"Hurry!!" Gallus shouted and flew into the direction of the School of Friendship. "Quick!"

The Young Six hurried as fast as they could, followed by Precious-la and Autumn Blaze. Both were panting incredibly due to the running.

"Can you please slow down?" Precious-la panted. "I can't run for such a long time in such a high velocity!"

"Stop whining!" Smolder said harshly, panting as well. "We need to get to the School of Friendship, quick!"

Silverstream dashed past Gallus in her highest velocity and immediately stopped in front of the huge building. She wiped the sweat with the back of her hippogriff claw out of her forehead and smiled confidently.

But suddenly, her smile was erased, as she looked at the school. It was already locked and surrounded by a turquoise aura. They were too late.

Without much thinking, Silverstream dashed in the direction of her still running group again and almost crashed into Gallus.

"Look out," he exclaimed.

Silverstream didn't apologize. She just panted nervously, "We're late!"

Yona gasped in shock, but Smolder pointed with her finger at Precious-la. "It's all her fault!"

"What? That's not true!" Precious-la panted horrified.

"You wanted us to slow down!" Smolder accused harshly.

"Calm down!" Ocellus interfered, trying to calm down her friends. "There must have been another way."

"Okay which way excactly?" Gallus asked sarcastically. "Oh I get it. We can easily wander into our school, it's just locked with the possibly most secure door locking spell in the history of Equestria."

"I know a way!" Precious-la gasped and rised a hoof, like she was still in her classes.

"You can't extinguish Twilight's spell with one of your spells," Sandbar answered, "just because you're be best student."

"No I meant another way," Precious-la said. "We can go into Discord's amusement park and find our shelter there."

"WHAT?" the Young Six including Autumn Blaze gasped.

"Are you mental?" Autumn Blaze exclaimed.

"No way!" Smolder shouted.

"I'm serious," Precious-la went on, ignoring the comments of the others. "Since the School of Friendship is already closed and we have no other shelters to go to, it's almost the safest place to do to his amusement park."

Ocellus glared at Precious-la and eventually decided, "Precious-la could be right."

"But Yona never in amusement park before," Yona whispered anxiously.

"We still have to try," Autumn Blaze said and looked at Precious-la. "I thrust her."

Precious-la had a short glance at her kirin friend, but then she swiftly headed forward into the direction to Discord's amusement park.

"Follow me!" she commanded.

The others followed her and arrived at a weirdly-shaped building in the shape of Discord's head. Onto his head, there were huge, brightly-shining, glittering, pink, weirdly-written, almost japanese-looking letters, which said, "DISCORD'S AMUSEMENT PARK." However, except of Discord's head, there were no other visible parts of his supposedly amusement park.

The Young Six exchanged unsure glares and stared at the single statue of Discord's head, which is supposed to be a whole amusement park.

"Are you sure that's it?" Sandbar asked and still glanced suspiciously at the statue.

"I'm absolutely sure!" Precious-la replied confidently and pointed at the conspicuous, huge letters. "It clearly says 'Discord's amusement park'."

"How can it be?" Silverstream whispered in unbelief.

"I have no idea!" Precious-la happily squealed. "It's Discord, he can do anything!"

Without saying any further words, Precious-la stepped into the entrance of the supposedly amusement park, which had the form of Discord's widely opened mouth, and vanished in the inside of it with a half-horrified, half-amused loud scream.

"Precious-la!" Autumn Blaze gasped and followed her into Discord's mouth.

She also disappeared with a scream.

The Young Six hesitated for a while, but eventually, they still followed Precious-la.

They carefully stepped into Discord's mouth, but once, they entered, they felt the ground under their hooves weirdly moving. Gallus turned his head and realized, that the ground was Discord's tongue, they were standing on, which bended slowly and suddenly swallowed the Young Six all at one.

They were transported into a dark, moist slide, supposed to be Discord's esophagus, which leaded them almost vertically downwards, so that they were practically in a free fall. The slide was too narrow for Gallus, Ocellus and Silverstream to spread their wings, so they fell and fell, meanwhile screaming.

Then, the Young Six saw a blue light at the end of the slide and expected to be crashing harshly at the ground. However, a few centrimetres before they reached the ground, an unknown force made them abruptly slowing down, causing them almost floating until their hooves reached the bright, turquoise ground smoothly.

"That was so fun, right?" Precious-la squealed excited with widened pupils. "Discord was sure creative, when creating this awesome slide."

None of the Young Six replied. They were still deeply shocked and absolutely confused by the experience of the entrance, they just had.

But Precious-la didn't care and just bounced happily around the group, as if they had just been into the "Rainbow Unicorn Paradise Land" together.

"And it's even getting better," she continued with excitement, "because we're going to safe Equestria together as friends and maybe can even use the Elements of Harmony and then, we're officially friend, that's gr..."

"NO!" Smolder shouted loudly.

She was the first one, who found her voice again, and looked rather upset and excited.

"We're not going to safe Equestria together, because that's not your thing and you shouldn't interfere into things, you're not supposed to!"

"Why not? I just want to help!" Precious-la defended herself.

"Anyways, she hates me anyways," she pointed at Smolder and arrogantly rised her head. "But you don't mind to have another helper, do you?"

"So you just lead us into Discord's amusement park just to join us?" Sandbar concluded, sounding upset as well.

"Yep!" Precious-la admitted, smiling widely. "But to be honest, isn't that great?"

"How dare you?" Gallus exclaimed.

"Why don't you want to accept me? Why?" Precious-la suddenly didn't sound happy at all, rather confused.

"Anyways," she arrogantly rised her head again.

She stepped to Silverstream and stopped directly next to her.

"You like fun, don't you?" Precious-la began. "Just like me. You will certainly accept me and we will be best friends!"

Silverstream glared at Precious-la for a few seconds. Although, she didn't look as upset as the others, she didn't say anything.

"I count it as a yes," Precious-la rhetorically replied, smiling so widely, that she showed all her teeth.

"No," Silverstream eventually replied.

But Precious-la already teleported next to Yona and asked almost begging, "And yooooooou??"

"Yona not think, Precious-pony should be hero!" Yona said bravely.

"I think, Yona is right," Ocellus interfered.

From the surface, she still looked calm, but Precious-la could see, that she was as upset as the others.

"You tried too hard to be one of us," Ocellus explained. "I understand, that you only want to help us, but the point is, that you want to be an Element of Harmony and all you do is bringing us into more trouble and the worst is, that you're not even noticing that!"

Precious-la teleported away from Yona in front of Ocellus and suddenly was quiet.

"You shouldn't be someone, you're clearly not, and it's our job to save Equestria, not yours," Ocellus went on, her voice became harsher. "You can help us by just not interfering and we're tired of you just wanting to be part of everything and interfering into anything you see. I realize, that I should have to tell you that earlier, but I didn't and it's my fault: You're an annoying nuisance!"

"And you're an egocentric jerk!" Autumn Blaze shouted upsetly, even more upset than any Young Six member, and with tears in her eyes and shaking hooves.

"You don't even care about me! You don't even care about Lithium! All you care about is about yourself and the Young Six. You just care about your own popularity and staying with the cool guys and not such an outsider like me, or a nerd like Lithium!"

Autumn Blaze' whole body was shaking and around her eyes, there was already a mysterious red and back nebula. Slowly but surely, she is turning into a nirik. But Autumn Blaze didn't care, in whom she is turning.

"First I thought, you could be the best friend, I never had in my village, but I admit, that I can't be more wrong!" Autumn's mane is turning into a red-black nebula shaped nirik mane as well. "You don't want me as your friend! You just want the Young Six and the Elements of Harmony, that's everything you want! You want Silverstream, you want Yona, but you don't want me! Autumn Blaze! Because I'm. Not. Important!!!"

Precious-la still didn't say anything but only stupidly stared between Ocellus and the almost wholly turned into a nirik Autumn Blaze.

The rest of the Young Six was quiet as well, eager to hear, what Ocellus and Autumn Blaze still have to say.

"Now you're not interfering anymore, Precious-la!" Ocellus exclaimed, almost shouting. "And that's good so. For everyone!"

"Fine," Precious-la just said, shortly and coldly.

She raised her head as she already had done many times in this cave and marshed to a turquoise glowing door. She stopped to push the door open and bright, yellow sunlight shone from the inside of the door into the room.

"Fine," Precious-la repeated.

She stepped into the other room first with her forehooves, then with her right backhoof. Then, she turned her head again and said coldly, "I'm leaving, happy?"

She didn't expect any answer from any of the Young Six, nor from Autumn Blaze and also stepped in with her leaving, left backhoof.

The door behind her automatically closed and right in this moment, the Young Six noticed for the first time, that they were located in a circular room, where everything was made of blue stained glass and where on the walls of the room were about a dozen turquoise glowing doors. The door, from which Precious-la had disappeared was only one of many.

Soon as the door closed, the walls of the room began to rotate swiftly. So fast, that for a few moments, the turquoise glow of the doors became blurred and indistinct and it was plain impossible to recognize them.

The ground, on which the Young Six and Autumn Blaze stood, rotated as well and made them all feel dizzy and confused.

Then, the walls and the ground stopped rotating and every door was on its accurate location again. But it was impossible to spot out, from which door excactly Precious-la disappeared. Every door looked the same and had the same distance to each other. There was absolutely no difference between them.

The Young Six looked at each other, not knowing how to comment the experience, they just made.

Autumn Blaze already calmed down and turned into her usual kirin form again. She anxiously glanced at the Young Six and whispered a timid, "sorry."

"It's probably not your fault," Ocellus said, staring at one of the doors.

***

In the meanwhile, Precious-la was located in another room, but she wasn't sure whether to call it room anymore.

Once the door closed behind her, it also disappeared and Precious-la found herself on a wide, purple and orange patched grasslands. She couldn't figure out, where the borders of the room were, if there were any borders at all.

And she wasn't even sure, whether she wanted to figure the borders out. Her thoughts were still stuck at the conservation with the Young Six and Autumn Blaze, making her feel gloomy and bad.

"You're an annoying nuisance!" Ocellus' voice haunted in her head, sounding ten times as angry as it actually was.

Precious-la was sure, that she was only hallucinating and closed her ears, but that didn't avoid Autumn Blaze's angry voice shouting in her head, "You don't want me as your friend!"

Autumn Blaze' nirik form appeared in front of her, but Precious-la only closed her eyes and shook her head.

As she opened her eyes again, she stared forwards to focus on finding out, where excactly she was, until she saw a few pink cotton candy clouds nor far away from her.

She remembered back the speech from her teachers and suddenly reminded herself to a certain part of the whole speech, "To eatable cotton candy clouds, from which chocolate milk rains."

"Holy Celestia!" she gasped happily, "I must have been in Discord's amusement park!"

Without thinking, Precious-la dashed as fast as she could to the cotton candy clouds, feeling her own excitement rushing through her body. But then she abruptly stopped.

She noticed, that she could also easily teleport to the clouds, so she did a teleported right under a particulary huge cotton candy cloud.

The cotton candy cloud noticed Precious-la standing under it and began to rain chocolate rain and candy corn for her.

Precious-la gasped happily and opened her mouth to catch all the sweets with her tongue, before they reached the ground.

The chocolate milk was so delicious, that Precious-la thought, it was the best thing, she ever ate and in combination with the candy corn melting onto her tongue, it made everything better.

Precious-la's gloom from the round room was immediately wiped away and she was happier than ever in her life.

She used her magic to tear out a part of the cotton candy cloud and it suddenly stopped raining chocolate rain and candy corn.

Precious-la didn't care. She ate the cotton candy and made it melt into her mouth. She smiled confidently.

"Isn't it gorgeous?" a mysterious voice chuckled behind her.

Precious-la turned her body to check out, who said that sentence and only saw a kirin-like pony in front of her.

Her body was pink like the cotton candy clouds and her mane was purple, just like Diamond Tiara's. But instead of pupils, she only had pink swirls in her purple eyes, which were looking calmly, but determined at Precious-la.

The pony stepped one step forwards to Precious-la and streched out her right hoof. She smiled and said calmly, "Nice to meet you. I'm Screwball."

"Screwball."

The name rang in Precious-la's ears and she remembered, what Twilight told Ocellus and Silverstream about Screwball.

Is it the Screwball? The Screwball, who took Chancellor Neighsay's, Starlight's or even Lithium's friendship experience?

"What do you want?" Precious-la eventually decided to ask Screwball.

"I know, what I am doing," Screwball said slowly. "And I know, why I came to you."

Screwball took one breath and paused for a moment, until she finally admitted, "I need your help."

"My help?" Precious-la asked and constricted her eyes, "in what?"

Screwball pointed with her right hoof at the top of her head and in that moment, Precious-la noticed the long, grey horn at the top of her beanie.

"To get the magic from all of Equestria." Screwball smiled widely. "From all of Ponyville."

Precious-la automatically gasped and stared unbelieving at Screwball.

"No way!" she shouted angrily. "There's no way that I'm gonna helping you!"

Screwball just raised her hoof to let Precious-la calm down. "I explicitely chose you and you can't pretend, that I don't know anything about you."

Precious-la opened her mouth to protest, but Screwball went on.

"I already know, that the Young Six don't want anything to do with you."

"That's not true!" Precious-la shouted firstly, but then, she stopped herself from yelling and looked at Screwball with confusion. "How did you know?"

"I already told you, that I don't know nothing about you," Screwball answered shortly. "You can't deny, that the Young Six don't want you to be in their team."

This time, Precious-la only glared at Screwball, constantly shaking her head.

"You're wrong in their team. It doesn't suit you and you're not a holder of any Element of Harmony," Screwball went on.

"It may be true, that I don't suit in their team," Precious-la said, "but that doesn't mean, I will automatically help you. You're a villain and all the things you've done is evil and bad and I will never. Ever. Help. You!"

Screwball smiled and replied, "That's because I have no friends. And you don't have any either. You tried too hard."

"W...what?" Precious-la exclaimed. "I have friends!"

But then, she heard Ocellus' voice in her head again, "You tried too hard to be one of us."

"You wanted to be a hero so much," Screwball continued, "but you're not. They didn't let you being a hero, so it's time to be the villain. We can archieve great together as a team. You'll know, that you'll find the friend in me, you never had. And you'll never have."

"No!" Precious-la replied. "No, no, no! I already decided, that I will not be in your team and destroy Equestria! I almost made the mistake and I will certainly not make it twice!"

Precious-la stopped for a while, but soon went on, "though I'm not one of the Young Six, I'm still a hero, not a villain like you! I will never do bad things like you did!"

Precious-la expected Screwball to flip out, but instead, her enemy just slightly nodded her head and smiled.

"Hm," she said, "you have the choice. But if you don't want to join me, I have to annihilate you."

"Annihilate me?" Precious-la asked. "You can't threaten me. I won't be at your side!"

Screwball pretended not having noticed Precious-la's last sentence. "You already know too much from me. Either you join me, or you have to go through the same torture like Lithium."

Lithium?

"You don't even care about Lithium!" Autumn Blaze' voice haunted in her head.

"What did you do to Lithium?" Precious-la gasped.

"She lost her friendship experience," Screwball admitted directly, "and you will too."

Screwball did a pause and deeply stared at Precious-la with her spiral eyes.

"So, what do you want? Join or loose your friendship experience?" Screwball eventually asked, still staring at Precious-la.

"I have to think about first," Precious-la mumbled unsurely.

She turned away from Screwball and glared at a cotton candy cloud, reflecting about the situation from before, when she argued with the Young Six. Memories floated through her mind and the voices of the Young Six haunted her.

"Be aware," Screwball whispered, "that you cannot do anything against me anyways. You're not a hero. I'm much more powerful than you are and it's stupid of you to fight against me. Except you want to end like your old friend Lithium."

"Yona not think, Precious-pony should be hero!" Yona's voice haunted.

Precious-la tried to push that voice away, but everything she did was making Ocellus' voice appear, "I think, Yona is right. You shouldn't be someone, you're clearly not."

"I can't wait all day," Screwball said, a bit harsher than before. "If you don't decide, I will take your experience without permission."

Precious-la turned her body to Screwball again, opened her mouth and slowly said, "Yes."

"I agree with this collaboration," she went on and bowed in front of Screwball.

Screwball stared at Precious-la, but then, she laughed out loud and raised her hooves up. It was an evil laughter full of wicked plans and the huge delight of finally getting a partner. Screwball laughed and laughed.

"We will rule Equestria together!" she shouted in joy and bounced around in happiness.

Precious-la, still bowing, glanced at her new partner and smiled timidly. And a wicked expression developed on her face.

Screwball fired a beam from her grey horn into the void and made a glowing, blue door appear. She opened that door and Precious-la could see, that it leaded to Ponyville, outside of Discord's amusement park.

Precious-la stopped bowing and went through the door outside and Screwball followed her.

As soon as they were outside, the door disappeared. Screwball and Precious-la turned to each other and began to laugh again. With an evil laughter.

Author's Note

Discord's amusement park is a institution, that I created and invented on my own. It's not in the canon.