#15

I couldn't understand anything at this point, a tiny pony was on its back, looking up to me waving a hoof. She flipped around but struggled to stand on its hooves. I let my eyes carefully study the tiny pony as it kept on tripping over its own hooves, trying to move up to me.

"Hi- (She fell)"

"Have you- (Again)"

"Seen my-(Again)"

"Ow…that one hurt," she said starting to whimper as she rubbed her muzzle with her hooves. "Can you help me? Please?"

I looked at the small pony as she held out both hooves toward me indicating she wanted me to carry her. I glanced at both K and the princesses but all they could provide was a shrug as I slowly walked to her. She almost lit up with joy upon seeing me walk up to her, she held out her hooves shaking them like a baby would and held an open-mouth smile. I kneeled down and hovered my hands over her sides before attaching them, I had to take a deep breath before finally picking her up.

"HA! Take that stupid grass!" She said as I lifted her and held her in my arms, holding her in the most comfortable position I could think of for a pony. She was about a foot and a half in length and height and weighed about six pounds. She had a light-pink color along with a blond mane that was hanging off one side and curling at the end. Her eyes were light green and resembled shining jade-stones.

I cautiously looked down at her as she looked back up at me, she had a playful smile going that made me drop nearly all my guard and slightly smile back. I turned to K and the princesses that were eyeing me strongly as I began to tickle the little young one and play around with her.

"AH! Stop please!" she said giggling all the way till I stopped when she finally got to take a deep breath and let out the laughter she still had. I laughed along as I let her climb her way up to my neck and peer her head over mine. She held on with her hooves on my head and her legs down my neck.

"Wow, I can see so far!"

"Yeah!"

I looked back at the princesses and K who all had their jaws dropped wide in disbelief. I began to move over to them as the little pony began to indicate many places that I already knew. The princesses admired with amazed smiles but K was just looking up to the skies and then back at me as I finally arrived in front of them.

"Is this really our downfall?" I asked as the pony began to ruffle my hair, "It's so spiky!"

"She clearly can't be evil, she's so cute!" Luna said walking around to my side looking up the pony, still playing with my hair, "Ah! It tickles too!"

"Obviously this little filly wouldn't hurt anyone!" Celestia said going the other side of me and admired the little one. K walked up to me and stared at the pony with a cocked eyebrow, expecting something to happen.

"This is her…Ha! She's young!" K said reaching his hand out to the little pony and tickled her a little under her mouth.

"EEE! Another one!" She yelled. I couldn't believe I was worried about a little pony that has the mind of a newborn and can even move straight. That was kinda sad though.

"Hmm…I'll admit, she seems harmless," K said grinning a little as he shook his head with laughter. I smiled to see him actually laugh with a reason and be a little soft for a change. The princesses seemed to a more playful side, Luna was making silly faces to the little one while Celestia giggled at her sister's act.

"I like it here…" The little pony whispered enough for me to hear and start thinking about some questions concerning where she came from. I reached my hands over my head to pick her up and place her in my hands again. Upon seeing her for the second time I noticed she had a tiny horn on sticking out through her mane, Aww! So cute!

"Hey, what's your name?" I asked being friendly about it, she looked up to the sky and thought about it for a few seconds. She looked back at me with a smile and seemed to have an answer.

"I don't have one!"

I lifted an eyebrow as the others got closer and I also did the same.

"Umm…where are your parents?" I asked next hoping to get somewhere from the nameless pony.

"They…!" She said quickly raising her hoof up before she slowly lowered it and her smile turned upside down. Tears began to form over eyes and began to stream down onto my arm as I stared, moved a little by her reaction.

"They...told me to find another mommy and daddy," she sobbed, instantly causing me to wonder, "how is a little baby like her supposed to find new parents". It saddened me to think of such a parent, even if it was a common thing in the past, I couldn't imagine someone like this pony being left to face the world alone.

"What!?" All three of those in front of me said as they began to feel something similar to me.

"They died," she said making everyone flinch back and stare at her as she wiped away her tears with her hooves. I somehow expected such a thing, parents here wouldn't be that messed up and leave their offspring to go like that. I began to slowly stroke her body trying to get her to calm down but she was drenching me in tears.

"I don't have a name or parents, why!?" she said burying her head into my arm and continued sobbing. I looked up at the princesses and K as they looked back at me, signaling me to calm her down. My hand continued to sooth her and seemed to have some effect since her sobbing began to soften and her tears became lighter.

"Don't worry, I don't have parents either but I do have friends and I'll be your friend!" I said holding her tighter, I could relate to how she was feeling. She looked up at me with wide-eyes and continued to stream warm tears.

"Really? You will be my daddy?"

I quickly wanted to respond with yes just to make her feel better but I really didn't know that much about being a father, especially to a pony. I was stuck in between a heartbreaking/heartwarming decision. My mind pictured both scenarios with results and I just couldn't make up my mind. The sudden appearance of such a question also shocked me.

"I…I…"

I looked up to see K smiling widely and raising his thumb in approval but the princesses were completely lost and waiting for me to answer her. I looked down at the pony that was looking up to me with a look full of faith and hope. My mind was instantly tilted to one side and now I was thinking, "why did I even think about it?"

"Yeah! Sure! I'll be your daddy" I said holding her up to the sky and looking up to her smiling widely, I couldn't believe it but I just agreed to adopt a filly. My mind was instantly filled with joy at the thought that I would be taking care of a filly for now on, how hard can it be? She instantly escaped my hands and clung onto me as she quickly began crying tears of joy.

"Daddy! Daddy!" She sobbed as I held her in my hands as K placed his hand on my shoulder and chuckled a little before congratulating me with a small punch to my arm. I looked up to the princesses, Luna was holding in her happiness with her hoof while Celestia smiled at me with that motherly look from before.

"Well, I guess I'm a…"

*CRASH*

I quickly turned around along with everyone else to face the lightning crash we heard from behind me. I carefully looked into the dust that was covering the everything in front of me. My eyes remained hooked on the smoke when instantly a bolt of lightning launched from the smoke coming straight at me. I quickly drew my sword and slashed at the bolt causing it to return to where it came from, parting the smoke allowing me to see at what hid behind all the dust.

"Hmm…you seem to be quicker than I thought."

"And you're wrong for attacking us," I responded as I saw a pony emerge from the dust with a blindfold over one of her eyes and the other glowed dimly. She didn't express anything besides seriousness with her half-shut eye that was locked on me. I couldn't flinch since I felt my internal focus triggered by what had just happened, I held my sword down to the ground as she moved even closer.

"NO! Don't let me go back to her!" Yelled the little pony causing me look back at her before I picked her up with my hand and placed her behind me. I felt her float off my hand, Celestia had her care now. K walked up to one side of me and snapped his knuckles as he took out his own blade and spawned his dark aura around it. I acknowledged his actions but didn't become active like he did, there was no need.

"This another one of them Ben, we must finish this one without hesitation," K said in a low voice as he flicked his sword like I usually would. I didn't do anything in response to him but he knew my plans, he chuckled a little before becoming serious and taking a step behind me. The pony was about as serious as I was and stopped about a foot away from me, we stared at each other before she made the first move. I quickly lifted my hand up colliding the sword with a sword she quickly drew from her side with her magic.

"Hmm…Strange way to hold a sword," She said pressuring my sword but I found no bother in it. I looked at my sword and saw I was holding it in a backhand position, for quicker fighting.

"Who are you?" She asked retracting the sword and swinging it to my side but my blade made its way to it and collided with it. I wasn't having any trouble blocking her attacks but she seemed to not be giving it her all.

"I'm the one who will kill you if you don't leave now," I said raising my free hand into my chest with all fingers open, "I'll count to five."

"In all my life, I've never laughed but I'll be laughing as I tear you apart," she said blinking her exposed eye, turning it into a red glow. I looked up to her and didn't move a single muscle but my index finger.

"One…" I said quickly whipping my sword back up and positioning in a fighting stance with my free hand still holding up four fingers. I saw the pony in front of me wasn't petrified as quickly threw her sword toward me causing me to jump up into the air and hover over her. I felt the moment was right and folded my thumb in.

"Two…"

"You really think you have me figured out," She said quickly launching two purplish energy blasts towards me. My sword met the two spheres of energy and exploded them before an ambush of about a thousand of them surrounded me. My eyes darted back and forth as I figured I was surrounded.

"Just save me the time and die," She said looking at K who was just grinning as he looked up causing her to look up again. She looked up to me to see that I had spawned my own aura of lights and quickly closed my pinkie.

"Three…"

In seconds, my Aura erupted and engulfed all the spheres instantly destroying them. I didn't express any emotion but my seriousness as I held my two fingers in position, looking down at her. I was a bit too sensitive in this state of focus and could hear everything in my surrounding.

"Is this really Ben?" Luna asked.

"I believe so sister?" Celestia answered.

"No! That's my daddy!" the little pony said proudly.

"He's just getting started!" K yelled.

I still kept my look as I hovered back down to the ground and raised my sword high and flicked it. The pony in front of me was becoming unsettled even if she didn't want to show it. I began to walk over to her and quickly stopped all the swings of her sword with mine. I stopped when I was about a foot away from her again.

"Four," I said in a much active voice than before with a grin on my face as lowered another finger. I quickly aimed my counting hand toward her and chuckled, she didn't flinch at all. She looked at my hand for a few seconds before looking to me.

"What does it mean when you reach five?" She asked making my grin grow wider.

"IT MEANS FUCK YOU!" I said quickly unleashing my leg under her lifting her off the ground and spinning my other leg around launching her about fifty meters away. I looked at her as she struggled to lift herself off the ground and seemed to cough up a red fluid, blood.

"Nice one Ben!" K said shifting next to me and observing the pony as she quickly wiped away the blood that drooled down her mouth and looked at me with a different expression, shock.

"Damn, you kicked her that hard!?" He asked grinning. I looked at him with a grin as well but quickly lost it when I saw both princesses looking at me in disapproval. I knew that they didn't want to believe that my next thing was killing her and I could also feel a little soft about it. I looked back the pony and saw her struggling her to keep her stance.

"She doesn't seem to be of any more trouble," I said turning my back to her and walking toward the princesses and leaving K alone. The princesses sighed in relief when I holstered my sword away and glanced back at K. He was still looking at the pony that was still hurling some blood out her mouth, he seemed to lose his grin and become serious.

"K, come on, she won't be hurting anyone," I said, he ignored me and began to walk over to the pony. I couldn't tell what he was going to do but I decided to catch up to him with the princesses by my side.

By the time I caught up with K, he was already right next to her and was kneeled down next to her. I looked at him as he held a saddened look and seemed to feel some how sorry for the pony.

"You okay K?"

"She was at disadvantage, she usually arrives with a horde of storm clouds that contain her strength," he said making me remember the clouds I destroyed earlier. I then knew that she would have put up more of a fight if she was those clouds along with her.

"Yeah…I know what you mean," I said looking at the barely alive pony that was actually still trying to give me an angered look. I looked back at the Princesses as they stared at the pony that was beginning to take her final breaths. I somehow could feel sorry for fighting someone with a disadvantage and I knew the princesses were devastated to see her like this.

"You're gonna die, what was your name?" K asked as he lifted her eye bandage to reveal her other eye showed her real eye, it was a blend of rose and blue. I took a moment to show get rid of any emotions of joy I felt as she coughed once more, losing more blood.

"Rapid-(cough)…Strike" she said feeling the pain of the impact from earlier. I thought about her name, it made her sound as innocent as one of my friends. K quickly placed his hand towards her and stood up as she looked up to him with fear all over her wide-eyes.

"Just because you're honest, I'll let you live as a soul," K said quickly making an energy hand come out of his hand and attach itself onto the pony's chest. I looked up to K as I saw the pony begin to lose control and collapse before fading away.

"What…is that?" I asked as I saw the pony finally give her last breath. K immediately looked to me and laid his hand flat in front of me, in his hand was a small floating sphere. The sphere glowed and seemed to pulse as it rotated slowly and inside you could see the pony sleeping. I stared in disbelief as I saw that this really was her soul in his hands.

"Take it, my soul would eat hers up if I let it go into me," He said as reached his hand out, even more, I looked at his hand again with anxiety starting to build. My hand mustered the courage to allow his hand to drop the soul into my hand. The moment I felt it touch my hand I instantly felt a path open to and a voice speak in my hand.

"Why must I have the burden of living with my killer?" The soul spoke as the pony that was asleep inside was now awake and was moving its mouth. I stared at it amazed that she was still alive inside the little ball of light. The princesses also surrounded me and stared in amazement as the soul just back at us.

"You died and unfair death, so I took your soul and gave it to Ben," K said poking the soul a little causing the pony inside to rub her muzzle in pain.

"Ow! Don't do that!" She said looking at K angered, he grinned back and neared his finger towards her. She immediately backed to the edge of the ball and used her hooves to back away from his finger.

"EKK! Killer, don't let him touch me!" She said making me move my hand away from K's finger. She sighed in relief as she stood up and face me while I faced her.

"Hmm…maybe this will work out, Ben," she said using my name instead of "Killer", I slightly chuckled and smiled at seeing her be a little friendlier.

"You too, Strike," I said. I couldn't see it but I knew she was smiling through the pony tail she was using to cover herself. If there was anything new it was that she didn't have that bandage and that she had one rose-colored eye and the other was blue.

"See ya," I said pressing the soul to my chest, I could feel my body bond with the soul. Once my hand touched my chest I looked up to see that princesses were practically on me and squeezing me. K kept on looking up to me and had this smile that only movie stars could pull off.

"Well looks like I can spend time with someone now!" K said placing his hand on my shoulder and began to disappear back into me. Once he fully disappeared moved out of the princesses grasp and looked up to the sky admiring everything that had just happened.

"Well now, life just can't any more interesting, can it?" I asked out loud hoping to get an idea of what will be happening.

"Ben, are you okay?" Luna's voice emerged from my side startling me a bit, she was smiling. I couldn't deny that everything that was happening was just happening too quick but I somehow had a way to deal with it. I smiled back to show I was and then looked to my left to reveal Celestia handing me the little pony which was over-excitedly reaching out to me.

"Here you go."

I placed my hands under the pony and let her fall onto my hands. I looked at her as she smiled happily, I could only feel joy fill me as I held her. From the warmth, she provided to her innocent smile, she was all my dad saw in me when I was born. I don't know but I'm sure he'd be proud.

"Now…How will I explain you to the rest!?" I said making a quick turn to the house and watching it as three ponies stared from a window. I honestly was stuck on this question; how do I explain I had adopted a pony when I was supposed to stop certain doom. Then there was the problem with the injured ones in town.

"I guess I should go to the rest," I whispered as I began to move to the house making small talk with the princesses about everything that had happened. I covered everything from the injured ponies to how I was gonna explain this to the ponies in the house.

"Hmm…we'll see how to handle this after we introduce…" Celestia took a small pause that made us all give each other looks of worry.

"She doesn't have a name," I said staring blankly ahead of me. Luna and Celestia took a moment to also let that sink in as they neared me from both sides. They looked at the pony with curious looks before doing as I did and walk forward in silence.

We continued to walk in silence all four of us until we reached the door of Flutter's home, it was open with both Dash and Flutters peaking their heads through it with suspicious eyes trailing us. Once we were about inches away, the questions immediately flooded in.

"What was that crash?"

"What happened?"

"Is everyone okay?"

I felt like I was being attacked by their words and raised my hand to stop them from asking any more questions. They immediately stopped and allowed me to walk inside, I immediately sat down on a sofa and watched as everyone found a place to rest on. Flutters and Dash were staring the little pony down as the little one waved her hoof at them playfully. I took a deep breath as I stood upright and faced Dash and Flutters with a small smile.

"Well, you're probably wondering who this is, right?"

"Yeah!" Vinyl responded coming out of my room followed by Lyra and Bonbon who were all giving me and the pony curious looks. I had to take another deep breath remembering that they were also here. They jumped on to the sofa I was on made themselves comfortable. I was becoming a little anxious and tried to pull off the best smile I could.

"Okay, this is…."

"DADDY! WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM!?" The little pony said jumping out of my hands and stumbling down onto the ground rolling to the group of ponies that were lined against the wall. I looked to her as she approached them and stared at them studying them carefully. I didn't notice all the attention I was getting from the rest of the ponies but it reeked throughout the air.

"DADDY!?"

I quickly leaned my head away from all the ponies who nearly made the house shake with their high-pitched voices. I looked at all of them and nodded slowly as began to explain. They all had shocked expressions that only wanted answers but they seemed to want to answer them themselves. Dash was the first to quickly fly up to the princesses and ask.

"Okay now, which one of you is the mother!?"

"WHAT!?" The princesses asked back starting to get defensive, but Dash wouldn't let it slide, she quickly aimed a hoof at them.

"You walked out with a Normal Ben then you came back in with Father Ben!" She said going Sherlock on them but she wasn't done making hypothesizes.

"AH-HA! BOTH OF YOU ARE THE MOTHERS!"

"NO!" They both yelled completely embarrassed by what they were hearing, but Dash is that type you would want as a lawyer.

"YOU STOPPED TIME TO MAKE IT HAPPEN DIDN'T YOU!?"

"NO!"

I couldn't have any say in there arguing and instead decided to listen to this crazy argument. As I was just about kick my legs up I was immediately stopped by the sounds of four consecutive thuds. I spun myself around to face the little pony who had a look of pride going on.

"Done, Daddy!" She said as Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack reanimated, they rubbed their aching joints as they stretched out their bodies as I stared completely lost for words. The little one tried to take another step toward me but instantly meet the ground face first. I quickly reached out my hands picked her up and began to carry her as she had a few tears of pain going on.

"Ow, that hurt!" she said rubbing her muzzle, I looked at the ponies that had just come back from being inactive and back at the little pony. I was smiling widely as I looked at her, she smiled back with a little bit of tears still in her eyes.

"How did you do that!?" I asked as the ponies stood up and began to look around rubbing their eyes.

"I don't know, it just seemed like the right thing to do!" She said cuddling into my hands. I chuckled at her response and quickly greeted the awakened ponies, they instantly began speaking about what had happened before they blacked out, before questioning what was happening over on the other side of the room. I turned to look back what was happening.

"THAT WHAT THEY ALL SAY!"

"WE ARE NOT THE MOTHERS! WHY ARE YOU ALL SO PICKY!"

"BECAUSE I WANT TO BE THE MOTHER!" They all said finally braking a vase next to me, they all quickly covered their mouths and laid off finally, making each one of them to think to themselves. I looked back at the four ponies who were completely lost. I chuckled and lifted up the pony who waved at them happily.

"I'm a daddy now!" I said smiling at them, but they weren't amused an instantly looked like they were gonna pass out.

"How long was it out?" They said together making me laugh to myself. They quickly looked back up and surrounded me in an instant. They now had looks that they inherited from the rest.

"WHO IS IT!?" They asked in demonic sounding voices, I instantly buried myself into the sofa and ducked my head as they started asking more.

I distracted myself by closing my eyes and thinking about the obvious question; Who would be the mother? I began thinking about it so hard I went as far to start imagining myself engaged with every pony in the room.

"Hmm…How about Celestia? Or Luna? Dash? Vinyl?... Oh shit…problema!"

I decided to get rid of those thoughts and open my eyes again but instantly regretted it. I looked up to see all the ponies nearly falling over me, some even where on me like Lyra. I never struggled with claustrophobia in the past but I might develop some symptoms from them.

"OK! I'LL EXPLAIN, JUST PLEASE LET ME BE!" I said, they instantly backed up but they wouldn't lose their suspicious looks. I instantly began to spill as much info as I could, even to the smallest detail. They nodded their heads to nearly everything I said and while the little pony climbed me like a cat would. Once I finished I got some funny looks from everyone and some serious looks the princesses as they appeared right next to me.

"Yes?"

They both opened to speak in unison.

"Ben, what is a threesome?"

"Hmm…Okay then, I guess I could tell you, come here," I said signaling to lean in so I could whisper this to them. They learned in curiously and listened.