The morning sun rose over Sweet Apple Acres, the sunlight shining through Applebloom's bedroom window a bit, waking the filly up.
Applebloom yawned as she got off her bed and stretched a bit...unaware that things looked a bit shorter to her. She then walked out if her room to head downstairs for breakfast. As she was turning the corner, she walked past her older sister, Applejack.
"Mornin'," the two siblings yawned as they walked past each other...until stopping with wide eyes.
"What in tarnation?!" Applejack gawked before turning around to look at Applebloom, her body being… much larger than before, "A...Applebloom?!"
"...A...Applejack?!" Applebloom gawked, seeing her older sister much shorter than her normal size. In fact...she was a filly! "What's going on here?!"
"That's what AH jus' said!" Applejack shouted at her younger sister who was now a full-grown mare.
"...This must be a dream or somethin'," Applebloom quickly said as she lifted her hoof up to her face and tugged it a little, "Ow!...okay...it's not a dream."
"Don't tell me this is a curse!" Applejack responded, jumping up and down.
"Ah hope not..." Applebloom gulped before realizing something, "...You think our friends are...?"
"KYAAAA!" The sound of 5 mares and 5 fillies screaming filled the air.
"...Ah think that answers your question," Applejack said.
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"How did this happen?!" Rainbow Dash snapped, the cyan Pegasus (along with the rest of the mane 6) were fillies while Scootaloo and the CMC were mares, "Did somebody put Poison Joke on us in our sleep?!"
"I'd think we'd know if it was Poison Joke, Dash," Twilight pointed out, "Still...it doesn't make sense."
"Yea… and it feels weird being like this again," Pinkie added, blowing away some of her mane when it got in her eyes.
"Twilight dear, please tell me there's a re..." Rarity began before Applebloom and Applejack came in through the entrance to the library/home/castle.
"...Oh no...you girls too?" Dawn Star asked.
"It's a curse, I tells ya!" AJ shouted.
"You said the same thing when we were effected by the Poison Joke," Twilight pointed out.
"That was different! This might be an actual curse!"
Fluttershy whimpered at that as she hid behind a shaking Timid, who was hiding behind Scootaloo.
"Take it easy, will ya? You're scaring Fluttershy and Timid here," Scoots pointed out.
"...Sorry about that," AJ apologized, "Just...freaked out right now..."
"It's alright Applejack. But...even if it really is a curse, who would do it to us?" Twilight pondered before giving RD a stern look, "And don't blame Trixie, Dash. She couldn't have done this to us."
"Aww…" Dash whined.
"...Uh… Timid? Please tell me that Mischief's not sick," Sweetie Belle responded, worried the sick dragon may have had something to do with it.
"N...no...I...I don't think so..." Timid replied with a stutter.
"...Just to make sure...Mischief! We got some rock candy for ya!" Scootaloo shouted before Twilight hushed her.
"Shh...Spike's still asleep...we.." Twilight began before Mischief appeared via a puff of smoke.
"Where?! Where the tasty?! It's mine mine mine mine!" The small dragon shouted greedily, like a certain black duck, "...eh? Where..." He began before noticing the conditions of the mane 6 and CMC, "...PFFFFFTTT! Hahahaha!"
"This isn't funny mischief!" Quirky snapped, her voice sounding a bit lower than usual
"You're right...it's hilarious!" Mischief laughed as he fell to the floor, "Oh! Oh my sides!"
"Ha ha ha! This is serious, Mischief!" Twilight snapped, "Now tell us, did you have anything to do with this?"
"...Ahem," Mischief cleared his throat as he got up, "As much as I like a good prank...no. I didn't have anything to do with this."
"Seriously?" Applebloom gawked with a raised eyebrow.
"Seriously...whoever did this too you...kudos to him or her," Mischief chuckled a bit.
"...ugh...if it's not Mischief...then there's only one creature that might've done this to us as a joke," Twilight sighed.
"...Discord?"
"Discord."
"Nah! I doubt Pops would've had anything to do with this. He may have the power, but after what happened with the centaur, I doubt he'd want to do this to you girls, even as a prank," Mischief shrugged off, having met his father a week before Tirek's attack.
"Should we check with Discord just in case?" Rarity asked.
"Didn't I just say he wouldn't do that? I thought you girls thought of him as a friend now," Mischief pointed out.
"...You're right but...we don't know who else could've done this."
"...True. I mean, the only ones who could do this kind of thing are me, pops, and..." Mischief began before his eyes widened in realization, "...oh crud."
"What? What is it now?" Scootaloo groaned.
"W...who are you talking about, Misty?" Timid asked, peeking out from behind Scootaloo.
"...Well," Mischief began as he took a deep breath, "And don't freak out about this but...Discord...has a daughter."
The mares and fillies (age swapped) remained in complete silence for a short time before...
"Um...I'm sorry dear but...did you just say Discord had a daughter?" Rarity asked, just to make sure Mischief wasn't joking or anything.
"I did...and that's the honest truth."
"...EH?!" all 12 ponies gasped in unison.
"Don't tell me she's like you or you old man," Scootaloo groaned.
"Oh no, not even close. In fact, ...dare I say it, ...she's even worse than Pops and me combined, having little to no inhibitions with pranks, and she's a bit..." Mischief began as his head shifted into a cuckoo clock before shifting back to normal, "If ya catch my drift."
"We get what you mean," Pinkie and Quirky responded in unison.
"...Please tell me you know what she looks like," Dawn Star asked.
"I do...but why tell ya when I can show you?!" Mischief declared as he gained an artist outfit before pulling out a canvas and a few buckets of paint from his hammerspace. He then threw all the cans of paint of the canvas, the paint forming into a picture of a pink pony with swirly purple and pink eyes that were derped like Derpy's, a curly purple and white mane and tail, along with a yellow and green propeller cap, and her Cutie Mark being both a screw and a baseball.
"Quite the artist, aren't ya?" Sweetie noted.
"Eh. I dabble," Mischief shrugged.
"...Hold on..." Twilight began as she eyes the picture closely, "I think I've seen her before..."
"You have? Where?!" the Mane 6 fillies asked quickly of her.
"Well...recall when Discord first got out of his stone prison?"
"...Yeah...what about it?"
"Well...while you guys were still...Discorded..."
"Trademark," Mischief added.
"I. barely noticed her flying by...I thought she was a regular pony that went insane..."
"Well obviously not. She showed herself in that situation because of the excess amount of Chaos at the time. Plus...she's a real daddy's girl."
"Wait...really?"
"Eeyup. Whenever pops was around, she'd drop what she was doing so she could hang out with him."
"Man, that must be tough on ya," AJ noted.
"Oh don't get me started, cowgirl."
"...Ahem. At any case, we need to find...uh..."
"Screwball."
"Thanks. Screwball before..." Twilight began before a bright flash of light occurred outside, "...That can't be good."
Everyone in the room suddenly rushed to the window, quickly seeing almost everyone in Ponyville...turned into cats.
"What just...?"
"Kitties!" Pinkie and Quirky squealed as they dashed out in a pink and dark green blur.
"...Sheesh," Mischief groaned, facepalming himself as he and the other ponies walked outside to see what else happened.
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"...Oh...my..." Fluttershy whispered, seeing almost all the buildings covered in dark pink and purple polka dots while the flowers were replaced with peppermints.
"This is almost as messed up as the chocolate rain and the cotton candy clouds," Dash noted as they suddenly heard Pinkie and Quirky singing something about chocolate rain while hugging some of the pony-turned-kitties.
"...We need to find her...fast," Twilight stated, "Let's split up so we can cover more ground… and can somepony grab Quirky and Pinkie?"
"We're on it," the Apple siblings spoke as they walked off and dragged the two bubbly ponies off, the latter dropping the 'cats' in the process.
"Aww~!" the two ponies whined in unison.
"Any sign of her yet?" RD asked as she, Scootaloo, Flutteshy, and a Timid looked on the East side of Ponyville.
"Ano...n...no, R..Rainbow-San," Timid shook her head.
"N...no luck from me either," Fluttershy added.
"Sorry bi...I mean, sis..but no," Scootaloo replied.
"Darn...well keep looking. It can't be hard finding a crazy looking pony in all thi-hey!" RD exclaimed as she was deluged by a stream of...strawberry milk, "...okay! Who did that?!"
They heard a giggling up above them and looked up to make sure.
"...That's her!" Scootaloo gasped as the saw the exact same pony Mischief described laying on top of a pink cloud.
"Hi!" she waved, her hoof going even faster than Pinkie's or AJ's, but when she stopped, she looked like she literally had 10 hooves on the same leg, "You want to play?"
"What? N-no! We want you to change us back to our normal ages!" RD snapped as she moved her soaked mane out of her eyes, allowing her to glare at the crazed pony.
"Hmm...no! I'm having too much fun~! Plus...daddy will really like it!" Screwball beamed as she hopped away...in the air.
"And I thought Pinkie was wacko," RD responded as she and Scootaloo gave chase.
Fluttershy and Timid were about to follow the two before they heard a soft, meow.
"Dash?" Fluttershy asked as they looked over and then saw a small cat with Snow White fur looking at the two shy ponies...or to be specific, Fluttershy, "Opal?"
"...Ano...I don't think th...that's o..." Timid began before...
"Shy! Timid! Hurry up!" RD yelled offscreen.
"Oh' a...sorry!" Fluttershy yelled(in her tone) as she picked the cat up before she and Timid ran off to catch up with RD and Scootaloo.
"What took you so long?" RD demanded to know.
"S...sorry...w...we found this cat lying around and..." Fluttershy began before a large explosion occurred nearby, followed by the sounds of AJ and Pinkie screaming.
"What the hay?" Scootaloo gawked, turning to see both AJ and Pinkie land near them.
"Pinkie! AJ! Are..." Rd began before seeing what happened to her friends, the mare turned filly trying her best to hold her laughter back.
"...Don't...laugh," AJ frowned as she was dressed as a clown while Pinkie was dressed as a goth.
"I feel silly, and not in the normal silly I'm used to," Pinkie sighed.
"...Where's Applebloom and Quir..." Scootaloo began as the former mentioned pony came walking up to the group...with Quirky glued to her back and their tails tied together with Applebloom's ribbon, "...ky?"
"Don't asked," Applebloom groaned, "Just...don't."
"Uh… okay…" Scootaloo sweatdropped a bit.
"Let's hope Twilight and the others are having better luck," RD stated.
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Meanwhile, with Twilight's group consisting of herself, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and Dawn Star,ed high and low for Screwball on the other side of town. Unfortunately, they had no luck finding the crazed mare so far.
"How're we supposed to find a pink mare with a screw and baseball Cutie Mark with how Ponyville looks now?" Rarity groaned.
"I don't know...but we better hurry. Who knows what else Screwball is capable off," Twilight stated, a bit worried.
"Yea," Dawn Star nodded when suddenly, they saw a stampede of… Chocolate cows run by?
"...What the hay?!" Sweetie Belle gawked before she and Rarity were engulfed in pink smoke.
"Rarity! Sweetie be..." Dawn Star began as the smoke died down, "..."
"...What? Do we have something on our faces?" Rarity asked, wondering why the two Alicorns were looking at her and Sweetie Belle like that.
"...Rarity...Sweetie Belle...whatever you do...don't look in a mirror," Twilight warned the two slowly.
"Why? What's wrong?" Rarity asked, in a bit of a panic now as she searched for a mirror.
"Is something wrong with us?!" Sweetie Belle added, panicking as well.
"Um… well… you see…" Twilight began before both unicorns screamed when they saw their reflections in a nearby window.
"Oh my…" Rarity gasped as her and Sweetie Belle's manes and tails were gone, "We're...we're..."
"Bald!" Sweetie Belle screamed before she and her sister began to cry hysterically.
"Oh geez… do they act like this all the time when something happens that affects their vanity?" Dawn groaned.
"Uh...y..." Twilight began before the sound of laughing caught her attention, making her and Dawn turn to their left to see a laughing mare that exactly matchd Mischief's description.
"Oh that's too funny! I wish daddy was here to see this!" The mare laughed, seemingly floating in the air.
"Wait… you wouldn't happen to be Screwball, would you?" Twilight asked, hoping to make sure she found the right mare.
"Yeppers! I'm daddy's favorite child!"
"Bull roar!" Mischief shouted offscreen.
"Was that my stupid brother again?" the mare responded, "He was always an idiot growing up."
"I heard that!" Mischief shouted offscreen again.
"You!" Rarity shouted as she and Sweetie Belle glared at the crazed mare.
"Give us our mane and tails back this instant!" Sweetie Belle demanded.
"Oh… you mean these?" Screwball asked, holding up the items in question.
"Yes! Give those back now!"
"...okay," Screwball shrugged as both Sweetie Belle and Rarity's manes and tails reappeared on them...only...it was in reverse, as in Sweetie's were on Rarity and Rarity's were on Sweetie.
"What the?!" Sweetie Belle gasped with a squeak in her voice, making Screwball giggle.
"You didn't say which mane and tail belonged to who!" The crazed mare giggled as she spun the propeller on her hat and flew off.
"Grr! Get back here and switch our manes and tails back!" Rarity snapped as she and Sweetie Belle gave chase.
"Oh geez…" Dawn Star groaned, facehoofing herself.
"I know..." Twilight added as they followed after the two.
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"Ugh...this is pointless," Mischief mumbled as he stood in the center of town, "They're never going to catch her. I should know...every time I tried getting back at her when we were growing up, boom! I'm hit with a barrage of balloons filled with strawberry milk! I hate strawberry milk! ...I always preferred pop using chocolate milk." It was then a light bulb (literally) popped up above his head, "That's it...I know how I can catch her."
With that, Mischief opened a zipper in midair before poking his head in.
"Hey pops! You better come here quick! Someone's claiming you're not the funniest guy in the show!"
"What?! Well I never!" A voice shouted as a 'flower' sprouted up nearby before forming into a Draconequus, a creature with a gray pony's head, the long body of an Asian dragon, and bits and pieces of other animals including the neck hair of a mule, horns of an antelope and a bulgy horn of a unicorn, the body of a griffon with one bird arm and one lion arm, a bat's wing and a bluebird's wing, a normal dragon's tail, a deer's leg and a lizard's leg, "I'm one of the reasons the show was put on the..." He began before noticing the condition of Ponyville, "...son."
"Yeah pops?"
"...who...or what did this?"
"Screwball," Mischief groaned.
"...oh dear..."
"Yeah...and you don't want know what she did to Twilight and her friends..."
"I suppose it's that time again, isn't it?" Discord sighed, "Okay son, this won't be easy. So gather me up some strawberry desserts, and meet me in front of Town Hall in exactly… 10 minutes."
"On it, sir!" Mischief saluted as he dashed off to gather as many strawberry desserts as possible.
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Meanwhile, with RD's group, they had just arrived in front of Town hall, panting.
"Alright..where is she?" Scootaloo panted a bit, "She couldn't have gone anywhere..."
"M...maybe she's..." Timid began until the group noticed Twilight, Dawn, and a very livid Rarity and Sweetie Belle approaching them.
"Good gravy girl! What happened to you and Sweetie Belle?" Applejack asked her unicorn friend.
"That crazed pony is what happened! She had the nerve...no! The gall to make me and my sweet little sister bald!" Rarity snapped.
"And after that, she put our manes and tails back...on the wrong pony!" Sweetie Belle added.
"And that was NOT! FUNNY!" Rarity growled.
"Hey, has anypony seen Pinkie?"
"Right here!" Pinkie shouted, the mare hiding in a barrel with holes in the bottom to let her move, "And before you ask...don't. What she did to me wasn't funny!"
"Why? W..."
"That Screwball pony dressed me up as a clown while she dressed Pinkie Pie as a goth...or whatever ya'll call them," AJ explained.
"Which again, was not funny!" Pinkie added.
"If only that crazy pony can be stopped. She's crazier than than I am when I'm on a sugar rush!" Quirky responded.
"...Why is Quirky glued to Applebloom's back?" Dawn couldn't help but ask.
"...Ya'll don't want to know," the you...er, currently older apple sibling stated.
"...I have one last question..." Dawn star said as she pointed to the cat on Fluttershy's front legs, "Why is Fluttershy holding a cat?"
"U...um...I found him sitting n..." The shy mare turned filly began until all 12 ponies heard a familiar giggle.
"It's that screwy pony again!" Pinkie gasped, poking her head slightly out if the barrel.
"But where is she?!" Rainbow Dash pondered as the mares and fillies looked around for the source if the giggling.
"Over here~!"
The 12 ponies quickly turned to the left before paling a bit, seeing Screwball standing near a catapult filled with balloons filled with strawberry milk.
"Uh oh," the ponies gasped as Screwball giggled.
"Milk balloon attack!" Screwball shouted as she released the catapult, bombarding the 12 ponies with the milk-filled balloons, "Oh this is just too funny~!"
"No it's not!" Pinkie and Quirky snapped...and that's actually saying something. They like water balloons as much as the next pony...but balloons filled with milk (or in this case strawberry milk) was a step too far.
"Uh oh… did I upset the fun-loving party-ponies?" Screwball giggled before she caught wind of a particular smell as her mouth drooled, "Strawberry tarts...strudels...strawberry short cake~!"
Following the scent, she zoomed off behind the Town Hall. The 12 ponies looked back there to see Discord and Mischief, the young dragon holding a fan to send the scent of the strawberry desserts Screwball's way, the pony in question smiling wider than ever before.
"Daddy...are those...?"
"Your favorite desserts? Yes...yes they are," Discord nodded before stopping Screwball in her tracks, "Uhpupup! You may have them on one condition...change everypony to normal and change everything back to the way it was before...okay?"
"Aw~ but Daddy…" Screwball whined.
"No buts this time, little lady. These ponies are my friends now, and we should treat them as friends. I thought we talked about this with Mischief last week. And you really need to control these pranks. If you don't listen to this, you won't get any of these desserts ever again. Understand, Screwball?" Discord scolded, making Screwball whimper before gulping.
"...Oh, okay, fine," she sighed, changing her right hoof into a hand with fingers before snapping them, causing everything and everypony to revert to normal.
"Finally...it feels good to..." Rainbow Dash began with a sigh of relief until the cat that was in Fluttershy's front legs poofed into a cloud of smoke, which was followed by the sound of Fluttershy yelping.
When the smoke died down, Fluttershy slowly opened her eyes before a heavy blush appeared on her face...seeing the cat was actually Timid's brother, Silver hawk, said Pegasus being unconscious at the moment.
"..." Fluttershy had no words to say before fainting, her eyes replaced with swirls and her entire face a bright red.
"...Didn't see that one coming," AJ and RD admitted in unison.
"Y...yeah," Twilight nodded as Pinkie and Quirky slightly tapped the unconscious ponies a bit.
"Wow...they're knocked out," Pinkie noted.
"Yeah like a light," Quirky added.
"They'll be fine, being another species for so long before drastically changing takes a lot out of ya," Screwball informed before turning back to her dad and the desserts, "Now may I eat my favorite desserts Daddy? Pwetty Pwease?!"
"Yes you may...if you promise me you'll do your best to behave, okay?"
"...Oh...okay. I promise daddy."
"Good girl," Discord smiled as he patted his daughter on the head a bit, "Now...enjoy."
"Whoo hoo!" Screwball cheered as she dived into the table and began to scarf down the desserts.
"And the family's back together," Mischief sighed, "Never expected this to happen right here in Ponyville, though."
"True. This town does seen to have an effect on us, son," Discord nodded in agreement.
"Next thing you know, Mom'll be back and we'll be living somewhat peacefully," Screwball teasingly said, licking the strawberry pie filling off her lips.
"Yeah..." Discord nodded before turning to the Mane 6 (minus the unconscious Fluttershy) and CMC, "I deeply apologize for what my daughter did. She can be a bit...hyper at times when it comes to pranks."
"We can see that," Rarity replied, just happy her mane and tail are back where they belong.
"We'll forgive her, Discord. She's welcome to stay here in Ponyville, as long as you can help keep her under control," Twilight replied.
"Oh I will. In fact, Mischief will help as well," Discord stated, making Mischief nearly choke on his rock candy.
"Wait what?!" The young dragon exclaimed until Discord whispered something into his ear, "...Fine..." He then shivered a bit, "But only because I'm scared of that Stare of Timid and Fluttershy's...and when Ma brings out the tuna fish."
"Huh? Why would ya be scared of a...?" Applebloom began.
"Don't ask..." Discord and Mischief gulped.
"They sound silly when it happens though," Screwball pointed out with a giggle, "Their voices get really high whenever mommy..."
"Screwball, sweetie? If you stop right there, I'll give you a giant strawberry smoothie," Discord bribed.
"Shutting up, Daddy," Screwball replied before Discord snapped, making a 15 inch tall strawberry smoothie appear, "...and cannonball!" She yelled as she dove into the smoothie and began to drink it's contents.
"How do you do that?" Twilight asked, seeing Screwball's body was now compressed to fit inside the smoothie glass, but she just smiled.
"Mention any dessert with strawberries in it, and she's as tame as a newborn kitten," Discord answered, "Not to mention as elastic as bubblegum"
"That, and, like I mentioned before, is a real daddy's girl," Mischief added as Discord helped pull Screwball out of the glass, and moved her around, proving her to actually be as elastic as bubblegum.
"Not to mention the more strawberry treats I eat, the more stretchy I can get," Screwball giggled as her dad stretched her out more, making the 10 ponies sweatdrop.
"R...right," Rainbow Dash spoke.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head back home. I don't want to miss my show after all," Discord stated after changing Screwball back to her normal (if you could call it that) self, before she continued eating what other strawberry desserts were there, "I'll be back later to check on you, Screwball, okay dear?"
"Bobay baddy (Okay Daddy)!" Screwball replied with a full mouth before Discord disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Okay… now what're we going to do?" Applejack asked, "In fact, where is Screwball goin to live exactly?"
"Hmm...well...there is that house that's up for rent just a few blocks down from Sugarcube corner," Pinkie suggested.
"That takes care of one thing, but she's so hyper, who's gonna watch over her?" AJ pointed out.
"That would be me. While Timid can still watch me, I have to warp over to wherever sis here is and watch her, keeping her from getting into trouble," Mischief sighed seeing his sister's face was flat due to slamming her face into a pie tin.
"...I guess that takes care of both those problems..but that leaves only one thing," Scootaloo spoke as she pointed to the still unconscious Silver Hawk and Fluttershy, the latter still blushing heavily, "Who's going to help carry them home?"
"Well…I can take Fluttershy home," Rainbow Dash offered, "I did it a couple of times when we were still in school."
"Okay… Ah guess Ah can help take Silver Hawk home. Pinkie, Quirky, when Screwball's done, you mind taking her over to her new home?" AJ asked the two, bubbly ponies.
"Sure/no prob," Pinkie and Quirky nodded while giving a small smile, making a 'squee' sound.
"There's that squee again! Why does that always happen when one of you ponies smiles like that?!" Mischief asked, a bit annoyed.
"...Mischief. Again, we don't know what you're talking about," Twilight blinked in confusion, recalling last week when Mischief asked the same question.
"But..! Ugh...why do I bother..." Mischief facepalmed as he looked at the viewer, "Shows over folks… good night."
He then grabbed the upper part of the screen before scrolling it down.