Acesential glared at his news feed. Nothing in his feed looked good; Crime was up, scientists talking about the terrible state of the environment, and worst of all…frivolous celebrity gossip. The world seemed like it was becoming an increasingly unfriendly place. Acesential just sighed and closed the tab; even with all that was happening he knew there wasn’t much he could do about it, he was just one guy after all. But if did have the power to change things, there’d be a lot of things that’d need to change, no doubt about it.
As that thought passed through he brain, his chating app pinged at him with a message from a person he didn’t recognize. Normally, he’d just block unsolicited chat messages, but the username caught his interest. It read, “A Drop of Chaos” and the user had a picture of Discord as their avatar. But something was a bit unusual about it. Rather than it being a screenshot from the show, it looked like a realistic drawing of Discord with a real life backdrop behind him. If Acesential didn’t know any better, he would have thought it was an actual picture of a draconequus. His curiosity overrode his sense of caution and he clicked on the notification.
The chat window popped up and he could finally read the full message.
“Hey there, Ace Face!” the message began, “I heard YOU were frustrated with how things are right now and you wanted to change things. Weeeeell, have no fear! Your lovely dose of chaos is here! Just a little dose of reality warping and your problems will be a thing of the past!”
Ace didn’t buy it.
I mean, it seemed pretty convenient that he was thinking about how bad things are at the moment and now he just happens arrive, claiming he could solve all his problems. Still, he was curious about why this guy was doing this so he decided to humor him.

Ace started to type, “I highly doubt you have the powers to really change things. I mean you’re obviously trying to make me believe you’re actually Discord or something crazy like that. Nice try, A for effort.” Ace knew this was a ploy to appeal to his interests. He didn’t hide the fact that he drew a lot of art of Discord or rather a genderswapped version of him known as Eris, usually doing a lot of chaotic things and altering reality as she saw fit.
This accusation didn’t deter this mysterious person who simply replied, “Well, obviously you’re skeptical. When you live in a world with such boring and ridged rules, it would make anyone skeptical of my fantastical powers. However, it’s clear a demonstration of my powers are necessary.”
As soon as Ace read the last word on his screen, he heard a loud burst behind him, followed by a yawn and a strange almost unsettling sound of several bones snapping. Ace quickly turns around and lets out a silent gasp at what he saw. Floating behind him was the chaos god himself, Discord. It looked exactly like the avatar he saw in his chat window and now seeing him in person. The mix and match entity looked even more uncanny up close. Ace was stunned into silence as Discord scanned his room, slightly bemused with what he saw.
“Hmm, filled to the brim with cute pony stuff…as I suspected!” Discord chuckled as examined the pictures. He snapped in front of a couple of them and the art on them seemed to miraculously change. A picture of Twilight leaping toward the viewer was replaced with a picture of Discord in a tacky looking Hawaiian shirt, looking ready to go on a beach vacation. He snapped again in front of a Princess Celestia picture and she changed from a regal looking majestic piece of art to more like something a grade schooler would draw, complete with drawing outside the lines. He then finished his “renovations” by snapping in front of a picture of the mane 6 which made them go from standing and smiling at the view…to dabbing. Clearly, each change was more horrible than the last.
“Well then,” Discord nodded to himself “as fun as it is redecorating your room a bit, there is a purpose for my visit. You were wanting to change some things around here, correct?”

Ace stared blankly ahead for a few seconds, still processing all the things he did before realizing he was being asked a question. He shook the dumbfounded look off his face and looked up at the strange creature in front of him.

“I uh…I guess so…what exactly did you have in mind? Are you just gonna cause chaos and cause crazy things to start happening?”

Discord recoiled at that question. “What? Me? Oh perish the thought. I won’t be causing chaos today.” Ace wasn’t sure, but he could have sworn Discord mouthed something after that but it was too soft to hear. He raised an eyebrow and tossed a skeptical look at him. Discord not wanting to do chaos was like a vegan that doesn’t want to talk to you about how they’re a vegan.
“No my dear Acesential, I’m afraid this world was not meant for someone like me. It’s much too dreadful and bland for my liking and unfortunately I can only bring so much of my power here on the trip. However…” Discord suddenly puts his large paw on Ace’s shoulder…despite the fact that Discord was directly in front of him. Ace turned around to see Discord leaning in on his shoulder, being just a bit too friendly. He looked back at where Discord had been and sure enough, he wasn’t there anymore. Bizarre.
“…that doesn’t mean I can’t give my power to someone else.” Discord grinned from ear to ear…which is doubly impressive given his ears are on top of his head.
Ace knew he probably shouldn’t trust this guy. Even though he already proved some of his powers to him already, he knew that Discord was a bit of a trickster. Plus, he had no idea whether this Discord was one that was reformed. He was a bit conflicted.
“The power to change things…it’s intoxicating, isn’t it?” Discord whispered into Ace’s ear.

Ace let out a light gasp as he got goosebumps all over his body. His heart rate accelerated, his eyes widened and he felt a butterfly flying around in his stomach. Discord knew exactly what Ace wanted, and damnit, trustworthy or no, he wasn’t about to let this chance slip through his fingers. He had to go for it.
“I…I want to change things, Discord.” Ace stammered out.
Discord smirks and pulls back. “Well then, my dear friend…get ready to begin the first day of the rest of your life” he firmly proclaimed. With a snap of his claw, a large swirling portal appears in front of Ace. The actual portal didn’t seem to have a color in itself. Rather it looked like the room where the portal was had photoshop filters being constantly applied to its surface. A low ominous hum emanated from the bizarre gateway.
“Well now Ace. You can have that power you seek and change the world…all you have to do is enter into my domain and go get it.” Discord stated calmly, munching on a bag that looked like a potato chip bag…though upon inspecting what Discord was pulling out, it seemed like he was actually eating computer RAM instead.
Ace was still in awe of the portal in front of him. Slowly, he stepped closer and closer to it. There was a small part of his mind, nagging at him that this was an ill-advised move, that this was Discord of all beings and that something was going to go badly. But Ace was infatuated with the possibilities the portal could hold and in a bold move, leapt forth into the portal.
As he jumped into the swirling gate, the world he knew for his whole life vanished and it was replaced with a bizarre and unpredictable world filled with animals and objects that look like they couldn’t exist in a normal world of rules and physics. Everything was floating in a colorful void that stretched out for what seemed like a forever and yet also had defined walls both at the same time and yet also neither at the same time either. He was in awe and wonder at this unusual world.
And then he was in pain.
He felt like every cell, every atom in his body was in rebellion. Every part of him was in pain, even areas not connected to his nervous system. The sensations assaulting his being seemed to have no rhyme or reason. One second his whole body felt like it was on fire, another second it felt like he was being stretched to his limit like he was playdoh. In his debilitated state, he barely noticed Discord floating down to gaze at him, sighing with a slightly dismissive tone.
“Yes, that’s right. I forgot to mention something. Being exposed to the true, unfiltered areas of my dimension tends to cause violent reactions within beings who are used to Euclidian existence. But hey, that’s the price of chaotic power!” he proclaimed, a grin on his face.
Ace wanted to respond with a quip of some sort but he soon felt something changing in his physical body. He went to look down at his body, but as he did so, his neck elongated significantly, altering his current view. Dull gray brown fur began to make its way up Ace’s new noodle like neck, getting all the way up to his face where he body alter even more. His jaw yanked forward as his mouth changed. He felt the sensation of someone yanking at his individual teeth, but instead of them falling out, they twisted and reshaped themselves. Soon, his whole mouth got the unintended dental appointment. Using his longer tongue, he felt he had two new fangs, one of which was much larger than the other and they all sat inside a big inhuman muzzle, sitting in front of his face.
His eyes burned and he closed his eyes tightly. Despite him trying shutting his eyes to the world around him, he was still seeing a variety of colors and weird patterns with his eyes closed. Soon the burning stopped and he opened his eyes and saw the world in front of him looked…better? His vision seemed to be able to comprehend the bizarre visuals in front of him and they no longer seemed all that strange. His brain still knew they were impossible but the visuals themselves didn’t throw him for a loop anymore.
As he pondered this new development, two very different bumps seemed to be pushing out of his skull, causing an indescribable headache. One of them pulled back and had several jagged points push out of it, looking very much like a deer antler. The other horn twisted upward looking a bit like a tree, growing out of the ground, give him a prominent goat horn.
The body alterations shot down to below his waist starting at his legs. His pants were in the way of seeing all the changes but he could feel his entire left leg being covered in a thick coat of fur. He was barefoot however and he could see his toes split into two groups, the individual toes melding together, the gaps between them disappearing. They soon hardened as the fur from the leg raced up to meet it, leaving him with a cloven hoof on the end of what used to be his human left leg.
His right leg had other plans however. He felt his right leg getting unusually dry and the colors started to shift to a greener hue. Much like his left leg, he felt some of his toes fusing together to form larger appendages. Unlike his other leg though, he could see one of his toes drifting slowly downward, becoming a vestigial dewclaw, the remaining toes forming the new claws of his lizard leg.
The changes continued down there with a large pressure building down above his butt. He felt like he was pushing something out from his tail bone. His pants were being stretched and he could hear the seams of fabric straining to keep whatever was growing inside his khakis. Ultimately, his pants lost the battle as a loud and definitive rip tore a massive hole in them and a light red dragon tail erupted from his rear, extended out several feet.
His body was already warped and twisted but now he felt his actual torso getting pulled at both ends, leaving his chest looking less human and more like a strange noodle. He also felt a familiar tugging at the back of his shirt and he knew that something was growing back there. His fears were confirmed as two different looking wings tore through his red polo shirt, leaving the backside of the shirt in tatters. His right side wing was a bat wing that was caught on some of the fabric, still being held in the shirt but only barely. His left Pegasus wing on the other hand was entirely free and able to flap without any cloth getting in the way.
He shuddered as he felt a cold icy feeling creeping up his arms, the last bastions of him humanity that he had left. He pulled his left hand in front of him to get a better look at the changes occurring to him. While he didn’t lose any appendages like he did with his toes, he could see his fingers getting bigger and fatter looking. His nails grew dark as they extended into points, forming a deadly set of claws. Paw pads pushed out from his flat hand. The changes creeped down his arm giving him a lion’s paw.
While all of this was happening, his right arm turning into a much more vibrant yellow. His fingers remained relatively normal, but they soon narrowed down to sharp points rather than flat nubs, giving him a claw that wouldn’t look out of place on an eagle.
As Ace looked upon his new bizarre body, his hair grew out and went from jet black to snow white and grew longer, going down to his mid back. And then…nothing…all the pain, all the discomfort, all the weird feelings vanished leaving him in his new body. By all logic, his body shouldn’t function. By all logic, these parts didn’t work and he should be gasping for air with parts that would never work in reality. By all logic, he should not be and yet he was.
He was better than logic.
“What’s-“ Ace began to say, only to cover his mouth upon hearing a feminine voice escape his throat.
“…happening? Well my dear, you’ve gone and received the best gift a lord of Chaos could give; a bit of himself!” He said while whipping out a mirror. Ace looked at the reflection. He seemed very similar to Discord but he looked a bit more feminine. He had nice lashes and seemed to have much wider hips.
“Well now, you’ve become quite a looker there, Miss Sential. Though that does seem like a bit of odd name to go by, even for a screen name. Perhaps we should make that a bit different.” Discord mused as he took his claw and dug his claw into Ace’s brain.
Discord pulled away smiling. “How does the name, Eris sound?”
Eris wanted to comment on it but then suddenly she had difficulty recalling what her previous name was before. She also noticed that she was referring to herself with feminine pronouns without any prompting. She knew Discord did something to her head but what it was she didn’t know.
“I mean, I guess?” Eris responded, a bit confused. She was still getting used to all this stuff and didn’t know where exactly to start.
“Well!” Discord clapped his hands together. “I guess we should get you back to where you were. You have a job you wanted to do, yes?”
Eris felt herself getting flung back into her room and fell on the floor. She got back up and looked around at her room. It was familiar, she lived there for years and years and yet…he looked at it with a brand new light. She smiled, looking at the world, not as a set of rigid rules and constants, but as infinite possibilities that she could make into whatever she wanted.
She looked over at a poster hanging on the wall. It was of a gruff looking soldier holding a firearm with an eyepatch on his face. Eris, deciding to test out her powers, snapped her claw and the image changed. It was now Twilight Sparkle in that same pose wearing a similar uniform and carrying the same gun. She flashed a toothy grin at her handy work. She liked what she was seeing.