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// Prologue 
// Story: How the Mane 6 met Screwball 
// by Musiclover435 
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When Discord had first taken over Equestria, he was always having a blast. Causing chaos everywhere, making everyone pony miserable, annoying the Princesses, and overall having non-stop fun but eventually, he was starting to get bored. 

One day, Discord was just laying on a cotton candy cloud when he noticed an adult male unicorn was playing with his unicorn daughter. "You're the best daddy ever! I love you!" The young unicorn said as she hugged her father. 

"I love you too!" 

'Hmm. They're a family.' Discord did not remember his family. He doesn't know anything about his father nor his mother. So, he has always been alone. 'I wonder... if I can create flying pigs, and make things pop out of nowhere, who says I can't create a filly. Somepony to appreciate my chaos.' Discord got up from his cloud and started to imagine what a child like him would look like. "Let's see. If I were to have a filly or a foal, then I would want them to be as chaotic as me. I would also want them to be an unexpected aspect so an Earth Pony." Using a cotton candy cloud, he started to create the filly/colt of his dreams. He thought to himself for a minute then smiled. "Well, I wouldn't want them to just look like an ordinary Earth Pony so their eyes must be unique."

Finally, after a few minutes of crafting the cotton candy cloud. Discord had finally created the filly of his dreams. "Okay, a pink pony with swirls for eyes and a purple and white mane. Now for the main event." Concentrating on his chaotic magic, Discord started to use his magic on the cotton candy cloud that was in the shape of a young filly. Once Discord finished, he stared at the cloud and waited for something to happen but nothing did. He turned away from the cotton candy cloud slightly disappointed. "Hmm. A failure. Too bad, it would have been nice to have somepony to play with."

"What is this stuff? Why is it sticky?" A small female voice asked. Discord turned around to see a pink with a purple and white mane and swirls for eyes covered in cotton candy from the neck down. 

Discord smiled. 'It worked! I created a filly!' 

"It's called cotton candy. You can eat it and it tastes very sweet."

The young filly was hesitant but she carefully brought her hoof closer to her face and licked it. She smiled at the taste. "This cotton candy taste amazing! It's so sweet!" She shook off the rest of the cotton candy and proceeded to eat the cotton candy that once surrounded her. Once she finished, she looked at Discord's wings then she saw that she didn't have any wings. So, she fell from the sky. "Ahhhh!"

"No!" Discord teleported the young filly into his arms. She curled into his arms and shook in fear. "I've got you. You're going to be fine." 

The filly opened her eyes and looked up at Discord. "Whoa... can we do that again?!"

Discord smiled as he chuckled to himself. "I don't think that's a good idea. We'll need something to help you fly."

"What about those things on your back?"

Discord shook his head. "You will need something that is so chaotic that no pony will be able to look away." Discord thought to himself for a moment. "I've got it." He snapped his fingers and a yellow and green propeller hat appeared. 

"Whoa! How did you do that?!" She asked with amazement in her voice.

"Don't worry. I will teach you." He placed the hat on her head. "There. That should help you fly. Want to try?"

"Okay. You'll catch me, right?"

Discord nodded. "Of course." Carefully, he watched her leave his arms and she floated in the air. "I did it! I did it!"

"Yes, you did, my little abomination!" 

She looked at him curiously. "What does that mean? Who are you? Who am I? Why do we look different?"

"Well... I don't know how to answer the first question but I am Discord, the God of Chaos and you, my dear, are..." Discord suddenly realized that he never came up with a name for the filly he created. "Screwball. Your name is Screwball and you, my dear, are my daughter. The daughter of chaos. You can do anything I can do. You think of something and it will appear."

"Hmm. Okay." Screwball closed her eyes and concentrated. She really liked cotton candy and wanted more of it. When she opened her eyes, a cloud of cotton candy appeared. "Yay! More cotton candy!!" She proceeded to eat the cotton candy happily.

"You know, there's more to eat than just cotton candy," He said with mischievousness in his voice.

She looked at him with awe in her eyes. "There is! Can you teach me, Discord?"

"Of course, Screwy. I'm your daddy Discord. I will teach you everything I know."

"YAY!!"



Screwball quickly learned how to use her chaos powers properly. In fact, she even helped Discord create all sorts of new ways to create chaos throughout Equestria, like cotton candy clouds that made it rain chocolate milk. Until one day, everything changed for both Discord and Screwball.

For Discord and Screwball, everything was perfect. Discord has somepony to appreciate his chaos and a child to call his own. She was perfect and more importantly, made him happier than being alone. "This is so much fun! What else are we going to do?!" 

"I don't know, my little abomination, but I'm sure we'll think of something." Suddenly, he heard hoof steps from behind him. "Screwy, I want you to go cause some chaos somewhere while I deal with these two ponies."

She nodded. "Okay, daddy. I'll show you what I did when I return." Then she teleported away.

Discord turned around and saw Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. "Oh, this is so much fun. How about a game of 'Pin the Tail on the Pony'?" Discord said as he magically pulled Princess Celestia's tail out of nowhere.

Princess Celestia gasped once she saw that her tail was gone. Playtime is over for you, Discord."

"Oh, I doubt that." He pulled out a bag of black seeds and started to eat them happily, without a care in the world. "Hungry?" The two princesses said nothing as the seeds fell on them. "Suit yourselves." With a look of determination, the princesses opened their saddlebags and pulled out six different colored gems. "Oh! What have you got there?"

"The Elements of Harmony." A pink dome surrounded the two princesses as the elements started to swirl around them.

"With them, we shall defeat you," Princess Luna told him. 

Discord laughed. "You should see yourselves right now. The expressions on your face. So intense. So sure of yourselves." He continued to laugh as the princesses put their horns together and a rainbow appeared. The rainbow went up in the air and went directly to Discord. "Hilarious!" Discord continued to laugh but before he could realize what happened, it was too late, he has been turned to stone.



Screwball flew through the air laughing happily as she searched for something to do to cause chaos. "Now, where can I cause some chaos?" In an instant, the sky turned from pink to blue, the rocks that were floating in the air were gone and back on the ground. Trees were brown and green and even the ground was green. 

"What happened? Why did everything change? This isn't what the sky or ground looks like!" She got a bad feeling in her gut so she teleported herself back to her father's throne but a good distance away from where no pony could see her. He told her to make sure that she blended in with other ponies so they could pull their tricks and cause chaos. She walked over and found a white pony with wings and a unicorn horn and a blue pony with wings and a horn just staring at her father. "Daddy?" She whispered to herself. 

"We did it, sister. Discord's reign is no more," The blue pony said.

"Yes, we must keep a close eye on Discord. We mustn't let him escape again." She watched as the white pony used her magic to lift her father and quietly followed the ponies back to a castle. "Whoa! This place is huge."

She walked through the small town and heard everypony cheer at the defeat of Discord. 'Why are they so happy? Those meanies took my daddy away from me! We didn't do anything wrong. We were just having fun.'

She continued to follow the ponies until they stopped in a garden. They set Discord's statue down then left. Once Screwball saw that no pony was around, she ran over to Discord and called out to him. "Daddy? Can you hear me?"

There was no response. Discord just stood still.

Tears started to form in Screwball's eyes. She just laid in front of Discord's statue and started to cry. She was now alone with no one to call a friend. Discord always told her that no pony would understand them because they were different. 'Now what? Daddy is gone. I'm... alone...'

Screwball eventually fell asleep in front of Discord. She felt the warmth of the sun on her face. She woke up hoping that yesterday was a bad dream but unfortunately it wasn't. Discord was gone. Frozen in a stone statue forever. 

Screwball flew up so she could look at Discord's face. "Daddy," She said sadly as she put a hoof on his face. 

"It's so nice that the plants are back to normal."

"Indeed. Now we can make sure that the garden is beautiful once again."

Screwball gasped at the sound of the voices. 'I can't stay here. I need to leave.' Screwball teleported herself away from the garden before the two ponies could see her. "Sorry, Daddy. I'll find a way to free you. I promise."

And thus started Screwball's journey. Screwball stayed hidden in the shadows and whenever somepony asked her about her parents, she gave them the same answer. "My daddy is busy so I went on a walk." Everypony bought her story, no matter how many times she gave them her excuse.

She went to the library every day to read and learn about how to free her father. She had to teach herself how to read since Discord didn't teach her yet. She learned all sorts of things. The ponies who turned her father to stone were Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. She lived in a land called Equestria and she was an Earth pony, which she knew but didn't know what it meant, but apparently, it meant that she wasn't able to use magic or fly so she shouldn't use her chaos magic or fly around other ponies.

One thing that Screwball did was go to Discord's statue and talk to him. She told him everything she learned from her books and what she did with her chaos magic. She told him that she tried to recreate the world he made but was unsuccessful. She also said that she couldn't find a way to free him and she looked through everything she could in the library.

One day, all that changed. It was a normal day for Screwball, she had stolen food from a farmer since she didn't have any bits and she wanted to talk to her daddy. She trotted happily to his statue until she ran into somepony. "Oh, uh, I'm sorry..." She looked up and her eyes grew big with fear. She had bumped into Princess Celestia.

Princess Celestia went down to her level and said, "It's quite all right little filly. I'm afraid I haven't seen you around before. I think I would remember a filly with your unique eyes. What are you doing here?"

Screwball started to stumble over her word. "Um... well... my daddy is busy... so I went on... a walk..." Screwball was terrified of the Princesses. Especially Princess Celestia since she had recently banished her sister to the moon. "Oh, what about your mother? I don't she would want you wondering by yourself."

Screwball had read about mothers but she didn't have one. It was just her and Discord. Feeling the fear and pressure, Screwball ran. She ran out of the garden and out of town. She couldn't risk getting found out that she was Discord's daughter. 

Once she was out of town, she fell to the ground and the waterworks fell. She couldn't return to the Castle of the Two Sisters. Princess Celestia knew what she looked like and who knows when she would figure out that she was Discord's daughter. She turned to the faint outline of the castle. "Sorry, daddy. I'll find a way to free you and together, we will take over Equestria once more." Then she turned around and began her journey to find a way to free Discord forever.