“Are you sure about this, Pipp?” Misty asks as she walks with her sister.

“Misty, we have both wanted this for some time now, now is the best time to do this, have confidence in yourself,” Pipp said as she gently nudged Misty.

“Well, yeah it’s true, but I don’t really thin-” Misty was about to say, but she was cut off by Pipp giving her a hug and a gentle push.

“Come on, let’s go in, it’s time to give somepony a new life,” Pipp said as she pulled Misty into the orphanage.

“Princess Pipp! Princess Misty!” The earth pony mare behind the desk was shocked to see two of the three royal sisters in the orphanage.

“Hello Mrs. Harper, my sister and I would like to adopt a filly or foal please,” Pipp said proudly.

“W-wait, adopt!?” Mrs. Harper said, shockingly, trying her best to wrap her head around what she just heard.

Misty nodded softly, unable to look the mare in the eyes.

Being excited at what Pipp said, Mrs. Harper started grabbing some files for them to look at and forms to fill out, but then something clicked in her mind as she soon quickly remembered something that confused her about the situation going on.

“W-wait y-you two are sisters, right?” The mare asked awkwardly.

Both Misty and Pipp looked at each other and then looked at Mrs. Harper, they both nodded trying to figure out where she was going with this.

“And you two want to adopt?” She asked even more awkwardly.

Again, both Misty and Pipp nodded, still unable to understand what she was Implying.

“A-are you two, g-going to adopt a filly or foal, t-together?” Mrs. Harper asked, trying her best to not be rude, but she was just a little weirded out by this and she had to know.

Pipp instantly realized what she was talking about and quickly gave an explanation, “Oh, no, no, no, no, no, we are both wanting to adopt a filly or a foal separately, we are not in any sort of secret relationship or anything like that," Pipp said as she smiled sheepishly trying not to laugh. "To tell you the truth, and please don’t say this to anypony, but I can’t have kids myself, I have a medical condition that makes it almost impossible for me to get pregnant," Pipp said as she blushed, a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"Misty on the other hoof just doesn’t want to get married, let alone go through the process of pregnancy and childbirth, she got especially scared when she heard Zipp giving birth to Shining,” Pipp continued.

Mrs. Harper’s eyes widened once she heard Pipp, she became very apologetic, especially to Pipp once she knew she couldn’t have foals of her own. “Well, thank you so much for clarifying that, we have many fillies and foals here eagerly waiting to get adopted, and I’m sure they will be especially thrilled to know that royalty will be the ones choosing them.” She said very giddily.

Pipp winced at the last part, something that Mrs. Harper instantly realized, “Oh is something wrong?”

“Well, we do not want them to know that it is us that will be adopting, we do want to set up interviews, but we want to be hidden from them, Misty here has a spell that would change our appearance and voices, we want to meet them for who they are, not a show of them because they are trying to impress us, since we are royalty,” Pipp told her, hoping it’s ok for them to do that.

Mrs. Harper smiled gently, “I understand, by the rules, the ponies that want to adopt do have to be here personally, but given what you just said, I will bend the rules just a little, I will allow for the two of you to be in disguise, but you will have to reveal to them who you two are before the final papers are signed, for the adoption, they will make the final decision whether or not they do want to go with you, and if they don’t, then I won’t allow for you to sign the papers, understood?”

Misty and Pipp nodded eagerly, “Thank you so much, Mrs. Harper,” Misty said softly.

“Oh please, call me Lilly. Mrs. Harper is too formal,” she said as she started to gather everything.

“So how do we start?” Pipp asks as she jumps up and starts to fly a little, unable to keep her excitement. “Can we see some of the kids right now? Misty can temporarily cast the spe—”

“Before we meet the children, you two will have to fill these out and go through a background check and you will have to tell me where you will be living, by law I can’t allow for them to live in the palace, sadly. This is for equal rights and fair gains,” Lilly said, as she handed both Pipp and Misty a folder full of documents.

“Oh, pshhhh, we are way ahead of you with that last one, I have a house in Bridelwoods and Misty has her home here in Zephyr Heights,” Pipp said proudly.

“Oh well, ok then, will have to send a team to go check out your houses as well as see where the kids would be sleeping in, we will have to discuss about their education, they are right now enrolled in Zephyr Elementary, so you are ok with that one Misty, but with you Pipp, we will have to see the schools of Bridlewood to make sure that is a proper place for them,” She said happy to know that that was not going to be an issue on Misty's end.

“That will be fine by me,” Pipp said proudly.

“Ummm, if you will be doing a background check…” Misty said sheepishly.

“Oh we all know about your past Princess Misty, and we know very well that you are not that pony anymore, we will have to look into it, but most likely it will be disregarded and you should be fine,” Lilly said as she placed a hoof on Misty’s shoulder.

“Th-thank you,” Misty said as she looked at Lilly.

“Well ok then, the process will be slow, and you two won’t be able to meet any of the kids just yet, that would probably be delayed until next month, also the kids you do choose will have to live with you for a month, so I don’t know how your disguise will work, but you two can figure it out I hope,” Lilly said as she walked them out of the orphanage.

“The magic can be stored in a necklace, all I will have to do is charge it up every week, we can go to Maretime Bay and I can charge them up when we are alone,” Misty said as she took out her book and flipped it opened, she stopped at a page and showed it to Lilly, allowing for her to see what Misty was talking about.

“Well, that sounds ok to me, so like I said, the process will be slow, but hopefully, eventually, you two will be able to adopt a filly or foal in the future.

“Thank you, Lilly,” Pipp said as she hugged her and flew out of the door.

“This means a lot to us,” Misty said as she too hugged her and left.

“I know it does and you’re welcome,” Lilly said softly as she closed the doors.

Author's Note

Now this is something risky for sure