The eleven months that passed were probably the longest eleven months in both Pinkie and Cheese's lives. The party planning stallion had decided it was better if he stayed closed to his marefriend as her pregnancy advanced, trying his best repress his Cheesy Sense, but when he was sure the party at hoof was of the upmost importance and that he couldn't ignore it, he took her with him, always making sure she was safe and comfortable.
He wasn't sure who was suffering the most through that time, Pinkie or him. She ate enough to feed four ponies, but oddly enough she didn't gain weight. The only thing that increased was the bulge on her abdomen, which by the last month almost scraped the floor as she walked. She had undying cravings for some of the most ridiculous things anypony had ever heard of: pickle smoothies, fudge-covered quiche, ice cream with French fries, you name it. Cheese tried to keep her from eating such filth, but after one time when she almost smashed his accordion against his head due to a an explosion of anger caused by her cravings and her violent mood swings, he decided to keep himself out of her way.
Ah yes, her mood swings. If nopony knew what Pinkie's true nature was, they would've never set hoof in Ponyville again. If one minute she was fine and dandy, the next one she was in a deep depression, then laughing about compulsively, then so angry it seemed like she was about to murder anypony that stepped in her way, and then she was back to being fine, not precisely in that order every time. It was almost a nightmare to whoever spent too much time with her, but fortunately those violent oscillations disappeared about two months before her due date.
Nopony knew exactly when Pinkie's foals were due, but Twilight kept a close eye on her and was able to determine just how far along she was. When she told Pinkie she was on her last month of pregnancy the pink mare was so happy that she would visit her every day and incessantly ask her if that day was the day when her triplets would be born. Every day Twilight would give her the same answer, saying that she didn't know when they were going to be born, but Pinkie's excitement never ceased. The only day she actually forgot to ask her, much to Twilights relief, was a day when Cheese Sandwich was asked to plan a party right there in Ponyville, in which Pinkie was dying to help out.
"But I wanna help you plan Angel's birthday party!" Pinkie whined after Cheese told her it was best if she didn't. They were in a field next to Fluttershy's cottage where the party would take place, preparing to set up all the decorations with other ponies who had volunteered to help.
"I know you do, but you have to take it easy, remember?" Cheese told her in a soothing tone as he petted her cheek. "You can't strain yourself."
"But I'm fine!" she grasped her protuberant belly as she felt a kick. "Just let me help out somehow, pleeeeeaaase!" Cheese thought for a moment, tapping his hoof against his chin.
"Tell you what, why don't you give the orders while the other ponies and I do all the hard work?" he suggested, making Pinkie smile brightly.
"YAY! Thank you!" she cheered as she hugged him tightly, making him chuckle. When she released him she pulled out a megaphone from behind her back and cleared her throat as she turned it on, the sound of static echoing from the acoustic horn. "Alright everypony, listen up!" she yelled into the cone-shaped object, gathering everypony's attention. "We need to make this party a HUGE success, so I wanna see every single one of you making it happen! I want carrot-shaped balloons, pools filled with vegetable punch, and a bouncy castle! We must have a bouncy castle! Make it happen, ponies! Now go, go, GO!"
Everypony hurriedly dispersed in different directions to gather all the items Pinkie had mentioned, and the mare smiled at her coltfriend as she lowered her megaphone, receiving a pat on the head from him.
"Pinkie, Cheese!" called out Fluttershy as she approached them with Angel on her back. "Thank you so much for helping out with Angel's party! He's really excited about it! Right, Angel?" she looked back at her bunny, who seemed to be looking around suspiciously.
"No problem at all, Fluttershy! We're happy to help!" said Cheese humbly.
"Yeah! Anything for a friend!" Pinkie beamed at her.
"Still, I know I shouldn't be making you work in your… condition." Fluttershy commented as she eyed her friend's enlarged stomach.
"Oh, phsaw!" Pinkie waved her off. "This is nothing! I'm feeling perfectly fi – HU-BU-BU-BU-BU-BU!" suddenly the pink mare's entire body started to shake violently, which made Fluttershy's eyes widen.
"What's happening?" Cheese asked, worried it was something serious.
"It's the Pinkie Sense!" exclaimed the yellow Pegasus. "And that sign means something big is going to happen!"
The party planning stallion concernedly observed his marefriend vibrate for a few more seconds until she stopped as abruptly as she started. She looked around to try and locate what had happened or was about to happen, but saw nothing. Upon realizing there was nothing to worry about she raised a hoof as if to say something but before she could say as a much as a word she heard a popping sound behind her and felt a warm fluid flow down through the her inner thighs. She raised one of her hind legs to see what had happened, also allowing Cheese and Fluttershy to see the clear liquid she was soaked in.
"What is that?" Pinkie asked, slightly disgusted.
"I've never seen anything like this." replied Fluttershy. She looked over at Cheese, who was holding a hoof against his mouth, trying not to gag. "Cheese?"
"Nope." he gulped down and breathed in. "I'll go ask Twilight, maybe she knows."
He trotted up to the violet alicorn, who was standing not too far away, having a conversation with Lyra, who listened intently as the princess told her about the time when she visited the world on the other side of the mirror.
"So you really had hands?" Lyra asked her in awe.
"Twilight!" Cheese called out to her. "We have a situation!"
"What's wrong?" asked Twilight as she directed her full attention to him.
"I'm not sure."
He turned around and gestured for Pinkie to come closer. It didn't take her too long to get there and as soon as she did Cheese lifted up one of her hind legs to show Twilight what had happen. The princess gasped loudly as soon as she laid eyes on the clear liquid on Pinkie's thighs.
"Pinkie, your water just broke!" she exclaimed, to which the two party ponies just arched a brow at her.
"What does that mean?" asked Pinkie obliviously.
"It means the foals are coming!"
Both Pinkie and Cheese's hearts sunk and eyes widened. Pinkie's jaw dropped and Cheese started to hyperventilate and pace frantically.
"Oh gosh, oh gosh, OH GOSH!" he panicked with his hoofs on his head.
"We talked about this, Pinkie!" Twilight scolded her friend. "Do you remember anything from the class I gave you on birth and parenting?"
Pinkie placed a hoof on her chin and thought back to that day. She remembered sitting at a desk in an auditorium while Twilight was in front of her. She remembered Twilight telling her to pay attention because what she was about to teach her was very important, afterwards turning to the board behind her and starting to talk about the topic at hoof as she wrote down the most important things, using her magic to move the chalk stick. She also remembered blinking at some point, which made her discover that whenever she did, Twilight would be in a different position. So she spent the remainder of the class blinking repeatedly and giggling to herself whenever she saw Twilight in a different pose when she opened her eyes.
"Nope." the pink mare finally stated, making Twilight slap her hoof against her forehead and let out an exasperated groan. "Ooh, wait!" she suddenly raised a hoof. "I do remember something! I remember you saying that giving birth is painful! But you know what? I don't feel any pain at a – AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" she screamed as she fell onto her back, grasping her abdomen with one hoof and punching the ground with another as she felt a horrible cramp that started in her back and radiated into her stomach. "SWEET CELESTIA, THAT HURTS!"
"Oh gosh, oh GOSH!" Cheese was now panicking harder than before. "What do I do?! WHAT DO I DO?!" he grabbed Twilight's head and looked her in the eyes. "TWILIGHT, WHAT DO I DO?!" he screamed at her, which resulted in him being slapped.
"First of all, you're going to CALM DOWN!" she pushed him away, and Cheese breathed in a few times to try and calm himself. "Now, stand next to Pinkie. I'm going to teleport you both to the hospital."
"Wait, you're not coming?" he asked as he positioned himself next to Pinkie, who was gritting her teeth in suffering.
"I'll be there later. Right now we have to focus on getting Pinkie some medical attention."
Cheese looked down at his afflicted marefriend and nodded. Twilight told them to stand still and lowered her head, pointing her horn at the two ponies. Cheese grabbed Pinkie's hoof with his own, her eyes now full of tears, as Twilight concentrated and made her horn shine with her usual magenta magic. Cheese closed his eyes and felt himself be transported through time and space. When he felt like the journey had stopped, he opened his eyes he saw that he and Pinkie were inside the hospital, only a few feet away from the front desk.
"OK… OK…" he tried to steady her nerves and turned to Pinkie, who was now wiggling her hind legs and grasping her large stomach. He knelt down, still holding onto her hoof, and petted it with his other one. "J-just calm down. I'll try and find somepony who can lend us a – "
"SOMEPONY GET ME A STINKIN' WHEELCHAIR!" Pinkie shouted at the top of her lungs. Her voice echoed through the entire room, if not through the entire hospital, making several ponies turn their attentions to the light-orange stallion and the pink mare writhing in pain in the middle of the room.
"Is everything alright, sir?" asked a white earth pony with a nurse hat who had just approached them.
"Yes! I-I mean, no!" Cheese stuttered almost breathlessly. "I-I need – "
"Cheese Sandwich?!" the mare exclaimed excitedly. "Oh my gosh, it's been so long!" Cheese just stared at her, trying to figure out who she was and how she knew him.
"I'm sorry, have we met?"
"It's me, Redheart! Well now it's Nurse Redheart, anyways." she chuckled. "You threw my graduation party! Boy, was that a blast!"
"Yeah, OK. Listen, that sounds really swell and all, but right now I've got a very delicate situation in my hooves!" he gestured towards Pinkie, who was just releasing another loud groan in both pain and impatience.
"Oh my!" Nurse Redheart gasped and turned to a couple of other nurse ponies who were in the room. "Get me a wheelchair and prepare the delivery room, STAT!"
Pinkie was rushed into the delivery room with Cheese, where they were instructed to wait for the doctor. Pinkie was on the bed dressed in a hospital gown, moaning in pain in a way that could make anypony else feel uncomfortable, while Cheese was still petting her hoof as he sat at her bedside. The only other pony in the room was a nurse none of them had ever seen before. She was a pistachio-green unicorn with a golden-blonde mane pulled back in a bun. She was opening up drawers and cabinets looking for something, obviously not knowing her way around the room. Eventually she opened what seemed to be a small refrigerator and her face lit up.
"OK, let's give the mommy something to relax, shall we?" she pulled out a large needle with her unicorn magic and carried it towards the side of the bed opposite to where Cheese was.
"I-it's OK, sweetie. You're going to be alright." he told Pinkie as he tried to calm both her and himself. "Everything's going to be just – "
He was interrupted by Pinkie, who grabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled him close to her face. He could see the anger in her eyes, a kind of anger he didn't want to get familiar with.
"If you say one more thing to cheer me up…" she threatened him between her gritted teeth. "…I am going to take my hoof AND SHOVE IT RIGHT UP YOUR Aaaa… Amish paradise…"
Pinkie's expression turned from angry to a mix of extreme satisfaction and bliss and released Cheese's shirt as she limply laid back on the bed. He was confused at first, but when he looked up he saw the nurse had just stuck the needle onto Pinkie's left foreleg.
"What did you do?" he asked worriedly as he saw his marefriend was now half-asleep.
"Oh, don't worry. This is just something we give all mares that are giving birth to help them get over the pain." she explained as she waved the needle in the air.
"Put down your chainsaw and listen to me! I got another tattoo…" said Pinkie, slurring her words and waving her forelegs around weakly.
"Is she going to be OK?" Cheese inquired the nurse.
"Yes, of course! This product is completely safe." she assured him as she disposed of the needle. "Although, I am just an intern. I still make a mistake or two."
"Now why does that sound vaguely familiar?"
"Alright everypony, let's do this." declared a large gray stallion in a lab coat as he burst through the door with a determined look on his face.
"This is it, Pinkie." Cheese whispered to the groggy mare. "You'll do great. I know you will."
"D'awwww… thanks, talking lasagna!" she replied, slowly running a hoof over his muzzle.
AUTHOR'S NOTE (PLEASE READ)
More references. I guess being a Weird Al fan pays off, after all. x)
This chapter should be called "Ragie Pie". Hey, giving birth is a painful process; it could cause any woman to go insane!
Anyway, in the next chapter you'll finally get to meet Cheese and Pinkie's babies, but for that to happen I'm sending a shout out to all my readers to help me name them. Quite frankly I think naming ponies is hard. Heck, I created my ponysona two years ago and only NOW have I decided what to name her!
So if you want to help me name the triplets, send me a PM so we can discuss it. Please don't hand out suggestions in the reviews; I don't wanna ruin the surprise for anyone. I can tell you this much: they're two fillies and a colt. And I already know what to name the colt and have an idea of what to name one of the fillies, but that can still be discussible. When you PM me I'll tell you a little about their appearance and future personality and maybe then we can find a suitable name. And maybe a clever way to how they end up naming them that in the story. xD To anyone who is going to help, I thank you in advance. =)
Still, don't forget to review. Seriously, I feel really happy when you do. ^^