Me and My Daughters

Startling Discoveries

Celestia's mind was in complete turmoil. The morning had started like any other—she had woken up, taken a shower, and put on her regalia, just like her usual routine—but she hadn't noticed that she had woken up as a MOTHER! A mother, of all things! Celestia had held numerous titles over the years—Princess, Teacher, and even Warrior—but never, in her many years of life, had she been a mother.

She still couldn't figure out what in Faust's name had happened. Celestia thought back to the night before. She'd lowered the sun, had dinner with Luna, and then gone to sleep— nothing out of the ordinary! Yet somehow, she had woken up with two little fillies who called her 'mom.'

Celestia sighed deeply, remembering the worried looks on Twilight's and Luna's faces before she passed out; they surely were still worried. What a mother I am, leaving those little troublemakers without supervision... She chuckled at her own thoughts before realizing exactly what she had thought. Wait, I'm not their mother! Whatever spell is going on here is messing with my thoughts. I need to keep it together!

She needed to figure out what exactly had happened first. The spell had affected reality, which meant that everyone else should have had a new set of memories, thus affecting their minds. Celestia gasped in realization; she only knew one type of magic powerful enough to alter ponies' thoughts at mass scale.

"Discord!" she exclaimed. As she planned how to find the elusive draconequus, she was interrupted by a loud popping sound, and a bright light signaling a teleportation. After the light died out, she could clearly see the aforementioned Spirit of Chaos sitting daintily on a pink cotton candy cloud.

"Did you call, dear Celestia?" Discord asked, floating over the distressed princess, who was calming herself to avoid doing something regrettable. "Oh, did I do Something wrong?" he asked, oblivious to Celestia's predicament.

"Discord! I know what you did! You'll have to turn Twilight and Luna back immediately!" The monarch growled as she stood up from her bed, glaring directly at Discord's eyes.

"But my dearest Princess, I don't even know what you are talking about. I didn't do anything to Twilight, much less to Luna," he explained, dispelling the cloud with a snap of his fingers, before finding himself against a wall with Celestia's horn pointing threateningly at him.

"Discord, I do not appreciate being toyed with, Now tell me what you did," Celestia growled, as Discord laughed nervously, escaping from his compromising position floating above the distressed Princess.

"Celestia, I was with Fluttershy all day long, I couldn't have done anything," he explained, as Celestia frowned again.

"Prove It!"

Discord sighed exasperatedly; this was becoming more and more boring for him. "Fine. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye..." he said, conjuring a cupcake with his magic before slamming it into his eye. "Is that enough for you?"

Celestia sighed as her magic died out. She knew, according to Twilight's old friendship reports, that a 'Pinkie Promise' was certainly unbreakable, which meant that Discord couldn't be lying about this. "Well, if you didn't do anything, who did?" she asked, sitting on her bed again.

"That's for you to find out," the draconequus replied, smiling smugly at Celestia's confused frown.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked with disdain, watching Discord as he conjured a monocle and a fake moustache.

"Well dear, I might have some idea about who could have done this," he said, floating towards Celestia and caressing her cheek with his paw, "but it's funnier if you figure it out by yourself."