I Always Win

Two Ponies With One Snap

Chapter 2

Discord stretches, yawning grouchily, as he wakes to some outside annoyance or other. He tentatively opens a yellow, red pupiled eye as he grunts at the current inconvenience. If all had been as it was before he had fallen asleep, he would have been peering out his window, peering down from his comfortable (to an extent, bland as it was) room in the castle.

On the contrary he found himself transported outside of his quarters, and his bed balanced at the tip of a tower's spire. And overlooking the palace grounds below, he could not help but think how high of an elevation he was at. Never let it be said that the Lord of Chaos is afraid of heights, but this was not the scenery he had expected after rising....

How Exactly did anypony manage to poof me up here? You can't even see this roof from the ground!

Discord looks around him, the sky is still a dark shade attributed to the night sky, but hints of pink and a lighter purple reveal the time, a few hours off from dawn.

When I get my my claws on the wise-stallion that did this...! He scrambles to his feet and into the air, curling his fists with every plan he hatched to seek his retribution upon the soon-to-be miserable pony.

He would take great joy in that, but as unamused as Discord was, he sought to calm himself, knowing he wouldn't get anywhere with his anger, he had bigger fish to fry.

At least I know I haven't been sleep magicking again.

He poofs the bedding away before it tumbles down the long distance to the courtyard below, not that he cared it it hit anypony, but he didn't want any passers by to hope he had been flattened into a pancake. He would not give the prankster the satisfaction, he had not entirely dismissed the thought of seeking payback.

Discord flies down, in search of an entrance, before spotting an open window some distance below him. He descends carefully, keeping on the alert for the guards Celestia and Luna kept handy.

I can't imagine why, they don't actually guard anything, and besides looking impressive, they don't serve any real purpose.

Discord swiftly glides through said entrance and finds a foothold on the ceiling,taking the liberty to scan the halls. He would find the pony responsible for his foul morning, and see to it that justice was served. He had never let a pony off the hook for tricking him, and he didn't intend to start now, even if he had to use patience all day, so intent was he to find the ones behind the consideration he received most undeservingly.

At least, he would have been had he not come muzzle to muzzle Celestia. What Discord had not accounted for was the princess waiting for his re-entry via this particular window. He hadn't heard her hoofprints approaching, as absorbed as he was in his own scheme, but then she probably used her magic. Discord curses himself for his foolishness, of course Celestia would keep tabs on him! he'd never trusted him, so why should she start now?

"Good morning Discord!" She smiles.

"It is a curious thing for one to stand on the ceiling, would you mind stepping down?" Celestia questions the disorderly being teasingly.

"I'm afraid not, Tia dear. I like my present standing, and no amount of bargaining will convince me otherwise." Discord replies nonchalantly, selecting his words carefully as his ears twitch slightly.

Luna just so happened to come into the room at that moment. Unlike her sister, her hooves echoed within the corridors, while Celestia had thought nothing of it, as it was a common background noise, Discord recognized just who was coming forth from the shadows of the early morning.