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What had I done?!

I had ended the war at Sunnyvale, but for all the wrong reasons. My selfishness and greediness drove me to push that button, my urge to find my sister and reunite with her as a family got in the way of what was right and wrong. I had chosen the wrong option… I should have just killed Mist right there on the spot, so then the battle would end fairly. Not by killing all the Steel Rangers with a Bale Fire Bomb that was possibly there waiting to be detonated for centuries. I had not slept that night, and within that time, I heard the muffled and echoing bang of the Megaspell being detonated. I had not moved, I just held myself in a small ball on the ground, crying to myself softly.

I was a monster. And if all of the Wasteland wanted to find me and kill me, I would let them have it all. Their revenge, their freedom given to them with one shot. And if they wanted to torture my body, if they wanted me to feel their wrath, I would let them do it for the sake of my own punishment. If only I had known better… and now it is too late to turn back the clocks, to prevent any of this from happening.

I was on the floor, cuddling myself and stroking my tail, as the slave outfit I wore reminded me of why I was there. To be punished for not doing right. I was beginning to regret leaving there in the first place, but seeing Crystal again, knowing that she was okay made things slightly less depressing. I had cried enough, and I couldn’t squeeze out anymore tears from my eyes no matter how much I wanted to. My cheeks still felt wet from all the tears that had fallen not too long ago.

Crystal was sleeping in the bed, sound asleep. I however couldn’t get an ounce of sleep, I was cradling myself while suffering inside of my own sadness. I just wanted it to all end right now. I wanted it all to end, everything. My journey, my search, my life out in the Wasteland. I was not ready for any of us, despite my time out there. I lifted myself from the cold, metal floor before slamming my head on the desk I had fallen under.

I yelped as a loud bang was heard from the metal of the desk rattling together. I cringed and held my head tightly, curling back down onto the floor as I let out a few groans of pain. Fuck that hurt. The pain throbbed softly within my skull as I put an immense amount of pressure on the area that I had hit the table with. Unfortunately, in the process, I woke Crystal up. Hearing a few groans that signalled her stirring from her sleep, my eyes glanced up to the plain bedsheets which were moving before I saw the sky blue Unicorn mare, who had a dark minty green mane sit up and rub her eyes as they soon floated to look towards me.

“S-sorry, did I wake you?” I grunted, holding the aching lump which was now developing on my head.

The mare yawned and climbed out of bed, before hurrying over to me in deep concern. “Tornado, are you alright?!”

She stopped by my side, wrapping both her hooves around me as she examined my battered body from the battle before-hoof. I nodded solemnly, keeping my hooves on my head as the cringing upon my face intensified along with the pain on my possibly cracked skull.

“Did you bang your head?” She whispered softly, her horn glowing faintly beneath the table. “Let me look…”

“N-no, it’s fine… no need to worry, I just thumped my head is all!” I countered, and then glanced away. “Get back to sleep, Crystal. Come tomorrow, we’re going to be traveling again…”

“Well, I’m awake now,” Crystal sighed as she spoke. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

Silence dominated for a few seconds as I began to glance to her, keeping my eyes fixed on the mare by my side. It didn’t take long, but I soon pulled her in for a tight hug, burying my face into the soft fur upon her chest and then nuzzling her neck in the process. I wanted to cry. I tried to cry. But I couldn’t. I felt Crystal move away slightly, as if she wanted out of the hug or if she had no idea why I was doing it.

“W-why always me?!” I cried out, tightening my grasp. “I… I killed ponies. For the sake of the Enclave… and for the sake of my own greed!”

“W-well…”

“Just kill me!” I interrupted the mare. “End my life, commit the deed, you’ll be the hero not me!”

I felt tears brewing up in my eyes, as I looked up at her with a begging expression, needing her to end my life for the good of others. I couldn’t bear the burdens I was carrying. Handsome Charmer was killed because of me, not because somepony shot him. I should have just refused the help, then he would have never gotten into the trouble he had gotten into in the first place. Why couldn’t she just get a weapon and end it all?

“W-what… no, I ca-”

“DO IT!!”

I found myself begging her to kill me… but that’s what I wanted. These recent few weeks have been hell to say the least. I’ve done bad things, even if I wasn’t the main cause. Dodge died because I didn’t protect him, Crystal got injured because I rushed into a battle thinking I was something I’m not. All of this was my fault, and I thought of it as no other way. Crystal sighed and looked down at me, pulling herself out of the hug and leaving me helpless on the cold, metal ground.

“L-look,” she began, looking away. “I’m going to take a shower, within that time, I think you should think about what you’ve been asking me to do. Just because you’ve done wrong doesn’t mean you can’t correct those wrongs, Tornado.”

“B-but…” I felt Crystal slam her hoof into my mouth, keeping me quiet as she began to speak again.

“But nothing. Your life has a lot of value, and you need to realize that. You’re my best friend, I can’t just kill you off like that!” She exclaimed, as she soon crawled out from underneath the desk I was curled up in.

The mare soon began to trot away, her hooves tapping the steel surface she was trotting along, and the sound of it echoing loudly throughout the brightly lit up room. She turned a corner, before her body was no longer in the line of sight and as she did, the sound of the door’s mechanism echoed as a door was heard opening. As the door closed, the sound of a shower turning on at full blast began to ring out from behind the door she had entered.

Maybe she was right. Maybe I did need think about what I requesting… I wanted her to kill me. Her of all ponies to take my life. I knew she didn’t have it in her, but I wanted her to do it nonetheless and if she had done it, I probably would have suffered in purgatory anyway. I could always end it myself, but I didn’t want to commit suicide. I wanted to die the way everypony else died out in the Wasteland, in the hooves of another pony. No matter if it was torture, being gunned down or brutally beaten up. And the way I wanted it to end is from the wrath of all the ponies who I had enraged after I detonated the Megaspell.

I soon began to drag myself along the surface of the floor, before managing to climb onto all four of my hooves yet again and then glancing around the room as I waited for her to finish in the shower. Looking down to the bed, I noticed the bed sheets that were on the bed were now thrown to one side, and on the mattress beneath it sat her saddlebag. Beside it was a bottle of mane shampoo and body wash which glowed a navy blue color from the tiny amount of radiation added to it.

I blinked, trotting over to it silently, hoping not to make a noise before turning her saddlebag towards me and then slowly opening it to see what was inside. All the medical supplies from before were now gone, as if all the time she had spent searching for me, she used up all the magical bandages and healing potions in the process. Inside, a glowing blue ball… I had a feeling it was Dodge’s memory orb.

I glanced around the room as the soft sound of the shower continued, before reaching into the saddlebag and grabbing the memory orb, and pulling it out slowly. I gazed at it as it sat in my hooves comfortably, and as I was about to engage into another memory sequence, Crystal called from the shower.

“Tornado!?”

My heart stopped, and I quickly shoved the orb back into the bag and then quickly sealing the bag up nice and tight. I was reluctant to call back, but nonetheless I did with a simple: “yeah?”. It took a while for the mare to respond, but she finally did.

“I think I left my body wash on the bed… would you mind bringing it?”

I felt myself blush after the sudden request. I was going to see her soaked, beneath the shower head. I soon pushed the bag to one side, trying to make it look like nopony had tampered with it in the first place, and as I finished placing the bag back to the way it was (it wasn’t great, but it was similar to how it was before), I soon grabbed the bottle of the jelly like liquid in my jaws, and began to trot towards the shower. Wherever it was. Following the sound of the shower’s water rushing and slamming against the steel surface, I turned the same corner Crystal did before I found myself meet a slick, metal door that was rectangular with rounded corners at the top. The slightly rusting steel surface of the door made the light make it look silver with a tint of orange, the yellow streak down the middle of it (which was iconic like the ones back in Stable 30) was brightly illuminated from the bright lights fixed to the ceiling.

I looked at the bottle I had in my mouth, and the name and description of it was written in big letters and stuck on with some sort of brown, aged paper.

Radi-Sparkle Shampoo and Body Wash
2 in 1!
Be extra clean for those extra special days
(Make sure to use small doses as the gel contains a small amount of radiation.)

There was some slightly scratched text upon the metal face of the door, and the text simply read: ‘Shower’.

Who’d have thunk it?

I kept the bottle of the jelly like liquid with my jaw’s grasp, before punching the big red button on the wall to open the door and as the door opened, it revealed a soaking, wet mare, embracing herself as she ran her hooves through her mane, despite her not having any shampoo in it yet. The room beyond the door was large, and had rusted walls on all sides that were a very dark brown due to the amount of rust covering the walls. The once silver color was no longer there, and the light above the shower head created a soft rusted tint within the room’s atmosphere. A soft mist from all the warmth of the shower glided along the floor, brushing against my hooves. And at the end of the surprisingly large shower room stood the hot mare. My jaw dropped and due to my jaw opening so wide, I dropped the bottle of the washing liquid and a loud thud was heard, Crystal glanced back with a small grin.

She. Was. Sexy… oh Goddess please have mercy on my soul…

She had a natural beauty to her, both inside and out… but oh Goddess. This was a whole new level of beauty. She was hot! She stared at me with a raised brow and then soon levitated the bottle of the body wash and shampoo towards her and then let out a sly giggle, before turning away and then opening it, before pouring a small portion of it onto her mane and allowed it to slide down her body.

I still stood there, jaw dropped.

“Uhm… thanks?” She spoke, knowing I hadn’t left. She ran her hooves through her mane and then began to hum a soft tune to herself. “Well. Are you gonna leave me to wash?”

“Y-you look beautiful…” I said, complete unaware of her need for privacy. “V-very… beautiful.”

“Is that a request to join me, Mr.Dash?”

“W-what!?” I felt my cheeks set on fire as she asked me that question, the blush in them glowing from my cheeks as if they were irradiated heavily. I tried to hide my blush, but my mane was no where near long enough for me to do such thing. “N-no, I…”

“You can if you want,” Crystal spoke with a slightly seductive tone. “We may as well since it’s just the two of us…”

I found the blush intensify on my cheeks and I soon began to cower, looking to the rusting walls of the large shower we were both stood inside. She was doing this to torture me mentally, and seeing her this way made me understand that all the warm feelings I felt towards Crystal was… love. If it was any other pony I had met, I would have quickly charged out of the room, wanting to unsee what I had seen. But not this time. No. And this probably explains why I was so calm when she walked in on me having a shower weeks ago.

“Come on. We’ll share…” Her melody like voice chimed, as I looked to her to see her smiling at me with a blush of her own. I felt myself tremble slightly, and she noticed. She let out a cute giggle. It only made me blush more!

“W-what?” I asked again, this time with less emphasis. “You’re a mare, I thought you’d like privacy…”

“W-well… not this time,” she replied solemnly. Wrapping me in a soft magical aura, she soon levitated me off of the ground with ease and soon towards her, and there was no stopping her in doing so. Once she placed me in front of her, she looked into my eyes, and I felt my wings literally punch their way out with a loud ‘pomf’.

She giggled seductively and then added, “It’ll be alright, Tornado. I promise you…” With the aura soon collapsing from me, the water soon drenched me and at this point, my cheeks were a bright rosy red and did I mention they were on fire? Not literally of course.

I was lost for words, and then I felt a cold, gel like substance soon drop onto my mane and then Crystal began to rub her hooves into my mane, while looking into my eyes. She blushed harder as did I, and as her hooves worked her way down my neck, I felt both of her soft and warm hooves cross paths before pulling me into a soft embrace. Her horn glowed a soft sky blue color, as I felt the harness I wore soon fall apart and fall off as the chains inside of the leather bindings were now rusted and crumbling

Oh… this had to be a dream. I wasn’t really this close to her was I? Come on, wake up before I jizz the bed!!

I felt myself slap myself in my conscience as if I was pleading to be woken up from reality just in case it was just a dream. And then I realized it was all real. I was here, with the mare who I secretly loved without even knowing it. I had always been confused of why I felt so warm with her, why I felt closer to her than anypony else… and I had now found the answer…

I wrapped my hooves around her neck softly, staring into her beautiful eyes as the warm and relaxing water came down on us, drooling its way down our bodies with pure softness. I tried to look back into her eyes without glancing away, but then I felt my head begin to turn away as the raging blush building on my cheeks grew even bigger.

I used my eyes to look at her, before feeling a hoof make contact with my left cheek and then soon pulling my head gently to the right, making me look at the mare in the eyes. I felt lust build up in me, before the mare beat me to what I was going to do. She pulled me in for a soft, and deep kiss on the lips and as our lips connected, my eyes widened and her’s closed. I felt my cheeks fill with so much blood, that they were now burning… literally. It only took a short while for my eyes to soon flutter closed, and as the kiss began to take me in, I began to drown in ecstasy and love.

I held her close, rubbing one of my hooves down her mane as I embraced the warm touch of her lips against mine. I began to push deeper, slowly and carefully, hoping not to take the breath from her. At least not yet. I teased her mouth using my tongue, swirling it around the lip area before she allowed my tongue to enter, and as she did, I slid my silky tongue against her’s. I began to use my tongue to grind against her silky, warm and (enjoyably) slimy tongue.

I kept embracing her warmth, pulling her into a tight hug and tightening my tongue’s grip around her silky smooth tongue before propping her up onto her hindlegs, and the pinning her up against the rusted wall at the back end of the shower room. I used my tongue to fluently glide its way across her mouth and tongue, and in the process, I heard her moans of what sounded like pleasure and warmth. I pushed myself deeper, feeling the lust inside of my body begin to take over and as it did, I soon used my forelegs to lift the mare’s hindlegs from the ground, before lining her marehood up with my penis and then soon shoving the now hard stallionhood into her pussy. She pulled away from the kiss, and let out a long moan, before a sudden spree of pants came from her mouth. I began to thrust into her, applying soft kisses along her body and up her belly, holding my lips on her soft and silky fur before working my way up her body. I thrusted my hips in a quick motion, feeling the warm and juicy walls of her marehood tightly grasping my penis tightly as I attempted to push deeper of which I was successful.

Pushing deeper, I held her against the wall, using my tongue to wash her slowly with my saliva up and around her body, before licking up the length of the neck and then meeting back with her lips and gazing into her eyes as I swayed my hips in and out of her marehood. She attempted to look back into mine, but after each deep thrust, she squeaked out and tilted her head up, sometimes even gritting her teeth. The bright, pink blush on her cheeks glowing softly. I felt my cock throb, and a shiver of pleasure soon slithered down it and I quickly jolted my head back, allowing water to soak my artificial eye while I closed my other eye.

Gah… fuck, this felt good!

I began to pick up in pace, and as I stared up at the ceiling, looking directly into the light above the shower head. Crystal began to slip from the wall despite my hooves holding her against the rusted wall. I held back any moan of pleasure, biting my lip vicariously as the juicy marehood I had penetrated got wetter by each thrust, before I felt Crystal fall onto the floor and as she did, I fell on top of her. She gazed up at me, her eyes half open and her tongue hanging out slightly as her warm breaths stroked my face. I kept moving my hips, going faster and more violent with my thrusts, keeping the mare held down on the ground as I began to peck along her neck. The steam clouds coming from her was from the warmth inside of her now salivated mouth.

“F-f-faster… hnng!”

Crystal begged as I allowed my tongue to hang out loosely, and she began to make cute sounding noises as each of the thrusts reached as far as they could. I slowed down slightly to gain my breath, as I felt myself begin to sweat despite the water that was coming down onto us washing it off. I did pack a jolt in each of them though, despite me going slightly slowly. I felt my load begin to build up, and I didn’t want to stop. I kept going, trying to use any remaining strength I had to fill her up.

She let out rapid moans of pleasure, and what sounded like she was begging for more. I soon removed my cock, before bringing the hard and now completely gooey and soaked penis out and laying it upon her soft and silky body. She panted her warm breaths onto the tip, and stared up at me in confusing, but all I showed was a tempting grin, wanting her to suck it… I wanted her to drink from it. She lifted her hooves up and pulled it into her mouth with a fair amount of speed, before sucking on it with the gloopy saliva inside of her mouth and running her hooves up and down the base of the member.

“Hng!”

I let out a quick groan as I felt a large amount of force on her sucking. She began to swirl her tongue around the base of it and even the small hole at the front, licking all of the pre-cum that had made its way out from the front of it before continuing down the length of it with both her mouth and hooves. I glanced away, keeping my eyes fixed on her as I sat comfortably up on my flank, and looking down at her with a pleasurable grin. She moved her hooves to my balls as she slowly shoved the cock down her mouth, deeper and deeper and as she did, I felt the tightness of her throat grasp it as if she was gagging. Her hoof soon began to rub my balls and as she did, I began to get close to releasing my load.

I tried to beg for more, but I couldn’t. I was letting out soft whimpers of pleasure and need, as she began force it down her throat deeper until she couldn’t anymore, and then closing her eyes, swirling her tongue around it all and allowing the saliva to soak it even more, before I felt a tickling sensation wash over, before I released the sticky and warm liquid down her throat. She began to choke slightly, but nonetheless continued drinking it. I let out a long, and fairly loud moan of pleasure, hearing my own voice echoing off of the walls. I arched my back and even head, panting and begging for more as each second passed.

I felt my cock throb again as she playfully chewed down on it to squeeze more out of it, and more did indeed go out. I inhaled a deep breath and then soon winced back forward, looking down at her as she kept sucking on it with pure strength. I couldn’t help but moan, and I soon tried to withdraw it… she eventually let me, and the cum was still leaking out of it and onto her chest and belly. I slid the throbbing and now leaking penis back into her marehood, before thrusting to squirt out the remains inside of her womb. I began to pick up the pace as I got closer to my climax and after each thrust, I let out a yelp of pleasure, and the white and gooey slime leaked from her slit as I pushed in and out, splashing all over the place.

Crystal arched her back, and her horn soon began to glow brightly, before some sort of spark began to ignite from the tip. I picked up the pace to the same pace as I began, moaning and crying out as I was thrusting, before I hit my climax and a wave of ejaculation soon carried itself through her marehood and soon into her womb as I let out a long, echoing cry of pleasure and as I did, she did.

“G-gah… I… I…” I found it hard to speak. “Gaah, I love… you. So… much!!”

Crystal couldn’t talk, no matter how hard she tried to. I pushed as deep as I could, feeling all of the warm and sticky liquid soon gush into her before one last squirt finished it all off and as it did, a bright, glowing heart fired from her horn and into the air. It was two toned, one half her coat color and the other mine. It floated upwards, before hitting the ceiling and poofing away. I sat there, panting, before removing it and then collapsing onto my side. I was out of breath and rather weak… but my eyes was fixed onto the leaking and tired mare in the middle of the room, the water from the shower leaking onto her.

“I… t-that…” Crystal spoke out with two pants, but she couldn’t seem to finish it.

I crawled my way over, dragging my way across the surprisingly smooth surface of the floor, keeping my eyes on her at all times. I kept crawling, panting from all the sudden ‘fun’ we had. My urges had been tackled, but I felt feelings towards this mare… I just knew it. She was my Crystal. She was why I was still here and without her, I probably wouldn’t be alive anymore. No in fact, I wouldn’t be. She was the reason why I never gave up.

Cuddling up to her, I looked into her tired eyes, resting my head on her chest and then planting a kiss on her cheek. She turned her head towards me, blinking,and upon her cheeks she had a small tint of pink from the kiss I had added. She was blushing, and damn did she look cute. She returned it and wrapped her hooves around me to pull me into a gentle embrace. That. Was Tiring. I knew exactly how she felt, and I’m glad we both felt the same way about each other.

I yawned, “Crystal?” I tiredly asked, looking up at the mare who was beginning to doze off from the lack of energy she had, her horn’s glow beginning to die down.

“Y-yeah?” She responded, sounding like she was about to fall asleep. I added one more kiss to her cheek and then held her in a similar embrace yet again.

“I love you.”

“I love you too, Torny…” Crystal’s eyes soon shut after she spoke those words. And I squeed inside, now knowing that this wasn’t a dream. This was real… and I was happy it was. For once within recent days, guilt had not been inside me nor had sadness. Happiness had crawled its way back in.

And happiness felt good. Nearly as good as the sex…

Oh Goddess. Don’t smite me for sounding like a pervert…

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Footnote:

Relationship: Crystal - Lovers - You are now in a relationship with Crystal. Your love is twice as strong as your friendship, this boosts your Endurance by 15% whenever Crystal is with you.

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