The little ones were all growing up, with Grant having a birthday in a few weeks – and Olivia just after that. Elle and I took the two of them to se... Dani graduate. It only took her an extra year from her original plan; Grant was the reason, of course. The cribs, we bought in haste, were practically grown out of, so we planned to sit down and discuss what came next.We stopped at a Dairy Queen to get everyone an ice cream cone. I wanted to take everyone inside, but the girls suggested we stay in. ‘See what you’re doing?’ he demanded. ‘You’re turning our daughter against me. How long before you turn my daughter against me too?’ ‘They’re both both of our daughters.’ ‘Yeah, well, you sure as hell don’t act like it. You never tell me anything about their school or anything. You act like I’m incompetent.’ He flopped onto the bed. Living with his parents sucked, there was nowhere she could go to get away from him. ‘What’s for supper?’ ‘It’s your mother’s turn to cook. Yours is in the. "I never detected such levels before. My Googoomomometer has gone total negative babies! It's never done that before!" The device in her hand erupted in a cloud of smoke. "Glob, now it broke!" What does that mean?" Celestia said as she backed slowly toward the portal. "Perhaps I had better leave." No, I must study this!" Without thinking, Bonnibel initiated the portal shutdown sequence. She felt a burst of pride when necessity enabled her to shave a whole second from her best simulation. After some study, it was found that not only had all the women reporting issues becoming pregnant contracted the last “flu,” but they had all been rendered infertile. The disease gains the derisive nick name “Stork Flu.”A worldwide fertility crisis followed. Birth rates plummeted, economies suffered, and armed conflicts erupted, further intensifying what would soon become a looming population crisis.Decades passed as scientists struggled against the disease as the world quickly unraveled around.