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// Explanations. There are a lot of them. 
// Story: So you're about to be a father with a Sun-Goddess. 
// by TheDawsonator1 
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Dear Twilight Sparkle,

Please come to Canterlot Castle alongside the other elements at once, I have a friendship problem that requires you and the other elements. No it isn’t end of the world nor is it some kind of test, I just need your help, I’ll explain when more when you all get here.

Jason Anderson.





Oh where are they? I can’t wait to get rid of the tension the past two meals have had with Celestia and her parents, Luna and I have been trying to move the whole thing along into nicer territory but that hasn’t worked, We definitely need the Elements for this problem, oh don’t look at me like that, you try this and not have three blasts sent at your face. I’m sorry, I’m a little annoyed okay? I didn’t mean anything by it. 

“Train arriving from Ponyville in [two] minutes, please make sure you are behind the yellow line” the announcement was made over the PA.

Well they’re close, that’s good. I just hope Rarity doesn’t attempt to make clothes for the King and Queen before this is solved, god knows when Alicorns get rough it’ll take YEARS to clean up, you think I’m lying but I’m not, why do you think janitors and maids get paid so high whenever stuff like this happens? Coincidence, don’t make me laugh! But still, it’ll work out in the end, the Elements just gotta be a little careful around Celestia and her parents.

Speaking of my wife’s parents, surprised they haven’t talked to me yet, they know I’m Celestia’s husband, I’d of thought they’d question why someone like me is Celestia’s husband. Perhaps they are evaluating me or perhaps they are simply more concerned about their daughter than me. I still wonder where they have been the whole time, what is that made those two leave their own daughters? Could what they went out to do end up going south, frozen in stone perhaps? Admittedly this mystery is curious and I must find out soon to help out Celestia.

Okay seriously, it’s been WAY over two minutes and a stressed Prince isn’t a fun Prince! Oh if I had Alicorn Powers I would totally get that train here faster.

“Train Arriving from Ponyville, please wait away from the Yellow line and please wait for all passengers to disembark, thank you” 

Oh there it is, about time! I could have spent time annoying Blueblood, or spending time with Sunny-bun (I have like 50 nicknames for Celestia on a list somewhere).

All six ponies came off together (somepony brought a lot of stuff, I won’t name names but you know of whom I speak of), they looked around and found me.

“Hey Jason!” Dash flies out and gives me a hoof-bump.

“Sup Dash-girl?” I greet my best friend.

“Hello Prince Jason” Rarity says as she comes out from behind to Luggage pile.

“Just Jason does fine, we are all on first-name terms besides, saying things like Prince and Lady is just too much work for a human like me” I wave my hand.

“What are we doing if you don’t mind me asking” Twilight speaks to me.

“Not here, let’s wait until we are settled in the castle, don’t worry about the bags, guards can handle those” I say as I get the girls to follow me.

You know, sometimes you gotta admire looking at Canterlot from the Train station, say what you will about Canterlot but you can’t deny the certain viewpoints around the city being attractive. Although honestly, once you are here a while, the being in Canterlot thing wears off, ponies living anywhere else always get wowed though especially the castle, not visiting the castle when you visit Canterlot for tourism is kind if like not going to New York City and not going to the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

We arrived in the castle and the guards at the front door nodded at us, Celestia should be in the Throne room, Luna should be asleep and hopefully my in-laws are out of the way for the moment, god knows what they do during the day. Come to think of it, what DID they do all of this time? What do they do now? 

I lead the Elements into a private room and this is where I ask them their help.

“Jason, what’s going on? You were looking around for somepony on the way here” Twilight stated, noticing I was keeping an eye out.

“Well, as I have said in the letter I do have a problem, a friendship…family problem actually I was hoping you could help me with” I started saying.

“Well come to think of it, the map did point us here anyway” Rarity added.

“Okay so you know how everypony’s got parents right? Well...turns out Celestia has some too that have been gone for a very long time and it turns out Celestia and her parents are on poor terms with each other and yeah…was hoping if we could help them be back on great terms” I explain the situation.

“Wait, Celestia had parents the whole time? Never mentioned that.” Twilight commented.

“Well isn’t it obvious darling? Everypony has parents, did you think Princess Celestia and Luna popped out of nowhere?” Rarity looked at Twilight like she has just gotten 1+1 wrong (if you say window I will throw you smart ass through that window).

“No um…just never occurred that…well Celestia’s parents would be Alicorns and alive and hello, you all can’t be curious as to why they are appearing now?” Twilight hesitated a bit.

“I was wondering that myself but the fact of the matter is, the past few days have been full of tensions and Celestia refuses to talk about it, it’s been one of those things she’s been repressing a long time, that isn’t healthy for her nor for the relationship between her and her parents” I added my two bits.

“So um, you want us to fix that relationship?” Fluttershy asked, who had been silent the whole time.

“Or at least give some advice on how to fix this, yeah” I answered.

If I can fix this then by the time the foal is born, there will be a happy family, no baggage from the past weighing the foal’s life down. Once all that is done, then our foal’s life will be perfect in the way that whatever happens, it’ll be on the foal’s terms not some problems from ages ago.

“So will you help me?” I ask the six girls.

They smiled as they nodded, excellent! We can begin as early as tommorow.





The bearers and I didn’t do anything the rest of the day (It was late afternoon when they arrived), I had stuff to do for now and besides, ponies notice if you’re gone for long enough, I may have not told my wife the whole purpose but I do have a cover story (Thanks to Rarity’s love of fashion that so happens to be an event in Canterlot) for this thing anyway, just as long as nopony asks Applejack because she is a terrible liar, I even saw when she was discorded, you’d think with opposites she’d be a con artist but nope, an even more terrible lair.

I saw Celestia’s parents before, they were walking around in the gardens, they looked like they were appreciating the sunshine and such, still full of curiousity as to what they do…what do Alicorns their age even think about? Are they planning to become King and Queen of Equestria once again? The Nobles and the Canterlot Public have noticed the presence of these two, public being unsure but I think the nobles have a fair idea of who they really are, well the ones who haven’t been absorbed by their own ego that is…sooooo basically only 5% of the nobles, I had Fancy Pants ask me about them in which I confirmed, but I asked him not to tell others just yet.

As for the girls, Twilight went to go see her parents, while the others looked around Canterlot and the castle, I was listening to Day Court…joooooooooy…

So I’m heading to bed so I can start making a plan tomorrow when I think I had heard something…I feel it too.

“Jason” a male’s voice talked from behind me.

I turned and there Celestia’s father was along with his wife, I knew they had to try talk to me sooner or later, I was gonna do it as part of the plan but here we are.

“You do know in today’s society, hiding in the shadows and waiting for the person you want to talk to is creepy right?” I asked him as I faced his direction.

“We apologize, but if we had asked for a word near Celestia she’d think we’d have ill intentions towards you” Celestia’s mother had explained.

“I see, so then, now that we are here to talk, let’s talk” I say

“Not here, let us teleport to our room” Celestia’s dad spoke.

Within an instant we were in their guest room, wasn’t much but then again, the maids make sure this place is absolutely spotless before guests go here, a good impression goes a long way after all.

“So, I suppose I am wondering what you have called me here for, because I doubt it’s for simple conversation” I started.

“Indeed, we haven’t properly talked yet, I know you are my daughter’s husband, first we must say congratulations, it is about time one of our daughters found a suitor although a strange one” Celestia’s father spoke.

“I get that one, ever since my arrival in Equestria I have had strange looks, being married to Celestia is still weird to some” I reply to that comment.

It was true, I remember when I first arrived, Twilight thought I was some project to complete, everypony else was staring as though if they took their eyes off me for the tiniest amount of time while I was in their presence, I would of killed them all. That got better once Dash came my friend, god bless her loyal heart.

“It pains us not being able to see the day our oldest daughter got married” Celestia’s mother says.

My parents have the same thing, they just don’t know it. Wonder what their reaction would be?

“Before we start your questions, I would like one of mine answered and I think both Celestia and Luna share the same questions. Just where have you been all these years? Because as far as I am concerned right now, I think from what I’ve heard, Celestia has a justifiable reason to be mad at you” I ask of them.

“We admit, we haven’t been the best parents but the reasons were out of our control, if we hadn’t have acted, there would have been no future for Equestria” the father spoke honestly.

“What do you mean?” I ask.

“The reason we were gone so long was to protect Equestria” Celestia’s mother says.

“When our daughters were young, Equestria was under constant attack, monsters, enemy armies, you name it…” the dad started.

“We kind of have the first one on a occasional basis, usually 1000 years ago or something, gotta ask Celestia about that” I muttered the last part.

“Yes well, from our observations before we came here, the threats to Equestria weren’t as powerful as in our time. Now then, there were some truly terrible foes, including Destroyed Rock, the Destroyer and Time’s Branch who threated to destroy all alternate timelines so only an original one can ever exist. Now that last one is the reason we were gone so long, we ended up jumping through time for about a whole year before the battle ended in our timeline and we ended up 2 years before now” Celestia’s dad continued.

“So why not go back to just after that time you left? You are the Alicorn of Time if Celestia has told me correctly?” I asked the mother.

“Though I am the Alicorn of Time and my special talent is time, it appears the time period we’re from is locked from those outside a zone, we traveled too far into the future by a matter of 3 days so we couldn’t go back. You must understand, time travel is tricky, with every major event there is always a positive and negative timeline, one sticks to the original and one is alternate unless that event is from an alternate timeline, it also noteworthy the entering a time period is forbidden from being entered from outside that period hence us being locked out of our time” the mother explains.

Typical, you can manipulate time but you can’t do anything with it.

“But why wait 2 years to come here?” I ask them.

“To get used to this time period, to find out what changed majorly and to also find our daughters” the father explained.

“I guess I am satisfied with your story. I am not sure how Celestia will take it, I n her anger I believe not in a positive light” I say to Celestia’s parents.

Here comes their questions I guess.

“Now, our talk is about you Jason and also the events before our arrival. First off I’d like to know more about you and what you are” Celestia father started his questions.

“I am a human, you haven’t seen anything like me because I come from a different world named Earth” I answer immediately.

“Earth? Surely not, the inhabitants are complete barbarians, full of themselves” the father denied.

“Well our race is a little selfish but there are good-hearted people like myself, when did you last check Earth?” I answered that comment.

“300 years ago” the mother answers.

“No wonder you misjudged, things have gotten better on Earth since then and besides 300 years for anything is a bit outdated don’t you think?” my confusion was gone.

Wonder if they know what MySpace is? Doubt it.

“Still, it seems highly unlikely, you seem more the type from the mirror world” Celestia’s father mused.

“That’s what Twilight Sparkle thought but it’s not the right human world, next question” I urged the next question.

“We would like you to tell us of Celesita’s past, we know she has told you, she has at least told you about who we are, correct?” the mother asked fo me.

“To put what she told me of you, you were caring parents by the sounds of things, but when you disappeared, Celestia knew in her heart there was something wrong, she kept trying to convince herself both of you were still alive but then more and more bad things happened including Starswirl going mad, he disappeared without a trace during one of his experiments according to Celestia. I think through the course of events, at some point Celestia faced to her, an undeniable reality, both of you weren’t coming back, most likely dead.” I explained.

“Hmm, we are sorry it has been like this, we wish we could’ve gone back and started this all over, change things” the father looks down but he looked sincere enough for me.

I then explained quickly all the things that have tortured Celestia and how we met, the honest way, it shocked them but they got over it, 10 minutes later and the conversation was at an end and I headed to the door.

“We know what you are doing, Jason. We noticed the new bearers, we could feel them, especially Twilight Sparkle” the mother says.

“I have my reasons” I answered.

“Why? What are these reasons?” the father asked me.

I turned to face back at them before saying:

“When I left Earth and arrived here, I could never return and that meant my family have lost me, they believe me to be dead by now, Jason Anderson is dead to them, even if I could return, it’d cause too much trouble and pain on Earth. You could say this is similar to what your problem is. Another reason is I like to see families united, not broken or in chaos. Celestia’s happiness is my happiness, she has saved my life and I have saved hers from coming crashing down, she’s a hurt mare and you both may have contributed a tiny part of the problem unintentionally…I hope to make it that when the foal is born, Celestia is a happy mare and all our family ties are fixed, I want a good future for us all, that’s why I am doing this” I explain my reasons

“A foal!? I…I see…” The father contained his reaction to learning that Celestia is pregnant.

“Please do what you must Jason, we only wish to properly reunite with our daughter” the mother begs me, her shock of Celestia' pregnancy was there but she is concerned for her daughter more it seems.

“I will do what I must, but please, don’t try to interfere with Celestia’s life, don’t try control her life or anything, let Celestia be her own self, I think deep down, she wants your support, I may be wrong but as her husband, I will do what is best…I’ll see you tomorrow I suppose…” I exited the room ending the conversation.

I was out the door and before I knew it, I was outside Celestia and I’s room, I entered with the thoughts of the conversation in my head, I have a goal, I can see it clearly now. Celestia and the foal’s happiness is my goal and mark my words, I will break open the heavens if need be to make sure this goal is achieved, I have the Elements of my side, Luna, the parents, Cadence and others as well.

I saw Celestia asleep, she’s beautiful when she sleeps, I felt her tummy and I swore I can feel the foal in there, your future is safe in there little guy, as is your mommy’s, your dad is gonna make sure of that. I kissed Celestia on the cheek before hopping into bed next to her and snuggling next to her. I could feel sleep coming easier knowing that I was continuing with renewed purpose…