Discord smiled softly as he sipped at his tea. "It's been a long time since I've been welcome here," he said softly, smiling at his host. "It's good to be able to do this again, Lulu."

Princess Luna smiled softly as she refilled her own cup. "Indeed. The last time you attended a tea party I hosted, the tea was imaginary and I held the teapot with my hooves."

"And you were still in diapers," Discord needled.

Luna pouted at him across the table in her bedroom. "You did not have to bring that up."

He grinned. "I can't help it. I'm a trickster. That's not really going to change."

Luna smiled softly. "I would not want it to. ...you know that you were never unwelcome with me, right?"

"Hmm?"

Luna smiled. "Celestia blamed you for what happened to mother, and barred you from the castle all those years ago. I never blamed you, nor wished you gone. You were still my big brother, and I wanted you to come home." She chuckled softly. "I think I drove Tia up the wall with constant demands of when you were coming home."

Discord laughed uproariously picturing it. "Actually, Lulu, I'm younger than you." At Luna's wide eyes, he smirked. "I'm your little brother."

Luna squealed happily. "I'm a big sister!" she cried out, leaping over the table to cuddle Discord.

Discord couldn't help but chuckle. "You are certainly a strange one, Luna."

Luna grinned. "I try."

"So what's new with you, Luna?"

"Not much," Luna replied. "Still having difficulty getting adults and nobles to accept me. The foals, however, are quite fond of me, whatever their class."

Discord grinned. "The advantages of an immortal ruler. You can afford to wait for the stupid bigots to die out, as long as you've made good friends with the next generation."

"It didn't help you, though."

Discord fell silent. "Luna, I know you're the one who forged the Elements from the fragments of the Rainbow, at Tia's request. And...I know, despite her explicit instructions, you designed them to be incapable of taking a life. That is why I was bound in stone when the two of you turned them on me."

Luna nodded. "You who were chaos, bound by order. And why they sent me to the moon, from which I drew strength. I knew she meant to use them against you, and for me to help. I knew you had to be stopped, but...I could not bear to have you be gone forever."

Discord wrapped an arm around Luna's shoulders. "It was all for the best, Luna. The most powerful magic of Equestria is a dangerous temptation. Some form of safety measure is needed, so that power can't be misused."

Luna nodded. "If one being attempts to use them alone, they will deny that being for all eternity. Another safety measure I added, which is why Tia and I can no longer wield them."

Discord smiled softly. "You always were the clever one."

Luna smiled. "So I've heard you and Fluttershy are having a foal?"

Discord grinned the traditional proud father grin. He had to, it was traditional. "Yup. Should be due soon, actually."

"Really?" Luna said happily, clapping her forehooves. "When?" Discord pulled out a small device. "What is that?"

Discord grinned. "Pregnancy is referred to as having a bun in the oven. Consider this the metaphorical oven timer." He flipped it open...and open...and open...and open...and open...

It had astrolabes, Geiger counters, seismometers, sextants, compasses, clocks, rocks, boxes, pincushions, electro-magnetic monitors, and that machine that goes ping. He wasn't sure what that last one did, but it was dreadfully expensive, and he had to justify the expense somehow. All the different measuring devices started whirring and clicking and springing and boinging and pinging and singing and tinging...

After a time, the stopwatch in the very center revealed a countdown. 5...4...

Discord blanched. "I'mafraidI'mgoingtohavetocutthisshortFluttershy'sgoingintolaborinamatterofsecondsseeyoulatersisbye!" He vanished in a flash of light.

Luna blinked for a time. "I want one of those," she said after a time.

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Fluttershy smiled up at Discord as he appeared in their bedroom. "Discord! You're back early."

2...1...

"What about your tea party with-" Her eyes narrowed as she felt dampness spread over her nethers. "Discord...my water just broke."

"I know," Discord said. "Looks I calibrated this thing pretty accurately," he said, flipping the unusual device shut.

"Discord!" Fluttershy shouted. "We need to get to the doctor! Wait, we never went to see an obstetrician, we don't have an appointment, what are we going to-"

Discord flipped Fluttershy onto her back and unzipped her abdomen. Reaching in, he lifted out a rather messy foal with a goat horn and deer antler, snipping the umbilical cord. He then zipped Fluttershy back up, the zipper disappearing. He then lifted her over a large bucket and compressed her abdomen, purging her of all the extra birth fluids, the placenta, and after birth all without stretching her out too much. He then wiped her up, laid her back on the bed, and proceeded to clean the infant.

Fluttershy blinked for a time as her mind struggled to process exactly what just happened. "Umm...what just happened?"

Discord smiled. "I delivered our baby the easy way." He examined the foal. "Hmm...not breathing." Turning the infant over, he smacked the child lightly on the bottom with his lion paw.

A moment later, he was embedded halfway through the nearest wall, with the half of him on the inside flattened into a pancake with Worchester sauce. "Strong kid," he said dizzily as the floating infant began to wail.

"My baby!" Fluttershy said quickly, flapping up to take the infant filly into her wing. "It's okay, Mama's here. Hush, hush..." She held the infant to her swollen teats, and the filly immediately began to nurse.

Discord managed to pull himself back together and out of the wall. "Healthy appetite too, from the looks of things."

Fluttershy smiled beatifically. All the various hormones tied to motherhood combined with her innate love of mothering and the realization that this was her baby, putting her in purest bliss.

Smiling, Discord waited for their newborn daughter to finish her first meal. "She's a beautiful filly," he said softly. "Just like her mother."

Fluttershy looked down at herself. "It's going to take forever to lose the extra weight," she said, looking at the hanging folds of flesh. Then she giggled. "Not that I ever really cared-"

Discord took hold of either side of Fluttershy's waist and pulled. Draw cords appeared out her sides, pulling the flesh once more taut, and vanishing as he finished, leaving Fluttershy's figure exactly as it had been before she got pregnant save her swollen teats, without any stretch marks.

Fluttershy blinked. "Don't tell Rarity you can do that," she said. "She'd never let you go."

Discord smiled. "But I'm yours now, Fluttershy." He smiled. "So what will we name her?"

Fluttershy smiled softly. "Something to do with chaos and animals, I was thinking."

Discord grinned. "That fits. ANy ideas?"

"I was thinking Pandemonium."

Discord thought for a time. "Very chaos, but I don't see the animal."

"We'll shorten it to Panda."

Discord blinked for a time, then cracked up laughing. "How perfectly fitting," he said, remembering something from the recent past. "What a wonderful daughter we have." He lay down next to Fluttershy. "Welcome to the world, our little Panda," he said, brushing the newborn filly's cheek with his lion paw. "OUCH! She bit me, and she's got my tooth!"