Future
"That was so beautiful! I'm glad you brought me." Fluttershy said after she, Shade, and Dash got back from the other side of the world.
"I'm glad, we thought you'd like it." Dash replied.
"Well, we've been gone for a week, we probably have a lot to catch up on. I hope Pinkie, Aj, and Twilight are back to normal.
Making his rounds, Nightshade found Applejack was back at the farm, red faced, bucking trees so hard they creaked.
"Umm, AJ? You okay?" He asked warily.
"Sure as sugar I'm okay. I been slacking off and I gotta make up for it! First apple harvest is up, and I got lots a work to do!" The orange earth pony replied.
"Well, it's just, you're bucking those apple trees awfully hard, I think you broke a couple of them. Let me help."
"NO! I mean, I can take care of it all on mah own thank you."
'First she's narcoleptic, and now she's got more energy than Pinkie Pie, what the heck? Speaking of Pinkie.'
"Oh hello Nightshade, care for some tea?" The pink mare asked when he arrived at her house.
"Um, Pinkie? Since when do you drink tea? And, is that non sugar coated food you're eating?" The human asked.
"Of course. I remember you said I should really start taking care of myself, and well, I was feeling a bit off, and I noticed I was gaining weight, so I decided to start eating healthy. And this herbal tea is just so relaxing. It makes me all giggly. Thank you so much for suggesting a lifestyle change. They say too much of a good thing is bad, and I've been eating far too much cake." She replied.
"Well, okay. Just checking up on you. I'm glad you're eating healthy. I heard about a while ago you tried eating dirt, but I guess Braeburn sorted that out of ya."
"Oh, my shnuckems has been so helpful. Thanks for checking in, but I'm fine."
'Okay, that is definitely NOT Pinkie Pie. Since when has she ever been calm? At least she's not got mood swings anymore, and she's still happy and bubbly, just a calmer version.'
After checking on Rarity, who was still fine, and Twilight, who had gone crazy with organization and cleanliness, wearing herself out as she shuffled the books in her library once a day, as well as taking on as many projects as possible, it seemed like everyone had more or less gone back to normal, except a little more extreme version of normal.
"Alright, I know we just got married, but Discord gave us a 3 month timeline. There's no guarantee he'll keep it. I need to go to Canterlot and come up with something with the princesses. I'll be back in a week, I need to help prepare the defenses. Just, promise me you'll take care of yourselves and each other okay?" Shade instructed. The six ponies, as well as Trixie, and Derpy, who was also listening in for some reason, gave a salute. Spike would of course serve as the information system between the Capitol and Ponyville, relaying messages if something came up.
"Celestia, Luna, you saw the element bearers at my wedding. What's your take on their behaviour. They've gone back to normal, mostly, but they're still different than before, with the exception of Rarity and Rainbow Dash, who were fine. Rainbow's personality has changed, but it's been a stable change, which was going on ever since I showed up in this world. What do you think is happening with them?" Shade asked.
"Well, we cannot be certain, mostly because we've had very little experience with such a thing, but it is highly likely that the element bearers are pregnant."
"PREGNANT?!"
"Yes, the tiredness, mood swings, sudden personality changes which come and go, Pinkie Pie, who eats nothing but cake and pies suddenly begins gaining weight, when she never used to? It is very likely that they are with foal. I thought it was a possibility, but with Discord's disclaim of interference, and your own report, I believe it is most likely the case."
"Wait, Fluttershy as well? Then that means, if she's pregnant, Discord was telling the truth, and, I'll be a father. But wait, shouldn't Dash be pregnant too? I guess I'll just find out when I find out. until then, we've got to prepare."
"Oh my oh my, I want to fly! Ooh, I'm so excited. Why can't I calm down?" Fluttershy was running around her cottage without direction. Angel proceeded to toss his carrot at her, in order to get her attention. He pointed at the calender, two weeks after the wedding, then at her, then a medical kit on the table.
"Oh, alright. I'll go to the doctor to see what's wrong with me." She conceded, heading to Ponyville hospital. Angel then looked to Valentine, raising his eyebrows seductively. The baby bunnies had grown up to be able to take care of themselves, and the pair were empty nesters. Angel had been trying to get Fluttershy out of the house for a reason.
"Well miss Fluttershy, from the tests, we can only conclude that you and your foal are perfectly healthy, I don't see anything wrong." Nurse Redheart said.
"Wait, me AND my FOAL?!?!?!?!?" Her eyes went as wide as dinner platters and her pupils pinpricks.
"Ah, so you didn't know you were pregnant. Well, that explains why you're feeling different."
"Oh no oh no oh no oh no." She started getting nervous.
"It's alright Fluttershy, this is perfectly natural. Its a wonderful, beautiful thing. You're going to be a mother. I can understand why you're nervous. We need to get you started on prenatal vitamins right away, to give your baby the best start it can get."
"But, I CAN'T be! I don't understand! I need to go. I, um, thank you nurse Redheart, I'll, um, come back later. I need some air." She said as she flew away, as fast as she could, back to the house.
"Rainbow! Rainbow! Please, where are you! I need you!" She cried into the house, hoping her cyan friend would be home.
"Fluttershy, what is it? Are you okay?" The loyal pegasus asked.
"No, I'm NOT! I was feeling weird, so I went to the doctor, and it's impossible!"
"Whoa, the doctor? What's wrong?"
"The doctor is wrong! They have to be! They said I was pregnant!" She cried, scared.
"What? that's great news! You're going to be a mom! Have you thought of a name? Oh, do you know filly or colt?"
"NO! Why does everypony think this is a good thing? I can't be pregnant!" Fluttershy screamed.
"Why not?" Dash asked, genuinely confused.
"Because Shady's not a pony! He's a different species! Oh no, what if he thinks I cheated on him? What if he get's upset? Oh no!" She started freaking out.
"Wait, you don't know? I thought you knew! We all thought you knew! How could you not know? Wait, were you passed out at the time? That must be it!" Dash started rambling.
"Know what?" Fluttershy asked, confused.
"Shade IS a pony."
"What?"
"It was at the drinking contest. He told us that Discord explained his origin. Human's are earth ponies that got messed up by his chaos magic. Besides, you didn't cheat on him, and he loves you. He loves US. He wouldn't get upset. You must have been passed out when he told everypony. We all thought you knew. I'm sorry." Dash explained. Fluttershy just sat on the ground in shock.
"I, I'm pregnant?" She tried to come to terms with it.
"Yes, and our husband, Nightshade, is the father. Wait, am I pregnant too? What about Pinkie? And AJ, and Twilight? We all need to go get checked! This is wonderful! Come on, we need to spread the good news!" Just as Rainbow was about to fly away, she stopped.
"Wait, better idea. I think we should keep it a secret, just for now. We'll tell our friends, but we won't tell everypony just yet. And we won't tell Shady for a while. I'd rather see the look of shock on his face!" Dash suggested.
"Um, yeah. It's not for sure, um, we should make sure first." Shy said, still unsure.
"You two can do that? Geez, remind me never to piss you off. Okay, so, we've got the plan, I'll tell the rest when I head back in a week. For now, we need to train you two is close quarters combat. That power of yours will take time to set up, and it won't work if one of you gets taken out."
Nightshade spent the rest of the week training with Celestia and Luna, helping them learn to dodge and block, getting them back into shape for the fight with Discord. He didn't bother training with Black Law, it's main trait not being sword fighting, but magic negation. He didn't like to use it, it was an object of evil, making him feel terrible even touching it. It could stay in the safe in his basement for all eternity. After all, even if someone got it, he could just get it back whenever he wanted.
"I'm sorry Miss Dash."
"No! It's not fair! Why?"
"Most likely high level stress and g-forces on your underdeveloped body. You performed the rainboom when you were, 8 was it?"
"Yeah."
"That's far too much strain for a non mature body to take, I'm sorry. At the moment you preformed your first rainboom, while still underdeveloped, you were damaged beyond repair. There's nothing that can be done. I'm sorry." With the doctor's revelation, Rainbow Dash could do nothing but cry.
"They're wrong. I know they're wrong!" She yelled. "It's not fair....."
"Well, I'm back! You miss me?" Nightshade said as he walked into town. The first one he met was Rarity.
"Hello. It's been a while, hasn't it? Oh, your weeding was so superb, all the high society. The princesses, prince Blueblood, they were all there. The dresses I made were the talk of Canterlot. Since there isn't much call for casual or party dresses, I've decided to convert Carousel Boutique into a wedding shop! I've got huge publicity from making all your clothes, as well as the attire for your wedding, now, everypony wants my dresses for their wedding!" The white unicorn cheered.
"Well, I'm glad. Any idea where the girls are at?" He asked.
"Ahh, yes, they're all at the library, you should go wait out front. They said something about having a surprise."
"I'm on my way!"
"Big Mac? Soarin? Braeburn? What are you guys doing here?" The winged human asked, spotting the three outside the library.
"Not sure, our mares just told us to meet them here, saying something about a surprise." The former Wonderbolt explained.
"Good, now that everypony is here, I'll tell them you're ready." Rarity said, heading inside the library. She lead Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Twilight out of the tree. Rainbow and Rarity flew to beside the stallions, while the rest lined up in front.
"Ready?" Rarity said softly. The four ponies all took a deep breath, shouting.
"WE'RE PREGNANT!"
Soarin and Braeburn fell over onto their backs, while Big Mac's legs popped out from under him. Nightshade just stood there.
"Well Pinkie, I can't say I'm surprised. I mean, considering how you rode Braeburn, I'd be more surprised if you weren't." Shade said, looking at the smiling pink mare.
"Twilight, I thought you said you spent the whole two weeks cuddling." He said sarcastically.
"Hey, I'm the element of magic. Applejack is the element of honesty." She shot back.
"Oh, I know you were lying, it's just more fun to make you THINK we bought it." He replied, she shrunk.
"Well, I guess that explains why you were exhausted. Doing strenuous stuff will be bad, so I'll be taking over your job on the farm NO BUTS. You take care of yourself. You are NOT allowed to go applebucking." He said sternly before the orange earth pony could object.
"Fluttershy." She had a look of horror in her eyes, shrinking under his gaze. She let out a surprised *eep* when he bent lower and hugged her.
"I'm so happy. You're going to be a mother, I'm going to be a father. WE are going to be parents." He ran his hand over her stomach, feeling the ever so faint second life hiding under her own, kissing her on the neck at the same time, making her blush.
"I thought you would be upset." She said nervously.
"Why would I be upset. I love you and Dash more than anything in the world, and now, we're going to be parents."
"No. You and Fluttershy will be parents, not me." Dash said upset. Shade let go of the yellow pegasus and grabbed the blue one.
"Hey, just because you're not pregnant doesn't mean anything, what do you say we have another try at it?" He suggested.
"Yeah, let's do that. Are you all going to be okay?"
"Yeah, we need to go get started on pregnancy stuff. Nurse Redheart is going to go over it with us, have some parenting classes." Twilight said.
"Alright you stud, let's head home and get started!" Dash said as she dragged Shade towards the house.
Oh no! Dashie was all upset. Can you guess why? I think I made it pretty obvious. I also think she's in denial. I'm releasing this chapter today, because again, it's been far too long since I've done one. Anything after will be for my birthday. Right now I've got three Griffin chapters held, and I've half written another Summoned chapter.
Thanks for this, I just needed another excuse to stop writing.
Procrastination is a bitch
Awww poor Dashie... no chance at all
Wouldn't Nightshade be able to heal Rainbow with his infinite Nightmare powers?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Preggers
I called it!
Happy Birthday, looking forward to those Griffin chapters
Poor Dash, she could always adopt Sco... F%&#
Welp, it's sure gonna be interesting to see how this all turns out.
341962 correct but remeber she didnt tell him why she cant get pregnant so he doesnt know what is wrong so he cant fix it... just tell him rainbow i am pretty sure he can fix it i mean the only thing he couldnt fix was and that was becuase there was nothing wrong (weirdly enough) but it might be... painfull... but if she wants a kid she will have to go through that.. hey blackwing how about nightshade trys it i mean rainbow will be happy as hell... but i am scared of a pregant rainbow dash...
The transitions between scenes was a bit jumpy, some more detail maybe to help set up a scene idk. Poor RD I Love Grif da grif and summoned wait... actually I like all your work haha XD
who else saw it coming? *raises hand* honestly, it was pretty obvious. also, imma go ahead and predict that Dash will tell Shade why she can't have kids, he'll heal her, one of th' girls will have a complication with th' pregnancy, Flutterbitch will return with a vengance when she starts getting mood swings, and Discord will turn Sugarcube Corner into pastrami.
Sweet man , just sweet !
342154 341962 Not quite...
Nightshade can only heal by taking the damage to his own body. Since he doesn't have ovaries, a uterus, or a womb, it would be impossible to heal Rainbow.
342165 Yeah, it was a bit jumpy, I'll admit. There's only like, 3~4 chapters left before the big fight, with like 2 after of stuff that happens...well.... after. It's getting harder and harder to continue the story, which is why I'm glad it's almost over, sad to say, I'm debating on whether I should do the third story, like, 1000 years after. I don't want to milk it dry like power rangers. so yeah, anywhere between 4-6 chapters left.
342021 No I called it...at least I think I did
and poor dashie. She is unable to carry a foal to ter :( so sad.
342252 I wouldn't mind a new story with Shady, Just depends if you can come up with a new story for him.
well they said breaburn could never heal so i think dashie having kids isn't out of the question considering who her husband is.
342252 Actually i was wondering what things might be like for him in about 1000 years. You know, some pony looking for answers goes through the everfree forest to find an old mad meditating and preparing maple syrup.
342636 Hey, that's actually a good idea for how to start it. I have a name for it too. Yes, yes, I think that will work. Except he wouldn't be old.
342668 Yeah point taken. I was just going on the generic "Wise old man at the top of a mountian" thing. You know the one.
342281
No bro I've been calling it for as long as they've been acting weird
342853 Well okay. you got that one, but I shall always be the one that called Braeburns pelvis being crushed. One of my more golden days of psychic future seeing
Very cool chapter and if you have a time skip story that wil be interesting.
342235 actually he can transfer it to another pony he is in contact with as far as i can tell... but then that would mean that whoever volinteres will be put in dash's situation... but if it can work that way then who is the volinter? look i am not sure if it can go that way... i just want at least a HOPE for dash...
342882
Very good abilities my good man
343273 couldnt he just repair the damages that were done to her body?
All will be explained next chapter.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
343273 But in every example of him doing so, he uses himself as a pass through. He takes the injuries and passes them on to another living being. (i.e. a tree) Since he lacks a female reproductive organ, he can't take on the injury to pass it on.
hmmm im not sure about anyone else but i kinda like tragedy in stories i think it woudl be more interesting if he couldnt fix her wounds or maybe if he did it would change somethign else about her, but yah thats just my opinion
or maybe one of the mane six will offer to take her injuries i think that would be prtty interesting
342252 Like I said before, I personally would love the sequel. Some inspiration for this would be the movie 'The Green Mile' and the Periphery song 'Jetpacks Was Yes! v2.0' (Finding the music video would explain my outline.) The conclusion of the first one is a man outliving all of Earth, and a mouse with him. The latter is about a man that is immortal, and had a relationship with a woman in the 1800s, and ends up outliving everyone on earth to the point in which he just wanders space because Earth has fallen away entirely.
mmm I wonder if dash is gona go a bit, lets say loopy
341910 Amen to that brother!
342707 Lol, casually being an old sage and preparing maple syrup XD
HAPPY B-DAY. Also i kinda knew they where pregnant i mean with the mood swings and stuff...it just add's up
343597 yeah but then again he has had time to work on his powers in those two years and also just a theory about that and like i said the injuries go to the volinter and he is just the conduit for the flow... could work... and as far as i know only one of her friends would volinter (rest of main 6,celestia,or luna (unlikely on those two though)) becuase they would be giveing up the ability. Plus there wasnt anything that said it couldnt work... might just translate to the male reproductive organ instead... after all he never actually said the limitations and he willingly throws the injuries onto himself he did say he can heal someone but someone else will take the injuries which should mean this SHOULD work... but it all hinges on the volinter. as far as i know he WILLINGLY takes injurys and then TOUCHS trees to transfer it... so if he is touching dash with one hand and the volinter with the other it should go a undisturbed flow from dash,to him for a second,to the volinter. that sound like it could work?
347815 Crying on the inside?
348003 probably not... sadly
348612 I know what you mean. It makes me fell sorry for her and plucks at my heartstrings but it's not really the kind of thing that would elicit tears. Pity is more appropriate.
i wonder how dash being baren will play into the chapters
sorry rainbow girl to good for your own good
342107 at least you didnt break rule #1
Nightshade spent the rest of the week training with Celestia and Luna, helping them learn toDOOOODGE!!!!
342107HAAAAPPPYYYYY BIIIIRRRFFFDDDAAAYAYYYY
639686 lol
Shade might be able to fix her if she told him.