On a nice day, Twilight and her friend went to the Crystal Empire to see Cadence and have a little lunch. When the Mane Six arrived at the Crystal Castle, Twilight ran up to meet with her sister-in-law. “Cadence!” Twilight said excitedly.

“Twilight!” Cadence said excitedly as well, as they did the “Sunshine, Sunshine” routine.

“We’re so glad you could invite us, Cadence.” Starlight said. “It’s not often we come when there’s no monster or an important matter to discuss.”

“I’m so glad you all could come.” Cadence said. “I know you are hungry, and I know a great restaurant we could eat at.” They started to head out the castle to the restaurant. “Let’s go!”

They arrived at the Crystal Hayburger (Strange name. I know) and sat at a table for 10 ponies. 2 of which would come later. The waiter came out to take their order. “Can I get you anything?” He asked.

“Just water will do, thank you.” Cadence told him. “We have two more joining us.”

“Of course, Ma’am.” He said and went to get them their water, and brought it to the table before leaving to check on another table.

“We have more friends coming?” Twilight asked.

“Yes.” Cadence told them. “They’ll be joining us shortly before we order. Right now, we’re waiting for them.”

“Who else is coming?” Rainbow asked confused. “Shining Armor and Flurry Heart?”

“Sunburst and Trixie?” Starlight asked.

“Thorax and Ember?” Spike asked.

Cadence just giggled. “No. Though those are all nice guesses.” She said to them. “I think you may know them.”

Twilight was about to ask who was coming when suddenly, a bright yellow hippogriff with a blue mane was hovering over the Empire, scouting for somepony. She finally saw Twilight and her friends and landed right in the chair right in front of them. Pinkie and Twilight were shocked and amazed as they didn’t expect to see her here...of all places...of all days! “SKYSTAR?!” Twilight and Pinkie asked in shock.

“AHHH, Twilight! Pinkie Pie!” Skystar said excitedly. “It is so good to see you again!” She swooped down into the chair next to Pinkie Pie. “How have you all been doing!?”

“We’ve been doing great!” Pinkie Pie said happily.

“I’m so glad you could come, Skystar.” Cadence said to her. “We haven’t seen you in such a long time!”

“That’s what I was going to say.” A voice said. The group wheeled around and saw a regal pink hippogriff standing right in front of them. Twilight was surprised as she didn’t expect to see her here since after the wedding. She hid herself in her wings nervously. “N—Novo!” She said shocked.

Novo giggled at the sight of Twilight hiding herself in her wings. “Are you still scared about what happened years ago when you saved Equestria?” She asked. “I thought I forgave you for that.” She smiled.

“True, I did forgive you.” Twilight said as she retracted her wings. “I’m just scared with what you did to her after that!” She pointed to Skystar furiously.

The hippogriffs giggled. “Twilight, that’s all in the past. We let bygones be bygones. Surely, you forgot about that?” Novo said. “Besides, everything’s okay. We just wanted to join you for lunch.” Twilight blushed a pure shade of red.

“Oh. Sorry.” Twilight said, almost embarrassed. Novo only chucked.

“It’s alright.” Skystar said. “Now, I believe someone has an order to make?”

They all ordered their food which got delivered to them in a matter of minutes. As they were all munching on their goods, Someone would reveal something exciting to the group.

“Okay, I know I’m not supposed to know, but I do.” Skystar said. “And I’m so excited for you!”

“What? What’s going on?” Rainbow asked.

“Fluttershy’s pregnant!” Pinkie Pie said as Skystar nodded.

The others were shocked as they heard this news. “Land sakes!” Applejack said in shock. “Is that why you guys had to get married?!“

Fluttershy was shocked as she gasped and her wings sprung up. “Guys! I’m not pregnant.” she said.

“Ah.” Novo said. “Slow swimmers?” She asked, looking at Twilight who was as shocked as her.

“What?! What do you mean?” Pinkie asked. “You-you-you’re not pregnant?”

“You didn’t tell anybody I was, did you?!” Fluttershy asked, still feeling shocked.

“No!” Pinkie replied to her.

“Hey Flutters!” Starlight asked. “Why did you tell the guys you weren’t pregnant?”

“Because I’m not.” Fluttershy said bluntly to her.

“We found your test in the trash.” Starlight said to her. “If you’re not pregnant, it’s because I am.”

“What?!” Twilight and Novo both said as their wings sprung up like a spring!

“What are you talking about?“ Twilight asked, further shocked.

“What are you talking about?” Fluttershy asked, repeating her wife’s question.

“Yes, I…I am with child.” The time travelling unicorn said. “And I didn’t want to say anything because it’s your day. I didn’t want to steal your thunder before your wedding.”

Everyone was shocked upon hearing that Starlight Glimmer was pregnant. They just couldn’t believe it! “Wait a minute! So you told ponies I was pregnant?!” Fluttershy asked in shock. “Does this look like a conversation that I want to remember?!”

“Who’s the father?” Twilight asked, wanting to know.

“Yeah.” Novo said in agreement.

“I can’t say.” Starlight said.

“Why?” Twilight asked.

“Why not?” Cadence asked, shocked.

“I can’t say because he’s famous.” Starlight said, still staying oblivious about it.

“Oh my God, who is it?!” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Starlight, Darling! Come on!” Rarity said. “You have to tell us.“

Starlight took in a deep breath. “Okay, okay. It’s Skybeak.” She said. “Skybeak is the father of my baby.”

Novo’s winged sprung up again. “As in the hippogriff captain Skybeak?” She asked surprised.

“What?!” Starlight said shocked. “Well, he never said that to me!”

Later on, when they were finishing off their meals, Starlight was still shocked when she told everybody she was pregnant. Unbeknownst to her, Rainbow Dash was feeling uncomfortable about something, and she decided to talk to her about it.

“Oh my god!” Starlight said to her friend.

“Oh, thank you for doing that, Starlight.” Rainbow said to her friend, feeling stressed. “I just can’t deal with this just quite yet.”

“So instead you told me Fluttershy was pregnant...” the time mare started.

“...You said that she was, I just didn’t disagree with you.” Rainbow said.

Starlight developed a devilish grin. “Sneaky.” she said.

“Oh yeah.” Rainbow smirked devilish as well. “Oh by the way? Skybeak?”

“Oh, I know. I could only think of two names, him and Sunburst.” Starlight said. “And then, I remembered he lives here.” She pointed to where Sunburst lives which happened to be just a few blocks from the restaurant. “So, are you ready to talk about it?”

“No.” Rainbow said, still nervous.

“Now?” Starlight asked again.

“No!” Rainbow was now on shouting level as she was still nervous.

“Okay, we’ll talk about something else then.” Starlight said.

“Thank you.” the wonderbolt said. They were silent for a few minutes not saying anything. Finally, Starlight broke the ice again.

“Who’s the father?!” she blurted out.

“Ugh!” Rainbow groaned in stress. “Look honey, y’know what? I haven’t told him yet! So until I do, I don’t think I should tell anybody else.“

“Yeah. That’s fine. That’s fair.” The time pony said. She then thought of something. “Is it Soarin?”

“STARLIGHT!” Rainbow shouted in frustration.

“Okay, I’m sorry. I’ll stop.” she confessed.

“Good!” The wonderbolt said.

Just then, she thought of something else. “Is it Spike?” She asked. “It’s Spike, isn’t it?”

“Star, stop it!” Rainbow said in frustration, now boarding on anger. “I am not going to tell you until I tell him.”

“Ah-hah!” Starlight said in realization. “At least we know it’s a him.”

She then left to go to the bathroom and Twilight, Pinkie and the hippogriffs sat by Rainbow, wondering how all this happened. “Can you believe Starlight got pregnant?!” She asked in shock.

“Oh, y’know what, Egghead?” Rainbow said stressed. “Let’s not talk about that right now.”

“This is so huge.” Pinkie said in agreement.

“Sure, but come on, as big as your wedding?” Rainbow asked.

“Of course not.” Twilight said, cool and collective. “Nothing is between me and you…” Starlight nodded. “Besides, in this day and age how dumb do you have to be to get pregnant?“

“Hey!” Rainbow shot back, feeling offended. “Y’know, sometimes you can do everything right! Everypony can wear everything they’re supposed to wear, and one of those little guys just gets through!”

“How?” Twilight asked.

“I don’t know! Maybe they have tools.” Rainbow guessed.

“Well, W-We talked to Starlight and uh, she’s definitely going to have this baby.” Skystar said. “Y’know, she said she was gonna raise it on her own.“

“Well, maybe that’s, maybe that’s really brave.” Rainbow said, feeling a combination of brave and nervous.

“Maybe.” Novo said in agreement. “I just hope she realizes how hard it’s gonna be, Honey.”

“Maybe she hasn’t really thought it through that well.” Rainbow told them.

“Well, there’s a lot to think about.” Twilight said to her. “I mean, how is she going to handle this financially? How is she going to juggle friendship lessons? Does she realize she’s not going to have a date again for the next eighteen years?” She was in twilighting mode again.

Rainbow heard this and started to cry. “I don’t know.” she said, as she started sobbing in her arms.

The others took notice and were surprised at how she was crying at this news. “Are you okay?” Novo asked, putting her wings around her like a mother would.

“Uh-hmm.” The wonderbolt said sadly, as she raised her face from her hooves. “I’m just thinking about Starlight! Poor knocked-up Starlight!”

Just then, the waiter came by with a bottle. “Champagne?” he asked.

“Oh yes! Thank you very much!” Rainbow said as she took a glass and poured some champagne in it. She then realized what she did and spat it out while no one was looking. Unfortunately, Twilight, Novo, Skystar and Pinkie Pie all noticed.

“Oh that’s-that’s actually how the Prench drink it.” She apologized. This made all four of them gasp in shock as Twilight, Skystar, and Novo’s wings all spring up as they now just realized who was really pregnant! It was Rainbow Dash!

A few minutes later, Applejack and Starlight both came back from the bathroom and saw the girls who were talking about who was pregnant. “Well, we got back from the bathroom, Y’all.” Applejack said to them.

“Oh, really?!” Pinkie Pie asked sarcastically and angrily.

The two mares didn’t know what to make of this. “Uh, what the hay is going on?” Applejack asked in confusion.

“Rainbow Dash is really the one who’s pregnant.” Twilight told them.

Starlight and Applejack were now shocked as they knew what happened. “Oh my god!” They both said in shock.

“How do ya feel, RD?” Applejack asked her friend.

“I don’t know.” Rainbow replied shocked. “I don’t know how I feel! This is all happening so fast. I have to make all these decisions that I don’t want to make.” She took a drink of champagne and spat it out again. “Somebody just take this away from me!!” the waiter came over to the table and took the champagne away.

“Calm down.” Starlight said. “Maybe you’re not pregnant.”

“What?!” The wonderbolt asked bluntly.

“Maybe it’s a false positive.” Twilight said.

“We’re just saying, don’t freak out until you’re 100% sure.“ Skystar added.

“All right, I’ll-I’ll take it again when I get back to Cloudsdale.” Rainbow said, giving in.

“You gotta take it now, Dash!” Applejack said serious to her.

“Come on, do it for us!” Twilight said.

Rainbow looked at the mares around her, smiling and hoping she would do it for her friends. She took in a deep breath. “Okay. Thank you.”

“Okay!” Applejack said. “I’ll run out and get you one.” She did so, to get her a pregnancy test.

“Oh, you guys are so great.” Rainbow said as she blushed happily.

“Oh, wait a minute!” Pinkie gasped. “Who’s is the father?!”

“Oh no, she won’t tell us.” Starlight said, serious.

Applejack came back with a test. “See? This is why ya’ll register.”

Later after lunch, Applejack, Starlight, Pinkie, Twilight, Rainbow, Skystar and Novo all went to the castle of Friendship’s throne room to check if the wonderbolt was really pregnant.

“How much longer?” Rainbow asked, not wanting to wait for much longer.

“30 seconds.” Twilight told her.

“30 seconds, okay.” Rainbow said, taking in a deep breath of determination.

“Rainbow Dash, I-I want you to know that, if it’s positive, we’re gonna…” Novo started to tear up as she said that.

Rainbow smiled as she welled up with tears as well. “Oh, I know. I know.” she said as the girls all went in for a group hug.

Applejack check the test. “It’s time, Y’all.” She said.

Rarity was about to come in, but she was stopped by the girls yelling. “No!!” they all said as Rarity backed out and left.

“Go ahead, Rainbow.” Skystar said as the others nodded. It was time.

Rainbow started to look, but then shied away. “Oh wait!” She said nervously. “Y’know what? I can’t, I can’t look at it. I can’t. Somebody else tell me, somebody tell me.“ The others were shocked that she refused to look at it.

Starlight took it and saw that it was negative. “Okay. It’s negative!” She said.

Rainbow’s ears perked up. “What?”

“It’s negative.” Starlight said again.

Rainbow Dash was relieved as that meant she didn’t have to worry about being a mother. “Oh. Oh. Well there you go. Whew!” She said happily. “That is—that’s great—that is really great-great news. Y’know ‘cause the whole not being ready and kinda the financial aspects, all that. Whew. Wow, this is so just the way it was supposed to be. God.” She started to cry.

“Well… Well, great.” Twilight said with relief and happiness.

“Here.” Novo said as she gave her a tissue, which Rainbow blew on it.

“Thanks. God, this is so stupid!” She cried. “How could I be upset over something I never had? It’s negative?”

Novo checked again and she and Starlight were shocked that it came out positive. “No, it’s positive!” She said.

Rainbow’s ears perked up and her jaw dropped down in shock. “What?!” she asked.

“It’s-it’s not negative, Rainbow.” Starlight told her, “It’s positive.”

“Are you sure?” Rainbow asked, making sure.

“Well, yeah.” Starlight said. “I lied before.”

“Oh my god!” Rainbow cried out in shock!

“Oh God…” Novo said in shock.

“Now, you know how you really feel about it.“ Pinkie said as she came up to her.

“Oh-oh, that’s a risky little game!” Rainbow said, snarky and angry and excited at the same time In response to what Pinkie said.

“Are you really gonna do this?” Skystar asked in shock, while the others wanted to know.

“Yeah. I’m gonna have a baby.” She said. “I’m gonna have a baby. I’m gonna have a baby!“ Everyone all cheered as they all pulled her in for a group hug. “I’m gonna be a mom.” She said happily and calm as she embraced this one moment.

“With who?” Applejack asked.

“Ah, it’s still not the time.” Rainbow said. At that moment, Spike came in.

“Still not the time for what?” Spike asked confused.

Rainbow blushed as she saw Spike was here. She turned to the others and all nodded. She breathed in and out. This was it. There was no turning back. “Umm, Spike? I think there’s something that we really need to talk about.” She said, embarrassed.

“Oh sure.” He said as he walked to her. “What?”

Rainbow gulped. “Spike, I’m pregnant.” She said. This made his open his mouth and widen his eyes in shock. “And you’re the father by the way.” She smiled nervously.

Spike was now frozen in shock as he didn’t know what to say next. Finally, after a few minutes of silence, he spoke. “What?” He asked. “I’m the father of your kid?” He asked. “Your kid? YOUR KID?!?!”

Everyone was shocked that Spike had yelled in complete shock due to how he responded to all this. They all thought he’d react normally and calm, like anyone else would and they would talk this out and figure out how Spike could be a good Dad. But, what his was reaction was...was way too much for them to comprehend.

“Uh, Actually, Spike?” Starlight told him. You and I are also the father and mother of the kid. She gulped as soon as she said that.

This made everyone shocked as they didn’t know that Starlight was part of Rainbow and Spike being together and having that sex session during that time. “WHAT?!” Everyone except Starlight shouted in shock.

“OH MY GOD!” Spike said in horror as he threw his claws up in the air, and on his head.

Twilight was shocked to see him act like this over such happy news. “Ugh!” She said frustrated. “Like I can stop you for reacting like that! You’re becoming mental!” Everyone was surprised that Twilight had said such a thing to her assistant, now father of Rainbow Dash’s kid. And Spike was surprised that he was now that father of a kid that a rainbow maned wonderbolt was having and would be sharing with a time travelling lavender, and cyan hairlined unicorn!

It was going to be a shocking, yet amazing long ride for Spike as he would now be the father of a kid that his friend now has, but also that his friends would be there to help him.

Author's Note

And, that’s all for this chapter! Rainbow Dash is pregnant, and Spike’s the father?! And Starlight is sharing the kid as well?! That’s big news to talk about. How will their friends cope with all this? The answers to these and other questions will be revealed in the next chapter!