"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I couldn't help!"
"There, there, you did exactly what you should have," I said gently, comforting the mildly hysterical changeling, "you helped evacuate the villagers, you did exactly what you should have."
"But I'm meant to protect you!" Amber protested, "I couldn't!"
"That's right," I said hugging her closer with one foreleg, "You couldn't, at best you might have gotten in the way," I told her firmly, "when it's something like that, you were completely right to stay away and get other ponies away."
"Bu-"
"No more buts," I told her, "You did good, Amber. You did very good and if anyone, including Skitter or Chrysalis, gives you shit about it, tell me and I'll let them know exactly what I think about that."
She was outright trembling and I held her tighter, focusing on my love for Luna, for Sunset, for my friends. For everypony I knew.
She started to slowly relax so I slowly let go,
"Where is everypony gathered?"
"...Other side of the hill," Amber said quietly, "It seemed safest. Midnight said to take them there."
"Good filly," I told her with a smile, "Lead the way."
By the time we got to the top of the hill, the adrenaline had started to fade and the trek had felt about five thousand kilometers long. The thick snow on the ground didn’t exactly help either. Even worse, the ichor in my coat and mane had starten to harden despite my best attempts to get it off me.
Despite the large group of ponies gathered a couple of hundred meters beneath the other side of the top of the hill, I spotted Midnight, Sunset and Twilight almost instantly. A pair of alicorns kind of stand out and Sunny's colouration isn't exactly subtle either. What worried me more was the medical personnel gathered around Twilight.
I shared a look with Luna, but before we could run down the hill, Celestia beat us both to the punch and spread her wings, taking flight down to join them.
Quite honestly, I had no idea where she got the energy, but she clearly had the right idea so I followed her into the air to land close by but out of the medics way.
"I'm fine!" Twilight protested my infinite relief.
"You're not fine!" the doctor tending to her said before looking at Princess Celestia, "Princess Twilight has a broken leg, a strained wing and a concussion. We have set her leg, but she needs rest!"
"Twilight, please get some rest," Celestia told her.
"I'm. fi-"
"You're not fine!" Sunset said, putting her hoof down, "It's over. Get some rest."
Sparky looked at her before she sighed and lowered her head again, "...Fine."
Celestia then raised her head, "Everypony, the danger is over, but there are still fires burning in the village. Weather ponies, gather your clouds! Put out the flames!"
I had not even thought about that.
...Maybe I had gotten a bump to the head too and not noticed? Or I was simply completely exhausted. To be fair, it was more than possible it was both.
"Lay down," Luna murmured into my ear, "You look like you are about to fall asleep on your hooves."
I shook my head, "If I lay down, I may actually fall asleep. There is too much to do still. And the ground is snowy."
Luna just nodded, "I will assist the weather ponies with the snow, it will help but out what fires remain."
"I'll..." I started to say that I'd help, but maybe flying about wasn't the best idea right now when I felt dead on my hooves, "...I'll see if I can help too," I continued and as she took to the air, I moved over to Midnight, Sunset and Twilight. Celestia was already rallying ponies back to the village.
Midnight looked between us before her ears drooped, "...I am so sorry, everypony."
Twilight shook her head, "It's not your fault, I was sure it was going to work."
"It was noponies fault," I said as I joined them, "Something went wrong, it happened. It also happens that something goes wrong with high energy magic, it goes way wrong, way fast. Everypony lived, there was some property damage, but we'll all be fine."
Midnight shook her head, "No. It's my fault. I did this, if not for me being here we wouldn't be casting the spell and we-we... I wouldn't be stuck here and the table is broken and..." she trailed off and she burst into tears.
Sunset quickly pulled her into a hug as the rest of the elements galloped up the hill towards us.
I slowly sank down onto the blanket next to Twilight as I looked to Midnight before my legs folded beneath me, "Doesn't make it your fault," I told her firmly.
If anything, it's Discord's fault.
"Hey, Sparky," I then said, looking at Twilight, "...Not sure if you should with a concussion," I asked, shooting a questioning glance to the doctor hovering nearby, "But would you mind spelling this goop off me? I tried my best, but my best cleaning spells apparently aren't good enough."
The doctor nodded, "Some light magic is alright, but nothing straining."
Twilight flicked her ears in agreement and her horn lit up, a bright beam of light flowed across me and in its wake, none of the hardening ichor remained.
"Thanks," I said and struggled back up to sit, giving Midnight and Sunset a hug, "Look after Sparky," I whispered to them, "She hit her head, best keep an eye on her."
Best thing right now is to give Midnight something to do.
Getting a nod from Midnight, I pulled back and spread my wings, taking to the air to fly back towards Ponyville.
Tired or not, I had things to do.
really should have tried a high level multidimensional portal spell somewhere besides in the middle of a busy metropolis
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Twilight and Midnight were using the Table Of Immovable Harmony for the ritual; situated in the Ponyville library
Poor library, at least Midnight knows how to unlock the Loot Box Of Harmony to spawn in a Crystal Castle Treehouse Toyset.
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They couldn't do this in any other location. Remember about this crystal table, that is anchor to Midnight's world. Crystal table, that wasn't so unbreakable, as we thinked.
Cadance: *looking at her graphs* Yep...that definitely count as a "developmental shift" for Midnight. Sure this makes the potential foundation more shaky but with proper therapy, a relationship between her and Page is workable on a future date. Right Discord? ....Discord?
Discord: *knees knocking in fear* I felt a chill of promised pain coming from Page towards me. Hey Cadance! Can I crash at your place for a bit longer?? I need to lie low!
Cadance: Fine you can stay but don't teach Flurry Heart any more bad behaviors!
Discord: What? I taught her how to make a very good tower!
Cadance: She was using her playmates as building blocks! That is not how a proper princess behaves!
Discord: Says the mother who manipulates her love ones into relationships out of boredom...
Cadance: I HEARD THAT...AND HUSH! That's different...I think...
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I don't think they will open it because I don't think Tirek gave Discord that mediation before he was killed by Page
All is well in the end Maybe Discord can fix the Table?
This is why Ponyville can't have nice things all the time. Put alicorn power into things either blow stuff up or summons dark scary things from another dimension.
....so.... How extreme are those insurance premiums again?
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Discord? Spirit of CHAOS and DISharmony? Fix a table from spirit of HARMONY? Riiight... Oh, wait. Discord, spirit of CHAOS, FIX SOMETHING? You really are desperate, buddy.
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Discord? Not likely. Remember tho...that was the table from Midnight's universe being destoryed. Twilight from Page's universe hasn't open the chest from the Tree of Harmony yet. There is still hope to grow another table AND a castle!
(Unless the portal they opened really WAS Midnight's universe...wow OG Starlight really needs that punch in the face...)
put
“Has anyone seen Spikes?”
“Who cares?”
“That’s cold Sunset.”
Thanks for the new chapter! Looking forward to the update!
10384490I envisioned that ponyville must be covered under some law to cao premiums that has a vague name like say....The SPARKLE act
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Don't you mean emperor of harmony ?
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what could be more chaotic than Discord fixing something? Discord fix something. Never, never going to happen. Then he does just that.
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The industry-standard "acts of God" clause... wait, no, it's still Ponyville. Pretty sure insurance salesponies don't go anywhere near the place.
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That is an ORDERLY thing to do. Chaos is always, ALWYAS disruption of function. And you canNOT pull a double negative here. Fixing is always restoration, but you cannot disrupt chaos, and get order. If you break chaos down - you either get nothing, or more chaos, depending on how big chaos was before, and how powerful "disruption" is.
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He did... More than ones... For a prize...
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PRICELESS
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Not to far off One day...
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Alone to be unpredictebel he would do it from time to time...
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Good point
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Yep
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Sounds to logical to follow chaos
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There is difference between logic and nature/direction/"alliegeance". Not a paradoxical statement, because lier doesn't say it, but here it is. "It is true that lier will always lie". It's only logical that chaos will always be unpredictable, and not in a good way. Wheel comes off of a carriage - chaos, wheel comes onto the wagon - fixing. Like I said - if you intend to fix ANYTHING - it's not chaotic in the slightest. And I mean FIX, don't try to go around with things like "help create chaos", it's not HELPING. Not to mention my previous points, that Discord is spirit of chaos and DISHARMONY. I can't belive they ever made him "reformed". You cannot reform a CONCEPT, a SPIRIT of SOMETHING.
If he ever fixed somemthing - that would be by accident, and would be about as good as spitting on two pieces of a vase and holding them together.You wouldn't even need to drop the vase to break it apart, you can tip it so it ever so lightly smashes on it's side to fall apart again.
Edit: Also, last time he tried to "fix" something? Midnight got STUCK here for a year and then some, or about that time. We are yet to see what hell came upon the original realm of hers with her absence. Her friends - distraught, her FAMILY - BROKEN, probably, numerous problems, both small friendship problems that need "counseling" and actual threats to the kingdom... Do I need to go on? Discord better stay the fck away from table and summoning ANYONE. He's done more than enough FIXING.
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This story proved you wrong. Discord traded a Service for a price. He repaired a horn for a subrace change.a deal that would defie your logic.
Dont think in absolutes
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THIS story, which is a FAN FICTION. Good job on proving me wrong, good one... Now TRY AGAIN, with THE SHOW and LOGIC behind it.
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Your mad bro Eat a snicker You feel better
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I said try again. This time with canon, and actually shown things by show writers. Then again, I doubt you have ANYTHING to cover with, except how the show writers crapped themselves with continuity. Let me ask you again.
What kind of spirit of disharmony can be reformed? What kind of spirit of chaos can fix things properly? I'm waiting.
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Hey SilverDiamond...I think you're taking this a bit too personal here. Yes Black--Soul sometimes likes to throw playful jabs once in a while at people here but it is not toward any real malice. I'm sorry that s/he is not clearly explaining his/her POV but your reaction is a little overkill.
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Thanks
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Granny Smith dancing in his original two-parter. She didn't appear to be in any pain during that, despite Applejack's spectacular failure to raise bits for that hip surgery. It also had him claiming that he doesn't turn ponies to stone, and people have pointed out that this isn't so much a moral stand as going against everything chaos is... then the season 9 finale happened. Face it, the show's continuity and internal logic are a joke, with people like us as the punchline. (And this is true even when we aren't talking about Discord, but that's a different discussion)
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Without harmony then chaos couldn't exist, and I'm sure he could find a loophole for his new friends. We don't have to treat Discord like he's an immovable ideal when we've seen on multiple occasions that he's actually a sentient being capable of reasoning.
Fairly sure my OC Kitsumi Nova wouldn't have had this issue, short of the tentacle thing is what's waiting for Midnight in her homeworld. Heck, what they should have done was to go have a look at Starswirl's notes on the mirrors he created and set up a mirror that opens in the same dimension that has a base frequency that matches Midnight's base frequency. No going back to try to stop Starlight Glimmer. Nor is it needed. Return Midnight to her original timeline and the only thing she is going to see that's different is that Starlight Glimmer will have vanished. In order for Glimmer's foray into the past to have affected the original timeline, the change must be part of history. If the change is not part of history, Starlight Glimmer has just popped herself into a doomed timeline unless she somehow manages to save the world herself.
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I can't tell if this is ironic or if you're being serious, that worries me
Yeah maybe in the next attempt, have discord magic away the hentai demon. If he gives any crap, remind him that it was his screw up that trapped midnight here, be sure to have flutter butter on speed dile if he's being stubborn
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*Breaks down door*
You’re hereby arrested for being the secondary suspect of sabotaging the spell in the name of your shipping games. The main suspect is the judge, but we can’t arrest them, so we have to do with you instead. Prepare your defenses for the cute owl we dressed up as a judge…
Jokes aside, due to your mini series in the comment section, I subconsciously suspected Cadence for sabotaging the spell, so that Midnight would stick around for the shipping games. Surprised you didn’t write that. XD
Since when is "I am fine" = not dead yet?
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This is priceless 👍
Good one mate!
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Pretty sure that was the not fun hentai demon, the fun ones are always welcome ~♡
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And winning or losing arguments and situations!
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To true, it's like towards the end they got lazy and wanted it to end badly...
Good Fimfiction is fixing it ever since
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To be fair... He has the biggest heat resistance...
Also... Poor Spike...
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Since always.
If you are good enough to breath you are good enough to kill the enemy.
Don't worry about me. I'm fine.
🦉 Who?
It's me, Spike!
🦉 Who?
Can't you say anything else?
🦉 Who-hoo!
Lousy one-dimensional character.
Love the comment section
This chapter and the two prior inspired my newest Cynder story in development. Now I wonder how I ended up with Pinkie and Cozy Glow being sisters...