AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is another one of my early MLP stories. And another one of my MLP/Monkees crossovers. I'd like to give credit to my sister for rewriting a couple of the scenes for me, though. This story also references one of the UK MLP comics, which explains where the baby ponies originally came from (look it up for yourselves if you want. The story is called "The Enchanted Mirror"). All the characters belong to Hasbro. Airedale, Jet and Melody belong to me.
It was a beautiful spring day in Ponyland. Medley and Airedale were flying through the clouds, enjoying the day. Heart Throb and Firefly were watching them.
"How romantic!" Heart Throb sighed.
"You think everything's romantic," Firefly groaned, rolling her eyes.
Heart Throb glared at Firefly and flew off. Firefly did her double inside out loop, and flew away as well. Airedale and Medley continued flying along the outskirts of Ponyland until they came across a garden. The most beautiful garden the two Pegasus ponies had ever seen in their lives.
"Oh! It's so beautiful here!" Medley shouted.
"This puts Posey's garden to shame," Airedale said. "Come on! Let's see what else we can find in this garden!"
Airedale flew ahead, and Medley followed him. They came across a bush that had the brightest red and purple berries growing on it. They sparkled in the evening sun like gumdrops. Airedale sniffed one, and chomped down. He chewed twice, and swallowed. Medley was a little disgusted. She loved Airedale dearly, but he had the eating habits of a pig!
"Hey these are great!" Airedale said, chomping into another. "Have one, Medley!"
"Well, I don't know . . . ." Medley said.
"Come on, Medley! They're delicious!"
Medley heaved a sigh, and delicately chewed a purple berry. Her face broke into a big smile as she swallowed. Airedale was right. These berries were great! The two of them continued eating them, Airedale chomping and slurping like a cave pony, and Medley taking tiny bites like the lady she was. By the time the sun set, the bush didn't have anymore berries on it, and Airedale and Medley were laughing and whooping it up all the way home. Airedale was doing crazy flips, and so was Medley, which was so unlike her! They made it back to Paradise Estate well after dark. Medley and Airedale were giggling their heads off when they flew into the Estate.
"Shh! Shh!" Medley hissed, giggling. "You'll wake everybody up!"
Airedale just laughed, and he flew behind Medley into her room. The two of them began laughing and giggling their heads off. They were practically screaming.
All the noise woke up Gusty, and she began banging her hoof on the wall. "Hey! Some ponies are trying to sleep you know!" she shouted. "Keep it down in there!"
"Sorry!" Medley shouted, laughing.
Medley and Airedale toned down the giggling and the screaming and the ruckus. And that was all anyone heard from them until breakfast.
All the little ponies gathered in the kitchen for food. This included Megan, Danny, Molly, Julie, and Tommy, who were all up visiting Ponyland for the day. Airedale staggered into the kitchen, looking like a train wreck. His hair was matted and frizzed, and his aviator's helmet was knocked askew.
Cupcake stared at him as if he were crazy. "What happened?"
"Beats me," Airedale said. "All I remember is eating these great berries, and that was it."
"You look like you're suffering a hangover," Applejack said.
"What's a hangover?" Molly innocently asked.
"You . . . don't want to know," Moondancer replied, cringing slightly.
Medley wandered into the kitchen a few minutes later, looking worse than Airedale!
"Somethin' tells me whatever hit Airedale, hit you too, Med," Tex said.
"Are you okay, Medley?" Julie asked.
"Fine," Medley said. "But I'm starving."
"How about some pancakes?" Cupcake asked. "Freshly made, complete with maple syrup."
"Pancakes sound good," Medley said. "But not with maple syrup. Do we have any pickle juice?"
"Pickle juice?" Moondancer asked, making a face. "On pancakes? Bleah!"
Everyone looked at Medley like she was crazy. But Cupcake fixed her pancakes with pickle juice.
"Thank you," she said. "Now, do we have any beef jerky? And bring the pickle juice back out, please."
"Medley," Cupcake hesitantly started, "I hate to disappoint you, but I believe we're fresh out of jerky."
"Pardon me for correcting you, Medley," Wind Whistler added. "But I sincerely doubt we had any sufficient quanity to begin with. We are herbiviorous creatures, after all."
"Huh?" Fizzy asked in confusion.
"We only eat plants, Fizzy," Bow Tie interpreted.
"Oh."
"With a few confectionary exceptions of course," Wind Whistler added.
"Like ice cream," Lickety Split added with a lick of her lips just thinking about it.
"You want beef jerky, Medley?" Danny asked as he reached into his jeans and pulled out a pack, "I've got some." He then tossed it over to Cupcake, who went back into the kitchen.
"Excuse me," Moondancer said, turning completely green. She stood up, and went directly for the bathroom.
Cupcake brought the pickle juice out and put the beef jerky in it. Medley then asked for the strawberry syrup. Once Cupcake gave it to her, she squeezed the strawberry syrup into the jar of pickles, and began pulling the pickles out and eating them, and dipping the beef jerky in the mix. And she was also eating pancakes covered in pickle brine.
Lickety Split, the pony with the cast iron stomach, got a sick look on her face, and pushed her plate away. "I think I lost my appetite."
Medley began wolfing down her breakfast. No one had ever seen her eat so fast in her entire life!
"I think she's been hanging around Lickety Split for too long," Gusty commented. The earth pony responded with an irritated glance in the unicorn's direction.
"Oh thank you, Cupcake," Medley said once she was finished. "That was delicious."
"You're welcome, Medley," Cupcake said. "Although I'm a little confused."
Medley was about to say something, when she felt a funny feeling in her stomach. She ran to the bathroom immediately and began throwing up.
"Ew, yuck," Molly grimaced.
"I feel the same way," Applejack said. "Just looking at her breakfast made me sick!"
"What's going on?" Firefly asked, flying over.
"Nothin' much," Tex said, shrugging. "Medley's just tossin' her pickle juice, that's all."
"With what she had for breakfast, I'm not surprised she's sick," Bow Tie replied.
"This isn't normal," Megan said.
"I know," Applejack nodded, "since when do ponies crave meat?"
"Maybe she's been hangin' out with Munchy too long," Tex suggested. "There's somethin' not quite right with that gal."
Medley came back out, looking a little greener than usual. She was walking a little funny, too.
"Medley, are you okay?" Firefly asked. "You don't look so well."
"Oh, I'm all right," Medley said. "My hooves are a little sore, my back hurts a bit, I'm feeling a little nauseas, and I'm dying for some strawberry Jello and liverwurst."
"Liverwurst and Jello!?" Bow Tie asked.
"Yes, mixed in," Medley said. "Think you can do that for me, Cupcake?"
"Uhhh . . . ." Cupcake stammered.
"I think we should go see the Moochick about this," Megan said.
"Good idea," Gusty said. "Looks like Medley's put on some weight since last night, too."
It wasn't much, but Medley did look a little heavier than she did the night before. Megan, Wind Whistler, Medley, and Firefly decided to go down to the Mushromp. Firefly flew all the way there, but Medley just sort of . . . . . sloshed. It's the only way I can describe it. She felt too heavy to fly. Once they were at the Mushromp, Megan explained everything to the Moochick.
"She's gained some weight," she said. "And has aches in her hooves and her back, and this morning, she ate pancakes with pickle juice for breakfast."
"Yes," Wind Whistler nodded, "not to mention she consumed more pickle juice with pieces of dehydrated beef, which she ended up regurgitating."
"Then she had a craving for Jello and liverwurst," Firefly said. "What's wrong with her, Mr. Moochick? This isn't normal pony behavior."
Before the Moochick could answer, Habit threw a book to him. The Moochick opened the book, found the page he was looking for and nodded.
"This is quite normal," he said.
"How can you say that?!" Firefly yelled.
"Well, every little pony acts like Medley when they're with foal."
"Oh well, if that's the case . . . . . . I beg your pardon?"
"Did you just say . . . . ." Megan started.
"Indeed I did," the Moochick said. "Medley is with foal."
"You mean to tell me," Medley said. "That I'm going to have a baby pony?!"
"No," the Moochick said. "You're going to have two baby ponies."
"Forgive my confusion, Mr. Moochick," Wind Whistler started, "but how exactly can you determine that Medley is birthing twins?"
"Oh, I have my ways," he replied with a mischeivious wink.
"Twins?!" Firefly exclaimed. "Boy, any other time a pony wants to have a baby, they just go to the Magic Mirror!"
The Magic Mirror is where baby ponies come from. A little pony would go to it, and wish for a baby pony, and one would come out, looking like a miniature version of themselves. Ember, Baby Half Note, Baby Tiddlywinks, Baby Cuddles, and the newborn twins, Milkweed and Tumbleweed and Sniffles and Snookums, were exceptions. They had been found in Paradise Estate. This was the first time a little pony would be giving birth to a baby pony!
"Oh my goodness," Wind Whistler gasped.
"No wonder you were craving pancakes and pickle juice!" Firefly shouted. "We've got to tell the others!"
"I hate to think of what Airedale is going to say," Medley said.
"Don't worry, Medley," Megan said. "I'm sure Airedale will be surprised."
Megan couldn't have been more right. When the foursome got back to the Estate, they told Airedale right away. And he fainted!
"Well," Firefly said. "He took it pretty well."