Chapter 8:

As Applejack came up to the hospital she felt herself become very weak in the knees, nearly collapsing as she got in the front doors, a sharp pain coming from her stomach as well. The nurse that was sitting behind the front desk watched her as she tried to go up to the desk, slapping her hoof down onto it in pain.

"Doctor Monitor..." Applejack managed to say through the pain, "Get. Him..." The nurse quickly ran away from the desk so she could find Doctor Monitor, eager to try and help the mare in pain that was currently curled into a ball on the floor in front of the desk. Within minutes Doctor Monitor and an entire group of nurses were at the front desk preparing to carry Applejack into a room to see if she was okay.

"Uh, doctor?" one of the nurses said nervously as she went to pick Applejack up up by her hind legs, "I think we have a problem..." Doctor Monitor quickly moved next to the nurse, his eyes opening wide as he saw what the nurse did.

"Go get a stretcher now!" he shouted as he went over to Applejack's head, looking to see if she was still conscious. When she didn't respond to him tapping her face with his hoof. When the nurses came back with a stretcher he had them quickly lift her onto it, running her towards the maternity ward. Once they had her on a bed Doctor Monitor ordered one of the nurse to go to the farm and get the rest of the family. As soon as she was gone he put on rubber gloves and checked if Applejack was awake yet, and she was.

"Where am I?" Applejack asked hazily, "Am I at the hospital?"

"Yes, and now I'm going to need you to listen to me" Doctor Monitor said in a serious tone, "You've gone into labor an entire month early"

"What?" Applejack asked, somewhat more awake now.

"Something happened to you, and it caused you to go into labor prematurely" Doctor Monitor began to explain, "Now, are you going to be able to do as I say?"

"Yeah, yeah" Applejack said, her mind filling with rage as she remembered what had happened in the market. As Doctor Monitor moved down to her hind legs she felt a sharp pain come from her stomach. She felt as if her body was being ripped apart from her hind legs.

"Push!" Doctor Monitor said, his voice barely audible to Applejack as the pain was almost making her black out. In the hopes that it would end the pain she was currently feeling. When she began to push the pain increased tenfold, making her entire body tense up so she would stay awake. She could faintly hear Doctor Monitor tell her to push again, and without thinking this time she pushed again, the pain increasing again. This continued for almost three hours until Applejack passed out, her body continuously pushing automatically.

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"Applejack, can you open your eyes?" Doctor Monitor asked, his voice sounding far away and muffled as Applejack came back to. Her eyes slowly opened, her vision blurry for the first few seconds until her vision corrected itself. When she looked around she saw Big Mac, Granny and Applebloom.

"What's going on?" Applejack asked tiredly, trying to figure out what was going on, and what had happened while she was out.

"You gave birth sis!" Applebloom said happily as she`bounced up to the side of the bed, her eyes wide with happiness. Applejack quickly tried to remember what had happened before she passed out, but all she could remember was running up to the front desk of the hospital and then she fell to the floor.

"When did I give birth?" Applejack asked, her memory not getting any clearer despite how hard she thought about it.

"Just about an hour ago actually" Doctor Monitor said, right as two nurses came into the room with a small foal in their hooves. They came up to Applejack's bedside and offered the foals to her, and she took them mindlessly without asking who's they were. When she looked at the foals she realized that they were almost identical, both having light yellow coats, and gold hair that faded into pink. The only way to tell them apart was that one of them was a Unicorn, and that the other was an Earth pony.

"Congratulations" Doctor Stable said with a smile, making Applejack look at him in confusion.

"These are..." Applejack trailed off as she looked into the foals' pink eyes, now noticing the freckles that were on their faces, "Mine?"

"Eeyup" Big Mac said as he leaned in, the Earth pony reaching out and grabbing his mane happily. Applejack watched as Big Mac nuzzled the foal's face, feeling something tug at her heart. When she looked back at Doctor Monitor he was writing down on two different forms, and from what she could see it was the birth certificates for the two foals.

"So, does that mean I have to name them now?" Applejack asked, still finding the entire situation to be completely strange.

"Yes, and both of them are fillies" Doctor Monitor said as he continued to fill out the forms.

"Well..." Applejack trailed off as she looked at the two foals that she was holding, "Pink Pearl for the Earth pony, and Pink Lady for the Unicorn. Those are good names right?" Applejack looked over to Granny for confirmation, which the elderly pony gave with a happy smile and nod. With a quick nod towards Doctor Stable their names were written down on the forms, which were quickly handed to a nurse. In a few minutes she came back with two small cards, confirming both of the small foals name.

"Congratulations sis!" Applebloom said as she leaned up close to Pink Lady. Applejack smiled happily as she looked down at her two foals, snuggling them close to him as they looked around trying to take in their surroundings. When she looked back up she saw Rainbow Dash standing in the doorway, her mouth hanging open slightly as she stared at the foals in amazement.

"Are those...?" Rainbow asked slowly, her eyes completely focused on the two tiny foals that were now playing with each other in Applejack's hooves.

"Eeyup" Applejack replied happily, her own eyes still focused on the foals. Without thinking Rainbow came over and placed a hoof next to Applejack on the bed, and Pink Pearl leaned out to touch it. Seeing what was going on Rainbow lifted her hoof up to the foal, which she happily took and hugged tight, making everypony in the room, including Big Mac, sigh happily.