Commander Twilight sparkle stood at her full height in the office beneath Golden Oaks Library with her fingers calmly around the neck of the Changeling Queen as she was kindly strangling her second in command. “HOW. DID. THIS. HAPPEN!” Each word punctuated by the alicorn slamming the Changeling Queen against the wall. The room had a silence enchantment on it so no one outside the room would hear anything.

After Twilight had been informed of her condition she had quite literally blue screen, apparently when your eyes and part of your brain is basically a computer you are subject to certain computer like characteristics, such as your vision being filled with a blue error screen when you mind quite literally shuts down from being unable to process information.

After about ten minutes or so of sitting there while her mind rebooted, that was a strange experience booting up like a computer as her vision had been filled with scrolling data and a loading bar for a minute. Before she was fully functioning again. The doctor had apparently called for help as there were two nurses in the room and they were trying to figure out what had happened as Twilight had just frozen in place and nothing they did got a reaction from her as she was much like a statue.

Once she had assured them she was fine the nurses had been dismissed and Twilight had asked the doctor if he was absolutely sure of his findings to which he reiterated he had the tests run three times.

With no way to argue with that Twilight had thanked the doctor for his time and he had recommended some vitamins for her to take and Twilight left the hospital.

Arriving home she had answered Spikes questions concerning her health with the barest of information in that she told him she was fine and it was nothing to worry about and that she had some important work to do so not to disturb her for the rest of the day.

She went into her office where she sent a priority message to Chrysalis with orders to report to her office immediately. Once the message had been sent to the queen, who was in Fillydelphia overseeing a public relations events the one of the garrisons there was holding if her schedule was accurate, Twilight had placed a silence spell on the room and then processed to do something she had not done in a very long time, had a complete and total freak out that was not contained to an inner-monologue. This mostly consisted of her running around the room while swapping between cursing and having mild to extreme panic attacks that sometimes the breathing exercise Cadence had shown her helped with and sometimes seemed to make it worse. She also may have packed a few supplies haphazardly as he mind told her she needed to run before someone found out before the other half of her mind told her that was a silly thing to do while another voice said that Zebrica was nice this time of year and another said she could go skiing in the Griffin Kingdoms before those two voices started to argue about where she should go to as the rational voice tried to get them bot to shut up as they were helping and the panicking voice was in the fetal position rocking back and forth. None of them helped her in the situation though the panicky voice had a great idea and thus when the Major finally arrived she found Twilight in the corner of her room in the fetal position rocking back and forth.

As soon as Twilight noticed the changeling queen she had snapped out of her panic and that was replaced by anger and she had explained what the doctor had told her while using the Royal Canterlot Voice before launching herself at the changeling queen and thus found herself calmly strangling her second in command.

“I….don’t…..know…..”Chrysalis managed to get out at a whisper as talking was an amazing feat in itself as she had ten cybernetic fingers around her throat.

“HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW!?” Twilight yelled and dropped the changeling queen who crumpled to the floor like a sack of bricks. “You are the only person who could have anything to do with this as you are literally the only person I fuck with!” She said and started to pace for a moment before looking at the changeling queen who was taking large greedy breaths. “Unless you let me fuck total strangers while drunk but I don’t see you doing that and me not finding out about it.” Twilight resumed her pacing, armed behind her back as she glared at the floor while trying to figure out what had happened.

Once she regained her breath enough the Queen spot in a hoarse voice. “No, I wouldn’t let you go off with a total stranger when drunk or anyone really, you know that.”

“Ok then how the hell did this happen, you are the only person who could be the other parent but that doesn’t make any sense as we are both female.” Twilight said and nodded as her mind asserted that simple fact.

“Not always, you have had me change gender many times as well as take the forms of other ponies remember.” The Queen said climbing to her hooves. With that statement that voice in Twilight’s head that was so sure of the impossibility of the fact they were both females so it couldn’t have happened promptly facehoofed so hard it knocked itself out.

“Ok, point taken but then why didn’t this happen any time before, we ran several tests and with the information from else were we knew it was impossible for changelings and ponies to have kids.” Twilight said and that voice woke back up and nodded its head vigorously at that fact.

“Yes…but that was on normal ponies….you’re an alicorn now and there was no way to really test that out.” Chrysalis said and the voice in Twilight head promptly shot itself and the other voices held a nice funeral for it with a lovely wake and everything with many speeches about how it was such a good voice who always did its best and that it was taken from them too soon, there had been much crying from most of the other voices and many flowered placed on the grave.

Twilight dropped into onto the small couch she had in her office and deflated a bit. “How could this have happened….I mean honestly….why?”

The Queen cautiously approached the alicorn. “Well we generally know the how as for the why...I don’t know, just happens when two people are together like that.” She said with a shrug.

Twilight deflated more, she had planned to never have kids do to the risk of making a mini-her with the self-control of a child which would be very bad and she was sure she didn’t have to worry about it since the only person she was ever with was the Queen who was female and the two races were not compatible genetically. That entire plan was now blown to pieces.

“If….if it is such an issue there are procedures that—“

“No.” Twilight said flatly and leveled a glare at the Queen who flinched back.

“I didn’t mean it like that I meant because you seem to be having such an issue with this.” The Queen said.

“That doesn’t mean I’m going to have a procedure fix my problem, you should know I don’t run away from problems, I deal with them.” Twilight said firmly.

“Yes I know I was only suggesting.” Chrysalis as she took a careful step towards the alicorn.

“Well don’t, this has happened and we are going to deal with this and if you even think of trying to leave me to deal with this on my own ill hunt you down and drag you back and break your legs so you can’t run away.” The alicorn said.

The queen sighed. “You know I wouldn’t abandon you Twilight.” The Queen said and took a seat beside the mare.

Twilight sighed. “Yeah yeah, I know, I’m just a bit freaked out about this, I mean toss me into a war zone or a political death trap and I know exactly what to do, but this….I have no real idea what to do here as I never planned for this and in fact planned against this.” Twilight said and rubbed her eyes. “Gah, I hate unknowns and this is a massive unknown.”

“Well I know there are books on the subject so it’s not totally unknown and I have experience with this sort of thing so to speak.” Chrysalis said reassuringly.

“Somehow I don’t think the books cover pony/changeling pairings or that laying a few hundred eggs is the same as carrying a kid inside of you.” Twilight said then looked at the queen. “No offense.”

The queen sighed. “None taken and you do have a point but at least it’s something.”

Sighing once more the alicorn nodded. “Yes you’re right.” She said and looked at the changeling queen. “Sorry for snapping like that just….kind of freaking out a bit.” She said and sighed once more before slumping in her seat. “I mean I planned to not have any kids do to not wanting to risk a foal….like me but without the restraint.” She said. “Seems life has other plans as I didn’t plan to become an alicorn either.”

The Changeling Queen nodded and sat back on the couch. “I know, and she may have something in common with you but remember she will also have things in common with me as well and so I think she won’t have as bad as issues as you do.” She said reassuringly.

Twilight looked at Chrysalis. “You joke around with someone who on more than one occasion has threatened to kill you in painful and creative ways and you know I would. I don’t think you are the sanest person either.” She said with a chuckle.

The Queen shrugged. “Yes well even if you do I know you wouldn’t do it for no reason, there’s been a lot of times I have screwed up and you only yelled at me and only actually struck me when it was an extremely stupid mistake that was easily avoided.” She said and looked at the alicorn. “You’ve helped my hive when all others would have just condemned us and you still help them without hesitation and that is the mare that I usually see and know you as.”

Twilight nodded and sighed, she had a feeling she was going to be doing that a lot for a while. “Still, I’m worried. I mean….what if the next major threat to the nation is literally my own insane kid who is going on a killing spree with her magic and I have to send the army against them.” She said. “I mean you remember how powerful Flurry was when she was born and everything she did was an accident and normal foal play, there is a chance that our kid won’t do it by accident and who knows what other abilities the foal will have being half changeling queen.”

Chrysalis nodded. “I know but what you seem to forget is that the foal won’t be alone, we are going to be there and if she does have certain thoughts we can teach them how to control them and how to release them safely. You figured it out by yourself so with two of us around it shouldn’t be too hard, we will just be careful.”

“Yeah, I think your right, I’m over reacting to something that hasn’t even happened yet and may not.” She smiled and nudged the Queen’s shoulder. “Knew there was a reason I kept you around besides good sex.”

“Well nice to know you keep me around for more than one reason.” The Queen said with a chuckle that Twilight joined her in.

Twilight got to her feet and clapped her hands together. “Ok, now that the initial panic is over and you are aware of what’s happened we now have to figure out a plan both for what to do for the next few months, as well as after, and figure out how to deal with everyone else when they either figure out what happened or we tell them.” She said as she started to pace till a rumbling sound was heard. And the mare stopped and looked back at the Queen. “But first we are going to have dinner as I am starving.” She said pointing at the queen. “And you are staying for dinner Queeny as I am telling Spike as he will need to know and there is no way you are leaving me to deal with that shit on my own.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it.” The Queen said with a chuckle as she got to her hooves. “Dinner sounds nice anyways.” With a nod Twilight canceled the silence spell and the two of them made their way up the stairs.

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In the Crystal Empire Princess Flurry Heart looked up from the book on structural engineering of the Crystal Empire, a gift from her aunt, she was reading as she felt a shift in the magical threads that ran across this world she called home.

“What is it?” Cadence asked looking up from the reports she was reading on the Crystal Empire’s food reserves. The pink alicorn looked much like she has decades ago though her mane was no long styled the same as it once had been, it was much shorter and straight with just a slight curl at the ends to frame her face, she had changed her style as the main reason she had worn her hair mane in that manner was to catch the attention on her late husband and without him she did not want to have her mane in any form that caught the eye.

“Something interesting seems to have happened.” Flurry said marking her page. “And it involves Aunt Twilight.”

“Did Chrysalis finally tell her how she feels?” Cadence asked perking up a bit.

“No nothing like that but it does seem to involve Queeny.” Flurry said, she always called Chrysalis Queeny as she had picked it up from when her aunt visited with the Changeling queen and Flurry had picked it up and it had stuck.

“Ah to bad.” Cadence said a bit sadly, she had been watching the two of them like a hawk just waiting for the day the Queen finally gets up the nerve to actually tell her sister-in-law how she has felt for decades. Now more than ever Cadence was waiting as before she under stood why the queen hesitated do to the fact she would out live the unicorn mare, however her sister-in-law was not an alicorn and would live much, much, much longer now so there was no excuse. “Do you have any idea what it is?” Cadence said going back to the reports.

“Well if I’m reading the threads right then it seems Aunt Twilight is pregnant.” Flurry said absentmindedly.

Cadence was glad she had been reading reports and not drinking anything as there would be a mess to clean up otherwise, as it was the papers were flung to the side as the pink alicorn got to her hooves. “I’ll have them get the train ready.”

Flurry looked over at her mother. “Oh? Are we going somewhere?” She asked with a smile. She knew how her mother had been watching the soap opera that was her aunt and Queeny’s life for decades now and she always found it entertaining to watch her mother get so worked up over it, something else she picked up from her aunt though the fact her mother could spend hours ranting about the two of them did mean it was better to be entertained by it rather than annoyed.

“Yes, we are paying your aunt a visit right now. Go get packed.” Cadence said heading for the door.

“So we are just going to show up at the library in the middle of the night?” Flurry said innocently.

Cadence stopped mid-step. “Ok new plan, we are going to visit your aunt tomorrow and I’ll have them get the train ready first thing in the morning.” The Princess of Love said and Flurry couldn’t help laughing.

“Yes mother, that sounds like a fine idea, I’ll be sure to pack tonight.” The alicorn said before going back to her reading with a smile on her face, she always enjoyed visiting her aunt and listing to her stories of her many escapades as a soldier and the fights against the forces of evil that threatened the nation, plus it was always fun to talk about engineering with someone who did constantly agree with her and bow constantly.

Author's Note

Well got to see a bit of old Twilight and see how things work with her a bit.

also got to see Cadence and Flurry Heart.