A Very, Very Irritated Mother

Hurt, hurt, pain, pain Fluttershy thought. She flew steadily home. She looked and in the distances saw Sweet Apple Acres. Home. A home Big Mac and AJ grew up in. A home where Fluttershy had her foals. A home where Great-Granny Smith was still alive.

Great-Granny Smith! Fluttershy gasped in horror. The barn isn't on fire, good sign. The children don't have missing posters around town, another good sign... Fluttershy turned around and saw her two foals playing in the mud. My children are playing with pigs. Great.

"Mommy!" The kids cried. Fluttershy floated gently to the ground.

"Oh, dear, Rosey!" Fluttershy exclaimed. Her five-year-old had mud and garbage in her beautiful pink beach wave of a mane. Her red coat now a dark brown.

"Mommy! I'm princess Mud Pie! Princess of Mud!" Rosey said, plopping a good dose of more mud on her beautiful mane.

"Oh, Rosey! Your mane!" Fluttershy cried.

"I king Garbage of Garbageville!" Johnny Appleseed said, plucking garbage on his head.

Fluttershy nearly fainted at the sight of her two kids.

"I told the youngins that they could start a playing' with the mud, " Great-Granny Smith said. Fluttershy turned around, the biggest fake smile plastered on her face.

"Wow! Um, it's six o'clock, I think it's bath time!" Fluttershy stated. The filly and colt bowed their heads.

Johnny, who was only three, flopped to the ground.

"I don't wanna take a bath! I don't wanna take a bath!" Johnny screamed. Fluttershy flinched and then got more assertive.

"Johnny Appleseed, you are taking a bath this instant!" Fluttershy demanded. Rosey chuckled when she saw her brother being dragged to the barn for a bath.

"And you don't start getting ideas, missy! You're taking a bath with your brother whether you like it or not!" Fluttershy snapped. Rosey grumbled and fallowed her mother into the barn.

"And what would your father  say about your bad attitudes?" Fluttershy said, slowly shaking her head back and forth.

"He'd say this!" Rosey laughed, making a bubble horse collar, "I'm Big Macintosh. I have two fillies. Oh, look! Their playing in the mud! I'm gonna go over their and jump in with 'em! Canon-ball!"

Johnny Appleseed and Rosey broke out in laughter, while Fluttershy just watched. Not amused.

"What would Auntie AJ say?" Fluttershy demanded.

` " I got this!" Johnny Appleseed declared, "I'm Auntie AJ! I live in the barn with my husband and my two little fillies! Oh, look! Granny Smith? Does Fluttershy know about this?"

"I'll act," Fluttershy said, a smile growing on her face, "No, Applejack but that's OK. And then FLuttershy came and saw her fillies in the mud. And she was very, very, very mad! So she gave them a bath, and sent them to bed to have supper in their room. The end!"

The two foals stared at each other, wide eyed expressions on their faces.

"We're going to bed early?" Johnny said, his words had a whimper behind them.

"Yes," Fluttershy said, "Now get out of the bathtub so I can dry you off." The two foals slowly stepped out of the bathtub, bubbles floating everywhere.

"We're sorry," the two said. Fluttershy couldn't help but smile on the two's sympathetic looks.

"All is forgiven. But next time Great-Granny Smith tells you to go in mud, tell her not on a school night," Fluttershy smiled. Rosey and Johnny ran to their room, talking about Auntie Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom was due to have her first child with Snails next week, which she would call Apple Crisp.

Fluttershy walked downstairs to find Granny Smith asleep on her rocking chair. Good.

She went into the kitchen and get herself a bar of chocolate. But, she was on a diet. And she had a strong craving for chocolate all of a sudden.

That's wierd, Flutters thought. Then it hit her. I"m feeling the same craving I had when I was pregnant... She quickly galloped to the bathroom and checked her pregnancy tester.

Positive.