Sorry about the wait, I've been not feeling so well allergies have been hitting and beating me down. But was able to make the next chapter, please enjoy.

Chapter 42: meeting the parents

Two weeks had past since Lucy and discord were staying in ponyville and what a good two weeks it was. Lucy had gotten adopted to the environment of ponyville very quickly and was happy to find out that discord was out of the hospital. The other residents of ponyville were in a bit of worry seeing the god of chaos running about in ponyville, but Lucy ensured them that it was alright. The two were just alike: acting like trolls and pranksters. Lucy had completely lost her cold and heartless side and had gotten back her teenage personality while keeping her serious side in cheek.

The two lived in a place that discord had conjured up naming it chaos wonderland, the two were very close with the residents of ponyville excluding the mane six. The group hung out at the cafe around a large table as they all talked among each other.

"and you should have seen what he did when he did that sonic rainbow blade!" rainbow dash said "that had to be one of the most coolest things that I had ever seen!".

Lucy smirked at her "I bet. So anything else that you girls want to tell me?".

Twilight then rubbed her chin as she began to think, "well Nothing much has happened lately".

"if ya count the grand galloping gala, the town being attacked by vanish, and fluttershy and dillon gettin engaged" applejack said, twilight then turned to her "oh yea. I almost forgot about all of that".

Lucy then raised her eyebrow at her "wait a minute. Did you say that dillon and fluttershy are engaged?".

"yes. Why?".

"oh it's nothing...I'm just a bit surprised. I never thought he would get engaged so soon" Lucy said. "well I'm happy that they are getting engaged" rarity said "it truly warms my heart to see fluttershy happy with the coltfriend of her dreams", fluttershy hid her blush under her hair "g-gee. Th-thank you rarity".

"oh the pleasure is all mine darling" she said "after all you should be proud to be engaged with such a fine, strong, and good looking stallion. And dillon fits the catagory perfecty", pinkie pie nods her head up and down rapidly "yup rarity's right. And he has a cool metal arm too!" she finished as she then gulped down her cinnamon coffee.

"he has a..metal arm?".

"y-yes" fluttershy said in a quiet tone.

"how did he get it exactly?".

"he told us that he had a run in with his father" sam said as he walked from behind Lucy along with the other boys as they all joined the girls, "well well look whos all here" Lucy said as she looked at the guys who were all sitting with there marefriends. "hey ladies. Sorry that we bothered your private time" Corey said.

Rarity then wrapped her hoofs around him "oh that's alright Corey. You weren't interrupting us at all" she said, Corey smiled as he then looked at Lucy "so. You wanted know about what happened to dillon huh?" he said.

"that's what we were discussing".

Corey then turns to dillon "hey man. You mind showing it to her?" he asked him, dillon nodded at him "sure why not" he said. Dillon then raised up his right arm and pulled down his long sleeve showing Lucy the shiny silver automail arm prostic that he had got. Lucy was a lost for words "holy shit! My uncle did that!?".

"yea he did. And he nearly took my life in the process too" he added.

"wow...he's become a real bastered".

"tell me about it. But not to worry. I made him pay me back".

Lucy was a bit puzzled "how did you do that?" she asked him, dillon only grinned "oh nothing much. I just cut off his limbs that's all". Lucy was in shock at what she had just heard "you cut off his limbs!".

Dillon smiled "yup. And I must say. That was the best part. I could have done much worse to him when he was knocked out", Lucy then raised her hand at him signaling him to stop before she would have nightmares about what he didn't do to him.

"well...now that that little...conversation is over. Let us all move on" she said "so dillon".

"hmm?".

"I found out that your engaged".

He started to smile "yup that's right".

Lucy smiled at him "well I'm glad and very happy for you. So fluttershy", fluttershy looked at her a bit "oh umm yes Lucy?".

Lucy then laid her head on her hands "have you told your parents about the engagement yet?" she asked her. Fluttershy's face then went red a bit as she looked at dillon "oh dear. I almost completely forgot " she said. Dillon looked at her with a consered look "Hun. What's wrong?".

Fluttershy then turned to him "oh it's nothing much. Except that I almost forgot to tell you that my parents tulip pink and sunshine will be coming to ponyville this evening to hear about the wonderful news" she said with a smile on her face, dillon then started to smile as well "really! That's great fluttershy. Oh man I can't wait to meet them" he said.

"wow. That's really cool fluttershy" Clayton said "I wish we could meet them too", twilight then spoke "well as a matter a fact you will be seeing them" she said. This got max's attention "really? Why is that twilight?".

"Becuase all of our parents are coming to meet you all. I can't wait for you to meet my mother twilight velvet and my father crescent star".

Hearing this made max, corey, sam, jack, and Clayton start to freeze. Twilight looked at the five boys as she was a bit worried "are you guys ok?" she asked them, max was the first to snap out of his trance "huh? What? Oh...yea were ok twilight...well to be honest no...were not ok".

"what?! Why?".

"well. You see unlike dillon the five of us are a bit. Umm how should I put it. Afraid".

"oh max there's no need to worry. It's just our parents".

"yeah that may be true. But what if we mess up in front of them or something" jack said, pinkie pie then jumped into jack's lap and looked at him with her big blue eyes "don't worry Jacky. Everything will be alright you'll see. My parents pork pie and curry pie are gonna love you" she said, jack smiled a little bit hearing that from pinkie.

"ok" sam said "but what if they don't like us?" applejack then laid her hat on sam's head as she then laid her head on his arm "ah horse feathers! Ya got nothing to worry sam. My pa Bismarck and ma honeycrisp will like ya than sweet apple pie" she finished.

Corey gulped as he then looked at the table "but...what if we aren't what they expected. What if they want someone better?" he said, rarity then lifted up Corey's chin with her hoof as she then kissed his lips passionately "darling there is nothing to get all bent out of shape about. My father and mother magnum and dazzle will like you for you. And nothing will change that". Corey started to feel a little better as he kissed her back on the lips.

The other four boys were calmed down as they had gotten a little motivation from there marefriends, the only person that didn't say a single word was Clayton who has had his arms crossed and his eyes closed. "yea. This is gonna be so awesome!" rainbow dash shouted "I finally get to show you to thunderbolt and stormshock. And I know that they will-" she stopped talking as she looked at Clayton "Clayton what's wrong?" she asked him.

"I don't think that I can meet them dashie" he said.

"Clayton".

"I mean...what if something happens to you and I'm not there to protect you. I don't want to be a failure in your parents eyes dashie", rainbow dash was surprised to hear this from Clayton she then places her hoofs on his face and pulls his face up to hers as she then makes out with him deeply. The two then look into each others eyes as rainbow dash then licks his lips slowly "Clayton your gonna be fine. Tell me when vanish was about to hurt me who saved me from him?" she asked him.

"I did".

"and when Luna was in danger who went and ran over to her risking his own life?".

"I did".

"and. Who saved scootaloo from that burning house and jumped out of that two story window?".

"I did".

"you see. You can protect anyone. Your not a failure hunny. Your somepony that is willing to give up there own life and save some other ponies life regardless of what happens to you. You died once saving Luna and you almost died saving scootaloo and stopping vanish a third time. Your not a failure your a hero. And your my special hero" she finished as she nuzzled into his chest, Clayton then wrapped his arms around her gently as he looked down at the cyan pony as she looked at him. The two then kissed each other deeply as the rest of the group awwwed at there embrace, the two then laid there heads on each other as they closed there eyes "thanks dashie" Clayton whispered.

"no problem. Just who the hey do you think I am" she whispered back.

The two then nuzzled each other as Lucy then tapped on the two's shoulders as they turned to her "umm I hate to break up the love hugs. But shouldn't we be getting out of here and be getting ready for the parents?" she said.

The Mane six then shot up from the round table as they then all went there sprate ways and all got ready for tonight.

PONYVILLE RESTAURANT

It was nighttime as the boys were walking down the streets of ponyville over to the restaurant that the girls told them to meet at.

"so everyone ready for tonight?" jack said.

"yea. I think so" dillon said as he looked at his suit to see if anything was on it, sam had his arms on the back of his head "I think we should be alright. After all the girls did give us some encouragement. So we should be just fine".

Max nodded at sam "he's right. Besides it's not like there gonna turn us down on the first day".

"true. You do have a good point" Clayton said.

As the boys were talking they then saw the restaurant up ahead in there sights, as the boys reached the restaurant doors they all then took a deep breath as they all walked inside.

As soon as the boys entered they were soon greeted by an excited pinkie pie who was jumping up and down, "yay! You guys made it!" she said. Jack smiled as he walked over to her "of course pinkie. We wouldn't miss it for the world" he said, Clayton and rainbow dash were blushing at each other as they kept staring "you look handsome Clayton" rainbow dash said.

"thanks dashie. You look beautiful" Clayton said making her blush even more. Dillon and fluttershy were holding each other as the two were making out, sam and applejack were doing the same, max and twilight starring at the clock "you think they'll be here soon twilight?" max asked her.

"I believe so. In fact they should be here any minute".

As soon as she said that the mane twelve then heard the front doors open as a group of ponies came walking inside. Pinkie pie then leaned over to the side of jack to see who it was as she then jumped in the air "there here!" she shouted, the girl's all then turned around and soon ran up to there families with loving smiles.

"mommy! Daddy!" fluttershy said as she hugged her parents, "hello hunny. Ohhh we have missed you so much" tulip pink said she had the same color as fluttershy's but pale, her father on the other hand had a light orange coat with red hair "yes we have" sunshine said "your mother and I have been worried sick about you everyday".

Fluttershy smiled at them "don't worry daddy I'm fine. I've been doing very well in ponyville".

Sunshine smiled at his daughter "that's good to here Hun. So your mother and I read one of your letters that you had sent us awhile back. You told us in your letter that you had found a coltfriend" he said, fluttershy nodded at him "yes daddy...b-but I have to tell you now that he from a d-different planet" she said shyly as she hide behind her hair.

Sunshine then lifted his daughters hair out of her face as he looked at her with a loving smile "does it matter were he came from or what type of species he is" he asked her.

"w-well...no...but".

"but?" tulip said.

Fluttershy then looked at the ground "b-but...it's just I'm a little worried that you may not like him because he's di-different" she said, her parents then held her into a hug as they both looked at there daughter with smiles "fluttershy we would never judge on who your dating or what he looks like or were he came from" tulip said. "your mothers right fluttershy" sunshine said "we would never do that to you. As long as he makes you happy and as long as he treats you well" he finished.

Hearing this made fluttershy smile more hearing that from her parents "thank you. I needed that" she said, "of course. That's what parents are here for. To help there child" tulip said. As fluttershy was enjoying her company with her parents rarity was chatting with hers.

"it's so good to see you both again mother and father" rarity said as she hugged them both.

"likewise" dazzle said "so how has our little girl been these past few months?" magnum said, rarity then turned to Corey as she then turned back to her parents "oh. Just a lot of very eventful things" she said "but I will tell you all about them once we get settled down" she said, her parents smiled as the three then talked about something else.

Pinkie pie was jumping up and down as her parents watched "well pinkamena. It's seems that your in a very exciting mood than before" curry pie said. "your mother is right pinkamena. We've never seen you this excited before" pork pie said, pinkie pie nodded rapidly "yup. I can't wait to introduce you to my coltfriend Jacky" she said. The two looked at each other then back at there daughter "you have a coltfriend?" they both asked.

She nodded "yup. He's the best. He's sweet, he's cute, he's super nice, and he's a good baker like me". The two smile at her as they were both very interested to learn more about jack, applejack stood in front her parents who were standing in front of her.

Her father Bismarck had a light yellow coat, red hair, and white freckles on his face. Her mother honeycrisp had a red coat, blond hair that she kept in a large braid.

"it's really nice to see ya again" applejack said.

"well you how takin care of a farm can be" honeycrisp said. Applejack nodded "ah hear ya. But I'm glad that ya could come", bismarck walked up to her "of course. Yer are child. And we care about ya. Heck yer mother and I were thinkin about ya today".

As the apple family were discussing there time with how everything was going Rainbow dash and her parents were smiling at each other.

"it's good to see ya guys" rainbow dash said.

"it's good to see you too rainbow dash" thunderbolt said.

"I see that your doing much better Hun" stormshock said, rainbow dash nodded at them. They knew that she had been going through a rough time because of what happened after Luna was saved from that fateful day, the day that Clayton was killed in the fight.

She had been sending them letters about how she had meet the colt of her dreams and that she was very happy with him. But on the day that he was killed she had also been sending letters of sadness and depression, this worried her parents a lot and they kept sending her letters back to make her feel better, "so anything been going on?" thunderbolt asked her.

"well..I think I will tell you once we get to our table. Right now I wanna show my special somepony" rainbow dash said, thunderbolt and stormshock were a bit stunned to hear that there child had found a coltfriend again. "well well. Our little dashie has found herself another somepony" stormshock said "what's his name If I may ask" thunderbolt said.

Rainbow dash smiled brightly "it's the same one that I have been dating".

Her parents were a bit confused by this "uhhh...the same one? As in the one that you told us in your letters before" her mother asked her.

She nodded.

Her parents were very confused by this as rainbow dash pats them "don't worry. Ll'l tell ya all about it", she then hugged them again as her parents hugged her back.

Twilight walked over to her parents as she hugged them "mom. Dad" she said in a joyous voice.

"hello hunny" crescent star said.

"how are you?" twilight velvet said

Twilight then looked over to max then back at her parents "I'm alright. I would like to introduce you to some...well someponies" she said as she walked over to max as her parents followed.

Soon the mane six all walked over to there coltfriends and stood next to them.

"everypony I would like to introduce you all to our coltfriends" twilight said "this here is sam, Corey, jack, Clayton, dillon, and max" she finished. The boys all bowed to there parents, the parents all smiled at them.

"so these are the young lovers that ya'll were all talkin about" Bismarck said as he raised his hoof at sam "well it's a pleasure to meet ya. Names bismarck" said as he shook sam's hand.

"it's nice to meet you both" sam said.

"well. He certainly is a kind colt" dazzle said.

"indeed" pork pie said.

Clayton gulped a bit as he then felt rainbow dash's hoof wrap around his hand as he looked at the cyan pony to see a smile on her face, "you'll be fine. I promise".

"she's right" thunderbolt said "you have nothing to worry about".

Clayton took a deep breath as he looked at rainbow dash's parents "it's very nice to meet you" he said, the two parents smiled at him "it's very nice to meet you too" stormshock said "but I think that we should find somewhere to sit first", everyone agreed as they all went to a large table as the boys seated there parents first and then there marefriends.

As they were all seated they then were able to start there conversation which lasted for about three hours.

"well now" twilight velvet said "these boys are alright with me. You couldn't ask for a better coltfriend".

Twilight blushed a bit as her and max looked at each other then at her "that's right mom" twilight said "max is the best".

"I see. Well as long as your happy then your father and I are happy as well" twilight velvet said, crescent star nodded at them "your mothers right. I think that you two are a very good couple".

The two smiled as the whole group then discussed what had been going on. Rainbow dash told her parents a out her going to the wonderbolts and finally becoming a member of the team much to there delight, pinkie pie told hers about jack and how the two had an unbreakable bond and how they loved to bake together. Pinkie's parents really liked jack a lot and they hopped that he would come to there home some day to spend time with them and pinkie pie's two sisters. Rarity talked to her parents about how corey's artwork has given her some wonderful dress ideas as magnum and dazzle told her and Corey about there trip, twilight told twilight velvet and cresant star about how max had read all of her book collection much to there surprise as they all then laughed, applejack talked about how the farm as doing and how sam was a big help around the house as Bismarck patted him on the back, and fluttershy spoke to her parents about dillon and wonderful he is to her.

Thunderbolt then cleared his throat then turned to Clayton "ahem. Well then. So Clayton" he said "rainbow dash has been telling us in her letters all about you. Is it really true that you, her, and the rest of her friends all went and saved luna?" he asked. Clayton nodded "yes that is true. It was a fierce battle, but we managed to save her".

"well that's good...but there is also the matter of discussing the part that our daughter wrote in her letter to us".

"hmm?".

Thunderbolt then sighed as he then looked at the table then back up at Clayton, "our little dashie...told us in her letter that you were killed in that battle".

"oh...that part".

"so tell us" stormshock said "how is that your alive?".

Clayton looked at everyone and saw that all the parents were all staring hoping for him to answer, he then looked at dashie then back at everyone "well it's true I was killed In that battle and I had been dead for over six months. But...my cousin dillon found a way to bring me back" he said "a advanced spell called the void was what brought me back" he said.

Everyone was a bit surprised but happy never less, "well I'm glad that he was able to bring you back" stormshock said, Clayton nodded "as am I". After they all listened to clayton's story tulip pink and sunshine then turned there attention to dillon and fluttershy.

"so dillon" tulip pink said "our daughter has told us that the two of you are engaged", dillon nodded at her "that's right mam". Tulip and sunshine smiled brightly "well we were hoping that our little girl would find somepony. But we never knew that she would be engaged. I must say that this is the best thing for you fluttershy" sunshine said.

"t-thank you daddy" fluttershy said with a small smile on her face.

"your very welcome dear. Now if I may ask. When are the two of you going to have the wedding and what day?".

Fluttershy and dillon then looked at each other, they didn't really didn't know were they were going to have the wedding but they did know what day they were going to have it on. Fluttershy and dillon then look at tulip pink and sunshine "well..we were going to have the wedding tomorrow. I mean if that's alright with the both of you" dillon said.

Tulip pink and sunshine then looked at each other for a bit then back at them "well that's not a bad idea. In fact tomorrow that's when the Sakura trees will start to bloom. Oh I think that will be a romantic setting for a wedding" tulip pink said with outmost joy.

"well we have one thing out of the way "sunshine said "now we just need to pick the area of were it shall take place".

Everyone thought about were the wedding should be set as they all started thinking of ideas, this went on for a while until jack then snapped his fingers "hey i've got it" he said "what if we have the wedding at the ponyville rose garden". Everyone thought that the idea of having the wedding at the ponyville rose garden was a very good idea.

"so it's settled then. Dillon and fluttershy are going to have there wedding tomorrow" pork pie said.

Everyone smiled as they then thought of ideas on what to do, "I will be sure to send a letter to my brother, princess cadance, princess celestia, and princess Luna tonight once I get home" twilight said.

"I'm sure that the princess and your brother would like that very much twilight" crescent star said.

"me too".

"oh I can't wait for tomorrow" tulip pink said "I'm sure your parents are very proud of you dillon".

The mane twelve then froze as they all looked at dillon when tulip pink said that, dillon then closed his eyes as tulip pink then looked at him with concern "oh dear. I hope that didn't saying anything wrong?", dillon looked at her and waved his left hand "oh no no. It's alright...it's just...I don't have a family anymore. I kinda got disowned from my parents"

"what" magnum said.

"why is that?" curry pie asked.

Dillon then tapped his fingers on the table "my father would not accept Fluttershy as my lover so he and I fought. Nearly lost my life against him, thank god I only lost my arm. As for my mother...well. She's dead to me. She's been dead to me ever since I was three and she started physically abusing me".

The parents were all upset about hearing what happened to dillon and why he didn't care much for his parents, tulip pink then got out of her seat and walked over to him and hugged him as tight as she could. Dillon hugged her back as the two then let go as sunshine walked up to his wife "well as long as your hear and with fluttershy. Your a part of our family" he said.

"yes. We will be your new father and mother in law" tulip pink said with a smile across her face, dillon rubbed the back of his head as he was touched by what they had said "wow. That really means a lot to me. Thank you".

Sunshine placed his hoof on his shoulder "of course. We wouldn't have it any other way".

Everyone was very happy that dillon was now a part of fluttershy's family, and to make it even better she was going to be a part of his life as his wife. Fluttershy then tapped dillon on the shoulder to get his attention "umm d-dillon?" fluttershy said.

Dillon then turned to her "yes fluttershy?".

Fluttershy then placed her hoofs on the side of his face as she then leaned up to his lips and kissed them with hers. Dillon then placed his hands on her hips as they kept kissing, soon everyone then clapped of the two as tulip pink had a small tear come down her face as she smiled at her daughter and her fiancé.

"we did a wonderful job as parents sweetheart" sunshine said.

Tulip pink turned to her husband and nodded at him as she kissed his cheek "yes. We sure did".

They all then looked at the clock hanging from the wall to see that it was 12:36 a.m, pork pie then chuckled a bit "hehe. Well well, looks like we have been here for a while now" he said.

Curry pie and honeycrisp nodded "I agree with ya on that. I think that we should be getting a move on".

The mane twelve then had sad faces.

"awww. But we've only been here for a few hours" pinkie pie said.

"yes pinkamena that is true" pork pie said "but don't worry. You'll all see us at the big wedding tomorrow", the parents all then hugged there children and there coltfriends as everyone all then walked out of the restaurant and all headed home. As the parents all saw there children head off they all then walked together as they all spoke with one another.

"well. That was very enjoyable" curry pie said.

"I agree" pork pie said "but I must say sunshine that your daughter has a very well mannered coltfriend".

Sunshine smiled "thanks pork. Yes our little fluttershy isn't so little anymore. She's now going to be someponys wife".

Tulip pink laid her head on her husbands shoulder "yes she will. And in time she'll be a wonderful mother for our future grandchild, human or pony".

The two then kissed as magnum and dazzle nodded at them "oh boy I can't wait for that" magnum said "our girl rarity being a mother".

"she'll have so many dresses" dazzle said.

"how much you want to bet it will be a girl".

"oh now that is so obvious".

The two then chuckled as they thought about how rarity would be making so many outfits for there grandchild.

"well I'm just glad that rainbow dash is back to her old self" stormshock said "it really broke my heart when thunder and I started receiving letters about what had happened after that painful fight".

Thunderbolt wrapped his hoof over stormshock "well now our little dashie is all better. I'm really glad that they were able to bring back her lover".

"as am I".

They then nuzzled each other.

Bismark and honeycrisp were walking in the back of the group "man that boy sam sure is the best coltfriend that applejack found. He totally gets mah seal of approval" Bismarck said.

"I hear ya" honeycrisp said "he is gonna be a great member if the apple family".

Twilight velvet and cresant star were holding hoof and hoof as they walked "well twilight sure as a very close bond with max" twilight velvet said.

"I know. That was really funny when she told us how max had read all of her books that she had owned. Looks like she's gonna have a rival in studying" crescent star said, velvet nodded "but I'm glad that she is happy".

"I know. Those two will be just grand".

"and so will our grandchild".

The two then kissed as they then nuzzled each other as the parents then thought about how there children will be in the future, and they couldn't have been prouder of how they had turned out.