Although Celestia was a little miffed to have woken up no longer cuddling the stallion gone, she couldn't help but smile and laugh as the mares raced about the Garden of Gemini, crying out that the foals were all gone. Admittedly, having your sisters disappear in an instant like that would make anyone panic.

But not Celestia.

"Silence," she called out in her royal Canterlot voice. The mares froze and turned to look at her for guidance. The only mother they had ever known. She laughed agian and spread her wings in a welcoming gesture. "There is no need to fear for your sisters' fate."

"But, mother," one mare pleaded, almost on the verge of tears. "We failed. They stole that stallion. Now we shall never mate. Project Ascendance is only a theory. We shall all die without out him."

"Are you asking me to have my daughters defiled by just any filthy male?" Celestia asked, standing over the fearful mare before bending down and pulling her into a hug. "Rest assured, little one. I had a contingency in place."

"Contingency, mother?" the mare asked, sniffed and returning the hug.

Celestia nodded. "Don't you know that Gemini means two?"

It took a moment before a collective gasp echoed throughout the facility.

"Mother," another mare stepped forward. "Is there another garden?"

"Of course," Celestia nodded. "One six times as large this. Hidden in an even more secret place. There you have even more sisters waiting to meet you, and the tissue samples we took from the stallion. If we need males to help us save the world, then so be it."

She ignited her horn and she and her daughters left the garden. Soon after, the garden burst into flame, destroying all evidence that it had ever existed.

In another flash of golden lightening, the Alicorn and her daughters found themselves in the second garden. The clones of the second garden were quick to gather up their distraught sisters and begin orienting them to the new layouts of their new home.

Celestia, still holding the one mare she was comforting looked up to a most pleasing sight. Over a hundred vats. Special vats, much more intricate than the standard ones, housing the microscopic seeds of the world's future. The mates her daughters desperately needed.

She couldn't wait to hold one in her hooves. To teach them. To separate them into the the gelded servants and the mighty studs. She would love them all, and they would all love her.

"See, little one?" she said to the mare, turning her so that she saw them as well. "Your mother is always prepared to give you the future you deserve."

The mare gasped and slipped form her gasp and rushed up to the vat, giving it a hug. "Oh, I've never seen a colt. Are they cute? Complex? Have to be, for such a complex vat to be needed. Right?"

"Chemically, complex," Celestia smiled at the mare's enthusiasm. "Mentally? Not even close. As for them being cute... once long... I thought so."

"Are they not anymore?" the mare asked, curious and not understanding. "Did they evolve out of cuteness?"

The alicorn shook her head. "I have grown old and calloused in my aged state. There was once a time I welcomed and hugged the little geldings in my palace."

"They're only cute when gelded?" the mare asked.

Again, Celestia shook her head. "My mission to appease the greater powers of our universe robbed me of my compassion. Colt or gelding, when we win, they shall once again be equally wonderful in my sight. And they shall be in their rightful place serving us mares. Raised to know their place if the New Era becomes necassary."

"But they're still cute, right?" the mare asked, trying her best to understand.

Celestia burst out laughing. "Yes. Little one. And, one day soon... I shall see them that way again."

"What shall we do until then?"

"Make ready the next garden," Celestia smiled, igniting her magic to summon a canister, in which was preserved a white unicorn horn. The horn of a certain prince. "There must always be two. No one can stop us from saving this world."

Princess Cadance, having listened to Speedy's report, had given him his leave. Seeing as he still had a couple hours left before the paralyzing chemicals in his body wore off, Pinkie and Dez took him away to have some "special fun" with him.

"Uh, I can't get an erection like this girls," her informed them as they carted him away.

Pinkie blew a raspberry. "Like that'll stop me."

"Uh, what?" Speedy asked, slightly alarmed. He turned his eyes to Dez. "What's she mean by that, Dez?"

The older mare shrugged as she followed sprightly behind. "Beats me. But, I suspect you can still cum under the right stimulation. But, it's Pinkie, so it might just involve cotton candy and cannons."

Speedy let out a frightened squeak as they vanished back to their chambers.

Cadance rolled her eyes. "Those three."

"Jealous?" Rainbow Dash asked from her position looking over the vats that filled the throne room.

Cadance, wanting to keep the children alive, had been quick to have them connected to the palace's power lines, and brought in professionals to monitor and apply aid where needed to the developing children.

The pink alicorn looked at the speedster for a moment before slumping. "Like you wouldn't believe."

"Shining'll come to," Applejack said from another part of the room, doing much the same as the pegasus. "That stallion's tougher than most give him credit for."

Cadance nodded. "I left Flurry Heart with him so that I could attend court. She knows there's something wrong and cries whenever someone tries to separate them. She has a wetnurse for when she's hungry, though that's just gonna make my teats ache from overflow."

Applejack grimaced a bit. "That can't be comfy."

"Joys of motherhood," the princess sighed.

"It's not that bad, is it?" Rainbow dash asked, looking over her shoulder. "Lactation, I mean. It's not bad, right?"

Cadance shook her head. "It's an incredible and wonderful experience, Rainbow Dash. But, when you've a got a gallon stored in such a tiny space, it just makes me me wanna grab a bucket and..."

Clang!

A metal pail landed beside her, courtesy of the orange mare.

"Fill 'er up then," Applejack grinned.

Cadance became indignant. "I'm a princess, Applejack. I am no milkmare. My milk is reserved only for my children and my husband."

Rainbow Dash blushed something fierce. "Your husband? You and Shining..."

"Ugh, yes, Rainbow, we do," Cadance groaned, giving the pail a light flick of disinterest. "I'll just slip off in a bit and release the pressure in the bathroom."

Applejack laughed softly.

"And what's so funny?" Cadance demanded, starting to become upset. "Does my pain amuse you?"

The orange mare shook her head. "Of course not, your highness. But, seeing as we're surrounded by little fillies getting ready for this world, I just reckined we'll seen be needin' all the fresh milk we can git our hooves on soon enough."

The room became deathly quiet. The realization of the farm ponies down to earth wisdom hitting them like sacks of bricks.

Cadance swiftly grabbed and positioned the bucket between her hind legs. "Screw dignity. Lend me a hoof, Applejack." While the farm pony got to work, she quickly called out in a loud voice. "Send word throughout the empire. Princess Cadance is calling for new mothers who would love to have another foal. To milkmares, who are willing to be paid in quickly adopted children. And finally, to the yaks, whose naks (A female yak is called a 'nak' or a 'dri') have an abundance of milk. Ask them all to head the Crystal Palace. We don't know when these fillies are gonna be emerging, but until then we are in a state of emergency."

She blushed, but kept a strong face as she heard streams of her own life-giving cream fill the bucket. "Damn you Celestia. You planned this, didn't you."