Lunch eventually called the ponies from the barn. Breakfast could be skipped due to distraction, but a real meal, as opposed to the liquid diet that some of them ate, was needed.

Coloratura looked at Celestia. Really looked. "Your… Your Highness?"

Celestia hadn't bothered to turn back to her disguise and didn't plan to, happiness and warmth was the order of the day and be damned anypony that wanted her to act her station. For the first time in over a millennium, she was with foal. Though she did still hold a memory of Rara's body atop her own, all she could really think about was how amazing Applejack had been. "Please, Celestia is fine."

"Celestia." Coloratura gave a little bow, he couldn't help it, it was natural. "I promise to keep your secret too but… did you really disguise just to come and hear me?"

Luna, discarded her own disguise and letting her dark mane flow in the ever-present wind that only existed for the sisters' manes and tails. "Are you kidding? When Twisty told us about your concert in Canterlot we had to come and see. You have an amazing voice."

The performer had dealt with ponies throwing such praise on her before, but it was a little different when it was one of the princesses. "Oh, thank you!"

"I can't believe we got it on with the Rara." Twisty put emphasis on the last two words. "But there is something more important, you need to tell them, Tia."

"Tell us what exactly?" Applejack had gotten his legs sorted and joined the conversation.

"I'm pregnant." Celestia leaned in and kissed the now normal-sized stallion again, right on the cheek. "And I don't care who knows, I feel great!" The sun seemed to shine a touch brighter, a halo of light pouring through an upper loft window to fall around the alicorn.

"That's great to hear!" Coloratura was surprised by the news. "Which of your talented mates is the stallion?" He looked to Luna and Twisty, getting a giggle from each. "Oh come on, half of Canterlot knows you three do extremely naughty spells together, just as naughty as AJ and me…" The stallion trailed off as the grins on the two mares widened. "What?"

A hoof pressed first to Rara's side, then reached over, hesitantly, to Celestia. "Ah think I did…" AJ looked at the radiant white alicorn, feeling an odd tremble inside.

"Applejack, you did." Celestia couldn't hold back from letting her happiness take control. She leaned in and kissed the surprised stallion on the nose. "For over a thousand years I have had dalliances with stallions, seeking in some the mightiest mages, others the most astounding of fliers." Celestia closed her eyes, inhaling the scent of a humble barn, the smell of their sex slowly fading on the late-morning breeze. "I didn't leave out earth ponies, of course, but I was narrow in my search. Apparently what I needed was the most honest and trustworthy stallion." The alicorn opened her eyes again and reached a hoof out to rub Applejack's cheek. "Thank you."

Both earth ponies were stunned when Princess Celestia lowered herself and bowed to them, wearing the happiest and most serene of smiles.

The morning was bright across Equestria, with the almost-deity in charge of the sun finding herself delightfully pregnant, everypony felt the warmth of spring in late autumn. Fluttershy was humming happily, trotting around her garden to make sure the special carrots she had ordered for Angel were growing nicely.

"Sister of Beasts, like, a far-out greeting on this trippy day." Tree Hugger wandered from the Everfree, walking slowly toward her friend.

The pegasus' mood brightened further and she smiled beatifically at Tree. "Thank you Tree Hugger, it is a wonderful day." She was about to say more when she felt movement in her belly, only the slightest, but it sent her smile from 'adorably happy' to 'weaponized cuteness'.

"Whoa…" Tree's eyes flew wide open. "Your chakra just exploded with… no, not just yours. Why do you have two chakra sets?"

Still feeling the odd shift inside, Fluttershy stepped closer to her friend and used a forehoof to gently grasp one of the peace-loving mare's. She lifted the hoof so Tree's frog pressed gently to her lower belly.

Surprise registered on Tree's face, surprise, shock, delight, and adoration. In that order. "When did you get with foal? That is amazing!" Her hoof stayed gently pressed, still feeling the slight movement. "Wait, how did we… was this because of that potion Zecora took? I totally promise, I didn't know it would-"

Tree was silenced by a kiss from the yellow pegasus. It was a distracting action, very distracting. It worked well. Tree leaned in and closed her eyes, relaxing every chakra to let them vibrate along with Fluttershy's. She trusted this pegasus with her aura, willing to enjoy the closeness with her lover.

When the kiss finally broke, Fluttershy lifted a hoof to gently press to Tree's lips. "My first time, with Gel. Twilight did a test with some magic, definitely him."

Finally, dodging around the repeated attempts at censure, Tree beamed in delight. "A righteous stallion. He has settled much entropy in Ponyville… in Equestria."

"Someone rang?" A serpentine form, larger than a pony, blinked into space beside the pair. Discord noticed the way Tree's hoof was gently resting on Fluttershy's side and his eyes widened. "Fluttershy! I take a few months off for a holiday in Bermuda and this is what happens?"

The pegasus blushed and without a word, reached her hoof to grasp the entity of chaos' paw and rest it down, just beside Tree Hugger's hoof. "He is a good stallion, he never pushed unless I asked. You aren't to seek him out."

Discord looked as innocent as a trans-dimensional embodiment of entropy could. "Moi? You clearly have the wrong Discord." In the distance, a duplicate of Discord waved at them, this one wearing an 'evil goatee'.

"I meant it." Fluttershy gave Discord 'The Stare'. He lasted longer than most creatures, which is to say four heartbeats. When the look of terror crossed his features Fluttershy relented and leaned in, hugging him with her forelegs and her wings. "There, I think you would even like him."

"Now intrigue fills me. What manner of stallion could our little Fluttershy so fall for as to find herself in this state and would be interesting to me?" Discord folded himself down, bringing that big paw up to his forehead in a classic 'thinking pose'.

Fluttershy giggled at Discord's antics. "But I have missed our tea. Tree, would you like to join us?" She looked to her tree-loving friend.

"Oh, a nice camomile would be epic." Tree's eyes flared wide open at the last word, she spared a glance to Discord to see if he was against it but the spirit of chaos looked positively keen. "So, D-man, what have you been doing?"

Discord blinked at finding Tree interested in his doings. "A little of this, a lot of that. This isn't the only reality I tend to, you know." He stopped, realizing he had sounded a little more reserved than he had intended. "Oh, you know, some ponies needed to learn that the universe doesn't bow to their every whim." He waved his claw whimsically.

Tree snorted. "Oh that is the first thing everypony should totally grok." She turned to follow Fluttershy indoors. "The universe bows to nopony, if you want something to happen you need to, like, totally do it yourself."

Surprised at how keen the mare's sense of things were, Discord followed the pair indoors. "You don't say? I came back because I heard there was rather a little too much of that happening lately."

Flitter pranced. There was no other word for the gait she used, the way she held her body. Her hooves flashed high as she made her way into the market, finding the Apple Family stall. Apple Bloom was standing behind it, her two little friends with her. "I will have six of your finest apples please!"

Apple Bloom reached for some of the nicest looking apples she could see and started to put them into a paper bag. "That's a mighty nice necklace you got, Miss Flitter." Sweetie Belle nudged Apple Bloom with one leg, getting the filly to look at her. "What?"

"It's okay, no need to whisper. I like wearing it." Flitter's hoof lifted to the soft woven collar at her throat. "And thank you Apple Bloom, it is pretty, isn't it?" She collected the bag and passed over some bits.

"It was a collar!" Sweetie Belle yelled as quietly as the filly could.

The pegasus ignored them, she wasn't wearing it for them. She trotted to the sweets store next. The little bell chimed as Flitter trotted in. "Hi Sweetie!"

"Oh, hello there Flitter, picking up some things? Don't tell me you finally nabbed a special somepony?" It was the usual conversation the two mares had only this time Flitter looked so happy she would explode. "You didn't? Who?"

Then the rub came. The Persian blue mare lifted a hoof to her neck and rub the collar again. "I can't say, and we aren't really special someponies we… we are just really good friends." Flitter realized her mistake the moment she said it, if there was one thing you never told a pony it was, 'I'm not going to tell you something.'

"Really?" Sweetie looked at her friend, then noticed the collar. Things came together for the mare, she and Lyra had played such games before, where one of them would be 'princess' for the day, of course that worked because both of them didn't mind being princess. She knew of ponies who would either only want to be princess, or the opposite. "Well, I hope whoever the lucky stallion-"

"Mares." Flitter's hoof flew up to her snout to stop her saying more. Of course, Sweetie's eyes narrowed, her brain knocking a whole slew of ponies off her list of who it could be.

"Well, let's forget about that," Sweetie's tone suggested that forgetting it was the last thing she would do, "then what can I get for the two lucky mares who own you?" Direct hit. Sweetie saw a reaction at 'two' and especially at 'own', the pegasus' hoof flew up to the collar again and Flitter was left blushing. "So two mares who play those kinds of games? Well, that narrows things down." Sweetie rubbed her hooves together.

"I just need some caramel." Flitter couldn't stop blushing, she knew she had to get what she needed and get out before she told Sweetie everything without telling her anything.

"Fine, I have some back here. Oh, look at this, it is light as a cloud." Sweetie looked for a reaction. "Oh, but I bet it is sweet as love to a changeling."

Flitter gave up. "Okay, stop, you got it, Rainbow Dash and Muffins…" She flopped down onto her belly and looked down at the floor. "They made me agree not to tell anypony."

Sweetie knew the game they were playing with the mare, it was a fun one. A task she wouldn't be able to complete. "Then we will both have to go and tell them that you messed up. I am sure they will have a suitable punishment already worked out."

Surprise dawned on Flitter's face, her eyes revealing that she hadn't thought about a punishment. "Can I have the-" A big block of partially hard caramel landed on the bench.

"Five bits." Sweetie held out a hoof, knowing that she had bested the other mare in this. "And I think I can take the rest of the afternoon off to visit my friends. Shame I don't still have that leash I used on Lyra…" Flitter's eyes widened but a hoof came up and stopped, booping her nose. "Now don't tell anypony about that, I won't punish you, but I will tell your owners."

"Both together, of course." Cherry leaned up to Sleek and nuzzled her wife. "I love cuddling you in there."

Sleek looked down at the pod. It wasn't that she didn't like being in it, particularly not with Cherry at her side, but she was a changeling, it just felt wrong going into a pod.

"You don't want to?" Cherry had a wing over Sleek's chitinous back. "It's okay, we can do something else."

"I have another idea." Sleek stepped up to the pod and lay down beside it. She reached her magic, what little she had anyway, and started delving into the plant-like entity.

The first tentacle to rise up, to twist and search around in the air, was a surprise to Cherry. She watched the thing seem to squirm and then bend near the end, aiming right back toward her. "I can't say I am not curious… wait, Sleek, are you controlling it?" The tentacle bobbed up and down. "This is so awesome. Okay, love, I am yours to play with.

Sleek loved the sound of that almost as much as she liked the feel of the mare stepping into her surrogate. She had worked with a few pod-specialized changelings to perfect this, but even they weren't sure a changeling could sink their minds down to this level.

"Ohh, this is different." Cherry looked at the tentacles squirming around her legs, none moved to grab her. Then one slowly snaked up a front leg, twisting and squirming, gripping down only enough to maintain a hold. Cherry, obligingly, opened her mouth for it and was reward with a slow, gentle filling of her mouth. She moaned around the organ pressing deeper and deeper into her. She felt her chest rise and fall all on its own.

The changeling squirmed a little, her mind being fed the sensation of her wife suckling on what was every bit as sensitive as a stallion's shaft. Something in her was eager, but she wasn't sure if it was her or the pod. She didn't care.

Cherry groaned around the tentacle, her legs moving forward a step as tentacles had spiraled up her back legs and each found a hole. Stuffed suddenly full, the mare arched her back and groaned loudly.

The mare's passages both undulated and squeezed the tentacles invading them, how the pods got anything done, Sleek was unsure. She would have whimpered happily, if she wasn't so invested within the pod. As it was, the only way she could show how much she appreciated the pegasus' reciprocation was by giving her more.

Her legs gave out, Cherry folded down into the pod and was abruptly wrapped and bound in tentacles. She felt them secure her forelegs, her back ones, then one even wrapped around her tail, giving it a slight tug every now and again. But the binding that had the mare squirming the most was when two tentacles worked in under her wings, pulling them up and spreading them a little before wrapping them up.

Sleek was every bit as into this as she had ever been with her lover. She hadn't expected it but the bond between the pod and the mare now trapped inside also included her. She felt instincts the pod possessed squirm into her wife's mind, wrapping it up as easily as the mare's body had been. It found then what it needed. A dream of a changeling mare, stealing Cherry's heart. As the pod closed, Sleek felt herself pulled into the dream with Cherry, and she didn't mind one, little, bit.

Author's Note

Pregnant Celestia is happy Celestia. And happy Celestia means bright sunshine in near-winter.

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