Twilight's Been Acting a Little Screwy Lately

by Lyrafan38

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, Twilight Sparkle, Discord, Screwball, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad
Length: 1513

Discord has won...all that remains is to create a pony who will cause chaos in Ponyville.

Discord has won. Ponyville has been twisted into a place where chaos reigns supreme. The Mane 6 were far too powerless to win the fight against him.
So all he has to do is transform Twilight into a being of pure chaos to maintain his rule over this place while he conquers Equestria.

Published 2015-05-13 01:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-13 01:00:01 UTC

A Screwball That Is

Discord looked down at his perfectly constructed chaotic utopia. Twisting Ponyville into his own sadistic playground made him smile, letting the sun cause his only tooth to slightly shine.

With things that would make logic hang itself by the end of a proverbial thick-chained rope for as long as Princess Luna was banished to the moon for a start, Discord had almost a limitless imagination as how to create chaos into his own image. True, he didn't want to use it all on the residents in this village. His next stop was Canterlot to let that mountainside town experience its own nightmare.

He picked up one of the playing cards that formed the paths and began to toss it up and down in the air, watching it flip from its back to its front at least thirty times before he caught it again.

He knew he couldn't maintain chaos in here forever. He needed a new host to hold some of his pure chaotic energy.

And he already knew who his energy was going to latch onto. They called her Twilight Sparkle.

There was almost an unlimited magical source of possibilities Discord could twist and combine with this mare's magical abilities. Such a huge amount of pure magic would let him influence his powers anywhere he desired.

And anywhere he ever desired happened to consist of the entire nation of Equestria.

He brought his attention to the lavender unicorn who was currently bowing down at his feet. At least she was supposed to be lavender. Under his chaotic work, the only color this pony was was grey. Many, many different shades of grey, but grey nonetheless.

"Now, Twilight...." Discord pondered, using a hand to slowly stroke his beard, "do you finally realize what powers I have? What chaos I am able to strike into such the quietest of places?"

"......yes." Twilight responded, her voice coming out as almost a whisper. She had finally realized that all she had wanted to do had ended in utter failure. Discord had won. Ponyville had been fully twisted into a where absolutely nothing made sense.

"However, I do realize that after I go conquer the rest of Equestria, my tightly controlled grip over this town will eventually fade over time. Now, we cannot have that happen, can we? That forces me to transfer a portion of my energy into a suitable host."

It took nearly all of Twilight's remaining energy to raise her head and look at Discord like he was crazy. Surely, he wasn't thinking about using her as his output for chaotic energy.

"And that's why I have chosen you, Twilight Sparkle. Combined with your mastering of some of the highest level spells ever known makes you the perfect requirement to create a pony who will continue my rule of chaos wherever I go. You will remain here to keep the residents in perfect chaos."

Twilight's mouth slightly opened. He was completely serious. Discord wanted to use her as his pawn in this crazy plan of his. Her face transformed into look of utter surprise as she fully registered in her mind what would happen in the near future.

Discord read this as a look of utter confusion. "Yes, you, Twilight Sparkle. There aren't any other Twilight Sparkles anywhere else in the near vicinity now, is there?"

He brought his hand up to his head and subsequently began to scratch it. "Now, I do realize this process will erase who you are entirely. Your so-called 'cutie mark' will be completely changed into the pony you will be. Now, doesn't this sound perfectly exciting? You will become the daughter of chaos, able to keep the chaos levels in this pitiful excuse for a town is currently experiencing. Then again...." Discord fired up a small spell of his own and brought it down to Twilight's horn and mane. "It's not like you are ever going to have a say in the matter now. You will become the daughter of chaos not only in body, but also in mind and spirit. You will become a part of me."

All Twilight could do was bring her eyes upwards as her previously grape and pink mane began to shorten somewhat in length and changed colors into a far lighter shade of purple with white highlights. What was Discord transforming her into? Would she even be a pony by the end of this mind game? Would she even be alive?

She racked her brain for at least one final solution she could use before she was forced to experience checkmate. However, Discord's spell caused new thoughts to enter her mind and invade her current thoughts. Thoughts of causing chaos to Ponyville's residents translated from being horrific to downright enjoyable, thoughts of being Discord's right hand in his takeover of Equestria, thoughts of becoming the most frightening pony that not even Celestia and Luna knew of.

Thoughts that entered her mind and began to take residency like screwballs.

Discord smiled to himself. His transfer was going exactly as planned. Soon, he would have someone who called him 'daddy' and be able to cause her own chaos in this sadistic playground. Logic would soon not even be a word in a dictionary with their definition.

Soon, very soon.

Twilight soon felt her color return to her. However, it wasn't her normal coat color. This filled with yet another lighter shade of purple, far lighter than her current mane and tail color. Speaking of them, they began to curl into somewhat fancy designs. They looked like Rarity had halfway worked with them using only a brush.

She ran one of her front hooves along her mane, smiling somewhat insanely as her thoughts of causing chaos won against her thoughts of defeating Discord. She was slowly becoming his own pawn in this new version of chess.

Her cutie mark began to shift as well. The image that denoted her special talent of magic began to transform into an image of a screw and a ball. Her chaotic insanity told her that she would never fully understand what this cutie mark was supposed to represent of her special talent.

Only a few more things before the transformation would be complete. Twilight would be his own soon.

Her eyes soon shrank down to the size of pinpricks, barely visible from anypony's eyes. Then, they appeared to suddenly inflate to somewhat disproportionate sizes, almost making her look like that pegasus mailmare. However, her eyes stayed put focusing in the same direction, instead of one up and one down as to how she looked. Her irises disappeared completely as the color of her eyes shifted to roughly the same color as her mane. Swirls soon came into focus, looking like Discord had attempted to draw a circle and utterly failed in the process.

It was almost complete. One of the few things he had left was to make sure that she called him by her own title.

"Now, my daughter Screwball...." Discord said. "How do you feel?"

Twilight instantly leapt to her hooves in pure excitement. "Wonderful, daddy!" she exclaimed, bouncing up and down like that earth pony who worked at the gingerbread bakery. "I feel as chaotic as I've ever been!"

Discord openly smiled. Screwball had been fully transformed. His own little bundle of chaos energy was living right in front of him, ready to cause her own chaotic mayhem in her own way.

She continued to leap around her daddy excitedely. "What are we gonna do now, Daddy? What are we gonna do?"

He looked down at his daughter, using a hand to calm her down. "Now, Screwball, I'm going to conquer the rest of this pitiful nation. It will drown in chocolate rain."

Twilight------no, Screwball, as she has always been known across Equestria------looked up at her daddy rather gleefully. "Can I come with you?"

"No, Screwball.'

"You're no fun."

"Screwball, I want you to have fun. That's why I'm giving you the most ultimate playground far better than the one at our house. This village is yours entirely to exercise your chaotic powers in."

Screwball attempted to bounce again, to no success since she was currently being held a few feet off the ground. "Yay, thank you, daddy!"

Discord let Screwball down on the ground again as he watched her rush off into the twisted version of this pathetic town to her own amusement as he flew off towards Canterlot to start the next step of the plan. Screwball could take care of herself.

She was the daughter of chaos. She was unable to be stopped by any means known to ponykind.

One small sentence escaped her mouth as she began to formulate how to cause her own version of chaos.

"I missed you, daddy."

Twilight Sparkle was no more.

Author's Note

Story inspired by the cover image, the song Daddy Discord by dBPony, and a dream I had.
Also, I feel like I should expand on this idea some more in later stories. What would you guys think?