“...did you girls have a good time?” Rainbow Dash asked Twilight and Fluttershy, who had just returned from their vacation. “Are you okay?”
“We did, and we are...but we need some time to rest.” Twilight said as she and her lover both slowly went to Twilight’s room in her castle. Rainbow Dash was confused but seemed to understand that they were both tired and could use some rest and relaxation after their trip back home. Once they got to their room, Rainbow Dash could tell that something was off with her two friends...but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it.
She returned to where the rest of her friends were and saw that they were enjoying their breakfast. They were all munching loudly and gobbling their food up. Some of them even dunked their face in their food and slurped whipped cream off their faces.
Applejack was taking a bite out of her pancakes when she was about to talk to her friends. She gulped up her bite. “These are delicious, Pinkie Pie!” She said happily. "You've really outdone yourself this time."
“Thanks!" Pinkie Pie replied, as she slurped down her own pancakes "But I couldn't have done it without Discord’s help, he spent all night helping me pick out the right flavor. The funny thing is, I kept thinking we'd found the right one, but he insisted I make even more to try. And more. And more and more and more and more!" To emphasize this point, Pinkie Pie stacked a bunch of pancakes on top of each other, creating a large stack. "It was like he wanted to get chaotic with my food. So, I ran out of time, and he convinced me to just go with every-berry-any-chip-surprise...which Twilight helped me with one time as she was avoiding her castle before it felt like home to her.”
“Really, Darling?" Rarity asked curiously. “Because it seems like you made that before.”
Pinkie Pie whispered into Rarity's ear "I know, Silly. But, you probably wouldn't like it, the surprise is that I ended up losing a measuring spoon in the batter at some point...again!," then in her usual cheerful she smiled and said "Somepony's gonna get a very special pancake!" Before she went back to her seat, while Rarity cautiously checked her pancakes for any unusual bulges.
"Discord made these?" Rainbow Dash asked "I guess that would explain why he wanted to be so chaotic.”
Discord blushed at what Rainbow Dash had just said. “Oh, Rainbow Dash.” He said to the Pegasus. “I just LOVE being so chaotic!” He munched on his pancakes. “That reminds me of the time, when Twilight was too tired to come back to her castle after she helped Fluttershy’s pet bunny...Angel, was it? After that, she went to your bakery and helped you make said surprise as you found the mixing spoon in the batter!” He pointed to Pinkie Pie as he said that. “And that made Twilight wake up and she said, ‘I’m pancake...uh, awake!’” The ponies looked at Discord with a sudden look on their faces, wondering how he knew about all this. “But...um...as you can see, Twilight moved on from it and adapted to it.” He giggled sheepishly.
Rainbow decided to tell her friends what she figured when she saw something was off about her two friends. “Which brings me to what I was going to to say.” The wonderbolt said, as if to emphasize her point that she saw the two lovers all tired, as they went to the main bedroom of the castle. “Has anypony noticed about how tired Twilight and Fluttershy looked when they got back from their trip?”
“Why, whatever do you mean, Darling?” Rarity asked quizzically, as she didn’t know what her friend was talking about.
“Well, when I saw them come back from their trip, It looked like they had been through a lot lately!” The wonderbolt said. “Especially, since they both packed such short luggage to get to Manehattan!”
Applejack was confused. “So?” She asked.
“So, what I’m saying is, that I think I know something that Twilight doesn’t know.” She said, both seriously and knowing that Twilight and Fluttershy both went on the vacation. “Remember when Fluttershy said she was going to an escape room in Manehattan a couple days ago?”
“I remember something that she DID tell us.” Applejack said. “...and she DID say something about going to Manehattan to an escape room, but I already heard that Twilight was going to Manehattan that same day for a teacher conference about the school of Friendship.”
“EXACTLY!” Rainbow blurted out in realization, realizing that Twilight and Fluttershy had planned this trip together. “Fluttershy said she was going to the escape room in Manehattan, which was the SAME escape room we went to after Starlight’s graduation ceremony, while we were trying to BEAT the griffin record!”
Her friends thought back to the time Twilight and the others went to Manehattan to solve an escape room to show how much their friendship really meant to each other. They had all worked together to unlock the escape room and got the key, and Twilight and her friends broke into song. After Rainbow Dash turned the key, she realized that they missed the griffin record and that they shouldn’t have sung that song. Rainbow grumbled as they ended their vacation on a bad note.
“Oh, my.” Rarity said as she remembered that moment when they were at the escape room. “That WAS the same escape room that we were at when Twilight broke into song about how important our friendships really are! And we missed that griffin record! Oh, Pooh!” She pouted in disappointment.
“Yeah!” Rainbow said. “And when Twilight said ‘Two words...total failure’, she meant to tell us that she and Fluttershy both failed to beat the griffin record...AGAIN!”
Everyone gasped in shock that Rainbow Dash had revealed such news that the two lovers had tried to beat the record at the Manehattan escapes, and failed. They couldn’t believe it. They were so shocked.
“Is that why they were so...out of it?” Applejack asked curiously. The others all nodded.
Just then, Spike came in. “Oh, no! Did I miss the pancakes?!” he asked in shock. He was worried that he missed breakfast and would have to wait until lunch! “I sleep like a baby under that cold, cavernous ceiling.”
“Oh! No, you didn’t, Spikey-wikey.” Rarity said to her friend. “We were just discussing different matters...about Twilight and Fluttershy.”
Spike was a little confused. “Oh, you’re talking about that?” He asked. “I thought that everyone was okay with it. Just give it some time. It’ll be okay.”
“And, Rainbow Dash here was going off on SOME rant that Twilight and Fluttershy were on the same Manehattan trip!” Applejack said, pointing to Rainbow Dash as she said it. “I don’t even know WHAT in tarnation, she was even talking about!”
Rainbow Dash was feeling a little frustrated, but she would get to the bottom of this, as what she was about to say next would shock everyone to the core! “And, Twilight said that she had a teacher conference in Manehattan that same time Fluttershy told us HER trip!” She said to her friends. “Right there and then, I realized that Twilight didn’t really have a teacher conference concerning the School of Friendship there at all! They both went on the trip to the escape room!” Everyone gasped in shock at this, as they now knew what the Rainbow maned Pegasus meant when she saw something off about the couple when they came to the castle all tired!
“Whaaaaaaaaat?!” Pinkie asked in shock. “You mean Twilight wasn’t going to a conference after all? I wonder who else was going to that conference.”
“That’s not important right now, Pinkie!” Rainbow Dash said, as pure tension was rising in her voice. “Don’t you see?! Twilight and Fluttershy were going over there to spend some alone time! Together! They were trying to hide the fact the they were even in a relationship! It all makes sense!”
“Wait...” Rarity asked. “So, what you’re saying is Twilight...didn’t have a teacher conference to go to? And that phone call about the lost eyelash curler...which was very uncouth, by the way, you made up so that we wouldn’t know about our friends’ vacation?”
“And, that she and Fluttershy were just using this as an excuse, so that they could spend some time with each other?!” Applejack asked in pure shock.
“Yes!” Rainbow Dash told them in shock, frustration and excitement at the same time. “And, when they woke up Spike at 9:00...or so he thought...it was actually, 3:02 AM! Twilight hid the clock from her assistant’s view! And when, they were discussing about their ‘vacation’, Spike fell asleep on the toilet seat with his toothbrush in his mouth!” She pointed to Spike as she said that, and Spike was surprised at this too, as he now realized Twilight lied to him about the time and wanted him to think it was 9:00 AM, so that he wouldn’t find out about Twilight’s relationship with Fluttershy.
“Wait...” Spike said. “So, Twilight woke me up at 3:02? That’s really early, considering that I never get up at such an earlier time!”
At that moment, Starlight Glimmer came in and saw her friends talking about how they knew about Twilight and Fluttershy’s relationship. “What’s going on?” She asked. “Who’s talking about Twilight?”
“Oh! Hi, Starlight!” Rainbow sheepishly said. “We were just talking to each other about how Twilight had so much fun on vacation!”
“Yeah! And I had a good time shopping with you!” She smiled sweetly, as she hugged her rainbow-maned friend. “And, what were you saying about you knowing Twilight’s relationship with Fluttershy!”
“Starlight!” Rarity said with shock and alarm. “Rainbow told us that Twilight and Fluttershy BOTH went to the Manehattan escapes, JUST so they could spend some time together! They were just doing that, so they could escape the stress back home!” Starlight gasped at that, as she now knew what rainbow had meant when she said that something was off with the two that had come home.
“Speaking of which...” Starlight said. “I was shocked when Fluttershy said she was feeling good, since she was with Twilight! I remember it happened when we were finding those stars to the constellation you found, Rarity!” The others were shocked that Starlight had known about this, but she hadn’t told them about this yet, until now! “And, when she left, leaving me and the CMCs in the castle, I was shocked. I now know what Fluttershy had meant about her and Twilight!”
Everyone gasped in shock that Starlight found out! “You know about Twilight and Fluttershy?!” They all asked her.
“Yes, I know!” Starlight told them. “Did you guys know about this at all?!”
“Yeah.” Rainbow Dash said to her friend. “We’ve actually known for a while.”
“Yeah.” Applejack said in agreement. “When, we were trying to fight Cosmos, who possessed Twilight, we saw them having sex in the Canterlot Castle!” She gasped. “Oh my gosh! I think we all knew before Twilight told us that she was pregnant!”
“OH MY GOD! You saw them having sex?!” Starlight asked in disgust.
“Yeah, we did.” Rainbow Dash said “...just as we were searching for the stars with our teams. I rescued Applejack, which we BOTH found out then, and we told Rarity and her team, and then, Twilight told Spike, then we came in, and Twilight told Pinkie about how she got pregnant and now everyone knows!” Starlight facehoofed in frustration.
“Do you think we should tell them?” Rarity asked her friend.
“No...not yet.” Rainbow said after doing a double check that no one else was hearing this. Sure enough, no one was. “They’d probably want to keep it a secret. So, we’d have to pretend that we don’t know anything about this, and when they’re ready to tell us, we’ll be fine!” She smiled confidently and kicked back into a nap position. “No lying necessary!”
“But, we can’t just hide the fact that we know about them!” Starlight tried to object. “There’s gotta be a better way!”
“How else ARE we gonna tell them, Rainbow?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie asked in agreement with Rarity. “How else are we going to tell our most super-duper best friends In the whole wide realm of Equestria?”
Rainbow got worried and facehoofed. “I don’t know, Girls.” She said to her friends. “I just don’t know. But hopefully, when the right time comes, and when they’re ready, THEN we will tell them.”
Her friends were a little nervous about this, but Rainbow couldn’t just walk up to the two ponies that were now in love that they knew about their vacation. They had to wait until Twilight and Fluttershy could no longer keep it a secret, and when the coast was clear, they would find out sooner or later. The problem was when they would find out, so that the two lovers would reveal their secret. But, one day, when the clouds parted and when the smoke cleared, they would be ready.