Obi-Wan rode the ship with Peppermint as they arrived at the entranceway to their village.

"Ready, Peppermint?" Obi-Wan said, getting the bridle ready again.

"Ready when you are." Peppermint whinnied.

Obi-Wan reattached the trailer to Peppermint, and they began to pull it along. Both of them were excited to get back home to the family. It felt like forever to Obi-Wan since he'd last seen his wife and son, especially since they were expecting a new baby to arrive and Obi-Wan was worried about his bride.

The man and his unicorn continued on their way, the beautiful sights of their village surrounding them as they passed them by. But as time passed, Peppermint began to notice that the crate on their trailer was getting awfully heavy!

"Ugh! Geez." Peppermint huffed and puffed. "How much baby stuff did you have shipped in?! Do babies suddenly need bowling balls or something?"

"No. And it was merely clothing we ordered, as well as some toys and diapers." Obi-Wan said. "All of which can weigh a surprising amount when held together."

"Well, I'm not sure when babies are more trouble. Before they're born or after."

"Hush, Peppermint. We're almost home."

Meanwhile, in a beautiful house on a hill, a pregnant blonde woman was humming as she set the table for dinner, when her teenage son came in and started to do it for her.

"Mother, let me." said the boy, whose name was Korkie. "You should sit down."

Satine chuckled. Now that she was six months going on seven, the men of her home were more protective of her than ever.

"Korkie, I can handle myself." Satine said.

That was when another woman with straight red hair came in to serve dinner.

"You're getting more pregnant by the day, Satine." said the woman, named Bo-Katan. "You need to relax to make sure that baby will be safe."

"Bo, when you came to help, I didn't ask to be overprotected."

"We are simply looking out for you, Darling." said another male voice, entering the kitchen.

"Father!" Korkie exclaimed.

Obi-Wan shared a big hug with his son and was greeted by his sister-in-law. Satine got up from her chair and made her way to her husband.

"Excuse me, everyone. Wife with a baby, coming through." Satine said.

Satine and Obi-Wan kissed each other and sat down with the others to start dinner.

And as the family shared with Obi-Wan how they spent all day preparing everything for the new baby, the conversation changed after Obi-Wan said,

"Now that Peppermint and I have also picked up the other supplies, we'll be all ready for our new little prince or princess."

"Speaking of princes..." said Satine. "How was your visit to the royal family?"

"Yes. What did they want?" Bo-Katan asked.

Obi-Wan told his family about the royal family summoning more than one village leader, and that they had plans to build a new school and a new park in honor of their late parents. The family thought those sounded like very kind and charitable ideas from the royal family. Many remembered the great tragedies of the previous rulers. First Queen Tahl died shortly after giving birth to Kara, then King Qui-Gon and his new queen Shmi were lost at sea.

Princess Kara was only sixteen when her parents died, and she had to bear the burdens and pressures of being a ruler before she was old enough to be crowned queen. And her brothers had just turned thirteen at the time, and were left in the care of their big sister and their palace staff. The whole kingdom grieved deeply for their beloved king and queen, but not even all of the citizens combined suffered as much as their three children surviving them.

Obi-Wan eventually excused himself from the table so he could feed Peppermint and unpack the crate. But when he started to move the crate...

It moved!

Obi-Wan gasped.

"Whoa... What the...?"

Obi-Wan scratched his head in confusion.

He grabbed a crowbar and opened the crate, and out climbed a little pink alicorn filly with brown hair. She was groaning.

"Oh my!" Obi-Wan gasped, seeing a bunch of other horses crammed inside. "Peppermint, I think you'd better get over here!"

Peppermint came, and together she and Obi-Wan carefully began to pull the horses out of the crate and lay them on the grass.

Obi-Wan held the little pink one in his arms, finding her rather cute.

"You poor things." said Obi-Wan. "Who did this to you?"

The light brown mare was the first to open her eyes and look at Obi-Wan.

"Huh? Mr. Kenobi? What are you doing here?"

Obi-Wan gasped, the voice sounding familiar.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"What do you mean? We met earlier. You spoke to my brothers and I?"

Obi-Wan's eyes went wide at that. "Queen Kara?!"

That was also when the others began to wake up.

"What's going on?" said Carmine, placing a hoof on his head. "And when did my hands get so hard?"

Lamenta yawned and stretched out before standing on her back legs. The others began to stand up, not seeming to notice they had four legs at first. Until they looked at each other.

The twins looked at each other and screamed screams that turned into panicked whinnies. So did the girls when they looked at each other.

"You're a pony!" Anakin and Carmine exclaimed at the same time, pointing a hoof at each other. "I'm a pony?!"

The royals all looked at their bodies, finding their hands had been replaced by hooves, they all had fur, wings, and tails. And some of them had horns.

Kara caught sight of her reflection in Peppermint's drinking trough and gasped in horror. The others had similar reactions when they looked at their reflections, and they all began panicking, not knowing what to do.

"I always wanted to be a pony," said Gabby. "But now I don't wanna be one anymore!"

Anakin started chasing his tail around, not used to having one.

"This just feels weird." said Anakin, his tail whacking Carmine in the face.

"Pfft! Hey, watch it!" Carmine said. Then he intentionally shook his tail into Anakin's face.

"Hey!"

"Daddy, I don't wanna be a pony!" Lamenta cried. "I'm a little girl!"

"Alright, everyone!" Obi-Wan exclaimed. "Everyone, please just calm down. Everyone sit."

The horses all sat down.

"Okay, how did this happen?"

"We don't know." Kara said. "We're not even sure how we got here."

"We were in the palace, having dinner." Carmine said. "But then everyone got a stomachache and started burping..."

"And then there were these big clouds of gas that made us sleepy." Gabby said.

That was when the whole family had a realization.

"That means someone did this to us on purpose!" Anakin said.

"Who would turn the entire royal family into a bunch of horses?" Obi-Wan asked. "Can you think of anyone who might've tried to hurt you?"

The royal family tried to think of potential suspects. They believed they showed nothing but kindness to their staff. Some of them even had children who the princesses enjoyed having playdates with. And with the way the royal family helped so many of their staff by giving them jobs when they couldn't find work anywhere else, it was hard to imagine that any of them would try to hurt them.

But then Kara remembered someone they'd recently let go, who was not happy about it. And his wife was not any better.

"Silvaria!" Kara said.

"Palpatine!" Gabby growled with an angry snort. "Whoa. That felt weird."

"Are you sure about that?" Anakin asked skeptically.

"Think about it." Kara said. Who didn't have anything to drink at dinner?"

The others realized Kara was right. If Jango and Zam wanted to poison the royal family, they would've put the poison into their food. And Wrecker wasn't clever enough to pull off such a deed either.

But Kara knew for a fact that Silvaria had a history of working in chemistry and potions.

"If Silvaria did this," said Kara. "There must be an antidote somewhere."

Anakin also realized something.

"If they tried to poison us..." he said, getting scared. "They might go after Padme and Caroline too!"

"Then we've gotta get back to the palace now!" Carmine said, trying to make his wings work, only to fall on his stomach. "Oof!"

"Hold on." Obi-Wan said. "It wouldn't be safe for any of you to head out on your own. It's dark, and it is a long way to the palace by walking."

"Then what do you propose we do?" Anakin asked.

Some hay was set up for the royal horses to have a place to sleep for the night.

"We have to sleep here?" Lamenta said, scrunching her muzzle at the thought of sleeping on itchy hay.

"Unless you'd rather sleep standing up." Carmine said, walking around in a circle on the hay, trying to make it more comfortable.

Anakin dug his hoof through the hay like he'd seen some actual horses do once before and started to lay himself down, but had a bit of trouble.

"Allow a master to show you how it's done." said Peppermint. "Watch and learn."

Peppermint got to another pile of hay that served as her bed and slowly lay herself down, and told the stallions that they could use their wings as blankets for the little ones.

"That is how mother and father pegasi keep their babies warm." Peppermint explained.

The adults first got down, and once they mastered the ability to lay down as horses, the little ones went to their fathers and curled up beside them. And the twins each taught themselves to maneuver their wings so they could place one over their fillies and keep them warm.

Gabby and Lamenta each sighed with contentment as they felt the warmth of the feathers of their fathers' wings, surprisingly not being tickled.

The twins felt their new equine instincts kick in as they each nuzzled their daughters as they fell asleep. And they bid each other and their sister goodnight as they lay their heads down.

"Goodnight, everyone." Kara said.

But, Kara couldn't sleep. She worried so much about how things were faring back at the palace. What if the staff didn't even know they were missing yet? Even if they found them, what if no one believed it was them? What would happen to her brothers, her nieces, sisters-in-law? She'd already lost her parents. She couldn't lose the rest of her family too.

"Padme, Caroline, wherever you both are now, you'd better be careful." Kara said.