The following morning, Dusk awoke to the peaceful sound of chirping birds.....is what Dusk would love to wake up to, but he didn't. Upon, slowly opening his eyes, he awoke to see the grin of Dawn Rune just inches from his face. Its a good thing Dusk didn't drink anything before going to bed, because if he did, it would be on his sheets right now. Instead, he let a "AAAAAHHHHHH"

The bedroom door was busted open by the Trixie. "Dusk, are you okay-" She then saw Rune standing on top of Dusk. "Rune, what manner of pony wakes another by scaring them to death?"

Rune gave the question a few seconds of thought. "Because I always wanted to know how Dusk would react if I woke him up this way." He said smiling.

Both Dusk and Trixie let out a facial response, one you'd associate with the thought of 'What the hell is wrong with this pony'.

"So Dusk." Rune said, looking at Dusk again. "Can we see all the pretty mares now? Huh mate?"

"Fine fine, after breakfast." Dusk's horn began to glow. "But first GET OFF ME" He then blasted Rune off his body and against the wall with a thud. The loud bang was enough to wake Spike from his little bed.

A bit groggy, Spiked looked around. "Oh morning everypony. What time is it?" He yawned.

Rune's horn then glowed a bright orange, Spike's body became engulfed in the orange glow. "Its breakfast time Spike my friend." Rune said, quickly recovered from his crash. "I have no idea how the kitchen works around here, so you're gonna help me." With that, Rune bolted out of the room, dragging Spike through the air. Leaving Dusk and Trixie both confused and worried for Spike's safety.

Dusk then turned to Trixie. "Can you go to the kitchen and make sure nothing bad happen? Please."

"Okay, The Great and Powerful Trixie shall make sure this Rune doesn't destroy out home." Trixie "triumphantly" shouted, then bolted out the door.

Dusk slowly took his time getting out of bed and getting ready. And slowly made his way to the kitchen. All a while thinking to himself. 'How am I going to show Rune to the girls? Who should I introduce him to first? But in what ever case, so long as Rune doesn't meet Pinkie Pie first, it should be fine.'

Dusk walked through the kitchen archway with a glint of confidence in his plan, only to have it vanish completely when he saw what lay before him.

Before Dusk's eyes lay a food covered Rune conversing with an equally food covered pink mare, with a poofy pink mane; it was Pinkie Pie. "No we should have eggs and muffins." Rune commented.

Pinkie Pie responded by pulling out a tray of cupcakes. Where she got them from, no pony knows. "But I already made all these cupcakes." Not even questioning the cupcakes, Rune uses his magic to grab one and takes of bite of it. Immediately the sugar rushed through Rune, his eyes become dilated. And his horn sprays orange sparks.

"Wow." Rune said, while taking another bite. "This has got to be the most sugary thing I've ever eaten!"

Pinkie Pie gave her widened smile. "Why thank you."

In the back of Pinkie Pie's mind, Pinkamena sat in her room of mangled pony bodies, bloody tools and massive fires. "Wow. I have never seen any pony to survive one of those extra sugar cupcakes of yours, besides you."

'I know right.' Pinkie thought, responding to Pinkamena.

"But I still don't see any point in any of this." Pinkamena responded. "I mean what's the point in meeting this new pony? He's just gonna leave in the end and we won't even bother to care.

'That's not true.' Pinkie responded. 'This is a spin-off to our original story, so the rule apply differently.'

"Pinkie." Dusk said to break the silence. "What are you doing here, so early in the morning." Pinkie gently put the tray of cupcakes down.

"So I woke up this morning and felt something was strange." Pinkie started talking in her giggly tone. "It was like we were in a spin-off. But not a normal spin-off, a fan spin-off."

Dusk stared confused. "A what? What does that even mean?"

"It means silly." Pinkie giggled. "That the rules are changed a little. So, not wanting to miss all the fun, I rushed here when the sun rose."

Pinkamena sighed, as though bored. "You still haven't answered why I should care about this new character."

Suddenly, Rune got a tad close to Pinkie, almost too close. For a few minutes, he stared deep into her eyes. Then after a few awkward moments, Rune smiled gently. "This cupcake was really good, you two did a good job making them."

Both Pinkie's and Pinkamena's eyes widened to the size of plates. There was no way Rune should have been told about Pinkamena or even the idea that Pinkie had an alternative personality she spoke to. Pinkie would of know if something happened, the fourth wall would of somehow told her or something.

"Okay." Pinkamena finally said. Her wicked, malicious grin stretched from ear to ear. "He's caught my attention."

After watching Pinkie Pie basically zone out, Dusk looked around and saw both Trixie and Spike sitting at the breakfast table. Spike was munching on a bowl of faint, red Garnets, while Trixie was just have a dandelion sandwich on wheat bread. Letting out a sigh, Dusk just used his magic to make himself a sandwich, sit down and quietly eat. All a while, Rune and Pinkie began debating over what should be for breakfast again.

After breakfast, Dusk gestured at a smiling, cupcake gorging Pinkie Pie. "Rune this is Pinkie Pie."

Rune was also chocking down the same sugary cupcakes, and finally looked up. "Oh." He said grabbing Pinkie by the hoof and shaking it repeatedly. "Your Pinkie Pie? I can't believe it. I didn't think, even for a second that the mare I was debating over breakfast would be one of Dusk's girls."

'Well he seems very friendly' Pinkie thought, while blushing.

"Yes but its getting very annoying." Pinkamena said back.

'And he says I'm Duskie's girl.' Pinkie thought with joy. "You can call me Pinkie." Pinkie smiled back to Rune. "So how do you know Duskie?"

Rune took a step back. "Oh Dusk and I have been friends since we were little colts. We just haven't talked in a while. But when I heard Dusk had his own harem, I just had to see it for myself."

"I thought you were sent here to learn how to be more studious?" Dusk asked, confused.

"Oh that too." Rune responded. "But your love life comes first. I wanna meet all the mares after you."

Pinkie pie jumped onto the table. "Then what are we waiting for?" She somewhat loudly shouted. Rune's horn glowed its orange aura, wrapped itself around both Dusk and Pinkie. And Rune then ran out the door, and out the library,

"YOU KNOW I CAN WALK." Dusk shouted in a small panic with Pinkie simply saying "WWEEEEEEE"

Both Spike and Trixie looked around the room and saw a colossal mess of food and dirty dishes. "Guess we're cleaning this up Trixie." Spike sighed. Only to see that Trixie already left the room. "Guess I'M cleaning this up." Spike corrected himself, letting off a bigger, louder sigh.

After an awkward scene, of being completed taken against his will, and with magic no less, Dusk, Pinkie and Rune somehow ended up at Sweet Apple Acres. Dusk surveyed the scene before him, Pinkie Pie was on the ground next to him, giggling as though she was tickled the entire time, while Rune looked around as if he had no idea where he was or what he was doing.

"So Dusk?" Rune asked, looking back at Dusk. "Where are we?"

Before Dusk could even answer, a loud "Yee-Haw" Stopped him. Both Dusk and Rune look towards the direction of the shout to see a pale orange farm mare bucking an apple tree, causing all the apples to fall into large buckets around the tree. It was Applejack.

"Oh, Hey there everypony." Applejack shouted toward Dusk and company. After bucking one more tree, Applejack trotted towards everpony. "How you doing today sugercube?" She asked Dusk.

"Hey Applejack, I was just helping a friend of mine become familiar with Ponyville." Dusk responded, gesturing towards Rune. "This is Dawn Rune."

Dusk looked over, only to see that Rune wasn't even there. When Dusk looked back towards Applejack, he saw, to his shock, an energetic Rune running around a confused Applejack.

"Hi, I'm Dawn Rune. Just call me Rune." Rune said with a smiling face, as he looked all around Applejack. "Oh my Celestia this is amazing." Rune said in a giddy tone. "A cowgirl pony, the hat, the hair, the freckles." Then Rune began slightly rubbing Applejack's left thigh. To which she bucked him hard enough to not only send Rune flying at a nearby tree, but knocked down every apple on the tree, into their buckets. "And such strong legs." Rune shouted happily.

All a while both Applejack and Dusk had the "What's wrong with this pony" look on their faces.

After Dusk had to explain Rune to Applejack, her desire to buck Rune in the face left. "Okay, I think I understand now." Applejack stated. "He seems like a nice pony, but he's very personal."

Dusk then let out a sigh. "Ya, Rune has never been able to understand what personal space means."

After that there was a somewhat long conversation, on various things that aren't worth mentioning details about.

"Okay." Dusk said. "We need to see more of Ponyville. See ya later."

"Alight, see ya." Applejack responded.

"Okay." Rune said aloud. "Who should we see next?"

"Oh oh me me me." Pinkie started shouting, raising her hoof like some grade school student.

"Sure." Dusk and Rune said in unison.

"Maybe we can see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. I think they're hanging out today."

"Sure." Rune said with a smile. And the small group trotted along.

Eventually, the pony trio made it to the small lake located a small walk from Ponyville. There, they saw a blue pegasus mare with a rainbow mane, flying back and forth in front of a yellow pegasus mare, with a longer pink mane.

"Now remember." The blue pegasus spoke aloud to her companion. "In order to be more social, you need to have....what?"

The yellow pony hesitated for a moment. "Um....well.....a kind nature?"

"WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG." The blue pony shouted, causing her friend to begin whimpering. "What you need." The blue mare continued. "Is self-confidence, assertiveness and above all, coolness."

"Rainbow Dash?" Dusk spoke up to the flying blue pony as he and the group approached. 'What are you doing to Fluttershy now?"

"Dusk, perfect timing." Rainbow Dash said,completely ignoring Dusk's question. "Can you help me out?"

Before Dusk could respond and clearly ignoring Rune and Pinkie, Rainbow Dash pulled Dusk to the side. "I'm trying to get Fluttershy to have more self-confidence." Dusk was taken back. "Wow, that's very nice of you to help Fluttershy out like that." Dusk complimented to Rainbow Dash.

"I know right?" Rainbow Dash responded. "Maybe she might be as confident and maybe even as cool as I am." Dusk respected what Rainbow Dash was doing but heavily questioned her reasons behind it.

But that was a concern for another day. "Maybe I'll help later, but right now I'm helping an old friend of mine become acquainted to Ponyville. Dusk then gestured towards Rune. "This is my old friend Dawn Rune." Dusk turned to Rune to see him staring at Fluttershy.

"Um...Yes...Can I help you?" Fluttershy quietly whimpered. Rune remained silent, with a blank expression. It was as though he was petrified by what he was seeing. Fluttershy looked at Pinkie Pie. "Um...Is he okay?"

Pinkie smiled at Fluttershy. "Don't be silly, silly." Pinkie Pie said,patting Rune on his back. "This is Duskie's childhood friend, Dawn Rune. But call him Rune."

"Oh." Fluttershy said, not so quietly this time. "Its very nice to meet you Rune." Fluttershy said while bowing a bit and smiling gently.

Rune's mouth immediately began foaming.

"AAAHHHH." Fluttershy shouted. Rainbow Dash and Dusk saw this and quickly ran to Fluttershy.

"What happened?" Dusk asked.

"I don't know? I only said it was nice to meet him. And then this happened." Fluttershy quietly, yet frantically stated.

"Maybe he's dying and we can just put an end to all this?" Pinkamena hoped, with a bored expression on her face.

'That's silly.' Pinkie thought, talking to Pinkamena. 'What kind of spin-off has only two chapters?'

"Probably better ones than this one." Pinkamena responded.

Dusk started heavily patting Rune on the back. "Rune, Rune. Speak to us. Come on, what's wrong?" There were a few moments of silence, Fluttershy then fainted. All a while, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie tried making silly faces to get through to Rune. Then after roughly ten minutes or so Rune's body twitched.

"Dusk." Rune mumbled. "How could you?"

Dusk faintly heard Rune's question. "I'm sorry, come again?"

"How could you hide this from me???" Rune shouted. "What? What are you talking about?" Dusk asked, very confused but relieved his friend was okay.

Rune then took hold of Dusk's head, shaking it even more violently, causing Dusk's entire body to shake. "How could be hiding this shy mare from me mate? Those eye, that hair, that voice, that kindness......how could you hoard such a treasure mate?"

Dusk was completely incapable of answering, mostly because he had no exact answer or way of answering. Then a quick answer hit him. "I'll tell you everything later." Dusk said. "Please stop shaking me."

Rune released Dusk and then sat down, a tad tired, from the foaming and over reacting.

Dusk then looked at Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, both trying to comfort the passed outed Fluttershy. "Can you two please bring Fluttershy to home?" Dusk asked.

"Sure." Dash said.

"Okkie Dokkie." Pinkie smiled.

It took some doing, but both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were able to carry Fluttershy away.

After a few more silent moments, Rune turned to Dusk. "Okay. So who are we gonna meet next?" Dusk was too tired to ask why Rune showed no concern to the fact that he freaked out Fluttershy.

"Well think all that's left is Rarity." Dusk answered.

"I like the name." Rune said, then began to nudge Dusk in the chest with his elbow. "Oh I see how it is, your saving your favorite for last."

"Its not like that." Dusk interjected.

"Ya ya, I get ya." Rune responded instantly. "Hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge. Lets go see her."

As both Dusk and Rune began walking back towards Ponyville, Rune looked nostalgically in the distance.

'I wonder if she's the hottest one?' Rune thought to himself.

After a short walk, Dusk and Rune found their way to the Carousel Boutique.

Within the Boutique, resting, after a relaxing shower, on her Victorian classic sofa was the white unicorn mare Rarity.

As much as I would like to describe her dreams, sarcastically speaking.....I won't bother. Her dreams were calmly interrupted by a gentlest of knocks on the front door.

Quietly waking up, Rarity is a tad confused. 'Who could that be?' She thought to herself. 'I haven't even open shop yet.' Before thinking more into it, she heard a familiar voice.

"Rarity? Rarity?" Dusk called out to the front door. "Are you home?"

Immediately, Rarity woke up. "Yes. Yes Darling." She shouted out to Dusk. "Oh do come in."

In her haste, she realized that her purple mane was still wet, this could be her chance.

Dusk used his magic to gently open the door and he and Rune just walked in. The main room was dark, neither Rune nor Dusk could see ahead of them.

"Darling." A voice said sensually within the darkness. The door then shut on its own, obviously by magic. The lights than turned on one by one, as if this was a fashion show ready to start.

When the light reached Rarity, the lights made her wet mane sparkle her skin glistened and her eyes shone with amazing beauty. But the most amazing thing was her pose. Rarity was able to lay on her side in such a sexual manner that her wet mane, her slender body and even her curved flank was fully visible.

"I've been waiting for you. Darling." Rarity said in her sexiest voice.

Dusk immediately had a major nosebleed in addition to having to crouch slightly to hide is forming hard-on. "Hey Rarity." Dusk said, trying to defuse the tension. "I'm only here to introduce my friend."

He then, careful to hide his erection, pointed at Rune. "This is Dawn Rune." Dusk then turned to look at Rune. Rune was their this time. But he was in a pool of his own blood.

Both Dusk and Rarity ran to the collapsed Rune. "Rune? Rune? Are you okay? Speak to me." Dusk shouted.

Rune wasn't hurt nor harmed, he only had a massive nosebleed, from the scene that lay before him. Rune opened his eyes and turned his gaze to Rarity. "Tell me." Rune spoke faintly. "Have you and Dusk done it yet?"

Both Rarity's and Dusk's faces broke out into a blush. Rune then gets up and stops his nosebleed.

After a few minutes of cleaning up the bloody mess on the floor, Dusk, Rune and Rarity sit in the main lobby of the Boutique. "So you are also from Canterlot?" Rarity said, eyes sparkling, possibly seeking an opportunity.

"Yes." Rune responded. "But my teacher asked me to live with Dusk until I can study better."

Rarity gathered her thought. "I see." But in her head. 'So another unicorn from Canterlot. Hmmm, no no no. I mean he's kinda cute and all but my hearts with my darling Dusk.'

"So you two didn't answer my question." Rune finally said. "Have you two had sex yet?"

"No." Both Dusk and Rarity said at once, only Rarity's tone sounded more in disappointment.

"I see. Well why not?" Rune asked. There was no answer, Dusk and Rarity only blushed again. "How could refuse an opportunity like this?" Rune asked openly, then pointing at Rarity. "If that earlier pose doesn't say, "I'm want you to hold me down and take me" then I don't know what does."

Dusk and Rarity still couldn't give an answer.

"I have an idea." Rune then got up and started walking out the door.

"Wait Rune." Dusk said, getting up. "Where are you going?"

Rune turned to Dusk. "I'm gonna help you with your harem."

Dusk put his hoof to his head, as though he was fighting off a headache. 'I'm terrified on what he has in mind.' "I'll see you later Rarity." Dusk waved to Rarity, before chasing after Rune.

Upon reaching the library, Rune ran straight to his room and a loud locking noise sounded behind the door. "Rune? Rune?" Dusk shouted, pounding at the door. "What are you planning?"

"What's with the shouting?" Spike asked, getting up from his nap on the floor, possibly from all the cleaning no one helped him with. "What I miss?".

"Spike, good. I need you" Dusk said. "Take a letter." To which Spike pulled a blank scroll and quill.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have shown Rune around Ponyville, and everyone seems to take a liking to him. But upon returning home, he has locked himself into his room and won't answer me. What do you suggest I should do? I haven't spoken with Rune in several years so I'm afraid I don't know how to talk to him like a used to.

Your faithful student,

Dusk Shine

Spike then blew his green fire on the scroll, sending it off to Princess Celestia. "Do you really think she'll respond quickly?" Dusk asked openly.

"I don't know, maybe this isn't a big deal." Spike said. Only to moments later burp out his green fire, revealing a new, rolled up scroll.

"See I told you she'd respond quickly." Spike then unrolls the scroll.

To my Dear Dusk,

It is thine Princess Luna. We have heard of thy dilemma by our Princess Celestia. We have not been young Rune's instructor for long, but long enough to know what he is doing. Never you worry, young Rune is merely planning something. This act is one we are all too familiar with. If Rune finds something that peeks his interests, then he shall find everything he can about it. This action is why we feel he can become study savvy. He must learn to study other fields than the one he finds amusing. So your Princess believes that the best action is to wait, until Rune comes out.

Your Princess,

Princess Luna

"Well there you have it." Spike said. "I'm going to bed."

Dusk simply sighed. After such a long day, he wanted nothing more than to go to bed. Upon entering his own room, Dusk saw a passed out Trixie, she was all tucked in with her hat and cape all on, she looked rather cute sleeping like that. Dusk just let out a quieter sigh, walked out of the room, went down stairs, to his lab in the basement. And fell asleep on the small couch, he had there for such a situation.