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// 24) Back to Equestria 
// Story: Loyalty's Vision 
// by SapphireRose87 
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{Rainbow Dash}

A couple of days later, everyone that Atias had contacted to shut down the machine gathered in the computer room at AI's castle. I found this place interesting because it looked a lot like my pocket demission.

Jude shut down access to it. The only people there were me, Oliver, Jude, Ivy, their son baby Leo, Eli and Servant Milo. Since Jude, Ivy and Servant Milo couldn't communicate by thought, they brought notebooks and pens to show their answers to our thoughts.

"If this doesn't count as a dream, I don't know what else is." Servant Milo wrote down.

"If you're dreaming," Ivy wrote, "then we're all dreaming."

So how are we going to do this? Eli thought.

I have an idea. Atias thought.

"What?" Jude wrote down.

Well, Atias thought, now that there's enough magic in one spot now, I can use my magic to pull you guys into my realm inside the machine.

What do we do from there? I thought.

We'll figure it out, Atias thought, there's a couple more people that I need to pull into the core as well.

Uh, say what now? I thought.

You'll see when you get here, Atias thought, you'll be here in three, two, one…

The next thing I knew all of us were sucked into the core of the machine in the blink of an eye.


* * *

When Atias had us inside the core of the machine, I looked around to see Finn and Rarity there.

"Okay," said Finn, "where the hell am I?"

"I would like to know that too darling," Rarity said.

Atias waved. "Greetings you two, my name is Atias Ingie."

After Atias explained everything he smiled. "Finally all of the elements of harmony bearers and the magic users, Lord Jude, Lady Ivy, Eli, Servant Milo along with baby Leo are here at last!"

"Yup!" Loyalty said. "The elements of harmony are together again! This is sweet! This hasn't happened in a long time!"

Everyone except for Finn, Rarity, Oliver and I jumped a foot in the air when they heard Loyalty speak.

"The Elements of Harmony can talk?" Eli asked.

"Yup!" Loyalty cheered. "My name is Loyalty and I'm Rainbow Dash's element of harmony right along with Magic. Say hello Magic!"

Magic groaned, "I sweat if I had eyes, I'd be rolling them right now. Hi, I'm Magic."

I snorted. Then Kindness spoke, "I'm Kindness, I'm Oliver's element of harmony."

Generosity spoke, "I don't want to be rude so I'll introduce myself, I'm Generosity and I'm Rarity's element of harmony."

"Hey don't forget about me!" Honesty said. "I'm Honesty and I'm also Rarity's element of harmony."

"Last but not least I'm Laughter," said Laughter, "I'm Finn's element of harmony."

Finn laughed at Laughter's introduction.

"By the way," said Laughter, "Finn laughs at everything! So he's perfect to be my connection."

"Well if that's the case," said Loyalty, "Finn, you should try being an actual comedian! I think you would enjoy it!"

Everyone, even Finn, laughed at Loyalty's comment. Once the laughter died down Atias cleared his throat, "Well everyone knows why they're here now and the sooner we shut down the machine, the better."

"So how do we even do this?" I asked.

"I have  a theory," said Atias. "Your sonic rainboom could help along with the elements of harmony that would short circuit the machine and shut it down for good."

I choked. "But I can't do a sonic rainboom like I did back in Equestria!"

"Actually," said Loyalty, "with our help, you can!"

I blinked. "Come again, Loyalty?"

"With our magic, we can build up so much magic in you that you will have no choice but to do a sonic rainboom!" Magic answered. "We're not sure what's going to happen after that."

"Yeah," said Laughter, "this is the end of the vision that we saw. We don't know what will happen next."

"Okay," I said.

"Well," said Kindness, "let's get started! As always Magic, it starts with you."

"Uh-huh," Magic said.

Magic lit up and a rainbow light came from it. Loyalty lit up next, then Generosity, then Honesty, then Kindness and the last one that lit up was Laughter. The rainbow light swung around and went through Servant Milo's forehead, then Eli's, then Jude's, then Ivy's the last one was baby Leo. Right before the loud boom that happens before the rainbow, I heard Atias say, "Thank you everyone, now I can rest in peace…"

That last thing I remembered before a bright light happened and the world went blank.


* * *


The next time I opened my eyes we were at the entrance at the Castle in Canterlot. I looked over and saw Jude, Ivy, Eli, and Servant Milo, well I guess I shouldn't call him Servant Milo anymore, they were looking around in awe along with Oliver and Finn.

Rarity smiled. "Are we where I think we are?"

"Yup," I responded, "we're back in Equestria."

"Oh happy day!" Rarity cheered. She started  jumping around and prancing.

"Um, mom?" Jude asked.

"Yes, Jude?" I said.

"You might want to take a look at what's on your head." Jude said pointing at my forehead.

"Huh?" I said. I looked up to see that I had a long blue horn on my forehead. "Lovely, I just had to become the Alicorn…"

Oh come on Rainbow, Eli thought, it's not that bad! You're a powerful creature now, you're gonna have to get used to it!

No comment. I thought.

"Yeah I agree with Eli," Jude said.

"Uh, Lord Jude?" Milo said. "Royal Advisor Eli didn't say anything."

"Okay the machine is gone, so it's just Jude." Jude said. "So you are just Milo, got it?"

"Milo…" Milo said. He nodded. "That's going to take some getting used to."

"No kidding and it's just Eli, Milo." Eli said.

"And I'm just Ivy," Ivy said.

"Actually, you all have different titles now." We heard Princess Celestia say.

We turned around to see Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, practically every single agent of the Sixth and just about all of the citizens of Equestria staring at us. A young woman that looked like she was about Oliver's age came running up to Finn, kissed him and hugged.

"Finn!" The woman said.

"Mabel!" Finn said with tears of joy.

Wow, I thought, I didn't know that Finn had other emotions besides laughing all the time.

I can agree with that. Oliver thought.

And don't go using this line of communication to get on my nerves Eli! That goes for you too Oliver!

I looked over to see Eli chuckling quietly to himself.

I don't know Rainbow, Oliver thought, I might use this during sex to make things more interesting.

"Really dad!" Jude said. "I'm going to pretend I didn't just hear that!"

Oliver paused. "Um, dad?"

"Well, I did give birth to him and now you're married to me. So yeah you're his dad," I said. "More like step-dad if you want to be more correct."

"Okay we can talk more later," said Princess Celestia. "First order of business is to introduce our heroes with their new titles!"

"Huh?" I said.

Princess Celestia chuckled, "Let's see here, there's Prince Eli, Prince Milo, Prince Jude, Princess Ivy, Prince Leo, Prince Oliver and then there's you Rainbow Dash! You are now Princess Rainbow Dash! Everyone bow to our new royal family members!"

I looked around and was speechless as I saw everyone bowing to us.

After everyone stopped bowing to Discord came up to us, "Well if it isn't Nancy! Or Princess Nancy? Or as I just heard Princess Celestia say, Princess Rainbow Dash? I never thought I'd see the day when Rainbow Dash would become an Alicorn!"

I groaned and mumbled, "Hi Discord…"

"Wait," said Jude, "that's Discord?"

"Yup." I said.

Discord looked at Jude. "And who might you be?"

"This is my son Jude," I said.

"You gave birth to a human?" Discord said. "That's new."

"Yes I did," I said, "just like I married one and now I'm giving birth to an Alicorn."

I saw Gilda cross her arms and laugh, "Again, tell me why you're not the definition of the word awesome?"

Before I could reply the world  started to spin on me and the last thing I heard was Princess Celestia say, "Oh no!" Then I passed out.


* * *


{Jude}

When Rainbow Dash passed out, I saw Princess Celestia jump into action. She shouted, "Medic ponies!"

Two unicorns appeared right behind her with a stretcher floating in their magic.

"Get Princess Rainbow Dash to delivery now!" Princess Celestia commanded.

I felt panic well up inside me, "What's happening to mom?"

"Don't worry Prince Jude," said Princess Celestia reassuringly, "your mother's about to give birth to your sibling that's all."

Oliver chuckled, "Yes Color Rain is coming to greet us!"

Princess Celestia paused. "The baby's a she? You already named her?"

"Actually Rainbow Dash named her," Oliver said.

Princess Celestia smiled. "Okay then, now everyone follow me."


* * *


As everyone sat in the waiting I couldn't help but feel anxious about how Rainbow Dash was doing. This felt more distressing than waiting for Eli and Ivy's Feeding Rituals to be over with. I couldn't stop pacing back and forth and saw Ivy giving me a concerned look. "Would you sit down Jude? There's nothing we can do until she gives birth. "

I heard Rainbow Dash scream in pain and I flinched when I heard it. "She sounds like she's in pain."

"I've heard someone giving birth before and there's nothing to worry about unless the doctor says there is." Rainbow Dash's friend named Gilda said. Gilda rolled her eyes because Ivy was giving her a funny look. "In case you're wondering, I'm a griffon and my name is Gilda."

I paused when I heard a strange noise coming from my stomach. "What's that noise?"

Gilda raised an eyebrow and had a puzzled look on her face. "It's your stomach growling. It means you're hungry, you've never heard your stomach growl before?"

I shook my head. "Nope. Is eating here going to be painful? Because if it is, I'm not hungry. Please go ahead and put me out of my misery now."

Gilda tilted her head. "How did you guys eat inside the machine?"

"We did something that was very painful called the Feeding Ritual," I answered.

"What's that?" Gilda asked.

After I explained what the Feeding Ritual was, Gilda's jaw dropped. "Wow, that's a painful way to eat! Since you haven't eaten any real food we should probably start you guys on something small like applesauce. Everyone in Equestria is vegetarian. We don't eat meat here."

"From what I heard, vegetables in Equestria are the best," Oliver said. "I'm kind of hungry myself."

Gilda nodded. "Okay sure. I can get you guys some vegetables and I'll get Prince Jude and everyone else that hasn't eaten before, applesauce and then of course a bottle for baby Leo."

"Are you going to need some help with that?" Oliver asked.

Gilda smiled. "Well Prince Oliver even though the food will be on a food tray and I'll probably need more than one food tray so yeah you can help."

Oliver paused and blinked. "Prince Oliver? Yeah that's going to take some getting used to."

"Yeah that makes two of us," I said. "Although I'd rather have the title Prince Jude than Lord Jude any day. I'm not ruling over anything ever again. Nope, I don't want the job."

"It's okay Prince Jude," Princess Celestia chuckled, "you're automatically disqualified from ruling because you're a male."

"Huh?" I said.

"Equestrian law states that only a Princess can rule over Equestria." Princess Celestia explained. "Preferably an Alicorn or someone just as strong to the next best thing and that would be a unicorn."

Rarity laughed, "At least I'm not an Alicorn, I don't want the job!"

"That makes two of us," Ivy said.

"That's okay," said Princess Celestia, "since we have a new Alicorn now, it would be Princess Rainbow Dash that would get the job."

"Well it sucks to be Rainbow Dash," Eli chuckled.

"Yeah because Equestrian Law also says that when a ruler has been chosen, they have to take the job. The punishment for not taking the job is banishment." Princess Celestia said. "I doubt Princess Rainbow Dash would abandon her friends."

I nodded. "I agree Princess Celestia, mom didn't abandon her friends back in Ponyville even though they gave her a reason to stay away."

Rarity hung her head. "Yeah I know, I was one of her so-called friends at that stupid engagement party. I should've stuck by her when she always stuck by us."

"Did you apologize to her yet?" I asked

Rarity sighed, "No I didn't. I had too much pride and a big ego to even think about doing that."

"Well, I think it's time you give an apology after she gives birth," I said.

"Yeah I can do that," Rarity said. "As Celestia is my witness and she actually is this time, I will apologize to Princess Rainbow Dash! I swear!"

Gilda smiled. "Do You Pinkie Promise?"

"Huh?" Rarity said. "Oh yeah! I haven't done that in a long while. Will you say it with me, Gilda?"

Gilda nodded. "Sure."

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!" Rarity and Gilda said.

"So Lifeforce Pinkie Pinkie came up with that?" I asked.

"Yup!" Rarity said.

"What does that even mean?" I said.

Gilda answered, "It means a promise has been made obviously, and once the cupcake is in the eye, the deal is sealed!"

"So Rarity sealed the deal on her promise to apologize to mom?" I asked.

Gilda nodded. "Uh-huh."

Princess Celestial was listening in the direction of where Rainbow's Dash delivery room was. "Well, it sounds like Color Rain is almost ready to say hello to us."

"Alright," said Gilda, "snice Prince Oliver needs to stay and greet his baby, Rarity, would you mind helping me with the food?"

"Sure," said Rarity, "I don't feel like hearing a baby scream when they're born anyway."

"I better go and see the final stretch of the delivery," Princess Celestia said.

"Yeah let's get out of here Rarity," Gilda said.

"Right behind you Gilda!" Rarity said.

I laughed at how fast Gilda and Rarity left the waiting room. I looked over and smiled at Ivy holding Leo. "Gee I know babies tend to cry when they're born but I don't think baby ponies are that loud."

"Yeah you'd be surprised," Princess Luna said.

Then I heard Color Rain scream bloody murder. I had to cover my ears because the scream was so loud. "Okay I take that back."

Hi big brother! I heard a voice inside my head say.

Oliver seemed puzzled about something. "Okay, I just heard a voice inside my head say come and say hi dad."

I nodded. "I heard a voice say hi big brother! I guess that might be Color Rain speaking to us somehow."

Princess Celestia poked her head out of the delivery room, "Um Prince Oliver? You might want to come in here and greet your baby. Color Rain's asking for you. It seems she has an uncanny ability to communicate by thought. Which is interesting because she's a newborn and all."

Oliver chuckled, "Yeah I heard her."

After Oliver went into the delivery room, Gilda and Rarity came back with the food. Gilda handed me, Ivy, Eli and Milo bowels of applesauce. My curiosity got the better of me. I took a couple of bites and before I knew it, I ate the whole thing. I looked over to see that Ivy, Eli and Milo had done the same thing. Ivy was holding Leo and feeding him a bottle.

"So," said Gilda, "how was your first bite of food?"

I smiled. "That was really good! Thanks Gilda!"

"Yeah I'd rather eat this than do a Feeding Ritual," Eli said.

I then realized that I was still wearing that stupid cape AI wanted me to wear all the time. I took it off and smiled. "Whelp, I know what I can do with this stupid thing."

Ivy chuckled, "What?"

I balled up the cape and threw it in a nearby trash can with enthusiasm. Ivy and the others couldn't stop laughing at it.

"Wow," Ivy laughed, "you really hated that didn't you?"

"Yup," I said after I dusted my hands off, "and I'm burning this outfit the first chance I get! I'm not looking at computer screens all day either! I'd rather be in a dungeon instead! Lord Jude is dead, goodbye and good riddance!"

Princess Luna snorted. "Don't worry Prince Jude, looking at computer screens all day isn't part of the royal duties as a member of the Royal Family. Computers are usually used by scientist for them to log in their data."

I let out a sigh of relief, "Oh good."

Princess Celestia poked her head out of Rainbow Dash's delivery room again. "Um Prince Jude? You can come see your sister. Everyone else please stay here until we can move Princess Rainbow Dash to a regular hospital room."

I nodded when I went into the room, I saw that Rainbow Dash was knocked out. That made sense to me because she recently gave birth to my sister. Oliver was sitting on a nearby chair holding Color Rain.

"Can I hold her?" I asked.

"Sure," Oliver said.

As I held Color Rain, I smiled because she was sound asleep sucking on her hoof. "She is absolutely adorable!"

Oliver nodded. "Uh-huh Rainbow Dash picked the right name for her."

A Nurse came into the room. "It's time for us to move Princess Rainbow Dash to a regular room."

When Rainbow Dash was moved to a regular room that's when she started to wake up.


* * *


{Rainbow Dash}

The next time I opened my eyes, I saw Oliver holding Color Rain and she was sound asleep at the moment. Jude and Ivy was sitting next to Jude holding baby Leo, Eli and Milo were sitting on nearby chairs. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were sitting down next to them. Princess Luna was nodding off and I'm going to assume that she didn't get much sleep lately for whatever the reason.

Princess Celestia smiled. "I'm glad you're awake Princess Rainbow Dash."

As soon as Princess Celestia said the word Princess Rainbow Dash, I looked up and rolled my eyes at the stupid horn on my head. "I just had to become the Alicorn."

Princess Celestia laughed so hard at my reaction that she was on her back laughing.

"That's not funny Princess Celestia!" I snapped. That comment made Princess Celestia laugh even harder. I grit my teeth. "I'm sooo honored I could be the entertainment for you."

Oliver and Eli snorted.

"Would you two knock it off!" I growled. Color Rain started crying. She stopped crying when she looked over and saw me.

Hi mom! Color Rain thought. I'm so happy you're awake! I already said hi to dad and big brother Jude!

Communicating this way will definitely help considering you're a newborn. I don't mind you doing it, but when it comes down to your father and Eli doing it that's another story. I thought.

I heard that! Oliver thought.

Yeah I know Samantha stand-in! I thought with sarcasm.

Jude and Eli cracked up.

Ivy tilted her head. "What's so funny?"

"It's nothing dear," said Jude. "I'll explain later."

"Okay then." Ivy said with a nod.

Suddenly, Color Rain's horn lit up and she disappeared.

I just came up with a new game mom! Color Rain thought. I'm going to call it teleportation hide and go seek! Weeeeeee!

Is she serious? Oliver asked after he looked at me.

Milo's jaw dropped. "What just… Happened?"

I facehoofed. "Apparently, Color Rain just invented a new game."

"Yup, teleportation hide and go seek," Jude chuckled.

Come on dad! Come on big brother Jude! Come play with me! Weeee!  Color Rain thought.

"Of course she wants to play with her dad," Oliver said, rolling his eyes.

Jude facepalmed and groaned, "And she wants to play with me. I guess being able to see through walls will come in handy for this. Let's just hope I don't see something that I don't want to see."

"Like what?" Ivy asked.

Jude deadpanned, 'You don't want to know. "

After Jude and Oliver left, I heard Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor enter the room laughing.

"That reminds me of Flurry Heart when she was a newborn!" Princess Cadance cracked up.

"I think this is going to be a new trend for newborn baby Alicorns!" Prince Shining Armor laughed. "Every newborn Alicorn is going to want to teleportation, hide and go seek!"

I chuckled, "Yeah at least you didn't have to battle the winds of the arctic north while trying to repair the crystal heart so the country doesn't freeze over."

"I've heard that stupid story over a million times," I heard Flurry Heart growl. When she came into the room I didn't recognize her because she had grown since the last time I saw her. "Hi Princess Rainbow Dash! You probably don't recognize me, I'm Princess Flurry Heart. I'm the one that broke the crystal heart shortly after being born."

"Wow," I said, "you're Princess Flurry Heart? I guess time flies when you're stuck inside a machine."

"Yeah I heard about that," Princess Cadance said. "Shining Armor told me."

Shining Armor nodded. "And we heard at the death of my sister along with the three other elements of harmony's bearers Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie."

"But the good news is," said Flurry Heart, "we also heard about us getting new element bears! You're a double element bearer Princess Rainbow Dash! The element of Loyalty and the element of Magic!" She cheered. "Awesome!"

"Yup, Rarity's a double bearer too, she has Honesty and Generosity," I said. "My husband Prince Oliver has Kindness and Finn has Laughter."

Flurry Heart then went from happy to sad and I had a feeling as why that was. "I'm sorry about Princess Twilight."

Flurry Heart shook her head. "It's okay Aunt Twilight just had to become evil. Best Aunt Ever my flank!"

Princess Cadance and Shining Armor gasped.

"Flurry Heart!" Princess Cadance scolded. "We don't use such foul language, you apologize right now young lady!"

Flurry Heart sighed, "Okay, I'm sorry for the foul language everyone."

Shining Armor gave an authoritative nod. "Good, don't do it again."

"Yes dad," said Flurry Heart, "I won't."

"Okay everyone," said Princess Celestia, "we need to let Princess Rainbow Dash get some rest. We also need to get the new additions to the royal family settled into their rooms at the castle."

Everyone said their goodbyes and I laid in bed waiting for Oliver and Jude to return from playing teleportation hide and go seek with Color Rain.