Raised by Pie

Chapter 4: Who Is The Father?

Pinkie was up bright and early in the morning, with the birds singing, the sun shining, and her face deep in the toilet bowl. For the fourth day this week she was woken up with morning sickness because of her surprise pregnancy, which everypony had attributed to the wild party Pinkie had thrown a little while ago. Twilight's been searching all over town for somepony who matched Pinkie's vague description, but no pony seemed to even come close to matching it. All of her friends asked how Pinkie managed to get with the hardest to find pony in the town. How were they supposed to find a chocolate color pony with dirty grey hair? Even though many ponies would imagine he would be easy to find, Twilight and the others were having an extremely hard time with it.

"Pinkie, you feeling sick again?" Twilight asked from the hallway, getting a gurgled yes as a response, "Okay, well come downstairs when you're feeling better, there'll be plenty of eggs for you to eat" Pinkie choked out a response to let Twilight know she heard her, and then started thinking about everything that had happened to her recently. First she lost her surrogate parents, and then learned that she would be taking their places by herself. Now she's staying with Twilight and all of her friends were on a hunt for the mystery stallion that impregnated her. It seemed like a lot of wasted effort, but Pinkie appreciated what they were doing for her, not many other ponies would go that far for a friend. By the time Pinkie was done thinking about the recent events she was feeling well again, so she decided to head downstairs.

"Feeling better now?" Twilight asked over the morning paper when Pinkie entered the room.

"A little, still somewhat uneasy" Pinkie answered honestly as she sat down, looking at the pile of eggs that sat in the middle of the table. She quickly took at least half of the plate for herself, eating all of them at once. Spike seemed surprised and annoyed that she did that, but he shrugged it off and walked into the kitchen so he could get himself some gems for breakfast. Once Pinkie had finished off her mountain of eggs she turned to Twilight, who had gotten up and was waiting by the front door.

"What's up Twilight?" Pinkie asked, cocking her head to the side as she did. Twilight looked out the window before turning back to Pinkie, a small smile on her face.

"Oh, just looking to see if everypony is coming" Twilight answered, looking back outside the window as a knock came from the door. She moved to open it, with Applejack and Rainbow Dash standing on the other side. The three of them hugged before Twilight let them in, showing them to the table Pinkie was sitting at.

"Hi girls" Pinkie said with a smile, getting two big smiles in return.

"Hi Pinkie" the two of them said at the same time, both of them happy to see Pinkie in a good mood. The two of them sat down across from her while they waited for everypony else to arrive, which was going to take a while. After at least an hour of waiting Fluttershy and Rarity showed up, late because Rarity had an appointment to the spa and Fluttershy was too nice to make her leave early.

"Sorry for being late darling, we had an appointment at the spa, and I must have lost track of the time" Rarity said, as her fine done mane bounced as she stepped up to the table, her hooves shining in the light from the windows enough to blind Applejack. Applejack fell to the ground as she held her eyes, being quickly helped by Rainbow. Rarity looked at them like there were crazy, which made everypony, except Applejack, roll their eyes.

"Ok, now that everypony is here, there's something important I need to tell everypony" Twilight said as she trotted over to the table, looking at all them to make sure they were paying attention before she continued, "I've found who the father is" There was a chorus of excited "Ooh"s from everypony, who were anxiously awaiting the news. Twilight coughed to clear her throat before saying it, using it to give dramatic effect to what she was about to say.

"The father is..." Twilight gave them all a look to see if there were really ready for it, "Discord" Everypony just gawked at Twilight as if she had gone mad from all of the new books she had been reading lately since her princesshood, many of them being about insane spells that could probably rip the fabric of reality apart if used too much. Once their mouths were shut they all looked at each other, still trying to wrap their heads around how Discord was the father of Pinkie's child.

"Could you explain this to us dear?" Rarity asked, being the first of them to get their minds to work again. Twilight looked at them in confusion for a moment before blinking as she shook her head, remembering that they hadn't been studying the books she was.

"I was looking at one of my books last night and found a spell that Discord had used back before Celestia and Luna sealed him away the first time, "He was able to turn into a pony for twenty four hours, which was long enough for him to attend Pinkie's party, but what got me was this..." Twilight trailed off as she used her magic to retrieve the book from her bedroom.

"When in pony form Discord appeared as a chocolate stallion with dirty grey hair, his eyes a bright yellow that seemed to glow in the night" Twilight read out loud, making everypony look at each other in surprise. The first part of the description matched what Pinkie could remember, but the glowing eyes seemed a little odd considering they stood out enough that Pinkie shouldn't have missed it.

"Is that why he was taken back to Canterlot?" Applejack asked, remembering Pinkie's cries as her reliable source of chocolate milk was taken away for some unexplained reason that left everypony in confusion. Celestia had sent Twilight a letter asking for her to send Discord away, probably because of his altercation with the Mayor over his living conditions. Apparently, floating house spinning at dangerous speeds, was unacceptable in Ponyville.

"Not necessarily, there was no way Celestia should have known about it" Twilight answered, looking over to see Pinkie with a small smile on her face, "Pinkie, is everything okay?" Everypony's heads slowly turned to look at her, all of them now seeing the large smile that was on her face.

"Pinkie?" Applejack asked when Pinkie didn't respond. She slowly turned to face all of them at once, her smile growing to the point where it was the biggest feature on her face.

"I'm just so happy to be having Discord's foal!" Pinkie cheered happily, making everypony fall out of their chairs from the shock. The sudden thud made something click in Pinkie's head, signalling the return of her morning sickness, which would now be fueled by at least a dozen eggs. Once she was gone everypony else got up, looking at the door to the bathroom where Pinkie was hurling. They all shook their heads and then headed off, as they still had their jobs to do, except Twilight, who was going to be spending her day trying to figure all this out.