A soft clopping stirred Kyle. He sat up and opened his eyes to see bright wonderful sunlight shining in, which meant he was running a bit late.

Applejack was looking at him with a bit of a rueful smirk. "Come on, ya lazy good fer nothin'. Up and at 'em." She approached, but Kyle was upright before she got there, avoiding being dislodged. They met, face to face, kissing gently in a welcoming of the day. "Good t'see ya too. Careful's already out workin'. Why don't you join her in the West Fields and we'll get this harvest done before the next season change."

He slipped past her with a gentle bump along the side that she met easily. "Git. We got work ta do."

Kyle hopped down a few hay bales to reach the ground floor before he made his way out. It was a wonderful day. Many days around Ponyville were. Sure, horrible monsters came once in a while, but it was worth the price of admission, or so he had decided. He veered towards the fields where he could see Careful staring up into the trees.

She wasn't an earth pony, and certainly no Apple. Her mediocre skill at magic had helped ease things, and Applejack relented on letting her pluck apples free with her magic one by one. Unlike Twilight, she had no hope to harvest an orchard at once, which was totally cheating, so far as Applejack was concerned.

Careful spun around as soon as Kyle came within twenty feet. "Guiding!" She hurried up to him and they gently touched noses. "It's good to see you, now can you please buck these trees for me? Be my Guiding Light."

Kyle, er, Guiding Light, gave a smile at that. He liked helping Careful out in all things, and bucking... well. He marched up to a tree and spun around, planting his hooves solidly in the ground before he lashed out. Magic seared through him, running up from his heavy balls, across his thighs and down into his powerful legs and out into the tree. The tree vibrated with the impact, but wasn't harmed. Apples began falling just right to land in baskets that Careful had laid out for them.

Careful clopped her hooves with clear appreciation. "I'll keep the baskets moving, you work the trees."

It was their usual arrangement, but one that worked. She would move the baskets full of apples to the waiting cart with her magic and then set up new baskets at the next tree. He would empty that tree of apples, and on they would go.

It was hard work. It had him in a good sweat. He loved it, and the pony he shared the task with.

"Looks like ya two are jus' 'bout done," said Applejack in a clearly appreciating tone. "Sure is nice having a few more hooves around the farm." She kissed Guiding's cheek, then Careful's. "Still can't believe it..."

Careful lowered her head only to gently bump it against Applejack's swollen midsection. "You look wonderful."

Applejack blushed at that. "Ah still don't figure why he waited so long to do ya the same."

Guiding shook his head. "I wanted it to be just right. She was worth the wait."

She perked an ear at him. "Huh, and ya figured the right time for me was before it came out ah could get a regular stallion, huh?"

Guiding took a risk. She didn't sound upset. He came up and nipped one of her ears in his large earth pony snout. "I couldn't hold myself back around such a mare."

She colored at his sweet words. "Hold yer horses, ya big goof. Let's finish this up before the sun sets. Yer so close."

Applejack wasn't bucking. The entire Apple family had to put their hooves down collectively to get her to stop and just be an expecting mother. It drove her crazy, and she worked it out by following Guiding and Careful, keeping a careful eye on their progress.

"Sis! Unc, Aunt!" Apple Bloom came rushing into view. "Dinner's ready!"

Careful smiled and held out a hoof, which Applebloom quickly accepted and they hugged gently. "We're just finishing up. Let's all head in together."

That was exactly what they did, walking side by side with the heavy cart attached to Guiding Light's powerful form to pull along.

Apple Bloom suddenly landed on his back. "So, why'dja pick an earth pony? Ah mean, not that there's nothin' wrong with earth ponies or nothin', jus'..."

Guiding reached up a hoof to pat the foal on the head. "It felt right. Besides, it's not like I don't have any magic, because I do."

AB arched a brow. "Ah ain't seen you do magic."

"I'll show you when you're older."

Both of the mares present snorted.

They arrived home, to find Granny and Big Mac already at the table. They met and shared little tales of their day as they settled down. The harvest was proceeding just fine, with the combined efforts of all the capable ponies. It was time to eat, and they did.

As Granny cleared the table of food, a clopping came from the door. It was Starlight, and that meant a very clear thing that everypony seemed to know. Guiding stepped out to his most commanding of the wives, but was not alone. Careful and AJ had gone with him, to his confusion.

AJ prodded him on the flank, right on his cutie mark. "Ah ain't hot on some mare having my stallion and pretending we ain't related."

Careful bobbed her head in agreement.

Starlight shook her head a little. "Are you sure?"

Applejack stepped forward and shoved her head up and under Starlight, hefting the unicorn easily up onto her own back. "We're goin', an' that's that. Ah better not hear any guff out of you either." She was glaring at Kyle, er, Guiding Light, as if daring him to object.

He knew better than to counter Applejack when she had that expression, and instead kissed the snouts of each of his beloved wives. "Shame Trixie isn't here."

Starlight rolled her eyes from on top of Applejack. "She'll be back in a few weeks. Her tour is going quite well, if her letter's to be believed."

They retired to hay loft that Guiding had claimed as his own. Starlight hopped free of Applejack and looked over the other two. "This isn't how I originally imagined things..."

Careful grinned. "I can promise I didn't think ponies would be involved, and here we are."

"Here we are," agreed Applejack before she suddenly butted into Careful, knocking her over. Her snout lowered quickly and nipped at the sensitive flesh and fur of the pregnant mare's belly, making Careful gasp and quiver in excitement.

Starlight hiked a brow, then looked towards Guiding. "Why don't you watch for a change, get yourself worked up." She approached Applejack from behind and nuzzled the farmer's tail aside before giving a little sniff. That tail jerked up and to the side in consent, and soon Starlight was proving just how skilled her manipulative tongue could be, burying it in the trembling muff of the powerful earth pony mare.

Applejack draw in a ragged hiss, one of her hind legs kicking at the floor before she sealed her lips around the puffed nipples of Careful, teasing over them with her eager tongue before giving each a firm suckle. None of them were expressing milk yet. They wouldn't until the foals came. That didn't make attention down there any less pleasurable.

Careful's horn lit up as she looked past Applejack to Starlight and reached her magic up under the unicorn's tail, brushing pouting vulva.

Starlight hopped in place, startled, but was soon being pleasured by grasping magic fingers even as she worked, all three pleasuring and being pleasured with increasing volume of feminine sounds.

It was hot to watch. Too hot. Guiding huffed as his mighty masculine pillar twitched along his underside. He wanted to join in the action and looked between the three busy mares a moment. "Careful, let me in." He moved behind Starlight. eyeing those lips that were held open with magic.

"N-no! You're g-gonna have to go... through me." Careful's face was flush and her breath was hard, but she seemed focused.

Guiding rolled his shoulders before he hopped up, his hooves landing on Starlight's shapely hips and gently caressing over them as he wiggled into position. "If you're sure." He pressed the flat end of his eager pole to those wet mare lips and felt Careful's magic tingling faintly around him. Even as he pushed into Starlight, Careful remained between, trembling and teasing both of them. He grunted with building pleasure.

The intensity of it would push him over the edge too quickly, far too quickly, but there wasn't anything for it. He lunged forward and began rutting Starlight. Each thrust ended with a loud slap of his heavy balls against her bottom as she forced her tongue into Applejack. The four of them quickly began to gain a tempo, rocking and pistoning like a well oiled machine.

As he feared, he couldn't hold back. It had only just begun and his magic flowed thick and hot, filling Starlight in powerful blasts of his cannon inside her. He had learned to be a stallion, however. The crushing fatigue was a thing of the past. He clutched to her, holding her tight as he filled her hungry cunt. He squeezed his eyes as he felt Careful constricting her magic around him, pulling and rubbing over his sensitive tool and making him dance on his hooves in the overwhelming delight of it.

Applejack pulled free of Careful's muff and curled to face Starlight. "You got 'im first, mah turn."

Starlight lidded her eyes. "Not so fast." She thrust a hoof at Applejack. "Fuck you."

Careful and Applejack blinked, dumbfounded by the sudden burst of foul language.

Starlight's grin only grew. "I'm being quite literal... I had planned to save it for another time, later, but since you've pushed the matter." She pulled free with a pop from Guiding, shivering as fluids ran freely down her thighs. "I'm going to fuck you so hard you won't see straight."

Careful erupted in a fierce blush. "You said there wasn't any such spell."

Starlight twirled a hoof. "Then I found it, and I'm not sharing it. It's too complicated for you, Careful, hon. You're adorable, but you're not on that level."

Careful pouted at that, but Guiding moved to her and kissed her nose, returning the smile. He flopped on her and they began to hug lovingly even as their eyes went to Starlight and Applejack.

Applejack didn't look certain. "That ain't right fer no mare."

Starlight shook her head. "You're practically sporting a beach ball in there. I'm not making a foal. We're just going to have some... fun." As she said the last word, her horn glowed in a throbbing mixture of symbols. A proud pillar just shy of Guiding's massive tool rushed from Starlight and she staggered, momentarily dazed from the altered bloodflow.

The crowd of operators watched the scene with mixtures of smiles and some looks of disgust, and some combinations thereof. There were fewer operators than before. Things were progressing, for the better and for the worst.

A clip-clop was heard and eyes turned to see a little foal peeking into the room. One of the first generation of equines, their progeny. One of the operators hurriedly flicked off the lewd show as others cooed and called the foal closer. They would parent that first generation as best they could. They were their own children, even if they had four legs.

The director nodded into a headset he was wearing. He had gotten confirmation that it was working in the other labs that were left. They would all, the living at least, have a chance to help create the next generation. They will all die as parents. Humanity itself would be a parent species. How many other species would get to greet the next that would replace them on such terms?

A pony with white fur, a nub of a horn and fluttering wings reared up into his lap, looking him in the eyes.

The director smiled. It had been his seed that helped form her. He knew what she would one day become, and he couldn't be prouder. He pulled her close and embraced her. Life would be short for that last generation, but they wouldn't die.

Humanity didn't quit.

"Hey, Boss." He looked up to one of the operators that had... that expression. Something stupid was about to be said.

"What is it?" Trying to delay would accomplish little.

"I just realized, the meek will inherit the earth."

Author's Note

And... curtain. Apologies to those I annoyed with ending the clop there, but my muse loudly insisted the story was done being told, and I am obeying it. Kyle, aka Guiding Light, has retired to a content life of being an apple farmer and herd stallion.

By the way, this should explain quite a few things, but can you piece it together?

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