"How do you feel?" Twilight asked helping Applejack assist Rainbow to her unsteady feet. She thought a moment before answering the question.
"...Weird." She finally answered. They all gasped at how low her voice had now become. "What's happened to me?" She groaned looking into the mirror again.
"I think the spell worked." Twilight concluded as she picked up the book and looked at the spell's images of a mare turning into a stallion and visa versa then at Rainbow's new body. Just then Spike walked in.
"Hey Twilight, I just need to borrow some more baby books on-" He stopped when he spotted Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Then he drew closer to see if he was really seeing what he was seeing or if his blood shot eyes were telling him the truth. The tired smile that spread across his face told every pony that he knew it was true.
"Rainbow? What happened to you?" He asked examining her new features completely forgetting why he was there in the first place. "Or should I call you Rainbow Ash?" He asked noticing the reason she wanted to be a male pony in the first place. She bucked at him but he just moved out of the way and when back to business. After he collected the books he needed, Spike left. "Hope you have fun as a guy, Rainbow Ash." He called over his shoulder. Twilight magicked the door shut but his words had already been heard. Rainbow looked defeated.
"Don't listen to him Rainbow. He maybe a father now, but he's still just a silly dragon that doesn't understand." Twilight rubbed Rainbow's shoulder but Rainbow just shrugged it off.
"Yeah but he's right about one thing. I don't have any idea about being a guy."
"He didn't say that." Applejack tried to clam Rainbow down by running a hoof through Rainbow's mane but Rainbow pulled away.
"He may as well have!" Rainbow snapped before zooming out the door.
"Rainbow wait!" Twilight called, flying after him before Applejack could even respond.
"Doggone it Spike." She cursed under her breathe before following the two winged creature's shadows.
Rainbow zoomed and raced between clouds, crying all the way as Twilight tried to catch up with her.
"Go away!" Rainbow yelled into the wind which repeated for Twilight.
"Rainbow, there is no need for this!" Twilight called back as it grew harder and harder to keep beating her wings. "Spike was being stupid, so what? You will come out of-" Twilight nearly ran into Rainbow who was now facing her. Tears streaming down the confused gender bent face, rage shone through the tears however.
"You don't get it Twilight." Rainbow growled as they both threaded the air. "You don't have a whole new body to deal with and you don't have to figure out how to use it within a three day limit or your one chance at ever getting your wife a baby foal is over!" Rainbow spat. Twilight breathed a breath in deeply and held her tongue from something she would regret saying later.
"No I don't but parenthood is different for every pony-"
"Not this different!" Rainbow screamed before taking off again. That was the last straw for Twilight she let her lips loosen and reveal what she had been holding back this far:
"Quite being such a baby!" She clamped both hooves to her traitorous mouth then feared Rainbow coming back and bucking her for saying such a thing. But Rainbow didn't come back.
Rainbow raced inside her cloudy home and slapped the door which caused Tank to poke his head out of his shell. Rainbow fell to the bed in crying hysterics. Tank made it to the bedroom and tried to nuzzle in closely to Rainbow.
"Tank, just leave me alone." Rainbow sobbed, trying to move Tank away but he wouldn't budged. He clung close to Rainbow's side until Rainbow wrapped her arms around Tank's shell and cried into it. "Tank, what am I gonna do?" Tank gave Rainbow a strange look then rose slowly and nudged Rainbow. "What are you doing?" She asked but Tank, being a tortoise, didn't answer and kept moving her until she was on her feet. He glared at her again then she realized what Tank was trying to tell her. 'Get up and move on. Buck up Rainbow, it'll get better.' Was what Tank was trying to say and what Rainbow translated his actions. She hugged him then wiped her eyes and trotted out of the could house. "Great pep talk, Tank." She smiled before shutting the door behind herself and leaving a smiling Tank alone with time to rest and lay in the sun.
Applejack had gone back to bucking apples after losing track of Rainbow but her mind was elsewhere as she once again missed at least half of the apples she bucked and the rest when rolling down the hill, missing the bucket completely. A sudden whoosh of air and Applejack turned to see Rainbow Ash with all the apples in her arms smiling apologetically.
"You're still here?" Applejack felt relieved and let Rainbow put the apples in a nearby bucket before hugging her gratefully.
"I would never ever leave you, AJ." Rainbow promised and looking into her wife's teary, scared eyes. "I just needed to wrap my head around everything." Applejack nodded, wiped her tears then let a mischievous grin fall into place on her mouth.
"So what have you planned for me tonight?" She winked and flicked her tail in Rainbow's face as she turned back to her trees. Rainbow felt a strange sensation and blushed thinking she knew what it was but tried to ignore it as she realized she had no idea how to use or what to do with this magically baby maker that Twilight had given her. That's when a voice called from the sky.
"Hey Rainbow, a little help?" It was a lone struggling gray Pegasus trying to buck away the army of clouds heading for Ponyville.
"Crap!" And Rainbow rose to the sky in a flash but came back for a goodbye kiss and a promise. "I will make tonight memorable." She whispered to Applejack before zooming up to help her fellow cloud destroyer.
Applejack spent the rest of the day blushing about what Rainbow was planning while Rainbow was trying hard to think of what to do and how to use this new attachment to her body as she kicked and wiped out every cloud in the sky. Then a brilliant idea came to her. Ask some colt for advice, there were plenty of helpful stallions around town, maybe they had advice. But, because of how awkward the subject matter was, she went to Twilight first after the sky was clear. Twilight gave her some health education, medical and anatomy books along with an apology. However Rainbow was too dead set on figuring out how to work with what she was giving to really appreciate the true sense of the apology.
"Sorry Twilight, got to go. Thanks for the books." She said over her shoulder then went home to study up on the matter she was so desperate to find out about. She realized about half way through the third book that this was not going to work. She needed some pony to tell her straight up, in non scientist lingo. She moved around town, ignoring the looks and whispers she was receiving, looking for her educator. After scaring over a dozen male ponies, Rainbow was about to give up. She when to the Cafe to regroup and refresh on a hay flavored beverage.
"Mommy, why does Rainbow Dash look funny?" A little filly asked her mother who looked apologetically to Rainbow before shooing the curious filly forward. Rainbow let her face fall to the table's surface with a thud.
"Problems, Sis?" Rainbow looked up to see Big Mac looking at her with concern.
"Oh hey, Big Mac." Rainbow wiped her eyes and noticed Big Mac trying to figure out what looked different about her. "I'm a dude now." She laughed humorlessly. Big Mac nodded once then sat across from her. "Well, temporarily." Then she explained what she had done for their anniversary.
"What's the problem then?" He asked she didn't know if she should continue, this being her brother-in-law but she needed help.
"Yeah see... I can't, um..." She tried to think of the right thing to say.
"Perform correctly to get my little sister the family she has always wanted?" Big Mac questioned helpfully. Rainbow's mouth dropped at the amount and the truth Big Mac's words had held. He chuckled in understanding then explained to her what she now had and what she now needed to do.
"Just get... Excited." He tried the word carefully. They were now walking towards Sweet Apple Acres because Big Mac needed to finish a few chores before night, which was coming at an alarming rate.
"W-what do you mean?" Rainbow blushed knowing full well what he meant.
"H-Hey Big Mac, can ya give me a hand here?" Applejack called to them as she struggled to move a heavier bucket of apples that usual. Rainbow then seemed to notice the sweat dripping down her face and neck, the breathe that was hard to find at the work she was doing, and the faint smell of apples intensify.
"That is what I mean." Big Mac winked at Rainbow as she noticed the straightness of her wings and the sensation she felt between her legs now.
"O-Okay." She gulped then walked it off as a confused Applejack questioned what in the hay was going on.