Chapter 3

“So why are you here?”

Odio shrugged “That is a bit vague” he held up his arms “You could be asking ‘why am I on earth and not mars’ for all I know”

The therapist rolled his eyes “No, I mean why did you break into my house and start talking to me?”

“Oh that” Odio chuckled “You are a therapist and I wanted to talk to someone who wouldn’t judge me” He checked his fingernails for dirt as the therapist rubbed his eyes

“Just because I listen doesn’t mean I have tolerance for criminals” The therapists voice was agitated as he looked at the clock again “There has to be a reason for you to break into a man’s house during dinner”

Odio scratched his head “Well I needed to get a lot of my chest and I don’t like confession boxes in churches” He sighed as he tapped his fingers together “the sofa is much more comfortable here”

“But you proceed to tell me a very ludicrous story about unicorns and dragons” The therapist stood with a smug grin “I will have you know that I rang the police and my notes will make sure that you go to a very nice, padded cell”

Odio broke into laugher “Have you learned nothing from what I said?” He stood up, grabbing his bag of video games along the way as he marched over to the window. The blue flashing lights of a police car flashed in his swirling eyes as he removed a detonator “I plan for everything!”

He squeezed the detonator and the car next to the police car exploded, forcing the police car off the road and into a lamppost. Odio chuckled as he turned around and smiled at the terrified therapist

“W-why are you doing this?” The therapist nervously sat down and picked up his clipboard and pen. Odio returned to his sofa and laid his head back

“I would love to say I aim to control this world or throw it into complete disarray but…” Odio shrugged “In all honesty I wanted to play the new Halo game before I went back”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Princess Luna easily outran the guards that brought the news of Celestia’s situation to her. She sprinted down the hallways, hoping to find her sister along the way. She dashed around a pair of chefs that stood outside the kitchen with large grins across their faces.

Her heart raced as she managed to hear a suppressed scream. Her head angled downwards as she ran faster, her horn cutting a path through the air as she turned the corners. As Luan ran, she noticed a small green blur go around the corner she headed towards

She dismissed the spots of green as her attention focused on the final corner ahead, as she turned she saw the large group of guards standing outside the medical wing. As she approached they separated and allowed her onto the room where Celestia was crying out

She rushed to her sister’s side, giving a quick glance to Nurse Redheart that worked alone below the sheets that covered Celestia. Luna placed her hoof on Celestia’s shoulder as sat near her head

“It’s all going to be ok,” Luna whispered reassuringly as she held her sister’s hoof. She nodded to Nurse Redheart before whispering more reassuring words to her larger sister “This will be over shortly and then we will have a new addition to the family” her smile wavered as her eyes opened “I’m going to be an aunt!” She gasped

Nurse Redheart looked over from her position “You only just realized?” Her confused state was broken as Celestia’s loud moan made her return to her duty. The princesses held each other, Celestia pressed her face into Luna’s chest as her pain filled noises increased

“How is it going?” Luna asked as she saw Nurse Redheart wipe some sweat from her head. The white earth pony grumbled as she looked up at the princesses

“It is a bit hard with just me!” She complained but she shook her head before looking back with determined eyes “We have a small problem… I can sort it but it will hurt” the pony looked up at the princess of the sun as her sweat covered face looked down at her

“What kind of problem?” She managed to pant before another surge of pain pulsed through her “Is the baby ok?”

Nurse Redheart sighed, “The umbilical cord has caught around the baby’s horn, this is normal but in your case it could be very harmful” the nurse looked back at the princesses “Fixing it would require me pushing the baby back slightly to untangle it”

Celestia shuddered before nodding “A-alright, do it” She commanded as she clutched Luna again, her eyes shut out of fear. She felt a tear come to her eye as she whispered, “I wish Dave was here”

As the whisper left her lips and Nurse Redheart was about to attempt her painful solution, the doors swung open and a skeleton stumbled in, a pile of guards left behind in the corridor. It looked up to see the confused stares of the princesses and the nurse

Nurse Redheart managed to force herself to talk “What the hay is that?” She gawped as the living bones moved closer. Its bony hands outstretched towards the princess of the sun

Luna growled at the intruder and jumped into its path, her horn lowered and glowing “What are you?” She questioned with anger in her voice

“Dave?” Celestia gasped and the skeleton looked over in response “Dave… you came back” she smiled happily as the pain subsided from her body. Luna stepped aside and allowed the skeleton to move to the white alicorn’s side

As Celestia smiled, the skeleton held her hoof and its hollow eye sockets were strangely comforting to the princess. Her smile turned to a snarl as she hoof-slapped it’s jaw off and attempted to strike the skeleton from her position on the bed

“YOU DID THIS TO ME!” She yelled, her eyes full of rage as the skeleton retreated and reclaimed his lower jaw

Nurse Redheart chuckled as she watched the princess break down into tears “I was wondering how long it would take for her hormones to kick in” She looked at the nervous skeleton “She should be ok now” she reassured before returning to her work

The skeleton peeked down to see what the nurse was doing before regretting the decision and leaping to Celestia’s side again. She wrapped her hooves around his skull and squeezed tightly as the nurse began her attempt to free the baby from its prison

Luna smiled as Celestia whispered to the skull between her hooves but her gaze shifted to the rest of the body that was leaning against the wall in a relaxed fashion. She shook her head as she returned to letting Celestia know that she wasn’t alone buy resting a hoof on her shoulder again

“Almost there princess!” Nurse Redheart cheered reassuringly “The horn is out, so is the head… wings” She looked up at the princess “Come on! One last push!”

Celestia let out a final scream before her body went limp, her mane and fur was drenched in sweat and her head hit the pillow below it like a brick. Her hooves released the skull that the skeleton quickly caught and replaced on his neck

Luna and the skeleton moved to Celestia and smiled as she let out a small grin. The skeleton nervously rose as a baby’s cries came from behind it. It turned to see Nurse Redheart’s eyes looking happily at him as she cradled something in her hooves

“Princess Celestia, Dave…meet your son” she beamed happily as the skeleton slowly inched around to stand next to the nurse. In her hooves was a grey alicorn, kicking his front hooves out as his face clenched to give out maximum volume to his screams

The baby was already the size of Applebloom and her friends, its wingspan would certainly put Scootaloo to shame and his long pointed horn looked more ferocious than Sweetie Belle’s. His mane was messy and just dangled past his ears. Considering he was screaming and thrashing around, he still looked very cute

The skeleton moved a hand to the baby, only for his finger to brush against the grey horn and a sudden flash of light to send him across the hospital wing. Crashing into a bed a few rows along, the clamoring and crashing noises of medical equipment masked the sound of the baby suddenly silencing to watch the destruction

A few squelching noises replaced the noise of the crying baby, the skeleton's hand appeared to grab the top of the flipped bed. The white bone slowly turned red, a few wires stretched across the knuckles and wrapped around the thin fingers. The new muscle changed shape before a thin layer of skin dragged itself along the hand and slowly finished making the pale hand that disappeared from view again

“Urgh I knew I was bad with kids but what the hell?” Dave groaned as he used a bed to help stand, his skeleton was now buried behind muscles and organs, all wrapped in layers of skin, his new and refreashed body free for everypony to see. The human looked over at the bed where Celestia was smiling at him before her gaze dropped and her face blushed

Luna also joined in the blushing while she covered the baby’s eyes with a long dark wing. Nurse Redheart merely tilted her head to the right as she had a good view from her height. Dave followed where their eyes were looking.

They were staring at his exposed crotch. Dave blushed as he pulled his trench coat around himself and avoided eye contact with everypony but Celestia. During his journey around the castle he obviously forgot that the only piece of clothing he had anymore was the dragonscale trenchcoat

“You always knew how to make an entrance” Celestia chuckled weakly as her head rested on the soft pillow. Dave hurried back over to Nurse Redheart and to the grey alicorn that was his son

“Well I had to make up for lost time” he smirked as he reached out and took the baby from Nurse Redheart and cradled it in his arms. It placed a grey hoof into its mouth as it stared up at Dave with large eyes

Nurse Redheart quietly left the princesses and Dave to meet the newest addition to the family. Dave passed the baby to Celestia as she rubbed her nose against its head

“He is adorable!” Luna squealed as she got a closer look “Well I had no idea we were that cute eight million years ago!” she smiled happily as Dave glared at her

“Thank you for reminding me how old you both are” Dave rolled his eyes back to his child “So what do we name him anyway?” his eyes met Celestia’s and Luna’s blank faces and an awkward silence filled the room only to be broken by the newborn blowing a raspberry into his dad’s face