It's been 20 years and Discord has been happily married to Fluttershy. They had just become the grandparents to their only daughter, Screwball. Their son, Zany, had no spouse. Screwball was married to the former prince Mothball, son of Queen Chrysalis. Mothball and Screwball had a single daughter named Moonlight. Moonlight has a light lavender coat, a long wavy turquoise mane with a stripe of white, she has her father's see-through wings, and has green swirly eyes. Even though she was the granddaughter of the Lord of Chaos, she had inherited nothing from him except for a small fang protruding from her upper lip. All of Fluttershy's friends had families too. But, Discord and Fluttershy wanted to extend their family a bit more. So now, Fluttershy was expecting another foal. Which, just like Screwball had, came way sooner than they expected.
Chrysalis’ Revenge
Chapter One
By: Coco Candy
Three months were left of Fluttershy’s pregnancy, Discord and Fluttershy were sitting out in the garden in front of their "Castle of Chaos' on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Discord was reading a mildly interesting newspaper he had found in an alternate dimension called 'The Quibbler' and Fluttershy was happily feeding her beloved animals while humming an uplifting tune. Everything was quiet, with the exception of soft chewing and humming, when Fluttershy yelled out, scaring away the animals and startling Discord. He rushed to his beloved wife’s side and lifted her chin to face him. Scared and still a bit startled, he asked her "Fluttershy, what's wrong?"
She looked up with an equally scared and startled look and whimpered "I think the baby is coming early!"
Discord swiftly stood up, helping his whimpering wife to her hooves “What?! But it’s not due till three months from now!”
She angrily turned to face him “Well, I’m sorry! But this is another child of the LORD OF CHAOS!!”
‘Wow’ Discord thought to himself ‘She is so cute when she’s angry.’
Discord scooped up his wife and warped them to the emergency room, where Nurse Redheart was expected to be.
All the while, the rest of their friends were going about their day. Applejack and Spike were helping Twilight do her regular ‘re-shelving’ of all of her books in her library, Rarity was sewing baby clothes for the baby Fluttershy was supposed to be expecting three months later, and Rainbow Dash was with Soarin, pranking Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich on their date with one of their lightning bolts. Just as Dash and Soarin zapped Pinkie and Cheese, all of them were transported to the Emergency Room too. Some of the ponies fell to the ground, confused, others shook off their confusion and looked around just in time to see a multi-colored something blur by. They finally noticed each other's presence mere moments later.
Rarity gasped when she saw Pinkie and Cheese’s state. "What happened to your hair?", she squealed, rushing over with a brush. No one else had noticed the duo’s new look other than Rarity so, upon seeing them, Dash and Soarin hoof-bumped while trying not to laugh. Due to being zapped, Pinkie PIe and Cheese Sandwich’s, normally bouncy mane, was sticking up in random places and the ends were tinged black.
Pinkie and her husband started giggling which turned into huge amounts of laughter which spread to all of the beings in the area. The laughter was contagious but Spike quickly got over it, “Hold up, why are we all in the emergency room?”
The group looked around and mumbled to each other, clearly at a loss for the answer. Rainbow Dash and Soarin decided they would find out and flew off, quickly finding a doctor who was galloping at full speed. The two pegasi sped in front and stopped him.
“Hey!” They landed in front of him.
Dash started talking to him with a hint of annoyance in her voice, “Sorry to stop… whatever you’re doing but I was wondering if you could possibly know why we are here?”
Soarin had flown off but came back with a cup of water in his hooves. They let the doctor drink and take deep breaths before waiting for an answer.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Soarin of the Wonderbolts and Mrs. Rainbow Dash”, he coughed and straightened out, “I’m sure that Discord must have brought you here due to-”
"Discord?', Rainbow Dash interrupted with a now extremely worried look on her face.
Soarin put a hoof on her shoulder and turned to the doctor, finishing her thought, "Wait... is Fluttershy..?"
"Yep, Fluttershy is having her foal three months early!", the doctor finished, a hint of worry in his voice. With that, he ran off again, continuing on the way he was going, eventually leading to the room where the multi-colored blur had gone into. Dash and her partner flew back to where she had left her friends and relayed the information they had gotten from the doctor.
Applejack gasped and held onto a stone-faced Spike, Rarity fainted and Twilight had to catch her, and the party ponies were happy about having an early birthday party. Twilight looked up from Rarity,"Wait, why aren't Screwball, Mothball, Moonlight, or Zany here?"
Twilight had just finished her thought when a small pop and a loud bang came from down the hall. The group turned to see four familiar faces
"Can you warn me before you do that?", Mothball muttered, placing a hoof to his head.
"Sorry, sweetheart!", Screwball giggled, helping her husband up from the floor.
"Sheesh, dad, it was just a tiny teleportation.", Moonlight murmured, rolling her eyes. She turned around to see all of her ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ there too.
Moonlight ran up and gave her Aunt Applejack a big hug while Zany turned to Twilight, "So, did dad bring you guys here?". Twilight nodded nervously and Zany laughed, "So, our newest sibling is just as impatient as Screwy was!"
Screwball lightly slapped her brother, an embarrassed blush spreading on her face.
Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich looked like they were about to burst with excitement so when Mothball suggested going to the waiting room, those two were the first ones in there.
Thirty minutes had passed since their arrival and Screwball had brought in a few more ponies to join them: Dinky Doo, Fancy Pants, and Flash Sentry. All of them were talking quietly when a doctor came in with a large smile on his face, “I am happy to say that Fluttershy has successfully given birth to a fully grown baby girl!”
The Discord siblings sighed in relief and Zany asked, “Can we see our newest member?”
The doctor motioned for them to follow him and they walked down the corridor, Screwball and Zany on his tail with the rest of the group trying to catch up. Together, they entered the room where they were able to see the nursery. They looked around for a small amount of time before spotting a claw and a paw stick up, out of one of the cradles. Flash noticed that it was surprisingly quiet in the room and looked around, “Wait, where is Pinkie and Cheese?” Rarity tapped his shoulder and pointed to the cradle that held the filly. Standing over the cradle was PInkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich. To everyone’s dismay, Pinkie was holding a handful of balloons and her party cannon was at her side, and Cheese was holding a cake that said ‘Happy Birthday, Baby!’ and had strung up a banner that said the same thing. Applejack was about to run into the room to stop them from waking up the babies when Nurse Redheart came charging in and shooed them out, tearing down the banner and rolling out the party cannon. When she shoved the two back into the room with the rest of their friends, Pinkie groaned, “Oh come on!”
Cheese Sandwich grumbled, “I haven’t done a birthday party in forever.”
Soarin scoffed and his wife rolled her eyes, “Please, Cheese, you did a party for Prism just last week!”
“So, doc?”, Spike, turned back to the window, “She looks like her father?” The doctor walked up to the window and stood next to him, “Yes, but I left the room before I could find out anything else, so you will have to go to Discord for more information.”
“Come to me for what?”, a familiar deep voice came out of nowhere. They all turned to see their draconequus friend on the ceiling.
Fancy Pants laughed a bit, “Discord, old friend, why are you here instead of with Fluttershy?”
Discord chuckled to himself as he flipped over and floated to the ground, next to Twilight, “Well, you know, she fell asleep after a while so I figured I should let her sleep while I checked on our daughter, Illusion.”
Rarity walked up to her husband and turned to Discord, “So, you named her Illusion?”
Discord nodded excitedly, “She also has my powers, just like Zany and Screwy!”
Ditzy turned to Screwball with a mix of worried and curiosity in her goofy voice, “You’ve been quiet, Screwy. Are you all right?”
“Huh?”, Screwball snapped out of her thoughts and looked up, “Oh, sorry, I was just thinking..”, she looked back down, suddenly super interested in the hospital’s tile floor.
Discord walked up to her on all fours, the ceiling making it impossible for him to stand upright. Zany noticed that his happy expression had been replaced by a sad and knowing expression. He used his paw to lift her chin up to face him., “I think I know what’s on your mind, Screwy.”
They both looked to the window as the mismatched hands reached out of the cradle again.
“You’re worried what the other colts and fillies are going to think, right?.”
She looked around, her eyes met Dinky’s. Both of them thought about their fillyhood experiences. Thankfully, the bullies don’t really mess with them now but it hurt back then.
“I just don’t want what happened to me to happen to her.”
Dinky walked up to the two of them and hugged Screwball. Dinky knew that was what she needed. Discord smiled, he was glad that Screwball had found such caring friends at such a young age, “You know, your mother thought of that too.”
This caught Screwball’s attention fast. She broke her hug with Dinky and looked back to her smiling father,
“Do you think, if Illusion got homeschooled, that would make you feel better?”
Screwball nodded excitedly, no longer with any hint of sadness or worry on her face. She jumped up and hugged her dad tightly then turned back to the baby. She noticed that her daughter, Moonlight was looking at her aunt with wide eyes. Screwball scooted closer to her and bent down, whispering, “Moony? Can I count on you to look out for Illusion?”
Moonlight turned to her mother and saluted with a determined look on her face“You can count on me! But.. uh, how is it she’s my aunt when i’m older?”
Screwball giggled, Moonlight was always one to question everything. Discord said that she got it from her mother. If only they knew what trouble this third child was going to bring.