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"STOOOOOOOOOOOP EVERYTHING!!!" A loud female voice screamed into the makeshift operating room, making Twilight jump and drop the scalpel and emasculator, while also knocking her out of her emotionally-dead trance she'd put herself into.

"Who the hay..." Twilight started, before turning and seeing Captain Passion Silverstreak entering the room with an accompaniment of two Royal Guards. "...what is the meaning of this interruption? I'm carrying out a punishment sentenced by Princess Celestia herself!"

Silverstreak shook her head 'no', presenting Twilight with a note from the appointed reigning lead monarch of Equestria, Princess Luna. "That is no longer necessary, Princess. All punishments, past and present, related to Equestria Penal Code Chapter 10 Part B, reading 'Ponies within the degrees of consanguinity in which marriages are declared by the subsections of this law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry or interbreed with each other, or commit fornication or adultery with each other, whether resulting in conception of a foal and pregnancy or not, are to be punished by non-anesthetized castration or hysterectomy...' and so-forth, or various other portions of the penal code, are hereby null and void. Said law was illegally enacted by Princess Celestia against the clear disapproval of the entire counsel it was presented to, whom she illegally imprisoned and tortured afterwards."

Silverstreak then paused for a breath, looking over to Applejack and Big Mac. "Official apologies, pardons and offers for Royal-Treasury-funded surgeries or spells for the replacement of the reproductive organs, as well as mental therapy and care, of all on record have been issued, and even to those off the records, who suffered wrongfully of the infertility caused by this archaic, morally wrong law."

Twilight's lip quivered, her wings drooping as her eyes filled with tears at this news. She'd nearly involuntarily sterilized one her closest friends, and her own stud, without anesthesia, because of a quack law! One illegally enacted by her once-idol, her mentor, Princess Celestia. A law aimed only at causing pain to those who loved each other differently than Celestia deemed right.

Silverstreak then paused, sighing. "My...my brother was one of those killed by her law, and I suffered its punishment too. Celestia made this fake law and enforced it by herself, crushing anyone who resisted. That alone is multiple felonies against Equestrian law, and more documents showed she did this to more laws, including those banning, interspecies, homosexual, and even some inter-tribal pony relationships and interbreeding, and even banning certain types of sex."

Silverstreak then looked to Applejack and Big Mac, pitying them as memories of her brother and her being strapped down much the same way flooded back to her. "Celestia, needless to say, has already been arrested and may be officially dismissed from her position following her trial, and Princess Luna is taking her place, at least temporarily, as monarch. Our magicians are also trying to find the ancient ritual to reverse her transformation into an Alicorn, as she is no longer deserving of such a magnificent form. Additionally, provided she is found guilty, she has been sentenced to her own sterilization after she is transformed back to her natural form, without anesthesia, in order to feel the pain she's subjected thousands of others to, followed by lifelong imprisonment...which shall only be a normal pony's lifespan, given the transformation spell also strips her of her immortality, if the ancient texts are to be believed.”

Twilight looked as though she'd been struck with a mallet. She first looked to Big Mac, still strapped to the table and exposed to her, his hairless balls reminding her of what she'd nearly done, then to Applejack, whose gravid, hairless, pink-skinned belly reminded her of the same. As though her legs had transformed into wet noodles, Twilight collapsed to the ground and instantly began wailing, tears streaming down her cheeks as the reality of what she'd nearly done to her best friend, and the sire of both of their and others' foals, hit her full force once her mental barriers were dropped and all her restrained emotions hit like a tidal wave. If she'd delayed even one minute less...

"Hey, hey, it's OK Shug...we're still alright...mah foal's still OK," Applejack cooed upon seeing her friend in distress, despite still being strapped down to the table on which she was meant to have her womb and ovaries removed, and possibly lose her foal, "Ya didn't hurt us, Mac or me. It's OK..."

"B-buh...I was...I WAS GONNA...!" Twilight cried out, before once more devolving to sobs mixed with partial apologies, the sight of the scalpel her causing her to grab it in her magic and hurl it across the room, lodging it into the far concrete wall with the force.

As Applejack and Mac were released from the table by the royal guards, as well as each being given their official pardon and apology letter from Princess Luna, Applejack reached down and nuzzled into Twilight's mane, the mare squirming away from the soft affection. "I DON'T DESERVE YOUR PITY! I ALMOST CUT YOU OPEN AND... I ALMOST...YOUR F-FOAL...A-AND...F-FOR NO REASON!" Twilight wailed, trying to use her hooves and wings to cover herself in shame, "I DON'T DESERVE TO BE A PRINCESS!"

"Twi, ya were only doin' what th' law forced you to. What Celestia made you. You couldn't do anything else. Besides, like Ah said, we're completely unharmed." Applejack then forced a chuckle, "'Sides, th' air on my belly feels pretty good without all'a that fur in th' way."

Twilight gave a small chuckle, which then evolved into a laugh. Before she knew it, near-manic laughter intermingled with her sobs, except now she had Applejack wrapped in a very tight hug, wailing into her friend's chest. Applejack simply held her friend, feeling her sob against her, comforting the pony who had just very nearly taken very important parts from her brother and herself, and possibly the life of their foal, against her own will.

"It's OK Shug, it's OK. Everythin' is gonna be just fine..."

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Apple Bloom, and most of the entire land, had trouble grasping that everything she knew about Equestrian laws were lies. That she was very nearly responsible for the possible death of her siblings' foal and making her siblings unable to breed anymore. She still remembered what happened to cause this; her own inability to trust her gut and her family over what she believed was a legitimate law. She'd been told everything after her siblings' release regarding what had nearly happened to Applejack and Big Mac, and had happened to countless thousands of other ponies over the years.

The thought alone of so many lives, and potential lives, lost made Apple Bloom sick to her stomach. She never knew Celestia would go so far as to kill innocent foals and destroy so many equally innocent ponies' ability to breed simply because she didn't like the idea of incest, or intertribal, or interspecies, foals. At first Apple Bloom thought she did the right thing telling Twilight, until Passion arrived to her school and told everypony the truth. Then she threw up and simply felt terrible after, before apologizing excessively to her big brother and sister, over and over, in between her sobs.

Ever since then Apple Bloom did little around the farm, barely spent time with her friends, barely ate anything, and never came out of her room unless necessary. Eventually she came out of her funk after she was repeatedly forgiven by her siblings, who simply told her she'd done nothing wrong. Apple Bloom knew better though; she knew in her soul that all of this could have been prevented if she'd just listened to her loved ones.

Apple Bloom grew up normally past that, that small stain easily overlooked but never forgotten as she became a young mare, then a mare with foals of her own. She always trusted her family after that however, and always listened to them first and foremost.

Twilight was scarred by the 'what if's for many long years past. What if she'd made that first incision on Big Mac? What if she'd done what the rest of her notes had said to do?

What if Applejack's foal hadn't survived?

What If Applejack or Big Mac had bled out because she'd messed up?

Twilight eventually moved on past her depressed state after many months of therapy, but since then she was always closer than ever to Applejack and Big Mac, constantly offering her help with anything she could, and always making time to simply hang out. They of course forgave her time and again for it, simply wanting to move past that all.

Captain Passion's restoration surgeries successfully gave her back her ability to breed, and she is now the proud mother of a family of five foals with a sixth on the way, as well as a loving husband who only too happily gives them to her and helps raise them. She will never forget her brother's memory, but knows she must move on in his honor. He would want her to be happy, and to have a family like they never could.

Meanwhile, down in the deepest part of the castle dungeons sat, formerly Princess, Celestia. All her regalia was gone, smelted so nopony would ever know of her previous title of Princess again, her name struck from all records forevermore and forbidden to be spoken or written under severe penalty; essentially erased from Equestrian history save for her heinous actions. All she would be known as was a nameless monster of a pony who ruled as a god-tyrant, and who would die as a mortal.

Celestia sat chained in a dark, damp cell, before soon the sounds of Luna's hoofsteps echoed through the hall as she walked to her sister's cell. She looked in at her sister, seeing the ugly pink scar along her lower abdomen where her own reproductive organs were removed without anesthesia, then destroyed before her very eyes in repentance for those countless thousands she'd forced it on for hundreds of years.

Celestia hatefully looked at Luna through the bars of the door's small window and said nothing. She never did during her sister's brief daily visits, not that she could. Ever since the truth was revealed about her crimes, she had been forcibly turned back into her original, mortal Earth Pony form, the spell also stripping her of her immortality. She was to be locked in this dungeon until she finally left this mortal plane, knowing that all she would see for the rest of her limited days were these four walls, with only silence as her company.

As a precaution, Luna had Celestia's voice muted, not allowing her to con her way out of her punishment. Sister looked at disowned sister for a while, until Celestia looked away and Luna left. Celestia knew everything was her fault from the start, the loss of so much because of her old-fashioned ideals, and she accepted her punishment knowing that Equestria would be better off without her rule.

She wondered if it had actually been worth it in the end, losing everything for her intolerence.

She would have the rest of her life alone to contemplate it.

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"C'mon Applejack, y'almost got it! Ah can see his head crownin'!" Big Mac encouraged, hearing an acknowledging grunt from Applejack.

Applejack was in labor now, stretched out on her side in her barn on a bed of hay as she delivered her foal as her distant ancestors had before her. Ever since 'the incident' over two months ago, Applejack had vehemently avoided hospitals, preferring natural or magical remedies or treatments over organized medicine far more than before. Now, as she was surrounded by the father of the foal – her brother – as well as her five closest friends and little sister, Applejack pushed with all of her might as she felt another contraction, feeling as the new life was slowly being passed out of her.

As she heard a gurgling followed by a cry, that pressure within her had ended some minutes later after a particularly long contraction. She collapsed and rested as she drowsily looked downward. As she saw a sandy-blonde mane and a brief glimpse of deep orange fur, she couldn't help but smile. Soon, after the foal had been cleaned and found completely healthy by Fluttershy, who had helped other animals give birth many times before and also held a degree in equine medicine, Big Macintosh held out a small cloth-swathed form to her, a small tuft of that same sandy-blonde mane sticking out. "Here ya go Applejack...meet yer son." Mac said, a pride swelling in his chest as Applejack held her hooves out and accepted her foal.

Applejack smiled. "Ya mean our son. Our son, Burgundy Apple."

"Eeyup."

As Applejack moved the receiving blanket aside, she smiled as she saw an adorable little colt looking back at her. His coat was a deep red-orange, his obvious lack of wings or a horn easily identifying him as an earth pony. His mane was a sandy blonde like his father's, his eyes an emerald green that the two parents shared, and he had a smattering of his mother's pale freckles on his muzzle and cheeks. Applejack instantly felt as her heart was claimed by her little foal, and she only too gladly gave it.

"So, mah husband, Ah think we did a good job on him." Applejack said weakly, giving an equally weak smile to accompany it as she was so drained from the birth.

Ever since the abolishing of the falsely-implemented so-called 'Taboo Laws' and all other related illegally-implemented laws, and the dethroning of Princess Celestia for that among many other crimes the previous month, it was now legal for brothers and sisters to be in relationships and to have sex and foals the same way anypony else was, including in designated public places. Intertribal, interspecies, and homosexual relationships were legal as well.

Applejack and Big Mac had been betrothed the very next day after the abolishment. The abolishment didn't change some ponies' views on incestuous, intertribal, or interspecies relationships being wrong, with ponies having that idea rammed into their heads for the past nine hundred years, but it made their opinions legally irrelevant.

"Ah think...mah next heat...we need t' head to the park. Ah've always dreamed of showin' everypony else how much Ah love mah brother and husband...how perfect we are t'gether. What better way than to show 'em that than by how willing Ah am to bear his second foal, an' for all to see?" Applejack asked, only getting a small smile from him.

"You worry 'bout recoverin' from havin' this foal first, then we can discuss havin' more and just how we will, yeah?" Mac asked, getting a soft nod from Applejack as she held her little colt to her chest, now humming softly a tune her own mother used whenever she was upset. As he started fussing, and with some help from Twilight, he was placed to his mother's teat as he started to take in his first meal. "Ah ain't against havin' more though, handsome as this'un came out."

Twilight looked down at the beautiful little foal, unable to help it as tears came to her eyes as she remembered how he just might not be here right now if things hadn't turned out how they had.

"What's th' matter Sugarcube?" Applejack asked as she saw her friend crying, before Twilight quickly wiped away the tears.

"It's, uh, nothing. It's just, he's such a handsome little colt...almost reminds me of my own son from Mac. Thanks again for him..." Twilight fibbed, still indeed quite pregnant with said foal, getting a knowing look from Applejack, but with it being dropped after that.

"Eeyup." Mac replied simply.

"Um...after he's done eating...would it be OK for me to hold him?" Fluttershy asked quietly, "I've gotten really good at handling foals since I had my and Mac's son Butterscotch. Um...speaking of, Mac, would it be possible to give me another foal this upcoming mating season? I'm sure Butter would love a brother or sister to play with..."

"Sure, we'll discuss it later." Mac said, before focusing back on his sister and son. After all, Applejack had agreed to let him keep studding for and impregnating other mares so long as she came first and foremost to him, and Mac agreed to let Applejack have sex freely with other stallions so long as she used protection and he was the only one allowed to have sex with her in her estrus unprotected, and give her foals. Neither had a problem with that arrangement.

"Oooh, me next!" Pinkie asked significantly less quietly, "in holding the cute li'l foal, AND getting studded by Mac! I want a cute fuzzy little baby too!"

"Yeah, Ah don't mind them holdin' our foal, do you bro?"

"Not at all, mah love. Not at all."

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It was nearly a year later, with Burgundy, Butterscotch and Apple Bloom playing together in another field with Granny Smith watching them, that Applejack and Big Mac stepped out into the special 'cutie-marked ponies only' grass fields of Ponyville Park. Big Mac could smell his sister's fertile scent, his penis already dropping from its sheath as he was called by that scent to breed his mare again. "So," Big Mac asked, "Y' ready t' make yer dream come true; to show everypony just how much we love each other?"

"Ah've...never been more ready in mah life Mac. Get on mah back and rut a little brother or sister for Burgundy into me, like ya did jus' last week fer Fluttershy to give Butters a sibling," Applejack replied, flagging her tail over her back for all to see, Mac completely hard by this point.

"Only too gladly, mah wife..." Big Mac whispered into her ear, before mounting her without further ado, getting a loud moan from her that caught the attention of the other couples having sex nearby, or those others simply enjoying a meal and a show of the others having sex. "...y'ain't gotta be quiet no more, AJ. Let everypony hear how much ya love me an' mah cock."

"I love YAAAAAH!" Applejack exclaimed as she felt Mac impale her onto his dick in one fluid movement, her so wet and pliable from her estrus that he slid to her core in one slick thrust. She'd never felt so much freedom before; just being allowed to be mounted and bred like this by her true love, in public, without fear of persecution, felt so utterly liberating to her.

They held together after that, savoring the feeling of filling or being filled, the eyes of many other ponies on the Element of Harmony as she was being given a second foal by her brother. Some of the other ponies who had been passive now mounted on their mares or mares on their stallions, a chorus of moans joining Applejack's as she felt Mac's huge cock once more sliding perfectly through her as she looked around, a shudder going through her as she saw how many eyes looked back; how many creatures could see just how much she loved her brother. Griffins mounted on pegusi, mares on mares, pegusi on earth ponies, and unicorns with zebras; just like for them, love knew no bounds.

"F-Faster..." Applejack demanded, and Mac was only too happy to oblige, widening his back hooves a bit to get the needed leverage. Applejack leaned her head back as she met Mac's lips in a kiss. This was not a kiss to desperately try to hide their pleasured sounds, oh no, they let those bellow out for all to hear. No, this was a kiss of lovers as they worked to make a new life, Mac's hips now moving at a smooth, rapid pace as he bred his mare. "M-More..." Applejack demanded sensually as she felt the pressure in her building, the burning in her womb for her stallion's seed growing more insistent, her inner muscles kneading the cock within her to try and sate it.

"Be patient mah love...Ah'll give ya our foal soon..." Big Mac teased, though the stimulation more than made his hips want to rock faster into the nearly-hot, slick, demandingly-tight walls of his sister's pussy.

"Ah...Ah want it...n-now. Show everypony...how much Ah want yer foal...gimme..." Applejack stammered out, before squealing out as her orgasm hit her and her back arched up sharply, her body going into overdrive as her rhythmic, orgasmic contractions rolled through her pussy. The eyes of everycreature on her, and the promise of getting another foal, made it all so much more intense.

"Ahlright...y'win...here it comes..." Big Mac said as he felt his sister's internal ripples kneading him for all he was worth, slamming home and meeting his fully-swollen flare to her cervix again with one firm hump.

Applejack squealed as she felt him pulsing within her, then letting out a loud cry of pleasure and nearly collapsing as she finally felt as each massive glob of her brother's cum made its way up his cock, before then being launched into her womb. She could feel it all pooling there as more and more was added with each rapid throb, her womb eventually stretching a bit to accommodate the huge, unending load pumping into her.

Both ponies stayed there stock still as their bodies worked hard to conceive a foal, Applejack claiming every drop from her brother, slowly rocking her hips and keeping him deep to assure she got every last sperm. They held like that, quickly hearing the orgasmic cries of the other creatures around them as more new foals were likely conceived as well, the scent of virile stallions and fertile mares mixing together alongside the scent of sated lust.

"There ya go sis...that should be enough for a foal, huh?" Mac asked, enjoying the gentle ripples that Applejack's orgasmic aftershocks sent along his cock as he remained hilted, an occasional dry pulse rewarding them as his flare kept his seed dammed in her womb.

"E-eeyup...Ah can't wait t' meet them next year..." Applejack said, before meeting Mac's lips in another passionate kiss as she felt just how much Mac had 'donated' to her, "Thank ya'gain, mah love."

Eventually, Mac slid off of Applejack's back, a large glob of his excess semen following his partially-swollen flare out. They then lay together there as they shared their afterglow, looking around at all the other satisfied ponies around them. Ponies who now knew just how much they loved each other.

Author's Note

And thus ends my (generally) MUCH lighter, happier remake of headless_rainbow's story, and certain portions of the sequel written by Speedy Silverstreak. I enjoyed the first chapter of the original, but I knew I could make so much more with it than what was originally commissioned. Hence this.

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