“Where in this horribly oversized mansion are we even going?” Trixie groaned, still following behind the recently undisguised dragon. The disguise really wouldn’t help them at that point, so he ditched it shortly after leaving the room which Chrysalis was summoned from.

“I already told you I don’t know,” Spike replied as he tried to keep his cool while dealing with the incredibly arrogant unicorn. “We just gotta keep looking until we find somepony. We’re bound to run into them eventually, and once we find one, it should be easier to find the others.”

“Why’s that?”

“Knowing my friends, they’ve probably already met up with each other after getting split up.”

Trixie pondered this for a moment before a disturbing thought occurred to her. “…With or without Sparkle having already gotten to them first?”

This gave Spike pause, and he sighed deeply with a shake of his head. Truly, he didn’t really know if his friends had been conquered by Twilight yet or not, and he could only hope that they stayed safe during their ordeal.

“Honestly, I dunno… but there’s only one way to find out.”

Onward they continued down the hall, hoping to find any one of their friends, regardless of their condition.

“Hahahahaha!” Discord laughed as he spun around over the remains of his stone prison. “It’s working, it’s actually working! It took way too long with Luna getting banished and everything though, but now it’s all coming together!”

“I would be careful not to set loose your chaotic magic on the land too early,” Chrysalis warned, eyeing the mad god sternly. “If the princesses catch wind of this before you make your move, it will become significantly harder to obtain our goal.”

“Pssh,” Discord waves his paw dismissively. “Those goody two-shoes princesses can’t stop us, even if they were forewarned. All we have to do is catch them before their surge of love energy subsides, and then you’ll hold them down and drain all that energy away. And since their life force is so focused on producing large amounts of love energy…”

“…Then draining their love away will kill all but kill them, and finally we can strike them down once and for all!” Chrysalis finished, a devious smile on her face. “Oh, how I do love it when a plan comes together, mwahahaha!”

“Yes! And once sun-butt and moon-butt are out of the way, chaos will reign!”

“And my changelings will feed!”

“And the world will be ours!”Chrysalis and Discord cheered together, and then shared a villainous laugh together.

“Alright alright, let’s get to work then,” Discord declared as he snapped his fingers, teleporting Blueblood who was five feet in front from them to a much more suitable three feet in front of them. “You, whiney prince slave! It’s time to put your bloodline to use!”

“Yes, my lord,” Blueblood replied as he turned his horn towards Discord. His horn glowed softly for a few moments in his usual golden color, before it suddenly began to shift to more of a deep blue, and the magical field turned erratic and almost volatile. As his magic charged further the magical field around his horn seemed to almost bubble and crackle like boiling grease, and the twinkling in his eyes were replaced by the same dark blue glow from his horn. After a few more moments a sickly bolt of energy shot out towards Discord’s outstretched paw and the magic up and to his head and eyes, briefly turning his own eyes a dark blue before they returned to their normal colors.

“It has begun…” Discord chuckled darkly, lifting up his lion paw – still cackling with the same energy – and snapped his fingers.

Over in the Royal Guard Barracks, Silver Shield was busy running this way and that, trying to settle the chaos that had broken out across the guard. Ever since the Princesses went and declared their new disposition, they had gone wild in trying to “convert” their subjects into seeing what they did, and of course the guard would be one of the first affected by this.

And there was a lot of controversy among the guard.

“We should obey our princesses, no matter the cost!” Some guards would say, which would immediately be followed up by “They’ve ruled the land for over a thousand years, they know what’s best!”

Others would say things like “They’ve obviously gone bonkers, we have to stop them and either knock some sense into them, or replace them with some ponies more competent!”

Then there were the odd ones occasionally spouting out nonsense such as: “I for one welcome our new perverted overlords! May their grace rub off on me in a figurative way, and perhaps a literal way too if my wife doesn’t find out.”

But just as another ridiculous slur passed his ears, a sudden jolt in his mind halted him in his tracks. He stood perfectly still as his eyes began to twinkle, and then a dark bluish aura spread over them. A few of his muscles around his body twitched as this happened, and all his hairs seemed to stand on end. Then, as quickly as it started, it was over, and Silver Shield did an about face and started racing the other direction.

For lord Discord.

Scarlet Font was having a very interesting day. As head of the Canterlot archives, she had tasked herself with recording and cataloging the most recent, and certainly one of the most controversial declarations the princesses have ever made. Scarlet Font had once gone through every declaration ever made by the sisters, and while some were indeed upsetting or even downright horrific for their time, she was pretty sure this more recent one would take the cake.

She was reading over the list of books recently checked out of the royal library, as well as the libraries all around the city. Books ranging from “Intense Psychological Deterioration” and “Discovering What Makes Your Maniacal Ruler Tick” to more erotic tomes like “A Princess and Her Secret Knight” and “If I Could Have an Orgy with Royalty…” Truly, the repercussions of the princess’ actions will be felt for generations to come, and discussed and researched by students and scholars for even longer.

The scroll she had in her hooves fell out of her hooves suddenly as a surge of chaotic magic welled up from a part of her body that had been locked away since her birth. Her eyes changed, her mind reformed, and then she began to trot out of her office, a new goal in mind.

For Lord Discord.

Celestia strode through her castle with her head held high and a satisfied smile on her face. Behind her a door to one of her many bedrooms closed, with many satisfied ponies sleeping away their exhaustion inside. She felt so refreshed, so powerful even after Luna and her embraced their desires and she wished she had realized this sort of freedom long ago. And once her star pupil returned from her mission, successful, the elements of harmony would be even stronger than ever. She knew that by the end of the day, everything would be alright.

But a sudden echo of a laugh caught her ears and stopped her step. She listened closely, hoping to have simply misheard it through the warping of the walls, but another, much louder repeat removed all doubt. It was his voice… something must have happened, and once again, he had escaped.

“Discord…” Celestia whispered to herself, moments before the Draconequis materialized himself several feet in front of her, a confident grin on his face.

“Well somepony sure seems happy to see me,” Discord crossed his arms and lied back in mid-air, eyeing Celestia closely. “I thought you had recently gotten all lovey dovey on-“

“DIZZY!” Celestia suddenly cried, throwing herself at the mad got before he could react. In a moment she was clung to his chest, planting kisses on his neck while her legs slid against his body.

“W-what in the world…!?”

“Oh Dizzy, I’m so glad you could make it,” Celestia cooed, nuzzling his neck as Discord began trying to pull her off, to no use. “You don’t know how many times I’ve fantasized about you in the past few hours.”

“F-fantasized!?” Discord guffawed, attempting to teleport himself a few feet away, but only taking Celestia with him as he did. “You’re supposed to hate me; I’m your arch nemesis!”

“But that only makes me want you more!” she cried, grabbing onto the back of his head and tugging it down towards her. “You and I fought sooo hard, and for sooooo long… I know what kind of power your hold.” She pressed her nose to his, her tongue threatening to slide against his lips as she talked. “And I want to feel it all…”

Discord shrunk himself just then, barely managing to dodge the kiss that Celestia was about to give him. He flew back several more meteres set up a barrier between them, and then reformed to his normal size.

“Euck!” He gagged, mock vomiting before her. “You see, this is the sort of thing I came to get rid of!”

“Now don’t play hard to get,” Celestia smirked, turning to slap her flank at him. “Unless you really want to play hard when I do get you…”

“No, I am not going to play your games, Celestia!” Discord paused for a moment, thinking back to a time when Celestia said the exact same thing to him. He dropped character for a moment and spoke in an oddly calm and collected tone. “Wow, our roles have really switched up, haven’t they?”

“Huh,” Celestia mused, rubbing her hoof on her chin. “I have to admit, I never thought I’d see us in this sort of role reversal…”

“Huh, yeah…”

“Indeed…’

“Mmm…”

“Mmmmm…”

“…”

“…”

“I’m gonna blow up the elements.”

“WHAT!?” Celestia cried suddenly, staring at Discord as his face once more featured his maniacal grin.

“There we go, now that’s the kind of reaction I should be receiving!” Discord chuckled aloud before he continued. “Oh yes, of course you would know what my overall goal would be, but perhaps you should also be concerned with the means by which I recently busted out of my prison.”

“Then how did you escape your prison, Discord!?” Celestia demanded. “It wasn’t long that the elements re-sealed you… who assisted your escape?”

“Who?” Discord snickered loudly, as if the identity of his cohort was a big joke. “Come now my dear, you should have known that the chaos wrought upon your city by your little escapades would be enough to get me out of that prison of yours.”

“You’re lying,” she claimed, taking a threatening hoof forward. “The elements were used to seal you in stone not long ago; you had to have had an assistant of some sort, or some group to help you.”

“A group? A single pony? Not a pony at all, even… who knows?” Discord set his legs on the ground and slowly began to walk over, an evil gleam in his eyes. “All I know is that the next step is very simple…”

“What next step? What are you planning?” Celestia backed up some more, her horn igniting with furious energy that she was preparing to unleash at any moment. But just a few feet away Discord stopped, leaning in slowly while staring at her.

“The next step…” Discord began slowly as he raised a paw, his fingers ready to snap, “Is to take out your troublesome little assistant.”

Before Celestia could react, Discord’s fingers snapped, and he was gone in a flash. Celestia paused for a moment as Discord’s words sunk in, and she knew his game. He was going to go after her student first, take her and the elements out of the equation, and the he would be nearly unstoppable.

But there were still other variables to factor in. The most important one was the assisting entity… Discord had to have had help, that much she knew, she what she didn’t know was who or what was helping him. She did not know of any groups or powers anywhere that would be crazy enough to side with the god of chaos and disharmony himself, but she never really doubted the possibility that such a thing would arise.

The second thing she took notice of was the timing. It directly followed her and Luna’s recent change to incorporate their more personal desires into their work styles. Though the uproar of such an event would be great, she highly doubted it would be enough to release Discord, especially with his prison being so recently reconstructed. However, there still had to be a connection, she had a gut feeling about it.

The last thing was him straight up telling her his target was Twilight. Discord is a trickster, and always keeps his true intentions a secret until the very end, or openly boasts about it to get her to react in some way. She had to think carefully, for the next thing she did could mean the difference between victory and defeat. She had no doubt now that Discord would go straight for the elements, but there was something else… if only she knew more.

After a bit more thought, she was resolute. He would probably expect her to rush to Twilight’s aid or something, trying to make her situation seem so grim that she needed to get to her and help. But Celestia knew better, yet Twilight still needed to know the danger she was in.

With a quick surge of magic, she summoned a quill with ink already on it and a scroll, and hastily scrawled an urgent message onto it. Hopefully Twilight had already reunited with her assistant, and she would be able to read the message immediately. A quick warning about discord’s recent escape and with a trick up his sleeve was all she needed, and she quickly sent off the letter.

Her next priority was to find Luna.

A sudden urge to burp interrupted Spike’s running, and after a short pause and bloated cheeks, a puff of fire erupted from his mouth, along with a magically materializing scroll. Spike and Trixie both watched the scroll float in the air for a brief moment before it fell to the ground, sitting in the middle of the hall.

“Oh no…” Spike gasped, staring at the scroll as if it was death itself he was looking at.

“What, what is this?” Trixie asked as she looked over towards the horrified dragon. “Why did you suddenly burp out fire and parchment? That is not a logical combination!”

Hesitantly, Spike reached down to the scroll to pick it up. He knew he should just run, to get as far away as he could before that creature Molestia arrived to claim them, but his duty to open the scrolls delivered to him was too much. He took the scrolls in his hands, noticing the absence of a seal, and slowly unrolled it. His fear turned into intrigue and moderate confusion at there actually being a message written on it. Trixie had seen the writing as well, and she leaned over to read the message.

Dear Twilight Sparkle…

Through unknown means, Discord is once again free of his stone prison. While I suspect he had aid, I know not what has assisted him in his escape. However, I just had a confrontation with the mad god, and he told me he was going to hunt you and your friends down and attempt to take you out. Do not let him, get to your elements, get them ready, and make your way to Canterlot with all possible haste. I will attempt to send a chariot to bring you to the castle, but with Discord out and about, it may not make it there.

Stay safe, my pupil.

Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

“Wait, the Discord has escaped again!?” Trixie guffawed, unable to believe what she was seeing. “Trixie does not know how to take on a god!”

“No, but Twilight does!” Spike replied as he rolled up the scroll and held it firmly in his claws. “We gotta find Twilight, and fast, before Discord gets to her!”

“But how!?” Trixie whined, looking down at her hooves. “Trixie has been running around this mansion forever, and her hooves have gotten incredibly sore from it all! How are we supposed to find Sparkle now when we obviously couldn’t have earlier?”

“Just, I don’t know... shoot a hole through the roof or something!” Spike exclaimed, pointing at the roof.

“…What?”

“You heard me! Use your great and powerful magic to shoot a hole through the building to let them know where we are.”

“But if they are still inside, they may not even know that I even casted it!”

“This is Twilight we’re talking about,” Spike replied, crossing his arms. “If you make it loud and spectacular enough, she should be able to pinpoint where we are and find us.”

“…I still don’t like this whole “find Sparkle” idea… who’s to say she won’t just molest us as soon as she finds us?”

“Well, I’m like a brother to her,” Spike began, placing a claw on himself proudly, “So I know that she would never do something like that to me. You on the other hand…” Spike paused for a few seconds, trying to find the right words. “…Meh, the ‘Discord has escaped again’ situation should be more urgent than molesting you, so I’m sure she’ll leave you alone as long as this crisis is about.”

“She better…” Trixie harrumphed, and then began to charge magic into her horn.

It took almost a minute of building up some energy, but the end result was well above Spike’s expectations. A bright ball of blue light shot up into the ceiling, immediately punching through and sending an array of glowing sparks of all colors down the halls. It also boomed loudly when it impacted the ceiling, and boomed again as it hit the following ones until it reached past the roof, where it suddenly exploded instead of flying up into the sky. The magical flames almost singed Trixie’s fur from how close the explosion was, and the resulting explosion left their ears ringing for a few seconds.

“Jeez, Trixie! Why the hay did you make it explode so close to us!?”

“Trixie did not intend to do that!” she yelled back, trying to shake the remaining ringing out of her ears. “Something must have stopped my magic projectile, like a force field of some sort!”

“Why would there be a force field up there?” Spike asked aloud, staring up at the hole that had small fired breaking out around the upper floors.

“I set it there.”

Trixie and Spike both turned suddenly to see not only Twilight Sparkle, but also all of their friends and the crusaders approaching from down the hall. Immediately Trixie gasped and shot through the nearest doorway, praying they somehow didn’t see her. Spike stood his ground, unsure of what Twilight and the others were doing all together, but knowing that it must mean that one of the two sides had won.

“Spike!” Twilight cheered happily, rushing up and grabbing her assistant. “I’m so happy to have finally found you and Trixie!”

“Trixie is not here!” Trixie called out from just beyond a nearby doorway.

“How did you find us so fast?” Spike asked, suddenly very tempted to begin backing away.

“Well, I set the force field around the entire building to tell me when somepony was trying to escape,” she chuckled to herself as if she just told some sort of humorous joke. “So, when that magical blast hit it, it was like a big red alarm going off in my head.”

“…And then you everypony here, huh?” He looked around at the other friends present, noticing them all to be smiling at him. “…And they’re all changed as well, aren’t they…”

“I wouldn’t call it changed, more like… released,” Twilight smirked as the others giggled behind her, obviously in on whatever Twilight had gotten herself into at that point.

“Well, whatever! Twilight, we got a bigger problem than one of your stilly antics,” Spike rolled up the scroll and walked over to her, practically shoving it in her face. “Read this,” he said, crossing his arms after Twilight took it in her magic.

“A letter from the princess?” She asked aloud as she began reading over it. Her face turned from confusion to surprise quickly, and then to a smirk of determination. “Well, it seems that Discord has broken out of his stone prison again… But this time, we’re a step ahead.”

Twilight poofed the letter away and turned sideways so as to address everypony.

“Girls, Discord’s back, but it seems the princesses, and perhaps even Discord at that, think we’re still in Ponyville.”

“So all we gotta do now is go and get the elements, find that oversized pile of crazy, and blow him back to stone again, right?” Rainbow Dash asked, her smirk rivaling Twilight’s.

“Precisely,” Twilight nodded. “Normally I would be worried about a god of chaos getting released again, but with our new level of harmony, we should be able to take him down without even breaking a sweat.”

“New level of harmony?” The group turned to look at spike, who in turn was staring at them like they had all gone bonkers. “Is that what you’re calling this?”

“Of course!” Twilight defended. “With a full connection of mind, soul, and body, we have reached levels of harmony that not even the princesses could manage.”

Spike stared at all of them, mouth agape at what he just head, and could hardly believe that they all believed that molesting each other would somehow make them even closer friends and – more importantly – strengthen the elements of harmony. On top of all that, the god of chaos has escaped, openly announced them to be his target, and they don’t seem worried in the slightest. Spike had a thought for a short moment that they would probably try to molest him too, but that idea was quickly pushed out of his mind with a shiver of disgust.

“Whatever,” Spike turned away with a harrumph. “Just get this all over with so we can return home already.”

All of them stopped smiling as they saw their little dragon friend get visibly upset at what they had achieved. Twilight stepped forward, her brow furrowing in concern.

“Spike? Why are you getting all upset over this?”

“Why do you think,” he grumbled in response, not turning to look at them.

“What the hay is your problem, man?” Rainbow Dash spoke up suddenly, flying over in front of the young drake who simply stared at the floor. “We finally better ourselves by like, a lot, and you get all mopey over it! What gives?”

“Get out of my face, rainbow dash,” Spike growled, his frown deepening.

“Oh yeah, what are you gonna do about it?” She growled back, inching closer. “Why do you have to be such a little punk?”

The others grimaced at Rainbow Dash’s choice of words, but before any of them could speak up in protest, Spike beat them with his own rebuttal.

“And why do you have to be a rapist!?” He yelled, his claws balled into a fist and shaking from barely contained rage.

Everypony reared back in shock at the accusation, not only towards Dash, but all of them as well by association. The fact that Spike knew such a word was one thing, but that he would so brazenly accuse them of such a heinous crime was mind blowing. Rainbow Dash had to land from her unbalanced caused by the shock of Spike’s words, and stared wide-eyed and slack-jawed at Spike stared at her with the upmost seriousness.

“That is all you and the princesses have done so far!” Spike yelled as he turned to his other friends down the hall. “You’ve just gone around touching and humping and making ponies feel uncomfortable until you get some sort of sick, twisted pleasure out of it!”

He seemed like he had more to say, but words failed him as his entire body trembled with rage. If he was a grown dragon, he may have gone on a rampage, but he knew how useless it would be for him to go that far, so he settled with harrumphing again and storming off. He didn’t look back as he kept walking off, the group behind him too stunned from his outburst to do anything.

“But,” Fluttershy began in just over a whisper. “B-but we didn’t-“

“The princesses have,” Spike cut her off, staring at her with narrowed eyes. “And you may not have yet, but you will.”

“That’s not true!” Twilight cried, trying to fight off the shock from Spike’s accusation. “We would never do that to somepony who really didn’t want it, and-“

“Trixie,” Spike cut her off as well, his vision shifting to Twilight. “When you found us, Twilight, what were you planning on doing with Trixie?”

“Trixie?” Twilight stuttered, thinking back to her original plan. “Well, I didn’t really know who I would have found first, but… I mean, Trixie was in your group, so I was thinking I could perhaps help… her… too?”

Twilight tried to put on a sheepish smile, but she couldn’t. The stare she was getting from spike stopped any sort of play of innocence from emerging as the anger and disgust she was feeling directed at her stopped any of that. Spike was serious, and not only that, he was right about her and her intents. She peeked past him at the door she saw Trixie run through, and the blue unicorn was peeking out of the barely cracked door. All Twilight could see was her eye, yet that was all she needed to see the fear and panic she was feeling.

That’s how I felt… Twilight though as she recognized the look in Trixie’s eye. That’s how we all felt when… the thoughts and feelings of Celestia’s rampage returned, and knowing that somepony else was now feeling that because of her was sickening. Twilight wanted to back into a corner and shut the situation away, but when her gaze turned back to Spike, she realized something else about herself. She had a plan for Trixie, as much as she now didn’t want to admit, but she also had an idea for something to do with her number one assistant.

“I… never wanted to hurt anypony,” Twilight sniffled, feeling tears coming to her eyes. “I was never going to do any of that, if she didn’t want it, I mean… but, but my friends were-“

“They’re your friends, and they trust you,” Spike stated, looking to each of them and how they wouldn’t meet his gaze. “But other ponies aren’t the same. What would you have done to Trixie if you found her alone, Twilight?” Spike lowered his own gaze for a moment, swallowing hard before his next words. “What would you have done to me?”

It felt as if an icy blade had stuck itself into Twilight’s chest, and it was slowly twisting inside her. She never really considered the true gravity of her actions, and may have actually done something horrible had Spike not actually spoken up.

“I’m sorry, Spike…” Twilight whispered, tears building up in her eyes. “I didn’t mean anything bad by it…”

“Just go and defeat Discord again or whatever,” Spike scoffed with his arms crossed, turning around so as not to see Twilight break down before him. “Go be a hero, rescue the princesses, save the day, and just all go into a bedroom and fuck or something. I don’t care.”

He went silent and stood there, unmoving with his back to the group. He couldn’t see the tears falling from his best friend’s face, but he could hear her whimpers and the comforting whispers from his other friends. He thought about the impact he just had with his words, especially that big curse word he just used, and thought about the thoughts they might be thinking towards him. They might end up resenting him, avoiding him, hating him, or whatever. He didn’t really care, not then at least, because all he wanted was for them to leave so he could walk back to Ponyville and go to sleep until they all came back from their new adventure.

Eventually he heard hoof steps fade away down the hall accompanied by more whispers and quiet talking, before eventually all was silent once more. He looked up back at the same door from earlier, seeing Trixie half emerged through the door, looking at him with worry.

Spike sighed deeply and approached her slowly, dragging his feet against the carpet.

“Trixie has… never seen anypony defend her like that,” she said slowly as she cantered out of the doorway towards the distraught dragon. “Are you ok, Spike?”

“I’m fine,” he grumbled, feeling tears begin to buildup behind his eyes. He clenched his teeth as he tried to fight them back, but it became harder as Trixie continued to approach him, and he knew she could see his strength faltering.

“Trixie is grateful that you defended her, but she does not know why you did it.”

“It wasn’t for you,” he said, trying to growl at her, but discovering that he couldn’t as his body trembled and tears began to build under his eyelids. “I was just…”

Trixie stopped in front of him and sat down, watching him with that same concerned face. Despite his best efforts, Spike couldn’t stop the flow of tears that began to stain his cheeks, and he slowly broke down in front of the show-mare.

“You were being strong,” she said to him, not breaking her eyes away.

“I’m not strong,” he said after a whimper, “I’m just a puny little baby dragon that doesn’t get to go on any of their adventures…” He sat on the ground and crossed his arms over his knees, burying his eyes against his arms. “I must be too weak for them or something…”

“You’re not the weak one; Trixie is… she just hid behind a door like a scared little filly while you actually faced with Sparkle and her friends.” Trixie closed her eyes and leaned her head down towards the floor, her voice beginning to mimic Fluttershy’s. “Trixie is thankful for,” she paused, shaking her head briefly with a grunt. “No, Trixie… I, thank you very much, Spike. I really thought I was done for…”

Spike perked his head up at this, noticing that for once Trixie wasn’t speaking in third person. He looked at her incredulously, even as tears still flowed down his cheeks.

“You really mean that?” he asked after a sob, their eyes staring into each other’s.

“I do. Trix-I was really afraid there that I would be… you know, molested, and that I was actually going to be forced into doing something like that by ponies that didn’t even like me…”

“Even if you don’t like my friends, Trixie, I wouldn’t let anypony have to deal with something like that if I could actually stop it…”

Trixie sniffled a few times before burying her head into her hooves, crying more openly as she thought about her position throughout their ordeal.

“I thought this was all some sort of big game to you, like you all planned this or something, and I was just some toy to be messed with, to be used, and once I was done, you would just… cast me aside like a used tissue…”

“T-that’s horrible!” Spike exclaimed, getting to his knees to shift closer to her. “I mean, I thought it was sort of like a game too at first, but not like that! I didn’t really like you either, it’s just…” Spike sighed again, taking a few moments to collect himself before he threw his arms around Trixie, pulling her into a gentle hug.

Trixie opened her eyes, though all she could see was the shoulder of the baby dragon now hugging her, his scales pressed firmly to her coat. She sobbed a couple more times before eventually returning the embrace, tugging him closer to her with her hooves slid around his back.

“…I would never let anypony go through something horrible like that again.”

Trixie cried more onto Spike’s shoulder as they hugged, letting out more than just her pain from the entire ordeal. Someone was actually showing that they cared for her, and not just because of the things she did, or because she had paid or bribed them to, but because they cared about her as a person. She mattered, even if he didn’t like her, Spike saw the pain she was in and took it upon himself to try and make her feel better.

Trixie had never really known what it was like to be in the positions she was in, to be crying her eyes out to some stranger who was comforting her all the way. He must have been in pain too, especially after telling off his best friends like he did, and yet he still comforted her over himself. He was being more than just generous or kind, and Trixie felt all her pain and anguish fall away as Spike held her in his arms.

“…Spike?” Trixie asked gently after a while.

“Yeah?”

Trixie sighed and nuzzled against the side of his head a little, not wanting to let go. “Thank you, for all you’ve done for me.”

Spike smiled a bit despite himself, realizing that he had probably just started the process of changing Trixie from a boastful, show-offy mare who thought she was better than everypony else into somepony far more respectful, and perhaps even a friend later on.

“You don’t have to thank me, I’m just doing what’s right.”

“B-but I must!” Trixie pulled her head back to look at him. “You don’t know how much I appreciate your help. You’ve got every reason in the world to hate me, but instead you show me kindness and comfort, even when I probably deserve… worse.”

“Do you feel bad for all the things you did?” Spike asked, suddenly looking serious.

Trixie caught herself as she stared back at him, his stern eyes seeming to dig into her mind, and at the ready to catch the slightest hint of deceit. She figured he must still not trust her, and she didn’t blame him, but she would show him that she was a changed mare. She would do whatever she could to prove it to him.

“Well, Trixie is not to blame for all those things…! But-“she stopped and caught herself, taking in a deep breath and exhaling before she continued. “But, yes… she-I am sorry for all the things I have done and wish for your forgiveness, Spike.”

They stared at each other for a while longer, and just when Trixie started to think he wouldn’t believe her, Spike smiled softly and leaned in to nuzzle her muzzle.

“I forgive you…” he whispered, sliding himself closer as he savored the embrace.

Trixie blushed at that, and smiled back as she nuzzled him back, for once feeling like she was truly cared for. It was a feeling she didn’t want to go without again.

“I, I don’t know what to say, really…” Trixie nuzzled the dragon more, her hooves gently caressing his scaly back. “Trixie has never known compassion like you have shown her this day.”

“Really?” it was now Spike’s turn to pull his head back, staring at Trixie with surprise.

“Yes, unfortunately…” A small frown formed on her face as she spoke. “Trixie had always wanted to have friends, but no matter what she did everypony would laugh at her, so she decided to show how wrong everypony was by showing off how great Trixie was!” She pouted cutely and turned her head down in shame. “But I was just being foolish… and because of this, I did not know what really having a friend was like. I just expected ponies to like me, but… I never really earned it.”

“I never knew…” Spike said quietly, watching Trixie pout quietly to herself for a few moments. “Ya know, maybe I can be your first friend, I mean, if that’s alright with you.”

“Trixie would like that,” she turned her head up and smiled at him, a tear brimming on the lids of each of her eyes. “Though, I am not sure if I would stop there…”

The smile that was coming to Spike’s face vanished as he blinked at her, unsure of what she was implying.

“Whadya mean?” he asked, cocking his head to the side.

“Trixie is… well, a little bit selfish at times,” she began, but quickly followed up with a disclaimer. “N-not that she would actually want something from you! Well, not like a favor or an item or anything, but…”

“What are you getting at, Trixie?”

“Trixie is just… very lonely,” she said, looking back into his eyes with a pleading stare. “Trixie… I, would really like to know what it’s like to be with somepony.”

“But, I already said we can be friends and-“ a hoof silenced Spike’s next words, and he saw the mare lean closer to him, gazing into his eyes longingly.

“I would like to really be with someone right now… I mean, more than just a friend, and not in a way that I feel I am being taken advantage of…”

Spikes eyes widened with realization as he began to understand what Trixie was talking about. And just as the thoughts of her implications rushed through his mind, a heavy blush rose onto his cheeks. Slowly her hoof moved from his lips, allowing his mouth to work for several seconds before he found the right words.

“You, y-you really want to…”

“Yes,” Trixie said, more determined then than he had ever seen her. “You showed your care to me like nopony ever has before, and I more than appreciate that… I want to show you how much it means to me.”

Whatever words Spike had failed him as he found Trixie’s lips pressing against his own. His claws gripped onto her fur for a few moments, his mind racing to decide whether or not he should resist or to go with it. He thought back to what his friends were about to do, and that almost made him lash out at the blue mare right then and there. But as he thought over their situation once more, and realized that Trixie really didn’t just want him for her own needs, Spike’s claws slowly loosened their grip…

And his arms slid around her, and tugged her closer.

The six friends continued on down the hall with the three fillies trailing them quietly, none of them wanting to speak up after such an outbreak by one of their closest friends. It didn’t take them long to reach the front door of the mansion, as Twilight had already mapped out the majority of the interior of the building. As they made their way through the front lawn pathway and towards the main gate, Twilight finally stopped and turned to her friends.

“We should go back for them,” Twilight said softly, eyeing the building.

“Twi,” Applejack began, “Ah know ya wanna, but maybe it’s best if we just leave’em be for now.”

“But, they’re like, totally in somepony else’s house and really sort of trespassing,” Pinkie said, scratching her head at the situation.

“Well, besides that,” Rarity waved her hoof dismissively, “I see where Applejack is coming from. Dear Spike must be so torn about everything, and I can’t say I honestly felt great about his accusations made against us, but…”

“But his words held merit to them,” Twilight finished with a long sigh. “We probably were gonna end up doing bad things to Trixie, and who knows, we might have lost ourselves and done them to Spike as well…”

“He just needs time,” Fluttershy offered. “He’s been through a lot, we all have, and we just need this whole thing to end so we can get to making our friendships whole again.”

“Yeah, but not until we beat up Discord one more time,” Rainbow Dash added. “Remember, all six of us are still together, so we gotta go get the elements from their chamber in the castle and go defeat Discord again.”

“I just feel so bad leaving Spike like that, I mean…” Twilight shook away the tears that were trying to build up in her eyes. “He’s like a brother to me.”

“I thought you saw him more like a son or something,” Pinkie said, immediately causing Twilight to blush.

“No no no, you got it all wrong!” Rainbow added in with a snicker, her voice taking a more teasing tone. “Twilight’s the mommy, Owlowiscious is the baby, and Spike is the daddy!”

A few chuckles went around the group as Twilight blushed harder, her previous grief almost completely forgotten as her friends’ efforts to cheer her back up seemed to work. Twilight shook her head and groaned, but couldn’t help to let out her own small bit of giggling at their antics. She then took a long, deep breath and thought more about their situation.

“Do you really think Spike will be fine with just Trixie?” Twilight asked, her voice still laden with concern.

“Don’t worry Twi,” Applejack said with a pat on Twilight’s back. “Spike may still be pretty little, but he’s a strong feller, I think he’ll get back home just fine, even without our help.”

“You really don’t think Trixie will be a problem?”

“Pfft, as if,” Rainbow Dash scoffed. “Even if that whimpy show-mare tried anything, Spike could easily plow her flank into the ground.”

“Oh, Spike!” Trixie moaned out as she felt the dragon press her back against the bed and then come down on her, his mouth nipping and kissing at her neck as his waist pumped between her thighs, grinding them together roughtly.

The room Trixie hid in was a simple bedroom, and the two moved themselves there after deciding the hallway was not the best place to get intimate, even in a seemingly empty mansion. The two had quickly gotten themselves on top of the bed, and when Trixie sat down Spike was quick to pounce on her, driving her to her back and beginning to work himself on her.

Spike’s claws felt and squeezed around Trixie’s sides and belly, feeling everything he wanted to as he continued to grind himself against her, feeling his member quickly become erect from riding against Trixie’s nethers. His tongue shot out of his mouth as he worked the mare’s neck, sliding up to her mouth and allowing her to suck on it as he worked.

Trixie was smiling as much as she could as she took in the long slithery tongue, moaning through her lips as it worked against her tongue and around her mouth, all while she felt his remarkable thick shaft tease her tender lower lips. She squeezed her legs around the dragon’s lower body, grinding back against him in hopes of finally having his glorious member enter her. She whimpered gently as this did not happen, and redoubled her efforts to get him inside.

Spike took notice though, and without warning he hefted his hips up from against her and then drove them down, his throbbing cock plunging deep into Trixie’s awaiting hole. She cried out loudly, her lips spread for the first time by real, pulsing shaft, its ridged form sending waves of ecstasy through her body. Spike’s breathing got heavier as he began to pump his hips down against her over and over, rocking the bed and making it creak beneath them.

Trixie put her hoof on Spike’s head and almost yanked it up away from her neck, pausing for a brief moment to stare into his eyes before she craned her neck forward and shoved their lips together once more, their tongues dancing wildly as their bodies worked together through pure ecstasy.

Spike wanted more, and even with his dragonhood fully erect, it still seemed to grow even larger inside the mare, the throbbing mass pounding against Trixie’s deepest inner walls as he seemed to only thrust harder and faster, not showing any sign of getting tired. Trixie moaned loudly through their kiss, deepening it with all the passion she could muster as her dragon lover plowed her flank into the ground.

Eventually Spike broke his lips from hers, retracting his tongue into his mouth as he took Trixie’s cheeks in his claws, staring into her widened eyes with his own lust-craven ones.

“Spike wants more…” He breathed between his heavy breaths before pulling himself out of her.

Trixie was about to protest before Spike flipped her over on the bed with strength not even he knew he had, and once more was upon her, this time on the mare’s back with his claws gripped onto her shoulders. Trixie rose rear into the air, eagerly awaiting his next move as her wet pussy lips winked with anticipation.

She didn’t have to wait long as Spike rammed his hips down upon her once more, shoving his large draconic cock deep into her with a resounding slap as their bodies met with great force. Instantly Trixie was moaning out again, louder this time as Spike drove into her deeper and harder, not letting up for even the slightest moment as he ravaged her marehood. Her eyes began to roll back into her skull with her tongue lolled out onto the sheets, her body overwhelmed by the amount of pleasure coursing through her. She wondered for a brief moment if the dragon on top of her would end up growing even larger from his desire and take her all the way back to his cave, plowing her all the way there and more.

But those thoughts ended as Spike began to huff louder, his movements becoming more strained as his claws dug deeper into her fur. His whole body tensed, his pulsating cock preparing for its imminent release.

“I, I’m gonna…!” Spike breathed, feeling a strong pressure build up between his legs.

“Give it to me you beast!” Trixie breathed between moans, bucking herself back against him with all eagerness to take in his seed. “Ravage Trixie’s body, make her yours!”

Trixie didn’t have to wait much longer, as after only a few more thrusts Spike’s member suddenly released a wave of hot, creamy juices, filing her up even more than expected as she found herself climaxing as a result. Their juices mixed and overflowed from her, spilling onto their legs and the sheets while Spike held in his last thrust, his cock being pumping madly as Trixie’s inner walls squeezed and milked it of every drop.

After a final cry of pure bliss, Trixie’s back legs gave out and her body fell limp on the bed with Spike still on top of her, the two panting loudly from their ordeal. They sat there for a while, neither wanting to move as they simply tried their best to catch their breaths, their bodies still recuperating from pleasure they’ve never experienced before.

As the minutes ticked by Spike finally pulled himself out of her, his member quickly receding underneath his scales before he crawled up on top of Trixie’s back, leaning his face against hers with a gently nuzzle.

Trixie nuzzled back eagerly, a goofy grin on her face. “Oh Spikey, I never knew you were such a powerful dragon…”

“Neither did I,” he breathed tiredly, his arms around her neck. “Uh, what should we do now?”

He looked at their surroundings, noticing the bed beneath them stained like their lower bodies, and a slightly open door on the other end of the room revealing a bathroom.

Trixie chuckled lightly, her grin turning into a smirk. “How about a shower, hot stuff?”

Spike chuckled back, a soft smile on his lips. “Yeah, that sounds great…”

“So Discord is on the move once more,” Luna mused, her hoof rubbing her chin. “This is most troubling news…”

“Yes,” Celestia confirmed with a nod. “And though I did check to make sure the elements were still in their vault, I fear that Twilight and her friends may not be able to make their way here before Discord overpowers them.”

“Discord can most certainly overpower them with much ease,” Luna began, “but it is not in his nature to simply get what he wants and be done with it. He will toy with them first, mess with their heads, and try to make them fail by losing their minds and dashing their hopes rather than using his magic to simply do away with them.”

“I agree, but I’m not worried that the girls won’t be able to overcome his challenges, I’m worried that when they do, Discord will get angry, and not care about toying with them anymore…”

Luna smirked, and looked to her sister with confidence. “Then we shall go and help your student, and make sure that vile beast stays within his prison once and for all.”

“That might be just what Discord wants, though…” Celestia replied, looked out a nearby window of the hallway they were standing in. “Discord taunted us for a reason, he wanted us to know what his target was, and that gives me pause to go and assist the elements.”

“Perhaps that is what he expects,” Luna offered. “He knows how deeply you analyze the situation, and he knows you will suspect that, but perhaps if we actually do blindly rush off to help the elements, we will be doing something he does not expect.”

“Perhaps you’re right, but…” Celestia trailed off as she noticed a pony round the corner, and immediately her eyes widened as she saw her pupil gallop her way.

“Princess Celestia, Princess Luna!” Twilight cried out, rushing to them with an excited smile on her face.

“Twilight!” Both princesses cried out in a mixture of surprise and happiness, and quickly rushed towards the unicorn to meet her half way. They both hugged her and exchanged nuzzles, and even kisses on the cheeks and neck.

“Twilight, how did you get here so quickly?” Celestia asked mid-nuzzle. “I thought you were still in Ponyville!”

“I had this new teleportation spell I was working on at the time, and since I chose Canterlot Castle as one of my exit points, I put it to good use and brought myself and all of my friends here!”

“Your friends are here too?” Luna asked. “Pray tell, where are they?”

“They’re keeping guard over Discord’s statue while I went to go get you two, we already defeated him!”

“You did!?” They both asked, astounded.

“That’s right!” Twilight beamed, and proceeded to kiss both of their cheeks. “Apparently Discord thought we would still be in Ponyville for a while, so he wasn’t ready when we just showed up and blasted him with our friendship rainbow.”

“Well, that’s one crisis solved,” Celestia replied with a long sigh, no longer having to deal with a god of chaos running amok. “However, there is still very serious issue we have to attend to…”

“What’s that, princess?” Twilight asked.

Without warning Twilight pushed onto her back, and both princeses descended upon her with a mix of kisses, licks, and playful bites across her face, neck, and upper body.

“We must give you your reward, my dear student,” Celestia said with a smirk, her hoof already sliding between the lavender mare’s legs.

“Oooh, princess, please,” Twilight cooed playfully as she writhed on the ground. “Don’t ravish your innocent little student like this… somepony might be watching!”

“Let them watch,” Luna replied putting her hoof on Twilight’s cheek and tugging her face so their eyes would meet. “They will know of the passion we share if they do.” In an instant their lips met, and the two kissed each other deeply as Celestia moved to Twilight’s lower body, already dipping her mouth where her hoof just was.

“Mmmm… yes…” Twilight whispered between deep kisses, her front legs wrapping around Luna’s neck as her rear legs hooked around Celestia’s. “More…”

Celestia and Luna were quickly losing themselves in their fervor, much quicker than either expected at that, and it was only Luna who began to notice something amiss. Her eyes opened in surprise as she found her body unable to pull away from Twilight’s, while her sister seemed blissfully unaware of their lack of control.

After much effort Luna finally regained the ability to pull back, but Twilight’s legs stayed hooked around her neck. Their lips broke apart and Luna tried again, only to feel herself get tugged back down and their lips reconnected. She whimpered loudly, her eyes darting around in a panic as she realized that Twilight shouldn’t have the strength to tug her back down.

When her eyes met with Twilight’s, they widened even further as she saw the malicious grin she was receiving. This isn’t Twilight Sparkle! Luna thought to herself, and instantly her horn was alight with magic. But just before she could cast a spell, it died out with a light fizzle, and she began to feel her energy quickly leave her body. This isn’t her at all, it… it has to be a-!

As Luna continued to try and pull away, her efforts became more and more futile as a still disguised Queen Chrysalis sapped away more and more of the princesses’ energy, growing even more powerful than she ever had before.

And further down the hall, Discord watched from the shadows, an evil grin on his face as he held in the desire to laugh at his enemies’ quickly approaching demise.

Author's Notes:

Did you forget that this story contained a "Tragedy" tag?