Night's world had been turned upside down. In just a week and a half since her change she had become known as "that fancy pegasus" thanks to the dresses she used to hide her tail. Flying had been more of a problem, but her name was more than just show.

Patrolling through the sky just after nightfall, Night Glider gathered what clouds she could and sent them where they were needed. While angling one particularly large, rain-heavy cloud, she lamented that she wasn't on duty in a town where the only duty was to keep the sky clear and help prepare for winter.

The mass of her tail was a little strange. Gone was the soft white and bluish-gray hair; her regular tail had been replaced with a thick, rope-like stalk, and at the tip was what looked like a big flower bud.

Throwing the heavy limb to the side, however, let Night Glider make much sharper turns than she used to, and she had mostly gotten used to it. Circling the town in a huge arc, she flew around the edges until she was passing over the outcropping of rock where the cave was. Through the dim evening light, she spotted the shape of a pony moving towards the cave.

An odd mix of protectiveness and hunger assailed Night, but she ignored it to glide closer. As she grew nearer, she spotted the pony's cutie mark. "Party Favor?" Dropping to the ground, she faced her friend. "It's not safe out this side of town at night, there are reports of cactus 'yotes out this way."

"Oh, hi Night!" Party Favor looked around nervously. "I did hear about one of them recently, but that is just why I am out here." He turned to look directly at Night Light. "Have you seen Fido?"

Night slumped a little. "Your pet balloon animal?"

Nodding vigorously, Party Favor resumed looking around. "Yes! If one of those nasty cactus thingies—"

"Coyotes. Cactus Coyote." Night Glider lifted a hoof up to her own forehead and clopped it. "Party, I saw one of those things only a week ago, you need to be more careful."

"You don't understand, I got this one really smart! He is just like a real puppy." Party Favor caught a glimpse of movement, and then something big and bright pink reached around his face and closed at his neck. "Whoa, what is… what is…" His voice sounded funny, muffled, but it was the strange flower's scent that had him most intrigued. Inhaling deeply, Party blinked a few times and stopped worrying about the thing clamped to his head.

"Oh gosh! Oh gosh! Get off him, tail!" Night tried to pull away from Party Favor, but her tail jerked on the stallion's head and he stumbled after her. "No, don't just lead him around, let go!" She felt oddly warm and pleasant, and her tail felt good latched on to a pony.

From the corner of her eye, Night saw something bright and green go dashing off towards the cave. "What… oh, Fido!" Her attention flicked away from the poor stallion stuck in her tail's flower bud, and no matter what Night did she couldn't seem to focus on anything else. Trotting to the cave, she looked around inside.

Party Favor focused all his attention on following the nice scent, and it helped that it always pulled his head in the direction he needed to go. An odd tickling inside his head insisted that something was quite wrong, but the lovely scent of the flower made it easy to ignore it.

"Wait, why did I come in here again?" Night Glider was a little confused. She stood in the huge room with the plant now taking up most of it. Behind her, still with her tail latched onto his head, Party Favor seemed to just stand amiably.

That she had just captured and led an innocent pony into the cave suddenly dawned on Night, and she tried to turn and run, but Party seemed unable to follow her. "What…? Oh no!" She saw that the vines had wrapped around Party's limbs and were pulling the stallion towards the bulk of the plant. "Leave him alone he just—"

Party Favor could see again, as well as anypony could see in a dark cave. As his eyes adjusted, he realized that there was a soft green glow coming from the plants surrounding him. "What's this place?"

"You have to run!" As Night Glider yelled the command, she saw the plant reach one of its own hand-like limbs up and gas the stallion. "I have to get the Patch, she'll know what to do!" Turning her rear to the captured stallion, she galloped out of the cave and towards town.

His head awash with different chemicals from the plant now, Party felt woozy and decided that even if he couldn't see, it was time to lay down. Just as he reached the ground, something poked under his belly and wrapped around his hardening shaft. Unable to tell when he had started to get horny, Party soon didn't care as the plant gave him a special, private party.

"I still can't get over it." Patched used her magic to widen Double Diamond's vulva, reaching deeper to inspect his insides. "It is fully formed and perfect." They were, of course, in the privacy of her clinic room at the front of her house. Night had just fallen outside, but far from playing "doctor and patient" in her clinic, Patched Scrape was actually giving Double a physical.

"Do… do all mares have to deal with this?" Double was fighting his own urges to pull away and run from Patched. He hadn't allowed either of his fillyfriends to play with his folds yet, and what Patched was doing was almost unbearable.

"Periodically. It is a good idea to make sure your body is healthy, and more so as you get older." Patched cast her last diagnostic spell, and knowing in advance how it would make Double react, she had saved it for last. The test gave its results just as it finished lighting up all the nerves in the newest part of the stallion.

Double let out a whimpering whine of sound. He rolled his hips—now no longer restrained by Patched's spell—and couldn't believe how good it had felt. Panting for breath, he turned and looked back at his lover. "What was that?"

"That was the last test I needed to run, and it came back positive." Patched saw worry etch itself onto Double's fine features. "Positive means you are not just healthy, but also fertile."

"Fertile?" Double Diamond blinked a few times as the word pushed into his thoughts, got bounced around, and then finally reached somewhere important. "Fertile!" His tail clamped back down tightly, obscuring any view of his new addition. "But I am a stallion!"

"And I am a mare. I don't think the plant cares." Patched leaned in and kissed her distraught patient on the nose. "Well, actually it does, but it seems to assign ponies to what it needs done, then focus on their sex."

"But if I am fertile, that means that you could—" Double's reply was cut short by Night Glider bursting in the door. It was obvious she was agitated, and in a panic. "What's wrong?"

"I was doing my rounds and I saw Party Favor wandering around and then my tail grabbed him and I think the plant made me walk into its cave and it pulled him along and it grabbed him!" The words tumbled from Night Glider's mouth without a pause or careful inflection. She stared between Double and Patched. "Come on! Somepony has to help him!"

"We tried that with you. My magic slides off the plant." Patched was grabbing her kit bag, regardless of her likely impotence against the plant. "Should we grab Sugar and Tight?" She opened her front door and looked across the street to the baker and spelunker's house.

"There's no time, we need to hurry before it… it does things!" Night Glider danced on her hooves a moment, alternating them diagonally. "I feel really bad about this… it is all my fault!"

"No it's not!" Double Diamond nuzzled Night's neck and urged her after Patched—who was already making her way to the cave. Shrugging mentally at Tight and Sugar's house, he followed the doctor. "The plant did this to us, and now anything it makes us do is its fault too!"

"That's going a bit far, Double." Patched looked back at her fillyfriend and coltfriend. "While it is does… make some things more agreeable, I don't think it has actually made me do anything I didn't want to." She didn't need to urge Double to move faster, Night was doing a great job of that already.

"You're pregnant with Double's foal." Night's voice was droll, but broke into a giggle as she saw the wind taken from Patched's moral sails. "Not that it's a bad thing, but it's making us do all kinds of things we normally wouldn't."

Patched went quiet for a little, and searched her own memories for little things. As they neared the cave she heard a cry inside, and all three took off at a gallop. Using her horn to make light, Patched searched around the first cave. "I heard somepony, was it deeper?"

"Don't stop!" Double Diamond charged through to the deeper cave, ignoring that he could barely see. One moment he was galloping, the next he had crashed into another pony. Limbs flew everywhere, but it wasn't until Patched came in with her light that he could see who he had collided with.

"Ugh! Now I am tangled in this stuff too!" Trying to pull free from the vines now tangling his legs, Bright Day shook his short, dark brown in panic. "And it's pulling me towards it!" He spread his wings and pumped them as hard as he could, but the grip of the vines kept him from getting free.

"Double, get him free!" Patched ran into the room to see the vines not only had Party Favor in their grip, but his wife—Cream'n Sugar, a gray coated pegasus with purple, striped mane—was wobbling on her legs and falling to the vines at his side. "Why are all these ponies in here?!"

Grabbing tightly to Bright Day's forelegs, Double Diamond dug his hooves in and started to pull. "This won't be my fault!" Earth pony strength warred with the plant, and only because the thinnest vines were all that had hold of Bright's legs, was Double able to pull him from the plant's grip.

Night Glider watched the pandemonium and shook her head. "What the hay is happening?" She tried to help lead Bright Day away from the vines, but the moment she was close to him, her tail reached out and grabbed his head. "No! No, no, no!" She wailed at the injustice of it.

Inhaling the most wonderful, floral scent, Bright Day felt himself relaxing, calming down. The stress of seeing his brother and brother's wife grabbed by some plant faded and he focused all his attention on breathing.

Double Diamond shook his head. "Lead him outside, lay down with him out there and don't come back in!" He pointed at the exit with a hoof. When Night blinked at him distractedly, he knew that the plant was doing its thing again. "Come on, Night." Slinging a foreleg over the mare's back, he guided her, and she led Bright Day from the inner cave.

Patched walked over to where the two ponies—with the grasping hand-things pumping drugged air into them—were at the mercy of the vines. "Took off after your stallion, I bet. What is it with males getting their mares into trouble around here?" She glared at the plant. "Don't hurt them. You have done enough today already." She used her best "doctor knows best" voice, and dearly hoped at least one of her patients would get through the night without growing any new organs.

Outside, having been led to the entrance of the cave by Double Diamond, Night Glider felt the cool night air like a slap to the face. Her faculties returned enough that she felt like she could walk on her own, but was thankful for Double's support. "Sugar Belle." She pointed a wing towards town. "We need to get to Sugar Belle. She has more control over this thing than I do, maybe she can make it let go of Bright."

"From what I remember, it takes a few hours to do its thing." Double Diamond looked back at the cave just as Patched left it. "What's the news?" He looked at her hopefully, but saw in her eyes that the pair couldn't have been freed.

"It's doing its thing on them, no doubt about it." Patched heaved a sigh. "On the plus side, we save one. That is better than anypony has done so far." She walked up between Double and Night and reached her forelegs up to hug both of the ponies. Patched Scrape certainly hadn't intended to find love, or take any relationship as far as falling pregnant—yet at least—but Double and Night had both found a place in her heart since the three of them had been thrust together.

"One of us should wait here." Double, having made the decision already, gave Patched and Night a quick smooch each and started to pull away. As he did, strong magic gripped around his shoulder and pulled him back to Patched's side. "What are you doing?"

"There was already one cactus coyote around." Patched glared at Double. "And two ponies might be able to fight one off together, but a lone stallion—" she nuzzled Double's jaw, "even one as amazing as you are, Double Diamond—shouldn't be out alone."

"Then we'll have to risk it and be quick." Quickening his pace, Double Diamond urged the others to keep up, but the moment he saw Night lagging he slowed back down. "What's the matter?"

"He can't keep up. I just… this is really strange." Night kept her pace going, despite everything in her screaming to turn around and go back to the cave.

Double Diamond led the way back to town in near silence. Their little group plodding at the slowest pace, which was Bright Day's. "We will get this under control. We need to work out a way to close up the cave entrance. But first…" He lifted a hoof to knock on Sugar and Tight's new back door.

Author's Notes:

Sugar: What are some of your favorite things to bake?

Sugar's face lit up at the question. "Everything." She bounced in place. "But I love pies the most. The attention to detail with the crust, the explosive flavor inside, and the perfect base." She closed her eyes and trembled. "Apple and blackberry is my favorite, but Tight prefers apple and rhubarb." Just mentioning her husband's name made the already excited mare seem to explode with happiness.

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