Hard Court Press

by Hillbe

Special Delivery

Special Delivery

"Spike!" Twilight called her temporarily dysfunctional assistant as she swilled on a cup of Joe "I need you awake".
The wires and do-dads plastered on every square inch of available scale had Spike looking like a spiked squishy ball about to pop.

"and I got up extra early for this?" Spike moaned a moan of the living almost dead - dead, somewhere near the dead end of a living index
but somewhat alive, almost surely dead without breakfast, with a deadly type of hungry. He was mostly bored to death and hungry.

This morning was such a mad dash out of the boutique after preparing a breakfast for Rarity, the pongon twins and dracony.
A dash that saved his ear frills from a battery of foalish questions about wings. or was it?

"Spike the tests are completed and the results should be ready in a few hours" Twilight beamed " So lets get a quick bite to eat and get the
mornings schedule started".

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Rarity trotted along enjoying the crisp morning air with Unique gripping her back with Velcro like action.
With her two rambunctious rabble rousers left to their own devices at school she was free to muse free to explore new fashions
free to see that handsome stallion with that camera with the telephoto lens that rivaled Princess Twilights telescope in magnification power.

"Smile for the camera" she told her little bundle happily riding along on her back "Let them feast on our fabulousness ".

Unique played with Raritys main like a cat with a ball of yarn her little tongue hung out in concentration, was it the hair products
or the hair in general that attracted so much attention? Was it those beautiful curls that once caught Spikes eye or was it Uniques nose
that just got tickled?

"aaaAAAAAAAAA Sporkle! In a flaming ball of magic Raritys hair exploded into a blue fuzz ball of frizzy as a blue haze hovered above
"My hair!" she shrieked "My baby" as her hooves searched her back and surrounding area. Panic was on the
menu and Rarity ordered a full plate.
A giggle came from above "Unique Sapphire?" The blue haze squealed a happy reply "Unique Sapphire Heathspike Gillspotten Sparkle!"

The little cloud sped off like the wind "Sapphire you come back here this instant" Rarity huffed as she took chase of her baby zephyr .
"I shall have to have a word with your auntie Twilight" as she follows the darting wisp of smoke " A few choice words indeed!"

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Ah gems the breakfast of dragon champions! Along with a Bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich where the toast is crunchy
the lettuce cool and crisp with the great flavor of bacon! Spike plucked another sticky electrode off his scales as he bit into his
tasty BLT sandwich and sipped his frosty beverage. Oh yeah way to go Spike a little quiet time and some fine refreshments.

What dragon in the rocky hot and dirt dry bad lands in any frame of mind would pass this stuff up was beyond reason.

"So Spike" Twilight teased "I heard a little rumor that Rarity wants another foal".

"Gosh Twilight I haven't got the hang of the three we have now, I know she can juggle everything but I'm worried that I might
goof things up I've only got so many claws here".

"Spike I'm sure our friends and families will be there and It's not like your foals are like what the Crusaders ..."

"The Crusaders only burned a little bit of Cheerilees school house, My little pongons are an arson brigade, the park, the school,
the store, town square! If the Boutique wasn't fire proofed Rarity would be almost homeless and jobless." Spikes panic grew
"When they where born the hospital exploded twice only when Unique came we thought we were ready, but oh no she turned
everpony a lovely shade of blue, You remember all the magic curatives that you had to do".

Twilight heard it before and she knew she'd hear it again, Spike the Great Honorable Brave and Glorious talking like his old little
'What if I screw things up' self. She was proud of what he did in the long years she'd known her dragon brother from another mother.

"I'm sure Rarity has loads of reasons for wanting another foal I'm sure she thinks you could handle a few more".

"Right now I think I'll have another sandwich" 'If I got to hear this stuff over and over again I might as well have a full belly'

Spike proceeded to stuff his face pretending to listen to Twilights lecture of big hearts make big families and that Raritys
generosity and the dragon ladys short gestation period could result in an extraordinarily and extremely large group of offspring
Possibly totaling into the mid twenties! Twilights eyes sparkled as she postulated and hypothesized on the pool of waiting
biological subjects all resulting from Spike and Raritys raging hormones and Twilights loosely scientific but deviant imagination.

"Oh the SCIENCE!" and then the obvious hit her like a ton of bricks. Spike wasn't hearing one word, None at all. Almost.

"If you're not eating that can I have it?" Spike continued eating "So the mid twenties?" as he chowed down with reckless abandon.

Twilights ears flopped down she had done it again treated Spike like a filly school biology project. Well she still had her Twilight Time.

"I'm sorry Spike I just sort of got carried away just a wee bit". She looked down at her empty plate " HAY! Where's my food?"

"Well if I'm going to father two dozen foals I'm going to need all the energy I can get!" Spike chuckled holding back a snort.

"I think I liked it better when you only had a crush you certainly ate less".

Spike paused, a rumbling coming from below the sign of another Celestia dragon postal delivery. Twilight watched as Spike let out a burp
of smoke and flame but nothing came, He hacked and gaged gripping his throat and slapping the back of his head with both his clawed hands, his eyes bugged out as his neck expanded. Spike then took all his claws on both feet and hands bushing on the bulge between his
belly and his head. Spike gurgled rolling over the stool and under the table a loud "SPORK" was then heard with a quiet "Not again..."

Twilight peeked under where Spike was holding a bundle of giggles his face flush from giving birth to the special delivery package.

Spike squeaked "Would you believe it was a lot more fun when she was smaller and you say Rarity wants a bunch more?"

"PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE , MAY I HAVE A FEW WORDS WITH YOU about doing your magic in front of inquisitive little foals!"

"But".

"Don't book worm your way out of this Miss Princess of Friendship Twilight Sparkle! My little Sapphire teleported again and you know where she gets that from don't you?"

"Ah Rarity?" Twilight stifled a giggle.

"Don't patronize me my dear Twilight I know you've been spoiling my little babies behind my flank!"

"Rarity?" Spike raised a single claw holding back a snicker "Can we..."

"And you Spike thee Great Honorable Brave and Glorious I know you've been sneaking gems to the little ones between meals!"

"Rarity?" Spikes resolve crumbled "Pfffttttt Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Unique Sapphire squealed with delight.

Twilights giggles flowed into the mix of roaring laughter filling Raritys ears fanning the flames of justifiable rage. She could just, just

ROAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!

Spike Twilight and Unique Sapphire quietly stared wide eyed at the dragon lady. Their small grins growing till the laughter returned
stronger than before. Rarity was at a loss, her rage rekindled her eyes glared at the two royal clowns and a foalish dracony laughing like they've lost all the halfwit brains in their heads.

Spike raised an arm and took her muzzle as he got up, hugging her tightly he gave a little peck on her cheek turning her head to gaze into the eaterys window. She looked into the café seeing all the ponies laughing tears streaming from their eyes. What in Equestria's so so?
Her eyes focused on the reflection in the glass. She saw her little dracony held by her dragon prince charming and a blue beastly looking
pony-manticoreish thingy with a white muzzle and bright blue eyes, Her mane was fanned out like a peacocks tail but much less flattering.

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It was a good two days of peace and quiet after a week of buying all the Equestrian Inquirer Magazines whos front
page had Raritys new trend in mane fashion printed in all its glory for anyone to see at all those neighborhood convenience stores.

Sadly this emergency didn't quite qualify for the usual funding for Ponyvilles disaster relief fund and
we all know who got stuck with the bill.

"Spikey dear Does this mane style make me look fat?" and we know the quiet never lasts, Not with these characters.

Oh those test results? Nothing much just Twilight being Twilight.