Family Drama 4: Expert Advice

Rainbow road on Twilight’s back. It felt nice. On Twilight’s back, she could hug, and nuzzle, and kiss her stallion all she wanted while feeling his powerful muscles beneath her and the Celestia-sized wings framing her body thanks to aforementioned hugs, kisses, nuzzles, and wing strokes.

Giant wing-boners were awesome.

She had forgotten just how big Twilight was as a stallion. The former female topped Princess Luna and could have given Princess Celestia a run for her money in the huge department…except for her horn of course, that part of Twilight’s anatomy was still kind of average.

Although, his lower horn, the thing that almost doubled as a fifth leg made up for it. That thing was about as long as Celestia’s horn, and didn’t lose its thickness towards the end. It was awesome. There were just no other words for it.

Now, if only Twilight would get going a little faster than the snail’s pace he was trading along at, they could go and have a quickie before Shining and Cadence came to and made everything all complicated again. Dash hated complicated. Complicated got Twilight upset.

Upset Twilight got freaked out.

Freaked out Twilight led to crazy.

And crazy Twilight was dangerous.

She just wanted to go to their room, have the stallion beneath her wrap his gorgeous body around her, and let everything vanish in a flurry of sexual pleasure as he banged her brains out so much it caused memory loss.

“Uh, Rainbow…are you sure we should be doing this now?” he asked while looking back to Shining Armor and Cadence. The couple was still on the floor. Still unconscious, and not in any danger, so she didn’t see why Twilight needed to get all messed up in the head about them.

“Are they hurt?”

“Well…no.”

“Didn’t the same thing happen to you when you found out about our foal?”

“Um…I’m pretty sure it’s the transformation that freaked them out but…yes.”

“And don’t you want to do it?”

Twilight cleared his throat. “Honestly Rainbow? I’m…divided on the issue, obviously.”

As Twilight looked down at himself, Rainbow jumped off the stallion to take a peek at the alicorn’s male part. The length and fullness of the thing made her almost gulp. It was still a wonder to Rainbow how she had gotten that thing inside of her and not died.

“Plus, well…they’ll be up in a few minutes and…we usually take longer than that,” Twilight said as a blush covered his cheeks.

“Twilight, you need to relax,” the pegasus countered while she while stared at the giant penis as she thought of just how she intended to make him do just that. From what Rainbow had felt while on the alicorn’s back, Twilight wasn’t anywhere near calmed down enough from his first freak out, and having to go over something like the whole pregnancy thing on top of his gender change would just add more stress to the alicorn’s plate. He needed to calm down before anything else happened.

She stepped forward and ran her hoof along Twilight’s massive foreleg, its perfect musculature making her a little jealous. Rainbow knew Twilight was stronger than her as a guy, much stronger. It didn’t seem fair that something the pegasus had worked her whole life to get could be overshadowed so easily because Twilight could do magic.

On the other hand, Rainbow also remembered what it was to be held by those powerful, gentle limbs. The pegasus remembered when she could at least pretend to not be the pony who was constantly having to hold Twilight together, when she could be the one to just collapse and let Twilight pick her up in a protective embrace. She would have sold her soul to Tirek for just five minutes in those forelegs, not having to worry about anything.

A giant hoof turned Rainbow head up. The next thing she knew, Twilight’s lips engulfed her own in a powerful kiss that filled Rainbow’s mouth with the alicorn’s tongue before he wrapped his perfect forelegs around the pegasus. The Twilight lifted her up into the air and back onto the couch to completely surround her with his wings. “I do want you Rainbow, but…just give them a few minutes, please?”

In her new position atop Twilight’s body, Rainbow could feel Twilight’s stallion-hood throbbing beneath her with anticipation. She knew the stallion wanted her as badly as Rainbow wanted him and her sex quivered with anticipation. Even more enthralling was the stallion’s body pressed up against hers so tightly Rainbow’s entire body shook every time Twilight’s heart beat while his wings enclosed themselves around her.

Her pegasus’s instincts fought to take over. They told Rainbow’s to just melt right then and there. They screamed at her to stay with the alicorn just like she was, and he would protect her from everything.

And then she remembered what happened at lunch, and sighed at the situation. “Okay.”

As much as it hurt, Rainbow got off of the stallion and out from his wings she he could roll over onto his stomach and cover the erection before using his tail to help cover anything else that might be showing, and Rainbow did the same with her own waiting sex what was needing to be filled. Oh Celestia please don’t let anypony notice. And please let this be over fast!

If things went too slowly, Rainbow would be needing to get off more than Twilight.

Twilight horn glowed, and a second later, the older members of her family awoke with a start.

“Ugh…Cadence?”

“Shiny?” the alicorn said as she lifted a hoof to rub her head.

“Cadence, I had the weirdest dream,” the prince mumbled before looking up at the couch Twilight was lounging on, and gaped.

“Um…it wasn’t really a dream BBBFF,” the purple alicorn said in his very masculine voice as he raised a hoof to wave at the smaller stallion.

Cadence rubbed her forehead as she tried to fight off the pounding migraine that was threatening to make her skull explode as she tried to process the story Twilight and Rainbow had just finished telling her. Out of the corner of her eye, she could tell Shining wasn’t doing any better than she was. In fact, he looked a lot worse in the active brainpower department and the shock of the news seemed to have just frozen him for the moment.

“So let me get this straight,” Cadence mumbled as she lowered her hoof. “You created a spell to make yourself taller, but your concentration lapsed at the last second and you turned yourself into a stallion, then…had sex with Rainbow Dash.”

As her temporary not so little brother blushed and looked away from the pink alicorn, Cadence winced. Really should have been more tact with that one, she told herself. She could see Twilight’s discomfort, and it was obvious that something else had driven the poor filly…or colt to near breakdown before she had even arrived.

In order to keep her brain working, Cadence switched to something she did understand: relationships.

Although she only had the vaguest sense of the current state of their relationship, Cadence called up everything she remembered about Rainbow Dash and ran it up against what she knew about Twilight. The two were a study in contrasts, but eerily similar at the same time. They had few shared interests, but very similar drives, and…Cadence had seen how much they had cared for each other on previous visits.

Twilight usually paid more attention to Rainbow Dash than any of her other friends, and Rainbow had shown a slight tendency to do things for Twilight that she hadn’t for anypony else. Cadence hadn’t thought anything about it at the time, but looking back on things, she could tell the seeds of love had been planted in their hearts.

She just wished that they had sprouted under different circumstances. With the way they were doing things, the road ahead of the two of them was going to be hard and full of bumps. If she guessed right, it had been a particularly bad one that had strained the connection they felt for one another recently…which caused the previously smaller alicorn to dart into Cadence’s forelegs for comfort.

On the good side of things, Rainbow didn’t seem to be showing any animosity towards Twilight at the moment, or back then either. She had been a supportive presence since the married couple had awoken, if a lustful one.

Not that Cadence could blame her. The stallion Twilight had become had just as many handsome features as Shining Armor, only more defined and in greater proportions. Plus, the long hair, bangs, and nervous expression made him look absolutely adorable. It was no wonder a pegasus as protective as Rainbow had lusted after the big alicorn and used that spark to ignite deeper feelings.

“Okay then,” Shining spoke up. The signs of barely restrained emotion were written all over his face. “If it was an accident, then what the hay is this? How can you just make yourself a stallion again?”

Twilight stole a glance at his fillyfriend, and looked back to his older brother. “Like I said before you went under,” he began. “I’ve been experimenting with the magic for when we wanted more children.”

The unicorn let out a groan. “You’ve been together a week, and you’re already planning for more?! You…Twilight, you always do this!” he told his now-brother. “You make out some big complicated plan, and get focused on the end while going through the steps and don’t notice the unintended consequences!”

Cadence felt the mood in the air change as she watched Twilight shrink in on himself and start trembling, and Dash’s face became one of anger before she rose into the air and pointed a hoof at the at the unicorn. “Hey, you need to shut the buck up, right now!”

“Rainbow!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Do you have any idea what the two of you have done?” Shining armor demanded.

The pegasus flew right into the unicorn’s face, and gestured to her stomach. “I think I’ve got a pretty good idea right here!”

Shining Armor didn‘t back down, and yanked Rainbow out of the sky with his horn to loom over her. “Then you’re the biggest moron I’ve ever seen!”

“HEY!” Twilight’s voice boomed over the arguing ponies before he teleported and stepped forward to put himself between Rainbow and Shining Armor. “Don’t you jerk her around with your magic!”

The sudden appearance of his sister-turned-brother, plus the purple alicorn’s size made Shining back up while his baby brother glared down at him. However, backing up did not mean backing down. “Then tell her to stay out of my face!”

From her place on the floor, Rainbow Dash massaged her flank and glared up at the taller unicorn. “Just what the hay is your problem?”

“My problem is I find out my little sister just ruined her whole life and doesn’t seem to care about it at all!” Shining Armor yelled.

Twilight’s eyes widened while Rainbow practically growled at the stallion.

Before things could get completely out of hand, Cadence took in a deep breath, and focused her magic.

“OKAY EVERYPONY QUIET DOWN!”

The strength of her voice made all the other ponies in the room stagger back, and more importantly, stop talking. She counted to ten for their hearing to come back, then looked over to the young couple. “Look, we’re all a little wound tightly at the moment, especially with…well, buck…everything,” she said before looking over to Twilight.

Anypony with half Cadence’s experience in romance could see the purple stallion was a mass of anger, guilt and sexual tension that was threatening to explode in more ways than one. “Twilight, I think you need to take Rainbow and go cool off while you give Shiny and me a little bit of time to adjust to this whole situation. Please?” she asked.

“O-Okay Cadence,” Twilight mumbled before he motioned for the pegasus to follow him out the door.

As the larger alicorn turned, Cadence caught sight of the alicorn’s lower profile, and had to force her eyes not to widen in surprise. Sweet Celestia little sister, you are gigantic, the pink princess thought before her eyes drifted over to the smallest pony in the room to wonder just how in Tartarus she had survived getting pregnant.

Then, once the two of them had left the room, Cadence turned on her husband to glare at him while she spoke. “Shiny, just what the hay were you thinking, saying something like that?”

“What was I thinking? What were you thinking letting them walk off like that?” he demanded.

Cadence trotted over one of the nearby reading chars and collapsed on it with a sigh. “I’m thinking my little sister is emotionally fragile right now, and you did was yell at her for…impregnating another mare,” she grumbled. Oh pony feathers is it going to take some time to get used to that idea.

After a week of wrapping her head around the idea, Cadence had been ready for Twilight being pregnant. She had been willing to meet the stallion responsible and give him a chance…at least before Spike’s misconstrued explanation of things. She had even been ready to support the idea of Twilight being a single mother and all the problems that would come with it. She was even willing to accept the fact that Twilight had gotten pregnant on her first try while she and Shining had been trying for years to no effect.

Twilight being the FATHER…

That was taking some time to get used to.

“I know we came in here angry at the other pony that was supposed to have made Twilight pregnant, BUT SHE IS THE OTHER PONY!” Cadence shouted. “And I think it’s killing her with guilt, and you being angry at her special somepony that she got pregnant isn’t going to solve anything right now or later!”

If anything, it would only make the situation worse! What those two needed was love and support, and somepony to bucking talk to, not family screeching in their face and saying what’s happened had been a mistake. While Cadence could definitely call what happened an accident, treating it like some kind of mistake as Shining was doing not the way to go.

Cadence watched Shining’s face become a little confused. “What’re you talking about?”

“Rainbow Dash!” Cadence exclaimed. “You start yelling at Twilight and putting her special somepony down, her special somepony that she is obviously trying to forge a real romantic relationship with, saying she’s ruined Twilight’s life and-”

A pair of raised hooves stopped the alicorn’s explanation before Shining got out a single word. “Whoa whoa whoa!” he said before lowing his hooves to sit on the floor properly. “What are you talking about? I’m not angry at Rainbow Dash. A little upset at how this all went down, but…I’m not going to try and step between the two of them if they really want to make this work. Buck Cadence, she’s carrying my niece or nephew! I can’t exactly be mad at her for wanting to stick around when she’s the one having to go through everything!”

As the explanation finished, Cadence’s train of thought ran into an impasse. “But…but you…the whole way over you went on and on about how you were going to kill Twilight’s special somepony!”

“Yeah,” Shining agreed with a few nods before he frowned. “And then I learned that she’s the one who got that somepony pregnant and that she’s already in a deep enough relationship with her that she’s planning for another foal? Trying to develop a spell that turns her fillyfriend into a stallion so she can have the next one?”

Cadence frowned. She did think Twilight might have been going a bit fast with that, but…this was her first love. First loves were always hard and fast…and sometimes spun so out of control they had a spectacular crash. It was something she could tell neither of them had any experience with, and they really needed a helping hoof in that department.

But, she couldn’t let Shining start looking at the thing in a bad light from the start. So a positive spin was needed. “And?” she asked while thinking of the best way to put such thinking in a good light. “It’s a good thing Twilight feels so comfortable with her relationship she can plan for a year or two down the line.”

Shining let a sigh and ran a hoof through his hair. “Cadence, she doesn’t understand what this is going to do to her,” Shining Armor groaned. “The press, they love it when the royalty screws up. It gives them something to finally talk about!

“Celestia manages to avoid most of it…except for that cake scandal a few years back. You…well, remember how they made you look after the last princess summit?” he asked, getting a wince from Cadence. “Hay, how many petitioners do we still get asking you to make some other pony fall in love with them? And when Luna did her Nightmare Night thing up in Manehattan…ugh, I don’t even want to think about how many of EUP got called up to stop the return of Nightmare Moon.

“They’re going to have a field day with this when it gets out that Twilight got another mare pregnant. Not to mention what it’s going to mean for Equestrian society if Twilight really can switch another pony’s gender at will! She’s just thinking about her personal end goals and not even looking at the bigger picture!

“And you saw her, or him…whatever,” Shining said with a quick shake of his head. “She can barely take talking about this kind of stuff with us! I…I just don’t want to see my baby sister hurt.”

Cadence groaned and rubbed her forehead with her hoof. Maybe you should have started with that instead of all the yelling then.

Rainbow followed his stallion into the alicorn’s bedroom and closed the door behind her while the furious God of Magic stomped forward had enough to leave cracks in the ground of his bedroom. The magic of the palace healed them shortly afterwards, but...seeing Twilight casually break something that even survived Applejack and Rainbow’s roughhousing so casually was a bit spooky.

“I can’t believe he did that!”

“Twilight.”

“I can’t believe he said that!”

“Twilight!”

The giant pony rounded on Rainbow Dash in a fury and glared at her. “My life, he says you ruined my life Rainbow!” he yelled. “You! The best that’s ever happen-mmph!”

The kiss Rainbow gave the alicorn was a sloppy one, that nearly had her entire muzzle going into his mouth, but it served it’s purpose by shutting him up and making the stallion sit down on his bed.

A second later, she was flying up and around to Twilight’s back to give the alicorn a hug. “Okay, so Shining’s a little…” Pony feathers, what am I supposed to say here? She didn’t want Twilight getting even more worked up over things, but giving a pass to Shining for that stuff he said didn’t really sit well with Rainbow either.

On the other hand, having Twilight all worked up like he was…it was even worse. He had been going crazy with everything from anger to worry since lunch, and Rainbow had seen where that led. She needed to calm him down, and take his mind off the unicorn. But…the only way Rainbow could see that happening if she told Twilight to just forgive and forget about how Shining had just torn into the pegasus, and their relationship.

It was just like…well…every other major decision she had to make in her life.

Great. Taking one for the team…again. “…overprotective,” Rainbow Dash mumbled before she leaned back to run her hoof along Twilight’s back. “He’ll um…straighten out.”

“You think so?” Twilight asked hesitantly.

“Yeah!” Rainbow agreed in a slightly more confident voice before she reached over to begin stroking Twilight’s wing with her right hoof. As the alicorn shuttered at the touch, the pegasus continued with her excuses. “I mean hay, he’s like me you know.” Although how he was like Rainbow Dash, the pegasus had no idea.

Twilight chuckled. “You know…Shining is like you,” he said before looking back at Rainbow with a smile. “A lot like you…. In fact, he’s exactly like you.”

The pegasus frowned at the comparison. “Exactly?”

“Well…pegasus and unicorn mare and stallion, but…otherwise…yeah,” he said before smiling. “He’s also pretty hardheaded, and says stuff without thinking sometimes, but he really is the best stallion I’ve ever met. He’ll come around. So…you forgive him?”

Once again, Rainbow swallowed a grimace. Letting somepony, anypony, getting away with an insult hurled directly at her face wasn’t usually in Rainbow Dash’s playbook, but…she couldn’t deal with stuff like that without making Twilight upset again. “...yeah.”

Grateful she didn’t have to keep going since she was out of material when it came to false compliments…and a little miffed about how Twilight was so willing to just forgive Shining Armor’s insults without standing up for them a bit more, Rainbow frowned at the back of Twilight’s head. You never would have let me get away with saying stuff like that about anypony else.

A few seconds later, she sighed and cleared her head of all that junk before flew back around to face Twilight, and gave him a peck on the lips. There was something more important for her to concentrate on at the moment “Now scoot to the edge. We’re gonna do something special.”

“The edge? I thought you wanted to have sex.”

Another kiss to the lips cut the alicorn off, and Rainbow Dash stood up on her hind hooves to get a little bit of a height advantage before she reached down and kissed the top of Twilight’s horn.

Then she bent down to whisper to Twilight. “You’re the one who needs to relax Twilight,” she said before kissing the tip alicorn’s ear. “Super stressed panicky you is bad.”

Twilight flinched, and Rainbow knew she had made another mistake.

“Rainbow-”

“No talking,” the pegasus ordered before she kissed Twilight again. “I want you to relax.” She kissed him again. “And I want to show you just how much I love you.” She leaned up to kiss his horn. “And I want you to know I’ve never done this with another stallion before. You’re the first one, the only one.” She moved up to whisper in his ear. “Now just sit back and relax.” There was a final kiss to Twilight’s ear, and then Rainbow dropped her hooves down on the mattress to come face to head with Twilight’s alicorn-sized cock after tilting the erection down to meet her.

For a second she thought it had gotten even bigger than last time. The thing seemed to run from the edge of her nose, and continue on for half a mile before meeting Twilight’s crotch. But then, that was just the illusion provide by perspective. Twilight didn’t really have a giant stallion spear that would have split Rainbow in half if they had sex. Experience told her that.

Still, the sight did bring hesitation into Rainbow’s mind. She shook it off a moment later with a kiss to its head before she opened up to take the top of Twilight’s male anatomy in her mouth. The enormity of it’s girth didn’t quite fill the mare’s mouth, but it came close. A little unsure of what to do, Rainbow sucked on the hot rod for a few seconds, then she moved her tongue down to run around the entirety of the Twilight’s shaft before she tasted the hint of precum and felt her mouth begin to water.

What the? Rainbow thought to herself as she noticed her body’s reaction. Even with what happened in the library, Rainbow was easily getting back in the mood. Don’t tell me I actually like this. Which wasn’t true, the stuff leaking out of Twilight’s thing tasted weird, and…well, no self-respecting mare sucked cock.

But…it wasn’t as bad as she had imagined it either.

“R-Rainbow!” Twilight exclaimed.

The airtight seal Rainbow had created around Twilight’s cock with her lips broke, and she looked up at her mare-turned-stallion. “Yeah Twilight?”

“W-Why are you?”

Dash smiled as Twilight struggled to form the question, and then she moved to the base of his penis to kiss the bottom of the shaft. “Because you need to relax Twi,” she told the stallion simply before kissing the shaft again. Then, she got a better idea and wet her tongue before taking a long, slow lick from the bottom of Twilight’s stallion stuff to its very top. On the way up, she could feel every twitch and twitch of desire from the stallion’s hot rod.

“And when we did it those times,” she said before starting over on a dry side of Twilight’s cock. She covered the left side in her saliva from a messy tongue tease that was followed by a kiss to the head of Twilight’s dick. “You were all hard and aggressive.”

A shudder of excitement passed through Rainbow’s mind at those memories. Twilight may have gotten his muscles and stamina with magic, but…they were pretty awesome when he used them for her. She could still remember the feeling of his gigantic body mounting her, being so gentle at first before she told him to go harder, and then Rainbow had felt the awesome strength her god of a stallion possessed. “And that’s not relaxing,” she told him before starting on the other dry side of her stallion’s thing.

Twilight let out a whine of pleasure, or protest, or…something else, but that was all he could do as Rainbow kissed the head of Twilight’s schlong before slowly taking the thing into her mouth again and began to slowly suck on the stallion‘s meat to let more of his taste fill her mouth.

New to the whole process, Rainbow took her time as she stopped her slow but powerful bursts of suction to run her tongue around Twilight’s cock again. Then she lowered her head to take as much of it in as she could. You know…this isn’t all that bad, Dash reasoned on the way up before she moved her tongue around Twilight’s rim again and tasting more of the alicorn’s stuff.

The taste was weird and all, but she did feel like some kind of two bit bitch that only saw herself as a stallion’s banging toy. If anything, it was even a little easier than letting Twilight put his monster inside of her. On top of which, she could see every one of Twilight’s reactions to the pegasus’s attention’s.

Rainbow continued for…she wasn’t sure how long really. But every motion, every kiss and lick to her stallion was given a thankful moan and pant of pleasure in return as Twilight became little more than a collection of gasps and moans as Rainbow kept giving him her attention.

She took the cock out of her mouth, and kissed the lower part of the stallion’s shaft before looking up. “You like this Twilight?”

“Ye…yes,” the alicorn managed to pant out.

Three more kisses to the base got a trio of shivers from Twilight, and Rainbow smirked. “You want me to keep going?”

“Please!” he begged, making Rainbow smirk before she took little-Twi back into her mouth.

Mare, don’t know why all the ponies at the weather office were kicking this. It’s not really all that bad. There was a bit more work on it for her part, and Rainbow had to admit that she wouldn’t be getting satisfied doing oral, but Twilight seemed to love the buck out of it.

Plus, it really didn’t seem to be as…demeaning as she had heard it was, or submissive. Every kiss, every touch, every move Rainbow made, the alicorn gave a response, showing to her that Rainbow was the one holding the reins. She was the one deciding if her lips would kiss or suck, if her tongue would lick or taste, and she could just pull it off and tease Twilight by asking him if she wanted him to continue.

She watched as the alicorn’s powerful body continued to moan, rock, and shake with every move Rainbow made. Then she repositioned herself a little to free a hoof, and reached down to feel Twilight’s balls and hold them in the middle of her hoof for a second before giving them attention too while Twilight just kept going with his sounds of appreciation.

It was awesome.

“R-Rain-Rain-b-bow!” Twilight cried out erratically, making Dash look up as her mouth slowly moved up to the end of Twilight’s penis and look up to see what was the matter.

What’s up with him? A second later, she felt the stallion’s cock twitch, his balls clenched, and her mouth was filled with a blast of Twilight’s seed, some of which powered its way down her throat and made Rainbow choke as she released her lip lock on the alicorn’s junk and coughed.

“Twi! What the hay?! Gaaah!” she exclaimed when another burst of spunk from the alicorn’s cock struck her right in the face and made Rainbow stumble back to fall on her plot, and yet another blast shot forth and managed to splat Rainbow’s coat before Twilight’s semen cannon finally ran out of ammunition.

Another cough came from the pegasus, and she spit out the odd tasting goo before snorting out the little that got in her nose. “Geeze Twilight, warn me next time!”

Buck this is…ugh, this is gross, the pegasus told herself as she felt Twilight’s stuff run all over her. Rainbow wasn’t completely covered in her stallion’s cum, but…she came pretty close.

She looked up and blinked at the sight of the massive alicorn laid out on the bed, then flew up into the air to get a look at him. “Uh Twilight, you okay?”

“Rainbow…that was…incredible,” he panted, apparently oblivious to his fillyfriend’s condition.

“Yeah well, warn me next time before you blow,” the pegasus grumbled as a drop of Twilight’s cum fell from the hair hanging in front of her face, bringing the strange taste of the stuff back to the forefront of her mind, and making Dash realize just how much sex she could smell all over her body at the moment.

The comment knocked Twilight out of his daze, and he looked up at the pegasus. “Wha?”

Their eyes met, and Twilight took in the appearance of the of the other pony with a rising showing of distress. “Oh Dash, I’m sorry! It’s just been so long since I…wait, next time?”

Rainbow rolled her eyes at the stallion. “Well, you’re relaxed…right?”

“Well, the tension in my muscles has disappeared, and the euphoric sensation of my orgasm has improved my,” Twilight cut himself off when he noticed Rainbow giving him an eyebrow raise. He blushed, and nodded. “Yes, I’m relaxed. Definitely relaxed here.”

“Good. Now I’m gonna shower before Cadence shows up.” A cold shower. With Twilight gone limp, she really needed a cold shower.

“W-Wait,” Twilight called out before Rainbow could go more than a few inches. “Rainbow, can we…cuddle?”

Rainbow frowned at the request. “Twilight, you do realize I’m covered in your stuff, right?”

A second later, Twilight’s horn lit up, and Rainbow’s body was surrounded by a purple glow. She tensed, and grit her teeth. No, no! not again. Buck it all Twilight why won’t you listen to me for once? Dash mentally screamed at the alicorn as she prepared to get dragged down to the bed and be forced to let Twilight have his way.

Again.

Then, the smell of Twilight’s cum no longer filled her nose, and Rainbow opened her eyes to find herself completely clean. “Uh…what?”

“Low level cleansing spell,” Twilight explained. “Don’t tell Spike I can use it to clean rooms too. Now, can we cuddle? Please Dash, I-If you don’t want to that’s okay but-”

Dash shut him up by lowering himself onto the alicorn, and burying herself in his massive barrel. A second later, Twilight’s powerful forelegs came up to surround her, and she sighed in both contentment, and defeat.

It wasn’t that she disliked being held by Twilight. It was that she enjoyed it. She loved it. She loved it a little too much.

The feel of the giant pony’s body holding her close made Rainbow feel safe, and warm, and a dozen other things that were usually forbidden for somepony like Dash to feel. She was supposed to be the tough one, the one that didn’t let anything get to her. She was supposed to be the one holding and supporting Twilight. It wasn’t supposed to be the other way around.

She fought to keep her muscle tense, to keep her heart racing, to not think about anything. She didn’t want to think about how safe she felt in Twilight’s arms. If she did, she might slow down long enough to think about other things.

“Rainbow, are you okay?” the alicorn asked as he stroked her hair.

The question made Rainbow shiver and clamp down on the words that threatened to come out. Okay? Of course she wasn’t okay! She was a long way from okay! As far as a pony could get! She had just spent the past week getting every one of her freedoms taken away before Twilight decided she didn’t need to work, or fly!

She had stood there, terrified that her best friend, the pony she loved and father of her foal was going to cripple her because of some stupid freakout! Then she just said it was okay, smiled, and nodded like she always did!

Like she always had to do!

HOW IS THAT OKAY? Rainbow mentally screamed.

She didn’t want to be afraid of Twilight! She didn’t want to hate her! She didn’t want things to be so bucking complicated between them!

She just wanted everything to go back to the way they were the first day they had been together. Before Twilight had tried to…to…

“Rainbow, are you okay? You’re shaking.”

Rainbow closed her eyes and held them tight until she felt the need to cry recede.

She forced herself to go still.

And took in a deep breath.

“I…it’s…I still need a shower Twilight.”

“But…I…okay. You’re the boss now Rainbow,” Twilight finally relented before he let her up, and the pegasus slowly flew over to the bathroom door. “I love you.”

“I uh…I love you too Twilight,” Rainbow assured him…and herself.

Thankfully, by the time Shiny and Cadence came to Twilight’s room, Rainbow was done in the shower, and Twilight’s transformation had timed out. She opened the door into the living room of her quarters, and let them in from the hallway. Unfortunately, Rainbow glared at the pair, or more specifically, at Shining Armor; and Twilight found herself confused over the situation.

She had thought Rainbow said she was moving past everything, but…her expression told otherwise.

As for Twilight, she didn’t want to go up against her brother if it came to another argument. In fact, she still felt guilty about earlier, with her male testosterone kicked in to make her a stupid stallion when he yelled at Shining. But…if Rainbow was going to start another fight, she couldn’t just sit back and let her. She needed to stop it.

“Ummm…hey,” Shining said to Rainbow.

“What?” she replied with a frown.

He scratch the back of his head and looked over to Cadence for a moment. “Uh, I think I may have said some things earlier that got misconstrued.”

While Rainbow Dash tilted her head in confusion, Twilight understood what the word meant perfectly and stepped in. Thanks to Rainbow’s vocabulary, or lack thereof, she could quell the fire before it started and then they could get along like one big happy family. “Oh that’s alright Shining. Rainbow already forgave you,” she assured the stallion before looking over to Rainbow with a proud smile…and letting it die the second she caught sight of the frowning pegasus and shot her a glare for the expression to show some disapproval by Twilight over her earlier actions. All Rainbow needed to do was apologize to Shiny, and they could move on.

“Now don’t you have something to say?”

“Not really,” she replied with a frown.

“Rainbow!”

“What?”

Twilight pointed over to her brother. “Apologize to Shiny!”

When the pegasus’s expression became one of confusion, Twilight felt her anger grow at the situation. Especially after Rainbow spoke.

“What for?”

Shining Armor stepped forward, and lifted a hoof. “It’s okay Twilight, she doesn’t have to-”

“No!” Twilight stomped her hoof on the ground. “She was rude to you, and she’s going to apologize!” With that, she turned around to scowl at her fillyfriend. “Now come on and do it!”

Rainbow broke eye contact with the alicorn, and her whole body shook under Twilight’s gaze. However, in the end, she did the right thing and approached Shining Armor. “I’m…sorry,” she mumbled, obviously not meaning it from the lack of enthusiasm.

The stallion cleared his throat and looked away, stealing a glance at Twilight. “It’s um…fine Rainbow,” he replied with just as much believability. Twilight didn’t like it, but it looked like it was as good as she was going to get from him at the moment. At least, until Rainbow’s apology was genuine.

“Rainbow, you need to really apologize,” Twilight admonished her.

Shining put up a hoof. “Twilight, that really isn’t-”

“No!” the alicorn insisted again. “An apology that a pony doesn’t mean is worse than a boldfaced lie. Now say it and mean it this time Rainbow.” Once she did, they could put this whole mess behind them.

Once again, Rainbow’s legs shook for some reason, and get glared at Twilight for a second. “Fine!” the pegasus exclaimed before she spun to face Shining Armor. “I’m sorry I’m such a moron! I’m sorry I ruined Twilight’s life!”

Then she turned to face Twilight as the alicorn looked at her in confusion. This wasn’t the way things were supposed to go! Rainbow was supposed to apologize, and then Shining was supposed to hug her in thanks, and they were supposed to laugh at the incident, and maybe share a joke, then they were supposed to get along like family!

Unfortunately, the whole thing had fallen apart at step one with Rainbow, and then she turned her irrational anger to the alicorn with an intensity she hadn’t seen from the pegasus since Discord was evil. “Is that okay Princess? Or should I bend over for him too?”

“What?” Twilight asked as she tried to get a grip on what was happening. “Why are you acting like this?”

Shining Armor nervously cleared his throat, and winced when Rainbow looked over to glare at him again. But instead of speaking to the pegasus, he looked to his little sister. “Twilight, I was the one in the wrong. She doesn’t need to say anything,” Shiny said before bowing his head in an apology to Rainbow. “I was mad, and pretty confused, but that’s no excuse. And I didn’t mean to imply that you might have…ruined Twilight’s life.”

Rainbow’s frown deepened. “You didn’t imply it, you said it to my face!”

Once again, Shining Armor winced. “Right, I’m sorry,” he apologized. “And I didn’t mean it in regards to the foal or anything. Please, you gotta believe me on that. I don’t have any problem whatsoever with the two of you getting together! Honest! It’s just-”

“Shining,” Cadence cut in, “That’s enough. I think what’s left can wait till tomorrow when we’re all rested.”

“Oh, he can keep going,” Rainbow assured her in an angry tone, getting a distressed moan from Twilight. “I’m good. We took a nap today after we…” She scowled and looked away.

Once again, Cadence spoke before the other pony was finished talking. “You had your fight?”

Twilight winced. “Is it that obvious?” she asked.

“We ran into Rarity in the hallway and she said you looked out of sorts at dinner…among other things,” Cadence explained. “Considering how out of it you were when I came here and your reaction to me…it wasn’t that hard to guess something like that had happened. Do you want to talk about it? I might be able to help.”

Twilight shared a concerned took with Rainbow, unsure of what to do. She knew she needed help, and Cadence was right in assuming the purple alicorn had been in a crises when she arrived. But…she didn’t want to air their dirty laundry in front of another pony without Rainbow’s permission.

A hesitant look came over the pegasus, and she looked over to Shining Armor, then back to Cadence. “Can he leave first?” she asked.

“Rainbow!” Twilight scolded her.

“WHAT?” the pegasus demanded as she jumped into the air. “You want me to go on about our problems in front of a guy who just said I ruined your life.”

Twilight frowned at her fillyfriend. “He apologized Rainbow.”

“He didn‘t apologize! He said I was too stupid to understand what he said!” the pegasus shouted at the alicorn, driving her back as her eyes widened. “Hey surprise! I actually know what misconception means! And he only did it later BECAUSE WE MADE HIM! Which means it counts for NOTHING!”

Once again, Shining stepped forward. “Please believe me Rainbow, I never meant it the way-”

The other alicorn in the room cut her husband off by stepping in front of him, and then speaking with a voice that carried the full weight of her authority. “But that’s not what’s really bothering you, is it?” she asked, getting a slight grunt from Rainbow as the pegasus looked away. “Shiny-honey, please leave. I’ll take care of this.”

Seeing her brother look over to his wife with a confused expression, Twilight stepped in. “No. He doesn’t have to-”

However, Shining Armor nodded. “It’s okay Twilight. Cadence likes to do this kind of stuff by herself anyway. I’ll see everypony tomorrow morning. And Dash, I need to talk to you about something too. It’s not about this. Um…see you then.”

As soon as Shiny left, Cadence found a comfortable couch to take a seat on while she nodded for the other girls to do the same. “Now if you don’t mind, could we start back at the beginning?” she asked. “Tell me how the two of you got together, and what’s happened over the past week that’s gotten you…like this.”

Rainbow groaned and said they had already done that with her once, but Twilight nodded and did so. She explained to Cadence what happened during her first day with Rainbow, how she had accidentally found out that the mare was pregnant with their foal and the effects her magic had to speed up the process. She told Cadence what happened later, finding out Rainbow had left for Cloudsdale to sign a custody agreement, and that was how the light was shed on the Wonderbolts, and how Twilight and Dash had agreed to give their relationship a try.

Then she went on to explain what happened the following week, about waking up every morning with the mare she loved, having her checked up at the doctor’s and learning about Rainbow’s bad morning habits. Twilight explained the changes to Rainbow’s diet, and how the accelerated maturation called for drastic measures to get Rainbow’s body caught up with the baby while providing the pegasus with enough nutrition to get by and stay healthy after she learned that as much exercise as Rainbow was prone to do was unhealthy for a pregnant pony.

In Twilight’s opinion, Rainbow got enough just walking and flying around. Even her job as a weatherpony overtaxed what the average pony with a foal growing inside them should do; which was another reason in her long list as to why getting Rainbow out of there had been a good idea.

Rainbow went on about how she had snuck snacks and destroyed Twilight’s carefully constructed diet, then put herself in constant danger by working every morning till noon, going as fast as she could to get done ahead of schedule. It was another thing that gave Twilight grief.

After the two of them finally finished, Cadence let out a long sigh and adjusted herself in the couch she was laying on before looking down at the ground. For five long minutes, the Alicorn of Love sat looking at the floor, and then turned her attention back to what had become a pair of nervous ponies thanks to her long silence.

“Twilight,” Cadence spoke up. “Why the bathroom timer?”

While Rainbow grumbled a little at the question, Twilight perked up a bit in the hopes of explaining things and getting Rainbow to see reason. “Rainbow’s so chaotic in the morning and she never does everything she’s supposed to! I kept having to remind her to brush, floss, and rinse every day and this just made things easier. Plus there were her showers, always too hot or too cold. I needed to help get her structured,” she said before smiling at how things turned out. “After I put her on a schedule, she got everything done, every morning!”

The pegasus let out a loud humph, and Twilight looked over at her in curiosity. She still didn’t see what was wrong with putting some order in the pegasus’s life if she couldn’t do it herself. Still… “But, they’re gone now, Rainbow decided to get rid of the morning schedule.”

“Well maybe if I didn’t have to wake up twice for your dawn stuff and a morning shift every day I might actually have so real energy,” she grumbled.

“Rainbow,” Cadence cut in with a gentle admonishment. “Wait your turn please.”

Once again, Rainbow’s words became too low to hear, and Twilight sighed at the fact her fillyfriend was in such a bad mood without understanding how it could have happened.

“So Rainbow, why did you go along with it?”

She looked back at Cadence, and her frowned deepened. “I thought you knew Twilight,” she said, getting an eyebrow raise from Cadence. For her part Twilight was just as lost as to the pegasus’s meaning.

“Rainbow?” Cadence asked.

“It’s…nothing,” she mumbled. “Look, it was a good idea. If you think it was a good idea, we’ll go back to timing all my stuff tomorrow morning, and everything will be fine.”

Twilight smiled, happy that Rainbow had seen reason. It really was for the best. She would have hated for her fillyfriend to get a cavity, or for some kind of infection to fester in her mouth, and then maybe pass on to the foal, and then-

Cadence’s next words derailed Twilight’s train of thought. “I never said it was a good idea. But you need to stop lying.”

The purple alicorn came out of a dozen mental pictures of things and situations that threatened her foal, and looked over to Rainbow Dash. “W-What?” she asked before turning her attention to Cadence. “What do you mean she’s lying? How is she…you…what’s going on Rainbow?”

Rainbow flinched, and looked away. “Look…ever since, well…okay look,” Rainbow began again after letting out a long sigh and looking over to Cadence. “You don’t say no to Twilight. It’s always her way, and her ideas, and her…whatever!” She threw her hooves up in a show of exasperation. “And if you don’t go along with it, she makes you.”

Surprised anger ran through Twilight’s mind as she heard Rainbow’s words, and she looked back over to the pegasus. “How could you say something like that!”

Rainbow looked back at her with a frown. “Because it’s true! Everything’s always got to be your way. You’re always in the lead, always the one giving the orders. But ever since the bucking wedding, you’ve become such a high-horse, you don’t care about what anypony else things as long as you know you’re right!”

“Well I was right about the wedding!” Twilight countered. Princess Celestia Herself had praised Twilight for seeing through the problem even she couldn’t solve! “And about the time trials, and your exam! If it wasn’t for me-”

“Okay I get it!” Rainbow exclaimed as her eyes began to water. “I’m just a stupid moron and I’ve ruined your life!”

Once again, Twilight’s thought’s derailed at the unexpected words, and she felt a pang of pain in her heart from seeing Rainbow’s tears threatening to come down. “Rainbow, what? What are you talking about?”

“Shining Armor! What he said about me, you agree with him!”

“No I don’t!” Twilight cried out, her building anger gone in a wash of confusion, guilt and fear of Rainbow’s change in mood.

“THEN WHY DID YOU TAKE HIS SIDE?” she yelled.

“I didn’t take anypony’s side!” Twilight insisted in a plea.

“You made me apologize to him after he said I was just so stupid I didn’t get how calling me a moron to my face wasn’t an insult!” Rainbow shouted.

Twilight fought for air, and an explanation. “But…but you said, before we…you said you forgave him!”

“Well I didn’t think you were going to make me bow down and kiss his plot!” Rainbow countered. “I said that to calm you down, to make you happy, not for him!”

“Then why did you do it?” Twilight demanded. A false apology was one of the worst kinds of lie imaginable. The fact Rainbow had given one to her brother of all ponies made Twilight’s coat bristle.

“You were freaking out Twilight!” Rainbow replied. “And when you freak out you get…you know.” She looked out to the door of the balcony for a moment, then shuddered as her face twisted a bit before she looked away from the alicorn.

Her fillyfriend’s actions made Twilight’s head feel like it was in a vice as half a dozen thoughts ran through her head. “Rainbow…I would never… I couldn’t ever think you ruined my life. Rainbow, how could you even think that?”

“Well why shouldn’t I?” she grumbled. “You want to control everything about me, what I eat, how I wash up…I’d say you even want to preen me, but…you…what you did...how could you even think something like that if you don’t hate me?

“I mean what? Did I wreck your precious life schedule? Or yearly schedule? Monthly?” Rainbow demanded ass he spun back to look at Twilight. The heat in her voice rising for a moment before it crashed back down. “I know you didn’t do it… I know you stopped, I keep telling myself that. But…I just can’t get it out of my head Twilight!”

A wave of guilt washed over Twilight, and she lowered her head. “I…oh Rainbow, I…I’m sorry. I know there isn’t an explanation or an excuse that I can…I just…I’m sorry! I don’t know what else I can do to show you that Rainbow,” she said in a pleasing tone. “And I don’t think you’re stupid! I’ve never thought that! Not once.”

Cadence sighed, drawing the attention of the other alicorn, and the pegasus. “Why is it I feel the two of you aren’t telling me something?”

Twilight gulped, and looked over to Cadence. “Well…you told us to tell you what happened over the past week and not…today.”

“Today was your first fight then?” she asked, and got a nod from both the girls. “What happened?”

Another feeling joined the anger and guilt bubbling in the pit of Twilight’s stomach, and she shed away from her big sister in fear. “Well…remember how I said my continuation spell wasn’t the only thing I was working on in my lab? I also came up with a theory on how to…take away the physical conduits for Rainbow’s magic.”

A bit of relief came over Twilight as she saw Cadence give her an odd frown. Not an angry frown, just an odd one. “Twilight that almost sounds like you…”

“She wanted to turn me into an earth pony,” Rainbow said with a frown as she looked away from Twilight. Then she unfurled one of her wings. “Clip.” Then another. “Clip.”

“I-I wasn’t going to cut them off Rainbow!” Twilight corrected in a whine as she tried to explain things to her pegasus again. The way Rainbow made it sound was like Twilight had been planning to mutilate her! “I was just going to use magic to place them into storage until the foal was born. I-I couldn’t use a binding spell or something, you could have used your magic to break them so removal was the only option!”

“Wait…WHAT?” Cadence shrieked, making Twilight wince. “Would one of you please tell me what I’m hearing is wrong, because it sounds like Twilight was wanting to cut off the wings of a pegasus!”

Twilight tried not to shake in fear as she watched Cadence just sit there, staring at the two of them.

After their revelation, the alicorn had made them both go back over the past week bit by bit, taking apart every little thing like their relationship was being dissected and put under a microscope. Then, after two hours of long talks where Cadence dragged every little bit out of them, using magic to keep Twilight and Dash from hearing the stories of the other, the Alicorn of Love let out a long sigh, and gave them both a long hard, ten minute look.

When she finally broke her silence, Twilight gulped in fear.

“Good news or bad news first?” she asked.

Rainbow and Twilight shared a look, then the purple alicorn turned back to Cadence. “Good news please.”

The pink princess nodded. “Well I can tell the two of you love each other very much,” she said, making Twilight tilt her head in confusion at the nonsense of Cadence’s words.

She didn’t understand. Ponies who loved each other didn’t fight. Cadence and Shining didn’t fight. Spike and Twilight never fought…not really. There was that one time he ran away, but…that didn’t really count as a fight. It was more like he just avoided the confrontation. And they sure as hey didn’t go about planning to hurt each other!

Is she just trying to spare my feelings? Twilight asked herself. It wa the only thing that made sense to her.

“And it’s not some deeply buried emotion under the surface. If anything, it’s almost all-consuming. That’s why you are able to put aside what Twilight did Rainbow, and why you and especially Twilight went so…out of control.”

The explanation didn’t help ease Twilight’s worries. “You’re not making this news sound all that good Cadence,” Twilight told her with a frown.

Another sigh escaped the other alicorn’s lips and she shook her head. “That’s because your good news and your bad news are one in the same,” Cadence replied before she began to explain in detail. “Twilight, the two of you went from friends with deep-seated crushes to a fully committed relationship with a foal on the way overnight! Ponies sometimes spend years preparing for what the two of you have just charged into and…this is what you’re getting from it! Neither of you know where you’re supposed to be.”

“Princess, we’ve known each other for years!” Rainbow exclaimed.

Cadence nodded at the point. “As friends Rainbow Dash, not for what you’re trying to be right now,” she explained. “The boundaries and rules in a loving relationship are completely different and to top it off, this is your first love for the both of you! It’s hard, and fast, and scary, and nopony knows how to deal with it and the two of you are combining that with a fully committed relationship and a future foal? Even I took years of dating to marry Shiny, and we just now started trying to have foals!”

She looked over to the pegasus. “Rainbow, it’s okay to tell the pony you love that you’re upset with her. If you don’t, then the resentment will just continue to grow, and poison the love you feel for her. Look at what’s happened in just a week!

“And Twilight…just because the boundaries have changed doesn’t give you the right to just decide everything on your own, no matter your intentions,” she went on after looking over to the alicorn. “But letting her control yours is just as bad! It erodes the respect both you have for yourself and that respect that Rainbow has for you! And without a healthy amount of respect, then even the most powerful love is doomed to wither and die.”

Twilight sunk in on herself as she heard Cadence’s words, and thought back to her actions of the previous week when she had slowly taken over Dash’s whole life…and tried to eliminate the things she couldn’t be there for just hours ago. But I do respect her…don’t I?

She sighed and shook her head at her own question. Then Twilight turned her attention to her sister. “So…what’re we supposed to do Cadence?”

“Well…maybe you need to take a break from this.”

Time away from Rainbow… The suggestion made Twilight’s world spin, and she reached over to grab something to steady herself. After feeling the hard texture, she looked down to see it was Rainbow’s hoof. Then she turned back to the other alicorn “W-What?”

“Take a break to clear your head of all this,” Cadence said again. “Take Rainbow to Canterlot to meet your family. Or she can take you to meet hers. I’m not telling you to tell them about the foal, that’s completely up to you. But…talk to them, ask them about how they got together and their problems and struggles. Get some advice and perspective from ponies who have been through all of this before.”

Twilight sunk in on herself. “Cadence, I don’t think anypony has been through what I almost did,” she mumbled.

The feeling of Rainbow’s wing stroking the alicorn’s back made Twilight pull herself in closer to the pegasus. “Almost Twilight,” she reminded the larger pony a bit too fiercely. “It was just almost. And we both know it would have been for like…five seconds anyway.” The way Rainbow’s voice dropped at the end made Twilight sigh.

It would have been five seconds of showing how much she was a monster to Dash, of breaking her heart and watching her cower in fear, cry, and a million other things that tore at the alicorn’s soul. Just thinking about it made Twilight want to throw up.

“And that brings me to the second thing the two of you are going to have to work on. And this one is non-negotiable, so you’re doing it family trip or no,” Cadence continued as she pointed over to Rainbow Dash. “Tell Twilight when your upset, or scared or angry. Tell. Her. Everything.

“I don’t care if its something as stupid as an offensive billboard, you’re going to tell her that you don’t like it. You can learn to dial it back later, but right now you need to get used to telling her when you feel angry, or confused, or…anything! But so it without shouting, or raising your voice. Just tell her.”

Cadence shifter her attention to the purple alicorn. “And Twilight, I know you’re a princess, and ponies come to you by the dozens for judgments on what to do when it comes to keeping their friendship intact, but having a complete alpha mare relationship is an invitation to disaster. The day you two decided to be together, you became equals in every way. Princess or no. Now, this kind of contradicts what I told you about respect, but right now you need to be toning it down when it comes to making decisions. For the next four weeks, you are not allowed to tell Rainbow Dash to do anything.

“Instead of telling her to go to dinner or something of the kind, ask her if she wants to go to dinner,” she said. “You need to stop being one-hundred percent about what Rainbow needs, and focus some of that on what she wants. Because what she needs to do is be happy Twilight, and just focusing on her physical well being is not going to do that.”

Twilight’s ears drooped, and she pulled back in on herself. “Are you saying…you don’t think I care about Rainbow’s feelings?” She knew that wasn’t true. Everything she did, all the research, all the planning, everything! She did it all for Rainbow, so their future could be a happy one!

The ten seconds it took Cadence to answer felt like an eternity to the purple alicorn. “I think you get too focused on how she will feel in the future to see how she is feeling in the present. It’s like what Shining Armor told you Twilight, you plan for things and hold on for their conclusion, but you ignore the tiny things that fall to the wayside as you achieve our goal and…those tiny things add up Twilight. And sometimes, they break a pony’s back.”

Twilight sighed, and nodded.

“And you need to talk to her more about your problems Rainbow.”

“But Twilight-”

Cadence cut her off. “No! You thinking Twilight couldn’t handle the truth is the same as her thinking you couldn’t handle you making your own decisions!” the alicorn told her fiercely. “You will not disrespect her like that, and you will lean on her for support when you need it, which I can promise you will happen in the coming days!”

After a moment of silence, the pink alicorn sighed. “It’s getting late, we should really wrap this up.”

Rainbow gulped. “So um…does that mean you’re going to hit us with your kooky love beam?”

“My what?”

Twilight felt a surge of panic and embarrassment, although…she had to admit if Cadence were to use her magic, things between them would be so much easier. “Your magic Cadence, can you…help us with it?”

The question got a sigh from the alicorn, and she rubbed her head before looking over to the pegasus. “Rainbow Dash, do you love Twilight Sparkle?”

“Um…yeah.”

“And does she love you?”

“Well…yeah,” Rainbow said after a moment of confusion.

“How much?”

“A lot.”

Then the alicorn turned to Twilight. “And Twilight do you love Rainbow Dash?”

“Of course I do,” Twilight replied, unsure of where this was going.

“And she you?”

“Yes Cadence, we just spent the past two hours confirming that,” she admonished her big sister.

“How much?”

Twilight cleared her throat and blushed. “Well…enough to forgive me for something unforgivable…several times over.”

“Then what in the world do you need to have a spell cast on you for?” she asked rhetorically.

“You need no reminders, or anything from me to see the love you have for each other,” the alicorn continued. “About the only thing else I could do is give the two of you a vision of the moment you realized that love.”

Rainbow Dash frowned. “Wait a second, what happen to you being able to…like, make ponies fall in love, or remember their love for each other with some mind-meld bond thingy that last ten years?”

Cadence raised an eyebrow, then groaned. “Oh for crying out loud,” she grumbled. “Look, I don’t hypnotize ponies, and I’ve never heard of a mystical love bond lasting that long. Well, there was that one couple in Manehattan, and the one in Vahnhoover, but it wouldn’t have stayed around that long if they didn’t want it to.”

“W-WHAT?” Twilight shouted. “But, Cadence…you told me that your magic lets ponies see through all the doubt and-and all that other stuff that gets in the way of love so they can be happy again. I’ve seen you turn fighting couples into something out of a romance novel and make hesitant ones run for the nearest motel!”

A nod from the alicorn just confused Twilight even more, and the words just added to it. “Yes, but that’s all they needed was a little reminder, or a peek at how they really feel to remove any doubts. Something like that wouldn’t help the two of you at all. You already know you love each other. You’re just having a hard time channeling that love.”

Rainbow frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean? You make it sound like it’s bad that we’re in love.”

“Love is the most powerful emotion in the world Rainbow Dash,” Cadence told her. “But it isn’t completely benign. It can be selfish and shortsighted, and the darkest of jealousies arises because of it. But it’s also the most wonderful thing you can feel and the greatest motivator of all if you can learn to understand its ups and downs, like I know you two will as long as you’re careful with it.”

Twilight looked up at the ceiling of her bedroom as she listened to the silence of her castle at night. She didn’t need the light provided by Luna’s full moon shining in through her window to tell her that Rainbow Dash was still awake. The lack of snoring did that on its own.

The fact that Rainbow, a champion napper who could knock herself out the instant her head hit the pillow made Twilight nervous. She knew something was wrong with the pegasus. Something that needed to be fixed, something she had to fix. But after talking to Cadence, after seeing Rainbow just explode like she had…the possibilities of what waited beneath her fillyfriends surface frightened her.

But they wouldn’t stop her.

“Can’t sleep?” the alicorn asked.

“Just…thinking is all,” she replied.

It was a sentiment Twilight echoed. Although Cadence had given her a lot to think about, the alicorn’s mind kept drifting back to Rainbow Dash and her…everything back when Shining and Cadence had been in the room, and the before…at lunch.

“I’m sorry I talked that way to you, when Shining and Cadence were here,” she said.

The sign that came out of Rainbow’s lips just made Twilight feel worse. “It’s okay Twilight.”

Twilight looked over to her fillyfriend. “Don’t do that! I know what I did was wrong, so just say it!” she insisted. “Cadence said you should tell me how you feel…”

“Fine, you were wrong!” she exclaimed before turning away from the mare. “Now let me get some sleep. I’m feeling annoyed you won’t stop talking.”

…

…

…

“Why won’t you open up to me?” she asked while reaching out to touch the mare’s shoulder.

“…”

The moisture in Twilight’s mouth double as her nervousness increased, and she stroked Rainbow’s lovely back with her hoof. The pegasus’s muscles were hard and strong, as well as tense. She had a feeling they had been that way for awhile. “Rainbow, I promise I won’t laugh…or think any less of you,” she said while she continued to feel the tension in Dash’s back. Her last few words made the blue mare shiver.

“Twilight…you…it’s okay. Just…let me get some sleep.”

The alicorn stopped, and considered what could be causing Rainbow to react the way she was. After a second of thought, she gulped down her nervousness and went on. “I’m sorry about what happened at lunch.”

“Didn’t. Happen. You. Stopped.” Rainbow Dash said while her body continued to shake, if just a little.

Twilight held in a sob. “Please Rainbow. Please talk to me…I know you’re angry at me.”

“Not angry,” she mumbled.

Twilight sat up, and the motion kept her from holding in a sob. “I’m begging you Rainbow. I need to hear it…because just getting silence is even worse.” Although, the alicorn was starting to think it was what she deserved.

“I…”

“Rainbow,” Twilight begged.

All of a sudden, the pegasus whirled around and Twilight’s breath caught when she saw the eyes looking at her. She could see that the pegasus wasn’t mad at all. What Twilight saw was worse than that.

Twilight saw that Rainbow was afraid.

“I WAS SCARED OKAY?” she shouted while tears began to flow down her face. “I’m still scared! Of you! You…what happened at lunch…it wasn’t some spur of the moment thing Twilight! It wasn’t like somepony who gets real mad, and throws a hoof at another pony, or anything like that! You sat there, down in your lab and made a spell to cripple me!

“I’m trying to get past it, to…to do...something, but…it’s still there!” she went on. “And every time I close my eyes, you’re there and…I just…I don’t want to be afraid of you! But I…I just…” Words became sobs, and the pegasus let out a wailing cry that made Twilight’s heart shatter.

Twilight reached out and took the slightly smaller mare in her forelegs to hold Rainbow while she cried. The irony of the situation wasn’t lost on her, with the very mare that Rainbow Dash had a problem with being the one that she was being comforted by. You did this to her, she told herself.

Guilt continued to wash over her in waves as Dash kept sobbing, and Twilight ran a hoof along the mare’s back while the pegasus let out all the pent up emotions she had been holding in. It was over in under five minutes, but it felt like forever to Twilight as she had to hear the pain she caused Rainbow be expressed.

Then it got worse.

“I’m sorry.”

The alicorn shook her head at the pegasus’s apology and pushed her back so they could look at each other in the eye. “Rainbow no…don’t…why do you keep apologizing to me for something that was my fault?”

Dash looked away from her. “Not that,” she mumbled. “I…it’s just, I’m always supposed to be the one that’s supposed to be tough and support you…and here I am, just…making you feel guilty.”

When Rainbow lowered her head, Twilight lifted it up , and kissed away the last of her tears. “Oh Rainbow,” the alicorn said sadly. “I know I need help sometimes but…we support each other now. Full partners, princess or no princess. And I should feel guilty, I need to feel guilty for this Rainbow so that this never happens again!”

“I don’t want to make you sad Twilight,” she whined.

Twilight reached up to run a hoof through her fillyfriend’s beautiful mane that seemed even more exotic in the moonlight. “Rainbow no. I know I have problems, and I need ponies like you to tell me when I’m getting out of hand. Rarity and Pinkie tried and…I just ignored them.

“You were right. Ever since the wedding, ever since I got these,” she mumbled while spreading her wings, “I have been getting too…bullheaded, always thinking I’m the one in the right no matter what. I need you to tell me Rainbow, not just like how Cadence said, but just to keep me from making another huge mistake. I promise I’ll listen to you Rainbow.”

She leaned forward, and kissed the pegasus on the lips, then drew back to await her answer.

“Okay Twilight…I’ll try,” she mumbled before the alicorn embraced her with her forelegs and wings, then slowly pulled them back down onto the bed.

When she moved to let go, Rainbow reached out to stop her. “Twilight, can you…hold me?” she asked hesitantly. “At least until I go out.”

“All night Rainbow,” Twilight told her. “I’ll hold you all night, and every night if you need me to. And you don’t have to worry about the others ever hearing about it either. I love you.”

“I love you too Twilight. I really do.”

Somehow, the pegasus managed to push deeper into the embrace, and Twilight kissed her on the cheek. A few minutes later, she was met by the Rainbow’s light snoring.

Twilight smiled at the oddity of how she actually found the sound of her fillyfriend sleeping peacefully soothing, when they had just been annoying the previous week. Goodnight Rainbow Dash.

Twilight joined her in sleep less than ten minutes later.

Author's Notes:

And so ends the big relationship drama between Twilight and Dash while they're in their own little world. Now they're off to tell the parents, and Celestia.

Some of you have expressed displeasure at the portrayal of Twilight and well, to defend my views I'll just say this: throughout the series, Twilight has shown herself to be a major A1 dominating personality when the chips are down and since she's become an alicorn, she's become even more so especially in the case of Dash. She doesn't ask, she just does. So yeah, she would be a very controlling girlfriend when you throw worries about a baby, first love passion, the chaos that is Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle unbound into the blender and set it on max.

OOC for taking Rainbow's wings? Well, she never actually did it, did she? However, she had no problem using mind control on children and destroying the time-space continuum while in a panic and like her intention to basically take Rainbow's car keys, she had to plan for those things too.

While we all love to love the adorkable little nerd, if she ever did enter into a relationship, her controlling nature would definitely be the biggest hurdle to get over for any real hope of an actual lasting relationship forming. For that, she needs a slap in the face to tell her no...as she has never had one before. Not even after the riot in Lesson Zero, all Celestia did was laugh about how Twilight panicked over the lack of a friendship report.

If anything, she's had a lesson to IGNORE the advice of her friends when she thinks she is right.

And yeah, a godlike being that can just about do anything she wants and ignores all advice to the contrary is scary in the extreme. So very little humor in this section of the second act.

As for Rainbow, burring her emotions over all the shit that happens to her is just about the only believable thing she can do. Every one of her lessons in loyalty and her episodes in general revolves around giving something up for everyone else, and it isn't until her exam do they actually reciprocate...and even that was just a chance happening on Twilight's part.

Next update will be awhile going to work on some other stuff. Till next time everypony!