Chapter 8: She's Gonna Blow!

Almost a year has passed since the Pinkamena incident, and the estimated delivery day was quickly arriving. Everyday after school the CMC would come over and help Pinkie, which usually ended in her going to her room to lay down, the pregnancy taking away her usual energy. Today was no different. After the CMC managed to burn cupcakes in an attempt to give Pinkie a snack she shooed them away. As Pinkie climbed into her bed she looked at her mirror, which has been covered since her small hallucination.

"I wonder..." Pinkie mumbled to herself as she got off her bed and walked over to the mirror, throwing the cover off. She cautiously looked at the mirror, seeing only herself inside of it. Giving the mirror one last look before heading back to her bed, Pinkie had thought everything was okay, but...

"Thanks for opening the window"

Pinkie spun around as fast as she could, looking at the mirror in fear. She quickly looked around for the cover as Pinkamena started to ramble on about what she had done while the cover, or window as she called it, covered the mirror. Her crazy thoughts continued to spew out as Pinkie tore apart her room, unable to find the cover anywhere. Pinkie eventually gave up and climbed into her bed, now being berated by Pinkamena.

"You'll never live this down"

"I made you into this"

"You killed that guard"

"Frosty doesn't really love you"

"Everypony hates you"

"You sl-"

"SHUT UP!" Pinkie shouted, throwing her bed sheets at the mirror, only managing to knock it over, smashing it to pieces. Pinkie sighed, thinking it was over, but she froze in fear when she read Pinkamena's maniacal laughter.

"Thanks, it was getting stuffy in there" Pinkamena said evilly as she slowly trotted across the room, climbing onto the bed behind Pinkie. Pinkamena slowly started to rub Pinkie's mane, laughing quietly to herself as she did. After a few minutes Pinkie began to shake violently and started to cry.

"Pinkie, dear, are you okay?" Mrs Cake asked from the other side of her door, leaning against it so she could hear Pinkie's answer.

"No..."

"I'm coming in now sweetie" Mrs Cake said slowly as she opened the door, but when she saw Pinkie curled up into a ball on her bed she rushed over. Checking over her body, Mrs Cake gasped, quickly looking into Pinkie's eyes.

"Dear, you need to come with me" Mrs Cake said hurriedly, urging Pinkie to get off the bed. Pinkie looked at her sadly before realizing what had caused Mrs Cake to push her towards the door.

Her water broke...

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Frosty was getting ready to leave his post, only there until his replacement, Stone Wall, showed up to watch the royal chambers for the night. After he became friends with the Elements of Harmony, and Captain Armor, he was promoted, and as such, had to watch the princesses. He heard the telltale clopping of hooves as somepony came running towards him. Thinking it was Stone he got up, taking off his helmet, but when he saw Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy turn the corner he froze.

"What's going on, is everything okay?!" Frosty said quickly, knowing that the two of them flying all the way to Canterlot in the evening meant something big going on. Rainbow and Fluttershy tried to get their breath back, but before they could say anything a scroll appeared in front of Frosty. It opened up and Frosty understood what was going on from the three words on it...

PONYVILLE HOSPITAL NOW!

As luck would have it, Stone Wall turned the corner a second later, looking at the three Pegasi in confusion.

"What's going on?" Stone asked, his voice getting abnormally high as he noticed that the two mares were none other than Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Frosty threw the scroll at Stone Wall before throwing his armor to the ground and then taking off out the nearest window. Rainbow and Fluttershy groaned as they watched him fly away, even Rainbow's wings hurting from the flight from Ponyville. Stone Wall walked over and, as smooth as he could...

"Can I assist you two beautiful mares"

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"Where's Pinkie?!" Frosty shouted as he flew through the front doors of the Ponyville hospital. Everypony in the waiting room looked at him in confusion, a small foal crying because of the sudden noise. Silence reigned until somepony coughed, getting everypony's attention. The elderly Unicorn slowly waved at everypony, the attention quickly being taken off him as Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack came bounding down the hallway.

"How did you get here so fast?!" Twilight asked quickly, looking at Frosty's wings, which looked as if he had gone years without preening them.

"Flew really fast, didn't stop, wings hurt..." Frosty said as his eyes slowly shut, the effects of flying faster than normal taking their toll on him as he collapsed to the ground. When his jaw hit the cold linoleum floor he snapped back up to attention, looking around quickly before his eyes settled on the three mares that he knew.

"Where is she?" Frosty asked, his focus now entirely on Pinkie's safety. The three mares quickly turned around, running towards Pinkie's room, where she was still giving birth to her foal. Frosty quickly opened the door, making his way to her side despite the arguments from the doctors in the room.

"Pinkie, are you okay?" Frosty asked worriedly as he grabbed Pinkie's hoof, immediately regretting his decision. She quickly squeezed his hoof tight, making him yelp in pain as the doctor performing the birthing looked over Pinkie's belly. He mouthed the word contractions, and Frosty knew what was going on. He steeled himself for the oncoming onslaught of pain as Pinkie gritted her teeth, his hoof very soon after getting crushed as if all of Equestria was on it.

"Push!"

"Ow!"

"Push!"

"OW!"

"PUSH!"

"OW!"

"PU-"

"DON'T SAY IT, JUST DO- OH CELESTIA, WHY?"

For the rest of the night Frost cried out in pain, his own cries beating out Pinkie's shouts of pain as she crushed his hoof. As the birthing continued you could hear Frosty starting to talk to himself, going over all the things he wished he could have done with his life, asking for forgiveness from Celestia and Luna, and even praying to Discord for the pain to end. After he ran out of things to say he turned to a nearby nurse, his eyes wide as he asked...

"Is it possible for a stallion to die when his mare is giving birth?"