When chaos returns: part 1

One morning in Ponyville, a blue earth pony with a green mane and a red tail was in his backyard, working on his flying machine. His name was Gear. The machine only requiered a pony's strengh to control it. It had wooden wings,which required two pieces of rope to be puled back and forth and a pedal-powered propeller on the back. He checked it often to make sure it's in good shape, because nobody wants a breakage in the air. Gear's neighbour, an orange pegasus with a black mane, leaned on his fence to watch him work.
"Oh, hi Cyniquote, how are you?"
"A little on edge, but fine. What are you doing?"
"Replacing there ropes with stronger ones. Gotta keep my invention in a good shape!"
"That just remind me, yesterday I heard some ponies say that you're envious of pegasi. Don't worry, I told them they're paranoid, but I feel like you should know what they say about you."
"I don't care, they're just rumors."
"Rumors aren't harmless, you know. I'm telling you from experience, you can't just ignore the problem, you gotta work on it."
"Ugh, fine. If I ever hear ponies say I'm jealous, I'll tell them to stop. By the way, why are you tense?"

"I've been seeing Discord in our street lately. I don't trust that annoying reality warper."
"You're still angry at him? Remember that bet you won against him? We both have diplomatic immunity!"
Cyniquote flew on his roof and saw Discord. He got near a barrel on the side of the street and got in. Cyniquote thought:"He did the same thing yesterday. What's the deal with that barrel?"
Gear yelled:"Get down, quit being so paranoid! Discord won't hurt you!"
Cyniquote flew down and asked:"Why are you being so forgiving? Didn't he make you allergic to you own fur that time you were lying to him? I mean that doesn't sound proportionate if you ask me."
"First of all, it didn't last that long, second of all, he's a reformed villain. You can't expect him to make a 180-degree turn."
"Pfft! He made the elements of harmony do it once. Also, Fluttershy can't be that kind if Discord is living in Ponyville because of her."
"You really gotta cheer up, you know that? I'll just keep working on my machine."

Cyniquote flew back on the roof and kept looking at the barrel, thinking:"Do I look in? No, he'll probably go:"If you're allowed to disturb me, I can do that to you." and give me a potato for a head or somethings. Gear asked:"You're really curious about that barrel, aren't you?"
"Don't YOU wanna know what one of the biggest weirdos in Ponyville is doing in that barrel?"
Gear went outside to the barrel. Cyniquote flew to him and said:"Stay away from it!"
"C'mon, I'll help you find out."
"He's gonna do something to you again!"
Gear yelled near the barrel:"Hey Discord! What's the deal with you in the barrel!?" and got no response. He asked Cyniquote:" Do I open it?"
"Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you."
Gear looked at the barrel for a while:"Boy, anyting could be in there." and opened it. He called Cyniquote:"Hey, come check this out!" In there was a small whirpool of water. Cyniquote asked:"He was just spinning the water? Eh, I expected something weirder."
"I don't know, it's spinning kinda fast. And I think there's something at the bottom."

The two stallions held their breath and put their heads in the water to see. Unfortunately, they slipped and fell in. They closed their eyes at the start of the fall, but when they opened them, they realized they were falling in the sky. They screamed for a few moments until Cyniquote grabbed Gear and flapped his wings. They were too fast for the fall to stop, but Cyniquote did slow them down a little. They quickly hit the ground. When they got up, Cyniquote said:"Ow, I think I landed on my wing." He tried to flap it, but it only hurt more:"Ugh, guess I won't be flying for a while."
"Cyniquote, look over there."
Cyniquote looked and saw Ponyville. The ground was in colorful patterns, some houses were floating and there was a lot of cotton candy clouds:"Gear, did we go back in time?"
"Oh, wouldn't that make a fun story? Hint, hint.", they heard a voice from behind. They turned around and saw Discord, with his traditional smug smile.

"Well, well, well...if it isn't mr. Grump and mr. Distraction."
Cyniquote said:"My last name is Verbum... oh wait!"
Gear asked him:"Um... where are we?"
"Oh, I love riddles! C'mon, there are no wrong answers! Except infinity minus one! Put you thinking caps on!", he said as he created top hats with question marks on the two ponies's heads.
Cyniquote thought for a few seconds and said:"Did you make a replica of Ponyville in that barrel, just so you can use your magic on it?" and a ding was heard.
Gear looked up and saw a whirpool in the sky. He asked:"Listen, my friend's wing is injured and I'm wondering if you could heal him, or teleport us to normal Ponyville or something?"
"You just need to answer one question: was it my fault that you fell here?"
"Well, no, but..."
"Then I don't have to do anything now, do I?"
Cyniquote exclaimed:"Listen here! I've put up with the fact that you're now living in Ponyville because "you're not as bad as you used to be", but you can't expect us to not call you evil when you practically TRAP US HERE!"

Discord looked at his outburst in enjoyment and said:"All you have to do is learn your lesson and you'll be able to get out."
"Ugh, fine, I guess I have no choice. But you still can't use your magic on us!"
"Oh, I won't. But that fact won't help you much in here. I wasn't always in a good mood when I used my magic on this place...", he said and he teleported away.
Gear said:"OK, let's get my flying machine! This IS a replica of Ponyville after all."
"Yeah, that makes sense.", Cyniquote replied and the two ponies went off.
As they were walking, Cyniquote said:"Wait, why am I still wearing this hat?" and took it off. Gear asked:"Can I keep it? I'm thinking, I might dress up as Sir Sudoku for the next nighmare night, and I could use a back up hat."
"That comic book villain? Gear, how can you even be thinking about that when we're trapped here? Look at that chocolate milk lake, for example! Shouldn't you focus on escaping this weirdness?"
"What's wrong with letting the weirdness help you a little? Can I get the hat now?"

Cyniquote gave him the hat, thinking:"Whatever..." and Gear held both hats with his hoof. The two ponies got to replica Ponyville and they had a sight to see. A bunch of clothing, furniture, tools and other items were alive, walking, crawling, floating or rolling down Ponyville. Gear said:"Amazing! It's like a whole new society in here!"
"When did you forget that we are prisoners here?"
"Oh, lighten up, will ya? How much focus do I need to just get to my house?"
"Fine, I'm just hoping Discord didn't do anything with the flying machine."
"If he did, I'll just make another."
"Nothing's an inconvenience to you, isn't it?"
"What can I say,I'm adaptable!"

Suddenly, two rolled up carpets crawled over to them in a snake-like fashion. They made a circle around them and crawled around the two stallions. Gear said:"So, this is one of those "bad mood spells" we've heard about, is it?"
"Oh, no! If only we were able to walk over!", Cyniquote said in sarcasm. He tried to step over, but one of the carpets just rose up a little and smacked him back in the middle of the circle. Cyniquote said:"Ow, these things are strong!" The carpets growled at them with their "mouths" and released a  thick cloud of dust from them and the ponies started to cough violentily. Cyniquote flapped one of his wings, but it didn't do much:"Oh (cough), no! We're gonna (cough) choke!". Gear said:"Way to (cough) use you wing!" and spun his tail like a helicopter. Cyniquote did the same and the dust cloud went away quickly. Cyniquote asked:"Great, but how do we stop the carpets?" Gear looked at his hats and said:"Well, this is more important than the costume!" He plugged up the "mouths" of the carpets and while they were struggling, Gear and Cyniquote got away.

"Nice job, Gear! How did you come up with that?"
"I just let the weirdness help me!", Gear said, at which Cyniquote replied by groaning.
Discord was observing them from a cotton candy cloud, thinking:"Why isn't the blue one as funny as the grump? Oh well, there's still time for them to meet the bitter fruit-maker!" He pulled out a grey apple from the cloud and started eating:"So bitter!"
Cyniquote said to Gear:"I'm just thinking, those carpets nearly beat us!"
"Yeah, I've had better experiences with carpets."
"I mean, is it even possible to do this? We're just two ponies trapped in a town filled with chaos magic! I can't even fly at the moment!"
"Good, if memory serves me, we've done the impossible before... I mean, you alone did some pretty out-there feats. Was it impossible to redeem animal abuse in a day?"
"Hey, those bats started it! But yeah, I was a jerk too... good thing we made up!"
"Was it impossibe to embarass a reality-warper in front of half of Ponyville?"
"Haha, that was a fun day...Thanks, I do feel a little better."

Gear and Cyniquote got into a street with a lot of stands on the sides. Cyniquote said:"The market! We're close to your house!"
Gear looked into one of the stands and saw a bunch of grey bananas. Cyniquote looked too and said:"Huh, that's actually underwhelming by Discord standards."
Still on the cloud, Discord shed a tear, saying:"Aww, they know me so well. Oh wait, I forgot to make the apple farm! I got work to do!" And he teleported there.
Gear peeled one of the bananas and asked:"You think it will be fine if I just take one bite?"
"Hmm...okay, but I'm not responsible for any consequenses."
He took a bite, swallowed and cringed in disgust:"Ugh, what was I thinking!?"
"Well, I guess we should've expected that."
"It tastes like dark chocolate! I hate that!"
"But you're not feeling sick, right?"
"No, why do you ask?"
"Because I like dark chocolate. The sweet one burns my tongue."
Cyniquote took Gear's grey banana and ate it. Gear said:"Good, you're learning."
"Eh, just because I like one thing, doesn't mean I automatically like this whole place."

The two ponies saw a living grey mannequin with an apron touching a fruit stand and making all the fruit grey. They decided to just ignore it, but when the mannequin walked by, it smelled Cyniquote's breath and decided to turn him grey. The mannequin jumped on Cyniquote, pinning him to the ground. Gear got scared:"Hey, leave my friend alone!" and tried to push the mannequin off him, but it was too strong. Cyniquote got swirls in his eyes:"NO!! Don't worry buddy, I'll save you!" He tried throwing fruit at it, and even breaking a small crate over it's head, but no dice. "Think, Gear, you're running out of time!" He saw a rainwater hose and tried to pull it out of it's place: "C'mon! He's half-gray already!" He succeded and hit the mannequin in the face with it. The mannequin got knocked down. It got up and ran away.

Gear looked at Cyniquote worryingly. Luckily, the greyness faded away and Cyniquote woke up:"Ugh, what happened?"
"An evil mannequin almost cursed you, but I got rid of it. And boy was it strong!"
Cyniquote looked at the hose on the ground and asked:"Wait a minute, how did you rip out a piece of the rainwater hose? It's not made of cardboard!"
"Heh, now I'm sure you're okay. But seriously, I got stress induced super strengh."
"Ugh, if I'm supposed to believe in a living mannequin... let's just keep going!"
Soon after they started walking, they saw a living first aid kit struggling under a broken stand.