"Hey mom, you took the correct potion yesterday, right?" Shining asked.

"What do you mean?" Twilight Velvet asked.

"Do you remember what the label said?" Cadence asked.

"It was a picture of a foal with red lines going across it," Velvet said, sipping her coffee. "Give me some credit. I'm not just going to blindly drink a potion and not check the label. Why do you ask?"

"Red lines how?" Cadence pressed.

"Like an X. A tilted X. Like a contraceptive right?" Velvet asked.

"A tilted X?" Shining asked. Cadence took out her own potion bottle.

"Like this?" Cadence showed her.

"Yeah! Exactly like that." Velvet said. Shining looked at the bottle. His face grew a whiter shade of pale.

"Mom! That's a plus sign! For the fertility potion!" Shining cried. The three of them sat there, looking at one another in shocked silence.

"Oh horse apples!" Velvet cursed, getting to her hooves. She paced around the suite, trying to think of a solution. Cadence put her face in her hooves, unable to believe that she hadn't double-checked before giving it to her. "But I'm off my cycle!" Velvet said.

"It doesn't matter," Cadence said through her hooves. "It's meant to trigger estrus." Velvet paced faster. Shining jumped up.

"Maybe dad will think it's his!" He said. Velvet shook her head.

"That won't work either," Velvet said. "Your father got a vasectomy after Twilight was born." Shining sat back down, frustrated.

"Well, we've got eleven months to figure it out." Shining said.

"How do you figure?" Cadence asked the question both mares were thinking.

"Well, that's how long it would be until you would be due, right?" Shining asked. The mares exchanged dubious glances.

"Shining," Cadence said, putting a flustered hoof to her forehead. "do you really think that your father will just think that she's just getting fat?"

"Uh..." Shining pondered.

"Just as well, it will be some time before I even begin to show. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We're assuming all of this IF I even am pregnant," Velvet said, cautiously optimistic.

"So what's the plan?" Cadence asked.

"I'll go home. I'll take a pregnancy test in a couple of weeks. And if it's positive, we'll go from there."

"But Mom, wouldn't the foal be... you know? Unnatural?" Velvet looked away. She thought about their daughter, Twilight Sparkle.

"I'm not worried about that." Velvet said.

"Well, you just let us know if you're pregnant. We'll think of something." Cadence assured her, putting her hoof on her shoulder.

"Thank you."

Twilight Velvet sat on the toilet in her home. Her husband, Night Light, was at work for the rest of the day. She had deliberately gone to the apothecary on the far side of town, where nopony would recognize her. The last time she had gone there was nearly twenty years ago for the very same reason. A pregnancy test to see if she was with foal from her son. She sat there, reading the instructions on the box.

The at-home pregnancy test hadn't evolved much in the intervening decades. But part of her felt that if she did everything perfectly, it would somehow avert this disaster. She opened the packaging, stood up and lifted the seat cover. Squatting back down on the seat, she levitated the tester strip between her spread legs. With a tired sigh, she relaxed and let her stream flow freely from her nethers, soaking the strip.

She placed it on the sink counter. "Allow two minutes for accurate results." She recited aloud as she sat there, emptying the remainder of her bladder. Here, along with the shower, were her two favorite places to think. Just... think. Some of her best story ideas had come to her in the bathroom. With nothing to distract her, she was free to just think.

Twilight Velvet had not written a word on her typewriter in over a month. Her every waking thought had been consumed with the dread of this very moment, of this day. Her dreams, haunted by the consequences of her, and her son's recklessness, of Night Light finding out about her. About them. She looked up at the clock on the wall. The second hand slowed to a crawl in its procession around the dial.

She had been living in a state of denial for the past month. Simultaneously trying to ignore this problem while yet being unable to think of nothing else. Perhaps she had convinced herself with certainty that this would be negative. After all, if it was positive, there was no sense in worrying about it. What good would it do? The second hand completed its second circuit. She sighed and looked over at the tester. She cleaned herself up and headed to her study, taking a letter.

Prince Shining Armor of the Crystal Empire,

You asked me before if I was sure. And I can tell you that I am positive.

- Me

Twilight Velvet finished her cryptic letter. She was sure that they would know what it meant. And whom it was from. She tied the enchanted ribbon around the scroll, activating the spell. The paper evaporated into green smoke, going out of the window. Velvet put her face into her hooves and wept. She was pregnant for the second time with her son's foal.

.....

Later that evening, Night Light came home from work.

"Velvet!" he called into the house. "I'm home."

"I'm upstairs." she called back. Night Light put his bag down and poked his head back outside. The flag on the mailbox was up. He trotted back outside and grabbed the mail, sorting it on the kitchen table. Bills and junk mail mostly.

"You got something from your publisher, honey!" he said.

"What is it?" she said, from upstairs still.

"Some kind of package," he answered. She trotted downstairs to the kitchen. She had completely composed herself. One would never even be able to tell that she had been crying. "Here." He passed the package to her. She pulled the strip open, letting the papers slide out. She read over the cover letter, read it again and flipped through the other pages. Her eyes widened. "What is it?" he asked.

"Random Horse Publishers wants to send me on an trip all across Equestria and write about it for their Equus Geographic Annual!" she gasped. "There are itineraries in here for the next eleven months!" she said.

"We're going to see all of Equestria!?" Night Light asked, excited. Velvet poured over the contents of the package.

"There's just the one ticket," she said. Night Light's smile faltered.

"That's- that's still really great news," he said, trying to mask his disappointment. "When is it?" She looked at the date on the ticket.

"I leave Canterlot in two weeks," she said.

"That doesn't give you much time to prepare," he said. "Or me." The sudden of leaving realization hit her.

"Do you... not want me to go?" she asked. He put his hoof on her shoulder.

"Velvet, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Of course you should go," he said. "But I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't miss you." He kissed her.

"I'd miss you too," she said. "Eleven months is a long time though." He kissed her again.

"And I'm sure you'll tell me all about it when I see you afterwards," he said, holding her tighter. She smiled, nuzzling into his shoulder. A skilled, passionate lover he may never have been. But a better husband she never knew.

In the dark of that night, Twilight Velvet sat in her bed. He husband, fast asleep beside her. She turned the ticket over in her hoof. How in the world was she to even undergo this trip across Equestria in her current state, she wondered. She ran her hoof over her belly. It looked no different from a month ago. But it would before too long. She'd be having her foal on the road. Out in pony-knows-where. And what then? Would she cut her trip short? What would she tell Night Light? She glanced over at him, snug under the blankets.

Anything but the truth.

"And you're sure you have everything?" Night Light asked again on the station platform.

"Yes!" Velvet reassured him. "We triple-checked the checklist to make sure we didn't miss anything when we double-checked the checklist." She glanced over her shoulder as the porter grabbed the last of her checked luggage, bringing it into the freight car. All that was left was her carry-on in her hoof. "And even if we did, it's too late now." She smiled. "Besides, the publishers said that they would provide anything I needed for the trip that I didn't bring. I'll be fine!" she reassured him.

"ALL ABOARD!" the conductor called out the final boarding call to the platform. Night Light hugged her again, one last time.

"Be safe. I love you," he whispered.

"I love you too. I'll write you whenever I can!" she said, squeezing him back. "I've gotta go." She boarded the train, waving goodbye to her husband from the window as it pulled away from the station. When she could no longer see him from the window, she turned back to the interior of the train, seeking an attendant to show her to her seat.

"This way ma'am." He directed, as they walked to the aft. They passed by, what was clearly, her seat number. Row 3, seat 4. "Here is your car ma'am. Just through here." Velvet found herself once again standing at the door to the caboose.

"Um, I think my seat was back there," she said, pointing at the seat and her ticket. The attendant pointed at the name on the ticket.

"You are Twilight Velvet, are you not?"

"I am."

"Then you are on out V.I.P. White-list. Just through here ma'am." He said with a respectful nod before leaving her. Velvet shrugged, assuming that it was a permanent gift from her son. 'Much like this,' she thought as she rubbed her belly. It looked like she would be traveling in style for the rest of the year. She pushed open the door.

"Velvet."

"Mom."

"Cadence!? Shining!? What are you two doing here?" Velvet asked.

"We thought of something," Shining said from his chair.

"Just like we promised we would," Cadence said from the couch.

"You're coming along with me on my trip across Equestria?" Velvet asked. They both looked at her in silence. "How did you even know about that?" she asked. Again, they sat and stared, waiting for her to understand. She sighed and slumped onto the couch beside Cadence as the realization washed over her. "There is no trip, is there? You forged the letter from the publisher, just like the speech letter." They both frowned nodded, seeing the disappointment in her eyes. After a moment, she raised her eyes and asked of them, "I assume you have some kind of a plan for me?" Cadence put her hoof on Velvet's tummy.

"Yes, but first, are you..."

"Pregnant? Yes. I checked twice," she said.

"Does dad know?" Shining asked.

"No. Nothing," Velvet said. Shining let out a sigh of relief. "So what's this plan of yours?" Shining looked to his wife.

"While you're pregnant, you'll be a guest of the palace in the Crystal Empire, far away from anypony who would know or recognize you," Cadence said.

"And after?" Velvet asked.

"We would raise the foal as one of our own." Cadence said. "If that's alright with you, of course," she quickly amended.

"Dad would never even have to know that you were ever pregnant," Shining said.

"So you're just going to tell everypony that you adopted?" Velvet asked.

"Well... more like that I had fraternal twins," Cadence said with a smile as she rubbed her own belly.

"You too?" Velvet asked. Cadence nodded excitedly.

"It's the perfect plan!" Shining said excitedly, clapping his hooves together.

"Yeah. Perfect." Velvet sighed sarcastically. "What could possibly go wrong..."

"Relax," Cadence assured her. "We've thought through every aspect of this plan. Everything will be fine." Velvet rubbed her jaw with her hoof and stared out the window, watching the last outskirts of Canterlot vanishing behind them.

"So..." Shining said, trotting over to them, "it's going to be a while until we get back to the Crystal Empire..." he insinuated himself on the couch between the two mares, "it would just seem like an awful shame to waste this semi-private room..." he grinned. Velvet turned back around to see her son sitting beside her with his shaft already hanging from its sheath, hardening with each heartbeat. Velvet rolled her eyes and put her hoof to her forehead.

"Shining," she groaned, "it has been less that three minutes and you're already irritating me. I literally, just walked in the door. I just sat down. So cool it!"

"But-" Shining was object.

"No 'buts'!" Velvet said. "I'm your mother first, and your lover second. Don't forget that!" She took a deep breath. "I'm still trying to deal with the fact that we were both so reckless last month that you've gotten me pregnant! And now, the only way to cover it up is an elaborate scheme where you two cart me off to the Crystal Empire for nearly a year away from my husband and daughter!" Shining visibly wilted from being chastised. "Shining, dear, I love you. Nothing is ever going to change that. But sometimes I worry that when all of your blood goes to that big thing," she lightly tapped his shaft with her hoof, "it deprives your brain of oxygen." Cadence had a cheap laugh at the remark. Velvet put her hoof on his shoulder. "If you're really that worked up, don't let me stop you and Cadie from enjoying eachother in this... semi-private room," she said mocking him.

"What about you?" Cadence asked.

"I'll be... on whichever piece of furniture you two are not," Velvet answered. Cadence was barely to her hooves before Shining very nearly tossed her onto the bed. Cadence tumbled with the landing, ending up on her back. Shining climbed onto the bed after her, with little other provocation needed to be fully hard once more. Velvet, for her part, tried not to leer, but nor could she look away as he slid into her with practiced ease. Cadence moaned out in pleasure as he filled her with his length. Clearly Shining wasn't the only pony who was hoping for some action. Cadence was already very visibly wet.

Velvet feigned disinterest, opting to look out the window. But the odd tree passing by could not take her attention from the lewd moans emanating from so nearby. She could no longer lie to herself. She stood up and grabbed the desk chair in her magic, setting it beside the headboard of the bed. Shining saw her walking over. He pulled out of Cadence in excitement.

"NGH! No! I'm so close!" Cadence cried.

"You heard her," Velvet said, taking a seat beside the bed, "Rut her harder!" Shining did as he was told, putting his dick back into his wife, giving her hips a few more slaps of his own before Cadence let out a throaty moan of pleasure, soaking the sheets in her juices. "Easy now, she is pregnant after all."

"Don't worry," Shining said between thrusts, "the doctor said a healthy sex life is good for the mother and foal." Cadence's eyes focused as her orgasm wore off.

"Just no magic, or potions of course," she said, panting. Velvet sat and thought for a moment.

"So, have you two thought of any names yet?" she asked. Cadence opened her eyes, turning her head to face her.

"What?" she asked between heaves of Shining rutting her.

"Names. For the foal." Velvet repeated.

"Stormageddon!" Shining answered.

"Absolutely not!" Cadence retorted from under him.

"Aww," he complained, pulling one of her legs over his shoulder, hitting her from a new angle.

"Ngh, ngh nghhhmmmfff!" Cadence bit her lip, stifling a scream as she rode out a second orgasm.

"I love how tight you are, especially when you clamp down like that," Shining said, "I sure am going to miss it."

"What?" Velvet asked, "The tightness?" Shining nodded. Velvet sighed shook her head in a shared exasperation with Cadence. "Shining, I've had two foals. And you darn well know that it hasn't affected that part of me."

"I can only imagine what it was like before you had me though," he said with a stupid grin.

"What in the- augh!" She climbed onto the bed in frustration. While facing her son, she straddled Cadence, careful to keep her weight off of her torso. "Open your mouth!" Cadence opened her mouth and started licking Velvet's marehood. "Ooh! I appreciate the effort Cadie, but I was talking to Shining."

".... Do you want me to stop?" Cadence asked.

"No, I'm not saying that." Velvet smiled. "Now open your mouth, say 'ah'," she said to her son. He did as he was told.

"Uh."

"NO! Not 'uh', 'AH'!"

"Ah!" Velvet put her hooves to either side of his mouth, stretching it open as far as she could without hurting him, but certainly enough to cause him a bit of discomfort before letting him go.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Making a point. Close your mouth now." He did. "Can you close it tightly?" He nodded yes. "Exactly. Because it's a muscle. No matter how much you stretch it, it can always spring back just as tight," she said. Cadence took a break from licking her.

"If we're done with the lecture, can you let him get back to fucking me?" she asked impatiently. Shining resumed his thrusts, rubbing his sore jaw with his hoof.

"Aw, come here," Velvet said, "let me kiss the boo boo." She leaned in and kissed him deeply while he fucked the mare eating her pussy. Cadence could feel a tendril of magic playing with her clit, driving her wild.

"Ooh Shiny, is that you doing that?" she asked. Velvet broke the kiss.

"No dear, that would be me," Velvet said with a smile. Cadence moaned out loudly into Velvet's loins as she sent her over the edge yet again, clamping down on Shining.

"Hey mom, say 'ah'," he said. Velvet opened her mouth to ask why. She was answered with Shining pulling out of Cadence at the last second and launching his first blast of cum up at her mouth. His aim was a bit off, and most of it landed on her chin and shoulder. She moved in a flash, grasping his shaft for aim. His second rope fired forcefully into her ready mouth this time. By the time his third pulse ran up his shaft, she had her lips wrapped around his flared tip, sucking and licking him through the rest of his climax. Shining struggled to keep his composure as Velvet hummed her moan onto him as Cadence finally brought her to climax. After a few moment, Velvet let him slip from her mouth and rolled off onto the other half of the bed. Cadence looked up at Shining, licking her lips.

"Hmm, you're right. It does taste different when your pregnant," Cadence commented on Velvet's flavor. Velvet propped herself up and leaned over, giving Shining's shaft one last long lick.

"Mmm, you too," she said, tasting her on her son's wilting shaft.

"So what were you saying about not being in the mood?" he teased.

"Yeah, yeah." Velvet sighed, rubbing her tummy in the afterglow of her orgasm. "I guess I needed that more than I thought."

"Really?" Shining asked. "I would have thought that with you going away for so long that... you know. Before you left, you and dad would have..." he made an 'implying' motion with his hooves. Velvet climbed off of the bed and cleaned herself up a bit with a towel. Cadence sat up and did the same. Shining waited on the foot of the bed. Velvet could see that he was waiting for some kind of answer or explanation. She could lie, she thought. But what good would it do now?

"Shining," Velvet began, as she took a seat on the couch, "Your father and I, we haven't..." She trailed off a bit, "We haven't been romantically active for some time."

"Oh my gosh, really?" Shining asked.

"When you get back, I could help with my love spell!" Cadence said.

"Thank you, Cadence. But we don't need that," she said. "Shining, your father and I still love eachother very much. So don't worry about that. It's just that..." they both listened intently, "It's just that, your father is not the greatest of lovers."

"Have you not tried to teach him what it is that you like?" Cadence asked.

"I have. It's not his fault for lack of trying. He's just... disadvantaged," she said. Cadence tried to hide her knowing smirk. But Velvet could see that Shining did not understand her innuendo. "He's small. Down there."

"Like, smaller than mine?" Shining asked. Velvet scoffed.

"Shiny, compared to you, every stallion is small!" Velvet said. He grinned. "But don't let it go to your head!" She relaxed a bit and continued. "But your father, he's quite below average. Even as a colt you were bigger than him. It's not like he's not practical-joke small, but he's never been able to bring me to orgasm on his own. And after Twilight was born, I guess I got tired of faking my enjoyment in bed. And I guess he got tired of pretending to not notice that I was faking it." Velvet frowned. "But even so, I've always been loyal to him," she looked up at them on the bed "with the exception of you I guess. But our marriage is still a happy one."

"We should get some rest," Cadence suggested "It's going to be a long trip." Velvet nodded, laying down on the couch. "Please," Cadence waved her over to the bed, "there's more than enough room." Cadence and Shining moved over a bit as Velvet climbed into the bed. Shining laid in the middle as the two mares, each pregnant with his foals, cuddled up on either side of him.

Shining walked with a plate of food toward the guest bedroom of the Crystal Palace. He pushed open the door. Twilight Velvet was laying on her side on the bed, writing with a quill. "Hey mom, are you going to have dinner?" he asked. She looked up from her work, adjusting herself so she could see him over her massive belly.

"Oh goodness, yes! I'm famished!" she said. "Let me just finish this letter to your father and I'll be right out."

"Where are we writing from today?" he asked facetiously.

"Well my letter last month was from Hollow Shades. And I'm almost due," she said, rubbing her swollen tummy. "Any day now. So since I'm circling around back to the Crystal Empire, my stop is in Neighagra Falls. I've been reading all about it in preparation." She motioned to the tourist books on her night stand. "I'd really like to actually visit it when this is all over."

"Heh, it's a date," he said. Velvet finished writing and sealed the letter, ready to be posted in the morning. Velvet tried to sit up, but flopped back over in bed in frustration.

"Ugh! I'm so exhausted!" Velvet said.

"From what? You've been in bed all day," he said.

"From having to get up to pee every thirty minutes, and carrying THIS each time!" she said, pointing at her abdomen. She laid there for a minute. "Can you just, bring that plate over here for me?"

"Sure," he said, clearing off the night stand and placing the plate on it.

"What is it tonight?" she asked.

"Oh, a little of everything."

"A little?"

"Well, there's more in the kitchen for you if you're still hungry. After all, you're eating for two," he said sitting beside her on the bed, giving her a belly rub.

"Yeah well, it feels like four," she said, stuffing her face with whatever she could reach first.

"Don't even joke about that!" he said. "One from you and Cadie will be plenty to keep our hooves full."

"Hmmph." Velvet continued eating. "If your father wanted me before, he's definitely not going to after I've gained all this weight." Shining put his hoof to her stomach, running it down her body.

"Well I don't mind it at all," he said.

"Oh please!" She motioned to herself. "A middle-aged, pregnant mare? Nopony could possibly find this sexy."

"Actually I do," he said, as his smile widened. He ran his hoof lower along her body, down in between her legs. "I really do."

"You really think I'm still sexy like this?" she asked.

"I think you're even more sexy," he answered. His hoof reached its destination, teasing her marehood.

"Mmhh, you always were a strange one," she moaned as she closed her eyes.

"She said, pregnant from fucking her son. Kettle, meet pot." he said playfully mocking her.

"He said, playing with his mother's pregnant pussy," she retorted.

"Heh, heh. Touche." She could see that all of this dirty talk was really getting to him. His shaft had already extended from its sheath, rapidly hardening. It poked her as he leaned in to kiss her. One hoof still playing with her pussy, he ran his free hoof over her as he worked his way down her body. He took a moment, stopping at her swollen teats. Normally little more than a couple of invisible nubs in her fur, they were now as large a cantaloupes, engorged with milk in preparation for the foal. He teased one with his hoof, and took the other into his mouth, suckling from his mother once more. He wrapped his lips around her nipple, sucking and stimulating her. He was rewarded with her warm, delicious milk.

"Mmh, Shiny, that feels so good," she moaned. Her belly had made reaching her lower half a challenge. But she had been able to alleviate her mammary discomfort by milking herself with her magic. But it always felt so much better when the ache was eased in the way nature intended, nourishing her children. She reached down, rubbing his mane with her hoof, pressing him into her more. "The other one too." He obediently switched to the other nipple once the first had been thoroughly emptied. "Such a hungry boy. Drink up all of mommy's milk. Don't you waste a drop." Shining would dare do no such thing. He treasured his mother's milk, enjoying it while he could. He decided it was quite his favorite aspect of having a pregnant lover. Not to mention two. But the thought was marred with a bittersweet pang. Jealous that he would have to soon relinquish this treat to the new foal.

"Mm, thank you dear, that feels much better," she sighed.

"Well if you think that feels good," he trailed off, and trailed further downward between her legs. Her view of him was now obstructed. Though, while she could not see what he was doing, she could sure feel it. Her pussy lips were swollen and puffy. He nuzzled them with his nose, spreading them slightly. Her aroma was heavenly. Her biological chemistry was different now that she was with foal. Her scent was more mellow, less sharp. He stuck his tongue into her, running from her wet honey hole up her lips to her sensitive nub. Her taste was sweeter than before, without the tartness he had been used to. Not worse, not necessarily better. Just different. He made intentional effort to vividly remember this always. After all, he had no intention of getting her pregnant again. That was for sure. He gave her clit a playful suck.

"Oooh," she moaned. She writhed a bit on the bed, restricted as her movement was. Shining felt like he was going to fuck a hole straight through the mattress if he stayed on his stomach between her legs any longer. He rose to his knees, bringing his steel-hard shaft to bear against her lips, getting it slick with her copious juices. "Ugh, Shiny?" He paused for a moment. "This thing is crushing me," she said, pointing to herself. "Let me roll over." He let her legs go as she lurched over to laying on her side. "Ah. That's better. Now I believe you were going to make me feel good?" she asked with a coy smile.

Shining shimmied on his knees, readjusting himself. He helped lift her leg a bit, spreading her open slightly. It was enough to realign himself with her entrance. With a gentle heave, he pressed into her. A little coaxing, and her lips gave way, bidding him entrance into her marehood. With the foal taking up so much real estate in her abdomen, it left room for little else. That, combined with her legs laying together, made for an exceptionally tight fit. It likewise felt especially good for Velvet as well. The position on her side caused him to hit her in a new angle, stimulating her in all new ways. And it freed up his hoof to continue to play with her clit, pulled against him as she stretched around his girth.

With each thrust he worked himself deeper into her. But he felt himself bottom out inside of her much sooner than he had expected. Still, he was able to still get more than half of it in. He kept it to quick, short strokes, minding his depth. It felt no different to Velvet though. He was still hitting every part of her love tunnel, albeit compressed a bit. Her nerve endings where bundled closer together, feeling extra-sensational. She could feel her climax building quickly. Her muscles tightening into a coiled spring, ready to snap.

"Oh, Shiny! I'm- I'm gonna-"

"I can tell! I'm close too, mom!" He felt her gripping him tighter. It was too much. He felt himself flare wide inside her. He didn't bother holding back. "MooooOOOOM!!!" He arched his back, as he felt the first load burst forth into her.

"Please Shiny! Keep going! I'm so close! Keep going!" She begged. He felt so huge in her, she needed to cum so badly. Shining grit his teeth as the second bout of cum launched inside her. He forced his hips to keep bucking. He pushed through the third rope, fighting the lightning as he was over-stimulated. It felt so good it that it bordered on pain. He saw stars, his eyes rolled back, but he never stopped, and he didn't let her down. "Ah, AH! AHHHHHHhhhhh!" Velvet cried out. Shining felt himself become squeezed right out of her as every muscle in her tensed at once, flooding his crotch with a massive gush of her wetness.

"Holy crap, Mom! I've never seen you cum so hard!" Shining sat back in amazement. Velvet rolled onto her back and lurched upward, cradling herself.

"Oooohhh!" She moaned out, rocking herself a bit. "Shiny!" she gasped, "I think my water broke!" She huffed and began to breathe heavy.

"Oh. Well that explains a lot," he commented, noting the exceptionally soaked sheets. "Wait, OH MY GOSH YOUR WATER BROKE!" He jumped to his hooves. Velvet moaned out again.

"GGRRRHHH! UGH! I'm having contractions!" Velvet cried.

"Are you sure?"

"Shining! I've already had two foals! I know what a damn contraction feels like!" she snapped.

"What does it feel like?" he asked. She replied by kicking him in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

"About like thaaaaaaat- ooooohhhhhHHH!" she groaned again. "And they're getting closer together!"

"I'll get Cadence!" Shining groaned, picking himself up off the floor. "She took those midwife classes!" He ran to the door. Just as he reached to open it, it was kicked in.

"Shining!" Cadence yelled into the room. "I think the foal is coming!" Shining rolled out from behind the door, holding his kicked stomach, and rubbing his head where the door slammed into him.

"I can tell!" he said, pointing to his mother on the bed, panting in the throes of labor.

"No, I mean MY foal!" She cried, cradling her own swollen belly. "NNNGGGHHHH!" She groaned. "I think I'm having contractions. It feels like I'm getting kicked in the stomach!"

"Yeah," Shining groaned, still struggling to breathe as he helped his wife to the bed beside his mother, "that's a contraction."

"How *huff* far *huff* apart?" Velvet asked between gasps.

"A few minutes," Cadence answered as she settled onto the bed. "You?"

"NNNNGHHHH!" Velvet groaned.

"Um. Less," Shining said.

"Oh my gosh! That foal is coming now! Shining you need to help her!" Cadence said.

"What!? How!? What do I do?" Shining panicked.

"You need to get down there and see how she's doing," she directed. Shining moved over to his mother and looked at her crotch.

"Uh, she's still pregnant," he informed her. Cadence rolled her eyes.

"No! You need to look inside and she how much she's dilated," she instructed. "Use your magic like a speculum."

"A what now?"

"A SPREADER! You need to spread her vagina open so you can see her cervix!" Cadence barked, growing impatient.

"Ohhh kay. Um, alright mom, let's... have a look see..." He leaned down and called his magic to his horn, pushing a blue aura into her. He moved it like a small dildo at first and then pulling it apart, glowing brightly to illuminate the way. He peered inside, seeing his mom in a whole new way, and not one he particularly wanted. "Ugh."

"Can you see the small opening at the back?" Cadence asked.

"Is it supposed to be small?" he asked

"Normally. Is it now?"

"Noooooope." Shining said with a gulp. He felt his stomach doing flips.

"That's okay! That's good!" Cadence said. "I need you to be my eyes. Describe exactly what you see."

the horror

the horror

"It's- she's- it's like she's blowing bubbles." Shining felt his dinner rising in his throat but suppressed it. "Two white bubbles."

"Okay, that's the foals hooves." Cadence said. "That's normal! Her forehooves, then her head, then the rest of her body."

"GNNNGHHHOOO!" Velvet let out another grunt, pushing out more of the foal and amniotic fluid. Shining's eyes shrank to pinpricks as he lost his magic and tumbled backwards onto the floor, babbling incoherently.

"CAPTAIN ARMOR! ON! YOUR! HOOVES!" Cadence yelled at the top of her lungs. Shining's body moved on reflex at the command. "Your First General Order, Captain?"

"To do whatever you tell me to, Princess!" He answered without hesitation.

"You are going to get over here and deliver this foal, Captain! Failure is not an option! So suck it up buttercup!"

"Proceeding Ma'am!" Shining Armor, or at least, his body, moved back into position, hooves at the ready. Velvet pushed again as the foal began to emerge. "I see legs!" He reported.

"Keep going Velvet, your almost there." Cadence said, putting her hoof in hers. "Nhggh." She felt her own contractions getting closer together as well. Velvet pushed again.

"I see uh, a horn. And now a head!" Shining said.

"Come on! One more big push!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGG!"

....

....

whaaaa

whaaaaa

The foal's cries broke the silent stillness of the room. The shattered pieces of Shining's mind coalesced back together as he looked down at the tiny foal in his hooves. "Hey there little guy. Welcome to Equestria."

whaaaa

"Shining, it's her foal. Cut the cord and give it to her," Cadence said. Velvet reached out with her hooves. Shining took the section of cut cord and placed it in her hooves. "The foal, not the cord!"

"Oh, right," he apologized as he gave her the foal.

"And fetch a towel for a blanket- NGGGHHH! Make it two!" Cadence moaned through another contraction.

"Oh shit!" Shining ran to the linen closet and back again with a hoof-full of towels, wrapping Velvet's foal with one for her. He moved over to Cadence, ready for round two. "Okay, let's have a loookOOH NO! OH FUCK! OH WHAT THE FUCK!!!" Shining's mane stood up on end, looking at the mess on the bed between Velvet's legs. "WHAT the fuck is that!" Shining keeled over and actually threw up on the floor this time.

"What is it!?" What's wrong?" Cadence cried.

"It's just the placenta, Shining!" Velvet said, rolling her eyes as she completed her delivery. "It's normal."

"NO! FUCK THAT! That is NOT normal!" Shining retched onto the floor again.

"Shining, I've had three foals. And they all come with one. It. Is. Normal!" Velvet said.

"But it looks like- -URP-" Shining dry-heaved.

"No. They never show that part in the movies, do they?" Velvet sighed. She grabbed a towel from the stack he brought and covered up the after-birth. She looked over to Cadence breathing heavy beside her. "You see this shit? Remember this day this whenever stallions try to convince you that they're the stronger gender." With the awfulness hidden, she called out to her son on the floor. "Okay Shining, it's all gone!" she humored him. He nervously stood up, and peeked at the bed. Indeed he didn't see it anymore. "Now you need to help Cadence just like you helped me okay? Can you do that?" He nodded slowly, still a bit queasy. He put out his hooves under Cadence. "Uh uh uh! Not like that! go wash yourself up, pronto!" Indeed, he was still wearing much of his dinner. He trotted to the bathroom and washed his hooves and face.

Shining returned, ready for action. He took a deep breath and used the spreader spell again, looking inside his wife. He still winced, if only just, this time. "Uh, it looks like just one big bubble."

"The foal must be coming out head first." Velvet said. Cadence's eyes went wide.

"Is that- is that okay!?" She cried nervously.

"It's fine!" Velvet assured her. "You're fine. Everything's going to be fine! Some foals are just like that. Twilight was born head first and she was fine!" Cadence looked back to Shining, giving another push. Shining let go of the spell and readied his hooves to catch the foal. "Just keep breathing!" Velvet coached.

"GAAAAH!" Cadence pushed again. "It's HUGE!"

"The first foal is always the hardest! But you're doing great!" Velvet assured her. Shining watched the bulge in her abdomen shift downward with each successive push, and then beginning to appear at her entrance. Or, exit, in this case.

"ARRGGHHH! It's gonna tear me open!" Cadence cried as she was stretched to her limit. Shining shrieked.

"OH no ohnonono NO this is DEFINITELY NOT NORMAL!!!" He cried.

"Shining! Shut your mouth! You are not helping!" Velvet scolded. "You're almost there Cadie! One more huge push!"

"AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh......!-" Cadence kept screaming, her face taut wide even after her lungs had long run empty of air. After what seemed like an eternity, her muscles finally relaxed. She gasped for air. It was free of her and he legs fell limp.

.....

.....

But for her ragged breathing, the room was dead still. Cadence could barely refocus her eyes. Velvet was frozen in place, her foal, clutched to her chest. Shining, at the foot of the bed just stood there, mouth agape. He couldn't move. He couldn't speak. He just stood and stared.

"What- what's wrong?" Cadence asked. "Where's my foal? Why can't I hear her?" She cried. Shining blinked. He looked up at Cadence, at his mom, and back down again. Velvet looked over at Cadence, scrutinizing her for a moment. "What's going on?" Cadence demanded.

"Mom?" he asked. She looked down below Cadence. "Now I know this isn't normal," he said. Velvet just shook her head slowly. Cadence bawled out.

"What the hell is going on!" Cadence cried out in hysterics. Shining reached down and lifted with his hooves, revealing a glistening, green egg. Horror washed over Cadence. "I- I can explain!" She cried.

Author's Notes:

To be concluded!