Chapter 5
"Where could he be?" Fluttershy asked as she looked around.
"Like I said before, he is probably causing trouble somewhere else" Rainbow responded.
"I don't think so Dashie, he seemed very nice when I gave him therapy" Pinkie said, bouncing around trees.
"Therapy?" Rainbow asked.
"Therapy" Pinkie responded.
"…Right" Rainbow responded, flying higher and looking around.
"Any sight of him" Fluttershy called.
"Nope" Rainbow called back.
"How do we find him?" Fluttershy asked.
"Easy, we think like Discord!" Pinkie suggested as she bounced back down to them. Both Rainbow and Fluttershy eyed her confusingly.
"Why would I want to think like Discord?" Rainbow asked.
"To find him DUH!" Pinkie responded as if it was nothing. Pinkie then started sniffing at the ground.
"What are you doing?" Fluttershy asked.
"Getting his scent" Pinkie said, still sniffing around.
"Um, Pinkie I don't think you can do that" Rainbow said as she rolled her eyes.
"We won't know that unless I try!" Pinkie responded as she kept sniffing.
"Maybe Applejack's dog Winona can sniff him out" Fluttershy suggested. Pinkie's tail perked up all of a sudden.
"I have his scent! This way!" Pinkie yelled as she ran forward. Rainbow and Fluttershy eyed each other a little and then followed Pinkie.
"I don't have time for your games Sweetie Belle!" Rarity harshly yelled.
"Some help you are! I thought you were going to be a better sister!" Sweetie Belle harshly responded.
"And I thought you were going to spend the whole day with your friends so I can finally have some peace around here!" Rarity yelled back.
"They're big meanies! Just like you!" Sweetie Belle yelled back as she stomped back out.
"Oh the nerve!" Rarity huffed loudly. She was so mad she couldn't even think of hew outfit anymore, another day ruined.
"Well I remember something about that, I thought Spirit of Chaos was a self-proclaimed title" Discord admitted as he drank some water.
"Are you sure you don't want chocolate milk? Water seems to plain for you." Screwball asked.
"I'm fine, thanks" Discord responded.
"Bleh, 'thanks'? You really are under a spell." Screwball gagged as she walked around the table to Discord.
"Sorry?" Discord asked.
"Don't' apologize either!" Screwball yelled. She then took the cup from Discord and sniffed it. "This is one powerful spell, but I should be able to break it" Screwball said as she gave the cup back.
"Yeah, about that, I'm not sure I want the spell removed" Discord admitted. Screwball shook her head in disappointment.
"Yup, a powerful spell" Screwball said as she summoned a green book.
"What's that?" Discord asked.
"Something that you're going to read" Screwball said as she handed him the book. It had only a picture of what looked like a draconequus on the cover, not even a title.
"Is this supposed to help me?" Discord asked as he examined the book.
"Hopefully" Screwball responded as she flashed away, leaving Discord alone. Without anything to do he just opened the book and began reading, except this wasn't a normal story, it was a tale retold.
"Just my luck, the second he gets out of his statue he forgets everything, curse you Sunbutt" Screwball thought to herself as she entered the Canterlot Archives.
"Princess I think I found it!" Screwball heard a voice yell. She quickly placed an invisibility spell on herself and slowly walked towards the voice. She saw a purple unicorn smiling at Celestia.
"Dang, Princess Sunbutt beat me too it" Screwball thought to herself.
"Good work Twilight" Celestia responded as she grabbed the scroll.
"Twilight, is she one of the elements of harmony?" Screwball thought.
"Now we should immediately head to Fluttershy's cottage, I bet Discord is there" Twilight said.
"Crud, I don't know where that is, I can't let them leave with that scroll, it might have the spell I need" Screwball thought. She needed to create a distraction or she would need to deal with 'nice Discord' for a while.
"Yes Twilight, Discord's condition might worsen" Celestia said as her horn started glowing. Suddenly with a bright flash, Celestia's horn disappeared, stunning both Celestia and Twilight.
"Princess! Your horn!" Twilight exclaimed. Celestia arched an eyebrow and looked around.
"Discord?" Celestia called out. Screwball wasn't ready to reveal herself yet, if she was going to be like her dad then she needs to make an entrance.
"Discord?" Twilight called out. The response she got was her horn disappearing too. "Oh no! Not again!" Twilight yelled.
"Discord, enough of this, show yourself" Celestia shouted.
"Oh you flatter me" Screwball said loudly without removing her invisibility. Celestia and Twilight looked around, they didn't recognize the voice.
"Who's there?" Twilight called out. Screwball did her most menacing laugh.
"Doesn't matter where I am, give me that spell and nopony gets hurt" Screwball taunted. Celestia frowned.
"You may threaten us all you like, but your magic is no match for us" Celestia said as her body glowed, with a bright yellow light, both their horns returned. Twilight was relieved and Screwball was surprised.
"My, you surprise me 'Princess'" Screwball laughed, adding emphasis to the word Princess.
"Who are you" Celestia sternly asked, looking straight at Screwball.
"Oh, your magic removed my invisibility too" Screwball thought out loud as she looked at herself.
"I've never seen you before" Twilight said. She was really focused on Screwball's swirly eyes.
"That makes two of us" Screwball joked.
"Answer the question, who are you!" Celestia yelled. Screwball laughed.
"Sorry 'Princess' but your white coat and wavy mane makes you virtually adorable, you can't intimidate me" Screwball taunted.
"It would be foolish to underestimate us" Celestia sternly said as her horn glowed.
"Same thing too you" Screwball responded as her body began to glow.
"Don't worry Princess, we can take her" Twilight said.
"Correction, 'I' can take her" Screwball said.
"No I mean 'we' can take 'you'!" Twilight said as her voice got higher pitched and quieter, she was being shrunk.
"Twilight! Fight her magic!" Celestia yelled as her horn started glowing.
"Oh no, the big strong alicorn is going to attack me" Screwball taunted with a wicked smile as she teleported behind Celestia. "Then again, you're so slow I doubt you'll hit me" Screwball added as she placed a hoof on Celestia's back.
"I'm not slow" Celestia said as she jumped forward and shot a beam at Screwball, which she easily dodged.
"Seem pretty slow, in more ways than one" Screwball joked as she revealed what was in her hoof.
"Princess! Your scroll!" Twilight yelled in a small voice.
"I believe this is my scroll now" Screwball said with a smile as she held the scroll with her magic.
"Return that to me!" Celestia yelled.
"Ooooh, I must've hit a nerve" Screwball said with a smile, as if she just won a game.
"You don't know what'll happen if you take that scroll" Celestia said to try and convince Screwball.
"And you don't know that I'm pretty stubborn" Screwball said as a big brown cage fell on Celestia, effectively trapping her.
"Princess!" Twilight yelled, still shrunk. Screwball opened the scroll and smiled.
"This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the help" Screwball taunted, a bright purple flash and she was gone.
"Where did she go?" Twilight asked. Celestia eyed her cage, sniffed it, and then tasted it.
"Chocolate cage, who is this pony?" Celestia thought out loud.
"Dad! I'm home!" Screwball yelled as she entered the house again. She found Discord intensely reading the book she gave him.
"Uh huh" Discord went, still reading the book. Screwball giggled.
"I got the spell to fix you, give me a few minutes to figure it out" Screwball said as she placed the scroll on a table to read it. Discord eyed Screwball a little.
"Is this, really what I am?" Discord asked.
"Yup, pretty cool huh?" Screwball asked with a smile.
"Cool? I'm a monster!" Discord yelled in disbelief.
"A monster?" Screwball asked, looking up at him.
"Is my role in life really to just be trouble wherever I go?" Discord asked.
"No, it's just that-" Screwball started.
"It's my job right? So that makes it ok?" Discord asked, slamming his paws down.
"It's much more than that" Screwball tried, she needed to be careful or he would attempt to run away.
"How?!" Discord yelled.
"Keep reading, I promise it'll become clear" Screwball calmly said. Discord looked really upset, but then went back to the book. She mentally sighed to herself, this was one powerful spell.
"I need to work quickly, Dad could easily out-speed me" Screwball thought.
"Pinkie! I see a house!" Screwball heard a voice yell outside. Lucky for her, Discord didn't hear it, so she quickly walked past him and looked out the window, she was a pony with a rainbow mane flying nearby.
"Aha! He must be in there!" Another voice yelled, Screwball then saw a pink and yellow pony emerge nearby.
"Oh great, how did Sunbutt find us so quickly? No wait, there is no way she could've sent word so quickly, they must just be travalers or something." Screwball thought. The pink one then walked up to the door and Screwball quickly placed a 'sound nullifying spell' on Discord.
"Hellooooo?" the pink one sang as she banged on the door. Screwball then quietly levitated Discord to the next room.
"Good thing he's really into his book" Screwball thought as she walked to the door and opened it. As soon as the pink one got a look at Screwball, she gasped loudly.
"I've never seen you before!" the pink one yelled.
"Lucky for you" Screwball joked.
"I'm Pinkie! It's soooooo nice to meet you!" she yelled as she grabbed Screwball's hoof and shook it quickly.
"Erm, I'm Screwball" Screwball responded.
"Pinkie where not here to make friends remember?" A voice above said.
"That's my friend Rainbow" Pinkie said as she pointed up, ignoring Rainbow.
"Uh-huh, so the pink pony is named Pinkie and the one with the rainbow mane is named Rainbow. So I assume the yellow one is named Yellowie or something?" Screwball joked.
"Fluttershy" Fluttershy corrected, Screwball snickered.
"Well, at least it's unique" Screwball said.
"Look have you seen an ugly serpent thing around here?" Rainbow asked as she flew down.
"Ugly? My dad is not ugly." Screwball responded.
"Oh sorry, we didn't mean your father, we're looking for Discord, and he isn't a pony" Fluttershy responded.
"Discord? Isn't he the master of Chaos?" Screwball asked.
"Yeah, have you seen him?" Pinkie asked. Screwball thought to herself.
"Depends, why do you want to know?" Screwball asked.
"Have you seen him? What do you know?" Rainbow asked as she eyed Screwball.
"I might've seen him, but I'm not sure I should tell you" Screwball said with a taunting smile.
"Oh please, we've done something horrible to him" Fluttershy pleaded.
"Wait, you placed the spell on him?" Screwball asked.
"How do you know about the spell?" Rainbow asked suspiciously.
"Answer my question and I'll answer yours" Screwball responded simply.
"Fine" Rainbow said.
"Our friend Twilight put the spell on him" Pinkie clarified.
"Twilight? Wait, are you with the Princess?" Screwball asked.
"Answer our question, then we will answer yours" Rainbow cleverly responded.
"Oh right, well I saw a serpent looking thing flying around repeating 'I gotta get the spell off me' or something, I went outside to ask him but he said 'stay away from me' and teleported away." Screwball lied.
"Oh, he's not here then" Fluttershy said.
"You sure? I didn't smell him leave." Pinkie said as she sniffed the door a little.
"Smell? Well one more question. Do you work for the Princess?" Screwball asked.
"Don't we all?" Pinkie asked with a smile. Screwball shrugged.
"I guess Discord didn't" Screwball responded.
"And how would you know that?" Rainbow asked.
"He's the spirit of chaos, it isn't rocket science" Screwball laughed.
"Which way did you say he went?" Pinkie asked. Screwball shrugged.
"He teleported away" Screwball said.
"Crud, we lost him" Rainbow said.
"Good, they believe me" Screwball thought to herself.
"Oh, I feel awful" Fluttershy said as her ears dropped.
"How are we going to help him now?" Pinkie asked. Screwball tilted her head a bit.
"Help him?" Screwball asked.
"Shocking huh?" Rainbow asked.
"Ever since we put that spell on him, it's done nothing good for him" Fluttershy said.
"Nope, I've never seen a pony so confused and upset" Pinkie agreed.
"So, if you could, would you remove the spell?" Screwball asked.
"Of course, it's the right thing to do" Fluttershy said. Screwball knew how to read liars, so either Fluttershy was telling the truth, or she was a very good liar.
"I think I can help, follow me" Screwball said as she walked inside. The others looked at each other confusingly, then walked in with her.
"Ohhh, nice place" Pinkie complimented, seeing the chocolate fountain and pizza table.
"Do you live here? How do you sleep on a marshmallow bed?" Rainbow asked, poking it to see if it was real.
"Oh no!" Screwball's voice said from another room.
"What's the matter?" Fluttershy asked, Screwball walked back to the living room.
"He's gone, he left." Screwball said, looking serious.
I'm sure your daughter won't like this.
"I'm not going back to being that... monster!" Discord thought harshly.
You're being stupid, just read the rest of the story! This world won't survive without us!
"Yeah, the spirit of chaos isn't causing trouble anymore, how will the world survive" Discord thought to himself.
There's a reason the universe made a Spirit of Chaos! If you won't do it at least let me do it!
"Right, as if I'd do that" Discord thought to himself.
Why not?
The book told me who you are, now I know not to believe anything you say.
That may be true, but believe me when I say that if you don't spread chaos, you and I will be dead.
"If that's what it takes, I'm willing to accept it" Discord thought, flying slightly faster.
If you don't want to do your job that's fine with me, but don't drag me down with you!
"Be quiet" Discord thought.
You can't silence me! Go back! NOW!
"No" Discord thought, feeling another migraine.
I can sense the chaos from here, you better hurry on back.
"No!" Discord thought again, clenching his head.
Make your choice, either go back to your daughter and do your job, or go to me and let ME do it.
Discord couldn't think, he tried to fly forward but then he fell down. He tried to stay awake, but he blacked out.
Erm, I guess you can make your choice when you wake up…
I was like "Oh boy! I'm totally going to make Screwball and Celestia fight!" Sorry for the long waits, I just keep forgetting to update this story. Thanks for being patient. xD