The wailing finally stopped after about 3 minutes of cooing to Unity. He was curled up in my arms, looking up at me with tears still in his eyes. He sniffled a little. Celestia he was adorable, how does something that was once this innocent turn into Discord? I hope I never find out. I looked up at RD and AJ.

"Firstly, this is NOT DISCORD." I started. "This is... well, you won't care about the explanation for it, but long story short, this is a baby version of Discord. I've adopted him and named him Unity." I summarized. RD and AJ's jaws dropped. "AUGH dangit!" I groaned. "More blown pony brains!" I didn't have the patience to explain this 50 more times. "Fluttershy, would you mind explaining this to them?" I asked.

"Oh, I don't mind." She trotted over to RD and AJ. I looked to Twilight.

"Do you know where the kitchen is? I think Unity'll be hungry soon, and I'd rather feed him now and avoid the crying later." I asked. Twilight flinched.

"Good idea, follow me." She hopped off her bed and trotted past RD, AJ, and Fluttershy. I stood and followed her. I looked down at my side, expecting to see Fang, but he wasn't there.

"Hold on for a second Twilight." called to her. She stopped trotting and turned to me.

"Is something wrong?"

"Nah, I just gotta find Fang real quick." I answered.

"Oh... ok..." She muttered. I turned and walked back to the room.

Stupid wolf is already top priority for him. Even THIS early in the morning... She thought ruefully.

I walked back into the room, and found Fang lying next to where I had been sitting before. I walked over to him. I saw that he was twitching like crazy, and both of his forepaws were over his head.

"Fang!? Are you alright?!" I shouted. He lifted a forepaw and looked at me. He nodded weakly. "Liar... " I sighed. "Those sonic cries must have hurt you the worst, didn't they?" He didn't move his head. "Crap, I didn't even think about that... Stay here ok buddy? As a matter of fact, just stay away from Unity until we can find a way to make his crying easier on you, ok?" He looked really hurt by my words, but he nodded and nuzzled my leg. "Ok buddy, good boy." I cooed to him. I turned to leave, but I could see him go back to shaking in pain from the corner of my eye. I sighed. I walked back out of the room and nodded to Twilight. We started walking off again.

Damn, this is getting difficult. I've now got a wolf, a baby chaos lord, and myself to take care of, and so far I've doing a bad job at that last one alone. Not to mention I've got a job as a monster hunter now, which could pull me away for unknown amounts of time. I could even not come back at all... I stopped walking at that though. A chill wrapped around my body. Twilight noticed I had stopped.

"Sharky? Are you ok?" She asked. I was shaking pretty hard. Unity didn't seem to mind.

"Y-yeah... I'm just... cold." I lied. "I am only wearing a cloth after all, and I don't have a coat like you."

"Oh... I'm sorry, I wish I could help, but I can't make clothes..." She murmered sadly. I was about to console her, when Unity started giggling. I looked down at him, and he smiled up at me. My shaking stopped and I smiled back.

No, I'll always come back. I thought to myself. I need to. I straightened back up and nodded to Twilight to continue. She was hesitant, but she turned and continued leading towards the kitchen anyway. We eventually got there, and it was really empty. I walked over to a few cabinets to look for bottles. Suprisingly, I found a bunch. They were REALLY dusty, and had either a sun or moon on them. I smiled to myself as I realized who they had been for. Hope they don't mind me using one of these. I thought to myself as I pulled out a sun bottle. I walked over to an EXTREMELY large double-doored fridge. I easily located some milk. I washed out the sun bottle and filled it up for Unity. I looked around, but even though they had fridges and stoves, I didn't see a microwave.

"Twilight, you wouldn't happen to know any kind of heat spell would you?" I asked. I guess Twilight had been thinking, because she seemed like she had just snapped back to reality when I adressed her.

"Hmm? Uhh sure... Hey Sharky, how do you plan on taking care of Unity while you're gone monster hunting?" She asked. Her horn started glowing. "What was I warming up?"

"This bottle." I touched the bottle to her horn, and I could feel it get warmer in my hand. I pulled the bottle away from her after a few seconds, and squeezed a little of the milk out of the bottle and onto my finger. The milk was warm, but not so hot as to burn Unity, so I popped the nipple into his mouth. (Nipple as in the rubber top of the bottle. Pervs.) I looked back to Twilight. "Actually... I'd kinda hoped you'd help me take care of him, Twilight..." Twilight looked up at me and cut off the magic.

"Really?! You want me to help raise Unity?!" She asked excitedly. I stepped back in suprise. I hadn't expected her to react so positively. Right then, a stream of milk hit me in the face. I blinked in suprise, then blocked the flow with my hand. I looked down, and Unity was spitting milk. I looked at the bottle, and only about 1/20th of it was missing. Somehow, the stream of milk kept coming for about 5 minutes! I moved my hand to see if he had finished spitting, and another stream hit me on full on the face. The second stream only lasted about 5 seconds though. I looked down at Unity again, and he was giving me an angry look.

"What, don't like milk?" I asked him laughingly. He continued to stare. "Fine, fine." I thought for a moment about what to get him, but then I had an idea. I searched a few more cabinets, and I actually found some powdered chocolate. I mixed it up with some milk, and had Twilight warm it up. I gave it to Unity again, and turned back to Twilight. "Yes, I would love for you to help me raise Unity." I answered.

"Sooo... that would make me kind of like his... Mom?" She asked. I thought for a moment.

"Well, kinda I guess..." I answered.

"So if I'm his mom and you're his dad..." She started. Unity started kicking.

"Whoa, hold that thought Twilight." I interrupted. I looked down at Unity, and the bottle was gone. The chocolate milk was still floating in midair. "So wait, you drink the bottle, but you still made me change the milk?" I asked him. He didn't answer of course. He did start kicking harder though. I sighed. "Twilight, could you get me a little towel?" I asked. She looked a little mad about being interrupted, but she got me a towel. I placed it on my shoulder, and placed Unity on it so his stomach was on the towel. I started patting his back. Twilight looked at me with confusion.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Burping him." I answered simply. Twilight tilted her head at me.

"What are you talking about?" She asked. Then Unity spit up. A little rubber bottle nipple bounced off the little towel and onto the floor. I threw up my hands.

"Of course he spit up something impossible!" I shouted. I unbalanced Unity when I threw up my arms, and I quickly grabbed him before he fell off my shoulder. Twilight seemed to be in awe.

"Sharky, how do you know so much about babies?" She asked in amazement. I blushed.

"It's nothing really... I just babysat a lot when I was young." I answered bashfully. "It's no big deal..."

"No big deal..." She muttered. "Wow..." I looked at her with confusion. She was looking at me in a really funny way.

"What's that look for?" I asked. She started moving towards me.

"You cook, you risk your own life to protect your friends, you can keep up with me when it comes to science, and now you're good with kids TOO?" She said in a wierd whisper.

"Ummm... yes?" She was still moving towards me, and I started backing up. "What are you doing?" I asked.

"Say, Unity must be getting tired, why don't you put him down for a nap?" She asked.

"H-he j-just w-w-woke up..." I answered. I kept backing up, but Twilight was still adavancing. "Ummm..." I hit the wall behind me. Unity started hiccuping. "Twilight why are you WAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!" I phased through the back wall. Which just happened to be 50 feet off the ground. I scrambled and started kicking my legs. "WAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!" Then I realized I wasn't falling. "WAAAAaaaaaaghhhh..... Umm... what?" I looked down at Unity, and he was still hiccuping. "A-are you doing this?" I asked. He hiccuped again. I started falling. Not fast, just falling. I rubbed my temple with my free hand. "Just... why?" I mumbled to myself. This wasn't helping my headache from the sonic wailing earlier. We settled down on the ground and Unity's hiccups ceased. I sighed in relief. "No more wierdness please?" I asked him. He giggled. I sighed and started walking around. I was in the garden again, I guess it extends a long way or something. I walked around for awhile, taking in the scenery and wondering about Twilight's behavior. After exploring for a little while, I ran into Luna.

"Princess?! What are you doing out here at midday?" I asked in suprise. She smiled at me.

"We just enjoy the scenery of the gardens." She answered.

"B-but, don't you need to sleep during the day?" I asked. She laughed.

"We never need to sleep." She explained.

"Oh... thats... convinient."

"Yes, yes it is. Wouldst thou like to sit with us?" She asked. I nodded. I walked over to her and sat down. We were silent for a long time, just sitting and looking at the garden. It WAS really pretty when you weren't trying to not be killed by an evil copy of yourself. Yeah, running and fighting for your life doesn't really allow you to appreciate a garden. "So, art thou ready for thine knighting tonight?" She broke the silence.

"Yeah, I guess I am..." I answered. She looked down at me.

"Why doth thou sound so reluctant?" She asked.

"Well... It's just... now I've got a kid. I'm worried about not coming back..." I answered. Luna nodded.

"We understand. Thou could always quit if thou wished." She offered. I thought about it.

"No, if I do this, I could save the lives of hundreds of ponies. That's more important than my life could ever be." I mused. "Also, somepony really needs to teach you to talk normal."

"That is a honorable way of viewing this." She agreed. "Thou art also correct in saying we should learn to speak correctly. Whenever we try to get somepony to assist us in this endeavor, they run away upon meeting us..." She said with sorrow.

"I could teach you!" I offered happily. She smiled at me.

"That would be greatly appreciated."

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Luna and I practiced for several hours in the garden. She didn't make any real progress, she WAS trying to break a thousand years worth of speaking like that though. Even though it was almost night when we finished, Unity was suprisingly quiet the whole time. Eventually I had to leave to feed Unity again though. Luna escorted me back to the kitchen, which was now bustling with cooks. I made my way through the crowd, and managed to prepare another bottle for Unity. Luna warmed it up for me this time, and this time Unity drank the milk. I sighed in relief, and grabbed the empty bottle, but it folded around my hand like plastic wrap. I groaned. I flapped my hand around, but the bottle wouldn't come off.

"Fan tucking fastic." I mumbled to myself. Luna laughed and escorted me to another room. It was a really small room, and there was a crib in it. The room was really dark blue and covered in little white dots.

"This was our room as an infant." She explained. "Unity can stay here for the night."

"Thanks Luna." I placed Unity in the crib, and prayed he didn't do anything strange again. I didn't need to worry though, he fell asleep almost instantly. I sighed with relief, and left the room.

"Ok, tis time for your knighthood now." Luna said. "Now is thine last chance to withdraw from this." She warned.

"No, I need to do this." I answered. She nodded and turned to leave. I followed after her, sneaking one last look at Unity's door.