The Cause Part 4: Forgotten Friendships part A
Some years ago... whenever Discord was here
Derpy was flying around after seeing Pinkie become Discorded from afar, pondering if she would become the opposite of herself, normally she wouldn't fly around like a intellegent pony but like a foal who was dropped on the head 20 times whose mother smoked all day, and whose dad left her all alone and never payed foal support and claimed that the mother was a slut and the foal wasn't his until a DNA test was issued by a scientist, and even after that he wouldn't pay it and the foal was beat with a belt until the wounds were big and nearly covered the orange coat in blood, and lemon juice was poured in along with salt because the mother wanted the foal to become her maid, but alas didn't because of foal labor laws that had passed that year by Celestia, so the mother dumped her in the dumpster like a prom night dumpster foal and was found by Rainbow Dash one night after screaming all day and Rainbow just took her to the Mayor to see that the poor little thing's mother and father had done the bed dance every night and day using performance enhancing drugs and well just about any substance that you can get addicted to after she was abandoned and finally died after their 1,000,001st round of love, and was put into the care of the mother's sister in-law and her husband's care who also did the same thing (not the relentless beating but the, ahem, other thing) and was left alone and learned how to survive on her own and basiclly stole her cousin's scooter who was then found brutally murdered by a colt wearing a bloody, cracked, hockey mask who killed ponies with a machete and wore a business like but also looked like a janitor's coat, at a lake that was very beautiful but eerie at the same time. Derpy's flying ability that she showed was a little pinch above that level of flying, because she could actually fly.
"Well that is just strange, if Pinkie is able to become Discorded when she is not a pony by true birth, but a blob made from a substance, does that mean I can become not myself, better go check" So Derpy drifted towards the center of Ponyville, where the chaos monger himself floated, but was stopped by the sound of a mare yelling.
"And who are YOU laughing at? You big, dumb, meany!" the pink mare who was mentioned earlier and is basiclly one of the main reasons why Derpy exists, yelled.
"Hey Rarity, Twilight was saying that we should split Tom between the six of us." Applejack whispered to Rarity.
"Girls?" Twilight was trying to get their attention.
"Pinkie Pie, no one is laughing at you, they all laugh at me." Derpy explained, hoping Pinkie would reconize the friendship they had that was put to a halt because of a drink. Pinkie looked into her eyes and saw the pain she had felt that day, but then she saw all the memories of Derpy being laughed at after that day, there was no sorrow in Pinkie's eyes during or after she viewed the memories (Yes, she can break the barriers of life even as she is Discorded). All there was, well, was no emotion that could be plainly seen by the naked eyes of most ponies, but to Derpy's strange eyes she could see that Pinkie felt nothing, all the emotions had halted. Nothing came out for a solid ten minutes as Twilight turned gray or grey, whichever seems right to you.
"So, you dealt with all that laughter by feeling nothing? You blocked out all emotions? You even took beta blockers to force yourself to not remember what the laughter meant to you?" Pinkie stared into space, speaking with no emotion, "You even went to the point where you killed a poor inoccent filly dressed as the colt who lives in the Everfree Forest close to a popular camp that is at a lake while her parents were fucking in the next room, all because she was going to report you for popping out of a rip through time and space with your eyes showing and your body retaking shape because of something that had happened while you were travelling here."
"Yes ma'am" Derpy saluted like a soldier.
"Also, I was friends with YOU?" Pinkie started to chuckle as her mane slowly deflated.
"Yes, Pinkamena, you were, now what are you going to do? Try to chase me away from you life? I will never leave your life, it will end by my hoof, every single one of your friends will die by my hoof, for I am the ending to this story of life for this happy universe, I am the meaning of life, I AM YOUR HALF-SISTER, I AM DEATH, I AM GOD!!!" Derpy bellowed out using all voices from home at once, lightning crashed as chocolate rain poured on and on, getting harder and soon turned into frozen choclate shard pelting everyone, or chocolate hail stones if you want to call it that. Surprisingly not one living soul took notice, well all but one other soul didn't notice, the carrier of this soul was the chaos monger.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we have someone who thinks they can end this world. Listen here little pony, I am in control, you are not. Do you see the what I am doing? Now tell me, what can you do that I can not?" Discord conjured a glass of white chocolate candies and tossed them behind him, denting Rarity's precious "diamond".
"When the sky turns red and the moon and sun are in the sky, you will see exactly what I can do. So have your fun while it lasts, knowing your enemy is half the battle when you are a pony like me. Being a creature like yourself who shares the same voice actor as Q from the Star Trek world however is practicly a loss already, no one trusts you, you are like a cat in a field of dogs."
"Says the mare whose eyes keep derping and is laughed at by everypony she meets, you are just a laughing stock created by someone who never cared for you. Your life makes me laugh." With that, he bursted out laughing, infuriating Pinkie Pie.
"Watch your tounge, and who you laugh at, or you are going to get what's coming to you. I was raised on a rock farm and kept some heavy-duty meany busting rocks everywhere incase of an emergency!" Regaining her composure, Derpy walked away thinking about her friendship that had only lasted for a few quick years before crashing landing and burned out.
"I'll forgive only for today, but tomorrow you and your friends are in my top 8 of people I want to kill first."
Sometime after the wedding, disaster of many Pinkies
I'm just going to cut to the part after Twilight sent all the fakes away and the episode ends.
"So what did you do with all the Pinkies Derpy?" Twilight was curious as to why Derpy wanted them at her house.
"I needed practice on something for an upcoming day." Derpy explained with not much detailing, just right to the chase and no eye contact.
"What day, what were you practicing, and why aren't you giving me any eye contact?" Twilight was very annoyed by the answer she had gotten, she practicly lived for details of everything, but not clothes, that was Rarity's thing.
"Ohlookatthetime, IgottarunsoIwon'tbelatetocontinuepracticingandnowI'vesaidtoomuchsoI'mgoingnow, BYE!" Translation; Oh look at the time, I gotta run so I won't be late to continue practicing and now I've said too much so I'm going now, BYE.
Derpy dashed off, thinking of reasons why the clones didn't remember her, maybe they were just too excited about being multiples of one pony to have memories. Why don't they remember? Why are they so stupid? Derpy caught sight of her house, and the real Pinkie was only a mile away from her, and 4 miles away from her house bouncing happily as she had a basket on top of her head full of party cannon ammunittion and her party cannon behind her on a cart.
"Time to go to Derpy's house for the time is today~
She won't be home right now but I guess that is okay.
I'll go inside her house and decorate it nice~
For it would be such a surpirse in her eyes.
The townsfolk will all gather round her~
And it would be such a blur.
Because today is the for a party!
And it would be such a day~
Even if she doesn't like cake~
I got her some rainbow muffins. Wait, that doesn't rhyme, oh well!"
Her bouncing came to a stop when she saw Derpy overhead.
"Hey Pinkie! Why are you headed to my house?" Derpy waved as she "crash landed" in front of her.
"Well, Mister and Misses Cake are fighting and I thought I would come to my bestest fr-" Something in Pinkie stopped her mid-sentence and reverted her back to being mutual with Derpy, "I mean, I thought I could host a party at your house to lighten up spirits in Ponyville, if you don't mind that is."
"Sorry, my house is off limits to parties, but try Applejack's barn, since it is recently raised for like the third time this year." Derpy rushed towards her home, leaving behind a half-deflated Pinkie.
Present, Golden Oaks Library
Derpy knocked on the door, expecting Spike to answer of course, he was the butler around here. The door swung open to reveal that Twilight actually answered this time, looking annoyed while levatating 3 scrolls all signed by the egos of Celestia.
"This better be important, oh hey Derpy you came for me eh? Well I'm not going to go without a fight!" Twilight got her magic ready, envoloping herself, Derpy and her father.
"Wait, what is going on, why is there a magenta glow around me? And why is she holding a tranquilizer dart, while aiming it a-" John (that is O's new name, deal with it!) was put to sleep.
"Nice shot how long will it be into eff-" Derpy was shocked into sleeping while Twilight teleported them to where they would fight.
Crowds of ponies and changlings roared as Derpy woke up. There were two teams, on Twilight's team there was Celestia, Shining Armour, Octavia, Cadance, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Spike. On Derpy's team there was Chrysalis, King Sombra, Discord, Nightmare Moon, her father, Luna, and for some reason Vinyl Scratch. The rules were plain and simple, each one can summon something to aid their team, no friendly fires, and the losing team's leader, depending on which one lost would etheir stop trying to destroy Equestria or would go quietly.
The scenery around them was absolutely amazing; a tall mountain range which is only three mountains, with cannons mounted at the top, clearly for the advantage of height, over to the north-east, a spring of cool refreshing water with the purple serphent Rarity had helped just lazily floating in a referee outfit in the middle of the floating island, a forest with a snow-like glow is settled taking over the south-west portion. Over to the east, below the cannon ready mountains is a desert with the sand so clean and untouched it looked like silk. The fighters were suspened in magenta bubbles of magic, with the prize (Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity) suspended in midair, unconcious, inside a dandelion yellow bubble of magic.
"The match will begin in 20 minutes, please use this time to make sure everyone is awake and you have a plan." A voice over a loud speaker crackled.
"Derpy, who are these uhh things, and why am I dressed like the Grim Reaper?" John asked, looking at what he was wearing, in fact everyone was wearing something that would represent them. Derpy was wearing tattered purple homecoming dress with one broken angel wing and what looked like a bloody bat wing both flexed out, symbolizing that she is good yet evil and she wants to come home. Discord was wearing anciet battle armour that has cracked over the years with stone from his prison filling in the cracks, symbolizing that he had seen many fights and wars over the years before he was defeated by the current rulers. Luna was wearing Nightmare Moon's armour but more covering, symbolizing well nothing, well nothing besides the fact that she has turned wicked once but now needs to be protected from herself. Nightmare Moon, same armour she escaped the moon from on, and nothing changed for her, so no symbols here. King Sombra was wearing tainted crystal armour, he ruled over the freaking Crystal Empire! What do you want from me?! Ahem, anyways, Chrysalis was wearing only a crown, not her signiture one but this one in the center had a black heart with puppet strings, she played with ponies' hearts to feed her many children, and a talisman with swirling auroas inside it. You know that John looked like the Grim Reaper, it shows that he loved destroying lives of others, which mostly causes death, go figure. Vinyl Scratch just wore headphones that had her DJ booth installed in it, like Pinkie's party cannon, but not requiring ammo, how ever there is no special reason at all why it deploys the booth, none at all, why are you staring at the screen like that, fine, it's coming up soon! Twilight was wearing the dress she had made Rarity make her for their first Gala, this time with room for wings, and of course a helmet matching her brother's, symbolising stubborness and her love for her brother. Shining Armour wore his regular captain of the guard armour. Cadance was wearing her new pure crystal armour, with the same helmet as Twilight, symbolising nothing, yeah rest have no symbolization what so ever, except for Dash and Pinkie. Celestia wore armour like Luna's but colored to match the colors of a sunny day. Octavia wore nothing but her tie collar thing and held her cello, but the only thing different about it was that she could summon and control a mechanical bird, whom she called Songbird. Spike, somehow, was wearing armour from his daydreams. Rainbow Dash wore her jousting outfit but customized to look like it was for the Wonderbolts, since she is obsessed with them. Pinkie wore a very familiar high school/rock outfit.
"Do these two things stay with me? It might provide the love my hive needs, not that I care about them, I just love them so much, but it will never be enough, they reject my love when they feel another's species love, for once can I have a child of my own that will take the love I give them as long as I have someone to love me for me and not hate me for what I had to do?" Chrysalis muttered, a tear dropping to the bottom of the bubble as she looked over to the stands where her hive fought eachother. "For once, please."
"Warning, may contain too much dubstep... blah blah blah, one deployment per day, ok. Wait, is that Octavia over there? HEY OCTAVIA, LOVE YOU!!" Vinyl Scratch yelled, not realizing that the bubbles were sound proof , to her fillyfriend, but she couldn't be heard by her, duh.
"Ow, Vinyl, she can't hear you because were are in a sound-proof bubble, wait, is Pinkie wearing the outfit I gave her to wear at the concerts we went to." Derpy stared at Pinkie, tears forming in her eyes, no matter how hard she tried to hold them back. "That is, but is that supposed to make me let my guard down? Because, she has no idea that I will not let it down, NEVER"
Over in the other bubble Octavia was playing around with the notes and the instruction booklet that had all the controls for Songbird, she didn't need it because she had written the notes needed, but it's always nice to keep it with her, just incase. Cadance and Shining Armour were talking about names for their unborn daughters and sons, however they could not agree on a thing, so they decided to wait to see what they looked like so they could decide then. Twilight was muttering to herself, trying to figure out things.
"Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, you shall not let history and nature take their course with you, I will not let Derpy kill you like the prophecy said she would, and I'll do my best to keep an eye on Pinkie and Rainbow they seem to be acting strange whenever that creature who was with her looks at them, they seem to be nodding at them, now that I think about it, Celestia seems to be doing the same. No one else is doing it, so what does that mean? Do they want the world to end? Do-"
"Hey Egghead! Why do you keep talking to yourself? The Princess wants to talk to you about the team situation!" Rainbow yelled into Twilight' ear, while she was hovering above her, and had heard everything but didn't show it.
"Rainbow, you shouldn't yell in ponies' ears, you can make them deaf little by little, until they realize that you had caused it, then they might sue you, then you will be millions in debt, you will have to live on the streets as a bum, I would then have to take you and clean you up, then I find you using drugs and, and, and..." Twilight had started to tear up a bit, she knew Rainbow wouldn't do anything of the sorts, but you have to realize something we all worry for our friends, it pulls the strings of your heart to see them in deep pain.
"Uhhh, ok then, just go talk to Celestia, you look like you need to talk to her." Picking her self up, Twilight trudged towards Celestia, hiding her face in her mane.
"Ahhh, my faitful student, I see your friend told you that I wanted to talk to you, I presume?" Celestia stared affectionitly at her faithful student, like a mother to a newborn after hours of pain and yelling at the doctors and her husband.
After five minutes of talking about the situation of some ponies wanting to switch teams, Twilight stepped back for a breather, she couldn't believe what she had heard, from her own teacher, from the Princess, from her mentor, from the one person she could probably call a second mom, from her probably aunt-in-law (Cadance was called Celestia's adopted niece on the wikia, look it up), from the one who is as great as the sun herself.
"You, Rainbow and Pinkie want to do WHAT!?"
