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// Monitor - Jondor 
// Story: AppleDash Group Collab 
// by DbzOrDie 
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The electric blue glow of a thousand magical monitors lit the starry void where Princess Celestia sat, watching over her little ponies.  Some might call it voyeurism, but that was a narrow view.  The truth of the matter was that underneath the happy, bubbly surface, Equestria was a dangerous place.  Griffins, Diamond Dogs, Cockatrice, Manticores, Hydras and Dragons just to name a few dangerous predators.

But right now, the most dangerous threat to her little ponies was not any sort of predator at all, it was her little ponies themselves.  This wasn’t a new situation by any means.  In her long life, she had seen this phenomenon come and go, but never so rampantly as it was now.  Indeed, the problem should be obvious to anypony.  One thousand scenes played out before Celestia’s eyes, acts mundane and exciting, decent and indecent, but one thing they all had in common: every single one showed either two stallions, or two mares.  Equestria’s population growth was in trouble.

No, not in trouble.  The magic to help was there, just forgotten.  It would need to be “rediscovered” and at this rate, she would have to give it a little nudge.  Celestia shifted over to a collection of monitors showing couples in Ponyville, an ideal place to start.  First, Twilight would be more than capable of finding and grasping the details of the spell.  Second, the residents were rather tight-knit and there were an unusually large number of gay couples there for a semi-rural town.  And finally, the population’s connections to nearly every corner of Equestria should spread the information quickly.

Now to decide on a couple to kickstart the whole plan.  Celestia narrowed her field of vision down to a single monitor which now blinked between various pairs.  Most were rejected with hardly a glance, some took a few moments longer.  Octavia and Vinyl and Lyra and Bon-Bon took her the longest and she finally noted them down as potentials until the image of an orange earth pony and a blue pegasus took her by surprise.

After picking her jaw up off the floor, she spent a minute or two reviewing some history and confirmed that they had been a couple for some time.  She’d have to research how she missed that fact later.  Right now she had other matters to think about.  How well would they be able to seed this plan?

If they wanted a foal, no doubt they would go straight to Twilight for an answer.  Inside Ponyville, Applejack was a prominent citizen, daughter of the town’s founding family; Rainbow Dash was well known and well liked and held down a government job.  Outside, Applejack had connections to Manehattan, Appleloosa, Hollow Shades, Galloping Gorge, Foal Mountain and Tall Tale, thanks to her family; Rainbow Dash had a strong connection to Cloudsdale, though her family and her job, which also took her to Fillydelphia and Los Pegasus.  Not to mention they were both Element bearers.  Yes, that was the place to start.