Creating A Hive

The Discord Continuum

Discord sneezed.

Morgan snickered as she walked up to his bedside. Or rather, bubble-side. "We were gone, for two days." She noted. "Two whole days. And you couldn't help yourself."

He blew out into a tissue. "Oh shut up."

Morgan kept on snickering. She took a seat by the bubble, pulling a book out from her Bag. Rudimentary Inter-Dimensional Science & You. She cracked it open to a bookmarked page.

Yes Discord had indeed come to Ponyville for a visit. The timing had been off. Fluttershy had left to study Breezies, a rare animal that had rarely been seen before. Morgan and her family had left to go visit the Hive, and Morgan and Darcy had gone to train Lilac. The kids stayed with Thorax, the other changelings loved meeting new people.

In Ponyville, Twilight and Cadance had agreed to meet. How unfortunate that Discord had gotten 'sick', and needed the tender care of a friend. And in an effort to heal himself, he not only brought Twilight closer to Cadance but got himself sick.

Fluttershy returned, tending to the draconequus.

The Stardust family returned to openly laugh at him.

Discord tossed away the used tissue. It vanished back into the ether. "Morgan!" He whined.

A glass of water floated towards his quarantine bubble. It went to a small flap. Discord pushed it open to grab the glass.

Morgan hummed. "You're welcome, Discord."

Discord gulped down the drink, sighing in relief. "Hmm?"

She chuckled softly, turning the page in her book.

"What brings you by this late at night?" Discord pondered. "Fluttershy would be more than happy to care for me."

"That girl needs to rest too. All that time studying Breezies then back here caring for you? I reckon she needs a break from all this." Morgan countered. "So I offered to cover the night shift."

"Are you neglecting sleep again?" Discord chided, giggling as he took a sip of the water.

Morgan kept herself occupied on her book.

"You always did have a fondness for bags." Discord commented.

"They go with my hair." Morgan remarked, turning another page.

Discord hummed, appraising his friend. In her human form, it was easy to spot where she was lacking. They bags under her eyes were big and heavy. She wasn't reading as fast as she normally could. Discord was well aware of when Morgan was putting on strain. It had been useful, back when he was evil.

"Was this you trying to get her a key?" Morgan prompted.

Discord harrumphed. He turned on his side in the magic bubble. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

A lot of there conversations tended to go this way. Yes there was a lot of back and forth, something that would make any viewer fear for the state of their universe. They would have much debate on the nature of the universe itself. How it worked here, in what Morgan called 'Animation land'. They debated the physics of it- Morgan did so love hearing about the deactivation of their gravity.

They spoke of some of Discord's questionable ethics, alongside Morgan's own. Hos Discord had been shown to manipulate minds, however small a matter that looked to the outside it meant a lot to Morgan. Morgan spoke for a long time about the many times that happened on Equestria soil, that gave her disquiet. They spoke about things they would do- not that they would, on the basis of being caught and having to correct themselves, but they talked...and they wondered.