Scientific Pursuits

Spike stood fuming as he'd learned that Twilight had used him to test if ponies could get pregnant with a dragon's seed, believing she'd never loved him from the start, and had only used him as a test subject and sperm donor. Now, after demanding she prove her love for him after she'd claimed she actually wanted a family with him and truly did love him, he stood there, glaring at her as he awaited her next move.

Upon hearing his challenge, Twilight looked up to him with the fur on her face matted with her tears, a small puddle of tears having formed between her front hooves from when her muzzle was down-trodden. Twilight looked deep into Spike's eyes as she'd looked up, and in them Spike could see sincere hurt and regret, almost instantly cooling Spike's anger. A moment later, Twilight had galloped to her drake, quickly wrapping her hooves around his neck and mashing her muzzle to his, bringing him into a very deep, passionate kiss.

Spike felt as Twilight met her lips to his once more and felt any remnants of his anger dissolve, the love he felt from her indeed true; their kiss a display of the bond between a mother and her adopted son who turned to a lover and her life partner. As he remembered how long they'd been together, indeed since he was a hatchling and was brought to life by her magic, with her virtually having birthed him into this world herself, Spike knew she'd never lie to him; knew she loved him beyond all measure. He'd just forgotten that for a bit, it would seem.

Soon after their lips met, Spike pushed back into the kiss, wrapping his claws around his mare and pulling her into a hug, softly petting down her crest and upper back. A while later, the kiss was ended with Spike pressing his forehead against Twilight's, looking into her eyes deeply as he felt her breath against his chest, both lightly panting after the kiss.

"I...I really am sorry for not telling you of planning this with the other Princesses Spike, but I really do love you. This experiment is just... a happy side effect of what I knew we would do eventually. I just optimized the probabilities of pregnancy by initiating the breeding at the top of my fertility instead of things going along and happening 'eventually', possibly when I wasn't fertile. I swear on my entire first-edition book collection, I love you with all of my heart Spike, and want to have your child to have a child with you, not just to see if I can." Twilight whispered, with Spike seeing in her eyes that she was not lying, seeing instead only the gentle, loving look she always held for him ever since he was a hatchling.

That, and Twilight swearing anything on some of her most sacred possessions was a sure indicator of truth.

Finally, Spike broke their most intimate embrace with a gentle kiss on the top of Twilight's muzzle, just as she always would do to him when he was young and upset, and always it had calmed him down. As Twilight looked up to him when his muzzle parted from the top of hers, she saw a gentle smile and soft eyes looking back, making a new stream of tears start as she once more squeezed her love against her and felt Spike's claw rest on her wing before softly petting again, letting his mare cry against his chest.

He forgave her and she knew it, neither having to speak the words. They held the hug for a while before once more breaking it again, this time with Twilight taking a few steps back. She knew it was only right to ask now, even though it was already mostly done.

"Spike, I want your permission to continue with this experiment. If you don't want me to, I won't. We're a couple, and I shouldn't be keeping stuff like this from you, nor going behind your back and doing things as major as this." Twilight said, before looking to her mate and lover.

After a second of deep deliberation displayed clearly on his face, Twilight saw Spike once more nod, giving his approval. "OK Twiley. Since you clearly want to do this and I'm sure we'll need the help if you are pregnant...I agree with you continuing this experiment, so long as you don't keep any more secrets from me and let me be involved, with everything." Spike said, with Twilight nodding her agreement. "Very well," he said, looking over to the princesses; "... you all may proceed."

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Twilight continued where she'd left off after wiping her tears, now feeling the latent heaviness she'd felt from the start lifting now that she had her love's permission to continue. "As I wrote before in the letters, I...wanted to know if there are any past records indicating I could actually be pregnant with Spike's child, past the book on legends." Twilight said, "That's one reason why I sent those recordings to you, besides our earlier agreements, along with the letters asking you and Luna to come here and discuss it." Twilight said, before looking to her mentor, once more seeking knowledge from her as she always had.

"With as many times as he came in you, I'd be surprised if you weren't!" Luna chimed in, making Twilight and Spike's blushes burn hotter still; "By the Moon, even in my thousands of years of life I've never seen a stallion make a mare cum THAT MANY TIMES, nor the stallion cum FIVE TIMES HIMSELF, one right after the other!" Luna concluded, with Twilight virtually hiding behind her wings in embarrassment.

After giving a gentle chuckle and roll of the eyes, Celestia then grew serious as she stood before Twilight and her horn glowed, silently commanding the same of the other princesses. A second later a book was held in her magic, the tome indeed covered in dust as if it were untouched for many years, and as she opened it, she looked through it for a while before setting it on the table and started pointing some entries out. "Well, there are a few instances of dragons mating with ponies within the past thousand years, but never had the pony been bred during estrus, let alone on the exact day or hour of an ovulation. All of them were of adolescent drakes breeding with mares against their will. With no previous references of an actual successful impregnation or birth, or for that matter living example of kirins, we are just as clueless as you are on whether or not you will actually bear a kirin or other pony-dragon hybrid. This is unprecedented territory we've crossed into Twilight, so, like all pregnancies, all we can do is wait to find out." Celestia said, getting nods from the other three princesses.

"Celestia and I discussed this matter on the way here...in great detail." Luna spoke up, Twilight and Spike then looking over to her as she did; "...and after seeing that you've enacted it—again, many times and very impressively and I might add great job Spike—we have decided to proceed with this proposed 'research' of yours Twilight, as that's how you've presented it to us. We were indeed...interested to find out from a reliable, recorded source that dragons indeed mated many...many times and swelled within their partners to assure conception...." Luna said, noticing her wings starting to stiffen behind her, memories of the video starting to make her feel rather warm; "...and we are also interested in finding out and recording if, in fact, a pony can bear a dragon's offspring successfully as well as anything else we can about pony-dragon hybrids. Twilight, if you are found to be pregnant, you will be observed throughout the pregnancy for any possible dangers or complications you may be placed into by it, and will be provided the top care possible throughout. Above all, everything about it will be magically and, when possible safely for both yourself and the offspring, physically recorded."

"That is," Celestia interjected, "if you agree to all of this, of course. But Twilight, I must encourage you to not go at this alone. We don't know what we're dealing with here after all, and I don't want you putting yourself in danger. We don't know what effects a hybrid could have on a mare's body, if a mare can even carry it to full term...or even what the 'full term' would be for that matter or how the offspring will be formed or even born."

Twilight and Spike looked at each other, silently debating with each other on the proposition. Slowly, Twilight and Spike nodded simultaneously. They'd taken it this far, so why not go all the way with it? Twilight had wanted to do this, and who was Spike to deny her her spotlight? And besides, it was better to have help than not if something did go wrong. "We agree." Twilight said moments later, with Spike nodding his agreement. It was all happening so suddenly that Spike still didn't know how to react; Twilight had actually PLANNED and taken every possible step to get pregnant by him? To have their child?

What have we gotten ourselves into? Spike asked himself as the others discussed the details of what would hypothetically take place if Twilight was deemed with 'foal', wondering just what the next year would hold for him and Twilight.

And also thinking that Twilight and he REALLY needed to 'inseminate' her again after the princesses left. They had to...make sure the odds were maxed after all, right? Right?

...Or maybe he was just really horny.