Chapter 4
The Poop Loop
"You want us to what?" Rainbow Dash was sitting upright in the hospital bed, flailing her arms at Twilight Sparkle's request.
Twilight was appalled. "I thought I just explained. Do you want me to explain it-"
"No, Twilight," Rainbow interjected, "we got it. It's just so crazy that you think we'd go for a plan like that!"
"I don't see why this is that crazy of an idea. I don't see what the problem is."
Rainbow Dash groaned and looked at her coltfriend, who was unusually silent. Not noticing this, she continued on with her rant, "You're talking about first, having a foal, and second, handing that foal over to you to be raised by your sick machines that I just escaped from! I won't let that happen!"
"Rainbow Dash, it'll be fine; it'll be okay. I will only take your adorable foal for a day at the extreme most. No harm will come to it, I promise. Think of all the good you'll be doing for Equestria! Soon, after the tests are done and you have your foal once more in your custody, we'll have unlimited energy!" Twilight rushed over to Rainbow's bedside and waved her hoof in a mimicking manner of a broadening horizon. "Think about it Dashie, a world with no problems. A world where everything is right. There would be no fighting, malice, hunger, homelessness, sickness, or anything else that is negative in this world. A world without fear. A world of peace and hope."
"This is still crazy!" Rainbow Dash screamed. "Soarin and I aren't even married, not that we would be soon! You're talking about a whole life commitment, and possibly my entire Wonderbolts career, for a foal! I'm not ready for something like that, Twilight! And neither is Soarin! Right?" She looked at her coltfriend who briskly turned away and stared at the ground intently. "Soarin?" Rainbow asked again. He blushed slightly and feebly muttered something indistinguishable.
Twilight smiled and turned around, adding, "I'll leave you two alone to discuss my proposition." She stepped outside of the room and closed the door.
After nearly an hour of intense discussion, Twilight was called back into the hospital room. Rainbow Dash looked the same as she was before, but a bit more happy yet at the same time sad about what she was about to say. "Fine," she uttered with obvious distaste in her mouth, "but for one day. Got it?" Twilight nodded her head and then briskly left the room. She didn't want to impede on any more of the love pegasi's nuzzling.
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A simple wedding was held two weeks later in the Church of Ponyville. It was beautiful, even though it broke all conventional wedding standards. Rainbow Dash had chosen the dress she had worn to the Galloping Gala while Soarin wore his usual Wonderbolts-blue suit. Ponies cried, especially Rainbow Dash's father and Rarity, and ponies cheered. It was a wondrous occasion. They lovingly said "I do" to each other and trotted down the aisle.
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Rainbow Dash stood uneasily over the container before her. She was in a small, claustrophobic room with a dim light and a locked door. The intention was that if she stayed in there long enough, she would eventually have to urinate. A knock came from the other side of the door for the fifth time. Rainbow Dash called back that she was fine and that she would soon be on her merry way to peeing in a large container and then handing that rather large container to the doctor for testing. No worries.
She had gone through the rectum test, which she never hoped to do ever again in her lifetime, the ultrasound test, which was extremely expensive and cost quite a bit of bits, and the blood test, which could always be inaccurate. This test though, the urine test, was the surefire way to make sure that she actually was pregnant. About four months had passed since the wedding, and if this test came up negative, then she had accidentally lost the fetus. This was the only way of being sure so they could begin preparing.
But now she was standing over a pee bucket, and she wasn't exactly sure she wanted to know. She didn't want to send her possible foal to Twilight, no matter for how long. She knew that somehow Twilight would extend the time, just like she had done with her, and would keep her foal for too long. Or something might happen to it while it was over there. Or something horribly wrong could happen while- She stopped herself. There was no going back. She just had to pee in this bucket. That's all Rainbow Dash had to do at this moment right now: urinate into too large of a container. Why was the bucket so big? Was she really going to pee that much? Who pees that much? She put these questions aside, and after another inquiring knock on the door, she let the urine fly.
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Ten months after the wedding, several mares gathered at Sugarcube Corner for a party. It was a foal shower for Rainbow Dash, hosted by Pinkie Pie. Many ponies came and dropped off rather large gifts for the fast arriving foal. In about a month, Rainbow Dash would be the latest mother in Ponyville. They sat and chatted for a long time, eating cake and other finger foods as Pinkie played loud music and tried to organize dances for the expecting mother. Rainbow Dash could hardly tolerate it, but she put on an obvious smile throughout the whole thing. This was all incredibly stupid to her, and if she had been in charge there would have not been a party, but a large bin outside her house labeled 'FOAL GIFTS' for ponies to drop off these stupid boxes instead of crowding around her with obnoxious music blasting from every direction.
She still put on a smile and tried to look appreciative and thankful while opening the presents too. Rarity had made about twenty 'outfits' for the foal. Applejack had constructed a wooden crib for it. Fluttershy brought some pacifiers for when the foal would scream and cry as foals always do. Fluttershy even claimed that pacifiers worked great on animals too, and not just baby ones, but after several stares thrown her way, Fluttershy retreated into the corner and spent the rest of the night there. As for Twilight's present, it was a rather large pair of socks, way too big for any foal to wear. When questioned about them, Twilight simply responded, "It'll grow into them."
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Rainbow Dash didn't think that she would be a good mother, but then she held that foal in her hooves for the very first time. After crying its eyes out, the newborn had calmed down a little, sometimes raising its soft breathing to an all-encompassing scream of terror and sadness but eventually going back to that state of gentle breath it was in right now. She looked at the colt with extreme elation. Soarin crouched down to her level to get closer to their new foal too. They stared at it, wondering about the miracle of life that was in their hooves when the door flew open.
Even though she shouldn't have been back there, Twilight now stood in the room with Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and their newest addition to the family. "Oh, isn't that adorable?" she squealed as she trotted closer to the colt. "That is the cutest foal I have ever seen. I assume it's happy and healthy? All its bodily functions are working correctly? It's defecating polychomatic feces?"
"Yes, he has those gene things you were talking about," Rainbow Dash confirmed, and then muttered, "unfortunately."
She started to slightly and quickly inspect the baby, looking over the entire body and then listening to its breathing. She nodded at the young couple. "Congratulations! And soon, this little ball of adorableness will be mine for a week! You're going to be important for Equestrian history, you lucky you!"
"Wait, what?" Rainbow Dash sternly asked, already becoming a mother. "What did you say? A week?"
"Yes. Why, is something wrong?"
"I'll tell you what's wrong, you said one day last time we talked about this. One. Day. How is it suddenly a week?"
"Oh, Dashie, it's only six more days," Twilight cooed. "I'll have the little colt for an extremely brief week and then you can have it for the rest of tis natural life, under the golden age of Equestria once more. A week is simply too short of a time to be running the kind of tests I'll be organizing."
"But you can't possibly think that we'll-" Rainbow Dash stopped, and thought for a moment. She gave a heavy sigh, realizing that there was no point arguing with Twilight on the matter. She forced a smile and said, "You're right. A week is the perfect amount of time. I'm looking forward to it."
Twilight beamed, slightly surprised. "I knew you'd see things my way Rainbow Dash. It's for the greater good of all of Equestria! You have one week, and then I'll have one week, and then, within a fortnight, you'll be one happy family for the rest of your lives!" She galloped out of the room, closing the door rather forcibly behind her.
Rainbow Dash's fake smile quickly faded and turned into a grimace. Soarin leaned down next to her and whispered, "How long until you're able to fly?"
Rainbow Dash coldly responded, "A day, at the most."