Chapter 1: Fight With Equal Rewards
It had been a year since the marriage of Mothball and Screwball, and everything was moving smoothly. Of course, Discord still didn’t like Mothball very much, and he, even then, was reminded of what had been. Zany, now six, as opposed to five, went to kindergarten and was sort of like Screwball. He didn’t pay too much attention in class, though he did understand vaguely what was going on, but he spent much more time playing with friends. Screwball would help him if we was having trouble in class, most oftenly due to the fact that he did not have much attention towards the class and rather towards his friends. If not Screwball, then his mother. Even then, he’d rather not be at school.
Jewel and Applespike usually came over to the Castle of Chaos, and the three loved to joke around all the time.
They would play game after game, eat meal after meal, have the times of their lives, and Zany loved it.
Except when Twinkle came over.
“Zany,” Fluttershy would say, “Aunt Twilight is coming over with Twinkle.”
“Ugh! Why her? Why not Applespike? Or Jewel? She’s so annoying and always complains!” Zany whined.
“Now, let’s not get rude. Twinkle and her mother are very friendly ponies.” Fluttershy told her son.
“Fine. But she better be ready for my newest weapon- the marshmallow.” Zany said mischievously.
“And no fighting.” Fluttershy told him, hearing what he had just said.
“Ugh.” Zany moaned.
Zany did not understand why Twinkle kept coming over. She obviously hated him and he obviously hated her. The truth is, Discord, Screwball, and Mothball also didn’t know and Fluttershy’s reason wasn’t great.
“Why do you keep on bringing Twinkle over?” Discord asked his wife.
“Yeah, Mom. I like having Auntie Twilight over, but why do you keep on trying to get Twinkle and Zany to be friends?” Screwball agreed.
“I don’t get why you’d keep doing this. It’s not going anywhere.” Mothball added.
“Well, I think you three see two foals throwing giant death lasers at each other and teleporting each other on the other side of Equestria, but what I see is a couple in the making.” Fluttershy would always respond.
No matter how hard they tried to either get Twinkle and Zany to like each other of Fluttershy to stop bringing Twinkle over, Twinkle kept on coming and Zany always hated it. He always much preferred his misadventures with Applespike and Jewel.
One day, Twinkle and Zany were once again having a magic duel.
“I can create so much chaos that you’ll be in so much shock that you’re wings will pop right off and you’ll just be a regular old unicorn like your mom used to be.” Zany said.
“So you’re actually gonna do some magic? Prove it.” Twinkle said.
“Ok, then, Twinkle Toes.” Zany replied.
He used his magic to make the entire room they were in turn into a mini version of the town and they were sucked inside it. Once there, everything was the same, so Zany teleported them to the mini version of the Castle if Chaos to the room that the two were in to find another version, an even tinier version of the model of Ponyville. He sucked them into that model and took them to an even smaller version of the model where they were sucked in and kept on continuing to go from one model to a Ponyville to another model to another Ponyville. Every Ponyville was more chaotic than the last.
“I… think… that’s enough.” Twinkle finally said.
“Okay, then.” Zany happily said before teleporting then to the normal world.
“Phew!” Twinkle said.
“So,” Zany asked, “Can you beat that?”
“Well, yeah.” Twinkle boasted.
She then blasted a laser that was actually a transfiguration spell and when it hit the floor of the room, the entire room enlarged and a grove of jungle trees sprung out of the now grassy ground. She had turned the room into a small section of jungle.
Even Twinkle seemed surprised.
“See?” She said.
“Well, that’s good, I’ll admit,” Zany said, “But it’ll never be as good as my powers!”
“You wish!” Twinkle replied.
Zany then used his magic to turn the room to its original state.
“Well, can you beat this?” He asked as he teleported them both to town.
“Um, yeah, Zany,” Twinkle replied dumbly, “I can teleport, you know.”
“Well I’m not done!”he said as he walked up in front of a cafe and used his magic on it.
When the flash was over, Twinkle looked over at the cafe to see it looked the exact same.
“Huh?” Zany asked, confused as well, “I didn’t mean to do that! I meant to-“
“Zany!” Twinkle scolded.
“Huh?” Zany turned to her.
Twinkle pointer to two ponies arguing. They had previously been happily talking at their outdoor seats above their food. Now, they were fighting and feuding.
“Why would you do that?” Twinkle asked.
“I… I didn’t mean to!” Zany replied.
“You caused chaos and made these two ponies fight! A lot of the other stuff you’ve done hasn’t been that bad, but… but this, you’ve gone too far, Zany!” Twinkle scolded.
“I-“ Zany said, but before he could finish, Twinkle flew to the arguing ponies.
She began trying to resolve their conflict and eventually did so.
Suddenly, there was a huge flash again and everything returned to normal.
“Twinkle-“ Zany said.
“Yeah?” Twinkle said angrily, not even turning around to face him.
“You… uh… got something on your flank.” Zany tried to word his sentence.
“Huh?” Twinkle eagerly said before staring down at her flank to see a little picture of a shooting star, a pink diamond shaped star with a turquoise trail behind it.
It was sparkling while sparkles around it as well.
She turned to Zany happily and gasped.
“You got yours too!” She squealed.
Excited, yet confused, Zany asked, “What?” before staring at his flank to see he was no longer a blank flank.
Instead, there was a black hypnotic spiral, indicating chaos.
Twinkle got on the ground and started squealing, “We got our marks! We got our marks!”
Then, the two races towards each other for a hug, when Discord appeared.
The two stopped, expecting a harsh lecturing, but it never came.
“Oh, my little boy has his cutie mark! Dad’s so proud!” He said happily, grabbing Zany and Twinkle, one in each arm.
“Oh, and the little princess got hers too. Lovely.” Discord said with less enthusiasm.
“You know I’m not your daughter, right?” Twinkle asked.
“Oh yes, I know,” Discord said, “But your mother best know anyways. And yours too, Zany”
Immediately, Discord snapped his claw and Fluttershy and Twilight appeared at their location.
“I… what happened?” Twilight asked before seeing Discord, “Oh. You.”
“Hi, sweetie. What are you doing out here? For that matter, what are Zany and Twinkle here? And what are we doing here?” Fluttershy told her husband.
“We’re all here for a big announcement.” Discord said, still hugging the two foals.
“That is?” Twilight asked unenthusiastically.
“Don’t act so bitter, Princess,” Discord said, releasing both Zany and Twinkle from his grip, the two falling to the ground, “You’re daughter’s gotten her cutie mark!”
“What?” Twilight asked.
“Well, yeah.” Twinkle said, walking over to her mother.
“Oh my gosh!” Twilight said when she noticed the cutie mark now on her daughter, “I’m so proud of you!”
“Thanks, Mom.” Twinkle replied.
“Oh,” Discord said to his wife, “Did I mention that our son has his cutie mark, too?”
“No,” Fluttershy said, upset, before suddenly turning happy, “But that’s great news! Our little son has his mark! What is it?”
Zany showed his cutie mark to his mother.
“Oh, a little spiral! Like your handsome red eyes and your sister’s pretty pink ones.” Fluttershy said.
“Yeah. I think it represents chaos and the chaotic abilities I have and what I could do with them.” Zany said.
“It’s so symbolic! I love it!” Fluttershy said.
“I think Twinkle’s has to do with magic. Could I take Twinkle to Canterlot, even just for a little while, so that if I’m right, she could Perdue magic with the help of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna?” Twilight asked Fluttershy.
“Sure.” Fluttershy said, slightly disappointed.
“Then we’ll have the cute-ceañera tomorrow then I’ll leave to Canterlot with Twinkle!” Twilight said, very upbeat.