"I'm moving," Belay said.

Dustin was caught by surprise. She set her teacup down carefully. Beside Dustin was Twilight Velvet, across from them Belay sat beside Princess Twilight Sparkle, and at the end of the table was Kiera—this was just their normal morning tea at the local coffee shop.

The rushed transformation had left Dustin stuck firmly as a pegasus mare, not that she minded. Things had settled since Kiera was freed of her shell.

"To Ponyville, I gather?" Twilight Velvet's lips curled into a knowing smile as she glanced between her daughter and Belay.

Belay had spent some time finding what she wanted to be. Each morning she'd appeared as a random species and sex until she had gotten what she wanted—what he wanted, now. Belay nodded his head and gestured beside himself to Twilight Sparkle. "I can do my research in Ponyville, and I'm assured there's a good view there."

Now a dusty-orange unicorn stallion, Belay wasn't all that different from when he'd first arrived in Equestria. Except that now he had the eye of a princess on his blue-maned self.

"That's only a short train trip, right?" Kiera's voice was high-pitched and chirpy. So much of her had changed that she was practically a slave to her body's sensations. At that moment she was practically swamped with food—food made her chirpy.

Twilight Sparkle nodded with enthusiasm. "That's right. The trains pass Ponyville several times a day, and I have plenty of room if anypony wants to stay overnight."

"It'd be nice to see a bit more of Equestria," Dustin said. "But I think I've finally found a port to call home." She turned her head to look at Twilight Velvet and felt a bubbling spring of warmth inside.

"Took you long enough." Kiera's vision was more and less than it had been when she'd literally been a starship. She couldn't probe deep into infrared or ultra-violet, but there was a new pair of color patterns that registered to her. Magic was the first new and vibrant part of the world she could see, and the second was emotion. Kiera watched as love flowed between Dustin and Twilight Velvet, with lesser links binding them to Twilight Sparkle and Belay—when she looked at the latter two, they burned hot with shared love. "You wouldn't believe how he—she—was back then. The moment she landed on a planet her toes would get itchy."

"Planet? I'm sure Dustin didn't feel right unless we were in FTL." Belay used his magic to lift his cup and take a sip. "I guess I was always looking for somewhere nice to settle down, but I didn't expect Dustin felt the same."

"Oh sure, tell all the stories that embarrass the pegasus. I see how it is." The laugh Dustin let out removed any ambiguity that her words were anything but a joke. "But you're right. It just feels right here. Could we have been traveling all over known space in search of this?"

"Lucky we made it. There's a lot of space out there," Belay said.

"I wonder if our message will reach FSP?" Dustin sipped her tea and spread one wing around Twilight Velvet's back.

"Who knows. It was sub-light, so we'll never see hide nor hair of them in our lives." Belay watched the way Dustin hugged Twilight Velvet and for a moment was jealous—then Twilight Sparkle's wing circled his back. When Dustin looked at Twilight Velvet again, he got a little wink from her.

"I should be going," Kiera said in her adorable voice. "School starts soon."

"Are you actually attending Princess Celestia's school, or teaching there?" Dustin asked.

Replying with a giggle, Kiera nodded. "Yup!" She dropped off her stool and trotted out of the coffee shop.

"She does that to you on purpose, you know." Twilight Velvet loved the feel of feathers hugging her, and could tell that her "future son-in-law" did too. "We should probably be off too."

Ruffling her wings, Dustin inadvertently gave Twilight Velvet a little snuggle. "Yeah. I need to go see a doctor about something for this belly ache." One hoof reached down to lightly touch her sensitive tummy.

"Something you ate?" Belay asked.

Twilight Velvet turned to Dustin and pressed her muzzle up to one of Dustin's ears. "Or somepony that ate you?"

Dustin's smile and blush combined to make her forget the cramp in her belly. "P-Probably."

With hugs all round, Dustin and Twilight Velvet parted ways from Twilight Sparkle and Belay. Walking toward Canterlot City Hospital, Twilight Velvet turned to Dustin. "When did this start, anyway?"

Not wanting to jostle her belly, Dustin walked rather than hovered beside Twilight Velvet. "It's been coming and going for the last few days. It's normally gone by about lunch. I hope it's not an ulcer."

Twilight Velvet suspected it wasn't an ulcer, but she believed in making sure. "I'm sure the doctors will know."

"Yeah." Dustin kept up her pace until they reached the hospital. The rest of their conversation had been about meaningless things like weather and sporting games. Marching inside the hospital, Dustin walked up to the front counter with Twilight Velvet at her side.

"Hi there. What seems to be the problem?" the nurse at the counter asked.

The professionalism reassured Dustin. She tried to smile through a cramp that threatened to squeeze her insides up her throat. "Feeling sick."

The nurse scribbled some notes down on her paper. "Well, that's no good. I'll have a doctor come and see you in a moment. Do you consent to a magic exam?"

When a form was thrust in her face, Dustin took it and began filling it out. "Magic exam?"

"That means a unicorn doctor, dear. Perfectly fine, but some ponies take a little umbrage to using magic for such things." Twilight Velvet reached a foreleg over Dustin's withers and pulled her into a hug once the form was done.

"Huh? Oh, sure!" Dustin enjoyed leaning into the hug. "It'd be no different from normal magic, right? I mean the, uh, transformations wouldn't do anything to it?"

The nurse blanched. "If you have any major transformational magic in your past, you would be better off with a non-magical exam." She quickly made a note on the form.

"This sounds like a job," a male stallion in a white coat said, as he walked up to the counter, "for Doctor Horse!"

"Doctor! Perfect timing. Miss Dustin here needs an exam. Stomach cramps." The nurse raised one eyebrow at the doctor as she said the last word.

"Right this way. Is your daughter coming?" Doctor Horse asked, nodding to Twilight Velvet.

"We're—uh—partners. She can come if she wants." Dustin looked to Twilight Velvet only to see her already moving. It made Dustin smile more despite the pain.

In a private room, Doctor Horse—an off-white-furred earth pony stallion with dark brown mane—patted the examination bed. "Up here please, Dustin. Have you had a pelvic examination before?"

"P-Pelvic?" Dustin's head spun to look at Twilight Velvet.

"You're a mare, dear. You might as well have your first right now." Twilight Velvet could already sense the doctor's assumption—she approved. "Doctor, I think we should warn you that Dustin was affected by transformational magic that left her the mare she is today."

Dusting blushed a little, but nodded. Following the doctor's directions she lay on her back and expected the worst. The cramps came on full force when he felt around her lower body, but he didn't do anything she'd expected, just touched her belly with some tools.

"Everything seems fine, this is perfectly natural." Doctor Horse couldn't help having a huge grin, but only after he looked at Twilight Velvet—and found her looking hopeful. "Is this your first?"

"First?" Dustin lifted a hoof up to rub the side of her head. "Doc, I've had these cramps for a few days now, today is hardly my first."

"Foal, ma'am. Is this your first pregnancy?" Doctor Horse asked.

Dustin froze for a moment. Words had just hit her brain, but they refused to make sense. She turned, slowly, to look at Twilight Velvet. Hopeful and happy was all Dustin could read on her lover's face. "Pregnant?"

Even as her own mouth said the word, Dustin couldn't believe it. It was the terror she'd faced within herself when she first became a mare and had relations with Night Light. There should have been terror inside, but Dustin was having trouble finding where she put it. Searching her feelings, all the word pregnant seemed to do was tickle at happiness.

"Pregnant, Dustin." Twilight reached up and rubbed one of Dustin's ears. "How do you feel?"

Dustin took the time to do a quick once-over of her body. Cramps were still crampy, but everything else felt fine. "I don't feel pregnant."

"Not what I meant. How do you feel knowing you're pregnant?" With her magic, Twilight Velvet gently lifted Dustin enough to turn her on her side—toward Twilight of course.

"It's a lot to take in for just a single word. I guess I'm okay. I don't feel bad, or terrified like I used to. I think we all need to talk about it." Dustin didn't want to say how nice it felt, how excited she was growing at the prospect, but a little giggle slipped out. "I'm going to have a foal."

"We, darling." Twilight Velvet kissed Dustin on the nose. "We're going to have a foal. Don't for a second think you are alone in this."

"Oh gosh, I need to tell everypony," Dustin said.

Turning her attention to the doctor, who had withdrawn from the private conversation, Twilight Velvet couldn't suppress her own smile. "Do we need to do anything else, doctor?"

"I'd suggest some more appointments. We need to make sure foal and dam are both in tip-top condition." Doctor Horse turned to Dustin. "The cramps will fade. There are going to be a lot of other changes. If you'd like, I could book you a class so you can talk to an experienced mare."

Dustin shook her head and looked up at Twilight Velvet. "I think I have that bit covered."

"Great! If you'd just see the nurse on your way out, she'll arrange your appointments." Years of medical training, to treat ponies that were often not at their best, always seemed worth it when Doctor Horse got to give such happy news. He finished writing up his report and couldn't shift the smile off his own face—not that he wanted to.

"We need to make prenatal appointments." As she spoke, Twilight Velvet made eye contact with the nurse, then flicked her eyes toward Dustin.

That's wonderful news! became a phrase Dustin heard a lot of over the course of the day. Despite how important she felt it was to tell the friends she'd made about her pregnancy, she still had cramps until early afternoon.

The big moment was coming when Dustin and Twilight got home. They waited for Night Light to return. It seemed to take forever, and Dustin ended up drinking more tea than ever before. The cramps were gone, thankfully, but Dustin had to run to the little fillies' room.

When Dustin returned the living room, Night Light looked confused, and Twilight Velvet was doing her best to keep her snout closed.

"There you are. Twilight said she wouldn't say another word until you were back. What's going on?" Night Light asked.

Dustin took a deep breath. Then another. She closed her eyes and counted to ten before opening them and looking at Night Light. He was as much an amazing stallion as Twilight Velvet was an amazing mare. "I'm pregnant."

The even tone of his lover's voice belayed the fantastic news Night Light had just heard. He actually teleported across the room to kiss Dustin. He watched her eyes flutter and close as they explored one another's lips. But he couldn't keep kissing her.

When Night Light pulled back from Dustin, he saw the huge smile now plastered on her face. "That's fantastic!"

"Say it, Night," Twilight Velvet said.

Night Light's head snapped around to his wife, then he turned back to Dustin. "I love you."

Twilight Velvet had to catch Dustin in her magic. She floated Dustin to the couch and set her down before looking up to a giddy-looking Night Light. "Well said."

On her back for the second time that day, her head dizzy at the words shared, Dustin looked up at Twilight and Night. "I love you two—too."

Author's Note

Twilight Velvet, not that I'm suggesting or offering anything, but would you and Night Light be what is termed as "pansexuals?"

"I had to ask Dustin what that meant. For ponies we normally just say what we like. Mares, stallions, pegasi, unicorns, earth ponies, anything that shares love and warmth..." Twilight Velvet's eyes danced. "I think I answered your question. I don't go looking for any particular type of pony, but of late I find myself more attracted to wings, if you know what I mean. Night Light prefers mares, but he has been a little more adventurous, he says, since we married."

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