Final Flashlight

by Neroson40

Premature

Author's Note:

Imagine if you have to that you have a healthy baby nine months old... after only three of four months. yeah, that's why it's less realistic than most premature or otherwise births at first.

Everyone just stood there, staring at the older Flash. On hands and knees, he was balling, begging Shining to forgive him.

“Didn’t I forgive you already!?” Shining yelled. “Stop torturing yourself over how it could’ve ended and start living!” Sentry looked up at him in shock. “You’re here to change that right? Then get off your flank and start working for that, forget about the personal stuff and do it for everypony else!” his yelling gave me a headache and I covered my ears.

“Calm down man! Geez!” I said.

“Sorry…” Shining said. Then he went quiet… and then flinched and scuttled backwards pointing at me. “What is with the ears!? And the hair!?”

“Huh?” Soarin pulled me to one side.

“Uh boss… you have pony ears… and a ponytail… and wings…”

I felt my head and noticed he was right… but if these were mine… were the wings mine? And if THAT was the case how was I flying if they were unusable!?

“They healed when you fought Jetstream,” Sentry said. “It required willpower… don’t ask why I couldn’t tell you as well as my wife.”

“W-WIFE!?” Twilight yelled. The blush on her face was enough to steam a carrot. I smacked my future self across the head.

“OW! What happened to ‘respecting thine elders’!” He yelled. I glared at him. “Not there yet, eh? Okay, I won’t ruin the surprise.”

“Surprise!?”

“What’s a Zero!?” I shouted to avoid the topic a little longer. “What’s a Zero?”

“Basically a sentient regenerating zombie pony,” He said with a smirk.

“Z-z-z-z-zombie Pony!?” Pinkie said.

“Okay, maybe the urban definition of ‘Zombie’ is the wrong word to use seeing as they were never alive to begin with. Basically, Tirek, Sombra, Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon (Not Luna, that’s a different story) created them to instill uncontrollable chaos, and sadness. It didn’t work out so well for them.”

“So time travel was the only way to stop them from creating Zeroes!?”

“By cutting off their resources, yes.”

“Why you?” Jetstream asked. “Why did you come back and with everyone else?”

“Because I had the least to lose.” He let that sink in. then I realized what he meant. His wife was dead. His child wasn’t with him. His friends were gone. He had nothing to lose so he came back to get it back. But that left a lot of questions, one of which…

“Who were the other contenders?”

“The Shoehorn Brothers, Emil and Victor, the elements of Thunder, and Earth among the Guardians of Chaos, respectively. They had eachother to lose, so the council chose me.” Flash came up to me and said something that made me feel… awkward.

“Chief, I think it’s time you and your friends went home.”

“What!? We’re not welcome anymore!?”

“Oh, you’re always welcome here,” Twilight from this side of the mirror said. “Just not when your world needs you more. This is hard for us too.” I looked around and saw that they were having a hard time agreeing with this. But nonetheless they were agreeing with it.

“Okay… we’ll head back right now. Thanks for having us here.”

“No problem.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Just promise ya’ll‘ll come back.” Applejack said.

“Oh Thank Celestia your back!” Spike said when we got back. “Something weird happened and Cadence went into labor!”

“What!?” Shining said. “She’s only been pregnant three, four months!”

“Like I said, something weird happened!”

Spike explained on the way out the door (To those who were listening which Shining was not, as he was already gone), a cloaked pony came to the castle and somehow endorsed labor with a single touch.

“That certainly sounds like how I was born,” Jetstream said. “And the same could be said for Inferno.”

“Did they ever leave?” I said. Spike didn’t seem to know. “Oh, boy.” It was just about then that I heard Twilight scream in agony We didn’t see the cloaked pony, but Twilight’s stomach was swollen much more than it was before.

We rushed to the hospital and checked Twilight in. thanks to the human Flash’s memories I know that the father of a human would be in the room, but ponies don’t really do it like that. I was just outside the room whereas everypony else was back in the waiting room. I was praying to Celestia that Twilight and Cadence would survive (I mean how often does a mare reach nine months pregnant and go straight to labor in as short a time period as they did?) when someone came up to me. I looked up and saw a mare in a black cloak.

“Hullo Flash,” She said. “Your final gift awaits.”

“You did this!” I realized with a snarl.

“You don’t want to hurt me…” She said. She lowered her hood and showed a unicorn with a face much like mine. “My name is Medica, I’m Inferno’s younger sister.”

“I didn’t know Inferno had a sister.” I said, my snarl reduced to a slight scowl.

“Keep making faces and your it’ll stick like that,” she said. “For now can you turn into a human for a second?”

“Um… Why?” I had a horrifying thought that pushed my mind deep in the gutter. “You’re not gonna induce labor on me are you!?”

“What!? NO!” she said. “Just transform so I can give this to you! Twilight will die if you don’t!” I had to take her word for it, so you can guess I didn’t have a lot of options. I transformed into my Guardian form right after she said twilight would die, and she slipped a bracelet on my left hand. There was a sharp tug and a bright flash of what I can only describe as a combination of white light and rainbows (Please don’t correct me I know white light is technically a rainbow, but it just looked this way from my point of view). When I was able to pull my arm back into place, I had a gold-colored metal sleeve… I guess, but it only covered my forearm. Adorning this gauntlet were six indentations which formed the shape of, in order from wrist to elbow, an apple, a butterfly, a balloon, a gem, a lightning bolt, and a star. I recognized them alright, The Elements of Harmony… but the Elements themselves were missing.

“What is this thing?” I asked.

“The Harmony Bracer,” Medica said. “Made from the necklaces and tiara of harmony. It should give you power with each Element you collect.”

“But Twilight and the girls used the Elements to restore the Tree of Harmony! As far as I know they’re still in there!”

“Not anymore.” I heard the doctor call me into the room. “We’ll talk again.” And with that she used a warp spell.

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[Harmony Pie]

The blush on her face was enough to steam a carrot.

Never heard that one before