And The Pain Just Keeps On Adding
And The Pain Just Keeps On Adding
I look at my reflection in the pond, it stares back. I blink, it blinks. My head turns, it turns. I nod, it nods. I shake, it shakes. A never-ending game of mimic, until I broke it by talking.
"Well, this isn't the weirdest dream I've had. I've DEFINITELY had worse, that's for certain." I said out loud
My mane is long blue and my coat is yellow. My eyes are green and the bow in my hair is too. Eh, I've seen Sonic OCs who have crazier color patterns than this. Well, no use in beating around the bush, better wake up and start the first day of no school. But to make sure I don't wake up with amnesia, like those few times, my name is Justine Briggs. I'm 18-years-old, and my interests include; World War I, the Geman Empire of 1871–1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire of 1867–1918, and Video Games. I live in Bean Station, Tennessee. I'm not exactly right in the head because I'm on the autism spectrum, I have Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, slight OCD tendencies at times, and I'm prone to violent tendencies when pushed past my limits but I'm working on that one. My family's a pretty busy bunch, if they aren't arguing among each other they're pestering me when I wanna have some time to myself. I'm a night owl and tend to do all of my work and stuff around night when I, sort of, have the most time to myself. I just graduated from high school with my diploma to show it, and.... that should cover it I think. Okay now to wake up, I just hit myself over the head and-
CLONK!
"OWWWWWW!!!!!!" I groaned out, "Wait... I felt pain... I just felt pain. Holy, mother of SEGA, I'm not dreaming."
Despite the realization I was not in fact dreaming, I didn't scream. ... Okay, that was a lie. I did. ... A lot. Immediately I began to repeatedly punch myself in the face, stomach, and bite myself hard on the arms. After about 5 minutes of this, I gave up hope. I collapsed on the ground in utter shock… and pain, hooves hurt and horse bites are FAR far worse than human ones. I think I gave myself a bit of a black eye, a series of bruises on my face, and horrible bite marks on my forelegs to boot. After some time of me being curled up in utter shock, I thought it was time to attempt to stand. Luckily due to me having to go on fours sometimes over at school, just so that I could stay alive from everything it threw at me, I got the hang of it relatively quick and started to head off towards a pathway. Along the way, I began to assess my situation. Namely, the fact I was now a girl. I... didn't mind this to be honest. To me, I never really saw girls as different as boys, there's just some cosmetic differences as well as some hormone differences, but outside of that, same thing different skin... so to speak. But my train of thought was interrupted when my stomach began to growl.
"Damn. Am I really THAT hungry? I usually eat at least 4 to 5 times a day, so how can I be this hungry, dear god am I walking skeleton?!"
I think this was where my new hormones were kicking in, I was starting to worry about my figure more and more. I then galloped into the town as fast as I could as it reached my sights... only to not notice the wet floor and slip onto my ass and slide.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I cried before slamming face first into a building and falling back first onto the pavement, "Ooowwwwwhhh ohhh hooo hooooo!!!!" I whimpered before trying to get up only to fall onto my stomach
"OMC!!!" cried a voice I didn't recognize at first until I saw Sweetie Belle with my own eyes come up to me and get me out, "Are you okay?!"
"What's the weather in Missouri like?" I slurred before shaking myself and getting to my hooves, "I'm fine. What was that about?!"
"There was a grape juice spill a few minutes ago from Berry Punch's cart."
"What was she doing with grape juice?"
"That's what I wanna know- HOLD THE TELEGRAM! Y-Y-your an alicorn!?!?"
"I am?"
I then looked at my body and she was right.
"Oh, sweet merciful Bismark." I went with wide eyes, "This can't end well."
But then I realized something. I didn't know WHEN I was in the show. Oh dear... I then saw Sweetie Belle's flank.......... it was completely baren of anything.
"Oh no..." I squeaked as my pupils shrank to dots, "This can't be good..."
"What can't be good?" Sweetie Belle asked
"Um, nothing." I lied
"Wait, Sweetie Belle did you just say an Alicorn?!" went a nearby pony
Annnnd this is where I run off.
"And that's my cue to go, TALLY HOOOOO!" I exclaimed before running off deeper into Ponyville like an idiot
What am I doing?! Am I TRYING to get myself caught?! Augh! No time to think about these things I need to keep running! I know how these situations go all too well!
"GASP AN ALICORN FOAL!"
"WHOOPS!!!" I panicked before skidding and turning away from the group of ponies
But as soon as I rounded the nearest bend...
"WHAT THE!?"
"ARE MAH EYES DECIEVIN' ME!?"
"GOTTA RUN!" I went before turning back only to see a shocked Twilight, "Oh no..."
"What in Equestria!? Th-there's no way you can be real!" she went
"Love to say and chat, but I've gotta move!" I exclaimed before running away to Twilight's shock
"Get back here!" she went as she tried to catch up
Then I noticed she had wings. Oh dear, that just made me DOUBLE worried! I then ran faster and turned a corner only to bump into Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.
"OH DEAR!" I went before crashing into them, "Sorry about that!" I went before picking myself up and running away
I could see the other end of the alley, if I could just get through I was home free. ... Well, you know how these things go. I ended up slipping on a banana peel and made it out of the alley only to crash into a wall.
"And the pain just keeps on adding..." I groaned as I tried to get up
And right in front of me landed Twilight. Great. Cornered.
"I've got to take you to her!" the mare continued, her eyes alight with excitement
She suddenly picked me up with levitation. There was a sudden flash, followed up with a nauseating sensation that forced me to close my eyes, lest I puked everywhere. Which I did.
"Are you okay?!" Twilight asked
"I've puked because of worse..." I groaned
Opening my eyes I quickly came to realize that the two of us were standing in what appeared to be the throne room. Oh no. All of a sudden, a very calm if not soothing voice broke the short silence, grasping my attention to where it came from. It was Celestia. My situation's just gone from worse to horrible.
"Ahh Twilight, this is a surprise, how are you? I see you've brought a guest with…you."
She laid down on her stomach to get a better view of me and almost like that, all the tension and fear was lifted by her kind gaze... Is what I WOULD say if I wasn't figuratively shitting myself and hoping not to screw things up.
"Well, well. It's not every day I get to meet another pony like myself," she chuckled gently, her wings unfurling slowly, "What is your… How did you get that awful black eye and those bruises?” After she said the ‘awful black eye and bruises’, I could plainly see water build up in her eyes
"Ugh.... great. I survive the trenches of the World War Kaiserschlacht Offensive as one of the Kaiser's Stormtroopers only to wind up captured anyways..." I groaned
For the love of god I hope I didn't just dig my own grave saying that. I quickly felt Celetia take me and hold her close to her barrel.
"H-how could someone throw a foal into the field of battle!?" Celestia went
Here we go...
After I explained World War I and the Kaiserschlact Offensive, which lead me to explain the Kaiser and the German Empire as a whole as well as the Central Power and the Triple Entente, I eventually told them about myself like how I was an 18-year-old former male high school student diagnosed with Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, slight OCD, and violent tendencies when pushed past my limits. Unfortunately that didn't get Celestia to let go of me, in fact, her grip only got tighter and I could hear crying. Yeah, I totally just dug my own grave.
"Why... why must ponies do such awful things..." Celestia weeped
"Those poor Germans... they were only trying to do the right thing in stopping a terrorist!" Twilight added
"And you were only trying to help, weren't you..." Celestia went
"For all, I know the Entente has already won and Germany's being given the most unfair treaty ever and blamed for the war." I replied going along with it, "It's been a losing battle since the Americans entered at Entente's side."
"That's not fair!!" Twilight went, "They were only trying to stop an evil! Britain, France, and Russia are the true monsters here!"
"That's, unfortunately, war for you Twilight. History is written by the victor, and the victor decides the past, present, and future." Celestia sighed
She gets it! At that time I heard a door opening and saw Luna coming into the room. Oh great..... She said nothing as she walked over to us, her eyes on me and me alone.
"Ah, Lulu." Celestia began,"We have much to discuss. But first, allow me to introduce-"
A sudden flash of light nearly blinded me as a slice of cake appeared out of nowhere…before being promptly shoved into Celestia's open muzzle. Celestia dropped me out of shock, prompting me, in my current panic attack, to try and run as fast as I could from everyone. But, surprise surprise, I was caught by Luna.
"Oh, my. And who are you little one?" She asked
Before I could even open my mouth, Twilight budged in and info dumped Luna everything I told her and Celestia. Forget digging myself a grave, I just buried myself alive by saying what I said. I should've just kept my mouth shut and pretended I was mute... no that wouldn't have worked, Twilight's heard me talk already. Once she was done, almost breaking down in the process, Luna just held me even closer to her barrel.
“It’s alright, sweetie. You're safe now." she went, "You don't need to live through the horrors of war anymore."
As if I wasn't already just trying to survive in the world I already lived in.
"Little one, do you have any parents here?"
"Um, not really-"
"Then we shall be thou's mother."
I'm gonna go postal in a minute if this goes where I think it's going.
Luna then began to flap her wings and soon flew through a pair of huge double doors.
“Come, my little Tsuki Selene. Mommy is going to give you a bath, put you to bed, then read and sing to you.”
“My name is Just-”
“Shh, shh. Come, it is time to give back what was taken from you.”
ANNND it IS going where I think it's going. I'm gonna go postal in a minute, and it's gonna get messy. .... NOT LIKE THAT YOU SICK FU-
Bath, Bed, Food, and A Crazy Woman
Bath, Bed, Food, and A Crazy Woman
Luna came to a stop, and hovered in front of a pair of average-sized double doors, which were a very dark shade of blue, though it looked like someone had thrown an ink bottle at each upper part of the doors, while two crescent moons were centred in the middle of the inkblot facing each other on the doors.
“Welcome to my, now our, private chambers darling.”
I’ve had to put up with this mare, rambling on and on about how she has always dreamt of becoming a mother when she was a filly. If I hear another one of her god damn ramblings I'm gonna go postal and it's gonna get real messy up in here!
Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't ya?
What the?! Who's in my head?!
....
Hello? Great... I'm losing my Kaiser damned mind here...
Either way, strange voices aside, I even tried explaining to her along the way that World War I was a hundred years ago and there was nothing that could be done to change it, but, surprise surprise, she didn't listen like I thought she would. Why did I even bother... My words had about as much effect as finger flick on a wrist. Both doors lit-up in a light bluey-turquois aura, they both opened in response and Luna flew into a circular room. It actually wasn’t bad. I’m no fan of blue so that spoils it for me, but hey, I like the shape of it. There was a crescent moon shaped bed with a small lantern dangling from the top tip of the moon bed in the center of the room. A carpet with a full/crescent moon, four dark blue slippers rested neatly on the rug. A single door the same size as the doors we came through to the left of us, this one was just plain purple though.
Oh dear god my eyes!!!!
Thaaat's another issue of mine. I can't handle bright colors all that well. Sooo the rooms we were in earlier? My eyes are starting to hurt now that I'm seeing darker colors buuuut that'll only last a few moments. Also at the far end of the room was two more double doors that led on to a balcony. I know this because they had been left wide open. And to the right was a large wardrobe that looked like it was stuffed to bursting, with what I can assume was different kinds of dresses. Luna suddenly released me from her hooves only to catch me in her magic aura. I floated past her smiling face and on to her back, where she then began to do a sort of skip to the door left. I had barely leaped off Luna’s back. When an all too familiar turquoise aura caught me just inches from the floor. Which was followed by a light giggle.
“Aww, does my little angel not want to have a bath?”
Kill her, you know you want to.
WHO THE HELL SAID THAT?!?!
...
Keep a foot in reality Tsuki, that's just you- ... what did I just call myself...
I was plopped back on Luna’s back, under her smiling face. Well, it’s now or never, just need to do it politely.
Politely? You handle politeness like a bull in a china shop.
WHO IN THE EVER LOVING ZIMMERMANN IS THAT TALKING?! YOU SOUND LIKE THE POSTAL 1 DEMON MIXED WITH THE POSTAL 3 DUDE!
Oh pay no attention to me, I'm just that little voice in the back of your head. But don't you worry, I'll be out of your mane one of these days.
That's not very comforting...
Don't look now, but it looks like you just went from rags to riches.
What?
I then looked at what that voice meant and was amazed at what I saw. It had to have been the biggest bathroom I've ever seen in my life. There was a circular sunken bath that was pretty much a mini swimming pool and… are those Jacuzzi jets lining the walls of the bath.
Huh, maybe I was too quick to judge this place.
When are you ever NOT to quick to judge something?
Will you NOT right now!? You're more annoying than a French claiming Elsaß-Lothringen is French.
It's spelled Alsace-Lorraine dumby.
Elsaß-Lothringen has a 98% Germanic culture, and both Germanic and Romance dialects were traditionally spoken in Elsaß-Lothringen before the 20th century. Elsaß-Lothringen is German. Change my mind. Hey, was that a gilded mirror?
Suddenly, I find myself being picked off of Luna’s back by her magic and placed on the floor in front of her. She looked down at me with that smile that looks so happy sappy.
“Mommy has to go and raise the moon. So are you going alright on your own for a couple of minutes?”
This was the perfect time to-
"Oooo, what does this button do!" I went like a filly before pressing a nearby button
Now my childish mental state's kicking in. Well, this can only go so well. I pushed the button over and over giggling to myself like a child... don't look at me like that I know what I said! Damn, this is so embarrassing, and I can’t stop it. It’s… actually fun. Wait… what hell am I doing? Damn this new infant brain!
“No, no sweetie. That’s not to be played with.”
A familiar hoof wrapped around my torso and pulled me to a soft coat of fur. Looking up, I saw mommy’s smiling face starring- INTERCEPTING THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM! WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM?!
Me.
What the?!
Are you kidding me right now...
Agreed...
Oh, pay no attention to me, I'm just you that was locked away due to the fact you never got a proper childhood.
What the Franz Joseph are you talking about? I HAD a proper childhood!
Well whatever you wanna believe Mr. No friends McRecluse.
"Tsuki? Are you alright?" Luna asked
“Huh, what?” I came out of my inward struggle to see Luna had turned me around in her hooves to face her
“You just zoned out. You didn’t even respond to anything I said. What’s wrong?”
Ahhh my infamous zone out moments. When I'm too busy trying to overthink things, I'm busy having an internal midlife crisis. I blame my autism. Luna slowly pulled me into another hug, and began to stroke my hai… I mean mane.
“Were you remembering your time in the trench-"
“NO, can we please stop talking about it, please for the love of the Kaiser!"
Luna sniffed, while a single tear rolled down her cheek. “I’m sorry. It’s just-”
"Look, it's a bit of a problem I have, I tend to do it without even realizing it, it just sort of happens and there's nothing I can do about it- cough, cough - buuut I usually turn out fine in the end. Cough, cough What the hell was that?! ... Can you let me go already? Please?"
Luna gently put me down on the white tiled floor, and trotted over to two buttons, larger than the one I had been fiddling with. One of them had a red dot, the other a blue one. Don’t need to guess what the colored dots meant. She was also humming a tune that was CLEARLY the MLP theme song.
Dear lord what I wouldn't do to hear the Postal 2 them... I love the show, but god that song is annoying.
...
No... no, you didn't.
Well I didn't say I COULDN'T change what you heard now could I?
Luna pressed the hot and cold buttons. After a second of a metallic humming noise, the water began to fill the bath. Luna then looked back up at her new daughter with a smile that a certain pink earth pony named Pinkie Pie would be proud of, only to have it slowly fade away at what she saw. Her little Tsuki Selene was sitting by the bath's jets button and was rocking back and forth slightly. She was muttering strange words under her breath that Luna couldn’t make out.
"Tsuki?" she asked
Luna walked anti-clockwise around the filling sunken bath to face the clearly troubled filly. By the time she reached the poor child, she could hear her whispering had intensified. It was as if she was arguing with somepony.
"Tsuki honey, are you alright?" Luna asked again
Her daughter didn’t respond to her question. Luna tried waving a hoof in front of her face….still no response. The filly's eyes had a distend look in them, she would only blink once every three to five seconds. Luna was starting to get visibly worried.
“Sweetheart, please say something!”
Luna reached a hoof out towards her foal to bring her closer to her, but before her hoof touched her child, Tsuki LEAPED back away from her like she had just been struck by lightning, and then took an aggressive stance.
"T-TSUKI?!"
I… was… not… ready for that!
I need to prepare for stuff like being touched! If I don’t get warned I lash out, especially if I’m in one of my infamous zone out moments! I really need let Luna know about that before I end up hurting someone. Might just as well be now.
“I’m sorry, I just-”
Before I could get the rest of my apology since Luna had pulled me into ANOTHER HUG! This one was a bone-crushing one.
I knew because I heard my ribs pop. For Ferdinand's sake, what is it her and hugging me?!
“What did those trenches do to you?” whispered Luna, as she squeezed me just a little tighter, “I swear to you here and now. I will give you back the family that the war took from you. And I promise I’ll be the best mother you have ever had!”
Was I, or was I not supposed hear that. Either way, I heard it, and I’m just fed up with dealing with all of this! I’m especially having a real problem with these two damn voices in my head, that are TEARING me apart from my knowledge of what to do in this situation I CAN’T COPE WITH! My vision starts to get blurry and I feel tears trickle down my cheeks as high-pitched whimpers escaped my muzzle. Luna suddenly started to rock me back and forth humming a tune I didn’t know this time into my left ear. I felt cold and damp… something caressing my forehead. Looking up I saw Luna bring her tongue back to lick the other side of my face. My new equine instincts told me something that made my blood run cold. She was claiming me by leaving her scent on me. The worst part is that I felt a part of my mind, ACTUALLY ACCEPTING IT!
That would be me. Mommy's nice.
I'm going to drown you. I'm going to drown you like a sack of kittens.
Wh-why would you drown kittens?!
Because they're cute and cuddly.
Are... you coming onto me? Because that's pedophilia you know.
.... How do you function?!?!
Luna retracted her tongue and stared down at me with a smile. I really want to push myself away from this pony stranger who had just up and claimed me on the spot. But another part of me just wanted to snuggle up to her. And man it overruling my ability to think straight. Luna stood up with one of her forehooves pressing me to her barrel and trotted to some small steps that lead down into the ‘bath’.
“Now, how about a nice bath with mommy and then bed.”
How about some lunch instead? I could go for a slice of ham right now.
Ham?! Dude, we're in an equine's body right now! We can't eat meat!
Am I seriously about to have this discussion with you...
But before I could, I felt a new sensation. A warm one. ... NOT THAT KIND! The water was really warm and relaxing, I could feel my eyelids droop. I looked up at a soaking Luna who was smiling down at me. I let out a high-pitched yawn. To which Luna just cooed at me like I was a baby. Although I didn’t have the strength argue back.
“Mommy, I want to go to bed.”
Okay… I really tried to say Luna, but something warped my words to say mommy instead of what I was meant to say and- Oh… I think I’ve just fallen asleep. Bummer. Oh Well, I’m just going to dream about being in the trenches of World War 1. FOR ZE KAISER!!!
Luna watched as her daughter fell asleep in her forehooves. She sighed and leaned back against the rim of the bath. She could feel Tsuki’s heart beat against her chest as the filly snuggled into her soaked fur.
I’ve always dreamed of having a child, ever since I was young a thousand years ago. But my sister’s and my beloved subjects were always to nerves to ever be with us in a relationship.
But there was one thing that confused her.
Even if we did have children of our own. They wouldn’t have ever been Alicorn due to what we know now as not having the genes to pass on the necessary traits. But how was Tsuki born, if her parents were only from one of the three tribes? How is that possible?
She looked down at her new child, and smiled. She pulled the sleeping filly closer to her and smiled to herself.
However it happened. She is my child now, my child of the moonlight and shadows of the eclipse. And I think bath time can have an early finish just this once.
The princess of the Night climbed the bath’s steps and used a spell to dry her and her daughter. Then made her way to the moon-shaped bed, looking forward to the next day where she could rebuild the life her child had lost to the Great War.
Sunlight shone through the closed curtains and on to my closed eyelids which slowly opened in response to this. I sat up in a… moon shaped bed. I’m hoping I don’t have to sleep with her for much longer. I’m hoping to get back soon. I know I slept with her for a long time because she told me so when she invaded my dream. Ruining my Battlefield 1 esque Battle of Passchendaele dream, thinking it was horrible memories mixed with delusions of humans, and telling me that she was sleeping right by me and was gonna keep me safe and all that rubbish. Stretching my limbs I stood up and walked to the end of the bed and readied myself to jump.
"Time for an escape attempt." I whispered to myself
Suddenly I could hear hooves moving and the sounds of talking getting louder.
Why does this not surprise me...
I shot straight back to the pillow end of the bed and sat on the said pillow. The doors opened, and in walked Luna, the mare that ruined my Fallout dream and, carrying something in her magical aura. She was then followed by a pony I had never seen before. The pony was a unicorn mare with a grey coat, brown mane, and tail, with a few black streaks, light blue eyes, wearing a frilly lacy apron, and her cutie mark was what looked to be a feather duster and mop crossing behind a clean plate. She was also holding a feather duster via levitation as well but at the moment she was looking at Luna in a way I could not figure out.
“Um, don’t mind me saying, Your-a Highness. But isn’t she a… little-a… old-a?”
Okay, judging by her appearance, I’m going to assume that this mare with an overdone Italian accent, is probably a servant or even a maid. Luna looked at her with a raised eyebrow. This gave me a chance to look at the thing she was carrying.
It was a folded up… something.
“Nonsense, Clean Sweep. She is a foal, and all the mothers I’ve seen with foals had one of these.” was Luna’s response as she tried to unfold the thing she was carrying. “Now, how do you open this again?”
“But your-a highness. The foals you’ve-a seen in those are usually barely 2 years old-a, and by strictly observing your daughter…” She gestured towards me as she said this, “I’d say she is 5 or 6 years at least-a.”
Luna didn’t answer or spare a glance at Clean Sweep's comment. She just continued fiddling with the mystery object.
“Got it!”
The mystery item finally gave in to Luna’s careful tugs. It unraveled into a sort of a bag thing. It was dark blue with three light blue straps, two of which were smaller and closer together, whilst the third was much larger.
OH HEELLLLLL NO! NOT A KAISER DAMNED BABY CARRIER!
“There.” Luna said happily as she finally put it on, “Now, is my little star ready to spend the rest of her day with mommy?”
Luna’s magic surrounded me, but I made an attempt to grab the bedsheets to stop her from putting me in that accursed thing! This was all in vain, as I was dragged to the pouch of doom. I was also shouting the most natural response to this situation.
"NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!"
Well, this has given me a lot to think about. I’m starting to think saying ‘no’ in German is one of those things. As well as find a way OUT of this stupid baby carrier, and the rest I haven’t figured out yet. But soon enough we arrived at the dinning room where Celestia had made breakfast ready, pancakes. My mouth was instantly watering and then...
stomach growl
"Owwwwhhhh....." I groaned in pain
Wait, when was the last time I ate? I didn’t get a chance to find breakfast yesterday, so... I haven’t eaten ANYTHING for twenty-four hours!
“Well, sounds like somepony’s hungry.” She said, trotting over to a table and sitting down at a table in a corner where she gave me a stack of pancakes, “Now, help yourself, darling.”
Don’t have to tell me twice.
Leaning as far as I could out of the pouch, I somehow managed to grab one of the closer pancakes with my small hooves and bring it to me, taking a small test bite out of it.
DAMN, this is GOOD!
After that one test bite, I started to devour the rest of the pancake. Looking up, I saw the rest just waiting there on the plate. And I just couldn’t resist.
Luna was almost pulled face first into the plate as Tsuki lunged forward in the pouch and started to devour as many of the pancakes as she could. Chuckling at her daughter's actions, she picked up one of the pancakes that had been knocked off the plate, in her aura. Only to drop it when Moonlight lunged forward for the second time. Luna gritted her teeth as the carrier’s neck strap dug into the back of her neck.
“Sweetheart, not so fast! You’ll make yourself si-”
Then she remembered what Twilight had told her from what Tsuki had told Celestia and Twilight about what those monsters did to try and win the war by starving millions to death with the illegal blockade. She remembered when she first held Tsuki, and had noticed how thin she was. Luna felt a lump form in her throat.
Who knows when she last had ANYTHING to properly eat outside of the small rations she was given? And it must only be because of her Alicorn immortality that she didn’t starve to… to… death. My poor baby girl.
Urgh… I ate too much, but it was so worth it.
I leaned back in the carrier and rested my head against Luna’s barrel with a crummy smile on my face. Both my forelegs were wrapped around my slightly distended stomach. Actually, it was more of a small pudge. Well, that comes from eating two-thirds of the number of pancakes I was offered. What? We all sometimes pig out. Especially if you haven’t eaten for twenty-four hours.
“Well, somepony was definitely hungry.” said Luna, as she smiled down at me, which then turned into a slightly sad expression, “Especially after what you’ve been through.”
I give up. There's no convincing these crazy mares.
Hey Einstein, what was your first clue?
I will eat your heart.
Can't eat something that doesn't exist within the darkness.
Dear lord, Not Important from Hatred's got more of a cool factor to him than you do edgehog.
Suddenly the sound of a door opening caught my attention and in came Cadence... oh dear...
Luna turned around to face her niece and a smile came upon her face.
“Good morning, Cadence, how are you?” she said turning to face the Princess of love fully
Cadence eyed the foal carrier Luna was wearing. Or more it’s occupant than the carrier itself.
“So, it’s true.” she said in amazement, “A natural born Alicorn!”
Luna was wearing an extremely proud face at what she was going to say next.
“Yes! This is my child-”
BBBBBUUUUURRRRRPPPPP!
Cadence looked back up at Luna’s rather sheepish expression with a raised eyebrow.
“Who you have clearly overfed!”
“Well… maybe."
BOOOOM!!!
"What in Equestria was that?!" Celestia asked
"Yeahhh... that's part of the reason I'm here." Cadence explained, "Shining Armor got called in to help the new recruits train with explosives magic and- uh.... Luna? Is she feeling okay?!"
Luna then looked down at Tsuki who looked to be having some kind of panic attack.
"Ts-tsuki?! Please, calm down, it's just-"
"ARTILLERRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!" Tsuki hollered out
