My Little Miracle

It seemed as a typical afternoon in the town of Ponyville. Citizens were wandering around the village, going about their personal business. All was peaceful, until a certain grey mare blasted through the streets, flying toward home with exciting news for her husband and daughter.

Ditzy Doo burst through the door of her cottage, beaming with joy. "Honey! I'm home! And I have some great news for you!" No one answered her excited cry. That was strange. Her husband didn't have a regular job, so unless he was out running errands... No, wait, there was a note on the coffee table in the living room. The pegasus immediately took it into her hooves and read silently.

To Ditzy:

I'm afraid I have some, well, news. The time we had together was spectacular, Miss Doo. I could never, in all of time or space asked for such a wonderful wall-eyed pegasus mare as you. We've gone on too many adventures to count, rescued millions, and eventually even fallen in love. And I still love you, Miss Doo. I always will. No set period in time could ever change that.

But I'm afraid we'll have to say our good-byes. I... didn't want you to see what is most likely happening to me at this moment, so I will say my adieu now.

Good-bye, my Derpy Hooves.

The note floated to the carpeted floor as the house's door whooshed open, left that way without a proper shutting.

"Mom?" A purple unicorn stuck her head out from a bedroom down the hall.

***

The frantic pegasus pushed her legs as hard as she could through Ponyville, unintentionally running over several Earth ponies and unicorns while doing it. She had to find him. Before it was too late. After not spying the stallion she searched for in the village, Ditzy stopped at the outskirts of the town. In the distance, the mare spotted a barely visible swirl of golden light. Ditzy now knew what was going on. No... it's too soon... The pegasus took to the air, heading straight for her target.

The brown Earth pony, trapped within the funnel, saw a bleary image of a certain pony he knew come into view from his inescapable prison.

"D- Ditzy?" The Doctor breathed.

"Don't go.. please..." the mare sobbed as she fell to the ground, exhausted.

"I'm so, so sorry you had to see this, Ditzy..." the stallion wrapped in the swirling yellow light managed between bursts of tears. "There's nothing I can do! If there was, I'd... I'd..." The Doctor was overcome with emotion, and could say nothing more at the moment.

The pegasus pushed herself up from the ground with all the strength she could muster at that moment and pleaded, "Just, before you go... promise me something!"

"Anything, Ditzy!" The light had almost completely enveloped the stallion, leaving in sight only his head and weeping eyes. Black clouds formed in the sky above.

"Just... do not forget me!" the grey mare's eyes were now blinded with tears as a great wind started to kick up, wildly throwing her mane about. "Swear you will not forget me!" she screamed, all her heart put into this one cry.

The Doctor smiled sadly, and a single tear fell from his eye. "I... promise, Derp--" A great explosion occurred, and the golden beams disappeared, leaving a wide and gaping crater where they once spun.

The pegasus tightly shut her wall-eyes, blinded by the brightness, and fell on her side against the cold, coarse grass of the field. A kick came from her abdomen as a boom of thunder struck. Ditzy stroked her belly gently until her weariness brought her into a calm, unconscious state as she lamented in her thoughts. The rain started to fall as the mare thought to herself, I never even got to tell him...

***

Soft cries emerged from within the soft white blanket in heavily-breathing Ditzy Doo's hooves. As the pegasus folded back a corner of the cloth, tears welled up in her eyes and she smiled weakly. "She's... beautiful."

"She's a unicorn." Nurse Tenderheart, the jade-haired and periwinkle-coated assistant of Ponyville Hospital's doctor, confusedly pointed out. "But how could that have happened? A unicorn born from a pegasus?" The Earth pony blinked at the mother. "Is your husband a unicorn, ma'am?"

Ditzy shook her head. "No. He was an Earth pony. And I don't have any unicorn genes in my ancestry."

"Then it's simple," Doctor Stable, returning from washing his hooves, joined in the conversation. "Your husband must have had at least some unicorn blood in him."

"I'm sorry, sir, but my husband was entirely Earth pony. No pegasus or unicorn blood was in his family genes." The grey mare shrugged. "I honestly don't know how this could have happened."

"Well," the Doctor Stable smiled at the cooing infant. "I guess that this filly is your little miracle, then."

Miss Doo nodded, kissing her foal's tiny hooves, her eyes widening a bit. "Yes. She is."

A long silence occurred until Nurse Tenderheart gently broke it with, "Excuse me, ma'am, but you keep saying your husband 'was'. Does that mean he's..."

"Nurse Tenderheart, there is no need for those questions." the doctor scolded gently. He already knew that Ditzy was a widow, and may be sensitive to inquiry.

"No," Ditzy boldly spoke up. "Really, it's alright. My husband, well, passed shortly after I learned I was pregnant. He never even got to know that... that..." the mother became choked up and stopped.

"I'm sorry for that, ma'am. It was rude to ask." Tenderheart bowed her head in shame next to Ditzy's hospital bed. but she felt a hoof on her shoulder.

"It's fine, nurse. I understand curiosity. I, for one, am one of the most curious mares in Ponyville, maybe Equestria!" a laugh bubbled its way out from Miss Doo's throat. It felt so good; she hadn't laughed this much in a while.

"Mom!" a purple unicorn burst through the hospital room's door and gasped with delight. "Oh! The birth is over!" The young mare walked over and gingerly embraced her mother, quickly apologizing. "I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner. The market was crowded today."

Ditzy smiled at her fast-talking daughter. "Sparkler, meet your new sister-- Dinky Hooves."

Sparkler bent her head over to peer into the blanket the new filly was in, and softly laughed when she saw the teeny front hooves of Dinky. But then she breathed in in surprise. "A unicorn! But... how did that happen?" The violet mare looked straight into her mother's eyes. "Dad was a hu--"

"So you have another unicorn daughter?" Doctor Stable was now utterly befuddled. Ditzy shook her head.

"She's not biological."

"I was, well, adopted by my father, Ditzy Doo's husband." Sparkler explained. "Hey, Mom, you hungry? I was just about to head to Sugarcube Corner and--"

Ditzy answered 'no' with a flex of the hoof. "Go ahead, Sparks. I'm fine." The pegasus cuddled Dinky close to her chest, feeling the filly's breaths against her. You are my little miracle, Dinky.