Metal Gear Pony: Day or Night

Chapter 8: What Is Even Happening

~Pony-Hound HQ~

    As they follow the guard to another room, Twilight and Luna talk quietly to avoid others hearing.

    “Princess...didn’t you say Discord disappeared when Celestia attacked..?”

    “He did...He must have gone into hiding. Let us hope he is not here to cause trouble.”

    They reach the room where Discord is waiting and enter, then proceed to glare at him as he expected. “Oh Princesses. Lovely to see you two again! Tell me, how has the war been going hmm?”

    “Just tell us what you want Discord....We don’t have time to deal with you.”

    “Well..is that ANY way to speak to someone who kept your friends out of danger for so long? .....Uh. Girls. That was your que.”

    “Gosh darnit..so much for all that practice we did.” From behind Discord comes an orange earth pony, with a blond mane and tail. The tail is tied in a ponytail. Go figure. The mane is hanging down freely, and its pretty long. Right on top is a cowboy hat. “Howdy Twi, Luna. Nice ta see you again!”

    “A-App..Apple...wha..???”

    Discord looks around for a moment for something. “Hold on a minute..we’re missing something.” Suddenly, standing right next to Twilight..is a pink pony. A very pink pony. Her mane and tail are both darker shades of pink, and are very very poofy. She also smells like candy. “Hiya Twilight!”

    Twilight nearly jumps out of her skin, but after realizing who it is she manages to get herself off the ceiling. “P..Pinkie Pie..? Applejack?? But..how..when...I thought you were...whaaaaaat???”

    Applejack laughs a little and takes her hat off. “Ya’ll haven’t changed a bit Twilight.” Pinkie grins, as usual, and hugs Twilight. “We’ll explain everything that happened! We didn’t die. Well obviously we didn’t die, or we wouldn’t be here. Or would we..maybe we’d be ghooooosts!”

    Twilight just stands there in shock. Luna nudges her a little to get her attention. “Are you feeling better now Twilight?” Twilight nods and finally hugs Pinkie back. “I’m so happy you girls are okay..” “Well of course we’re okay silly! But I’m kinda hungry..you got any cupcakes?” Luna smiles and nods. “I will have the cook begin baking as soon as we are done here. ...But first, we need answers.”

    Twilight nods, then gives Discord another glare..slightly less mean looking this time. “Discord. Why did you do all this..?”

    Discord chuckles a bit. “Oh my dear Princesses...speaking as a God of Chaos, this whole war is just WONDERFULLY chaotic! War IS the ultimate chaos after all.....But...speaking as a reformed God of Chaos, I couldn’t very well let my only friends die now could I?” Luna sighs and shakes her head. “It is still strange hearing YOU talk about having friends...but thank you. How exactly did you save them? Last time we had seen Pinkie Pie she was....well, we would rather not think about it...as for Applejack, she seemed to disappear entirely.”

    Discord chuckles once more and takes a seat on a floating chair...what? “Its a funny story really..I had known for a while that the Elements of Harmony were running out of power. The six ponies that controlled them were just growing apart. Too far apart for the Elements to handle. I wasn’t able to find Rainbow Dash or Rarity..so I took these two instead.”

    “Ah was the first one to go. He uses his weirdo magic to poof me away. Discord really ain’t that bad once ya get to know em.”

    “Yep yep! Then he found me while I was...well you know. He poofled me away too. He used his powers to heal us both and it all got better from there! He’s so awesome! Chocolate rain..every day....it was beautiful..” She sheds a single tear.

    Discord poofs her mouth away and continues for them. “Anyways...I decided it would be interesting to see what I could do with these ponies, so I toughened them up a bit. Applejack here..if she didn’t know how to fight before she was so good at hiding it. I’d go so far as to say that now, she could easily overpower your top agent.”

    Twilight rolls her eyes. “If that’s meant to be a challenge, we’ll have to pass. Flame is....in bad shape..”

    Pinkie Pie’s mouth reappears. “Hey don’t do that! Meanie head!” Twilight ignores this at first..but then realizes something. “Pinkie..did you just make your mouth appear on its own?? How did you do that?!” Pinkie giggles does a zip-the-lip motion. “Can’t tell you that~”

    Luna shakes her head and smiles. “It doesn’t matter..we have important things to take care of. We are very grateful for this Discord. I don’t suppose you’re going to stay and help us?” Discord shakes his head. “This is a pony’s fight, not mine. Well, I must be off! I bid you all farewell.” He disappears, leaving Twilight slightly annoyed, but smiles. “Well at least we got something out of this..good to see you girls again..Where’s Pinkie Pie?”

~Pony-Hound Kitchen~

    Pinkie Pie is bouncing up and down behind the cook, trying to convince him to make some cupcakes. “Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? Oh! I could make them for you then! Come oooooon!”

    The cook facehoofs in annoyance. “For the thousandth time NO! How did you even get in here?! The door was locked from this side!” “Well DUH. I came in through the back door!” “...There is no back door...” “Pffft..silly head, everything has a back door!”

    “...What...”