When a potion is messed up Twilight might find herself in a mess that she might not be able to fix.
A new pony has moved to ponyville. He has just enough passion as Twilight about spells and and magic and books. Twilight decided that it might be fun if they worked on a potion together. When they do something goes horribly wrong. Will they be able to fix the mess?
Twilight hummed happily to herself as she finished up the rest of books she had to put away after a night of studying. She usually finished quicker, but Spike was helping Rarity collect some last minute gems for a line of clothed she needed to finish for a client. Twilight didn't really mind though, it was nice to just have some peace and quite sometimes. And having the library all to herself was a nice opportunity to just unwind and relax.
As she placed the last book on the shelf she smiled and took a few steps back to admire her work. A wall filled with neat rows of books stared back at her and she finally felt herself being able to breath easy.
"Finally...that took much longer then I expected." Twilight stretched and sighed as she felt a wave of exhaustion wash over her after realizing that she hadn't really rested much all day. "Maybe now I can catch up on some read-"
Before she could finished her sentence Rainbow Dash crashed through the window, hitting Twilight and throwing them both back a few feet into the wall. The crash causing a few books to get knocked out of place and fall onto their heads.
"Ow!" Twilight cried as she pushed Rainbow Dash off her.
"Sorry Twilight. I was practicing a few new moves. I guess I kinda lost control towards the end of the stunt. On the bright side, It was my best time yet!" Rainbow stood and then grabbed a few books from the floor.
Twilight looked at her unamused and stood up taking the books from Rainbow Dash and sighing as she placed them back onto the shelf that she had just finished organizing. It wasn't the first time that her friend had crashed into her house because of a reckless stunt. If she was right, this was the ... second time this week?
"Rainbow, do you have to practice so close to my house?" Asked Twilight as she watched her friend stretch.
MoonDusk was the first to wake up. His ears were ringing and he couldn't really hear for a few seconds. His vision was a little blurry. He got up and his vision cleared a little. He looked at Twilight who was next to him.
"Twilight? Twilight." Moon said shacking Twilight awake. She got up and looked at him.
"What happened?" Twilight asked.
"I think we got hit with the potion." MoonDust said.
"Do you think anything happened?" Twilight asked. All of a sudden they herd crying. "What was that?" Twilight asked looking around. She got up trying to find the source of the crying.
"Twilight, over here." Spike said. Twilight walked over where Spike was with MoonDust behind her. She saw a cloth moving around and wiggling. When she levitated the clothe out of the way and saw a little foal crying. The little foal had a black coat, a purple main with some blue stripes and big purple eyes. She was also an Alicorn just like Twilight. Spike picked up the foal that was crying.
"Where did she come from?" Spike asked.
Twilight and MoonDusk looked at each other and they both had nervous faces. "You don't think..." Twilight trailed off and looked back at the foal who was still crying.
"I think the potion did do something." MoonDusk said.
"Um, can somepony help me?" Spike said still holding the foal that was wiggling around around crying. Twilight levitated the foal to her and started cradling her. She began to stop crying when she looked at Twilight. Twilight couldn't help but smile. She looked so cute.
"I guess she just wanted her mom." Spike said. Twilight stiffened a little at the word mom. She couldn't be a mom. She wasn't ready. MoonDusk noticed Twilight was a little scared and levitated the foal to him.
"Are you alright Twilight?" MoonDusk Said.
"I'm just really surprised." Twilight said.
"Maybe I should not go to work tomorrow. I'll take care of her." MoonDusk said.
"I can't ask you to do that. I can watch her while we figure out how to fix this." Twilight said. She looked at the little foal and saw her fast asleep in her 'daddy's' arms. "But maybe we should pick up some foal stuff." Twilight said.
"I'll go." Moon said handing Twilight the foal. "I think...wait. What's her name?" Moon said.
"Hmm...What about, Moonlight?" Twilight said.
"How about, Moonlight Sparkle?" Moon said. Twilight smiled at the name and looked down at her.
"I like that. Moonlight Sparkle. It's a really good name.
"Yea. Well, I better get going before all the stores close. I'll be back soon." Moon said before walking out the door. Twilight felt moonlight steering around.
"Let's go put you in bed." Twilight said walking up in her room. She laid moonlight down tucking her in before she walked back downstairs. "Spike? Where are you?" Twilight said.
Spike came out of the kitchen holding tea. "I thought you could use some tea." Spike said handing Twilight a cup.
"What am I going to do Spike? This is probably the biggest problem I've gotten myself into." Twilight said.
"I'm sure that's not true." Spike said.
"Well, did any of the other things I've gotten myself into include me being a mommy?" Twilight said. "I don't know what i'm going to do." Twilight took a sip of her tea.
"You'll figure it out. You can be a great mom." Spike said.
"I don't know Spike." Twilight said. She herd a thud and then some crying. Twilight quickly ran upstairs and saw moonlight on the ground crying. She quickly picked her up and checked her for bruises or scratches. When she saw she was fine she started cradling her.
"Don't scare me like that moonlight. You had me worried." She looked at her bed and then at Moonlight. "We have to get you a crib."
Moonlight's crying turned into a sniffing. "Do you want to come with me down stars?" Twilight asked her.
"Mommy, mommy" Moonlight said hugging Twilight tighter. Twilight felt something in her stomach when she called her mommy but she shook it off. She put her on her back and walked down stairs. Twilight picked up a book and laid down on the couch to read with Moonlight next to her chewing on a pillow.
Half an hour passed and MoonDusk came in with foal stuff. Twilight took the pillow away from Moonlight and gave her a chewing toy. "How did it go?" MoonDusk asked.
"It was fine. She was asleep for most of the time. She's a calm filly or she's just tired right now. " Twilight said.
"mommy." Moonlight said climbing on top of Twilight playing with her mane.
"Mommy? When did she start calling you that?" Moon asked.
"After she woke up." Twilight said trying to get Moonlight off her head. Moonlight just giggled at all her tries. MoonDusk levitated her a toy and put her on the ground.
"Maybe I should take care of her. You are a princess after all. I would hate for you to cancel important meetings and all that stuff." MoonDusk said.
"Calm down. I can watch her. You have to work. I'm sure I can take a week off." Twilight said.
"Are you sure?" Moon asked.
"How hard can it be?" Twilight said. "I'll take care of her while we figure out what to do." She looked down at Moonlight. "Right Moonlight."
"Blhaa dagaa" Moonlight gurgled giggling. Twilight and MoonDusk couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Twilight, have you told your friends yet?" Moon asked.
Twilight's face turned serious. "No, not yet. I think I'm going to tell them tomorrow. Right now I'm just way too tired to explain to them what happened." Twilight said.
"Alright, are you going to keep Moonlight tonight?" MoonDusk asked.
"Yea, you get your rest. I'll handle this." Twilight said.
"Alright." Moon said. "Well, I better go." MoonDusk walked over to Moonlight and nuzzled her before he left. When he did Moonlight looked at Twilight.
"Daddy?" Moonlight said. Twilight levitated Moonlight in front of her.
"Don't worry you'll see him tomorrow." Twilight said. "Let's give you a bath." Twilight said. levitating Moonlight on her back. When she got her in the tub she started washing her mane while she played with the bubbles in the tub. Twilight was rinsing her off when Moonlight splashed some water at her.
Moonlight started laughing. Twilight smiled and splashed some water at Moonlight. Soon it turned into a water fight. They were playing around for a while now. Twilight was laughing with Moonlight until Spike came in. "Um Twilight, don't you think it's time for Moonlight to go to sleep?" Spike said.
"Oh yea, right." Twilight said drying Moonlight off and herself. She took her to her bed and started rocking Moonlight until she fell asleep. Twilight laid down next to her daughter and wrapped a wing around her protectively. She looked down at her sleeping. 'Maybe this won't be so bad' Twilight thought to herself before drifting off to sleep.
Twilight woke up looking under her wing but didn't see Moonlight. See quickly looked around the room and started to panic when she didn't see her. She rushed out of her room and down stairs. She saw Spike in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
"Spike have you seen Moonlight?" Twilight asked.
"She woke up and I decided to bring her down." Spike said. "She's probably in the living room."
Twilight walked out of the kitchen and started looking around the living room and noticed the door was open. "Spike." Twilight called.
"What's wrong Twilight?" Spike asked.
"Please tell me you didn't leave the door open." Twilight said.
"I thought the room could use some fresh air." Spike said.
"Spike! What were you thinking?! She's a little foal, how could you leave her alone and with the door open." Twilight said. Spike was taken aback a little by Twilight's outburst. He decided to not say anything so that she wouldn't get anymore mad. "I'm going to go find her." Twilight said walking out of the room.
Moonlight was crawling around town. She hadn't been outside and she was really curious. She reached sugercube corner and saw two other foals playing outside with a pink pony. Moonlight decided to go investigate and crawled up to them.
Pinkie Pie was playing peek-a-boo with Pound and Pumpkin when she saw Moonlight.
"Hello there, are you lost?" Pinkie Pie said picking up Moonlight. Moonlight just looked at her confused. "I haven't seen you around. But don't worry, i'll help you find your mom." Pinkie said.
"Mommy?" Moonlight repeated.
"Yes, mommy. But if we want to find her we better start looking." Pinkie put the cake twins inside and put Moonlight on her back. She started walking to a cloud Rainbow was sleeping on.
"Rainbow!" Pinkie yelled. It startled Rainbow making her fall.
"Jeez Pinkie, you don't have to yell." Rainbow said getting up from the ground. She looked at the foal on Pinkie's back. "Who's the kid?" Rainbow asked.
"I don't know." Pinkie said.
"Please don't tell me you took her out of a random stroller." Rainbow said.
"Of course not. I found her crawling around town alone. I was wondering if you could fly and look for a mom or dad that looks like there're missing a foal." Pinkie said.
"How do I know when their missing a kid." Rainbow asked.
"They'll be calling a name and looking worried." Pinkie said.
"Alright." Rainbow said flying off. Pinkie decided to ask the rest of her friends if they knew who the filly belonged too. She decided to stop at Rarity's boutique first since it was the closest. When she knocked Rarity came out wearing a face mask scaring Pinkie Pie and Moonlight.
"Um...Rarity, you have a little something on your face." Pinkie Pie said.
Rarity rolled her eyes at the comment. "It's a mask Pinkie. What can I do you for?" Rarity asked.
"Well, I found this foal by herself and I just came to ask if you know who the mom is." Pinkie said pointing at Moonlight.
"She is so precious." Rarity said taking Moonlight spinning her. "Well, no. But I can help you look." Rarity said.
"Thanks. I think we should start looking around where I found her." Pinkie said. Rarity nodded and went back inside to take of her mask. When she came back out they headed for town. They asked everyone trying to find the mom but had no luck. They were about to look somewhere else when they bumped into Rainbow Dash who had Fluttershy and Applejack behind her.
"They wanted to help." Rainbow said.
"Well that's nice. Maybe we should ask Twilight to help us look too." Rarity said.
"Sure, she right there." Pinkie said pointing at a very worried Twilight.
"What has her all worked up?" Applejack asked. Everyone just shrugged. "Hay Twilight!" Applejack yelled getting Twilight's attention. Twilight looked and saw her friends with Moonlight and she gave a sigh of relief. She quickly ran over to them picking up Moonlight and putting her down in front of her.
"Moonlight Sparkle, don't ever go running off like that again. You had me worried." Twilight scold. She looked at her friends who had confused faces. She tried to speak and tell them about Moonlight but the words got stuck in her throat.
Moonlight looked at her mom and started tugging her hoof. "Mommy." Moonlight said putting her hoofs up signalling that she wanted to be picked up. Twilight picked her up and nuzzled her.
"Mommy? Why did she call you mommy?" Pinkie asked.
Twilight sighed and put Moonlight on her back. "Because...she's mine." Twilight said. Her friends let out a gasp of surprise.
"We didn't know you adopted." Fluttershy said.
"That's because I didn't adopt." Twilight said.
"Oh. um...that's some news. If you don't mind me asking, who's the father?" Rarity asked.
"It's MoonDusk." Twilight said.
"Wow Twi, I knew you're fast sometimes but not this fast." Rainbow said.
Twilight's cheeks turned really red hearing that. "No, it's not what you think. He was showing me a duplicating potion but things went wrong. He accidentally dropped it and it fell on us. Next thing we know we see Moonlight." Twilight said looking at Moonlight who was playing with her mane.
"Moonlight?" Rarity asked.
"Moonlight Sparkle. That's what we decided to name her." Twilight said.
"She's probably the cutest thing I have ever seen." Rarity said. "But have you thought of what to do with her?"
"No, i haven't. I don't know what to do. Now that i'm a princess I don't have a lot of free time. I sometimes barley have time for myself. Foals need a lot of attention and energy and I might not be able to handle it." Twilight said. "What should I do?"
Applejack put a hoof on her shoulder. "Calm down sugercube. We're here to help you. First, have you and MoonDusk talked about this?" Applejack asked.
"No, we were going to talk about it when he got back from work." Twilight said.
"Well that's the first thing. But if after you talk you figure out that neither of you can take care of her, maybe you could consider giving her up for adoption." Applejack said.
Twilight hadn't thought about adoption. It did seem like the best option. Well, it seemed like the only option. "Alright. I'll think about it. It does seem like the best thing to do in case neither of us can take care of her." Twilight said. "Well, I better get going. Moonlight hasn't eaten breakfast and she could get fussy any minute now."
"If you need any help feel free to ask us." Fluttershy said. Twilight nodded and started walking to her library. She went in and saw Spike reading a magazine on the floor.
"Hay Spike." Twilight said. Spike looked up from his magazine and looked at Twilight.
"Hay Twilight. I'm glad you found Moonlight. Where did you find her?" Spike asked.
"She was with my friends, so I decided to tell them everything. Oh and Spike, next time don't leave the door open. I don't think I want to run around town trying to find Moonlight again." Twilight said.
"Don't worry. I wont make that mistake again. You were really scary when you were in mom mode." Spike said.
"I was not in mom mode. I was just scared." Twilight said defensively.
"And you were scared because you are a mom and she is your foal. It's your maternal instincts that makes you go crazy when you don't see her." Spike said.
"It is not Spike. Besides I don't think i'm going to be her mom much longer anyway." Twilight said.
"What do you mean Twilight?" Spike said.
"I don't have time to raise a foal Spike. I'm already taking this week off. I'm going to have a lot of work to catch up on. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to do it properly." Twilight said.
"So what are you going to do?" Spike asked.
"If MoonDusk can't take care of her either then, maybe we should consider giving her up for adoption." Twilight said.
"You can't be serious." Spike said.
"I'm very serious Spike. If neither of us can handle the job then, we're going to put her for adoption. They could find her another home. One where they can take care of her right and give her everything she needs" Twilight said.
"Or she might not get adopted and stay in the system. And what if she wants to meet her parents. What are you going to tell her? " Spike said. "Think about it Twilight. Do you really want to give her up for adoption?" Spike asked before he left the room leaving Twilight alone with Moonlight. She turned around and looked at Moonlight who was trying to get off her back. Twilight levitated her in front of her.
"It's for the best." Twilight said before she went to the kitchen to get her, her bottle.
