First Day: Part 2: Rarity’s Little Reaction

Rarity awoke to a most unpleasant sound.

As much as she adored living in a palace of crystal, with its unique decor and marvelous living spaces, the doors let out a rather ghastly ring when struck. The sound in turn reverberated in her ears for longer than was necessary and seriously had Rarity considering smashing all the bucking things to have them replaced with some simple golden doors adored with a few dozen jewels each.

The fact that somepony was now pounding on her door like mad got the unicorn out of her bed so quickly she didn’t bother putting her sleeping mask back on her dresser, or even comb her hair. Still a little too out of it to even use the most basic magic, she stormed over to her door and ripped it open to see who had dared to disturb her beauty sleep.

However, the sight that greeted her was so…wrong, that even the ringing in her ears became a distant memory when Rarity laid eyes on it.

Standing on the other side of the door was…Rainbow Dash. At least, Rarity thought it was Rainbow Dash. She had the same hue to her coat and odd coloration to her mane, but aside from a little bit of disheveled hairs in her mane, the pegasus looked…pretty. Her coat was perfectly groomed and appeared to have somehow gotten a week’s worth of oil and mud bath treatments in the span of a single night, while her hooves showed signs of being fresh from a cleansing that made them shine to the point Rarity was sure she would have been able to see her own face in them if she looked down, and although she was no expert on wings, the rapidly moving appendages were probably in an even more pristine shape that usual.

“Rainbow…Dash?” the unicorn managed to ask after rediscovering the ability to speak. It was also all she was able to get out before being grabbed by the pretty pegasus.

“Rarity! I need help! Twilight! Come quick!”

A second later, Rarity felt the world lurch, and she found herself screaming as the hallway zoomed by before Rainbow Dash came to an abrupt stop once they were in her room that made the unicorn wonder how she didn’t get whiplash. After she stumbled around for a few seconds, trying to right herself before she fell to the ground, the unicorn looked over to where the purple alicorn was laying unconscious on the floor, practically curved into a ball.

On the other side of Twilight, Rainbow was frantically, if quietly, calling her name and reaching her hooves out towards the large mare before pulling them back before they touched. It was almost as if Rainbow was unsure whether her touch would help, or hurt the alicorn.

The moment Rarity saw Twilight, she noticed what probably had Rainbow Dash so panicked, the alicorn’s measurements were off. Very off. Judging by the increase in length, and girth that Rarity could see from Twilight’s back, the princess had to be on equal size with Luna, if not a tiny bit larger. “Rainbow, what hap-”

A deep groan from Twilight cut Rarity off, and made her head cock in confusion. The sound coming from the princess sounded nothing like the Twilight that Rarity knew…

“R-Rainbow?”

“Twilight!”

…and as Rainbow wrapped her forelegs around Twilight’s risen head, the unicorn found something definitely wrong with what she was seeing.

“What are…it wasn’t a dream, was it?”

While Twilight’s mane was still in its usual bangs and flowing style, the alicorn’s muzzle had taken on a more filled out shape and was a great deal more…masculine. A second glance at the rest of his body showed a dozen tiny little signs that were concern with the Element of Magic’s changed face, all adding up to an impossible fact. Twilight Sparkle was a stallion.

After gulping down the moisture in her mouth, Rarity finally managed to find her voice. “Wha…WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA IS GOING ON HERE?”

The unicorn’s shriek made both the ponies in front of her jump, and Rarity discovered her calculations about Twilight’s new-found height were mostly correct. The…prince absolutely towered over the unicorn, so much so that Rainbow Dash’s hooves barely touched the ground as she continued to hug the much larger stallion.

“Oh…well, me and Twilight are kind of a couple now,” Rainbow Dash told her.

The answer to her question made Rarity’s whole body twitch, and she felt like somepony had just poked her in the ribs with a live wire. Once again, her whole train of thought just went off kilter, and Rarity found herself fighting to comprehend just what simple statement meant.

“I don’t think that’s what she was asking about Rainbow,” Twilight’s odd voice sounded out at the edge of Rarity’s awareness.

A couple…Twilight and Rainbow are a…well, I suppose it does make sense, she reasoned, actually glad for something that did fall in her realm of expertise rather than the odd gender modification spell that Twilight had apparently cast on herself for a reason that Rarity just couldn’t discern.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash did spend a lot of time together, and homosexuality was so common among ponies that the usual term when asking about another’s mate was the gender neutral special somepony to avoid the awkward moment that came when a pony guessed wrong. “But then…it…you…why are you a stallion?” Rarity finally managed to ask. Is Rainbow Dash only into stallions, and Twilight did this to be with her?

It was…Rarity couldn’t decide if such an action was romantic, or extremely disturbing. She had personally learned that changing oneself to try and attract a pony you were interested in was not the right thing to do; and Twilight’s actions went well beyond putting on some simple clothes!

Twilight let out a nervous laugh, and Rainbow Dash kissed the stallion’s cheek. “Well, there was this little accident in my lab and I kind of turned myself into a stallion last night, on accident,” the alicorn said again as if to stress the point.

A queen of gossip, the unicorn was able to take the latest piece of information, and fed it to the growing narrative in her mind. If Twilight’s transformation had been an accident… Then she, or he I guess, panicked, and ran to the nearest dependable pony for help, Rarity theorized, letting out a breath she hadn’t been aware she was holding since this whole mess began. Wait, but that doesn’t explain…what’s that smell?

An odd musk in the air caught Rarity’s attention, and she inhaled deeply through her nostrils. This smells like… She looked back up at the large stallion and the pegasus that was hanging onto him, glancing at Twilight with a look she had seen in Spike’s eyes far too often. Then, she realized that Twilight had said he had become a stallion LAST NIGHT, and was in Rainbow’s bedroom THIS MORNING!

“Sweet Celestia!” Rarity said as she reared up to point an accusing hoof at the couple. “THE TWO OF YOU HAD SEX!”

She took a step back to keep her balance, and fell onto Rainbow’s bed; the bed that Rarity more than suspected her former princess and the mare personally responsible for saving Rarity’s life on two separate occasions had…copulated on.

The bed she was now on…

“Rarity?” Spike cried out dome somewhere down the hall.

..where her head had landed to find her delicate sense of smell assaulted by the same scent that permeated the room, only at a thousand times its previous intenisty. It…this…it…

“What’s going on I heard Rari-T-TWILIGHT?” Spike’s voice shouted.

“Spike!” Twilight said with her new voice. “This isn’t! Um…well, say something Dash!”

“Why is Rarity trembling like that?”

“It…IT’S IN MY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!”

Whatever power had designed the Palace of Friendship was truly a wise and benevolent thing. Each pony had a certain room or area dedicated to their personal desires. For Twilight, it was a laboratory, along with another room with bookshelves built right into the crystal walls that they were still attempting to fill. Rainbow Dash’s adjustment was a large balcony that connected to all of their living quarters so she could come and go as quickly as she pleased. The castle contained a kitchen capable of handling any of either Applejack or Pinkie’s exotic needs, while Rarity had heard Fluttershy say one of the highest rooms that came with a skylight would be perfect for an aviary. For the unicorn, it was a spa-sized bathtub in a grand room that reminded her of a pegasi public shower house done in crystal. The pool of a bath even had a continuous enchantment which always kept it clean, warm, and smelling of roses.

The therapeutic soak did wonders to calm Rarity’s mind as she did her best to cram her latest traumatic experience into that dark little mental box where she kept her memories of things like what her friends’ garish Gala dresses had looked like, what had happened on her first date with a Canterlot stallion, and all those other little things that were best left in the past. In fact, it worked so well, that by the time Twilight and Rainbow were done recapping things to Pinkie as she sat in the tub with them, Rarity wasn’t even thinking about how the…evidence of their act had filled her nose just minutes prior.

“Sooooo,” Pinkie drawled as she looked between the two ponies on the other side of the bath while Twilight simply sat there with his forelegs wrapped around Rainbow, his head resting on hers in a total embrace that had Rarity wondering if she was blushing from the water, or the attention. “What did you want from Twilight in the first place then, Dashie?”

Rarity found herself taking interest in the question when Twilight’s eyes suddenly widened, and he visibly tensed while Rainbow got a rather embarrassed look on her face. “Umm…yeah…well…” the pegasus managed to get out before she took a breath to stead herself and looked away from the others. “My monthly time kind of started yesterday,” Rainbow explained despite the massive blush on her cheek. “And I went to Twilight to see if she had some kind of magic to help me take care of it.”

After hearing that news, a rather disturbed thought crossed Rarity’s mind as she looked at the pegasus’s embarrassment while Twilight kissed the top of Rainbow’s head. No…she wouldn’t just…not think of the long-term consequences of her…actions

The internal debate on that subject lasted all of five seconds before it came to the obvious conclusion. Ooooooooh yes she would. “Rainbow, please tell me the two of you didn’t just do this to take care of your heat!”

“WHAT?” both mare and stallion yelled at the same time. “I’D NEVER DO THAT TO HER!”

The two Elements froze for a moment and looked at each other before they continued to talk, with Twilight taking the lead. “Rarity, I told you, I turned into a stallion before Rainbow Dash came to my lab! What happened afterwards wasn’t just some one-night fling!” The glare he gave Rarity made the unicorn gulp before she broke eye contact in shame for thinking that Twilight would have gone along with it, even if-

“Yeah!” the Element of Loyalty agreed before she started to fly out of the water, and got as far as her haunches before Twilight yanked her back down, then wrapped the pegasus tightly in his forelegs with a large blush on his cheeks.

“Rainbow, you can’t,” the unicorn managed to hear the alicorn say through barely parted lips.

The pegasus took one look behind her for some reason, and cleared her throat before looking back towards the water in front of her while blushing. “Right…sorry Twi.”

“Well I think it’s about bucking time!” Pinkie declared in a somewhat angry voice before she reached over to a conveniently placed spring and pulled on it with her hoof. A second later, there was a large popping sound, and Rarity looked up to see a large banner unfurl.

The large piece of cloth had a picture of Twilight and Rainbow drawn in a strange mixture of watercolor, and some other style Rarity couldn’t identify. It looked a little more professional than Pinkie’s usual work. As for the picture itself, the two ponies depicted were curled up around each other, with Rainbow’s head laid across Twilight’s stomach. A peaceful smile was written across both their slumbering faces as the last embers of a camp fire were barely depicted crackling below them.

However, before Rarity could get too wrapped up in the beauty of the picture, Pinkie pie exited the water and whipped out a large point to smack it against the banner where Rainbow’s face rested on Twilight. “Does this look like an alicorn to anypony? Nooooooo? That should tell you how long I’ve been waiting to throw you both a congratulations on finally figuring out you two belong together party!”

“You have got to be kidding me,” Twilight mumbled.

Then, for some reason Rarity couldn’t explain, Rainbow Dash raised a hoof a second before she asked her question. “Pinkie…why does that banner say TwiDash Group?”

“…that’s a good question Dashie,” Pinkie replied in a completely serious tone with a look Rarity had never seen on her face before she brightened back up almost immediately. “So can you guys wait until I’ve got some new banners made to tell everypony you’ve finally gotten together?”

A smile crossed Twilight’s face, and a light chuckle escaped from his lips before he nodded at the party pony. “That sounds great Pinkie. I’m going to need some time to adjust to this whole thing anyway, and…” The alicorn paused and looked down at Rainbow with a worried expression for a moment before his grip on the pegasus visibly tightened.

“Twi, I’m into you too and all, but I kind of need to breathe.”

Almost immediately, the larger alicorn’s eyes widened, and he withdrew his forelegs from around Rainbow and simply held onto her shoulders while mumbling apologies to the smaller pegasus. “Sorry, I just…sorry Rainbow. I didn’t hurt you or anything, right? You’re getting plenty of air, the water’s just fine too, right?”

That’s…odd, Rarity commented to herself as she watched the prince fret over his most loyal friend and lover like she was made of the most delicate of glass and Rainbow fend off his attentions with leaving Twilight‘s loose embrace.

With the strangeness of Twilight's oddly overprotective actions apparently sailing over Pinkie’s head, the party pony simply jumped back into the bath with a cannonball that turned Rarity’s hair into a total mess from the wave of water it created.

Completely ignoring the scowl Rarity was giving her after she came up for air, the pink pony spun around and faced the new couple. “I can’t wait to tell all our friends, like Fluttershy, and Applejack, and Discord-”

“Did some pony call my name?”

The familiar voice that came out of nowhere made a shiver of fear run up Rarity’s spine. However, by the time it had reached her mouth, it had become a dejected groan instead of the scream it should have been just a few meetings with the horrid creature prior.

“Ooooooh nooooo,” Twilight groaned in a deep voice that seemed to be oddly meant for it.

A second later, the most terrifying, and annoying, as well as unbelievably clashed up mix-up of animal world fashion that Rarity had ever had the displeasure of knowing appeared with a puff of smoke. He was in the middle of the bath, simply standing on the water. “Why thank you for calling me Pinkie Pie,” the spirit of chaos said before looking back towards Twilight…and just freezing in place.

“Discord,” Twilight growled.

The draconequus let out a tiny snicker. “Oh this…”

“Discord, I’m warning you.”

“…this is just too perfect,” Discord continued as he floated up away from the others with tiny bit of laughter escaping from his mouth.

A second later, Twilight launched himself into the air, up to within a few feet of the draconequus to glare at the creature…and Rarity learned the real reason Rainbow Dash had been sitting in front of Twilight the whole time they had been in the baths. Her eye twitched, and all the unicorn could think was, I thought water was supposed to help with controlling erections.

“NOT ONE WORD DISCORD!”

“So…many…jokes…mind…overloading!” the spirit said as a spark shout out from his head to fall near where Pinkie and Rarity were soaking.

Then, the sound of a tiny puff of smoke made her look over towards Pinkie as the earth pony pulled a card that was just floating in front of her to read it. “Wow Twilight, I guess Discord isn’t the biggest dick in Equestria anymore.”

Twilight looked down to the pink party pony with his mouth hanging open, then seemed to finally notice the massive hard-on he was sporting. “PINKIE! What are you-waaa!” And while trying desperately to cover himself, forgot to flap his wings, causing Rarity to once again experience the joys of having a soaked mane.

“What? It was funny,” Pinkie asked before another card appeared in the air for her to read. “That cock. Does Scootaloo know you and her daddy are attached at the hip now?”

“Hey!” Rainbow Dash shouted before she flew up to glare at Discord while putting her hooves on her hips. As soon as the pegasus got near him, the draconequus stopped his laughter, and just stared at her. “Don’t you joke about Scoot-my eyes are up here you weirdo! Stop looking at my-you better not be staring at my crotch.”

A second later, Discord closed his mouth and looked up to Dash’s face. “Yeah, but you’re not who I’m looking at,” he said while shaking his bead before looking back down to the alicorn with slightly widened eyes. “Um, Twilight, you should probably know something about a-uh, little package Rainbow is carrying.”

What? Rarity asked herself, going from annoyed at the pony next to her to feeling a small amount of dread creep up her spine.

Twilight was much more vocal in his response. “WHAT? How could you…YOU CAN TELL?” he screamed, sounding much more like a mare than he had all morning.

“Well you don’t get to be me without learning to notice even the smallest of details,” he replied with a shrug.

The air began to hum with power, and Rarity watched as Twilight’s horn lit up with its magical glow. “Discord, I swear on the Tree of Harmony, if you utter a single syllable to her, I will rip your magic from your body, stick it in a jar, and have you spend the rest of eternity as-”

Before Twilight could finish, Discord held out his hands in a placating gesture. “Whoooooa there Twilight! Down boy! Free bit of advice, careful with those new male hormones of yours, they’ll drive you crazy,” he said as he floated away from the pegasus. “And I’m not even going to try touching this one."

Then the mismatched creature looked around the room for a moment. “Um…Muzzle Tov,” the Spirit of Disharmony said before snapping his claws. As he did, a garment that was offensive to Rarity’s sense of taste appeared over Twilight’s head to cover the alicorn’s horn and eyes before Discord snapped his fingers again to disappear in a puff of smoke.

With the antagonizing spirit gone Rainbow let out a growl, then lowered herself to snatch the T-shit off of Twilight’s horn and spread it out. As the pegasus’s eyes ran over the front of the shirt, Rarity read the back to herself in a low tone. “T-Shirts don’t count as talking.”

A second later, Rainbow Dash flipped the clothing around before she lowered herself to Twilight’s level completely. “Hey Twilight, what’s this supposed to mean?”

The question was asked without any malice or sarcasm to be heard, announcing them as genuine confusion.

Rarity’s eyes widened when she saw the writing on the front part of the shirt.

Equestria’s Most Unexpected Father.

Rarity’s trained eyes noticed it even seemed to be sized for Twilight's new body properly.

As for Twilight, the look on his face told Rarity more than his largely separated words ever could. The stallion’s eyes were widened in fear as he looked up at the innocently confused pegasus. The clenched shoulders and slightly bent knees spoke of shame, and his trembling lips told her that there was a flood of other emotions that was barely being held back so that he could speak. “Rainbow…I…it’s…I…we need to talk.”

The two ponies disappeared in a flash of light, and Rarity found herself swaying a little too much in the giant tub as the water adjusted to fill in the space left vacant by the alicorn. As the motion subsided, the unicorn simply stood there, staring at the empty space where her friends had once been.

“Hey Rarity…is Dashie preggers?”

Pinkie’s simple, flat and even question made Rarity stand in the bath, replaying everything she had heard since Rainbow had awoken her from the unicorn from her slumber, feeding it into her mind as it constructed the answer bit by bit, the same way she had done time after time with the local town gossip. The conclusion was rather obvious.

“Yes Pinkie…I think she is,” Rarity responded in the same shocked tone that Pinkie had asked.

As soon as it was said, Rarity’s mind went into overdrive as to just what that could mean for…everything.

Rainbow Dash, an unwed mother… While Twilight and Rainbow would no doubt make their relationship public, a mare with a child on the way was bound to raise questions when no discernible father could be found. The media storm that would come about if a Element of Harmony, a national hero and future Wonderbolt were to be thought of conceiving a foal out of wedlock without the father to even be part of anything… Try former future Wonderbolt, she told herself.

Then there was the path that existed if Twilight revealed himself to be the father of Rainbow’s foal. It was so…different than Rarity had ever heard of, that she had no idea where that path would lead! The magic to turn a mare into a stallion was unheard of. Even Trixie hadn’t been able to comprehend it while wearing an object rumored to make unicorns on par with alicorns!

But, Rarity did know how ponies reacted to different. A zebra had been ostracized from the community for years because of that.

“You can’t tell anypony about this Pinkie,” Rarity mumbled as she looked over to her friend. “Not a single soul. Do you understand?”

Pinkie raised an eyebrow in confusion. “But, how will everypony know what to bring for Dashie’s baby shower?”

“Not. A. Single. Soul.” Rarity stressed as she glared the pink pony down into a crouch. “Understand?”

The earth pony gulped, but recited her little rhyme and Rarity backed off before apologizing for her cold ferocity. Then, after taking a cleansing breath, she got out of the large bath and grabbed a towel with her magic. “Now, I am going to go find where our friends winked off to and see if either of them needs a sympathetic ear. I think it’s best if you go around town and find out how many ponies are scheduled to have the Council of Friendship settle their disputes this afternoon and see if they can reschedule. Something tells me Twilight won’t be holding court today.”

“Okiee Dokie Loki!”

As she left the bathing room, a stray thought entered Rarity’s head that the seamstress latched onto out of a need for some comfort ability. I wonder if Rainbow Dash would like some maternity dresses.

Author's Notes:

Editing Provided by Edited by Bakmah Genesis

Here’s your chapter 2 you bastards! With your favoring and featuring!

(squeeeeeeeeee! Thank you! THANK YOU SO MUCH)

Don’t expect another one of these 24 hour updates either! Cause now that it’s up there on that whole ’READ THIS’ board I have to put some actual effort into this damn thing to get a proper reaction from Dash and how she’s going to react to the news of carrying Twilight’s child while I mill over her giving Twi some kind of Booth/Bones reaction of two best friends for years finally realizing their love for each other with a child…

Or just have her go nuts and beat Twilight to death with her friendship chair before running off to Sorin and pinning the responsibility for the baby on him!