All together now
Big Macintosh trotted down the road again, his cart behind him. Sparkling Cider and Apple Cinnamon sat on his back, looking around for their siblings.
“Why didn’t you say something earlier?” Big Macintosh grumbled.
“’Cause we couldn’t wake Granny up, an’ we had to go all over the farm looking for you.” Sparkling Cider responded.
Big Macintosh sighed, “Alright girls, let’s just find them before they cause any trouble.”
“Eyup.” Both fillies bobbed their heads up and down in agreement. The group passed a building. Several seconds later, Sweet Wheat and Dinky trotted out from the side of the building and caught up with Big Macintosh.
“Mr. Macintosh?” Dinky caught the stallion’s attention, “Carson’s been following us.”
“He’s nearby-”
Something crashed into Sparkling Cider, knocking her off Big Macintosh’s back. With a thud, two ponies landed on the ground in a tangle of limbs. Apple Cinnamon leapt off Big Macintosh’s back and trotted over to Sparkling Cider.
“Are you alright?”
“I think so.” Sparkling Cider rubbed her head, “What about Ca-”
The two fillies stared at the pony, before exchanging glances.
“…Um, Dad…” Apple Cinnamon motioned for Big Macintosh to come over, “We have a problem.”
“What?” Big Macintosh trotted over, getting a good view of the pony: a blue coated pegasus colt with a spiky, sandy blonde mane. The pegasus got to his feet and shook his head. He looked at Sparkling Cider and Apple Cinnamon before looking at Big Macintosh.
“…Dad?” the colt blinked, “Who’re they?”
“…You gotta be kiddin’ me…” Big Macintosh groaned.
Sugarcube corner
“Oh, I know!” Apple Pie beamed, “What if we put gummy worms and we grounded up the peppermints for the inside of the hushpuppy?”
“That sounds disgusting.” Center Stage made a horrified face and a retching noise.
“I think it sounds good.” Apple Pie countered.
“No, I tried that.” Pinkie shook her head, didn’t work out.
“Ha!” Center Stage stuck his tongue out at Apple Pie.
“So we’ll use it to make crepes!” Pinkie Pie beamed.
Apple Pie returned the gesture at Center Stage, while Center Stage groaned in horror.
---
“So your mom’s Cloudchaser?” Apple Cinnamon eyed the other filly.
“Uh-huh. My name’s Stratos.” The colt nodded.
“How come your mane sticks up like that?” Sparkling Cider looked at the colt’s mane.
“I dunno. Mom’s sticks up like that too.” Stratos shrugged.
“…Get in th’ cart.” Big Macintosh sighed, “We’re lookin’ for your brothers an’ sisters.”
“…I have siblings?” Stratos blinked.
“Well, half-siblings, I think.” Big Macintosh pondered over something.
“Dad?” Sparkling Cider interrupted Big Macintosh’s thoughts.
“Hmm?”
“What does that make Golden Gem and Apple Jam?” Sparkling Cider inquired, “Because Aunty Sweetie Belle and Aunty Rarity are sisters. So does that make them cousins and sisters?”
“…I think so,” the stallion shrugged.
---
Rainbow Dash yawned and stretched. The mare sat up on the sofa and glanced at the sleeping filly and Tank.
“Hey kid, wake up.” Dash nudged the filly awake.
“Mrah?” Scarlet Tornado groggily woke up.
“I gotta go to work.” Dash paused, “We better find Big Mac.”
“Can’t I just stay here?” the filly pleaded.
“No.” Dash shook her head, “Mac said he’ll take care of you and… I’m not really the best pony to be taking care of kids right now.”
“But you’re my mom.”
“I know. But…” Dash sighed, “Listen, your mom’s older than me right?”
“Uh-huh.”
“I’m still young. And I’m not quite ready to take care of a kid on my own. Heck, I hardly have enough food in my house to feed me for a week.” Dash shook her head, “Besides, you get along with all the others, right?”
Scarlet Tornado pondered for a little while, “Cider and Apple Cinnamon are okay. I don’t like Center Stage though, he’s kinda a jerk.”
“Heh.” Dash chuckled, “Wouldn’t you rather stay with them?”
“…I guess.” Scarlet shrugged, “But can I come and hang out with you tomorrow?”
“Sure thing, kid.” Dash grinned at the filly, “Now let’s go find Big Mac.”
---
“So you’re saying I got eleven other siblings?” Stratos’s mouth hung open in shock, “But Mom’s still pregnant!”
“My mom’s not your mom.” Apple Cinnamon pointed out, “We all have the same dad, but our moms are different.”
Stratos blinked, “huh?”
“My Mom’s Spitfire. Her mom’s Twilight Sparkle.” Apple Cinnamon pointed to herself and Sparkling Cider.
“…I think I get it.” Stratos nodded, “Does this mean Dad had a kid with Aunty Flitter too?”
“…We dunno.” The two fillies shrugged.
“…I said I’m sorry dad.” Carson pouted from inside of the cart, “I just wanted to look for ma.”
“I told you all t’ wait at th’ farm.” Big Macintosh scolded, “She’s got her own work ta’ do, and I don’t want you ta’ cause any trouble for her.”
“…An’ Dinky was ignorin’ me the entire time.” Carson pouted.
“Well, she ain’t use to havin’ a brother.”
The group continued through town, passing other ponies.
“There he is!” Cheerilee trotted over with Acey Mac. The filly bounded over and beamed at Big Macintosh.
“Hi pa!”
“…What did I tell you all before I left?”
“…Uh…It was Apple Pie’s idea.” Acey Mac’s smiled turned into one of embarrassment.
“I don’t care, you followed her.” Big Macintosh jerked his head back towards the cart, “I’ll figure out how ta’ punish you later.”
“…Fine.” Acey pouted and trotted over to the cart. Big Macintosh turned his attention to Cheerilee.
“I’m terribly sorry, Cheerilee.” The stallion apologized.
“Oh, not, It's alright.” Cheerilee waved the thought away, “For the most part I was able to get all my work done.”
“Still…”
“Hey, who’s that?” Acey Mac pointed at Stratos.
“I’m Stratos.”
“Another one?” Cheerilee chuckled, “Big Macintosh this is starting to get rid-”
“There he is!”
Rainbow Dash and Scarlet touched down next to the two earth ponies. Scarlet trotted over to the cart and fluttered into it, next to the other ponies.
“Who’s that?” Scarlet poked Stratos’s head.
“He’s our brother.” Apple Cinnamon and Sparkling Cider informed her.
“Another one?” Rainbow Dash grinned in amusement, “Damn, you’re a regular baby makin’ machine, Big Guy.”
“Miz Dash….”
“Heh, sorry, sorry.” Dash’s smile vanished, “Sorry about that. The kid came over to my place and we… well, we took a nap.”
Big Macintosh sighed, “Well, she wasn’t suppose to leave the farm when I was working. I left them with Granny.”
“Mac, your granny always nods off at the weirdest times.” Dash shrugged, “It wasn’t gonna work, who else is missing?”
“Just Apple Pie, Center Stage, Nova an’ Bellona.”
“Who’s Bellona?”
Big Macintosh paused, uncertain of continuing. He sighed in embarrassment and continued “…Discord’s daughter with me.”
The two ponies stared back at him in utter shock and silence. Cheerilee and Rainbow Dash exchange a quick, worried glance before the two of them burst out into rambunctious laughter. Both mares quickly collapsed onto the ground; Cheerilee rolled on to her back, unable to control her laughter as Rainbow Dash pounded the ground and buried her face in her forelegs. Big Macintosh turned an even brighter shade of red and sighed in embarrassment.
“Dad? Why are they laughing?” Sparkling Cider asked.
“…Don’t worry about it.” Big Macintosh sighed, “Let’s just find the others and head home.”
The mares finally got themselves under control and got back onto their feet.
“I’m so sorry, Big Macintosh.” Cheerilee wiped away her tears, “But Discord? Really?”
“I-”
Big Macintosh was interrupted by Bellona, as she touched down in front of the stallion.
“Dad, I’m sorry for whatever I did, Just please make them go away.” Bellona pleaded.
Rainbow Dash and Cheerilee exchanged startled glances with one another.
“…Oh my.” Cheerilee took a step backwards.
“…Holy Shit.” Rainbow Dash blinked in shock as her mouth hung open, “I thought you were kidding. How does that even work?”
“I don’t know.” Big Macintosh shrugged, “Bellona, what do you mea-”
Big Macintosh was interrupted as Nova and another alicorn touched down. The new alicorn looked nearly identically to Nova, save it’s gender: female.
“That’s what I’m sorry about Dad.” Bellona groaned, “One Nova was bad enough.”
“…Wait, One?”
“…Mother?” the alicorn blinked.
“…Oh boy…”
Sugarcube corner
“But you can’t put that in the King Cake!” Center Stage shouted.
“Don’t be silly, of course we can.” Pinkie smiled, “that’s the entire point of the cake!”
“…You put one plastic Alicorn inside the cake.” Center Stage countered.
“But we have three alicorn Princesses. Unless we count the changeling queen, but she was all like insecty and didn’t really look like a pony.” Pinkie paused in thought, “But what if we melted a fourth alicorn a little so it looked like her?”
“I wanna do it!” Apple Pie grinned.
“Alright! Let’s get to it!”
Center Stage responded by smashing his face into the table.
---
“So lemme see if I get this straight.” Big Macintosh paused, “You’re Midnight Bliss. Your mother is Big Paula Red, who owns Sweet Apple Acres, an’ lives there with her brothers Applejack and Applebud, and her grandpa, George Cave.”
“Yes.” The Alicorn filly, Midnight Bliss, nodded.
“An’ your father is Prince Erebus, who was sealed away because he an’ his brother, Prince Solarius turned into Imperator Tartarus an’ Imperator Hyperion.”
“Uh-huh.”
“An’ Your… cousin is Prince Tempo, who rules Equestria.”
“Yep.” Midnight Bliss nodded.
“…Except for th’ names that sounds an awful lot like Nova’s story.” Big Macintosh frowned.
“Well Mac, in the infinite multiverse, there should be a universe where it is functionally identical to another, save the genders.” Cheerilee pointed out, “Although…the probability seems mind boggling.”
“…A male version of me sounds like he’d be a jerk.” Rainbow snorted, “Applejack seems like she’d be the same.”
“…Alright. I can believe it.” Big Macintosh shrugged, “Wouldn’t have been the craziest thing to happen t’day.”
“Daaaaad” Bellona groaned, “I don’t wanna get stuck with them…... Nova’s weird and Midnight smells funny.”
“I do not.” Midnight countered.
“Stop arguin’. We still need t’ find Apple Pie an’ Center Stage.” Big Macintosh sighed.
“I’d say find Pinkie and you’ll find one of them. Anyway, I gotta go to work, Catch you all later.” Dash waved goodbye and took off.
“I also have things to take care of.” Cheerilee smiled, “Take care.”
“You too.”
The two ponies trotted off in separate directions. Bellona landed in the cart with the others, while Nova and Midnight Bliss trotted alongside him.
“…How did you get here?” Big Macintosh asked Midnight.
“I am not certain.” The filly shrugged, “I was with Mr. Mandolin, and something went wrong with the spell he caste.”
“Mandolin?”
“Mr. Harpsy Mandolin, the Element of Magic.” Midnight Bliss responded.
“Nova, Didn’t you say Lyra was the Element of Magic from where you’re from?”
“Indeed.” Nova nodded.
“…How am I gonna explain that one th’ her?” Big Macintosh shook his head.
The group continued down the street, catching odd looks from other ponies.
“…Did you go to Canterlot?” Sparkling Cider asked the alicorns and Bellona.
“No. Why would we?” Bellona gave the unicorn a confused look.
“Because Princess Luna’s there.” Sparkling Cider responded.
“If a strange alicorn and Bellona show up in Canterlot with no warning, what do you think is going to happen?” Midnight Bliss pointed out, “Stuck in prison, if we’re lucky, dead if we’re not.”
“…I didn’t think about that.” Sparkling Cider frowned.
“Just what I want.” Bellona groaned, “More alicorns.”
“Oh quiet you.” Nova grumbled.
“You’d be saying the same thing if you were in my shoes.” Bellona argued back.
“That would require more Draconequusi to begin with.” Nova countered.
“…Do I sound like that?” Midnight Bliss asked Apple Cinnamon.
“I dunno.” The pegasus shrugged.
“Who’s this anyway?” Bellona pulled Stratos out of the cart and held him at the others, “And what’s wrong with his mane?”
“My mane is naturally like that.” Stratos grumbled, “Mom’s mane is too.”
“He’s Stratos. And be nice to him.” Big Macintosh informed them.
The Group stopped in front of Sugarcube Corner, as Big Macintosh unhooked himself from the cart.
“Cider, you’re in charge out here. Cinnamon, you’re coming with me.”
“Alright dad.” The unicorn nodded. Apple Cinnamon flittered out of the cart and landed next to Big Macintosh. The ponies entered Sugarcube Corner to see Mrs. Cake managing the counter again.
“Oh, hello Big Macintosh.” Mrs. Cake smiled, “What brings you here toda-”
Center Stage dashed out of the back room, and grabbed hold of Big Macintosh’s left forehoof.
“Dad, I’m sorry, make them stop please.” Center Stage begged, “They’re trying to put chocolate and mints in the crawfish pie.”
“…I didn’t know we had crawfish here.” Big Macintosh frowned.
“Oh, you know how Pinkie is.” Mrs. Cake shrugged, “Always finds it somehow.”
Pinkie, Apple Pie and a third filly trotted out of the kitchen, carrying platters of cupcakes. The new filly was an earth pony with a yellow-white coat and curly pink mane.
“Pinkie, who’s that?” Mrs. Cake pointed at the filly.
“Oh, this is Apple Cake.” Pinkie smiled.
“Hi dad!” the filly beamed at Big Macintosh. Apple Cake turned her attention to Mrs. Cake, “Hi Grandma!”
Mrs. Cake’s eyes widen in shock, “G...Grandma? But that would me…” Mrs. Cake’s eyes rolled back as she collapsed to the floor.
Big Macintosh collapsed onto the floor, causing a loud crash to echo through the house. The collected fillies and colt looked at the unconscious ponies in surprise. Apple Cake glared at Apple Pie.
“I told you Mom and Dad wouldn’t think it was funny.” Apple Cake scolded Apple Pie.
“I thought it would be.” Apple Pie shrugged.
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If there are any genderswapped names I hate, It's Red Gala/Macareina/Lil' Mac and Grampy Smith.
And Barbar/Dandan and Flamethrower, but that's not important here.
Big Paula Red was used by the now defunct "Ask a Bishonen Pony Tumblr", and Paula Red is an Apple.
Grandpa George Cave is...actually my replacement name. I think it works, it keeps the same feel as Granny Smith.
I prefer Applebud over Applebuck, sense people love to use "Buck" in place of more colorful language.
I guess It's sort of like naming your kid Gaylord. Perfectly legitimate name, with some unfortunate modern usage.
that and Applebud reflects the same "growth" idea as Applebloom.
...and Let's not even get into Prince Artemis and Anarchy Apollo.
I'm still not satisfied with Cadance's 63'd Name.
Prince Bolero sounds rather foolish, and I'm actually not a fan of Tempo.
Prince Rhapsody sounds like it would work, though.
ditto for Lyra's.
Harpsy Mandolin is the compromise, using his "official" Name, and the one I like better.
Mandolin Heartstrings sounds like it would work too, and it has a sort of exotic feel to it.
Stratos was going to be named Cumulus, but it got nixed, because Cumulus sounds more "girly".
I have no idea why, but it does.
Midnight Bliss is rather straight forward.
as is Apple Cake.
Congratulations Big Mac, your the new Rainbow Dash
*Twitch*
I wonder how Mr. Cake is going to react to all these ponies lying down in his bakery.
Well, apparently not even the married mares are safe. Also, I'm with you on the harpsy/babar bit, but Tempo sounds just fine. I guess it's a matter of taste.
I'll just leave you with some general encouragement, good show, entertaining as always, etc. and one of those insano-braino ideas that just decides to pop into existence every now and again:
There are other alternate universes that are different in ways than just gender swapping; there's one where everyone's a dragon and Spike is the only pony in Draketown. To send it into completely awful territory, even Hasbro is trying to capitalize on other species for these characters...
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I thought about it.
But in the end I decided that Dragon! Mac/Dash kid and a strange ape creature named Tabitha Roberta Apple was a little too ridiculous.
Oh, and one more thing.
Why is Luna/Mac the 63'd couple?
Because, then it's the prince of darkness and just a small town girl.
Living in a lonely world.
And she took the friendship express going aaaaannnyyyyyywhere.
This is getting a bit hard to follow...hopefully this will come to an end before Redstone (offspring of gender-swapped Mac and The Immortal Tom) shows up.
Big Mac is now the father to 15 children? or 16?
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Which I think says something positive about your ability to sift the inspirational wheat from the chaff.
After all, a dragon cub/bald plains ape would probably not have that "Dad?" reaction when presented by this large red furry thing, and that aspect has been part of what has made this fic hilarious thus far.
EDIT:
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I see what you did there, and while there isn't a sufficiently squinty emote for my reaction, have Applejack's should she ever be presented with this. 
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Indeed.
that would open a whole new can of worms that would probably have made things even worse.
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16.
So im hopping that either Mac was aged down or pumpkin cake was aged up cause even with the waiting until legal age, that much of a difference makes me shudder
What the hell? Even the 63 universe isn't safe. At this rate all of Equestria will be taken over my Big Mac's offspring. We'll need to change name of the country to...hmmmm
Appleistan?
The United States of A-Mac-eria?
I got nothing.
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It's Cup Cake's kid.
Apple Pie thought it would be funny to trick them like that.
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Macgolia.
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Well that just opens the question of: What about carrot cake?
Is he non-existent, dead, not married, sterile, or the cakes are a kinky couple that like to have more that 2 ponies in bed.
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*Shakes tiny fist
On another note, I think I've figured out how to send everypony back. This universe's Mac needs to knock up a mare and have a kid. Thus this universe will have its slot filled.
Also, why haven't we seen Celestia's kid? Or why does every coupling result in a single child? Would have thought to see a set of twins or triplets by now.
PS.
New subtitle for the story: A Bushel of Apples.
Too bad a bushel is a measurement of weight not quantity or you could just have him encounter kids till we reached that number.
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that is to be revealed after the fic is finished.
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Twins make things a little harder.
as for how everything is solved, you'll have to wait.
ok
The Foals are coming...
More and more, raining down from whatever portal they came from, but then, who's fault is it for sending such magnitude of foals into one universe it's so CHAOTIC!!!
I draw the line for mass insanity when a changeling gets thrown into the mix.
OMG!!! following and please continue tomorrow?
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It will take some time for my proofreader to go through the rest of the chapters, so it will be some time.
2449775 awww but the only time i can come back on is tomorrow. my sister's birthdau is next week and she's turning 21 so we'll be busy all week with a trip to vegas
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well, you can always read it when you come back.
there's honestly not much that I can do.
Hope you have a good time, though.
I want to see Mr. Cake try and make sense of this one.
You pulled some quite surprising ones - very fun update, can't wait to see more. What's next, a swarm of 279 red changelings?
Thanks for the great chapter and for the laughs.
always a good laugh
I gotta say, with all the exotic pairing you've thrown at us lately, Cloudchaser was unexpected to say the least. Also bland. I can't imagine a worse parent. Is it child abuse to be one-dimensional and boring? It should be.
Following that, I guess the next kid has to be a hippogriff with Gilda or maybe the centaur child from his short relationship with Courtney Love in the late 90s.
So much
So Big Mac takes all of this in stride up till now, but one kid calling mrs cake grandma makes him pass out? That seems like the exact opposite of how he's been behaving up until now. There's been no signs of stress building up, no sudden shock any worse than finding out about the female version of himself, so how'd this happen?
It feels very animeish, and that's a poor place to pick up behaviors and mannerisms for male characters. Guys don't get nosebleeds around pretty girls, they aren't weak willed pansies, and they don't black out without significant head trauma. I've been enjoying the story up until now, I hope to see less of stuff like this in the upcoming chapters.
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I see your point.
For a one-off gag, I felt it was alright, but other than that, I don't think that I've really used too many anime cliches.
2456154 Honestly if I found out I had a kid with someone AT LEAST 20 years younger than me. I would probably faint and vomit. So to me it was justified.
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There's that too.
About the same age as you? Fine.
about 7-10 years older than you? Also fine. (I imagine Mrs. Cake is somewhere in the pony equivalent of her mid-late 30s)
About 10 years younger than you? ...little weird.
Some 1000+ years older than you? ....that's weird.
26+ Years younger than you? That's pretty damn creepy.
2457192 I was talking about Big Mac thinking he had a kid with pound or pumpkin cake. The older woman thing isn't near as creepy.
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If he had a kid with Pound Cake, I think we have bigger problems than the age difference.
2458039 I said both because I couldn't remember which was which. So I just said both.
Plus when you think about it Mrs. Cake is probably only about 10 years older at most.
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ah.
I imagine that Big Mac is about 25, while Mrs. Cake is about 33, so it's not really a big difference.
He's just lucky there aren't any of his foals who think Applejack or Applebloom are their mothers.
...or Nightmare Moon.
...or Mooriella.
...or Winona.
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Worse, the resulting foal is older than Pumpkin!
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Or Granny Smith
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Time travel makes my head hurt.
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Maybe it isn't timetravel. Maybe the alternate worlds are slightly out of sync with eachother, time-wise.
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Perhaps... All will be revealed soon.
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Considering what a cadenza actually is... or playing on the definition of a cadence, you could have Drumroll, although that doesn't sound very princely. Neither do Drumline, Sound Off, or Jody. Yeah, it's tough to find a good name for 63'd Cadance.
Here's an idea... since her full name is Mi Amore Cadenza, you could have her counterpart be Prince Lot, which is short for "Slow Off Lots" (Thank you, Percy Grainger.)
Ok, I didn't say it was a good idea.
2449292 I'm fine with Prince Artemis, if only because there are so few masculine names/words that evoke the moon or night. Galileo, maybe? Zodiac? Artemis at least is plausible as a boy's name.
As for Anarchy Apollo... yeah, that's just stupid. Unless you play it off as instead of refusing to lower the moon, he refused to raise it; like, if they wouldn't appreciate the night, then he wouldn't let them have one. Otherwise I prefer to call him Darkhorse Knight.
Man, Bellona really makes me want to see a Discord/Big Mac shipping.
... I wonder which one of them carried her to term.
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Yeah...but not for long!