“I think you broke him.”
“I think all of 'em broke sugarcube.”
“Woohoo? Jones! Follow the plot!”
“DASH!”
“But I thought they were following the plot.”
The moment of silence after Pinkie's statement was what I needed to collect my thoughts. Twilight was now pregnant and, from what I knew, we weren't even trying for it. This meant that...
“Oh dear god! We're compatible?” I shouted my, gaze having still been locked on the purple unicorn. When I saw her glare, I realized that the words I had chosen didn't quite work together for such a situation.
“What the hay does that mean?” she shouted back, her hoof stomping on the wooden floor.
“No, no, Twi,” I began, putting my hands up in a surrendering manner, “I meant genetically compatible. We're two different species after all. This should... this event... it's-it's illogical!”
Her stance now relaxed, the glare had transformed into a look of understanding, “That's what I thought too. I thought, at first, I was just getting sick but I couldn't find anything that had exactly my symptoms. Then,” she paused as she bit her lip, looking unsure. Her horn lit up and a soft glow came from her gut, “I felt it there. I felt it begin to... probe my magical stores.”
“So it's a unicorn?” I asked, slightly disappointed.
“Too early to tell,” she replied with a shake of her head, “all foals can access their mother's stores while in the womb, no matter species of foal.”
“This is... insane,” I stated as I put a hand to my forehead. I looked at Twilight, “There was no active manipulation at all?”
She shook her head.
“Than how?”
I felt a hoof rest on my arm. Looking down, I followed the purple hoof to Twilight's face to see her smiling softly at me. Kneeling down, I wrapped the unicorn into a hug and kissed her forehead, next to her horn.
“Still. I'm having an offspring of my own,” I stated, smiling at the unicorn. By now, the rest of the squad had gotten their cognitive functions back. The townsponies who had come cheered softly when I hugged the unicorn before separating and enjoying the party.
“So,” I heard Gonz begin unsuredly, “does this mean that all ponies are compatible with humans?”
“In theory-”
Twilight and me looked at each other as we both stopped in the middle of our response. I smiled as she blushed, causing my smile to stretch a little wider.
“Go ahead Twi,” I said. Nodding to me, she turned to Gonz, her blush gone and face turned serious.
“In theory, all ponies should be genetically compatible with humans due to the shared genes of ponies.”
“Any idea why?” Kilborn asked next. Twilight looked at me with a face saying, 'This one is yours.'
I shrugged, “The only reasonable explanation is that ponies and humans share important, and decisive, chromosomes. Of course, that in itself isn't a good enough reason as many species back on Earth shared important chromosomes with humans and yet no human-animal hybrid was ever born. One could say that sentience itself allows cross-breeding between sentient beings but that's just blind speculation.”
A nervous laugh caused all of us to turn heads to where Jones and Dash stood. More specifically, we looked at the red-tinged, mud-covered human.
“Are there any condoms in this world?” he asked while scratching the back of his head.
“Condoms?” Dash asked, looking at him. This just caused the young soldier's face to deepen in it's blush.
“I'll take that as a 'no'.”
Laughter erupted from the rest of the squad and me while. Through the corner of my eyes, I saw confusion sweep over the ponies.
“Whoo,” Gonz began, wiping a tear from his eye, “that was great. However, that brings to mind the question: why are you two muddy?”
Jones's eyes widened like a deer caught in the headlights, “Umm, well, you see. I took Dash out in the Humvee-”
“Where is that by the way?” Kilborn asked.
“-We took it mudding and kind of got it... stuck.”
“What?” the reply echoed from all of our group, minus the two muddy beings, with Gonz's being the loudest. Looking at Gonz, I could see his face contort into one of anger. The Humvee, Athena, was his pride and joy. He was always the one to drive it and had thus grown attached to the machine. The man took a threatening step forward, causing Jones to flinch.
“Babe!” shouted Jones. I looked to see Dash looking at him expectantly, “Evac Alpha Two!”
To my surprise, the cyan pegasus's face became solid and determined as she gave a curt nodded. She then hooked her forehooves under Jones's armpits and took off to the roof. Smashing into the roof, a hatch swung open, allowing her and the human to escape. Once they were gone, the hatch swung closed once more.
“Did they just do that?” I asked, halfheartedly pointing at where the hatch had been.
“I think so,” drawled Applejack.
“He'll get what's coming to him either way,” Gonz intoned as he sulked deeper into the party. Whether that was to try to calm himself or to plot his revenge, I had no idea. Finally hearing the music playing, I turned to Twilight and held out a hand.
“Shall we?” She placed a hoof in my hand as she smiled.
“We shall,” she replied with a giggle at her play on words. With that, she stood up on her hindlegs and the two of us began to dance our way closer to main group.
“I love you.”
“I love you too.”
/--\
“I hate you!”
“I hate you more!”
The two foals looked at each other before breaking out in laughter, both falling to the ground and rolling around in their fits. When they stopped, they rolled on their stomachs to look at each other. Smiles were plastered on their faces as the orange pegasus's wings seemed to buzz in excitement.
“What adventure are we going on today Pip?” Scootaloo asked of the colt in front of her.
“Hmm... try to climb the Library?”
“Done it. Was yelled at for it.”
“Same. Hmm... what is there to do?”
“I think we've done just about everything we can do,” Scootaloo stated with a sigh.
“We could go hang out with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle,” Pip tried with a shrug. The smile that reappeared on her face caused Pip to smile widely.
“Hey, yeah! We could play ball with them!” Scootaloo shouted as she jumped to her hooves. Pip jumped up after her.
“Scoots, hang on,” he said as it looked like the pegasus was about to sprint off. She looked back at him with a confused look. Pip smirked before taking off, yelling back: “Race ya there!”
“Hey! No fair!” was her reply as she took off after the colt. Laughter rolled from her lips as she sprinted through town. Today was going to be a good day.