It was finally here. The day that forever linked Discord and Fluttershy: Their wedding day.

It was a sunny spring day, just after Winter Wrap Up, and everything was perfect. Rarity had arranged all the decorations in a precacious and delicate manner, and tried to fit Fluttershy into her wedding gown.

"Your belly is bigger than I expected!"

"I'm sorry."

"You can't help yourself, dear. You have a baby inside of you. Otherwise, you'd be skinny as a weed. It was my fault for not making this out of more elastic material. Now, let's see...We need a quick fix."

She looked around in her chest of emergency supplies and pulled out a girdle. She wrapped it around her friend and began pulling.

"Rarity...please be careful! I don't wannna hurt the baby!"

"It's going to inherit you and Discord's skinny genes! It should be alright!"

She pulled harder, but it just wouldn't stay.

"Oh, what are we going to do?! The wedding is in an hour!" Rarity panicked. "I can't let this all be for nothing! I've worked too hard!"

"It won't be, Rarity. We've just got to think."

"I didn't make another dress, Fluttershy! I'm a failure of a wedding planner!"

"No, you're not. Everything is wonderful, besides this minor mishap. I can just go without the dress and take the veil."

"But...the outfit fits together so perfectly..."

"Then I guess I'll just have to squeeze in."

She pulled the dress over her belly, but it only got through halfway before it ripped apart.

"Or...maybe not."

The white unicorn fell to the ground on her knees, then crawled into a fetal position. She was so frightened at the time that she didn't even need her couch to lie down on.

"Wait...Rarity, do you have other dresses at your boutique?"

"I suppose, but that's all the way across town. And none of the dresses are as elegant as that dress was."

"They'll have to do."

Despite her baby weighing her down, Fluttershy could still hover over the city streets and some small buildings. She had to avoid some obstacles, but in about five minutes, she dropped by the sidewalk of the boutique, more exhausted than she'd ever been in her life.

She managed to barely crawl inside and snag a white, frilly maternity dress that looked enough like a wedding dress to pass. It fit perfectly.

All she had to do now was fly all the way back across town and back to the wedding.

She said a brief prayer, then spread her wings to take flight.

"Wait...I could just take the shuttlebus."

She hopped on the bus and sped towards the wedding.

"No! No! I can't do it!"

Discord's friends were trying to drag him out of the carriage.

"Yes, you can!" they screamed.

"You don't understand! I-I'm afraid!"

"Them are just pre-weddin' jitters! You'll get over 'em!" pleaded Big Mac.

"These are more than just jitters!"

They pryed his hands from the doorframe of the carriage and placed him in front of the altar with Princess Celestia, who was presiding over the ceremony.

He tried to run, but they held him firmly in place.

"Don't make us hog-tie ya'. 'Cause we will," the big Earth pony threatened.

"I'm fine. I-I just need something to calm me down. Something-"

Rainbow Dash took out her phone and played an episode of Two and a Half Colts for him.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"

She stepped off the bus, thanking the driver.

"Fluttershy, thank goodness! I apologize for not getting the maternity dress earlier! Your belly was still so small, and I didn't think it would grow this big in a month!"

'It's okay, Rarity. Really, I-"

She coughed as her unicorn friend gave her a quick powder-up.

"Keep your head up, and don't forget to smile. Now, get in there!"

When she got to the steps of the room, she realized the immensity of this situation. The whole 'rest of your life with one person' things started creeping up on her, and Rarity had to hold her up.

"This is no time for pre-wedding jitters, now! I'm sure he's going through the same thing!"

She took a deep breath, and stepped inside.

Rainbow Dash put her phone away and watched as her friend was stepping toward her destiny. Derpy was on the organ, playing a messed-up version of 'Here Comes the Bride'. The Cutie Mark Crusaders did their job and sprinkled flowers in her path. She did her job and smiled, but was careful not to step on many of the flowers if she could help it. Angel was even by her side in a little tuxedo, walking with her down the aisle.

"A lot of the bronies will probably be mad that I'm marrying her instead of you," Discord whispered to the Princess.

"Not really. Discord x Fluttershy is the third most-common Discord shipping. Following you with me and you with Pinkie Pie."

"Pinkie would only like me for my chocolate rain."

"Probably so."

She finally got down to the altar. She grabbed his outreached hands, which helped her stand on two legs.

"Welcome, everypony. We are gathered here today to celebrate the union of two unlikely creatures; Fluttershy and Discord. Now, before we begin, allow me to read a passage from-"

"Ahem!"

Rarity pointed at her watch impatiently.

"Okay, then I'll just skip to the good part. Fluttershy, do you take Discord to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

"I do."

"And Discord, do you take Fluttershy to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

"BUCK YEAH!"

The crowd gasped, and the princess glared at him for using inappropriate language.

"I mean, uh, yes I do."

"Now, if anypony objects to this union, speak now, or forever hold their peace."

The room remained silent.

"Really? Nopony? Then, by the power invested in me and this rod..."

She used the rod to hit Discord over the head with.

"Ow!"

"...I hereby pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride."

As he lifted her veil to deliver the final step of sealing their marriage, he noticed that he had become caught in something; The sparkle in her eyes allured him like a fish to a worm It held him and just wouldn't let go.

As he bent down, Fluttershy could smell his centuries-old breath. It kind of smelled like the inside of an old book, but much, much stronger. She didn't mind the smell much, and they kissed harder and more passionately than they ever had.

"Eww!" Rainbow Dash averted her eyes.

"Aww," adored all the other bridesmaids (Twilight, Pinkie, and Applejack).

Just as they finished the kiss, Rarity pushed them to the other side of the room.

"Alright, let's keep it moving. We've only got this place for another hour."

They spent the rest of the wedding shoving cake in each other's mouths and laughing, nothing more than that, except the occasional chicken dance hosted by Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash could hardly grab a slice without feeling sick to her stomach with all the sappiness in the air.

"I'm, uh...I'm gonna go out for a smoke."

Fluttershy and Discord didn't even hear her, as they were too happy in each other's company.

She walked down the hall and closed the door gently behind her. She went outside and leaned against the brick wall, warmed by the Sun.

"Aw, who am I kidding? I don't smoke."

"That's good. It's a hard habit tah break."

Rainbow jumped 10 feet in the air when she saw Applejack right beside her.

"How long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough," she said as she huffed her cigarette. "Rolled this mahself."

"Oh, uh, that's cool."

They just scuffed their hooves against the pavement for a while.

"Ah don't buy cigarettes from them tobacco companies 'cause it ain't really tobacco they're puttin' in there. They add all those chemicals and whatnot. This 'ere is tobacco straight from the farm."

"I didn't know you guys grew tobacco."

"Well, sure. Y'all ever heard of a farm that makes a livin' by sellin' just apples?"

"...No?"

"Shoot, no. We got some squash comin' in already."

"Yeah, it...looks like a good year."

"Erm...how y'all handlin' this Fluttershy business? Ya' know, with her Fluttertyin' the knot."

"Hehe. Fluttertying the knot...You know what? Gimme one of those."

She rolled a cigarette for her friend.

"You got a light?"

She handed her a magnifying glass.

"Just let the Sun light it."

"Sounds dangerous. But cool!"

She carefully angled the magnifying glass and the butt of the cigarette. and sure enough, it caught fire right before her eyes.

"Whoa!"

"Purty neat, huh?"

"Yeah!"

She took a huff, and blew it out in a ring of smoke.

"I just never thought that...Fluttershy would get married. Pregnant at the same time...All of this before me."

Applejack's interest was peaked.

"I mean, all my life, I've been ahead of her. I'm a better flyer than her, a better public speaker, a better-"

"We get the point."

"Right. Now...she's the first to the punch...I guess I should congratulate her. But I can't handle all the romance that's going on 24/7 with-"

"Why ya' hate romance so much?"

"I dunno...it's all icky and sappy and...and I've never..."

"You've never...?"

"...I've never had a boyfriend."

She just stared for a minute, first at Rainbow, then down at her smoldering cigarette.

"Never ever?"

"Never ever ever."

"Never ever ever ever ever fer never ever?"

"Never ever never never ever ever never!"

"Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever?"

"Gah! Never ever never ever-"

They get caught in a battle of nevers and evers.

"Alright, Applejack, that's enough! I've never had a boyfriend, okay?!...how about you?"

"Ah'm in tha' same canoe. Ah've been so busy with farmwork, ah've never had time for romance."

"...Never ever ever-"

"Naw, we ain't doin' that again!" she laughed.

"Well...we'd best be clearing out. We don't want the bronies to think that we're shipping."

Applejack was suddenly fearful, and she ran back into the ballroom with her friend.

Back at the party, the dancing was suddenly interrupted when an unfamiliar face entered the room.

"Daddy!"

Sure enough, it was Screwball, and she ran over to hug Discord. He looked nervously over to Fluttershy, who was sort of half-glaring at him.

"'All made up', huh?"

"Fluttershy, it was 1,000 years ago. I-I'd never even heard of the word 'rubber'-"

"Aw, that's okay. I guess she can stay with us."

"Not really. I've had a lot of time to learn to take care of myself. I just came over to visit."

"Well, okay...I guess I'm your stepmom...Who's her mom?"

"No idea. I was drunk a lot 1,000 years ago," said Discord.

"Bye, everypony. Bye, Stepmom and Dad!"

Screwball sort of lifted into the air life a helicopter and crashed a few times before finally finding her way out.

This was about the time Rainbow Dash and Applejack came back.

"Uh...would somepony please explain who the hay that was?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"My stepdaughter, apparently."

"Oh, cool."