I was busy taking a nap, going through some of the photos I had and smiling through each one, I was also having another zap apple jam sandwich and had just finished eating it when I heard a quick knock on the door.

I opened the door to see the six girls, with Pinkie jumping up and down.

"Hi Bond, come to the hospital quick!" Pinkie said fast.

"Uhh hi girls, what for?" I asked.

"It's Mrs Cake, she went into labour earlier this morning." Twilight replied.

"Oh okay, lead the way."

The girls then took me to the hospital and passing through the reception, we headed on over to a medium-sized room and I looked through the window to see the newborn foals sleeping in cradles, this must be where the newborns go to after they are welcomed into the world. It brought me back memories of my time as a baby and being loved which made me smile, they were quite adorable babies too.

"Can you believe the new baby is finally here?" Applejack asked Twilight.

"Cup Cake and Carrot Cake must be so proud!" Twilight answered.

"I wonder if it's a filly or a colt?" Rarity squealed.

"I wanna see the new baby pony! I wanna see!" Pinkie Pie excitedly demanded as she rubbed her face on the glass window. "Which one is it?"

"So girls, just to clarify, when did this happen?" I asked the girls.

"It happened when you were with the fillies at the school, listening to Granny Smith's story." Applejack answered.

"And this was something the cakes had planned for a long time." Fluttershy added.

"Oh I see." I nodded before smiling again.

I looked through the window to see Mr. Cake near a baby bed with a little colt underneath the covers. "Meet our son, Pound Cake."

He unveiled the little colt from beneath the covers. He yawned adorably and resumed his sleeping.

"Awww" we all replied in unison.

"...and our daughter, Pumpkin Cake." He added as he removed the covers from another small filly that was wrapped in a pink blanket. she did the same thing.

"Huh?" The mares said in confusion.

"Twins?!" I asked out of the blue.

"Two new foals for me to play with?" Pinkie Pie reacted, gasping afterwards. "That's two, two, two times the fun! This is the greatest day ever!"

"Pinkie, before you do anything stupid, I suggest you calm down, this isn't a Rush Hour movie." I intervened.

"Okie dokie lokie." she replied with a smile.

Applejack faced back to the window and formed a determined confused face. "Now how in thunderation is one of them twins a pegasus, and the other one a unicorn?"

"Easy." Mr. Cake answered. "My great-great-great-great grandfather was a unicorn, and Cup Cake's great aunt's second cousin twice removed was a pegasus. That makes sense, right?"

I put on my glasses and reading a page from a book titled, 'Logics of the universe.' "Well according to my logic rule book...it makes no sense what so ever." I said as everypony looked at me with strange expressions.

"Ah think you need to lay off the zap apple jam for a while, sport." Applejack commented.

"Anyways, once little Pound cake gets his wings going, he'll be flying all over the place." Dash said.

"And be careful around Pumpkin cake." Twilight advised.

"Baby unicorns get strange magic surges that come and go." Rarity added.

In the corner of my eye, I spotted pinkie trying to sneak into the baby room, but I stopped her with my magic as I placed her in a bubble and brought her back to the group.

"Nice try Pinkie, but you're not smart enough to outsmart me." I smirked.

"Aww…" She released and frowned.

"C'mon, Pinkie. Let's go to Sugarcube Corner." Twilight said as we began to leave the hospital.

"Alright!"

When we got there, we had zap apple cupcakes that Pinkie actually made with Applejack's help before we went to the hospital earlier. They were quite tasty as well and I looked around to see Dash was still present, to my relief....you just never know.

"I can't wait till I start playing with them, it's gonna be so much fun!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"Calm down, Pinkie, they were just born...give it a month or so before you start." I advised.

"Alright."

We then finished the rest of the day hanging together through the sunset before calling it a night-time with Pinkie hopping back home, still excited about the newborn foals.

I woke up one morning to hear a door knocking, I got out and walked straight to the door and opened it.

"Good morning Bond, " Mr. Cake greeted. "We were wondering if you were available to babysit our babies. We're in a hurry for an important task and we need a babysitter as quick as possible!"

After rubbing my eyes so that I was fully awake, "Yeah, I think I can help you with that."

They both sighed in relief. "You can't believe how relieved we are to hear you say that!"

"Hey, what about me?" Pinkie asked.

However, they ignored her. "Can you start now?"

"Sure I can." I said with a smile.

"Great, come on over to the shop. We'll explain everything there!" Mrs. Cake announced.

"Come on, honey bun! We have to hurry!" Mr. Cake added, causing the two of them to quickly leave back into town and I followed them.

When I arrived in the sweet shop, I could already see the Cakes hurrying sweets in and out of the kitchen. I saw the little foals sitting beside me on the floor, giggling and waving their little hooves around. I also noticed Pinkie Pie in the corner of the room, sitting down with an annoyed expression.

"Now, Bond." Mr. Cake said nervously, "I'm sure you'll be able to keep the foals nice and safe right?"

I returned a confident smile. "I'm sure, as an alicorn, I know what it takes to be responsible."

I heard the oven ding, and Mrs. Cake came out with what appeared to be a giant cake covered in a cloth. "Oh, here you are dearie." She picked up a scroll that was on the covered cake and threw it towards me. "All your responsibilities are on this list."

My eyes widened at the long list. "I'll get them finished as soon as possible. You can count on me." I assured.

"We'll frost it when we get there! C'mon, sugarplum, tick tick!" Mr. Cake said as they pushed the cake on the trolley out of the shop.

"Take good care of our two precious little ginger snaps! Everything you need is in the shop!" Mrs. Cake announced as she began leaving the door.

"Don't worry, I can handle a couple of foals."

She smiled lightly and waved. Then, she walked off with Mr. Cake.

I closed the door and turned around. I saw the two foals sitting there, looking at me with bright smiles. Suddenly, they both walked up to me and did their baby talk, whilst pointed at my wings and horn.

"Ahhh, you see that I have wings and a horn, that means that I am an alicorn." I said to them, realizing I had rhymed that well.

Then to my surprise, they stood on their back hooves and held their forelegs out, as if they wanted to be picked up by me.

"Awww somepony wants to have upsies, come here you two." I said in a childish talk as I used my magic to lift them both up and have them on my back.

I walked around the main room slowly with them on my back as they giggled and cheered, telling me that they approve of my foalsitting which made me smile. This was the first time I had seen them since they were born a month ago and I had to admit, they looked and were being quite adorable twins and would certainly put a smile on anypony's face.

Speaking of which, I looked over to see Pinkie pouting with her forelegs folded and looking quite annoyed. I guess she wanted to be a foalsitter so badly and was mad that she didn't get picked. However, I could see why the Cakes would hesitate in asking her.

"You know, Pinkie, you don't have to show that expression in front of me and the foals." I said to Pinkie. "I mean, look how much fun they're having, doesn't that make you smile?"

"Yeah...it's brilliant." Pinkie replied sarcastically.

"You really wanted to be the one, didn't you?"

"Yes, I should be taking care of them, I promise I would be good to them."

"Well you have to take proper care of them, not just play with them, there's a difference between the two."

Pinkie then sat normally and went from annoyed to sad, I stopped slightly as I put the toddlers down gently, they were still smiling at me.

"But then again, there's gonna come a time where I might not be able to watch over them on a regular basis, so I guess in order to practice as early as possible, you can help me babysit them." I sighed.

Pinkie then suddenly changed and jumped in the air as she smiled excitedly. Unfortunately, that was her first mistake made already as the twins fell backwards feeling frightened by the noise...they started wailing.

"Uh oh..." Pinkie said quietly, as I face hoofed.

"Thanks a lot, Pinkie..." I muttered.

"Oh, don't cry little friends! Look, look!" She pointed towards the door to the kitchen and raced towards it. She hid behind it. "Where's Pinkie Pie... Where's Pinkie Pie?" She asked, worriedly. The two looked at each other and began crying again.

I sat down and pick up the twins, trying to calm them down. "Shhh, it's alright you two, don't cry, I'm here for you." I said to them. It was working for the moment as they began to stop wailing.

"Oh no, I'm right here, see!" She rushed over to me and began making goofy faces. The foals stared before they continued wailing. "Oh, think think think..."

"Pinkie, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to do this."

"Do what?"

I then used my magic to grab Pinkie by the tail, I then had her floating around the room before I hanged her on one of the hooks by the door. I turned around with the twins and had them looking at Pinkie hanging upside down with her tail hooked.

"Look Pound and Pumpkin, Pinkie is..." I paused as I put on my shades "...just hanging around."

I then performed a rimshot and the twins stopped wailing and started giggling. I was glad that my style did the trick, despite Pinkie not approving my methods. Pinkie then tried to get off the hook and she did before she bumped her head on a cupboard. I was about to help her when a bag of flour fell on her and when the smoke cleared, the twins and I saw her covered in flour, she looked like a ghost. The cake twins laughed again but I joined in as well, giggling along with them.

"Nice one, Pinkie, that was good timing." I praised.

"There, see? Nothing to this babysitting business! Ugh!" She fell to the floor, exhausted.

"Don't worry Pinkie, go and get yourself cleaned up while I take care of them."

"Alright...thanks." Pinkie sighed as she walked upstairs.

I then used my magic to go over the list to see what's next, after crossing off introducing myself to the twins and what I can do. "Okay, looks like it's feeding time up next." I said as I looked out the window to see it was the late afternoon already.

I carried the twins and had them sat down in their baby chairs with my magic and then walked over to the fridge, I opened it to find two bowls of mashed up food, assuming these are for the twins. I took them out and placed one of each to their little tables in front of them. "Alright you two, it's dinner time, open wide, please." I said to them as I lifted their spoons and scooped out their mashed food and to their mouths. They smiled as they opened trier mouths and ate their dinner, then to my surprise, they grabbed the spoons off me and started eating on their own...looks like Mr and Mrs Cake are really blessed, they have fast learners on their hooves.

"Feeding time, check." I said after they were done eating and I took the bowls and spoons to the sink, before crossing off dinner on the list. "Okay next up, bath time..."

"It's time for a bath you two." I said to them as they lifted their forelegs out, wanting upsies again I assumed.

I carried them on my back slowly upstairs and into the bathroom. I started running the bath for them as I put the twins down by the bathroom rug. Then I spotted Pinkie cleaned and back in her normal colours after that flour incident.

"Oooh, what'cha doing?" she asked.

"Oh it's bath time for the twins and I've got it all covered, see?" I replied.

"Umm, they're not beside you..."

I looked to my side...and gasped, they weren't by the rug anymore.

"Oh horse apples...I let my guard down for one second and they decide to run away from me."

"I'll get them." Pinkie declared as she chased after the twins all around the bathroom until she caught them both and placed them in the bathtub. Then as if they knew the fun was over, the twins started wailing again.

"Ooh, look guys, bubbles!" I said as I used my magic to lift out a few bubbles and this gave me an idea. I grabbed loads more bubbles and began to put on a quick show with doing all sorts of creative shapes with bubbles....who needs Bubble Thing when you've got this going? Pinkie then added a rubber duck to help me out which was the first good thing she did for once without making them cry. She was about to put in a ship too but I stopped her.

"I think a rubber duck and my sideshow will do just fine." I said.

When bath-time was over, we dried them off, placed on their diapers and took them to their own bedroom area, whilst we ticked off bath time and looked to see what else was needed. Then, we began to sniff an awful smell, we held our hooves on our noses and turned our heads to see the two foals playing with the blocks. Pumpkin Cake was watching as she had her binky in her mouth and Pound Cake was repeatedly lightly pounding one of the blocks on top of the other.

"Smells like somepony needs us to changie-wangie their diaper-wiper right now-a-wow!" Pinkie rhymed, grabbing two diapers.

"I'll go grab them and place them on the changing table, alright?" I softly told Pinkie.

Still holding her nose, she nodded with some straining in her face. I walked on over towards them and they didn't flinch, not one bit...then, they looked at each other, giggled and attempted to run away...but once again, I get the best of them as I grabbed them with my magic and carried them over to the diaper changing board. Pinkie then attempted to change their diapers but through the commotion, she somehow placed the diapers on herself.

I could help laughing at the sight and the twins laughed as well before running off to hide.

"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!" Pinkie sighed before we heard the bell ring downstairs. "Oh! Thank goodness they're home!"

"I'll go and answer it, you change the diapers, Pinkie." I said as I went downstairs to open the door.

"Oh, hi Bond." she answered.

"Hi Twilight, what brings you here?"

"I just came by to see if you needed help."

"Well I think Pinkie does, since she wants to be their foalsitter in case I can't be. I think all we need to do is change them and then put them to bed,"

We then began hearing strange loud noises coming from upstairs. We quickly rushed to the top of the stairs, wondering greatly what was happening.

We walked into the twins's bedroom to Pinkie crying her eyes out...which surprised us, but then we saw the baby twins walking towards her and seeing Pound already flying and Pumpkin using her unicorn magic to lift a bag of flour. When Pinkie noticed this, she stopped wailing, but was whimpering a bit as the two foals returned smiles.

They stood up and stretched their hooves, as if to present themselves, and flour immediately rained down upon them. They flinched as it hit them, but they once again presented themselves with smiles as Pinkie Pie watched.

"Y'know, you're right. That is funny…" Pinkie giggled as she wiped her tears away.

I walked on over to Pinkie as Twilight grabbed the babies with her magic and began drying them off.

"What happened Pinkie?" I asked as I gave her a comforting hug.

"It's a long story." she answered, accepting my hug.

After a short while when we got the twins to go to bed, we walked downstairs to find the place a little untidy, so we began to clean up so it looked dazzling as Rarity would put it.

"Hey, Twilight… you mind if you take down a letter…?"

"Not at all." Twilight smiled and pulled out a paper and quill, preparing to write the letter herself.

As I began to work on making the place tidy, Pinkie Pie spoke what she wanted to say in her letter. "Dear Princess Celestia, I've always had fun playing with little kids, and I thought babysitting meant just more playtime, right? Wrong! Being a caregiver is way more responsibility than just being a playmate. And today I learned that sometimes our desire for responsibility can outrun our actual ability to handle it."

"Great job, Pinkie." Twilight praised. "I'm sure the Princess will like this letter."

"Thanks Twilight." Pinkie Pie smiled and walked over to the foals, giving them a kiss on the forehead each.

"Well, I better go see Spike before he falls asleep. I'll see you all later, okay?"

"Alright. Goodnight, Twilight." I responded as Pinkie Pie waved.

She smiled and nodded, taking the letter with her and leaving the shop. When it was night-time and as we watched over the twins sleeping peacefully, we heard the doorbell ring...that must be Carrot and Cup Cake.

"Bond Racer, we're back." Carrot Cake called.

"How did everything go?" Cupcake asked.

We heard them gasped, noticing how we cleaned up the shop.

"Are we in the right place?" Carrot Cake asked himself.

"Shhh" Pinkie said from the staircase and waved her hoof out, probably to ask them to come upstairs. They then looked to see the twins sleeping away happily. The Cakes could only smile at us whilst pinkie stood beside me.

"Bond." Mrs. Cake announced. "This is just... just..."

"Amazing, is what it is." Mr. Cake finished.

I placed out my hoof with a smile. "Well as you can see, I did my best but I think I know what you're going to ask and even though I enjoyed taking care of them, I'm going to have to decline."

"Really, but why?" Pinkie asked.

"Let's just say that whenever I look at them, I see myself as a baby and reminding myself of my time...when my parents were alive and I don't wanna share my emotions in front of them, they're just babies. Besides, Pinkie really helped out when I needed it and she learned a lot about taking care of the twins too.."

"Ohhh we understand, but Pinkie, is this true?" Cupcake asked.

"Hehe…I guess so." Pinkie responded, shyly.

"In that case, we had no idea how responsible you really are." They exchanged a look with each other and nodded. "Would you be interested in becoming our go-to babysitter on a permanent basis?"

This caused Pinkie to widen her eyes and open her mouth in shock. "Hm- Ah- lemme check my schedule!" She pulled out a notepad. "I should be available a week from... never!" She answered frankly.

However, we heard the sleeping foals sigh. We looked in to see Pound Cake holding out his hooves. "Pinkie..."

"Pie..." Pumpkin Cake added, turning her body to her side to continue sleeping.

We both smiled and Pinkie began tearing up. She happily gasped and looked towards the Cakes. "I have some free time next Tuesday."

"Well, it's time for me to go home now, I need some rest after today."

"Before you go, we just wanna say thank you for looking after our foals all the same." Carrot Cake said with a smile.

"No worries, it was my pleasure to help, goodnight."

I walked down the stairs and was about to leave the store when Pinkie trotted down and hugged me.

"Thank you Bond for telling them, I have learnt so much and I pinkie promise to make sure it stays that way."

I accepted the hug, "No worries Pinkie, they really enjoyed me but I believe they'll be better behaved with you from now on." We pulled out of the hug. "Have a good night, Pinkie."

"You too, Bond."

I left the store and walked back home as I saw the moon settling up in the sky, it had been a long day and I was eager to get into my bed. I walked in my home and took off my clothes and trotted straight to bed. I had to admit, taking care of baby ponies is quite a lot of hard work, but their adorableness makes it worthwhile all the same.

As I began to sleep, I wondered if I could be a great parent someday...but then again, toddlers are the devil...sometimes. Next Chapter: The Last Roundup Estimated time remaining: 19 Hours, 37 Minutes