Chapter 5

"Fluttershy, you know that's not possible. How would that even work, anyways? Besides, it can either be mine or the your's, not both of ours."

"But Dashie, I want it to be both of ours. I don't want either of us to feel left out."

"I know Fluttershy and you know that I want this just as bad as you do, but there's no way it can happen. It's impossible."

It has been two years sense their wedding. Fluttershy had just suggested that they both do something together that was seemingly impossible.

Fluttershy had began to cry in correlation with her wife's response. Rainbow noticed this and came up with a quick compromise to make Fluttershy happy. "Oh, come on Fluttershy, please don't cry. You know it kills me to see you cry. ...Tell ya what. We can go talk to Twilight tomorrow. She might know something about a way to make it possible. Alright?" She suggested in a very sincere voice.

Fluttershy looked up at her wife with tear-filled eyes that was starting to lighten up, nodded with a smile and hugged her wife. "Thank you Dashie."

Rainbow hugged her back, helped her off of the ground and said, "Come on. It's late. We should get some rest if we plan to talk to Twilight tomorrow. You know how she can be, once you get her talking, she won't stop." She finished with an amused smile, looking at Fluttershy.

Fluttershy giggled a little before she placed a kiss on Rainbow's cheek.

In retaliation, Rainbow turned her head and returned Fluttershy's kiss with a prolonged kiss on her lips. After they broke apart from the kiss they then walked upstairs and into bed, Fluttershy leaning on Dash's shoulder.

The next morning, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash went to go talk to their friend Twilight to see if she would be able to help with their predicament.The door to the library opened to revile the little purple dragon, Spike, who greeted them. "Oh. Hey Rainbow Dash. Hey Fluttershy. You two here to meet Twilight?"

Rainbow replied to the question. "Yeah. She here?"

"Yeah. Come on in." He replied, moving out of the door way to make enough space for the couple to enter.

"Spike! Who is it? Oh! Hello girls. What brings you here ?" Twilight said coming out of her room and down the stairs to meet the two mares.

Rainbow looked at her wife before tuning back to their friend and replied, "Well Princess," Rainbow started jokingly. "Fluttershy and I... We want to have a foal and we were wondering if there was anything you know that would let the kid have me AND Fluttershy be its moms?"

Twilight smiled at the news of them planning to have a foal. She replied, "Well, first off, let me congratulate you two on making the decision on having a foal. That's not an easy decision to come to. Second, I'm sorry to say that I don't know any way to have even the slightest chance of both of you being the biological parents."

"But WE do." Said the majestic voice of Princess Luna as she walked out of Twilight's room and made her way down the stairs and toward the small group of ponies.

"P-Princess Luna!" Said a surprised Fluttershy as both she and Rainbow Dash bowed to greet the Princess.

Luna accepted the greeting and said, "You may raise. We overheard what you were saying and we may have a solution that will grant you what you wish."

The couple stared at Luna in both surprise and happiness at what the Princess said. "A-Are you serious?" Asked Rainbow out of disbelief, letting a wide grin of joy etch its way on to her face.

"We are most certainly serious. There is a fountain of sorts that grants wishes. If your hearts are pure and your spirits are true, your wish shall be granted."

Rainbow Dash nearly fainted at the pure amount of joy that she had while Fluttershy's joy froze her in place. Twilight looked towards her marefriend in disbelief. "Why didn't I know about this? I've read everything in here and in the Canterlot library and I've never read anything about a wish granting fountain. That's something straight out of a children's book."

Luna looked at Twilight and replied, "That's because any written document about that fountain was sealed away and hidden within the castle. If that information were released into the public, we fear many ponies would abuse it's power."

"Then why are you telling us?" Rainbow asked breaking out of her trance.

Luna just smiled and said, "Well, first, you are the bearers of the elements of loyalty and kindness. That alone not only makes you reliable with knowledge such as this, but also puts us in your dept. Let's just call it, 'repaying the favor'. Second, we know who you are and we know that you won't abuse the power of this fountain. You two are very trustworthy ponies. You, Rainbow Dash would go far out of your way to help others. While you Fluttershy like to believe there is good in every living creature and kindness spread to those around you. Third, we have heard your wish and believe that you will do whatever it takes to have this wish come true. You would go to all the ends of this world in order to complete this task. Finally, Twily-bear might reward me for being so generous and helping a couple of her best friends." Luna smiled at her mare friend who was looking at her with an annoyed smile that told her, 'Really? It couldn't just be from the goodness of your heart?'. Luna continued, "So for that, we shall bestow on you a choice. If you accept, we will give you a map that will show you the path you will need to take to arrive at this fountain, but be warned, the path to the fountain is a very dangerous one and your will, courage and faith will be tested. If you decline the offer, you will never again be able to receive the map to the fountain, leaving you to continue your nearly hopeless struggle in finding a way to have this child. So... do you accept?"

Rainbow and Fluttershy turned their heads to look at each other. They stayed like that for a few seconds before Rainbow broke the silence by asking, "Fluttershy. What do you think? It seems like this is gonna be dangerous and I don't want you to get hurt. So I'm leaving up to you. If you want, we'll go together. And if not, we'll just find some other way. We won't let this stop us. So what do ya say?"

Fluttershy stared into the deep crimson eyes of her mare and felt a rush of pride and loyalty come from them. She turned to face the Princess with her answer. "We're going." She said with the up most confidence. "I-I know it's going to be scary and that it's very dangerous, but if I'm with Rainbow, then I know we'll get through it together. Whether it's manticores, dragons, hydras, or even a gigantic lizard thing, we'll get through it no matter what."

"Fluttershy... are you sure?" Asked Rainbow, not believing what she heard come out of her wife's mouth.

Fluttershy continued looking forward and put on a, rarely seen, brave face. "Yes. I'm sure. If we don't try to do this, we may never get the chance to have our baby. We're doing this."

"Fluttershy..." Rainbow said softly before becoming serious. "Hmph. Awesome! So when do we start, Princess?" Rainbow asked as she fought the urge to envelope Fluttershy in a hug and smoother her with kisses for her bravery, as she tried to play it cool.

"You shall start when we arrive back from Canterlot." Princess Luna began to say. "We have a small amount of business to attend to and you will need a map that we hold secret within the castle. We shall return within a week's time. I advised you to use this time to prepare yourselves. As we said, this journey is not only long but dangerous as well. One does not know what dangers lay within the Everfree Forest."

With that said Luna took her leave and teleported to the Royal Castle in Canterlot. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash also thought that they should get going, so they thanked Twilight for her help, said their good byes and walked back to their cottage.

When they arrived at the cottage, Fluttershy got to work doing her chores while Rainbow read one of her Daring Do books to get some "survival tip"... and to find out what happens to the brave adventurer.

"Mom?!" Came a familiar voice from a room upstairs.

"I'm on the couch hun!" Replied Rainbow Dash, temporarily taking her eyes off the page to look at the stairs.The sound of hoof steps walking down the stairs kept Rainbow waiting for the voice from upstairs.

"Mom!" Exclaimed Scootaloo as she appeared from the stairs.

About a year ago.

Rainbow Dash was out buying groceries in town while Fluttershy stayed home taking care of the animals that visited their cottage.

Rainbow was finished getting all the groceries on her grocery list -with a couple extra snacks- and was heading home. However, on her way back she noticed a certain orange filly looking exhausted, hungry and worn out walking into one of the few allies in PonyVille. Almost nopony goes into the allies, which made Rainbow Dash wonder what a little filly would be doing walking into an ally so she followed her.

What she saw when she walked in there was an image she would never forget. Rainbow Dash saw a scooter placed up against the wall of the ally behind a beat up cardboard box. However, when she looked closer to the box she saw that it was on its side as if someone had tipped it over and there was something coming out of them. It was a small purple tail. It was Scootaloo's tale.

Hundreds of thoughts ran through Rainbow's head all at once. 'What's Scootaloo doing here?' 'Why is she in a box?' 'Is she sleeping here?' Rainbow couldn't handle any more of the questions so she walked up to the box slowly and laid herself next to it so that she can look directly into the box. Inside she saw Scootaloo laying down under a newspaper blanket and resting on a backpack pillow shivering and... crying?

Rainbow couldn't stand to see her like this. She reached into her saddlebag, which is what she was carrying the groceries in, and pulled out an apple. She then gently rolled the apple to the shivering filly who jumped as she felt the apple touch her back.

The little filly tuned around to see what had hit her but was instead met with a very concerned looking Rainbow Dash. "R-R-R-Rainbow Dash?! H-H-How did you find me?" Asked a very scared Scootaloo now shaking even more.

A very gentle and caring Rainbow Dash said, "I saw you walk in here and I followed you. Scootaloo? How long have you been living like this?"

"A-About a year now. I-I'm not sure. I can't remember. I-It was so long ago." Replied Scootaloo now on the verge of tears. However, she didn't have any strength to hold any tears back, so she just cried into her hooves, unable to do anything else.

Rainbow scooted over to lay next to Scootaloo and wrapped a wing around her. Not thinking at all, Rainbow let her emotions take control of her. "It's okay Scootaloo. It's okay. Everything's gonna be better from now on, okay?" A gentle, near motherly Rainbow Dash said.

"H-H-H-H-H-How... is everything... gonna... gonna... be... alright?" Asked Scootaloo between sobs.

"Because you're not going to live like this any longer. Come on, let's take you home." Rainbow Dash nuzzled Scootaloo before motioning to her to hop onto her back.

When Scootaloo got on Rainbow's back, Rainbow went around and collected everything that the little filly had with her which just turned out to be a back pack, her saddlebag and her scooter. After Rainbow had all of Scootaloo's things, she opened up her wings, took off into the air and flew them back to her cottage.

Fluttershy was busy washing the dishes that Rainbow had promised to wash that morning when she heard the door open and close. "Dashie? Are you home?" She asked walking into the living room.

She stopped in her tracks when she saw her wife carrying a still crying Scootaloo on her back. Rainbow then place Scootaloo gently onto the couch before walking up to her wife and giving her a quick hello kiss. "Hey 'Shy. Listen..." Rainbow proceeded to tell Fluttershy about how she followed Scootaloo into the ally that she was living in, if you could call that living. She also told her about their brief conversation. "...and so I brought her here." Rainbow glanced back at Scootaloo who had fallen asleep when she stopped crying. "I want her to stay with us for a while. She deserves better then sleeping in a cardboard box."

"Dashie... why would she run away from her parents?"

"The orphanage." Rainbow corrected her wife.

"Orphanage?"

"She was living in the PonyVille orphanage. But I don't know why she would run away." Replied Rainbow Dash now looking at the ground.

"Dashie, you know we have to take her back."

"No. We can't." Retorted Rainbow Dash sternly. "If we take her back all she's gonna do is run away again."

"But this is technically foalnapping." Fluttershy said with obvious fear in her voice.

"Not if we adopt her."

After that Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash argued and debated about adopting Scootaloo. Though neither of them had gotten angry or even yelled at each other, the arguments were still very strong. So strong that they sought out help from their friends to see whether or not they should adopt poor Scootaloo. Within a weeks time, they came up with their decision.

When Scootaloo got woke up that morning, in the bed that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had prepared for her, she was greeted by a familiar friend at the door.

"It's about time you got up! Come on, breakfast is waiting!" Rainbow Dash, who had leaned on the door frame, gestured for the orange filly to head to the kitchen.

"Good morning to you too, Rainbow Dash." Scootaloo said sarcastically.

"Oh I'm sorry. Did you say that you DON'T want your chocolate chip pancakes? Oh well. More for me." Rainbow said jokingly, walking out of the room.

"No! Wait!" Scootaloo hurried out of bed and made a dash for the kitchen only to stop next to Rainbow Dash and give her a quick hug. "Thank you." She then let go of Rainbow Dash and continued her sprint into the kitchen.

When she reached the kitchen, she slowed down enough to literally hop into her seat. "Oh. Good morning Scootaloo." She was greeted by the gentle voice of Fluttershy who had turned her head away from the stove to see who had ran into the kitchen.

"Good morning Fluttershy." Scootaloo paused for a moment. "You know, I'm still not used to saying that."

"You're not the only one squirt." Rainbow Dash said walking into the kitchen towards her wife. She gave the cooking mare a quick kiss on the cheek followed by, "Good morning beautiful."

"Good morning Dashie." Fluttershy turned and returned Rainbow's kiss on the cheek with a kiss on the lips. This elected a few giggles from their young spectator.

"Well, I'm glad someone's happy." Rainbow Dash joked. She walked over to the table and took a seat near Scootaloo. "Hey, squirt, me and Fluttershy over there have a surprise for you."

"Really?! A suprise?! For me?! Where is it?! What is it?! Did you get me a pony?!" Scootaloo asked excitedly.

"Did we get you a...? Scootaloo, you are a pony." Rainbow corrected said filly.

"Oh. Right." Scootaloo let out a small laugh as she smiled out of embarrassment. "So, what did you get me?"

"You're just gonna have ta wait 'till after breakfast. Besides, it's not here. It's like near the middle of town." Rainbow said grinning the whole time.

"Oh. Okay."

And so she waited.

After breakfast, as promised, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy took Scootaloo into town. Scootaloo was buzzing her wings in extreme excitement. However, this excitement didn't last.

As they were reaching their destination, Scootaloo noticed something familiar about it. Like she had seen it before and she didn't like it. Then it hit her. It was the PonyVille orphanage and Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were heading right to it.

"W-W-Why are we going there?" Scootaloo said scared out of her wits.

"Scootaloo..." Rainbow looked directly at Scootaloo. "Scootaloo, I need you to trust us. Can you do that?"

"B...Bu-But... why are you taking me THERE?!" Scootaloo asked, crying from fear of abandonment.

"Do you trust us Scootaloo?" Asked Rainbow Dash with a face of pure loyalty.

"I-I.. I do but-"

"Then you have nothing to be afraid of." Interupted Fluttershy. Seeing where her wife was going with this she decided to not be left out.

"Come on. Let's keep going." Rainbow said getting up from her seated position on the ground. "The sooner we get there the sooner we get done."

With that said Scootaloo calmed down, wiped away her tears and continued the walk with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, staying in between the to in seek of comfort.

When they arrived at the orphanage they went inside and talked to the pony in charge of the orphanage. Needless to say, she took one look at Scootaloo and thought she was seeing a ghost. Being gone for a year everyone at the orphanage thought Scootaloo was alive. It seemed the only thing that calmed her down was Rainbow's explanation of how she had found Scootaloo in an ally.

"Oh, you poor thing. Why didn't you just come back if you were living like that?" The Care-Taker asked with the most sincere voice she could muster.

Scootaloo didn't reply. Her only reaction was moving behind Rainbow Dash and shake as she kept herself from crying.

Rainbow Dash broke the silence. "Anyways, Ms..."

"Foster. Foster Care." Replied the Care-Taker.

"Well, Ms. Foster, me and my wife, Fluttershy, would actually like to adopt Scootaloo." Scootaloo's ears perked up at this and her shaking stopped when she heard what she had said.

"Y-You mean..." Scootaloo tried saying.

"That's right hunny. We came here so that we can adopt you." Replied Fluttershy who lowered herself to be at level with Scootaloo.

"There is no way in Equestria that we were gonna leave you! How else are we gonna get Fluttershy to keep making her delicious pancakes?" Added the rainbow maned athlete.

"So you're... You're really..." She got the answers to all of her questions by the looks Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had on their faces. "Oh..." She pulled both of them into a hug and started crying. "Thank you! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou, thank you."

"I'll just go grab the paperwork." Ms. Foster said as she left the soon-to-be family to go grab the necessary paperwork.

And they've been a family ever sense.

About a year after the adoption.

"Mom!"

Scootaloo ran to her mom and leaped into her hooves. "Where were you this morning?" Questioned the distraught filly.

"I'm sorry Scoots. Me and your mom had to go talk to Twilight about something important." Admitted Rainbow Dash in a motherly tone.

"What did you talk about?"

Just then, Fluttershy walked in through the door. "I think you should ask her." Rainbow whispered into the filly's ear.

"Mommy!" Scootaloo jumped out of the cyan mare's hooves, ran to her cream colored mother and hugged her.

"Hi, hunny." Flutteshy said returning the hug.

"Mommy? What did you talk to Twilight about?" Asked the small orange filly pulling away from the hug.

Fluttershy then looked at Rainbow with an expression that said 'You told her?'. Rainbow shrugged in reply. Fluttershy sighed before asking. "Hunny. How would you like a little brother or sister?"

Scootaloo's eyes widened with shock. "I...I'm going to be a...a big sister?" Fluttershy smiled in response. "Woohoo!" Scootaloo started bouncing around chanting "I'm gonna be a big sister! I'm gonna be a big sister! I'm gonna be a big sister!" Scootaloo then stopped suddenly and tried to act cool. "I mean, um, yeah, I'm gonna be a big sister. That's cool."

"Yeah, but there's something you need to know." Scootaloo looked at her cyan mom with a questioning expression. "You're gonna have to stay with your Grandpa for a while."

"Rainbow, did you even ask him..." Fluttershy was interupted.

"The old guys retired. He gets board all the time. He could use the company."

"Why do I have to stay with Grandpa? Are you going somewhere?" Questioned the confused filly.

"Well, for you to be a big sister, your me and your mom have to find something in the Everfree Forest. No big deal." Replied Rainbow Dash.

"Why can't I come?"

"It's the EVERFREE FOREST. It's dangerous in there."

"There's nothing in that forrest that I can't handle! Just give me 5 seconds with anything in that forrest and I'll make it go crying back to it's momma!" Came a rebuttal from the purple maned filly.

"I'm sure it would, but you're still not coming."

"But-"

"No 'but's!" Rainbow Dash interrupted. "Accept maybe this one." Then, as Fluttershy was walking passed them, Rainbow gave a playful slap on her wife's flank, electing a small "Eep!" from the shy mare. Rainbow and Scootaloo laughed about this as Fluttershy continued to make her way to the kitchen. "...but that one's all mine."

"Okay, okay. At least I have some news to share with the girls today."

"There you go! And isn't Babs suppose to be visiting today?"

"Oh yeah! Wow, is SHE gonna be supprised."

"Breakfast is ready." Came Fluttershy's voice from the kitchen.

"Well you better eat first. Come on, lets go see what your mom made for us this time." Suggested the rainbow maned pegasus.

After breakfast, Scootaloo ran off to go meet the other CutieMark Crusaders.

"Fluttershy, I'm gonna make a quick run to Cloudsdale and talk to my dad about this. Let him know what's going on and stuff." Rainbow told her wife.

"Okay Dashie. Be careful, okay?"

"I'll make sure of it." She shared a quick kiss with Fluttershy. "I love you."

"I love you too, Dashie." With that, the rainbow maned pegasus walked out the door and took off, leaving Fluttershy in the house alone. Fluttershy looked around her noticing the absence of both Angel and Tank. "Now where did those two get to.

A little ways away, Angel was napping on a tree in the middle of a race between him and tank while tank was crossing a finish. The cheering of animals woke up Angel alerting him of his loss. 'How is it that every time I race that turtle, he beats me?' Angel asked himself.

Author's Note

Yay! I'm finally done with my editing of chapters 1-5! And I finished in time to make a Saturday update! I feel so accomplished! Now to get working on Chapter 6, where that adventure tag finally comes into play.

Anyways, I should probably talk about this chapter. Well, the huge milestone in their relationship is reviled! They're going to have a foal, with the help of... Magic! The rest of the chapter involving Scootaloo is just because I love that little filly so much and I thought that people might ask me 'Why didn't they just adopt Scootaloo if they wanted to start a family?' This is my response. They already adopted her! So basically this chapter is mostly filler. At least I was able to work in a lot of jokes in here! This one was really fun to write... at times. So, enjoy the sort of Filler/revile chapter!

Oh! And Check out the other chapters too! They have all been edited and they came out great. They even have added information. So check them out and enjoy!

~RainbowShyBrony