"A whole year, I can't believe its been just over a whole year since Ive been here Twi. Who would have ever guessed that being pulled into an alternate world and finding it better than your home world would have been possible." Midnight chuckled as he snuggled Twilight against his chest while laying in bed.

"Well I'm happy that you're happy Night. After all the time we've spent together and grown closer, I don't think I could have been happier with any other stallion." She giggled giving his neck a gentle nip.

"Uh huh, You're just to picky with stallions." He smirked watching her lean away and giving him a cocked brow.

"Oh really? Then why don't you elaborate on my perfect stallion?" She smirked.

"Well he has to be handsome, super smart, able to protect you and the world, have a devilishly cunning demeanor, fun eccentric, and all around awesome without making you feel alone or unwanted. Am I close?" He smirked.

"Go ahead and feed your ego, it won't save you from me." She chuckled as she leaned up to kiss him. They both stopped though as skittering footsteps could be heard bolting up the stairs. Twilight made a hasty retreat from the bed heading to the door just as Spike burst in panting.

"Spike? Is everything alright?" Twilight asked as he bent over breathing hard to catch his breath, he raised a hand holding a scroll which was quickly grabbed up by her. She opened it and began to read it out loud.

"Twilight, it is of the utmost importance that Midnight return to the castle, I am afraid Starlight has fallen ill and I was unprepared for this matter. Being a baby Alicorn and catching a cold can be devastating, however, I am without the knowledge of what to do as this is the first Alicorn to be born within five thousand years. My medical staff does not know what to do. Please have Midnight come to the castle as soon as he can."

*SNAP*

"What the?" Twilight looked to the bed to see the covers slowly falling onto the bed and Midnight nowhere to be seen.

"I guess he didn't want to wait." She sighed looking to the bed.

"Uh, Twi?" Spike began. "You alright?" he spoke only to get a snort of annoyance in return as Twilight turned to him giving him a death glare.

"Couldn't have waited another hour could you?" She groaned as she headed toward the bathroom.

"Twi? Where you going now?" He asked as he watched her head into the bathroom while speaking.

"To take a cold shower." She growled as the door slammed shut.

XXX

*SNAP*

Midnight arrived in the castle via teleporting, He looked around seeing a few guards looking at him oddly. Midnight quickly stepped up to one of the guards as he began.

"Where is Celestia and Starlight?" He asked with urgency behind his voice.

"The princess is in her quarters tending to Starlight. She has advised us to *SNAP* let.... you......well that was rude." The guard snorted.

*SNAP* Midnight appeared Just outside of Celestia's quarters making a swift entry and looking around. He located her sitting to the side of the balcony window with Starlight in her arms giving a slight whimper. He made his way quickly to her side as he spoke softly so as to not to disturb Star.

"Tia? How is he?" Midnight asked as he looked from her to Star. The foal was wrapped gently within a small blanket, only his head was exposed as she sat there rocking back and forth while humming softly to him.

"He is fine for the moment, I just got him to go to sleep, the poor thing has kept me up all night crying. I'm afraid he has caught a magic cold and will be rather grumpy for a week." She sighed looking down to him.

"I'll stay to watch over him Tia, You get some rest." Midnight smiled giving her a nuzzle.

"Thank you Night, If you need me though please wake me." She gave a tired smile as she hoofed Star to him and made her way to her bed a few yards away. No sooner than she had hit the bed than Starlight began to cry. She looked over to Midnight giving a heavy sigh as she began to get up. She stopped though as she noticed Midnight raise a hoof to stop her. She laid back down as she watched him take in a deep breath and began to sing in a deep soothing voice.

"Far over the misty mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and caverns old,
The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night,
The fire was red, it flaming spread,
The trees like torches blazed with light."

Before the final verse was sung, both Celestia and Starlight were fast asleep. Midnight gave a tender smile seeing the two so at peace as they slept. He leaned back into his chair as little star nuzzle against his chest happily.

"Guess I'm going to be here a while." He smirked as a small sneeze escaped Star causing him to give a little whimper. Midnight gently nuzzled the top of his head causing him to go back to sleep. "There there Star, Daddy's here." He smiled hearing a contented sigh escape his foal.

(five hours later)

Celestia woke as the setting sun was casting its final rays through her room and onto her sleeping frame. She gave a tired yawn as she sat up in bed raising a hoof to block the sun as she looked around her room for Midnight and their foal. She moved slowly from her bed heading toward the balcony as she did not see them within the room. She stopped as she noticed Midnight sitting outside with Star still within his arms, His face pointing toward the castle and away from the setting sun.

"Have you been here this whole time my dear?" Celestia asked as she moved to his side.

"Just making sure our little one is happy, that's all that matters to me." He smiled

"I'm glad you came to the castle to help. Most of the unicorn staff are on leave due to Star having a cold." She sighed.

"Why is that?" Midnight asked, curious as to why the unicorn staff would leave in his foals time of need.

"You aren't aware of Alicorn ailment's? Once an Alicorn becomes ill they are extremely contagious to any other magical creature that uses magic. To each other, not so much. But should a unicorn get sick from an Alicorn's cold, their chances of survival are slim to none. A cold to us is like a death sentence to unicorns. For as long as I have lived I have only been sick roughly twenty times. On one occasion a dear friend of mine that was a unicorn scholar would not leave my side. He in turn got sick and passed a week later. I regret that time highly, but it is in the past and I shall not dwell on it." She gave a sigh as she looked to Midnight who now had a slight look of horror on his face.

"Midnight? What's wrong?" She asked feeling slightly alarmed by his expression.

"What would happen to a being turned Alicorn should they get sick by the same cold?" He stuttered in worry causing Celestia's eyes to go wide just before her horn lit up, taking a scan of Midnight. She gave a sigh of relief as the scan came back negative.

"Thank goodness you haven't caught this cold." She smiled. "I think you should go freshen up and head back to Ponyville. I will be ok taking care of our little one. Thank you for staying this long to allow me to sleep." She smiled giving him a quick kiss.

"I'll be here anytime you need me hun. You should really consider having your spell altered to send those scrolls to me and Twilight instead of just Spike. Poor fella has tossed his cookies on several occasions from a surprise scroll while he was eating." Midnight chuckled sticking his tongue out in disgust.

"I will do that, now please, go take a shower and clean yourself well. We do not need another sick Alicorn running around." She smiled to him as he left.

After thoroughly taking a long shower and scrubbing himself until his fur was about to come out, Midnight made his way back to Ponyville to pick up where he had left off with Twilight.

"I hope Twi isn't upset that I left without her, but at least it was an emergency, I'm sure she'll understand." He spoke as he appeared from his teleportation just outside the library. He made his way in taking a look around. It was rather late and Spike would already be in bed. He continued looking around for Twilight until he finally located her laying on her desk asleep. He gave a chuckle as he came up to her side with a cover, gently placing onto her. He leaned down to give her a kiss but stopped as he heard a shuddering breath escape her. He pulled away as he took a closer look seeing her giving the expression of slight pain, sweat running down her forehead, her eyes squinting slightly as she continue to lay there.

"No, it's not possible." Midnight spoke in slight shock as his horn lit up casting a scan spell onto Twilight. The spell ended and sure enough, Twilight was sick with an Alicorn cold, but how did she get it? He stopped for a moment as he noticed what she was laying on. It was the note from the princess earlier in the day. "Oh no!" He spoke as he rushed from Twilight's office upstairs to see Spike sprawled out on the floor with his blanket in his grasp as he lay there shivering.

"FUCK!" He shouted as he quickly gathered up Spike heading downstairs and grabbing Twilight as well before teleporting to the castles medical wing.

*SNAP*

"I need help here!" He shouted causing several nurses to run to him. "Any unicorn ponies need to exit the area immediately, These two........ have a..........Alicorn cold." His words slowed giving a slightly slur as he shook the fog from his head. He looked around as the room began to spin. "Seems I have it.............. as well.........." *THUD*

"I need some orderlies in here now, Unicorns vacate the premises and initiate quarantine protocols now." An earth pony doctor shouted as he helped one of the nurses place Twilight and Spike onto a stretcher each. "Somepony contact the princess, tell her Midnight is here and sick. We need to cook up the cure for this ailment before it can infect any other pony!" He shouted causing one of the pegasi orderlies to bolt from the medical wing to locate the princess'.

After ten minutes the pegasi that had left the medical wing of the castle had located Luna, She was just coming back from raising the moon and was heading toward the banquet hall to have her breakfast, even though it was just past dinner at this point.

"Princess Luna! We need you and Celestia to come to the medical wing immediately." He panted as he landed next to her, not even giving a bow. Luna picked up on the urgency in his voice an nodded to him.

"Go, I will locate my sister and be there shortly." She spoke quickly as she bolted down the hall to her sisters room. She entered quickly, startling Celestia who was still holding onto Starlight.

"Luna? What is the........" She was cut short as Luna began.

"No time to argue dear sister, we have an emergency in the medical wing that requires our attention." She spoke as she bolted back to the door calling for a maid. Celestia made it to the door just as a maid arrived at the room.

"Take care of the little one. I will return when I can." Celestia spoke as she hoofed Starlight into the waiting hooves of the maid, she giving a nod as the two regal ponies quickly bolted down the hall before teleporting to the medical wings, a soft snap heard as they vanished.

They appeared in the medical wing seeing many ponies running back and forth from three different rooms. Upon seeing the regal sisters a doctor made his way over to them, not even bowing as he asked them to follow him. They made way quickly into Midnights room, upon seeing him in his current state Celestia rushed to his side.

"Midnight?! Whats wrong? Please tell me you didn't catch Star's cold." She spoke with worry evident in her voice.

"Tia, Don't worry about me. Save Twilight and Spike......... Your letter.............. had the cold on it................ Go save them............. I'll survive............" He spoke before blacking out.

Celestia gasped at what she had heard, realizing that the three of them were sick now because of her. "I forgot to immunize the letter before sending it." She spoke softly as she bolted from the room into the next room with Twilight. She stood there in shock seeing Twilight writhe in agony in the bed. After a moment she stepped forward to her side

"Twilight.............Twilight can you hear me?" She spoke only to get silence in return. She looked back to Luna, worry and horror spread across her face.

"Should we gather one of the potions?" Luna asked Celestia as she trotted up to Twilight's bedside.

"Yes, but bring six of them just in case. We don't know if those potions Zecora made will be potent enough for them. We have to try though." She spoke nodding to give Luna permission to leave.

Thirty minutes passed as Luna had finally returned with the potions in question. Celestia took one from her magical grasp and began to read the note placed onto the side of the potion. Her face turned to horror reading the side effects for a unicorn. She looked back to Twilight who was still writhing in pain without making a single sound. After a quick breath Celestia's horn began to glow as she teleported the contents of the potion directing into Twilight's stomach. Celestia quickly strapped her down and placed a magic buffer ring onto her horn just in time to see it light up. After a few seconds Twilight began to groan, which slowly became a cry, then into a shriek as she tried to thrash about but was held down by the straps. After ten minutes she fell limp onto the bed. The doctors coming in to check her vitals.

"Princess, Twilight will be fine. You should check on Spike, Whatever you did to Twilight you need to do to him. He is getting worse." The doctor spoke as he exited the room.

After a quick change of rooms Celestia did the same routine with Spike. Although he only groaned loudly from teh potion, he seemed to be fairing much better than Twilight. Another minute passed as she made her way into Midnights room once again. He was strapped to the floor while he lay on a mattress that was built into the floor while every inch of him was restrained. The creaking and groaning of the straps and metal could be heard form the sheer force of strength being exerted from him in his attempt to escape. Celestia sat to his side as she pulled another potion from a saddlebag and teleported its contents into his stomach. The effects were almost immediate as his eyes burst open. Flames roaring from them as he looked around, His expression was that of pure rage. Celestia began to cast multiple spells around the room to prevent any further damage to the wing outside of the room. She was not worried about herself however as the inferno simply bounced off of her. She gave a smile seeing Midnight's magic at work protecting her from himself. Another minute went by and still no further changes were present, She gave a worried glance as she teleported yet another potion into Midnights stomach. He began to writhe in pain even more as he let out a deep growl before shrieking in pain. Celestia's horn lit up once again as she placed a muffle spell around the room and herself.

After ten minutes passed Midnight seemed to have calmed slightly but was still fighting the straps. Celestia began to worry as she looked from him to another potion. "I have no choice. I must use one more potion." She gave a slight gulp as she teleported yet another potion into his stomach. After a few second Midnights entire frame burst into fire as an ear splitting scream escaped him.

*SNAP*

"Oh no!" Celestia watched as one of the straps broke. A few more seconds passed as Midnight began to calm and his flames slowly receding. After two minutes he was laying motionless on the ground, the steady rise and fall of his chest giving indication that he was indeed breathing normally. She gave a sigh heading out of the room smiling to the doctor and nurses before hitting the floor out cold.

"TIA!?" Luna shouted in a panic. The doctors gathered her up taking her into a vacant room as well as Luna despite her arguing to stay with her sister.

After a short time and several screams later Celestia and Luna had been administered half of the final potion each before they fell asleep.

(Three days later)

"Ugh. What hit me?" Midnight groaned as he awoke to the sounds of ponies talking around him.

"Midnight!? Your awake!" Shouted Twilight as she rushed over pouncing onto him as he lay in bed.

"OOF! Ow, hey now be careful, I feel as if I was hit by a train." He groaned hugging Twilight to him. He looked around the room to see Celestia, Luna, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and the rest of the girls, including Spike gathered around him.
"I don't know whether to feel honored or worried about everyone being here. I sure hope this isn't my death bead because it sure as hell isn't comfortable." He smirked getting a groan from everyone.

"Darling, you managed to catch a nasty cold from what the princess has told us. You just now woke up after three days in bed, We thought the worst was going to happen." Pouted Rarity as she climbed onto the bed with him, tears welling up in her eyes.

"I have survived the worst physical and magical fights this world has to offer, you think a cold is going to put me down? Perish the thought." He snickered to Rarity giving her a nuzzle only to make her roll her eyes.

"Oh no." Celestia spoke out catching every ones attention.

"Princess?" Twilight asked looking to her.

"I think Midnight still has the cold. He is acting strangely still." She looked to him with worry in her eyes.

"You mean acting full of himself and being rather snarky?" Twilight added getting a glare from Midnight.

"Yes, that's right." Celestia smirked.

"Don't worry princess, that's a daily thing for him, you'll get used to it in time." Twilight giggled causing the room to burst out laughing. All except Midnight of course who crossed his arms and pouting his lip with a furrowed brow of annoyance.