Saving Screwy

The sun was high in the sky, and the throne room was silent as Discord waited for the princesses to respond.

The events leading up to this meeting were very important so allow me to catch you up. It was about two years since discord had been reformed, and about one year and three months since the incident with screwball had occurred.

After her father had been turned to stone, screwball found a safe place near his statue and had waited for his return. However three thousand years is a long time to take day by day, and screwball took to napping for several years at a time, waking up to check on her father and then falling back asleep.

So when she woke up one time to find that her stone encased father was gone, she was both happy and scared. She had felt his presence in equestria, but equestria was still orderly. At first she had assumed he was hiding and began causing mild but unmistakable chaos around equestria hoping to get his attention. However when no response came, she quickly began to believe that the princesses had found a different punishment for him.

And so Screwball had gone to the castle where at that moment discord was, having been called in to explain the chaos that had been happening. When screwball had charged in demanding the “witches” to let her father go, it had been a wonderful reunion.

Until discord explained that he was reformed. At first screwball went along with it, thinking her daddy was playing the princesses for a laugh. But when she discovered that he was not faking she grew scared.

She did not believe her father would ever willingly change, and so jumped to the conclusion that the princesses had done something to him and that they would do it to her too, to keep her from fixing her father.

And so she ran…. She ran from equestria and claimed a part of the everfree forest as her own, putting wards around it to keep out any beings who had a threatening amount of power.

She hadn’t been heard from since. Neither discord nor the royal sisters could enter the now chaotic land. However a year later discord stood in front of the alicorns and the elements. Stood not floated, his expression more serious and sad than it had ever been thought possible, and it frightened Celestia.

“Please help me save my daughter”…..