Fluttershy was knitting herself a dress from this lovely pink thread which Discord and Screwball had to have left for her to work with. The two themselves went out to go grocery shopping, and as much as Fluttershy would have loved to go, she was still sleeping even after they had left. She managed to wake up soon after, and after eating a light breakfast, she saw this thread and somehow felt a sudden burst of inspiration to give form to the many spools of thread left to her care.
She had an idea to make a frilly pink and white dress with an excessive amount of bows. She took great care of each and every thread as she knit, making sure every single piece was placed perfectly and straight as an arrow. She then began to like this activity, it made her feel so open, so free, so high. She smiled as her craft began to mirror what she saw in her mind, each thread and frill and bow put on the cast as perfectly as a heavenly Eden would be. A thing to stick out now, her crowned possession, gleaming with magic. She could feel it had magic running through its veins, and it responded to her now undying love for it.
There was an even deeper feeling of desire burning in her heart, fluttering like a butterfly. She squealed in utter giddiness and quickly slipped into the dress, finding it to be a constricting partner. It tightened around her waist and used microscopic threads to pierce her skin and take in her blood. Pink mist blew from her dresses openings like steam from a steam engine, and Fluttershy's right eye emitted a violet magic that took solid form as a butterfly eyepatch.
"No! What's... what's happening?!" Fluttershy cried as she lost her balance and fell on her face. She noticed the dress becoming a blood red, and the pink mist had also tinted to the same color. She screamed and tried to rip the dress off, but found that her limbs were being bound by its threads. "Help! Help! Somepony help me! Please!--"
You're trying to steal daddy away from me... I hate you! I hoped at first you would die, but I was stumped at how to get you killed, skewered, mauled, maimed, without having to deal with those other damned Elements of Harmony! I was sure there was nothing I could do... so I was forced to reconcile with my desires to destroy you... Don't get me wrong, you do seem to be a nice pony, but if you wanna be my new caretaker after mommy's gone away forever... I'll need a much more chaotic mother than you!
Fluttershy knew that voice, and hearing it say such a thing brought a deep sorrow to her heart. The dress responded and gave the pegasus a tighter hug than before. "Sc-Screwball... why? Why would you do this?" Fluttershy grunted, trying again to stand up, but she felt as her blood was poured back into her body, with the red mist becoming pink once again. Her blood was tainted with the will of Chaos, and Screwball's mind infiltrated Fluttershy's.
The pegasus thrashed and kicked to gain her freedom, desperately trying to break free, both mind and body, but she felt Screwball's grip on her growing tighter and tighter with every waking second. She could hear the pony laughing with chaotic insanity, and tears ran down her face, as she began to accept the fact that there was nothing else she could do to help herself. She heard the door opening, and sensing it may be her only chance of escape, Fluttershy reached out as far as she could and tried to scream.
"Fluttershy honey, I'm back," Discord said, placing the paper bag which he had on the table near the couch. "I see you've already gotten to making that dress... how long was I gone?..."
"Oh, hi Discord!" Fluttershy exclaimed, running to the draconequus and hugging him tightly. "I missed you so much while you were gone! Also, I loved the thread you and Screwy got for me, as you can see, I've already made a nice dress for myself with it!~"
Discord chuckled, "Yes, I have! It's a very nice dress, I might say. I didn't know you were that talented actually with sewing. You're as good as Rarity."
Fluttershy blushed, making the "squee" sound as well. "Not that I'm bragging or trying to outdo her... but I guess I can take great pride in this dress... Thank you for leaving me the thread to work with. It's almost as if you knew you'd come back to see me in such a sexy dress, didn't you?"
Discord blushed too then. "Oh, well... I..."
Fluttershy silenced him. "You don't have to say anything... I already know, Discord. I can read you like a book."
Inside, she was screaming. Begging Discord to notice that something was obviously wrong with her. Pleading with no avail, Fluttershy fell to her side within her subconscious mind. Screwball was there with her, stroking her mane, telling her in a soothing voice,
Hush now, quiet now...
You're such a naïve pony, I don't know what Discord and I will do with you now... I can control your body from within her like a puppet, so, I suppose I do know what I'll do with you! I know! I can get you to "convince" daddy to wreck havoc upon the village! Isn't that a good idea, Momma?
Fluttershy did not respond, she was forced to watch through her own eyes as she discorded her own love, taking him under her spell. He looked unphazed however, but Screwball surely had her hooves on him. She had him in the threads as well.
"Fluttershy? Are you okay?" Discord asked her with concern. "You've been staring into space... I mean, I know the window is right there, and surely the night sky is full of beautiful wonders, but you ought to tell me when you do things like that. That way, I can make sure I change it up to further fit your preferences."
"No... I'm fine... Why don't we all go to bed now?" Fluttershy said, as she watched Screwball phase out of Discord's body and curl around her.
"Yes... why don't we all go to bed?" Screwball said in a child's voice with a high pitched giggle that forced her father to laugh.
"That's my girl! You take up quite a bit from the both of us, now don't you?" Discord told her, patting her head.
Discord went into the kitchen to put away the food, and Screwball took Fluttershy to their bedroom. Screwball threw the pegasus onto the bed. "Do you think you can escape now, my pet? There's no hope for you now... tomorrow, we begin our game. Tomorrow, you will show those idiot friends of yours that there is no more a shred of kindness within your heart."
Screw took a piece of her flesh from her flank and made it into a violet scissor blade. "You will wield this blade, and it will turn their coats into more thread for us to use. And once I manage to make a coat out of all of them... I'll have the perfect vessel for the Elements of Harmony! And the Tree will become my crown... Order my bitch, and you my slave."
Fluttershy struggled to speak, but Screwball laughed at her and punched her directly in the throat.
"What? You thought this was out of jealousy? Yes... You turned daddy into stone and then took away his yearning for chaos... you made him not wanna play 'Mindrape the Innocent Fillies' anymore... You've ruined him! So now, I'll take those Harmonies from you all by rendering your collective power useless... How? Of course all the Elements can't work if even ONE is not present. You are the easiest to target, the easiest to subdue... You, Fluttershy, are the most worthless piece of garbage I've ever met. And if you think you can do all this to daddy and I's relationship... then you're painfully mistaken. Those Harmonies hold the power to change things, and surely if I can harness those powers, I can corrupt them and then effectively make the universe mine's."
Sunset Shimmer turned over in her bed, unable to sleep. She had a dark feeling in her chest, and knew something was wrong. She opened her eyes and immediately felt that her body was covered in sweat. She threw the covers off and leaned over to her desk to grab the diary to send a letter to Celestia, but someone grabbed it away from her, and she ended up falling out of the bed.
"Dammit! What the hell--" Sunset muttered, trying to look up, but a foot stomped her head back down. She now had a bloody nose and a busted lip, and the taste of blood sickened her.
"You really ought to work on those reflexes of your's... bacon hair," Adagio said, writing in the diary with a golden pen. "You can't keep a bad siren down for long... And even then, you can't stop sound."
"Adagio?!" Sunset cried, managing to escape and roll over on her back to try to stand again, but Adagio effortlessly nudged her onto her back and stomped her stomach twice. "Damn you! Why are you--"
Adagio flashed an amulet which was around her neck, it was an orange and red eye like figure. Sunset was marveled by it, and then felt Adagio release a pressure through the air which nearly suffocated her. "I was gifted with an amazing jewel... it just came falling right out of the sky, and I happened to be the one it was guided to... It gave me back my beautiful voice and even more! Now, I have unrivaled power that even your puny Equestrian magic can't stand against!"
Sunset coughed violently. She tried to break free, but could not. It felt as if Adagio's foot carried the weight of a thousand Celestias. "Damn... why me? Why did you come to me, of all people?"
Adagio smiled deviously and used a red thread from her finger tip to make a thick rope to bind Sunset Shimmer with. "It doesn't matter now... but what does matter is that you will lead that bitch Twilight to me when she comes... Then I'll obtain her method of getting back to Equestria."
"Where are the others?" Sunset asked curiously, trying to distract Adagio with questions so she could figure out a way to make a swift escape. "The other sirens... where are they?"
Adagio looked to her with an interested look in her eyes. "You wanna know? They're still here... but they're paying those other Rainbooms a visit... My sources tell me that they're having a sleepover... It would've been much easier if you had went too, then we wouldn't have to split up... Why'd you stay home? Aren't they your friends?" Adagio was mocking her now, pushing down on her abdomen even more now.
Sunset gritted her teeth, but then sighed. "I... I had a hunch. You fucking bitch!"
"Feisty, aren't we? Calm down... I've got something interesting planned for you when I get back to the other sirens and we've captured your friends... You're gonna help me lure Twilight into a trap. And don't even think about escape. I don't wanna waste Junketsu's power on a vermin who can't listen to simple orders."
to be continued
The dream was terrible. "Dream" did not do it any justice. Fluttershy could not bear to think about it, and trying to discard the imagery which was portrayed in the mental simulation was by far the hardest thing she would ever have to do. It's only a dream... just, calm down... there's nothing here, nothing that can hurt you..., she tried to tell herself over and over, but this proved fruitless as Screwball, being now one in mind with her, taunted her endlessly to no bounds,
You have no idea how foolish you look. Do you know what nightmares that I had to endure while Daddy was stoned? "Daddy, wake up!" I called to him over and over... now, feel the same pain by imagining your only beloved friends, gone before your eyes. I will not allow you to not live through such a terrible pain, knowing not when they'll be back, if they ever will!
Fluttershy began crying, cowering in her subconscious in great fear, knowing she could do nothing to fight back, not knowing what Screwball truly wanted. Why? "Why" was all she could ask... for now. "Why... why are you doing this?" she whimpered weakly, trembling in fear and trying not to vomit from the gruesome imagery shown to her through her dreams.
How dumb can you be? I thought you were smarter than this, Mommy... Do you truly not know? Are you blind to reason? Deaf to logic?
Applejack found herself impaled on a wooden stake, with her entrails being skewered down like a rope and her head like a tether ball tied to them.
Fluttershy cried out, begging for her to stop. She tried to run away, but Screwball appeared in front of her and dropkicked her backwards into a bunch of chains which held onto her body. "Please! Don't... don't do this!" Fluttershy cried as Screwball jammed her foreleg into Fluttershy's abdomen and forced her to then shut up.
Do you want to know why? You and your friends took my Daddy away from me. Celestia and Luna may have done it, but I already got my revenge by corrupting the younger sister... but you and those bitchy friends of yours purified her... and then along came Daddy! The world was well overdue for a visit from him, and I tried to make sure it lasted... but I was not able to before you and your friends ruined it by imprisoning Daddy in that stone prison again!
"I'm not understanding you..." Fluttershy said weakly, "we freed your father to offer him a second chance... and we've reformed him... we've made him better than what he used to be--"
HE USED TO BE MY DADDY, YOU FUCKING BITCH! Sorry, I got a bit undercarried there...
"Under...carried?" Fluttershy asked, when she was punched again in the stomach by Screwball.
You turned Daddy into a pussy! How can I love a pussy? How can I allow my father, Discord, the fucking god of CHAOS, be a fucking Fluttershy like you? I will NOT allow that for as long as I live!
Fluttershy was crying, not even making a noticeable attempt to hold back her tears and weeps from Screwball, who obviously was not having any pity upon her. "Look... I'm really sorry, I speak on the behalf of all of my friends, just please... let me go?"
"Are you truly sorry?" Screwball said with her own mouth, retracting a bit and hitting the pegasus with her foreleg. "To even consider feeling such an emotion after the harm you've done. You've taken the one thing I've ever loved and vandalized him beyond recognition... honey, sweetie, my beloved.... things Daddy would never say... You and your friends forced him to vocalize such atrocities... from his very own mouth, and he actually means it, every word! To you, you think that's good, you think it's a wonderful thing that Daddy is being what you idiotic mortals call nice. You think it's cute? What would you do if the one you loved suddenly began to act differently? Huh?"
Fluttershy spit up blood, as Screwball drew blood from her face with the punch. She tried as hard as she could to muster up a look of courage and authority in her eyes, and looked Screwball right in her's. "Yes... Yes I do." Fluttershy leaned forward as much as she could. "You... It's you, Screwball. When you came to Discord and I, and I found that you were his daughter, I knew I could manage loving and caring for you like a daughter... You're a sweet, kind, chaotic pony... just like your father. I initially felt as though I had no right at all to claim such a sweetheart like you... and how you feel, it's exactly how I feel about you right now. And... I'm sorry..."
YOU'RE sorry? I'M the one who's sorry?! Screwball tore Fluttershy from the chains as the pegasus pony's subconscious became flooded with chaotic imagery. Butterflies and various animals flowing crazily like a wild river. "Do you really believe you're sorry?" Screwball asked her, with a crazed look on her face, and childish giggling. "I'll let you see..."
I'll let you truly taste what it feels like to be sorry...
You've seen already what it's like to have your friends changed before your very eyes... and even you fell prey to Daddy's magic. It was utterly beautiful! But... those damned Elements got in the way again... what would it be like if they all... I don't know...died?
Fluttershy met the sight of her friends, all fallen dead before her, by none other than Discord.
I had a dream quite like this one... Daddy tortured your friends and you until finally eating them like candy! It was so wonderful! I would give anything, anything, anything to feel that dame joy and zeal that I had the morning I woke up to after being treated to such a sweet pastry that my dream that night and morning had been! The dream of the morning included your mourning, but I was mourning for the morning which interrupted my dream this morning of your mourning!
Fluttershy met a headless fate with Discord, but awoke within his stomach, meeting her friends yet once again, falling apart and deteriorating from his stomach acids of mumbling chaos.
How much I want to kill you! Ooo! But I simply can't! See, Fluttershy, you're the key to the Pandora's box which I wish to open. To unless all of the ails unto this world, and you will weave them all into one yourself. Fitting I managed to get ahold of this thread right? That thread you wear... is the thread of the Life Fibers...
Embedded with a cruel soul which none other may imagine. My soul managed only to find another vessel of stray Life Fibers which found themselves upon your world after a loooong journey through the coldness of space... I too, made that journey, and found refuge here.
Hey, I told you to keep quiet.
How can you keep me quiet? I am but a soul... I now control this body. It is mine, and when I can finally move on my own, I'll destroy you and all of these damned HORSES! I hate horses!
Fluttershy could not compute what was going on. "What's going on? Who are you? What... What am I to you?"
It was no use, as Screwball had completely muted Fluttershy's voice. Nui? Was it? You've made quite the ruckus within this body? Trying to snatch her from my control?
Nui, completely naked, came from the shadows of Fluttershy's mind and walked up to the unconscious pegasus and kicked her, though she did not feel a thing. "Stuck within a dream, I see?" she muttered to Screwball, who looked angry. Nui looked to her and stuck out her tongue lightly. "Mmmm. Stupid pony."
You were not supposed to manifest so early. Why are you resisting my control so much? I am merely using your previous abilities on Fluttershy to turn her into a magical you. If anything, you should be thanking me. With her body, you'll be much, much better than you ever were!
"Stop it with the telepathy, will you?" Nui urged her, kicking her, but Screwball's flesh grew over her body and entrapped her foot. "And please... stop with the weird things that make you even harder to understand... And this body isn't mine. She's wearing my body... but since you've allowed me to take her blood, her body will soon become mine, and then you'll have no control over me or her then."
It's the perfect plan!
Sugarcube... you ought not to push yourself so hard. Just lie on your back and do nothin'... sure beats a day of strugglin' with chaos.
What's the use? I may as well stop trying... these two have taken me over... whoever they are... Screwball is a monster... but the other voice is... it's... So... alluring! This is truly an art, right Applejack?
Sometimes it's okay to quit, Fluttershy! That's what you are after all! A big, shy, quitter!
You're right... A quitter not even fit to have her own body. I guess you'd know, huh... Twilight?
Yeah! Remember those days when I quit? Me? Of all ponies?! It's so easy! And much better than fighting! You should practice you mad, depressing sighs!
Sigh.... sigh.... sigh....
Darling, you're quite the shy one, right? So why try and change? You should always stay weak, powerless, and that damsel in distress which you always are!
But... I don't really need much help... I can help myself...
No... you can't. As a filly, you were helpless, so as a mare, you are 20% more helpless.
Rainbow? Is that you? Oh.... what's the use anymore? If I truly can't help myself...
Nui replied to Screwball, "Then, I'll listen to you... for now."
I was actually expecting more of a challenge from somepony like you. What are you planning? You can't possibly just hand yourself over like that... Especially after everything you've told me!
Nui helped herself to a beddress and an imaginary tea party with various teddy bears. Oh shut up... I have a thing for listening to dominas with multicolored hair.
Fluttershy woke up, with the dress hanging in her closet, which was open so she could see right into it. Discord and Screwball were waiting for her to wake up, as they had already prepared her breakfast which she could have in bed.
"How are you feeling... Nui?" they both asked her at once, monotonously.
Fluttershy hesitated to answer first, and she got a good look and feel for the body she was in, getting out of bed and strutting happily through the room. "I take this back! Being a pony is sooo awesome! I even have two eyes again!" Nui cried, jumping up and looking to Discord and Screwball, who looked devious as usual. Nui used her new wings to keep herself afloat in the air. "Well... I owe you one. But, why don't we go and get this started immediately?"
"You can't just handle that scissor and this body like that... once you put on your old body and get used to your previous powers, your body will modify itself to be able to handle that," Screwball replied. "Therefore, you need to train first... and I know just the place."
Nui looked at her conspicuously. She lowered down and saw how lifeless Discord looked, and she laughed st him in his face. "My DNA, did this? But... he has an aura of a thousand Kamui! How can you control something like this? Also, how do you know exactly what to do? Your knowledge on this matter is quite surprising... It's almost like, you can see the future... "
Screwball laughed, saying nothing but, "You'd be surprised at how much I know, Nui... especially about you and your world."
Princess Celestia was sitting in her bed room, organizing the scrolls she had received from various ponies this week, when suddenly her messaging diary for Sunset had lit up with a new message. Celestia, turning to check and see if what she thought had happened had actually happened and feeling overjoyed at the thought of her former student messaging her again. She felt as if she were on a cloud!
She levitated the book to her face, opened it, and began to read from it.
Dear Princess Celestia, I was planning this sleepover that I am going to have with my friends her, when I realized how great it would be if Twilight could join me too. You wouldn't mind notifying her so that she can join too, would you? Also, I love you.
-Sunset Shimmer
Even it's briefness was a refreshment to her. As long as she knew Sunset was alright. She knew not what she would do had anything, anything happened to Sunset. She loved her too, like a daughter. Like a mother would her daughter is how much Celestia loved and cared for Sunset's wellbeing... she would however love it if Sunset came back to Equestria, but maybe somethings were better left how they were. "Don't worry, Sunset," Celestia said with a giggle and a sigh of relief. She got her quill, paper, and inkwell so she could send a letter to Twilight to inform her of the news. "I'll be sure to tell Twilight right away. Anything for you..."
to be continued....
