Surprise's regret

by SkylerM

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sad, Other, Pinkie Pie, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1094

Why is Pinkie Pie a different color from her parents? Why is she always bouncing? Life wasn't all balloons and sunshine when she was born....

{One shot}

Published 2012-05-25 18:34:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-05-25 18:34:01 UTC

Ma-ma?

"She's an outcast!" Grey Cloud pointed a hoof disappointingly at his one-month old daughter, his blue eyes flared with anger as he glared at his wife and child, he spat, "She's a disgrace, she doesn't even belong in this family."

"That's not true!" She blurted out, causing her white, angelic wings to flare out a little, "She doesn't have wings..., That does not mean she's an outcast!" Pools of tears start to form as she strokes her foal's wingless back. Her foal, oblivious to the scene, tried to reach for her mother's hoof, making gurgling noises.

"Real funny. Do you know how many of my friends laughed at me when they saw her?" The red stallion pointed an accusing hoof to his daughter, whom was now sleeping within the hooves of her mother.

"She's the same as each one of us pegasi, even without wings," She murmured softly, trying to convince herself.

Grey huffed and trotted to the window and looked out; pegasi of different colours were flying, some working in the weather factory, some walking along and talking on the clouds and some just enjoying a snack at the local restaurant.

"Even so," He started the topic again, attempting to sway his wife, "She's an earth pony, she cannot walk on clouds or fly, how can she live up in the clouds?"

The white pegasus, realizing the truth, gaze lowered to the cloud floor, "I've never thought of that," She whispered slightly.

Grey grinned triumphantly, "Then, get rid of her. Surprise, you know you have to." He lowered a hoof onto her shoulder.

Surprise's lips trembled as she looked down to her foal, it was her first foal, and she meant the whole Equestria to her. Now she had to get rid of her?

She changed the subject quick, trying to stall time, "Why me?" Her words, fast and fleeting, yet directed much pain at her husband's heart.

Avoiding her purple eyes, Grey retorted, "I will never be seen with that thing."

Surprise's face fell into a mix of shock and anger, before she broke into a low whimper, "Pinky is not a thing..."

Grey rolled his eyes, showing no sympathy as she shoved her out of the door, "Don't you dare come back with her, or else."

The cloud door surprisingly slammed shut with a loud bang.

"Get rid of you?" Surprise asked herself as she stroked her sleeping foal's straight mane, "That'll be the day." She giggled softly as she sang a lullaby to her.

"But," She said worriedly to her still miraculously sleeping foal, "Grey would abuse you, if you stayed. I think there is one way..."

***

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Raindrops splashed onto the rocks on the rock farm, it was the place most far away from her home. Most secluded. Most safe.

"Honey, could you go get the door?" Mrs Pie yawned sleepily.

There was no words spoken by Mr Pie, it was evident that words need not be spoken, but actions done.

Mr Pie trotted to the door, opening it, he saw a young pink foal in a basket on the steps of his door. She was shrouded in a ray of light. Looking up, he could see that the grey clouds above had been shattered by a hole, shaped like an angel, preventing a single drop of rain to fall on the child.

The child herself was beautiful, as if born by an angel; her blue eyes glinted with happiness while her one pearl white tooth showed as she kept repeating something, her pink mane and coat brushed as she wriggled in her basket, wanting to get out.

The young foal kept repeating the two words she loved most, "Ma ma."

Taking off his hat and placing it on his chest, he muttered, "Thank you Celestia, for blessing us with this child." he said without a single thought before he grabbed the foal with his hooves and went into his home.

As soon he returned back into his home, Surprise's head popped into the hole she had created, tears welling in her eyes, she muffled her snout with a hoof and exclaimed gleefully, "She said 'ma ma'!"

***

"Did you get rid of her?" His blue eyes raised as he glanced over his newspapers upon hearing the hoof steps of his wife.

A simple nod.

Grey smiled, "Good job, Surprise! If you really want a foal, we can have some more, we're still young." Trotting over, he placed a hoof over her shoulders.

Her gaze was still cast down onto the fluffy cloud flooring, gaze unwavering, thoughts unchanging.

Thinking of her Pinky.

"So, my dad says I was given to them by an angel! What a silly filly he sure is! Ponies are not given by angels!" Pinkie Pie laughed as she recounted the story her father told her, to her friends.

"Well, I think that's a really sweet story." Twilight added, lifting her teacup to her lips, "Even though it's not real, of course."

"Of course! Duh!" Pinkie Pie sang sweetly.

"Wanna hear my story about my birth?" Rainbow suggested.

"Okie dokie lokie!"

The pitter-patter of rain drops outside added with the crackling of the fire made their impromptu sleepover even more meaningful, it gave them time to bond together as friends and share stories.

***

Grey glanced at his wife, it had been so long. Yet she had not forgotten, he was such an idiot. He made his wife experience the pain of getting rid of her own child. He was a monster.

Surprise looked out of her window, it had been 15 years since she gave up her child. Now with the advanced knowledge, scientists have proven that even pegasi can have earth pony babies.

Now she remembered, her grandfather was an earth pony.

After learning why she could have given birth to an earth pony, she dashed all the way to where she remembered she left Pinky.

But she arrived at a barren land.

The Pies must have moved, it was a rock farm. Once a land is barren, they move.

"Oh Pinky," Surprise said, "If only I had known. I wouldn't need to have given you away." Her tears had given way a long time ago, now in which they were flowing freely. She covered her face with her hooves.

Regretting.

However, she would always be Pinky's angel, watching from the clouds above.

She knew her daughter was out there.

Somewhere.

But now in her mind, the two words began to repeat.

Ma ma.

Ma ma.

Ma ma...