Author's note: an elaboration of the idea found in http://www.fluffybooru.org/post/view/3629   >”Sir, you need to see this.” >The voice of the assistant sounds incredibly shocked, even over the crappy walkie talkie. “What's going on?” >”One of the population control experiments gave birth to a...I don't even know what the hell this thing is.” “Very well, I'm on my way.” >You move through the building until you reach the east wing. >This part of the facility is where everyone is working on fighting the urge of the fluffy pony to have kids. >Everything from chemical sterilization through food to reset reprogramming is being tried. >You see the assistant waving to you through one of the large windows. >In her arms is a very agitated grey earth fluffy, fighting to get free. >Only when you enter can you hear her cries. >”Nuuuu! Pwease down, Nikki nee' gif babeh owwies!  Nee' gif owwies!  Pwease down!” >In Nikki's bed are three dead foals, their heads bitten completely off. >Outside of the bed on the white carpet is a fourth foal, a still-living unicorn. “What the hell...” >Its fluff is a deep blue color; its mane is a maroon red. >It chirps loudly, eyes not yet open. >You pick it up.  After turning it over in your hands a few times, you can barely believe it. >This foal has two heads. >In fact, it appears to be two front halves joined at the base of the thorax. >Overall, it's about one and half times as large as a regular foal. >When it doesn't feel any fluff on your hand, it begins chirping with fear, legs trying to pull it away in opposite directions. >”What should we do with it?” >You think for a moment, ignoring Nikki's desperate pleas to let her kill her child. “Call genetics.  I'm going to take this thing to one of the regular dams.” >If this foal is a mutation, it may be a goldmine of data about the fluffy pony genome. >Even if it's just a set of conjoined twins, it can be of use to the reproductive department. >This foal will be kept alive. >At least, for as long as it doesn't have to excrete waste.  There appears to be no way for it to do so. >Twenty minutes later, the conjoined foal is with its new mother, a purple pegasus named Fiona. >Fiona's latest litter was seventy-five percent stillbirths.  She is extremely protective of her one living foal. >She looks at the new, strange baby with trepidation. >”Babeh sickies?” she asks repeatedly. >Her brain cannot comprehend what she's looking at. >”Fiona, this baby is very special,” the geneticist says.  “It needs a good mommy like you.” >”Feena goo' mumma...babeh no wook wike babeh,” she replies, watching it crawl toward the sound of her voice. >Very gently, she pushes it away.  “Babeh...babeh dumb...” >Her biological foal, hugging her belly fluff, chirps loudly as she moves. >She immediately comforts it with quiet babbling. >This particular geneticist is a bit of a hard-ass. >You watch as she quickly intervenes to stop the rejection process. >”Fiona, feed this baby.” >”Babeh dumb, no wan'.” >”Fiona, feed this baby right now.” >”No wan', babeh sickies, goo' babeh haf sickies fwom dumb babeh!” “Let's just reset her, Cynthia.” >”No, I'm going to make this stick the old-fashioned way,” she replies. >She reaches down and plucks the green pegasus foal from Fiona's belly. >”Nuuuuuuu!  Pwease gif goo' babeh!” she screeches, terrifying the conjoined foal near her. >”Feed your new baby or you'll never get this one back.” >”Gif babeh!  Babeh nee' mumma!  Nee' miwkies an' wuv!” >”Feed it, Fiona!” >The green foal chirps with terror as Cynthia squeezes it slightly. >”Gif nummies!  Gif nummies to new babeh now!” Fiona wails, broken by the panic of her foal. >She pulls the conjoined foal over with her forelegs and guides it to a teat. >”Good girl.  I'm keeping this one until your new baby is done.” >”Gif nummies, no huwt babeh, babeh goo' babeh,” Fiona mumbles. >She feeds one head, but the other chirps loudly. >”No cwy, babeh haf nummies!” Fiona reassures it. >It still chirps.  Confused, Fiona tries to contort herself so the other teat reaches its mouth, but she can't. >”Just turn it around, Fiona.” >”Tuwn 'woun'?” >”Christ, you're a moron.” >Cynthia turns the foal around so the other head gets a shot at the teat. >”Like that.” >”Babeh go 'woun', haf nummies 'gain?” >Fiona is even more confused than before, not understanding why she has to feed the same baby twice. >You and Cynthia leave her to deal with the foal. >This room is equipped with cameras for all-day monitoring, as Fiona is one of the mares that belongs to the genetics department. >In fact, their experiments are why she only has one foal alive out of four. >Half an hour later, you check on the feed from Fiona's room. >Her foal and the conjoined foal are sleeping soundly next to their mother. >Just as you're about to walk away, you see the conjoined foal wake up and start moving around. >One head expels something that's too dark to be milk vomit. >It chirps fearfully, the sound muffled by whatever it is coming out. >”Babeh?  No cwy, mumma hewe!” Fiona says as she startles awake. >”No smell pwetty...babeh make poopies,” she says, gently moving the foal away from the mess. >It shat out of its mouth.  The anatomists are going to have a field day with this thing. >By the next morning, the two-headed foal is still kicking, but the heads are acting much differently. >Fiona refuses to feed the head that keeps shitting. >”Dat no babeh, dat babeh poopie pwace,” she says. >The dominant head now gets all of her attention. >It suckles happily alongside its pegasus sister, while the inferior head chirps pathetically for milk. >While on the teat, more liquid shit dribbles out of its mouth. >”No make poopies on mumma!” Fiona complains with a scolding tone. >”Wuv!” chirps her green foal, already learning basic words. >”Wuv babeh, no cwy.” >The two-headed foal only makes chirping noises. >The fun continues as the hours pass. >Fiona has finally noticed that the 'poopie pwace' of her new baby talks like a baby. >She can't come to terms with it. >”Poopie pwace talkies?  Feena poopie pwace talkies too?” >While her foals sleep, she spends several minutes moving in a circle, trying to talk to her ass. >”Poopie pwace fwiend?  No talkies?” >Her foals awake, and she waddles over to tend to them. >The dominant head gets a meal, as does the green pegasus. >The other head mewls constantly for attention, and is ignored. >More excrement leaks from its mouth as it cries, turning the chirps to gurgles. >Fiona scolds it, too.  ”Poopie pwace no talkies, babehs haf nummies.” >This repeats the second day, but a new problem is arising. >The two-headed foal is taking twice the milk to support the half that's not eating. >The other foal is beginning to experience a shortage. >”Why babeh haf aww nummies?  Goo' babeh nee' nummies!” >It ignores her completely, suckling for thirty minutes at a time. >”Wuv!  Mumma!  Hung'y!” the other foal cries, nipping at a teat that isn't bearing much milk. >”Sowwy!  Babeh take aww nummies!” >The other foal still hasn't learned any words. >The dominant head chirps loudly whenever another fluffy talks, as if trying to mimic their words. >The other head wheezes and emits a wavering squeak.  Shit leaks from its mouth constantly. >When Fiona's stacked blocks fall over and scare the foals, the results are predictable. >The green foal squirts piss and shit fearfully, running around and hiding in Fiona's fluff. >The two-headed foal, however, gets nowhere, its two pairs of front legs tearing in opposite directions. >Shit also squirts from the inferior head's mouth, causing it to become terrified, which frightens the dominant head. >This causes even more shit to squirt out, prolonging the cycle until the foal's bowels – or whatever is in there – are emptied. >The inferior head is so traumatized, it faints.  The dominant head has to use its half of the body to drag the dead weight around. >”Babeh sickies?” Fiona asks, hugging the foal. >It still just chirps back at her. >Another researcher watching the footage surmises that the foal actually needs more milk than it's getting to support both brains. >If it took any more, it'd probably drain Fiona dry. >By the third day, the two heads are in wildly different states. >The dominant head is as happy as can be, trying desperately to play with its green sibling. >It can't accomplish this because the inferior head is becoming sick and lethargic. >The blue foal drags itself around after the green foal. >The green foal wants nothing to do with it, preferring to lead it away and then run back to its mother's teat to suckle. >Fast learner, that one is.  You jot down a reminder to send it to the behavioral department when it gets weaned. >The blue foal is becoming scared of itself. The dominant head feels four legs, but has control of only two. >It chirps as loudly as it can manage.  Fiona doesn't understand what's wrong. >”Babeh cwy?  Babeh no haf owwies, babeh no cwy.  Mumma hewe, babeh happy!” >It can't talk back to her; even a simple 'weggies owwies' in a scared tone would tell her something is amiss. >Then she'd call for a human, like she does whenever her babies talk to her about 'owwies'. >The inferior head, meanwhile, just squeaks quietly. >Its facial fluff is matted and caked with waste.  Even its nostrils are brown. >Its eyes have become cloudy over time, lacking the sheen of the other foal's. >By afternoon, the dominant half of the foal spends most of its time running away from the inferior half. >Every time the inferior half squeaks in protest, the dominant half's fear makes it shit itself. >By the time your shift is over, the inferior half no longer squeaks. >On the third day, the inferior half is quiet, but still alive. >It breathes languidly. >The dominant half isn't in much better shape. >The forceful expulsion of shit through one of the digestive tracts means that the foal is now ravaged with infection. >Fiona finally realizes that something is wrong. >”Hewp!  Babeh sickies!  Babeh haf owwies, hooman hewp pwease!” >The dominant head chirps loudly in concert with her, desperate for some sort of care. >The inferior head's eyes are barely open.  Its mouth only moves when fearful shit is forced out of it. >The foal drags itself around helplessly.  Soon, it becomes apparent that the inferior half has died. >The living half screeches and squeaks powerfully, no longer feeling vast parts of itself. >”Gif huggies!  Babeh no cwy, huggies make owwies go 'way!” >The other foal is scared out of her wits, hiding behind Fiona. >Without two hearts to pump the higher blood volume, and two sets of lungs to oxygenate the blood, the dominant half begins suffering greatly. >After a while it just flops over and gulps air, trying to close the oxygen gap. >”Pway?” the other foal asks, nudging it gently. >”Babeh no pway, babeh sickies, hooman pwease hewp babeh,” Fiona sobs. >Moments later, the dominant half's overworked heart seizes up.  It shudders violently before falling still. >”B-babeh?” >The foal's corpse is removed immediately for examination. >It's about a week later when you hear that the inferior half of the foal only had an esophagus leading into the dominant half's intestine. >The inferior half was constantly swallowing shit, forcing it down, only to throw it up when too much accumulated. >As for how the foal was born this way, no one is sure. >The leading theory is that the zygote was somehow damaged during gestation. >The genetics department, of course, is now trying to replicate the two-headed foal.