“Do you think I can?” asked Twilight.

“Twilight, you are the most meticulous, orderly, OCD mare I have ever met,” responded Discord. “Of course you could learn chaos magic! You’d be a natural!”

“Will you teach me? Please?” 

“Didn’t you say [i]not[/i] to do things that would threaten the well-being of Equestria?”

“Um… yes?”

“See, I told you you’d be a natural. You can check not making sense off your list.”

“We haven’t made a list yet.”

“And you were making such a good start. I guess we’ll have to skip straight to the montage.”

“Montage?”

[hr]

Discord snaps his talons and a cotton candy cloud appears. Twilight lights her horn, only to cut off by Discord appearing in front of her, holding up a stop sign and blowing a whistle. He raises his arm, and snaps his talons again, only in slow motion. Twilight raises her foreleg, looks at her hoof, then faces Discord and raises an eyebrow while showing him her hoof and its distinct lack of snappable appendages.

[hr]

Discord presents Twilight with a blackboard upon which has been sprawled and complicated and unfinished mathematical problem. Twilight immediately picks up the chalk and begins working on the equation. After half an hour she sets down the chalk and proudly walks up to Discord, with her solution of ‘E^2 = m^2c^4 + p^2c^2’ written as the final answer on the board. After Twilight wakes him up, Discord removes his glasses with an image of his opens eyes upon them and walks up to the board. He puts his claw to his chin, examining Twilight’s work. Finally, he crosses out Twilight’s answer, and in its place writes ‘2 + 2 = 5’. A lock of hair springs out of Twilight’s mane.

[hr]

Discord stands in front of a pair of blackboards giving a lecture while scribbling on both boards on completely different topics. Twilight to pay attention to all three sources at once, quills dancing in the air around her. Only when she starts to hear the sound of erasing does she notice a third blackboard to the side, covered with notes which must have been written by, and were now being erased by, Discord’s tail. She hurries to copy down these notes before they’re erased, not noticing in her fervor that the quills have begun writing on each other's papers, rending the notes an illegible mess, along with the rest of her mane. Discord glances back and smiles.

[hr]

“Gah! What happened to my notes?!” exclaimed Twilight, realizing what a mess her notes were now that she tried to review the lesson. 

“That wasn’t on purpose?” Discord sighed. “I thought I was finally getting through to you.”

“Now all I have is the first couple of pages.” Twilight moaned, ignoring Discord’s comment. After going over what she had, she inquired, “Why is the picture of a duck both less than and greater than the square root of pi?”

Discord floated behind her and looked over her shoulder. “That first one is an excruciatingly detailed picture of a duck, which as the above equation shows is greater than the square root of pi. And of course a crudely drawn picture of a duck is less than the square root of pi.”

“Um, which one of those two is this?” Twilight motioned to the duck that was neither detailed nor crude, just a picture of a duck.

“Oh, that’s neither. It’s just a picture of a duck.”

“Of course it’s just a picture of a duck. Yes, excruciatingly detailed picture of a duck, a crudely drawn picture of a duck, and just a picture of a duck are all different important values, and all somehow related to pi.”

“Actually just a picture of a duck isn’t-”

“Wait, we’re overcomplicating this aren’t we. We don’t need to show work. We just need to write an equation, even if it makes zero sense. 42. There. That’s the answer. We’re done.”

“Oh I think you’re finally getting it Twi-”

“Oh am I now? Let’s give it a try then.” Twilight raised her right forehoof and snapped, creating a cotton candy cloud.

“You got it! Chaos!”

“Well, now that I think about it a cotton candy cloud isn’t really chaos.”

“Twilight, where are you-”

“It’s still a well defined, ordered structure.”

“No Twilight you really have to-”

“True chaos would have all matter and energy-”

“You have chaos magic now you can’t-”

“-mixed equally-”

“Twilight!”

“-everywhere-”

“STOP!”

“-with no structure at all.”

The End