Family Drama 5: The Morning After

As it always was since she became the Element of Magic rather than just a Bearer, Twilight awoke a few minutes before dawn feeling like she could do anything. Mostly because…she could. After a second’s thought, the alicorn added it to the list of reasons why she had found herself going so out of control in the past week. Although she was unable to add a plausible counter to it’s sister list that would have let Twilight get a better handle on her overly controlling impulses.

The feel of the pegasus sleeping atop her, wrapped in the alicorn’s forelegs made Twilight’s heart quicken for two reasons: the simple joy of waking up with Rainbow, and the memory of why Dash was in Twilight’s embrace to begin with. The memory of the crying pegasus was a sobering one for the goddess.

Twilight had known about Rainbow’s vulnerable side, but only in theory. After all, everypony had one and there had been moments when she had spotted little hints of it over the past few years. But to see the love of her life just break down like she did…Twilight had never seen a sadder sight, or come to a more horrifying conclusion that Twilight herself was the cause of such distress.

The power to do anything I want…and I use it to frighten her, Twilight told herself before she reached up to stroke Rainbow’s hair.

For a moment, Twilight wondered if she could use her power to go back in time and tell herself to not…worry…about… Oh sweet Celestia you’ve got to be kidding me, she told herself as she remembered the last time something like that happened before throwing that idea into her mental trash pile. After a second of self-analysis, Twilight put the reason for that stupid idea into her newly made ‘Runaway Omnipotence’ reason for her week of tyranny in Dash’s life and sighed.

But, the idea of just going back in time, or rewinding it around her and just doing everything right still appealed to her on a more emotional level. Twilight just wanted to start over with Rainbow Dash. She wanted to show the mare just how much she loved her, and not just take their relationship as an irrefutable fact while concentrating on what had yet to come like she had been before.

That, she realized, had been her biggest mistake; or the root of it anyway. Secure in the fact that she loved Rainbow Dash, and Rainbow loved her in return, Twilight had been able to rationalize the short-term pain her actions had caused her fillyfriend. It was all because…Rainbow Dash loved Twilight, and Twilight had thought that it was something that didn’t needed actions to reinforce and nurture.

The touch got a groan from the sleeping pegasus, and Twilight looked at Rainbow as she opened her eyes before smacking her lips a bit, and then looked down at the alicorn. “Oh uh, hey Twilight,” she mumbled, still obviously half asleep.

Rainbow’s beautiful eyes lit up the room in the predawn hours of the morning, and the goddess smiled back at her greatest reason for happiness. “Good morning Rainbow…did you sleep well?”

“Good enough I guess,” she said before yawning. Then, a look of hesitation entered her eyes. “Uh Twilight…about last night.”

The alicorn tensed as a hundred thoughts ran through her head, most of them fearful and revolving around Rainbow distancing herself from the purple pony. “Y-Yes?”

“Could you uh…forget the part about me…you know,” she mumbled before dropping even lower. “…crying?”

Twilight blinked, and felt a wave of relief at Dash’s request. “Rainbow, you don’t have to worry about me telling anypony,” she assured her. “And I’m honored that you’re willing to show that side of yourself to me. Please don’t try to hide it anymore.”

“Twilight-”

“Rainbow I want to see you cry, I…I love it!”

When the pegasus gave the alicorn a cautious, and almost frightened look, Twilight’s eyes widened and she mentally smacked herself so hard she felt a headache coming on. “Wait, that came out wrong. Okay…how about this…

“I know you’re a strong pony Dash, and you’ve got your pride and your image, and they’re both very important to you and I would never do anything to damage either one,” she assured her fillyfriend as she reached up to caress Rainbow’s cheek. “You don’t need to put on a front for me. Because I know just how amazing you really are. If anything, the fact you have those thoughts and fears just makes you all the more incredible because you can keep going. So…please trust me to see not just the cool side of you, but…the other one too, at least sometimes…okay, Rainbow?

“I don’t like seeing you cry…and it does make me feel sad, and ashamed when I’m the one who caused you to cry, but…well, when you um, come crying to me, I…well…” Twilight searched for a way to best explain her thoughts. “I love how it shows you trust me enough to let me see that side of you, and help you with your problems.” She gulped and looked away. “Even if…I haven’t given you much reason to do that over the past week.”

“…I love you Twilight,” the pegasus said before she took the alicorn’s hoof and kissed it, then lowered herself back onto the purple pony.

Twilight’s heart leapt at the simple declaration, and she returned it before rolling the pair of them onto their side. “Do you want to go back to sleep? That level of magic won’t hurt the foal.”

“No,” Rainbow replied after a moments hesitation. “I’d uh…think I’ll stay awake. There’s something I’m kind of wondering about.”

As another bit of hesitation blossomed on Rainbow’s face, Twilight nodded some encouragement. “You can ask me anything Rainbow,” she assured her. “I won’t laugh or think it’s weird. I mean, look at me, I turn myself into a stallion these days.” Although the weird part was…Twilight was starting to think she enjoyed it.

The sex at least.

And being able to hold Dash.

And…Twilight had to admit she did like the memories of looking down at Shining Armor. Even though she had been pretty mad at him at the time.

“What’s it like? As a stallion, I mean,” she added hesitantly at the end.

The question made Twilight pause. Despite her experiences as a male, the answer wasn’t a simple one to come up with. She had to think about it for a minute, and even then what came out of her mouth wasn’t something she would have liked to put on anything academic. “Well it’s…different,” she said. “I’m physically bigger and stronger by a wide margin of course, which is kind of nice…and scary. I think I’m more prone to passionate emotions. Although I’m still not sure if that’s because I’m just not used to dealing with male hormones, or if it’s just part of being a male, or if it’s just because there was something upsetting the mare I care most about in the world.”

She smiled at Dash and licked her lips. Let’s see…what else? Oh, of course, the mental images quickly shifted to the time they had shared together as a stallion and mare, and Twilight found herself getting hot as she remembered the feeling of holding Rainbow beneath her male body, bringing her to climax again and again until the little pegasus could barely move.

No, no, no, no, No! Stay scientific Twilight! Rainbow isn’t asking about THAT! “I think I actually find you more attractive when I’m a stallion,” she admitted. “But I don’t know if that’s because of hormones again or the change in perspective.”

“Perspective?” Rainbow Dash asked with a raised eyebrow.

Twilight blushed. “Well, I’m so much bigger as a stallion, but I don’t look bigger to me, everypony else just looks smaller,” she tried to explain while memories of holding Rainbow Dash in her giant forelegs resurfaced. “So you look…cuter, and to be honest…I like to be the one holding you every now and again Rainbow.” Although Twilight didn’t know if that was once again part of her control problem or because she liked the idea of being able to hold her fillyfriend in such an all-encompassing, protective embrace.

For a second, she thought that her words had embarrassed the pegasus thanks to the bright blush Twilight could make out even in the fading light, then Rainbow Dash cleared her throat and spoke. “Well I…like being held by you Twilight. Uh, stallion or mare. It feels relaxing…and…safe.”

Thankfully, it didn’t seem Rainbow noticed the flinch her last word caused the alicorn. Twilight knew she needed the guilt trip for the next few days as a reminder of what almost happened, but the goddess doubted Dash would see it that way. “Like I told you last night Rainbow,” she reminded the pegasus while reaching out to rub Rainbow’s shoulder. “You can tell me anything, show me everything, and I’ll do all I can to help you. That’s what being in love means Rainbow. At least, to me it does.”

The alicorn blinked at her own words, unsure of just where they had come from but…the more she thought about it…the more they felt right. To be in love might mean that one pony made Twilight happier than anything else in the world, but to truly love that pony meant to put her happiness and well being ahead of everything else.

The realization threatened to bring a grin out on her face, but she held it in to keep the seriousness of the moment going. Twilight didn’t want Rainbow to think she was laughing at her. Plus, her theory still needed to be run by Cadence if she wanted it validated.

Rainbow cleared her throat nervously, getting Twilight’s attention again. “But um…you didn’t answer my question Twilight.”

For a moment, Twilight found herself frowning at the pegasus. Not in an angry way, but like Rainbow was a puzzle that resisted being solved. “What do you mean?”

“What does…it feel like, as a stallion?”

Twilight’s eyes widened. “Oooooooh,” she said before smiling, then rolling onto her back to think, and hide her blush before bringing back the memories she had just managed to push aside in greater detail. Twilight remembered being on top of Rainbow, of mounting her, of being inside inside of her, and the massive amount of pleasure she had derived from the experience.

“That’s um…okay… It’s more…primal, I think. I mean, remember how I said I found you more attractive when I’m a stallion? Well, by that I mean sexually attractive. My first day, I could barely go ten seconds without all of my body screaming about how much I wanted to mate with you, hold you, kiss you. I-I know it sounds…possessive, and I know I have a problem with that too, but…hmm, that really wasn’t an answer was it?”

She cleared her mind and tried again. “Okay…um…let me try again. It’s amazing. It’s this feeling of lust, and power at the same time I feel all the joy like when I’m a mare and making love to you too. I mean, I hear you cry out in pleasure and it still gives me this wonderful feeling that I’m the one making you so happy, but there’s also this…just incredible sense of…something, that just goes along with it when I mount you as a stallion.

“Sorry, I’m so unclear, it’s kind of been awhile since we really did it. I mean…what happened yesterday was amazing, and I loved it so much for it Rainbow. I don’t think I can ever tell you that enough, but it was a different kind of amazing than stallion-mare and mare-mare sex, you know?”

Rainbow just cleared her throat, and nodded. “Yeah, I really liked it too Twilight…except for the end.”

Holding in the giggle that little comment caused took a moment, and Twilight couldn’t stop herself from smiling at the memory of Rainbow being covered in her semen. “Sorry about that, I’ll warn you quicker next time. Like I said…it had been awhile.

“But, why are you asking me about sex as a stallion?”

The blush that covered Rainbow’s face was so adorable that Twilight had to repress the urge to kiss her. From the looks of things, it seemed that sharing in the weight of her burdens wasn’t the only thing the pegasus had been holding back from the alicorn; and Twilight couldn’t wait to explore this newly discovered dimension of her beloved.

“Well, you know…you said you were thinking about having more, and…um...I was kinda wondering...um...what it...felt like...”

Twilight smiled. “Oh Rainbow,” she said while reaching out to touch their child’s resting place. “As soon as she’s born, we’ll have a special night for just the two of us. And you can find out.”

The conversation died, and Twilight found herself just staring at Rainbow as they laid in bed together. It was something she hadn’t done for quite awhile, simply admiring the pegasus’s looks and her personality. With the way Rainbow was looking back, Twilight could tell she was doing the same.

“So…I’ve got a few seconds of omnipotence left if you want anything,” Twilight told her before a playful smile crossed her face. “A drink…some new goggles…all of Equestria. Although you might want to wait to tonight if you want me to make you god empress of all pony-kind.” Twilight couldn’t help but giggle at the thought of a giant Rainbow Dash holding all of Equestria in her hoof while an ethereal mane danced around like electric fire and her eyes glowed a beautiful magenta.

Although if she said yes…Twilight knew that she would give it to her. It was a sobering realization that made the alicorn’s laughter stop and turn to a pensive frown.

While Rainbow had accused Twilight of trying to turn the pegasus into her own little doll the day before by taking away her freedoms…Twilight was wondering if things were in fact the other way around.

Or had it just become that way out of her guilt?

Or was she really just overthinking things and letting her emotions get to her again? But the good type of emotions that said to give Rainbow anything she wanted, to do anything to see her smile, even if that meant dethroning Celestia and… Whoa, hold on there Twilight, the goddess told herself as she paused the mental image of the pegasus sitting on the Celestial Throne with all of ponykind bowing to her.

Still, Twilight had to admit that Rainbow did have an amazing amount of power over the alicorn. Despite all Twilight’s problems and demands on the pegasus, the various sources telling her what to do, and her insane levels of magic that made her a contender for the most powerful being in existence, Rainbow had spoke just a few words in anger before making a threat of departure, and the all-powerful goddess of magic had collapsed like a house of cards. A frown of disapproval had cowed her like a foal, and a single command made Twilight throw away her dietary plan and bathroom checklist along with everything else she had done in the past week.

The cautious frown that came to Rainbow’s face made Twilight fear she had taken the joke a bit too far. “Can you really do that? I mean, do anything? How does that work?”

Thankful for the question to get her mind off what it had been on, the alicorn focused all of her attention on her fillyfriend’s question. “Honestly?” Twilight shrugged. “I haven’t really tried. I think the most powerful thing I did was heal your injuries, and we saw the little side effect of that. I’m not even sure how I did it because it wasn’t healing magic, I just…wanted it to happen, and it did. Magic usually just acts as an infinite amplifier; or maybe its my preconceptions about how magic works that limits me.” Twilight found it a bit ironic now that she had ultimate magical power, it was her years of study that might be putting a stop to what she could really do. “It’s why I still have to experiment with magical formulae and go by what spell books say instead of just wishing for something.”

And why the use of all our magic together is so powerful, she told herself. While Rarity might have had an inkling of what they could do, the other four mares having little experience with magic probably only increased the possibilities. The simply ignored the rules by not knowing about them to begin with.

Rainbow looked down at her stomach and smiled. A second after she touched her belly, Twilight joined in, and they shared another moment as future parents while Celestia’s sun broke over the horizon.

As she began her oral hygiene routine, Rainbow Dash had to admit that she was feeling better than she had been all of the previous week. Everything just seemed…lighter. It was like she had been wearing training weights for a long time and had just taken them off. Even breathing felt easier for some reason.

Although there was a part of her that felt guilty for telling Twilight how she felt about everything and putting another worry in the alicorn’s head, it didn’t make her feel like a total loser. If anything, it had felt…good to cry on Twilight shoulder.

Not that it was cool…or something that she would ever do again. But at least Twilight wasn’t going to go blabbing about it to all their friends and start writing letters to Celestia about it. Rainbow didn’t know what she would do if the princess knew the pegasus was such a crybaby.

She didn’t know what Twilight was talking about with her side of Rainbow Dash stuff either. There was only two sides to the pegasus: the side of awesome that she used when doing stuff, and the cool one that came out when she was just hanging around friends.

Rainbow Dash finished brushing her teeth, then spit the remains of the toothpaste-water mix out before looking over to her fillyfriend, then back to the floss, then to Twilight, and then to the floss.

“You don’t have to use the floss if you don’t want to Rainbow,” Twilight said after a moment. “I’m not going to make you…like…like the last couple of times.”

The sad expression on the alicorn’s face got a sigh from the pegasus, and she reached for the mouthwash. “Don’t see what the big deal is with you making me do it every time, unicorns are the only ones who can mess with that stuff anyway.”

Twilight looked back over to her and raised an eyebrow. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Rainbow rolled her eyes at the question. Although Twilight was pretty smart about ninety-percent of the time, that other ten percent always came from her lack of knowledge about other tribes. “Two hooves Twilight,” she said before getting up into the air and showing her. “How’s a pony supposed to floss if they can’t even stand?”

“Um…hold yourself up with your wings?” she suggested while pointing at the pegasus’s other appendages with a hoof.

The comment took Rainbow from the air, and she just shook her head again before grabbing the mouthwash and taking a swig. Days when she didn’t wake up with things so stiff it took an hour to get them down from sleeping next to Twilight aside, all pegasi knew flying in a ground pony’s house was just about the most insulting thing you could do that didn’t involve doing anything violent or nasty to another pony.

Twilight cleared her throat and looked away for a moment. After living with her for a week and knowing her for years before that, Rainbow had picked up on plenty of the alicorn’s habits. When she did the cough and head turn combo in the middle of a conversation, it meant Twilight wanted to get a new topic going.

The why only came after a few seconds of thinking, when Rainbow realized the alicorn had probably noticed the pegasus had just wanted to drop the subject too before they got into another fight over dental floss…like they had done for the past five days…in a row.

Then Twilight looked back at her with a coy smile. “Well, um…maybe I can come up with a better way to clean your teeth.”

Rainbow let out a groan when she realized Twilight wasn’t just going to drop it. “Like what? Magi-mmmpth!” she managed to get to before the alicorn latched her lips onto Dash’s. Then, Twilight’s tongue broke through Rainbow’s lips, and made its way around her mouth, running along the front of her teeth, bottom and top rows.

Still attached at the lip, Rainbow felt Twilight’s magic surround her, and then begin to gently…encourage her movements. At first the pegasus tensed and resisted, but after a second of not being lifted off the ground and just feeling the light pressure of the alicorn’s power, she realized what was going on. Twilight wasn’t horn-handling her like she had been doing the past few days whenever Rainbow resisted doing anything from eating her breakfast to washing behind her ears. She was attempting to guide Rainbow with her magic, using a light amount of pressure, but not enough to force her into anything.

Twilight was doing something she hadn’t done since they started dating: giving Rainbow a choice in whether to go along with the alicorn’s wishes or not. Despite how basic it was, Twilight’s action warmed the pegasus’s heart and her earlier annoyances over their beginning argument completely disappeared.

Then she reared up along with Twilight, and rested her plot on the edge of the bathroom counter to free up their forelegs for more fun. A second later, Twilight broke their kiss, and moved to rub Rainbow’s cutie mark with one of her hooves. The touch of her fillyfriend’s hoof on the physical representation of everything she was sent a shiver of pleasure throughout Rainbow’s body. “T-Twilight, you’re gonna make me want to bang if you keep that up.”

The alicorn licked her lips hesitantly, and gulped. “Um…Rainbow…I kind of…want to bang,” she said before her eyes widened and she kept talking before Dash could stop her. “I mean…I don’t want to bang! I want to make... I mean, I…um…well…”

Before the moment could die, Rainbow reached forward and clamped her hooves down on both sides of Twilight’s flank to give her a double cutie mark massage. Then she gave the alicorn a confident smile to try and give her some courage. “Okay now, spit it out.”

Twilight’s cheeks turned red, and she cleared her throat before speaking very hesitantly. “I…well…I want to try starting over Rainbow, with you, the right way. After everything last week, I…I just don’t want to mess this up, and…I need to get this right, and start things out right from the very first second. Plus you started talking about sex, and it started to get me hot and umm…” she said before gulping. “So…may I make love to you this morning?”

Laughter threatened to bubble up from Rainbow’s stomach, but she managed to keep it down thanks to the hesitation in Twilight’s voice, and seriousness in her eyes. Although, she couldn’t resist one little jab. “Uh…you’re asking me this after we just brushed our teeth?”

“Well,” Twilight managed before gulping. “If you remember…we didn’t really start our relationship as mares.” The hesitation grew, and she kind of shrank in on herself in the most adorable way Rainbow had ever seen. “And you were asking what it’s like as a stallion, so that got me thinking about making love to you that way, and… I’ll um…be gentle this time, because of the foal and all.”

Confusion over the situation made Rainbow tilted her head as she noticed something very wrong with this whole thing. “Um…well, I’m not against it,” she mumbled as the memories of Twilight positioned over the pregnant mare before she got seeded with a foaled came to mind. Her body began to ache for that kind of attention again. “But…what about your schedule? Don’t we need to go meet Shining Armor and Cadence and the girls for breakfast?”

Then, Twilight Sparkle said the most romantic thing Rainbow Dash had ever heard. “You know what? Buck the schedule. I want to make love to you Rainbow.”

The tiny ache in the pegasus’s body turned into a roaring need, demanding that Rainbow give the thing beneath her tail some attention as it prepared to take the biggest stallion hood in Equestria into her again. “Twilight…I love you.”

Five minutes later, Rainbow found herself in the forelegs of her very male fillyfriend.

Thirty seconds after that, she was on her stomach with a raised tail to let her stallion in.

Three seconds after that, and Rainbow was reminded just how big a stallion Twilight was as she was filled with a painful rush of pleasure.

Cadence trotted next to Shining Armor as they followed Spike down the hall towards Twilight’s room, a bit of worry etched on her face. She had given the two of them plenty of good advice last night, but one night’s worth of words wouldn’t right an off course romance. She still needed to meet with each of the mares individually, figure out the underlying problems that could be fixed, and give them a sympathetic ear for anything else that was going on in their lives.

Still, she was more than hopeful the two of them would be able to work through everything. They had the perfect foundation for true love and were willing to recognize changes needed to be made. Both Rainbow and Twilight acknowledged they were good for another both in their actions before the foal was conceived when she had talked to them during their little session. On top of which, they had both acknowledged there were some problems with how they had been acting.

However, acknowledging problems and fixing them were two very different creatures.

But Cadence was taking the fact that Twilight was over ten minutes late to breakfast as a good thing. It either meant that she and Rainbow had stayed up very late last night talking, or they were doing it this morning and simply lost track of time. Either way, she was more than willing to just let it go and give them the privacy they needed before engaging them again to see how things were after a good night’s sleep and what she hoped was some beneficial communication. But Spike had gotten a little freaked out after Twilight hadn’t shown up five minutes past when she was supposed to. So after getting Spike to hold off for another five minutes, she and Shiny accompanied him up to Twilight’s apartment at the slowest pace she could get them to travel in order to add an extra ten minutes by finding something to examine or making Spike slow down with some conversation.

“Look Spike, I know Twilight likes to stick to her schedule, but they had a long night, and maybe she just needs the extra rest,” Cadence said as they made it to Twilight’s door.

The dragon shook his head. “Cadence, I know you used to know how Twilight was before I came along, but I know how she is now,” he began to explain. “Rainbow must have done something stupid again.”

Cadence put her hoof on the door to stop it from being opened. “What do you mean again?” The stupid comment also raised some red flags, but she was willing to leave it alone for the moment.

“She’s been doing stupid stuff all week,” Spike replied. “Twilight’s been trying to help her, but…Rainbow can be a real pain, you know?”

The two ponies shared a hesitant look, and Cadence shrugged to answer Shiny’s unasked question of ‘how’. The motion made Cadence let go of the door, and Spike quickly opened it to go into what passed as the living room of Twilight’s private apartment. He took a quick look around, then headed for Twilight’s bedroom. “Great, another bathroom fight, why can’t she just do what Twilight says?”

Cadence felt a bit of apprehension at Spike’s words, then quickly followed the dragon to the door. Although she had been hopeful for a reconciliation, the alicorn couldn’t help but feel the doubt creeping up on her. It had only been one day after all. They could have easily slipped back into…

…the throes of passionate sex?

At least, that’s what Cadence had been pretty sure what had been going on just a minute before Spike opened up the door, as she was assaulted by the powerful scent of two ponies that had been going at it. On top of which, she saw a sweaty, panting Rainbow Dash laying on the bed in the arms of a giant purple alicorn…that happened to be male.

Oh…so that’s who she was doing…or he, I guess, Cadence told herself. Judging by how both of the ponies were laying on their sides, they had come in just as the two finished. Much to Cadence’s joy, the way Twilight was holding Rainbow spoke that it hadn’t been simple pleasure they had been after either. The two of them had been making love. Once Cadence had gotten over the fact she just walked in on the tail end of a couple banging each other senseless, followed by the lapse in conscious thought that came upon seeing Twilight as a stallion again, the Princess of Love had to admit that it was a beautiful sight.

Beside her, Shining let out a tiny whine, and Cadence saw his face twist into something between embarrassment and displeasure. All the while, she could practically see the gears in his head slowing down while his brain began to freeze up at the sight of his little ‘sister’ and Twilight’s lover together like they were.

“T-Twilight? W-Why are you a stallion again?” Spike cried out in horror.

Twilight looked up and his eyes got wide before he let out a startled cry before yanking Rainbow Dash up with him and hugging the much smaller mare close to his chest. “G-Geez! Don’t you ponies know how to knock?”

“Gaje bana wa,” Spike replied. “It…you…stallion…Rainbow…smells like…”

A groan came from the purple alicorn and he rolled his eyes while Rainbow’s face turned bright red to match some of the color in her mane. Twilight took one look at the girl in his forelegs, then looked back at the others with an angry frown frown. “Yes! We’re having sex like this, again! Excuse me if I actually like making love as a stallion with the mare I love inside my own bedroom! Which all of you just barged into the middle of by the way!”

“But…you…stallion,” Spike managed.

Shining let out another squeak, and Rainbow Dash gave an uncomfortable moan before speaking. “No, we just got done.”

A second later, Twilight looked down at his fillyfriend. “But we were cuddling. Cuddling is a part of the process!”

“Well that’s better than them walking in while you’ve got your penis shove all the way into my-”

Cadence cleared her throat as loud as she could to stop Rainbow from going on, and looked over to her husband. “Dear, could you please take Spike back to the dining room with Fluttershy and the others?” From the looks of things, the little dragon was either going to explode in a rant of how wrong this all was, or have a brain aneurysm. Either way, it was best to get him gone and deal with the little brother relationship obstacle at a better time.

“Oh…uh…okay,” Shining Armor managed before he reached down to grab the little dragon before he made his strategic withdrawal. “I am never going to get used to seeing her like that.”

The door slammed shut with the help of Cadence’s magic, and she turned back around to see the couple looking at her with a pair of frowns. “What?” she asked before their frowns deepened and Cadence rolled her eyes. “Oh please girls, I’m a professional. And while a healthy sex life isn’t…a foundation to a stable relationship, it does help...a lot. Although I do have to ask why you’re going about it like…that.”

Twilight held Rainbow tighter, and Cadence had a strange sense of déjà vu as an image of Twilight as a filly holding that Smarty Pants doll of hers overlap with the current version of her ‘sister’. “W-What’s wrong with me and Rainbow being together like this?”

The pegasus of the pair wasn’t as passive. “So Twilight likes to have sex as a stallion, big deal! She’s already changed species and has a dragon for a…whatever the hay Spike is in this little family. So if you don’t like it you can-”

“Nonononononono!” Cadence assured the irate pegasus as she waved her hooves to stop the mare from continuing. “I’m not judging you or anything…in fact I’m a little curious as to what it feels…ahem…but I’m just wondering…why?”

Although a blush still covered his cheeks and there was a bit of hesitation in his voice, Twilight managed to respond. “Well, um... We started our relationship like this and, well…I wanted try a…fresh start?”

“Plus it’s kind of nice to have Twilight as a stallion in bed every now and then,” Rainbow admitted before she cleared her throat in embarrassment and looked away from Cadence. “As long as I have time to recover when we’re done.”

Once again, the purple alicorn looked down at his lover. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Rainbow gulped and blushed again. “Twilight you’re…really, really big. It kind of hurts when we do it.”

“Your stallion parts are a little on the gigantic side Twilight,” Cadence added with a blush, remembering what she had seen of her little sister’s junk the night before. “Although…there is a spell to help keep Rainbow from getting sore if you want to keep doing this. I’ve used it on couples that have an above average-sized male pony and a female mustang. And it only pertains to Rainbow so…there’s no risk of magical contamination to the foal.”

A lump of air passed through Twilight throat and he looked back to Cadence. “So, does that mean…you approve, of me turning into a stallion…sometimes, I mean.”

Cadence held in her sigh because it might have been misconstrued. “Honestly girls, the bedroom is the one place where I really shouldn’t have a say as to how the two of you behave, despite my expertise in all facets of love,” she told them. “Unless…one of you isn’t abusing the other with overly physical sexual kinks that’s causing real physical damage, right?”

“Ummmm…does bondage count?” Twilight asked after a second.

The question made Cadence stare at the couple in surprise for a minute, and she took in a deep breath to calm herself. The alicorn shivered from the effect Twilight’s lingering musk had on her, and promised herself some alone time with Shiny before lunch to fulfill the sexual need that being so close to a couple that had just finished banging each other was quickly bringing on. “Okay, better start at the beginning.”

Twilight gulped and held onto Rainbow’s foreleg with her own as she finished explaining the one little thing she did to Rainbow in bed. Already, she could tell it was going to be bad news…horrible even! What kind of mare tied up the pony she loved to have sex?

“Stallion and mare Twilight?”

The purple alicorn looked back over to Cadence, glad to focus on the question. “What?”

“When you have sex with Rainbow, do you tie her up just when you’re a female or do you have the urge to do it when you’re a stallion as well?” the pink alicorn clarified. The little bit of worry in her old foal sitter’s eyes sent a chill down the magic goddess’s spine.

Twilight looked over to Rainbow for a second to try and find some support, but even when the pegasus gave the alicorn a reassuring smirk, the ice in the purple pony’s stomach continued to build up. She hadn’t even known Rainbow was still willing to have heterosexual intercourse until the other day. “I-I don’t tie Rainbow up when I’m a stallion,” she explained. “I…well, I don’t really need to too. I…um, I’m just so much stronger than her that I’m the dominant one without even really trying.”

There was a slight tensing, and the tiniest of annoyed groans came from Rainbow Dash, which killed Twilight’s train of thought and made her focus on the pegasus completely. “Dash? What’s wrong?”

“Sorry it’s…um…”

Out of the corner of her eye, Twilight saw Cadence cock her head to the side before she spoke. “Rainbow we talked about this, if something is bothering you, then you need to tell Twilight,” she said.

“You’ll think I’m just being stupid,” she mumbled before looking away from the two alicorns.

For a moment Twilight felt a little perturbed that Rainbow didn’t trust her enough to come clean, but that was quickly washed away by a fresh wave of near-panic that came with the fact that there was still something wrong with their relationship, that Twilight had done something to distance herself from the pony she loved, that…Rainbow couldn’t trust her enough to come clean.

And why should she? Twilight asked herself. I’ve always been so sure of myself, even when I was the one in the wrong. Look at what I did to her, what I almost did…I don’t deserve her trust.

“Rainbow,” Cadence went on, “I promise not to think any less of you. Please, tell us what’s wrong.”

Silence filled the room for a moment, then Rainbow took a deep breath. “Well…it kind of annoys me when Twilight turns into such a big stallion,” she mumbled.

Twilight tensed at the confession, and then the pegasus looked over to her with wide eyes. “N-No! Not in that way!” she said before blushing and looking back down at the floor and glancing up at Cadence every few seconds as she continued to speak. “I-I love Twilight as a stallion! I mean, she’s so big and so…you know…big. I-I love how she can wrap her forearms and wings around me, and how safe it feels in her embrace, and I love how…muscular she is, and how her barrel is so big I can just lay down on it and listen to her heartbeat…or ride her back and just give her a hug the whole time. I love all that.”

“But…” Cadence offered, killing the warm emotions rising in Twilight’s chest that came from the pegasus's explanation.

Three seconds passed by, then five, and between the seventh and eighth tick of the clock, Rainbow spoke again. “It…kind of annoys me she can just make herself that strong,” she admitted before a frown crossed Rainbow’s face. “I mean…I worked my whole bucking life to get where I am, and…buck, I can foreleg-wrestle AJ down more than half the time, and she’s an earth pony! Then Twilight just comes along and magics herself to be stronger like it’s nothing…and…ugh, see? I can’t even feel angry without making it sound stupid and selfish.”

Twilight forced herself to hold down the giggle that threatened to come out and focused on the fact that Rainbow was having a problem. It wasn’t a relationship destroying catastrophe that Twilight had been dreading, but if her Dashie was concerned, then Twilight had no intention of laughing about it.

There was also the way phrased her complaint ‘like it was nothing’ that made Twilight’s anger spike a bit. She had worked her whole life to develop her magical skills, and the pegasus just discounted them like that because they were more encompassing than some flying skills!

But then, she also understood Rainbow’s pride and how she needed to be the best because…

Twilight internally frowned as her mind encountered a lack of information, and a rather glaringly important bit of information at that. She knew Rainbow wanted to be the best pegasus in Equestria, but no matter how hard Twilight thought about it, she just couldn’t remember ever hearing just why Rainbow felt that way. While the goal of joining the Wonderbolts came to mind, that seemed to be more of a confirmation that she was the best rather than being the driving reason behind the desire.

“Twilight are you okay?”

Cadence’s voice yanked Twilight out of her ruminations, and she looked up with a jerk of her head. The disturbing feeling that came from a lack of understanding Rainbow’s motivations was pushed to the side for the moment in favor of embarrassment. “Sorry,” Twilight apologized before she looked over to her lover while recalling what had transpired in the conversation. “Rainbow, when I turn into a stallion, it’s not permanent like what you’ve achieved and…well, I can only channel enough magic to be a stallion for thirty minutes without my element helping me. I mean, if you want to do comparisons to our physical abilities after having mass quantities of magic released, then…you might as well go do a Sonic Rainboom first because it enhances what you can do by a wide margin too.”

A frown appeared on Rainbow’s face, and for a moment Twilight thought she was going to argue some more, but then the pegasus cocked her head to the side and her face twisted in confusion. “Huh?”

“Your Sonic Rainboom, how the release of magic enhances your strength and speed and…” Twilight stopped talking for a moment when she realized that Dash had no idea what she was talking about. “Please don’t tell me you never realized the enhancing effects your Rainboom has on everything.”

“Um…well…I uh, do feel a bit better for awhile after it happens…” Rainbow managed.

“Then you carry four ponies around like they’re nothing and create an actual rainbow just by the enhanced magic in your contrail,” Twilight deadpanned before she let her frustrations go with a sigh. It was like Spike and the Equestria games all over again, with Rainbow not even realizing her full worth. “And you're still a pegasus…my alicorn ascension is the only reason I can change genders at all! I mean, remember when Trixie came to town with that amulet? I didn’t turn Applejack into a stallion, I faked it.”

Cadence cleared her throat. “I think we’re getting a bit off topic here but…Rainbow, do you really think another ponies achievements…lessen you own?”

The question got a frown from Rainbow Dash, and Twilight could tell it was from anger this time. “You make me sound like I’m jealous or something!” she exclaimed before she looked away. “And I’m not! I think it’s awesome Twilight’s so great at magic…I just…ugh, I don’t know…”

“Well, we can always come back to that later,” Cadence said before looking back to Twilight. Now, about what I said earlier Twilight, you don’t feel the need to tie Rainbow up when you’re a stallion because you’re so much stronger than her?”

Twilight took a breath to clear her mind, then nodded.

“It’s that simple?” the pink alicorn went on as she gave Twilight a measuring look.

Once again, Twilight found herself thrown off a bit by Cadence’s question. “I…guess,” she replied. “I mean, when I tie Rainbow up…well, I do love how she lets me do it, and how she trusts me to not mess anything up and let her go later, but for the most part…um…” Twilight could feel the blush igniting her cheeks. “Rainbow has some pretty wild orgasms sometimes and…it just makes things…easier for me.”

Cadence nodded. “And when you’re a stallion, do you…like having the additional physical power?” she asked before Twilight nodded hesitantly. Having always been a bookworm, the added stamina and strength that her male form had provided for that one day had been quite useful.

“Do you like holding Rainbow as a stallion?”

Another nod gave Twilight’s response. It was no different than when she was a mare though. Well…aside from the fact that I think Rainbow is so much cuter with the change in perspective, she told herself. Which was a completely logical reaction to a shorter mare! It was a proven scientific fact that the smaller ponies were cute. I mean…just look at the breezies. The entire race would have died out if it weren’t for their adorableness’s ability to counteract their whiney and useless nature!

“Do you like holding Rainbow down as a stallion?”

Twilight shook the memories of the pony subspecies out of her head, and looked back to Cadence. “What?” she asked, not seeing much of a difference between that the other alicorn’s previous question.

“Do you like holding Rainbow Dash down when you’re a stallion?” Cadence repeated. Then she continued talking, her tone slowly became more level and dry with every word where as before it had been kind and understanding. “Do you like overpowering her and being able to force her into anything that you want when you’re a stallion? Do you get a rush of excitement when you realize that you’re the one in complete control, and can do anything you want to her? Do you enjoy taking things like movement, choice, freedom-”

Anger surged inside her, and Twilight didn’t even bother trying to hide it as she jumped to her hooves while on the bed to glare at her sister. “OF COURSE NOT!” the alicorn shouted at her elder goddess. “For crying out loud Cadence, that…that’s sick! It’s like you’re asking me if I enjoy hurting Rainbow or something!”

Twilight let out an angry snort, and continued to glare at her sister. “You…do you honestly think…” The alicorn let her plot hit the bed hard as she sat down, and went on. “I know I hurt Rainbow! I know I scared her! But when I saw the fear in her eyes because of me, it...it’s the most shameful moment of my life! Don’t you dare imply that I ENJOYED EVEN A SECOND OF DOING WHAT I DID TO HER!” she screeched.

Then, Twilight had a rather disturbing thought. If Cadence believed things were that way, then did Rainbow think that too? The horror that realization caused made Twilight spin to face Dash.

The pegasus was looking at her with wide eyes, and the expression made Twilight’s heart quicken. “I didn’t Rainbow! I swear!” she promised. “Everything I did…as stupid as it was…I did because I-I was just scared, and stupid, and I got so wrapped up in what would happen in the future when it was over that I didn’t realize the pain it was causing you in the present! I'm sorry Rainbow, I-”

“I know Twilight,” Rainbow assured her before the alicorn latched onto the pegasus in a hug. Then Twilight felt Dash’s attention shift with a turn of a head, and she spoke again in an angry tone. “And what the hay was all that about?”

Twilight looked back to see tension she hadn’t noticed before visibly leak out of Cadence, as the other alicorn let out a long breath. “Rainbow…the two of you need to understand something,” she said. “Since I became the leader of the Crystal Empire, I have only been able to help ponies that come to me. Most of the time, it’s when they are at the end of their relationships, when their love has been so abused it is a dying ember. I have seen and heard of thing like a sexual desire for bondage become a slave and mistress relationship that becomes so far gone the mistress enjoys inflicting pain on another pony even outside of role play.”

“I. Would. Never. Hurt. Rainbow like that Cadence,” Twilight seethed as she held onto the pegasus as tightly as she could. The fact that her sister suggest that… Twilight shook with anger…and a bit of fear. Cadence was an expert on the subject after all, the alicorn’s analytical mind reminded her. If she thought it was possible…then Twilight had to admit, even if just for a second, that it very well could be.

“I don’t think you would either,” Cadence said, making Twilight freeze before her anger became an odd sense of relief. “Your…fetish, and I don’t even know if I can call it that after your little explanation, it’s like everything else over the past week in the way it stems from your control issues. As long as you’re mindful of your actions and don’t let things get out of hoof, everything should be fine between the two of you.”

The control issues comment made Twilight wince a bit, but she managed to recover quickly enough to keep Cadence from noticing. At least she thought Cadence didn’t notice the flinch because the alicorn was talking again.

“And now the others are probably wondering what’s taking so long, and the two of you still need to get washed up. All your friends are here for breakfast after all,” Cadence said before a little smile appeared on her face while Twilight felt like smacking herself.

It was Sunday, which meant no court or duties unless there was an emergency, and all the girls would be joining her and the others that lived in the palace for breakfast. And here I am keeping the girl waiting because...okay, well...making love to Rainbow is a pretty good reason to hold up any schedule, Twilight told herself.

“And…me and Shining have a little surprise the two of you are going to find very interesting.”

Twilight and Rainbow shared a confused look. Then Twilight’s eyes darted down to Rainbow’s stomach and widened a bit. Little surprise? Would could…wait…don’t tell me Cadence is pregnant too!