//------------------------------// // Epilogue // Story: Keeping Secrets // by Soniclink137 //------------------------------// So yeah, I finally managed to tell Soarin’ thanks to those kids and everything worked out alright. I could talk about what happened after that while I was pregnant but…well I did a few things that are even more embarrassing then that. So I think I’ll leave that out for now. Maybe if you’re lucky you can get Soarin’ to tell you a few things about that. Instead I might as well go to well…the birth of my foal. ~ A long time later Rainbow Dash and Soarin’ were sleeping together in their cloud home in Ponyville for the weekend. The moon was nearly down and it was close to the time for Celestia to raise the sun. Both of them were sleeping soundly, until Rainbow Dash woke up with a start. She immediately started poking Soarin’ in an attempt to wake him up. “Hey Soarin’,” Rainbow Dash said while poking him. “Wake up.” But she got no response. So she poked a bit harder. She still got no response from him. Rainbow Dash, never the patient one especially with what is happening now, decided to give Soarin’ a strong kick and see if that wakes him up. Soarin’ then awoke with a yell from the kick and looked at Rainbow Dash. “What?” he asked her. “Well let’s see Soarin’,” Rainbow Dash said. “”I’m a pregnant mare who was told by the doctor that she was due any day now. And I’m awake in the middle of the night and woke you up. So how many possible things could I possibly want? It’s time Soarin’!” “Time?!” Soarin’ said. If he wasn’t awake before he certainly looked like it now. “Ok, what do we do?!” Or…maybe not. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “What do you think?! Help me get to a hospital now! And don’t panic. If anything, I should be the one panicking!” “Right,” Soarin’ said. “Let’s go.” “Not yet,” Rainbow Dash said. “You need to tell Scootaloo first. And make sure she tells everypony else. And make it quick!” “On it,” Soarin’ said as he ran through the cloud home to Scootaloo’s room. He as quickly as he could, woke Scootaloo up. “Ugg…Soarin’?” Scootaloo said. “What’s up? It’s the middle of the night.” “The foal is on the way,” Soarin’ said quickly. “I’m going to take Rainbow Dash to the hospital as fast as I can. Can you try and wake Twilight up and have her send a letter to Spitfire telling her?” “Soarin’ it’s the middle of the night,” Scootaloo said again. “Even I don’t want to be up. What makes you think Twilight will be happy waking up?” “Well considering that Twilight, and everypony really, were really excited to hear about the foal I don’t think Twilight will mind,” Soarin’ said. “I’m sure she’d be happy to wake up hearing one of her friends is about to have a foal.” “Soarin’! Hurry up!” Rainbow Dash called out. “I have to go,” Soarin’ said. “After Twilight sends the message, have her take you to the hospital. See ya later Scootaloo.” Soarin’ ran out of Scootaloo’s room and went back to Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo yawned and sleepily got up. Having no sense of urgency whatsoever, Scootaloo went to the bathroom first to brush her bedmane and splash some rainwater on her face to help wake her up. It was at that point in time when she grabbed her scooter and then went outside to get Twilight. As Scootaloo walked out of the cloud house she felt a cool summer morning air all over her. She looked down to see the cloud steps that Rainbow Dash could use to get in and out of her house while she can’t fly. Instead of taking them, Scootaloo hovered down holding her scooter and when she got her scooter to touch the ground she got on it and used the inertia to push her scooter forward. Because it was early in the morning there was nopony on the streets Scootaloo was able to go really fast on her scooter with no worries at all. So she was able to reach the library really quickly going the speed she was going. As soon as she reached in front of the library she used her wings to help stop her scooter. She looked up at the library thinking of how she was going to get in there when she noticed a light on in the bedroom. So it was possible that Twilight was still awake and Scootaloo decided to just try knocking on the front door. So she did so and a few moments later Twilight opened the door. Twilight also had her mane unbrushed and she also looked tired. “Hey Scootaloo,” Twilight said. “What are you doing here so early in the morning?” “What are you doing up so early in the morning?” Scootaloo asked. “I never thought you were a morning pony.” Twilight yawned. “I had a project I have to work on,” Twilight explained, “so I woke up early today to get some work on it. Back to you. What are you doing here?” “Rainbow Dash’s foal is coming!” Scootaloo announced. “Rainbow Dash’s…foal?” Twilight asked. She started smiling. “It’s happening now?! Oh, great I have to tell everybody! The princesses, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie will want to throw another party.” Twilight looked up towards her bedroom. “Spike!” she called out. “Soarin’ also wants you to get Spike to send a letter to Spitfire telling her about it,” Scootaloo said. “Right,” Twilight said as Spike came down the steps, looking even more tired than Scootaloo and Twilight. “Ugg…what time is it?” Spike asked. “It’s early in the morning,” Twilight said. “Spike, I need you to take a few letters.” “Can’t this wait?” Spike asked, “Until you know, when the sun is actually up?” “No, Rainbow Dash is having a foal right now!” Twilight said. “I need you to tell this to both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and tell Spitfire! Get ready those letters, because we need to tell them now!” “Yeah yeah yeah, I’m on it,” Spike said. He got a pen and some ink from the table in the middle of the library and started writing the letters. As soon as he got done with all three of the letters he used his fire breath to send the letters to their receivers one by one. “There you go,” Spike said. “Can I go back to sleep now?” “Don’t you want to see the new foal?” Twilight asked. “I can see it in the morning,” Spike said. “I’m not going to rush to see it.” “Fine,” Twilight said, “you can go back to sleep if you want to. But I know everypony else is going to be going to the hospital as soon as I tell them. So you’re going to be missing out.” “I’ll sleep at night,” Spike said. “Or rather, I’ll sleep now. See you later.” Spike walked back up the stairs to go back to sleep. “Well looks like he is going to miss it,” Twilight said. “Come on Scootaloo. I’ll take you to the hospital while I’m on my way to tell everypony else.” “Ok Twilight.” ~ Scootaloo was sitting outside of the waiting room in the hospital. She was at first alone in the waiting, but as Twilight spread the news more and more ponies came in. The first to come into the hospital was Pinkie Pie, who made sure that as soon as she went through the door everypony else knew she was in. “Ohmygosh! Rainbow Dash is having her foal right now!” Pinkie Pie announced in her loudest voice possible. “I can’t wait to see the new foal! Is it here yet is it here yet is it here yet?!” “Keep it down please darling.” Rarity was the next to come in; right in the middle of Pinkie Pie’s loud talking. “There are more patients in here than just Rainbow Dash. And they all are probably trying to sleep.” Next came in Applejack and Fluttershy at the same time with Twilight following close behind. “We all heard what’s happenin’,” Applejack said. “Is there any word on how they’all are doin’?” “We haven’t been here longer then you have darling,” Rarity said. “So we don’t know anything about what is happening yet either.” “I don’t know anything,” Scootaloo said. “Nurse Redheart has told me that it hasn’t happened yet, but I don’t know anything else.” “Oh well I’m sure she will be just fine,” Fluttershy said. “And soon we will see a beautiful new foal.” “And just in time too,” Applejack said. “Ya’all and Pinkie are both expectin in a few months as well.” Spitfire was the next to come in. “Hey everypony,” Spitfire said. “How is Rainbow Dash doing right now?” “We haven’t been told anything yet,” Twilight said. “The only thing we know is that it hasn’t happened yet. So I guess for now we need to wait for a while before finding out anything else.” “So is anybody else coming?” Spitfire asked. “I sent a letter to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna telling them about it,” Twilight explained. “I don’t know whether they are going to come or not, but I have notified them in case they want to come.” At that point in time Spike came in holding a letter. Unlike everybody else who were all pretty much awake, Spike was still looking like he was half-asleep. He walked up to Twilight and handed her a letter and then went on one of the chairs to sit down and sleep. Twilight read the letter out loud. “Dear Twilight Sparkle: We are joyful that Rainbow Dash is finally having her first child. We would love join you all in the hospital, however the appearance of royalty would most likely take the focus away from Rainbow Dash’s child and we would not want that to happen. We will see the child, however we will do that sometime later when we our presence will not take away too much from the new foal born. Until then. Princess Celestia.” “Well I guess that answers that,” Spitfire said. “Umm…Spitfire,” Fluttershy said. “If…I can just ask…well…wouldn’t the same thing happen with you being here? You are the captain of Wonderbolt after all.” “I think the birth of a foal of two Wonderbolts sort of cancels out one Wonderbolt being there,” Spitfire said. “Even if she is the captain.” Nurse Redheart came into the waiting room. Everypony (since Spike is asleep) trained their eyes to her as soon as she walked into the room. She looked around at everypony and said “Well everypony, it’s starting.” “Is there anything we all can do to help?” Applejack asked. “I have researched the subject as soon as Rainbow Dash told me she pregnant so I could be very helpful if you need it,” Twilight said. “For now, no,” Nurse Redheart explained. “You need to just leave it to the professionals. If complications arise, which they shouldn’t from what we’ve seen so far, then we might need the help from an extra unicorn, but until we know for sure we won’t ask you to do anything. There are others in there who are much more experienced at this then you are.” “I understand,” Twilight said. “I will leave back to check on them,” Nurse Redheart said. “For now we just need you all to be patient. When it is done, I’ll come back and bring two of you at a time to see her. You guys decide who you want to see the foal first.” Nurse Redheart then left, walking further into the hospital. Before anybody else could say anything, Spitfire spoke first. “I think it should be Scootaloo and I who go see Rainbow Dash first.” Everybody looked at Spitfire questioningly. “I can understand Scootaloo being one of the first to see them, but why you as well?” Twilight asked. “Not that I’m arguing against it but do you have a reason?” “I want to make sure that Soarin’ and Rainbow Dash are fine before I head back to the Wonderbolt Headquarters,” Spitfire said. “Because I’d like to head back as soon as I can it would be nice if I go first.” “Alright, I understand,” Twilight said. In order to wait everybody was playing some games that Pinkie Pie randomly pulled out of nowhere. Twilight and Spitfire were playing chess, and Spitfire was actually holding her own well against the smart unicorn. Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity were all playing cards. Finally Scootaloo and the now awake Spike were both playing Battlecloud. Eventually Nurse Redheart came in interrupting everybody telling them that it is done. As agreed, Scootaloo and Spitfire were the first one to go in and see Rainbow Dash and Soarin’. They both dropped what they were doing to go and follow Spitfire. They both walked for a bit and passed through the door to the room Rainbow Dash is in. The first thing they saw in the room was Rainbow Dash. Her mane was even messier then how it would get during some of the more difficult practices. Her eyes looked more tired than Soarin’s do on days when he gets no sleep. But even with all of that, she had a large smile on her face as she looked down on the foal she was holding. And her eyes that she looked down on the foal with had tears climbing down then from her joy. Soarin’ was right next to her also smiling largely as he looked upon his foal. He was the first who noticed Scootaloo and Spitfire, so he nudged Rainbow Dash to get her to notice. He then went up to Scootaloo and Spitfire. “Hey Soarin’, nice to see your still alive,” Spitfire said, softly for the foal. “Hey Spitfire,” Soarin’ also said softly. “Hey Scootaloo. So I guess you’re here to see the foal.” “Well I am more worried about the two of you, but yeah, I guess seeing the foal is also nice,” Spitfire said. Spitfire, Soarin’, and Scootaloo all walked up to Rainbow Dash’s bed. “Hey Rainbow Dash, how are you feeling?” Spitfire asked. “Tired,” Rainbow Dash said very softly, mostly out of how tired she is. “Really tired.” She held up the new foal, but not very high because of her lack of strength. “This little guy took a lot out of me.” “So you have yourself a colt huh?” Spitfire asked. The colt has a the same cyan coat that Rainbow Dash has, and his mane looks like Soarin’ though if you looked closely you could see a bit of green, purple, and light blue in there. “Yeah,” Rainbow Dash said as she brought the colt closer to herself. “I got to admit, I never knew that I would love this colt so much until I finally got to see him. I feel corny saying this, but this colt is really beautiful. Heh, I guess I’m not as awesome now as usual, but I don’t really care anymore.” “I think you’re still awesome,” Soarin’ said. “Same here,” Spitfire said. She looked down at Scootaloo, who thought that Spitfire was waiting for her to say something. “Uhh…yeah you’re still awesome,” Scootaloo said. “And I guess the foal’s kinda cute.” She looked at the foal trying to avoid looking as ‘unawesome’ as possible but she had to admit that the foal is really cute. “So…I guess this kid is…my new brother?” “If you want Scootaloo,” Soarin’ said. “I…never thought I’d actually have a little brother,” Scootaloo said. “I…guess that’s pretty cool. I’ve got my own brother.” “So, does this kid have a name yet?” Spitfire asked. “Yeah,” Rainbow Dash said. She once again held the colt which caused him to open his eyes. He had the same eyes as Soarin’. “Say hello…to Cool Breeze.”