"Tell me something, Moth Ball: what could possibly have made you think you could escape your genes?!"

"I don't know! But one thing's for sure, I'm not like you!"

"Answer me this: you think they'll accept you out there? One look at you and they'll scream and run!"

"Only because you made us the enemy!"

"Wrong! They made us the enemy!"

"For a good reason! No pony likes being fed off of their love!"

"Don't you see the good thing you've got here?! You are the future ruler of Equestria! You are what you are because of me! That little freak of a creation isn't good enough for you! She'll tire of you soon enough and dump you at the first chance!"

"No! Not my Screwy!"

"This is what I kept warning you about! Love is blind!"

"If it's used wrong, like what you're always doing!"

Now really angry, she blasted and managed to clip his wing! It caused him to lag a little. She was about to shoot again when suddenly, something hit her in the head. She caught it and saw it was a baseball.

"Who threw this?!" she demanded.

"I did." she turned to the voice, seeing Screw Ball holding another baseball, catching it.

"You little pest! I should've gotten rid of you when I had the chance!" she buzzed forth, only for Screwy to dodge her just in time. The queen's head got stuck in a castle wall.

She floated to Moth Ball's aid and held on to him, "Are you alright?"

"Other than the wing, peachy… Screwy, listen, I have a plan: if you can get me in close enough to my mother, I can steal back the magic that's stolen. As her heir, I can get whatever power she holds… That's why Mother made sure there was only one royal changeling in the Hive, so no other changeling could remove her from power…"

"There's no other way?"

"It has to be done…"

"I love you…"

"And I love you…" they touched faces, then turned back to see Chrysalis freeing herself.

"It's time to end this!" she yelled.

"Agreed. Screwy, if you will…"

Making a sling-shoot out of thin air, she pulled him back and then released him. At high speed, his horn touched his mother's. A huge green glow bubble surrounded them. Screw Ball averted her eyes. Then when the glow had gone down, she saw below her, the queen and Moth Ball unconscious to the ground. She flew down to her lover's side.

"Moth Ball?"

He slowly opened his eyes, "Screwy?"

"Yes, I'm here…" they held hooves.

"Screwy!" Discord's voice cried out.

They turned to see him coming, along with her mom, her aunts, and all their friends.

"Are you hurt?" Discord asked as he reached them and touched his daughter's shoulders.

"We're fine, Dad."

"I believe this belongs to you, Sir." Moth Ball made his horn glow and Discord felt his powers returning to him.

He floated up, feeling joyous, "Oh yeah, baby! I'm back!" he then grabbed Fluttershy and twirls her around. She giggled and when he moved her into a dip, they kissed.

Rainbow asked Screw Ball, "And you're not grossed out about this?"

"Nah, I've gotten used to it…"

Discord popped back to them and ruffled Moth Ball's hair.

"You're okay, kid. You're okay."

Moments later, they were back in the throne room, resting and lounging about. Discord and Screw Ball made a powerful force field in the dungeons for all the changelings and the queen, so they could never escape.

Moth Ball sat on the throne that was once his mother's while Screwy made a cast for his wing.

"Hey, Screwy," said Discord, "what were you getting at before you went to rescue Moth Ball?"

"Oh, that. I finally figured out what my cutie mark meant! Moth Ball!"

"What? What is it?"

"You! Me! We defy odds!"

"Yeah, so?" he asked with a confused look.

"That's what my cutie mark means! Defying odds! When I first got this thing, I won a baseball game against any hope of winning it at all! Then I met you, a guy who defied things as much as I did! Then I cured my father!"

"Well, I'll be…" said AJ.

"She's right." said Rarity.

Discord smacked his face, "For goodness sake! We could have told you that! You've been defying odds since your birth, when you looked nothing like your mother or me."

"That may be true, Dad, but that was something I had to figure out for myself…"

"So you did." Twilight touched her shoulder, then she asked the changeling, "Well, Moth Ball, what are your plans now that you have control over your mother's kingdom?"

"I would like to restore what it was before Mother took it under her rule."

"You mean Wuvy-Dovey Smoochy land?" said Pinkie.

The girls remembered what the Cutie Mark Crusaders told them when Chrysalis had them captured and that was the place she told them about before turning it into her own personal living space.

"Yes," he replied, "only…I'm thinking of changing the name."

"You know," his marefriend said, "there is a faster way to restore the place." she led him out while her parents followed right behind.

Rosaceae lower her head down in shame and the rest of the outcasts did the same when approaching Twilight.

"Princess, if we may, we would like to apologize for what happened at the Summer Sun Celebration."

"Hmm…" the alicorn gave into thought, "I think I know a way you can do that…"

Screwy and Moth Ball looked on the barren wasteland. She hesitated for a bit.

"Is everything alright?" he asked her.

"I'm just nervous… I never really had to use the full use of my powers. This is the first time for me to recreate a whole new area."

Discord heard that and reassured her, "You can do this, for you know how to use your gifts for the better…"

"Thanks, Daddy…" feeling the confidence taking over her, she rose high into the air and released a magical surge, turning everything around them with clear skies, green grass, blooming flowers, and the green glop disappeared.

Her parents and Moth Ball gazed in awe.

When her work was done, she floated back down, landing in her parents' awaiting arms.

"I've caused you so much trouble… Can you ever forgive me?"

Fluttershy smiled, "Why, we couldn't be prouder…"

"Somehow, in a blink of an eye when my back was turned… you grew up. If only you could stay and never say goodbye… If only I could make time stop, believe me, I would try…"

Her mother gave her a look saying, he would.

"But fathers have to learn that daughters have to grow… And if you truly love them, you must let them go…"

Screwy sang, "And, oh, I love you so, if only you could know… I'm not leaving home for a while after this…"

"Glad to hear of it…" said Fluttershy as they did a family sandwich.

When Discord and Fluttershy went back inside, Screw Ball and Moth Ball sat side by side in the newly-grown grass made by Screwy.

"Now all this place needs is a princess…" he says, "Think you'll be available in about five years?"

She gave him a sly look and pulled him into a kiss, "What do you think?"

He just gave a smile.

AN: For Moth Ball's true origins, check out 'Daughter of Discord' by Disneyfanatic2364. It is after all her character. One more chapter and it is finished!