//------------------------------// // Research // Story: Ponysaur // by Dashzilla93 //------------------------------// “You what!” Rarity shouted, getting the other ponies, and Spikes, attention. “I plan on bringing Ponysaurus Rex back to life, so I can study it fully” “And just how are you going to bring this monster to life?” Rainbow Dash asked, hovering over her friends. “I’m not sure. That’s why I need to study it more.” “I don’t know, Twilight. Don’t you think you’d be at risk here?” Applejack informed, trying to knock some sense into her. “I understand the risk, Applejack. But I can be careful with this. If I do bring it back, I will train it to be harmless. Besides how hard can it be to train an animal” Twilight shrugged. Everypony looks to Fluttershy, who raised a brow at Twilight words, not liking what the lavender alicorn was thinking. Twilight took note of Fluttershy’s look, and regrets saying what she just said, making an ‘opps’ face. “Ok, you have a point, Fluttershy. If it goes out of hoof, can you help me?” She asked the shy Pegasi. Fluttershy smiles and nods, saying, “Of course, Twilight, I’d be happy to. Also, I’d love to see this new animal come back to this world” “Hold up, time out here,” Rainbow Dash interrupts them, “Fluttershy, I know you’re good with animals, but what if this creature isn’t like the animals you know. This isn’t a cute bunny; it’s a monster much bigger than an elephant” Fluttershy thinks for a moment, “You have a point Rainbow, but it wouldn’t hurt to give it a try. Even though I’ve never met and seen this animal before, that doesn’t mean I still can’t train it to make it harmless” “Um, girls, I haven’t gotten to research it yet. I doubt I’ll be able to bring it back, unless I get started” “Oh right, sorry” Both Shy and RD said. “Shouldn’t we get this skull to the library?” Spike suggested. “Right, times wasted” Twilight uses her magic to pull the roller. “Later girls, I’ll inform you if I’ve made progress” They rolled their eyes and smiled, knowing Twilight won’t ever change. Twilight took a slower pace, “Wow, is it just me or did this skull get heavier” Twilight looks back. “Wee, this is fun” Pinkie Pie squeed, sitting on the skull. “Pinkie, what are you doing? Get off that” Twilight frowned, not really wanting to deal with Pinkies shenanigans. “But I can see my house from here” Pinkie takes a step, causing a crack on the skull, much to Twilight notice. Twilight, in brief paranoia, using her magic to levitate Pinkie off the skull and place her on the ground. “Oof!” “Sorry Pinkie”, she calms down, “But I can’t let you touch this skull. It’s very delicate” “Sorry” Pinkie frowns. “It’s fine”, Twilight uses her magic to pull the roller to her home. Spike follows her, leaving the other elements with questioned looks. “Just what in tarnation is Twilight thinkin’?” Applejack thought. “A Ponysaurus Rex? How come we never learned this in school?” “Maybe it was left out of history for a reason” Rarity said, putting her hoof on her mouth, thinking. “In all honesty, even though I’m not the element of honesty, I kinda want to see this Pony monster thing Twilight wants to bring back. Who knows, maybe this one won’t attack Ponyville. I hope it’ll like parties once Twilight brings it back” Pinkie rambled on, jumping up and down. “I agree with Pinkie. I’d love to learn more about this creature. An animal not cataloged in any books. Ooo, I’m getting excited as well” Fluttershy smiled, on Pinkie pies side. “Well I’m not buying it. Twilight wants to bring a monster back from the dead. We have to stop her” Rainbow objected to this whole thing. Applejack nods to Rainbow Dash, “I agree, Twilight mentioned the first one attackin’ old age Ponyville. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I don’t want that to happen.” “Then why are we talking about it? Let’s stop her” Rainbow Dash flew after Twilight. The other ponies galloped after her, all but Rarity. “I wonder if the princesses know about this creature.” Rarity thought. “It would hurt to ask” She galloped away from the other four to go to Celestias castle. Meanwhile, Twilight and Spike make it to their tree home where Spike opens the door as Twilight walks in with the skull, but is suddenly stopped when the skull got caught halfway through the entrance. Twilight Turns around and frown, “Oh man, how am I… oh, duh!” Twilight lowers her horn and uses her magic to shrink the ponysaur skull so it can fit through. To her success, Twilight smiled and pulls the smaller skull inside. Spike closes the door. Twilight walks around the statue in the middle of the tree, and stops, removing her harness, and turns around, gluing her eyes to the skull. “Wow” she smiles in aww at her find. “A creature long forgotten by time has dried blood still intact. Ooo, I can’t wait to get started. Spike, can you open the door to the lab, please” “Can do, princess” Spike walks up and opens the door. “Thank you, and don’t call me that” Twilight informs the little dragon before putting her lab coat on and walks down the stairs. “Sorry” “It’s fine, don’t worry about it” As she reaches the bottom of the basement, Twilight used her magic to conjure a teleport spell to teleport the skull into the basement, and levitate it over a med-sized lab table, and then gently places it down. “Perfect” she smiled, and looks around, seeing tons of lab equipment, even some used for experiments. “Hmm, ah ha, these will do” she levitates a scoop and hammer and nail. Twilight places the nail on the dry blood and gently hammers it, cracking the blood. With one more tap, Twilight noticed a good chunk of the blood was loose. She used the scoop to place it under the blood as she placed the hammer down and used the nail to break the piece of blood away from its spot. It drops on the scoop. Twilight smiles with success and carefully levitates the blood clot towards another research table with a microscope and a beaker. She places the chuck of blood on the beaker, slides it under the microscope, and adjusts the vision lens. With the lens clearing her vision, Twilight looks through the scope, looking for any strands of DNA through the blood; it didn’t take long, though. Twilight smiled again, she found what she was looking for. “Yes!” she shouted. Strands of DNA are still intact within the dried blood. With it, she can bring the ponysaur back to life. “Everything ok down there?” Spike asked. “Yes. I found DNA still intact, Spike” “That’s great, Twilight. What happens next?” “All I got to do is extract it and… and… what!?!” Twilight’s voice went from excited to worry. “What’s wrong?” Spike asked, worried himself. Twilight’s eyes widen, she found DNA, but there are some strands missing to complete the genetic code. “There are strands missing. I can’t bring the creature to life” Spike widens his eyes until he heard shouting outside; it was their friend. “What in the world?” Spike walks to the door and opens it to find AJ, RD, Pinkie pie and Fluttershy argue over the whole ponysaur resurrection. “I told you two, I’m going to stop her from doing it” Rainbow shouted. “No! Aren’t you at least curious to even see what it will look like?” Pinkie objected. “No, and I’m not wanting to find out either” “I agree with Rainbow. I don’t want a giant reptile pony wreckin’ Ponyville and stompin’, or eatin’, any of our citizens” Applejack enforced, being with Rainbow on this debate. “Well, I just want to see this creature” Fluttershy said in a shy tone. The ponies went on and on, until Spike flings the door open, shouting, “SHUT UP!” the sudden shouts caused the ponies to jump and back off a bit. “There is no debate on whether to stop Twilight or not. Twilight is going through with this, whether you guys like it or not. In fact, this whole argument is a waste of time anyway, she’s already started.” “What! Why didn’t you stop her?” Rainbow dash asked. “Because I support Twilight for what she’s doing; which is something you should be doing” Spike lectured her to improve her friendship. Rainbow widens her eyes before giving Spike a glare, “Listen, I am not supporting this at all. What Twilight is doing is not right at all” she crosses her arms. “Where’s your support, Rainbow Dash” Spike asked in a disappointed tone. “With Ponyville!” she shouts, and then flies off. “What about you three?” Spike asks. “Fluttershy and I are with you, infinity percent” Pinkie Pie grinned, wrapping an arm around Fluttershy. “Y-yes. I’m in, too” “Applejack?” Spike looks at AJ, curious to know her answer. Applejack raises a brow before sighing in defeat. “I support this, but if somethin’ goes wrong, don’t be surprised if Rainbow and I say I told ya so” With that, she turns and walks away, walking back to Sweet Apple Acres. “Um, Spike, can we come in?” Fluttershy asked the baby dragon. “Of course” he opens it all the way, letting the two mares in. Pinkie hops inside, and Fluttershy just walks in while Spike closes the door. “I don’t understand. What’s missing?” Twilight thought. Her friends arrive and saw what she’s been doing. Lab equipment everywhere! “Ooo, flashy” Pinkie said. She hopped around while Fluttershy walked up to Twilight, tilting her head. “Um, Twilight, did you find anything” She asked very shyly. “Yes and no. I found strands of DNA in this dried blood sample, but it’s incomplete. I can’t bring the Ponysaur back without full strands” she looks at Fluttershy with doubt. “Oh, I’m so sorry, Twilight” she frowns, and thought if Rainbow Dash was here, she’d be gloating. “It’s alright, it was a long… wait” a sudden idea come into the alicorns mind. It’s a ponysaur, pony-saur. “That’s it!” Twilight looks through the microscope. She found DNA in the blood, but she never figured out what type of DNA it was. Twilight smiled as she searched high and low to find out what it is. “What’s it?” Fluttershy asked. “If I can look through it more, I can see what DNA I can put in the strands to complete it, and maybe, just maybe, I can bring the creature back to life” Twilight said, happy that the idea came to her so quickly. “Alright if I can…” she looked at one strand to fine a piece a different color: light green. Could it be? Has she found her answer? “Yes! I found it” “What’d you find, what’d you find?” Pinkie asked, the suspense killing her. “Alright from what I can tell, this creature is definitely reptilian, but other pieces of strands indicate it had pony DNA as well.” Twilight looks at her friends, “Which means I need pony DNA to complete the strands and genetic codes. So, I need a bit of blood to do this” Both Hyper and Timid pony look at each other, then at Twilight, breaking a sweat and laughed, hoping Twilight was joking. “Y-you’re kidding, right, Twilight” Pinkies’ heart pounded hard as Twilight uses her magic to levitate a small, empty shot with a thin needle out of a drawer, and floats it right next to her head. “Nope” She smiled manically at her friend. “Needle!” Pinkie shouted. “Oh my look at the time, I think I hear Pound and Pumpkin cake crying. I’d love to help but I gotta go. Bye!” With that, Pinkie took no time and bolted out the tree like grease lightning: she’s terrified of needles. Fluttershy went wide eyed and ran to find a spot to hide in the tree. She bolted out the basement door and vanished without a trace. Twilight laughed at her friends’ reaction. Who knew they were that terrified of needles? “Spike, do me a favor and find Fluttershy, please” Spike obeyed her order and walked away, but stops and turns around to ask, “Why can’t you use your own blood, Twilight?” Twilights ears perked up and leaned her head back, “Are you serious? I’m not using myself as a test subject. It’s my place to research, not do both” Twilight answered him as he shrugged and went to go look for Fluttershy. Fluttershy hid under Twilight bed, too scared to even go outside. True she would jump out the window, and fly off, but she wondered if Twilight casted a forcefield spell like what she used when the Gabby Gums event happened some time ago. Fluttershy shivered in fear, also wondering if Twilight has gone crazy. Maybe this was a bad idea to come. If Twilight has gone crazy, then she’d be more unstable than a hungry Manticore. There’s got to be another way out. The roof, other windows the back door, Fluttershy whimpered, until a purple claw touched the side of her flank, causing her to jump out and wail in terror and dash all across the inside of the tree. Fluttershy dashed back inside the basement, not paying any attention to her surroundings, and crashes flat against the wall, hard. Twilight looks back and smiles, watching Fluttershy plop on her back. “Found her” Spike said, walking down the stairs and going to Fluttershy to check and see if she’s alright; she’s out cold. “Oh man, she’s out like a light” Spike informed Twilight before looking at her. “It’s fine. Out cold or not, I still need blood to complete the strand” She explained. “Do you really need that much blood, Twilight? I mean, this is Fluttershy’s blood you’re taking.” Spike reminded her. Fluttershy was known to faint at everything from the gigantic hydra, to just her own shadow. Glad she’s unconscious to miss this. “I’m aware of it, Spike. Besides, all I need it an ounce of blood. I’m not going to take a pint of blood. I’m not a mad scientist you know” Twilight chuckled at her own joke before walking up to Fluttershy with the empty shot. “Yeah, I guess your right” Spike moves away as Twilight approaches the fainted Pegasus. “Alright, just need to concentrates” Twilight looks at Fluttershy and moves the clean needle close to her skin. Spike watches Twilight move the needle closer, slowly inserting it into Fluttershys’ right arm, piercing through the blood vein and stopping in place. Twilight breaths lightly before pulling the knob on the shot: sucking up 0.5 ounces of blood out of Fluttershy. Twilight stops and slowly pulls the needle out of her friend. Spike runs and comes back with a band-aid. And right as Twilight successful removed the needle, Spike place the band-aid on the spot where Twilight pricked the poor pegasi. No blood escaped from Fluttershys’ wound. Twilight sighed, “Nice work, Spike” she smiled with relief. This was her first time using a shot on another pony: in fact, that was the first time she even used a medical tool like that. She was more relieved that it was a successful blood extraction. One slip and Fluttershy would’ve needed to see a real doctor. “Thanks, Twilight” Spike smiled. “Tend to Fluttershy. Make sure she’s not pale, or anything. Once she wakes up tend to her” Twilight commanded her assistant. She turns and walks back to the microscope to look through the lens. Spike looks at Fluttershy, and gently lifts her up. Surprising though, the yellow pegasi was somewhat light as a feather, making it easy for Spike to carry her and place her on a soft mattress near the basement on the right, sliding a pillow under her head. Carefully, Twilight levitates the needle over the incomplete ponysaur blood. Once the needle is at the right spot, she used her magic to slowly push the knob down a bit. Fluttershy’s blood oozed through the needle and clotted at its exit point, forming a ball before dropping as a single droplet. The blood drop merged with the other blood, disappearing as if it’s already part of its other half. Good thing Fluttershy’s blood type matched the ponysaurs’ blood; otherwise, the cloning would be under siege. Twilight looks through the microscope to find that, miraculously, the DNA strands in Fluttershys’ blood merged with the Ponysaur strands like magnets. With the DNA strands complete, Twilight smiles with glee, “I did it! Yes, it works, it actually worked” she wanted to bounced about like how Pinkie usually does, but she quickly regains her ego and focuses. “Ok, a few more steps to go” she levitated the beaker out from under the microscope, levitates a test tube in front of her, and pours the wet clump of blood in the test tube. She puts away the beaker, laying it on the table, and walks toward a small device on another table, next to some chemical tubes. “Um Twilight, what’s that” Spike asked, never noticing it before. The machine was as big as him, there was a slot on there that seems to hold only test tube, and on the left was a hole equipped with a roller. It must’ve been used to move the test tubes out. Its color is a shade of purple with a few colorful buttons. A screen that’s smaller than the machine can be seen. It’s like looking at an experimental TV. “This is a machine that scans and mixes hard and liquid substance, mixing them into one. Now that the genetic code is complete, this machine will turn this blood into a ponysaur embryo” “An embryo?” Spike tilts his head in confusion. “A baby ponysaur, Spike” Twilight looks at him. Spike still has a confused look on his face, scratching his head. Being a baby dragon, he still has a lot of learning to do, and explaining the birds and the bees would probably wait until he’s older. The thought got to Twilight. “I’ll tell you when you’re older, Spike” Twilight said, looking back at the small machine. “Ok, now for the moment of truth” Twilight raise her hoof and presses a green button on the left side of a small, clear window. The window slides up, revealing a white small tube-like room with a round holder/grip, fit to hold a test tube. Twilight slowly moves the test tube, with the blood inside, and carefully places it on the grip. Once that’s done, Twilight pressed the green button again, having the window slide down and closes. The test tube rests on the grip. Spike watches as Twilight raises her other hoof and, not before thinking about some flaws about this, but shakes it off, presses a magenta colored button next to the green one. Once pressed, the machine starts to shake a bit as two robotic hands slide down from inside the machine, peel open and grab the middle of the test tube. The arms slide up, pulling the test tube into the machine itself. Spike approaches as Twilight and him look at the machine, only to have the screen pop on, revealing a digital version of the test tube. Inside, thin green lights appear from the ceiling on the right side and starts moving, touching the tube and the blood until it reaches the top, then repeats the act again. Outside, Twilight and Spike watch the screen as the machine scans the blood, removing the test tube off screen. There, they saw Fluttershys’ DNA with the ponysaurs’. Even though they are connected, the genetic code wasn’t finish. The scanner informed them that it needed to be fused all the way through. With that, the scan was complete, and then the machine started to spin the test tube inside. As that happened, the alicorn and baby dragon continued to watch as the scanner picked up the genetic codes being modified to match with each other. A few minutes flew by and the machine stopped spinning. The genetic code is complete. Now the machine starts the roller and pushes the test tube out as it appears outside in front of Twilight and Spike. Twilight uses her magic to levitate the test tube in front of her, plug facing up. “It’s complete” Twilight said. “So, what now? And when did it get a bit chilly all of a sudden?” Spike shivered before looking around to find a small freezing container on another table near the side of the stairs. “What’s that?” he asked “That’s a container to hold the embryo” Twilight answer him. “It’s at a cooling temperature of subzero levels, to keep the embryo alive” She levitates the test tube close to the container then opens the lid with her magic and places it inside before closing it back up. “Now for a third step” she announced. “And that is?” Spike raises a brow. Twilight looks at him, “I need a gamete for the third step” she gets a sudden beat of sweat from her forehead: she’s nervous about something. “A what?” Spike said, confused. “Two question: one, what’s a gamete, gamete, or whatever you just said? Two, what’s got you so nervous?” Spike said before noticing Twilight eyeing at Fluttershy. He looks at the same direction then looks back at her with a shocked look, “Twilight, what are you thinking now!?” he worries, thinking poor Fluttershy won’t catch a break. Twilight sighs and looks at the baby dragon, “A gamete is cell only females have, and I was thinking that Fluttershy might’ve produced one already, since she’s at that age now” “Wait, are you thinking abou…” Spike instantly gets the message and looks at Twilight with a realization look. “Oh” “Yes” Twilight nods. “Even as an alicorn, you’re crazy…” Spike admits it to her, pointing a claw at her. Twilight looks at Spike, annoyed, before fake laughing, “Hahaha, just make sure she’s ready” she commanded, and walked away, leaving Spike to goes see Fluttershy, and get her in position. Twilight walks up to her tools and uses her magic to levitate another shot in front of her: this one having a thick needle and larger space. Twilight looks back, “Is she ready, Spike?” she asked as Spike grabbed and held both of Fluttershy’s legs together, then moves them back a little, exposing her underbelly. “Yeah, she’s ready. You will be gentle, right Twilight. I mean, this isn’t an armadillo your about to stab” Twilight walks up to the baby dragon and unconscious pegasi, “I’m fully aware of it, Spike. Fluttershy is more delicate then all of us. If I ended up hurting her, I wouldn’t forgive myself. But I have to do this.” Twilight said, levitating the needle close to Fluttershy, lowering it close to her stomach and shifting its position to where her ovaries are. Twilight takes deep breaths and concentrates, slowly piercing the thick needle into Fluttershys’ skin, slicing through her muscles. Fluttershy squints her eyes before calming down. Spike closes his eyes, but kept a firm grip on Fluttershys’ legs, letting Twilight poke the poor pegasi. When Twilight stuck the needle in her, Spike could’ve sworn he felt Fluttershy twitch her body once she was stabbed. Spike tilts his head, but ignores the thought and held onto fluttershys’ back legs, keeping them still. The needle hits its mark, stopping inside of Fluttershys’ ovaries. Having reached its destination, Twilight slowly pulls the injection knob, sucking out more of her blood, then the egg cell sled itself in the needle and popped out the other side, inside the injection. Twilight noticed and stops putting the knob, “Perfect” she slowly pulls the needle out of Fluttershy, hopefully to not cause a single injury inside her friend. Twilight successfully removes the injection needle, at the cost of blood oozing out of Fluttershy “Oh no!” panicking, Twilight looks around for the first aid kit, then finds it, takes a bandage out, with a cloth, and quickly stops the bleeding in time. She sighs and uses the cloth to wrap around the yellow pegasi’ waist. “You can let go of her now, Spike” Spike carefully releases Fluttershys’ legs as she shifts her positions, laying on her right side. Twilight turns and heads to the microscope, “Glad that’s over with” she said as she levitates the injection close to the microscope. “Won’t Fluttershy be angry when she finds out you did this to her?” Spike asked. “I don’t know, Fluttershy rarely gets mad at anything. If she does, I’ll try to calm her down” Twilight said as she squeezes the egg cell out of the injection, and onto the beaker. “Alright, then” Spike says, walking over to Fluttershy, to cover her in a blanket. Twilight focuses her magic, placing the injection down and levitating a tiny glass pipette towards the egg cell. Through the lens, Twilight slowly pushes the pipette close to the egg cell wall and pokes through it, and then sucking out a tiny portion of the egg cell. She pulls the tiny needle out, placing it down next to the injection. With that out of the way, Twilight pops the lid to the freezing container open and levitates the test tube out, then floats it near the microscope. Twilight unscrews the plug to the test tube, with a ‘pomp’ as it opened. She levitates another tiny glass pipette of the same kind and places it in the test tube, sucking out the embryo. Once inside the pipette, Twilight plugs the test tube, places it in a test tube holder, and levitates the pipette near the microscope. Twilight looks through the lens again, concentrating the pipette to get close and pokes through the egg cell wall again. Once connected, Twilight injects the embryo inside the egg cell, letting it multiply once inside. She smiles successfully and pulls the pipette out. “It’s done!” She said excitedly. Spike looks at Twilight and smiles with her, “Great. What now?” Twilight puts a lid over the beaker, and levitates it over the freezing container, putting it inside and closing the lid. Twilight turns and walks over to Spike saying, “Well, all we need to do is….” Before she had time to finishes her sentence, she collapses to the ground and succumbs to unconsciousness: she was exhausted from doing all that research and extraction. “Twilight, Twilight!” Spike rushed over to Twilight to try and help her, but she was out like a light. Having no other options, Spike grabbed and held Twilight over his shoulders, dragging her to her rooms, leaving Fluttershy behind. Spike places Twilight on her bed, with her lab coat still on, and covers her with her bed sheets, then yawns, getting tired himself. He looks outside the window to see the sun disappear in time for the night to take over. With that, Spike grabs extra bed sheets and pillows and heads down to the basement to check on Fluttershy, who was sleeping soundly. Spike approaches the sleeping Fluttershy and swings the covers over her, covering her from neck to tail. Spike thought for a moment if he should walk up to his bed, or keep Fluttershy company. He thinks for a sec but thought, “Oh screw this!” he hops in bed with Fluttershy and covers himself with the bed covers. He lies on his left side and falls asleep, but a yellow hoof slithers over him and wraps around him. He wakes up to see Fluttershy, still asleep, come up and snuggle him close. Spike widens his eyes a bit, thinking this was very awkward, but seeing that this is Fluttershy, not Rainbow Dash or Applejack, he figured this was ok. He smiled and snuggled close to the soft, timid pegasi; it’s not Rarity, but this is still nice. Next morning came, Spike sleep soundly in the basement next to Fluttershy, or so he thought. He opened his eyes, not feeling Fluttershys’ soft hoof, and get up to see the yellow Pegasus gone. A sudden yelp filled his ears: it sounded like it came from the living room. An angry grunt was heard afterwards, then Twilights’ voice. Spike immediately got up and dashed upstairs. He opens the door to find Twilight trying to calm Fluttershy down. He figured Twilight must’ve told her about what happened, and Fluttershy was not too happy about it. He noticed the bandages around the angry pegasi legs and waist, with a bit of blood as she walked towards Twilight. Twilight leans back, crouched down and backs away slowly, with a frightful look. “Fluttershy, calm down, please. Just give me a chance to explain” Fluttershy hung her head a bit, her eyes burning with anger, teeth gritting, she walked slowly towards Twilight, not because she wanted to scare her, but because of the pain in her lower body. Blood oozed its way out of the bandages and slid down Fluttershys’ right leg, landing and dripping on the floor. “Explain! You said you needed only blood. You didn’t say anything about needing an egg! Did it ever occur to you to ask, Twilight?” The timid pegasi’s anger boiled. If it wasn’t for the bandages and the pain, she would’ve beaten Twilight senseless, princess or not. “Fluttershy, if you continue to move around like this, the bleeding won’t stop” she pleaded her to relax and calm down. “Not until you feel the pain I’m feeling right now!” Fluttershy raises her right arm, getting close to Twilight as she closes her eyes and braces the impacted, but nothing happened. Instead, Twilight slightly opens one eye to find Fluttershy lying on the floor, balling. “Fluttershy?” the lavender alicorn opens both eyes and leans forward to try and comfort her friend, but is rejected with push and a tearful glare. Twilight looks down, ears lowered, she looks back at her friend and walks away. “I’m sorry, Fluttershy” she says as she passes Spike and down the basement. Spike looks at Twilight, then at Fluttershy who was still crying. He’d figure Fluttershy would be mad, but not like this. The young dragon walks over to the crying pegasi and stands by her side, rubbing her back, which got her attention. She looks up and stares at him. “Don’t be mad, Fluttershy. Twilight just got impatient. That’s all. She didn’t want to hurt you at all.” The timid Pegasus looks down and turns her head. “All she wants is your forgiveness. I know you have every right to be angry at her, but, she did it for you and every other pony to see. It wasn’t just for her” Fluttershy sniffles before looking at Spike and giving him a gentle hug, smiling. Spike hugs back and smiles as well. “Oh Spike, thanks for telling me. I’m still mad at her, but she has my forgiveness” The timid pegasi releases the baby dragon. “That’s good, Fluttershy. I’m glad to hear that” Spike says with a happy tone. “Um, Spike. Can you do me a favor?” Fluttershy asks, shyly. “Sure, what is it?” He asked. Fluttershy narrows her eyes down, letting Spike know about her situation. Spike follows Fluttershy’s eye movements down to her blood stained bandages. He widens his eyes and looks at her face to face with a “oh” In the basement, Twilight hangs her head, sad that she made her friend so angry at her. She was wrong about what she said the other day. She couldn’t calm Fluttershy down, and she admitted to herself that Spike was right about Fluttershy. She tries not to cry about it, but the pressure proved too strong. Twilight sat down, thinking that she ruined hers and Fluttershy’s friendship, all because she wanted to bring a creature back to life. “Is this really worth it? To hurt a friend for something that fate took away. Oh Fluttershy, I’m so sorry. Can you ever forgive me?” She talked to herself for a while, until…. “Yes. I forgive you, Twilight” Twilight turns to find Fluttershy carefully walk down the stairs, with new bandages. “Fluttershy, thank you. But why? I thought you were still mad at me?” Twilight wipes the tears from her eyes as Fluttershy approached her. “Spike explained everything when he was helping me replace these bandages. I forgive you, Twilight. Next time, do be patient, please.” Fluttershy requested “Oh, um, yes, I will” Twilight blushed, shuffling a hoof on the basement floor. “How is the embryo anyway?” Fluttershy asked, raising a brow. “Doing will, it’s in a freezing container at sub-zero level.” She points her hoof to the container. “It’s already complete. Now the final step is….um, well” Fluttershy tilts her head, “what?” Spike enters the basement, walking down the stairs as the two were having their conversation. “Everything ok down here” Fluttershy looks back, “Oh yes, Twilight was about to say the final step” Fluttershy answered, looking back at Twilight. “Well, the last step is… incubation” Twilight exclaimed. Both dragon and pony tilt their heads, having no idea what Twilights talking about. “Um, what’s incubation?” Fluttershy asked. “It sounds like it has to do with cubes” Spike said, confused. “Incubation means that the fertilized egg with the embryo has to have a host carrying it” She explained, with an awkward tone. Spike and Fluttershy widen their eyes, surprised to hear this. “W-wait, you mean as in pregnancy?” Fluttershy asked. “Well, yes and no. The host will be pregnant, but the embryo itself will not have the hosts’ gene once it’s developing. So, there won’t be any relation at all” Twilight explained to them without grossing them out. “Ok? Then who will you get to host that embryo?” Spike asked, crossing his arms. “I’m not sure. I can’t do, because I’m not ready to be a surrogate mother. I’m still too young. Besides, I really don’t want to be one at all. It’s too much responsibility. Being a princess is responsibility enough” She exclaimed, rubbing the back of her head. “Ok, then who else, Twilight?” Spike asked, but got no answer from Twilight. She couldn’t ask her other friends to do it. Twilight couldn’t think of anyone else to help. She thinks about it, but no other mares come to mind. Spike tilts his head, thinking that Twilight has reached a limit. Twilight closes her eyes, crushing her eyelids, until a soft voice breaks the silence … “I’ll do it” Fluttershy offered.