My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Friends from Unexpected Places

Chapter 13

Something Nobody Saw Coming

“But Princess Celestia, it’s been 6 months since she disappeared. We’re starting to get really worried.” Derpy’s mother said.

6 months had passed since Derpy disappeared into the Everfree Forest. 6 months and nobodies been able to find her, not even Celestia.

“I know how you feel, Mrs. Doo. I do. I know what it’s like to lose someone you love.” Celestia replied, glancing up at the Mare on the Moon.

“is there anything you can tell us? Where she is, what’s she’s doing? Even if she’s still alive?” Derpy’s father asked.

Celestia closed her eyes and concentrated. The tip of her horn glowed for a second before cracking up into spark. “I sense that she is still alive and doing better then she was 6 months ago.”

“but you can’t locate her?”

Celestia sadly shook her head ‘no.’ “I’m afraid not. For once in my life, I’m forced to say that I don’t know everything. Locater spells were one of my sister’s specialty and she’s…” she glanced back up at the moon. “…currently indisposed at the moment.”

Their other daughter, with a golden yellow body and grayscale rainbow mane, whined as she started to cry. “oh, it’s okay, D.D. we’ll find Derpy.” her father comforted her.

“I just miss her so much.” she tearfully said.

Celestia walked off her throne and patted the kid on her back. “we all do, but we’ll find her. I promise.”

20 Years Later…

The sun rose on a new day in the Gryphon Kingdom as last night’s party at Armor‘s and Cadence‘s Gryphon Kingdom beach hosue, celebrating reversing Trixie’s spell that turned the ponies into humans, which somewhat lead to Nightmare Moon’s revival. They defeated her, but after a intense battle that leveled a entire mountain and had Nightmare possessing Requiem, though for a short while.

Everyone was strung out of the deck or the beach, either recovering from hangovers or still partially drunk from last night.

“oh. *hiccup* think I had too much.” Gilda groaned, holding her head in pain.

“you and me both, Gilda.” Twilight drunkenly. She managed to pick herself up and plop it on a table where the rest of a pineapple daiquiri sat right in front of her. She stuck her tongue out to try and grab it but it was magically pulled away by her older brother.

“geez, Twili. You drink?” a surprised Armor asked.

“and you never told me you were gonna be a father so that makes us even.” she groaned before falling back on her back.

“touché.” Armor sarcastically said. He looked at the drink and tossed it over his shoulder.

Cadence ducked to miss the glass as she walked down from the beach house. “and that’s why I don’t drink.”

“You and me both, honey.”

A foot stuck out of the sand. Cadence stepped on it, causing Bahamut to come out of the sand like a rake. He was still singing though, like a old stereo, he was breaking up. “upside-inside out, living la vida loo--” Cadence took her hoof off and Bahamut fell back into the sand.

A lone figure, our old friend with the bad multiple personality disorder Orochi, watched from high above the ground. “it’s amazing that humans can get that inebriated on intoxicants.” the blue-haired personality said.

The green haired personality took over the human body. “I don’t know, Aqua. I seem to remember you getting pretty drunk when we were still back at Earth.”

“Shut up, Ventus.” Aqua replied.

“Hey. Call me Aero. Sounds a lot cooler.”

“you’re soon going to have trouble swimming if you don’t shut up.”

“HEY!”

“Silence!” The silver-haired personality exclaimed.

The other 2 shut up. “Sorry, Glacies.” they both softly.

Glacies sighed. “we don’t have to waste with such trivial matters such as these lowly humans or those… erasable ponies. We have BIGGER problems to deal with.”

With that said, Orochi disappeared in a flash of light.

Req dropped a couple of pills into her water, which instantly began fizzing. “so glad there’s alkazeltzer on this planet.” Req groaned as she took a drink of her fizzing water.

“I’m surprised everyone got hammered.” Armor said, making the same drinks and passing them around.

“Spike and Rarity didn’t, and neither did Trixie.” A.J. groaned. She laid her head on the table and looked away. “where’d Twi disappear to?”

“the bathroom. Guess Daiquiri’s don’t like her.” Aura moaned, holding a washcloth to his forehead. “and not with me, either.”

“They don’t agree with anybody, Muchacho.” Shadow moaned in the same position as Aura.

Applejack walked out of the beach house a couple of hours later, stretching her front hooves to the sky. “mmmmmmmmmm… Hm. I needed that.” she sighed.

“what, the stretch or the painkillers?” Zilver asked as he walked past to the beach.

“both.” A.J. started down to the beach as well. She picked up a can and threw it into a garbage bag. “Pinkie sure knows how to throw parties. I‘m still feeling the effects.”

“you and me both.” Zil said as he kicked another can into the same bag. “thank Celestia for painkillers.”

“right.” she looked up the beach house and frowned. “and why are we the only ones picking up the trash?”

“Cause we were the first to recover. The rest will join us when they recover more. Some were worst off then us.”

“Right. Fluttershy sure can take a lot. And that’s something that surprised all of us.” A.J. chuckled as she picked up a bottle. There was still some in it. She turned it upside down and poured it out.

Zil picked up a used noise-maker. “and to think, this whole mess started because Trixie was too in love with Twilight.”

“glad Twi, Trix, and Halo were able to work this out. We don’t want Nightmare Moon to come back for a 3rd time.”

“true ‘dat.”

Dinky skipped on down to Fluttershy’s cottage where Mirror’s Edge, the injured changeling, was being cared for by her, ‘Shy, and the CMC. She pulled out her key and put it in the keyhole. When she put her hoof on the door for leverage, the door suddenly opened.

“uh-oh.” Dinky muttered. She opened it wide and walked on in. the animals were all fine; Fenrir and Cobalt were sound asleep, Again. She ignored them and headed upstairs where Edge was.

She reached Fluttershy’s room where her suspicions were confirmed; Edge was gone. “oh, crud. oh crud oh crud oh crud. This is not good. This is SO not good. Fluttershy’s gonna be mad at me.” Dinky whined, pacing back and forth. She slapped herself in the face. “okay. Calm down, Dinky. He’s gotta be out there somewhere. He’s still technically injured. He can’t have gotten far.”

Dinky went downstairs and outside to find Edge. A Changeling loose in town, no way it’ll end well.

“interesting. When I sent you all to the fortress, I didn’t expect for a moment that Nightmare Moon could return.” Zaltan said as Jason and Gilda explained what had happened.

“Neither did we, my liege. But the humans were able to defeat her. They’ve shown that they are indeed powerful.” Jason said.

“so I’m guessing that big red explosion and that bright white light were there doing?”

“indeed. There is truth to what they say; of them having defeated God’s and Goddess’s before.”

“and I’m not one to argue with the facts.” Z muttered. He thought for a moment on what to do next. “send a letter to Celestia and Luna. Let them know what had happened. And how powerful these humans are.”

“if you don’t mine my asking, My Lord, but why inform them of the power they wield? I’ve only known them for 2 days but I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re aren’t here on evil intent.”

“I feel the same, Jason. Nevertheless, we should inform them. The Alicorn’s aren’t exactly known for being calm when there’s someone more powerful then them around. Look at what happened with Queen Faust and Discord 2000 years ago.”

“I heard the stories.” Jason reluctantly nodded. “all right. I’ll send the letter.”

Jason nodded and left the presence of the king. He then turned his attention to his daughter. “Gilda. You’ve been awfully quiet about all this.”

“sorry, dad. I’ve just been thinking about some things.”

“like what?”

“Well…” Gilda shook her head. “it’s nothing, dad. Nothing you need to worry about.” she took off for who knows where, leaving Zaltan with his thoughts, which turned to the humans.

“powerful enough to cause a explosion that covers a entire planet… but leaves almost everything untouched. There’s more to these humans then they appear.” Zaltan muttered, intrigued by this. “Celestia isn’t going to like this.”

“how could you lose a pony? They don’t just disappear into thin air, right?” Satoshi asked as Dinky dragged him to town.

“Right. That’s why I’m worried.”

“well, how bad are his injuries?”

“well… truth be told, they’re mostly healed.”

Satoshi looked at the camera with a raised eyebrow. “Then… why should we be freaking out?”

“eh… no reason.”

Now he got suspicious. Satoshi dug his feet in, slowing them to a stop. “no no. tell me what’s going on. If he’s mostly healed, why should we be freaking out?”

Dinky stood there, not really wanting to reveal that Edge is a Changeling. “n-no reason. Come on. Let’s get moving.”

“WOO! Girl’s night out, Y’all!” Trixie exclaimed, putting on a pair of shades. Everyone just went meh. “What?”

“Trixie, we’re still tired from the party last night.” Halo moaned, head buried in a pillow.

“We all woke up 5 hours ago. Get up your lazy butts and come on.” everyone groaned. Halo even threw a pillow at her. Trixie scoffed. “wow. Think you know some ponies.”

“We all had a lot to drink. You only had one tequila. Unless you went on a drinking binge, shut up.” Jax moaned.

Twi rolled her eyes. “I’ll go, Trixie. I always wanted to see the Capital City of the Gryphons for myself.” she got up and went to Trixie’s side.

“okay, that’s one. Anyone else?” Trix asked. Everyone replied with a groan. Trixie groaned as well.

Twi pouted her lips to the left. “come on, Trixie. We don’t need them. Besides, Derpy, Cadence, Requiem, Aura, and Armor are in town. We can get them.”

“forgot about them.” Twi opened the door with her magic and gestured Trixie to walk though. She accepted. “see ya, ya lazy bums.”

Ash grabbed a pillow and threw it, only to hit the door and not his intended target.

They waited a good amount of time to make sure Twilight and Trixie were gone before they all looked at each other with a smirk.

“last one down to the beach is a rotten egg!” Dash exclaimed, running by in swim trunks and carrying a surfboard. Everyone followed right behind her.

Edge cheered as he flew though the Everfree forest, heading for home.

“Yes. Freedom! Goodbye Ponyville and Goodbye Cutie Mark Catastrophe makers. Woo-hoo! And goodbye, Flutte--”

Edge stopped in mid-flight, slowly hovering down to the ground. As soon as he said that name, he felt… something odd inside him. “What is this? Argh. Ignore it, Edge. You’re going home. You’re leaving the town behind. Nothing’s gonna stop you.”

He took a step forward… and just stood there. “then why do I feel guilty?”

Rustling came from his right. He looked and saw a bunny hop out of a thorn brush. This bunny looked very familiar. “oh, crap. Not Angel.”

Derpy slept on a low-flying cloud hovering over a park, dreaming about her good ol’ days.

“hey, Derpy!” Twilight called out.

Derpy snorted awake. She rubbed her eyes and looked down. “Hey, Twilight. Trixie. What are you 2 doing here?”

“Came to see if you want to go on a girl’s day out with us.” Trixie said.

“Girls day out?”

“yeah. You know; shopping, make-overs, things of that general nature.” Twi said. “also, we need a tour guide to the city and Dash is out cold. You lived here.”

“For a couple years.” Derpy replied.

“Doesn’t really matter wit us. so, you in or out?” Trixie asked.

Derpy suddenly appeared behind them and put her front hooves around them. “I’m in.” Trix and Twi smiled. “oh, I can show you my old stomping grounds, all the good places to shop, eat, play… considering their still open, of course.”

“of course.” Trix and Twi imitated.

The 3 walked off laughing, unaware that someone was watching them from behind a tree. He took a picture of them and snickered. “yeah, that one will do nicely.”

The sun began to set and Dinky hasn’t been able to find Edge at all.

“oh, man. Fluttershy’s gonna kill me.” she whined, pacing back and forth in front of Fluttershy‘s cottage.

“I’m sure he’s fine, Dinky.” Satoshi said, peeling a potato and still not seeing why she’s freaking out like this.

“you don’t understand. Edge is…”

“right here.” Edge interrupted, walking up with Angel.

“Edge!” Dinky exclaimed. She ran on down while Satoshi just sat there, looking at the weird-looking pony. “where’d you go?”

Edge quickly thought of a lie he had been formulating. “eh… saw one of Fluttershy’s animals run into the woods. Since no one was around, I went after it. I lost it until the animal, which turns out to be Angel here, came back with a carrot.”

“A carrot?” Satoshi asked. He peered down at the rabbit. “little insane there went into the Everfree Forest for a carrot?”

“I know. He’s insane.” Edge laughed. Angel angrily looked up and him, rapidly hitting his foot on the ground.

“Right. Well, get back into bed.” Dinky ordered. She walked behind him and started pushing him.

Edge exclaimed as he forcefully hopped to the door. “hey hey hey.” he dug his back hooves into the ground and slowed to a halt. I’m fine, you little psychopath. I went into the woods by myself and came back feeling fine. I think I’m done with bed rest.”

“well, you ran off without letting us know, so your under bed arrest.” Dinky tried pushing him in. “Now. Get. In!”

“okay okay okay. I’ll get back into bed.” he looked at Satoshi. “when’d she turn crazy?” he asked before being pushed in again.

Satoshi just stood there, not sure what happened. “That was odd.”

After a full day of shopping, manicures and pedicures, and just acting like a couple of crazy girls, Twilight, Trixie, and Derpy found themselves in a karaoke bar just as the sun had set.

“♪Don’t stop… believing…♪”

The 3 were up on the machine, singing ‘don’t stop believing.’ the crowd, which consisted of all guys, wooed them on. Some even wolf-whistled.

“♪Streetlights… People………..♪” Derpy hammed on the end as the song ended. The crowd cheered and clapped. Trixie, Twilight, and Derpy bowed and walked on off, allowing another to take the reins.

“woo. And that’s why girls have the best voices.” Derpy exclaimed as the 3 of them sat at the bar.

“True ‘dat.” Twi and Trix said at the same time. They laughed wildly, having a fun time.

Someone watched them from the shadows, holding up the picture he took earlier that day. “yep. She’s next.” he slipped out the door and walked off.

Trixie popped in a few peanuts. “so, Trixie. What do you say we help you find a marefriend?” Twilight suggested.

Trix almost choked on the peanuts. She drank a mug to help them down. She coughed as she hit her chest. “you’d do that for me?”

“yeah. We both know that you’ll never have me no matter how hard you try…”

“and I learned that the hard way.” Trixie joked to Derpy. Derpy tried to muffle a chortle.

Twi rolled her eyes. “… so, we may as well find you one. So…” Twi spun Trixie’s barstool around while she was still on it and stopped it facing the entire bar room floor. “which one do you like?”

“oh oh. How about that lovely Pegasus over there playing darts?” Derpy suggested, pointing in that direction.

“look closer, Derpy.” both Trix and Twi said.

Derpy squinted her eyes and saw her mistake. “oh. Stallion. My bad.” she nervously chuckled.

Twi took a drink out of her mug. “Mmm…well, maybe I know a way to help narrow it down.” Twi reached over and grabbed a napkin and a pencil. “What is your dream girl?”

“you’re really gonna take down a list?” Trixie asked.

“hey, I broke your heart more then once. I figure this is the least I can do.” Twi flexed up and put pencil to napkin. “spill.”

“Well… my dream girl… I want her to be kind, gentle, good with kids, have a twinkle in her eyes, be really cute…” Twi comedic shrugged at that. That’s true, no matter what gender or species.

The barkeep looked at a clock hanging over him. “all right. Last call!” he called out.

“last call?” Derpy looked up to the clock. “but it’s only 8 o’clock.”

“you just get off the boat, lady? There’s a curfew going on thanks to a Slave Trade that’s been buzzing around these parts.” the barkeep explained.

“Slave Trade?” Trixie curiously asked.

“well… it’s more like a un… a un… oh, how would Req describe it? It un… would be more of the ‘horizontal tango’ category.” Twi explained.

Trixie stuck her tongue out in disgusted. “ew.” she hopped off her stool. “let’s head for home then.”

“Sounds good to me.” Derpy said as she got off.

Twilight used her magic to grab the pencil and napkin. “we can finish this up on the way home.”

The 3 were the last ones out of the bar. The establishment closed up behind them as they headed for home.

Twi magically positioned the pencil and napkin in front of her. “okay… kind, gentle, good with kids, twinkle in the eyes, really cute. What’s next on your list, Trixie?”

“hmmm… well, she’d have to be pretty…”

“already got that.” Derpy sighed.

“oh. Well, she’d also have to be a great kisser… and really good in bed.” Trixie meowed. Derpy and Twilight gave her such funny looks. “what? Girl can dream, can’t she?”

The 3 laughed at that part of the weird dream when someone cut in front of them. He was accompanied by a couple of bulky gryphons.

“un… excuse me? You’re blocking out path.” Derpy said to them. They didn’t budge.

“Let me handle this, my dear Derpy.” Trixie walked on over to the mystery pony. “Excuse me, my kind sir, but surely you heard of me. I am the Great and Powerful Trixie and I will pay you quite a handsome sum if you let us pass.”

The mystery pony contained his laughter.

“maybe we should find another way home.” Twilight said. Trixie and Derpy nodded. They turned around to leave only to have their path cut off by a couple more gryphons.

“I’m afraid you’re not going anywhere.” the mystery pony sinisterly said. The trio started to get worried.

Gilda stopped in front of the beach house, a bit nervous about what to say or do. “I gotta to do it sometime.” she muttered as laughter came from inside. She slowly raised her hand to the door and, after a second of second thoughts, knocked on it.

“I got it.” Applejack said from inside. She opened the door and saw Gilda standing there. “hey, Gil. What’s up?”

“un… think I can speak with Fluttershy for a moment?”

“Fluttershy?” Applejack exclaimed in surprise, even getting the attention of the others inside. “why, so you can yell at her again?”

“it’s okay, Applejack.” Fluttershy said from behind. “I can manage now. I still remember some things that Iron Will taught me.”

A.J. wasn’t so sure. “if you say so, Sugarcube.” A.J. said. She moved to the side. Fluttershy walked out. Dash flew on out and landed behind Gilda, to make sure she doesn’t do something stupid.

Gilda scratched the back of her head, not sure how to word this.

“listen, ‘Shy. I… I want to say I’m sorry for how I acted 2 years ago.”

“Apologize!?” Fluttershy, Dash, and A.J. all exclaimed in surprise.

“Whoa whoa whoa, Gil.” Dash flew in front of her. “You never apologized to anyone for anything. What changed?”

Gilda scratched her neck. “well… not sure when, but I think it was when that pony friend of yours, Derpy, was in the hospital.”

“Derpy was in the hospital?” Fluttershy gasped.

“oh right. Forgot to tell ya.” Dash chuckled nervously.

“Anyway, seeing her in that much pain and suffering… I’m not sure how, but something changed inside of me. I actually cared what happened to you guys.”

“that is odd.” A.J. muttered as everyone started to exit the beach house. “did someone said anything?”

Gilda thought back. “well… I think Cadence said Vinyl or Octavia said something about her having kids, but…”

“Oh. I think I can explain it.” Dash said. “Gilda’s mom died when she and I were in flight school. It was after that that she became, well, mean. I think hearing that Derpy was a mom reminded her of that and she didn’t want little Dinky to be raised all alone.”

“un….. Couldn’t have put it better myself, Dash.” a not sure Gilda said. She shrugged to A.J., who wasn’t that sure either.

Fluttershy gave Gilda a stern look. “and you’re being truthful?”

Gilda sighed. She didn’t want to do this part. “cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” she un-enthusiastically said.

Pinkie appeared out of nowhere and pulled those 2 close. “All right. Long time enemies now friends. Today’s turning into such a happy day!”

“help!” someone yelled out. Derpy fell out of the sky, crash-landing into the ground. She coughed up dirt as Sora helped her up.

“Derpy, what happened?” Shadow asked.

Derpy coughed up more dirt. She cleared her throat after that. “it’s Twilight and Trixie. They’re in trouble.”

“Trouble!?” a worried Armor asked. He ran over and grabbed Derpy by the shoulders. “what kind of trouble?”

“We were jumped by some bad men. Twilight and Trixie told me to get help while they took care of them. I think… I think they were part of the slave trade you guys talked about.”

“oh no.” Req gasped, holding her hands over her mouth.

Armor angrily growled. “where’d this happen?” he angrily asked.

“near Mayo’s Bar. Least I think that’s what it was called.” Derpy tiredly said before nodding out.

“I know the place.” Gilda said.

“Take me there.” Armor angrily replied.

The 2 took off. Req, Ash, Aura, Zilver, Dash, Halo followed not far behind. “you guys take care of Derpy. We’ll get Twilight and Trixie.” Ash called back as the 6 of them ran off.

Fluttershy held her heart in fear. “ ‘Shy? You okay?” A.J. asked.

“no. I had this feeling that something bad was going to happen when you guys left. And it didn’t go away when Nightmare Moon was defeated. I’m worried that…”

“That the feeling was this?” Sora asked. Fluttershy depressingly nodded.

Twilight groaned as she woke up. She gasped in fear when she found herself in a dark room. “where am I?” she fearfully asked.

“in a house of… ill repute.” someone said from the shadows. Twi tried to get away but she was chained to the floor. “oh, feisty. Think our client will like that.”

A door opened behind him, revealing the mystery pony to be a Unicorn and his ‘client’ a Pegasus. “Careful with her. She’s feisty“

The Pegasus smirked. “good. I like feisty.” he said. The Unicron slunk out of the room.

Twilight shivered in fear in the corner, afraid of what will happen.

Trixie struggled as she tried to get up from the ground but those ruffians beat her up good.

“Trixie!” Req exclaimed as she and the other 6 neared her. She tried to get up again but fell back to the ground.

“ruffians… they… they took Twilight…” Trixie muttered before slipping into unconsciousness.

“Trixie!” Zil and Ash exclaimed.

Armor heard groaning coming out of a nearby alley. He went over to investigate. He saw someone trying to crawl away. He used his magic to pull him back and up to Armor’s face. “Where’s my sister?” Armor sternly asked.

The bat-pony chuckled. “Who?”

Armor huffed and slammed him into the ground, getting the attention of the others. “Don’t toy with me! Where’s Twilight!?”

The bat-pony laughed. “what makes you think I know where she is?”

Req walked on over and pointed her sword at his head. “tell us or else this will be the last thing you see.” she said.

The bat-pony looked into her eyes and saw that she wasn’t joking. “south side of the city. Run-down inn that nobody sane uses anymore. You can’t miss it.”

Armor tossed the bat-pony to the side and ran to south.

“Aura, Zilver, look after Trixie and this… guy. We’ll get Twilight.” Ash said as he, Gilda, Dash, and Req ran after Armor.

Zilver looked to Aura and he back to him. “I got a bad feeling about this.” they both said.

The group ran down to the south side of the city. Armor exclaimed and ducked into a alley. Everyone followed suit.

“Why we hiding?” Dash asked.

“because of that.” Armor said. He and everyone else peeked out to see a Pegasus walk out of a old abandoned building. He gave someone a bag of bits before flying off.

“think we just found our burlesque house.” Ash whispered. “so what do we do?” Armor ignored him and charged on ahead. “break in. sure. That’s always a good plan.”

The door burst in. Ash rolled in and pointed his guns in both left and right. The ponies, gryphons, and dragons inside put their hands up, not wanting a fight.

“there’s also Dragons?” Ash muttered.

A earth pony tried to sneak out but was pinned to the wall by Gilda. “Don’t even think about it, bub.” she angrily said, holding him tight to the wall.

Armor ran past them and up the stairs. “is he ever gonna stop?” Dash asked.

“What would you do if it was your own sister that was getting raped?” Req asked. Dash shrugged in agreement as the 2 ran after him.

They reached the second floor which was one long hallway with a lot of doors. “oh, this is gonna go great.” Dash sarcastically said.

“Search every room. Twilight’s gotta be here somewhere.”

They searched every room but didn’t find her. Just found Ponies, Gryphons, Dragons, Changelings, and Diamond Dogs of both sexes chained to the floor but didn’t find Twilight.

Req opened the last door and found Twi shaking inside. “Found her!” she called to the others. She pulled out her sword and broke Twilight’s chain but she didn’t move.

Armor ran in and over to her side. “Twili! Twili, are you okay?” he pleaded. She was in too much shock to respond. Armor just couldn’t believe this, that this happened to his own sister. “oh, Twili. If only I got here sooner.”

Gilda and Ash ran up. “the guards are here.” Gilda said. “They’re taking the perpetrators in and--” they noticed Twi and couldn’t bear to look at her.

“Lady Gilda!” one of the guards came up and saluted her. “My Lady, we rounded all of the perpetrators up and we’re ready to begin interrogations.”

“Go ahead and do it.” she looked back to Twi and sighed. “and get all of the victims to the nearest hospital and tell them I’m requesting their top-notch care. Understood?”

The Gryphon Soldier saluted. “yes, Lady Gilda.” he turned and left. She walked over and placed a arm on Armor’s shoulder. “don’t worry. She’s gonna be fine.” she said in a comforting tone to him.”

“Thanks, Gilda.” Armor softly replied.

The entire group waited in the hospital lobby, waiting for word on Trixie’s and Twilight’s condition.

“Can’t believe this happened to Twilight.” Rarity sighed, not believing that this happened.

“you said it.” Spike depressingly agreed.

“everyone has bad luck at some point.” Jax said. “Twilight’s just hit here other then most.”

“like a ton of bricks dipped in cement.” Aura added.

Halo and Armor were taking this the hardest. They just sat next to each other.

The gryphon doctor came from the examination rooms. Everyone stood up when they noticed him. “how are they, Doc?” Gilda asked.

“The victims are all going to be fine. They all suffered trauma and some are still in shock. But the majority should be fine.”

“What of the Unicorns, er, Twilight Sparkle and Trixie?”

The Doc looked to the ground, not sure how to word it. That left the group nervous as hell. “I’d… I’d like to speak to the imminate family first.” he gestured them into the hallway. Armor and Cadence looked each other nervously then followed him down.

They walked to a distance where the group couldn’t hear them but that didn’t stop them from looked from behind the corner.

“Anybody know how to read lips?” Bahamut asked.

“Nope.” “no.” “un-huh.” “I do. Not, bruha.”

The doctor explained the situation to Armor and Cadence. She held her hoof over her mouth in fear. Armor snarled and hit the wall behind him.

“uh-oh. Must be bad.” Zilver said non-chalantly. Halo hit him upside the head. Zil rubbed the back of his head and snarled at Halo.

Armor followed the doc into Twi’s room as Cadence slowly walked back to the group.

“well? What’s going on?” A.J. asked.

“how’s Twilight and Trixie?” Sora asked.

Cadence depressingly sighed. “Trixie… she’s gonna be fine. Few broken bones but nothing major. Twilight, on the other hand…” the tension built as everyone was nervous about what Cadence had to say. “Twilight’s Pregnant.”

Requiem, Sora, and Fluttershy gasped in fear, holding the hands over their mouths. Everyone had more… vocal ways of expressing their reactions. Halo especially.

“no. no no no. no way Twilight’s Pregnant. There’s just no way.” Halo said, not wanting to believe it.

“They ran the test twice. They’re certain.”

Dash sighed as she looked to the ground. “you bet that the guy was saw leaving is the father?” she asked Ash.

“Gotta be.” he replied.

Cadence contemplated on what she should do next. “Spike. Take a letter. Gotta tell my aunts about this.”

Spike depressingly sighed. “alright, Cadence.”

Armor sat at Twilight’s side as she soundly slept, unaware of what happened to her. He just broke down and started crying. “oh, Twili. I’m so, so sorry. If only I had gotten there sooner.” he slammed his hooves into the bed. “Dammit! Dammit…”

The group depressingly watched from outside, taking the news hard themselves.