Title:           Chapter 17: A Carousel of Chaos
Author:          CookieSfh
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First Edit:      Wednesday 14th of September 2016 05:57:05 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Monday 19th of September 2016 08:52:32 PM CDT

>You walk up to Diamond and control yourself the best you can.
>Diamond reflexively flinches as you grab her by the hoof. "WHA-"
>Before she can finish, you pull her into your embrace.
>You've been hugging a lot of stuff recently.
>With as much rage as she can muster, she speaks. "What... In the world... Do you think you're doing?"
"You need to calm down. It is physically hurting you to speak."
>"Calm down... CALM DOWN?! I'LL SHOW YOU HOW TO CALM DOWN!"
>Diamond opens her jaw wide and claps down on your muzzle.
>She was expecting you to let go from the pain, but you can't feel it.
>Though you're having a really hard time trying not to outright pulverize her.
>If you're going to live here, you need to show restraint.
"Can you let go of my muzzle?"
>Diamond only growls at you and bites harder.
>Meanwhile Silver has gone deathly silent, backing away slowly.
"I am only asking you to let go."
>"WEHH WAYBE YOU HOULD WET GO!"
"But then you'd keep hurting yourself."
>"I HON'T HARE!"
>"Uhm... Diamond?"
>"WUH ISH IH HIHER?!"
>Silver points towards you, looking completely terrified from... something.
>Diamond, preoccupied as she is, looks up past your eyes, causing her pupils to dilate.
>She quickly let's go of your muzzle and slowly backs away from your grasp, causing you to let go of her. "D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-"
"Is something wrong Diamond?"
>The both of them scream simultaneously as a shadow slowly looms over you. "DISCORD! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
>And with that, the two take off, running towards the school in a fit of hysterics.
>You look up and see that it is indeed, Discord.
>"Hahahahahaha! That never~ gets old..." Discord looks at you with his usual mischievous grin and wraps himself around you. "By the looks of it, my son has been very naughty, tisk tisk tisk."
"What do you mean?"
>"Oh Anon~ if only you weren't so DENSE!" Discord picks your body up and throws it across the land like a baseball.
>Before you can react to save yourself, Discord pops up to you mid-flight. "Cmon! It's literally right in front of you!"
>What does he mean by-GNGHFG
>An audible thud is heard as a crater is made in a nearby mountain, the cracks lingering ever so slightly as your momentum is lost.
>Is he planning something?
>Discord face palms and teleports directly in front of you, clearly displeased. "I've honestly never met a pony so dense it effects them physically as well, but given the circumstances I suppose 'you' know all too well."
>Fixing yourself and relocating a few bones, you look at Discord.
"I have no idea what you are talking about. Why did you just toss me into a mountain?"
>Discord's cringe intensifies as he wipes his face off with his claw, literally. "Hello! Anyone in there!?"
>Discord begins to beat your head with his paw, all the while talking to you with his hand-face.
>You don't exactly know what he's implying at the moment, but this is starting to get slightly annoying.
"Stop hitting me."
>"What? I didn't quite catch that, mind speaking louder for me?" Discord takes out what looks like a copper cylinder and points the large end towards your direction.
"Erm... stop hitting me."
>"What? What was that Anon?"
>OK... Now you're starting to feel it.
>Your eyes begin to pulsate with energy as tentacles start to form in varying degrees of length and size.
>And with a swift movement, you grab a hold of Discord, causing him to choke on his next few words.
>But surprisingly, Discord just smirks. "That's... more... like it." And with what looks like what little force he can muster from your monster grip, he snaps his claw-face together, causing a blinding light to engulf the both of you.
>At least, that's what you think the giant flurry of rainbows and auras are.
>Your enhanced vision can't deal with all these colors.
>Refocusing, you notice that you're not in Equestria anymore.
>Far from it.
>Looking around, it appears that you are floating in a dimensional space-time with a multitude of keys, locks, sprockets, and gears all working their way through the chaotic spectrum.
>And it all leads to a center, a control of sorts.
>But why would i-YARGHDH
>"Whoops, forgot you could see those." Discord has 'you' in his grasp.
>Your eyes that is.
>Your body feels nothing, but your eyes are burning from the new touch.
>Discord quickly tosses 'you' into his mouth and gargles.
>This feels... so... nggghh
>You don't want to feel this feel anymore.
>Your body is reluctantly reacting to your current predicament, causing your tentacles to distort and misshapen, which allows Discord to become free from your grasp.
>Discord finishes and spits your eyes out into his paw and slaps them into your face, causing you to regain yourself.
"Nngggh... fuck..."
>Discord's grin cannot be more clear. "So that's where all your bite went, but enough about that, because I have something very special for you, my dear son."
"Urgh... what is it?"
>Fuck your eyes feel weird.
"Well, if you must know, I, the great and chaotic Discord himself! Will show you the meaning of CHAOS!" Land forms from under him, creating a sort of staircase with each set standing two Discord's with trumpets blaring with noise.
>The sounds eventually end with Discord standing triu-pathedically atop a golden throne. "Well, Anonymous? Care to join me on the careless journey to have some reckless chaos!?"
"I think I'd rathe-"
>"Excellent choice! And I promise you, you won't regret it."
>You suppose Discord doesn't take no for an answer.
>But this means you're going to break Twilight's rule.
>You'll just have to explain it to her when this is all over.
"Hmm... what is this 'chaos' I am going to receive?"
>"Oh silly Anon, you can't just 'receive' chaos, unrealistically speaking, you have to embrace it!" Discord extends his claw over to an empty space, which then turns into a distortion, and then into a portal back to Equestria. "And besides, there's nothing like spending time with your ol'pop!" Discord gives you an encouraging nudge towards the portal as you get a closer look at what awaits you.
>Though you don't recognize the location, you don't see anything that could spell impending doom.
>You step through the portal and wonder what this supposed 'chaos' will ensue.
>Discord is certainly excited for it.
>Stepping through the portal, you find yourself on the roof of a house.
>Discord follows suit, closing the portal behind him and takes in the air around him. "Ah! Canterlot! As smug and obnoxious as always~." Discord turns to you and gives you the widest grin he can muster. "Now, what I want you to do Anon, is to take that tiny little pony over there-" Discord re-positions you to look at what he's referencing.
>A random stallion with a monocle and suit walks through the streets, unaware of Discord's plot. "-and cover him in hundreds of bits."
"Cover them in... bits? Why?"
>"Tis just a trial my dear boy! Just to see how much chaos you have in that noggin of yours." This time, Discord lightly taps your head, alluding to the chaos inside of you.
>Bits were those coins used for currency as far as you know.
>You wonder how Honesty is doing.
>Focusing on the stallion for a few moments, you try to summon those hundreds of bits Discord was thinking of, but nothing comes as he simply strolls through and sits on a nearby bench to read a paper.
>"No no no, you gotta do it like this!" Discord snaps his claw, causing a pile of bits to appear on the roof. "See! No thinking or focusing, you just have to know what to do. Now you try it."
>Hmm... just know what to do?
>What is that supposed to mean?
>You know how to summon your powers, don't you?
~Discord talks of one. Your powers are four, your use of three, with magic~
>You mean there was one I haven't used?
~J?us?t? a?s? ?t?he ot?h?er?s?, thi?n?k ?no?t ?of? ?i?t~
>If it works I suppose.
>You walk to over to the ledge of the building to get a view the stallion, eyeing him over.
>And after a quick clasp of your hooves, it surprisingly works.
>A sensation of shock goes through you and out your hooves, causing multitudes of bits to fall onto the pony.
>Discord's grin intensifies as he stares on at the pony, who is now being crowded by hoards of greed-ridden bystanders.
>Some ponies take out a few bits, but throw them away realizing they're fake.
>Others attempt to loot from the pile, but get stuck as the bits ooze onto them like adhesive.
>A few others try their hooves, but recoil at the bits as they implode and distort into tiny golden soldiers, which then chase the ponies using their tiny spears and fake firearms.
>"Hahahha! Excellent work my boy, for your first try of chaos that is, but it needs a bit more oomph! More pizazz!" Discord snaps his claw once again, making the bits he made, as well as your own in the streets disappear.
>Discord creates the portal to the other dimension, motioning you inside. "If you will, We still have much to do today!"
"What is the point of all this?"
>You are honestly confused as to why you did such a random act to that pony, but Discord waves you off dismissively.
>"Oh dear Anonymous~ there's no point in chaos, and what kind of father would I be if I didn't even show my own son how to have some fun here and there hmm?" You swear he is up to something, but you have no clue what he is implying.
>But, if he can help you with this new power like they have with theirs... you will not argue.
>And it appears he has a more finite idea of chaos than what they could explain to you.
>More than subconscious understanding.
>You go through the portal with Discord and it closes behind the both of you, leaving you on a piece of land with a... house?
>There 'are' windows and doors, but...
>The house is distorted to the point where it appears that nothing could traverse or even imagine what is inside.
>And whenever a random window or door on the distorted house opens, raw chaotic energies spew out with varying effects and sounds.
>Discord flexes his body as a once-over, twisting into nonexistence and opening one of the doors from the inside. "Come now my son, this is where the true testing begins!"
>Discord snaps his paw and teleports you into his grasp, before pulling you into the impossibly small doorway with him.
>Miraculously, your body is able to fit and squeeze through.
>Discord lays you on the jelly-filled floor as you look around.
>The whole entire room is filled to the brim with jelly, with the only part not covered being the center.
>While you observe your surroundings, Discord meanwhile, has dawned a sort of outfit that you'd see most women wearing.
"Uh Discord? What are we doing?"
>He swoops his claw down into the jelly and takes a syringe from no where in particular and stabs it into your muzzle. "My you're persistent with the questions, but all you have to do is relax. I promise it won't hurt a bit."
>The syringe says otherwise.
>The pain causes you to wince as tentacles form a reflexive defense, but Discord disappears before any measures can be made.
>The syringe pushes itself into you before you or your appendages can react and pull it out.
>You're not sure if that device is supposed to go that far inside your head, but nonetheless, Discord is gone.
"Ergh... Discord, where did you go?"
>"Oh don't worry Anon, just doing a little spring cleaning!" Did... did his voice just come from inside of you?
"Discord, I suggest you sto-ERRRRRRAGGDGAGAHGAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAHAHGGFUFUFUFUCYZZZZHZGZGZGZGZGZGG!"
>Your head feels like it was just hammered to mush. "Sorry about that! I might have accidentally touched a nerve or two!"
"Ngh... Discord, get the fuck out of my-ZZZZGZHZHG-In today's news, Discord the greatest draconequus to ever exist causes mass hysteria and loss of sides as more and more Anons are bein-BZGGZGZGZGZHHZGZGHRRRAAAGAGAHGG GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
>Losing your senses and motor controls, you begin to lose your balance, and the soft rubbery surface you're standing on isn't helping in the slightest.
>"Alright! Just a few more tweaks and we'll be spotless! Now hold still!"
"Oh you've gotta be-EEEERREEAGAGAHAGAAÀAAAAAAHAHAHAHHGGGHGGHHFHFFGGHFHHGGGIDHSOQHRIFHXBXLSBEISGJXEGUWITHRIXHEUHDJXOZNAPWHEUYWOWBFICNNXOAVDUGEHWOAJWVDBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZT."
>Falling to the ground, you see Discord materialize out of thin air, wearing the nurse's outfit and a confident smile. "Well Anon? Anything you want to say? Anything at all?"
>Getting off from the gelatin and adjusting yourself, you muster the only words that can come to mind at the moment.
"... I fucking hate you."
>Wait... hate?
>Have you ever used that word before?
>Discord looks at your perplexed face and scoffs. "My Anon, such language! I should have Twilight ground you for that one."
"Err... what have you done to me?"
>Discord adjusts his collar and makes the doctor uniform disappear. "Oh a little tinkering here and there, a few well needed adjustments, and a kick in the brain to make it last. Nothing a little chaotic juice can't fix."
"Hrrrm... and that means?"
>"What it means is, whatever things that weren't working right in your fabricated chaotic body are now working. Mmm... I know! Let's get some faces in order."
"Faces?"
>"Yes, Anon. That neutral expression you have just kills the mood of all the chaos we could bring~ so we're going to fix that. Here, try this." Discord scrunches up his face, looking like a filly that's been touched on her nose a bit too much.
>You reluctantly follow suit and... you think your doing it?
>Your facial muscles you never knew you had are contorting, in a way.
>Discord crunches his body in two, forming a mirror through his body and...
>That's you. Scrunched up.
>This is weird.
>"Excellent work, now I want to see your excited face." He now has the grin and huge sparkling eyes that would kinda match Elune's when she wanted to tear something to shreds.
>Looking in the mirror, you contort your face, making a somewhat huge grin, which shows your now sharp as razors teeth from all the head distortions, along with your radiant ruby eyes.
>Discord looks pleased, clasping his arms together. "Perfect! now, do exactly what I do..." The mirror is swiftly consumed by his body and absorbs into him as he grows in height, his eyes burn a fierce red and fire consumes most of the once clear jelly room.
>You hope this material isn't flammable.
>With a shacked jaw and his claws to his side's, he laughs. "AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAH!" The shear volume was daunting in of itself, but it looked like Discord was really trying his best to sell whatever act he was pulling off.
>As Discord finished laughing, you were completely stunned.... with confusion.
>The jelly floor has gone back to normal and Discord's monstrous stature has shrunk back to his normal self. "Ah, nothing like getting a good laugh out before enacting chaos upon the world." Discord then turns to you. "Think you got what it takes to pull 'that' off m'boy?"
>Hmmm... you're starting to doubt why you're doing this in the first place.
>All of this going about doing random stuff to random ponies, then doing even more random stuff at an unimaginable pace.
>Maybe he has a reason for not telling you anything?
>Perhaps, you can humor him, until he gets to the plot of it that is.
>Mimicking his actions, you will your body to a monstrous size, causing the jelly around you to change into luminous nothing.
>Tentacles, eyes, faces, mouths, and other unnameable appendages slowly rise out from under you as they all form a wide grin.
>And like a chorus of a thousand dead souls, you laugh, causing the entire structure you are in to collapse in disorder.
>Discord seems to have formed a defensive barrier as physical sound-waves boom from your orchestra of chaos.
>The land beneath you crumbles and wakes, turning into even more disassembled heads of distorted creatures, which join the comical release of your voice.
>The house has fallen into it's own conundrum, distorting all over the space around you, failing to find freedom in the empty space it now occupies.
>You finally finish the act with slight crazed chuckles as your now dismembered form bellows under, flooding into the ground underneath you and then shooting itself back into your body.
>Calming yourself, you look at Discord, who is...
>Wow... he's actually trembling.
>The shield he made looks like it was almost about to shatter, and his whole body has turned a pale white.
>But it doesn't last long, as a new Discord has come out of nothing to shatter the pale Discord's shield and take a hold of him, which snaps 'your' Discord out of his trance. "Wha-what!? No wait! I can-!" but before he can finish, the new Discord punches him into the distance and into another portal into nothing, quickly closing as he enters it. "Pssh, amateurs..."
"Discord? Wait... what?"
>Discord looks at you and forms the most happiest grin he can muster, quickly teleporting to your front and picking you up with a bear hug. "Oh I knew I picked the right one for the job!"
>Hmm... it... seems like Discord.
>He did say that you don't have to think about chaos.
>You just won't think about it.
>But you will get to the point.
"Discord, are you going to tell me what this is all for? I appreciate you awakening new powers within me, but I do not understand why you would do this. What is going on?"
>Discord looks at you skeptically, but waves you off. "Oh Anon, you're thinking way too into this. What I am trying to do is give you a good firm definition of the word 'chaos' before we can actually do some, well... CHAOS! And what have you learned thus far?"
"Umm... that you are random in your choosing of actions?"
>"Excellent deduction ol'sport, but instead of thinking of me, think of the word 'chaos'." The words come out of Discord's mouth and flash sporadically like one of those broken Las Vegas signs you've past by a few times too many. "Where there is harmony and order, there is chaos and disorder. A yin and yang if you will, and you know all too well that if either side is tilted just slightly in the wrong direction, 'everything' goes out the window."
>Hmmm... he was correct.
>The world you inhabited was filled with chaotic energy with no harmonic flow in existence.
>With a world that easy to manipulate, there would be no telling what would happen if it was the other way around.
>Discord hovers over to you and pats you on the head. "And you, my dear Anonymous, are filled to the brim with unimaginable amounts of chaos that even I struggle to comprehend." getting out a microscope, he looks intently at all the features of your body. "I'm even surprised myself that you didn't spawn as some sort of amalgamation of sorts, pretty lucky if I would say so myself."
"I believe the ones will my body to be it's physical parallel, to avoid unnecessary conflict, but is it really that surprising that I have power?"
>"Careful Anon, your dense is showing, and that is not what I'm referring to." Discord claps his limbs together, summoning a sort of animated scale out of nothing. "Let's say this little bar all-the-way down here, is a regular being. No special power or anything of the sort, just physical strength and nothing else. Now..." Discord moves his claw up to one of the middle bars. "Here is where your average, run-of-the-mill Alicorn would be, a.k.a. your mother."
"Hmm... The middle of the scale? Meaning she is a magical being, but lacks an edge of sorts."
>"Quite. Yes, your dear mother Twilight is but a little mare with little experience under her belt, unlike the two Alicorn princesses of Canterlot, but she is still filled with the magical energy of the land itself, quite formidable they can be." Now Discord moves his claw up the scale, extending it by a few bars all the way up to at least a few extra meters in height. "And hear is where I, the great and chaotic being himself, would be, in terms of raw power, which doesn't result to much, but my chaotic energies make up for the difference."
"That's pretty high... but... where do I land on this 'scale'?"
>Discord takes his paw and ponders for a moment, then teleports down over to you. "Well that's just it, no matter how far I extend this stupid thing, 'you' don't show up anywhere. I've gone and done my research multiple times, but no matter how much time I take to search through it, you just aren't there." Discord swallows the power meter's whole length and looks at you with a quizzical grin. "But, there might just be a way to err... 'estimate' the size of it."
"Estimate the size how exactly?"
>Discord jumps through the air and reaches for a lever from no-where-in-particular. "Why..." The lever contorts and shoots into its slot as it expands into a monstrous size, disappears, then summons what appears to be a... pole of sorts? "-through CHAOS of course!"
>Of course.