I sat in my Sky Palace on a couch made of clouds with Luna snuggled up beside me. I gently stroked her mane which brought a few purrs from her, a sound I didn't know I craved. I wanted to move at a steady pace with this, no point rushing into it like Sonic running to a chilli dog stand. Luna gave a happy sigh when I started scratching her ear, she looked up at me with beautiful eyes and smiled.

"I saw your battle in my dreams today." I looked at her surprised.

"Care to explain how?"

"Can you explain how the chaos emeralds work?" She looked at me with a smug smile.

"Touché my dear, Touché." She smirked and lay her head on my chest. "So, what did you think?"

She closed her eyes and wriggled in my grasp as she tried to get comfortable. "I'm impressed, the fact that you can copy abilities, if even for a short time, is amazing. Although I don't quite understand how the moon blade spell never has a limit."

I scratched my metal chin in thought. "It could be that during my battle with you, some of your magic got absorbed into my body, so it recognises your energy when I summon the blades."

"It's the only believable theory, better than 'it's magic don't question it'."

"Yeah I've noticed that happens around here a lot."

The next day

I landed outside of Ponyville beside Tails' workshop. I looked around and found no one in the area. Looking to the sky I saw the mare I was searching for flying around doing tricks. A smile made its way to my face as I took flight and slowly floated over to the area.

(Third Person)

Scootaloo watched in awe as Rainbow began testing her limits once again as she did impossible turns and spins. Rainbow landed and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"That was awesome Rainbow Dash! That's sure to impress the Wonderbolts!" Scootaloos wings buzzed as she cheered for her idol. Rainbow chuckled and ruffled her mane.

"Thanks squirt, but it's not to impress the Wonderbolts." The filly just looked at her confused.

"Well then who is it for? No one else but the Wonderbolts can be as awesome as you are!"

"Well...there is one other guy that is as, if not more, awesome than I am." Rainbow suddenly heard a familiar sound coming from the sky, looking up to see a dark blue blur zipping in and out of the clouds before shooting down towards the two. As Metal landed he had his eyes closed and his arms folded.

Scootaloo just looked at him in awe. "Cool! A robot!" Metal chuckled and crouched down to face the filly. He ruffled her mane and opened his eyes.

"Well then, who's this adorable little foal?" She pushed his claw away and puffed out her chest proudly.

"Name's Scootaloo, I'm kind of a big deal." Metal rolled his eyes.

"I'm sure you are, could you give Dashie and I some privacy? I have something important to talk to her about." She nodded in understanding and mounted her Scooter.

"Later Rainbow!" With that she buzzed off down the street. Metal then turned to the blushing rainbow maned mare.

"Hey Metal, how've you been?" He brushed off her question and walked towards her. She backed up as he got closer until her back was against a tree. "Look, I know I've kinda pushed some boundaries and done a few things the past week, but I-" She was cut off as Metal placed his invisible lips on hers. He pulled away and stared her in the eyes.

"Listen Rainbow, I figured out how both you and Luna can both have me in your lives." She looked at him with shock, mainly from the kiss and only slightly because of the new information presented to her. "I'm never asleep, and you two sleep at separate halves of the day. That means that both of you can spend equal amounts of time with me and we can make this work. Luna has already agreed to this, I just need to know if you're on board with this."

She snapped out of her state and looked at him with disbelief. "You mean...you want to start a herd?" He nodded. Taken back by the simpleness of the idea that both of the mares should have thought of, Rainbow took a moment to register what had just happened. "Y-yes...I'll agree to it."

Metal smiled and brought Rainbow into a hug, which she returned immediately. They stayed like that for a few minutes before breaking apart.

"So...does this mean I get to call you my Coltfriend now?"

"If you want, I honestly don't care. Although where I come from its boyfriend, but whatever."

"That's weird. You're weird."

"Would you prefer it if I was normal?" Rainbow shook her head and brought him into another hug.

(Metals POV)

While I held Rainbow in my arms I suddenly felt something in my chest flutter. Ok, enough of this sappy crap, it's a nice change of pace and all, but I think it's getting way to lovey dovey for my tastes. I let her go and summoned a portal to one of my favourite levels, City Escape.

"What's that?" I smirked and looked at her.

"First date." I grabbed her and jumped into the portal which closed behind us.

Meanwhile

Discord had almost broken out of his stone prison when he felt a strong presence nearby.

"Ah, looks like you could use some help Discord, spirit of chaos and disharmony." A mobian shuffled in front of Discords statue and looked up at him. He had the same look as shadow, except the areas that were supposed to be red were grey and he had no mouth, with two emerald reptilian eyes.

"And who, pray tell, are you?"

"I am Mephiles, Mephiles the Dark. And I'm here to make a deal."

Author's Notes:

Yeah I'm gonna turn down the romance just a bit, I don't want it to seem like it's all about that, I still want Metal to be snarky and confident throughout the story, but maturing along the way.