Reform Therapy

by Quoterific

Rating: everyone
Tags: Comedy, Random, Discord, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Fluttershy
Length: 1804

Four villains, one pony and the Lord of Chaos watching over them. How bad can it be?

Inspired by the fanart: Reform Therapy
By Doodle-Mark
A writing challenge by Tranquility Soul

Discord managed to persuade her friend to take up the challenge of trying to change four villains of their ways. Discord is here for protection and support, whilst Fluttershy tries to get every villain to settle. However, things can only be good up to a certain point with four villains in the room.

First time writing a one-off story like this. There's always room to jump up on improvement from there, but this is, for now, the best I can muster up with the amount of imagination and character knowledge I can put up with.

Published 2021-04-27 15:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2021-04-27 15:00:00 UTC

Class Is In Session

"Alright, gather round, gather round," The Lord of Chaos declared to all four villains who sat round in a circle, "And that includes you, King Spreadable." Discord shook the glass jar like a child shaking a poor goldfish in a bad. Sombra scowled from inside his transparent prison. The overthrown king would rather let a rainbow laser strike him down than be forced to sit in some reformation lecture, treated like a school filly.

"Please," The Changeling Queen hissed at Discord, "I would rather be a garden centrepiece than be forced to go through this meaningless garbage talk. I have a hive to reclaim, revenge to seek out and above all else," she huffed, "I'm so hungry."

"You're lucky Princess Celestia gave you this chance, with my persuasion of course," Discord sighed, "She has sealed up this room for the occasion, should anything go south. So I hope you are at your best behaviour. You might gets some brownie points for your effort." He laughed at his mockery, causing Chrysalis to scour even more.

"Well I think this is going to be super-duper fun," Cozy sat down on her pillow, "I think we talk our problems and get along the best we can."

"Here we go again, with the whole Goodie-Two-Shoes act," Tirek huffed, "We're not falling for that nonsense again. You, Miss Bug Queen over there and I have nothing in common!"

"Finally," Chrysalis threw her hooves in the air, "Something we all agree on!" Cozy just huffed at their antics.

It was at that moment the door opened causing all heads to turn towards it. What every villain in the room didn't expect to be their reforming teacher was the Element of Kindness. They turned to each other, before fits of laughter filled the room. Even King Sombra gave a laugh in his jar. Fluttershy looked at Discord, who simply crossed his arms and giving the shy pegasus a smirk. Never judge a book by its cover.

"This is just too rich," Chrysalis laughed, "Our teacher is the shy one. What are you going to do? Mark us down for our homework? Make us sit in he naughty corner?" Chrysalis continued laughing. Fluttershy rolled her eyes. She flew up to the queen, and gave her the biggest Stare she could muster. The others have stopped their laughing and turned to the yellow pegasus in fascination.

"Wh-What are you doing?" Chrysalis began to tremble, which was very unlike her, "Is it me or has it gotten hot in here! Stop it! Stop it please! I take it back. This feels like a far worse fate than being turned to stone. This is like, piercing into my very exoskeleton. Okay! Okay! I'll behave." Chrysalis begged as she tried to turn away from Fluttershy's gaze, but it was in vain. The others were now looking at her with a new sense of horror. A horror only a true villain could understand when they have taken a step too far.

"Now listen here Chrysalis," Fluttershy spoke with a fierce tone, "You may think your plans of revenge is all going to fall through, but what is going to fall through is how selfish and self-centred your plans really are. I can see that plan through you like the very holes in your legs. I am here as your teacher to show you have love is more powerful and stronger than being taken away. The plans you have are are as more crazy than talking to a log. Do you understand?" Chrysalis gave a small nod, as beads of sweat.

"How did you know about my habit?" Chrysalis whimpered.

"Discord," Fluttershy simple answered. She then turned to the others, who straightened up, trying to act less intimidated. Discord observed her actions. She was truly the mouse taming the elephants.

"And you think you're Mister Hot Shot?" Fluttershy turned to Tirek, "You may eat magic, but today I'm gonna make you eat up everything bad you ever did. You hear me?" Tirek nodded silently. She then turned her attention to the King in the jar.

"Well, well, well," Fluttershy lifted the jar up to her face, "You may have trapped us in a crystal prison before, but guess who's trapped this time? What are you going to do? Grant all my three wishes, Mr Genie? Well, today I'm gonna make you wish you you didn't do all those bad things you did before." Sombra backed as far from her in his far as he could.

"And little Miss Shout Fuse sitting here," Fluttershy finished on Cozy Glow, "Fitting, since you're cutie mark is a chess piece, but I'm afraid that when I'm done with you, it will be checkmate and game over for you. You want power, adoration and to be stronger. However, nothing is stronger than having your friends there to life you higher. I'm disappointed that you can't see it still."

Fluttershy then released them from her iron stare and blinked back into normal. The room suddenly cooled down and every villain in the room took a deep breath that they weren't realise they were holding.

"That, was different," Chrysalis said.

"It's always the quiet ones," Tirek huffed in annoyance.

"When she wants to have a say, she goes for it," Discord proudly declared, "You don't want to be in the path of her wrath."

"I know how to let others feel my wrath," Chrysalis snorted, "That's how I controlled my hive in the first place."

Fluttershy cleared her throat, "Okay class, I want to start off by each creature holding hands and say something nice about each other."

"Not this again!" Tirek shouted, "Cozy made us do it last time."

"I thought it was a good idea," Cozy mused. Fluttershy just facehoofed and turned to her friend.

"Just do as she says," Discord huffed. The others held hands whilst Discord took Sombra into the circle.

"Tirek, you say something nice about Chryalis," Fluttershy instructed.

"She's...Black?" Tirek strained, causing Chrysalis rolled her eyes.

"Try harder," Fluttershy suggested. Tirek gritted his teeth.

"Like what? Her legs are like cheese that I can imagine putting inside a sandwich? Then I can spread some Sombra onto the bread?"

"I beg your pardon?!" Chrysalis cried out in anger, her horn sparking as she glared daggers. She spat some green slime onto the floor in disgust. Sombra festered in his prison at the joke.

"Enough!" Fluttershy huffed, "Chrysalis, try it with Cozy." The changeling queen turned to the pink pegasus. The pegasus was slowly turning red.

"You're cute when you're angry," Chrysalis smirked.

"I'm not angry!" Cozy shouted in defense, "I am adorable!"

"No you're not!" Tirek huffed, "They are opposite things."

"Right! That is it! Discord, could you please do the Final Resort!" Discord snapped his fingers and a portal opened beneath them. They all fell in screaming and Discord chucked the jar in with them. Discord snapped his fingers and the portal closed behind them. Fluttershy breathed a sigh of relief, before going to the counter and pouring herself some tea. She gave Discord a cup and the two sat together in the room, thinking about the chaos that has happened today.

"Did I go too far?" Fluttershy asked with trepidation.

"Believe me," Discord sighed, "I've seen worse. I know chaos when I see it, but that was the short of chaos I do not want my friend to be in the middle of." Fluttershy gave her friend a thankful smile as she sipped her tea, her nerves settling on what she had to do.

"I tried," Fluttershy sighed.

"You did your best," Discord patted on her friend's back, "But they were for from the point of redemption now. You helped me when Celestia knew I could be better. You are my reformer, along with many others. Think about all your victories and focus less on your defeats. I knew this was a big step, but I really thought you had things under control. They were terrible at working together from the start. Even claiming the Bewitching Bell, they still had their differences. You deserve a whole lot of credit than what you think."

"Thank you," Fluttershy hugged him. Then looked up at him with a concerned look.

"Was I being a bit too...brash?"

"You needed to be," Discord sighed, "You've come a long way, so I've heard your friends talk. That was pretty good talking back, if I do say so myself."

"Just a few things from Iron Will that I managed to contain, plus some lessons on inner-strength I've got from Rarity at her boutique in Manehattan."

"Besides that," Discord stroked her mane carefully, "It was a big push to do something like this. As I mentioned, you helped me, so I was wondering what I could do for them. My 'test' for Twilight's confidence didn't go so well."

"Was this a test for me?" Discord looked at her friend, who was looking away, "I thought you promised not to do these things. You have the right intensions, but I think you placed them in the wrong way."

"Being the Lord of Chaos, I do tend to do these sorts of things."

"I was just so angry I, I could just scream!" She gasped before letting a meek scream escape her mouth.

"Feel better?" Discord asked with concern.

"...No." Fluttershy sighed

The two sat in silence once more, before Fluttershy turned to Discord with a concerned look on her face.

"By the way, where did you send them?"

"You remember that incident with Treehugger at the Grand Galloping Gala?" Discord wriggled his eyebrows.

"Yes...Oh."

"Where are we?" Chrysalis looked around them, holding Sombra in his jar, "Everything looks like something out of a filly's drawing."

"Believe me, I know," Cozy replied, "But I'm far too busy scheming to be involved in such childish things."

"How long will we be trapped here?" Tirek huffed, "It was either going back to being a stone statue or something else."

A rumbling sound occurred, causing every head to turn towards that direction. There, looming above them all, was a giant hand sockpuppet.

"Hello, my name is Sockey. What are yours?"

In Discord's dimension, no creature can hear you scream.

Author's Note

First attempt writing a one-off sort of story. This was tough to say the least, but I let my ideas grow for this one. There are many better writers out there who could take a better stab at this then what I have here. This was sort of a challenge for myself and from Tranquility Soul. Hope you like it as I enjoyed writing it up the very best I can. Grammar is not my strong point, but I hope you will see past the errors to appreciated the effort .

-Quoterific