Meet the Fathers

“Here you go, little critters,” smiled Fluttershy as she finished hanging the last of the bird feeders in the trees of her animal sanctuary. The birds chirped happily and the squirrels squeaked with joy as they happily feasted on the seed and nuts in them. “Oh, it was no trouble at all, little ones.”

Flying off, the pink-haired, yellow Pony scanned the area from overhead, checking to make sure that everyone was enjoying themselves. She could see a hippo was chilling in the lake while her bear friend, Harry was enjoying a honeycomb as he rested in the shade of a tree. Next, she turned to where Angel Bunny was sitting and having a picnic with Fluttershy’s daughter, Summer Snow. The little, white bundle of dragon-pony joy had her blanket wrapped around her as she picked up a plastic cup of imaginary tea and sipped it.

“Well, looks like everyone is taken care of for now,” figured Fluttershy as she wiped the sweat from her forehead and then fluttered down toward the picnic.

“Mama,” spoke Summer happily waving up to Fluttershy. Angel also waved to Fluttershy as she took her seat.

“I hope you two have been enjoying yourselves,” she told them rubbing both their heads gently. Summer then reached for an empty plate. She leaned a little too far and fell on on belly, but quickly managed to sit up again and offer the plate to her mother.

“Sc-Sc-Scowowo,” she tried to say.

“I’d love a scone,” replied Fluttershy, pretending to pick one up and take a bite. “Mmm, delicious. Did you make them yourself?”

“Angie elp,” she said pointing at her little bunny friend.

“That was very sweet of you, Angel,” praised Fluttershy. “You are such a wonderful godbunny, to little Summer here. Now, if your imaginary tummies are all full, how about I set up our real picnic now?”

With a nod from both of them, Fluttershy grabbed a nearby picnic basket and lifted up the flaps. Taking a leafy green salad with carrots, tomatoes, and a cherry on top, she gave that to Angel. Next, she took out a bag of apple slices, a juice box, and a baggie of mixed gemstone for Summer to have. Taking one of the slices of apples, Fluttershy happily fed it to her daughter who munched it up quite joyfully.

“Now, eat up your apples and juice and then you can have your gems for a snack afterwards,” instructed Fluttershy as she reached in a grabbed a sandwich and juice for herself. Sighing contently as the bright, warm sun shined down on them, she felt in as much ease as she could have possibly been in. “This is such a wonderfully perfect day.”

As soon as she said this, however, a large dark shadow suddenly moved in and blanketed the entire sanctuary. In an instant, the sunny day suddenly felt like it had become dusk. “That’s strange,” commented Fluttershy. “The weather ponies cleared the clouds out of the sky today.” Looking up, Fluttershy checked the sky. “Did they miss… one…” Her voice cracked as she quickly discovered what had darkened their bright day. It was a dragon and a massive one at that. His body was so large that on his own he was enough to eclipse the sun entirely. The dragon was covered mostly with white scales, and light gray ones across his chest in overlapping v-shapes that started from his shoulders and continued down over his stomach and over on the underside of his tail. Across his back, he had spikes of a transparent blue hue that looked just like icicles. The tip of his tail was in the shape of a spiked ball and at his current size it could have easily demolished Twilight’s castle in no more than a few good swings from it. “Oh, my.”

“Ungh! Uh!” cried Summer, seeing the huge dragon and fearfully clutched both her mother and her blanket for comfort. “Ma… Mama…”

“There, there,” she petted her precious child on her head. “Don’t worry. That dragon is probably just flying by and will be gone before you know it. Anyway, no matter what, we’ll protect you from any harm.”

Looking back up at the dragon, Fluttershy observed what it was doing. It was just hovering high in the sky and craning his head one direction and the other. On occasion he scratched his head and let out a deep, “Hmm…”

“I think he’s a little lost,” guessed Fluttershy as she observed his actions. Gathering up her courage, she called up to him. “Um, excuse me, Mr. Dragon. If you are lost, I’d be more than happy to help you out.” Though her voice was soft and delicate, the dragon looked down towards Fluttershy, squinting his eyes to better see the pint-sized creature. Nervously, Fluttershy waved to greet him. “H-Hi there. Just tell me where you wanna go and I’ll help you find it.”

“No, that’s okay,” he spoke, his voice was deep, but didn’t sound as intimidating as one would expect from a beast of such proportions. “I’ve arrived.”

“Oh, that’s just- uh, arrived?” questioned Fluttershy before the huge dragon began to descend on the animal sanctuary. It flapped its massive wings to slow its descent, sending powerful blasts of wind down. Quickly, the birds flew off and the land dwelling animals took shelter wherever they could get it. Fluttershy hugged both Angel and Summer tightly as she did her best to brace against the winds and keep them planted in place.

“Gotta hold on,” she groaned as she struggled to not let the wind blow them away. “Gotta keep them safe. Gotta…” Before she could say more, Harry hugged her tightly as he helped better weight them down. “Thanks, Harry.”

The dragon finally reached the ground, landing with a bit of a boom despite only falling for a few feet from the last time he halted his descent. “Fluttershy, it’s so good to see… you…” His words started to trail off as he saw the four of them huddled together along with the damage he caused while he landed. Once the winds died down, Harry and Angel sprang into action, standing in front of Fluttershy and Summer to keep them safe from the invading dragon. Angel gripped a fork in one of his paws and wore the bowl his salad had been on his head while Harry bared his claws.

The two of them were ready to fight, expecting to lay their lives down against this colossal terror. They felt ready for anything, but they weren’t ready for what the dragon did next. Taking his pointer claw from both his hands, he tapped them together timidly. “S-Sorry,” he apologized. “I-I’m still not quite used to my new size yet. I probably should have taken more time to adjust and I’m sure you would have probably preferred a letter at least a week in advance before I showed up. The thing is, even if I did try to write to you where would I get paper and quill large enough for me to write with. I didn’t know where to find you so not like I would be able to send it. So I just started to search around all over until I finally found you. And, I got so excited I ended up getting a bit too exuberant and gave you all a scare. I’m so, so sorry and if this is not a good time then I could come back some other time.” There was an awkward silence as Fluttershy and the others attempted to process that mouthful the dragon just spewed. They just looked at one another and then back at the dragon, not sure just how to respond. Finally, the dragon sighed and started to rise up. “Or… I could just go away and never come back.”

“Wait a minute,” Fluttershy told him as she put down Summer and moved in closer, walking past Angel and Harry to get a closer look at the dragon. She stared into his green eyes and her jaw slowly lowered. “Tundra? Is that you?”

“Uh huh,” he nodded. “It is.”

“But you’re so… big,” she said in such disbelief. “I mean, it has been some time since we’ve seen each other, but you were only a bit taller than Spike back then.”

“Well, dragons are typically meant to grow huge,” he explained. “And, due to their long lives, most dragons typically have most of their growth spaced out evenly through the centuries. However, there have been cases where dragons get very massive growth spurts practically overnight and that’s what happened to me. One night, I was sleeping peacefully, in my cave, and then, the next morning, it was reduced to rubble because I outgrew it. I was so shocked that I started to panic and when I panic I start to prattle on, which can be a pretty hard thing to do when you have nobody around to talk to so I-”

With a hoof against his muzzle, Fluttershy stopped him from rambling on anymore. “It’s okay. There’s no need for you to be nervous, Tundra. We’re all friends here.” Flying back over to Angel and Harry she smiled at them while they were still trying to process all this. “Angel… Harry… I’d like you two to meet Tundra, Summer Snow’s father.” Hearing this, it was their turn for their jaws to drop.

“N-Nice to meet you both,” he smiled meekly, slowly moving a claw towards them as a substitute for shaking hands with them. Harry and Angel looked at one another and then the bunny climbed onto the bear’s arm and together they shook the dragon’s finger.

“Now, would you like to meet your daughter?” wondered Fluttershy.

“It’s the whole reason I came out here,” he nodded. “That and to catch up with you. Did you ever manage to build that animal sanctuary you told me about?”

“You’re actually laying on half of it,” she giggled.

“Oh, sorry,” he apologized again.

“It’s quite alright,” she assured him. “The animals were just a little startled by you, but once they realize you’re as gentle as a bunny they’ll come back and warm up to you.”

“Ok, but if there are any bats here, could you do me a favor and tell them my nose is not a cave for them to sleep in?” he asked her and scratch a claw on his snout. “Nothing’s worse than a tickly nostril.”

“I’ll be sure to tell them,” giggled Fluttershy at the thought.

“Hey, dragon!” shouted Rainbow Dash as she, Twilight, and a small army of ponies made their way over. The force of ponies were armed with swords, spears, and axes and were ready to combat the massive lizard, though to Tundra, such weapons were no bigger than toothpicks to him. “If you’re so hungry, how about I give you a knuckle sandwich?”

“Hungry?” questioned Fluttershy before turning back to Tundra. “What is she talking about?”

“Um, well, I may have gotten hungry in my search for you,” he admitted bashfully. “And I already skipped breakfast to get an early start, but typically I like to have three square meals a day. Anyway, it was practically lunch time and I really had to eat something, but finding a decent meal for a dragon my size isn’t an easy task and well, I just ate the first tasty thing that I saw. Anyway, who builds a home out of food? I mean it’s either food or shelter right?”

“Just skip ahead to when you took a bite out of my castle,” interrupted Twilight.

“I’m sorry,” he whimpered. “It just looked so tasty and I only took a little nibble to curve my hungry pangs.”

“Yeah, but a nibble to you is practically the entire top section of the castle,” Rainbow Dash pointed out.

“I’m sure he didn’t mean any harm,” promised Fluttershy. “He came to see me and Summer. He’s her father, after all.”

“That’s Summer’s daddy?” gasped Rainbow Dash. “How?!? His junk has gotta be bigger than you!”

“I had a growth spurt since then,” he answered. “And again, I’m very, very sorry. I didn’t think I’d get so big and I wanted to see Fluttershy and my daughter before I end up getting any bigger.”

“There’s a bigger size?” questioned Rainbow Dash. “How big can a dragon get?”

“Big as a mountain from what I’ve heard,” answered Twilight. “It is typically a more spaced out growth, though from what Ember told me, one in every seven dragons does tend to have accelerated growth and get huge practically overnight.”

“One in seven,” pondered Rainbow. “Let’s see… Red… Orange… Yellow… Green… Blue… um… Purple… and Indi- I gotta go! My home is already cramped as is!” Rainbow Dash flew off, vanishing in a rainbow trail.

“So, can you forgive him, Twilight?” asked Fluttershy returning focus to the matter at hand.

“Well, the castle should be good as new in a few days,” considered Twilight. “And I was mostly worried for Blue and Nova’s safety, but since it was a simple mistake and you came all this way to see Fluttershy and your daughter, then sure. I can forgive you.”

“Oh, thank you very much,” smiled Tundra happily. “I don’t know what I would have done if all those ponies started to attack me. If I moved too fast to get away, I might’ve accidentally crushed them all by accident.”

“Truth be told,” admitted Twilight looking down at her force of ponies, each of them breathing a sigh of relief that they didn’t have to be ants fighting an elephant. “We weren’t all that certain what we would have been able to do if you weren’t friendly.”

The Ponyville Express pulled out of the station of the Crystal Empire as it started its journey back towards Ponyville. On board, Starlight and Sunburst were seated, riding in a train car divided up into private rooms. Sitting across from them was the dragon Apollo, the father to Starlight’s daughter, Blue. The dragon appeared as laid back as ever as he looked out the window and watched the scenery fly by.

“You know,” Apollo commented as the turned to speak with his traveling companions. “It’s really nice to be traveling without needing to fly. It’s definitely a lot more comfortable and my wings won’t get sore.”

“Trains are a wonderful modern convenience,” agreed Sunburst. “But, uh, Apollo, why are you here again?”

“Why am I here?” he replied, acting like it was the most obvious thing in the world. “Don’t you remember? I said I would be back to visit you guys.”

“I know you said you wanted to be around the next time we were doing something,” Starlight told the dragon still surprised by how much he bore a striking resemblance to Sunburst. “But I didn’t think you’d end up coming back the very next day… when we hadn’t even called for you.”

“I was still in the neighborhood and I just had a feeling you two were up to something fun and lo and behold I was right,” he smiled. “You’ve booked a private room on this train and with the amount of time we’ll be riding on it, I can already imagine all the fun we can have.”

“Apollo!” cried Sunburst, looking rather embarrassed that he’d even suggest making their trip R-rated. “We’re not about to do anything of the sort. We’re on this train so that I can go see Blue, not fool around with Starlight at eighty miles per hour.”

“I’m afraid I don’t understand,” admitted Apollo. “What’s the point of these private rooms if not to hump across Equestria? I mean, for far cheaper you could have gotten regular seats and not gotten intimate.”

“I know,” answered Sunburst as he opened the flap in his satchel and looked at a number of vials he had in it filled with a cloudy, red vapor. “I just wanted to try and get through these as quickly as possible.”

“And those are?” asked Apollo as he watched Sunburst hesitantly remove the cork, causing the red cloud to rise out and seep into his head through his nose, ears, and eyes. Reacting to it, Sunburst closed his eyes and tilted his head. Then, rubbing his temple, he appeared like he was suffering from a migraine. A vein even throbbed in his forehead. All this had Apollo curious for a minute, but after that he became disinterested. “Well, that wasn’t very interesting.”

“Grr,” growled Sunburst to Apollo’s returned intrigue. The pony gritted his teeth and then opened his eyes showing they were glowing red with blind fury. Apollo didn’t even get a chance to react as Sunburst leapt at him with all his meager might, attempting to pin him to his seat and look him dead in the eye. “If you even think about touching my beloved Glim Glam again, I’ll bucking bite your stupid head off!”

“Heheh, now THIS is interesting,” chuckled Apollo, far more amused than frightened at an aggressive Sunburst.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” panted the unicorn, a few seconds later, as he took a few steps back, panting hard. “That wasn’t me, well it was, but from yesterday.”

“Basically, he was bottling up all his negative emotions during our ‘experiments’ and now he’s trying to work through them all.”

“I’ve heard of bottling up emotions, but this certainly takes it to another level,” Apollo grinned and reached over to pluck another of the bottles out of the satchel. In his claws, he looked at it curiously, the swirling red mist within it, swirling in an attempt to get out and flow into the dragon, but the cork kept it confined.

“Careful with that,” warned Sunburst. “That’s got my anger in it and it’ll seek out the nearest creature to make them express the emotion I was feeling at the time.”

“So, you can even use this to make other creatures feel what you’ve felt,” he noted. A smirk spread across the dragon’s sharp-toothed muzzle. It was a look that Starlight and Sunburst would only lead to trouble. “Think of the possibilities!”

“I’ve seen what it can do, first hoof,” countered Starlight. “At least Sunburst divided his anger into a bunch of bottles instead of just one so they could be more easily managed in small bursts.”

“That is a good idea,” nodded the dragon. “Still, that’s a lot of anger for one pony to get out on their own. Mind if I help unload all this emotional baggage?”

“I don’t know if that would be the best idea,” worried Sunburst. “Anger is quite a volitile emotion and not every creature is good at venting it.”

“Oh, come on,” pleaded the dragon making the most adorable begging face he could with quivering lips and puppy dog eyes. “What could go wrong?”

“Besides enraging a dragon that possesses claws, that can shred things like a hot knife through butter, teeth strong enough to grind gemstones into dust, and breathe of flames, nothing,” answered Starlight.

“Well, if that’s all, here goes nothing,” replied Apollo, not heeding any of their concerns as he removed the cork and let the rage possess him. His eyes glowed a burning red and he stood up pounding on his chest as embers spewed from his maw. “Size is relative! It’s only natural for dragons to be the larger species! Technique is more important! Yah!” Apollo lunged forward in anger. Quickly, Starlight and Sunburst moved out of the way and watched as the dragon tore through the leather on the seats with his claws and then took a bite out of the cushioning inside.

“Care to give me a little context to where this anger stemmed from?” questioned Starlight as she put up a magical shield to keep herself safe.

“N-Not really,” blushed Sunburst as he backed away as far as he could from the furious dragon, waiting for the effects of the anger to wear off on him.

“Heheh hahahah,” laughed Apollo once he returned to his senses and coughed up some of the cushion. “This would be a wild party game, especially if we could fill these bottles with all sorts of different emotions.”

“Yeah… that sounds like a terrible idea,” replied Sunburst.

“Well, we’ve got about eight hours till we reach our destination,” pointed out Apollo. “How did you plan to pass the time?”

“I brought the Crystal Chronicler with me,” he answered, pulling it out of his satchel. “I’ve brought the comics page for a good laugh and we can even take turns doing the crosswords.”

“Can I borrow one of those empty bottles to help contain my excitement?” asked Starlight sarcastically.

“Starlight?” asked Sunburst.

“Well, maybe it might be fun to give that party game idea of his a try,” she admitted. “Uh, you could think of it as research.”

“Um, well, I suppose if you put it like that, it could be worth investigating,” he conceded.

“Then I guess it’s my turn to give it a try,” she replied, sounding like she was actually eager to do this (and just as much uninterested in Sunburst’s idea of a fun way to pass the time). Taking one of Sunburst’s anger-filled bottles out, she opened it and absorbed the rage.

“We might wanna get down,” worried Sunburst as he covered his head with his cloak.

“She couldn’t be any worse than a pissed off dragon,” commented Apollo as Starlight gritted her teeth and her horn glowed brightly, building up an enormous amount of magical power. “Um, then again…”

“FUCK!!!” she raged and blasted a hole in the train’s roof. Apollo stood up and looked at their new skylight then down at Starlight, the anger dispelled in that one massive explosion. Seeing what she had done, she looked immediately regretful at what she had done.

Sunburst went into his satchel to chest how many bits he had. “This should cover some of the damages, but I’ll need to Cadence and Shining Armor will be able to help me out with the rest.” He sighed. “Well, guess I won’t be doing much antiquing in Ponyville this time.”

“Best! Game! Ever!” cheered the dragon, much to the others’ dismay. “Quick, take your turn, Sunburst, so that I can go again.”

“Would you like more tea?” Fluttershy offered to Tundra. The two of them, along with Angel, Harry, and Snow were continuing to enjoy their picnic once more. While the picnic was a proper size for most of them, to a giant dragon like Tundra, the blanket was not even big enough to be a napkin and everything else was even smaller.

“Yes, please,” he answered, somehow managing to hold the teacup with two claws by the handle and not crush it to dust. Brining it over to Fluttershy, she poured him another cup. She watched as he slowly brought it to his maw, not even keeping the cup steady so as not to spill any of it.

“Careful,” she warned him. “It’s still a bit hot. You might want to blow on it first.”

“I’d probably just make it hotter if I did,” he pointed out. “You know, fire breath and all.”

“Oh, right,” she blushed and flew over to his cup. “Then let me help.” With a gentle breath, she blew on his tea.

“Thanks,” he smiled and managed to sip up what was no more than a drop to him.

“Happy to help,” she smiled flying back down and looked in her basket before looking back up at Tundra. “Would you care for a sandwich?”

“Sure,” he nodded. “One with mustard if you have it, but not spicy mustard. Spicy food tends to upset my belly.”

“Spicy food upsets my tummy too,” Fluttershy admitted as she offered Tundra a sandwich. Extending a single claw, Fluttershy placed the sandwich upon it. Then, once more Tundra brought his hand to his maw and lightly flicked the sandwich into it. He munched the sandwich up way more than that miniscule crumb needed to be and then he swallowed, looking very satisfied like it had somehow managed to help sate his appetite. Harry and Angel looked at one another and then back at the dragon, unable to tell if he actually needed to put in that much effort to eat such microscopic portions or if he was just trying to be polite.

“That sandwich was delicious,” he spoke with a warm smile. “My compliments to the chef.”

“Oh, you’re too kind,” she giggled. Looking at the horns atop his head, she saw a number of birds were perched upon them. There were even more on his shoulders and the spikes on his body too. Some squirrels, and a few other animals had started to curiously climb atop the scaly dragon’s hide like it was new terrain to explore rather than another living creature. “And it looks like the animals in the sanctuary have already started to grow accustomed to you.”

“Maybe, but the second I move to sit up, they’ll probably all scatter in a panic,” he replied.

“My friend Tree Hugger says that every creature has a unique aura and some have an aura that animals feel very comfortable with. She says that’s why I’m so good with animals and I bet the same is true for you.”

“Hopefully I’m not too good though,” he joked. “Or I could end up stuck with a whole ecosystem on my back. I’m certainly big enough to be one.”

“I think it would be wonderful to be able to keep so many furry and feathery friends close like that,” she admitted.

“San itch,” Summer tried to say. “San itch.”

“Oh, Summer, you want one too?” asked Fluttershy, getting a nod from her daughter. Fluttershy then began to search through her basket for a particular sandwich. “Okay, I should have a cucumber sandwich here somewhere. I know they’re your favorite.” Reaching a bit further into the basket, she found another sandwich and pulled it out. “Oh, here it is.” Handing it to Summer, Fluttershy smiled as she watched her daughter happily munched it up. The others watched the little child as she ate as well.

“So adorable,” they all thought.

The picnic continued for a little while longer as they went through all the food in the basket and continued to converse. Finally, Fluttershy blushed a little and then turned to Angel and Harry. “Hey, guys, why don’t you two go play with Summer, for a bit.” Tilting his head, the white-furred bunny got up and questioned why Fluttershy wasn’t coming with them. “I’ll be with you shortly. There’s just a little something I wanna talk about with Tundra. Something a bit more… personal.” Upon hearing this, Angel glared at Tundra like he could have tore a hole right through him with his gaze. Meekly, Tundra lowered his head and covered his muzzle with his hands. Angel then waved to Summer and Harry and the three scampered away with Angel glancing back one more time before they ventured off to another section of the sanctuary.

“Your little bunny friend scares me,” admitted Tundra.

“He scares a lot of creatures,” Fluttershy told him, making them both giggle.

“So, what was it you wanted to talk with me about that we couldn’t share with the others?”

“It’s nothing much,” she explained. “I was just wondering what you thought, back during the mating season, when we were together and… you know, made love.” Hugging her knees as she spoke, Fluttershy was struggling to tell Tundra what she wanted to say. “Things were just so crazy back then. Hormones were out of control and everyone was acting on impulse. We barely had time to chat and when things came to an end I couldn’t find you anywhere to ask you.”

“Ask me what?” he wondered scratching his chin curiously.

“About back when we first met, during the mating season,” she went on once she was certain the others were too far away to hear them. “If I performed well or not.”

“How you… performed?” he repeated, not expecting her to be wondering about that.

“Yes,” she nodded before giving a more detailed explanation. “You see, I’ve spent a long time working to overcome my shyness, however, I hadn’t ever been intimate with anyone before, pony or otherwise. Well, until I got with you, that is. All those hormones in the air took ahold of me like it had everyone else and before I even realized it, we were having sex without a care in the world. I don’t even recall if I ever introduced myself to you.”

“I don’t know,” he admitted, learning closer to Fluttershy. “I was just as lost in the lust as everyone else so my memory was really hazy for most of it too. To be honest, I was worried about the mating season too. While other dragons had always used sex as a means of showing dominance over the others, I always hid from stuff like that. I wasn’t high or low on the totem pole, I didn’t even exist on it, which was probably even worse than being the one on the very bottom. During the mating season, even driven by instinct to mate I still couldn’t bring myself to do anything. The other dragons probably tell how nervous I about the whole thing with a single glance and didn’t even bother to give me a second one, let along approach me to mate with them. If it wasn’t for you… I’d probably still be a virgin.”

“Then that was both our first time,” she spoke with a smile. “And, was the sex good for you because… I certainly enjoyed it. You were incredibly gentle.”

“As were you,” he replied. “Gentle as a light breeze and soft as a marshmallow. I don’t think I ever felt so comfortable in another’s embrace like I had in yours. A-And you said you enjoyed it too?”

“Oh, most certainly,” she assured him. “Warm like wrapping oneself in a blanket by a fire and graceful like a slow-flowing brook. Even while we were locked in amore you remained a perfect gentleman to me.”

“I-I’m really glad you liked it,” he blushed. “That you liked me and were so willing to have a child with me. I mean, I know it wasn’t completely your decision with the hormones influencing you at the time, but I’m still so glad that you came to me of all dragons. I’m am too happy for words to tell you how grateful I am to have you as a mate and that we now have a happy and healthy baby girl. It all means so very much to me that you couldn’t possible-”

“Understand,” she finished for him, pressing a hoof to his muzzle to quiet him. “I do and I feel the same way. That was one of the most magical experiences of my life and I haven’t experienced anything like it since.”

“Then that was your first and only?” questioned the colossal dragon.

“It was,” she nodded. “I might have had more chances after that, but I didn’t. It’s hard to explain, but I kinda hoped that I would have gotten this chance to be with you again, though I didn’t know today would ever come.”

“I’m really glad it did,” he told her. “And, if you wanted to… we could do it again… well, if size wasn’t a problem. I mean, as I am now, my erect coc would be like a tower compared to you.”

“It’s fine,” she smiled at him warmly. “Just you being here fulfills me plenty. Still, it would have been nice to have had a chance to be together, even just once more.”

As they smiled warmly at one another, the little cries of a swift-footed rabbit caught their attention and they turned to see Angel hurrying over to them. “Angel?” asked Fluttershy, concerned that he’d run over to them with such a panic stricken face. “What is it? What’s the matter?”

He jumped up and down, flailing his arms and hopping on his hind legs. “W-What’s he saying?” wondered Tundra, unable to understand anything beyond that it was something alarming that he was trying to tell them.

With a gasp, Fluttershy cried out, “Summer is missing!”

“She’s what?!?” replied Tundra as he rose up slowly, the woodland creatures on his body startled as he rose up. The birds fluttered over him and the flightless creatures held on tightly before he stopped and then returned to what they had been doing prior. “How did this happen?”

“They were playing hide-and-seek,” answered Fluttershy. “Normally, Summer likes to hide under her blanket, but when he went to look she wasn’t there. Him and Harry looked around the area too, but she’s nowhere to be found and it’s unlike her to go too far away without any of us to accompany her. Something must have happened to her.”

Letting out more frantic bunny noises, Angel scampered off to return to the search. “Angel’s right,” stated Fluttershy. “We can’t waste another second to search for her.” She looked up at all the forest critters atop Tundra. They all looked concerned as well for Fluttershy’s missing offspring. “And we’d very much appreciate it if all of you could help us look too.” Responding to Fluttershy’s request, all the animals took off, prepared to check every nook and cranny in the forest to find their precious baby. “Remember, she frightens easily so be careful when you approach her.”

“You should go too,” Tundra told Fluttershy. “I’d help look too, but at my size I’d be more likely to crush her underfoot and half the forest in the process. I’ll just stay here and be your lookout from above.”

“Any little bit you can do to help means a lot,” Fluttershy encouraged him before she hurried into the forest to join the search.

“Hahahahah!!!” laughed Starlight as tears ran down her face. “Put the bill… hahah! on the duck! It’s such an old joke. Why do you find this so funny, Sunburst?”

“It was new to me when I read it in ‘Cheese Sandwich’s 1001 Greatest Gut Busting Jokes.’ It had me in stitches for so long I can’t help but laugh when I think about it.”

“That’s another point for Starlight,” Apollo announced. “Okay, it’s my turn again.”

“Maybe this should be our last round,” suggested Starlight. “Between out random and loud outbursts and us lashing out when we’re channeling one another’s more violent emotions, we’re causing quite a lot of damage and drawing in a rather big crowd.”

“It’s just a bit of harmless fun,” the dragon said before patting out some flames that were on the side of his seat. Some flashes caught his eye and he turned to see a crowd of ponies were looking in on them in the half destroyed room, snapping photographs of it all. “Uh, point taken, but you two are tied, so, how about I give you both one last emotion to sample and the first to guess it wins.”

“So long as it isn’t hellish fury again,” conditioned Starlight. “I don’t think this section of the train can take much more magical blasts.”

“Not to worry,” assured the Sunburst lookalike. “This one won’t be dangerous like that at all.”

“Then how will it be dangerous like?” wondered Sunburst, chewing on some plaque-killing gum, not sure what half the swear words meant that Apollo’s rage made him utter, but his mouth felt so dirty once he came back to his senses.

“If I said anymore, you’d probably figure it out before we even began,” he replied. “Now, both of you, get ready. “I’m going to start focusing on the emotion.”

The two ponies watched as Apollo shut his eyes and breathed, calming himself to an emotionless state. Then, he concentrated on the emotion he wanted to feel, digging it up from memory and let it build up within his body. “Ok, I’m ready,” he informed them and Sunburst’s horn glowed as he cast the spell to extract the emotion from him and channel a pinkish purple cloud into an empty body Starlight had at the ready. They watched as the tiny container got filled till the last bits were collected. Starlight then corked the bottle to seal it for the moment.

“We got it,” Starlight told Apollo, prompting him to open his eyes.

“Then, whenever you two are ready,” he instructed them. “Open the bottle and take in the emotion. The first to guess it will be the winner.”

“Ready when you are,” Sunburst said to Starlight with a nervous smile.

“You do know he’s up to something,” she replied and looked over at Apollo unable to restrain his smirk and some light snickering.

“Yeah,” the orange stallion agreed. “We could and probably should stop now.”

“Probably,” the purple pony nodded. “But a part of me is curious to see just what it is.”

“Me too,” Sunburst admitted. “So… shall we?”

“What the heck,” Starlight smiled and pulled off the cork, freeing the emotion to allow it to seep into their bodies and fill them with emotion.

“Well, it isn’t any type of anger,” commented Sunburst. “I don’t feel like blasting another hole in the train.”

“It isn’t giggly or sad either. In fact, I don’t feel any different,” stated Starlight as she attempted to work it out. “It’s strange. It’s like nothing happened.”

“Is this perhaps an emotionless state that’s meant to have us look for something that isn’t really there?”

“No, there’s something there,” assured Apollo. “It’s just only obvious under the right conditions.”

“Conditions?” Starlight and Sunbursts questioned him. Apollo only gave them a trolling smirk that only made them more convinced that they had indeed stumbled upon some sort of trap. They then turned to one another, hoping they might have some sort of idea as to just what was going on. As their eyes met, the trap was sprung.

“Sunburst,” spoke Starlight as she found her eyes unable to look away from his and vica-versa.

“Y-Yes, Starlight?” he replied, his breathing becoming short and fast.

“This was his trap all along, wasn’t it?” she continued, their muzzles slowly inching towards one another.

“Looks like it,” he nodded as his hoof wrapped around Starlight’s neck and their muzzles pressed lightly together. “But… he only learned of bottling up emotions on the train. He couldn’t have planned ahead without knowing.”

“It just sort of came to me on the spurr of the moment,” the dragon admitted as he sat back and watched the two ponies make out, tongues shaking hands with one another as they exchanged saliva. “So, can you guess what emotion I gave you?”

“Lust,” they mumbled in unison, wrapping their arms around one another as they continued to passionately embrace one another. Outside, their cabin, the ponies that had been watching had only become more invested as it took such an unexpected twist as this.

“You know we’re gonna get you for this,” threatened Starlight once their kiss came to an end, but that was merely the opening act.

“I know, but this is gonna be worth it,” he chuckled, rubbing his crotch already a bit turned on by what he saw. “Now, let’s see some action.”

“Starlight,” blushed Sunburst as he gazed into her eyes, his cock already throbbing and dripping pre. “I’m sorry about what is about to happen.”

“Don’t be,” Starlight replied as she used her magic to remove his glasses and place them out of the way. Next, she levitated his cloak off of him and used it as a makeshift blind to give them some much needed privacy from the peepers watching them. “Despite the context of the situation, I wanna enjoy this.”

“That’s just the lust talking,” he reminded her as he felted her crotch rub up and down on his cock before lining it up with her hole.

“What else would make us wanna do this?” she whispered into his ear seductively. “Now, care to show me your technique, Mr. Size is Relative?”

“Heh, y-you remember that,” he blushed more.

“I can feel it plenty too,” she added. “And for what it’s worth, I’d say you are plenty of sexy stallion… for bookworm standards.”

“Guess I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth then,” he chuckled.

“Why do that when you can kiss her?” joked Starlight as they pressed their lips together once more and soon rolled onto her back. Not wasting any time, Sunburst got right down to humping into his beloved, purple pony.

“Heheh, just call me ‘cupid,’” snickered Apollo as he watched Sunburst pound Starlight with all his love.

“Okay, stupid,” replied Sunburst while not pausing from his fucking.

“No, I said ‘cu-’” he started to correct him.

“I know what you said,” Sunburst interrupted him, this time pausing mid hump to look at the dragon who said no more. Sunburst then returned his focus to Starlight, bucking faster and faster in and out of her as his climax was fast approaching.

“Oh, Sunburst,” she murred with delight, running her hooves down his messy mane that became even more terribly frazzled since they boarded the train. I feel like we’re close.”

“Th-Then should I pull out?” he asked her, slowing down as he restrained his urge to climax. Carefully, he started to slide his dick out of her.

“N-No,” she told him. “I think it’s finally time. Actually, this is long overdue.”

“A-Are you sure?” he stuttered. “You’ve already got Blue. Do you really want to try for another one, so soon?”

“I do, but only if you are finally ready to take that plunge with me as well,” she added, looking into his eyes and getting lost in them. The same was true for Sunburst, unable to look away.

“What I want?” he replied and took a deep breath. “What I want is…” Apollo continued to watch, chewing on a nail as he awaited the answer like the dramatic reveal of a show that is cliffhanged at the crucial decision.

“Summer!” called out Fluttershy as she looked everywhere for daughter. “Summer Snow, please come out!” She looked in every tree, under every rock, and everywhere else she could think to investigate. Along with all her animal friends, they must have inspected every possible nook and cranny in the animal sanctuary at least three times and had begun to expand their search to the forest beyond. Still, they could find not a single clue to the young child’s whereabouts.

“This is completely unlike her,” worried Fluttershy as she took a moment to calm herself and think. “Summer would never wander off from us. Even playing hide and seek, she’d always just hide under her blanky. Now, all of a sudden, it’s like she’s just completely disappeared and not even a platoon of my forest friends can find her. At this rate, we might need to turn this whole forest upside down. If so, I should probably call for-” Her words trailed off as the answer to this mystery suddenly became very clear to her. “DISCORD!”

As soon as she said that, she vanished in a flash of light and soon reappeared in another dimension. It was an unusual place where the strange was commonplace and normal had no meaning. This was the Chaos Dimension, home of the Spirit of Chaos himself, the draconequus, Discord. He was a mishmash of different creatures with the leg of a dragon, the paw of a lion, the body of a pony and several other creatures added in as well. He was a tall, slender creature with a goatee that Summer playfully reached for as she was cradled gently in his arms.

“It’s about time you figured it out,” spoke Discord, wearing his usual poker face smirk.

“Summer!” breathed Fluttershy with a sigh of relief. “There you are.”

“Ma… Ma… Mama!” the half dragon half pony called out to her, now extending her arms, desiring her mother pick her up.

“I’m so glad you’re safe,” Fluttershy said crying tears of joy. “I don’t know what I would have done if something had happened to you.”

“Congratulations, Fluttershy, you’ve won the game,” cheered Discord.

“Game? Discord!” she snapped. “I enjoy your antics and tolerate them when you go too far, but this is going way, way, WAY TOO FAR even for you. I was scared to death.”

“I didn’t mean to make you worry so much,” he admitted more earnestly. “I thought you’d have guessed it was me from the start.”

“You became one of Summer’s godparents because I believed you could be responsible, but this is one of the most irresponsible things you could do.”

“But I did it for you,” he cried, collapsing to his hands and knees in sorrow. “To help you and that overgrown lizard out. Sure, I probably didn’t have to use such methods and create such a chaotic situation to get you to come over here, but it’s in my nature.”

“Dis… gord…” spoke Summer reaching for him and rubbing his head.

Fluttershy was mad and she knew she had every right to be, but seeing her daughter had been completely safe the entire time, her anger was quick to dissipate. “Well… Summer is very timid,” commented Fluttershy. “But she’s never been the least bit afraid of you and she seems to have enjoyed her time with her Uncie Discord. So, I think I can give you another chance.”

“Oh, thank you,” sniffled Discord, snapping his fingers to magic a red handkerchief out of thin air. It was attached to a long string of them and the Great and Powerful Trixie was holding onto the other end, falling to the floor in surprise at being teleported there so unexpectedly.

“Discord!” snapped Trixie. “I was in the middle of the endless handkerchief trick, not a disappearing one.

“Your kindness truly knows no bounds,” continued Discord, completely ignoring the blue pony glaring at him.

“It is in my nature,” she admitted. “Uh, but how did you intend to help me out with Tundra?”

“Well, it’s probably no secret that I’ve been eavesdropping on that little picnic of yours… that I wasn’t invited to,” he told her, a bit of jealousy in his tone. “And it’s also no secret that you want to have relations with that scaly mountain, despite the fact that you’re obviously too good for him. Also, he’s a billion times too big for you. But, as your friend, one with the ability to bend and warp reality to my whim with but a snap of my fingers, I can make it so size will no longer be an issue for the two of you.”

“You’re going to make Tundra my size?” replied Fluttershy, joy in her voice.

“That’s one way of putting it,” he smirked. “And I’ll return Summer to your animal friends so you won’t have a thing to worry about. Now enjoy yourself, my dear.”

“I promise I will,” she smiled at the Spirit of Chaos. Then with a snap of his fingers, she was gone.

“And I know I will,” he smirked before snapping his fingers again and left his chaos dimension with his godchild.

“And what about me?” cried Trixie, now all alone in the Chaos Dimension. “You can’t just leave me here! The Great and Powerful Trixie demands that you return her to her own dimension immediately!”

Discord apparently heard her demand, because in a flash of light, she vanished and found herself once more back in Equestria, albeit far from where she had originally been. She found herself in a large cave, standing in front of a bed. In it, were Spike and Ember, the former dressed as a pizza boy getting ready to eat a slice of pepperoni pizza wedged between Ember’s cleavage. He stopped when he realized they weren’t alone anymore.

“Oh, I know this one,” groaned Ember as she attempted to recall Trixie’s name. She’s the blue one with an ego as big as my father… um… The Awesome and Powerful Sparkle Dash, right?”

“Uh, almost kinda close,” Spike corrected Ember. “That’s Trixie.”

“Correction,” Trixie corrected Spike. “I’m the Great and Powerful Trixie and, uh… what are you two doing exactly?”

“Sexy role playing,” answered Spike. “Uh, I don’t know how you got here, but do you think you can go away for about ten more minutes.”

“Oh, don’t be shy, Spike,” Ember told him. “She can stay. In fact… I want her to watch.”

Trixe gulped and retorted, “Trixie is not nearly great and powerful enough for something like this.”

“Fluttershy?” asked Tundra when she suddenly appeared before him in a flash of light. “Where did you come from?”

“It’d probably take a while to explain everything,” she told him. “But the most important thing is that Summer is safe.”

“That is a relief,” he nodded. “Uh, but why are you suddenly as big as me?”

“Oh, that’s because my friend, Discord, used his power to make you small again so we could… you know…” Fluttershy blushed as she ran her hooves down her pink mane. “...do it.”

“He did?” questioned Tundra as he looked himself over. “I don’t feel any smaller.”

“You don’t?” pondered Fluttershy. Then a few birds as tiny as flies flew by her head. Seeing this, she took a look at her surroundings and realized everything was now very, very tiny. “Oh, my.”

“Hohohoh,” chortled Discord as he relaxed on a lawn chair a safe distance away with Summer in his lap. Angel and Harry were there too, staring in awe over their colossal pony friend, each butterfly on her Cutie Mark as big as a roc. “It wouldn’t be very chaosy if I simply shrank him down in size, now, would it? Anyway, while your parents have their fun, how about we enjoy a children’s book about decapitation, madness, and nonsensical jibber jabber. I, of course, am referring to Alice in Wonderland. Three guesses to who my personal favorite character in it is.”

“S-So, should we just, you know, do it,” asked a bashful Tundry. “Here? Now?”

“Well, it looks like Discord made certain to clear anything and everyone away from us,” commented Fluttershy as she carefully looked around them. “I think we should be fine, but we should take things at a nice, slow and steady pace.”

“Good idea,” he agreed, moving with the utmost care to recline onto his back. Even trying his hardest, he couldn’t keep himself from flattening the trees around him like they were blades of grass. “O-Okay, I’m down,” he told her once he was in a stable position on his back. Just get on me like we did back them. Maybe even more delicately.”

“Right,” she nodded, moving so slowly it was hard to tell if she was even moving at all. Getting on top of her mate, she gazed into his eyes and him back into hers. They both blushed before pressing their lips together to embrace in a kiss. Rubbing crotch against crotch, they managed to coax the dragon’s cock out of hiding and hotdog it between a bun that was a proper size for it.

“Now, gently,” breathed the dragon as they worked together to maneuver and fit that peg into the hole. Holding onto Fluttershy’s back, they carefully angled his dick with her pussy, getting the head to press against the lips and then slip on through. After that, Fluttershy lowered herself down at they docked, taking a full mile of length before stopping.

“We can do this,” she panted. “We can have safe sex.”

“Yeah, but for you two or everyone else?” mumbled an amused Discord, unable to keep from listening in as he continued to read Summer the story. “And so Alice chased the unusual white rabbit scurry down his rabbit hole. ‘I’m late! I’m late!’ he continued to cry out in his hurry.”

Crystals crashed to the ground inside the Castle of Friendship as a violent rumbling threatened to bring the whole place crashing down. With her magic, Twilight cast a powerful barrier around Nova and Blue as she levitated her and Starlight’s offspring safely outside with her. Panting and wheezing, she saw the rest of the town was in just as much chaos. Nearby, she saw Rarity handing her twins over to Garble who proceeded to fly them off to safety.

“Rarity! What’s going on?” cried Twilight rushing out of her castle as the ground trembled every other minute. “Tantelworm attack? Explosions? Earthquake?”

“Fl-Fl-Fluttershy,” answered Rarity as she pointed into the distance where Fluttershy and Tundra were completely visible despite being miles away. They watched as Fluttershy slowly pulled back and then carefully humped back into her mate, the motion so careful, but as she came to a stop the force was still powerful enough to send tremors through the ground and reach all the way to Ponyville, causing the town to shake so violently.

“Sweet Celestia!” freaked out Twilight as she stared in awe. “How did this happen?”

They looked at one another and the answer became obvious. “Discord,” they spoke in unison.

“Please don’t tell me that Ponyville is about to be destroyed by a giant Fluttershy having sex?” groaned Twilight. “And that’s still not the most ludicrous thing to ever happened.”

“Maybe in the top ten,” agreed Rarity. “But they have to be stopped nonetheless.”

“Yeah, but how do you stop two mountains from colliding into one another?” pondered the Princess of Friendship. “I doubt they even realize what they are doing and I can tell from here they are enjoying it. And nothing is more bothersome and embarrassing than being interrupted while having such wonderful relations.”

“Yes, we’re all aware of THAT spell and dimension of yours, dear. Well, I hate being interrupted while I’m in the pleasure zone as much as the next pony,” worried Rarity. “But all of Ponyville will be leveled before long if we don’t do something. Maybe even sooner.”

“I think we can go a wee bit faster,” suggested Fluttershy, her voice very audible even as gentle as she spoke.

“Okay,” agreed Tundra. “Go for it.” Humping her mate slightly faster, the quakes became more constant and even harsher.

“It’s sooner Twilight!” cried Rarity as piece by piece Ponyville was started to collapse into a pile of debris. “You have to do something fast! Send them somewhere if you have to.”

“But where could I send them?” she asked. “With as big as they are, they’ll just cause damage to anypony no matter where they are.”

“There must be somewhere,” pleaded Rarity. “For the love of Luna, Twilight!”

“The love of Luna,” pondered Twilight as an idea came to mind. “I think I’ve got it, but I’ve gotta hurry!” Leaving Nova and Blue in the care of her unicorn friend, Twilight turned her attention to the source of the disaster. Opening her wings, she took to the sky, flying straight for the two massive love birds and the destruction their loving embrace was causing.

The train finally reached Ponyville and all the passengers disembarked one after another. The last ones to step off were Apollo, Sunburst, and Starlight, the later two of the group appearing unkempt, particularly due to their frazzled manes. They waited for the other passengers to get off and begin to leave the platform before doing anything that might draw attention to themselves.

Starlight!” called Twilight, waving to her and the others, making the two ponies jump nervously. She had arrived at the station to greet them. With her she had their daughters Nova and Blue. Rarity had also come along and had Precious Gem and Rough Diamond in their double stroller. Garble was there too, though acting aloof as he looked the other way, with his arms crossed. Every couple of minutes he did glance over at Rarity and his daughters.

“Oh, dear,” stated Rarity, seeing their freak out. “They do seem a tad jumpy and their poor manes look in desperate need of a touchup.”

“Are you okay?” asked Twilight as they approach. “Did the tremors cause trouble for your train?”

“Tremors?” questioned Starlight. “I don’t think we experienced any and we were kinda… distracted for the later half of the trip so we didn’t notice much of what was going on around us.”

“Do you know what caused that?” questioned Twilight as she pointed to the one train car that was riddled with holes and had a massive one that annihilated the roof.

“Actually… we were in that car and may have had something to do with it,” admitted Sunburst, looking quite embarrassed to admit it.

“What got into you three that’d make you do all that?” Twilight retorted, the level of destruction too much to merely be an accident.

“Each other,” answered Apollo. “Well, each other’s emotions, but those tremors you were talking about, did they do all that?” Apollo pointed towards Ponyville. Sunburst and Starlight turned to look and their jaws dropped to see the town was in the worst disarray they had ever seen it in.

“By Starswirl’s beard,” gasped Sunburst. “What in Tartarus happened here? Tantalworms? Stampede of Pinkie Pies? A visit from the villain of the week?”

“No, not this time, and no again,” answered Twilight. “Actually, it was Fluttershy and the dragon that was the father or her own daughter. It seems like nearly all the fathers have come to visit now.”

“Fluttershy is the last pony I’d expect to do something to wreck the town on purpose or otherwise,” commented Starlight.

“There was that parasprite incident, but that was a long time ago,” stated Rarity.

“Well, what did they do?” wondered Sunburst. “I can hardly wrap my head around what they could have caused so much destruction.”

“They had sex,” answered Garble adding his two cents in and the three who just arrived didn’t look any less confused by it. “Kinda underwhelming that they were more massive than you could imagine and that was all they could do. Once I get that large I’m gonna enjoy going on rampages of meaningless destruction.”

“You will do no such thing,” Rarity told him. “Not till you get yourself a job and earn a decent wage to help support your family.”

“Yes, dear,” he grumbled, not happy at the prospect of being a working dragon.

“What was that?” questioned Rarity.

“Um, I said I got one lined up at that apple farm,” he answered, getting a smile from Rarity.

“Uh, I’ve got a question,” spoke Starlight as she gazed into the distance. “If Fluttershy was as large as you claim she was to do all this, where is she now? Did you turn her back to normal?”

“Unfortunately, it was Discord who made her giant and countering his magic is not always easy to do,” she explained. “That and I was worried what might happen to her if she shrank down too quickly while they were still in the middle of things.”

“Right,” shuddered Starlight at the thought. “That wouldn’t end well.”

“So, what did you do?” asked Sunburst. “How could you hide two creatures that insanely immense?”

“I took a page from Celestia and I banished them,” she explained and turned to the sky. “To the moon. I really hope Luna won’t be too upset I did that.”

“You BANISHED FLUTTERSHY to the MOON?!?” cried Starlight looking up into the sky with the others, but despite doing so, it was still too bright to see it. “Bad as things were, isn’t that a bit extreme?”

“Actually, banished isn’t the right word for it,” the princess amended. “All I did was move them there so they could have their fun without causing any harm to anyone. After that, I found Discord and told him to bring them back here once they’re done and to make sure Fluttershy is back to her proper size. Also, if he decides to ‘help’ Fluttershy and Tundra like this again, he better shrink the dragon down to her size and not the other way around. So, now that I’ve told you what happened here, would you care to tell me what exactly happened on your train car?”

“We could, but how about a demonstration?” suggested Starlight.

“Uh, okay,” agreed Twilight, wondering what she had in mind.

“So, I bet, even though you stopped the destruction,” Starlight started to say and took another look at the remains of Ponyville. “Well, the total destruction of it, you are feeling stressed over having to work to rebuild everything, as well as, restore the peace.”

“It’s hardly the first time the town has been in crisis mode,” Twilight reminded her. “She paused, placing a hoof on her chest and slowly exhaling. “But I’ve done well to manage my Twilighting.”

“Mind if I borrow a little of it?” asked Starlight as she turned to Apollo who looked a bit worries seeing a smirk on her face.

“Uh, go right ahead,” Twilight answered slowly and watched as Starlight’s horn glowed and a yellowish cloud seeped out of Twilight. She then guided it towards the dragon who backed away from it.

“Uh, this won’t happen to be the payback you promised to give me?” he gulped as he backed into a wall and had nowhere to go to escape the cloud.

“Oh no, of course not,” she told him, her words not providing him with any comfort that that was the case. “Since you like this game so much, I thought you’d wanna do one last round.”

“Th-That’s o-k-k,” he tried to say, but Twilight’s emotion entered into his body and immediately, he found his heart racing, his body trembling, and sweat running down his forehead. “This is a disaster! The town’s in shambles! What if Celestia decides to come for a visit and sees this? Would she believe that Discord caused this? Will she be upset because I couldn’t stop this? Will she fire me from being a princess? Will I get sent back to magical kindergarden?!?” Flying up to get a better view of the situation, he looked around. “I’ve got to fix this! I’ll need some wood and nails and a lot of other stuff. I’d better start making a list. For that I’ll need quills, a few hundred yards of scroll paper and ink, several bottles worth. Oh, but Quills and Sofas is probably in ruins and so is Barnyard Bargains and everywhere else in town. I’ll have to make a quick trip to go get some.” Still mumbling on as he hurried off to the nearest neighboring town, everyone still on the station just watched him leave.

“Well, that was fun,” said Starlight, breaking the silence. “Now how about I finally introduce Sunburst to my precious baby girl.”

“She’s right over here,” Twilight told her. “Picking up the young, blue dragon-pony, offering her to both Sunburst and Starlight. “Your one and only.”

Starlight gestured for Sunburst to pick up Blue and watched as he did, cradling her in hooves and making instinctively making baby talk. “Gootchie gootchie goo. Who’s the most precious hybrid creature in the world? You are! Yes you are! Papa Sunburst is gonna love you with all his heart.” Blue giggled seeing the silly faces Sunburst made and then tugged at his beard. “Ow. That’s my wizarding beard. Please don’t pull on- ow -that.” Everyone laughed as they watched Sunburst’s first encounter with Blue.

“Oh, yes,” giggled Starlight. “She definitely is my one and only, although, that might not be the case for much longer.”

Hearing those words come from her friend’s mouth, Twilight couldn’t help but gasp. “Starlight, does that mean what I think it does?”

“That it most certainly does,” she nodded and blushed.