it was expected that every newcomer to the town would soon get a party of their own.
Even long time residents wanted their own 'late' welcome parties, and Pinkie was happy to oblige. But... Pinkie had always wanted her own party, but throwing together a party for herself was something Pinkie considered rude (she even forgot her own birthday so as not to tempt herself), but she wanted it all the same.
But then something wonderful, incredible, impossible happened. A blue box arrived in Ponyville Park, and in it was a time traveler from another dimension named the doctor. But the story isn't about him, it's about Pinkie Pie. The Doctor took her back in time, to the day she had first arrived at Ponyville. And this is where our story begins.
Chapter 1; Pinkie creates a Paradox
"Hellooo Ponyville!" Pinkie cried out. The ponies in the streets turned to the pink newcomer, and watched her happily pronk down the street. Yes, 'pronk', look it up. Pinkie Pie looked around the small town with glee. The houses were colorful, the sky was blue, there were ponies smiling everywhere. And Pinkie Pie loved nothing more than to see smiling faces.
Pinkie Pie had came fresh off the... 'farm'... and was ready to live for the first time of her life. She admitted she was not well prepared for her move, she hadn't arranged for a room before hand, but she had her bits in a pouch and would stay in the cheapest hotel she could find until she got a better room somewhere and a job. She would take what life handed to her.
However, her life handed her herself.
"eek!" a pink mare, a few years older than her with fluffily styled hair, as opposed to Pinkie's current mess of pushed-up curls. But other than that she looked very similar to her, even their eyes and their coats seemed similar. For some reason she had screamed out. She was wearing lots of saddlebags and as the other mare stampeded away some streamers and unfilled balloons fell out.
"Ooh! Are you going to throw a party!?" Pinkie Pie said happily, pronking after her. "You know, my special talent is throwing parties, and... I'm new in town... and..." Pinkie Pie frowned for a few seconds, watching as the other mare disappeared amongst the buildings. Pinkie sighed and let her head fall lower, her hair seemed to somehow seem less bouncy. She stopped pronking and simply walked down the road.
"Ooh, gotta hurry, gotta hurry!" Pinkie Pie said, rushing along the Tardis, she stopped by the struggling, gagged, and tied up Doctor. She un-gagged him and placed down a cupcake. The Doctor reluctantly took a bite. "Well?" Pinkie said expectantly.
"It's fine, can you let me go now?"
"This party will be one of the most important parties that I will have ever attended. And you sir, are a partycrasher. And not even the fun kind."
"Pinkie, have you ever gotten the flu?"
"Yeah, sure, a lot when i was a kid, picking up cold rocks with my teeth and such."
"Do you know why you get a fever when you have a flu?"
"um... to tell you that something is wrong?"
"Partly, the fever heats up your body to a point where all the germs are too hot to work properly, then your body can get rid of them. Want to know why you have to get rid of the germs?"
"Uh... they make you sick?"
"No, you become sick because of the germs, the germs don't make you become sick. But you have to get rid of viruses because viruses get inside your cells, and then once they are inside your cells they remake them from the inside out, and then they turn the cell into a virus factory, and when it produces enough viruses it bursts outward and the viruses all go out to infect the other cells, eventually bursting them too! You are attempting to create a paradox, and paradoxes are like viruses for universes, do you want Equestria to burst like a sick cell?!" The Doctor shouted at her.
"Listen, I get you're a doctor, but i'm not sick, so be quiet and give me an honest opinion of my cupcake!" Pinkie said to the Doctor as nice as she could.
"Ugh... It's delicious, I don't like pears though, but it's a personal preference."
"Thank you." Pinkie then moved along, decorating the Tardis with streamers, balloons, and pre-wired confetti cannons.
"No... my sexy Tardis!" The Doctor said, looking at the mess of his ship.
"Now, if I untie you, will you be a good guest and not try to ruin my party for myself?"
The Doctor calculated how long it would take to turn the reset controls on the Tardis, and the likelihood of doing it without Pinkie noticing. After bringing 'Pinkie sense into the equation he sighed at his hopeless venture. "Yes, but you know that giving yourself a party will change the future, yeah? Time can be rewritten, but not like this, not by people trying to alter their own personal pasts. You will create a paradox, and creatures from the void will burn the universe as energy to replicate, and then they'll go back into the void from every direction, imploding Equestria. Do you want that?"
"I'll throw a party for myself even if it kills me!"
Pinkie then ran off with a pile of invitations. Leaving the Doctor to whisper; "It'll kill everyone."
"Dear Everypony! You are all welcomed to a very special 'Welcome to town' party for a very special friend to me; Pinkie D. Pie! Wish her welcome and bring your own refreshments if you feel like it, but punch & snacks will be provided!
Thanks, your hosts; the Doctor and a member of the Mysterious Mare-do-well's!" Read Pinkie Pie out loud, from one of the many posters that had been pinned on various walls. "A party? For me? Do I know anypony in this town?"
Pinkie looked around, not noticing anyone familiar. "Hmm... It says that it's by the mountain outside Ponyville Park... Kind of a long way out of town for a 'welcome to town' party... Ah well, it'll be my first party in my new town! And it's all to welcome me here!" Pinkie Pie happily began Pronking back out of town.
Pinkie Pie rubbed the Tardis's brakes affectionately. "Alright?"
The Tardis's controls beeped uncertainly at the offer.
"Tardis, don't you betray me! You'll hate this, two Pinkies Tardis! Two of them! What will the nasty Pinkies do to you?" The Tardis tried moving on her own, but Pinkie engaged the brakes to full sync, how she was able to he didn't know. "Pinkie, this'll hurt the Tardis, having two of you in the same place!"
Pinkie looked at the Doctor and at the machine, who she could tell was trying to explain what would happen. She sighed and gave a sad sort of smile. "Sorry... this was a bad idea from the start wasn't it?" She moved over to the Doctor and began untying him, but at that moment the doors moved open and a pink mare with a balloons Cutie Mark burst in shouting "PAARRTTTY!" The younger Pinkie Pie looked at the first, and upon seeing her coat, her eyes, and now the identical Cutie Mark, sat down and began to hyperventilate. "Uhh... I can explain everything! I'm you, but from the future, I came back to throw myself a party-"
"That's kinda rude, isn't it? To throw a party for yourself?"
"Well, no one else threw me a welcome party, so it had to be me!"
"Pinkie!" The Doctor screamed, the Tardis was trying to turn on the engines, but there was only a scraping noise as the sync brakes were still on. A bright light filled the room, a rip in space and time appeared, and a black claw reached through. "The Paradox... Pinkie, throw her outside!"
The younger Pinkie looked at the older one, the stallion who was tied up next to her, and the gigantic room that was in the mountain. And then she let her gaze rest on the gigantic demonic creature that was climbing out of the hole in space and time.
As it pulled itself out of the hole the demon of the Void stepped on the ground of the Tardis. It let out a screech as the Tardis's floor burned it. The Doctor looked down and then back up at the Demon. "Close the door Pinkie! Run away and close the door behind you!" The younger Pinkie Pie only nodded vigorously and rushed outside, slamming the door on the three creatures. The Doctor looked at the Creature as it tried to get out, but felt itself being burned by it too. "Paradox demons can't effect things that are old, things that have held their space for a great time. It counteracts them! And there are few things in the universe that have been the same as long as the Tardis. She's the oldest thing you could ever find on this world, and do you want to know something else that's old? Me!" The Doctor had finally been untied by older Pinkie, and tackled the creature back into the void, but as it fell it brushed against something. A piece of confetti. It had the tiniest bit of pony DNA on it, and inside it was the entire molecular structure of the outside universe. The creature found a way to save itself, and became a living creature. A living incarnation of the pure chaos that made up the Void and it's natural inhabitants.
The Creature shook, and twisted. It screamed in pain as it became no more. But in it's place was a long serpentine body. One with a dragon's tail, a lion's paw, an eagle's claw, a horse's hoof, a lizard's foot, with a deer's antler and a dragon's horn.
He had become Discord.
Older Pinkie looked up in fear and awe at the creature, and it let out a long roar. The roar became a laugh, and the laugh became a chuckle. It looked down upon her with a loving expression. "Mamma!" Discord yelled, bringing her up in his arms.
"Mamma?!" The Doctor and Pinkie both shouted.
"Mamma." Discord confirmed, nuzzling his face against the Pink pony.
The Tardis, now having overpowered it's own interface, then returned to the 'present', the point that Pinkie and him had traveled back.
As they reached their destination the Doctor pulled Pinkie away from the Draconequus, who whimpered a little from having his pony taken away. "Now, Pinkie, tell me, do you remember walking into the Tardis, or getting that invitation, or seeing the creature?! If you don't this is still reversible! Pinkie, do you remember it, not from your point of view just now, but as past Pinkie, Pinkie from your first day in Ponyville!"
"N-no... I don't... I'm... I'm sorry!" Pinkie grabbed the Doctor and began crying. It was understandable, she had just almost destroyed the universe by throwing a party at the wrong time. "I shouldn't have even thought of that idea... and I'm sorry for tying you up... I get... kinda crazy about parties."
"I can tell... and I forgive you I suppose, no one got harmed, that past never happened, if you can't remember it, we contained the Paradox, and the time stream reversed the changes. Everything turned out alright."
"Well... except that the spirit of Chaos is loose in the Tardis." The Doctor and Pinkie both turned to Discord, who was simply watching them with a grumpy and bored expression. "Hey Discord?"
Discord turned to her and smiled. "Oh that's right, I am Discord aren't I?" he said in a slightly English accent. "But I'm someone else entirely. I'm two things at the same time!" He said cheerfully. So, outside those doors is Equestria? And inside is another world? And not only that, it's a box that's bigger on the inside!" He giggled like a school foal. "I want to go see Daddy!"
"Daddy?" The Doctor said, backing up. "No, no, I am not your daddy!"
"No, of course not you Doctor! I was created by physical reactions in Mamma, and used the template of my Daddy when taking physical form!"
"Wait... So you aren't the Discord?" Pinkie asked confused.
"Nope! I'm your creation, and I have Discord's body. Including his brain!" He smiled honestly, but on him it looked maniacal, showing off his jaws, with an especially large fang on the left side. "It's really fun, and kinda screwy! And I have this constant urge to make things upside down..." He looked around, and snapped his eagle hand. Nothing happened. Then the Draconequus opened the door and was promptly sucked out. Both of them rushed after him, stopping just before the edge. The Tardis, and it's gravity, was upside down. 'Discord' was laughing on the ground, snapping his claw repeatedly, causing grass to blossom into flowers of bees, and the bees then engaged in Broadway musicals. "Ha ha ha!" He laughed jovially.
"Um... Discord? Can you make the Tardis the right way again?" The Doctor asked. The Tardis flipped again, Pinkie with it, but the Doctor stayed with his previous gravity, falling off of the top of the Tardis's door, and then crashing back into the ground.
"Um... Doctor, could you bring us to Canterlot? I think we'll have to explain this to Celestia."
"We?" The Doctor shook his head. "No, you are going to Canterlot and explaining it to Celestia yourself, as it is, she hates my guts, and she will not harm her own subject, if you are going to get in trouble though i'll come back and rescue you, if not, you're on your own." And with that he climbed back into the Tardis, closed the door, and disappeared for the next portion of the story.
"Well... Discord II?... Can you teleport us to Canterlot?"
"Hmmm.... Sure Mamma!" He snapped his finger and the two of them were in the Canterlot gardens, next to Canterlot castle... and in front of the 'statue' of Discord. "Look at him." He said proudly. "Mom?"
"Uh... yes?"
"Can you look the other way a second? I want to give you a surprise!"
"Ooh!" Pinkie Pie said, forgetting what she was talking to. "I love surprises!" She immediately turned around and closely shut her eyes.
There was a sound of laughter, and a cackling laugh. "You can turn around now!" Pinkie did, smiling, but her hair deflated when she looked upon the two of them. The two Discords. One was standing on a pillar, the other was curled on the ground next to her.
"I am free again! A neeeeewwww reeeecccoooorrrrrdddd!" Discord shouted. He turned to the other Draconequus and Pinkie Pie. "Hello again Pinkamena, hello me. I assume you traveled back in time to release yourself."
"Nope! I was made in the past and then came here, remembered you were here and decided to release you!" He said happily to the original.
"Made in the past?" Discord asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yep! Pinkie threw her younger self a party, and that created a paradox, which resulted in me! Also, your presence in this universe gave me a template for physical form. Hi Daddy!" With that one discord tackled the other, and they both rolled around hugging.
"So what are you called... son?" the First Discord asked, confused by the new one.
"I'm Discord the second!" He said proudly. He motioned to his 'mother' for confirmation.
"Um... that's what I called him a second ago."
"Well, it's boring. Your name is now Paradox!"
"Fine." Paradox said grumpily at his new name.
"You need to change your look too... you look too much like me."
"I need to look more like Mamma!" Paradox said, snapping his fingers as if that were the solution to everything. "Just one second!" He turned the same shade of pink as his 'mother'.
"No." Discord said, Pinkie frowned and shook her head as well.
"Hmph." He changed again, becoming the size of a pony, his too-big tooth disappeared, and his body became, but the strange limbs all remained, but they were smaller.
"No." Discord said again. Pinkie raised an eyebrow at Discord.
"I like it." She said.
"A little more black and white." Said Discord.
"Alright, this is the one, no matter what anypony says!" And Paradox transformed back into Discord, but his face seemed longer and more normal pony shaped. His teeth were also the same as when he was pony sized. But the rest of the differences were in color. All the fur on his right side was a deep black, his left the purest white fur. His antler stayed the same, but his horn turned black to contrast with his white fur on that side. The two sides were separated along an uneven jagged line. But it was all thrown out of balance by his bright pink mane, it was short and fit close to his head like discord's, but it reached farther along his forehead than Discord's, it had the same curl as Pinkie had in the front as well. His eyebrows and goatee were also both similarly the same color and were both fluffy like cotton candy. He conjured a catwalk to strut himself over his self-proclaimed parents.
Discord clapped his hands and smiled at his new found 'son'. "Great, you really make the monochromatic look look good."
Pinkie nodded along to what Discord was saying. "It does look good." Pinkie admitted. "Now I think that we should talk to Celestia, don't you?"
Discord protectively stood in front of Paradox. "What?! Trying to throw your only son to that petrification-happy boring old grand-mare?"
"Huh!? No! Of course not! Maybe you, but I need to explain what happened or she might try to petrify Paradox!" Pinkie blinked twice. She was the voice of reason. She was truly afraid now. "Come on, we need to explain this to Celestia, and don't worry, i'll make sure she doesn't do anything to Paradox, he hasn't done anything, unlike a certain meanie-who-turned-me-evil-and-tried-to-conquer-everything."
"Ugh... Fine." Discord began to float off in the other direction when Pinkie jumped up and bit down on Discord's ear. "Wait, what are you doing... How are you doing this? I'm an all-powerful spirit, you are dragging me by my ear."
"Of course I am, how would I get you to Celestia otherwise?" She dragged Discord along, Paradox floating alongside them, when Pinkie saw a guard making his rounds on the wall closest to the gardens. "Hey! MR. GUARD!"
The armored pegasus looked at the group and fainted from consecutive heart attacks. Don't worry, he somehow lived.
"Well, that was useful." Pinkie said. "Paradox, can you teleport us to Celestia?"
"Sure!" He said cheerfully. The three of them appeared in a flash of light in Celestia's office.
Celestia learns one of Pinkie's many middle names.
"Discord!?"
"Celestia!"
"Princess-"
"Pinkie?"
"Paradox!" Everyone turned to Paradox, who had shouted his own name. "Sorry..."
"Pinkie Pie, what are you doing here? And what is Discord doing free? And who is this second Draconequus?"
"Um... Well, I created Paradox by trying to give myself a party in a time machine. And Then Paradox freed Discord because he thinks Discord is his father."
"You... created him by throwing a party for yourself in a time machine?"
"Yes. Parties are serious business."
"Discord, what are you doing here?"
"I was freed by my new son!" He said proudly. "I had always wanted one, and then Pinkie created one for me!"
"Well, what do you have planned now?"
Discord closed his eyes, deep in thought, he twisted his goatee around his lion paw finger. "I don't have one, frankly, I make things up as I go along."
"No dastardly plan to conquer Equestria?"
"Nope, your mares beat me, fair and square, I'm going to be quiet for the next 1000 years, as long as I don't get bored."
Paradox and Pinkie raised eyebrows at him. "Really, no plan at all?" Pinkie asked, not believing it.
"Well, this wasn't the first time I've been captured. These things go in stages. I spend a few years ranting to myself, then I get depressed, then I get clever and begin thinking up of stuff I can't right down and end up forgetting anyway, and finally I begin planning a new game!"
"A game?" Pinkie raised an eyebrow.
"Yep." Paradox said proudly. "Nopony can stand up to the everlasting well of power that is DISCORD!"
Discord ruffled Paradox's pink hair, and turned to Pinkie. "Well, the truth is, without the elements Luna and Celestia have got absolutely nadda on me. And I can simply teleport them away, I can't destroy them, they're enchanted to deliberately counteract that, but still, digging to the center of the earth would take a lot of time. So, to make things fun, I offer games! Equestria is already in the palm of my hand, I'm just that powerful!" He began laughing maniacally. But he wiped an imaginary tear out of his eye and looked down at Pinkie Pie and Celestia. "But without any risk of loss, how would I find gratification in it? So I make a game, I still set things to my advantage, but they always find a way to win it. But if I didn't offer a fair game it would feel as if I were cheating."
Celestia was glaring at the Draconequus. "Is that true Princess?"
"...Yes. But Discord isn't immortal either. Are you Discord?"
"Nope!" He pulled out a vacuum and attached it to Celestia's ethereal mane. She ran around yelling and trying unsuccessfully to pull it off with unicorn magic. "I'm still better off than you Alicorns though."
"Um... Princess?" Celestia was rolling around on the ground now, attempting to pull it off with her hooves. "Princess, there's an off switch." Pinkie pronked over and flipped it.
"Th-thank you Pinkie Pie." Celestia said, attempting to regain her lost pride and regal manor. It was more difficult with her ethereal rainbow mane a crunched and messy mess on her head.
"So, what should we do about Paradox and Discord?"
Celestia sipped tea conjured by Discord, ignoring the floating letter 't's floating in the liquid. She had listened to Pinkie's complete story, as Discord and Paradox played Checkers with hamsters in plastic balls. Celestia hoped that they would be able to find them all afterwards. "Well, going by the story, this is the Doctor's fault, and he shall be punished severely." Celestia pulled out an especially long scroll and a quill. Pinkie snuck a look at the title 'The Doctor's list of transgressions Year 1002 of the age of harmony volume 2' Celestia added 'released Discord and all it entails' to the end of the list. Celestia considered for a few seconds and scribbled below 'again'. "But... you also share quite a bit of responsibility for this, having created Paradox."
"What... but I-" Pinkie was about to defend herself, but a raised hoof from the Princess stopped her.
"I will prepare a set of documents, I have decided to make you Paradox's legal guardian, he seems like he'll be more willing to cooperate than his... father... besides, he already accepts you as his mother, and in a way you are. So time for you to take responsibility. I'll write a letter to Twilight, she'll help you get settled in with your new ward." Celestia said, smiling.
"But... I can't be a mom!" Pinkie said plainly. "I don't know how to do any of that stuff, heck, the only reason that I can even handle two babies occasionally is because they pitied me!" Pinkie tried to explain.
"Well, it seems that he's capable of taking care of himself, I just need you to watch over him, keep him in line, and..." Celestia moved a little closer to Pinkie and whispered in her ear "keep him occupied, Draconequus can be very dangerous when they're bored." Celestia rose back to her full height, "But if you think you cannot take responsibility, then I will have little choice other than keeping him prisoner here with Discord."
"Hey! My middle name is responsibility, and Paradox hasn't done anything wrong!" Pinkie Pie walked toward Paradox and put a hoof protectively on the young Draconequus's tail. "I'm Pinkie Diane Responsibility Pie!" She said proudly.
Paradox looked over to Pinkie, his movement causing several more hamsters to run loose in Celestia's office, they were quickly replaced by new hamsters. "Hey, Mamma?"
"Yes Paradox?"
"When we get back to your house, can we put together-"
"A Birthday party!" Pinkie finished with glee. "A first birthday party!" Pinkie began pronking about the room, Paradox soon following.
Discord looked over the board, apparently not noticing the two pink-maned creatures hopping about the small room. He considered it very seriously, he sent a sidelong glance at the three others in the room, and tried to subtly turn the board around, but all the hamsters squealed, causing Celestia and the other two to stare at the mess Discord had created. "Cheater." Paradox said.
"Says the person who stole the other's brain." Discord said indignantly.
"It's been my own brain since I made my new look." Paradox said, raising his snout in a similar style to Discord's.
"Pfft. Yeah right, then how are you beating me at checkers?"
"I'd probably be somehow losing if I still was you, you're terrible at this game. I didn't even know the rules until I read them on the side of the box!"
"Will you both shut up and remove the rodents from my castle?" Celestia shouted in the Royal Canterlot voice. With that a group of guards burst in, beholding their Princess, who's mane showed that she had been in a fight, a cheerful pink earth pony, and the two Draconequuses, Draconequi, Draconeky? He rushed back outside. "Oh yes, that reminds me, Discord, I'll allow you a meal per day if you get rid of all the hamsters and their balls immediately."
"Allow me- what are you talking about Celestia?" with that the guard came back with a spear, which he ran through Discord immediately. "Oh... this isn't normally a good thing." Celestia yanked it out with her magic, then ran it through Discord's head. "Celestia? If you keep going I'll assume you are trying to kill me." He said perfectly, despite his torn maw. Celestia tossed him into a box she had conjured with a sticky note on it. She pulled out the spear and slammed it close. She then focused a huge amount of magic on it, and put a key into the hole, locking it tight. She calmly raised up the box, her guard staring at Paradox, who was gaping at Celestia and her box. "Don't worry, he can handle those wounds like nothing, but this box should stand to be a greater challenge." She began shaking it over and over with both front hooves, grinning furiously at it. The sticky note fell from the box, and Paradox picked it up.
"'in case of petrifification fail'" he read out. "You misspelled petrification."
"I know, but this box was the one used to protect the Elements of Harmony! No magic of harmony or disharmony can get in or out!"
Pinkie blinked twice, "But didn't Discord teleport the Elements out of it?"
"I..."
"She didn't lock it." Paradox whispered.
"I wanted to be able to get to it easily!" Celestia growled. She turned to the snow-white pegasus guard. "Get me the adoption board!"The guard nodded and was about to mention the black & white Draconequus, but after seeing his princess deal with Discord so easily, he only nodded and rushed out.
Celestia gave a final toss of the box into the air, and brought her hoof back to hit it down into the ground, but Paradox grabbed it out of midair with his tail. He frowned at Celestia and brought the box to his chest. "I'm kind of mad that you stabbed my father and locked him in a box."
"Oh he probably loves it in there."
Inside a box.
"It's so boring!" He screamed out, being bounced back against the walls of the gigantic white void that had shrunk him down the instant he entered. He began snapping his claw but nothing happened. "Grrraaaarrgghhh!"
"I'm not so sure..." Paradox raised an eyebrow down at the jeweled chest.
"Anyway," Celestia said, raising a quill and piece of parchment paper. "I'm going to write to Twilight and try to get everything prepared for you and your new son."
Pinkie Pie looked up at Paradox and gave an unsure smile. "Alright, I guess there'll be no harm in trying things out... I'm going to find the most incredible candle I can find for your cake!"
Paradox gave a gleeful chuckle and danced around with the box. "I want it to be chocolate!"
Back in Ponyville.
"Dear Princess Celestia, today I learned that even if you think your friends are hiding something from you, you have to trust them, because usually they are just trying to protect you, your loyal student, Twilight Sparkle." She finished reading out to Spike, who had been writing the letter. But he accidentally incinerated the letter, not by blowing his own flame on it, but by a letter from Princess Celestia pushing it into the candle he had been writing by. "My letter!"
"Sorry Twilight..." Spike said. "But at least you got one from the Princess!"
"Well, let's see what she said." Twilight lifted the scroll out of spike's hands with her magic and opened it up. "Dear Twilight, Pinkie Pie has come back from her adventure with that menace against all existence, who has released Discord, thankfully I sealed him in a box." Twilight and Spike gaped at each other. "I... I'm going to keep reading... ahem 'I'm sending the box to you, along with the Elements, so you and your friends can deal with him immediately, should he ever get out. Pinkie Pie also, shall we say created a Draconequus of her own, and he will be living with Pinkie Pie in Ponyville, as long as everything turns out well. You should expect them rather soon, don't worry, Paradox seems to be more cooperative than Discord. Your grateful teacher, Princess Celestia."
