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// 7 Months 
// Story: My Little Rainbows 
// by The PatioHeater 
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Dash, Swirl and Shine were up to something. The kitchen was empty of Ponies, save for the three, seven month old fillies, and the target was in sight. It was a cupboard at the top, where their mother kept things she didn’t want them to get their hooves on.
Silently, they careful pushed a stool across the floor, making sure to not make a sound, as they would wake their mother. Once in position, Dash climbed onto Shine’s back and then jumped up onto the stool, with Swirl steadying it.
Dash jumped onto the worktop, carefully avoiding hitting anything likely to make a sound. A mischievous smile curled to her lips as she began sneaking, pressing her body close against the surface.
She reached her first target, the cutlery draw, which she opened and took three spoons in her mouth. She threw them down onto the floor, making a clattering sound against the tiles.
Their mother stirred slightly. The three fillies froze instantly as they heard her, gasping slightly with fear of being caught.
They couldn’t hear their mother move anymore, no hooves on the ground could be heard. They assumed it was safe to carry on.
Dash looked around for things to climb. She decided on the toaster. She jumped up delicately, her hooves barely making a sound on the metal device.
She looked around again, sizing up her task ahead of her. She hunkered down again, licking her lips with her eagerness. She raised the wings, giving them a little but strong flutter. She readied herself, raising her flank as she prepared to pounce.
She jumped, pumping her little wings as hard as she could, managing to extend her jump just far enough so she could grab hold of the cupboard handle in her mouth.
She gripped strongly in her newly formed teeth, not wanting to let go; she had worked too hard to get there to fail now. She glanced down at her sisters; they were smiling at her, their mouths watering as they thought of the imminent treat.
Dash pumped her wings again as hard as she could, causing the door to swing open with her attached to the handle. She giggled; their mission was almost a success.
Shine and Swirl smiled bigger as they saw the object of their desire, glistening in the sunlight. They ran off and got the broom, returning moments later with it tucked under their wings. They positioned themselves, Swirl standing in front on her back legs, balancing on the stool, with Shine behind her and using Swirl’s shoulder as a pivot.
With a surprising amount of precision for a seven month old filly, Shine knocked the box out of the cupboard. It fell to the floor, creating a white cloud in the air, colouring their coats.
Dash fell afterwards, using her wings to slow her descent.
The three of them each grabbed a spoon and went wild at the box of icing sugar.

The box of sugar was nearing emptiness when Shine sneezed.
Rainbow’s eyes shot open as she heard her daughter. She fumbled herself into a sitting position on the sofa.
Dash, Swirl and Shine gasped slightly as they heard their mother wake up. They looked between each other nervously before darting under the nearby dining room table. They huddled together in the corner, their now white coats blended into the cloud floor giving them some good cover.

Rainbow looked around confusedly. “How long have I been asleep? I could have sworn I just shut my eyes.”
She looked up at the clock and gasped. “Oh Celestia, it’s four o’clock, and I haven’t given the girls lunch yet!” Panic washed over her face.
“Oh Sweet Celestia where are they?!” She looked around worriedly, gnawing at her hoof with nerves, but she quickly calmed herself as she knew they would be fine.
She stood up from the sofa and stretched her tired limbs before going in search of her daughters.
“Now, where are you?” she called out through the house.
She walked into the kitchen and saw the mess. “What’s been going on here?”
She looked at the abandoned box of icing sugar and the three spoons beside it. She felt slightly angry at them, now they wouldn’t want to eat their tea later. But then she saw everything else; the stool in position by the work surface and the broom strewn upon the floor.
She walked to the open cupboard and shut it, feeling the small teeth marks in the handle. She laughed.
“Oh you clever little fillies.” She was impressed by them. “If it weren’t for you eating all the icing sugar I would have given you a treat for your ingenuity. But no, now I have to punish you,” she said in a friendly, playful manner.
Rainbow put on a mischievous smile. “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” she sang childishly.
She started walking around slowly, peering into cupboards.
“Are you in… HERE?!” she said as she pulled open the cupboard under the sink. “Drat.”
She moved out of the kitchen. “Where are you?” she sang again.

The three fillies started shaking as their mother approached the table slowly. They knew they were about to be caught.
Rainbow’s eyes looked under the table and scanned over the floor. Her children blended in too well in the shadows for her to see them, so they were safe for a little longer.
They sighed quietly with relief as their mother walked away.
Dash stood up silently and started to creep out from cover. Her sisters tried to pull her back but there was still no tail to grab hold of.
She sneaked into the kitchen, being careful to not to make a sound. She wanted more icing sugar, so she planned on carefully lifting the box and taking it back with her under the table for her and her sisters.
Dash lifted the box, spilling a little more sugar onto her already white coat.
“There you are,” said the voice Dash knew all too well.
Dash froze.
“Come here you.”
Dash didn’t move, hoping that she wouldn’t see her anymore.
Rainbow approached Dash, and broke down into laughter. “Look at you! You’re completely white!”
Dash smiled at her, not hearing her mother’s angry voice was relieving.
“We better get you in the bath.”
That was the wrong choice of words. Dash’s face soured and contorted as she started screaming. She ran through her mother’s legs, avoiding capture, and through the dining room, where she was joined by her sisters.
The three of them now ran, all screaming at the prospect of a bath, leaving a trail of white powder hanging in the air as they did so.
“Come back here!” Rainbow laughed as she started chasing them. Somehow, their screaming was adorable.
Rainbow ran after them into the living room, gaining on them.
The three fillies tried to run faster, but their mother was too fast for them.
Rainbow jumped and grabbed her children, rolling to the ground and onto her back, with her daughters on her chest, struggling to fee themselves. She started laughing.
“Oh you silly fillies! It’s only a bath!”
Rainbow carefully placed a daughter under each wing, holding them tightly against her sides. She then stood up and held the third with a leg.

She carried her squirming children up the stairs and into the bathroom, making sure to lock the door behind her before letting them go.
“There, no escape now. You’re going to have to take a bath now! HAHAHA!” she said with a playful tone of an evil genius.
She trotted over to the bath and started the taps running. But when she turned round, she couldn’t help but giggle.
Shine stood at the bottom, with Swirl on her back. Dash took a little run up and jumped from Swirl’s back to the latch, gripping it in her mouth. She then carefully pushed herself across the door and unlocked it. She reached up with a hoof and tried to pull down on the handle, but was struggling with it.
“No you don’t,” Rainbow said defiantly as she marched up to Dash and grabbed her. She slid her daughter back across and locked the door using her mouth.
“You’re not getting away that easily.” She gently put her daughter back on the ground and moved the other two away. She moved a plant pot to where they were standing, blocking the door with a heavy plant and a large amount of leaves.
“Try escaping now,” she challenged, although she shouldn’t have, because Dash tried valiantly to move it by charging at it head first.
Dash fell back and started rubbing her injured head. She was on the brink of tears.
“Oh you silly girl,” Rainbow said affectionately yet sternly as she bent down and picked her up. She placed her over her shoulder and hugged her. “Don’t cry,” she whispered caringly into her ear. “Do you want mummy to kiss it better?” she asked hopefully.
Dash nodded her head slowly, drying her eyes on her hoof.
Rainbow smiled, only Dash ever seemed to accept that offer, the other two hated the idea. Rainbow kissed Dash’s forehead with a slightly exaggerated kissing sound, making her giggle in the way only a small child could do.
“There we go, all better,” she lied; she could already see a bump forming. She then carefully set Dash down with her sisters.
She looked to her three daughters, all of which were looking forlornly at the bath slowly filling with water. The thundering of the water did not inspire confidence in them.
“Oh I know what will cheer you up,” she said with a grin as she found the bubble bath and poured a large amount into the water.
Her children’s faces lit up as they saw the tower of bubbles rising above the rim of the bath.
Rainbow saw them and lit up herself. She went through a lot of that particular bath product, but it was worth it just to watch them play in it.
She tested the water with a hoof. “Perfect,” she commented as she turned the taps off. “C’mon girls, hop-.”
She was interrupted by the three of them lunging past her and into the bubbles, splashing water all over the bathroom, except for Shine, who struggled to get over the rim of the bath, trying to pull herself over with great effort.
Rainbow chuckled and gave her nudge, and she fell in with a splash and a laugh.

Rainbow sat on the floor, leaning on the edge of the bath with her face resting on a hoof, and her other hoof swirling lazily in the water as she watched her three daughters have a bubble fight. She wished she was still that young, just so she could join in; it looked so much fun.
A large collection of high pitched, childish laughs came from the three fillies with every splash of water or throw of a bubble.
Dash would hit the surface of the water and throw it everywhere, laughing constantly as she did. Swirl grabbed huge amounts of bubbles in her hooves and blew them everywhere, creating yet more laughter.
Shine wouldn’t get involved as much, she generally preferred watching her sisters do everything and laugh at the results.
Rainbow never understood why they hated having baths when they clearly had so much fun. It appeared to be far more enjoyable than anything they would do outside of the bath, and Rainbow found it so entertaining that she never realised the time passing.

Rainbow looked to the clock once she noticed the amount of bubbles in the bath decreasing rapidly, and her face fell into a frown. It had been 45 minutes, they shouldn’t have baths that long, and she had been told it wasn’t good for them, even though she could never tell why.
She frowned, and moved her hoof to top up the bath with hot water, causing the sound of childish happiness to cease instantly.
The three fillies watched as the water cascaded from the tap and into the bath. That glee they had in their eyes disappeared in seconds and their faces became solemn. They knew what this meant.
Rainbow was saddened by their sudden lack of excitement.
“Don’t get all sad, you knew that this moment would come. Why else did you think you were having a bath?” she asked them, expecting no answer, and getting precisely that.

“Stop squirming, Dashie,” Rainbow said through gritted teeth as she wrestled Dash in her grasp. “C’mon! Now you have some mane I'm going to have to wash it at least once a week. Just like your sisters.”
Dash wasn’t having any of it; she pulled herself away from her mother’s hooves and swam away to safety at the other side of the bath.
Rainbow scowled and launched her hoof forward, grabbing her daughter’s leg and pulling her back to her.
“Dash. Stop it,” she said authoritatively, like a parent.
Dash didn’t like it when her mother spoke like that and still tried to swim away, but as valiant as her attempts might have been, she was momentarily back under the hoof of her mother.
“I promise it won’t hurt, Dashie,” she said in her more caring voice that Dash preferred. “But only if you stop struggling.”
Her daughter hesitantly calmed down and let her continue to wash her mane.
Rainbow gently massaged the scalp of her daughter, washing her newly formed mane. Rainbow was so happy to see that her mane was actually rainbow coloured, and was now about a quarter of a hoof long. She couldn’t wait to see her tail.
Rainbow filled a jug with warm water and rinsed her daughter’s mane, gently pouring the water over her head and stroking her hoof through the hairs and removing the foam.
“There,” she said softly once she finished. “Is that better?” she asked, although she didn’t know why, seeing as she couldn’t talk.
“Mummy,” said Dash. Rainbow stared wide eyed with shock at her daughter. It was so sudden, she hadn’t shown any signs of starting to talk, and barely a syllable ever left her lips.
“Mummy?” the other two fillies took in turns to say in a confused tone, looking to Dash as they did.
Dash pointed her hoof to Rainbow. “Mummy,” she reiterated.
Shine and Swirl looked at each other. “Mummy?” they said together.
“Mummy!” Dash repeated, trying to get the point across.
Shine and Swirl looked back to their mother, and after a moment of consideration, the sudden realisation dawned on them and they started smiling.
“Mummy!” all three fillies shouted in perfect unison.
Rainbow started laughing, tears of joy rolling down her cheeks. She reached forward and took her daughters from the bath and held them tight against her chest, not caring about getting wet.

“Oh you three,” she said with a few leftover giggles escaping her system. “I love you so much. Go on, say it again,” she asked.
All three of them furrowed their brows as they tried to comprehend what she had said. In the end, they all shrugged their shoulders and instead just hugged her.
Rainbow didn’t mind that either. She hugged back just as tightly. She hadn’t been so happy since she gave birth to them; that’s only seven months ago but she was having the best time of her life with her children. Before then it would have been when she found out it was she was having triplets.




Sass knocked on the door and walked in. “Rainbow?” she called out through the house.
“I'm up here!” Rainbow shouted down from upstairs.
Sass trotted up the stairs, stopping at the top. “Rainbow?”
“In here!” Rainbow shouted from the spare room.
Sass followed the voice, which had resumed its melodic humming.
Sass walked through the open door. “Heyya Rainbow. It’s time to-!” she stopped mid sentence, distracted by the sight.
“Hey Sass,” Rainbow said from atop the stepladder she was perched as she spun round to see her friend, with a paint palette in one hoof and a brush in the other. Her coat was splattered in paint of all colours, yet somehow it looked fashionable.
“Wow, Swirly, this room is amazing,” Sass was awestruck.
“Hey, only Nana can call me Swirly,” Rainbow said while pointing her brush at the Pegasus with a serious scowl on her face
“I'm sorry, I know. But still, this room is…” she couldn’t find the word.
“I know, it’s awesome, isn’t it?” Rainbow said with a huge sense of pride. She looked at her work which she had been doing for the past few weeks.
“What was even like before?”
“It was a dull beige before. We- no, I only ever used it for storage, so I thought it would make an awesome nursery.”
“You’re not wrong there, Sugar.”
“Y’see, what I was going to do all over the room was like on the wall over there.” Rainbow pointed to wall opposite. Painted on it was a plain of grass, with a few mountains in the distance. There were also many flowers painted over it. None of it was done to less than a professional standard; it was far beyond the skill range of a normal Pegasus, but that’s understandable seeing that is one of her special talents.
“You know how much kids like grass and flowers.”
She turned on her seat on the ladder to face the wall behind Sass. “And that one,” she said as she pointed to it. “I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing, I just went crazy with the paints.”
“I can see that. But it looks good.”
The wall in question was striped diagonally for half of its length in a repeating sequence of rainbows separated with strips of snaking sky blue and white, but after that it became semi-chaotic with flicks of paint and random splodges all over the place, but somehow the two styles flowed seamlessly into each other.
She turned once again to face the third wall. “I knew what I was doing here this time. And I just had to paint one, didn’t I?”
This wall was sky blue with masterfully painted clouds scattered about it, and rainbows linking them together and giving a wonderful sense of perception and distance.
Sass let out a laugh. “I can see you like rainbows,” she jested.
“Of course I do,” Rainbow retorted. “They are in my name after all.”
“But why?”
“What? Why does my name have rainbow in it? Haven’t you seen me?” She said while arrogantly swishing her mane back. She may have been trying to be sarcastic, but with a mane like hers she couldn’t possibly achieve that.
“No. I mean why all the colour?”
“Oh. Yeah.” She giggled sheepishly.  “Well, I was thinking, the usual colour for girls is pink, isn’t it. I was gonna do that, but it’s so dull, so I decided for something more colourful.”
“I see your still hoping for a girl.”
“Yep.”
“Have you ever thought of what’s gonna happen if you have a boy?” Sass asked in a serious tone; her friend had been going on for the past two months about having a daughter, and was worried how she would react if it was a colt that she birthed.
“I'm having a girl, Sass, I can feel it,” Rainbow stated confidently.
“Okay, Sugar. But please, remember that there’s still a possibility that it won’t be a-.”
“Sass,” Rainbow interjected. “I know. But I want a girl so bad.”
She sighed. “I don’t know why, but I do. I just love the idea of having a little filly I can raise to be just like me. I wouldn’t know what to do with a colt, if I'm honest. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still love him, but he’s just not a filly.”
“Okay, Rainbow. But I know what you’re feeling. I wanted a filly as well but then Coal was born. I wasn’t prepared for a colt at all, but you will adjust to it, Sugar, and it won’t take long either.”
“Yeah, I know. But I can always hope, can’t I?”
“You sure can, Sugar,” Sass replied with a much more enthusiastic tone. “Now tell me, what about this here fourth wall? It’s still blank.”
“Well this.” Rainbow turned back to the wall. “This is going to be my masterpiece!” she shouted confidently, throwing her forelegs out to exaggerate her point. “What I'm gonna do is paint a magnificent sunrise, so my child will always wake up to something beautiful no matter what the weather is.”
Rainbow looked at the blank wall. A smile slowly spread over her face, getting wider and wider, as she imagined the layers of paint being applied to the wall, gradually becoming thicker and mixing together to create the masterpiece she envisioned.
“Sounds good.” Sass looked to a clock in the centre of the room. “Damn. C’mon Rainbow, we need to get going. Your scan’s in half an hour. And we need to walk to the hospital seeing as that pregnant belly of yours can’t handle the strain of flying.”
“Yeah! I love it!” she beamed and wrapped her hooves around her stomach, hugging it almost. She loved it, and felt strangely proud to be pregnant.
“C’mon Rainbow. We need to get going.”
“Yes Mother,” Rainbow said sarcastically. She jumped down from the ladder with a dainty thud and swept her mane out of the way of her eyes.
“Also, I also plan on doing with the fourth wall, “Rainbow continued. “Is, when she’s old enough, paint my daughter in the corner, standing on a cloud all dramatic like, looking into the sun.”
Sass looked down at her, judging her again for her insistence on having a filly.
“Just… shut up,” Rainbow muttered with a giggle.

They arrived at the hospital a little over half an hour later, panting as they jogged through the front door and up to the reception desk.
“Hi… Nurse… phew!” she panted, struggling to breath now and thinking how she should probably get a little more exercise.
“Are you alright, Miss?” asked the nurse with great concern.
Sass raised a hoof to dismiss her, allowing Rainbow to step forward and talk since she had almost recovered.
“Hi. Sorry we’re late. I'm due for a scan.”
“Alright then. What’s your name?”
“Rainbow Swirl.”
“Okay, just give me a sec.”  She started rummaging papers strewn upon her desk. “Here we are!” she said triumphantly while holding up a piece a paper and sliding it across to Rainbow. “Sign here please.”
Rainbow nodded and took a pen in mouth and signed her name with extraordinary elegance. She gave the sheet back to the nurse.
“Thank you. Now if you would please go down the corridor and take a left, in room 5 Doctor Nurse is waiting for you.”
“Thanks,” Rainbow chirped happily and headed excitedly to the room with Sass following at a much slower pace, still trying to recover from her physical exertion.

Rainbow found the room easily. She was about to walk in, but she hesitated when she looked round and saw a lack of yellow Pegasus.
“Sass?” she called out down the corridor.
“I'm coming,” came a tired voice in reply. “Just go in, I’ll be there in a sec.”
Rainbow smiled, even though Sass couldn’t see, and walked in.

The doctor looked up as he heard the door open and hoofsteps on the hard floor. “Ah. Miss Rainbow Swirl , I presume.” He raised an eyebrow at her that screamed annoyance and aggravation.
“Yep, that’s me!” she chirped happily. “And sorry I'm late,” her voice became lower and more serious. “I was painting and got a little carried away, and I’m finding it hard to fly with this pregnant belly.”
The doctor chuckled. “I can see that!”
Rainbow scowled. “And just what is that supposed to mean?” she asked mildly peeved. “Are you saying that my no flying is making me fat?” She tried to keep a straight face but it failed as it curled into a smile.
“No, not at all,” he replied with the same chuckle. “I was saying you’re spattered in paint,” he said while gesturing at her multicoloured coat.
Rainbow looked down at her body. “Oh yeah,” she said in a slow voice as she just realised the paint on her coat. “I never noticed.”
“It’s okay. Now, please have a seat,” he said politely as pointed to the hospital bed.
Rainbow smiled at him and jumped up onto the bed, sighing slightly as she took the weight off her hooves.
“Now, Miss Rainbow, just relax,” he said calmly as he pushed his seat next to the bed. “Lie down, please.”
Rainbow nodded and rolled onto her back.
“Thanks,” he said before he stretched some latex covers over his front hooves.
“A-are those really necessary?” Rainbow asked nervously. “It’s only a scan; you’re not going to do anything else, are you?”
“Don’t worry. It’s just health and safety. I have to, by law, wear these stupid things for everything. Even blood tests!” he stated exasperatedly.
Rainbow tensed up at the thought of blood tests
Doctor Nurse looked up and saw her face flooded with horror. “Don’t panic. You don’t need a blood test,” he said reassuringly. “Just relax.” He placed his hoof on her shoulder.
Rainbow winced at first when she felt his hoof, but quickly relaxed once she felt the affection in the appendage.
Sass walked in. “Sorry I'm-.” She stopped dead her tracks; her face was awash with confusion as she saw the position they were in and the panic-stricken faces they both wore as she walked in.
“Should I come back later?” she jested.
Rainbow laughed a little. “Oh Sass, stop it.”
“Yes,” Nurse was not amused. “Please, have a seat,” he pointed to another chair.
Sass took the chair and pushed to Rainbow’s side, and sat on it, placing a hoof on Rainbow’s as she did.
“Alright, Miss Rainbow, before we start, how has it been going?”
“Well, apart from the inability to fly, pretty good actually.”
“That’s good to hear. But the flying thing is a little… peculiar.”
Rainbow became worried. “How so?”
“Well, you’re two months pregnant, aren’t you?”
Rainbow nodded.
“The usual time for Pegasi to find it hard to fly is six months, but it varies from Pony to Pony, of course. It’s nothing to worry about, but tell me, why? How do you feel when trying to fly?”
Rainbow screwed her face up as she thought hard about flying. She hadn’t even tried for a few weeks. “I don’t quite remember. It just feels… tight, I think…”
“Where?”
“Here,” she said as she moved her hoof over her stomach, outlining a wide strip across the centre of her bump.
“Hm.” Nurse moved his hoof and gently pressed into her stomach. “Definitely feels very firm.”
“Is that good?” she asked hopefully.
“Yes, it’s nothing to worry about. Is there anything else you have to tell me?”
“Like what?”
“How are you feeling? Any cravings? Any mood swings?”
“Mood swings? I don’t think so.”
Sass let out a single, incredible loud laugh, making Rainbow give her an evil stare.
“Are they bad at all?” Nurse asked Sass.
“Not really. Pretty damn mild if ya ask me. Nowhere near as bad as me with my kids.”
“Oh yeah,” Rainbow said as she remembered Sass’s pregnancies. “That just got scary.”
Nurse smiled slightly, but fortunately Sass didn’t realise it.
“But cravings, yeah,” she admitted embarrassedly.
“Really?” Nurse asked with a smile quickly appearing in his face. He had heard so many weird cravings it became an amusing part of his job. “Like what?”
“Well…” Rainbow looked side to side nervously. “Y’know… pigs…?”
“What?” He hadn’t heard that one before. “Pigs?”
“Yeah.” She rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. “I don’t know why, but I just want to get a pig, get a big chunk of it, and roast in the oven with lots of garlic and potatoes in an inch of butter. And then smother it in gravy and eat it with plenty of fresh vegetables.” Rainbow licked her lips at the thought of eating a pig.
“That’s… a weird one. You haven’t, have you?” he asked nervously.
“What?” she was slightly insulted by the idea. “Oh Celestia no! I wouldn’t dare do that!”
“But… you’ve clearly put a lot of thought into it.”
“So? I have a lot of free time. I just let my mind wander and it just ends up there.”
“I see…” Nurse eyed her suspiciously for a second before shaking away his thoughts; he couldn’t help but think that the idea of a bit of roasted pig sounded appetising and he didn’t like thinking that at all.
“Anyway,” he said suddenly. “Let’s get this scan done and then we can go home!” he said enthusiastically and spun his chair to the side. He pulled a large screen in front of him and grabbed tube.
He turned back to Rainbow and started squeezing the gel onto her stomach.
Rainbow jerked and giggled. “That’s cold,” she laughed.
“Please, try to stay still.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll try,” she said, still giggling slightly.
Nurse placed the tube down and rubbed the gel in slightly before grabbing the probe and switching the machine on. It began sending out loud pulses of sound at regular intervals.
“That’s louder than I expected,” Rainbow said as she tensed up slightly with nervousness.
“Don’t worry, Miss Rainbow, it will be done in a jiffy,” Nurse reassured her. “Now just relax.”
He gently pushed the probe into Rainbow’s stomach.
Rainbow felt a strange sensation as the sound powered through her body, resonating inside her stomach. She couldn’t tell if she enjoyed it or not. “This feels so weird,” she said in a slightly pleased voice.
Nurse chuckled and started moving the probe around her stomach.

His eyes didn’t leave the screen for a few seconds as he scanned the image before him. Eventually, about half a minute later, he spoke again. “There you are,” he said largely to himself.
“How is it, Doctor?” Rainbow asked, but was silenced by the doctor’s hoof and a small hiss.
His eyes narrowed as he focused on the screen. His brow furrowed as he judged the information the scan gave him. He eventually started nodding to himself.
“Good. That’s good!” he announced.
Rainbow sighed with relief. “That’s fantastic!”
“Do you want to see?” he asked, but he didn’t wait for an answer as he knew it would be yes. He turned the screen to face her.
Rainbow craned her neck forward show she could see it. The smile on her face quickly soured slightly.
“What am I looking at?” she asked as if ashamed she had to ask.
Nurse leaned round the screen and took a pen in hoof, and touched it to the screen. “Don’t worry, most Ponies don’t know what to look at.” He moved the pen across the screen. “Here,” he said as he started to tap the glass.
Rainbow squinted at the screen. Through the fuzziness, she could just make out the vague shape of a Pony. She smiled. “Wow,” she said on the brink of laughter. “That’s my baby.”
“Yep. And here.” He moved the pen a couple inches away. “Is the second.”
Rainbow’s face lit up. “What?”
Nurse let out a little laugh. “And here!” he moved his pen again. “Is the third.”
“What?” she said with great disbelief. She focused on the screen again; she could now see three Pony shapes. “Seriously? Triplets?”
Nurse nodded, trying to gauge her reaction to the news.
Rainbow’s face broke into a smile. “Triplets!” she shouted excitedly. “Oh sweet Celestia TRIPLETS” she shouted once again.
Nurse broke out into a hearty laugh as he watched Rainbow smiling uncontrollably and starting to shake with happiness.
“SASS! TRIPLETS!” she shouted again, throwing her legs forward and hugging her friend tightly. “Triplets,” she repeated again but in a much quieter tone, with tears to start to fall down her cheeks.
“I know, Rainbow,” Sass replied, happy for her friend. “I know.”
“Do you know what that means?” she asked.
“Yeah,” Sass tittered. “Three kids.”
“And not only that. It TRIPLES the chance of having a filly!” she said agitatedly, now starting to bounce in her seat as she thought of her increased odds.
“I could tell you the sex of them, if you want?” Nurse said quickly, already starting to look at the screen to determine their gender.
“No,” Rainbow replied swiftly, shocking him with the sudden seriousness in her voice. “I don’t want to know yet.”
“Why not?”
“Well, I like the anticipation. And also, if they were all colts, I don’t want to know yet. I want, at least, a few months to live in hope for at least one filly.”
“Fair enough. But I you change your mind, just let me know.” He turned back to the screen and satisfied his own curiosity. He had to keep his face as straight as possible now. He couldn’t wait to see her after giving birth, just so he could see how happy she will be after having three fillies.

Doctor Nurse passed a towel to Rainbow. “Here. Wipe that gunk of. It can get horribly slimy on your coat.”
Rainbow was still smiling with the thought of triplets swimming in her mind as she took the towel and wiped her stomach. “Thanks.”
“I’d still have a shower if I were you.”
“Okay.”
He looked around idly. “Well… I believe we’re done here.”
“Thank you, Doctor!” Rainbow said happily. She jumped down off the bed and walked round to the doctor. She hugged him, if not awkwardly, and whispered to him. “Really, thank you so much.”
“It’s no problem at all,” he whispered back. He pulled back from the hug. “And if you have any problems or questions, please, don’t hesitate to call me.”
“I won’t.” Rainbow turned back around to leave. “Bye Doctor!” she called happily.
“Bye, Doc,” Sass said as she followed her friend.
“Your scan will be at reception if you want it.”
“Thanks Doc,” Rainbow said over her shoulder. “Bye!”
“Bye,” he said after her.
Rainbow turned to Sass. “Triplets!” she squealed quietly.