- >>You are nothing if not an experiment
- >>The illusion that Dash discovered you in this new world was a pre-planned event
- >>Anonymous has yet to actually confront Celestia
- >>Yet to actually contrast and compare the old world from the new
- >>As far as you know, this world is new, and it is poison
- >>Your memories of your past life are second long epiphanies at best, which you struggle to regain but >>lose completely by night
- >>Celestia doesn't trust you
- >>And she has good reason
- >>You watched from a distance as the Elements of Harmony failed
- >>For all of the fanfare they receive, they were a spectacular dud from where you sat
- >>You were not there to witness the corruption of those who you consider to be your friends
- >>You do not know the full story behind this
- >>But what you DO know is that this IS Discord
- >>And that Celestia has called upon you, Anonymous
- >>Why, exactly? You do not know
- >>What can you do in the face of a God?
- >>But Celestia calls, and you answer
- >>When you met her, she carried herself with such grace and power
- >>You can do nothing else but obey
- >>And so you stand before Discord, who looks upon you with a measure of delight from his devilish throne
- >>He cackles. It is low at first but quickly evolves into this snarky guffaw that you cannot tolerate
- >>“Oh, oh ho! This is rich. Her Elements of Harmony failed, and Twilight Sparkle's oh-so-precious 'magic of friendship!' ended up being a dud!”
- >>He was expressionate, you had to give him that. Moving with his speech. It made him all the more dislikable
- >>“And so... and so~! Hahaha! She calls on a, a... HUMAN!”
- >>He falls out of his seat and rocks back and forth on his devilish body
- >>Why aren't you scared?
- >>You are only human. You are not some badass. In all things, you know fear.
- >>His head was that of a goat, crowned with the antlers of a mountain ram and a doe. His body was long and serpentine, with the midsection being covered by a brown layer of fur, or feathers. You cannot tell.
- >>He possessed undersized wings, one of a bad and one of a dove. He had the limbs of a lion, an eagle, an ass, and a skink.
- >>But Celestia knows humans better than you think she does
- >>She forces a digital display reading 6:59am into your mind
- >>You fear whatever world lays behind that far more than you fear Discord's physical appearance
- >>Like a gun to your back, at any instant the six can flip to a seven, and the fifty nine can flip to two zeroes
- >>And once that happens, you will never see your bro again
- >>That keeps you standing where you stand
- >>Discord, breaking through his debilitating laughter, finally, wipes a tear from his abysmal eye
- >>“But I DO have to hand it to Celestia! Bringing a human to Equestria? I say, what a bold move”
- >>He chuckles. You remain silent, wondering what exactly you are doing
- >>“Oh, dear. So, My Little Human, how did the old bat manage to tame you? Your people are so far lacking any sort of harmony! Must have been like house training a dog.”
- >>You furrow your eyebrows, taking offense.
- >>But you remain silent. You are a man of few words.
- >>He... it... slithers up to you, curls around your legs, and rears its nasty goat-head over you
- >>He examines you, wanting to see a human being up close
- >>Discord, perhaps, admires humans. But this thought is well out of your mind at the moment
- >>Every fiber in your body screams at you to run
- >>To flee, to survive. It is what humans are good at
- >>But, unbeknownst to you, Celestia prods you from behind
- >>“...Still, I can't blame her. I have taken away everything that she once held. She has no property left.”
- >>“Except you.”
- >>He chuckles, barely able to hold it in as he derpfaces
- >>“And... haha, YOU'RE her last line of defense. Hahaha! Well, time to show her that she possesses nothing which I cannot take away.”
- >>He cackles madly, lowering a single digit from his lion-like paw down on you
- >>Your brows furrow, and you begin to boil with hatred
- >>Not for the way he has spoken to you, not so much
- >>But for what he has taken from this world
- >>What he has done to your friends
- >>Celestia manipulates you. She pulls the strings to her puppet, not that you know that.
- >>His claw touches you
- >>And, at that second, there is a static discharge that forces his hand away
- >>He recoils, whipping his hand up and down on his wrist before putting his finger in his mouth
- >>“Yeouch!”
- >>Celestia, too, recoils. From wherever she is operating, from wherever she is pulling the strings, she is cast out of your mind
- >>But fear is a powerful thing. The dreaded six, five, and nine remain
- >>It lingers the whole way through
- >>Empowered by a mysterious zeal, your left hand rockets up to his beard and grips
- >>You yank him down to your level
- >>“What the?”
- >>Your right hand rears to just below your shoulder, and you swing your weight forward
- >>Dental appointment
- >>Before he can comprehend what's happening, an uppercut rockets into his jaw and knocks his lanky body through the air where it lands in a heap
- >>The long, sharp tooth that jutted from his upper lip shunts into the ground next to him, and there is a bloody patch where it once decorated his face
- >>Discord runs his hand along his jaw line and senses that he is broken. He looks up.
- >>You are already on top of him
- >>He lifts a hand to attempt a spell, but you know better
- >>You've fought unicorns before
- >>With lightning speed you rake your hand to one of his antlers and yank him straight up
- >>His spell falters
- Fight me
- >>You throw a right cross into his long face, rattling his ancestors through his face
- Come on
- >>You whip him around, yanking him by his antler and throwing a right hook into his jaw
- >>The impacts of your fists against his body give resounding, bombastic thuds
- >>But that doesn't last long
- >>You throw your fist into his eye, driving your body behind it
- >>The bone around his eye socket cracks with a sickening splutch of flesh
- >>You carelessly throw him by his antler straight down into the checkered floor, not caring if the force of the impact concussed his brain case. If he had one.
- That's pathetic.
- >>Discord slithered back up, and even with his face as wrecked as it was, all it took was a snap of his fingers before he was restored
- >>He picks up his tooth manually and rams it back into his gum
- >>“Hah, I get it now. I can't corrupt you because you're Human”
- >>He eyes you with a mixture of amusement and disdain
- >>“You're already corrupt beyond all hope. So you're Celestia's silver bullet, huh?”
- >>He chortles to himself, and then brings his lion's paw to bear. An array of scythe-like claws emerge from the fingers
- >>“Alright, then. Let's see what you can do.”
- >>In your mind you can feel a pull. Something is telling you to run away
- >>Celestia is telling you to withdraw
- >>Your role in this play is done
- >>Twilight has restored her friend's memories, and they were on their way
- >>But you did not know that, and you did not care
- >>For the moment, Celestia has lost control
- >>And this terrifies her
- >>Discord lunges at you. He was like lightning, swiping his clawed hand at you
- >>But you are experienced, either from this life or your past
- >>You are smaller than him
- >>You dart in, juking the swipe and throwing a fast half-uppercut with your left hand
- >>You vastly favor your right, but the left was closer and had less distance to travel
- >>Discord is mildly annoyed, and like a biblical serpent he hisses and lashes out at you with his eagle claw from the right
- >>Dukes up, sway low, slop to the outside
- >>He overshoots you
- >>You throw your hip clockwise and drive a left hook into his nose
- >>“Gaagh!”
- >>He can bitch and moan all he wants. You possess an arcane knowledge that this world only scarcely knows of
- >>You are the premier scientist in your given field
- >>Fighting
- >>He employs his tail, which you have been foolish to ignore until now
- >>He catches you in a snare, and wraps his long, powerful body around you
- >>Celestia does everything she can to regain control of you
- >>He constricts you, laughing maniacally as he does so
- >>He can feel your body giving way under his strength
- >>Celestia can, as well
- >>You bang your fist against his body to little effect, you are growing short on air
- >>“Hahahaha!” he screams that fucking Q-esque laugh
- >>Victory is in his reach
- >>You, the 'champion' of Celestia, are seconds away from combustion from the pressure bearing down on you
- >>On a final gambit, your hand rockets to his antler once again, and gets a grip
- >>“Wha-wha?!”
- >>You pull his head and invert it. He is alarmingly easy to manipulate when you get him by the antlers
- >>You tug with all your strength, driving his ivory horns into his own body
- >>He screams like a million year old dragon would be expected to
- >>His grip loosens on you as he scrambles over himself, a knot of flesh and fur and scales thrumming in outrageous pain
- >>Free from his grasp, you make your move
- >>You stomp your shoe down upon his head
- >>Then again
- >>And again
- >>The antler breaks, freeing his head, leaving the jagget bony appendage tangled in his body
- >>His spine is all sorts of messed up
- >>His organs punctured in more than one place
- >>You grip his head, staring at him coldly
- >>Discord wants to be a smartass?
- >>He wants to see why you're worth anything? Why humanity is worth anything?
- >>You throw a right cross into his face
- >>Crack, there goes his snout
- >>You lay into him with another cross
- >>You love your right, it's so powerful
- >>Another
- >>And another
- >>Crack, crack
- >>His bones are like peanut brittle to you
- >>He is covered in his own chaos-born blood
- >>It bubbles, it feels like acid to you
- >>It burns
- >>But it doesn't stop you
- >>It sizzles against your flesh
- >>But you are liking this
- >>Again, and again, you lay into him with cross after cross, each time driving your knuckles further and further into his cranial anatome
- >>You are curious, like a scientist
- >>What does it look like in there?
- >>Let's find out
- >>Crack, crack, crack
- >>A smile creases your lips
- >>Then a smirk
- >>And then a psychotic grin
- >>He underestimated you
- >>And now you have power over him.
- >>You don't even notice the individual punches any more, you just watch as he has less and less of a face left
- >>You are a human jackhammer
- >>Although the thought does not cross your mind, yet, you COULD succeed Discord as the God of... Discord
- >>But it does cross Celestia's mind
- >>It crosses Celestia's mind the entire time
- >>A magical aurora engulfs you
- >>There is a flash of light, and then blackness
- >>That night you congratulate Twilight, Rainbow, and all of their friends for defeating Discord
- >>Twilight wonders why Discord made no effort to stop her from restoring her friend's memories
- >>But you wouldn't know. You weren't there
- >>Celestia made sure that's what you believed
- >>After the celebration, you settle down for a well deserved slumber
- >>Your memories of that fight had been totally wiped
- >>No one knows, not even you
- >>But Celestia knows
- >>Celestia knows that she fucked her experiment up
- >>For as terrifying as Discord was, and is, for just one nanosecond you were more so
- >>Human nature is not something that Celestia fully appreciated
- >>Modifications need to be made to her pet project
- >>This is the first night that you feel it
- >>As you drift to the land of dreams, you feel an intangible force picking at your mind
- >>Given the effectiveness of your fear in keeping you in line, the image of your alarm clock set to 6:59am dominates your dreams
- >>You toss, and you turn
- >>But the struggle doesn't stop the memories of your past life from being extracted, analyzed for relevance, and destroyed
- >>You WILL be Celestia's little human
- >>And you WILL be happy
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The Story That Never Was - Chapter 9
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