The Benefits of Friendship Come With Consequences
Chapter 3: First Day Part 3
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As was the norm whenever Twilight teleported her, Dash was a little thrown off by the sudden change in…everything. The trip she just been on was especially discombobulating, as she went from being surrounded by water in a room that reeked of roses with a heavy atmosphere thanks to the temperature and moisture, to standing in the middle of the council chamber that was a comfortable room temperature without any weird smells or water. It took a minute of stumbling to regain her balance after the change in the air caused her to drop from it, as well as loose her grip on the shirt Discord had left.
The stupid, senseless shirt that seemed to freak Twilight out to no end. Dash didn’t get it though. Just because Twilight had banged her as a guy didn’t make the alicorn any less awesome in Rainbow’s eyes. Although if Twi made a 'who's your daddy' joke, Dash was going to geld him.
Still, getting poofed around without any warning did kind of annoy her, and she looked up at Twilight to tell him that.
The sight of the soaked alicorn made Rainbow Dash need to make a conscious effort to hold onto her anger. Although she would never tell the stallion, because it would totally make him as uncomfortable as Tartarus, wet Twiguy was by far the hottest thing Rainbow had ever seen. The way the water made his coat glisten showed the her the alicorn stallion was the perfect mix of fitness and finesse. He was big, but not overly juiced like Bulk Biceps. Flexible as a flier, but not too scrawny like a mustang pony. Then there was his wings, giant things that were probably powerful enough to make their own tornado.
And when she had felt the power in his body the other night when he banged her until it hurt…she had wanted to stay with him holding her in his forelegs for days. Since then, the pegasus’s hunger for the alicorn mare had only grown. As soon as Twilight was back to normal, Rainbow planned on ravishing her princess to the point of immobility to pay her back for last night.
Rainbow shook the images of a sexually exhausted ‘Princess’ of Friendship out of her head before it could make her a whole different kind of wet than what she was right now. Then the pegasus looked over to the alicorn and let her irritation show. “What the hay Twilight?”
“I…I…I’m sorry!” her coltfriend cried as she lowered herself until they were on eye-level. Dash recoiled in surprise from the tears in Twilight’s eyes, but the alicorn just followed her as she attempted to back away. “I didn’t think there was enough time…to…I didn’t think at all! I just saw you and-and, I just…I just…”
The feel of a cushion struck her back legs, and Dash found herself sitting down as Twilight continued to advance, eventually coming to the foot of Dash’s crystal throne. Then, he just slumped over before talking in a voice that was more squeaks than words. “I’m sorry Rainbow. I never meant for this to happen!”
When the alicorn had finished just pulling in on himself until he was practically cowering from the pegasus, Rainbow finally managed to fight through the confusion of what the hay was going on and rolled her eyes. “It was just a stupid teleport Twilight,” she grumbled, making the alicorn look up at her with widened eyes. “Not like you haven’t done it before. Discord’s right, those stupid male parts are driving you nuts.”
“Um…Dash?”
Rainbow shook off the leftover effects of the teleport and Twilight’s sudden…whatever the hay that was they just went through. She looked down at the cushion on her throne, a little damp from the water that had clung to her coat when Twi had winked them out of the bath. “Hey Twilight, do you know what time it is? I need to…get to work,” she grumbled at the end while looking away from the distraught alicorn.
As it had for the past few days since moving into Twilight‘s Castle, the thought of her job brought up a myriad of emotions that the pegasus knew were best shoved to the side. She knew it wasn’t right for her to be feeling them, not after everything that had happened, but she just couldn’t help it.
“Dash what’s wrong?”
Twilight’s voice brought with it the wave of guilt that Rainbow always felt after her little surge of pettiness for feeling dissatisfied with her situation. She shoved that down into her gut too. Twilight didn’t need to be dealing with her stupid junk, he had his own problems at the moment.
“It’s nothing Twilight,” the pegasus assured him before flexing her wings for takeoff. The fluidity of their motion was still pretty surprising to her, and just helped pile on the guilt. Twilight had fixed years of built up nicks and dings Rainbow had so long she was barely been aware of them, and here she was... “And, can this talk wait till I’m done with work? I need to get going before I’m late.”
Right as her hooves left the chair, Rainbow felt the familiar tingling of Twilight’s magic, and found herself held in place by the magical god. When she looked back down to glare at him, the alicorn remained resolute. “What’s the deal Twilight?” she demanded.
Twilight’s expression shifted back and forth between an angry frown and guilty concern, like he couldn’t decide what to be. Finally, the stallion took a calming breath, complete with his silly little exercise, and gulped down his nervousness. “I said we needed to talk Rainbow, and…if I hold this off, then it will just make things worse,” he told her before sighing.
“But…well…something tells me what’s on your mind isn’t what we need to talk about so…I need…no, I… Please, tell me what’s wrong Rainbow.”
“Twilight, if you don’t let me go I swear I will turn on the rainbow and-”
The alicorn’s eyes widening in horror stopped the pegasus before the terrified words left his mouth. “No! Rainbow, whatever you do, do not activate your harmonic magic! If…Celestia! I don’t even want to know what will happen to…um, just…please don’t do it.”
A second later, Twilight lowered her to the ground, and the magic surrounding the pegasus dissipated. However, what Twilight had said kept her grounded with more power than even the alicorn could muster. She may not have been the sharpest arrow in the quiver, but Rainbow could tell something was going on. Something that made Twilight think using their new magic was a bad idea. “Uh…what?”
“Just…I don’t know if there are any side effect to, oh pony feathers! I teleported you!” he nearly shouted in a panic before pointing his horn at the pegasus a second before it lit up and Rainbow felt a weird tingling in her midsection.
It stopped not long after, and Twilight let out a loud sigh of relief. “Still developing normally,” he mumbled before sagging forward to the point where his face was resting on Rainbow’s legs. “Sorry if I startled you, it’s just...I can’t believe I used a seventh circle spell on…you.”
“Okay Twi, what’s going on?” Rainbow asked, confusion overcoming her annoyance at the whole thing. First Discord showing up, and Twilight freaking out about...well, he had been afraid of Discord learning about his problem. Although, the dragon...serpent...lion goat thing, had kind of backed off when Dash had stepped up for her coltfriend, so she really didn't see the problem. It actually left her feeling better than she had in days...not counting last night of course. Nothing could make her feel better than last night...with the possible exception of doing mare-Twilight of course.
Twilight looked up at the mare and gulped, drawing Rainbow's full attention. “I…um…asked you first, remember?” he replied nervously instead of answering. “You tell me, and uh…I’ll tell you. Deal?”
The offer had Rainbow Dash frowning. She hated when Twilight pulled that kind of junk. The alicorn knew she wasn’t just going to take off if he needed help with something, and was milking the situation for all it was worth. But if there was something up with Twilight, then she did want to know about it.
Even if it meant airing her own dirty laundry.
Rainbow Dash took in a deep breath to steady herself as she thought about just where to start. When she really thought about it, the problem had started weeks prior, if not months…maybe even years… Ever since putting on that stupid necklace. But, Rainbow hadn’t really noticed it until the previous week.
Well, that might not have been true. After learning about her…way of learning, Dash figured that she might have figured things out a bit before then. It was just that she hadn’t wanted to admit it to herself…or her friends…and especially Twilight. Not after everything the alicorn had done for her. Just thinking about it made Dash feel like a total loser.
Why does it half to be Twilight? Rainbow Dash asked herself as she looked down at the concerned face of her lover. She would have rather talked to Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie…hay, even Rarity would have been a better choice to talk things over with about her problems than Twilight Sparkle. At least the unicorn might have understood a bit of what the pegasus was going through.
But Twilight? Just having the thoughts that were going through her head and being in the same room as the alicorn made Rainbow feel guilty.
Still, she was cornered now. Twilight wouldn‘t simply turn and walk away. He would dig until finally finding out the problem, and that would only make things worse. So, she decided to just get it over with and take the lecture now instead of later.
“They didn’t call me to fight Tirek,” she finally mumbled, beginning where she had first become aware of the reality of her situation.
The alicorn resting his head on her legs shifted, and Rainbow looked down to her princess turned coltfriend. “What?” he whispered, confused as ever. It wasn’t a surprise that Twilight didn’t get it. None of her friends would.
“The Wonderbolts,” Rainbow mumbled to help clarify things. “When you were gone, they came by Ponyville and grabbed up a few ponies that had been at the academy with me and got the reserves too. But...they didn’t pick me. I thought it was…well, maybe the princess had something special planned for us and that box. Then, Tirek showed up and…you know.”
One of Twilight’s hooves brushed the pegasus’s cutie mark, and the alicorn looked up at her with tears in his eyes. “Dash, if I had known Tirek was coming, I… Princess Celestia, she told me to hide and not tell anypony about what was going on. I didn’t want to hide it from any of you! I didn’t mean to abandon you! I-”
A gentle hoof to the lips stopped Twilight before he could guilt himself out of control. “That’s not what I’m talking about Egghead,” she told him before pulling the alicorn back to her, and letting him rest his had on her stomach as she slouched further down on her throne. “And I don’t blame you for that, nopony knew that Discord had turned rat.” Although, Rainbow felt like she should have seen it coming. Loyalty was her thing after all. The fact she didn’t have a…disloyalty sensor, or something, made the pegasus wonder if the Element was really supposed to be hers, or it was just the leftover thing that got handed out because nopony else was around.
The more she thought about it, the more it made sense.
Twilight let out a low whine and looked away from the pegasus for some reason, and Rainbow ran her hoof across his mane to help calm the alicorn down. Right, talking to Twilight, focus on her Rainbow. “What I’m talking about is…well…is this it for me?”
“What do you mean?” he asked after a moment without looking back up, his voice low, almost tired, or maybe confused.
“The Wonderbolts,” she mumbled. “They got every pegasus who had a chance of fighting, and attacked Tirek. I even heard Derpy was there of all ponies! DERPY! But, they just left me, the greatest flyer in Equestria, back in Ponyville!”
A sigh escaped from Rainbow’s lips, and she looked up at her cutie mark insignia that had been put into her throne, then back down to the council setup, moving her gaze from throne to throne as she spoke. “That…or after that, it just got me thinking. Applejack has her farm, Rarity’s got her business, Fluttershy has all her animals, Pinkie’s got her party thing, and you’re a princess,” she said before the stroking of Twilight’s mane stopped abruptly. A frown crossed her face as she looked down at the male pony princess. “Well…you know what I mean.”
The words made Twilight chuckle, and he kissed his lover’s stomach. “On the princess thing, yes,” he agreed. “But, the rest…no idea.”
The pegasus shook her head. She never had been good with the long kind of explanations. It was best to just cut to the end of it all. “I’m a weather pony, and that’s all I’ll ever be.”
Rainbow’s depressed tone got Twilight out of whatever he found so interesting about her stomach, and he yanked his head up so quickly Rainbow was thinking the alicorn might have gotten whiplash. “What? Where in the hay is that coming from?” he asked with a frown, his voice turning angry.
“From right here,” Rainbow shouted as she threw her forelegs out to point at the council chamber before looking back down at the alicorn. “This…this is what I’m supposed to do with my life? Sit in a stupid chair and listen to ponies argue with each other while we find a solution? Everypony else gets to have their dream, but I have to give mine up to...what? Help with yours?”
The alicorn recoiled from the venom in the pegasus’s words, and Rainbow felt the guilt stab her in the gut while her frustration built. “And then I just feel like a total plot because you…you helped me get into the Wonderbolts in the first place! You introduced me to Daring Do books! Because of you and your stalker level knowledge about AK Yearling, we met actually met the real Daring Do! You showed me that I’m not some stupid jock whose only talent is flying fast. And last night, for the first time since I moved into this castle, no…for the first time in a long time, I…I felt like I really belonged here!” she shouted as the last of her breath left her.
“Rainbow, I-”
Dash didn’t allow the stallion to finish. She picked herself up into the air as the tension mounted to keep from going crazy. But even the familiar flapping of her wings didn’t help that much. “Then I think back to all that…junk that’s happened since we all got together!” she grumbled. Memories of the bridge in the forest flashed through her mind, along with those of a costume hero, and the incidents at Rainbow Falls. “And it’s like my whole life, every little thing has been trying to tell me ‘hey Rainbow, you can’t have your dream, but everypony else can have theirs’ and it just makes me want to SCREAM!”
As her last word echoed throughout the chamber, Rainbow looked down at Twilight while he stared up at her. The tightness in his eyes and clenched jaw made her groan at what a selfish jerk she was being. She was the Element of Loyalty, the pony who stuck with her friends…no matter what.
But what’s so wrong about wanting something for myself? Rainbow wondered.
When she sat back down on her throne, Rainbow gulped and prepared for the guilt trip that Twilight was about to lay on her.
“Why…why didn’t you tell me you felt this way?” he asked, barely above a whisper.
Rainbow couldn’t stop from frowning at the alicorn. “Because you’d just guilt-trip me into staying…just like you did when we were qualifying for the games,” she mumbled at the end while turning her away from Twilight. She didn’t want to be angry at the stallion, but… “Fluttershy will be sad, and Pinkie will be all abandoned, and…you! What kind of pony sleeps with somepony, then up and runs off?” Just thinking about doing something like that to Twilight made Rainbow want to throw up.
“I only said what I did because I know how you are Rainbow!” Twilight said in a pleading tone, confusing the pegasus. She had expected something a bit more…authoritarian. “Whenever you see something you want, you put these blinders on and just ignore everything else while trying to get it! I wasn’t trying to guilt you into anything, I was trying to make you see how bad you would feel if you actually did join the Wonderbolts relay team!
“And to be honest…I don’t think they deserve a pony like you!” he went on as his tone darkened. “They threw away one of their own teammates to win a race! And then there was everything you told us about the Wonderbolt Academy! Those ponies…they rewarded that Lightning Gust pony for getting other ponies hurt and nearly getting all of us killed!”
Dust, Rainbow Dash mentally corrected Twilight while doing her best to keep herself in check. Seeing her friends nearly get killed like that…it hadn’t been the first time Luna had needed to visit her dreams, but the nightmares Rainbow had gotten from that incident, nightmares where she hadn’t caught up to the girls in time, those had been the worst of her life. They still put a bit of a shiver down her spine.
“And they didn’t even call her on it until you said something!” Twilight went on, his rage clearly showing as he grit his teeth. “And that wasn’t the first time those ponies have let us down! Remember when Spike went feral? You and Fluttershy were able to face him down, but them? They cowered inside a oversized tin can! You fought Nightmare Moon, Discord, the entire changeling army, storm goblins, pirates, picked a fight with Celestia’s evil twin, and a dozen other things that would have sent the Wonderbolts running for the hills!”
The mention of what had happened on the alternate world made Rainbow Dash flinch. Her Celestia hadn’t been very happy about that and the bruise getting rammed by a rainbow pegasus left on both her and her counterpart. It wasn’t like Rainbow had known the two of them shared a health meter!
“I just don’t understand why a pony as amazing as you would want to lower herself to being on the same level as a Wonderbolt when you’re already so far above them!” Twilight exclaimed.
Rainbow gritted her teeth and glared at the alicorn. “Well of course you don’t understand!” Rainbow yelled back. “You got everything you want! You got your palace, you got you wrings, you got-”
“DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I WANTED THIS?” Twilight shouted back at her, the alicorn’s wings unfurling to their full length as he did so. His shadow swallowed the smaller pegasus, and Rainbow found herself pushed back onto her throne by the simple force of Twilight’s presence. Then, as soon as it had appeared, Twilight’s commanding aura just up and disappeared, and the alicorn slumped back down. He sighed, and looked at the ground. “I never once thought I was going to be a princess, Rainbow.”
He sighed, and shook his head a little before looking back to her with tired eyes. “I thought, if anything, I was going to be the next Starswirl,” Twilight began. “I didn’t care about making friends, or politics, or political connections. All I ever wanted to do was study magic. Then I met you and the others, and all I ever wanted was to stay in Ponyville. Then I just figure out a magical spell, and I’m a princess? For months, I was terrified becoming an alicorn would separate me from you girls, and when I finally came to accept that would happen, I looked around to see all my duties included were smiling and waving! I was ready to just toss you girls aside to be a…a figurehead!
“Then Tirek came along and offered to trade you girls for my magic…
“That was my revelation Rainbow, when I earned my key,” Twilight went on, he voice beginning to crack. “You…all of you meant more to me than my magic, following Celestia’s orders, even all of Equestria meant nothing to me compared to your safety!”
Rainbow gulped and moved over to where the stallion was standing to nuzzle him in the shoulder while the tears glistened in his eyes. She knew the terror of almost losing her friends all too well, and the part of her that knew she needed to watch out for her friends was kicking the pegasus in the plot as hart as it could because she hadn't seen that Twilight was going through the same thing. “It’s okay Twilight,” she told him as calmly as she could. “We’re still here. We made it through. You saved us like you always do.”
A second later, one of the stallion’s foreleg’s reached around to pull Rainbow into a half-embrace, and she found that Twilight hadn’t lost any weight since last night. His new body was as heavy as a bull. “No I didn’t,” he squeaked pathetically as Rainbow fought her way out of his steel grip. “I messed up, just like I always do. I’m such a screw-up. Twice! That was the second time I nearly cost all of you everything! More than Twice! It was-Hmmmph!"
When it came to shutting up his colt/fillyfriend, Rainbow decided that she liked using her lips rather than her hooves. It was even still early enough for her to taste the leftover mint from Twilight’s toothpaste inside the stallion’s mouth.
Well, more than likely, it was one of those enchanted brands that kept going all day. Princesses probably had butt-loads of stuff like that. After all, Twilight needed clean teeth for when she, or he, smiled and waved.
The first kiss was followed by another, and Rainbow found herself backing up as Twilight pushed her back onto her throne to continue the make out session. By the end of the fifth kiss, Twi had his hooves up on her chair’s foreleg rests, and Dash could see his erection returning. Dash didn't blame him. She wanted Twilight too. A part of her was shouting at the pegaus to just take him right on the council chamber's floor. They didn't have that much longer till Twilight was a mare again, so she needed to enjoy every bucking second of that monster cock he had.
As for Twilight, the panting stallion licked his lips and gulped. “What were we talking about again?”
With Twilight’s rod pointing right at her, it took a moment for the pegasus to clear her mind and answer the question. “I was... I...um... I was telling you how much of a loser I was,” Rainbow managed to get out before Twilight started glaring at her again.
“You are not a loser Rainbow!”
The words coming from the sort of princess who had saved the world on three separate occasions and would say anything to get a smile from his friends made the pegasus roll her eyes. “Then why does everypony around me have their entire bucking life worked out, and I just have a stupid job as a weatherpony?” she demanded as she looked away from the alicorn. She hated letting Twilight see her like this.
“Rainbow-”
“Look, I got to get going, or I’ll be late,” she mumbled before taking to the sky to fly over Twilight. Thankfully, most of the water had dropped off of her, and some high speed flying would take care of the rest.
However, before Rainbow could kick things into high gear, her brain reminded her Twilight needed some help with something too. It was the whole reason she had agreed to talk to Twilight about her selfish little problem. So Rainbow sucked in a breath and looked back down at the alicorn. “Um…what was it you needed to talk about, anyway?”
The question made Twilight’s eyes go wide, and the gulp he made was the most nervous thing Rainbow had ever heard. “Oh…I…um…there’s something…oh pony feathers, this is so wrong,” he mumbled as he shook his head at the ground.
Oh…Rainbow thought to herself, her eyes widening. She understood had Twilight so nervous. It wasn’t everyday a mare asked to stick her penis in another pony. “Well you’re only a guy for the day so, sure. I’ll stop in at lunch for a quickie.”
“W-WHAT?” the alicorn yelled as his wings extended in an explosion of motion.
Rainbow giggled at Twilight’s blush and the accompanying wing-boner. “What? I love having sex with you, and this is the last day I’ll get to enjoy it,” she said before zipping down to plant a kiss on the tip of Twilight’s muzzle. "Well, stallion you."
When the alicorn squeaked at the contact, Rainbow leaned in closer to whisper into the stallion’s ear. “Hey, maybe we can make it a blowjob,” she suggested with a grin on her face. “I never even gave one of those to Soarin.” Another kiss got Twilight shrinking in on himself, and Rainbow smiled at her alicorn before flying out of the Crystal Tree Palace, or…The Palace of Friendship…or whatever the hay it was called, feeling better than she had since Twilight yanked her into the council room.
Her job might have sucked and her destiny might have been a cruel joke that existed for the sole purpose of crushing her dreams, but the silver lining of Twilight Sparkle’s smile, laughter, and passionate sex that would probably leave her walking funny for the rest of the day after lunch made it bearable.
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