Spoiled Rich stormed out of the clinic office, her daughter, Diamond Tiara skulking fearfully behind her.

"I don't know who you were slutting around with but you have a pedigree to maintain," snarled Spoiled. "You are not keeping that foal!"

Diamond's face turned bright red. "MOM!" She cried with an elongated o, utterly mortified at her public outburst. "Not so loud. I wasn't… s- slutting around. I have no idea how this happened." She gasped as she unfortunately locked eyes with Sweetie Belle, who happened to be sitting right there in the waiting room.

The two blushed and looked away from one another, raising their hooves to cover their faces as Diamond passed by to the exit.

Rarity chuckled nervously as she watched them disappear out the door. "Don't worry, Sweetie Belle. I'm sure it's just… something we ate?"

Sweetie Belle looked down at her subtle little pudge then over at her Sister, Rarity's and sighed in worry.

Trixie pushed up to the check-in window, stone faced. "Appointment for Trixie the Great and Powerful," she sighed.

"Okay," muttered the receptionist absently, shuffling her papers. "Yes. For a pregnancy test, right?"

Trixie frowned. "No, it's for prenatal and…" She lowered her voice. "I'm supposed to get screened for everything again."

"Prenatal?” grumbled the receptionist. “You should have an OB for that now."

"I know," pleaded Trixie, "but I can't really get one because I haven't established residency anywhere. Please, I swear I had an appointment for this."

The Mane Six sans Rarity and Rainbow Dash sat outside at a cafe table, waiting to start the meeting that Twilight Sparkle had called. Twilight and Applejack were lost in the dark burdens of their own thoughts while Pinkie and Fluttershy cheerily visited.

"What is it?" asked Pinkie Pie, popping the lid off of a little round tin. The contents looked like minced yellow leaves.

"It's herbal tea," replied Fluttershy thoughtfully. "It should help with the morning sickness."

"Oh, thank you," she smiled.

"Have you thought about names yet?" asked Fluttershy, leaning toward her excitedly..

"Sure have," chimed Pinky. "Gummy II if it's a boy and Cream Pie if it's a girl."

Fluttershy’s face fell as she stared at her, horrified.

"I'm kidding," laughed Pinkie. "I'm kidding I actually don't have any ideas yet.

"Oh,” she smiled in relief. “Can- can I touch your tiny bump?"

Pinkie shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. They said it's mostly just fluid in there right now though." She moved her forelegs away to reveal her stomach.

Fluttershy breathlessly placed her hoof on the bump. It was so small but the promise it held was so exciting. Fluttershy's lips quivered at the beauty. "I wish the Event had blessed me with a foal," she whined. "All I got was the clop."

Twilight rolled her eyes at Fluttershy's naive, whimsical take on what she viewed as a disaster and sinister conspiracy. "Well you can just count your blessings that you only got one malady. Honestly though, if I got to choose, I'd still take the STDs over the foal."

Apple Bloom wandered up beside her sister with a strained expression on her face. “Keep playin’ in the park, sugarcube,” ordered Applejack. “This conversation’s not gonna be for younguns.”

“Ah don’t feel good,” she moaned, setting her rump on the ground.

Applejack put a hoof on her forehead. “Ya don’t feel warm. Well… have a seat, Ah guess. Or ya can sit in mah lap.” She patted her thighs.

Apple Bloom shook her head. “Ah don’t wanna sit. Ah just wanna lay down on the ground.”

Suddenly, Rainbow Dash made a booming four-point landing by the table that startled the company. "Sorry I'm late," she yawned, getting into an empty chair.

"Good," nodded Twilight, scratching her nethers with one hoor. "Now that everypony's here, we can-"

"Wait," interrupted Rainbow, looking around. " Where's Rarity?

"At the clinic," replied Twilight, tapping her hoof on the table, trying desperately to keep it away from her inflamed crotch.

Rainbow Dash threw up her hooves. "Seriously? Her too? What did you all do without inviting me?" She crossed her arms and began to sulk.

"Nothin' happened to me neither, Rainbow," muttered Applejack absently.

"Ugh, no one did anything," grumbled Twilight. "Practically half of Ponyville was impregnated or infected. Try to pay attention. That's what we're all here to talk about. I have some ideas. Anyway, as you all know, some weeks back, something very strange happened. The Event, as we're calling it, can best be described as a mass amnesia phenomenon. During this mutual missing memory, much of the town's food vanished. Things moved around without explanation. Ponies were finding mysterious ejaculate-"

Rainbow chortled behind her hoof before Twilight shot her a glare.

"Mysterious ejaculate," Twilight emphasized, "seemingly without origin. As far as we know, the Event was localized entirely within Ponyville and the surrounding area. Clearly we are still dealing with the fallout from this as the full extent has yet to be revealed, particularly in the case of these phantom sexual assaults.

"All of the assaults seemed to happen at the same exact time," mused Pinkie, resting her chin on one hoof. "How is that possible?'

"A good question,” commended Twilight. “At first I thought it had to be multiple assailants. Very few of these assaults were reported to police and even less were cataloged. Many ponies probably weren't even aware it happened to them at all but I cross referenced my own vaginal swab with Pinkie's and what the police had and I found that it's amazingly all the same profile. One pony. We don't know who though."

"So we're talkin' 'bout some very powerful wizard who used a spell ta do all this." suggested Applejack.

"That's the most obvious explanation when you first think about it," agreed Twilight with a cringe.

Applejack shrugged. "What else is there?"

Twilight's eyes darted away, "Well there's also powerful enchanted items which anypony can use. But I think a good idea right now would be to revisit all of the evidence from the day of the Event. Everything strange that happened that day has some sort of connection and…" she paused to swallow. "You know… what else stood out about that day was Big Mac's untimely passing." Twilight's heart began to race as she ventured out onto the ice.

"Yeah…" replied Applejack slowly.

Fluttershy began to shrink down in her chair from the uncomfortable tension in Applejack’s tone.

Twilight bit her lip. There was no way to say any of this nicely. "So… with your permission, I'd like to exhume Big Mac's body to help us figure all of this out."

Applejack was silent. Her face pinched with seething resentment. Twilight could feel her insides shriveling up. Being struck dead would be preferable to continuing the conversation beyond this point.

Applejack shook but took a deep breath and spoke calmly. "Ya think Big Mac did all this somehow."

"No! No!" blurted Twilight in alarm even though that was exactly what she was getting at. "That's not what I'm saying. What I mean is when we buried Mac we- we weren't looking at his abrupt death through the same lens that we are now."

"Uh-huh,” she nodded before exploding. “Well whaddya want with his body then, Twilight? What exactly are ya lookin' to find?"

The rest of the group was silent as they stared down at the table.

Twilight flailed to find a reset but there simply was none to be had. "I- I just think-"

"Listen here!” spat Applejack, looking around the table. “Ah don't know 'bout this Event business but what happened with Mac is that he worked himself to death fer his family and Ah'm not gonna sit here an' listen to ya drag his good name through the mud, 'specially while we're all still in mournin'!”

Applejack shot up from her chair. "Fuckin’ goul," she whispered on the verge of tears. "C'mon Apple Bloom, we're goin’ home."

Apple Bloom struggled to her hooves but didn't make it more than two steps before bowing her head to throw up on the sidewalk.

"Oh, sugarcube," cooed Applejack piteously.

The others looked at each other gravely as Applejack held her little sister's mane back while she continued to wretch.

When it seemed as though Apple Bloom's heaving had subsided, Fluttershy spoke timidly. "Umm… Here." She held up another tin of tea. "I brought extra."

Author's Note

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