3 months later-

The time was drawing near. Nutmeg began to psych himself up to get ready for this. He didn't know if he was ready but Twilight, who was originally the one who needed reassurance, was there to tell him he'd make a great dad every day. He just happened to be off with Twilight in the market when IT happened.

"Okay, Twi, what do you want?"

"Tell you what, I made a list of all the stuff I need..."

Nutmeg rolled his eyes at that comment.

"So, I'll go get all the stuff I need and you can go get all the stuff you want. Easy peezy." she said with a smile.

"Alright, where do we meet up?"

"Hmmmm" she pondered for a moment. "Meet me in front of the apple cart in an hour."

Nutmeg wrote it down as he was quite a forgetful pony.

"Got it Twi, one hour." he gave her a quick peck on the cheek "See ya then."

One hour later Nutmeg had everything he could EVER want. You name it, it was in his bag. Oranges, celery, lettuce, carrots, peaches, bananas, but he still needed one thing: apples. He purposely left them for last because he was meeting Twilight there. But once he got there, Twilight wasn't there. He waited a little longer but still Twilight didn't come. He really got worried now as Twilight was usually quite punctual. He decided to go home thinking Twilight had done the same and was probably waiting for him on the front porch with a stupid look directed at him. But when he got home, he found his worst fears confirmed.

Sticking out of his mailbox was a single envelope and when Nutmeg opened it, his heart almost stopped. It read:

Cheerio Nutmeg! It's your old friend Discord! I was just writing to let you know that Twilight's with me now...yeah...this must be hard for you huh? Doing anything to protect her and now you can know you failed...miserably. So if you want to come and try to save her, we're in the old 2 Sisters castle in the everfree. I'm sure I'll be seeing you soon ;)

-Discord
Nutmeg crumpled up the letter in his hoof and knew what he had to do. He knew Discord was trying to make him mad so he would go running in like a fool and get himself killed. He kept his head enough to know that he would have to channel his best Twilight. He spent the rest of the night reading up on Discord, his tricks, but most importantly, combat magic. He had known a little before but now he felt much better prepared. So as the sun rose, Nutmeg took off for the forest with one goal on his mind

He had to save Twilight.

Author's Note

I know this chapter was lackluster but the next one is gonna be extra long.

So hope I'm keeping you ponies interested! SEE YA