The smell of paint filled her nose as Rachel was adding strokes of brown on a simple, cute looking giraffe on the wall, standing on a step stool at the very top. She was humming to herself in thought. Inside of the soon-to-be finished nursery in the bedroom of the now completed cabin. There was already a crib, a bassinet, changing station, a mountain of diapers stacked up to the ceiling and toys and clothes.

"Almost got it" She muttered to herself as she was painting before hearing claws scraping the floors.

"Whoa whoa what are you doing?" Rachel turned her head to see her hubby standing in the doorway.

A smile came on her face. "I'm just painting. The baby is going to be here pretty soon and we haven't finished this room yet." Rachel said.

Spike sighed, walking over to her. "Rach, the docs told you to not be on your hooves this close to the due date." He said, walking up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. His hands bracing her, making sure she's stable enough and not falling off, and while he was adding it, holding her really large belly. "We can't have you fall and injure you and the kid."

"How can I fall when you're holding me up?" Rachel teased as she tossed the paint pallet and brush onto the table next to her. "I need a break anyway."

With a smirk, the purple dragon picked up his dragoness off the stepstool bridal style, hearing her squeal and he spun around while holding her with ease. "You are done for the day, missy." He declared before giving her a kiss. "I'll finish the paint job."

"You are definitely taking this protection job too seriously." Rachel smiled, having her arms drape over his shoulders.

"Because it's literally my job. I'm the protector of this family." He smiled back before carting her out of the nursery. Walking down the hallway and into their room.

He gracefully placed her on their large bed before climbing up next to her. Rachel giggled when she wrapped her arms around him when he placed his head on her breasts, one hand stroking the baby bump.

"I still can't believe this is happening." Spike whispered.

"I know, neither can I." Rachel said, rubbing his head. "I don't know what I'd do without you~"

Rachel suddenly woke up from that tranquil dream, covering her mouth, feeling a vile taste burning in her mouth, she threw herself off the bed, ran into the bathroom.

She collapsed at the toilet and began throwing up in the bowl. "Fuck Luna… " she groaned as she spewed contents of her stomach as morning sickness hits her. Hating on the Goddess of Dreams.

Rachel wants that dream to be reality, but something told her it won't. She felt a rush of anger consume her, steam began rising from her body. Fogging up the mirrors.

What if that dream doesn't come true? The more her mind thought of that, the more this burning rage crept its way through her body.

With a snarl, she flung her arm, hitting the small plastic trash can. It suddenly burst in blue flames as she hit so hard it flung, smashing into the wall across from her.

"Shit!" Rachel yelped, panicking, grabbing the flaming can and tossed it in the bathtub and turned the water. Steam rose from the tub and covered the bathroom. Dousing the flames.

"Why is there smoke?!" Sunset rushed in with wide eyes. Rachel turned to look at her, tears in her eyes but had a panicked look.

"Uh yeah… that was me…" Rachel muttered.

This was not good. Now she had to deal with this? I'm in trouble. Rachel thought.

Sunset approached and stopped, seeing the half melted trash can. "Uh…how did you do that?" she blinked.

Rachel wiped her eyes with her hands. "Morning sickness?" She had no clue herself..

Could the magic in her blood be awakened? There were still many questions of her own she wanted answered, especially since she's in the human world. Since they are going to the Temple, she could get her answers while there.

Just what exactly was she?

Sunset stared at her. "Okay, we can deal with this later, but are you okay?"

Rachel silently nodded.

The sounds of something scratching the door caught her attention. One sniff and she knew who it was. Great….

"Huh, must be Spike." Sunset said. She gave Rachel a pat on her shoulder. "It's going to be okay, we'll get through this." She then turned and left, walking across the motel room and to the door. She opened it up and it was Spike waiting for them.

Spike had a bag of donuts in his mouth, sitting on his haunches and tail wagged. "Morning, breakfast?" he muffled.

"I said wait for me, Spike." Cassandra/Sci-Twi called out as she came down the hallway with two drink carriers of coffee. Elizabeth/Rarity followed behind with some shopping bags in her hands. "Morning, Sunset."

"'Sup Twilight." Sunset said as she grabbed the food from Spike. "Morning, Rares."

"Morning, love. How's you and our new comrade last night?" Elizabeth asked as she caught up to everyone.

Sunset glanced behind her, seeing Rachel glaring at the voices and closed the bathroom door shut.

"Last night's good. Rachel's got a bit of morning sickness right now." She explained before looking back at the others.

"Oh poor thing." Elizabeth said before reaching out and handing Sunset one of the bags. "I took the liberty and picked up a few things for the mother-to-be. Some prenatal vitamins, some nausea medicines since we'll be flying out soon, among other little things."

"And hot chocolate." Cassandra hands Sunset one of the drink carriers that had two drinks. "You have your usual, Rachel has the coco." She points at which one's which. "I read that coffee is not really good for pregnant women."

"Think she'll appreciate it. Thanks guys." Sunset Shimmer smiled at them." We'll roll out in thirty minutes."

"Sounds like a plan." Cassandra said as Spike went in the room and climbed on one of the beds. Stretched his body out before laying on his back, legs in the air without a care, since he's a dog.

"Yup, this feels good." He groaned blissfully.

"Silly boy." Sunset giggled, shaking her head before watching the girls go back to their room before closing the door.

By then, Rachel had opened the door and came out, pushing her hair over her pointy ears. She briefly glanced over at Spike.

Spike wagged his tail, as he looked at her upside down. "Hi."

She silently turned her head away from him and sat down at a chair.

Sunset hands Rachel her things. "Eat up, we have a big day today." She says as she drinks her coffee

"Thanks." Rachel muttered as she put them down on the table and began unpacking everything.

Aside from the donuts and pregnancy meds, there was also a book for first time moms, some headphones and classical music to play for the womb, and a plush white unicorn doll. She grimaced at the sight of it.

"Aw, that's cute." Sunset comments, seeing the doll.

Rachel picks up the doll, glares at it. It even has curly purple sparkling hair and tail.

Disgusting.

She grabs the head and body of the doll, with ease as ripping up a piece of paper, rips the head off of the doll's body and it suddenly bursts in blue flames.

"Whoa!" She throws the doll on the ground and backs up alarmed, Sunset backs up for a second. Spike rolled back on his paws and stood

Rachel began stomping the fire out. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She called out to the two in the room.

"Wait, you can do magic too?" Spike asked, alarmed.

"I think it's Dragon Magic, not Pony Magic." Sunset gulps, watching her and the ashed doll. "Have you always had magic?"

"Well… I could breathe fire back home." Rachel muttered. "Guess it translated to me being a Firestarter? I'm pretty new to this." She admits.

She attacked something in anger and they were set on fire, twice.

"Okay… let's not hit or do anything out of anger while we're on this mission." Sunset said, slowly ushering the firestarter back on the chair.

She heard dragons have their own magic that's entirely different from ponies. Different ways of doing things. From what Princess Twilight told her about Rachel…

This was going to be a long, hectic mission.

"This anger you have Rachel, find a way to tamper it or otherwise it's going to hurt someone." Sunset told her. "Find something to quickly take your anger out and do it fast." Last thing Sunset needed was any of her friends to get hurt by her.

Rachel's eyes glowed a little as she glared at her. "I'll try, but the one I want to take my anger out is already six feet under." She grimly stated before grabbing her donut and hot chocolate and ate her breakfast.

Thirty minutes went by and the gang piled inside the van and began making the drive out.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash sat up front, AJ in the driver's seat while RD was in the passenger seat, her feet on the dashboard relaxed. The first row in the back had Cassandra, Spike and Serenity; the second row had Elizabeth and Lucy. The third and final row had Rachel and Sunset. Sunset stayed in the back to make sure Rachel didn't feel…sparky.

There were sounds of country music playing on the radio to help the time pass by up front. Rainbow Dash grunted. "Yo, can we like change the tunes? Your choice of music is starting to sound the same." She asked Applejack.

"You say that about all country music. There ain't wrong with it, it's better than what other music out there nowadays." Applejack responded. "You know the rules, driver gets dibs on the music, passengers deal with it." She then reached over and thumped Dash's leg. "And get your dang stinky feet off my dash. I just polished this baby, it doesn't need to stink up with your stench."

"You like my stench, don't you lie. Plus I'm wearing shoes." Dash said but put her legs down.

"It's really unsanitary to have your feet up where the driver is at." Elizabeth said, glancing up from her phone, holding the little pen that came with it before going back to it. Dotting something on the screen.

"Whatcha working on?" Serenity/Fluttershy asked her, peeking over the seat to look at her.

Elizabeth smirked. "Oh just doing some edits on one of the photos Kol sent me." She giggled.

Rachel's eyes slid over to her from watching the window. She had the window cracked open and it wasn't for Rainbow's funk. The smell of one of the girl's perfume was making her nauseous, she always had problems with strong chemicals in perfumes. Her heightened dragon senses and hormones just made her feel sick.

"There's nothing to edit over that hunk." Lucy/Pinkie Pie cooed. "He's hot."

"Oh don't I know it." She turned the phone and showed it. It was a sexy picture of a light brown slim but sexy looking man. Purposely was in his underwear. His green/blue eyes looked like he was undressing anyone. Elizabeth was drawing a concept set of clothes on him. "There's an annual event his parents throw at the art museum next month, I'm just designing his tux as a surprise." she said in a dreamy voice. "It's the first time I'm meeting them, so I'm a little nervous."

"Wowza." Cassandra looked over to see the photo. Her face turned red to see all that hotness.

Rachel rolled her eyes, scoffed and turned her attention to focusing outside.

Elizabeth hears this and twists in her seat to look at her. "Is something wrong?" she asked her. "You wanna see him?" she asked, offering her phone to her.

"Unless you want to lose that phone, get that thing away from me." Rachel warned, not even looking at her.

Elizabeth blinked in surprise, not expecting this level of hostility coming from Rachel. She silently turned around back in her seat. "Oookay she's in a mood." she muttered.

"No kidding." Spike responded from his seat in agreement.

Sunset nudged Rachel's side. Making sure she didn't start anything. Rachel simply lifts her hands up to say she wasn't doing anything.

"So Rachel, how long have you been living in Equestria?" Sunset then asked, trying to exchange some sort of pleasantries and not make this van ride tense.

"Eight and a half years. Will be nine in five months." Rachel automatically responded, watching the world pass by as the van drove.

"How old were you when you crossed worlds?" Lucy asked curiously.

"Fifteen." Rachel also responded automatically in a dry tone.

"I was a little younger when I came from Equestria. Bet it was just an adjustment to you as it was to me." Sunset said.

"That's an understatement."

"Were your parents okay with you going that young?" Cassandra asked. The girls and Spike turned to look at her there.

When her parents were mentioned, Rachel gripped the fabric of her pants. "Didn't need their permission. Mom died when I was thirteen and my dad was an abusive bastard. Equestria was the only way for me to stay as far away from him as possible." Rachel gritted her teeth. "I'm not going to say anymore of that."

"Did you always have such pointy features?" Lucy asked.

"Let's play the quiet game, shall we?" Rachel's tone raised a little. "I'm a little queasy and I don't feel like playing twenty questions, so please?"

"Someone peed in her cheerios," Applejack muttered. Not knowing that Rachel was able to hear her clearly.

Sunset leaned a little bit to Rachel. "We're just talking, don't need to be snippy."

Rachel ignored her.

She just wants to finish this mission as fast as she can and head back home.

As they turned down Highway 79 and onto Eastbound, Dash just happened to look at the side mirrors, noticing a couple of motorcycles and a car was tailing them. She watched closely as they drove and stopped at several traffic stops and the band was following them.

"Hey, I think we're being tagged." Dash warns others.

"Is it the Army? Cops? I thought I fixed the tail light." AJ asked.

"Don't think so. They're wearing white suits."

Alarmed, Rachel rolled down the window all the way and stuck her head out to see. Both motorcycles had two people and the car was filled with people in it. At first glance, they just seemed like normal humans all wearing white and red.

But seeing the stickers and patches of the White Mantle on them, her body started to steam again. Though they look human, she could smell the magic that was used to disguise themselves.

"Uh, is she supposed to be doing that?" Serenity pointed out the steam. Spike let out whimpers, ducking his head down and shook.

"Drive." Rachel growled dragon-like, her voice deepened. Her claws dig into the seats, tearing into the fabric and cotton. Applejack stepped on the gas and they drove fast.

These motherfuckers are here?! Her mind screamed.

Rachel was so sick and tired of dealing with these assholes! Just thinking about everything she went through with fighting these guys was increasingly stirring her up even more. If these punks were here, they were here for one thing.

And since she knew these guys were pretty much already dead men walking when they joined Blueblood's piss patrol, Rachel will have no problem taking them out. Losing the will to give two fucks about anyone that has any association with the group.

As AJ drove, one of the motorcyclists drove. Elizabeth happened to look and let out a shrill gasp.

One of them had a gun and aimed at Applejack!

Elizabeth raised her hands, glowing light blue, necklace shimmered, a diamond pattern shield emerged, consuming the whole van. When the gun wielder pulled the trigger, the bullet ricochet off the shield and flew somewhere else.

"These fools insane!?" Applejack yelped as she punched the gas.

There was more gun fire, scaring the others inside, Rachel still steaming. However with the shield, they were safe but bullets were flying off somewhere else.

"Why are they shooting at us?" Cassandra shouted, holding onto the dog as the van flew, trying to weave through more cars. "While going through busy traffic!"

"They're here for me." Rachel snarled, holding onto the bar above her. Tempting to throw back the van doors behind her and unleash hell on those fucks.

"Well, we gotta lose them before we hit the airstrip and make sure no one else gets hurt." AJ said before harshly turning the wheel and the van began going down another intersection. Trying to find a highway where there wasn't any traffic.

"Yeah, I've dealt with these guys before, they don't fucking care if others get hurt." Rachel grunted, looking behind her, peering out the shielded doors.

Dash twisted in her seat and looked at Lucy. "Yo Pinkie Pie, wanna do that demonstration now?"

"Would I!" Lucy grinned.

"What if you hurt them?" Serenity asked but yelped as more bullets bounced off the shield.

Rachel snarled. "They are already fucking dead, just do it!"

Applejack turns down to a more dirt road, glancing at the mirror to look at Lucy. "Pinks, do it."

Elizabeth sighed and flicked her wrist at the window on Lucy's side, removing that part of the shield but still kept her head down.

"Okie dokie loki!" Lucy giggled, grabbing a thing of sprinkles and a handful of confetti out of her pocket.

Rachel looked with a raised brow, watching the curly pink haired girl stick half of her body out the window.

"Hey guys!" She called out as if she was seeing friends, waving her hands at them. "SPRINKLE BOMB!" She cackled as she threw the sprinkles at the first motorcyclist on her left side.

Sprinkles flew out, a couple hitting the back passenger on the bike.

KA-BOOM!

What sounded like a large party cannon explosion, the first motorcyclist and its passenger were sent flying.

Rachel looked at Lucy with slight fear in her eyes. She didn't know which version of Pinkie Pie was scariest.

The second motorcyclist did pull back once seeing their comrades go flying and crashing.

The ones in the car, suddenly one of their foreheads began glowing purple, opened the trunk of the car and levitated out a long strip of spikes. Sending it ahead of the van and rolled it out on the road.

"Fuck!" Both AJ and Dash cursed as they quickly came upon the strips. AJ swerved hard, trying to miss it but she still ended up running it over.

The spikes popped all the tires and the van began flying, everything went slow as the van began to flip. Causing Elizabeth to drop the shields.

Cassandra's hands glowed as she gripped on the sides of the van, consuming the whole thing as it went in the air, everything ended up upside down and froze.

The whole van was in the air, the girls that were in seatbelts were held in place while Spike ended up on the ceiling with a yelp.

"Is everyone okay?" Cassandra then asked.

"Hit my head but I'm good." Spike whimpered, shaking his head.

There was a collective of the girls saying they were good.

At that time however, Rachel wasn't good. Her heart was kicking into overdrive, head was pounding, there was a ringing in her ears. Felt something clawing its way out. "Put us down, put us down!" She shouted, gripping her chest.

Sunset turned to see if she could try and calm down but noticed something literally was crawling inside her arms. "Twilight, put us down now!" she panicked, seeing something was happening to Rachel.

"Yeah, yeah, okay, okay." Cassandra nods before slowly turning the van right side up and placing it down on its now flat tires. Spike had to slide his way back to the floorboards.

"Think I wet myself." Lucy groaned.

Rachel couldn't get the seatbelt off of her fast enough, by then, the inside of the van was covered in steam and smoke. She reached over to the back doors and popped them open. She falls to the asphalt on her hands and knees.

At that time, the car and the other two on the motorcycle pulled up and got out of the car, by that time, they dropped the disguised spells to reveal their equestrian selves and began approaching the girl.

Her muscles began tensing up, limbs shook as something began taking over. Blue fire began erupting her hands, the pounding of her head worsened to the point where she let a loud roar.

The flames consumed her fully and as quickly as it consumed her, it dispatted, causing everyone to freeze in place.

Rachel had pony-upped - or in her case, dragon-upped. Golden scales covered her forearms, some covered her face, her claws were long as daggers, her ears did return into pony ears and had moved back on top of her head, the sclera of her eyes turned black, making her golden eyes pop more, the brown horns returned, the back of her shirt was ripped, exposing her furred dragon wings.

"The fuck?" one of the White Mantle goons shuffled back.

The mane 7 in the van watched with mixed, frightened expressions.

To her, Rachel looked like she had turned into a demon straight out of Hell itself.

With a feral snarl, Rachel was on the White Mantle. Caught by surprise, these guys didn't stand a chance when she attacked them. Serenity and Elizabeth screamed in horror, Spike dove underneath the seats while the others looked on.

With each hit and clawed, and bite Rachel made on them, fire erupted in their wounds, maximizing the pain as she just went hardcore on these guys. Everything she had gone through with these guys, she was making sure the remaining White Mantle felt it. Blood splattered on the road, limbs torn to shreds like a feral beast.

After what seemed like hours when it was just five minutes, Rachel stood in the middle of pony bodies all over the area. The girls and Spike in the van stared in horror, skins paled, bodies shook as they looked on.

"Hey Sunset," Rachel called out in a pant. Her voice slightly deepened while in this form. "I let my anger out." She let out a breathless laugh before suddenly doubling over and began puking.

The baby's fine, the mama isn't.