Parts of the next couple days seemed to drag by for Rainbow Dash while Applejack made the most of her time in the nation’s capital. From tours of locations as old as the cities construction as a small town of mages to snacks from carts that offered more normal and flavorful foods from across the world. From minotaur quiche to griffin cookies tickled their taste buds and, in one case, burned their bellies for an hour.

They weren’t pleased to spend part of their fourth day in separate bathrooms in the suite, working out the second burn from the spicy food, but once recovered later in the day and filled up on water and fresh fruit, they went back out to tour the notorious yet well-traveled Purple District, as noticeable by the grooves in the cobblestone leading into and out of the main streets.

From a star-speckled purple pair of gold trimmed gates, the road opened into a cul de sac with named alleys identifying the services offered at the end with a pony dressed provocatively wearing appropriate attire for what they were offering.

Many a fully cloaked pony sulked between shops, keeping their muzzles down to keep their identity hidden. Rainbow couldn’t help but land as her wings betrayed her interest in both stallions and mares wearing lingerie shouting or showing sex toys or holding signs depicting what a store offered with toys and genitals that were drawn as realistic as possible.

“Sweet Luna’s teats,” Applejack whispered as a grin crossed her muzzle, “C’mon, Rainbow! It’s like bein’ a filly in a candy store!” she said loudly, hopping in place and skipping ahead she turned to Rainbow Dash. “Ya comin’, Dashing?”

“Soon,” she replied, “uh, I mean yeah, just, wow… I can’t believe you’re cool with all this?” she gestured around the cul de sac.

“Ah’ve been here once before when Ah was a young mare but was still unsure about myself. Now Ah’m a grown mare and after what you did with me and that,” she lowered her voice, “dildo,” she blushed lightly and spoke up again, “Ah don’t see a reason ta be scared’a anything here now! Oh, let’s start there.”

Rainbow slowly walked and called to Applejack. “Hold up, I need to go in there.” She turned and galloped into an unmarked store with a simple sign over the door. A pony silhouette with a lasso of rope around it. She emerged before Applejack arrived with a cloak over her lithe form and a cloak for Applejack as well.

“Rainbow, that you?”

“No, I’m Nopony, and so are you, so here,” she held the dark cloak out.

“Why in tarnation would Ah wanna hide my hide?” she looked skeptically at the cloaked mare and then to the cloak.

“Because, even the lowest ponies have an image to uphold and showing off here can ruin a pony’s rep! I can’t lose any rep, AJ! Uh, I mean No Pony. C’mon, put it on and we’ll blend in.”

Applejack snorted and turned away. “Ah’m not ashamed of who I am, and none of these ponies should be either. T’ain’t fair ta hide yerself from others that’re the same as ya, now take that thing off and stop bein’ a mole in the ground.”

Rainbow hesitated then shook her head. “I can’t, AJ. What if anypony recognizes me?”

“What’ll they say if they see me with some mare in a cloak? That I’m just some traditional herder? That’ll get ya more publicity, bein’ part of a herd.”

Rainbow pulled her hood back and sighed, trotted beside Applejack, and in a smooth motion she tossed the extra cloak over Applejack. “Before you complain, I’ll keep my hood off and so will you, but I kinda have to keep my body covered.”

Applejack mulled it over then looked at Rainbow. “Why do you have ta wear this thing?” Rainbow pouted and with a foreleg lifted the side of her cloak. Applejack nodded and patted Rainbow’s wing strap. “Maybe we can keep this fer, adventurous nights.”

“Nope, property of the district. Enchanted so I can’t even leave with it on. I’d need to take it off, duh.”

“No need to get snippy. Ah understand and,” her eyes closed partly into a seductive glare, “we’ll just have ta find one’a these of our own.”

With a loud gulp, Rainbow nodded and gestured ahead. “Ladies first.”

“Why thank you, handsome.”

“Hey, I’m a mare. I can’t be handsome.”

“We’ll let you learn that one. Oh, let’s start there!”

They started in one shop, moving to the next and next until they reached a side street named ‘Dance Avenue’. It took a little coaxing but Rainbow finally followed Applejack and hung her head, as though it would hide her appearance from the numerous colts to stallions dancing behind tempered windows to her right while fillies to mares danced to her left. Each with a sparkling purple door set in the middle of the four story high windows.

Each dressed provocatively with clothing that fit snugly and hid their cutie marks, each offering alluring glances to the mares as they passed. “AJ, this place is- wow!” she met the eyes of a stallion she once knew who was not dancing and had recognized her from the moment she entered his line of sight. He was erect and the look on his face was a bit remorseful. “That guy totally led me on for a month before I broke it off with him,” Rainbow pointed so Applejack could follow.

“Ah don’t see what the big deal- oh, my. If Ah was inta stallions that’d be a deal breaker. Rainbow, you took all that?” she pointed to the massively rounded horsecock.

“Heh, hell no. All I could do was ride the ring in the middle, backwards, while using a toy made for colt cuddlers to get him off after I did. Timing was everything with that one,” she trotted over and looked up to the stallion on the second floor. “Hey, remember when I courted you and you totally tried to clip my wings to win a race? Nice to see you’ve made it far in life,” she stuck out her tongue and turned away.

Using her colorful tail she lifted the cloak and exposed herself to the stallions and knelt her front as though she were bowing to the princess in person. With a waggle of her hind she had all but two stallions’ attention when Applejack whapped her head with her hat. “Rainbow Dash, stop teasin’ the stallions and c’mon.”

She tipped her hat then blushed when she saw at least a half dozen erect cocks before she averted her eyes and pulled her hat down a bit.

“Oh, sure, now you get embarrassed? Fine, you’re so getting this and you’re gonna love it, no matter how much you hate it.” With a shove, Rainbow pushed Applejack away from the stallion and toward the door featuring mares.

“Rainbow, Ah’m fine! Ah don’t need whatever it is they have here.”

“Lemme tell ya somethin’, AJ. I’ve been to the door behind me a couple times, but this one’s for you,” she snickered as she pushed, “we could even make it a girls day! Once a year all us come to this alley and,” she shoved one last time and managed to get the larger mare through the illusionary doorway.

Loud thumping music shook their hooves off the floor in a deep darkness, punctuated with spaced pink lights. It didn’t stop Rainbow from grabbing an orange primary from Applejack’s left wing in her teeth and using it to guide Applejack to a booth against the far wall. Applejack took in the scents of the room and felt her nethers tingling slightly from the thick tell of marecum in the air, with a hint of something more salty and musky as an undertone.

Her eyes widened. “Rainbow Dash,” she said. Then yelled. Then shouted before her guide looked back and let the feather loose and fell to her rump laughing. “Ah can’t get’m down! Why’d ya take me to a mating bar of all places?!”

She was barely a distant whisper over the repeating music and in the dark lights she could barely make the path they were walking on, but it was noticeably slick, sending a deeper blush to her face. She yelped as a pair of hooves grabbed her cheeks. Rainbow pressed their lips together and draped a foreleg around Applejack, leading her to a square booth with a very small rounded table at knee height in the center.

Rainbow helped Applejack sit then moved to the other seat, then reached a bit to the table and slid it in a slot against the side. The sound muffled instantly and all Applejack could hear was a ringing sound. “Rainbow, what’s the deal with this place? Ah can’t hear myself-” she let her ears relax slightly, “-myself. Well, Ah’ll be.”

“Yup, magic sound bubble stuff. A bit for ten minutes, that’s how they get ya. I flagged a tender for drinks. I think you’ll like it here and I’ve got enough bits to keep us here all night.”

“Rainbow, I appreciate what you’re tryin’ ta do, but Ah don’t feel comfortable in a place like-” a bottle of alcohol was placed on the table and the service mare offered a seductive smile. “Uhhm.”

“Yeah, totally feel ya there, AJ,” Rainbow said with a chuckle, “Miss, this’ her first time and she needs a rush deluxe package. Not VIP, she’s not ready for that and she’s kinda,” she gestured the service mare closer, “monogamous minded,” she waved the mare back, “so let’s give her a night to remember.”

With a look that sent chills down Applejack’s spine and her wings opened halfway, the mare winked once and turned to leave, her tail hair trimmed short and showing everything as she sauntered away into the noise of the club. Rainbow watched, biting her lips but still letting small snorting sounds escape her nose as Applejack watched with dumbfounded awe as the mare left.

“So,” Rainbow started, startling Applejack back to reality, “still wanna leave?”

“Well, it’d be a might rude ta leave without tryin’ some’a this here… Tay’to?” She twisted the top off and as the bottle rose to her lips Rainbow stopped her.

“Wait, take some salt first. It’ll totally loosen you up.”

Applejack looked at the saltcubes offered to her and then to the hopeful ruby eyes. She leaned over and licked them from the frog of Rainbow’s hoof then took a drink. “Woah,” she held the bottle to Rainbow Dash, “Ah can feel that, alright! Whoo,” she coughed softly and watched as Rainbow took a swig.

“Oh yeah, it burns somethin’ good, right AJ?” Rainbow said with a strained voice as she replaced the bottle onto the table and pulled out at least two hooffulls of bits from her saddlebags under the cloak and poured them on the table.

“What’re ya doin’, Dash?”

“Let’n’m know you need a good time,” she said pushing the bits closer to Applejack’s side and tilting her head to the darkness. Applejack looked and gulped as two mares, one yellow pegasus with blue mane and the other a black unicorn with a white mane, sauntered over. She licked the saltcubes from Rainbow’s hoof and turned her head, tilting slightly to drink the Equestrian version of vodka. “Okay, slow down, you gotta loosen up, not get drunk,” Rainbow patted Applejack’s back as she took the bottle from her lips to her own.

“Ladies, this’ my marefriend, Applejack, and she needs to get some stress off her withers. Stick up the butt-itis, if ya know what I mean.”

The black mare nodded to Rainbow as Rainbow moved to her booth and waved the yellow mare towards Applejack.

With a gentle bite, Applejack’s hat was removed from her head and placed on the floor, then nudged under the table just enough to be out of the way as the yellow mare pulled the cloak free of her body and let it fall to the floor as she mounted Applejack’s hips and made a point to rub herself against the base of the blonde tail while kneading her hooves gently into Applejack’s lower back.

The other mare guided Applejack’s forelegs evenly apart, “Just go with it AJ, they’re pro’s,” then lowered her head between them. “Pumpernickle’s the safe word, AJ,” Rainbow winked and shook her head to the mares. The dark unicorn climbed onto the seat and reared up, gently lowering her hooved onto Applejack’s upper back, holding her down while her moist mound was hovering over Applejack’s nose by a mere inch, moving slightly closer and farther as the mare massaged her upper back.

“Hey, AJ. What do you get when you cross orange and red? You! Rainbow laughed and kicked the air from her seat while Applejack lay in abject embarrassment as something she’d never even dreamt of happened to her.

Her heart thumped in her chest and with a flex in her wings becoming regularly timed with the motions of the mare on her rear end she lost herself in the tantric massage allowing a soft moan out.

“Woah, are you hitting on me AJ? Is that why you’re winking at me?” Applejack moved her tail to cover her naughty bits but the mares kept their motions consistent, slowly working the muscles until their hooves met in the middle. Rainbow got their attention and laughed quietly into her hooves, then managed to mouth ‘fake kiss’.

The mares looked between Rainbow, the wings of the mare beneath them, and them smiled to each other. With quiet moans of their own, they alternated making tic noises with their lips while the other breathed heavily and licked her lips.

Applejack’s ears tickled the black coated mare and her hips fell in reflex for an instant, rubbing her wet mound across the top of Applejack’s muzzle. Applejack trembled and let a long, quiet moan leave her as she began to move her hips in a slow rhythm. “Hey, sweetie,” the yellow mare started, “You’ve got the deluxe package, right?”

“Ohh, ho, ho, ho, heck yeah!” Rainbow’s grin rivaled Pinkie’s as the unicorn cast a spell that dimmed the lights around them. “AJ, they just cast a spell so nopony can see in here. You ready for whatever it is mares do?” she asked as the mares planted their hoofed and the yellow mare began moving back and forth, letting her pussy wetten the base of Applejack’s tail while the black mare lowered herself to the muzzle below her and moved in small motions.

Applejack’s eyes were wide and locked at the tip of her nose, and everything between as it happened. The parting of lips, rubbing a short length, then the wet sticky slime that connected her to the mare a shot of ecstasy flowed from the base of her skull to the tip of her tail and with a licking motion she tasted the mare at her face.

A whine, hooved digging into the couch, swirling of hips all in time with each other, and she peaked. Her tongue slipped from her mouth as she grunted and whined, trying to keep quiet as moans, the sound of fabric being scratched, and squishing noises filled the room.

The mares giggled and patted Applejack between her wings and dismounted her. The unicorn took the bits in her magic and nodded to Rainbow Dash, who nodded dully back, smiling awkwardly at Applejack. “Will there be anything else? Cleanup, perhaps?”

“Just, leave the towel,” Rainbow waved a hoof and a towel draped over her head. “Yeah, thanks.”

“No problem. The bubble will last another ten minutes or so, just fyi.”

“Thanks, now go! I’ve gotta help her up,” Rainbow said getting to her hooves and walking around the table. “Wait! Can you get a wing binder for her? She can’t keep walking around like this,” Rainbow rubbed between Applejack’s relaxing wings and grinned at the full body shiver and whimper she got as a reply.

“Sure thing, it’ll be ten bits.”

“Yeah, five at the gate, ten here. I’ll leave it with the tip,” she said as she nuzzled Applejack’s cheek. Nearly thirty seconds passed before Applejack became coherent again and returned a nuzzle, then soft kiss. “Hey, sleepy head.”

The service mare returned with a wing binder and placed it on the table with a knowing smile, but left without a word.

“Dash, Ah never… that was… Thank you,” she mumbled as she pulled Rainbow into a one legged hug.

“No prob, but we gotta get you cleaned and outta here before they charge us a sitting fee.”

“Huh? Wha-? Already?”

“Hey, you got the deluxe service. They know we’ve got bits to burn, thank you princesses, but I’d rather not toss’m all here.”

She helped Applejack sit up and move her forelegs off the couch. “Dash, that was intense. Like, Ah can hardly move after that. What’d they do ta me?” she smiled. “Can ya do it? Ah mean, yer a looker, don’t get me wrong, but black’n white just got me goin’ somethin’ fierce.”

Rainbow rolled her eyes and with a pull, Applejack was on all four hooves, rocking slightly from side to side. Rainbow took the towel off her shoulders and tossed it onto the small puddle of marecum Applejack left on the couch, strapped her wings down, covered Applejack in the cloak, and reached into her saddlebags, dropping another hooffull of bits onto the table.

“There, more than enough. Let’s go, AJ.”

“But, Rainbow, yer mane’s like the breeze if it had color,” Applejack gazed at the mane, into the mane. She whispered in reverent awe, “It’s like a zap apple ready fer harvest.”

“O-kay, you’re drunk. Too much salt, too little experience. Let’s go, for real, before you say something you’ll regret,” she turned to leave but stopped as Applejack shuffled in place.

“St-stay right there, don’t move a mu-muscle. Ah got, somethin’ here,” she mumbled something else.

“Hurry up! We gotta get to the last store, if you can even get-!!!” she hopped foreward and Applejack snickered, lowering her left forehoof to the floor.

“Poked ya in the eye! Now ya gotta gimme a bit.”

“Applejack, what are you, seven?! C’mon,” Rainbow turned and bit the collar of Applejack’s cloak, “we’re just going back to the hotel.”

“But, Ah wanna saddle ride. Ain’t that what they do here?”

“That’s the stallion’s den across the way, and you don’t one,” she pulled them from the safety of the spell and Applejack’s everything thumped in time to the deep bass beat, “unless you like ropes of white all over your body. And before you ask, it’s a bitch to clean out of a coat.”

Applejack shouted but she couldn’t even hear herself. She was led out, the smells started turning her on again until they were outside and she stumbled into the street nearly bumping into another pony.

“Hey, watch it! The Great and Powerful… Nopony does not wish to be tripped by… Applejack?”

“Ah’m sorry, t’ain’t right neighborly of me ta… what’d Ah do?”

The cloaked mare dropped a pellet that created a cloud of smoke that did nothing to cover her gallop away.

“AJ, c’mon. Let’s get you home.”

“Ah don’t wanna go home, Ah’m havin’ fun with Rainbow Dash. Ah love’r and… never drinkin’ clear liquor with salt again.”

Rainbow scooped her mare onto her back and went to the entrance, returned their cloaks and wing binders, then flew them back to the hotel room. “Alright, go to sleep,” she said after she spent a few minutes wrestling Applejack into bed, “you’re gonna remember this for a while.”

“No Ah ain’t. Ya can’t make me a’member anything, yer not the boss of my- I gotta pee.”

Rainbow groaned and placed a hoof to her forehead. “This is a night I won’t forget either.”