-Charm-
I was helping Apple up the stairs to her room. The last nine months have been such hell for her. She's been under a lot of duress due to the complications with this pregnancy. She would feel sore and lethargic, and we found out yesterday that her unborn babh girl's neck is wrapped in the birth cord. So whenever the baby is ready, Apple would have to be cut out.
"Thanks again Charm," Apple slowly took the last couple steps up the stairs, "For everything."
"What are sisters for if we can't help one another?" we turned around the bannister and followed the hallway down to her room.
"I can only imagine what Blu is going through. He's been catching the most hell from me."
"I think that he's okay with all of this."
"I don't think so Charm," I helped her sit down into a rocking chair, "Anytime he's home, I can sense that he's always on edge. It's like he's trying to avoid me. It's so weird of him to be like this."
I sat down in the chair I had pulled up in front of her, "Well, you are a little hormonal right now. Maybe he's just afraid to say the wrong thing or something."
"Do you think that he's cheating on me?"
I was just blown away at her question and even offended that she asked, "How could you even ask such a thing?" I shot up to my feet, "My brother is not a cheater! He is the most loyal man I have ever met!"
"Okay," Apple was scared to death of me, "Easy."
"No! You take it easy! My Brother will never cheat on you! I hate that you would think that of my brother!"
"Charm, I'm sorry," she slowly got to her feet.
"No! I don't want your apologies!" I rushed out the room and slammed the door. I leaned against it to calm myself down as I heard the bed in the room having weight applied to it; signifying that Apple had sat back down.
-Blu-
"So, tell me again Mister Blu," a woman paced the floor back and forth in front of me, "What kind of business are you in? I mean," he stopped his pacing and took a sip from his short glass, "A man of your height and good looks must have something going for you other than just a Doctorates in Chemistry and another Doctorates in Biology."
"What, because of my size, I can't live a normal peaceful life?"
"That is exactly what I'm saying," she walked forward toward me to set her glass onto her desk, "So, what does the all-knowing, all-powerful Celestia need to know about my country?" she leaned over onto the table.
I leaned forward in my chair, "All she needs to know is that your country is not a threat."
"Then why didn't she just ask me then? I am more than willing to allow one of her top personnel to come and audit things."
"Because she's too afraid to be just forth coming with what she wants. She thinks that you're building Weapons of Mass Destruction and I know that you are. She is in control lf the only country in the whole world that uses WMD's. So when she thought that you were building it, she saw it as a threat. You want to defend yourself if things go wrong. Which I am sure it will."
"How are you so sure?"
I pushed off the small chair and made it to my feet, "It's hard to say, but I know its going to be big."
"What do you know?" she seemed worried.
"I know that I'm changing and there's nothing I can do about it. But what I'll become will ruin everything."
"So with that knowledge, why not work around it?"
"Because I must lose myself in order to protect my family. There are cosmic forces at play and the fall of myself must be done to protect the future."
"Now what makes you say that?"
"Because I will rise again and be with my daughter again. Thank you for your time," I shook her hand and left.
-Apple-
Blu was watching Mac play in the apple trees as I sat in a chair. Blu looked to me and smiled. When he looked back up at Mac, he pulled him down from the tree and they both began walking toward me; holding hands with his son.
"Why don't you go inside and help Auntie, okay?" Blu told Mac.
"Okay daddy," Mac smiled and trotted inside.
Blu sat on the ground next to me and we just sat in silence. I looked over at him with his short blue hair rustling in the wind and his eyes as feirce as ever, "If you do not tell me what is on your mind Blu, I might have to smother ya with a pillow."
"It's just life is really getting to me ya know? Wife and kids and a major role job. It's a bit stressful at times," he spoke slowly as he continued his focused gaze on the horizon.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him and he slowly turned his eyes to mine.
"I'm just thinking that there must be more to life than just secret missions akd false identities."
"Like what?"
"That's the thing, I don't know," Blu helped me out of my chair and had me sit next to him. His strong chest was always nice to lean on.
"I wonder what Luna and Blaze are up to nowadays?" I thought aloud.
-Blaze-
"Remember honey," Rota was rushing to fill her purse with her pursey things, "Rainbow Dash has to get to bed on time; otherwise she'll wake up in the middle of the night and won't go back to sleep; or she'll just stay up all night as usual and sleep the whole entire day away."
"I know, I know Rota," I kissed her as I opened the door, "Anything else?"
"Make sure that she takes her vitamins," she said quickly as she ran out the door, "I love you!"
"Love you too," I waved at her as she got into the car and drove away.
I closed the door and went into the kitchen. Our at-home nurse was feeding Rainbow Dash. The little girl swallowed her food and reached for me she also laughed. I picked her up, "Hey baby," I kissed her cheek. She laughed and held my face. I kissed her cheek again and she laughed even longer and harder, "How was her wake up?" I asked him.
"Yeah, her wake up was okay. I gave her, her shot and she's doing much better since you've started her on the treatment."
"Anything for my little girl," I looked into her dark pink eyes. Her rainbow hair laid flat on her head.
"So, when do you think...," his voice trailed off when my phone in my pocket began to ring. I pulled it out and saw that it was Blu.
"Hello?"
'Hey, it's Blu; Apple just went into labor."
"That's amazing! Want me to come to the hospital?"
"If you don't have time."
"Uh, sure. I'll bring Rainbow Dash over."
...somewhere deep in the heart of Dragon Territory...
"You see master," a scaly humanoid slowly spoke, "The White Scale; it glows."
"Then that means the Chosen One has been born. Which means that we must make preparations for the arrival of Kaen. He will be weak, but with the power of the Chosen One, he will prevail over the gods."
"I shall tell the others," the figure bowed before the woman sitting in a throne made from bone before he made his leave.
-Blaze-
I stood side to side with Blu as we looked onward through a sheet of glass. There were rows of newborns laying in cribs swaddled in blankets. But the one that was Blu's wasn't easily missed. The newly born Applejack was the biggest of the bunch: 19 inches long and weighing in at 9.2 pounds. The baby girl was sleeping soundly as my best friend and I looked on, "So, she's cute."
"She's beautiful," Blu placed his palm on the glass window. Applejack opened her eyes and I felt Blu's heart melt even more, because her eyes were like huge green emeralds, "That's my little girl," he teared up.
"The new baby is this way Auntie!" we looked to our left and saw Mac pulling on Charm's hand.
"Okay, okay," she laughed, "Why are you in such a rush?"
"I wanna see if the new baby is cuter than me, that's why," he looked up and saw me, "Daddy!" he let go of Charm's hand and ran up to me. He jumped and I caught him just to pull him close to me.
"Hey Mac!" I nuzzled his neck and her laughed as he tried pushing my face away.
"That tickles daddy!" he squealed in laughter. I stopped and he looked down at the babies, "The big one is ours isn't it?" he sounded kinda upset.
"Why did you say it like that?"
"Well, look at all of us. We're huge! I am only guessing," he looked down at his sister who was now being picked up by a nurse. The nurse looked up at Blu and smiled before dipping her chin and walking away.
"Hey!" Mac pounded on the glass, "She's Mine!"
"Mac, it's okay," I pulled him away from the glass, "It's okay. The nice lady was just taking her away to run some tests."
"She better bring my sister back," Mac pouted.
"Let's go see your mommy then huh?"
"I'll just wait in the lobby. I know Apple well enough that she just would like to see only her family."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure. Besides, I'll see her in a couple hours."
-Blu-
Mac and I quietly went into the recovery room. There was Apple talking to a nurse that was changing the bags hanging next to the cot, "Mommy!" the child I was holding hands with ran up to his mother's side.
"Hey," she sleepily said as I walked up to her. Her eyes had dark rings under them and red in them.
"I saw my sister! What's her name? Where is she gonna sleep? Is she gonna cry a lot? Am I gonna have to change her icky undies?"
"Maccie, calm down," she laughed as Mac crawled into the bed, "Her name is Applejack and yes she's gonna cry. She's only a baby."
"Hey hon," I kissed her forehead, "You feeling better?"
"I'll feel better once-!" she was interrupted by the sound of an alarm going off followed by a rushed and strained voice, "ATTENTION EVERYONE! THIS IS AN AMBER ALERT! A CHILD HAS BEEN ABDUCTED! THE HOSPITAL IS NOW ON LOCK DOWN!"
A few seconds later a few nurses rushed in, "Mister and Misses Bluing?"
"Yeah," I got worried.
"It's Applejack. She's the one who has been kidnapped."
"WHAAAAAAT?!" I roared.
The femal doctor next to her spoke up. It was the nurse that I saw from before, "I'm sorry, but it all happened so fast! There wasn't anything I could do!"
"You allowed my daughter to be taken!" I reached for her neck with one hand and the others immediatly tried pulling her away from me, "No, lemme go!" they managed to free her and hold me back, "You Lost My Daughter! You'll Pay For This!"
She was rubbing her throat, "I was held at gun point, okay?"
"My little girl!" I sobbed, "My little girl is gone! We have to find her! NOW!"
-Celestia-
I leaned over the balcony that looked out to Ponyville and beyond. I just gone finished raising the sun when Luna, mu sister, came barging in, "Celestia!"
"What?" she sounded urgent and that made me whip around even faster, "What is it?"
"We must put the whole country in Stage Three mode!"
"What for?"
"A child has been abducted!"
"Which child?"
"Apple and Blu's baby girl, Applejack."
"Oh shit," I rushed over to a blank wall and punched a button with my foot on the floor. The wall sanked backwards a few inches and dropped into the floor; revealing monitors and buttons.
"Hmph, this new," Luna walked up next to me.
"Yeah, I had it installed a couple decades ago," I looked for a white button covered with a cylindrical glass casing. Finding it, I lifted the lid and punched the button.
"Is that it?" Luna asked.
"That is it and now, we wait."
"Wait for what exactly?"
"We wait for the ransom."
"What are you talking about?"
"This is Applejack that was taken. She's the key for the survival of everything's future. This kidnapping wasn't a random kidnapping. The person who took her though is going to die a quick and painful death."
"What makes you say that?"
"Her parents may be loving but that's what makes them even more dangerous. They have their size; they're trained to be ranked as two of the top ten best fighters in the world; as an added bonus, they share genetic traits of Titans. One is the granddaughter of Hiri and the other one is from a long line of purebred descendants of the Water-Fire Tribe. Together, they will destroy the whole world if that meant gaining their daughter back."