A/N: here it is, the big chapter 50! I feel like a bigger chapter is in order, if I can manage to do it all. I will be having this chapter be a major one….if you know what I mean. I will be counting the votes after this is done and then submit a blog with the results. I don’t want to keep you in suspense any longer….on with the chapter!

Rainbow Dash was lying in her bed and it was morning. The light was shining in through the window and it looked to be a nice day outside today. This sucks, I wish I could be outside right now, but this is more important than that so I am cool with it.

She was rubbing his hair and his head was in the side of the bed. He was snoring lightly and Rainbow Dash would giggle every now and again from it. “You really are a goof, how somepony could fall asleep with their face in a mattress is beyond me” she said to him as she rubbed his hair.

Just as she was going to close her eyes to get some more sleep she got a strong pain in her stomach. She was holding onto one of Kyle’s hands with both of her hooves and when the pain hit she gripped his hand hard from the pain. He immediately woke up and looked at her with a ‘what was that for?’ look, but stopped when he saw what was happening.

“Come on, grip my hand harder, it will make you forget about it a little bit. Try to see if you can bruise my hand out of frustration that our bundle of joy is giving you” I said to her trying to be funny. Shut up, I have no idea what to do right now!

She listened to me and gripped my hand harder, which started to make me shed not so manly tears because of how hard she was gripping. “That’s it, just like that. Feel a little better now that you are hurting my hand?” I said to her with a pained smile. Ouch, at least it’s not my nose! Sort of a gusta.

“Yeah, I do feel a little better, that hurt a lot. Apparently he wants to meet us sooner than we thought. Are you going to stay with me when I…” She said to me trailing off.

Despite my better judgement. “Yes, I’ll be with you the whole time so if you feel pain you can clutch my hand until you break it if you have to. We are in this together” I said to her with a smile. High School Musical reference, definitely not a gusta! All of my hate!

She wasn’t hurting anymore and released my hand, which was almost purple by the way. I held it in my hand and it hurt to even move my pointer finger. Curse you Rainbow Dash and your ability to make my hand feel like it is broken! I crawled up in the bed with her and gave her my hand back. She took it and then a few moments later a nurse walked in. I could tell from the show that it was Nurse Redheart.

“Miss Dash, have you been feeling any different?” she asked.

“I just had a monster of a pain in my stomach, what does that mean?” Rainbow Dash replied with a smile that oozed fake stupidity. Good on ya…that was Brilliant Dashie, lovely comment!

“Well, that means we are getting close, do you want a shot to ease the contractions?” Nurse Redheart asked Rainbow Dash.

“Yes, please give me the shot” Rainbow Dash said with relief.

“Ok, this will hurt for just a moment” the nurse said as she pulled out a needle. My eyes, they have been burned by the sight of such evil…..the dreaded needle! Get it away from me!

Rainbow Dash started to clutch my hand a little again and then forcefully gripped again when the needle was used. My hand was numb now. I can’t feel my hand! She has the freaking death grip I tell ya! My hand was released a few moments later and I started to rub her mane with my hand that wasn't feeling like a dead weight. “You are doing great so far, let’s hope that he doesn’t come before the medicine kicks in” I said to her.

She smiled at me and then leaned in and began to kiss me. I took this opportunity to be a little bit of a rebel and started to swap tongues with her. She was breathing into my mouth and I could taste her. I love this mare with all of my homo! I would breath into her mouth also as we kept on kissing. It was a good thing there was nopony there with us or else this might have been a little weird. We stopped kissing on each other after a while and just laid there talking about what was going to come after Stratus was born, that is until I fell asleep again.

“Ugh, he needs to stop doing that! I know it is only 5:30 in the morning, but c’mon! Ugh, I guess he needs it, he has been working his flank off lately trying to get the house ready for Stratus and all, plus now he is working at a night job, which doesn’t make it much better. I guess you can sleep for a while more, until I get another contraction and grab your hand again and squeeze it until it falls off!” Rainbow Dash said to my sleeping form. She turned over to her side and started to nuzzle into him, he was so warm, and she found it soothing to be near him, like he was a safety blanket that would always be there. She drifted off to sleep thinking about Stratus a little while later.

“Come on RD, clutch my hand harder! This will make it go by faster! I will go get a cast on it if I have to, just do what you need to do to forget the pain” I said to my lover as she clenched her teeth in agony at another contraction. I am getting the feeling that I will not have my hand after this! I know she had already broken at least two of my fingers and I am pretty sad about that, but I am not going to say anything because I can’t feel it anymore anyways! Yay for my lover breaking my fingers!

“She just gripped my hand harder as another contraction went through her. The medicine had only started to kick in when the contractions started to show up, so she was in a lot of pain. “Mother of Celestia he is really irritating me right now!” Rainbow Dash said through her clenched teeth.

Nurse Redheart was there the entire time. “Come on Dash, just a few more” She said to the cyan pegasus.

This went on for a while as wave after wave of contractions went through my lover. My hand is broken now, I can feel it! She broke my hand with her death grip! I sure hope I can hold Stratus with one hand now! Dash let out one final push and our foal was born. Nurse Redheart cleaned him off and then handed him to Dash.

“He looks beautiful!" Rainbow Dash said as she held Stratus in her hooves. He was a cream colored and had a little tuft of cornflower blue and light blue for a mane. His eyes were bright green and he looked at us and smiled. We just smiled back at him.

So here is what is going on in my head right now. HHHNNNGGG! D’AWWWWW, Mother of God he looks adorable, Father figure time, and endless others. I can’t handle the joy right now! “Welcome to Ponyville Stratus, this is your new home” I said to him with a smile. I know it was bland, leave me alone!

“Stratus, this is your daddy, he is a big jokester and will make you laugh all of the time with the funny things he does and says” Rainbow Dash said to him next, then proceeding to give me a smile.

You know you love it Dashie! He smiled at us again and then started to fall asleep in RD’s hooves. Extreme D’AWWWW! Nurse Redheart left our room and I then proceeded to climb up onto the bed with them. I smiled at Rainbow and kissed her on the lips for a moment. “He looks adorable; I think he is going to like it around here. What with all of my crazy antics and stupid comments” I said to her, the last comment trying to be funny. “I am also going to need to get a cast on my hand, I think you broke it” I said holding it up to her.

It was all bruised and there were some bumps where the bone was out of place. “I guess you are, sorry about that” she said smiling at me sheepishly.

“Well, it was all for him” I said to Rainbow Dash and looking down at the now sleeping Stratus. He was snoring ever so slightly, just barely able to be heard. He is going to snore too? AWWW now we are a family of snorers, mine being the most irritating, Dash’s being the most funny, and his being the most adorable. HHNNGG!

I told RD that I was going to leave for a little bit to go see what was going to be done about my hand. I guess it really was broken, because they put splints on it and wrapped it up in a cast. Good thing about this is that if I ever need to hurt somepony, I can use my club hand! THONK, FATALITY!

I walked back into the room about two hours later and Dash was still holding Stratus in her hooves. I climbed back up and shown her my giant cast. “I can seriously do damage with this thing, it is as hard as a rock!” I said to her with a smile.

“You want to hold him? He is a very heavy sleeper I can tell you that, I was so fidgety a little while ago, but he still slept right on through it!” she said to me with a grin.

“Sure I’ll take him for a little bit” I said as I held out my arms. Rainbow Dash set him in my arms and I pulled him in close, he smelled so nice. I like this kid already, he smells like summer and happy things. Leave me alone, I am weird ok? I held him close to me and felt great, I was living the dream. I have a family, a job I like; soon to be paper….bits, whatever, and a home to call my own. I kissed him on the forehead once and he grabbed my shirt with his hooves and pulled in closer. HARUMPHHNNNNGGG! This is too much for my happy heart to handle! Get the defibs quick!

We had to spend 3 days there. I was the one to fill out all of the paperwork for Stratus. Practically schoolwork in my eyes. I hate writing things on the dreaded p word…….paper. We left the hospital and I was holding onto Stratus as we walked. RD and I were both beaming with happiness. “Want to fly home?” I asked her.

“Sure, let’s just go slow. It’s getting cold and we don’t want Stratus to already get sick” Rainbow Dash said to me before we took off.

We flew through the air towards our home. We took a lot of time, both because of Stratus and because of the fact that we have been stuck in the hospital again, for 4 days. I hate hospitals; they make me want to set fire to a nursing home. Did ya get it?

We made it to the hospital after a while of flying and I opened the door with my free hand, the one that still had the cast on it. We walked in and Stratus must have been awake because he started to get a little fidgety in my arms. I took him over to the couch and set him down. He looked all over the room and his little mouth would hang open if he saw something really interesting. He would find paint drying interesting right now! And I like that kind of thing.

Dash and I walked over to the couch and sat down. He looked at us and smiled and then continued to look around the room. After a little while of this he walked right onto my legs and sat down and looked at me. What? Do you think I look funny or something?

He smiled at me and put his front hooves on my shoulders. Dafuq is he doing? Stratus then pushed his forehead to mine and smiled. I still don’t know what this all is! I am getting a little concerned for how little I know! I smiled at him back and then he went back to sitting on my lap.

“Rainbow Dash, can I ask you something?” I said over to my lover sitting next to me.

“Sure, what is it?” she replied with a grin as Stratus started to headbutt my chest. Mommy my own son is bullying me, what do I do? I actually find it to be a D’AWWWW moment if you ask me.

“What all goes on in the early childhood of a pegasus? I just want to be prepared if anything starts to get crazy around here” I said to her with a grin as wide as a mile. Do ya get that one?

“Oh boy, this is going to be fun to tell you. Stratus will have little outbursts where he can fly even before he learns how to. He will also be doing what he is doing to you a lot as well, what he is doing now is showing you that he is here and he recognizes you as the father. It also means he loves you. I don’t really know about anything else” RD said to me.

Stratus had stopped what he was doing and was now looking at us as we talked. He would turn his head to the one that was talking and cock his head to one side. I looked down at him and tickled his chest with my good hand and he let out a giggle.

“HNG……that was so funny it hurt” Rainbow Dash said to me smiling as I continued to make Stratus roll around on my lap and giggle like a fool.

She made the HNG noise! Some faith in pony kind has been restored! “I think he is so funny. He is also pretty cool for just being 4 days old. He even looks to have your mane. Only a lot more messy like my hair and shorter as well” I said to Dash, who looked at him and rubbed his mane with one of her hooves.

“He does doesn’t he?” she said to me in reply.

I had stopped tickling him and Stratus let out a loud yawn. He went over to Dash’s side and started to lay down. “I think he needs some sleep, come on Stratus, time for bed” RD said as she got up off the couch and scooped him up in one of her hooves. I got up and walked with her up to his room. RD set him in the crib and we watched as he fell asleep almost instantly.

Rainbow Dash and I walked to our room and lay down in our bed. I cuddled in close to her and rest my forehead on hers. “He is a wonderful foal. I love you Dash” I said to her before I kissed her.

After a few moments of kissing we pulled apart “I love you too.”

A/N: I hope you liked the chapter! I think it was a fitting chapter 50 special, don’t you? Well I am going to go make that blog post now,, expect another update tomorrow!

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