I don't believe it...well I know Mason wouldn't take a joke this far, but to think what he said about that it's just...something unbelievable! Just after yesterday of the zap apple jam, Mason brought us over to the Golden Oaks Library and told us about the photo and saw the image of the home-ship in the background, covered in vines and such.

"That's i-impossible!" Jamie exclaimed, looking at the photo with a microscope to get a better view. "There's no possible that the home-ship could've been there!"

"I know what I saw, Jamie, and apparently it is the home-ship." Mason said sternly.

"Well...I'm not sure. This is something hard to take." Twilight admitted, taking a turn on the microscope. "I mean, if its true, then I'm worried about you guys on how long you've been asleep."

"Yeah, same here." Kaede agreed. "Y-you don't really think we've been inside of that ship for a long time, right?"

"But then...!" Carrie covered her mouth in shock. "What if we did and we've been for a long time!"

"Carrie, calm down." Mason assured, hugging his sister. "We are going to solve this. I promise."

"Mason's right." I added with a sigh before forming a grin. "We all gotta stay confident. Everything's going to be alright."

"A-Are you sure?" Carrie asked, which we nodded. Still though, if the home-ship really has been here for quite a while for at least a century, then we are in some deep trouble. I-I just can't believe that the possibility of ever living in this world for a century. I mean, how crazy is that? Normally that kind of stuff always happens in the movies and anime.

"Ren's right, we gotta stay positive." Kaede assured, ruffling her hair a bit. "Until we know for sure, we can try to think some way about our current situation."

"Well..." I spoke up, making everyone turned to me. "I've seen many movies that involves space-ships such as ours and thought maybe that the home-ship could time-traveled and cross through dimensions. Surely that'll explain how we ended up on this world, right? And maybe if we find a way to pilot the home-ship, we can surely to travel through back to our world and into the right timeline of ours, right?"

Everyone gave me a blank look as Jamie spoke up "D-did...you even know what you're even saying?!"

"Ren, that's just ludicrous." Mason said, crossing his arms with a stern and serious look. "How exactly can the ship time-travel and cross dimensions?"

"Well I was pointing out a suggestion..." I rubbed my head, feeling embarrassed about it. “Besides, I saw that kind of stuff in some movies.”

“That’s just stupid. While I agree that the home-ship might me too advanced for our time, but still…” Mason raises a brow at me and said “Do you really think that it can be able to time-travel and cross dimensions. How can we be sure Equestria is another dimension parallel of ours?”

“Well there’s always multiverse theory.” Jamie offered. “I mean, it is said that there are other dimensions similar and parallel to ours.”

“You do realize that you’re kinda backing up Ren’s claim, right?” Kodi pointed out, reading a book on the couch. Jamie widened his eyes and blushed and said “Ah! I-I’m sorry!”

“It’s okay Jamie, you were trying to suggest something else.” Twilight assured, patting him on the back with a soft grin before turning to me with a raised brow and said “Although, I’m not gonna favor it might be multiverse theory.”

“So how you do explain about the photo Mason got from Granny Smith?” Kaede asked curiously.

“Yeah, I wanna know too!” Carrie added in anticipation while worried about what we might learn.

“Well I can’t say for sure. Me and Jamie will need more time to study more about this.” Twilight sighed.

“Yeah, and it’ll take more time to figure this out. I still don’t wanna believe it that it might possible the home-ship might’ve been here longer than I expected, but still…it’s probably a mistake.” Jamie assured.

“Well…I only saw a glimpse of the part of the home-ship when Granny Smith gave me this photo.” Mason sighed. “So maybe I was mistaking it for something else.”

“Wait Ren, you were here in Equestria before any of us, so could you tell us about the first time you saw the home-ship?” Kaede wondered with a hopeful smile.

“Well…it was covered in some vines, that I’m sure of.” I answered, trying hard to remember. “And it looked like it hasn’t been in used for years. So that’s all I can say.”

“I see, so it has to be true. The home-ship really was here for a century.” Kaede said, her expression turning a bit pale. I know this is quite hard for any of us to handle…if we’ve been inside of those sleeping pods inside of the home-ship….then does that mean…No! That’s impossible!

“No, that’s not true!” I yelled, which took everyone by surprise. “S-sorry everyone, it’s just that…I can’t accept this. There’s no way I can believe this. I mean, this is an old photo, and…”

“Ren, we understand how you feel.” Mason said with a serious expression. “We all can’t accept it. Besides, there’s just a small glimpse of it I saw in it, so we can’t be sure if that’s really the home-ship.”

“He’s right.” Kaede agreed. “Besides, it doesn’t explain how or if we even got in there. I mean, we don’t even remember about any of that.”

“Yeah, it doesn’t explain about it.” Carrie added. “I mean, I remember only being with my big brother and Elena in our kingdom’s town.”

“H-hey guys…” Jamie called, gaining our attention. “M-maybe we all need to t-take our m-minds off of this. T-this is getting t-too stressful with us panicking…”

“You’re right. Sorry.” I chuckled, rubbing my cheek in embarrassment. “I guess I shouldn’t have brought it up.”

“She’s right. I just don’t understand…” Mason wondered. “Maybe my eyes were playing around with me.”

“Yeah, I mean, how can we exactly believe something like that?” Carrie added. She has a good point, how exactly are we supposed to believe something like that? This is probably just a misunderstanding. But still…

“GUYS!” Huh? We immediately heard the door slammed opened, with a hyperactive Pinkie Pie revealing herself by launching through it and landing on top of me. “You are not gonna believe it!”

“Oops, sorry about that Rennie.” Pinkie got off of me as I dust myself off and said “Nah, it’s okay. Just glad you didn’t step on my neck or something important in my body.”

“Yay! I wanna see them! Can we big brother?” Carrie asked, holding onto her brother’s hand in excitement.

“Outstanding, I am quite curious to know more about newborn foals in this world…” Jamie muttered, loud enough for us to hear.

“Sounds to me that Jamie wants to go too.” Kodi smiled while Jamie became surprised that he blabbered it out aloud.

“I’m down with it!” I said with a smile. “Come on! Lead the way Pinkie Pie!”

“Don’t worry Rennie, I know a shortcut!” Pinkie winked as she immediately grabbed us all and before you know it, we arrived to the hospital in just a second. Literally!

“W-what?! H-how did we?!” Jamie choked, feeling so extremely confused by Pinkie’s logic.

“Yeah, still a little confused by how we got here so fast, but I’ll take it.” Kaede agreed, sweat-dropping a little.

“…I think I need a breather and a day off…” Jamie sighed sadly, slumping his head down.

“There you all are!” We turned around, finding the rest of our friends coming into the infirmary. “We were wondering what was taking so long.” Rarity said.

“So is it true? There’s going to be a foal?” Kodi asked excitedly. Fluttershy flew over and petted his head before saying “Indeed. The Cakes been planning this for a long time.”

“Oh really?” I asked in surprise before smiling happily. “That’s awesome to hear.”

“Come on! We gotta go!” Pinkie exclaimed, bouncing around in a joyful manner.

“Yay!” Carrie cheered as we headed out of the hospital’s lobby and into the infirmary. As we walked through the halls, I turned to Fluttershy and asked “So did they delivered the baby or are they just doing that right now?”

“Oh no, they already done the operation. We’re all about to see the baby.” Fluttershy answered.

"I've never a baby pony, not even back in our world. I guess it must be something w-worth right on t-this moment." Jamie said.

“Well today’s your lucky day, Jamie.” Rainbow smiled, patting him hard on the back.

“You know, I remember when Carrie was born and she looked so beautiful, almost like an angel.” Mason smirked, causing Carrie to smile happily and said “Ahh, thanks big brother.”

“It’ll be so cute just seeing these baby ponies.” Kaede added, feeling so joy on going to see them.

“I know how you feel, Kaede.” Rainbow grinned. “I was just taken by surprise upon hearing about this from Pinkie Pie.”

“Just several months ago. Me and the other girls just thought of keeping it a secret and not tell anypony else.”

“Oh! Because the author haven’t thought of that idea.” Pinkie answered before looking over at the wall and winked. We all gave her confused and weird expressions towards the pink pony as Kodi tilted his head and said “Who are you even looking at?”

“Well either way, it doesn’t matter. What matters is just seeing the little baby.” Fluttershy cooed.

“Indeed. It’ll be quite lovely just seeing them.” Rarity agreed. “Although I wonder if the foal would be a colt or filly.”

You know, that’s the number one question people asks. Whenever someone has a baby, that’s always the first question to come to mind. Is the baby gonna be a boy or a girl?

“No matter what gender, I say the baby will look alright.” Mason assured with a soft smile.

“Hey Kodiak, what was it like back when you were a puppy?” I asked curiously.

“I don’t remember much really.” Kodi replied, forming a sad grin. “I don’t remember quite well what my parents looked like nor where my siblings are….”

“O-oh! So sorry about that! Didn’t mean to bring the mood down.” Kodi chuckled nervously. Kodi…it must be sad not knowing what your parents were like. You were abandoned when you were a puppy, and you didn’t have a name nor gotten adopted or gotten a place to stay and live at. I was so glad to meet him back then and make him a part of our family.

“Nah, it’s okay Kodi. You didn’t bring down the mood.” I replied with a soft grin.

“Guys! Enough talk! We’re finally here!” Rainbow exclaimed as we finally arrived to the infirmary, seeing so many baby ponies around in one room.

"And the cuteness level has been initiated." I commented with a smirk on my face.

"Who cares?!" Pinkie exclaimed in an exciting tone. "I wanna see the new baby pony! I wanna see!" She immediately rubbed her face on the glass window while saying "Which one is it?"

"Beats me..." I shrugged as me, Mason, and Jamie walked over to the window with me standing next to Fluttershy as she said "Isn't it beautiful Ren? Seeing these cute babies?"

"Yeah, I remember seeing my sister for the first time. It was quite a good memory of me to see." I chuckled. "I always love holding her when she was a little baby back then."

"What?" I asked, not hearing what she said. She froze before letting out a blush on her face as she stuttered "N-nothing! Nothing at all!"

"Umm...okay?" What was up with her? She said something, didn't she? Huh, guess it was my own imagination.

"Look! It's Mr. Cake!" Carrie pointed out. I looked out the window and saw that she was right, it was him and boy, he looks kinda exhausted. I can even see some hair growing underneath his chin. Wait...is that even possible? Maybe I'll ask Jamie later.

Anyway he was near the bed with a cute little brown mane and light brown baby pony sleeping underneath the covers.

"Meet our son, Pound Cake." Mr. Cake uncovered the blanket, revealing him as he was peacefully sleeping on the bed before letting out a cute yawn.

"Awww..." The girls cooed while me and the other boys, including Kodi, smiled fondly at the baby.

"I guess you have a heart for kids, eh?" I nudged him, causing him to blush a bit.

"It's Pound Cake...he has wings!" Jamie exclaimed, pointing over to the baby. We took a closer look and became surprised to see that he indeed has wings.

"So he has wings. That's a way in my book!" Rainbow grinned. "I bet one day, when he gets older, I'll be his flight teacher and teach him to fly, Rainbow Dash Style!"

"Oh I highly doubt it, darling." Rarity commented, agreeing with Mason while ignoring the scowl from Dash.

"Don't worry Dash, I think you'll make an excellent teacher." I said, much to her joy.

"Hey guys! Look! I think Mr. Cake got more to say!" Kodi pointed out as we looked back and saw him moving over to another bed, the one next to his newborn, Pound Cake.

"...And our daughter, Pumpkin Cake." Wait what? We looked back and became shocked to see not one, but two ponies he had. He uncovered the blanket, revealing a light yellow coated pony with orange mane, but the strangest and surprising part was that she had a horn on her head.

"Wait...two new foals for me to play with?" Pinkie wondered aloud before letting out a loud gasp. "That's two, two, two times the fun! This is the greatest day ever!"

"Now hold on Pinkie Pie, just take a deep breath and..." As I tried to tell her, she immediately disappeared and reappeared in the baby room. "...Never mind."

"And I'll try my best to hold off my questions for now on how did she do that." Jamie sighed.

"We need to celebrate your birthday!" We heard Pinkie exclaimed right in the baby room, wearing a party hat and a kazoo in her mouth as she continued "Cause you are just born today! Woo-hoo!"

"Pinkie Pie!" Mason growled. Before Pinkie could blow that kazoo, Nurse Redheart appeared and shushed her.

Pinkie had no choice but to remain silent before Nurse Redheart took her leave. I'm surprise to see this side of the nurse. Back then, we first met when she told us about Kaede's awakening and she fell unconscious upon arriving in Ponyville. I guess she takes her job very seriously, but I know she's a good pony at heart.

Once Pinkie looked around and saw the nurse was gone, she slowly tip-toed over between the Cake Twins' bed, she began singing quietly in hopes of not waking them up.

However, Nurse Redheart popped back in again with a stern and irritated look, causing Pinkie to smile sheepishly at her. Five seconds later, Nurse Redheart kicked her out back into the lobby and took her leave.

"Anyway..." Applejack turned back to the babies through the looking glass with a confused look. "How in thunderation is one of them twins a Pegasus and the other one a unicorn?"

"Oh, that's easy." Huh? We looked over at Carrot Cake, who apparently overheard our conversation. "My great-great-great-great grandfather was a unicorn, and Cup Cake's great aunt's second cousin twice removed was a Pegasus. That makes sense, right?"

"...You kinda lost me from when you gained our attention." Kaede said, rubbing her cheek in embarrassment.

"I get it." Jamie said, writing down his notebook as we both gave him a confused look. He noticed it and said "You see, it's called Atavism, which means its a trait that came from an ancestor that was lost in many generations, so it seems that they both received it from their birth. Outstanding, isn't it?"

"Oh well, it doesn't matter." Fluttershy smiled while looking out the glass wall. "They look so cute!"

"Indeed Fluttershy, they're just so cute I can hold them right now." Rarity added.

"Ah, yeah! Heh, just you wait! Once little Pound Cake there gets his wings going, he'll be all over the place!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Don't you remember Ren? When Twilight told us about how she gotten her cutie-mark, she gotten into the magic surge when during the entrance exam of her school." Kaede reminded me.

"True, baby unicorns experienced that whenever they get their first touch with magic." Rarity explained.

"It's true. They cast spells like levitating objects without them even controlling it." Twilight added.

"I see." Mason nodded in understanding before noticing one of us was missing. "Where's Pinkie Pie?"

"Umm...big brother?" Carrie tugged his sweater, gaining his attention as she pointed through the looking glass as we all made surprised and deadpan expressions upon seeing Pinkie holding a birthday cake between the twin foals.

"Quick! Make a wish and blow out your candles!" Pinkie whispered. "Which is easy, 'cause there are zero candles! You are zero years old, after all!"

"Shh!" Nurse Redheart came back to the lobby with a stern look before kicking Pinkie back into the lobby, her face falling onto the cake.

"You just can't keep yourself together, can ya?" Mason asked in a deadpan expression.

"It's what I'm known for, Masey and Jamie!" Pinkie chuckled with a bright smile as Kodi and Rosy came over and licked her face and the ruined cake.

"Meow!" Rosy agreed, licking some of the frosting off her face. We all soon began to laugh at this while I began thinking of how are the Cakes' gonna handle this? I wouldn't worried about it. I mean, they're just a couple of baby foals, how hard it is to raise them? Oh well, it doesn't matter. I feel like I'm feeling better after that whole thing back at the library. I mean, really? Time-travel and crossing through dimensions? Heh heh...what was I thinking? Besides, Mason might've been right about being wrong about it. I mean, it's just a small glimpse of it, it could've been something else, right?

...Huh? Where....am...I?....I soon got off the floor, and looking around the area, I say that I'm nowhere due to seeing how dark it got.

"Yeah, they tried to hunt them down and kill them all because they get to survive and we don't!"

"I knew one of them. It was a boy in his teen years. He was just an innocent child, it's not his fault he was chosen for it. He didn't deserve it!"

Those voices...have I heard them before? The area soon started to slowly lit up, revealing that I was outside in what seems to be a national park and it had tons of gravestones...Wait, this is the World War II Memorial Graveyard!...What exactly am I doing here? I've never been here before, not much live in around the area like this.

"But even so, they too would be attacked by that cult organization, and they can't come because they aren't..."

"Hope...that's what they told us. They were our last hope...and look at what that got us..."

Hope....we were meant to be this world's hope....I looked around, seeing myself back in the same dream from before. I looked around and widened my eyes upon seeing my portrait, but I wasn't the only one. There were other portraits, nine to be exact. Four portraits that I don't remember, but five...I remember....

Mason...Carrie...Kaede...Jamie...wait...I noticed something behind our nine portraits, there...what was it? It looked like another...Ugh...my head...it feels like I've been dropped many times...I can't see right...

"AH!" Oh man...that was so terrifying....ugh, just what's going on with my head? It must've been another memory recovered. But it was that dream I had after me and the others defeated Nightmare Moon and turned her back to Princess Luna. Seriously though, it was a real pain. I still can't remember how I got here...I just wonder how my family's doing.

"Ren?" Huh? I looked down to see Kodi slowly starting to wake up and noticed my distress. "What's up with you? You looked like you had a bad dream or something."

"Well...something like that." I rubbed my cheek in embarrassment. "Anyway, good morning."

"Same to you." Kodi let out a yawn as we exited out of bed as I went to go and brush my teeth, put on new clothes and headed to the kitchen/Dining Hall.

"Hey you guys!" I greeted with a grin, seeing everyone already at the table, eating their breakfast.

"I see you finally managed to wake up." Mason smiled as I took down a seat and noticed that the breakfast was quite different today.

"Tell me about it! Who made this? You Mason?" Kodi asked in awe, but he shook his head and replied "Ask Kaede yourself."

We turned our heads to the said girl as she blushed and rubbed her cheek in embarrassment.

"Well...I thought I make something of my own. So me and Rosy got out of bed early and started cooking. It's the best I could ever made back when I started working as a maid. It's egg omelette, french toast, with some herb tea added with it, along a side of potatoes. I was lucky to find the ingredients around this place." Kaede explained.

"Well thanks Kay!" I thanked with a smile before taking a bite of the omelette, feeling quite joyed of it. Even Kodi and Rosy were enjoying the food while one of them was gobbling them down.

"He's at Twilight's library." Mason answered with a sigh. "He's been sleeping there for a long while due to many research on how we got here with that photograph I gave him."

"I'm starting to grow more worried about him." Kaede said with a concern look. "I've been noticing the bags under his eyes more darker. He needs more sleep or else he'll get sick or worse."

True, I mean, I understand Jamie does that for research and to calm his mind down from a subject that makes him go outrage and makes him have doubts in his mind, but he needs to relax and go to sleep.

"Yeah..." Kodi yawned, sharing some of his food with Rosy. "But you know, it's been a while since we heard from the Cakes, right?"

"Wow, can you believe a month has really past? We've been here for quite a while." Carrie nodded.

Oh right, a month has past since the Cakes' twins birth. A whole month for their arrival to their world while I've been here for an entire year...I wonder if my family's been looking out for me. I bet Mason, Carrie, Kaede, and Jamie's families' are searching out and worried about them as well as mine. Speaking of which, that dream...It was similar to mine back when me, Twilight and the gang discovered the Elements of Harmony and use their power against Nightmare Moon. I had a dream about seeing my own funeral. Only this time, I saw not only mine, but their's as well. I don't understand....those four portraits....

"Hey you guys...this might sound crazy but...I had a weird and crazy dream." I spoke up, catching all of their attention.

"Is it something relating to our memories?" Kaede questioned, feeling a bite hopeful of it while Rosy walked over and climbed up to her shoulder.

"Well...I...think I saw my own funeral." I said with hesitation while the others became shocked to hear this. "And not just that...I saw you guys as well."

"Yeah, I saw portraits of us. Nine in total, but I couldn't identify the other four, just you guys I saw."

"T-this...is surreal." Mason growled, clenching his fists in anger. "There's no possible way...is it?"

"You guys don't think...we're d-dead right?" Kaede asked in worried, her expression turning pale.

"That is true, and even so, it contradicts everything from we know." Mason stated.

"Like what big brother?" Carrie asked curiously, not following what he means. I soon realized what he's talking about as I answered "He's talking about our awakening in the pods."

"Correct. We've been asleep in them for who knows how long, but there's no way we could've died." Mason said with an irritated look. "But still...to think of that possibility...how would Elena and the rest of the family take this?!"

"Big brother! Stop!" Carrie yelled as his two pet squirrels came out of his scarf and started nuzzling him before Maddy took out his locket, which soon started to calm him a bit.

"Ugh...please forgive my rudeness or if I cause any distress." Mason sighed, clenching his fist. "I...I won't accept it. We need to find more answers."

"Yeah, sorry about bringing that up. If I knew that would make you guys upset, I shouldn't have said anything." I said with a sad look.

"No Ren, it wasn't your fault." Mason assured, putting a hand on my shoulder. "You just felt like it was necessary. Besides, we need all possibilities to figure out our current situation."

"Yeah!" Kodi agreed. "I mean, if you're really dead, you guys wouldn't stand right here in the first place!"

"True, we would've been ghosts." Kaede chuckled. "But...nine portraits? What do you mean by that Ren?"

"Well...I think it got something to do with what Discord said to me." I explained, surprising them a bit.

"Not him again..." Kodi sighed. "Just thinking about that guy just makes my head hurt and gives me a bad taste."

"Well can't blame ya there boy." I petted him on the head, cheering him a little. But still...Discord. I can't forget about that name. He was always toying with our minds and nearly ruined our friendship with each other and tried to take over Equestria by using his chaotic magic. However...I can't help but feel like he knows more about us, even about our missing memories.

"Anyway..." I cleared my throat before continuing my story again. "He tried to trick me by trying to convince me to go back home through a portal. However, I didn't fall for it. But the strangest part was that he said something about 'Why else you nine were selected for the project besides your immunity'."

"Wait, if you knew this, why didn't you tell us?!" Mason demanded, giving me a stern look. I chuckled nervously and replied "It...sorta slipped my mind."

"But still! It's a clue, right?" Kodi asked with a smile. "Surely it might mean that there's more humans than you guys."

"He's right. So there's nine of us hidden in this ship..." Kaede wondered while scratching underneath Rosy's chin. "I wonder what kind of people they are."

"Me too! I just hope they're as friendly as you guys." Carrie added with a soft smile.

"We'll see about that." Mason smirked before making a serious expression and said "But for now, we should think about this for another time and continue our breakfast. I have to go over to Sweet Apple Acres to help out the Apple Family with work while Carrie has to go to school."

"Well Rarity closed up shop for the weekend to spend time with her family." Kaede rubbed her head with a sad smile. "Guess I'll stay behind and watch some TV."

"Same here...Fluttershy told me yesterday that she has to go to a picnic with Angel, and due to his stubbornness...there's no convincing him." I sighed.

"Sorry to hear." Mason assured, patting me on the shoulder. "Well anyway, I gotta go. Come on Carrie."

"Okay!" Carrie nodded before grabbing her backpack and followed her brother out of the door. Well looks like we got the place for ourselves.

"Huh? Something wrong girl?" Kaede asked curiously before a light rumble from her stomach. "Oh! You're hungry! I'll go and make some more egg omelette for you."

"You know, you're quite cooking food. It makes you like a super mom." I commented, causing Kaede to feel surprised by it.

"Well yeah!" Kaede blushed from that before looking away and muttered "T-thanks."

Suddenly, we heard a loud growling coming out of Kodi's stomach, much to his embarrassment.

"A little hungry?" I asked in bewilderment. "Your stomach almost sounded like an earthquake."

"Okay, I'll make something delicious Kodi." Kaede smiled before walking over to the kitchen, putting on an apron and soon starting cooking. Rosy, Kodi, and I watched as twenty-five minutes past, and she was finally finishing up, putting more omelettes, french toast, pretty much anything breakfast related onto Rosy and Kodi's bowls

"Wow, you really are good at this." I said with a smile towards Kaede. "You're quite a cooker, Kay!"

"Thanks Ren, I learned that kind of stuff from when I was working as a part-time maid." Kaede replied, crossing her arms with a smirk on her face.

"You know, you're quite reliable a lot." Kaede felt surprised to hear that from me as she asked "R-really?"

"Well yeah. You try so much to help us all and made that hero costume back then." I smiled before remembering about it as I added "Well...despite what the gang said about it."

"Wow...thanks Ren. You know, you're quite kind with your words. It sorta makes us motivates all of us." Kaede complimented. I blushed a bit and said "Come on, I'm just being friendly with you guys, no big deal."

"She's right. You offered me a home here, Ren, and even gave me the name 'Kodiak'." Kodi stated, showing off his collar.

"Yeah. I think even the others can agree. You're a good friend, Ren." Kaede smiled.

"Oh, I wonder who could it be this time." Kaede wondered as we walked over to the door and opened it, revealing to be the Cakes' and their little babies.

"Ren! Kaede! So glad to finally see you two!" Mrs. Cake sighed in relief. "There's a quick favor we need you two to do!"

"Come on! Pick me!" Huh? I looked behind them to see Pinkie waving her hoofs around in anticipation. Wonder what's up with her?

"Yes, you see..." Mr. Cake started up his explanation about the favor as he said "We have to deliver this enormously big catering order over by to Canterlot! But we completely forgot about it and we don't have a babysitter to babysit Pound and Pumpkin Cake!"

"So wait...you want Ren and Kaede to babysit?" Kodi asked curiously, walking towards the door with Rosy on her back.

"But why not Pinkie Pie? I mean, she hangs out with them more than us." I pointed out, which caused them to cringe and look at each other in worried. "What's wrong? Is...that a bad idea?"

"Well you see, Pinkie Pie is a great role model for the twins..." Mr. Cake agreed before frowning. "But she's..."

"We think she might not hold up to the task of watching over the twins and doesn't know responsibility." Mrs. Cake finished. "That's why we've been looking over town for a babysitter and nobody wants to fulfill the role."

"That's so sad..." Kaede said, putting her hand on her chest before making a determined look. "We'll do it!"

"We will?" I asked incredulously as Kaede whispered through my ear and said "Of course Ren! I mean, Carrot and Cup Cake worked real hard and couldn't watch their children. Besides, it'll be easy."

Hmm...well I've always watched over my sister and my brother and dad showed me how to raise her when she was still a baby...so I see why not.

"Yeah! We'll watch them for ya Mr. and Mrs. Cake!" I said with a determined smile before putting my hands behind my back and said "Besides, these guys are so cute, how can they cause so much trouble for us?"

Mr. and Mrs. Cake smiled brightly at that idea as the latter exclaimed "Thank you so much, dearies! We'll never forget this!"

"Ahhh..." Pinkie sighed sadly, her mane deflating in depression. I couldn't help but feel bad for her now. It seems like she wanted to babysit them, but the Cakes' have doubts on her due to her childish personality. But hopefully she can at least, help us from making the Cakes' Twins not cry at all.

Later
Wow, that's a lot of sweets they're gonna deliver. They were going back and forth back to the kitchen that I lost count how many times they came to the kitchen.

"Look at all that food...I'm so jealous on whoever is ordering all those sweets..." Kodi muttered, licking his lips.

"Still though, thank you so much for watching over the twins', dearies!" Mrs. Cake said with a smile.

"No problem Mrs. Cake." I nodded with a grin as I held Pound Cake while Kaede held Pumpkin Cake. "We promise that we won't let you and Mr. Cake down."

"Thank you both." Mr. Cake thanked before asking "But you both really understand the responsibility of watching over two babies?"

"Well this is my first time watching over a couple of babies..." Kaede admitted.

"Well I've taken care of my baby sister many times." I added before forming a smile. "So we'll be totally alright."

"Y-you're right. I mean, I might learn something from this experience." Kaede agreed with a slightly nervous smile.

"That's good enough to hear!" Mrs. Cake smiled before handing us a list. "Here ya go. All the responsibilities are on this list."

"Don't worry, we'll do awesomely well." I assured before opening it up, revealing a really long list so long that it reached to the ground. "Holy crap, that's a long list."

"But don't worry, like Ren said, we'll do awesomely well." Kaede smiled, sweat-dropping a little just from the sight of the long list.

"Thank you so much dearies..." Mrs. Cake smiled before looking over a depressed Pinkie Pie, who was rubbing her hoof on the ground while she sulk in the corner. Poor Pinkie... "Oh...I guess maybe I shouldn't have hurt her feelings. Can you dearies cheer her up please when we get back from our delivery?"

"We'll frost it when we get there! C'mon, sugarplum, tick-tock!" Mr. Cake exclaimed, pushing a wrapped up cake through the door.

"Oh right! Take good care of our two precious little ginger snaps!" Mrs. Cake said.

"Yeah! Good luck on your delivery!" Kaede smiled. With that, they both exited out of the kitchen and were off to make their delivery. Now then...

We turned to Pinkie Pie, still sulking in the corner as I cleared my throat, gaining her attention.

"Pinkie...do you want to help us raise Pumpkin and Pound Cake? I mean, you are the only one who knows so much about them." Kaede pointed out.

"So...will ya help us?" I asked, causing Pinkie to stare at us for a minute before we saw a smile slowly forming on her muzzle her mane brought back to her puffy and crazy style and before long, she immediately started shaking. Uhh...is there something wrong with her?

She immediately blasted into the air with an excited look, and soon, everywhere was sparkled around like fireworks as she yelled "YAHOOOOOO!"

"Uhh...so is that a yes?" Pinkie immediately popped between us and hugged me and Kaede together while Kodi and Rosy smiled happily to see her like this again.

"You betcha! No way I'm gonna leave out this opportunity!" Pinkie exclaimed in excitement before bouncing around merrily. “Just leave everything to Auntie Pinkie Pie!”

“I have no clue.” I shrugged. Suddenly, the babies started crying, which made Kodi and Rosy cover their ears in pain.

“D-don’t worry boy, we’ll try to make them happy again.” I said before putting both the babies down and pulling off some silly faces at them. However, they kept crying again. “Well that trick worked well with my sister…”

“Don’t worry! I got this!” Pinkie exclaimed as she grabbed the babies and held them by the forelegs, patting them gently and somehow got them to stop crying. “Oh, don’t cry little friends! Look, look!” She pointed towards the door to the kitchen and ran straight towards and hid behind the door. “Where’s Pinkie Pie?…Where’s Pinkie Pie?”

“It’s called ‘Where’s Pinkie Pie?’ It always make them smile.” Pinkie answered, peeking out the door before noticing the two babies looked at each other and began crying again. “Uh oh! U-uhh…I’m right here, see!” She opened the doors and rushed over to us before making goofy faces at them, but ended up with the same results. Me and Kaede grabbed them and patted them on the back.

“W-well do something like maybe make them laugh?” Kodi suggested, still covering his ears with his paws while Rosy hid in Kaede’s sweater pockets in hopes of not wanting to keep hearing it.

“Aha! I got it!” Pinkie brightened up on Kodiak’s idea before rushing off and setting up the entire place with a table and curtains. “Hey guys, watch this!” Suddenly, a spotlight somehow appeared and started following her as she walked over to the center of the curtains while grabbing onto a broom that was near a stool. “Hey, you’re a wonderful crowd here, where you all from?” She asked, holding out the broom towards us.

“I…think she’s trying stand-up comedy?” I replied, feeling unsure about this before noticing Pumpkin Cake trying to bite onto the end of the broom, which Kaede noticed as well and prevented him from doing so.

“…Well that’s great.” Pinkie laughed nervously before clearing her throat, returning back to her cheery self. “You know, I used to have an ant farm, but I had to get rid of it because I couldn’t find tractors that small!” She rushed over and grabbed a drum and cymbal out of there and did one of those sounds you hear from a show when people makes jokes.

“Um…alright then…” Pinkie chuckled nervously before continuing “Well, the other day, I spilled some remover on my dog, and now I can’t find him!”

“…Pinkie, you’re not winning the crowd.” Kodi pointed out, seeing the babies sad and whiny expressions. Before you know it, they started crying once again.

“Hey guys, why not we just put them to sleep? It might calm them down.” Kaede suggested.

“Wait! I got another idea!” Pinkie exclaimed, immediately rushing over to the curtains.

“Wait what?” I asked in surprise before she spoke up and said “I wasn’t gonna pull off a show stopper, but you’re a lovely audience and I think you deserve it!”

“Pinkie…what are you doing?” Kaede asked, rocking Pumpkin Cake in attempts to calm him down.

“This is what I’m doing, Kay!” Pinkie popped out of the curtains, wearing a pig snout.

“A…pig snout?” I raised a brow at her, wondering what she’s planning on doing now.

First you jiggle your tail! Oink oink oink!

Then you wriggle your rump! Oink oink oink!

She bounced around the place and appeared between use, shaking her head in rhythm. No offense, but how is something like this supposed to calm them down?!

Then you wriggle your rump! Oink oink oink!

Then shout it! Oink oink oink!

She made a grin before balancing on her tail and tilted to the side, keeping the rhythm of the song. Wow, I gotta say, I’m impress by how she did that, but then again…she is quite a party pony. She has the talent of a circus clown.

First you jiggle your tail! Oink oink oink!

Then your wriggle your snout! Oink oink oink!

Then you wiggle your rump! Oink oink oink!

Then shout it out! Oink oink oink!

“Huh…she’s good.” I commented, seeing her bounce around while shaking her tail.

“Yeah, but I don’t these guys understand that.” Kaede pointed out, seeing the Cakes’ twins making confused looks before crying even more. Pinkie noticed this and immediately started increasing the speed of her song.

First you jiggle your tail! Oink oink oink!

Then you wriggle your snout! Oink oink oink!

Then you wiggle your rump! Oink oink oink!

Then shout it out! Oink oink oink!

She accidentally tripped over and landed straight towards me. I immediately gave Pound to Kaede before taking the hit as we both landed onto the cabinet.

“Y-yeah, I think-” I was cut-off as a bag of flour poured onto me and Pinkie, which caught the twins’ attention as they slowly began to giggle and soon laughed. “Huh…looks like it did work after all.”

“There, see? Nothing to this babysitting business!” Pinkie said with a smile before she fell back to the floor and felt exhausted.

“You both go clean yourselves up. I think I can handle these guys.” Kaede said with a smile.

“Alright, thanks Kay.” I thanked before me and Pinkie headed upstairs, leaving Kodi, Rosy, and Kaede behind as they went prepared to help out the babies. While me and Pinkie were in the bathroom, cleaning off the flour by using a wet rag, I spoke up and said “Man, who knew raising two baby ponies would be this hard? I don’t think my sister was that difficult when she was young.”

“I know, right?” Pinkie agreed, already done cleaning her face. “It was fine alright before Mr. and Mrs. Cake left, and I thought I could prove them wrong by showing them that I am responsible!”

“So you did overhear our conversation, eh?” I asked with a sad smile. Pinkie sighed as her mane slightly deflated before saying “Yeah, I was heartbroken to hear that Mr. and Mrs. Cake didn’t have faith in me. How silly isn’t it? I always help them out and play around with the twins’, but it looks like they don’t fully trust with something like this.”

“Pinkie Pie, I know the Cakes’ wouldn’t allow you to babysit them, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have complete trust with you. They do, just worried about the babies, that’s all. Besides, they seemed really desperate on finding a babysitter, no matter who it is.” I said with a soft smile.

"Yeah, you're right." Pinkie slowly smiled before saying "I don't know what they're talking about. I'll prove to them that I'm respons...uh..."

"Yeah! That!" Pinkie grinned while I playfully rolled my eyes. Can't blame her for not knowing that word. We soon exited out of the bathroom, only to be bumped into Kaede, who apparently she, Rosy, Kodiak, and the babies were covered in flour.

"It's a long story..." Kaede sighed while holding onto Pumpkin and Pound Cake. "Let's just say that they had a difficult time eating."

"Yeah, and we can also see why Pound Cake is called 'Pound Cake'." Kodi said with a deadpan expression. Rosy meow'd in agreement.

"Don't worry! Leave it to me you guys!" Pinkie assured as she grabbed the twins from Kaede's hands. "Rennie! Can you start the water?"

"Got it!" I nodded before walking over to the tub and turned it on, making sure that the water is between hot and cold. Just to make sure they won't complain about it, that's all. As soon as I managed to get the tub filled up, I turned around to see Kaede and Pinkie taking off the Cakes' Twins diapers off, but once they did, the little foals started giggled and running around merrily.

"Hey! Come back here!" Kaede exclaimed as she and Pinkie began chasing after them. Me and Kodi took part of the chase before we noticed Pumpkin Cake chewing on the towel, much to our shock.

"H-hey Pumpkin Cake! That's not food!" I stated before grabbing her while Kaede managed to find Pound Cake, who was apparently hiding inside the mirror. That baby is quite clever.

"I got him!" Kaede said before we put them in the tub while Pinkie adding some bubbles in it.

"Oh! I always keep stuff like this in my mane!" Pinkie answered, proving it by taking some more bubble shampoos out of her, much to our bewilderment. I know she's just being herself, but her mane is like, literally, the hyperspace of an RPG game.

Suddenly, we heard more crying coming over from the twins', much to Kodi and Rosy's complaint.

"Ooh, look guys, bubbles!" Pinkie said, placing some bubbles in her hoof before blowing the bubbles towards them nicely, causing them to smile lightly.

"Good idea Pinkie!" Kaede complimented before grabbing some more bubbles from the water and blowing them gently towards the babies, much to their joy. Well looks like it's working. But unfortunately, I spoke too soon as one of the bubbles popped on Pumpkin Cakes' horn, causing them to feel frightened and cry loudly. "Uh oh!"

"Uhhh...wait. Have this." I suggested, placing a rubber duck in the tub, which caused them to smile happily at that.

"Oh! Nice idea Rennie! Be right back you guys!" Pinkie zoomed out of the room, much to our confusion.

"Now what is she doing?" Kodi wondered as his question was answered with Pinkie running back into the bathroom and placing more rubber toys in the tub. She kept zooming back and forth and placing more stuff into the tub, much to our shock.

"Pinkie wait!" Kaede stopped her before she had the chance to place a big raft into the tub, which I probably won't ask how she gotten it. "That's enough! I think they're enjoying the toys, thank you."

"Oh really?" Pinkie asked incredulous before looking over, seeing the twins' enjoying them. "Oh! Okay!" She grinned while Kaede shook her head and sighed. I know how you feel. Oh well, at least it's making them-WHOA!

Suddenly, I was blasted by a wave of water, crashing through the door and back to the cabinet, getting hit by a bag of flour in the process. I slowly got up and walked back into the bathroom with a dizzy look on my face while the others became surprised by what happen.

"What?" I asked, putting my hand on my head to ease off the headache. "What happen?"

"Well Pound Cake accidentally hit the fauncet, causing it to break and hitting you in the process." Pinkie explained before giggling upon me being covered by flour. "But other than that, you're covered in flour again silly. Even the twins' find it hilarious!"

To prove her point, I looked over and saw the twins' laughing at me while I looked at myself at a mirror and saw how I looked. Due to being covered by water, the flour was started to turn pale like mud, which I let out a heavy sigh and said "Really? Is that what's gonna be?"

"Yeah! It's almost like a running gag for this chapter." Pinkie giggled, causing us to look at her confusedly.

"Oh nothing. Just something aloud." Pinkie waved it off. Doesn't matter, what matters is getting some stuff off of me. And I just got my sweater washed last week.

"Alright, so what's next on the list?" Kaede wondered, looking over it. After we brough the twins' out of the tub, I had Pinkie Pie take my sweater over to clean it, leaving me only with my Pac-Man T-Shirt.

"Well...we fed them, gave them a bath, what's next? Change their diapers?" Kodi chuckled before sniffing in the air and covering his snout while Rosy hid in front of his chest as me and Kaede looked at them confusedly before sniffing in the air and realized why they're like this.

"I guess it is..." Kaede sighed before we turned to the twins', seeing them playing around with their toys innocently. Yup, just as I feared...we're going to have to change them. My dad and older brother always does that to my sister, but me and Kaede doing something like this...it's kinda gross, but we'll give it a try.

"Quick, you grab the diapers, and I'll try to catch them." I explained my little plan, which she nodded in agreement.

"While you at it, me and Rosy will be underneath the bed and support you guys in the end." Kodi assured before he and Rosy hid underneath the babies' crib, not wanting to be involve this. Can't say I blame him for being afraid by them. Those babies are quite clever.

"Oh you two..." Kaede muttered before turning to me with a serious expression and said "Alright, let's do it."

With that, we took put our plan into motion as Kaede went over to the drawer to pick up some diapers while I slowly walked over to the babies and was ready to pounce at them. I immediately jumped in, only for the babies to notice and run away, causing me to crash onto the ground.

"God dang it..." I muttered in deadpan before I got up and chased after them. "Get back here you two!"

They both climbed onto the drawer, where Kaede was, as I immediately tried to catch them. "Kaede now!"

"Right!" Kaede yelled back as she and I pounced at them, struggling to put on the diapers. Once we finished, we got up and smirked at them as I said "Ha! How do you like that Pound and Pumpkin Cake?"

However, my words were taken back as we gazed at the twins', seeing no diapers on them. What? I don't understand...where?

"Tee-hee..." The babies started giggling before they started laugh out loud. What? What are they laughing about?

"HA HA HA HA!" We turned to Kodiak and Rosy, who were laughing their butts off. "Take a look at yourselves!"

"Huh?" Me and Kaede looked at each other, before realizing what they're laughing about. We had...diapers...on our heads. "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

"I have no idea!" I retorted before seeing the two baby ponies keep laughing at each other. "Hey! It's not funny!"

Suddenly, we heard a doorbell rang downstairs, which made us feel relief of that.

"I hope so. Glad to see Mr. and Mrs. Cake back here." Kaede agreed before taking the diaper off of her head, as well as I. "Can you go answer it? I'll try to get Pound and Pumpkin Cake into their diapers. You go over and answer the door."

"And I'll come too!" Kodi called, running along while Rosy stayed behind with Kaede, wanting to help her friend with the twins' madness. We soon headed downstairs and back to the dining room as I headed over to the door and opened it, revealing to be Twilight and Jamie.

"Hi! We finished up the work I had to do, so we thought we'd stop by and see if you needed any help." Twilight said with a smile.

"Oh thank god!" I sighed in joy and relief. So glad that we managed to find some more help. "You guys have no idea how hard it is to babysit a couple of baby ponies."

"We see, well we're glad to come all this to help out Ren." Twilight chuckled. "After all, we thought you guys needed help."

"Ex-cuse me?!" Uh oh...we turned around to see an irritated Pinkie Pie, dropping a laundry basket on the ground in the process.

"O-oh hi P-Pinkie Pie..." Jamie greeted. "We w-were wondering if y-ya need help."

"Jamie's right. Babies take a lot of work, and some ponies are just not cut out to handle the responsibility." Twilight added.

Jamie nodded in agreement before saying "It's true. Not every parent or guardian are perfect or quite handle the challenge."

"Is that so?" Pinkie eyed both of them, feeling offended by what they said about raising a child.

"Pinkie Pie, wait!" I tried to stop her, but she ignored me as she continued "Well thanks for stopping by, Twilight and Jamie."

She pushed them out of the door before saying "Sorry, I don't have time to visit. I'm very very busy with my responsibilities here."

Unfortunately, she was cut-off by Pinkie slamming onto the door, feeling not the mood to talk to them.

"Well they don't have complete faith in us! They think I can't handle things on my own! Maybe because I haven't handled things on my own." Pinkie sighed with a frustrated look. "Well, I can handle things on my own!"

"Oh Pinkie Pie!" I exclaimed. "That's not what they meant! They were just talking about many ponies and people not being perfect parents nor guardians. I mean, can Mr. and Mrs. Cakes even raise them perfectly like they wanted to be?"

"Well..." Pinkie twiddled her hooves in embarrassment. "You have a good point..."

"Yeah! They might've even knew much about raising babies!" Kodi pointed out. "You shouldn't have made them leave!"

"I know! I know! But...I felt hurt by her words! I wanted to show them that I'm responsible! And I'm gonna prove it right now!" Pinkie exclaimed before zooming out, catching us by surprise.

"Dang it." I muttered. "Oh well...let's go over and get them before they leave."

"Good idea." Kodi nodded before we left the shop and chased after Twilight and Jamie, who were apparently taking their leave.

"R-Ren!" Jamie said in surprise. "W-what brings you here? Did you h-happen to need our h-help?"

"Well yeah. Sorry for what Pinkie said." I rubbed my head bashfully. "I mean, she felt angry that you guys doubt her skills and thought that she wasn't responsible."

"I understand how she feels, but we didn't mean to hurt her feelings." Twilight said, feeling bad for the party pony. "It's just that we just wanted to help her, but it looks like she wants to prove that she's responsible."

"T-true, but she doesn't have t-to take it this f-far." Jamie said, forming a bit of a deadpan expression. "But maybe t-this might become a g-good lesson for her, right Twilight?"

"Well I guess, but we should head back to Sugarcube Corner and see what's up." Twilight suggested as we headed back to Sugarcube Corner. "It must be difficult for her to take care of them, even with you guys helping her. No offense."

"Yeah! You could've used it to make those guys stop with all that running." Kodi agreed.

"Well I can't obviously because it might hurt them and such. You guys saw how powerful it was when we face off against some enemies, right?" I pointed out, which they all soon realized.

"You're right...I guess it was s-some stupid stuff I-I came up with." Jamie sighed sadly.

"Don't blame yourself Jamie, ponies make mistakes all the time. Like you said earlier to Pinkie Pie, we're all not perfect." Twilight smiled.

"Well either way, we gotta make sure nothing goes wrong." I said as we finally arrived back to Sugarcube Corner and headed inside until we heard some loud crying. "What the heck?!"

"Is it the babies again? Because their wailing have grown louder than last time." Kodi whined.

"No...it doesn't sound like them." I said, knowing for sure what they sound like. "Come on! It's coming upstairs!"

We immediately raced all the way upstairs and entered the Cakes' twins room, only to find Kaede trying to cheer up a crying Pinkie Pie, who was wailing so hard as her tears were literally like water works.

"Oh! Ren! Kodi! I was wondering where you both were!" Kaede said, surprised to see us here before noticing Twilight and Jamie were with us. "Oh, hey Twilight and Jamie. Wasn't expecting you guys to show up."

"We came because we were trying to help out with the babies." Twilight explained while Jamie asked "Just what's happening?"

"Well...while you guys were gone..." Kaede began telling us her story while comforting the crying Pinkie Pie.

Kaede was rocking both Pound and Pumpkin Cake to sleep, managing to finally to get their diapers on and now is planning on putting them to sleep. She was humming a song to them, which seems to have take affect.

"Phew...we finally did it, Rosy." Kaede sighed in joy before slowly placing them on their crib as Rosy jumped onto the bed, not waking them up as she grabbed the blanket with her mouth before covering them it to keep them warm.

"Meow..." Rosy smiled before Kaede grabbed her and scratched her underneath the chin.

"Ahh, thanks for the help Rosy. Now we can go rest and-" Kaede was cut-off as Pinkie slammed open the door with a serious look on her face, which surprised Kaede and Rosy because that slamming might've wakened up the babies. They looked over and were in relief to see them still asleep. It was a good thing that they were heavy sleepers, apparently

"P-Pinkie? What are you doing?!" Kaede asked in frustration and shock of seeing her like this.

"Twilight and Jamie came by for a visit." Pinkie answered, walking over to the crib while looking over at the baby ponies. "They said that they wanted to help us take good care of the babies."

"That sounds like a great idea." Kaede brightened up on that idea, which Rosy agreed. "So where are they?"

"Well...I may or may not have driven them away." Pinkie grinned nervously, shocking Kaede and Rosy in the process.

"Meow!" Rosy agreed, shocked to even for the pink pony to do something like this.

"S-sorry! I even made Ren upset by doing that. I-I just want to prove that I'm responsible, and that's what I'm about to do!" Pinkie exclaimed before getting shushed by Kaede and Rosy, reminding them of the sleeping foals. "Oops...sorry about that."

"It's okay, but I'm glad that your loud yelling didn't wake up the babies." Kaede sighed in relief before glancing over at the babies, only to find them missing. "Ah! The babies! They're gone!"

"What?!" Pinkie exclaimed as she immediately looked every in the room, every nook and cranny like crazy while Kaede and Rosy looked underneath the crib for them. Suddenly, they heard loud chewing-like sound coming from the closet. Kaede got up from the ground and slowly walked over to the door, only to be Pumpkin Cake taking a bite of a rubber chicken.

"Oh...you're there." Kaede sighed in relief before widening her eyes in realization. "Wait...how did-"

"There you are!" Pinkie smiled before grabbing Pumpkin Cake up and put her back in her crib and said "You be a good little filly now, Pumpkin-wumpkin, and stay in your crib for your pal Pinkie-winkie!"

Pumpkin Cake didn't mind as she continued to chew her rubber chicken toy as me and Rosy looked at each other in confusion, wondering how the heck did the little pony get in there when the door was closed in the first place?

"Now where's Pound Cake?" Pinkie wondered before walking out of the room, calling out for Pound Cake. "Here, Pound Cake! Come to Auntie Pinkie Pie!"

Suddenly, we heard a giggle coming from him, only problem was that...we didn't see him there.

"Uhh...Pound Cake?" Kaede muttered in worried, looking around the hall through the door. She heard another giggle coming from the little baby, which caused her to shiver a bit. "O-oh...this is just giving me goosebumps."

"Where are you Pound Cake? Pound Cake?" Pinkie looked through the hallways in hopes of finding him while Kaede and Rosy stayed behind, not wanting to be scared than they already are. Soon, Rosy noticed something above them, which made her widened her eyes in shock. Rosy started nudging Kaede, which she finally noticed.

"What? What is it Rosy?" Kaede asked as Rosy pointed up, and once Kaede looked up, she became shocked to see who it was.

"Pound Cake?!" Kaede gaped as she saw that Pound Cake sticking on the ceiling...with his wings fluttering. "Y-you can fly?!"

"Tee-hee!" Pound Cake giggled, seeing Kaede upside down like that from his perspective.

"Pound Cake?!" Pinkie gasped, coming back to the room before noticing Pound Cake on the ceiling before squealing "You can fly?!"

"That's just what I said, Pinkie." Kaede said, but Pinkie ignored her as she tried jumping up to the ceiling to catch the baby.

"Oh...get...down here...this instant...young...colt!" Pinkie stopped to catch her breath before glaring at Pound Cake. "I'm responsible for you!"

"Pinkie, we have to get him before he gets into more serious trouble." Kaede pointed, which Rosy nodded in agreement.

"Hmm..." Pinkie thought for a while until she came up with one idea. "Oh! Oh! I got one!"

She immediately zoomed off out of the room, which startled Kaede and Rosy a bit. Suddenly, they started to hear some strange sucking noise as they slowly looked up and became surprised to see Pinkie walking on the ceiling with suction cups on her hooves. She managed to grab Pound Cake into her hooves before walking back down from the wall to the floor.

"Meow." Rosy agreed, also confused by that. Suddenly, they heard another giggle, but it wasn't from Pound Cake, but from Pumpkin Cake as she continued to giggle as they both witness her horn glowing.

"What the?!" Kaede gasped upon seeing this scene. Pinkie was shocked to see this, dropping Pound Cake out of her mouth as he began hovering in the air again.

"No no no, Pumpkin!" Pinkie shouted, but it was too late as Pumpkin Cake used her horn to levitate some stuff animals around her before one came to her as she started biting onto it.

"Pumpkin! We told you that isn't food!" Kaede exclaimed as Pinkie walked over and took it out of her mouth. However, Pumpkin Cake took another stuffed animal and stuffed it into her mouth.

"No no no, Pumpkin!" Pinkie shook her head before taking it out of her mouth again. However, she did it once again, irritating Pinkie Pie. "No no!"

She took it out of her mouth and grabbed the stuffed animals Pumpkin Cake chewed as she said "Hmph! I am the responsible one, and I said no!"

To make sure it doesn't happen again, she put them in a chest and immediately locked it up with a chain lock.

"You didn't have to go that far, Pinkie." Kaede said, feeling concern for the pink pony.

"Sorry Kay, but right I'm just feeling-Hey!" Pinkie pointed over to Pound Cake, who was fluttering around the room with a smile on his face. "That goes for you too, Pound Cake!"

Pinkie chased after him, jumping around to catch the flying baby Pegasus until she slammed into the wall and fell into the laundry basket, coming out of it with a bib on her head.

"I got it!" Kaede said as she tried to catch Pound Cake, but no matter what, she can't grab her as long as he keeps flying in the air. "Now what?...Hm?" Kaede noticed a butterfly net, which soon gave her an idea. She grabbed it and used it to catch Pound Cake. "Gotcha!"

Suddenly, Pound Cake started flapping his wings more faster and started slowly moving, which soon made Kaede feel a bit scared. "I-I think?" She muttered as Pound Cake started dashing off with Kaede still grasping with the butterfly net as she and Rosy were dragged out of the room and were being hit by the walls over and over before he raced downstairs, causing Kaede to hit the stairs on her butt and was dragged into the kitchen, getting her face hit with every dessert made in it before he dashed through the doors and running back upstairs, getting Kaede hit in the rump once more before racing back to the twins' room as she immediately let go of the butterfly net as Kaede laid on the floor in an exhausted state.

"Kay! There's no time for laying around!" She looked up to see Pinkie giving her a serious glare as she continued "We need to stop the twins before they-AH!" Pinkie gasped upon seeing Pumpkin Cake levitating herself as she and her twin brother began flying around the place, which frightened the two.

"No no no! Not you too!" Pinkie exclaimed, showing off a worried look before pouncing at them as she immediately grabbed a basket and covered them inside before using some duct tape around it, just in case they tried to escape. "There! Now who's the responsible one?!"

"P-Pinkie! You can't do that! You're losing your mind!" Kaede exclaimed, seeing the craze-out look on Pinkie's face.

"Yeah..." Kaede said bluntly before noticing Pumpkin walking through the basket using her magic. "What?! I didn't even know she can do that!"

Pinkie looks behind her, only to have the same shocked expression as her while Pound Cake lifted the basket up, destroying the duct tape surrounding it as he threw the basket away and started zooming around the place while Pumpkin used her magic to break the chain lock and started playing around with her stuffed animals. Pinkie widened her eyes, seeing that she has zero control with the twins as her eyes started getting teary.

"P-Pinkie Pie?" Kaede asked in worried as she and Rosy felt really worried for their friend. Soon, Pinkie began the water works.

"WAAAAAAHAAAAAA!" Pinkie began crying over, shocking Kaede and Rosy while the twins' stopped and looked at Pinkie Pie in surprise.

"No way...so the twins' did all that?! I've never hear that from the books before!" Jamie exclaimed.

"Even I was surprise, and now look at her." Kaede said as she gazes at Pinkie Pie, who was still crying.

"Y-you guys were right! I am a terrible babysitter! I'm not responsible!" Pinkie whined, making them all feel guilty.

"Pinkie Pie, you aren't a bad babysitter. You were just trying to help." Twilight said, putting a hoof on her shoulder. "Why else did me and Jamie come and try to help you."

"Yeah Pinkie." I nodded in agreement. "Like they said, not everyone are perfect parents and/or guardians. Besides, I think the twins' got something to say to you."

I looked over to see the twins' walking over to Pinkie Pie, who noticed them as she tried to wiped away her tears. Pumpkin's horn started to glow, levitating another bag of flour. Okay seriously? What is up with the bag of flours today?! Just how many are there?!

The twins' soon covered their bodies with flour, making apologetic smiles to Pinkie. Apparently, it started to work as she started giggling, bringing back her cheery self.

"Intriguing..." Jamie said, writing down notes in his notebook. "You know, this is quite a great lesson, don't you agree T-Twilight?"

"Exactly Jamie!" Twilight nodded before turning to her pink pony friend and asked "So Pinkie, are you alright now?"

"Yeah, thanks you guys." Pinkie smiled. She grabbed both Pound and Pumpkin Cake and snuggled them both as she said "And thank you both for cheering me up."

Pound and Pumpkin Cake let out winks before letting out yawns and started drifting to sleep.

"Well we should clean them up and make the place clean up. I've kinda noticed some smudges in the kitchen when we walked in." I grinned while rubbing my head bashfully.

"Good point." Kaede nodded in agreement before grabbing the twins' from Pinkie's hooves and gently laid them down on the bed. She then kissed them both from the forehead, getting some flour stuck on her mouth. She let out a light chuckle before wiping it off and said "Well, now that's settled. Let's go clean up the mess downstairs."

"And also about your clothes..." I pointed at her clothes, seeing them getting dirty, which she finally noticed.

"Oh...right." Kaede chuckled nervously while rubbing her cheek in embarrassment. We all let out chuckles, seeing her finally noticed her clothes. Oh well, guess our day...didn't go out as planned, but at least we managed to get them to calm down at least.

Later
Dear Princess Celestia,
I've always had fun playing with little kids, and I thought babysitting meant just more playtime, right? Wrong! Being a caregiver is way more responsibility than just being a playmate. And today, I learned that sometimes our desire for responsibility can outrun our actual ability to handle it.

"Now that's a wonderful lesson you have learned, Pinkie Pie." Twilight smiled as we finally finished up cleaning up the kitchen and such. Pinkie went to washed Kaede's clothes, leaving her only in her pink button shirt.

"Y-yeah. I even covered it up." Jamie agreed, finishing writing the lesson. "W-we'll go over and send it later, r-right Twilight?"

"You bet Jamie!" Twilight smiled, causing Jamie to blush a bit. "But now that we're finish, we should get going. We'll see you guys tomorrow."

"Bye you guys!" I waved goodbye to them as they took their leave while me and Kodiak finished up cleaning the floors using sponges and wash rags. "Phew...it took almost midnight, but we finally did it."

"Yup! So when do you guys think Mr. and Mrs. Cake will come back?" Kodi asked curiously.

"Don't know. They said they had to delivered it all the way to Canterlot." Kaede shrugged. Suddenly, they heard the door opened, revealing to be the Cakes.

"How did everything go?" Mrs. Cake asked before letting out a gasp, seeing the place spotless.

"Are we in the right place?" Mr. Cake asked, feeling awe upon seeing the place all cleaned and no smudges.

"Shh!" Pinkie shushed them, coming out of the laundry room. "You'll wake the babies!"

"The babies?" Mr. and Mrs. Cake asked in unison. She gestured them to follow her upstairs as we walked up to the twins' room as she slowly opened the room, seeing the twins' relaxing in their sleep.

"P-Pinkie, Ren, Kaede. This is just...just..." Mrs. Cake stuttered, unable to process what to say.

"Exactly!" Mr. Cake agreed before covering his mouth, hoping not to wake up the twins before clearing his throat and said "We had no idea how responsible you really are."

"Ahh, it was nothing." I rubbed my head bashfully before saying "But you know, it was all Pinkie Pie. I mean, she was the one who helped us get to understand them."

"Ren...Kaede..." Pinkie gasped before giving us a big hug and said "Thank you guys so much! You two are the bestest friends a pony could ever asked!"

"Say, would you three be interested in becoming our go-to babysitter on a permanent basis?" Mr. Cake asked, causing us all to look at each other in shock.

"Yeah! She knows the twins' more than us." Kaede agreed with a nervous grin and sweat-dropped.

"Hm? Ah...lemme check my schedule!" Pinkie took out a piece of paper out of her mane and looked through it. "I should be available a week from...never!"

Before any of us could say something, we heard the twins' snuggling with each other and hearing some words we never thought we would hear.

"Well I guess so. But still, thanks you two. Here." Mrs. Cake took out some bits out of her pockets. "You two deserves this."

"Ren's right. We were just helping out, that's all. I was just being generous, that's all." Kaede smiled happily.

"Well we gotta go, bye." I waved goodbye as we planned to head out before I stopped and realized something. "By the way, you guys said that you were making a special delivery at Canterlot, right? It sure looks like a big delivery."

"Oh, it's for a special event at Canterlot. Sorry, we can't say much. It's a secret." Mr. Cake winked.

"I see. Just asking. See ya." A special event? Wonder what could it be? Maybe next time when we see Princess Celestia once more, I can ask her myself.

"Oh right Rennie and Kay! Here ya go!" Pinkie threw us two sweaters at us, which apparently were washed clean.

"Yep! They're clean nicely just like ya wanted to!" Pinkie grinned, causing us to smile happily at her.

"Anytime Kay and Rennie!" Pinkie chuckled as we put them over our shoulders and decided to say goodnight to our friends and leaving the shop.

As me, Kaede, Kodi, and Rosy took our leave, Kaede let out a sigh of relief and said "Well that's a relief. Who knew taking care a couple of baby ponies was so hard. I liked them better when they were small."

"Tell me about it. Who knew they could cry that loudly. I think my ears nearly gone deaf." Kodi sighed.

"Oh well, at least it was fun taking care of them." I smiled, surprising them. "I mean, we managed to get the Cakes' see that Pinkie is responsible...in her own way of course."

"Yeah, that is true. I'm so glad that the Cakes' twins made her smile again." Kaede chuckled. "But do you think Mason and Carrie are wondering where we are?"

"Seems so. But Mason is pretty a reasonable guy, so I'm sure he'll understand our reasons." I assured with a soft grin.

Me, Kaede, and Kodi sweat-dropped in defeat while Rosy tilted her head in confusion.

"Heh heh...too soon?" I asked, rubbing my head bashfully while Mason gave us a stern look.

"You two are gonna have a little talk with me with walking out like that." Mason said sternly. We gulped as we both fearfully looked at each other in fear. Yep, should've seen this coming.
To Be Continued

My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria

by MaxTV1234

Chapter 42 - Baby Cakes