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// Friends Vs. Cultists 
// Story: The Spears of Chaos: Wrath of Screwball 
// by Discorded SheepcityUSA 
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The Mane Six each took on the Spears of Chaos in separate groups; fastest way to get this over with. The more time they wasted, the more danger Zecora was in and the closer Screwball got to getting the Alicorn Amulet. 

And so the battle commences.

Discord wrapped up his baddies rather quickly. With a snap of his fingers, their horns had disappeared from their heads, causing them to yell and scream in frustration.

“Arrgh our horns! How dare you take away our magic you jumbled bastard!” One of them screamed.

Discord yawned.

“Oh I’m sorry, are you not entertained? Would you maybe prefer I did THIS?!” Discord said said, snapping his talons, which made the unicorns all get stuck in a big puddle of caramel, rendering them immobile. Before any of them could yell any obscenities at Discord, he made all of their mouths zip shut.

With Discord’s batch taken care of, he looked to see how the rest of the Mane Six were fairing in their battles. It appeared that they had it handled pretty well. Twilight and Rarity were having a magic shoot out with a few cultists, Rainbow Dash was repeatedly punching one in his bloodied muzzle, and Applejack had been pinned for a moment by one of them, but was almost immediately thrown off and bucked into a tree, and Pinkie Pie was happily blasting away with her party cannon in their direction. The only ones who were having real problems were unsurprisingly Fluttershy and Spike. Fluttershy had gone in, fully prepared to have to fight….

…Until she saw just how menacing that these ponies looked up close, and retreated to the ground in fear. Spike on the other hoof wasn’t afraid to fight, but he was just so short that one unicorn had a hoof held to Spike’s forehead, keeping him from moving while Spike just threw random, helpless punches that went absolutely nowhere, while the unicorn stared with a deadpan expression.

“…Okay, now this is just sad. Maybe I should spice things up a little.” Discord said to himself before snapping his fingers, which engulfed Spike and Fluttershy in light…

Once it cleared, in their place stood a fully grown purple dragon, and some sort of demonic-looking, yellow, bat pony. The sight of the two terrified the unicorns, and they attempted to flee, but was stopped by one of Spike’s gigantic claws slamming down in front of them, blocking their path. Spike then proceeded to breathe a roaring flame from his maw and released it onto the ponies, erupting a few pained screams.

“ARRRRGH! IT BURNS. MY MANE IS ON FIRE!” One of them screamed.

Fluttershy (or Flutterbat in this case), let out an ear-piercing screech, which made the stallions all cover their ears in pain.

After a few moments of silence, the trees in the forest began to rustle, and even started to shake the trunks just as violently. Then all of a sudden, a huge swarm of bats flew out of the trees and attacked the evil ponies, repeatedly flapping their wings in their faces and biting them in several places. 

After the struggle was over, the cultists lay in an exhausted and mangled heap, covered in bruises and cuts. 

Applejack wiped a bead of sweat from her brow with her hat.

“Phew. They sure didn’t give up easy.” Applejack said.

All of a sudden, large blasts of confetti shot out of the ground, nearly making everypony’s heart stop from shock.

Damn it Discord.

“Bravo everypony! Good job on beating the big, bad unicorns into the dirt!” Discord said, clapping his hands.

“Yeah that’s great and all Discord, but we aren’t out of the woods yet. We still have Screwball to deal with.” Twilight responded.

Discord proceeded to float towards the door to Zecora’s hut.

“Well, what’re you waiting for then? Equestria isn’t going to save itself you know.” Discord said, about to open it, but was punched in the shoulder by Rainbow Dash.

“Uhhh hello? Aren’t you forgetting something?” she asked, pointing to the bat-pony and enormous, purple dragon.

“Oh right.” Discord snapped his fingers, again covering the Spike and Fluttershy in whiteness, and returning them to normal.

“Whoa. Haven’t felt like THAT in quite a while.” Spike said, holding his disoriented head.

Fluttershy looked at the pile of injured ponies and gasped.

“Oh my gosh! Did I do that?!” She yelled.

Everypony nodded in unison, and Fluttershy blushed in embarrassment at her unusually aggressive actions.

“Now that these ruffians are out of the way, we need to take care of the little monster before she hurts Zecora.” Rarity said.

As you could imagine, Rainbow Dash was the first to react, immediately flying to the door and busting it down.

“…This doesn’t surprise me.” Discord said.



The ponies followed Rainbow Dash into the hut, only to be presented with a sight they had hoped NOT to see. Zecora stood motionless in the middle of the room, her coat turned slightly grey, and her eyes staring blankly into space. Screwball floated above her, giggling while spinning a silver amulet with a large, red jewel in the middle around her tail.

“What’d you do to Zecora?!” Pinkie yelled.

“Uhh, hello? Grey coat? Freaky eyes? Shouldn’t it be obvious? She’s all messed up in the head. And to think that all I did was get her to say the word “orange” and it did THAT to her. She’s like a vase; very easy to break.” Screwball jokingly said.

Twilight stomped her hoof.

“You better drop that amulet and turn Zecora back to normal Screwball! If you don’t we’re gonna just have to take it from you!” Twilight screamed.

Screwball only waved her hoof.

“You’re not in the position to be making demands Princess Twilight. I’ve got an all-powerful artifact, Equestria falling at my hooves, and an endless supply of Chaotic Magic at my command. So if you want this amulet so bad…” Screwball said before grasping the Amulet in her tail, similar to how a hand would.

“…You’re gonna have to come and get it.” Screwball said with a threatening smirk.