Flash yawned, as he opened his eyes and looked around his new room.

He was still having a hard time adjusting to his new situation, remembering six weeks ago when he had almost died saving Princess Twilight from a sniper. And now, he was her personal guard. Something her brother had decided she needed, fearing what happened in Canterlot could happen again.

As such, Flash had moved from the Crystal Empire and was now living in Twilight's castle. And he wasn't the only one.

Once he was dressed, he stepped out of his room and found Cluster and Runestone heading towards him. Both looked exhausted, having spent the entire night protecting the castle from nightly intruders. They had also been moved into the castle after being offered the position of Twilight's guard.

Whilst Flash was Twilight's personal guard, focused on protecting her person, they were to keep her castle and everyone else within it safe. And since that only included two other individuals, they didn't have much trouble with that.

The pair smirked at him, clearly too tired to have a proper conversation. Flash would be able to talk to them later, after they had gotten some rest.

He headed into the dining room and found Twilight there, eating a bowl of cereal whilst still dressed in her pyjamas. Flash had to admit, seeing her in such clothing was certainly interesting. When Flash thought of royal sleep attire, he didn't imagine yellow PJs with green stars and pink fuzzy slippers would be a part of them.

"Good morning," she smiled before pushing the bowl of cereal she had prepared for him. Flash had certainly been surprised, when he first arrived at the castle. The first morning, he had simply stood in the corner whilst Twilight, Spike, and Twilight's student, Starlight, ate their meals.

The three had been rather uncomfortable with him there, clearly not used to being watched as they ate and discussed matters of the day. And when Flash's own stomach had started growling, that had been embarrassing, Twilight had made him sit down and eat something.

Ever since then, Flash had joined them when eating their meals. Flash knew such a thing would usually be seen as improper, but Flash had quickly come to realise Twilight wasn't like most princesses.

The stallion started eating his own breakfast, whilst Spike stepped in carrying a bowl of his special cereal with crumbled up gems in it. Not something a pony wanted to risk eating by accident.

As they all ate, Flash turned to the spot usually taken by the castle's other inhabitant. "Is Starlight not back yet?"

"Nope," Twilight shook her head. "She's probably gonna stay another day or two. She and Sunburst haven't gotten a chance to spend much time together recently." Flash nodded, knowing Sunburst since he was a common sight at the castle as Flurry's Crystaler. Flash couldn't help but wonder who was going to be the other child's Crystaler. Flash hoped it was somepony worthy, since there was a chance the child...

Flash shoo his head, instead focusing on his breakfast. He quickly ate it all, whilst Twilight began slurping up the milk in hers. Flash never thought he would see a princess drinking out of a bowl like that. His new job was certainly full of surprises.

Speaking of surprises. Right as Spike took a large spoonful of his cereal, he suddenly started choking. He gasped and wheezed, making the ponies gasp as they got up. But before they could rush over and perform the Heimlich, Spike suddenly spat out a bunch of smoke.

Said smoke swirled around before forming a scroll that landed on the table.

Spike groaned. "I really wish she wouldn't send those during breakfast." Twilight rolled her eyes and grabbed the scroll, unfurling it and reading through it. And as she did, her eyes began to grow wider and wider.

"Twilight?" Flash asked, "what's up?" She seemed to be frozen, Flash reaching over and waving his hand over her eyes. This seemed to break her out of the spell and she suddenly squealed. "What?"

"Spike! Call the girls. They need to hear this!"

"Hear what?" Spike asked, as Twilight got up and ran out the door with the scroll in hand. The pair shared a look, neither knowing what the heck was going on.

Twilight refused to tell them the details, the alicorn getting dressed and also packing a suitcase. Flash wasn't sure what this was about, but she simply told them they would be heading to Canterlot. When Flash asked why, she said she would explain it when the others arrived.

And that didn't take long, as the five other mares of the Council of Friendship soon arrived. Mares Flash had gotten to know just as much as he had gotten to know Twilight. And whilst he wasn't piggish enough to only care about their looks, he had to admit they were all hot in their own way.

He found himself particularly attracted to Rarity and Fluttershy, the pair being beautiful in very different ways. It helped that they were both the bustiest of the six mares, which was something Flash had recently gained a great appreciation for.

Once they all arrived, they sat around their special map and turned to the excited and shocked Twilight. "So what's up?" Rainbow asked. "Your call sounded urgent."

"It was," Twilight stated. "I just got a letter from Princess Celestia this morning."

"Really?" Rarity asked. "If you're calling us, that must mean something big is going down." She looked worried. "Don't tell me another ancient evil has returned." The mares all looked worried by this, but Twilight shook her head.

"No. It's nothing dangerous. Actually, it's kind of the opposite. Instead of a new threat, a new hope has appeared." She took a deep breath, clearly trying to calm herself so she didn't explode with excitement. "Princess Celestia...is pregnant." Everypony's eyes widened, including Flash's.

"WHAT!?" Pinkie cried, standing up so fast her boobs bounced around inside her thin top. "She's pregnant. As in up the duff?" Twilight nodded.

"That's wonderful," Fluttershy smiled.

"Seriously," Rainbow smirked. "First Luna, now Celestia. And if you add in Cadance, that's three princesses knocked up in under a year. What, is it the year alicorns go into heat, or something?"

"Who's the father?" Applejack asked. "It's one thing for Luna ta keep him a secret. There's no way the public would let Celestia keep the one who did it a secret."

"I don't know," Twilight shrugged. "The letter didn't say. She just sent it to me and asked me to come and be there when she makes the official announcement."

"This is gonna be so great!" Pinkie cheered. "Now I get to throw another baby shower. Oh, but I haven't even finished planning Luna's yet. How do I schedule something like that, when Celestia's so busy?"

Spike, who had stayed quiet this whole time, finally spoke up. "I'm just amazed Celestia can still have a kid." Everypony looked confused. "What? Luna, I get. She was sealed away for a thousand years. If it was some kind of stasis, she wouldn't be affected. But Celestia actually lived all that time. You'd think being over a thousand years old, she would have gone through menopause or something a few centuries ago."

They were all about to give him an earful, but then stopped. "Actually," Applejack nodded, "that's a good point."

Twilight giggled. "Alicorns don't work like that. We don't have monthly cycles."

"You don't?" Rainbow asked. "So I've been avoiding you every month for no reason?" Twilight shot a glare at her. "What? You were really pissy back then."

"Anyway," Twilight carried on. "Alicorns don't ovulate, unless they mate with a strong enough stallion."

"Strong enough?" Fluttershy asked. "That's an odd thing to determine if you get pregnant."

"When I said strong, I meant magically strong. Every pony has a certain magic within them. Unicorn magic, Pegasus flight and Earth Pony strength. It all comes from our inner eternal magic. That's why Tirek was able to drain those abilities away from us. But not every pony's magic is the same. Some ponies have more potent magic than others."

"I don't follow," Rainbow stated before Pinkie pulled something out.

"It's like chocolate milk mix." She poured a pair of glasses full of milk, then opened the powder and took out a spoon. "Some ponies have barely a tablespoon." She dropped barely any powder into it, mixing it so that it barely changed. "And some ponies have a bunch of spoons. "She poured five spoonfuls into the glass and turned it incredibly dark. "See. Weak magic. Strong magic."

"That's..." Twilight frowned before shrugging. "You know what, let's go with that."

Rarity floated the glasses over to her and took a sip of the darker one, almost looking ready to throw up when she did. "So, whoever the fathers are, they have to have extremely strong magic?"

"Exactly," Twilight nodded. "The magic is in every part of a pony's body. From the hair on their head, to their blood and even their...reproductive fluids."

"Oh my," Fluttershy blushed. "So when the male...did it, inside of them, the magic in the stuff was strong enough to make them ovulate?"

"Mostly," Twilight nodded. "Apparently, the mares also have to have a deep attraction to the stallion and have a strong desire to have a baby. Guess Luna and Celestia really wanted to have a baby."

"Huh," Rainbow smirked. "Your brother's magic must be really strong, if he was able to get Cadance pregnant twice."

"Not really. Cadance had to slip Shining a special potion when they made Flurry. She told me about it when they said they were pregnant. It's how I learned about all this. I'm guessing she must have slipped him the potion again." Flash heard this and his brain was going nuts with thoughts.

Celestia was pregnant. If she had just found out about it, the symptoms that usually warn the mother of it had likely just shown up as well. That meant she was likely a month along, maybe more. Perhaps...six weeks.

Flash shook his head. There was no way in heck what happened all that time ago had really happened, right? And even if it had, there was no way Flash could...could he?

Flash's mind started replaying that night in his head. If it was true and he was the one who had impregnated Celestia, did that mean his magic was super potent. If Twilight was right about only strong males being able to do that, was he strong enough to impregnate a princess.

His mind then flashed back to Cadance's pregnancy, along with Luna's. If Shining had needed to take a potion in order to get Cadance pregnant the first time, did that mean this second pregnancy hadn't been from him. If it had been Cadance that night and Flash was strong enough on his own to do so, it was very likely he really was the father. Had Cadance allowed him to cum in her, because she didn't think he could impregnate her? Flash had to wonder what she was thinking, when she learned she was pregnant.

Then there was Luna, who Flash had dreamt about around the same time the princess should have gotten pregnant. But that had been a dream. Or was it?

"So," Twilight's voice broke him out of his thoughts, "I need to start packing for Canterlot. You girls can all come if you want, and if you're not busy. But if you wanna stay, you've got to promise to keep this quiet."

"WHAT!" Pinkie cried. "You want me to keep quiet about another baby?" She looked like she was gonna explode. "Come on. You can't expect me to do that. Last time I literally fell apart from trying to do that."

"Then come with us to Canterlot," Spike told her. "Everypony there will already know." Pinkie nodded, though she would need to get the okay from the Cakes. Twilight then turned to Flash.

"Are you okay coming to Canterlot? This'll be the first time I've ever travelled with an official guard."

"It'll be fine," Flash assured her. "But protocol dictates I do a full sweep of the train before you step onto it. Search every carriage and suitcase for explosives and other dangers that could lead to your harm. The train won't be able to leave the station for a few hours, so let's hope the other passengers aren't in a hurry."

Twilight's eyes widened in shock. Clearly, the thought of her being the reason so many ponies were held up wasn't sitting well with her. And no doubt, the ponies wouldn't appreciate him looking through their luggage.

She was just about to make another suggestion, when Flash suddenly started laughing. "I'm just kidding. I'll need to do a sweep, but I was given a special magical device that detects stuff like that. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes." The others laughed, whilst Twilight gave him a cute pouting face.

Everypony split up and headed off to prepare for their trip to Canterlot, whilst Flash's head was still swimming with possibilities. Could he be the father of two, maybe three, royal babies? If so, what did that mean?

If he was the father of Cadance's child, there was no way he could reveal that fact. He refused to ruin Cadance's life and make both Shining and Twilight hate her, him and the child. If he was the father, the best thing he could do for the kid was stay out of its life. If he stayed as Twilight's personal guard, he would likely spend time with it when it was born. But the best relationship he could hope for, was that of an honorary uncle. That was best for everyone.

As for Celestia, and maybe Luna, he wasn't sure what to do with that fact. Would anyone even believe he could get both mares pregnant? That just sounded like terrible fanfiction.

Flash wasn't sure how he could find out the truth about any of this. Maybe Celestia hadn't been the mare from that night. And maybe when her pregnancy was announced, she would also reveal the father's name. The father that wouldn't be him. But what if, whilst he was there, Celestia revealed he was the father. What would happen then? Would Flash be forced to become her concubine or something? To raise the kid whilst she ruled, basically turning him into a glorified nanny?

As Flash followed Twilight through the castle, he could tell she was excited about all of this. He didn't know what the future might hold for him. But he knew that so long as he faced it with his head held high and didn't waver, nothing would be too much for him.

Author's Note

Well, that's another one down. Will Flash ever discover the truth? Will he manage to somehow get another princess under his belt and make it to full set? Find out next time.