Mass Hysteria

Chapter 3: Bad News Meet Up

As Twilight slowly trotted towards Sugar Cube Corner she couldn't help but feel nervous. How would her friends react to the news she was going to share with all of them? What if they decided to shun her because of it? Every single one of Twilight's thoughts as the bakery came into sight were "what if..." scenarios, many of them having a bad ending. Once she was at the entrance to the bakery she hesitated, wondering if she should quickly head back to the library before anypony saw her, but when she saw Rainbow Dash and Applejack making their way towards the bakery side by side, she knew it was too late for that.

"Hey girls" Twilight said awkwardly, not sure what to say given the fact that she had called them all here.

"Hey" they both replied lazily, obviously having other things on their minds at the moment. Twilight sighed and headed into the bakery with them right behind her, only to walk into Pinkie and Fluttershy trying to calm down Rarity, who was in tears.

"I was so young, and now look at me!" Rarity cried dramatically, "I'm old and pregnant!"

"You too?!" Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy all said at the same time, quickly realizing what had just happened they all looked at each other in surprise, allowing time for an awkward silence to fall around them. They would each take turns trying to speak, but even Rarity was unable to say anything at this point, things were just too awkward now. Eventually Twilight managed to muster up enough courage to say something.

"Are we all pregnant?" Twilight asked nervously, getting some shaky nods from each of her friends, "Did any of use sleep with a stallion?" This time all of her friends shook their heads, saying no, but there was some hesitation from Rainbow that caught both Twilight and Applejack's attention.

"How did we all get pregnant at the same time?" Applejack asked, not understanding how all six of them got pregnant at the same time, "And for that matter, how did we get pregnant?"

"Well I don't know about you girls, but I know that I would never have done something as silly as sex before marriage" Rarity said, earning an angry glare from both Applejack and Rainbow, for two different reasons.

"Oh yeah, what about last week when you got completely wasted, huh?" Rainbow asked, the mention of Pinkie's party bringing the memories back to Rarity, "You probably would have done it with any jackass that walked by! Uh, no offense" Rainbow had turned to apologize to the donkey that had been sitting at another table, but he simply waved her off, used to the ponies in the town accidentally saying things that might be offensive to him.

"Yeah, and some of us have more down home values than you do" Applejack added in, obviously making a point of her family values.

"Girls!" Twilight shouted, making the three of them stop their argument before it really got going, "You can fight about that later, right now we need to find out what's going on" Applejack, Rainbow, and Rarity all looked down at their hooves, embarrassed about their arguing. Twilight let out a sigh of relief, happy that she managed to get them to stop for a little while.

"Now, does anypony know what might have happened to cause this?" Twilight asked, getting some confused looks from her friends, except for Pinkie. Pinkie had a look on her face like she actually had some sort of idea as to what was going on, but was nervous to say anything.

"Pinkie, do you know what's going on?" Applejack asked, having noticed her expression as well.

"Well, maybe..." Pinkie said sheepishly, but she quickly perked up, "What if we all got pregnant because some old ancient enemy of Celestia's is starting to break out of their magical prison, and then decided that by making us have to deal with foals they would get the Elements of Harmony out of the way?" Everypony looked at Pinkie with the same unamused expression until Twilight spoke up.

"Pinkie, that doesn't make any sense" Twilight said, somewhat annoyed that Pinkie would suggest something like that, "We've already faced every enemy that would want to attack Equestria"

"What if she was right about that magic thing though?" Fluttershy said quietly, ignored by everypony because they didn't hear her.

"Well, did we all go to the doctor thinking it was a flu, and then found out we were pregnant?" Rainbow asked, remembering her own experience. She had flown down to the hospital after finishing off her sandwich, and when she got in to see the doctor he concluded that she was pregnant, asked her to take a pregnancy test, and that ended up coming back positive. When she stormed out of the doctor's office she ran into Applejack, who had just had the same experience with a different doctor.

"I think we all did" Twilight said, looking around to see no pony objecting to what Rainbow had said.

"Well, actually I only went to the doctor's after I took a test at home" Rarity said, "I just wanted to make sure it wasn't lying to me" Twilight raised an eyebrow at Rarity but quickly shook her head so she could get her mind back on track.

"Ok, so now we just need to find out what caused this to happen, and then..." Twilight trailed off, her thoughts coming to an abrupt stop when she tried to think about what would happen next.

"And then what Twilight?" Applejack asked, waving a hoof in front of Twilight's face when she didn't respond.

"And then..." Twilight tried to finish her thoughts again, "I-I don't know" Everypony in the room gasped at the same time, surprised to see that even Twilight wasn't sure what to do now that they were pregnant. On that note they all left, each of them heading home to try and figure out what they were going to do now in private.