What the Future Brings

Late that afternoon Spike Sparkle looked through the window and saw Twilight, his younger self and Sparkfang reading a book together of Star Swirl the Bearded, an old favourite of Twilight's when she was a young mare. He sighed thinking about from years ago when he and Twilight got Sparkfang back.

*Flashback*

Shining Armor bruised and tired with his armour dented entered the throne room of the Canterlot Castle where the Mane Six, Spike, Cadence, Princess Celestia and Twilight and his own parents were as they were staying there so they could cope with the predicament together and comfort their daughter. As soon as Shining Armor let his nephew off his back, Twilight rushed over and scooped her son into a tight embrace.

"Sparkfang are you alright? Oh, I thought I lost you forever, I swear your father and I will never let you out of our sight again…my poor son." cried Twilight with tears of joy running down her cheeks.

Sparkfang only hugged his mother back scared of the last few days with the dragons.

Spike then joined in on the hug wrapping his left arm over his wife's body as she snuggled into his chest and petting his son's head with his right claw, trying to be brave in front of his son as he smiled sadly before releasing a sob and hugging the two of them tighter, praying that his family would never be shattered again.

Shining Armor was now being hugged by his wife Cadence and their own unicorn daughter Dazzler who was two years older than Sparkfang, with her white furred coat, pink mane and tail with three long strips of blue in both and her mother's eyes.

"Are you alright Shining Armor?" Cadence asked worried noticing the light scars that were thankfully, not bleeding.

Shining Armor only chuckled as he replied "A little bruised and tired but way worth it since I got my nephew back! And get to be with my own family."

Twilight and Sparkfang then went over to Shining Armor. Sparkfang was hugging his uncle by his left front leg while Twilight was holding her brother in a tight embrace.

"Thank you so much for saving my son, Shiny," Twilight said happily careful not to touch any of his bruises "I can't thank you enough!"

"Twily, you would have been willing to do the same if it was Dazzler who was taken," Shining Armor responded with a smile "and besides Sparkfang means as much to me as Dazzler!"

The rest of the Mane Six, Princess Celestia, Cadence, and Twilight's parents all had their turns of embracing Sparkfang, with Rarity having a flood of tears, even more then his grandparents came from her eyes as Spike sighed loudly, clearly annoyed.

Afterwards Twilight and Spike were smiling as they were watching Sparkfang climb up onto his father's back.

"Let's give this family some alone time" Princess Celestia ordered lightly as they others nodded before leaving.

"Twi, I'm sorry" Spike spoke softly facing his wife and looking deep into her enticing purple eyes as she gave a small smile.

"What for?" Twilight asked confused.

"For yelling at you when you just wanted to help find our precious son….our only child." said Spike looking down towards the floor curling his front claws in annoyance that he could not be there to protect his family, even though Twilight was more then prepared to take care of herself.

"It's just that Sparkfang was taken from us and I was afraid the same was going to happen to you if I let you-"

"No Spike you have nothing to be sorry for" Twilight said shaking her head "it's me who should be sorry!"

"Huh?" Spike asked confused.

"After defeated Nightmare Moon and Discord I guess I got too overconfident that I could take on your dad and your brothers and rescue our son with no problem." Twilight said with a loud sigh and gave another small smile watching their son try to catch his father's tail in his claws before she looked back into her number one assistant, her best friend and now her husband and father of their child's eyes.

"After seeing the bruises that Shining Armor, the trained captain of the Royal Canterlot Guard got made me realize that I could have ended up worse than him, maybe even with my magic. There is nothing for you to be sorry for, you were just trying to keep me safe…..in your own, loving, Spike the dragon sort of way" she chuckled as Spike did the same, understanding the he could be a small bit…overprotective.

"We had never had an argument like we had for the last few days before" Spike whispered sadly thinking of the past few days where they had only managed to settle their argument enough for them to be able to sleep together, having their way in the bed and kissing the other good night.

He honestly thought they were going to separate two nights from this day if Fluttershy had not informed them that his brother-in law was returning…..he had almost, in his rage of being a reptile, struck her, but she had used her magic then her right front hoof to slap him across the face, making the two of them cry in each other's arms once their anger had vanished, making Twilight come to terms with what she had done as they promised never to put their claws or hooves on one another in anger ever again….Spike only wanted to take that horrible night that could have ruined both their lives away from existence, but fate was never that kind.

"Spike…no marriage is perfect and even though we may have our disagreements and arguments once in a while I still love you just as much as I always and forever will have. It was mostly due to our stress and worry of our son that the argument was as it was in the first place….you know that we never meant to speak those hateful words to each other, right?"

They both nodded to that, it was then at this point that Sparkfang managed to climb to the top of his dad's head, getting bored with his tail and leap down landing onto his mother's head and messing up her mane, she ignored the pain and made sure he did got near her horn. Twilight and Spike both laughed as Twilight got him down, back into an embrace.

"We can go home soon" said Spike slowly "Celestia knows how much of wreck Ponyville is without their mayor!"

"I think Ponyville is doing just fine" chuckled Twilight kissing her husband on the lips.

*End of flashback*

Flying up to Firefly's house was a dark red furred Pegasus mare with a dark blue mane, and pale blue eyes she was coming home from her desk job at Cloudsdale Flight School.

Her name was Sunny Skies, husband of Rainbow Blitz and Firefly's mother.

She then entered into her house and smiled as she saw her husband Blitz, who she had met when Blitz moved into Cloudsdale.

Trotting into the kitchen she saw her daughter and the younger version of her mother in law seated, arguing over what the next Daring Doo novel would be about, as the books were still in print thanks to Rainbow Dash, element of Loyalty wanting to read more of her favourite heroine, it seemed the author never ran out of ideas for her creation because of Rainbow Dash and even though the author had since passed away the books were still being continued by a capable replacement who knew what he was doing.

She had only really gotten to know Dash from when she retired and moved into with them where she in her old age was mellow and not so talkative, before that the only time she had really got to talking to her was at her wedding to Blitz.

Blitz said his mom used to be boastful and arrogant (a trait passed down to their daughter) and from having to deal with the past version of Dash, Sunny could now see that was true (and swore she was dreaming after Firefly explained the situation with her).

"Hey mom I am wondering if you noticed but we ran out of cider in the house" shouted Firefly to her mother then eyed her grandmother with anger seeing the grown mare drink an ice cold glass of hard cider in between her hooves right before her very eyes as she growled, wanting to swear loudly but Fluttershy, who was just entering the kitchen for a green apple, narrowed her eyes not liking the foul language as Firefly paused then turned back towards her mother.

"I have noticed," replied Sunny looking at Firefly seriously "but due to your recent drinking problem I have decided you need to learn how to cut down…so we are going without cider for a while."

"WHAT?" screamed Firefly "come on, it's not really a problem!"

"Not really a problem?" asked Sunny incredulously "do you know how shocked I saw when I was told my own sixteen year old daughter had been arrested with a FUI!"

Firefly only grunted while Dash was sticking her tongue out at her before chucking down the rest of her drink with a loud, satisfied sigh causing Firefly to roll her eyes.

"Maybe I should just invite that nice Sparkfang to come live with us," Sunny said with a disapproved frown but a mischief glint in her eyes "he seems to be the only creature you ever listen to and it is to my knowledge that you have a crush on him!"

Sunny smirked as her daughter in an embarrassed annoyed tone shouted "MOM!"

As they got out of the room, with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy going to visit Rarity , Applejack and Pinkie Pie and Firefly following them to hang out with Dinky Pie, Blitz whispered to his wife as she cuddled closer to him on the couch that he laid on, reading the newspaper "I could not agree with you more, dear. Sparkfang Sparkle could very well be the male that Firefly needs!"

Sunny looked incredulously at her husband who was sporting a confused face on his face.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I don't got whip cream on my face like when we were dating again do I? I swear I only had one chocolate sundae this evening!" Blitz asked in a panic, thinking of how his mother embarrassed the daylights out of his fist date with his future mate.

"You're supposed to be an overprotective father ready to murder any colt, filly or hybrid who dares make any moves on his little filly…not actively supporting her getting together with one of her friends" growled Sunny playfully who then chuckled at the glare Blitz was giving to her.