Arc giggled, "Well two, actually. I just got off the phone with Red Heart." She smiled and brought both him and Hope downstairs to the absolutely delicious meal set out before them. "It's not much, but I made do..." Arc said humbly. Hope's eyes went wide, and she had a giant smile across her face. "Mom, you're amazing!"
"yea she is isnt she Hope? thank you" said Tyler giving Arc a small kiss on the cheek. Tyler took a bite of Arcs food and said "wow and I thought I was a good cook"
Arc blushed, and ate the food like it was nothing. Since she grew up around this kind of cooking, she was very used to it. "S-so, you like it?" She asked timidly. Hope was eating as much as she could, until she was full. Even for a mare from Manehattan, Arc's table manners were unbelievably remarkable. She blushed harder when she realized Tyler was gazing at her.
Arc blushed even harder, "Th-thank you... I-I love you t-too..." Hope giggled, then went off to play. "S-so, would you like your other s-surprise? Or should I save it for a few m-months?"
"Yeah... I-I guess so..." Arc rubbed her already bulging stomach softly, "I can't wait..." She whispered.
Arc smiled sadly, "Yes... I'm sorry..." Then she looked down, "But Hope was a mystery birth, and Red Heart said she was yours, but we'd never done anything..." Her eyes went wide, "W-what if it was a different Tyler? I-is there a universe where--" Her voice cut off, and she dug through her bag, pulling out the codes for different universes. "I-I want to go here, here, here, and here..." She pleaded, trembling. Arc was pointing at the codes for a world where Tyler was evil, a world where he was king of a dark Equestria, a world where Tyler was a murderer, and a world where Tyler tortured and abused her. "Please, I-I have to know..." She cried softly.
"woah Arc are you sure you want to I mean... they really aren't safe places to be those Tylers kill and torture other ponies. Are you positive you want to go?" Tyler said
"Well okay if thats what you want" Tyler said before entering the code that led to a universe where Tyler is evil.
Arc clung to his side, eyes shut, and she was whimpering. "Come on, you have to do this..." She said to herself.
"Its okay Arc im right here and remember if you cant tell which Tyler is which im the real one I will say me when you dont know okay?"
They entered a dark and desolate wasteland version of Ponyville. All the buildings around them were in ruins, save for one. Arc's house still stood, though it was starting to deteriorate. A stone slab was set in the ground in front of her house. "In Loving Memory" it said. Arc shut her eyes, "I-I want to find the evil T-Tyler... I w-want to ask him s-some questions..." She whispered.
