*Click*

Lee grasps at the mysterious harness latched upon his back by the quick set of hooves from before. He looks up to see that the same equipment has been strapped to Silver Lining and Ace Five. Upon getting full view of the packs on the others, he realizes that a parachute has been attached to his back.

Strawberry Cure leaps off of her platform and prances around the lobby, "The Embracing-Free-Fall is the ultimate trust fall of love~! As you can see, only three of you have been fitted with Love-Chutes."

Silver Lining snorts, "Love Chutes... of course. And why only three? It's not like you ran out of chutes or anything. At this rate, we're gonna have to share the chutes."

The host sashays by him and winks, "So sharp, Gin-san!"

Silver raises an eyebrow, "What the heck does Gin mean?"

"It means silver or some sh*t like that." Everypony glances at Lee, a little confused by his tidbit of knowledge, "Yeah my friend watches anime on the occasion so... wait what the f*ck, are we really sharing parachutes?"

Cure sticks out her tongue, "Hai, Lee-chan~! Before the floor beneath collapses, you must all find one partner to share a loving embrace with on the fall to the next challenge! If you take more than one, than the chute will burst!" she squees at this point, "How kawaii~!"

"SO KAWAII!!!" Fireblaze shouts with unappreciated enthusiasm.

"But that's incredibly unsafe! What if someone slips, or doesn't make it in time!" Barro argued.

"Excuse me," Florarena says from across the lobby, "none of this can be legal. Such actions would require a liability waver oro other—"

"—Flora-senpai, legal issues aren't moe at all!" Cure interrupts in the painfully high-pitched and racist accent, "And all's fair in love and war. Get ready to start picking love-partners~!"

Starlight Shadow blushes and looks away, "We have to pair off and find love-partners already..? Oh my, I didn't expect this game show to be so... encouraging..!"

Silver snorts (again), "Encouraging, yeah, that's the word..."

Lee raises his hand with a placid expression, "Okay, what if I don't want to do this because I NEVER WANTED TO BE ON HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! WHAT KINDA BULLSH*T IS THIS? I already don't even like most of the horses here!" Lee points to Fireblaze, "You got the overexcited, possible rapist," he moves the finger to Florarena, "some idiotic lawyer who prances around with bathroom utilities on her horn," to Silver Lining, "the sarcastic-dick who's gonna choke on his own douchebaggery... and probably is popular with women for it," to Starlight, "The Twilicorn ripoff who's a closet nympho—"

Starlight doubletakes, "I am not a nymphomani—"

"—B*TCH, I know one when I see one! Anyways..." he gestures to Ace Five who was adorably playing with her parachute straps, "we got some mental patient who really shouldn't be here. Seriously, do you not screen whatever clown you pick for this live-orgy? And finally, we have.." Lee falters upon reaching Barro.

Barro simply smiles and nods, "Yes, yes? What am I? Go on, I can take a roast!"

Lee lowers his finger and shrugs, "I got nothin'. You're actually the only normal personality I've seen since I arrived in Pony-Communist-Land."

Barro frowns and sighs, "Ugh! Everyone always says that! 'Oh, Barro, you're so chill.' Normal? No one cares about normal."

"Dude," Spike calls from the back of the lobby, "Coming from Lee, I'd take that as a compliment and—Twilight why are you eating popcorn?"

Twilight swallows a gulp of the buttery, "What better way to enjoy a show than with popcorn! I got some chocolate-covered-pretzels from the snack cart too, want some?"

"Twilight, when did we switch roles?"

Crappy JPop and JRock music begins to blare once more, halting all conversation.

Strawberry Cure claps her hooves and pulls out a remote control from under her skirt, causing many to ask Oh God, where did that come from, "It's time to pick your love-partners~! Once I press the button, the floor will open in sixty seconds, giving you only a minute to pick your partners, desu~!" she slams her hoof down on one of the buttons, "Let's love—uh oh."

The music abruptly stops as the atmosphere thickens with a grave silence.

Cure scratches the back of her head, "Gomen, everypony, it seems I accidentally hit the ten second button, so you better find a partner quick! Heh heh..."

The obnoxious music returns as a panic overtakes the contestants.

"WHO THE HELL MAKES THAT KIND OF F*CKING ACCIDENT?!?!"

Starlight meeps, flaps her wings, and swoops onto Silver Lining, effectively taking her place.

Silver coughs over a mouthful of feathers, and floats her upright with the grasp of his magic, "Well that's one way of communicating."

Fireblaze flares his Pegasi devices and points himself towards the meowing Ace Five, "I WILL SURVIVE!" he launches himself at a speed high enough to impress the Wonderbolts, only if he didn't completely miss his target and slam, headfirst, into Strawberry Cure's pole. Red feathers scattered from his bruised wings as he painfully slid down the pole with an, "Blaze....."

Florarena calmly walks to Fireblaze's intended target and places a hoof on Ace's nose, "Hm, I suppose I'm paired with a cat."

Barro erratically twists his head this way and that, "Oh, come on, come on, someone has to have a..." and quickly realizes that Lee is the only available love-partner left.

Lee opens his arms, "Come on, love~partner..."

Barro hangs his head low as he walks to Lee's side, "Guys back home are gonna love this..."

However, as Barro reached to Lee, he remembered a very important reality: time did not wait for anyone to make cool or witty lines. In other words, the floor immediately receded into nothingness below them, exposing the minuscule but many city lights of Manehatten.

Lee gasps, "OH, FUU—"

It was also at that moment that Lee recalled that gravity also did not pause for any hero to curse or bellow. In other words, they immediately fell.

Barro tumbles in the rushing air in a strained attempt to grab onto one of Lee's flailing appendages, "I can't reach!"

"Use that tumor growin' out of your head, jackass!"

"Oh, I have that, right."

Barro's horn glows a light blue as he surrounds his body in his magic, and levitates himself to Lee. He grabs onto his midsection and yells over the whipping winds, "Quick, pull the cord!"

Lee grips onto the dual green cords and bellows, "TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!?!" before sharply yanking the straps a might too hard, causing them to snap into pieces and no parachute as a result. "Turn down for that..."

Lee and Barro watch as the other's heart-shaped parachutes blossom from their packs in disgustingly sweet heart shapes. This was when Lee and Barro realized that they were going to splatter on the Manehattan streets and that the last thing ponies would remember them for was pairing up in a dating show, screaming obscenities to the unforgiving gravity.

Their screaming slowly waned as two pairs of hooves slowed their terrifying fall into a relaxing descent. The two take a look at the culprits: Pegasi wearing black unitards extending over their faces, leaving their wing as the sole exposure.

Strawberry Cure swoops by, dancing precariously on the thin bar of a hang-glider, "Don't worry, Barro-chan, Lee-senpai, MY LITTLE DATE: CHERRY BLOSSOMS WANING OVER THE CRESCENT SPRINGTIME MOON~! wouldn't be any fun if you got hurt before the real moe games!"

"I hate you." Lee says with the utmost sincerity, "I hate you ponies, so much."

Cure giggles, and directs the pegasi to carry the duo to a strange, hot pink, open air dome in the middle of the city. The fliers nosedive towards the target, entering the dome at hazardous speeds, but quickly pull up, and softly drops the two off onto the ground.

Barro lets go of Lee, and his jaw drops at the spread enclosed in the pink dome scattered with cameras: convoluted obstacles courses, caged manticores, a rather long lazy-river covered in rose petals, a bloodied butcher sharpening a knife at a buffet counter, and for some odd reason, a table covered with strange, orange, rudimentary dolls with dull expressions.

Lee shakes his head with a growing grimace, "What kind of f*cking game is this..."

Strawberry Cure expertly drops from her hang glider, while pushing down her skirt to hide the nonexistent panties with a wink and smile, "It's a love game! Whoever doesn't persevere enough to find love, like Fireblaze-san, is eliminated!"

"Wait, is that what happened to Fireblaze?" Florarena appears before Strawberry Cure with a flash of magic, "He was... 'eliminated'?"

Strawberry nods with that sickly-sweet smile, "Hai! He was eliminated!"

Lee raises an eyebrow at her concern, "Why do you care? Did you want his 'D' or something?"

Florarena pulls a face and shakes her head vigorously, "No, no, it's not that. You see, his name also had some form of fire in it and... look, there's just this whole thing with ponies that share fire in their names and, well... you're not really supposed to explain it to outsiders."

"Outsiders?" Barro asks with incredulity, "Is there some sort of club for people with similar names?"

"No! Well, almost... look, it doesn't make sense if you don't already get it, but that's not important right now. What is important is the legality of that challenge. We weren't given any prior knowledge of such extreme challenges, nor were there any chances to refuse them and simply drop out. Did you even get any clearances from the Princesses to hold such challenges?"

For but a split second, Strawberry Cure's cutesy expression broke and faltered into what looked like pure rage, but was quickly replaced with her previous face, "Oh, Flora-chan, such boring legalities are unimportant when dealing with love!"

Apparently it wasn't deemed important because what was deemed important was the God-awful JPop and JRock that once again decided to rape the eardrums of the contestants.

Strawberry Cure squees and ahns (the somewhat racist sound Japanese females emit when aroused... just read the To Love Ru manga, you'll see... actually, don't read it, it's not worth it.) "It's time for the next love~love~challenge!"

Silver Lining strolls by with Starlight Shadow following uncomfortably close behind, takes a large breath, and snorts, "Of course, that makes sense. Don't give us any time to rest after that very safe and not at all," he stops to snort here, "life-threatening challenge we just took."

"Ahn! Gin-san, you're sharp tongue hurts so much!" Cure pouts with enough forced cuteness to make minotaur gag, "But love waits for no one! And neither do love~love~challenges. So the next challenge is......" the dome goes dark as the pink spotlight scans the area, and stops at the ominous lengthy lazy-river covered in petals. "A Lover's Paddle!"

Starlight blushes. Well, she's sorta been blushing the entire time, it's just that she somehow forced even more blood into her cheeks. Her face cheeks. Not the butt kind. "A L-l-lover's P-p-paddle? Wow... so.." to Silver's disgust, she grips him around the hoof, "...romantic."

Silver Lining shivers and brushes her off (while snorting), "Wow, you really are a closet nympho."

"Now call me spit on me and call me scum!"

"What?"

"Nothing. Tee hee!"

"To mix things up," Cure croons as she struts to the river, "the partners are going to be swapped! Now, let's carry on to the love~paddlers!"

The six contestants stood atop the floating platforms in pairs on the lazy river, armed with a simple paddle each. Lee and the literally cat-like Ace Five were on one, as was Silver and Florarena, and lastly, Barro and the Twilicorn-like Starlight Shadow.

"The objective is simple!" Strawberry Cure sings from the sidelines in a cherry red cheerleader outfit that she inexplicably changed into when everypony's backs were turned for a mere second, "The team who can't prove their ultra-kawaii love by finishing last is eliminated! Kyaaaaaa, so moe!"

Florarena raises an eyebrow at the paddle, "Hm... seems a bit normal compared to the last, hardly legal challenge."

Silver snorts snort snort... "Wow, I think I might already be rubbing off on you. We must be meant for each other!"

Florarena ignores this and continues, "And it frightens me that you chose to give me a filibuster when—"

"Yes, we get it," Lee interrupts, "you're a lawyer, shut up, please."

Cure flips over the lazy-river with inequine (can't believe that was just written...) acrobatics while winking, pouting, and smiling simultaneously, "Please stop talking, my little ponies, it's time for the challenge. Ikeeeeeeeee!"

Blank silence.

"That means, go." she explains.

"For the love of God," Lee spat, "just speak in English."

The three teams begin their simultaneous paddling, keeping a relatively steady pace with each other, although Lee had to paddle for Ace because she decided to take a catnap.

Barro smiles, "Well, this is nice and calm. I'm actually enjoying this."

"I'd enjoy this more if you punished me," Starlight mumbles under her breath.

"Yeah," Lee nods with a smile, "despite the fact that this is a stupid show, I'm having an okay—"

*BZZZZZZZZZZT*

"—WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT!?!?!"

"Blah, blah, blah, so annoying," Silver Lining groans... and snorts, "are you guys in heat or sometttthjaosdjfasdklfjalsdjio!!!!!!!!"

Barro peers into the water to see a multitude of large, serpentine creatures slithering through the water. "Are... those snakes?"

Strawberry Cure cartwheels into view and pulls one of the animals out with a quick hoof. "Of course not, Barro-chan, these are...." she pauses to give the thing a long, seductive, gag-inducing, lick before dropping back into the water, "... electric eels!"

The contestants give a collective, "Excuse me?" before a spine-jingling current was sent through their bodies.

Ace Five yowls in pain and bats one of the eels onto the small boat before viciously tearing its head off in the most adorable fashion.

Florarena's eyes widen in shock (the narrator was promptly shot for the pun by Bob, the Inter-dimensional Pun-Punisher) before a shivering panic overtook her, "Oh, COOKIE! FUZZ!"

Lee furrows his brow in confusion, "Dafuq?"

"When I get really stressed or nervous, I accidentally—SHOGUN!—shout random terms and—NECROMANCER!—this is a really stressful situat—F*CK, SH*T, PISS, PISS IN MY ASS, ANAL, ASS, I REALLY DROPPED MY HORNCAP IN THE TOILET BY ACCIDENT!"

"SHUT UP, IT'S ONLY FUNNY WHEN I DO IT!" Lee has a minor seizure through another eel, "I HATE EVERY ONE OF YOOOOUUUU!!!!"

Barro whimpers as another shock passes through the boat, "I just wanna meet a nice mare and go home...."

Author's Notes:

Yeah I got held up because of a doctor's visit. I might edit this if I have no school tomorrow (pretty bad freezing rain tonight and tomorrow).

Again, a big thanks to everyone for letting me abuse your OCs personalities!

I love everyone of you :D

I'm gonna eat some cake. Later.