Pinkamena and Cheese Sandwich

The snow was beginning to melt all on its own. There were no pegasi to clear the clouds away. The wind blew them away and the sun came out, melting away all the snow that had accumulated on the ground. Cheese Sandwich and the rather large Pinkie Pie sat at the mouth of the cave, watching as spring showed itself through the remaining snow.

They had never seen spring make itself, that had always been the job of the ponies in Ponyville. It was a beautiful thing, seeing this happen all on its own, without a bunch of colorful ponies singing a song about it. Pinkie leaned her head on Cheese’s shoulder as they watched. In turn, Cheese leaned his head on Pinkie’s head.

Once the snow had all melted, many hours later, the green grass covered the large open space in front of them. Small critters crawled out of their caves, yawning and sniffing around. “Awww, look at how cute they all are.” Pinkie said.

Cheese smiled at his wife’s adorableness and looked out at all the little critters running around as they woke up, “Yeah, they are pretty cute.” He agreed.

“Almost as cute as Gala was when she was born.” Pinkie said sadly. “I miss her so much, I hope Fluttershy is doing a good job taking care of her.”

“I’m sure she’s fine. Think about how much she’s grown since we’ve been gone.” Cheese said, attempting to reassure Pinkie Pie.

A smile creeped back onto Pinkie’s lips. Cheese smiled as well. “How’s your tummy doing?” He asked, gently placing his hoof on her tummy.

“I feel fine, really.” Pinkie said. “You need to stop worrying about me so much.” She pushing Cheese’s hoof off her tummy.

“I’m sorry, Pinkie. I just really care about you and I want to make sure that you’re doing alright.” Cheese said.

“Yeah, I know.” Pinkie said. She sighed and got up slowly. She grunted slightly and wrapped her leg around her tummy. Cheese was about to say something, but he didn’t because he knew that Pinkie didn’t want him to.

Instead, he just got up and followed her. Pinkie looked at the burning ashes where they used to have a fire going. “Should we keep this?”

“I don’t see why we should.” Cheese said.

“Well, sometimes spring can get pretty cold.”

“Oh, that’s right…” Cheese said.

“And it also rains a lot during spring.” Pinkie explained. “We should keep the fire here. Once the snow and water is all gone we should go out to get some more branches for when we need it again.”

“Yeah.” Cheese said, nodding.

Pinkie sat down and held her stomach. “I’m kind of hungry, are you hungry?” She asked.

“Pinkie, you’re always hungry… And we literally just ate…” Cheese said, looking at Pinkie with his head tilted to the side, wondering what made her so hungry all the time.

“Oh…” Pinkie said sadly. “Then, I’m not hungry.” She stated happily.

“But you just said-” Cheese started, but was interrupted.

“It’s the baby who is hungry, not me.” Pinkie said.

“Oh…” Cheese sighed and shook his head. He gave Pinkie a crooked smile and left to get her, and the unborn baby, some more food.

Cheese came back a few minutes later with some food, only to find Pinkie moaning and groaning and holding her stomach. He dropped the food on the ground and galloped over to her. “Pinkie! Pinkie, are you alright?” He asked.

“Ch-cheese….” She managed to choke out. She was breathing heavily and panting. She was even wheezing slightly. She opened her eyes slightly and turned her head to face Cheese. She struggled to take in her breaths.

“Is it… Is it time?” Cheese asked.

Pinkie nodded and Cheese’s eyes went wide. He began freaking much worse than he had the last time Pinkie gave birth. Pinkie began taking deep, labored breaths, which seemed to calm her down.

“I shouldn’t freak out too much, she kind of knows what she’s doing…..” Cheese thought. “I should have watched the first time so I could know what to do in this situation.” Cheese watched as Pinkie scrunched her eyes up tighter and and breathed out slow and hard. She began to breath quickly again.

Cheese scrunched up his eyebrows, wondering what in Equestria she was doing. He didn’t know how he could help her, and he was torn between just backing away and watching what she was doing, or asking her if there was anyway he could help.

“Pinkie..?” He asked hesitantly. “Is there any way I can help you?”

Pinkie didn’t answer with words, she just shook her head. Cheese nodded. “Ok…” He whispered to himself. He scooted away and sat down, watching nervously as Pinkie struggled to give birth. Cheese bit his lip as watched her struggle, knowing there was nothing he could do. He decided he couldn’t watch this, so he got up and made his way outside the cave and he began pacing back and forth.

Cheese didn’t dare go back into the cave until he had Pinkie’s approval, he didn’t even look inside the cave. He continued pacing back and forth, listening to his wife’s sounds as she was struggling. He began pacing faster and faster until he was galloping back and forth. Soon, he too was completely out of breath.

He continued galloping back and forth because he was too nervous to stop or even go slower. He tripped over a pile of dirt and his face was buried in the damp soil. He pushed himself up off the ground and spat the wet dirt out of his mouth. After he had spat all the dirt out of his mouth, he listened to the sounds coming from the cave. Instead of hearing Pinkie crying and panting, he heard the sound of a small foal wailing.

“She’s done it! She gave birth to a foal!” Cheese thought happily. He did a little happy dance and decided to listen in a little bit more before going back into the cave.

After listening for about another minute, he realized there wasn’t just one foal whimpering and crying, but there was two. “Twins?” Cheese thought. He smiled and finally decided he would go into the cave.

“Pinkie?” He called.

“Yes?” Pinkie replied happily, still somewhat out of breath.

“Is it over?” He asked, still lingering at the mouth of the cave.

“Yeah, it’s over. Cheesie, we have twins.” Pinkie said happily in her ‘mommy-voice’.

“Really?” Cheese asked as he began walking deeper inside the cave. His lovely wife slowly came into view as he got closer. She was sweaty and her mane had straightened and was sticking to her. He looked down and saw her holding two little foals. They were both earth ponies and they were both boys.

Cheese smiled as he looked down at them and he looked at Pinkie and she looked back at him, a weak, but extremely happy smile on her face. “What are we going to name them?” Pinkie asked.

“I… I don’t know… But I’ll think about it, I promise. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” He said quietly.

He looked down happily at his two newborn sons. The one on his right had a brown coat like his, but a puffy pink mane and tail like his mother. The one on the left had a slightly lighter brown coat with pink spots on it. His mane was mostly pink with a few brown streaks in it. Both of their manes and tails were curly, just like their mom and dad.

“This one should be named Skittle and this one….” Cheese said, pointing at the one of the right.

Pinkie gasped, “Chocolate Rain! It’s perfect!” Cheese smiled at her.

“Yeah, it is perfect.” He said, he leaned down and kissed each of their foals on the forehead. They giggled and looked up at him. Cheese smiled again, tears forming in his eyes. The two foals yawned at about the same time and they closed their eyes. They soon fell asleep while Pinkie was still holding this. She looked down at them happy and slowly and carefully laid down on their makeshift bed.

Cheese laid down next to Pinkie and pulled the blanket over all four of them. Cheese and Pinkie kissed gently and closed their eyes, trying to fall asleep. Though Cheese wasn’t tired and he couldn’t fall asleep. He opened his eyes to see Pinkie already asleep, the two foals lying next to her, both asleep.

Cheese stared at them until he began to feel sleepy. They were just so beautiful, this brand new life that had just emerged from his wife. He stared at them even as his eyes drooped closed. He fell asleep next to his wife and his two new sons who he already loved more than anything.