"What happened to using logic back there?" asked Apple Sweet as she and Bookworm were hiding in a local donut shop. "I thought you weren't going to use my method."
"She wasn't responding at all! There was no look of sudden realization or anything! I had to be blunt about it!" said Bookworm. "Hey, can a mare get a donut covered in sprinkles around here?"
"Yeah, you were suave abut it too. You were just being as in your face as I was being, not that I'm that bad, that is." smiled Apple Sweet.
"And now the guards think we're a bunch of lunatics who most likely just put an IN on the both of us. If they catch us doing-"
"Hold on, an I.N.? What the hay is an I.N.?" Apple Sweet said as she cocked her head in confusion.
Bookworm let out an annoyed sigh. "It means Important Notice. It tells all of Canterlot, perhaps even all of Equestria, to keep a very watchful eye on us to ensure that we don't end up doing what we did before. Well, that's just great!" Bookworm yelled as she punched her hoof on the bar in annoyance. "Now we really have to be careful about what we say."
"What are we gonna do about Discord and his little followers?" Apple Sweet asked aloud, causing the owner of the establishment to look at her oddly. Bookworm quickly slapped a hoof over her mouth.
"She's just talking nonsense. Don't mind her." Bookworm laughed to the owner. "Now, could I please get that donut?" The owner walked away before Bookworm leaned in closely to Apple Sweet and whispered to her in a furious tone. "When I say to keep quiet about you know what, I mean keep quiet! Now that the I.N. is out on us, we could easily be turned in just for mentioning Discord's name! If you really must refer to him while we are in public, use you-know-who so no pony gives us odd looks! Got it?"
"Ok, ok." Apple Sweet whispered. "So, have you come up with anything for a plan on you-know-who?"
"Since we were able to head to the library and get a copy of my books, I can finally do some proper research and form a more evolving plan that'll actually work this time." Bookworm said as she pulled her books from her saddle bag as the owner handed her the donut that she had ordered. "Thank you, sir." she smiled as she opened up Chaotic Reign and began to read.
"So, how long will it take for you to come up with a plan, you think?" asked Apple Sweet. "Because you-know-who could take over at any moment."
"When I do the proper research and form it is when I'll have it!" Bookworm hissed in annoyance. "Oh Celestia, you sure are demanding. Were ponies back then this demanding as you are?"
"More or less. I don't remember the past that much before I was put under that sleeping spell but I remember something about performing at some type of rock-n-roll show though." Apple Sweet said as she tapped her chin with her hoof. "What was that show about anyways?"
"Well, you get lost in your memories while I form a plan." Bookworm said as she turned another page and took a bite from her donut.
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"Mommy! Mommy! Are you okay?" Screwball yelled as she came running in through the bedroom doors. "The guards said you saw that green unicorn again! Are you hurt, Mommy?"
"Screwball, I'm fine. Really I am." Twilight reassured her 'daughter' as she felt the foal inside her kick once again. "Wow, you sure are awake today, aren't you little foal? I've never felt you kick so much!"
"Is my little brother or sister kicking? Can I feel?" asked Screwball excitedly.
"I see no harm." Twilight said as she laid herself out on the bed. "Just put a hoof to my stomach and you should feel them kicking. They've been doing plenty of it already."
Screwball flew through the air using her hat and slowly landed right next to Twilight and immediately placed a hoof on Twilight's stomach. A few seconds went by when Screwball felt a little bump hit her hoof, which caused her to smile intensely. "Oh, they're really in there! I can't wait until they're born so I can teach them all about the joys of life, like chaos!"
"It's going to be awhile until the little foal is born, Screwy. I think I'm not due for at least another six or even more months. But still, I'll definitely need your help the most when the foal is born."
"I thought you would need Daddy's help the most." Screwball asked in confusion.
"Of course I'll need his help, but you would be more helpful since you're a mare and can have motherly feelings, unlike Discord. I love him, but I don't think he'll be exactly helpful when it comes to the foal. Sure, he'll provide me with what I need, but when that foal cries at 3am, who do you think is going to take care of it? Most likely me or you."
"Do you really think Daddy won't help out with my new little brother or sister? He took really good care of me when I was a filly." Screwball said when she remembered something else. "Then again, I was never a baby and created from a cotton candy cloud. A tasty cotton candy cloud, that is." she smiled.
"Well, this is only a feeling I'm having. Hopefully, my feeling will prove incorrect. Hey, where is your father, Screwball? i thought he would be in here immediately after what happened at the Rose Festival. These last two days have just been crazy."
"That green unicorn, having the wedding canceled, and you have to deal with it all while being pregnant? That must be tough for you, Mommy. As for your question on Daddy, he said something about going to look for that unicorn as soon as he heard about it. He told me to come check on you while he went to take care of it."
"I thought he wasn't worried about Apple Sweet? He said that she was simply bitter about being placed under that sleep spell over a thousand years ago." Twilight said as she felt yet another kick, this time it was more like a series of kicks. "Ok, this baby is sure active! I've never heard of foals kicking this much in such a short amount of time! What the heck is going on with this foal?" Twilight said as she placed her hoofs on her stomach, to be met with another series of kicks.
"As for the foal, Mommy, maybe you should have a doctor come in here and look at it. As for that unicorn, the guard said that she had a follower with her and it made Daddy mad. Something about she could be more of a threat if she had friends on her side." Screwball informed. "I hope Daddy finds her and teaches them a lesson."
"I just hope he's careful. I'm surprised that the guards just allowed him to storm off like that." Twilight said in slight surprise.
"Actually, they really didn't allow him to go. He disappeared too quickly before they could react but they managed to follow me to the bedroom and are standing right outside of the door." said Screwball as she saw another series of kicks appear on Twilight's stomach. "Do you want me to get a doctor to look at you, Mommy? You look concerned."
"I think I should be looked at. Can you tell one of the guards to get a doctor for me?" asked Twilight with a small smile.
"On it, Mommy!" Screwball saluted quickly before she headed towards the door.
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"How's the research coming along?" asked Apple Sweet as she peered over Bookworm's shoulder, who was now reading The History of Equestria.
"If you keep on bugging me every five seconds, the research will never develop farther!" Bookworm hissed as she bit into the third donut she had ordered today. "But if you must know, I was reading the section in my book about Star Swirled the Bearded and how he created over 200 spells."
"What about him exactly?" asked Apple Sweet. "Can one of his spells help us in anyway?"
"No, but I came across an artifact in my book called the Alicorn Amulet. It was created during his time."
"And what is the Alicorn Amulet?"
"It's an artifact that can accelerate a unicorn's to godlike levels but it also corrupts the user. It would be perfect in our plan but unfortunately no pony knows what last happen to it over a hundred years ago."
"You say your looking for the Alicorn Amulet?" came a creepy voice from behind the two ponies. "Perhaps I can help you."
"Thanks but no thanks." said Bookworm. "If we were able to find it and use it on this brash thinking unicorn, it would corrupt her more horrible than imaginable."
"But I'm more strong willed then most unicorns! It won't be able to corrupt me!" yelled Apple Sweet.
"So said the other unicorns who had it before they were consumed by it's power." said Bookworm. "I'm sorry, old stallion, but we are not interested."
"But those unicorns didn't know a special charm that prevented one from being corrupt by it's special powers." the old stallion laughed from under his hood.
"But why would you you even help us? You don't even know why we even want to use it." said Bookworm.
"By the way you were talking, it sounds like you want to get rid of an old evil that has returned, but yet, no pony seems to believe you when you say that they have returned." the old stallion smiled evilly from under his hood. "But luckily for you ladies, I believe you in when you say that," the old stallion quickly went into a whisper. "Discord has returned from his stone imprisonment."
"How do you know that's who we were talking about?" whispered Bookworm in surprise.
"I know a lot of things that most ponies don't realize. Tell me, would you like to accept my help in acquiring the Alicorn Amulet? All I ask in return is that once the unicorn here has it that she can restore my youth. I miss being a young and handsome stallion."
"We'll do it!" Apple Sweet quickly agreed, shaking her hoof with his, earning a 'Are you stupid?' look from Bookworm.
"Excellent, but we cannot do it here, for your enemy is listening over in that booth in the corner." the old stallion whispered.
Apple Sweet looked at the corner booth and quickly could feel her anger rising. Discord had some nerve to come in here wearing that horrible disguise! Apple Sweet immediately got up to her feet and walked over to the pony in the corner booth.
"You have some nerve showing up here after what you did to me!" she yelled aloud. "Everypony may think you're gone, but I will prove them wrong and break the spell you've casted on the royal family, those two follower ponies, and the rest of Equestria. You will be destroyed."
A simple chuckle came from the pony that she was accusing. A small whisper soon came from the stallion, which was just barely loud enough for Apple Sweet to hear. "You think you just know so much, my dear? No pony with a normal working mind is going to believe you about you saying that I have returned and I also heard about you and your newest friend confronting my wife."
Apple Sweet's horn began to light up as her anger began to take her over. "Bookworm and I will get rid of you and free those two follower ponies you have under your spell. Once we have the Alicorn Amulet, you will be nothing but a figment of the past and I will have my revenge for what you did to my family."
"So that's who your little friend is. I've heard of her. She wrote that work of fiction that supposedly told the truth about my rule of Equestria. I believe it was called Chaotic Reign, hmm? But I don't have time for games, I have a message to deliver to the both of you." the stallion said as he used his horn to pull Bookworm over to the table.
"Let me go, you devil!" Bookworm shouted. "You will not get away with this!"
"You will both listen to me and listen well." the stallion whispered, suddenly his tone turned serious. "If you ever attempt to hurt me or my family at all, I will put you under a more powerful spell then before. I thought you were a joke before, Apple Sweet, but I see that you aren't. If you even think of hurting us, there will be a big storm of chaos brewing just especially for the two of you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a wife to see. Enjoy these parting gifts." the stallion snickered as he disappeared in a flash of light.
The second after he left, Bookworm and Apple Sweet felt a sharp pain on top of their heads. A loud crash echoed through the bar as the two mares both fell to the ground in pain. The loud crash turned out to be two flower pots that laid shattered next to them and in said flower pots had been large bouquets of Poison Joke, which plenty of them had gotten all over the two mares.
"We'll get you!" Apple Sweet screamed before she held her throbbing head, not paying attention to the Poison Joke that was around her.
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"I'm just going to put this gel on your stomach, Miss Sparkle. It'll allow me to see the baby much clearer with the ultrasound." the doctor smiled.
"I know. It's just weird how much the foal has been kicking today. I've never heard of a foal ever kicking this much before." said Twilight.
"It's not that uncommon for a foal to kick constantly." the doctor said as he applied the jelly-like gel onto her stomach.. "There. Now we can see what your little foal is up too." The doctor grabbed his tool and gently placed it into Twilight's tummy. "Now we just turn this on and we can see the little thing!"
The doctor pony turned on the ultrasound and slowly, an image began to show itself. As the image began to become clearer, the doctor and Twilight immediately had their jaws hit the ground at what they saw on the screen. On the screen, the foal appeared to be dancing in Twilight's stomach!
"What in Equestria?!" Twilight screamed aloud. "OK, that is most definitely is not normal! Foals cannot dance in their mothers!"
"But there it is on the screen, Miss Sparkle!" the doctor said, completely astounded.
"Woah! That's so cool! I've never seen a dancing foal inside of their mother before!" said Screwball excitedly. "Well, I've never seen a dancing foal at all, but still, that's so cool. My little brother or sister is gonna be a dancer when their born!"
"And a giant hoofful too." said Twilight. "His magic is defiantly playing apart in that foal." she muttered aloud.
"A unicorn's magic has been known to affect how a foal acts during the pregnancy but I've never seen anything like this in all my years as a doctor!" the doctor said. "But I believe you'll be fine, Miss Sparkle. The foal hasn't done anything, so you shouldn't worry. Still, if anything comes up, feel free to get me. I'm available at anytime!"
With that said, the doctor pony left the bedroom. Screwball immediately walked up to her mother. "I never knew a foal could be like that!"
"Me neither. Then again, this foal is the foal of harmony and chaos." said Twilight as she felt another series of kicks.