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Vinyl Scratch, Mentoring is AWESOME! | What Might have Been | So... something happened during and after my comeback concert. I'm kinda not supposed to talk about it, even in a journal like this that I'm pretty sure no one is supposed to be reading. Still, don't want my journal burned up so, guess I'll choose my words carefully.
In the last several months Lightning Strike had been... put in danger... the point is her life was threatened. That was scary, I mean, really, really scary. Lightning was one of my friends, best friends even.
It had been a few weeks since the "events" had occurred. I was doing my best to move on, which wasn't too hard, since everyone was forbidden to talk about what happened anyway, unless they were speaking only with those who had witnessed the events. Standard "gag order" I've been told. Not sure what I thought about it, didn't seem right, but Celestia assured us she had good reasons for her order. She was kinda mum about what would happen if you violated the gag, but I didn't want to find out, and most other ponies didn't either.
What else was I to think about though? I looked at the dining room table in mine and Octy's kitchen. A stack of bills sat on it. I started going through them.
Good thing to think about Vinyl. I shook my head. Well, this was distracting alright. Come what may, the bill collectors still wanted their money. I looked over at Lightning's room.
Oh yea, Lightning had a room in my home now. It belonged to her and her brother technically, but Dusk, being so quiet, isn't the first pony you think about... ever really. This would be their third night in that room.
Why was it there? Well ya see... I may have... said something... more than once... and it got back to Octavia and she kinda insisted on us giving Lightning a room. You see, after some particularly scary events, I called Lightning my um... I might have said the word "daughter" a few times. I mean she's totally not my daughter, ponies say weird things when they're scared ya know? I even talked to Killy about it afterward and he said- what I said might be significant- but it totally could have been the result of the emotions I was having at the time.
All that aside, that room was cutting into mine and Octavia's budget. I sighed. Bills were so uncool. I smiled, thinking about how things were about a year ago. No, not before Lightning, but before I lost my voice. Octavia and I were both successful, and we had a ton of bits. I ate pretty much whatever I wanted back then, Octy and I both did, and we paid our bills without even thinking about the cost. See we lived in this budget home together, sharing expenses and all. We started living there at first to help each other get started. But later we could have moved out, and we thought about it, but just never got around to it. When you have two ponies who bring home six digits or more a year, and they live in a home that only costs a couple hundred rent a month, yea, you can buy pretty much whatever you want.
However, after I went mute, we immediately lost half of our income because I didn't think I could perform anymore. There were therapy bills, classes on how to just get along and Octy sometimes having to skip shows because I was, once again, either fuming mad at the world, or crying my eyes out and as she said "I couldn't leave her like that". Sheesh, I sure was lucky to have a sister like that.
Because of... what happened... my comeback concert had earned me a freaking goose egg. After all the money I... well Octavia... sank into it too. I had worked a few odd jobs here and there before, all minimum wage, to try to help Octy with the bills, but still she was paying for the lion's share of everything. Course when she had to take care of her own sister like a child, she kinda lost like half of her own income. No one wants to hire a mare for shows who might not even show up ya know?
Octy had always been so good to me, and this was how I was repaying her? Making her go into debt, and only finding ways to make it worse? She was even budgeting her food and what little entertainment she had left, to build Lightning's room on the off chance that my "daughter" comment was somehow legit.
I looked back at Lightning's room. Her dad was a dragon... could I ask her to take a few gold pieces from his big horde... he wouldn't miss them right?- Oh good Vinyl, encourage a little filly to steal for you. Bad enough you're thinking of stealing, at least have the guts to do it yourself.
There I was going again, into a slump. I had to think of something positive. Hey, the concert was a bust, but I still had all the equipment, and a good number of ponies showed up to the first one, so another could work out. Lightning and I did have a chance to show everyone what we could do at that concert, even if everyone wanted their bits back after a one hour concert barely lasted five minutes.
My mind wandered to that filly again. She had stayed up for almost an hour after I had to practically put her in that room. She had just been talking her head off. I probably should have shushed her, but honestly I didn't want to fight. I just closed the door and could barely hear it anyway. Talking herself to sleep seemed to be her nightly ritual. You would think that would be a problem for Dusk, but the first night they stayed over, I had checked. He had been out like a light after maybe fifteen minutes of her rambling.
I chuckled. I had an evil idea. Lightning's phobia probably would have prevented my diabolical plan but still, what if I separated them one night? Would Dusk lay there unable to sleep until the wee hours of the night? Maybe he would even have to go into her room, wake her up and get her talking just get to sleep. Hey, it's not unusual to need sound to go to sleep... my inner Twilight wanted answers, "science this!" it said.
My eyes traveled back to the bills... they hadn't gone anywhere.
It had been months since my failed comeback and no one was even asking if I was gonna try again. I let out a quiet frustrated grunt... frustrated even further by remembering that I was, ya know, incapable of frustrated grunts. What was I gonna do?
I opened the fridge for a snack. Then I closed it again. Oh yea, you have to budget snacks if you're not doing very well. I'd already had mine. I just sat down. Maybe a little music?
I put on my headphones. C'mon Nightwish... give me something... End of All Hope... not helping. Let's try a more positive artist. Van Canto-why?... Tribe of Force!
In minutes I was on my hooves, dancing around the kitchen. I say dancing, but mostly I was pretending to be a samurai with one of the wooden spoons in the kitchen. I danced back and forth with an invisible opponent, trying to remember a few scenes in this one movie. Just as I delivered the final blow to my evil foe, I heard the sound of hooves clapping.
I rolled my eyes at Octavia as she walked into the kitchen. "Did he die with honor?" she asked, as she took a cup in her hooves. I just smiled, blushed, and rolled my eyes. She then sighed looking at the table. "So you looked at the bills?" I nodded. "I've got most of them and after the incident Celestia has been giving a small stipend to the victims of... what happened. You did remember to deposit your stipend check right?... Right?" I grinned sheepishly. "Oh what am I going to do with you?" She looked over at the kids' room. "Lightning enjoying her new room?" I put my right hoof under my head and laid my head on it, closing my eyes. "Sleeping? Well she should be its- my goodness is it really that late?" she looked up at the clock. "Why do you always stay awake so late? Honestly Vinyl, it's not good for a lady to not get her beauty rest. I myself was just getting some water before heading back to bed-" I rocked my head side to side, smacking my lips together rapidly, "No, I'm not nagging you." She filled her glass and drank. She then put it back down and headed back to bed. She paused. "Oh Vinyl, since you'll be staying up anyway, would you mind terribly much doing the dishes? I forgot a few and I'm beat." she turned back. "Please?" I nodded. She walked away again.
Yes Octy and I argued, we were sisters, what would you expect? Still, most of the time, Octy's lectures came from honestly caring about me, and my back talking wasn't really me being resentful, just having fun. I started on those dishes.
As I picked up the dish rag it morphed into a mustache. Because of course it did. And I jumped almost five feet in the air- because what the crap?! Discord materialized from his mustache, because that's what chaos spirits do. "Good evening... DJ Pony was it?" I shook my head. I started scanning the kitchen. I wanted to say that was just a stage name but... where had I left my note pad? "Well it's not like we're on those kind of terms, you don't have to ignore me. So I forgot your name, we barely know each other." I so wanted to snap at him about why they heck he was in my house if that was the case, still I opted to just point at my lips. "Oh right, the no talking thing." Well that was polite. "Here." He snapped his fingers and a multi colored note pad appeared in front of me. The cover was freaky looking and I think it winked at me. Still, it had paper in it, and a pen was sitting on the table, so it would do. "Okay so here's the deal. Fluttershy is depressed after all that happened. Mostly because all her friends are depressed. I've been asking everypony if there's anything a little chaos magic can do to make them happier," he grunted, "Not that any of them are even grateful for the offer. All of them yelling about, "privacy" and "knocking before I enter" and other such nonsense. They don't seem to want anything though. Hmmm... even Pinkie didn't seem to like my cotton candy clouds."
'Okay, so what are you doing here? I don't hate Fluttershy but we're not close friends.'
"Oh you know Fluttershy. She gets upset if a random animal cries. Besides, you were one of the ones hit worst by what happened. I figure if I can help you the others will see I'm genuine in my desires to help and can be effective, ya know." I wasn't sure just how, "genuine" this sounded, but whatever. "So is there anything I can do to help you?"
'Help me what? I got bills to pay, you got bits?'
"Oh that would be easy, course if a certain someone," Discord pointed both fingers at his head as it suddenly morphed into Celestia's head and started talking with her voice, "found out, she would lecture me again about the oh so grievous crime of counterfeiting." A halo appeared over the Celestia head and Discord put his hands together as if to pray. The Celestia head disappeared and Discord's normal head reappeared. "Anyway, anything but money, please."
I grinned. 'Can I wish for more wishes?'
"I'm the spirit of chaos not a genie."
'You want to help me feel better?'
"That's the gist of it."
I would have said he was being too kind, but really I wasn't too sure he was. 'Can you change time?'
"Hmmm?" he asked. "Now that is an odd request. I have no idea what happened to cause the events of the last several months, so no I can't undo that. Time travel is risky as it is. You only want to change ONE thing. That's what you mean of course, right?"
'No.'
"No?" Discord smiled. "Oh... so what do you mean?" he asked, sounding intrigued.
'It's probably wrong of me to ask this... selfish even... seriously, is it that hard to just guess what I want? I'm a mute DJ, what do you think I want?'
"You want your voice back? Rainbow has asked a few times if I can fix Scootaloo's wings too. I don't do fixing pony bodies with chaos magic. It usually back fires. I fix Scootaloo's wings and I'll make her go cross eyed for the rest of her life. Don't ask how those are connected, I'm not sure myself."
I shook my head. 'Not sure how much getting my voice back now would help anyway. I mean, could you undo my losing it in the first place?'
"Well what caused you to lose it?"
'Trek took it away when he stole my magic. Now you see, a couple ponies actually escaped him. I would have been with them, but I saw a stallion being attacked and instead of running, I tried to stand up to Trek... that turned out to be ultimately pointless, but I didn't know that at the time. If you and I could go back and keep my past self from doing that... well there you go.'
"You're serious? It would be that simple?"
'Yes.'
"I should be able to do that... I don't suspect it would interfere with my reform that day... no that seems very unlikely to be related. But how would the girls know what I did for you if we change the past?"
'Could I keep my memories of this life?'
Discord thought. "That would take a lot of magic, even for me. And time spells don't always go how ponies expect- in fact they almost never do. Still, I think I could give you three days to decide if the world you made by changing things is really one you would want to live in. We could have a chance to put things back- but three days would be all I could give you to decide."
'That sounds like plenty of time. Besides, I'm getting rid of my dumb disability, why would I regret that? My singing career wouldn't have ended, Octy wouldn't be in debt, I'd be able to support myself again, and hey, I'd be able to freaking TALK again...' I thought for a minute. 'Only thing that might change a little is my relationship with Lightning Strike. Hm... actually it probably won't happen.' I shrugged. 'Not like that should matter too much. Just me, she could survive without little old me, no doubt.'
"Well... you're going to have to help a little... but let's go for it... let's get you back your voice." Discord snapped his talons.
(***)
I opened my eyes, looking around. Discord was floating next to me. "Well... oh dear that's not good," Discord dropped to the ground. He started tapping it with his talons. "My magic should be back any second now... you weren't too specific about where you lost your voice, but I assumed Ponyville- tell me I'm right, or I just lost my magic for nothing. You have no idea how boring life is without- oh right that's how you ponies live your lives pretty much. Well we're close to where you were right?" I looked around. Was this really the past? I started to hear screams and the ground rumbled under me. Well, that really did sound familiar. "Eh em," Discord said. "I'd hurry if I were you. Personally I was still on his good side by this point, but I can't help you if Trek finds you." I galloped away.
I scanned the area. There they were! And there was I. I was running away from the approaching monster with a group of ponies. Now... where was that stupid stallion? I scanned again.
There! I ran to a stallion running behind the group. He had tripped over a crack in the ground the first time. I saw the crack and him running to it. Fate was trying to just ignore me, but I was here to screw fate, not have it screw me again. I ripped several papers from Discord's note book and tossed them at the crack just before the stallion was about to hit the crack.
The stallion slipped slightly on the papers, quickly recovered his hooves and dashed away. He caught up to the group... there he went... there I went. My heart started to beat faster, was this really working? The rumbling continued.
Oh shoot, Celestia knows what would happen if Trek caught modern me. I ran back for Discord.
Discord was looking around, now floating. I tried to write something to him, but he wasn't looking at me... oh of all the times to- "DISCORD!" Did I just... I yelled. I tripped over my own hooves and landed face first in the dirt as well but... I had freaking yelled!
There was a snap.
(***)
"And here we are! Back in the present" Discord announced. It was still late so the lights were still out. I looked around slowly, letting my eyes adjust to the light. I kinda expected that not much would have changed... sweet Celestia was I wrong...
Octavia's cookies! Oh yea, Octy was a pretty decent cook when she tried. She only knew a few recipes, but she loved to make them and share with just anyone who showed up... well that is before we went into debt. We didn't have the money anymore. Well... that's right, I never lost my voice so... all that nasty stuff never happened. I grabbed a cookie in my magic. Lemony goodness, this was so awesome! Yes I'm channeling Rainbow Dash, shut up!
"Um... hey I can talk!" I said.
"That was the idea wasn't it?" asked Discord back.
"Dude, it's been a freaking year, you'd think my throat would be soar or something," I breathed a few times on my hoof.
"Actually now it hasn't. And hearing you now, I don't think you've shut up for-"
"Me? Shut up? I'm never shutting up again!" I yawned. "Why am I tired?" I looked at the clock. "Oh right, ten o'clock... oh hey, Cord, am I like, a second version of me? Am I gonna find another version of me sleeping in my bed? Because that would be weird."
"No, you're you, the only you, trust me on that... You're going to just run around Ponyville seeing what's changed right?"
"You know it!"
"Right, sounds boring, I'll find you in a few days." he snapped his fingers and disappeared.
"Wait how could I contact you if... well I'm sure I'm not gonna regret this any- oh no, I'm not jinxing it!" I looked around. "Um... three days... is tonight part of those three days or... how is that gonna work? I mean, my voice is back, that's really cool and all, but... I kinda wanna go ta bed." I sighed. "Well, I don't think running around sleep deprived is gonna help me... evaluate things. Sides what can I really determine when all the other ponies are asleep? G'night voice... oh it's so good to have you back!"
In my room I looked around. Posters were all over the walls. I fancied for a minute my bed would be better than what I left in the old world, but really, it was the same bed. Comfy, and it got me to sleep every night, why throw it out right? Even if I could afford to now. Oh and yes, I was already, just from the posters, seeing evidence of concerts I didn't remember. I was definitely gainfully employed in this time line. Looked like at least a show every month. I looked at a calendar on my wall... oh... every week.
Hmm... I did wonder how performing concerts I didn't know much about would go. When I touched the calendar with a hoof, it was like fate answered my question. Memories started to flood my mind. Songs, performances, the details were hazy, but I had impressions of what I had been doing in this time line. Hopefully that would be enough. Apparently there was some kind of magic that could let me channel memories of this past... I would have to explore how it worked tomorrow.
Before sleeping, I had to check a few things. First I examined old Mixy, my mix track, which was just sitting by my bed. Mixy was a few years old, but I knew all her settings and had her set up just a particular way. I examined her. Yep, everything was in order. Good, no surprises there.
I then looked around at the posters. Oh yes, a certain someone's fate being altered by my choice DID occur to me. She had to be up there though... Lightning... Lightning... THERE! There was a small section of my wall devoted to pictures I had taken with fans. There was little Lightning Strike flying next to me, a HUGE smile on her face. I looked at the dresser next to my bed. In my old time line there was a picture of her and her family right- wasn't there. There was a picture of me and Octavia, and one of my adoptive parents, but no Lightning Strike.
My horn glowed and I looked around the room. Any yellow feathers from when she flew around in here?... No. I sighed. It looked like I couldn't have everything after all. If I hadn't lost my voice, there would be no reason for me to be so available to her. I wouldn't have had a reason to relate to her so quickly. Which meant... I might have been a part of her life still, in that she was still a fan, but it didn't look like she was part of mine.
As I laid down in my bed, thinking to just say that I could fix that by just visiting her in a few days- a horrible thought occurred to me. With the events of the last few months... what if she was dead? I bit my lip.
Celestia no, there was no way if she was dead that I was keeping this time line. I would just have to have Discord set things "right" again. No way would I accept Lightning being dead just so I could talk.
With that resolution, I laid down to sleep.
(***)
The next day came, my alarm beeping at me and waking me up. Yep, same alarm clock, not that I really cared much about that.
In the kitchen I met Octavia. We ate together for about ten minutes before Octavia finally said, "Okay Vinyl, what's wrong?"
I looked at her and cocked my head to the right. Was I frowning?
"You've been quiet all morning. No teasing me?"
Oh I wouldn't say no teasing her- she hadn't tried her coffee yet... and there she went. "You see- oh what the- VINYL!" I levitated the sugar and salt in the air in front of my face. "That's the fifth time this month." I chuckled, shaking some "salt" onto my cereal. The entire contents of the shaker plopped onto my cereal along with the lid. "Like I said, the fifth time this month." I reassembled the shaker, and resumed eating my now DELICIOUS cereal. Octy rolled her eyes and I was already getting a sugar buzz. "I hate that that didn't work." I shook my head at her. "Still, why haven't you said anything all morning?"
I leaned back. What was I supposed to say? 'I'm used to being mute?' 'I'm not used to talking?' It was like I was in the body and life of a pony who was me, but wasn't. This was Octavia, my Octavia, my sister, and she knew me, but then again, she wasn't my Octavia and she didn't know me. "Ya know what?" I asked aloud. "Screw it. We're not doing the whole, pointlessly keeping it all from you bit."
"Keeping what from me?" she asked.
"I'm not Vinyl- not the Vinyl you know."
"You're about to start rambling aren't you?" she asked.
"I do that don't I?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Yea I remember that. Here's what's going on. I'm Vinyl Scratch, but from an alternate time line..." she just looked at me flatly, like she was waiting for me to have a point. "No, seriously I am. In my time line, I went mute after the incident with Trek and in this one I was able to get to safety before he attacked Ponyville. You see Discord helped me change things."
"Discord? Since when are you friends with him?"
"Cordy and me? We don't exactly go way back even in my time line, but you see, after the events of the last few months, I was one of the hardest hit... at least in my time line. Fluttershy was upset by all the... upset ponies, so he was going around trying to help ponies out. I somehow talked him into letting me set right my past. So you see, here I am."
"What events... of the last few months?" she asked.
"Well... um... c'mon, what else could I be talking about. Twilight is still recovering in the hospital, Apple Jack basically had to give up farm work and I'm surprised Rainbow Dash isn't mumbling to herself in an asylum by this point."
"Ya know Vinyl, at times, I find myself out of the loop, but rarely even then do I find you better informed. You're saying something happened to cause Rainbow to go insane, Apple Jack to- no what are you talking about? All the ponies you just listed are fine."
"But... the stallion who attacked us..."
"Who attacked us? How?" Octavia asked.
I leaned back in my chair, jaw slacked. A stallion had attacked all of us, leaving his mark on all of the element bearers and many others, how could she not remember that? I was limited in how much I could say about things because of that gag order but... in this time line all that never happened? How? Why not? Yes I supposed these were all good things, but have you ever had a sense that something was WAAAY too good to not have a catch? "I..." and it slipped out. "What about Lightning?"
"Who?"
Of course she didn't know Lightning. Lightning was just a fan here, not my mentoree. But then, Octavia was often very well informed, and hey, a dragon adopting a little filly, maybe that made some papers that she would have read. "I can't think of why my time traveling would have changed this. There was a dragon that adopted two foals. One of them was named Lightning Strike. In my time line she and I are pretty good friends."
Octavia looked like she was about to speak, but she paused. "Well... okay so there was a small article about that in one of the papers I read a while back. I remember because it sounded positively absurd, a dragon adopting foals."
"Sounds awesome to me."
"You would say that."
"I would write it too."
"Don't see why that has significance." Octy replied.
"Mute remember?"
"Oh right, that's the subject here, you being mute."
"In another time line... what no jabs about me finally shutting up?" I asked.
"Vinyl that would be incredibly crass."
"Right. Still, you heard about the kid right?"
"I don't remember their names. There were two of them by the way, not just one."
"Yea Dusk. He's a quiet one, I sometimes forget to mention him," I said. "Those are their names right?"
"Vinyl that was in the paper months ago, I have no idea. It barely registered as important to me at the time."
I tapped my chin with my hoof. "She's my biggest fan pretty much, Lightning I mean. Trust me, no one on this planet is as obsessed with me as that kid. Wonder if there's a way to visit her."
"Uninvited?"
"I just want to make sure she's alright here. I've only got three days to make sure this time line is okay before it becomes permanent."
"Really? Seems arbitrary."
"Hey Cord and I are being cautious."
"I'm still debating if I believe you," Octavia replied. "I've heard of crazier things than this, particularly with Discord, however you have no proof. If you did, I would be screaming at you about the very idea of indulging in a real life "what might have been" scenario. Do you have any idea how much damage you could have done? How many ponies you could have hurt? Everything is connected Vinyl."
I shrugged. "Really everything seems fine so far. I can still talk, we aren't having trouble paying the bills-"
"We can't pay the bills in your world?"
"Barely. Going mute tends to hurt your singing career ya know?"
"You don't really sing Vinyl."
"Hush, my voice is beautiful." I smiled. "Pretty sure I kill germs when I sing in the shower." Octavia chuckled.
"You kill things alright." She shook her head. "But what's the punchline to your joke? I don't get it. You don't honestly expect me to believe you changed the past."
"I did." I said with the straightest face I could manage.
"You... you're serious aren't you?" I nodded. "You... of all the ignorant... Vinyl it's been a year since Trek was defeated. You changed history after that much time? You have no idea what the effects could be!"
"Whoa, hey, three days remember."
"Three days? Three days? What if something horrible happened and you don't find out in time?"
"I've got time."
Octavia gritted her teeth. "I thought you were the sci-fi fan here." She sighed. "Still... for all I know things could be better in this world than yours after all."
"They could."
"I have a bad feeling though." She noted.
"Why?"
"This filly you're talking about, I'm supposed to know her aren't I?" I nodded. "Well I don't. It's pure chance I've even heard of her. You removed yourself from another pony's life. That... that... I don't know what that could mean."
I waved a hoof. "Octy, I know ya like me and all, but I'm not that important. I'm sure she's fine." She looked uncomfortable at that statement. "It would be like if your family never adopted me. I guess I would be pretty worse off, but you'd be fine right? Octy?" she stared at me in near horror.
"Vinyl... you're my sister... I love you... I don't even want to think about what it would be like if we never adopted you."
"Well in this case you wouldn't even know what you missed. Time travel can be hard to wrap your head around, but I think I get this little bit. The ponies who aren't travelers don't have any knowledge of the other time line."
"So if I missed out on something wonderful like having a sister, I wouldn't even know?" she paused again. "That sounds so cruel."
"Octy, we're talking about me here. It's not like I'm one of the element bearers. Again, you wouldn't even know."
"And again, that sounds horrible."
I gritted my teeth. "Look! I lost my voice, my job, and now to top it all off, something horrible happened in my world so bad I'm not even allowed to talk about it. Apparently none of that happened here. Heck, my voice is back, I'll bet you that means I can effect MORE ponies now."
"You have no idea the price of what you've done."
"Neither do you!" I shouted. I looked away. My mind was racing. Could I really have this? This time line, in less than a day seemed loads better than what I knew. And hey, really, Lightning was only eight years old. If I wanted back in her life, couldn't I just get involved now? It wouldn't be exactly the same, I couldn't pick up where I left off, but c'mon, nothing's perfect. So I wasn't part of her life here, what difference could that really make? I wasn't that important.
"No... no I don't." Octavia said. "I'm worried is all."
"Why?"
"Vinyl, you're special... to me at least. I know it would be a pretty big deal if I lost a year with you myself..." I smiled at her. She stood up. "C'mon, we need to get to find out where your little fan is." I raised an eyebrow to her. "Like I said, I have a bad feeling about this." She walked to the door.
Not sure why not to, I just followed.
(***)
So... who do you think we visited? The answer pony herself, Twilight Sparkle. In her castle library the lecture I got about "causality" from her was long winded and went right over my head. I was starting to understand why in all those time travel shows the main character never tells everyone what he did... course that never ended up being as easy as it sounds so I figured I was saving myself a head ace.
"Now as to this filly you're talking about..." Twilight started looking through some record books. "If she were just some random kid I wouldn't be able to tell you much. But as luck would have it, her father is the dragon bearer of the element of courage. Pretty big deal and all. I kept up with events with that family for a little while-ya know- topic of interest. The two foals were pretty cute. Off topic but apparently that element of his stopped working for some- Ah! Here it is." She started reading in her book. "It looks like..." she stopped. Her eyes went wide.
"Looks like what?" I asked. "What is that? What book are you reading?" I read the cover of the book as it floated in Twilight's lavender magic. "Hospital records... is she dead?" my heart started to sink.
"No..." Twilight said. "Um..."
"Phew, you really had me going there Ms. Sparkle, I tell ya. See in the other time line, she's kinda one of my best friends... think the word daughter might have even been tossed around so... why are you looking at me like that?" Twilight blinked. "Okay where is she?"
Octavia joined Twilight in looking inside the book. "Um... Vinyl this time travel story of yours... you're serious right?"
"Octy... Twilight... why are you two talking like this?"
"Are you telling the truth or not?" Twilight practically shouted at me. "Because trust me, this is NOT funny!"
"I'm not joking guys. I'm not from around here," I said.
Twilight closed her book. "No... no if you're serious, you need to see what you did for yourself."
"I don't understand..." The two ponies walked out of the library. Again, not knowing what else to do, I followed.
(***)
Twilight got us into the hospital and passed a few nurses. Apparently Lightning was only to be visited by "friends and family"... that didn't sound good. A couple times I joked that I thought she had just picked up a bad case of kleptomania, but... I was scared.
Finally, we were at a door with flowers on it. The flowers had muted colors and the door was a simple brown color. Why was this foreboding? "This... this is just where she's been for a few months right?" I asked.
"Vinyl... Lightning lives here," Octavia said. "If you could call it living..."
I blinked and took a step back. I bit my lip and pushed open Lightning Strike's hospital door.
There she was, laying on a pink mattress. A few feeding tubes were hooked up to her. She stared straight ahead. I waved a hoof at her. She didn't respond. "Lightning?... Lightning?" I slowly approached her and pushed her head with my hoof. It was like I just pushed a toy, no reaction at all. "What is this?"
Twilight slowly walked in front of me. "It's what happens when a pony with a psychological disorder never has someone really get to know her. It's called "catatonic" by the way." Twilight sat next to the filly on the bed. She gulped. "The story of this kid's life... she was neglected, abused and finally adopted by someone who couldn't have possibly cared for her."
"I don't-" Twilight glared at me.
"You're daughter!?" she asked. "You changed history that influenced how you met your own daughter? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?" she finally started to shout.
"She's not my daughter, she belongs to Torkuda the- wait- couldn't have possibly- he's a great father. You're just like Rainbow Dash, she didn't think he could- oh shit..." I looked at the foal. "If I didn't meet her...then I didn't stand up for him..." I looked around the room. "Where's Dusk?"
"They think that might have been what triggered this," Twilight said. "See, Lightning has- or rather I suppose now- had, an ability that kinda scared other ponies. So, not wanting to keep him from ever having a family, the Melony Foals orphanage adopted him separately. She put up a fight but the mare who ran the orphanage assured everyone the filly just wanted attention."
"The heck is wrong with you ponies?!" I demanded. "She wanted her brother, not attention. You can't just take ponies away from each other and expect nothing to happen- oh..."
I sat on the other side of the filly. "You're not really her mother?" asked Twilight.
"Not exactly," I said. "Really just a mentor slash care taker. Kinda a poorly defined position to be honest." I gently petted her mane, but got no response. "C'mon Lightning... I... I'm so sorry." I sighed. "Discord?"
"What about him?" Twilight asked.
I ignored her. "DISCORD!" I shouted. "DISCORD!"
"What are you..." Octavia started to ask but suddenly the one and only draconequus of chaos appeared in the room.
"My but aren't you making a racket." He said. "What is it you want?"
"Well you never told me how to contact you," I said first.
"Well you figured out a way didn't you? For the moment we're connected... somewhat. I can hear you shouting at me anywhere, that is, if you really believe you need me that badly. It's a failsafe. Time travel can go terribly and all... you see there was this one time I traveled with Fluttershy and the CMC-"
"I don't care- look maybe tell me later, anything just... please... let me undo this," I looked back at Lightning Strike. She still wasn't moving. This was horrifying. Lightning Strike was one of the most active ponies I had ever known. It was like looking at a mannequin of her. I pushed her side a few time, her just rolling lifelessly over on the bed. I jumped back, my skin starting to crawl. "What we did... I cannot let this happen to her."
"Honestly I kind of like this timeline," Discord replied. "Fluttershy is happy, the rest of my friends aren't injured or worse, and apparently that bad pony never showed up. Why would I want to mess with this?"
To the side of me, Twilight teleported out of the room. I looked at where she had been standing, kinda shocked she did that. "Um... princess of friendship there... thanks for the help Twi-"
"It's not her problem," Discord interrupted. "This is between you and me. My friends are happy, I'm not undoing this." Behind me I heard the door to the room click shut, probably because of a nurse.
"You are undoing this. Or I'll-"
"Or you'll what?" Discord folded his arms. "A DJ unicorn threatening the lord of disorder. Isn't that cute?" he snapped his fingers and boxing gloves appeared on my hooves, me slipping to the floor. "Oh what's wrong? You sounded so confident a moment ago."
"Discord!" Octavia shouted at him. "If you hurt my sister I swear-"
"I don't have to hurt her. I don't have to hurt anyone. I snap my fingers and this trial stage will end. What we changed will be history, and this will be the real world."
"How will that-" Octy tried to talk over him but he kept going.
"Vinyl won't even remember the alternate time line. I have what I want. Thankyou Vinyl," I ripped the gloves off of my hooves with my magic and quickly wrapped my forelegs around the unresponsive filly.
"But what about Lightning? If don't remember her... she'll just be forgotten in here... Please! Don't make me forget her! Don't make me forget my friend!" Discord raised his claw, no concern at all on his face. "Please no!" I begged. I closed my eyes, squeezing the filly as hard as I could. Maybe there could be some magic in a hug? Maybe my love could bring her back in that second... something... not like this, how could it all end like this?
"THAT IS ENOUGH!" I opened my eyes to see a yellow pegasus standing in front of me and the foal. "Discord!" The draconequus held his hand without snapping. "How DARE you!"
"Fluttershy you don't know what happened," Discord became angry. It would have occurred to me that this was a side of Discord few ponies ever saw, if I wasn't so scared of having my mind wiped. "I told you about the other timeline, but I didn't tell you what happened specifically. Rainbow Dash is paranoid, you're a wreck, Apple Jack is permanently injured, Twilight was horribly burned and even little Scootaloo was made permanently barren by the pony that attacked us. I don't know how restoring this pony's voice undid all of that, but I'm not going back."
"You will not hurt a foal!" Fluttershy shouted back. "You honestly expect me to believe that little filly did all of that to my friends?"
"She didn't do any of that, like I said, we were attacked. She was too... I'm not helping my case here am I?" Discord asked.
"No you're not," Twilight said, walking into the room.
"But... what about all the bad things that will happen?" he asked.
"If it means an innocent foal doesn't have to end up like that," Fluttershy pointed with her hoof at Lightning, "I and my friends will take a few bumps and bruises."
"More than bruises," Discord replied, looking away.
"I was speaking in hyperbole," Fluttershy said back.
"I wasn't," Discord said with a sigh. "Is this really what you want? All your friends to suffer for ONE filly?"
"She's a foal Discord, we're adults. We don't put ourselves before children," Fluttershy said back.
"And Scootaloo?" he asked.
"I'm pretty sure catatonic and forgotten trumps barren and surrounded by friends and family."
Discord clenched a fist. He looked about to say something, then he clenched his jaw. "I can save all of you. All I have to do is sacrifice one pony," Fluttershy glared. Discord closed his eyes and let both hands flop to his sides. "It's your call." Fluttershy walked over to me and Lightning, and put Lightning in a wing hug. "I'm going to regret this." Discord raised up his hand again to snapped. I hugged Lightning as tight as I could, screaming in my head, begging that he not wipe my memories-
(***)
I fell on my butt, still holding my catatonic... I'll say it just this once... daughter.
Don't expect me to say it again.
"I could just reset this all myself, but I will not suffer alone," Discord said next to me. "Go, stop yourself if you really want to. If you do, remember, you will never speak again."
"If I don't, she'll never do anything again," I looked at Lightning, and hugged her one more time.
The ground started to rumble. I looked up to see a crowd of ponies running away and my past self running with them. To my right, I saw another me running to change history. I levitated Lightning next to myself and ran after... myself. I had to set this right.
(***)
I was in bed.
My memories were now weird. I remembered showing myself the catatonic Lightning Strike, I remembered the alternate timeline and I remembered creating it. And then I somehow remembered talking to myself on the other side of the despondent foal... yea, never try to completely wrap your head around time travel, it's a head ace.
Had it all happened? Was all that just a dream? I opened my mouth and tried to speak. Nothing came out. I was relieved. I got out of bed, pushed open my bedroom door and walked back into the kitchen.
I gently opened the door to Lightning and Dusk's room with my magic and looked in. She was sleeping peacefully in her bed... was she?
I walked in and pushed on Lightning's head a few times, my heart beating faster and faster as she didn't reply at first. Finally she groaned and sleepily and a little crankily looked up at me. "What do you want?" she practically snapped. I just smiled. I shook my head and waved with my hoof for her to 'never mind'. She rolled over, grumbling "Grownups are weird."
I smiled, walking back out of the room straight into the mismatched form of Discord. I jumped back and silently gasped. He was glaring at me. "So I trust your friend is alright?" I gulped and swallowed. "Mine cried herself to sleep." I looked at the ground. "I think it's best we never speak again." He snapped his fingers and disappeared.
I sat down on the floor, looking around the empty kitchen.
What is, is. I'm not saying it must, I'm just saying it is.
For what it's worth... I'm sorry Discord. |
Vinyl Scratch, Mentoring is AWESOME! | Music and Family Theory | I woke up, the house was quiet. No kids, just me and Octy today. Lightning and Dusk were at Rainbow Dash's house for a sleep over. I looked at my night stand. On it was another letter I had tried to write to Fluttershy thanking her for protecting Lightning... and again, I was dead certain she wouldn't understand what the letter meant so yea, I probably wasn't going to send that one either.
I got up, smiling at all the pictures of my student and me in my room. Yes I had pictures without her, I wasn't that much of a... mom... I guess? I kept struggling with that question. Was she my family?
I popped in some music, Riptide... eh why not? I listened for a bit and was overwhelmed by the wimpy complaining tone and- screw it- Celldweller, Switchback! Way more positive! I flipped on my sunglasses, continuing to ruin my vision and danced into the kitchen, being told how the world should be out to kill some guy.
After a small breakfast I got out my mix track. I saw some music sheets Lightning tried to make that were utterly unreadable. Oh yes, I had been honest with her about them, however they were hilarious, as I tried to actually play the implied song and it was terrible... but I had a mission. I would remix that song into something awesome, it was a challenge, and I did NOT back down from challenges.
Lightning said she couldn't wait to see what I came up with. That's what I liked about that kid, a lot of ponies probably would have taken offense from what I was doing, but her attention span was too short to take offense.
I set up the track and closed my eyes. I envisioned an action scene in head. There a brave stallion stood, the forces of evil all around poised to overwhelm him. This is when I set up a slow rise in my music, it started quiet, a mostly base tune with a slow rumble.
In the scene I joined the stallion, as I did, I added a high pitched tune, kinda like that of a violin.
The forces of evil charged in, a deep but loud tune starting, the base thumping. They closed, the base thumping louder and louder. I charged up a spell, the high pitched tune starting to hum.
I fired off my spell, evil stallions and mares flying every which way, the high pitched tune growing louder and louder the deep tune becoming quieter and quieter.
The stallion charged into the forces of evil, a fast paced kind of thumping guitar started, the thumping being a deep rapid strum. Each hoof he shoved into a face, each horn he broke, wing he destroyed and hench pony he threw to the ground, the guitar thumped again. There were a lot of ponies so this made for a fast paced and long guitar solo. I was enhancing his power with my spells in the background, adding in the high pitched hum in the background as the guitar thumps sped and slowed.
Of course, puritans would point out I wasn't using real guitars or violins, simple reproductions. I've been told repeatedly that my talent is simply in taking what others had created and twisting it to sound like I created something, when all that I did was just make a musical collage. As my music wrapped up, I thought on this fact. The piece ended.
Was there some truth to that? Was Octavia's music more genuine than mine? True one could say Octy was also borrowing from others, after all, she didn't make her cello, nor do I suspect she would have any idea how to. It's true, I can't play a violin or guitar, thus I can't construct the parts that go into making my music, but a violinist can't construct a violin, so can't the same be said of them?
Even still, I didn't always credit the music clips I used, should I have been more concerned about this? Most of what I used were prerecorded sounds on the mix track and emulated sound. However some of what I used was record from other songs, or made to replicate it. Was I stealing? Don't other music creators also set out to replicate other songs? Was it more important that I give credit if it was a direct recording? I gave some credit... how much was needed?
Oh? What's that? You're waiting for when I shook my head and got back to rocking it out? Any kind of art, if you're any good, requires LOTS of thought and an ability to engage in introspection. I enjoy musical philosophy actually. It's one of the things Octy and I discuss at length.
I did eventually decide to check my tapes to ensure they were recording. What I had just created was probably interesting, but it would have to be edited at least if not completely remade, large chunks being thrown out and some not even replaced. In fact I looked at the time... ten minutes... yea I would probably need to cut that down a bit.
The next few hours were spent correcting a piece that only took ten minutes to create. Then I spent another fifteen minutes lamenting how much that piece would probably have to change for my publishers to want it... I had several times considered that in the wake of all that happened, it was high time I left behind official publishers and just allowed myself to gain fans naturally... but then I remembered I had to feed myself and until publishers did start paying me well again, I was still living practically off charity here.
Shopping would now need to be done. I marched out the door and ran straight into Octavia. "Oh hello," she said politely. "So, where's my niece and nephew at?" I lowered my eyebrows at her. "You are so becoming a mother." I lowered them again. "Are too!" I huffed, "Are too infinity!" I raised a hoof, huffing again. "Oh please we haven't used infinity plus one since we were children!" We both laughed and I pointed down the street to Rainbow Dash's house. "Hm... who do you think they're favorite crusader is?" I put up my front hooves and put them on my sides flapping them up and down. "Scoot? You just instinctively knew that huh? Almost like they're your kids or something." She winked and walked in. I huffed in frustration. I don't know why she loved that topic, she just did. I had to find something to rile her up about some time, but... ah shopping would give me time to think of something.
Returning home from shopping I had the perfect plan to get under Octavia's skin. I was grinning in anticipation of using it all the way home. As I walked through the door Lightning Strike slammed into my neck and started crying into my fur.
I held her for a bit to calm her down. Then I used my magic to gently set her down. I looked into her big sad eyes and did the best "friendly writing" that I could 'It's okay kiddo, what's wrong?'
"Apple Bloom and Scootaloo had a fight, Scootaloo says she's leaving the crusaders!" I looked down at Dusk, who nodded and confirmed what she was saying. "I barely got them here to listen to some music- C'mon we gotta save the crusaders!"
I rolled my eyes, how many times a week was there a spat between the crusaders? Lightning always thought it was a crisis. But, sure, music brings ponies together and all. Octavia watched me as I went through the house and started getting out my speakers and several music CDs, ones I knew Bloom and Scootaloo loved. She blinked. "So on command you're breaking out expensive equipment for that kid. Oh yea, you'd so do that for any neighborhood kid right?" I rolled my eyes and continued my work.
Lightning actually was partially my responsibility, so why I shouldn't I have... why was I doing this?... I paused, looking at the equipment. I knew these kids would probably work things out in a few days so why did I even care that Lightning was upset? I looked over my shoulder at the filly, herself staring over the horizon, watching for her friends to come so we could help them in our own way.
I could do it. I could tell her this was ridiculous. Easily I could do it. I could tell her how I didn't really care what neighborhood kids are friends and which ones aren't, why should I? She looked back at me, tears in her eyes, biting her lip. Her head turned quickly to watch for her friends again. I sighed... I cared.
As much as the crusaders were just a bunch of often annoying kids to me, they were idols to Lightning. I set things up and in a few minutes, everything was ready.
In no time at all Scootaloo and Lightning were rocking out to Masquerade by Thousand Foot Crutch... oh screw it, that made me feel good! Say what you want about my strange relationship with the kids, they had good taste in music. I stomped my hooves and rocked my head, Octavia laughing at me. Finally I grabbed my sis and challenged her to a dance off.
She started stomping her front hooves in tandem, me stomping them in an alternating rhythm. I started rocking my shoulders as she started to stomp forward and back, creating a rhythm to match the music. Finally I grinned, shooting out a spell of lights around both of us.
The song wrapped up.
Octavia eventually left to go do some shopping of her own.-Totally not because I schooled her in said dance off.-
Rainbow Dash was there too, but she wasn't really participating in events. I got the sense she liked the rock songs from Thousand Foot, Pantera and Sabaton, but when I eventually broke out some country songs for Apple Bloom, she just went inside to get some soda.
It was disappointing to not have any dancing partners for crazy country songs, that's half the fun of country after all. Rock dance is more a solo or competitive thing, along with pop and Rap. Country and other more classical forms encouraged group and couple dancing. Course that didn't stop Dusk from doing his usual tap dancing. Apple Bloom, as usual, did try to copy him, but as usual, his hoofs were moving way too fast for her to keep up. It was actually hilarious to watch him school her.
The whole time while I played this music, I did notice how Apple Bloom and Scootaloo were keeping their distance. I didn't know what was going on between them, but yea, apparently it was serious.
Shania Twain came on and I watched Dusk become finally rather confused about how to adapt tap dancing to what he was hearing. Honestly, I had no advice to give, I never liked Shania, I only had her on hoof because she'd been popular for a while.
Finally Dusk sighed looking at Apple Bloom. "C'mon Dusk," she said. "Ya cn' think a somthin' can't ya?" He held his head to think... wait... that wasn't a thinking pose...
Dusk fell sideways to the ground and ceased moving at all. My eyes went wide. Apple Bloom and Lightning froze as the music continued to play. Any Stallion of Mine kept going... Dusk's breathing was slowing.
Lightning shot over to him and started to scream "DUSK! DUSK!" She shook him hard, but he wasn't moving. Electricity started to surround her and I quickly grabbed her with my magic, yanking her back. She started screaming his name louder and louder.
And yea, listening to her scream, watching Apple Bloom run and hide, watching Scootaloo cover her head in fear and watching that colt completely cease everything...I... what was... was I watching my son die? |
Vinyl Scratch, Mentoring is AWESOME! | Help! | Thank goodness Rainbow Dash was around. She shot away to get help immediately. In minutes, which at the time felt like hours, the doctors had arrived and were carrying Dusk away to the hospital. Lightning kept crying as all this was happening and eventually I held her in my forelegs.
She kept screaming his name, her heart racing. Soon Rainbow took Lightning's little friends too. I wanted to protest, didn't she see Lightning needed her friends now?
I started to write my objections, but she took off before I could finish. I sat there, holding my student, not having even finished the first word. Lightning finally started just sobbing.
I wasn't sure what I could do. Yes, I could take her to her therapist, but Lightning never really saw Killy as family or a best friend, I wasn't sure he would be able to do much of anything. Maybe he could give ME advice, but I seriously doubted LIGHTNING would be listening to him. I used my magic to put the crying foal on my back and took her inside, placing her in her room, in her bed. She just laid there sobbing.
I clenched my teeth. I was scared to leave her. I had no idea what she would do in this state- would she hurt herself? Would she even need to do that intentionally? Still, I needed to get word to her father.
I bit my lip, looked left, looked right, and then looked back down at my student. She had curled up into a fetal position, eyes tightly shut. I finally surrounded her blanket with magic and wrapped her in it. I rushed out of my home and held my horn high as I could, setting off fireworks, shooting them into the sky, making them as big and loud as I possibly could.
Ponies angrily yelled at me to keep it down, but no one came towards me. I have so seldom wished harder than that to be able to yell for "help". Everyone thought I was just trying to get attention and I was told to keep it down several times. Finally Fluttershy passed by, apparently on her way home from the market. "Knock it off Vinyl you're- Vinyl?" she must have seen my face- I have no idea how I looked but I'm guessing it was terrible. She ran over. "Vinyl?- Vinyl stop, I'm right here, stop setting off the fireworks-" I blinked. I was so scared I was barely paying attention to the world around me, but her words were waking me back up. I finally forced my horn to stop. "You haven't looked like that in a long time, what's wrong?"
I grabbed her mane with my magic and nearly dragged her into the home, not willing to waste any more time. "You know you can just write!" she said, still letting me drag her. Finally I pulled her into Lightning's room. Fluttershy looked at the filly. She rushed over to Lightning's side. "Lightning?" She nudged the foal, but Lightning just kept sobbing, her throat obviously sore. "What happened?"
I shook my head. 'Dusk is in the hospital, he just passed out, I don't know what's wrong but she's taking it horribly.' Fluttershy gently petted Lightning's mane. 'I have to get word to Torkuda. I'm going to Twilight's place. Please watch her for me okay?' Fluttershy nodded. 'I don't know how I can ever thank you.'
Fluttershy shook her head. "You don't need to."
'But-'
"Go!" she shouted at me. I backed up. She was right of course, we couldn't waste time. I turned and ran.
I tore out of my home, racing down the street, the palace of friendship in the distance.
I nearly ran into the door and started pounding on it hard as I could. "Alright alright, I'm coming, I'm coming. Sheesh you're not even gonna talk or anything, just pound and pound," Twilight opened the door. "I- oh- um... shoot... um- I'm so sorry I-"
'I don't care, why would anyone honestly ever care about stupid misunderstandings, you're all always so worried about bullsh** like that...' I swallowed.
"Calm down, what's wrong?"
'Lightning and Dusk, they're both in trouble, big trouble. Dusk was dancing and he just passed out, we don't know why, he just went out like a light. Lightning is panicking and I don't know what to do, you know how chronic she is. She's cares a lot about her brother, that poor girl needs him.' I clenched my teeth and looked at the ground. 'What am I gonna do Twi? I lose one I lose them both. They're both wonderful kids, but they've been through so much- we have to get through to Torkuda.'
"What do you think their dad can do? He's a dragon, he can't help Dusk that's for sure."
'I don't know what he can do, but he certainly has a right to know what's happening with his children.'
She nodded. "Of course. C'mon,"
Spike sent a message to Torkuda in short order. As the dust from the burnt message faded, Twilight turned to me. "Someone is with Lightning right?" I nodded. She put her wing around me. "How are you holding up?" I looked down and squeezed my eyes shut. "That well huh?" she said with a small joking tone, still sympathetic.
'What do I do? I know she has a problem...'
"What about Dusk?"
'What do you mean what about him?'
"Well, Lightning's problems are psychological, Dusk... I'm not trying to accuse it's just... If he went unconscious, we need to start making plans to be there when he wakes up." She nodded to herself. "Yes, you worry about Lightning, I'm sure you have SOME ideas right?" she turned to some papers on her desk and started making a list. "I'm gonna contact my friends and work on making sure someone is there when he's awake. Sounds like Rainbow was already there and I'm guessing AJ will know soon enough, but Fluttershy and Pinkie usually have a roll they can play in these kinds of things. Pinkie is great at making the sick at least FEEL better and Fluttershy understands way more about medicine than even I could hope too, she can talk to the doctors. Rarity won't have much to offer, but Sweetie is still Dusk's friend so her support will be important to him too." She turned to me. "And Lightning... Vinyl... something else bothering you?"
'I wasn't even thinking about what to do for Dusk.' I smacked myself once and went to do it again, but Twilight quickly stopped me with her magic. 'What, because he's a boy? Do I not care because he's a different gender, is it that-'
"Vinyl!" she shouted at me. "You're not a misandrist okay? I've never heard you say anything bad about stallions okay? You saw her last, I'm sure you're worried about them both, now stay on task."
'Still, I've let it slip several times that maybe Lightning is my daughter, shouldn't I see Dusk like a son? They've had all the same experiences, just from different perspectives. Lightning worships the ground I walk on but Dusk kinda treats everyone equally... I mean I really shouldn't ignore him for that, I should admire it. Especially since he's so young.'
"You care for them both Vinyl." She held up my head to look into her eyes. "Vinyl... just like no one is ever going to be the same as anyone else, you're never going to have the same feelings about any two ponies and try as you may, you will always value some more than others. No one is perfect. I can only ask if you cared about him and did what you thought was best for him."
'I'm pretty sure I did...'
"Then it's okay. Now you know more about what Lightning is going through than I do. What do we need to do for her?"
I shook my head. 'She's gonna need her therapist, but that's not exactly an emergency service so we'll wait and make sure she's safe for now... She's with Fluttershy so I'm pretty sure she's okay-'
"So Fluttershy is up to date... good." We started to hear the flapping of massive wings but we both decided not to pay it mind just yet.
I nodded. 'yes, like I was saying, we'll need to keep her away from anything sharp or dangerous, in case she tries to hurt herself, she's never done anything like that before, but I've been warned before that she might if things get too bad. We need to get her to a place where she feels safe... I think she needs to go home to her dad. She'll need someone to stay with her besides her dad though, she'll need physical contact. She's a very tactile person and as loving of a father as he is, Torkuda has trouble with that.'
Twilight thought. "So how about Fluttershy stays with her along with one of her friends?" I nodded. "Alright, I'll round the ponies up. You-" Outside ponies started to scream. Twilight face hoofed, "He's visited Ponyville how many times now?"
'They liked him when he was defending them,' I wrote, looking out the window at the ponies scattering from Torkuda as he landed.
"I should scold him for coming without warning- no, he should have the right to come to his daughter's aid... let's play this by ear a little okay? You get Apple Bloom, Fluttershy and Lightning, I'll calm everyone down."
(***)
It took a little doing, but finally I rode with Lightning, Fluttershy and Apple Bloom back to Torkuda's home. Fluttershy gently took Lightning to her's and Dusk's room, placing the now rather despondent filly on her bed.
I looked around the room.
The room was composed of two parts, one blue, one yellow. The blue side was Dusk's. On his side was his bed with faded green blankets. All around were his toys, mostly large duplo legos but there was also a set of much smaller legos in a box, along with a rolled up dance matt. On his side the walls were decorated with black and white posters of old tap dancers, as well as a big color poster of a river dance group. I didn't know most of the tap dancers, but the river dancers were in a set up I recognized. They must have been the current Hooves of Flames group, a river dancing group I had heard recordings of a few times. There were a few signatures on the poster along with a message that said "Looking forward to seeing when you get your dancing cutie mark. It'll happen, we have no doubt!"
I said a prayer, to by myself. Dusk had his whole life ahead of him. 'if anyone can hear me, let him recover!' I thought.
The yellow side, which Lightning was laying on, told the story of a very different pony. I must have counted ten different balls, from soccer balls to a few ping pong balls, all pushed under the bed and spread out over the room, but no other equipment. I almost chuckled, remembering Lightning's tendency to make up sports on the fly. None of us ever did know what she wanted to do half the time, and I don't think she did either. Then again, it was always fun to just try to keep up or just watch if I was too confused.
I then had to look at how she was now. Apple Bloom laid next to her, reading a book, but the sentiment of her caring was there. I also had to be stupid enough to look at the middle of the room.
On the dividing line between the two sides of the room were several board games. Dusk adored board games, but Lightning not so much. Anything for Dusk though. Still her ridiculous ADD kept them playing multiple games that she helped Dusk write up notes for so they never lost their places.
I closed my eyes. So much more than even me, Lightning's entire life revolved around Dusk. I prayed he was okay again.
Fluttershy nodded that I could leave. I shook my head. 'Consider my schedule just freed up.' I wrote. I laid down on the floor to go to sleep. 'I'm not going anywhere.'
(***)
The next day we got to the hospital. The way Lightning was looking around when she walked, it was eerily similar to how she looked in the alternate universe.
I talked to a doctor in a private room, while Fluttershy watched her and Apple Bloom.
"We have a diagnosis, but I need you to remain calm," I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Malnourishment."
'Excuse me? I feed that kid, and so does Torkuda. You're way off if you think-'
"I don't think I know. Now am I accusing you? No I'm not. He's a little kid. We have Lightning and Dusk's histories on record and we've been watching for signs of depression in both of them for a myriad of reasons. You know that right?"
'I feed him...'
"It's not that simple. One of the primary symptoms of depressions is loss of appetite and yes, we think that's what this is. It's hard to recognize that in someone so young and new in your life. He's probably been eating progressively less and less, and you may have accepted it as "six year olds can only eat so much". Not being a doctor, it's hard to always recognize things like this."
I looked down. 'Don't take him from us.'
The doctor shook his head. "We're not looking to do that." I sighed in relief. "But you do need to take this seriously. If he had starved himself too seriously too quickly or intentionally, he would have been emaciated and you would have noticed, but this was progressive. You need to start insisting he eat more and reporting to us on how he's doing and exactly what he eats. Of course keep regular appointments with your therapist and follow his directions. Are you willing to do that?"
'Anything.'
He nodded. A hoof was placed on my shoulder. "Vinyl, when you took in these kids, you took on an incredible challenge. You have to remember two things. First, you can't always blame yourself when things go wrong. Second... hang on to the good things, there are gonna be enough bad things... for instance on good things, I seriously doubt he's gonna stay asleep for very long."
'You're not just lying to me?'
"I wouldn't say I was if I were... I'm not... just have a seat in the waiting room. The doctors will call you and Lightning in to see him in a bit." |
Love and Honour | pre | She finally broke away from the kiss. "You are very straight forward" she told me and I shrugged, "What else could I do? You were freaking out and any-pony that saw it would probably think I was trying to kill you or something" I replied. "Does this mean that... you love me?" she asked hesitantly and I nodded.
"Luna, my words back near the hospital weren't thought through and the reason I was so weary about revealing my feelings was because" I began but suddenly my stomach rumbled and I remembered that I hadn't eaten since... well yesterday night, I missed breakfast and I had given my lunch to that new guy to get away from him.
"Okay hold that thought, wanna get something to eat?" I asked and she thought about it for a moment and nodded. "I shall call the room service" she told me and I shook my head, "Nah, let's just go right to the kitchen" I said as I wrapped my arm through hers and led her out of the room.
"Would it not be easier to just order it?" she asked and I shrugged. "Yeah but where's the adventure in that?" I asked and she gave me a curious look, "Adventure in getting food?" she asked and I nodded. "Let's pretend that we're intruders trying to get to the kitchen" I suggested but she shook her head. "Well... okay what do you want to do?" I asked and she gave a sly smile. "We're the pirates of Equestria on a quest to steal the riches from the royal castle of Canterlot" she snickered and I chuckled at her imagination.
"Alright, so who do you want to be?" I asked and she thought about it for a moment.
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Third person, imaginary realm of Luan and Clare:
"Arg matey, I am Captain Blue Beard, the fiercest pirate in all Equestria" Blue Beard said as she pulled out an old saber pirate sword. "And I am Carl, the most sinister pirate to ever to sail the seven seas" Carl laughed as he pulled out two saber pirate swords. They were both dressed in old pirate clothes and Blue Beard had a flowing, almost holographic looking, blue beard and an eye patch on her right eye. Carl had a nasty scar down his face that started at the top left of his forehead and went on an angle across his face. He too had an eye patch but it was on the other eye.
Carl sheathed his swords and pulled out both his musket pistols, "Arg we come here for your treasures and nothing can stop us" Carl sneered as the snuck through the outside window of the fortress castle in Canterlot.
Blue Beard cocked back her right hoof, which had been lost after a fearsome battle with a dragon and replaced with a rotating multi-barrel Blunderbuss. "Hey wait a minute, that's not fair, you get a friggin arm gun" Carl complained and Blue Beard winked. He sighed at the fact that Blue Beard got better stuff than him.
A flashing light of a sentry approached. "Quickly into the caverns of immense knowledge" Blue Beard ordered and Carl followed her into the unknown of the caverns.
Inside the caverns both pirates breathed heavily as they thought of a new plan. "Quickly we must escape before" Blue beard began but suddenly a terrifying roar echoed through the cavern and both pirates looked in horror as a massive creature approached them.
"Oh no, it's the mountainous cycloid" Blue Beard gasped and Carl swung up both musket pistols and shot the beast but it refused to go down and instead let out an angered roar. "Quickly, we have to use the Mirror of Destiny. It's the beast's only weakness" Carl said as he charged towards the massive beast and lept onto its side.
The beast swatted at Carl but he managed to avoid its swings and distract it long enough for Blue Beard to get the Mirror of Destiny. "Carl, I have the mirror" Blue Beard called out and Carl lept from the beast's head and landed on the ground near Blue Beard's hooves. The beast stepped forward but saw its reflection in the mirror and screamed in agony as it died from the sight of its own ugliness and fell backwards. As it hit the ground it erupted into a mess of scrolls and books.
"Ha ha, the beast has been slain" Blue Beard exclaimed. "Hey what do you think you're doing?" screamed a voice and both Blue Beard and Carl looked to the voice and saw a small troll like creature. "Oh no, it is the knowledge beast keeper. We must run before she calls upon the guards" Carl exclaimed and the both dashed out of the cavern of immense knowledge and back into the hallways of the fortress. The hallways were dimly lit by torches.
Carl grabbed a torch off the wall, "The light of this torch shall lead our way Captain" Carl informed her as they walked down the hallways as stealthily as they could with a burning torch. As they turned the corner of a passageway they spotted a sentry as he walked along his patrol.
Carl quickly put out the torch and they both hid behind a stone pillar as the sentry passed, not noticing them. Blue Beard let out a sigh of relief as they quickly broke from cover and raced around another corner and headed for the treasure room.
The approached the grand atrium and quickly raced across the atrium and to the treasure room but there was one final problem. A sentry had slouched up against the wall for a break. "We need to find a way past... Carl?" Blue Beard asked but she realized her companion wasn't at her side. She looked back to the guard and saw Carl walk up beside him undetected, the guard was facing the wrong direction to be able to notice Carl approach him.
Carl leaned over and gave the sentry a karate chop to the neck and knocked out the sentry. Carl leaned the sentry up against the wall to make it look like he had simply taken a nap. He waved to Blue Beard for her to join him and she rushed to his side as they entered the treasure room.
Carl and Blue Beard walked into the treasure room and closed the door behind them. The treasure room was huge and inside held all the riches of war, food! Carl and Blue Beard rushed over to the fridges and scourged through the fridges for the best foods.
Being completely uncivil, they both ate without etiquette or utensils and made a large mess in the treasure room. "Alas, we are the richest pirates in all Equestria" Carl boasted but Blue Beard tossed a cup of applesauce at him, Carl ducked the applesauce and it splattered against the wall behind him. "Ah but the greed of war has changed my views matey, I'm taking all the treasure for myself" Blue Beard said as she tossed an apple pie at Carl. The pie splatted against his face and he fell to the ground.
"Ahha finally I shall be the" Blue Beard began but was cut off as tomato sauce splattered against her mane and face. Her face went into a frown as she looked to Carl who had arisen from the dead to take his revenge.
"And now the greatest of allies become the fiercest of enemies" Carl said as he drew out a pirate sabre, Blue Beard did the same and the two positioned themselves as they readied themselves for battle.
Blue Beard swung her sword at Carl but he deflected the swing with his own sword and sparks were emitted as the metal slammed together. The two began to have a furious saber battle in the treasure room.
Blue Beard got the upper hand and kicked Carl in the chest. He back flipped through the air and landed on a treasure table. Blue Beard lept up onto the table, "Sabres are not your weapon of choice young one" she said as the two clashed their swords together. Carl swung his leg out and tripped her onto her back then swung the sabre down but she blocked the swing with her own. Carl tried to bring his sword blade down but she was stronger than he thought she would be.
She kicked her hindleg up and hit Carl in the back with a kick. He flipped forwards from the force and was knocked off the table and onto the floor. Blue Beard lept into the air and tried to bring her own sabre down upon him but he rolled out of the way and her sabre clacked against the ground.
Carl rolled to his feet and readied his sabre as Blue Beard did the same. They charged at each other. As Carl swung his saber he grabbed Blue Beard's hoof that held the saber, yet Blue Beard grabbed Carl's Saber hand with her own hoof.
The two entered a stalemate of power as they tried to overpower one another. Carl looked into her beautiful cyan eyes and she looked into his handsome light brown eyes. "The enemies who fought so violently against one another" Blue Beard began, "Could not fight against the other any more out of their love for the other" Carl said, ending her statement.
They both dropped their sabers and wrapped each other in a hug and began to make out. Blue Beard forced Carl to the ground and lay on top of him as she stuck her tongue into his mouth and their tongues began to wrestle in their mouths as they kissed passionately on the floor of the treasure room.
Carl pulled away from the kiss and grabbed an apple that had been knocked onto the cold floor and took a bite out of the apple, "This stuff is good, you should try it" Carl told her as he swallowed the bite of apple he had in his mouth. "Shut up and kiss me you fool" she told him as she forced her lips upon his and they began to make out again. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 10: Good liar | Sgt. Clare, Castle kitchen:
I chuckled as I opened the door and let Luna out the doorway but she quickly rushed back inside. "What's the matter?" I laughed and she quickly brought a hoof up to my mouth to silence me then nudged her head and motioned for me to look out the door.
I peeked out the door and my smile turned into a dire look as I realized that night guards were searching the halls, looking for something or someone. I looked over to where I had left the knocked out guard and groaned as I closed the door, realizing that his unconscious body was no longer there. They must've thought that Luna and I were intruders and were probably looking for us.
"They're everywhere" I muttered. She shook her head in shame, "We are going to get in sooo much trouble for this" she murmured. "No we're not. We're just going to walk back to your room and viola, problem solved" I replied, she rolled her eyes due to the obvious stupidity in the plan. "That'll never work, only guards will be patrolling the hallways, anyone else seen wandering the halls will be detained" Luna told me and I nodded.
"Then how will your plan work?" she asked, figuring like my plan would never work. "I'm on night duty and you wanted an escort" I replied, I could tell she wanted to face-hoof as she realized the simplicity in it. "All we have to do is sneak out of the kitchen and we're home free" I said triumphantly as I opened the door to the kitchen and led her out.
We easily snuck out of the kitchen and began to stroll down the hallways of the castle carelessly. "See nothing to it" I told her and she rolled her eyes. "Sometimes I wonder how you come up with these ridiculous plans" she snickered.
"HAULT!" ordered a voice from behind us, 'Spoke to soon' I thought to myself as we both turned around to see two royal guards approaching us in the hallway. "What are you doing in the royal castle after hours... Your majesty, I apologize I had no idea it was you" the guard apologized as they bowed down in front of us. "Do not worry yourself guard. Sergeant Clare was simply escorting me from the royal garden back to my room" Luna informed the guard, lying perfectly like she had rehearsed it several times.
"Yes ma'am, it would be wise to have a guard with you. There is an intruder in the building" the guard informed us. "Really who?" she asked, "At the moment ma'am, we are unsure. The librarian reported that there were two intruders who made a disaster of the library and knocked over a book shelf while yelling something about a cycloid. Also one of the guards were assaulted and knocked out by the intruder, we have... Sergeant you have something in your hair, it looks like... like applesauce" he informed me. I thought to myself how foolish we had been not to wash our hair before we left, we had only cleaned off our body and face, not our hair.
"Oh it uh must've been from lunch" I replied, trying to make up a convenient lie. He raised an eyebrow. Luna leaned over and licked the applesauce out of my hair, the guards' eyes went wide in pure shock. 'God this was not going to end well, I could already tell' I thought as Luna stepped away from me. "You guards are truly lucky to have such delicious food for your lunches" Luna said and the guard shook off the utter shock and nodded. "Uhm yes ma'am... we do ma'am" he stuttered, still obviously shocked.
"Well, I hate to have to cut our conversation short, sergeant if you would be so kind as to escort me to my chambers" Luna told me and we both turned and walked away. As we walked up a staircase and onto the second floor I looked to her.
"Did you have to do that?" I asked and she looked to me and smiled. "Well you weren't very good at lying and I needed some way to distract him and throw him off guard" she told me, I had to admit she was good at talking her way out of things. "You know we make a pretty good team together" I told her and she nodded, "But next time I get to make the plan" she laughed. "And have me talk us out of our problems?" I asked rhetorically.
She laughed at the thought of me talking us out of a problem. "Good point, you can just stand behind me for good looks" she laughed, okay now that was just insulting.
We reached her bedroom and I opened the door for her. "I could talk us out of a bad situation" I argued and she laughed. "Well that went real well when you were trying to calm me down. How'd that go again?" she asked, I laughed knowing exactly what she was trying to do. I reached my hand around her neck and brought her in for a kiss. She held a hoof up to my mouth and stopped me.
"No peaking" she said, I rolled my eyes then closed them. As I leaned in for a kiss I felt my nose go icy cold and I immediately opened my eyes and stepped back from the sudden coolness. "I said no peaking, now I'll have to punish you" she said as she brought out a feather and wisped it across the tip of my nose. I felt a sneeze coming and I didn't want to accidently sneeze on the princess so I held my sneeze back and it came out in a little tiny ah-chew. She squealed in delight, "You're so cute when you sneeze" she told me as I rubbed my nose.
"Please tell me you froze my nose then tickled it just to make me sneeze?" I asked but sort of already knew the answer. She nodded playfully and I groaned from the innocently terrible joke. I shook my head in humour as I figured it'd probably be funny if I watched it happen.
She leaned forward and gave me a quick kiss to the cheek which I returned. "Goodnight Luna" I whispered with a wink, she looked into my eyes and it was as if her cyan eyes sparkled. "Goodnight Clare" she whispered back then turned and trotted over to her bed. She looked back to me, "If you wish to have some rest you could always come to bed... I mean, not with me I...I meant with... I have another bed that" she stammered as she accidently let it slip. "I know what you mean, don't worry about it" I said as I turned around and closed the door behind me and stood guard outside her door.
As I began to stand guard I became extremely tired and constantly yawned and soon I leaned against the wall, then I slid down the wall until I was sitting down and finally I passed out.
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Sgt. Clare, Sudan Africa, 13 months ago:
"Okay gentlemen, intelligence reports that this little town here is where the gun runner is going to come through. We need to set up an ambush point and take him out. HQ would like him alive but they know how hard it might be to catch this guy and they don't need us losing our lives because we tried to catch some guy alive so if you think it's too dangerous don't be afraid to pull that trigger. Any questions?" Captain Daniels asked.
I raised my hand. "Yes sergeant?" he asked, almost reluctantly. "Can we order some pink window blinds for the windows, the place is really depressing?" I asked jokingly, several of the other guys snickered. Daniels sighed, "No sergeant, we cannot have pink window blinds but your suggestive decretive theming is always noted" Daniels replied, obviously semi- humored by my suggestion.
I let out a depressed sigh as I walked to the rear of the Humvee and opened the rear passenger poor. I reached in the back and pulled out some decretive blinds, "Okay, I guess we'll have to use these" I said, the blinds were ridiculous looking, made of beads and string. Captain Daniels groaned, "Sergeant where the hell did you get those?" Daniels asked in disappointment.
"Some crazy old bat was selling them, look she even sold me a dream catcher" I replied as I showed him the dream catcher. "She said it would stop all the bad dreams from entering my head as long as it was hung nearby" I said in a child-like voice. He face palmed and groaned at my humoress stupidity. "Jesus Christ sergeant, sometimes I worry about your mental well-being" he told me as he chuckled, most officers would rip me a new asshole for even suggesting such ludacris things but we had served in the infantry together for the last ten years, ever since we enlisted together when we were both eighteen. "Don't worry Captain I got you one to" I said as I tossed him another dream catcher, "Sergeant please don't tell me you didn't spend more than... ten dollars on all this stuff" he muttered in fear of the answer. "Twenty" I replied, knowing that I had probably let the crazy old lady rip me off but the stuff was still cool looking. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 11: Walk in the jungle | Sgt. Clare, outside royal bedroom:
I checked my watch, 7:27am. I had managed to wake up just a little earlier so that I wasn't sleeping when Hart arrived, he always seemed to think that something was going on between Luna and me. Well I guess now there was something going on between us but I still wouldn't tell him about it.
Hart soon trotted up beside me and began standing guard. "So anything interesting happen last night?" Hart asked and I shook my head. He raised an eyebrow and I smirked "What? Don't believe me?" I asked.
"Amos told me that were intruders in the building, apparently they totalled the library and kitchen and even knocked out one of the night guards" Hart informed me. I thought to myself about what a mess Luna and I had made last night. "Well, I only heard about it but I never got to see it" I told him, lying conveniently.
"Too bad. They're still cleaning the library if you wanna go see it" He informed me. I tried to stifle a laugh, "What's so funny?" he asked. "Why the hell would some-pony break in only to trash the library?" I asked and he shrugged, "I dun-oh" he replied.
I yawned as I stretched out then wiped my eyes. "Up drinking wine with the princess again?" he asked jokingly, "Nah, we decided to have vodka" I laughed sarcastically. "I'm telling yah man, she wants you" he told me and I shook my head. "Why in Celestia's name would the princess be interested in me?" I asked him and he thought about it for a second. "Well if I was the princess I'd wanna buck you all night" he joked, I had to laugh at his immaturity. "Well I'm glad that you're not the princess" I replied as I face palmed.
We sat around and joked for a while until a royal guard came up to us. "Lieutenant Daffodil wants us all to report to the war room for mission briefing ASAP" the guard informed us. I nodded then turned and knocked on Luna's door. "You may enter" she called out and I opened the door and stepped in, giving a proper salute. "As you were sergeant" she told me and I lowered my hand.
"Ma'am, Lieutenant Daffodil has ordered a briefing" I informed her and she nodded. "You're relieved from your posts" she told us then started to read her magazine titled 'The secret to Hearts and Hooves day' with the subtitle reading 'How to drive your stallion over the edge in bed', I think I was going to forget that I saw that last part.
I turned around and closed the door behind me as Hart and I paced down the hallway. "So whatta yah think?" Hart asked and I thought about the question for a moment. "Re-capturing the hill" I replied. "Nah man we just did that" he told me. "50 bits on the hill" I gambled. "You're on, I say we're going to the deserts near Appleloosa" he told me and I shook his hoof.
We entered the war room where the others were waiting. "Alright gentlecolts, intelligence confirms that there is an armed resistance group right here, on hill 959. Our orders are to go in and take the peak" Daffodil informed us, Hart groaned silently and gave me a sack of fifty bits. I chuckled quietly and put the sack of bits in my pants pocket. "Alright men, suit up the chopper leaves in ten minutes. They're dropping us at the bottom and we're moving to the top by hoof, let's move it out" Daffodil ordered.
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10 minutes later:
Sgt. Clare, helipad:
"Alright gentlecolts, load on" I yelled over the sound of the helicopter propellers. We had six Huey replicas with ten stallions loading into each one, for a total of sixty shadow guards. All the stallions in the platoon loaded onto the choppers. I mounted the door gun and nodded to the pilot, who nodded back to me and began to take off.
"So Sarge, tell me. What's hill 959 like?" Private Ramsey, one of the new guys, asked. "Shitty" I replied back, his face had fear on it. "I mean... where is it exactly?" he asked, still a little frightened but I couldn't blame him, this was his first combat experience. "It's far back in the Everfree" I informed him.
"So... it's like a forest right?" he asked and I shook my head. "No... it's more like a jungle in there" I told him and he nodded. "So just a simple walk through the jungle right?" he asked, obviously very terrified about this whole combat mission.
"You've been talking to the lieutenant too much, that place is a deathtrap" said Corporal Bakers who was our squad machine gunner. Bakers, I might add, had two combat tours behind his belt but was rather brash and blunt. "Don't scare the kid, he's new" I told Bakers who chuckled. "Just warning him Sarge. Don't wanna sugar-coat it for the cherry yah know" he said and I rolled my eyes and looked back to Ramsey.
"Don't listen to Bakers, he's let the combat get to his head. Just keep your head down when the shooting starts and you'll be fine" I told him and he nodded. "That or you could just stand behind me when I let the PIG loose" Bakers chuckled as he fiddled with the sights on the M60.
"Yeah but Bakers, he'll end up eating something that you tell him to then he'll get sick like you" joked Corporal Sunburst. "Man... the crazy bitch said that it would relieve stomach cramps" Bakers argued. "Yeah so you listened to the tribal zebra and ate some poison joke" Sunburst laughed.
I would never forget those days, when Bakers had the worst digestive problems ever and some of which led to diarrhea.
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4 months ago:
Sgt. Clare, jungles in the Everfree:
The entire platoon was trotting through some dense jungle tall grass. We were on patrol to scout out some village that was supposed to have zebra hostiles. The heat was hot and tropical, and bugs seemed to just swarm out of the grass and stick to my face from all the sweat.
"Oh man... man... I'm dying lieutenant... we gotta stop man" Bakers pleaded. "Bakers we can't stop the entire platoon until we get to the village" Daffodil replied. Bakers held his gut, obviously having a bad case of diarrhea again. "Oh man... how much longer" Bakers groaned and winced, probably feeling it start to come around. "5 minutes... maybe less" Daffodil told him.
I chuckled and Bakers looked back to me. "Oh... oh you think this is funny huh?" Bakers said, nearly whimpering from the discomfort. "No Bakers, there is nothing funny about the average life of a grunt... accept when he decides to eat some tropical plant given to him by a zebra" I laughed, several of the others chuckled.
"Oh man... this ain't funny guys... I think I'm gonna... oh god it's coming out, we gotta hurry this up man" Bakers said, nearly in tears from the horrible discomfort.
We approached the village and we began to fan out in search of zebra fighters. I was unfortunately stuck with the diarrhea ridden Bakers who wouldn't stop complaining. "Man... can I please go... man I can feel it slipping out right now... oh god" Bakers pleaded. "Bakers we just gotta finish the sweep, if we don't then you could get ambushed while in" I began but Private Dawn came rushing over. "Sarge come quick, LT found an underground zebra tunnel" he informed me as he pointed to where Daffodil was.
"Alright Dawn, stay with Bakers and continue the sweep. Bakers just... try and keep it in" I replied and dashed off to hut where Dawn said Daffodil was.
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Third person, the zebra village:
"Alright LT... whatta we got?" Clare asked and Daffodil pointed to a hole dug into the ground. "Alright then... fire in the hole" he warned as he pulled the pin on an M67 frag grenade and tossed it into the hole and quickly covered it with the makeshift cover top.
The grenade explosions were somewhat muffled from the tunnel cover as Clare continued to drop grenades into the tunnel hole. However far off in the forest several zebra fighters exited a hidden tunnel escape, these sorts of underground tunnels were all over the Everfree.
Back at the village Bakers was still groaning in discomfort. "Man I'm dying, I'm going" Bakers said and started trotting away into the Everfree to get some privacy. Dawn shook his head and rolled his eyes, "And that, mares and gentlecolts, is what happens when you mix poison joke with an idiot" Dawn muttered to himself.
Bakers trotted up into some dense grass and slipped down his combat pants. Though ponies usually never wore pants, during missions in the Everfree it was combat proven that despite some lack of comfort during walking, wearing pants removed most cuts and scratches received from razor grass and although the cuts were minor it was terribly irritable and could lead to small infections. Razor grass and other natural nuisances such as poison joke were usually dense in the Everfree.
Bakers got his pants and underwear down and squatted down, not noticing a small snake that slithered into his pants. He was about to go when he spotted a group of zebra fighters with AK47s trotting through the dense jungle, technically the Everfree forest but it was more tropical here.
He crouched down and picked up his M60 as he slowly slid his pants back on. He started breathing slowly as he lined up his shot but his eyes suddenly went wide as he felt something slimy and slippery sliding through his underwear.
He immediately realized what it was and dropped to the ground, screaming insanely in fear that the snake might be poisonous. The zebras heard his screaming and looked over to see the dense grass rustling around and began to fire their AK47s at the movement.
Back in the village the others all rushed together. "What the hell's going on?" Clare asked and Dawn ran up, "It's Bakers Sarge, he went out to take a shit" Dawn replied. "Let's move" Clare ordered and the troops immediately followed him into the Everfree.
Bakers rolled behind a tree for some cover as he continued to scream from the slimy snake that was still slithering around in his underwear. The rest of the platoon rushed up and opened fire on the zebras that were no more than twenty or thirty yards away.
"It's in my pants, it's in my pants" Bakers screamed. "What's in your pants Bakers?" Clare yelled over the automatic gunfire that now deafened most other noises. Bakers rolled over and unzipped his pants then pulled the snake out of his pants. "Jesus Christ Bakers... how the hell'd that get in your pants?" Clare asked in utter disappointment that Bakers caused this entire ruckus over a baby milk snake. "Guh, uhh" Bakers groaned as he tossed the snake away then rolled back over and opened fire on the remaining zebras. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 12: The Hill | Present day,
Sgt. Clare, Everfree forest, Hill 959:
Gunfire could be heard in the far distance, the heat was hot and several of the stallions were sweating. We were moving in a straight line deployment. Despite only having the rank of Sergeant I was appointed platoon sergeant and had suggested that we have Corporal Cranks, one of the veteran shadow guards, on point but Daffodil saw fit to have one of the new guys on point.
Christ I could see the kid from here, every time gunfire rang out he'd flinch and crouch down. I broke formation and paced quickly to the front of the line, Daffodil was about to say something but couldn't seem to find the words. I tapped the new guy on the shoulder and he turned to me. It was Private Cloud Dasher, the guy who had spilt his drink on my lunch the other day. He was still very frightened and was breathing heavily.
"Why don't you take a break from point, I'll take lead for a while" I told him and he nodded. "Thank you Sarge" he said in an absolutely terrified voice, Christ it sounded like he was about to just sit down and start crying. I couldn't blame him though, this was some pretty scary stuff.
Cloud Dasher was trotting up close behind me, like I was his personal protector or something. "Sarge... all I can think about is all that gunfire up there... what's going on up there" he whispered. "It's Celestia's royal guard, they decided they wanted first crack at the hill this time" I informed him as we continued through the tall grass. Literally the stuff was taller than I was and I stood 6'4" so this stuff must've been at least nine feet high and it was dense.
"What do you mean, this time?" he asked fearfully. "Cause last time we went in first" Bakers piped up. Dasher looked back to him, "Last time?" he asked uneasily. "We've taken this hill before" I told him and he looked back to me. "Well if we took it before, then why are we taking it again?" Dasher asked with fear coursing through his voice.
"Cause that's how we win these wars, Dasher. We give up our hard fought land to the enemy so that ponies don't think we're the bad guys" said Specialist Lickety Split, who was one of those hippy fighters who always made the war decisions look bad. Dasher looked back to him, "Man don' play those games with my head Split" Dasher pleaded.
Daffodil trotted up, "Don't worry Private it's not that. Lickety, we can't hold all the land we fight on because we wouldn't have enough troops to cover it" Daffodil told Lickety. "Well then what's the point in fighting for it" Split argued and Daffodil looked back to him. "You know what Split, when you become the general of staff you can tell the princess how to win these wars okay" Daffodil told him.
We reached the bottom of the hill and I looked back to the men and motioned for them to rally up. The platoon rallied up, "Alright listen, intelligence reports heavy zebra concentration at the peak but also pockets of fighters down the valley so I want every-pony quiet and listening, alright" I told them and they nodded. I probably should have let Daffodil give the order but he would've probably sugar-coated it for the guards and they would've been off guard.
I took point and began to lead them up the hill slowly and quietly. The grass was less dense here but still the jungle, or forest, was still thick with brush thickets and visibility was low. I wiped some sweat from my forehead as we continued on up the hill.
As we continued on up the hill, the gunfire from the peak ceased and everything seemed to go silent. "What's going on up there?" Dasher whispered and I turned around as I kept sneaking forwards. "They're done... it's our turn" I whispered. He gave me a fearful look, "Are... are they okay?" he asked and I sighed quietly. "They're alive but probably have heavy casualties" I informed him then returned my attention to the makeshift path.
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Third person, Everfree forest, Hill 959:
The platoon of shadow guards continued up the hill quietly. Clare was still in lead and trying his best to keep Private Dasher from panicking from the silence.
"Sarge... why do they call this place 959 anyway?" Dasher whispered. Clare didn't even look back. "Because it's nine hundred and fifty nine feet from top to bottom" Clare replied. "Maybe nine fifty after that artillery bombing last October" Daffodil said silently. Dasher looked back to him, "How many times have you guys taken this hill anyway?" Dasher asked and Daffodil thought to himself and sighed.
"Five times, this one will be six" Daffodil whispered. Dasher turned back around and his breathing became heavy again as he realized that Bakers was probably right, it was a deathtrap down here.
No less than fifteen yards to the platoons left in some tall grass lay several zebra fighters. One of the zebras pulled out a grenade but the zebra officer held the zebra's shoulder and shook his head then pointed the tailing soldier of the platoon. As the tailing platoon stallion trotted by the zebra officer nodded and the other zebra tossed the grenade at the stallion.
The grenade exploded violently and killed the stallion instantly as the zebras opened fire on the platoon with their AK47s. "GET DOWN!" Clare yelled and the entire platoon dropped except Daffodil who stood there in shock. Clare snarled as he lept over and tackled Daffodil to the ground, lead flew through the air above them. Clare unslung his Thompson and sprayed a volley of .45 caliber rounds into the dense grass, several cries of agony could be heard from zebras as they were hit from the lead rounds that now chattered out of Clare's Thompson. The other platoon members shot at the zebras with their M16A4s.
The M16A4 was a versatile rifle but due to the three round burst it was really inconvenient at this close with this many zebras almost literally breathing down their necks. Clare's Thompson spat out an incredibly high volume of fire but his fifty round drum magazine soon ran dry. He rolled over behind a tree and reloaded a fresh drum magazine into the gun.
"Hey Dickens... DICKENS" Clare yelled over the gunfire and Corporal Dickens looked over. "See where I'm firing?" Clare asked as he sprayed a quick burst into the grass. "Yeah" Dickens replied, "Use the M79" Clare ordered him and Dickens quickly unslung the M79 and popped a 40mm grenade round into the thicket of tall grass.
The grenade round exploded violently and several zebras were propelled a few into the air. Clare stepped out from cover, "I want a quick sweep" Clare ordered.
The others quickly got up and inspected the grass, a wounded zebra stallion stood up and Bakers cut him down with a burst from the M60. "All clear" Bakers called out. Clare looked to Daffodil who was hiding the deceased guards in the brush off to the side of the trail and Clare walked up to his side. "Hickland, Munsey and Red... goddammit" Daffodil cursed as he collected their dog tags.
"Hide them and we'll pick them up on the way back down" Clare whispered. "Alright stallions form up, straight line. We're going to the peak" Clare ordered and the others quickly rallied up and got into formation.
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Private Cloud Chaser, Everfree forest, Hill 959:
'Why the hell did I volunteer for this shit... I wanna go home' I thought to myself as we continued on up the hill. It was so hot here, even hotter than summer days back in Manehatten and the grass was so thick I couldn't see a goddamned thing.
The Sarge held up a fist then motioned for us all to get down. My breathing became erratic and I couldn't control it, I was so scared. I saw movement up ahead that was descending down the hill, it was ponies but they looked... bloody.
Celestia's royal guard-ponies trotted down the hill, some of them getting carried on stretchers. A lieutenant from the platoon stepped up to the Sarge.
"How's things up there?" Sarge asked the lieutenant and he didn't say a thing. "How bad?" Sarge asked uneasily and the lieutenant looked up to him with defeated eyes. "It's like fighting ghosts... I don't know about you Clare but I didn't sign up to fight ghosts" the lieutenant said then began to trot down the hill with the rest of his platoon. One of the stallions who had a badly cut up foreleg slipped and fell. The Sarge caught him and held him up, "Thanks" the stallion whispered weakly as he continued to limp down the hill. It was like they had been to hell. "Yeah no problem" Sarge told the stallion then looked up to the hill.
We were so close now, probably less than one hundred feet. "Alright spread out, we want to hit them with a volley of fire, one team supports while the other moves up" Sarge ordered. We nodded and followed his lead, though it was weird. Wasn't Lieutenant Daffodil supposed to lead us?
As we approached the peak of the hill it flattened out a little then without warning, it seemed like the world exploded around me. Gunfire deafened me and I quickly lept to the ground and rolled sideways until I was behind a fallen tree. Private Ramsey, one of the stallions who had enlisted with me, lept down beside me. "Why the hell'd we sign up for this shit" I screamed then peeked my head over the log and fired wildly into the jungle. In all the fear I had forgotten that the M16 rifle was three round burst so I only shot off three rounds but I held the trigger and in my fearful confusion I quickly slipped back down behind the log and inspected my M16, thinking it was jammed because it only fired three times.
Ramsey sat beside me. "I can't take this shit man... I can't... AAAHHHHHH" Ramsey screamed and started thrashing around on the ground. I reached over and grabbed him to try and keep him still. "Ramsey... Ramsey what's wrong?" I asked my friend.
"What the hell's wrong with Ramsey?" Sarge screamed over the sound of gunfire. "A snake bit me man, a snake bit me... ARRRG, GAAHHHH" Ramsey screamed as he started to twitch and the Sarge ran over and lept beside us. "Ramsey... what the hell's going on?" Sarge yelled. "He said a snake bit him sir, but I don't see no snake" I told him and soon Ramsey's screamed became gags and he finally stopped twitching and lay there, lifeless.
"FUCK" Sarge yelled and looked back over the log. He hunched back over and looked to me. "Fuck, this place is too open to make a flank around the sides... LIEUTENANT" Sarge screamed as he shuffled over top of me then quickly dashed over to where the lieutenant was. I saw them conversing then the Sarge and lieutenant Daffodil tossed some smoke grenades down range, soon there was a smoke screen off to the side of the machinegun nest. "COVERING FIRE" Sarge yelled and every-pony began to fire down range at the zebras, I peeked over to see it wasn't individual zebras but an actual dug in machinegun nest. I brought my M16 up and held back the trigger but once again it only fired three rounds, I almost face-hoofed as I remembered that these rifles were three round burst. I really wish that they would've made them fully automatic.
The Sarge did something I thought no pony would ever do, he lept from cover and ran forwards. I thought it to be stupidity, running into the line of fire of a machinegun but then I realized that the smoke screen had given him enough cover to successfully run up to the machinegun nest.
But as he approached he didn't take it head on, he instead went around to the side and lept into a trench and moved through the trench, his Thompson sub machinegun spraying any zebra that stood in his way. He reached the back of the machinegun nest and fired into the nest with his Thompson. Other zebras were now approaching from behind and soon he would be surrounded, but for some reason he did something truly ridiculous. He lept out of the machinegun nest and began to run back to us, zebras fired at him furiously but no rounds seemed to strike him. He was either very lucky or very talented.
He lept over the fallen tree I had taken cover behind as a violent eruption thundered and several zebras could be heard screaming. The Sarge ejected the drum magazine from the gun and loaded it with a fresh one.
We all sat there for what seemed like ages but it was probably only a few minutes. "Alright... sweep the area... LT... call HQ, we've taken Hill 959" Sarge said through heavy breathing.
We all walked up cautiously towards the destroyed bunker and inspected it. Lieutenant Daffodil got on the radio with HQ in Canterlot. Daffodil started arguing with the radio-mare on the other end of the radio. "I got nothing, I repeat nothing, zippo" Daffodil reported and waited as his response came through, "So what do you have?" the voice from the radio asked. "I said I got nothing HQ, I got no bodies, I got no body parts... a little blood" he told the voice on the radio. It was weird now that I looked at it, there were no bodies at all. It was like the zebras picked them all up before they retreated.
"Alright, I want a defensive perimeter set up over" Sarge began but Lieutenant Daffodil interrupted him. "Don't even bother" he told the Sarge. "Why not?" Sarge asked and Lieutenant Daffodil stood up, "HQ wants us to leave the peak. Pack up and move out" Daffodil ordered.
"Bullshit" Bakers screamed as he kicked over a burning piece of wood. "Man... I can't believe this shit" Lickety Split complained as he kicked the ground, kicking up a bunch or dirt. "Orders are orders" Daffodil told us as he stood up and hung up the radio that was attached to the back of the radio stallion.
The others all sighed irritably as they began to walk down the hill again, I looked back to the machinegun nest, knowing that I'd probably see it again in the not too distant future. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 13: Night sky | Hours later:
Sgt. Clare, Canterlot castle, war room:
"And that's it ma'am, seven dead and six wounded" Daffodil reported and Luna took note of it. "Dismissed lieutenant" Luna said, Daffodil bowed then left the war room. I turned to Luna who sighed heavily. "It's time for a vacation" she muttered as she sat down and flopped her head against the table.
I made sure no-pony was inside the war room and sat down next to her and embraced her in a loving hug. "Why is there war?" she whispered, I could tell she had been crying. "I don't know... people, ponies, we all seem to have some sort of primal instinct that says 'Kill'" I muttered, ashamed that I to had that primal instinct that said kill but I embraced the primal part of me and let myself loose on the battlefield.
"I want you to take a vacation... come with me somewhere peaceful and quiet" she whispered as she rested her head on my chest. "What do we tell the others? I have this gut feeling that Celestia won't like me dating you" I chuckled.
She looked up into my eyes, "We don't tell her. We simply say that I'm taking leave and that you're coming with me as a personal bodyguard" she told me. "What about your royal duties?" I asked, she shrugged and rested her head against my chest again. "I can still perform my royal duties elsewhere" she informed me.
We sat there and held each other until I looked at my watch and realized it was 6:00pm. "Uhm, I think my shift is over" I muttered and she looked over to the war room clock. "Would you mind keeping guard overnight again?" she asked.
"Sure, why not" I replied as we sat up and left the war room. I had finally been able to get my old duster coat back, I had to have it sent to a dressmaker to have it stitched up after the fall from the bank roof. As we walked through the halls she told me about all the places she'd wanted to go to since she'd been back but hadn't the time or companions to go.
We walked out onto the castle balcony and watched the sun go down, it was kind of pretty in the spring to watch the sun go down. Luna's horn flared and soon the moon began to ascend, but very slowly. "Mr. Clare, would you be so kind as to watch the moon with me tonight?" Luna asked, in a voice that made her sound like a younger more lady like teenager on her first date. "Yes ma... I would be delighted to accompany you this evening Ms. Luna" I replied in a gentlemanly voice, it kind of felt weird talking to the princess like this, I mean she was my boss.
"Well I must get changed. Meet me in the royal garden at 7:00pm sharp" she said then trotted away. I leaned against the balcony railing and thought to myself 'Okay self so... only a few days ago you were contemplating whether or not she liked me and now I'm going on a date with her... alright. But I'm gonna need something more... gentlemanly'.
I walked into the castle in search of some gentleman's attire, there had to be something.
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6:56pm
Sgt. Clare, royal garden:
I looked at myself, "Oh how the mighty have fallen" I chuckled as I looked at the finely tailored suit. Though it was a little loose I couldn't really complain, at least the dressmaker had something that fit me and that was designed for humans. Black suit jacket, black pants, white undershirt, black tie and... black combat boots, oh well Luna probably wouldn't notice anyway.
I checked my watch, 6:58. I then realized I hadn't gotten her flowers. "Shit" I muttered as I looked into the garden. There were some red roses that had been recently planted and despite it being early in the year, the roses had already bloomed and were quite pretty.
'I wonder if she likes roses?' I asked myself as I bent over and quickly snatched a few roses. My snatch was so fast that I didn't realize at first but there were thorns still in the roses. I tried to drop the roses out of my hand but the thorns had poked into my hand and kept the roses stuck to my palm. "Oh for the love of" I began but Luna interrupted me.
"Good evening Clare" said a breathtaking voice. I turned around to see Luna sparkling in the moonlight, well not really but her mane was sparkling. My jaw dropped, she was absolutely... well stunning and I was speechless. "Luna... you're... you're beautiful" I said stutteringly.
She had a beautifully woven blue dress that matched her fur and nice glass slippers. She trotted over to me and smiled. "I like the suit, it makes you look... handsome and manly" she told me, she was a real heart taker when she talked like this. "The combat boots are a nice touch too" she told me, 'Damn, she noticed'.
"Uhm... I uhh got you some roses" I stammered and presented her the roses. She snickered and I realized my hand was bleeding from the thorns. "I think that you're supposed to de-thorn them first" she laughed and levitated them out of my hand. She looked at my hand. "I'll be fine, just a scratch" I assured her. She used her magic to de-thorn the roses then placed one in her mane, and the other she levitated over into my jacket chest pocket.
I looked over to her and smiled as we walked into the beautiful garden. 'Man this looks like something out of a Disney movie' I thought to myself as we walked to a more secluded area.
Luna, or some-pony, had set up a woven blanket on the ground. Luna sat down and patted the area beside her, "Please sit down with me Clare" she offered. I took her offer and sat down beside her, she was rather quick in resting her head against my shoulder as we watched the night sky together.
The moon was shining very bright and it illuminated Equestria. "Beautiful isn't it?" I asked, rhetorically, figuring she'd say yes. "No" she replied, I gave her a confused look and sighed. "It was beautiful to me at one time but after my thousand year banishment it gives me a rather... cold feeling" she replied as she shivered, obviously remembering the thousand year banishment.
"I'm... so sorry" I apologized and she shook her head. "Don't be, it is beautiful if I don't think about the time I spent up there... forever alone" she told me as a tear came to her eye. I held her face gently and wiped away the tear with my thumb. "Clare... I want to love you but... I can't" she said with sadness in her voice.
"Yeah... I know, you're an alicorn princess and I'm a human elite shadow guard. It just doesn't mix" I said and she shook her head. "No, not that. I am an immortal and you are not. I could never love you because when you pass... I would be alone again" she said as she stifled back a sniffle.
I gently wrapped my arms around her, "Luna I... I have a code of honour to live by. I respect the code with my full dignity but despite it saying that I'm not allowed to have relations with you, I love you none the less. I would do anything for you" I told her, I thought it was kind of cheesy and a bad romance line but I wasn't really used to talking with women, minus the women I talked to in my old unit but they didn't count because... well just because.
I could feel tears trickle down from her face onto my shoulders. "I loved once... my dearest Star Gazer. After he passed I was heart-broken and vowed never to love again, and eventually I suppressed my heart-broken emotions for him. But as soon as you started working for me I felt for you and I... I can't let my heart be broken again" she sobbed. I ran my hand through her mane and rubbed the back of her head gently as I cooed her.
She immediately stood up, tears still trickling down her face, "I'm sorry Clare I just... please take tomorrow off... find someone who will love you and be happy together" she cried as she galloped off. "WAIT LUNA!" I called out but she just kept running, 'Fuck... I hope I didn't say something wrong'. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 14: Day off | The next morning,
Sgt. Clare, Canterlot castle, mess hall:
I sat down at a table with a tray of food, Hart trotted over and sat down beside me. "Hey Sarge, almost didn't recognize you without your guns" Hart chuckled. "It's my day off, it should be peaceful and relaxing" I said as I yawned and stretched.
"Oh yeah, real peaceful. Don't have no Smith and Wesson five hundred magnum going off" Hart chuckled. Figures that I wasn't allowed keeping my weapons during my time off but then again I suppose ponies wouldn't react too well if they saw a human walking the streets of Canterlot with a Thompson sub machinegun.
I lifted my sandwich to my mouth but I hadn't even taken a bite when Captain Shining Armor burst into the mess hall. "Sergeant Clare, Luna's been captured" he exclaimed. I set down the sandwich and let out an irritated sigh "Yeah I'll be with you in a second" I said as I stood up, "Figures I didn't even get to eat breakfast'.
I followed Shining Armor as he led me into the war room where Celestia stood with some of the other lieutenants. "This is bad... really bad" lieutenant Daffodil muttered. As I entered the room every-pony starred at me.
"Clare... we have a dire situation. We received a letter this morning from an anonymous writer in an unknown location and he is threating to kill my sister unless we hand over the Crystal Empire to him" Celestia informed me. "Can I see the letter?" I asked and she levitated over a scroll, I looked at it. It looked like whoever wrote it had written it in blood. "Was there an envelope with this?" I asked and Celestia looked to Daffodil who handed her the envelope and she levitated it over to me as well.
"He's in the Crystal Empire" I replied as I tossed to scroll and envelope onto the table. "WHAT! How do you know?!" Celestia asked, I chuckled and pointed to the envelope. "Yes what about it?" Celestia asked as she looked at it and I shrugged, "It was stamped from the Crystal Empire" I chuckled. Celestia realized that in their panic they had over-looked that tiny detail. "Oh... right. But even so, he threatened to kill her if we sent a large fighting force at him. We have no way of defeating him" Celestia told me.
"Send him a scroll that says I'll bring him a suitcase of money and sign the deed to the Crystal Empire" I told them and they all gasped. "You can't do that... it's absurd" Celestia argued. I smirked "Trust me... I think I have an idea".
I got one of the other lieutenants to write the scroll while Celestia, Shining Armor and I walked to the armoury. Celestia opened the armoury doors and I walked in, I began to browse through the selection of weapons then turned back to Celestia. "Hey Celestia, can you have one of your geeks make me a new watch?" I asked.
"They are not geeks, they are computer engineers" she scowled, hating the fact that I always called them geeks. "Yeah well anyway, have them make the watch so that it has a poison dart launcher, a grappling cable, a laser gun, a magnet ray... oh and have them set to the right time" I told her. "Why in Equestria would you need a watch like that?" Celestia asked at the thought of the absolutely ludacris idea of such a watch. "Trust me... I'll need it" I told her then thought for a second and looked to her "And I'll need a truck... a big one".
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A few hours later,
Sgt. Clare, approaching Crystal Empire:
I down shifted the F-750 pickup truck, man when I said big truck I meant something like a Silverado 3500 but this thing was just overkill. Celestia had it brought in a while back for examination but said that the large V-10 gasoline engine in a truck this size made it un-economical idea but screw the fuel economy this thing kicks ass.
The truck had no problem driving through the snow which was probably a foot or two high but the truck's large size allowed it to just drive right through like it was nothing. I approached the border crossing where some sort of freaky looking shadow guard stood with an assault rifle.
I slowed the truck to a stop and he approached the side of the truck but I had to roll down the window and look down to see him. "Are you the one?" the guard asked and I nodded, he pointed to the large castle in the center of the Empire. "Lord Sombra awaits, do not make him wait" the guard hissed, I gave him a salute with just my index and middle finger then drove the truck into the empire.
Ponies where in shackles and walked the streets. This place had a creepy feeling to it like something had taken all the fun away and now there was a grey haze misting through the town.
Ponies would look up to the massive truck in fear as I drove past them. Well I suppose I would be sketched out too if I saw some massive vehicle looking things with grill bars and fog lights across the grill and roof. The truck was painted a dark blue, in tribute of Luna's shadow guard colours.
I parked the truck in front of the truck in front of the castle and turned it off. I grabbed the suitcase of money as I lept out of the truck and slammed the door behind me. Shadow guards, well not Luna's shadow guards but they looked kind of like shadow guards, pointed spears at me. "This way human scum" barked a shadow guard and they led me into the castle.
As we entered the castle a stallion butler walked up with a push cart. "Please sir, relinquish all your weapons" the butler ordered. I opened my duster coat, revealing a large arsenal of sub machineguns and pistols. The shadow guards stepped back and immediately readied their war spears. I began to unload all of my weapons onto the cart: Uzis, Mac-10s, M1911s, Colt SAAs, and even a shotgun that was strapped to my leg in a leg holster. Finally I unholstered my Smith and Wesson 500 magnum and dropped it onto the pile of guns that was now overflowing the push cart.
The guards looked in awe as they gawked at the overflowing pile of guns on the push cart. "Uhm... were you expecting a war?" the butler asked fearfully but I shook my head. "No, that's how I usually arm myself on my day off. You should see me when I'm pissed off" I lied, I had purposely armed myself with a ridiculous amount of weapons just to install fear into my enemies because I knew they'd want to disarm me.
"Uhm... right... please follow me this way" suggested a guard, no longer barking orders like he had before. They led me into an upstairs office were a stallion sat, smoking a cigar. "Ah... Mr. Clare, so good of you to join us" said the stallion. He nodded to the guards and all but two left. The two remaining guards kept there sub machineguns pointed at my back.
"Please Mr. Clare, have a seat" the stallion offered as he pointed to the seat across from himself. I sat down and thumped the suitcase on the table. "What have you brought me?" he asked rhetorically as he spun the suitcase around and popped it open, his eyes went wide as he gazed upon American $100 dollar bills, still in the wrap.
"Oh my... this is quite a bit... how much?" he asked. "7 million" I replied, just saying a random high number, I wasn't sure how much was in there but it probably wasn't much over one million.
"Oh my... well Mr. Clare I apologize if I seem a bit rude but you must understand that we have to execute you now... we can't have loose ends" the stallion told me. "I still need to sign over the rights to the Crystal Empire" I reminded him. "Oh that's right... here" he said as he tossed me a piece of paper, "Just sign at the bottom".
I reached into my coat and I heard the guards ready their sub guns. I slowly pulled my hand out of my duster coat, revealing a pack of cigarettes. "Ah, the final smoke, enjoy it. It'll be your last" the stallion snickered. I patted my coat in search of a lighter then hit myself in the head, making it look like I was irritated.
"Fuck, hey listen I left my lighter at home. Don't suppose you could light me up?" I asked, the stallion nodded and pulled out a beautifully engraved zippo and leaned over the table to light my smoke. I leaned forward to but as he got within range I blew into the cigarette and the cigarette expelled knock out gas into his face.
He shook his head quickly and soon fell over onto the floor, unconscious. The guards behind me didn't know what to make of it. I spun around and pointed my watch hand forward then pressed a button on the watch, it shot out a deadly neurotoxin dart into a guard's neck. The poison immediately affected his esophagus and he began gagging as his throat closed up from the neurotoxins that now coursed through his body, the other guard was stunned from the sudden change of events and froze up in shock long enough for me to charge over and break his neck silently.
No-pony knew what was going on yet but I had a feeling that things were about to get very noisy. I walked over to the suitcase, pushing the money aside as I opened the secret compartment in the suitcase and pulled out a Glock 18 along with a 100 round drum magazine. I slipped the magazine into the gun and pulled back the slide, loading a round into the pistol. Yeah, I think things were about to get 'really' noisy. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 15: Sombra's empire | Sgt. Clare, Crystal Empire palace:
I walked over to the office door and kicked it down. Several dark guards, that's what I'm calling them now, turned in attention from the noise. "Our meeting's adjourned" I quoted as I sprayed them down with a fully automatic burst from the Glock. 9mm rounds tore through their flimsy armour and ripped their life from them. Several of the dark guards were dead before they hit the ground but I was already on the move.
Several dark guards rushed up the stairs with G3 assault rifles but they weren't prepared for me. I leveled my automatic pistol at the group and held the trigger back, the pistol made a buzzing sound as it spat out rounds at an incredibly high rate. Several of the guards tumbled back down the stair case with bullet holes riddled throughout their bodies.
I heard yelling from down stairs and I began to descend the stair case rather slowly. When I reached the bottom I was greeted by a line of dark guards who had their rifles trained on the stairs as they waited for me. "WAIT!" I exclaimed, they were all stupid enough to lose their concentration and lower their guns slightly. I had the Glock at hip level as I squeezed the trigger and mowed down the group with a stream of lead death.
These guys were amateurs, probably hired as a last resort. Several dark guards shot at me from a balcony and bullets chipped away at the floor. I lined up my shot and sprayed them down. Two of the guards toppled and fell of the balcony ledge that overlooked the entrance, one of them let out a comical scream as he fell.
I looked at the Glock which was now empty and dropped it to the ground as I walked over to the push cart with the pile of overflowing guns, which for some reason hadn't been taken away. I grabbed my Smith and Wesson 500 magnum and placed it in my shoulder holster. I picked through the guns and chose: an M1911 pistol, an Uzi 9mm and the Mossberg 500 tactical which had no stock and just a pistol grip with a three round tubular magazine.
I held the Uzi and cocked back the charging bolt. Things were about to get real messy. I thought to myself about where Sombra might be hiding and figured 'In the highest room in the tallest tower' and snickered at the thought. As I ascended up a staircase several dark guards came barreling down the stairs, assault rifles drawn. I quickly snapped my aim up and sprayed them down with a quick burst, making sure not to waste too much of the magazine's ammunition capacity.
The guards began to tumble down the stairs and I hurdled over their bodies as I ascended up the stairs. I entered the top level of the castle only to find over a dozen dark guards waiting for me. I quickly began to hose them down with a constant stream from the Uzi but it quickly ran dry and I lept behind cover as the dark guards fired at me. Thank god that crystals were semi resistant to bullets. I unsheathed the Mossberg from my leg holster, I had one shot in the chamber and three in the tube. "Four shots" I muttered as I lept up and pulled the trigger back.
The shotgun's BOOM echoed through the throne room, it was deafening. The load of buckshot caught a dark guard in the chest and lifted him off his hooves, propelling his body a few feet through the air. I racked the shotgun slide and blasted another dark guard in the chest, the load of buckshot ripped his chest open and blood splattered everywhere. I pumped the shotgun slide again then pumped another guard with a gutful of lead buckshot.
The other guards quickly turned tail and ran, I quickly took aim and blasted another in the flank as he ran and his body front flipped from the force and sent him tumbling down the stairs.
I drew out the M1911 pistol and held it in both hands as I began searching the throne room for Luna. I heard sobbing coming from somewhere but I couldn't figure out where. I continued my search until blind luck had me trip over a slightly opened trap door. I ended up falling on my face but I had found out where the crying was coming from. I ripped the trap door off its hinges and tossed it away as I looked down into the secret cavern.
"Oh fuck..." I muttered as I realized it was an impossibly long descent down. I had only heard the crying because it had echoed throughout the cavern. "Well Bond, let's see how well this watch works" I muttered as I pointed the watch at the ground and shot the cable hook into the crystal floor. The hook pierced the floor and hopefully it would hold. I gave it an aggressive tug and it showed no signs of stress. I set the release latch for the watch cable so that it would allow me to descend and I slowly lowered myself off the edge of the staircase then lept down, it was considerably faster than walking but not a dangerously high speed that would rip my shoulder out of place if I needed to stop suddenly.
The descend seemed to drag on forever but it was probably only five or six minutes, I should've set the stop watch to see how long it really was, man this watch had everything. I finally reached the bottom of the cavern where Luna sat tied up in a chair. I released the cable wire from the watch and walked over, Luna couldn't see me but she could hear my footsteps.
"I'm... not... going... to be your... queen" she managed through painful words, I really hope she wasn't hurt all that bad. I walked over and pulled out a small switch blade knife that clicked as I flicked it open. "Go ahead... cut me... you can't break my will" she laughed through painful breaths.
I cut off the ropes that binded her front hooves together behind the chair then cut the ropes around her hindlegs. She immediately lept forward then turned to charge me, readying her horn to impale me. She saw it was me and gasped "Clare!?". I nodded "Well who were you expecting? Santa Clause?" I laughed.
"You... you came for me, but why?" she asked curiously. "Well not to make it sound all emotional or anything but... I came to save you because I love you" I said, thinking about how corny that line was. "But after last night... I... I..." she trailed off, unsure of what to say. I walked over and embraced her lightly, knowing she was probably in pain from the severe beatings she had obviously received. I was going to personally gut Sombra myself for this.
"I don't care if you vowed never to love again, I'll always love you for who you are" I whispered in her ear. She leaned her head back and we began to make out. I broke away from the kiss, "Sorry to kill the moment but I gotta dark lord to gut" I said coldly. She wrapped her hooves around me then suddenly we were transported to the throne room. We walked out to the balcony that overlooked all of the Crystal Empire.
Dark guards were getting into attack formations and setting up barricades and sand bag cover. I pointed to my truck which for some reason they had neglected. "Can you teleport us to my truck?" I asked and she nodded, once again she wrapped her hooves around me and teleported us away.
She had managed to teleport us into the back seat of the truck. "Do you know how to drive?" I asked and she shook her head. "It's easy. See that pedal far to the right?" I asked and she nodded as I gave her a very short lesson on how to drive.
"Okay you drive" I said and was about to open the back door when she grabbed my shoulder. I turned back to her, "Where are you going?" she asked. "I have a surprise for them in the back of the truck" I informed her and was about to turn back but she pulled me forward and gave me one last kiss before I had to go. "For luck" she said. I gave her a wink then quickly lept out of the truck, for some reason I closed the door behind me, it must've been natural instinct or something.
I popped open the tailgate and hopped into the back of the truck. I closed the tailgate then booted off the box cover, leaving myself exposed but not for long. Several dark guards took notice of me and began to fire their rifles at me. The truck had been reinforced with armour plating but that still didn't protect my exposed body.
I grabbed the tarp that covered my surprise and pulled the tarp off and let it flutter to the ground. The surprise: an M2 Browning .50 caliber on a pivotal mount fully loaded and ready to rock and roll. I got behind the machinegun and called out to Luna "Drive honey, things are about to get messy".
I took aim on a group of dark guards behind a pile of sandbags and opened fire. At first they were safe but within seconds the mighty .50 caliber rounds shredded the sand bags and chopped their bodies into pieces. Luna started the truck and began to drive, I needed to find Sombra and fast.
I swung the massive machinegun and pointed it at some guards trying to pot shot me from the roof tops. The M2 began to chug out lead death, the bullets took chunks of the roof away before I redirected my fire and chopped them down. Their bodies seemed like they were exploding as the .50 caliber rounds tore flesh and muscle from the bone and splattered blood into the air like rain.
Luna took the truck around a corner and I saw several blockades set up. "Drive through them" I called out as I continued to chop down dark guards with the mighty M2. The flimsy wooden road blocks were no match for the F-750 and it simply flew through the wooden blockades like it was paper.
I swung my machinegun towards the dark guards that had been positioned at the road block as we passed them and fired the machinegun. The guards all screamed in fear as they were struck down by the machinegun of death. One of the guards tried to stay standing and was torn in half by a trio of .50 caliber rounds to the side.
I saw a sporty red 1969 Camaro rip by, it had to be Sombra. "Follow him" I called out as I tried to swing the M2 around to get a shot at the speedy Camaro. Unfortunately Sombra took the Camaro around a street corner before I could get a shot, I redirected my aim to a couple of dark guards who were shooting the truck's cab, the bullets pinged off the truck harmlessly but I was still infuriated that they were trying to harm Luna.
I let out a war cry as I let loose with the Browning heavy machinegun and the mighty machinegun hosed them down and ripped their bodies apart. Luna drove the truck into another street and I saw Sombra's red Camaro drift around another corner, he was trying to escape.
"Drive through the building" I ordered, I could see Luna turn back to me. "WHAT!?" she exclaimed and I pointed to a jewelry store, the building looked flimsy and we were going pretty fast. "Drive through it" I told her. I hunched over behind the cab as she plowed the truck through the jewelry store, luckily it was a flimsy store and the truck smashed right through it and into the street on the other side. I stood up to see Sombra's Camaro leaving the city. "Follow him" I called out.
"We'll never catch up to him" Luna called back. "Oh yes we will" I told her and I felt the truck pull forwards as she slammed the accelerator to the floor. I mounted the mighty machinegun once again and began to take down dark guards without mercy.
We passed a small office building where several dark guards had taken cover. I swung the machinegun towards them and opened up. The .50 caliber rounds tore right through the walls of the building and annihilated the guards inside. Something must've caught fire because for some reason the building exploded behind us and sent debris flying into the air as the building was completely destroyed.
I turned around as we too left the city and the truck began to plow through the deep snow, not far ahead I could see Sombra's Camaro as it tried to drive but it had gotten stuck in the deep snow. "Ram him from the side, I want him alive" I told Luna and she slowed the truck down a bit so that the impact wouldn't be as severe.
The F-750s grill bars slammed the side of the Camaro, the blunt force crumpled the car's side and forced it up onto two wheels as the truck pushed it through the snow. The force almost caused the car to be dragged under the truck but some of the snow restricted the car from doing this. Luna slowed the truck to a stop then backed it away from the now rolled over Camaro. I lept off the back of the truck.
"Whatever happens... stay in the truck" I told her as I passed the driver side door. "Clare... I love you" she told me and I looked up to her in the truck. "I love you to sweetie" I said, funny that I was calling her sweetie yet we weren't technically in a relationship.
I unholstered my Smith and Wesson 500 magnum from its shoulder holster as I approached the car which Sombra was now crawling out of. He walked around the car and looked to me. "You fucked up my car" he snarled. I held my revolver at my side "You fucked up my day off". |
Love and Honour | Chapter 16: Vacation time | Sgt. Clare, outside Crystal Empire:
Sombra stood there, snarling at the fact that I had him outmatched. "Give up, it's over" I told him coldly. He curled back his lips as he swung his hoof back to draw his pistol from its holster. There was no competition, I was faster and already had my revolver drawn.
I quickly pulled the revolver up and lined up a shot with his chest. I pulled the trigger back, the massive 500 magnum round boomed through the air and slammed his chest. The bullet blew open his chest and blood stained the white snow, his body was propelled backwards and he landed with a soft thump as his blood leaked into the snow and stained it red. I spun the heavy revolver on my index finger as I swung it towards its holster and spun it into the holster.
I turned back to Luna who was watching from the safety of the truck. "I uhh... guess that means we win huh?" I asked.
* * *
Hours later,
Sgt. Clare, Canterlot castle:
As soon as we had gotten back Celestia had grabbed her sister and held her tightly for a long time. We had gotten a few platoons of royal guard-ponies to do a military sweep of the Empire and free all the civilians, these fights were getting worse all the time. After a few hours Luna had requested to go on a vacation and put in notice for her absence.
We both walked through the halls of the castle, she had of course said that she wanted me as her personal body guard for her vacation. We both hadn't packed much and it figures that they'd only let me carry a small firearm and they wouldn't allow me to carry my Smith and Wesson 500 magnum so I took the next best thing. I could feel the weight of the concealed Desert Eagle .50 caliber AE handgun in the shoulder holster, though it was lighter than the S&W magnum it was still quite heavy.
It was getting to be later in the evening but Luna had insisted on leaving early. We stepped out front of the castle and I loaded her luggage onto the back of a flight carriage, good thing she didn't pack much, I had heard rumours about Ms. Rarity and how she would pack over a ton of things. I walked over to the side of the carriage and hopped in. "Where to?" I asked and she looked to me and gave me a wink, "Trust me, you'll love it".
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The next morning,
Sgt. Clare, Los Pegasus, house on the beach front:
The morning sun pierced through the window that over looked the beach front. It was still early in the morning and no-ponies except joggers were on the beach but that would soon change.
I groaned as rubbed my eyes and got out of bed, we had managed to rent out a house on the beach front though I didn't really want to know how we got it. We had stayed the night and come to think of it we were probably going to stay here for the whole two week vacation.
It was really more like a mansion than a house in the fact that this place was really fancy. I rolled off the bed and walked around the bedroom in search of my clothes. As soon as we got here last night I just randomly picked one of the rooms and took of most of my clothes then tossed them as I flopped on the bed so I had no idea where my clothes were.
After a few moments of searching I found my clothes lying on top of a shelf, I put on my pants and shirt but left the duster coat. I was about to take the pistol but then figured I wouldn't need it.
I walked out into the hallway of the house, I didn't exactly know which bedroom Luna had taken so I didn't want to go tromping around and wake her so I crept into the kitchen silently. My stomach grumbled, "Yeah, yeah give me a second" I whispered as set out a bowl and a spoon. I walked over to the cupboards and searched through them. I pulled out a box of cereal and grabbed some milk from the fridge then went and sat down.
I poured myself a bowl of some sort of cereal with an Irish looking pony called Lucky Swirls, guess it was supposed to be like Lucky Charms or something. Before I ate I got up and turned on the television in the living room across from the kitchen but made sure it was quiet enough so it wouldn't wake Luna. I grabbed the remote as I walked back to the kitchen table and surfed through the channels. God I hated satellite, there was so many damned channels that you could never find a show you liked.
I switched it to some morning cartoons about some pony and her goldfish that was evil and tried to take over the world with some ridiculous and sneaky plan. I stirred the cereal around with my spoon as I watched the entertaining TV show.
"Do it, press the button" said the evil goldfish. The mare gave the goldfish a suspicious look, "What, you don't believe me? Fine let the city be destroyed by the explosion" the fish said as he swam around his fish bowl. The statement was enough to make the mare press the red button on the back of the machine and a tube shot out, hitting the mare in the face and knocking her out. The goldfish hopped out of the fish bowl and into the tube which was conveniently filled with water. "Silly filly, it's why tricks are for kids" the goldfish laughed as he took control of the big pony looking machine and began his rampage throughout the city.
I chuckled to myself "Smartass". Luna walked into the kitchen as she rubbed her eyes, "Sorry, I didn't wake you did I?" I asked and she shook her head. "What in Equestria are you watching" she snickered as she sat down across from me and began to watch the childish cartoon that was obviously meant for kids and foals.
"Something about an evil goldfish" I chuckled. I looked to her, "You hungry?" I asked and she turned to me. "Only if you make it" she laughed, I raised an eyebrow. "Is your cooking that bad?" I asked and she shrugged.
I stretched out in the seat as I looked over to the TV show, the mare was trying to chase down the goldfish at this point as the goldfish attempted to destroy the city dam. I looked back to her and was about to ask what she wanted to eat when I realized she had taken my cereal. "Hey, I was eating that" I complained, she stopped mid bite and looked over to me. With her mouth still containing chewed cereal she began to talk "Oh sorry, here take it back, gaahhhh" she laughed as she showed me the chewed food in her mouth.
I groaned at the immaturity of it, "No thanks... I think I'd rather starve". I yawned as I stood up and began to make coffee. "Whatcha makin?" she asked and I looked back to her, "Coffee" I replied. "Ohh sounds good" she said happily, I imagined the immature Luna with an espresso coffee rush and looked back to her. "You're not getting any" I told her bluntly.
Her jaw dropped in jealousy, "I am too having coffee" she told me. I shook my head, "Ohh no. No coffee for you missy" I laughed, she stood up from the comment and trotted over to me. "Please?" she pleaded as she gave me puppy dog eyes, sure she was cute but I don't think I could handle a hyper active Luna, especially early in the morning. I looked to my watch to see just how early it was, 6:23am. That would explain why I was so tired.
She gave a pouty face but I still shook my head. "There is no way you are getting any coffee. You'd be like..." I made a flustered face and brought my hands together and made a frustrated gesture with my hands and threw them into the air. "Hyper active" I said, finding the words I was looking for.
She let out a sigh as she walked back to the table then continued eating her cereal, my ex-cereal. I looked back to her, I felt bad for not letting her have any coffee but I just don't think it would be wise to give her espresso coffee, maybe I'd let her have de-cafe.
The coffee soon finished and I let it cool then prepared myself a cup of coffee but as I turned around to go sit back down I was greeted by Luna who was standing right behind me. "Whoa... uhm morning" I said, she startled me I'll give her that. "I just wanted to say how much I love you Clare" Luna said as she hopped up and wrapped her forelegs around my neck and began to kiss me. 'Well this was a sudden change of events' I thought as I set the cup of coffee on the counter behind myself then began to kiss her back.
I had my eyes closed as she broke away from the kiss and began to kiss the side of my neck. It tickled a little and I had to let out a little laugh as I began to kiss the side of her neck. She stopped kissing me for a brief second and I heard her take a sip of something liquid. "Mmm this coffee stuff is great" she muttered then I heard her take a gulp.
I let out a sigh as I realized what she had just done and stepped back. She had just downed an entire cup of coffee in less than two seconds, espresso coffee I might add. She licked her lips and held out the coffee cup, "Is there anymore coffee" she asked and I looked over to the coffee pot and chuckled. This was going to be a long morning. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 17: Shopping? | Clare, house on the beachfront:
'Well at least I get my cereal, what's left of it anyway' I thought to myself as I looked over to Luna who was wailing back the espresso coffee like an alcoholic with beer. She was going to be so hyped up that I might just lock myself in my room for the day.
The TV show ended, somehow the mare had managed to stop the goldfish with some weather machine thingy that froze the water in the machine but somehow the fish survived with only a minor cold.
"Let's go shopping" Luna said excitedly, I looked over to her with a raised eyebrow. "Shopping?" I asked and she nodded. "I always wanted to go to a mall and go shopping" she informed me. I thought to myself about the idea of going shopping with Luna, it couldn't be all that bad, sure she'd still by hyped from the coffee but the caffeine rush would soon wear off.
"Alright" I said, she bounced over to me and squeezed me tightly, "Ohh I love you so much Clare" she squealed. I rolled my eyes, as I stood up and placed my bowl and spoon in the sink. "Alright... I'll just go get dressed" I muttered as I ran my fingers through my hair and sighed tiredly. She bounced around the kitchen and even when I was in my bedroom I could hear her squealing in delight. "I'm going shopping, I'm going shopping" she said happily then let out another squeal of delight.
I strapped the chest holster to my body then holstered the Desert Eagle, I really hope no-pony noticed, but then again they would know that Luna was the princess so they should know that I'm her bodyguard. I slid the duster coat on then rolled up the sleeves and grabbed my Stetson hat.
"Okay Clare... let's go shopping" I muttered to myself as I walked back into the hallway and looked for Luna who had disappeared. "I really hope that" I began but Luna came up behind me and interrupted me. "How do I look?" she asked in a relatively calm voice, I turned around and looked at her. She had somehow managed to change into a pair of clothes faster than I had put my coat and holster on. She had a casual pair of blue jeans and a white t-shirt that concealed her wings. "You uhm... are you uncomfortable?" I asked and she nodded her head.
"Yes, these clothes are actually quite comfortable... well I can't stretch my wings but I have a feeling that ponies would scurry about if they saw the night princess" Luna told me. She was right about that but now if some-pony caught sight of my handgun it wouldn't end well.
"Okay... where to?" I asked as we turned off the lights in the house then left. "Uhm well... how about we hit the mall first, then we can go to a fashion designer and get some real nice clothes" she suggested. "Whatever you want" I replied as we walked along the sidewalk of the city.
Luna's disguise worked, I think. Ponies wouldn't look and when they did I think they were looking at my outfit which was out of style for the area. Whenever some-pony looked I was praying that they hadn't noticed the slight bulge in my coat from the handgun but luckily no-pony panicked.
The sounds and smells of the city were thick, it was so much different from Canterlot but in the same thought it was the same. "So uhm..." I trailed off and Luna looked to me. "Yes?" she asked and I shrugged, she scrunched her nose. "What do you mean?" she asked as she mimicked my shrug. "Well I was just trying to start a conversation" I replied and she snickered.
"Not much for talking with mares huh?" she asked and I shook my head. "Yeah ladies neither, military took up most of my free time back on earth" I replied as we continued on. "Ever had a marefriend?" she asked, I shook my head "Nah, been spending all my time either on guard or sleeping" I informed her. "How about lady friends back on earth?" she asked.
"Yeah, I had a few relationships but they never lasted" I told her and she gave me a curious look. "Why not?" she asked, I simply shrugged. "They usually said that they couldn't handle a distant relationship and that I either had to give up my career or they'd leave me so..." I trailed off, not needing to say the rest.
"Ohh... that's too bad. They never knew how lucky they were" Luna said as she started to trot closer to me. "I don't know. Maybe they made the right choice. I never really around that much and when I did come back I didn't really want to go out or anything" I told her. "Regardless I think you are a wonderful man Clare err Carl" she said, correcting herself to try and make me feel a little better.
"So how about you?" I asked and she let out a depressed sigh. "I only ever loved once... we were so close and eventually he passed away" Luna said sadly. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up" I apologized, she shook her head. "It's okay, I needed to tell someone other than my sister" Luna replied and I nodded.
We walked for a while and talked about happier things then finally reached the mall. We walked around the mall which was relatively busy and Luna chose a store to shop at which was a brand name store that sold leather apparel. Even in Equestria leather was expensive but I had enough money saved up to buy whatever she wanted, though she could probably get it for free if she just showed that she was the princess.
"Ohh Carl you have to try this on" Luna said as she levitated over a black leather jacket. I grabbed the jacket and looked at it, it kind of reminded me of the terminator jacket. "I need your clothes, your boots and you motorcycle... actually speaking of which we should get a Harley to commute around town" I said as I handed her the jacket. "Well try it on, I want to see how you look" Luna told me in a joyful voice.
I leaned towards her to whisper to her but I guess she took it as a romantic gesture because she began kissing me. I broke away from the kiss but kept my face close to hers, "Well that's not what I meant but..." I trailed off and gave her a wink. "Well then try the jacket on" she laughed. "This place doesn't have a change room and I'm wearing my gun" I whispered and she remembered that I took the pistol with me. "Ohh yeah... okay well buy it anyway, you can try in on later. I think you'd look handsome in it" she said, I chuckled "I don't think I'm all that handsome, but thanks for the compliment".
She wrapped her foreleg around my neck. "Well I think you're cute" she whispered and we began to kiss again in the store. We stopped kissing and I grabbed a pair of leather pants and some boots then looked to Luna. "You want to get something?" I asked and she browsed around then picked out a more feminine pair of brown leather pants and a light brown leather jacket. "What do you think?" she asked, I pictured her in the leather clothes and for some reason it kind of turned me on but I think that was the fact that she was already pretty cute and the leather clothes kind of gave her that sexy devil sort of look. I nodded "Yeah I'd say get it".
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An hour later:
Clare, motorcycle dealership:
"Ah yes an excellent choice sir, The Harley Davidson is an all-time classic. this particular model includes the redesigned hard suspension kit to allow more weight as well as the saddle bags on the rear" the sales-pony informed me, the Harley I was looking at was a matte black and had that terminator look to it..
"How much?" I asked and he pulled out a notebook. "Well for you sir, I'll give you a deal. $14,000" he offered and I nodded. "I'll take it" I told him and he led us into dealership for the financials. "So sir how would you like your payments?" he asked as he brought out his notebook once again. "All" I replied and he scrunched his nose. "All?" he asked and I nodded as I brought out my debit card. "Uhm... you want to pay in full?" he asked and I nodded so he brought out a little card swiping machine and we began the transaction.
After about a half hour we finished the transaction, Luna and I drove out of the dealership in a brand new Harley Davidson. We had put our old clothes in the saddle bags and were wearing our leather clothes, luckily I found somewhere to change without any-pony seeing my handgun. I supposed we looked like bikers except we weren't wearing our helmets. Partially because we didn't buy any but also because Luna had a horn and me, well I had a pair of sunglasses that I purchased and I was sporting the terminator look. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 18: Beach clothes | Sgt. Clare, outside designer store, Los Pegasus:
I parked the Harley in front of a fashion designer store and turned it off. "We should probably buy some sort of protective helmets" Luna told me and I shrugged, "Nah, if you want one sure but I don't like helmets all that much" I told her as we entered the store.
It was relatively less crowded and easier to walk around without getting blocked in the aisles between the shelves. "So uhh... what do you want to get?" I asked and she levitated out a two piece female bikini suit. "Beach clothes?" I asked, she nodded and lept up to her hindlegs and held the bra piece against her lower stomach area. "Picture me in this, would I look nice?" she asked.
"Uhm doesn't it go up here?" I asked as I pointed to my chest, indicating where the female breasts were. "No silly, humans and ponies have different anatomy you know" she informed me. Well I didn't actually know because I didn't go around looking for horse boobs. "Uhm right. Yeah sure you'd look good in that, you should get it" I replied and she rolled her eyes.
"You're just saying that" she said in a happy tone. "Well of course I'm it, you asked me" I joked and she gave me a playful nudge. "Fine, I'm trying it on and you're going to give me your most honest opinion" she told me as she trotted off into the change room.
I leaned up against the wall and sighed, at least she wasn't hyper active or this would be hard to handle. She exited the change room, the bikini looked absolutely ridiculous. I mean she didn't wear clothes around the castle so why wear them out here? "How do I look?" she asked, I sighed. "Can I give you my honest opinion? I don't really know if it suits you. The leather suited you better, but the bikini isn't exactly practical considering you walk around the castle naked half the time" I began but I was interrupted by a gasp and a squeal.
"PRINCESS LUNA" squealed a voice and suddenly a brilliant white mare with a curly purple mane rushed over. "Hello Ms. Rarity" Luna said to the mare, oh yeah I had met this mare before, fashion designer or something. "Princess, may I ask what you are doing in Los Pegasus?" Rarity asked. "We are on vacation" she told her and Rarity nodded. "May I say that you look absolutely astounding princess, you have a wonderful taste for fashion" Rarity told her, I dipped my head knowing that Luna would purchase the clothes now.
"Well actually I was leaning towards a more suitable look" Luna told her, probably taking my advice. "Well Luna, I must be on my way. Perhaps I shall see you later on" Rarity said then trotted off. I looked to Luna, "If you want them, I'll buy them. I just think they look... different" I told her and she nodded. "We'll get them anyway and see how they work" she said. She looked at my chest area then lifted a hoof and cupped my left chest muscle. "You should think about getting a bra to" she laughed, "Hey, I'm sensitive about my man boobs" I joked and held my chest like I had just been sexually harassed. She laughed then went back into the change room to change back into the leather clothes.
She exited the change room with the leather clothes on. "Okay let's go back to the beach, I want to try these out" she said as we walked towards the check-out counter.
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Clare, the beach:
I lay on a beach towel by the water front and soaked in the sun. We had gone back to the house and changed, I had left my pistol in the house and now only wore a pair of boxers. Luna squirmed around as she tried to comfortably rearrange the bikini top
"Well these clothes are quite uncomfortable" Luna complained as she once again rearranged the bikini. "Yeah... that's why I just wear regular clothes" I replied as I lay in the sun rays. "Well you have a bathing suit on too" she replied and I chuckled, "Not quite, I'm just wearing my underwear" I chuckled and she snickered.
"Fine, I'll just have to wear my underwear as well. Obviously it's comfortable if you humans always wear them" Luna replied. I sat up "You aren't wearing any..." I trailed off as she tossed the bikini bottom at my face, part of it clung to my hair and it hung in front of my face. I frowned as I pulled the bikini bottom away from my face with my index finger but no sooner had I gotten it away from my face then she tossed the bikini top at my face as well, which also conveniently landed on my face. I flicked away the bikini top and looked to Luna, she was naked but that was kind of the norm for ponies and I had become accustomed to it.
I laid back down on the towel and rested my hands behind my head. Finally I could get just a moment of relaxation. "Hey Carl, come into the water with me" Luna called out as she splashed around in the water. "No thanks, you go ahead" I called back and closed my eyes as I took a cat nap on the beach.
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5 months ago,
Sgt. Clare, Canterlot castle:
"So tell me princess, why do you say we instead of me or I?" I asked and Luna looked to me. "I apologize, I didn't mean to" she apologized, I shook my head. "Uhm... no worries, I uhh was just wondering" I replied. "We do not mean to, it just happens by accident. Though we have been practicing we do not have any-pony to train with" she informed me. I shrugged "Well if you want I could train with you" I offered and her face lit up with joy. "Really?" she asked hopefully.
"Well sure why not? I'm just standing around with a Tommy gun all day so I might as well do something to earn my pay" I chuckled. She lept over and squeezed me tightly, "Thank you sergeant, you have no idea how happy this makes us" she squeeled happily. "Guessing by how hard you're squeezing me... a lot" I chuckled.
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Present day,
Clare, beach front:
I awoke suddenly when a large splash of water hit me. It wasn't cold but it still was enough to startle me. I got up and looked to see Luna with a smug look on her face, "Wakey, Wakey" she giggled. "Oh you little..." I trailed off as I lept up and chased after her, she let out a playful scream as I began to chase her around the beach. She was probably letting me chase her because she could have easily just flown off.
I hadn't noticed before but it was later in the evening and the sun was going down so most of the ponies on the beach had gone home and we were relatively alone minus a few others in the water. I grabbed her and gently tackled her into the shallow water, well really it was more like I set her down into the water. She snagged her hindleg around my leg and flipped me onto my back then rolled on top of me.
"Ha-ha, behold the might of the night princess, LUNA" she laughed. I wrapped my arm around her body and pulled her down to the ground very lightly and rolled over top of her body. "Behold the might of a human" I chuckled but suddenly I was caught in a dark blue aurora and she levitated me off her then set me on the ground next to her and cuddled up to me. Her chest lay on mine but the bottom half off her body lay to the side as she leaned her face down and we began to make out. The small waves from the ocean splashed against us as we had a romantic moment in the sunset.
I broke away from the kiss "Luna, I'll always love you. I hope you know that" I told her. A tear trickled down her face. "Clare... I do not think I can stop these feelings I have for you... I love you Clare and I want you to spend the rest of your life with me, together" she told me and I nodded. "I love you too much to ever want to leave you, I'd do anything for you" I told her.
She stayed in that posture for a moment, the setting sun was blocked by her body and the rays from the sun gave her body a beautiful lighting. "I'll always love you Luna" I whispered as we began to make out again.
She stuck her tongue into my mouth and our tongues wrestled for domination. I slid my hands along her side, the wetness of her fur gave her a nice feeling. I felt strange inside and held her body tight to mine as we continued to make out, her wet fur against my bare skin was exhilarating. She moaned into my mouth and I broke away from the kiss then I rolled our bodies over so I was on top. She gazed into my eyes and I felt warm, content and lucky to have such a wonderful marefriend. Well I think we were in a relationship because if we weren't than this was sort of strange.
We leaned towards each other and were about to start making out again when my stomach grumbled so I stopped leaning towards her. Luna hadn't heard my stomach and kept leaning towards me despite me stopping. She had closed her eyes so she hadn't noticed but when our lips didn't connect she lifted her hoof up and felt around for my face, still having her eyes closed. She opened her eyes and looked to me, "Is something wrong?" she asked and I nodded. "I'm sorry Luna" I apologized and she sat up and hugged me tightly, "Please, I want to be together, don't leave me" she pleaded, I guess she thought that I didn't want this. "No it's not that" I replied and she scrunched her nose in confusion.
"Well if it's not that, then what's wrong?" she asked and I rubbed my stomach area. My stomach growled again, "I'm hungry, do you want to go out to a restaurant for dinner or...?" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 19: Dining out | Clare, restaurant, Los Pegasus:
I had brought Luna to some swanky five star restaurant, this place was the whole nine yards. Not only was the food good but they had stage performances and a nice mood setting along with a dance floor by the performers where ponies danced. Literally this place was great so I didn't feel so terrible anymore for spending $1000 dollars on our table and food. We had dressed into our leather clothes again so that no-pony would know that she was the princess and hopefully no-pony would see my handgun.
"So tell me a little about yourself Clare. Even though we're together you're still a man of mystery" Luna said. "Not too much to tell really. I was an orphan until sixteen then spent the rest of my life serving in the military" I informed her, her face went to a saddened look and she rested her hoof on top of my hand. "I'm saddened to hear that, hopefully we can live a happy life together" she said, the butler came around and gave us our food.
Luna had gotten a nice salad and a vegetable sandwich, I had gotten a lasagna and ordered a fruit dish for us. We had both ordered wine and some sort of cake for desert and somehow the price for this had come to $1000, well I suppose that the actors and stuff cost them quite a bit.
"How about you princess?" I asked and she looked back to me, she had been watching the performers on stage. "Well... I spend most of my time in my room and during the night I enter ponies dreams to assist them with their fears and troubles" she told me, kind of creepy but I didn't think it was all that bad I mean jeeze I kill for a living so how bad is it for her to help ponies out through their dreams.
The food was pretty good, considering the price that came with it. There was slow music playing and several other ponies danced by the stage performers. "Man this place is swanky" I muttered. "Swanky?" Luna asked and I shrugged, "You know... classy but sort of funky at the same time" I replied.
We sat there and conversed about little things while we ate our food, for some reason it just didn't feel like a thousand dollars but I guess sometimes you just had to roll with the punches, besides I was dining out with the most beautiful mare I had ever seen and even though she was a different species than I was she was still more beautiful than any person I had ever seen. We finished our meal and I leaned back in the nice leather seat, 'Okay maybe a thousand dollars' I thought to myself.
"Clare would you care to dance with me?" Luna asked me. I gave her a curious look "Uhm is that a rhetorical question?" I chuckled, of course I'd dance with her. She blushed "Well I was just wondering, feel free to say no" she replied. "It'd be my honour to dance with the most beautiful mare in Equestria, and on Earth for that matter" I replied and her face brightened up with delight as she got out of her seat. You really are a charmer aren't you?" she giggled.
I stood up from my seat and she wrapped her foreleg around my arm as we proceeded to the dance floor, arm in arm. The music was a slow melody so I guess we were going to slow dance. I lifted my shades and rested them on the top of my head as we stepped onto the dance floor with the others.
"Bare with me I'm a little rusty" I chuckled and she snickered. "I think I'm a little more inexperienced then you are, I haven't had a dance partner for over a thousand years" she laughed. "Slow dance?" I suggested, she shrugged and hopped up to her hindlegs. She placed her right hoof in my left hand and wrapped her opposite foreleg around my back. I followed suit as I held her hoof and placed my right arm around her waist.
We stood there for a moment and I completely gapped, "Uhm... how do we dance?" I asked, she laughed then shrugged. "Follow my lead" she offered and I nodded as we began to slow dance, 'What the hell was lead?'.
* * *
Cpt. Armor, Everfree forest:
The world around me seemed to explode into violence. Out of nowhere we had been ambushed and pinned down by heavy fire. We had a joint operation with Celestia's royal guard and Luna's shadow guard to secure a position in the Everfree for an HQ that was supposed to be used as an outpost for an upcoming attack.
I hid behind a fallen tree. "Lieutenant, get some supressing fire with the M60. Radio, get an artillery strike on the treeline double time. SUPRESSING FIRE" I ordered. Time seemed to slow as I watched every soldier now under my command do exactly as I ordered them. Their lives were depending on me to make the right choice.
"Sir, artillery can't give us fire support. There are Huey helicopters in the area" the radio-pony informed me. I shuffled over to him, "Why the hell are there choppers still around... see if we can get air support" I ordered him and he nodded.
Lieutenant Daffodil ran over to me, "Sir we're under heavy fire... what do we do?" he asked frantically, jeeze it was like he had never been in a combat leadership role before. "Haven't you ever been in a combat situation before?" I yelled to him and he nodded, "Well do what you always did before" I ordered him and he did the stupidest thing I've ever seen a commanding lieutenant do.
"SERGEANT!" Daffodil yelled as he stood up "SERGEANT". I grabbed him and pulled him behind the fallen tree as a volley of incoming lead flew overhead. "What the fuck do you think you're doing" I hissed, he looked to me with a frightened look. "What the hell was that?" I asked and he stuttered a reply. "I... I was calling... calling my platoon sergeant sir" he replied. "Why?" I asked and he gulped. "Uhm because... because he usually makes the plans" he told me.
I let go off his combat jacket collar and sighed disappointedly, figures that Luna would have an inefficient lieutenant leading the platoon and an exceptional soldier as the platoon sergeant. I'd have to call it in and get that changed when we got back to Canterlot.
I lept up and began to fire my M16 rifle at the tree line, all I could see where the muzzle flashes of the enemy rifles. The M16s were great in combat, they had little recoil when compared to other assault rifles and despite the small caliber round it was quite devastating. "EVERY-PONY MOVE UP" I yelled but as I got to my hooves a stray bullet caught the base of my horn, I screamed out in pain as the bullet chopped off my horn. The pain was excruciating and blood trickled down my face.
I fell to the ground in agonizing pain, I had been shot before but unicorn horns were exceptionally sensitive and it was incredibly painful to get struck there let alone get shot. My body fell to the ground and my horn landed next to me, my wedding ring had fallen off the horn and lay next to me.
I heard some-pony scream "MEDIC!". I held the painful stump on my head where my horn used to be and blood stained my fur as blood continued to flow from the stump. I howled in pain and blood trickled into my eyes and stung my vision.
A field medic rushed over with a medical first aid box ready. "Don't worry captain, it isn't that bad" the medic told me as he pulled out some disinfectant, shit this was going to hurt.
* * *
Clare, restaurant, Los Pegasus:
Most of the other ponies in the restaurant had gone home and it was quite late yet Luna and I continued to slow dance. I had gotten considerably better and she constantly commented on how well I was doing, all I could do was blush. She had begun to rest her head against my chest and we stopped dancing and just stood there, swaying with the music.
"Luna, I love you so much" I whispered. She never took her head away from my chest and just nodded. "I know... you've told me a dozen times" she laughed heartily.
A butler walked down onto the dance floor, "Sorry to interrupt sir, but the restaurant is closing in a few minutes" he informed me. I nodded but paid him no mind as I continued to dance with the beautiful mare that I somehow become romantically involved with. 'Shit I must be the luckiest guy ever' I thought to myself as I held her closely. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 20: Feels like summer | The next morning,
Clare, beach front house:
I awoke peacefully and stretched out, 'Man I haven't slept this good since... I can't remember the last time I slept this well'. I rubbed my eyes and let out a morning yawn, since Luna and I didn't sleep in the same bedroom I was able to relax and sprawl out on the bed.
I rolled over then sat on the edge off the bed and tried to rub the sleepiness out of my eyes. "Ahhh man, this is great" I
said through a yawn, I could get used to this. I stumbled out of bed and grabbed my watch off the nightstand, 6:22am. "Early bird catches the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese" I muttered as I grabbed a pair of blue jeans and a white t-shirt.
I slipped on some white socks then walked out of the bedroom and into the kitchen to make breakfast. I got out two bowls, knowing that Luna would probably just try and take my cereal again, and set up the table. I only poured one bowl of cereal because I didn't want her cereal to get soggy, "Ech... soggy cereal" I groaned to myself as I flicked on the TV with the remote.
There were some morning cartoons again but this time it was about some sort of dragon tamer who raced dragons but at the same time he was some sort of super hero during the night. I chuckled to myself as I walked over to the living room, setting my cereal bowl on the living room coffee table then sitting down on the couch.
Luna walked into the living room, "Morning" I said casually. She moved my arms from resting on my legs and sat down on my lap. "Good morning, what are you watching?" she asked. I shrugged. "I don't know, it's about a dragon racer or something" I replied, she leaned over and grabbed my cereal and began to eat it.
"So I was thinking..." she trailed off, "Yes honey" I replied as I watched the TV show. "Hey you're not even paying attention to me" she scolded playfully. "Sure I am. Besides you're not even looking at me either. You're watching the TV show" I chuckled.
"BELL!" the dragon stallion from the TV show yelled, 'Bell? Who the hell names a dragon Bell?' I thought to myself. "Well regardless, do you want to spend the day on the beach?" she asked, "Sure why not" I replied. "Let me guess, after your morning cartoons?" she laughed. I nodded "Eeyup, precisely" I chuckled. Due to the way ponies usually sat and ate I had to hold her up on my lap as she ate the cereal. For whatever reason she accidently spilt the bowl, the cereal and milk splashed onto my clean shirt and pants along with splashing onto her fur. "Ohh, I'm so sorry" she apologized, I shrugged "Eh, don't worry about it... I needed to take a shower anyway" I said casually.
The TV show soon ended and Luna hopped off my lap, I stood up and brushed off the bits off cereal. "Alright, I'll go get changed" I told her as I walked back into my room. 'Figures, I didn't even get to wear this shirt for an hour and I already have to wash it' I thought to myself. I slipped off all my clothes but my boxers and walked back into the hallway where Luna stood on her hindlegs, leaning up against the wall in a pose.
"How do I look?" she asked, even though she looked the same as always the way she was leaning gave her a sexy look. 'Okay self, think up something really romantic' I thought to myself. "Sweet compassionate... uhm" I trailed off, 'Smooth one' I thought to myself. She hopped down onto all fours and walked over to my side, "You might want to do a better job about concealing your gun" she snickered.
I looked over to her and raised an eyebrow, "I'm not wearing my... oh shit" I muttered as I looked down to see that my boner was protruding out of my boxers. I shuffled my crotch around so it didn't look so bad, but there was still a bulge in my boxers.
Luna stifled a laugh. "Hey, don't laugh. You're the one who caused it remember" I laughed and she looked up to me and blushed. "Really?" she asked and I rolled my eyes. "No, the paint on the wall is sexy and it drives me over the edge" I said sarcastically.
We walked out of the house and right onto the beach sand, which was relatively warm. "Feels like summer down here" I said, speaking my thoughts. "Isn't it beautiful?" Luna asked and she nuzzled her head into my side, I put my arm around her as we walked along the beach.
* * *
Cpt. Armor, Canterlot castle medical clinic:
"Well captain, I can schedule you an appointment in... about two weeks" the doctor replied. "Doc, I just want to know if my horn will grow back" I told him and he nodded. "Well of course, but only with the proper procedure" he informed me. I gasped in relief "You guys are able to do that?" I asked and he nodded.
"Well of course, with all the advancements in medical magic we can easily cast a spell that will allow your horn to grow back... there is a side effect though. You may need to learn some of your spells again" the doctor told me, I sighed thinking that he might've said 'You'll have a risk of long term health problems'.
I got up and shook his hoof, "Thanks doc, I'll see yah in two weeks" I told him then left the room and headed towards the general's office. I was technically second in command of the royal guard, just behind Celestia, but the general was the one who always constructed the plans and offensive movements along with promotions and other such things.
I walked through the hallways and finally reached his office door and knocked. "Please come in" his voice said from the office. I opened the door and walked inside, giving a salute then standing in attention. "At ease captain, what can I do for you?" he asked as I relaxed.
"Sir I need a promotion sent through" I told him and he looked up to me with a raised eyebrow. "You realize, that unless you want to become a staff member, you can't really be promoted any further due to your rank. So I'm presuming it's for some-pony else" he replied and I nodded.
He took out a document paper and began filling it out. "Alright, current rank?" he asked. "Sergeant" I replied and he scribbled it down, "Promotional rank?" he asked. "First lieutenant" I replied and he looked up to me. "Quite a jump" he chuckled then continued writing. "Yes sir, it is sir. But this soldier has performed above and beyond the call of duty and has shown that he can easily lead a full platoon" I informed him.
"Yes, well I'll take your word for it. Name?" he asked, "Clare" I replied. He stopped writing and I could tell something was wrong. "Captain... may I ask you if this 'Clare' is the platoon sergeant in Luna's elite shadow guard?" he asked and I nodded. "Yes sir, it is sir" I replied, he folded up the paper then ripped it to pieces.
I gasped at the sudden outburst. "Captain, please tell me this was some kind of joke" the general told me in a serious tone but I shook my head. "No sir it isn't. It's just that in the recent mission I had to control the entire company and due to Clare's absence, Daffodil's platoon performed terribly" I replied.
"Well perhaps we should strip Daffodil of his role as platoon leader then?" he asked, I nodded my head. "Yes sir, but no reassignment. The men respect Daffodil but he is an inefficient leader, I believe that Clare would be a better combat leader" I told him. "No" he told me bluntly, "No sir?" I asked.
"I will not have an insubordinate platoon leader" he told me, "Insubordinate sir? From what I hear he is an exceptional combat leader" I replied. "Yes, but he doesn't listen to orders" the general told me, I remembered when Clare punched me and broke my nose. "I will not promote to a platoon leader until he has shown respect for the chain of command" the general told me. "Dismissed" he said as he spun his chair around and lit a cigar.
I gave a quick salute then left the office. I knew that Clare was disobedient but he must've pissed the general off in some way that really made him mad.
* * *
Clare, beachfront:
Luna squealed with delight as I held her body above mine and splashed both our bodies into the water. I was under the water and kept my eyes shut so that the salt water didn't sting my eyes. As I surfaced I looked around but couldn't see Luna, "Uhm Luna?" I asked out loud, it had gotten rather late in the evening and once again ponies had left the beachfront. The sun was setting and the evening had a beautiful orange haze sky.
I heard Luna giggling from above and looked up, she was hovering above me with a sly look on her face. "What's so funny?" I asked and she pointed over to the ocean. I turned my head and was greeted by the sight of a tremendous title wave, I realized at that point that she had manipulated the waves with her magic and brought about a large wave, not big enough to damage houses or property but big enough to wash ponies up to shore.
I tried to brace myself but the wave was powerful enough to take me me along with it. The wave slammed into my body with great force. It wasn't fatal unless I drowned and wouldn't even bruise a muscle but it was kind of sinister in a playful kind of way. My body twirled around as it was taken along with the wave, 'Time to have a little fun' I thought to myself as I felt my body get washed up onto shore.
I kept my eyes closed and let my body go limp. I could hear Luna giggling, "Haha, gotcha Clare... Clare?" she asked hesitantly as I didn't move. I heard her flutter down beside me, "Okay Clare, stop messing around. I know you're awake" she said and poked my side with her hoof but still I lay limp on the beachfront as water splashed up against me.
"Come on Clare, stop messing around" she chuckled, at this point I was wondering if she actually knew I was faking. "Clare... oh no" she said frantically and rolled my body over, I tried to stay as limp as possible and my face was expressionless. "Oh no please Celestia no... CLARE" she sobbed and placed her face on my chest, I could feel her sobbing. 'Shit' I thought to myself. I didn't want her to cry, just get worried to get her back for slamming me with that wave.
I sat up immediately and wrapped my arms around her. "CLARE!" she screamed, shocked that I was alive. "Why did you do that?" she cried, "Shh, sorry I didn't mean to get you so frightened. I just wanted to get you back for slamming me with that wave" I told her soothingly. "Please... don't ever do that again" she said through sniffles, "Okay, I'm sorry. I'll never do that again" I promised. She looked up to me with teary eyes. "I couldn't live with myself if I accidently killed you... I love you so much" she whispered.
"I love you too, I was just playing was all" I told her, she leaned up and we began kissing. All too suddenly she broke away from the kiss, "Promise?" she asked and I nodded but then I realized that her horn had flared up again. I looked behind her and saw another tidal wave coming at us. "Ohh you didn't" I muttered, she gave me a seductive look, "Hold on to me and stay close" she whispered as she wrapped her forelegs around my body and held me tight.
The wave slammed into us and took us with it, somehow it seemed to last forever. Just as she'd told me I held her close to me as we floated around in the water. I held my eyes closed then a voice entered my head. "Open your eyes" it said in a soothing voice, "Why? No forget it, salt water burns" I said back in my head. "Just open them, your eyes will not be harmed by the salt water" the voice told me, sometimes the voice in my head got me into bad things but this voice didn't sound like my own, it sounded like... Luna's?
I opened my eyes, though the water somewhat blurred my vision, I could see Luna above me in the water. The setting sun illuminated the water beautifully and made her look like a goddess, which technically she was. 'A sexy goddess' I thought to myself, Luna came closer to me and we began to kiss underwater, somehow I wasn't feeling the burn due to the lack of oxygen. 'I'll show you sexy goddess' said the voice in my head. 'Luna?' I thought, almost like I was asking her. 'No, the sexy goddess' the voice said back, I smirked during the kiss and Luna took advantage of it then stuck her tongue in my mouth but water gushed in along with her tongue.
I felt the burn for need of oxygen along with the terrible feeling of water entering my lungs. I quickly broke from the kiss and surfaced from the water and began gagging. I was lucky enough to be able to stand as I coughed up water, Luna surfaced beside me and spat out some water. "Sorry... forgot that we were underwater" she apologized.
"You can read my thoughts?" I asked and she nodded. "But only if you are relaxed and calm" she told me as she trotted through the water and gave me a kiss on the check. "Looks like you're going to have to call me sexy goddess from now on" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 21: His insubordination | Cpt. Armor, Canterlot castle, war room:
"Lieutenant Daffodil, a word please" I ordered the lieutenant and he immediately trotted over to me. "Sir?" he asked as he saluted, "At ease, tell me how you would feel if Clare replaced you as platoon leader?" I asked hesitantly.
"It would be an honour sir. I'd rather it be him than someone else that I don't know" he informed me. "Lieutenant would you consider yourself an incompetent leader?" I asked and he shook his head. "No sir, just an inefficient platoon leader. I proved myself to be a good squad leader but I can't handle the responsibility of an entire platoon under combat stress" he told me.
"So why not tell your superiors? I asked, "I did sir, they said that I'd get the hang of it eventually and to just listen to my platoon sergeant. I've tried multiple times to get him promoted to platoon leader but the general says he's insubordinate" he told me. I sat down and sighed, "And why exactly does the general say he's insubordinate?" I asked.
"Well that would go back about... oh shit I guess it was the second day that I was part a platoon leader of the shadow guards" Daffodil began.
* * *
6 months ago:
Third person, firebase Everfree:
"Sergeant, I'm lieutenant Daff..." Daffodil trailed off as Clare walked past him, a canvas sack on his back. "Sergeant, aren't you forgetting something?" Daffodil asked, Clare stopped in his tracks and turned around. "I don't think so" Clare replied causally, Daffodil stepped forwards. "You are speaking to an officer and I want a proper salute" Daffodil ordered, Clare smirked and tossed a sloppy salute then turned and walked towards the barracks.
Daffodil trotted along to the firebase CO's office, which was actually just a large tent with flaps for doors. "Sir" Daffodil said outloud to the captain and saluted. Captain Jameson turned around and returned the salute. "What can I do you for lieutenant?" the captain asked as he continued to look over some maps of the area.
"Sir I wish to talk about my platoon sergeant" Daffodil began and Jameson looked over his shoulder to Daff. "Your sergeant... he doesn't happen to be uhm... Clare perhaps?" Jameson asked and Daffodil nodded. "Yes sir, I just thought it was odd how he talked to a superior officer and why a regular sergeant was my platoon sergeant" Daffodil complained.
Jameson sighed and turned back to Daffodil. "Lieutenant, I hate to say this but Clare is one of the most experienced fighters we have, sure he may be a bit... brash, but he is by far one of the best platoon sergeants you'll ever meet" Jameson told him. "Yes sir but I" Daffodil began but Jameson cut him off. "Lieutenant, do you have combat experience?" Jameson asked.
Daffodil shook his head, "No sir" Daffodil replied. "Well lieutenant, most of the men will see you as a cherry. When the fighting starts you might freeze up and that could lead to ponies getting kill, but your sergeant... he's seen so much combat he knows what to do during the fight. Listen to your platoon sergeant, he'll guide you along" Jameson told Daffodil.
"Well lieutenant if that will be all" Jameson said and Daffodil gave him a salute then left the tent to try and make friends with the other stallions.
Days later:
"Okay lieutenant, when we set down we should" Clare began but Daffodil cut him off. "I know what to do sergeant" Daffodil yelled back as the helicopter began to set down. Incoming fire from the treeline opened up and bullets pinged off the helicopter's hull.
"Lickety, let's go" Clare yelled out to Lickety Split, who was one of those hippy fighters that didn't believe in the war and had been drafted. "I don't believe in" Lickety began but Clare shot him a cold look. "GET OFF THE GODDAMNED CHOPPER" Clare yelled into his face, Lickety Split nodded and was about to get off the chopper when he looked to his M16 and left it on the chopper.
"Bakers get that M60 firing on the treeline. Connors, Sunlight: supressing fire" Clare ordered. "You're giving a lot of orders sergeant" Daffodil said in a serious tone, Clare looked over to his lieutenant. "Just trying to help you out sir" Clare said casually then looked to Lickety Split, "Split I want you to... where the hell is your rifle?" Clare asked.
"I left it on the chopper, I'm not fighting this war sir" Lickety Split informed him, "Well shit specialist, do you have a goddamned death wish. You know what fine" Clare said as he grabbed the radio operator and brought him over. "Give him the radio" Clare ordered and the radio pony took off the radio and handed it to Lickety Split. "You're going to be our radio operator" Clare said "I'm gonna keep you real close to the lieutenant and myself" Clare said.
Clare rushed up to the front line, the enemies were just out of range of his Thompson and he wanted to get a little closer before he began popping off rounds downrange. "Every-pony up, come on get up. Move forward. Come on move up, that's an order" Daffodil yelled. "LT... LT get down" Clare yelled but the lieutenant didn't listen.
Clare grumbled to himself as he lept forward and tackled the lieutenant to the ground, possibly saving his life. "LT, stay down. Listen we don't need to die today, get the artillery boys to handle it" Clare said as he motioned for Lickety Split to come up beside him. "Oscar Whiskey, I need artillery on Romeo Alpha 1-0-2-0-6-2, over" Clare ordered. "Roger that, firing rounds on Romeo Alpha 1-0-2-0-6-2, over" the pony on the other end of the radio transmission replied.
The gunfire continued but was soon drowned out by the thunderous BOOMs of the artillery strikes which decimated the treeline. Daffodil looked back to Clare and Lickety Split. "Where's your rifle specialist?" Daffodil asked, "I left it on the chopper sir, I'm not going to fight this war" Split said defiantly. "Well that's just great, I'll have you both court martialed when we get back" Daffodil hissed as he got up.
Clare looked over to Split. "Jesus Split, you're just fucking incredible you know that" Clare said angrily as he stood up. "Alright stallions, bring it in" Clare ordered as the artillery barrage stopped, Clare got on the radio. "Oscar Whiskey, thanks for the support. 2-1 out" Clare said then hung up the radio.
"Alright listen, there's a small zebra village just up the way. Intelligence says that they are friendly but a large force of communist zebras is on the way down to annihilate the village. We have to move the zebras further south to a little town here and link up with Alpha Company and" Clare began but Daffodil interrupted. "That's enough sergeant, I'm the platoon commander so I make the orders. There's a small zebra village just up the way. Intelligence says that they are friendly but a large force of communist zebras is on the way down to annihilate the village. We have to move the zebras further south to a little town here and link up with Alpha Company and they'll take it from there. Any questions" Daffodil told the platoon.
Smoky raised his hoof. "Yes private?" Daffodil asked. "Sir isn't that exactly what the Sarge just said" Smoky replied, a couple of the other soldiers started to chuckle. "ALRIGHT, that's enough. We move out, now" Daffodil hissed angrily.
Sergeant Clare turned to the rest of the platoon, "Line formation. Eyes open and ears listening. No sounds" Clare ordered, Daffodil scowled to himself that the soldiers paid more respect and gave the platoon sergeant a higher authority than they gave him.
The platoon trotted through the heavy jungle in the Everfree and even though it was supposed to be a forest in some regions it was thick and tropical. The platoon reached the village by nightfall and began to tell the villagers what was going to happen tomorrow morning.
Though some of the villagers were unhappy about the whole predicament they eventually agreed. Some of the platoon sat around a fireplace and conversed, Clare on the other hand sat alone and watched the villagers.
Anderson, one of the other sergeants in the platoon, trotted up beside him and handed him a cup of some sort of liquid then leaned against the wall beside Clare. "Don't thank me until you try it" Anderson said and Clare took the cup, taking a careful sip of the liquid. Clare gave a disgusted face, "Yeah I know, tastes like cat piss but it's good for you" Anderson said. Anderson watched as Bakers and Applesauce conversed, despite her name and family background Applesauce was more of a gang member like pony. She had gotten drafted when police arrested her during a drug deal and offered her two tours of duty rather than the jail sentence.
"What do you think she's talking about?" Anderson asked curiously, obviously having a sort of attraction for the young yellow mare then stood up and began to walk over to her. "Anderson... don't get too attached" Clare called out, Anderson looked back then nodded.
Despite not being on night watch duty, Clare stayed up the entire night and kept watch from a roof top.
Morning came almost all too quickly, they had fifteen kilometers to travel through the jungle and there were elderly in the village along with young foals. Clare hopped down from the roof, "Alright, leave nothing for the zebra communists. Burn everything to the ground" Daffodil ordered, despite being a rather peaceful nation Equestria had its moments.
Clare walked along and saw an elderly zebra trying to carry he life possessions with her but was too old to be able to lift them. Clare walked over to the zebra mare, "Ma'am, allow me to carry these for you" Clare said as he knelt beside her. She said something in native tongue. "I carry bags for you" Clare said slowly and made the gestures for her to understand. She smiled then said something but Clare couldn't understand, "She said you are a crazy" said a younger zebra from behind him. "Tell her that's what happens to all us grunts" Clare said as the elderly mare allowed him to put the heavy sack on his back.
The elderly mare trotted close beside him and said something. Clare looked to the younger zebra, "She asked why you are so kind to her, most ponies despise zebras because of the war" she informed him. "Tell her that... I know she's one of the good zebras" Clare replied as they continued on.
Throughout the entire movement there were no problems and they stopped at noon to allow the elderly and children to rest. "Mama Z, you need food and water" Clare said and offered her his canteen and ration. She said something then tried to speak English "No, you need more" said the elderly zebra, who Clare had begun to call Mama Z. "She is trying to say you need it more" the younger zebra said, who happened to be the daughter.
Clare shook his head, "No Mama, you need it more. Please take it" Clare said and the elderly took the ration gratefully. Clare stood up, "I'll be back soon, I just need to check on the others" Clare informed the younger zebra and she translated it for the elderly mare.
Clare walked over to Daffodil who was trying to get the general on the line. The general was the officer in charge of this operation. On his way he saw Anderson and Applesauce making out, 'So much for not getting attached eh Anderson' Clare thought to himself as he approached Daffodil.
"Alright LT, what's the word?" Clare asked and Daff shot him an irritated look. "HQ says we have another three kilos to the town but it's already been secured so there is no resistance. It's just a matter of getting these zebras there" Daffodil informed him.
Daffodil stood up, "Alright sergeant let's get these zebras ready to move" Daffodil ordered. "Sir we've only been resting for a few minutes, with all due respect sir these zebras need to rest" Clare said, Daffodil scowled at the fact that if the sergeant said wait then the soldiers would wait and refuse to follow his orders. "Twenty minutes sergeant, that's all" Daffodil replied then walked away.
Clare looked to Lickety Split, "Don't ever talk to the LT the way I do" Clare said as he too walked away, leaving Lickety Split alone with the radio. A zebra mare had been watching and trotted over to him. Lickety was rather stunned at her sudden approach and found her to be quite attractive. "Why don't you carry a rifle like the others?" the mare asked, "I'm a non-combatant ma'am" Split stammered. She rested her head on his shoulder.
"You are not like the others, you are kind and thoughtful" she whispered. Split felt like he had butterflies in his stomach. Clare walked over to Anderson, "Psst, Anderson" Clare called out and Anderson quickly broke away from his passionate kissing with Applesauce. Clare motioned for Anderson to come over and he obliged.
"Sir?" Anderson asked, despite being the same rank he gave him respect like he was an officer, all the soldiers in the platoon did. "I want these zebras ready to go in twenty minutes okay" Clare ordered and he nodded. "Yes sir" Anderson replied and began to walk back to Applesauce who was waiting for him. "Oh and Anderson... good job on not getting attached" Clare joked heartily, "Hey come on Sarge, you don't know what it's like to be in love" Anderson called back. No he did know but that didn't mean he wanted to again, he'd had relationships before and they always ended with a break-up due to his military service.
Clare went and stood watch close to Mama Z, waiting for the twenty minutes to pass. Time seemed to pass all too quickly and Clare walked over to Mama Z and her daughter. "I'm sorry but we have to keep moving" Clare told them, they nodded and Clare grabbed Mama Z's bags as the platoon and the villagers continued their trip towards the town.
Clare was having a moderately difficult time carrying the bags along with his gear but he couldn't live with himself if he let the elderly mare try to carry all of this. The elderly mare continued to say things in native tongue while her daughter translated it. "She says that you are a good man and must've had good parents that brought you up properly" the daughter told him. "I never had parents, I was raised in an orphanage and was never adopted, when I was sixteen I enlisted for the military and have been fighting ever since" Clare informed her. She translated it but he figured she didn't tell Mama Z what he had told her because the elderly mare still had a happy face and nodded happily. She had probably told Mama Z that he said he had wonderful parents that they loved him or something.
"You didn't tell her did you?" he asked and the daughter shook her head. 'Figures' Clare thought to himself.
After what seemed like hours they finally arrived at the town which looked to be barren. Clare quickly rushed up to the front of the platoon. "Alright, Bakers Anderson: flank around from the left and" Clare began but Daffodil interrupted him once again. "No, we'll move up together, HQ indicates that this place is secure" Daffodil replied and led the platoon straight into the town, leaving them exposed.
"Shouldn't there be others around?" Lickety Split asked and Bakers nodded. "I don't know man, this whole war seems fucked up to me" Bakers muttered as they continued into town.
In one of the shanty shacks two zebras readied an old machinegun and aimed it at the platoon, around the town zebras readied AK47s along with other such weapons. The machinegun team opened fire first and cut down three of the shadow guards who screamed out in pain.
"GET DOWN, Bakers: fire on that machinegun, Destiny: fire the M79 at the roof on my nine" Clare ordered and the platoon did just as he ordered as a seemingly huge force of zebras just appeared out of nowhere. The zebras had chosen to let them get close to attack but that just made Clare's Thompson all the more deadly.
The zebra fighters were stupid enough to all charge in one clustered group, trying to overwhelm them. Clare leveled his Thompson on the group and held the trigger back, the Thompson rattled in his hands and .45 caliber rounds screamed through the air and chopped away at the group.
Bakers shifted his aim from the machinegun house and concentrated his fire on the large group. Destiny fired the M79 and the 40mm grenade round devastated the small home that the sniper group took cover on. "LT, we gotta get these villagers out of here, head three kilos west, there's a clearing. We'll get a chopper out" Clare yelled to the lieutenant. "Are you nuts sergeant, they'll be right on our ass the entire time" Daffodil yelled back.
"Bakers and Sunshine will stay with me and we'll keep them at bay, you get the others out. Anderson, you carry Mama Z's bags. LT, I'll meet you by the treeline by the field, don't leave without us" Clare ordered, everyone seemed to follow Clare's order before Daffodil even gave the order a go.
The platoon along with the villagers quickly left, Clare and the others kept the enemy supressed while the others quickly retreated from the overrun town. "Split, radio" Daffodil ordered and Split quickly galloped up to him and handed him the radio. Daffodil dialed in the radio and called the general.
"General the town has been overrun, we have six dead and several wounded, we're heading to coordinates: Alpha Zulu Foxtrot, 9-2-4-3-0-1. We need a chopper to meet us there, go" Daffodil told the general. "You'll have a chopper but it can't wait overnight, you'll have until 1830 to get there over" the general told Daffodil. "Yes sir, we'll be there over" Daff replied then hung up the radio.
"Alright, we move out, double time" Daffodil ordered, the platoon did what he said and moved out, some of the wounded groaned in pain as they galloped along.
Back in the town things had settled down and it was relatively peaceful. Clare lay in the mud along with Bakers and Sunshine. "Alright, Bakers, Sunshine: you guys head out while I give you supressing fire" Clare whispered and they nodded. Clare loaded a fresh drum magazine into the sub machinegun and began to fire it wildly at the town, soon return fire from the zebras shot back.
Bakers and Sunshine quickly raced into the cover of the jungle brush as Clare emptied the magazine then chased after them. "Alright they're gonna be hot on our tails so let's keep moving" Clare ordered and the duo nodded as they followed the platoon sergeant.
Elsewhere by the clearing that Clare had spoken of, the platoon, along with the villagers, sat and waited for Clare to show up. "Where the hell's the chopper?" Danvers asked and Daffodil shrugged. He hadn't noticed the extraction choppers weren't waiting until Danvers had mentioned it.
Time passed by at a seemingly slow rate until Anderson called out to Daffodil. "Sir, it's Clare and the others" Anderson called out and the lieutenant quickly scurried over to him and watched as Clare, Bakers and Sunshine ascended up an incline towards the platoon's position.
"Sarge, hey Sarge" Anderson whispered and Clare looked up to him then proceeded up to their position. "Sergeant we have a problem" Daffodil informed him. "Bakers take defensive point here, it's the only way they'll get to us without making a large amount of noise" Clare ordered, he was right. The place that Daffodil had picked was perfect, they were surrounded by trees and brush from the sides and the only practical way of assault would be from the incline because through the clearing the zebras would have no cover.
"What's up LT?" Clare asked and Daffodil pointed to the field. "Okay... where's the choppers?" Clare asked, Daffodil simply shrugged. "Shit, get me on the horn with the general" Clare swore and Split handed him the radio. "HQ, HQ this is Sergeant Clare do you read me over?" Clare asked into the radio piece. "This is HQ, what's wrong sergeant?" the radio pony on the other side asked, "Where's our choppers out of here? We're at the LZ but there aren't any choppers over" Clare informed the radio-pony.
"Sergeant, all flights into and out of the Everfree have been cancelled for the night, tomorrow we'll have your chopper bright and early over and out" the radio-pony said then hung up. "Well fuck you to then" Clare muttered and hung up the radio, "What's the skinny?" Daffodil asked. "No extraction until tomorrow morning" Clare sighed in disappointment.
Night came around almost too quickly and all the soldiers were on edge, knowing that the zebra fighters would be coming for them. Clare leaned against a tree close to Mama Z, who was exhausted like most of the others. Clare closed his eyes to try and get some sleep but it was short lived.
Bakers' M60 roared to life, "CONTACT" Bakers yelled over the sound of his machinegun. The others quickly lept up and rushed over to the front line and began to fire at the zebras who were trying to advance. Clare rushed up beside Bakers.
"Sarge there's too many... we're gonna get overrun" Bakers yelled out, Clare swore to himself then rushed over to Lickety Split. Daffodil was already contacting the general. "General this is Lieutenant Daffodil, we need immediate extraction. We are about to be overrun over" Daffodil informed the general.
"Lieutenant you are in a hot zone, no helicopters are available for pickup. If you move your platoon seven kilometers due south we can get you a pickup over" the general replied. "Negative sir, we have wounded and elderly with us. We wouldn't be able to make that journey" Daffodil replied. "Leave them lieutenant" the general ordered.
Daffodil's face went pale, "Sir?" he asked curiously. "I said leave them lieutenant, the mission has been aborted. Get you and your platoon out of there" the general ordered. "LT, we can't do this" Clare said. "Sergeant this isn't your call to make. Yes sir I will" Daffodil began but Clare slammed a punch into Daffodil's face and knocked him out. Clare looked to Lickety Split who was gawking at the fact that he had just knocked out the lieutenant. "When he wakes up tell him that a mortar round blew up close to him and knocked him out" Clare said as he picked up the radio piece.
"General?" Clare asked, "Sergeant? Where's the lieutenant?" the general asked. "Uh sir he's knocked out, a mortar round just struck nearby, he'll be fine" Clare assured the general. "Sergeant get the platoon out of there" the general ordered.
"Negative general, we can't leave these villagers like this. The other zebras will slaughter them" Clare told the general. "I don't care about those worthless zebras, you will follow my orders or I will have you" the general began but Clare redialed the radio and the general's voice crackled away. "Guess the radio broke" Clare said as he redialed it further.
"Shining Armor?" Clare asked, "Clare? What the hell are you" Shining began but Clare cut him off. "Listen there's no time captain, you need to get me a helicopter out to coordinates: Alpha Zulu Foxtrot, 9-2-4-3-0-1" Clare informed him. "Uhh... why don't you" Shining began but Clare interrupted him again. "Listen Shining the general is leaving us out to dry and I need your help man, if you don't help us than several guards are going to die" Clare told him. "Okay: Alpha Zulu Foxtrot, 9-2-4-3-0-1 right? I'll have you extraction choppers within the hour sergeant" Shining Armor replied then hung up the radio.
"Sir?" Split asked, "We can't leave these zebras out for the wolves. We forced them out of their homes and dragged them all this way so I'll be damned if some general tells me I can't save them" Clare said. Split nodded then Clare nodded to back. Clare reached over and grabbed Daffodil's M16 and tossed Split the rifle. "Sir I'm a non-combatant" Split said and Clare smirked. "Ain't no such thing today" Clare said then rushed off to the front line of the fighting.
Applesauce and Anderson fired at a group of zebras as they tried to charge up the side of the hill front. "Fall back" Clare ordered, both Anderson and Applesauce lept to their hooves and began to fall back with the rest of the platoon but Applesauce was a little trigger happy and would constantly stop and fire at zebras as they came up the hill. Her foolishness was punished as a stray round clipped her knee and sent her to the ground in agonizing pain.
Anderson heard her cry of pain and turned back to rescue her. He rushed forward valiantly and fired his M16 wildly at the zebras as they seemed to just flow over the hill side. Anderson grabbed Applesauce by her combat jacket and attempted to pull her to safety but soon zebras took aim and fired upon him.
A round passed through his leg and sent him to the ground in pain. "Fuck" Anderson swore as he brought up his M16 and fired at the advancing zebras. Several of the advancing zebras fell to the ground and Applesauce fired wildly at the advancing zebras.
A lone zebra charged at them with a bayonet fitted rifle, Anderson took aim but his M16 was empty. At the last possible second he rolled sideways as the zebra tried to impale him with his bayonet but ended up just stabbing the dirt. Anderson used his good leg to kick the zebra's knee sideways. The zebra screamed out in pain and fell on top of Anderson as yet another zebra charged with a bayonet fitted rifle, Applesauce did her best to try and keep the zebras at bay but they seemed relentless.
Anderson grabbed the wounded zebra and put the zebra's body in front of his as the zebra charging him tried to impale him with his bayonet but ended up stabbing the other zebra that Anderson used for cover. Anderson unholstered his Berretta and shot the bayonet attacker then directed his shots at zebras as they approached but as he went to roll the body of the zebra off his own, another zebra charged forward only this one succeeded in stabbing Anderson in the lower stomach area with his bayonet.
Anderson gagged in pain but was able to grab the rifle barrel and keep the zebra from stabbing him numerous times. Applesauce fired at the zebra and chopped him down with a burst of 5.56mm rounds. Anderson crawled up beside Applesauce and reloaded his empty Berretta, "They're gonna kill us" Anderson whispered in pain. Applesauce silenced him as she leaned forward and kissed him.
"Dammit ANDERSON!" Clare yelled as he realized that both Applesauce and Anderson had stayed behind for whatever reason. Clare lept up to his feet and charged back towards the zebras, firing his sub machinegun as he ran. Several zebras tried to shoot him down but they were unsuccessful, Clare returned fire and took them off their hooves.
Anderson heard a zebra charging from behind Applesauce and broke away from the kiss, he lowered her body and pointed the pistol at the charging zebra. He pulled the trigger multiple times and 9mm bullets cut through the zebra and took away his life. Applesauce saw hooves running up behind Anderson, "Anderson behind you" Applesauce yelled. Anderson turned around and readied his pistol, he pulled the trigger back but it clicked, he was out of ammo. His face went dire as the zebra swung a katana sword and sliced of his head. His head went tumbling to the ground and his body slumped over, blood squirting from his neck where his head used to be.
Applesauce reached for her pistol but the zebra kicked her in the face and knocked her back. He was about to stab her when another zebra officer approached. "No, do not kill her. Take this one prisoner. I could use a new... entertainer" the zebra said with a sickeningly evil smile.
Clare rushed through the jungle and saw Applesauce thrashing as several zebras dragged her away, he had heard what zebras do to female prisoners and there was no way he was letting her go that way. He spotted Anderson's decapitated body by the zebras that dragged Applesauce away and cursed to himself. He brought his Thompson up and pulled the trigger but it clicked. He reached for a spare magazine but realized he had none.
He quickly slung the Thompson and drew out the mighty Smith and Wesson 500 magnum but he only had five shots and there were eight zebras, minus the ones that hadn't noticed him and were advancing towards the platoon.
Clare cursed himself for not having taken a more suitable pistol, something with more ammo capacity. He lined up a shot, KA-BOOM, the mighty magnum thundered through the air. The mighty round slammed through a zebra and tore a large hole through his body, the others scattered but the one zebra held on to Applesauce as he continued to try and run. The massive magnum revolver thundered off three more shots. Clare took careful aim on the zebra holding Applesauce and fired. The round tore right through his back and killed him instantly.
"APPLESAUCE, COME ON" Clare yelled out. She quickly lept up and began to gallop towards Clare when a stray bullet caught her shoulder and sent her tumbling to the ground by Anderson's body. Clare's face went dire as he saw a large swarm of zebras approach over the hill. He looked to Applesauce who looked behind herself and saw the group advancing, she looked back to Clare and nodded solemnly and he returned the nod. She then turned to Anderson's body and crawled up close to it then pulled the pin on one of his grenades.
Clare cursed to himself, there was no way he could've saved her. Not now anyway. The explosion erupted violently and Clare had already turned and began to run as fast as he could back to the platoon.
Daffodil was finally awaking from his unconsciousness, he was awakened rather abruptly as the chattering of Bakers' M60 deafened him. The helicopters could be heard approaching.
"Don't shoot the Sarge" Bakers yelled then soon after Clare lept over the fallen tree which he had taken cover behind. "Keep a supressing fire on the jungle and don't let up until the choppers get here" Clare ordered.
The choppers landed in the clearing, "Bakers give me the M60 and a fresh belt, I'll hold them off" Clare ordered, Bakers nodded and handed him the machinegun with a fresh belt magazine loaded. "GET TO THE CHOPPA" Clare yelled and the platoon along with the zebra villagers began to retreat to the choppers. Clare focused his attention to the advancing zebras and held back the trigger on the M60.
It chattered in his hands and cut down several zebras, Clare would constantly look back to see if they all made it to the chopper yet. Finally they got close enough and Clare lept to his feet and began to quickly back pedal towards the choppers while firing the M60 from his hip.
He quickly ran out of ammunition and dropped the machinegun to the ground figuring it was only weighing him down. As he rushed towards the chopper he saw Mama Z collapse to the ground. "Mama Z" Clare yelled out as he turned his direction diagonally and ran towards her body.
He reached her and saw that she had taken a bullet to the back. "Come on Mama Z, you're gonna be okay" Clare whispered and he cradled her body then rushed to the closest chopper and embarked it. "Let's get out of here" Clare yelled.
The choppers all ascended into the air and departed for Canterlot. "Mama Z... Mama Z, you're gonna be okay" Clare said as tears came to his eyes. She whispered something in plain English, "I... am at peace, you live long" she whispered then passed away. "No Mama Z, please don't die" Clare cried, she was so innocent and she had been stripped of her life for nothing.
The choppers reached Canterlot late at night. The wounded were rushed to the hospital and Captain Shining Armor had come out to see what sort of disaster had been adverted.
"CLARE!" Daffodil yelled and rushed over to Clare who was smoking a cigar. Clare had an expressionless face, he hadn't been traumatized by Mama Z's death but he had still received a major emotional strike from her death. "Sergeant you disobeyed my orders, you took over command of my platoon and... SERGEANT ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME" Daffodil roared, Clare remained expressionless and shook his head.
"Well... I was going to say I could have you court martialed but... you may have saved all our lives along with these villagers so I have to say: thank you" Daffodil informed him and held out his hoof. Clare looked up and shook his hoof. "Since we were never properly introduced. Nice to meet you Clare, my name's Daffodil" Daffodil said, Clare nodded. "Uh oh, here comes the general, he's still steamed as hell" Daffodil muttered, Clare chuckled. "What's wrong with him, the death toll not high enough yet" Clare said, despising the general for his lack of support during the mission.
"SERGEANT" screamed the angered voice of the general as he stomped over to Clare. "You think that was a funny fucking joke huh? Turning off your radio so that you wouldn't have to listen to my orders, well I'll have you know I'm going to have you court martialed for that" the general yelled then turned to leave. "You better court martial me to then" said Lickety Split, the general's face turned red with rage and he turned around.
"Who said that? I demand to know who said that" the general roared. "I did sir" Lickety Split said but suddenly Bakers stepped in front of him, "No he didn't say it, I did" Bakers said. Suddenly the entire platoon stepped forward saying they said it. The general stepped back but ended up stepping into Captain Shining Armor. "And you better court martial me as well, because I authorized those choppers to go in and get them out of there" Shining Armor said coldly. Despite being a higher ranking official in terms of political outlook, his word meant nothing against Shining's. The general stuttered then turned and left.
"Jesus Christ sergeant... what the hell happened?" Shining Armor asked as he sat down beside Clare. Clare took a puff on his cigar and blew the smoke into the air "War happened" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 22: Hiking | Clare, beachfront, Los Pegasus:
I awoke peacefully for the second time in a row, this vacation thing was great. I slowly got out of bed and stretched, 'I'm gonna have to do some laundry today' I thought to myself as I put on yesterday's clothes.
I looked to my watch, 6:04am, 'Not bad' I thought to myself as I grabbed my remaining laundry and walked into the bathroom. I dropped my dirty laundry into the washing machine then fidgeted with it until I got it to work. It churned and chugged as it began the wash cycle.
I mumbled to myself as I walked into the kitchen and poured myself some cereal, well I suppose soon enough it would be Luna's cereal but it didn't bother me all that much. She was so sweet and gentle that I could give up my breakfast for her. I flicked on the TV and began to watch morning cartoons, it was something about a jack rabbit evading a coyote or something but it was old styled humor that kind of reminded me of The Bugs Bunny and Tweedy Show.
I walked over and flopped down on the couch as I ate my breakfast cereal. Luna trotted over and lay down beside me, I handed her my cereal. "You don't want it?" she asked, I shrugged and she scrunched her nose in curiosity. "What do you mean?" she asked as she mimicked my shrug.
"I don't know. You have it" I said and she looked down at the cereal then smiled. "Thanks" she replied then began to slurp up the cereal rather than use the spoon, I guess sometimes even princesses don't use table manners.
I yawned then leaned back in the couch, Luna took a moment from slurping up the cereal to look at me. "Can we go hiking today?" she asked, I looked over to her. "Yeah sure" I said plainly but she gave me a frown. "Yeah sure? Do you not want to hiking?" she asked curiously.
"I'll do whatever you want, I just want you to be happy" I said casually as I looked at the roof. She set the cereal bowl down on the table and shuffled over to me then rested her head on my shoulder. "I want you to have fun too, it would be selfish of me to take all the fun" she said. I moved my arm then placed it around her and smiled. "Let's go hiking" I said with a wink and her face brightened up with happiness, I swear when her face brightens up like that it just makes me feel all warm and cuddly inside.
"But after the cartoons and cereal" she told me as she levitated over the bowl of cereal and lay against my body as we watched morning cartoons together. The rabbit was tunneling underground while the coyote poured gasoline down the hole, the rabbit tunneled out behind the coyote and when the coyote lit the gasoline it traveled through the tunnel and all the way to his rear and burned his hind.
Eventually their shenanigans ended and the cartoons were over. Luna and I got up and I went into my room to grab some suitable clothes for hiking. 'Do I even have suitable clothes for hiking?' I asked myself as I rummaged through my travel bags. I took my duster coat along with some camouflaged cargo pants.
I put on the shoulder holster and slid my Desert Eagle into the holster along with three extra magazines. 'Whatta yah afraid of? Colt-scouts?" I thought to myself then chuckled as I walked back into the living room. Somehow Luna always managed to get dressed faster than me. She already had her leather clothes on and was ready to go.
"So... the Los Pegasus forest?" I asked, she shook her head and brought out a map. She had circled the spots in a mountain area she wanted to go. "Alright let's hit the road Jack" I said, she gave me a strange look. I chuckled, "Sorry, old catch phrase" I informed her as we flicked off the lights in the house and left.
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Clare, Los Pegasus forest area:
I slowed the Harley to a stop, parked it and turned it off. I pocketed the keys then grabbed our hiking bags. We had both packed lightly: water, food, maps, compass, that sort of thing. "Couldn't you just fly to the top of the mountain?" I asked as we began to walk into the forest trails. Luna snickered "Well that would completely take away from the point of hiking wouldn't it. And besides, I wouldn't get to spend time with you if I did that" she said lovingly. She trotted closer to me and nestled her head against my neck as we walked along the trails towards the mountains.
"So Clare tell me, have you been thinking much about the future?" Luna asked but I shook my head. "Nah, I try not to foretell future events. It usually stresses me out so I just let it be" I replied as we continued along, there wasn't a single other pony or human out in the trails, not even a hoof or footprint.
"Don't you just love nature?" she asked, I looked around. Birds flew about and sang out their melodies, woodland creatures scuttled about. "Yeah... but sometimes it scares me" I replied and she looked to me with curiosity in her eyes. "Why?" she asked curiously, I turned to her. "I've been in too many jungle conflicts to be calm in forest environments. But as long as I don't think about it my nerves stay rather calm" I informed her.
I had a slight sway in my pace and Luna mimicked it almost perfectly. "So, have you been thinking about the future?" I asked her and she looked back up to me. "Only a little, but I don't like to make hopes and dreams out of it because my future is already set. I am the night princess and that is all I will ever be" she replied rather sadly. "Awe come on, that's not true" I said positively, she rolled her eyes as if it was a joke. "Please don't try and humour me" she told me and I stopped in my tracks, she turned and looked to me.
"Come on Luna, you're so much more than just 'The night princess', you bring night to ponies, you help them through their dreams. You're more than just 'The night princess'" I reassured her. We continued our walk through the trails, I could tell something was on her mind but I didn't want to pry at her to find out.
We approached the mountain side, I looked up the mountain and whistled. "Long way up" I muttered as I looked over to Luna. "Sure you don't wanna just fly up?" I asked but she shook her head. "Let's do this like most other ponies would have to" she replied and we began the long trek up the mountain side.
The mountains weren't actually all that bad and the hike only took us a few hours to reach the summit. We sat on a more flattened part of the peak, "Wow, it looks different from up here" I muttered as I sat down. Luna sat beside me, "Yeah, really is something" she murmured as I pulled out some crackers and cheese. "Here catch" I said and tossed her the container of crackers and cheese, she caught them in her magical aurora and opened the container.
I pulled out another container of crackers and cheese and began to munch on the crackers, "I'm surprised that we didn't see a single other pony or person along the trails" I said, Luna nodded as she continued to eat the crackers. We sat there for over an hour just eating and talking about little things like climate change on earth and what not until she asked something that I wasn't really expecting.
"Did you ever have children?" she asked, I gave her a strange look. "You mean like did I ever have a child?" I asked and she nodded. I shook my head, "Why not?" she asked and I shrugged. "Who knows, guess it wasn't meant to be. Besides, I probably wouldn't make a good dad either" I replied as I took a bite out of a sandwich. "I think you would make a good father" she told me but I shook my head. "Of course you would, you're kind, loving, affectionate, caring. You'd make an excellent father and a child would be lucky to have you as a father" she told me.
"No, I'd be gone away to the military too much" I told her as I took yet another bite of the sandwich. "Well I still think you would've been a good father, had you taken a chance" she replied. "Yeah, I have a feeling that being a dad wouldn't have been the greatest idea. The kid would barely know who I was, let alone love me" I said sadly as I finished the sandwich. "How bout you?" I asked.
"Hmm?" she replied, "You ever have kids?" I asked and she shook her head quickly. "Star Gazer and I, we... we never really... we couldn't have foals together" she replied and a tear came to her eye. "I'm... I'm sorry I didn't mean to" I began but she cut me off, "It's okay... sometimes it's good to talk about things" she told me as she stood up.
I looked to my watch, it was just past noon. "Yeah I guess we should be heading down now" I said as I got up with a groan. "Are you hurt?" she asked worriedly, I shook my head. "Just a little tired" I replied as I stretched out and yawned. We nodded to each other then preceded down the mountain side, Luna still said that there was no fun in flying down because it took the point away from hiking.
We finally reached the bottom of the mountain and Luna brought out the map to see which way to go, unfortunately in our lack of attention we had walked down the wrong side of the mountain and would either have to walk all the way back up and over or walk around the mountain. "I'm leaning towards the forest" I replied and Luna nodded but no sooner had we agreed to trek through the forest, a hard gust of wind blew past and took the map out of Luna's hooves and away into the forest.
Luna was going to try and catch it with her magical aurora but it flew out of sight to fast. "Well this is great, things couldn't get any worse" I chuckled, 'So we have to walk all the way around and have no map' I thought to myself as we began to walk through the forest. Not even five minutes after I said that it started to pour rain, we got soaked nearly instantly, my hair flattened out and dripped as Luna's leather jacket repelled some of the rain yet I could tell that she was becoming wet as well. The sky was dark from the thunder clouds and the rain was almost thick enough that we could barely see past fifty yards even in the forest trails. "Okay... It's worse" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 23: I love a rainy night | Clare, Los Pegasus forest:
We scurried along the trails but figured we were going nowhere fast. "Alright, let's find somewhere to hide out" I said to Lune as we galloped along. "I'll agree with that one" she said so we agreed to hide out until the rain stopped.
As we ran off the trail and through the woods I pointed to a cave entrance. "Good a place as any" I shouted over the sound of pouring rain. We both raced into the cave, dripping water in caverns echoed throughout the cave. "Alright... a cave... I love caves" I muttered sarcastically as we walked deeper into the cave but stayed close enough to the entrance that our path were still dimly lit by whatever light did pass through the thunder clouds above.
I dropped my hiking bag on the cold rock floor of the cave then tussled my hair to shake all the water out. Luna shook her body like a dog but her body didn't get much drier due to the leather clothes that she still had on. "Alright I'm gonna go get some firewood and uhm... I don't know what you want to do so uhm... I'll be back" I told her then walked back into the pouring rain to try and find something that I could use for firewood, but most of the wood would be soaked by now.
I scavenged some wood and twigs then rushed back to the cave, Luna had probably gone exploring the deeper parts of the cave because she wasn't here, nor was her clothes so she probably had gone off as soon as I left to get the firewood.
I put together a small fire pit close to the entrance of the cave so that the smoke wouldn't gag us when the fire was going. I fidgeted with the twigs for a few minutes and got the fire to start. "Jeeze, why the hell did it have to rain" I said to myself as I started to stoke the fire.
Luna still wasn't back yet but I figured she had probably found something that she thought was fascinating. I started putting larger pieces of wood on the fire and the fire crackled.
Suddenly I heard a scream echo throughout the caverns. It had to be Luna, I grabbed a large stick then rummaged through the bag for a piece of cloth or something that would keep a torch burning. I couldn't find anything good enough to use as a burning cloth so I tore off my wet t-shirt and wrapped it around the end of the stick then placed it over the fire.
The t-shirt caught fire and began to slowly burn. I ran down the caverns with the makeshift torch lighting my way. I heard another scream then a roar of some sort of creature. 'Right I forgot. Spooky cave equals monsters' I thought to myself as I unholstered my Desert Eagle.
I entered a large open part of the cave where Luna took cover from a medium sized enraged dragon. The dragon caught sight of my torch light and breathed a large blast of fire at me. I dropped my torch and lept behind a rock which shielded me from the fire blast, 'Great this day gets better by the minute' I thought sarcastically.
I peeked over the rock to see that the dragon had switched its attention back to Luna. I darted from cover and raced around then lept beside Luna just as the dragon breathed another blast of fire. "Where were you" Luna asked breathlessly, "Getting firewood" I replied as I tried to peek around the rock cover. "What took you so long?" she asked, I looked back to her. "Traffic" I quoted jokingly then rolled sideways.
The dragon took notice of me and switched its attention to me rather than Luna. I lept to my feet and the dragon began chase me. I had heard that dragon scales were extremely tough like elephant hide and only large caliber rifles or full metal jacket high velocity rounds could penetrate a dragon's hide. So I wondered if a shoot to the belly would kill it.
The dragon breathed a gust of fire that trailed close behind me, I held my pistol in my left hand, arm fully extended and aimed for the exposed lower chest where the dragon's tough scales didn't protect. I blasted off all seven .50 caliber AE rounds into the dragon, the bullets expelled out the barrel of the pistol and the thunderous BOOMs of the large pistol deafened the entire cave.
The dragon howled in pain and I could easily see a few entry wounds in the lower chest area of the dragon where the bullets had entered. I ducked behind the cover of a rock and loaded a fresh magazine into the massive handgun, despite the recoil in these guns the ballistic trauma they caused well made up for the weight and recoil.
I peeked around the corner to see the dragon hiss and race towards me, scampering along like a komodo dragon. The sheer sight of it sent shivers down my back as the dragon stuck its snake like tongue out and revealed its razor sharp teeth. Drool dangled from its mouth as it quickly closed the gap between us in a matter of seconds. The dragon let out a horrifying hiss as it opened its mouth wide and tried to leap on me. I quickly snapped my aim up to its head and fired a single .50 caliber round right through the roof of its mouth.
The powerful .50 caliber round slammed through the roof of its mouth and blasted right through its skull and blew out the back of the dragon's head. The exit wound exploded violently and sent bits of brain matter and blood spewing all behind it. The dragon thumped to the floor lifelessly. "You're luggage" I told the dead dragon. "What? That makes no sense" Luna told me.
I looked over to her and shrugged, "Well you know... because he... it... oh it sounded better in my head" I stammered, she had ruined a perfectly cool one liner. Luna walked up to my side, "That gun packs quite a punch if it can kill an adolescent dragon" she commented. I looked to the shiny handgun and nodded.
"Well uhm, I got the fire going and I'm hungry so let's get something to eat" I suggested, she agreed and we both walked back to the entrance of the cave where the fire still burned. The rain was still pouring outside and it was almost like we were behind a water fall or something. "What happened to your shirt anyways?" Luna asked.
"Well I needed some light so I made a torch out of my shirt" I informed her, she chuckled at my ridiculous creativity. I started making a makeshift laundry line out of some rope we had taken with us for rock climbing and set our wet clothes on the line by the fire so they could dry.
I walked over to the waterfall by the entrance, technically it wasn't a waterfall but it was close enough. I stepped into the water and quickly washed myself off, Luna looked over to me and walked over. "Isn't that cold?" she asked and I nodded, "So why do it?" she asked curiously. "Needed a shower anyway" I said jokingly, really I just thought it would be fun to stand in a waterfall, even if it wasn't a real one.
Luna stepped beside me under the waterfall and let the icy cold water soak into her fur, she shivered but stayed under the water. After I quickly washed my body I walked back over to the fire and she fllowed. I still wore my boxers, for obvious reasons, which were now soaked and made me that much colder.
I sat beside the fire and Luna sat across from me. I rubbed my hands together quickly then placed them close to the fire to try and warm up. The fire was blazing hot and quickly warmed us both up but Luna soon got up and shook like a dog, semi cold water splashed at me. "Hey, I was almost dry" I complained jokingly, she laughed and on purposely aimed the shaking water at me.
I snickered at her child like behaviour and grabbed our hiking bags in search of some food. I knew we had packed extra for later so we had to have something good. As I rummaged through the food I cursed to myself. "What's wrong?" she asked and I sighed in disappointment. "We're out of crackers and cheese" I complained, she laughed at my disappointment from lack of crackers and cheese and walked over to see what was left.
"Well there is: some fruit salad... and some potato salad... and some" she began but I gasped in excitement as I found some apple fritters. 'Oh yeah I forgot I packed those' I thought to myself. "Yes and there's some sweets" Luna replied as I began sorting through the food.
As the night went on our clothes dried and we put them back on, well I didn't have a top layer of clothes because the duster coat was rather uncomfortable without something underneath like a t-shirt, usually I wouldn't complain but the fire was warm enough to keep me from getting cold. Luna had gone out and raised the moon though no-pony would see it due to the dark thunder clouds above.
We roasted marshmallows over the fire, 'Why did we pack marshmallows?' I thought to myself but then figured I shouldn't wonder and just be happy that I did pack them. "Mwah-ha-ha, marshmallows" I said childishly as I chewed a mouthful of crispy marshmallows, Luna shook her head in semi amusement and ate a goldenly roasted marshmallow. I looked to my watch, thank god this thing was water proof. "9:20pm" I muttered, Luna yawned. It had been a long day and I was feeling sleepy as well.
Luna lay down on the cold cave floor but thanks to the leather jacket and pants it was probably a little more comfortable and the fire probably kept her warm as well. She rustled around a little then tried to fall asleep. I reached up to the makeshift laundry line and grabbed my duster coat then walked over to her. I set the duster coat overtop of her like a blanket and tucked her in. She opened her eyes and looked up to me.
"Won't you be cold?" she asked but I shook my head. "Nah. The fire will keep me warm for the night" I replied and kissed her on the forehead then walked over to my spot where I had been sitting.
The hour seemed to progress slowly as I inspected my Desert Eagle. I constantly looked down the sights of the guns, pulling back the hammer manually then pulling the trigger. The click of the hammer would echo silently throughout the cave but it shouldn't have been loud enough to wake Luna. I stopped anyway figuring maybe it was keeping her awake and she was just pretending to sleep.
I sat there and watched the fire, checking my watch every so often. The time was 10:29pm and I was ready to dose off when Luna stirred in her sleep and she caught my attention. I figured perhaps it was best to stay watch for the night in case any predators like Timberwolves or bobcats came around looking for something to eat.
I looked at my watch again then sighed quietly as I watched the burning fire. Luna stirred again then arouse from her resting spot and began to trot over to me. "Sorry, I didn't wake you did I?" I asked and she nodded. "Sorry" I apologized but she shook her head. "No don't be. I can't stop thinking about you" she whispered seductively as she pressed her lips up against mine, pushing my body to the ground then lying on top of me.
I ran my hands up the sides of her leather jacket as she stuck her tongue in my mouth. I wrapped my arms around her and held her body close to mine. She moaned inside my mouth, 'Damn, well this is a turn of events' |
Love and Honour | Chapter 24: Teasing | Clare:
I pulled back from the kiss. "Alright now I know it's a bad time to ask but are you sure you really want this? I mean I know we've kissed and stuff but do you really want" I began to ask but she cut me off as she aggressively pressed her lips against mine again. 'I'll take that as a yes' I thought to myself.
The sound of pouring rain echoed in the caverns as the fire kept us warm. Her leather coat was pressed against my bare chest and gave my skin a weird sensational feeling. Our tongues wrestled for domination over the other but I let her tongue best mine, wondering what exactly her tongue could do. She stuck her tongue deeper into the depths of my mouth and I almost gagged but held it back as I ran my hands gently up her sides.
I hadn't noticed but I was running out of oxygen and had to pull my mouth away to get a breath of air. I slid my left hand to the collar of the jacket and gripped the zipper of the jacket and slowly unzipped it, I was breathing somewhat erratically but hadn't really taken notice of it. "Is something wrong?" Luna asked and I shook my head. "Been a while, that's all" I replied.
She giggled, "You're telling me" she laughed and I wanted to face palm as I remembered her telling me she hadn't loved for over one thousand years. I finished unzipping her jacket and I slid my arms underneath the jacket and around her bare body then pulling her body close to mine. Her fur against my body felt amazing and I think she felt the same way because she tried to stifle a moan but it didn't quite turn out the way she had planned and it sounded kind of like a grunt.
I stifled a laugh, "What's so funny?" she asked. "You know we're alone right? So if you feel like moaning go ahead, I don't think anyone is watching" I chuckled. She looked around and sighed, "Sorry, I'm not really used to this" she apologized. "Don't worry about it, I'm not too bright about the whole sex thing either" I reassured her, like riding a bike I guess, it comes so naturally but don't do it for a few years and things are a little bit tricky when you try them again but then again I was a fast leaner and quickly remembered things I had learned.
We began to tongue kiss again as I ran my hands up and down her back, she constantly moaned in my mouth as the sheer feeling of bodily contact exhilarated her. She placed her right hoof around the back of my head and slid her left hoof down my side, it felt different than anything I had ever felt before.
I leaned back from the kiss, "Luna... I love you" I said through a slight breath. "I know, I love you to" she whispered, I slid my leg down and around hers and flipped our bodies over so that I was on top. I began to kiss her again but then slowly broke away from the kiss and began to kiss her down her neck. She let out a slight moan as I began to trail my kisses lower down her body.
She just lay there as I trailed my kisses down her chest but as I reached her stomach area I stopped kissing her and let my tongue trail along her stomach. She let out another moan as my wet tongue trailed closer to her lower body region. I reached her breasts, which on ponies was near the lower stomach area.
I licked a figure eight around both her breasts then began to gently suck on one of her nipples as I caressed her other breast with my right hand and gave her nipple a gentle squeeze. Her moans became louder as I continued my erotic massage, "Oh Clare... oh yes... I love you sooo much" she moaned.
I stopped my massage and gave both her tits a gentle kiss then began to trail my tongue even lower down her body until I reached the waist of her brown leather pants. She was breathing heavily as I unbuttoned the leather pants with my fingers but then took my hand away as I leaned my face right against her groin area of the pants and took hold of the zipper with my teeth.
I slowly pulled down the zipper and as I did my nose caught a whiff of an arousing fragrance. I unzipped her pants and brought my hands up to the waistline of the pants and slowly slid them off. After I completely removed her pants I brought my attention back to her lower regions and I saw where the arousing fragrance had come from.
Her pussy was absolutely soaked and I had this strong feeling that she had been ridiculously aroused for some time now and hadn't told me out of fear of a possible negative reaction. "Jesus... you're... you're soaking wet" I stuttered. She covered her face with her hooves, "I'm sorry, I can't control myself. I'm so horny that it just... just..." she trailed off in saddened disappointment with herself. I pulled my body over hers again then nudged her hooves away from her face and began to kiss her again.
I leaned back from the kiss, "I should be sorry, if I had known this earlier I probably would've... actually I still would've been a little cautious because you're the princess. I had no idea you were like this, I'm sorry I didn't... well you know" I said figuring she probably got the idea of my statement. "No I don't know, please continue. I'm intrigued" she giggled.
I chuckled to myself knowing exactly what she wanted me to say. "Well first I would start kissing you, then I'd" I began but she cut me off, "Yes, we already did that. Tell me what you're going to do to me now" she said seductively. I thought to myself, so far I had been just going with the flow and hoping that everything sort of played out.
"Well first I'm gonna make out with you some more" I said then quickly thought about something else to say. "Then I'm going to very slowly run my tongue down your sexy body and suckle your breasts until I feel you're breasts are satisfied. Then I'll run my tongue down to your needy wet pussy and tease you until you tell me to stop then I'll very slowly begin to lick your outer entrance and make you scream for me to stop and as you beg for me to finish you, I'll leave you clinging on the edge of your orgasm" I informed her.
"Ha! You think you could make me, the night princess, beg?" she replied and I nodded, "I don't think, I know" I told her. "Try me" she replied. I quickly leaned down to her lips and pressed mine against hers and we began to make out. Our tongues battled for domination over one another but this time I didn't let my tongue be bested by hers and forced my tongue into her mouth. Her tongue was a little longer than mine and wrapped around mine as I licked the top of her mouth.
I pulled back, a trail of saliva was strung between both our lips, and lowed my lips down to her neck and began to run my tongue slowly down her body.
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Luna:
His tongue was wet and slid down my fur, it felt so wonderful and made my lust for him grow. His tongue trailed down my belly and reached my breasts and he began to gently suck on them, the shocks of pleasure jolted through my body and I couldn't help but to let a moan slip from my mouth.
He sucked on my left nipple and caressed my right breast with his left hand and gently squeezed the nipple with his thumb and finger. I began to moan a little louder as the powerful pleasure began to course through my body. As I felt my tits begin to tingle he stopped his erotic massage and continued to run his tongue downwards.
"Hey... you didn't... finish there" I said through heavy pants of sexual arousal. "Well you did say you wouldn't submit and I said I would make you scream for me to finish you off... so it's like a competition" he told me. I scoffed silently to myself as I realized he was serious about leaving me unsatisfied until I screamed. Well I wouldn't be beaten so easily, by the end of this he would be exhausted and I would come out on victorious.
His tongue lowered to my nether regions but unlike I was expecting he stopped just above my entrance and leaned back. I looked down to see his right hand slowly approach my needy slit but he didn't slid a finger inside me. Instead he gently trickled his finger around my pussy lips.
I tried to hold back a moan, trying to best him, but I couldn't hold it back and my moan of pleasure escaped my mouth, betraying my body and letting Clare know that I needed satisfaction. He continued to slide his finger around my lower genital area and once every so often he'd slid his finger up the center of my pussy but never allowing his finger to enter my inner walls.
"Clare enough, stop teasing me and put it in already" I moaned, he snickered. "Losing control so soon?" he asked and I realized that this was exactly what he said he'd do to me. "No, I won't let you best me" I replied strongly but he chuckled at my efforts to hold myself in check, which were starting to fail.
I looked down to him and watched him slowly lean his head forward and extend his wet tongue but once again he began to tease my already soaking pussy. Just like he said he would, he began to gently lick his tongue around my entrance and never entering inside my needy vagina. The tickling sensation drove me body and mind insane.
He chuckled and I looked down to him. "What's... so funny?" I asked through heavy breathing. "I found your fun button" he said, I scrunched my nose. "My fun button... ahhhh" I screamed as I felt him take a quick suck on my clitoris.
My back arched almost naturally and my head swung back in the pure ecstasy of sexual pleasure. It was as if electrical currents ran through my veins but he somehow managed to keep my pleasure at an intense level without allowing me to reach an orgasm.
The sheer pleasure was driving me insane, I felt like I had hit a plateau of pleasure that would never stop. "Please... please just stick it in me" I panted but he simply continued his gentle licking, he began to become more adventurous and would slide his tongue down the entrance of my vagina but he never entered my love tunnel and would keep himself outside of me.
As my pleasure began to intensify my moans began to change into loud screams but he still kept me from reaching an orgasm. "Please Clare... CLARE STICK IT IN ME" I screamed, forgetting completely about our little competition.
"Giving up so soon?" he asked, I cursed myself for becoming so uncontrolled but he seemed to have a way of making me lose my self-control. He began to lick a little harder but still kept his tongue movements gentle and caressing but would slide his tongue a few millimeters deeper into my vagina. I screamed, the feel of those few extra millimeters seemed like it was driving me over the edge yet he still kept me away from reaching an orgasm.
"CLARE... GADDAMMIT CLARE PLEASE... PLEASE" I begged, "Told you I could make you beg" he laughed. "Please Clare... I can't stand this... you've had me on the edge for so long... I can't... I can't hold it... please just stick it in me" I begged like a child at the candy store. I had lost the bet. But in the name of Celestia he had brought me to a whole new level of pleasure I didn't even know existed.
"I think I'm going to punish you just a little longer" he said as he continued to tease me with his tongue, I tried to bring my hooves down to finish myself but he quickly grabbed both my hooves with his hands and held them away, restricting me from obtaining the orgasm that I now so badly needed.
I tried to push my hooves down but he easily out powered me. I desperately tried to cast a magical spell but found that I was too distracted from the pleasure to focus enough to cast the spell. "Hmm I think you've suffered enough" he said seductively as he finally stuck his tongue as far as it could reach inside my vagina and gave a powerful suck, my clitoris sent powerful jolts of pleasure through my body.
My back arched by itself, my forelegs pressed down on his head as my hindlegs curled up around the back of his head and kept his head in place in place. I swung my head back and screamed uncontrollably as my body was ravaged by the orgasm that racked my entire body. I felt like the world around me exploded in a flash, I felt myself cum uncontrollably as he continued to run his tongue along the inside of my inner walls. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 25: For love | Clare:
A load of pussy cum blasted in my mouth, I was going to spit it out but figured I had teased her so much that the least I could do was swallow. Well that and the fact that she had me wrapped up so tight to her pussy that I couldn't move much.
At first I was hesitant to swallow but then I realized it tasted like sweet honey, most guys that talked about pussy juice and girl cum usually said it tasted horrible. Guess I was a lucky guy. Luna's vaginal walls clamped down on my tongue and squeezed it tightly as I continued to lick her inner walls with my tongue.
She began to settle down and I could feel her muscles relax, her legs unwrapped from around my head and she released me from her grasp. "Clare... that... was... amazing" she gasped, obviously still feeling the after effects of the orgasm. "I thought you said... you were rusty?" she asked and I nodded. "I remember Corporal Hart telling me about doing that to some mare and how it drove her over the edge" I informed her and she nodded breathlessly.
My boner could no longer stand being neglected and ached for attention, "Yeah, yeah I'll deal with you later" I muttered. "What?" she asked and I rolled my eyes. "Nothing, just a boner, it'll go away in due time" I informed her but she scrunched her nose. "Well that would be no fair, I can't take all the pleasure" she told me, "Trust me, it was my honour just to" I began but she caught me off guard as she quickly lept up and began to kiss me again.
She knocked me onto my back and crawled on top of me with a glinting look in her eye. "I have to satisfy my lover you know" she whispered as she pressed her lips up against mine. She wiggled her hindlegs and kept her balance as she tried to pull my pants off. I pulled away from the kiss, "Here let me help you with that, guess fingers have a couple of uses that I usually don't consider" I said as I helped her slip off my pants but first I had to kick off my boots and socks which I still had on.
All that I had left was my underwear which had transformed into more of a tent due to my erection. "I think that it's my turn to tease you" she teased as she used her magic to slide off my boxers. "Okay... payback is a dish best served cold huh?" I quoted but she shook her head. "No, best served with sex and..." she gasped as she lowered herself down and slide her marehood against my shaft. "And love" she finished. "That makes no sense" I replied but she paid me no mind and continued to slide her entrance against me erection which throbbed in need of attention.
"Looks like you need a little... satisfaction hmm?" she asked and I rolled my eyes. "I have this feeling that I won't be begging you for an orgasm" I chuckled with a wink "Unless you say please".
"We'll see" she countered and began to slide up and down a little faster, obviously enjoying the feel of it. I pulled her down and we began to make out again, she quickly pulled away. "Please" she whispered, her voice echoed with seductiveness that made my heart race. "Please... Luna I want you... I need your warm embrace" I whispered and licked the side of her neck.
She slid her pussy up my shaft then lined the entrance up with the tip of my penis. We both gasped as a burst of pleasure went through us as my penis head touched her pussy entrance. She slowly began to descend, it felt like this was taking forever and... oh yeah I forgot that she was getting her revenge. She gasped and moaned several times, obviously still very sensitive from the recent orgasm she endured.
Jeeze it had felt like an hour had passed and only my head was inside of her, I wanted to just thrust her so badly but I felt like I deserved this enduringly long insertion. As she slid down she looked to me, "Clare... I love you so much" she whispered then stopped at halfway. My cock throbbed to be all the way inside of her, jeeze she was so tight and her inner walls seemed to be so soft yet so firm that it drove me insane.
"Getting antsy are we?" Luna teased and I nodded. "Well say the magic word" she told me, "Please" I replied but she shook her head. "What? What's the magic word?" I asked and she smiled. "Tell me that you can't stand another moment in this world unless you are fully inside of me... I want you to tell me that you love me and can't stand being without me or my... ah... my needy wet cunt" she whispered.
Her talking this dirty drove me crazy, I loved her so much but I decided to play a little first. "That's more than one word you know" I replied, she rolled her eyes but before she could say anything I rolled our bodies over. My manhood slipped out of her vagina but as I rested her body below mine I lined myself back up with her. "I couldn't live without you, I don't know how I've lived without you... and I can't stand another moment being outside of you" I whispered into her ear as I slowly slid my penis into her wet needy pussy.
She moaned in pleasure but I quickly muffled her moans as I began to kiss her again. I slid considerably faster inside of her than she had but it was still a slow penetration. My penis finally bottomed out in her deepest wall and we both gasped then just lay there for several moments, enjoying the feeling of the sacred attachment we were sharing together.
She pulled back from the kiss. "Clare... take me" she whispered and I didn't need to be told twice. I began to pull back and I felt her inner walls close in front of my shaft as I pulled out of her, only leaving my head inside of her. I could tell that we both felt the urge for me to fill her again. My groin ached to be back inside and I obliged its need and slowly slid back inside of her.
I gave a grunted moan but she gave a more feminine moan as I began my slow thrusting. She matched my thrusts, "Ha-ha, the fun has been doubled" she quoted, well that was random.
The fire continued to crackle, keeping us warm, and the rain still poured down from the mighty thunder clouds above. I slid my arms behind her back and held her tightly to my body as we made love together in the cave. Her moans echoed through the caverns and were usually drowned out by the echoes of the waterfall at the entrance of the cave.
I could feel her building up again and she had to break away from the kiss as she began to scream in pleasure and an orgasm rocked her body. I felt her inner walls squeeze around my cock and it intensified the pleasure of each thrust. I kept her body tight to mine and continued thrusting. "Oh... fuck me Clare... yes just like that" she moaned.
She felt absolutely incredible, didn't matter who I compared her to, Luna easily was the best lover I ever had and I planned to stay with her forever. My thrusts became a little faster and I picked up the pace. Luna had just settled down from her recent orgasm and was still sensitive and she was nearing the peak of yet another orgasm.
"Ah Clare... I think I'm going to...ahhhhh" she screamed as her body tensed from yet another orgasm, her pussy clenched down on my penis again as she endured the third orgasm of the night. I slowed my pace a little and she bit the bottom of her lip to try and silence the screams of pleasure. "Let it out honey, no one can hear us" I whispered and she tried to breathe but found it difficult. She began to scream and moan loudly as her orgasm passed, the screams drained out the echoes of the waterfall and her screams echoed throughout the caverns. It almost sounded as if another couple was having sex somewhere else in the cave.
"Oh Clare... oh my goddess Clare... you're gonna make me cum again if you don't slow down" she gasped breathlessly. "Do you want me to make you cum again?" I asked curiously, not exactly sure if she wanted me to stop or keep going. "Clare... make me cum again, it feels amazing" she whispered and I obliged her wish and continued thrusting, slowly picking up the pace.
She began to match my pace perfectly, we both began to moan in pleasure though my moans were more along the sounds of grunts. Our bodies were pressed together and her fur rubbing against my body sent sensational feeling along my entire body.
Her wet pussy juice had begun to run down her hindlegs, it had lubricated my penis and splashed up against my entire groin area. I began to feel the pressure build up inside me and quickly checked my watch. If we had started roughly around 10:30ish and it was midnight now, that meant we had been going at it for over an hour and a half. I nodded to myself and figured it had to end eventually.
Luna began to scream again and her vagina yet again clenched around my cock as she endured yet another orgasm, I had stopped counting but I think she was at five or six. The clenching of her inner walls brought me that much closer and I began to thrust faster and harder.
Luna screamed, she was still very sensitive and I quickly brought her back to her peak rather than let her cool down. "Ah Clare... Clare" she moaned and I slowed my pace. "Luna... I'm so close" I told her, she looked up to me and her eyes sparkled. "Wait... let's do it together" she said, well I was kind of leaning towards that anyway.
I nodded and continued to thrust but soon my more primal part of me took control and my thrusts became more erratic. I no longer grunted as I began to let out groans of pleasure as I tried to hold myself back but felt myself coming to my peak. Luna screamed incredibly loud as she wrapped her hindlegs around my back and squeezed my lower body tight to hers but that didn't stop me from thrusting her.
"Ah Clare I'm cumming... Clare cum inside me" she screamed, well I was going to ask what she wanted me to do but I guess I didn't even need to ask. I felt her pussy clench up tighter than ever before and her back arched upwards. I held her body tight to mine and quickly sealed our lips together. I stuck my tongue into her mouth and I could feel her deep moans of pleasure echo in my mouth. I gave out a muffled moan of incredible pleasure as I felt myself reach my peak.
My cock spasmed as I gave one final thrust deep inside of her and buried my cock into her deepest wall and let myself go. I felt myself cum and my warm sticky seed coated her vagina and quickly filled her pussy with my cum. We broke away from the kiss and I rested my head beside hers as I gasped in exhaustion, she was also panting heavily. I gave a few victory thrusts as my penis continued to blow loads of cum inside of her. I left my cock inside of her filled pussy as cum dripped out of her entrance and onto the cold floor of the cave. "Clare... that was amazing" she whispered. We began to kiss again as my cock finally stopped twitching and her vagina walls relaxed.
I rolled over and we cuddled together, I felt my penis shrink inside her vagina but her pussy walls kept closing around my penis as it shrunk. Luna's horn suddenly flared up and I watched her cast a spell upon herself then she began to rub her stomach. "What was that?" I asked and she leaned over to me and gave me a kiss on the forehead.
"A very complicated and complex spell" she informed me, I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, but I meant what does it do?" I asked. "I cast a spell on my womb that will allow me to become pregnant with your sperm despite our very different anatomies" she informed me. My eyes went wide "You're... you're pregnant?" I asked and she nodded, "So... I'm... I'm gonna be a dad?" I asked proudly and she nodded again as she leaned forwards and kissed me. "You're going to be a father and I'm going to be a mother, and we'll have beautiful children together" she whispered to me and we began to cuddle each other as we fell asleep in each other's comfort in the cave. |
Love and Honour | Crackers nd cheese | So this is just a thanks to all you readers who are still reading it and a little story that isn't part of this story but it was funny and somewhat related, So I walked down the stairs of my house really depressed thinking to myself "I just imagined myself having sex with a goddammed animated pony" and the thing is when I imagine things it feels pretty real so it's kind of obvious why it was disturbing. But anyway when I got downstairs I saw a whole box of, guess what, CRACKERS! and a block of CHEESE, and not just any crackers but those little delicious crackers 'Vegtable Thins' and I was like "Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod" so I sat there eating crackers and cheese and thought "Wait a minute... I don't remember buying these crackers and no one else ever buys crackers so who would've boughten them" so I figured out who gave me the crackers and this is exactly what happened, true story:
Jesus Crist was sitting there reading Love and Honour and he realized that the author was disturbed greatly by his own writing. "SECRATARY LADY!" Jesus called out and an angel secratary rushed in. "Yes your lordship?" she asked. Jesus looked to his secratary, "Tell me, who is this Trigger_Finger that writes Love and Honour?" Jesus asked and the secratary angel quickly reseached it. "Why it's Evan Burdick sir" she informed Jesus. "Well get that man some CRACKERS AND CHEESE IMMEDIATELY!" Jesus ordered and the secratary lady immediately rushed out and got a delivery angel to deliver some good crackers and cheese to the man's house.
And that is exactly how the crackers and cheese mysteriously ened up on my table waiting for me |
Love and Honour | Chapter 26: Beautiful Morning | Clare:
The morning sunlight shawn upon my bare skin and the sudden warmth awoke me as the hair along my arm prickled up. The fire had gone out at some point during the night and the sky had stopped raining. I moved my tongue around my mouth, I had that terrible morning taste in my mouth that made my stomach churn. I moved my tongue around in my mouth and was about to sit up when I realized that Luna's body rested on my right arm and I remembered that we passed out together.
The morning mist had a beautiful fragrance to it and I could hear the chirping of birds outside. I yawned then wrapped my left arm around her and embraced her body in a morning hug. Her body felt amazingly warm against my skin as I held her body close to mine.
She rustled in her sleep then slowly awoke, her eyes glistened beautifully. "Good morning" I whispered. She leaned forward and we kissed briefly. "Good morning" she replied as she shifted her body off of my arm and stood up. I sat up and grabbed my clothes, quickly slipping them on and rustling around to fit them comfortably on my body. I still didn't have a t-shirt but it didn't matter all that much as the morning was actually quite warm.
Luna slipped on her leather clothes and looked to me. "Shall we go?" she asked, I looked over to her and nodded as I let out a morning yawn. I slid on my socks and boots and grabbed our hiking gear which was now considerably lighter due to the amount of food and supplies we had eaten last night.
I slipped the gear on my back and we walked out of the cave where we had spent the passionate night together. The morning mist smelt beautiful and tingled against my bare chest which was exposed. There was mist on the grass that dampened my hiking boots as we walked through the forest.
The trees shadowed the light from the sun as we walked through the forest together and Luna nuzzled her head into my side, I placed an arm over her and walked along with her by my side. This morning seemed perfect.
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Cpt. Shining Armor, Canterlot Castle:
I lay beside my wife and rubbed her belly, which was now very large due to the foal that she was pregnant with. "I love you so much Cadence" I whispered softly, she giggled then rolled her eyes. "I know silly, you've told me that a dozen times this morning" she said through a giggle.
I leaned forward and kissed her forehead, "I just couldn't live without you and I want you to know" I whispered and she let out a humored sigh. "I know, I know. I've said it a dozen times" I laughed as I continued to rub her large belly.
She was 7 months pregnant and was due to have her foal soon, the doctors said it would still be a few weeks until she was ready to give birth. I had no idea how I had gotten so lucky, but I suppose fate had it set that we would be together.
I lay my head on her belly and embraced the warmth of her body. "Shining... what should we name our foal?" she asked me, I hadn't thought too much about names but I was leaning towards Sunburst or maybe Rose Pedal. "I don't know... maybe we should call her or him Rose Pedal... or maybe Sunburst" I suggested. "What about Cinnamon Swirl?" she asked, at first I thought it was ridiculous but then I thought about it some more and I thought it was an appealing name.
"We'll call her Cinnamon Swirl" I whispered and she giggled. "What makes you think it's a filly?" she asked, I looked up to her. "I have this feeling is all" I replied, she laughed. "Well maybe it will be a strong and compassionate colt just like his father" she told me, I shuffled my body upwards and leaned forward to kiss her. "Or maybe she will be a beautiful and loving young mare like her mother" I whispered and leaned forwards to kiss her.
She held a hoof up to my mouth. "Ah-ah-ah, first tell me what you're going to do to me" she whispered, I let out a devious smile. We didn't really want to engage in lower sexual activities, for the foal's sake, but that didn't mean we still didn't play around. "Well first..." I began.
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Clare, Los Pegasus beachfront:
I surfed along the waves with Luna, we had purchased surf boards and figured that we'd go surfing. Luna manipulated the water with her magic to create a large surfing wave.
We both surfed inside the large tunnel wave, it echoed immensely then I realized we were impossibly far from the exit of the tunnel and that the tunnel wave was closing.
"Oh we are so screwed" I muttered as the wave crashed down on both of us and sucked us underwater. I held my breath and waited for a moment then surfaced. I looked around and spotted Luna who was laughing hysterically. "WOOOH that was awesome" she laughed.
We swam back to shore, it had become late in the afternoon again but it was still only the fourth day of our vacation so we still had lots of time to do the things we wanted. I lay at the edge of the water and she lay beside me, putting her body on my right arm and resting her head on my chest as we watched the sun begin to set.
I smiled then pulled her body over top of mine. We began to kiss as water splashed up against us and the setting sun gave the sky a beautiful orange haze. "You know that my sister is going to freak out when she realizes that I'm pregnant" she told me and I nodded. "Well she can bitch about it all she wants" I replied and she laughed. "Well she probably won't just deal with it and will be extremely pissed" she told me.
I chuckled to myself at the thought of Celestia freaking out. Her face would be beat red and it would be comical because steam would probably blow out her ears. "Well then, we'll just have to wait for that day to arrive... but for now let's just enjoy the vacation" I told her as we stood up and walked back to the house.
We made a trail of water and mucky sand as we both walked into the house, I'd have to clean that later. I yawned, though it was still early in the evening I was exhausted from the day, my watch said it was 8:28pm.
"Well I'm gonna go take a shower" I told Luna as I walked towards the washroom. "Try not to use all the hot water, I want to take a shower too" she called out to me. I gave her a thumbs up, acknowledging her request as I entered the washroom.
I kicked off my shorts I had used for swimming as I grabbed a fresh towel and hung it on the towel rack by the shower. I played with the shower controls until I got the shower head to spray out nice steamy warm water.
I stepped into the shower and began to wash myself off. I let out a deep sigh of relaxation as the steamy water washed down my body. I couldn't help but to lie down in the rather large shower and close my eyes, the feeling of the warm shower water quickly put me to sleep.
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6 months ago
Sgt. Clare, Everfree Forest:
I sat in a military Jeep parked by the makeshift barracks, my feet rested up on the hood since the windshield had been lowered. HQ had ordered us to stay the night in this shithole, apparently as some sort of precaution because the helicopters couldn't see well at night or something. The others sat nearby, conversing about random things.
"I'm telling you man, that's what happened" Hart told the others. "Bullshit, Lyra Heartstrings would never go for you" Louis said, "Yeah man, I had her bent over and she was screaming for me to finish her like 'Oh goddess, Hart just finish me already please'" Hart said. I chuckled silently to myself, he was probably lying again like he usually did to try and impress the new guys but the older veterans usually called his bluff.
"So Applesauce, got any good stories?" Bakers asked one of the new recruits. Applesauce, according to the info report, was an apple family member but had gotten tangled into some drug deal or something.
"Nothing that you guys would want to hear" she replied as she sipped from her cup of... whatever the hell the quartermaster called the shit he served us. Anderson came and stood beside the Jeep. "Goddess, I can't imagine why she'd get tangled into that" Anderson commented, probably trying to talk with me. "Yeah... you like her don't you?" I asked and he nodded brainlessly then shook his head. "Well... I mean... she uhm... is pretty" he stuttered quickly, remembering that shadow guards weren't supposed to have relations with one another.
"Don't worry, I won't tell... just keep it to yourself and don't get all emotional over her" I told him. He let out a sigh "Thanks Sarge, I didn't mean to... ah hell no" he muttered. "What?" I asked and he held up his hoof, "It's raining again" he said depressingly. I sighed as well as I felt the rain began to pour down on us.
My mind began to slip as I heard a banging sound echo in my dream. I tried to shake it out of my head then my mind returned to reality.
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Clare, present day:
"Gah" I gasped as I awoke suddenly. The water was still running and the entire bathroom had become steamy. I hadn't kept my watch on so I couldn't check what time it was. "Clare... are you alright in there? You've been in there for an hour" Luna called to me.
I fell back as I realized I had passed out in the shower and my head banged against the porcelain floor of the shower with a loud CLACK. "Oww shit" I cursed as I rubbed the back of my head.
I didn't hear the door open but Luna entered the bathroom and slid open the curtains of the shower. "Are you okay?" she asked worriedly. She wasn't wearing any clothes and stood there beside me. "Just... fell asleep was all" I replied, for some reason seeing her like this kind of got me aroused.
"Dreaming about me?" she asked and I shook my head then realized that I had an erection. I groaned and covered my face in embarrassment, she giggled. "Well regardless I still need a shower" she told me and entered the shower then closed the curtains beside her.
I lay in the tub and rubbed my forehead, the pleasant feeling of the shower water made me exhale deeply from relief. I wasn't looking but Luna had positioned herself over top of my body and when I looked my eyes widened. "Uhm... hello" I stuttered, just blurting out the first thing that came to my mind. I felt stupid for not choosing a better choice of words.
She giggled at my random choice of words, "Hello" she laughed. "Uhm... I uhh... the shower kind of" I blurted out then stopped myself and thought about a better choice of words but my mind went blank as Luna lowered her vagina down over top of my erection and slid my penis inside of her.
"Uhm... Luna, the shower uhm" I stuttered still trying to piece together words. This was all too sudden for me and I couldn't get a bearing on what was happening so I figured I'd just go with it. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 27: The movies | Clare:
I awoke from sleep in my bed, last night had been... well let's just say it was passionate. I was about to get up when I felt the weight of part of Luna's body resting on my chest. She was so affectionate and loving that I couldn't bring myself to wake her so I lay there and gently ran my hand through her silky flowing mane.
She awoke with a slight yawn and looked up into my eyes. "Good morning beautiful" I whispered, she smile and leaned forward. We kissed briefly then she slid out of bed and I rolled off the other side of the bed. The bed stank of sex for obvious reasons so I pulled off the bed sheets and walked into the washroom and dumped the bed sheets into the washing machine and started the wash cycle.
I walked tiredly into the kitchen where Luna stood on her hindlegs over the kitchen counter and was making breakfast, I think. I quietly walked up behind her and slid my arms around her and held her close to me.
"A little affectionate this morning are we?" Luna giggled and I nodded as I kissed her neck. She let out a sigh of comfort as her head brushed up against mine. "So what do you want for breakfast?" I asked and she turned to me. "It's Hearts and Hooves day tomorrow" she informed me, I wanted to slap myself for forgetting.
"Sorry I forgot" I replied and she nodded. "I just thought I'd remind you. I think we should have some cereal for breakfast, and tomorrow we'll have a more romantic morning" she suggested. "Mmhmm, whatever you want sweetie" I replied and let go of her then grabbed two bowls out of the cupboards as Luna grabbed the cereal and milk.
We walked over and sat in the living room, she flicked on the TV. It was on some random discovery channel or something, I was going to change the channel but I was too busy pouring the cereal to bother changing the channel. The TV show went to commercials and there was a gunshot on the commercial then some comical laughter. There was a pig carcase with a large bullet hole in it.
"That'll put another hole in the elephant right there boys" said a comical voice and I looked up to see a stallion on the TV walking with a Smith and Wesson 500 magnum with some ridiculous clothes on. A vehicle horn honked and a truck drove up. "I thought he wasn't working today" said one of the police deputies, the stallion with the large revolver sighed.
The Pegasus known as Snowflake stepped out of the truck with a blunt look on his face and sunglasses. "Hey Snow how you doing man? Good to see you" said one of the officers. Snowflake shot him a cold look then looked back to the stallion with the large revolver. "Wow Snow you looked jacked, you been working out?" asked the stallion as he felt Snowflake's massive biceps.
Snowflake still had a cold look on his face. "Give me the damn thing" Snowflake scoffed and yanked the pistol out of the stallion's holster and pointed it at the pig carcase. The gun thundered and the commercial continued
I chuckled to myself. I had seen this movie before, well at least the human variant of it. If one planet made a good movie than the other planet simply copied the movie and just had ponies in it, I was surprised that no one had sued one another yet over copyright infringements.
Luna and I continued to watch the action packed trailer. As the final credits of the trailer revealed that it was in theatres Luna squealed. "Can we go see that?" she asked excitedly, I remembered watching it when I got some leave time from the military back on earth. It was an amazing movie and I wouldn't mind going to see it again.
I nodded, "Yeah sure, we'll go right after we eat" I replied and she let out a squeal of delight. I had no idea she liked action movies but I couldn't really complain, at least she wasn't making me go see Romeo and Juliet or something.
We finished breakfast and quickly got dressed and left the house. Luna once again wore her brown leather clothes and I wore my duster coat and some camouflaged cargo pants. I sat on the Harley and kick started it. It began to chug as the engine rumbled, Luna hopped on the back of the motorcycle and I drove us to the movie theaters.
The drive was quick and I parked the Harley around back of the theater and we walked inside. Unfortunately I had forgot to check the movie times before we left. The movie we had come to see didn't start for another few hours. "We'll walk around town until the 6 o'clock show" Luna suggested.
I nodded and we walked back out to the streets of Los Pegasus and began to tour around the city. The sounds and sights were pretty awesome. There were street vendors, variety stores and a lot of other random things.
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Cpl. Hart, Canterlot castle, mess hall:
"So when do you think the Sarge will be back?" Cloud Dasher asked me. "Oh who knows, that guy could be gone forever. Friggin guy goes on vacation with Luna and leaves us with the LT" I chuckled. "He said he was going to be her personal bodyguard" he told me and I sighed.
"You know that Luna just said that he was the personal bodyguard so that they could be alone and have sex as much as they want" I told him, not entirely a lie because I knew that Luna probably wanted to be alone with Clare for that exact reason.
Dasher smirked, "Yeah okay there Hart, I have this feeling that you're fibbing me" Dasher replied. I leaned my head back and sighed. "Well believe what you want but I know that Clare wouldn't think twice and is probably bucking her right now in the change room of a store or something" I told him and he laughed. "Okay now I know you're bullshitting me because neither the Sarge nor Luna would ever do that" Dasher replied, laughing at my point of view. I leaned forward and looked to him, "No I'm serious he's probably got her bent over and is bucking her in a change room"
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Clare, change room of fashion store:
I humped Luna like a wild bull, she was standing on all four hooves as I rutted her from behind. My hands held her hips as I thrusted and she tried to match my movements. My thrusts slowed and I gave a couple final thrusts.
Luna let out a quiet moan as I came inside her. I let out a grunt as I felt myself twitch inside of her. Cum began to drip onto the floor then there was a knock at the change room door. "Excuse me sir? Do you require assistance?" asked a store attendant.
"Yeah can you get me a box of tissues" I laughed, Luna looked back to me with a humored face. "Shh... shut up" she laughed, "Uhm... tissues?" the store attendant asked curiously. "Yeah a box of them" I replied. Luna stepped forward and my cock slid out of her with a quiet SLUCK. More cum dripped out of her pussy and my penis was covered in my own sperm.
She walked up in front of me and held a hoof to my mouth. "Don't listen to him, he's being foolish" Luna called out to the store attendant. "You hush, you're going to get us kicked out" Luna whispered to me but couldn't help but to snicker at my foolishness.
I checked my watch and realized it was 5:28pm. "Hey the movie starts soon" I told her and her eyes brightened as we quickly slipped our clothes back on. We hadn't even brought any clothes to try on we just went inside the change room and started rutting like wild animals.
As we walked out, a store attendant looked to us. "I hope you found our services at your highest expectations" the attendant said. I nodded "Oh yeah... they exceeded my ever expectation and beyond" I said and Luna gave me an irritated nudge and pulled me out of the store.
"Do you have to be so foolish, she probably thinks we're a bunch of horny hoodlums now" she scolded me playfully. "Oh come on, you're the one who wanted to do it" I reminded her and she rolled her eyes. "Yes well... those pictures they have of the stallions and mares in those poses are very... arousing" she told me.
We changed the subject as we walked towards the theatre. We walked inside the large movie theatre and to the front desk, I ordered us two tickets and bought a bunch of popcorn and drinks then we walked to our theatre room where the movie was being played.
It was still just the commercials. I checked my watch as we sat down, the movie should be starting any moment now.
"Oh this is sooo exciting. I love these kinds of action movies" Luna whispered, I looked over to her. "I didn't know you liked action" I told her and she nodded. "It's so... awesome and it's always really cool. Snowflake is one of the best action movie stars" she told me. I nodded then leaned back in the comfortable movie chair as the lights in the theatre dimmed and the movie started.
The movie company credits rolled through then the movie started. In the deserts of Marevada, which was probably the pony variant of the Mojave back on earth, there sat a police officer in a cruiser as he sat waiting for speeders.
But rather than keep watch he sat and ate a doughnut, typical stereotype but I loved it. Behind the officer on the highway a set of lights approached but soon they flicked off and the car raced passed the officer in the car. At first the officer didn't noticed but then the blast of the engine roared passed him and his speed gun read 200mph.
The officer looked curiously at the speed gun. He tapped the speed gun then looked out his window then looked to the sky. The officer sat back in his car and radioed the police station. "Station check, do we have any flights above the Marevada tonight?" the officer asked and waited for a reply. "That's a negative, go" the radio pony on the other side replied.
The officer looked at his speed gun reading again. "Well tell air patrol they have a jackass in a jet plane flying around with no lights" the officer informed the radio pony then hung up his radio and continued to eat his doughnut.
I chuckled at the stereotypical portrait of the police officer eating doughnuts. The movie progressed and told the story of Snowflake, who was called Snow, as he stopped the Cartel drug lord from crossing the border.
The movie was the same as the human variant with only some altercations but I didn't care, the friggin movie was awesome either way. Luna was literally on the edge of her seat throughout the entire movie, probably wondering what was going to happen next.
Snowflake made a lot of cheesy one liners and tried to imitate Arnold's voice but couldn't do it all that well. The movie finally ended with Snowflake catching the bad guy and all the loose ends getting tied up. As the movie came to an end the mayor of the town walked up to Sherriff Snow.
"Sherriff, what the hell happened to my car?" the mayor asked. In the beginning of the movie the mayor had parked his car in the fire route and Snow had told him not to park in the fire zone and the mayor simply said "If there's a fire just move it" and handed him the keys.
Snowflake smirked. "There was a fire" he quoted then he and the other two police deputies turned and walked into the dinner. The picture frame froze then faded out as the credits began to roll up the screen.
The lights in the theatre brightened up and lit the theatre for the ponies to see their way out. I got up and Luna and I left the theatre. "That was awesome, friggin Lewis named his guns. That was a great movie" Luna said and I nodded.
We left the theatre and walked around to the back alley where I had parked the Harley. There was several punks smoking. They had spiked up manes and several piercings along with tight leather clothes.
One of the punks looked over to us as we walked towards the Harley. I was hoping they'd just leave us but I suppose fate had other plans. "Hey old man... wait up" said one of the punks and the trio casually trotted over to us. They were young, barely out of their teens yet I could tell that drugs or something had messed them up and made them looked sketched out.
"Can I help you gentlecolts?" I asked casually and one of them nodded as he pulled out a pistol and the other two pulled out switch blades. I concentrated hard, wondering if they'd really kill us just for money. Then my attention was brought to the barrel of the pistol where I saw that the pistol had been spray painted black and it was just an airsoft pistol.
"No" I replied but the colt brought the gun up and pointed it right between my eyes. "Yeah" he ordered me harshly. "No, I'm not letting you rob me" I replied. "Clare!" Luna exclaimed, "Don't worry babe, I got this" I reassured her.
"Yeah, well if you want to woody your mare again then I'd give me all your money right now" the colt threatened. I snickered and he snarled. "What's so funny?" he hissed, "I'm not giving you my money" I replied. He stammered as he tried to think of an idle threat "But... I've got a gun" he said and I laughed.
"So?" I asked and he looked both ways as he thought up another threat. "So... so that's how it works, you give me your money" he replied. "No, I'll show you how this works" I said as I quickly shot both my hands up and snapped his wrist, breaking the pistol from his grip and slamming his body down to the ground with a THUD.
The other stallions gasped but I brought out my Desert Eagle and gave them something to really gasp about. I manually cocked back the hammer and pointed it at one of the punks. "Well considering that I just put down your friend and the fact that you're now looking down the barrel of a .50 caliber AE Desert Eagle you've got to think to yourself, are you feeling lucky? Well are yah punk?" I said in a perfect Eastwood voice.
The punks dropped their switchblades and ran. I looked back to Luna and shrugged as I un-cocked the Desert Eagle and holstered it. "Guess they weren't feeling lucky" I chuckled. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 28: Hearts and Hooves day | Clare, beachfront Los Pegasus:
As always I awoke peacefully as the sunlight shawn through the window and warmed up my bare skin. I leaned over to Luna, who was sleeping beside me and gave her a kiss on the forehead before getting out of bed. The bed stank terribly of sex, we were going to have to figure out somewhere else to make love, like maybe the shower because at least the shower washed away all the stink and excess cum.
I rolled my eyes as my nose smelt the stink of sex. I stumbled into the bathroom in looked at myself in the mirror, I figured I should probably shave because my beard and mustache was growing in. I grabbed a razor and shaving cream. I shaved quickly, watching myself in the mirror to carefully shave off the beard and mustache hair.
I finished shaving and looked to my watch, it was 6:02am so I had time for a shower before breakfast. I quickly slid off my clothes, hopped into the shower and washed myself off.
The shower only took a few minutes then I quickly dried off and got dressed. I still had my towel in my hands, drying off my hair, as I walked into the kitchen and began to cook breakfast. Fried potatoes with eggs and some pineapple with other fruits, yeah this would be a good breakfast.
As I flipped the potatoes and eggs onto a plate Luna walked into the kitchen and held me around the waist much like I had held her the morning before. "Good morning honey, how are you this morning?" I asked but she just stood there and held me. I continued to finish making breakfast then we both sat down at the dining table rather than the living room coffee table and had a romantic breakfast together. That is if you consider a regular breakfast with a beautiful princess romantic.
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Third person, Everfree forest Firebase Echo:
"I'm telling you man, the Sarge will be back soon" said one of the shadow guards. "Yeah well I feel bad for his squad. I heard that Daff almost got them all killed and Shining Armor lost his horn because of Daff's stupidity" said another shadow guard.
The CO of the firebase was walking around, inspecting the perimeter to make sure it was secure. The CO hopped down into a trench and began to patrol along the trench.
The captain walked through the trenches and up to a lookout nest and hunkered down beside a sergeant. "See anything out there?" the captain asked and the sergeant shook his head. "No captain, nothing" replied the sergeant. The captain shook his head in disgust.
"Fucking heat... fucking bugs... fucking country" the captain swore as he wiped the sweat from his head. He was pissed that Equestria was engaged in a conflict between ponies and the communist zebra army. The sergeant looked over a map and suddenly a gush of blood splashed on his face then a second later the echo of the rifle shot was heard.
"Incoming" the sergeant yelled as he grabbed his M16 and aimed it at the Everfree, the sandbags in front of him stopped a bullet. Gunfire erupted on all sides of the firebase as ponies fired into the treeline and zebras charged from the forest with AK47s.
Down on the front lines several ponies set up M60s and fired upon the advancing zebras. "Keep the fire on them, don't let up" screamed a corporal as he fired his M16 at a group of zebras.
"RADIO!" screamed a master sergeant and a radio pony quickly rushed down to the master sergeant. The sergeant dialed in the radio "HQ, HQ this is Firebase Echo. We are under attack and need immediate air support over" he told the radio. "Copy that Echo, coordinates?" the radio pony on the other side of the line asked.
The master sergeant motioned for the radio pony to give him the map. The pony quickly gave the master sergeant the map and he looked it over. "I need fire support on Echo-Foxtrot 9-0-5-0-3-4-2 over" the master sergeant replied.
"Copy all, you'll have your support over" the radio pony on the other side replied then the line went dead. "Specialist there's something..." the master sergeant trailed off as he realized that the radio pony had just been shot several times and was dead. The radio on his back had suffered multiple gunshot holes and was most likely damaged beyond repair.
Zebras charged over the sides of the trenches and entered the firebase. "Fall back to position Alpha" the master sergeant yelled but as he did a zebra with an AK47 stabbed the master sergeant in the back with the bayonet attached to the end of the AK47.
The sergeant screamed in pain then fell to the ground, his blood soaked into the sand as the zebras flowed over the edges of the trenches and over his dead body. Ponies screamed out in fear as the retreated further into the firebase.
A group of ponies staged a small blockade in one of the trenches, two ponies had M16s, one had a shotgun and the last lay prone with the M60. As the zebras charged around the corners of the trenches the group fired upon the zebras relentlessly. Zebras screamed in horror as they were cut down by the merciless onslaught of lead.
Zebras turned back and tried to retreat the way they had come but other advancing zebras blocked there way and soon a pile of bodies began to formulate. "Yeah take that you zebra scum bags" screamed one of the pony soldiers.
Their small victory was short lived however as zebras flowed over the tops of their trench and landed beside them. The zebras began stabbing them mercilessly with their bayonets, attached to the ends of their rifles. The ponies screamed in horror and only the pony with the shotgun managed to fire off a single blast which caught a zebra in the chest and sent him flying but a zebra came up behind him and stabbed him in the back.
In another part of the firebase some ponies staged a front with a couple M60s and had ponies with M16s backing them up along with two snipers on the top of the trench who picked off zebras as they advanced. "Yeah that's right you sons of bitches... wooh yeah come get some" screamed a mare as she fired off the M60 and cut down a group of zebras as they approached.
"Yeah we're unstoppable" screamed the mare as she held the trigger back on the M60 and let out a torrent of lead rounds which ripped apart some zebras. Suddenly her cheers of victory turned into a dire gasp as a T-72 Russian battle tank crashed over the trenches and its main gun swiveled towards them.
"Oh shi" was all the mare managed before the old Russian battle tank fired a 125mm cannon shell that annihilated the group in smoldering pieces. The tank was followed by three others that tailed it as it continued through the base.
In the center of the firebase a sergeant was leading the remaining firebase members and was on the radio with the air force. "I need fire support right on top of us... don't give me that bullshit about collateral damage just do it" the sergeant screamed. "Roger, fire support on Firebase Echo inbound, well make sure we don't hit the center of the firebase, over" the radio pony on the other end said.
The sergeant let go of the radio and fired at some zebras that were ascending up the small hill that led to the small encampment where the remaining firebase soldiers had staged their final stand.
"FUCK YOU" the sergeant screamed and held the trigger back on his old M16A3 that he had kept ever since it had entered service with the Equestrian army. The 5.56mm rounds tore away at the zebras, they were so close that you could probably just step forwards and hoof fight with them.
The sergeant rolled behind the cover of sandbags as several zebras fired upon him with AK47s. The T-72 battle tanks entered the clearing of the fire base and their main tank guns began to home in on their position.
As all seemed lost the thundering roar of F-18 jets flew overhead as they bombarded the area with high explosives. The sound of the explosions was deafening. Dirt and debris fell upon the soldiers taking cover at the center of the firebase.
As the F-18s finished their bombing run the sergeant commanding the remaining soldiers peaked over the cover of the sandbags and sighed in relief. Though he couldn't see past the smoke that now obscured his vision he was thankful in knowing that nothing could have survived that.
He motioned for the remaining soldiers to follow him. Of the firebase's entire 205 soldiers and staff only 23 soldiers had survived the zebra's massive assault. As the pony soldiers entered the smoky clearing they all sighed in relief. "Well mares and gentlecolts, I think you all earned an accommodation along with a well-deserved rest" the sergeant told the remaining survivors.
"I don't think so" sneered a voice as a lone figure began to trot through the smoke. All the survivors raised their rifles at the figure as it stepped forwards. "Don't move" ordered the sergeant "Get down on your knees and place you hooves on your head". "Well which is it? Don't move or get down on my knees?" the figure asked.
The sergeant snarled "You damn well know what". The figure stepped forward slowly and revealed herself to be a zebra in heavy metal clad armour. "I said don't fucking move" the sergeant yelled. The zebra slowly raised her hoof and scratched the back of her helmet like she was thinking about the possibilities.
"Well... since you're outmatched I'll give you one chance to surrender" the female zebra offered. The sergeant was taken aback by the offer. "Ahhahaha, are you stupid? We outnumber you like twenty to one, you don't even have a gun" the sergeant laughed. "Last chance" the female zebra offered.
"Fuck you, stupid cunt" the sergeant said as he pulled out a pair of hoof cuffs and approached the zebra foolishly. As he went to slap the cuffs around her hooves she brought her right hoof up and across the throat of the sergeant. She had rigged the forearm of the suit with small razor sharp blades so that she could slash with her arms.
The razors cut open the sergeant's throat and he gagged as blood spurted out from the gapping wounds in his throat. As the sergeant fell one of the corporals screamed. "SHOOT HER" and the remaining group members all fired their M16s at the zebra.
Unfortunately her armour was made of special titanium composites and the puny 5.56mm rounds bounced off her armour harmlessly. She cocked her shoulders forwards and as she did, two massive M134 miniguns rolled out the side of her suit. They were attached to a battle saddle incorporated into her armour.
The zebra tongued a switch in her metal helmet. The miniguns let out a high pitched whine as the barrels began to spin at rates of 6000rpm. Then without warning the iconic buzz of the M134 erupted and 7.62x51mm rounds spat out at the group and cut them to bloody pieces. The zebra swayed her shoulders left and right and made a wide arc with the Gatling gun's spray of bullets. The ponies were all cut to pieces, muscle and flesh was torn from the bone as their bodies were annihilated. She released the button and the carnage stopped.
She stepped forwards and surveyed the area, she was most likely the only one alive on the firebase at the moment minus perhaps a few zebras that now retreated back into the forest. She walked over the sergeant whom she had brutally cut, who was still alive but just barely.
He gagged for air and blood bubbled from his cut open throat, she ripped open his combat jacket. She pulled out a knife and very slowly engraved Apache into his chest |
Love and Honour | Chapter 29: Horns are sensitive | Clare, Los Pegasus beachfront:
We had spent the day together, mostly cuddling and what not, and I had brought her out to a swanky five star restaurant for dinner. Now we lay on the beach and watched the sunset together.
"You know Luna, I never in a million years would've thought that I somehow would've gotten into a romantic relationship with you" I told her as I watched the setting sun. She rested her head on my shoulder and let out a relaxed sigh. "I'm just happy that we did get together. When I first saw you in the enlistment office I knew you would be an excellent guard... I just never knew that you'd also be a great lover" she told me.
When I look back to that day six months ago I think about how it felt like it was so long ago yet in was only six months.
The sunrays were warm and it felt like a usual summer evening. I kissed the tip of Luna's horn. I had meant to kiss her forehead but her horn was there so I just figured that I'd kiss that.
She let out a sudden gasp of pleasure that took me off guard. "Uhh... I'm sorry... what just happened?" I asked, not exactly sure what I just did that made her react like that. "Can you... ah... do that again, but slower?" she asked.
I leaned forwards and very gently kissed the tip of her horn. She let out a pleasured moan. I leaned back from the kiss, still not exactly sure what was going on. "Uhm... Luna, what's going on?" I asked and she gave me an unsure look. "I'm not sure but it feels amazing" she replied.
I scratched the back of my head in thought of what exactly was going on. I'd have to ask Hart why she was reacting like this, maybe the sun was getting to her or something. "Clare... it feels amazing, like I'm being touched in the most sexually sensitive parts of my body. Please can you lick me?" she asked, obviously heavily aroused. Yep I'd definitely have to ask Hart about this.
I leaned forwards again then kissed the tip of her horn, then slowly extended my tongue and began to lick my tongue around the tip of her horn. She began to moan silently as I continued, I wondered if perhaps unicorn horns where very sensitive.
As I licked her horn I trailed my tongue downward and slid her horn inside my mouth and began to suck on her horn. 'I feel gay right now' I thought to myself as I sucked on her horn.
Luna's body began to move around and twitch as pleasure coursed through her body. She'd constantly swear and moan saying things like "Oh... ah... fuck yes... oh my god... yes". I still felt rather awkward sucking on her horn but I loved her more than anything so this was the least I could do for her.
She pressed her body up closer to mine and I could tell that she was close. I slid her horn out of my mouth and began to lick the base of her horn eliciting heavy moans from Luna. "Ahhhh Clllaaaaarre I uhh..." she trailed off as she reached an orgasm.
I slid my tongue from the base of her horn right to the tip and she screamed uncontrollably. As her horn orgasm, that's what I'm calling it, reached its peak her horn flared up and magic blasted from her horn like fireworks.
The magical blasts disappeared after a few feet but magical energy dripped from her horn and onto my face. Okay now I felt really gay. Her body relaxed and she lay in my lap, completely exhausted. "I never... knew... you could... do that... how did you... learn that?" she asked through heavy breathing.
"Actually I didn't know. You uhm kind of asked me to lick your horn" I reminded her. She nodded and nuzzled her head into my chest. I lay back to let her rest her head on my chest. "Luna, I love you so much... but that kind of felt gay" I chuckled and she let out an exhausted giggle. "Well... when I catch my breath... I'll let you do whatever you want to me. To make you feel un-gay" she told me.
I gave her a smile, she had a way of making me feel special. I gave her a wink "I think I'm gonna bring you to the edge again, then leave you there as I..."
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Third person, Firebase Charlie, Everfree forest:
Corporal Hart sat on some crates and smoked a cigarette as he watched the other shadow guards converse with one another. He smiled to himself as he stood up, slinging his M16 around his back and walking around to check on the platoon members. Ever since Clare's absence he had been temporarily promoted to second in command of the platoon due to the lack of sergeants.
Cloud Dasher, Bakers, Lickety Split and Dickens all played poker on a small table. "Ahh yeah, triple queens" Dickens cheered as took the pot of poker chips. "Fuck" Bakers swore as he threw his cards on the table, he had a pair of aces.
"Hey boys, how yah doing?" Hart asked and the stallions didn't even look at him as they continued to play. "Great... well if Dickens would stop stealing our money" Split replied. Hart smiled "Hey Dickens" he said and Dickens looked up to him.
"Yeah?" he replied and Hart lowered his hoof down, grabbing Split's queen of spades and one of the queen of spades of the table. "Next time you cheat, don't use two of the same queens" he said. "You mother fucker" Bakers yelled and grabbed the lot of chips from Dickens. Hart chuckled to himself and continued to trot along while the group began to argue.
As he walked along one of the new privates, Sandy, trotted up beside him quickly. "Hey Hart" he said quickly, Hart looked over to the new stallion. "Hey" Hart replied. Despite having a rather plain outlook on newbie's, because of their tendency to die rather quickly in combat or freeze up, he respected Sandy because he had hit a nickel at a hundred yards with an open sight rifle and could do so every time someone challenged him to do it.
"Listen uhm some of the other guys are shunning me. Do you think you could talk to them?" he asked. Hart nodded "Yeah, don't worry about them. They just think you're young is all" he replied. "Hey, I'm 21" Sandy replied but Hart simply chuckled.
"Yeah and you have the face of a newborn foal. Listen kid, it's just hard to fit in to this platoon because a lot of the guys have lost good friends" Hart told him then trotted off. The new private just stood there and watched Hart walk away.
Hart walked into Daffodil's tent and gave a salute. "Yeah, at ease" Daffodil said in a rather depressed voice. "Sir is something wrong?" Hart asked curiously. Daffodil burned a letter he was holding in his hoof and dropped it to the ground. "My marefriend is dumping me... says she found some-pony else" Daff told him.
"I'm sorry to hear that sir" Hart told the lieutenant who nodded solemnly. "Yeah... she was a nurse back at the field hospital. Says she couldn't live like this anymore" Daff informed him. Hart had a saddened look on his face. "Live like what sir?" Hart asked.
"Thinking that the next shot up stallion that comes in could be me" he replied, Hart nodded. "Well I'm sorry to hear that sir" he replied but as he did a rifle shot cracked through the air and there was a scream. "SNIPER!" yelled a soldier outside.
Both Hart and Daffodil quickly ran out and took cover behind some sandbags. "Where's it come from?" Hart called out. "Don't know, somewhere in the tree line" Bakers called back.
Hart cautiously peaked over the edge of the sandbags and saw the treeline a few hundred yards past the trenches. "Bakers grab the PIG and follow me. Sandy grab a sniper rifle and come with us" Hart called out and the two shadow guards followed him as they raced through the fire base and lept into the front trenches. "Bakers, fire on the treeline, Sandy go over there and find out where the hell that prick is shooting us from" Hart ordered.
Bakers mounted the M60 bipod on the sandbags then stood up and fired on the treeline. A rifle shot cracked through the air and the sandbags in front of Bakers puffed up and sand was ripped out of the sandbags but luckily the defensive cover stopped the bullet. Bakers ducked back down behind the sandbags.
"I got him sir" Sandy said as he homed in with the Remington Model 700, chambered for .308 caliber. Sandy pulled the trigger and the gun roared. "Shit I missed. The scope's off" Sandy cursed as he racked the bolt on the rifle and loaded a fresh round. As he zeroed in again the terrifying crack of a rifle shot echoed through the air and Sandy's body slumped and fell over.
"Fuck... get down" Hart yelled out. "RADIO" Hart screamed and Lickety Split rushed over with the radio. Hart dialed in the air force. "Charlie two niner this is Charlie two one, over" Hart yelled. "This is Charlie two niner, we copy you two one go" the radio pony on the other side replied. "Two niner I need immediate air strike on..." Hart trailed off and grabbed the map from Lickety Split and measured the coordinates.
"Air strike on Charlie Whiskey 9-0-3-2-4-1 over" Hart replied. "Copy, airstrike inbound over" the radio pony on the other side replied.
In the depths of the forest sat The Apache with a radio interceptor. She overhead the message. She quickly scratched two notches into the stock of a Russian SVD Dragunov then grabbed the radio interceptor and rushed deeper into the forest.
After two minutes, three F-18s flew overhead and bombarded the treeline with high explosives. The trees were blown to bits and destruction was rained down on anyone who was in the treeline. "There's no way anyone survived that" Bakers said as he held the M60.
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Clare, Los Pegasus beachfront:
I lay with Luna under the bright moonlight that now shawn upon Equestria. After the sun went down we had gotten a little adventurous and had sex on the beach by the waterline.
We sat there and held each other closely. "Clare, I love you" she whispered and I nodded. "I know, you've said that over a dozen times" I chuckled then we kissed. "I just don't want you to ever go" she whispered and a tear came to her eye. "Hey I don't plan on dying any time soon" I reassured her but she pressed her face up against my chest.
"I know. It's just that I know one day you'll pass away and I'll be alone again" she cried and I could feel her tears roll down my chest. I lay back and pulled her body on top of mine. "Luna, one day I'll die just like Star Gazer did. But you must remember that I'll always be with you in spirit" I told her.
We just lay there on the beach and cuddled, without a care in the world. "Clare, when you die... I don't think I'll be able to move on" she whispered and I looked to her. "But you have to, you can't just shut down" I told her but she shook her head. "No I mean with love, after you die I won't be able to find another" she said through her tears and sniffles.
I held her closely. "I love you Luna... I never want to leave you and will stay with you until the end of my life" I whispered to her. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 30: The Apache stikes again | The next day,
Third person, Everfree forest:
A platoon of Celestia's royal guards patrolled through the jungles of the Everfree. Just a basic patrol.
"A walk through the jungle my ass" muttered one of the privates. "Just deal with it" said the lieutenant. "Yeah I'll deal with it when we get back home... this is bullshit man, straight up fucking bullshit" the private complained.
"Yeah well if you hadn't volunteered you wouldn't be here" said another guard. "Alright enough chit-chat. Keep it down back there" the lieutenant ordered. The platoon continued along through the jungle brush.
A few hundred yards away The Apache lay prone with her SVD Dragunov. Although she preferred her powerful titanium combat amour and stand up fights, she wasn't a fool and knew when to sit back and do a little marksmanship.
She leveled her SVD and trained it on the lieutenant, she wanted him alive but the others were of no concern. Orders for any zebra were to try and capture the high ranking soldiers and torture them for information.
She trained her aim on his front foreleg and pulled back the trigger. The rifle let out a horrifying crack that filled the air. The 7.62x54mmR round slammed through the lieutenant's knee and ripped his leg off. The other platoon members screamed and began to fire wildly into the forest.
She took aim and fired a round straight through the chest of a guard, blood spurted from the exit wound as he fell back. The soldiers took cover in the dense grass but she could still make out their body forms in the grass.
She fired another round which slammed into the head of a royal guard stallion and shattered his head across the ground. One of the other stallions lept up and tried to run away but The Apache quickly snapped her aim to the fleeing stallion and fired a round through his back.
She spotted a pony with a radio and her radio interceptor crackled as it intercepted a transmission. "Delta two six this is Delta two one" crackled her radio. She lined up a shot and fired. The high velocity round travelled downrange and blew a hole straight through the radio pony's body and exited through the radio. Part of the radio shattered and the radio was destroyed.
Other members of the platoon tried to get up and run but she'd quickly snap her aim to them then shoot them down mercilessly. She kept track of her ammunition expenditure and after she had fired ten rounds she quickly reloaded a fresh magazine into the gun and focused her attention to the royal guard ponies. She once again continued her onslaught.
"We gotta get outta here" screamed a corporal but as he stood up a round tore through his skull and blew away part of his head. "I'll get us outta here guys, follow me" screamed another private but he too was shot mercilessly as he stood up.
"Every-pony stay down...stay down" screamed a sergeant. The mare sergeant looked over to the radio operator and realized the radio was destroyed. "Clover" the mare screamed and another mare quickly crawled over to her. "Listen, you and me we're gonna" the sergeant began but suddenly Clover's head shattered and her brains were splattered against the sergeant.
"No-pony move, the sniper can" the sergeant began but suddenly a round ripped through her body, passing through her heart and killing her instantly. After a couple of minutes the Apache had completely annihilated the entire platoon, killing every pony except the lieutenant. She cut twenty six notches into her rifle stock. She would be needing a new stock soon as there was over fifty notches in her stock.
She waited a few more minutes and inspected the area, making sure that no-pony was still alive down there minus the lieutenant. As she reassured herself that she had killed everyone she stood up and slowly walked down to the killing sight were ponies lay dead on the ground. Blood stained the leaves and soaked into the ground. She walked over to several ponies, ripping open their armour and engraving 'Apache' into their chests with her dagger.
The lieutenant groaned in pain and the zebra known as The Apache walked over to the wounded lieutenant. She knelt beside him, grabbing him and flinging his body over her shoulder then began to trot back to her secret base.
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Third person, unknown location:
"I'll give you one chance to tell me. When is the staff shift in Firebase Delta?" The Apache asked Lieutenant Romeo, who was her prisoner. She had him strung up by the forelegs and he hung above the ground. "Fuck you" Romeo whispered weakly, he had lost a lot of blood but The Apache had cauterized his leg wound.
"Excuse me?" she asked in a zebra accent, her English wasn't the greatest and she had a heavy zebra accent. Romeo spat blood into her face. She sighed in irritation as she wiped the blood from her face. "Well don't say I didn't try to be pleasant with you" she hissed as she grabbed a very jagged rusty razor blade.
She pressed it against his shoulder and very slowly began to cut downwards. The razor had been crudely customized to tug and rip rather than to slice and as such would catch on Romeo's skin and rip his skin open in jagged cuts. Blood stained his white fur and he screamed in agonizing pain as she trailed the razor down his chest on a vertical angle until she reached his belly.
She pulled the razor away from his body and stepped up closer to him. "Will you tell me now?" she asked, Romeo grunted in pain. "Fuck you bitch" he cursed. The Apache sighed from his ignorance and grabbed a bottle of lemon juice then sprayed the juice on his wounds. She would've preferred using disinfectant but there was a lack of supplies so she had to pick lemons and harvest their juices for he own special uses.
Romeo screamed in pain as the spray of the juice stung his wounds. He cringed and the zebra stopped spraying him then set the bottle down. "We can help each other you know. Perhaps become great allies, but first you must tell me what I want to know" The Apache said calmly.
Romeo refused to cooperate with the zebra communist. "Fine... I'll tell you" Romeo whispered and The Apache smiled triumphantly. "Up your fucking cunt" Romeo laughed, The Apache's eyes went wide with fury.
She grabbed a rusty blade from the table and walked up to Romeo. She slid the knife upwards into his chest but kept the knife angled completely upwards so the knife didn't cut deeper than his ribcage as she cut around his chest muscles with the crude blade.
"Tell me the shift change... tell me" she screamed but Romeo's will was stronger than her torture and he refused to tell her what she wanted to know. She swung the knife outwards and the blade cut his chest open, his chest muscle flapped and now bled quite profusely.
"I'll bleed to death before I tell you shit" Romeo sneered painfully. The Apache snickered at his comment, "Oh I haven't even begun to torture you. This was a warm up" she laughed. Romeo snickered, "Do your worst you stupid cunt" he challenged. Her eyes narrowed. "You really want that?" she asked and Romeo spat more blood at her face. "You won't get anything from me. You won't get any sort of satisfaction from torturing me" Romeo sneered.
The Apache stepped forwards. "Oh... you think so? Fine" she said as she began to unbutton his combat pants which were stained in blood. "What the fuck do you think you're doing" hissed Romeo and she looked up to him. "I have my own needs and urges you know" she giggled seductively. "This is your worst? Raping me?" Romeo spat and the zebra finally unbuttoned his pants and slid them off then stood up, leaping to her hind legs and resting her face against his bloody chest.
Romeo's mind raced with worry. 'What the fuck is wrong with this bitch' he thought to himself. She moved her right hoof down to his penis and began to fondle with it. Despite his agonizing pain his penis still became erect, to his discomfort. "See, I knew you'd cooperate" The Apache laughed as she began to stroke his shaft.
"I won't let you get anything out of this" Romeo said painfully. "Oh I'll get everything I want from this" she whispered as she pulled out the rusty blade and cut open his testicles. "AHHHHH FUUUUCCKKK" Romeo screamed in horrifying pain. The Apache stepped back and grabbed the bottle of lemon juice and sprayed the juice into his cut open testicles.
Romeo's screams of agonizing pain could be heard from outside her torture hut and several of her zebra guards cringed in fear as they could only imagine what horrifying things she was doing to the captive royal guard.
"So... feel like talking now" The Apache hissed as she continued to spray his cut genitals with the lemon juice. "Alright fuck... I'll tell... I'll tell" Romeo cried in pain. The Apache smiled and stopped spraying him. He hung there in god awful pain as tears rolled down his face. "The shift change... is at 4:30pm... please just don't hurt me anymore" Romeo begged through cries of pain.
The Apache looked to her watch, it was 3:46 so they would have to hurry if they wanted to get the jump on the firebase. She walked up to him and whispered into his ear. "Shh... don't worry it'll all be over soon" she whispered then cut open his throat with her rusty knife. Blood gushed from his throat and his eyes widened as he gagged for air. His body thrashed violently and The Apache stood there and watched as he bled to death.
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4:29pm, Firebase Delta:
"Hey Mitch" said Dandelion as he walked up and tapped his buddy on the shoulder. "Shift change" Dandelion told his friend who nodded. "Yeah, listen there's still a patrol out there so don't shoot until you confirm your target" Mitch told his friend.
Mitch slung his assault rifle then trotted off, Dandelion hunkered down in the machinegun nest but as he settled he spotted something two hundred yards away that wasn't there a second ago. He tried to focus his eyes to see what it was but couldn't make it out, it kind of looked like a... a pony.
"Hey... I think I see some-pony" Dandelion called out and a few royal guard ponies rushed over to him. Dandelion pointed out to the figure in the distance and a corporal brought out a pair of binoculars and checked it out. "Oh fuck, it's Romeo. LT get the platoon" the corporal yelled and a platoon was quickly formulated.
They had several snipers watch over them as they rushed out to the figure who was indeed Romeo. He had been stung up on a crudely made cross. As they ran up to Romeo's body, two of the platoon members gagged then puked at the sight of Romeo's mutilated body. 'The Apache' was engraved into his chest and his throat had been cut wide open.
"Fuck... Rams, cut him down" the lieutenant ordered. In the distance sat The Apache in her titanium combat armour with a detonator switch in her hoof. As the platoon neared the dead body of Romeo she pressed the button on the detonator. She had filled Romeo's body with explosives that detonated violently.
Several of the platoon members were either killed or brutally injured from the blast. The screams of zebras echoed in the air as a war trumpet played. Zebras flowed from the treeline like locust.
The royal guard ponies in the frontline trenches fired upon the zebras that advanced towards the base. Unlike Firebase Charlie, Delta had extremely well trained royal guard ponies who were exceptional fighters and they held off the advance of the zebras.
The Apache sighed to herself and rushed forwards, like a beacon for the other zebras to follow. 5.56mm and 7.62x51mm NATO rounds bounced off her armour. The heavier 7.62mm rounds almost pierced her armour but only made slight dents before ricocheting away.
She cocked her shoulders forwards and the twin Gatling guns rolled out of the battle saddle as she lept over the frontline trenches. Ponies directed their firepower at her but their puny rounds were unable to pierce her mighty armour. She tongued the button in her helmet and immediately the twin Gatling guns whirred to life then spat out a constant stream of deadly lead.
The ponies in the trenches stood no chance against her and were shredded apart by her mighty Gatling guns. Zebras were now able to advance over the trenches without getting shot down and flowed through the trenches like rats in a sewer.
The Apache climbed over the trench and shot down any-pony who stood in her way, she even shot down her own soldiers if they got in her way. Ponies screamed in horror from her onslaught and tried to retreat but she soon cut them down.
Suddenly in the trenches there was a slow chugging sound and zebras fell back, blood splattering everywhere. "Yeah bitches, that's what you get for messing with me" screamed a hulking pony carrying two AA12s in his hooves, walking on his hindlegs. He turned his attention to a group of zebras and cut them down with the automatic shotguns. The zebra's bodies were chopped apart and blood splattered against the trenches.
The Apache lept down into the trenches and aimed her Gatling guns at the pony but he was more maneuverable and fired both his shotguns in full auto. Although the shotgun's buckshot was unable to penetrate the armour, the sheer force of the buckshot kicked The Apache off her hooves and to the ground.
The mighty stallion walked over to her, firing his AA12s into her armour as he walked forwards. The ping of rounds splashing of her armour rang through the air. He approached her just as both his shotguns ran out of ammo. He dropped the shotguns and unholstered an AMT Automag V .50 caliber handgun and pointed it at the visor of her helmet.
But just as he went to pull the trigger, The Apache kicked the knee of the mighty stallion. He screamed in pain and staggered back, giving her enough time to flip up and land on her hooves.
She raced forwards and slashed her forearm blades across the stallion's throat. His throat was sliced open and he fell to the ground as he gagged, blood bubbled out of his cut open throat.
All over the firebase zebras brutally killed the remaining royal guards in Firebase Delta. The Apache walked around and cut 'Apache' into the chests of several ponies then walked away.
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Canterlot castle, war room:
"Ma'am" said a royal guard as he approached Princess Celestia. Over two hours ago they had lost contact with Firebase Delta and the shit had begun to hit the fan. "Give me good news lieutenant" Celestia replied in a fearful tone.
"Ma'am reports indicate that Firebase Delta has been overrun and destroyed. There were no survivors" the lieutenant informed her. "Fuck" Celestia swore and threw a bunch of report papers into the air.
"Ma'am, it was The Apache. She left her mark" the lieutenant said fearfully. "Goddess dammit" Celestia swore. The Apache had been raining terror and fear into the entire army for months yet no-pony could stop her.
"Ma'am... what are we going to do?" the lieutenant asked and Celestia stood up. She looked to the lieutenant "I think that Sergeant Clare's vacation is going to end earlier than expected" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 31: Back in the saddle | Clare, Los Pegasus:
Our vacation had hit the midway point and I had this feeling that when it was over it would feel like it went to fast. I shuffled over and snuggled up tightly to Luna's body. Last night had been amazing and her very presence made me feel amazing.
"Mmm, you're feeling a little affectionate aren't you" she whispered as she awoke from her sleep. I nodded as I nuzzled my face into her silky mane. "Mmm... Clare I love it when you're like this in the mornings" she giggled as I began to kiss her neck.
She gasped as my kisses turned into a steady wet lick and I trailed my tongue down her body very slowly.
As I reached her belly there was a loud knock at the front door. 'Go away' I thought to myself as I continued to lick her body but then whoever was at the door knocked again. I looked to my watch, it was 6:30 in the morning couldn't they just leave us alone. A knock banged against the door again. 'Guess not' I thought to myself as I began to lick her vagina, it had a sweet taste to it.
"Should we ah... should we answer the ohh... the door" Luna asked through moans of pleasure as my tongue licked the inside of her vagina and my fingers caressed her clitoris. "Nah, they'll go away. Probably Christian solicitors" I said, my voice muffled by her pussy.
The knocking continued and there was no way I was gonna just ignore it if they continued. I pulled my mouth away from her tasty pussy and rolled my eyes. "I'll be back... just uhm... hold that pose right there" I said, her hindlegs were spread apart and here pussy was in plain view. I had this feeling I was going to lose my boner when I was talking to the ponies at the door so I needed a little encouragement when I got back.
Luna gave me a wink as I walked over to the door and the knocking continued. "Yeah, yeah. I'm coming... don't get you panties in a wad" I mumbled. I opened the door and was greeted by two stallions dressed in military dress uniforms. I groaned to myself 'What the fuck do they want?' I thought to myself.
"Sergeant Clare?" one of the stallions asked. "No, Santa Claus" I replied jokingly but with an irritated tone. "Right, listen your vacation needs to be cut short. Pack up your things and get ready, the chopper is waiting" one of the stallions ordered me. "What? Why?" I asked but they didn't answer my question.
"Everything will be explained on the flight back to Canterlot, now please hurry. We're on a schedule" the other stallion said and they both turned and walked over to a helicopter parked on the beach. 'Wait, why hadn't I heard them land?' I thought to myself but then shrugged off the thought and walked back inside.
I walked back into the bedroom where Luna laid waiting for me. "Luna... we have to go" I said depressingly and she shot me a curious look. "What? Why?" she asked and I shrugged. "Apparently... I don't know, some suits say we have to leave and get on a chopper back to Canterlot" I informed her as I grabbed my bag.
She went to argue but must've seen that my face was depressed and obviously as clueless as she was. We quickly packed up our things, Luna dressed in the leather clothes she had been wearing for most of the vacation and we walked out of the house. I gave Los Pegasus one last final look before embarking on the helicopter.
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Celestia, Canterlot:
"Ma'am" said one of my royal guards. "Report" I ordered him and he nodded. "The helicopter picked up both your sister and Sergeant Clare at 6:30 this morning. They were scheduled to land in Canterlot by 4 o'clock this afternoon but made an unexpected stop in Coltorado" the guard informed me.
* * *
Sgt. Clare, Coltorado, Fast food restaurant:
We had parked the helicopter outside a fast food restaurant and ordered some food. Despite getting off to a rocky start, due to them informing me of my orders to return to Canterlot which ruined our vacation, we had become friends.
"Hey pilot, thanks for stopping man. I was starved" I called out to the pilot who nodded as he drank from a soda cup. Jenkins, one of the soldiers, was eating an ice-cream cup. "Hey Jenkins, you got some ice-cream on your uniform" I told him, he looked down to his suit.
"Guh... where?" he asked frantically, not wanting to stain his outfit. I extended my finger and pointed to a spot on his chest. He followed my finger but as he did I flicked my finger up and caught his nose.
I started chuckling and the others laughed. "I have this feeling that Celestia wouldn't approve of us eating fast food" said Hendrickson, the other soldier. "Who cares, unless you guys tell her then there's no way she'll really find out... unless she's watching us right now" I laughed.
After we ate the chopper pilot flew us the rest of the way to Canterlot. We arrived near Canterlot at about 4:45pm. I walked over to a window and looked out to the city below. I held my fist like I was talking into a microphone.
"This is Major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the Dooorr. And I'm floating in a most peculiar wayyy and the stars look very different todayyyyy" I said, imitating the lyrics of Major Tom. Hendrickson smiled "For hearrr am I sitting in a tin can" he began and we did a musical duet, quite terribly. "Farrrrrrr above the worrrrrrrld. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can dooooooo" we both sang then the pilot made the noises of the guitar solo.
We all began to sing and it sounded pretty bad but we didn't have a care in the world. The chopper landed on the helipad behind the Canterlot castle. Luna and I stepped out of the chopper along with the two soldiers who had accompanied us.
Captain Shining Armor rushed out to meet us. "Sergeant, come with me. We need to meet with Celestia in the war room ASAP" Shining yelled over the sound of the helicopter rotors. I nodded and we followed him into the war room but the two soldiers departed to go their separate ways.
We quickly entered the war room where Celestia stood with some paper. I threw a quick salute then stood in attention. "Just back and already in the mind pre-set to salute your officers. That's good sergeant" Celestia commented and I stood in attention. "I'm sure you know about The Apache" Celestia said and I nodded. "Yes ma'am" I replied.
"Well it just so happened that's she's raining havoc on the firebases all across the Everfree... tell me sergeant do you have any sort of marksmanship training?" she asked and I nodded. "Yes ma'am, I do ma'am. I spent a month in Afghanistan as a sniper then was transferred back to basic infantry" I replied.
"Excellent. Captain, would you mind briefing him" Celestia said and Shining gave her a nod. "Listen, The Apache has been raining hell on our men so we need to stop her. Orders are to go in and take her out then we hop back to a firebase" he informed me. My face frowned. "What do you mean, we?" I asked and he smiled. "Well I'm going with yah Sarge, can't have yah disobeying orders now can we" he said.
I turned my look to Celestia. "No" Luna said, we all looked to her in shock. "WHAT?" we all asked in chorus. "That's suicide, I won't have one of my soldiers get put out like that" Luna replied. "I'll do it" I said and Luna gasped at my comment then quickly left the room before tears came to her eyes.
"You have an hour sergeant, get to the armoury and get yourself a rifle... oh and sergeant, you've been promoted. Congratulations on making Sergeant Major" Celestia said. I nodded then left casually.
As soon as I left the war room I looked and saw Luna galloping away. I rushed after her but she already had a lead on me so I wasn't able to catch up with her until we were in the Canterlot garden.
"Luna wait" I called. "Just shut up Clare, I don't want to talk to you" she sobbed but I grabbed her and spun her around. "You said you never wanted to leave me... said you wanted to stay with me until you died... so how could you accept that suicide mission" she sobbed.
"Two reasons. One: I can't just go defying every order that Celestia gives me because she'll end up catching on and two: The Apache will keep killing until she is stopped. I might be the only one who can stop her so I couldn't live with myself if I just sat back and watched" I informed her.
She cried into my chest and I felt like a real asshole but in reality it was true. I might have been the only one who could do this and if I kept refusing orders Celestia would probably catch on.
"Please... promise me you'll come back" she begged me and I looked into her teary eyes. "I can't promise anything but I swear on my life I won't go sticking my neck out for nothing. I don't plan on dying any time soon" I told her.
She kissed me passionately and pushed me onto my back. She quickly began to undress me as we kissed.
* * *
One hour later:
Sgt. Clare, helicopter en route to Firebase Bravo:
I checked the 10x scope on my Model 70 Winchester, chambered for .300 Winchester Magnum. I knew that my Thompson would be no use in a sniper battle but I still needed a close quarters weapon. And that's why I had a Mossberg 500 tactical, no stock with pistol grip and shortened barrel, strapped to my leg in a leg holster meant exactly for the gun. I also carried an M1911 in a hip holster and my behemoth 500 S&W revolver in the shoulder holster.
Captain Shining Armor had taken along an M16A4 with a small 4x magnification scope attached where the carry handle would usually be placed. "If she's pregnant Celestia is gonna rip your nuts off when she starts to show" Shining Armor told me quietly so that the pilot wouldn't hear. "When who starts to show what?" I asked acting like I didn't know what he was talking about.
"Luna... I saw you two making love in the garden. It doesn't surprise me that you wouldn't use a condom and would finish inside" he said and I rolled my eyes. "Don't tell no-pony" I said and he nodded. I leaned forwards, "She's already pregnant, she cast a spell on herself the first time we had sex" I told him and he sighed. "Celestia is gonna flip... you know that right? You realize that you just got her younger sister pregnant and that you're just a simple Sergeant Major right?" he asked and I nodded.
"Well how bout you? You shouldn't be coming with me. Your wife is eight months pregnant and due to give birth soon" I countered and he nodded. "Well I have my orders" he said. "Tell me something, how did Celestia react when she found out you got her niece pregnant?" I asked and he looked to me with a raised eyebrow.
"She didn't mind that much because I was Captain and second in command of the royal guard" he replied. I rolled my eyes "She didn't freak out?" I asked. "Not when she found out she was pregnant... but she did freak out and wanted to rip off my head when we first started dating" he informed me. I leaned my head back against the seat and chuckled to myself "This day gets better by the minute". |
Love and Honour | Chapter 32: Bounty around my neck | Sgt. Clare, Firebase Bravo:
The helicopter landed and both Shining and I disembarked the helicopter and reported directly to the CO tent.
As we walked inside I gave a salute then let out a quiet gasp as I realized the company CO was Daffodil. "Daff... you're... the company CO?" I asked unsurely and he nodded. "Captain Wallace... died in a recent attack and that left me in command of the company. HQ says they're working around the clock for a replacement CO but it's been a few days" Daff informed me.
"So sergeant, how was your vacation?" he asked. "Cut short" I replied and he chuckled at the comment. "Yes well in any case, you're here now and that's all that matters. So, brief me on this little operation of yours" Daffodil said and Shining Armor began to tell him the logistics of everything.
"So that's it huh? Okay then, good luck" Daff said, I gave a salute and went to leave but Daffodil called out to me before I left. "Oh Clare... you never told me that you made sergeant major" he said and I nodded. "Just got promoted this evening, sewed the stripes and chevrons on before I came over" I told him then left the tent with Shining Armor following close behind me.
Hart ran up to me. "Hey Sarge... oh guess it's sergeant major now huh?" he said as he noticed my new stripes. "Sarge will be fine" I said as I continued walking along. "So Sarge, what's new?" Hart asked as Shining and I loaded into a Jeep. "Hey Sarge, you just got back, don't tell me you're already leaving" he exclaimed and I nodded.
"Don't worry I'll be back soon, I promise" I told him as Shining Armor started the Jeep and we drove out of the firebase and into the jungles of the Everfree forest.
The Jeep bumped along the trails as I looked at the map. Intelligence had circled the places that The Apache was most likely to be at. "Hey Captain, how we supposed to find this guy in all the jungle anyway? He could be anywhere" I said over the loud roar of the Jeep engine.
"Well I'm not exactly sure, that's what you're here for. If you were a zebra sniper where would you hide?" he asked me. I shrugged, "Anywhere in the jungle... but if I was a crazy insane asshole that engraved my name into the chests of dead soldiers and cut off their genitals... I'd hid up in that hilly area" I said and pointed to a large hill. I looked to the map and realized Intelligence hadn't circled it as a place to search. 'Intelligence equals a bunch of ponies that sit behind desks thinking they know everything' I thought to myself.
We drove the Jeep as far as we dared then turned it off and covered it with camouflaged leaf cover. We grabbed our rifles then began to cautiously approach the semi large hill, trekking through the thick jungle brush as quietly as we could. Shining Armor and I both kept our senses on full alert, listening and watching for anything hostile.
Shining Armor took lead while I walked a few yards behind him. We stayed off the main trails for the most part, only traveling along the trails when it was absolutely necessary.
The air was hot and I sweat profusely. I was wearing a regular camouflaged combat jacket along with the camouflaged cargo pants to go with them. I had a leather belt with a line of sturdy cloth attached to the waist harness. The belt came together at the front with a silver belt buckle. My waist harness carried several things: Ammo, rations, binoculars etc. Shining Armor had pretty much the same general outfit, minus the leather belt. We also both wore combat issued boots
I wiped sweat from my head, on top of my head sat a camouflaged brush hat. I was sporting a pair of dark sunglasses that tinted the bright rays of the sun. Sweat rolled down my arms which were exposed because I had rolled up my sleeves due to the humidity and hot temperature.
Birds chirped in the background and it distracted my concentration. I tried to focus on specific noises but the birds chirping kept distracting me. "See anything Captain?" I whispered my voice was so quiet I didn't know if he could hear me. He shook his head.
My breathing was slow as we ascended up the hill. There was a large clearing up the hill that went on for about two hundred yards then turned back into thick brush. "I don't like this" I whispered and Captain Armor nodded. "Yeah me either. Any ideas Sarge?" he asked.
"Yeah, we'll crawl up there into the forest then take a sniper point on that ridge there" I said pointing to a small grassy ridge that overlooked most of the valley. "Good idea" he whispered and we quietly got down on our bellies and began to crawl the entire two hundred yards of the open clearing but luckily the grass was knee high so it gave us some cover.
The entire crawl took well over three hours and the night sky had encased the entire valley along with the ridge that we now lay perched on. "She usually causes havoc late in the afternoon so if she does cause havoc then she'll be coming back about now" Shining told me and I nodded as I switched my scope to the night vision settings.
As I peered along the valley through the scope of my rifle I waited and thought to myself about how The Apache could be zeroing in on us right at this very moment and I wouldn't even know it. We sat and waited for a half hour then Shining Armor gave me a nudge.
"Eleven o'clock, two hundred yards" Shining whispered and I directed my aim towards his directions. About two hundred and thirty yards away I spotted a zebra communist fighter with an SKS rifle, mounted with a scope. "That can't be The Apache... he wouldn't be that stupid to just walk right through the clearing like that" I whispered and Shining Armor nodded then took my rifle away from me.
"Well in any case I spotted him so I get to take the shot" Shining announced. I grabbed the rifle back, "No way, I'm the sniper so I get dibs on first shot" I said back and we began to wrestle over the rifle, making an awfully large amount of noise. We ended up knocking over our things and some of our metal canteens fell and banged off rocks with a CLANG.
I looked back to the zebra fighter who was now running in the opposite direction. I sighed in disappointment. "He's probably going to warn his buddies... come on, we'll set up on another ridge" I said and we quickly gathered our things then rushed off to another ridge and lay down to wait for our little friend to return.
Soon enough he did return, and with an entire platoon of armed zebras. "I think he was The Apache" Shining whispered, now that I looked I had to agree with him. Intelligence reported that he was a sniper and currently the only one with a sniper rifle was the young zebra with the SKS that had an attached scope.
"Well Captain... do you want to do the honours?" I asked and he smiled as he grabbed the rifle and adjusted his aim. "Elevation... about one inch, aim for the chest" I whispered and he nodded.
The Model 70 .300 Winchester Magnum thunder in his hooves and the mighty KA-BOOM of the bullet expelled out the end of the barrel. The zebra soldier with the SKS was literally taken off his hooves as the 180 grain ballistic round slammed through his body, blowing out a large exit wound in his back.
The other zebras looked around frantically and Shining Armor racked the bolt then fired again, taking out another zebra soldier. They must've seen the muzzle flash because the entire platoon of zebras began to charge towards us.
Shining Armor handed me my rifle and picked up his own. I took aim and began to shoot down zebras as the advanced. My magazine quickly ran dry and I swapped it for a fresh one then continued to snipe the zebras but more zebras poured out of the forest.
"Okay Shining we killed The Apache, now it's time to go" I said, we both got up and ran higher up into the hill. Just as we began to retreat several zebras fired at us with AK47s. "Shit... shit... shit... SHIT" I cursed as rounds kicked up dirt literally just behind my feet.
We finally reached thicker jungle in the hill but we continued to run at full tilt. "Okay, we'll head down this side of the hill then loop around and" I began but suddenly a group of zebras just appeared from behind the trees in front of us, like they had been waiting this entire time. "Uh-oh" I said and Shining nodded.
A zebra mare stepped forward, she had an SVD Dragunov with her. "I think she's The Apache" I whispered to Shining. "Silence ape" she hissed. I leveled my rifle on her but several of the zebras pointed their AK47s at us. We were outnumbered and there was no way we could just shoot our way out of this situation.
"Clare... lower your gun... I don't feel like dying right now" Shining said slowly. I did as he ordered and lowered my gun but as I did I felt a sharp pain in my neck. I grabbed the object that now stuck in my neck and pulled it out. As I looked at it my mind went fuzzy and I realized it was a tranquilizer dart.
My mind slipped and I fell into unconsciousness, the last thing I remembered was Shining Armor saying something.
* * *
Sgt. Clare, unknown location:
I awoke with a massive head ache and I rubbed my eyes. I realized I was in some primitive cell block. I heard screaming outside my cell then the doors swung open and Shining Armor's body was thrown inside. He had been cut up pretty bad but wasn't in serious condition yet though blood had stained his once pure white fur.
I had been stripped of my jacket, weapons and waist harness and all that was left was my pants, my white shirt and my black combat boots. I crawled over to Shining and held his body close to mine. "Don't worry captain... we'll get outta here" I reassured him as I brushed his mane out of his face.
A zebra walked in and kicked me in the head before dragging my body out into another room with a single hanging light bulb. He tossed my body to the floor then kicked me in the side of the ribs.
He bound my wrists together then strung me in the air by my hands. I found it somewhat difficult to breath. The zebra mare who had the Dragunov walked into the room. "Hello Sergeant Clare" she said in a very calm voice.
"Hello ma'am" I replied in a subtle voice. "You know that there is a bounty on your head" she informed me. I shook my head. "No ma'am, I didn't know that. How much?" I asked calmly like we were having a civil conversation. "500,000 dollars to the one who kills you and confirms your death to the general" she informed me.
"If you don't mind me asking, why haven't you killed me yet?" I asked in a very calm and gentle voice. "Are you always this gentle and calm?" she asked and I shook my head. "I'm only ever considerate to those who have earned my respect ma'am" I told her. Her nose scrunched. "I plan on torturing you to death and you give me respect? What kind of fool are you?" she asked and I tried to shrug.
"Being a soldier for as long as I have would make anyone insane. But you did manage to capture me alive, a truly magnificent action, and one that you should be extremely pleased with yourself for doing" I told her. She smiled from the comment.
"Well I... you are quite a charmer aren't you?" she asked, I shrugged. "Well I try" I chuckled. "Ma'am... can you hurry it up" said one of the zebras in the room. "Shut your fucking mouth you cockroach, I'm trying to have a civil conversation" she snapped at the zebra. He cringed in fear and stepped back fearfully.
"Remind me never to get on your bad side" I said and she chuckled. "You fool, we're on opposing sides. I'm supposed to kill you" she laughed hysterically. "Well ma'am before you do, I need to know. Why didn't you just kill me there in the forest?" I asked.
"Because we are all debating on who gets to kill you and we decided to execute you and make a video so that we all get paid" she informed me. "So... where's the video camera?" I asked she chuckled insanely as she brought out a rusty knife. "This is your interrogation you fool. I'm gonna cut you up really bad then you're going to tell me everything you know" she said.
"Okay, I was born in '88, my family didn't want me and left me in an orphanage. When I was sixteen I enlisted in the Canadian service, got fucked up then enlisted in the royal guard. Then they sent me to kill you" I said and her face went dire. "No you idiot, I want to know troop movements, shift changes, everything else" she said as she walked closer. "Oh sorry, can't help you there. They don't tell me nothing cause they think I'm insubordinate" I told her and her face went to a frown.
"Uhhg... I hate to say this but I have this terribly awful feeling that you're telling the truth" she said grudgingly. I had actually lied quite efficiently because I did know a lot of those things. "Oh... well sorry to disappoint you, Uhm... want to be friends?" I offered and she shot me a cold glare. "Hey... it's cool, I don't care. I just thought maybe you'd want to be friends or something" I said.
"You think that you can just coo me... into becoming your puppet... Think that you can just seduce me, place my prince charming and fuck me like your whore?" she asked. 'Okay where the fuck had that come from?' I thought to myself and shook my head quickly. "Think that you'll get out of here? Well I have news for you" she said as she put a pair of spiked knuckles on her hooves.
For the next hour she slammed punches into my side, blood now stained my white t-shirt and it was red with my own blood. Though the wounds weren't fatal unless they got infected they still hurt like hell.
The Apache was panting heavily as I hung the, blood dripped from the tips of my boots. She walked up to me and was breathing heavily. "You really have quite an endurance... if we weren't enemies I'd want to know if you were durable... elsewhere" she whispered and I cringed as she slammed another punch into the side of my ribcage.
"Cut him down" she panted then walked away. One of the zebras walked up and cut me down. Two zebras grabbed my arms and dragged me into another room where they had Captain Shining Armor. "Hey Shining... fancy meeting you here" I said painfully then a zebra slammed the butt of his rifle against my head. "Silence you dog" said the zebra as he continued to drag me along.
There were five zebras in the room along with The Apache and Shining Armor. In the middle of the room there was a hang noose and I smiled. "Hangman eh? Let me guess, the word is hurricane?" I joked and once again the zebra slammed his butt stock of his rifle into my head.
* * *
Cpt. Shining Armor:
I watched as Clare made crude jokes in this dire situation. I gritted my teeth as I tried to think about something I could do to stop this madness but could think of nothing, even a magic spell wouldn't work.
"Cameras... action" said the insane Apache. They fitted the noose around his neck. "Eh to all you watchers out there this is how to hang a Canadian soldier eh" Clare joked. Even in his final moments he was making crude jokes. I despised him for the crude jokes yet I respected him for his fearlessness.
"General Kim Yung, this is The Apache. We have" The Apache began but Clare yelled over her voice. "HELLO, HEY GENERAL HI... IT'S ME CLARE" he yelled and The Apache shot him a cold stare.
"Shut him up" The Apache hissed. One of the zebras nodded and slammed their rifle stock into his gut. Clare cringed in pain as The Apache began over. "General, this is The Apache. We have" she began but once again Clare interrupted her.
"HEY GENERAL, HEY IT'S ME HI. HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND? WANNA HANG OUT?" Clare asked. "That's it, hang him" The Apache yelled.
One of the zebras kicked out the stool from underneath Clare and he dangled in the air, stung up by his throat. He gagged and struggled as his life slowly drained away. His body cringed and he tried furiously to break free of the noose. Then within a minute he stopped moving. He was dead.
"FUCK!" I swore in anger but one of the zebras clacked their rifle stock against my head and knocked me to the ground. As they dragged me away I heard the laughter of The Apache and saw the lifeless body of Clare hang in the middle of the room. 'Clare, I swear in the name of Celestia, I will avenge you' I promised in my thoughts hopping that wherever his spirit was he could hear my prayer. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 33: Give it till it hurts | Third person, unknown location:
Captain Shining Armor sat in his cell and wept over the death of Sergeant Major Clare. He had known about what happened between Luna and Star Gazer all those years ago and he knew that the news of Clare's death would devastate her.
Elsewhere in the cave Clare still hung lifelessly from the noose. The zebras had all left after having a laugh. One younger zebra with a bayonet fitted AK47 walked up to the lifeless body of Clare as he hung from the noose rope. Even after he was dead his very presence sent shivers down his back.
Captain Shining Armor sat in his cell and thought about possible escape plans. He could use a magical energy blast on the next zebra to walk through the cell door but he'd most likely be shot down. He cursed himself for not learning a teleportation spell like his sister had encouraged him.
"FUCK" Shining cried as tears continued to trickle down his face. He was so distraught from Clare's death, he hopped that they killed him too because he couldn't live with himself knowing that Clare had been hung and they let him live. But that didn't mean he wasn't going to rip that bitch's throat out before he got shot down. He vowed to himself that before he died he would see the dead bitch's eyes with his own. That he promised himself.
The young zebra stood in front of Clare's body and his body shook in fear. He couldn't get the thought out of his head about how terrifying the man had been on the battlefield. He alone probably killed more zebras than he could ever imagine.
He thought he saw the man's chest move, only slightly. "Huh?" he muttered then leaned forwards. He shook his head, figuring it was just his imagination getting to him. As he was about to lean back Clare's hand shot up and grabbed the noose rope while his legs curled around the zebra's neck and constricted his throat then lifted his body off the ground.
Clare's eyes burned with inner rage as he held the young zebra's body off the ground with his legs. The young zebra cried out and gagged in fear. Clare held himself up by pulling up on the noose ropes with his hands so that the noose rope didn't strangle him. Without mercy or any feeling of guilt, Clare squeezed his legs and snapped the zebra's neck silently.
* * *
Minutes earlier
Sgt. Clare:
The zebras were stupid, they hadn't tightened the noose around my neck and I could easily breathe. All I had to do was fake my own death. Damn fools forgot to check my boots, had a small switch blade with a two inch blade hidden in my boots. All I had to do was wait till they all left then bend my knees, pull out the knife and cut the rope away from my hands.
Present time:
I pulled out my small switch blade and cut the noose rope around my neck. The zebra was young and stupid, paid for it with his life. He couldn't be more than eight years old. Can't say it felt good killing him but his face won't bother my dreams any time soon. But I had to thank the kid, he had left me an AK with a bayonet attached to the barrel.
"Thanks kid" I whispered as I dragged his body into the corner of the room and made it look like he was simply passed out. I held the AK47 in my hands, holding it felt weird, mostly because of the trigger and handle modifications so that zebras could shoot it, but also because of its symbolic history. This weapon was the preferred weapon of every terrorist and communist group from Al-Qaeda to the Yakuza.
But beggars can't be choosers I guess. I stalked through the passageways of the underground tunnels. The soft dirt silenced my footsteps. I had no intention of firing the AK47 until after I was outside the tunnel. I had overheard The Apache talking about going out on patrol to do some marksmanship, or in other words kill a platoon of royal guards and probably use their tongues as trophies or something sick like that.
I heard calm breathing of a zebra as he walked down the dark tunnel. It was dimly lit in the tunnels, a light bulb hung from the tunnel roof about every twenty yards. I leaned up against the corner of the wall and waited as the zebra passed.
I curled back my lips and gritted my teeth in anger as I stabbed the zebra in the back with the bayonet. He tried to let out a scream but I had stabbed the bayonet right through his heart and killed him instantly.
I dragged his body into the shadows then continued on. The tunnels narrowed and I could hear the whistling of a zebra as he trotted along the tunnel system casually. The AK47's bayonet was kind of clumsy in these tight quarters but I had learned some pretty cool things you could do with just the sling of a rifle.
I slid along the shadows of the corridors and waited for the zebra to trot by me. I was hidden in the shadows and he only noticed I was there after it was too late. I quickly wrapped the sling around his neck and pulled him into the shadows then snapped his neck with the sling. He slumped to the floor and I left his body in the shadows as I continued on.
I was surprised that I hadn't found more zebras, The Apache must've taken most of them out on patrol. I heard screaming echo from a room down one of the corridors. As I continued on I stopped by a large weapons cache.
I spotted my gear and quickly slipped all my stuff back on. I slung the customized AK47 on my back and unholstered my Mossberg 500 tactical. I couldn't find Shining Armor's things so I figured I'd grab some extra magazines for the AK47 then just give him that.
I followed the echoes of the screams and found a cell room at the end of a hallway. "Where are your pony friends now" laughed a maniacal voice. I leveled the shotgun at my hip and booted down the door. Two zebras had beaten Shining severally, his face was battered and bruised.
"Right here" I quoted then blasted a round of buckshot into one of the zebras. I racked the pump then quickly blasted the other zebra. His body flew back and slammed against the wall of the cell. His blood smeared against the wall as his body slumped over with a large hole through his chest.
"I'm back" I quoted then rushed over to Shining Armor's body. "Cl... Clare... what the fuck... you aren't dead?" Shining moaned in pain. "Come on captain, if I was sure I was going to die I would've put up more of a fight then some quipy one liners and quotes" I laughed, the captain tried to laugh but was in too much pain.
I heaved his body over my shoulders, I'd have to post pone my battle with The Apache until another day. Right now I was gonna have to get Shining Armor to the firebase to get him evaced to a field hospital.
I held the shotgun in one hand as I raced along the tunnel system, not exactly sure how to get out. "Clare... Clare if I don't make it... tell Cadence that... I...I" he began but I set him down and pulled out my water canteen. "Captain, now don't you go talking like that. I didn't escape sure death just to have you die on me" I told him. "Hey Clare... you know... I laughed when you broke my nose" Shining chuckled painfully as a tear came to his eye.
I made him drink some water, it was warm but it was better than nothing. They had cut him up pretty bad but he should make it if I hurried and got us out of here. I placed Shining Armor on my shoulders and began to run towards where I hopped the exit was. Along my way I found a radio relay station.
I rushed up and quickly grabbed a radio set then dialed in to Firebase Bravo. "Bravo two six this is Clare go" I said and soon the voice of Lickety Split returned my call. "Hey Sarge, was wondering when" he began but I cut him off. "Listen, Lickety there's no time, get me an evac chopper at... Bravo Charlie 9-2-4-2-5-1, out" I ordered then quickly began to race for the exit. I could finally see the end of the tunnel.
As I raced out the front of the tunnel my eyes took a second to adjust to the darkness of the night. There was several zebras standing guard that hadn't noticed me. I unslung the AK47 and held it in one hand from hip level. I squeezed the trigger and the gun rattled as it chattered out full metal jacket rounds.
The zebras screamed as they were cut down. I looked around throughout the valley. I didn't have much use for the AK47 just dangling around my back so I dropped it then ran towards where I had ordered Lickety to get me an evac chopper.
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Third person, Everfree forest:
"Alright stallions, mount up. Clare is in a tight situation and we're getting him out. We've called in an extraction chopper but we're gonna need a clear LZ before the chopper lands. Let's move out double time" Daffodil ordered and the elite shadow guards quickly embarked into military Jeeps.
They all raced off down the dirt path in the Jeeps and finally reached the LZ. They shut off the Jeeps then grouped up. "All right, Bakers Presell: I want you covering the north with the PIG. Jackson, Hammerhead: cover the rear. Every-pony else find some cover and hunker down. Remember the Sarge is out there so don't shoot at the first thing that moves" Daffodil ordered and the platoon did exactly as they were told.
The group waited and the sound of helicopter rotors echoed through the valley. Elsewhere in the valley The Apache heard the helicopter rotors. She called out to her fellow zebras in native tongue then looked to see where the helicopter was.
Sergeant Major Clare raced as fast as he could with the now unconscious Shining Armor on his shoulders. "Hey Sarge" yelled one of his platoon members. Clare looked over to see Hart waving. He raced over to Hart then looked to see the helicopter landing. "Give me a sec" he told his friend then rushed over and placed Shining Armor in the helicopter.
Shining Armor came around but just barely. Tears rolled down Clare's face as he held Shining Armor by the shoulders. "Hey Sarge... did we make it?" Shining asked weakly. Clare nodded as his tears dripped down onto Shining's chest. He had almost lost a good friend. Not in an act of love but in an act of friendship Clare leaned down to Shining Armor and gave him a sloppy wet kiss on the cheek.
"Fag" Shining Armor chuckled but suddenly the moment was disrupted as all hell broke loose. Gunfire erupted everywhere at once. "Get him outta here" Clare yelled and the pilot nodded then began to take the helicopter into the air.
Clare rushed up to the others and unslung his Model 70 and began to pick off zebras. He had a huge advantage because of the night vision scope. A few hundred yards away lay The Apache as she zeroed in on the platoon.
Daffodil stood up, "Alright Every-pony fall back to the Jeeps and" he began but suddenly his head cocked back and he fell to the ground. Blood covered his face. "LT... LT, shit. Lickety get the chopper on the horn" Clare ordered and Split quickly dialed in the helicopter pilot.
"Hey get back down here, we got another wounded" Clare said into the radio. "Uh that's a negative two six, you got a hot LZ cooking. Over" said the helicopter pilot. "Goddammit get your ass back down here or I'll shoot you down myself" Clare threatened then a pony threw down a line of ropes with harnesses on the end.
"Great I love harness extraction" Clare muttered to himself as he picked up Daff and put him into one of the harnesses. "Every-pony fall back to the Jeeps and get back to the firebase" Clare yelled, the others nodded and began to lay down suppressing fire as others fell back in a leap frog technique.
As Clare turned to give fire support he saw Daff's body slump. If someone didn't hold him his body might fall out of the harness. Clare quickly harnessed himself in then gave a thumbs up to the pony in the helicopter. The chopper began to depart towards a field hospital. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 34: His marefriend | SGM. Clare, Field hospital:
The helicopter landed and I put both Daffodil's and Shining's bodies on my shoulders then rushed into the hospital.
There were doctors and nurses waiting. I placed Shining down on a stretcher and the nurse looked at him quickly. "This stallion has received blunt trauma, get him to an ER now" the nurse ordered and the other doctors nodded and wheeled away Shining. I placed Daffodil down on another stretcher and the nurse began to check his body for gunshot wounds.
After not finding any body wounds she looked as his head but as she turned his face towards her she screamed as she realized who he was. "Oh my goddess Daff" she cried, "Hey listen, he's gonna be okay... Doc get him to an emergency room" I ordered and the doctors nodded then rushed away his stretcher.
The nurse had a silky light orange mane that smelled like oranges, no pun intended. The nurse pressed her face into my combat jacket and began to cry. "Hey come on. Let's go see how he is" I told her and we followed the stretcher into an emergency room.
A doctor began to wash the blood of his head as the nurse and I stood close by to see if he would be okay. The doctor mumbled to himself as he inspected the wound on Daff's forehead.
"Doc... will he be okay?" I asked and the doctor nodded. "Yeah... he's just unconscious and we're going to bring him out of unconsciousness... now" the doctor said as he dabbed a wet cloth around Daffodil's forehead.
Daffodil suddenly became conscious again and was breathing heavily. Daff looked to me and I smiled then looked to the nurse. "Posey? Posey... what happened I..." Daffodil began but trailed off as he tried to recall the events prior to this.
"Well lieutenant... the bullet just grazed your skull, that was a million dollar shot right there" the doctor said and Daffodil sighed in relief. "Hey Lt, don't believe a word he says, you won't see a penny of that money" I joked. The nurse quickly rushed away as tears came to her eyes. "What's her deal?" I asked and the doctor looked to me.
"Well being a nurse is quite stressful. She sees ponies die every day. You wouldn't understand" the doctor told us, Daffodil and I exchanged looks then began to laugh. "It isn't funny!" the doctor yelled and we both looked to him with raised eyebrows. "Oh... right sorry, I forgot. Oh and sergeant major? I'd suggest getting that leg wrapped up. You're leaking blood onto the freshly mopped floors" the doctor informed me and I looked down to my legs, near the bottom part of my leg my pants were torn and blood was dripping out.
I nodded then walked out, in all the excitement I must've not felt the bullet. But I felt it now, it burned painfully and it hurt to walk. I flagged a zebra nurse, most stallions hated zebras because of the war but I knew there were a few good ones.
"May I help you?" she asked in a very charismatic voice. "Yeah, I know it's not much but can you uhm, dress my leg wound. I've been shot" I asked politely and she nodded then brought me into another room.
She sat me up and extended my leg on a leg rest. She pulled up my pant leg and inspected the wound. "How could you walk, this is bad" she said as she began to clean out the bullet wound. "The adrenaline must've gotten to me. The bullet probably went right through. Didn't hurt none, until now" I informed her.
She finished cleaning my leg and began applying the bandage wrap. She winced in disgust from the smell of my boots. "Oh yeah... sorry I sweat a lot" I apologized. She nodded and held her nose as she finished the bandages then handed me two crutches. "You need to stay off that leg for a while sergeant major. Use these" she said in a cute zebra accent.
"So uhm... will you be the one to change my bandages?" I asked curiously, she smiled as she continued to hold her nose. "Yeah... but only after you take shower" she laughed then trotted out of the room. I hopped my way out of the room with my crutches then proceeded to the recovery rooms where I was hoping Daffodil would be.
I entered the room to see many other ponies, some missing limbs. Others missing entire lower half's of their bodies. I spotted Daffodil who had bandage wrap around his head.
I walked over to him and we began to converse about old times but no sooner had we started talking, a stallion and a zebra walked into the room towards us. "Sergeant Major Clare?" asked the stallion. I gave him a salute "Colonel" I replied and lowered my salute as he extended his hoof.
I shook his hoof. "Well sergeant major, I'm Colonel Ross and this is Major Tung. Your friend Shining Armor isn't in the greatest condition to talk and we need the coordinates to The Apache's mountain hideout" Ross informed me.
I scratched the back of my head and thought to myself. "Uhm... well... I'd uhm have to think about it for a little while before I could remember" I replied and he nodded. "In the meantime, if you wouldn't mind to relinquish your firearms" he told me. I willingly handed him my M1911.
"And the revolver" he ordered but I shook my head. "Sorry sir... my revolver stays with me at all times" I replied and he scrunched his nose. "Sergeant major, only MPs are allowed weapons in the field hospitals" he informed me. I pointed to his and Tung's handguns that rode in hip holsters.
"We're officials, we are required to be armed at all times when in the confines of the Everfree" he informed me. I sighed then handed him my Smith and Wesson revolver. "Well sergeant, time is running so we need those coordinates as soon as possible" he told me. "Yah, Shining might be better at directions" I told him and he nodded then they both left.
I sat with Daffodil for a while and the nurse, whose name was Posey, came in to look at one of the patients who only had half his body. "What happened to Taylors?" I asked, the shadow guard had been part of our platoon and I didn't know what happened to him. "He stepped on a betty when on patrol. Blew off both his legs and the docs had to amputate" Daffodil informed me.
I could see Taylors crying and I walked over to him. "Hey Taylors... how yah doing?" I asked and he looked up to me. "Sarge... I ain't heard from her lately... I think she's forgotten about me" he said as tears rolled down his face.
I felt terrible for him, so many shadow guards and soldiers lost their marefriends during the war. "No, no. She's hasn't forgotten about you" I assured him. "Sarge... she ain't written to me in a month... I... I think she's forgotten" he said as he held up his hoof. I could tell he was close.
I held his hoof in both my hands. "No, Taylors. Come on man you know how slow the mail gets around" I reassured him. "No Sarge... she's forgotten about me... tell my mama I love... love h..." he trailed off and gasped as his life slipped away. I felt his hoof go limp in my hand.
I rested his hoof down on his chest and wiped some tears from my eyes. Taylors was a good kid, only 21 years old. He didn't deserve this, no-pony did. I wiped the remainder of the tears away from my eyes and looked over to see that the LT was gone, along with the nurse.
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LT Daffodil, field hospital:
"Hey Posey, sorry about everything that happened between us" I apologized. "Daff... it's not your fault, I never found another guy it's just..." she trailed off. "Hey... shh it's okay. What's wrong you can tell me" I said soothingly and she shook her head. "The baby Daff" she replied.
"Yeah what about it?" I asked and she wiped away some tears from her face. "Abortion" she said through sniffles. "What?" I asked not exactly sure what she was talking about. "An abortion Daff. I had an abortion" she told me.
"Wait... wait what? Posey... why?" I asked and she wiped some more tears from her eyes. "Daff, I couldn't raise our child thinking that her father could come home one day in a body bag" she cried. "Yeah, well didn't you think to tell me?" I asked and she looked to me with teary eyes. "It was my decision" she told me.
"Yeah well it was my baby too yah know" I said in a somewhat louder tone but she got up and rushed off, crying to herself. I felt bad for my outburst but I had wanted to be a father so badly.
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The next morning,
SGM. Clare:
I walked out into the open field out front of the field hospital where Daffodil sat in a helicopter. Several helicopters came and went, dropping off wounded soldiers. "Hey LT, you look like you caught yourself a case of the blue's. What's going on?" I asked and he exhaled through his nose. "Well you got that right sergeant major" he said. "Oh?" I asked and he nodded.
"Yeah something just happened, didn't happen directly to me but it felt like it did" he said. "Well you want to talk about it?" I asked and he sighed as he lit a cigarette. "Something to do with your nurse?" I asked and he looked away. "Aw come on LT, lay it on me, you can talk to me" I said and he looked back to me with a depressed look.
"Yeah... Posey was pregnant, with my kid" he said and I looked to him. "She didn't keep it?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah she didn't keep it" he said depressingly. I looked around as I thought about to say. "Well, how's she feel about it. I mean did you guys talk about it much?" I asked and he shook his head. "She's done all the talking. And all the decision making and right now she's not happy about it. About who I am or what I am. I'm a dirty smelly... grunt" he said with a smirk.
I felt bad for him. "You know LT, I hear what you're saying and I feel what you're going through. And I envy you" I lied and he looked to me. "What?" he asked unsurely. "Well look at it from my point of view, at least you got some-pony mad at you. I got ponies all around me but I'm still alone all the time" I lied, I didn't really feel like telling him about my secret relationship with Luna. "You've got some-pony special" I assured him. He looked up to me "Yeah but I'm feeling pretty lonely right about now though" he said and I nodded.
He chuckled and smiled. "I guess you're right Sarge" he said acceptingly. I tapped him with my left crutch. "Come on, well go see what the mess hall has for coffee here" I said and we both walked back into the field hospital.
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Third person, field hospital:
Major Tung followed Colonel Ross as he argued with a doctor. "Goddess dammit I need to talk to that stallion" Ross argued but the doctor shook his head. "He is in a critical state right now and you can't just go demanding things from him" the doctor argued back.
"You don't understand. Ponies will die unless we get the information we need from him" Ross yelled. "And if you try to get the information from him he could die" the doctor said in a stern voice. Ross scoffed then turned and left while the doctor went his own way.
Tung stayed in the hall and waited for both men to leave around the corners then walked to Shining Armor's recovery room. The MPs at the door gave him a salute and he returned it. He opened the door then locked it behind him as he entered Shining's recovery room. Shining lay in the medical bed resting peacefully. Tung pulled out a line of small rope and walked over to his side.
He unplugged the monitor so that the flat line wouldn't alarm the nurses or doctors. "Captain. We cannot allow you to reveal our base location. You are a strong stallion but our will is stronger. Now be at peace" Tung said and wrapped the thin rope around Shining's throat and began to strangle him to death. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 35: Unexpected visitors | Third person, field hospital:
Sergeant Major Clare and First Lieutenant Daffodil sat at a mess hall table and sipped coffee.
Behind them approached a finely dressed light pink mare. "Excuse me? Could you help me? I'm looking for some-pony special" said the beautiful voice of the mare. Daffodil looked to Clare with a raised eyebrow and immediately spun around but both their jaws dropped as they realized who it was.
"PRINCESS CADENCE!" they both exclaimed. "Well yes. I'm here to see my husband. News reached me of his condition and I wish to see him" she informed them. "Sorry ma'am. No-pony is allowed to see Captain until he" Daffodil began but Clare interrupted him. "Aw come on now LT. This is her husband we're talking about. I think this fine young mare here has the right to see her husband" Clare said and she blushed.
Daffodil thought about it for a moment then nodded. "Alright fine. But it was your idea Sarge" he said. Clare looked over to Cadence and winked. "I'm a real go getter huh? Oh but I really don't think you should be here if you're this pregnant" he said and she shook her hoof. "Don't worry, I'm not due for another two weeks" she replied as they began to walk towards Shining Armor's recovery room.
Elsewhere in the hospital trotted Posey with Shining's rations for the day, mostly water and applesauce. She walked up to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. 'Figures' she thought to herself as she brought out her set of keys and unlocked the door.
She didn't look around and immediately closed the door behind her as she entered the room. She saw Tung looming over Shining's body. "HEY, what are you doing in here? You can't be" Posey began but Tung swung around and back hoofed her.
"Shut up bitch" Tung hissed then turned back to finish off Shining. "Some-pony help!" Posey screamed and immediately the recovery room door swung open and one of the MPs stationed at the door rushed in. He had come unprepared and hadn't drawn his pistol.
Tung quickly drew his own M1911 and fired a .45 caliber round right through the pony's chest. The MP screamed as he fell back. Tung quickly rushed over and grabbed Posey by her long flowing hair and dragged her back into the room as she tried to escape.
Ponies ran in the hallways and Colonel Ross along with another MP raced down the hallways towards the recovery room.
Tung backed into a deeper part of the recovery room with Posey held hostage. Two MPs grabbed Shining's body and heaved him away to another emergency room. An MP stood guard to make sure Tung didn't escape.
"Get back... get back or I kill her" Tung threatened in a deep zebra accent. Colonel Ross entered the room and stood by the MP. "Sir he's got a hostage" the MP reported. "Who is the culprit?" Colonel Ross asked. "It's Major Tung sir" he replied.
Ross' face went pale and he moved the MP aside and edged closer to the corner of the wall. "Tung? Tung? But you're on our side" Ross replied, shocked at his colleague's sudden change of sides.
"Tung... I know you hate ponies... but you hate communists more" Ross told his friend. Tung laughed "You're a trusting man Colonel, but not a very smart one. If you had spent more time with your colleague than you would've seen through my disguise" Tung laughed.
"Come on Tung... we've been together on the force for what? Fifteen years?" Ross asked and Tung laughed again. "Even when the picture is put right in front of your face you still can't see it" Tung laughed again. "What picture? Tung what the hell are you talking about?" Ross asked as he quickly glanced around the corner.
"Fine Colonel. This form is useless to me anyway" Tung laughed. Suddenly there was a bright flash of green energy and Ross' eyes widened as he gazed upon the one and only, Queen Chrysalis.
"So... guess that means that zebras and changelings are in cahoots" Ross replied as he holstered his gun. "I'm gonna enter, don't harm the mare" Ross said as he valiantly stepped forward. "Stay back Colonel" Chrysalis hissed but Ross didn't heed her warning. As soon as he entered the room she pointed the .45 pistol at him and shot a round through his stomach.
He fell to the ground, groping in pain. Chrysalis stepped out of the recovery room and into the hallway where three MPs crouched with pistols drawn. "Get back. Get back or I'll shoot her" Chrysalis threatened as she pointed the M1911's barrel at Posey's head.
Two of the MPs rushed away but the third stood in a final stand to try and stop the changeling queen. "I said get back" Chrysalis screamed but the MP still crouched in his exact spot and refused to move.
Chrysalis quickly snapped her aim to the pony and shot him in the head. His body fell back and his helmet rolled away down the hallway.
Clare, Daffodil and Cadence had just entered a hallway near the shooting and Clare stopped a fleeing MP. "What the hell's going on?" he asked. "The changeling queen is here. She's got a hostage" the MP informed him. "Hey listen, I'm a shadow guard. Get me to the armoury" Clare told the MP and he nodded then quickly led the trio to the back armoury of the field hospital.
Back in the hallway Chrysalis struggled to pull Posey along. "Where is Shining Armor?" Chrysalis demanded. "I don't know" Posey replied. "You are a nurse! You'll know, NOW WHERE IS HE!" Chrysalis screamed. "I told you I don't know" Posey screamed back.
In the armoury was a rack of guns but a chain link went through all the trigger guards. "Fuck. Keys" Clare ordered and the MP shrugged. "I wasn't issued keys" The MP replied. Clare rolled his eyes in frustration then looked over to an emergency fire axe and grabbed it. He used the pickaxe side of the axe to pry off the bolt pad attaching the chain to the cabinet. The chain busted free and Clare pulled the chain through the trigger guards of all the weapons.
He grabbed: two M1911s along with a magazine for each, his Smith and Wesson 500 magnum and an M1897 12 gauge with trench modifications. He quickly slide six rounds into shotgun and put some extra shells in his hospital gown pocket. He looked to Daffodil who loaded a Browning 9mm high power pistol.
The MP had diddied off but Clare couldn't blame him, things were about to heat up. He nodded to Daffodil and the two began to rush back to where Chrysalis was walking down the hallways with Posey as her hostage. Cadence was following them and Clare stopped then turned to her.
"Listen ma'am, I have the greatest respect for you and your husband. But I don't want you coming with us. You could get hurt and Shining would never forgive me" Clare told her but she shook her head. "I'd be safer with you. Where else would I go? Most of the rooms have been locked" Cadence replied and Clare swore as he realized that she was right.
"Alright... just stay close to me and do exactly as I say" Clare ordered and she nodded then the trio rushed down the hallways towards Chrysalis.
"Where is Captain Shining Armor? Where is he?" Chrysalis demanded but Posey was defiant to tell her. "I don't know" she replied. "Bullshit, you lie!" Chrysalis screamed. In her frustration Chrysalis didn't see Clare slide behind the cover of a large supply crate behind her.
"I swear I don't know" Posey said through tears, Chrysalis had been pulling really hard on her mane. Cadence began to dash from the safety of the walls to the supply crate. "No-no don't" Clare began but Chrysalis heard Clare and spun. She snarled as she saw Cadence, the one who had ensured he defeat at Canterlot. And she was pregnant, with Shining Armor's child no doubt.
She quickly directed her aim to Cadence and shot her in the belly. Clare's eyes went wide and time seemed to travel in slow motion as Clare watched Cadence fall to the ground. Blood spurted out of her bullet wound in her belly.
Posey elbowed Chrysalis in the gut and lept to the floor. Clare snarled as his primitive and primal side took over. He stood up from cover and held the trigger back on the M1897. The thunder of the shotgun echoed throughout the hallways of the hospital. Due to M1897s not having a trigger disconnecter Clare was able to hold back the trigger and simply continued to pump. Each time he racked the pump the gun would fire again in a slam fire. Chunks of drywall were blown away from the hospital walls by Chrysalis' body and she quickly ducked and rushed away.
Clare quickly reloaded the shotgun and looked to Cadence. By god if the foal was dead than he'd rip out Chrysalis' throat himself. He looked up to Daffodil. "Daff, chase her down. I'll get Cadence to an ER room" Clare said then picked up Cadence in his arms and rushed off.
Daffodil got up and began to chase after Chrysalis. As he rounded a corner Chrysalis shot three rounds towards Daffodil and he lept then rolled behind a counter. Chrysalis took cover behind the wall as Daffodil lept up and fired two consecutive rounds, each 9mm round blowing a hole in the drywall.
He ducked down again as Chrysalis swiveled from behind cover and fired two more .45 caliber rounds which chipped away at the counter he hid behind. Daffodil lept up and fired three rounds at Chrysalis who once again hid behind the wall. The trio of bullets put holes in the wall but failed to strike Chrysalis.
Chrysalis turned and ran down the hallways, Daffodil heard her hoof steps and immediately lept up and began to give chase.
Elsewhere in the hospital Clare banged on an ER door that was locked. "Open up, I've got wounded" Clare yelled but no-pony would answer. He looked to the wounded Cadence and gritted his teeth in anger. "Don't you let the foal be dead... God if you're listening to me... please... please don't let the foal be dead" Clare cried. "OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR" Clare yelled as he banged on the door but still no-pony answered.
"FUCK YOU" Clare yelled then stepped back, with Cadence still in his arms, and kicked down the locked ER door. Ponies inside screamed as Clare entered. He did look scary, due to the fact that he held a bleeding pony in his arms and had blood all over him.
"Doc... help her" Clare said frantically. The doctor just looked at him with fear in his eyes. "Get over here right fucking now" Clare cried. The doctor was still hesitant to move. Clare held Cadence in one arm and unholstered his Smith and Wesson 500 magnum and pointed it at the doctors head. "I SAID RIGHT FUCKING NOW!" Clare yelled frantically. His breathing was so erratic and he was so afraid for the unborn foal's well-being that tears poured from his face.
He set Cadence down on a medical bed. The doctor very slowly and cautiously stepped beside Clare and began to inspect Cadence's condition. There was gunshots close by. The doctor cringed and ducked behind the medical bed.
Clare grabbed him and held him up by the collar of his doctor's uniform. "I swear to god doc... please just save the foal... please" Clare sobbed and the doctor nodded. The gunshots grew ever closer than stopped. Clare feared the worst and couldn't just let Chrysalis escape.
He pulled out one of the M1911s from his waist and gave it to the doc. "Don't let her be harmed" Clare said than rushed out of the ER and into the hallways in search of Chrysalis.
"What's wrong? Coward?" Chrysalis taunted. Daffodil crouched behind some cover, his pistol had run out of ammunition and he was pinned down by Chrysalis. Clare entered a hallway and he saw Daffodil hiding behind the counter and quickly slid up beside him. "Hey LT... yah did good. I'll take it from here" Clare said and Daffodil nodded. Sweat was pouring down his face.
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SGM. Clare:
"Lieutenant... I'm waiting" Chrysalis sneered. "Then you'll be disappointed" I said in a deep crazed voice. "What... who" Chrysalis began as I stood up and began to slam fire the M1897. Buckshot blew away chunks of drywall, I quickly redirected my aim towards her as she tried to retreat further into the hospital.
A few pellets of buckshot caught her flank and blasted her. She screamed in agonizing pain as she was flung up against the wall but managed to get up and quickly limp away. I checked the shotgun, it was empty. I cursed to myself for not bringing more ammo and dropped the shotgun to the floor.
I unholstered the M1911 from my waist and quickly began to follow the trail of blood, which was green.
I edged up to a wall corner and peeked around the corner. I was breathing heavily and sweat rolled down my face. I wasn't used to close quarters fighting but I did have experience.
I couldn't see Chrysalis in the hallway. I spotted a monitor system and quickly rushed behind it. I was still breathing quite heavily as I hid behind the mobile monitor system. I peeked around the monitor and looked down the hallway. I could see the trail of blood go around a corner but I wasn't sure if she was waiting by the corner of the wall.
I took a gamble and quickly began to sneak down the hallway. I tried to soften the sound of my footsteps but it was difficult due to my heavy boots. Every step sounded like a crack of thunder, I could have sworn she would hear me walking.
I quickly edged up to the wall, if she was on the other side she would most definitely hear my heavy breathing. I quickly spun off the wall, rolled sideways and into a marksman crouch. I pointed the M1911 down the hallway but I couldn't see her. My hands were shaking and my finger trembled by the trigger of the pistol.
I'd been in combat situations far worse than this but close quarters always made my nerves run high. I quickly stalked after her trail as I tried to control my breathing a little better.
The trail led me to the morgue. I wondered if it was coincidence or some sort of message she was trying to send me. I opened the door very quietly and peeked inside the room. I couldn't see her hideous body so I slowly crept into the room and hid behind a gurney stretcher.
I was still breathing heavily but I finally relaxed as I saw that her blood trail led out a door on the other side of the room. The hairs on the back of my neck prickled up and I ducked just as the ear piercing BANG of her pistol went off. A .45 caliber round slammed into the dead patient that was on the stretcher.
I quickly spun around and fired two consecutive rounds at her. She ducked behind her wall and the bullets chipped away at the wall. She peeked back out and fired another shot at me that ricocheted off the floor tiles.
I lept up and fired two more rounds at her, that struck the wall and the door behind her. She peeked out and fired another single round at me, I ducked just as she peeked out and the bullet missed me by mere inches.
I popped up and fired a trio of .45 caliber bullets at her just as she fled through the swinging doors. The bullets blew holes through the doors but missed her body completely. I wondered if the bullets are just traveling through all the holes already in her body.
I quickly lept up and chased after her. As I neared the doors I kicked them open and lept to the other side of the hallway, behind a crate of medical supplies. Several gunshots went off and blew away chunks of the floor tiles and chipped at the crate that I hid behind I hid behind.
I held the M1911 close to my face and got ready to fire at her when I realized the slide was cocked back. I checked the receiver only to realize that I was out of ammo. "Fuck" I scowled to myself as I tossed the pistol away. I cursed myself for not bringing more ammo.
I unholstered the behemoth S&W 500 magnum and held it close to me. My fingers trembled as I readied myself to fight her again. I peeked out the side of the crate with the massive magnum in front of me.
She had fled to another hallway and once again I was alone. I quickly began to scurry down the hallway then leaned up against the corner of the wall and gave a quick glance around the edge of the wall.
She had fled into yet another room that was an office. I quickly crept along and pressed my body up against the wall beside the door. It was as if I could feel her presence just on the other side of the wall, she was waiting for me to walk through the door so she could put a bullet in my head.
"Hey cheese-legs, I'm coming in after you" I said bluntly. "WHAT DID YOU SAY!" Chrysalis screamed from the other side of the wall. "Hey cheese-legs I'm" I began but she cut me off. "I heard what you said the first time!" she screeched. "Well if you heard what I said than why'd you ask?" I asked her.
"Fuck you, that's why" she hissed. I chuckled from her insult. "Hey cheese legs, let me guess, the entire communist army is changelings" I guessed. "STOP CALLING ME THAT!" she screamed. "Alright Chrysie" I said, cutting down her real name into a short formed nickname.
She giggled. "So now you laugh" I chuckled. "Yes, that is what one of my former lovers called me" she said through a stifled giggle "You know perhaps we could be lovers together. We could even get married". I gagged at the thought having sex with her which resulted in more giggles.
"So Chrysie... tell me, how many of the zebras are changelings?" I asked. "Well since you've been so polite I'll be dead serious with you. None" she informed me. "None? Seriously? So if none of the zebras are changelings than why'd you join?" I asked and she let out a hysterical laugh. "They offered me money to kill you and Shining Armor" she informed me. It made sense, sort of.
"Why? Didn't they want to keep all the money for themselves?" I asked. "Yes they needed the money. But after you escaped they needed to cover their tracks. You and Shining are the only ones who know where their secret base is" she informed me. That would explain why Ross was so antsy to get the information from me.
"How much are they paying you?" I asked. "50,000" she informed me. I wanted to kill her so badly for what she did to Cadence but I knew that she'd be a powerful ally. "I'll double it if you help me kill The Apache" I offered. She laughed at my offer. "Hey that's a lot of money you know" I told her and she snickered.
"When I found out I got to kill Shining Armor... I offered to do it for free" she informed me. I cursed to myself. "Hey didn't you used to like him?" I asked.
"No, he was simply some-pony to feed off of. But now that he's seen through me, I have no use for him. And the fact that he was part of my undoing has fueled my hate for him" she told me. "You know... if the foal is dead... I'm gonna rip out your fucking throat and hang you with it" I snarled but she simply laughed at my threat.
"Well than you better come in here and rip out my throat because I specifically aimed for her womb" she laughed. My inner rage went out of control as I snarled. I spun off the wall, pointing the S&W 500 magnum at the drywall that separated our two bodies and let out a terrifying roar.
I triggered the massive revolver three times. Each time the revolver was triggered it let out a thunderous roar and blew a large hole in the wall. The revolver's recoil was massive but I had become accustomed to it.
I heard Chrysalis let out an agonizing scream and heard her whimper off. I went to open the door to the office but as I went to enter several .45 rounds slammed into the door. The gunshots forced me to take cover once again.
I only had two shots left and I had to make them count. Daffodil scurried up beside me. "Hey Sarge... come on man let's get serious" he said as he pulled out an M67 frag grenade. He leaned over my body, opened the door slightly and tossed the fragmentation grenade into the office. We both scurried to the other side of the hallway and covered our ears as the grenade erupted. The explosion blew out chunks of the drywall and devastated the inside of the office.
I tapped Daffodil on the shoulder. "Thanks" I whispered then quickly entered the room. The office was devastated and I doubted that Chrysalis would be alive. She staggered up from behind an overturned desk and lifted her M1911 at me. Blood trailed down her face and body from shrapnel wounds. I spoke to soon.
I quickly snapped up my behemoth revolver and let off two shots, one after the other. The first round blew a hole through her chest and slammed her against the wall. The second round blew off part of her ugly face. I had a blunt face that was hiding my rage but then I smirked as I remembered her saying we could get married. "Consider that a divorce". |
Love and Honour | Chapter 36: Answered prayers | SGM. Clare:
I stood there, the barrel of the mighty revolver expelled smoke and Chrysalis lay slumped on the floor. I let out a deep exhale and lowered the revolver. Daffodil entered the office and stood beside me.
"She's dead... it's over... it's finally over" Daffodil muttered. I holstered the revolver, "No... it'll never be over" I said as I walked out of the room and started to walk towards the ER where I had left Cadence. MPs swarmed the hallways in search of Chrysalis. I directed them to office where Chrysalis' body still lay.
Daffodil had stayed behind to tell the others what had happened but I had a certain mare to check on. And her husband to, if they'd let me see him. I walked up to the ER doors and entered but the doctor was gone and so was Cadence.
I looked to a nurse that hid in the room. "Where'd they go?" I asked. "Another ER, across the hospital, she was in critical condition" the nurse informed me.
I rushed across the hospital and eventually found the other ER. Ponies had begun to walk freely through the halls again. I entered the ER room where Cadence rested in bed, she had medical bandages around her belly.
I rushed to here side. "Cadence... please Cadence can you hear me?" I asked and she nodded weakly. Tears came to my eyes as I gazed upon her weak body and quickly knelt beside her. I held her hoof in my hand and held it close to my face. "Please god... please god let the foal be okay" I prayed.
Cadence hushed me and gently laid her other hoof on my head and gave it a soothing rub. "Shh, hush now... everything's okay" she whispered. "Cadence... I'm so sorry... I shouldn't have brought you with us" I sobbed, knowing that the foal had probably been shot and was dead.
"No... I should be sorry. I encouraged you to take me along" she whispered. I stood up and gave her a gentle hug and cried into her neck. "This shouldn't happen... it shouldn't... too many ponies have died" I sobbed, crying into her fur. "Shh... quiet now. Everything will be okay" she cooed.
"Sergeant major, can I speak to you please?" asked a doctor from behind me. I pulled away from Cadence and wiped the tears from my eyes. I followed him out to the hallway. "Doc how is she?" I asked. "She'll be fine... it's the foal I wanted to talk about" he said and began to tell me what happened to the foal.
* * *
First Lieutenant Daffodil:
I entered the hallway with Posey, we had gotten together right after the whole ordeal and she had offered to show me where Cadence was. I saw Clare talking to a doctor then Clare held his head and fell to his knees, crying. He was crying!
I rushed up to his side and knelt down. "Sarge... sergeant!" I exclaimed. He just sat there and cried. "Sarge... I'm sorry. It'll be okay" I told him soothingly. "Yeah... yeah it will" he said through some sniffles. The comment took me back
"Wait... what?" I asked curiously, I had seen Cadence get shot in the belly so wasn't he crying because the foal was dead?
"The bullet missed" he informed me. "What? How?" I asked, shocked that somehow the bullet had missed. The shot had been perfectly placed right at her womb. There was no way it could've missed.
"Fate must've planned otherwise. After the bullet entered it must've tumbled. The bullet curved perfectly and missed the womb completely" the doctor informed me. I let out a deep exhale.
* * *
SGM. Clare:
"Sergeant, it would seem that you saved lives today. If Cadence was brought in any later she might've lost too much blood and the foal would've been forced out. And you managed to stop Chrysalis" the doctor informed me. "Shining Armor?" I asked. "He'll be fine, if Posey here hadn't shown up when she did I fear he may not have made it" he said and I nodded.
He gave us a salute then left to do a check on other patients in the hospital. "Well Sarge... I'm taking a vacation with Posey. We're going to Fillydelphia" Daffodil told me. "Getting together?" I asked and they both blushed. "Go on Sarge, we want to be alone" Daff ordered me. "Hey I'm going, I'm going" I said as I hopped away on the crutches.
They walked away and I hopped into the ER recovery and sat beside Cadence as she rested. "Thank you god... thank you" I said as I watched Cadence rest. I looked to my watch. It was 5 in the afternoon. I let out a sigh as I lay my head down on the medical bed.
* * *
13 months ago,
Sgt. Clare, Sudan Africa:
We sat in our ambush positions and waited for the convoy to come through. "I still can't believe you bought those" muttered Captain Daniels. I nodded as I held a dream catcher. "They're cool huh?" I replied and he shook his head from my pure immaturity.
"Sir, convoy inbound" reported one of our team members. "Roger copy that, convoy inbound" Daniels replied then looked down the sights of his C7 carbine. "Things are about to heat up" I whispered and he nodded.
Suddenly a rifle shot went off. "Who's firing, cease fire goddammit" Daniels yelled over the head set. "It's Julio sir he..." the headset trailed off. "Victor? VICTOR!" Daniels yelled then all hell broke loose.
Explosions ripped through the streets and the chattering of automatic fire drowned out the screams of civilians as they ran for cover. "Fuck!" I swore then leveled my assault rifle. I saw an African male run into the streets with and AK47 and he motioned for some of his buddies to follow him.
I waited for his friends to follow him then I fired a grenade round at them. The 40mm grenade shell erupted and violently blew them to pieces. Suddenly an RPG round fizzed through the air and struck our building.
The floor crumbled below our feet and we fell to the ground floor. My vision blurred as I staggered to my feet. I looked over to Daniels and rushed over to him.
"Peacekeeping my ass... this shit is downright fucked up" I yelled to Captain Daniels as I helped him to his feet.
Another RPG round struck the building and debris fell from the roof of the building we had taken cover in. "Shit... Private Sharps, can you hit that bastard with the RPG?" Daniels yelled over the sound of automatic gunfire.
Suddenly it was like my entire world shook. My mind blurred and I returned to reality.
* * *
Present day,
SGM. Clare, field hospital:
"Uhh... huh?" I mumbled tiredly. "Sergeant major... sergeant major" said a voice as the pony shook my body. I looked up to see Colonel Ross standing above me.
I quickly stood up and gave him a salute. "At ease. Sergeant major I need to ask how you're feeling?" he asked. "Fine sir" I replied, Cadence was awake. I guess Ross had woke her. "How long have I been asleep?" I asked. "All night" they said and I looked to my watch, 5:45am. I nodded, I had a kink in my neck but it would soon pass.
"Sergeant major, Firebase Bravo has lost its CO and Daffodil is on vacation. They need someone to lead them" he informed me. I knew that Bravo was where my squad was stationed. "Isn't it a little awkward for an NCO to command a firebase?" I asked and he nodded. "Indeed, that is why we got you a new platoon sergeant to assist you until we get a new CO. His name is Gunnery Sergeant Aussie" he said and I realized there was another pony at the door dressed in combat fatigues with a slouch hat. It had the left brim pinned up.
He stepped forwards and extended his hoof. "My name is Aussie, nice to meet yah Sarge" he said and I shook his hoof. "How long until you get a replacement?" I asked and Ross shrugged. "A few days, Daffodil will return from his vacation and he'll resume leadership as the firebase CO" he informed me.
I nodded then looked to Cadence. "Hey... uhm tell Shining I said hi" I said and she nodded. I got up and winced a little as we walked out. My leg still hurt but it wasn't bad.
"So sergeant major, I hear you were once a Canadian soldier" Aussie said and I nodded. "What happened?" he asked and I shrugged. "Got reenlisted as a shadow guard" I informed him as we walked out to the helipad where a Huey helicopter waited for us.
We embarked on the helicopter and it took off into the air. "Ross... The Apache is still out there. She's gonna continue to kill until she's stopped" I said over the sound of the rotors. "I know. Don't worry though. Aussie here is a professional marksman" Ross informed me and I looked to Aussie. "Any jungle experience?" I asked but he shook his head. "I've got experience in the outback though... I use this little thing" he said and for the first time I realized he had an Australian accent.
He unslung an M25 sniper rifle. "I call her White Feather" he said, the M25 sniper system had already been given the nickname White Feather but him naming it and engraving White Feather into the stock made me respect him a little more.
"How about you Sarge?" he asked. "I like the .300 Model 70 Winchester" I informed him and he chuckled. "A little overkill don't yah think? .300s can blow a pony in half" he told me and I nodded. "Over kill would be lugging around a light fifty" I said, referring to the Barrette M82 .50 caliber which was called the light fifty despite weighing just over thirty pounds. He chuckled "Okay now that's overkill, you could take down bloody elephants with one of those" he laughed and I nodded.
As the helicopter neared Firebase Charlie the helicopter pilot turned to us. "Welcome to hell boys" he said and I smirked. I knew that every firebase was hell and the morale was usually low on the bases.
As the helicopter landed, Aussie and I disembarked the helicopter. Ross stayed on it. "Good luck gentlecolts. You'll have
your first orders in the morning" he called to us as the helicopter began to depart. I still had my hospital gown on and only had an empty revolver. "I need to get refitted" I said and we began to walk towards the supply tent.
On the firebase radio speakers a song blared out that most stallions and mares had become used to hearing on firebases.
Some folks are born
Made to wave the flag
Ooh they're red white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh they point the cannon at you, lord
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, son... |
Love and Honour | Chapter 37: Base commander | SGM. Clare:
I changed into camouflage battle dress and fitted myself with a shoulder holster for my revolver. I nodded to Aussie and we both walked out of the supply tent.
"Well Aussie... I guess we should uhm. Well you know what? Go tell the stallions at the food tent to get some beers ready for tonight. Or whatever the hell they pawn off as liquor around here" I told him and he nodded then quickly trotted off.
I walked over to the armoury to get myself a new weapon, hopefully they'd have an M1928 Thompson but if not I'd probably get a shotgun. I walked in to see a stallion talking to the armoury receptionist.
"I need enough M16s and ammo for eight stallions and three belts for the M60" the soldier said. "The M16s I can do but we're short on M60 around here" the receptionist replied. "Aw come on man, we're going in deep. We're gonna need that PIG" the stallion pleaded.
"Alright, let me just deal with this guy then I'll see what I can do for yah" the receptionist said. I stepped forward, "I need an M1928 Thompson with drum magazines" I said and he raised an eyebrow. "Hell I haven't had a requisition for a Chicago Typewriter in... hell I can't remember. I think I still have a new one in the back just give me a sec" he said then trotted off into the back.
He soon returned with a crate and popped it open. "Here she is, take care of her" he said and I nodded as I took out the Thompson. It still had Cosmoline lathered on it. I slung it across my back and he handed me four drum magazines and ten stick magazines. "No-pony's gonna use em so go ahead, knock yourself out" he said.
The other stallion stepped forwards. "I still don't have that M60 ammo for yah so I wouldn't bother asking" the receptionist said. I looked to him. If they were going in deep they would need the PIG fully loaded for any chance of survival. "Hey, how much ammo you got left for the M60s anyway?" I asked. The receptionist sighed. "Ten belts" he said shamefully.
"What? Ten belts! That's it?" I asked and he nodded. "When's the next supply shipment?" I asked and he shrugged. "The last base commander said he was busy and he'd get to it as soon as possible" the receptionist told me. I took out my note pad and wrote 'M60 ammo, lots of it'.
The receptionist's nose scrunched. "Doesn't do any good reporting it to the base commander, he doesn't seem to give a shit about any of us" the receptionist said. "Well say hello to your new base commander" I said and he gulped. "Uhm... but you're just a sergeant major. How are you the base commander?" he asked and I shrugged. "Been asking myself the same question for the last hour" I replied then left the tent but as I did the stallion who had ordered the M60 ammo stopped me.
"Hey thanks man, I owe yah one eh" he said and I gave him a pat on the shoulder. "Yeah no problem" I replied as I walked back out and into the firebase. If things weren't going so well I better check on everything. I quickly paced along towards the radio broadcast tower.
Inside several ponies were on radios receiving and broadcasting messages. I walked over to the office of the building where a corporal sat. I knocked on the wall and the corporal looked up to me. "Listen, I'm busy so make it quick" he snapped, obviously he wasn't having a very good day. "I was just wondering if I could help you out in anyway?" I asked and he sighed.
"Well if you could talk to the base commander and get him to get off his ass and finally get us those radio parts we've been requesting for the last two months, things would be a lot easier around here" he said in an irritated tone. "Well considering that I'm your base commander, I'll get right to that" I said as I quickly wrote down 'Radio parts'. "Transmitter wires, we need new ones. The rats always chew them up" the corporal said and I nodded then began to leave.
I heard a radio crackle. "Bravo two one, this is Bravo two six over. We've got hostiles in the treeline, request fire support on coordinates Bravo Charlie 8-9-4-5-3-5-2 over" the radio crackled. "Copy, you'll get your fire support over" the radio pony said then looked to me. "Hey sergeant major. You mind taking these coordinates to the mortar teams, there on the ridge by the hill in the center of the yard" the radio pony said.
I nodded as he quickly wrote down the coordinates then handed me the slip of paper. I took the paper then quickly rushed outside and to the mortar team. Three ponies sat smoking cigarettes by a mortar launcher. "Here, they need immediate fire support" I said and gave one of the stallions the piece of paper.
"Oh shit" he said as he quickly knelt beside the mortar and dialed it in. They began to drop shells down the mortar launcher and it would project the shells towards wherever they coordinates had been set.
I quickly left the mortar crew and quickly paced over to the medical clinic, more like a large tent with flaps for doors. I entered the tent where I saw a doctor in a bloody gown as he applied pressure to a wound on a shot up mare. "Hey you! Get me the morphine" the doctor ordered and I quickly rushed into the tent and found the medical cabinet. I pulled out a syringe from a crate labelled 'Morphine' then rushed back to the doctor. The patient had begun to go into shock. "Stick it in her wrist vein" he ordered and I quickly did as I was told.
The mare began to feel the numbing effects of the morphine and settled down. "Alright apply pressure here" the doctor said and I held the gunshot wound on her belly. Blood stained my hands. The doctor pulled out some gauze and sterilizer bandages then began to dress her wound. "Hell sergeant major... you may have just saved her life" the doctor said as he exhaled.
"Listen I'm the new base commander and I was wondering if I could help you with anything?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah, the last base commander uhm... Wallace I think his name was. Said he'd get me some new medical supplies. Well it's been a month and a half and I still don't have any medical supplies. I need morphine and new sterilizer. Hell sometimes I've been using whiskey as disinfectant" he told me.
I took out my note pad and wrote 'Medical supplies' then looked up to him. "Anything else?" I asked but he shook his head. I nodded then gave him a wave as I left then proceeded to the motor pool where mechanics where underneath diesel flatbeds.
"Hey... uhm need anything?" I asked as I walked up to the sides of one of the troop transports. "Yeah, if you get me some friggin proper parts for these things I'd be so happy I'd suck your dick" the mechanic said sarcastically.
"Now luckily there aren't any proper parts around here so I won't be sucking dick any time soon" the stallion said. I felt kind of awkward from the comment and really hoped no-pony heard that. "Soldiers are always complaining that they're trucks are breaking down. Well they wouldn't be breaking down if I had gotten the parts I ordered two months ago... goddamn base commander, why I otta... ohh I'd love to take him outback sometimes and just give him a good lickin" the mechanic cursed.
"Uhm... that's funny cause I uhm... I'm the base commander" I said stutteringly, kind of embarrassed. The pony mechanic slid out from under the truck and looked at me. His fur used to be a beautiful light brown but now it was stained black from the dirty undercarriage of the vehicle.
"Ha, yeah you're the base commander... oh wait, yeah hold on... yeah didn't Wallace die?" he asked and I nodded. He raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Alright listen, yah sound like an alright cat. If yah can get me some brake lines and a few new radiators that'd be bomb, if not well... I won't think too fondly of yah" he said. I pulled out my notebook 'Rads and brake lines'. "Anything else?" I asked.
He thought for a moment and shook his head but as I left he called back to me. "Well actually..." he trailed off and I turned back to him and nodded. "It's hotter than Satan's asshole here. I would be really happy if yah could get us a mini fridge and an air conditioner". I smirked and he sighed depressingly. I took out my notepad 'Air condit...' I looked up to him.
"How do you spell air conditioner?" I asked and he shrugged. 'Air conditsaner, mini frige' I wrote. My writing was terrible but then again I hadn't the best writing skills or grammar. At least I could read my own writing.
"Hey thanks commander, you may not be a CO but by hell I'll salute you any day" he said as he gave me a quick salute then slid back under the truck. "Oh and uhm forget the whole dick sucking comment. But don't get me wrong I appreciate it and if I was gay I'd totally suck your dick" he said and I shuddered from the comment.
I thought to myself who else might need my help. After thinking for a little I figured that there probably wasn't very good food here so I wrote down 'Ratsa, Ratso... good food'.
I proceeded back to the base commander tent but then figured it would take too long to send a message so I jogged over to the Radio relay station. I entered and looked to one of the radio ponies who weren't doing anything.
"Hey I need you to get me on the line with Canterlot castle" I said and he nodded then quickly dialed in the radio. He handed me the headset and I waited for a response.
"This is Canterlot go" said a voice on the other side. "Hey listen I need a shipment to Firebase Bravo, over" I replied.
I could hear the voice on the other side sigh. "If you want requisition please" the pony began but I cut him off. "Goddammit I don't care about requisition. I'm the commanding officer on base and the last CO fucked everything up by not ordering supplies. We need these supplies tonight" I told him but he sighed again.
"Listen, we can't go doing special favours for one base just because" he began but once again I cut him off. "Listen, put me on with Princess Luna. Tell her it's Clare" I said. There was a moment's pause, well actually more like a few minutes.
"Clare?" asked the distinctive voice of Luna. "Ma'am I need a couple shipments of supplies delivered by tonight to Firebase Bravo. I know it's not exactly economical but the last base commander did a shitty job and the base is in real bad shape" I informed her.
"Alright, what do you need?" she asked. I pulled out my note pad. "I need a very large shipment off ammunition, specifically grenades and M60 ammo. I also need radio parts and transmitter wires. I need medical supplies, specifically morphine. We need vehicle parts, radiators and brake lines. We also require a large shipment of food and some beverages. And if possible could you get a dozen or so air conditioners and a mini fridge?" I asked.
There was a moment's pause then came her reply. "How do you spell air conditioner?" she asked. "Uhm... c-o-n-d-i-t... uhm... I don't know" I replied and she snickered. "Whatever the case you shall have the supplies by tonight" she replied.
"Hey thanks Luna" I said and then she hung up. I looked to the radio pony and gave him a nod. "Hey don't suppose you guys have a place to put an air conditioner in here?" I asked and his face, along with several others, brightened up. I walked out of the radio relay building and I heard several cheers of happiness come from inside the building.
Hours later:
I sat at my desk and filled out forms, mostly just random shit like base moral and what not. Corporal Hart walked into my tent and gave me a salute. "Get that hoof down, the friggin Apache will see you and think I'm the damn base commander" I joked. He laughed as he sat down across from me.
"Hell Sarge, you are the base commander" he laughed and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah...hopefully note for long though. I didn't sign up to be a shadow guard just to sit behind a desk and fill out military forms" I chuckled.
"Yeah, so you signed up and became Luna's door guard" he laughed. I snickered at the comment as I brushed the papers aside. "So corporal, what can I do for yah?" I asked and he shrugged. "Not much, just wanted to say hi to my old buddy" he said and I shook his hoof as he extended it.
"Hell Hart, shouldn't you be protecting Luna in her bed chambers right now?" I asked and he smirked. "Yeah well ever since this conflict heated up while you were gone, they've been drafting ponies into the war. Hell I've even heard rumors that Captain Shining Armor got his horn blown off" he told me and I nodded, remembering seeing Armor's horn stub.
"Yeah, hopefully this all blows over like the whole buffalo conflict. You came a few weeks after that whole ordeal" Hart informed me. I heard helicopters flying overhead and figured that had to be the supply choppers. "Come on, let's go unload those crates" I said and he scrunched his nose.
"What crates?" he asked and I gave him a wink. "Well old... I mean new base commander of yours got you all new supplies" I said and he raised an eyebrow.
We walked out to the helipad where the helicopters were already being unloaded. "Alright, this one says it goes tah the medical center... we have a medical center here?" said Aussie as he gave a unicorn the heavy crate of medical supplies. The unicorn grabbed the crate in her magical aurora and trotted off with it.
Aussie saw us coming and smirked. "Jesus sweet lord Christ, Sarge. I ain't never seen ponies so happy on a firebase before. It's like they're foals on Hearth's Warming. How the hell'd yah get air conditioners anyway?" he asked and I shrugged.
"Secret" I replied and he chuckled as he tossed me a crate of ammunition. "It goes tah the armoury" he said and I nodded. Hart grabbed another crate of ammo and followed up beside me. "Air conditioners?" he asked curiously and I nodded. "Yeah. Figured it was really hot around here so I'd get the stallions and mares some air conditioning for base" I laughed and he just shook his head in complete disbelief.
As we walked into the armoury the receptionist let out a 'Hurray' and several others cheered with him. I set the ammo crate on the counter and looked to the receptionist who was installing the air conditioner. These guys all looked to me with the happiest of faces, hell these were the happiest I'd seen most ponies in a long time. And that's comparing them to some of the ponies I'd seen in Los Pegasus.
Hart and I walked back outside and back to the chopper just as another landed. I walked up to help Aussie unload some of the crates when Luna hopped out of the chopper and approached me. "Sergeant Major, I need to speak with you about this... 'Unusual' shipment" she said, putting emphasis on unusual.
"Well Sarge it was nice having you as a base commander" Aussie whispered to me and Luna gave him a semi irritated glare. He rose up one of his hoofs in mercy. "I'm just saying" he said then Luna and I walked away.
We reached the command tent and Luna looked to me. "Is there any place more secure that drowns out the noise?" she asked and I thought to myself. "Well there's the supply building around back" I offered and she nodded.
We walked back out and to the supply building. I entered first and turned on the single bulb light that hung in the middle of the building which was roughly 15 feet by 15 feet. Luna locked the door behind us.
I turned to her with a raised eyebrow. "Were the air conditioners necessary?" she asked, I simply shrugged. "Some of the guys were complaining about the heat" I told her and she shook her head in humor. "So I suppose that you're the new base commander huh?" she asked and I nodded. "So I guess that also means you won't be spending a lot of time at the castle" she said and I nodded again.
She walked up to me and pushed my body up against a large wooden crate. "Well then... I guess I'll just have to make up for all the times I'm gonna miss" she said as she pressed her lips furiously against mine. She stuck her tongue so deep into my mouth it almost triggered my gag reflex but I held it back.
I began to caress her tongue with mine as I groped her flank in my hands. I could hear her humming moans into my mouth and soon she broke away from the kiss. "The choppers leave in twenty minutes... we'll have to make this fast" she said and I nodded sadly. It made me feel bad that we probably both wouldn't get much satisfaction out of this.
She quickly began to undress me as I slid my hand to her nether region and began to caress her lower genitals with my hand. It distracted her slightly and she gave a sudden gasp as she felt my hand touch her sensitive parts.
* * *
Third person:
"Alright that's the last supply crate. How long until the chopper's filled up?" the pilot asked and Aussie guessed. "About seven minutes... give or take" he said in his iconic Australian accent. The helicopter pilot nodded then lit a cigarette.
Hart walked up beside Aussie. "So uhm, are you like the new platoon sergeant or..." Hart trailed off and Aussie just shrugged. "Not sure really, they assigned me here cause they think I can take down The Apache. Don't worry chap, I'll get 'er in due time" Aussie informed him.
"Where the hell's the sergeant major anyway?" Aussie asked and Hart chuckled. "Probably bucking Luna in the supply building" Hart laughed and Aussie let out a humorless sigh. "No seriously, yah don't joke about that kinda shit. Where would he really be?" Aussie asked and Hart shrugged. "Clare is probably getting a very... hand's on lecture" Hart replied and Aussie just shook his head.
Back in the supply building Clare sucked Luna's horn and she had a horn orgasm as he rutted her. "Ohhh Clare... ahhhh" Luna screamed as she reached her peak. Clare's watch beeped, he had set an alarm to go off so they didn't miss Luna's timeline. "Shit" Clare muttered as he quickly sat up.
"Clare, this isn't fair. You gave me three orgasms and you never got off" she said and Clare just shrugged as he slipped his pants up. "Don't worry about it babe. I got some vacation time coming up. I'll take some time off and we'll go finish our vacation in Los Pegasus" Clare told her. She stepped up to him and they began making out again.
Luna pulled back from the kiss and smiled. "You'll have to call for supplies more often" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 38: New and old faces | The next morning,
SGM. Clare:
The barracks were a little uncomfortable but they were better than nothing. I got up at the crack of dawn and quickly walked out to the showers which were just a bunch of shower heads separated by a few boards with a flimsy little wooden door. Most of the stallions didn't mind but the mares were a little less enthusiastic about public showers. I guess I'd have to get a more private shower system built.
I slipped off my clothes and quickly began to shower, the water wasn't hot but rather a warm temperature. During the day the heat usually warms up the water tanks and the water is hot and uncomfortable.
I finished showering and dried myself off with a towel as I quickly slipped on some fresh, semi-fresh, clothes and quickly paced over to the command tent. I entered the tent and looked to my desk. I was supposed to have the orders for the base in the morning but I guess by morning they meant near lunch time.
I rolled my eyes and unslung my Thompson. I hadn't had a lot of time last night and hadn't gotten around to cleaning away the Cosmoline in the gun. Sure it prevented rust but at the same time it got gritty and could jam a gun. I sat there for a half hour and cleaned away any thick clumps of Cosmoline before putting the gun back together and leaning it against the side of my desk.
I looked at the stack of papers and sighed to myself. I didn't feel like doing paper work, it was mostly pointless crap like moral rates and temperature ratings. There were some more important things like body count and injury rates but I had already filled out those forms last night.
I stood up and slung my Thompson around my back, figuring I'd take a stroll around the base and get to know some of the soldiers. Even though it was early in the morning I could hear the gunshots from the firing range and assault courses. I smiled to myself as I decided maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to brush up.
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Third person:
Alright listen Frosty" Hart said but the private scrunched his nose. "The name's Frost" he said, irritated by Hart's nickname he had given him. "Yeah whatever, anyway listen there's some helmets resting on the posts downrange. See if you can shoot them off with your M16" Hart challenged.
Frost took aim, it was so different holding a gun in both hooves and trying to balance on his hindlegs. It was times like these that he wished he was a unicorn. Frost took aim on a helmet and pulled the trigger. A single shot went downrange but failed to hit anything.
"Hey don't fret, just try again" Hart told the new soldier. Frost took aim and fired again but once again missed the helmet he was aiming for. Frost tried several times but missed every target.
Hart scrunched his nose. He wasn't much of an expert in marksmanship so he didn't really know how to train ponies. "Uhm... try..." Hart trailed off as Frost ejected the semi spent magazine and loaded a fresh one. "You know, there was still some ammo left in that" Hart said but Frost didn't listen as he set his rifle to burst mode then aimed downrange.
"Hey wait a minute this is marksmanship practice not..." Hart began but Frost began to fire the rifle as fast as it could shoot downrange. The air was filled with the chattering of the M16. The rifle recoiled in Frost's hooves but he managed to keep the rifle aimed downrange.
In a matter of seconds the M16 had depleted the entire thirty round magazine. "Uhm... nice job but you didn't hit anything" Hart said as they both looked towards the helmets. Frost sighed depressingly to himself but then a wooden post fell over. "Well, I guess you got one... kind of" Hart said enthusiastically.
Frost was still depressed that he hadn't managed to hit even a single helmet. "Hey don't worry, you'll get the hang of it eventually" Hart assured the young soldier. Frost looked at the rifle in his hooves and sighed.
"Well maybe if his teacher was better at teaching" said a voice and the duo turned on their heels to see Sergeant Major Clare, holding a Thompson by his hip with one hand. The both threw a salute as Clare approached. "Get those hooves down, I'm a sergeant not an officer" Clare laughed. He encouraged stallions and mares to respect their superior officers and what not but you weren't supposed to salute to NCOs.
"Sorry" apologized the new private. "Hey don't get down on yourself. I'd be missing my targets if Hart was the one training me" Clare joked and gave Hart a friendly punch to the shoulder.
"Alright hotshot, if you're so good why don't you show the kid how it's done" Hart chuckled and Clare nodded then stepped up to the shooting plate. He cocked back the charging bolt on the Thompson and aimed downrange.
The helmets were roughly twenty to twenty five yards away. Clare thought to himself then adjusted his aim slightly. "You've got to have the right posture, your legs were close together because you were trying to balance your body not your aim" Clare said as he showed the private the proper shooting stance.
Frost stepped up beside him and mimicked his stance. "Even though it feels weird at first, it's actually more stable than standing with your hindlegs close together" Clare told him and he nodded.
"Hold the rifle stock tight to your shoulder and keep your hands... hooves steady. Even though it's only twenty five yards away it makes a difference" Clare told him. "Now steady your breathing to a slow pace, if you were doing long range shooting you'd have to slow your heart rate to but that's different. Now keep you finger err hoof close to the trigger but don't touch it until you've got your sight on target" Clare ordered him and Frost did exactly as he said.
Clare quickly fired off a round, a helmet pinged and was taken off the post. He quickly snapped his aim to another helmet and shot, then another and then another. Each time he shot the gunshot was echoed by the ping of the helmet being knocked off the post. After six helmets Clare switched the safety on and looked to Frost then nodded.
Frost took careful aim and fired, he still had his rifle set to three round burst but it didn't matter because the first round struck the helmet and knocked it off the post. "See you're getting it... hey-hey-hey, what do we have here?" Clare asked as he looked to a locked crate.
"Don't know, locked tight and we don't have the key" Hart said. Clare smirked and pulled out his bowie knife. "Well say hello to the master key" Clare announced then quickly went on to mutilate the wooden crate.
Hart and Frost chuckled as Clare cut open the wooden crate, revealing M67 frag grenades and M18 white smoke grenades. "OHHH baby... yeah these will come in handy... oh yeah" Clare said as he grabbed a couple grenades and gave some to Hart and Frost.
They looked downrange and Clare smiled. "Ever used frag grenades kid?" Clare asked and Frost shook his head. "Alright I'll teach yah" Clare said as he held up his own grenade. "This little hot tamale is called an M67 frag grenade. She can seriously fuck up a zebra if you time it right" Clare said and Frost nodded in attention.
"Alright so make sure to hold the safety lever, or the spoon, and then pull out the pin. Alright she's almost ready to go, now you release the safety lever and she's hot, give it a second to cook and..." Clare trailed off as he waited two seconds then tossed the grenade downrange. The explosion shredded the wooden posts.
Frost and Hart both tossed their grenades in similar fashion. The explosive eruptions could probably be heard from the treeline outside the firebase. Overhead a helicopter approached. Clare and Hart looked up to see a Huey fly overhead, Clare looked to Hart and shrugged.
Clare walked away from the duo but not before giving them a wave and a nod. He proceeded to the helipad where the Huey was landing. The General along with a finely dressed stallion stepped out of the helicopter. Clare gave a salute. The General and the other stallion returned it.
"Sergeant major, this is Colonel Houston. He's the new base commander" The General informed Clare. Clare smiled, he was thankful that they got a replacement so fast. "Well Colonel you have the orders and Sergeant Major Clare here will help you out with the stallions and mares on base. Good luck gentlecolts" The General said then hopped back on the helicopter and it departed.
"Alright sergeant, get every-pony rounded up. I want a head count, ON THE DOUBLE!" Houston yelled. Clare nodded then briskly walked over to the radio tower.
Clare had the radio broadcasting tower transmit the message through the firebase speakers all around camp for every-pony to group up at the center of the firebase. Clare walked back to Houston and nodded but Houston had a serious look about him.
They stood there and waited for a few minutes. After several minutes every-pony was there. "Alright head count. Platoon leaders, count up your platoon. I want every-pony accounted for. NOW!" Houston roared and immediately the platoon commanders went about counting their platoon members.
The whole process took about a half an hour but every-pony was accounted for. Houston curled his lips in anger and clicked his stop watch. "That took thirty five minutes... THAT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!" Houston yelled and several of the ponies cringed.
"Alright mount up, were doing PT for the rest of the day until you all decide that you'll get your asses in gear" Houston yelled and there was several groans in the crowd. "GET TO IT!" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 39: Clever girl | Days later,
SGM. Clare:
Daffodil had returned from his vacation but was about as happy as I was when he found out what a total ass the new base commander was. He would force us to do PT for most of the day but rather than participate he'd sit in a lawn chair with cold beer and watch, barking orders the whole time.
We hadn't much in the terms of missions or patrols, mostly fire support with the mortar teams.
It was late in the afternoon and PT had finally come to an end. "Goddammit... this new base commander's an asshole" Daffodil wheezed. I nodded as I wiped sweat from my forehead. Frost and Hart trotted up beside us, they were just as exhausted.
"Damn... I think I liked it better when you were in command Sarge" Frost gasped and I nodded. "Yeah, well get used to it. Most base commanders are pretty snarly" I said and he nodded then they both trotted off.
I sighed to myself as I walked over to the barracks. I hadn't been this sore in a long time and I needed a good rest.
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Third person:
"Man, I say we oust this fucker Houston and get the Sarge back in command" Hammerhead told the others in the barracks. They all nodded and looked to one another, agreeing that Houston was an asshole.
"We shouldn't do that man. It could all get us in serious shit" said Cloud Dasher and several of the soldiers looked to the young shadow guard. "Are you serious? Dasher, don't you remember when Houston had you shovel out all the latrines just because your pants weren't tucked in?" Presell reminded him and Dasher sighed as he remembered that horrid day.
"Yeah but still I..." Dasher said but trailed off as they heard the warning alarms go off. Clare rushed into the barracks. "Every-pony out, there's an invasion" he yelled and they all lept up and followed Clare out to the front line trenches. Bullets flew through the air and caught several soldiers as they charged up to the front lines.
"Bakers keep on them with the M60, Dickens try and get them with the 79" Clare ordered. Aussie lept into the trenches and unslung his M25 and began to pop of rounds downrange.
"Lickety, get the boys on the mortars to cut down the treeline" Clare ordered. As Split got on the radio a trumpet could be heard and soon a large swarm of zebras flooded from the treeline. Houston rushed up beside Clare. "Sergeant Major Clare? You hold this line while I go... call reinforcements" Houston said frantically then rushed back towards the inner compound of the base.
Several of the soldiers and guards looked in disbelief as Houston ran back into the base. "Keep on them" Clare ordered and the soldiers turned their attention back to the advancing zebras.
"Alright, Hammerhead: lay down some C4 in the trenches, we'll fall back and as soon as those zebras get into the trenches we'll blow them all to hell" Clare ordered and the corporal immediately followed his command.
Zebras advanced ever closer, even though they had high causalities they still advanced. Hammerhead rushed back up to Clare. "The C4 has been set" he informed Clare who nodded then turned to the others. "Fall back, FALL BACK" Clare yelled and immediately all the soldiers in the trenches retreated to the inner compound.
Zebras flowed into the trenches but as they did Hammerhead triggered the C4 and the trenches erupted. Zebras were blown to bits and pieces of body limbs were tossed into the air.
The group hunkered down and created a defensive line. "Hold this line, they're not getting past us until they are stepping over our dead bodies" Clare ordered. He looked over to some of the new soldiers, for them it was probably their first combat experience. "Hey don't fret, we'll make it through this" he promised them.
It boosted their confidence somewhat and Aussie crouched beside Clare and began to peck off zebras as they advanced. Clare looked over to Lickety and grabbed the radio. "Air command this is Bravo one, we are about to be overrun" Clare yelled into the radio.
"We copy you Bravo one, what do you need, over?" the radio pony asked. Clare thought to himself. "Broken arrow, I repeat Broken arrow" Clare yelled then handed Lickety the radio and began to fire on zebras as they entered the base.
"Sir, in case we die I just wanted to say it was an honour fighting alongside of you" said Cloud Dasher. "You're not dying today private, we're going to live... or die trying" Clare said, the others chuckled from his comment.
Lickety was busy giving the coordinates to air command and soon the entire field outside of the firebase was lit up with napalm from the F-18s that flew overhead. Several cheers from soldiers roared as zebras screamed, their skin peeling from their flesh as the napalm ravaged their bodies.
"Smell that... it's napalm. It smells like... victory. I love the smell of napalm in the afternoon" Clare chuckled. Suddenly a lone thunderous gunshot cracked through the air and Private Smithson fell over. "Fuck, sniper! Get down" Clare ordered but Aussie didn't listen and instead charged out into the open. "Aussie, get your ass back here right now... fuck" Clare yelled as the Australian stallion rushed out towards the treeline.
Several gunshots echoed and dirt was kicked up by Aussie's hooves as he rushed towards the treeline. The Apache figured it would be best to lure him deeper into the forest rather than have a one on one confrontation.
Aussie rushed into the thick treeline and entered the jungles of the Everfree forest. 'Why the 'ell do they call this place a forest anyway?' Aussie thought to himself as he slowed his pace to a quiet stalk. The thick undergrowth silenced his footsteps.
Aussie stalked along through the jungle, he could see a trail where The Apache had run, either it was her or another zebra but he had seen a no good commie run this way so he followed the trail.
Sweat poured down his face and he constantly had to wipe the sweat from his forehead before it reached his eyes. He was a professional at what he did and even the animals couldn't hear or smell him. He hadn't bathed in months so he smelt like the jungle through and through.
His M25 weighed heavy in his hooves but he had become accustomed to the rifle's weight and the gun had become more like an extension of his body. He heard some rustling in the bushes not far from him and he quickly paced over to a fallen log and looked to where the sound had come from.
He saw a female zebra with a scoped Mosin-Nagant rifle. Aussie breathed slowly as he crouched down. He slowly removed the slouch hat from his head and set it on the log beside him. His mane was a light shade of brown and it blended in with the forest. His mane was cut short and combed, it was probably the most civil look of his entire body.
He rested the rifle on the log and peered through the scope of his rifle. The female zebra was cleaning her rifle. Aussie smirked to himself as he zeroed in the scope and lined the crosshairs up on her chest. There was no way he'd risk missing the shot trying to do some fancy headshot. The zebra hadn't noticed Aussie yet and she picked up her rifle in her hooves and looked through the scope.
"Goodbye Ms. Apache" Aussie whispered to himself as he slowed his heart rate and let out a deep exhale. The crosshairs of his rifle lined up perfectly with her chest and stayed absolutely still.
Aussie pulled the trigger on his rifle and it thundered throughout the silent forest. The 7.62x51mm round traveled through the air at incredible speeds and slammed through the zebra's body.
The bullet traveled right through her chest and blew away her heart. She died instantly and immediately fell to the ground. Aussie sighed to himself, The Apache's reign of terror was over. Soldiers everywhere could sleep a little easier knowing that The Apache was dead. He figured he'd scratch a notch into his rifle stock later, he had over seventy notches in the rifle stock already but the notch for The Apache would be alone by itself. A signature of how important her death was.
The brush beside him swayed and the pointed barrel of a Dragunov SVD pressed against the side of Aussie's head. He slowly turned to look over to his aggressor. The real Apache stood with her rifle, its barrel pointed at him like a boney finger. "Clever girl" Aussie whispered as he swung around to try and shoot her with his own rifle. A lone shot rang out through the forest, followed by silence.
Back at the firebase ponies cleaned up from the mess. Houston barked orders and several ponies became agitated. "Alright fuck this, screw you Houston. Go fuck yourself" yelled one of the soldiers. "Excuse me? How dare you speak to me like that. You'll be on latrine duty for the next year!" Houston yelled but then several other ponies banded together and stood up to Houston.
"Sergeant Major!" Houston yelled out and Clare immediately rushed up to him. "Yes sir?" he asked and Houston pointed to the mares and stallions that now stood defiantly against him. "Order these ponies to get back to work" Houston yelled. Clare sighed to himself as he looked to the base staff. He had fought alongside many of the stallions and mares here and they wouldn't just go against orders.
"No" he said and Houston's face turned red with anger. "That's it, I'm court martialing you for mutiny" Houston roared and stormed off to the radio broadcast tent. He stomped inside then grabbed a radio and dialed it in. "Get me the General, tell him to get his ass down here right now. The Sergeant Major has decided to start a mutiny in Firebase Bravo" Houston roared.
In Canterlot a radio pony gave the note to the General who was conversing with Captain Shining Armor. "Sir, Firebase Bravo is experiencing a mutiny. The commanding officer requests reinforcements" the radio pony said. The General cursed to himself but Shining Armor rested a hoof on his shoulder.
"I'm going with you, I think I can talk some sense into them" Shining told the General and they both rushed off to the helipad.
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SGM. Clare:
Houston had ordered us to all wait. We followed those orders and I cursed to myself for letting things get this bad. Several Hueys flew overhead and landed on the helipad. Several soldiers along with the General and Captain Shining Armor stepped out of the helicopters.
Houston immediately rushed up to the General. They all walked over to us and The General looked to me. "So, you're in command of this mutiny?" he asked and I shrugged. "Well come with us. You're being charged with treason, mutiny and possible terrorism" the General barked and I chuckled to myself as I walked up to him with my hands extended.
He slapped the cuffs on my hands and as we were walking away Hart called out. "You better arrest me too sucka" he yelled. The General turned around. "Who said that? I demand to know who said that!" the General screamed. Hart stepped forwards and the General handed Houston a pair of hoof cuffs. "Nah, it was me" said Bakers as he stepped forwards.
"Nah he's lying, it was me" said Cloud Dasher as he stepped forwards. Soon the entire firebase staff was saying it was them. Both the General and Houston's faces went pale. "Hey Houston, I knew you said you was calling for reinforcements but I didn't think they'd show up so late" laughed Presell. Shining Armor looked to Houston. "Calling reinforcements?" he asked, unsure about the comment.
"Oh yeah, you should have seen him. We're getting shot at by zebras and he runs up and is like Sergeant Major Clare?... You stay here while I go... call reinforcements" Presell laughed, making Houston sound like an idiot. "That was the appropriate thing to do" Houston said and the General nodded.
"Yeah, if he had actually called for reinforcements. The bastard went and hid in the supply shack until all the fighting was over" Bakers said and Shining Armor looked with a disgusted face at the colonel. "Really?" Armor asked and Houston's face went pale.
"It doesn't change the fact" the General barked but Shining Armor stepped forward. "Yes General it does. The current base commander is incompetent and likely to get ponies killed. I will not authorize the arrest of these ponies on account that the current base commander is a coward" Shining said.
"This is absurd, I will not allow a sergeant major to run a firebase" the General yelled. "He won't. I'll be replacing Houston as base commander. Now General, if that will be all. I think Canterlot has some paperwork for you to fill out" Armor said. The General snarled to himself then scowled as he and Houston trotted back to the helicopters and they departed back to Canterlot.
Shining Armor sighed to himself as he looked to Clare. "Next time rather than start a mutiny, call me and I'll make everything right" Shining chuckled and I shrugged. "Sir!" yelled a private and we rushed over to him. He pointed out to the field where a bloody pony walked back towards the base. "Sir it's Aussie" the private yelled.
I pointed to a mare and stallion. "You two, go out and get him. Take a Jeep" I ordered and they immediately rushed to a Jeep then drove out to Aussie as he continued to walk towards the base. Something was off, I could just feel it. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 40: Solar Eclipse | Lightingace Third person:
The Jeep sped up beside Aussie as he staggered along. He had been severely beaten and had obviously been through a painful torture.
"Shit, gunny!" said one of the privates as he lept out and supported Aussie's body weight then began to carry him over to Jeep.
In the distance of the Everfree treeline sat The Apache with her signature Dragunov. "<Hello little ponies>" she said in native zebra tongue. She lined up the crosshairs with the driver of the Jeep and squeezed the trigger back.
The Dragunov let out a horrifying BANG as the 7.62x54mmR round zoomed through the air. The bullet smashed through the window of the Jeep and killed the driver with a headshot. The Apache smirked to herself as the other pony tried to crouch down beside the Jeep for cover but he was still in plain view.
She lined the crosshairs on the second pony and fired again. Blood spurted from an exit wound and the other pony fell to the ground.
The Apache had tortured Aussie severely and when she had finished with him she ordered him to walk back to the firebase and he did so willingly. It had been a perfect trap, she knew that the ponies on the firebase would send others to get the wounded soldier.
Aussie lay on the ground then tried to get back up. Suddenly an eruption blew away some trees by the Apache. She realized the ponies back at base had probably zeroed in on her with the mortars. She would've liked to finish off the Australian hunter but that would have to wait for another day.
She quickly packed up her gear and left the area as mortar shells bombarded the area around her.
Back at the base Clare was giving orders then looked to Hart. "Come with me, we gotta get Aussie" he said and Hart nodded then they both hopped in a Jeep. Clare raced the Jeep out to the open field and up beside the other Jeep.
Hart grabbed Aussie as Clare grabbed the dead ponies and placed their bodies in the back of the Jeep. Clare and Hart lept back into the Jeep and sped back to the firebase as the mortar crews continued to bombard the treeline.
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SGM. Clare:
I raced the Jeep into the compound and parked it. Several ponies ran over then rushed Aussie to the medical tent. I sat in the Jeep and leaned my head back as I pulled out a cigar. I hadn't smoked in a while but I had the sudden urge to lite one up.
The tainted smell of cigar fumes entered my nose as I closed my eyes and tried to think about something else, something a little more peaceful. The hot muggy air made me feel uncomfortable. Shining Armor walked over and sat in the passenger seat beside me.
"We're gonna need new recruits. You feel like going with the medical chopper to Canterlot?" Shining asked. I knew exactly why he asked me and I nodded then looked to him. "Isn't your wife due to have a baby any day now?" I asked and he nodded. He turned over to me and gave me a wink. "What?" I asked and he chuckled
"I got us some leave papers. Daffodil's the temporary base commander and I made sure there won't be any combat missions for the base until we get back" he informed me. "How long?" I asked and he shrugged. "A few days. Long enough" he said and I out an exhale.
"Thanks Shining" I said and he chuckled. "Don't thank me until after we exit the ring" he chuckled and I scrunched my nose. "The ring?" I asked and he nodded then rubbed his nose. I recalled breaking his nose during the whole bank heist thing where I wasn't supposed to enter.
Shining nudged me. "Come on. The helicopter will be leaving soon" he said. I got up and stretched then walked with him to a Huey that was about to depart and we embarked it. As the helicopter departed to Canterlot the pilot put on the radio inside the helicopter
Listen baby
Ain't no mountain high
Ain't no valley low
Ain't no river wide enough
Baby...
* * *
A few hours later,
The helicopter landed on the helipad outside Canterlot castle. Shining and I disembarked the helicopter as the rotors still spun. "So Captain, when are we going to get the replacements?" I asked and he shrugged. "Near the end of our vacation. I wouldn't worry about it now though" he assured me.
We walked into the castle then walked to the throne room. Luna and Celestia looked over to us, Cadence was even with them. Cadence and Luna squealed as they rushed over to us. We both hadn't been gone a 'long' time but in war even a few days seemed like forever.
Luna lept on me and I twirled our bodies in a circle. Cadence and Shining couldn't quite do that due to her pregnancy but they still embraced each other in a loving hug. Luna and I didn't really think about anything consequential and began to make out in the throne room.
"SERGEANT MAJOR!" Celestia boomed and we both pulled back from our kiss. We both looked over to her as she stormed over to us. "Just what the hell do you think you're doing with my sister? She's your princess and your commander" Celestia questioned me and we both sighed in realization that this was probably going to get ugly.
"Well uhm..." I began but trailed off as I thought about something to say. Celestia's face was turning red with anger. "I'm pregnant" Luna blurted out, everyone else in the room seemed to gasp. Even Shining, who already knew, gasped in shock from the comment.
I swear I could see steam vapours escaping from Celestia's ears. She looked like a raging bull as she snorted in anger. "Sergeant... that better be some sort of a very, very, very bad joke" Celestia snarled. I looked over to Luna then shrugged. I really didn't have much to say.
"Uhm, well no Celestia. Your sister is gonna be a mom and you're gonna have a new nephew or niece" I told her. "Sister, it happened on our vacation. During one of the beautiful nights we made love and I cast a spell on my womb to allow myself to be pregnant with a foal" Luna informed her infuriated sister.
Luna was about to step beside me but suddenly Celestia's horn flared up and a blast of white energy slammed into my body. It felt like the energy blast broke every single bone in my body as I flew across the throne room and smashed through the doors.
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Third person:
"SISTER!" Luna screamed in horror as she watched her lover get shot across the room. Clare smashed through the throne room doors which shattered apart and Clare's body continued to smash through the wall of the hallways and into the library.
Celestia shot her sister a cold glare. "I will deal with you after" Celestia scowled as she stepped forward but Shining Armor stepped in her way. "Celestia, this is madness!" Shining Armor yelled. Celestia looked at him. "Madness? THIS-IS-EQUESTRIA" Celestia yelled as she spun around and bucked Shining in the chest. His body flung back and skidded across the ground.
Celestia's eyes flashed a brilliant white and her body muscles bulked up. A powerful white aurora flashed around her body in a jagged pattern as she walked towards the hole in the wall where Clare's body had been slammed through.
Her eyes went catlike as she stepped through the hole in the wall and searched for Clare's body which she just couldn't find. She stepped into the mess of the library. Book shelves had been knocked over from the blast.
She spotted movement beside her and a magical energy surge shot from her horn and blasted the movement which just happened to be some books that hadn't been placed level and had started to slip. The books had been blown to vapours and now all that remained were smouldering ashes
Celestia's anger subsided a little as she calmed herself in her search for Clare. Suddenly a figured flipped through the air and landed behind her. Celestia swiveled and turned to Clare who stood in a defensive posture. His combat jacket had a large burn hole in the center and his chest had suffered some bad cuts. He breathed slowly as Celestia quarrelled around him like a rabid animal.
"I'm-going-to-kill-you" Celestia hissed in a voice that was not hers. "Celestia? You don't sound like yourself" Clare mentioned and Celestia stood to her hindlegs. She now loomed over Clare by at least two feet, standing at a hulking 8'2". Clare's jaw dropped as he realized just how outmatched he was.
"You think you can just impregnate my sister? Think that it's okay to just break her heart. I'LL KILL YOU!" Celestia boomed, her aurora flashed outwards. Books and paper flew about from the powerful winds that originated from her powerful aurora. Celestia's muscles bulked up again and she began to look ridiculous. She was now more muscular than any pony in Equestria and was on par with Schwarzenegger when he was Mr. Olympia.
"Celestia, for fuck sakes calm down. I'm sorry but we're in love" Clare yelled, trying to calm her down. "You think this is love. You fool" Celestia yelled as her muscles tensed and she grew even more muscular. Now she looked like something along the lines of Ronnie Coleman. This was just getting absurd. "I am Celestia no longer. Behold the might of SOLAR ECLIPSE!" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 41: Outmatched | SGM. Clare:
The spot on my chest where Celestia, now the insane Solar Eclipse, blasted me hurt worse than anything I've ever experienced but somehow I was alive. Somehow.
I readied myself for what I knew would be the most painful beating of my life. Solar Eclipse continued to snarl insanely then finally she charged at me. I charged right back at her but as our bodies collided her powerful physical structure sent mine hurtling back into the throne room and I slid along the floor until I skidded to a stop.
I groaned in pain as I staggered to my feet but no sooner had I gained my footing, Solar Eclipse threw a thunderous kick right to my chest and sent me tumbling through the air. I crashed through her throne chair and it shattered to pieces.
I lay slumped in a pile of wooden pieces and Solar Eclipse fluttered down in front of me. "It's too bad. I was hoping that the lover of my dear sister would be more powerful, perhaps maybe a powerful shadow lord or something" Solar Eclipse laughed as she raised a hoof and pointed it at me. "Well regardless of power you shall die now" Solar sneered as a powerful sphere of energy formed at the tip of her hoof.
"Have fun in the afterlife" she cackled but before she could do anything else something caught her attention. The sphere of energy disappeared and she looked over to Luna. Luna let out a tremendous roar and a dark blue aurora surrounded her body. Tears rolled from Luna's face as she snarled in anger.
"What's this?" Solar Eclipse asked herself as she trotted away from my body. Luna grunted and roared, "You are not... my... SISTER!" she yelled. Her body features changed, her eyes became catlike and her body became encased in dark blue, almost black, armour.
Gusts of powerful winds filled the throne room, dust and dirt from around her feet puffed away as she roared in anger. Luna calmed down and a powerful dark blue aurora surrounded her body. "Behold, for I am Nightmare Moon" she roared. So this was the almighty Nightmare Moon. I guess she was still kicking around in the back of Luna all this time.
Solar Eclipse sneered. "So... all this time and you're still as powerful as you were when we sent you away" Solar Eclipse sneered and Nightmare snarled. "We shall see" Nightmare hissed and Solar Eclipse simply laughed. "Why see? I Know. You were always weaker than me and rather than sit around and wait for you to return I've been training. My powers are two hundred times the level I had when I sent you away" Solar said, insulting Nightmare.
"Then show me" Nightmare challenged and the two powerful alicorn princesses charged at each other, both blasting powerful shots of energy at each other as they charged. Just as they were about to collide both their bodies seemed to disappear.
I grunted as I got up, figuring they probably teleported away. Suddenly there was a thunderous BOOM and the shockwave from the hit sent my body slamming to the ground. I winced in pain and managed to see what had caused the massive eruption but there was no signs of an explosion.
Suddenly there was a second explosion but it was an explosive that caused it. When I finally saw what was causing the eruptions my jaw dropped. Every second or so Solar Eclipse and Nightmare Moon would appear for a brief second in a fighting pose then disappear just as soon as they had appeared.
I staggered to my feet and tried to think of what I could do to stop this but realized I would be no help. I looked over to Shining and Cadence. Cadence was in some sort of pain and I staggered over to them but collapsed a few feet from their bodies.
"Shining... Cadence... what's going on?" I groaned. It felt like Solar Eclipse had broken several bones in my body. She probably had. "I think... ah...I think I'm giving birth" Cadence cried. "What? Now?" I asked in a shocked tone and Shining nodded as he held his wife close.
"Well... what are you still doing here? Get out before those two idiots bring the castle down on us" I told them over the thunderous BOOMs that now echoed in the throne room. "She can't walk, the foal's already coming" Shining groaned in pain. "Well... teleport out of here" I said and he looked at me like I was stupid.
He pointed to his stub where his horn used to be. "Still haven't gotten it back" he told me and I cursed to myself. "Well, walk her out of here" I told him but he chuckled painfully from the comment. "She broke my ribs" Shining informed me and I swore to myself again.
Suddenly there was a powerful BOOM and Nightmare's smoking body crashed into the ground beside us. He body broke the tile flooring and her body created a small crater from the crash. Nightmare Moon tried to move but was simply in too much pain to move.
Solar Eclipse landed close to us and lifted her hoof. A sphere of energy formed at the end of her hoof and she laughed insanely. "Look at that, swatting four flies with one swing" she laughed and my eyes widened as I realized that she had completely lost it.
Just before she fired the blast I lept up, pain shot through my body and my body cried out in pain from the sudden movement but I doubt I'd be feeling anything in a moment. The sphere of energy fired from her hoof and I placed my body in between the blast of energy and the others.
The pain was excruciating, it felt like an inferno of pain was ravaging my body. The magical blast devastated my body but it stopped after striking me. I stood there, my entire front half was smeared with smoldering burns and cuts. I fell to my knees and gasped in pain. I could hear Cadence scream in fear.
"What a pity. I was hoping for something a little more... dramatic" Solar Eclipse laughed as she swung her hoof back and readied herself to give me the final blow. But just before she could strike a swift blur struck her and sent her body tumbling across the throne room. I looked over to see some dragon looking thing standing between us and the insane Solar Eclipse.
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Third person:
The six element bearers rushed into the throne room and retrieved Cadence and Shining Armor. But as they went to rescue Clare who was now unconscious, Nightmare Moon stepped forwards. "Leave him... leave now" she said, still in pain from her fight with Solar Eclipse. The element bearers nodded then quickly scurried away. They were all fearful of Nightmare Moon's return.
"What!?" Solar Eclipse gasped as she looked at the draconequus that now stood before her. "My dear princess Celestia, how saddened am I that you have transformed into this... hideous form" he chuckled. "Shut up Discord, why are you here?" Solar Eclipse scowled and Discord simply chuckled. "Well my dear, it would seem that in your more subtle form you had me released from stone imprisonment to bring about good and peace and all that other crap" he laughed, Solar Eclipse snarled in anger.
"Well it's time that I reverse that and kill you off for good" Solar Eclipse snarled, Discord simply yawned like her insult was petty or idle. As Solar Eclipse propelled herself at the draconequus he simply sidestepped and slammed a powerful knee into her stomach that forced her to drop to the ground in agonizing pain.
Nightmare Moon staggered up to the brutally injured Clare. "Luna was right for choosing you. Though I'd prefer you dead for trying to separate us I have to say that I share her love for you" Nightmare Moon whispered then placed her horn on his back and her magic healed his wounds.
Clare groaned as he quickly got to his feet and shrugged off the pain that had now subsided. "Nightmare Moon, since when did you become one of the good guys?" Clare asked and she rolled her eyes. "Don't insult me" she scowled and they both looked to Solar Eclipse and Discord as they battled.
"Who's gonna win?" Clare asked and Nightmare Moon shrugged. "Not sure, Solar Eclipse is more powerful than ever but Discord seems to have an unlimited supply of energy" she informed him and he nodded.
"This is fucked up. I knew Celestia would want to kill me but she almost killed Cadence" Clare muttered and Nightmare Moon placed her hoof on his shoulder. "You can't do anything to help, go now" she told him. Clare hated to just up and run but she was kind of right. At the moment he was unarmed and had no chance in fighting the behemoth Solar Eclipse.
Clare cursed to himself but then dashed off, figuring maybe he could get a tranquilizer gun or something. Nightmare Moon turned to Solar Eclipse and Discord. Nightmare Moon flexed and powered up but no sooner had she bulked up, her power faded. Her aurora quickly disappeared and she turned back into the subtle form of Princess Luna.
Luna gasped to herself. She shouldn't have turned back just yet, she was still angry at Solar Eclipse but apparently the injuries she had sustained and the energy she had lent to heal Clare had taken its toll.
Discord flew through the air and effortlessly made a mockery of Solar Eclipse. At first Solar had more power than Discord but her power had started to fade due to fatigue. All the while Discord had managed to dodge every single punch and kick she threw at him. Discord laughed at her as he continuously dodged all her punches and kicks without even using his hands/claws.
"Come on Eclipse, I mean I'm not even using my full power here and you're already exhausted" Discord laughed playfully. Solar Eclipse floated back to the ground and Discord followed her. Solar Eclipse then tensed her muscles. "You dare make a mockery of me? I AM SOLAR ECLIPSE!" she roared, her muscles bulged even more and her aurora became so powerful that it was like a miniature tornado.
Solar Eclipse flew forwards and grabbed Discord by the throat. He thrashed and tried to escape her hooves but she had a vicelike grip on his throat. "ACK..." Discord gagged as he tried furiously to escape but then Solar Eclipse's hooves glowed white and Discord gasped as he felt all his energy begin to drain away.
His skin withered like an elderly and then began to split open. Blood began to seep from his wounds as Solar Eclipse sucked his life away. Suddenly a powerful punch slammed across Eclipse's face and sent her tumbling across the ground. Discord fell to the ground, groping in pain.
There was a bruise on Eclipse's face from the punch and she looked to see Clare standing there with a smirk on his face. His clenched fist was still extended but he quickly retracted it and stood to his full height.
The element bearers soon stepped in front of him, they all had their amulets. "Fools, you think you can defeat me?" Solar Eclipse sneered but they all focused their own powers together and soon the element necklaces all brightened and blasted a massive rainbow coloured energy surge at Solar Eclipse.
The blast was tremendous but Solar Eclipse stepped out from the smoke of the blast and laughed manically at their efforts. "What? But how?" Twilight gasped, stunned that the elements of harmony had failed. "Because, the elements of harmony are weak" Eclipse laughed. She leveled her horn and shot a blast of energy at their hoofs which sent them propelling through the air.
Luna had regained some of her own energy and quickly transformed back into Nightmare Moon. Solar turned her attention back to the other alicorn and smirked as Nightmare charged at her with all the power she had left.
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SGM. Clare:
I tensed and was about to charge with Nightmare Moon but Discord called out to me. "Wait... don't go" he whispered weakly. I turned to him, "Well what am I supposed to do?" I asked and he motioned for me to come over to him.
I knelt beside his withered body. "I don't have... much time left... I can give you the powers to defeat her... your powers will be limitless and you can do as you wish but... they will only last as long as I am alive... make them last" Discord whispered, almost in tears. As a single one of his talons touched my face I swore I could feel energy course through my body.
It felt incredible, like I was invincible. Suddenly Nightmare Moon's body smashed to the ground and her aurora disappeared as she once again transformed back into Luna. Her dark shadow armour was cracked and destroyed. Solar Eclipse landed beside Nightmare Moon's beaten body but as she went to finish her off I flew forwards. Oh shit I can fly.
I slammed a punch into her face that sent her staggering back. "I saw your little scuffle with Discord so I know your little life sucking technique. Well you better keep your endurance up because I'm going to crush you into a pulp" I said confidently. "Oh great... the human returns" Solar Eclipse sneered but I clenched my fists and tensed then let out a tremendous roar.
Solar Eclipse rolled her eyes but as I tensed a powerful aurora surrounded my body. It wasn't as deep of blue as Nightmare Moon's but it was still a dark blue. Solar Eclipse's emotionless look turned to a look of interest as I let my strength rise to considerable heights.
My muscles grew in size considerably and a powerful wind surrounded my body. The tiles below my feet cracked and blew away like dust and soon a crater started forming around my feet. Solar Eclipse raised an eyebrow at my new found powers.
My mind started to fade out, I wondered if too much blood was rushing to my head but suddenly I felt my hair shift and grow a little. It felt like my hair grew just to spike itself up. I felt my hair, it stood at least eight inches upwards in a spikey pattern.
My muscles relaxed and shrunk a little so I wouldn't be too bulky. The aurora faded a little but was still powerful enough to blow debris away from in front of my feet. Solar Eclipse's jaw opened wide. "Your hair... your eyes... it's blue" she gasped and I pulled down a tuff of my newly formed hair style to see it was indeed blue, the same blue colour that my aurora was.
I smirked. "Well, it would seem we're evenly matched" I told her and she snarled then flew towards me. I quickly sidestepped, slammed my knee into her gut and as she double over I took my knee away and slammed my elbow into her back. I felt bad for hurting the princess like this but she wasn't Celestia any longer. Her body smashed into the ground.
Solar Eclipse groaned and staggered up as I stepped back. "Where... where did you get these powers?" she hissed. I shrugged as I raised my hand, my fingers extended, and a powerful blue sphere flickered at the end of my hand. Solar Eclipse's face went wide with fear as she realized how powerful I had truly become.
"Fool. You should never have done this" I snarled but she must've traced my energy source back to Discord because she quickly turned her head to Discord. She shot him with a single shot of energy which blew a hole straight through his chest and killed him. My energy quickly vaporized and the sphere of energy disappeared. I returned to my former self and Solar Eclipse looked to me with a dastardly smile. "Never rely on others to help you" she laughed as she blasted a shot of energy into my chest.
The shot travelled through my upper right chest and sent me tumbling back. "You'll never know true powers... stupid animal" she hissed but as she closed in to impale me with her horn I rolled sideways then kicked her knee in. She howled in pain and fell to the ground.
I knew her weakness, I learned it while we battled earlier. She snapped her knee back into place and it healed perfectly. She looked to me with fury in her eyes and charged again but just before she collided with me I lept to the side and slammed a kick into her jaw that sent her staggering forwards from the momentum. She turned to me and let out a terrifying roar then her muscles grew even larger, she was starting to look ridiculous like the Hulk or something.
I sighed from her stupidity as she charged at me again but I easily dodged her by leaping forwards and sliding underneath her then kicking out her hooves from under her. Her body crashed to the ground and she quickly stood up again.
She arose once again and tried to charge at me but I lept up and summersaulted in the air before kicking her in the back of the head, sending her body crashing to the ground. I landed on my feet and swiveled around to face her. "How... how are you beating me" she scowled then tensed up, bulking her muscles up even more. "I'm the most powerful being in all Equestria and you are but a stupid weak animal" she screamed as her muscles bulked up into a ludacris size.
I shook my head. "You may be the strongest but all that muscle mass has slowed you down. Power and strength means nothing if you can't hit your enemy" I told her and she realized that her muscle mass had indeed slowed her down.
I looked over to Twilight and the others as they staggered up. "Twilight, give me a little bit of energy" I called out and she nodded then lent me a fraction of her power. I felt the energy course through my veins like blood, it was just enough.
I quickly flew into the air and held my arms above my head in full extension with my palms to the air facing the roof of the throne room. A large sphere of powerful spirit energy formed above me. "What's he doing?" Rarity asked. The power of the spirit energy began to blow around debris like it was dust caught in a tornado.
"A spirit surge. It's like the elements of harmony blast but more powerful" Nightmare Moon informed them. "How powerful is it exactly?" Twilight asked and Nightmare Moon simply shrugged. "Unknown. No-pony has done a spirit surge and it was just a simple legend. A bed time story that mares tell their foals for before bed time" she informed the young librarian.
I grunted to myself, I had learned about the spirit surge when reading some old book in the library. If it did what it was supposed to, it would cleanse all evils in the spirits caught in the blast radius. "Only one problem with that little predicament of yours. I'm not going to stand a stationary target for you" Solar Eclipse yelled and went to run but Nightmare Moon grabbed hold of her in a full nelson technique.
I gasped. "Clare... what are you waiting for?" Nightmare called out. "Luna... I mean Nightmare, what are you doing? This will kill you" I yelled back and she rolled her eyes. "Yeah well... maybe in my last moments I'd like to be one of the good guys" she said with a wink. I respected her noble sacrifice but I felt bad killing her, sure she was evil but I kind of liked her in that friendly kind of way.
"I hope one day we meet again... perhaps we'll have a little one on one" I smiled and she nodded as I used the remainder of my energy to toss the spirit surge at Solar Eclipse who screamed out in terror. The blast struck them and erupted violently. The blast imploded at first, then let out a massive explosion and my mind went blank. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 42: War is declared | SGM. Clare:
I groaned as the light subsided, I was never going to do that again. It almost blinded me for Pete's sake. I staggered to my feet and saw both Luna's and Celestia's bodies lying on the ground. I rushed over and checked both their pulses. They were fine just knocked out.
Twilight trotted over to me and rested a hoof on my shoulder. "Don't suppose you could teach me that?" Twilight asked hopefully and I nodded. "We have to get to the hospital" I said and she looked to me curiously. "Your sister is having a foal" I informed her and she along with the others all gasped from the information.
"Alright, grab Celestia and Luna then I'll transport us there" she said and I grabbed their unconscious bodies but then looked to Discord who was lying lifelessly on the ground. "Hey Rarity, can you hold Discord in your magic while we go?" I asked and she nodded then levitated his body over to us.
Twilight's horn flashed and we all teleported to the hospital. A nurse looked over to us and I tried to wave. "Where's Princess Cadence?" Twilight asked and the nurse looked at her checklist. "Room 207, but she's in..." the nurse trailed off as we all rushed towards the room, following the numbers listed on the doors.
We found room 207 and rushed inside. "Okay just give a push" the doctor told her and Cadence screamed in pain, Shining Armor stood next to his wife and held her hoof. Rarity set down the body of Discord and joined the others as they stood around Cadence as she gave birth.
I laid down Celestia and Luna then shook them both. "Come on... get up, your niece is giving birth to your first grandchild and you're not going to miss it" I said and they both regained consciousness.
"Alright, Celestia I know you're pissed but Cadence is giving birth right over there and I don't want you missing it" I told her. She looked to me with widened eyes, obviously not remembering the day's events. I heaved both of them to their hooves and brought them over to watch Cadence give birth.
After an hour of Cadence following the doctor's instructions she finally gave birth, to twins. A filly and a colt. The filly was a unicorn while the colt was a pegasus. "Cinnamon Swirl and Rose Pedal" Cadence whispered as she rocked both the foals in her forelegs.
I nodded and gave a smile but soon left the room figuring I was just taking up space. I leaned against the wall of the hallways and chuckled to myself. "Disaster adverted, good job there sergeant major. Guess you earned a vacation" I told myself but suddenly a scrawny looking stallion in military dress galloped up to me. "Is Princess Celestia in there?" he asked frantically and I nodded. He raced inside and soon both Celestia and Shining Armor stepped into the hallway with the young stallion.
They began conversing then soon Celestia gasped and she galloped off along with the young stallion. I looked to Shining with a raised eyebrow. He gave me a dire look and told me the news, "The zebras just declared war".
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Hours later:
Cadence was resting peacefully with both her aunts. Both Shining and I had gone to the Canterlot military base where most of Bravo Company had been assembled. All the firebases had been evacuated and now all forward operating bases were on full alert.
"Company, attennntion" I yelled, prolonging attention to get every-pony in attention. Shining Armor trotted up. "At ease gentlecolts" he said and the entire company relaxed but stayed in attention to his speech. "The communist zebra army has just declared war on Equestria" he told them and then he went silent.
Silence filled the air. I could see several of the Bravo firebase members in the crowd. We'd need some new replacements. "You're now in part of Bravo Company. Sergeant Major Clare here has been in Bravo for quite some time now and some of you may know who he is... he answers to me and to me alone, no matter of rank or code" Shining said with a grin.
"Two days from now we will be flying deep into the Everfree and we will be attacking the zebra's main base of operations and severing their army" he told the stallions and mares of Bravo company. "We have a medal ceremony in an hour and I expect most of you to be there" he said then trotted off. I sighed to myself as the stallions and mares departed. I had to go get a few new recruits.
I walked through the military base and found Aussie and I had to say, he looked very healthy. "Aussie?" I asked and he turned to look at me. "Eh Clare" Aussie called out and rushed over to me. I shook his hoof and smiled.
"Damn Aussie, you're okay" I said and he shrugged. "What can I say, guess even The Apache's torture wasn't enough to kill me" he laughed and I nodded. "Listen I need some new recruits for our platoon, specifically ponies who have seen combat" I said and he nodded. "Come on this way. All the colts and fillies are playing basketball and volleyball. Some aren't combat experienced but have exceptional marks on the ranges" Aussie informed me and led me over to the ball courts.
"Alright colts and fillies line up" Aussie yelled. They were far from fillies and colts but they were all very young. I looked to them with icy eyes and a few of the ponies stepped back fearfully. "Those of you who just stepped back, go back to playing. I don't want you" I said and they left. There were at least a six stallions left and seven mares that had stayed.
"Alright any-pony with a low IQ step back. I don't need any stupids in my platoon. Stupids are likely to get themselves and will likely get me killed as well. I don't want to die any time soon and if you get me killed than I'll come back from the dead and kill you myself" I said, one of the mares that was cross eyed stepped back. Her fur was grey and her mane was blonde.
"Hey wait a minute, you step back up" I said and she stepped back forwards. I walked over to her and looked at her crossed eyes. I could see she was shivering in fear. "Why the hell'd you join?" I asked and she tried to whisper a reply.
"Well come on, let's hear it" I said and a tear came to hear eyes. "I...I...I was conscripted from my mail duty, I wasn't essential" she said and began to sob but as she turned to run I grabbed her shoulder and swung her back around.
"Why did you step back when I said, stupids step back?" I asked and she whimpered a reply. "Because I'm stupid" she said and I scrunched my nose. "Why the hell do you think you're stupid?" I asked and she stifled a sob. "Because ponies say I'm stupid because of the way I talk... and because my eyes aren't straight" she sobbed. "How do you spell conditioner?" I asked. She thought to herself real quick. "C-o-n-d-i-t-i-o-n-e-r" she replied and I looked to another pony.
"Is that how you spell it?" I asked and he nodded. "Well I don't think you're stupid, hell you're smarter than I am. Alright, looks like... what's your name kid?" I asked. She was clumsy I could tell but I knew that any other platoon commander would have her cleaning latrines and would probably treat her poorly due to her unfortunate cross eyedness. As stupid as I felt for keeping a cross eyed pony on my platoon I couldn't bear the thought of her getting poorly treated by another platoon leader.
"Derpy... Private first class Derpy Hooves" she stuttered. I looked to all the others. "Well it would seem Derpy here just filled the role of my wing-pony. She'll be covering my ass while I cover hers" I told them and several of the others looked at each other in shock from my pick.
I pulled Derpy up to my side. "Is something wrong with this pony?" I asked but no-pony answered. I pointed to another mare with light opal coloured fur and an amber coloured mane. "You, what's your name?" I asked. "Private Dust, sir. I'm the best" she told me, boasting a little. "Oh yeah. Tell me Private, would you have Derpy here as your wing-pony?" I asked and she shook her head. "No" she laughed and I gave her a cold look.
"And why not?" I asked and she laughed like my question was a joke. "Because she's a retard" she laughed, Derpy's face saddened from her comment. 'I don't want you, leave" I ordered and she gasped. "But sir I..." she trailed off then trotted away in shame.
"Doesn't matter their creed, race or religion. The pony next to you will be your best friend because they will protect you until their dying breath because if they don't then you will both die. So I want you to hug the pony next to you and give them a big wet sloppy kiss on mouth to prove you would fight and die for the pony next to you. If you don't want to do this, then leave now" I said.
Several stallions and mares looked to each other. Some stallions looked to another stallion and would frown. Most ponies knew though, that to be in my platoon would be an honour and a privilege. They all kissed each other. Some reluctantly, others more willingly.
I nodded. "Well okay than, welcome to my" I began but one of the stallions interrupted me. "What about you sir?" he asked and I looked over to him. "What about me?" I asked and he pointed to Derpy. "You said we all had to kiss the pony next to us. Well you didn't" he said and I realized what he was getting at.
"I have a marefriend" I replied. "So? I've got a marefriend to. But I still had to kiss this mare next to me. It's orders, even the commanding officer has to follow his own orders" he told me in a defiant tone. I stepped forwards and loomed over him, giving him a cold glare. "What's your name private?" I asked. "Thunder... Thunderlane sir" he stuttered fearfully.
I smiled than patted him on the shoulder. "Thunderlane here is a smart pony. He stood up to his commanding officer when the commander refused to follow his own orders. He's smart" I said then gave him a nod as I walked back in front of them. I sighed to myself knowing that I couldn't really go against my own orders and should have probably thought about my orders before I gave them.
I nodded then looked over to Derpy who stood there and looked at me curiously. "I have a marefriend so let's not make this look too romantic" I said and she blushed. I felt like a real ass because technically this would be considered cheating on Luna, but I couldn't really go back on my orders.
I stood Derpy up to her hindlegs and balanced her body so that she stood balanced on her hindlegs. I wrapped my arms around her and brought her in close to mine. I sighed once more to myself then leaned forwards, closing my eyes and giving Derpy a wet sloppy kiss, just like I had ordered every-pony else. I quickly ended the kiss and pulled back to see that Derpy still had her eyes closed but opened them and gazed into my eyes. "Right... so anyway, like I was saying. Welcome to my platoon, we're stationed at sector B. Get all your things packed and ready" I said then walked away with Aussie.
"Little smooch from the babes eh?" he asked and I rolled my eyes. "I didn't mean it like that" I said and he laughed. I heard the distinctive sound of a harmonica playing.
"Hey... hey Aussie wait" I said and stopped the Australian pony as I listened for where the tune was coming from. "Shit... that's blues... and it's damn good" I said as I rushed over to where the tunes came from to see a pegasus sitting on a wooden crate playing a harmonica.
"Hey... hey that's real good, where'd you learn?" I asked and the pegasus stopped playing for a moment and shrugged. He had a short black mane with tinted blue fur and purple eyes. "I'm self-taught" he replied. "No shit?" I asked and he nodded then took the harmonica away from his mouth and extended his hoof. "I'm Lance Corporal Moon Crater sir" He replied and I shook his hoof.
"I'm Sergeant Major Clare. Do think you could teach me?" I asked and he shrugged. "Well maybe when the war is over" he offered and I shook my head.
"Nah, how's it sound to be in my platoon" I offered but Aussie grabbed me by the shoulder. "You don't want this one Sarge" he whispered and I scrunched my nose. "Why the hell not?" I asked and he sighed. "He's a cherry" Aussie replied and I chuckled. "So?" I asked and he leaned closer. "He's been in a combat situation before and froze up, couldn't bring himself to kill the zebra and the zebra escaped into the Everfree" he whispered and I laughed.
"So what? The guy has got the bloody cutie mark of a marksmanship symbol. Bloody stallion has got talent I'll tell yah that" I told him and Aussie shrugged. "Hey kid, tell yah what. I'll train you to shoot to kill and you train me to play harmonica" I offered and he looked at me with those purple eyes of his. "I... I don't know sir. I don't know if I really want to kill" he said and I nudged him on the shoulder. "Don't worry, they want to kill you too so it's fair game. Pack up your things and head to sector B" I told him then walked away with Aussie.
"Sarge, I don't encourage this sort of recruitment" he said and I shrugged it off. Shining Armor trotted up to me. "Hey Sarge. Here are your mission papers. Give them to Daffodil and you two can go over mission planning. Remember the award ceremony begins in an hour" he said and I looked up to him.
"Shouldn't we have the awards after the battle?" I asked and he shrugged. "Guess the brass wants all these fine young stallions and mares going into battle feeling like war heroes" he told me then trotted off. I opened the papers and my mouth gaped open as I read the mission parameters. "What's up?" Aussie asked and I closed the papers. "Nothing" I lied then proceeded to Sector B to talk with Daffodil before the ceremony. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 43: War hero | SGM. Clare:
The award ceremony had started, most ponies were new recruits and didn't receive much in the terms of medals. The award giver arrived at Captain Shining Armor.
The medal pony pulled out a script of paper. "Captain Shining Armor, you have served Equestria will full obedience and have gone above and beyond the call of duty. You have suffered many wounds along the way serving your country honourably. For your services you are being awarded the Bronze Star for acts of valour above and beyond the call of duty. You are awarded the Equestrian Army Commendation medal for continuous acts of meritorious service. You are also being awarded the Purple Heart for receiving an injury during combat" the stallion said aloud as he pinned the medals to Shining's dress uniform.
Shining gave a salute and the stallion returned it then he stepped over to me. "Sergeant Major Clare has shown extraordinary acts of heroism and gallantry. He is being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extreme gallantry and heroism. Risking for his own life during combat with an armed enemy force, Clare refused to step back from the enemy and kept the zebra forces at bay as he commanded the soldiers of Bravo Firebase against an invasion. He is being awarded the Luna Star for continuously showing gallantry in combat against the enemy and leading ponies under his command to several victories. The Equestrian Army Commendation medal is being awarded to him for continuous acts of heroism. He is also being awarded the Purple Heart for receiving and injury during combat with the enemy" the stallion said as he pinned the medals to my chest.
I gave him a salute which he hastily returned then stepped to the next mare beside me. Shining Armor leaned over. "Show off" he whispered and I smirked from his comment.
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Later on,
SGM. Clare:
Celestia was still pretty steamed about the whole Luna is pregnant and I was the father thing but she decided to live and let live. Luna and I now lay in her royal bedroom and cuddled together, our clothes clumped at the floor of the bed.
I lay on top of Luna, but made sure I supported my own weight rather than actually lying on top of her. "So I hear you got awarded a medal named after me" she giggled and I reached over to my dress jacket, which now lay clumped on the floor by the bed, and unpinned the medal from my jacket.
I showed it to her, it was shaped after her cutie mark. A crescent moon with clouds, and it was quite beautifully painted and crafted. She took hold of the medal with her magic and levitated it towards herself. "You can have it" I offered and she looked to me. "Why?" she asked as I leaned forwards and kissed her.
I leaned back from the kiss and looked into her beautiful eyes. "Well I'm going to be gone for a while. So while I'm gone you can hold onto this to remember me by" I said and she smiled then rolled our bodies over. "If you're going to be gone for a while I want to make up for it" she laughed, I smiled then we began to make love under the beautiful illumination of the moon's light.
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Third person, Canterlot army base, Sector B barracks:
Moon Crater sat in the barracks with some of the other ponies. He had gotten to know Cloud Dasher quite well and the two had become quick friends. Lickety Split sat by himself and wrote in his war journal about how wrong the war was.
"You cheating son of a bitch" Bakers yelled as he tossed two queens of spades on the table. Dickens sat back and his face went pale as Bakers grabbed Dickens by the collar of his jacket and shook him. "You bastard" Bakers yelled but Frost grabbed his angry friend and calmed him down.
"You cheating..." Bakers trailed off and grabbed his poker chips back. Dickens sighed to himself. Dickens wasn't the best poker player so he usually resorted to cheating. "I tell you man, when I get back first thing I'm gonna do is get me one of them fine bitches at the saloon" Jackson boasted and several of the others chuckled.
"Yeah well you wouldn't need a whore if you would just calm down a little during sex" Hammerhead laughed and Jackson shook his head. "Nah man, who said anything about a whore? I'm talking a real fine ass you know. Something little and supple that I can hold in my hooves and spank like this you know" Jackson laughed as he made crude gestures. "Yeah but knowing you most of the mares will reject you so you'll be stuck with a dirty whore" Presell laughed and the others chimed in.
"Yeah, I remember back in Florida. I'm sitting there and this little thing called Octavia walks over, she asks me if I'm hungry. Cause she'd love for me to put a bun in her oven" Presell chuckled and several of the others laughed. "Yeah... now I'm stuck in some platoon that goes patrolling through the Everfree and I got a giant zippo strapped to my back and I'm roasting living zebras. Man why I volunteered for this shit I'll never know" Presell muttered to himself.
"Hell I'm proud to be here. Free food, free room and board. Hell sometimes there's even a few cute mares in the platoon... ain't that right Charlotte" Hart called out to Charlotte, who was one of the only female platoon members. The other being Honey Dew.
"Fuck you" Charlotte laughed jokingly and Hart just laughed. "Hell, I'm proud to be here to. My whole family has always been about honour and shit. My pa was always rough on me as a kid saying that I didn't know what honour really was. Maybe now he'll back off" Bakers said as he pulled out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. "And like Hart said, free food" Bakers laughed and took a bite out of his sandwich.
Corporal Enders looked over to Presell and took off his wedding ring. "If I don't make it, make sure my wife gets this" Enders said to Presell. Several of the others went quiet as they looked to Enders. Presell pushed Enders' hoof back. "Hey man, don't talk like that. You don't even joke about shit like that. You put that wedding ring back on cause you're going home after this" Presell told his worried friend. Enders slipped the ring back on his horn and sighed to himself.
Suddenly Frost gagged and began to choke. The others looked over to him as Frost stood up and tried to reach for something in his jacket. "Shit Frost, you okay? You look like your choking" Hart chuckled jokingly but then Frost nodded and fell to the ground, gagging painfully.
"Oh shit he's choking!" Bakers yelled and every-pony in the barrack room rushed over to the choking Frost. "Hold on buddy" Bakers said as he lifted up his friend and tried to Heimlich maneuver his friend but it didn't seem to help.
Bakers laid his friend back on the ground. Cloud Dasher looked over the shoulders of every-pony. "Hey what's going on?" Dasher yelled and Bakers turned to him. "Some-pony get a medic!" Bakers yelled and Moon Crater rushed out of the barracks to find a medic.
Frost's gags became heavier as he began to lose consciousness. "Fuck... FUCK" Bakers yelled and tried to shake his friend to keep him awake but Frost's gags soon became silent and he finally lost consciousness.
"No-no-no-no... fuck come on stay with me Frost... come on Frosty you're not dying on me here" Bakers screamed as he shook his friend but it was no use. Frost was dead.
Moon Crater rushed in with the medic and the medic pushed ponies aside as he checked for Frost's vital signs. He sighed and shook his head. "NOOOOO!" Bakers roared. "What the fuck happened?" Cloud Dasher asked and the medic pony shrugged. "We'll have to bring him to the hospital to see but at the moment all I can say is that he is dead" the medic replied.
* * *
The next morning:
SGM. Clare:
I awoke semi-peacefully, knowing that I had to be out and about today to talk with a lot of the ponies. I looked over to Luna and gave her a kiss before getting dressed but before I left I gave her once last glance. She was so beautiful when she slept that I just couldn't disturb her.
I walked outside and towards the military base. It was drizzling out and was pretty shitty weather. I entered the base and immediately went to Sector B where Daffodil was waiting for something. I walked up to him and nodded. "Hey LT, how's it going?" I asked and he sighed.
"I can't lead the platoon" he replied. "Why not?" I asked curiously and he slumped down on the steps of the barracks. "I can't even lead myself. How am I supposed to command the lives of several ponies?" he asked and I shrugged. "I don't know. I think you're doing an alright job" I complimented him and he looked up to me.
"What about the note to Frost's parents?" he asked and I looked to him curiously. "What note?" I asked and he stood up. "Frost died last night" he informed me and I was taken back by the information. "What? How?" I asked and I could tell it was difficult for Daffodil to explain. "An allergic reaction. Bakers had a peanut butter sandwich and Frost was deathly allergic. None of the ponies knew what was happening and Frost died before the medic got there" Daff informed me.
"I'm... I'm sorry LT" I told him but he looked to me with uneasy eyes. "I mean what the hell am I supposed to say to his parents? Dear Mr. and Mrs. Frost, sorry your child died serving Equestria but don't worry it wasn't a zebra that killed him it was a damn sandwich" Daff yelled, beginning to mentally break down.
Posey, Daff's marefriend, trotted up to us. "Can I speak to Daff for a second?" she asked and I nodded. "Sergeant Major, you better go tell the ponies what's going to happen" Daff called out to me and I nodded as I left.
* * *
Third person:
Daffodil stood there with Posey. "So what's up?" Daff asked and Posey wiped a tear from her face. "Hey, don't worry. I won't be gone long I promise" Daffodil told her but she shook her head. "No Daff, I do worry. I worry every day that you could be dead out there. That you'll never come home to me. That you'll come home in a body bag" she cried and Daff tried to comfort her by hugging her but she pushed him away.
"It's over Daff. I transferred myself to a hospital in Fillydelphia. I'm on the next plane. Goodbye lieutenant" she said then walked away in tears. Daff held out his hoof to say something but couldn't find the right words. He watched as his one true love walked away from him and he began to cry.
Elsewhere at the barracks several of the men stood around as Lickety Split played his charms with Charlotte. "She's the most beautiful mare in Equestria, and I'm gonna marry her" Lickety said drunkenly. Obviously he had gotten into a stash of hard cider that he had found earlier.
"I'm a war hero babe... and me and you are gonna live together and sit on the beaches" Lickety said as he held his Army Commendation medal as he began to slip it down the front of Charlotte's combat jacket.
Bakers pulled Lickety's hoof away. "Stop it Split. You're making a damn fool of yourself" Bakers said and Lickety looked to his friend and laughed. "Me? Make a fool of myself? We all made fools of ourselves. Winning these stupid little things" Lickety said as tears began to fill his eyes. He thought about all the times he had fought and killed for Equestria and all they did was give him some stupid medals.
A military Jeep pulled up and Clare looked to the group. "Hell you all look like you caught yourself a case of the blues" Clare chuckled and Moon Crater looked up to him. "Yeah... I think Lickety's getting married sir" Crater told Clare and he looked around.
"Well congratulations Lickety. I got good news and I got bad news. Good news is it's a fine beautiful day to get married. But the bad news is you ain't getting married today" Clare said and Bakers looked over to him and laughed. "Why Sarge? We going back up to hill 959?" Bakers laughed sarcastically and Clare sighed. "Hell Bakers you just read my mind" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 44: Paint it black | SGM. Clare:
"You've got to be fucking with me Sarge" Lickety said, obviously somewhat intoxicated. "No Lickety I'm not. Orders came in from the brass. We're to engage the zebra hostiles on the peak and take over so that they can get a mortar crew up there and give us support tomorrow. The chopper leaves in an hour so I expect you all to be suited up and ready" I said then dropped the transmission into drive and drove off just as Bakers kicked up some dirt and swore.
Orders were that some of Celestia's royal guards would be assaulting first then we would come in after them. Whoever made these orders had probably never seen combat before because if I was in command I'd sent both platoons in for a pincer movement.
I drove the Jeep up to the armoury and turned off the engine. I sighed to myself then walked into the armoury. "Can I help you?" the armoury sergeant asked and I nodded. "I need a handgun, preferably a .50 caliber Desert Eagle" I told him and he rose an eyebrow.
"You hunting Ursa Majors or something?" he asked and I shook my head. "Zebras" I replied and he chuckled as he went into the back of the armoury and soon returned with a finely polished Desert Eagle. "This bitch kicks a lot so I wouldn't suggest using them in a combat situation" he told me and I nodded as I slipped it into my hip holster along with the extra magazines.
"Trust me, I can handle it" I told him then gave him a nod and left. I had this feeling that told me things were going to get real ugly up there. I unslung my Thompson and gave it a once over. I didn't want this thing jamming on me while I was in combat and by the looks of it I wouldn't have any problems.
Moon Crater walked up beside me. "Sir, can I speak with you?" he asked and I nodded and turned to him. He had an M14 slung across his back with a high magnification scope. "Whatcha yah need?" I asked and he gulped. "Uhm, sir this mission. I uhh don't know anything about Hill 959. What's it like?" he asked and I thought to myself.
"Hot, sticky and shitty" I said plainly but I could tell that wasn't what he had meant. I let out a deep sigh, "The enemy sets up lots of booby traps and you can literally feel their presence. You might want to switch that rifle for an assault rifle. Snipers usually end up getting killed on Hill 959 because the zebras literally get so close you could hoof fight them" I told him and he nodded. "Tomorrow though, maybe bring along that rifle. It might come in handy" I told him and he nodded again.
"Here come with me, I'll get you a more suitable rifle" I said as we walked into the armoury. "Back so soon? Told you that pistol was a mean bitch" the armoury sergeant commented and I shook my head. "What kind of assault rifle do you prefer?" I asked and I could tell he had to think about it. "Well sir I only really like sniper rifles" he replied and I thought to myself for a moment.
"Hey, get this guy one of those M14s with the Juggernaut X-14 conversion kits. And throw in some fifty round drum mags would yah" I told the armoury sergeant and he nodded. He soon returned with just what I asked for.
I handed Moon Crater the assault rifle and gave him a wink. He looked at the rifle with fascination as I walked away. I hopped in the Jeep then quickly drove away to suit myself up for the battle that I knew would be bloody.
* * *
One hour later:
"Alright, every-pony on the choppers, go-go-go" I yelled and the platoon members loaded into the choppers. Daffodil wanted me to command the platoon today and said he'd stick around as an advisor. Something must've happened because he wasn't looking the greatest today.
As the helicopters departed for the deep Everfree I pulled out my harmonica and started playing. It sounded terrible compared to Moon Crater and Cloud Dasher put his hoof on my shoulder. "Sorry, I'm just learning" I laughed and he nodded with fear in his eyes. "Hey man. I might die today and I don't want the last song I ever listened to be some badly played blues, no offence" he said and I put away the harmonica and tapped the pilot on the shoulder.
"Play some tunes" I yelled over the loud helicopter engine. He flicked on the cabin radio and some depressing lyrics started playing.
I see a red door and I wanted painted black
No colours anymore I want them to turn black...
I looked over to Hammerhead who was praying to Celestia silently. Cloud Dasher gave his M16 one last final check before holding it close to his chest. Moon Crater checked the holographic sight on his newly acquired M14 Juggernaut.
* * *
Third Person:
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...
In one of the other choppers Corporal Bakers patted Corporal Presell on the shoulder. Bakers had a smile on his face but when Presell looked to him with a fearful face Bakers smile turned dire.
I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back...
First Lieutenant Daffodil sat in another helicopter and held a pendant close to his mouth and kissed it. The pendant was given to him by Posey when they were still dating. It was the only thing he had left of her and he planned to keep it with him until his dying day.
I see people turn their heads quickly and look away
Like a new born baby it just happens every day...
Corporal Hart sat and looked down at the treetops below. He figured that zebras where probably looking up at them as they passed. A few of them probably even had rocket launchers but he quickly shook off the idea and looked back inside the helicopter cabin figuring he was letting his imagination run wild.
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and must have it painted black...
Corporal Dickens sat by himself and placed an ace of spades on his helmet strap. Inside his helmet sat the two queens of spades that he always used to cheat during poker. He smiled to himself and looked to the others.
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black...
Specialist Lickety Split looked at his helmet which had a white peace sign painted on it. Why he still fought in this war was beyond him. He'd rather be court martialed then have to kill again but when he thought about it, killing was probably the smarter thing to do.
No more will my green sea go turn a darker blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you...
Corporal Enders looked at the inside of his helmet. He had a picture of his wife and daughter stuck inside. He gave a quick prayer to Celestia then placed the helmet on his head.
If I look hard enough into the setting sun
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes...
Gunnery Sergeant Aussie checked the sights on his scope. Though most fighting happened so close that sniper rifles were impractical, he still couldn't bear to part with his rifle. He pulled out a white feather from his slouch hat and gave it a lucky kiss before placing it back on the hat.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colours anymore I want them to turn black...
As the group of choppers entered the valley the lead chopper pilot radioed the other pilots. "Two miles out and dropping into the valley" he informed the others and the choppers dipped into the valley.
I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...
Corporal Presell tapped his chest and forehead in beginning of a prayer and quickly prayed to Celestia. He took off his helmet and looked at the picture of Octavia he had kept from when they first started dating. "I love you Tavi" Presell whispered then placed his helmet back on his head. He loosened the fuel valves on the M2 flamethrower and the flamethrower hissed to life. He breathed slowly to himself as he could literally feel the fuel traveling through the handle of the flame rod.
I want to see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as cool...
Private First Class Derpy Hooves looked out to the Everfree jungles and shivered. Never in her life would she think that she'd be fighting in a war. She looked up to the roof of the helicopter and whispered a quick prayer.
I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah...
Sergeant Major Clare lit up a cigar and chuckled to himself as the helicopters got ready to land. Lance Corporal Moon Crater tapped him on the shoulder. "Sir, what do you tell yourself to make you feel less guilt when you kill a zebra?" he asked and Clare thought to himself. "If you love something enough, you'll be willing to kill for it" he told the young stallion as the helicopters landed. Clare was the first to step off the helicopters. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 45: Return to the hill | Third person, Everfree forest, Hill 959:
The platoon gathered around Clare. "Alright, let's move out in a straight line deployment. No sound, eyes open and ears listening" he told the platoon and they nodded as they began to trek up the hill.
The grass was thick and loomed over their heads. The rain had stopped but it made the air muggy and sticky. Several of the ponies rolled up the sleeves on their jackets to allow air flow.
The platoon traveled very quietly and somewhat slowly. They could all hear gunfire chattering near the top of the hill. "Man, I've seen this movie before" Bakers muttered and Enders nodded. "Yeah man and it's getting old" Enders muttered back.
"What do you mean?" Moon Crater asked and Enders looked back to the new recruit. "We've done this before, over half a dozen times" Enders informed the young stallion who gulped at the information.
"And before you say: 'If we've taken it before than why are we taking it again?' I'll tell you why. Because the brass decides that it's important then as soon as we take it, they've found something more important so we give the hill back to the enemy" Bakers told Moon Crater. "Yeah let's just hope this time they'll really keep it" Presell muttered.
"They have to. It's one of the only locations that they can use as a mortar base" Clare told them as they trekked along. Cloud Dasher was on point, he had become accustomed to the jungle over the past month or so and was a good point stallion.
"Man, it's like a friggin furnace down here" Mountain Dew muttered and Hart turned back and nodded. "Yeah babe, it's the dry heat" he whispered jokingly. "Knock it off Hart. This is no time for you to be flirting" Daffodil whispered.
As they continued on up the hill they walked past a slight opening in the grass. A small group of zebras huddled close by and waited for the platoon to make their way in front of them. They were no further than twenty feet away from the platoon.
One of the zebras readied his AK47 and waited for the center of the platoon to pass by. There were only four zebras and there were forty shadow guards in the platoon. The zebras all readied their assault rifles and as the platoon passed they opened fire.
Private Jackson screamed as 7.62x39mm rounds riddled his body. "GET DOWN" Clare yelled and the group immediately dropped to cover. Derpy went to take off into the air but Clare noticed her movements before she could fly away.
Clare lept up and raced over to Derpy then tackled her to the ground. As he was running a stray bullet clipped him in the shoulder and blood no bled onto Derpy who was trapped underneath him as she squirmed to fly away. "Hey calm down, you're going to get yourself killed... just calm down" Clare said soothingly and soon the adrenaline pumped Derpy calmed down enough to think properly.
"I'm sorry, I" she began but Clare nodded. "Don't worry, it happens to most pegasus during their first time" Clare muttered as he rolled off her body and leveled his Thompson towards the grass where he suspected the zebras to be.
"Sergeant major I want a" Daffodil yelled out but suddenly stopped. Clare looked over to where he had heard Daffodil's voice but couldn't spot him through the thick grass. Clare shuffled over to Presell who lay with his hooves over his head. "Hey Presell, see where I'm shooting?" Clare asked and fired the remainder of his drum magazine into the thick grass.
Presell nodded and Clare pointed to his flamethrower. "Burn them to a crisp" Clare ordered and Presell lifted the flamethrower handle. He squeezed the trigger on the handle and a long stream of ignited fluids spat out at the grass where the zebras hid.
The fluid mixture was made mostly of tar and gasoline and whatever it coated would burn at intense temperatures. Several zebras screamed in agonizing pain as they lept to their hooves and tried to extinguish the flames that now engulfed their bodies. The grass had caught fire and was quickly spreading.
Clare looked to the zebras, their skin was peeling and it was hideous to watch their agony. He pulled out his Desert Eagle and gave all four of the zebras a mercy round to the head, ending their suffering.
"Retrieve our dead and move further up the hill as fast as we can. The fire should die out when it reaches the edge of the grass" Clare ordered. "Sir, you better come look" Aussie called out and Clare rushed over. Aussie pointed to Daffodil, he had a bullet hole in the side of his head.
"Fuck... well we can't dwell on it now. Get the dead and let's go" Clare said as he slipped a fresh drum magazine into the Thompson and the group continued on up the hill.
As the platoon ascended up the hill Cloud Dasher motioned for every-pony to sit tight. Soon a battered platoon of elite royal guards trotted down the hill. Some ponies were being carried on stretchers, they had been killed in combat.
The shadow guards gave the royal guards their dead troops to carry down. Lieutenant Blunder walked up to Clare. "Where's your commanding officer?" Blunder asked and Clare let out a deep exhale. "Killed in combat. His body's being brought down with some of the others" Clare replied and Blunder sighed. "Well good luck up there, they're better than ever" Blunder said as he continued down with the rest of his platoon.
"Fuck this!" Lickety said and threw his helmet to the ground. "Hey come on Lickety" Presell pleaded to his friend as Lickety removed his gear. "No, I can't do this anymore. It's stupid" Lickety replied. Aussie walked over. "Lickety what are you doing?" the Australian pony asked. "I'm not going with you, I'm sorry" Lickety replied.
Aussie walked up and put his hoof on Lickety's shoulder. "Listen, Lickety I don't have time for this" Aussie ordered but Lickety's mind wouldn't be changed. "Well than you better move out because I'm not going no matter what you say" Lickety replied.
Clare walked up to the argument. "What's going on here?" Clare asked and Lickety shook his head. "This is so stupid Sarge. We take this hill and ponies die. Then when we finally take the hill we give it right back to the enemy and for what?" Lickety told him. "Those are our orders" Clare said. "For nothing, you know that better than any of us Sarge" Lickety said, almost in tears.
"I'm not gonna sacrifice my life for nothing" Lickety said as he began to walk back down the hill. Clare grabbed him before he could leave. "Now listen, Lickety don't blow a fuse alright. Listen you need a rest or something I'll clear it so you can stay back. But don't go screwing yourself over for this" Clare pleaded. "I don't need a break, I'm done. I'm finished, finished with everything. The zebras, this war... this fucking hill" Lickety replied. Lickety looked to his friends who all looked at him with expressionless faces.
"I'm sorry guys, but I just can't do this anymore" Lickety said sadly. "Alright, platoon move up" Clare said and the platoon began to move up but Aussie walked back down to Lickety with a semi angered face. "Man Lickety, how can you walk out on these stallions? They've always been there for you and now you're just abandoning them?" Aussie said and Lickety shook his head.
Aussie picked up Lickety's radio and handed it to him but Lickety wouldn't take it. "Listen Lickety don't ruin your life, and trust me this will ruin your life" Aussie said as he heaved the radio over his back. "Get down the hill with the wounded. We'll pick you up on the way back" Aussie said and Lickety began to trot back down the hill. But before he could even get a few feet an angry staff sergeant rushed up the hill.
"What's this I hear about some coward refusing to fight" the staff sergeant yelled and Lickety raised his hoof. "That'd be me" he replied and the staff sergeant snarled at him. "Why you cowardly piece of shit. I outta kill you right now" the staff sergeant snarled as he cocked his M16 and pointed it at Lickety's face.
Clare came down like thunder on the staff sergeant and slammed a powerful punch to the side of the stallion's head which knocked him to the ground. The staff sergeant was disoriented and quickly shook of the dizziness that blurred his vision. He looked up to Clare.
"This is my stallion here, this is his family. Now you get out of my house sergeant" Clare snarled at the now frightened staff sergeant. He scurried to his hooves and raced back down the hill towards the rest of his platoon. Clare looked to Lickety and gave him a saddened nod.
"You should have let him do it Sarge. At least then I would've known who did it, and what it was for. But if I die on this hill I won't know who did it. Or what it was for" Lickety said and began to trot back down the hill.
Clare raced back up to the rest of the platoon. The peak was just up ahead and they spread out in preparation for the upcoming battle. Clare motioned for every-pony to spread out then they all crept over the ridge of the peak. Suddenly the Type 99 light machineguns in the machinegun nest lit up like the fourth of July. 7.7x58mm rounds buzzed through the air and chopped away at trees and small thickets.
"Get down, get behind cover" Clare yelled. Ponies did exactly as he ordered and they all returned fire. "Dickens, the 79" Clare yelled out and Corporal Dickens pulled out the M79 and leaned away from cover but no sooner had he leaned away than a 7.7x58mm Type 99 machinegun round struck his shoulder.
Dickens fell to the ground screaming in pain. Clare scrambled over to his injured friend. "It ain't bad Sarge, I can still fight" Dickens cried out in pain. "Not like this you can't. Get back down the hill and wait with the wounded. Don't worry, we won't forget you guys" Clare told him and Dickens handed Clare the M79 grenade belt along with the launcher.
Dickens crawled to the ridge then slipped over and began to hastily trot down the hill. Clare turned his attention to the machinegun nest and fired a 40mm grenade round at it. The round fell short however and erupted a few dozen yards before the machinegun nest. "Aussie can you pick off the machine gunner?" Clare called out. Aussie tried to peak around the tree to snap off a shot but zebras had advanced towards the platoon and shot wildly at Aussie.
Aussie ducked behind the tree. "No way Sarge, we'll have to get rid of those zebras first" Aussie called back. "Bakers, get on them with the M60" Clare yelled. Bakers tried to mount the M60 but the machinegun nest spotted him and fired at him. Bakers ducked behind the fallen log. "They got me pinned down Sarge" Bakers yelled back.
Enders lept up but suddenly an explosion from a grenade blew off both his hindlegs and sent him hurtling through the air. Sanderson looked to his friend who screamed in pain. "I got you Enders" Sanderson yelled as he lept up and rushed over to his friend. As Sanderson lifted Enders' body over his shoulder an RPG round struck at his hooves and blew both their bodies into smoldering pieces.
The others who watched their bodies get blown to bits gasped in horror as the bodies seemed to simply disappear. "No... FUCK!" Bakers cried out.
Elsewhere down the hill Lickety Split sat with his journal. He wrote about the war and about Sergeant Major Clare.
'I hate this place. The smell of death is all around. Wounded are being brought down, some will die here because of their wounds. I can't bring myself to kill anymore. I hate myself for killing in the name of Equestria. Sergeant Major Clare says that it's for freedom and liberty but I have yet to see freedom and liberty on this hill. So many of my friends have died on this hill and their faces will haunt my dreams forever. Ponies talk about Clare like he is a hero. I have fought alongside this man. His actions and bravery on the battlefield are without question. He has courage that no-pony could ever dream of having and above all else he is compassionate towards zebras. He doesn't fight to kill, he fights for the freedom of those under the oppression of the communist zebras. He is indeed a hero. Perhaps one day I can share his courage but without the need to kill.'
Lickety looked up from his journal to see Dickens limping down the hill. Lickety put his journal away and quickly trotted over to help his friend find a seat. "Dickens, are you alright?" Lickety asked and he nodded silently.
"I'll be alright" Dickens replied weakly as he sat down and leaned against a tree. "What's it like up there?" Lickety asked and Dickens shook his head sadly. "It's bad man. The zebras are like ghosts. Every-pony is pinned down under that friggin machinegun. Sarge is trying to keep every-pony from losing their cool but ponies are starting to break down yah know" Dickens informed his friend.
Lickety quickly pulled out his water flask and handed it to Dickens who nodded and accepted the water gratefully. Lickety thought to himself and his face saddened greatly. "Damn" he cursed to himself, hating himself for leaving his friends. Lickety quickly got up and grabbed his M16 from the ground and began to trot up the hill.
"See you later Dickens" Lickety said. "Hey Lickety, where are you going?" Dickens asked and he turned back to look at his wounded friend. "Look Dickens, I never believed in this war, I never did and I never will. But I do believe in helping my friends... I guess that's worth fighting for" Lickety said as a smile crept across his face.
Lickety rushed back up the hill to the peak to try and help his friends.
At the peak Clare pointed over to Aussie and Moon Crater. "You two come with me. BAKERS! Supressing fire. HART! Pop some smoke" Clare yelled. The platoon followed his orders and soon Clare led Aussie and Moon Crater around the side of the battlefield.
There was a group of zebras that had taken cover in some thick brush. Clare leveled his Thompson at hip level and sprayed down the group. They screamed as the .45 caliber rounds tore through their bodies and killed them.
The trio continued on ad Clare rushed the trenches. Either the zebras were too surprised at his reckless action or they didn't quite have time to react because they stood there and watched as Clare rushed them. Firing the Thompson from his hip he lept over the trenches. Clare motioned for Aussie and Crater to follow him.
Clare stormed through the trenches and fired his Thompson on any zebras who opposed him. Aussie travelled in the other direction, he had his M25 slung across his back and was utilizing his M1911.
Clare's Thompson ran dry as a zebra lept out at him with a bolt action Arisaka Type 99 rifle. Clare slammed the butt stock of his Thompson against the zebra's face and knocked him to the ground.
Clare pointed to Moon Crater. "Kill him" Clare yelled as he slipped a fresh drum magazine into his sub machinegun then continued to hose down zebras. Moon Crater pointed his M14 Juggernaut at the zebra as the zebra staggered to his feet. He had joined as a marksman for two reasons. One: he was good at it. Two: he figured he'd never get close enough to have to kill a living zebra this close. Fear struck through his body as the zebra rose to his hooves.
The zebra was about to impale Crater with the bayonet on the end of his rifle when Clare lept up behind the zebra and grabbed his head. He pulled the zebra up and slit the zebra's throat with his razor sharp bowie knife. The zebra let out a gag and blood spurted out of his gaping throat wound. Blood sprayed onto Crater's face as he stood there in shock. Clare dropped the zebra's body and grabbed Crater by the shoulder.
"You'll get a hold of this shit eventually. We're all scarred our first time" Clare told the young stallion who nodded fearfully. Suddenly there was an iconic buzzing sound and the trenches seemed like they were being torn apart.
Clare pushed Crater out of the way as 7.62x51mm rounds shredded the trenches apart. The Apache stepped into the trenches in her clad titanium armour and began a slow trot through the trenches. "<Get out of my way>" she yelled in native tongue.
The zebras who didn't move she simply blew apart with her twin M134s as she continued towards Crater and Clare. Clare leaned out from cover and shot at The Apache until his fifty round drum magazine was empty. The Apache returned fire but Clare had already ducked back behind cover. Moon Crater swallowed his fear and leaned out, he pulled back the trigger on his M14 Juggernaut but even the powerful rounds from his rifle failed to penetrate her armour.
Clare pulled Moon Crater back behind cover just as The Apache opened fire. Moon Crater looked to Clare. "Thanks" he said and Clare nodded. "Don't mention it, we'll probably be dead in a few second anyways" Clare chuckled as he cocked back the charging bolt on his Thompson.
There was a war cry and several gunshots. Clare looked to see Aussie leap through the air and land on The Apache's back. Aussie fired the remainder of his magazine into the back of her helmet but the bullets failed to penetrate.
The Apache slammed their bodies against the side of the trench and Aussie fell off her back. The Apache turned her aim to the Australian pony. Aussie was holding a live grenade. "Rest in pieces bitch" he chuckled and The Apache's eyes went wide as the grenade exploded and engulfed their bodies in the eruption.
Clare covered his head as debris cluttered to the ground. The zebras in the trenches had realized their presence and now fired at Clare and Moon Crater. "Well this is shitty. Pinned down behind enemy lines" Clare muttered.
At the peak of the hill Lickety rushed up the hill and lept down beside Hart. "What's going on?" he asked and Hart turned to him. "Shit... Lickety!" Hart exclaimed, happy to see his friend. "Well, the Sarge is pinned down right now in those trenches and we're pinned down here. So we're in a little bit of a predicament" Hart said.
Lickety nodded then gulped. "Lay down some smoke" Lickety ordered and Hart scrunched his nose. "Why?" he asked and Lickety just shook his head. "Just do it before I change my mind" Lickety ordered. Hart did what he said and tossed two M18 smoke grenades down range.
When the smoke screen formulated in front of the machinegun nest Lickety lept up and rushed the nest head on. Several zebras yelled in native tongue and pointed their rifles at Lickety. Lickety quickly snapped his aim to the zebras and cut them down with several bursts from his M16.
Back in the trenches, Clare fired his Thompson at a group of zebras who were trying to rush them. The Thompson hosed down the group with a steady stream of bullets. The zebras howled in pain as they fell to the ground.
Several zebras approached Clare from behind and tried to sneak up on him. Moon Crater saw them and quickly snapped his assault rifle up. Before his mind could contemplate killing, he simply pulled the trigger and the gun chattered as it spat out 7.62x51mm rounds. The zebras' bodies twisted and turned as the assault rifle chugged out lead death. Their bodies fell to the ground in a bloody mess and Moon Crater was filled with shock as he realized he had just killed his first couple zebras.
Clare looked back to see at least half a dozen dead zebras then looked to Moon Crater who was holding the still smoking M14 Juggernaut. Clare tapped him on the shoulder. "Quick learner" he chuckled.
Lickety Split ejected the spent magazine and loaded a fresh one. He quickly snapped his aim to some zebras and shot them down before they noticed he was there. They screamed as the M16's 5.56mm rounds chewed through them.
Lickety grabbed the satchel charge from his waist saddle and activated it. He tossed the satchel charge into the machinegun nest then lept up and began to run back to the others who hid behind cover. Suddenly a stray machinegun round clipped Lickety in the side.
He screamed as he fell to the ground. "Moon Crater: run back to cover. I got Lickety" Clare said as he realized his friend was back in action but was now wounded within the blast radius of the satchel charge.
Moon Crater lept up and rushed back around the sides of the battlefield as Clare rushed over to his wounded friend. The smoke was started to clear but it wouldn't matter. Clare heaved Lickety over his shoulder then ran back to the others. The machine gunner tried to shoot Clare down but missed and shot up dirt just inches behind Clare's feet.
Just as the satchel charge erupted, Clare lept over a fallen tree that was being used for cover. He lay there with the wounded Lickety Split who had received another bullet wound in the upper chest.
"Hey Lickety, you saved our asses up here man. We wouldn't have been able to take the hill if it wasn't for you" Clare said and Lickety chuckled painfully. "Lickety, we took Hill 959. We took it thanks to you" Bakers said with a heartwarming smile. "Alright some-pony get him a stretcher out of here" Clare ordered and two ponies trotted over and placed Lickety on the stretcher.
"Will he be okay?" Clare asked and one of the medics nodded. "Yeah, he'll live but his war days are over I can tell you that" the medic said as the Lickety's body was being trotted away. "Hey Sarge, see if you guys can hold onto the hill this time" Lickety said as the medics trotted his body away.
Clare nodded and smiled, damn right they'd be keeping the hill this time. "Alright, Hart get on the radio with HQ. Tell them we've taken Hill 959" Clare ordered as they all walked over to the trenches.
Clare looked for Aussie's body but amongst all the destruction he couldn't find it. He looked for The Apache's body but couldn't find that either. "All right, I want every-pony getting dug in" Clare ordered but Hart interrupted him.
"Forget it" Hart said and Clare gave him an uneasy look. "Why?" he asked and Hart heaved the radio onto his back. "HQ in Canterlot has deemed this spot unessential. They want us all to retreat back down the hill for helicopter extraction" Hart said depressingly.
"FUCK!" Bakers yelled as he kicked over a burning piece of wood. "Hey Hart... you gotta be joking man, this is some kind of joke right?" Clare asked but Hart shook his head. "Man this is fucking bullshit" Bakers yelled. "Alright... I'm only gonna say this once so listen good. Every-pony mount up. We're heading back down the hill" Clare ordered and the ponies of the shadow guard began to trot back down the hill. They were depressed and angry.
Clare stood on the peak of the hill for just a few moments longer and smelt the burning smoke of the machinegun nest. Clare sighed to himself then followed the rest of the platoon down the hill.
Elsewhere, The Apache staggered through the jungles. Her armour had been totalled from the grenade blast and she had suffered some bad cuts and shrapnel wounds but she had potions back at her makeshift shack that would heal all her injuries. She smiled to herself as she held the hat of the Australian hunter. She laughed silently to herself as she gave a kiss to the small skull pendant around her neck. It was her luck charm that she always kissed before and after a hunt.
It was her lucky pendant that had yet to fail her. She continued on down the thick brush towards her shack. She had lost most of her armour plating but had a good idea for something she might try during a future engagement. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 46: Prayers and apologies | SGM. Clare, Canterlot military base:
The helicopters landed and we disembarked them. Most of the mares and stallions were pretty steamed about this whole pre-battle operation that was a success but at the same time it was an utter failure.
"Alright, I want every-pony to get lots of rest tonight. Oh and there's some kind of get together at the royal castle tonight" I told the platoon but they were too exhausted and pissed off to care. I couldn't blame them, I too was mad but unlike them I had learned over the years that was how war worked. You win some but you lose some at the same time.
I walked along to the grave yard where ponies were putting up posts for their fallen comrades. I saw Presell weeping by a post that I figured was probably for Enders. I walked up to him and knelt down beside him. "Hey... is this Enders?" I asked and Presell nodded. "I couldn't even find the ring man... I can't even give his wife anything to keep to remember him by" he wept and I reached into my pocket and pulled out The Distinguished Service Cross.
The Distinguished Service Cross was one of the highest honourable medals a service stallion/mare could receive. I took his hoof and lifted it up. I put the Service Cross in his palm and nodded. "Give that to Enders wife" I said then stood up and walked away. Shining Armor was looking at me.
I walked along through the military base and Captain Shining Armor trotted up to me. "Sergeant Major, can I speak with you?" he asked and I stopped to talk with him. "Whatcha need?" I asked and he sighed. "It's about tomorrow, I don't know if I can do it" he told me and I gave him a nod. "Don't worry, I'll be right next to you to help you command the troops if you need my help" I reassured him but he shook his head.
"I meant actually going over there. I just turned into a dad yesterday and now I could die tomorrow" he said and I sighed deeply. "Well, if that's the case come with me" I said as I continued to walk towards the exit of the military base.
"Where are you going?" he asked and I looked over to him. "To church. Pray to god for forgiveness and what not" I said and he shook his head. "I know the goddess of Equestria personally. If I had anything I needed to tell her I would just go talk to her personally" he told me and I chuckled.
"I didn't mean Celestia. I meant god. Like the ruler of heaven, the place you go after you die" I told him and he gave me a curious look. "Trust me, sometimes just going to church and praying gets a load off your mind" I told him as we left the base and continued down the streets of Canterlot.
"Anyway on a lighter note. Where's your wedding ring?" I asked and he pulled out a ring that dangled from a necklace around his neck. "I keep it on this necklace. If I ever lost this ring, Cadence would kick my ass across Equestria and back" he stated and we both chuckled.
We arrived at the church and entered. "Okay, wash your hooves in the holy water" I said as I dabbed my hands in the holy water dish then dried them with the white towel next to the bowl. As Shining washed his hooves he looked to me. "What's so 'holy' about this water?" he asked and I shrugged. "I don't know, the priest must praise it or something cause I see him fill up that dish with the garden hose out back" I told him and he looked at the water.
"So basically I'm just washing my hands with water gotten from a garden hose outback?" he asked and I nodded. He shook his head in disappointment and laughed as we walked up to the front of the church altar. No-pony was in the church but us, not even the priests or fathers. I guess every-pony was saying goodbye to their loved ones tonight.
We knelt before the candles around the cross statue of Jesus Christ. "Who is he?" Shining asked and I shrugged. "I don't know. They say his name was Jesus Christ and that he sacrificed his life to make up for the sins of everyone. I'm not sure if it's true or not but either way, people and ponies worship him" I said as I clasped my hands together.
"Follow my prayer" I said and Shining nodded as we began a prayer. "Dear lord, forgive us our sins, atone us for our anger and frustration as we kneel before you and ask for your forgiveness" I prayed and Shining echoed my prayer.
"We kneel before you not as soldiers but as a man and a stallion, begging for your forgiveness. Please in our time of darkness aid us by showing us the light, please watch over our families as we leave to make peace. We apologize for we must sin to preserve peace in the world. If you can find it in your heart to forgive us than please, we beg of you. Show us the light. Amen" I whispered and Shining chanted my prayer as well.
I stood up and Shining followed me. "Is that it?" he asked and I nodded. "Did he hear us?" he asked and I shrugged. "Who knows? Christianity could just be a legend that was passed down from generation to generation as folklore and eventually made its way into society as a way of life" I said as we walked away from the Altar. "You know, you're right. I feel a little better" Shining informed me, I gave him a pat on the shoulder.
We walked back into the streets then proceeded to the Canterlot royal castle. "So Clare, tell me. Who are the Joint Task Force Two?" Shining asked and I gave him a curious look. "Why?" I asked and Shining took out a script of paper.
"Well because Celestia said that they, along with these other groups, will be helping us tomorrow during our battle" he said and handed me the script of paper. My jaw dropped in pure astonishment. On the paper Celestia, or whoever had written it, had written a small piece of information.
'Dear Captain Shining Armor, tomorrow you will be commanding the Equestrian army as they engage the communist zebra army. I order you to order your stallions and mares not to fire upon humans in the area. I have signed an agreement with the planet Earth's leaders and they have agreed to help us in our time of need. The groups that they are sending have called themselves: The Joint Task Force Two, 75th Ranger Regiment, Delta Force, SOCOM Navy Seals, Special Air Services (SAS) and Spetsnaz. Please inform Clare of this and he will give you more details'
My jaw simply stayed gapped open. There was no way. No way in hell. Well maybe. "So..." Shining trailed off as he watched me stare in pure amazement at the script of paper. "They... they are the best. They're the best of the best. I can't believe that Russia, Canada, USA, and Britain would actually all work together to help Equestria though. It's insane" I said and he looked to me.
"So they're good?" he asked and I nodded. "Fuckin A they're good. They're better than good, they're just unreal" I said and his eyes widened. "Well, anyway. I guess we should be getting to that ceremony thing. Cadence is out of the hospital and she wants to spend some time with me before tomorrow" Shining said as we walked through the streets of Canterlot.
Finally we arrived at the Canterlot royal castle and I could tell that festivities were high despite the depressing times. "Well Shining, I'll see you later" I said and he smiled. "You're not coming out back to dance?" he asked and I raised an eyebrow. "Cadence can dance right now? She just gave birth yesterday" I replied and he nodded.
"Alright, I'll meet you back there" I said then walked into the castle and to the change rooms. If it was a party then I had to look spiffy. I opened my change locker and grabbed my dress uniform. I quickly changed and made sure I looked presentable then walked back out to the castle hallways.
I began walking to the garden and I finally had time to think to myself. What the hell had caused this war anyways? I quickly shook off the thought and thought of more appealing things but all I could think about was negative things. I stopped thinking and focused my mind on Luna.
I walked out into the royal garden where ponies danced with each other. There were even some humans about, some civilian, others military. "Sergeant Major Clare" Celestia called out and I looked over to see Celestia with a few human soldiers. Celestia said a few things to the humans then they walked away to join the festivities.
I walked over and gave her a salute. "Put that hand down" she ordered and extended her hoof. "Gonna break my hand?" I asked jokingly and she sighed depressingly and lowered her hoof. "Sergeant, please don't make this any harder than it already is" she said and I could tell she was holding back her tears.
"Listen Celestia, I'm a good listener. If you want a shoulder to cry on, I'm here. Just don't stab me in the back" I chuckled and she tried even harder to keep her tears back. "Please Sergeant Major... enough with the jokes... This is very difficult for me" she said, stifling her crying that I knew would probably end up happening by the end of our conversation.
"Alright... lay it on me" I replied and she tried to speak her apology. "Sergeant... I... I almost killed you in my anger... and my sister... I was just trying to do what was best... but I... I..." she trailed off as tears began to seep out of her eyes. She went to turn away but I grabbed her and held her close to my chest as she began to cry.
"Shh, hush now. It's alright, it's alright" I cooed as she began to cry into my shoulder. My dress jacket's shoulder became soaked with tears and I could feel the wetness on my skin. Jeeze it was like she had never cried before and only now was she just letting it all out.
Several ponies and humans stopped and looked over to us. I motioned for them not to pay attention and leave us alone. Ponies and humans went back to their activities as I held Celestia and swayed our bodies back and forth. "Sergeant... I almost killed everyone I hold dear... I almost killed you... I can understand if you never forgive me but I swear from the bottom of my heart that I'm sorry" she sobbed, he voice was somewhat muffled by my jacket.
"I forgive you" I said casually and she immediately pulled back when she heard the comment. She gazed into my eyes with her own teary eyes. "What?" she asked, shocked that I had forgave her so easily. I chuckled and stifled a laugh. "Why are you forgiving me so easily?" she asked and I shrugged.
"Well considering that I usually am faced with death several times a day, one near death experience doesn't bother me" I replied. "But... but I almost killed you and Luna" she said, why she was arguing that I forgave her was beyond me.
"Yeah well lots of zebras try to kill me all the time and it doesn't bother me... but I usually end up killing them" I told her and she continued to look into my eyes as I tried to explain my reasoning. "So why did you spare me?" she asked. "Well because you're you... and because I kind of like you, trust me if I didn't like you I would've killed you" I said jokingly and she sighed. "Clare you are to kind" she said as she rested her head against my chest and sniffled.
"Nah, I'm just a guy trying to get along" I said as I brushed my hand through her silky mane. Eventually we both stepped back from the embrace and I held out my hand. "Let's live and let live. I figure that we ought to put the past behind us and move forward as friends not enemies" I offered and she shook my hand. "Thank you" she whispered softly and I nodded.
"Well if you don't mind I have a certain beautiful night princess to dance with" I said as I looked around for Luna and spotted her in a beautiful blue gown. "She's lucky to have you" Celestia whispered and I shook my head. "Nah, I'm lucky to have her. She could've chosen any guy or stallion but for some reason she chose me of all guys. I assure you that I am the lucky one" I said as I walked away, giving her a wave.
I walked over to Luna who stood there alone. As I approached she stepped forward. "Ms. Luna, if I could have the honours?" I asked politely and she nodded. She lept to her hind legs and we stood face to face. I held her right hoof in my left hand and wrapped my right arm around her waist as we slow danced.
"How long will this last?" she asked. "Not long, those military groups that offered to help are really top notch" I told her but she shook her head. "I meant tonight?" she asked and I thought to myself. "As long as we make it last" I whispered. She nodded as she rested her head against my chest. We danced until 9:30 then decided it was time to go inside. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 47: Night before | SGM. Clare:
I walked with Luna through the castle until we arrived at her room. The castle was empty for the most part, a few janitors here and there but mostly empty. We entered her room and she flicked off the lights that lit her room and we were encased in the illumination of the moon.
She slowly undid the back of her dress and it fluttered to the ground. I had seen her without clothes before, hell she usually didn't wear any, but the sight of her without her dress aroused me heavily. I stood there like a fool and my face reddened as I blushed.
"I know we haven't seen each other in a few days but you really did miss me didn't you?" she asked and I nodded. Outside the sound of festivities filled the air but I could care less. The shining moon beams made her mane sparkle and her eyes seemed to gleam as I stepped towards her, unbuttoning my dress jacket.
As I stepped in front of her she hopped up to her hindlegs and wrapped her forelegs around my head and back as we began to make out furiously. As we made out I pulled off my white undershirt and let it drop to the ground. I led our bodies over to the bed and gently lay our bodies on the bed.
There were fireworks outside that boomed in the air. Cool they even had fireworks. I began to slide off my pants and underwear and finally lay naked on top of her. I was about line myself up with her when she broke away from the kiss. "Ah-ah-ah, first you have to tell me what you're going to do to me" she giggled and I laughed at the playfulness. She always had a great sense of humor that made me love her even more.
"So, a challenge huh?" I asked and she nodded. "You really want me to tell you what I'm going to do, or would you rather me just do it and it be a surprise?" I asked and she kissed my then pulled back. "Tell me, tell me that you love me and what you're going to do to my irresistible body" she whispered seductively.
"I love you and well I think... first I'll trail my wet tongue down your body and slowly, slowly, make my way to your breasts. I'll give your perky breasts the satisfaction they've always needed then I'll slide my tongue down to your wet needy pussy. I'll gently caress your clit as I slip my tongue around your slit and as you scream for me to finish you I'll stick my tongue deep inside you as deep as I can go and push you over the edge" I whispered as I began to kiss the side of her neck.
"Oh you think it will be that easy?" she asked and I gave her a sly grin. "Oh, I think I have an unfair advantage over you" I told her and she looked at me with aroused curiosity. "Oh you do? And what would that be?" she asked and I gave her horn a quick lick from the base and trailed all the way up to her tip and gave it a quick kiss.
She screamed in the pure sexual pleasure from the very sudden sensual touch. "Hey that's... ngh... that's cheating" she said through a slight moan. "Not really" I told her. "Oh fine, than this isn't cheating either" she said and her horn flared up. I wondered what she was... I felt a tingly misty feeling around my erection and looked to see that she had my erected penis encased with her magic. Her magical aurora mist surrounded my shaft and gave it a tingly feeling.
"So... a battle of endurance huh?" I asked and she nodded as I began to feel her magic work wonders on my shaft. Damn, it felt weird like... like it was wet yet at the same time it didn't actually physically get me wet and I stayed dry. It felt amazing too, like I was actually having sex with a vagina yet at the same time my mind reminded me that it was just magic, or whatever.
I subsided the sudden mystic feeling that now encased my crotch and began to trail my tongue down her neck. She giggled from the feeling and she slowly trailed her hooves up and down my back and up the sides of my body.
As she continued to stroke me with her magic mist I trailed my tongue down her stomach area, she let out a slight pleasured moan. I reached her breast which I began to caress very gently and lightly sucked on each one. "Oh yes... Clare, please don't stop" she whispered and I obliged her.
I could tell that she enjoyed it because every so often her magic wouldn't function quite right and the magic would disappear but soon reappear. She let out quiet moans of pleasure as I continued to suck on her breasts.
I stopped suckling her tits and began to slide my tongue down her body towards her nether region. My tongue began to trail down her body and finally made my way to her nether region. Her wet sex let off an arousing fragrance that made my nose twitch.
I just wanted to crawl on top of her and rut her but I held my urges back and began to lick around her lower lips. Her entrance clenched as I trailed my wet tongue around it, I could tell she wanted me inside of her as badly as I did but for some reason I had gotten a sudden urge of playfulness.
Her magic started to dissipate more frequently and I could tell it was hard for her to concentrate. I let out a sly smile as I slide my tongue to the bottom part of her slit and slide my tongue straight up the center of her pussy. The taste of her pussy juices tingled my taste buds as I allowed myself to enter her beautiful marehood by only a few millimeters.
Luna let out a cry of pleasure as my tongue slid up her needy cunt but as I reached her clitoris I gave it a quick kiss and she let out a cry of sexual arousal. I began to slide my tongue down and around her entrance but edged closer and closer to her folds. Her magic began to fade but then quickly returned as she began to lose her concentration even further.
She let out several stifled moans as she tried harder and harder to concentrate, doing her absolute best to beat me in our little competition. She shifted her body several times as she stroked my erection with her misty magic.
She tried to stifle her moans but soon her magic dissipated and never returned. "Ahhh... Clare I..." she trailed off as she let out a loud scream. As her orgasm began to course through her body I slid my tongue into her pussy, her vagina was clenched tight and it was somewhat difficult for me to get my tongue inside of her. As I finally slid my tongue inside her incredibly tight pussy I felt her inner walls squeezing my tongue.
She continued to scream as I kept my tongue inside her but began to suck on her 'fun button' and drove her orgasm to a whole new level. Suddenly a blast of feminine cum filled my mouth, I embraced the sudden blast of cum and swallowed it. Her cum still tasted sweet like honey. He cum was constant and I couldn't swallow it all, soon I choked on her steady flow and pulled back as I began to gag.
Luna was still in the midst of the orgasm as I hacked and some of her cum drooled out of my mouth. She finally came to and looked to me as I was gagging. "Oh my goddess, Clare I am so sorry" she apologized but I waved my hand. "No, no it's okay... I love it when you cum...(hack) it's just I think...(gag) I think some got in my lungs" I laughed through my gagging.
It felt like sticky water was in my lungs but finally I stopped choking on her cum and took a deep breath. Luna looked to me worriedly. "What? I'll be fine. I mean worse things have happened than me choking. But choking from cum was a first" I chuckled then quickly tackled her onto her back.
"Oh my, a little jumpy are we?" she giggled and I quickly pressed my lips up against hers. I quickly shifted my body but she stopped me. She pulled away from the kiss. "I want to try something" she whispered. "Shoot" I offered and she rolled our bodies over so that she was on top of me.
"Want to be the dominant one eh?" I chuckled and she rose her body up so that she was in a cowgirl position. "Where's the hat?" I said jokingly and she scrunched her nose. "Well you know because this is the cowgirl position and... ah never mind" I muttered but she leaned over and grabbed a Stetson hat from the nightstand. Wait what the hell, she had a Stetson hat. Oh who cares, it's kinky as hell.
She placed the hat on her head. "Where you hoping for something like this?" she asked, she was like a seductress. "I was, oh god Luna. I love you so much" I whispered. She steadied herself and lined up the tip of my shaft with her entrance. As my tip touched he entrance we both gasped in pleasure. Then she slowly slid herself down my entire length.
She began to slide herself up and down my shaft as she allowed herself to moan wildly. The sounds of festivities that entered the room where drowned out by Luna's loud moans and screams as she rode me like a bucking bull.
I began to buck my hips in synchronization of her sliding. Her moans soon became louder than stopped completely as she began to scream uncontrollably. I felt her inner walls tighten around my cock as she slowed her strides. She gasped as the orgasm riddled her body and she arched her back forwards and let out a long pleasured scream of sexual ecstasy.
I continued to thrust myself inside her and the tightness of her pussy duplicated the pleasure that I experienced. Her orgasm passed but she was still very sensitive and bite her lip as she let out a stifled moan. I continued to thrust myself into her love tunnel and brought her to the brink of another orgasm and just as she reached her peak I slowed myself. She cried out in sheer pleasure once again and fell onto my chest.
I could feel her pussy retracting around my erection that was now buried deep inside her. Her breathing was heavy and her body trembled as her third orgasm passed. I began to thrust her again and she let out a whispering moan.
"Please, Clare slow down... you're going to make me cum again if you don't slow down" she moaned and I slowed my pace to a very slow sliding motion. She let out a sigh of pleasure as she lay atop of me and began to slide herself against my slow strides. She would slide down my shaft as I slid deeper into her, and slide away as I pulled back.
The feeling was incredible. I felt pressure begin to build in my cock as I continued to slowly thrust her. She let out quiet moans as we continued our slow pace.
Soon she began to pick up the pace and I brought my face up to hers and began to lick the base of her horn.
Her moans became louder as I licked her sensitive horn. I could tell she was close and so was I. I kicked myself into overdrive as I began to thrust like a wild bull and she laid my body back down flat on the bed as she rode my shaft. She held her hat like a rodeo rider does and held her second hoof held my chest to keep herself balanced.
As I felt myself come to my climax her pussy tightened around my cock and I grunted then let out a deep moan of pleasure. "Do it Clare... cum inside me" she said through heavy moans. She let out a scream as she arched her back forwards and her body tensed up. I gave a few erratic thrusts then with one final deep thrust I buried myself into her deepest depth and released.
My penis shot out blasts of cum into her pussy and I began to slowly thrust her and she returned the thrusts with slow strides. Cum mixed with her own juices leaked out of her soaking wet slit that was stuffed with my cock. The liquids dripped onto my groin and onto the bedsheets. I could feel myself still twitching inside of her as she lay down on my chest with my twitching cock still inside of her.
"I love you Clare" she whispered, we were both exhausted. "I love you too" I whispered back and set my alarm on my watch for 3:30am then fell asleep with Luna resting on top of me. I was too tired to bother pulling out of her and figured I'd roll over in my sleep some time.
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Third person, Canterlot royal garden:
Moon Crater and Cloud Dasher conversed with each other and the other platoon members. "Excuse me for a moment gentlecolts" Presell said as he walked over to a very pregnant Octavia who was standing next to Lyra Heartstrings. "Oh yeah, me too" Hart said and followed Presell over to the two mares.
"No fuckin way man" Bakers said with a smile as the two platoon members conversed with the mares then they all walked back over to the platoon. "Tavi, these are my friends" Presell said introducing her to the team. They all nodded as she shook their hooves.
"And Lyra these are also my friends" Hart said and Lyra shook their hooves as well. "No way, I thought you were bullshitting me... you're dating the one and only Lyra Heartstrings?" Bakers exclaimed and Hart nodded. "You guys didn't think I was bullshitting you did you?" he asked sarcastically, knowing they did think he was a bull shitter for the most part.
Moon Crater looked away from the conversing ponies and he was nearly blinded, not literally, by the radiance of a beautiful gray pegasus with cross eyes. "Hey guys... uhm, I'm gonna go" Crater said as he began to walk away from the group. "Yeah, see yah tomorrow Crater" Dasher called out.
Moon Crater walked up to Derpy Hooves and took a deep gulp. "Uhm... hey uh Derpy?" he asked and the cross eyed pegasus looked to him. "Oh hey Moon Crater" she replied then looked back to the condiment table and grabbed some pastries. "Here try these, they're really good" Derpy said in her funky voice.
"Uhm thanks" Moon Crater said as he ate a butter tart. Moon Crater took another deep gulp. "Hey uhm Derpy, are you dating anyone?" he asked shyly and Derpy shook her head. "Nope, most of my coltfriends usually ditch me for cuter mares" Derpy replied casually.
"Cuter mares... but there aren't any cuter mares" Moon Crater stammered. "Ha, you're funny. Of course there are cuter mares. My last relationship ended because he fell for Rarity. She seems to have a way of making stallions follow her around like obedient dogs" she told him.
"Derpy I... uhm... will you dance with me?" Moon Crater asked and her face reddened as she blushed. Moon Crater shied away a little and tried to cover his own blush. "Sure" Derpy replied and clumsily jumped at Moon Crater, tackling both their bodies to the ground. She wasn't much of a dancer and ended up crashing both their bodies to the ground but Moon Crater didn't care, to him Derpy was the perfect mare.
Hart laughed. "Yeah Bakers, how bout that time that crazy old bat of a zebra gave you some poison joke and said it would get rid of your stomach cramps but it ended up giving you diarrhea" Hart chuckled and Bakers blushed as the two mares that now accompanied the platoon members giggled. "Yeah well... it was an accident, but I'll never do that again" Bakers replied modestly then a voice called out to them.
"Well sure you will because that crazy bat called Zecora gave you that potion that got rid of your diarrhea but gave you constipation" said the voice and they all looked over to see Lickety Split hopping over to them in crutches.
"LICKETY!" Dickens yelled out and rushed over to his friend and squeezed him tightly. "AAAAHHHG" Lickety yelled in pain. He was still in pain from the gunshot wounds. "Oh shit, sorry man" Dickens apologized and Lickety nodded. "Hey man, I'm still a little fragile you know" Lickety laughed and Dickens nodded as the others came over to converse with the wounded Lickety Split.
"So I hear you guys are heading into the valley tomorrow" Lickety said and Bakers nodded. "Well good luck, I wish I could go with you guys but I'm inactive at the moment. Hey give them hell for me eh" Lickety said and the others nodded as the night festivities continued on. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 48: Goodby kiss | Third person:
Clare awoke from the annoying beeping of his watch. He quickly turned off the watch and quietly slid out from underneath Luna. "I'm sorry Luna, but I have to go" Clare said as he gave a gentle kiss to her forehead then a very slow and gentle kiss to her mouth. She stirred a bit but never awoke. Clare couldn't bear to wake her because he knew that saying goodbye would be very difficult and saddening and that he had a time schedule to follow. 'Should have set the alarm for three' he thought to himself. He felt bad for not waking her and saying goodbye but he couldn't bring himself to wake her.
He walked out of the room and quietly closed the door behind him. He walked through the hallways quickly, not wearing a single garment of clothing and made his way to the change room. There he opened his change locker and pulled out his duster coat, the Stetson hat, his trousers and all his other clothing that he usually wore when protecting Luna. He slipped his iconic S&W 500 into his chest holster and the newly acquired Desert Eagle .50 AE into a hip holster.
He slipped on the clothes then quickly made his way to the armoury. The armoury receptionist wasn't there and Clare helped himself. He got the battle harnesses he required and found a crate possessing a brand new Thompson M1928. He cracked open the crate and slung it across his back. The great think about this armoury was they cleaned the guns before putting them up for the taking.
He grabbed several loaded drum magazines along with thirty round stick magazines and placed them in the chest harness magazine holders. Clare grabbed another Desert Eagle and some extra magazines and put it in the second hip holster. He was about to leave when he remembered that he hadn't found The Apache's body on Hill 959. He looked back to a Model 70, .300 Winchester Magnum.
He walked over and grabbed the bolt action rifle along with some ammo. He had begun to weight himself down but he figured better safe than sorry. He unslung the Thompson and held it in one hand, the sling dangling about as he left the armoury and proceeded towards the exit of the castle.
In Luna's royal bedroom, Luna awoke as she realized Clare's body was no longer next to hers. She quickly lept up and rushed out to the balcony stairway then flew down to the doorway of the entrance. She rushed out onto the streets of Canterlot but Clare was nowhere to be seen. A lone tear trickled down her face as she watched the dark lone streets of Canterlot. The streets gave off a cold feeling.
Clare arrived at the military base where he stood by the helipad alone. Soon Shining Armor and the others arrived. "I couldn't say goodbye... I left without waking her" Shining muttered to himself and Clare nodded. "Yeah me too" he said as a helicopter descended onto the helipad. Several others followed it to other helipads.
"We're flying over to the forward firing base then we'll be dropped into the valley" Shining called over the sounds of the propellers. The group embarked the helicopters and they departed for the forward base of operations.
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SGM. Clare, forward firing base:
I stood with Shining Armor as the General briefed us. "You'll then take you company and move them deeper into the valley and up this hill where their command base is. Good luck gentlecolts" he said and we both gave him a salute.
"Sir, what about the human forces?" I asked and he looked to me. "They're being dropped on the opposite side of the valley to take this position here" he said and pointed to a larger hill, almost a mountain by the elevation readings on the map. I gave him a nod than both Shining and I left the office.
We walked through the grass that needed to be cut and approached the barbed wire fence. I pulled out two fat Cuban cigars and lit them, handing one to Shining and kept one for myself. We sat there for about an hour and smoked the cigars together.
"You know I don't smoke" Shining said as he puffed on the cigar. "Yeah and neither do I" I said sarcastically. "It's going to be hell in there" Shining muttered and I nodded. He looked down to see both my Thompson and my Model 70. "Two guns?" he asked and I nodded. "Need one for close quarters and one for long range" I informed him. He looked at his M16 which was fitted with an ACOG scope.
"You know, these M16s are pretty good" he commented and I frowned. "Nah, they're plastic. Feels like a BB gun. I think I'll stick with my Thompson" I told him and he chuckled. "Think we'll get close enough to use that?" he asked and I looked to him with a raised eyebrow. "I don't know sir, you tell me" I chuckled, he knew as well as I did that there was going to be cases where the zebras were going to be literally breathing down our throats.
"I'm just saying they're good is all" Shining replied and I chuckled as I took one last large puff on the cigar then tossed it to the ground and stomped it out. "Come time I need one sir, there'll be plenty lying on the ground" I said and he nodded as he too put out his cigar. "Well... I guess we should do what we came here to do" he muttered and we walked over to the helipad where the helicopters were just starting up.
I could see fear in a lot of ponies' eyes. "Platoon! Mount up!" I yelled over the sound of the rotor engines. I was in charge of the platoon that used to be under Daffodil's command, they hadn't found a replacement but that didn't bother me. I could easily command the platoon.
We all embarked on the helicopters and they began to depart for the deep Everfree valley. Several ponies gave silent prayers and I looked around to the frightened faces of several ponies in the helicopter I rode in.
The helicopters all thundered over the valley treetops, their rotors gave out a low rumbling as we passed overhead. I heard my helicopter pilot talk into the radio. "Four miles out and dropping into the depths of the valley" he called out.
The helicopters dipped into a narrow valley and continued on overhead. The scenery was beautiful and if it wasn't for the war than I'd feel at peace. "Sir..." a young private asked and I looked back to him. Sweat was pouring down his face and he was shaking in fear. "We're all scarred the first time... just try not to think about it" I told him. He nodded then I turned back to watch the scenery.
The helicopters entered a large field and began to set down. I stepped out of the helicopter before it fully landed and I was the first to set foot on the battlefield. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 49: Not as planned | SGM. Clare, First platoon, the Everfree valley:
We set down a defensive perimeter and I motioned for every-pony in my platoon to move out. We were to stay close to Captain Shining Armor for most of the mission while he commanded the others with the radio set.
"Alright, third platoon. Move out" Shining called out and the group known as third platoon got up and hastily went to secure a position by the treeline. "Sir we should have second platoon stay back with us and secure a landing zone" I told Shining and he nodded. "Good idea, second platoon round up" Shining called out and the group known as second platoon regrouped.
"I want a secure landing zone for the next group of helicopters, they'll be here in two hours so let's get dug in" Shining ordered and they nodded. "Three platoons in hostile territory waiting for the next helicopters to show up with reinforcements" I muttered and Shining chuckled. "Yeah, sixty stallions and mares that pretty much are exposing their throats for the zebras to slit open" he muttered back.
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Sergeant Caramel, Third platoon, treeline:
I trotted with the rest of the platoon then we saw a zebra get up and point at us as screamed something in native tongue. "Shit, chase him. He's probably a scout" Lieutenant Cracks yelled.
Cracks began to run foolishly after the young and spiteful zebra. "Wait, lieutenant!" I yelled as we all followed the lieutenant after the zebra teen.
Our packs all rattled as we chased down the zebra. Despite the zebras having a head start on Cracks, he managed to catch up to the zebra and tackle him to the ground. Cracks slammed the zebra to the ground and clacked him in the head with the stock of his rifle.
"Alright you little shit, where's the other zebras?" Cracks asked and he started talking in zebra tongue. "James, what's he saying?" Cracks asked. Corporal James walked up and listened to the zebra sputtering out the words.
"He says that this entire place is crawling with zebras sir. Says we're as good as chopped liver" James informed Cracks who motioned for the radio operator to come over.
He grabbed the headset and radioed Shining. "Sir? It's First Lieutenant Cracks, third platoon. I got this hostage sir, what should I do with" Cracks began but suddenly a lone shot whizzed through the air and blew a hole right through his skull.
"Contact!" Master Sergeant Walkers yelled. We all got down as the air was filled with the sound of gunshots. Bullets whizzed over our head. "Radio, get me a radio!" Walkers yelled. The radio operator scurried to his hooves but soon a volley of shots riddled his body and he fell to the ground.
Walkers lept up but no sooner had he gotten to his hooves, than a volley of rounds slammed into his lower gut. He fell to the ground. "Every-pony stay down, STAY DOWN!" I yelled.
I crawled over to the body of Master Sergeant Walkers who was coughing up blood. "Sergeant... Walkers" I gasped, knowing his time was short. Gunshots still rang through the air and some of the platoon members fired back. "Tell... tell my wife... I love her" he whispered then soon the life faded from his eyes and he stared blankly into the sky.
"Fuck" I muttered as I crawled through the tall grass and over to the radio. I quickly dialed it in for the artillery boys. "This is Bravo Company, third platoon. I need fire support on... Whiskey Alpha 9-0-9-0-1-5, over" I said into the headset. "Copy that, firing" the radio pony on the other side replied.
Soon the ground shook as massive explosions from 105mm cannon shells erupted through the enemy lines. "Shit, the lieutenant's dead... he's dead" screamed one of the platoon members.
"Alright, get a defensive perimeter set up, we'll get out of here I promise" I promised the platoon members.
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SGM. Clare, First Platoon, landing zone:
Just as the next group of helicopters landed, all hell seemed to break loose. The treeline lit up with muzzle flares. Bullets whizzed through the air and pinged off the helicopters.
The troops aboard the helicopters quickly unloaded. "Wounded?" the pilot asked and I shook my head. "None yet that I know of" I yelled back and he nodded as the helicopters took off.
A radio operator galloped up to us as we all rushed up to the new platoons that just landed. "Sir, third platoon is in a pickle right now. Their officer is dead and they're cut off" the radio operator informed us.
"Fuck" Shining Armor swore as he fired his M16 at the treeline. I charged up to an officer. "Who's in command of fourth and fifth platoon?" I asked over the chattering of gunfire.
Two lieutenants rushed up to me. "We are sir" the said in perfect synchronization. "Alright, take your platoons and go rescue third platoon. They're cut off right here" I said as I pointed to a spot on the map.
"Fourth and fifth platoon, let's move" one of the lieutenants yelled and about forty stallions and mares followed the two lieutenants into the deeper brush off to the side of the battlefield.
"First and second platoon fall back!" I yelled and Shining Armor looked to me with a puzzled face. "Trust me" I said and we fell back.
"Radio" I yelled and the radio operator rushed over. I dialed in the air force. "This is Bravo Company. I need a napalm strike on... Bravo Foxtrot niner-1-4, over" I yelled into the radio set. "Copy, napalm strike inbound" the radio operator on the other side replied.
Zebras rushed out into the field and advanced but as they did jet planes flew overhead and dropped mighty canister bombs filled with napalm onto the fields and the treelines. The napalm explosion filled the air with fiery death, zebras screamed in pain as their fur and skin were burnt to a crisp. Their skin began to peel off as the intense heat scolded their bodies.
The radio operator looked like he was about to lose his lunch as he held back his puke. The smell luckily couldn't reach our noses. "Alright, I want a defensive perimeter set up along this small entrenchment. We can't afford to lose this LZ or we're screwed" Shining yelled and the two platoons under his command obliged his orders.
The fires of the napalm started to die down but it kept the zebras back for the moment. I let out a sigh and motioned for the ponies to spread out more. The zebras were forced to stay back from the far side of the field but they soon started to advance out the sides of the field. "Over there, gun them down!" Shining ordered and zebras began to fire wildly.
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Third person, Fourth and Fifth platoon:
Fourth and fifth platoon raced up through the forest but as they reached the peak of small hill several zebras ambushed them and fired upon the platoons. Ponies were caught by the barrage of 7.62x39mm rounds and fell to the ground, some dead others wounded.
"Radio operator" one of the lieutenants yelled out. Their radio operator rushed over and he quickly dialed in the radio. "Captain, we hit a bit of a snag in the path. We're pinned down by enemy zebras with AKs and light machineguns and we're unable to get to third platoon, over" he said into the headset.
"Copy, hold your position and eliminate hostiles before moving on, out" the radio operator by Shining Armor replied. The lieutenant nodded then fired upon advancing zebras who were only a few feet away. The zebras screamed in pain as 5.56mm rounds tore through their bodies and they fell to the ground. "Get that M60 right here!" lieutenant Gorbets yelled.
Two mares rushed up and set up the M60 machinegun and began to fire it ruthlessly. Zebras caught in its fire were knocked off their hooves and were sent tumbling to the ground. "Keep the fire on them!" Gorbets yelled but the zebras seemed to just pour out of nowhere like fire ants or something.
Deeper in the forest, third platoon held off a group of advancing zebras. "Aim your shots, conserve ammunition!" Caramel yelled. Ponies flicked their M16s to semiautomatic and began to fire upon the zebras as they attacked them.
One of the zebras went kamikaze and charged at them with a belt of lit dynamite. "FUCK!" screamed one of the platoon members. The dynamite erupted and killed several platoon members in the process.
Jayson, one of the platoon members, had suffered heavy burns from the explosion and cried out in agonizing pain. "Get some water on his burn" Caramel yelled and one of the other platoon members opened his canteen and quickly put out the still burning wounds.
The radio operator rushed over to Caramel. "Hello?" she asked, "Sergeant, fourth and fifth platoon have hit a snag and they can't reach you at the moment. Conserve ammo and water and they'll be with you soon" Captain Shining Armor told her then the line hung up.
"Ma'am?" the radio pony asked. "Conserve ammo!" Caramel yelled out. The others did their best to conserve their ammunition but some had switched back to three round burst to try and better hold off the swarms of zebras that now advanced upon them. Caramel grabbed the radio set and once again radioed the artillery groups.
"I need heavy artillery fire on Whiskey Alpha 9-0-9-0-1-5, over" Caramel yelled and the radio pony on the other side acknowledged her request. "Roger, artillery strike inbound, over" the other radio pony replied. Soon eruptions filled the air and drowned out the sound of gunshots. Massive explosions blew apart trees and zebras alike. "Cease fire, cease fire. Conserve your ammo" Caramel ordered. The platoon members stopped firing and began to tend to their wounded. The evening sky had begun to darken and soon it would be night time.
Back at the LZ Sergeant Major Clare and Captain Shining Armor greeted the next flight of helicopters. "Alright, we got two more platoons and some supplies, this will be one of the last flights of the day Captain, any wounded you need evaced?" the helicopter pilot asked over the sound of the rotors.
Shining nodded as ponies rushed wounded soldiers over. Several ponies were loaded onto the choppers and they were evacuated as the helicopters departed. "Alright, sixth platoon" Clare yelled and several ponies rushed over. "Alright, you're the new second platoon. The last second platoon is being folded in with first platoon. Seventh platoon, you're the new six. Alright we gotta hold this position. Six: I want you to go set up defensive positions on that ridge over there" Clare ordered and the two platoons did what he said.
The evening sun soon began to set and the fighting seemed to calm down a little, every few minutes a random gunshot or automatic chatter would ring out but it was silent for the most part.
"Well, this day was a pretty bad mess" Shining Armor muttered as he hunkered down beside Clare. Clare nodded, "Enjoy it while it lasts. I have a feeling that tomorrow is gonna be worse". |
Love and Honour | Chapter 50: Cut off | Sgt. Caramel, third platoon:
My breathing was heavy but quiet. My palms were sweaty and the handles on the M16 began to slip from my grip. James, the stallion beside me, leaned over. "Sergeant, I can smell them, they're close" James whispered. "It's just your imagination Corporal" I whispered back.
"No, I'm serious. I know they're out their" he whispered back. "You're just smelling the dead ones" I told him. "Please sergeant, it'll calm my nerves" he whispered back to me. I reached over to the radio operator and dialed in the artillery stallions. "I need illumination on Whiskey Alpha 9-0-9-0-1-5, over" I whispered. The night was still and crickets peeped in the night.
The whistling of incoming artillery could be heard but there was no explosion. Instead a bright red illumination flare was set off and the forest lit up with the red haze. "CONTACT!" I yelled as the figures of zebras could be seen, we opened fire on the zebras and I grabbed the radio. "I need artillery on previous coordinates over" I yelled then leveled my M16 and fired upon the zebras.
Explosions ripped through the forest and devastated the stalking zebras that were now illuminated for us to see. In seconds it was over. "Cease fire, cease fire" I ordered and the platoon did as I ordered.
One of the privates crawled over to me. "Ma'am, we're out of water. Some of the platoon members are becoming dehydrated" he whispered to me. "Do what you can" I said and he looked to me. "How?" he asked and I looked to the dead zebras. "Take Samson and Jennings and go check the zebras for any sort of water" I ordered and he nodded then quickly took Samson and Jennings out to check the dead zebras.
We struck lucky. They found a few canteens with some water, though not much it would sustain the wounded for the night. I hope.
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Next morning,
SGM. Clare, First platoon:
The first helicopters landed and all hell began to set loose again. I rushed up with Shining Armor. "Sir" one of the lieutenants said as he saluted us. "No time, get your platoons and follow us" I yelled and the two platoons followed us with the new supplies they had brought along.
Wounded ponies were being loaded onto the helicopters then they departed. "Alright, we currently have eight platoons in this valley, third platoon is cut off and fourth and fifth platoon can't reach them. I want seventh platoon to come around the sides and assist four and five with their situation then proceed to rescue third platoon. I want eighth platoon to move up and secure a forward line of defence on the battlefield" Shining ordered and the platoons immediately did as they were ordered.
A war trumpet echoed faintly and both Shining and I looked to see a large swarm of zebras charging through the treeline. "Fuck, Sergeant Major. I need that treeline gone" Shining said as he pointed to a treeline off to the side of the battlefield.
"Crater, Hooves" I yelled and the duo immediately rushed up beside me. Moon Crater had taken my advice and taken his M14 sniper rifle but had also taken along his M14 Juggernaut. "I need you two to come along with me" I ordered as I got up and began to rush towards the treeline.
Zebras hadn't noticed me despite my dark brown duster coat, guess it blended in somewhat. I charged up until I was less than fifty feet away from the dozen or so zebras that had taken cover in the treeline. Derpy came up on my left and Moon on my right, who now had his M14 Juggernaut in his hooves.
We all fired from the hip and chopped down the group of zebras with a barrage of automatic fire. The zebras screamed and tried to direct their fire at us but it was too late, we already had the jump on them. In a matter of seconds we had chopped down the group and I turned to Derpy.
"You two stay here and give me covering fire, and for the love of Celestia don't shoot me in the ass" I chuckled then ran forward. Zebras seemed to just appear out of nowhere and take the place of the zebras we had just killed. I fired from the hip as I charged forwards. .45 caliber rounds whizzed through the air, blood would spurt from exit wounds as the .45 caliber slugs tore through the zebras and sent them sprawling to the ground.
Moon Crater had unslung his M14 sniper rifle and began taking aimed shots as Derpy hosed down a group of zebras that approached them from the side. My Thompson ran dry and I quickly leaned up against a tree. AK47s fired upon me and some rounds chipped away at the tree but stopped the rounds from hitting me. I slipped a fresh drum magazine into the gun and began to charge forwards again. I cut down another dozen zebras before I stopped and pulled out a line of detonator wire. I quickly pulled out some high explosives from a satchel I had taken of a dead pony the night before. I quickly set up the explosives every few dozen yards then rushed back to the others with the long det cord and attached it to a detonator.
"Alright, let's get back" I yelled and the two followed me until we reached the end of the detonator cord length and I triggered the detonator. The high explosives erupted and blew down the majority of the treeline. "Alright, let's diddie back to the captain" I yelled and they nodded as we rushed back to Captain Shining Armor who was taking cover behind a mound of dirt with some other soldiers.
We slid behind the dirt mound. "Captain? What was the point of that?" I asked and he looked to me. "We're going to send the next two platoons to that area and set up a secondary LZ just in case we lose the primary LZ" he told me and I nodded.
The next flight of helicopters would be arriving soon. "Alright get the wounded ready for transport" I yelled and ponies rushed over to the group we had created that were made up entirely of wounded. They retrieved the most wounded of all the ponies as the Hueys flew overhead and into the battlefield.
Elsewhere in the treeline sat The Apache with an RPG-7 and waited for a helicopter to land. She smirked and fired the RPG, the warhead flew downrange and collided with the helicopter. The helicopter erupted in a brilliant explosion that killed all the ponies aboard and forced another helicopter to crash land.
"Fuck! First platoon, follow me" I ordered and we all rushed out to meet the new platoons that exited the helicopters. "These are the final platoons Sergeant Major, we'll be coming back every run to pick up the wounded and we'll have new supplies" he told me. I nodded then ran up to the commanding first lieutenant. "Lieutenant, get these ponies to Captain Shining Armor, he'll give you your orders" I yelled over the chattering of gunshots.
He nodded then led the remaining members of the platoons over to Shining Armor as I rushed over to the crashed helicopter. As we rushed up to the crashed helicopter, one of my platoon members looked like he had his hooves kicked out from under him. He fell forwards and tumbled along the ground as a high caliber round slammed through his chest.
We all rushed up and took cover behind the crashed Huey which was on its side. I crawled up and into the helicopter. I was mostly filled with supplies but there were two door gunners who were killed in the crash. I looked to the pilot cabin where the co-pilot had a piece of metal lodged in the side of his head. The pilot however was alive, but was bleeding.
I unbuckled the pilot and tossed him over my back then crawled back out of the helicopter. A single bullet chimed off the metal carcass of the helicopter next to my hand and I let myself fall over the bottom of the helicopter and crash to the ground.
I looked to the platoon then pointed to where Shining had taken cover. "We gotta get back there right now" I said just as a war trumpet echoed again. I peeked around the corner of the helicopter to see a large charge of zebras swarm out of the treeline.
"Well it's about time we go" I yelled and we all lept up and began to run back to the captain. I had the wounded pilot on my shoulder and the bulk of my gear weighing me down but I still managed to keep up with the others. One of the stallions in front of me tumbled forwards as a lone high caliber round slammed through his back.
I couldn't stop to retrieve his body at the moment and would have to get it later. A mare in front of me fell as well, shit okay my fears had come true. There was a sniper about.
"Zig-Zag" I yelled and we began to scurry about in random directions to make it harder for the sniper to pick us off.
Luckily the entrenchment we had used for cover wasn't too far away and we lept into the entrenchment safely before any-pony else was shot. "Eight is taking a real beating so I sent nine up to reinforce the front lines. Ten is on the secondary LZ. Seven is taking a beating so I sent six over to assist them. Three is still cut off" Shining told me.
Zebras swarmed out of the treeline like a swarm of locust. "Radio operator!" I yelled and he rushed over. I pointed to the zebras who swarmed towards platoons eight and nine. "Get some napalm on those zebras before they overrun eight and nine" I yelled over the sounds of gunshots.
"Sergeant Major, zebras are trying to flank us" yelled a private and I looked over to him and could here AK47s chattering a little ways into the jungle behind us. The radio operator began to dial in coordinates for the jets and I grabbed Moon Crater and Derpy Hooves. "Looks like we're working together again" I said and led the duo towards the zebras who advanced towards us from behind our main lines.
"Alright you two stay here with the wounded" I said and Moon Crater looked to me. "But sir, we only have a few stallions that can fight" he said and I nodded. There was Moon Crater, Derpy Hooves, three stallions and four mares that could fight. The rest were wounded ponies.
"I'll be back" I told him then rushed back to Shining Armor who was trying furiously to command the company that was slowly being overrun on all fronts.
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Sgt. Caramel, third platoon:
We all lay there and waited, we were supposed to be rescued but the 'Calvary' hadn't shown up yet. I looked into the thick jungle brush and thought I saw something move. "James: grenade. Thick brush, my 11 o'clock" I told him and we both tossed a frag grenade into the thick brush. There were terrific explosions and two zebras were tossed into the air.
Soon the air was filled with gunshots and zebras swarmed out of the thick patches of brush. "Open fire!" I yelled and we all began to fire at the advancing zebras. "Shit Sergeant, they're right on top of us" screamed one of the platoon members. One of the zebras rushed right up to me and I opened up on him and riddled his body full of 5.56mm rounds.
His body twisted and turned as I pumped several bursts of lead into him and he fell back. I grabbed the radio and radioed the artillery stallions. "This is third platoon, I need heavy artillery bombardment on Whiskey Alpha 9-0-9-0-1-5 over" I yelled and the radio pony on the other side once again acknowledged my request. "Roger, artillery strike inbound, over".
Soon the whistling sound of incoming bomb shells filled the air and explosions rocked the ground around us. I couldn't keep my aim straight and several of my shots strayed off target.
We cut down the last of the zebras. "Any-one wounded?" I asked. "Danny, it's Danny sir" yelled out one of the stallions and I rushed over to see that Private Danny had received several shots to the body and one stray round winged his throat. He lay there and began to enter shock as blood squirted from his wounds. I knew that there was no helping him out of this and he'd probably die of blood loss before we were saved.
"Plug his wounds" I said then crawled back over to the radio operator. I dialed in Captain Shining Armor. "Sir, we are getting killed out here. We need immediate evac, over" I yelled. There was a moment's pause then my reply came.
"Uh, we copy you three... uhm hold your position and wait for five. They'll be there soon, out" the other pony said then the line hung up. I swore to myself and I could hear James crying. "Fuck this shit man... we gotta get out of here" he sobbed and I rolled over to him.
"Hey Corporal... calm down, we're gonna make it out of this. I promise" I told him, not really sure if I'd be able to keep my promise.
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SGM. Clare, first platoon:
The two radio operators were having sever difficulties directing the air strikes. "Captain...CAPTAIN!" one of the radio operators yelled. Shining Armor quickly trotted over to him. "What's the problem?" he asked.
"Sir, we are being overrun on all fronts. Eight and nine have zebras right on top of them, five and four are pinned down under heavy fire. Six is experiencing difficulty with seven in reaching five and four and three is still cut off. Ten is spread thin trying to hold the secondary LZ" the radio operator informed him.
Captain Shining Armor trotted out to the entrenchment and gave a dire look to the battlefield. We were heavily outnumbered and about to be overrun. "Looks like this is it" Shining muttered to himself. I grabbed him and pulled him back behind the cover of the dirt mound.
"Don't say that. Don't ever say it's over until it's actually over" I yelled at him. He was struck in fear I could tell. He had no idea what to do. "Captain, what are your orders... CAPTAIN!" I yelled but he just sat there, the fear of death now coursed through him. "FUCK!" I yelled than looked to the radio operator.
I walked up to him and he had the radio to his face as he tried to direct the flyboys. "Tell them... Broken arrow" I said and he gave me a look of expressionless curiosity. "DO IT!" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 51: The Apache arrives | Third person:
Eighth and ninth platoon staged a final stand against the seemingly infinite swarm of zebras that now swarmed from the Everfree. "Hold this position. They're not getting through us until they kill every last one of us and step over our dead corpses" yelled the lieutenant commanding the two platoons.
Automatic gunfire filled the air and several ponies were shot as the zebras continued forwards. Suddenly several F-18s flew by a subsonic speeds. They dropped napalm capsules that erupted and a blast of fiery napalm engulfed the zebras by the treelines. The ponies of eighth and ninth platoon looked up and watched the napalm bearers drop their payload on the zebras.
The zebras caught in the burning hot fires of the napalm screeched in agonizing pain as their bodies were charred black from the intense heat. The zebras who were caught in the inner blast that fried to a crisp instantly were the lucky ones, they died nearly instantly.
Others that were caught outside the inner blast burned slowly, their skin peeled, revealing fresh flesh that also burned. It was a hideous sight to watch and several newer ponies who were inexperienced to the horrors of war puked.
Clare grabbed Shining Armor and shook him violently. "CAPTAIN!" Clare yelled and finally he came to. "Sergeant Major... I... I don't know what" Shining began but Clare cut him off. "Don't worry about it, just don't let it happen again" Clare told him then looked to Harry, the radio operator.
"Harry, you keep those flyboys coming and don't let up" he told him then rushed over to where the wounded had been kept. So far there hadn't been any conflicts by the wounded group and it had been silent for the most part.
Clare rushed up beside Moon Crater and Derpy, who at the moment where the only two active soldiers. "Everything okay?" he asked and Moon Crater nodded. "Well, if you don't consider the fact that we're heavily outnumbered and in bad shape" he joked. Clare gave him a pat on the back. "I like your sense of humor. You remind me of me when I was younger" Clare told the young stallion then got up to leave.
"Hey where are you going?" Derpy asked curiously. Clare turned to her and a sly smile tugged at the edge of his lips. "I'll be back" he quoted then dashed off back to Shining Armor. Derpy looked over to Moon Crater who simply shrugged.
Evac Hueys were entering the area and Harry continued to call in napalm strikes. "Victor Romeo niner-two-six" Harry yelled and the jets dropped the napalm capsules dangerously close to platoons eight and nine.
"Shining, we gotta get the wounded ready for those evac choppers" Clare called out and Shining nodded as he and several others followed.
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SGM. Clare, First platoon:
We grabbed several of the most seriously wounded ponies and walked them back out to the LZ. "Adjust elevation to Victor Romeo niner-two-five" Harry yelled and one of the jets bombarded the zebras near platoons eight and nine, another jet plane entered the valley. "They're right on top of us, elevation Victor Romeo niner-two-four".
The bombers bombarded the area and the napalm brutally burned even more zebras. The Hueys landed and we rushed the wounded out to the choppers and unloaded the supply crates. "Alright, were going to make one more run after this, so get all the wounded ready" the lead helicopter pilot called out and I nodded as we made our way back to cover.
"Victor Romeo niner-two-three" Harry called out and I watched in horror as a plane flew way to close for comfort. "HARRY, CALL THAT SON OF A BITCH OFF!" I yelled, "Abort, abort" Harry yelled into the radio but it was too late.
I watched in absolute horror as a large canister bomb of napalm slammed into the ground just in front of platoons eight and nine. The napalm erupted violently and time seemed to slow down. I could tell Harry was fear stricken because his face went pale as we watched both zebras and ponies become engulfed in the fiery inferno of napalm.
Several ponies further back in the trenches were sparred but the majority of ninth and eighth platoon were being burned alive. The incredible force of the napalm knocked a helicopter back and it spun out of control and crash landed, several ponies were flung out of the open doors of the helicopter as it crashed.
The fuselage was punctured from the crash and the helicopter exploded in a horrifying eruption killing everyone aboard. I rushed up to eighth and ninth platoon. Several of the ponies tried to rescue their burning friends but I couldn't bring myself to tell them it was no use.
"Get these stallions and mares to the wounded group. The rest of you sit tight" I ordered then picked up two severely burned ponies who both groaned horrifyingly in pain. It made me sick to the stomach as my nostrils were filled with the gut wrenching smell of burning flesh.
As we rushed the burned bodies past Harry he began to break down. "Harry, now you listen to me, you're keeping us alive. Now you forget about that one and you keep on the fire" Shining told the terrified young stallion.
I rushed the bodies to the wounded site and set down the two burnt bodies I was carrying. When Derpy and Moon Crater saw the bodies both their jaws dropped in shock. Derpy screamed from the horrid sight and Moon Crater puked from the gut wrenching stench of burnt flesh.
The other members of eighth and ninth platoon rushed back towards the frontlines to assist their friends once again but I stayed back and sat beside Derpy as she wept. Moon Crater crawled along the ground gagging, trying to hold back his nausea but failed to.
I held Derpy close to my chest so she couldn't see the horrors of war. No-pony... no one should have to see this, maybe I deserved to. Maybe I deserved to have to see these sights for my sins I have committed, but regardless no one should have to go through this.
"Shh... I'm sorry kid... sorry you have to see this. I promise as soon as I can, I'll get you two replacements so you don't have to see this" I whispered to her and looked over to Moon Crater who was finally controlling his nausea. "Hey kid, can you still shoot a gun?" I asked and he nodded. "Okay, well for the moment I'm gonna have to leave you two here for just a while longer" I apologized then released Derpy and stood up.
"Just... try not to think about it, I know it's hard but just try. And I promise I'll get you two replacements soon" I promised then quickly raced off back to the captain.
"Alright. Now that we got them off our back, we gotta secure our lines for further assaults" Shining ordered.
"Sir, tenth platoon is experiencing sniper fire. They're having heavy casualties" Harry reported. I was already up and gone before Shining could look to me. I slung my Thompson across my back and unslung my Model 70 .300 Winchester Magnum.
I quickly lept behind a fallen tree by tenth platoon. The heavy sound of automatic fire drowned out any chance I had of distinguishing where the sniper fire was coming from.
I lept over the log and raced up to where the platoon had taken cover. "Where's your lieutenant?" I asked and a corporal looked to me fearfully. "He's dead sir" he replied. I cursed to myself. "Who's in charge here?" I asked and the corporal raised his hoof. "Alright listen keep your heads down" I ordered then shuffled down the log. "Where the hell are you going?" he asked and I looked back to him and brandished my Model 70. "Best way to kill a sniper is with another sniper" I said. "Yeah but that goes both ways" he replied and I sighed. "Then let's hope that my training was better" I said as I lept to my feet and raced into the heavy jungle brush.
It was incredible, just a few feet behind me was an open field that was filled with death and destruction yet I was inside a seemingly peaceful jungle environment. As I continued deeper into the jungle the sounds of the fighting seemed to dissipate. I was breathing heavily. This wasn't really my preference of fighting but I was still experienced at it.
I wondered if The Apache was watching me at this very moment, then I wondered if she was even here at all. For all I knew she could be on the other side of the battlefield. The only thing I knew for sure was that she was here. She wouldn't give up her chance to kill some ponies. I knew that's what I'd be like if I was here. That and the fact that I'd want another shot at killing me, the soldier who had a half million dollar bounty on his head.
I continued to walk through the forest then stopped as I heard something. I stopped and listened, the gunshots seemed distant now and I could barely hear it. The sound that had caught my attention turned out to be just a random bird. I fucking hate birds now.
I sighed deeply to myself as I continued on. I felt the hairs on my neck prickle up and my senses flared. I quickly hid behind a tree and slid down to the ground then peeked out the side of the tree.
The jungle was thick and only now was I realizing how blisteringly hot it was. I wiped some sweat from my head and ducked back behind the tree. My senses were getting to me and my imagination was running wild.
KA-BANG
The bullet chipped away at the tree's side and blew a fine chunk of wood of the side. 'Guess not' I thought as I quickly lay in the deep grass and very slowly crawled through the grass. It was easily waist height so the moving grass would only reveal my general location.
I crawled further away from where the rifle shot had come from. After a half an hour of crawling I figured I was safe enough and pressed my body up against another tree. I peeked out the side of the tree and looked for a sort of tell-tale of The Apache but could find none.
I sighed as I turned back and hid behind the tree but let out a sudden gasp as I was greeted by the sight of a white skull. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 52: The skull goes both ways | Third person, jungle:
Clare immediately brought his rifle up but relaxed as he realized it was just a painting on a large tree. He sighed to himself but then soon realized the paint was fresh meaning one of two things. Either The Apache had predicted that he'd be there or this was the marking for something that the zebras used.
Clare quickly thought out his options then lay down flat and began to crawl through the tall grass. As he continued on, his breathing became heavier. He tried to slow his breathing but found he couldn't. He stopped and rolled over so he was facing the treetops and slowed his breathing considerably. He sighed then rolled back onto his stomach and continued on.
As he continued on through the deep grass he stopped as he was faced with a thin line of wire that was attached to a grenade pin tied to a small stick. It was a booby trap. A crude trap but very effective in the deep grass. Clare took out a pair of wire snips and cut the wire then pocketed the grenade.
As he was about to continue he stopped as he saw the mark of the white skull again. It was formatted similar to that of a pony skull, or perhaps a zebra skull. This must've been their way of telling each other that there was a booby trap nearby.
Clare was about to continue on when he heard the slow steady breathing of a calm zebra... zebras. He froze as zebras trotted by, barely a few feet away from him but luckily they didn't spot him in the tall grass. Clare waited for the last zebra to pass then very slowly crept up to his feet and stalked up behind the trailing zebra. The zebras were separated by a few yards.
Clare grabbed the mouth of the zebra and quickly slit his throat with his razor sharp bowie knife. The zebra's eyes widened as his life poured out and soon he died of blood loss. Clare set the zebra to the ground silently but then realized the zebra had a canister of white paint with him. So these zebras were the markers. Clare got a sly smile on his face.
"<That stupid paint carrier probably stopped to take a shit>" cursed one of the zebras in native tongue. "<Yeah, don't bother with him. He can find his own way back>" said the commander as he pulled out his can of paint and quickly painted a white skull on the tree close to the land mine. "<Hurry, we must get to the next trap>" ordered the commanding zebra.
As the continued to walk along they stopped as they saw the strung up body of their comrade. His throat was slit and he had been dead for a while now. "<Stupid shit probably ran into one of those G.I.s>" the commander said.
"<Wait sir, look. The symbol of the white skull>" one of the younger zebras pointed out. On the chest of the zebra there was a white skull painted into his fur. But it was not resembled after a pony or zebra skull. It was a human skull.
"<It is not one of our markings. It is probably a scare tactic. Let's continue on>" the commander ordered but the young zebra stepped closer to the dead zebra. As he finally stepped in front of the strung up zebra he fell through a covered hole in the ground.
"ACK!" he screamed and the others rushed over to him. He had fallen into a pit filled with sharp pointy sticks that had been tipped with poison. The deadly neurotoxin now coursed through his body but he died from the trauma of the spears that stuck through his body in several spots.
"<Leave him. Let's go>" ordered the commander and they continued on. "<He uses The Apache's sign against us>" whispered one of the zebras, frightened by the symbol that had been used against them. "<Shut up, it was probably just some joke one of the ponies decided to do>" hissed the commander.
As they trotted through the jungle they stopped again as they spotted another human painted skull. "<Sir, it's the skull. It must be another trap>" whispered one of the zebras. "<Shut your mouth. Look, it is only paint. It cannot hurt us>" the commander said then led his troops forward.
As they continued forwards they all looked at the painted skull in fear. They should've been watching where they were walking and they would've spotted the wire trap that was in plain view for anyone looking down at the trail.
One of the zebras walked into the wire and it snapped. "Eh?... AAAIIEEEEE!" the zebra screamed as a giant log fell from its supports and crushed his body beneath its massive weight.
The three remaining zebras looked in fear at the dead zebra. One of the zebras fell to the ground. "<This is insanity. We are being hunted by something... not of this world. It is no common enemy, not a pony... he is something else. He hunts us down one by one and uses The Apache's symbol against us>" the zebra cried in fear.
The commander kicked the zebra in the gut. "<Get up. You disgust me. Are you a zebra or a wretched coward?>" he hissed but the terrified zebra refused to stand up. The zebra commander pulled out a TT-33 Tokarev pistol and fired a single 7.62x25mm round through the zebra's head and looked to the other zebra. He pointed the pistol at him as well.
"<Are you a coward, shall I kill you as well?>" the commander asked and the remaining zebra shook his head quickly. The commander dropped his AK47 to the ground and rolled the dead zebra over. He grabbed the executed zebra's Russian Mosin Nagant, that was fitted with a high magnification scope.
"<It is just a pony. And like any pony, he or she can be killed with a gun>" the commander whispered. "<Now follow me>" he hissed.
Far to the west of the main battlefield sat another battlefield that was roughly 1,000 yards across. The commander sat at one end of the field and waited as he looked through his scope. It was a heavily modified scope mount that allowed the rifle to be fit with a 12x zoom scope and he was able to look across the sniper field. The scope was musty however and hadn't been properly cared for and hence the sides of the scope were stained with smears of mud and grit.
The commander cursed the already dead zebra for not taking better care of his rifle's scope. He muttered curses to himself as he watched the lone zebra trot through the large field.
The zebra that trotted slowly through the fields was sweating heavily, not because of the heat but because he knew what was about to happen to him. This was but a mere game, played by two snipers. The prize of second place was death and only one could come out alive, and he knew his fate had already been sealed from the beginning.
He was but a mere pawn in this madman's game. He thought of his wife back at their hut. How she would cook him rice and thought briefly of their young foal. The beautiful smile of his only child which he knew he would never see ever again except for in memories when he passed to the other world.
His final thoughts, he hoped, would be of his loving wife and child. They both smile as they looked to him coming home victorious. A lone tear trickled down his face. He opened his mouth to whisper a prayer but soon closed his mouth figuring nothing needed to be said.
The zebra stopped in the middle of the field, figuring he'd make himself an easy target and hopefully his enemy would give him a quick death. "<What is he doing>" hissed the zebra commander. He waited for several seconds then in his fury and anger, he lined his scope crosshairs on the zebras back. "<Move you ungrateful shit>" the commander hissed but suddenly the barrel of an SVD Dragunov pressed up against his temple. His mouth gapped wide open.
"<Do not be foolish, you are no sniper or you would know patience and tolerance>" The Apache hissed. "<Please, make it quick>" the commander begged and she smirked then knelt down beside him and gave him her SVD. "<It is more accurate and has a cleaner scope>" she told the commander and he gawked at her offer.
"<If you survive than I shall take you in as my apprentice and teach you how to properly kill ponies>" she told him and he nodded as he rested the SVD Dragunov on a bipod mount then steadied his aim.
The Apache used the battered Mosin Nagant to peer down the battlefield. "<Keep your hoof off the trigger until you are ready to fire>" The Apache ordered him and he did as she ordered.
On the other side of the battlefield sat Sergeant Major Clare, with a pair of spotting binoculars resting in a tree beside his head. He looked through his non-reflective scope and watched the zebra who stood in the middle of the field. He was in deep thought, Clare could tell. He hated taking the first shot during a sniper battle but he was going to have to wrap this up quickly before the others needed his help again.
"<I have days friend. Let us see how long you can wait>" the commander sneered to himself. The zebra in the middle of the field thought of his wife and child. In his fantasy he walked through a beautiful pasture towards them. His young son galloped up to him. "<Daddy, daddy you're home>" the son cried out in happiness. In his fantasy he grabbed his son and lifted him into the air, twirling their bodies around. Tears flowed from his shut eyes.
Like a crack of thunder the mighty Model 70 .300 Winchester Magnum thundered through the still air.
KA-BOOM
The zebra was literally tossed through the air as the mighty .300 magnum round slammed through his body and blew out a large exit wound in his back. The commander quickly shifted his aim towards where the muzzle flash had come from.
"<Dial in the scope for a closer look and try and look for the reflective flash of his spotting scope>" The Apache ordered.
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SGM. Clare:
I sat there and waited then suddenly the spotting binoculars beside my head erupted as a lone high caliber round slammed into them. I flinched as pieces of the binoculars hit my face but I quickly looked down the scope and dialed in the zoom further.
I saw the reflection of a high powered scope mounted to an SVD Dragunov. The Apache was behind her rifle, checking her handy work of my destroyed binoculars. I guess about now she's probably realizing I wasn't behind them. I dialed in my scope a little further and aimed right at her scope and pulled the trigger.
KA-BOOM
My Model 70 Winchester boomed again and the figure behind the rifle dropped like a sack of potatoes, I hit her. I had to. After my shot she just dropped. Dropping like that was a sure sign that she was dead. I got up and raced across the field as fast as I could and finally arrived at the other side of the field and looked for the body.
I finally found the body. It was a zebra, with its head blown off. At this point I couldn't tell if it was The Apache or not and I wasn't gonna go feeling for her tits or anything because I had one sure fact on my side. That was her rifle she had. I remember it because of the large amount of kill notches scratched into the stock.
I walked over to the body and looked a little closer. The bullet had traveled right through the scope and into her face. It was the one in a million shot, the shot she wanted. I'd leave her body here for any zebra to see. Maybe then they'd think twice about messing with the shadow guards and if not... well I'd be around.
I pulled out my dog tags and gave them a kiss, they probably weren't good luck but I always kissed my dog tags after a successful sniper dual. The hairs prickled up on my neck and I could tell something wasn't right. I began to back pedal and then there was a thunderous gunshot that cracked through the air. I lept behind a tree. I had no idea where that had come from.
I peeked around the tree and saw a lone silhouette in the thick brush. It was the real Apache and she was using an old battered Russian rifle. The scope was so beaten up that it gave off no light reflection. Shit, she had used a decoy. I ducked behind the tree as yet another shot went off and chipped at the tree beside my face.
Splinters stuck into my face and I pulled out the thicker pieces of splinters then let out a deep sigh as I brought my Model 70 close to my chest. This was going to be a heart pounding battle, I could already feel it. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 53: Sympathy for the devil | SGM. Clare:
Two more shots cracked through the air and chipped away at the tree. I cursed to myself and quickly peeped around the tree and fired off a quick shot then ducked behind the tree and racked the bolt on the Model 70.
Another shot went off then silence filled the air. "It would seem that I am out of ammo" called out the oh so familiar voice of The Apache. "Why would you tell me that? Now I can just walk right up and shoot you" I yelled back. I could hear her let out a casual laugh as she approached.
"Don't you want to see which one of us is better?" she asked and I swung out from behind the tree and pointed the Model 70 at her. She was twenty five yards away. "Looks like you've bested me at a sniper duel. But can you best me at the other factors that decide a fight?" she asked and threw the battered rifle off to the side.
I walked around her, never letting my rifle aim wavier from her. I walked up beside the dead body of the zebra that I had killed earlier. "I'll leave my things here, if you kill me than you can prove you did it" I said as I set my Model 70 on the body of the zebra then dropped the Thompson M1928 onto the ground.
I unholstered the twin Desert Eagles and the mighty S&W 500 magnum and dropped them to the ground as well. "There, now if you kill me you can prove you did it" I said and she let out a dastardly smile.
She unholstered a Model 29 .44 Magnum from a hip holster that was hidden underneath a light battle dress. The revolver had a fine polish to it along with several beautiful engravings. She tossed it to the side with the Mosin Nagant then slipped off her dress.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked as she tossed her dress to the side, revealing her bare chest. "I have nothing to hide from you, so I'll show you" she said and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah well next time just tell me that you have nothing to hide and I'll believe you" I replied casually.
She smirked, "You'd believe me just from my word?" she asked curiously and I nodded. "Well then, that was unexpected... I was expecting you to be very cautious and ignorant around a zebra, like all the other pony soldiers" she commented and I rolled my eyes. "Trust me, if I was so ignorant I would've just shot you" I told her and she giggled then slid off her pants so that she wasn't wearing anything.
"HEY! I already said I trust you so you don't have to go stripping all your clothes" I exclaimed but she simply laughed again as she tossed away her remaining garments. "It's easier for me to fight without any clothes, that and I wanted to show you something special" she informed me.
I feared the worst and covered my eyes with my right hand just as she lept to her hindlegs, showing her body in full. "I'm good, I don't need to see you naked" I muttered. "You idiot, I wasn't trying to show you that" she scowled.
I spread my fingers apart and took a quick peep at her. There was a black skull painted on her chest, a skull that resembled a pony or zebra skull. She also had a pendant around her neck that looked like a tiny white pony skull, it was expertly crafted.
"Now you see, I have only this to show you" she said in a very calm voice. I let out a sigh as she dropped down to her hooves. I figured it was time I show my true colours as well. I took off my duster coat and let it clutter to the ground then slipped off my white undershirt revealing my bare chest.
"I see you've taken a mark of your own" she commented as I revealed my bare chest, showing off the white human skull I painted on my bare chest. "You seem to be very fit and muscular... for a human" she commented. "Is that a compliment?" I asked. She brushed her mane out of her face and closed her eyes. "I don't think so" she replied softly. Jeeze, she was impossible to understand, one moment she'd be all angry and bloodthirsty then the next moment she'd be calm and compassionate.
I looked at her and examined her. Something just didn't feel right about her. She seemed conflicted about something. "Other than the killing, is something wrong?" I asked and she shook her head. "Well... alright than. I'll tell you something about me. I'm a failure. I have a marefriend that's pregnant and I shouldn't be at war. Yet I left without saying goodbye and I could die knowing that I should've said goodbye one last time" I informed her.
She looked at me with a gaze that I never thought I'd see from my enemy in combat. It was a gaze of understanding. "My son... my son was killed by a group of ponies. They thought he was a communist zebra. We were a neutral town that the communist forces would constantly harass and my son took it upon himself to be the defender of the town. One day a group of pony soldiers came to our town but when they saw him they thought he was a communist fighter so they shot him down. I hate both the communists and the ponies. That is why I am easily able to shoot down my own soldiers without hesitation" she told me.
I felt sympathy for her. "I can understand your sympathy and I won't ask you to join me against the communist zebras because I know your reasoning. But why hunt me down specifically?" I asked. "The bounty" she replied and I gave her a curious look. "I know it's a lot but..." I trailed off. "I need the money to support my village. We are in need of supplies that ponies will not give to us. And the communists simply rape and pillage through our town whenever they see fit. I decided to take up bounty hunting knowing that perhaps I could stop the madness" she told me. I was at a loss of words.
A lone tear trickled down her face followed by several others. "Thank you... thank you for listening. I've never told anyone this much about myself before... I feel... contempt... and loved... thank you" she said, a little choked up from the emotional state she was in. "My parents didn't want me and dumped me on the curb in front of an orphanage in a bad neighbourhood. I grew up knowing nothing but violence and death. When I was old enough I joined the army at a young age and have known nothing but how to kill" I told her, my story wasn't as sympathetic as hers but it was probably a saddening story none the less.
"You...you know pain like I do" she replied then took a moments silence before wiping the tears from her face. "There is nothing left for me to tell you... nothing left inside me. No hatred , not even regret. I've watched you... watched you become the soldier Equestria needed you to be. I've grown myself into the warrior that the zebras needed, that I needed myself to be. Now we fight, not just for ourselves but for the side we represent. One must live, one must die. The one who lives will live on with the knowing that their side is better and lead their side to victory" she told me in a very saddened tone.
"Wait, just wait" I said and she raised an eyebrow. "You hate the communists too, maybe we should join forces to stop all this madness?" I offered. She let out a small heartened laugh. "No, though the thought of working together with you is appealing I am not one to turn back on my mission" she replied. I cursed to myself, so much for diplomacy.
She stood to her hindlegs almost like it was a natural way of standing for her and got into some sort of judo stance. I tried to remember all I had learned about hand to hand combat as I edged closer towards her in a very clumsy stance.
As I got closer she took me by surprise as she shot forwards like lightning, jabbing me several times in the ribs and gut then flying her right foreleg past my head and slamming a nasty elbow into the back of my head. As I fell forwards from the brutal strike, she slammed a hard knee into my chest.
I fell to the ground gagging in pain but as she went to finish me by trying to break my neck, I rolled to the side and dodged her ruthless attack. I quickly staggered to my feet but she was already onto me like a bat out of hell. She slammed several punches into my face and chest as she slammed a cruel knee into my stomach that made me wheeze for air. She was killing me.
I tried to bring my arms up to block my face but as I did she quickly grabbed one of my arms and extended it to full length. She held my arm out with her left hoof and brought her right elbow down on my elbow joint in an attempt to break my arm. Lucky my body structure was strong enough to stop her from breaking my arm but the pain of her striking me like that dropped me to my knees in pain. It was like she knew all the best places to hit someone.
She held my arm up and began slamming knees into my face. I was taking a brutal beating and wasn't actually quite sure how I was going to get out of this. I grunted painfully as I tried furiously to break free of her grasp. I tried to reach her with my left arm in an attempt to strike her but she was too far for my arm to reach or properly strike her.
As I took the beating of my life my memories quickly raced through my mind. "I love you Clare" Luna's voice echoed in my mind. "Promise you'll never leave" her voice echoed. Tears trickled down my face. Derpy's frightened face came to my mind, how absolutely horrified she was. Moon Crater's young face also came to my thoughts. All these ponies and how I was failing them in some way rushed to my memories.
"Just roll over and die already" The Apache scowled as she continued to slam brutal strikes into the side of my ribs. The face of Captain Daniels in his final moments rushed to my thoughts. "Goddamn you Clare..." he muttered then the saddened and crying face of Luna entered my mind.
My muscles tensed up and I let out a roar as I mustered all my strength then over powered The Apache. I pulled my arm back to my side and swung a heavy haymaker punch into the side of her head as I swung my body around. The simple brute force of the impact to the side of her head was enough to knock her to the ground and make her lose consciousness.
I stood to my feet and snarled. "Get up... get up" I said angrily as I kicked the side of her chest. She wasn't moving but she was breathing. I stood there breathing heavily, I could tell my side would be bruised but I could care less. I brought my foot up to her shoulders and rolled her body over then looked at her with disgust.
"Come on... GET UP!" I yelled but she wouldn't stand up. Though she had held me in a very exposed position and kept brutally hitting me without mercy I wasn't going to hit her while she was exposed. I just wasn't the kind of fighter to hit while they're down even if it's a dangerous enemy that needs to be killed.
Finally, after at least two or three minutes, The Apache came to. I held out my hand to help her up. She gave me a suspicious look. "Why didn't you kill me while I was down?" she asked and I shrugged. "Guess it's one of those kinks I have that I'll never lose" I commented as she grabbed my hand and I helped her to her hooves. I quickly took a few steps back and was now beside the dead body of the zebra. She was beside her equipment.
"HAULT!" ordered a voice and we both looked over to see several zebras armed with AK47s. "Leave immediately, this is my bounty" The Apache hissed. "Ha-ha, stupid cunt. If it was your bounty than why isn't he dead yet?" the commander of the zebras asked. The Apache curled her lips in anger.
"Because you're no good at killing that's why. Now do me a favour and get back to the kitchen where you belong. I'll be home to stuff your cunt later" the zebra officer said insultingly. Okay now I hated The Apache for obvious reasons, though I felt sympathy for her as well, but that was just straight out cruel.
"You ignorant fuck" The Apache hissed. "Excuse me! Ignorant fuck? That is no way to talk to me, I am Major Tang, and you will honour my very presence" Tang ordered. I looked over to The Apache as I slowly edged myself towards my Desert Eagles. "So Apache, I was thinking?" I said as I made a moustache gesture with my right hand, she saw that I was just stalling time to get closer to my guns.
The zebras looked to me and I stopped edging towards my guns, she started edging closer towards her Model 29. "No I was thinking more along the lines of..." she trailed off and ran her right hoof along the side of her face. The zebras turned their attention to her and once again I began edging closer towards my guns.
"No-no. That would never work. How about..." I trailed off and made the gesture of a full beard. They turned their attention back to me and The Apache slowly edged towards her revolver.
"Well I was thinking perhaps..." she trailed off and brushed her hoof through her mane. The zebras all turned their attention back to her. "What is the meaning of this?!" Tang yelled. "Hmm... how about..." I blew her a kiss. "The kiss of death?" she asked and I gave her a wink. Tang's face went red with fury. "WHAT THE FU" was all he managed as both The Apache and I quickly snatched up our handguns.
Both our handguns chugged out devastating rounds as they thundered in the recently calm jungle. She fired the famous .44 magnum shots while I fired the more infamous .50 caliber AE. The bullets shredded through the zebras. They screamed out in pain and agony as they fell to the ground. Most of the zebras died quickly but one certain zebra crawled along the ground, bleeding heavily.
Tang crawled along the ground towards one of the AK47s. Both The Apache and I walked over. I kicked Tang's body over so that he was facing us. "You idiots... I'm untouchable... untouchable I tell you... when the general hears about this there'll be hell to pay" he hissed. We both pointed our mighty handguns at his head.
"Goodnight Major Tang" The Apache scowled. Both she and I pulled the triggers of our guns simultaneously and Tang's head exploded in a pressurized eruption from the sheer force of the massive caliber rounds that splattered brain matter and skull fragments all over us and our guns.
"He was an asshole" I muttered as I wiped blood from my face. "That he was, that he was" she laughed. I tossed my handgun to the side and she looked at me. "Are you a fool, perhaps I may just shoot you down" she said and I chuckled. "Is death funny to you?" she asked and I shook my head. "There were ten guys, I shot five rounds and all ten of them fell so that means you must've fired at least five as well. Then you fired your last shot into Tang's head, so unless you've got a custom eight shot cylinder I'd say you're a running on empty" I said and she looked at her revolver. She realized I was right.
"Besides, if I wasn't sure I could've just shot you down... but that would've been dishonourable" I told her. "So you live for honour?" she asked and I nodded. "And love" I said as she tossed her revolver away.
"Let's finish this" we both said at the same time. She let out a smirk and I smiled as we both charged towards each other. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 54: Duel of the fates | SGM. Clare:
I could tell we both didn't really truly hate each other but yet we were going to fight to the death for a simple cause that didn't really pin us as foes. That's war for you.
The Apache charged at me but now I had remembered a few tricks about hand to hand combat, and a few things that she showed me recently. As she charged I quickly side stepped and then threw a high kick to the face but she quickly blocked it and grabbed hold of my leg.
I quickly overpowered he grapple by forcing my leg back down to the ground. I rolled over top her body and landed on the opposite side of her body. She swiveled her body towards me but as she did I reached my right arm around her head and kicked out her hind legs with my right leg, slamming her to the ground.
I quickly backpedalled and waited for her to stand back up. She quickly spun herself up and landed on her hooves perfectly then began to circle me like a wild animal quarrelling its prey.
She quickly lept at me, leaping through the air like a pouncing tiger but I simply fell back onto the ground and gave a mighty kick to her stomach as she pounced. She was stopped mid-flight and fell to the ground as my sudden kick knocked the wind out of her.
I rolled backwards and to my feet then took a step back as The Apache once again spun up to her hooves. She stood to her hindlegs and charged at me but as she was a few feet away, she lept into the air and gave me a powerful spin kick to the side of the head.
The force knocked me to the ground but unlike my methods, she lept atop of me and began to slam punches into my face. She had my arms pinned down with her knees and I was almost helpless.
Her punches sent jolts of pain through my entire face and it got me enraged. With a show of brute strength I simply rolled over, knocking her body off of mine. If she was heavier and more muscular that may have been harder to do.
She lept up just as I was getting to my feet and charged me. I was ready for this one though. As she went to slam a knee into my face I grabbed her hindleg and began to spin our bodies. The negative gravity forces made her helpless as I spun our bodies in a circle. I felt her body tense up as she tried furiously to find a way out of this almost childish hold.
I released my grip on her leg and sent her tumbling across the ground. The constant spinning had made me dizzy but I quickly regained my balance and steadied myself. She however was less oriented and staggered to her feet.
I charged forwards and lept through the air, slamming a quick straight punch to her face and knocking her to the ground again. I landed on my feet and took a few steps forwards then turned around and waited for her to stand up.
She was a little less talented now and I could tell fatigue was getting to her. She got to her hooves and steadied her balance as she lept up to her hindlegs. I let out a deep exhale and she did the same.
She stood there for several moments and we simply stared each other down. Finally she took the first move and stepped towards me. As she got close enough she threw a punch with her right hoof. I grabbed it with my right arm then stepped under her now extended foreleg and twisted her arm, stepping behind her, then flipped her body to the ground with a THUD.
She winced as I went to deliver a kick that was intended to break her neck but stopped just inches from her neck then stepped back. She just lay there, not able to comprehend what just happened.
She looked over to me as I stood there and she gave a look of uncertainty. "What are you doing? Kill me" she ordered but I shook my head. "If you do not kill me than I will most definitely kill you, I would not have spared your life" she told me and I nodded. "I guess that's what makes us different" I replied and she staggered to her hooves then readied herself for combat.
She gave a disappointed sigh then charged at me, she may have been able to beat me at one time but now she would no longer be able to best me. As she charged at me I quickly stepped forwards, slamming a punch into her gut that made her double over then dropped her to the ground.
She groped in pain as she stood up. I was beginning to feel fatigue as well. I hadn't done hand to hand, or I suppose it would be hand to hoof, combat in some time and it was more exhausting than anything I knew.
She looked to me with weary eyes and charged recklessly at me. I quickly reached my right arm past her head, keeping my right leg in front of her legs, and tripped her into the ground. I stepped back cautiously and waited for her to get up.
She staggered to her hooves. "Stop this... it's over. You can't beat me and, despite my hatred for you, I won't kill you" I told her and she let out a sigh. "That is not how war works. It doesn't matter if you hate someone or love them. If war has pitted you against another then you must fight to the death. And until the other is dead than the war will continue on until one of us have died" she told me. I let out a deep exhale, I knew she was right but I still didn't really want to kill her despite all she had done.
"Now... let's put our thoughts aside and finish this" she said as she charged forwards. She threw multiple punches that I blocked with my arms then threw a quick punch into her face. She staggered back but as I went to punch her again she spun in a complete 360 motion and hammered me with a powerful round house kick to the chest that sent me staggering back. She took no time in charging forwards and power housing me to the ground.
She managed to stay standing and tried to land a punch on me while I was down but I rolled out of the way and lept to my feet. She crept towards me then threw a punch, but I wrapped my arm around hers and spun her to the ground but she was able to roll with the momentum and quickly recover back to her hooves.
I threw a punch that connected with her face but it didn't faze her as she slammed a powerful punch to my chest that sent me staggering back. As she went to throw the second punch I grabbed her foreleg and twisted her into an arm lock. She quickly twisted her body away and hammered my face with an elbow from her free foreleg that made me release her locked leg.
I stumbled back as she threw another spin kick that knocked me to the ground. Okay maybe she still had a few tricks up her sleeve. I rolled backwards and landed on my feet. She charged at me and I tried to get her in a grapple but she powered a knee to my gut that sent me to the ground.
As she went to finish me off I rolled over and kicked her in the side of the head then quickly staggered up to my feet. She took a deep breath then charged at me like lightning. She threw lightning fast punches that I tried to block but every so often she'd get a lucky hit to my ribs or to the side of my face.
I staggered back and she tried to throw another round house kick but I saw it coming. I grabbed her hindleg then brought a swift strike down on her knee that made her yelp in pain. I released her and she staggered back in pain. I hadn't broken her knee joint but it would hurt.
I rushed forwards and threw quick punches at her face. She brought her forelegs up to block her head but I kept pummeling her anyways. I spun around in a 360 and gave a nasty back hand that made her lose her balance. Then I slammed a powerful kick to her side that knocked her over.
I stepped back and waited. "Fool, you should be finishing me off" she scowled as she staggered to her footing. We were both breathing quite heavily and sweating profusely, my sweat stung the cuts on my face.
She charged forwards and I gave her a spin kick to the head but her body momentum outmatched my powerful kick and she ended up clumsily tackling both our bodies to the ground. She managed to land on top of me and quickly slammed an elbow to my face that ricocheted my head of the ground. I was beginning to have a head ache.
As she tried to rearrange herself I managed to punch her in the face and send her stumbling back. I quickly got to my feet and she staggered to her hooves. We were both becoming heavily exhausted.
She charged at me and we began to throw punches at each other yet these punches were considerably slower than our first punches we had thrown at the beginning. We both threw a heavy haymaker punch that spun me around to my knees and knocked her back. She staggered back over to me and held my head back then slammed an elbow into my throat.
I fell to the ground gagging from the painful elbow strike. As she went to finish me with another curb stomp I grabbed her hindleg and twisted it. She howled in pain as she fell to the ground. I rolled away from her and got to my feet as she did the same. She slowly approached me and threw wild punches that I blocked with my arms. She got lucky with a quick punch to my gut that made me groan in pain.
As she went to hit me I grabbed her forelegs and held her in a grapple then slammed a powerful knee to the side of her ribs. She grunted in pain as I released her then I lept forwards and slammed a superman punch to her chest.
She stopped staggering backwards and began staggering forwards as she hit me in the head with a head-butt. It was a somewhat weak head-butt but then she regained her posture and hit me a second time with another head-butt that made me stumble back.
She went to give a third head-butt but I gave her a round house kick to the chest. She groaned in pain and staggered back then re-postured herself in a fighting stance. We both curled our lips back and gritted our teeth as we charged at each other.
Our punches connected together and our punches were negated by the other's punch. We both threw another punch but once again it connected with the other's punch. We both winced in pain then she threw a high kick. I followed suit and slammed my own kick against hers. As our legs lowered we connected our legs together in a low kick meant to hit the other's side.
We both staggered back from the sudden imbalance that resulted but then pushed ourselves forwards and both hammered a punch into the other's stomach. We stood there in pain for a moment then rushed forwards and hammered a final blow into each other's faces.
We both fell forwards into each other's hold as we tried to keep ourselves up by using the other as a support but we ended up both falling to our knees. "And... I thought... you hated me" I chuckled. "I never said that... I... just needed... the money" she stuttered in pain.
We both fell over next to the other. I winced in pain then slowly and painfully got to my feet. My body was shaking from pain but I could manage to walk, barely. It would take some rest for me to be able to do that again. I stepped back and waited for her to get up but she didn't.
"Come on... get up" I grunted through painful breathing. "I can't...my body refuses to move" she replied. I stepped towards her and fell to my knees. "I didn't paralyze you did I?" I gasped but she shook her head. "No... but that doesn't matter" she whispered as she lifted up her custom Model 29, handing me the grip handle side.
"What? Why are you giving me this?" I asked as I gently took hold off the handle and observed the gun. She pulled out a scrap piece of paper. "Take this... if you ever find it in your heart... then please help them" she coughed. I looked at the piece of paper. It was coordinates. "Your village?" I asked and she nodded.
"You're... their only hope" she whispered. "I don't suppose if I ask you real politely that you'll join forces with me? Please?" I asked and she let out a painful laugh. "No... I'm sorry... I cannot" she replied. "But why?" I asked and she let out a deep exhale. "One must live... and one must die. That's how it has to be" she told me as she winced in pain.
"Don't give me that crap... we could take down General Kim Yung together" I offered but she gently took hold of the Model 29's barrel. She brought its aim over to her head then let her hoof fall to the ground. "Clare... or should I say Sarge? You're a wonderful man... you fight not for orders but for honour and love" she whispered in pain.
Was she dying? It sounded like she was dying. "I... I can't" I whispered as a lone tear trickled down both our faces. "Do it..." she whispered.
Wind blew through the jungle as I stood to my full height and pointed the revolver to her head. A tear trickled down my face. "There can only be one Sarge... and one Apache" she whispered. I manually cocked back the hammer on the revolver. I stood above her as the wind blew past us and grazed along the grass. I pulled the trigger and the revolver thundered in the seemingly peaceful air.
I stood there, the barrel of the revolver still smoking as I lowered the revolver to my side. Birds flew about and it seemed like the jungle took on a seemingly sadder colour tone, but it was probably just my imagination.
The Apache's body seemed to simply degrade into ashes and blow away in the air. I would say it was my imagination but then again here I was fighting in a war between magical horses and zebras so I suppose a zebra degrading into ashes and fluttering into the air wasn't too ridiculous if I thought about it. All that was left was here skull pendant. I gently grabbed it by the string and placed it around my neck as I grabbed my equipment then gave one final look to her final resting place. "Goodbye..." I whispered. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 55: Defend yourselves | Third person, the valley:
Sergeant Major Clare rushed up beside Captain Shining Armor, his face was somewhat battered and bruised. "What the hell happened to you?" Shining asked and Clare let out a sigh. "Not exactly sure, I'll have to get back to you on that one" Clare replied.
A war trumpet played and the troops behind the mound of dirt looked out to see a swarm of zebras charging out of the Everfree treeline and towards platoons eight and nine.
"Fuck, they seem infinite" Shining cursed. Clare looked to Harry. "Better get the flyboys" he ordered Harry and the radio operator nodded as he began to dial in the air force.
It was getting late in the afternoon and the sun was getting ready to set. It had been a long day filled with death and killing yet the day still wasn't over. Clare readied his Thompson fitted with a drum magazine.
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Sgt. Caramel, Third platoon:
We lay in the grass completely motionless. We all had dwindling ammunition and some of us had begun to use enemy acquired AK47s. The zebras stepped by us, they hadn't noticed our bodies yet, either that or they thought we were dead.
The entire group of zebras were now surrounded by our hidden bodies. We figured if they can set ambushes than so can we. I flipped my fire selector to three round burst, the selector clicked.
"EH!" one of the zebras exclaimed then the air filled with the eruption of automatic gunfire. Zebras screamed as we let loose on them with our assault rifles. In seconds it was over but then a trumpet played.
Zebras swarmed out of the jungle like locust. I grabbed the radio and radioed the artillery groups. "I need artillery on Whiskey Alpha 9-0-9-0-1-5, over" I yelled and soon enough the whistling of bomb shells landing echoed through the air.
The eruptions lit up the darkening jungle and zebras were tossed through the air. I radioed seventh platoon. "Hey, we're being overrun. We need a rescue and we need it now!" I yelled.
There was a moments silence then came a static reply. "Copy that... we won't be able to make it to you tonight six. We'll pick you up in the morning, over" seventh platoon replied.
My jaw dropped. Tomorrow morning?! We wouldn't make it until tomorrow morning.
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SGM. Clare, First platoon:
I fired at a small group of zebras that charged out at us. They screamed as they fell victim to the Thompson's relentless firepower. I could hear zebra trumpets playing everywhere and zebras seemed to flow out of the forest like the plague.
I gave Shining a pat on the shoulder then rushed into the jungle where we had hidden the wounded. "Where the hell are you going?" he asked and I looked back to him with a smirk. "I might just get me one of those BB guns" I commented then turned back into the forest.
Derpy and Moon Crater were sitting in the group of wounded. They were both terrified I could tell. "Sarge!" Derpy called out and Crater looked over to me with a sigh of relief.
I leveled my Thompson at my hip and cocked back the charging bolt. "GENTLECOLTS, MARES, PREPARE TO DEFEND YOURSELVES!" I yelled out. Moon Crater looked down to his M14 Juggernaut and gave a deep gulp as he cocked back the action on his rifle.
Derpy was afraid still and I walked over to her and Crater's side. "Eyes down range, finger on the trigger and we all make it out of this in one piece" I told them. There was a whistle that rang in the air then suddenly zebras burst from trees like wildfire.
Derpy was a little late in firing on them so I held the trigger back on my Thompson. The Chicago Typewriter chattered in my hands and spat out a volley of .45 caliber rounds.
Zebras still charged at me but were quickly dispatched by my rattling Thompson. Zebras would charge out of the trees and into a razor wire of hot lead. Their bodies twisted and turned as .45s ripped through them.
I heard Moon Crater firing his rifle in quick bursts. I emptied my magazine and loaded a new one as I turned to his firing direction. Zebras were closer than ten yards away.
I held back the Thompson's trigger and emptied the entire drum magazine in one slow sweep. Zebras fell to the ground as the lead rounds ripped through their bodies like tiny spears, blurt spurting from their exit wounds.
The magazine on my Thompson was quickly replaced by another and I swiveled around to my knee to face Derpy's direction of fire. She too was about to be overrun. My Thompson began to chatter, well more like buzz, and it spit out ammunition at an incredible rate of fire.
Zebras screamed out in pain as they fell to the ground, the .45 caliber rounds taking their life from them. My Thompson was like the swift and vengeful hand of god, striking down those who opposed it.
"Come on you sons of bitches!" I yelled out. The Thompson clicked as it ran dry. I quickly replaced it with my last Drum magazine. Damn ammo goes fast around here. I cocked back the charging bolt and readied myself.
A zebra came out from behind a tree and I blasted him with a quick burst from my sub machinegun. He cried out in pain as he fell back. "Yeah get some" I yelled out as some other zebras charged forwards. "Come on you bitches!" I yelled as I squeezed back the trigger and blasted the small group of three with another burst from the Thompson.
A larger group of ten zebras charged forwards. "Oh you want some too, well fuck you!" I yelled and emptied the remainder of my Thompson's magazine into the group. They all screamed out and the chattering Tommy gun drowned out their screams.
My Thompson was empty, I still had a few stick magazines but I needed something that could put down a volume of fire without the need to constantly reload it. I looked over to Derpy and Moon Crater who were both breathing heavily from the swarm of zebras that had tried to overrun us.
I walked over to them and dropped my Thompson beside them. Moon Crater looked up to me as I took of my duster coat and ripped off my white t-shirt. All I had on was my camouflaged cargo pants with my waist utility belt and my chest holster that housed my behemoth revolver.
I picked up an M60 from beside one of the wounded soldiers and fitted it with a fresh belt. I then grabbed the remaining belt ammunition that he had and wrapped it around my body.
I began to walk back towards the captain. "Hey Sarge, where are you going?" Derpy asked curiously. I turned back to her and smirked. "I'll be back" I quoted then turned and continued to walk back towards Captain Shining Armor.
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Third person, the valley:
Clare walked out with the mighty M60 in one hand as he pulled out a Cuban cigar and placed it in his mouth. "Sir, we're being overrun on the fro..." Harry trailed off as he watched Clare slowly walk past in a very casual manner.
Shining turned to see what had Harry so stunned and he too became stunned as he watched the topless Clare walk past with the M60, its ammunition belt dangling about freely.
"What the hell does he think he's doing?" Shining muttered. "Sir! We need another pony to help us man the mortar crew" called out one of the mortar crew-ponies. Shining looked to Harry.
"Go get some-pony that's protecting the wounded" Shining ordered and Harry rushed over to the wounded group. "Hey you!" Harry called out and Moon Crater looked over to him and pointed to himself. "Me?" Crater asked and Harry nodded. "Come on, we need your help, let's go" he ordered.
"But I..." Moon Crater began but Harry cut him off. "COME ON!" Harry yelled. Moon Crater got up and looked back to Derpy. "Be safe" he told her then followed Harry towards the mortar crew.
Derpy looked to herself. She was all alone to defend herself and the wounded against the zebras. She heard a whistle echo and heard zebras scream out as they charged towards her. She quickly cocked back the action on her M16 and readied herself.
Up on the frontlines Clare walked into the trenches as zebras began to charge ever closer. "We're fucked! Retreat!" ordered the platoon commanders. Clare pulled out his zippo lighter and lit the cigar that dangled from his mouth.
Ponies retreated and Clare smirked as he flicked his zippo shut and took a puff on his cigar. Smoke fumed out in front of his face from the burning cigar. Zebras were now thirty yards away and fired their rifles wildly. Their shots were awful and missed every time.
Clare held the M60 from his hip with his right hand, holding the ammo belt with his left and held back the trigger.
The M60 chattered as it began chugging out a stream of lead. Zebras were cut down as Clare pivoted his body and made large arc sweeps, cutting zebras down as they advanced.
Several zebras were tossed off their hooves as the powerful 7.62x51mm rounds ripped them apart. Some zebras fell head over hooves as they charged and were shot down by Clare's M60.
Spent brass casings littered the trenches as the M60 chewed through its ammo belt. The belt dangled in Clare's hand as he continued to puff on his cigar, smoke emulating from his mouth.
"<KILL HIM>" screamed one of the zebra lieutenants, armed with a classic katana sword. Clare directed his attention to the zebra lieutenant and fired upon him. The lieutenant was literally tossed backwards and tumbled along the ground then skidded to a stop.
A lone zebra managed to hop into the trench and charged at Clare with a bayonet fitted Arisaka bolt action rifle. Clare swiveled his stance and fired a long burst into the zebra. He screamed as his body was propelled back by the constant stream of 7.62x51mm rounds that now ravaged his body. The zebra's body crashed into a pile of crates and he slumped as rounds continued to slam into his body.
Ponies from the secondary front lines watched in amazement as Clare pretty much single handily held off the entire zebra swarm with an M60. "Well don't just stand there. Help him out!" the lieutenant of eighth platoon cheered. The platoons that recently defended the front lines all charged forwards to assist the already successful Clare.
Clare's M60 ran dry and he quickly fitted the machinegun with a new belt then cocked back the action. Zebras were still stupid enough to charge forwards and Clare rewarded their stupidity with a blast from the M60.
Zebras finally wised up and began to fall back. Clare smirked as the ponies of eighth and ninth platoon charged into the trenches. Clare smiled as he loaded a fresh belt feed into the machinegun. "And that is how you hold off a group of zebras" Clare chuckled.
"Well I'll be damned... that was amazing" commented one of the platoon members. "Amazing? That wasn't amazing" said a gruffly old platoon sergeant. They all looked over to him with curious looks. "THAT WAS FUCKING EPIC!" he cheered and they all lifted their hooves in the air and cheered out as the zebra forces retreated from the front lines. Clare smirked.
Moon Crater was still busy with the mortar crew and that left Derpy all alone with the wounded. "<Get her!>" screamed a zebra as they charged out of the forest. Derpy fired her M16 at the zebras that now charged at her. She was helplessly outmatched for the moment.
He M16's magazine emptied itself and she looked down to a wounded soldier and grabbed his blood soaked M16 and began to fire it. Zebras still poured out of the forest like angry birds.
The bloodied M16 soon emptied and Derpy looked desperately for another rifle and found two. She lept to her hindlegs and grabbed both rifles, holding one in each hoof.
The zebras were close now, barely twenty five feet away. Derpy loaded each rifle with a fresh magazine and stepped forward. The zebras lifted their rifles but as they did, Derpy let loose with her twin M16s.
The M16s chattered in her hooves. The recoil was soft so they didn't shoot wildly and she was able to keep her aim steady even from a hip fire. Zebras cried out as she hosed them down with two separate streams of 5.56mm NATO rounds.
The zebras all fell to the ground as he M16s ran dry. She dropped both the rifles and looked to her hooves. They were filled with the blood of another, both physically and psychologically. Derpy let out a saddened sigh knowing that she'd never forget this day for the remainder of her life.
As she looked to her hooves in shock a lone zebra rushed forwards with an SKS and slammed the stock into her face, knocking her to the ground. She cried out in pain but soon went wide eyed as she looked down the barrel of the SKS rifle.
Zebras soon swarmed the area. "<Sir what do we do with them?>" a zebra soldier asked. The commander looked around to the wounded. "<Kill them all. If you kill the wounded then they will have no reason to come back here>" he replied. The zebra nodded and several gunshots went off as zebras mercilessly killed the wounded. The screams of the wounded ponies echoed in Derpy's head.
The other ponies close by didn't really pay attention to the gunshots behind them because at the moment there was a huge battle going on right in front of them as the zebras once again tried to take the front line.
Derpy looked in fear as the zebra standing over top of her cocked his SKS. A lone tear trickled down Derpy's face as the zebra began to pull the trigger back. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 56: Angel Eyes | Third person, wounded site:
Gunshots went off as zebras executed the wounded and Derpy's heart raced as the zebra began to tighten his grip tighter around the trigger of the SKS.
Derpy whimpered in fear as tears rolled down her face. A gunshot went off Derpy thought her heart stopped. The zebra standing over top of her was suddenly torn to shreds, blood spurting everywhere and into her eyes, forcing her to close them. But the weird thing was she wasn't dead, the zebras were dying.
Then it hit her like a ton of bricks, she wasn't dead. Blood was splattering all over her body and there was a loud thunderous chattering that filled the air. She tried to open her eyes but a zebra body fell on her, his blood spurting out into her face and temporarily blinding her.
Soon the chattering ended and Derpy felt the body get quickly tossed off from overtop of hers. A wet garment of clothing wiped her face clean and she managed to open her eyes to see Sergeant Major Clare kneeling beside her with a smoking M60 and his dampened duster coat he had used to wash her face. He smirked, "I'm back".
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Just moments ago,
SGM. Clare, frontlines:
I held the M60 from the hip and cut down another group of zebras with a long burst. Jeeze you'd think they'd learn. The barrel was starting to get hotter and I was glad that I was able to hold this mighty machinegun in one hand.
"The wounded" whispered a voice that seemed like it echoed through the wind. I paid it no mind. The M60 continued to chatter in my hand and zebras fell to the ground as they were cut down by the hail of lead.
"The wounded" whispered the voice again, I kept firing the machinegun but thought to myself. 'Wounded? What about them?' I asked in my thoughts. "They need you, more importantly, the pegasus mare needs you. If you do not go now she will die" whispered the voice. Hey wait a minute, I knew that voice.
'Apache?' I asked in my thoughts, almost like I was communicating telepathically. "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!" she screamed, I nearly jumped as I remembered what she had said. "Right, wounded, got it" I replied as I lept out of the trenches and raced towards the wounded.
Bullets zipped through the air and whistled around me as I charged to the wounded sight. I still held the M60 in one hand but I let the belt dangled about freely.
I charged into the forest and saw the wounded, or what was left of them. They had all been mercilessly executed by the zebras that now stood idly by like they owned the place. A lone zebra stood over a whimpering grey pegasus.
I curled my lips back and snarled as I hefted up the machinegun and held back the trigger. In the first few rounds the zebra was killed but that didn't stop me from holding back the trigger and ripping his body apart with a torrent of lead.
He screamed as his body was propelled back and tumbled to the ground. The other zebras looked to me but it was too late for them. I kept the trigger held back and hosed them down with a relentless stream of hot lead.
A zebra screamed in horror as he tried to turn and run but there was no mercy for these zebras, not from me, not after what they had done. The M60 spat out its last rounds into the fleeing zebra. He fell forwards to his knees as the 7.62x51mm rounds blew out large exit wounds in the front of his chest. Blood splattered against the trees in front of him.
I walked over to Derpy who was trapped underneath a dead zebra. I could see that her face was covered in blood and it probably stung her eyes. I grabbed my duster coat from nearby and dampened it with a bit of water then washed her face clean.
She looked up to me with those pretty cross eyes of hers. I smirked, "I'm back" I quoted with a small devious smile. She lept up to me and gave me a wet sloppy kiss on the mouth. I wasn't really expecting it but sort of embraced it for the moment being.
She slowly pulled away from the kiss. "I have a marefriend you know" I said but she didn't answer me and grabbed me in a tight hug. "Please don't ever leave me alone again" she sobbed as she squeezed me tightly. I could feel her tears trickling down my shoulder. "Okay, I can't promise that I won't leave you. But I will make sure you're never alone again" I promised and she held me tightly. I stood up, all the wounded were dead. For some lucky reason Derpy hadn't been executed with the others. I dropped the M60 and picked up my Thompson.
I walked back to Captain Shining Armor, things were beginning to die down and night had finally begun to set in. I held Derpy like a child crying on their parents shoulder as I walked back to the group.
I sat down against the dirt mound and let out an exhausted exhale. I rearranged Derpy so that she could cry into my chest so that way I could lean my head back. She looked like a baby in her parent's arms. Several ponies looked to me with curious eyes. I was always a friendly person during combat but I guess no-pony really expected me to be this compassionate during a mission.
"How's six?" I asked exhaustedly. "Still cut off... haven't been able to get in contact with them for some time now" Harry replied. I motioned for him to bring me the radio and I quickly dialed in the radio.
"This is Bravo Company... I need Seal One, go" I said into the radio. There was a moment silence then a reply came. "This is Seal One, what's your status Bravo?" Seal One asked. "Seal, I got a six that's cut off and needs to be rescued. We don't have the man power to take it alone. Think you could spare some men, over?" I asked. There was another moment of silence then came a reply.
"Roger, we can send you three men. A Seal, a Spetsnaz and a Task Force. They'll meet you at Bravo Juliet 6-4-5-2-0-5-3 over" Seal One replied. "Three? That's it?!" Harry exclaimed. I motioned for him to shut up. "Roger Seal One, challenge Viking, passcode Thunderstorm. Out" I replied then the line hung up.
"Three men? That's it?" Harry said and I nodded as I got up. Derpy released her hold on me and I slipped my duster coat back on. I reloaded the Thompson and looked to Moon Crater and Shining Armor. "I'll be back" I said but Derpy and Moon Crater got up and trotted to my side.
"Forget that, you've been back enough. We're coming with you this time" Derpy said. "Alright, let's go" I said and we rushed off to the rendezvous point.
An hour later:
I saw movement in the jungle. If I hadn't been a combat war veteran I probably wouldn't have seen it. "VIKING" I called out and the figures froze then came the reply, "Thunderstorm".
I stood up and the three elite members walked up to me. "Sergeant Major Clare, shadow guard" I said as I extended my hand. "Corporal Owens J., Joint Task Force Two" Owens said, introducing himself as he shook my hand. He had a C7 carbine for his choice of rifle. He was a large male and had a fairly dark brown skin complexion to him.
I looked over to the Russian. "Corporal Danko Dmitry, Spetsnaz" he replied. He was larger than both other males, standing at least 6'3", just an inch shorter than me. He had an AN-94 assault rifle slung across his back. He was probably stronger than all of us judging by the size of uniform he wore.
"I am Sergeant Angel Eyes, SOCOM US Navy Seals" Angel replied. A scar ran down his face, starting from the top of his left temple all the way down to his chin. He was 6'2" and had short black hair, he was obviously very strong, not as strong as Danko but possibly as strong as me or maybe even stronger. His eyes were beautiful, not in a gay way, and had the illumination like that of an angel. Guess that's why they call him Angel eyes.
"Alright, we have to go rescue sixth platoon from the pickle they're in. Let's move out" I told them and we began to quickly and quietly rush through the jungle. I had taken point and led the group through the jungle. My Thompson led the way through the thick jungle brush.
I spotted a group of zebras and motion for everyone to see what I was seeing. Angel Eyes nodded and I motioned for everyone to spread out. We quietly spread out and pointed our guns at the fairly large group of zebras. They probably had thirty strong.
We all fired our weapons simultaneously, the silent air was filled with the constant chattering of gunfire. Then, within moments, it became quiet again. Zebras lay dead on the ground and we entered the area where the zebras had been
standing.
We looked around for sixth platoon. "Hey sixth platoon, any of you stallions or mares still here?" I whispered out somewhat loudly so that if they were nearby they could hear me. I heard a groan and we all looked over to see a dirty, mucky hoof rise out of the ground. |
Love and Honour | Chapter 57: The General | SGM. Clare, First platoon, dirt mound:
Third platoon had buried themselves under dirt and leaves to conceal themselves from the zebras. Out of a complete platoon of twenty, only seven members had come out alive and of those seven only three were combat effective.
I lit a cigar and took a puff on it. Sergeant Caramel had done exceptionally well in leading the platoon, given the circumstances. "That was some fine leadership Sergeant Caramel" I commented and she nodded weakly, she had a breathing respirator on at the moment.
"Sir... command wants us to evacuate the valley. They say to link up with the human forces, they have taken their objective and are now moving through the valley. They said they'd get us a helicopter evac" Harry said depressingly.
"That's stupid. We've been here for almost three days and NOW they want to get us out when we're just about to take this spot... no, they can go to hell" I said and Harry gave a look of uncertainty.
"What do I tell them?" he asked as he held the radio in his hoof. "Tell them we'll evacuate tomorrow morning" I said and he scrunched his nose then relayed the message. "What? I just thought you said" Shining began but I cut him short. "We're taking the peak tomorrow morning" I replied and he nodded.
I looked to Angel Eyes, looking more specifically at his Model 70 sniper rifle. It was much like mine except it was chamber for 30-06. "You might want a different gun for tomorrow, things are going to get a little hairy" I told him and he smiled then nodded as he unslung his Model 70 and gave a sigh.
Next Day, 5:45am, The Valley:
We were all somewhat exhausted. Some of the stallions and mares had trouble keeping their eyes open. I moved my tongue around in my mouth and looked to Angel Eyes, he had somehow gotten a hold of an M4 with a Masterkey Mossberg 500 attachment.
Danko and Owens were close by as well, along with Derpy and Moon Crater. I nodded to Shining Armor who readied his M16. "Gentlecolts... Mares... safeties off" he called out and there were several clicks, the auto selectors of several rifles, replying to his order.
"This ought to be good" Angel Eyes commented. He had a cool, icy tone to his voice. "Yeah... war has a way to be like that" I replied and he looked over to me and chuckled. "Isn't it always so?" he asked rhetorically and we both chuckled. It was nice to be working with a human combat veteran, well veterans I guess.
"CHARGE!" Shining ordered and everyone lept up and began to charge forwards. I got to my feet, last night I had manually reloaded all my drum magazines by using the ammo from the stick mags.
A zebra lept up and motioned for his buddies to move forwards but I was already drawing a bead on him. He looked forwards to charge but I held back the trigger on the Thompson and blew him away with a quick burst that ripped several bloody holes through him.
Zebras screamed in native tongue, probably war chants or something, as they charged. We all fired our rifles and zebras seemed to be taken off their hooves or knocked back. The hill climb was steep, zebras poured down it like wildfire.
Angel Eyes quickly knelt down and fired several bursts at charging zebras, several of them twisted and fell back as his rifle blasted them away with jacketed 5.56 NATO rounds. Despite the size of the .22 caliber round used, the bullet had a real nasty bite to it.
"Come on you stupid animals, Danko has present for you" Danko yelled out as he impaled a zebra with two large machetes then cut the machetes out in two different directions. The zebra's body fell in two separate pieces but Danko was already on the move, utilizing his AN-94. The AN-94 was truly a magnificent rifle. Despite being of Russian manufacture, it had a quite impressive auto selection that allowed it to fire a two round burst mode, which somehow used the recoil gas operation and the barrel blowback to fire two rounds at the same time. It resulted in a rate of fire exceeding 1600rpm.
Moon Crater let out something between a war cry and a scream. He was kind of young so I think he hadn't developed his war cry yet. He fired his M14 Juggernaut from the hip and the 7.62x51mm rounds kicked zebras off their hooves and they began to tumble down the hill.
Owens charged forwards with a group of ponies, taking more precisely aimed shots with his C7 carbine. Zebras would be kicked back onto the ground as he shot them down. A small group of three zebras lept out of the brush in front of me and I stopped then leveled my Thompson at the hip and held the trigger back.
.45 caliber rounds ripped through them like tiny rockets. Their bodies were ravaged by the medium pistol caliber rounds that spurted blood out of their exit wounds .They fell back to the ground in a slump and I continued on.
As we continued on I saw a small little cluster of branches and leaves that looked like it just didn't belong. I waited for the others to charge past it then quickly went over and kicked down what I suspected to be a hidden passage. Sure enough it was.
I entered the passage and to my surprise it was lit by small lights. I didn't know they had power back here, unless they had generators. I walked through the tunnel until I came to a large room where a lone, finely dressed, zebra sat with some papers on a desk. I set my Thompson against a crate and walked into the room
"BAM-BAM-BAM, Rambo eh?" he laughed. "No, The Sarge. And you must be The General" I guessed and he stood to his hooves. "Kim Yung, Zebra Army" he said proudly. "Commies huh? It figures. So what went wrong? Celestia turn you down for a loan?" I asked jokingly.
"Equestria will no longer profit while we suffer. We will have our supremacy!" he yelled as he spun a little letter opener on his hoof. "Yeah so I suppose giving out half million bounties is the way to make money huh?" I chuckled. "Cease with your petty insults" he yelled and I laughed as I drew out my S&W 500 magnum. "Or what?" I laughed but he threw his little dagger knife like a spear that caught the barrel of my revolver and pulled it out of my hand. Damn he was good.
I quickly reached to both my Desert Eagles but as I was drawing them up for a shot he lept through the air and kicked me in the chest. My body was sent through the air and my grip on my two pistols was lost. My handguns fell out of my grip and cluttered to the ground.
"Let's see how much of a badass you are without your guns" he challenged as I got to my feet. "You are so dead you little communist shit" I cursed as he charged at me. He must've known some sort of advanced judo, or perhaps Taekwondo because he had a very strange stance to him. 'Hand to hand don't fail me now' I thought to myself as I stepped forwards to throw a hook punch but he caught it with a lightning fast hold and twisted my wrist.
I grunted in pain and he flipped me to my back. But as I landed he flipped in the air and landed on me with a powerful body slam. I quickly grabbed him by the back neck skin and threw him off my body. I staggered to my feet. I was really hoping that I'd never have to fist fight again but I guess fate was cruel.
Kim Yung rushed at me again and I tried to side step him but he read me perfectly and as he passed me he lept up and jump kicked my head with a slight spin in his body. I fell forwards to my knees and he quickly grabbed me in a hold similar to that of The Apache's.
He began to brutally slam punches into my side that burned and stung with every connection. I tried to break free of his hold but unlike The Apache he was heavier and more muscular.
I winced in pain and realized that I couldn't simply overpower him so I'd have to outsmart him. Could I outsmart this guy, he seemed pretty intelligent. I knew my arm was trapped and that he was pummeling me like a punching bag. I only had one option that I could think of.
I quickly pushed myself off my knees and that caught him off balance. I began to backpedal with extreme force and slammed his body into a bunch of crates that broke and shattered under the force of the collision.
He released his grip on me and I spun around with a powerful round house kick that connected with the side of his head. He was slammed to the ground and I could hear him let out a hiss of pain.
He quickly lept to his hind hooves and jumped at me. He tried to connect a powerful jump kick to the side of my head but I grabbed his hindleg and held onto it. He lost all momentum and simply dangled there helplessly. He thrashed but couldn't do anything to break free.
I began to swing our bodies in a circle at an incredibly fast rate than released my hold on his hindleg. He flew through the air and smashed through some more wooden crates. Blood leaked down his forehead as he staggered to his hooves.
"Sorry pal, you shoulda asked for foreign aid" I said insultingly. "Equestria will never make us beg... never" he said as he went to draw out an Automag .44 Magnum from his hip holster.
Like a flash of lightning I drew out my, The Apache's, Model 29 and fanned the hammer as I held back the trigger. In less than a second I had emptied the entire six round cylinder into Kim Yung who was tossed back into the pile of busted crates from the force of the powerful magnum rounds that slammed through his body. Blood splashed against the crates as the magnum rounds tore massive exit wounds in his body.
"That was for The Apache" I commented then turned to see Shining Armor. "Jesus... well I guess that takes care of that loose end" Shining said but I shook my head and pulled out a scrap of paper then pointed to another crate. "These crates have lots of money. When we get back make sure this village gets enough money to live without fears or worries. Make sure that they live a good life" I said as I handed him the scrap of paper. Shining Armor scrunched his nose.
"Why don't you do it?" he asked and I smiled. "Trust me, I think you'd have more pull with getting them help" I chuckled then we rushed out of the tunnel system. "We're about to take the peak. We were just waiting for you" Shining informed me. I nodded, "Well, looks like it's about time we ended this huh?" |
Love and Honour | Chapter 58: For Honour | SGM. Clare, the peak:
I rushed up with Shining Armor to the peak. The others were waiting just like Shining had said. I looked to Danko who had his AN-94 slung around his back and had a new little toy, more like a big toy.
"Nice gun" I commented and Danko looked to me with a sly smile. "I know. Isn't she beautiful? I shall call her Betty... no-no, I shall call her Black Betty. Like fourth wife, she was bitch" Danko said as he held a Browning M2 .50 caliber. It was impossibly heavy but then again he was a big guy and if I could dead lift 500 lbs. then he should be able to carry around the one hundred pound gun like it was just another assault rifle.
I looked over to Derpy and Moon Crater. "Ready?" I asked and they nodded. "Right, CHARGE!" I yelled and we all lept up and charged over the hill top. The peak dipped down into a scrap yard of some sort, zebras scurried about and shot at us with old firearms. Mostly comprising of AK47s and RPKs but there were a few German weapons like MG42s and Type99 Light machineguns among the midst.
Bullets kicked up dirt all around our feet and several ponies were caught by lead rounds and fell to the ground as blood spurted from their wounds. A mortar crew had taken it upon themselves to fire at us and mortar shells erupted all around us. "Get to cover!" I yelled and we all lept for cover except Danko who stopped and began to fire the massive machinegun.
The gun let out a low chugging sound as it spat out the .50 caliber slugs that would devastate anything short of an armoured personnel carrier. I peeked out from around the corner of a beat up old truck that I had taken cover behind.
Zebras that were struck by the colossal round were simply ripped apart. A zebra scurried about and Danko shot him several times, it was like the zebra was filled with explosives and simply splattered everywhere. Another zebra ran to cover but a lone round slammed him in the side and ripped his body in half.
A group of three zebras charged us head on. Black Betty, or that's what Danko called her, chugged out more lead death and the zebras were pulled off their hooves and thrown back as their bodies were ripped apart. One of the zebras chest's ripped open like a giant cannon ball had just blew him open.
Danko stopped firing then swore to himself as he scurried over to us. "I need to reload... maybe I need a drink of vodka first" he chuckled and I looked over to him as he reloaded. He looked back up to me. "What?! You didn't think I was serious, I wouldn't drink on the job... unless it was long one" he replied than slammed the top of the gun shut and cocked the charging bolt.
He went to step out from the cover of the vehicle but the buzzing of an MG42 rang out and bullets sparked off the metal of the truck. Danko swore to himself and ducked back behind the truck. "Shit... we're pinned down... okay now's time for vodka" he said as he pulled out a flask and opened it. It stank of very strong homemade Russian vodka. "Shit Danko... what do you put in that stuff" Angel Eyes asked disgustedly.
"Potatoes" Danko replied as he wailed back a large chug of vodka. "Hey take it easy on that stuff. We still have a mission to do" Shining said and Danko looked to him as he took the flask away from his mouth. "Don't worry. It was only little sip" Danko said as he put away the flask. He mouthed his tongue around inside his mouth to savour the taste, of what I could only imagine, of the horrid vodka.
Mortar shells began to land closer to us. "Fuck, they're homing in on us. HARRY!" Shining yelled but Harry was nowhere to be seen. "Look sir" said one of the pony soldiers and we watched as Harry single handily, and very stupidly, charged the machineguns head on, screaming like a wild stallion.
He stopped and fired his M16 from the hip, amazingly he cut down the machine gunners and stopped their reign of terror. "Well I'll be... Harry's a goddamn hero" Shining muttered as Harry waved for us to come over. Suddenly his helmet pinged of his head as a lone round splattered his head. "Fuck... spoke too soon. Well regardless, we're fucked until we get that radio" Shining muttered and looked over the cover of the truck.
"We have to get the radio to call in the flyboys... alright lay down a supressing fire and I'll go get the radio" Shining ordered but I grabbed him by the shoulder and shook my head. "No sir, I'm going with you. We'll lay down smoke cover and then we'll go together" I said and turned back to look to Moon Crater and Derpy. "You guys got any smoke grenades left?" I asked but Danko tapped me on the shoulder and I turned back around.
He pointed out to the clearing where Shining Armor galloped towards the radio. "That fucker is gonna get himself killed" I cursed. "Supressing fire!" I yelled and we all lept up and fired at the zebras that tried to shoot down Shining Armor. Bullets kicked up dirt around Shining's hooves as he raced forwards.
"Hey stupid zebras, have some of Black Betty's cooking. You're on the menu" Danko yelled out as he fired the massive M2 Browning machinegun. Zebras in the thick brush had no cover against the mighty machinegun and were simply torn apart as it shredded them.
A group of three zebras charged up and Angel Eyes pivoted around the truck and quickly blasted the trio with the under attachment shotgun. They were kicked off their hooves as the wall of 12 gauge buckshot collided with them.
Moon Crater peeked over the truck and emptied his M14 Juggernaut into a large thicket filled with a group of zebras. Shining slid behind a steel wall and grabbed Harry's body.
"Yes... he made it" I told the group and we all ducked back behind the truck. I looked to Danko and he held out his hand for a bro handshake. We slapped our hands together and a loud clap echoed. We held our hands together and began to have an air born arm wrestle. I was a lot stronger than I thought myself to be and we actually ended up stalemating each other.
"Hey would you two knock it off" Angel Eyes said but we paid him no mind as we tried to best one another. Angel Eyes slammed his arm between us and ruined our arm wrestle. We both looked over to him with curiosity and he pointed over to Shining Armor. Shining was under heavy fire as he pulled the radio off the back of Harry's body and inspected the radio. He looked to us and nodded as he dialed in the radio and called for air support. I could see his face turn red as he began to argue with the radio, or well the radio operator on the other side.
Mortars began to land way to close for comfort. I pointed over to a little ditch gulley. "Take cover over there" I ordered and we all rushed over to the new cover, Danko gave us covering fire with his M2.
We lept into the trenches. "I don't want to die here in this shithole" Moon Crater said fearfully as the zebra machineguns lit up again, pinning us under their constant supressing fire. "Shining is probably doing no better" I muttered as I shuffled my body up and took a quick glance. I ducked back down before the machine gunners could get a bead on me.
"I don't want to die here man... I don't want to die" Moon Crater said. Danko cursed to himself. "I'm running low on ammo... and vodka" he replied as he wailed back the remainder of his vodka then put the flask away. I looked back to Shining Armor as he placed the radio on his back and charged towards us. Suddenly a lone round put a hole in his hindleg and he fell to the ground with a scream of pain. He managed to crawl behind a steel wall as bullets kicked up dirt all around him.
I looked to the others with weary eyes, technically I was in charge right now. "You're not gonna die... no one else is gonna die. I'm gonna go pick up Shining Armor and we're gonna get the air force to bombard this area" I assured them. They gave me weary looks. "Trust me" I said as I recklessly jumped up and out of the ditch then raced towards Shining Armor. Danko hopped up and began to lay down a supressing fire with the M2. The others lept up as well and fired their rifles at the zebras to try to cover me as I raced towards Shining.
I darted through scrap metal piles and slid behind the steel wall Shining had taken cover behind. Bullets pinged off the wall that protected us for the time being. "What's the skinny?" I asked and Shining grimaced in pain. "I can't walk... leave me" he said but I shook my head. "No chance, what did the flyboys say?" I asked but he groaned in pain.
"They said they couldn't afford to send some aircraft, only evac choppers but that isn't scheduled for another few hours" he replied as he held his leg in pain. I grabbed the radio and dialed it in.
"Hello? Hey is anyone there?" I asked frantically. "Clare?" asked a familiar voice. "Thank goddess. Dash, get the Wonderbolts... get some aircraft and I need you to bomb... Alpha Lima 6-0-4-3-0" I told her. There was a moment's silence. "What!?" she replied hesitantly.
"Dash please, if you don't then Shining, myself and a few others are going to die" I replied. There was another silence. "Okay, Alpha Lima 6-0-4-3-0 right? Okay, we'll be there lickety split" she replied.
I hung up the radio. "Just leave me... they'll be here soon and I won't be able to make it" Shining replied but I shook my head. "Go... if you try to take me we won't make it" he ordered. "You're a father, you can't go saying things like that" I told him and he leaned back in pain. "And you're going to be a father too... you have to go" Shining ordered. "I'm not leaving you here, I couldn't live with myself knowing I left you behind" I told him. "We won't make it" he replied. "I'm gonna get you outta here, even if I have to carry you on my back" I said as I pulled off the radio from his back. I lifted Shining onto my shoulders and began to quickly rush forwards, as fast as I could with Shining weighing me down.
Danko lept out from behind cover and began firing at zebras as they shot at me. Bullets kicked up dirt all around my feet but luckily missed me by mere inches. Suddenly a mortar shell landed nearby and erupted. The explosion knocked me to the ground but I landed on my left knee and quickly pushed myself back up.
Zebras screamed in native tongue and suddenly I felt a very sharp pain in my left leg as a lone bullet punched through it. I yelped in pain and fell forwards, my leg jolting in pain. Shining's body tumbled off my shoulder and zebras charged at us. I held my Thompson in one hand, firing it at any zebras that came towards us. Zebras were caught by the hail of lead and were ravaged by the Thompson.
The magazine ran dry and I cursed to myself as I tossed it away. More zebras charged towards us but luckily Moon Crater had a bead on them. 7.62x51mm rounds ripped through the air and put multiple holes in the zebras who charged at us.
But even with our friends giving us supporting fire, zebras still flowed forwards like a swarm of locust.
"Goddammit Clare, just leave me... I won't blame you for leaving me... Luna needs you" Shining said and I looked to him. "Cadence and your two foals need you" I told him. "You have... a better chance than me" he replied painfully. "No one else is gonna die Shining... no one else is dying" I muttered.
"Every man that serves in the military has to make sacrifices. He knows that when he joins. He will fight and die for the man... or pony, next to him. And if he can't sacrifice things for his fellow soldiers than he isn't cut out to be a soldier" I told him as I staggered to my feet and tossed Shining onto my shoulders.
I began to stagger forwards. Zebras charged out and fired at me. Dirt was kicked up beside my feet and bullets sparked off of scrap metal. Danko got to a better vantage point just as a Type 99 machinegun lit up and a stray bullet clipped my side.
I fell to my knees but staggered back up. Danko quickly aimed at the machine gunner and lit him up with Black Betty. The zebra's body was ripped apart from the massive .50 caliber rounds.
I could feel my left leg burn where I had been shot as I staggered along. A zebra fired at me with an AK47 and caught me in the lower side with a stray bullet. I grimaced in pain and tried to continue forwards but staggered a little too much on my left leg and fell to the ground.
Zebras charged up at us but I quickly unholstered both my Desert Eagles and opened fire. The mighty handguns boomed as they spat out large caliber pistol rounds. Zebras who were hit by the bullets were kicked back with large holes in their chests'.
I ejected the magazines and loaded new ones then continued to fire. I was almost empty when I placed both the pistols back in their holsters then staggered back to my feet. I hadn't enough strength to heave Shining over my shoulders so I simply held him in my arms like a newborn baby and rushed forwards.
Danko and Angel Eyes looked to see I was in trouble. They both lept up and rushed passed me, firing their weapons from the hip and taking out several zebras as they charged forwards.
Another shot slammed through my upper left shoulder area, splattering blood out the front of my chest, I gritted my teeth in pain as I finally reached a ditch and lept in.
Our bodies crashed into the trench and I heard Danko and Angel Eyes order for everyone to fall back. I looked as zebras charged out of the bushes like wildfire, they brought their rifles up to fire but suddenly they just seemed to be struck by a wall of powerful lead.
Their bodies were torn apart and a loud buzzing was heard overhead. Empty brass from door mounted Gatling guns littered the ground. I looked up to see Rainbow Dash give Shining and I a salute. Generally pegasus could fly easily but when combat flights were necessary, even pegasus used helicopters.
Zebras were splattered where they stood and soon a missile barrage from jet fighters bombarded the area. The explosions were magnificent. I could feel my blood soaking my clothes now and I smiled faintly to myself.
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Captain Shining Armor:
I smiled and let out a painful laugh. "We did it... we fucking did... I can't believe we made it" I said through pained laughs.
"Clare we did it..." I trailed off as I looked over to Clare with a smile but my smile soon turned dire as I looked to him. He was looking down upon his chest which had multiple wounds that were bleeding profusely. He leaned his head back and let out a deep sigh.
I groaned in pain as I sat myself up and leaned over to look at his wounds. "Oh shit Clare" I said as I grabbed his under shirt and tried to apply pressure to his wounds.
Clare looked up to me with his deep brown eyes and coughed violently. Blood came up in his cough. "MEDIC!" I yelled out and pointed to the chopper and tried to wave Rainbow Dash down but they didn't notice me.
"I NEED A MEDIC!" I yelled then looked back to Clare. "You're going to be fine, just relax" I told him but he chuckled painfully. "You idiot... I know I'm dying... and besides... I'm already relaxed" he said through erratic breathing. He grabbed me by the collar of the shirt and looked into my eyes with his beautiful brown eyes. "Shining... I'm sorry... for breaking your nose" he told me as he brought up his hand. It was shaking, his body was entering shock from all the blood lose.
"Come on Clare... don't be like this... you're going to make it out of here alive" I told him as I held onto his hand with my hoof. He curled his fingers around my hoof and held it tightly. He coughed violently as his hand began to shake more.
"Tell Luna... I'm sorry for... not saying goodbye... and that I...I... I love her" he said, his breathing was very fast and very erratic. "Luna... I love... I love... I love you..." he trailed off then his breathing finally came to a stop. My hooves were covered in his blood and I began to cry as he passed away. His eyes seemed to stare blankly into the sky above.
"I got the last of them Clar..." Moon Crater trailed off. His smile turned into a look of pure saddened shock. Derpy looked over and cried out as she rushed over to my side, she brought her hoof forwards but then stopped just inches short of touching Clare's body.
Several tears trickled down her face and she stood up then sadly trotted over to Moon Crater's side and cried into his chest. Danko rushed up along with Owens and Angel Eyes and they too turned from happy smiles to saddened looks.
Suddenly there was chattering gunfire then silence. We looked over to see a group of Spetsnaz and Joint Task Force Two members rush over the hill. They shot down any zebras still foolish enough to stand in their way.
I turned back to Clare. He was dead now and the world felt so much more lonely and empty without him here.
* * *
Later that day,
Third person, Canterlot castle, 4:34pm:
The helicopter landed and Shining Armor hopped off the helicopter in crutches. Cadence rushed to his side but he stopped her as he turned back to see the lone body bag with Clare's body get lifted out of the chopper.
Luna and her sister Celestia stepped out to the helipad to greet the guards. Luna stepped forwards with a small smile but as she saw the body bag her small smile turned into a look of worry.
Shining Armor had elected himself to be the one to break the bad news to her. He walked up and put a hoof on her shoulder then told her the story, more like the tragedy. Luna gasped and fell to her knees as tears flowed from her eyes |
Love and Honour | Chapter 59: The end | Days later,
Princess Luna, Canterlot church:
We all sat down to attend the funeral. I was dressed in black, though Ms. Rarity had encouraged me to wear something a little less depressing I had still chosen black.
The priest went about praying to god and reading parts from the bible, constantly blessing Clare as he went along. "If I could ask for Mr. Shining Armor to step forwards. He wishes to say a few words" the priest said and Shining hopped forwards, still in crutches from his wounds.
Shining stood beside the coffin that housed Clare's body. I could tell it was very difficult for him to say what he needed to say, He would constantly open his mouth to say what he wanted to say but would suddenly flinch to hold back his tears.
"Clare was... Clare was a very good man... he fought alongside many of us and loved us all dearly" Shining said, trying his best to hold back his tears. "I just wanted... just wanted to say that it's saddening for him to leave us so soon and that... that he was special to many of us. There are two types of soldiers on the battlefield. Those who will fight for you... and those who will die for you... Clare was one of the ones who would die for any of us... and unfortunately he proved it too soon... Clare if you can hear me, wherever you are, thank you" Shining said as tears flowing from his eyes.
"You're welcome" echoed a voice in the room. It seemed like we all turned our attention to whoever thought they were going to be a smart ass at Clare's funeral. But we all seemed to gasp in shock as we realized who it was.
Clare stepped forwards and Celestia fainted beside me. "Cl...Clare!" I exclaimed and he walked up to me and gave me a quick kiss to my lips. "Clare... but you're... you're dead" I said and he nodded then pointed up. I looked up to the roof and he chuckled. "Not that high" he said with humor in his voice. I looked back down to see exactly what he was referring to.
He had an angel-like halo ring above his head. "Oh... I thought..." I trailed off sadly. "Yeah... I uhm... I got a few hours to spend with my mortal body or something. The guys up there said that because of my good deeds that I... eh never mind" he replied then looked to Shining Armor.
"So... I guess this kind of defeats the purpose of seeing my dead body" he said then chuckled. "Guess this brings new meaning to 'Late for your own funeral'" he joked. Was this really the time to be joking?
"Well everybody... uhm, if you want to say something or you know... I'll be here for a couple of hours before I have to go" Clare said. We seemed to forget about the whole funeral thing and immediately moved away from the depressing coffin and towards the commune part of the church.
Pinkie had put together a less enthusiastic party, due to the fact that funerals weren't exactly supposed to be happy.
Ponies conversed with one another and Clare spoke to old and new friends one last time. He got down and arm wrestled with a Russian Spetsnaz soldier named Danko and amazingly he beat the strong soldier despite Danko being extremely strong.
Clare walked over to me and quickly and silently snuck both of us out of the room without anyone noticing we left. "Luna... I'm so sorry" he apologized as a tear trickled down his face but I quickly silenced him as I brought my lips up to his.
We quickly entered another room and locked the door behind us. If he was right about the time thing then we had less than two hours but we'd make it last.
* * *
A few hours later:
The priest had lowered Clare's body into the burial site an hour ago and we now all stood outside of the church as Clare gave a final handshake to everyone. "Well... I don't have much time left so I just wanted to thank everyone and say you guys and gals are the greatest. This is the last time I'll get to see any of you... until you make your trip to the other world. I'm sorry if it seems a little selfish but for my last words I'd like them to be with Luna" he said and they nodded as they all gave one final goodbye then left us alone.
"Luna... I know I'm gone but I'll always be with you in spirit... I love you" he said and we both closed our eyes and embraced each other in a passionate kiss. In a few moments I felt a misty feeling and Clare's body seemed to vanish away into thin air.
I opened my eyes to see that he was gone. "Goodbye my love" I whispered then shed a tear for my loved one.
* * *
Several months later:
Princess Luna Los Pegasus mountain side:
I sat alone in the beautiful forest. I rubbed me stomach, which had begun to show my pregnancy in full. In less than a few weeks I was due to give birth. I sat outside the cave where Clare and I had first made love. It seemed so long ago now, despite not actually being less than a year ago.
Memories of when I had first met Clare flooded my thoughts. How I had easily accepted him into my elite shadow guard then became romantically attached to him despite his unknowing. How he had helped me with my speech impediment willingly and didn't show fear towards me like others. How he had come to my rescue when King Sombra had kidnapped me. How when we first accepted our love we had trashed the castle in search of food. I smiled sadly as all those happy memories flooded my thoughts.
A tear trickled down my face as I looked at the cave then continued to illustrate the picture I was drawing. I had decided to name the foal Sue, regardless of gender. It reminded me of Clare's name, the femininity behind it that made him that much more adorable.
* * *
Narration by Shining Armor:
Not bad my friend, not bad at all. I wondered what would become of you the first time we met outside the royal castle, how you simply stood there arguing with a royal guards pony. To be perfectly honest I didn't think you were telling the truth but I'm glad I was wrong.
Who would've thought that you'd become the one to save my flank more times than I care to count, and really I don't care for counting all that much. Though Luna may be saddened by your passing, she understands you choice and so do I. Hopefully one day your child will understand as well, maybe he'll grow up to be honourable just like his father and I pray that harm never bestows upon the child during his entire life.
The Apache's village prospered after the collapse of the zebra army, in part thanks to extremely generous donations made from Equestria. General Kim Yung was always brutal and Clare made sure he got what he deserved, along with the others.
I have to say that the first time I saw that guy take down a criminal, some pimp that was abusing his prostitutes, boy it made me smile. Not just cause of the way Clare handled it, but because in that moment I saw a beacon, a beacon of honour and love.
If you think things are cooling down now you should have heard about the time Clare tried to battle out of hell just to be by Luna's side when she gave birth to their first born foal. Next time, when you have time, buy me an espresso and an apple fritter and I'll tell you all about it, but not now. That's a story for another day. |
Love and Honour | SEQUEL! | Alright, just like promised here's The Sequel. If it isn't there than it might still be going through moderator approval so just give it a few minutes.
Anyway while I have your attention I just wanted to give some backdrop on the story. Originally I wasn't going to have Clare and Luna go on vacation and was going to have Hart, Clare's shadow guard friend, try and rape Luna during Hearts and Hooves day. Since it would've been Clare's day off he would've been chatting with Cloud Dasher in the mess hall and Dasher would've made the comment "Almost didn't recognize you without all your guns" and Clare would've quoted "Yeah it's my day off. It should be a quiet day". Then he'd remember he left something, his watch, in Luna's room from a conversation they had about time keeping. So he'd proceed upstairs to find Hart just about to rape Luna then pull out his S&W 500 and blow off Hart's foreleg. Hart would then say "You just fucked up my arm" and Clare would quote "You fucked up my day off" then shoot his friend for him trying to rape Luna. Luna would then ask if it was traumatizing to shoot his friend and Clare would've quoted "Nah, he fucked up my day off. The asshole deserved it".
After they fell in love and expressed their feelings for one another I was going to end the story but then something made me decide to keep going.
Another part I didn't have in the story was a threesome scene with Rarity on the beach. She would've drunkenly stumbled upon them then told Luna "That isn't how a lady acts during sex" and proceed to have a threesome. Though it kind of caught my attention and made me laugh I decided upon not putting it in.
And we all know that Derpy was originally going to die. I wasn't going to show he death and have Moon Crater and Clare rush to get the wounded only to find that every pony was dead. But luckily I had a particular dream while I was passed out at work that changed my descision.
I wasn't going to have Clare die in the end and rather have him and Luna get married and have a very romantic ending with them watching the sunset together on the beachfront of Los Pegasus but I guess somewhere along the way I decided to have Clare die saving Shining Armor.
Another note to mention is that I used two other author's OCs, upon their asking, in this story. Moon Crater is Naesthebrony's OC and he asked me if I could include him in my story so me, being very...kind?... I can't think of a good word to use right now, said yeah sure and put his OC in the story. The other OC is Angel Eyes who belongs to Spetsnaz Pinkie Pie and it was sort of the same thing. He asked if I would put his OC in the story and I said sure.
So there's a little bit of backdrop to the story just so you all see how much it changed from my original idea. |
The Romantic Adventures of Spike Drake | pre | "Bye," the three girls waved before they all sighed lovingly behind his back.
Spike took this time to take a good look around the room before his eyes fell upon a familiar girl with lavender colored hair.
"Twilight?" Spike asked, getting the lavender-haired girl's attention.
"Spike!" Twilight squealed as she zipped over to him. "Why didn't you tell me this is your first class period?"
"You didn't ask," Spike shrugged.
"Touche," she giggled.
"So, this is the science class?" Spike asked, impressed with the layout of the classroom.
"Yeah and we also get to pick partners for the whole semester," Twilight explained. "I was just wondering, if you wouldn't mind--"
"TWILIGHT SPARKLE!" a shrill female voice suddenly called out.
Twilight cringed when she heard that all-too-familiar voice and both her and Spike turned around to see another teenage girl standing at the entrance to the classroom. This girl had white hair that was curled slightly and had violet colored eyes. She also had the same cup size as Twilight and Sunset. This girl was wearing a purple shirt and skirt underneath a blue jacket that went up to her midriff, purple knee-socks and blue go-go boots. On the left side of her head, there was purple-and-yellow star shaped barrette holding up a small bang of her white hair. And there was a star-shaped magic wand symbol on her skirt. Twilight put a comforting hand on Spike's right shoulder as the white-haired girl strutted up to them.
"Hello, Trixie," Twilight squinted her eyes.
"I much prefer that you call me the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie announced dramatically before her eyes fell upon Spike and a huge smile crept onto her face. "And who might this little cutie be?"
"I'm Spike Drake," Spike answered nervously.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Spike Drake. I am Trixie Lulamoon, but you can just call me Trixie," the white-haired girl introduced herself to him.
"Oh, so Spike can just call you by Trixie, but everybody else has to call you the Great and Powerful Trixie?" Twilight asked skeptically.
"Pretty much," Trixie nodded.
"Why do you call yourself the "Great and Powerful" Trixie?" Spike questioned.
"Because the Great and Powerful Trixie is a talented magician, although sadly not very well known," Trixie admitted.
"Big surprise," Twilight muttered.
Trixie ignored the ill comment as she kept her attention on Spike. "So would you like to be my partner for this class, Mr. Drake?"
"Well..." Spike started to talk until he got interrupted.
"Hold on! I was going to ask Spike to be my partner!" Twilight yelled.
"Too bad, I got first dibs!" Trixie argued.
"I met Spike before you today, so I should be his partner!"
"Well, then get in line!"
"Is everything alright over here?" another female voice spoke up.
Almost instantly, the squabbling stopped. When the three turned around, they spotted coming toward them another girl around Twilight and Trixie's age. The girl had light purple eyes and purple hair with a few teal streaks. Her outfit was a dark purple shirt, a dark velvet jacket, a light purple skirt, and dark lavender boots. She also wore purple pants that ended about halfway down the legs, her shirt had a glimmering purple and pink star symbol on it, and her hair was tied up in a pony-tail.
"Hey, Starlight!" Twilight exclaimed happily.
"Hey, Twilight!" the girl greeted back before they shared a nice embrace.
"Don't forget Trixie!" the white-haired girl whined before Starlight broke off the embrace and gave one to Trixie.
"It's so nice to see you both again! It's been so long," Starlight laughed.
"Starlight, we've seen you all summer. Remember, we went down to Sugarcube Corner for some milkshakes?" Twilight raised an eyebrow.
"Wait, when did we do that last?" Starlight asked.
"Yesterday," both Twilight and Trixie answered.
"Oh, that's right. Sorry, I guess I've got a lot personal issues to deal with that I don't know where my head is today," Starlight chuckled awkwardly until her eyes fell onto Spike. "Oh, hi there! Who might you be?"
"I'm Spike Drake," Spike introduced himself again for what felt like the thousandth time so far today.
"I'm Starlight Glimmer; nice to meet you," the girl with the pony tail answered as she shook his hand politely.
"It's nice to meet you too," the green-haired boy nodded.
"And you're a new student?"
"Yes."
"Hmmm...If you weren't, I definitely would've remembered you."
"Uh...thanks?"
At that moment, the teacher of the classroom came in. She had a dark skin tone, dark teal eyes, and black and white striped hair styled in a Mohawk. Her attire was a black shirt, an orange skirt with African patterns, dark gray socks and bronze shoes. She was also wearing dzilla neck rings around her neck and wore golden earrings on her ear lobes.
"Okay, everyone, settle down," she spoke with a strong African-esque accent.
"Who is she?" Spike asked.
"She's Zecora. She's the school's teacher of science and chemistry. She is the master of chemicals, although she sometimes calls chemicals "potions" for some reason," Twilight explained.
"Now this class just got awesome," Spike commented.
"All right class, we have a new student, who surprisingly I like; and I do believe that his name is Spike?" Zecora rhymed while looking at Spike with a smile.
"What does that mean?" Spike whispered to Starlight.
"It means that she is greeting you," Starlight answered. "Also, she tends to speak in rhyme from time to time."
"Oh, uh, yeah, I'm Spike Drake," Spike quickly answered the teacher.
"Nice to meet you, young man," Zecora nodded her head and walked over to her desk and set her purse down. "Now, who would like to have Spike for a semester long partner?"
"ME!" all the girls shouted simultaneously before they gave each other envious glares.
"Spike, who would you want for your partner?" Zecora asked the new student, giving him a fair say in the matter.
Spikes took a good look around and noticed that all the girls, even Moonlight Raven, were giving him puppy dog eyes. "Well, I pick...Twilight Sparkle as my partner."
"YES!" Twilight cheered before she chuckled nervously when she realized that everyone in the room was staring at her awkwardly.
"Okay, everyone else, please find your partners and get set up at a lab station," the teacher ordered kindly.
While Spike and Twilight took a seat at one of the lab stations in the front row, Trixie got together with Starlight, Moondancer with Micro Chips, and Moonlight Raven with Sunshine Smiles. Trixie and Starlight occupied the station behind Spike and Twilight's station, Moondancer with Micro Chips occupied the one across from the latter's, and Moonlight Raven with Sunshine Smiles occupied the station across from Starlight and Trixie. Unknown to Spike, the two girls behind him were gazing at his figure with interest.
'Oh my god, Spike is SO cute! I really hope he's single!' Starlight said in her mind.
'That boy is definitely my soul mate. I will not lose him to the likes of Ms. Sparkle!' Trixie smirked wickedly and licked her lips.
"Okay, children, all eyes up here; for we are ready to start the school year," Zecora rhymed again before she started the lesson on chemistry.
When the first class was over, Spike went back to his locker, grabbed his history book, and walked off to find his History class. He walked up the main staircase, turned a few corners, and eventually found the History classroom. When he entered, he looked around and saw some students that he hasn't met yet. One of the students was a boy around Bob's age and height. He had long green hair while wearing a brown hat on his head and had light green colored eyes. He was wearing a brown vest over a red T-shirt, blue jeans and light brown shoes. He also had a button pin that had a recycling symbol on it. Another student was another boy who had orange hair and sky blue eyes. He wore light blue glasses, a dark blue sweater over a light blue collared shirt, dark grey pants, and orange tennis shoes with white shoe laces. The third student was a girl around Twilight's age. She had shoulder length blonde hair and golden eyes, which appeared to be crossed. She was dressed in a blue collared shirt with a yellow necktie, a green skirt with bubble symbols, white socks and green sandals. Some of the students that he saw before were Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops. It wasn't long before the young boy spotted Rarity, Sunset and Applejack in one corner in the room.
"Girls!" Spike called out, immediately getting their attention.
"Spike!" they called back as he walked over to them.
"You all have History too?" he asked.
"Yep, History is my favorite subject!" Applejack hooted. "Although, it is quite a shame that Granny Smith isn't the teacher of this course."
"I agree, if there's anybody who knows the concept of History, it's Granny Smith," Rarity nodded.
"Yeah, the real downside to taking this class is that we have Ms. Harshwhinny as the teacher," Sunset groaned.
"What's wrong with Ms. Harshwhinny?" Spike questioned.
"Pretty much everything," Applejack said flatly.
"If you're only a few seconds late to class or if you whisper to someone else, she will not hesitate in giving you a week of detention," Rarity acknowledged.
"Hmm, that's pretty harsh," Spike's eyes widened.
"I heard that one time she suspended a student just for having an IPhone turned on during class. So, it is really important that you keep yours turned off while she's talking," Sunset warned him.
"Duly noted," Spike nodded.
Seeing that Ms. Harshwhinny hadn't shown up yet, Applejack took the time to tell Spike about the rest of their classmates. She told him that the boy with long green hair was named Sandalwood and he was a part of the "eco-kids" at Canterlot High. He could also perform a baton-tossing routine with ease. The other boy with orange hair was named Sunburst. He was one of the smartest kids in the school and he was planning on being an astronomer when he graduates from college. The blonde girl was named Derpy Hooves. Spike learned that Derpy had a big and strange fascination with muffins. At breakfast, and even lunch and dinner, Derpy would always have a muffin on her. The last two students in the classroom were of course Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops, the two girls that Spike passed by in the hallway. He learned that Sweetie Drops was given a nickname by her mother: Bon-Bon. And Lyra occasionally called her by that nickname whenever they were in good moods.
"So Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops have been best friends since preschool?" Spike said in wonder.
"Of course. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen them apart," said Rarity.
"They even danced together at last year's Spring Fling, cheek-to-cheek and all," Applejack chuckled.
"There have been rumors that those two are actually lesbians behind closed doors," Sunset put in.
There was only one thing that Spike could say in response: "Whoa!"
At that moment, they were approached by a different teenage girl about Fluttershy's age. She had light sky blue eyes and bright cyan colored hair, which was cut about halfway to her shoulders. She was wearing a light purple shirt, red and peach striped skirt, and purple boots with red ribbons tied at the top.
"Hi, girls," the teenage girl said softly.
"Ah, Miss Coco Pommel! It's so nice to see you, darling!" Rarity squealed in delight and kissed both of Coco's cheeks.
"You know her?" Spike asked in surprise.
"Why, of course!" Rarity exclaimed. "She works with me over at my Carrousel Boutique in downtown. She develops the best-selling clothes in the city, besides me, of course."
"I used to work for another girl at Crystal Prep; Suri Polomare," Coco said sadly. "Thankfully, Rarity helped me see that Suri cared for no one but herself. So I quit working for Suri, left Crystal Prep, got a job at the Carrousel Boutique, and transferred to CHS."
"Whoa, it sounds like you went through all lot over time," Spike said in awe.
"Yes indeed, but I have to admit that everything worked out in the end," Coco nodded.
The door to the classroom suddenly slammed open and there stood Ms. Harshwhinny. She had dark blue eyes and golden hair. For her attire, she wore a dark purple jacket over a white shirt, a light purple scarf around her neck, black pants and shoes. The current expression on her face seemed to match her identity; harsh.
"Sit down and pipe down at once!" Ms. Harshwhinny shouted boldly.
Almost instantly, any student standing up found his/her way to a desk and sat down in the chairs. The grumpy teacher strutted over to her desk and began to set up for her lecture of the day.
"Wow, she really IS harsh," Spike whispered to Applejack.
"Exactly; and trying to reason with her while she's in a foul mood is like poking a stick into a hornet's nest," the country girl whispered back.
"NO WHISPERING!" Ms. Harshwhinny snapped, making the students jolt back in their chairs at the sudden outburst.
While the teacher began the lesson, all of the students had the same wish in mind: they couldn't wait for this class to be over.
After History was thankfully complete, Spike once again went back to his locker to change cooks and headed off to Algebra. However, his path was soon blocked by three male bodies. When Spike looked up, he saw three teenage boys dressed up like a biker gang looking down on him with vicious green eyes. The first boy was over Bob's height, he had spiked dark blue hair, was wearing a white T-shirt with a red vest over it, blue jeans, and red and white tennis shoes. The second boy had black hair, was just around Spike's age and height. He was also wearing a vest over a white T-shirt, but it was gray instead of red. The rest of his attire was brown pants and dark gray tennis shoes. The third boy had orange hair and was at least a few feet taller than the first boy. Like the other two, he was also wearing a vest over a white T-shirt, except his was light gray. He also wore light blue jeans and light gray tennis shoes. All three of them were wearing spiked collars around their necks.
"Well, look what we have here, boys," the one in the red vest spoke.
"A newbie!" the short one sniggered.
"Yeah, a little runt!" the tall one chortled.
"Who are you guys?" Spike asked as nicely as he could.
"The name's Rover," the boy in the red vest replied.
"I'm Spot," the short one put in.
"And I'm Fido," the tall one finished.
"Can I help you guys?" Spike asked, trying his best to be polite.
"We're here to give you an official CHS welcome," Rover announced.
"Oh, that sounds nice," Spike started to smile.
"How do you want to start, Rover?" Spot inquired.
"I'm thinking we can start off with a painful wedgie, follow with a wet swirlie, and top it off by throwing him into a garbage can," rover chuckled wickedly.
"Yeah!" the other Diamond Dogs boasted.
Before Spike could even react, Rover grabbed him from the back of his underwear and got ready to pull the underclothing up.
"Can't we negotiate this?" Spike asked nervously.
"Tempting, but no," the bully replied.
"Let him go, Rover," came a male voice from behind them.
The three bullies turned and saw an angry Bob Nightwalker standing there with his arms crossed. Spike seemed to notice that Patrick wasn't with them. The Diamond Dogs all recoiled in a mocking way, obviously not scared by the interference.
"Bob Nightwalker, what a surprise! We would've said "hello" had we seen you," Rover let go of Spike's underwear and walked towards the rich boy.
"You ought to watch this kind of behavior in a high school, Rover," Bob growled in anger. "Especially when it comes to new students."
"This new student's just a runt," Rover glared at Bob before he tried to swing a punch at Bob's face.
However, Bob managed to dodge to punch and the bully went flying face first into some of the side lockers. The other two Diamond Dogs both winced at the impact while Spike started to snicker at Rover's unfortunate collision. Rover got back onto his feet and rubbed his forehead with his hands.
"You're so dead, rich boy," Rover roared and swung his fists once more.
Bob dodged to the side again and stuck out his leg. Rover tripped over the stuck out leg and once again fell into the lockers. Spike started to chuckle at this misfortune. Rover and his two colleagues couldn't say the same.
"You never give up, do you?" Bob asked, only to be grabbed from behind by Fido.
Spike tried to step in, but Spot grabbed onto his hoodie and pulled him into a headlock. Rover got back up onto his feet and cracked his knuckles and walked towards the trapped boys with an evil smirk on his bruised face.
"Now you're gonna get it," Rover sneered as he raised his fist to strike the gray haired boy in the face, until...
"ROVER!" a female voice shouted from behind them.
The bully froze with fear. He knew that voice all too well. When he turned around, he came face-to-face with none other than Principal Celestia, who of course had an angry, intimidating expression on her face. Standing beside her was none other than Patrick Moonbeam, who, in contrast to the principal, wore a playful, smug expression. Spot and Fido each let go of Bob and Spike upon instinct.
"Principal Celestia! I-I-I was just trying to make friends with the new kid," he chuckled nervously.
"Oh, really?" Celestia squinted her eyes as she held up a tape recorder in her left hand. "That's not what this tape recorder from Patrick says."
She pushed down on a button on the recorder and Rover's voice could be heard from when he first threatened Spike. "I'm thinking we can start off with a painful wedgie, follow with a wet swirlie, and top it off by throwing him into a garbage can."
"It looks like the three of you just got hustled," Patrick mocked them.
"All three of you in my office, now," Principal Celestia ordered.
"But--"
"NOW OR I'LL BLAST YOU TO THE MOON!"
Rover sighed in defeat and motioned for the other two to follow him, and they all walked off to her office with their heads hanging in shame. Bob and Spike started to straighten out their hair and clothes as the principal approached them.
"Are you both okay?" Celestia asked in a caring tone.
"We're a little shaken up, but we're fine," Spike answered.
"Bob, you didn't punch Rover, did you?" she asked, since she realized that Rover's face was all bruised up.
"I honestly didn't punch him, Principal Celestia. I simply stepped to the side and he injured himself in the process," Bob confessed.
"I can vouch for him, Principal Celestia," Spike defended his new friend.
"Very well then, you'd better get to class before the bell rings," Celestia said in relief before she handed back Patrick's tape recorder and headed off towards her office to pass sentence to the three bullies.
"What class do you have next, Spike?" Bob asked.
"I have Algebra next," Spike took a look at his class schedule.
"Great! I have that next as well," the gray haired smiled.
"Aw, man! I have History with Ms. Harshwhinny next! Well, I better get going so I can get it over with," Patrick groaned and he headed off in the direction that Spike came from prior.
"Good luck, Patrick!" Spike called out after him.
"Come on, Spike, let's get to class," Bob beckoned him as they both walked off in a different direction.
Bob and Spike walked until they reached the Algebra classroom. Spike looked around and once again saw new and familiar faces. He noticed the three girls, Minuette, Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine, that he walked past earlier when he first arrived at CHS. They appeared to be gossiping about some sort of private matter, which Spike shrugged off. However, as he and Bob walked by, the three girls secretly looked after Spike and sighed with passion. Spike looked ahead and spotted Fluttershy sitting near the back, talking to two students that Spike had never met before. One of them was a girl about Applejack's age; she had auburn eyes and dark blue hair. She was dressed in a cyan jacket over a blue-green shirt, dark blue pants and light blue boots. The second student was a boy around Patrick's age; he had green eyes and black hair. His outfit consisted of a black T-shirt with a green stripe down the middle, blue jeans, and black tennis shoes with green laces.
"Hi Fluttershy, Ember, Thorax," Bob called out to them.
"Hey, Bob," Ember waved.
"How's life treating you, bro?" Thorax asked.
"Same old, same old; and I escorted my new friend here," the gray haired boy stepped aside and allowed Spike to be seen by the others.
"Oh, hello, Spike," Fluttershy blushed upon seeing the younger boy again.
"So, you're the famous Spike Drake that Bob and Patrick told us about? Well, it's nice to meet your acquaintance," Thorax said nervously.
"You'll have to forgive Thorax. He can be a little insecure at times," Bob spoke.
"That's because I grew up in a family with a lot of siblings; five sisters and one brother. They sometimes boss me around and tell me what to do, despite the fact that I'm the second oldest kid in the family, just under my brother," Thorax explained shamefully.
"And that's when I assured him that the way he can gain more respect from his siblings is to be more assertive. Once he did that, it changed things for him," Ember put in.
"Whoa," Spike said in awe.
"Yeah, all of my sisters now respect and listen to whatever I tell them, except for my brother, since he is a stubborn piece of work at times," Thorax added.
"Like my father always says: 'Push past the pain!'" Ember
"You're dad sounds fun," Spike commented.
"Yeah, well anyway, it's really nice to meet you, kid," Ember smiled before she continued in her mind. 'Wow, he's even cuter than I thought he'd be!'
"It's nice to meet you, too. So this is Algebra?" Spike questioned.
"Yeah, although it's much more merciful than History," Bob nodded.
"Yeah, I'll bet it is," Spike said.
"Where's Patrick?" Ember asked.
"Let's just say he's brushing up on his History," Bob smiled weakly.
"You don't mean--?" Thorax gasped.
"Yep, he's stuck with Ms. Harshwhinny right now," Spike confirmed.
"Alas, poor Patrick! I knew him well!" Thorax cried dramatically.
"Don't worry; if I know Patrick, he'll be able to hold out 45 minutes with that grumpy woman," Ember responded.
The door to the classroom opened again and the teacher entered. Her name was Ms. Cheerilee and she had lime green eyes and moderate cerise colored hair. She wore a brown vest over a white shirt, a dark green skirt covered with yellow flower symbols, light green knee socks, and brown boots. Her eyes and face just sparkled with attractiveness. Spike seemed to be marveled at her beauty.
"Okay, let's quiet down please," Ms. Cheerilee politely ordered. "It's time to take roll call! Spike Drake?"
"Here," Spike raised his hand.
"Bob Nightwalker?"
"Here," Bob responded.
"Ember?"
"Here," she replied.
"Thorax?"
"Here," he confirmed.
"Fluttershy?"
"Present," Fluttershy said delicately.
After taking role with the rest of the class, Ms. Cheerilee turned to the chalkboard, picked up a piece of chalk and began to start the Algebra lesson. As Ms. Cheerilee was going over the lesson, she would occasionally take glances at Spike and a light blush would appear on both her cheeks.
'Whoa, just looking at Spike gives me chills,' the teacher said in her mind.
Soon the lunch bell rang and the students were making their way to the cafeteria. All of them were anxious to see what was on the menu today. Today they were serving cheeseburgers with a side of French fries, a small bowl of fruit, and a piece of chocolate cake for dessert. Spike helped himself to pretty much everything on the menu and picked out a can of soda pop for his drink. He then looked out into the seating area and saw the other students going about their own business. After taking a good scan around the room, he spotted a vacant table in the center and started to walk towards it.
"SPIKE, OVER HERE!" a familiar shrill female voice suddenly shouted across the room.
Spike looked over and spotted the mane seven, Bob and Patrick sitting at a table on the far side of the cafeteria. Without hesitating, he began walking over to join them. As he was heading for the table, many of the female students began looking at him with lustful expressions. Lyra and Bon-bon licked their lips while Derpy panted heavily like a dog on a hot day. Minuette, Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine all had bedroom eyes. Trixie and Starlight were starting to rub their arms nervously and passionately. And most of all, Ember was starting to feel wet just by looking at the green haired boy.
"Hey guys and girls," Spike greeted his new friends as he reached the table and took a seat in between Twilight and Sunset.
"You didn't think we were going to let you sit alone on your first day, were you?" Rainbow asked skeptically.
"Well, I never had any friends to sit next to at my old school," Spike admitted.
"That's really sad," Fluttershy said sympathetically.
"Yeah, not a lot of fun!" Pinkie whined.
"Well, at least you've got some friends to sit with now, Sugarcube," Applejack smiled.
"Yeah, I guess so," Spike shrugged his shoulders.
"For the record, having a few friends can make a difference from no friends at all," Bob spoke.
"Truer words were never spoken," Twilight agreed.
"So, Patrick, did you like History?" Spike asked.
"Ugh!" was the response from the plump boy.
"I'm gonna take that as a no," Spike nodded.
"I feel violated," Patrick wheezed. "It's like she was interrogating me for information, and I wanted to give it up, but I didn't even know what it was!"
"Would you get over it already? You're still alive," Bob groaned.
"So, how do you like CHS so far, Spike?" Twilight asked.
"I'm really enjoying it, although I almost got bullied by some older boys," Spike confessed.
"WHAT?!" the girls shouted in shock, causing everyone in the cafeteria to look their way in bewilderment.
"The Diamond Dogs tried to bully Spike today, just like they do to all new students," Bob explained once the other students resumed their own business.
"Of all the rotten nerve!" Applejack frowned.
"Ugh, I despise those ruffians! They constantly pick on innocent students and smell like musky dogs!" Rarity commented in disgust.
"That's probably one of the reasons why they got stuck with their gang name," Patrick joked.
"They are pretty terrible party poopers," Pinkie scowled.
"At least Bob and Patrick were there to help me, otherwise I would have gotten a wedgie, swirlie and a trash bath from those three," Spike shivered at the thought of what he just mentioned.
"But remember Spike; Patrick and I won't always be around to help you, so you're gonna have to learn how to stand up for yourself in times of crisis," Bob warned him.
"I'll keep that in mind," Spike nodded. "But other than that, I think that I'm going to like it here at CHS," he finished.
"That's good to hear, Spike," Twilight nodded.
"Another downside is that I'm not too keen on having all of the girls staring at me all the time. It's really making me uncomfortable," Spike continued.
"What's so bad about it? I wouldn't mind having the girls staring at me behind my back--" Patrick stopped in mid-sentence when he realized what the problem was. "Oh, I see what you mean."
"Those girls are just doing some harmless flirting. They'll tone it down eventually, darling," Rarity clarified.
"And if they happen to get out of hand, then we'll help you get through it," Sunset said softly, while the other girls voiced their agreement.
"Are you going to eat that muffin, Lyra?" Derpy asked from their table.
"Oh, here they go again," Bob groaned.
"Heh, classic Derpy," Rainbow smirked.
"Hey, I kind of forgot; is Derpy the one who's obsessed with muffins?" Patrick asked his adoptive brother.
"Derpy, are you sure you want my muffin? I mean, you already had one for breakfast this morning," Lyra pointed out.
"Yes, please, just give it to me!" Derpy breathed deeply.
"Yeah, that's her," Patrick nodded his head.
Unknown to Spike, three girls around his age were also approaching the table. The first girl had a pink bow on her head, tangelo eyes and long red hair. She was wearing a light green shirt, blue jean shorts and orange boots. The second girl had green eyes and long purple and pink hair. This girl's attire was a pink jacket over a striped T-shirt, yellow skirt, and pink boots. The third girl had purple eyes and lavender hair, which was cut up in a similar style to Ember's hair. She was dressed in a black hoodie, green shorts and black boots. The three girls all had their sights set on the new boy.
"There he is, Crusaders. The new boy that Applejack told me about," the one with the pink bow whispered.
"Oh, he's so cute!" the second girl squealed happily.
"Yeah, he's a decent-looking fella," the third girl smirked.
"Just play it cool," the first one said as they got closer to the table.
"Hey, little sis!" Applejack hooted to the red haired girl.
"Hey, big sis!" the first girl responded happily.
"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity squealed in delight.
"Hi, Rarity!" the second girl beamed.
"Hey, Scoot! What's up?" Rainbow asked casually.
"Keeping it real!" the third girl crossed her arms with a smirk.
"Who are they?" Spike whispered to Twilight.
"They're Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow's little sisters," Twilight answered.
"Is this Spike?" the red haired girl asked.
"Yup, this here is Spike Drake," Applejack confirmed.
"Nice to meet ya, Spike. I'm Applebloom," the red haired girl introduced herself.
"I'm Sweetie Belle," the pink/purple haired girl put in.
"I'm Scootaloo," the lavender haired girl finished.
"It's nice to meet you all too," Spike shook their hands politely.
"I'll never wash this hand again," Sweetie Belle whispered to the high heavens.
"Would you three like to join us for lunch?" Spike asked politely.
"YEAH!" Scootaloo exclaimed, until she forced herself to calm down and play it cool. "I mean, if it's totally cool with you."
"Sure, I would be honored if you would join us," Spike smiled, while the others nodded in agreement.
So with that said, the three younger girls sat down at the table and Spike began to learn more about them. Applebloom was the younger sister of Applejack obviously, Sweetie Belle was Rarity's younger sister, and Scootaloo was the adoptive little sister of Rainbow Dash. As it turned out, Scootaloo lost her parents in a car crash when she was only 3 years old and was put in an orphanage as a result. Rainbow Dash's parents adopted her when she was 9 and she couldn't have been happier. When the three girls met at Diamond Tiara's 11th birthday party, they instantly became very good friends with each other. In fact, they became so inseparable, that overtime they became known as the Crusaders. They also mentioned that Diamond Tiara and her best friend, Silver Spoon, were not really friendly with other people, except for those who were either rich or in high-class standards. But other than that little nitpick, the Crusaders were good friends with just about everyone else, except for the Diamond Dogs as well.
"So you three really like it here at CHS?" Spike questioned after taking in all the information that he learned so far.
"Like it? We love it!" Sweetie Belle smiled.
"In fact, we love this school so much we even sing a song about it," Scootaloo added.
"Song?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
"Don't ask," Patrick whispered to the green haired boy.
"What kind of song?" Spike asked anyway.
"What kind of song?" Applebloom repeated.
"We'll tell you all about it!" Sweetie Belle smiled brightly.
"Just sit back and listen," Scootaloo finished.
"You had to ask," Patrick slapped his forehead while the three girls got up and started to sing their song.
"We're So Proud of our School"
When the three girls finished singing, Bob, Spike and the other girls clapped, but Patrick clapped at a slow pace.
"Wow! That was really catchy!" Spike said.
"Really?" the three girls asked hopefully.
"Yeah!" he nodded. "You should be in a band."
"Don't put crazy ideas into their heads, Spike," Patrick hissed.
"Why didn't we think of that, Crusaders?" Applebloom asked her two friends.
"Damn it," the plump boy groaned.
"Patrick, watch your language!" Bob scolded.
"Sorry," the striped haired boy hung his head shamefully.
At that moment, two girls around the Crusaders' age just walked in with their lunch trays. They were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Diamond Tiara had light blue eyes and light purple hair. She was dressed in a yellow jacket over a black shirt, a light gray skirt, yellow boots, and wore a diamond tiara shaped hairclip in her hair. Silver Spoon had lilac eyes and light gray hair. She was dressed in a purple shirt, a pink skirt, and purple boots. She also wore a pearl necklace around her neck and light blue glasses over her eyes. Once the two girls spotted the Crusaders in front of them, they stopped and narrowed their eyes.
"Look, it those loser Crusaders again," Diamond Tiara said disgracefully.
"We should avoid them at all costs," Silver Spoon suggested.
"Bump, bump, sugar lump rump," the two girls chuckled as they did their secret handshake routine.
The two girls were about to walk away, when they stopped after taking a glance at the back of Spike's head.
"Wait a minute! Who's that kid with the green hair?" Diamond Tiara asked in wonder.
"That must be Spike Drake himself!" Silverspoon gasped in realization.
"Spike Drake? The new student that every girl is gossiping about?!"
"The one and the same."
"Silver Spoon, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"That we should go over there, introduce ourselves to him, and ask him to sit with us over at the cool kids table?"
"Exactly, now let's go."
The two high-class girls walked over to the table and caught the attention of everybody sitting there, and all of them, save Spike, were completely shocked that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon just approached them. All three of the Crusaders quickly frowned at their sudden presence.
"Greetings, Mr. Nightwalker, Mr. Moonbeam, girls," Diamond Tiara said as politely as she could.
Now this was a surprise for Bob, Patrick and the girls, since Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon never had the courtesy to greet them in a friendly manner before. Knowing that it was rude to ignore a greeting from a female, Bob cleared his throat and responded to Diamond Tiara's salutation.
"Uh, hello, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon," Bob said hesitantly. "It's nice to see the both of you today...I think."
The others gave their own greetings, while the Crusaders only groaned at the twosome's presence, until they were ordered to give a more polite greeting by Applejack and Rarity. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon ignored the three girls and turned their gazes over to Spike.
"And who might you be?" Diamond Tiara asked with flirtatious eyes.
"Oh, I'm Spike Drake," Spike introduced himself once again.
"Spike Drake? That is such a handsome name for a boy like you," Silver Spoon winked.
"Oh, uh...thank you," Spike started to sweat.
"I'm Diamond Tiara, daughter of billionaires, Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich," Diamond Tiara introduced herself.
"And I'm Silver Spoon, best friend of Diamond Tiara," Silver Spoon introduced herself next.
"It's nice the meet the both of you?"
"Yes, it is nice, isn't it?" Diamond Tiara did a hair flip.
"I hate to interrupt this...friendly moment, but why are you two here?" Patrick questioned.
"Well, Silver Spoon and I were wondering is Spike would like to sit with us for lunch today," Diamond Tiara slid over to Spike and cupped his chin with her hand and gazed into his eyes lovingly. "I promise that we can make it worth your while."
Spike was completely flabbergasted, since just about every girl and their sister was hitting on him on the first day. "Oh, uh, well, um..."
"Just a cotton pickin' minute!" Applebloom spoke boldly while standing up, eventually followed by the rest of the girls. "You two can't just waltz up here and steal Spike away like that!"
"We just did. Besides, I'm sure that Spike would much rather sit with rich, high class girls like us instead of average, middle class girls like you," Silver Spoon smirked derisively.
"With all due respect, girls, I believe that Spike is sitting with us today," Rarity stepped in.
"Keep your snooty nose out of this!" Diamond Tiara growled.
"How dare you! Unlike you, my friends and I are most of the time the emphasis of hospitality and good manners! H-m-ph!" Rarity huffed.
"Exactly! H-m-ph!" Pinkie raised her nose in the air.
Both sides continued to squabble, which gained some unwanted attention from the other students in the cafeteria. Unable to take anymore bickering, Spike inhaled and released a loud whistle, causing the girls to stop arguing and cover their ears. Bob and Patrick also had to cover their ears since they weren't very fond of loud noises. After they had quieted down, Spike stood up and got in between his new friends and the two rich girls.
"Look, can we all just calm down?" Spike said before turning to face Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. "I really appreciate the offer, but I think I'm going to sit with my new friends today. I really want to take this time to get to know them. Maybe I can sit you some other time."
The two girls were slightly heartbroken with this answer, but knew that he made a good point. They could always sit with Spike at lunch another time. Not wanting to show their disappointment, the two rich girls managed to keep a brave face.
"Oh...very well then. Come along, Silver Spoon, we know when we're not wanted," Diamond Tiara held onto her composure as she began walking away.
"Quite right," Silver Spoon nodded as she tagged along with her best friend.
Spike was about to speak out to them, when Applebloom spoke up as Spike and the girls sat back down in their seats. "Trust me, Spike, you don't want to hang around the likes of them."
"I really hate those two!" Sweetie Belle growled.
"Sweetie Belle, watch your tone!" Rarity lightly scolded.
"But still, she does make a good point," Patrick pointed out. "Those two girls aren't exactly the friendly sort of people here at CHS."
"See? Patrick understands why we can't stand them," Applebloom gestured a hand in the plump boy's position.
"What exactly is wrong with them?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
"Everything! They've been mean to all three of us ever since we met them in kindergarten and onwards," Scootaloo explained.
"The fact is that those two are a couple of rotten apples," Applebloom crossed her arms.
"Well, maybe they're not as bad as they appear to be," Spike said.
"What do you mean?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"In the words of Harper Lee; try putting yourself in their boots. Maybe you don't know them as well as you think," Spike explained.
"Spike's right, you shouldn't judge someone until you get to know them for who they really are," Bob agreed.
The Crusaders began thinking this information over. Were they really judging Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon properly or was there always something more to them? After carefully processing this thought, the friends resumed eating their lunch. They also took this time to get to know more about Spike, which made them fonder of him than before.
Soon the bell rang, signifying that the lunch period was over. After biding each other good bye, the group of friends began to head off to their next classes of the day. Within the crowd of students, Spike walked alongside Bob, Patrick and Rainbow Dash.
"What class do you have next, Spike?" Bob asked.
"Gym," he answered.
"Awesome! I have that class next too!" Rainbow cheered.
"You do?" Spike's eyes widened with interest.
"Yeah and getting to play all kinds of sports in gym is awesome!" Rainbow beamed.
"As long as it isn't dodgeball," Patrick shuddered.
"Why don't you like dodgeball?" Spike questioned.
"Because it's really hard to dodge all of those rubber balls flying straight towards you at full speed," the striped haired boy clarified.
"Well, I'm sure that we won't have to play dodgeball on the first day of school," Bob assured them as they walked towards the gymnasium.
In the gymnasium, the students were chatting amongst themselves. The students also changed out of their normal clothes and were now wearing gym uniforms. The boys were wearing blue colored uniforms while the girls wore red colored uniforms. Spike was standing in a corner of the gym with Bob, Patrick and Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash kept herself occupied by doing some body stretches, while Bob and Patrick glanced up at the ceiling, lost in a daze. Spike took a gaze around and noticed that there were more students that he hasn't met before. There were two teenage girls around Applejack's age standing by the bleachers, casually gossiping to themselves. One of the girls light brown eyes and blue/white hair. The other girl had purple eyes and light teal hair. Not too far away from the girls were two boys around Spike's age. One of them was short and plump, while the other skinny and slightly taller. The plump boy had orange hair, green eyes and beaver-shaped buck teeth. The skinny boy had green hair and brown eyes. On the other side of the gym, two more boys about Bob's age were talking to each other. The first boy had sky blue eyes and spiky hair just like Spike, except that it was blue. The second boy was taller and muscular with red eyes and golden hair.
Bob took notice of Spike looking at the other students and decided to tell him their names. The girl with light teal hair was Flitter, the girl with blue/white hair was Cloudchaser, the plump boy was Snips, the skinny boy was Snails, the boy with blue hair was Flash Sentry, and the muscular boy was Bulk Biceps. Flitter and Cloudchaser were twin sisters who were into all kinds of sports just like Rainbow Dash. Snips and Snails were brothers who were always trying to find girlfriends, but every time they try to talk to girls, they only come out as awkward and desperate. Flash Sentry was the leader of his own band called Flash Drive and he was a master on the electric guitar. Bulk Biceps was one of the strongest, yet kind-hearted, boy in the entire school. Spike then shifted his glance back towards Flitter and Cloudchaser, and noticed that they were giving him flirtatious winks and blew kisses his way. This little love gesture made Spike back up in confusion.
"I wonder why all of the girls are always staring at me," Spike wondered.
"Girls usually tend to go after the new boy," Bob replied. "Believe me; they practically came after me and Patrick the first time the both of us came here. I'm sure that it'll blow over soon."
Spike thought about it for a minute and deep down, he knew that Bob made a good point. Eventually, the girls would calm down around him. Rainbow Dash finished with her stretches and walked over to the three boys.
"Ah, now this is what I call a uniform that I can move around in," Rainbow Dash said as she breathed comfortably.
"Yeah, these uniforms feel really comfortable," Spike smiled.
"That's because Rarity had a helping hand in making them," Rainbow nodded.
"That figures," Bob smiled knowingly.
"My shorts feel kind of weird. Maybe Rarity got some of the measurements wrong," Patrick winced.
"Either that or it's probably because you've got them on backwards," Bob rolled his eyes.
Patrick took a peek into his shorts and saw that the tag was on the wrong side, indicating that the shorts were indeed on backwards.
"Oh, Jiminy Cricket! I'll be right back," Patrick groaned before he walked off somewhere private to put the shorts on correctly.
When Patrick was out of sight, Spike noticed that a girl around Rainbow's age was walking over to their location. She had hazel colored eyes and long, golden hair. Spike noticed that Bob had a worried expression on his face while Rainbow had an angry expression on hers.
"Well, look what we have here," the golden haired girl smirked.
"Hello, Lightning Dust," Rainbow greeted coldly.
"Rainbow Dash," Lightning Dust replied with an equally irked expression.
"Oh, boy, it's the match of the century," Bob groaned as he face-palmed his forehead.
"They know each other?" Spike questioned.
"Yeah, they met at the tryouts for the Wonderbolts Football Team. They ended up getting paired up with Lightning Dust being the team leader and Rainbow Dash being the subordinate," Bob explained.
"And in the end, it was Rainbow's fault that I got kicked out of the tryouts! She just had to go sucking up to Captain Spitfire about how I happened to be a little over-the-top with the other players. And when I got kicked out, Rainbow was promoted to team leader," Lightning said hatefully.
"MY fault? You're the one who recklessly injured a lot of the opposing team members just to win a goal and you know it!" Rainbow snarled in response.
"Hey, when it comes to sports, you have to do anything to win!" Lightning boasted.
"That's not how you play sports. When you play any kind of sport, you also have to take into account the wellbeing of not only yourself and your own team, but the other team as well," Bob intervened.
"I don't recall asking for your input!" Lightning glared at the rich boy.
"Bob does make a good point. You always have to have sportsmanship when playing sports," Spike spoke up.
Once that was said, Lightning Dust turned her gaze towards him and her annoyed expression turned into one of passion.
"And who might you be?" she asked kindly.
"Don't change the subject!" Rainbow yelled accusingly.
"I just asked him what his name is," Lightning shrugged innocently.
"My name is Spike Drake," Spike answered.
"Awesome name," Lightning winked.
"Brown-nose," Rainbow muttered angrily.
At that moment, Patrick returned with his shorts on the right way. "Man, I'm 18 years old and I'm still putting my clothes on backwards."
"I still think it's ironic that you know how to use a microwave when you can't put your clothes on the right way," Bob chuckled.
"Ha-ha," Patrick laughed sarcastically until his eyes narrowed after spotting Lightning Dust. "Well, look who's back."
"Patrick Moonbeam, how's your face been all this time?" Lightning asked mockingly.
"Better since the time you bushwhacked it," Patrick crossed his arms.
"What did she do?" Spike questioned.
"I'll tell you what she did. Bob and I were visiting Rainbow during the tryouts and after Lightning got kicked out of the tryouts, she punched the left side of my face as she stormed by," Patrick explained.
"Afterwards, Patrick had a black eye and a sore cheek," Bob finished.
"Well, it wouldn't have happened if "skittle-head" here didn't rat me out," Lightning scorned.
That sentence finally got on Rainbow's last nerve, since the rainbow haired girl cracked her knuckles while her face turned red in anger. "SHUT UP!"
She leapt to attack Lightning, but Bob and Patrick quickly blocked her path. Rainbow reached her arms out to try and strangle Lightning Dust, who just backed up and gave Rainbow a mocking innocent face.
"My, my, what a temper you've got there," Lightning chuckled.
Finally having enough, Rainbow shoved Bob and Patrick out of the way and ran up until she was face to face with Lightning Dust. Knowing he had to act fast in order to avoid a fight breaking out, Spike jumped in between the two girls and placed a hand on both of their abdomens, trying to keep the athletes apart.
"Now come on, you two. Can't you guys just put the past behind you and reconcile?" Spike asked.
The two girls felt flustered that Spike had his hands on their bodies, but eventually shook it off as they kept annoyed glances at each other.
"Not likely," Rainbow shook her head.
"As if," Lightning also shook her head.
"It seems to me that they're never going to get along with each other, Spike," Bob shook his head.
"I always thought the reason why they never get along is because they're so much alike," Patrick spoke.
"LIKE HER?!" Rainbow and Lightning both yelled to the plump boy at the same time.
"I rest my case," Patrick nodded.
Lightning shook off Patrick response and shoved Rainbow away before she wrapped her arm around Spike, causing him to sweat. "So, anyway, are you fond of sports, Spike?"
"Y-yeah, I-I enjoy sports," he answered nervously.
"In that case, maybe I can teach you some of my special moves," Lightning grinned maliciously. "And I'll probably even give you something else in advance."
Acting fast, Rainbow grabbed ahold of Spike and pulled him out of Lightning's grasp while giving her an enraged glare.
"You're the last person he would ever take advice from!" Rainbow barked.
"Like you could be a better teacher?"
"I couldn't do worse!"
"The problem is you're just jealous!"
"Jealous of what? Jealous of your recklessness? Of your selfish arrogance? Of the fact that you don't care who you step on to get whatever it is that you want?"
"To name a few!"
Not taking any more of this constant bickering, Spike once again got in between the two of them and pushed them apart.
"ENOUGH! Look at you two. You're making a scene in front of other students!" Spike growled as he gestured to the other scholars, who were all watching the drama from the sidelines. Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust took a look at all of the eyes that were staring at them, which caused their cheeks to turn a shade of red in embarrassment. "Now, Lightning Dust, while I'm flattered that you would like to teach me what you know about sports, I'd rather learn from the coach today."
Lightning Dust thought about what he said and wanted to continue trying to win him over, but for once she couldn't bring herself to do it. It's almost like she got some sense knocked into her.
"If that's what you want, then I respect your answer," Lightning nodded supportively.
"Thank you," Spike thanked her before she walked away to another part of the gym.
"How do you do that?" Patrick asked.
"Do what?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
"How do you talk some sense into others?" the plump boy asked again.
"I don't know. It's probably just who I am," Spike shrugged.
"It's almost time for class to start," Bob noticed that the time for the beginning of gym class was growing near.
"Let's just get this class over with," Patrick grumbled.
"Where's the coach already?" Rainbow began to grow restless.
"I don't know. The coach should've been here by now," Bob said in unease.
"I just hope that this coach is more merciful than Ms. Harshwhinny," Patrick shuddered. "I remember that Coach Spitfire is more understanding despite her firm nature."
"Didn't you hear the news? Spitfire is taking a temporary leave of absence," Bob said.
"Why?" the striped haired boy asked.
"She's taking a break from coaching at CHS for a while to rejoin as Captain of the Wonderbolts football team," Rainbow Dash explained.
"Well, then who's our new coach?" Patrick asked again.
"STUDENTS!" a harsh voice yelled out from the side.
Everyone in the room whipped their heads around to see a large man standing in the doorway. The man had a silver nose ring through his schnozzle and apparently had strong muscles just about everywhere on his body. He had dark blue eyes and dark blue hair shaped into a Mohawk. He was dressed in a blue tank top, dark blue athletic pants and black tennis shoes. The man had an intimidating look on his face powerful enough to send shivers down a person's spine.
"I am Coach Iron Will and I am your worst nightmare!" the large man growled, causing the students, except for Rainbow Dash, to gasp in terror. "From now until the end of the semester, I'm in charge! You will listen to any order I give you! By the end of the semester, all of you will be turned into assertive machines!"
"I wonder if somebody else will switch classes with me," Snips whispered to Snails, who nodded in agreement.
"SILENCE IN THE RANKS!" Iron Will snapped, causing the two boys to shiver. "Now, to start off the semester, all of you will be competing in an obstacle course outside!"
Rainbow Dash, Lightning Dust and Bulk Biceps all perked up after hearing this, but the same couldn't be said for the other students.
Outside, the students faced a large obstacle course that they were definitely going to have to participate in. The first step was swinging on a rope over a large sand pit. The second step was running through a tire field. The third step was jumping over a total of 8 hurdlers. The fourth step was walking on a narrow balance beam. The fifth step was jumping over some hay bales. The sixth step was climbing on the monkey bars. The seventh and final step was climbing over the wall climb. While Rainbow Dash, Lightning Dust and Bulk Biceps looked enthusiastic about the obstacle course, the others were a little uneasy about it.
"It's a nightmare, I tell you!" Patrick cried out.
"I've actually seen worse," Spike spoke nervously.
"Like what?" Bob asked.
"I accidentally walked in on my mom in her birthday suit once," the green haired boy shuddered at the memory.
"I'm sorry for you," the gray haired boy said sympathetically.
"Okay, I take back what I said earlier; dodgeball is fine," Patrick quivered.
"ALL RIGHT, YOU WUSSIES, I WANT ALL OF YOU TO FINISH THIS OBSTACLE CORSE 5 TIMES IN 10 MINUTES! NOW GET MOVING!" Iron Will ordered before blowing hard on his whistle.
Once the whistle was blown, the students dashed off to start the obstacle course. Rainbow and Lightning were the first ones to reach the rope swing. Just like daring Do in one of her adventure novels, Rainbow swung over the gap with ease, with Lightning not too far behind. Right after the two girls, Spike ran up to the rope, grabbed ahold of it, and also swung across the gap with ease. While Bob and Patrick were coming up behind him, Spike dashed off to finish the rest of the course. Spike zipped past Lightning Dust, much to her surprise, and he found himself running side-by-side with Rainbow Dash. Rainbow gave him a wink and he gave her a wink in return, causing her to mentally sigh with passion. Soon the students reached the monkey bars and most of them didn't think they could go on any longer.
"Holy marathon, we just got to the monkey bars and I'm already pooped!" Patrick announced.
"Less talking, more climbing!" Bob beckoned his brother.
After climbing over the wall climb, Spike was still in the lead with Rainbow Dash, with Lightning Dust not too far behind. Her eyes happened upon Spike's butt and she started licking her lips with hunger.
'I have to admit, this kid is fast, but not fast enough. Still, he's got a cute ass,' Lightning said in her head while she gazed at Spike's behind while trying to keep up.
After all of the students ran the obstacle course 5 times in a row, most of them collapsed onto the ground except for Spike, Bob, Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust. Iron Will frowned at the students on the ground before he let it slip.
"Iron Will is impressed! Most of you have gained Iron Will's outmost respect, but some of you have a long way to go! Now head for the showers, ladies!" Iron Will said boldly before pointing back
"Did he just call us ladies?" Patrick asked awkwardly.
"Don't ask," Bob replied.
"I already did," Patrick pointed out.
"I'm so tired. I don't think I'll be able to walk again," Snails wheezed.
"Well, it could be worse," Snips panted.
At that moment, something large blocked their path. The two boys looked up to see an angry Iron Will looking down on them like Chernabog from Fantasia.
"Hold it! You two were 5 seconds over from the requested time! And for that, the both of you will drop and give me 50 push-ups!" Iron Will said sternly to Snips and Snails.
"I don't want to do push-ups," Snails whined.
"PUSH-UPS!" Iron Will shouted and blew his whistle even louder, causing the two boys to fall to the ground and started their assigned number of push-ups, making them even more miserable then before.
Back in the boys' locker room, they each took a quick shower, dried off and got back into their regular clothes. While they were doing this, they were still trying to recover from the harsh methods of Coach Iron Will, especially Snips and Snails.
"I feel violated," Flash wheezed.
"Tell me about it," Snips breathed heavily.
"I wonder which teacher is the most severe so far; Ms. Harshwhinny or Iron Will," Snails wondered.
"I'm still trying to figure that out since it's hard to tell which one is the lesser of two evils," Patrick whimpered.
"Get ahold of yourselves, boys. We can't let them break us down like that," Bob encouraged them.
"Bob's right, we have to be strong if we're going to survive the year at this rate," Spike nodded.
"YEAH!" Bulk shouted strongly.
In the girls' locker room, the girls were going through the same routine that the boys were doing. The only ones who seemed to be unaffected by Iron Will's harsh methods were Rainbow Dash, Lightning Dust, and to a certain extent, Flitter.
"Whoo! What a rush! I can't wait to do that again!" Flitter squealed in delight.
"Again? That obstacle course didn't bother you?" Cloudchaser said in bewilderment.
"Nope!" Flitter shook her head happily.
"Oh, please! That obstacle course was nothing I couldn't handle! The whole thing was just a bunch of worthless challenges," Lightning boasted.
"You're pretty much full of it," Rainbow remarked.
"That's just what I expected you to say, Dash," Lightning rolled her eyes.
"Girls, you gotta admit, Spike looked very fearless when he ran through the obstacle course," Flitter giggled.
"Totally! Doesn't he seem like an awesome boy?" Cloudchaser beamed.
'Yeah, an awesome boy,' Rainbow sighed lovingly to herself.
After resting for a few more minutes, the bell rang, indicating that it was time for the students to head off to their next classes. Once the students had left, Iron Will marched out of the gym proudly with his head up.
"Once again, Iron Will, you turned those weaklings into assertive machines!" Iron Will laughed to himself.
However, he unknowingly ended up walking onto a freshly mopped floor and slid out of control. He flailed his arms around trying to regain his balance but he ended up slipping and fell onto his stomach. The force of the fall caused him to slide into the wall headfirst. Once his head made contact with the wall, he began to see butterflies flying around his head. At that moment, Derpy came around the corner wearing a janitor's outfit and holding a mop. She saw the state Iron Will was in and gasped in bewilderment.
"Oh, did I forget to put out the "Wet Floor" sign again? Oops, my bad!" Derpy announced confusingly.
It was time for the last class of the day: Drama. It turned out that Patrick is once again in the same class as Spike. After regaining their strength back, Spike and Patrick walked down the hallways, looking around for the classroom. The two boys soon stopped in their tracks when they saw a slightly older teenage boy approaching them. He had light teal eyes and long, golden hair. The outfit he was dressed in was a dark gray, long sleeved collared shirt, blue jeans and tan shoes.
"Blueblood," Patrick greeted the boy coldly.
"Moonbeam," Blueblood greeted back with the same tone before his eyes shifted to Spike. "Let me take a wild guess, you're Spike Drake, the new boy I've been hearing about, correct?"
"Uh...yes?" Spike nodded as Blueblood narrowed his eyes.
"Good, because I've been hearing so much about you from the girls at this school."
"You have?"
"Yes and I want to give you a fair warning: I have a reputation as being the most attractive boy in this school and I don't like competition. So stay away from all of the girls around here."
Spike couldn't believe what he was hearing. This older boy was actually trying to order him around like he was the head of the school. Well, Spike was not going to take this lying down.
"Well, if the girls decide that they want to talk to me, I'm not going to ignore them," Spike said bravely.
"Maybe I wasn't clear, you're not allowed to go near or speak to any of the girls here until you graduate," Blueblood stepped closer, until Patrick stepped in front of Spike with an annoyed expression.
"Hey, you can't tell my new friend here what to do, you royal pain!" Patrick spoke up.
"You keep out of this, Moonbeam, or I'll make you obey my rule, too! I don't care who your brother is!" Blueblood retorted.
"BLUEBLOOD!" a familiar, trans-Atlantic English voice came from behind them. When the three boys turned around, they spotted both Rarity and Pinkie Pie standing there with angry expressions.
"Oh, um, hello, ladies," Blueblood tried to regain his coquettish composure, but it didn't seem to work.
"Drop the act! We know what you're trying to do; you're trying to force Spike into avoiding us just so you can have the attention of every girl in this school all for yourself! So let me give you a warning: stay away from Spike or we'll go straight to your Aunts so they can whip you into shape!" Rarity pointed an accusing finger in his face.
"Yeah, you big meanie!" Pinkie also scolded him.
"Hmph!" Blueblood huffed as he stormed off, leaving the two boys and two girls alone in the hallway.
"Are you alright, Spike?" Rarity asked in worry.
"Yes, but who was that?" the green haired boy
"That was Blueblood, Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna's nephew," Patrick answered.
"He is without a doubt the most selfish, arrogant boy I've ever met!" Rarity huffed.
"Yeah, he's a real party pooper," Pinkie said with squinted eyes.
"What did he mean by he doesn't care who Bob is?" Spike turned to Patrick.
"Bob and Blueblood have a bit of a complicated history. Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna usually preferred Bob over Blueblood because Bob was the more helpful and unselfish one. Blueblood was so angry that he challenged Bob to a wrestling match, which Bob eventually won and gained a huge amount of respect from the school that Blueblood used to have. So Bob and Blueblood have been sworn enemies ever since," Patrick explained.
"You know, that's still a lot to take in when you say it all at once," Pinkie commented.
"Come on, let's get to class," Rarity beckoned them and they continued to walk down the hallway.
After another minute of walking, they finally arrived at their drama class. The interior of the classroom was phenomenal. On one side of the room stood a row of bleachers similar to those in the gymnasium. On the other side of the room was a slightly smaller stage with red stage curtains hung up behind it. Above the stage was a small catwalk that held some stage lights directed towards the stage. And once again, there were more students that Spike hasn't acquainted yet. There was a boy around his age with both lavender eyes and hair. The boy wore a white T-shirt, dark gray pants, and black and white tap shoes. There were also three new teenage girls that he hasn't met before. The first girl had white hair and wore thick magenta colored glasses/goggles over her eyes. She wore a black top with white stripes, a magenta scarf around her neck, a black skirt with multiple pink diamond symbols and a pink and white stripe at the bottom, and black go-go boots. The second girl had dark gray hair and light purple eyes. She was wearing a purple top over a white button-up shirt, a pink bowtie around her neck, a pink skirt with a treble clef symbol, white knee socks and black shoes. She also held a cello instrument in her hands. The third girl had dark blue hair with teal streaks and, much like the first girl, wore magenta colored glasses over her eyes. She was dressed in a white spring jacket, white skirt with a double musical note symbol, magenta pants with pink lightning bolt symbols, and light blue sneakers. She also had big headphones over her ears, which indicated that she was listening to music.
Pinkie Pie noticed that Spike was looking towards the other students and told him who they were, since she practically knew just about everybody at CHS. The young boy was named Tender Taps and his passion was tap dancing. The first girl was named Photo Finish and she was the one who was always taking pictures of everything at CHS whenever she needed to. The second girl was Octavia Melody and she was one of the main members of the CHS orchestra. The third girl was Vinyl Scratch (although her nickname was DJ Pon3), and she was the one in charge of creating remixes of music with her DJ mixers. After Pinkie filled him in with that information, he took another gaze and spotted a familiar girl putting on some lip-gloss while looking into a hand mirror. However, this girl was now wearing a purple wizard hat and cape decorated with star symbols over her normal clothes.
"Trixie?" Spike asked aloud, gaining the girl's attention.
Trixie's heart began racing once her eyes fell upon Spike's face. Every time she looked at him, she began picturing in her mind about her and Spike falling in love, getting married and starting a family. However, she broke the mental fantasy and jumped out of her seat in a split second.
"Spike! It's so good to see you again!" Trixie immediately zipped over to him and embraced him.
"It's...good to...see you...too," Spike struggled to say due to Trixie squeezing him too hard.
Rarity and Pinkie started to envy Trixie's close contact with Spike, but relented themselves from tackling the magician since they didn't want to make a scene. Soon, Spike and Trixie broke the embrace, but her eyes never left him.
"I can't believe you're taking drama!" Trixie beamed.
"I definitely can believe that you are. I take it that you're taking drama because you love to perform magic tricks?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
"Naturally, since no one is better at magic than the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie proclaimed.
"Well, I know some magic tricks too. I'm not just a wiz at voices," Patrick stepped in.
"Ah, Patrick Moonbeam, my second favorite boy here at CHS, it's so good to see you again," Trixie acknowledged him in a decent manner.
"You two know each other?" Spike's eyes widened.
"Yeah, I used to be her stage assistant until something bad happened," Patrick confirmed.
"What happened?" the green haired boy wondered.
"Well, one night while Trixie was working on a flame magic trick, I was wearing a hat made of firecrackers as part of the act, but when she accidentally lost control of the fire, it made my hat explode," Patrick explicated.
"It didn't explode; it burst into flames," Trixie corrected him.
"And THEN exploded," Patrick added.
"Well...yeah, that's about right," Trixie nodded shamefully.
"So, if Patrick's your second favorite boy here, who is your first favorite?" Spike asked curiously.
"You, of course!" Trixie smiled passionately.
"Be careful, Spike," Rarity whispered in his ear. "Trixie looks like she means well, but she sometimes lets her boastful ego get the best of her."
"I don't recall Spike asking for your input!" Trixie glared.
"Well maybe I wouldn't have to if you didn't strut around like you're the self-elected queen of magic!" Rarity argued back.
"And I guess that makes you the self-elected queen of fashion?"
"Take that back!"
"No!"
"Hey, leave her alone! Fashion is her passion!" Pinkie butted into the argument.
"I've got a wedgie!" Patrick cried out, making the other four look towards him to see that he was grabbing the backside of his pants, which caused his cheeks to turn red. "Oh sorry, I guess I got caught up in the moment."
Before the arguing could continue, Spike stepped in between both sides with a worried expression on his face.
"Alright, I think tempers are getting a little high right now, so how about you all calm down and respect each other for who you are?" Spike suggested.
The three girls thought about what Spike said and knew that he was right. Everybody was special in his/her own way and should never be put on the spot for it.
"I will if she will," Rarity gestured her head over to Trixie.
"Trixie has no problems respecting others as long as they treat Trixie with respect," Trixie said with her usual third-person manifestation.
"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie smiled.
At that moment, a young male voice cleared his throat. They turned around and saw Snips and Snails standing there with nervous smiles. The two boys were currently out of their gym uniforms and were now dressed in their regular clothes. Snips was wearing a black T-shirt with a symbol of a pair of scissors on it, blue jeans and red shoes. Snails was wearing a red shirt under a green jacket with a snail symbol on it, tan pants and red shoes. Snips was holding a smoothie cup in his right hand and held it out to Trixie.
"A strawberry smoothie, just like you asked for," Snips announced before Trixie grabbed to cup and brought the straw to her mouth.
"Very good," Trixie smiled as she took a sip of the blended drink.
"Anything else we can get for you, Great and Powerful Trixie?" Snails asked.
"That will be all for now. Beat it," Trixie demanded before taking another sip.
"Oh, of course, Great and Powerful Trixie," Snails nodded.
"Anything you say. We are at your beck and call," Snips did a bow.
"Do they always do whatever you tell them to?" Spike asked.
"Occasionally, most likely because they're extremely loyal to me," Trixie answered proudly.
"Yeah, we're loyal," Snails spoke, indicating that he and Snips were still there.
"TRIXE TOLD YOU TO BEAT IT!" Trixie screeched furiously, frightening the two boys.
"We're gone," Snips said before he and Snails zipped out of the classroom in the blink of an eye.
"Oh, those two get on Trixie's nerves!" the magician groaned.
"And yet, why she keeps those two around? I have no idea," Patrick whispered to Spike, making the latter chuckle.
"Well, what do we have here, girls?" a seductive female voice came from behind them.
The five turned around and spotted three very attractive teenage girls heading over to them. The first girl had lavender eyes and orange, poofy hair. She was wearing a one-piece purple dress with pink shoulder covers, pink leg stockings and purple boots. The second girl had violet eyes and purple hair with light blue streaks tied up in pigtails. Her outfit was composed of a light green shirt under a dark green, short open jacket, red-violet pants and magenta boots. The third and final girl had red-violet eyes and light blue hair with dark blue streaks done up in a ponytail. She was dressed in a moderate raspberry jacket with three blue laces and a dark pink collar, a light pink skirt and pink boots. All three girls had necklaces with a red gemstone as the centerpiece.
"It's a new student!" the third girl hopped up and down excitedly.
"And not a bad looking one, either," the second girl smirked.
"What's your name, handsome?" the first girl asked.
"S-S-Spike D-D-Drake," the green haired boy marveled at their beauty.
"What a gorgeous name. I'm Adagio Dazzle," the poof-haired girl smiled.
"I'm Aria Blaze," the pigtail girl said next.
"And I'm Sonata Dusk!" the ponytail girl shook Spike's hand wildly.
"Oh, boy! We've got a singing group in the class! That's so exciting!" Pinkie bounced up and down happily.
"You're a singing group?" Spike questioned.
"Of course; we call ourselves the Dazzlings," Adagio answered.
"We sing from time to time," Aria said smugly.
"Actually, we sing ALL the time!" Sonata beamed, causing Aria to slap her forehead in irritation.
"So, Spike, would like to spend the rest of the day with us? We can make it worth your while," Adagio asked as she ran a hand through Spike's hair seductively.
This action in turn caused Spike to blush intensely. Before Spike could answer, a hand reached out and pulled him back. Spike looked up and saw Rarity and Pinkie with irked expressions.
"I think you're the last people Spike should ever associate with!" Rarity snapped.
"Hey, don't hog the new boy all to yourself!" Sonata barked.
"We'll hog who we wanna hog!" Pinkie growled.
"We're not even hogging Spike at all! We're merely protecting him from the likes of you!" Rarity declared.
"He doesn't even need protecting," Aria smirked.
"Some loving is what he really needs," Adagio smiled wickedly.
"The only one who can love and protect Spike is the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie butted into the argument.
"Oy Vey," Patrick rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"ENOUGH!" Spike yelled, causing all the girls to stop their squabble and look at him. "Look, Adagio, Aria and Sonata, I appreciate the invitation, but I already have plans after school today. Maybe we can hang out together some other time."
The three girls were at a loss for words, but knew that Spike was expecting a response, so they swallowed their pride and smiled.
"Alright, Spike, if that is what you want, then we respect your decision," Adagio said on their behalf.
That being said, the Dazzlings walked away to another section of the classroom. After calming down and apologizing for their impolite behavior, Rarity and Pinkie decided to introduce Spike to Vinyl, Octavia and Photo Finish. They first approached Photo Finish, who was oblivious to them at first until she turned and faced Rarity.
"Photo Finish, this is our new classmate, Spike Drake," Rarity spoke to the photographer, who then looked down at Spike.
"Uh...hello?" Spike waved his hand.
"Halt that pose!" Photo Finish spoke boldly in a thick German accent.
Photo Finish then snapped her fingers and instantly two stylized female assistants appeared by her side with some make-up and lighting equipment. The assistants pointed the lights at Spike's face and began applying some makeup to it simultaneously. Once Spike's face had a decent amount of makeup, Photo began snapping multiple pictures of Spike, much to his bewilderment.
"What the--hey!" Spike cried out as Photo Finish was taking a lot of snapshots of him.
"Yes! Yes! You are a knight in shining armor! You are the chosen one for the damsel in distress! You are the Tarzan of Canterlot's concrete jungle!"
"What's happening?!" Spike cried out in fright just as Photo Finish was through taking pictures.
"Enough! You go!" Photo Finish barked at her two assistants, who immediately zipped out the room. "I will have the footage developed and get them back to you as soon as possible."
Spike mumbled as he tried to get his sight back after nearly being blinded by the bright camera flashes. Rarity appeared by his side and helped support him.
"I apologize for her behavior, darling, but once she sees something that inspires her, she tends to get a little carried away," Rarity smiled nervously.
"I definitely glean that," Spike said.
Pinkie quickly brought over Octavia Melody and Vinyl Scratch to Spike and Rarity. "Octavia and Vinyl, this is the new student at Canterlot High, Spike Drake!"
"It's nice to meet you both," Spike said after he got his sight back.
"It's a pleasure to meet you as well," Octavia greeted.
"What's up?" Vinyl gave a friendly wave after taking off her headphones.
"Pinkie told me earlier that you two are fond of music?" he questioned.
"Yes, I am in to classical music and ballet," Octavia nodded.
"I'm more into and upbeat genres and remixes," Vinyl confirmed.
Patrick looked up at the clock and saw that it was almost time for class to start. "Hey, it's almost time to begin drama!"
"Goodness, we'd better take our seats!" Rarity gasped.
"YAY!" Pinkie cheered.
After a minute or so, all the students were sitting on the bleachers, waiting for the teacher to arrive.
"I wonder where the teacher is," Rarity pondered in concern.
"I heard that the teacher of this class is one of the funniest people at CHS," Pinkie whispered exuberantly.
"I can't wait to see what he's capable of," Spike said with wonder.
"QUIET! Ve start now!" Photo Finish exclaimed.
At that moment, the lights in the classroom went out and a spotlight appeared on the stage curtains. This caused the students to awe in excitement, including Pinkie Pie and Sonata Dusk. Then, something started moving behind the curtains, indicating that there was something back there.
"What's that?" Spike asked aloud.
"Oh, not a what, but a who!" a cheerful male voice exclaimed from behind the curtain.
After that sentence was announced, a middle aged man jumped out from behind the curtains. The man had red-brown eyes and gray/white hair. The man wore a brown sweater vest over a yellow dress shirt and black necktie, red pants with thin white stripes, and one of his shoes was light brown and the other shoe was light green. The man also had a small goatee beard on his chin. Despite his odd appearance, he seemed to be an enthusiastic type of person.
"Here's DISCORD!" the male boomed, while the students, excluding Trixie, applauded for his great entrance.
"Meh, Trixie could've done better," Trixie muttered.
"Is that our drama teacher?" Spike whispered.
"Yeah and there's no one else better for it," Patrick whispered back.
"As your Drama teacher, I expect nothing but the best from all of you, if you plan on surviving the course," Discord chuckled. "Now one by one, I want you to show me what special talents each of you have, and we're going to do it in SONG!"
"Friend Like Me"
Discord started singing in scat before he beckoned Spike to join in, followed by the rest of the class. While Discord began singing and dancing in free-style, he used Spike as an associate with the performance. Spike felt awkward during the number at first, but soon the music took ahold of his soul and he began to hip-hop dance with a burning passion. While the performances were happening, Photo Finish was busy taking photos of all the action, or as she called it, the magics. When Discord took a breather from dancing, Pinkie Pie zipped onto the stage with a huge smile on her face. She then grabbed some of her supplies from backstage and began to unravel what she had in mind for her captive audience.
"Can your friends do this? No really, can they? You're welcome!" Pinkie laughed before she began to juggle colorful balls while balancing herself on a huge beach ball.
When the music became more exciting, Pinkie pushed up the ante by standing on one foot on the beach while she continued to juggle the smaller balls. Once she did enough antics, she did a backflip off of the beach ball and landed onto the stage before catching all of the smaller balls. This caused the students to applaud wildly while Discord zipped over with a microphone.
"And now it's time to introduce the singing and dancing babes of CHS. Please give a warm hand to the Dazzlings!" Discord announced into the microphone before the curtains parted behind him and revealed the Dazzlings in Arabian harem outfits, courtesy of Rarity.
The Dazzlings began to dance seductively around Spike, causing him to become flustered. The other girls began to grow jealous of the way the Dazzlings were flirting with Spike. The three girls concluded their dance by giving Spike a few kisses of his cheeks. Once that was over, Discord came out wearing a cowboy outfit and placed a cowboy hat on Spike's head. Discord then beckoned the green haired boy to join him in a brief square dance. After that, Patrick stepped onto the stage and spoke into a microphone.
"I'd like to bring the house down a little bit, sing a few old classics, couple of favorites of ours. I'll get back to you in a second! Thank you!" Patrick announced as the lights started to fade to black.
When a single spotlight focused on him, Patrick began to sing a few popular Disney songs. He started with the song Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and then Part of Your World and Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid, then Hakuna Matata from The Lion King, before going right back to Beauty and the Beast. Once he was done, Trixie stepped in to unveil her magical abilities.
"Though he's sitting here, watch Spike disappear right before your eyes!" Trixie announced as she pulled up a huge cloth that blocked Spike from the audience.
When Trixie pulled the sheet away, Spike was gone from sight. This caused the students to gasp in shock before Trixie pulled the sheet back up and down again revealing Spike back in the chair. Once they saw that Spike was back, they burst into applause and Trixie threw a smoke bomb down onto the stage, resulting in a huge eruption of smoke. Discord then popped out from behind the curtains again, but this time he was wearing a glittering tuxedo.
"Can your friends do this? Can your friends do that?" Discord asked as he began to dance again at the same time Tender Taps appeared on the stage.
"Can your friends do tap?!" Tender Taps asked before he broke into a tap dance.
Tender Taps randomly tap danced across the stage, causing all eyes to focus on him. Feeling the rhythm, Spike soon joined in the dance, eventually followed by everyone else, including Discord. Once the tap dance started to die down, Discord once again spoke into a microphone.
"Give me a doggy bag; we're takin' it home!" Discord announced as everybody joined him onstage for the grand finale.
All the students linked arms and began to perform the chorus line routine just like the Rockettes. Once they finished with the last lines of the song, they all burst into applause, implying their delight of showing off their talents and abilities. Spike's heart was beating so fast in his chest, he was afraid it was going to burst. Eventually, they all calmed down, walked off the stage and sat down in their seats while Discord remained onstage.
"All right, it's time for me to give you your student evaluations for starting out," Discord announced as the students sat in their seats. "First off, Trixie Lulamoon, impressive magic tricks, although I find them to be slightly above average. Despite needing some more work, I still found your talent decent."
This comment caused Trixie to scowl with irritation before muttering. "You wouldn't know a talented magician if you tripped over one."
"What was that?" Discord asked sternly with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing, nothing at all," she replied with a forced smile.
Shrugging it off, Discord continued down the line of students to give them his thoughts on how well they performed.
"Ms. Rarity, your outfits for each one of the students were spectacular! I don't know how you manage it!" Discord beamed.
"Oh, I guess it's just natural talent, darling," Rarity smiled back.
"Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk, all three of you were spectacular dancers," Discord complemented the three girls.
"We try not to brag," Adagio said smugly.
"Though our act would've been better if Sonata wasn't the worst," Aria groaned.
"No, you're the worst!" Sonata argued back.
After Discord quickly broke up the argument, he moved on to Pinkie Pie.
"Pinkie Pie, your antics are both entertaining and hilarious! You've definitely got true talent," Discord said to the pink haired girl.
"Aw, shucks!" Pinkie playfully waved a hand in dismissal.
"Photo Finish, your camera angles and taken photos are definitely true masterpieces," Discord smiled.
"I, Photo Finish, always aim to please!" the photographer boasted proudly.
"Octavia Melody and Vinyl Scratch, the both of you really know how to work with different kinds of music," Discord hummed.
"Music is our passion in life. Isn't that right, Vinyl?" Octavia spoke on their behalf, resulting in a nod and thumbs-up from the female DJ.
"Patrick Moonbeam, I have to say that you've got a good set of pipes in that throat of yours. I'm actually looking forward to hearing more voices from you this semester," Discord gave the plump boy a thumbs-up.
"Well, in that case, I won't disappoint you," Patrick answered.
"Tender Taps, you really have a talent in tap dancing. How exactly do make other join in the dance with you?" Discord asked curiously.
"I guess it just comes naturally," Tender responded.
"And finally, Spike Drake, you are the king of hip-hop! I expect to see big things from you in this class!" Discord happily finished.
"Thank you, Mr. Discord," Spike grinned.
"Overall, all of you did very well. But this is only the preview, because the real show is about to begin!" Discord cackled amusingly.
It was eventually the end of the school day and the students made their way out of the building and wandered off in different directions. After bidding all of his new friends goodbye, Spike walked for about 15 minutes until he came to a stop in front of his new house.
He really started to enjoy the new house as time passed. However, he knew that he was really going to miss his old house from Manehattan. After all, that house was where Spike grew up in. It was where he said his first word, took his first step, and played as a child. Although it would never compare to his old house, Spike knew that he would be able to make brand new memories in this new house. As Spike unlocked the front door and stepped inside, he was instantly tackled to the floor by a big animal. Before he could react, he received a wet, sloppy lick on the face by a pink tongue. When Spike opened his eyes, he smiled as he looked up at the animal who pinned him down. It was Shadow, who was a black Labrador and the family dog.
David gave Shadow as a puppy to Spike when he was 10 and the two have been inseparable ever since.
"Hey, Shadow!" Spike chuckled as he patted the dog on the head. "Now get off me, buddy."
Spike gave Shadow a gentle nudge with his hand and dog scooted off of the teenage boy's body. He walked into the kitchen, scooped up some dog food into Shadow's dog bowl and placed it on the doggy mat by the counter, allowing the black Labrador to eat to his heart's desire. While Shadow was eating, Spike went over to the refrigerator and saw that his mother left a note on it.
'~Spike, I will be home around 7:00 tonight. Your father will be home at around 8:00. We will have spaghetti, salad and garlic bread for dinner tonight. Love, Mom.'
"Great! Mom makes the best spaghetti ever!" Spike smiled brightly after reading the note.
After Shadow was done eating his dinner, Spike opened the patio door, allowing Shadow to wander out into the backyard to do his business. Once Shadow came back inside after a while, Spike closed the patio door and headed upstairs to his room. His room was everything that a boy like Spike Drake could ever want. There was a queen sized bed with green and purple pillows and comforter in one corner, a 55 inch plasma screen TV in front of the bed and placed on top of a wooden TV stand, a computer desk next to the TV with a laptop, and a closet located near the entrance to the room. There were also some posters of his favorite superheroes hung on the walls around the room, including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, etc. There was also a medium-sized bookshelf located on the other side of the TV.
On his bookshelf was a stack of his favorite comic book series, The Power Girls. On the bottom half of the bookshelf, he had a collection of some of his favorite Disney movies on Blu-ray, including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, Zootopia, Big Hero 6, Moana, The Jungle Book, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, etc. he also had some superhero movies on Blu-ray, including, The Dark Knight, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman (1989), Man of Steel, etc. At the side of his bed, there was a large doggy bed with Shadow's name inscribed on the front of it. Knowing that he had nothing but time on his hands, Spike grabbed one of his Power Girls comics from the bookshelf, plopped down on his bed and began reading it, while Shadow laid down on his doggy bed and fell asleep.
At 8:30, Spike and his parents were sitting at the dinner table eating their delicious spaghetti, salad and garlic bread meal while Shadow laid under the table by Spike's feet. Mary was a 36 year old woman with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a light purple shirt, pink pants and purple shoes. David was a 38 year old man with green, spiked hair and light green eyes, just like Spike. He was dressed in a green collared shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. While David had a new job at Nightwalker Tech, Mary had a job as a kindergarten teacher at Canterlot Preschool. At first, they all sat in silence while they ate until Mary took a moment to stop and find out how Canterlot High School was for her little boy.
"So how was school today, sweetie?" Mary asked her son.
"It was fantastic. I like most of my classes and I met some new friends today," Spike spoke after swallowing his food first.
"Anyone in particular?" David asked.
"I met Bob Nightwalker and his brother, Patrick Moonbeam," Spike answered.
"You did?" Mary asked with interest.
"Yeah, Patrick really makes me laugh and Bob really does a good job of after his brother," the green haired boy nodded.
"That reminds me, I had the honor of meeting his parents, Julius and Elsa Nightwalker today at work," David announced.
"What were they like?" Mary asked.
"Like everything the job description said. They were kind, helpful and they said that they'll do anything to make us comfortable here in Canterlot," David replied.
"Oh, how wonderful!" Mary cheered like a teenage girl.
Spike looked at his mother awkwardly before he cleared his throat to speak again. "Anyway, I also met some girls and--"
"You met some girls?! Oh, my little boy's growing up!" Mary cooed.
"I guess he does take after me," David chuckled.
"No! Not that way! I'm just friends with them!" Spike waved his hands in denial.
"Still, that doesn't mean that something can't happen between you and one of them," Mary smiled.
"Or maybe all of them," David put in.
"DAVID!" Mary shouted harshly.
"I was just making a suggestion. After all, I was quite the ladies' man back in my day. It was a hard task for me to take on, but then again, the more you play with it, the harder it gets," David explained while subtly slipping in an adult joke, which Spike surprisingly understood anyway.
"Okay, subject change!" Spike ordered, before his parents laughed before resuming their meal.
After dinner, Spike went back upstairs to take a shower. Once he was done, he changed into his green and purple pajamas and went into his room. Once he stepped inside, Shadow quickly followed in after him and laid down on his doggy bed again and fell fast asleep. Spike gave his canine companion a pat on the head before he climbed into bed, got under the comforter and laid his head on his soft pillow. He immediately began thinking of his new friends that he made today and couldn't wait to see them again.
"I can't wait to see Bob, Patrick and the girls tomorrow," Spike sighed as he turned off his bedside lamp and drifted off into a blissful sleep. |
Thestrals at Twilight | pre | "I, um, I was curious if I could...touch your wing next? I was kind of curious about their sensitivity and...texture as well." Twilight commented, her blush actually starting to form at the request, "I...I mean if that's okay."
Bade was getting very suspicious now, with a thestral's wings being very sensitive to touch and indeed an erogenous zone much like how Pegusus wings are, and the fact that they are generally only touched during sexual foreplay or sex by a mate or personally for cleaning; given the lack of a need to 'preen' them as feathered wings had to be, the thestral was simply able to wash them in the shower like any other part. "I, um, I guess that'd be OK...for your study, that is." Bade said, quickly feeling his wing softly being tugged by her magic to open, before he personally opened both wings to their full span.
"Wow, they're beautiful!" Twilight exclaimed as she saw his wings open in their full glory, with them arching slightly upward from his back unlike a Pegasus's that stood up nearly straight at full expansion. Backlit, the thin grey membranes were slightly transparent, the forearm and fingers of the wing being a darker grey, like his coat, than the membranes. Hearing her call his wings beautiful made Bade smile slightly in pride, thestrals being just as proud of their wings as their Pegasus brethren.
"Um...thank-aaah!" Bade said, interrupted mid-thanks by Twilight's hoof tracing his wing's membrane with a hoof, making pleasant sensations crackle throughout his wing and up his spine... and to his underbarrel as well. "C-careful please, our wings are very sensitive..." he warned softly, getting a nod from Twilight.
"I know, sorry." Twilight said slowly, then methodically traced seemingly every inch of his wings with her hooves, membrane and finger and forearm alike, Bade trying his best to keep his resolve and keep his penis inside its sheath, his guard training helping but clearly not much. That, however, was not meant to be.
As Twilight started to rub the muscles that attached his right wing to his barrel, Bade winced as the stimulation of those very sensitive muscles, mixed with the scent of a receptive mare and unintentional, or so he thought, sexual teasing, had its effect. He felt his penis drop against his power and the cool air of the room wash over his flare, with him sweating now from the surely-unintentional sexual teasing Twilight gave him, swiftly growing harder as she continued the wonderful, definitely-not-sensual massage.
"...and what is this Master-Sergeant Bade Moonglade? Indecent in front of a superior officer?!" Twilight virtually cooed, clearly having seen his peeking 'little soldier'. Though oddly, her voice was still seemingly seductive.
"M-MA'AM, I APOLOGIZE MA'AM!" Bade immediately exclaimed, panicking through the pleasure, her rubbing on his wing's base not having stopped, and as such he continued to grow harder at the stimulation.
"Explain yourself."
"Ma'am, a thestral's wings are mmmph an...erogenous zone, ma'am, and you're rubbing mine. It's also m-mmmmm-mating season ma'am and you're giving off pheromones, and it's a s-strictly involuntary reaction, I swear to you ma'am!" Bade desperately tried to explain, sweating heavily now, hoping and praying to the goddess Faust that Twilight's punishment would be lenient. He expected to be banished from Equestria, to be sentenced to a life of dungeon time...
...the last thing he expected to hear, however, was Twilight giggling.
"You sure it's totally involuntary?" Twilight asked, Bade utterly surprised by that question, "Because to me, it just looks like you're submitting another 'appendage' to be measured..."
Bade's jaw hung open. "M-Ma'am?" he asked, utterly baffled.
"Well, I did say I'd be studying your appendages, and I'm pretty sure your penis fits in that category..." Twilight said, giving another unbelievably sexy giggle, "...but I'm afraid I can't tell its true length in its semi-flaccid state." Twilight said matter-of-factly; "I need it to be...erect."
That statement alone got Twilight that much closer to that goal, a throb going through Bade's very alive 'appendage'. "I...uh...?" Bade stammered, now at a total loss for words, feeling his semi-boner lightly twitching in response.
"...and what better way to get it fully erect than...direct stimulation from a mare in estrus?" Twilight's voice oozed lust now, even if it was poorly covered up by mock indifference.
"W-wha-are you saying..."
"Stimulation by hoof...and maybe more, if needed."
Bade's face was beet-red at this point, not sure how long he could keep up the thinly-veiled charade Twilight seemed to be playing. He could feel her lust just as strongly as he could smell her growing, needing scent, yet she still kept up the medical act.
"O-okay, that's okay I guess." Bade stammered, and then felt Twilight gently nudging him towards the desk.
"I'd like you to lay down so I can...'study' you more thoroughly. We can use the desk as an examination table; it's nice and sturdy." Twilight said, nudging him with her muzzle and him following her direction.
"B-but the desk is full of books and..." Bade stammered...only to watch as a wave of raspberry-red magic swept everything to one side of the desk, everything from books to ink-pots to quills haphazardly dumped into a large pile now.
"There, now it's not," Twilight stated flatly, "now please lay on your back on the desk."
Bade wasn't sure if he was taking orders from his princess anymore or the horny mare she'd become in her estrus, but his penis gave a throb in favor of the latter. Not one to disobey a superior's orders, he climbed on the desk, laying down on the smooth hardwood surface as his wings lay across the surface, his cock standing like a mage's spire off his belly now, fully erect.
Bade saw between his legs that Twilight was staring at that particular sign of male virility as he now lay on his back with his forehooves folded at his chest, his back legs spread-eagle on the desk and leaving nothing to the imagination.
"Wow...big." Bade thought he heard Twilight whisper, seeing her tilting her head to get more angles. His cock looked almost identical in shape compared to a pony stallion's--rather long and cylindrical with a thick medial ring in its center and an even thicker flare at its tip--his whole shaft black-skinned with only small flecks of pink flesh to match his pure-black balls. The only notable differences were the sheer girth of it and his balls being so huge.
"So, uh..." Bade said, red still burning on his cheeks as she looked at his penis like...well, like a mare in heat looking at a stallion's cock.
"Oh, right..." Twilight said in a distracted tone, blushing a bit and shaking her head as she realized where she'd been staring, not to mention the sudden increase in the fire in her loins, "Right...is this full length?" Bade gave a soft, subconscious glare, "N-no, I didn't mean it like that! It's just, for the study, I need it to be at full...erection...for accurate records.
"I, uh, I think so?" Bade said, unsure himself if he was at full mast, honestly not sure about much of anything at this point except that his foalhood crush, an alicorn princess, was staring at his penis and balls!
"Well, I wouldn't want the recordings to be inaccurate..." Twilight said, before suddenly sitting down and grabbing his penis between both hooves, softly starting to rub. It felt warm and firm, hard but spongy, slightly giving to her gentle squeezes but not bending completely. Twilight had never touched a stallion's penis before, so this was all completely new to her.
"T-Twilight?!" Bade asked in surprise, sensations of pleasure rolling through him as Twilight continued to rub softly, unsteadily...as though this was her first time doing anything like this.
"It's OK Bade, I'm just assuring full erection..." Twilight said nonchalantly, as if jacking off stallions was simply a part of every medical study.
"I...guh...I think that's...mmph...'bout as hard as it's gonna geeeeeeet..." Bade moaned out, before finding that Twilight stopped rubbing with her hooves...and instead he watched, then felt, as she lowered her muzzle to his cock.
<No...no WAY is she going to...> Bade thought, in a minor state of shock.
She did.
Bade moaned against his will as Twilight licked his glans softly, his hips shifting up on reflex to the soft, warm tongue dragging on his member, a much stronger surge of pleasure going through him than with just her hooves.
"J-just ensuring full erection..." Twilight assured, though that excuse seemed to be wearing thin, as enjoying a stallion's pre-cum wasn't part of a scientific study! Each little dollop Bade produced, each drop his stallionhood drooled out for her, Twilight's tongue was quick to lick it up, her mouth moving as though she were savoring it...and secretly, she was. The raw, hormonal flavor of stallion set her senses and breeding instincts alight and made her tail start to involuntarily flag over her back, her clit starting a slow pattern of winking as she softly licked his flare like a lollipop.
It wasn't long before Twilight had started subconsciously moaning while licking Bade - her hips rocking back and forth as though she were being bred, her back arching up to a stallion who wasn't there - before she realized just what she was doing and stopped, blushing heavily and dropping her tail back between her legs. "I...uh...I think you're fully erect now." Twilight said, still blushing deeply, summoning the tape measure to her again. "Subject Bade's penis is fourteen-point-five inches long and eight in circumference, long and thick even for a thestral according to my studies, and for reference the average pony stallion is about eight to ten inches long and around five to six on average..." Twilight said, with more longing in her voice than she realized as she moved the tape to his sack, softly grasping both testes in her magic and gently wrapping the tape around them "...and each testicle is about four inches long and two inches in circumference. A very...virile specimen indeed."
Bade simply kept staring in his heat-pheromone-induced daze, before finally Twilight exhaled. "Bade, I have something I need to tell you. I didn't ask you..." she started, only to be interrupted.
"...in here to do a study, and intentionally redirected me to 'guard' you here so you could seduce me?" Bade finished, the red on Twilight's face growing a few shades.
"I-If you knew, why didn't you say something?!" Twilight asked sharply, flustered.
"Because we all have our coping methods Twilight. Mine is avoidance, and apparently yours is...studying to understand it more." Bade responded, Twilight nodding slightly, "I wanted you to be comfortable before admitting that to me....and I think you are now.
Twilight huffed, offering a soft nod. "Well, since all pretenses are off now and you know my true intentions...is this OK with you Bade? Being sexual with me, that is..." Twilight asked like a schoolfilly asking her school crush out on a first date, "I think I'm past needing studying as a crutch now, as you can probably smell."
Twilight's scent had grown stronger and she'd started dripping her mare-honey onto the floor, her tail flagged high and her arousal at a new peak. Bade's nostrils were flared as his cock remained at full hardness, starting to hurt a little as he smelled the fertile mare in front of him basically begging him to breed her, himself needing relief as much as she did now.
"I'm OK with this, as I...kind of like you too...but you do know that thestrals can get pony mares pregnant, right? I don't have any condoms." Bade's own cheeks flushed a little deeper, "Plus this would...kinda be my first time."
Twilight nodded. She had indeed learned that thestrals can crossbreed with ponies of all tribes and even zebras in her reading, and if anypony were to have vaginal intercourse with them in estrus, they would have to take the standard contraceptive precautions that they would with any other pony race, lest they likely become pregnant by them.
If the pony mare were to become pregnant by a thestral stallion however, or similarly a thestral mare pregnant by a pony stallion, the resulting offspring - or one of the multiple that could be born, given the much more common likelyhood of twins or even triplets among thestrals and their mates - would often be of the pony mother's or father's race, or presumably their original race in the case of alicorns. As for traits, it was very possible for the foal to have traits of the thestral parent - tufted ears, slitted pupils, bat wings, or fangs - or on extremely rare occurrence, be born a full thestral. If two thestrals breed, they would simply have another bat-pony pup or two.
"Yeah I studied on that, and don't worry about being a virgin. It's...my first time too." Twilight responded, before lighting her horn. She felt an even hotter burning in her belly for a moment, before ending the spell, "There, I used an anti-foal spell. Now I can't get pregnant for today as all sperm approaching my egg will be destroyed when trying to reach it." Twilight said simply, her tail once more starting to swish her fertile scent, permeating the room with her desire, "...but before all that, I should finish what I started. After all, everypony's first time should be special."
Before Bade could ask what she meant, Twilight quickly licked the underside of his cock from the base until she reached his flare, before once more taking its entirety into her mouth, earning a deeply pleasured moan from Bade and saturating her senses with male again. Encouraged by his moans, Twilight didn't stop sinking lower this time until her lips kissed his medial ring and his flare neared the back of her throat. As she pulled back, Bade's cock throbbed again and deposited a squirt of pre directly on Twilight's tongue, the masculine flavor making her moan deeply and sink down again.
Bade was meanwhile at a loss for words at this moment, the mare of his dreams going down on him, her fertile odor only driving him on as his hips started rocking on reflex to the hot, wet mouth on his upper shaft, hooves wrapped around his lower and pumping in tandem with her muzzle's bobs. Twilight seemed more than alright with his humping, not stopping him as she kept blowing him.
It was a surprisingly short amount of time before Bade felt a tickling in his balls joining the tightness in the back of his pelvis, the throbs in his cock telling him just how close he was, the sensual overload of the situation - he was getting a blowjob from a princess for bucks sake! - making him start to flare already. "T-Twilight, I'm...I'm close." Bade warned, but instead of pulling off at his warning, Twilight only seemed to speed up her motions.
Upon learning he was close and feeling his flare swelling in her muzzle, Twilight bobbed harder, swirling her tongue within Bade's glans process and hearing him gave a strangled sound as she did that, rewarded with another glob of pre on her tongue. Twilight felt like she was drunk or in a dream as she kept suckling his swelling flare before going down on him again, before finally, it was too much for the stallion.
Twilight felt her jaw stretching open more as Bade steamrolled over his limit, his cock going stiffer and flare fully swelling in her mouth before a sudden deluge of his thick bat-pony cum gushed into her muzzle, flooding her mouth with the bitter-sweet flavor of virile male. She kept pumping her hooves and bobbing on him as she gulped down his rapid shots of thick foal-cream, encouraging even more from him - and his body only too gladly delivered. So much so that Twilight missed a swallow and it instead came out the sides of her mouth, matting his crotch and her muzzle in his seed.
Bade meanwhile felt pure bliss roll through him with each shot of sperm-rich fluid that Twilight milked out of him, utterly speechless as each very hard ejaculation nearly stung his urethra, his body clearly mistaking her mouth for her fertile marehood and doing its best to impregnate this mare.
Finally, after nearly a half-minute of near-constant cumming, Bade's stream finally slowed, leaving Twilight's stomach feeling rather happily full of virile spunk and the stallion completely drained for the moment. Bade meanwhile heard the scratching of quill on parchment as she swished one of his final, thinner shots in her mouth, savoring it before swallowing.
"Wow, you thestrals stallions really ARE highly virile, aren't you?" Twilight asked, apparently scratching down notes, "That was at least one-hundred-eighty to two-hundred-fourty CCs of ejaculate! That's twice to twice and a half as much as pony stallions!"
Bade felt some pride at that - and before he knew it, after only a minute's rest, he was erect again.
"WOW, I knew the books said you thestrals got erect again fast, but within a couple minutes of such a massive initial ejaculation? Wow..." Twilight said, truly astonished. She had also learned that both male and female thestrals are very prolific breeders and had extremely high sex drives, usually spending the mare's entire estrus mating to assure pregnancy, with their estrus cycles usually being very short given how often, and with how much, she was inseminated during it. She'd also learned that the stallion thestral's 'outputs' are very large and virile as well, having at least fifteen billion sperm per ejaculation on average compared to a pony stallion's seven to ten billion, as well as a much larger, stickier seminal volume to boot. <That would account for Bade's larger-than-average ejaculation...and balls.>, Twilight thought with a blush.
"Well, you are a very beautiful mare in heat Twilight. That would give any stallion...inspiration." Bade said, Twilight blushing at the flirting even after what she'd just done.
"Well, you're not too bad looking yourself..." Twilight said, nuzzling against his cheek even as her innards burned with the power of Celestia's sun to match the blush on her cheeks, her instincts telling her to turn and present to this stallion already, "Bade, would you be willing to go... all the way with me?"
"Do you mean..."
"Mounting me, followed by sexual intercourse and ending with an internal insemination."
"...oh."
"Too scientific?"
"...and you still made it sound sexy."
"You can say no if...you want to. This...isn't a command."
"Of course I could my princess, but I want to do this for you."
"Thank you Bade..." Twilight said as she turned to him with both wings opened as she stood before a bookshelf, levitating a quill, scroll, and book titled 'Studies on Thestral Mating Habits' as she flagged her tail to him, showing everything under her tail to him teasingly whilst giving him the most sensual of looks.**
After that was all sorted, her materials gathered and her stallion seduced fully, Twilight mounted the desk, her flank high in the air and her tail over her back, legs spread as she presented herself to the horny stallion. Bade sniffed her fertile slit then gave a breeding whinny, that instinctive mating call making a thrill go up and down her spine, her clit winking rapidly in response and turning Bade on even more. In response to her body's welcome, Bade mounted her on the desk, his hooves making two hard thuds beside Twilight, feeling his cock throbbing underneath her belly and between her teats. Her whole body was warm, very warm, under his sexually-sensitive chest, her raised body heat undoubtedly a result of her estrus.
"Bade, please... I need you inside me so badly..." Twilight moaned out like the mare in heat she was, earning another throb from Bade's cock at the lascivious tone she was using, her whole being wanting that cock pounding her into the ground right now, "You have my permission, just...start gently please. I've never been penetrated."
Bade nodded, once more remembering Twilight was a virgin and all that entailed. Slowly he shifted his hooves until he was in position, Twilight helping as well as she could, and started humping against her with the thrusts of an inexperienced stallion. Each time he humped, he'd miss, both getting more and more antsy with each miss.
"Oh for..." Twilight groaned out, grabbing Bade's cock in her magic after the eighth miss and moving it to her winking, drooling marehood.
Given how simply worked up she was, with little squirts of her lube even coming out with each wink, Bade realized she had it bad. On instinct Bade reached up and softly bit her ear, an instinctive way of a stallion telling the mare he had mounted to stay put.
Twilight moaned at the pressure on her ear telling her to stay put and be bred by this stallion, gladly obeying and feeling Bade hit her entrance on another wink, and that sent some pain through her.
"Do it." Twilight commanded instantly, and Bade obeyed. In a second, Twilight's virgin canal parted, making her give only a quiet whimper of discomfort before the stretching feeling was overwhelmed by the sensation and pleasure of being filled up in her heat, Bade's medial ring spreading her just that much more and sending a surge of sensations through her.
"N-no, d-don't stop!" Twilight exclaimed as she felt Bade slow in reaction to her whimper, quickly feeling him sliding deeper and deeper instead until he bottomed out in her. His flare ended up very firmly pressed to her relaxed cervix, her whole passage wonderfully filled and stretched by him. Twilight felt Bade tugging her ear gently at the same time he bottomed out, her groaning especially loudly at that.
Bade's whole cock was inside her.
Bade was breeding her.
She was being filled in the way her instincts demanded, and he provided, "N-never stop, I need you..."
"I w-won't stop." Bade promised, his gentle, unsteady thrusts starting as her hips rocked with his rhythm, inviting him as deeply into her as she could.
Just as she was about to question why he wasn't rutting her silly yet, she felt him pull out then push against her lips again, sliding inside very easily given the amount of her natural lube virtually gushing out of her marehood now, coating his cock well in her lust.
As her entrance spread nicely already, more of his thick length filling her up again by the second, possible consequences could be damned even if she wasn't protected. He was cumming in her. "YEEEeeeesssss!" Twilight hissed out in pure pleasure as he slid deeper and deeper into her slick, silken love-tunnel, her body squeezing him tightly in greeting.
Her entrance winked all over him, giving kisses along every inch he gave her, her body gladly accepting them and stretching so wonderfully to accommodate its first guest again. It hurt just a little to be stretched so suddenly like that, but no worse than stretching out a cramp.
"Oh-my-gosh-you're-so-hot-and-tight!" Bade moaned out, feeling like his cock was trapped in a vice made of wet silk that was set on fire, even still sliding into her very, very warm passage easily.
"H-harder..." Twilight instantly demanded, and Bade did as he was asked, taking her ear in his mouth and biting down again softly, making Twilight feel another surge of pleasure roll down her spine as he humped into her more.
"S-since you're safe, I w-won't even pull out if you don't want me to."
As Twilight felt him continue, she gave a breathy 'don't stop' in response, before feeling him sliding back into her fully, filling her so perfectly once more. As he stopped gripping her ear in his mouth, she was slightly disappointed, but her inner fires were stoked even higher by the promise that he wouldn't pull out. "P-Please, I need you to f-fill me up!" she begged, fully running on instinct, her back legs trembling in need. She let out a desperate moan as she gripped him tightly inside her every time him tried to pull out, her body not wanting its partner to leave it for even a moment; wanting Bade to cum in her, to seed her and get her pregnant.
"Twilight...I promise I will...you feel...so good...I think I l-love you..."Bade whispered out between thrusts, the wet claps of his swollen balls on Twilight's soaked butt sounding throughout the study, accompanied by her moans.
As his thrusts increased moments later, Twilight was long gone, drooling both from her open, panting mouth and pussy alike as she was being bred the way her body so needed, her pussy being massaged by a stallion's bare cock the way nature always intended. "M-Mate me, inseminate me!" she demanded, her body running purely on her base desire to reproduce; to feel this stallion's virile totem planting its seed in her and making a foal grow in her womb. Then she realized what he'd just said; that he loved her. That just made her want him to take her even harder. "W-we can worry about everything else later! I-I just need you TO BREED ME NOW!"
Bade felt himself getting close at Twilight's enthusiasm and the perfect squeezing her passage gave him, his instincts screaming at him to do as she asked and breed her; even though he knew it was futile, his instincts surely didn't. All he knew was that he was humping into an in-heat mare, his cock deep inside her hot, squeezing, fertile passage, and he had permission to cum in her.
"I'm...I'm close..." Bade said, feeling that tell-tale pressure building in his pelvis again, humping a bit harder as Twilight constantly squeezed and winked around him.
As Bade said he was close, confirmed by the intense throbbing of that thickness spreading her heat-swollen walls - that deep, instinctively-telling growing at his tip swelling to plug her up and keep his virile cum as far in her as possible - Twilight felt herself winking constantly as little spurts of her fluids were squirting out in anticipation, her whole body tensing up and her inner muscles milking him of his load; Twilight's only desire in the world at that moment being to get knocked up. "P-please, oh by the goddess PLEASE cum in me..." Twilight moaned out, desperately needing relief, her whole body and instincts screaming at her to make this stallion cum in her.
At that final encouragement Bade could take no more, hilting his fully-flared cock into her and feeling her deepest wall surround his glans, its process surrounding and pressing against her cervix as he pulsed even harder and more frequently; poised to spray his cum directly into her womb.
Twilight virtually exploded and imploded at the same time as she felt those harder-than-before throbs from his cock deep inside of her, feeling his rock-hard cock pulsing along her whole, well-spread passage while his flare was firmly pressed against what must have been her cervix. As he rammed himself home that last time, the tip of his member spread her deepest barrier just a bit more.
Twilight let out a sheer, primal whinny at that feeling, cumming so hard it felt as though her body was trying to suck his whole body into her, her mind awash with pure, hormonal bliss and relief. Twilight's back legs quivered unsteadily as her whole body tensed, her pussy rhythmically milking him.
"Twilight, I can't hold it anymore!" Bade exclaimed, feeling her foal-passage milking him of his seed.
"C-CUM IN ME!"
...then it happened.
Twilight let out another, more forceful whinny at that hot, wet, deeply-satisfying impact of thick fluid deep inside her belly, likely her very womb, her body knowing exactly what it was and eagerly working to milk out every drop of seed that the stallion cumming inside of her had to offer; milking his could-have-been foal into her womb. Bade's orgasm seemed to keep going forever just like it had in her mouth, her body wracked with orgasm after orgasm as she never seemed to stop cumming the same as him, her fluids streaming down her trembling rear legs and spraying his balls and thighs with each frequent climax she hit.
Bade felt Twilight's pussy ripple along his cock as he came harder than ever before, painting her insides thickly with his foal-cream, coating them in that life-giving liquid. He felt as if he'd never stop pulsing his cum into her, gripping her as tightly as he could, hilted as her body tried to claim his foal.
When all was said and done nearly a minute later, with Bade still hilted and flared deeply inside of Twilight, her belly feeling utterly and contentedly filled with virile stallion spunk, Twilight in turn was holding him very tightly inside herself. Twilight's heat was dead and drowned as she simply stood there and panted, recovering from the most intense, satisfying in-heat orgasm she'd experienced to date, her pussy still seemingly kneading him even after she'd come off her high and he'd stopped pumping into her. Both of their fluids were now streaming down her legs as there simply wasn't room for one more drop inside of her, forcing any more out.
"Holy hay Twilight..." Bade gasped out as he remained mounted on her and hilted to her now-filled core, recovering as he felt her insides still kneading his cock for seed.
Twilight sighed happily, her mind clear for the first time that day, and she found herself smiling, beaming really, at that utterly relieved and soothed sensation in her lower belly; as though somepony put aloe vera cream on a bad burn deep inside of her.
Bade dismounted her as her inner muscles finally relented and allowed his softening cock to slide out of her with a schlick, a stream of his cum oozing out of her and onto the floor.
Twilight collapsed onto the desk the moment he pulled out, so utterly satisfied at the moment even if she still felt that slight burn in her now-cum-stuffed belly, knowing it'd keep up until her estrus ended or she was finally pregnant. Given how much virile cum was stuffed in her, she very likely would have conceived within the day no doubt, provided she didn't have that nifty little spell to prevent it. As such, her heat likely wouldn't end until its normal time...not that that was a bad thing anymore, with a willing stallion to help soothe it.
"Twilight, that was...amazing." Bade said, though that felt like the understatement of the century, "I only wish I could have pleased you longer."
"Don't give me that! You did great for your first time! Besides, I came too...more than once. All I can say is I'm glad I put that spell on myself. With how much you ejaculated inside me, I'd be pregnant by day's end without it!" Twilight said, before nuzzling into his neck. "Also, Bade, I think I may love you too..."
As he thought about what they'd just done, now able to given neither were under the fog of lust, and about what she'd just said, he reached down and kissed her on the lips.
Twilight gave a quiet whinny of surprise, but pushed back into the kiss, wondering why she hadn't kissed him before they'd rutted. It was a simple kiss - chaste, inexperienced - but even still it conveyed what words simply couldn't; how grateful they were to each other for what they'd just shared, and the feelings they held even after all these years apart.
After kissing for a brief while, cuddling close, Twilight soon felt a hardness pressing into her again.
"You're hard again, aren't you?"
"Sorry?"
"Don't be sorry! Put it in me again, and that's a command!"
"Yes ma'am!" ~
Outside the study door, a certain bat-pony mare masturbated furiously with one of her oversized toys while watching through the keyhole, watching as her two superiors screwed each other senseless and leaving a massive wet-spot on the floor as she came once again, struggling to stay quiet through her throes of yet another orgasm. ~
After another few orgasms from Twilight and another heavy load from Bade, they lay on the study floor, cuddling with each other after such physical exertion. They kissed softly before giving the other a smile, then both fell asleep in the other's embrace; uncertain what the future may hold for them but knowing it would definitely involve more of this. |
Thestrals at Twilight | Time Off and Second Time's a Charm | "Oh-my-gosh-this-is-going-to-be-so-fun!" Pinkie Pie squealed out in a breathless run-on, grabbing Amaya around the shoulders and shaking her excitedly. The room smelled like three heated mares, Twilight and Pinkie both in heat, and Amaya having come into her estrus the previous day to the dismay of Bade. Outside of her patrols, she had been in her room nearly-non-stop since she had. The pleasured, crossed with frustrated, moans coming from her room while she was in it also never seemed to stop either.
"Twilight, are you sure you don't wanna come? It's going to be super-duper-awesome!" Pinkie asked, the same she did every year.
"No, it's OK Pinkie, I think I'll sit this 'party' out too. Thanks for dropping by to tell me that Zecora is providing the contraceptives this year, and that I don't have to come cast the spell." Twilight responded, with Zecora apparently having volunteered a large batch of Moon-root contraceptive potions for the party...and informed Pinkie she'd be coming this year too.
"Posi-toovely! It's so great ponies aren't afraid of Zecora anymore, so much so that some stallions have told me she's hot! An exotic zebra like her will surely warrant a lot of attention from the horny stallions there! She really deserves it, being all lonely in her hut all the time...and it's also great that we have two new guests this year, Amaya!"
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a light-blue unicorn appeared in a puff of magic, Twilight soon recognizing him as a noblepony, Blason d'Arms, visiting Ponyville from Prance. "Princess Twilight, vous êtes looking rather attirant aujourd'hui!" the pony said too loudly in a trying-too-hard-to-be-sexy voice, obviously trying to 'put the charms' on Twilight with his accent, his erection already hanging out of his sheath, "Would vous like some 'elp with your oestrus? I can smell it on vous, mon belle chere..."
The other two mares simply stood there, stunned by this pony's forwardness, sudden appearance, and the fact his boner was hanging out, before Amaya protectively stepped between Twilight and the stallion. "Look, I don't know who you think you are, or where you think it's right to present yourself before a princess with a boner, but you're currently in violation of about ten different trespassing, indecency, and sexual harassment laws."
"And 'o are you to interrupt moi from rightfully courting a princess and earning my place as un Equestrian prince?!" the noble-stallion hissed, "Some qui ne vaux rien vam-pony, I see zat much..."
Amaya's eyes were ablaze in anger now, snorting as visible steam came from her nostrils, pawing at the floor and hunching down as if to charge; "I am a royal guard of Luna's Night Guard, not some mythical creature who drinks ponies' blood! If you don't get your bucking flank out of here RIGHT NOW I swear to LUNA I'll--
This went on for a while, back and forth, until finally the stallion gave an indignant huff after Amaya threatened to intimately show him her exotic dildo collection up his plothole whilst simultaneously castrating him and afterwards throwing him in a dungeon, before Twilight finally stepped in.
"Listen, mister Blason d'Armes, while I appreciate the offer to 'end my heat', I am already..." Twilight said, before going over and wrapping a hoof around Amaya's shoulders and holding her close to her, draping a wing over her as well, with that being a showing of ultimate affection and closeness among Pegasi and some Thestrals; "...currently having my heat tended to."
Blason was speechless and furious at the implications, "Tu would rather rub your royale belle vagin against zat of zis...beast's instead of 'aving a royal Prench-pony with un grand bite in ton chambre?!" he growled, getting more and more frustrated, his boner having long ago hidden away in his anger.
"What the buck did you say about biting the princess?! Amaya growled out, two seconds from making the stallion a red smear on the floor.
Twilight simply nodded, nuzzling into Amaya's neck affectionately. "Fine...lucky bat-pony fil de pute..." the stallion yelled angrily as he glared at Amaya, spitting on the ground before her, before disappearing in a puff of magic light.
"INSUFFERABLE--I'm going to report him to Luna herself! I-I--!" Amaya stammered, only to feel Twilight squeezing her tighter to her, the gentle nuzzling into her neck continuing. Amaya couldn't help but give a quiet 'mmm' at the sensual, affectionate gesture in her estrus, before all too soon, it ended and Twilight stepped away. Amaya was more than a little disappointed.
"Hey, calm down. I'll make a formal arrest warrant for him later. This has happened every mating season since I became a princess; some noblepony or another trying to take advantage of me and get me pregnant with their foal so they can become a prince...or so they think. Every time they leave frustrated and alone though, or some of the more rowdy ones in Guard custody, though this one was a bit more...feisty and forward than the others." Twilight explained, sighing.
"Wow, that sounds...horrible." Amaya said sympathetically, seeing Twilight nodding and giving a sigh.
"Just another part of being a princess. The thing is, I don't want to marry somepony just because of my rank or theirs like so many other ponies want to. I want somepony to love me for who I am, not just what position I hold in society or for that matter the one they do. To love the real me, not the...the societal role I take."
Amaya nodded. "Well, isn't true love what we all seek?" she asked, getting a nod from Twilight.
"Yes, most of us." Twilight said, before shrugging then pointing to Pinkie, who was obliviously looking at a book of pastery pictures. "Well, I think you and Pinkie should be going now. Thanks for standing up for me though."
"W-wait, what? After that, you expect me to just--"
"Look, as you saw, I can handle it. Nopony would dare force themselves on me, an all-powerful alicorn royalty as I'm viewed, lest they pay for it afterwards like Blason will...or have to deal with me, a magic expert, magic to magic." she said. Amaya simply nodded, looking over to Pinkie, who was now pronking eagerly in anticipation of getting her proliferous, plump, pink Pinkie pussy pumped, penises pistoning in her plush pony passage, performed pell-mell under pheromones' power*.
"Are you sure this is OK? I mean, it'll just be Bade guarding you and the castle. It almost feels selfish to leave you unprotected until he gets up just to take care of my heat, especially after that just happened." Amaya said, before feeling a hoof on her shoulder.
"Um...hello! I'm an Alicorn, remember?!" Twilight said with a grin, fluttering her wings and indicating her horn, before following it up with a chuckle, "Amaya, really, it's OK. I'm sure nopony's going to cause any more trouble for the few hours I'm without a guard until Bade wakes up. Ponyville's generally a really quiet town as you've seen before, plus, as I said, I'm an alicorn and can prevent any other problems myself."
"But what about that Starlight Glimmer thing? You know, the whole reason we're here?"
"Look Amaya, the thing with Starlight Glimmer has been the only major problem I've ever had here in a long time...besides the occasional horny suitor in mating season I shoo out." Twilight said, gently pushing Amaya towards Pinkie with a hoof, "You have my permission to take the day off for 'personal reasons'. Just go to that party and sort out your heat so you can be level-headed for a while. I'll just...stay here and...read." Twilight said, not oblivious to what Amaya was doing in her room the previous day to cause such loud moans. She'd heard about Amaya's 'precious collection' countless times after all, and knew it wasn't just for show.
Amaya sighed. "Ok, thank you for this, Twilight. I'll have to pay Bade back later...and you too." Amaya said, before she turned away and met with Pinkie again by the door.
Together they left off to the party, leaving Twilight alone...not that she minded. She had plans of her own after all, and they certainly didn't involve reading as she'd claimed. After all, she was in heat and all alone in her castle with a very sexy stallion. After the two mares left, and she made sure they were gone by looking out a window, she smiled softly as she then went and looked herself over in a mirror, getting herself ready.
When she was ready, Twilight quietly opened the door to Bade's room and saw him laying there, undressed on his bed, still asleep. Unlike the previous day, Twilight's heat had lessened significantly after that good rutting and filling Bade had given her; leaving her able to think about more than just being mounted and bred. Though that neutered urge was still there, what she was currently doing was more of a want than a primal need; a fantasy she'd always had but could never fulfill.
Taking a breath to steel herself for what she planned and not wanting to back out now, her crotch burning at the thought, she entered the room. Before long she'd arrived at Bade's bed, only the quiet 'cla-clop' of hooves on stone as she walked sounding throughout the high-ceiling chamber. As she looked down at him, she felt her heart flutter.
Bade was a very adorable stallion Twilight once more noticed, even more so while he was peacefully dreaming. As her eyes moved even lower down his barrel however, where her instincts called her to look, she realized just what kind of dream it must be he was having.
Bade's black stallionhood was fully unsheathed and erect, his hips lightly thrusting up into the air as he laid on his back, fully exposed to Twilight and revealing just what was going on in his subconscious mind. His balls were as swollen as his cock, and Twilight couldn't help but think of the billions of sperm he held within those bloated orbs; how just a single one could permanently end this estrus and give her his foal. Not that she was ready for a foal just yet, but it was still quite the attractive thought in her state.
Bade's condition was unsurprising given he was in the same castle as two mares in heat, his body and mind wanting to 'relieve' itself in some way. Twilight, though, was only too glad to help with that. She debated for a moment whether this was OK or not morally, whether she was willing to go through with this, and decided that he'd likely be just as alright with it as he was when they'd had sex before. She hoped. Without thinking about it further lest she turn back, Twilight leaned over the bed and quickly took his lightly-swollen flare into her muzzle, sliding down him like she had the previous night in her study.
Bade, meanwhile, continued to sleep as Twilight slowly drew his most sensitive part into her hot maw whilst he drempt, though he quickly found his dream growing incredibly saucy all of a sudden:
Twilight and Bade were sitting in her room, discussing some thing or another, before suddenly everything changed. Twilight then stood in the study leaning over the desk, presenting for Bade again, her tail to the side and her drenched pussy on full display, winking as she invited him to mount her again. The whole room was saturated in her unmistakably fertile scent, setting his breeding instincts alight and making his stallionhood harden instantly. 'Oh Baaaaade~,' she whispered lovingly, 'come, rut me again. No contraceptive spell this time, I want your foal Bade. I love you.'
Bade found that he was suddenly mounted on her, before feeling her hot, wet pussy sliding down his cock as he pressed forward into her once more, gasping at how wonderful it felt. He started to softly thrust in reaction, that wonderful warm feeling surrounding his glans and upper shaft...and a strange swirling sensation rolling over him from within her passage. It felt a lot like Twilight's tongue had felt...
Bade squirmed in his sleep as Twilight softly slid the sleeping stallion's flare into her mouth, humming quietly in contentment as he let out a quiet moan, the real-life sensations manifesting in his dreams:
Bade felt that feeling of wet, warm pleasure intensifying, feeling so vivid and wonderful, his hooves tightening around....a head? Twilight was suddenly suckling him in her muzzle while he laid and held her head softly in his forehooves, bobbing down on him a mere second after he'd been rutting her.
While it was still wonderful being stimulated like that, hearing Twilight moaning and humming in pleasure as his hips shifted and buried him inch by inch into her muzzle, it was indeed strange to so suddenly shift sexual acts like that.
Twilight kept sinking lower on Bade's cock, giving restrained moans of pleasure as the scent and taste of virile stallion once more saturated her senses....before stopping as she felt his hooves softly land on her head. Initially panicking that she'd been too rough and he'd woken up, she looked up only to see that, while he had his hooves on her head, he was still out cold...though his instinctive thrusts sure didn't stop.
After breathing an internal sigh of relief, Twilight kept bobbing her head up and down on the sleeping stallion's spire even slower this time, careful to keep it gentle as to not wake him. His thick length was throbbing in her mouth, his hips rolling on instinct to the soft, wet, and warm mouth surrounding it to the medial ring. He was constantly shooting out small bursts of pre which she eagerly swallowed down, that flavor of stallion fueling the building fire between her legs that much more.
Bade gasped as his dreams grew more and more lucid, feeling as though this was actually happening to him, more than in any other dream he'd ever had:
Bade felt that wonderful pleasure continuing for many minutes, the pace ever-changing; that slick, wet hole slid down on him, and each time he humped back up, introducing himself just a little further each time until he felt the back of her throat. 'Thank you so much, my love' Bade whispered as he looked into her eyes, and her into his. 'I'm getting close Twilight,' he warned as he felt the telling pressure in his pelvis rising, his balls starting to tighten up to his body as his flare started to grow into the natural mating plug it was...
Twilight heard Bade moaning quietly and mumbling in his sleep, giving quiet nickers of pleasure as she softly, lovingly blew him for what could have been ten minutes, keeping the pace slow and gentle, all while thrusting into her marehood with a solidified rod of magic to help quell her own growing lust. She thought about the collection of toys Amaya had in the next-door chamber but didn't want to use them without her permission, sufficing with the magic rod to squeeze down on in her intense arousal. That big fifteen-inch stallion one she'd seen walking by Amaya's room sure seemed very attractive now though as she felt Bade fully flared in her muzzle and throbbing, ready to blow at any moment.
Bade felt those feelings growing to a crescendo, fully flared in her; her warm, wonderful muzzle bobbing on him as he tensed up...
As Twilight felt Bade starting to throb and thrust harder as he flared fully in her muzzle, both becoming a rhythm, she slowly stopped bobbing...and he stopped thrusting too. She looked up to see if he was still sleeping - only for her eyes to meet with Bade's own yellow eyes.
They stared at each other for a while like that, Twilight with him hilted in her muzzle to his medial ring as she stared into his eyes in panic, the obvious raspberry-red glow and wet sounds coming from behind her at her crotch and the small puddle beneath her telling volumes of what her magic was even still doing back there; neither were sure what to do in such a situation as this, and so neither wanted to act first. Twilight internally panicked at being caught, wondering what he'd say, if he'd report her to the Guard or Celestia; what would happen to her reputation when the public found out that--
Bade, however, knew what he wanted to do after finding a mare in heat going down on him as he slept.
"S-so, uh, were you going to finish what you started, Twilight?" Bade asked somewhat impatiently in his sleep-groggy voice, on the precipice of his climax, fully flared and pleasure-voracious, his throbbing stallionhood vivacious in his dream-mare's muzzle once more; this was the first time he'd woken up to find his dream still actively coming true, and wanted to go over his peak in an avalanche of pleasure this time, "I mean, if you don't mind of course..."
Twilight was still for a moment more as Bade's implications sunk in, before she simply grinned at his response, once more sighing in relief and nodding as she took that as the explicit consent that their encounter to this point had been sorely lacking. Slowly, Twilight resumed her previous, slow bobs on him, secure in the knowledge that he indeed wanted this as well, all nervous tension going out of her body...though not sexual tension.
Twilight kept swiftly stimulating her marehood as she kept sucking him off, making the rod of magic go deep inside of her as Bade's hips' shifts grew more frequent, Twilight knowing he was once more right on the edge. Bade moaned deeply as he fully flared in her muzzle and felt that tightness in his pelvis explode into a giant firework of pleasure in his brain as he came, his hips shifting sharply forward on instinct and ending up at the back of Twilight's throat, his first large stream of cum shooting down her throat.
Twilight gagged at the first load, before quickly pulling him out and accepting the second, then third and on, onto her face and chest, marking herself with his seed and scent, all the while moving the magic rod in and out of her passage at increasing rates. She used her hooves to milk out each huge, virile load he gave her, feeling the warm, thick texture seeping into her fur. As that taste of maleness entered her senses and the deep moan of pleasure from Bade sounded out, alongside feeling the warmth of his seed coating her, him claiming her, Twilight's body convulsed sharply as the stimuli set her over, hunching over as her hips arched up and letting out a deep moan of her own to join Bade's. Her hips rocked against the now-hilted mass of magic as her passage clenched down rapidly on it, her back legs wobbling so much from the pleasure she nearly collapsed.
After many seconds of cumming together, Twilight barely cognizant enough to realize the profuse load Bade gave her kept squirting all over her, they finally came down from their shared high, Bade with a sigh and Twilight with a quiet moan. Twilight kept that rod of magic spreading deep inside of her, pressed to her cervix, with it making her feel full in her heat; that feeling of fullness, something she never knew she'd needed until Bade had filled her up the previous day. She also took Bade's length in her muzzle again as it softened to clean it of the last of his seed, softly licking over it and feeling him in turn gently humping into her mouth whenever she hit a good spot.
"Wow...that's the best way I've ever woken up..." Bade said, giving a chuckle, "...if a bit unexpected."
"Sorry." Twilight said simply when she'd extricated Bade from her mouth some seconds of sucking out and licking up the last of his foal-cream, letting his limp member rest on his belly until it revitalized itself in a few minutes as it had the previous day; "When I walked in here and saw...that..." Twilight said, pointing to his crotch, "..."I couldn't really help myself."
Bade simply smiled and tousled Twilight's mane playfully, before shrugging, "Well, you can wake me up like that any time. It sure beats a morning reveille!"
Twilight gave a short laugh, before swiftly noticing him getting hard again from her estrus-scent within a couple of minutes, once more amazed at the thestral stallion's sexual vitality. "So," Twilight started, softly running a hoof over his erection, "that little orgasm I had didn't really sate me the way I know you can..." Twilight teased, before stopping her hoof's rubs on him, standing and facing away from him, flicking her tail over her back and revealing her entire crotch and plot-hole to him - before walking away, her hips swaying sensually with each step; "Let's head to the bathroom, I need to clean up, then we can come back here and...continue."
Bade was to his hooves before Twilight had taken three steps, nearly mounting her already in his eagerness; but he would wait, instead following Twilight to the bathroom. As she washed her face of his seed in the sink, him inches behind her, Twilight's scent became too much for him to withstand anymore. Like a stallion dying of thirst with water inches from him, Bade's muzzle sunk into Twilight's presented crotch, smelling her fertile scent from the source, his lips pressed to her lower set.
Twilight, on instinct, pressed back against him instantly, her hips grinding as she suddenly felt his tongue slip out and give a long lick from her clit to just short of her anus. "B-Bade...?" Twilight asked In a semi-confused but lustful tone as she felt another, then another long lick, before Twilight simply moaned as she stood there with her hooves resting on the sink, letting her guard eat her out.
Bade, meanwhile, was completely enraptured in Twilight's fertile scent and flavor, starting by simply licking up her previous orgasm...before slipping between her lips and getting more of her mare-honey from its source. As he felt his tongue being gripped in her kneading, velveteen passage, feeling her clit winking against his muzzle and hearing a short cry of pleasure from her as he pressed deeper and she pushing back in kind, his hips started to shift back and forth at the highly-arousing situation.
Bade continued eating out his Princess for many minutes, Twilight trembling in the ecstasy of being given oral her first time; amazed at how different it felt than being bred, but how it still felt wonderful when his tongue would curl around her clit as it winked, or pressed deep inside of her and twisted around. He was clearly new at this, as was she, but he made up for his lack of experience with pure enthusiasm.
It was only a couple minutes before Twilight started tensing up again and squeezing the sink fixture between her hooves tighter, before suddenly she gave a cry of pleasure when Bade once more buried his thick tongue fully into her tunnel and she clamped down on it. Another overwhelming wave of pleasure overtook her as she squeezed and squeezed on Bade's tongue in her climax, her profusive liquid lust drooling out onto Bade's muzzle as her clit winked repeatedly, telling Bade all-too-well that he'd once more well-pleasured this mare.
After Twilight came, it lasting a solid twenty seconds, Bade pulled out of her and softly licked her swollen, mare-honey soaked outer lips, cleaning her up, enjoying the flavor he'd only gotten but a taste of the previous day; the sweet cocktail of hormones and the unique flavor of the mare he very much liked made his cock throb and slap his underbelly.
After recovering for a moment and catching her breath after that intense orgasm, Twilight still felt unsatisfied, and still felt sticky all over from sweat, some of Bade's semen still on her face, and now her whole crotch soaked in her orgasm and saliva. "I need a shower. Now." Twilight said simply, before dismounting the sink and walking with a wobble over to the shower, using her magic to turn on the faucet. Bade followed close behind her, once more having the nearly-overwhelming urge to mount her but instead sufficing to licking her presented, winking gem again, her tail still flagged over her back on reflex to the stallion behind her, earning him a deep moan.
When the room started to fill with steam and Twilight appropriately adjusted the temperature, she moved away from Bade's licking muzzle with some regret and stepped under the water stream, groaning in pleasure as the warm water washed over her body and soaked into her fur, the heat sinking into her tense muscles and letting her relax. This was the first time she'd even been able to take a warm shower in her estrus, usually being so unbearably hot she needed a cold one. Bade had certainly taken care of that this time though. Again and again...
After a quick shower to get his cum and hers off of herself, using her magic to clean her soaked crotch, she then climbed out and instead started running a bath in the nearby bathtub. As it filled up, Bade once more started to lick at her crotch and Twilight was powerless to resist, his tongue simply feeling too good in her arousal to ask him to stop. After it had filled up many minutes, and another strong orgasm for Twilight, later, Twilight stepped inside the huge tub, the water swishing as she softly moaned in pleasure at being encased by that warm wetness.
"Well, come on in, there's plenty of room for both of us," Twilight said, lifting and waving a hoof to Bade towards herself. The bathtub was big enough for more than one pony, likely at least six, to use simultaneously. At her insistence, and wanting to be close to her once more, Bade quickly stepped over the bath's edge and joined Twilight under the water, his hips shifting a bit as he felt it rise to his underbarrel and chest, then giving a quiet coo of his own as he felt the warm water rise over his back and flanks. He was still very much erect, something the warmth surrounding him only encouraged.
Twilight's tail floated on the water's surface as she enjoyed the water surrounding her, not oblivious to the virile stallion only inches from her, his scent making her breeding urges glow white-hot. After all this teasing, she needed him. She needed him now. "Hey, Bade?" Twilight said, seeing Bade's ears perk up as he looked over to her, "Would you want to...breed me again? Please?" Twilight asked, her clit winking under the water, inviting the stallion to come and mount her again.
As much as he would have loved to right then, Bade thought of something else; something he'd heard from his fellow guards that mares loved during sex. "How about we try something different?" Bade asked, "How about you lay down on your back, and we...'do it'...like that? I hear that's how dragons mate. It lets the drake get really deep into the dragoness from what I've heard, to reach her eggs and...fertilize them directly."
Blushing heavily as her mind suddenly flushed with thoughts of Spike breeding another dragon - then of Spike breeding her himself - like that, she shook her head to banish those thoughts. "Well, it'd certainly be something different. Yeah, sure." Twilight said, not really caring how they had sex, so long as his long, thick cock was buried deep inside of her within the next couple minutes. Twilight thought to lay on the floor on her back as Bade climbed over her...but that wouldn't quite work. Equine legs didn't exactly work like draconian limbs, plus there were several feet of water between her and the floor. "Um..." Twilight said, thinking, before scooting herself so she rested in the nearly-horizontal seat of the bath, her back curved so her crotch pointed almost straight up. "This would be much easier on a bed...but I guess this'll work?" Twilight said, unable to wait a moment more to have him inside of her, let alone having to wait to dry off and go to the bedroom.
Twilight lit her horn and concentrated on the anti-foal spell, once more feeling her lower belly burn hotter for a moment as it was applied. Bade himself was chomping at the bit as he got a nod from Twilight telling him she was safe, and he eagerly stood up and squatted over Twilight a bit so he could mount her while both kept their heads above water, then started lightly thrusting so he could find her entrance, using the reclined seat of the bath as a mount.
"Ready, Twilight?" Bade asked, though he knew she was just as worked up as he was, if not more.
"You bet your sweet gray flank I am, stud!" Twilight said, before nodding her head.
Consent given, and after poking around a bit in the comparatively-awkward position, Bade finally found his swollen target and pressed into Twilight's slit instantly. Her well-lubed passage accepted him easily as he simply slipped inside of her, her body once more singing the praises of being spread by a thick stallionhood and rolling a bolt of pleasure-lightning through Twilight's nerves.
In that instant of hilting her, Bade felt the tight, hot insides of Twilight's fertile marehood so perfectly crushing his cock again, his instincts burning hot as he felt that fleshy vise around him, panting already and feeling tingles rolling through him as he felt her soft heat surrounding his cock again whilst he was still mostly submerged in warm water.
Twilight was once more in bliss as Bade entered her at this new angle and her body was surrounded by water, a stream of drool starting to roll down her cheek as Bade quickly found his natural rhythm, giving short, deep humps into her. She raised her hips up to give him an even better angle, making the thrusts only that much deeper, both groaning out at the sensations.
"S-so good. J-just like that..." Twilight purred out, this pace feeling just perfect to start out with.
"M-mmhm..."
The water was sloshing constantly as Twilight's inner muscles kept kneading Bade's cock whilst he pistoned in and out of her, the once-more-risen burning itch inside of her, too deep for his tongue, her hoof or even magic to reach properly, eased with the stroking of that firm flesh inside of her. Her rippling inner muscles sang out in ecstasy as he sunk deep within her, aching and begging to be filled again when he pulled out, then relaxing at the relief of stretching out to welcome him in again.
Twilight felt when Bade pulled out, then as he started to thrust slower and found a moderate pace, his shaft once more spreading her walls easily, just the perfect amount of friction between them as her fluids made it easy to slide in and out without difficulty. Her eyes rolled partially back in her head as she kept winking around him constantly; her body relaxing and pulling Bade in as he entered her, kneading him for his seed, then pulling him back in hard as he tried to pull out, desperately trying to keep his cock deeply inside of her.
"I...I love you Twilight..." Bade whispered again as he was trapped inside of her passage while he rested and she kept him deep, grinding on him, before he continued.
As Twilight heard him saying he loved her again, she couldn't help but feel the same. Instead of verbally responding however, she reached up and gave his muzzle a deep kiss, holding it until a deep, pleasured moan interrupted it, Bade's flare's pointed tip having found a particularly nice spot during that thrust. Him saying that turned her on as much as the dick in her foal-passage.
"Let's enjoy this, hmm?" Bade asked as he slowed his thrusts, getting a nod from Twilight.
They kept a much slower pace this time, simply enjoying the act instead of turning this into the frenzied breeding that had transpired the previous day, Bade lovingly giving slow, full-length thrusts into her while they gently kissed, Twilight finding this far more satisfying at this point in time than the short, quick thrusts of their last so-short sex.
After a large number of minutes passed, Twilight felt Bade grip her tighter as time went on, his thrusts slowly intensifying as their shared desire grew, the feeling of his flare growing thicker and the warm shots of his pre going into her, telling Twilight just how close he was getting; it apparently was growing harder for him to pull out each time now as her muscles squeezed down tightly, wanting to remain deep inside of her longer with each thrust.
"I-I'm getting close Twilight..." Bade said in a strained voice, unable to move at the moment lest he blow his load right then, his cock throbbing hard as he was on the precipice of release and just barely holding on.
"It's OK Bade, I'm safe. You can c-cum inside me." Twilight said, her voice betraying just how much she loved saying those last three words, "Please..." As Bade pulled out again and thrust rapidly to set himself over, Twilight felt as if her walls were pulled out somewhat with his thick flare each time he pulled out, each requiring increasingly more effort, before he sharply thrust up and hilted. Finally, with a howl from both, Bade slammed home that one last time.
Twilight came as she felt Bade's thick flare spread her deepest tunnel that last time and swell that much thicker as Bade started to pulse harder in her, her whole body tensing and trembling, her orgasm flushing throughout her entirely. His very tip easily parted her estrus-relaxed cervix painlessly, doing as nature designed it to as his glans process sat perfectly aligned to the neck of her womb. Twilight found her deepest walls spreading further and further as he started whimpering cutely in pleasure, gripping her as tightly as possible on instinct as pleasurable waves rolled through her.
Bade, meanwhile, was in bliss as he felt Twilight orgasming around his fully-flared cock, each clench and kneading roll of her muscles bringing him that much closer until...pop. Bade lurched his haunches forward and kept himself as deep as possible inside Twilight as he launched over into his climax, his cock throbbing as each rapid pulse spewed forth a heavy rope of his virile sperm into her waiting womb.
Twilight felt like she was in heaven as that wonderfully hot, thick cum pulsed out in heavy spurts, each twitch of Bade's cock felt through her entire passage, each glob of seed shot deeply into her womb where it was instinctively needed. Each gush into her was rewarded by a reciprocating, milking roll of her muscles and wink from her clit, her instincts screaming praises at her for letting herself be bred and in turn milking all the seed it could from the cumming stallion to make a foal with.
Eventually, even as Bade's cock slowed its frantic throbs, Twilight's orgasm stayed in that 'on-the-edge' state as she felt him remain flared inside of her, spreading her deepest depths and ensuring that his seed would take and get her pregnant...and if she didn't have her contraceptive spell on, it surely would have. He continued to pulse in her even after his main ejaculation ended, each throb dry but even still making both of their bodies thrum in pleasure, her slit and passage responding with a gentle squeeze or wink to each.
Finally, all too soon, Bade's pulses turned to nothing at all, with him simply remaining hilted as his thick flare kept the heavy load of semen deep inside his mare's womb, doing his best to promote the conception that simply would not happen. Both were panting as they were encased in the now-cooling water, warmed once more with their afterglow as they looked into each others' eyes and kissed.
Twilight's whole lower belly felt wonderfully filled, her entire body relaxing from its tensed state to what could be likened to a pile of mush beneath Bade, feeling as he affectionately nuzzled her cheek as they held together. Twilight felt as though she had a whole hoof plugging her womb's entrance up again as his flared head kept his semen deep for a while as they rested and kissed, before eventually he slid out as he grew softer, his white semen slowly clouding the water behind them when he did. Neither seemed to care though, simply relaxing in the now-cool bath, before finally Twilight could speak up.
"Thanks again Bade. You were wonderful, just like last time. " Twilight said, her muzzle pressed to his as they looked into each other's eyes, before surprising him with a short lick to his nose. "Thank you," she gave Bade a longer kiss this time, holding it, "and I love you."
"I...I love you too Twilight." Bade responded, lightly flushed, feeling a wave of warmth roll through him and focus in his chest, making his heart beat just a little bit faster as butterflies danced in his stomach. It is the same feeling he got every time they kissed or Twilight said she loved him; Bade wondered if that's what love felt like, and could only imagine it was.
Twilight simply smiled with a dreamy expression, debating whether she enjoyed the time with Bade more, or the sex. "Right, could I get up now please?" Twilight said with a soft chuckle, feeling Bade's heavier body lift from hers as he rose. As she stood, she just then noticed a small blob of off-white cum escaping her spread slit and float to the top of the water. Seeing that, Twilight turned, leaned over to it and, eyes locked onto Bade's, took it into her mouth before swishing it around for a while and giving Bade a wink of the eye as she swallowed it.
Bade figuratively blew his load again.
"Deee-licious." Twilight said, giving Bade another wink - and not from her eye this time - as she walked away, tail flagged up high and giving Bade a full view of her still-spread lips and cream-pied passage as she walked away. Bade watched a thin stream of his cum drool from between Twilight's inflamed lips, reminding him just how much he'd put inside of her. Twilight more than noticed his stare, looking back and giving him a small, sexy half-smile as she unleashed a few more winks of her own will, before Bade suddenly found his head draped with a towel and making him give a surprised nicker.
"There, dry off...then we can continue in the bedroom!" Twilight said in a teasing tone, giggling like a school filly as she dried herself off too, utterly happy right now; more happy than she'd been in a very long time as she laughed with Bade and he laughed alongside her. As he removed the towel from his face with his hooves, Bade was suddenly pounced by Twilight and rolled onto his back, Twilight atop him and softly pressing her lips to his, Bade gently pushing back. Twilight held the kiss for a while, showing affection to the stallion who it seemed Fate had brought to her and gave her a second chance of being in a relationship with. ~
"Stupid...everypony's soooo stupid in this town..." Amaya grumbled, her nethers still burning hot as she walked to Twilight's castle alone in the sun, with that only making the burning worse, "SO bucking kinky, the lot of them. The ones who don't want to bind me in chains and whip me want to instead sacrifice my eggs to bucking Tirek or some manure. Those last goth ponies...I swear if they didn't leave after asking me that..."
Arriving, Amaya virtually bucked the castle door off its hinges in her frustration as she headed right to her shower, grunting happily as she stepped under the stream and ice-cold water washed over her, shuddering in a fragment of the relief she needed; what she was denied at the party. "A simple rut, either a stallion with his dick in me or mare eating me out or bucking me with a strap-on...how hard is that to ask?" she mumbled to the wall, squeezing some shampoo into a hoof to clean the remnants of fury-formed lather she'd developed earlier off of her coat.
After bathing and standing under the tap for a good ten minutes cooling down, both her body and burning nethers, Amaya was no longer feeling immolated; merely uncomfortably hot. On her way back to her room, she heard a pair of muffled chuckles coming from what she knew was Twilight's room, one clearly Bade and the other Twilight, she knocked and, upon hearing permission, opened the door. Bade and Twilight were sitting together--and very closely, Amaya noted--on the couch and reading something.
"I'm, uh...back." Amaya stated simply, her eyes instantly drawn to Twilight in her lustful state, though surely not disregarding the hunky stud next to her.
"Ah, that's great! How'd...it..." Twilight started, before sniffing the air, "...but you're still in heat...?"
Amaya sighed, scuffing a hoof on the floor angrily, "Let's just say...the ponies in this town are crazy!" Amaya nearly shouted, startling the two relaxed ponies.
"Yeah, I said the same thing when I first got here..." Twilight said, giving a wide grin.
"Oh, so, um...you didn't get 'relieved'?" Bade asked, getting a disbelieving look from Amaya.
"Do I LOOK satisfied, Bade?!" she snapped, before sighing, "Sorry...damn hormones. I'll just...try to take care of this alone. Maybe I'll find an out-of-towner tomorrow."
Both of the others simply nodded their forgiveness, before Amaya walked away, going next door to her chamber and leaving the other two alone. She had some business that desperately needed to be taken care of. ~
Amaya selected her dragon-cock replica off of her shelf, feeling particularly frisky today after not being properly relieved. She laid on her back, moaning as she felt the tapered tip of it tease her entrance. The small flexible ribs on the tip stimulated her much more than many of her other toys, the taper and thick ribs only growing thicker the further down on it she went, the sensations of pleasure and stretching growing stronger in her belly.
As she swiftly developed a pattern - wet, lewd sounds produced by the toy moving in and out of her with a schlick at each entry or exit - Amaya couldn't help but moan her frustration out as she kept rubbing that fake cock inside of her, imagining some big stud of a dragon had her mounted and was taking her dragon-style, getting all the way to her cervix, following that fantasy with her toy.
As she masturbated, Amaya found her thoughts moving to Twilight; how close she was to Bade just now, how relaxed and relieved she looked today after her raging heat started the previous day. Amaya hadn't smelled her fertile scent either...
Amaya stopped as she realized something. "Holy hay Bade, you really did buck her good, didn't you?" Amaya asked herself quietly, the toy slowly moving again, "Finally gave up your V-card huh, and to a Princess no less? Wonder how you and she liked it, or if you were lecturing her on the proper procedure of rutting her brains out!" Amaya couldn't help but give a laugh at that, her mood starting to lighten at the thought of Bade balls-deep whilst lecturing Twilight about the proper procedure and traditions of ponies breeding, the fake cock buried to her deepest wall also helping in that matter. "I wonder if you knocked her up..."
Finally Amaya arched her back up and gave a muffled whimper as her limit was finally overstepped minutes later when a thick rib near the base hit her clit during a wink, thinking of Bade rutting the princess like a feral stallion again as she did. With those thoughts of Bade knocking Twilight up, and the ribs on the dildo always setting her over very quickly being one reason she chose that toy, she felt her whole body tense as she came, her inner muscles trying to milk the cock of its life-giving seed...though she knew none would come from the hunk of silicone. As she came, she was overwhelmed with a sense of relief as her vagina constantly kneaded the toy, her whole body thanking her for giving in to her instincts.
After a disappointingly short while, she came off her orgasmic high, sighing sadly as she relaxed again. She felt cold and alone in her room without a warm body cuddled alongside her in her afterglow; nopony to snuggle up with and share this happy moment with. As Amaya lay there, she couldn't help but find her thoughts dragged back to Twilight again. Now there was a mare worth rutting; beautiful physique, perfect wings, and a great personality. Curious and adventurous to boot, and that undoubtedly extended to the bedroom too.
As she lay there with the dragon dildo still deep inside of her, her body needing more stimulation, Amaya started again moving it again as she thought about Twilight using it as a strap-on and thrusting it inside of her, moaning out involuntarily as she did. She'd decided she'd ask Twilight again to have sex tomorrow, and something told her that this time, the heated mare may just say yes.
After she came again to the pseudo dragon cock, Amaya decided to change pace and grabbed the manticore dildo, sliding it deep into herself with a moan. It was going to be a long night. |
Thestrals at Twilight | Toys Aren't Just for Foals... | Amaya slumped to the bed, panting as she slid the toy to the base into her clenching passage and left the thick knot holding the toy inside of her, shifting her hips around as her mind flushed with yet another unsatisfying climax. Her inner muscles moved the griffin dildo with the huge knot at the base around her pussy, Amaya enjoying the intense feeling as the firm but flexible rubber spines also on it dug into her vaginal walls whilst she clenched on the thick knot. She held her dildo deep inside her needing passage, her body still squeezing on it greedily, the tip brushing her cervix; but so many things simply didn't feel right about this, leaving her still wanting. Firstly, her body was trying to milk the seed that simply wouldn't come, leaving her unsatisfied at not being truly bred and filled.
She missed the warm body against her chest or back as she was truly bred.
The other pony's hooves wrapped around her in her climax.
The warm, thick, flesh-and-blood cock and pleasured grunts of a stallion, or mare sharing their body with her. A real stallion filling her up with his hot, virile seed...
...or a sexy mare squirming with her, writhing in the climax caused by their heat-partner...
...cuddling with her chosen mate after their shared, sweet release...
...these were the things she missed the most when she simply got herself off in her heat.
She removed the griffin dildo from herself, the six-inch circumference knot popping out forcefully and making her groan unhappily at feeling so utterly empty now by comparison, leaving it on the bed covered in her orgasmic emissions.
All Amaya could think about was Twilight Sparkle as she rested, the same as she'd been thinking of whilst rutting herself silly; she thought about the princess's perfect body, her graceful, down-to-earth stance on being royalty, and of course the fact she was in heat right now. What must be the sexiest mare in Equestria was, right now, in this same building as her, likely needing the touch of another pony to ease her burning, itching need and she was fertile to boot. Everything in a bed-mate that made Amaya extremely horny. With Bade out on some task or another in Canterlot, Luna having called him away for the day, Amaya was the only other pony available for those needs.
Amaya started to rub her messy pussy with a hoof now, not able to stop herself even long enough to get her dildo as her need burned even hotter. She started moaning softly as she met her winking clit with the tip of her hoof, her head easing back into the pillow again as she targeted her nub of so much pleasure, her hips slightly shifting as she rubbed.
She imagined Twilight Sparkle instead rubbing her as Amaya lay between her hooves and against her chest, feeling the princess's arm against her chest and hoof rubbing between her lips, promising her she'd end her heat.
It wasn't long after she started those most sexy fantasies, inter-splicing those with the recently so-common one of Bade on Twilight's back rutting her then shooting a load of foal-cream into her womb, until Amaya's body tensed up and her hips arched against her hoof, a quiet cry of pleasure escaping her throat as another substantial release of mare-cum coated her hoof. After another disappointingly short orgasm, Amaya sighed in mild relief as she finally found her body finally satisfied enough to let her take a break after four small, rapid orgasms.
"Ugh, this estrus can go right to Tartarus already!" Amaya exclaimed as she brought her dildo into the bathroom with her, cradled in a wing, then cleaned it off in the sink before turning on the cold water in the shower. She quickly climbed in, letting the coolness roll over her head and hot body, then turning and hiking up her tail and letting it clean her of her emissions and help to cool her down underneath...as well as enjoying the sensations of the pressured showerhead spraying against her sensitive marehood and still-winking clit.
"If only the ponies in this town weren't so obsessed with tying a mare down and dominating her, or doing freaky stuff with her marehood or ass, or just whining and complaining about themselves for hours. Is it really too much to ask for them to just want to, I dunno, have sex normally? To fuck a mare in heat like instinct tells them to?!" Amaya said to herself in a soliloquy, sitting and pouring some shampoo into a hoof before rubbing into her mane; "Hay, I would have been over this manure yesterday if I could find even one normal stallion...or at least the burning wouldn't be as bad with a mare!"
As she cleaned herself and cooled off, Amaya thought about Twilight some more; how she had watched as she'd been rutted by Bade, her boss and long-time friend, the day before yesterday. As she did, Amaya got a naughty idea: if Twilight had bred with Bade just to get some release from her heat, perhaps she'd finally do the same with herself!
Her mind set, Amaya stood and stepped out of her shower and dried off. Twilight would likely be reading right about now... ~
"Hey Twilight!" Amaya excitedly greeted as she poked her head into the reading room where Twilight spent most of her free time, hearing a short, surprised cry from the named mare. As her head entered the room, she smelled the scent of a fertile mare dimmed from the previous day but still very strong, that scent mixed with Twilight's distinct own making it obvious that Twilight was still in her heat. Perfect.
"AH-hi!" Twilight responded quickly, before turning from her book to the mare who had shouted into her quiet room so suddenly, her heart racing and her wings erect on reflex to fly away from a threat...doubling as an instinctive Pegasus courting ritual to invite a potential mate. Twilight's heat had been getting stronger all day, in ways that it never had grown before. Usually a single orgasm would sate her for a whole day, but now that she had had a stallion, her body craved the touch of another more. It craved orgasm after orgasm, or the semen of another within her to quell it now it would seem. She'd found that out the previous night when her first orgasm did little more than fan the flame in her belly more, making her need to climax again and again, and even still she burned again within a few hours...
"Oh, were you reading? I'm sorry I scared you."
"Oh, u-uh, it's OK..." Twilight said as her heart slowed its incessant goal to escape her chest, closing her book; "s-so, um, anything to report?"
"Negative ma'am. I was just..." Amaya responded quickly, then hesitated, before pawing at the floor. <I'm nervous. Why am I so nervous? I'm never nervous when I'm asking for sex like this!> Amaya thought, clenching her jaw; "I know you're in heat too, and I was just wondering if you'd like to, y'know, see my...'collection' maybe?" she asked in a tone half the intensity of when she'd previously asked Twilight out of heat. She knew how emotional some mares got during estrus, and how that emotional intensity could be turned to either burning passion...or burning anger. As she thought more, though, now she understood her nervousness; this time Twilight may actually say yes.
Twilight simply remained quiet for a while, looking at her dumbfounded, leaving Amaya nervous she'd somehow overstepped a boundary by asking her this in her heat. <Is this taking advantage of her?! Could she have me arrested?!> Amaya nervously thought, considering simply turning tail, that maybe Twilight would forgive her if--
Twilight bit her lip as Amaya asked that question now, in her heat; though she could have brushed it off with another 'no' like before, now she felt the nagging urge inside her belly, her body begging to be filled up and satisfied, no matter the pony doing it. Her clit was winking under her tail at the prospect of having sex again, and in a different way, her whole being urging her to say yes, but something was stuck on her mind.
"I...I can't."
Amaya was not surprised at the response, having heard it so many times before, but this time she knew Twilight wanted it, and badly; she could tell by the look in her eyes and her intense scent that Twilight was deep into her heat again. Plus, that wasn't a full 'no' like before. "Are you sure?" Amaya asked friendly but firmly, seeing Twilight twitch again, then give a deep shudder. As she stood there, being propositioned and it taking every ounce of willpower not to just outright pounce the willing mare now to quell the horrid itching in her belly, only one thought went through her mind:
<Bade...loves me.>
Twilight stood still as she thought about that sexy stallion who had been her first; the deep feelings she had for him. Would this be a betrayal to him if she went to another pony's chambers, she wondered, even if it wasn't anything serious. As she thought about it more, she realized that she'd never actually dedicated herself to him as his filly-friend, leaving her still very much a single mare. But even still...
"Bade and I... had sex together a couple of days ago...and yesterday...and he loves me, and I love him." Twilight stated, knowing Amaya wasn't a squeamish one around sex.
Amaya was a bit surprised Twilight was so open about her mating with Bade, but she simply nodded, standing her ground and letting the other mare continue.
"We've felt like this about each other pretty much since you and him came here, but my being in heat made him finally seemed to...thrust into me...I-I mean thrusted us into a relationship! Twilight nearly squealed the last part as she had, at a very horrible time, a flashback to Bade atop her, unloading into her.
Amaya nodded. "I understand Twilight, I really do. I mean, you're just so sexy, you smell lovely, and your pheromones...well, I think I got a little outside of my head. I'm sorry."
Twilight nodded, then continued; "I...I want to have sex with you, I really do Amaya. You're beautiful, sexy...you have a lovely personality that kind-of reminds me of my friend Rainbow Dash a bit, and I've been really curious what it's like to have sex with a mare for a long time...but, I just can't help but feel like I'd be cheating on Bade if we had sex..."
Amaya blinked, getting the feeling she was starting to gain some ground with that admission. "So, you wonder what it's like to have sex with a mare, huh?" she asked, getting a nod from Twilight, "Hm. Well, did you ever ask Bade to be your colt-friend, or did he ask you to be his filly-friend?"
Twilight shook her head. "Well, no..." Twilight asked, "...but I love him, and he loves me, so that makes us a couple, right?"
Amaya moved a little closer to Twilight, Twilight giving a gentle shudder as Amaya gently nuzzled her wing, it taking all of her power to keep her wing from springing open at the touch on such a sensitive area. "You have very beautiful wings Princess..." Amaya said softly, before giving it another nuzzle, Twilight wincing again at how good it felt to her sensitive body, "May I try something with them?"
"I...uh...thanks?" Twilight said, a bit thrown by the topic change, "and...I guess so?". They'd been talking about Bade and her relationship, and then--
<HOLY CELESTIA!>
Amaya had gently bitten down onto the base of Twilight's wings where the ball-joint met the socket, hitting both of the muscles that connected wing to body at once, sending an intense surge of pleasure through Twilight as Amaya so suddenly stimulated those extremely sensitive, and virtually untouched, erogenous zones.
Both of Twilight's wings suddenly flared out and her tail flagged involuntarily as she felt her passage clenching on itself rapidly, her back hooves trembling in place and nearly buckling as she outright had an intense orgasm right there in the reading room.
Twilight's thick fluids drooled down her legs or dripped onto the floor, her clit winking constantly and her mind thrumming in sheer pleasure as those sharp little fangs dug into her flesh, but didn't penetrate skin. Oddly, the pleasure seemed to focus in her wings more than her lower belly as it usually did, making the feathered limbs tingle pleasurably all the while she came and mixing that pleasure with her already high orgasmic pleasure.
Twilight continued to tremble for a good long while, Amaya meanwhile grinning hugely as she held onto that spot as the Princess shivered in her throes of orgasm, gently shifting her jaw and earning a few quiet squeaks from Twilight at the extra surges of pleasure that were sent through her.
Eventually, Twilight's mind floated down from her orgasmic high and she started feeling more than just pulses of pleasure, slumping a little. "Wha-what was t-tha'?" Twilight asked in her blurry-minded state, her whole body feeling relaxed now, her burning need lessened some from the orgasm and her wings feeling like she'd just gotten a wonderful massage on them.
"That, beautiful, was what we thestrals and our brethren Pegasi call a 'wing-gasm'. It's caused by stimulating the wing area properly while preening, or by knowing the right spots to hit. Like I just did. It usually takes more than one bite though, so you must have been REALLY needing release." Amaya explained, seeing a puzzled look grow on Twilight's face. Apparently, the mare didn't know quite everything.
"B-bu-why?" Twilight stumbled out, trying to figure out why Amaya had targeted that spot and made her cum, as well as being amazed that one simple touch could have such a drastic effect on her...and leaving her quite curious what else this mare knew.
"'Why 's because you're so tense because of your estrus that you look like you're about to snap! I know you said you love Bade now, but does giving another an orgasm really have to be love? Do you love me more now after I made you cum than before?" Amaya asked, softly giving Twilight's back a kiss, noticing her arching it up to her lips a little bit.
When Twilight shook her head 'no', Amaya continued; "Lust when you're in heat is simply instinct; it's just our body begging for physical stimulation, no emotions needed. We just need to cum, and cum, until the itch finally stops for a while, whether our partner is our lover or not. That's why many mares have their friends as 'heat buddies', even if they are married or romantic with a stallion, but don't want to risk her getting pregnant or having to buy or use birth control. After all, mares can't get each other pregnant...not without some powerful magic and on purpose at least. The mares satisfy each other during heat season, sometimes with their stallion watching or even joining in, but after breeding season ends the mare will go back to their stallion and simply will be friends with that mare after, with no romantic attachment."
Twilight considered this new information. She'd heard about 'heat buddies' in passing from her friends, but never really knew what it meant when they spoke about being 'heat buddies' with each other. As she considered who'd mentioned it, her tight-knit group of friends, she blushed as she imagined them having sex with each other... and she couldn't say she was turned off by the idea as much anymore. As she felt Amaya continuing to softly bite on her back, approaching her rump, she arched her back sharper, her rump rising higher into the air in obvious need, her tail fanning her fertile scent more rapidly now. Amaya did not leave that unnoticed. She had Twilight right where she wanted her.
"What I'm saying is, Twilight, this would be simply to ease our heats. I mean, you don't have to love me to fuck me." Amaya said, giving a shark's grin.
Twilight thought for a while more, before letting out a breathy sigh. She knew Bade was aware of 'heat buddy' relations, as he talked about it happening a few times with the female guards in the Royal Night-Guard bunkhouse, them doing it right there in the middle of everypony, and she distinctly remembered he'd said that 'it was so bucking hot to watch when two mares go at it in heat'. She hoped she wasn't actually cheating on Bade, with her hormones and Amaya's current actions having a heavily weighted vote in favor of getting some relief and trying something new, especially with the fact that Amaya had just brought her to orgasm with one simple bite. After all, this was just for her heat.
Twilight trembled as a shiver went through her when Amaya returned to her wings, licking gently along the leading edge, before nodding her head, "I'd...I'd like to see your special collection in your chamber..."
Amaya stopped her actions completely, letting out a shuddering breath. "So, why'd you say 'no' before but 'yes' now?" she asked, genuinely curious. Never, in a million years, did she imagine Twilight would actually say yes after the dozens of times she'd rejected her before, not even after her little 'persuasion'. Now Amaya wasn't sure what to do, her hooves seemingly glued into place, but she was was still holding a cocky grin.
Twilight gave an ever-so-adorable, yet totally-fuckable giggle. "Well, I was scared and intimidated by your forwardness before, Amaya." Twilight explained, before moving closer to the stunned mare, rubbing her side against the thestral's, their sensitive wings meeting for a moment and making both shudder, "...I'd never had a partner before and I didn't have any sexual experience, making me even more nervous to be with such a...seemingly-aggressive sexual partner," she explained, continuing to grind against the other mare, never once breaking physical contact with her since she'd started, and earning a soft gasp from her as she nipped behind her ear and got it to twitch. "Now that I have had some experience with Bade, and you've shown me what some well-meaning sexual forwardness can do...plus that this isn't like cheating...I'm ready." Twilight said, flittering her wings a bit, them still tingling lightly from Amaya's earlier treatment. "So, uh, did you still wanna go to your chamber or...?"
Amaya was still somewhat in shock, but this time was also growing incredibly aroused by the hot body rubbing on her own. The pheromones of another mare were in her muzzle, mixing with her own and making her marehood start to drip and wink even more under her tail, her instincts crying out for stimulation whether by her hoof or something else. Or somepony else.
"So...?" Twilight asked directly into Amaya's ear, earning a shudder from the other mare, "...shall we go to your chamber now, or did you want to get ready first?"
"Yes ma'am! Give me...like...five minutes!" Amaya said eagerly and in an equally wanting tone, earning a soft chuckle from Twilight as the bat-pony raced out of the room like her tail was on fire, undoubtedly heading to her own chamber to set up.
Deciding to get a move-on and not keep her to-be bed partner waiting, Twilight shook her head and started to head to Amaya's chamber, thinking of the situation along the way, her clit winking eagerly as she walked.
Twilight was still somewhat in shock herself that she'd accepted, though she knew it was a long time coming. Ever since Amaya had shown interest in her that first day, Twilight had wanted to say 'yes' to the sexy, exotic mare, but her lack of experience and derived nervousness always made her reject her offers of pleasure. After her two times with Bade showing her how pleasurable and relieving sex during estrus could be, and there was nothing to be scared of if your partner got a little rough so long as both were OK with it, Twilight finally had grown even more curious what it would be like to have sex with another mare.
Twilight had actually been curious ever since she'd made her five best friends in the world--Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity--her inquisitive nature making her very adventurous in many senses, but she had never pursued it because of not wanting to ruin her close relationship with any of her friends if they didn't feel the same. Now, however, she had a very willing partner who wanted to have sex with her, and a permanent romantic relationship wasn't required. A 'friend with benefits'.
<This is just sex for the sake of satisfying our heats, and doen't have to be anything more. A 'heat buddy'. That's all Amaya is...I just hope Bade feels the same way when I tell him...> ~
As she arrived at Amaya's chamber door, Twilight felt a twinge of nervousness start again as she remembered all the strange and exotic toys Amaya had, an ounce of her previous fear of the unknown creeping in. Would those spiky-looking toys hurt, she wondered, or feel good like Bade's penis had. Would Amaya be as forceful and dominant as she feared, or a passionate but caring lover like Bade had been?
As she rose a hoof and knocked on the door, Twilight almost felt like simply explaining to Amaya that she'd changed her mind when the door opened...but as the door did open and Amaya stood in the doorway in a pair of two-tone-grey striped socks, her mane tied up in a ponytail instead of its usually scraggly style, and her tail wrapped around the base as well to keep it out of the way, Twilight felt all doubt leave her. Amaya was indeed a very sexy mare, and Twilight would have sex with her.
"So, you made it..." Amaya said in a honey-sweet voice smooth as silk, a well-practiced sensual tone if Twilight had ever heard one, her statement followed by a quick flick of her tail, "I just finished getting everything ready for you beautiful."
Twilight couldn't help it as she felt her cheeks flushing hot at hearing a mare talking to her this way, her loins flushing just as hot. Lacking the male pheromones calling her to this mare as a breeding partner, Twilight's body was somewhat confused, though it swiftly started to understand as she saw what was set up on the bed.
On clean towels on the mattress, lined up by size and type, were at least thirty or more dildos, ranging from simple, undetailed rods to anatomically correct, single or double-ended, small to huge, and of so many domestic and exotic species that even the well-read mare couldn't identify them all by sight. "Well..." Amaya started in that same silky-seductive tone as before, "...you wanted to see my 'preciouses'; there they are, all set up just for you. Feel free to browse, and don't be afraid to toooouch~!"
Twilight took Amaya up on her offer, stepping up to the bed as she got a closer look. Some were a variation of size or style of a stallion's penis, but many others were of other races or animals. While many of them were the long cylinder with a standard flare on the tip and a medial ring from any normal pony stallion, some flared and some unflared, two of them, one flared and the other not, were thicker and curved more upwards, Twilight identifying that one as a Zebra penis replica. As she picked another, smaller one up and studied it, feeling the soft yet firm texture of the silicone, she meanwhile identified many of the other exotic styles laid out before her; canine, feline, griffin, manticore, primate, drake, cockatrice...and even dolphin and sea-dragon! That's not to mention the many other abstract or unidentified animal ones. Many of them had tubes attached at the base, the purpose of those a mystery to Twilight.
"W-wow...there's...so many different kinds..." Twilight stammered out, her eyes feasting on the toys as a starving pony's would on an all-you-can-eat buffet.
"Yep, well, sometimes you just see something new and want to try it out, y'know?" Amaya said, her hoof petting over a particularly thick one with an equally thick knot at the base; likely a replica of a Diamond Dog's tool, "Ever since my mother gave me the one you're holding as a coming-of-age present when I entered my first estrus, I've had somewhat of a...strong fondness for both real and fake cocks."
Twilight looked down at the dong she was holding and quickly set it down again, realizing that it was about the size of a colt's penis and indeed intended for a filly's first estrus. "Oh, I...see." Twilight said and nodded, before deciding to move swiftly on, her nether now burning hot at all the prospective options laid out before her.
"You can pick any one...or more...that you want to borrow any time you want to, now or in the future. They're always clean and ready to use." Amaya explained, before watching as Twilight picked up the double-shafted, spined dragon dildo, and the barbed and knotted griffin one that she'd just used herself, in her levitation.
<Is this what Spike's penises looks like...> Twilight found herself wondering, her blush burning hot again as she found herself thinking of her young dragon assistant in that way. <...bad Twilight, don't think like that! He's like your younger brother! Your sexy, double-penised...stop!>
"You sure you wanna try those ones? They're definitely two of my more...exotic and intense toys." Amaya said, before seeing Twilight shake her head and lower it to the sheet again.
As Twilight's eyes landed again on an anatomically correct double-ended Zebra dildo, she picked that one up in her magic instead. "So, why does it have two flares?" Twilight asked, also wondering why it was so long. There was no way it would fit in a single mare after all, being at least two-and-a-half feet long.
"Ah, that's not just for one mare Twilight," Amaya explained, her voice keeping that tone that made Twilight's wings unfurl and start to rise in arousal, "that's called a double-ended dildo, and it's for two mares to...share. At the same time." Amaya whispered into the alicorn's ear, earning a heavy shudder as her words settled in, "...and Zebras feel a lot like thestrals when they're inside of you."
After thinking for a moment, Twilight nodded. "I want this one." she said simply, with Amaya nodding.
"Great! So, did you want to take it to your chamber, or me to leave you alone here...?" Amaya asked as she removed the other toys from the bed, setting them on a nearby table, though not oblivious to what Twilight's choice suggested. In fact, it would be any moment now that--
"It's meant for two mares at once you say, huh?" Twilight asked as she took on a seductive tone of her own as she used a hoof to play over one of the medial rings, before tracing the length to the other one's flare, "Well, lucky me you're here to be the second mare." As Amaya watched the toy levitate behind her, she gave a quiet, needing whinny as she felt the fake cock rub against her slit, her leaning back against it on reflex and her clit winking on the head. She was beyond horny already.
"Shall we?" Twilight asked, levitating the dildo away from her slit and bringing it to the bed, giving it a lick on the dry end.
Amaya's heart nearly stopped. Twilight really did want to sleep with her. As she climbed up on the bed, starstruck, she had never nodded so much as she did then.
"So...um...what do we do now? Do we just...stick these inside us?" Twilight asked, breaking the flow with that question.
Amaya was slightly jerked out of her lustful state by the abrupt question...but then something came to mind. "Something like that. But...well, we could just use the toys now...or we could do something a little more...fun first."
Twilight's ears perked up at that. "'Something more fun'?"
Amaya nodded. "Ya ever hear of a '69'?"
"Is that...like, some sort of math question?"
Amaya literally face-hoofed. "Alright, no, it's not. It'd be easier to just show you. Is that OK?"
Always eager to learn something new, as well as extensively liking when Amaya had 'showed her something' earlier, Twilight nodded.
"Right, I'll be top, since it's your first time." Amaya said, before climbing on the bed. Her legs splayed open, displaying everything she owned with pride, her bat-pony pussy dribbling its nectar down to get into her tail in anticipation; "First, get on the bed..."
Twilight obeyed, climbing onto the bed and laying beside her - face-to-face. "No Twilight, not like that..." Amaya said, shaking her head; "Here, just stay like that..." Amaya then moved so she was laying atop Twilight, her crotch facing Twilight's muzzle, and Twilight's was facing hers in kind. For both mares, the fertile scent of the other was much stronger as close to the source as they were, and already Amaya's mouth was watering.
"So, um, as nice as you smell, you never answered me; what's a '69'?" Twilight asked, getting a quiet chuckle from Amaya.
"You still haven't figured it out huh, even with it literally right in front of your nose?" Amaya asked, and, before waiting any longer, she gave Twilight's slit a long, slow lick from just short of her anus, all along her slit, before finally ending on her clit's hood with a swirl. Twilight simply gasped as she felt the smaller, more delicate tongue of Amaya lick over her petals as Bade's had, but at the end of her lick Amaya started to swirl slow circles over that small upward curve in her vulva, the sensations growing more and more intense until--
wink
--Twilight's clit winked on reflex. "W-What're you doi-AH~!" Twilight started, before she cried out in sheer pleasure as the other mare applied light suction to her clit as it peeked out, preventing it from going back into hiding by blocking her hood with a carefully placed lip. With the large heart-shaped pleasure nub fully at her mercy now, Amaya simply started to give slow, firm licks along her slit, then started to lick Twilight's clit directly and earned a quiet 'AH~' and kick of the legs from Twilight with each.
"Ooooooh-kaaaay...a-apparently you're doing t-thaaaaaaat!"
Twilight, meanwhile, was in utter bliss as her clit fruitlessly tried to wink again and again against the tongue so pleasurably assaulting it, her entire body buzzing and thrumming with the intense sensations as her hips rocked against Amaya, only for her to feel a pair of hooves gently but firmly pin her hips against the bed. She didn't much mind. Twilight had never really focused on her clit as she'd masturbated, the few times she had touched it only being at the very end of her in-heat masturbation sessions to finish herself off, and while Bade had licked it a few times before. This gave her an entirely new perspective on things, and she regretted not focusing on it more in the past if it felt that incredible.
<It feels really good when somepony focuses on licking my clit like that! How did I not know this would be so amazing?!> "P-please, keep g-going!" Twilight begged, getting a nod from Amaya, and another harder lick on her clit.
Amaya simply hummed softly, happily, as she heard Twilight's pleasured begging and tasted the distinct flavor of a fertile mare once more, with an in-estrus mare's fluids always thicker and tasting just a bit muskier and sweeter to the bat-pony than an off-cycle mare's. Changing her focus off Twilight's clit, figuring she'd had enough of the intense stimulation for now, Amaya instead focused on dragging her tongue just along the seam of Twilight's lower lips from bottom to top again, not hard enough to penetrate just yet despite Twilight's muscles trying desperately to pull her inside, her hips pushing down on her muzzle. She didn't want to give it all away so soon.
When Amaya suddenly pulled away, Twilight being disappointed was an understatement. "W-why?" Twilight asked in a whiney tone akin to a foal having their favorite toy pulled from their hooves, pouting softly.
Amaya simply grinned, shifting her hips a bit as her tail remained out of the way, her clit winking a couple of times in response. "Give, and ye shall receive again. You scratch my itch, I scratch yours." Amaya said with a smirk, grinding a bit against Twilight now, her sensitive teats pressed into her chest. She herself was beyond horny as she realized she was eating out not only a princess, but also a very lovely, beautiful, and kind mare. Not only that, she was also teaching Twilight how to eat her out!
Getting the hint, and very much wanting more pleasure, Twilight gave a tentative lick at Amaya's swollen, leaking marehood, finding her vulvar lips were wider than a pony mare's, with little wrinkles at the top so a thestral mare could stretch wide for the larger penis of their males. Getting some of her profuse fluid on her tongue, Twilight gave the sweet, musky liquid a taste. Twilight found that Amaya tasted similar yet quite different than Bade; while Bade had been distinctly masculine - strong, very musky, and lightly bitter - Amaya's flavor was very light and sweet comparatively, though there was still a good hint of her own feminine musk involved.
Amaya meanwhile gave a soft moan that vibrated Twilight's pussy at the first sexual contact from another she'd had down there since she'd left Canterlot, her hips shifting up eagerly as her clit gave a wink, inviting her pleasurer back in. "Mmm yes, just like that Twilight...peeeeeerfect!" Amaya moaned our, her back arching.
Finding she liked the flavor and the encouragement, Twilight licked again, then again, each time earning a wink of Amaya's clit and a quiet coo or bit of praise. As she started to follow her bed-partner's lead and began to lick on Amaya's large pleasure bulb as it peaked out frequently, the bat-mare's hips started to gently grind against her muzzle. "Mmm, now that's more like it...if y-you keep licking there, I t-think you've earned your r-reward..." Amaya said, before slipping her tongue inside Twilight.
While it wasn't as thick as Bade's stallionhood had been, Twilight's body nonetheless reacted to the penetration with a clench down on the welcomed invader and sent a surge of pleasure through her, her entrance squeezing down as the squirming warmth slid deeper, welcoming it in further inside of herself. As it twisted and writhed inside of her, Twilight found that it was certainly more active than Bade had been with both his penis and tongue; the tongue of a very experienced mare who knew what she was doing.
Distracted and dazed by the feeling of being penetrated again, Twilight lost focus on her own licking for a moment, but was swiftly reminded that Amaya wanted this pleasure to be mutual by a firm grind of winking pussy-lips against her nose. Knowing it was only fair to return the favor, Twilight pressed her own tongue deep into Amaya as well, her senses now awash with the heated mare's flavor and scent.
For many more minutes the two ate each other out, letting out a quiet squeal of approval as one found a particularly nice spot inside of the other, back legs occasionally twitching or crotches grinding against their pleaser's muzzle as they panted for breath.
Finally, Twilight let out a quiet cry as her licks stopped, her whole body quivering beneath Amaya's as she'd found a particularly sensitive spot inside of her passage and wouldn't stop licking it. Twilight rocketed over into another intense orgasm as she virtually convulsed under Amaya, intense tingles rolling along her body as she felt Amaya simply keep licking that spot, knowing she must have found her G-spot.
Amaya simply kept licking once she'd found that small patch of spongy flesh she knew every mare had, hearing the soft whimpers from Twilight and feeling her passage clenching intensely over her tongue as she undoubtedly came hard, her crotch grinding the large amount of orgasmic fluid she'd released into Amaya's muzzle as she trembled intensely. The thestral simply grinned and kept licking, a hoof gently playing with her spasming clit and extending her huge orgasm even more, making Twilight loose another large squirt of her femme-cum.
Finally, what felt like hours later, the intense tingling pleasure slowed then stopped as Twilight's clit slowed its winks and her passage calmed its death grip on Amaya's tongue, Twilight going limp beneath Amaya as she struggled to catch her breath. Amaya rolled off and lay beside her instead, admiring the red-faced, panting result of her handiwork. <Looks like I did perfectly once again...>, she boastfully thought.
After some seconds of simply laying there, panting and collecting herself mentally, Twilight finally tried to speak. "Tha-wa-...tha-" Twilight stammered, her tongue tying knots, before finally it seemed to understand she wanted to speak; "That was...wow..."
Amaya simply smiled genuinely, happy she'd pleasured Twilight and let her find release again...and though she herself very much needed release of her own, that could wait a moment. "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself," Amaya said with a smile, before gently wrapping Twilight in a hug, her smile widening as she felt a pair of hooves wrap around her in kind.
"...but you didn't get to...finish yet." Twilight said, to which Amaya nodded and gave a most lascivious smile and the most bedroom of eyes.
"That begs the question: what're you gonna do about that? After all, you're leading by two to zero..." Amaya asked, eyeing the double-ended dildo nearby them; "...maybe you could try to even up the score?" |
Thestrals at Twilight | ...and This Proves it... | Being asked to please her back and looking at the same long, transparent glass double-ended dildo that Amaya was looking at, still reeling from her intense orgasm from the experienced thestral mare's tongue and her belly still burning for more, Twilight smiled...though it was more like grinning maniacally. She was excited at the prospect of pleasing this mare back, even if she had only an idea of how to use a dildo in the faintest sense, as well as learning more about how mares pleased each other. Picking it up in her magic, Twilight squirmed so she was facing her bed partner, or more accurately, her partner's soaked, winking crotch.
"So...can you please put it in me? I really need it..." Amaya asked, nearly begged, eyeing the long horsecock levitating in Twilight's raspberry-red magic, her hoof rubbing into her slit softly in anticipation. Twilight reached over for the lube bottle on the shelf next to the rest of the toys, but Amaya shook her head. "Don't need that, I am beyond soaked. Pleeeeease just put it in meeeee already~!" She'd meanwhile risen to her hooves and knelt her front half down a bit, her tail flagged out of the way and her back legs spread, presenting her soaked marehood and winking to Twilight as though she were a stallion. She was more than ready, two days of comparativly mild pleasure by her own devices leaving her craving another's touch.
Twilight looked at the dildo, then the bat-mare's swollen, deep-grey slit, before pressing the toy's flare to it. Amaya moaned happily as she felt the flat head press against her, the added gentle tingle of Twilight's magic on it only adding to the sensation and making her wink against it. "Mmm, good...keep pushing..." Amaya said in a drunken tone, feeling as Twilight's telepathic push increased, before the flare popped into her ready canal.
Amaya gave a quiet nicker of contentment and a shudder as she felt the cold toy penetrate her, then felt the thickness spreading her open and pushing deeper, that wonderful magic tingle only a unicorn's magic could provide something she very much loved. "Mmmm-yeah, this is what I needed..." Amaya cooed as she squeezed and winked near constantly on the toy, her inner muscles and rocking hips welcoming the pseudo-cock deeper into herself.
Twilight, meanwhile, was watching as she slowly sunk the dildo into another mare, watching the lips spreading and actually able to see inside the mare's deep-pink passage through the clear glass, her magic lighting the way. She was as much fascinated as Amaya was pleased, though the latter was apparently getting impatient. The bat-pony pressed her hips backwards, moaning in pleasure as she felt the toy hilt in her to her side of the dildo's medial ring. "Mmmmmm, that's the stuff....hay yeah..." Amaya moaned out as she felt very nicely spread now, the cold glass helping to cool her heated core. She very much loved this toy during her heats for just that reason.
Twilight was utterly fascinated as she kept sliding the toy deeper and deeper into Amaya, not sure if it would ever bottom out, at least twelve inches inside of her and more being added by the second. Finally, at about the fifteen-inch mark, Twilight bottomed out. As she did, she got a quiet squeak from Amaya as the head of the toy tapped her cervix, Twilight seeing that slightly-dilated ring through the toy, watching her body rocking against the invading dong and her muscles squeezing against it. It was both very erotic and educational at the same time, Twilight seeing first-hoof how a mare's vagina reacted to a stallionhood inside of her during estrus.
"J-just pull it out to the flare, then push it back in me hard and fast, and keep going. I need a good rutting...please..." Amaya begged, feeling so full, yet the fact that the cock wasn't moving was frustrating her massively. As she felt it sliding out of her a moment later, her body struggling to keep the 'stallion' deep inside of her, her pleasure rising because of that added friction, she cried out in ecstasy as it was suddenly, sharply thrust into her to the hilt all at once again. "YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS~! Peeeeeeeeerfeeeeect! M-MORE!" Amaya moaned out in sheer, agonizing pleasure as she felt Twilight yank it out and ram it into her again, earning her another pleasured cry from the pounded mare.
"P-pull...my tail...please...h-hard." Amaya begged between thrusts, with Twilight very much surprised by her submissive behavior in the bedroom compared to the bold, boisterous presence she gave off otherwise. Grabbing a mouthful of her tail hair without a thought, Twilight gave it a firm yank whilst still fucking her hard with the dildo in her magic, Amaya giving a sharp cry out, her back legs giving a tremble. "A-again!" Amaya begged, and Twilight complied, earning another pleasured cry from the kinky mare.
Twilight watched as more of Amaya's white-tinted fluids rolled down her legs, making them an even darker grey, Amaya's wings erect, her whole body lightly trembling now as she was reamed well and her tail was yanked with each thrust in. Twilight was fascinated to see how everything worked down there first-hoof, tempted to take notes but not having any stationary or quills, as well as too focused on what was happening before her to bother with summoning some either.
Amaya was beyond pleasured already; with each yank of her tail, she felt her tail's dock being so deliciously pulled on, that slightly-painful sensation only adding to her intense pleasure. The feeling of being bred so roughly, the slight pain in her dock, and the scent of another fertile mare in the same room as her only spurred her arousal even higher.
Unsurprisingly, it was only a short while of this very rough, intense treatment, combined with Amaya's secret feelings for Twilight and long sexual dry spell, before Amaya buried her head into the pillow and let out a very high-pitched shriek, Twilight watching as her whole passage convulsed through the clear toy, with her leaving it hilted to her core as she peaked. She watched as her guard's vaginal contractions became rhythmic in time to her winks, knowing she was right on the edge.
Then Amaya came. Hard.
Twilight watched as Amaya's entire body shivered constantly, the thestral's partly-dilated cervix dipping down slightly to touch the flare, trying to bring the sperm that wasn't there into her fertile womb. The entire bed was coated in the mare's thick cum, rolling down her back legs or squirting out past the dildo with each wink, showing how utterly pleasured she was. Unable to simply ignore just how horny this was making her, Twilight continued to softly grind her own vulva against the bed, matting Amaya's covers with her own brand of liquid lust.
Seeing that winking heart-shaped nub, Twilight got an idea to even better the experience for her guard. She spit out Amaya's tail and instead started to lick at that winking nub, earning another high-pitched squeal from Amaya as her orgasm increased drastically.
Amaya, meanwhile, felt the intense tingles and satisfaction of a much-needed orgasm, feeling her entire body clenching down on the pseudo cock, trying its damnedest to milk it for the load it couldn't provide. Her whole body shivered as her hips rocked rapidly in her throes of climax while Twilight suddenly started licking and lapping at her winking clit, intensifying and extending her climax even further. Eventually, she slumped down, her body still gently trembling as the aftershocks of that intense orgasm rolled through her still. <This is exactly what I needed...>
A long while later, Twilight watched as the other mare's orgasm calmed, her inner body slowing its contractions from rapid and rhythmic to much more staccato, her spasming clit's winks in her mouth slowing as well. Amaya virtually deflated, feeling very satisfied for the first time in a long time. "Mmm, y'sure this was yer first time...with'a mare?" Amaya asked in a slur, her mind still fuzzy in her afterglow. Twilight, in her first time, had managed to pleasure her more than at least a dozen of her more experienced past partners, "Y'did p-perfect..."
Twilight blushed a little at the compliment, but nodded. "Thanks, but yes, you're my first...mare."
Amaya managed a weak chuckle, "Heh, coulda fooled me..." she stammered, before wearily rising to her hooves, stretching out...and moaning softly as she was quickly reminded that the toy was still lodged to the hilt inside of her as it shifted with her movements. Swiftly, she felt her lust growing again, the burn in her womb flaring a bit, and her getting an idea as she looked back and saw Twilight grinding against the bed. "Hey, wanna see why this toy's double-ended now?" Amaya asked, getting a more-than eager grin from Twilight as Amaya swayed her hips, the other end of the dildo sticking out of her as though an invitation.
"I...um...how?" Twilight asked, not entirely sure how this would work.
"It's easy," Amaya explained, still standing with her rump high and legs locked, making herself as accessible as possible, "you just face away from me, then back up against me and that end should slip right inside your pussy."
Twilight blushed heavily. "B-but it's in you too!"
"That's the idea, Twilight..."
"Oh. Um...OK."
Twilight stood and turned around, flagging her tail over her back as she grabbed the dildo again in her magic, making Amaya groan out while she felt it shifting around inside her again as Twilight tried to line herself up. "Mmm, or you could just keep that up and I'll be good..." Amaya teased.
"Sorry...first time..." Twilight said, before then giving a gentle gasp as she felt the flare of the cold glass toy touch her swollen, hot lips. As she then stepped backwards, lowering her rump to line it up with the shorter mare's, Twilight moaned as she felt the coolness slip inside of her. She quickly realized that it felt much different than Bade had; it had no give like flesh did, instead as hard as a rock and cold. Contrastingly, Twilight enjoyed it almost as much as Bade's hot cock filling her up, the coolness actually helping to soothe her burning innards already.
Slowly Twilight slid deeper, the occasional squeak or whimper when the toy hit a particularly nice spot sounding from her. Amaya meanwhile felt as the dildo subtly shifted inside of her, pressing against her cervix as Twilight pressed against it, moaning herself from the stimulation so deep inside of her. "Mmmm-fuck, see why I like really long double-ended dildos so much now?" she asked.
Then Amaya moved her hips.
Twilight gave a quiet cry as she felt the dildo shift inside of her sensitive passage unexpectedly, a tingling surge going through her that reminded her of when Bade had thrust into her the first time; an action completely out of her control, and a pleasant surprise. "Oh Celestia..." Twilight moaned out, instinctively pressing the toy deeper until finally it bottomed out in her, her lower lips kissing Amaya's.
Then Amaya's clit winked.
Twilight shuddered heavily upon feeling Amaya's clit winking on her own, hers reflexively responding with a wink of its own at the stimulation and making the two nubs kiss. Twilight was breathless at that sensation.
"Mmmm yeah, the kind of kiss only two mares can share huh?" Amaya asked, intentionally making her clit rapidly wink, earning a moan and shudder from Twilight, "Feels great, huh?"
"Y-yeeeeesssss~" Twilight moaned in response, their nubs winking and kissing rapidly, trading blows of pleasure.
Then Amaya pulled forward.
Twilight whimpered, the feeling of pleasing fullness leaving her - only to be swiftly introduced again. Amaya started to rock her hips back and forth as she gripped the toy tightly inside of her, grinding up and down, making Twilight's upper half nearly collapse to the bed at the new yet familiar and utterly wonderful sensations; Amaya starting to slowly slide the dildo back into Twilight, basically fucking her backwards.
"That feels...so weird...but soooo gooood!" Twilight moaned out, feeling her own hips shifting on instinct each time the toy was removed, pushing back and trying to bring it back inside, only to increase the impact of the in-thrust.
"Yep, I'll take it you're liking it?"
"Oh yeeeah..."
"Heh, I knew you would love this..."
As she moved, Amaya was careful not to go too deep, judging by Twilight's sounds and reactions what she enjoyed. After a short while, Amaya got into a moderate, rhythmic rocking motion, careful to make sure she wasn't hurting her partner. All she heard, however, were pleasured moans or squeaks from the princess and the wet squelches or other sounds from their marehoods, the rocking of her own hips back against Amaya's, and the occasional coo as she was hilted only affirming she was loving it.
Twilight was in awe at how different yet similar this felt to being with a stallion. She was contentedly spread by a thick member, feeling it squirming around in her and sliding in and out, yet all she smelled was another heated mare instead of a stallion's musk, and there was no stallion atop her. Instead, every time Amaya hilted in her, their lower lips met in another kiss, with Amaya stopping a few times to grind against her, making her wink rapidly in response to the swollen marehood grinding on her own while she was filled full of a thick cock.
Amaya felt their shared liquid lust drooling down her legs as their sexes met and ground together, before suddenly Twilight tensed and cried out when Amaya rammed the toy into her again, the thestral finding herself unable to move it again as Twilight's tunnel held it in a vice grip, feeling through the toy that Twilight's foal-tunnel was trembling hard and seemingly trying to pull the dildo out of Amaya, clearly having another powerful orgasm.
"Score's three-one Twilight..." Amaya said teasingly as she felt the princess still convulsing in her release, squirming around and grinding against her vulva to extend her orgasm as well as she could, as well as enjoying the pleasure she was getting from it as well.
As she calmed down again after some seconds of clenching down on the now-warm toy, spitting out her orgasmic fluids onto the bed and Amaya, Twilight still felt that persistent burn in her belly even after three strong orgasms, even if it was dulled significantly. She needed a stallion's seed to stop it for a while, but Bade had been needed in Canterlot. "Sorry Amaya...I'm...trying..." Twilight said pitifully, before feeling the named mare still squirming.
"It's OK. Tell ya what...make me cum...and we'll talk about trying something new, then fixing that burning in your belly...and mine too." Amaya said in a subconsciously irritated tone. She'd met only a single release, though she couldn't really blame the princess. Her tolerance was much higher than Twilight's was after many years of sexual experience, leaving it taking more stimulation to finally set her off.
Twilight nodded and, after taking a moment to recover from her orgasm, used her magic to grab Amaya's clit in its grasp, making the other mare gasp. She then clenched down with her vaginal muscles on the toy as tightly as she could, before she started to replicate what Amaya had been doing, starting to pull the dildo in and out of the other mare, hearing quiet moans and squeaks of pleasure coming from her as she fucked her in return.
"Mmm You're...s-such a quick...learner..." Amaya managed to get out between moans, her whole body tingling as she was not only filled up and actively being mated, but also felt strong tingles going through her from the tingly magic on her most sensitive nub, feeling it fruitlessly winking as it was held in place by arcane energy, feeling it being gently kneaded and making her moan into the pillow.
It was only a short while of such powerful sensations, only added to when Twilight upped her pace of fucking her, before Amaya felt the tension in her belly burst, giving out another cry of sheer ecstasy into the pillow, her thick fluids rolling down her trembling back legs as she held tight to the source of her pleasure, stopping Twilight from moving further as she squeezed and kneaded on the toy once more in her climax.
"There we are..." Twilight softly cooed as she looked back and saw Amaya trembling once more, smiling to herself at returning the favor again.
Over a few more moments, Amaya finally brought herself back to a semblance of sentience. "W-well, that was nice..." Amaya cooed, "...now, about that new thing..." Amaya stood on wobbly legs as she went over to the selection of her toys, picking out a smaller tapered one, getting a harness of some sort from her closet, as well as grabbing the bottle of lube off of the shelf, before returning to the bed.
"So, what's the 'new thing'?" Twilight asked, noticing the smaller six-inch blue toy had a thinner rounded top, gradually getting thicker until it ended at about a two inch diameter at the base.
"Well," Amaya started, tapping the toy with a hoof, "This is a beginner anal toy."
Twilight winced a little at the implications. "You wanna put that in my...butt...?"
Amaya expected such an initial reaction. "Now wait, before you decide, hear me out. You seem the adventurous sort, and I was thinking maybe you'd like to try this. I thought the same way when I was first asked for anal, but I quickly found out I loved it! I promise I'll start really slow and gentle, and if you wanna stop at any time we can always try something different. I also promise it'll be our little secret, just like everything else." Amaya promised, making a cross over her chest.
Twilight simply sat and considered for a moment, before coming to the conclusion that everything else Amaya had proposed had only lead to great pleasure, and that she had no reason to doubt this would at least be an interesting experience if nothing else...and at best, it could be very pleasurable. "OK, we can try it. But I need to get ready first, and you gotta promise me you'll stop if I ask you to!"
Amaya smiled a bit at the Princess's acceptance, before moving her hooves to the harness, screwing the toy into an extension on the harness's front plate. "I promise, I will stop if you ask me to." Amaya said, giving a sincere smile.
Twilight lit her horn and cast a cleansing spell on her bowels, making sure nothing unpleasant would occur during the act, before nodding to Amaya. "So, what do I do?"
Amaya was grinning like a schoolfilly, barely restraining giggles to match it. She was about to fuck a princess in the ass! But first she wanted to do something else, something she'd been wanting to try for a while, if Twilight agreed. "Well, how about we start with you lubing this up? You should also put some on your...well, your hole." Amaya said, sliding the harness on like one would a pair of panties, before standing and leaving the toy hanging just in front of her teats.
Nodding, Twilight reached over to the bottle of lube... but Amaya shook her head.
"Nah. Maybe...you could use your...your mouth on the toy Twilight?" Amaya said, getting a thrill up her spine as she said that. She'd always found it beyond hot when a mare was licking on one of her toys, especially if Amaya was wearing it.
Twilight blinked at the odd request, but nodded. "Alright, just lay on your back and..."
"Well...Twi, this is gonna sound weird but..." She paused, taking a deep breath, "...could I...try mounting you...like, from the front?"
Twilight cocked her head a bit at that request, but realized that this was all in the realm of strangeness to her, so what harm would there be in going deeper into the rabbit's hole. "Sure, why not. Who knows, I might even like it." Twilight said, finding her curious nature taking hold of her.
Quite excitedly, Amaya moved to do just that. Her giant grin didn't wane, instead growing bigger as stepped up to the princess, "You sure this is alright?"
Twilight nodded, hunching her front down a little to make herself more accessible to the smaller mare, "You may mount me."
Feeling another thrill go up her spine, Amaya climbed over the royal mare and mounted her just like a stallion would, but from the front, her crotch right in front of Twilight's muzzle. "Open uuuup~." Amaya said as she shifted her hips, making the flare of the strap-on bump Twilight's nose, "I've got a nice treat for you...besides, we gotta get this nice and lubed up for when I put it up your buuuuuutt~."
Twilight obediently opened her mouth, and jerked her head back in surprise as she felt the dildo enter her mouth. It felt vaguely like Bade had, only it tasted faintly like rubber and...something sweet. As it neared the back of her tongue, Twilight panicked a bit and pulled back harder, only for Amaya to rub her back and slide it back into her muzzle again slower this time, sliding more of the fake stallionhood into Twilight's mouth and leaving it just short of her uvula, softly kissing her wings meanwhile. "Relax, I'm not gonna choke you with it or anything...this isn't my first time doing this." Amaya assured, Twilight nodding in understanding. Twilight didn't resist again, instead giving a quiet moan at the sensations, reminded of doing this for Bade previously.
True to her word, Amaya didn't push it all the way into her throat, giving just enough so that she was sure Twilight had a good mouthful to enjoy; and enjoy it she did. Twilight let out a deep moan as she felt that length in her mouth, the lightly flavored toy actually kind of pleasant. She played her tongue over the toy, taking in the texture of it and finding it felt fairly realistic, fake veins along the length just like a stallion's. With that, Amaya began to move her hips as a stallion might, working the fake member in and out of her mouth slowly, giving Twilight time to adjust.
"Mmm, how you like having my dick in your mouth, you dirty little mare? How do you like the idea that I'm gonna put this right up your ass after I'm done fucking your mouth with it?" Amaya said, trying to work Twilight up even more with some dirty talk. It worked spectacularly.
Twilight moaned deeply again, starting to enjoy the fake cock going in and out of her mouth and the dirty talk from Amaya, giving the occasional, quiet moan as Amaya straddled her head and humped into her mouth slowly and smoothly. Amaya meanwhile continued to softly slide her hips, feeling her clit winking at the highly erotic situation, Twilight's head bobbing softly along the toy making her feel so utterly dominant at the moment.
Deciding to get on with it, Amaya dismounted Twilight, getting a quiet, disappointed moan from her. "Don't worry beautiful...you'll get it back real soon...right up your plothole." Amaya said, "Now, turn and show me that fine ass again." Twilight did as asked, turning and presenting her rump to Amaya, tail already flagged over her back, showing everything - including her virgin ponut*, which soon would no longer be titled as such.
"Mmm, beautiful..." Amaya said, caressing one of Twilight's stifles with a hoof right over her Cutie-mark, making the alicorn shudder in reaction, "...can I get started?"
Twilight nodded, hunching her front down a little to make herself more accessible, nervous butterflies fluttering in her stomach. "You may...mount me." Twilight shuddered in anticipation. "M-mount me please. I need you..." she said simply, and Amaya only too gladly obliged, climbing atop Twilight like a stallion, mounting the larger mare and gently prodding around.
"I'm gonna fuck your ass good Twi...gonna make you cum, and cum, until you're screaming my name and begging for more!" Amaya cooed, poking around for a little more - until she found Twilight's winking slit.
Twilight whimpered as she found herself beyond aroused now, trying to back up on the toy and introduce it into her passage, but Amaya pulled back before she could.
"Whoops, wrong hole..." Amaya said teasingly as she rubbed the toy just between Twilight's lower lips, lubing it up more with the mare's profuse fluids, before shifting her aim higher as she seeked her real target, "now where is it..."
As she felt the toy nearing her upper hole, Twilight felt the nervousness of earlier return, biting a lower lip. "R-remember, sloooowly." she reminded the eager little bat-mare, knowing an overzealous lover could oftentimes hurt the other unintentionally.
"Don't worry Twilight, I'll be gentle...at first." Twilight heard as she then felt Amaya reach her muzzle up to her wings again, softly nuzzling into the soft fur between them.
Feeling another thrill go up her spine, Amaya softly grasping around her barrel with both hooves. Twilight squirmed a bit as she felt the cold toy poking her inner flanks, mentally bracing herself for what was soon to come.
"Just...put it...in my butt." Twilight said, never believing those words would ever willingly come from her mouth before this moment.
"Alrighty..." Amaya said, and before long, Twilight felt her shifting until it found her slit again. Twilight gasped and winked in response, inviting it in on instinct, but she knew the toy had another, higher destination. Sure enough, within a few second, Twilight felt the tip of the toy pressed against her plothole, tensing up again.
Amaya noticed the tensing, realizing how nervous Twilight was and how this would end up if she didn't relax. She started planting gentle kisses along Twilight's withers and crest, earning a moan from her. "There it is, finally. Twilight, you need to relax or it's going to hurt you going in..." Amaya warned, using her teeth to gently knead Twilight's back muscles, right between her wings in the same place that had made Twilight cum before.
Twilight took a couple of deep breaths, before nodding, trying her best to relax, the arousing bites and kisses on her wings and back from Amaya certainly helping. As Amaya felt Twilight relax more, she started to gently push her hips forward, getting a gasp from Twilight at the pressure, feeling her tense again. "No...Twilight, relax. It's OK." Amaya assured, continuing to gently bite between her wings, admiring the beautiful feathered limbs. "Do you wanna start with some vaginal first to relax you or..." Amaya asked, noticing how tense Twilight was, not knowing if it was because of her estrus...or nervousness.
"I'm...trying. It's just so..." Twilight said, again forcing her body to relax, but this time, she gasped as she felt something slip into her.
Amaya finally slid past the very tight but well-lubed sphincter and slowly, very slowly, pushed deeper. "Mmm, not so bad now is it you sexy little mare?" Amaya asked in a throaty voice, continuing to give Twilight's wings kisses, feeling the erect limbs shuddering under her touch. Twilight remained relaxed despite the intense stretching hurting some, allowing Amaya's toy to slide deeper into her bowels, adding a familiar yet warped and foreign sensation of being penetrated vaginally even though she wasn't. It was a little painful as she felt her muscles being spread for their first time, just like her first time with Bade had been, but as it slid deeper and the gentle taper slowly widening her, she found herself feeling less pain and more of that new, different kind of pleasure rolling through her.
"You have such a sexy ass Twilight, and now it's all full of my toy..." Amaya said sensually, softly kissing and nuzzling her neck now, feeling Twilight shudder and hearing a small gasp as she did. "...do you like having your ass full of cock, Twilight?"
Twilight felt the same lightheadness she'd gotten the other times she'd had sex, but this time felt much different. She felt pleasure in her marehood too as the toy slowly spread her butt open wider, making her vagina clench at the shared sensation of the rod rubbing inside her, only a narrow strip of flesh separating the faux penis from it. "Mmmmmmhm..." Twilight moaned out, her pussy winking as she was being filled again, her body feeling some semblance of relief as she was full of stallionhood once more. She'd never imagined herself liking anal, but here she was, in bliss already at only the first penetration.
"So I'm gonna start fuckin' ya now, alright? Nice, smooth and slow..." Amaya said, only receiving a slow nod of the head from Twilight. As she'd said, Amaya grinned as she slowly pulled back to half-way, feeling Twilight's tight passage clinging desperately to the toy as she tried, before slowly easing it back in again.
"Mmm..." Twilight cooed out, the sensations intensifying as Amaya had started moving inside of her, making her simply lay there and let it happen, enjoying the feeling of her first anal experience. She slowly started rocking her hips back with each forward thrust, making the toy go just a little bit deeper each time.
Amaya, meanwhile, kept the pace slow. While she wasn't being pleasured directly, she was pleased in knowing that she was helping a friend ease her heat; making Twilight enjoy herself bringing her quite a bit of happiness. Though happiness was nice and all, however, Amaya found it didn't help ease the ache in her pussy. "Hey Twi, y'think you could use some of your awesome magic to help a girl out...?" she asked, hoping maybe Twilight could help relieve her in turn.
Twilight nodded again, and moments later Amaya felt a tingling on her slit; a hard, tingly sensation pressing to her lower lips. "I knew you wouldn't leave me hangi--oooohmigosh!" Amaya exclaimed as she felt her passage suddenly being spread by a tingling mass, feeling it swiftly spreading her wider and pushing deeper by the second, her pleasured clenches doing little to slow it. Amaya pulled back out of Twilight to force the mass quickly slithering deeper and deeper, before pushing her hips forward again, sinking into the other mare's plothole once more.
Twilight moaned in pleasure as the strange feelings intensified, feeling Amaya's motions increasing because of her magic no doubt, "Mmm, Amaya...this feels amazing..." she moaned, hearing the wet slap of flesh on flesh as Amaya pounded into her ass and the very wet schlicking sounds coming from Twilight's magic-fucking on Amaya.
It was too fast, too much, the next minutes lost in a blur of ecstasy and relief for the two heated mares, Amaya's climax even climbing up fast on her. She'd always loved when unicorns used their magic in her; so much power, such a mighty force, dedicated simply to pleasing her. Nothing else compared.
Twilight meanwhile felt that toy touching her inside in ways she'd never felt before, the warm underbarrel of Amaya grinding into her croup almost as satisfying as the wonderful friction inside of her. Her clit was winking constantly from the distant stimulation of her vagina, her fluids streaming out onto the bed, everything making her mind pulse with pleasure with each hilting thrust. Their actions sped up once more, and before she knew it Twilight tensed up and cried out.
Amaya felt as the spell reaming her stopped hilted and swelled in mass, unable to move her hips anymore as Twilight's already tight rectum became a vise. Amaya cried out at the sensations of being hilted to her deepest barrier with Twilight's magic, feeling it swelling just like when a stallion flared, that sensation setting her breeding instincts ablaze and setting her off her well-balanced tightrope of control.
The two mares panted and mewled and shuddered together in pleasure as they both came at once, sharing their orgasm together as both clenched on magic or silicone, both filled so fully as they came hard. Amaya's fluids sprayed all over the bed while Twilight's coated the other mare's teats and crotch for the most part, the rest dripping thickly down onto the bed or down Twilight's legs.
Twilight was the first to recover, finding herself the small spoon of a cuddle, a muzzle panting hot breath into her mane as it rested against the back of her neck. She no longer felt herself filled up down below, though she did feel a certain fullness in her chest; oddly, the same one she felt with Bade. <Could I...do I love Amaya too? Is this just estrus hormones, or do I actually...love her too?> Twilight wondered as she felt the mare in question holding her tightly to her and wrapping her in a backwards hug; feeling the muzzle nuzzling softly against her neck and each breath on her neck sending a tingle down her spine, and finally her afterglow so warmly settled into her lower belly, the powerful orgasm providing a moment's respite from the burning of her heat...
...and then, the moment passed. Twilight groaned as she felt the burning coming back. "A-Amaya...it still burns..." Twilight whimpered, frustrated the burning wasn't gone like when she'd had sex with Bade and he'd seeded her, her belly still burning and begging for a stallion's sperm; begging to be filled with a foal. Luckily for her, Amaya was a step ahead.
Amaya unstrapped the toy and put it into a separate pile to be cleaned later, alongside the glass one from earlier. She then grabbed a dildo from the 'unused' pile, this being one of the single-headed ones with the small tube in the base, thin spines on it alongside a thick knot at its base. An anatomically-correct griffin penis replica, if Twilight remembered correctly. Amaya also retrieved what looked like a small pneumatic pump with a hoof-triggered pressure pad to activate it from her closet...and a large jar filled with a mysterious, thick-looking off-white fluid from the refrigerator.
"Right, time to get serious about ending our heats," Amaya said, pointing to the spiny, knotted dildo, "First, I want this going up my pussy." |
Thestrals at Twilight | ...Time and Again | Twilight blushed, biting her lower lip at the rather large griffin toy presented to her, it being at least fourteen inches long, and easily three inches around, the knot four. It was nothing like the one she'd had up her butt, very little like a stallion's even, and a little bigger than her side of the glass double-ended one she and Amaya had shared, and that knot at the bottom...
Twilight gulped. "How? How do we end the burning without a stallion's...seed?"
"Simple, you get a substitute for a stallion's cum...but me first. The burning is...pretty bad now. Plus, you got to cum a bunch already." Amaya said, before the distinct 'click' told Twilight that the dildo was now attached to its harness, making anticipation and a tinge of nervousness go through her. She hoped those spines felt good in such a sensitive place as a vagina.
"So...it feels good, right? Those spines?" Twilight asked, receiving a nod from the thestral.
"Yeah, just used this one earlier. Made me cum like four times in a row." Amaya said, seeing Twilight's blush deepen as well as her nervous expression, before holding the toy out to Twilight; "Here, feel it. The spines are really flexible, unlike a real griffin tom's spines. I can tell you by experience, those are much more firm, and the way they kind-of rake inside of you...it almost hurts but somehow feels REALLY good too. The sensation's meant to make griffin females ovulate or cum more or something, I didn't look into it, but it does make you cum REALLY hard."
Twilight, despite all they'd done together already, was nearly as red as a tomato at this point. "A...tom? Is that the male griffin?"
Amaya grinned. "Yes Twilight, the males are called toms and the females are hens." Amaya explained to Twilight, kind-of surprised she didn't know.
"Oh...right...I knew that..."
While Twilight took and looked over the dildo, gliding her hoof over the surface and indeed finding that the spines were firm but very flexible, Amaya started to fill the machine's receptacle with white fluid from a jar, Twilight realizing that it looked a lot like...
"Is that...stallion ejaculate?!" Twilight asked, feeling a bit more nervous. What was this mare going to do with that?! Surely she wouldn't--
Amaya shook her head instantly. "Nah, nah, it's synthetic cum. It's mostly 'pure water, glycerin, and po-ly-eth-oh-lene gly...col', and some artificial stallion hormones." Amaya explained, reading the hard-to-pronounce words from the now-empty jar before hoofing it over to Twilight, "In other words, it's not getting you or me pregnant. But...it will trick your body into thinking you just got bred for a day or so provided you don't have a real stallion available, or swing with only mares. I use this stuff every time I'm with mares in my heat, and it works every time."
Twilight nodded, familiar with the ingredients, and looked to the pump, watching Amaya attach a tube from it to the dildo's base; no real imagination was needed to know what would happen once she pushed the hoof-pad.
"So, you just push on this hoof-pad and each time you do it'll send a spurt of the cum into me. I want you to send all two-hundred-fifty CC of fake cum into me right as I cum. Make it pump into me like a stallion's..." Amaya said, then leaned in closer; "It's thick and sticky, just like the real thing, and even stays in you for a while like a real stallion's jizz. Leaves both mares niiiiice and satisfied after a long session of hard fucking." Suddenly, her tone changed, considering something, "Say, wanna taste the cum? It's totally edible." Amaya asked and, before waiting for a response, pressed down on the pressure pad a little, causing the dildo to give a small spurt of the fake cum onto Twilight's hoof.
Twilight, after a moment's hesitation, rose her hoof up and sniffed it. It didn't smell bad, and even had a hint of stallion to it. As she tasted the pseudo-cum, she found that it was thick and stringy like the real thing as well as slightly sweet, though much sweeter than an actual stallion's load. It lacked the slight bitterness, and also lacked much of the masculine flavor that Twilight had so loved from Bade. More disappointingly, it also didn't have the stallion moaning and quivering in pleasure as she rubbed his balls, kneading more of his virile seed as her tongue--
"So," Amaya said, interrupting Twilight's thoughts, "what do you think?"
Twilight swished it around in her mouth, before coming to an obvious conclusion. "Well, it tastes alright but...stallion semen tastes way better..." Twilight said, looking away a little.
"I agree completely." Amaya replied with a grin.
Twilight adapted a much more salacious tone. "Ah, I bet you want me to introduce this phallus into your well lubricated, fertile vaginal canal huh? Make it end up inside of your vaginal fornex and possibly press to your cervix whilst ejaculating this artificial seminal fluid into your uterus? I know I can't inseminate and impregnate you with it...but that doesn't mean I can't try...?" Twilight said in a throaty voice, trying her hoof at sexy talk with a mare, and it was all Amaya could do to not burst out laughing.
"Twilight, if...if we ever do this again, we're gonna *snnnnnnrk* work on your dirty talk!" Amaya said, barely restraining herself from rolling on the bed laughing at the clueless mare.
"I...um...wasn't sexy?" Twilight asked, looking a bit disappointed, her ears folded back.
"It was a good first try..." Amaya comforted, before laying and flagging her tail over the side of the bed and her croup on the edge as she laid in the dragon-style* position, presenting her swollen, glistening marehood and plothole to Twilight; "...but actions speak louder than words. Just slide that harness over your legs like you're sliding on panties, then mount me like Bade mounted you!"
Twilight felt her heart leap at the mention of Bade again before doing as asked, sliding the harness on herself. As she stood, she instantly mounted Amaya, earning a satisfied coo from the mounted mare as she enjoyed the grinding of her chest on her own, before Twilight shifted her hips forward - and missed. Again and again she tried, but each thrust would make the toy glance off Amaya's stifle or between her teats, everywhere but where it needed to be.
"Twilight...just use your magic to line up." Amaya said in a strained tone, the unintentional teasing setting her needs to a new height. Finally, with a nudge of her magic to align herself, Twilight finally found her mark and slid into the welcoming hole easily.
"Sorry, it's a lot harder than it seemed to be," Twi replied. As the tip slid in, Twilight heard Amaya moan in a very pleased tone and continued to slide deeper with such encouragement, her hips slowly sliding forward, feeling the movements of Amaya's inner muscles guiding her deeper through the toy and making it so she actually did very little herself. Twilight had to admit it was a strange experience being atop a mare like this, but Amaya's moans of relief and contentment made it all worthwhile. As she felt her own arousal rising, Twilight started to slowly rub her own winking slit with magic, giving a quiet moan of her own. Amaya was now surprisingly quiet.
"Y-you OK Amaya?" Twilight asked, noticing Amaya was trembling slightly. She continued to slide in, her passage eased all the way by Amaya's kneading muscles, until she felt herself brought to a stop with a small jolt, the knot stopping her.
"Please...I want...need the knot..." Amaya gasped out, before feeling Twilight add some force and spread her lips wider to accept the bulb, the bat-mare's body welcoming the toy in the rest of the way.
Twilight felt as the knot settled into place, Amaya no doubt wringing the pseudo-cock well. Twilight had apparently met her vagina's end. "Amaya, is that your..."
Amaya slowly nodded, her head tilting back and a goofy smile spreading on her face, her eyes closed as she felt a hint of relief, true relief, for the first time in months. It had been so long since she'd had another atop her like this, hooves around her sides and an underbarrel on her chest or back while a toy or cock was hilted in her, the thick shaft spreading her whole passage, the knot spreading her sensitive entrance even more. "Yep. You're...alllll the way in me to my cervix..." Amaya cooed, feeling waves of pleasure tingle up her spine each time her muscles squeezed down, very much enjoying finding something to grip tightly this time. The pony topping her she enjoyed even more, however, alongside the knowledge that true relief was near. All that fake cum in the pump wasn't just for show after all.
"T-That doesn't hurt?" Twilight asked, wincing as she thought of having that thin tip tapping at her own cervix.
"N-no, it feels wonderful! F-fuck me now Twilight, please!" Amaya begged, panting heavily as her need started to grow again, squirming and trying to rock her hips, but the knot held her in place. Amaya didn't want to beg, but the burning in her belly, the feeling of being spread wide but not bred, the 'griffin tom' still and not moving inside of her, was too unpleasant to withstand. "FUCK...ME! PLEASE...I'M BEGGING YOU...F-FUCK MY BRAINS OUT AND CUM IN MY PUSSY! I'M IN HEAT...I N-NEED IT!" she barely managed to cry out between pants, her whole body like a coil wrapped too tight, feeling like she was soon to snap.
Slightly surprised at the outburst, Twilight pulled back with some effort to get the large knot out, that in itself earning a deep moan from Amaya, only to instantly, roughly slam back in to just before it. "Sure thing beautiful..." Twilight cooed, earning a shuddering breath from the pinned thestral.
Amaya felt another kind of warmth rush through her at the compliment, welling in her cheeks. <Twilight...thinks I'm beautiful?> Amaya thought, only to a moment later give a choked cry as she finally felt the stimulation her body so needed, a strong shiver of pleasure going through her as her pussy muscles clamped down on the toy, Twilight's hips starting to unsteadily, roughly, rock. <Well, it truly is her first time. Good thing I need to be rutted hard anyhow.> "T-thaaaaaaank you!" Amaya moaned out, her pants increasingly interspersed with pleased moans or coos, her hips rocking back against each now-rapid, clumsy thrust Twilight gave her.
"How am I doing?" Twilight asked, her thrusts slightly jagged and out of tempo.
"F-fuck...gooooood...b-but s-smoother...?" Amaya moaned out, her passage clenching down gratefully, her body thanking her for finding a partner with another surge of pleasure. It wasn't her best lay ever, but it was certainly getting the job done. Already she felt a pressure slowly welling in her pelvis, the coil of frustration and needing tension from before loosening as she relaxed and let herself be bred, but a different kind of pressure tightening just a bit more; her body starting to tense up in a good way now. A way that promised release and satisfaction soon.
Twilight nodded, slowing slightly to adjust herself to make her hips roll more smoothly, this earning another throaty, satisfied moan from Amaya. Remembering her own need as she felt her tail remaining flagged and her fluids trailing down her legs from her winking slit, she grabbed a nearby stallion dong in her levitation. After looking it over and approving of the size, she ground it against her soaked entrance, lubing it up, before pressing it into herself with a contented grunt and starting a matching pattern with it to the humping she was giving Amaya.
The room was once more filled with wet smacks of sex, and the grunts, groans and moans of two very horny mares seeking and finding pleasure, giving themselves to the other. They continued on in their delirium of debauchery, Twilight thrusting in time to the hilting thrusts she was giving herself with the dildo, until Amaya's pants became gasps and deeper moans, her body starting to shiver strongly. "T-Twi, I'm c-close again! This one's gonna be HUGE! P-Put...knot...C-CUM IN ME!" Amaya stammered out, unable to speak properly, let alone think, as her hips rocked harshly back onto the knot, wanting so badly to feel it spread her outer and inner entrances both and penetrate her deep; to feel it cum in her deepest depths and extinguish her heat, then keep it all inside of her.
Twilight complied, slamming her hips forward, the knot resisting going into Amaya's tightly-squeezing passage even as well-lubed as her entrance was, before finally it locked in with a particularly loud schlick. As she felt her pelvis meet Amaya's back end, Twilight quickly stepped down on the pedal, watching the tube between it and their joined crotches going from clear to white. "That's right...you're gonna be my dirty little mare now...I'm gonna make your insides aaaaall messy with my cum..." Twilight cooed, getting an idea from Amaya's earlier dirty talk of how to do it right.
As she turned her head and watched in a daze as the tube slowly filled with pseudo-cum, hearing Twilight talking dirty to her properly now, Amaya finally felt that cold, filling, thick, and utterly relieving and instinctively right sensation entering her, then she pulled her head back at the sensation splashing deeply into her belly, knowing it was pouring right into her womb as the pointed tip of the dildo was pressed gently against her cervix, cupped by it, and the stream after stream making her feel utterly, contentedly filled up. The faux cum was washing her whole tract just like it had when she'd actually done it with a griffin tom, bringing back some rather pleasant memories. As she felt her uterus gently expanding to fit it all, Amaya groaned at the sensation, her whole body trying to milk more and more 'seed' from the toy as she constantly rippled and clenched down on it, rewarded for her efforts by more thick pulses.
As Twilight kept pumping her back hoof onto the petal in a rhythmic pattern, she felt Amaya tremble and tense with each press of it, feeling her muscles tugging at the toy as though to draw it even deeper. She felt a deep kind of contentment at giving this kind of relief to Amaya as she pumped more and more of the thick fluid into her, hearing the completely satisfied moans and coos from her. "Mmm, I'm cumming in you Amaya...and we didn't use a birth control spell..." Twilight growled softly into Amaya's ear, "You're gonna get knocked up with my foal..."
The strangeness of that statement coming from a mare's voice, the utter bliss of the thick, icy-cold liquid stretching her passage and womb all being held in by the dildo's knot, and the feeling of Twilight still weighing heavily on her, all accumulated to make Amaya cum for the third time in a chain for the first time ever, letting out a sheer bellow of pleasure as some of the most intense, deep pleasure she'd ever been subjected to washed through her as she looked deep into Twilight's eyes for a moment before her eyes were forced closed again by the sensations. This was something she never felt before with the mares or stallions she had a one-night stand with. This wasn't the shallow pleasure she got from them simply filling her up and just relieving her instinctive needs.
This was something entirely new, something physically and emotionally deeper than that, and she loved it.
Twilight softly licked and nipped along Amaya's neck and chest as she was reduced to a blubbering mess beneath her, knowing the cumming thestral must now be utterly contented, her heat hugely weakened for now if what she'd said earlier about the pseudo-cum held true. As she heard a soft whimpering and panting, she started to panic a little. <Oh no! Did I hurt her?!> Twilight panickingly wondered, before deciding the best way to find out was to simply ask. "Amaya..." Twilight whispered, a hint of panic in her tone, "Are you...alright?"
As that was asked, Amaya simply looked up at Twilight again with the most utterly pleasured, relief-filled eyes she'd ever seen on a mare, her small, tired smile only complimenting that look. "Mmm...full..." Amaya cooed out, still feeling the dildo and its large knot keeping her whole passage spread open, still feeling the 'cum' packed tightly in her, "...leave it...in for a while...please."
Twilight once more complied, leaving the toy deep inside her guard, feeling through the toy as her body kept kneading it, shifting it around inside of her, and winking along its length. Twilight had been meanwhile using her own dildo while fucking Amaya, even now continuing to slide it in and out of her own passage rapidly, the wet schlicks and squelches of her actions still resonating through the room, and the pleasure coursing through her body. It wasn't as good as when Amaya was on her, but it kept her sated.
"Alright..." Amaya said a minute later, more than a hint of reticence in her tone, "...go ahead and get offa me. It's only fair you get a turn too. You did perfectly...and that thing you said about knocking me up...ugh, that was perfect. Made me cum real hard..." Amaya gave a gentle shudder and a quiet, sad moan as Twilight pulled and forced the knot out of her and the rest followed, instead feeling as the now-warm false semen drooled from her slit and over her slowly winking pleasure button. "Mmm, that always feels so good, the cum drooling out after..."
Twilight's forehooves hit the floor as she dismounted Amaya, the fluids-soaked toy hanging under her still. Amaya reluctantly rolled over and off the bed, feeling the fluids sloshing in her womb and making another pleasant tingle go through her at the sensation. "Mmkay, your turn Twi. What toy do you want?" she asked, waving a hoof over the remaining clean toys. As she noticed how content Twilight seemed with the toy she was currently using, knowing it too contained a cum-tube, Amaya went over to the 'fridge and retrieved another jar of the goopy white fluid. "Right, this load's all yours." Amaya said as she poured it into the receptacle, Twilight once more giving the jar a look-over and finding it was the exact same as what Amaya had used, "You just wanna use that toy?"
Twilight shook her head, despite the 15" toy indeed reminding her very much of Bade's member, the equine shape feeling so utterly right to her, "Any chance I could...try the griffin one too?" she asked, reluctantly pulling the long, black pseudo-cock out of herself and levitating it over to Amaya, "Looks like you had a lot of fun with it."
"So, you just wanna finish yourself off, or...?" Amaya asked, Twilight still wearing the harness.
"Oh, right..." Twilight said, giving a sheepish grin as Amaya took the fluids-soaked toy, using her magic to then remove the harness - only to look up and see Amaya sucking on the toy covered in her fluids. Twilight watched on with a loose jaw and open mouth, her wings flared out above her as she saw Amaya sensually licking her mare-honey off of the toy, something about that combined with her looking her right in the eyes as she did it making Twilight feel an intense surge of heated lust through her.
"Mmm, you taste great Twi," Amaya said, giving her a smirk once she'd cleaned the toy of her emissions, "now, let me go clean this griffin one off and we'll see about ending that burning for you too, hmm?"
"So...it really works, huh?" Twilight asked as she heard the sink water running in the bathroom, the toy undoubtedly being cleaned; she could see how totally calm and docile Amaya was now, as opposed to how stressed and on-edge she'd been earlier.
"Mmmmmhm. My heat's out like a light." Amaya responded as she returned, giving a smile, "now c'mon, let's get rid of yours too." Amaya then took the harness off of the bed and attached the dildo, then attached the cum tube. "So, wanna do it pony-style again?" Amaya asked, but received a shake of the head 'no' from Twilight.
"Actually...any chance I could, um...ride you griffin-style**?" Twilight asked. She'd heard about the position that most griffins used for breeding, in which the female would dominate the male and claim him, taking his seed by force by being on top of him and holding him down with her front talons, controlling the mating herself and forcing him to knot her only when she chose to. Despite this sounding like a barbaric practice, Twilight had also learned that it was usually completely consensual despite the roughness, and that it was simply their traditional mating method. She'd also learned that it was also commonly practiced by ponies too.
"Oooh, kinky!" Amaya said with a muzzle scrunched in amusement, "I like your style princess. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've had a mare ride me. Matter of fact, the last one to do it griffin-style with me was an actual griffin hen. She said I was a good lay." Amaya then lay on her back on the bed again, the griffin dildo standing like a tall, proud pink spire off of her belly, glistening with water.
Twilight quickly climbed atop her, facing her muzzle to muzzle, her chest once more grinding against Amaya's as she straddled her back legs. She rose up and placed her hooves onto Amaya's chest to help keep herself balanced, grinding her soaked slit along the length of the toy, feeling the spines on it softly scraping against her lower lips and stimulating her well. "Wow, you're right...that does feel good..." Twilight moaned out, feeling stimulated in a different way than ever before, her winking clit constantly getting rubbed as well.
Amaya meanwhile grinned up at her. "I told you it's an amazing toy..." she cooed, moving her own hooves up around Twilight's croup to help hold her up. After she was balanced, Twilight started to grind in earnest on the toy, before using her magic to raise it up straight into the air, quickly lining it up with her marehood. Her burning need could wait no longer. "...have at it Twilight."
With that, Twilight lowered herself rapidly onto the shaft, letting out a choked cry at the sensation of the short rubber spines on it raking against her entrance then inner walls, with the tapered length spreading her steadily instead of outright like a stallion's did. Within seconds, Twilight's well-lubed passage clasped around the whole toy save the knot, her head tilted back in ecstasy as she squeezed and squeezed on it, before she yanked herself off of it, a soft yelp of pain and pleasure coming from her. "I...thought you said...this only felt good?!" Twilight asked, her marehood tingling slightly now with minor pain.
"Just take it easy there Twi. Those spines can hurt a bit on the way up at first if you're not careful..." Amaya warned, but judging by the sound she just made and what she'd said, Amaya was sure Twilight had learned that, "They're pointed backwards slightly, so don't pull up too quickly."
After recovering from that situation, Twilight nodded. It was something new and unique she got from that toy, that was for sure. This time, Twilight lowered herself quickly on the toy, but much more slowly pulled up, this time not getting that intense bursts of sensations. Instead, the pain-pleasure was much more soothing, much more stimulating than painful. Twilight felt those nubs now rubbing deeply into her hyper-sensitive walls as she clamped down in reaction and sending a mind-blowing amount of pleasure through her, that one rub feeling nearly orgasmic in intensity and making Twilight yelp again. "Oooooh Celestia..." she moaned as she lowered herself again onto it eagerly, her fluids now drooling down onto Amaya's crotch and down her stifles.
"Now you're getting the hang of it...that's right Twilight, just take it slow at first until you can handle more." Amaya said, softly rubbing Twilight's sides with her hooves and watching as the toy sunk into her marehood each time, that being something she really loved about this position. She also noticed how wet her own crotch was getting, her and Twilight's honey mixing as they ran down her own slit. Twilight meanwhile felt herself wetter than ever before, making loud, wet slaps each time she thrust down, before slowly pulling herself up, feeling herself winking near-constantly now with her muzzle pointed to the sky.
Amaya let Twilight continue to rock on her slowly for a while, before introducing her own slow humps to match Twilight's pace, earning soft gasps from her each time, smiling softly. "Is my heat buddy enjoying herself...?" Amaya cooed, feeling as their pace increased, as well as the absolutely adorable little whimpers Twilight was making, feeling her trembling at the seemingly overwhelming sensations she was getting. Amaya remembered her first time with this toy, and had an idea of just how Twilight was feeling.
"I-ha-a-aah-mmmph-'m-f-fine." Twilight managed to force out, her whole body thrumming with the sensations of the dildo, the gentle pain mixed in with the massive pleasure making her pace increase, also making the sensations increase as well exponentially as the spines raked more roughly in her passage at the increased pace. She was speechless, in a world of ecstasy as those tens of tiny spines slid into and delicately dragged along her sensitive insides with each pull out, stimulating her beyond anything a stallion could ever even dream of.
"That's right Twi...go ahead...enjoy it." Amaya encouraged, keeping her thrusts timed with Twilight's drops, making the impact that much deeper and earning a quiet thud each time she impacted on the knot. Amaya made sure she didn't get that part yet. She wanted the first knotting to be special.
Twilight continued, her body singing praises to her, until she hit her first orgasm of that dildo. She let out a very loud whinny as she pushed down hard against the knot, trying to get it all inside of her on instinct, and Amaya was only too happy to help. She pushed up with a sharp thrust, making it pop inside of Twilight, and felt as Twilight collapsed onto her, clearly trembling hard as she came.
As the single hardest orgasm she'd ever had wracked her, Twilight couldn't do anything but lay stiff upon Amaya, silent as she nearly convulsed, her body clamping down hard as she was so widely stretched by the knot. It felt like Bade was flared in her, but only at her entrance while the rest of his shaft filled her up.
It was the most intense thing she'd ever felt.
Amaya, however, wasn't content with Twilight merely having a good orgasm going out. She wanted it to be unforgettable.
"Here comes the load...hope you're ready!" she said, and without waiting for a response she pushed down on the pump, hearing the whirring of machinery inside the machine at the end of the bed, watching the tubes once more grow off-white. She knew exactly what was 'cumming'.
Twilight came again, hard, as she felt that cold fluid washing her womb. She couldn't take it. This felt so utterly perfect - so completely, overwhelmingly, satisfying - that she went slack on Amaya, her body going limp. She couldn't handle it anymore, so mentally and physically exhausted from the multiple orgasms and extreme stimulation, that she'd passed out.
When Amaya felt her go slack, she panicked a bit. "Oh buck, did I fuck her to death?!" Amaya panickingly asked herself, rolling over so she was on top, before pulling the knot out with some effort, following it with the rest, some of the cum oozing out. She heard Twilight still breathing heavily through her nose, which alleviated some of her fears. "Oh thank the Sun, you just passed out..." Amaya said, calming down a bit. This wasn't the first mare she'd had pass out while having sex with her, with it happening twice before, though it was very rare for just normal sex to do it. Generally it was only when she used hardcore bondage and orgasm denial with them...
As she left Twilight to sleep and recover in her fluids-soaked bed, Amaya meanwhile cleaned the dildos and harness, putting them back in their appropriate place on her shelf or in her closet, alongside putting the others that had been on the towel on the floor back too. She also took a quick shower, cleaning herself of her and Twilight's cum, as well as the pseudo-stallion-sauce that she could still feel weighing pleasantly heavy in her womb and passage. After that was done, she went and got a good, long drink, bringing a pitcher of water for when Twilight woke up. As much as she'd cum, she'd need it.
When she looked upon Twilight's sleeping visage, Amaya couldn't help but notice her lips. They looked so beautiful. She wanted to kiss her so badly. Amaya, instead of doing as she wished and kissing her, simply sighed and looked away. She'd promised not to make this romantic, and she was an honest mare. Instead, she simply went and sat, waiting for her to wake up.
Twilight awoke about an hour after she'd passed out, her throat burning with thirst. Her body was still gently aching from the exertion she'd put on it, the multiple orgasms she'd had and constant tensing not helping much either. She felt something she hadn't felt in a couple days now though: her heat was quelled. Her belly was, figuratively, purring like a contented kitten, with her feeling a gentle weight in her lower belly like when she'd finished with Bade and the burn of her heat only slighty there. "Wow...what happened?" Twilight asked. Despite being such a short nap, she felt quite rejuvenated, and as she had drank the whole pitcher of water on the table d'nuit next to her, she felt that much more so.
"Well, you kinda...passed out. You were gasping pretty hard there when I put the fake cum in you, so I think your brain simply wasn't getting enough oxygen or something. Or I'm simply too much for you." Amaya responded as Twilight drank, sneaking in a small grin.
"Well, that certainly was...quite the experience. Thank you Amaya." Twilight said, still remembering just how good those nubs and knot had felt, "Dang, I might have to get myself one of those griffin toys!"
"Hah. Yeah, you sure enjoyed it enough! Just try not to pass out when you use it!" Amaya teased, giving an even bigger smile. "So, now that our heats are gone for now, what'd you wanna do?"
Twilight thought about that for a while. She'd been meaning to catch up on reading more, but... "Well, how about we go to Ponyville Park and have a picnic with Spike? I can lock up the castle, and we can all have a day out." Twilight suggested, it being a while since she'd had a week without any princess tasks. Estrus week was rarely a very busy time for anypony though, most ponies sating their needs and most businesses giving their employees a break during it, all of civilization slowing down for their bestial needs.
"That sounds wonderful Twilight." Amaya said, even though she had a nagging feeling of something, her thoughts once more drawn to Bade. Her heart felt torn for some reason as she stood there with Twilight, but thinking about Bade as well. Finally, she sighed. "Twilight, we should tell Bade we slept together."
Twilight simply nodded. "You're absolutely right, I was going to anyways. I mean, it's not like we're dating or anything. It was just for our heats after all."
Amaya sighed again, that tearing feeling in her chest only increasing. "Yeah...just for our heats..." she said glumly, before going to get ready for the picnic.
How Amaya wished she had kissed Twilight earlier was all she could think about as she got in her armor, ready to protect her charge from whatever the world threw at her. But inside, she felt conflicted.
Amaya knew Bade and Twilight were a couple, and that she'd basically seduced her best friend's mare-friend out from under him. She hoped he wouldn't hate her for it. As the lust and need was now cleared for the moment, she could only feel some regret... and something else.
Every time she thought of Twilight or Bade, she got a warm, satisfying feeling in her chest, her stomach swirling with a swarm of butterflies. As they walked to the park, she thought about how often Twilight was on her mind. While Twilight read and she stood guard, she thought of how many of her erotica fantasies involved the princess. When Spike played catch with Twilight, Amaya finally realized something with a start.
Finally, when all other possibilities were spent, Amaya sighed as she accepted it, the meaning of it all beyond belief to her.
She realized that, though there were indeed some decent choices of stallions and mares at the heat party, she'd subconsciously chosen to abstain.
That she'd wanted Twilight, and no other would suffice.
As she stood at a distance and watched as she continued to play with Spike as Twilight's silent sentinel, Amaya sighed and whispered something to herself as she realized it.
"Buck...I've gone and fallen head over hooves for Twilight too. I'm sorry Bade..." |
Thestrals at Twilight | Confrontation, Revelations, and Initiation | This chapter contains a lot of arguing, yelling, LOTS of cussing, and general negativity and drama. If you don't like that, feel free to skip, but you'll be missing a lot of important plot, and some sexy times.
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Amaya sighed, feeling nervous butterflies in her stomach as she lay there that afternoon. It was the day after she and Twilight had aided each others' heats, and the burn of her estrus was returning, only adding to her exasperation. Bade was expected to come back at any time, and Amaya knew Twilight would tell him they'd had sex. They'd agreed to, after all. She would tell him that they'd slept together, and that she'd been the one to convince Twilight to have sex while he was away. Amaya couldn't help but feel very guilty as she thought about it more and more, unable to get her mind off of the seeming betrayal she'd done to Bade, despite knowing her instincts and hormones had a heavy hoof in her decisions. Not to mention that it was very common among ponies to do this, even if not thestrals.
Amaya knew Bade follows the old style of Thestral dating and courtship, where it's one stallion to one mare; a deeply trusting relationship between the two forever. Remembering this only made her heart sink further, her wings drooping sadly. "I really bucked up, didn't I...?" she asked her empty room, before hearing the castle's front door open, as well as the deep, sexy voice of Bade floating down the hallway, Twilight's own excited tone at him being back also heard.
"Well...time to go see my to-be ex-friend...and face the executioner..." Amaya groaned while getting up from the bed and walking to the door, heading to the main lobby.
As she came to the lobby, Amaya saw Twilight and Bade embracing, before Bade looked over to her. "Hi Amaya!" he said excitedly, coming and giving her a hug too. When she didn't return it and he noticed her gloomy demeanor, he grew concerned. "Hey, is something wrong?" he asked, looking from Amaya to Twilight and back again, "Ladies?"
"Come, let's go have dinner. I had Spike make your favorite!" Twilight said, diverting the topic, disguising her own unease at the revelation to come, leading the way to the dining area.
"You mean eggplant Parmesan? I love Istallion food!" Bade said happily. Clearly, his time in Canterlot hadn't been too straining.
"Yep, that's it! Well, that and spaghetti, zucchini, and garlic toast." Twilight said as they arrived, the scent of simmering sauce and spices looming in the casual dining area. Covered dishes smelling of delicious food sat on the table, Spike still wearing his pink apron and a white chef's hat.
"Ah, you're here! Welcome back Bade." Spike said, giving a big smile to the stallion he'd come to befriend rather easily. They hung out occasionally, when Bade wasn't patrolling or hanging out with Twilight or Amaya, and even then he was often invited to hang out with the group. "Twilight, the toast should be done any..." A ding from the kitchen stove sounded out, perking up Twilight's ears. "...speak of Discord*...I'd best go get that, then we can eat!" ~
Dinner was delicious as always, Spike having made a rather authentic replication of old Istallion food. Bade satisfyingly patted his belly, having eaten two servings, while Twilight had eaten only a moderate amount herself. Amaya's plate remained untouched, save a few nibbles and shifted pieces of zucchini. Spike had meanwhile left the room to go read his comics, leaving the mare and her two guards alone.
"Something wrong Amaya?" Bade asked again, realizing that Amaya lacked a certain something about her today. She seemed...almost depressed. He could tell she and Twilight were still in their estrus, the faint scent of it on them, but it never usually affected Amaya like this. Indeed, she was usually more talkative than ever during it, as well as always being much more physical with him. A hug here, a teasing bite of the wing or ear there. Bade always chalked it up to her hormones just driving her to be close to him, a stallion, on instinct.
"So, um, did you enjoy dinner? The dish was Amaya's idea..." Twilight said, one of her wings shifting, the ruffling feathers the only sound in the silent room. She could feel the tension radiating off of Amaya, and knew Bade could too.
"Yeah, it was good." Bade replied, but his attention didn't shift from Amaya. "Amaya? Something's wrong with you. You're not acting like...you. You should be asking Twilight to bang in an excited, eager tone and making me mad when I tell you not to. You should be...well, you should at least be eating..."
Amaya winced as he said that, then looked to Twilight and the princess nodded. Amaya gulped. The time had come. "Well, Amaya and I..." Twilight started, but Amaya held her hoof up to stop her. She wanted to tell him herself.
"Well, I may as well just be blunt about it. No sense beating around the bush. Bade, I asked Twilight to sleep with me again, she said yes, and we slept together. I'm so sorry Bade..." Amaya said flatly, her whole body slumped down.
The room was silent for a while, before Bade finally spoke. "So you're telling me you seduced Twilight, when you knew we were a couple?!" Bade asked through gritted teeth, clearly trying to restrain himself. "So...this dinner was, what? A way to bring me up higher just to slam me into the ground even harder WHEN YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE FUCKING MY MAREFRIEND'S BRAINS OUT BEHIND MY BACK?!" Bade's every hard exhale through his flaring nostrils was accompanied by steam, something that only happened when a pony was so angry they were about to charge or buck. Tears were also in his eyes though, showing this stung deep too.
"Bade...I..." Twilight started, confused, but was cut off.
"No. NO, THIS IS NOT OKAY! AMAYA, HOW COULD YOU?!" Bade shouted as he glared daggers at Amaya, feeling his heart twisting, openly crying now, "I-I t-told y-you I l-loved her...and y-you steal h-her away...?" Bade felt betrayed twofold, by his best friend and long-time crush and recently lover.
Amaya simply looked away, her own eyes welling with tears.
Bade then looked with a softer, but still hard, look at Twilight. "T-Twilight? D-do...do you n-not...love me? A-Am I n-not g-good enough f-for you anymore? I sure w-was good enough w-when I was F-FUCKING YOU!"
Twilight was quiet for a moment, recovering from the overwhelming negativity in the room as well as that most recent comment, before shaking her head. "Bade, no. This...isn't like that. Amaya and I are just...'heat buddies'. It wasn't romantic. It was just to end out heats! This is how some mares cope without a stallion around: the 'heat buddies' thing is only for the mating seasons, to ease the mare's heat, then the stallion is with the mare the rest of the year..."
Bade's negativity seemed to lessen a bit at Twilight's confusion, but he still wasn't very happy. He stopped crying, using a hoof to wipe the tears away. "Amaya you already know this but, Twilight, I believe in the old Thestral belief that there's one stallion for one mare. One for each, and those ponies will be married, then trust and love each other forever, their bodies dedicated only to their partner. This...isn't that. Twilight... in my heart, you've betrayed me."
"Now hold your flank right there!" Amaya growled, her protective nature coming to light in Twilight's behalf, "This was mostly my fault! I knew she was in heat, I knew she'd likely say yes, and, worst of all, I knew she was your marefriend." Amaya sighed. "I know it doesn't excuse anything, but hormones are very powerful, and...you have no idea what being in heat can do to a mare. I'm sorry Bade, but I..." Amaya stopped, taking a deep breath, then letting it out in a shudder; "I've felt something for Twilight too, ever since we arrived and I met her. That something grew, and I didn't realize it as I got to know her more. What a great pony she is beneath the sexy exterior..." She stopped to look at Twilight, "...I didn't realize that I was starting to fall in love with her too."
Twilight smiled despite herself, feeling a certain warmth that she always did when Amaya complimented her, or called her pretty. Only now did she realize what that was. She loved Amaya too.
"You've got to be FUCKING KIDDING ME!" Bade exclaimed as he saw the expression on Twilight's face, the clear look of a smitten pony, before standing from the table and galloping off without another word. He slammed through the front door and took off, flying aimlessly as tears once more stung his eyes and blurred his vision.
"BADE WAIT!" Amaya and Twilight both called out, hot on his hooves, but he was long gone and neither had seen where to.
"Fuck. Fuck-fuck-fuck-FUCK-FUCK!" Amaya exclaimed, kicking at the dirt outside and sending an unfortunate rock flying, "This is NOT how I wanted this to turn out! I was hoping we could form a herd or something...I need to go find him and talk to him!" She then unfurled her wings, taking off and leaving Twilight alone.
Twilight, indeed, was feeling numb. This had all escalated so quickly, leaving her heart pounding in her chest with more than just adrenaline. She felt as though she'd lost both a friend and a lover at once. As she walked back into the castle, head held low and wings dragging along the ground, she found she was crying as she walked aimlessly.
As she reached her library, she perked up a little. Her solution to her problems was studying, and this seemed like the perfect way to solve it. Amaya had mentioned something about 'herds', and that may be a possible solution. She started tearing through her piles and shelves of books, throwing books around after a cursory glance, though she soon realized she had no idea what kind of book she was looking for. Her search, however, was interrupted by the door to the library creaking open.
"Bade?!" Twilight asked instantly, but calmed down slightly upon seeing it was Spike instead. Instantly, Twilight scooped him up in her magic and brought him over to her, wrapping him in a tight hug and crying. Spike simply hugged back for a while, letting Twilight use him as an emotional rock for a change.
"I heard shouting, but don't know what it was about." Spike said, softly rubbing his claws along Twilight in soothing motions, "What happened?"
"I...I think I messed up with Bade. Really badly. Spike, can you help me fix this?" Twilight asked, recovering enough to talk coherently.
"Yeah Twiley. You know I've got your back, no matter what." Spike said, smiling, before looking around and seeing the mess Twilight had left. "I see you were looking for something before I came in. What do you need to find?"
Twilight thought a moment, while also admiring her loyal little dragon. "First off, you're the best assistant and friend I could ask for, and second...Amaya mentioned something about me and Bade and she 'forming a herd'. Do you know what that means?"
Spike put a claw to his chin, thinking, before he snapped his claws. "That sounds like a really old tradition. I bet you can find it in 'Pre-Hearth's-Warming-era Pony Behaviors and Traditions'," Spike said, looking through a stack before finding a particularly old one and giving it over to Twilight.
"'Pre-Hearth's-Warming-era'...so these are the more...feral pony behaviors." Twilight said, before skimming through the book.
"So, are you OK now?" Spike asked, getting a nod, then simply leaving her to it with a hug as she said she was.
As she'd expected, Twilight saw the more primitive tribal practices of Earth, Unicorn, and Pegasus ponies laid out, many of which were now outright banned. Among the Unicorn ones, she learned about something called 'herding', and focused her attentions on that. She learned that, in the past, powerful tribal leaders would sometimes 'claim unworthy ponies' from their or other tribes and force them to be their 'broodmate', carrying their master's foals or impregnating their master with foals dependent on the leader's gender, or in general doing whatever they wanted sexually against their will; a sex slave for all intents and purposes, not given the rights of the leader's kin. Eventually, this became a common practice, with all ponies claiming 'broodmates', the world becoming corrupt and hateful, with all Unicorns doing this practice simply to spite the other tribes and steal the prime 'breeding stock' for themselves.
Twilight was a bit panicked at the thought that this may be what Amaya meant, but decided to continue reading further. Amaya didn't seem like the type to want to take or be a slave, after all.
When the Windigos were banished by the three tribe leaders finding friendship with the others, and the tribes united as one, this practice of 'herding' was banished alongside, with all ponies or all tribes being able to willingly intermingle, marry, and interbreed as the individuals saw fit. When Princess Celestia and Princess Luna came into power, however, this practice was resumed with one important caveat: only she and her sister, the two ruling Princesses, were allowed to do it, and that their partners must be willing 'herd-mates'. As she read more about the details, her smile only grew. Surely this is what Amaya had been talking about.
Twilight gave a sigh of relief and closed the book before reading furtherinto the subject in other books, knowing all she needed for now, a small smile on her face. "So that's what Amaya meant!" she softly cheered to herself, hoping Bade would see things differently when she announced that he may not have to choose between them. ~
After a while of searching, Amaya found Bade sitting next to the Celestia statue in the empty town square, looking up at it blankly, clearly deep in thought as a small rain-cloud rained on only him in the otherwise clear day. "Hey..." Amaya said, hoping to clear the air of this.
"Go. Away." Bade said simply, but remained still despite being soaked.
"Right...Bade, we need to talk about this..." Amaya said, before taking a step towards him.
"Talk about what? You stealing Twilight from me? No, we don't need to talk about that." Bade hissed, his tail now swishing in agitation.
"Bade...I didn't mean to...do that. Like I said, I was in heat, I needed relief and so did Twilight...plus you said 'it was soooo hot' when those two mares were 'doing it' in the barracks..." Amaya said, groaning as she kicked a pebble, "...what makes this so much different?"
"What makes this DIFFERENT is that I'VE LOVED TWILIGHT SINCE I WAS A COLT!" Bade snarled, finally turning to glare at her, "Then all of a sudden you love her too, even knowing my beliefs?!"
"Bade...the heart chooses who it wants, not the pony." Amaya said, sighing, "I didn't choose to fall in love with her y'know...plus my hormones didn't help my restraint."
Bade's anger was still simmering, but it had cooled just a bit. "Yeah, fine, whatever. So you slept with my marefriend who you also love now, big deal...." he said sarcastically and spitefully.
"Bade...I..." Amaya said, her gut twisting as she'd made another realization since she'd slept with Twilight. "Bade...I love you too, you stupid foal..."
Bade's eyes widened as though he'd been bucked in the gut. "W-What!?"
"I mean, it just started out as a little thing. I thought how you ate apples was cute when we were foals, then I thought how you always struggled with the third strap on your armor in training was adorable...then...then you hit puberty and went from a scrawny colt with big dreams to a big, handsome stallion actually fulfilling them." Amaya paused, looking away and sighed, "Thing is, I've actually loved you since we joined the Guard together and didn't consciously realize it until now. All those partners I've slept with...they never really satisfied me. I mean, sure, I came sometimes, but sex has always been just to cool my heat. They can't satisfy me, not really. Sex with them feels...hollow. I'm always left wanting...something more after, y'know?"
Bade simply sat there, thinking again. He had not expected this. "Why are you telling me all this?" he asked, not sure what to make of it all.
"Ugh, stallions. You really are kinda dense sometimes...I want to be loved, Bade. I want something more than just some stallion cumming in me, or some mare using a strap-on on me; I want sex to mean something." she said, glaring at a tuft of grass; "But you've always been so enamored with Twilight, you've never even given me a second glance except as some...some perverted, sex-craving sister or something..."
"Amaya..." Bade started, but closed his mouth. He remembered all the special things they'd done together growing up and even just recently, just the two of them, Amaya going out of her way time and again to include him. Each one, as he remembered, seemed almost like a date. If he were paying attention, he'd have seen all the signs; how close Amaya always stayed to him, especially during her heats, and how physical and affectionate she always was with him during them. How often she'd nip him or playfully tackle him at random. How often she'd given him an affectionate kiss on the cheek or nose that lingered for just a bit longer than expected. How often she'd 'subconsciously' flagged her tail and occasionally 'winked' to him, time and time again, even outside the breeding seasons.
Amaya simply glared at that poor tuft of grass, years of subconscious frustrations made manifest finally pouring out; "...but nooooo, it was always Twilight, and only Twilight. Never Amaya, no matter how hard I tried!" Amaya said, her voice trembling as tears came to her eyes, rolling down her muzzle and to the ground.
Bade was stunned as he saw her crying. He'd never seen her cry before, the tough mare always stalwart no matter what happened. Now, as she sat there with shoulders slumped, a constant dripping of tears rolling from her muzzle to the ground, he was baffled.
"N-no matter how much I l-loved you, Bade, you'd never l-love m-me back..." Amaya said, herself surprised at how upset she was over this.
Bade wasn't sure how he could have been so blind to Amaya's feelings towards him for so long. Ever since they were foals, he'd focused on her as a close friend and nothing more, more focused on his studies and getting into the Guard than anything else, then Twilight. Now, as the dam of repressed emotions finally broke with her, Bade was awash with them, not sure how to react.
"Amaya, I..." Bade started, only to be interrupted as he saw a form flying towards them, Twilight landing beside them with a saddlebag on. She had a smile on her face, beaming really, as she did.
"I think I found a solution." Twilight said, using her magic to reach into her saddlebag and retrieve an old-looking tome.
"Huh?" Bade and Amaya said, unbelieving, as the raincloud continued to pour on Bade's head. Eventually a grey pegasus with a messy blonde mane and bubbles as a Cutie Mark flew in, sheepishly interrupting.
"Sorry about that...my bad." she said, corralling the rogue cloud, "This one got away." And like that, she was gone once more, taking the cloud with her.
Shaking her head, Twilight recovered from that random interruption, grateful for it nonetheless.
"Anyways, something Amaya said earlier before she came to find you struck a chord with me, and I did some research." Twilight said, opening the book held in her telekinetic grasp, "As a princess, I have an inherent right to a royal herd, 'in order to spread the superior bloodlines those holding the position of Princess carry'. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna enacted this thousands of years ago, allowing any princess, including me, then extended to any high noble, to have and marry as many willing partners as they wish! Bade, Amaya, I don't have to choose! I can love you both! We can all three be in a herd together!"
Amaya and Bade both subsequently facehoofed. "Twilight...in modern times, a herd sharing one stallion to multiple mares is legally permitted and happens all the time within the general population, not just nobility, given the lack of colts being born recently..." Amaya started.
"...and the subsequent disproportion of stallions to mares, and sires for foals by proxy. The world wouldn't have enough foals if it were only one stallion to one mare, or if some stallions didn't...'donate' sperm for single mothers." Bade finished, a revelation coming to him as he said that. That some mares would never know the love of a stallion...
Twilight blushed, looking away. "Well, I always wondered why there were so many groups of 'friends' who seemed to act like they were more than just friends...they probably were." she said, following it with a nervous chuckle, thinking of her own five best friends who acted much closer than just friends...and likely were. It would seem being a bookworm shut-in, followed by becoming a very busy Princess, would leave any mare unaware of the modern, especially romantic, social norms.
"So..." Amaya broke in, "What do we do now? We have a classic love triangle and the possibility to be in a herd, but our stallion thinks there should only be one stallion to one mare. Whatever shall he do?" She looked to Bade, though not with contempt nor begging, but instead an expecting look.
Bade sighed. He knew he'd always felt a certain closeness towards Amaya, but he'd always sensed it as a brotherly relationship, a type of platonic love. He, however, couldn't help but remember all the fantasies he'd had of her when he'd smelled her heats in the past, rubbing himself to orgasm while thinking of pumping her full of his seed over and over while she begged for his foal, the same fantasies as he'd had of Twilight.
"I...I..." Bade stammered, both mares' fertile scent rolling through his mind, making him consider something he had never before: he could have both. He could have both mares, both lovers, and it was OK. He didn't have to choose!
"Oh c'mon Bade..." Amaya said, rolling her eyes. She could see the desire in his eyes as he looked over both sexy mares in kind, seeing his nostrils flare, "...you know you love and want to be with us both, and you know we both love you and want you too. All you gotta do is say 'yes'. Plus...you've kinda got a boner."
Twilight gave a small nod in agreement, her eyes focused on that spire she had taken twice before, and hoped to have many times more...and this time share. "Bade, Amaya, I love you both. You treat me like a pony, not just a title to earn. You both love me for who I am, not what I am. I want to share this with you forever. Bade, Amaya, will you join my herd?"
"Yes, Twilight, I will." Amaya said instantly, smiling happily.
"I...I need to think about this. I mean..." Bade said, looking away from the two mares.
"Of course. Let's go home first though." Twilight said, getting a nod from him. Twilight touched her two companions and, with a flash of violet light, the trio were in the foyer of the castle. "Take all the time you need."
Bade nodded, then walked away, presumably heading for his bedroom. "So, what do you think he'll decide?" Amaya asked, looking to Twilight.
"I don't know, but he has to decide it for himself." Twilight said, giving a sigh.
"Yeah, but...Twilight? I wanted to let you know...if Bade does choose only you, I'm OK with that. It wasn't right for me to do what I did, and I only hope he and I can still be friends after this." Amaya replied, no matter how much the words stung to say.
"Thanks Amaya." ~
Bade lay in his chamber, hugging a pillow and deep in thought. He thought about how his, admittedly loosely-held, beliefs were from long, long ago, and from a species who always had one male birth to each female born; always one stallion for one mare. Bade sighed. He knew that Ponyville wasn't the most friendly town to Thestrals, and knew how unlikely it would be for Amaya to find a true love otherwise. He also knew the shortage of males in general in Equestria. Heck, Amaya couldn't even find a stallion she liked for her estrus for pony's sake! The thought of Amaya being alone for the rest of her life, such a wonderful mare without a life mate, made his stomach twist.
After a few hours of deliberation, Bade finally came to a decision. He stepped into the reading room where they always tended to congregate, indeed finding the two mares waiting for him. "Y-yeah." Bade simply said after taking a deep breath, nodding as he said it. This felt right to him. He wanted this, more than anything. He wanted them both, and couldn't simply choose. He loved both of them, and had since he was a colt even if he hadn't realized it. "Yeah, I think I...we, can try this herd thing."
"Are you sure?" Twilight asked, looking him right in the eyes. "You can take more time if you need to."
Bade met her eyes, then nodded again. " I don't need more time. I love you both, and can't see myself living the rest of my life without either of you. I love you both so much...but...can we kiss first? I...I need to be sure. Especially with you, Amaya."
Both mares smiled as he agreed, then at his request, Twilight met his lips with a kiss once more. As always, it simply felt right to Bade, letting him know she was indeed a mare he loved. After their kiss ended moments later, Amaya looked to him and he nodded, earning a wide smile from her. As she then kissed him, Bade felt her hoof wrapping around his neck, pulling him in tighter, the fires of her passion made very obvious. As though she'd been wanting to do this for years. He felt pleasure surge through him as he held his long-time admirer close, holding her in a way he'd have never imagined. She didn't feel like a sister to him now, she felt like a lover; somepony he felt deeply for and held dearly, but also whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
After that extended kiss ended, Twilight looked to Amaya, both grinning knowingly. Without delay, Amaya then took Twilight into an embrace, pressing their lips together for the first time. As she did, Twilight felt the same passion from her as Bade had, feeling her heart pounding against her chest as they lovingly kissed, her senses overtaken by the mare's unique scent and flavor. Amaya felt no guilt as she kissed Twilight, no sense of betrayal as Bade had condoned it and in fact watched as the two mares, his two mares, kissed. Amaya and Twilight both felt that same connection they had had in the bedroom, the closeness that wasn't a simple friendship: it was love.
As this kiss too reached its end nearly a minute later, Bade was slack-jawed, his member painfully hard both from the two mares making out right in front of him, and because both of said mares were in estrus, their spicy, musky scents combining to make his cock reach new levels of hardness.
He could have them both. He did have them both. He was their herdmate.
"So..." Amaya said, flanking Bade to his right, trailing her tail along his flank and down to his stifle, its tip swirling over his Cutie Mark, "Whatever shall I do about my new herd-mate's not-so-little...problem?" Amaya asked, her tail's tip then trailing down his stifle, then under his barrel, teasing his turgid shaft, earning a quiet whimper from him.
"W-wait...seriously Amaya?" Bade asked, squirming away from her probing tail, "I know you like sex, but we just...kinda had a moment there. Should we maybe...cool it for now?"
"Well, according to the book, acceptance of a member into the herd, or the formation of the herd, was usually accompanied by the new and existing members physically, carnally dedicating themselves to each other." Twilight read, the old tome once more being closed.
"Oh...you mean..."
"Yep. With an orgy, or at least one-on-one sex, among the whole herd. If the mares are in estrus, or soon will be, it says...the stallions are to give the mares a foal immediately." Twilight said, sliding the book into her book-bag. As she noticed Bade's unease at that thought, she shook her head. "We don't have to have foals right now though, Bade. I'm sure the modern laws regarding herds are very different."
"Yeah, they are." Amaya replied, "We don't have to have a foal by you unless we both choose to Bade. Also, despite me really wanting to 'sanctify this relationship' with you Bade, we don't have to do anything if you are uncomfortable. We could just get to know each other better..."
Bade and the others were quiet for a while, each seemingly respectively thinking it over, before finally Bade nodded.
"Well, what kind of herd stallion would I be if I didn't satisfy my mares? Besides, we can stop at whatever stage we want to." Bade said, smiling to the two mares; still trying to absorb the fact that they were both his herdmates.
"So..." Twilight replied, coming up on Bade's left, "...Amaya, what should we do with him?" she asked, her grin matching Amaya's, both of their tails flagged up behind them and showing their obvious need, only saturating the area more with their fertile scent and making Bade's still-hard member throb.
Bade gulped.
"I can think of a few things..." Amaya replied.
With a flash of violet light the trio were suddenly in Amaya's bedroom, all three laying on the bed, Bade on his back and a mare to either side of him. The reason Twilight had chosen this destination was soon made clear, Amaya's toy collection on full display. "Much better...now Bade, just lay back, relax..." Twilight started, trailing her muzzle down his barrel, making him shudder.
"...and let us take care of our herd stallion." Amaya finished, positioning herself so she was behind him and between his back legs, working her way from a stifle to his thigh, closing in on the same prize Twilight was as she'd arranged herself the same way.
"G-gals? Are you sure about this?"
"Well I am. " Amaya stated simply, smiling a sexy little smile up at Bade.
"Me too. After all, we have to share now...." Twilight continued, sharing the sensual gaze.
"...so we may as well validate our herd now, right?"
"Mmm, and you both can claim this bat-pony as your mare too?"
Bade gasped as he felt a muzzle on either side of his shaft, the alternating gentle cool of inhale followed by the warmth of exhale of two mares sending his sensitive spire's nerves into overdrive, the scent of two fertile mares only adding to the sensations all that much more.
"I know!" Twilight said, Bade looking to her expectedly.
"Y-yeah?" Bade asked in his daze. He couldn't be sure of anything anymore, his mind so mixed up at the moment he didn't know what to think.
"We could both share him....right now." Twilight responded, getting a nod from Amaya.
"That sounds like a wonderful idea." Amaya said, before trailing her wet, hot tongue up Bade's whole length, Twilight following suit until their tongues met at his flare. Bade watched and felt this all happening, a hoof on either mare, as they both met his eyes, taking half his flare each. Bade felt both of their tongues and lips on his stallionhood, licking and softly kissing it, a truly indescribable feeling.
"W-wow, you...both want me? Like, together?!" Bade asked, overwhelmed by the situation. He'd expected to have sex with both of them eventually upon agreeing to try this, but certainly not within five minutes of said agreement, and certainly not both at once!
"Well, we're both in heat, right? We've still got about two days of it left, and we both need to be satisfied..." Twilight said, smiling seductively.
"...and oh shoot, we've only got one stallion...whatever will we do?" Amaya asked in an overly-dramatic tone, feeding off of Twilight's lust, it fueling her own.
"Amaya, you can go first...I've had him twice before. He tastes quite good." Twilight said, grinning up at Bade.
"Oh, with pleasure...for him." Amaya said with a fanged smile, "It's so polite of you to be all nice and hard for me already..." That earned a throb from his member. "...after all, how could I please you if you weren't?"
As she watched Amaya sniffing and rubbing Bade's cock with her hooves, slowly working him up more and earning a couple humps from him, Twilight couldn't help but feel a bit of primal jealousy; that this was her stallion, and Amaya was taking him. Before she let that thought fester, she stamped it out though. Amaya, Bade and she were in a herd together, indeed her having offered it and both of them accepting.
Amaya stopped servicing Bade and looked to Twilight, nodding her head."Twilight, I thought I should tell you and Bade something else about herding. Basically, there will be an 'alpha couple' that will dictate everything that goes on in the herd...and that's including who would be allowed to breed and have a foal. Traditionally, the alpha stallion and alpha mare would lead the nomadic herd to their next destination, but in a more modern sense...well, it could just means they'll be planning dates and outings and the like, as well as, as said, when to have foals. I choose Bade as the alpha stallion, and elect you as the alpha mare. So, Twilight, does this mean I have to ask you before having sex with Bade, and ask your permission to have foals with him if I choose to in the future?"
Twilight nodded. "He has to agree to have sex too, obviously, though I think casual sex agreed on by you two only is fine. At least by me it is. But about having a foal...I'd appreciate being asked. After all, we're all in this together, right? Including sharing foal-care duties."
"That sounds fine." Amaya said simply. She truly didn't have a problem taking second fiddle to another. After all, Twilight was already a princess and could tell her what to do regardless, herd or no. She then looked up to Bade. "So, this all is OK with you?"
Bade's cock throbbed.
"I'll take that as a 'hell yes'?
Bade nodded, still looking a little intimidated as he saw both mares staring at his cock.
"Great! Now then..." Amaya said, before starting to service him again. Bade moaned as she gave his length long licks, Twilight meanwhile giving his twins some attention, gently rubbing his balls in her magic.
"Oh...my gosh..." Bade moaned, not having expected that extra stimulation on his balls as well in addition to the hot, wet mouth sliding down his flare and steadily lowering itself. His hips started rolling in their instinctive pattern, his whole body thrumming with pleasure and satisfaction. The same intense feelings, he realized, that he felt when Twilight was doing this for him. The feeling of being loved.
Amaya meanwhile hummed happily, stimulating the stallion she'd long loved in a way she'd wanted to do for many, many years. She knew Bade would appreciate the added vibrations, hearing another sharp gasp from him as she continued humming a little tune, meanwhile slowly sinking her muzzle deeper on his shaft. Amaya was nothing if not experienced, her longer-than-average tongue expertly surrounding Bade's upper shaft, slathering it with saliva as the warm, prehensile appendage snaked along it. The taste of his pre-cum saturated her senses with 'male', driving her breeding instincts higher, her need growing.
Sensing Amaya's need and smelling her growing arousal, as well as seeing her winking constantly and her slit drooling onto her bed, Twilight smiled, grabbing a larger stallion toy off the shelf. Amaya gasped around Bade's cock as she felt the toy grinding against her pussy, accompanied by the tingle of magic encasing it, instinct making her grind back in kind against it. Seeing the willingness from Amaya, Twilight slid the toy along her slit for a short while more, before prodding at her entrance with it.
"You want me to put this in you Amaya?" Twilight asked teasingly, noticing Amaya pushing her hips back, trying to get the toy inside her slick entrance, but Twilight denied it by pulling it back.
"P-Please..." Amaya asked, taking her focus off the soft bobs she was giving Bade and begging her new mistress for some relief.
Twilight didn't hesitate after consent was given, sliding the toy into Amaya effortlessly and earning a deeply pleasured moan from her as the toy slid deeper, Amaya aiding its passage by pushing her hips back eagerly. Twilight, upon hilting the dong in her, started a pattern of short, quick thrusts, keeping much of the toy in Amaya as she watched her going to town on Bade again.
Bade meanwhile was moaning softly with each bob of Amaya's head on him, amazed she was taking his whole length into her throat on occasion, though wasn't surprised given how many partners she'd bragged about having. He felt the same tingles of pleasure as he had with Twilight going down on him in the past, his pheromone-ridden mind amplifying his pleasure as his long-time friend and new lover gave him head.
He felt her tongue snaking around his upper shaft and flare, playing over the ridges his flare had, his cock rewarding her with large globs of pre-cum, Bade and Twilight both hearing the loud gulps as she swallowed each one he gave her. Those gulps, along with the loud, wet slurps and satisfied humming vibrating his whole length, were almost as sexy to Bade as seeing and feeling her going down on him.
Bade then watched as Twilight took a sizable stallion dildo from the shelf and placed it to Amaya's raised rump, and asked if Amaya wanted it. Upon him hearing Amaya ask for it, then watching the wanton princess make the silicon length disappear into the other mare, Bade's cock gave a series of hard throbs in Amaya's muzzle at the sheer sexiness of that scene, the deeply pleasured moan coming from Amaya only adding to it all.
Amaya felt as she was filled up both in her mouth and dripping marehood, reminding her of that threesome she'd had with those two Earth Pony stallions from Appleloosa. The taste of a stallion, along with being filled up from behind while in heat, made her baser mind contented. Her body rocked back on the pseudo-cock in her pussy while servicing the stallion in front of her, feeling him pulsing and pulsing, only making her continue to blow him.
Twilight, meanwhile, still felt that jealousy as she watched Amaya sucking her shared stallion, but she repressed it, instead focusing on how sexy it was instead. She'd meanwhile summoned her own choice of dildo from the shelf, a thick zebra model, and slid it home into her burning marehood, giving a deep, contented moan as she stuffed herself full and quickly got to work rutting herself with it.
This went on for a while, Amaya pleasing Bade while being pleased in kind, Twilight satisfying herself, not a word spoken among them as they knew now was not a time for talking, but action. After a good number of minutes, Amaya felt Bade's flare starting to swell, his return humps into her muzzle growing more aggressive; that instinctive habit of a stallion wanting to get as deep as possible to ensure his seed would take telling her he was getting very close. As Amaya noticed that, she pulled him out of her mouth and quickly gestured to Twilight to come to her, with Twilight knowing from Bade's struggled moans and sounds he was fighting hard to keep his load in.
"Wanna share?" Amaya asked in a syrupy-sweet tone drenched with sexuality, Twilight herself giving a shiver at that voice. Knowing exactly what she was talking about, Twilight nodded, before both mares then started licking all over his flared length, feeling its throbs increasing in tempo.
"G-Gals, I'm...really close..." Bade warned, but that only made the licks that much more eager, both mares looking into his eyes as they shared his length once more, knowing they'd be soon to claim their prize.
It didn't take long. Bade, overstimulated from the feeling of two tongues licking his length, one focusing on his swollen flare while the other traced his medial ring, finally couldn't hold it in anymore. "C-Cumming!" He moaned out, just as the floodgates were loosed.
As Amaya felt Bade's cock going stiff and throbbing, she pulled Twilight's head up, making her take the first, heaviest load to the muzzle. The next shots of cum came quickly as Bade felt the ecstasy of orgasm once more, his hips shifting as he painted Twilight's purple muzzle white instead.
Twilight was initially stunned at the feeling of Bade's hot cum on her muzzle and face, but quickly got into it, knowing that Bade was marking her as his; suffusing her fur with his scent. After the first few shots, Amaya directed Bade's cock towards herself, taking the next thick globs on her own muzzle and face, one particularly powerful one even going into her mane and across her right eye, forcing her to close it. Twilight meanwhile had once more softly grabbed Bade's balls in her magic, gently kneading them, coaxing out everything he had to give them.
Finally, Bade's throbs slowed and his streams of cum became smaller and smaller, until finally it was but a dribble, at which point Amaya had taken his swollen flare into her muzzle to suck out the last of his load. Both mares were well-coated in the seed of their stallion, something Bade quickly noticed. Amaya's grey coat was matted with globs and streaks of his off-white foal-batter, Twilight's lavender coat sharing the same fate. That sight alone nearly made Bade want to cum again.
"O-oh my b-buck that was...s-so hot..." Bade stammered out, his mind overloaded by the situation.
Twilight and Amaya simply grinned a sexy grin at him, before looking to each other. Amaya was the first to act, licking along a long strand of cum on Twilight's muzzle, before bringing her into a deep kiss, the glob of virile sperm shared between them as they made out. Again, Bade would have cum again at that sight if he had any more to give.
"So, I'd say that qualifies as 'initializing carnal unity'." Twilight said, still panting, before swiftly realizing that both she and Amaya were still filled with toys and she was very horny, and no doubt her mare herd-mate was as well. "But...Amaya...I think you and I should try that double-ended one again, just to ensure it? Bade can watch...or more."
Amaya eagerly grinned as she reached over and grabbed the double-ended glass toy they'd used previously, grinning eagerly at the prospect of being satisfied once more.
"I'd...really like that..." Bade said, watching as the two mares set up, facing away from each other as Twilight slid the single toys out of them and instead sunk the glass one into herself, Amaya backing up into the other side and accepting it into herself.
"Don't be afraid to get involved Bade..." Twilight invited, looking longingly over at Bade, her face still coated in his stallion-milk. "...after all, we're a herd now..."
Bade simply grinned, feeling Twilight's magic softly rubbing along his length again, before getting up and getting to work on pleasing his mares. His herd. |
Thestrals at Twilight | A Royal Sire | Twilight was running through a meadow on a crisp Summer morning, and she knew that she was chasing somepony; somepony she loved. She kept running at a gallop through the tall grass, but she wasn't scared or even anything negative. Instead, she felt elated and exhilarated, a large smile on her face. As she heard a rustle in a nearby tuft of grass and heard a loud, high-pitched giggle, she charged and pounced blindly at it.
"Got ya!" Twilight shouted, and in response heard a high-pitched squeal of delight. A foal's squeal. Held between her hooves was a small, dark-purple unicorn filly with tufted ears and slitted pupils, purple irises that matched her own in color if not shape. She felt the warmth of motherly love as she wrapped the foal, the filly she knew instinctivly was her foal, in a tight embrace, nuzzling into its chest, rewarded by another squeal - but this one was of sheer, orgasmic bliss--
Twilight was roused from her sleep and blinked groggily as Amaya released another muffled orgasmic cry, holding a dildo's base tightly to her crotch with her forehooves, her stifles locked around her forehooves as she ground against the toy. The entire length of it was undoubtedly plunged deep within her convulsing marehood, Twilight watching as Amaya's orgasm coated the mattress in off-white mare-cum. Amaya meanwhile was then stark still save her rolling hips as she came hard, only the occasional shudder going through her as her head was pressed back hard into the mattress.
Eventually, Amaya calmed as her raging climax finally settled, with her releasing the now-soaked toy from her pussy's grasp, sagging limply to the bed and panting as she recovered. She then looked sheepishly at Twilight, before looking away. "Sorry Twi. The burning was really bad when I woke...I didn't think I'd wake you up. I was really quiet until I came..." Amaya tried to explain, while Bade still laid there like a dead fish. "Heh, hay of a deep sleeper, isn't he?"
"Yeah...next time you wanna get yourself off while I'm sleeping, please go to another room." Twilight said with a huffy whisper, still a bit miffed at having been awoken from that dream; that recurring dream of the deep-purple half-thestral foal, the foal that she could swear was hers. It made her feel so good for some reason, with her having had that dream for the past few nights. It made her feel so...complete...
"Sorry, shouldn't have used that toy. Makes me cum so hard I can't keep my voice down," Amaya groaned quietly in response, still feeling her inner muscles twinging pleasantly on occasion in her afterglow, "It always finds just the right spots to hit to make me squirt hard, don't ya love?" She then affectionately slid a hoof down the toy's length.
Twilight meanwhile rolled her eyes. She then rolled out of bed and did her morning business in the bathroom, hearing the muffled tones of Amaya shifting around, before coming back to see the toy sunk deep into Amaya's pussy once more. Grinning this time, Twilight simply watched for a while, then used her magic to slowly rub Amaya's clit as she lay facing her, earning a pleasured moan from her and making her hips lightly shift upwards on instinct.
Twilight then saw Bade's condition, seeing just how hard he was as he lay on his back, his member standing up proudly. She knew Bade had Amaya's and her own pheromones rolling through him, undoubtedly very horny himself, but didn't really want to awaken him. Instead, Twilight took it upon herself to satisfy him anyways, unable to resist his musky scent and the flavor of male. Her body craved it since she'd gotten her first taste, then several times more over the past day.
"So, why don't you just let Bade ejaculate in you with my protection spell on, Amaya?" Twilight asked, meanwhile watching the named mare's pleasure-blushed face turn to her, her lidded eyes regarding her as Twilight positioned herself with her muzzle between the sleeping Bade's spread legs; "His semen keeps the heat at bay a lot better than his or my tongue or a toy can."
"I...t-told you before," Amaya sputtered, her hips meanwhile grinding her winking slit against Twilight's magic. The toy now shifted inside and out of her without her own hooves guiding it as Twilight had taken over, leaving her struggling for words through the pleasure being brought to her, "I...want my f-first time with B-Bade to be s-special."
"Special...how?"
"I...I g-guess I'll know w-when th-the time c--oh-my-gosh that's g-good! Yeah, keep rubbing m-my clitty!--uh...c-comes."
Bade meanwhile started to squirm in his sleep as Twilight started to lick along his morning wood, the instinctive humps and spasms from him showing how needing he was, as well as how many good spots Twilight was hitting even with her first few licks. Since they'd agreed to become a herd three days past, they'd been spending most of their time here, in Twilight's bed, easing the two mares' needs when they weren't getting a quick meal or resting for their next bout of sex, mostly surviving off of quick-fix foods - sandwiches, salads and the like - since Spike had left.
As she lay there, pleasuring both her mates, Twilight couldn't help but let her mind drift to her last conversation with Spike before he'd left:
"Hey, uh, Twilight. Can I talk to you?" Spike asked, scratching the back of his neck nervously.
"Uh yeah, sure, what's up?" Twilight asked him, seeing his shifting eyes, "Is something wrong?"
"Well, no, it's just...you and Bade and Amaya are...kinda loud when you're...y'know...in your room."
Twilight blushed heavily, looking away. "Oh...that. Sorry Spike..."
"No, no, it's nothing to be sorry for. You're a grown mare, it's mating season, you're in a herd now and that's...just what ponies do in mating season. I'm also not a baby dragon anymore...I'm almost as old as you for ponies' sake! Anyways, I've decided I'm going to stay with the Apples for the rest of the week. Give you three some privacy."
"Spike...you don't have to go..."
"Twilight, I promise, it's OK. I'll see you on Tuesday, when your heat usually ends. There's plenty of quick-fix foodstuff in the fridge for you, Bade and Amaya. I love you Twi."
"I love you too Spike, and thank you."
Spike smirked. "Hey, Twi? Don't have too much fun while I'm gone, though I know you will! Don't strain anything!"
Twilight blushed furiously as Spike walked away smugly.
"Spike!"
Twilight simply shook her head softly as she heard an especially deep moan from Amaya that knocked her out of her thoughts, hearing her shifting in her pleasure, and couldn't help but grin. She could only imagine Spike was giving Apple Bloom much the same treatment as Amaya was getting now, or possibly even more. Surely that beat Apple Bloom suffering through estrus alone, now instead having somedragon who loved her to fulfill her baser needs.
Much like Twilight now had as well, now that she thought about it.
A few minutes later, meanwhile occupying herself by rubbing her own now-burning, slick marehood with a manticore dildo from Amaya's collection--of which she'd tried each variety of toy during their three-day herd union--and slowly licking and rubbing along Bade's length, Twilight watched as Amaya tensed up and started spasming, hearing another restrained cry of sheer bliss coming from her as her magic encased Amaya's rapidly-winking clit and started vibrating rapidly, being rewarded with a huge gush of mare-honey.
Amaya gushed her release onto the mattress once more as her hips ground roughly against her pleasurer, but Twilight didn't mind; her bed was already dirty with their dried emissions of the previous night - their manes, faces, coats covered in mare-cum and semen, and Twilight's crotch and teats, also matted with Bade's dried-on sexual fluids along with her own and Amaya's, her womb still feeling full of Bade's emissions too - so she felt there was no harm in adding more to it before she changed the sheets and showered later.
Eventually, Amaya came down off her second orgasm, looking up at Twilight with loving eyes, before she crawled up to her and kissed her. They held the kiss, and Twilight couldn't help but feel the love in it, until Amaya once more weakly collapsed to the bed, resting.
After recovering a while more, Amaya crawled up beside Twilight and nuzzled affectionately behind her ear as Twilight continued licking Bade's shaft, her magic all the while stroking his cock, Amaya giving gentle kisses on her ear and making it flick. "So, wanna help me give Bade some relief of his own?" Twilight asked, giving a grin to Amaya, and Amaya nodded back.
Bade meanwhile started to stir as Twilight's magic left him and he smelled two fertile, horny mares so near him, telling him just how worked up - and ripe to breed - his herdmates were. He could subconsciously tell that the day had finally come; Twilight was ovulating today and only today, and his instincts were screaming at him to wake up and mount her; to breed her now, before he lost his chance to give her his foal - that every second longer she wasn't filled with his seed was that much less likely for his sperm to reach her egg before it expired. Bade knew from Amaya's scent that she was likely ovulating today too, that fact just making him that much more randy and horny; that he had two willing, fertile mares right here set his lust that much higher.
Both mares soon flanked Bade as they had the first day, but this time they were both behind him instead, their rumps facing each others and two pairs of eyes locked on his throbbing stallionhood. Bade moaned subconsciously as neither mare waited, both teaming up and slathering his shaft in licks. Both looked up at him and watched his eyes, waiting to see when he'd wake up, or if he'd cum all over them while he still dreamed, as he had at least once before. Bade couldn't help but instinctively thrust towards the utterly wonderful feelings occurring between his legs, his hips shifting of their own accord. He still clung to the Dream Realm though, if only barely.
Twilight and Amaya continued licking and lapping at their stallion's member, twisting their bodies so their crotches were grinding together, both moaning softly as they shared their stallion and themselves with each other once more. They continued this for a short while, until Twilight kissed then took Bade's flare into her mouth and started slowly bobbing on him, earning a deeper moan from Bade as she took in his musky, masculine flavor. Amaya meanwhile continued to lick at Bade's shaft and hefty balls, with the latter always seeming nice and plump despite how often he emptied them, whether inside of Twilight's marehood or mouth, into Amaya muzzle, or onto his two mares at the same time, embedding his scent into their fur once more.
Bade was laying on his bed, rubbing an ear of either of his mares as they slathered his shaft with licks and kisses, pleasuring him only gently for now. Both were still in heat, their scents telling all, and both were working to pleasure him and each other just like the days past. This time, however, it was different. After licking him for a while, both stopped, before Amaya, who'd never done this before, kneeled down her front half and flagged her tail aside for him; offering him to mount her.
"C'mon Bade, I want you. I've always wanted you. I want your foal" she said, and Bade only too eagerly mounted her.
"Wow, Bade must be having one hay of a dream..." Amaya observed, seeing Bade's flare swelling even after so little treatment compared to when he was awake as Twilight pulled back for a breath. Of course, him being unconscious, he was running purely on instinct without the restraint he usually held for his mares' pleasure, purely working on his desire to breed. Somehow that thought made Amaya grind harder against Twilight's winking pussy, making the other mare gasp softly at the increased stimulation.
As he mounted her and slid inside, Amaya moaned deeply, with him adapting a fast, feral rutting pace. Faster than he ever had done before with Twilight, his only goal to breed her. He felt his orgasm coming to him after only a few thrusts into her silky depths, only seconds away from filling her fertile womb with his seed--
Bade awoke with a start as he heard an especially loud moan that he identified as Twilight's, as well as finding that the borderline-orgasmic pressure in his pelvis and cock translated perfectly from dream to reality. He looked down to where the wonderful, warm sensations were coming from, seeing Twilight and Amaya were grinding their crotches together as they shared his stallionhood as though it were their very own lollipop, finding himself grinning down at Twilight and Amaya pleasuring him. "Well, it seems every morning I'm waking up to an even better dream." Bade said, feeling his limit quickly approaching, "Gals, I'm getting close!"
Both mares instantly stopped, Amaya following Twilight's lead as she'd slid Bade's member out of her mouth, the fully-flared tip forced out with a wet, audible pop. Bade was equally as surprised.
"Well..." Twilight started to tease in a salacious tone, before she sighed and suddenly her expression and voice became a bit more solemn, her voice and her mood changing suddenly like a record changing tracks, "...it's just too bad our heats will probably be ending tomorrow."
"Hey, that doesn't mean we have to stop having sex just because you two are out of season..." Bade said, giving a small, comforting smile at the sudden change of subject, "...just because you're not fertile doesn't mean we can't still make love."
As he said that, Twilight's ears perked up, an expression of deep thought appearing on her face, before just as soon it was gone. "Well, I guess so...but it won't be the same."
"Well, we go into heat again in a couple weeks, right? This is only our first full heat this mating season, so we can do this again later too." Amaya added, getting a nod from Bade.
"I know, but it won't be our first heat we're sharing together anymore. It's just..." Twilight said, before finishing with a sigh instead. She couldn't explain it, the deep sadness she felt about her heat ending. Ever since she'd started having that dream when they'd become a herd, the one of running through a nearby meadow alongside a foal with a deep violet-blue coat and tufted ears, she couldn't shake that feeling. That she needed to do something about it.
"Just...what? Something's bothering you Twilight..." Amaya stated, easily picking up on that.
"It's just...these past few nights, I've been having a strange dream. A dream of running through a nearby meadow alongside a unicorn foal with a deep violet-blue coat, tuffed ears...slitted purple eyes..." Twilight stopped there, before looking at Bade, "...a pony-thestral hybrid, one that I felt...was mine. My foal."
Bade simply stared at Twilight with a slack jaw and open mouth. The implications were obvious; Twilight, subconsciously, wanted to have a foal by him.
"I mean, it's just a dream, I know, but it feels so real every time! I can feel the soft breeze, the grass under my hooves as I run, the softness of the...my...filly's fur against my nose as I nuzzle into her chest..." Twilight said, a hint of longing in her voice that she didn't expect.
"Whoa, Twilight...it's just a dream." Amaya said, but she couldn't repress the look of understanding in her eyes. She'd been having much the same dreams these past nights as well, except her foal was a male thestral pup with a light-blue mane and mid-grey coat...and accompanied by another foal beside him. A twin sister who looked much the same as him, save her mane and tail were a light gray, her coat slightly darker in tone.
"I know...I know..." Twilight said, shaking her head dismissively, "...anyhow, Amaya, I believe we were starting something earlier, weren't we?"
Amaya grinned, finding that she and Twilight were still slit-to-slit, and responded with a wink of her clit against Twilight's own, which was reciprocated in kind. "Yeah, but I was thinking maybe we could do...something different now? Maybe a sixty-nine?" Amaya asked, before getting a nod from Twilight. Moments later Amaya, as before, took the bottom role while Twilight lay atop her, Twilight leaving her rump totally exposed and facing the still-stunned Bade.
Bade saw the invitation and, still remembering what Twilight had said and what both of his mares had done earlier, felt his stallionhood still painfully erect. He felt a sudden desire to mount Twilight, to pound into and fill her with his seed once more, even if she wouldn't have a foal from it thanks to her contraceptive spell she always cast before. Somehow, that made Bade feel disappointed, that reaction surprising even himself.
Twilight and Amaya were ready, each positioned properly to please their partner perfectly, before Bade suddenly climbed over Twilight and mounted her, giving Amaya a perfect point-blank view at the action from down below.
"Hey! Bade! We were doing something!" Amaya exclaimed, his sudden actions preventing them from proceeding, but Twilight had no such quarrel. Instead, Twilight moaned as she rose her rump higher on instinct, feeling Bade's hooves wrapping around her so perfectly as they always did, his cock grinding between her teats as he unintentionally teased her.
"Mmmm-yeah, mate me Bade...pump me full..." Twilight cooed out, grinding back against him eagerly.
Twilight moaned again as moments later she felt his flare tap against her slit once he pulled his hips back and aimed, letting him feel her clit wink against his flare, inviting him into her fertile passage once more. Bade only too eagerly took that invitation and thrust into his mare's canal, the tightly-clenching tunnel of his lover once more welcoming him in deeper.
"Hey, what am I, chopped carrots?!" Amaya once again grunted as she was ignored, the other two now getting into the proper motions of mating. Amaya looked up and realized just what a great view she had of Twilight getting penetrated from beneath them, the alicorn's clit winking rapidly as she took a stallion into herself once more. "Mmm, helloooooo sexy..." Amaya cooed as she leaned up, getting the perfect point-blank view of her two superiors fucking.
Twilight was awash with relief as she felt Bade penetrate her, her whole body trembling at the feelings of being filled by a stallion once more. Twilight was winking rapidly, a long string of her thick feminine fluid drooling out of her, before dripping down onto Amaya below them. "Damn you're drippy Twi...he must feel really good this time!" Amaya commented as another glob of especially thick mare-honey drooled down onto her cheek, and she was answered only by a deep moan, the two ponies above her still rutting happily.
The wet, squishing sound of sex and the slaps of wet flesh on flesh sounded throughout the room, only further stimulating the three involved ponies. Amaya opened her mouth for the next stream of mare-fluid, accepting it as it drooled right into her waiting maw, the strong, tasty flavor of heated, ovulating mare and the masculine boldness of stallion pre-cum saturating her senses. As she watched Bade thrust into her once more, Twilight's clit answered with a wink, which gave Amaya an idea.
Bade, meanwhile, felt Twilight's incredibly hot, tight foal-tunnel kneading him, only urging him to rut her more; the scent of his fertile mares surrounded him, Twilight's moans of relief and pleasure filling his ears and fueling his lust further. Amaya, meanwhile, reached her muzzle up and started to lick her mates' soaked crotches indiscriminately, earning deeper moans from both of them. Bade's motions sped up as he felt Twilight contracting around him harder when Amaya would target her clit, or stimulated him as she licked his penis when it came out.
"Oh Celestia that's nice Amaya!" Twilight exclaimed as she was being bred while also at the same time enjoying a tongue lapping over her vulva and teats, Amaya meanwhile enjoying the salty-sweet mix of her two lovers' combined fluids.
"Hey Twi, how about returning the favor?" Amaya asked as she paused for breath, and before she knew it she heard the telekinetic hum of Twilight's magic, as well as feeling something distinctly stallionhood-flare-shaped pressing at her back entrance. "Oooo, kinky Twi! I like it!"
As she said that, Amaya felt the toy trail the short distance from her anus to her marehood, Twilight grinding the stallion dildo against her saturated crotch to sufficiently pre-lubricate it, before Amaya found it slowly sliding deep inside of her tight plothole easily, making her moan deeply. With her own stimulation now sliding in and out of her in short, shallow humps, Amaya only too gladly continued to lick and lap at the most intimate joining of her two partners whilst Bade thrust into Twilight more rapidly.
This continued on for a few minutes, Bade all the while huffing and letting out gentle breeding whinnies and whickers to further stimulate his mares, before Twilight felt her climax coming. Instead of embracing it however, she had other plans. "Bade, can you stop and pull out please?" Twilight asked despite her body screaming at her to do the opposite as she felt him flaring up, demanding she have him seed her as he stretched her inner passage wide.
Very reluctantly Bade slowed his rapid humps, then stopped, remaining inside of Twilight's kneading passage for a moment more before finally pulling out. He was initially confused why she'd requested he stop, before something dawned on him; Twilight was now sliding a dildo harness over her crotch.
Amaya immediately noticed too. "Oh goodie! I get to play too?!" Amaya asked excitedly, watching and feeling as Twilight pulled out the toy previously in Amaya's rectum and attached it to the harness.
"I was thinking we could maybe continue now with you mounted on me as we lay on the bed, Bade? So Amaya can be pleasured properly too." Twilight explained, getting a nod of agreement from Bade. "Amaya, why don't you lay on the bed on your back. Then I can mount you dragon-style*, and Bade can mount me from behind."
Nodding, Amaya obeyed without hesitation, laying on her back with her croup on the edge of the bed, her legs spread wide. Twilight meanwhile mounted atop her and gave her a soft kiss on the lips when their muzzles aligned, the sight of the lust in Amaya's eyes making Twilight's own vacated marehood burn and wink with need. It didn't take long, with Twilight and her having used this position a few times the previous days, before Amaya felt the toy's flare once more line up with her back door. With a nod from Amaya, Twilight then thrust her hips forward.
Bade, meanwhile, watched as Twilight mounted and slid into Amaya's ponut again, finding each time he watched them have sex incredibly sexy. His unattended member slapped against his underbarrel, Twilight's fluids cooling and drying on it. "So, um..." he said, before feeling a magical force gripping his cock, gently tugging and him following as Twilight virtually dragged him towards them.
"Like I said Bade, you can mount me from behind..." Twilight insisted, pausing her thrusts to wiggle her rump and flag her tail invitingly, showing her glistening, still-spread vulva teasingly.
Not one to question Twilight's plans, nor wanting to, Bade did as offered and mounted atop Twilight, the bed groaning with his added weight. His glans tapping around her rump only for a moment, Bade quickly found his very warm, winking, heat-swollen target as he then hilted into Twilight's passage once more with a groan of his pleasure. Twilight moaned deeply herself and give a quiet but enthusiastic 'yes' in response, her inner muscles clenching down on his member in a greeting hug.
"Bade, breed me." Twilight asked, nearly begged.
Bade was only too eager to oblige.
The trio quickly developed a pattern; Twilight would thrust into Amaya, then shove herself back into Bade's own thrust, the wet sounds and the scents of sex very prevalent in the room now. The pace and movements would change occasionally, but they always remained in sync, the three ponies working in harmony to pleasure the other two as well as themselves.
"Oh hay, we should have tried this days ago!" Amaya exclaimed, once more taking the full length of the toy up her butt. Twilight then rammed her hips back, jerking the dildo out of Amaya just in time to be stuffed full by Bade. They quickly settled into this rutting, pleasure being shared between them as they went into a state of their instincts ruling them and dictating their pace, simply doing as nature intended and embracing their lust.
As their climaxes were nearing a few minutes later, Twilight's needing love-tunnel squeezing more rhythmically and rapidly on Bade and his member starting to throb larger glops of pre-cum into her as he started to flare again, something occurred to him. "T-Twi...I'mma...cum soon...s-safe...r-right?" Bade asked between thrusts, not knowing if she'd cast the contraceptive spell before he'd awakened.
As Twilight heard that, and Amaya did too apparently, Twilight was silent.
"T-Twi, I'm really close! Do I need to pull out?" Bade asked as he felt the pressure building while he remained hilted and unmoving in her, nearing his point of no return as she still constantly gave strong, rippling squeezes along his whole stallionhood on reflex to his flaring.
Twilight still didn't respond.
"T-Twi, I'm pulling out..." Bade said, pulling his hips back to unsheath himself from her - only to find that he couldn't.
"No...I'm not safe, Bade. I didn't use the contraceptive spell..." Twilight finally answered, before starting to rock her own hips again, stimulating both Amaya and Bade again.
"B-But...what are you doing?!" Bade asked in a panic, trying his damnedest to hold off his orgasm, "If I cum in you...y-you'll--"
"That's exactly what I want Bade. I want to get pregnant by you." Twilight interrupted, maintaining the pace, Bade unable and unwilling to pull away anymore, "I want your foal."
"T-Twi...I thought...we we-ooooh-w-we were supposed to discuss this..." Amaya added, finding it hard to talk as Twilight so perfectly plowed her.
"OK. Bade, I w-wanna feel your s-semen pooling in me and making a f-foal. Is that a-alright with y-you?" Twilight asked, stopping her thrusts and instead grinding her hips against Bade and kneading him inside of her while leaving him hilted again, feeling his throbs increasing in rate, "I can feel you're sooooo cloooose! You wanna ejaculate your foal into my poor, unprotected womb don't you? Claim it for your child?"
"Y-yes Twilight, yes! I want to cum in you...s-so badly...I wanna...g-give you our foal!" Bade said before he even realized he had, so desiring to breed his mare, to watch her belly swell ever since they'd first had sex; swelling with the new life of their foal, their love incarnate.
At Bade's acceptance in the heat of the moment, Twilight started to thrust back on him again at a rapid pace, feeling Bade's flare at its fullest inside her again and stretching her deepest passage; "Amaya, you wanna watch him make me his broodmare?" Twilight asked the mare she was pounding into the mattress, "His f-flare's soooooo big...he's about to p-pop!"
Amaya looked back in a daze as Twilight thrust back onto Bade as hard as she could, hearing their moans and the begging from Twilight coming to a fevered pitch, wanting to see her friend and herdmate be given her foal. "Yeah Twi, I want you to get preggers by him!"
Twilight quickly cast a viewing spell with just outside of her cervix the view, making the inside of her vagina, and Bade's thickly swollen flare visible in a floating magical hologram. "N-now Bade! Ejaculate and inseminate me! P-pump me full of your s-seminal ejaculate and fertilize me!" Twilight cried out, hilting Bade in her as she tipped over the edge herself. Twilight cried out in sheer pleasure as she started milking Bade for his sperm, her inner muscles rippling on him from base to thickly-swollen flare, encouraging this stallion to breed her; to pump her full of his foal.
"Mm-T-Twi! I-I'm...I need to...!" Bade moaned, his back end still held in place by Twilight's magic as he desperately tried to thrust, prevented until Twilight's magic finally failed as she lost concentration on that spell in her orgasmic state. As soon as the magic grasp on him dropped, Bade thrust through her contracting, spasming passage like a feral stallion to get that last bit of stimulation to set him over. He pumped into her rapidly, no rhythm possible when he was so close, finding her orgasm only stimulating him that much more as well as the promise of fulfilling his most base desire of reproduction this time; that she would now bear his foal. Amaya watched as he then slammed himself as far as he could into his soon-broodmare, the thrusts meanwhile driving Twilight into Amaya, before Bade gave a victorious breeding whinny as he hilted himself in her one last time.
"B-BAAAAAADE! Yes-yes-yes-yes-YEEESSSSS!"" Twilight cried out as she felt him pulsing rapidly within her, her body continuing to tightly squeeze him within her, until finally she felt it. Bade went tense on her as she felt a warm, soothing fluid gushing like a firehose into her as his penis rapidly spasmed inside of her, his flare pressed right to her cervix and making his gushes of virile seed whitewash her unprotected womb directly. Twilight trembled at the intense feelings as Bade undoubtedly had the most powerful, extended orgasm of his life, alongside the thought that that warmth would very likely impregnate her; that Bade was giving her a foal right now, over fifteen billion sperms now seeking her one ovum.
Twilight cried out in sheer satisfaction as the feeling of his seed flooding her triggered another orgasm on reflex, feeling his balls twitching against her ass with each large shot of foal-batter he deposited into her primed oven for eleven months of baking. Amaya meanwhile watched in rapt attention as her herd-mate's fertile fields were sown, watching how Bade's cum just kept pumping and pumping into her, imagining his balls gently pulsing and his tail flagging slightly with the intensity of each shot. Bade was still giving gentle humps to assure he was as deep into Twilight as he could be; assuring on instinct that his seed would be as far inside her fertile, silky wetness as possible.
Amaya meanwhile was overcome by watching her deepest fetish unfolding before her very eyes, watched as the gush after gush of Bade's sperm hosed down Twilight's fertile pussy and womb on the hologram, before her eyes rolled up and she gave a helpless mewl, her body reaching its own apex at the spectacle occurring before her: perceiving her pal and partner in patrol, presently polyamorous with the prolific, procreant, purple-pink pony whose pussy he was plumbing and pounding, pistoning professionally plus primordially; whose palpating, proliferent phallus was pumping powerfully and plentifully into her posterior - procreation, pregnancy, previously proposed - proliferating the princess' pussy with profuse proffering. Possibly planting his promised progeny.
Seeing somepony seeding, sowing, and saturating the sovereign's sacred sanctuary - Sparkle squeezing substantially, stimulating superior sperm supply synthesizing since starting sex - stuffed with substantial squirts, sums of seeking, stout sperm; self-sustainable seed. Silently, subconsciously, stating: 'She'll soon secure, support, sustain my sperm, so a son or soon-sister shall seize a soul; a sentient spirit. Such, I solemnize.'**
After what felt like forever of feeling Bade pour his essence into her, feeling Amaya spasming in her own orgasm beneath her in the meanwhile, Twilight's well-seeded belly felt wonderfully full and warm, her irritating heat replaced by a gentle, soothing balm. As she looked up to the hologram and saw only off-white, she ended that spell as her stud finally went slack on her back panting, his job well done proven by the gentle swell in her womb as his billions of swimmers seeked her egg now. Twilight too was panting, her back legs occasionally twitching, feeling her heat once more utterly quelled. The thought of it staying satisfied - and what that implied - only made her shiver at the thought; that she was going to be a mother. That Bade had just given her his foal. "Bade, I know you'll make a great father. That's why I chose you to give me my little prince or princess...I love you." Twilight cooed, reaching up and planting a kiss on Bade's lips.
"Holy fuck that was hot!" Amaya exclaimed, squirming as she tried to get out from under Twilight. Eventually succeeding, as well as pulling the toy out of herself with some reticence, she stood and went around to look at her partners' joining. She saw Bade still hilted in Twilight, then watched as his softening member popped out and retreated to his sheath, a thick stream of his seed drooling out of Twilight's swollen, unprotected marehood. "With that much cum in you, you're gonna get knocked up for sure!"
Quickly after Bade pulled out, Twilight rolled onto her back, preventing much more of his cum from escaping her. She wanted a foal after all and needed as much seed as she could retain to assure she'd get it, quickly putting some pillows under her rump to aid his sperm in getting deeper into her uterus. "That's the idea Amaya..." Twilight said, softly rubbing over her well-filled lower belly, knowing that within months it would likely grow that large once more - then larger still - with her foal.
"You're...gonna be a great mother too Twilight." Bade finally responded, getting out of his post-coitus stupor, coming over and giving Twilight another deep kiss, leaning over to her and gently pinning her to the bed in the process.
Amaya couldn't help but feel left out, her heat also burning extraordinarily hot now that she'd seen a princess getting impregnated by her best friend, getting a view from the inside. "Hey, um..." she started, garnering the attention of both other ponies; "Bade, after seein' that, I was wondering...could you fuck me like that too, without protection?"
Bade's jaw dropped. "Amaya, you...you want me to..."
Amaya nodded and, to emphasize her point, lay on the bed on her back again and flagged her tail so it fell over the side of the bed, presenting to him. "Yeah Bade, I want you to fuck me pregnant too," As she then paused, looking under his barrel and grinning, she continued with a smirk; "Looks like your 'not-so-little soldier' agrees?"
Bade felt he was hard once more, his body ready to fill another willing mare with his foal. He fully intended to. |
Thestrals at Twilight | Doubling Down | Two figures stood before a magical hologram, watching the act of new life being created. "It is done then?" the shorter one asked, a dark-blue hoof touching the screen, making it shimmer at the point of impact; pointing to the image of Twilight Sparkle being filled up with a thestral stallion's seed.
"Yes, I believe so." the taller one added, a small, happy smile appearing on her white-furred muzzle; "It seems that Twilight Sparkle has fulfilled what we expected to happen; she has learned what true love is through experiencing it, as she has with friendship, and has accepted these two guards fully as her mates, even accepting the foal of the stallion. Do you think it was the history she had with the stallion that instigated this decision?"
"I'm not sure, but I'm happy for her. Missus Velvet will also be happy to hear she'll be receiving another grandchild as well I'm sure. She mentioned it at our last meeting, remember, desiring another foal besides Flurry Heart 'to love and spoil rotten'?" the blue-coated pony asked with a chuckle, getting a nod.
"Yes, I remember. The foal was not intended or expected, but it was clearly meant to be. Plus, thestrals have a very high sex drive after all."
"The vision I had: of Twilight running through a field with a half-thestral child...this was an inevitable destiny, it would seem."
"Yes, I look forward to being an 'auntie' to another foal."
"The foals and pups from their joining shall undoubtedly be adorable, given their bloodline. T'was a good choice for their sire."
"Pups? What do you..."
"Yes, do you not see Amaya offering herself to Bade now, and him mounting her as well?"
"Ah, yes. The foal and pups."
The two figures then turned back to the hologram, watching the second act of nature soon to come. ~
It was moments after Bade had bred Twilight, filling her fertile, unprotected womb with his virile seed and undoubtedly impregnating her at her decision, before Amaya had just asked him to do the same for her: asking her best friend and now life-mate to give her a pup. Who was he to refuse her, he wondered, and couldn't come up with a single reason.
Bade mounted Amaya's proffered body as she lay on her back on the bed fully exposed, giving her kisses along her neck and chest, earning very pleased moans from her. "Mmm-yes Bade! Breed me, give me your pup!" Amaya moaned out, a mare in heat who was very much so not ashamed of asking for what she wanted, feeling his chest grinding across hers. As she felt his flare tapping against her rear, she shifted her hips to help him line up, before then feeling him slide in easily after only a few scant moments.
Amaya moaned contentedly as she felt Bade slip inside her for the first time, stretching her wide, her head pressing back in the mattress at the sensations going through her. It felt...different than every other male she'd had sex with. This time felt like it meant something. It felt right.
"Bade..." Amaya cooed, her forehooves wrapping around his back as she looked deeply into his eyes, "I've had enough with toys. I wanna feel the real thing...with you my love! Rut a pup into me..."
"Yeah Bade...rut a pup into her...like you rutted a foal into me." Twilight encouraged, still floating on her afterglow even as Bade was ready once more to breed, watching him sink into Amaya again.
"Only too gladly..." Bade replied, giving a very deep thrust that hilted him into her.
"Oh fuuuuck yeah!" Amaya exclaimed, for the first time ever feeling not only the pleasure of being mated, but also something else alongside and intermingling with it, making her heart pound even harder as she felt Bade's own rapid heartbeat against her chest as well as deep inside of her marehood through his cock. Something so much deeper than the simple biological relief of being simply filled up by a stallion as Bade slid into her and became one with her in the closest way possible. She felt that 'something' that all of the one-night stands she had lacked, that something she'd never felt before.
She felt the feeling of being truly, deeply loved by the other pony, not just a means to gain pleasure for themselves.
This was far more compelling than Amaya's previous partners. She was of course pleased by having sex with the many stallion and other male partners of her the past, often cumming to them, but what she craved now was something different. Her burning core didn't want the loving massage Bade was giving it, it wanted a pounding; her sex wanting a beating that ended with a nice, warm cum-bath. Ended with a pup or two growing within her. "Oh gods, Celestia, Luna, Faust YES!" she cried out, calling to any deity she could think of to thank them for the pleasure surging through her every over-sensitized nerve ending that she had earlier rubbed raw trying to sate her needs; something she couldn't achieve, yet Bade so simply did in the first second of their joining, and only built on after. "I....l-love you...s-so much..." she whispered, clinging onto Bade with her forehooves tight; as though he may disappear should she release her bear hug on him.
Bade slowly slid out and into her despite wanting so badly to simply breed her; to claim her offered womb for his child. Instead, he focused on pleasing her in the way he'd learned to please Twilight, starting slowly while planting kisses and soft nibbles on her neck and lips as he slid from her, making her whimper at the emptiness for a moment, before earning a fully-pleasured moan from her as he slid back in just as slowly, filling her full of himself. He too was completely enjoying himself: Amaya felt much different inside than Twilight, gripping him just as tightly and still just as hot and slippery, yet she squeezed much more purposefully and had much more control over her vaginal muscles through her past experience, using them to perfectly milk him in a way that Twilight wasn't yet capable of, besides involuntarily during her orgasms. That, and she didn't orgasm anywhere near as often as Twilight did.
Twilight, meanwhile, was watching as two of the closest ponies to her bred right in front of her, a thick, magically-controlled dildo reaming her marehood as she watched. She watched as they constantly kissed throughout, each thrust or soft bite on her neck earning a quiet moan or yelp from Amaya, getting Twilight even more worked up. Bade's cum provided an excellent lubricant for her dildo she found, and the feeling of Bade's sperm being compressed into her womb each time she hilted the toy felt beyond amazing. As she looked down at the lump he'd left in her stomach, she could only smile dimly at the thought of her belly visibly swelling with new life within a few months.
"Oh my Celestia that's nice..." Bade cooed through pants after some minutes of slowly making love with Amaya, with her quite effectively pleasuring him above and beyond what Twilight could, "...the way you're squeezing me...you're gonna get your pup much sooner than planned..."
"Oh no you don't mister!" Amaya softly chided as she felt Bade starting to flare, squeezing extra-tightly on Bade's trapped member and preventing him from thrusting, "You're not cumming 'til I do, right? You've been taking it nice and slow, working me up to being so horny I'm tempted to pounce you..." Amaya said, before getting an idea. Considering what exactly was stopping her from doing just that. Upon thinking of nothing, including Bade himself, she grinned to herself.
Bade remained silent, sealing his eyes closed for a moment, willing himself not to finish yet despite wanting so much to.
"...I'll just have to make sure you don't cum before me. My turn now!" Amaya suddenly said and, in a feat of agility Bade hadn't seen of her before, he found he'd ended up on his back on the mattress instead of Amaya, with her pinning Bade down with her forehooves on his chest while he still remained hilted and pulsing inside of her; flared, but not set over yet. Amaya waited for Bade to calm down, doing nothing with her inner muscles nor letting him do anything by pinning his pelvis down with her own, meanwhile enjoying the feeling of being so satisfyingly full of a real stallionhood for a change.
When Bade had calmed enough, his flare no longer rock-hard and his pulses slowing, Amaya started to slowly rock her hips, having soaked Bade's whole crotch and the bed beneath them in her fluids in the meanwhile. Bade moaned, never having had sex like this before; with Twilight, he'd always been on top, controlling the pace and rhythm, breeding his mare as he pleased and as nature intended it. Now, pinned beneath Amaya, her controlling everything, it was an entirely different experience.
"Mmm, how you liking griffin mating Bade?" Amaya asked, "With griffins, the hens claim their toms, taking their seed when they choose too, and only then..." Amaya said, softly rubbing Bade's chest with her hooves while Bade's own helped keep her balanced by gripping around her hips, Twilight's magic having guided them there, "...I'm gonna ride you, and ride you, until I know you have enough cum in you and enough sperm in those big ol' balls to make me a good healthy pup...and who knows, maybe I'll even have twins! Would you like that Bade? Pumping me so full I get pregnant with two or more pups?"
Bade only moaned in reply, Amaya having started slamming herself down on him in a much more rough manner than what Bade had been doing earlier. Whenever he'd try to hump up, to embrace his instincts, Amaya would 'punish' him by stopping to grind her winking clit against his pelvis, earning a shudder from her each time she did. "N-no humping Bade...naughty naughty..." Amaya said with a mischievous grin, "I get to choose when you cum, and only I get to choose when you knock me up!" Amaya cooed sensually, grinding her crotch to his, feeling him throbbing within her in reaction.
"O-OK..." Bade conceded, trying his best to prevent his hips from shifting up to meet hers once she started dropping onto him again, his head pressed back into the mattress as he was mounted for a change. Amaya continued to slowly ride him, noticing when he was getting close by his flare swelling up inside of her, and stopping to grind on him when he did until he calmed enough to proceed. Bade even leaned up and started to softly nibble on her neck, slowly licking with the tip of his tongue and making her alternately giggle and moan at the combined sensations of his licks and nibbles, and the thick penis she was riding.
Amaya moaned as his thickness spread her so perfectly, Twilight now watching with a hint of jealousy that her own time with him, of him giving her his foal, had been so comparatively short; thinking that, perhaps if Bade still had the energy, she'd have him take her again after Amaya was done with him, just to make sure his seed took. Or at least that would be the excuse she used.
Amaya stopped and pulled off of him completely. As she spread her wings for balance again, Bade reached out and softly nipped the sensitive limb with his teeth, earning a quiet yip from her. Her forehooves were on the bed for balance now as she now straddled him backwards in reverse griffin-style*, Bade watched the glorious sight of Amaya now taking him into her pussy again, getting a perfect view with her tail flagged aside and memorizing every detail, committing it to memory; never wanting to forget the day he gave his mares a foal and pup.
Meanwhile Twilight continued to satisfy herself with her stallion-cream-coated toy, pretending it was Bade breeding her again instead. She watched as Amaya was now straddling Bade's bottom half while facing away from him, surely giving him a perfect view of her sexy, mare-honey-soaked ass and still-spread, equally-soaked marehood, facing away from Bade and looking to her instead. Bade was getting a perfect view of the action as she started to roll her hips again, the deep moan she got from him proving his pleasure once more.
"Hey Twi, you look awfully lonely over there all alone...get that toy outta you and c'mere. I've got something better for you..." Amaya cooed after she'd shifted positions and and let Bade rest as he'd flared within her again, patting the bed in front of where her muzzle was facing. Obediently, Twilight removed the glistening toy from her cum-filled snatch reluctantly and crawled over to the breeding couple as Amaya started rising and lowering her hips again.
As she bred in this way, Amaya felt her clit pressing against Bade's balls as she hilted, only using her own tired back legs and core's strength to rise herself up as she straddled him so widely, their genitals the only point of them that was actually in contact with the other. "Come...lay...on your back...here...a-and-s-spread...your-legs." Amaya managed to force out between drops, before Twilight once more did as asked, laying on her back close to the other mare and presenting her well-seeded snatch to Amaya, having a good idea of what she planned.
Sure as expected, while Amaya kept humping back and planting herself onto Bade's flared and throbbing cock, Twilight moaned loudly as she felt Amaya's tongue start to lick at her creamed puff, feeling a strong tingle roll through her as she reached her clit, rewarding her mate's tongue's efforts with a wink. Amaya licked it again, earning another wink and a moan from Twilight, before finally Twilight felt that tongue pass her lower lips and plunge into her seeded fields.
Initially an irrational thought crossed her mind that Amaya wouldn't leave her enough sperm to make a foal with, but, by the heavy, warm feeling deep inside her womb, Twilight knew she couldn't physically reach all of it even if she tried. Besides, given how fast equine, and especially thestral, sperm moved - as well the minimum twelve billion sperm seeking her one ovum - she may be pregnant already anyhow. She shuddered pleasantly at the thought.
As he heard Twilight's moan of joy, Bade could only imagine what Amaya was doing to her, but had a good idea. After all, he'd watched as Amaya spent more time with her muzzle buried between his or Twilight's legs in the past two days than anywhere else. The loud, wet slurping sounds only backed that up, adding on top of the equally-wet slaps coming from their crotches' joining between his own legs.
Amaya's movements were becoming more and more erratic, her inner muscles' kneading growing tighter and more insistent as she licked and slurped Bade's seed from Twilight's snatch, enjoying the masculine cream she'd soon be getting from both ends. If her moans vibrating Twilight's pussy and her rapidly increasing drops slamming Bade in and out of her were any indication, she was very close.
Amaya smirked as she paused in eating Twilight out, looking back at Bade with with her fluids-soaked muzzle. "S-so what, now that ya knocked up the p-princess you thought y-you never had a c-chance with l-last week, n-now you're going to knock up your b-best friend too...?" she asked teasingly, "...and n-not only are you going to knock your best f-friend up, but t-that friend's going to m-make you knock her up when she cums all over your c-cock. I'm not s-stopping this time Bade. I'm n-not pulling off when you f-flare next time. I w-want you to cum a h-huge load for me, OK? M-mmm-ake that warm, gooey sensation s-set me over!" Amaya half-shouted, her voice starting to get more high-pitched, her weakening back legs starting to tremble now as her pace increased, Bade meanwhile feeling her starting to milk him, her winks growing more rapid with each drop, "I'm...s-so close...I'm ready for your seed."
Amaya meanwhile felt Bade's flare swelling up again, making her bare her teeth at the sensation of having edged herself and him for so long, knowing this orgasm would be beyond intense. As she considered the circumstances - that Bade was going to cum in her without protection, that her best friend and now lover was breeding her and would likely impregnate her - Amaya trembled even more, a long, powerful moan escaping her lungs as she felt herself on the cusp, barely holding on. Her back legs ached, her pussy felt like it was on fire more now than ever, but she knew relief was in sight.
"R-Ready to m-make another baby or two?" Amaya asked as she felt him flaring huge within her once more, pausing her ministrations on Twilight's pussy as her own body started to tense up; "L-Let's give Twilight's b-baby a playmate or t-two!"
With that, Amaya slammed her hips down as both ponies tensed up, their orgasms nigh. Twilight meanwhile was rapidly reaming herself with her toy again as she watched her herd-mate being bred, moaning out herself as she met Amaya's eyes, with that expression of pure bliss on her face setting her over. Twilight gushed her fluids mixed with Bade's foal-batter onto the already-drenched bed as she was set over. She started convulsing and grinding against the toy's base as orgasm overtook her again, pure bliss going through her as she clenched again and again on the toy, spasming as pulse after pulse of sheer pleasure rolled through her.
Amaya meanwhile felt as she passed her own limit, watching Twilight cumming setting her over as well, letting out a high-pitched whinny as she felt her foal-passage start instinctively milking Bade for his seed. Her body was wracked with intense surges of ecstasy as she felt him so thickly flared and throbbing rapidly in her, filling up her whole pussy with pulsing stallionhood as her back legs collapsed and slammed her down on him, hilting him and held tightly within her, his glans process pressed right up against her cervix; poised to seed her fertile fields directly. She earned a loud breeding whinny from Bade as she perfectly crushed his fully-flared and pulsing cock inside of herself, feeling it spreading her innermost passage taut and sealing her up for his soon-to-come load.
Bade, meanwhile, couldn't help but watch as Amaya's anus and pussy twitched while her pussy convulsed around him, feeling her clit winking against his testes, and finally he could take no more. Humping up sharply one last time, lifting her ass slightly and assuring he was as deep into her as he possibly could be, Bade erupted, letting out another deep, claiming breeding whinny as he felt himself tip over the edge. His cock quickly, rhythmically pulsed inside of Amaya as he felt as his seed started to flow up his cock, her body kneading his sizable load into her womb and encouraging him to empty his balls into her. Bade felt the first shot of virile seed fire out of him as he was pressed to Amaya's deepest barrier, his hips jerking upwards with each one of the many that followed. He felt a bestial pride at having bred his mare, assuring his genes be passed on to the next generation as he sired a new life.
Amaya felt as Bade filled her up as so many stallions or other males had done before, but this time she knew it was different: she was allowing his seed to take root in her unlike the others, giving herself to a deserving stallion to claim her ovum and sire her pups. She felt her pussy contracting rapidly, greedily claiming each shot of cum from him and him humping up into her, assuring his seed was reaching as far as it could in her - and judging by just how far his warmth was reaching in her belly and how her lower belly was lightly swelling now, she could only guess it was in her womb itself. Amaya went limp, letting Bade inseminate her as she felt each giant pulse of pup-batter he planted into her proliferous pony pussy, her clit winking constantly in approval against his contracting balls.
Eventually, after what felt like forever, Bade's pulses of sperm slowed then stopped alongside Amaya's contractions, their shared climaxes reaching their inevitable conclusions. Bade remained planted in her to the hilt, Amaya weighing heavily on him to keep it that way, his member still dry-pulsing in her on occasion and her vaginal muscles contracting and spasming randomly in their afterglows. They were silent for a while before Amaya felt something soft and wet rubbing against her muzzle, before quickly finding the muzzle of Twilight meeting her own in a kiss.
"Wow gals, that was..." Bade said, before stopping as he watched his two well-bred mares kissing.
"Heh...well, looks like we're both likely gonna be pregnant now..." Amaya said after Twilight and she broke their kiss a minute later, grinning back at Bade and giving a brief kiss to him too, "...and you're going to be a daddy to two mares' babies."
Bade still felt buzzed in his afterglow, but couldn't help but smile as he laid his head back on the mattress, feeling Amaya's warmth still surrounding his softening cock. Eventually Amaya lifted herself from Bade once his cock had softened, a large deluge of his excess cum drooling out of her and onto him, but she was simply too exhausted to do anything about it. She felt her heat totally extinguished in a way the chilled pseudo-cum she and Twilight had used simply couldn't fulfill. Her body was well and truly sated for the first time this season, and she knew deep down she wouldn't be going into heat again for the next eleven months.
"So..." Twilight said, seeing Bade's member once more rising to the occasion a few minutes later, "...how many more times do you have in you today? We made you orgasm over a dozen times yesterday, care to try to break that record?" As she spoke, Twilight had risen from the bed and stood at the foot of the bed, her tail flagging over her back and showing her still-oozing slit to Bade in invitation; "Besides, I wanna make good and sure this pregnancy takes, and I've read that the more a mare orgasms while inseminated, the more likely they are to conceive. Wanna help me with that?"
"Yeah, then you can 'help me' again after you finish with her. it's so bucking hot watching you rut her pregnant..." Amaya said, watching as Bade went and mounted Twilight again.
Bade meanwhile grimaced for a moment as he pushed his still-sensitive member into Twilight's welcoming folds again, wondering just what he'd gotten himself into by accepting two sexually-ravenous mares as his own and having to satisfy both.
Yet at the same time, he couldn't be happier. His was a labor of love after all, and it's result would be the same: a foal and pup for them to love and teach, together, as a herd. Besides, he'd be lying if he didn't say he was enjoying every second of it too.
Bade simply smiled then as he heard Twilight moan beneath him, once more hilting himself into her pussy in a swift movement. "Let's make good and sure you get the foal we so want, hmm?" he cooed, before starting to thrust vigorously once more, working to give Twilight more of his virile seed to make their royal foal with.
"...and Amaya? You're next."
As Twilight and Bade once more got to work making a foal, none noticed the two newly-arrived day guards standing outside their wide-open bedroom door watching, having been there since the start, clopping themselves silly as they watched the creation of a new prince or princess. |
Thestrals at Twilight | Dawn and Dusk of a New Day | Bade and Spike sat in the Royal Canterlot Physician's office, waiting for the doctor to return, Twilight and Amaya having left with them for a physical and some tests at the lab. It was about three months after Bade had spent that wonderful final day of the mares' heat together, both having sex constantly with him and having him finish deep within them every time, their heats ending that day as planned. Both mares had recently been experiencing several days of morning heartburn and sometimes-powerful stomachaches and cramps, with it even evolving to nausea and vomiting, as well as an increased appetite and odd cravings - mostly for strawberry-yogurt-coated radishes for Twilight and sauerkraut on EVERYTHING, including desserts, for Amaya.
"So, you think they really are pregnant?" Spike asked, looking to Bade.
"Well, it's quite likely, yeah." Bade replied simply, and Spike, seemingly satisfied with that answer, simply nodded before going back to his comic book.
"Glad all the moaning and grunting resulted in something..." Spike murmured to himself, it unheard by Bade.
As he sat there, Bade thought about how their herd was now official, the herd-bonding ceremony having been performed the previous month, with much of Canterlot having come to watch it. Spike had been their ring-bearer, and the ceremony had gone smoothly. He, Twilight, and Amaya were now officially a royal herd, with Bade and Amaya being named a Prince and Princess respectively in turn. It was a very memorable ceremony, one that Bade and his herdmates would cherish for the rest of their life.
Doctor Crown Cross stepped into the office with a smile, Bade returning it even as he held his nervously-churning stomach. "So, I think your two mares have something to show you Bade..." he said, before being flanked by both Amaya and Twilight, each holding a pregnancy strip by the unused end in their mouth.
After they'd arrived at the hospital and requested a pregnancy test each, the two mares had been taken to the lab while Bade sat outside in the waiting room as he awaited the news, though already virtually knowing it. He sat calmly while he waited, knowing the most likely result of all of the time they'd spent together in their bedroom that final day of Twilight and Amaya's estrus, remembering all too well the fifteen orgasms they'd milked from him between both of them, with all of his seed ending up in the only part of them that it needed to be in.
As both mares approached Bade and let him get a good look at the tests' result, he couldn't help but see a large smile on both of their faces out of the corner of his eye:
+ / Pregnant
+ / Pregnant
"Congratulations... you're gonna be a daddy, and we're going to be mommies!" Amaya cried out in an excited squeal a moment after them setting the positive test down before him and watching Bade stare at it, seeing his small smile grow. She felt a certain pride to learning that she was indeed carrying his foal, and Twilight was as well, knowing this was what they'd wanted and worked so hard for...for several days.
"You're going to be the sire and father to two foals at least, but we'll find out for sure at the three-month foal viewing what races they are, their gender, and just how many we're carrying, given there are thestrals involved and your species' proclivity to twins or multiple births." Twilight explained, before her large smile returned, "I can't wait to be a mommy..."
"Wow, good job you three! Looks like all that bedroom ruckus paid off." Spike said with a smirk as he learned of the two mares indeed being pregnant, earning a heavy blush from Twilight. As he went over and gave her a big, congratulatory hug however, then Amaya as well, she couldn't help but forgive him a little for his embarrassing remark. As he gave Bade a hoof-bump, Twilight couldn't help but roll her eyes a little.
The doctor gave a gentle chuckle at Spike's remark before then stepping forward, looking at Bade then each of the others in turn. "Congratulations to you all. As your physicals state, Amaya and Twilight, you are perfectly healthy young mares in prime health and condition, having top marks in every category according to the physicals I performed; the prime candidates for carrying and bearing foals and pups without complications. I'm going to write you both a prescription for prenatal vitamins to keep you and the foals healthy, and also give you a pamphlet for the proper diet of a pregnant mare." Crown stated, his smile widening a bit, giving a big, genuine smile; he always loved delivering this kind of news, especially to a royal patient.
As he looked upon the positive pregnancy test presented to him, Bade wasn't at all surprised by the result shown, given just how much of his seed he'd shot into his mares' fertile bodies throughout their heat and at their demands, and the final day without protection.
"Well," Bade said with a smile, as he looked upon his mares, gently rubbing a hoof over their lower bellies; knowing that within them a new life was growing now. That his foals were within them both, and he would get to meet them in a few months. "I think we should go. We've got a lot of planning for our future after all, and our foals'." Bade said, giving both mares a kiss on the muzzle. He felt eager for the future as he'd learned that his herd-mates carried his foals now, happy that his life would soon be filled with children to love and teach, and of mares whom he loved dearly and who loved him the same in kind.
After booking an appointment for a checkup and foal viewing in a few weeks, with the nurse congratulating the royal herd on their new foals, Amaya gave Bade a nod and the trio then turned and left the hospital. Soon after leaving the front door of the hospital, Amaya met his lips in a kiss. She held it for a while, and after she broke it, Bade quickly felt a new pair of lips taking up just where Amaya's had left off. Bade could feel the passion in both kisses, feeling a hoof wrapping around his crest and pulling him tighter into it. Eventually, Twilight ended the kiss, a large smile on her face. "Well, we did it. We're going to have foals together!" Twilight said, before hugging Bade tightly, Amaya joining in and turning it into a group hug, "Thank you so much..."
"Yeah Bade, this is so great! I can't wait to tell my parents, and I'm sure the announcement of us having royal foals will cause quite a stir!" Amaya said, nuzzling into Bade's neck affectionately, sneaking a kiss there too.
Spike grinned. "I'm sure Twilight's parents will be ecstatic too, learning they're going to be having more grandfoals soon. Ever since Shining and Cadence had Flurry Heart, her mom couldn't stop talking about how much she loved her, and how she'd love to have more grandbabies. Well, she's gonna be getting them!" he said, before looking to Amaya and Bade.
"That sounds great! So, how does a trip to my parents' house soon sound?" Twilight asked, grinning at the thought of her parents' reactions.
"Well, before any of that, I think we should first properly thank our stallion for the gifts he's given us...or more accurately, the part of him that gave us the gifts..." Amaya said, giving a suggestive glance to both Twilight and Bade.
Bade rolled his eyes with a grin, "Save it for the bedroom..." he said, following it with a chuckle.
Amaya's sultry gaze didn't leave him. "That's the idea, stud. When we get home..."
"...we're going right for the bedroom!" Twilight finished, Bade gulping as he watched her horn light up.
"Uh, guys?" Spike said, uncomfortably looking around and seeing the obviously sultry expressions on Twilight's and Amaya's faces, "I'm right here." Before he knew what happened, he found himself on his bed at the castle, hearing a stallion moaning in the other room. "Oh Celestia, not again..."
As Twilight joined beside Amaya with the same expression of lust her herdmate held, Bade suddenly found himself laying on Twilight's bed, flanked by either mare looking down at him and Spike nowhere in sight. As he felt a muzzle nuzzling his sheath, followed by a tongue on his testes, he prayed to Celestia that he wouldn't need more ice for them this time, like he had after the day and night of their foals' conceptions, before moaning at the long lick he got, teasing his stallionhood from its hiding.
"Gals, I love you so much..." Bade said lovingly, before moaning as he felt a pair of tongues licking along his now-exposed length.
"So do we. Let us show you how much..." Twilight said, giving his flare a kiss, before taking it into her mouth.
Bade moaned heavily at that, his hips jerking up, and at that same moment Amaya took one of his balls into her mouth, suckling softly on it, showing her love for that very special part of her stallion. Twilight meanwhile continued to sink his semi-erect member deeper into her mouth, trying to coax it to fully hardness, and was successful in her endeavors as he did just that.
"Just lay back, relax, and let your two mares thank you properly for your foals..." Amaya said, before once more burying her muzzle between Bade's boys, licking indiscriminately and earning another shift of his hips.
"O-Okay..." Bade said, enjoying the warm breath and warmer tongues of his mares pleasuring him, fireworks going off in his brain already at the sensations that Twilight's now very experienced tongue was coaxing from him, feeling it licking over the ridges of his flare, her magic meanwhile softly rubbing around his medial ring. Twilight moaned softly as she felt Bade's member grow fully gravid with blood, tasting his lightly musky pre as he started oozing it in reaction to her stimulation.
"Mmm, my stallion..." Twilight said between licks and sucklings, looking up at Bade with loving eyes as his hoof softly rubbed her ears, earning a satisfied coo from her. Soon, Bade felt her warm muzzle sliding down his flare and steadily lower itself, only stopping when she reached his medial ring to trace the tip of her tongue around it, sending shockwaves of pleasure through Bade as he squirmed in reaction to the wonderful stimulation.
Bade's hips started rolling on instinct to the gentle suction and the bobbing motion Twilight was now making, his whole body thrumming with satisfaction as he was once more being sucked off by his love. Not one to be ignored, Amaya had trailed up Bade's scrotum until she too had her tongue on his shaft, her taking the bottom half while Twilight got the top half. Bade, meanwhile, was in heaven, a hoof resting on each mare's head and softly rubbing an ear each.
When he suddenly heard Amaya give a quiet surprised squeal and then a moan, Bade opened his eyes to see a light-purple glow coming from her rear, as well as about half of a stallion dildo encased in the same magical aura. As it started to shift back and forth, Amaya's licks on him became a little more sloppy, as well as another satisfied moan coming from her as Twilight apparently decided she needed some pleasure too. As easily as the toy slid through her tract, there was no denying how wet and horny she was.
"Mmm Twi..." Amaya cooed, her back arching a bit as Twilight took a short breather, Amaya the upper, with Twilight soon taking Bade's lower shaft now, "...please more."
Twilight only too happily complied, making the dildo hilt in her and making Amaya moan in response as she ground her hips in response, hilting it in her and shifting it around. Twilight meanwhile brought a dildo of her own over, sinking it into her marehood before going back to work on Bade.
This was a usual occurrence among the three, the two mares exchanging pleasure while sharing their stallion; each mare knowing just the spots to hit on their partner for their greatest enjoyment. They continued to twitch, lick and moan to each other, sharing their bodies, feeling as though they were indeed just one pony.
It wasn't long before all three felt their peaks coming, but none of them wanted to hold back. Bade simply shuddered as he felt himself flaring within Twilight's muzzle, her at some point having taken him into her mouth again, while Amaya tended to his testes. Twilight didn't stop bobbing on him however, nor did she stop the movement of the two dildos within herself and Amaya. She could tell she was getting close, Bade as well by the swelling of his flare, and Amaya by her shuddering and constant moaning. Finally, she focused her magic and set to work setting all three of them over.
Amaya felt a warm, tingly sensation enrobe her winking clit, setting her pleasure up even higher than it was before, making her inner muscles spasm and her leg kick out. She was panting now, her hips grinding against the toy sliding in and out of her, her profuse fluids drooling out onto the bed past it. Finally, with one more very deep thrust, Amaya cried out as her orgasm took her.
As though that cry were the catalyst, Bade groaned and thrust his hips up sharply into Twilight's muzzle, his pulses growing rhythmic and now joined with spurts of his thick, rich, and proven virile seed as his large flare was held in Twilight's muzzle, filling her mouth with his creamy load.
Twilight started gulping down the masculine milk that Bade was constantly pumping into her mouth, savoring the flavor as her own pleasure reached its peak. Finally, with all the stimulus around her - Bade moaning and cumming in her mouth, the flavor of his cum, Amaya squirming and feeling her squeezing on her magically-encased dildo, as well as the scents of sex and musk of both stallion and mare - Twilight moaned as her eyes rolled up, shuddering heavily as she squirted her own cum onto the bed, joining that of her herd mates' as she was overwhelmed by the intense tsunami of sensations.
After a number of minutes of panting, squirming, and sharing their blissful climaxes together, the three ponies finally calmed again, now resting in a fluids-soaked pile. Amaya was the first to recover, squirming so she could come muzzle to muzzle with Twilight, meeting their lips in a kiss. She was surprised to find that a small puddle of Bade's cum was held in her mouth waiting for her and, as she met lips with her mate, Amaya felt the sweet, musky, and bitter liquid enter her muzzle, knowing Twilight had saved her some. They held the kiss together while Bade recovered more slowly, before he reached a hoof to each of their ears and started gently rubbing, wrapping a wing over each of them and hearing them give a soft, pleased moan at the feeling as they still kissed.
"You two are the best herdmates a stallion could ask for. Thank you, for everything." Bade said, smiling serenely as his two mares kissed for a moment more, before ending it with an off-white string of what could only be his cum joining their lips; "For showing me love, for becoming my life mates...for carrying my children."
Amaya looked up to her stallion and softly smiled, before meeting his lips with her own briefly. "Well, what can I say? You stole my heart when we were still foals."
"...and mine too." Twilight added, smiling softly, "Hey, by the way...I'm still pretty horny..."
"...think we can do it for real?"
Amaya's sensual look seemed to share the same sentiments.
Bade simply chuckled. "You two are insatiable, you know that?" he asked, before feeling a muzzle once more nuzzling his sheath, then moaned as a tongue soon after joined it, before Twilight soon mounted him griffin-style as he laid on his back.
"Good thing I wouldn't have it any other way." He said, before groaning out at the feeling of warm, wet marehood sliding down his once-more-hardened length ~
"Hello Your Highnesses! I'm your radiology technician, Radiant Glow. You're here for a foal viewing and checkup, correct?" the green-coated Unicorn stallion asked, rising from his bow upon getting several eager nods from the recipients, "Great! Now that you look like you're all nice and settled, I'm going to apply the ultrasound paddle to your belly to find and view the foal...first, I just need to put some warm lubricating gel to your belly." the radiologist said, using his magic to softly squeeze a dollop of said gel from a bottle and onto the purple-furred belly of the mare laying on her side on the examination table before him, leaving her lightly-swollen tummy on full access for such.
"That tickles!" Twilight said, giggling and squirming softly as the doctor applied the warm gel to her belly, him finding some ticklish spots unintentionally.
"Sorry Your Highness..." Radiant said, before feeling a hoof on his shoulder, making him look up and Twilight meeting his eyes.
"Please, call me Twilight," she asked, getting a soft nod from him.
"I'm sorry Your High--Twilight," the radiologist said, catching himself before slipping up again.
"Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to, calling a princess by her first name." another stallion's voice said from beside Twilight.
"Yeah, it took us a while too," another mare's voice chimed in from beside the doctor, "but then, after a while, she didn't seem like a princess. At first she just seemed like a good friend, then something much more."
Twilight smiled, before reaching over and nuzzling first Bade, then Amaya, before looking back to the technician. "Ahem, sorry for the delay...please proceed." Twilight said, before giving a soft smile to her companions.
Nodding, Radiant placed the equally-warm ultrasound paddle to Twilight's lower belly, pressing down gently and moving it around, and instantly a soft thu-thump was heard from the machine. Twilight's heart lept. "Is that my foal's...?" she asked, before getting a shake of the head from the tech.
"No prin--Twilight, that's your heartbeat." he said before moving the paddle a little - and a second, softer rhythm joined the first, a pair of soft, rapid thu-thump-thu-thumps heard coming from the machine. A sound that everypony knew. A duo of heartbeats. "Now that is your foal's heartbeat. If you'll all please look at the screen over here, I'll see if we can find your foal." he said as the quartet looked at the nearby screen. There was nothing but static for a short while before the tech found his target. First, a nose came into view. Then a whole muzzle. Then a whole face with closed eyes. A pony fetus's face, with a small nub on its forehead. The start of a unicorn's horn.
As Twilight saw that, she couldn't help but feel a rush of giddiness and pride as she saw a full frontal of her foal's face, the radiologist quickly snapping a picture of the ultrasound for the parents. As Bade watched on, he felt an intense surge of pride as he saw his foal on the screen, knowing that he'd helped create it. That he'd indeed given his mare a child. "It's beautiful," Bade stated, before reaching over and giving Twilight's ear a soft kiss and earning a flick of it in reaction, "just like its mother."
"Yeah, you two did good, making a beautiful little foal." Amaya said, smiling as she saw the face of Twilight's foal on the screen.
As the radiologist continued to move the paddle around on her belly, judging the health and development of the foal, Twilight felt as Bade's lips met her own, and she pushed back, wordlessly thanking her lover for the gift he'd given her once more. They were, however, interrupted by a throat clearing.
As they looked to the source of the sound, they saw the radiologist looking fearfully at them from their annoyed expression, before shaking his head, "Sorry for the...interruption. You are indeed nearly three months pregnant with a single unicorn foal, with them having no sign of wings as you asked me to look for, and everything is looking normal for this early stage of development. The foal looks healthy. I, uh, I just wanted to know if you want me to sex the foal, so you can know its gender? I'm nearing its groin and the fetus should be matured enough to determine whether it's going to be a filly or a colt."
Twilight looked at Bade, Bade at Twi, and both nodded to the other slowly. "Yes doctor, we'd like to know its gender." Twilight said, before feeling the paddle sliding even lower on her belly.
"Very well...if we look at the screen here again..." the doctor said, moving the paddle around a bit, "...ah! There it is."
As the quartet of ponies looked at the screen, they saw between the fetus's back legs, seeing the lack of a forming sheath or testes, and instead seeing the beginnings of a vulva. "Congratulations you two, it looks like you're going to be having a unicorn filly. A princess." Radiant said, smiling at the sight of the new life growing within the princess.
Twilight and Bade were only too happy at the news.
"I wish Spike could have been here to see this..." Twilight said, giving a soft sigh, "Oh well, Apple Bloom needed him again. After all, it's still the breeding season for other ponies, even if not for us anymore. Maybe our foals will be getting a little kirin nephew or niece one day."
"Yeah...I'm sure Apple Bloom is keeping Spike really busy, given she's in the kind of intense heat only an earth pony can experience..." Amaya said, smirking at the response she got from Twilight.
"Alright...Twilight, if you you don't have any further requests or questions, could you please come from the table so we can get Princess Amaya on for her own viewing?" Radiant interrupted, with Twilight nodding, stepping down from the table after having the gel wiped from her belly with a towel.
"Princess Amaya...still feels weird being called that." Amaya mused as she stepped up and laid down onto the examination table, getting a soft chuckle from Twilight as she did.
"I second that," Bade said, giving a soft chuckle, "Every time somepony calls me 'Your Highness', I always look for you, Twilight!"
"Now you know how I felt after ascending to being an Alicorn and princess..." Twilight replied, before getting a grin back from Amaya.
"Alright, I'm applying the gel..." Radiant said, before getting a soft squeal from Amaya.
"W-WHAT?! DID I HURT YOU?!" Radiant asked in a panic, his eyes wide as he looked nervously for any flaw he'd done.
Amaya simply chuckled. "No, no, I'm fine. I'm just REALLY sensitive right there. Sexually. Please just be more gentle, unless you're trying to turn me on?" she joked, getting a heavy blush from the radiologist.
"I'm...sorry." he stated simply, being much more ginger in his movements now, using the paddle to spread the gel over her womb's location, then gently moving it over her lower belly as the machine picked up on Amaya's heartbeat. "Alright, let's see if we can find another foal..."
Moments later of the paddle being moved, and the machine picking up a second heartbeat, the hind end of a foal came into view on the screen, making the three parents' hearts leap. "Yep, we definitely have a foal here." Radiant said, before moving the paddle all around, trying to get a sense of the foal's health. "Wait a minute. Is that..." the radiologist stammered as another hoof came onto the screen, near the first foal's rear, as well as a third heartbeat joining the mix of mother and first foal; "Doctor, can I get you in here please?"
"Is something wrong?" Amaya asked in a concerned tone, though she heard no worry in the doctor's voice. If anything, he seemed excited.
"No Your Highness, we just always have to get a second opinion when we suspect twins."
Amaya's world seemed to slow down. Sure, she and Bade had passively expected it, given that thestrals had twins or multiple births more commonly than ponies did, but even then it was still much less common than a single birth. "Twins?"
"Yes princess. Please look at the screen."
Amaya did as asked and sure enough, as the doctor moved the paddle more, she saw a second, separate form on the screen from the one that had been on it at first. Another foal. A twin.
"Doctor, I believe we have twins. I need confirmation." Radiant asked Doctor Crown Cross as he arrived, showing him the two separate foals on the screen.
"I am officially confirming that, Princess Amaya, judging by the small membranous wings starting to form on the foals, you're carrying what appear to be thestral twins. Congratulations!" the doctor said in an excited tone.
"Both appear to be healthy and are within the average growth of thestral fetuses at this stage. Would you like to know their genders?" Radiant asked, keeping the paddle higher until he got an answer.
The two parents merely beamed in their excitement for a moment, looking at each other lovingly, before both nodding.
"Very well...one is a...colt..." Radiant said, placing the paddle to view between the hind legs of one foal and proving such, a small sheath and scrotum showing on screen; "...and the other is a filly." he finished, doing the same with the other foal moments later, showing she was a filly by the vulva between her own hind legs.
"A filly and a colt...twin thestrals..." Amaya said dreamily, remembering back to her dreams of having thestral twins; a dream that was no longer merely a dream, but reality.
"Your Highnesses, I'm sure I speak for all of Equestria when I say congratulations on your new foals." Doctor Cross said, giving them a very happy smile, "Now, let me get my prescription pad and you all can be on your way to the pharmacy."
~ ~ ~
It was over eight months past that wonderful day when they'd learned they were both carrying Bade's foals, with Amaya and Twilight very heavily pregnant now, both indeed within a week of giving birth. It had been a fairly calm year, Twilight going on her friendship missions and giving friendship lessons when needed, as well as the typical, menial princess tasks, but nothing major ever happened.
The announcement of the royal foals had been met with an overwhelmingly positive reaction from Bade's, Twilight's, and Amaya's parents and siblings when they were told over a special dinner. Twilight had then told her five best friends in a meeting of their own, and was met with just as much excitement from them as she'd planned on getting. The public also reacted very positively when it was announced to them in a decree that a new prince and two princesses would soon be born. It seemed everypony was overjoyed for the coming prince and princesses, though none more than Twilight, Bade and Amaya themselves.
As they lay there on the bed together one night, Bade in the center and a mare laying to either side of him, all three nearly touching the Dream Realm, Bade heard a sudden, pained hiss from Twilight. Before he had a chance to fully rouse from his pre-sleep stupor, Twilight was rapidly shifting in the bed, clearly in distress...and soon Bade felt the bed grow very wet.
"Wha-Twi?" was all Bade could mumble, with the equally as heavily pregnant Amaya also stirring on his other side, also brought from her near-sleep state by Twilight's following pained yelp, as well as what she said next.
"I-It's time! My water broke!" Twilight exclaimed in a tone that was a mix of very pained yet elated, "Bade, w-mmm-w-we're gonna be parents!"
Bade, meanwhile, was mortified by this moment finally coming. All the classes, all the lessons and advice from his, Twilight's, and Amaya's parents, as well as the many professional gynecologists and pediatricians they'd visited; none could prepare him for this moment. Twilight's water had just broken, and she was in labor. She was going to be giving birth to their daughter soon.
"Alright Twilight, stay calm...let's get you to the hospital." Bade said, trying to keep calm as he quickly rolled of the bed and gathered their overnight bags that they'd prepared weeks ago, remembering especially the receiving blanket that Twilight's friend Rarity had made for their daughter.
"Yeah...let's go." Amaya said, already ready to go, "I can't wait to meet our daughter." ~
Slowly and carefully, the trio made their way to Ponyville Hospital. The short trip to the hospital seemed an eternity but Twilight had little trouble holding her foal in. She knew she didn't need to worry about the foal arriving unexpectedly, with all ponies able to keep their foals inside until it was safe to give birth, a trait carried over from when they were feral and a hunted species.
As soon as they arrived, Twilight was taken off to the delivery room while Spike filled out the paperwork, Bade and Amaya staying by her side the whole time, a hoof wrapped around hers as they whispered encouragements and reminded her to breathe properly.
"Bade...Amaya...we're...going to be...parents..." Twilight said, smiling slightly despite the pain, being prepared by the doctors to give birth.
Bade couldn't help but smile back, giving Twilight a soft kiss on the nose. "Yes, we are. Now focus on your breathing, our foal is coming soon." he said happily, remaining by her side as she gave birth to their foal. ~
After a couple of hours of labor later, Applejack, Amaya, Bade, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Spike stood around Twilight as her minutes-old foal nursed at her teat, all looking at the precious newborn princess. She was a deep-purple unicorn filly, and in the brief moment her eyes were opened they saw that her pupils were slitted like her father's, yet her irises violet like her mother's; truly a thestral/pony hybrid foal. Her mane was a sapphire-blue like Twilight's, but with two different shades of platinum streaks like her father. Her tufted ears lightly twitched as she suckled, her eyes closed as she took in sounds of ponies that seemed familiar to her, as well as the sustenance her body needed. Twilight's foaling had gone very well, her being sore and exhausted from it but overall no worse for wear; being an alicorn, she'd likely fully recover from the birth within days anyhow.
"In't she precious?" Applejack cooed in an unusually feminine voice, a huge smile plastered on her face.
"Yeah! She's super-duper adorable! I could totally eat her up...but I won't cuz that's cannibalism...and I'm not a carnivore...and..." Pinkie said, rocking back and forth excitedly as she watched the baby feed, oblivious to the strange looks her friends gave her at that comment.
"Aw yeah, she's an awesome-looking hybrid just like I thought! Did you see her slitted eyes? And her fluffy ears! So awesome!" Rainbow Dash remarked, equally as fascinated with her friend's foal, if for a different reason.
"Yes, the chapeau I designed for her is rather fitting for her coat and eye color, as is the couverture de reception. Purple silk truly does suit her..." Rarity commented, seemingly more interested in how her fashion looked on the new foal than the foal itself.
"Yep, Twilight and Bade sure did a good job on her..." Amaya commented, before grinning a bit, "I'm sure my twins will be just as adorable."
Fluttershy simply stood there with a small smile on her face as she looked upon her friend's foal, a thoughtful expression on her face, before then looking to Amaya's very pregnant belly, then Pinkie Pie's own. It would seem Pinkie forewent protection at that year's orgy, ending up with the foal of a random partygoer. Something she didn't seem to mind at all however, carrying it proudly as she'd likely planned it, her own filly ten months along and due date drawing near. "So, Fluttershy dear, what do you think of Twilight's dear little fillasse?" Rarity asked, noticing her friend's distant look.
"I, um..." Fluttershy said, shaking her head as though coming out of a daze, "I think she's so...so beautiful. I'd love to have such a beautiful foal some day..." she said, before once more finding herself staring at Pinkie's gravid belly, the pink mare oblivious and only swaying more. Fluttershy, meanwhile, was thinking of taking a page from Pinkie's book in regards to getting a foal of her very own. After all, this year's summer estrus party was coming up within a few weeks, and all she'd have to do is not take protection and find a nice handsome sire like Pinkie had the previous year...
"Thank you all for coming on such short notice." Twilight finally spoke, having waited for her friends to finish and settle down some, "I'd like you all to meet Princess Dawn Moonglimmer," she said, indicating the now-sated foal laying beside her, smiling a small, proud smile as she gently lifted her up in her magic and displayed her to her friends, "my daughter."
"Twilight, I'm so proud of you..." Bade said, rubbing muzzles with Twilight, before giving her a soft kiss, "I can't even begin to say how happy I am. We have a daughter now...thank you."
Twilight gave a small grin. "Well, I certainly didn't make her all by myself," she said, her grin turning mischievous, "you helped a lot after all."
"Yeah...he sure did help out a lot...you all were sure loud enough to prove that..." Spike grumbled to himself, fortunately out of earshot of the other ponies.
Bade simply blushed a bit, Amaya giving Twilight a wink, before her foals shifted within her womb. "Yep, getting cramped in there, huh my two preciouses?" she asked her squirming belly, giving it a soft pet with her wing, "Don't worry. I'll get to see you within a couple of weeks." With that, she turned her focus back to Twilight and her newest herd-mate.
"So, do ya plan t' have any more?" Applejack asked, "Y'all seem t' have a penchant fer beautiful foals af'er all, if this'un is anythin' to judge by."
"Well, yes. I'm going to make sure little Dawn here has plenty of brothers and sisters by her two herdmates." Twilight said, then nuzzling with her shared stallion, giving him a wink, "Bade, I want lots and lots of little princes and princesses. In fact, I want another foal right after I stop nursing and go into heat again!"
Bade gulped.
"Yeah, I want more foals by you too...hay, maybe I'll even have twins again, or even triplets!" Amaya said, before looking to Twilight, "After all, don't royal herds traditionally have large families?"
Both mares then looked to Bade.
Bade gulped, before giving a soft sigh and smiling. "Oh jeez, what have I gotten myself into...having two mares who love me enough to have my foals. So lucky to have two mares who love me so much as to give me a family." He then brought his two mares into a hug.
"It's just my luck."
Pinkie grimaced. "Wrong story you dolt!" she yelled out, getting surprised looks from all in the room.* ~
Indeed, within two weeks of Twilight's foaling, Amaya had given birth to her own two foals. The first born was a male thestral pup with a light-blue mane and mid-grey coat, followed within an hour by his twin sister who looked much the same as him, save her mane and tail being a light, two-toned blue-gray, her coat a slightly darker grey in tone as well.
When Amaya had seen them, she was instantly reminded of her dreams she'd had on the night before their conception, quickly holding the swaddled twins to her, one in each hoof. "My preciouses..." she cooed, tears forming in her eyes as she held her and Bade's foals; the product of their love.
Twilight then held up her own filly to the other two, the young filly's eyes widening in glee at the sight. "Yep, they're your brother and sister Dawn..." she told her, with Dawn leaning forward to nuzzle her newborn half-brother affectionately, "That's Dusk Aurora, and his sister Nocturne Belle. You're their sister."
"Don't worry Dawn," Amaya said softly, still weak from giving birth to twins, "I'll make sure you have plenty of half-brothers and half-sisters to play with in the years to come besides these two...I promise."
Bade simply huffed a bit. "...and I don't get a say in siring, like, a dozen foals between you and Twilight?" he asked, before getting a grin from Twilight.
"Master-Sergeant Bade Moonglade, you will give Amaya and I all the foals we want, understood soldier!?" Twilight asked in a drill-instructor tone with all the authority she could muster, making Bade snap-to on instinct, saluting her in the appropriate stance.
"Ma'am, yes ma'am!" Bade replied on reflex, before catching himself just as Amaya and Twilight started laughing, making him blush.
"Well it's settled then, we're gonna have lots and lots of foals!" Twilight said, before giving Bade a soft kiss, followed by Amaya.
"...and even if we don't, we're sure as hay gonna have enough sex to...right?"
"Hay yeah we will..." Amaya replied for him, before giving Twilight a kiss too, "my herd-mates, my loves." |
It Hates Me So Much | pre | Within a few moments, he shoved her down and held her, stuffing as much of his cock as he could in her ass and hugging her tightly as his throbbing shaft ejected massive loads of his creamy spunk, bucking up every so often with a whimper.
"I love you so much, Steel, I love you so very much, and I'll never let you go," he started, panting as he continued pumping her full, despite the seed starting to spurt out from around his cock. "You're the best in the whole wide world, even better than Celestia, and I love you Steel."
"Dad?"
"I'll hold you forever and ever, and always keep you safe..."
"Dad."
"You'll never get hurt ever, you'll be safe forever baby, safe forever..."
"Dad!"
"Huh?" his eyes opened, looking around the room as if he were lost as he breathed heavily.
"What was that, dad?" Steel asked, nuzzling her father.
"W-What was what, honey?" He asked with red cheeks and a nervous grin, rubbing her back with a hoof.
"You were saying so many nice things about me, daddy," Steel explained. He sighed in relief.
"When I feel really, really good, I blurt things out," he explained. "I'm glad you stopped me before the good thought ran out."
"You're welcome!" Steel chirped. "Now what's next?"
"H-how old are you again, honey?" He asked.
"Nine. Why?" She questioned.
"That just means I can still give you a good ol' creampie," he explained.
"Why can't you give me creampies forever?" Steel inquired.
"Because at a certain age, fillies like you hit puberty and start becoming fertile, and I don't wanna put a baby into my daughter," he explained.
"How come?"
"Because... Ugh, can we move on before we run out of time?" He asked.
"Okay daddy!" Steel replied.
Her father placed one hoof and lowered himself to the floor with a groan of exertion, carefully laying Steel on the floor before putting both hooves on the ground and straightening his forelegs, then began slowly pulling his penis out until his cock slipped out, letting cum drip out and pile beneath her.
With a shaky hoof, he guided his penis, rubbing the tip against her snatch. He weakly thrusted a few times with shivering hips.
"Daddy, you can barely stand. Let me handle this," Steel told him, placing a hoof on his chest.
"You sure, honey?" He questioned, making eye contact with her.
"Yes. Now lay on your stomach."
"Wha-my stomach?" He asked, doing a double take. "Why my stomach?"
"Dinky told me that mares can make stallions feel good by licking their tailhole, so I wanted to try it."
"You wanna give me a rimjob?" He asked.
"Pleeeeease?" She asked, giving him puppy eyes.
His heart melted as he sighed with a soft smile. "How could I say no to that face?"
"Yay!" She exclaimed. She closed her eyes and pickered her lips, requesting a kiss. He planted his lips against her for a full second before pulling them off with a wet smack. He stood fully, still shaking in his horseshoes, and slowly backed up, before doing a one-eighty and slowly lowering himself to the ground with a groan of exertion.
"Don't look back! It makes it harder to do my stuff," Steel told him.
"Sure honey," he mumbled, resting his head on the ground as he struggled to keep his eyelids half open.
"Actually, go ahead and take a nap. We can finish later," Steel told him, snuggling into his side.
"But I'm supposed to be pleasing you..." he whined quietly as his ears splayed back, his eyelids already closing.
"I can wait," she whispered into his ear.
"But..." he started at a barely audible volume, before his eyes closed fully, and he started to quietly snore.
"Sweet dreams, daddy," Steel muttered, before quietly standing with a plan in mind.
"Huh? Baby?" Steel's father yawned, eyes fluttering open. He felt a strange warm feeling in his anus, before hearing a masculine sounding moan from behind him.
"Steel?" He tiredly asked, slowly moving his head to look behind him. What he saw was not what he expected.
"Steel Metal?" He asked, blinking multiple times as he stared at the colt with the exact same colors as his filly. The colt was looking back with a nervous smile as he was mounted on the stallion, one small hoof pinning the fathers tail to his back as the other held a softening horsecock.
"Did you..." The stallion trailed off, trying to comprehend the scene.
"I know this looks bad, but I can explain!" The colt hurriedly said.
"Who are..." The stallion started, his brain starting to reactivate.
"D-d-don't worry! I'm your Steel Metal, through and through! Dinky just lent me a magical pill that transformed me into a colt for a few hours!" The colt tried to explain.
"Prove it."
"I-uh,uh look!" The colt said, turning around and flipping his tail over his back, presenting his backdoor, leaking with cum.
"Remember when we did butt stuff? You said you felt really good, a-and that's why you were saying so many nice things about- oof!" The colt was interrupted as the stallion knocked him to the side and onto his back.
"Daddy?! What are you- whoah my Celestia, that's good!" The colt exclaimed as the stallion wrapped his lips around the colt's cock that was surprisingly stallion sized for his age and began deepthroating the everliving buck out of it, making loud slurping noises a he went up and down really fast, turned his head from side to side, fondling the little one's balls with a hoof.
"Ah! Hah! Ooh! How are you- nyah! So good at this, daddy?!" The colt got out between grunts, jerking into his father's mouth as waves of extreme pleasure crashed through his little body.
"Ah! AH! L-let- unh! Let me c-cover your face, daddy!" Steel shouted. His father sucked up his entire cock and held it in his mouth for a moment before pulling it out completely with a pop, moving back and angling it towards him as he hooked his other hoof around it and rapidly pumped up and down. His muzzle was wide open, his tongue dangled out, and his eyes were shut.
"Ah! Wow! DADDY!" Steel's cock erupted, blasting his father's face, who flinched at the first rope from his daughter-turned-son's monster cock, which landed across the stallion's forehead, making his hoof slow down considerably so the colt's seed didn't go everywhere.
Some of the spurts covered his muzzle, forehead, mane, and one even got on his closed eye, with some luckily making their way into his mouth, which he dare not swallow until his Steel Metal commanded it, although he did open his eyes a crack after noticing there was no more delicious cum to look at his son.
"Oh Celestia, daddy, you look so hot," Steel told the stallion, blushing a deep red. "Is that what I look like when you cum on my face?"
Without a word, his father nodded. Steel bit his hoof, watching his father pant like a bitch in heat. Steel stopped biting his hoof and moved it to pet his fathers head instead, who closed his eyes once again and leaned into the touch.
"I need to ask Dinky for a necklace with that spell," Steel muttered.
They stayed like this for a minute.
"Uh, dad?" Steel asked. "You look a little pent up. Wanna release that into my pussy?"
Her father moaned, opening his eyes. He swallowed his daughter-turned-son-turned-daughter's cum before speaking.
"Of course, baby," he replied. At some point, he had raised his ass into the air, and his erection hung there, throbbing painfully. He stood fully, lowering his rear and holding his cock down with a hoof so they were level with her taint, and waddled forward until his tip pressed against her pussy.
"Are you finally ready for the main event, my amazing little baby?" He asked, grinding his glans against her winking fillyhood.
"Just go in already!" Steel exclaimed. Quickly, he placed a hoof to her chest to hold her in place, with the other pulled up to his chest, his center of weight carefully balanced so that he wasn't crushing his only filly, and popped his tip into her wet cunny with a groan. He pushed it in before his medial ring stopped him, then he thrusted, surprisingly fitting the rest inside, grunting as his crotch slapped against her small asscheeks.
"That's new," he mumbled, cracking an eye open to make sure she was okay. Considering her ahegao, he assumed she was fine and closed his eye again, pulling out before beginning a steady rut.
"Does that feel good, s-ugh, baby?" He asked, resisting the urge to dirty talk as he also resisted the urge to speed up, wanting to give his daughter's womb the cum it so desperately wanted.
"Yes! Fuck your little slut, daddy!" Steel screamed.
He whimpered, but his instincts made him accelerate exponentially.
"Yes! YES! MAKE ME YOUR LITTLE SLUT, DADDY!"
Despite heating those words from his daughter, his cock still loved the funny words from the magic filly. With a loud moan, he hilted inside her, his hips bucking with each load sent into his daughter's young womb, easily filling it and forcing most of his loads to spurt out onto their crotches, painting them white.
"I love you so fucking much, baby..." |
It Hates Me So Much | [11] Voice Chat | Dinky entered her home, kicking the door shut with her hindleg as a huge smile was plastered onto her face.
"Bound!" She called, entering the living room, spying her significant other sitting on the couch, next to the small sleeping form of their hybrid sons. "Come 'ere, boy!" She ordered quietly. Bound looked over at her for a second. He stepped off the couch halfway, stretching his hindlegs on the elevated surface of the couch before leaving the couch completely, turning and approaching the mare.
"Sit!" She told him excitedly. He slowly sat, tilting his head slightly in curiosity.
"Now close your eyes!" She said. He stopped tilting his head and did as he was told, feeling her place something around his neck.
"Done!" She exclaimed. In response, he opened his eyes, looking at the now sitting mare, occasionally seeing the tip of her tail as it swished behind her. "Now speak!" Without hesitation, he barked.
"Speak." A calm and collected stallion's voice said from his neck, making his ears perk up.
"S-Say something else!" She said like an excited filly asking a performer to do tricks,
then listened to him bark again.
"I love Dinky." The voice spoke, this time making him look behind him.
"Aww! I love you too!" She replied, wrapping her hooves around his neck in a tight hug. After determining there was no intruder, he looked forward and nuzzled her cheek, before she backed away a few moments later.
"I can..." He trailed off, looking into her eyes for any signs of deception. "Speak?" She nodded vigorously.
"Let's test it out!" She stated, before turning to face the door. raised her rear as high as she could into the air, shifting her hindlegs apart and flagging her tail to the side, revealing her little tailhole and winking pussy.
"Shall I insert it into your anus or vagina?" He asked, approaching her and rearing up, hanging his paws over her shoulders and lowering his head to rest against her left cheek as his tip brushed against her folds.
"I-I don't care, just talk while you fuck me!" She replied.
"Understood," He lifted his hips slightly to line his red rocket up with her anus. "I choose your tailhole." He pushed the tip in, making her eyes close halfway and her ears droop as she moaned in satisfaction.
"Even after a decade of rutting your tailhole, it is as tight as ever," he noted, sinking into her until he was stopped by his knot. "And so pleasurably warm as well." He slowly pumped in and out, drawing it out to the tip before sliding it back in entirely.
"The pleasure included with your inner walls pulsing against me in combination with the previous two points make it impossible to last long while in your depths," he stated.
"You like to talk a lot, huh?" Dinky asked.
"I have not had the chance to speak my mind before now," he replied, before making her yelp as he slammed into her, raising her rear hooves off the ground slightly for a moment before beginning to jackhammer into her, emitting loud slaps that echoed through the house as she let out a loud moan, which was cut off by a growl.
"Shut up," He growled quietly. "Kid's still sleeping." She bit her lip, nearly drawing blood as she relegated to low moans and the occasional grunt.
"Usually, I would forego speaking as I orgasm while we have intercourse, but with this new technology around my neck, I must inquire..." Bound trailed off, speaking all that in one bark. "May I fill your anus with my semen, Miss Dinky?" He asked.
"Is that what you call me?" She giggled. "And yes, I love feeling your cum in my ass."
"It is settled then," Bound told her, then knotted her in the next thrust, his crotch slapping against her ass as he released the tension in his dick, blasting her canal with his warm seed. As he filled her up, he used this opportunity to ask a few questions.
"Miss Dinky, why did you choose to take me in?" He asked.
"Well, you made me feel good, you weren't made of wood, and didn't try to eat me after you fucked me," Dinky counted off, and Bound nodded.
"What reason do you have for treating me like a pony? Nothing was preventing you from treating me as if I were a regular dog similar to Miss Applejack's Winona?" He continued.
"You weren't like the wolves Ms. Cheerilee taught us about. I could tell after our first interaction that you were... unique, that you had more intelligence than the average canine," Dinky explained.
"I suspected so, since the occurence of me being adopted by those I perform sex with is fairly rare, and each explanation has usually been very similar to what you told me," Bound told her. "That being said, none have loved me as deeply as you do, and none were willing to allow me to fuck them as often as you tend to."
"Aww!" Dinky cooed, looking back at him. "I love you too!"
"Now," Bound started, before yanking his knot and cock out of Dinky's butt, which expertly closed to trap as much of his cum as possible, which luckily equated to all of it. "Shall we show Hanzal my new capabilities?"
"You can talk now?" Hanzal asked, sitting on one end of the sofa.
"Correct," Bound confirmed, sitting on the opposite end.
"He's good at it too!" Dinky shouted from the kitchen as she prepared dinner for the three of them.
"And now that I can indeed speak, I can voice a question i've contemplated since meeting you," Bound told him. He stood on the couch, turned around, and laid back down with his paws hanging over the hoofrest, looking back at Hanzal as he raised his tail, presenting his pink and puckered tailhole to the stallion.
"Hanzal, would you be willing to fuck my ass?" Bound requested.
"I uh..." Hanzal trailed off. "This is... new to me," he admitted. "I hope you do not
mind."
"This is new to me as well," Bound told him. "We are both inexperienced on this matter."
"Yes," Hanzal fidgeted nervously, feeling his dick begin to peek from his sheath. "But I am unsure if I vould be... satisfactory, enough for you."
"Would you like if I took the lead?" Bound offered, slowly moving his rear from side to side.
"Nein, I..." He felt his now hardened cock rest against his closed forelegs. "I feel it vould be better if I, uh... taught myself, you understand?"
"Ah, I get you," Bound said. "Well, take as much time as you need, for I am officially your training dummy!"
"Danke, my furry friend. It means a lot." Hanzal smiled with genuine appreciation.
Hanzal stood and approached Bound, who's pucker was perfectly in line with Hanzal's pecker. He slowed to a stop as his penis pressed against Bound's tailhole, his tip at least twice as large as Bound's backdoor.
"Uh, this vill not hurt you, correct?" Hanzal nervously asked.
"Don't worry about me," Bound replied. "I can handle whatever you throw at me."
"Okay..." Hanzal widened his stance just a little, then began applying pressure. It took a few seconds before he could pop his tip into the wolf, marking the advancement with a sigh of pleasure. Bound rested his chin on the hoofrest, his eyes half lidded as he smiled in pleasure.
Hanzal began slowly sliding into Bound's butt, relishing the amazing feeling of Bound's hot walls tight around his cock. Unfortunately, just before his medial ring reached Bound, he hit a wall, stopping him as Bound let out a growl like purr.
"I really love your ass, Bound," Hanzal told the wolf, smiling as he felt Bound's tail begin slowly moving left and right between their bodies. "It's like nobody's... penetrated it before."
"On the nose there, Hanzal," Bound told the stallion.
"Vhat?" Hanzal said, confusion clear on his face.
"You're right, Hanzal. Nobody's penetrated it before,"Bound explained.
"So you are a virgin?" Hanzal asked.
"In this regard, correct," Bound confirmed.
"So I am like a... a benchmark?" Hanzal asked.
"If you would like to see it that way," Bound said. "Now shall we continue?"
"Yes," Hanzal replied, pulling out slightly, then pushing back in with a groan, starting a slow pace in and out of Bound.
"How long have you... had zhis collar?" Hanzal asked, accelerating slightly.
"Just got it today, actually," Bound answered, closing his eyes and enjoying the pleasure flowing through him.
"And it's working this vell?" Hanzal asked with a hint of incredulously. "Who made it, The Princess?"
"Dinky did," Bound told him.
"Verdammt, man! She is so good at so many things!" Hanzal exclaimed, yanking out his cock and roughly shoving it back inside the wolf.
"I know, right?" Bound agreed, feeling his red rocket leak precum as it was pinned between the couch and his belly. Hanzal accelerated to a steady rutting speed, then grew faster and faster.
"Scheisse! I am close!" Hanzal exclaimed, panting as he curled down, wrapped his forelegs around Bound's chest, and held on tight, his hips a blur as he flew in and out of Bound with loud slaps.
Soon after, Hanzal let out a loud moan and stuffed his cock as deep as he could into Bound's ass, and his nuts glowed in a golden aura as his throbbing dick deposited loads of his warm sperm into the wolf, which was at least twice as much as Hanzal usually produced, and it quickly began spurting out around his cock, painting Hanzal's crotch and Bound's ass white by the time Hanzal ran dry.
"I love you, Bound," Hanzal said, closing his eyes and laying himself on top of the canine, leaving his dick in the wolf's ass as Hanzal nuzzled the side of Bound's face.
"I love you too, Hanzal," Bound said back, also closing his eyes as his belly dripped cum from his own orgasm. |
It Hates Me So Much | [12] Making Friends | A few weeks after Dinky and her new pet wolf Bound met, Bound had begun visiting her during their lunch breaks and recess, which were both conducted outside. They quickly made a daily routine of performing some type of sexual activity during these breaks, ranging from simple blowjobs and him marking her with his urine, up to her getting both an anal and vaginal creampie.
This chapter starts about a week after they started this routine, during the after lunch recess. As all the other fillies and colts spread out into their groups and went to their preferred eating spots, one green colt walked off alone, climbing up onto the seat of a picnic table by the schoolhouse alone, eating his sandwich. With a twinge of sadness in her heart, she approached the table, climbing up beside the colt and unpacking her own lunch, which was a sandwich and an orange.
"Hello!" She cheerfully greeted him with a bright smile. "I'm Dinky!"
"Uh... h-hi," he nervously greeted back, glancing at her.
"What's your name?" She asked.
"I-I'm Hanzal," he told her, adopting a nervous smile as he turned to her. "Nice to m-meet you."
"Nice to meet you too!" She chirped, turning to face him. "How are you?"
"I'm uh... g-good," he shyly answered, looking down to avoid eye contact. She tilted her head slightly.
"You seem a bit nervous," she commented, before tilting her head a little more. "What's wrong?"
In response, the pegasus trembled slightly, head lowered. "I...don't want to talk about it."
"It isn't good to hold things in," She pointed out and he sighed.
"Fair point." One hoof went to his left wing, Dinky gasped slightly. It was lopsided and poked outwards slightly. Some of the feathers were missing and the structure of the bones in uncomfortable positions. The ulna bone was the primary problem, with the rest of the bones being affected too.
"I was born prematurely, thus resulting in my left wing being crippled. Before I got here, I had a filly as a friend... A pegasus, like myself. Very pretty, but...back in Farmany, My parents taught me to be polite and respectful towards others. My friend appreciated that but... she found it hard that her coltfriend had a stiff wing. With time, many ponies bullied me for it, me being not able to fly like any other pegasi. Eventually, she left me because of that... no filly wants a pegasus unable to fly properly." He looked up, struggling not to cry. "And ever since...I get quickly nervous around others, afraid of screwing up..."
The unicorn looked at him with sympathy, it was probably a mental condition caused by his handicap, similar to her mother with her eyes.
"I'm sorry to hear that, and you'll be glad to hear that I don't hate you for something you can't control," she consoled him, deciding to lean in, wrapping him in a hug. He leaned into it, and they stayed like that for a fair bit, until Dinky got an idea.
"I think I know the perfect way to make you feel better," She stated softly, using her hooves to spread his as she leaned down to his crotch, stopping inches away as she eyed his black sheath and balls, smelling his delicious musk.
"May I?" She asked, looking up at him and locking eyes with him as he looked down with wide eyes and red cheeks, before he looked away with a brighter blush.
"Uh... s-sure?" he answered quizzically with a sniff, spreading his hindlegs a bit more as he leaned back, resting his weight on his forelegs.
With that, she stuck her muzzle into his crotch, smiling as she inhaled his musk, nuzzling it before beginning to lap at it, covering his balls in saliva as his thick foalcock slowly began growing. She quickly slurped it into her mouth, licking it as she let it grow in her mouth.
Hanzal looked down with an eye closed as he bit his lip, feeling the waves of pleasure emanating from his crotch flow through him.
As soon as his cock hardened in her throat, she began throating him, lifting her muzzle to his tip and bringing it back down to his base at a decent speed, making wet gurgling noises as one of her hooves fondled his balls.
"Das fuhlt sich so gut an..." Hanzal mumbled in German, smiling in pleasure as he gently laid a hoof on Dinky's head, beginning to lightly thrust on her downstrokes as his wings slowly began unfurling.
"Ich fuhle... mich merkwurdig," He said, biting his lip and closing his other eye as he thrusted faster and faster. Soon, his wings went erect at his sides, his crippled one slightly stinging, although the pain was overcome with pleasure as he grunted and went slack jawed, letting his tongue hang out as his balls pulsed and his tip flared, his throbbing cock spurting ropes of thick and gooey sperm into her throat.
When she realized, she dropped her muzzle to his crotch and held it there, his hindlegs immediately wrapping around her neck and pressing her down as she dutifully swallowed his cum.
He moaned, patting her head after he finished, and she raised her head off with a pop, panting as she smiled at the colt.
"Did that feel good?" She asked, smirking as he nodded eagerly, sitting back up.
"Do you wanna do more?" She asked, and watched as he tilted his head cutely in confusion. In response, she did a one-eighty, sticking her rump into the air and resting her chest on the bench, allowing her forelegs to lay limp and straight underneath her as she expertly flicked her tail up onto her back, presenting her leaking vagina.
He sat there, gawking at the first vagina he'd seen up close, watching her clit poke out for a moment as it winked. His gaze moved down, and he noticed two mounds between her thighs, colored slightly darker than her fur, and noticed that her nipples were erect. She giggled, swaying her rump from side to side a few times.
"Enjoying the view?" She asked, using her golden magic to grab the lips of her snatch and pull them wide open, allowing Hanzal to see the wet inside of her canal as it winked again.
"S-So... what do I do?" He asked, studying her pussy intensely. "And what is that?"
"That is my vagina," she answered. "Most commonly referred to as a pussy, and it's where your penis is supposed to go."
"My penis?" He asked, feeling the aforementioned member twitch in response.
"Yes!" She confirmed, wrapping his tip in a short cylinder of golden aura that she slowly moved up and down his shaft to keep him hard. "Most commonly referred to as a cock, it goes into my pussy and makes us both feel good."
"S-So what do I do to... make us feel good?" He asked, using his hooves to spread her lips a little wider to get a better look inside.
She giggled. "Well, first you have to rear up onto me, and put the tip of your cock up against my pussy," she instructed.
He studied her crotch for a few more moments before he stood and reared up, leaning forward a little as he placed his hooves on the peak of her rump, with his tip prodding her still open lips.
She inhaled sharply, feeling the wide tip press against her small filly pussy. "N-Next, you push it in as much as you can."
With a grunt from them both, he popped the tip in, and he moaned as he slowly slid his cock into her, almost hilting inside her when his tip bumped against the entrance to her womb, splaying his wings.
"T-Then you pull it out and push it back in until you cum!" She finished, shifting her stance to be slightly wider as she released the magic grip she had on her lips, letting it form around his cock.
He then started slowly rutting her, pulling out to his tip before pushing all the way back in with a grunt, biting his lip and closing his eyes in pleasure as he turned his head up.
"Your cock feels so good!" Dinky moaned, and he sped up considerably, reaching a steady speed.
Soon after, however, she saw Bound walk into view in front of her. He moved forward and licked her lips once in the canine equivalent of a kiss, before he stepped back and reared up, placing his paws on either side of her barrel and bringing his red rocket to her lips, smearing the glob of precum that had formed on her lips.
Bound waited for her to open her mouth before thrusting in, inserting almost half of his cock into her small maw before he hit the back of her throat, then he pulled out to the tip and started fucking her face, quickly matching Hanzal's speed.
Hanzal didn't notice his cock changing soon after Bound joined in, merely starting to speed up as he crept closer to the edge, oblivious to the knot beginning to grow at the base of his cock. He also didn't notice when he started growling and baring his teeth, revealing a pair of canines on his top and bottom row of teeth.
"Dinky! I-Ich werde kommen!" Hanzal shouted in German, before hilting in her with a bark, his wings erect once again a he popped in his knot and his tip pushed past into her womb and flared, locked him inside her in two places as he began filling her with his seed, causing her belly to balloon out a little.
Bound came at the same time, growling as he pushed the rest of his cock apart from his knot into her maw, making her gag as he filled her belly with spunk, also inflating her belly greatly.
Dinky came when Hanzal did, her horn sparking harmlessly as she spurted marecum around his cock, her mind overflowing with pleasure that was only multiplied by Bound's orgasm.
Eventually, Hanzal opened his eyes as he looked back down, then recoiled with a small yelp after seeing the face of a wolf less than a foot from his own, then corrected himself before he fell back.
"Ah, you must be the pet wolf the fillies and colts have been spreading rumours about," Hanzal said, placing a hoof on his chest as he panted lightly from the short scare. Bound nodded and licked Hanzal's lips, making the colt giggle as Bound pulled his pelvis back just enough to pull it out of Dinky's muzzle and allow her to breath, which she did, coughing and gulping down air.
Unfortunately, before Hanzal could ask the wolf any questions, the class bell rang, and the wolf gave him one final lick before backing away, turning and bounding back into the woods, leaving the two to untangle themselves and get back to class. |
It Hates Me So Much | [13] Dinking Dinky Anniversary | Many years after their first camping trip, where Dinky met the love of her life Bound, they returned to the same spot and set up a tent. Inside the tent, Derpy, with a few extra wrinkles, was laying on her side facing Dinky while wrapped in a thick cotton blanket, which covered everything below her neck, wearing nothing but a pair of yellow panties and snoring cutely as the nighttime bugs buzzed in the trees around their tent. Her daughter, now the size of her mother, was splayed out on her back, almost star shaped as she wore nothing but a pair of tight pink panties.
The flaps of the tent slowly unzipped, then a wolf peeked in, his glowing red eyes washing over the ponies. Then, the collar around his neck glowed a soft yellow for a moment, and he shrunk, transforming into a slightly-larger-than-average stallion with black fluffy fur, along with a long and unkempt mane and tail, and retained his glowing eyes and sharp fangs. He quietly stalked in, the only sound being the faint clinking of the dog tags hanging from his no longer glowing collar, and his tail that dragged along the ground swayed slowly from side to side as he approached Dinky.
Once he reached the unicorn, he leaned down, gently clamping his teeth around the hem of her panties, and carefully guiding them off of her legs before lightly tossing them aside. He lowered his nose centimeters from her snatch, sniffing it for a moment, then licked it before raising his head. He carefully crouched down and laid across Dinky, pressing his wide tip against her snatch, then bit his lip to stifle a moan as he popped the tip in, slowly sliding his cock into her until he hilted inside her, bulging out across two-thirds of her belly. He wrapped a foreleg around her barrel, then used his other foreleg to push himself up to a sitting position. Finally, he wrapped his other foreleg around her barrel, then began slowly sliding her up and down his shaft at a consistent pace, occasionally emitting a grunt or quiet moan.
After a few minutes, he groaned as his ears splayed back and rested his chin on her shoulder, before he started jerking his hips up with a grunt each time she slid down.
He grunted loudly, and suddenly sped up tremendously, loudly slamming into her as he screwed his eyes shut and sunk his teeth into her shoulder, hammering against the entrance to her womb.
Soon, he moaned loudly and gave a powerful thrust, pushing into her womb and allowing him to hilt inside her completely as his tip flared, and his balls started hiking up and down, his throbbing cock depositing a massive load into her, and he gently laid her back down on the ground as her belly inflated greatly.
He was panting lightly as he looked up at her beautiful face with a loving smile, watching as she drooled onto the tent floor beneath her. Eventually, with a low moan, he started slowly pulling out, and his tip soon popped out, allowing her gaping pussy to excrete only a small amount of her sperm.
Next, he lowered his dick to prod her tailhole, then slowly pushed in with a moan, stepping forward before hilting inside her with a rough thrust and a grunt. He stopped for a moment, adjusting his stance, then began rutting her ass hard and fast, moaning loudly before leaning down and sinking his teeth into the same holes, biting slightly harder as he screwed his eyes shut again and jackhammered into her.
Soon, with a loud groan into her shoulder, he gave a particularly hard buck and hilted in her anus, his tip flaring as his balls pulsed and hiked up and down, jettisoning another huge load into her, inflating her belly a little more. He then grabbed her panties with his teeth once again, and carefully guided them back up her hindlegs and back into place on her crotch, a small damp spot forming at her pussy.
Soon, he grunted as he roughly yanked out his cock, letting her gaping ponut excrete a little of his cum as well, before he walked forward until his crotch was over her face. He lowered his dick and balls onto her face, rubbing and smothering her face with his musk for a moment, before raising it again, using a hoof to push it down and press against her lips, and he pushed forward a few times before he managed to force his tip into her mouth, then moaned loudly as he dropped his waist, hilting inside her muzzle and making his balls slap against her chin. He waited a moment, then let out another loud groan as he suddenly began slamming into her mouth with loud and wet slaps, making her gag with each thrust.
Soon, he emitted a very loud and throaty groan as he slammed into her face one last time, grimacing as his balls hiked up and down and shot a massive load straight down her gullet, the large bulge going down her neck throbbing as her belly grew even more. Eventually, this load ended as well, and he was panting lightly as he pulled his cock out, letting her cough and gulp down air in her sleep.
He scooted aside so that he was standing over Derpy, lowering his crotch on top of her face to smother it with his musk as well, and stepped back until he was no longer on the blanket, then began snaking under the blanket, slipping behind Derpy and laying on his side up against her back, wrapping his lower foreleg around her barrel as his top hindleg raised to be almost vertical, while his other hoof guided his tip to her lips.
Next, he began steadily applying pressure against her lips, and soon moaned as his tip slid in, still stretching her old hole. He gave a slightly louder moan as he scooted up, steadily inserting his cock into her, before he eventually was stopped short of hilting inside her by the entrance to her womb.
Unable to go fast or hard due to her age, he pulled out a little and started slowly sliding his cock in and out of her, resting his cheek on hers as he closed his eyes and smiled gently, constantly emitting low moans of pleasure.
After a few minutes of slow and sensual rutting, he bit his lip as he suppressed his urges, instead starting to slowly accelerate. Fairly soon, he gave a loud and throaty sigh as he gave a hard buck to push into her womb and hilt her before his tip flared and locked him inside, and his nuts began hiking up and down again, his throbbing cock shooting a fat load into the mare, inflating her belly about as much as Dinky's, if not a little more.
This time, however, he did not pull out, instead snuggling closer to the mare as he slowly succumbed to the dream realm, planning to give the mares a nice surprise the next morning. |
It Hates Me So Much | [14] Friend Request Accepted | It was a rather quiet day at the school of Ponyville. The lesson was coming to an end, but Dinky continued to listen with full interest, focused as always, jotting down important notes in her pink composition notebook.
Soon, Cheerliee went to use the bathroom, and the foals took this opportunity to have a quick chat, and Dinky turned towards a small pinto colt in the desk behind her.
"So, Pip, what have you planned after school?" She asked him with a smile, which he returned.
"Visiting my friend, who is sick," he responded.
"Ah, right. Send him a speedy recovery from me, will you?" She asked with pity.
"Sure thing. Anything you have planned, Noi?" He looked at the yellow filly in the desk to Dinky's right, which was his left, who nodded, her slightly darker yellow mane bobbing.
"Sort of," she answered, turning to face him. "I actually don't have any plans but thought I could help out my mother in her garden. It's kinda relaxing for me."
"And I thought I could practice my flute with Lyra!" Tootsie added cheerfully to the mix, in the desk to Dinky's left, as a Rose red unicorn in the desk to Pip's left lowered her head in slight embarrassment.
"Me...I did not yet think about it," she answered softly.
"It's okay, Ruby, we were just curious," Dinky tried to cheer her up, then got an idea. "I had planned to meet a friend after school, how about I introduce him to you?" She suggested, and the other fillies smiled.
"Sure, why not? It's Friday anyway, so we can relax all day," Ruby agreed, smiling weakly.
After school had ended, Dinky and the three fillies waved goodbye to Pip, and told their mothers who waited at the doors that they were going with Dinky, who led them to a picnic table near Fluttershy's house by the Everfree forest treeline, where they say, chatting and laughing as they awaited Dinky's friend.
About an hour later, a slightly dirty Bound excited the treeline, and slowed as he spotted the fillies, sitting on the grass at the end of the table as he studied them.
"Bound, these are my friends," Dinky said, gesturing towards the fillies with a large sweeping gesture. "Fillies, this is Bound. Say hi!"
"Hiiiii," The fillies greeted simultaneously in a nervous tone, to which Bound responded with a simple wave with his paw.
Dinky was on his end of the table to Bound's right, so the wolf approached the filly across from her, who watched him with wide eyes as Bound sniffed her rear.
"U-Um, h-hey there Bound," she stuttered, watching him stick his nose under her tail and sniff her tailhole. "M-My name is Noi, a-and um..." she trailed off as he lifted her rear a little with his muzzle, nosing her pussy a little, before giving it a lick, which made her tense up with a light gasp of surprise, not expecting the small burst of pleasure from a simple lick.
After a few more whiffs of her, he reared up and planted his paws on the table, lifting her to be bent over the table as he did so, and prodded her pussy with the tip of his red rocket, making her gasp again, and her ears splayed back.
"D-Dinky..." Noi called shyly. "W-What..."
"Don't worry," Dinky assured her, smiling gently. "It's just his penis."
"W-What's that?" She asked softly, looking up at Bound's face, while he looked down at her with a gentle expression.
"Well, he uses that to make foals," Dinky explained, leaning over the table to hold Noi's hoof in hers. "It feels really good, I promise."
"R-Really?" Noi asked softly, then gasped again as Bound pushed forward a tiny bit, spreading her lower lips with his tip, but not yet entering her.
"Well, since it's your first time, it'll hurt a bit, but then it'll feel really good," Dinky told her friend.
"Promise?" Noi asked shyly.
"Promise," Dinky told her, and glanced up at Bound with a curt nod, before looking back into her friend's eyes.
Slowly, Bound pushed his tip into her, making her gasp loudly as he finally entered, stretching her hole, and she yelped in pain as he went in deeper, then moaned in pleasure as his tip tickled the entrance to her womb, which is where Bound stopped, letting her get used to him.
"Go on," Dinky told Noi. "Tell him about yourself."
"W-Well, um," Noi interrupted herself with a grunt. "M-My name is Noi, my mom i-is Carrot Top-"
"Carrot Top?" Bound interrupted. "The vegetable stand mare?" He asked, and she hummed in confirmation. "I know her. Good mare. Amazingly tight pussy too," he said. "Like yours."
"P-Pussy?" Noi asked in confusion. "Like a cat?"
"Your vagina," he corrected. "Where my penis has pushed into you. It leads to your womb, which is where a stallion shall release his seed, and plant into you a foal," he explained simply. "Do not worry, I cannot create foals with a mare such as yourself, due to being a wolf, so do not worry."
"Where does the seed come from?" She asked.
"It comes from my testicles," he explained. "Allow me to show you. First, direct your free hoof to where I am inside of you," he told her. She moved her left hoof down to his cock, gently placing her soft frog upon it.
"Good. Now, move it down my penis, towards me, until you make contact with my sheath." She slowly pushed her hoof down to his knot, where she stopped.
"Here?" She questioned. He merely chuckled.
"No little one, that is my knot. Canines possess these, to assist in keeping out penises inside a female and ensure all of our seed reaches their womb. Stallions do not have knots," He explained. "Move farther, until you reach two hanging orbs." She followed his orders, until she reached his balls, gently feeling their shape.
"There you go... That is where my seed is produced," He informed her.
"Is it like peeing?" She asked.
"Sort of, little one," Bound told her. "The seed does come out of my urethra similar to urine, about it comes out in bursts."
"Can you do it whenever you want?" She asked.
"Sort of. You must pleasure my penis enough in order for it to release it's seed."
"How do I do that?" She asked.
"This time, you will do nothing but sit back and enjoy, as I show you how to make love," Bound informed her, then made her gasp as he slowly pulled out until only his tip was left inside of her, then thrusted back in, making her moan as he began a slow rhythm of pulling out to his tip and thrusting back in until his tip touched the entrance to her womb.
"I-It hurts," she complained.
"Distract your mind," Bound asked. "Try telling me about yourself."
"W-Well, my father is Written Script," she told him.
"The author?" Bound asked.
"Mhmm," She confirmed. "He said there was a um, special creature in the Everfree, and he wanted to study it, which has been where he's gone for a few weeks while I'm at school."
Bound chuckled. "That explains the stallion who's been tracking me for the past few weeks."
"Wait, you've met him?" Noi asked, starting to get comfortable in his presence.
"I've seen him," Bound corrected. "He's been close to running into me during my daily activities, but he hasn't nailed down his timing yet, though I suspect we will meet within a fortnight."
"What about my mom?" Noi asked. "You said she has a tight uh... cat?"
Bound chuckled again. "Tight vagina," he corrected. "And yes, sometimes when I'm running errands for Dinky's mother, I am led to her vegetable stall, and more often than not, use her to relieve myself," he explained. "With permission of course."
"Is that why she's been so much happier recently?" Noi questioned.
Bound smiled. "While it would be nice to know I make her happy, I believe she's happy because your father has found something to pursue that makes him happy."
"What about your parents?" She asked.
"Ah yes, my mother and father," Bound started. "Simple wolves, who unknowingly gave birth to an immortal pup. They were amazing parents, caring for me while giving me a sister, who also turned out like me."
"What happened to them?" She asked.
"They died peacefully, sleeping with their almost fully grown pups with full bellies and hearts of gold," Bound informed her. "I still live in the same cave as they did, eons later after ponies claimed Equestria as their own. I even kept their skulls, and plan to meet Twilight Sparkle and learn magic to hopefully at least give their lifeless skulls a voice, so I may talk to them in-" Bound barked then growled, his collar unable to translate the name of his parents' current location, then bared his teeth. "Little one, I'm getting closer to release."
"You are?" She asked excitedly, then quickly moaned as Bound shoved his knot into her, pushing his tip into her womb as his balls pulsed and hiked up and down, sending seed down his throbbing shaft and filling her small womb, making her belly bloat out a little before he finally stopped.
"It will take... many years... but I will talk to my parents once more," Bound finished. "How are you feeling, little one?"
Noi was panting, having drenched his crotch in marecum. "I feel... amazing," she said between pants, lying limp on top of the bench as her body was numb with pleasure.
"Great," Bound said, then yanked his knot out, then sliding the rest of his cock out, allowing her pussy to gape as he hopped off and approached the filly beside Noi, who was already bent over on the table, her hindlegs wide and her tail flagged to the side. With a smile, he reared up over the Rosy colored filly, slowly entering her as well, listening to her moan as he pushed in until his tip touched the entrance to her womb.
"Ruby Pinch," she greeted softly. "How old are you, mister?"
Bound began his slow pace once more. "Last time I checked, I was about five hundred and sixty-eight thousand, two hundred and one years old," he answered, making all four fillies gawk at him.
"Oh wow! How do you find new things to do? Because if you're that old, I bet you've already done everything there is," she said.
"That is why I have sex so often," He answered. "It's interesting to meet a new pony, and try to figure out the best way to pleasure them."
"What about friends?" Ruby asked.
"Currently, I am friends with the pillars of Harmony, as well as the Royal sisters, who I visit every so often."
"Then who's Dinky if she's not a friend?" She asked.
"Dinky is my lover," he said. "I love her with all my heart."
"Will you introduce her to your parents when you find out how to talk to them?" She asked.
"I would like to, little one, but I doubt the spell would be anywhere near completion when her time comes," he told her, before baring his teeth again, and not even getting a moment to warn Ruby as he pushed his knot into her, filling her womb with his sperm and inflating her belly.
"Who... Who are your parents, Miss Ruby?" Bound asked.
"My uh... M-My mom is Berry Punch," she told him.
"Ah, the bar owner," he said. "I enjoy our little sessions together when she's been drinking a little too much," he explained. "In fact, I plan on meeting her tonight."
"Are you the stallion she's been talking about?" Ruby asked.
"Perhaps. What does she say?"
"Well, she's always talking about this stallion she has sex with while she drinks, always talking about how big his male chicken is, and how nice he is," She explained.
He chuckled. "Glad to hear she loves it as much as I do," Bound said as he nuzzled her mane, before yanking his knot out, stepping back before approaching the opposite side of the table, rearing up over the filly beside Dinky, who was also bent over and ready, and quickly inserted his dick into her.
"Greetings, miss..."
"Tootsie," she finished. "Tootsie Flute. Nice to meet you!"
"Likewise," he said, then began his rhythm once again.
"I have two moms!" She said excitedly. "Lyra and Bon Bon."
"I remember purchasing a Harlem from Lyra, and paying with a load of seed into her womb," he reminisced. "And I remember glazing a batch of Bon Bon's cinnamon rolls with my seed, which she said were the best she's ever tasted."
"The best she's ever tasted?" Tootsie parroted. "Now I wanna taste them!"
Bound smiled. "I will fetch you next time I meet Bon Bon then," Bound told her. "Say... Tomorrow at noon?" He suggested.
"It's a date!" Tootsie proclaimed, making Bound chuckle, before he bared his teeth, and quickly popped his knot into her, his cock throbbing as he filled the filly's womb, making it bloat as well.
"Dinky..." Bound panted, making the aforementioned filly perk up. "I like your new friends." |
It Hates Me So Much | [15] Annual Meetup | It was early in the morning, around two o'clock, and Bound laid on the sofa, chin rested on the hoofrest so he could watch his three excited little foals mess around with the gifts under the Hearth's Warming tree, separating them into piles of their own gifts, planning which to open first, and trying to guess what each wrapped package held.
"W-Whaddya think this is?" Dinky panted while draped over a square present almost the size of her, her flannel pajama pants down at her hind hooves as White Paw rutted her, his knotted horsecock thrusting into her with audible slaps as Dark Hooves was reared up onto the present in front of her, one paw on the present as the other rapidly stroked his canine penis, which was centimeters away from her face.
"I dunno," White Paw answered, studying the present. "Maybe a Ponystation 5?" He suggested.
Dinky gasped in excitement. "Ya r-really think so?" She asked hopefully, her tail brushing against his belly as it wagged eagerly. White merely nodded as his ears splayed back and he bared his teeth, screwing his eyes shut and lowering over Dinky as he sped up, going faster and faster before finally hilting inside her with a grunt, shoving his knot into her, making her moan as she came as well, spurting marecum all over his crotch as he filled her womb, barely bloating her belly with his colt-sized load, while Dark groaned loudly as his unknotted canine cock throbbed, spurting ropes of cum all over Dinky's mane.
The foals went back to their piles, excitedly chattering about what they could've gotten as Dark's cum seeped into Dinky's mane, and before long, a tired Dinky finally trudged in, sitting on the couch and snuggling with Bound, allowing and watching the foals tear into their gifts.
White started with a small cylindrical present, which was revealed to be a gray fleshlight about the size of his cock, with the far end having an inscription of Derpy's cutie mark, with the other end being a perfect recreation of her pussy.
"Now you can relieve yourself in me whenever you want," Derpy said, gasping as he quickly speared the entire thing on his cock, making Derpy's actual pussy gape by an invisible cock, and White began thrusting, roughly shoving his cock inside and out of his grandmother's pussy.
Dark got a similar fleshlight, but his was of her tailhole, and he immediately shoved it on his cock, giving an expression of pleasure as he also started to rut her. Finally, Dinky got a special dildo, which started as a perfect recreation of Bound's cock, but the base had three buttons, one with the silhouette of a wolf for Bound, a white paw for White, and a black hoof for Dark. Pressing each button made the dildo morph into a perfect copy the respective male's cock, which she used to sit on Bound's cock, practically sitting on the floor as her belly bulged out in a perfect outline of Bound's cock, then moaned as she began bouncing on it, making Bound whimper and whine as he thrusted into the air, unable to affect Dinky himself.
"Y-You feel so g-good, grannie!" White exclaimed, thrusting up as he shoved the fleshlight down over and over again, and lurched forward to wrap a foreleg around Dark's shoulders and pull them together, mashing their muzzles together and passionately smooching his brother, inserting his tongue into Dark's mouth, frotting their covered cocks. Quickly, Dark whimpered as they both hilted inside their fleshlights, their balls throbbing as they filled their grandma with their seed, inflating her belly greatly.
From right next to them, Dinky let her maw hang open as her tongue lolled out, her eyes rolling back into her head as she moaned loudly and slammed back down on the dildo, stopping as she spurted marecum all over the carpet while Bound came, Bound inflating her belly to be nice and round while also spraying cum all over Derpy his leg kicking and tail wagging wildly as he panted.
"Best... gift... ever..." Dinky panted, hugging her foals as her hindlegs shook in pleasure.
After 15 minutes or so, they managed to gather some strength. "Dad," White started, " How was your life before meeting mom?"
Bound thought for a moment, trying to recollect his memories. "Well, son, not much different, having fun and mostly snacks to Hearth's Warming Eve, nothing compared to what I have now, with Dinky." They both nuzzled noses.
"With Dinky, I had experiences I never thought possible in my life. Like the collar that enables me to speak and meet other ponies freely. Before her, I had only short encounters with ponies and few owners. And of course," He smiled, "Getting introduced to Dinky's friends, as well as making new ones, right, dear?"
"Yep!" The unicorn exclaimed with a smile. "I can still remember how we helped out, Hanzal, maybe we could invite or visit him."
"Who's Hanzal, Mom?" White asked her, totally clueless.
"A friend of mine. I met him in school, he was shy and insecure, as he was..." Dinky looked down, trying to find the right words, "Looked down for his handicap, which was a result of premature birth." Her kids gasped in disbelief. "In a way, he reminded me of my friend Pip and I saw it was only fair to help him. Even learned some German from him." Now, she smiled weakly.
"That's nice! Then why not invite both?"
"Sure thing, sweetie." And with that, they sent out an invitation.
The next day, Hanzal and Pip walked eagerly and somewhat tensed towards Dinky's house. They had not seen her for 3 weeks, having been told she was sick, thus hoping she was alright.
"I hope she's okay, she's the only real friend I actually have, apart from you, of course." Hanzal was worried, yet smiled weakly at the pinto colt, who returned it, his english being much better since he met Dinky.
"I hear ya. Dinky was my first friend when I came to ponyville."
With that, they approached the front door and used the doorbell, their hearts racing in anticipation and fear.
Yet, a stone fell from their hearts to see a healthy Dinky answering, smiling warmly at them. "Hello, guys, glad you could come."
"Likewise. Dinky, are you okay? We have not heard anything from you for a few weeks?" Pip asked, concerned, and she waved a hoof.
"I'm as fine as can be! Just had...a nasty cold." Her eyes darted around. "Anyway, come in, Bound missed you."
Hearing of Bound, the colts grinned and entered, the wolf intercepted them in the doorway with a smile of his own. "Pip, Hanzal, nice to see you again!"
"All the same, Bound." Hanzal patted him with his friend, the wolf purred. "Who's a good boy? Yes you are, yes you are!"
"And just in time too, I made muffins, gingerbread Wafers, Speculaas and cinnamon." Derpy added.
But as the colts entered the living room, they froze. Before them stood 2 wolf-like Hybrids. One of them had a wolf-like body covered in fluffy white fur, and a black pony-like mane and tail, his eyes red. The other one had a pony's body structure covered in jet black fur with no mane and a wolf tail, as well as a stubby horn that was hidden in his thick mane, his eyes blue. Both eyed the colts with curiosity.
"Don't worry, like Bound, they won't harm you," Dinky assured them, "Those are Dark Hooves and White Paw, my...children..." She lowered her head with a blush.
"Children?" both colts asked in unison, sounding confused and shocked.
"Yes...I don't know how, but somehow, I got pregnant by Bound." The little unicorn admitted shly, with Pip and Hanzal noticing her hips were wider and butt was larger, not that they could help but find it nice. "It lasted only 2 weeks or so, with both growing rapidly until they matched my age."
They stayed silent for a few minutes before hanzal started to shake. "D-Does this mean...we could get you pregnant too?"
In response, Dinky smiled weakly. "No, I think it was only due to Bound's magic, we are too young otherwise."
"I hope so..."
Nodding at each other, the siblings stepped forward, Dark offered a hoof to Hanzal and White to Pip. "In any case, is it a pleasure to meet you two." The former spoke with a smile, "What did you get at Hearts Warming Eve?"
It was the pegasus, who spoke up first. "A history book about Equestria's historical technologies, very fascinating. You, Pip?"
"A pirate novel from Tungsten, it is very interesting."
Derpy chuckled. "But now, let's enjoy the holiday, shall we?"
As she expected, the children grinned, digging in and carefully drinking hot chocolate. "I am sorry about your wing, Hanzal." Dark looked at it with pity, getting a weak smile in return.
"It's okay, I managed to improve, able to do things better with one wing than my parents could with two. Flying is hard for me, but not impossible." Now, the green colt laughed. "Funny, I kinda have to think now how my parents got me a police simulator shortly after Dinky was 'sick'. You won't believe how many citizens with fake IDs I found while playing."
"So you're a gamer too?!" Dark's eyes went wide in awe and Hanzal let out an embarrassed laugh.
"Yeah, kinda. I love RTS games, racing, shooters and almost everything with police or military included."
"Then we could play World At War together!" The wolf hybrid exclaimed excitedly before catching himself. "No offense against you or other German ponies of course." He added, remembering how the main enemies were German Soldiers in the game.
"It's okay, Dark Hooves." The colt waved a hoof.
"So, how did you meet our mother, Pip?" White paw asked with interest and the pinto colt shrugged.
"There isn't much to tell. She was one of the first ponies I met when I moved to Ponyville, getting to know each other at Nightmare Night."
"Still. It's nice to hear she was one of your first friends." The hybrid smiled with pride.
"Speaking of friends," Dinky looked out of the window, "How about a snowball fight, or making a snow pony?" She suggested it with glee.
"You don't have to ask us twice!" Hanzal exclaimed and the kids ran outside.
Derpy, Time Tuner and Bound looked smiling out of the window, watching how the kids played and enjoyed themselves.
They knew that this would be the start of a new and wonderful friendship for their newest family members. |
It Hates Me So Much | [16] Mango On A Fork Part 1 | Mango On A Fork I: The Beginning
A lone thestral snuck through the streets of Ponyville, her leathery wings fluttering and her dark tail swinging, nose turned up into the winds as she stalked a particular scent, leading her through winding alleyways and barren crossroads, taking her on a maze-like path through the town, past building and shops, some lit and some not, until she finally reached her destination.
As she rounded the corner, she slowed to a halt almost immediately with wide eyes and a jaw wide open, eyes locked onto her prize across the way. Jackpot! She thought, eyeing the milk crate nearly overflowing with Mangos, carried high in the air by the light green aura of a unicorn who was currently not looking at the Mangoes, his attention focused on the cart filled with other items.
Perfect! She streaked across the street, favoring speed over stealth as she kicked up a cloud of dust, making a beeline for the fruits locked in her sights, and once she was close, made a grand leap towards what was now her bounty.
"Huh?" The white unicorn looked behind him, lifting the crate to get a better look at what was weighing it down, which turned out to be a drooling batmare who'd latched onto his crate and was now hanging from it. He shook the crate a few times, noting her tight hold.
"You know you can just ask to buy one, right?" The unicorn informed her. After a moment of thought, she reluctantly dropped to the ground and began patting herself down, looking under her belly and inside her wings for what he assumed was bits.
"If you don't have the bits, you can always come back- woah!" He was interrupted as she suddenly dove underneath him, and immediately went for his crotch, lapping at it like a physically exerted puppy.
"What are you... doing..." He trailed off, lifting his left hindleg as he closed his eyes, relishing in the pleasure.
"Nngh... miss," he quietly called, grabbing her tail in his teeth and reluctantly pulling her away. "Leth continue thith inthide," he told her, opening the door in front of them, which led into his home. He then let go of her tail, before immediately enveloping her in his magic, trotting inside with her levitating above him, along with the rest of the groceries following close behind, and shut the door behind the last one.
He then placed all the bags of various fruits and veggies on the floor of the small rectangular kitchen, and placed the mangoes up on a shelf high up in his pantry. Next, he brought over the batmare and dropped her gently on the floor in front of him, and quickly placed a hoof on her chest when she tried to dive back under him.
"Sit, or no mango," he ordered, and she obeyed immediately, letting him lower his hoof.
"Listen, here's the deal," he started, sitting as well. "You can either blow me now and get a single mango to take home," he told her, levitating a mango over above his left shoulder. "Or you can work for me for a weekly paycheck of mangos," he offered, bringing three mangoes to hover above his right shoulder. "Also, uh, the job has an extra... opportunity to earn double the mangoes for that week," he added, nervously rubbing his foreleg with a hoof.
Excitedly, she pointed at the triplet of fruits, smiling at him.
"Good choice," he said, flashing her a nervous smile as he put the mangoes back with the other ones, looking away from her with a barely noticeable blush. "So, um... the opportunity is uh, you can get more mangoes if you... have sex with me," he finally admitted.
She froze, staring at him as her smile disappeared, and he shrunk back with a wince.
Before suddenly, in a shocking turn of events, she whipped around and stuck her ass in the air, spreading her hindlegs as she flagged her tail off to the side.
His eyes widened, his cock hardening rapidly as he stared at her glistening pink slit and small dark mounds underneath.
He cleared his throat, squeezing his thighs shut and blocking his crotch with his forelegs as he looked away.
"There are um, a few stipulations that you have to agree to, in order to be uh, eligible for double mangoes," he informed her. She looked back at him with a questioning gaze.
"Uhm... here," he said as he levitated a few pieces of paper and a quill from his room, and hastily wrote something on each.
"So the uh, first paper is an agreement to let me actually have uh, sex with you, the second lets me have sex with you whenever I choose, be that inside or outside my home, and the last one has you agree to be my- oof!" He was interrupted as she suddenly stuffed the sheets against his chest, making him grab them instinctively.
He stared at her innocent smile for a moment, before sorting through the three pieces of paper, noticing that they were all signed under the name 'Batmare', then with a nod and a small smile, floated them back into his room for safekeeping, along with the quill.
"Great!" He exclaimed, clapping his hooves together. "First order of business, putting away the groceries!"
He led her to the kitchen, and they worked side-by-side, working slowly at first as he showed her where everything went, but she learned quickly and they soon got it done, finishing in a much faster time than he could have accomplished on his own.
"This is the best decision I've ever made," he told himself, then turned to her.
"Now for the dishes," he told her, and they both approached the sink. "You wash, and I'll put them away," he instructed her, pulling down the door to the dishwasher to the right and pulling out one of the two racks. He then stepped behind her and reared up as she flipped on the sink, gently planting his hooves on her rear as he used his magic to press his top against her pussy. He rubbed it along her snatch a few times, then pressed in, moaning quietly as his tip slipped in. He thrusted, grunting as he embedded most of his shaft into her, then stepped forward as he draped his body over hers, resting his chin on her head and wrapping his forelegs around her chest. He jerked his hips to fully hilt her, then began to thrust in and out at a steady pace, watching her work as his magic grabbed the clean plates and placed them in the racks.
Soon, he sped up, subconsciously pulling his left hindleg up off of the ground as it began to kick.
"Oh yeah..." He moaned, his eyes half-lidded and his ears drooping as a dumb smile was plastered on his muzzle. "This is the life..."
This lasted for a while, as his sink had been overflowing with dirty dishes when they started. He only spoke again when the sink was nearly empty.
"I... I'm getting close..." He panted, bucking rapidly with an uneven pace. He let go of her and began to rise, his forelegs stumbling as he quickly moved them to her flank once again so that he stood straight, his horn sparking and popping randomly. After a few more thrusts, he emitted a guttural moan as he hilted inside her, ejecting a glob of seed straight into her before quickly pulling out, resting his throbbing shaft on her flank between his hooves as it spurted ropes of sperm all over her back, making her back look similar to a zebra's before he finally ran dry, watching his love seep into her fur as she continued to wash a plate, which he was sure had been clean for a while.
After a moment of panting and watching, his horn lit up and he immediately wiped the dishes clean and placed them into the dishwasher before sliding the filled rack back in and closing it, all while he stepped back and turned, dropping to all fours as his softening cock hung beneath him.
"When you're ready..." He panted. "Come meet me in the bathroom... First door on the right..." He informed her, then trotted off to said room.
After their shower, he dried them both with his magic, and led her to his bedroom. Currently, they both sat at his desk, and he wore a pair of rectangle-rimmed black spectacles as he read papers under the light of a candle, while the batmare hummed happily as she colored in a coloring book next to him.
"...And done!" He exclaimed, lifting her head and turning to look at him as he did the same with a smile. "Now our new business called 'Batmares Incorporated' can purchase shipments of mangoes with a tax write-off!"
She tilted her head.
"It means I can buy more mangoes," he explained, and chuckled as her face lit up and bear-hugged him with a squeal of happiness.
"Now for your schedule," he started, pulling a paper from under the others and laying it on top, with her continuing to hug him as she looked down at the paper. "Right now, I have you working from nine a.m. Monday morning all the way to five p.m. Friday afternoon, which at the base rate of two mangoes an hour, is..." he mumbled under his breath for a moment. "...One hundred and eighty-eight mangoes!" He then flipped the page over.
"Now, I need your opinion on something." He pointed at the top of the page. "Instead of doubling a whole week's worth of mangoes after having sex once, how about each time we have sex, you get one 'Mango Pie Coupon', which after collecting five, you can cash them in and I can bake you a mango pie?" He asked. She smiled and nodded rapidly, and he chuckled as he magicked the quill over to her. "Then sign on the line under it." She grabbed the quill with her mouth, then signed the paper.
He lifted all the papers and straightened them, opening the top side drawer of the desk and placing them inside. He then closed it and opened the one below, reaching in with his magic and pulling out about fifty sheets with fifty mango outlines printed on them, and placed the stack in front of her alongside a colorful box with the word 'Ponyola' printed on it, which opened to reveal multiple rows of crayons at different heights, totaling to one hundred and fifty-two crayons, along with a sharpener on the back. He smirked as he watched her gawk at the box, her forelegs dropping and hanging limp.
"Color and cut out as many mangoes as you want before bed, and even some tomorrow. I'll pay you for each hour, and you'll even get a coupon when you're done." He turned her head with a hoof and planted a short kiss on her lips, before stepping off the chair.
"Goodnight, my dear," he bid softly, yawning as he turned and trudged to his bed, slipping under the covers and falling asleep within minutes. |
It Hates Me So Much | [17] Sneak 100 | "That's it for today!" Miss Cheerilee told her students with a clap of her hooves, smiling as they all immediately burst into chatter and began to climb out of the pool.
"Remember: Tomorrow, we're learning how to float!" She told all of them with a smile as the fillies and colts filed into their respective locker rooms to shower and change.
Dinky was silent, like she had been unusually the entire time, as she followed the other fillies, a blush on her cheeks and a damp spot in her pink speedo as she constantly glanced over at her friends Hanzal and Pipsqueak in the colt line, trying to catch a peek between their hindlegs as the colts chatted and entered their side of the building.
"That was easier than I expected," The mottled brown and white colt with a British accent told his flat green friend, sitting on a wooden bench and opening his locker.
"Easy for you to say," Hanzal replied in his unique Germane accent, opening his own locker before sitting on the bench.
"Probably," Pip chuckled, lifting his hindlegs to slide his brown swim shorts off and toss them into the bottom of the locker, then grab the white towel hanging from a bar at the top of the locker. "I have been swimming almost my whole life after all."
"Well, the problem wasn't the swimming," Hanzal said, pulling off his yellow swim shorts. "It was swimming without my wing hurting."
"Is it really that- woah!" Pip suddenly exclaimed, looking at his friend with his jaw wide open.
"What?" Hanzal asked, looking at his friend. He noticed the direction of his eyes, then immediately felt his cheeks go a deep red as he turned away and covered his crotch with his hooves.
"D-Don't you know it's rude to s-stare?" Hanzal stuttered in embarrassment.
"Sorry!" Pip exclaimed, turning back to his locker with a blush. "I just never noticed how big it was. It's way bigger than mine!"
"I-I doubt it," Hanzal replied quietly.
"No really!" Pip told him, then hopped off the bench. "Grab your towel, and I'll show you in the shower."
Hanzal watched Pip pass him and head to an unoccupied shower down at the other end of the building, before reluctantly grabbing his own green towel and following him.
Dinky had finished her shower quickly, and waited outside her door, like she usually did since her two friends were usually the last ones out of the room. This time however, she wouldn't just wait.
'Seven... eight... nine,' as soon as the last colt exited, she darted beside the door, and took a peek inside. After seeing no colts other than her friends waiting outside one of the showers, she silently slipped in, and quietly approached them, her eyes wide and her cheeks red as her flagged tail wagged, fluids running down the inside of her thighs as she watched their tails just barely sway, trying to peek at what was hidden underneath.
The colts turned to enter a single shower together, and she stopped, her blush glowing even brighter as she momentarily noticed the size of the sheath between Hanzal's legs before they walked in.
The colts shut the two curtains, which met in the middle, and Dinky saw her chance, moving forward and slowly taking a seat outside the shower, listening to it roar to life, and watching through the crack between the curtains as the colts sat on the bench on the other end of the square room facing each other, and began to show each other their sheaths, their outer hindlegs hanging off the bench.
"See? I told you it was bigger!" Pip exclaimed. Dinky glanced between Hanzal's larger than average sheath and Pip's just barely smaller mottled sheath, imagining what they hid from her eyes, slipping a hoof under her.
"I bet it's longer too," Pip said, beginning to excitedly stroke his sheath to compare.
"D-Definitely not," Hanzal said with a shake of his head.
"Well, let's see!" Pip chirped, and Hanzal gasped quietly in surprise as Pip laid a hoof on his sheath and began stroking it, but was too pleasured to stop him.
Eventually, they were both hard, and Pip quickly took his hoof off of Hanzal and scooted forward, holding their cocks together between them.
"See? Way bigger!" Pip said, exaggerating the fact that Hanzal's dick was just bigger than his own. "How did it get so big, by the way?" he asked, then jumped in tandem with Hanzal as some filly burst in.
"It was- oop!" Her eyes went wide and she covered her mouth with a hoof, blushing heavily as she glanced between the two.
"D-Dinky?" Hanzal asked, covering his crotch.
"S-Sorry," Dinky apologized. "I-I was just um, so eager to see you! And I um, didn't want to wait, so I uh, snuck in," she explained, looking down in shame. The colts were silent for a moment.
"Since you're here, you can help us!" Pip exclaimed, making Hanzal yelp in surprise as Pip grabbed his thigh and pulled him back forward so that their cocks rested against each other. "Who's penis is bigger?"
"I need a um, closer look," Dinky told them, and hesitantly scooted forward until her muzzle was close to their shafts.
She took a few quiet sniffs, winking as she smelled the strong scent of both their musks combined, eyes wide as she watched the dripping shafts rest against each other, slightly throbbing and rubbing against one another, licking her chaps as she imagined them inside her.
"Uhm... I-I can't decide by just looking," she explained. "But uh, I do have an idea on how to um, Compare your sizes, i-if you want."
"Let's hear it!" Pip told her.
"W-Well, um... It'd be much easier to tell if uh... y-you both put your... things in my... thing," Dinky finally admitted.
"Our... your... what?" Pip asked, thoroughly confused.
"This," she pointed at their cocks. "In here," she turned completely around and flagged her tail off to the side, pointing at her sopping wet and shining pussy with a hoof.
"That's pretty small," Pip commented. "Are you sure it can fit both of them?"
She nodded, turning back around. "I've fit much bigger in there before."
"If you're sure," Pip told her, and started to get up, but Dinky laid a hoof on his shoulder to stop him.
"I need to wet them first," she said, licking her lips as her gaze shifted to their dicks. "That's the perfect position for it anyway, so you won't need to move."
She started with Hanzal, dragging her tongue from the bottom of his shaft to the top, making him moan quietly, before wrapping her lips around his tip, suckling on it. After a moment, she slowly began moving down, eventually making it all the way to his sheath, and began slowly bobbing up and down, making sure his shaft was thoroughly coated in saliva before pulling off with a gasp. She gave his tip a kiss, then began to repeat that same process with Pip, who gave a louder moan when she reached his sheath.
Finally, she climbed up onto the bench, carefully positioning herself around the colts so that she was facing Hanzal, her pussy lightly pressing against their tips, and her tail swishing rapidly against Pip's belly.
"Y-You colts ready?" she asked.
"Yep!" Pip chirped. She watched as Hanzal merely nodded.
"Okay..." She took a deep breath. "Here we go."
She began slowly lowering herself, applying more and more pressure onto their tips, before they both suddenly popped in, making her gasp as Pip moaned and Hanzal grunted. After a moment, she began slowly lowering herself down, watching Hanzal's eyes follow her crotch as it got closer and closer to his crotch, before suddenly stopping just inches away, their tips having hit the entrance to her womb.
Her hindlegs began shaking, so she leaned forward and wrapped her forelegs around Hanzal's shoulders, feeling the heat from his cheek as she nuzzled it.
"Okay colts," she breathed. "Your turn."
Nothing happened for a moment. Pip cupped his hooves under her supple buttcheeks and lifted her slightly, before starting to slowly slide his shaft in and out. Hanzal eventually followed suit, wrapping his own forelegs around her shoulders as he closed his eyes and began thrusting, slower than Pip. Alongside Dinky's tightness, the colts could feel their cocks rubbing against each other directly. It was a strange feeling, but it was very stimulating nonetheless.
"This feels so good..." Dinky moaned, resting her chin on Hanzal's shoulder.
"You... You said you've fit bigger things," Pip started. "How is it still so tight?"
"I don't know-" Dinky started before interrupting herself with a loud moan. "-and I don't care."
"Perhaps..." Hanzal gently laid a hoof on her belly, feeling the bulge of his cock move up and down. "It is due to zhat magical aura that Bound seems to possess?"
"Probably," Dinky agreed, then moaned. "F-Faster!"
Pip quickly obeyed, speeding up considerably, and Hanzal slowly began to catch up.
"Oh scheisse..." Hanzal moaned shakily, shuddering in pleasure. "I-I am getting close."
"Me too!" Pip exclaimed, his eyes screwed shut as his crotch plapped against Dinky's.
"Inside!" She croaked in response. "I want it all in me!"
They had both sped up until their thrusting crotches were but a blur, their moans and grunts slowly transforming into growls, in tandem with a barely noticeable golden glow beginning to cover their cocks, and neither colt noticed as a knot began to grow like a balloon at the base of their penises.
Soon, both colts bucked as hard as they could inside her, managing to pop their knots in and break into her womb just as their tips flared and locked them in place alongside the knots, then very nearly simultaneously orgasmed, Pip howling like a wolf and Hanzal sighing loudly in pleasure as his good wing shot open, their cocks throbbing and balls pulsing as their seed mixed inside her womb as it was quickly filled, causing her belly to bulge out considerably, and even make the last few spurts leak out and drip onto the bench before their nuts ran dry.
"Verdammt, das war gut," Hanzal panted in his native tongue, so numb with bliss that his crotch ceased to support itself, now only being held by the inflated knot as his forelegs rested over Dinky's shoulders.
"I don't know what that meant, but I agree," Pip stated, his cock still inside her and even giving tiny thrusts, trying to extend his own numbing ecstasy as long as possible, not wanting to pull out even if he could.
"Wanna come over to my house and do it more?" Dinky asked, and immediately heard the colts state their agreement.
"In a bit, though," Hanzal told them, before yawning as his eyes lowered slowly. "First, let us... take a..." his eyes soon fluttered closed, and he went limp, snoring very quietly. The other two giggled, then began to untangle themselves, fortunately just after their knots had deflated enough to let them slip out easily. Dinky and Pip continued to wash themselves and Hanzal, then shut off the water, drying each other and Hanzal off, before Pip helped lift Hanzal onto Dinky's back, and they finally exited the locker room. |
It Hates Me So Much | [18] LORE! | Everfree Forest; ~Five Years Prior To Dinky
"There are no accidents." - Master Oogway
"The more you choose to play hero the prey, the higher chance of you ending your days," the female Zebra warned the large wolf, the golden hoops attached to her ears swaying as she poured a few drops of a green healing salve on a cloth and dabbed it on a gash in the wolf's side that had been revealed after she shaved away the surrounding fur, which she had also done to a few other spots around his barrel.
He merely groaned and rolled his bright red eyes from his position lying on the wooden floor of her hut.
"If not for your own life, then at least stop coming for me," she said, patting an uninjured part of him. "I cannot keep healing you for free."
He didn't react, watching as she trotted in front of him with a half filled flask in her mouth, placing the lone bottle on a chest level shelf. She turned back to the wolf, and sighed as she saw him now on his back.
Him rolling onto his back usually meant one thing. As she looked farther down his body, her eyes passing over his muscular forelegs folded over his chest and his lean and clean -although spotted with spots of shaved fur- barrel and the between his thighs she sighted a thick and throbbing red rocket leaking a glob of precum into his jet black fur, with its signature thick knot making up its base, totaling to a penis length of a solid ten inches. He sported a healthy and fairly larger than average pair of testicles constantly churning with puppy batter, and were just barely squished between his thick thighs which were spread wide.
"If I quarter you one last time in my shack, will you leave as soon as you are well and never come back?" She asked, looking into his eyes for a few moments.
"Then it is settled." First, the Zebra trotted to her bedroom, then returned moments later without the golden rings that were stacked on her neck and right foreleg, then approached the wolf's side, laying against his side in the opposite direction he was facing, her head looking towards his crotch. "For we will grant each other mutually assured pleasures, and you will leave within the morrow, following my measures."
The Zebra then gently rested her chin on him and began licking the red cock brightly contrasting against the pure black fur, starting at his tip and slowly working her way down, making sure her tongue wrapped around it's width more than a few times before she reached his knot.
"This will be the last time I give an inch and you take a mile," she started, giving his knot a simple kiss. "So I will make it worth your while." She stood and stepped over his midsection, standing over him, and manipulating his dick to stand almost straight up with her muzzle.
"I will begin by pleasuring you with my maw, as that is the simplest of them all." The striped mare started by gently wrapping her lips around his tip, softly suckling it as her tongue did circles around the small bit she could reach past her lips. She then slowly slid down an inch, continuing to suckle and circle with her tongue, before continuing this pattern until she reached his knot, the bulge obvious down the length of her throat as her lips kissed his knot, which she dutifully covered in her saliva after a few seconds, before slowly pulling back up, holding his shaft up with a hoof as she pulled off completely, panting lightly.
"Oh my." She studied his throbbing rod. "It has certainly grown the last time you came by." She flagged her tail and swept it to the side, presenting her dripping slit to him.
"Perhaps I should give it a grand welcome, and allow you to fill my vagina with your cum," she suggested, swaying her rear gently from side to side as she thought for a few moments.
"It sure sounds like a good time too," she started, making her smoothly rotund cheeks jiggle and deliciously plump teats sway slightly, taunting the wolf below. "But only after a true alpha male can show his mare what that tongue of his can do," she finished, right as her snatch conveniently gave him a wink, her little pearl of pleasure peeking out and giving a short view of the treasure trove of pleasure within before retreating.
Soon, he raised his paws and placed one on each flank, squishing and massaging her flanks as he moved his muzzle to her crotch, licking up all the juices around her snatch, teasing it as he cleaned her up, including the inside of her thighs.
"Perhaps after this little stint, you could also clean me with that little tongue of yours and make me mint," she suggested, feeling him lick all around her tailhole as well, purposely avoiding her ponut as she licked even the dock of her tail. "Similar to a cat, but with less management."
To start, he began lapping at her ponut, slathering it and the area around it with multiple layers of his spit, making sure it stayed nice and wet, even occasionally slipping the tip of his tongue inside for moments at a time.
"You know, perhaps you could return occasionally," she started, placing her free hoof on her chin in thought. "As long as it is not to treat physical harm from fellow residents of the Everfree." She bounced her rump vertically, making her buttcheeks jiggle slightly as his paws rested on them.
Shortly after this decision, he finally moved on to her vagina, dragging his tongue up her pussy.
"Oh yes," the Zebra moaned with a smile, pushing back against his tongue a little as he started lapping at her winking snatch. "Continue like that, and you will find your way to filling my womb, quick as a gnat."
With that, he continued lapping as if he were a dehydrated puppy finally reaching water, eagerly slurping up her leaking marecum as it came out.
"Oh my," she moaned again, pushing back more. "I hope your tongue finds its way inside, to pleasure your mare with any special spots it may find."
His tongue lapped for a few moments longer, before he used his paws to carefully spread her cheeks and lips, allowing him to slide his tongue deep inside, making her moan loudly and rock back, his tongue just too short to reach her womb. He continued to drag his tongue all around the inside of her canal, noting any spots that made her gasp or jerk, and constantly returning to them as he searched for more.
Eventually, she was biting her lip and as his head was pushed to the ground, the mare rocking back constantly as her head slowly looked to the sky and her eyes slowly rolled back in her head, and fairly soon, she emitted a great whinny and pushed her crotch down onto his muzzle as hard as she could, jerking in pleasure as she spurted marecum all over his face and muzzle, her tail wagging rapidly behind her.
"That was... A great time," she panted, her eyes slowly returning to normal. "Now you have earned a ride."
After a few moments, she finally lifted from his muzzle, allowing him to cough and gulp for air as she turned, standing on him instead of the floor now, and squatted slightly, leaning down to look between her legs as a hoof between her hindlegs messed with his cock, pushing against his knot to make the top of his cock slap against her pussy a few times, before she raised her rear so that his top rested against her snatch. She then shifted her hindlegs a little to assume a more comfortable and sturdy position, then slowly pressed his tip into her, listening to him groan quietly.
She stopped for a moment, before lurching back suddenly, moaning loudly as she fell into his lap, her lips touching his crotch as even his knot was embedded into her, his tip having broken into her womb, which was clearly visible through the large bulge travelling up half the length of her barrel, which she rubbed with a hoof as her other hoof rested on the base of his neck to keep him down.
For just a moment, she moved both hooves to his chest, grunting in exertion as she took a moment to pull herself from his large knot, before replacing her hooves on his neck and bulge as she began to bounce up and down his cock.
"It certainly... has grown much... larger..." she panted, the hoof on the bulge moving to fondle her teats as she watched his dick slide in and out of her stretched pussy. "Too short to... reach my womb... it is no longer..."
She moaned and sped up slightly, looking up at his panting and pleasured face, leaning down to momentarily plant a kiss on his tongue, and press their noses together.
"This may very... very well impregnate me..." she started, locking eyes with him. "But that will... be of no... no consequence to thee... as you tend to flee from... taking responsibility..." She stopped bouncing, garnering his attention. "Promise me that... that you will return within the year... and help care for that... that which we will both hold dear."
They stared into each other's eyes, and after a few moments, the wolf finally nodded yes.
"Good boy," she panted, then moved the hoof on her teats to scratch behind his ears as she began bouncing once again, this time much faster.
She bounced for a while, moaning and groaning all throughout, until suddenly, without any warning, the wolf groaned, and she felt him begin to quickly fill her with spunk.
"Oh you little-" She interrupted herself with a grunt as she once again took in his massive knot, both feeling and watching her belly balloon out until she looked like she didn't know how to limit her eating. She glared at him, planning to scold him, but her expression softened at his pleasured look, knowing that he was clearly untrained.
"N-Next time, warn the mare before you knot her," the Zebra informed the wolf. "Or she may become too much for you to bear."
He whimpered and his ears splayed back against his head, and licked her lips apologetically, making her giggle.
"Listen, if you pledge to return every other day, I can help train you to make sure you don't end up in too much mental pain," She offered, and smiled as he nodded energetically.
"It is settled then," she stated. "Return aftermorrow, and I will begin your training to reduce post-coitus sorrow." |
It Hates Me So Much | [19] Switched Roles | Bound plodded along the bank of the Everfree River, scaring away any prey and even predators with his loud pawsteps, leaving behind small indents in the terra. He listened as the river flowed beside him, mixed the songs of the birds nesting on branches too tall for any predator smaller than a Hydra, including him.
Surprisingly, about ten feet in front of him, a wolf stepped out, not even acknowledging his presence as they approached the river and leaned down to drink from it.
Normally, he would keep moving, as the wolves and timberwolves of the Everfree had learned to leave him alone. But he stopped, sensing something... weird with the wolf. With that in mind, he began silently stalking towards her, which is something he looks like he shouldn't be able to do, and snuck up beside the wolf. With a few quiet sniffs, it was confirmed- the wolf was a Changeling, and a female one at that. It is strange for a Changeling to be traveling the Everfree alone, regardless of any disguise, so with raising suspicions, he deduced that she was some sort of exile, which presented him with the perfect opportunity.
His collar activated with the barest of hums as he silently moved over top of her, shrouding her completely in shadow, and before she could react, he slammed his left paw down onto her withers while his right foreleg simultaneously hooked under her flank, in front of her thighs. Her chest was smashed into the ground, driving a yelp from her throat as her disguise shattered into a million shards that disappeared into thin air, while her behind was lifted from the ground and held against the bottom of his behind, just in front of his crotch. To his surprise, instead of her turning into a normal Changeling, she was a much lankier Changeling just about his size. She immediately tried to cast some spell with her horn, but the energy on his collar pulsed for a moment, and her horn fizzed and sparked uselessly.
"Unhoof me, foul beast!" She demanded, attempting a futile struggle against his hold as she hurled insults and demands at him. Soon, he silenced her with a loud and deep bark.
"What is your name?" Bound asked slowly.
"I am Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings! Thou would do well to heed my commands, mutt!" She yelled.
"Queen?" He mused, lowering his voice to a low growl as he spoke directly into her ear. "Then maybe once I make you my broodmare, I will force you to command all your subjects to submit to me," He told her. "Then I could have a whole civilization of broodmares and breeders."
"We would never submit to the likes of thee, heathen!" She screamed, her struggles increasing in intensity.
"Probably not," he agreed. "Nor could I command that many Changelings. How about instead, you become my broodmare for life, but continue leading your subjects?"
"Over my dead body!" She retorted.
"That can be arranged," he growled, making her emit a loud gasp and her eyes shrink to pinpricks as the tip of his ramrod red rocket spread her small and long untouched lips and slightly pressed into the green colored inside of her vagina.
"You animal!" She screeched, her struggles doubling. "Thy will not defile my royal insides with that filthy little cock of thine!"
"That filthy little cock of mine will defile your insides over and over and over..." He spoke quietly, his dick slowly stretching her tight little cunt as it slid in. "It will stretch it again, and again, and again..." His shaft's advance stopped as his knot touched her lips, while his tip simultaneously kissed the entrance to her womb, feeling the bulge of his cock snake under his foreleg.
"And fill it!" He shoved his knot into her, making her screech in pain as his tip forced itself into her womb. "Over, and over, and over again..." He then yanked it out with a pop, while making sure to keep the entirety of his penis past the knot inside her. "Until we can create a whole new hive with our bastard hybrid puppies."
"I... Then how shall thee care for my current brood?!" She yelled, having finally ceased her fruitless struggling. "The youngest be too young to even walk, let alone feed thine selves!"
"Well, as long as you follow my commands to the letter, you will be perfectly able to rule your hive," he informed her.
"But my brood looks up to me. I am thine role model," Chrysalis told him in a much more conversational tone. "To be outed as the broodmare of a canine would devastate thine fragile little hearts."
He was silent for a moment.
"If... If you are a good mare that follows orders, there will be no fair reason for me to do so," Bound told her softly.
"Thou... Thou would do that?" She asked gently. "For a mare who's done nothing but sling harsh words at thee?"
"Absolutely," he told her, the glow on his collar slowly dissipating.
"Then how shalt this union work?" She asked.
"Well, you are pretty much entirely free to live your life as you please," he started. "I, however, will hold the right to perform coitus with you whenever I please."
"As I suspected. Anything else?" She asked, crossing her forelegs under her chin.
"Well, um... I will be allowed to sleep in your quarters if I please, on a separate bed of course, become King alongside you so that I have input on laws, be introduced to your subjects as your pet-"
"Be introduced as my pet?" She parroted. "How would that work if thou are to rule alongside me?"
"Royal pet, I guess?" He shrugged. "We'll figure it out. Oh! And also, I want to create a sort of pack that accompanies me while I visit the hive, consisting of, let's say, four hoof-picked males and two females to kinda be like what you are, broodmares and breeders."
"That... should be fine," she hesitantly agreed. "As long as thou does not force unwilling drones to whore themselves out to you."
"I swear, I would never do such a thing," he stated. "Now, onto business."
She yelped in surprise as he quickly pulled out and thrusted back in, and emitted a long moan as he gave a few more slow thrusts, before he began to accelerate quickly to a rapid pace, one that forced a loud moan from her every few thrusts.
"You're pretty loud," He commented, looking down at her pleasured face.
"I am -uh!- not used to -ah!- such a rapid -gah!- pace!" She managed to say.
"Better get used to it then, honey," Bound told her.
"C-Can thou -guh!- PLEASE -nyah!- slow down?!" She asked, emphasizing her words with a whimper.
"Fine," he agreed, and slowed to a steady rutting pace, listening to Chrysalis sigh in relief.
"Oh yes..." She moaned, her face visibly relaxing and drooping as her eyes closed. "If thou can go at this pace every time, I would be thoroughly ecstatic to bear thy puppies."
"Does the Queen not receive constant action?" he asked.
"It is fairly difficult to find a willing subject when thy all view me as thine own mother," she answered, the pitch of her voice shifting with each thrust. "I may be a single mother to thousands of children, but I still deserve a break now and then!"
"For sure," he replied.
"Even if I only were but a ruler, I should still have the right to a break!" she continued. "Especially to indulge in sexual activities! Pulling a drone aside to bestow upon him a momentary blissful state via blowie is simply not enough."
"Sounds like a fun time," he commented, making her scoff.
"'Twould be, if thy were not so wracked with fear of upsetting me that I feel as if I'm blowing a dead body," she replied. "At this point, it would be perfectly acceptable if one were to approach me and suddenly begin to fuck my face or even my anus as hard as thine little bodies could. Tartarus, I would not even care if they rutted me while I slept! I just want them to buck up and realize that laying a hoof on my mane while receiving a blowie will not incur the wrath of the sun and moon combined!" With that, her rant was finally over, her wings flared and fangs bared as the last of her unbridled frustration was released.
"Perhaps we could teach them to do so then," he offered. "Teach them that if they ever felt less efficient due to building sexual desires, they could come to you for help."
"But then they would lose sight of me as their mother, but instead look upon me as a dirty whore who exists only to pleasure," she countered.
"Nonsense," he told her, moving the hoof holding her down and planting it beside her as he once again sped up by a bit. "I believe they would look at you as the most caring mother in the world."
"Thou really think so?" she asked softly.
"Positively," he confirmed.
"Then I am looking forward to-" She interrupted herself with a gasp, her eyes flying open as he suddenly began to pull out almost entirely only to slam it all back into her, sliding her back and forth on the ground as his knot loudly plapped against her sopping wet pussy lips, but before she could speak, he barked and shoved his knot into her, making tears form in the corner of her eyes as she moaned loudly in pleasure, eyes rolling back into her head and long snake-like tongue lolling out and resting on the grass as his thick and throbbing shaft began depositing loads upon loads of seed into her, his balls hiking up and down in tandem with miniscule thrusts as ropes of warm and thick spunk filled her womb quickly and caused it to balloon out a fair bit, containing most of his sperm as the last few spurts leaked out around his cock.
"FFuuuck..." she moaned, her body wracked with bliss and ecstasy as the was in the throes of her third orgasm. "How...can such a-average sized testi... testicles hold so much... unf, hold so m-much goodness?" She wondered aloud, her eyes slowly returning to normal, albeit with slightly blurred vision, as he panted heavily above her, allowing the occasional drop of saliva to drip into her mane.
"Magic," he stated, then proceeded to snort a couple times, before placing his paw back onto her withers, pressing her hard into the ground for a moment as he yanked his knot out with a pop, causing her to yelp in momentary pain before collapsing to the ground in a sweaty mess as his seed began to leak out, a single glob managing to drip down into the grass before he stepped back and his collar began to glow once again, it's golden aura surrounding Chrysalis for a few moments as he lifted her to rest comfortably on his back. "Now lead me to your Changelings." |
It Hates Me So Much | [20] A Nice Family Outing | It was a beautiful day in Equestria. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and on days like this, previous princesses like Celestia and Luna lay beside each other on a picnic blanket sprawled out on top of a hill, just past the treeline of a large forest- that was luckily inhabited by tribes of bucks and does instead of Manticores and Timberwolves- that spanned a major area at the base of Canterlot Mountain, where they overlooking great plains that go as far as the eye can see, dotted sparsely with patches of varies flowers and small ponds connected by a single winding river.
"I cherish these moments we spend together," Celestia told her sister softly. Her spotless ivory fur was bare of any royal regalia as one of her perfectly preened and cleaned wings rested over the smaller mare's back, hugging Luna's dark blue body against her side as the both of them watched nature.
"As do I, sister," Luna agreed, also completely in the nude as she snuggled into Celestia's side.
A giant wolf the sisters know as Bound gave a low growl of agreement as well, curled up around their behinds and resting his chin on crossed paws. They quietly enjoyed each other's presence for a while, Bound listening as the sisters chatted and giggled amongst themselves.
After a while, the sun reached its highest point in the sky, and so Bound's tip peeked from his sheath automatically, conditioned to come out every day at noon so that Dinky may return from school and pleasure it. Dinky was not here this time, so he came up with another idea.
Slowly, he stood, being careful to not bump into either of them. He positioned himself overtop Celestia, and carefully laid himself on top of her, being sure to put as little weight as possible on her and not trap her mane between them, his left foreleg draped around Luna's shoulder as his other hooked around Celestia's chest. In the time it took him to position himself, his penis had already become rock hard, and so he prodded Celestia's royal marehood, to which she spared nothing but a short glance back as she listened to her sister geek out about stars and constellations.
Slowly, his tip entered her, and she emitted a gasp so soft it was inaudible to creatures without highly effective ears as he slowly pushed into her, his hindlegs only needing to take a small step forward before he was up to his knot in royal pussy. He felt her shift her hindlegs the slightest bit to accommodate the cock currently stretching her insides.
In order to pleasure his ruler as much as possible, he incorporated a technique Dinky taught him, and slowly dragged his tongue from the base of her long and very slightly tingling majestic horn to the tip, causing her to let out a slightly more audible gasp as soon as his tongue touched down, and bit her lip to stifle a moan as he moved his tongue up and down and all around her horn as he slowly and sensually pulled his rod out until only his tip was left inside her before sliding it all the way back in, beginning to slowly thrust into her.
After a few minutes of slow rutting, his tongue left Celestia's magical extremity, leaving it dripping with saliva as he sped up the slightest bit, his tail swaying from side to side behind him. His head proceeded to rotate towards Luna's horn, and his tongue shot out to wrap around the base of her slightly smaller horn, causing her to interrupt herself with a very much audible gasp, before he began pumping his tongue up and down her horn, and she was left open mouthed and speechless for a few moments before she resumed speaking, slightly tilting her head towards the wolf.
As his crotch fucked Celestia on auto-pilot, Bound shifted his attention over to the smaller alicorn. With knowledge garnered over many discussions with Celestia, his collar lit up, and multiple semi-transparent tentacles grew from the ground, and all at once, slowly wrapped around her forelegs tucked up under her chest and up around her withers, binding them against her, shifting from the color of his aura to the color of hers once they touched her and making her shiver from how cold they were.
Next, six more rose beside Luna's flanks, three on each side, rising a fair bit above her before curving and diving back down, hooking under her body just in front of her thighs and wrapping around her barrel at least twice, before lifting her plump rear high enough for her rotund booty to jiggle the slightest bit and her hindlegs to dangle just above the ground, which angled her body to be at least forty-five degrees.
As that happened, Luna kept trying to continue conversing with her sister, constantly stumbling over her words and replacing innocent words with similar sounding sexual terms as another tentacle wrapped its tip around her dock and raised her starry tail high into the air, before it continued by slithering its slimy self over her right flank, causing Celestia to shudder from its cold touch as well, winding and sliding over Luna's ponut before snaking over her left flank, then under her, sliding over the nipples of her puffy teats before doing a loop and snaking over itself as it made its way behind her, slowing to a stop as it laid on top of her sopping wet pussy.
By this point, she was gazing past Celestia with starry eyes, a heavy blush adorning her cheeks while a dumb and wavy smile threatened to split her muzzle in half, and her ears drooping almost all the way down to her cheekbones as Celestia watched with an amused smirk, her own cheeks lightly dusted red.
"Hey boy?" Celestia called behind her. "Turn up the intensity for her, will you?"
All the tentacles holding her suddenly tightened, making Luna's eyes widen, before her jaw dropped and released a loud and throaty groan as the tentacle covering her slit moved to the side to make space for three triangle patterned tentacles that suddenly rocketed into her snatch, stretching her small hole greatly and creating a bulge up the bottom half of her belly as they quickly twirled around each other and made their way into her womb, only stopping once they bumped against its far wall, then remained mostly still as they idly continued to twirl.
"Feeling good, Lulu?" Celestia asked softly. Luna merely gave a single curt nod and a spark from her saliva spattered horn. Celestia giggled and nuzzled her cheek for a moment, then watched as her eyes rolled back into her head and her tongue lolled out as the three tentacles began to rapidly pull out to their tips and slam all the way back in her womb with loud squelches, her right hindleg beginning to twitch and kick, when two more tentacles suddenly grew behind her and quickly made their way into her tailhole, inserting themselves deep inside her, all the way to her stomach, while a final pair appeared in front of her and slipped into her mouth, sliding all the way down her throat and meeting the other two in her belly, tying their tips together before matching the speed of the three in her pussy, going in and out like a saw going back and forth on a fallen log, before Celestia looked up at Bound with a soft grin.
"Bound?" She gently called, making him look down at her. "Does this spell allow your tentacles to dispense tangible wolf sperm?" She asked.
"It does not, unfortunately. Only a fake ethereal liquid simulating it," he answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Well, I was hoping you could impregnate her- with her consent of course- alongside myself," she explained, looking back at Luna's blissful face as it rocked back and forth. "Perhaps instead I can impregnate her?" She wondered, tapping her chin with a hoof. "But to do that, I would either have to cast a spell to turn me entirely male or a spell to merely give me male genitalia, though both of which require removing the female bits..."
"Have you thought of transforming into a hermaphrodite?" Bound asked.
"There's an idea, but I haven't learned that spell," Celestia explained.
"I would bet that Princess Cadenza knows it," Bound stated. Celestia giggled as her hoof lowered back to the ground.
"Of course she would," she agreed. "I cannot believe I didn't think of that."
"Then shall we consult her?" Bound asked.
"Yes," Celestia agreed. "But after this, of course," she added, emitting a short moan before laying her head onto the grass.
"But you would want to be pregnant at the same time as your sister, would you not?" He asked.
"If we visit Cady within a moon's time, the difference between the start of our pregnancies should be so miniscule that it is irrelevant," she told him.
"Good, because I am approaching my limit," Bound said, accelerating as he began panting.
"Oh my..." She moaned, closing her eyes. "I am as well. Make haste, and fill my womb with that canine cum of yours."
"It would be my pleasure," he told her, his hips now a blur as they plapped loudly against her crotch, while the tentacles jackhammering Luna matched his growing speed. He growled and bared his teeth, screwing his eyes shut as he rose, his straightening hindlegs lifting her flank into the air as he held her to the ground with his paws planted firmly atop her withers.
Soon, he barked and rammed his cock into her as hard as he could, making her yelp in surprise as his jaw clamped down onto the base of her neck, luckily missing anything important as his teeth sunk into her pristine white fur, before she moaned loudly as his knot popped into her and his tip broke into her womb, his throbbing cock and pulsing balls depositing ropes after ropes of his thick doggy seed into her, making her belly inflate rapidly until she looked like she was heavily pregnant.
At the same time, Luna eyes teared up as she let out a guttural moan around the tentacles, the tentacles holding her up squeezing as hard as they could without hurting her, and the ones rutting her various holes stopped as deep as they could in her, pouring loads of ethereal golden seed into her, ballooning her belly out to match Celestia's, and the mostly transparent liquid spurted out of each hole before the tentacles stopped, leaving her muzzle and rear dripping with faux cum as her luckily uncovered nose rapidly inhaled air.
"I... I will return home for the night," Bound started, having carefully extracted his teeth from Celestia's neck. "We shall then pack the next day, and overmorrow, I will meet you in the Castle at dawn, then we shall take the train to the Crystal Empire." He quickly licked her wounds clean. "I request that you leave your regalia behind, so that we may travel as if we were a pack of common ponies."
"I concur," Celestia agreed, opening her eyes then glancing at her sister, confirming that she was okay, although a little out of it. "And I shall acquire Luna's consent the next time we are both awake." She stated. |
It Hates Me So Much | [21] A Nice Family Train Ride | "How peculiar," A lavender mare the size of Celestia spoke, laying in the middle of the currently moving Friendship Express caboose with her muzzle inches from Bound's crotch and his throbbing erection, studying it with great interest as a glob of pre-cum slowly slid down it's length. "Despite having sex multiple times a day, usually in quick succession, your penis has managed to remain completely undamaged."
"A perk of living thousands of years perchance?" Luna suggested, lounging across the row of seats to the right of the door and watching the purple princess with a lazy gaze.
"A reathonable athethment," Celestia mumbled through her pencil, laying across the seats on the other side as she focused her Sudoku puzzle, using her mouth instead of her magic to jot down the numbers. The mare on the floor quickly wrote something in the spiral notebook floating in her purple magic beside her.
Twilight Sparkle hummed in thought, the frog of her bare hoof just above his knot, her regalia having been left at the door at Bound's request, and left her hoof there, feeling it throb periodically.
"You and Dinky mostly partake in sexual acts that involve inserting your penis into one of her holes, correct?" She asked, not noticing him nod above her, and continuing anyway. "Well, my brother helped me gain much practice and knowledge in the art of 'A Hoofjob', so I wanted to see if I'm still rusty after many years."
"Twilight, you met with your brother just last week, did you not?" Luna asked.
"Well, yes, but that was just a standard creampie," Twilight explained, starting to to slowly rub her hoof all the way up to his tip and back down the length of his shaft to his knot. "He's been letting Flurry heart give him hoofjobs ever since she managed to sneak a hoof onto his crotch during her bedtime story and give him a Cadance grade hoofjob."
She moved her other hoof to gently fondle his testicles, drawing a quiet exhale of pleasure from him. "I don't blame him either. Apparently, she's a natural, and a quick learner-" She began to stroke slightly faster. "-which is why he's decided to teach her about the birds and the Breezies soon once she's old enough for magic kindergarten."
"Then maybe I should ask Shining Armor if I could receive her services," Bound joked.
"That's entirely up to Flurry," Twilight informed him. "He's learned that she enjoys witnessing pleasure in a pony caused by her hooves, so her decision trumps his."
"What about fucking her?" He asked.
She winced. "I don't think he wants to risk getting her pregnant, and her holes are way too small to insert anything bigger into without causing pain, so they're out of the question." She smiled and gave the underside of his tip a curt lick, making him exhale loudly in pleasure. "Her mouth may be fine, but only if you're extremely careful and don't force it."
She removed both of her hooves and folded them under her, smiling and closing her eyes as stuck her muzzle under his nuts with a content hum, carefully angling her head to avoid poking him with her horn as her flowing and sparkling tail swayed slightly behind her.
"I thought you were gonna give me a hoofjob," Bound said.
"Your musk smells too good," she mumbled. "I should make a candle with the smell of your musk to help me sleep after an all-nighter."
"That can be arranged on our return to Ponyville," he told her.
"Sounds like a date," she sighed.
"Does she snore?" He softly asked the Princess glaring at Sudoku.
"Loudly," she softly answered, looking back at him.
He nodded. After a moment, he held up a paw, counted down from three, and as soon as he reached zero, Twilight immediately went limp and started snoring loudly, vibrating his crotch. Celestia giggled quietly with a smile. His collar lit up for a moment, and Bound scooted back to reveal an ethereal copy of his crotch, which Twilight promptly nuzzled in her sleep, showing that she didn't phase right through it.
"What's that for?" Celestia asked softly.
"To keep her asleep," he whispered back, rising to all fours. "It generates the same chemicals making up my musk, but it does not last long, so I must hurry."
Bound did a one-eighty above the lavender princess, backed up a little, and lowered his crotch as a paw angled his cock down, brushing it against her snatch. He shifted his hindlegs a little, then grunted as he pushed the tip in, stretching her. He planted his paws on either side of her head, then inserted into her up to his knot, before beginning to rapidly thrust, loving her tightness, feeling as if he were being milked for all he could offer.
"Are you sure your thick shaft won't wake her?" Celestia asked, rolling onto her side and spreading her thighs as her hoof slid down her belly.
"My musk puts them into a deep sleep. Nothing I am planning on doing will come close to rousing her," he replied, his tip constantly kissing her cervix as his knot jackhammered against her crotch, the bulge of his cock sliding up and down her belly as their tails wagged in tandem between his legs.
"If she's that unconscious, I should get some myself," Celestia commented just before Bound let out a groan.
"Princesses, the artificial musk will not last through my endurance," he explained. "I request that one of you assist me."
"Dibs!" Luna immediately exclaimed.
"Then come and... and sit in front of me," he ordered. She obeyed, excitedly hopping off the cushions and trotting to his front, before facing him and plopping down onto her rear. Almost immediately, he shut his eyes and planted his lips onto hers, locking her into a deep and passionate kiss. She quickly adjusted and leaned into the smooch with closed eyes, their tongues mingling as they slid into each other's mouths. Bound raised a paw and gently rested atop Luna's head, hearing and feeling her appreciative coos as he scratched behind her ears.
Before a minute had even passed, Bound grunted and pulled away from the kiss, baring his teeth as he smushed his nose against hers. Within moments, Bound grunted and gave a particularly powerful thrust, roughly shoving his knot into the Princess of Friendship as his balls began to pulse, and his throbbing cock ejected loads of his thick puppy batter into her, quickly filling her womb to the brim, causing the other half to spurt out, painting their crotches white and creating a large puddle beneath their union before his nuts ran dry. He stood there for a bit, panting heavily, before jerking his crotch backwards, yanking his knot out with a pop and causing some of his cum to pour out.
Next, Bound gently pushed Luna aside, and returned to his previous sitting position just as the ethereal reconstruction of his crotch faded, so that Twilight remained asleep, his cock softening and retreating back into his sheath after a job well done.
Celestia whimpered in the midst of her heavy panting, her fur matted with sweat and her pussy winking rapidly as her hoof was a blur over her sopping wet pussy, rubbing it with loud squelches. Her crotch and the inside of her thighs shined, covered with the same marecum as the damp spot in the cushion beneath her. Suddenly, Bound's collar buzzed twice.
"That is lunch," Bound announced, standing and stretching his hindlegs, smothering Twilight's face with his crotch for a moment longer before he straightened out.
"I didn't get to finish," she whined, the hoof between her legs dropping limp to finally rest it's sore muscles.
"I will help you finish after we eat," Bound told her. "For now, we will clean up. Twilight should be up by then, so we can all head to the restaurant car." |
It Hates Me So Much | [22] A Nice Family Reunion | Bound nuzzled Twilight's cheek, then gave it a lick before stepping onto the platform, making the car wobble slightly once his last hindpaw left the train and touched down onto the cold crystal. He looked back at her with a smile, watching her wave as the door closed, and continued to watch her as the train left until he could no longer see her.
He turned and carefully plodded along, careful not to jostle the royal sisters snuggling on his back, deep asleep since their attempts at creating prototype musk candles, which resulted in both their asses, their muzzles, and Celestia's pussy being pumped with his puppy batter, which currently leaked from their crotches and matted Bound's fur.
As he stepped off the crystal train station onto cold hard ground, he was met by a pair of crystal guards.
"Bound Hooves?" one of the guards called. Bound's ears perked up at his name instinctively, which the guard noticed. "Follow us." They turned in tandem and began marching towards the large castle in the center of the Empire, and Bound promptly followed. The doorways in the castle we're luckily big enough for him to squeeze through safely, and they arrived in the throne room within a half hour.
The large throne room doors swung open to reveal Princess Cadance sitting on her throne with a chipper smile, who was also fully in the nude, at his request.
"Welcome!" Cadance chirped, springing from her throne into the air and gliding to land in the middle of the room. He could tell she enjoyed not being bogged down by her royal outfit, which he was certain was made of pure gold, watching her bounce around the large room in their vague direction with her wings wide open, until she eventually skidded on her to a stop in front of them.
"Nice to finally meet you!" She exclaimed excitedly, leaning forward until their noses were smushed together and she stared into his eyes with her purple pupils, sparkling with childish glee.
"Nice to meet you as well," Bound replied and licked her lips, making her giggle.
"Cady!" Celestia suddenly exclaimed, hopping off his back and wrapping her in a hug.
"It had been a while," Luna said, hopping off with a smile as she watched them embrace.
"I can't wait to catch up with you!" Cadance exclaimed as they pulled apart and Bound sat.
"After the spell," Bound reminded her.
"Yes after that," she added. "Oh! That reminds me!"
Cadance turned and jumped forward, then pressed her chest against the ground, letting her forelegs extend out under her as she spread her hindlegs and flagged her tail.
"I want Bound to use me as his cum dump first!" She explained happily.
"For how long?" Bound asked, raising an eyebrow.
"However long you want!" She chirped, swaying her hips. "Well, as long as it's less than an hour." She giggled. "I do have other princessly duties to attend to."
"If you wish," he told her. "But first, I request that you cast that hermaphrodite spell upon yourself."
"Why?" She asked. "Is my pussy not enough?"
"Your pussy is plenty enough," he told her. "I would just like a unique experience."
"Lucky for you, I'm an expert at providing unique experiences!" She chirped, and with a flash of her horn, a thick cock and large balls colored the same as her fur popped into existence between her thighs.
"Now onto your back," he ordered. She obeyed in a strange way to avoid hurting her wings, jumping and spinning mid-air before landing on her back with a thump and an oof.
"Now, while I take your pussy, I will have Tia ride you, and Lulu will sit on your face," he explained as he approached, standing over her before sitting just behind her. Soon, Luna trotted over and stood in front of Cadance while facing away, before sitting atop her pink muzzle with a sigh.
"Face me, Lulu," he told her, and she obediently turned, letting Cadance wrap her forelegs around her aunt's thighs as Luna planted her forelegs on her chest. Next, Celestia approached and stepped over Cadance, straddling her and rubbing her wet slit against her niece's cock a couple times before raising her rump, lifting the pink cock until it was vertical and brushed her lips. Celestia then looked back at Bound.
"Same time?" she asked. He nodded, and she turned back, watching Luna gyrate on Cadance's muzzle. Bound scooted back and pushed his tip down, prodding the pink pony's entrance.
"Three... two... one..." He counted down, then shoved his cock into Cadance until his knot bumped against her, while Celestia simultaneously dropped onto her cock, fully sitting on her lap as even her sheath was inside, making Celestia's eyes go wide and cheeks turn a deep pink as she bit her lip. He loosely hooked his forelegs over Celestia's shoulders as he draped himself over her back, beginning to thrust as Celestia began bouncing. Bound could hear Cadance occasionally moan loudly into Luna's pussy.
He looked up, opening his mouth to speak, but no words came out as he spotted Luna and Celestia locked in a passionate kiss, eyes closed and a foreleg wrapped around the back of each other's heads. He smiled, and instead used his mouth to suck on the tip of Luna's horn, feeling a tingle in his mouth as her horn sparked, and heard her moan into her sister's mouth.
As his crotch switched to autopilot, he focused on Luna's horn, slurping and sucking while being careful with his teeth. Mistakes do happen, however, and Luna's horn shifted in a way that accidentally clipped a tooth. However, in a surprising turn of events, Luna eep'd and he felt a couple more sparks in his mouth.
With this new data, Bound performed a test, intentionally but very gently biting down. It was a success, as she squeaked and sparked again. He let go and bit a little harder, which produced more sparks and a moan. With this new information in mind, he began gently chewing on the tip of her horn, and listened to her squeak and gasp in a mix of surprise and pleasure as her horn sparked and popped inside his mouth, providing a pleasant tingling feeling.
Luna's wings were rock hard at this point, alongside her sister and niece, shakily and inconsistently jerking back and forth perched atop the pink pony's muzzle as the pink pony's tongue was deep inside Luna's coochie, licking everywhere it could reach, causing Luna to leak her warm thanks all over the pink pony's muzzle. With the pleasure from the pink pony and the wolf chewing on her horn both flowing through her body, her cheeks were ablaze, ears limp against the sides of her head and eyes rolled back under her eyelids, and only barely managed to keep her lips connected with her sisters as Celestia did most of the actual smooching and exploring with her tongue, dragging it along the front and back of Luna's top and bottom row of teeth, as Luna's forelegs hung limp at her sides.
Celestia gently bounced on her niece's lap, lightly sweating, while her ears drooped about halfway, although she still sported a heavy blush as well. Celestia's forelegs were wrapped around her sister's shoulders, while one of them laid on the back of her sister's head and gently held her sister's muzzle against her own, lightly moaning into Luna's mouth every so often.
After a while, Cadance began to jerk up into her aunt, while Bound's hips began to accelerate at the same time, unintentionally biting down on Luna's horn. The sister's mouths also slipped apart, leaving their noses smushed together as they panted in tandem.
Eventually, Bound's hips were a blur as they loudly plapped into Cadance, while the pink mare herself was rapidly bucking into her aunt, who had ceased her bouncing at this point. Moments later, without warning, Bound rammed his knot into Cadance, locking himself in her confines as his balls hiked up and down, his throbbing cock breaking into the pink mare's womb and filling it to the brim and beyond, inflating her belly and thoroughly impregnating her while also pushing her over the edge as well.
With a loud and long moan into Luna, making the blue mare squeak and start squirting all over her niece's face, Cadance cock throbbed and began filling the white mare with her seed, inflating Celestia's belly as the ivory mare drew her sister into another passionate smooch.
They rested for a while after this, all panting lightly as Celestia broke the kiss as she and her niece enjoyed the cum filling them. Eventually, Bound let go of Luna's horn, wincing as he noticed visible cracks from his teeth.
"That can be fixed, correct?" Bound asked the blue alicorn.
"Cracks... cannot be... mended," Luna panted. "I must chop off my... my horn from the lowest vertex of... the lowest crack and allow it to regrow."
"If she follows that path, I will chop my horn in half as well," Celestia stated. Cadance mumbled from under Luna, but knowing her, he inferred that she would as well.
"I... Is there no other way?" Bound asked.
"None," Luna answered. "I can spend some... some time without magic for once."
"Me too," Celestia agreed.
'Me three', Bound guessed Cadance's muffled words.
Bound sighed, then made a decision.
"If that is the case, then I shall stay by your side until your horns return to their full glory," Bound stated.
"That isn't necessary," Celestia told him.
"I shall," Bound told her. "If only to make myself feel that little bit better." |
It Hates Me So Much | [23] Mango On A Fork Part 2 | Mango On A Fork II: New Hire
Knock Knock Knock
A Unicorn opened his door. In the rising sun's light stood two identical thestrals, one he recognized, and another much smaller and younger looking one he didn't, her sapphire blue eyes sparkling alongside her huge grin and swishing tail, signaling that she was without a doubt here for a job.
He smiled as well. "Hello! My name is Sparkling Amethyst, but you can call me Amy." He stepped to the side. "Come on in! Go ahead and have a seat on the couch, and I'll be with you shortly!"
The new mare trotted in and sat on the couch. The familiar mare -who he had recently learned was actually named Sly Bat instead of Batmare- followed the other thestral, rubbing against Amy like a cat as she passed, and sat beside the smaller thestral, wrapping a wing around her and lifting the smaller thestral into her lap and snuggling with her.
With a smile, Amy shut the door and happily trotted to his bedroom, using his magic to pick up a paper he had condensed all the stipulations onto and a quill, and returned to the den, sitting on the floor in front of the thestrals.
"Read and sign this paper, and we can get started," he told her, showing her the words on the paper and levitating the quill over to her. Soon, the smaller mare took the quill in her mouth and signed the floating paper, which was teleported away shortly after she finished her signature, along with the quill.
"Great!" Amy stuck out a hoof. "Welcome to the team, miss..."
She licked his hoof eagerly, making him jerk it back in response. "Strange Bat, at your service!" She excitedly chirped.
"I can tell," he chuckled, wiping his hoof on the floor, before standing. "Now let's get to work, shall we?"
Suddenly, Sly began waving at him with a hoof, getting his attention.
"Yes?" He asked, tilting his head a little. She then proceeded to form various shapes and poses and made various sounds, before eventually ending by pointing at the smaller mare.
"... Huh?" He asked with a thoroughly confused expression.
"Oh, I'll translate!" Strange said, and turned to watch Sly. The aforementioned thestral turned as well, sitting up straight and clearing her throat. She carefully lifted Strange out of her lap and placed her off to the side. She then proceeded to lurch forward into a standing position with a crazy face as her wings flared out, emitting an ear-piercing screech, making Amy flinch and wince, his ears flattening against his head.
"She's asking if you can tutor me after school," Strange asked as she turned back to Amy, acting as if nothing happened. Amy didn't respond for a while, waiting for the ringing in his ears to fade.
"Sure, I..." He looked over to Sly, speechless at how she was now sitting up again with a wide smile, her wings folded against her back and looking at him. "...Yeah. I'll tutor you," he finished.
"For now, let's... let's get to know each other," he told them, climbing up to sit beside Strange as he rubbed an ear that was still ringing slightly.
For the record, that happened on Monday, where they also proceeded to change Strange's hours to work around her daily school schedule. Currently, it's the Friday of that same week, and throughout the week, Sly's job had been to move from their nasty little cave in the Everfree forest into his home, which Sly still has to clean up a little in order to sell it to a family of bears Fluttershy said had been looking for someplace to call home for a while now.
"Red!" Amy exclaimed, smiling as he moved his red pony piece to rest only a few tiles away from the finish, with Sly's blue piece far behind. He smirked as she drew a card, knowing he'd win. That smile promptly faded as she moved the piece to a tile in front of him then to the winning tile, beating him. He looked up, as she brandished a card with two blue squares on it with her own smirk.
"Darn it," he said sadly, picking up a quill with his magic and making a tally under Sly's name, totalling her to twenty-seven wins as opposed to his one, but he was determined to beat her, even if he only won the first game because she didn't know how to play.
He reset the pieces and shuffled the cards, and Sly was about to draw her first card before the door suddenly burst open.
"Mommy! Amy!" Strange exclaimed happily, sprinting into the den and skidding into a sitting position in front of them as Amy closed the door behind her. "Look!" She presented them with her math test, which had a big fat A+ stamped in the corner.
"Good job, superstar!" He praised, quickly grabbing and bringing over a mango from the fridge as Sly patted her head approvingly. Strange sighted the fruit almost immediately, and with a gasp, leaped and grabbed it out of the air in her mouth, wolfing it down in almost no time at all, making a mess as she burped loudly.
"What do you say?" Amy asked.
"Um... I before E, except after C," Strange stated.
"No, the other thing," Amy told her. "You say it to be polite?"
"Uh..." She tapped her chin with a hoof in thought. "Oh! Thank you for licking my-"
"There! That word!" He interrupted quickly.
"What, lick?" She asked.
"No, the words before that!"
"...Thank you?" She wildly guessed.
"Yes! Exactly!" He exclaimed. "Now say it like you mean it."
"Thank you!" She chirped.
"For?"
"The mango, silly!" She giggled. "Don't you remember?"
He chuckled before wrapping her in a hug. "Thank you for reminding me, sweetie."
"Oh! That also reminds me," he put Strange down. "Do you wanna go to the Carnival?" He asked, floating three tickets between them.
She squealed in excitement and tackled Amy to the ground with a hug, making him chuckle as he hugged back.
"We're gonna board a train early tomorrow morning to take us there, okay?" He told Strange. "But right now, let's go get changed for bed."
"Thank you, daddy!" She squealed before darting off to her room, leaving Amy to roll onto his belly, gazing at the corner she had disappeared around with a loving smile. After a few moments, Sly offered a helping hoof.
"Thanks hun," he said, taking her hoof and climbing to his feet. "If you don't mind, can you please clean up the game? Daddy has to go tuck in his daughter." Amy gave Sly a bright smile before trotting off towards Strange's room with a happy bounce, leaving Sly to smile as she watched him be the happiest he's ever been, wiping tears from her eyes.
Later that night, hours after Strange had fallen asleep, Amy sat at his desk once again, candle lit and glasses on as he held a quill in his magic beside him, reading over a paper of revised stipulations. He then lifted the paper in his magic and turned on the stool to face the bed, where Sly currently laid, facing him.
"What do you think of this?" He cleared his throat. "Stipulation one; If employee is above the age of eighteen, then Amethyst may perform any sexual action, ranging from masturbation to intercourse, with the employee at anytime and anywhere within work hours, be that inside or outside of his current residence. If the employee is underage, or under the age of eighteen, the employee must give consent each and every time Amethyst requests to perform sexual actions. If the employee is asleep, the employee must have given consent beforehoof to allow Amethyst to perform sexual actions with the employee, and this consent may be reverted at the employee's leisure." After finishing, he looked at Sly. She gave an approving nod.
"Perfect," he said with a smile. "Since the first new stipulation is just the first two old ones combined, the new second is the old third one, completely unchanged," he informed her, so she nodded in acknowledgement. He then yawned, laying his papers on the desk. He gently blew out the candle, bathing the room in darkness. Sly watched as he carefully made his way around to his side of the bed, then lifted the covers with his magic as he slipped in, and his magic soon disappeared, leaving the blanket to softly fall as he got comfortable, laying on his side and facing Sly.
He opened his mouth to say goodnight, but was interrupted as she wrapped her limbs around her, her forelegs around his chest under his armpits and hindlegs wrapped around his thighs, hugging him real close, and she purred quietly as she nuzzled his neck with closed eyes and a smile, soothed by his body heat.
He stared at her for a moment in surprise, then sighing with a smile, closing his eyes and laying his head back as he laid his hooves on her, one gently stroking her spread wings, and the other softly scratching behind her ears.
"Goodnight, my love," he whispered, before quickly falling asleep in her embrace. |
It Hates Me So Much | [24] Burnt Incest | Tags: White Hoof | Flower | Incest | Anthro | Casual Sex | Facefuck | Heavy Watersports | Vaginal | Vaginal Creampie | Anal | Anal Creampie | Somnophilia
Burnt Incest.txt
Created: Monday, March 22, 2021, 12:34:12 PM
Modified: Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 8:07:44 AM
Day I - Territorial Control
White Hoof's white hand was a blur as he pumped his up and down his foot long jet black length, his hand easily wrapping around its three inch thickness as his hand continually brushed against his tip before nearly slamming into his crotch. His white fur was matted with sweat as he breathed heavily in exertion, his erect wings twitching on either side of him as his white mane was tied back to avoid blocking his vision, allowing his white eyes to drift over his deep asleep sister's pink face, who had just arrived the day before for a weeklong visit, occasionally thrusting forward and smearing her slightly open lips with his precum. He wore nothing but a white t-shirt, his shorts and boxers in a pile on the floor as he kneeled with his knees on either side of her, and his tail energetically swung from side to side behind him, brushing against the blanket separating him from her. With a grunt, his hands shot to her muzzle, prying it open before plunging his cock into her muzzle, grimacing in pleasure as he placed his hands behind her head and pulled her to him as he bucked forward, allowing him to touch the entrance to her throat halfway in, making her gag. Then, with a loud exhale, shoved the rest of him down her throat, creating a noticeable bulge down her neck as she gagged again, her nose slamming against his crotch.
Without missing a beat, he tightly gripped her purple mane and held her in place as he pulled out to his medial ring and slammed back in, jackhammering with no mercy into her face as she gagged with each thrust. His eyes were screwed shut as he looked to the sky, mouth open in extreme bliss as the walls of her esophagus constricted around the intruder, while her tongue consistently brushed against the sensitive flesh of his tip's underside, making his pleasure grow that much faster. His mind melted away in a sea of ecstasy as he accelerated, stars flashing in his vision and his horn sparking and popping as the pleasure became too much to bear. Within a few seconds, his tip flared he emitted a long and throaty groan as he hilted in her mouth, his pulsing balls emptying their massive load into her, while his throbbing horsecock ejected a large spurt of seed with each throb, dumping it directly into her belly. His firehose didn't stop firing until her belly had grown a solid six inches, topped off with a light red shine.
After a minute or two, his wings folded back against his sides as he gingerly pulled his softening saliva coated cock from her, closing his mouth and adorning it with a smirk as he looked upon her bloated stomach. Carefully, he rotated on top of her, facing the other direction before growing a dumb smile as he plopped his tailhole directly onto her lips, slightly gyrating atop her abused mouth. Soon, a familiar feeling gradually rose in his crotch, and without hesitation, he grabbed his cock in one hand, grabbing the edge of the blanket and tossing it to the foot of the bed before groaning quietly in contentment as he began peeing on her buttoned up pink pajamas. He very lightly swung it from side to side, covering her sides and thighs, wetting her pink pants as well as he watched as his urine dripped down her cutie mark of a single rose with rainbow colored petals, and pool beneath her. Quickly, he cut off the stream with a light grunt, but was far from finished. He climbed over her and turned once again, facing the head of her bed, lifting her legs and resting them over his shoulders as he scooted forward, brushing his drooping cock against her hidden folds. He lowered his hands and hooked his fingers over the hem of her pants, pulling them over her plump cheeks just enough to reveal her privates completely. He moved both hands down to her chest, unbuttoning the three buttons holding her massive jugs, then began softly groping her breasts with one hand as his other hand stroked his cock. As he slowly brought his cock back up to full glory, he let his eyes wander over her beautiful form, tracing the delicious curves of her hips, looking at her breasts, which were larger than her chest, and glancing at her large nipples, perfect for feeding a foal.
After a minute, his cock was brought back to full hardness. He held the base and guided it to her lower lips, quietly gasping as he brushed against her folds. Softly, he brought his hands to her rear and grabbed her cheeks, using his thumbs to spread her pussy as wide as possible, which was barely two thirds his girth. With a grunt, he began slowly applying pressure, waiting for her tight folds to give way. As he did this, he leaned forward and planted a firm kiss upon her lips, before lowering his head a little more and nuzzling the side of her face.
After another minute of pressure and nuzzling, her folds finally gave in, making him gasp as his tip popped into her, then making him emit a long moan as he slowly fed inch after inch into her, stretching her inner sanctum twice as wide, before quickly bumping against her uterus, leaving just under half of his cock out in the cold air. He winced as her radiating vaginal walls pulsed around him, trying to milk him dry, but he held off pounding her silly, at least not yet. For now, he slowly pulled back until just his tip was left inside of her.
Then, with an audible sigh of relief, he once again released the hold on his bladder, allowing his urine to rush through his urethra and into her pussy. He happily pissed inside her, dumping the rest of his bladder into her vagina. There wasn't much, so a few moments later, the steady stream waned away, almost filling her stretched canal to the brim. A white aura surrounded his horn for a short moment as he cast a spell on her before pulling out, revealing a white barrier holding his golden liquid inside her.
His horn lit up a second time, and he magically undid the rest of her buttons to allow her belly room to breathe and to not break the buttons, carefully and slowly guiding her arms out of the sleeves and sliding it from under her. Next, he grabbed the hem of her pants and slid them up and off her legs, tossing both into a bin of dirty clothes beside the bed.
With one final kiss on the lips, he carefully laid on top of her, scooting back slightly and wrapping his arms around her chest as he shoved his face in between her boobs, smiling contently as he shut his eyes and quickly retreated to the world of dreams. |
It Hates Me So Much | [25] The Job | Warning: Contains watersports
Jerry stood around the middle of a small encampment next to a large fire, close enough to be warm and comfortable without feeling like he was burning, listening to it crackle as he held a book in front of him in his white magic, his white eyes reading it attentively.
His ivory chest was on the ground with his forehooves scrunched up and carefully tied with rope underneath him, and his rear was as high in the air as it could be, his hindlegs slightly spread and held in place by padded cuffs connected by a stainless steel bar with his ivory tail cut extremely short, presenting his jet black tailhole and golf ball sized testes, along with a soft four inch thick cock hanging in the air, all recently cleaned and waiting.
He flipped the page, beginning a new chapter, before he heard the soft thump of two hooves landing on either side of his chest, along with something brushing against his ponut. His magic lifted a quill and a half-filled parchment in front of his book, the tip of the quill poised over the next empty line. He quickly glanced to his left, reading the pocket watch before filling out the date in a short box on the left, which had an empty short box beside it and the current time in a short box on the right, which also had a short empty box to its right for the final time.
"Name and rank?" He asked. The stallion popped his tip in with an exhale.
"Lieutenant Heavy Hoof," the gruff royal guard replied, slowly sliding his cock into Jerry's tailhole before stopping at his medial ring, then popped it in along with the rest of his dick with a light thrust and a content grunt, his crotch lightly slapping against Jerry's plump mare-like asscheeks as Jerry's hole was stretched, almost filling him completely, then let out a relieved sigh as a warm liquid began steadily filling his anus.
"Age?" Jerry asked. The quill marked down his name in a box taking up the space between the pairs of boxes on the sides.
"Forty-seven," Heavy answered. Jerry marked it down in the empty box beside the date before returning the parchment and will to their original positions, the magic dissipating from around them.
Unfortunately, Jerry's ass was quickly filled, and it began leaking from around the imperfect seal of Heavy's cock. Despite this, Heavy didn't move, and most of it leaked from around his dick, creating a sizable puddle in the grass beneath their connected crotches by the time he was empty. After a few seconds, he slowly began pulling out, all the way to the tip, then slammed it back in completely, hilting inside him with a grunt.
"Celestia, you're so tight," he moaned, bringing it back out to the tip and driving it back in with a slap, starting a slow and hard rhythm.
Jerry let his ears and eyelids droop, basking in the pleasure of the warm log going in and out of his butt with closed eyes and a smile, laying down his book and resting his chin on top of it. With expertise born from years of experience, he clenched just enough to squeeze pleasurably without restricting him as he pulled out and loosened as he went in, attempting to prolong both their pleasure. Under him, Jerry's own cock hardened, quickly reaching its full length of fifteen inches, slapping his belly and dripping with precum. Jerry yelped as the Lieutenant suddenly brushed his g-spot, sending a massive wave of pleasure through his body.
"You like that?" Heavy Hoof growled, slamming back in and drawing another yelp out of the white stallion.
"Oh Luna, y-yes!" Jerry loudly confirmed, his left hindleg twitching at each blast of bliss emanating from his g-spot.
"You're too good!" The Lieutenant exclaimed, accelerating faster and faster until his dick was a blur coming in and out of his ass, grunting with each thrust, and soon bottomed out with a guttural moan as he stopped moving, his testes pulsing and cock throbbing as he unleashed his load into the mare-like stallion, who came in tandem, his thick ropes of cum striking the grass as his ass was filled way past maximum capacity, increasing the volume and size of his belly by a solid thirty percent.
"Celestia, I needed that," Heavy Hoof told him softly, pulling his softening horsecock out with a pop and stepping back. Two bits were tossed onto the grass beside Jerry's head into a small wooden strongbox that was half full as the Lieutenant trotted away, his first payment of the day.
"Thank you, come again!" Jerry called after the retreating pony, marking down the final time on the parchment, and noting that they went for almost half an hour.
"H-Hello?" A timid voice asked moments later from behind him. "Are you the uh... stress relief?"
"The one and only!" Jerry chirped, not looking back.
"W-What are your prices?" they asked.
"Two bits to creampie my ass, three bits to fill my muzzle," Jerry informed the stallion.
"Also, um, I heard t-that you can become a mare?" The newcomer asked shyly.
"Now that costs one hundred bits," Jerry explained with a chuckle. "And an extra monthly payment of a hundred bits per foal if you wanna put a bun in my oven." Moments later, Jerry flinched as a large cloth bag of bits loudly landed in his strongbox.
"That's uh, about two hundred b-bits," the stallion told Jerry. "J-Just enough to um, i-impregnate you." Jerry stared incredulously at the bag.
"You sure, kiddo?" Jerry asked.
"I've never been too sure about many of my decisions..." He paused for a moment, gently nuzzling Jerry's flank. "But this is one I believe in."
"Then step back a bit," Jerry told him as his horn began glowing. He charged it for nearly a minute, before his body was enveloped in his magic. He winced at the momentary pain, his entire package disappearing and being replaced with a pair of average perky teats and a tight snatch, along with wider foal bearing hips and more feminine facial features and a rounded muzzle.
"N-Now hurry up and pump a foal into me!" Jerry said in a distinctly southern feminine voice, swaying her rump invitingly. Soon, his blunt tip brushed her virgin folds as a hoof gently but firmly came down onto her head, holding her down. With a grunt, his tip pushed against her, but was way too big to enter her painlessly, but with surprising strength and a grunt of exertion, his flare suddenly spread her folds and entered her, making her clench her teeth in pain as his fat log stretched her rarely vagina, effortlessly sliding in and bumping the entrance to her womb, making them both moan in pleasure. Quickly, he developed a steady rutting speed, pulling out to his medial ring and slamming back in with a loud slap, his large orbs swinging under him and impacting her clit, sending wave after wave of pleasure through her new body as new g-spots were discovered for the first time.
"Oh C-Celestia, y-y-you're so bucking t-tight!" He yelled, ravaging her pussy with reckless abandon. He gave a powerful thrust before speeding up, barely pulling out before driving it back in.
"You're... Y-You're gonna... Oh Celestia!" He shouted, pulling out to his tip and slamming back in a few times before hilting inside her, pushing past her cervix and flaring in her new womb, locking it in as semen gushed from his cock, filling her to the brim within seconds, but his pulsing balls kept going, making his throbbing wiener fill her to almost two hundred percent capacity, making her belly just barely brush against the tips of the blades of grass.
"O-O-Oh m-m-m-my..." Jerry stuttered, her left hindleg twitching violently as she rode out her third mind melting orgasm since he came. "D-D-Did y-you use m-my patented i-increased output and p-potency p-p-potions f-for stallions with the i-intent to b-b-breed?"
"T-Three of them," He answered in between breaths.
"Y-You r-r-really must w-want a f-foal then!" She exclaimed.
"You h-have no idea," He mumbled to himself. Jerry tried to light his horn, but winced as it fizzled.
"W-Would you mind h-helping an old mare out of t-these cuffs?" She asked, motioning to the key beside the strongbox with her head.
"N-No problem," the stallion replied. She watched a black colored bat wing reach down and grab the key before bringing it back. She listened as the key was inserted into the lock on the spreader bar, then sighed as it was unlocked and brought away, allowing her to spread her legs much more into a comfortable position with a belly this big.
"R-Ropes too, p-please?" She requested. In response, the same wing curled down to her bound hooves and easily cut it with a flick, allowing the rope to fall limp. She grabbed the rope with her magic and tossed it aside as she repositioned her hooves and raised her chest up and off the ground with a huff, before immediately stumbling as a wave of dizziness hit her.
"Woah there!" He exclaimed, darting beside her and holding her up with his body, lovingly wrapping a wing around her shoulders. She looked up at his face, and her eyes widened.
The handsome sapphire blue eyes on his beautifully structured face looked into hers with concern as his ears were perked towards her, and his dark grey mane was combed back.
"Luna, you're handsome," she swooned with a dumb smile, and giggled as his face flushed lightly.
"L-Let's get back to my tent, yeah?" He said with a nervous smile.
"To fuck some more?" She bluntly guessed. He glanced down to her belly before answering.
"Doesn't look like you can hold much more," he noted.
"Yeah, I'm tired anyway," she told him, whisking away all of her items to her home in Canterlot as she let out a big yawn. "Let's get some shut-eye." |
It Hates Me So Much | [26] Nina's Chapter | During a nice, warm day at a beach of the city of Baltimare, a human couple was watching over a young unicorn filly as she played in the water with other foals.
The woman was lying in a beach chair, dressed in white bikini bottoms and a large white t-shirt, enjoying the warm sun on her body, her blue eyes closed in relaxation and brown hair covered by a summer hat, while her husband was wearing swim shorts, talking with other stallions.
Truth to be told, Nina Bauer could still not believe how the little filly called Dinky changed her life months ago. Being unable to carry children, she was more than happy to be Dinky's stepmother after she had landed on earth by accident and found by her husband.
Of course, they both needed some time to get used to this new life, also getting quite some attention from other ponies. While respecting her marriage, Nina was often taken by surprise when other stallions gave her a glance and commented on her beauty, having a d-cup bust and a curvy figure.
Next to her, in the shadows, was a black wolf, resting. It was Bound, Dinky's pet. Once, Dinky got lost, and Bound helped her home, thus becoming her pet. Like her family, Bound had been extremely happy when Dinky was found, having no trouble accepting the humans in the family.
"You like sand castle, brother?" A young male voice asked in broken Equish, causing Nina to look over to see a teen colt with jet black fur and Ruby Red eyes asking another teen colt with a wolf-like body covered in fluffy white fur, and a black pony-like mane and tail, his eyes blue and studying his brother's creation. The white furred one nodded in approval, then glanced over at their mother's mother with a barely noticeable blush.
"Say, wanna join Dinky in the water?" White softly asked. Dark nodded, and off they went into the water.
Dark Hooves and White Paw, the...children of Dinky and Bound, were born through a magic accident shortly after Nina and Johann started their new life. Despite this... unforeseen incident, the two brothers grew quickly to match Dinky's age, and also had no trouble accepting the two humans into the family.
Nina wore a pair of navy blue bikini panties over her crotch, and a large white t-shirt over her bosom with no bra on underneath, so wanting to join her stepdaughter and her sons in the water, she reached over for her swimming bra, but suddenly a white blur streaked past, and she gasped as she was lightly sprayed with sand, then sighed as she noticed that her bra was now missing. She rose, wiping sand from her face.
"That's the fourth time this week," she grumbled to herself, turning away from the water and following the trail of pawprints that curved behind a large round rock. She walked around the rock with crossed arms, stopping as she noticed her white colored grandson sitting in the sand with his back to her, one hindleg held high in the air by a hoof as he was bent down, probably licking at his crotch, which she knew was a thing that canines tended to do. On the ground behind him was her matching bikini bra.
"White Paw," she called, watching him freeze while his ears splayed back. He looked behind him, locking eyes with her for a split second, but before she could say anything, he pivoted, now facing her with his hindlegs wide open and his forelegs tucked against his chest, a now obvious blush on his cheeks as he looked at her.
What she spied between his legs stopped her from speaking, her eyes locked onto a rock hard red rocket, his thick and throbbing meat reaching almost all the way up his torso with an adult sized knot at the base, the tip leaking globs of precum and dripping with what was likely his saliva. His large testes were also spit-shined, his golfball sized balls slightly squished between his thighs and churning with puppy batter.
"No wonder you've been acting up," she murmured, her eyes slightly wide.
"Miss Nina?" He called after a while of silence, quietly and uncertainly. "Can you help me get rid of it?" He asked. After watching emotions conflict across her face for a moment, he remembered how sex was regarded back at her home and quickly spoke up.
"Um, our minds mature at a much faster rate than the average foal, so I'm technically not a child," he explained. She still appeared conflicted.
"I'm... not sure..." She said hesitantly.
"I um, I'm also very gentle, I promise," he added. "And nopony will know! It'll be our little secret!" Nina didn't move, so he merely smiled nervously, not knowing what else to say. Eventually, she sighed, her shoulders slumping slightly in defeat.
"Fine," she reluctantly agreed. "As long as you stop stealing my bras, okay?" He nodded in acknowledgement with a bigger smile.
Hesitantly, she approached him, and sat in front of him with crossed legs. She then lifted him from under his armpits and placed him in her lap on her right leg, his body facing in. She kept her right arm hooked behind him to prevent him from falling, and looked down at his tip.
After hesitating for a brief moment, she carefully drooled a glob of spit onto his tip, and heard him exhale a small sigh of pleasure as she used her left hand to expertly spread it all over his penis. Soon, she simply began to stroke up and down, moving her right arm back a little to allow him to lounge back, and occasionally reapplying a layer of spit to keep him nice and wet.
"Tell me when you get close dear," she told him hesitantly but gently, looking at his face. His eyes were closed, ears drooping, and mouth turned up into a content smile. In response to her words, he gave a short nod, and she smiled before looking back down, speeding up slightly.
This speed change drew another content sigh from him, and she even noticed him start to lightly thrust up into her hand, showing that she could still pleasure a male.
"Does that feel good hun?" She asked hesitantly but softly, and smiled as he nodded. She carefully moved him to rest his back against her belly, then used her now free hoof to gently play with and fondle his testicles, making him moan quietly.
'Should I really be doing this?' she thought to herself, not paying attention as she unintentionally accelerated her stroking, distantly staring at his face. 'He's my grandson, it's wrong...'
'But he's technically my step grandson...' She reasoned with herself, her hand a blur over his shaft as he thrusted rapidly. 'And he is technically of age...'
"N-Nina, I'm gonna-" he cut himself off with a small gasp, before his throbbing cock began spurting long ropes of his thick puppy batter all over her ankles and the sand, his balls tightening with each spurt.
"What?" She asked in shock, snapping back to reality as he hand stopped just above his knot. "Oh, sorry, I-I wasn't paying attention."
"Don't be sorry, Miss Nina," he told her with a content smile, relaxing against her. "That felt really good."
"Then why isn't it... going down..." She questioned, eyes locked on his still erect cock.
"It isn't?" He repeated, looking down himself. "That's weird, it usually does... maybe we need to try something else?"
"Like what?" Nina questioned, one hand still holding his shaft as she released his balls and wiped her hand on her thigh a few times before placing it on his head, scratching behind his ears.
"Maybe..." He started, tapping his chin in thought. "...I need to rut you?"
"What?!" She suddenly exclaimed, making White jump. "Oop, sorry dear. What do you mean by 'rut me'?" She asked.
"I mean like... I put my penis in your... anus?" He answered. "No, vagina! I put my penis in your vagina!" He corrected himself.
"That..." She trailed off, watching his shaft still not go soft.
"Please, Miss Nina?" He pleaded, looking up at her. "It'll only be this once, a-and I'll be gentle!"
"We shouldn't..." Nina told him hesitantly.
"Only this once, promise!" He told her.
"Only this once," she parroted, then lifted him off and placed him on the cum soaked sand in front of her, before doing a one-eighty and getting on her knees and elbows, resting her butt on her bare feet, and looked back at him.
"Go... Go ahead," Nina hesitantly told him. "Mount me, White Paw."
He did without any hesitation, and she bit her lip, unable to believe what she just agreed to. 'I shouldn't have, my husband... if he finds out.... Or if...' Her mind wanted her to stop, in conflict with what was happening-
Nina suddenly gasped, putting a hand over her mouth to muffle her cry of pain, and White saw blood leaking from her vagina. "Oh! I'm so sorry!" He exclaimed. "I-I didn't mean to!"
"I-It's okay," She spoke through the pain, and the colt gave her a look of sympathy.
"So um... that means you're a virgin, right?" He asked.
"Y-Yes," She answered, and the pup's ears splayed back.
"I.... understand, I'm so sorry." His eyes were truthful, waiting for the young woman to recover. "I-I promise I'll make it up to you somehow, a-and that I will be gentle."
"Thank you," she said, lowering her hand. After a few moments and a few deep breaths, she nodded. "Keep going."
Hesitantly, White continued to push in, groaning quietly as her warm walls squeezed his thick log. Soon, his tip bumped against her womb, and in a burst of instinct, he thrusted, pushing into her womb, and hilting up to his knot inside her.
"Oh wow," White moaned, grinding against her crotch."Your vagina feels so good, Miss Nina!"
"Thank you," Nina replied, her eyes closing as she focused on his shaft. "Your penis feels really good too."
"R-Really?" He asked with a light blush, and she nodded. "Thanks."
White continued to pull out slightly, closing his eyes and beginning steadily rutting her, a dumb grin on his muzzle as they listened to the quiet squelches.
Behind them, however, appeared Bound, his large form somehow silently turning the corner. He looked at them, and his rock hard shaft bobbed in excitement, having correctly predicted what his son was doing and preparing accordingly.
Oblivious to the shadow that soon loomed over them, they continued. Only when Bound's flank drooped and he rested his shaft against Nina's occupied hole did they notice.
"Wha-" Nina's eyes opened as she looked back, then up. "B-Bound?"
White opened his eyes upon hearing his father's name. "Dad?"
"White Paw?" Bound said in a questioning tone.
"Nina?" A somewhat deep and growly voice questioned, and he looked to his left to see a wide-eyed Dark Hoof turning the corner of the rock, his own thick and knotted canine cock throbbing and bouncing beneath him.
"Dark Hoof?" Bound said. "Why are..." He paused for a moment, then sighed.
"Nina," Bound called softly, looking at the woman. "Is it permissible for both of the pups to have sex with you?"
"I-I mean..." She looked over Dark, especially his dick.
'How would they do it?' She thought. 'Would they each take a hole? Would the colts both penetrate my vagina as Bound takes my mouth? Or would Bound take my ass?' She glanced up at the wolf. 'Him in my ass sounds like it'll hurt, but... maybe it won't?'
"...I-It's only fair, right?" She finished.
Bound nodded, then backed off, stepping to the side.
"Dad join too?" Dark asked the lady.
"Son, I am-" Bound started.
"I-It's okay," Nina interrupted. "I can take you three."
"Are you sure?" Bound asked with a concerned look.
"Yeah," Nina. "A-As long as you go slow, of course."
"Right," Bound confirmed with a nod, before going silent for a moment as he looked over their sexual bond, glancing at Dark every so often.
"To make this work, first, I will need White to pull out," Bound said.
"W-Why?" White squeaked, not wanting to leave his source of pleasure.
"Because for us all to be able to get into a position to pleasure her, you need to move," Bound informed him.
Reluctantly, White listened to his father, pulling out with a schlorp before stepping aside and flopping onto his butt. Next, Bound rolled onto his back beside her.
"Nina," he called softly. "You lay atop me."
With a nod, and a heavy blush, Nina slowly stood, then carefully laid on top of the large wolf, their cheeks touching as his tip prodded her entrance.
"Now," he whispered to her. "Whenever you are ready, I would like you to slowly back up until my tip is inside you."
She nodded. After a moment and a few deep breaths, she backed up, letting out a low moan as his tip penetrated her.
"You are so tight," Bound complimented softly, making her blush even harder. "I can see why my son was so reluctant to leave you."
"Now," he spoke louder, but not too loud. "My sons, mount her side-by-side." Doing as they were told, White stood, waited for his brother to pull up beside him, and they both approached the adults' behinds and reared up, their sides pressed together and cocks rubbing each other as their four paws were planted on her rear.
"Before the boys continue," he spoke, lowering his voice again. "To make the next step as painless as possible, I would ask that you please reach back and spread your pussy lips as much as you can."
Nina looked up at his face for a moment, then did as he said, reaching back and spreading her vagina as much as possible with the tips of her fingers.
"We are almost done," Bound stated to all of them. "Boys, I need you to insert your tips simultaneously." Once they did, Nina gasping in surprise as White moaned and Dark squeaked in pleasure, Bound looked down at Nina.
"Do you feel fine, Nina?" Bound asked softly.
"Y-Yeah," she answered, eyes wide in surprise. "In fact, it doesn't hurt at all."
"I suspect that is the work of my aura," Bound chuckled. "Regardless, you control when we begin."
"G-Go ahead," she squeaked, embarrassed at how fast she replied. Bound merely smiled, then wrapped his forelegs around her body, hugging her close to his soft fluffy fur.
"Go ahead boys," Bound called, and almost immediately, the three males slid most of their cocks into her with three simultanious moans and another squeak from Dark, only stopped by their knots, stretching her pussy to the size of a pony's hoof. Even then, she felt no pain, but instead felt major pleasure.
"Now..." Bound started, feeling the two pups' warm cocks throb against his own. "Nina, you will control when we stop, when we start, and how fast we go. For now, we will start off slow and steady."
On cue, the colts began slowly pulling out and thrusting back in, and Bound quickly joined, making her rock slightly with each thrust. Nina merely just sighed contently and went limp, letting the waves of pleasure flow through her freely.
"Hey Dark?" White called nervously, looking at the colt beside him.
"Yes brother?" Dark answered, looking back at him.
Without a word, White suddenly raised his left paw and wrapped it around Dark's head, pulling him into a deep and sloppy kiss. With a roll of his eyes, Dark continued to close his eyes, leaning into the kiss. Soon, White also lifted his other paw, sliding it between his brother's lower cheeks, and Dark squeaked with a slight blush as White began playing with his booty, rubbing his fingers over his pucker and groping his booty cheeks while occasionally slipping a claw inside his backdoor or fondling his balls for a moment.
"Are you enjoying this, Nina?" Bound asked the woman softly, moving one of his paws to gently scratch her head. Nina merely gave a nod and a murmur of agreement, to which Bound chuckled.
"Would you like kisses as well?" Bound asked. After a moment, Nina nodded again. With a smile, Bound proceeded to begin licking her face for a few moments, to which Nina started giggling, not expecting doggy kisses.
"I forgot dogs have their own way of kissing," she chuckled with a mirthful smile, with Bound chuckling alongside her.
For a while, they merely laid there with smiles, basking in the pleasure washing over them. But release has to come at some point, and the boys began to sense its approach.
"Hey N-Nina," Bound grunted, feeling a pressure in his crotch begin growing. "I-I am getting close. M-May I speed up?"
Nina opened her eyes, peeing up into the wolf's own pupils, mulling over his request. Eventually, she spoke her answer.
"Go wild, sweetie."
With permission now granted, Bound immediately held her much tighter against him as he accelerated to high speeds, his hips suddenly a blur as his crotch slapped loudly against her, his eyes screwed shut and ears splayed back, his lips shifting into a grimace as the pressure that had been slowly growing now grew at a rapid pace.
Following their father, the boys sped up as well, rutting as fast as they could with loud squelches, which was considerably slower than Bound's experienced hips. They locked their lips into another deep and passionate kiss, their tongues wrestling and moving from maw to maw, each having one foreleg around each other while their other paw, or hoof, rested behind the other's head. At this pace, they would not last long.
Less than a minute later, White suddenly pulled away from Dark's lips with a loud smack, and a deep gasp of air from them both.
"Ah! M-Miss Nina!" White exclaimed, nuzzling the side of his brother's face as he hugged the dark-colored colt tightly with both forelegs. "I-I'm getting close! Are you r-ready?"
Quickly following his exclamation, strands of a golden aura quickly slid out from her vagina around Bound's cock and onto the boys cocks, snaking to their testes and created a layer of golden magic around them, before the boys ejaculated, White grunting, Dark squeaking, and Nina gasping as they shoved their knots into Nina, locking them in place as their aura-enhanced balls tightened with each throb of their cocks, spurting rope after rope of thick and juicy seed into Nina's vagina, bloating her belly slightly with a volume of cum at least twice the size of what would be expected.
Seconds after, Bound emitted a quiet whine, before slamming his own knot into her and making her moan gutturally and cum herself, rocking them so much that the boys would've fallen were it not for their knots. Bound's balls hiked up and down, his cock throbbing as his hot and thick puppy batter spilled into her womb, inflating her belly greatly to the point of looking heavily pregnant.
After the boys emptied themselves, the four of them merely laid there, the colts and Nina panting heavily as they all rode out their highs.
"Did you... enjoy yourselves, my... my sweeties?" Nina questioned in a motherly tone between pants.
"Mhmm..." Dark murmured with a slow nod.
"Very much so," Bound replied.
"Yes!" White chirped. "I would love to go again!"
Dark bopped him upside the head.
"W-With permission, of course," White added with an embarrassed smile and blush.
"I'll talk with Bound about it then," Nina chuckled, laying limp in said wolf's extremely soft fur.
After a while, they finally untangled themselves and walked back to their spot on the beach, with Bound and White Paw hanging back for whatever reason. However, halfway back, Nina noticed that her vagina was still tight, instead of loose like she expected, and looked back at Bound. As if expecting it, Bound merely looked at her with a grin.
"My aura can do much more than only quell your pain," he told her with a wink, before retreating back behind the rock.
She stood there for a moment, looking at where Bound last was with a quizzical gaze, before slowly turning back around and walking the rest of the way back to the beach.
From the direction of the rock came White Paw, a pair of red boxers that just barely showed his bulge covering his booty, with his ears splayed back and tail between his legs as he looked at the ground in shame, while Bound followed close behind. Eventually, he trudged over to Nina, who looked at him with a raised brow as the hand idly rubbing her bloated belly slowed to a stop.
"Miss Nina, I'm sorry for making you have sex with me," he mumbled, turning his head in shame.
"It's okay," she told him softly, scratching him behind the ears for a moment. "Just listen to your father next time."
White nodded with a blush, but didn't move. After a moment, Nina sighed, before scooting to the right a bit and patting the empty spot of towel beside her.
"Come lay with me, dear," Nina told him softly. He did, albeit reluctantly, still looking away from her. With a smile, Nina laid a hand atop his head, scratching behind his ears as her eyes gazed distantly in the general direction of Dinky and Dark, deep in thought.
'Hmm... I wonder, how would my first time with Johann be?' Nina thought. 'Sure, he can't knot me, nor would he cum as much as bound, but it's not that I would mind... I guess it would not be so bad...'
As she thought, her hand unconsciously moved down White's body. As it slowly moved down to his back, he instinctively rolled onto his back, tail swaying as she scritched his belly. She didn't stop moving, however, and soon, his cheeks were suddenly engulfed in a heated red as her hand began to slip under the hem of his boxers. His eyes flew open and glanced at Nina, who was still distantly gazing away, before his eyes locked onto her hand.
'What if Bound's aura can magically make me pregnant?' She thought, her other hand subconsciously moving to rest on her belly. 'Nah, they're wolves, they can't impregnate humans...'
He merely laid there and watched, his eyes slowly growing wider and tail slowly wagging faster as she got closer and closer to his sheath at a painfully slow pace, his tip poking from its hidey hole.
Eventually, her hand brushed against his sheath, and he emitted a gasp. Her hand stopped, not moving for what seemed like hours. Then, very slowly, her hand moved, sliding over his sheath, before beginning to play with his testes. He let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding in a small sigh, laying his head back and relaxing as the pleasure began.
White was content for a while, his red rocket having grown and hardened long ago, but soon, he hungered for more.
With a glance at the woman's face-which hasn't moved an inch since he last looked-he slowly reached down, constantly glancing over. Soon, with a short pause, he gently placed it on her hand, and kept his eyes on her head, watching for any reaction.
After ensuring that nothing happened, he looked back down, then began slowly moving her hand upwards. It took a moment, and as her hand began to slide across his wet willy, her hand quickly but gently took hold of his shaft, making him emit another gasp as his hand jerked back a little in surprise. He then pulled it back completely as she began to move her hand up and down, and he let out a soft moan of appreciation as he relaxed once more.
Soon, he began thrusting into her hand. They were slow at first, but gradually grew faster and faster, and soon he was panting and rutting her hand with reckless abandon.
"Mmph... M-Miss Nina, I-I'm gonna-" He interrupted himself with a grunt before he began spurting ropes of warm seed all over his belly and face, his hips now only twitching and jerking as her hand continued to stroke his now sensitive rod, which fortunately slowed to a stop fairly soon. After his balls ran dry, he went limp, panting heavily with a dumb grin.
"Th-Thank you Miss Nina," White thanked the unknowing lady softly, snuggling back into her side with closed eyes and a wagging tail as her hand slowly slid from under his boxers and returned to her side. |
It Hates Me So Much | [27] Now This Will Pass Inspection | 8:35 AM, Saturday
Hooves Residence, Ponyville
Bound awoke early. Earlier than usual. This wasn't a bad thing today however, as he had somewhere to be. He rose from his curled position on the ground beside Dinky's bed, did a big stretch, then exited the room.
"Morning Bound," Dinky greeted, lounging along the sofa and watching the saturday morning cartoons.
"Good morning, Dinky." He took a detour around the front of the couch, licking her on the lips as he entered the kitchen, eating the breakfast in his dog bowl, before leaving the house and journeying to the Town Hall.
He opened a side door with his magic, entering and shutting the door behind him. He trotted through the entirely empty waiting room and approached the secretary's desk occupied by a bored looking brown stallion.
"Bound Hooves," he told the secretary.
"Second door on the right," he stated in a monotone voice, pointing down the hallway to his right as his head rested on his other hoof.
Bound tilted his head. "Are you okay?" He asked.
"Never better," he replied.
He raised an eyebrow. As he followed his directions, he made a mental note to turn the stallion's frown upside down after his appointment.
He entered Mayor Mare's office, sitting on the floor in front of her desk.
"Yes?" She asked with a smile on her muzzle.
"I am here to pick up my identification and for one other thing," Bound informed her.
"What other thing?" She asked curiously, opening a drawer and pulling out his ID, closing the drawer and placing it on her desk.
"I shall show you." He swept his ID aside with his magic. "First, stand in front of me."
With a curious glance, she got up from her chair and stood in front of her desk, facing him.
With his magic, he turned her one-eighty degrees, making her yelp in surprise, before he earned another yelp as he lifted and pushed her forward onto her desk, leaving her hindlegs hanging off the edge.
"You naughty wolf," she giggled as he nosed her tail aside, sniffing her snatch.
"Your crotch smells... of paper?" he asked, confused.
"A consequence of being around so much paperwork," she explained.
"Well, I think it is a lovely smell," he assured her.
"I'm glad you think so." She crossed her hooves and rested her head atop them.
"In my opinion, it shows that you are a hard working mare." He reared up and planted his paws on either side of her head.
"Oh, there's a lot of work," she started, biting her lip as she felt his tip prod her entrance. "It just isn't hard."
"Unlike me," Bound responded with a smile.
"Unlike you," she chuckled, then gasped as his tip popped in and stretched her entrance.
"I'm so glad you decided to come in." She let out a prolonged moan as he slowly slid in, only quieting once he hit the entrance to her womb, leaving a solid two inches between her lips and his knot.
"I am glad as well, as I have not met you yet." He began to slowly slide out to the tip and slowly slide all the way back in.
"We haven't met?" She asked, surprised. "I swear we have at some point."
"I can assure you we have not formally met, but we may have spotted each other at one point."
"Perhaps." She was quiet for a moment, thinking back to when this could have happened. "Can you stop thrusting for a moment?"
He did as he was told, freezing mid-thrust. With a few laborious grunts, she rotated onto her back with her forelegs tucked up against her chest, looking up and locking eyes with the large wolf.
"Hello," she started with a big smile. "I'm Mayor Mare. Nice to meet you."
"Hello Mayor Mare. I am Bound Hooves. It is nice to meet you too." He continued thrusting into her.
"Erm... What do you enjoy doing the most?" She asked, biting her lip and closing her eyes as the pleasure flowed through her.
"Having sex with Dinky," he replied. "How about you?"
"I enjoy running Ponyville," she answered.
"Understandable." He nodded.
"What um... is your favorite part of having sex with Dinky?" Mayor Mare asked.
"Watching her receive pleasure by my actions," he answered as he sped up tremendously to a normal rutting pace, making the desk creak with each thrust alongside her occasional moans.
"Such a-nngh... noble goal," she commented. "One which you are s-superb at."
"I'm glad you enjoy my cock so much." He sped up tremendously once more, finally breaking through into her womb, making her moan loudly as he finally entered her fully, his knot loudly slapping against her bulging clit and leaking hole.
"Many mares are commonly too enthralled in their pleasure to voice their satisfaction, so it is nice to hear praise once in a while." He smiled, lowering his lips to her ear. "However, since you can voice your pleasure, then perhaps you will also voice what comes next."
"N-N-Next?" She stuttered, screwing her eyes shut.
"Yes," he confirmed. "What comes after a good bit of fffucking?"
"Y-You... you cum," she answered.
"And where do I cum?" he added.
"I-In my-nngh, m-my pussy," she answered.
"Now put it all together," he told her, gently nibbling on the tip of her ear.
"You c-cum-unh, in my p-pussy."
"Correct, my dear mayor," he told her. "I, Bound Hooves, have fucked you silly, and shall give you the reward of a filled womb."
He bared his teeth, and after a few more thrusts, slammed his dick into her as hard as he could, making her moan loudly and gutturally as his knot was shoved into her. His pulsing balls delivered their load into the mare through his throbbing red rocket, quickly filling her with his hot and thick doggy sperm, inflating her belly a good few inches before his final few ropes spurted out around his cock.
After a few moments, and after a few tries, he yanked his knot out, hearing her moan as he slid his softening cock from her depths, backing up and returning all four paws to the ground.
"It was nice meeting you, Mayor Mare." He grabbed his ID and held it beside him with his magic. "Hope we can rut again." He turned around and exited her office, leaving her open mouth panting on top of her desk.
He silently trotted over to the unaware receptionist, turning the chair with his magic to face him.
"Uhh..." Was all he could get out as Bound sat down, spread his legs with his paws, and leaned in to lap at his nice and musky sheath.
"Um... o-okay then," he said, nervously looking away from the wolf with his forelegs tucked up against his chest.
The stallion bit his lip, feeling his soft horsecock lay across the wolf's muzzle. In time, his dick was erect, so the wolf opened his maw and sucked in his cock, his nose immediately bumping into the pony's crotch and making him grunt, before the canine started bobbing up and down, loudly slurping on his rod.
"D-Damn, you're good at this," the stallion commented quietly as waves of pleasure emanated from his crotch. In response, Bound sped up greatly, his head becoming a blur as the pony thrusted into his mouth and moaned quietly with each thrust.
"I... I'm already c-close," the secretary mumbled, hesitantly laying a hoof on the wolf's head. Soon, he emitted a long-but still quiet- moan as he thrusted up, his balls hiking up and down as his tip flared deep in the wolf's throat and his throbbing cock deposited rope after rope of hot cum straight into Bound's belly, who swallowed as much as he could as quick as he could.
"Th-That..." he started, his mouth open and tongue hanging out as he panted. "...W-Was the best head... I've ever gotten."
Bound pulled off with a loud slurp, licking his lips.
"Glad I could help." He stood, planting a quick kiss upon his lips, before leaving the building to return back home. |
It Hates Me So Much | [28] Scream Fortress | "Nightmare Night! What a fright! Give us something sweet to bite!" The filly at the door sang, wearing a black cape with a red interior and popped up collar, along with fake fangs. She was smiling widely as she sat and held up a pillowcase.
"Apologies, but I left mine bowl of sweets on the counter," Bound told her, then stepped aside. "If thou like, thee may enter and retrieve your share."
"Sure!" She chirped, humming as she got up and skipped into the house. Bound closed the door behind her. Bound pointed towards the kitchen, and she eagerly followed his direction, trotting to the kitchen with him close behind.
Upon entering the cooking area, she stopped and looked around. Quickly, she gasped and darted towards the bowl atop the counter, rearing up and peering into it.
"Wow! This bowl is as big as my head!" She exclaimed as her tail began to wag, licking her lips as she saw the many different candies in the nearly overflowing bowl.
"Dost thou know what else is big?" Bound asked, stalking over and quietly rearing up over her.
"Well, the princesses are pretty- oh!" she gasped as she felt something brush against her small taint.
"The answer thy seek art mine cock," he told her, then shoved half of his shaft into her, making her squeak in surprise as her hooves were lifted from the ground slightly, then began rutting her at high speeds, his meat schlicking in and out of her warm and tight cunny.
After only a few thrusts, she moaned before her head fell into the bowl, her half-lidded eyes unfocused as his tip battered the entrance to her womb. Bound's own tail was wagging as her filly hole hugged his rod tightly.
"Thine pussy art tight," he commented. "Verily tight. Hath thou ever done this before?"
"L-Like... Once o-or... mmph... maybe twice..." she answered slowly.
"Really? Because thou pussy feels as if it hath never been penetrated."
"N-Not by... by anyp-pony older than m... m-me," she told him. "But now... I d-don't think I... Y-Your cock is s-so big, that like... I-I can't go back t-to colts, ya know?"
"I understand," he chuckled. "Since Dinky hath been introduced to mine shaft, she hath failed to find the same pleasure elsewhere."
"Th-That'll... p-probably be me soon... ya know?" She told him, feeling one of her hindlegs kick.
"Perhaps if I am quick enough, I can... art you fine with me cumming inside?" He asked suddenly, unable to keep up his Old Ponish.
"Y-Yeah, whatever... I-I don't care..." She replied, closing her eyes as she went limp and let his cock hold her up. With that, he closed his eyes and began hammering into her, his behind a blur as it rapidly plapped against her booty cheeks.
"Get ready, for I am-" he stopped and bared his teeth moments before slamming his cock as deep into her as he could, busting into her womb and bumping against its farther wall as she moaned loudly. His nuts hitched up and down as his cock throbbed, filling her womb to the brim and beyond, but since her belly was pressed against the counter, the rest of his cum spurted from around his cock, splattering on their crotches and pooling on the tiled floor.
"...cumming," he finally finished, smiling contently.
"...I'm so... f-full..." she murmured, her hindleg twitching and kicking as she rode out her orgasm. "...And so... so warm..."
"Cum does tend to be pretty warm," he chuckled. "Take as much time as you... thou need. Thine reward shalt be waiting." |
It Hates Me So Much | [29] mat_picmip -10 | "Why do you squint so much?" Dinky asked from her bed, tilting her head quizzically at the wolf laying on the floor in the middle of her room, who was currently squinting at a book.
"I hath poor eyesight," Bound informed her, turning to squint at her.
She gasped in surprise. "And you never told me?!" She exclaimed.
"Mine pooreth eyesight hath nigh reared itself as a major problem in mine life," he replied with a shrug.
"We gotta go get you some glasses!" She told him before hopping off the bed and galloping out the door. Bound rose and walked after her calmly.
About a week after Dinky suddenly took him to get an eye test, they had finally arrived at her home, and even Bound could tell despite his blurry vision.
Dinky 'squee'd the whole way to her room, and burst in with a small package grasped in her magic following her.
"It's here!" She excitedly declared as she looked at Bound, who rose to a sitting position, panting heavily, and quickly placed the cardboard box in front of him. Dinky was bouncing and vibrating in excitement with a smile that threatened to split her face in half as she watched him slowly and carefully open the box with his paws, then lift the small brown eyeglasses case out of the boxful of packing peanuts in his paws. He opened it, and stared at the wide-rimmed circular glasses within. His paws weren't dexterous enough to handle them, so he lifted them out in his magic, opened them, and gently laid them in front of his eyes on his muzzle.
He blinked a few times, looking around the now much clearer room as he placed the case on the floor alongside his paws. Then he laid his gaze on Dinky, and his eyes actually widened in surprise.
His renewed vision studied his filly mate. There was not a single imperfection in her gray coat, not even a stray hair within her Blonde locks. He watched her Golden orbs sparkle in excitement, witnessed her perfectly brushed tail sway from side to side, spotted the unblemished and perfectly straight ivory teeth in her wide grin.
Before he knew it, his jaw had dropped and he was drooling like crazy, his tail wagging so fast that his butt moved slightly with it, finally seeing her in a new light.
"So?" Dinky asked. "Do ya like 'em?"
Without even a nod, he quickly made his way behind her, nosed her soft tail out of the way, and... oh wow...
Dinky giggled. "I'll take that as a yes."
Bound gazed lovingly at his lovers privates, staring at her beautifully small and teardrop shaped vagina placed between two deliciously thick thighs, underneath her tiny but shiny tailhole flanked on either side by her amazingly round and smooth buttocks, which were thicker than he remembered, and he noticed the barest hint of her nipples peeking from under her belly that topped two miniature, but plump teats.
She giggled once again, widening her hindlegs a little as she winked, leaking out a tiny glob of clear fillycum.
After a few more moments of gawking, Bound gave her snatch a nice and long lick, picking up any of her juices and swallowing them. He then stood and stepped over her small but perfect filly body, gently placing a paw under her head and holding it straight so that he could look down under his chest and see her beautiful face. At the same time, he lowered his crotch, dragging his throbbing red rocket over her tailhole before the tip brushed against her wet pussy for the barest of moments before he locked eyes with her and plunged halfway into her depths. Her lips were stretched wide as her belly bulged greatly, the large canine watching his lover's face turn to wide-eyed surprise for a brief moment before melting into pleasure, her eyelids lowering halfway as her tongue lolled out of her open yet grinning mouth and her ears hung limp.
He quickly began slowly thrusting in and out, watching the bulge under her move with his cock, hearing the occasional moan from her and quiet squelches from her vagina as he gradually went deeper and deeper, before eventually reaching his knot. He stopped advancing and started accelerating, his pleasure growing as he watched her face slowly turn from pleasure to ecstasy, her eyes rolling back in her head as her mouth hung open more and more.
"Thy art so beautiful, Dinky..." Bound groaned quietly as he panted lightly, his eyes also closed halfway as he experienced pleasure like never before, his hips a blur as he jackhammered her rear, his balls plapping against her teats and knot slapping her sopping wet lips.
This went on for a little bit as he bared his teeth and began to growl quietly, his pleasure increasing exponentially alongside the volume of his growls. Eventually, he went flying over the edge, barking as he roughly forced his knot into her as she yelped. The sperm flowed from his pulsing nuts and through the throbbing shaft, ejecting load after load of hot and thick cum into her, each bigger than the last, which was even more pleasurable as he looked at her face of ecstasy, feeling her orgasm as she spurted fillycum all over his crotch.
Eventually, after a little over a minute, he ran dry, and Dinky's belly was bloated almost to the ground, her legs shaking violently in a combination of pleasure and exertion, before they finally gave up, leaving her to hang under him, held only by the canine cock in her cunt and the soft beans of his paw on her chin.
"So... beautiful..." He panted heavily, his fur heavily matted with sweat as his unfocused eyes gazed in the general direction of her.
"S-So... hah... g... g-good..." Dinky got out through her own heavy panting, still grasped in the throes of a mind melting orgasm, her fur also matted with sweat.
"I love ye, Dinky," Bound told her softly, planting a gentle kiss on the tip of her nose, before carefully crouching and rolling onto his side, using the paw holding her head to scratch under her chin and lull her into the land of dream, which is where he was also headed as he shut his eyes.
Derpy watched from the kitchen table with a frown as Bound, wearing his new spectacles, walked out the door with Dinky on his back, off to the schoolhouse.
"What's wrong, honey?" Time Turner asked softly from beside her, wrapping a hoof around her shoulders as she turned to look him in the eyes.
"Should I get glasses so that I'm not so clumsy?" She asked her mate. He merely chuckled and pecked her on the lips lovingly.
"Being clumsy is part of who you are, my darling," He told her. "It's what makes you so attractive."
Derpy gave a small smile with bright red cheeks. "Am I really that pretty?"
"Positively, my dear," he confirmed, before locking her in a long and affectionate kiss, gently caressing her mane with a hoof as they closed their eyes. |
It Hates Me So Much | [30] Check His Hours | "Something smells good," Spike said from his chair at the end of the dining room table, sniffing the air. "And it isn't my diamond-dusted bacon."
"What dost thou smell, mine dearest Spike?" Bound asked, sitting on a square rug on the floor at the other end of the table.
"It..." He sniffed. "...It smells like..." He sniffed again. "...I have no idea. But! I know where it's coming from!"
"Do tell," Bound said.
"It's coming from..." He closed his eyes and sniffed in multiple directions, narrowing down in one direction.
"That way!" He exclaimed as he pointed in the direction he was facing, then opened his eyes.
"I smelleth good?" Bound asked, placing a paw on his chest for a moment. "Why thank ye, dearest."
"You always smell good," Spike told the wolf, lowering his arm. "But this is different from your usual smell." He sniffed a couple more times, a light red tint appearing on his cheeks. "This weird smell is making me act up for some reason, too."
"Act up?" Bound questioned.
"I'm down bad for that smell," Spike said, moving his hands to cover something beneath the table.
"Down... bad?" Bound slowly repeated, tilting his head.
"It's making me horny, okay?" Spike explained as his blush deepened and he glanced away.
"Ah." Bound nodded. "Understandeth ye now, I do."
"Wuh-Why is that smell making me horny?" Spike stuttered, his cheeks ablaze.
"Thy see, mine dearest, whence mine body wants to mate, t'will emanate a thick musk from mine crotch." He spread his legs slightly, fanning the air around his crotch with a paw to make it spread. "'tis this stench thy nose smells, and 'tis this stench thy crotch enjoys verily."
"That sounds like it should only work on girls," Spike said.
"'Tis too simple a stench to discriminate," Bound answered.
"If it's too simple, why does it make me get all bricked up?" Spike questioned, glancing at the wolf.
"Thy bringeth up a fair point, dearest," Bound told him. "Such a stench should only signal my being ready to mate, but methinks that being a wolf Deity with a libido larger than the sun hath made mine stench lure in any being sentient enough to mate."
"...You're a deity?" Spike asked, looking at Bound with a confused expression.
"Aye," Bound confirmed with a nod. "'Twas born by the Elements of Harmony, on the dawn of the first species to begin living on land, and art cursed to forever walk Equus."
"How is being immortal a curse?" Spike asked.
"'Tis a conversation for another time," Bound dismissed. "Let us return to discussing how mine stench makes ye... bricked up."
"Oh." Spike felt a wave of horniness at the mention of the smell. "Okay."
"If thy wish, we may finish Twilight's morning meal and discuss this in a more comfortable space."
"Yeah," Spike said, looking back at his food. "Yeah, let's try that."
With a nod, Bound returned to eating Twilight's special dish -Sunflower, ham, and chicken salad- from his custom dog bowl on the table.
Spike picked at his food, occasionally glancing up at the wolf.
"Thou art not eating," Bound commented after raising his head and licking his lips. "Art thou distracted by mine crotch's stench, dearest?"
"N-No, I'm just... full," the little drake mumbled.
"Nonsense. Thou art eating thy favorite food, which Miss Twilight cooks specifically because thee will always eat it all."
"Well, this time I can't eat all, because I'm full," Spike stated.
"Thy hath told me before that even if thou were full, thy would still eat all because it is so delicious."
Spike stayed silent.
"Spike, my dearest," Bound started softly. "Mine crotch is always available, should thee desire to explore it."
Spike glanced at him, then after a moment, climbed under the table. Bound smiled, raising his forelegs and laying them on the table to give him easier access. Bound gazed at the once occupied chair as he heard Spike scuffle across the crystal floor, stopping in front of him as he felt the small dragon's hot breaths upon his erect rod, making it throb.
Soon, he felt his small claws wrap around his sheath under his knot, holding his cock in place as he slowly drug his tongue from his knot all the way to the tip, then suddenly shoved his mouth down his red rocket, making Bound gasp and start wagging his tail as Spike's lips bumped against the knot.
Bound rested his head on the table, closing his eyes as he felt the dragon's small throat hug his shaft. Quickly, Spike cupped each of Bound's balls with a hand, fondling them as his head began bobbing halfway up and back down, rotating constantly with loud slurps.
"Spike..." Bound breathed, thrusting up lightly each time the drake went down. "Ye art... Surprisingly proficient at sucking cock..."
Spike merely gave a long hum in response, vibrating his cock pleasurably as he sped up, one hand leaving the wolf's nuts to wrap around his pair of erections, barely able to fit them in his hand as he rapidly jerked himself off.
After only a few minutes, Bound's light thrusts suddenly grew in speed and intensity, and before Spike could react, a rope of Bound's seed was blasted into his belly. Spike quickly lifted himself off, sealowing another rope before the cock left his mouth with a pop. The hand on his balls quickly grabbed Bound's cock and began rapidly stroking it, just barely not fitting around it as it ejected rope after rope of hot and thick seed all over his closed eyes, face, and into his open mouth.
After around half a minute, Spike's face was absolutely dripping with Bound's white love, and shortly after Bound was finished, he grunted and orgasmed himself, his hips thrusting forward with each spurt of his cum that splattered on Bound's testicles.
"Your cum tastes good, Bound!" a panting Spike chirped, slurping up and swallowing and cum on his face he could reach with his tongue.
"I... I never expected thou to be so experienced," Bound panted.
"When me and Big Mac get together, we don't exclusively play Ogres and Oubliettes," Spike explained, using both hands to wipe cum off his scales before licking it up a Bound's cock softened and retreated back into his sheath.
"No wonder thy did not gag," Bound mumbled to himself. |
It Hates Me So Much | [31] Update-sized Update | "Huzzah!" Chrysalis exclaimed, darting up to a sitting position on her bed, smiling wide as she looked forward.
"Greetings, Chrysalis." Bound took a seat by the end of the bed, locking eyes with her. "I desire to know why I am here."
"'Tis the day we shalt partake in an annual tradition I hath not performed in nearly an entire millennium," she told him, laying down and looking up, her bright eyes and wide smile beaming up at the wolf.
"And what tradition is this?" He asked.
"Well, my dear Bound," she started with a giggle. "My body is prepped, and I am ready to receive sperm and begin the egg-making process." She patted her belly, which he now noticed was slightly bumpy.
"See, for the past nineteen hundred and fifty-one years, give or take a few, I've yet to be bred by a creature containing genes with great enough positive contradistinction to mix into the next generation, thus keeping the Changeling genes unchanged," She explained. "Well, mostly unchanged, since an occasional environmental adaptation tends to happen, such as King Jak-Jak's Hive of cold weather optimized changelings up in the Frozen North. There's also the rare birth defect, such as Thorax."
"King Thorax is a nice gentleling. He was so patient when teaching me how the Changeling Ovipositor functions," He commented. "Natheless, back to the topic at hoof. Er, paw, since I am speaking. Art thee suggesting I inseminate thy eggs, and create a generation of wolf changelings?"
"Such a quick one, thy art," she giggled. "One of the plentiful reasons I selected thou."
"Art thee so certain my genes will benefit the next generation?" He asked.
"'Tis always a chance our larvae mightn't reach the qualifications to be considered successful," she started, rolling onto her back and looking up at him. "But with how greatly thy pros outweigh thy cons, mine genetics lab predicts a success rate of ninety percent with even the smallest possible clutch of ten."
"Smallest possible clutch?" He echoed. "How many eggs canst thou have?"
"Eh, the most I've ever had 'tis one hundred and three, but that 'twas during the first year of Princess Twilight's School of Friendship opening." She wriggled a little, her wings buzzing for a moment. "It attracted many creatures from around Equestria, and introduced so much love into the economy."
"Dost how much love thou receive dictate the number of eggs thy produce?" He asked, laying down so he was head level with her, laying his chin on the end of her bed and resting his cheek against hers.
"Correct. In the words of mine genetic eggheads, the amount of love required per egg aligns to a logarithmic graph."
"So the more love thou receive, the less eggs thy wouldst produce," he stated, eyes unfocused as his brain became a calculator.
"Dost thou know how much love constitutes a single egg?" He asked.
"Not just yet, but the lab believes thy grow closer by the day," she answered.
"Hm." He was silent for a moment. "Do you know how much love was circulating when you produced those one hundred three eggs?"
"Darling, thou mind hath breached the clouds," she stated, noticing his lack of Old Linglish.
"Oh." his ears laid back. "My bad." He turned his head and gave her cheek a few apologetic licks.
"Do not apologize, for thou art cute when not paying attention," she told him with a smirk as he looked forward again. "Natheless, to answer thy question, I do not strive to memorize the exact quantity of love within the Hive. Thy wouldst speak to the Love Arcarius. He shalt retain the figures thy seek."
"Noted. I shalt seek him out in my own time," he told her.
"Excellent. So," she flipped around and sat up, making Bound rise to a sitting position to remain at eye level. "Art thou ready to breed?"
"Ready as thou art," he answered.
"Truly?" She questioned, leaning forward and peeking over the end of the bed for a moment before looking back up with a wider grin. "Art thou always prepared to breed?"
"Nay, but the prospect of breeding thou hath gotten my little buddy excited."
"Well, let us not keep him waiting." She smirked, then fell back with a bounce, holding her legs open with her hooves. She noticed him staring between her legs, licking his lips.
"I hath attempted to appeal to thy species." She explained nervously. "Is it to thy liking?"
"Of course, my Queen," he told her, rearing up and barely fitting under the ceiling as he planted his paws on either side of her head. "A canine vulva is the natural hole to fit mine phallus, after all, and I hath been dreaming of discovering a large enough female to comfortably fit into."
"So... I hath made thy dreams come true?" She asked, eyes locked onto his red rocket.
"One of many, my Queen," he confirmed softly, lowering his rear and magically leveling his shaft, his leaking tip lightly pressing against her hole.
"T-Truly?" She stuttered, licking her lips.
"As true as my love for thou, Queen Chrysalis." He told her.
"If thy statement rings true, then thou wouldst cease with the teasing and spear me upon thine cock like a Griffon spear fisher!" she exclaimed, grinding against his fat tip.
"'Tis not a good idea to rush," he responded. "'Twill require great force."
"Then pin me down and force thine monstrous dick into my tight cunt!" She told him. "The pain cannot faze me, so use mine body as if it were thy personal fucktoy!"
"If... If thou say so." Bound moved his paw to gently lay on her chest. "If thy cannot handle it, do not be afraid to stop me."
"The safeword is topazio, now RU-"
"Quiet," He growled, making her squeak as he bared his teeth, suddenly looking very menacing as he glared into her wide eyes.
"The incessant whining and bitching you spit at me with that... that cock gobbler of a muzzle when I hesitate to fuck you for point zero two milliseconds because I may or may not cause your whore cunthole to experience the mildest of stings is extremely fucking grating on the ears!" He ranted, the other paw moving to her chest before he pressed down on her, lowering his face to be centimeters from hers.
"I am truly sick of it. So please, just shut your fucking piehole. I will insert my fat hog into your tiny canine fuckhole made for my cock, abuse it at the speed of a sprinting Cheetah with the force of a freight train so that your pussy stretches at least twice as wide and into a perfect mold of my penis, and fill your harlot womb with gallons of the hottest and thickest puppy batter my nuts have ever produced in eons, and you will fucking like it!"
They were silent for a while, Chrysalis' mouth straight as a ruler and ears flat against her head, her quivering eyes the size of pinpricks as they stared into his furious red pupils. Eventually, the tiniest of smiles formed on her lips, finally having brought out the inner feral beast she was digging for.
"Do you understand, you good-for-nothing, slut whore bitch fuck of a queen?" He barked.
"Y-Yes, s-s-sir," she stuttered in fear.
"Good." Still emitting a low growl, he thrusted forward, but glanced off. He tried a few more times, to no avail. He shifted his hindlegs and pressed harder on her chest, his throbbing erection slowly applying pressure onto her vulva. She bit her lip, sliding her hooves from her thighs to spread her hole, which gave just enough clearance.
He grunted as a fourth of his seventeen inches were wetly forced into her, making the bed creak and her yell out in pain.
"Thou hole already feels so good," he said in a much less aggressive tone, his tail wagging. "Oh, I cannot fathom how good it will feel once I put the rest into thou."
"Don't fathom, just do!" She exclaimed. "Do me like I am thy cum dumpster!"
"Enough, dear."
"Bound, I swear, if thou don--GYAAH!" She screamed as he suddenly shoved almost his entire cock into her, his tip poking her womb's entrance.
"There we go," he said, then began slowly pulling out and thrusting in.
"C-Can thy just--nngh!" he had sped up greatly, her moist tunnel lubricating his shaft enough to easily slide in and out, reaching deeper and deeper until the entirety of it was coming in and out, leaving the knot for the end.
"Haah... Thou truly know how to design a most pleasurable hole," he complimented, closing his eyes as he enjoyed her, the bed rocking and creaking each time he squelched into her.
"I have centuries of experience," she told him with a smirk. "I would not have been Queen for nearly as long otherwise."
"I hath eons, and yet thou surprise me." He lowered closer to her slightly, hitting different pleasure points in her.
"Gah... Th-Thy do not need that knowledge to survive." Her lips turned into a dumb grin.
"Fair point." He stuck out the tip of his tongue, now lightly panting as he steadily accelerated to a fast pace, the creaks growing louder as he put more force behind his thrusts.
"Would... Wouldst our offspring retain a canine vagina?" Bound asked after a while.
"There is a chance, yes," she answered. "But shalt any of out female offspring have a canine vagina, I will not allow thou to fuck them." He emitted a short whine, opening his eyes.
"I cannot?" He asked. "Why?"
"Because I cannot have them addicted to thy drug-like cock," she told him. "'Tis mine and mine only whilst you visit."
"But--" Bound started.
"No buts, mister," Chrysalis tutted. "Well, excepting mine, of course."
"Thine butt is amazing..." Bound complimented.
"I'm glad thou think so," she said with a smile. "'Twas designed from the collective knowledge my top infiltrators garnered. Not much was gathered though, due to thine introverted and quiet nature. Regardless, Armed with the information we had, I reached out my top Biolingology experts and OuterHiveology experts, and with their biology expertise, my sexual expertise, Dinky's assistance, and plenty of time, mine current form was... well, formed."
"...Thou went to such lengths for me?" He asked, slowing noticeably and opening his eyes, confusion painted on his face.
"Correct. After all, I must present him with his ideal sexual partner if I am to ensure the largest possible clutch."
"...Thou art barely changed," he noticed after looking her up and down, tilting his head at her.
"Correct thou art. According to thy sexual desires, my natural form fit most, only needing a canine vagina to complete it." Suddenly, periodical buzzes began emitting from her left wrist. Bound snapped to it as she brought it up to her face, looking at a row of black shapes for a moment that he couldn't discern from his angle.
"'Tis noon," she read before tapping a bright red wristband, laying her forelegs at her sides as she looked at Bound. "We hath a meeting at one'o'clock. Methinks thou shalt make haste to fill mine virgin dog pussy within the half hour, so that we may quickly shower and head off."
"We?" Bound questioned.
"Yes, we. There art many things to discuss with thy becoming King," she told him quickly. "Now hurry! I do not wish to be late again."
"As thou wish," he said under his breath. He stopped, shifting his legs slightly and one again placing his paws on her chest and pinning her down. He pulled out until only his tip remained in her, took a deep breath, exhaled, and rapidly accelerated his hips until they were a blur, barely any space between the loud slaps of his cock slamming against her lips that blended with the loud creaks of the rocking bed.
Chrysalis bit her lip hard, her eyes rolling back in her now limp head, the sudden and dramatic waves of pleasure flowing through her like water through a recently opened spillway as her tail swung like a flag during a hurricane.
"Gyah..." Bound grunted, his eyes screwed shut as he jackhammered her. "B-B-B-B-Bound... S-S-Soo-Soon-oon... C-Cum-mMm..." He stuttered, opening his maw and panting hotly like a dog in the summer heat as he hunched over, the tip of his nose gently booping hers. A few short moments later, he pinned his ears back and emitted a long growly sigh as he gave a final powerful thrust, simultaneously forcing his knot into her and breaking into her womb. His balls hitched, his dick throbbed, and he grinded against her crotch, filling her womb with copious amounts of hot, thick, and sticky seed.
"I... love th-thou... so... fucking... much..." Chrysalis panted, her hindlegs shivering and twitching.
"I... I l-love your... thee... th-thine p-pussy," he responded after a while, his eyes fluttering halfway open and gazing into her eyes.
"Th-Thou shalt... get a chance to e-enjoy it further, af-after the meeting," she slowly told him, her eyes slowly opening a little to meet his.
"Pray tell, h-how... unf, how long is th-this... meeting?" He asked softly.
"How-However long thou make i-it," she told him. "B-But please don't rush through it. 'T-Tis a historical moment that will affect the Hive forever more."
"S-Such a mo... momen... big occasion, right a-after exhausting, hah, myself i-in my favorite Queen?" He asked, his panting slowly diminishing in intensity.
"'Tis not my fault thou were tardy," she tutted playfully.
"Apologies," he told her. "I woke up l-late, and... and Dinky insists that I f-fuck her everytime I w-wish to leave... mhn, leave the house," he explained.
"No worries," she told him. She checked the time on her wristband. "twelve o'seven. Meeting room's a fifteen minute walk, so we've got... thirty-eight minutes to shower and get ready."
"Say..." Bound started after a moment. "Why must we shower?"
"Because we stink of sweat and sex." She answered easily, crossing her forelegs.
"Is that not always the case when I am here?" He reminded her.
"This is important," she told him. "I would like to present my best self."
"If I am to be King, I desire to show who I truly am from my citizens, and washing the scent of sex from my fur is hiding my true self." He explained.
"...After the meeting. You can be as stinky as thou desire after the meeting."
He sighed. "Fine." He licked her lips, smiling as she giggled. |
It Hates Me So Much | [32] King Wolf - Dinking Dinky (but Bound is to scale) | King Wolf - Dinking Dinky (but Bound is to scale).docx
Tags: Dinky | Bestiality | Creampie | Major Cum Inflation | Major Size Difference | Foalcon |Non-Consensual
Within a small clearing, inside a forest that wasn't the Everfree and was much much safer, inside a tent sized for two adult ponies, was Derpy, lying on her side and deep asleep atop a thick comforter. The crickets chirped and the wind blew softly through the trees in the almost pitch-black forest around them. Her daughter, Dinky, was also asleep, being spooned by her mother as she was snuggled into her mother's stomach.
Suddenly, Dinky's eyes blinked halfway open, being rudely awakened by a pressure in her groin. She yawned as she drowsily rose to her hooves, turning towards the flaps of the tent. She stepped over the still sleeping mare and unzipped the flaps, trudging out into the open air with a shiver as the cool breeze blew over her. After another yawn, she pivoted to face the tent, then spread her hindlegs slightly as her tail automatically swayed to the side.
Before she could even start, she felt something big and wet begin prodding her tiny marehood, making her eyes widen, before being calmed by what smelled like musk. After a few moments, the object thrusted forward in an attempt to enter her, but her virgin tightness and the thing's size prevented it, thus it glanced off, rapidly sliding across her tiny teats and belly and all the way up her barrel before finally stopping between her forelegs, the base of the object bumping against her rear. Her jaw dropped, realizing that it was at least a foot and a half long. Regardless, it tried a few more times, each with greater force than the last, but it merely kept sliding off.
Eventually, it stopped, and she could barely hear a momentary growling noise from somewhere above her head. Apparently, the creature was deciding on a different approach to take. After some seconds, he backed off. She felt him wrap a forearm around her barrel while his tip again brushed against her folds, before he thrusted forward and pulled her backwards simultaneously, making her yelp in surprise, pain, and mostly pleasure as she flew back onto a penis as thick as her foreleg, feeling it pop into her with an audible squelch and a sigh from him. Her hole was stretched to almost twice its size as a whole four inches of his meat filled her, half of its width bulging out.
He emitted a short whine of discontent as the never before touched entrance to her womb stopped him. Accepting it for the time being, Dinky let out a low moan as he began to properly rut her, barely pulling out before shoving it back in with a slap. She squeaked, grunted, or moaned every few thrusts, her tight walls hugging and massaging every square inch of his penis, her hot depths further pleasuring him. After a while, Dinky began raising her head, moving it up slightly with each thrust before she was looking at the bottom of the wolf's chin.
"M-M-Mister W-Wolf? A-Are you gunna l-like... cum i-in me?" She stuttered, staring up in a pleasure induced haze.
"Oh p-please do, mi-ister wol-wolf!" She begged. "I-It w-wou-ould f-feel really, r-really g-good!" Her tongue flopped out as she started panting, slightly pushing back into him with each thrust. "O-oh gosh, m-mister w-wolf! Y-Your p-pen-nis feels s-so so g-good!" Taking that as a challenge, he suddenly began thrusting at twice the speed, making her yelp in surprise as her head began flopping freely.
"Oh! O-Oh wo-ow, m-mi-mister w-w-wol-olf! P-Please th-thrust har-harder, m-mister w-wolf!" He followed her orders, and gave a powerful thrust, breaking through her cervix and into her womb, allowing just one more inch of his cock to enter her, mashing against the farther wall of her womb, before he began jackhammering into her.
"G-Gosh! M-Mister w-wolf, i-it's th-throbbing ins-side of m-me! T-That me-eans ya-you're about t-to cu-UM!" She finished in a shout as he gave one last powerful thrust, popping his knot into her. His balls hitched up and down as he grinded against her rear, each throb of his cock ejecting a rope of hot seed into her, quickly filling her womb by the second spurt, but the rest couldn't escape past the tight seal between his cock and her vaginal walls, and her belly ballooned out a solid three inches before his balls were fully drained. Panting in exhaustion, he slumped down onto the grass, his paw still around her stomach to hold her against him.
"O-Oh wow... mister wolf..." Dinky said between pants, looking up as much as she could without poking him with her horn. He looked down at her, his eyes locking with her sparkling golden eyes.
"Does this mean... you're my like, pet now?" She asked. After a moment of thought, he curled down and licked her nose, making her giggle. "I'll take that as a yes." Then she gasped as a thought came to her.
"Mommy's sleeping, but you can sleep with me," She explained. He merely bent down and licked her nose again, drawing another giggle out of the gray filly. She planted her shaky hooves on his thighs and grunted in exertion as she tried to push herself off, but she was too weak.
"Help me off, boy," She commanded, raising her hooves into the air. Instead of grabbing her, however, he stood back up, her rear suspended in the air as he jerked back to try and yank it out.
"Ow! T-Try another way!" She told him, pain jolting up her barrel. He obeyed, spreading his legs slightly. His neck bent down, top of his head resting on the ground, looking at her as his front legs grabbed her sides. They grunted in tandem as he pulled, and she winced as he pulled again. Finally, on the third try, his knot finally popped out, and he yanked her forward under his chest, almost half his cum dumping onto the grass, bringing her belly back to its regular size as she pouted.
"Aw, I wanted to keep it all." She whined, then yawned. "Now come on boy, let's get into the tent." He raised back into a standing position, gently dropping Dinky and turning towards the tent as she stumbled back into the tent. He followed her, poking his head into the dark tent. He noticed movement to his right and looked over. Dinky was motioning him to her, holding the blanket up to reveal a spot for him to sleep beside her. He was too big to fit how she wanted, so he decided to stick his head under the larger pony he noticed, only fitting his front half inside before flopping onto the ground, the mare now using him as a pillow. With a giggle, Dinky moved to curl up against her mother's stomach, also using him as a pillow while he dreamt about his next moments with his new owner, fully prepared to trust her and be a good, obedient doggy.
Unless she wanted him to wear a dress. Fuck dresses.
> [33] go kitty go AN:
Bound perused Rarity's outfits, imagining them on Dinky. He didn't plan to buy any, but he was waiting for Rarity to draw up and show him designs for special dresses that Dinky and Chrysalis would wear to the Grand Galloping Gala, looking formal and representative of their cultures whilst leaving their behind's free. The latter was Bound's suggestion, and they both agreed. Bound also suggested placing ancient auto-fitting and durability enchantments, used all the way back when his kind still roamed Equestria. However, he would need both Fluttershy and Twilight's help, since Fluttershy's knowledge of animal anatomy and Twilight's powerful magic would be needed for the enchantments to be as powerful as he remembered.
"Meow?"
Stopping suddenly as he was pulled from his mind, Bound looked down to his left, and saw Opalescence curled up and purring, resting atop a short stack of two cardboard boxes between racks of dresses. He approached, lowering his head to her level as she raised hers, staring at him with her signature look of disdain.
"Oh. Greetings, Opalescence." He squinted at her, being polite by showing vulnerability. She didn't respond, only closing her eyes and resting her head back down on her crossed paws. She did meow a reprimand, though. "Lady Opalescence. My apologies, Milady."
He bowed for a moment, licked his lips as he rose back up. His nose slowly moved towards her nether region, eyes watching for any response. She didn't even twitch as he gently pressed his nose against her vagina. He took a couple whiffs, enjoying the strawberry scent of her shampoo, then risked a small taste. Still nothing from her.
With that, he shuffled his behind forward, hunching over and using a paw to push down his tip, brushing it against her hole. With a glance, he noted her still not reacting.
"Lady Opalescence," he whispered. "Mayeth I?"
She opened an eye slightly, regarding him for a moment, then closed it, silent for a moment before mumbling an affirmative murr.
"Thank thee, Milady." Gently using his paw to hold down her behind, he very slowly inserted his tip, which is the only part that fit until the small entrance didn't allow his shaft's main girth to follow.
He exhaled through his nose, steadily pressing down more on her rear as he increased the pressure on her hole. After a short while, he grunted as his cock finally slid in fully and brought a few inches with it, stretching her hole and drawing a hiss from her. He leaned down and began licking her between the ears in apology, giving her pussy time to adjust as her tail flicked and swayed.
As he waited, he lifted his head as his right paw gently nudged her side, prompting her to roll onto her back. He gritted his teeth, holding back a thrust. He placed a paw on the barely noticeable pair of mounds between her thighs, feeling the vibration of her barely noticeable purring as he kneaded them like a cat would, attempting to alleviate some of the pressure.
After a few minutes, he attempted to push in further, but stopped when she hissed again, replying with a whine.
"Meooow," she told him.
"Good idea, Opal-Lady Opalescence." He carefully hooked a foreleg under her, holding the cat to his body as he stepped back, laying close to the floor before slowly rolling onto his back. He released her, bringing his paws against his chest and spreading his hindlegs wide as she stood and opened her eyes.
"Mrroww?" Opal asked, slowly gyrating.
"Of course, Lady Opalescence," Bound replied with a nod. "Thy hast the tightest pussy I hath ever entered. I retain a great privilege in thy admittance of mine cock into thine hole."
She meowed again, urging him to continue.
"I also thank thee with all of mine heart for thine consent to fill thy womb with seed, despite our species' incompatibility."
She meowed again with a smirk, flashing a fang as e pushed down a couple of inches, making him grit his teeth as he laid his head back.
"Of course, Milady. If thou consent."
After a few more seconds of grinding, she softly batted his chest a few times, getting his attention.
"Yes, Lady Opalescence?"
Her statement gave him pause.
"Milady? Thy... Thy wouldst alloweth me such... control?" He asked, raising his head. She stopped moving and pushed his head back down with a paw, which she could only do because he allowed her, emitting a scolding meow.
"Of course, Lady Opalescence," he replied. "I am incorrect. Thy still holdeth full control over me." He bit his lip, and after a few moments, she meowed acceptingly and retracted her paw. He let out a sigh of relief as she continued grinding.
After a few minutes, he carefully positioned his paws on her sides under her forelegs. With a nod from the feline, he slowly lifted her up, until only his tip remained in her. Then, he lowered her, moaning as she slid down his shaft, watching the few inches within her belly bulge out visibly.
She let out a couple of commanding meows, ordering him to start moving her up and down.
"Of course, Lady Opalescence." He began moving her up and down at a steady pace. Fast, but not too fast, as per her instructions. After a few adjustment meows from her, she was schlicking up and down his rod, with both of them occasionally emitting a moan or meow of pleasure. His tail wagged rapidly, and her tail's tip was curled enough to touch her tail.
For a while, like 10 minutes or so, Bound was slowly moving her farther and farther down his dick, and eventually, her pussy was kissing his knot, the bulge now larger and rising halfway up her body each time she came down. He was panting lightly, with his tongue hanging out as his hips thrust gently each time she came down.
"L-Lady Opalescence," he panted, forepaws rubbing her sides. "I grow ever closer to release. I shall burst within the minute. M-Mayeth I fill thou womb, perchance?"
She denied him, biting her lip with her eyes closed, then informed him of the reason.
"O-Of course," he started, holding back a groan as he pinned his ears back. "I-I shalt only cum after thou."
As she was moved up and down in trembling paws, she manipulated her tail to brush against his testicles. He bared his teeth and screwed his eyes shut, trying to focus on both not cumming and moving her.
She opened her eyes, saw his face, then rolled her eyes, meowing an order.
"M-M-Milady?" He asked, opening his eyes and looking at her in confusion.
She yelled her command, which he finally listened to. With a loud groan, he dropped her, quickly moving his paws down to her hips and shoving them down, grunting as his knot popped in. Opalescence meowed in surprise at the sharp pain, but quickly melted into the pleasure of his warm seed flooding her womb as his hips jerked into her, his balls pulsing as the cum it provided was unable to escape the tight seal between his cock and her hole, causing her belly to inflate rapidly like a balloon, growing to the point of having a radius longer than her legs, the skin around her nipples a visible and shiny red from the stretching.
They both panted, still roiling in pleasure. After a long while, Opalescence meowed a question in between pants.
"I thank thee, great-"
She meowed a correction.
"-Humble Lady Opalescence, for the honor and privilege of sticking my dick into thy pussy to be used for thine pleasure, as well as for the consent to fill thy womb. Again, I thank thee greatly. Thine art truly one of mine greatest sexual partners."
With a smile, she closed her eyes and waved him away. He pulled a few times, then his ears pinned back again.
"Lady Opalescence... I am afraid we art stuck together for the time being," Bound informed her.
Opalescence's eyes shot open, then quickly glared at him. Shortly after, they heard Rarity approach, calling the wolf's name. Both pairs of eyes snapped to stare in the mare's direction, the cat's eyes wide in fear, whilst Bound seemed unfazed to be spotted indulging in sex.
"Perhaps she canst join us," Bound suggested. Opalescence's immediately affixed a glare onto him, making him look back at her.
"What?" |
The Depths of Discovery | pre | Twilight just sits quietly, feeling defeated.
So much for providing information.
The ride continues smoothly, or at least as smooth as a tracked vehicle can be over a rocky trail.
Twilight frowns. She's starting to feel less as a member of the 'expedition', and more like a prisoner. She couldn't even go to the bathroom without a soldier standing outside the door.
She's attempted to make small-talk with the soldiers, but they seem disinterested at best, and annoyed at worst. She simply can't relate to them about anything besides them all being a part of the Enclave, but their jobs are so different that they might as well be entirely unrelated at all.
Why couldn't they have sent a second Aspirant with her? Oh right, the rest blew up.
Not seeing many other options, Twilight decides to get something worthwhile out of this.
She slowly looks over at the Hovel. It wouldn't hurt to learn more about the bogey-pony's in her life. As the saying goes, 'know thine enemy.'
Twilight clears her throat. The two soldier's eyes move over to her slightly.
"I'd like to... do a little 'interview' with the prisoner if that's alright? Strictly in the name of gathering information, of course."
Jack glances over, raising an eyebrow.
One of the soldiers speaks up. "What for? Trust me missy, we drilled everything we could out of that Hovel. Doubt you'd be able to get anything else useful."
"Not everything..." Jack says with a smirk. The soldiers quickly turn to her. They're about to say something, when Jack cuts them off.
"I wouldn't mind doing a bit more talkin'. But only to her." She says, staring at Twilight.
The soldiers are about to radio in the CO, when Jack cuts them off again.
"If you call em' then I wont say a peep at all." She says.
The soldiers share a look with each other, then at Jack, then back to Twilight. She's giving them a wide eyed stare and flicking her neck and eyes away towards one of the back compartments. She mouths 'do it'.
They know they shouldn't be doing this, but this could be an opportunity. Reluctantly, they stand up and go towards the back of the SPAV, entering a room and closing the door behind them. Jack follows them closely as they do so.
Once they're gone, the two stare at each other. Jack smiles.
"Now what question could be so important that you'd make those dogs get out?" She asks.
"Questions, actually. Not question." Twilight responds.
Jack chuckles. "Go ahead, Pathfinder." She's a bit impressed with the courage.
Twilight unlatches her satchel and fumbles for a quill, ink, and paper, She accidentally spills some over her jacket, eyes going wide.
"Ack--"
Jack frowns.
There goes the impressment.
After getting herself in order, Twilight readjusts her sitting position real quick, feeling ready.
"So... Jack, was it?" She says, grimacing a bit. It feels wrong to address a Hovel by a name, but
studies show that people are more amenable if you address them as respectfully and properly as possible - and she's gonna need as much amenity as she can manage here.
"Mhm."
"I just need to ask... why do your people do the things you do?"
Jack squints.
" 'my people?' " she asks, with a tinge of annoyance.
"Yes. The Hovel. You--"
Jack cuts her off.
"I said' earlier. We ain't the 'hovel' you guys keep talkin' about. My people are the 'Anuui'. If you want any more answers, call us that." Jack says, leaning back a little.
Twilight frowns.
"Okaay... the 'Annui'. Why does the 'Annui' do the things they do to the Enclave?" she inquires.
Jack's expression doesn't change one bit. "You're gonna need to be a bit more specific. We do a lot of different things to different people."
"Like kill them? Just a week ago, a Enclave convoy in this area was set upon by marauders and scalped. What did they do to deserve that?"
"Nope. Wasn't us. That was the Scalpers." Jack replies.
Twilight blinks.
"Okay... what about last month, when a soldier was lured away from a Compound and had his legs smashed open? That poor mare is still in rehab right now..."
"Still nope. That was the Bonecrushers." Jack replies, even more nonchalant than the last time.
Twilight is starting to see a pattern.
"Then what DO you guys do? Please enlighten me." Twilight says, starting to get a bit frustrated.
"We definitely' don't just go around bashin' people's heads open or something like you think. Why would we get into conflicts for no reason? Maybe it's cause'... we're defending ourselves from a group who attacked us first?"
Twilight looks shocked, but not due to any empathetic revelation.
"That's a lie. The Enclave never harms people when there's no reason to do so. That's completely illogical!" She says.
Jack can't help but laugh. "Then why do they beat me? Do you think I got all of these bruises from tripping over rocks? You've seen it with your own eyes."
"You mean when you headbutt that soldier doing his job? No, I don't believe I've seen any unjustified punishments so far." Twilight says, squinting.
"If someone's job was to kill your family, would you not try to fight back once they tried to 'do their job'?" Jack asks, mockingly.
"That's a completely irrational hypothetical. I'm not gonna bother answering that." She says, crossing her arms.
"I don't know what either of those words mean, but I'm gonna assume' you don't wanna' answer cause you know that's the situation i'm in." Jack responds, yawning.
Twilight leans forward. "The only situation you're in is being a rightful prisoner of war after you did something deserving of this." She says, gritting her teeth.
Jack glares back at her. "You really have no idea of what goes on out here, do you? Outside of your cushy 'compounds'... We fight just to make it to the next day... fight people like you who destroy our homes, kill our families, and ruin our lives... the fact that' y'all can't even tell us apart tells me all I need to know about you disgusting--"
The soldiers suddenly burst out of the back room, with angry expressions. Jack and Twilight glance over, a bit surprised.
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH, RAT!" One soldier shouts. He runs up to Jack and begins to strike her.
Twilight looks shocked at suddenness. How did they even--
Her eyes dart down, and then widen. There's a radio on the floor near Jack. It's very clearly on.
Those fucking snakes!
After both of them get their beating in, Jack groans in pain. "...See..?" She coughs out, with a weak smile. She's rewarded with a punch to the gut.
One of the soldiers turns to Twilight. "Don't listen to this vermin. Everything just said was a clear lie."
Twilight feels a bit off-put by that seemingly over-the-top reaction. "If it was a lie, then why did you do... all that?" She asks.
The soldier looks at her with bewilderment. "...because it's a dirty lie? Don't tell me you actually listened to anything it said." the Soldier exclaims, sussing her out.
Twilight blinks. "What? I didn't--"
"You better not have. Cooperating with Hovels is a one-way trip to some mandatory 'education' lessons." The other says, glaring at her as well.
Twilight can't believe her ears. "I literally just said I didn't!"
"Good. Keep it that way."
Twilight face-hooves. Are these guys for real?
Jack coughs some more. The three glance over at her.
"I got somethin' else..." she says with a groan. Her breathing is slightly ragged.
The soldiers are about to stop her, but she beats them to the (literal) punch.
"The Annui don't attack people for no reason... but savin' one of their own is a good enough reason to justify a fight." she says, with a slight smirk.
After a little bit, the SPAV suddenly lurches to a stop. Twilight almost is lifted off of her seat.
The soldiers pause. "What's happening up there?!" One yells to the front.
"I don't know! There's like.. A boulder blocking ahead..?" The driver says.
"We're gonna need more than a flintlock for this one..." The co-driver says.
There's commotion outside. Twilight hears soldiers talking about how this path was cleared for travel just a day ago.
After some more discussion, there's suddenly a very audible horn. It sounds close. Very close. Everyone stops talking.
One of the soldiers grits his teeth and immediately begins striking Jack.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?! WHAT IS GOING ON." He orders, angrily.
Twilight looks over, but her eyes widen. Jack, who was heaving and coughing mere moments ago, now looks as solid as a wall. She doesn't even budge from the strikes, simply giving a death glare to the soldier, while tilting her head down slightly.
Twilight feels a cold sweat.
The soldier feels it as well, but shakes it off. He goes to strike her again, but...
CRASH.
One of the front windows of the SPAV breaks. A spear has flown into the cockpit, hitting the driver in the torso. He's out.
The soldiers and Twilight look to the front with horror. Jack just smirks.
The co-driver shrieks in terror. Flipping a panel, and hitting a button, the SPAV begins to make alert sounds. The interior locks itself down.
"AMBUSH!" he yells.
There's screams and shouts outside as soldiers attempt to rally themselves, but their voices are drowned out by new hollers and cries.
War cries.
The SPAV begins to get pelted with various projectiles like rocks and spears. They don't break anything, but the thumping sounds scare the heck out of Twilight. She ducks for cover.
Outside, the scene has erupted into total chaos. Various Annui warriors descend on the group, literally, sliding down the cliffside next to them.
They're worse armed than the relatively higher tech Enclave soldiers, but they're physically superior and have sheer numbers.
Twilight hears the sounds of battle outside, the damned screams of the dying, and the vicious ones of the killers.
The CO bangs on the doors of the SPAV, demanding to be let inside, trying to open the sealed door.
Annui warriors suddenly surround him, slowly approaching.
He glares at them, pulling out dual flintlocks.
"Come and get it, Hovels." he says, sickeningly calm.
Inside the SPAV, while the soldiers are still in shock, Jack suddenly jumps into the air as far as her restraints can manage.
She's chained to the floor, but still has some space to maneuver. She rotates her body on its side, thrusting her legs outwards, drop-bucking the guard closet to her. The blow crushes into his helmet, slightly denting it. He goes flying into the wall, landing limply next to Twilight.
Multiple gunshots ring outside the SPAV.
The other soldier, now scared shitless, wields his sword and points it at Jack, who simply sits up and glares back at him.
"Sorry bout' your friend." she says, jokingly.
The soldier leaps at her wildly, sword drawn. Jack manages to position her chains to act as a sort of wire, catching the sword. She wraps it around the sword, pulling it away from him, but he refuses to let go.
Unfortunately, this brings him right into her range.
Using the momentum he has from being pulled forward, Jack bucks off the wall, pushing herself forward. Still being moved forward from the momentum, the Soldier's head collides with Jack's shoulder. There's a sickening crack as he flips onto his back, like he just got shoulder checked by a Timber Bear. His face bleeds profusely.
Quickly pulling his body closer, Jack manages to retrieve keys from his belt. Putting them between her bound hooves, she first gets the chains on her legs, then torso, then the hooves themselves. Finally, she rips off the muzzle without even unlocking it.
She stands up fully, stretching and groaning a little. She pops the shoulder she just used to bash the soldier, with a relieved grunt.
Without being bound by the restraints anymore, she looks even larger than before.
She glances over at Twilight. She's curdled into a ball on the floor nearby. The unicorn's eyes widen fearfully.
"Who knew you'd last longer than the Enclave dogs?" She says, smirking.
Twilight just looks frozen.
"Ah well, you won't outlive em' for long." Jack says, sauntering towards her.
The terror Twilight feels would probably be enough to petrify a lesser pony. Unfortunately, she is a lesser pony.
Twilight immediately tries to cast some magic, her horn glowing. Jack pauses and squints, preparing herself for whatever happens.
Nothing.
She's too nervous. Anything she could cast, even in her best scenario, probably wouldn't stop this beast anyways.
Jack raises an eyebrow, but continues forward.
Twilight curses under her breath.
"W-wait! What about n-not hurting people for no reason..? What did I do to you?!" She yells.
Jack pauses, putting a hoof to her chin.
"Well... YOU might have done nothing, but the Enclave sure has. And also you're kinda' annoying." She says nonchalantly, continuing to move towards the unicorn.
Twilights can feel her heart sink. She stammers incoherently, trying to think of something, anything. But right now, her mindset of rationality has been replaced with one of pure instinct -- Survival.
Her body taking a mind of its own, she snatches the side-dagger of the guard who was drop-bucked next to her. She scrambles backwards, eventually reaching the back of the SPAV.
"STAY BACK!" Twilight shrieks, waving the dagger.
Jack can't help but feel a little entertained.
"Daw... look at you playin' soldier." she says, still continuing forward.
Twilight keeps holding up the dagger. Her eyes slowly turn from one of fear to focus, her breathing slowing. She props herself up against the back doors.
The earthen suddenly slows to a stop, seeing this display.
The Annui are no stranger to how animals can react when cornered and afraid... Even the smallest Rock Mite can make you bleed if you push it too far.
Jack thinks to herself. She would definitely win this fight, but...
If little-miss-stabby got a clean hit, that could be the end of her. The Annui aren't exactly known for their riveting healthcare.
As she weighs her options, Twilight suddenly shrieks like a banshee, lunging forward with the dagger.
Jack barely backs off in time, as Twilight falls on her front. Still screaming, the unicorn lunges again. Jack blocks the slash with a cut to her arm, grabbing Twilight's dagger hoof with her free hoof.
There's a brief struggle for it. Twilight feels an unholy amount of pressure on her wrist, but she thrashes around like a maniac. Jack gets a hoof in the face, although it seems like the punch hurt Twilight more.
Jack manages to wrest the knife away, and clamp onto Twilight's throat.
The unicorn puts her hooves on Jack's arm, but she can't even budge it. She scratches at it uselessly while choking.
Twilight hears noises outside. Battle cheers and cries. The soldiers are all but gone, nopony but Annui are left.
Jack casually inspects the fresh cut on her arm while choking the life out of Twilight. New scar to add to the collection, she guesses.
Looking back at the slowly-turning-blue Unicorn, she feels a mixture of shock and anger, but also a strange sense of being impressed.
"Didn't expect ya had it in you, to be honest. But that's about as good--"
The entire SPAV suddenly lurches to its side. Jack's eyes widen as she's thrown against the wall. The collision makes her drop Twilight, who also collides with the wall. She gasps for air, coughing and holding her neck. The two lie on the floor in pain.
Jack gets to her feet first. Instead of finishing off the fallen Unicorn, she rushes to one of the side windows
"HEY! WHAT ARE Y'ALL IDIOTS DOIN?!" she yells, banging on the nearby sealed door.
Twilight, still in a daze from being strangled and thrown against a metal wall, barely can make out the voices.
"They're sealed! We can't open em'!" one voice says.
"The ground is startin'' to collapse under the wagon!" another chimes in.
Jack tries to twist the handwheel on the door with all her strength, but they don't budge. She curses under her breath.
Twilight comes to her senses, and looks outside the window opposite to Jack's. Her eyes widen, seeing nothing but the darkness below. The SPAV is falling off the edge.
She scampers for the dagger, grabbing it once more. She can't believe she's about to do this.
Twilight lunges with the dagger towards Jack. Jack turns around, and doesn't react in time...
Instead of going for Jack, Twilight instead plunges her dagger into pipes near the door. Steam suddenly begins to spray out. Jack has no idea what this means, but assumes the unicorn did it for a reason.
She suddenly feels the handwheel beginning to give way. The sealing mechanism is breaking apart.
Twilight nearly leaps onto it, pulling in the direction to open it. Jack looks bewildered.
"OPEN IT!" Twilight shouts.
The two give it their all. Twilight peeks out the window, seeing multiple Annui trying to stop the SPAV from falling. One particular giant red stallion looks like he's about to burst from the effort.
Just as they're making progress, the SPAV lurches hard once more. Twilight is thrown aside, as Jack continues to hold onto the handwheel, but can't get the leverage to twist it anymore.
"NO! NONONO!!!!" Jack yells.
She knows it's a lost cause. But she won't go out without taking a Enclave dog with her. She glares at Twilight like a demon.
Twilight barely has time to look back at her, before the Annui leaps at her, dagger in hoof and screeching. Twilight screams in terror.
At that moment, the cliffside gives way.
The Annui scatter from the edge, as the entire SPAV falls into the abyss.
"NO!" The red stallion yells.
Mid-leap, Jack's eyes widen as she is suddenly accelerated rapidly into the wall, this time landing straight on her face. She's out cold.
Twilight screams as she plummets into the darkness below, alone. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 3 - Send Off | Legends tell of an undiscovered pocket within the Underworld - Gaia's Grove. A supposed utopia full of plant life, fuzzy animals, and rarest of all, peace.
Some see it as a sort of heaven, somewhere they'll go after they pass. Others see it as something that could be found, or even... conquered. But alas, neither have happened yet.
The followers who condone to the idea of Gaia's Grove are known as the Earth Family. Many believe if they dedicate their life to one of kindness, happiness, and peace, they too may go to the Grove once their time comes
Unfortunately for those who would seek to follow the gospel of the Grove -- pacifism is exceedingly difficult to maintain within the Underworld.
In a green and lush field, a yellow pegasus peacefully sleeps atop her 'bed', a large collection of leaves and plant life. Her dreams are just as vibrant as her surroundings.
Suddenly, a small bird lands on a nearby rock, beginning to chirp.
The pegasus slowly stirs awake, shuffling slightly. She sits up, gently patting the bird to make it stop chirping; which it does without problem.
"Good morning, Sweetpea." she says, a bit groggily. Sweetpea chirps once more, before flying off.
After a bit of yawning and stretching, the pegasus gets out of bed. She puts on her 'clothes' - similarly to her bed, it's a large collection of leaves, roots, and vines tied together. They make a surprisingly fashionable and elegant dress.
She makes sure to fix it as tidily as she can. Today is a big day, after all.
Every one-hundred years, a single pony of Gaia's Grove is chosen to be sent to the Outside, the rest of the pockets of the world. There, they will help its native peoples prosper by promoting peace, hospitality, and equality, in the hopes of becoming a utopia like Gaia's Grove itself.
This will be the tenth send-off, the one thousandth year of the ceremony.
The pegasus happily trots into town, a small but cozy collection of various huts, grottos, and houses built into trees and caves. Multiple ponies with similar garments and demeanors to her drift about, some flying between trees. Many tend to various animals or plants.
One of them, a stallion earthen, spots the yellow pegasus. "Ah. sister Fluttershy. Good morning." he says, with a slight bow.
Fluttershy back. "As to you, brother Clover."
"Will you be attending the ceremony today? I know you are not one for gatherings usually, but I would highly suggest coming to this one. It's quite literally a once-in-a-lifetime experience for us all... well, except old Grapevine."
The pegasus knew what she was gonna say half-way through his sentence, but she let him finish anyway.
"Of course! I would never dare miss the send-off."
She turns away, biting her lip slightly. "Although... I am a bit nervous."
Clover tilts his head. "Oh, why so? You don't think that you could b--"
Fluttershy quickly hushes him. "We are not supposed to talk about who could be getting sent off! Such an honor must not be treated like that." she hastily responds.
Clover puts a hoof to his mouth. "My apologies." he says.
The pegasus sighs a little. "I'm just nervous about what it really is like on the other side. Do you think they're like us?" Fluttershy asks.
"What do you mean?"
"Like, do you think they do the same things we do? Care for animals and plants... practice peace and love... don't cut in front of lines."
Clover looks a bit bewildered. "Of course! I mean, we ARE on the tenth send-off. Surely the previous nine members should have done enough. At this point, they must be like a spitting image of us!" he says, assuredly.
He continues. "It would take an active effort for them NOT to practice peace. What even would there be strife about? We all are the same, and we share everything with each other. Just like the different parts of a tree; we are all one organism."
Fluttershy smiles. "I guess you're right. I just hope whoever the send-off is feels right at-home on the other side. I couldn't imagine being taken away from all of us here."
Clover nods. "Indeed. It must be sad to be taken away from the family... but thankfully, the other side must have a much larger one."
Their talk is interrupted by the sounds of a small bell in the far distance. The ceremony is beginning.
In a grass clearing surrounded by tall rock walls, a circular stone structure lies atop a base.
A gateway, one of the fastest known ways of traversing between pockets in the Underworld, via means that few ponies can even begin to understand.
This gateway is a special case, though. It is the only known connection between the Pocket of Gaia's Grove and the rest of the Underworld, with no other physical path being assumed to exist. Additionally, nothing that has ever left Gaia's Grove through the gateway has ever come back.
It's a one way trip.
The gateway itself looks to be in a state of complete damage, bordering on ruin. Plants grow within its crevices and cracks, even pushing its stone pieces apart. However, it has still functioned each time it has been used throughout the Millenia.
An extremely elderly pony stands near the base of the gateway, ringing a bell. Every pony in the grove quickly assemble in a small crowd in front of him, probably a hundred or so.
"My children! Today is the day many of us...especially myself... have been waiting for. On this day, we shall send the tenth member of our family off to the other side, where they will help spread the good gospel of the Earth Mother."
Many of the ponies there, especially the elderly one himself, Grapevine, know at this point it's basically just a tradition. Hundreds of years is plenty of enough time to create a utopia such as their own; any ponies sent now are just superfluous really. But who are they to reject or scoff at the old ways?
The crowd waits, eagerly. Some are anxious, others are worried, some are happy, and a few just look stoically.
Grapevine is handed a scroll by another pony, and he slowly opens it, reading its content.
Fluttershy sits near the back of the crowd. She secretly hopes that the one picked isn't one of her friends... she would hate to lose Clover. Well, she could always make more friends. It's just-
"Fluttershy." Grapevine says, with a gentle tone.
Fluttershy, still mid-thought, can barely register what was just said. Her expression slowly turns from one of light-hearted anxiousness, to one a slow realization.
What?
She looks around to see the entire village staring at her with elation.
However, she notices one face standing out. Clover looks at her with an uncommon emotion. Horror.
Is this for real?
"Fluttershy. Fluttershy, come on up!" Grapevine says.
Fluttershy unconsciously gets up and walks towards the stage. Her body may move forward, but her mind still feels like she's back where she was sitting, barely able to register what was said.
Fluttershy gets up on the stage, next to Grapevine, mouth slightly agape looking back at the crowd.
She knows this should be an amazing moment for her. But for some reason it feels wrong.
She leans into Grapevine's ear, slightly surprising the elder.
"C-can you check it again? I wouldn't want to take away this... reward from another pony." Fluttershy meekly asks.
Grapevine simply flips the scroll around for her to see for herself.
It's literally just a single word; "FLUTTERSHY". It's even colored yellow and pink.
Fluttershy leans in again. "I-is there another Fluttershy in the village I never knew about?" she asks, sounding a bit more desperate.
"Is there another Fluttershy here?" Grapevine asks. There's no noise from the crowd except crickets.
"I suppose not." Grapevine says, as honestly as possible.
Fluttershy can feel her heart beat harder than it ever has before. It feels like it's about to jump out of her chest. She begins to sweat a little, even slightly panting.
The crowd looks a bit worried, as does Grapevine.
"Is this how the send-off usually reacts?" One pony asks an older one, who shrugs.
Grapevine is about to ask Fluttershy if she's alright, when Fluttershy suddenly spells it out.
"I... I can't do this!" she yells, pained. Grapevine simply frowns.
She begins to babble. "I know this is supposed to be super good and all that but I don't know if I'm ready for this I mean I never even thought that I would be the one to do this and--" She's crying.
Grapevine extends a hoof out, placing it on her shoulder, with a solemn look.
Fluttershy cringes. She's expecting the worst. Is she going to be punished??? Ostracized??? BANISHED???
Grapevine simply sighs.
"You know, the last send-off reacted like this too." he responds, gently.
Fluttershy is a bit surprised at the tone, stopping her tears.
"A hundred years ago, and about one minute ago. A young stallion, younger than you. He reacted in this exact same way. He didn't want to leave his family. And you know what we did? For the first time in our history... we gave him a choice. To stay or leave. And upon being given that choice... the freedom to decide for himself... he decided to leave."
Grapevine chuckles.
"Some say that it's easier to perform a difficult act when you're actually given the choice of doing it or not."
Fluttershy wipes the tears off of her face, and looks back to the crowd. Instead of outrage or shock, they look equally as solemn - but not out of pity or woe. Out of respect. Some of them pray, others close their eyes. Even Clover can't help but bow his head.
She turns back to Grapevine.
" Fluttershy. I... we will not force you to do this, if that is how you truly feel. But know that we will not pick somepony to replace you, either. Whether or not you want to do this is up to you." he says, lowering his hoof off of her.
Fluttershy feels like she wants to cry again, but not out of sadness.
She needs to do this. She has to do this. Gaia picked her for a reason.
"A-alright... I'll do it." she says, trying to muster up some courage.
Grapevine slowly lifts his head. "And you're sure?" he asks.
"Yes." she says, nodding slowly.
Grapevine nods as well. He gestures over to some nearby unicorns. They begin to activate the gateway, its center beginning to crackle with blue energy. Eventually, a wall of light forms, illuminating the air around them.
Fluttershy looks towards the gateway. She can't see anything besides the light.
Taking a deep breath, she's about to enter it, when she suddenly turns back to Grapevine.
"Can you give me some parting pointers at least?" She asks, hurriedly.
Grapevine puts a hoof to his chin.
"Hmm... just the main tenets here, really. Always say 'please' and 'thank you', always say 'bless you' when somepony sneezes, and also never cut in-front of lines. especially don't cut in-front of lines. That's all you'll need to know, really." he responds.
Fluttershy bites her lip, but sighs.
"Goodbye, everyone." she says, turning back to the crowd. They silently give their support.
She sees Clover mouth her something, but she can't tell what it is. Something about "I" and "you"?
With a final deep breath, she walks forward into the gateway.
The feeling is like nothing she's ever felt before - like her very soul is being sucked up and away. It feels a bit scary at first, but then it's pure calm. Like she's asleep, but somehow conscious at the same time...
The other ponies see Fluttershy's body slowly disappear into the portal, before vanishing entirely. The unicorns let go of the spell, the gateway falling back to inactivity.
Grapevine looks at the direction of the portal, and up slightly.
"Good luck, young one." he says.
Fluttershy zips through the darkness for a little while. She hopes that the other side doesn't have TOO crazy of a receiving for her. That would be far too embarrassing. If there was 999 years of progress before her, then--
She suddenly screams as she feels herself get pulled straight down. She falls onto a hard surface, groaning with seldom-felt pain.
After a few seconds of lying on the ground, she lifts her head slowly. Looking around her surroundings, she seems to be in some kind of... large hole. Not like a pit, more like a dip or depress below. It's quite desolate and bare compared to what she's used to, though. Pure rock and stone, no plants at all.
She can barely see herself in the darkness, let alone anything or anypony nearby.
"H-hello?" she asks into the darkness.
No response.
She suddenly feels anxious again. She didn't want some huge receival on the other side, but she didn't want nothing !
What if the gateway spit her out somewhere wrong? Oh Gaia... how is she going to find the right way?
Fluttershy notices something poking out of the ground nearby. Its color and texture contrasts with the rest of the ditch.
She crawls over towards it, curiously reaching towards it and begins to pull off the dirt. Some kind of buried tool? Or plant?
Scraping some dirt up, she sees what appears to be a white rock. It's somewhat spherical in shape, with a tall part ridging down towards a flatter area. There's three holes, two large circular ones, along with a smaller one in the middle, slightly below the two big ones.
There's a collection of smaller rocks sitting near the bottom, in two rows, like a corn in the cob.
She picks it up, tilting her head as she inspects it. For some reason, the lower part appears to hinge downwards, smacking the ground with a small thump.
She shrugs, setting the stone back down.
Inspecting the area out of the ditch, it's not as bad, but still not very good. There's only a sparse amount of foliage, but a little is better than nothing.
Large stone pillars and walls jut upwards, forming various paths throughout the area. She doesn't recognize this type of terrain.
Her first thoughts gravitate towards food; the elders taught that a healthy pony requires three meals a day. But she isn't sure what can be found around here.
Surely the other send-offs must have cultivated something into the Underworld.
After a bit of searching, she spots something orange and green lying on the ground ahead. It looks like the largest carrot she's ever seen!
She runs over to it, getting up close.
As she reaches for it, she notices there's a super long vine tied to it, going behind a large nearby rock. Maybe she could use it for repairing her clothes later if need be? Maybe this place isn't so bad after all!
The moment she picks up the carrot, the 'vine' goes taut. She yelps as a cage falls around her, trapping her in place. She barely curls her wings inwards to prevent the cage from smashing them.
"OOH!" A voice says.
A pony runs out from behind the rock, excitedly. "Guys! Get over here! Judging from that pull, I just caught myself the Underworlds largest rabbit--"
He stops in his tracks when he notices there's something a bit bigger than a rabbit in his cage.
"Uhm... hello?" Fluttershy asks, a bit worried by her current predicament.
"Dude. What the heck is this?"
"Uh... some mare? Duh."
"Really? No way! Dumbass! I'm asking why is there some mare in my Rabbit Catcher 9000?"
A trio of dirty-looking earthen surround the shoddy cage, staring at Fluttershy. The middle has a cool hat. Fluttershy stares back, confused.
The gray stallion on the left shrugs. "Dunno. You wanted me to catch somethin', I caught somethin'."
The black stallion in the middle glares at him. "Yeah I meant' like a bunny or whatever not a freakin pony!"
The white stallion on the right chips in. "Well think about it. She must weigh like... I dunno, thirty bunnies? That's gotta be worth something, right?"
"No way. I'd say like, twenty. Tops." the gray one says.
As the three bicker, Fluttershy just looks at them blankly.
"Uhm... are you guys with the Earth Family?" Fluttershy asks, unsure.
The three stop arguing and turn back to her.
" 'Earth Family'? Girly, the only 'earth' and 'family' I know is the ditch that I buried my daddy in."
"Woah! I never knew you were gay, Hook!" the gray pony says.
Hook snaps towards him with frightening speed. "I'm not gay, you nitwit! daddy is a very common word for someones dad. What else do I say??? 'Father'? I'm not eighty!" He yells.
"I say father." The white one says.
"You're an orphan, Sinker! Shut up!" Hook retorts.
"Still know my father more than Line does!" Sinker says with a laugh.
Line gets up at him. "You little--"
The three begin bickering again, as Fluttershy just continues watching and listening.
Is this what the Outside is like?
"Can you guys tell me what is going on, please..?" Fluttershy asks, still unsure.
Hook turns to her with a scowl. "Oh, you know. We were out trappin' like any self respecting trappers, only to suddenly see some stupid broad got in our cage somehow!" he yells.
Fluttershy seems shocked at the language and tone.
"Hang on man. Isn't the Earth Family that hippie cult thing? What if she's one of em?" Sinker asks.
Hook grumbles. "I guess that'd line up with whatever the heck she's wearin and how she somehow managed to get stuck in our trap."
"Maybe she threw herself in there on purpose so we couldn't catch anythin else!" Line says with a laugh.
Fluttershy snaps to attention.
"Wait... you guys do know about the Earth Family... but you AREN'T a part of it?"
She can't believe how that's possible. The Earth Family is meant to encompass all ponies!
Hook looks bewildered.
"Uh... yeah. We 'know' about it. Most ponies 'know' about it... a little too well. Those annoying freaks are always comin to my house and bein like "come accept gaya into your heart or you'll be--" blah blah! So annoying!"
"And who would even wanna be a part of them? That's a one way street to getting your ass kicked!" Line laughs.
Fluttershy can't even fathom what she's hearing. Freaks??? 'Gaya'??? Ass kicking??? What the heck is this nightmare!
"Uhm... I don't want my ass to be... kicked? Could you let me out please... I promise I won't be annoying." Fluttershy says, trying to make sense of it.
"You're already being annoying. Hearing your whispery voice makes me wanna jump off a cliff." Hook says, not even looking at her.
He glances towards Line. "Get her out of the cage. We're going to need to actually get something soon."
Line reaches towards the cage to unlatch it.
"Wait!" Sinker yells. Line pauses.
"WHAT!" Hook yells, clearly angry.
"Our guy said he would buy anything we caught... right? What if he... you know." Sinker gestures towards the caged pegasus.
Hook raises an eyebrow.
"You sure he won't freak out or somethin?"
"Trust me. He has some ties with the Syndicate. He'll find somewhere to sell her off to."
Hook and Line share a glance.
"Might as well get some cash outta this, yeah?" Hook says with a sneer.
"I already got what I wanted to get out of this. It proved the 'fake carrot' trick isn't a total failure!" Line responds.
"Yeah, and it only worked on this moron pegasus. I've seen literal rabbits avoid it." Hook retorts.
Fluttershy quickly looks down at the 'carrot', seeing that it's actually just a painted wooden stake.
She frowns.
"Alright... load her into the cart. Let's hope Switch doesn't mind we brought in something a bit bigger than some rabbits." Hook says with a snicker.
"Why the heck am I the one pulling the cart??? This was my idea!" Sinker groans, with the cart's harness on his back.
"Yeah. That's exactly why. It was your idea, so you're the one who'll take us." Hook responds offhandedly, leaning back on his seat.
Fluttershy sits in her cage, looking around at the wagon around her. It's quite a bit larger than anything she's ever seen back at the grove. Instead of the teeny ones meant to help crippled ponies, this one is large enough to hold multiple people and even various tools. She sees all sorts of weird and unfamiliar, yet scary looking pieces of equipment around her.
They're traveling on a small trail, with the saving grace being that the area appears to be getting more forested and lively.
"Uh... where are we going?" Fluttershy asks.
"Some nice field where we'll let you go, and you'll be able to frolic with small animals." Hook responds.
Fluttershy perks up. "Really?!" she says.
"NO!" The three yell in unison. She frowns.
"You're what we call an 'indentured servant' now. You belong to us. And soon, you'll belong to some other dude that Sinker knows." Line responds.
The pegasus looks shocked. "What?! Y-you can't do that! You can't just... 'own' people!" She says.
Hook turns back. "Oh? Says who. You?" he asks, rhetorically.
"Yes..?" Fluttershy responds, not getting it.
The black stallion glares at her. "I dunno if you've noticed, but you're not really in a position to be arguing anything." he says. He smacks her cage, causing it to vibrate and make noise. Fluttershy recoils in fear.
Her eyes jostle a little, but she shakes it off. "I don't understand! I never did anything to you! Please, just let me go!" she pleads, starting to understand the situation.
Hook turns back forward. "Please just be a good indentured servant and stop--"
CRICK!
Hook nearly gets tossed off the wagon as it lurches to the side, barely catching his hat from flying away. He scampers back to his feet, angrily.
"SINKER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"It wasn't me! Something snagged on the cart!" Sinker yells back.
Hook and Line quickly look down the edge of the cart, seeing that one of the wheels has been ensnared by a strangely thick vine.
"What in the..."
Jumping off the cart, he quickly stomps and tears the vine away. Fluttershy's appalled at the brutality, even if it is just a plant.
He leaps back onto the cart. "Hurry up!" he yells towards Sinker. Sinker grumbles, but continues walking.
Hook slowly turns back to Fluttershy.
"As I was saying... we own you. Now please stop talking and let us relax." Hook says with a yawn, tilting his hat over his face.
Sinker grumbles, definitely not getting to relax right now.
Fluttershy is far too shocked and afraid to think of anything else to say. She also doesn't wanna risk angering them any further. She tries to find a comfortable position in the cage, and lies down.
After some time, Sinker is completely gassed. He pants, splatting on the ground. Hook looks over, and rolls his eyes.
"Can't go any more..." Sinker pants.
"Such a baby." Hook says with a groan. "Alright... let's set up camp here for tonight."
Line and Hook dismount the cart, beginning to pull off various items and objects. Sinker still lies face-first in the dirt.
Fluttershy looks at them as they do. The items look unfamiliar to her, but vaguely resemble things she does recognize. One of them looks like a shiny version of an axe, and another like a big wrinkly bed.
After a while, Sinker manages to get himself up. The trio begin setting up camp. Fluttershy watches them clumsily and roughly begin to tear up the area around them. They sloppily chop apart trees, rip apart bushes, and shake nearby fruits off from their branches. Most of the stuff they destroy isn't even used, simply tossed away out of sight. These ponies are monsters.
As Sinker is clinging onto a tree to shake some of its fruits off, a random branch suddenly smacks into him. He yells as he falls to the ground in pain.
"What the heck happened?!" Hook asks, running over.
"Hah... Sinker got beaten up by a tree!" Line laughs.
"Shut up!" Sinker says, pained.
Hook looks up at the tree, seeing its fruits above. He most definitely isn't gonna try to climb it like Sinker did, but he has a better idea.
Holding up an axe, he begins to violently hack it at the base. Fluttershy closes her eyes like she's watching somepony be butchered.
Not being a complete idiot, Hook has the wherewithal to chop the tree AWAY from where they are, so that it won't fall towards them. Eventually, the tree's base is barely a fourth of its original size, with the only piece left being in their direction, meaning gravity should pull it to the other side.
He gives it a light shove, and turns around as he hears it cracking, satisfied.
Inexplicably, the tree begins to fall the correct way, before suddenly lifting itself up in the other direction and falling back towards Hook.
He's confused as he hears the sound of cracking approaching him. He turns around just in the knick of time to see the log hurtling towards him.
"WHA--"
He barely jumps out of the way as it hits the ground next to him.
"Dude! What happened!" Line asks, running over.
"The damn tree somehow fell towards me!" he says.
He notices Fluttershy looking at him blankly. He glares back. Her face completely lacks any malice whatsoever. But Hook still feels off.
Into the night, The trio have a fire set up. Fluttershy's fast asleep in her cage.
Hook feigns sleeping by having his hat over his face, but lifts it slowly when he notices Fluttershy being asleep
He crawls over to the other two trappers, shaking them awake.
"Wuh? Mommy?" Line says.
"What? No, idiot! It's me."
"Five more minutes...' Sinker says. Hook smacks him awake.
"Ow! What was that for!?" He says, jolting up. Hook shushes him.
"Listen." he says, leaning towards the other two, who confusedly and reluctantly lean in as well.
"First the wheel of the wagon is grabbed by some vine... then a branch suddenly hits Sinker... and now a tree is defying physics to try and hit me? Don't you guys think it's strange how all this weird plant stuff is happening only AFTER we found her?
"Could be just coincidences." Line chips.
"No damn way. You know the saying... Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... well I forgot the rest, but there's something cool about fooling somepony thrice. Either way, I don't buy that this is just chance."
"Yeah but... she ain't a unicorn... and there isn't even such a thing as plant magic, right..?" Sinker says, a bit unsure.
"I dunno'. But I'm still not convinced that she's as innocent as she looks."
"What do we do then? Let her go?" Line inquires.
"No way. The last thing I want is this demon coming back with her entire earth family or whatever."
"...kill her?" Sinker asks.
"Still no. If this broad really is something, then we could get so much more for selling her. I'm just telling y'all, to keep your heads up." he says.
Line seems a bit unnerved. "I dunno... now that you got me thinking, I don't want her near me... whatever she is." He says.
Hook grimaces.
"It's gonna take a bit more than some stupid vines or branches to get rid of us." He says, holding his axe with a smirk.
His show of bravado gets the other two a bit more confident. As they begin to chuckle, they suddenly hear some rustling behind them. Some very loud, and quickly approaching rustling.
Hook turns around to see a giant figure suddenly erupt from the tree-line.
ROAAAAAARRRR!
The trio screams in fear.
Within Fluttershy's dreams, she happily frolics around a field, pushing past a few bushes. She sees a small group of bunnies. Her favorite animal!
She wastes no time going over to them, beginning to play with them.
Sinker yells in terror as he's thrown through the air, smacking into a tree. Hook and Line look back at the monster in horror. It looks like a giant mass of plants, in the vague shape of a living creature.
Fluttershy giggles as she boops one of the bunnies on the noise.
Line screams as he gets punched by the monster's giant fist, sending him hurtling into a tree next to Sinker. Hook grips his axe like a sword and backs away.
Fluttershy notices one of the rabbits pawing at her. A show of affection! She gently grabs it by the paws and begins to make it do a little dance.
Hook attempts to cleave into the monster with his axe, but any damage he does is immediately filled in with more plants. It suddenly grabs him by his legs, repeatedly smashing him into the ground.
While Fluttershy continues playing with the third bunny, the first two come hopping back, pawing against her back. She's a bit surprised, but they clearly want to play some more.
Line and Sinker come up from behind the monster with tools of their own. They aim for the legs, managing to stumble it briefly. It suddenly whips around, smacking both of them with its arm and sending them to the ground.
Fluttershy decides to give all three bunnies an equal amount of love. She scoops them up in a hug with a smile on her face.
She plays with them for what feels like hours.
The trio scream as the monster scoops them up, and then in pain. There isn't exactly much pressure, but it feels like they're being repeatedly scraped into a thorny bush or rough wood.
"MOMMMY!!" Line cries.
Fluttershy wakes up some-time in the afternoon, realizing she slept longer than usual without her usual bird. Slowly coming to, she looks around. The camp-site is destroyed and abandoned.
"Hello?" She asks, a bit fearfully, to nopony in particular.
It looks like something tore the place up...
Two ponies walk on a trail. They look quite similar to the trappers, yet a bit more clean and older.
"What are we even doing, Switch? He was supposed to come to US, right?"
"He WAS. But in the case that something went wrong, he told me that they would be traveling on this trail, and to try and find em'. Sinker has never been wrong before." Switch says.
The other pony scoffs. "Sinker. What a stupid name. Who would call a pony 'Sinker'." Bait says.
Suddenly, Switch lifts a hoof upwards, squinting. The two stop in their tracks.
Turning a curve, they see a small clearing. It looks like a tornado ran through the place. They spot Sinker's cart with a cage atop it, and a pony inside. The two look confused, but approach with caution.
There's a note near the base of the cage, facing away from where the pony inside could see. It's hastily scribbled.
"Just take her. Please."
The two look up with bewilderment.
The pony inside simply glances back at them.
"Hi?" |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 4 - Light It Up | Twilight's eyes flutter open partly. The unicorn grumbles.
She just had the strangest dream... her head also hurts a little.
She instinctively reaches over for her stuffed animal, Smarty Pants. The few people who know that she still has it always told her to get rid of it, but personally she thinks--
Instead of the fabric and fluff, Twilight feels something else next to her...
Slowly rotating her body over, she comes face to face with a bloody pony's face.
Twilight jolts up, screaming and scampering backwards. She feels the cold around her.
Snapping fully awake, she remembers everything that happened. The ambush, the fight... the crash. The pain rushes back to her as well.
She immediately checks her horn, something most unicorns do if they get injured. Thankfully, it's not harmed. Besides that, she has a splitting headache, a few bruises, along with a pained wrist. But she'll live.
She looks at the SPAV around her -- or at least, what remains of it. It looks like it's been utterly torn apart, with large gashes and even not being in one piece anymore. Both the immediate front and back are gone, leaving the remaining body more like a tube than a cabin. The whole thing is slightly tilted, lying on uneven ground below.
Her eyes focus on two specific figures. The soldier who was sitting next to Jack, as well as Jack herself both lie on the floor at different parts of the SPAV. She can't tell if they're dead or unconscious at a glance. Looking around in a full 360 degrees, she can't seem to find any other of the bodies. They must've been thrown away somewhere else from the violence of the tumble.
She takes a deep breath.
Twilight seems visibly strained as her horn glows. The soldier's body is covered with a purple shimmer as it is slowly pulled outside of the SPAV, where she stands.
She grunts. She's mainly used her magic to do stuff like grab small things at a distance. Rarely she could give herself a boost when reaching for something high. This is certainly more demanding.
His body flops out the broken back of the SPAV, face-planting the ground. Twilight cringes. Maybe she should've checked his pulse first?
She does so, and fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, the soldier is dead.
Twilight puts that aside right now, still trying to move him somewhere else. She grimaces as the task gets harder now that he's on rough ground. Eventually though, she moves him to a secluded spot away from the SPAV, and flips him on his back.
Twilight just stares blankly as the corpse. Thankfully, his eyes are already closed, but the rest of his body is like a tapestry of horror. He has multiple broken limbs, his body is full of gashes, and his face is swollen and sunken.
She's seen dead bodies before... but in sanitated scenarios like dissections or the morgue. This... is something else.
Trying to stop herself from gagging at the morbid sight, she quickly levitates over a tarp from the SPAV to cover him.
A bit relieved, she then walks over to the other body. Jack.
From a distance, she looks pretty messed up as well, but not as much as the Soldier. Dried blood looks like it's streamed down from her nose, and she has some fresh bruises. Her most grievous wound looks to be one of her front legs, which looks a bit bent up.
Before Twilight even dares to get closer, she checks the hovel's pulse from a safe distance using her magic.
After a few seconds...
Thump... Thump... Thump.
A small, but steady pulse.
Twilight feels a cold sweat.
Jack is still alive.
Twilight grits her teeth, straining even more than before as she tries to slide Jack out of the SPAV. She's actually lighter than the soldier, but the problem is the distance. She levitated the soldier just because she didn't wanna touch her, but now she has to keep a far distance away from the very much alive Jack.
This time, she set up another tarp below the SPAV's ledge, as to hopefully cushion the fall slightly, and also give her a sort of sled to slide Jack towards where she wants her to be.
Reaching the edge, Jack's body gets taken away by gravity and completely misses the tarp, smacking into the ground right next to it. Twilight face-hooves.
She painstakingly slides the tarp under the body, before then pulling the tarp along with her as intended.
Twilight moves Jack a moderate distance away, not to the same level of distance as the soldier's corpse, but still a respectable amount away from the SPAV.
Finding a relatively flat area, she moves a couple of stones away and releases the tarp. She just looks over the unconscious Hovel, unsure of how to proceed from here.
Is she going to have to kill her?
Enclave doctrine says in an emergency, captives, prisoners, and other hostiles of the such should almost always to be disposed of, as they could pose unnecessary and unneeded risks and complexity to rescue or survival situations.
She looks at the hovel's damaged leg. It's one of her back ones, meaning she probably won't be able to move around very easily. But if she does somehow get a hold of her, it might be over. Twilight doesn't doubt that she could crawl at her like a demon or something.
She then looks over at her bleeding head. Maybe she's in a coma or something..? Hopefully she just doesn't wake up.
But no, no... both of those are too unreliable for her right now. Pure chance. She has to take action.
Her first thought gravitates to the dagger. Quickly retrieving it from the SPAV, she just holds it a bit shakily, looking towards Jack. Even from afar, it would be far too gruesome. She just imagines herself being covered in blood like some mad-pony. She also can't risk her coming to and grabbing the dagger away.
She looks around, seeing some large rocks around. Levitating them, she grunts a bit from the weight, but it's manageable. She drops it on the ground once or twice purposefully.
Maybe she could just get a good drop on her head or chest?
No... the chances of inflicting lethal damage to somepony with a rock of this weight and whatever height she can manage is far too unlikely. It would probably just maim her, which would make the situation even worse.
Finally, she looks in the distance. There's another large chasm, just like the one the SPAV fell in.
Is this entire place just a large series of chasms?!
She figures that maybe she could just push her off the ledge or something. She'll either die from the impact instantly, or live but be out of her hair. A win-win?
Twilight's about to go through with the plan, beginning to levitate the tarp, but she pauses.
Even with the 'best' method in mind, she struggles to go through with it. She glances down towards the comatose hovel.
Regardless of them trying to kill her, and no matter what she may have done before this moment, even if they deserve this...
Twilight can't bring herself to do it.
She isn't prepared for THIS! She never even thought she'd be in a situation where she'd have to take a life before, especially not one that technically did not pose an immediate threat.
Despite thinking that Hovel's are unintelligent and savage creatures...
Twilight can't help but see another fellow pony within Jack.
Twilight groans, releasing the tarp from her magical grasp and beginning to walk away. She'll need to find an alternate solution here.
As she's turned away, the Hovel's eye opens ever so slightly, before going back to being closed.
Her hoof slowly reaches for a nearby rock.
Within Charlie Compound, a room full of different devices buzzes and whirs. Quite a few ponies, mainly unicorns, sit around at various desks and panels. A few quickly move around carrying papers or documents, and whispering in other ponies ears.
This is the control room, the 'brain' of the Compound, located within the Epistrey itself. The beeping of telegraphs coincide with the crackling of radios, along with the alien noises of unfamiliar communicators.
In a private room, a stallion watches another screen as the main one in-front of him suddenly begins rapidly blinking red and alerting him.
Immediately noticing it, he looks at the situation. SPAV-3 appears to have activated its emergency alarm.
He tries to radio in. "SPAV-3? Come in, SPAV-3. This is Charlie Control. Hello?"
He pauses.
"Hello? Come in, SPAV-3. SPAV-3 do you copy?"
Still no response.
"SPAV-3. Do--"
"Radio troubles?" A voice says from behind him.
He nearly yelps, before realizing who it is. He quickly snaps to attention.
"C-Commander Raven!" He stutters
"At ease." The unicorn orders, as she approaches the desk.
He's about to fill her in, when she simply moves him and his rolling chair aside, squinting at the screen for herself, the SPAV's icon and screen still flashing red.
"Pull up the visual recorders. Now." The stallion wastes no time hitting some buttons, as a video is pulled on-screen.
From the interior of the SPAV, they see a few presumably dead soldiers, along with a small purple and big orange pony struggling over what appears to be a knife. Video recording from the outside shows about a dozen dead soldiers with Hovel warriors standing over them.
Raven's eyes sharpen. "Hovels." She mutters under her breath.
Inside the SPAV, the orange pony overpowers the purple one, and after choking her for a little bit, the entire SPAV suddenly lurches to its side. From the camera's tilted angle, the two watch as both the orange and purple pony try to open the door, before the SPAV suddenly goes into free-fall, the camera cutting out. Raven raises an eyebrow at seeing the brief, but desperate teamwork.
The stallion looks completely horrified from the grizzly scene, but Raven looks with a stern but calm expression.
"Send out an Enforcer Squad to its location, now. Two if necessary. Get them there as soon as possible." She orders, before turning away.
The stallion seems flabbergasted. "But ma'am! It's unlikely that anything survived that fall! And
Raven barely turns her head back to him.
"Survive, didn't survive, doesn't matter. It's a recovery mission now. I want to know what happened."
He gulps.
"...It's uncharted territory. It could take days to find the wreck." he responds, nervously.
This time, Raven fully turns her head to him.
"Then take days. I want it found eventually." She takes her leave.
The stallion pauses for a moment, before hurriedly contacting another team elsewhere.
Twilight wipes her brow, looking around her. She just finished unloading anything useful she could find from the SPAV.
A few tools, some rations, and probably most importantly, a first-aid kit. She also found a flintlock, but dreads the thought of having to use it. She decides to hide it under some of the other items.
Unfortunately, it seems like most of the SPAV's contents were thrown away from the crash, but thankfully what remains isn't too shoddy either. She just hopes it's enough for the time being.
Popping open the first aid-kid, she begins to clean some of her scratches and bruises, before bandaging them up. She also cleans up some blood on her face - It's not her blood.
She notices what appears to be some kind of injection pen in the kit. There's no label, so she doesn't even risk using it right now.
Finishing cleaning herself up, she then looks towards the much more injured pony present.
Jack's body still lies on the tarp, not having moved whatsoever since she laid her there.
Twilight approaches her with the kit in tow. This is going to be difficult.
Doing something as delicate as wrapping gauze or cleaning wounds on something with levitation is already a difficult task for even experienced unicorns such as doctors - let alone for someone inexperienced like Twilight. It's also complicated when you're trying to keep a safe distance from said something.
She clumsily pats down and away some of the visible wounds, along with wrapping them up, mainly on Jack's head. That should hopefully stop any possible infections.
Her eyes drift towards the damaged leg. It looks slightly bent in the wrong direction. Not much she can do about that one.
After finishing cleaning Jack up, Twilight thinks about what to do now.
Her best bet would probably be to restrain or tie her up somehow, but she couldn't manage to find any of the original restraints in the SPAV. She does have some ropes and zipties, but she doubts anything she can manage to cobble together could reasonably restrain Jack safely.
As she thinks, her eyes drift towards the area around Jack.
It looks... different. Like some of the rocks are in different spots.
Before she can even think about what that implies, Jack's upper body suddenly springs upwards, yelling as she throws a rock at Twilight like a cannonball.
Twilight screams, barely ducking the projectile that whizzes past her at an absurd speed. Looking back at Jack, Twilight sees the hovel on her feet, and about to pounce.
The unicorn scampers backwards as Jack attempts to do so.
However, the moment Jack attempts to put pressure on her bad foreleg, it gives out under her. One of her eyes scrunches up as she yelps in pain, falling flat on her stomach with a groan.
Twilight stops back-pedaling, slowly getting back up after seeing the failure. She's about to approach, when Jack begins to crawl towards her with a scowl on her face, gnashing her teeth like a psycho.
Twilight levitates the knife in front of her, trying to daunt her away.
"Hey! Stop!" Twilight yells.
Jack immediately grabs the knife out of the air with her good leg, now using it like a pick to keep crawling forward.
Twilight face-hooves looking at the display.
Jack isn't moving particularly fast, and Twilight could probably just walk away at a brisk pace, but she isn't gonna be dealing with this cryptid the entire time.
"Can you stop?" Twilight asks, annoyed.
"You did this to me! I'll kill you!" Jack yells.
"How did I--"
She face-hooves again.
Is she seriously using Twilight like a stand-in for the entire Enclave?
Twilight quickly recovers the flintlock from the ration pile, and points it straight at Jack. This gets the Hovels attention and she comes to an immediate stop.
Jack eyes the flintlock, before chuckling.
"You don't even know how to use that thing." she says, beginning to inch forward again.
Twilight raises an eyebrow, cocking the flintlocks safety off. Jack's eyes widen a little.
Internally, Twilight is barely holding herself together. She does indeed know how to use these things, as all Enclave citizens do, yet she's only fired it a few times, and at stationary range targets no less.
But she knows that the best way of resolving this situation without having to shoot Jack is by intimidating her.
Jack slightly recovers her bearings, before smirking again.
"I bet it ain't even loaded."
Twilight taps the gun while tilting the muzzle down, as some gunpowder visibly comes out the end. Jack watches it fall out.
She yells, tossing the dagger uselessly in front of her.
"Just do it already!" She yells, closing her eyes and waiting for the shot.
Twilight frowns, cocking the flintlock's safety back on.
"Why would I? I have no reason to kill someone who isn't a threat." Twilight says as calmly as possible, bluffing.
Jack looks shocked. "Not a thr-- I tried to kill you multiple times!" she roars.
Twilight shrugs. "Tried and failed. I'm not gonna waste a bullet on you." she says, putting away the flintlock and barely changing her expression. She metaphorically pats herself on the back for that cool line.
Jack just looks bewildered. She can't fathom why she would be getting spared.
She tries to get to her feet, but winces. She rolls onto her back, before looking at her damaged leg.
"You need to stop moving. You aren't going to get better from trying to come at me like a mad-pony." Twilight responds.
Jack grumbles, but relents, laying on the ground.
If she's gonna get a chance at killing this unicorn, she's going to need to conserve her energy.
The rest of the day is about as awkward as could be expected. Twilight keeps a safe distance away from the Hovel, as the two occasionally shoot stares at the other when they aren't looking. At one point, they do it at the same time, and Twilight breaks away first, with Jack sneering.
Twilight tries to make sense of the area they're in. The original route the SPAV took wasn't very well lit, but after they fell into what appeared to be pitch darkness, now they're somewhere that has a somewhat greater level of light.
Scientifically, it doesn't make sense for most of the Underworld to even have light in the first place, considering they're all... well, underground. Besides things like bioluminescence or pony-made lights, everything else should be pitch darkness. But she doesn't dwell too long on it considering literal magic exists.
Their immediate surroundings look like some sort of basin, with a large sloped cliff in the same direction the SPAV came down, presumably the same ledge that they fell off from. There's various tunnels and small valleys branching off from the area, but exploring them would probably be a death-wish. Her best bet is probably to hunker down near the SPAV and wait for a rescue.
Thankfully, there's some foliage around the area, even a few trees. She could maybe go gathering later. Key word; later.
It's starting to get dark.
Twilight comes to the realization that she's going to have to sleep out here...
With Jack nearby.
She glances over to see Jack picking at her teeth, disinterestedly staring off elsewhere. Twilight grimaces when she sees her teeth are somewhat sharp. She isn't gonna dwell on that thought right now.
Right now, Twilight needs to devise a sleeping strategy.
She briefly pauses, realizing how absurd that sounds, before shakes it off.
The wreck of the SPAV is probably the best shelter she could manage here, with a bit of furnishing to make an impromptu bed, and maaaaybe some sort of noise trap, it wouldn't be so bad.
Twilight quickly piles together random soft materials like a few tarps, some bushes, and even some loose clothing. She props up some boxes to stop the entire thing from sliding away. The entire SPAV is slightly tilted, meaning she's gonna have to sleep diagonally.
She crudely sets up a sort of tripwire on the ledge of the SPAV, attaching it to some nearby boxes to fall. Hopefully, this should be enough to wake her if Jack tries anything.
Looking back towards the elevated front of the SPAV, she grimaces. Jack could maybe get in from the top, and slide down straight onto her. Although if the three-legged crawling pony manages to get that high up in the first place without making any audible noise, then she probably didn't stand a chance anyways.
At this point, it's become dark enough for Twilight to say it's 'night'. Getting into her 'bed', she tries her best to sleep. She made sure to give herself a clear view of Jack from her resting position, seeing the hovel's strewn out body across the floor.
Twilight can't help but feel suspicious. She already managed to trick her into being unconscious before... what if she's waiting for -
Her thoughts are cut off by Jack's loud snoring. She frowns. Is she going to have to hear this all night?
She sighs, curling a tarp blanket around herself.
At least she knows for certain that Jack is asleep.
Jack isn't asleep.
With one eye barely open, she can see Twilight in the distance inside her little pillow fort. Her eyes are much better at seeing in the darkness than the unicorns.
Twilight and her stare straight at each other, but judging by the unicorns only somewhat suspicious face, Jack assumes Twilight can't actually see the hovel looking back towards her.
Jack begins to loudly and obnoxiously 'snore', causing Twilight's expression to go from one of suspicion to mild annoyance, before curling herself up.
Jack smirks. Too easy.
Of course, her mind drifts to getting up there immediately and getting rid of her once and for all, but the unicorn did have a point. Her leg needs to get better before she tries anything.
Twilight shuffles around some more, clearly not able to get comfortable.
Jack uses the principle of endurance hunting here.
She'll continue getting her energy back and more well-rested, while the unicorn just gets more tired and paranoid.
Eventually, she'll make her move.
BA-BUM.
Twilight nearly jumps awake in the middle of the night. Something triggered her noise trap. Immediately, she throws off the tarp and pulls out the flintlock she had nearby. She shakily and wildly points it in the direction of Jack. She doesn't see anything.
Before she starts running around like a psycho, she illuminates the area slightly with a beam of light from her horn. Sure enough, Jack is still lying in the exact same position.
Twilight squints even more so than she already was due to the sudden awakening. She knows she already got tricked by Jack once, but in order to trigger the trap without moving from her position would require a perfect rock throw aimed in near pitch darkness. She also doesn't see any rocks inside the SPAV.
Looking down, she slightly scampers backwards as she sees the culprit.
A hoof-sized, nocturnal leech lies on the floor. A Dusk Sucker.
It slowly slides around near the rope and downed pile of boxes.
Twilight angrily slaps it away. It hits the ground with a wet smack, quickly skittering off. She painstakingly and poorly re-sets the box pile, before getting back into her sleeping position.
She covers her ears as she tries to fall asleep again, Jack still snoring loudly
Natural light breaches through both open sides of the SPAV. Twilight's eyes open once again.
She feels like crap. Between Jack's snoring and the false alarm, she barely got any meaningful sleep.
Trying to shake it off, Twilight slowly gets to her feet, proceeding towards the edge of the SPAV. As she walks forward, she suddenly plummets straight down, forgetting about the elevation between the end of the SPAV and the ground below.
"Watch out for the step by the way." Jack says from the distance, already awake.
Twilight curses under her breath as she slowly gets to her feet, and dusts herself off. She's about to give her a squinted scowl, when she suddenly realizes Jack has crawled a short distance away to a nearby tree, pulling off a few branches and some vines, fashioning what appears to be a walking stick.
Jack notices the stares and smirks.
"Oh don't worry, I know how to make one of these things. My granny' uses one." She says, continuing to shave away at one of the sticks.
Twilight bites her lip.
Should she try to stop her? What is she even supposed to say? 'Hey, you! crippled pony! Don't make that walking stick or else I'll shoot you!'"
She notices Jack is excessively sharpening one side of the stick, which seems a bit counter-intuitive regardless of which side of the walking stick it's meant to be. But it would be perfect for say... a spear.
Twilight sighs. Just another reason to keep her distance. Sure, Jack could throw it, but then she'd be down a walking stick so it's a win-win for her... sorta.
She starts thinking about more practical problems. Going over to the pile of rations, she begins rummaging through the various packages and bags. There's a lot of regular and junk food, but no water to be found. What the heck do these soldiers bother packing???
She puts a hoof to her brow. Ponies can survive for weeks without food, but three or four days without water and they're done for. She didn't drink much on the day the expedition left, nor yesterday. She already feels weaker and lamer than usual, in addition to the tiredness from the poor sleep.
Reservoirs are a common occurrence within this Pocket, but she's honestly worried to go anywhere past the immediate vicinity of the SPAV. Getting lost or falling further into the chasms would certainly mean death. If only there was someone who knew the wilderness better than her...
She sighs, looking back towards Jack. The hovel whistles as she continues whittling away.
"Water. We need water."
Jack's eyes become focused, looking back at Twilight.
"Hm?" She asks, still shaving the stick away.
"We are going to need to find water, or else we are going to die." Twilight says, plainly.
"Don't y'all got water in your little metal wagon?"
Twilight groans. Even the hovel has more common sense than the soldiers.
"No. There isn't any. We need to find water ourselves."
Jack chuckles.
"We? You mean you'll find water on your own, and I'll find my water on my own."
Twilight isn't in the mood for games. She cocks the flintlock again.
"No, I mean we."
Jack rolls her eyes. "Fine."
Using the walking stick to prop herself up, she slowly gets to her feet, finding a good balance for her weight. She begins to walk around slowly. Twilight watches with caution.
She limbers over to another tree, inspecting its branches. After finding one that she's looking for, she yanks it off. It looks like a V shape, with a short curve on either side along with a point sticking out past where both curves meet. She holds it in both hooves, facing forward.
Twilight looks confused for a moment, before she realizes what she's doing.
"Are you seriously trying to use a dowsing rod..?"
" 'trying'? I am usin' a dowsing rod. They're one of the most legendary tools of the Annui. The knowledge has been passed down for generations." Jack begins to walk away.
Twilight puts both hooves to her face.
She's going to die out here.
The two have walked for quite some time, the wreck being completely out of sight. Twilight made a painful effort to make sure she remembers the way back, as to not get lost out here.
Jack leads the way, still using her dowsing rod, while Twilight follows behind, the duo traveling near a ledge. Jack is moving at a snail's pace, either to mess with Twilight or because that's actually how slow she is with her bad leg. She hums to herself as she does so.
"You do know those things don't work, right..?" Twilight asks.
"Then why are ya following me?"
"Because! Picking any direction and walking in it has a chance of finding us water. Might as well go the same way you are."
"Sounds like you're sayin' that it works."
"If I thought it worked then why wouldn't I have tried using it myself already?!" Twilight retorts.
"Cause you don't know how." Jack says with a shrug.
Twilight nearly face-hooves.
"You don't need to know how to hold a stupid stick out and let your body naturally and randomly move it in different directions!" She yells.
"Then why don't you do it?" Jack asks, turning around suddenly, now walking backwards. Twilight back-pedals slightly. Jack holds the dowsing rod towards her.
Twilight still doesn't think it'll work, but she's fed up at this point.
She reaches towards it, not realizing how close she's getting towards Jack. She fails to notice Jack slowly pulling her walking stick back, like preparing for a strike.
Twilight is almost in range, and then...
Jack accidentally takes a backwards step too far, losing her footing. Her eyes widen as her body slips off the edge. For the first time, Twilight hears a scream of terror from her.
Out of instinct, Twilight leaps forward, grabbing Jack's hooves to stop her from falling. In her current state, heck, even in the best conditions, she wouldn't be strong enough to pull Jack back up, but she stops her from falling further.
"Don't let go!" Twilight cries.
Jack looks over the edge, seeing nothing below her. She desperately kicks her back legs forward repeatedly, trying to grab ahold of the ledge. Twilight winces from the pressure of Jack's hooves, but still holds on to her as well.
Twilight leans back to use her body-weight to her advantage, while also using her magic to levitate Jack's lower half upwards.
Eventually, Jack's back legs get a grip, and manages to pull herself to safe ground. The two fall backwards side by side, panting out of fear and exhaustion.
Jack rolls over slightly, looking at Twilight. Jack could easily bludgeon or stab her right now, but the Hovel just stares with pure shock and confusion.
The damn unicorn just saved her life!
Twilight is equally surprised about putting herself on the line.
Twilight glances over, her eyes widening as she realizes the lapse judgment about the 'safe distance' thing, quickly side-rolling away.
After a moment, the two regain their bearings and get to their feet. They share an awkward glance.
"L-let's keep lookin'." Jack says, clearing her throat.
Twilight just nods.
With Twilight now using the dowsing rod, the two continue their search. Jack's stoicness has somewhat faded, and she looks just as weary as Twilight does. The near-death experience presumably didn't help.
Twilight is desperate at this point, her eyes barely open. She can't even imagine what will happen if--
She pauses.
She hears the sound of ripples in the distance. Her and Jack share a brief glance, before nearly tripping over each other as they run towards it. Or in Jack's case, hobbles.
Turning a corner, they see it. A fresh running stream of water.
"I told ya it worked!" Jack says, quickly scampering towards the stream. She sticks her head into it like an ostrich, drinking to her heart's content.
Twilight immediately tosses away the dowsing rod, not interested in the question of if it actually works or not. Quickly kneeling next to the stream. She begins to take out and fill various containers from her satchel. Hopefully, this should tide them over for the next few days if need be.
Back near the wreck, the two sit around. The area is starting to get cold, the flat and rocky terrain not giving much insulation.
Twilight attempts to start a fire by making a small pit of rocks and sticks. She's never done it before, but she's seen others do so. Jack watches with a bit of interest.
The unicorn attempts to light the pit using her horn, blasting it with small beams. This does nothing except repeatedly throw small pieces of sticks and tiny rocks away. Jack frowns.
After a minute or two of watching the pathetic display, she groans and begins to hobble over.
"Move. Let me show you how it's done." Jack says.
Twilight backs up a little as the hovel grabs one of the sticks from the piles, and begins to rapidly rub her hooves together with it in-between. After a while, a small spark happens, and the kindle begins.
"There. So simple a filly could do it." she says with a smirk.
"You know that technique is somewhere around hundreds of years old, right?" Twilight asks, raising an eyebrow.
"So? Still works." Jack flicks a few leaves and sticks onto the kindle while blowing on it.
After a while, they have a full fledged fire going. Jack sighs as she stares into it, perhaps a bit too passionately.
Twilight decides now's as good a time as any to actually eat something. While they technically don't NEED to eat, no harm in doing so considering they have more food than they even know what to do with.
Twilight rummages through the ration pile, picking one for herself, before levitating a few over towards Jack.
She eyes them with suspicion and caution. Not for some stupid reason like thinking they're trapped or something, more so that she's unfamiliar with food in this sort of fashion.
She squints at one of the labels.
"Uhhh..."
Twilight, currently preparing her own pack, glances over.
"I can't read." Jack says, grimacing a bit.
Twilight gives her the thousand-yard stare, literally rubbing her eyes with her hooves like she's wiping down some glass.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T READ?!" She yells.
Jack recoils a bit from the overly loud scream.
"...no? Why would I be able to? What would I even read out here? Hieroglyphics?"
Twilight face-hooves.
"You guys know what Hieroglyphics are... but can't read." She says, in total shock.
"I thought every-pony knew what Hieroglyphics were."
"Yeah, well, I thought every pony knew how to read in general." Twilight retorts.
Jack shrugs. "Just tell me what this one is, miss reader." Jack says, flipping around one of the packages and showing it to Twilight.
Twilight rolls her eyes at its contents. "Corn and squash stew."
"Is it good?"
"I don't know. But I don't like corn."
"Well if you don't like it, then I probably will." Jack says with a snicker.
She fumbles around with the bag a little, and at one point tries to brute force it open.
Twilight's eyes widen. "Hey. Hey! You're supposed to put it over the fire. It'll open by itself."
Jack looks at her with some confusion. She doesn't appear to understand.
"Just... put it over the fire." Twilight says again.
Jack does so, unsure. She watches with surprise as the bag slowly expands, before opening itself into the shape of a small bowl.
"Literal magic." Jack says, carefully fishing the bowl out of the fire.
"No, it's science. Both the rations and the bag itself are designed to be put into any kind of heat, as so they--"
Jack is already eating into the stew with nothing but her mouth, clearly not listening. Twilight sighs, going back to eating her dish with a fork.
The two eat in silence for some-time.
Although neither really notice it, they're sitting much closer than the previous nights, partly due to wanting to be near the fire.
Getting a closer and more clear and relaxed view of Jack, Twilight can't help but notice how different she looks from any other pony she's ever seen in her life. Theres a unique air around her.
The curiosity gnaws at Twilight a little.
"Jack?"
Jack looks up slightly, face still inside the stew.
"I never bothered asking before but... what are your people like? The... Annui?"
The question somewhat reminds her of what she asked Jack back in the SPAV.
Jack lowers the bowl, wiping some soup off her face.
"Hm. Well. For one, we're nomads. We move around alot."
"Why so?"
Jack puts a hoof to her chin. "Foraging, mainly. There's only so much stuff' you can gather before somewhere runs out. But we also believe stayin' in one place for too long can bring misfortune."
Twilight frowns. According to the Enclave, the only reasons the Hovel move around is to cause more trouble, constantly avoiding detection or finding new places and routes to pillage or raid.
Jack continues. "We were actually gettin' prepared to begin moving to the next pocket over, when we got ambushed by some of those armored gun guys." she says, squinting slightly.
"Wait, what? You guys were moving to another pocket?"
Jack looks confused. "...yes? Did y'all not know that we do that?"
"I've always been told that you guys purposefully stayed in this pocket. That you even avoided going elsewhere just to keep causing problems."
Jack blows her lips. "The whole reason we keep movin' around is to avoid trouble. Why would we purposefully stay?"
Twilight puts her hooves up defensively. "That's only what I heard... relax."
Theres a brief silence.
"If the Annui really are peaceful, then how-come you don't make attempts to amend with the Enclave?" Twilight asks, genuine.
Jack scoffs. "I said' we don't go out of our way for trouble. Not that we're peaceful. And besides... a few believers tried doing that long ago. We never heard from them again, nor did anythin' change. Now, every time we get within view of any of y'all, they either react with fear or aggression immediately."
Twilight feels a little uncomfortable. "Maybe they think you guys are like... some other bad group?" She's honestly amiss at what to say.
Jack rolls her eyes. "Ya. Because nothing screams bad guy like just sitting around and then randomly being shot from afar."
Twilight feels a little bad, but she can't help but remember the SPAV ambush. Jack notices her face.
"What about the ambush??? The--"
Jack was waiting for it.
"Oh don't give me that crap. They were trying to rescue me. If they had never captured me, then that woulda' never happened. You really think your people wouldn't have done the same thing to us if you got captured or somethin'?"
Twilight can't help but admit that she's right. But Jack is a bit too fired up right now.
"How many of those soldiers you think killed some innocent Annui? One? Two? All of em'?"
Twilight unconsciously begins to sit forward a bit, getting angry herself.
"Just because some of them may have been horrible murderers doesn't mean you should feel justified killing ALL of them!" she yells.
Jack sits back, chuckling.
"I wish the Enclave thought like that. Imagine if they were somehow the stupidest ponies ever and think we're some bad cult or something.. They still have no problem killin' everypony. The elderly. The fillies. They punish collectively for the acts of a few, against ponies they cant even' tell apart. YOU couldn't even tell us apart from the bad ones."
Jack turns away, clearly frustrated.
Twilight frowns.
She huffs. It's honestly quite sad.
Back when everypony first entered into the Underworld, the earthen were hit the hardest out of the three kinds. Lack of easily available natural light, plants, and livestock meant their natural farming talents were all but useless.
Most of them fell back on their natural traits to survive -- strength and resilience. A sizable amount of many modern-day outlaws, criminals, and all of the Hovel are earthen, descending from those desperate ponies centuries ago.
There' a few seconds of silence.
"I'm... sorry." Twilight says.
Jacks's ears and back perk up slightly, as she turns her head back somewhat.
"I'm sorry for everything the Enclave has done to the Annui. I'm sorry for what I treated you like before, and the assumptions I made about you and your people. I had no idea."
Jack looks bewildered. Never did she think she'd get said that by a Enclave pony before.
She hunches over a little, rubbing her mane, nearly stammering.
"U-uhm... I'm... sorry too? For blaming you for everything. And also trying to kill you... and stuff." She says, a bit awkwardly.
Twilight deadpans. Sort of blunt, but better than nothing.
The two awkwardly glance at each other, with not much else to say. They go back to eating.
After sometime, Twilight begins to think.
What if there's hope for this. What if... she could somehow bridge the gap. It's likely that the Annui have never had someone who could stick up for them. If she can prove that the Annui aren't like the other Hovel, she could--
"I thought stew was supposed to have meat in it." Jack says, looking at her empty bowl.
Twilight's train of thought proceeds to crash and burn. She slowly looks up with horror.
"C-come again?"
"Meat. All the stew's that I'm familiar with had meat in em'." Jack says, plainly.
What.
"You eat meat???" Twilight says, shocked.
"Uh... yeah? What's wrong with that?" Jack asks.
"What's wro-- Ponies are herbivores!" Twilight yells.
Jack shrugs.
"Speak for yourself. The Annui are omnivores. Meat has so much nutritional efficiency over vegetables or fruits, it's also digested way easier."
She speaks with an unusual efficacy on the topic. Twilight nearly gags.
"W-what kind of m-meat?" Twilight asks. She's afraid of whatever Jack is gonna respond with.
"Oh you know. Fish."
Twilight relaxes a little. That wasn't too bad of an answer.
"Well, sorry. None of these food packs have meat in them. That's not a... component of our diets." Twilight says, somewhat regaining her bearings.
Jack shrugs. "No biggie. I see some meat over there, anyways." she says, hoofing behind Twilight.
Twilight looks confused.
What is she talki--
Turning around, she sees the covered corpse of the soldier.
Twilight feels a pit form in her stomach.
She's nearly about to vomit at the idea, when Jack quickly stops it.
"Kidding! That was just a joke." She says, with a smirk.
Twilight wipes her mouth, glancing lightly at Jack.
Okay. Maybe it'll be harder than she thought to make something work here.
The two finish their meals, with Twilight pouring out the fire. Returning to their respective sleeping spots, Twilight offers to furnish a bed for Jack similar to one her own, but Jack declines, preferring to sleep on the bare ground.
Twilight thinks about the last hour or two as she slides into her 'bed'.
Sure, there were some ups and downs, one very gross one in particular, but she feels...
Strangely better.
She isn't seeing Jack like some violent monster anymore. More like an -- at worst -- somewhat crude and rough individual.
But still an individual.
A pony, like herself.
Deciding to think more on it tomorrow, she slowly drifts asleep.
Twilight awakens to the sound of gurgling and squelching.
"W-wuh?" She says, eyes slowly opening.
She immediately illuminates the direction of Jack, although this time not preparing the flintlock.
To her horror, Jack is missing from her spot.
Twilight's mind begins to race and her heart begins to pound. The paranoia of the past few days is setting in.
Is she about to ambush her??? Did she get taken away by something??? Was everything said before a lie???
She's distracted by the sounds of squelching once more. She slowly turns, seeing them coming from the direction of the soldier's corpse. Illuminating the direction, she sees the tarp visibly moving, something beneath it.
Twilight's heart sinks.
She immediately grips the flintlock, slowly approaching.
She swears to Sol. If Jack is eating that corpse, she'll shoot her dead. Screw everything she thought yesterday. No hesitation.
Twilight levitates throws the tarp off with levitation, flintlock at the ready.
Her eyes widen.
It's not Jack, but... something else.
The Dusk Sucker from the night before. The creature has almost completely consumed the corpse, its body growing to gargantuan proportions. Parts of its amorphous mass even seep into the extremities of the soldier, like his body is seeping a black goo.
The tarp hid how truly big the Sucker actually became, with its body extending both long and wide past the soldier's body. It has to be at least six feet tall by now.
Twilight freezes with shock and fear.
What does she do??? Should she run???
Unfortunately, the Dusk Sucker doesn't give her much time to react.
One of its beady black eyes locks onto her, its pupil dilating at the light. Its full body violently erupts from the corpse, completely annihilating it. It screeches as it runs slithers towards Twilight.
She screams as she fires the flintlock at it. It hits it dead-center, making a part of its body jiggle, but it's nowhere near enough.
Twilight immediately sprints away, with the Sucker giving pursuit. She jumps back into the wreck of the SPAV, hoping the height can buy her some time, but it doesn't take long for the Sucker to start climbing into the wreck as-well.
She begins to kick and throw nearby things at it with her levitation. Random boxes, rations, supplies, even her bed. They smack into the Sucker, but it continues on, barely deterred.
Twilight attempts to run away further, but the weight of the Sucker makes the entire wreck move. It tilts at a sharper angle, causing Twilight to lose her footing and get put on her back-side. She isn't moving towards the Sucker, but she's unable to easily get away now.
Getting a good look at its 'face', two large black eyes flank a horrifying mouth, multiple layers and rows of jagged, sharp, and bloody teeth. It gnashes them as it tries to get further into the wreck.
She tries to levitate herself up, or levitate the Sucker away, but she isn't strong enough to do either.
Twilight screams for help.
Jack slowly hobbles away from the site of the wreck.
She's honestly surprised at how things went. But, even if things were briefly and strangely nice, she can't stay there. Her people are probably waiting, and still looking for her. Sitting at the camp-site with some Enclave pony won't do her--
She freezes as she hears a scream coming from behind.
It's the unicorn.
Jack knows she shouldn't care. She tried to kill the unicorn herself multiple times. Heck, she literally just abandoned her right now!
But... something inside Jack feels off.
With only a brief pause, she turns tail and runs back towards the wreck as fast as her bad leg can manage.
Twilight continues screaming as the wreck shifts more and more at a harsher angle. Now, she's actually sliding towards the Sucker slowly.
It doesn't even attempt to get up, seeing the prey approaching its mouth for it. It just sits at the base of the edge, waiting.
Twilight desperately tries to get traction on the metal floor, but it's too slippery.
Just as her leg is about to touch the Suckers mouth...
"Hey!"
A rock smacks into the back of the Suckers head. It slowly turns around.
From her elevated angle, Twilight can see who it is clearly.
"Jack! Help!" Twilight cries.
Seeing that the newcomer would be a more worth-while meal, the Sucker begins to slither towards Jack. Jack immediately brandishes her walking stick like a spear, propping the sharp side forward with both of her front legs. The sucker doesn't know any better, and charges at her anyways.
She stabs it straight into the mouth, making it screech. It thrashes around violently. Jack still holding onto the lodged stick, is thrown away a short distance, tumbling on the ground.
Twilight jumps out of the SPAV, running to Jack's side.
"Jack! We need to run away!" Twilight yells.
"You need to run away. I can't run like this." Jack says, looking at her still bad leg. The tumble wasn't doing her any favors.
The unicorn notices Jack look at the Sucker with a fiery intensity. She's intending to fight this thing to the death.
Twilight knows this is incredibly stupid, and she isn't just gonna watch it happen. She runs off back towards the wreck.
"Just distract it for now! I have a plan!" Twilight says, running off.
Jack glances at her, before turning back to the Sucker. Its circular mouth finally manages to shred up the stick, vomiting out the wooden shards in front of it with a roar.
Unable to move much, Jack does the only thing she can think of.
She immediately begins to throw rocks towards the Sucker, hitting it in the face repeatedly, and even getting a few in its mouth. It very clearly is causing discomfort, but it isn't enough to stop it.
Back at the SPAV, Twilight throws multiple items on the ground in front of her, including some sticks, cloth, gunpowder, a food packet, the flintlock, knife and the first aid kit. She rapidly begins to cut, stitch, and pour. She's so desperate that she even uses her levitation in conjunction with her hooves.
"Come on... come on!" She repeatedly looks back at the Sucker closing the distance to Jack.
Jack crawls away as fast as she can, but the Sucker is ever so slightly faster, beginning to catch up to her. She eventually hits a corner, and can't turn herself away in time. She puts up her hooves, ready to fight it out to the end.
But suddenly...
A flaming bundle of sticks lands in front of Jack, between her and the Sucker. Jack sees Twilight threw it over from a distance, holding a bunch of other things like a mad-mare. The Sucker screeches, turning away from the light and heat. Jack immediately notices this, kicking the burning wood towards the Sucker, causing it to rapidly back away.
Twilight runs over to Jack's side, now with a bit of breathing room. The two see the Sucker orbiting around the fire, trying to get a clear path.
"Got any more of those flamin' things? Let's just make a ring around ourselves!" Jack says.
"Nice plan, but no. I'm not gonna be dealing with this thing all night." Twilight says.
Jack frowns. "Then what are we gonna do? And what's all that stuff ya got?" She says, pointing towards all the things Twilight is carrying.
Twilight suddenly points in another direction. "Look! It's your grandma!" She says.
Jack immediately turns to the direction. "WHERE?!" She shouts.
Her pupils shrink as she feels a prick. She looks back and sees Twilight pricked her with something.
"Ow! What in the--?!"
She's about to instinctively punch Twilight, when she suddenly feels... better.
Stronger.
"I found a shot in the first-aid kit. It's a combat stim. It should--"
Jack immediately jumps to her feet, bad leg be damned. It's like it isn't even there. She's very clearly amped up.
"Alright! Let's kill this thing!" She roars.
Twilight simply hands her a food pack. Jack looks at her with confusion.
"Are we trying to feed it to death?" She asks.
"Just get this inside its mouth, however you can." Twilight says, immediately beginning to reload the flintlock.
Jack grabs the food pack from her a bit confused, before nearly bounding over the fire and towards the Sucker.
It seemed to have wisened up by now, not keeping its mouth as open as before. It even spits out one of the rocks it swallowed earlier.
But in her heightened state, Jack is running circles around it. Literally. She rapidly approaches and backs away, baiting it to strike. At one point she even gets a punch on one of its eyes, making it screech and charge at her.
She quickly tosses the food pack into the Suckers mouth. It's immediately torn to shreds, and Jack barely gets a glimpse of what its contents are. A black powder.
"Get back!" Twilight yells from a short distance away. She's finished loading the flintlock, pointing it straight at the Sucker. Jack gets the hint, and makes distance as fast as possible.
The sucker charges straight at Twilight.
She carefully steadies her aim, even using levitation to make it perfect.
With a pull of the trigger...
BANG!
The bullet whizzes straight into the Sucker's mouth, igniting the gunpowder. Within moments, its body turns a bright orange as it begins to burn from the inside, screeching and flailing.
Jack watches with shock and awe. She can't help but laugh, looking back at the relieved Twilight.
She stops laughing when she notices the burning beginning to fizzle out, with the Sucker still moving.
She glances back at Twilight, who looks equally as worried.
The Sucker lets out a guttural screech, spewing out parts of its own melted insides. Jack and Twilight both back away slowly.
"Is there a plan B..?" Jack asks, now next to Twilight.
"That was plan B!"
The two watch in horror as it charges them once more.
But then...
A brilliant blue light shines from above. It's like the area suddenly became daytime. The Sucker obviously backs away, but even Jack and Twilight have to cover their eyes from the intense shine.
A flare.
Jack quickly realizes that she probably shouldn't stick around for whatever is about to happen, and runs off to a nearby crevice of foliage to hide. With perfect timing, the stim begins to wear off, and she winces from the pain coming back.
Multiple heavily armed ponies suddenly descend around the cliff-side. Their bodies are almost entirely concealed with bulky armor, save for some hair, tails, and a few wings.
Twilight recognizes them almost immediately. Elite troopers of the Enclave - Enforcers.
She hits the deck in the nick of time, as the Enforcers proceed to light up the Sucker.
As opposed to the somewhat primitive gunpowder weapons the soldiers and Twilight had, the Enforcers use relatively more advanced guns like breech loaders, revolvers, and double barreled shotguns.
The Suckers already damaged body is rapidly chunked and torn apart as it screeches and writhes.
After a few seconds of significant firepower, there's a brief pause. The Sucker makes a gurgling noise, causing the Enforcers to open fire on it again.
One of the Enforcers wields some tube-like weapon which Twilight cant make out.
He fires a rocket straight at the Sucker, completely blowing it to bits. Twilight covers her face from the blast as she's covered in black goo and red blood.
As even more Enforcers drop into the wreck site to secure it, a pair immediately approach Twilight.
"PATHFINDER TWILIGHT SPARKLE. YOU ARE BEING RESCUED. DO NOT RESIST."
She complies as they put a bag on her head, before whisking her away.
Jack watches from her hiding place with a mixture of awe, fear, and confusion.
After a few minutes, the Enforcers completely extract from the location, repelling back up the cliffside they came from. Thankfully, nobody seemed to notice her.
Jack carefully comes out of the foliage, approaching the now obliterated remains of the Sucker.
She grabs a little piece of it, and takes a small bite.
Not bad. Not bad at all. Little burnt, though.
Finishing her exotic taste test, she looks around at the impromptu battle-site that just happened.
Now she needs to find a way to get the heck out of here. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 5 - Indentured Servants | By the side of a small path, a blue unicorn poses dramatically.
"Come one, come all... come and see the most amazing magician in all of the Underworld... the great and powerful Trixie!"
She looks around, expecting some reactions.
A few ponies walk about the trail, clearly not interested with the magician's attempts at garnering attention.
She sighs.
One dull-looking stallion suddenly approaches her, a bit curious.
"Aight'. I'll bite. What do ya' got?"
Trixie lights up with a smile
"Ahah! You, my friend, are in for the best showing of your life!" Trixie says, giddy.
She takes off her hat, holding it out towards the stallion. He glances down at it.
"Please put in one bit, my good sir." the unicorn says with a smile.
The pony raises his eyebrow. "You ain't even done a trick yet and you're already asking for money?"
Trixie frowns. "I'm not ASKING for money, this is a part of the show. I need a bit to do the act."
"Do you not have a bit of your own?" he asks.
"Do YOU not want to see the greatest show ever?" she retorts.
The stallion grumbles a little, but pulls out a small bag out of his pocket.
Reaching into it, he pulls out one bit with a scratch on it, before putting the bag away. Trixie looks at which pocket he put it into.
He appears to toss a coin into the hat.
Trixie smiles. She puts the hat back on her head.
"Alright!" she says. She immediately begins to do some weird motions and movements with her legs and eyes, while also humming. The stallion looks a bit unimpressed.
She then reaches into his ear, and pulls out a bit.
"Is THIS your bit?" She asks, with a smirk.
"Nope."
He shows his hoof. The bit with the scratch is still right there.
Trixie seems confused.
"Wait then what did you put into the--"
She takes off her hat, but feels some resistance.
"Wha--"
She feels her mane, immediately touching something sticky. She recoils in shock and surprise.
The oaf threw a piece of gum in there!
"AH! What is wrong with you?!" She yells, trying to get the gum out of her hair. The stallion chuckles.
Trixie looks back at him with a fury. "You little--"
A laughter suddenly gets both their attention. On the other side of the trail, sitting against a shack, lies a pink pony wearing a beret to cover her eyes, along with a bag to her side. She looks up, still laughing.
"That's way funnier than any of your actual tricks!" the pony says, smirking.
Trixie glares at the pink pony, looking even angrier than before.
"Pinkie Pie..."
The stallion looks confused. "You two' know each other?"
Trixie snaps back at her. "Know her? This clown is my rival. She thinks that she's a better street performer than me." The unicorn says with a venomous tone.
Pinkie just smiles back. "I KNOW I'm the better one. You just can't accept it!" She laughs, tauntingly.
The stallion is a bit invested now.
"What can ya do?" he asks Pinkie.
Pinkie feigns bewilderment.
"What can I do??? More like what CAN'T I do? Tell me something to do, and I'll do it baby!" She says with a smirk.
The stallion thinks of something to say, but Trixie beats him to it.
"Juggle." She says with a smirk. Trixie knows Pinkie isn't good at juggling.
Pinkie grimaces a little.
"O-okay..." She says, a bit shakily.
Pinkie reaches into her bag, pulling out a few small rubber balls.
"I was hoping to do some cool bouncing stuff with these... but oh well." she sighs.
Trixie and the stallion both look at her, Trixie with anticipation for failure, and the stallion with investment.
Pinkie hesitates for a moment, and then throws the first ball into the air...
Immediately, she throws all the balls into the air at once, and begins to juggle them easily.
The two spectators look shocked.
"Aw, what?!" Trixie exclaims. She got played!
The stallion looks amazed. "Woah." he says, getting a bit closer to look.
Some more ponies nearby begin to see the spectacle, also stopping to take a gander. Eventually there's somewhat of a tiny crowd.
Pinkie hums as she does progressively more complex juggling patterns. At one point she even balances a ball on her nose, and at another she stands on only one hoof.
Finally, she throws them all into the air directly above, and quickly opens her bag while holding it in front of her. All the balls fall in perfectly.
She takes a bow as some of the spectators clap or cheer. She takes off her beret and slides it in front of her.
"I take cash or credit - just kidding. Nopony uses credit out here!" She jokes. A few bits are thrown into the hat. Trixie grumbles.
The stallion reaches to find his coin-bag, but he suddenly notices it's gone.
"What?!" He says. He looks behind him to see Trixie has completely disappeared. He looks back at Pinkie, only to see she has disappeared too.
Pinkie and Trixie reconvene near an empty building, snickering to themselves. They lay out their plunder in front of them.
A few dozen bits, some small purses and bags, and even a small piece of gem jewelry. The two high-hoof.
"Told you the 'bad at juggling' thing would work!" Pinkie says.
Trixie smirks. "I didn't doubt that it would, but not to this level! This is probably our biggest haul this whole month! I mean, look at this thing..." Trixie says, looking at the gem. "Who knows how much it's worth?"
Pinkie puts a hoof to her chin. "Maybe we should bring it back to the Troupe?" she asks. Policy says that anything like jewelry or gold and such should be returned ASAP.
Trixie eyes around briefly. "Orrrr..." she says, glancing at Pinkie.
Pinkie glances back. "Orrrr..?" She responds, somewhat confused.
"I know a guy who could get this appraised for us. Maybe even buy it. If it's really good, who knows how many bits we could spend?!" She asks.
Pinkie frowns. "But that's against the rules!"
"Rules-smooles. We just robbed like, five ponies. Besides, look at your hat. Or my mane!" Trixie says.
Pinkie glances over to her beaten and old beret. Its age is starting to show. Meanwhile, Trixie still picks the gum out of her mane.
"Alright... but you promise it's not somewhere dangerous, right..?" Pinkie asks, relenting.
Trixie smiles. "Of course not. I would NEVER take us somewhere like that."
Trixie and Pinkie overlook a large, flat gulch. On top of it, a hastily set up 'flea market' is established -- emphasis on the 'flea' part.
The place looks more like a shanty town than anything. The duo can see various unscrupulous looking figures at a distance.
Pinkie turns to Trixie slowly, a bit worried. "This place looks dangerous to me." she says.
"Well, it's not. Just keep to yourself and nothing will happen." the unicorn instructs.
"But keeping to myself is hard!"
"You know what will be harder if you dont? Eating without a feeding tube. Now let's go." Trixie says, proceeding towards the market.
Pinkie frowns, but follows.
The inside of the market is just as expected from afar. Tons of different ponies of all different creeds mingle, wearing outfits that look like they just came out of a bad crossover. Pinkie sees ponies wearing too much armor, not ENOUGH clothes, and a few cult-looking dudes. There's even one guy who looks like a pirate.
Pinkie stays as close to Trixie as possible, who strolls through like nothing's amiss. Pinkie notices that they AREN'T getting any looks or glares, strangely.
"How come anyone isn't looking at us funny? I thought outlaws always did bad stuff like that!"
"First of all; outlaw is an outdated and bigoted term. They prefer 'Unlawful Citizen'. Secondly, like I said; keep to yourself, and nothing will go wrong. Besides, there's a lot more interesting folk here than you or I." She subtly gestures to somepony in the distance.
Pinkie's eyes follow the gesture, and then widen. The pony is very clearly unnatural looking. His pupils are small, barely visible, and his scleras are dark. His body has a weird texture, and even has fangs.
"I-is that a mutant?" Pinkie whispers. She's heard of them before, but never seen one in-person.
Trixie looks shocked. "Pinkie! No! That's a very cruel term. The proper term nowadays is 'Mutaquine' You'd probably get smacked silly if they hear you use 'mutant' around here."
"Wouldn't that only apply to ponies, though? What if they're like... something else..?"
Trixie shrugs. "Think of it like how everypony calls guns 'guns' regardless of if they're a musket or flintlock or whatever. Better to be safe than sorry." she explains.
Pinkie is about to respond, when Trixie spots somepony in the distance, leaning against a small tent. It's noticeably a bit secluded from the rest of the dense market.
"Found my guy. I'll make it quick." She says, beginning to walk off.
Pinkie follows, but Trixie stops her.
"Wait. He's one of those... skittish types. He'll probably get cold feet if he sees me coming with somepony else."
"What about-"
"Just stay... like, here. Don't start anything, don't use the terms 'outlaw', 'mutant', or 'slave', and you should be good!" Trixie says, backwards walking with a smile, before fully turning off.
Pinkie frowns as she tries to stand still. She can feel her hoof begin to tap.
After a little while, Pinkie is about to start wandering, but stops when she notices Trixie coming back. The unicorn has a strangely disheartened expression, and glances back at the tent a few times, but once she notices Pinkie looking at her it quickly changes to a more expected expression of excitement.
"Okay. My guy was able to appraise AND buy it from me. I had to haggle a little bit, but we settled on... 50,000 bits!" she says, gleefully.
Pinkie's jaw nearly drops. "WOAH! We're rich!" She says.
The unicorn nods. "Mhm. Now we--"
"Who is your guy, anyways?"
Trixie frowns slightly. "An old friend. Don't worry about it." She says, a bit dismissively.
"Okay!" Pinkie isn't fully satisfied with that expression, but her mind is on the money right now.
Trixie begins to feel the weight of the bag, along with metaphorical weight of the eyes of a few other ponies looking at them.
"We should probably get out of here before something stupid happens." the unicorn says, shifting the weight on her back.
"Agreed!"
As the two walk away, they pass by what appears to be a shoddily made stage, with an auction in progress. Various cages sit to the side in a line, presumably to be pulled up one by one.
Pinkie walks past the line-up, only to suddenly back-pedal rapidly and turn her head. Trixie looks back, surprised at Pinkie's sudden motion.
"What is it?" she asks.
"Trixie, are you seeing this?" Pinkie whispers, hoofing towards one of the cages.
Trixie glances over, tilting her head. "What's wrong? It's just a Leper." she says, looking over at a cage with a large and spindly frog-like creature.
Pinkie quickly turns back towards Trixie. "What? No, I meant the one to the left of that one."
The two look towards the left slightly and see a small yellow pegasus with a pink mane. She's curled up and shaking, visibly scared. Her 'clothes' look like they're made up of leaves and vines.
She curls up further as the Leper in the next-cage over coughs towards her.
"What the heck are they doing? Are they selling her like some kind of animal??" Pinkie asks, a bit worried.
"Seems like it."
"Isn't that like slave--"
Trixie glances over at Pinkie with a neutral expression.
"Just tell me the proper term already!" Pinkie exclaims.
" 'Indentured Servant.' 'Slave' stopped being used by Slavers for PR reasons."
"But it's the same thing right??"
"Yeah but now it's 'indentured servitude' instead of slavery so--"
Pinkie cuts her off. "Whatever whatever instead of this and that whatever! I want to help her."
Trixie looks bewildered. "The only way you're gonna help her is if you can buy her before somepony else does."
"Well I guess it's lucky that I know a pony who has just gotten 50,000 bits!"
Trixie's eyes widen, realizing what Pinkie is implying.
"No. Nope. We are not doing that. Don't even think about it."
Trixie and Pinkie stand in the crowd alongside other ponies, auction already underway. The auctioneer, a stallion wearing a flat red hat and the Underworld's most obvious evil mustache talks so fast that they can barely understand him.
"This is so stupid." Trixie says with a sigh.
"Shh!" another pony says to her. Trixie glares at them, before looking forward again.
Various creatures and other items are auctioned off rapidly. There's a fight or two, along with some curses said, but that's as smooth as you'll get for an unlawful citizen flea market.
Eventually, the final cage is dragged in, the crowd 'oohhs', seeing its content.
Instead of some strange creature like the rest, it's an unusually dressed pegasus mare.
The crowd murmurs amongst itself. Most aren't surprised at the presence of a pony as one of the auctions, but rather the nature of this one. She looks mystical, at least as mystical as a quivering and scared captive can be. She wears a dress that looks like it's made of leaves, vines, and roots.
Trixie looks completely unamused, while Pinkie looks with some determination.
The auctioneer smirks, seeing the good reactions.
"Now thisahere pegasus says she's from the mythical 'Gaia's Grove' thatsa right we gotta exotic plant pegasus right here! Starting price is 5000 bits canna get 5000 bits?"
Pinkie and Trixie have an equal amount of appalment when they hear the price - Trixie more so because she couldn't believe a seemingly regular pegasus would be selling for this much. Is it because of the dress? Heck, she should start doing this if ponies will pay that much for a fancy looking slave...
Some figures in the crowd raise their hooves.
"6000 bits!" One shouts.
"8000 bits!" Another.
Pinkie stares back at Trixie with some puppy eyes.
Trixie sighs.
"15,000 bits!" She shouts, reluctantly. The crowd 'ooohs'. The auctioneer smiles harder.
There. It may have been a big chunk of their new change, but surely--
"20,000 bits!" Another pony yells. Trixie's eyes shoot over to their direction with shock.
WHAT?!
"40,000 bits."
Everyone looks over to see a very clearly conspicuous robed pony. Trixie notices the robes look like they're from the Clade. Anypony bold enough to wear those in public surely has something about them.
Nopony even cares about that right now though, with them all being flabbergasted by the heights of which the bid is reaching. Even the auctioneer looks shocked.
Trixie quickly leans over to Pinkie. "Okay, it's clear that we picked the wrong day to bid! I'm not spending the entire purse on this random pegasus we don't even know!"
"We're in too deep now!" Pinkie responds.
Pinkie Pie stands up on her tippy-hooves, and hollers "50,000!"
The crowd once again 'ooohs'. The robed pony glances over to them silently.
This has to be it. There's no way.
"80,000 BITS!" the robed pony yells, raspy voice and all.
Trixie looks in complete shock, but glances over to see Pinkie looking even more determined.
"We literally have nothing else to bid with, Pinkie! Unless you happen to secretly have another 50,000 bits lying around!"
Pinkie Pie takes a deep breath, preparing herself.
"200,000 BITS!!!!" she screams, jumping into the air. It's almost like the entire market goes quiet hearing this absurd number.
Trixie feels like she's about to faint.
The auctioneer is almost blown off his feet from the metaphorical power of the number. Even the robed pony relents, silently backing off.
After a few moments of waiting, nopony even attempts to match or surpass that number. The auctioneer quickly points Pinkie out.
"You there! Fine pink mare! Come on up here!" he says, giddily.
Pinkie quickly does so, scampering onto the stage next to the cage. The crowd mutters at this unusually clean and normal looking pony, out-of-place compared to the rest of the individuals here. Even the captive pegasus pauses her quivering, a bit confused.
The auctioneer swings open the cage, letting the pegasus shakily walk out. She has a chain on one of her legs, which the auctioneer hands to Pinkie with a smile.
Pinkie stands there for a moment holding the chain.
Now what?
She's brought back to attention when the auctioneer clears his throat, gesturing with his hoof. The money.
"Oh. Right... the bits." she says, slowly trailing off.
The auctioneer raises an eyebrow.
There's an awkwardly long pause. Trixie bites her lip.
Suddenly, Pinkie takes off sprinting, pulling the pegasus with her. "RUN!" she yells to the captive, who does.
The auctioneer is stunned.
"THIEF!" he screams, his auction accent completely gone.
One pony speaks up in the crowd. "Like half of us are thieves, man."
The auctioneer turns to him with a snap. "Okay but she's stealing from me! And by extension you all! That's like-- ok you know what--"
He takes a deep breath.
"WHOEVER CATCHES THOSE RUNAWAYS GETS 100,000 BITS" he roars.
That certainly gets the crowd's attention. They all turn towards the direction of the duo.
Trixie gulps. This can't end well.
Pinkie and the pegasus sprint away as fast as they can, but unfortunately for them, the bidding stage was near the center of the market. Even with a good head-start, they're still deep within it before they hear rapidly approaching noises behind them.
Thankfully, it seems like the general chaos of the market is doing a good job at concealing the situation. Only the ponies behind them seem to know--
"STOP THEM AND GET MONEY!" a pegasus from above yells from above. Ponies ahead look up, and then towards the duo.
Crap.
Pinkie takes a sharp 90 degrees turn along a shack as a wave of ponies charge past into original direction, crashing into the ponies coming from behind. They hear loud crashes as various stands fall over and break.
"What's going on?! Who are you?!" The pegasus shouts, still running behind Pinkie.
"Not important right now! Just run!" Pinkie yells back.
The duo continue to run through the market, swerving as needed to avoid groups whenever they try to pincer or flank them.
Pinkie sees a pony ahead pointing a gun, specifically a flintlock straight at them. Her eyes widen.
She sees the auctioneer suddenly punch him across the face, sending him to the ground.
"Don't shoot them, fool!" he yells, turning to them. His stare meets their eyes.
"I want them alive. Both of them."
Pinkie gulps.
Wait.
If the auctioneer is in front of them...
Pinkie smacks her forehead. She realized they accidentally did a U-turn during the swerving. This is quickly validated when she sees a huge mob coming from straight ahead, and behind the auctioneer.
The auctioneer laughs, but then the pony he punched suddenly gets up and grabs him by the collar. The auctioneer stops laughing and glares down, as the two begin to scuffle.
"Other way! Other way!!" Pinkie yells, flipping around with the pegasus in tow and taking off again.
Pinkie is starting to feel the heat from the chase, literally and metaphorically. She was never one for endurance running.
"Can you fly?!" Pinkie asks.
"They bound my wings!" the pegasus cries.
Pinkie briefly glances back, seeing the pegasi's wings are indeed tied together with some crude rope.
Before Pinkie can even think about how messed up that is, she sees a pony standing on the edge of some sort of make-shift tower ahead of them. He looks like he's about to perform the underworlds nastiest 'Pony's Elbow'.
Suddenly, one of the legs of the tower is smacked aside by a blue energy. The pony yelps as the tower falls, safely smashing out of the path of the two.
Trixie?!
The pair briefly stops to see Trixie keeping up with them from the side. "Keep going!" She yells. Pinkie sees her telekinetically hitting a few of the pursuers with various objects, and knocking over stands.
Trixie grimaces. She's definitely being banned from this year's Unlawful-con.
The help from Trixie is nice, but unfortunately it's just getting more ponies involved in the chase, reasonably mad at their stands getting trashed.
Pinkie looks ahead.
"Black tar! Come get your black tar!" One vendor yells.
Pinkie kicks out the leg of the table as she runs, causing it to spill out behind her.
A few particularly fast pursuers from behind get caught up in the slick, uncontrollable sliding forward.
"Feathers! Come get your feathers!" Another vendor yells.
Pinkie kicks out of the leg of this table as well, obviously.
The pursuers slip straight into the cloud of feathers in front of them, making them look like imitation griffons.
Pinkie looks back briefly, and can't help but laugh. "Ahaha!"
She turns back forward, only to see a pegasus swooping straight towards her.
"Ahaha-- AHHHHH" She barely ducks it.
The captive pegasus has the intuition to duck as well. The pursuing pegasus stops at the other side in the air, and is about to swoop again when he gets hit with a small rock flung by Trixie, being enough to knock him away.
Pinkie looks back to see where he fell, but sees something else.
Strangely, some of their pursuers are inexplicably freaking out. They look like they're reacting to things that aren't actually there, like one of them stopping, dropping, and rolling. Another one desperately tries to reach for something on his back, spinning around while screaming.
This place is a freak show.
Eventually, the duo manage to 'escape' the market, coming into a completely empty area - however, it's empty for a good reason. They're right next to a giant cliff.
Pinkie bites her lip. This was NOT the way they came in from.
She turns around, only to see a small army has congregated behind her, spilling out of the market's various crevices.
Trixie manages to get through the crowd, and joins the duo.
The auctioneer shoves his way to the front, some fresh bruises on his face along with a dented hat, but he still locks his eyes on the trio.
"It was fun, but this is the end of the line." he barks. "I hope you're prepared to serve as indentured servants for the rest of your lives!"
Pinkie and Trixie scan their surroundings. Every possible path is blocked.
Except... maybe for one.
The crowd approaches slowly.
"There's nowhere to run!" one of them says.
Pinkie looks behind her. There's no other option.
"Except for one!"
Without hesitation, she grabs the bonds tying up the pegasus's wings, and manages to pull them off. The pegasus quickly looks back, her freed wings spreading out.
Trixie's eyes widen.
"Pinkie! What are you-- AHHHHHHHH!!!"
Pinkie grabs both of them tightly, before jumping off the cliff. The bag of bits slips off of Trixies back.
"NO!" She yells, as they fall.
The three disappear past the edge.
There's a pause.
The crowd is flabbergasted. They run up to the edge of the cliff. After quickly tearing apart the bag and pillaging its contents, they look off the edge, trying to see where the three splatted. But instead, they see a strange and tall shape in the distance.
Sure enough, they see something tall flying - no, gliding away.
The pegasus keeps her wings as taut as possible, scared out of her mind. Pinkie holds onto one of the pegasus's legs, while also holding onto one of Trixies fore-legs below her. The three look like a monkey chain.
Trixie's horn glows, using her magic to lessen the weight she and Pinkie inflict on the poor pegasus. It's shoddy, but the three are safely floating off. The Unicorns face is one of anguish due to losing the money, but she keeps them afloat anyways.
The auctioneer is the first to react to the absurd display.
"WHAT!"
He snatches a flintlock from a nearby pony, and aims it at the trio. Pinkie looks back, her eyes nearly bulging out her head. They're screwed now.
The auctioneer aims a bit shakily... but he can't bring himself to pull the trigger.
He groans, throwing the weapon aside, before turning around and walking away from the cliff.
Perhaps he had a change of heart?
With the trio out of reach for all but the bravest of pegasi, and the main instigator having given up, the crowd slowly deteriorates, sulking back towards the damaged market.
Pinkie, still looking back, notices the same robed pony from before still looking at them, now alone at the edge. He looks like he's laughing, but she can't hear anything from this distance.
What a creep.
Turning back around, they have much bigger problems ahead of them. That being that there appears to be nothing ahead of them.
"D-do you know where we're going... Trixie..?" Pinkie asks, a bit worried.
"No, Pinkie. We're literally floating off into literal darkness. I do NOT know where we are going."
The pegasus just whimpers.
The three simply glide off into the unknown. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 6 - Pathfinding | Incident Report 1/4/00
EN/R/E/C
EXTREME CONFIDENTIALITY. ANY NON-AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ACCESSING THIS FILE WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED AND SUBJECT TO MANDATORY RE-EDUCATION.
SPAV-3 and Escort travel through planned route of Charlie Compound outer zone. Operational objective is to clear out Hovel Tribe involved in previous incident (See: Incident - 12/29/99 - EN/R/H/C).
SPAV-3 and Escort are stopped by obstruction on the path. Indeterminate but sizable quantity of Hovel warriors ambush SPAV-3 and Escort from nearby cliffsides. Ground below and around SPAV-3 and escort begins to collapse, presumably from excess of rapidly moving weight above. Ground fully collapses. SPAV-3 and deceased members of Escort descend off the cliffside.
Within SPAV-3, unidentified Hovel POW (Earthen, mare, orange haircoat, yellow mane, muscular build) renders two Enclave combative-personnel unconscious, before being engaged by Pathfinder Twilight Sparkle. POW begins to strangle Pathfinder. Sudden lurching of SPAV-3 throwing both POW and Pathfinder off balance. POW and Pathfinder briefly work together to try and open the emergency sealed side-door. POW and Pathfinder rendered unconscious from SPAV-3's descent off the cliffside. No more footage available.
Crew Log
Major Pane (CO, MIA)
Driver Hitte Brakes (KIA)
Co-Driver Flore Ret (KIA)
Combative Cran Eyter (KIA)
Combative Jare Head (KIA)
Combative Nay Palm (KIA)
Combative Urey Nator (KIA)
Combative Stew Bid (KIA)
Combative I.P Freely (KIA)
Combative Deyz Nats (KIA)
Pathfinder Twilight Sparkle (Recovered)
Pathfinder Twilight Sparkle recovered at SPAV-3 wreck-site exactly three days after descent. Minor injuries present, but mainly unharmed.
POW's body has not yet been found as of 1/4/00. POW Presence within SPAV-3 presumed to be the reason for Incident - 1/4/00 - EN/R/E/C.
Tracking and recovery of POW is considered a top priority as of 1/4/00.
Twilight silently sits at one side of a small table. A ceiling lamp shines above her head, with a small droning.
While being interrogated wasn't her first thought of what would happen when being returned to the Compound, she honestly can't say she's very surprised. She's heard before that this sort of thing happens during 'incidents' to most ponies involved, even if they're the victims or something similar. They even confiscated her satchel for the time being.
After being extracted by the Enforcers, she was sent to the medical wing for a brief check-up. Thankfully, nothing was wrong with her besides some superficial scrapes and bruises. However, they barely gave her a few minutes to rest before they plopped her down here. Her bandages still feel fresh on her face and head.
Twilight looks at the room around her.
It's sterilized and flat, little more than a metal box with a table and chairs. She scans around the walls and ceilings a little, not able to spot a camera or anything like that; but she doesn't doubt that there's one anyways.
Her eyes have trouble staying open. She wishes they gave her a few hours to sleep on an actual bed.
She isn't sure what questions they're going to ask, nor what she should expect. Answering as truthfully as possible should hopefully minimize any potential issues. Although she does wonder who is going to be doing the interrogating.
Right on time, the reinforced door swings open. Twilight slightly leans over, seeing a figure emerge from it. Her tired eyes widen a little.
A tall and sharply dressed unicorn comes into view, with a gentle looking demeanor. Her silvery coat and purple mane contrast against her black uniform.
"Greetings, Twilight Sparkle. I've heard quite a bit about your escapade." The commander says with a smile.
Twilight immediately recognizes her as Commander Moonlight Raven -- the leader of Charlie Compound.
She's seen or heard her before through means such as posters or broadcasts, but she's only ever witnessed her in-person once or twice, and only through impersonal speeches addressed to the entire Compound at-large.
It's almost surreal seeing her so close.
She stares at the commander with a bit of a deadpan face, unsure of what to say or do. Should she salute or something? She's not a soldier, though. What should she--
Raven interrupts her train of thought, magically pulling out the chair for herself before taking a seat.
"How are you feeling?" she asks, with a tinge of care.
"Fine, I guess. Kinda tired."
Raven nods slightly.
"I can imagine. Why, for an Aspirant such as yourself, it's honestly a miracle that you survived relatively unharmed."
Twilight's face goes blank. She completely forgot.
If an Aspirant in the final step isn't able to complete their first expedition for whatever reason, it won't count towards becoming a Pathfinder. Is Raven seriously saying that she had to deal with all that crap and it didn't even matter?!
Twilight probably would've screamed if she wasn't face to face with the most powerful person in the entire Compound -- and also that she's probably being recorded.
She shakes a little, trying to compose herself.
"Y-yes... a miracle..." she croaks.
The commander lightly smirks.
"I'd like to discuss some of the events of the past few days, if that's alright with you?" Raven asks, phrasing the question like Twilight has a choice in the matter. But the unicorn has a feeling that she doesn't.
"Okay."
Raven wastes no time getting into the meat of things.
"When Co-Driver Flore Ret hit SPAV-3's panic button, it began the emergency recording log. I saw in the footage how a few soldiers were apparently physically striking the Hovel prisoner, but not what led to that occurring. Do you know what happened before that moment?"
Twilight thinks. She remembers the soldiers telling her how she'd be 're-educated' for 'sympathizing', with no reason besides listening to Jack's story.
Should she tell Raven what Jack told her? There's a chance that Raven is bluffing her, and actually has the full video log. If she doesn't answer fully or truthfully then that could bring her under suspicion.
"Due to feeling like my presence in the expedition was unreceptive by the soldiers, I decided to want a one-on-one 'interview' with the prisoner, with the soldiers leaving me and her alone--"
"That's against protocol, though." Raven interrupts.
Twilight blinks. "Well, I didn't know that." She lies. "Surely it should've been the soldiers responsibility to know, though?"
Raven squints slightly.
"Go on."
"After the soldiers left us, the prisoner began to tell me some crazy story about how the Enclave was the aggressors, and how they were the victims. I didn't believe it one bit."
Regardless of how Twilight actually feels, she decides she shouldn't even be tempting fate about the Hovel stuff, especially when she doesn't know how Raven personally feels about the matter.
Raven chuckles slightly.
"A classic Hovel lie. They always claim that they're innocent, instead of the bloodthirsty barbarians they actually are."
Well, at least Twilight knows where she lies on this subject now.
"During the 'interview', the soldiers were actually secretly listening in using a discarded radio, and burst out of a back room of the SPAV when they heard something they didn't like. That's when they began beating the prisoner. A little after that, a spear flew into the cabin and hit the pilot, and that's when the emergency button was hit."
Raven shakes her head slightly at the incompetence of the soldiers, but appears to condone Twilight's retelling of events.
"During the attack, I saw that you and the Hovel appeared to get into some sort of fight. After she got the upper hand, it appeared that the two of you briefly worked together to try and escape the falling SPAV."
Raven leans in slightly.
"Care to explain why you did so instead of continuing to try and incapacitate the prisoner?" she asks, a bit more serious.
Twilight sweats a bit. She needs a compelling and reasonable answer.
"I decided that the information I gained from the interview was worth getting back to the Epistrey at any cost. Even if it required working together with an enemy to ensure my survival. Of course, I planned to get away or kill the Hovel if we managed to escape from the immediate danger."
"Hm."
Raven leans back, expression softening slightly. Twilight can't tell if she was fully convinced, but at least she came up with something.
"During the crash, the recording systems were shut offline, I assume from damage to the SPAV itself. This means we were unable to see what happened during the two days you were stuck at the bottom of the cliff-side. When the Enforcer teams actually did reach the cliff-side, we found that the Hovel was nowhere to be seen, alive or otherwise."
Raven narrows her eyes.
"I noticed that the Hovel appeared to sustain much more serious damage during the tumble than you, and I presume that you managed to regain consciousness before she did."
Twilight internally groans. Did Raven seriously think about that off of pure intuition alone?!
"If you DID regain consciousness before the Hovel... why did you not kill them? A few Enforcers spotted you using a flintlock against that... what was it... Dust Sucker. Surely you could've just strolled over to the Hovel and executed them, yes?" She asks, a bit suspicious.
Twilight gets nervous again.
She could try to say that Jack actually woke up before she did, but then it wouldn't make sense why she wasn't killed while defenseless. Regardless of what Raven claims the Enforcers did or didn't see during the extraction, she's sure that if they did spot Jack, they would've killed her immediately, making her think they never saw Jack at all.
But there's one more piece -- the camera.
Raven says the camera went out, but she doesn't have any idea how true this is either. Twilight also doesn't know WHERE the camera was positioned within the SPAV. Assuming it was still active the entire time, and also located somewhere at the front of the SPAV and facing towards the back, it would've seen everything she did with Jack.
The talks, the meals, the entire fight against the Dusk Sucker.
Twilight banks on the camera being in one of the corners, presuming that since both the back and front were ripped off during the tumble, this means the camera, whichever corner it was, would've likely been torn off too. If she's wrong about this, then she's screwed.
"I woke up before the Hovel did, yes, but they woke up shortly after, and began being aggressive. I decided to not fight it out, and instead used the flintlock to scare them off from the wreck."
Raven raises an eyebrow.
"And you let them leave instead of... disposing of them, why?"
Twilight internally curses under her breath. She misstepped. She needs to recover this somehow.
"I was worried I would miss the shot. If I did, I would have surely been an easy victim to the prisoner. While I do know how to reload the flintlock, I'm afraid that I don't have the practice to reload it in time to deal with a charging assailant."
Raven, albeit seemingly a bit disapproving, seems content with this explanation. She pushes out her chair and gets to her feet.
"Alright. This concludes our discussion. After this talk is properly logged, you will be free to go."
Twilight knew this entire discussion would be recorded, but still grimaces internally. She needs to tread lightly to avoid poking holes in her own story now.
As she turns to depart, she suddenly stops for a moment, before smirking.
"Oh, and by the way. Due to your extraordinary bravery in light of this experience, I've decided to go out on a limb for you. I've put a personal commendation on your log... Pathfinder Twilight Sparkle."
She turns back to the door, before leaving the room.
Twilight perks up a little, mouth agape.
Twilight groans in relief as she enters her new Pathfinder quarters, dropping a few of her moving bags. Finally, she can wind down.
She immediately throws herself onto her new bed, sinking into the mattress a little. She hasn't slept in an actual bed in... well, three days. Which isn't really that long when you think about it, but still!
She rolls on her back, head on a pillow.
She honestly wishes she could fall asleep right now for somewhere between twenty and thirty hours, but the interrogation is still fresh on her mind.
Did she answer the best she could? Was Raven being nice just to lull her into something, or is she actually like that? Was Raven being truthful about what she did or did not know?
Her mind racing, one thought suddenly pops to the front of the rest. A sudden realization.
Why would Commander Raven specifically point out her being an 'Aspirant', if she personally promoted Twilight to being a Pathfinder? Did she only do it because of how she answered during the interrogation?
Did she do it on purpose?
Twilight can't imagine why she would do that. It made have unneeded stress, and she feels like she could have answered better without it.
Unless... making her stressed was the point.
What if Raven wanted her to slip up about something?
Twilight still can't imagine why she would do that either. To her knowledge at least, she hasn't done anything to draw any suspicion.
She tries to shake it off.
For all she knows, she could be overthinking it. Maybe the opposite is true, and Raven only told her she was a Pathfinder at the end in order to prevent anything like giddiness getting in the way of concise answers.
Besides, if the Commander of the compound thought she was a Hovel sympathizer or traitor or something of the like, she'd probably have Enforcers banging on her door right now.
Trying to shut out the thoughts, Twilight retrieves Smarty Pants from one of her bags, before wrapping herself up in some covers. She manages to fall asleep surprisingly quickly.
BUM BUM BUM BUM
An indeterminate amount of time later, Twilight's eyes shoot open to the sound of banging on her door. The blood vessels in her eyes are clearly visible.
Half awake, but her mind racing as twice as fast as before, she begins to panic.
Is this it??? Is she going to be taken away for re-education?!
In auto-pilot mode, she leaps out of bed. She's about to jump out of her window, before a shred of sane thought pulls her back.
She decides to at least see who it is before deciding to jump out a five story building.
Scampering to the door like a ghoul, she creaks open the door, looking out a bit fearfully.
Instead of being met with the Enclave Army, she sees Golden Harvest standing there, looking worried.
Twilight feels a bit bewildered.
"Wha-- Gold? What are you doing here? How are you even at the Pathfinder Wing--"
Golden nearly sends Twilight flying with the speed at which she throws open the door, immediately scooping Twilight up in a hug.
"OH TWILIGHT YOU'REACTUALLY ALRIGHT I THOUGHTSOMETHING SUPERBAD HAPPENED TOYOU--"
"Too.. tight." Twilight gurgles.
Golden isn't even squeezing that hard, it's more like Twilight herself feels like a loose bag of bones and skin right now.
Golden quickly lets go with a 'sorry', letting Twilight step back a little in confusion.
Sure, she and Golden are close friends, but they're not really on 'hugging' terms. She's not really sure why Golden did that.
"Why are you here, Gold..?"
She realizes after she said it that it sounds a bit rude, but she's a bit too tired to make herself sound pleasant right now. Golden doesn't seem to notice, or care, though.
"Once it got noticed that your expedition didn't return on time, everyone started to get worried! I thought you died or something!" Golden says, a bit relieved.
Twilight looks a bit bewildered.
"How do you even know about that? Aren't you a farmer? No offense, but I thought they kept stuff like that under wraps."
"Believe it or not, the agricultural wing actually has a very elaborate gossip network. We probably hear things earlier than most of the other wings." she says with a wink. "But don't tell anypony told you that."
"Oh. Thanks, I guess? I'm uh... glad you're... okay too?" Twilight isn't really sure how to respond, really just thinking about going back to bed.
She begins to slowly and awkwardly close the door, but Golden gently grabs it, stopping her.
"Do you think you could tell me what happened?" she asks, curiously.
Twilight frowns.
She wasn't explicitly told to not tell any other pony about what happened, although it was probably implied. And the last thing she wants to do is have to recount her somewhat-false version of events again, and possibly mess something up.
Twilight imagines Golden might be the type of pony who couldn't keep something secret very well.
"Uh... I can't. I signed an NDA--"
"A what?"
"Basically I just signed a form that says I can't tell anyone about what happened. At least, not right now. Sorry." Twilight lies.
Golden frowns a little, but can't argue with that. Her eyes widen a little.
"Oh! Almost forgot. Brought something for you!" She says, pulling out a small basket and handing it to Twilight.
A bundle of corn bread and a small smiley face note.
"Greaaaat. Thanks..." Twilight says, trying not to visibly grit her teeth.
"Well, anyways, I'm glad you're back, safe and sound. See you around, Twilight." she says, fully closing the door.
Twilight waits a few seconds, making sure Golden isn't about to bust down her door a third time or something.
After the coast looks clear, she sighs loudly and jumps back on her bed, again.
She feels a bit bad for lying to Golden, but that small feeling of guilt is immediately drowned out by a much stronger one of exhaustion, with Twilight falling back asleep.
Twilight wakes up with the artificial lighting of the Compound shining on her face.
Now that she's well rested, she's able to think clearly. And think she does.
She honestly should be elated that she's finally become a Pathfinder. The Twilight from a week or two ago would've been jumping for joy. But right now, it feels bittersweet.
It's unbelievable that just a few days could have shaken up her worldview so much - her perception of the Enclave. The way the soldiers treated her on the SPAV. What Jack told her. The possible mind-games Raven had going on.
The Enclave has always leaned on the authoritarian side. Something something small price to pay to maintain order or whatever.
But the things Jack said... that's going way too far. That's basically genocide.
Twilight knows that Jack isn't even a reliable source. Of course she would say that the Enclave are the aggressors in everything, just like how the Enclave says the Hovel are the aggressors in everything. It would be completely irrational to base anything on her word.
But there was just something about the way it all happened.
Maybe it's because Jack actually came to help her.
Or maybe it's because she was finally able to pin a face to the actual pony, instead of just seeing some nebulous stereotypical barbarian in her mind when she heard the word 'Hovel'.
Twilight realizes she won't get anywhere or anything done simply brooding on this. She needs concrete facts. Information. Knowledge.
Luckily, she's just been granted the ability to access things that might help her.
Twilight gently removes various bandages, cleans and washes her face and mane, and generally just freshens up a little. She's looked like a complete wreck these past few days, but she can finally look presentable now.
She dons her new Pathfinder outfit, a sleek gray and black jacket, and white under-shirt. The insignia of the Enclave lies on the side of one of the leg sleeves, a white three-pointed star.
Twilight can't help but smile a little as she inspects herself in the mirror. She's never been the vain type, but she admits that she looks good.
(Possible) Atrocities be damned, the Enclave sure knows how to dress.
She slips on her trusty satchel, before leaving.
Twilight immediately takes notice of the differences between the other wings and the Pathfinder one. While the other ones are by no means 'bad', the Pathfinder wing blows them out of the water. As opposed to wood and stone, Twilight can see the various halls and tunnels are instead mainly metallic, and even nicely decorated somewhat similar to the Epistrey.
Speaking of the Epistrey, it really is just right there.
Looking over a balcony on her floor, she sees the Epistrey merely a block or two away from the exit of the Pathfinder wing. Very convenient.
She glances at the wing on the opposite side of the Epistrey, the Aspirant wing. The damage from the explosion a few days ago is all but repaired by now.
As she continues to move through the wing, generally just exploring what it has to offer, she passes by some other Pathfinders here and there. A few give her some noticing looks.
Can they tell that she's new? Or maybe do they know what happened with SPAV-3? Probably no point to dwell on it right now.
She eventually enters some sort of large chamber, sort of like a smaller version of the Compounds main nexus, but for the Pathfinder wing in specific. Every wing has one, but just like the previous areas, it's much more elegant and high-quality than the other common areas.
Twilight passes by more Pathfinders still just relaxing about and talking with each other. Should she talk to them?
Aside from her regular social anxiety, she doesn't want to risk possibly saying or doing something potentially wrong. She'll hold off on that part until she gets some more experience. Besides, nothing wrong with a bit of looking around.
She suddenly notices one smallish structure a short distance away. It's built into the wall itself, with a small currently--opened shutter at its top. There's various tools and other items on counters and hanging behind on walls.
Some sort of equipment store?
Twilight frowns. She's never been one for fighting, but it's clear that being a Pathfinder might be a bit more dangerous than originally entailed... her mind drifts back to the various fights she had with Jack and the horrific encounter with the Dusk Sucker.
Something small wouldn't hurt. Nothing wrong with self defense.
Twilight approaches the counter. An earthen stallion sits on the other side, leaning back with a tooth-pick in his mouth. He doesn't look like a Pathfinder, which would check out considering he's working the desk.
He notices her coming over with a small glance of his eyes, sitting up and taking the tooth-pick out, somewhat casually.
"Greetings, miss. What can I do for you?" He has a relaxed, but still focused tone.
"Hello. I'm looking for something I could use for self defense. Do you have anything in store?"
The shopkeeper nearly laughs.
"Anything in store? EVERYTHING is in store. Everything here is dedicated to making your life easier, and making the lives of whoever would oppose the Enclave harder. Or non-existent." he heartily exclaims.
Someone certainly enjoys their job.
"Hm. What about a firearm?"
The shopkeeper raises an eyebrow.
"A unicorn looking for a gun? Never seen that before."
Twilight frowns. Is he talking about her horn?
She rolls her eyes slightly. Non-unicorns don't get how hard it is to actually do stuff like that. It's a classic case of survivorship-bias, where the best unicorns are also the ones with the best magic, and also the most famous, and now every random pony thinks every unicorn can shoot lasers out of their eyes or summon hellfire or something.
The shopkeeper just shrugs.
"Alright. How's this?"
He pulls out an obscenely large gun, nearly the size of the table itself.
"This here is the Ravager Mark 9. Breech loader. 3000 Joules of stopping power. Pierces plate armor like butter."
Twilight's eyes nearly bulge out of her head looking at the massive firearm.
"How exactly is this something for 'self defense'?" she asks, a bit bewildered.
"Well. You point it at whatever is making you need to defend yourself, pull the trigger, and now there's nothing you need to defend from."
Twilight frowns. "Yeah... how about something more conservative?"
The shopkeeper nods, and puts the gun away. He takes out a moderate sized case, something the perfect size Twilight is looking for.
He opens it, revealing a comically small gun which takes up nearly none of the actual case. It's smaller than a hoof.
"This here is the Pinner. Reliable, very easy to hide."
Is he messing with her?
"How about something... LESS conservative?" Twilight asks, starting to get a bit annoyed.
But the shopkeeper looks as genuine as he did at the start.
"Hm. Alright. Here."
He pulls out a moderately sized pistol
"This here is a special import from the Terminus Guild, a Ritt. Single-shot. They love these damn things. Personally I think they're sort of a bust, but whatever."
"How do you reload it?"
The shopkeeper seems a bit surprised at Twilight's intrigue, but compiles. He pops open the cylinder, or more accurately, the square. Within the four-sided chamber, there's a single slot for a bullet. He mimics putting one in, closing it, and then pulling the hammer.
"Loaded." he says.
Twilight's impressed at the speed compared to a flintlock. Those things take forever to reload.
"I'll buy it." Twilight says.
The shopkeeper smirks.
"Aight. That'll be 3500 bits."
Twilight nearly chokes on air. That's way more than she was expecting.
She groans slightly, but pays the bits. The shopkeeper takes it with a smile.
"Here. I'll even throw in a free holster, some ammo and the Pinner for you."
Twilight accepts the holster and ammo, but looks at the Pinner with some slight confusion. Is this actually a gun and not some gag? She just takes it anyway.
"Pleasure doing business with you, miss. Come again whenever you have a problem that needs dealin' with." He says with a smirk.
Twilight dons the holster under her jacket and slides the Ritt inside. She honestly feels a bit awkward. Hopefully she can improve her magic in the near future to not have to carry a gun everywhere like a cow-pony.
Deciding she's seen enough of the Pathfinder wing, at least for now, she heads back to the Epistrey. She's still curious what those rooms past the front desk are like.
After a very brief walk, she's back inside the interior of the Epistrey. She recognizes the same clerk from there. Half of his face is bandaged up, with some visibly severely burned skin around them. The other half looks miserable, but less like he's sad and more like he's angry.
He notices Twilight approaching him, and just looks at her. The two stare at each other for a second or two.
"Hey. I was wondering if I could go over--"
"Pathfinders can freely enter or leave the back chambers as they please. You don't need to ask." he bluntly says, seemingly noticing her position.
Twilight just nods, and walks past him.
Poor guy. He probably didn't deserve whatever happened to him.
The back chambers are less impressive than Twilight expected, although she isn't really sure what she was expecting to be honest. It looks very similar to the common area of the Pathfinder wing, just way smaller, much more refined, and a bit more... focused?
Nopony is really lounging around, they're all doing something or going somewhere. Most of them are also Pathfinders as well.
As she's looking around, a trio of Pathfinders suddenly approach her. She's taken a bit off guard.
"O-oh! Hello." Twilight says.
"Greetings. I take it you're new, here?" A stallion unicorn says.
Twilight's heart sinks a little.
"How did you know?" She asks, deciding to rip off the bandage fast.
"Quite a few of us heard about the SPAV-3 Incident. We recognized you from some of the recording logs." the same unicorn says.
Twilight internally groans. Great. The first Pathfinders she meets personally have seen her scream and fight with a knife like a psycho.
"We were just wondering if--"
Another one of the ponies, a mare Pegasus, suddenly gets in the way.
"Did you win the fight?" She asks.
Twilight looks a bit surprised.
"Flitter! That's not the proper thing to ask!" The stallion unicorn says.
"Whaaat? I don't see a problem with wanting to know the full picture, Comet!"
"I'm curious too." the third pony says, another unicorn.
Comet Tail groans.
"Please excuse my friends. They're just wondering what happened after the recording log went out... about the same time the SPAV began to fall fully." he says.
Twilight slightly raises an eyebrow. Surely these ponies couldn't be something like secret spies probing her for information or something... right?
"Well... after the SPAV fell off the ledge, the Hovel and I were sent flying and hit the wall, hard. Jack's face wasn't looking--"
"Who's Jack?" Flitter asks.
Twilight eyes widen.
She misspoke.
"Er... I meant smack. The Hovel smacked face-first into the wall and got knocked out cold."
"So you won?" Flitter asks.
"I... guess?" Twilight says, unsure.
"Yes! I told you, Rare!" Flitter says, poking the other unicorn.
Rare find grumbles as he hands Flitter some bits.
"So rigged." He says.
Comet Tail flicks both of them magically. They both let out an 'ouch' as they rub their chins.
"Anyways. You seemed to hold yourself pretty well during all that. We'd like to know if you'd want to join our squad?" Comet asks.
"Squad?" Twilight asks, unfamiliar. She knows what the word means, but not the exact context in regards to Pathfinders.
"Team, basically. You'll work with us, and we'll work with you. It's a co-operative effort." Comet says. The other two ponies nod.
Twilight thinks on it. Having some more friends wouldn't hurt, nor would having some more experienced Pathfinders helping her learn the ropes.
She just hopes these guys aren't secretly really bad at being Pathfinders and are only recruiting her because nobody else wants to join them. That would be way too cliche.
"Sure. Why not?" Twilight asks. The trio smiles.
"Great! If you need any help you can come find us. We'll look for you if we need you. My quarters are room 401 in the Pathfinder Wing, and I know where Flitter and Rare, in case you need them." Flitter and Rare Find nod.
"Will do." Twilight says, with a smile.
As the trio leave, Twilight bites her lip. She can't slip up like that again. Hopefully none of them think anything of it besides a simple mistake.
She tries to get back on track. Using some convenient signs placed around, she navigates to the 'Information Registry'. She was expecting something similar to the clerk, or even something like a library, but she's rather confused and surprised at what it actually looks like.
There's multiple secluded chambers connected together, each only looking like they're large enough for a single pony. Some of them appear closed and sealed.
She eventually finds one that's open, and quickly realizes they actually ARE only for one pony. Inside is a small room with a chair, table, and some strange device attached to a screen.
She sees some instructions on the side, reading them out.
"Close and seal door... take seat... channel magic into the receiver to navig--" She squints further at the words. "What."
She has to channel magic into this machine?
Cautiously, she does so. Her horn glows as a light stream flows towards the machine. Suddenly, the screen turns on. Twilight metaphorically feels around for a little bit. She can't explain it well, but she somehow inherently knows how to control the screen's contents. It's like an entire library of closed books has been funneled into her mind, and she just has to open them with her thoughts.
It's a strange feeling - having all the information in your head, but only being able to actually access it by looking and reading at a screen like normal.
She briefly wonders how non-unicorns would even access this, but decides that isn't important right now.
After combing through some categories and subcategories, she finds what she's looking for. Information about Hovels.
Surprisingly, they're actually separated based on different tribes. Twilight somewhat expected them to all be lumped together into one generalized blob.
Near the top of the alphabetical list, she sees it.
'The Annui'
Opening up their file and reading their dossier, she notices many vague and threatening statements.
'Kill on sight.'
'Incredibly dangerous.'
'Cannot be reasoned with.'
Attached to the file are dozens, possibly HUNDREDS of related Incidents. Skimming a few of those, she sees that most, if not all of them are incredibly gruesome or violent. And the Annui are the aggressors.
Twilight just looks in disbelief. Jack told her the Annui only ever attacked for serious reasons, or in self-defense. This tells a different picture, though.
There has to be a reason. What if Jack just didn't know about these??? Or what if she didn't know the full extent? Most of these are dated quite a while before Jack likely was alive.
No matter the case, whether or not Jack was lying about the Annui being innocent or not, this does corroborate Jack's claims that they're always attacked. Although, she sees that maybe there's a reason why...
Hopefully, she can get to the bottom of this, eventually.
Commander Raven sits alone in her personal quarters, in near total darkness. The only light in the room comes from a large screen in-front of her. She glares at it with a deathly intensity.
On-screen appears to be various still-images of Annui ponies.
In the center lies the largest image by far, the face capture of an orange haired and yellow maned mare.
She can't help but chuckle to herself, a bit manically.
Soon enough, she'll finally have her long awaited revenge on that entire clan of deplorable scum. The Annui will know her wrath.
And she knows just the new Pathfinder, also wronged by the Annui, who will surely join her... |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 7 - Dirty Thieving Ponies | Pinkie looks forward. Still nothing.
They've been flying for what feels like ten minutes, and they still are gliding over a seemingly bottomless abyss below.
Thankfully, Trixie is able to illuminate the area around them, but all that does is let them see clearly how much they're in the middle of nowhere.
"...Maybe there's ground all the way down there?" Pinkie asks, trying to stay optimistic.
Trixie simply reaches into her pocket and pulls out one of her last remaining bits. She tosses it away.
The bit quickly disappears into the darkness below, and they don't hear any sound whatsoever, even after about ten seconds.
"Or maybe not." Pinkie says, dejected.
She begins to feel tired from her position in this 'pony chain', with her having to hold onto both the pegasus and Trixie with one leg each.
Even with above-average strength, and Trixie helping lighten the load with her magic, Pinkie is starting to feel the burn from having to essentially carry both her and Trixie's weights with only one leg.
In hindsight it probably would've been a better idea to grab onto two of the pegasi's legs with both her forelegs, and Trixie could grab Pinkie's hindlegs.
But considering she essentially pulled them both off the cliff with no warning, it's a miracle that none of them fell to begin with.
Looking up at the pegasus, she isn't looking too hot as well. Her being quite a bit slimmer than most pegasi isn't doing anypony favors either.
She wants to talk to her, but distracting her right now might not be the best idea.
"You think you can levitate us more, Trixie..?" Pinkie asks, a bit weary.
Trixie glances up a little. "I could, but it's awkward. Any more force I apply might begin to interfere with our hang-gliders wings." Trixie says, sardonically referring to the pegasus.
Pinke puts her free hoof to her chin. "Hm... what if you dropped off and then flew yourself?"
Trixie snaps up. "Are you crazy? I can't levitate for that long!"
"Well what else do you have in mind?" Pinkie asks, a bit desperately.
Trixie shrugs, at least as much as she can manage with only one free foreleg.
Pinkie bites her lip. She doesn't know how much longer she can manage this... they might have to-
"Look!" The pegasus shouts.
Trixie and Pinkie quickly look forward, seeing a rocky cliffside in the distance, similar to the one they came from.
The trio give a collective sigh of relief. Pinkie hopes they somehow didn't make a U-turn on accident again, though.
After a minute or two, they're finally close enough for the land to be below them, but it's a bit too far below them. Definitely not a safe height to just drop down from.
"Okay! Can you uh... go down?" Pinkie asks towards the pegasus.
"I-I... can't... my wings are... stuck."
Pinkie looks confused. "What? What do you mean stuck?? Can't you just descend?" She asks.
Trixie clicks her tongue.
"Pegasus wings can sometimes get 'locked up', making them stuck in whatever position they were at the time... but it only happens to inexperienced fliers, usually foals."
The two look up at the pegasus, who looks down with a face of embarrassment and worry.
"I'm not a good flier, okay?" She says.
Pinkie tries to not groan.
"Uh... okay... so how do we get down?" Pinkie asks. They're going further into land.
"I could try to control her wings, but it might be difficult from this position." Trixie says. "And also it might hurt."
"What?!" The pegasus says.
"Just relax! It'll be fine." Pinkie says. She truthfully has no idea how it will go, but better to keep her calm.
The pegasus sighs.
"Just do it."
Her wings are enveloped in Trixies blue magic, and begin to bend a little. The pegasi's eyes immediately shoot wide.
"OW! Hey!" She yells.
"I literally told you it might hurt!" Trixie says, still trying.
"And it does hurt! Stop!" The pegasus says.
The two fight over the wings, making all three of them begin to dangerously rock in the air, rapidly decreasing and gaining in height. Pinkie just tries to keep everypony together, literally.
During the struggle, they hear a few pops from the wings. Trixie quickly stops her magic, cringing a little.
Pinkie expects the worst, looking up with one eye, but the pegasus doesn't look pained, in fact she looks relieved. Her wings also look like they're moving freely again.
"My wings aren't stuck anymore!" the pegasus says, looking down with glee.
Pinkie sighs with relief. "Great! Now lets--"
The three yelp as a large stalactite whizzes past them. As they look ahead, they see they're flying into a giant field of stalactites, and are high enough to hit them.
The pegasus tries to come to a stop as fast as she can, but veers dangerously close to one of the rocky obstacles. Trixie gives them a telekinetic shove away, moving them safely away, but accidentally causing them to lose control, death spiraling downwards.
The three scream. The motion doesn't let the pegasus easily regain height, nor let Trixie keep doing her magic on her or Pinkie, meaning they're falling even faster.
Pinkie looks down, seeing the ground coming closer. She bites her lip.
She lets go of the pegasus and trixie, the three splitting apart in the air. The pegasus immediately corrects herself in the air, beginning to safely float down, while Pinkie and Trixie plummet.
Trixie manages to slow her fall using her levitation. She wipes her brow as she floats to the ground safely.
She turns back upwards. She needs to help Pink--
Pinkie on top of her, the larger pony splatting Trixie onto the ground.
The earthen opens one of her eyes. She expected the landing to hurt a lot more.
"Trixie? Trixie, where are you!"
She feels a tap on her back-side. Pinkie turns around and sees the flattened Trixie looking back at her with mild annoyance and pain.
"Oh! My bad!" Pinkie says, quickly getting off the unicorn with a look of worry.
Trixie sits up with a groan. "Okay... that could've gone worse I guess. Where's the pegasu--"
The pegasus also lands on top of her, splatting her back onto the ground with another groan. Thankfully, she isn't as large as Pinkie.
"Sorry... I got nervous while landing..." the pegasus says.
Trixie shakily raises a crooked leg in response.
The three dust themselves off. After a quick check, none of them are seriously injured, besides a few bruises and scrapes, almost all of which belong to Trixie.
Pinkie is about to say something, when the pegasus beats her to it.
"Can you now tell me who you two are?" she asks.
Pinkie remembers telling her 'not important right now!' in response to that question during the chase. Now's a better time than any.
Trixie looks a bit hesitant for some reason, but Pinkie scoops her closer with her foreleg around the unicorn's shoulder.
"I'm Pinkie Pie, and this is Trixie. We're a part of the Travelers Troupe!" Pinkie exclaims.
The pegasus looks confused.
"What is that?"
Pinkie's jaw nearly hits the floor.
"YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE TROUPE?!"
The pegasus closes her eyes and leans back a little from the shout.
"No..?" she says, slowly opening one eye.
"It's just the most popular and known traveling group in all of the Underworld! Nearly everypony knows about us!" Pinkie says, with glee.
Trixie frowns. "Yeah. They know about the Troupe. Usually for the wrong reasons." she corrects.
"Not our fault if some ponies don't know how to have fun!" Pinkie says, undaunted.
She turns back to the pegasus, who still looks confused.
"Now you! What's your story? I assume you gotta have something good judging by your crazy clothes..." Pinkie says, pointing at the pegasi's strange plant-like dress.
"Uhm... my name is Fluttershy. I'm from Gaia's Grove, birthplace of the Earth Family."
Pinkie blinks a few times, slightly confused.
"Isn't that like the mythical Earth Family promised land?" Trixie asks.
"Mythical..? It's not a myth. I came here from there."
"You sure you aren't talking about The Stem? That's where most of the Earth Family--" Trixie gets cut off.
"I don't know any 'stem' besides the ones plants have. I said I came from Gaia's Grove." Fluttershy says, reaffirming her position. I'm the send-off for this century, and the tenth one over-all over the millenia." she says, as serious as possible.
There's an awkward pause.
"Can you give us one second, Fluttershy?" Trixie says, pulling Pinkie about twenty feet away and turning away from the pegasus.
"Okay. This mare is very clearly crazy. I was already suspicious when she said she was in the Earth Family, but this is next level. She's like crazy squared or something." Trixie says to Pinkie.
"What if she's just like... really enthusiastic about it all? They say religion has good morals, right? That's good!" Pinkie says, trying to keep it positive.
Trixie gives her an unapproving look. "It'll be positive until she starts trying to cut us open and sacrificing us to Gaia or whatever."
"Well what do you suggest then doing then?"
"We could like, sneak away?"
"We just risked our lives to get her out of that auction and you wanna ditch her as soon as it gets a little weird?" Pinkie asks, bewildered.
"YOU risked our lives to save her. Maybe there's a reason why she was in that cage! I mean look at her!"
The two glance back to see Fluttershy simply sitting and staring into the distance. She scratches one of her eyes.
"See? She has to be hiding something from us!" Trixie says.
"Oh come on! You're just being a mean mule. Even if she's a bit weird and or crazy, I promise you nothing will go wrong."
Trixie remembers that's exactly what she told Pinkie before everything went wrong at the market.
"Fine. But don't complain once we're having to fight some giant tree monster or something stupid like that."
The two turn and walk back to Fluttershy, who just looks at them with a blank expression.
"Okay, Fluttershy. Let's not talk about ourselves for now, alright? First thing we need to do is find a way back to civilization." Pinkie says.
They look at the area around them. It looks like a somewhat mountainous area, with large mounds of rock jutting towards the 'sky', some of the largest ones even meeting the rocky ceiling above. There's a few natural trails going in various directions.
"What's wrong with staying here? It looks pretty similar to Gaia's Grove..." Fluttershy says, pointing towards the untamed wilderness ahead.
Pinkie glances over to see Trixie twirling her hoof around her own temple while making a stupid face, gesturing towards Fluttershy afterwards. Pinkie rolls her eyes.
"Uh... we cant because... someponies already live in that forest."
"I'm sure they wouldn't mind some more friends." Fluttershy responds.
"They dont want more friends! We need to... leave." Pinkie coughs a few times.
Despite her light hearted demeanor, Pinkie is starting to lose her patience a little. The last place she wants to be right now is in the middle of nowhere when it turns night.
Fluttershy doesn't seem fully convinced, but obliges.
After a few minutes of walking, they come across a three-way split in the trail.
One path goes higher up into the mountains, another goes straight ahead, and the final one veers off into the woods.
"We should take the mountain path. It'll get us a better vantage point of the area ahead." Trixie says.
"No way! Let's keep moving forward. It'll be way easier than having to trek up the mountain too!"
"What do you care about it being easier or not? You're an earthen, you could probably walk up a 90 degree incline."
"Wouldn't that just be a wall?"
Before the two can even begin to seriously bicker, they see Fluttershy beginning to walk towards the woods alone.
Pinkie nearly trips over herself running up to the pegasus, before flipping around and walking backwards at her side.
"Woah! Hey! Where are you going?"
"Into the forest. I know its embrace and warmth will protect me." she says, not even looking at Pinkie.
"Erm... I know you have your whole Earth Family belief thing going on, but that looks like a completely untamed and wild forest to me. I wouldn't--
Fluttershy gives her a side-eye.
"Are you going to put me in a cage if I refuse to stop?" Fluttershy says, clearly a bit agitated.
"...no?"
"Okay then." Fluttershy says, continuing further towards the tree-line.
Trixie walks up next to Pinkie with an unsurprised expression.
"We can't just let her go by herself, Trixie! Something bad will happen!" Pinkie cries.
Trixie shrugs. "If she wants to go, then let her go. At least she's out of our mane, and we didn't even have to do any morally questionable actions."
She turns back towards the two other paths.
"Now then, as I was saying, the vantage point we could--"
Glancing back, she sees Pinkie running to catch up with Fluttershy.
"Oh, come on!" Trixie yells. She runs up to catch up with the duo as well.
As the trio walk through the forest, Pinkie is a little surprised at how it actually doesn't seem so bad. It's actually sort of nice!
Some good light, fresh air, and even the chirping of birds. Maybe she was just overreacting?
Her original thoughts are quickly validated as eventually the forest begins to take a turn for the worse.
The foliage becomes thicker and begins to wrap upwards, obstructing the visible light. The gentle grass and nice trees begin to become more dense and packed, and the chirpings of birds are replaced with both an eerie silence, and occasional unknown noises. Pinkie can't tell which is worse.
Even the previously confident Fluttershy begins to look a bit worried. This isn't similar to Gaia's Grove anymore.
"S-should we turn back?" She asks, a bit fearful.
Trixie raises an eyebrow. "And get misdirected and lost? No thank you. We'll keep moving forward, like you wanted, right?"
Fluttershy gulps. "Can we at least find some food?" she asks.
"Are you planning to eat rocks or something? There isn't anything edible out here." Trixie responds.
"What? There's supposed to be all sorts of fruits and vegetables growing everywhere!"
Fluttershy lowers herself closer to the ground and begins to search around rocks and dirt, a bit desperately.
Pinkie and Trixie share a worried glance. Pinkie approaches Fluttershy slightly.
"Fluttershy, we can--"
Fluttershy suddenly screams in fear, suddenly scampering backwards. One of the rocks she lifted up has some black centipede-like bug underneath.
Pinkie, also surprised by the bug, immediately squashes it. She cringes as she wipes the bottom of her hoof clean.
Fluttershy looks appalled.
"Why did you do that!" Fluttershy cries.
"Wha--look at it! That thing is scary! Or at least, was." she says, looking down at the now-crumpled bug.
"That doesn't mean you should kill it!"
Pinkie looks bewildered. "You literally screamed because of it!"
"Because I was surprised! Should you destroy everything that surprises you?!" Fluttershy asks, noticeably heated up.
Pinkie looks over to Trixie. The unicorn looks equally as appalled.
"Pinkie... you shouldn't have done that."
"I thought you said the Earth Family was stupid like five seconds ago! Are you gonna lecture me about stomping on bugs too?"
"It's not that you stomped on a bug, idiot! It's what bug! That was a baby Death Crawler! Do you know how the adults find their prey??? Take a big sniff!"
The three smell the air. There's a very powerful and pungent smell coming from the baby's crushed body.
They barely have a few seconds before they hear a large amount of rustling and skittering coming from behind them. It doesn't take a genius to realize what that means.
"Run! Again!" Pinkie yells.
A gigantic black centipede bursts out of the tree-line, screeching. The three take off as fast as possible.
"What the heck is that thing?! Bug's aren't supposed to be that big!" Fluttershy screams in terror.
"Nothing is supposed to be that big!" Pinkie responds, equally scared.
Trixie tries to look around for something that could help them escape, but there's nothing except vines and trees around. Nothing to throw in the monster's way or anything like that.
"Can we fly out of here?!" Pinkie yells.
"I don't think I can get high enough to get away in time with all three of us!" Fluttershy cries.
"Then fly away by yourself!" Pinkie says.
Fluttershy looks at Pinkie briefly, who just nods. Fluttershy whimpers a little, but does so. With a few gusts of her wings, she's safely in the air.
Trixie looks at Pinkie with a scowl.
"Great! We're gonna die while she gets away safe and sound!" She yells.
"Would you rather all three of us die?!" Pinkie retorts, still running.
"Well I would've at least liked to draw straws or something about who gets to live!" Trixie yells.
Her eyes widen as she sees the centipede charging at Pinkie.
"Watch out!" Trixie cries.
She flings Pinkie with her telekinesis, sending the pink pony tumbling safely away from the path of centipede. This, however, causes the beast to loop around and come back at Trixie herself.
Trixie gasps as she creates a protective bubble. The centipede slams into it like a train. She struggles to hold it. She's never been the best at making barriers in specific, especially not now when a gigantic monster is trying to break through it.
Getting back up from the tumble, Pinkie sees the centipede wrapping its body around Trixie's bubble like a snake, slowly adding more of its body-weight.
Trixie slowly makes the bubble smaller to try and conserve energy, but she's slowly being crushed from the lack of space.
Pinkie looks in horror. She desperately reaches through her bag, for something, anything that could help.
The protective bubble, barely a pony-sized membrane now, begins to crack further. Trixie can't hold it for much longer.
Suddenly...
POP!
The centipede shrieks in pain and writhes, body loosening away from Trixie. She looks up to see Pinkie threw a confetti bomb at one of its eyes. Besides covering the eye itself, tiny pieces of glitter slip into the various crevices in its carapace, causing agitation.
Pinkie frowns. She was planning to use that later...
The centipede, still writhing, is still a hazard due to its sheer size. Pinkie narrowly dodges being smacked by a part of its body, as Trixie levitates herself away to avoid being stabbed by one of its legs.
After some more writhing, it eventually re-focuses on the duo.
Fluttershy watches from above in terror, hooves in her face. This is all her fault! She can't even bear to look.
The centipede shrieks once more, before charging at Trixie and Pinkie. Out of options, the two can do nothing but prepare for whatever happens next, bracing themselves while looking away.
After a few seconds, nothing.
They look back in surprise.
Not only did the centipede not attack them, but it looks like it's... fighting something else? Something in the trees?
No... it's fighting the trees themselves.
Large vines and stalks begin to creep on and around the centipede from the nearby foliage and tree-line. It thrashes around, breaking many of them, but more come to replace the destroyed ones. They begin to wrap around the various parts of the beast, restraining it fully. It shrieks as it's dragged away deeper into the forest from whence it came, out of sight and out of mind.
Trixie and Pinkie look completely flabbergasted.
Fluttershy descends from the air next to them, looking equally confused and also still scared, even babbling a little bit.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't know any of this would happen! I made you guys--"
Trixie cuts her off.
"Apologies later. Let's get out of here now before something even worse shows up."
Pinkie and Fluttershy are all too eager to agree.
The three eventually escape the forest, coming back into a terrain Pinkie and Trixie are more familiar with, flat and rocky.
Fluttershy doesn't click with it much, but she relents that this unfamiliar landscape is much better than whatever that 'forest' had going on. She still looks a bit shaken up, though.
Their whole days worth of mishaps has taken its toll. The three of them are exhausted and tired, and it's even starting to become dark as well.
"We're going to need to find somewhere to rest. Unless Fluttershy wants to go sleep in the forest?" Trixie says, glancing back the pegasus, who quickly shakes her head.
"Hey! Lay off. It was a simple mistake." Pinkie says.
Trixie shrugs.
"Fluttershy, do you think you could fly up and see if there's any sort of like... buildings or something?"
"You know, going up the mountain path and getting a good vantage point would've--"
"Shaddup."
Fluttershy lightly nods, flapping up into the air. She looks around, squinting off into the distance, before spotting something and flying back to the ground.
"There's like a... big... shack?" She doesn't really know the right word. "It looks like it's... inside a cliff?"
Pinkie and Trixie raise their eyebrows. They assume there is some kind of building in the distance, but that Fluttershy doesn't know exactly how to describe it or what it even is.
The trio cross over a small ridge ahead. Trixie's and Pinkie's face light up.
It's a tavern! Surely they can get some food and rest there.
Fluttershy doesn't seem to have the same enthusiasm though, unfamiliar with the structure.
"What is th--"
She's cut off by Pinkie and Trixie quickly trotting towards it. Fluttershy's eyes widen as she rushes to catch up with the duo.
As they approach closer, they seem to realize what Fluttershy meant by 'inside a cliff'. A sizable portion of the tavern lies within a carved out section of a cliff-side above the tavern itself. It's sort of nestled into the wall.
They get to the door without much fuss, and enter it. Pinkie notices Fluttershy standing outside with a look of apprehension.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm... not familiar with this kind of place. What is it?"
"It's a tavern, Fluttershy. You just hang out and relax and eat and drink and it's nice!" Pinkie says.
That description seems to warm up Fluttershy a little bit, but she still doesn't look fully convinced.
"Come on Pinkie, you're letting the hot air out!" Trixie says from inside.
Pinkie grumbles at the remark.
"Just coooome on and you'll see for yourself!" Pinkie says, pulling Fluttershy inside with an 'eep'.
The trio look at the tavern around them. Tons of ponies sit at various tables or counters, with a few of them serving the whole mass. There even looks to be some sort of performing stage.
Fluttershy's heart sinks at the sight of the stage.
"Am I going to be put into another cage?!" Fluttershy cries, a bit loudly. Some ponies give some strange looks.
Pinkie puts a hoof over her mouth quickly, chuckling awkwardly.
"Calm down! Whatever happened back at the other place was a super bad thing. I promise you it's not like that here." Pinkie says.
Fluttershy just looks at her, Pinkie's hoof still on her mouth. She simply nods a little. Pinkie removes her hoof with a small 'pop' sound.
Trixie scans the crowd, seeing a few unscrupulous looking characters sitting at further spots away from the door. Pinkie and Fluttershy don't seem to notice, but maybe letting them relax is for the better.
The three find a table for themselves, with Pinkie and Trixie pulling out some chairs and taking a seat.
Fluttershy looks at the chair on her side with some confusion, unfamiliar with the object. She looks at what the other two did, awkwardly and loudly pulling her chair away from the table, and carefully taking a seat. She then tries to scoot back to the table, just as loudly.
Trixie face-hooves, and levitates the chair slightly back to the table, with a bit of surprise from Fluttershy's part.
An attendant brings them some menus.
Pinkie seems impressed. "This place must be nice! Usually they just make you have to guess what's available!" She says, inspecting the options.
There's various dishes like salads, pizza, vegetables, and pies. Pinkie licks her lips looking at some delicious and nutritious looking pear fritters.
Fluttershy tries to figure out what the correct alignment of the menu is, but also looks confused at the drawings of the food, even trying to grab one of the dishes at one point.
Trixie's scans the options lazily for a little, before her eyes widen.
"Pinkie, do you see this? Look at the bottom."
Both their eyes drift down, looking at a nestled away option.
Fish.
It's apparently some sort of 'dare' item -- "The Devil's Catch", fit with over-the-top red and orange streaks and visuals attached to it, like some scary face.
Trixie gags a little, but Pinkie looks slightly intrigued.
"Why not? Let's try it!" she says.
Trixie looks at her like she's insane.
"Ew! No! Why would you even suggest that?!"
"Come on Trixie, live a little! Try new things!"
"Yeah I'd like to live a little not die a little."
"You're just overreacting. You've probably eaten a fish in your life anyways! Experts say ponies eat one fish a year in their sleep."
"That's not true!"
"Ok yes, it isn't, but still! Just tryyyyyy it come on." Pinkie says.
Trixie groans.
"Fine. But you're paying for it."
The two realize the elephant in the room, or the pegasus more accurately. They look at Fluttershy still fumbling with the menu.
"What about her? No way she's going to do it." Trixie says.
"We'll buy her a salad or something."
"What if she freaks out about the fish?"
"Well let's hope she doesn't."
Trixie can't argue with that logic, so she simply shrugs.
Eventually, the attendant comes back to them.
"Hey, we'd like two of ' The Devil's Catch's, one Mushroom Salad, and three waters please."
The waiter looks at them with a sly grin and chuckle.
"Couple of dare-ponies, huh? I see..." he says, taking away the menus. Fluttershy, who finally figured out the correct alignment, frowns as it gets pulled away.
After a bit of waiting, the attendant brings back the dishes.
Pinkie and Trixie look at their plates with some worry, even with Pinkie being the one who wanted to try it.
It certainly doesn't look like any fish they've ever seen, being entirely featureless, having no visible fins or extremities, and being a golden color. It looks a bit sandy. They do admit that it makes it a bit less intimidating considering they can't even tell it was a fish, though.
Pinkie is the first one to take the plunge, taking a piece off and eating it cautiously.
Trixie looks with anticipation and a bit of fear. For all she knows, Pinkie could turn into some flesh-eating monster any second now!
The earthen chews cautiously, but she's surprised. The meat is soft and actually pretty clean, being a shiny white instead of some bloody red. It's a hard flavor to describe
"Hm... it tastes kinda like... 'juicy' bread? Bit salty."
This description is enough to tempt Trixie, who takes a bite out of her own, cringing a little. She's also pleasantly surprised.
"Hey, this isn't half bad!" Trixie says. Pinkie nods, already taking more bites out of hers.
Fluttershy sitting on the other side of the table silently eats her salad, pretty content. Although she is curious what that weird yellow and white food the other two are eating...
As the three eat, Pinkie's attention suddenly gets caught up by the stage in a further part of the tavern. She taps on Trixie's shoulder and hooves in the direction, both of them glancing over.
There's some stage pony giving a stand-up routine, or at least trying to. He looks nervous, and the crowd around him doesn't look very pleased either.
"S-so this one time I was over at the Terminus Guild right... man those guys love their trains. I was--"
"What's a train?" Someone in the crowd asks.
"It's like a big metal wagon thing that's not important right now!" The stage pony snaps slightly, gulping his own tone.
"So I was on one of their trains, right... and they had like this little kiosk IN the train selling food? So I'm just like... hey! What's the deal with railway food?"
There's a horrible silence from every pony watching the routine, the only noise coming from the other ponies further away.
"Boooo!" One pony says, throwing a tomato. Other ponies join in pelting the performer who quickly gets ran off.
Pinkie blows her lips.
"That guy sucked! I could totally do that, easy peasy!" She says.
Trixie rolls her eyes. "Probably. But why bother? We should get out of here soon, I'm already feeling stuffed."
Looking back towards her dish, her eyes widen as she sees Fluttershy nibbling on the fish. Fluttershy glances up awkwardly, noticing Trixie looking back at her.
"Fluttershy! What the heck!" Trixie says.
Fluttershy immediately recoils, looking embarrassed. "S-sorry! Was I not supposed to do that??? I thought we could eat each other's food..."
Trixie isn't very mad about the food being eaten, more like what the food was.
Her and Pinkie share an equally worried glance.
"Fluttershy, do you know what that dish was?" Trixie asks.
"...no."
"It was fish, Fluttershy."
The two expect Fluttershy to react horribly, but surprisingly she doesn't even blink.
"Oh. Okay. I haven't heard of that before. Is it a fruit or vegetable?" She innocently asks.
"Its meat, Fluttershy. Meat." Trixie says.
Fluttershy STILL doesn't react.
"...is that a fruit?" she asks, raising an eyebrow.
The two can't tell if Fluttershy is messing with them, but they're probably too deep anyway.
"Fluttershy. Meat is food that comes from a dead animal. It's not a plant. You ate an animal."
Fluttershy looks at the two of them calmly and blankly for a few seconds, the only change in her expression being her eye pupils unnaturally constricting slowly.
She suddenly begins to retch a little, like a cat with a hairball. Her eyes begins to tear up.
"Why did you tell her!" Pinkie says.
"What if we didn't tell her and she kept going?!" Trixie says.
Pinkie tries to calm Fluttershy down, but she looks like she's nearing a breakdown, even smacking at her tongue to try and get the residue off.
Pinkie physically has to grab her to stop her from making more of a scene. She's about to put a hoof on her mouth again, when suddenly an attendant comes over with a small bill, putting it on the table. Fluttershy briefly pauses her break-down to look over at it, alongside Trixie and Pinkie.
"Wh--"
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Trixie shoots Pinkie a death glare. Fluttershy doesn't understand what the problem is, but the glare itself is intense enough to make her stop freaking out.
"Ah... my bad..." Pinkie says, with a light but nervous chuckle.
"Pinkie! What are we going to do! We only have like, fifty bits combined!" Trixie says.
Both their thoughts immediately drift to 'dine and dashing', but after an entire day full of walking and running, the last thing they want to do is get chased by an angry mob again.
They wrack their brains for ideas. Pinkie lights up.
"Oh! Maybe I can do a performance and ask for them to wipe off the bill! Surely if I can do a good one, they'll do it!"
Trixie grumbles. It's an unlikely plan, but better than nothing.
"Just hurry up. Last thing I want to do is tell the attendants we're a couple of bums."
Pinkie runs off to find someone who she could make that deal with, while Trixie just awkwardly sits next to the still quaking Fluttershy.
"W-what... what was its name..." she croaks.
"It's name??? Wha-- Fluttershy. It's a fish. Those things barely have brains."
The explanation didn't seem to do much to help, though. Fluttershy keeps shivering.
Trixie groans. "Just look, here." She makes sure nopony around her is paying attention.
With a poof of blue energy, a fish appears in-front of Fluttershy, on the table. It flops around, but doesn't appear to actually interact with anything around itself for some reason.
Fluttershy pauses her breakdown, looking at the fish with a mixture of confusion and intrigue. After a little while, she seems to calm down somewhat.
She can't "feel" anything from the fish. Not like the other animals at Gaia's Grove.
Fluttershy still feels nasty for eating an animal, but at least it appears to not be like the ones that she knows and cares about.
With another poof of blue energy, the fish disappears.
Fluttershy looks at where the fish was with a bit of confusion. "How did you do that?"
"Just magic stuff." She pauses. "But please don't tell Pinkie I can do that."
Fluttershy gives a strange nod.
"Oh... kay?"
Pinkie goes towards the back rooms of the Tavern to try and find the owner or manager or something.
She passes by one room with a door slightly creaked. She unintentionally overhears a conversation inside.
"When is the shipments gettin' here?" one voice says.
"Just wait on dude. Have patience, or else." another responds, with some venom at the end.
Pinkie quickly walks away from whatever was happening there, not interested in getting wrapped up in something else new already. After turning a few doors, she finds someone who looks like the owner.
He looks back at her. "Hello? Who are you?"
"Hey I'm just gonna give it straight. Me and some friends came here to eat but we can't afford the bill."
The owner raises an eyebrow.
"Oh so you're saying you're some dine and dashers?" He says, reaching for a bat.
Pinkie holds her hooves up defensively.
"WAIT! No! I want to ask if I could... do some work?"
The owner looks skeptical,
"As in?"
"There was some pony on the stage doing a horrible stand-up routine. He literally got tomatoed off of it!"
The owner bites his lip.
"Bah! I knew I should've stopped selling tomatoes during the routine... Anyways, what's your point though?"
"I'll do a free show for you. On the condition that if I do good, you'll remove my bill." Pinkie offers.
The owner looks amused. "Really? You'll do a whole routine just to strike off a few orders?"
Pinkie doesn't blink.
"Alright. Sure. You'll be up in ten." he says, waving his hoof.
Pinkie looks surprised that it actually worked, but then at the incredibly short time.
"Ten minutes?! I can't--"
"You offered it, now do it." The owner says, turning away to do something else.
Maybe she didn't think this through fully.
Trixie and Fluttershy sit at their table, waiting. They see the stage being cleaned up from all the tomatoes.
"Why did they throw all those perfectly good tomatoes?" Fluttershy asks.
Trixie glances over.
"Oh. Uh. Ponies do that when they don't like someone, usually on like a stage or something."
Fluttershy looks confused. "Does it hurt?" She's never been hit by a tomato, so she doesn't know.
"Not... really? It's more like a sudden and easy way to show everypony you think something sucks. It also stains your clothes really badly. Try cleaning out the whites when they're covered by red. That's how you get a bunch of pinks."
Fluttershy has no clue what those last two sentences meant, but nods anyways.
Trixie looks back at the stage. She assumes Pinkie managed to get the deal going considering she didn't come back and make the three of them jump off another cliff or something.
After a few minutes, there's a small horn from the stage, a few ponies going up to watch. The owner sits at a distance as well. That's presumably the sign that a new act is about to start.
A few seconds later, Pinkie comes from the side of the stage with a stool on her back, eventually placing it down and sitting atop it. She waves at Trixie with a smile.
A confused Trixie waves back slightly.
"What's going on y'all? My name is Pinkie Pie! Nice crowd we got here!"
The group of ponies watching don't react one bit. One of them does a dry cough.
"So. Back from where I came from, me and my folk used to farm rocks. They still do, though. It's a pretty sedentary job. Me, myself? I'm more of a rolling stone. I don't like to stay in one place."
There's a few murmurs.
"I honestly gotta admit I never understood the point of rock farming. Like... we're in the underworld! There's rocks everywhere. Although I guess it'd be like comparing a farmer's crop to just eating random roots in the ground or something. Ponies can get really particular about their rocks. When a customer gave us their preferences, it was basically set in stone. Trying to argue with them would get you nowhere besides rock bottom."
There's a few chuckles, mainly from some earthen ponies. Most of the crowd doesn't seem very convinced, though.
"This one time my father was trying to teach me the cut and dry ways of pitching a sale. I really was a chip off the old block of that old man. Steady as a boulder, but he did have a heart of stone sometimes. Thankfully, I was able to chip away at it throughout my years. Anyways, while we were trying to sell one of the rocks, the thing nearly grew a mind of its own and started to roll down a nearby hill! I Immediately ran after it, but there wasn't exactly a rock-solid foundation below me. I tripped and took a bad tumble, getting buried in a big pile of mud. Family was only able to find me from my pink mane sticking out, said it was like a 'diamond in the rough'."
There's a few more laughs in the crowd. Even Trixie gives a small smile.
"Me and one of my cousins' were out exploring a cave. I will say though, that stallion was overweight. Looking at him without a good light you could confuse him for a boulder. Anyways, we reached a tight squeeze. I went in first, figuring that if he got stuck, I would be able to keep going anyways. Unfortunately, the squeeze ended up being a dead end. When I turned to go back out, I saw my cousin got wedged in anyways! You can call that being stuck between a rock and a hard place."
There's a good amount of laughing now. Trixie chuckles a bit.
Pinkie is about to keep going, when suddenly the doors to the tavern burst open.
"THERE SHE IS!" A familiar voice shouts. Everypony turns over to look from where it came from.
The auctioneer from the flea market, alongside a few lackeys.
Ok, maybe he didn't have a change of heart.
"That pink pony stole from me!" He yells, pointing a hoof.
"Proof?!" Pinkie yells.
The auctioneer stammers a bit.
"Wha-- what?! You want me to have a lease or something? You stole from me!" He says again.
His lackeys all agree with murmurs.
"Hmm... did I steal from him, anyone?"
"Nope." Trixie
"No she did not." Fluttershy agrees.
The auctioneer growls, recognizing the two of them as well.
Pinkie gets off the stool.
"Okay well, I assume we're done here--"
"Hold on there missy." The owner says, watching from a distance. "Show isn't over."
"Dude, I told like... fifteen jokes or something."
"Yeah, not enough. Get back on stage." he says, clapping his front hooves. A few of his own lackeys appear around the tavern, menacingly.
A few of the more normal-looking ponies begin to move away from the scene, some even leaving the tavern. A few of the dirty looking ones in the back begin to get intrigued though.
Pinkie is about to respond, when suddenly another group bursts through the doors, next to the auctioneer and his guys.
"There she is! That's the pony that stole from me!" A stallion says, followed by a few other ponies
Pinkie and Trixie recognize them as the ponies they pickpocketed at the trail.
The auctioneer turns to the stallion.
"They stole from you, too?" he asks.
The stallion turns with a bit of surprise. "Huh? Yeah."
"Oh come on! I'm willing to bet like at least half of you guys are thieves." Pinkie says, hooving at the tavern now full of various suspicious characters.
"Yeah, but... you stole from ME. That's by extension all of us." The stallion says.
The auctioneer smacks his forehead. "THANK you! See! This guy gets it!"
The owner watches all of this with an eyebrow raise, but sees an opportunity for some entertainment.
"Well... it looks like we got ourselves some dirty thieving ponies! And what do we say to them?" he tells his goons.
"All dirty thieving ponies will be beaten senseless by every able-bodied patron in the tavern." They say in unison.
Pinkie gulps. She tries to run for the door, but the auctioneer and his guys block her, throwing her back. She stumbles back to Trixie and Fluttershy, who have also gotten up and tried to move away.
From all sides, the crowd surrounds them, slowly approaching.
Pinkie reaches into her bag and pulls out a prop gun, waving it around like a real one.
A few ponies in the crowd pull out actual guns, now pointing it at the trio. Trixie and Pinkie put their hooves up, along with making a confused and scared Fluttershy do the same.
"Well that backfired."
The crowd makes an impromptu circle around the three, hovering like wolves on the prowl.
"Okay. Gimme the pink and yellow one and I'll be out of y'alls hair." The auctioneer says.
"No way. The pink one is mine!" The stallion says.
"This is my tavern, you morons! The pink one has an unpaid debt!" the owner yells.
During the bickering, Pinkie suddenly lunges forward at one of the gun-ponies, striking him away and grabbing his gun. She now points the real gun towards everypony.
There's a few shouts as even more ponies pull out guns, some even using silly things like bows or slingshots.
She glances over at the owner who has a double barreled shotgun.
"Wh-- Hey! Why do you have a gun that good?!" She yells.
"I got it from a pawn shop, girl. There's a discount for owners of businesses. Now give up!"
Trixie and Fluttershy look at Pinkie fearfully, who shakily holds the gun around her.
One of the thugs suddenly looks somewhere else strangely. His eyes widen.
"What the fuck!" he yells, pointing his gun at another side of the crowd. The thugs on the other side point their gun back at him instinctively.
"Hey! Woah! Bob?! What are you doing?!" one of them yells.
"T-the pink pony is over there..! Oh god! Why is there multiple of them?!" he yells.
He waves his gun around crazily, as thugs react in kind. Some more of them scream out similarly, apparently seeing different versions of Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Trixie all over the place. Eventually the entire tavern is pointing guns at each other.
During the confusion, Pinkie glances at Trixie. Her horn doesn't glow one bit, however she's slowly but surely moving her hoof around in a specific motion on the floor. Dry-casting.
"Trixie! I thought casting spells like that was something super hard that only super strong ponies could do?!" Pinkie hurriedly whispers.
Trixie seemingly grimaces due to Pinkie noticing, but relents. "Not important right now! We need to get--"
Her whisper is cut off by a sound outside.
WHOOOOP
An amplified voice pierces through the tavern's walls.
"THIS IS THE JUDICAR ORDER. YOU ARE ALL UNDER ARREST. DO NOT RESIST."
Everypony freezes, mortified.
"SCATTER!" One thug says, trying to run for the door.
The door gets broken down by a large fully armored stallion pegasus, staring him down. Before he can even react, he gets smashed into the floor
The entire tavern erupts into chaos as people try to escape or fight. Multiple windows break as Judicar ponies charge in, some walls even exploding as more fill into the building, and some gunshots ring out.
Pinkie, Trixie, and Fluttershy hit the ground, covering their heads. Pinkie rapidly looks around.
Trixie looks especially horrified. "I-I can't be seen here... I'm sorry!" She yells to Pinkie.
Pinkie looks back at her. "What?! Trix-"
Trixie has completely vanished. But not like in the way they do their little pick-pocketing, she actually just has completely disappeared.
"Trixie!?" Pinkie yells.
She barely has time to react as she dodges out of somepony thrown her direction, the thug crumpling on the ground next to her.
Getting to her feet, she narrowly dodges being striked by another one of the thugs. She responds with a hoof to the face, before being tackled by multiple Judicar ponies, pony-piling on top of her.
Fluttershy meanwhile, still cowers on the floor from the chaos above. She notices the auctioneer crawling on the floor towards her with a crazed look.
"YOU!" he shouts. He pulls out a flintlock, aiming it at her in close range.
"IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU ALIVE, I'LL HAVE YOU DEAD!" He shouts.
Fluttershy can only watch with horror as he's about to pull the trigger...
Suddenly, a gray blur whizzes between them.
An armored pegasus grabs ahold of the gun, wrestling it away from the auctioneer. He barely has time to look confused before he's rapidly pummeled by a barrage of punches, being finished off with a spinning kick that sends him smashing into a table.
Fluttershy looks completely shocked at this display of violence. It was so fast she could barely even see what happened.
Her shock slowly turns into fear as the pegasus turns around, looking at her.
Fluttershy expects to see some scary looking stallion...
But she instead sees a... somewhat gentle face.
A light blue coat, and purple eyes. Underneath her helmet, Fluttershy can barely make out what looks like a rainbow mane.
The two make eye contact with their stares.
Inexplicably, Fluttershy feels some sort of... connection. It's like the chaos around them has slowed down to a crawl.
Fluttershy looks and sees the pegasus putting her hooves on her, beginning to pull her closer...
What is she doing? Is she--
The pegasus suddenly spins around while holding Fluttershy, throwing her onto the wooden floor.
"GET ON THE GROUND!" She yells.
Fluttershy barely looks up, confused. "What?! I--"
"GET ON THE GROUNNNDDD!" The pegasus yells again, jumping on her and pinning her forelegs behind her back.
Fluttershy screams in pain and fear.
After the dust settles, the tavern is a complete wreck. Basically every window is broken, as are multiple walls. It looks like a mosh pit happened.
Outside, a large amount of armored soldiers stand around, patrolling the area. A few metal-reinforced wagons are parked around as well.
Everypony is brought out in chains and having sustained various injuries. The auctioneer in particular looks like he got hit by a truck, needing to be dragged away by two guards.
Pinkie Pie looks around, curiously. Some distance away, near a torn out portion of one of the outer walls, a few soldiers appear to be investigating some mysterious crates and packages. One of them tears a package open, a fine purple powder spilling out.
"Knew it. This place was a Syndicate loading depot." A soldier says.
The owner of the tavern face-hooves as he's led away.
Pinkie and Fluttershy get tossed into the same wagon, luckily. The back is sealed behind them. As they look around, they see multiple other prisoners in the wagon as well.
Fluttershy huddles next to Pinkie fearfully, as Pinkie extends a leg over the pegasus, ready to protect her for whatever is about to happen.
Besides a few short glances, the prisoners don't seem to care whatsoever. They simply close their eyes or stare blankly in front of themselves.
Pinkie lowers her guard, a little surprised. Fluttershy still quakes.
"W-why are we being taken?" She's asks, shakily. She's a bit bruised and scratched up.
Pinkie sighs.
"We were just at the wrong place at the wrong time." She says with a shrug.
With that, the wagon wheels away.
After maybe an hour or two of wagon travel, they come to a stop. There's some chatter outside.
Pinkie perks up a little, expecting for the ride to be over, and for them to be taken off.
However, instead, there's some more chatting, followed by what sounds like rocks moving and a moderate hum.
Pinkie and Fluttershy's eyes wden. They both recognize that noise.
A gateway is being turned on.
The hum turns into a full on storm-like cacophony, as the wagon begins to move forward once more. Other prisoners begin to look distressed or scared.
Pinkie looks worried as well, not due to anything relating to the gateway itself, but...
They're being taken to a different Pocket of the Underworld.
The whole wagon is bathed in light, and then everything disappears into darkness. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 8 - Out Sick | Twilight really didn't expect being a Pathfinder to have the amount of freedom that it does.
She always knew they were somewhat 'above' the all-too present restrictions and routines most other Enclave personnel had to live their lives by, but at this point she wishes there were specific tasks for her to do or something.
For the past few days, her pattern has been pretty set.
Comb through the information registry, hang out with acquaintances, write papers, repeat.
Sure, she always has the option of doing an Expedition, or joining another Pathfinders expedition, but she's naturally a little apprehensive about leaving Charlie Compound after what happened with SPAV-3, at least for now.
It hasn't been all bad, though. Her paper 'To Kill a Dusk Sucker' was a big hit. She's also been able to give a nice amount of cash to Golden Harvest to help spruce up her quarters.
Twilight honestly has so many bits she doesn't even know what to do with them. At first she wondered why the Pathfinder wage was so high, but then she realized she's being paid by the Enclave and also buying stuff from the Enclave so she supposes it's more like a cycle or whatever.
One unexpected boon appears to be that using the magical interface of the Information Registry day-in and day-out has somewhat strengthened Twilight's magical ability. It's not huge, but it's still noticeable.
Twilight frowns as she looks through the Registry. She's gotten quite proficient at maneuvering around it, but all this has done is let her see more negative things at a faster rate. There's been a handful of Hovel attacks in the past week, more than half of which belonged to the Annui.
Severing her connection with the registry, Twilight groans. Simply surfing these files and incidents won't do anything good in the long-run.
She reaches into her satchel, pulling out some sort of device. A communicator.
Maybe it's time for an actual expedition.
Flitter lays back on an extended chair, sunglasses on. Her front hooves are tucked behind her head, giving her a bit of an incline.
"Ahh... nothing like some good ol' basking."
Sitting a few feet away, Rare Find tilts slightly towards her. "You know the lighting here is artificial, right?"
"So what? Still relaxing." she responds, flipping her turquoise mane.
Comet Tail just rests his forelegs on the edge of the balcony, watching ponies down below.
Twilight sits a bit away from the rest, looking slightly nervous. She's about to speak up a few times, but relents every time.
Comet notices this after the third or fourth time, glancing over to the purple unicorn.
"Something on your mind?" He asks, curiously.
Twilight's eyes widen a little, not expecting anypony to pick up what she was trying to do. The question makes Flitter and Rare Find turn towards her as well, also curious.
"U-uh... well... I know we're just chilling right now, but I was wondering if you guys wanted to do an Expedition sometime?" Twilight asks.
Comet wastes no time getting into the details.
"Where? Why?"
Twilight recoils a little. This guy's analyticism is giving her's a run for its money.
"Somewhere in the Outskirts. There's a few locations I want to check out, mainly regarding their Hovel presence."
The three share an awkward glance.
"Uh... you sure about that, Twilight? Flitter asks.
"Yeah... uhm... wouldn't you rather do something a bit less... risky right now?" Rare chips in.
Comet doesn't say anything but he shares their expression of worry.
Twilight does her best to quell their fears. She waves a hoof dismissively.
"Come on guys, it's been like, what? A week since the SPAV-3 thing! I'm good to go now."
Truthfully, she's just as worried as they are, maybe even more so. But she won't get any better from just sitting around in the Compound all day.
Flitter shrugs. "If you're really up to it, sure."
Rare Find nods.
The three look towards Comet, who doesn't look so convinced. But seeing that he's outnumbered, he sighs.
"Alright. When do you want to go?" he asks towards Twilight.
"I was hoping later today, maybe?"
The other three look shocked. Flitter lifts her sunglasses with a bit of a laugh.
"And you guys call me impulsive." She says, nudging Rare and Comet.
Twilight frowns. Should she have said a later date? Maybe she can--
"It's a bit sudden, but sure. We'll need to begin preparing now, though." Comet says.
Twilight blinks a few times.
Okay then.
Twilight isn't going to take any chances. She was woefully underprepared last time.
She dons a few pieces of weaved armor, a lighter version of the armor that combatives use. Hopefully this should help mitigate any possible injuries that could arise, or other more mundane things like falling a significant height.
She also packs a respectable sized first-aid kid. Bandages, cloth, antiseptic wipes, some painkillers, and last but not least a special medi-shot. That last item costed a small fortune, but it should be worth it if push comes to shove
As Twilight packs, her eyes drift over to her holster lying on her bed, with the Ritt still in it.
She picks it up, looking at it for a few moments. The goal of this is supposed to be about peace, but...
Just in case.
She equips the holster, sliding it underneath her jacket and weaved armor. Hopefully she doesn't need to use it.
After traveling down to the Exchange wing, she looks around for the designated meeting spot with her squad. Unlike last time, no guard tries to accost her, noticing her attire.
She catches a glimpse of herself in a piece of reflective metal. She could probably be mistaken for a soldier like this.
A rather small and lightly armored one, but still a soldier nonetheless.
Looking around, she spots Flitter arriving in the wing as well. Her outfit is quite similar to Twilights, but even lighter. It almost looks casual.
"Hey Twilight!" She says, waving and walking towards the unicorn.
"Hey, Flitter. Do you know where the others are?"
Flitter puts a hoof to her chin.
"Hm... Don't know about Rare, but Comet said he would be doing all the required paperwork and things before we could leave. Also known as the lame stuff."
Right on cue, Comet arrives next. He's a bit more armored than either Twilight or Flitter, but still not as much as an average combative.
"Sorry I was a bit late guys. Just had to finish doing the required documentation for our departion. Also known as the lame stuff."
Twilight frowns.
"My bad. If I knew about that, I probably could have helped--"
"It's fine, it's fine. Consider this a freebie from me, next time it's your job, though." He says with a laugh.
Twilight laughs too, but doesn't know how serious he is about that last part.
"Do you know where Rare is?" Flitter asks.
"Apparently he came down with something. A little bit of me thought he was faking it for whatever reason, but when I went to see him, he was actually in the Medical wing. Might be something serious."
"What? Aw. I hope he gets better." Flitter says.
Twilight nods.
Comet doesn't seem very worried though. "He'll be fine. Enclave medical care is the best in the entire Underworld!" He says, reassuringly.
Twilight is about to ask something when she's interrupted by a large amount of rhythmic footsteps. The others seem to notice as well.
Near the other side of the Exchange wings giant hall, a thick column of Enforcers walk towards one of the vehicle bays.
Flitter perks up, surprised. "Woah! Where are those guys going?"
It's unusual to see such a large amount of them all on the move like that. Usually that size is only reserved for things like rallies or literal war.
"Apparently those guys are going to Kilo Compound. They're really hemorrhaging ponypower against the Hivelings." Comet says with a pause.
Twilight barely has time to ask any questions before Comet beats her to it again. "So, are you guys ready to leave?"
"Mhm." Twilight says.
Flitter nods in agreement.
"Alright. Let's go." the stallion unicorn says.
The trio head towards one of the exit points, one designed for a small group such as themselves.
After being identified and getting it confirmed that they are indeed the ponies they claim they are, they're let in through a few segmented doors, like an airlock. There's one more security checkpoint on the outside, before they're finally released outside the Compound.
They all look generally a bit pleased by the change in scenery, but especially Flitter, the pegasus immediately flying into the air happily.
Comet chuckles. "What's the matter? Couldn't fly inside the Compound?"
Flitter sticks her tongue out. "It's different out here, man! The outside air feels so much nicer... something only a pegasus would get."
Comet raises an eyebrow. His horn begins to glow as Flitter's wings begin to contort somewhat. She doesn't feel any pain whatsoever, but she slowly begins to drift downwards even as she tries to stop herself.
"Hey! Comet! Quit it!" She says, trying to regain altitude, but continuing to float down until she lands back on the ground. She grumbles, looking unamused.
"What happened?" Twilight asks.
"This donkey just used his evil voodoo magic to control my wings against my will!" Flitter says, exaggerating her anger a little.
Twilight looks at Comet with a shocked but also confused expression.
He chuckles dismissively. "It's just a little thing I learnt by combining an old skill with telekinesis." he says.
"Elaborate?" Twilight says, intrigued but still confused.
"I used to be a chiropractor before I became a pathfinder. Turns out, many of the same principles there can be brought over to telekinesis... if you know them well enough."
Twilight scratches her chin, confused.
But then her eyes suddenly widen.
She didn't make her hoof do that.
"Oh the horror! Now the evil puppeteer has claimed another victim! Does his evil know no bounds!?" Flitter says, slapping at Comet's shoulder a few times.
Twilight shudders a little. She gets they're jokes, but still.
"That's kind of creepy."
Comet shrugs.
"Maybe. But I find it a great tool for practical jokes. Like can you imagine the classic hoof-cream prank but without needing a feather? You can just make ponies slap their own face while they sleep! It's hilarious." He says.
Twilight still feels a bit off, but ignores it for now.
Maybe she could even learn how to do it herself, later...
The trio travel through the outskirts for a bit. Flitter is able to scout ahead and spot open routes for them to take, while Comet and Twilight are able to combine their levitation to get rid of some pretty sizable obstructions here and there.
Although it does feel like Comet is the one doing most of the work.
After some continued walking, the group are in a sort of rocky crossroads, with multiple paths intersecting with various walls blocking vision and movement around.
Comet slightly turns to Twilight.
"Say... Twilight. Did you have any specific locations you had in mind?" he inquires.
Twilight thinks for a moment. Her plan was sort of just to walk around for a bit and see what they can find.
"Uh... I was hoping we could just explore for a bit?" She says, unsure.
Comet frowns.
"I'm not sure about wandering around without any destination as a goal. Moving about aimlessly this far from the Compound is just asking for problems. For all we know--"
They hear what sounds like footsteps nearby.
Flitter picks up on it first, flying up into the air to get a better view of anything or anyone nearby.
"Hm... I don't see anyth-- AH!"
She narrowly dodges in mid-air what looks like a hand-axe thrown at her. Comet's eyes widen.
"FLITTER! GET DOWN HERE!" He yells, urgently. She immediately lands.
Comet creates a yellow dome of magic around the group, as they all look around frantically.
Eventually, the perpetrators show themselves.
A handful of Hovels, maybe numbering four or five. They're armed with stone spears and axes. They slowly creep towards the dome like predators on the prowl.
Twilight is a bit shocked, but also sees her opportunity. She approaches the semi-transparent wall of the dome, one hoof out appealingly.
"Twilight, what are you doing?! Get away from the edge!" Comet yells.
She continues walking towards the Hovels, though.
"Peace! We come in peace! I need to see the Annui!" Twilight says, slow and steadily.
The Hovels look surprised and lower their guard a little bit.
Twilight beams. Is this actually working?
But then... they begin to... laugh?
Twilight squints as she looks closer at them.
They have distinct markings on their body, and much different clothes than the ones that the Annui warriors had in the SPAV-3 attack.
But her heart skips a beat when she looks at their faces, more specifically their mouths.
They have sharp teeth. Not like Jack's that were just a little pointed, these look like full blown fangs.
These aren't Annui.
Immediately, the Hovels begin to slam and pound against the dome, making Comet visibly struggle.
Twilight scampers back, surprised. She fumbles for her Ritt.
"Can't... hold it for much... longer!" Comet yells.
Flitter pulls out some sharp objects out of her bag, tightening them onto her hooves. They look like claws.
She nods at Comet, who nods back. Twilight just stays near the two of them.
"NOW!" he yells.
He pushes out the dome with all the strength he can manage, sending the hovels tumbling back.
The first one to recover their footing charges at Twilight, but they're tackled by Flitter. Leading with her clawed gauntlets, the Hovel is gouged like he got shot with a pony-sized arrow.
Twilight's surprised at the damage she inflicts with her small frame.
She doesn't have much time to be shocked, though. Another Hovel comes charging at her again.
She points the Ritt at them, trying to make the Hovel back off, but they don't. She flinches somewhat as she fires into them, leaving a nasty wound in their torso and sending them to the ground.
Two charge at Comet at once from different sides. Twilight quickly attempts to reload the Ritt, but she can't in time.
Comet steps back a little, letting the two smack into each other, but they're already upon him again.
He uses a blast of telekinesis to send one sprawling away, while the other keeps charging at him. His eyes focus as he glares on the remaining one.
The hovel's face of maniacal cheer quickly becomes one of contorted pain. One of his legs suddenly snaps back at an unnatural angle with a loud crunch, definitely broken. Comet runs up and knees him in the face, breaking something there as well.
The other Hovel appears undaunted from what happened, or at least unaware. He charges straight at Comet as well. However, he steps near the body of his fallen comrade.
The fallen hovel's leg shoots out towards his still-standing compatriot, spear in hoof. The charging hovel gets stabbed through the side and screams in pain. Comet forces the Hovels mouth to close so hard that his sharp teeth stab into his own face.
Twilight looks completely shocked at what she just witnessed in the span of a few seconds.
Don't mess with chiropractors, apparently.
Flitter flies back around, looking around rapidly for any other hostiles. She doesn't manage to spot a Bola net thrown straight at her. She's wacked multiple times by the stones impacting against her body, while one of her wings gets caught up and she quickly falls, screaming.
Comet barely stops her fall with levitation, but a Hovel comes from behind and wacks him over the head with a club. Twilight isn't able to reach him in time as the Hovel lifts his weapon for another strike...
THWACK.
Flitter looks back at Comet with surprise. She heard a noise, but he wasn't the one hit.
The hovel looks completely shocked. He holds his throat with one hoof. All he can do is gurgle incoherently as he slumps dead on the ground.
Flitter quickly frees herself, and she and Twilight run over to Comet's side. He's dazed, but it's nothing serious.
They look over at the Hovel's corpse barely a foot away.
There's an arrow through his neck.
It barely takes a few seconds for another wave of Hovels to appear, surrounding the area. There looks to be nearly a dozen of them.
"Oh come on!" Flitter says.
Twilight recognizes these Hovels as being the Annui. She immediately can tell one of them was also at the SPAV-3 attack, that giant red guy.
Twilight quickly throws her hooves up.
"We surrender! We come in peace! We want to see Jack! I know you can speak, so please do!" She yells.
Comet and Flitter look completely shocked and confused at what Twilight just said.
"What?! Who is Jack?!" Comet says, a tinge of anger in his voice.
The Annui look equally confused. The red one steps up though. He points at Twilight.
"She. Purple' Unicorn. That's who Jack talked' about." He says.
Twilight feels a little relieved. Jack told them about her. They should be fine.
Her relief quickly disappears when the red pony immediately begins to charge at her with a fury in his eyes. Twilight scampers back as Comet immediately seizes him with his magic.
The red stallion is taken aback, feeling one of his limbs beginning to contort against his will. His glare sharpens though, and he keeps moving towards Comet like he's in a wind chamber.
Comet's eyes widen with fear and surprise.
The red pony punches him across the face, knocking him out cold in a single strike. Flitter and Twilight look with terror as the other Hovels begin to move in on them.
Flitter looks like she's about to go full kamikaze on them all, but Twilight manages to hold her back.
The red pony yanks Twilight away, with a face of fury. Twilight expects the worst, but she instead has a bag thrown over her head, and is grabbed into the air, over the shoulder of the red pony.
He takes a deep breath of restraint.
"Grab both of em' and load em' up." he orders to a few other Hovels, gesturing at Comet and Flitter.
Flitter has the wherewithal to surrender, being bagged similarly to Twilight. Comet's unconscious body is simply picked up as well.
The three of them are thrown into a cart-like cage, and are wheeled away, with the red pony himself pulling it away.
The normally bubbly Flitter looks at Twilight with a dark face of pure anger and shock.
"Twilight... what did you do?" She asks.
It's almost poetic. Now Twilight is the POW being transported.
She'd probably not feel as bad pondering about it if she didn't have a pissed off Flitter and a knocked out Comet next to her as well.
Twilight wants to explain to Flitter what she was thinking, but decides maybe it isn't a good idea within earshot of all the other Hovels.
The red guy in particular didn't look very happy when he saw Twilight.
The group are transported through crevices and cracks of the Outskirts that Twilight never even knew existed. It's like an entire secret part of the Pocket.
Eventually, they reach something that could only be described like a wooden fort.
Shoddily made wooden and scrap structures work together alongside the natural terrain to create something which can only barely be described as 'livable'. The whole thing looks like the slightest force would bring it all down, but it appears its inhabitants are careful enough, somehow.
The three are thrown out of the cart and carried towards a deeper part of the whole construct. Various hovels aside from the group taking them in appear to follow or jeer at them, some even getting dangerously close.
At one point, the red pony even has to toss somepony out of their way for being too aggressive, ironic when looking at the out-cold Comet.
Eventually, the following Hovels are shaved off, and the group thins as they get further in as well, until they're only a handful along with the red pony, and the trio themselves.
They enter some sort of deeper chamber, one that appears to actually be structurally sound. Twilight can see some sort of robed figure sitting at the end. Twilight can only assume this has to be the tribe's elder or something of the like.
Her and Flitter are thrown down and forced onto their knees, facing the figure. Comet's body just slumps down next to them.
"Ah... you found em'. I assume" She says, in a light and raspy voice.
At closer glance, elder might have been understating it. This pony looks older than everypony in the room combined!
She approaches the actually conscious duo. Her skin is a light green, thin as can be. A long and white mane is visible under a hood, but most notably is her eyes.
They're completely glazed over. She's blind.
"Yes gran'. That purple' one is the pony Jack talked' about."
Twilight sits up, at least as much as she can without looking like she's trying to make a move.
"What did Jack say about me? I need--"
"Quiet!" The old pony snaps. Twilight does so, not wanting to aggravate anypony here.
She licks her lips, coughing a little.
"I don't know' how you know about Jack, but I'll entertain you. We found her barely alive in the outskirts, with a broken leg and a sky-high sickness, ramblin' about nothing except a purple unicorn and some sort of 'fighting shot'. Got any clue?" She says.
Twilight freezes. Did Jack have some sort of bad reaction to the combat shot she injected into her? She didn't even think that was a possibility.
"There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding. I didn't--"
"Misunderstanding? How about you see her for yourself, eh?"
She gestures to the red pony, who goes over to another side of the chamber. He pulls back a stitched sheet, and sure enough, Jack lies on an impromptu bed of furs and grass. She looks terrible. Her eyes are barely open, she's twitching a little bit, and also making occasional gasps.
Twilight looks shocked. Flitter looks surprised as well, but doesn't know who this pony is whatsoever.
The old pony continues. "Yes, yes... we tried everythin' we could. The best practices we got' available... bloodletting... leeching... mudskinning... none worked."
Twilight's mouth is agape. "Of course none of them worked! You're making it worse!" She yells.
The old pony snaps at her.
"Makin' it worse? You're why she's like that in the first place!" She yells, hoofing at Jack's direction. The red pony covers the mare once more.
The old pony is about to say something, when Comet suddenly comes to. He groans, slowly awakening.
Some of the hovels get to attention, weapons ready, but the old pony simply waves them down.
Comet's eyes widen seeing the scene around him. He immediately attempts to do his magic on the red pony again.
But... nothing happens.
His eyes widen further as he notices. "What's happening... what did you do to me?!" He yells.
The old pony smirks.
"Nothing... permanent, at least. As-long as I will it, you won't be doing any unicorn magic around here."
Twilight briefly saw this sort of thing in the information registry. Something about Hovel 'mystics' and unnatural powers. Can this pony really disable magic?
Either way, it definitely seems to be working on Comet. He futilely tries to cast something, anything, but not even a single spark from his horn comes out. He slumps down, defeated
"Back on topic... the Enclave kidnapping my Jack is why this happened in the first place... so I might as well return the favor."
"I don't understand! What are you gaining out of this?!" Twilight says.
The old pony feigns shock.
"Gaining? Nothing. Think of it more like... insurance?"
She coughs.
"As much as I hate to admit, the only place I can see gettin' a cure for her is the Enclave. But why would I trust any of you dogs? They would be amazing fools to try and play me if I have you all in my hold, though... and if they still do, then that'll be four Enclaves for the price of one Annui."
Twilight is about to speak up, when Flitter cuts her off.
"Four? You said four?" She says.
The old pony gestures again. After about a minute, another pony is thrown into the room. Twilight recognizes him immediately.
It's the CO from the SPAV-3 attack. What was his name again? Major Pane?
He appears to be alive, but he looks like he's been ran over by a cart multiple times. He's almost entirely covered with bruises and gashes, and part of his face is swollen. He's also missing a significant chunk of one of his legs. He's completely out of it.
"What the heck did you do to him?!" Comet yells. He has no idea who the pony is, but recognizes him as a Enclave officer.
"We beat him with various blunt objects and then pushed him down a flight of stairs a few times." The old pony says, nonchalantly.
"Wait, you guys have stairs?" Flitter asks.
The old pony looks at her like she's crazy. "Of course we have stairs! They're an amazin' invention, really. You push a pony down the top, and they'll tumble' all the way to the bottom and get super beaten' up. That's about as close to automation as we'll get. Let gravity do the work for us, ya know?" She says.
"Do you guys like... have other floors to this place?" Flitter asks.
"What's a 'floor'."
"Nevermind."
"Okay. So. You're just going to keep us hostage until... Jack gets better?" Twilight asks, trying to get back to something relevant.
"Yes."
"And what if Jack dies?"
"Then you die."
Twilight nods a little, trying to not scream out of frustration.
She suddenly remembers one of the things she brought in her first aid kit. The medi-shot!
Twilight reaches into her bag. "Look, I have this device which I think can cure her, but--"
The red pony yanks her satchel away, tearing it off its handle. Twilight looks with shock.
"Do you think I'm stupid, girl? As if I would allow you to inject her with ANOTHER one of your poison sticks!" The old pony barks.
She steps away from her seat.
"You're lucky that I'm even being lenient enough to let you remain alive... my forefathers would have cut you down before you even would have had time to know what happened to you. That's all you dirty Enclave dogs deserve. A slow death wouldn't even be good, as it would make us have to waste more time not cleaning you filth from this underworld. You--"
"Er. Granny. You're facing a wall." The red pony says.
Granny blankly stares towards one of the stone walls.
"Oh."
She turns to the trio. "You're luck--"
"Okay we got it. Can you just send us to your prison or something already?" Flitter asks.
Granny scoffs. "Tch! So impatient, you youngsters. Yes. Throw them into the hold." She says.
Flitter and Twilight are grabbed by the red pony and slung over his back, while some others grab Comet and the unconscious Major Pane.
The four of them are tossed into some sort of gigantic cell made of vines and logs. They land with a splatter of mud and small rocks.
Immediately, Flitter and Comet turn to Twilight, glaring at the unicorn.
"Okay so maybe I wasn't being entirely honest with you guys about what happened." Twilight says, nervously.
"You think?" Flitter says.
Twilight explains the run-down of events. The full wreck, the fights with Jack, her saving her from falling, the talks they had, Jack saving her from the Dusk Sucker, everything.
They seem skeptical, especially at the idea of a Hovel being able to act anything like Jack was at the wreck, even more so considering how they've just been captured and tossed around silly by the same group of Hovels.
Notably, though, they're also upset at Twilight in particular for not only holding out the truth on them, but lying to them and getting them into this situation. If not for the literal cage surrounding them, they probably would've ditched her already.
The most they can settle for is sitting in a different corner and turning away.
Twilight feels bad for a little while, but her expression hardens.
"Come on guys. Are we really just going to rot away here because you're mad at me?" She asks.
"Perhaps." Flitter says.
Twilight face-hooves.
"How was I supposed to know how you guys would react if I told you the truth?! I didn't--"
"Maybe we could have helped you. But no. You decided to get us wrapped into this with us being none the wiser. Thanks." Comet says.
"Look, I'm sorry, okay? But can we at least save the moping until AFTER we manage to get out of here?" Twilight asks.
"And how do you suppose we do that?" Comet asks, still not looking her way.
"I have a plan. I brought with me a medi-shot. If we can deliver it to Jack--"
"Amazing plan. Heal her up. What's she gonna do next? Beat us up as well?" Comet asks, pretty bruised up.
Twilight frowns. "You heard the old pony. If she's healed, then we can leave."
"And you trust her?" Flitter asks, in disbelief.
"Do we have a choice? If she wanted to, she'd have killed us already." Twilight retorts.
Comet sighs.
"You know, I still don't like how you got us into this mess. At least if we fail, we probably won't have to deal with being here forever on account of being killed. What's your plan?" He asks, reluctantly.
Flitter looks shocked, but turns over as well.
Twilight crouches a little.
"Okay. So..."
Twilight, Flitter, and Comet lay on the floor, unmoving.
Suddenly, Major Pane springs to life. He begins to bang on the logs of the prison, loudly. Some hovels show up to investigate the ruckus.
"Quit it!" One shouts.
The other hovel pokes at his fellow. "Hey look. The dog doesn't wanna be in the cage! Bwahaha!"
The other hovel is about to laugh, when they hear a crack. The major is literally breaking through the cage with his bare hooves. The two hovels feel a shiver down their spine.
How strong is this guy?!
Before long, the major breaks through the logs, and begins to wildly stumble and strike around. The hovels attempt to subdue him, but they feel like they're trying to wrestle a rabid animal. He throws them around with nothing but his movements.
He shambles off, literally charging through one of the wooden walls. The two shocked Hovels chase after him, with more Hovels in the distance noticing the escape as well.
Flitter slowly opens one eye, seeing the coast is clear. After nudging the others, they get up as well.
"How long will that spell last?" Twilight asks Comet, horn glowing from controlling the major.
"A few minutes. Let's just hope they don't kill him."
The three try to navigate their way through the fort without being spotted. They come across an impassable room with two Hovels standing around.
Flitter has an idea.
"Do you ever wonder why we never use guns?" One hovel asks.
"Guns are for losers, man. Besides, where would we even get the shooty powder from?" Another hovel responds.
"Good point." The first hovel says, sipping from a small cup of water.
He spits out the water when he sees the trio casually enter the room. Their clothes are all torn up, and they're covered in mud.
"How do you do, fellow... ponies?" Flitter asks.
"The dogs are escaping!" He yells.
"Dammit! I thought this always worked!" Flitter groans.
Both Hovels are telekinetically thrown together by Comet, falling to the ground dazed. The trio quickly run over them.
Flitter briefly stops to kick the head of the Hovel who spotted them out of revenge.
"This way! I remember the path!" Comet says, running through some more passages. They come across a dead end.
"Or not."
Twilight groans.
"What are we even doing? This entire place is made of wood!" She says.
She blasts a hole in one of the nearby walls, large enough for them to access.
Unfortunately, they must've blasted into Hovel-Con or something because the adjacent room had somewhere around ten of them, now all looking at them.
"Crap."
They take off running as they're pursued by the mob behind.
A couple block their passage in a hallway in front of them. Twilight pulls on the ceiling with her magic hard, causing a cave-in to block the Hovels' access to them.
Comet does the same behind them, giving them some breathing room. After a brief pause, they continue blasting through various rooms, having to beat up the occasional hovel. Eventually, they find the hallway leading to Jack's chamber.
As they run for it, the red pony comes out from ahead of them, blocking their path. He almost takes up the entire hallway.
Comet and Twilight immediately think about blasting a hole in the side of the walls, but these walls are stone. No do.
The red pony charges at them like a bull.
Comet glances at Twilight. "Get the medi-shot to her. You're right there." Twilight nods cautiously.
He gestures to Flitter. "Come on. Let's do a little cow tipping." he says, gesturing at the furious charging giant.
Flitter feels a bit afraid, but she isn't gonna let herself be out-done by Comet of all ponies. Comet flings himself straight into the red ponies path, taking him off-guard, beginning to pummel his face. He grabs onto Comet with one of his giant hooves, but Flitter latches onto his shoulder and begins to claw at him like a cat, causing him to yell and fall backwards with both ponies still attacking him.
The path opens up just enough for Twilight to squeeze through, bursting into the chamber.
Between her and Jack's bed, is nothing except the elderly pony. She has a small knife, holding it with an uncanny stillness against the unicorn.
Twilight tries to levitate her away or something, but she forgets the pony can disable her magical ability.
She face-hooves.
"Come on. I don't want to beat up an old lady." She says.
Granny yells as she charges at her. At a snail's pace.
Twilight calmly grabs the knife away, picks up the old pony, and sets her on her side a few meters away.
"Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" She cries.
Twilight rolls her eyes, and runs for Jack. She rips off the blanket, and immediately injects the mare with the medi-shot.
Applejack's foggy eyes immediately come back into focus, widening slightly. She sits up with a gasp. Within seconds her face is beginning to clear up, her gasping having stopped entirely.
She looks with complete shock at Twilight right in front of her face.
"Eh?! What are you doin' here?!" She says. Granny looks at her with bewilderment
Before Twilight can say anything, Flitter and Comet are literally thrown through the wooden doors to the room. They sprawl on the floor, both beaten but still alive.
The red pony bursts in after them, covered in small bruises and scratches, and furious. Dozens more hovels erupt into the room as well, having found the end destination. Jack quickly pieces together what's happening.
They're about to descend on the trio, when a voice pierces the room.
"STOP!"
Jack yells, nearly jumping out of bed, dwarfing the smaller Twilight by a fair amount.
Everyone in the room freezes, especially the red pony who looks at Jack like he saw a ghost.
"Wh-wha? How?!" The Granny says, scrambling to her feet.
"I told you I could heal her!" Twilight says, annoyed.
Jack looks confused. "Heal me? What exactly happened?!" she yells.
"We found you in the outskirts... you were sick and babblin' about this purple unicorn and how she injected you with something. We only could assume that the--"
Jack cuts her off.
"This purple unicorn injected me with some combat drug or something that let us fight off a monster that was trying to kill us! I got sick because I accidentally ate some poison berries!"
Granny face-hooves.
"We got kidnapped. We were gonna be used as hostage chips to secure a cure for you." Twilight says.
Jack looks at Granny with a fury. Granny just gives a nervous chuckle back.
"Really?"
"We couldn't think of any other way!" Granny retorts.
"You guys rescue me and the first thing you wanna do is kidnap some Enclave ponies? What was the plan if they came lookin' for them? Get nearly wiped out again???" Jack yells.
Granny is silent.
"Let these ponies go." She says, approaching Granny. Granny looks shocked. Wanting to avoid encounters with Enclave ponies is one thing, but this is like... something more.
Twilight tries to chip in. "We didn't want any of this. I came looking for peace! We--"
The parade is quickly rained on by the arrival of the Major. The LUCID Major. He looks like a used pinata from the sheer amount of beating he's taken, but he's somehow conscious and found his way over here.
"YOU! IT WAS YOU! YU'RE THE RESON THE AMBUSH HAPPEN!" He slurs, holding a shaky hoof to Twilight.
Everyone glances over, confused.
"I NEW YOU WER BAD NEWS! THEY KNEW WHERE WE WE BECUSE OF YOU!" He slurs again, cackling slightly.
He notices the three standing with Hovels and not immediately killing each other.
"wHAT'S THIS? COOPING WITH THE HOVEL MENACE? TTHAT IS TRESON! YOU'LL ALL BE EXECUTED! DO YOU HEAR--"
Jack rapidly closes the gap with the major, striking him in the face with a powerful punch, and an audible crunch. He's out cold.
"Hopefully that knocked that dumbasses' memories out of his brain." She says, shaking her hoof a little.
Nobody attempts to contest Jack's order of letting the group leave after that display. Even the trio feel afraid, and she's technically on their side.
Granny grumbles.
"Let the Enclave ponies leave." She orders.
The group is safely accosted out of the fort by Jack. As she's about to shoo them off, Twilight quickly runs up to her.
"Wait. We're going to leave right now, but... just... take this. Please." Twilight pulls out some small object.
Jack hesitantly takes it from her, pocketing it.
"If you hear this thing make noise, find somewhere private and press the green circle thing."
"Oh... kay?" Jack says, not really sure what to say.
Afterwards, she proceeds to shove the three far and out away of the passages, back on the main trail towards the Compound.
Flitter and Comet look at Twilight with confusion.
"What did you give her?" Flitter asks.
"Just a gift."
After getting their story straight, the three agree to not get into some of the more... specific details of what happened.
Comet and Flitter are a bit salty at it all, but can't help but respect Twilight for managing to get them out of that situation, and are most of all surprised at seeing and experiencing possibly the first instance of peace with Hovels. Assuming you only looked at the ending of the whole mess.
They promise to keep everything related to Jack a secret to the best of their ability.
After arriving back at the compound with the presumed dead Major Pane, the three were given a commendation, especially Twilight for surviving ANOTHER encounter with Hovels.
Upon awakening, the Major said he couldn't remember anything from the past few days. He reasons he must've fallen off a cliff or something similar.
Twilight tries to hold back a chuckle.
Twilight relaxes in her quarters. She's aching both mentally and physically from the day's events. But she got what she wanted.
The Annui seemed much more... placable than what the reports would suggest. A bit ironic considering they all got the snot beaten out of them, but they weren't the bloodthirsty savages that the Registry claimed they were.
As Twilight ponders, there's a knock on her door. She looks out the peep-hole and her heart nearly drops. She immediately swings the door open.
"Commander Raven! What brings.. you here?" She says, stepping aside for the Commander.
Raven quickly enters the room, a neutral expression on her face.
"I'm not gonna mince words. I have a proposition for you, Twilight Sparkle."
Twilight holds her breath.
"I'm assembling a special team, meant specifically for counter-Hovel actions. I've noticed an up-tick in Hovel activity, and decided that enough is enough. It's about time we take the problem to its roots. And based on your track record, you seem perfect for this."
She continues. "A rookie Pathfinder not only surviving but THRIVING against two Hovel incidents? You're a prodigy. We could really use someone like you with us. What do you say?"
Twilight doesn't know whether or not this is a good thing.
What if Raven figured out what happened, and is messing with her?
Or testing her?
Even not, this seems counterproductive for what she's trying to do... Jack probably won't take it well seeing her mowing down Annui like they're pests.
She bites the bullet.
"Sorry but... I can't. I've already made too many dedications to my squad to just leave them like that. I'm sure you could fill me in with like... an Enforcer or something?" Twilight asks, uneasy.
Raven gives her a disapproving look.
"Are you sure?" She asks.
Twilight just nods slowly.
Raven simply turns away, walking out of the still open door.
"If you ever change your mind, please come see me." She says, tactfully. She closes it behind her with telekinesis.
Twilight takes a deep exhale of relief.
She hopes Raven doesn't take it too badly.
Raven hits a button in the wall, activating a complete lock-down of her private quarters. The windows and doors are covered with solid metal shutters.
She retreats into a further private room, some sort of secret compartment.
Taking a seat, she looks at the large screen in front of her.
There's a camera feed, displaying what appears to be some Hovels fighting with some Enclave personnel. Twilight's squad.
But the footage is being recorded from the Hovel's perspectives.
She squints her eyes. Twilight's story was that they simply 'found' Major Pane somewhere in the outskirts. She didn't believe it one bit, but now she knows for sure.
Raven pulls out some kind of transponder. One far too advanced for even the Enclave to have produced.
Pressing a button, a magical vertical interface appears above, with nothing on it besides a single simplistic eye shape.
"VERIFY IDENTITY."
Raven appears to grab something on her face. There's some hissing and clicks. She lifts the device to one of her eyes, her horn glowing at the same time.
"[MOONLIGHT RAVEN] VERIFIED."
The eye is replaced with a view into some barely visible room and figure. Raven lowers it back to her face at a distance.
"Ah. Moonlight. Back so soon?" A modulated voice says from the darkness.
"I need another shipment of Neurals. Now."
Before the voice can respond, she quickly closes the device, the interface disappearing.
Raven grabs her face again, the hissing and clicking resuming. Afterwards, she leans back in her seat, clasping her hooves lightly.
It appears Twilight Sparkle is forcing her hand. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 9 - The Big Stall | Pinkie and Fluttershy sit in the wagon for what feels like hours. The light outside constantly changes between bright and dark, but it's more likely they're traveling through things like tunnels and whatnot.
Pinkie frowns. Not only did they get whisked away to a new Pocket, but now they're traveling super far away. Finding their way back is gonna be a pain, even IF they're in a Pocket she can recognize.
At this point, nearly all of the prisoners are asleep, having nothing else to do.
Fluttershy herself begins to doze off slightly, blinking one squinted eye at a time.
Pinke nudges Fluttershy a few times to keep her awake.
"...h-huh?" She says, barely able to look back at Pinkie.
"Important tip. Never fall asleep inside of wagons! The shaking and rocking motions make the Night Terrors much worse."
"the wha?"
Before Pinkie can elaborate, the wagon comes to a sudden stop. Pinkie gets worried they might be getting transported to another Pocket, but her fears are quelled after they don't hear the familiar noises of a gateway happening.
Instead, there's a few clunks on the back door. It's swung open, causing light to flood the interior of the wagon.
"EVERYPONY OUT!" One armored pony hollers, banging on the side of the wagon wall.
Fluttershy jolts up out of surprise and fear, hooves rapidly skittering around to try and get her footing.
Prisoners begin to get up and shuffle out. Pinkie helps the groggy Fluttershy do so as well. Once they're all out, there's about a fourty or fifty of them in total.
The two look around. They look like they're in some kind of large stone fort, with the wagon having passed through a large wooden gate. There's multiple wagons behind them too, forming a sort of convoy.
Pinkie looks up at the cavern ceiling, trying to gauge its features. Doing so is one of the most reliable ways of figuring out what Pocket you're in. It's a smooth and light-grey colored wave-like pattern, as opposed to their previous Pocket's ceiling of jagged stalactites and jagged rocks, and a dark brown.
There also appears to be some kind of 'cage' covering the top of the fort, like a big net. Maybe they're for pegasi would-be escapees?
Her ceiling gazing session is interrupted by one prisoner attempting to make a run for it. He's immediately set upon by multiple armored guards, being beaten into the ground.
Fluttershy covers one of her hooves with a look of worry.
One of the armored ponies approaches the crowd, flanked by two subordinates. Their entire body including their face is concealed. They speak out with a modulated voice.
"YOU ARE NOW PRISONERS AT JUSTICE-2. YOU WILL REMAIN HERE UNTIL YOUR SENTENCES ARE DONE. YOU WILL NOW BE SORTED BASED ON YOUR KINDS. RESISTANCE WILL PUNISHED AND INCUR ADDITIONS TO YOUR SENTENCES."
Pinkie and Fluttershy's eyes widen as they look at each other.
They're about to get separated.
There's a small amount of chaos as formations of guards encroach on the crowd, forcefully pulling and shoving ponies into creating three smaller groups. A few prisoners try to fight back for whatever reason, getting promptly pummeled.
Fluttershy holds onto Pinkie, scared. She barely knows the pony, but she's all she has right now.
"What's going on! Why are they separating us?!" She whimpers.
Pinkie tries to calm her down.
"Don't worry! Just... stay strong! I'll get us out of this one way or another. Just do everything the metal guys tell you to do!"
Fluttershy nods a little, still afraid.
The two get pulled apart by guards and accosted towards their respective groups. Their light shackles are removed, and replaced with kind-specific ones.
Unicorns get some sort of metallic cone placed atop their horns, along with neck restraints that limit how far they can move their heads in any direction. Pegasi get some straps that tie their wings to their sides along with their legs to prevent full movement, and earthen simply get oversized chains connecting all their legs.
Pinkie feels like she got the better end of the stick than the torture-trap unicorns or the pegasi' have going on.
As the groups are taken in different directions, Fluttershy and Pinkie look back at each other from a distance, before going out of sight.
A long line of prisoners wait within a hall, appearing to be some kind of queue. Eventually, Pinkie is the next one up. A few guards lead the pony through a few doors, before entering a large chamber.
There's a table with some chairs, two of which have unicorns sitting in them. At one wall there is a black-robed pegasus mare on an elevated podium, presumably a judge, and a few guards scattered around as well.
Pinkie looks confused. She thought they were going to go straight to the cells.
A chair on her side is magically pulled out for her. She takes a seat, a bit awkwardly due to her chains.
"Erm... is this a... trial?" She asks, unsure.
The judge simply stares at her. "Do not attempt to touch the fixture or the unicorns, or move during the process."
Pinkie barely has time to register what the 'process' is before some device lowers from the ceiling, attached to some cables. The unicorn's eyes close and their horns glow as the device is levitated towards her and placed atop her head.
She begins to feel weird as the device begins to whir to life, glowing slightly. It doesn't appear to hurt, but it makes her head feel 'tingly'.
After a minute or two, the device is lifted off and the unicorns stop their concentration. One approaches the judge who leans towards them, and gets something whispered into her ear.
She sits back upright.
"Pinkie Pie. You are being charged with petty theft, assault, property damage, burglary, kidnapping, and associating with criminals. How do you plead?"
Pinkie Pie looks flabbergasted. "What?! How could you even know any of that! I also only did like half of those things to my knowledge, by the way."
"This device scans recent memories and events. It is approximately 105% accurate."
"I'm not sure that's how percentages work."
"It does not matter. How do you plead?"
"Guilty, I guess? What am I supposed to say? You guys can apparently read my mi-- wait aren't I supposed to have a lawyer or something???"
The judge sighs and gesture towards one of the armored ponies. They leave the room and come back with a pony in a suit and a briefcase.
"I am Pinkie Pie's lawyer. My client pleads guilty." He says, beginning to walk away.
Pinkie Pie groans.
The judge watches the lawyer leave, and then continues . "You will be out on bond for 50000 Bits."
Pinkie nearly jumps out of her chair. "What?! I don't have that money on me!" She exclaims.
"Then find somepony who does. Until then, you'll be doing labor until you can pay that amount off."
The judge hits a gavel. "Session adjourned. Next!"
She is quickly accosted out of the room by some of the armored ponies. On the way out, Pinkie sees another prisoner being put in the same chair.
Pinkie smiles widely for her mugshot like it's a yearbook photo, even fixing her mane to look good.
Afterwards, her clothes and belongings are confiscated and she's given a prison jumpsuit to wear.
She sits down next to a telegraph machine for her one granted contact.
"Okay... let's see if I still remember how to use one of these."
Pinke begins to tap, hold, and release on the machine, her chains rattling the whole time. After the sequence is done, the operator looks at the output with some confusion.
"You're looking to buy a tupae?" He asks, raising an eyebrow.
Pixie face-hooves.
"Can I just tell you what I wanna say like a normal-pony and you do your little tapping stuff?"
The operator shrugs. Pinkie tells him her message and to whom it's being sent to.
Pinkie gets led to her cell by two armored ponies and pushed inside.
"You know you guys don't gotta shove everypony everywhere! Words exist!" She yells. They simply close the door behind her.
Pinkie looks around the cell. There's two bunk beds, one on each side of the cell.
There's three ponies already in the cell. Sure enough, they're all earthen.
"Hi?" Pinkie asks, raising a hoof.
"Ey." One of them says, a small mare. The other two don't seem very interested.
"I assume you'll be bunkin' with me?" she continues, hoofing to the empty bed below her.
Pinkie trots over and takes an awkward seat.
The 'bed' feels more like a solid mass of hay and wood rather than anything you could actually sleep on. It itches the crap out of her almost immediately.
The mare above her chuckles a little.
"Pretty bad beds, yeah? You'll get used to them, eventually."
"Hopefully I don't stay here long enough to." Pinkie responds, dryly.
The mare laughs again. "You're funny. What's your name? Mines Marcy."
"Pinkie Pie."
Marcy snorts. "Bit on the nose, huh?"
One of the ponies on the other side, an orange stallion rolls over towards the wall.
"Can yall shut it? I'm tryin to sleep." he groans. The stallion below him just stares up at the bottom of the bed above.
Marcy tosses some of her bed mulch at the top stallion's face, causing him to growl.
"You shit!" He says.
Marcy laughs. "What's the problem, Slick? I'm just giving you more bed to sleep on!" She says with a smirk.
The two begin to bicker, but the stallion below Slick huffs loudly, making them stop. One of his eyes drifts towards Marcy and stares at her directly, before looking back above.
Pinkie just sits there awkwardly, trying to figure out the dynamic here. The four just lie in their beds silently for a little while.
She can already feel the boredom setting in.
"So... what are you guys in for? Is that like what people say in prison?"
Marcy chuckles. "Yea. I suppose."
She leans over the edge of the bed, looking at Pinkie while upside down, her mane flipping down as well.
"Arson." She says with a flipped smirk.
"Oh" Pinkie says, a bit troubled.
"Ah, don't worry about it. Some twat was hurting one of my friends, so I took a torch to his place. Unfortunately he seemed to have connections with the Order, so... they pulled their strings against me."
"Ah! Okay."
She glances towards the other side of the cell.
"What about you... slick, was it?" She asks.
Slick barely turns over. "Murder."
"Oh."
"The guy deserved it, though. He was my brother-in-law. Found him beatin' my sister. She convinced me to turn myself in after the deed was done, but honestly I'm starting to regret that decision..."
"Erm... alright."
She looks directly across to the big stallion. At a closer inspection he nearly takes up the entire bed. Pinkie is a bit worried about what he did in particular. He has a uneasy aura to him.
She's about to ask something, when Marcy cuts her off.
"That's Terry. He's dont talk much."
"Uh. Okay. Do you know what he's in for?" Pinkie asks, cringing a little.
"Jaywalking."
Pinkie sits back forward. "Really? I thought he would've--"
"He illegally crossed a street to set some guy on fire and then kill him. They put 'Jaywalking' as his main offense, as a joke."
Pinkie pauses.
"Well surely he must've had a reason?"
"Nope. He just felt like doing that."
Pinkie blinks a few times.
"I see."
Fluttershy nervously looks around as she's brought into some large room. There's some weird wooden platform and a few of those 'chairs' around it, along with a few unicorns. Some scary looking ponies wearing metal clothing stand around the place as well.
Near the end of the room, some pony wearing long black robes stands on some big wooden thing.
One of the chairs is levitated outwards for her. She awkwardly takes a seat, still a bit unfamiliar with them.
The black robed pony and her stare at each other.
"U-Uhm. Hello?" Fluttershy says.
"Do not attempt to touch the fixture or the unicorns, or move during the process."
"Huh?"
Her eyes widen as some weird shiny disc-like thing begins floating towards her.
Fluttershy immediately begins to freak out, getting to her feet. The two unicorns stop their channeling and step back, as guards quickly descend on her, some drawing weapons.
"WAIT WHAT IS THAT THING DON'T HURT ME!" She cries.
The guards appear to stop from this act of fear.
The black robed pony sighs.
"This device will simply scan your mind for recent events and thoughts, as to let us see what crimes you have committed."
"But I haven't committed any crimes!" She exclaims.
"We'll be the judge of that. Now sit down. Another outburst like that and you're going straight to solitary." the judge says.
Fluttershy sits back in the chair, still uneasy. The unicorns begin the process again. Fluttershy whimpers a little but manages to keep herself somewhat calm as the device is placed above her.
It feels like her head is being poked with tiny little pricks.
As the unicorns concentrate with their eyes closed, their faces begin to contort a little. Not out of pain, but more like confusion.
The judge raises an eyebrow.
After an unusual amount of time, one of the unicorns, looking somewhat shocked, goes up to the judge and whispers into their ear.
The judge's face is suddenly one of bewilderment.
"That... that can't be possible. What range did you set it to?"
"Last few days. Scanner came back completely blank."
The judges eyes narrow.
"Do it again. Clearly, there must be something wrong with the device." she says, while sitting forward.
Fluttershy gulps. All eyes are on her as the device comes back for a second round.
Pinkie and other prisoners are lined up in some sort of court-yard, tied together in a chain gang. All around the yard, tons of rocks lie in various spots.
A single armored pony with a helmet a tad too big for his head, covering the front of his eyes, walks parallel to them back and forth.
"Listen up, Maggots! You are about to indulge in one of the greatest acts that this Underworld can give you... rock smashing!"
Other guards come near the group and drop various tools, such as sledgehammers and pickaxes.
Pinkie raises a hoof as far as the chains can allow.
"Uh. Yes, hi. Why are we smashing rocks when there's literally rocks everywhere?" She asks.
The helmet pony walks up to her, staring her in the face.
"Ohhhh?? We got a funny pony here, don't we?"
"Well I don't mean to brag but, but I would say--"
"SHUT UP, MAGGOT!" He shouts in her face.
Pinkie blinks a few times.
"We smash rocks because people want smaller rocks! Tiny rocks are one of the Judicar Order's greatest exports! Without them, where would people get all those small rocks to put in playgrounds or in their front yards or at beaches?! YOU CAN'T HAVE A BEACH WITHOUT TINY ROCKS EVERYWHERE POKING INTO PONIES HOOVES WHEN THEY TRY TO WALK AROUND!" He bellows.
With a bit of corralling, the chain gang shuffles nearby one of the fields of rocks, and begin getting to work.
Everypony visible struggles. Even Terry has trouble with his rock, which is smaller than him by a comical degree.
Pinkie snickers a bit looking at her rock.
"You serious? This tiny thing?" She asks, in disbelief.
The helmet pony almost takes flight from how fast he runs up in front of her, face red.
"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, MAGGOT? YOU BETTER START CUTTING AWAY AT THAT THING OR THE ONLY THING YOU'LL BE CUTTING IS THE POUNDS WHEN YOU'RE STARVED IN SOLITA--"
SMASH!
Pinkie breaks the rock in two with a single strike of her pickaxe. The helmet pony's eyes bulge.
"W-what..?"
The other prisoners look with similar amounts of surprise.
"Woah! How'd ya do that???" Marcy asks, being positioned right next to her.
"I used to break apart boulders. It's actually pretty easy! You just gotta go with the grain, find the right spot... and..."
With another strike, one of the rocks halves is split once more.
Marcy looks back at her rock, trying what Pinkie said. After a few seconds of aiming, she gets a similar result.
Her face slowly turns into a smile. "Oh ho ho!"
She begins to go ham and beginning to smash the rock apart into tinier pieces.
The technique slowly gets passed down in both directions of the chain gang, until everypony is destroying rocks like crazy.
The helmet pony backs up, looking at the scene.
"Mother of Sol..."
The judge wipes their brow.
"Are you kidding me? Fourth time and still nothing?"
The unicorns look visibly tired. There's even an extra unicorn or two brought in to help, who similarly look tired.
"Nothing, your honor. This pegasus hasn't committed a single crime in the past few weeks, at least. She hasn't even hurt a fly, nothing."
Fluttershy sits in her chair, looking confused at the chatter some distance away.
"Okay... we need--"
A guard pokes out from behind the door. "Your honor, we need to keep going with the prisoners, this--"
"Shut it! Send them somewhere else or something! I'm trying to get to the bottom of this!" The judge snaps. The guard gulps and quickly goes away.
The judge takes a deep breath, wiping their brow.
"Okay. Go get every available unicorn. Even the auxiliary staff ones who aren't that good at magic. This pegasus has to have something about her!"
The helmet pony watches in horror as the prisoners stand in giant containers full of fruits.
While fruit stomping is usually a boring, deponyizing, and mundane task, this pink pony has somehow turned it into some kind of fun event.
All the prisoners jump and bounce in the containers in sync, easily crushing and pulping the fruit into juice below. A few of them are even laughing, including the pink one.
He bites his hooves.
At this rate, they're going to run out of menial labor for the prisoners to do!
A small crowd of unicorns are assembled inside the chamber, easily at least two dozen. At this point, the doors are shut, the room not being used for the normal operations whatsoever anymore.
"Listen up, ponies. We're going to be scanning this pegasus's entire life." The judge instructs to the crowd.
"But, your honor! The scanners can't handle that kind of strain!"
"I don't care! It'll work! Now, get to it!" the judge orders, hoofing at Fluttershy, still sitting in her chair.
The device is lowered onto Fluttershy's head once more, as the entire group of unicorns begin to channel their magic into it.
Fluttershy begins to feel a bit of pain, unlike the other times, having to hold onto the chair to keep herself still.
The twenty years of her life are scanned and analyzed within seconds by all the unicorns, seeing literally nothing except her just playing with animals, eating fruits and vegetables, and sleeping.
The unicorns begin to feel pain as well from the flood of information.
The device itself begins to whir loudly, and begin to shake.
"Your honor! The scanner is starting to break apart!" The whirring and shaking gets worse.
"It's going to blow!" Another yells, pointing at the device.
Fluttershy has the intuition to shake the device off her head, and toss it away into one empty corner of the room. Everypony takes cover as the device explodes, sending small metal fragments everywhere.
The judge slowly raises her head back over the podium. All the unicorns look dizzy or sick, as does Fluttershy.
"What... what did you see..." The judge says, towards one of the few lucid unicorns.
The unicorn rubs their temple.
"Nothing... this pony... is a blank slate. A saint." they say.
Other unicorns corroborate the claim.
The judge screams into her hooves, before taking a deep breath.
"Alright. Fine, fine. This pony either is incredibly lucky, or literally an angel. Take her out of the prison."
One of the guards looks at her with confusion. "But your honor, they can't be let--"
"I said let her go. She's free. No charges."
The judge throws off their robes.
"I quit, by the way." she says, leaving the room nonchalantly.
Fluttershy slowly lifts her head up, eyes rattling a little.
"My head hurts..." she says with a groan.
Pinkie and the other prisoners easily run atop a large spinning treadmill, having figured out that if they sync their movements it's much easier for everypony.
The helmet pony approaches Pinkie with two other guards at their flanks. He looks upset.
Pinkie briefly glances back, still running.
"What? Am I going to solitary for being too good at all this stuff?" She asks, sarcastically.
"I wish, but sadly, no. You've made bond."
Pinkie immediately stops, accidentally tumbling off the treadmill.
Marcy and Slick glance over, hearing what was said. Even Terry looks over a bit.
"Well, that sure was fast. See ya, pink." Marcy says, still running on the treadmill.
"Woot! Stick it to the Order!" Slick chips in.
The helmet guard rolls his eyes, leading Pinkie away. She smirks and waves as she's taken further.
"Good... bye." Terry croaks.
Marcy and Slick look at him with surprise.
Pinkie is led towards some kind of reception area, freed from her chains. The first thing she does is scratch some parts of her legs she couldn't reach before.
Besides that, she wonders who from the Troupe got sent over to pay her bond.
Her question is quickly answered when she looks ahead and sees an utterly gigantic pony sitting in a chair far too small for his frame. She has to look nearly straight up to get a look at his face.
"Trouble Shoes?"
The humongous brown pony simply looks down at her, dwarfing even Terry with his height. A few guards around look a bit nervous at his presence, even though he's just a visitor.
"Yep. Ello' Pinkie."
Pinkie raises an eyebrow.
"Uh... don't mean to be rude, but why exactly did they send you? You're somewhat of a... large presence, if you catch my drift."
"I was the closest pony in the area that Yacci could get ahold' of after your telegraph."
Pinkie shrugs.
"Well, thanks. Can we get out of here now?" She says, heading for the door. Trouble Shoes follows her, bonking his head on the top of the door on the way out.
Trouble Shoes leads her towards his wagon.
"Alright, get in. We should get goin'--"
"Hang on! There's another pony we need to get. A yellow pegasus with pink hair. But I have no idea where she is, she could be anywh--"
"Like that one?" Trouble Shoes says, pointing in the distance.
Fluttershy sits on a bench, feeding a few birds, like nothing even happened.
Pinkie runs over to her.
"Fluttershy! You're okay-- wait, how are you even out of the prison?" Pinkie asks, confused.
"Oh! Uhm... they put me in some 'scanner' thing and said I had apparently not committed any crime... ever? So they just let me go."
Pinkie doesn't doubt that idea whatsoever.
"Okay then. But still, we need to get going!" Pinkie says, beginning to walk back to the wagon.
"Get going where? This place is nice!" Fluttershy says, gesturing around. Outside the gigantic prison fort, the town surrounding it isn't that bad looking. A bit simplistic, but certainly cozy.
Pinkie pauses.
"What if I said I could take you somewhere nicer than here?"
Fluttershy thinks for a moment.
"Promise?" She asks.
"Promise." Pinkie assures.
Fluttershy relents, and follows Pinkie back towards the wagon. Entering it and glancing at the pony pulling it, she's shocked at his sheer size. He dwarfs her even more than he does to Pinkie, due to her smaller size.
"Hi there, tiny pegasus." He says, with a surprisingly gentle tone.
"...hi." Fluttershy says, still a bit surprised.
After a few preparations, the three set out and away.
A few minutes pass of them travelling away from the town. Pinkie suddenly perks up, smacking her temple.
"Shoot! We forgot about Trixie! How are we even supposed to find her?!" She exclaims.
Trouble clears his throat and smacks his lips.
"There's a latch in the corner. Open it."
Pinkie, slightly confused, scoots over to one of the corners and sees a small handle. She pulls it out, revealing a hidden compartment underneath.
Trixie lies there, reading a book. She glances up, eyes widening a little at Pinkie's sudden apperance.
"Oh! Hey Pin-"
She's yanked out of the floor and lightly throttled by the pink earthen.
"Trixxxie!!! Why did you ditch us?!" Pinkie yells. She's less angry, more confused and hurt at the unicorns action.
Trixie tries to pry off her hooves in surprise.
"Pinkie! What are you doing?!" Fluttershy cries.
"Hey! No fighting back there!" Trouble says, shaking the wagon to break them up. All three of them fall around the wagon's floor.
Trixie gets up, a bit dizzy.
"I'm sorry, Pinkie! I couldn't let myself get captured back there! The Judicar's 110% accurate crime scanners would have ruined me..." She pleads.
Pinkie doesn't look convinced.
"What could you have done so bad that you'd ditch us in order to not get arrested??? Petty theft?? Stealing the gem??"
Trixie looks away, a bit solemnly.
"I don't want to talk about it right now... Can we just relax, now that we're all together again?" She says.
Fluttershy looks at Pinkie appealingly, clearly wanting to just chill out as well.
Pinkie sighs. "Fine. But you will explain to me how you're able to dry-cast, later.
Trixie grumbles a little.
They settle down in different spots around the wagon.
Trouble Hoof takes a deep breath for the long journey head.
"Next stop... Meridian Quay." he says, beginning to walk once more.
The four head off, away from the Judicar fortress. |
The Depths of Discovery | Chapter 10 - Dirty Bomb | Twilight takes a peek around the outside halls to her quarters, making sure nopony is around.
She closes and locks her door, doing the same with the shudders, before taking a seat.
Cautiously, she pulls out her communicator, pressing down on the green button, and placing it on a table in front of her.
Crk.
Crk.
A minute or two passes. She bites her lip.
Crk.
Crk.
Still nothing.
Just as she's about to start losing hope...
Beep!
A small magical aura manifests above the communicator, slowly but surely starting to take shape.
Twilight breathes a sigh of relief, seeing the device get a response.
The aura eventually becomes the vague shape of a pony sitting in some kind of room, using simplistic black and white shapes and lines to create a crude image. The pony appears to be looking right back at her, albeit with some confusion.
"Hello?" Twilight asks.
"Yeah?" the other side responds.
It's Jack.
"Oh thank Sol it worked! I was half-expecting you to not be able to turn it on..."
Jack grumbles. "Well thanks for believin' in me..." She says, sarcastically.
"I didn't mean it like that! I--"
"Can ya' just say what you gave me this thing for??? It's honestly a bit freaky..." Jack looks like she's trying to poke Twilight through the feed or something.
Twilight looks around her quarters a few times, a bit paranoid.
"You're somewhere safe and private, right?" The unicorn asks.
Jack nods. "Uh huh. Probably not a good idea to let anypony see me usin' this."
The unicorn takes a deep breath.
"I've been looking through the Enclave's Information Registry and I need-"
"What's that??"
Twilight pauses.
"Uh... it's like a magical library. I need you-"
"I don't know what that is either."
"You don't know what a library is???"
Twilight face-hooves. This feels like the talk at the wreck-site already.
"Listen! I was just looking through... stuff that happened recently, okay? And it says that there's been a lot of attacks conducted by Hovels -- oh, by the way -- that's what we call all of you Earthen ponies living outside the Enclave, thought I should finally clear that up...."
Jack raises an eyebrow.
"Anyways, there's apparently been quite a few attacks by the Annui in specific. Would you happen to know anything about this?"
Jack's avatar glitchily puts a low-res hoof to her chin.
"I know that theres' been... Hovel attacks..." She sticks her tongue out a little after saying the word. "But the Annui? No. Besides the attack to rescue me, and that one pony we killed when ya' got captured, the Annui have not interacted with y'all recently. We've been tryin' to keep a low profile."
Twilight frowns. She's certainly a bit more inclined to believe Jack now than at the wreck-site, considering the earthen basically saving her, Flitter, and Comet's lives... and the majors...
But still. The attacks are listed on the registry, alongside undeniable proof.
"Has there ever been cases of other groups of Hovels disguising as or pretending to be the Annui?"
"Well, duh. It's happened a few times. Heck, we've dressed up as other tribes, too. Everypony' does it to everypony else. But I assume a 'few times' ain't enough time to explain the amount of attacks you're talkin' about?"
"Mhm. I think there were somewhere around twenty recorded ones in the past two weeks?"
Jack looks completely shocked.
"Twenty?? Yeah, no. That is not us. We don't even have the ponypower to do that."
"I never bothered asking, but how many of you are there anyways? The Annui, I mean."
Jack ponders for a moment.
"Probably... about thirty to forty of us. Including me."
Twilight has trouble believing that such a small number of ponies could do what the Registry shows. Maybe if there were thirty to forty warriors in the tribe. But when the entire tribe is only thirty to forty, that's implausible...
Jack suddenly interrupts her train of thought.
"I've been itchin' to ask one of y'all some questions of my own, though."
The unicorn looks surprised, but somewhat intrigued.
"I'm listening."
"We've been having an uh... er... kidnapping problem."
Twilight tilts her head somewhat while leaning forward, clearly confused.
Jack groans.
"A few Annui and ponies from other tribes have been seemingly getting whisked away. Nopony knows where they are. Some of us' think it's the work of predators or monsters or the like', but there's never stuff like blood or even a body."
Twilight puts a hoof over her mouth, shocked.
"That's terrible! How long has this been going on??"
"Last two, three, months maybe. Nopony I knew personally has gotten taken... yet. But the threat is still there. I gotta ask, how often do you see others like me over there? Do y'all do stuff with Hovel prisoners like that all the time? That could explain it."
"When I saw you getting released out of the cart, that was one of my first times ever being there. I can't say how oft--"
Twilight's eyes widen as she sees a large figure behind Jack poke their head into the feed's frame.
"Jack! Behind you!" Twilight cries.
Jack immediately turns around, like she's about to fight somepony. She pauses.
"Oh. Hey Mac."
"Hey. What's that?" He asks, hoofing towards the feed.
"I'm just talkin' with that unicorn from yesterday." Jack responds, very casually.
"Oh. Okay." Mac responds, just as casually.
Twilight looks flabbergasted. "Wh- Jack! Who the heck is that?!" Twilight exclaims, thinking they've been exposed.
"That's my brother. He's the big red' guy I think you met? Don't worry, he's chill."
"He threw a bag over my head and tossed me into a cage!"
"Compared to what he could've done, that's chill."
There's a pause.
"I-Is he okay with us talking like this right now?" Twilight asks, a bit unsure.
"If I'm okay with you, then he's okay with you. He's pretty easy-going."
"Eeyup." Mac responds.
Twilight blinks a few times. "Okay then... as I was saying--"
She's interrupted by a knock on her door.
"Twilight? Hello?"
It's Comet Tail.
"Shoot! I need to go right now!" Twilight says. Before Jack can say anything, she hits the communicator off before stashing it somewhere hidden.
The unicorn frantically tries to make her quarters look like she wasn't just having a secret conversation.
From the outside of the door, Comet hears a lot of quick movements, crashes, and even something that sounded like a 'splat'.
After a few seconds of silence, Twilight opens the door, slightly frazzled.
"Heeyyy Comet! What's up?" She asks, leaning against the side of the doorframe.
"Twilight, are you okay? You sounded like you were talking to somepony..."
"Ah-- well- I was just having using a communicator to talk with one of my friends... Golden Harvest."
Out of all the things she could've said, why did she pick the one that can be easily proven false?!?
"Oh. Okay. Well, I came here to talk to you about Rare Find."
Twilight stands up a bit more normally, and with a slight look of worry.
"What's wrong with him? Has he gotten worse?"
Comet shakes his head. "Quite the opposite, actually... he looks like he's made a full recovery..."
Twilight looks surprised.
"Really? But wasn't he sick just like--
"Yesterday. Two days ago he was so sick he had to be interred in the Medical wing. And now he's just... perfectly fine." Comet says, with a bit of disbelief.
"Is that supposed to be uncommon? What if they gave him some kind of medi-shot or something similar?"
"Medi-shots work for physical injuries and ailments. You can't just use it to fix a head-ache or disease."
Twilight puts a hoof to her chin, tilting her head somewhat.
"Didn't we heal Jack with one, though?"
"The root cause there seemed to be the bad leg -- once we fixed that, I assume everything else went back into order on its own."
Twilight shrugs.
"It's a bit weird, sure, but it could just be chalked up to some false positive, or super short-term disease I suppose."
She pauses.
"Not to be rude, but why did you come to me, in specific?" Twilight asks. "I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, It's just wouldn't it have made more sense for you to tell Flitter and I together or something?"
"I'm not sure about telling Flitter right now... if there actually is something going on, there could be more problems roping her into it. I've always seen them as being 'closer' to each other than normal squadmates."
"You mean like they're dating?"
Comet Tail quickly shakes his head.
"Woah woah, I never said that! Don't tell anyone you got that idea from me."
He coughs dryly.
Twilight thinks for a moment.
If Comet Tail is able to confide something like this in her, then he probably trusts her. Hopefully. Maybe she can confide in him as well... she's dying to tell someone, honestly.
"I need to tell you something too." Twilight says.
Comet lifts his head slightly, a bit intrigued.
"Commander Raven approached me with a proposition. She wanted me to join some kind of elite task force..."
The stallion looks somewhat elated.
"That's great! Only a few Pathfinders ever get an opportunity like that! Usually its just Combatives like Enfo-"
"I said no."
Comet stammers a bit. "W-what? Why???"
"She said it would be for specifically counter-Hovel actions! I'm not exactly itching to fight Hovels right now... I'm trying to... make peace with them."
Comet looks at her like she's crazy. "Are you serious? Making peace with Hovels?" he asks, in disbelief.
Twilight stomps one of her hooves. "Come on! You've seen it's possible! Back at the wooden fort... thing. Jack was able to get us out of there safely."
Comet rolls his eyes.
"The main thing I saw possible was getting our asses kicked." He points to a part of his face still bruised up from Mac's strikes.
"But you at least saw that they're more than mindless or feral monsters! They're ponies, just like us. They're capable of more than violence, and you saw it for yourself."
The stallion grumbles, begrudgingly agreeing a little.
"Still. Rejecting her offer probably wasn't the best idea. That's going to definitely get her suspicious of you. And besides, wouldn't it make more sense to try and get something done inside the task-force, instead of having to deal with being on the outside?"
Crap. Both of those points are pretty valid. Twilight didn't think about them like that.
"Oh. Almost forgot. Rare Find said he uh... had something for you?"
"Come again?"
"He just told me that he had like a... package or something? He didn't make it clear if it was for you, or if he wanted you to pick it up, but either way he wants you to go get it."
The mare blinks a few times. Maybe Rare Find has the hots for her.
"Oh... kay? Kind of strange, but sure. Did he say where it was?" Twilight asks.
"He said it'd be in one of the drop-offs in the Exchange Wing."
"Very helpful."
"Hey! That's all he told me. The personnel down there should hopefully help you find it."
Comet sighs slightly.
"I'm going to head out, but please try to keep your Hovel... peace stuff on the low-key until we can approach it better, alright?"
Twilight nods. That was the plan, anyways.
At least now she knows she may have a deeper ally within Comet Tail.
Twilight looks around the Exchange Wing. She sometimes forget just how expansive this place is, looking at the dozens of ponies bustling around.
In the far distance she sees the vehicle bays side by side. SPAV-1 appears to be idle, and SPAV-3 is being replaced with a new rebuilt one, but SPAV-2 looks gone. Probably an expedition.
She begins to head towards one of the drop-off depots. There's quite a few of them, although hopefully whatever pony that works there can help her find what she's looking for.
Entering a designated striped area with a large amount of crates and packages around.
One worker pony wearing a hard-hat notices her and walks over.
"How may I help you, Ma'am?" He asks.
"I'm looking for an uh... package. I was told that there was one sent for me."
"Do you have the verification number? Package ID? Deliverer?"
"...no."
The worker slightly groans.
"Miss, I can't help you unless you have at least one of those things."
"Will my name help, at least? I'm Twilight Sparkle."
The worker shakes his head. "That's how we can confirm it's for you, but it doesn't do us much to actually find it. I'm sorry."
Twilight feels a bit annoyed. Is she going to have to go all the way back to get the stuff, and then come back?
"Can I just take a look for myself?" Twilight asks, approaching some of the crates.
The worker quickly blocks her. "Sorry miss, even as a Pathfinder, you can't simply mess with the crates."
"Can you just let me check???" the unicorn pleads.
"No."
Twilight squints her eyes. "Listen--"
The giant air-lock like gates of vehicle bay 2 opens. SPAV-2 slowly rolls in, coming to a stop at its designated location.
On a catwalk, a worker moves next to the driver side, peering through the front window.
"SPAV-2, please roll down your window for verification." He speaks into a radio.
No response.
"SPAV-2, please roll down your window for verification..." He repeats.
Still no response.
"SPAV-2, do you copy?"
Nothing.
He proceeds to cautiously knock on the window with his hoof. Slowly, it rolls down.
Both the driver and co-driver are who they're supposed to be, but... they look off.
The two of them stare straight ahead, eyes completely open, and legs rigid as can be. They don't move a single muscle, nor even blink.
"Hello?" The worker asks, leaning in somewhat.
Ever so slightly, the driver turns his head towards him.
"H-Help... m-me..." He sputters.
The worker's eyes widen when he hears a beeping within the SPAV.
"Just a peek! Come on! I'll be quick!" Twilight pleads. The worker shakes his head adamantly.
"No, no! Please just drop this. Look, we can't just--"
BOOOOOOOOOM
A massive explosion rings out from the other side of the Exchange wing. Twilight and the worker immediately look over with shock.
Compared to the explosion at the Epistrey, this one makes it look like a firecracker.
SPAV-2 completely explodeswith a giantic fire-ball. The explosion is so large that it leaks over into both SPAV-1 and the unfinished SPAV-3, damaging them as well.
Debris gets launched from all three SPAVs, colliding around various parts of the wing, smashing stone and denting metal.
It takes barely a second for the shockwave and air to hit ponies nearby, throwing them to the ground or in the air.
Twilight and the worker both get thrown into the crates behind them. Twilight manages to barely slow her impact with levitation, but the worker isn't so lucky. His back slams into a corner of a crate with a sickening crunch.
The crackling of fire, screams of ponies, and blaring of alarms ring out all around the wing.
Twilight can barely hear it, her mind instead being filled with a high-pitched ring. She looks around, eyes wide but unfocused.
She turns to the worker, seeing him on the ground. The lower half of his body appears to be limp on the ground, his legs splaying out like noodles.
Suddenly, the ringing stops and her focus comes back to her. Twilight immediately dives next to his side.
The worker looks distressed and is tearing up.
"M-my hind-legs... I can't feel my hind-legs..." he says, trying to pick himself up.
"Don't! Don't move! Just... lay down..!" Twilight instructs, trying to keep him calm.
She quickly takes off her jacket, rolling it up into a bundle and putting it below his chin. He lays his head on the ground, somewhat choking up.
Twilight puts a hoof to her head in panic. She needs to get someone for this guy. She looks around, only realizing the greater situation around her.
There's tens of other ponies in similar situations, some of which have nopony to help them.
Without hesitation, Twilight runs to the nearest victim she sees, a stallion yelling in pain as one of his legs is trapped under a large piece of debris.
She immediately tries to levitate it off, but it's far too heavy. Twilight looks around rapidly for something, anything that can help.
After dragging it over with significant effort, she wedges it below the debris, before grabbing the pony in the face.
"Hey! You want to get out of this?! Grab this and push down as hard as you can!" Twilight yells, pointing at the metallic wedge.
The stallion, still in pain, complies as best as he can. Twilight sits on it with her body weight while the stallion pulls down with all his strength. Along with the levitation, the combined forces are enough to roll the debris off of the poor stallion's leg with a loud thump.
Looking around, Twilight sees more victims, but notices something worse in the distance.
The fire from the wreck is beginning to spread up and around, beginning to engulf the entire section of the transport wing. It's also beginning to climb up the wall and towards support structures.
Twilight's first instinct is to run. If this gets bad enough, the entire area can collapse.
But she stops. Painstakingly turning around to stare back at it, she sees there's multiple downed ponies in the nearby vicinity to the fire.
They aren't in it yet, but it's spreading towards them.
Twilight thinks rapidly. She could probably get maybe one or two ponies out of there, but she would have to physically drag them away. And there's no way she could get them all away by herself.
She looks around. There's ponies fleeing the scene, but others like soldiers and workers running in to help.
Some of the ponies further away from the blast are helped away to safety, but nopony seems to want to get closer towards the fire.
Parts of the upper walls and ceilings above begin to creak, pieces falling down and crashing into the ground. Some narrowly miss some of the ponies.
"HEY! THERE'S UNCONSCIOUS PONIES IN DANGER!" Twilight yells to a nearby soldier, hoofing towards the fire.
"WE NEED TO EVACUATE THIS AREA, MISS!" he responds.
"SO GET THEM OUT!" Twilight yells back.
The soldier shakes his head fervently. "THEY'RE IN TOO FAR. YOU NEED TO LEAVE."
Twilight looks at him like he's crazy. Is he saying leave them to die?!
She takes one look back at the soldier, seeing ponies running to safety, and then another back at the ponies surrounded by fire and falling debris.
Twilight takes a deep breath.
Maybe she's the crazy one.
She immediately sprints towards the unconscious ponies. The soldier yells after her, but she ignores it.
As fast as she can, she begin to drag and move the ponies together in a large group. There's seven in total.
Just as she finishes dragging the last one together, the fire is a mere few yards away.
Twilight steels her nerves, and creates a dome around herself and the ponies.
She takes a few deep breaths, almost re-assuring herself that she can still actually breath with the smoke around.
Magical barriers are not air-tight, but she's able to make a conscious effort to keep the smoke and flames out.
More debris falls. With the larger profile of her barrier compared to the ponies, a few pieces hit it. Thankfully, they aren't massive, but Twilight feels the collisions.
She begins to sweat, not only from just the effort, but from the temperature as well. The inside of the barrier is heating up.
Twilight bites her lip. She didn't think this part through.
She attempts to make the dome into more of an ovular shape, making the curve extend upwards more in order to hopefully let some of the hot air travel up. This, however, requires her to make the barrier thinner, along bring the actual fire closer to her and the ponies.
A particularly large piece of debris hits the top of the dome. Due to the new, weaker shape, it almost breaks through. Twilight clenches her teeth from the effort of preventing the dome from breaking immediately, her horn glowing harder than ever before.
She can feel herself getting exhausted both physically and mentally. She doesn't know how much longer she can keep this u
The fire and smoke almost entirely surrounds her now, the outside of the dome becoming nothing but orange and gray.
Just as she's about to give out...
Twilight suddenly feels much less heat around the dome. Looking through her purple barrier, she sees another barrier surrounding it, a very dark purple.
Commander Raven's magic!
The outer barrier expands out in all directions, swatting away the flames in the immediate vicinity, and giving Twilight a view of the safe part of the wing once more.
She sees Raven with a group of soldiers, workers, and unicorns. Soldiers quickly extract anypony else in the vicinity, while the workers use water hoses and fire extinguishers, and the unicorns use levitation and barriers to physically extinguish fires by smothering or choking out their oxygen.
"Let your barrier down, Twilight!" Raven orders. Twilight sees Raven's barrier still surrounds hers. Twilight does so, allowing Raven to create a hole through her own. Multiple soldiers, unicorns and Raven rush in to pull the ponies out.
Twilight lays on her back, feeling like she's about to collapse. However, as she looks up, her eyes widen.
"LOOK OUT!" She yells.
A humongous piece of the ceiling falls from straight above, towards Raven's barrier with all of them inside of it.
The horns of multiple unicorns along with Raven glow extremely bright, the barrier seemingly being reinforced. Twilight puts the last energy she can manage into it as well.
With a loud BOOM, the metal chunk smacks straight into it. The barrier slightly shakes, along with causing the unicorns to grimace briefly, but it's safely deflected into the fire.
That last blow was enough to send Twilight out of it.
As her eyes close and vision goes blurry, she sees Raven standing over her, a concerned look on her face.
Twilight wakes up with a bright light above her.
Her eyes dilate from the brightness, as she looks around. It looks like one of the rooms of the Medical Wing.
Around her she sees Golden Harvest, her squad, and Raven all looking at her, some of their expressions changing slightly, seemingly from Twilight's awakening.
"Oh, Twilight! You're awake!" Golden says.
Twilight sits up somewhat, a bit pained. It's not really physical, though. More like a bad head-ache and some dizziness.
"Is... everypony okay?" Twilight croaks. The first thing she thinks about is the Ponies back at the Exchange wing.
Raven frowns. "There were some casualties... but they were instant when the explosion first occurred. Unpreventable." Her expression softens somewhat. "But rest assured, everypony you protected made it out safely."
"The Commander told us what you did, Twilight. That was pretty hardcore!" Flitter says.
"I'm honestly surprised you had that courage in you... we heard soldiers and other Pathfinders at the scene didn't even dare get half as close as you did." Comet says.
Twilight grumbles a little. "Yeah. I noticed that too."
"Well, it sure was a good thing that the Commander was there to help." Rare Find says.
Twilight frowns somewhat, looking towards Raven.
"Not to sound rude, but why were you at the Exchange wing, anyways?" She wonders.
"Oh, I was simply going there for an impromptu inspection of how the re-construction of SPAV-3 was coming along. Although, as you can imagine, the attack set it back quite a bit."
Twilight blinks a few times. "Attack..?" She asks. The other ponies look over towards the Commander with some sorrowful looks, but not ones of surprise. They already know something.
"That explosion was no mere accident or happenstance. It was a precise and deliberate strike against us by our enemies." Raven explains.
"W-what??? By who? The Syndicate? The Cartel?"
Raven shakes her head.
"Forensics are still... inconclusive. But in time, we will get the answers."
Comet and Golden look a bit uncomfortable, meanwhile Flitter and Rare Find look somewhat angry.
Twilight has a lot of questions to ask, but Raven cuts her off.
"I apologize, but I need to depart right now. The rest of the Compound is naturally in a buzz after this tragedy. I hope you recover well, Twilight... we may need all hooves on deck soon."
With that, she takes her leave.
The other ponies just look at eachother with varying emotions, however all are negative.
Twilight just stares forward with a neutral expression.
An hour or two later, Twilight still lays in the medical bed.
They're keeping her for a little longer just to make sure they didn't miss anything with their initial check-ups and diagnostics.
Golden sleeps on a nearby chair, insisting to stay with the unicorn. Comet Tail, Flitter, and Rare Find reluctantly had to leave in order to help with the aftermath.
A nearby transmitter in the wall suddenly begins to crackle to life.
"Attention, my fellow citizens and personnel of Charlie Compound." It's Commander Raven.
"Just mere hours ago, an attack occurred which wracked the very fabric of what we stand for. Within the Exchange Wing, SPAV-2 was sabotaged, causing a massive detonation which claimed the lives of many ponies, and injured dozens more. But know that the perpetrators will not be able to hide... for we have found them. They are the Hovel tribe known as the 'Annui'."
Twilight tilts her head a little.
Huh?
"In recent weeks, there has been a troubling pattern of an up-tick in Hovel activity, particularly this 'Annui' tribe. Raids and attacks on our beloved Pathfinders and crucial expeditions have ceased to no end, and we have let it go on for far too long. But rest assured. Starting today, we are going on the offensive. I am initiating Operation Outstrike, in order to finally rid us of this menace once and for all. No longer will we need to live in fear of those who reject the proper way of life. Glory to the Enclave."
The speech ends, cutting out with some more crackles.
Twilight sits still for a few moments, before beginning to hyperventilate.
What??? How??? Why??? This seems impossible.
She has no definitive proof of if the Annui actually did the attack or not, but that's not the problem. Raven is saying that they did. This is going to make peace impossible, and if the Annui somehow find out about this, it'll be even worse!
Twilight simply covers her face with her hooves and rocks back and forth. |
Stacked Deck | pre | Jessie pulled herself up, trying only to breathe with her mouth. She made her way to the door, where the smell only got stronger.
She saw Light doing her best to eat slices of pizza while the TV provided background noise.
"What EARTH is that smell!? It's horrid!" Jessie yelled, trying to use talking as an excuse to not breathe.
"Hm? I only smell the pizza. Well, mostly the pepperoni. I will give you that-- it smells and tastes a bit off from what it used to. Though, nothing I would call horrid..." Light said in between bites. Her face was covered in sauce.
"A bit off!? It smells like something crawled on your pizza, died, and is now rotten!" Jessie shouted, trying not to throw up.
"Well, I can totally take this outside if you want me to eat the half I saved for you as well," Light said with a beaming smile.
"What? Yeah, sure, fine, just turn on a fan or anything else to air this place out!" Jessie said.
Light took their plate and the remaining pizza into their mouth and withdrew outside. Jessie went on to locate the oven fan, and central house fan in order to remove the stench from the apartment.
It didn't take too long for the smell to vent out of the apartment. Jessie found herself with little else to do since her current company was busy eating.
The apartment was decorated in a cozy fashion. Trips to Home Goods and the like were evident in the place. Family pictures were displayed prominently. Most featured an older son, and a younger daughter just out of junior high.
Jessie heart sank. "Ah, jeez... no wonder the change is the least of her worries. Her kids vanished."
She looked towards the outside patio where her host was still munching on slices of pizza. How she managed to cut it eluded her.
Jessie drifted towards the door, unwilling to venture too close to the toxic-smelling food product.
"Hey, look... I think I owe you a bit of an apology," Jessie said, turning Light's attention away from their pizza. "I didn't know what you were going through. I guess when you rack up the chips, losing your body is nothing compared to your kids not being there when you woke up."
Jessie had expected a heavy-hearted sigh or some sort of statement of acceptance. Not the violent choking and spitting of small food bits.
"Gah! What!? No, how did you... oh the pictures!? That makes sense, but no! No, no, no. That's my mother with us in the pictures! I am NOT her," Light said while she gasped for air.
Jessie looked at her confused for a moment. 'The daughter?' She thought to herself. "Wait, how old are you?"
"What? I'm 25, why?" Light said clearing their throat from the hostile pizza invasion.
"You... look a lot younger in the pictures is all. I'm guessing they were a few years ago. You... don't seem like you're in junior high," Jessie pondered aloud, slightly embarrassed about the mistaken identity.
"What? Oh, you mean my sister? Not her either." Light said as she nibbled on a new slice of pizza.
Light watched as the gears turned in Jessie's head. The whole event had amused them to some degree. No point in hiding details.
"Wait, but that would mean you're the... son? Jessie asked.
"Yep! Or daughter now, I guess. Hell if I know. Pronouns are really hard. I mean Tumblr would say you get to pick your own pronouns. Other people disagree. Personally? I don't care," Light said as the pizza continued to be nibbled on.
Jessie opened her mouth only to slowly close it. "I'm not dealing with this right now. I'm going to bed and hoping this is some type of taser-induced nightmare. I never thought I would want to wake up in a jail cell!"
Light watched as Jessie retreated back into the apartment and gave a shrug. Too much needed to be thought about. Tomorrow, they needed to find a good way to get more supplies and transport out of town.
"It's going to be interesting," Light said to herself. |
Stacked Deck | Roof Top Meetings | Jessie stared at the driver's wheel, allowing the first moment of relaxation she's had in four days wash over her.
Her idea to get into Sears without the use of a battering ram worked, but what she hadn't planned for was the consequences of giving her crazy partner the actual key to the city. Once they had access to the police department's master keys, everything fell into place.
Sears was only the start once they could open any storefront they wanted to. Now she sat at the helm of a fully stocked RV, complete with towed storage pod.
Light's ideas ranged from solid to downright insane. On one hand, she wanted to jury rig a sound system to the storage pod so they could drive around and attract any other survivors. On the other hand, she also wanted to go to six flags to ride Ninja one last time. Thankfully, Jessie vetoed that.
Jessie glanced at the side mirror to see Light still wiring up the sound system in the Best Buy parking lot. She had her doubts about the stability of it, but it wasn't like it was going to cause a traffic incident--the upside of no more cars being on the road.
This little system was the last thing they had to do in town. They had gathered supplies, some personal effects, and some things Jessie alone felt to be pointless, like raiding a restaurant for its recipes. She tried to apply sense to it, but Light stated she was not going to leave the best pizza ever invented to be lost. For someone that wanted to leave town in a hurry, Light had odd priorities.
Jessie's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the RV's door being swung open and Light making her way up the stairs. "AND IT IS DONE!" Light proudly proclaimed.
"You sure it's going to hold up? Not to question your craftsmanship, but it's just you don't have hands. I don't know how you were using the drill I heard back there. I was honestly too scared to look," Jessie said with an eyebrow raised.
"No idea!" Light said as she took a seat. "The only way we will find out is to test it. A drive around the city before we leave will give us that chance. We might find someone else before we leave."
Jessie gave a sigh of resignation. "You know how to fill everyone around you with confidence, Light."
Light flashed back a smirk as they started to drive off.
Jessie drove around the town to give the system a good test run. After a few bumps and parking lot entrances, she was forced to give Light some credit. It hadn't fallen apart at the slightest bit of stress. Whether it was going to remain in one piece remained to be seen.
They spent a few hours stopping in major locations around town to blast a bit of music and some announcements in hopes that someone would show up.
They gave each spot as much time as they thought would matter, though they both started towards the freeway disappointed.
"I can't honestly think that we are the only two here!" Jessie said in frustration.
"Yeah I get that, but if anyone was here I think we would have found them. We've been trying this for the better part of a full day now. We announced where we are going and left posters at major stores. If someone somehow managed to miss us... they will have to catch up. We did them the service of leaving a lot of places unlocked," Light said trying her best to ease Jessie's mood.
Jessie rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't call six stores 'a lot'. That said, I already know we can't just stick around here. It's just... I thought we would find someone."
They were both quiet as they made their way onto the freeway. Jessie was at first thankful for the uncharacteristic silence from Light, but after 20 minutes on the freeway, it started to get a bit worrying. Light, for her part, stared out the side window as if looking into a different world.
"You trying to break your own record for least words said in an hour?" Jessie teased.
Light didn't respond right away. After a few more moments of total silence, she took a deep breath and let out a sigh. "Nothing like that. I'd been able to keep myself busy until now. It's hard to adjust when everything changes so suddenly. Family is gone, body is all changed, and nothing will be the same ever again. Every time I drift into a daydream I have to readjust to WHAT reality is when I come out of it. Basically, everything is perfectly normal for the given situation. Just letting my mind wander on everything."
Jessie's brain had to process what was just said to her. "Oooookay, that's the first time I've heard you not taking all this in stride. Good to see that you really are human in there after all. A bit surprising."
Light rolled her eyes and gave a smirk. "Eh, I just handle it better than most normal people likely do or will. You can't really avoid the whole thing messing with your head when you don't have anything to do but watch the road go by. Everything that was normal is gone."
"I suppose that is fair," Jessie said. "Anyways, I've looked at the route you've got for us and I have to ask: Are you sure we are going to have to gas for this?"
"To be honest, no. I was being a bit optimistic when I printed that route and had a flawed assumption that most gas stations would have a backup power system. I've been mentally debating skipping the supply runs I had in mind and just doing a mad dash to Vegas. That said, we will need to fuel up once we get there somehow. That might be a puzzle still." Light said with a yawn. "I also feel like I'm about to pass out. Which is fun."
Jessie shot them a quick look. "What? Didn't you sleep last night?"
"Not... really. I was feeling super wired, and the ideas were flowing. I may have hit up some more stores on my own with the golf cart." Light let out another yawn. "I've pulled 24 hours before, but now that the Sun's really started to come out, I've felt like shit. I just didn't want to leave you alone for the drive."
Jessie groaned and glared at the road in annoyance. "Go in the back and crash in the bed for a few hours. We'll skip the stops and head into Vegas... maybe we can fuel up in Barstow. There are always a few trucks parked there overnight."
Light looked back at the bed and could almost hear it calling to them. "Are you sure? I mean it's a long drive and it's not really cool to just leave yo-"
Light didn't get any further before Jessie cut them off. "My god, you are a massive dork! Just go get some shuteye before you fall asleep in that chair."
Light just shrugged and headed towards the nice bed the RV had, and was quick to bury her head into the pillows that had once rested on her own bed. Their familiar feel and smell provided a slight sense of normalcy.
"Well, not everything," She mumbled as sleep quickly washed over her.
Alone, Jessie drove at her own pace, stopping a few times to let her nerves cool down and to take a snack. Light's route detoured through a few towns, likely the supply runs that she was talking about.
While the supplies were not a huge priority. Jessie still took a slow drive through most the towns with the music blaring. Sadly, no one answered the music's call.
'I really hope Light's friends exist and she's not crazy because it's starting to feel more and more like we are alone,' Jessie thought to herself while she maneuvered a can of gas rescued from abandoned trucks.
Normally when you drive into Vegas with the Sun going down, it's a wonderful sight. The lights and the energy of the city can be seen from miles around. Jessie didn't see any of that.
The city, normally a shining sea of lights and color, was now just a dark shape on the horizon. The strip itself had turned from a grand presentation to something more resembling an intro scene from a horror game.
Jessie parked right outside Light's little meeting point, a casino called the Stratosphere and got up to stretch. Her new body was CLEARLY not meant to be sitting in a driving position for 5 or more hours.
As Jessie finished her stretch, she made her way down the steps of the RV. She wondered how long it would take for Light's friend to make it to them.
That's when she noticed a pony standing a few feet in front of the casino doors. He was dark gray with brown fetlocks and a green mane and tail. It seemed odd that he lacked wings, but in their place, he seemed to be some sort of unicorn?
"Uhhhhh, hi?" Jessie managed to say through the surprise.
"FALLOUT THREE'S MUSIC WAS BETTER!" His shouting sounded angry but in a happy sort of way. He must have thought it was a clever quip.
Jessie just stared at him, totally lost. Was he talking about the music playing from the trailer? She didn't think about it at the time, but the music had taken a slight shift in tone by the 5-hour mark of the playlist.
"Don't just look at me like you're not ALSO a horse!"
Jesse blinked.
"Ooookay, so, you're slightly unhinged as well. With that, I can take it that you're Light's friend she wanted to meet here, right?" Jessie asked with an uneasy hoof motion towards the very strange person.
"I wasn't aware that Lightfox had any friends with uncharacteristically verbose speech patterns!"
"Right, you just wait there. I'm going to wake up Light and you two can be crazy at each other." Jessie carefully backed up and walked into the RV, shutting, and locking, the door behind her. The yelling outside began again, but it was muffled and sounded more irritated now than before.
Jessie quickly made her way to the back of the RV and started to shake Light. "Hey, Light, we are here and we have a slight issue."
Light just rolled over and mumbled something about soda, unaffected by Jessie's attempts to rouse them from slumber.
"NOPE! Not dealing with this!" Jessie shouted as she took the mattress in her mouth and pulled it sideways, sending the slumbering bat pony right onto the floor.
"WAHH--!" Thump.
"Awake? Good. We got to your meeting point, but were you expecting your friend to be here already? Because there is some crazy person outside." Jessie said, letting the mattress drop from her mouth.
"Jeez, there are better ways to wake someone up... Crazy person? Did he say anything about Fallout?" Light asked rubbing her head.
"Yes? How does that have anything to do with anything?" Jessie asked, confused as ever.
"Then it's Neon. I made that playlist so it would play songs from a game called Fallout: New Vegas for about 5 hours. He hates that game's soundtrack," Light explained, standing up.
"Right, well, he seems a bit unhinged to me," Jessie said with slight unease laced into her words.
"No worries. I will go out and get them to chill. He's cool once you get to know him," Light said.
Light made her way out the door and down the steps. "Sup Neon. Didn't expect you to be here already. Did you pack anything or just go right here? Jeez."
"It's not like I had anywhere ELSE to be! ...Aside from the void of crippling depression, anyhow. And to top it all off, now I have to put up with you in-person for... the rest of time? I might as well get a fucking head start!" Although he seemed angry, the unicorn mostly just looked incredibly drained. Light knew the sort of energized exasperation that Neon spoke with very well, and it was in full effect now.
"Dude... how long have you been here? Like we all talked with each other a few days ago. I expected to be waiting on you even with the delays I hit," Light asked.
"It's been a couple days, my dude. The drive here sucked. The heat sucks. The view sucks. I screwed around in the casinos but there's nothing to do here without power. There was nothing else for me to do other than to come here."
"Okay, okay. Well, you don't have to worry about that too much now. How about you go into the RV and take a hot shower because it looks like you've been lacking one. After that, I can get you properly introduced to Jessie and we can come up with a game plan," Light said as she motioned at the RV.
"You have a SHOWER?" The energy previously charging his ridiculous shouts suddenly died away, and he nearly collapsed to the ground. "Oh thank god... Is Jessie that horse I saw earlier, or did you somehow cram a whole party into that RV?"
"No, that's her. Even with that sound setup, I've only found her. It's a long story. Let's get you cleaned up, then we can get into details," Light said while giving Neon a worried look.
Light lead Neon into the RV. A difficult task, as Neon had clearly not worked as hard at coordination with his new form. In assisting him into the RV, however, something strange came to Light's attention. There was a strange picture on Neon's side. A pencil with a rainbow-colored line swirling off the tip.
Light wanted to ask about it, but felt it better to let Neon take a shower before harassing him with questions he likely didn't have the answer to. Anyhow, he seemed too busy being excited to see Cotton to be bothered with questions.
"So you seemed to calm him down a bit," Jessie said while poking her head out from the driver's seat.
Light gave a nod and flopped onto the couch. "Yeah, he was a little high strung from being alone for a few days without power. He should be back to normal after a good shower. Should have seen that coming, in truth. Neon is not the 'keep busy' type."
Jessie returned to a laidback position in her chair. "If you say so. I'm glad he also has a crazy name. Lets me really feel like the sane person in this little group."
"That's just what I call him. You can ask for his name properly once he's done in there. Might take a while. Best to just let him decompress," Light said with a small hoof wave into the air.
"Alright, I guess I can cut him some slack. Being out-" whatever Jessie was about to say was lost to the two loud thumps coming from the roof of the RV.
Jessie braced herself on the steering wheel while Light managed to launch herself from a resting positioning to a few feet in the air.
"Holy fuck what was that!?" Light asked.
Jessie waved from her seat. "Shh for a second and listen," she said motioning up to the roof.
There was a clear sound of something walking up there. For a moment Light considered a huge bird had managed to crash into the roof, or maybe some type of animal managed to jump up there. Until the voices started.
"So what is this thing? You said it was playing that music?" A clearly feminine voice asked.
"Yes. I didn't know what to make of it at first, until it stopped here and somepony came out to greet somepony else," a deeper voice answered back. "It might be some type of carriage."
"They still in there?" The female voice asked.
"No idea, I broke off to go find you and Clear Sight."
Before they could continue, Light suddenly scrambled up and headed out the door.
"Hey wait! Dang it!" Jessie got up and followed Light outside.
Light busted out the door and quickly looked to the roof. What she saw were two ponies: A light turquoise pegasus with a nearly golden mane and another gray bat pony whose mane was deep purple.
"Question answered," the pegasus said with a grin.
Jessie was soon to follow, easily following Light's gaze. "Uh, hi there... how did you get on the roof?"
The bat pony was about to say something, but the pegasus cut him off. "We landed here, duh." Her voice made it sound like that was the most logical thing ever said.
The bat pony shot her a glare, then rolled his eyes and glided down from the roof as if to give a demonstration. "Yes, we were flying around the city to find any traces of ponies. We were about to give up when you showed up."
"FLY?! I--! But--! We can barely even run yet! Light here might be too stubborn to take things slow but I haven't seen them try to use their wings!" Jessie exclaimed.
Light was silent. Her gaze drifted between the two ponies with a thoughtful expression.
"Honestly, that is harder to explain in a reasonable matter... Which is why we were supposed to be discreet, but my partner doesn't understand the meaning of the word," the bat pony grumbled, giving an annoyed wing gesture to the pegasus.
"Hey, don't blame me! I only said we landed on the roof. You told them we could fly! Discreteness went out the window when the whole freaking city was empty!" she argued.
"Anyways," the bat pony said with a raised voice, "maybe you two can help us. We are here to find a leader of some sort. This was supposed to be a densely populated area. Seeing these castles amidst other buildings, we assumed that we had the right place."
Jessie gave them a confused look. "What, have you never seen Vegas?"
"I don't think they have," Light said as she sat down. "It's also strange they didn't seem to know what an RV is, but that can likely be explained... with some difficulty. Let's wait for their friend to catch up. Then we can all get introductions done."
"Ah, I guess you could hear us in there," The bat pony says motioning to the RV itself.
Light a nod. "Yeah, the stuff you've been saying has raised a few questions. Seeing as you have your own questions maybe we can play a little game!"
The pegasus now looked a little confused. "What type of game?"
"Answers for answers," Light said with a smirk. |
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