The Alter Accords

Chapter Twelve: Two Minds Equal Trice the Confusion.

A part of Velox hated this, he wanted to be over there as Novo with Dash right now cuddling up to her and enjoying everything about her, but the weird part was most of him at this moment didn’t think that way. The rest of his mind saw it more like he saw other couples that was Novo’s fillyfriend, not his own. The worst part is that had Velox in a mostly deep state of thought, unusually for him since while for the most part he considered all his forms part of himself, this was the first time that didn’t feel right. It was even worse because Velox was the form least able to handle that type of thought being more a stallion of action.

It also didn’t help that Pinkie would give him a wink when no pony was looking. ‘Need to make it a point to talk to Pinkie about this, I don’t think I have ever felt like this, it feels weird and I don’t like feeling uncomfortable in my own skin.’

He got up and went to grab something from the trolley that was moving along the train somewhere hoping that would help. “Want to talk about it?”

Pinkie Pie could be really silent when she wanted to, which was confusing when you considered she was THE party pony. “Sorta.” Looking around and opening a door to an empty room he waited for her to come in. “I feel weird Pinkie.”

“Is it about what you and Dashie did?” This of course surprised him and he felt his wings pop open suddenly. “She told me so don’t think I was mind reading, though that would be fun knowing all the things ponies were thinking, but at the same time weird cause that means there would be no surprises ever, which is a bad thing.”

‘Of course Dash told her, they are best friends after all, which makes this harder.’ “Pinkie.” He thought for a moment trying to do his best in this form to put words properly in their place. “Novo loves Dash.” He could see the pink pony about to pop and he hated what he was about to do. “I don’t though.”

The wide eyes of the pink pony focused on him and seemed to only say one word. “What?”

Sighing as he knew he would get that reaction. “Me as in Velox, doesn’t love her, Novo loves her though. This is weird because they are both supposed to be me, but now it’s the first time ever when a part of me isn’t. My brain works differently in each form I told you that right?” When she nodded he continued. “That is the problem, the part of my brain that likes her is only there when Novo is out, my part of the brain doesn’t feel the same and it’s…AHHH!”

He felt her hug him gently and pet his violet mane gently. “Shhh its ok, I know it’s hard but, I am sure it will work out.”

“I feel like I have a stranger in my own skin, I have his memories and experiences but when I remember them in another form it feels like it happened to another pony. It wasn’t that far from the mark before but I always considered my other forms experiences my own as well but now…it’s not.” He wanted to yell, he wanted to cry, but most of all, he just wanted to do nothing and let it pass.

“Star.” Pinkie asked him, using part of his new last name now. “Do you feel like Novo is changing in a way that makes him not a part of you anymore?” He wanted to say yes, he felt like it was a no though, but most of all he just didn’t know. “It may be time to let each of your forms be their own ponies. Maybe they don’t need to be you anymore and you need to let go and let them be them.”

Was that it? Was he starting to become three different ponies, if so that would mean whoever ‘he’ was the part that was the collective of all of them, should die? He just didn’t know. He wasn’t sure he would ever know, but it doesn’t mean his collective would fade.

“Maybe I should try then.” He said silently to the gentle petting of Pinkie.

Velox stepped off the train with everypony else and found a stallion there waiting for him, and he felt himself instantly frown. ‘Appleloosa, Apple, Braeburn…ya I should have put this together before, why did you fail me brain?’

Everypony including Velox covered their ears as the stallion took in a breath. “Welcome everypony ta AAAAA-pple-LOO-sa!!!” Then the friendly smile went off his face when looked over to the neutral faced Pegasus. “Velox…what brings ya here?”

He felt the looks of his friends and the questions on their minds but choose to ignore it. “Came here at the request of your kin folk to help out. You and I may have our differences, especially my brother and you, but I am here to help, you can either accept that or we can have it out just to get it out of the way right now.”

Braeburn gritted his teeth as if he was about to take him up on that offer when Applejack came between them. “Hold it right there. What has both of ya chompin’ at the bit to go at each other?”

“Him and his know it all kin tried ta tell us how ta buck our apples. They aren’t even farmers and so they had no right ta tell us anythin’.” Glaring at the Pegasus in question as he received the glare right back at him in kind.

“My brothers and I were trying to help you before you hurt your back, AGAIN. It’s not about farmers or how many generations you have been one. It’s about common sense to not repeat the same mistakes over and over again expecting different results; some ponies use that as the very definition of insanity!” The girls all watched as the two butted heads…literally. Out of the corner of his eye though he seen AJ looking at both of them with a look of both disappointment and of sadness that he couldn’t look at anymore and turned both from her and the annoying loudmouth of a stallion. “Anyways it doesn’t matter what is going on between us, I am here to help AJ out not you. You can I can stand at the opposite ends of the fields and work to complete this just fine.”

“Fine with me, just make sure if your brothers come around to give them the same warning.” The look he felt at his back was a glare; he could see it clearly in his mind as if he was looking at it directly. “Anyways.” The hat wearing stallion said in a much more positive tone. “Ah welcome y’all to my home and orchard. Ah hope that ya don’t look unkindly about my display there ta some…ponies.”

Everypony was uncomfortable at the moment but decided to be polite to the farmer as he led them to the orchard. “Are ya two going to be able to get along?”

He wasn’t surprised it was AJ who came along and asked this and honestly she had a right to be worried. “No we aren’t. But as long as we don’t interact we should be fine.”

“What really is the problem with y’all?” The question was valid and she had the right to know, but at the same time he really didn’t want to talk about it.

Looking over to her he smiled and chuckled. “It’s nothing, just something stupid is all. It happens to everypony sometimes.”

He kept moving forward but noticed that she lagged behind. “Ya are lyin’. Why?”

One mental kick to himself later, mostly for forgetting who he tried to fib to, before he would sigh and try again. “AJ I rather you think of your family and kin kindly, so I rather not say. Blame me and my brothers instead.”

He wasn’t sure what her answer was or how she took it as he kept moving forward almost silently hating his nature to bear the things like that rather than just be a selfish pony and tell her what was the problem to put him in a good light.

‘Wait why would I need to be put into a good light?’ He felt the answer was in his brain but at the same time he felt like something hid it from him.

“Now lookie here Braeburn, ah don’t care about no excuse like that, it’s done plain wrong and ya know it!” What the freckled farm mare was yelling about was sleeping conditions that Braeburn gave them.

“Ah told ya Jackie, that ah wasn’t expectin’ another with y’all and taint right ta make one of y’all bunk with a feller like him.” Braeburn had showed them all the extra rooms and while he was right about the lack of space, he also conveniently forgot about Spike being male it seemed as well.

“AJ its ok, I will find a cloud to sleep on, kinda would prefer that anyways.” Seems the excuse worked as everypony nodded and put away their things. Except Applejack who stood there for a moment looking at him.

Dash smiled and patted Velox on the back and chuckled. “If you find an extra cloud let me know, mattress’s are all right but nothing beats a cloud any day.”

Giving Dash a bro-hoof after she raised her own up first he smiled. “Sure thing.” But for a moment he thought he heard a growl in the distance. “Anypony else hear that?”

Dash and AJ both looked around and shook their heads. “Didn’t hear nothing Sugar.”

“Ya what AJ sa-wait why are you always calling him Sugar instead of Sugarcube like the rest of us?” He heard Dash ask in the distance as he went to look for the source of the sound.

Whatever her answer was he never heard it as he came outside and found nothing, no source, no animal, no pony, no clouds either. Sighing to himself he took flight and went in search of a good place to bunk for the night.

‘Forgot this area tends to have no clouds cause of the dry heat.’ He was just glad he always carried camping supplies like a tent and bedroll in his bags. ‘I love you magical bags of holding.’

He remembered why he hated camping as Velox, his body had become too used to the soft clouds which is why he often made Lego of Novo do the sleeping if it was hard ground.

‘But noooo, I have to stay as Velox in case Dash or Twilight pops up and finds my tent, can’t have them wondering why Lego is here when he wasn’t on the train.’ Grumbling to his self softly he went to stretch his wings and felt a harsh pop that made him gasp. ‘Buck that isn’t good, I hope that, knot, cramp, whatever it is in my wings works itself out or today is going to be a son of a diamond dog.’

Turns out he was happy he made camp not too far from the orchard as flying back wasn’t an option right now for him so he had to hoof it back. Breakfast was decent, as long as you ignored that the rest of the group had normal food and he had to settle for either undercooked or way, way overcooked.

He said nothing though and ate without complaint as he did remind himself that he wasn’t here for him; he was here because AJ asked him to be here. ‘Still don’t understand why, last time I was here Lego was the best one to do anything, he was the one that should have come, but that would have ended nearly the same way with Braeburn except Lego would have shrugged and not cared.’

Work was assigned pretty simply, AJ, Twilight using her magic, and Dash would be on bucking detail, or pulling in the case of Unicorn and her magic. Rarity and Spike was on counting detail along with Fluttershy. Pinkie was in charge of refreshments and keeping everypony hydrated. His job was a simple one; he was to haul the apples, tools, and anything else to and from where they were to where they needed to go. Honestly he was glad he didn’t have to fly to do that.

It was hard sweaty work for sure and he was glad Pinkie would be delivering lemonade, wasn’t his favorite but he would take it for sure right now. Instead a frowning Braeburn came over with his drink.

“Ah don’t like how Jackie talks about ya.” The farm stallion said. “She thinks mighty highly of ya and your brothers, even tells me that it is how they improved their farmin’ cause of y’all. Ah say hogwash.”

Honestly he could care less about what the yellowish coated stallion was saying he just wanted that glass of cooling liquid. “That is good, everypony is entitled to believe what they want not matter if it’s right or wrong.”

The narrowing of the pony’s eyes alerted him to something about to happen as the grip on the glass vanished and it fell. “Opps, ya knocked it out of my hoof.”

Well that is what he started to say by a diving catch secured the glass. “Don’t worry I am sure you were just a butterhooves I got you covered.” He quickly downed the glass before the pony could do anything else. “Thank ya kindly for ya generosity.” Velox said mimicking the accent he had heard so much around the Apple clan.

Apparently the hat wearing pony didn’t take kindly as Velox wanted as he suddenly felt his face hurting and the ground meeting him. “Don’t ya EVER dare makin’ fun of the Apple accent.”

Getting up and wiping down his mouth he gave a quick spit to clear most of the blood out of his mouth before looking up at him. “First off, I wasn’t making fun of you at all, I was actually trying to show you that all ponies are the same regardless of accent but take it how you want. Second-” Suddenly with a burst of speed he slammed the native Appleloosen to the tree nearby. “If you, EVER, hit me again, I will make all the times you bucked up your own back seem like a splinter got it?”

The farm pony just pushed him away with a huff not saying a word. Sad to say that Velox had to find Pinkie a few times after that as no more drinks were ever delivered to him.

The next day was worse, the train had broken down and being a good citizen he was, Braeburn volunteered help to be given hauling parts around for them, no need to say it but Braeburn is an ass as the help he volunteered was Velox’s back in the matter. Because they assumed they were getting an earth pony to haul things he only got things done at half the speed and cause of that was berated and spat on a few times only for Braeburn to visit at some point so he could hear it as well and dish out his own brand of justice to help him get a move on.

Velox didn’t take kindly to the whip he brought and the he-yaw’s and the occasional mush’s. He had just about had enough when AJ happened to show up and he made a show of helping the Pegasus out.

“Hey there Jackie. What brings ya out here?” The question was a rather stupid one as she had a tray of drinks and snacks for the both of them on her back.

Setting it down, the freckled apple pony smiled. “Thought ya both might have worked up a sweat and could use some refreshments.” Braeburn got his share and moved away as Velox went to get his share Applejack gasped. “What in tarnation happened to ya Velox, ya eye is done black and blue.”

“Things like this happen on farm work, I am sure you know that.” It technically wasn’t a lie, but he wasn’t talking about his own situation either. “Anyways thanks for the snack, really helps out a lot.”

Forgetting for a moment about his eye she smiled and pawed at the ground with her hoof. “Aw thank nothing of it Sugar. Ah’m just glad to see ya two getting along.”

“Ya we are getting along all right.” ‘In the wagon and hauling things, mostly distance wise.’ Adding that part in his mind technically made the statement true and he was hoping it was enough to fool AJ. He never got to know as Braeburn called for him to get back to work. “See ya later AJ.”

“Yeah…see ya.” The bye sounded somewhat sad to Velox but he didn’t have time to check as he had to get back hauling things.

That night he hurt all over mostly for pulling things that should have taken at least an earth pony, if not two, to haul around by himself. The other part came from his black eye slowly healing up, as well as the lash from the whip he got when Braeburn got to free with his mush’s. He got him back for it though as the wagon was empty at the time and Velox had thrown up the part he was pulling which caused the cart to turn over and dump the ass on his ass.

In the end it didn’t solve anything, he knew tomorrow would be worse than before and his patience was starting to get thin for what Braeburn was doing. “Just a few more days, not doing this for him doing it for AJ, no matter how much I want to beat his face in.”

Collapsing onto his bed roll in the tent he started to close his eyes when he heard somepony calling for him. ‘Really right now, come on I earned my rest.’ The voice didn’t go away as he heard a ‘knock’ on the tent flap. “Come in.” He said in a tone of defeat that he wasn’t going to get to relax just yet.

“Sorry ‘bout intrudin’ like this but ya looked ragged and is that a whip mark?” He turned to hear the shocked voice of the one mare he didn’t want to see him like this. “Oh Sugar…”

Standing up was a chore to him but worth it. “AJ don’t be like that, it is not anypony’s fault.” Normally he would make an excuse on where he got it but he was just too tired to do so. “A few more days of this and we can go home, your family will have gotten the help they need and I won’t have to look at somepony in particular again.”

Seeing tears in her eyes he was about to try to reassure her some more when he found his body aching in her grip as she suddenly hugged him. “It’s my fault ah am so sorry, its cause of me that Braeburn is like this. He is too overprotective of kin and thinks ya are going to hurt me.”

He forced himself to hug her back no matter how much fire seemed to be running through him right now. “AJ it’s not your fault, him and my family haven’t gotten along at all, I don’t think that will change any time soon and honestly if it wasn’t for you asking me I wouldn’t be here. Speaking of here, how is everypony, I haven’t been able to see any of them at all lately so I have no clue.”

The change of subject didn’t seem to work as he only felt her tears increase more against his neck where she had her face buried. “Lay down.”

“S’cuse me?” The sudden request had caught him off guard but he was sure it wasn’t how it sounded like.

“Ah said lay down, ah’m going to work ya over good so ya don’t hurt so much.” She said clearly this time with no chance for mistaking it.

“S’cuse me?!” He looked left and right expecting Mac’ or Braeburn to come in at that moment hearing him being propositioned. “AJ I mean you are cute and lovely and all but I don’t think you need to be doing that to make up for things that happened.”

For her part she just looked confused before blushing. “What do ya mean; ah mean a massage helps everybody relax so they don’t hurt as much.”

“Oh you mean…I thought…never mind.” Feeling his own blush rise up to his assumptions he momentarily kicked himself before sighing. “Actually ya, a massage actually is sounding wonderful right now.”

Laying down on his stomach now and stretching out all his limbs he felt farm pony sit down on his legs straddling them before her hooves started putting pressure on his shoulders. “Ah still don’t know what ya mean but…do ya really mean that, the cute and lovely parts ah mean.”

He wanted to respond right away but she was already hitting spots that left him breathless, so when he could answer the tone of his voice kept changing from the spots being hit. “Ya, I mEAN you are a fantastic POny that I am sure GETS a lot of attention from many stALlions all telling you the same.”

Her hooves slowed for a moment as they got to his wings and he winced and gasped loudly. “T-thank ya.” She said quietly almost too soft for him to hear. “But ah don’t get all the sweet talkin’s like ya think. Most stallions think ah am too bulky and focused on my farm to really make a good fillyfriend.” The sound of a loud pop caught both of their attention. “Are ya ok?”

The pop had come from his wings and normally it would have been as painful as it sounded, except in this case. “Ahhh right there.”

The tension in his wings left, the part that had cause them hurt left and only replaced with a wonderful warmth of blood flow that promised that while he would be sore he was on the road to healing. She said nothing after that but she did start humming a tune in a rather surprisingly wonderful song voice that he didn’t know she had.

“That was lovely.” He said as she was finishing up his back.

She smiled though he couldn’t see it. “Thank ya, I aint no massage pony like Aloe or Lotus but ah think ah do good work.”

He turned his head to smile up at her. “I mean your singing voice, it was lovely.”

The orange coat became more infused with red then he could remember seeing on her at any point. “Y-ya don’t have to lie like that, ah know my voice ain’t nothing special.”

“Applejack look at me.” She did as he asked and looked into his own gray eyes as he looked into her green ones from over his shoulder. “I thought your singing voice was breathtaking and that is the truth.”

She had pulled down her hat to cover her eyes after he said that and in a way he made her even cuter then before. “Ok roll over time to get your front.”

“Wait what?” He didn’t really have a choice as he felt himself being flipped onto his back and her setting down atop of him. If Braeburn had come in at this moment he would have demanded Velox make an honest mare out of Applejack cause of the way they were positioned. “AJ you don’t have to do my front the back was more than enough.”

She seemed to ignore him as her hooves ran along his barrel slowly and not at all like a massage should be only occasionally pressing in to work a muscle. ‘Get her off of you now.’

He heard the distant part of his mind tell him and honestly he was about to listen to it when he felt her hips move in a way that wasn’t for a normal massage. “A-Applejack?”

Again she ignored him slowly rocking back and forth using her hips to massage a different type of muscle that he was one hundred percent sure she shouldn’t be touching. “L-let me do this for you Velox.”

The emotions riding through her voice were so varied he couldn’t pick out which they were. “AJ, you have done more than enough, you don’t have to do this to make me happy, just knowing you care enough about me to try to make me feel nice is more than enough.”

He thought he got through to her as she lifted her hat up enough to look into her eyes when she increased the pressure on the lower rubbing. “Then let me do this for me.” Leaning down she did something he would have never thought she would have done, then again he never thought she would be grinding against him now but still. He felt her lips press against his own passionately and even part of her tongue press forward into his mouth looking for his own.

When she broke the kiss she started to grind faster. “AJ?”

She was taking longer and longer strokes having more and more of that particular muscle to rub as it extended, what was more he knew he wasn’t the only one in the tent feeling good as the soothing warmth coating it said so. “Ah like ya, a lot Velox. Ya saved Bloom, ya tried your darnedest to help out the farm and even went so far as to give up your own job to your brother so he could do it better. Ah seen how true your heart is when ya put yourself on the line to save Pinkie and it nearly broke my own heart to see ya hurt. When ah see ya hurt ah hurt. When ah see ya happy ah’m happy. Ah…Ah love ya.”

‘Don’t you bucking say it, DON’T YOU BUCKING SAY IT!’ He wasn’t sure why he heard that voice, it didn’t even sound like his brain normally would and he didn’t care as he was going to answer truthfully to the special lie detecting mare on top of him. “I love you too AJ.” He felt a slight rush and a scream in his mind as something withdrew to leave him alone but he paid it no mind, the only thing that mattered was the mare on him right now and her happiness.

He drew her close with his arms wrapped around her as he started to move his own body now with hers. “N-no more than this ok Sugar, ah’m not ready for that.”

Nodding to her request as honestly he didn’t think he was ready either for that. He wanted to know more about the mare before he did something that honestly you couldn’t take back once done, even if Novo did something like that with Rainbow Dash with that mana thing they did.

There was no more talking after that, only the two of them so close they shared one breath as they had their hips angled just enough to rub their most intimate of places against one another. Time vanished for them both as they occasionally took one another’s breath more directly with a kiss, tasting each other’s saliva and wrestling with another’s tongues.

Normally he knew the farm pony to be extremely competitive but when his own tongue sought out hers he found her obeying its demands rather demurely and to know he did that to her turned him on even more. Rolling them both over till she was now on the bottom with her Stetson falling off her head to reveal her lovely pleasure ridden face.

For a moment after he felt himself atop of her he thought he may have went too far, instead he felt her legs, all four of them, wrap around him and continue her grinding now pulling him down to kiss her gently.

The pace they had going lasted for a while before he became aware of her moving quicker and quicker then suddenly biting down on his neck as he felt her shudder against him. He knew that she had achieved her release as her deep and loud moan where she was biting at his neck told him so.

That moan seemed to vibrate all through him and made him follow right after her and pressing down onto her as his member pulsed and fired his essence to be trapped between them.

The two found themselves wrapped in each other’s embrace for a good while, to them it seemed like no time had passed but yet years might have gone by at the same time. What brought him back to the thinking world was a pair of soft lips upon his own that he returned the gesture to.

The lovely emerald coloration of those eyes was sparkling just for him and he knew it. “Hey there Sugar.”

A smile popped up on his face to match her own as he kissed her again. “Hey.”

They laid there for a little while more before she slowly motioned for him to get off her and that is when they discovered the mess. “Oh…ah guess ya let me have it didn’t ya?”

She said it so casually that he himself was blushing for her while she smirked, it was at that point he realized that her competitive nature was still there and while she may act demure in some ways she will look to compete with him in others.

Seeing her victory with his blush she looked at him for a moment in the eyes and rubbed her hoof in the mess before licking it off. He wasn’t sure but he could swear he never seen anything more erotic then that, so much so warmth was slowly coating his face around his muzzle.

“Ah think ya sprung a leak there fella’.” Her face was still plastered with mirth as she watched him raise a hoof to his snout and pull it back to discover blood. “And here ah thought that only happened in stories.”

Raising his head up to help stem the blood flow, he had finally found his voice as he looked around. “There is a river about thirty minutes from here. I think we can wash up there.”

He felt her body heat press up against him as she whispered in his ear. “What if ah don’t want to wash up? What if ah like this smell?”

A dizzy spell washed through him as Velox placed one hoof down to balance himself. “Umm, ahh, err…”

The giggle he heard was both adorable and damn sexy as she rubbed his back. “Fine if we must, but ah get to wash ya. Ah am sure you can return the favor.”

‘Blood levels failing captain, we are losing too much and too much is being diverted, abort, abort, abort!’ As had become a bit of a habit he told his brain off and lead the way to the river.

Mist was covering everywhere, it was dark enough that he knew he was in that place with only black in white but could barely see any of the bright white coloration to distinguish figures at all. Slowly he came to a large individual; the darkness muted his coat so he couldn’t tell who it was…at least at first.

“You done bucked up.” The deep rich voice was one that was hard to place, mostly because he had never heard it from outside his own head before.

Blinking for a moment he looked at him harder. “Lego.” Getting a nod as an answer he smiled. “Oh I am dreaming that is good.”

“No…you’re not but yes you are at the same time.” He looked around slowly then back to the pony. “I haven’t quite figured it out but what you did tonight caused a rift…we aren’t a single pony anymore.”

He was about to ask him what he meant when he seen him take three deliberate steps back. “Why are you backing-.”

“MOTHERBUCKER!” He heard called to him and felt something crash into his side. “It is all your fault, ALL YOUR FAULT!”

The pummeling of hooves was felt against him, not very strong but fury empowered them enough where he had to kick to get the pony off, a pony with a voice he knew. “Novo?”

He watched the muted colors of the pony take up a fighting stance as he growled. “You don’t get to call me by my name you backstabbing horseapple!”

Velox was easily the most agile of the three and was able to move out of every attempt his other self tried to attack or tackle with. “What’s your problem?”

The pony was still growling but that isn’t what surprised him, it was the tears running down his face tears he could tell were of a great sadness. “Now she will hate me, she will leave me, the best thing to happen to me will leave and it’s YOUR FAULT!”

Having enough of that Velox swiftly dodged again but this time tackled the unicorn down. “What do you mean?”

The disheartened transmutation specialist struggled for a good while before giving up. “Dash…she will hate me cause you used OUR body to cheat on her with Applejack.”

His grip weakened when those words hit cause it meant the same in reverse as it did this way. “Applejack will leave me cause of what happened with Dash…”

Throwing off the Pegasus Novo was wiping his tears as he nodded. “Now you get it. I pulled away when you did that, I wanted to at least be able to tell Dash I wasn’t a part of it when you did. Doesn’t matter, I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but in the last few months more ponies have been discovering our powers out or we have been getting more and more hurt then normal…our friends are going to find out eventually and when they do…”

Velox could feel his world crashing down on him. He was in his mind when they did what they did with Dash; he was part of it; however Novo shied away when he and AJ had their evening together. How could he look at her with a straight face and say anything anymore.

Neither Velox nor Novo had an answer for this problem and it was then Lego stepped up. “You two take a back seat, Tomorrow I am taking over and I am going to stay in our body for a while now. You two will think about things in the back of our mind till you figure something out. Novo, this is just another example of ‘All is one and one is all for us’ except now we all are the body and the body is all of us in a different sense than before. Velox I know you are an action pony so you will throw ideas at Novo while he thinks them mostly through like always. At night you will give your ideas to me to look at completely. Deal everypony?”

There was no better plan then that at the moment so both unicorn and Pegasus agreed with the earth pony except for one thing. “I don’t think you should switch yet, they would get suspicious if you showed up so switch once we get back to Ponyville and it should only be another day or so before we head home.”

Finally they all agreed and Velox would keep the body for now and they all hoped the wrong thing wouldn’t be said in the next day or so.

Early the next morning AJ snuck back to the farm house after giving him a quick kiss and a promise not to do ant PDA, public displays of attention, while anypony could see, especially Braeburn as she hadn’t want to make his time worse. So for now they agreed to keep it friendly once again which worked best in Velox’s mind and the other two agreed.

‘No hanky panky anymore with anypony for all of us got it?’ Came the cold calculating voice of the earth pony persona from within.

He could feel the nod of the unicorn then a sudden smile. ‘Good news is we don’t have to talk to our brain anymore.’

The sound of a high-hoof was in his mind suddenly as he smiled. ‘I think when we get back to Ponyville we need to take a day or so off and go see Celestia and Luna, they should have an idea how to make this right. Till then…we need to talk to somepony or someone.’

There was a moment of silence as he was flying back to the farm when the sun was just coming over the horizon. “Pinkie?”

Both voices in his head answered. ‘Pinkie.’

They ignored all other ponies on the farm from the sky, though there was a moment hesitation when Velox spotted his farm mare talking to Rarity for a reason or another, something about her hair from the gestures he could see, however he was looking for- “There she is!”

Surprisingly Pinkie was alone in the field as he came and swooped down to talk to her. “Hey there Puddles.”

He smiled at the nickname and made him feel momentarily better. “Pinkie, I think I am insane now.”

The smack upside his head was more auditory then physical as he felt Novo smack him. ‘Really…that is how you explain it to her…ok.’

The perpetual pink party pony of perkiness just tilted her head and raised her hoof to her mouth before giving out a single. “huh?”

‘Let me out, I will explain.’ He shook his head at hearing Novo wanting out before looking to her.

“Remember on the train how I freaked out, saying it was like I was a stranger in my own skin and how Novo didn’t feel the same as me?” Seeing her nod he smiled and sighed in relief. “Well now its true.”

He could almost see the gears turning in her head. “So…you really are three ponies now? OH does that mean I get to throw you two more parties?”

Two thuds of face hoofing was heard in his mind at that followed by a real one in reality. “Pinkie, Novo and Lego split from my mind, they are now their own voices and personalities not a part of me or me a part of them.”

“So what you’re saying is.” Velox and the rest almost knew exactly what she was going to say and was hoping she wouldn’t. “I do get to throw you two more parties.”

‘Called it.’ The clinking of bits as they exchanged hooves was loud in his head and he briefly wondered how they had money in his head before shaking the thought away.

“Pinkie this is serious, I did something that I really need to talk to some pony about and-” He heard ponies start to come to his area and sighed. “and I won’t be able to tell you now. Hey everypony!”

“Ready for another hard day of work partner?” Called the voice of his farm mare.

He nodded and he heard a growl in his head when he felt his heart flutter for a moment. ‘I will personally rip your dick off if you do anything.’ Novo practically shouted in his mind

‘Wouldn’t you be ripping your own off if you did that.’ Lego, ever the voice of reason, told him in a matter of fact tone.

The growl no longer focused on Velox but on the other sibling. ‘Not the point.’

Ignoring the spectators in his mind he smiled at her and nodded. “Ya, I am. I got the best sleep of my life last night and I am raring to go.”

He saw a small smile appear on the freckled face and strangely on the face of the prim mare beside her. ‘Explore why that is later, right now the quicker we do work the faster the day will end and the faster we can go home then to Celestia to sort this out even more.’

It was a good plan and it worked really well till a part from an expensive pulley and loading system that helped load and box up the apples broke. Braeburn took the part out and put it in a wagon to haul, well for Velox to haul, and headed down to the store for a replacement part.

“Mush, He-YAW.” The voice called emphasized by the crack of a whip.

‘Either of you two wish there was a dark alley to be found where no pony would find his body?’ When he felt nods of the two in his head he couldn’t help but smile knowing that they may be different now but some things were the same.

When they got to the machinist’s and engineer’s store, Braeburn unhooked him from the cart and told him to go inside. “Ask for a P-Twenty Two, Series Eight loader part. When he asks the section tell him One-O-Three.”

He was wishing this day was over; it was going good today till that part busted. AJ had been delivering the drinks to him instead of Braeburn, he had been left along by the stallion for the most part, and best of all with the problems with his wings worked out, every step didn’t bother him anymore.

“Howdy there pardner, care ta browse our wares or are ya lookin’ for somethin’ specific like?” The shop pony asked him as he came over to the counter.

Velox nodded and smiled as friendly as possible. “I am looking for a P-Twenty Two, Series Eight loader part and its section is One-Zero-Three.”

“One-ought-Three ya say?” When the Pegasus nodded to him again he smiled. “Ah think ah have that somewhere, now to freakin’ find the part in the back haha, give me a moment kiddo.”

Five minutes had passed and he could see hear rummaging around in the back and out front. ‘Wait what is happening out front?’ His other personas didn’t answer, they only gave a sense of curiosity as he headed toward the door.

Outside he heard what sounded like a hoof hitting flesh and a couple of deep voices. “It is your ‘machines’ like this that are an affront to all which is good and natural pony.”

“It is an abomination that the chief shouldn’t have allowed.” Came the other deep voice. “Maybe with this other ponies will either both learn and accept the truth path of nature or they will leave.”

Another sound of hoof against flesh and a grunt of pain as Velox came out to see Braeburn on the ground. ‘We could just leave him here, would be just punishment to him for all the horseapples he has given us…but AJ would be upset at us…crap not even dating and I am whipped.’ Which the other two in his head agreed with in multiple ways to that thought.

“That is enough you two p-oh sorry Buffalo.” He turned just in time to see the assailants were two large, about two maybe three times the size of him, buffalo that were currently looking smug and upset. Smug over the beating they gave the stallion and upset that they had been interrupted. ‘Well in for a bit, in for bullion right?’

“Another pony come to learn our ways, or maybe he is looking to defend his lover there.” The insult the buffalo gave seemed to tickle them both as they laughed as they watched Velox check on the unconscious pony. “Go on give him a kiss maybe that will wake him up.”

‘Lego you are better at first aid does he look ok?’ A couple of moments would go by with Lego guiding him on what to check for before giving him the ok that he was fun, just beat up. “Well he is fine it seems, just knocked out.”

The sound of a buffalo coming up behind him. “Look at this pony, I bet he takes it from that hat wearing one bet he is worried that he won’t get it up again after that beating we gave him and he didn’t even fight back.”

‘And you got what you needed, he just admitted to beating him which means he hit first. DO IT!’ For once all three agreed that this was what needed to happen. With the buffalo right behind him like he was and laughing he wasn’t prepare for an apple bucking to his face. There was the satisfying crunch of jaw breaking as the buffalo was tossed back.

“Bastard you will pay for that.” Velox barely had time to recover from his buck before he was rammed hard from the buffalo. There was a moment he was secretly glad buffalo had such small horns or that might have killed him, still didn’t feel too good though and it did cause a nice gash in his side.

Velox stood and started to gather his mana to start using the current…except. ‘You are in a dry desert region…there is no moisture in the air to use.’ The calculating voice of Lego told him to which he responded. ‘Oh….well buck me.’

Meanwhile that darkness had slowly gathered more of its power, but it lacked the one thing to truly get itself going. “My name….what is my name, I must remember to break the seal.”

“Maybe I can help with that?” Ruby red eyes focused on the source of the sound.

A hiss was given to the voice from the darkness. “And what would I have to pay for this ‘help’?”

A chuckle heard as the figure slowly came closer revealing a silhouette to the darkness. “Nothing, just in the time it will take for you to gather your power to attack, think about some counter measures not only to Celestia and Luna, but the other Princess: Cadence as well as the Elements of Harmony.”

The darkness seemed to pulse around before the eyes opened again to settle on the figure. “And…that is all?” With a nod the darkness knew why it told him this. “Fine, I accept on the condition you tell me about all these enemies I will have to prepare for.”

A wide grin in the darkness revealing pointed fangs was seen. “I will tell you all I know Sombra.”

Author's Notes:

Today is that day, new chapter day. As always another chapter should be uploaded quickly after this one.

Ok no interruptions from brain today...did I finally kill him with those shots last night?

(Edit: Well looks like I wasn't quite in my right mind when I last edited this chapter. As such I just updated it, new words a sentence or two here or there, and some punctuation and grammar fixes as well as various spelling errors correct)