I took a quick stroll around my new castle, and sheesh it’s big. I noticed my Gun Arrows had another symbol on it, and it said ‘Open’ this time. “Thirteen keys open what?” I mutter to myself. I sigh out, knowing I won’t be getting any answers soon. But besides that whole ‘Core’ incident I felt…something at the back of my head, barely audible whispers floating in my head before disappearing before I could even pay attention to it. “Fuck it.” I sigh out. “You know what? I’m gonna go to the spa.” I say honestly. “I wonder if any of the other girl’s want’s to go?” I wonder, remembering how much Rarity loved going there. “Actually I need to check on Ramilua and Nelare...wonder how they’re doing…” I say to myself, stretching out a little before readying myself to leave. “Oh wait...I have to have my wives pick out guards and maids...shit.” I grumble. “I’m pretty sure Luna can handle it all things considered…”

“Sneaking out?” I jumped as Jenny’s voice spoke suddenly from behind me. “What’s it worth to ya to keep this affair under the table?”

“You know I can kick your ass right?” I state calmly. “So don’t you ever think I’m cheating on all of my fiances…”

“You know I can cock block you forever right?” She retorted. “And we both know K9’s don’t do well in terms of that when they smell heat~”

“That’s what you think.” I roll my eyes. “Luna doesn’t give a fuck about people watching...which is worrying to be honest.”

“Oh, so if it comes to that then I can record it and sell it to your horny fans.”

“No.” I say bluntly. “But if you must know, I’m going to the Ponyville spa to see how two of my masters are doing. They both wield a scythe and knives but there also salon workers surprisingly.”

“Oh, if you’re getting the Happy Endings package, it’s 500 bits and I recommend the twins.”

“Listen if you want a boyfriend then go out and try not to beat them okay?” I frown. “But why are you acting like this again? I know you royally hate me but still…”

“Consider me the nail in your foot til I’m eighteen.”

“Oi vey.” I sigh out. “Just tell the girls I’m going to be gone for a bit okay?” I ask. “I’ll probably figure out something for a little ‘family time’ or something…” I sigh out.

“Fine, but your finances have other ideas with what I saw them remodeling the former dungeon with~”

“Are you serious?” I frown.

“Out of the rest of our conversation so far, yes. Figures Rarity was into leather and dog collars.”

“Okay I’m going to leave now and hope to god I forget about all of that.” I say quickly before turning around on my heel.

“Just so you don’t.” She says, putting a dog whistle in my hand, the words Bad Dog written on it. “It’s part of a set of ten fyi.” With that, she skipped away.

I gently whimpered and crushed the dog whistle in my hand. “Nope...nope...nope...nope.” I say before opening a window, summoning my glider and flying through it as fast as I could towards Ponyville.

After a few minutes of ‘Noping’ right the hell out of my house I eventually made it to the Ponyville spa. I hopped off my glider and walked right inside. “Maybe I should get a treatment...I’m too stressed for this shit…” I mutter to myself as I walked over to the front desk and rang the bell.

As I entered I was greeted with Aloe and Lotus suddenly dragging me into a hair cut. “What would you like?” Aloe asked.

“Do you know anyone by Ramilua and Nelare?” I ask curiously, thinking that they would be here hopefully.

“Nelare is out with the flu but Ramilua will be here shortly.” Aloe said as she and Lotus walked to the back room.

“I was also going to ask for a back massage…” I mutter, noticing my back was stiff as hell. I sigh out before walking over to a waiting chair and sat down, waiting for Ramilua to get here.

A few moments passed before I saw Ramilua walk out of the back room and walk up to me. “Ah, Ben my friend, what brings you here?”

“Two things, one I want to know if you have free time to help me train with the scythe...and two I really need a back massage.” I say honestly.

“Very well.” He clapped his hands and a massively muscular guy came running. “Biceps, give Ben here your best back rub.”

“YEAH!” He said, before I found myself on a table with him…surprisingly not breaking my spine in half. He was actually doing really well.

“So what was it about Scythe teachings you wanted to know?” Ramilua asked, sitting on a chair next to the table I was on.

“I’m surprised he’s not breaking my spine.” I sigh out, thankful for the back rub. “But everything you can teach me until I have fully ‘mastered’ it...and I have used my scythe about never.” I say.

“Well then that clearly puts you in the class of below beginner…Well, a basic rule is that don’t cut yourself with your scythe. That’s obvious, combat scythes aren’t like the ones for farming, they will cut you in half.”

“I kind of thought that.” I say honestly.

“Secondly, always hold them from just below the center of the long handle, gives you most room to attack and defend with, while also letting you keep your weapon close enough that you can maneuver and dodge without it sticking out like a sore thumb.”

“Sounds about right.” I nod. “Thank you, more advice?”

“Yes…you’re dating a fashionista, why do you still wear that tacky cloak all the time, it smells like sweat and… mud.”

“One, this cloak is not tacky.” I frown. “Two, yes I’m gonna have to get it washed. And three, this cloak is how the ‘White Knight’ looks...not to mention it can do other things.” I shrug.

“Yes, but walking around like that, letting everyone out there know you’re the White Knight screams Target, attack me, to both enemy and fan girls alike.” He deadpanned.

“Frankly enemies would attack me whether I wore this or not.” I frown. “And fan girls know that I’m already taken...I just have to probably make a public announcement of ‘I’m marrying my herd’.” I say honestly. “Anyways anything else?”

“Like those sluts will give a damn about you being married or not.”

“I mean a lot of mares didn’t go for me because Luna and Twilight are with me, and then there’s a griffon and a dragon as well so they would probably be scared shitless by that.” I say honestly.

“True. Well, your back rub is going to last fifteen more minutes, meet me near Shy’s house for lesson one, chow.” With that, Ramilua left.

After fifteen minutes I felt much better, and paid for my back rub and a tip to Bulk before I headed off to Shy’s house. Five minutes later I landed near her house and got off my glider. “Why would he want to be at Shy’s?” I wonder, summoning my Scythe just in case.

A bit of time passed and nothing much happened. I went over to Shy’s house and through a window I saw Fluttershy, Ramuilua, and Discord all having tea. “Oh…” I mutter before going over to the door and knocking. “Hello?” I call out.

“Come in.” Fluttershy said as I entered. “Oh, hello Ben. Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie told me a lot about you.”

“That...depends on what they told you.” I say sheepishly, stepping in and closing the door. “It’s nice to meet you Fluttershy, I’m sorry I didn’t go around and meet you or my fiance's other friends.” I say nervously.

“It’s alright, Discord here tells me you’ve been busy and Ramilua here said you’d be stopping by for training after our tea.”

“Yes, I have been really busy and am going to stay busy for a long time whether I like it or not.” I say honestly.

“A good guy’s job is never done.” Discord said. “How’s Luxu been, other than a misfit?”

“He’s been well.” I say with a shrug. “Hopefully him and Time have been doing well as a couple.”

“I think they have. So, mind joining us for tea?”

“Uh...never had tea before so sure why not.” I say with a nod, walking over to the group to have some tea. “So how have you been Fluttershy?”

“I’ve been good.” She replied simply, pouring me a cup of hot tea.

“That’s good.” I nod while taking the cup and gently taking a sip of it to see if I actually liked it. “What do you think about Pinkie, Rarity and Twilight all dating me? Must have been something to have three of your friends date one person.”

“I see no problem with it. Twilight finally is dating, now engaged from what they tell me, Pinkie get’s to throw the birthday parties she planned for her future kids, and Rarity finally found a good male to date, unlike her past…relationships. So, how’s Spike been?”

“I have no idea considering he moved in with Rainbow Dash...who I have yet to meet.” I say honestly. “I also have yet to meet Applejack now that I think about it.”

“Huh, I actually haven’t heard from Rainbow in a while, close to a month now that I think about it. Last time I heard from her she said something about visiting her parents, which is odd considering she hasn't done that before.”

“Well this is concerning.” I say with a frown. “I’ll have to go find her and Spike most likely...after my first day of training.” I say honestly.

“I have her parent’s address in a book somewhere in my attic. Why don’t you and Rama train while Discord and I look for it.”

“Lead the way Shy.” Discord said as the two headed upstairs.

“I’ve got a bad feeling about that…” I mutter. “Anyways, time to get started I suppose. But let’s go outside first.” I say while getting up and heading outside to start training.

Ramilua and I walked outside a good distance from Shy’s house. “Well now.” Ramilua said, summoning his scythe. It was similar to mine, but the blade was grey and not pink. “Shall we begin?”

I summoned my Scythe and held it just like he did...sort of. “Might as well.” I say, getting into a ready stance for whatever Ramilua might do.

“First off, we need to see how you swing, so go ahead, attack me.”

I nod, before dashing towards Ramilua and grabbing it with my other hand and swinging it towards his right side quickly.

He stopped my attack with a single finger, knocking my scythe out of my hand and sighing. “We have a lot to do…”

“I’ve used swords, cards, lances, axes and crossbows...I’m pretty sure a more…’finesse’ kind of weapon is going to take a while.” I frown, resummoning my Scythe and double checking where it’s balance point was.

“The flare and glamor is all me, the basic knowledge is… well, for starters you’re just swinging it, yes you aim but you have no control over your swings, nor real power behind it.”

“Kind of thought two handing it would have put a little help into that…” I say, frowning at how that apparently was a bad idea. “But apparently not.”

He sighed again. “You are lucky you are not not dealing with my master, she would have broken your rib for you saying that.”

I frowned at hearing that. “Well...let’s get on with training cause telling me I suck doesn’t help anyone.” I say, knowing almost jack nothing about this weapon besides it’s flower power.

“Quite right.” Ramilua said, perking back up. He walked over to the trees and in one slice, cut one down from the roots before bringing it over to me and forcing it to stand up and still in the ground. He then took a marker and made four targets, one on the middle side, on on the top and bottom sides, and one dead center of the log. “We will practice accuracy first. Hit each target on the side with the blunt end of the scythe fifty times.”

“Seems simple enough.” I say while taking a deep breath and swinging the scythe towards the targets, my training with all my other weapons at least helping with accuracy but trying to wield this made it feel weird as I missed more times then I kind of hoped. After about two hours I managed to hit the targets fifty times...with a few hundred misses. “Damn….” I frown, rolling my shoulder and trying to get the soreness out of it. “This is a lot harder than I first thought.”

“That is because, unlike most swords, a scythe has no balance to it. A sword is typically made so the grip and blade are equal in weight, allowing for smooth swinging motions. Scythes are top heavy, this swing faster and are harder to aim properly, with the bladed side is worse, it cuts through the air, making the movement twice as fast and again, hard to aim.”

“Oh yeah.” I agree, checking the weight of it again and still finding that it is top heavy as hell. “Sheesh, this is gonna take a while.”

“Most start out and often keep to a back handed stance, makes aiming slightly easier since you are more swinging at an arc to the target when you swing that way, not just swinging something heavy on a pole.”

“Okay then…” I nod, still looking at the scythe and moving it around, having the blade more to my side and down instead of up towards my head. “Hmm…” I mutter, flipping it back up easily enough and checking the balance. “This is gonna take a while…” I sigh out, scratching my head. “So, what next master?”

“Continue your swings at the target til you get direct hits each time.”

“Right.” I say before getting in a ready stance, and I swung carefully, and surprisingly I made severe progress as I missed a fuck lot less. ”Huh…” I think to myself, still noticing I missed at least thirty times but it seemed like a ‘level’ can basically make me do horrifically better at what I failed at. “Thirty this time...still bad but getting there.” I say, noticing marks in the wood from my repeated strikes. I rolled my shoulder and tried to get the stress out of it. “Sheesh, this is some tiring stuff.” I point out before going back to swinging my scythe at the targets. Even though it was slower from my tired right arm I managed to get the fifty strikes at the targets. “Th-there…” I pant, holding my right arm that hurt like a truck just ran over it. “Wait...was it supposed to be dead on the target?” I ask worriedly, thinking I had to get a perfect bullseye on each swing cause I didn’t entirely do that even when I hit the targets.

“Yes.” Ramilua replied bluntly. “I recommend push ups because after you get perfect aim with your right arm, we move to your left.”

“This is gonna be a nightmare…” I sigh out. “But I never expected these things to be easy…” I say, readying to go again.

“That will be all for this lesson Ben, don’t want you to dislocate your arm at this rate.”

“Fuck dislocating my arm.” I say bluntly. “I’m behind on so much work, I’m behind on so many things...and I need to keep working…” I say my arm stinging like hell as I tried to hit the targets again.

Ramilua simply pressed a finger on each of my sholders, and audible pop was heard, and next as my arms dangled like limp noodles. “Rest. Now.” He said, his tone something not even Marluxia from the games had.

I growled, glaring at Ramilua. “People have already proven that the only time I’m going to rest is when I’m dead. I don’t...I don’t want…” I mutter, my mind flashing to a bloody scene of my family being brutaly murdered. “No…” I grumble, ignoring that thought and trying to use my foot to use my scythe. “Come on…” I mutter.

“Ben, stop.” Ramilua smacked my head, knocking me on my back. “You have a family, here’s a question. How many of them do you know can fight?”

“Four...maybe six I don’t know if Gilda and Honora can fight…” I say, knowing Jenny, Luna and Sweetie can fight for a fact. “But Sweetie’s still a child, Jenny needs to stop fighting and Luna...well I don’t know about her frankly…”

“Alright, here’s another question. Don’t you think, with as much as you want to protect them, they also want to protect you the same?”

“I know...but they shouldn’t…” I mutter. “I’m the one who needs to protect them…”

“Ben, tell me this. Why carry the whole burden? You know you have others now to fall back on, to help, from what I’ve seen your sister and that Jenny can more than clear a room and with what Luna said you told her about this Zeke character, he made his own army from ruins, there are no ruins here, but there are plenty willing to help.”

“The last person that helped me died…” I mutter. “I mean...he got a new life thankfully but…” I trial off, still laying on my back.

“Ben, I come from a place where people were killed daily, sometimes hourly. Death happens, but from what I know, it’s best the fight continues through the ones they left behind. Not just one person, all of them. You act like Braig only cared about you, but here’s a little fact, he kept your new family safe once.”

“W-wait...what?” I ask, confused on that.

“When you went to Manehattan to help with survivors, Heartless swarmed this town, the others, Luna, and Braig, we all took care of it. Braig saved Luna’s life three times, and the library where the others and the little ones were held up in from being set ablaze by some fat lava heartless. He left before they could even thank him.”

I stayed silent for a moment...before sniffling as tears formed in the corners of my eyes. “Great….just...great...I couldn’t save fifty nine thousand people once...and I nearly lost my family…” I whimper sadly.

“Because you had friends who care to help you, you idiot! If you decided to carry all this burden by yourself, which you so stupidly insist on, then they would have died. Ben, it’s not weak to have help, you know what I learned about this world and herds, numbers give it strength, you have a herd now, numbers, so help them grow strong so next time danger occurs when you’re away, they can handle it and…brag about it.”

“I sadly realized that god damn pun about Braig’s name…” I mutter.

“Unintentional and in poor taste I admit, but it still fits Ben, you worry about them because most of them can’t fight, train them so that worry is redirected at whoever they face. You’re a wolf now, act as a pack and protect each other, not just one protecting everyone.”

“It’s a lot easier said than done when you’d rather have your arm ripped off then see one of them hurt…” I say bluntly. “And if my blurry memory serves, I did just so happen to have my arm ripped off...but none of my family was around...it hurt like a bitch.” I point out.

Ramilua sat down next to me. “I was a lot like you when I was younger, before I made my salon, right after I finished my training I became a hit man, hard, dirty work, but worth it for the only family I had… my little sister, Dila. She didn’t know what I did, and I never dared tell her. One day I…executed the leader of a well known gang of pirates…the ones who didn’t leave after he died managed, somehow, to find where I lived…I never even taught Dila basic self defense because I was sure I would always be there to save her…I come home…her corpse is in chunks used to redecorate the house… I lost all reason after that, slaughtered all that was left of that gang…some were female…some pregnant…I didn’t care…I took a long walk off a short dock on some world known for large oceans… that’s when Nelare fished me out after I was drifting some miles about. She was in training with her knives with her father. Nothing else to do I stayed and worked for food. A few years passed and Nelare asked me what I would like to do most with my life. Rather than being honest and saying die, I said my sisters dream, a salon… the rest you can guess…”

I was silent again. “Why must I bitch about my problems when people have a fuck lot worse problems?” I ask myself bitterly, hating how I was told something terrible and feeling like I was just an idiot.

“You and I share something in common Ben, I fear losing Nelare, I owe everything I have…even my life, to her, but I know she can more than take care of herself. Don’t make my mistake, if you love them, train them, even if they hate you for it for a while, they’ll be glad you did it to tem later on.” Ramilua popped my arms back into place and helped me up. “And take a break, ice baths help with sore muscles.”

“Fine…” I nod. “But I don’t think I’m going to be going home anytime soon...Jenny told me something that I….really don’t want to be apart of.” I shudder worriedly. “But I’ll take a break…” I nod. “Thanks...I...kind of needed that.” I say honestly, thankful for not having a panic attack.

“Rest and work should be kept in sync. Night is for rest, mornings and the eve… train til you drop. But… why don’t you want to go home?”

“She gave me a dog whistle and...told me about what Rarity did to my new castle house’s dungeon…” I say nervously. “You can probably see where I’m going with this and why I repeated ‘nope’ my entire way to the ponyville spa.”

“Dog whistle…wait, did it say ‘Bad Dog’ on it?”

“How did you know?” I ask worriedly.

“A new kennel opened up yesterday, they were handing them out and they spotted Jenny and figured it ironic to give her one.”

I facepalm rather hard. “That sneaky child…” I groan. “But...she said she was serious about the whole ‘dungeon’ thing...I kind of thought the whistle was for...that.”

“With my few run in’s with her, she can lie her way into the royal treasury with a tongue that pure silver. She somehow managed to convince Aloe and Lotus that they had a free back rubs day last week.”

“I’m going to have a major talk with that girl.” I growl. “Unless she’s conning some jack ass for decent reasons that’s fine, but conning and manipulating innocents? That’s where I draw the line...I mean at least she’s not murdering them at least…” I sigh out.

“Hmmm…I think I know the perfect punishment.” Ramilua gave a rather devilish smile.

“And what would that be?” I ask curiously, having a good feeling this will help get her more straightened out.

“Rarity at her lest visit told me about Jenny’s family before you. Growing up like that, clearly normal means of punishment won’t do anything for her, but Rarity did notice something odd she did once.”

“What would that be?” I ask curiously.

“Apparently when they had the radio playing, a new kids song came on, it was your standard song singing about safety and was annoying to everyone not four and under, so Jenny just ran up to the radio and stabbed it...literally stabbed it til it broke apart. I think since your Luna can control dreams, why not have her dream the song on repeat?”

My eyes widened and I got a giant grin on my face...before it slowly went down. “I actually don’t know if she would have control over her dreams actually...it would be weird if she did though...but that sounds like a wonderful idea.” I say with a smile.

“Well if the dream idea isn’t good…how about a more…twisted version. Patt her down and have her in a ‘time out’ room, speakers hidden, then blast the song. She can’t do anything but cover her ears in agony….Twisted, told you.”

“I don’t want to torture the girl…” I say worriedly. “She was tortured enough but...I’ll consider it.” I say honestly. “I just…” I sigh out. “I know she hates me for my mistakes and more things but...I just want her to be happy…” I say honestly. “And no ‘fake happy’ crap...but sadly that’s probably not gonna happen maybe.”

“Well… she enjoys gore and murder. Right?”

“Sadly.” I sigh out. “But that’s just how she was raised.”

“Then perhaps a killing spree is what she needs to let go some aggression…”

“Well here’s the thing...sure bloody murder would help calm her down but there’s also the…’Killing Mood’ problem her and all her family has…” I say nervously. “I mean sure technically she’s my daughter but I’m not sure…”

“Well, Twilight said you told them you met her when she came up and killed some people, so she must already be passed that.”

“Well she said she taught Dinky self defense and how to murder things...mostly animal at least.” I shrug. “But I don’t know a trip to Tartarus and going on a killing spree would be a good idea…”

“No, this world I know, the people… if you can still call them that, are twisted beyond imagination. They altered their DNA to the point they act more like super powered junkies.”

“And what world would this be?” I ask curiously.

“Everyone calls it Rapture, but it also goes by X8-Let.”

”Bioshock? Really?” I think to myself. “Well I suppose if me and her are going to be going to a world full of abominations then I suppose that would be fine.” I shrug. “Everyone knows going on a bloodthirsty rampage through monster infested cities is always a grand time.” I say with a shrug. “Or, at least that’s what video games taught me one time.” I shrug.

“Trust me, this may end up bringing you closer together, and word of warning, don’t use the colorful bottles of liquid.”

“Yes yes I already know about the Plasmids. I looked through Luna’s game collections and it was basically one to one with another game I’ve heard about.” I shrug. “It’s weird how some worlds treat other worlds as myth, or a video game, than you realise it’s actually real.” I chuckle.

“That’s space for you. I’ll give you the coordinates for it tomorrow, didn't Shy say something about giving you an address?”

“Oh yes, Rainbow’s Parents address. I completely forgot about that.” I say with a frown. “I have to also make sure that Dash and Spike are okay because I haven’t heard from them in a while.” I say honestly. “Well we better start walking back to Shy’s house.”

“You go on, I have the night shift at the spa, when Vinyls club closes a surprising amount of people come to the spa to relax.” Ramilua left and I headed back to Shy’s house.

I walked in. “Hey.” I said as Shy and Discord were eating sandwiches.

“Hey Ben, address is on the paper here.” Shy said as she pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket.

“Thank you.” I say with a nod, taking the piece of paper and putting it in my pocket. “Want me to tell them anything specific from you?” I ask.

“Just to visit. We haven’t spent a day together since before she went back to Cloudsdale to visit her parents.”

“Alright, I’ll make sure to tell her that Fluttershy.” I nod. “And thank you, the tea was wonderful.” I smile before exiting the house and getting on my glider. “Next stop, Cloudsdale.” I say while revving my glider and bolting to the sky.

It took some time to find the “street” but after finding it and finally finding the house I was about to get off my glider, only for a foot to fall right though. Luckily I didn’t jump off.

“Okay...maybe Lindworm will help…” I mutter, summoning my lances and gently taking a step onto the ‘ground’, and thankfully I didn’t just pass through it. “Oh thank god…” I say while taking another step on the cloud ground and seeing the clouds could actually take my weight as long as I had my lances out. After a little bit of careful walking I finally made it to the front door of the house and I knocked on the door. “Hello?” I call out. “I believe this is the house of the mother and father of Rainbow Dash correct?”

The door opened, to which an orange haired woman who, aside from the hair, looked exactly like Rainbow Dash opened it. “Are you a fan of our daughter?” She asked.

“No, I was worried about my little brother and his girlfriend given that neither me, my fiances, or their friends heard anything from her for a while.”

“Oh…oh…Well, come in I guess.” She said as I entered. “I told her it was a matter of time…she thought she had more.”

“What happened?” I ask worriedly. “Did she or Spike get hurt?”

“No.” I looked at the staircase, seeing Spike, who now had wings, walk down. “Hey Ben…sorry of kinda disappearing.”

“Dude, it’s been months. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought you were either half way across the world or kind of dead.” I said worriedly. “But sadly I couldn’t keep track of that because of all the shit my life is throwing at me...but hey I proposed.”

“About time. Wish I was there.”

“It was in a Snow Dragon’s room in the middle of the dragon lands and you wouldn’t have wanted to be there for the…’celebration’.” I say sheepishly, blushing at that.

He just slugged my arm. “That’s my mom/sister you're talking about.” He joked.

“You brag about sleeping with Dash so shush.” I chuckle.

“...yeah, and that’s mainly why we’re here.”

“I though Dash had her own house?” I say, taking off my hood and fixing my tail. “I’m seriously going to have to ask Rarity to fix the side, my ears and tail hurt…”

“Wow, not even gonna ask. But yeah, she does but given her…condition, she’s been given paid time off work.”

“Did you really?” I ask him bluntly. “You do know there’s such a thing called condoms right?”

“Yeah, but they break and now, well, she’s pregnant…but there’s our problem…”

“When Twilight hears about this…” I sigh out while rubbing my temple. “She is not going to shut up about this.”

“You…don’t know then…” Spike looked at me, concerned and a tad scared. “Awh crap, I gotta explain it…”

“Does she have to lay an egg or something? Come on, explain.” I say simply.

“Dragon hybrids are only safe when the mother is the dragon…if the mother isn’t a dragon…the baby grows too big for them to handle…if Dash… lives though the pregnancy, doctors said she might break her lower back…she’d never be able to walk or properly fly again…”

“Shit dude…” I mutter, not sure what to say or do here. “Um...I’m pretty sure Luna or Twilight would know how to help out…”

“No, I looked through every medical textbook, magic and science based, no procedure can safely have the mother come out completely unharmed. Books best advice was to keep the mother on her side and laying down as much as possible then… maybe, but it’s still slim. Dragon hybrids not born from eggs are very… active. In recorded births the hybrid baby can really hurt the mom during it’s own birth, even with a c section.”

“Oh...well...that’s not good.” I say worriedly. “Um...I think I’ll be able to figure something out….maybe Medics could figure something out?” I wonder, starting to think about if the Medic Nobodies could help in someway.

“Unless you know someone who can perform miracles, there’s not much to do.”

I created a small wind platform before summoning a few Medic Nobody’s. “Explain everything to this Nobody Spike, and it will either nod or shake it’s head if it can work that miracle.” I say honestly, turning around and checking the shop to see how expensive certain potions are and if they can heal the kind of crap Spike told me about.

Spike told the medic Nobody everything he told me and I kept searching for a proper potion, having to rely on a wordsearch now I typed in everything I could think of. One search brought up my contacts, which I still didn’t understand fully, and the name that came up was Family Doctor Main. I clicked it and nearly fell back when a skeleton with a cut skull and floating hands appeared. “You called?” He asked, his voice surprisingly full of character.

“Uh…” I look at the skeleton. “Um...the names Ben...I suppose you’re Doctor Main?”

“I’m the head doctor of your family W. D. Gaster. Now what seems to be the issue?”

“I don’t know if my Medic Nobodies could help keep my little brothers girlfriend alive...apparently dragon hybrids don’t exactly agree with non-dragon mothers.” I say nervously.

“Ah yes. How would you like me to go about this?”

“Spike explained that all medical, whether science or magic on this world, could barely keep Rainbow Dash, his girlfriend, alive...and even then her lower spine would probably be irreparable and she won’t walk or properly fly ever again.” I explain.

“I see, well unless the birth is already happening I can’t perform the proper operation.”

“Yo Spike, when will she be giving birth?” I ask the drake curiously. “Cause I think I have a proper solution.”

“Five more months.” He replied, slightly spooked by the skeleton doctor.

“Shit.” I frown. “Well sorry Doctor, I didn’t think I was this early here…” I say nervously.

“If you would like, I can perform a special medical magic, this will accelerate the baby's rate of growth so we can get this out of the way faster.”

“His girlfriend is a pony and she’s basically bedridden and has to always lay on her side…” I say. “Just to make sure she...has a chance. I don’t know how big her stomach is but...I’m honestly worried here. But if you need help I can give you some of my Medics to help.”

He looked at the Medics. “They will do well. I’ll talk with the mother to be and soon this will all be done with.” He walked up the stairs, the Medics following him.

Spike and I just waited with Rainbow’s parents. She had really caring and supportive parents given the…amount of photos in the six foot stacks of albums. About an hour passed and then Rainbow came flying down stairs, holding a rainbow scaled, with a blue fin or hair, kinda like a mohawk, baby dragon, with pony ears! The doctor came down with her. “It is done, since she’s not a demigod or goddess like I’m usually dealing with, it took longer than it should have.”

“I don’t know much about how long it normally takes for a woman to give birth but...it didn’t take that long all things considered.” I say honestly. “But hey, you're dealing with one child...not the ‘normal’ amount you have to deal with.”

“I am but a tap away if you need me.” The doctor vanished leaving Rainbow’s parent’s, Spike, Rainbow and I to look at the new baby.

“She’s so precious!” Rainbow’s mom said, pulling out a camera and taking a photo.

“Mom…” Rainbow groaned.

“I think this is a ‘photo taking’ time.” I say, looking at the new dragon hybrid. “I mean seriously, she’s adorable.” I smile, looking at the small hatchling. “Anyways, what are you going to name her? Rainbow Scale or something?” I ask curiously, seeing the rainbow colors on the hatchling.

“That’s cheesy.” Rainbow said. “Maybe...Color Fire?”

“I like it.” Spike said. “So…when we move back…crap we gotta redo your house Rainbow.”

“Yeah…” She sighed. “We didn’t have a place for a baby, nor supplies…”

“Well I both have the money to help you get supplies, and I can give you room until your house is redone.” I say honestly. “Cause with my growing herd of three additions which involved Derpy, Gilda, and a Snow Dragon named Honora, I had to upgrade from a big library in the middle of a town to a kick ass castle in the Everfree Forest.” I say with a smile.

“I guess it’s best we do, man Twilight’s gonna flip and Pinkie…dear stars…” Spike said.

“Twilight’s gonna probably smack you upside the head for not telling her sooner, and Pinkie is going to throw a big party. But Fluttershy told me to tell you to visit her. Seriously it’s been a while.” I say honestly. “Honestly I was gonna getting worried about ya...besides we still haven't had that ‘bro time’ I promised Spike.”

“Right, oh yeah!” Spike held out his hand and to my surprise, the Jungle King keyblade appeared. “It showed up a week ago.”

“Well look’s like I’m gonna be a teacher for once.” I say with a smile. “But Luxu will probably show you the more...important things about it.” I say honestly. “But ‘Jungle King’? Kind of thought you would get a more…’dragon’ themed keyblade...but oh well, works with me.” I shrug while showing my Keyblade. “And this is Reunion, fancy huh?”

“Nice, but as long as this thing can help me keep those Heartless away from my daughter, I’m good with it.”

“Oh yeah, it’ll keep the Heartless away...but mindlessly swinging it around will get you killed.” I say. “So you’re going to get training bud, and I’m going to have to figure out if I can hand out my weapons to people besides keyblades…” I sigh out, scratching my head. “Cripe, so much on my ‘to do’ list…”

“I’ll train with Luna and this Luxu guy.” Spike said. “You got enough to do Ben.”

“You have no idea. You think Twilight’s regular schedules are long then you haven’t even seen my to do list...which just for a visual it can wrap around this world five times over.” I explain.

“Like I said, I’ll train with Luna and Luxu so you don’t have to worry about it, kay?”

“But sadly that’s not going to happen because I’m going to help my fiance's train and get stronger...they almost died once I’m not going to let that ever happen again.” I say.

“Then I’ll just train with Luxu, or he can train us all? You can do your thing, and your fiance’s can be properly trained.”

“Today’s just...been pretty bad for me over all…” I sigh out. “I’m gonna head home and tell everyone the good news.” I say.

“See ya there tomorrow.” Spike said as I left and flew my glider back home. Upon landing Jenny came out to greet me.

“So, you figure it out?” She said, knowing full well I now know she lied.

“I know a proper punishment for you don’t worry. But after that little bit how’s a good travel to a world so we can both kill a bunch of bloodthirsty abomination.” I say to her. “That sound good to you?”

“You? Kill?”

“Everyone knows killing demons or abominations is always a fun time.” I state. “Come on, haven’t you ever played Doom before?”

“Doom?”

“I suppose me, Luna and Dinky are going to teach you about the wonderful culture of videogames.” I say with a smile. “But this time I’m killing mindless abominations...not actual people…” I say before moving past Jenny. “But do you know where the others are? I have to tell them the good news.”

“I think the roof? Something about a party Pinkie is making.” Jenny said as she walked off.

“Of course…” I sigh, before going back outside and summoning my glider and flying up to the roof, checking where the party was.

I saw the girls setting up supplies on the roof that were indeed party supplies. I got off my glider and upon doing so, Zecora walked up. “Greetings husband to be, I’m sorry, but this party will take away some sleep.” She said.

“Well I have an announcement.” I say while clapping my hands, hoping to get all the girls attention. “Spike and Rainbow are not either dead, across the world, or something bad. They are both happy and healthy and they are parents to a healthy female dragon hybrid.” I say to everyone.

I spent the next few minutes telling everyone what happened and after that the party was starting, to which the guests of honor, surprisingly, were Celestia and Chrysalis. The two arriving in Tuxedo's of all things.

Apparently Celestia is…pregnant…somehow. I asked and she said some spells can pull it off without the needing of…the correct genitals. The rest of the party was rather fun, basically a pre baby shower for Celestia.

“Today went from bad...to kind of okay.” I say honestly, glad to know that today actually had a happy turn to it. “But Twilight...how mad are you at Spike?”

“I’m peeved, but knowing Rainbow she likely made him swear to not tell. So they’re moving in while Rainbow’s house becomes more baby friendly?” Twilight said.

“Yeah pretty much.” I nod. “Also Rarity...Jenny told me an interesting thing that I’m not entirely sure she’s right about…” I say.

“Being?” Rarity said.

“Have you ever went to the dungeon to…’remodel’ it?” I ask.

“Yes darling, Twilight and Pinkie were helping me remodel it into a new sewing room. I may not live at the boutique anymore, but I still need a place where I live to make my new dresses.”

“Jenny…” I growl. “That girl is going to have nightmares about that stupid ‘safety’ song that’s for damn sure.” I frown. “Cause she just so thought to lie to me about the dungeon being a bondage dungeon.” I frown. “Why? Fuck if I know...well I know because she still hates me beyond a shadow of a doubt but still.”

“Well, not actually a bondage dungeon.” Gilda said, walking up. “Apparently, this castle has three dungeons, one became rarity’s new workroom, second became the basement, and the third became a straight up sex dungeon.”

“Nope.” I say while raising my hands. “Nope. No weird fetish unless I give consent cause seriously, when Jenny told me Rarity possibly had a bondage fetish I noped all the way to Ponyville.” I say worriedly. “Anyways, who’s idea was it to have a sex dungeon? Cause I don’t like bondage at all…”

“We have a list you can go though.” Derpy said, wrapping her arms around me from behind. “We’ll go slow for now~”

“Listen, no weird fetishes alright?

“It’s fetishes, they’re meant to be weird.”

“Also if there is any gender bending and futa then no touchies on that place okay? I’d rather not be a dad mother okay?” I state. “I’m putting some ground rules before shit get’s out of hand here.”

“We’ll see~” They all teased.

“No I’m making that a fucking ground rule.” I frown. “I don’t care what you say, I’d at least like to keep one virginity intact thank you very much.” I frown.

“And here I thought it was the wives who had the pussies in the relationships.” Gilda said as everyone laughed.

“How about this.” Luna spoke. “If one of us manages to beat you in a fair fight, three rounds, then you have to do one of the ‘weird’ fetishes. If we lose… you can have your way with us for a week.”

“Listen…” I say weakly. “Can...can we just not? I’ve had a rough day-”

“Nope.” They all said.

“I almost had a panic attack over hearing you all could have died.” I say bitterly.

“Part of why we didn’t tell you.” Twilight said. “You worry too much, almost…maybe worse than I used too. Just, I know things are going fast but that’s just the more reason to enjoy the slow, peaceful moments Ben. Live a little.”

“One family died and it was my fault...I don’t want another family to die when I have the power to stop it…” I say sadly.

“Ben.” Luna speaks up. “We are your family now, but yes, we are also your responsibility, that means two things, one, you do have to take care of us, but to what extent is our choice. I already had a talk with Luxu, Aqua, and Terra about helping train us, help the others summon their Keyblades. That’s the second reason, now as wives we have to take care of you, even if it’s from yourself.”

I just slowly shake my head. “I didn’t want any of you to get caught up in my struggles, my problems...that’s why their my things to deal with...but no matter how hard I try...people always try to help…” I sigh out. “Thank you but...I...I don’t want to see any of you hurt...and Core and his merry band of assholes could kill any of you…” I say, starting to tear up at the thought of them getting hurt or brutally killed. “Please...I don’t want to lose any of you…” I whimper, tears falling down my face as I tried not to cry.

Luna pulled me into a tight hug. “Ben, you don’t think we don’t worry that on one of your ventures you won’t come back? To just…leave us, even if you didn’t want to. Ben, you carry all this burden upon you, yet rather than sharing it, even though how dangerous it is, is best for you. I figured this…Core would come after us regardless to get at you, would you rather lose a fight against him alone, to lose us in the process, or have the chance to win with us fighting with you?”

“I’d rather go with the third door where I kick his ass and you all see me be awesome.” I say, getting a little smile at least.

“Heh. I thought you were smarter than that Ben, even with help, Core is not going to go down without taking out stars know how many lives in the process. I know you’d it rather not be us, and heavens forbid our children to be… but we don’t want you to be in that field of corpses when the time comes either. This is a war where bloodshed will spill no matter how much we try to avoid it and whoever can escape it is either lucky or cowardly. I’d rather go blind than see you dead Ben.”

“And I’d rather be dead than see any of you hurt.” I say bluntly. “I promised myself that I was going to keep you all safe...but the more things go along...the more I know that I’m just being a stubborn idiot that’s going to get himself killed…”

“Then it’s time to ask for help. Accept it. You have family, friends, and allies willing to fight this war as well.”

“Fine…” I mutter. “But don’t expect me to enjoy seeing all my fiance’s being battle ready when they're going to be trying to get pregnant nine times out of ten.”

“Look at it this way, the stronger we get, the longer we can go rounds with you~”

“I’m sorry but you all already last all night if you wanted to.” I chuckle, wiping my tears away. “You all just get too excited too fast.”

“Can you blame us? We have a…7/9 times submissive male to screw whenever.” Luna teased.

“I’ll show you submissive.” I growl with a grin.

“Role play!” Pinkie yelled, putting a sheep costume on Luna and roughing up my fur and hair.

“Oh dear god Pinkie.” I chuckle. “I’m so glad you're all my family…” I say, hugging my new sheep costumed lover.

“Dang, I didn’t even get to flee.” Luna said in a sarcastic voice as she kissed me. “Maybe next time you’ll be the sheep.”

“You wish I was a sheep.” I say, lovingly nipping her ear.

Author's Notes:

So yeah this chapter kind of sign waved between my character being depressed as hell then going back to being happy but what do you expect from a person that has the mind set that 'all my problems are my problems, not theirs.'...so yeah there's this.

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