Twilight landed next to a large tree in the Everfree Forrest. Once she landed Tom slithered off of her neck and moved toward the tree.

"This is it," he said quickly before moving toward the tree.

"Hey!" Twilight shouted grabbing Tom by his tail. "Do not leave alone me out here understand."

"The door isn't going to be open for much longer. If you stand there yelling at me neither of us is getting in. You're going to have to trust me." Twilight begrudgingly let the Raccni go and he slithered into a knot on one of the tree's roots. After a few seconds of waiting a loud click could be heard and part of the ground near the tree slid open revealing an entrance to the large network of tunnels used by the Racci. Twilight peered inside and could vaguely see Tom partway in to the tunnel a green light emanating from his tail. "Alright come on," Tom beckoned. Twilight stood at the entrance of the tunnel nervously. "You gonna stand there all day or come in here and get the anti-venom." Twilight nervously entered the tunnel and followed Tom down several different twists and turns. As they walked torches on the wall next to them lit up in a green flame leaving a nice visible trail back to the entrance. From the light of these torches Twilight could see all of the different branches of the tunnels and how they seemed to go on forever.

"Wow!" Twilight said amazed. "These tunnels must go on for miles."

"They actually go under most of the planet," Tom said proudly. "But typically we only use one section at a time we don't have the numbers we used to so we can't use the whole network."

"How long have you been here?" Twilight asked.

"Longer than any of us alive care to remember." Tom took a turn into a small chamber that was filled with several empty shells. Tom's tail lit up again and he pulled one of the shells on the top down with telekinesis magic. It was very similar in appearance to his first shell with only minor differences mainly shorter legs and actual wings on the back. Once it was on level ground Tom slithered inside it, a green glow shone from the inside and he suddenly gained control of it. Twilight looked embarrassed like she shouldn't have seen that. "This one should do fine for now," Tom said getting used to the shell. "Come on it's just a little further." Twilight followed behind Tom as he continued to lead the way. "Everyone else is probably already in stasis so there shouldn't be anyone around to stop us from grabbing as much of the stuff we need."

"So you go into stasis? For how long?" Twilight asked out of curiosity.

"5,000 years is the standard time between activity cycles," Tom stated. "This one will probably only be 1,000 though we didn't get anything before our cover was blown."

"What do you mean by get something? Are you a predatory species?"

"That's one way of putting it," Tom said plainly. "We feed off of life force itself. We don't actually eat anything. We steal the life force from our prey and use that to stay alive. We can stretch one year of life force for you into 100 for us, even longer while we're in hibernation."

"Interesting," Twilight said pondering. "Feeding off of pure life force, that's incredibly unique."

"It's an old planet," Tom commented. "We're an evolutionary hold out from a much different time. We weren't exactly the dominant species back then, it was some race called metroids I think, so we decided to stockpile our life force so that a couple thousand of us could ride it out so to speak, wait for a time when we could rise up as the dominant species."

"Something tells me that didn't work."

"It took too long that was the problem. It was 50,000 years before we could safely claim the dominant species role, but by then we were down to only 500 of us so we couldn't repopulate sustainably. Ever since then we've just been taking what we can each cycle enough to stay alive."

"So what's with the shells?" Twilight asked. "I mean why do they all look different, wouldn't you have found one design that worked by now?"

"That's just a tradition. Every cycle we try to keep a record of the dominant species at the time. When we take somethings life force we get their essence their being so we use part of that to make a shell design based off of them to sort of remember them by. It's not like we want to hurt them, we just don't have a choice we can only survive on life force and we can't take part of a creatures life force we have to take all of it. We started making the shells so that, I don't know they could live on forever with us."

"That's amazing," Twilight said academically. "I mean being the victim of it means I'm biased against you, but on a scientific level your culture and your anatomy are fascinating. Plus an evolutionary record of the planet."

"Thanks?" Tom said not sure if what Twilight said was a compliment. "I'm really not supposed to be telling you this, and I don't really know why I am."

"You feel bad."

"What?"

"You feel bad. You tried to kill somepony close to me and you realize what that means and now you feel bad about it."

"Whatever," Tom said dismissively.

"Well whether you admit or not that's what you're doing."

"If you say so," Tom said refusing to listen to Twilight. The two approached another chamber that was sealed off with a wall. Tom clicked one of his shells legs against the wall rhythmically and it slid open magically revealing a room filled with several small bottles. Tom grabbed one and threw it casually toward Twilight who caught it with magic. "There you go that's your anti-venom." Twilight looked at the bottle curiously. It was a glass bottle that was lined with cold black stone. The bottom of it looked like it could be pushed in and the top resembled a pointed fang. "See that pointy bit at the top, stick that into the skin near the bite mark and push down on the other end. Make sure you inject the whole thing. You know what take two," Tom said throwing another one. Twilight caught it with magic again. "That way you got some extra just in case one bottle isn't enough. It's not like we're going to use all of these, heck we've only ever needed it like 5 times." Tom tapped his leg on the wall again and the door slid shut.

"Ok thank you," Twilight said business-like.

"You can follow the lit torches back out or just blink out of here if you know how, we don't block outbound magic transportation."

"I know how to blink," Twilight said mildly offended. "And listen. I can't forgive you, but I understand where you're coming from, and I appreciate that you tried to make it right so I accept your apology."

"Listen tinkerbell don't make me ..." Tom began but he was cut off by Twilight who picked him up shell and all with magic and held him close to her face threateningly.

"And don't ever show your face again we clear?"

"As long as you don't tell anyone else about us or record our existence at all then yes we're clear."

"Well you can't exactly stop me from doing that can you?"

"No I can't, but I could've just left you stranded out in front of the tree with no way of saving your mate, so just keep that in mind." Twilight rolled her eyes at the term mate being used to describe Fluttershy, but she did see that the Raccni had a point.

"Fair enough I suppose," Twilight said setting Tom back on the ground. "You didn't have to help me, but you did anyway I can do the same for you. Have a good nap and I hope I never see you again."

"You won't," Tom said as Twilight blinked out of the tunnels. Tom let out a sigh as he cast a spell and all of the torches went out.

Twilight blinked to the front of her castle. She was surprised at how easy the long range blink was and guessed that the tunnels must have magical amplifying effects. Twilight calmly walked in to her castle where the rest of her friends were waiting, all of them crowding around Rarity who was documenting how Twilight flew off in a rush.

"She just flew off," Rarity said with concern. "I don't know where she is, and I'm worried sick."

"I know where she is!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "She's right there," Pinkie gestured to Twilight who was walking up to the rest of the group.

"There ya are Twilight," Applejack said relieved. "Ya done had Rarity worried sick."

"I know and I'm sorry," Twilight apologized. "I was kind of in a rush though. I had to get these." Twilight said proudly holding up the two jars of anti-venom.

"What are those?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"This is the anti-venom. I couldn't produce an anti-venom myself so Tom and I worked out a little deal."

"No way," Rainbow dash said excited.

"Hold on a second, what kinda deal?" Applejack questioned.

"He wanted to be brought back to the rest of his people before they all went into stasis."

"Wait so that means they're gone right?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"For another 1,000 years at least. The important thing is I got the anti-venom and I can fix Fluttershy."

"I guess you're right," Applejack said hesitantly. "I just don't entirely trust him, but if he is true to his word then he's not our problem anymore."

"And if he isn't then we'll deal with him," Twilight added authoritatively.

"Right," Rarity said. "Well what are we waiting on let's get that anti-venom in Fluttershy." Twilight motioned for Fluttershy to come over and she obeyed immediately. Twilight brushed back her mane to find the spot where she was bitten and quickly stuck the sharp end of the anti-venom into her skin and begane pushing down on the bottom. Fluttershy started crying as the anti-venom was injected into her, but Twilight calmed her down by petting her mane as the bottle slowly became empty.

"Did it work?" Pinkie asked not seeing any change in Fluttershy.

"Only one way to find out," Twilight said nervously. Her horn glowed with dark magic as she released a spell at the bracelet on her front hoof. The bracelet broke off and dissolved into a green smoke that made its way to the collar around Fluttershy's neck. The smoke enveloped the collar and with a loud click the collar came open and dropped off of Fluttershy and fell to the floor dissolving into another green smoke that then quickly dissapated. Fluttershy stood groggy shaking her head in an attempt to clear it.

"Fluttershy are you all right?" Twilight asked concerned. Her question was answered when Fluttershy embraced her in a hug and several kisses.

"I knew you could do it!" Fluttershy said happily. There were collective awws from everypony watching. Rainbow Dash began ushering everypony out once the hugging began to get more intimate.

"I'm so glad to have you back," Twilight said happily.

"I'm glad to be back," Fluttershy said.

"We should get you out of that onesie," Twilight said laughing.

"I don't know," Fluttershy said embarrassed. "I like it. Besides I need to stay in diapers for a little bit longer anyway just to be safe. I say we let Rarity keep having her fun."

"But I want my mommy back," Twilight said whining.

"Your mommy is back sweetie," Fluttershy said grabbing Twilight's collar. "But you've got a big sister now too." Fluttershy playfully put a pacifier in Twilight's mouth and Twilight seemingly melted into her arms.

"I can't say no to you," Twilight said through her pacifier.

"No you can't," Fluttershy coyly reminded her. "What are you going to do with that?" Fluttershy asked gesturing to the remaining bottle of anti-venom."

"I don't know," Twilight said honeslty. "I guess I'll hang on to it just in case." She wrapped the bottle in a magical bubble and teleported it to her lab. "It might be a good idea to keep it around in case they show up again I bet I could repicate the anit-venom if I need to."

Twilight and Fluttershy made their way into the map room where the rest of their friends were waiting, both of them sporting matching purple and pink onesies.

"Thanks for all of the support guys," Twilight said tiredly. "I really appreciate it, but Fluttershy and I need some time together."

"Well that's my cue to leave," Pinkie Pie said skipping happily out of the palace.

"Yep I'm outta here too," Applejack said following her. "Great ta have ya back Fluttershy." Fluttershy looked at Rarity.

"Rarity we were wondering if you wanted to keep being our foal sitter." Rarity's face beamed with happiness.

"Of course I love looking after my two little foals," Rarity sang.

"Alrighty well you know where I am if you need me," Rainbow Dash said fluttering out of the room. Rarity looked at Fluttershy and Twilight who were both suckling on pacifiers looking fairly tired.

"Why don't I give you two a bath and then we all go to bed huh?" Twilight and Fluttershy looked at her like that was the best idea ever.

The three made their way upstairs Rarity let Twilight and Fluttershy play with a stuffed toy while she ran the bath water. Once the tub was full Rarity undressed the two and helped them in the bath. Between the two of them there wasn't a lot of room in the tub but Twilight and Fluttershy didn't seem to mind being close to each other. Rarity cleaned them both off thoroughly while they played with bath toys, their favorite game being one where they passed a toy boat back and forth between each other. After the bath Rarity quickly got the two back in diapers and lead them into the nursery and into the crib together. She gave each one a bottle of milk, a stuffed animal, and a pacifier before locking the crib shut.

"Good night, sleep tight," Rarity said sweetly as she closed the nursery door. Twilight and Fluttershy cuddled next to each other and fell asleep suckling on their pacifiers.

Author's Note

Well you can probably tell that this story will be wrapping up pretty soon. I'm probably going to have two more chapters and an epilogue of twishy being cute together and then it's on to the next one. Just a small little nugget of information the Raccni are actually a rejected concept from a sci-fi book I plan to start soon. I'm actually putting a lot of effort into it and I was filling out a little bestiary of creatures that I could write a plot around, the Raccni are still part of it but I couldn't think of a good plot around them that didn't clash with everything else so I used them here. Also continuing my stupid tradition of having a halo line in all of my stories the line "Listen tinkerbell don't make me..." is from halo 2. As always i hope you enjoyed the chapter.