A Screwy redemption

by Bronies are ok

Rating: everyone
Tags: Comedy, Shining Armor, Screwball, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Main 6, Drama
Length: 1339

Shining Armor is tasked with taming a particularly crazy foal.

A couple months after the royal wedding of Princess Cadance and Shining Armor, Screwball is suddenly released from her stone prison by none other then the element barriers themselves. The only condition is that she must allow Captain Shining Armor to tame and reform her to benefit Equestria then to destroy it, only then can she keep her freedom and see her dad again. Will she listen? Or will she just make everything crazy? Probably?..... It's Screwball, so we can't really tell.

Published 2024-12-29 19:50:00 UTC
Last updated 2024-12-29 19:50:00 UTC

Epilogue

"HAH HA! You see?! She wants to have fun with me because, WE'RE FRIENDS. She can't blast me with lovey doveyness because, WE'RE FRIENDS. I'm free FOREVER! HAH HA HA!!!"

Screwball quietly watched amongst the crowd of ponies, as she thought that her father wouldn't allow her to make new friends after all.....

"NOT, YOUR, FRIEND!!!"

"Who cares?! I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. I'm Discord! The master of chaos! You think you get to boss Discord around? You think I'm just going to turn all this back because YOU say so? Because if I don't, I'll lose the one friend I've ever met?!"

Discord's eyes widened in realization.

"Oh............. Oh......... Well played Cadance............. Well played............."

Discord reverted the shield back to how it was, and made the ladybugs normal again.

Screwball warmly smiled as she believed that the feud between her family and the ponies was finally over.

"I liked it better my way but, I guess when you're friends you can't always have things exactly the way all the time, eh?"

Screwball ran up to her father and embraced him with a warm hug, which he warmly reciprocated.

The ponies collectively awed at a touching father/daughter reunion.

Later......

"Yes princess, we're ready to use our magic for good instead of evil............. Most of the time........."

Screwball let out a snicker at her dad's statement.

"Congratulations on your success ponies, and especially to you Cadance, for managing to see the good in Discord. And to you Shining Armor as well, for getting Screwball to see a better path."

Shining Armor kneeled in conformation at the princess's compliment.

"You were right when you made the choice to have Cadance be the one to reform Discord, and have Shining be the one to reform Screwball. By treating them as a friend, they got them to realize that friendship was actually important to them. And once something they knew they had, they didn't want to lose."

"Now that our job is finished, you care to enjoy the rest of our honeymoon dear?"

"You know I'd love to dear."

"Ehh! gag! Get a room you two!"

"Umm yeah! Hello? There is literally a child here! Gross!"

Everyone else merely chuckled as the couple kept nuzzling.

"Well, I'm not gonna be able to unsee that. Guess I don't need these guys anymore." Screwball took out her eyeballs and threw them in the trash, as Discord pulled them out and gave them back to her.

"You might still need them for other things sweetie." Discord assured, as Screwball placed them back with a warm smile.

The end

"Why should I listen to yo- Oooo! Ice cream!"

Screwball could feel her statue being carried by a chariot of Pegasus guards to somewhere unknown, and she was very uncomfortable.

It was bad enough that they took her dad to a chariot separate from hers, but not knowing what they were up to since Celestia was on her dad's chariot made her all the more uneasy.

When they arrived at their destination, Screwball would've let out a huge groan of annoyance if her lungs weren't made of rock, as she arrived in Stink-a lot where some old enemies waited for her.

She didn't know what they wanted from her, but she knew that whatever they had planned for her.....

It would be incredibly boring.....

The ponies activated their elements as rainbow lasers fired from their necklaces, which begun to wrap around Screwball's statue.

She could feel cracks in her prison as she slowly regained the ability to move again, and once she did, she landed face first on the soft grass, as she was surrounded by the mean ponies...... (Plus one bratty dragon)

"Hello Screwball, I hope your release wasn't too rough for your likeness." Twilight politely greeted the Draconequus spawn.

"Why did you release me?..... Why did you went out of your way just to bring me here? What do you want from me?" Screwball asked the ponies, while giving off an immature pout.

"As you know, you can't just run off and cause chaos freely, as me and my friends still have our elements. But we do need you, we would love it if you could reform and use your chaos for good instead of evil." Twilight explained to the chaos filly, as she could only laugh hysterically at the idea.

"And why should I do that?! After you imprisoned me and my dad in hard rock for a couple weeks?!"

"Because we have released him as well, and is in the process of reformation by Princess Cadance. If you can reform and not spread chaos everywhere, then you'll be able to keep your freedom, AND see him again."

Screwball did want to see her dad again, and frankly she was very uncomfortable standing in one position for weeks on end.....

"What's the catch?....."

"The catch is that you will be kept watch by Captain Shining Armor to ensure your reformation." Twilight stated, as her brother stood in front of the pony hybrid.

Screwball gulped nervously, as she knew she about to be taught some manners.....

Later.....

Screwball sat on Shining Armor's couch, as she whistled an incredibly annoying tune that made the captain cover his ears.

"I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo incredibly bored, do you have anything to read here?" Screwball impatiently asked the captain.

"I have some comics you can read in the cupboard, if you want to read." Shining Armor offered the crazy foal.

Screwball floated to the cupboard and opened it, revealing some Daring Do comics that she took and read on the couch.

"Daring Do and the bewildering boulder of bashing?..... Who writes this stuff?" Screwball asked to no one in particular.

"Why did you take the book if you're just going to criticize it?" Shining asked the delirious filly.

"I don't know I just feel like it." Screwball simply stated, as she gave off a shrug that raised her hooves to the top of the roof.

Shining Armor, with a sigh, sat on the couch next to Screwball.

"Look, I know it must be difficult for you to understand that you must abide by some rules if you are to maintain your freedom, but your father is doing the same as well."

"I just don't see why making everything more enjoyable for everypony could be so bad...."

"Screwball..... You're a child. so you don't fully understand a lot of things, and because of who you were birthed from, your father has been a bad influence."

"He has not!"

"Screwball, I understand you love him dearly, but he has his own..... Issues..... And he has taught you to share them with him. I'm sorry that the princesses had to seal him away for so long, but the thing about too much chaos is that it makes everypony miserable, and not everypony is going to enjoy Chocolate rain or cotton candy clouds."

"Then, how am I supposed to do what I enjoy if it makes everyone else upset?"

"You keep it to yourself. Or even better, share it with someone who would appreciate it."

"Well what about you? Why couldn't you just have married dad instead of that pretty princess? I always wanted another parent."

"Screwball, your father didn't love me, he only used me to break the shield and gain back his powers. If he had married me that wouldn't have changed anything."

"I guess....."

"But I can still be there for you so you'd have someone proper to look up to, not to replace your father, but to have someone else who could appreciate your gifts?....."

Screwball sat there in contemplation, she did want someone else besides dad to take care of her.... But if she were to accept, would her father approve of it?.....

"I guess I could consider it..... But are you sure that dad would allow that?....."

"If I know my wife, I think he might be more considering in about fifteen more minutes...." Shining merely grinned, as Screwball slowly smiled in positivity......