"Good gravy this has gotten old quick." Discord groaned as he continued to watch the vast amount of ponies going through his newly built park. He would watch as they went along rides, mazes and just about any other thing they did to see how shocked they would be while doing said tasks. After a few days however he began to get bored of watching them, as their shock from the park eventually turned to joy. Discord was in no way happy about the circumstances that now plagued his park, he is the very embodiment of chaos, and as such he should be out do chaotic things and cause disharmony in the land. Though he couldn't do that now since Celestia had sealed away most of his power. Should he try to rise up and take over he could be easily defeated now. However, he still had once ace up his sleeve. Though at that moment he began to rethink his alternative, knowing that in hindsight, this option would cause some very big problems for himself as well as all of Equestria.

As he continued watching the park, his thoughts on the overall consequences of choosing his alternative means of regaining his power looked more and more appealing, despite the obvious repercussions that he would have to endure in the process. After another hour of considering his alternative he snapped too, quickly disappearing and reappearing further out over the Everfree forest.

"*Sigh* I can't believe I'm about to do this." He groaned rubbing his face in disbelief. He pulled his arms up to his chest crossing them and giving a disgruntled sigh once again before speaking.

"Screwball........" He shivered saying the name and wasn't fazed at all as she appeared in front of him within seconds.

"DADDY!" She shouted before wrapping him and a death grip hug, bones heard cracking from how hard she was hugging him.

"GUH!........Hi..............Sweetheart......................Could you...............let daddy go?" He managed to squeaked out causing her to let him go, his entire frame now bent in half as he began to physically remold his body back to its original shape.

"This is the first time you've summoned me in a very long time. I am just so happy I could........... I could explode!" She cackled as she lunged at him, light enveloping her body as she exploded in mid air just before grabbing a hold of Discord.

They both reappeared floating above the forest again, side by side. Discord giving a sigh and rubbing the bridge of his nose before speaking again.

"Hello dear, I called you here for a very important task, do you think you can help daddy out?" He said while forcing a smile.

"Anything for my daddy!" She squealed attempting to hug him but was held back by a talon pressing against her face, her legs running through the air while a silly grin adorned her face.

"Good girl. I want you to give daddy half of your power so he can cause some serious chaos." He snickered only to cause her to stop in shock.

"Can I help too?" She squealed happily while looking at him through the talons spread across her little face.

"Of course my little pony. In fact, I'm going to put you in charge of chaos over Equestria. Doesn't that sound like oodles of fun?" He chuckled bring his hands up in front of him grinning like a bandit who just found a huge cash of gold.

"Woooooooooow. Your actually going to leave me in charge of chaos over a plane? I honestly don't know what to say other thank you." She smiled pulling out a large shovel before hitting him over the head repeatedly as she shouted out many thank you's leaving a severely bruised draconequus in her wake.

After a short trial and error event between Screwball and Discord, he had managed to get enough chaos energy from his daughter to almost break the seal holding his full power back. Although now far more powerful, he would still need to break the spell fully before attempting to take over Equestria.

"Charlie, we have a problem." Twilight spoke as he came into the library after being summoned by her.

"Ok, and what might that be?" He asked while cocking a brow.

"I've been doing some research about your circumstance and found out some rather disturbing news." She began. "After finding the right sources of information in the Canterlot archives, I found that the magic you are siphoning from the world and ponies cannot stay in conjunction with the chaos energy you absorbed through Discord earlier."

"So....... what do I do?" He asked feeling a little nervous.

"There is nothing you can do until you change back into your pony form. From there you will be able to use the small amount of chaos energy you have obtained already and get rid of it. However......" She trailed off only to get an even more frightened look from Charles. "I fear that the chaos energy inside you will cause you to act differently." She finished.

"What do you mean act differently? As in I could be dangerous?" He asked.

"Not only dangerous, but since you have both energies inside, you may start to feel and act more like Discord did before we had to use the elements of harmony on him turning him to stone.

"So you mean I'll be just like discord, but in pony form?"

"Not entirely, you see, if we can somehow get rid of that chaos energy before your transformation, you will transform back to your normal self without any adverse side effects." She smiled.

"Wait, side effects? What kind of side effects?" He asked moving closer.

"Well, there could be any given number really. A pony who obtains chaos magic could end up like, well, Ms. Ball, Discords daughter." She winced seeing his reaction as he began pulling his hair out in shock.

"Twilight, are you serious? I could end up psychotic with power and possibly even more dangerous since I would be an Alicorn? No way! We have to get this excess energy out of me one way or another." He snapped as he picked up a book on magic theory and began to glance through it hoping to find a remedy to all of this, but before he could get into the book it was pulled away from him in a purple magical field.

"Listen Charlie, there is another thing I need to tell you. If for some reason your two magic fields are even or even close in size to one another before you transform back into an Alicorn, you could very well split into two separate beings since the conflicting energies would be to great to hold inside a single body. However, if you maintain your current level of magic that is stronger than the chaos energy, It has an extremely high chance to dissipate it and remove it from your body."

Charles looked to Twilight smiling before pulling her into a hug swinging her around in a circle.
"That is fantastic, lets just hope Discord doesn't decide to become evil again." He chuckled. "Do you have any idea how long it will be before I turn back into my pony form?" He asked as he came to a spinning stop.

"You should return to normal as soon as your magic is replenished and ready to use. Being an Alicorn though means it could take days, months, even years. Unless of course you pulled magic directly into yourself. OH! That reminds me. There are magic springs throughout the Everfree forest. Zecora's home is about a hundred yards from one that she uses to help with some of her more potent potions. Maybe you should ask her to let you use it. You could become fully charged in a matter of minutes with one of those." Twilight smiled clapping her hooves together excitedly.

"Sounds like a plan to me, I would like my first child to see me as a pony instead of my human form." He chuckled as he stood up heading toward the door.

"Wait, your leaving now?" Twilight asked as she went after him.

"Yea, better now than later. At least now I won't have to worry about the chaos energy taking over." He chuckled only to make her sigh in frustration.

"Alright, well at least let me accompany you. I know your an adept fighter, but since your human at the moment, you might find it rather difficult to fend of a Manticore or other creature in the forest. At least with my magic we can be safe." She smiled as a groan escaped Charles.

"Fine, let's just go so we can get this over with quickly." He sighed as they left the library, making their way quickly out of town as they continued talking.

"What's wrong, Is the siwwy human embawassed that his marefriend is now the protector instead of the protectee." She giggled speaking in a cute voice.

"Twilight, you will never understand how I feel about what it means to me to protect you and everyone else in this world. I can't honestly put it into worlds, its more or less what I feel in regards to it." He groaned rubbing his face with his hands in frustration.

"Aw, come on now, I'm just playing with you................ But seriously how does it feel to be under my protection?" She smirked causing him to throw his hands up in the air and walking ahead of her at a faster pace.

After a short time they had arrived on the perimeter of the Everfree forest along the path toward Zecora's. Unknown to them however Discord had been spying on them ever since they had been talking in the library. His own curiosity peeked at learning that Midnight could turn evil if he had enough chaotic energy. After following them for sometime they had finally reached Zecora's home before going to the magic spring. A small winding path left from Zecora's home toward the spring, leaving the two with little room to stand apart. At one point they had to walk single file as the bushes and brush began to grow thick.

"Twilight, this is really creeping me out." Charles whined as his eyes flicked back and forth through the brush.

"Don't be such a baby. In this thick of brush we don't have to worry about anything big pouncing on us." SHe giggled as she continued to walk in front of Charles.

"Honestly Twi, I would rather have three Manticores jump me in here than have to deal with even a single spider." He shuddered.

"Seriously? You're afraid of Spiders?" Twilight chuckled but stopped as Charles rushed up to her, pressing his nose to hers while speaking low, fear evident in his eyes.

"Spiders are the very embodiment of evil Twi, I don't know why and honestly I really don't care. But I am so afraid of those little bastards I could honestly leave Equestria if I was ever promised to never have to see one of those little bastards again."

Twilight stepped back in surprise, not only from the sudden admission, but from how close Charles had gotten to her so quickly.

"Would you really leave Equestria if that came up?" She asked feeling hurt.

"Well............ no. I would rather stay here and deal with the bugs than leave. But honestly, if I was given the choice when I first arrived here then I would have said yes. But that was before getting to know you girls." He chuckled nervous but stopped as he spotted a web just above his head to the right. A small spider in the middle.

Discord chuckled to himself as he watched Charles stare at the web before moving slowly away from it. "Hmmmm I think I'll have a little fun." He spoke snapping his talons.

"What was that?" Charles squeaked hearing a snap up above him. He quickly looked around himself finding a large stick and picking it up and waving it about menacingly on to cause Twilight to laugh.

"What are you doing?" She chuckled watching him.

"I am going to beat the shit out of whatever it is making that noise." He said.

*SNAP*

"THERE!" He shouted as he chucked the large stick with all his might into the canopy above him, the stick disappearing from sight as it was lodged up there. He continued looking up squinting his eyes before smiling as the noise disappeared, he looked down to Twilight with a smile.

"Good, I chased it off." He chuckled just before gasping as a horde of vines fell upon him.

Now at this point Charles was feeling good about not seeing any spiders, but suddenly having multiple vines fall on you from all around will not only snap you out of your happy daze, but also make you scream like a little girl while flailing about like you're on fire.

"CHARLIE STOP IT! YOU"RE FINE! IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF VINES!" Twilight shouted causing him to stop mid flail and look at the vines.

"Oh....... Shew that's a relief." He sighed giving a smile. That was, until spiders began to file out from all around the vines onto him.

Zecora was outside water a few of her plants but stopped as she heard a faint scream. She turned as the sound gained volume quickly as Charles scream by faster than anything she had seen in her entire life. His arms up in the air as clumps of dirt shot up from the ground like a rooster tail behind him.

Twilight bolted by her hot on his heels.

'Yep, this is going to be a long day.' Thought Zecora as she turned around to continue watering her plants. The faint sound of laughter being heard in the distance by a very pleased draconequus.