….TEN MONTHS LATER….

"Ahhhh! Sweet fuck make it stop!"

Sombra is screaming as she is hurriedly pushed in a wheel chair down the hospital hall by Sombra; Cadance, Shining Armor, Gleaming Shield, and Bolero behind them. "Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!"

"How do you suggest I hold on?!" she shouted at him.

"I don't know! I don't know! I don't know!"

"STOP REPEATING EVERYTHING THREE TIMES!"

"Ok, ok, ok! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!"

Umbra's screams filled the hospital as nurses and doctors all rushed to prepare for what would most likely be the most difficult birth ever to happen in the Crystal Empire.

Finally making it through the doors, Sombra gets Umbra pulled away from him by two nurses as doctors begin prepping her for birth. She reaches out and yells for Sombra, he does the same, but they are pulled apart against their will.

"I need to be back there! That's my wife and child!" Sombra yells at a crystal nurse.

The nurse stands her ground. She knows he is the ex-king Sombra, but she has a job to do and he will not get in her way. "Sir, please stay back. You will be allowed back in a moment. In the meantime, isn't there family or friends you should go tell what is happening?"

Sombra growls, but he swallows and walks out in a huff to the waiting room where their 'friends' waited.

"AHHHHHH! GET THIS THING OUT OF ME!" Umbra screams.

"Doctor!" a nurse shouts after inspecting how far along Umbra was.

The doctor, a crystal pony with a blonde mane, blue coat, and a stork with a bundle in its beak as a cutie mark. He lifts the white sheet to inspect his patient, only to gasp a little a she tried remaining calm. "She's already dilating! This foal is coming now ponies!"

"Where's a fucking epidural?!" Umbra cried out.

"We can't give you anything now," Doctor Delivery tells her.

"WHAT?! WHY?!"

"You're already too far along. If you had any drugs used now it could cause severe birth side effects!" He has a nurse sterilize some blankets and umbilical scissors at the ready.

Umbra felt tears drip down her cheeks. This was the worst pain she has ever felt. Each contraction getting closer and more painful as time got closer to when she would be a mother. She's had eleven months to get used to the idea, but having it happen scared her, made her feel so unprepared. She wished Sombra was there, right beside her holding her hoof as he stroked her mane and told her how good she was doing.

The doctors got ready for the first push Umbra would have to make, telling her it was time, but she refused. "NO! NO! I'M NOT DOING THIS WITHOUT SOMBRA! I NEED MY HUSBAND! I WANT MY SOMMY!" She let the tears fall, not caring. All she cared about was Sombra and seeing him, holding him, doing this WITH HIM!

"UMBRA!" came from just outside the delivery room doors before they burst open.

"SOMBRA!" Umbra flung her hooves out, crying for his touch, for comfort, for relief. Ironically this wasn't too different from how the foal was conceived… but more pleasure and less pain.

Sombra returned her embrace, sterilized and scrubbed clean head to hoof by nurses for a clean birth.

"Alright sweetheart, it's time to push," Doctor D. said.

"Wh-what?! No! No I can't!"

"You're gonna have to sweetheart. This foal is coming whether you push or don't so it'd be better to help than hurt."

Umbra cried, "I can't! It just hurts too much!"

"Umbra, look at me," Sombra took her face in his hooves "you are the strongest, toughest, sexiest mare in all of Equestria and you are going to give birth and walk back out there and brag about it barely even hurting! Because you are just that amazing and you wow me by everything you do! Now take a breath, push, and let's meet our foal already!"

Umbra took three deep breaths before taking one big gulp.

"On three," Sombra said. "One, two, THREE!"

"AUUUGGGGHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"That was great! Now give me another big push. One, two, THREE!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"We got a head!" Doctor D. yelled out "Give me another big one sweetheart!"

"One, two, THREE!"

"AHHHHHHHH HA HA!" Umbra screamed as she felt the foal ripping her in half. It felt like losing your virginity, in reverse! The ripping suddenly tears her lower waist in two.

"SWEET GODS! I JUST TORE FROM MY V TO MY A!"

"That's normal, nothing to be scared of," Doctor D. answered. "I need one more push, can you do that?"

"Deep breaths baby, one more push and our little one is here," Sombra stroked her mane, getting the faintest hint of a smile from her.

Umbra took a deep breath, then let out the loudest scream in her life. It was heard throughout the hospital, through the Crystal Empire, and throughout Equestria. But as soon as the pain had seemed to reach a maximum, it was gone. It all just flushed out of her body in a single second. A second, followed by crying.

Umbra never knew just how much hearing a baby's screaming would come to mean to her. But now that it's her foal being born, it is the most beautiful sound she has ever heard. The little foal wailed as it was placed in a clean blanket and started being dried off, the gross looking birth juices still covering her skin and fur.

Sombra watched as the doctor pulled his foal out of his wife. Watching as they placed it in a blanket and cleaned it off. He was shook by a nurse lightly and asked if he wanted to cut her cord. He nodded.

Her, her cord. He had a daughter.

He took the funny looking scissors into his magical grasp and cut his daughter's cord, effectively severing her physical attachment to her mother.

Umbra dazedly watched the doctors whisk her child away from her. "Boy or girl?" she whispered.

Sombra nuzzled under her chin, "Girl. A little filly. We have a daughter." He cried.

Sombra burst into the waiting room with a smile. "It's a filly!"

His 'friends' all cheered for the couple's accomplishment. The new little member to this oddly constructed family was an adorable little filly.

Even though they knew he still hated it when they touched him, they got him into a group hug.

Sombra growled at first, but it quietly became a laugh that began echoing as it grew in volume.

"She's so beautiful," Cadance whispered.

The sleeping filly in Umbra's arms had a dull gray coat, a shade or two lighter than her parents' color. Her eyes were a dazzling shade of pink, like soft rose petals. Her mane was pitch black like bother her mother's and father's, and it was already extremely curly and hung into her eyes. Her tail matched her mane with a little black tail of curls. Her horn was, surprisingly, that of an average unicorn's but it was smooth and the tip tinged a lighter shade of pink instead of red. And her muzzle had the lightest shading of white over her face, her chest having the same little pattern of frosted tips of fur.

"She's a little cutie is what she is," Gleaming quietly squealed.

The stallions saw the looks in their wives' eyes, the looks of a wanna-be mother.

Sombra chuckled to himself as he watched the scene unfold before him. His gaze became glued to the gray picture of grace laying in the hospital bed with a filly in her arms. She was so beautiful. He had never lost interest the entire time she was carrying their foal, and now seeing her as this ideal mother portrait… it just warmed his once cold and empty heart.

He leaned down and placed a kiss upon her forehead. "I love you Umbra," he said. Then he looked at his daughter, and watched as Umbra smiled and passed her from her mother to her father.

"She wants to see her daddy."

Daddy. That's right, little foals call their father's daddy. That might take some time to get used to.

But all good things come to those who wait.

He held her closer in his arms, gently kissing her forehead. "Daddy loves you too Ebony," he almost whispered to his baby girl. He began rocking her in his grasp, a pink blanket against her soft face.

His baby girl.

Ebony.