"I guess I did my job though," Said Screwball, "Celestia eventually freed my daddy. Hoofed him over to Fluttershy to control the god of disorder... But daddy was scared. He told me he was going to find a... a safer way to play with the ponies but I never wanted to play with them again. He took me to his realm and hid me there... so they couldn't hurt me.
"Now, all of a sudden, he's thrown me back into this world. I still don't understand it, don't understand them... their evil Spike. Evil in the worst way,"
Spike sighed after hearing the tale, "Ponies aren't evil, no more then you are. The ponies you... played with thought you were trying to hurt them. They were defending themselves..."
"... If I wanted to hurt them I would have..." was all she said before getting up. She walked a bit away before speaking again, her back facing Spike, "Draconequus children play rough with each other all the time but they never injure or even cause a spark of pain... nothing I did hurt. I just played... like my daddy taught me. I was even mindful to make sure I DIDN'T injure them... I don't understand..." she shook her head.
Spike sighed, "You can hurt somepony... mortals, in more ways then just physical. There's mental pain and even emotional. What you did to those ponies they interpreted as those kinds of hurt... They didn't understand what was going on any more then you did. Tartarus I doubt Discord even understands that lesson yet. He mostly looks to Fluttershy to tell him where the line is. I get your both cosmic entities and you don't really understand how mortals feel and think but-"
"You're not going to change my mind about them. If my father wants to tip toe around mortals let him. Let him corrupt himself to the point he fades from existence. I doubt any of these ponies will care despite how much he loves them... We are chaos Spike. Just as you dragons are physical manifestations of magic. We Draconequus are living chaos... and ponies are so cruel they control the very skys. It... hurts to be in this world, everything is so ordered... Draconequus are spirits of chaos and Discord is our god but... they shackled him... so arrogant and so cruel they even expect the gods to obey their laws... how are these creatures anything but evil?"
Spike stared at her a moment, a loss for words, not able to explain how ponies weren't evil when she put it like that. He knew they weren't but how do you explain it to her... he forced himself to think on it longer, and she stood their patiently, clearly begging for a real answer. He needed to give her one, "They didn't 'shackle' Discord. Discord wanted friendship, somepony to understand him. Who WANTS to play with him but in order to do that he had to make compromises. Sometimes he and Fluttershy do what he wants and other times they do what she wants,"
"When you're friends you can't always have things your way all the time," Screwball repeated something her dad had told her.
Spike smiled, "Exactly, if ponies had truly shackled Discord he would be handling all our problems like the whole Sombra thing or our current issues with The Changelings, we don't expect him to fight our battles for us. We understand what he is and respect that. All we ask is that he respect our desires to. And Discord's crazy antics can be fun just as long as he's mindful were the line is before he hurts somepony, physically or emotionally,"
Screwball just shook her head, clearly not understanding. It's like her very brain was wired differently from their's, "You should get back to class," was all she said before disappearing in a flash of white light.
Button Mash eyed his new friend as he came back to the table, "You okay Spike? She didn't say anything to you did she?"
"We talked and..." Spike trailed off before saying, "I think I understand her... a little bit... I think... I think she's scared of ponies and that fear has turned to hate... We need to help her,"