First Day Part 8: Twilight and Dash’s Little Resolution

The End.

It was the end.

The end of everything.

All the running, chasing, shouting, teleporting, it had all been for nothing.

There was nothing he could do…

Rainbow Dash and Soarin were married.

Twilight felt his legs go weak and…

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No

No!

NO!

Don’t you dare Twilight, don’t you dare panic, procrastinate, or pass out, or do any of your other stupid things! Twilight shouted at himself. Because if you do, if you just run away from the problem in front of you again, then…

Then…

THEN YOU DON’T DESERVE TO BE IN LOVE!

As the pair of pegasi turned around, Twilight shook off his feelings of panic and took in a breath to shout. “You can’t do this!”

“Twilight?” Rainbow asked, surprise written across the pegasus’s features. “What’re you doing here?”

“I object!” the alicorn shouted. “I mean…I won’t hold my…wait… I overturn this whole thing!”

“W-What?” Soarin shrieked. “He can’t do that! How can he do that? And…who the heck is this anyway? I don’t remember us having a guy alicorn!”

“I’m a bucking alicorn princess in an absolute monarchy, I can do whatever I want!” Twilight shouted as he fought to control the panic rising in his chest, “and I say that THIS DOESN’T COUNT!”

Rainbow Dash gaped at the alicorn for a good two seconds before she got into the air in order to look the Princess of Friendship in the eyes. “What the hay Twilight!”

“Rainbow, I can’t let you do this I…” he froze for a second, unable to form the words before the pegasus spoke again.

“You can’t let me wha-mmmpth!” Rainbow managed to get out before Twilight stopped her with his magic, and held her whole body in place despite her attempts to move. He wasn’t going to let Rainbow interrupt her, fly off in a rage, or do anything else! Twilight didn’t want to her Rainbow’s pride, but what was going on trumped even that.

“No! It may be too late, but I am going to talk and you are going to listen!” he shouted into Rainbow’s face. “Ever since I woke up this morning, I feel like I’ve been going crazy! Even with everything that’s going on, the foal, this stupid gender swap, the eventual repercussions of our actions on a larger scale when it comes to our families! I can’t stop thinking about you! You’re in my head every waking second, and no matter how hard I try to stop thinking about you, I can’t! I…I LOVE YOU RAINBOW DASH!”

Rainbow’s struggles stopped, and she just looked down at the alicorn while he continued on with his impromptu confession. As he did, tears formed in Twilight’s eyes, blurring his vision. He knew it was too late, but it had to be said. “I love you Rainbow Dash, and…and I want to spend the rest of my life with you! I want to wake up next to you every morning and sleep with you every night! And I want…I want to raise our foal together!

“And it’s our foal! A life you and I made, not Soarin! We conceived it last night and then…then I did something stupid and accidentally pushed it through the developmental stages to being an embryo when I healed you! And when I found out I…I panicked and held off telling you, and then you found out the wrong way, and now…it’s…I just…I’m sorry!” Twilight sobbed before his head lowered in a fit of tears. “And now, if you try to get a divorce, Cadence is going to make you love each other, and then you’ll live happily ever after with Soarin!”

“Wait…the foal’s not mine?” the Wonderbolt asked. “So I got dragged down here for nothing? What a jip! I was gonna have pie.”

Twilight heard the shuffling of hooves behind him, and the alicorn turned an ear back to where Soarin was trying to get out of the room, and the alicorn’s friends were blocking his exit. “NOTHING?”

“How dare you call marriage nothing!” Rarity shrieked.

“W-What?” Soarin exclaimed. “We weren’t getting married! I don’t care how much dirt Spitfire has on me, I’m not tying myself down to anypony like that! And if she tries anything, I…I got proof of all the stuff she’s up to too!”

The scandalized words broke through Twilight’s gloom, and he looked over to where the group of mares was standing, then back to Rainbow Dash to ask her what was going on and…blinked away the tears when he saw her smiling down on him with tears in her eyes as well. Despite the confusion of the situation that his logical brain demanded Twilight to sort through and figure out, he couldn't help but give the mare in front of him all his attention.

Seeing that she wanted to say something, Twilight released his magic grip on her mouth, and gulped when Rainbow flew down to the floor to look up at Twilight with the widest smile he had ever seen on her face. “The foal is ours?”

“Y-Yes,” Twilight stuttered weakly, too emotionally drained from recent events to do much else. He wanted to tell Dash how sorry he was, how he had screwed up, how things were going to get even worse, but...he just didn't have the strength. Everything Twilight saw on his mental list about just how bad things were sapped his strength continuously.

Somehow, Rainbow’s smile became even wider, and she leapt to wrap her forelegs around Twilight’s neck and give him a hug so tight that the alicorn had trouble breathing. Then, she pulled her head back so the could look into each others eyes for a moment, and kissed him.

It was a wonderful kiss, of pure love, with only a hint of lustful desire. When Rainbow Dash broke it, the mare smiled at the stallion. “I love you too, Egghead.”

Twilight found himself caught up in a rush of joy as the moment enveloped him, and then…he remembered Soarin’s words from just a few moments earlier. “And what was that about this being our foal? And…marriage? I’m not marrying Soarin!” he heard Dash yell.

“But…it…you…what?”

The judge cleared his throat. “Perhaps I can help with that,” he said before holding up the document Rainbow Dash had just sighed for all to see.

Even from halfway across the room, the year-old pegasus part of his body that gave the alicorn excellent eyesight was able to make out the document. Its presence only made him more confused. “Single custody? Um…would somepony please explain what is going on?”

“That’s what I’d like to know,” Rainbow asked the stallion with a frown.

Rainbow Dash didn’t know whether to be sick, livid, or touched…so she settled for all three as she paced back and forth in the air while she looked down at her friends sitting in the seats usually reserved for family of ponies on trial others who needed to watch the proceedings.

She tried to avoid looking at Twilight, because when she did… Twilight and me…Twilight and me are going to have a foal, she internally squeed before using all of her awesome willpower to keep from dancing in place.

So she focused on the anger. The righteous anger. And the fuel for that anger about how her friends could possibly come to such an odd conclusion. “I CAN’T BELIVE YOU! HOW THE HAY COULD YOU THINK I WAS GETTING MARRIED TO SOARIN?”

“Well, your father did it when your mother-” Fluttershy tried to begin.

“WITNESSES!” Rainbow Dash continued to go on as she threw her forelegs out to gesture widely at the room. “Do you see any witnesses?” How can you get married without witnesses? WASN’T THAT A BIG ENOUGH CLUE THAT I WASN‘T GETTING MARRIED?”

Rarity cleared her throat in embarrassment and looked away from the blue pony as she continued to fly back and forth.

“And to Soarin? REALLY?” she yelled at Applejack. “You’ve heard me talk about him since the Games, right? How in the hay could I ever get married to somepony like him?”

Applejack glared at the pegasus pony, not cowed at all. “Hey! A foal makes you do some pretty crazy things Rainbow, even when you don’t have no feelings for the other stallion!” she argued back. “I was trying to save your sorry plot from Cadence making your brain go all out of whack from her love beam thingy!”

“Her what?” both Rainbow, Soarin, and Twilight said at once.

The earth pony frowned at Twilight questioning her, but went on with her explanation anyway. “Ever since that princess summit, if a couple of ponies get divorced within a ten year period, then Cadence hypnotizes them into loving each other!”

Rainbow Dash blanched. “What”

“Applejack! Cadence doesn’t hypnotize anypony,” Twilight said with a frown. “You make it sound like she’s using mind control or something!”

The statement made the apple farmer gape at Twilight for a moment. “Because that’s what it is!”

“No it’s not!”

“Yes it is!”

“You said she forces them to love each other for ten years!” Applejack countered the alicorn. “How is that not mind control!?”

Twilight stared at the farm pony for a minute with a frown, then her eyes shot up in realization when something seem to click inside her head. “Ohhhhh! So that’s why…wait…THAT’S WHAT YOU THOUGHT I MEANT?” he shouted at the farm pony. “How in the hay could you think that?”

“Because that’s what you said?” Pinkie volunteered. “I kinda thought it was pretty creepy too Twilight.”

“Yes Darling, that was a bit…odd.”

As Fluttershy added her agreements that were barely loud enough to be heard, Twilight let out a groan and smacked his face with his hoof. “I can’t believe you girls actually thinks Cadence hypnotizes other ponies.”

“Hey you said she makes other ponies who are divorcing fall in love!” Applejack told her.

“Because she does!” Twilight countered.

Fluttershy cleared her throat, and let out a little squeak before she asked, “Ummm, Twilight? How is that not hypnotizing other ponies?”

The alicorn let out an exasperated sigh as he looked at the ceiling for a moment before back to the group. “Look, when Cadence find out about two ponies who obviously care enough for each other to get married for whatever reason are getting a divorce within a ten year period of their joining, she steps in and casts a spell that lets them feel the emotions of the other, and see things from that pony’s perspective. It washes away all the falsehoods, fears, and lies the ponies tell themselves about their special somepony, and allows for a deeper connection than anything that can be accomplished without magic! Then she has them give their relationship another chance with the spell in place to help them through the difficult times! Two ponies with that deep a connection, how can they not find something to love about the other?”

“But…you said…” Applejack mumbled. “What about with Discord then? You were gonna use that reform spell on him!”

“You mean how the reform spell would have made Discord more empathetic to all the harm he was causing other ponies when he was still evil” Twilight kept going. “If he had actually had it on, I doubt he would have even allowed Tirek to drain the magic out of more than a single group of ponies because he wouldn’t have been able to ignore all the pain he was causing!”

Rainbow Dash let out a tiny laugh at the scene. “Wait a second…you guys thought if I saw Soarin’s emotional insides, that I wouldn’t just puke? That’s what you were worried about? Seriously?”

“Actually Darling, we thought that Cadence was going to just hypnotize you,” Rarity mumbled with an embarrassed blush.

On the other side of the room, the stunt flier spoke up in his defense. “Hey,” he whined. “What’s wrong with me?”

“You like to cum inside other mares, and then eat them out!” Rainbow shouted as she pointed an accusing hoof at the stallion. “I can’t even look at your junk without…ugh!” Celestia! The knowledge of what Soarin liked to do made even thinking about messing around down there with him just…freaky.

Pinkie Pie frowned. “But wouldn’t that mean he eats his own…okay, ew.”

“What? It’s like warm apple pie!”

Applejack glared at the stallion. “You did not just compare my best desert to…ugh!”

“Soarin,” Rainbow deadpanned as she turned around to look at him. “That stupid manure has got you…what? Ten foals now? Fifteen?” Some rumors she had heard while training in the reserves put it as high as forty. But rumors always did tend to make things swell. “You seriously need some help dude.”

The Wonderbolt sunk in on himself. “It’s not my fault some mares say they like me, then take those heat potions before we do it,” he mumbled. “I even give them enough bits to take care of the foal. I’m still living on base because of that.”

An uneasy silence settled on the group at the Wonderbolt’s announcement, and he looked back around. “Can I go now?”

Twilight frowned at the odd information Soarin given. “Wait…what?”

Rainbow Dash let out a groan. She really didn’t want to get into this right now. “This idiot sleeps with mares without protection and some of them get pregnant because they take a potion to induce heat early without him knowing because of his stupid…kink, they think they can get money out of him” the cyan pegasus explained. “Which they can with the foals and all.”

She would have had more sympathy, but the bastard had started those rumors about her sleeping with mules, because Dash wouldn’t do anything beyond the basics. The bucking ass even had magically crafted pictures floating around the reservist base! Everypony knew they were fake, but…just thinking about the jokes that came from those pictures made her blood boil.

Although, if a tabloid got their hooves on some of them…Rainbow Dash knew her life would be over.

“Oh…um, okay guess you can go,” Twilight mumbled from his place sitting the court audience seating next to the others.

“Actually, stay for a moment,” the judge spoke up, drawing a wince from Soarin “I’d like to speak to you about that comment you made earlier about proof regarding something Spitfire did and how she has evidence against you.”

Completely ignoring the judge and the idiot he was talking to, Rainbow spun to face Twilight. “AND YOU! I…” was all she could say before a feeling of joy crept its way up from her stomach that escaped as a very uncool giggle before she found herself smiling again. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stop smiling whenever I look at you,” Rainbow got out before she saw a smile creep onto Twilight’s face. “But…I…um…I’m still mad at you.”

The weak explanation and building heat on her cheeks made Rainbow look away from the stallion. Not seeing him helped keep her emotions under wraps. “Why didn’t you just tell me Twilight?”

Twilight flinched at the words. “I…I was afraid you would hate me,” he mumbled. “I was so afraid Rainbow. W-When you couldn’t even look at me. I just…I couldn’t stand the idea of you hating me Rainbow. So I ran from the problem.”

A swell of guilt pulled at the pegasus’s wings to bring her down to the cloud floor, and she sighed before looking down. “I could never hate you Twilight. How could you even think that? I’d do anything for you. Even the Wonderbolts don’t compare to you.”

“But, if you have a foal then there’s no way you can join the Wonderbolts!” he exclaimed before letting out a low whine. “I know you! I know there is no way you’d just leave a foal at home and run off to wherever they’re touring for months on end!”

The sound of a throat being cleared from across the room made all the ponies look back to Soarin. He took a moment to look at the judge, then over to Rainbow Dash before letting out a sigh. “Uh yeah…about that Rainbow… Spitfire had kind of blacklisted you from ever joining the Wonderbolts.”

“SHE WHAT?”

Rainbow Dash jumped at the sound of her mare/coltfriend’s voice and backed away from Twilight when he arose from his chair to glare at Soarin. “What the hay do you mean blacklisted? Why? HOW?”

“Oh, w-well, um…you see…” he gulped and took a few breaths before continuing. “Rainbow Dash stood up to her during the academy and nearly quit. But Spitfire was so afraid of her being able to make a fuss, or writing to Princess Celestia about it we had to give her a position as a lead pony! Then, when it came time to move her into the main ranks of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire talked Celestia into creating a special reserve military organization so we didn’t have to keep coming up with excuses not to let her in the main squadron when she’s obviously good enough.”

In all honesty, Rainbow Dash didn’t know whether to feel hurt, insulted…or a little impressed that a whole new leg of the military was created just for her. “But…I thought she liked me,” the pegasus mumbled.

“In public, sure. She smiles with the best of them. But Spitfire doesn’t like anypony she can’t control,” Soarin replied his eyes wandered to the judge again for a few seconds. “And a lot of the others on the main squad have too many skeletons in their closets to try anything, even though we all know she fixes races at the track in Canterlot and does…some other things. Honestly Rainbow, she just wants you to stay the hay away so you don’t stumble on anything. Hay, we didn’t even call you to fight when Equestria was practically ending!”

A second later, when Soarin had finally stopped talking to look back at the pegasus stallion in the robes, the judge cleared his throat. “Ah, yes well, considering the matters revealed and um…Prince Twilight Sparkle has admitted that he is in fact the father to Ms Dash’s foal and not Mr Soarin…is there anything else you all require before I send the DA to meet with Mr Soarin to get to the bottom of all this?”

Twilight cleared his throat. “Well…there is one thing we need to take care of.”

A second after the light of the Magic of Friendship faded, Twilight stumbled, and then checked herself over, running her hooves over her body and using her friends as a reference point when she needed to. Wings…back to normal. Horn was always the same size, so no change there. Height…wow, was I always this short? Reproductive organs…

Applejack cleared her throat, making Twilight look out from where she was looking under herself while tying to check if all her female anatomy had returned. “Twi…would you mind not messing with yerself with us all standing here like this?”

The alicorn’s eyes widened and she let out an embarrassed giggle, because mares didn’t chuckle, they giggled! “Sorry, it was just…it’s back! I’m back!” she exclaimed before taking to the air in joy.

“Well, most gender-bender ponies say its gone in regards to their junk but…whatever floats your boat!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed. “Now can we have Dashie’s foal shower? Oh! And Twilight’s I’m a mare again party! Oh! And when are you two getting engaged, and married, and when’s Dashie’s foal due? I need to make plans for her ‘We made a baby party!’ I…I HAVE SO MUCH I NEED TO PLAN FOR!”

Twilight giggled again and smiled at her friend before landing as she tried to ground her happiness. “Okay Pinkie calm down. It’s just our first day as a…wow,” she mumbled as something occurred to her.

The feeling of something soft caressing her side made Twilight look up and over to see her Rainbow standing there with a concerned look on her face. “What?”

“It’s just…” she giggled a bit in the face of her realization. “In our first day as a couple, I’ve had a panic attack, switched genders, gone insane with worry, depression, and panic, picked a fight with Discord twice, and disrupted a wedding…not counting the ones I ran into looking for you. I’m actually a little afraid of what tomorrow’s going to bring with it.” All in all, she thought it still fell a bit short of the Smarty Pans incident, but not by much. It was...extremely worrisome.

Then, Rainbow did something that just made all of Twilight’s worries disappear: she shrugged. “Eh. We can deal with it. You’re an awesome mare, and I am too. Whatever happens, you and me can handle it.”

A shiver of guilt, pleasure, and confidence, passed through the alicorn’s body at her fillyfriend’s words, and she stepped closer to her mare to nuzzle the pegasus. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner Rainbow.” I’m sorry for a lot of things, she thought while looking at the mare she…loved?

Yes, I do love her, Twilight told herself with absolute confidence. It wasn’t simply the emotional attachment either. Even as a mare, she could feel a building desire for her pegasus, and moved her tail over to flick it against Rainbow’s.

When the other mare returned the gesture, Twilight felt her hear rate increase even more and she gulped down a mouthful of saliva that responded to her sexual hunger. As well as her physical one. Running around in a panic was exhausting work.

“Hey! I’ve got an idea! Let’s get you girls married now!”

“WHAT?”

Then, the moment shattered at Pinkie’s declaration, causing Twilight to stumble and look back to her friend. “Say what?” she asked, completely confused.

“Come on, it’ll be perfect! The judge is still in his office,” Pinkie exclaimed. “First you made your foal, now you can get married, then you can go have your first time as mares, and then your first date and then-”

Twilight stopped the noise coming from the pink pony’s mouth with her magic. “Pinkie, I think I’ll be wanting to try for a normal relationship with Rainbow from this point on. That means meeting the parents before getting married.”

The feeling of Rainbow’s nose against her ear made drew her attention away from the party pony, and over to Dash. “Well, I do like that first time idea. I know a hotel down the street that doesn’t charge much,” she whispered. “And I have been wondering about you for a long time Twi, a lot longer than…guy you.”

She blushed, and held up a wing to block the rest of her friends from seeing her face. “Well, I did promise you to meet me in my lab so we could ‘eat out’ after I turned back, remember? And to be honest…I need to unwind a little bit before we…you know.”

“Okay but I'll hold you to that when we get home,” Rainbow told her with a kiss to the cheek before she spoke up to address the others. “So how about I show you girls all my old hangouts? All we had time for during the competition was the weather factory and…well…Rarity kind of got us all banned from ever coming back, so… Well, there’s cooler places to be than where I used to work.”

For the next three hours, Twilight found herself falling into a slightly familiar routine, with several small improvements that made her smile like a kiss when the others weren't looking, and a nuzzle when they were. With three hours to enjoy Cloudsdale, Rainbow and Fluttershy showed the girls several of the places that they had skipped during their first go around including the sky gardens that had enough solid cloud beneath them to allow for dirt and some greenery.

Still, her mind did wander to places that didn’t include her and Dash inside a bedroom. At least once every five minutes, depending on her calculations, Twilight found herself looking at Rainbow’s stomach and wondering about the future.

Would their foal be a mare? A stallion? An alicorn was out of the question, Celestia and Luna were the only ponies to be born like that… But, with Twilight being an alicorn, it was possible that any foal she, or he at the time, would fall into any of the three tribes. Would she be smart? Would he be fast? Kind? Loyal? Gentle? Strong? The possibilities made her head spin.

While Fluttershy took over the tour from the gardens, thanks to being in her element with the numerous birds which nested in the small trees, Twilight pulled Rainbow Dash off to the side for some semi-private time. They sat together for a moment, and Twilight rested her head on her fillyfriend’s shoulder with a small yawn.

“Twi are you tired? It’s barely eight,” Rainbow said.

“I’m just…drained,” she replied, taking a minute to think of the right word. “And…a little worried. But…so excited too.” She reached over to put a hoof on Rainbow Dash’s belly. “We…we made a foal Dash. Us.”

Rainbow smiled and kissed Twilight on the cheek. “I know. Awesome, right?”

A thought occurred to Twilight, and she looked over to her mare. “Rainbow…Fluttershy mentioned something about…your father. She seemed to think it would have made you marry Soarin even if you didn’t want to. Um…I know you might not like me to pry but…”

The pegasus silenced her with a hoof to the lips. “Twi, right now, it’s you, me…and our friends. I’ll bring you to meet my folks soon enough, but for now? Let’s just…enjoy each other? Okay?”

“Okay Dash,” she agreed before kissing her fillyfriend on the lips, then pulled Dash on top of her. “I think we’ve handled enough for one day anyway.”

Author's Notes:

Well, the massive anti-Cadence love monster outcry forced me to have Twilight clarify things a bit earlier than I had wanted with her (like two chapters) but that is the meat of the end of arc one. I'll admit, it ran much longer than I thought it would and I had to make some changes along the way. While I did plan on having Twilight change back to a mare at the end, it was in a different way, but it conflicted with the overall idea of making the first arc just TwiDash's first 24 hours of madness.

Next up will be what happens to Spitfire and a good chunk of the Wonderbolts, and then I'll go back to edit the stuff and add to the descriptions of stuff to increase the feels.

And serious guys? Did you really think I'd make Cadence into a monster? Yeesh!
The whole point of the first arc is misdirection and suspense!
Also removed Discord from the intro of the chapter based on the feedback and made Flash Sentry a bit more unrecognizable but, when it comes to male ponies, we've got BM Soarin, and FL it's not a lot to work with here people.