"Well, when should we talk to them?" I asked through a mouthful of cheesy omelet goodness. Twilight's cooking skill had grown a lot over the time I had known her. Twilight was washing the dishes now, and her omelet lay on the table totally untouched.

"The sooner the better I say. After all, I don't want this to keep me from you any longer than it already has." Twilight answered determinedly.

"That's assuming they're ok with it."

"I'm hoping for the best."

"I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. From what I've seen, most of you are pretty competitive about this."

"Well that was before! You made us promise to play nice now, remember? Even then, we're still best friends, so why wouldn't they allow it?"

"I dunno... but now that you put it like that I'm feeling a lot less nervous about it." I admitted. Twilight gave me a confused look.

"You were nervous?"

"Of course! Three decidedly fiery mares that all like me about to discuss if one gets to... you know. That could've gone really bad depending."

"You have a way of being nervous that makes it look as if you put up with such things every day. Wait, why did you only say thr-- Fluttershy. Never mind, I got it."

"Yeah, I wouldn't call 'Shy fiery. As to nervous... well, I fight monsters. So uhh... I guess I'm used to being nervous. It might not show."

"I'd re-think what you said about Fluttershy. She... can be... How to say this? Hmm... Well, let's just say she can be plenty fiery when she wants."

"If you say so." I replied sarcastically right before I popped the last of the omelet into my mouth. "We should arrange the talk then, if you want to get it over already."

"Now?"

"Sure. We just need t--"

"Hey guys..." Spike sighed lazily from the main room. He stepped into the kitchen still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Hey Spike." I greeted in a robotic way.

"Oh good! You're finally awake." Twilight smiled at him warmly. "Would you like an omelet too, Spike?" Spike gave her a sleepy smile and nodded.

"Sounds great."

"Good, there's one on the table for you." Spike jumped into the chair across from me and started eating the omelet Twilight had placed there for herself.

"I thought that was your omelet." I stated curiously.

"I had an apple before you came down. I'm not really hungry now as a result."

"Oh, ok then."

"So, what were you guys talking about?" Spike asked in between bites.

"Twilight wanted to get some of the other girls together for a quick chat." I answered honestly. Twilight shot me a look like I had messed something up.

"About what?" Spike continued.

"Nothing important." I answered honestly again. Twilight shot me another look. More of a glare this time really.

"Oh, ok then."

"In fact, when you're done, could you get Rarity for us?" Twilight asked suddenly. Spike seemed to brighten up.

"You mean you need my help again?! Don't worry Twilight; your number one assistant is on the job!" Spike swallowed the rest of his omelet in one massive bite and vanished from the table. Twilight went back to glaring at me.

"What?"

"Why did you tell him what we were talking about?!" She hissed.

"I only said we wanted to chat with the others!"

"Yeah, but he could have kept going and asking about what we needed them for!"

"But he didn't."

"Because you told him it was nothing important!"

"Yeah, and he left it alone."

"It is important!"

"... Are you mad that I said we needed to talk or..."

"Yes, Spike could've ended up hearing something he shouldn't!"

"Oh, so you're not mad I said it wasn't--"

"Yes I am! It is important and I told you to stop brushing it off!"

"... But if I hadn't told him it wasn't important he might've heard something bad."

"You should've just said nothing about it at all!"

"Ok, ok! Sorry. Geez... Well, if Spike is getting Rarity, I'm gonna go get Fluttershy." I stood up to leave. Twilight snorted at me.

"Ok. I'll go get Rainbow then. Be more careful with what you say though! Especially around Spike. He's still a baby, after all."

"Alright, I will. Bye." I turned and walked out of the dining room. As soon as I was out of Twilight's line of sight, I rolled my eyes as high as I could at the ridiculous argument, then left the house. As soon as I stepped out of the door, I noticed two things. One: No reporters swarmed me. Good. Two: I hadn't seen Fang in a long time. Not good. I quickly resolved to go find him after the upcoming talk. Eager to escape before being noticed by reporters, and eager to find Fang, I took off at a sprint towards Fluttershy's house.

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*knock* *knock* *knock*

"Visitor at the door. I shall answer it." A robotic voice called.

"Oh wait, I know that knock!" Fluttershy's voice piped up.

"Daddy!" Unity cried. I heard the click of hooves, gems, and talons/hoof/paw approaching the door. The door was open and I ended up looking directly at one of the gem golems Unity had created. He seemed to be a bit smaller than I remembered.

"It is the master of superior power!" The golem stated with as much happiness as he could muster, which was nearly none.

"Sharky!" Fluttershy shouted from behind him.

“Daddy!” Unity cried from right behind her.

“Me!” I responded in kind.

“What’re you doing here?! Uhhh… not that I don’t like it or anything… but I thought you were spending the whole week with Twilight…” Fluttershy mumbled.

"Actually that's w--"

"Pway!"

"Sure Unity, just a moment. That's what I came here about. Twilight wants to have a small talk with you and the two other girls."

"Pway nao!"

"Not yet Unity. So, will you come with me really quick?"

"Of course I will. Will you carry Unity while we walk?" Fluttershy asked.

"Heck yeah I will!" I turned to my son. "C'mere little guy!" I got down on one knee and held out my arms. Unity slapped the ground with his lion paw, and a perfect square piece of the floor around him bounced up like a springpad, launching him into my arms. "Well... I expected crawling. I should've known better."

"Yeah, he's been doing everything strangely while you were gone. Once, when I told him not to play with his food, he said 'Fine!' and turned it into these strange little blocks with nubs that locked together." Fluttershy mentioned as if it were no big deal. I stopped short for a moment.

"What?"

"Yeah, he turned them into a--"

"Do you have any of them still?"

"Yes, I gathered them all up and kept them as a new toy for him. Why?"

"Can you show me one?"

"Sure. Mr. Shiny! Can you bring me the Legos?"

"Yes, mother of the Creator." The golem at the door said.

"Legos?" I asked worriedly.

"Yeah, all the little blocks had the letters l-e-g-o on them, so I call them Legos." The golem returned with a jar full of the colorful plastic pieces. I could feel my heartbeat increase as I crept forward and saw that they were Legos from Earth. Real Legos, not something Unity might've made up himself.

"Oh... Oh geez..." I muttered.

"What? What's wrong?" Fluttershy was starting to sound worried now.

"Fluttershy, these are a child's toy back on Earth."

"Oh... and?"

"Unity has never seen them, so how is he making Earth toys?"

"Well, he is a little god of chaos basically. Maybe it's a coincidence. There's no way he could be making them on purpose knowing they were from your old world, right?"

"Hmm..." I rubbed my chin thoughtfully, still unsure of how to properly treat this. In the end, I let it go and decided to get back to the talk with Twilight. "Yeah, coincidence. Anyway, let's get to town now. First... Mr. Shiny?"

"Awaiting orders superior power."

"You think you can play an advanced game of hide 'n seek?"

"Hide 'n seek is my favorite game. I am ready to begin this task."

"Good, could you take Unity in to town with us? The rules in this version of hide 'n seek is that you can't let anypony see you. You win if you reach the library tree house."

"Sharky, what are you doing?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well, we can't let the townsponies see a mini Discord-*blech*- Ugh, just threw up in my mouth a bit... I hate calling him that. Even then, I don't want Unity around for the talk we're going to have, so Mr. Shiny sneaking him to the house is a good way to buy us some time and keep Unity hidden."

"... The tall thing made out of shiny gems is going to sneak Unity into town... without being noticed?"

"Ok, point taken. Then how are we gonna sneak him in?"

"Why don't we just use the little disguise Rarity made for him?"

"... I... Forgot that existed. Good idea Fluttershy."

"Here, let me go get it." Fluttershy trotted back into her house.

"Well, looks like we won't be needing you to play hide 'n seek after all Mr. Shiny. So all you have to do is carry Unity around near the house a bit when we get there. When the talk is over, I'll take him back."

"Task is less enjoyable, but accepted." Mr. Shiny said with a tinge of an upset attitude in his voice. We stood there awkwardly for a few moments before Unity started batting at my nose

"Found it!" Fluttershy called from inside the house. She showed up seconds after her shout holding Unity's socks, hat, and tail cover. I placed him on the ground and dressed him in his little outfit in a few more seconds. I picked him back up and got ready to walk back to town.

"Alright, let's go."

"Pway!" Unity shouted eagerly.

"Not right now son, we can play after I have my talk, ok?"

"No! Pway now!" He continued stubbornly.

"Fine, what's a game we can play while I walk you to town? How about I spy or--"

"Jump! Pway jump!"

"Play what? You want me to jump?" I asked curiously. Unity nodded eagerly. "Uh... ok..." I hopped in place. Unity scowled at me.

"Weal jumps! Nao!" Suddenly the ground began to give beneath my feet. As a reflex, I jumped to the side. Right where I had been standing, a deep-looking hole had appeared. I leaned over to look into it and I saw... spikes.

"What the?! Spikes!?"

"Jump!" I leapt to the side again as another hole spontaneously opened up in the ground.

"Whoa! Ok, ok, could you at least get rid of the spikes?!" I screamed. Unity closed his eyes and seemed to be focusing really hard. The spikes flew out of the previous two holes like missiles. "Whoa! Forget it! Launching spikes isn't better!" With that, I began leaping towards town quickly, eager to get there and hopefully end Unity's 'game'. Unity seemed to think it was a wonderful thing; he laughed the whole way there.

"Fun fun fun!" He squealed. Luckily when I actually got to the outkirts of town, Unity let up on the holes. When I looked at him, he seemed incredibly tired. His game must've really used a lot of his energy or something. I stood and gasped a little as I waited for Fluttershy and Mr. Shiny, who I had left way behind while jumping to town. Fluttershy was the first to show up. She was running towards me, possibly worried about any injuries I might have gotten.

"Sharky!" She shouted. I waved at her calmly and she seemed to relax a bit when she caught up and saw I wasn't pierced by a spike or anything. "Oh good, I was worried..."

"I figured. Don't worry, I'm fine." Fluttershy nodded and lowered her gaze to the child in my arms.

"Unity! That was a naughty game! You could've hurt daddy!" She scolded gently. Unity flinched and gave her a grade A sad face.

"I sowwy mommy..." He mumbled innocently. As someone with experience dealing with children, I couldn't help but almost laugh at his classic 'adorable apologetic child' act. I fell for that a few times back in my babysitting days. Predictably, Fluttershy's expression softened.

"It's ok. I know you didn't mean to put anypony in danger." While Fluttershy finished talking, Mr. Shiny arrived behind her.

"It's no real big deal 'Shy. I can handle whatever this little guy throws at me. Anyway, Mr. Shiny! Here, hold Unity." I handed him my son carefully and he picked him up with the same amount of care. "Your orders are to follow us to the library. When we get there, stay near it. Don't go in until I come out and say it's ok."

"Orders accepted. Commence leading."

"Alright. You ready 'Sh--" I looked down at where Fluttershy had been to discover that she was missing. I looked around a few times and saw her already heading towards the library. I jogged to catch up to her and stopped by her side.

"So what's this talk about, Sharky?" Fluttershy asked as soon as I got to her. I looked over my shoulder to see that Mr. Shiny and Unity were a safe distance behind us.

"Well, it's a request for permission to perform an act of the combination of reproductive organs to produce pleasure and offspring. Likely without the offspring due to genetic differences though." I answered as quickly and confusingly as I could. I wanted to answer her without actually letting on to what Twilight was asking. I figured it was Twilight's place to really break it to them. Fluttershy looked just as confused as I had hoped.

"What?"

"He just told ya what, dumbass. Huh?"

"What does all that mean?"

"It has to do with the price of tea in China. Exactly what I said."

"B-but... but..."

"And he says I never help. Oh hey look, the library." In our short walk, we had gotten close enough to the library to see it. We walked the rest of the way in silence, due to Fluttershy's heavy confusion. I opened the door when we reached it and stepped to the side to allow Fluttershy in. Rarity, RD, and Twilight were all sitting in a circle around the table in the middle of the room.

"Finally you guys showed up!" RD shouted in relief. "Geez, we've been waiting for forever!"

"Sorry, it's a long walk from here to 'Shy's house." I followed Fluttershy into the library and closed the door behind us.

"Alright then, would you kindly tell us what you've called us all here for?" Rarity asked impatiently.

"Where's Spike?" I asked worriedly, not wanting the small dragon to hear this.

"Sweetiebelle dragged him off on a crusade after he informed me of this meeting." Rarity explained.

"Good, then go ahead Twi."

"Well girls, Sharky and I have a problem." Twilight started. "You see, I wish to engage in the act of the joining of-- *sigh* I want to have sex with him." The girls seemed a bit stunned to hear her say that out loud, and RD blushed a little. Not an embarrassed blush, just surprised. Fluttershy, however, was blushing a lot in what appeared to be embarrassment. "Sharky doesn't want to. Not yet, anyway. He wants me to ask you girls first to make sure you're ok with it. He thinks it would really upset you if I didn't. So, do you girls mind if Sharky and I have sex?" Twilight finished talking and leaned back a bit. RD and Rarity looked to each other, then to me, then to Twilight.

Then they both burst out laughing.