Okay, Realm had to admit it.

This...Ponyville? Still a silly name in his opinion. But. It. Was. Inspirational!

The fact that such a bright and lively town could exist so close to the Everfree, which he was given to understand was one of the few monster-filled places left in Equestria? That either spoke of insanity or hardy folk.

...A bit of both was probably the answer. ...And now he was wondering what it meant that he used to live in a castle in the middle of the bloody thing.

“That stand there belongs to the Flower Sisters… also, they faint over everything,” Twilight said, though that last part came out in a much drier tone.

“That just means they’re delicate,” Realm replied, doing his best to keep the other half of his answer in check. He wanted to surprise the mare when it would be funniest, not in public. Unless the situation called for that, of course.

“Lily!” Roseluck called out. “The stems on these petunias are broken!”

“What!?” her sister cried out as she looked at the broken flowers. “The horror! The horror!!”

And the pair swooned dramatically and fainted.

“...I see what you mean,” Realm chuckled. “They do love their drama, don’t they?”

“Oh, that’s normal around here,” Twilight said, though he noticed a small tic in her eye. “You want drama, then I’ll introduce you to Rarity.” They passed by several other places, like a bakery that looked like a giant gingerbread house, a store that only sold Quills and Sofas, and a joke shop whose roof was a giant jingly hat.

“And this,” Twilight pointed at the large tree they’d arrived at. “Is Golden Oaks Library, and also my home.”

“Okay, several points of order,” the colt responded, flaring a wing. “First. That is amazing, that you managed to put a library inside a living tree.”

“Mhm, it’s something to do with the magical properties of the Everfree bleeding into the town's magical leylines, and some good old fashioned Earth pony know how,” Twilight explained. “It’s also bigger on the inside by a factor of four. Using some very old Spatial Pocket Dimension magicks.”

“Sorta like how the saddlebags dad and I have work,” Realm mused. “Though I think dad’s was weaved specially, it can hold a lot more. Second, I think I might want to paint...the entire town. But that’d require a lot of poking around and asking permission if I were going to make a Pictomancy picture out of it.”

“You can do that? Impressive!” Twilight hummed, wondering how a whole town would work. “Anyway, come inside and I’ll get us some tea.” She opened the door and walked in, and as Realm followed, he walked right into someone.

“Oh, you okay?” Spike asked as he held out a claw.

“Oh wow!” Realm replied, eyes wide as he looked Spike all over. “An actual dragon! I never got to see one to paint for my paintings before.” He sat back on his haunches and smirked at Spike. “I mean...sorry. I did it again, didn’t I?”

“Eh, I get that a lot… well, except for the painting thing, that’s new,” Spike said and smiled. “Most ponies just ask for a photo.”

“Pfft, that’s lame,” Realm replied with an eyeroll. “Then again, back in my day, they were only just starting on that sorta technology. I think the most they had were black and white. I prefer color and motion to my paintings.”

“Oh, we have cameras that take recordings, then can be played back on a crystal projector,” Spike explained. “Twilight doesn’t have one but… I think we have an instant camera around. Lemme go find it.” Before Realm could say otherwise, he dashed off to find said device.

And so Realm finally got a good look at the building. A lot of the shelving and furniture was actually carved into the walls. And it was spacious too, possessing multiple levels.

“Living in a library,” Realm chuckled as he looked around. “Starswirl wished he could have done that. Celly and Lulu kept telling him no, though. The most they allowed him to do was look after the Archives. Didn’t stop him from sleeping in the office half the nights, though.”

He walked past one out-of-the-way shelf and noticed the bearded stallion staring back. It would seem Miss Twilight Clover Clone was something of a fan, having set up a little shrine to the old coot. Aside from his picture, there was the complete collection of all the books he wrote, as well as some things like some of his favourite sayings and his biography.

“Hmm,” Realm mused as he sat at one of the tables. “Wait around and be bored...or get to painting. But what to paint?...”

When Twilight and Spike eventually returned to the room, they found that Realm had completely taken over one table with his painting supplies, an easel holding a canvas nearby as he looked around him. Every so often he would add a little color to whatever he was painting, and he didn’t seem to have noticed they’d returned.

“What the?” Spike blinked, then smiled and raised the camera. There was a bright flash, followed by a whirring sound. Fortunately, Realm hadn’t been in the middle of adding anything to his painting, but it did disorient him. For a second. He was used to throwing around lightning after all.

“...What in the world was that?” the colt asked, blinking the spots out of his eyes.

“This,” Spike chuckled as he held up the camera. Then the photo that had been spit out of the base of the object. He held it out for Realm, as it depicted the colt at his easel, painting away.

“...I can honestly say this is the first time someone’s painted me while I’m painting,” Realm replied. His eyes lit up as a thought occurred to him. “Oh, I should have tried that! Painting another Pictomancer while he’s painting me! Darn it, now it’s too late.”

“Is it?” Twilight asked him. “Couldn’t another painter just do that using Spectra Paint?”

“I mean, maybe,” Realm said with a shrug of his wings. “But I doubt they’d be able to put the same amount of work into it that I can. There’s a vast difference between being a painter and being a Pictomancer. It’s not just the paint.”

“So what is the difference?” Twilight asked as she sat down, setting down three cups of tea. “I mean, you’re talking about Pictomancy and Gale King, and Aspect has mentioned Sorcery, but he refuses to tell me what it is or how to do it!”

Realm picked up his tea and sipped at it before sighing appreciatively. “No offense to Lulu, but tea’s better.” He ruffled his wings and picked up his brush again, deciding on a lavender color as he answered the mare’s questions. “Well...I guess the easiest way to describe a master Pictomancer is...there’s no line between art and reality for them. They’re able to capture reality in their art, and visit it, and make it even more complex and fleshed out. They can add layers and layers of complexity to their works, to include the ponies they paint, until it reaches the point where you have to actually remind yourself they’re painted ponies.”

“Wow…” Twilight gasped. She'd seen a lot of portraits in her time. The castle had plenty after all. But it was easy to tell the difference between them and the real thing. “So can you do that?” She asked. “Make a painting indistinguishable from reality?”

“I once painted a portrait of Starswirl so complex, the old coot dragged himself out of his painting,” Realm boasted as he kept painting. “Daft old stallion isn’t happy he’s back and not in Canterlot. Wants to read what his original self wrote so that he can keep up the work.”

Twilight froze, her teacup clattering to the floor, spilling the tea everywhere. Her eyes were wide and her mouth hung open.

“Mind, the only other thing that comes close to that is the portrait of Written Script,” Realm said. “It was pretty basic before I got to it. Then I improved it to be nearly as good as Starswirl. I got the feeling that if she could climb out of her portrait, it’d have caused...a little bit more trouble for the family.” The pinto pegasus kept painting the purple pony while she was pricelessly unspeaking.

“I… but… Starswirl…” Twilight stammered. Her brain was so overloaded with the mere thoughts that she could actually talk with the greatest mage of all time. There was little room for anything else.

“Uhh, Twi?” Spike waved a hand in front of her. “Great, now she's broken.”

“Ask her parents for a new one,” the colt quipped, smirking at the drake. “I’m sure they’ll get right on it.”

“Huh?” Spike blinked and tilted his head. “How? Does the stork bring replacements?”

“Oh you are so precious,” Realm cooed. “I’ll not ruin that just yet. Though if she remains stuck for much longer, I’ll have to zap her to reset her.”

“No need, just let me know when you're done and I'll show you her reset button,” Spike shrugged as he picked up a comic book and started to enjoy his newfound time off.

About ten minutes later, the pinto pegasus nodded and started packing up his art supplies. “Come here and tell me what you think of it,” he called out to the drake. Spike picked himself up and waddled over.

“Oh wow!” he gasped, looking at the piece. “It’s like looking through an empty picture frame. Or a mirror.” The likeness, the attention to detail. It was as if Twilight was sitting right there. The only give away fro the drake was that he couldn't see any heat coming from it. Now that he thought about that… He slowly turned and looked at Realm.

“Sorry about not including you in it,” the colt apologized, rubbing his head with a hoof. “But you kind of did wander off and read your book. I can’t just paint ponies...or dragons, I’ve just met from memory.”

“It’s alright,” Spike said with a shake of his head. He always did have it harder seeing the heat from a Pegasus. Maybe that was it. “Lemme wake Twilight up.” He turned and poked her with a claw. “Hey Twi? You’re gonna be late for a test.”

“TEST!?” Twilight shouted and jumped to her hooves. “Oh my gosh, I’m late! I’m gonna… be…” She paused as her brain caught up and she turned to Spike. “That, that was not funny!”

“I beg to differ,” the drake snickered.

“Yup, no problem telling them apart anymore,” Realm chuckled before turning the easel around and displaying Twilight’s portrait to her. She stopped giving Spike a noogie and looked at the painting.

“Wait… you, painted me?” she blinked, blushing slightly. Nopony had ever painted a portrait of her before. Especially such a good one. “I… wow, I don’t know what to say. Well, aside from thank you and that I’m flattered,” she smiled.

“Yeah, you look a lot like Clover,” Realm nodded. “It was easy to draw a lot of similarities between you, but she wouldn’t get that fussed about missing a test. She’d still try to make it, of course, but she wouldn’t go into a full panic about it. Now, missing a party with Princess Platinum…”

“I… look like Clover the Clever?” Twilight blinked. “N-No way, you’re just saying that.”

“Nope, you totally do,” Realm affirmed. “First thing I thought when I looked up and saw you was wonder if I was still a thousand years ago or not.”

Then he was treated to the most adorable sight of a blushing Twilight Sparkle. And then he had to seriously reconsider if he had a crush or not.

He’d had one for Clover, but that had been Clover. This was decidedly not Clover. Clover didn’t idolize her teacher to the extent this mare did. As well, he was a dusty old relic from a thousand years ago, much like his dad.

Yet, his dad had found somepony...Plus, he was just about to hit those awkward years when he would start becoming an actual stallion. Hormones were about to play a big part of it.

“S-So, you really have a moving painting of Starswirl the Bearded?” Twilight asked.

“Painted it myself,” the colt boasted. “Kept layering the magic and color until it came alive, then had to ask him to hold still so I could keep going and going. I lost count of how many layers he had in the end, but he and the original were nearly interchangeable. The main differences between a painted pony and a regular pony is that painted ponies don’t eat, they especially don’t drink, and they can’t cast magic.”

“A Starswirl that can’t cast magic?” Twilight looked… rather sad actually.

“Yeah, Twi’s a huuuuge Starswirl nerd,” Spike shrugged. “She even dresses up as him for Nightmare Night.”

“I think, though, that I have a solution for the last one,” Realm smiled. “I’m gonna need Spectra crystals to make it work, though. And apparently, ponies have forgotten about them.”

“Well, how do you find them?” Twilight asked. “If Aspect found some, then surely we can as well right?”

“They need a natural rainbow, and a place of high magic,” Realm illuminated. “The annoying part, though? If there are going to be any formed, they’ll form only at one end. You have to gamble to find them, because when the rainbow fades, so won’t the crystals unless they’re harvested.”

“Natural-forming rainbows?” Twilight knew of them of course. Pegasi-made ones were a little brighter and lasted far longer. but natural ones weren’t unheard of. “Hmm, well the Everfree Forest is the best bet. But that place is extremely dangerous and…” She trailed off and shivered.

“The last time Twi went in there, she got petrified by a cockatrice,” Spike explained. “If Fluttershy hadn’t come along when she did…”

“Yeah, that’s why I know the Gale King and a few other tricks,” Realm chuckled, before flaring a wing. To demonstrate what he meant to the drake, the wing suddenly had lightning dancing along it. “I’m not a grandmaster, but I’m pretty sure I’m the most potent one around. Besides dad, and he cheats.”

Twilight was conflicted. Seeing such new magic and getting to experiment was Spectra crystals was one thing. But having to go back into the Everfree…?

“Hey Twi, nopony’s gonna force you to go,” Spike pointed out.

“I have to face my fears eventually,” Twilight said. “Besides, how would I visit Zecora if I’m too scared.” She looked at Realm and smiled. “Besides, I have my little Knight here to protect me right?”

“Next time there’s a natural storm out in the Everfree, I’m totally coming over here to get you if there’s a rainbow,” Realm promised. “You’d better be ready or I’m dragging you out there.”

“Well, somepony’s eager,” Twilight giggled. She looked at the painting of herself and smiled, it really was a wonderful piece. She refilled her teacup, wiping away the mess she’d spilled with her magic. “So, tell me about yourself Realm.”

“Not a whole lot to tell,” Realm replied with a shrug of his wings. “The important stuff, you already know. I found out I had a knack for both Pictomancy and the Gale King when I was younger, and then Clover told me her prophecy. So I packed up and waited for the time when Pictomancy came back.” He sat back down at the table and sipped at his tea. “Though most mares are surprised when they learn I’m only twelve.”

“Wait! You’re nearly half my age?” Twilight almost choked on her tea. He seemed so much more mature. “You look young, but I didn’t want to assume…”

“Sheesh, are ponies these days so soft that they aren’t grown up before they hit their teens?” Realm asked with an eye-roll. “Granted, I think I’m a bit of a special case. It’s not every day you get taken in by Aspect and get taught how to defend yourself.” He carefully left out that he’d been the one bugging Aspect for the lessons. For reasons.

“Yes, Equestria isn’t as violent as Aspect seems to think it used to be,” Twilight chuckled. “Well, the occasion ancient evil pops up, but that’s when me and my friends step in.”

“Twilight wields the Element of Magic,” Spike explained.

“Aaah,” Realm replied, understanding a bit more now. “So, what? Dad’s retired? He always did say that one day he would want to be, just so he could enjoy time with us a little more.”

“Well at the very least, there aren’t any of the things that he said used to roam around,” Twilight said as she pulled out a book of Starswirl’s ‘Magical Creatures: What they are and where to find them.’ “Perhaps the biggest threats would come from a Star Beast such as an Ursa Major… or a full-grown Hydra.”

“Yeah, he wouldn’t be crazy enough to go after a star beast,” Realm said seriously.

“Well that’s good to hear,” Twilight started.

“He’d sic Lulu on them,” Realm finished with a grin. Twilight actually did choke on her tea that time.

“P-Princess Luna!?” she coughed. “B-But she’s so… small.”

“Ohhh yeah,” Realm mused. “Forgot about that. She used to be the go-to mare for dealing with them. I think she was the better battlemage out of the two of them. It’s been a thousand years, though. Tia could have pulled ahead.”

“Princess Luna used to be that strong?” Spike asked with just a hint of awe.

“Yeah, she did,” Realm nodded. “Plus, you know, Alicorn of the Night. The beasts were confused for a second before she dealt with them. I wished I coulda seen it happen once. It’d have been great subject material for a portrait.”

“Well, Twilight fought an Ursa Minor!” Spike said proudly, though Twilight looked rather abashed. “Put it to sleep and levitated it all the way back into the forest...from the center of town!”

“Yup, definitely battlemage material, if she can do that,” Realm agreed as he drank his tea. “I mean, their size alone...she must have some serious power behind that horn of hers.”

“Yeah, Twi’s crazy powerful,” Spike said again, that proud tone in his voice.

“I’m not all that,” Twilight blushed again. “And it was going to wreck the town and hurt ponies. What was I supposed to do?”

“And Lulu says Equestria is boring,” Realm chuckled.

“It’s fun, if you know where to look… speaking of, I’d keep my eyes open if I were you,” Twilight said with a wry smile.

“Pinkie Pie?” Spike questioned.

“Pinkie Pie.” Twilight nodded.

“Pinkie Pie?” the colt asked with a quizzical expression.

“Pinkie Pie!!” the pink earth mare said, crawling out of a space in the bookshelf. “Oooh! New Pony!!”

“What in the what?!” the colt said, jumping back and pointing a hoof at the suddenly appearing pony. “How in the?!”

“Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie and I love making new friends!” she giggled, ignoring the poor colt’s brain breaking. She took in a sharp breath and then started to sing, music playing from… somewhere.

♫~Welcome welcome welcome
A fine welcome to you
Welcome welcome welcome
I say how do you do?
Welcome welcome welcome
I say hip hip hurray
Welcome welcome welcome
To Ponyville today~♪

She paused and held up a hoof. “Wait for iiiit…”

There was a loud boom from the shelf as the room was filled with balloons and streamers, a full, three-tier cake appearing on the table, complete with twelve candles.

“Realm?” Twilight sighed. “Meet Pinkie Pie.”

“She reminds me of Puddinghead,” Realm muttered to himself, trying to shake off the brain breakage. “Only...taken to extremes. She was never as bad as this.”

“Puddinghead?” Twilight blinked. He’d also mentioned Starswirl. Did that put him from the Unification Era?

“Pudding? I LOVE pudding!” Pinkie giggled as she reached into her mane and pulled out said dessert. “Want some?”

“...I’m going to close my eyes now,” Realm uttered. “Let me know when the world makes sense, so that I can open them again.”

“With Pinkie around? Fat chance,” Twilight giggled, glad she wasn’t alone in the migraines that Pinkie caused. “There’s a small trick to Pinkie. Whatever she does, whenever she does it?”

“It’s Pinkie being Pinkie,” Spike finished, eating the pudding that the pink mare had given him.

“That doesn’t help,” Realm groaned, opening his eyes. “I just...how. How do you live with her?”

“Pinkie is a great friend,’ Twilight said as she hugged her. “Just, try not to think about how she does what she does.”

“I’m sorry,” Pinkie said to him, her ears flattening and… was her mane… deflating? “If I was a little too much for you…”

Oh great, sad mare alert. Realm couldn’t have that. “No no, it’s just...I’m sure I’ll get used to it. Eventually.” He looked at the cake warily. “Hoooow did you know how many candles to put on it?”

“Pinkie Sense!” she beamed, her mane poofing up again. “Also, I need to know your birthday! And Aspects, cause he won’t tell me cause he’s a Meanie McMeanerson!”

“I don’t think dad actually celebrates his birthday anymore,” Realm mused. “I mean, I know that he still observes it, but he never tells us when. I think to him, the more important dates are our birthdays. The only one who might know would be Written…”

Pinkie’s eyes widened and she smiled brightly. “Thanks Realmy!” she giggled and bounced away, singing some non-sensical song.

“Who is Written?” Twilight asked. “And why did you just unleash Pinkie on them?”

“Written Script, the painted version,” Realm supplied. “Back in the bad old days, all the ponies had Pictomancy pictures done of themselves in case the worst happened. Written Script has the second most complex painting ever, just under the Starswirl one I did. So, uh...yeah. I don’t know how Pinkie knows where to go…”

Twilight’s stare flattened. “Spike?”

“Pinkie Rehabilitation Kit?”

“Yup,” the unicorn said. “Come on Realm. Let’s go find Written Script. She’s… going to need painkillers or… probably therapy.”

“Oh, it won’t be hard to find her,” Realm brushed off as he shook his head. “She can’t leave her painting, or any painting in the house. She’ll be there. And painted ponies don’t eat or drink anything from this side of the canvas.”

Written Script nodded politely to Hurricane and Pansy. “It is delightful that you could join me once again, dears,” she said to the two mares.

“Yeah, that husband of yours coulda done with remembering us sooner,” Hurricane grumbled.

“Commander, I, uh, think she said before…” Pansy spoke up, such as she did.

“Pansy has the right of it, he was never my husband,” Script nodded her head to the yellow mare. “He was ever so kind and helpful though.”

“Yeah, I know, I know,” Hurricane grumped. “Can’t a mare be cranky after a thousand year nap?”

“Yuperooni!” Pinkie nodded from next to her. “Nightmare Moon was all, ‘Black Snooty’ when she woke up from her moon nap too.”

The three painted ponies paused and then, as one, slowly turned to look at the pink mare that so much looked like Puddinghead.

“I...beg your pardon,” Written Script said, blinking in surprise. “I was unaware that there were Pictomancers strong enough to enter paintings besides young Realm in this day and age.”

“Picto-whatnow?” Pinkie blinked as she sipped some tea. “Ohh, painty. Anyways, I’m Pinkie Pie. Realmy said I could ask you when Aspect’s birthday was.”

“Ah, I heard about this from my daughters,” Written nodded as the other two mares were boggled by the pink pony even more. “That old warrior stopped celebrating once I passed. I never forgot the date, though.”

“Ohh, I have a thousand birthdays to catch up on?” Pinkie said as she pulled out a pencil and a notepad. “Plus Tia and Lulu, Pyro, Neppy, Realm, Morty, Iggy… and all of you…” her frown deepened with every name. “That’s a lotta parties…”

“You don’t need to throw everypony a party, Pinkie,” Written said. “You should only do it if you enjoy it. A cutie mark should no more define you or limit you than your name does. As long as you enjoy the life you live...that’s the greatest gift you could possibly give the old swordsman. He fought for peace and prosperity for you all for so long. A smiling face is all he wants to see from everypony.”

“Not throw a party?” Pinkie gasped. “I LOVE to see all my friends smile! And you guys have been gone for sooooo long, you need to meet everypony and make new friends. Like grumpy ol’ Starry! He and Twilight can be egghead buddies. And, I bet Dashie would love to meet Canie here, and Pansy and Flutters would get along, Flutters has the most adorable critters!”

“You know what?” Script asked, before beeping the pink mare with a hoof. “I’ll make you a promise. You promise me that you won’t do any more than you feel comfortable doing, and I’ll tell you Aspect’s birthday. I have no idea how old he actually is, but I know when he used to celebrate the day.”

Pinkie’s eyes widened to impossible levels as a massive grin split her face. “Deal!”

“November first, or as he called it, ‘All Hallow’s day,’” Written Script said to her. “Apparently it had something to do with a holiday back from his world revolving around being scared. I don’t think that ever caught on here…”

“Oooh, you mean Nightmare Night?” Pinkie gasped. That was perfect! She could throw a spooky birthday! And… and there was still all the painted… ponies?

The pink mare was vibrating now, the painted scenery rippling around her.

“Okay, Puddinghead was never this bad,” Hurricane pointed out, edging away from the pink mare.

“I think she’s just...a little too excitable for my tastes…” Pansy demurely added.

“I… have… the best… ideas… EVER!” Pinkie rocketed into the air on that last word as fireworks exploded and streamers and confetti rained down. “I have to plan! Thanks for the info Scripty!” She landed on all fours and bounced towards the ‘painting’ on the wall that was actually looking out into Aspect’s bedroom. She bounced right through it like an open window, humming the whole time as she vanished from sight.

“I think I might have just doomed us all,” Script mused as she looked around the room. “Oh dear. This will take some time to clean up.”

“Tea party called on account of unexplainable pink pony?” Pansy offered.

“Sounds good to me,” Hurricane added...before their eyes fell on the cake that had appeared between them.

“It...looks painted,” Script mused, touching it with a hoof. “But...how did she do that?”

“Who cares? Cake!” Hurricane cheered.

And so the three painted ponies learned the most important lesson about dealing with the Pink One.

“Well, I think that turned out pretty well,” Bon Bon smiled as they walked home from the school. “I’m surprised how quickly those little ones took to the lessons. It took me weeks to learn what they did in an afternoon.”

“It helps to have someone that was there for the founding of it feeding them lessons,” Aspect pointed out. “Plus, they’re young. No bad habits to unlearn just yet.”

“That reminds me,” Bon Bon said. “What kind of ‘bad habits’ are you talking about?”

“You know,” Aspect replied, waving a wing. “Thinking that not all ponies have magic. Or that they have to flap really hard to take off. Or that they have to use symbols to cast spells. They’re simple habits to fall into, but those are the sorts of things that hinder learning these sorts of magic. Thinking ‘I can’t’ is more debilitating than failure. It means they won’t even try.”

“Ahh,” Bon Bon nodded. “I see, yeah… took me awhile to wrap my head around the fact that Earth Ponies can use magic. Still, I’ve seen a lot of weird things, that fact doesn’t even make my top fifty…”

“Well, I’m sure you’ll get a new thing to put in your list when I tell you this one,” Aspect chuckled. “Pictomancy is back. Quite strongly so.”

“So I noticed,” Bon Bon nodded, though her tone took a more sour note.

“More than just her,” Aspect clarified. “Celly bought over all the paintings. One of them was, I thought, just a self-portrait of the greatest Pictomancer of the castle.”

“Lemme guess, he or she talks too?” Bon Bon asked.

“More like...it wasn’t a self-portrait,” Aspect said, smirking a little. “More like a...time capsule.”

Bon Bon paused and turned to him. “Huh?”

“Yeah, the greatest, most prestigious Pictomancer of ages past sealed himself inside a painting and is now out and about,” Aspect illuminated. He paused for a beat before dropping the other horseshoe. “And he’s twelve.”

“Of course he is,” Bon Bon deadpanned. She was quickly adjusting to the fact that she shouldn’t be surprised about anything that involved Aspect. He was being put in the same category as Pinkie.

Speaking of, the Pink One herself bounced down the street, humming away merrily before stopping in front of Aspect.

“Can I...help you?” Aspect asked, not sure if he should have asked.

“Au contraire,” Pinkie said, twirling a long French mustache. “It’s what I can now do for you~” She smiled and hugged her friends before bouncing away. Aspect specifically heard her say ‘November 1st’ though.

“Well that was about par for the course,” Aspect muttered. “I don’t know what she’s talking about though.”

“Welcome to the club,” Bon Bon smirked as they kept walking. “Though, she usually acts like that when she’s planning a surprise party for somepony.”

“Father?” Sunny spoke up and pointed at a blue unicorn walking around, looking for something by the sights of it. “What is Lulu doing?”

“Didn’t you say you left her in charge of Realm?” Aspect pointed out.

“I did…” Sunny nodded.

“Oh bloody hell, Realm is out unsupervised,” Aspect sighed. “I don’t want him to be arrested for being a public menace. Or whatever they can charge a twelve-year old for.”

“Father!” Lulu ran up to him. “We uh… have a small problem! We cannot locate Realm, not since Twilight Sparkle came to visit.”

“He’s out with a pony that’s basically identical to Clover?” Aspect said before groaning. “Great. He had a crush on her, you know. I saw it. And now...bloody…” He shook his head. “Girls, we need to search the town for him before he opens his mouth and says something a twelve-year old shouldn’t know anything about.”

“Twilight would likely be oblivious to it anyway,” Sunny snorted. “Still, they might not be in too many places. We should split up. You and Miss Bon Bon head for Twilight’s library. Lulu and I will head home and see if he has returned of his own volition.”

“Great, with any luck we’ll be able to find and corral the colt before he gets in trouble,” Aspect agreed, looking at Bon Bon. “Ready to help me find my adopted son?”

“I believe I can help with that,” Bon Bon said with a small smile as the group split up. As the pony pair passed through town, a third joined them, literally dropping from the sky into a casual trot.

“Sup?” Rainbow Dash asked, as Bon Bon growled only slightly.

“Just looking for a pinto pegasus before he puts himself in a pickle,” Aspect informed Rainbow Dash.

“Hmm, about… yay high?” she asked, holding a wing about Realms height off of the ground. “Painting butt mark?”

“Says lewd and flirty things when he’s around a mare he likes, and did I happen to mention that Twilight is a dead ringer for Clover the Clever, who he had a crush on?” Aspect rattled off as they approached town again.

“Seriously?” Rainbow snorted and started giggling. “Oh now this I have to see! Yeah, I saw him and Twilight heading for the library.”

“Hopefully we’ll be able to stop him from opening his mouth too much,” Aspect muttered. “Clover had been on the verge of actually saying yes, you know. Once he turned into a stallion and all that, she would have been willing to put up with him. And then he up and vanished.”

“Ponies were sure different back then huh?” Rainbow said. “I mean, dating a kid?”

“Well, life-expectancy wasn’t as long as it is now,” Bon Bon said with a small nod. “There simply wasn’t time for long, drawn out courtings and the like. Winters were harsh and life was even worse before the Unification. That’s why ponies also married into herds, to try and get populations back up after the Windigoes…” She paused and saw Aspect and Rainbow looking at her. “What? I read books you know!”

“Is it weird I find it fascinating that you know so much about the life I lived?” Aspect mused aloud. “It’s like you purposely learned everything about me before meeting me.”

“I-I just read a few history books is all,” Bon Bon blushed profusely.

“Sooo, what’s a ‘herd’?” Rainbow asked as they walked.

“Seriously?” Bon Bon blinked. Sure, it was very rare these days but… “Rainbow, did you ever read a book at school?”

“Meh, too busy being awesome!” Rainbow pumped a hoof in the air.

Bon Bon groaned and facehooved. “Aspect… explain to her. Lest I smack it into her…”

“A herd was how mares back in the old days shared stallions,” Aspect explained. “It was typically seen as the stallion’s role to defend the herd from threats, while the mares did their best to keep society turning. Eventually the gender roles evened out, but back then, there were still a few less stallions than there were mares. So they decided to share with mares they could agree with. I’m given to understand it’s a practice that’s fallen out of use, what with the gender ratios starting to catch up to normal.”

“Wait, you mean… like a harem out of Rarity’s tacky romance books?” Rainbow blinked, though she seemed to have a slight pink tint to her cheeks. “Sooo, does that mean you used to…”

“Never me, I was never that important enough,” Aspect said with a shake of his head. “I never went around and proclaimed myself. I was just a royal advisor with occasional dalliances in knight-like behavior when needed. Like avenging a town that had fallen to manticores and rescuing an extremely talented pinto pegasus out of the ruins.”

“Dude, you should write a book or something,” Rainbow chuckled, her wings standing up straight as they walked and Bon Bon was looking even more irritated.

“And how would you explain half the things I do without me revealing myself?” Aspect sighed. “No, I’m happy this way. I’m retired in all but name...except when you and your friends go out to the bloody swamp and wake up a freaking hydra.”

“Hey, that was Fluttershy,” Rainbow said with a small huff, as her tail brushed his flank. Bon Bon grabbed her leg and pulled her out of the sky.

“Aspect, honey. Dash and I need to have a little chat about something. We’ll catch up okay~”

“All right, just don’t take too long,” Aspect agreed, leaning over and kissing Bon Bon on the cheek. “If he’s not in the library, I don’t want to imagine where he’s gone to. Or what he’s up to.”

“Not to worry,” Bon Bon hummed. Rainbow was trying her best to fly away, but Bon Bon’s grip was like iron. “We’ll be riiight back~” And with that, she dragged the protesting pegasus off to parts unknown.

“Welp, time to check the library,” Aspect said aloud as he knocked on the front door of the place once he arrived. “Hello? Anypony home?”

The door opened and Spike looked up with a flat stare. “You know this is a public library right?”

“It’s also a residence,” Aspect pointed out. “I don’t want to walk in and accidentally catch an eyeful of Twilight dancing to a tune only she can hear.”

“Trust me, Twilight dancing is a dangerous thing,” Spike chuckled. “Nah, she’s just chatting with her new friend Realm. Kind of a weird kid, but he seems alright.”

“Oh good, there’s still time,” Aspect sighed, before giving Spike a headrub and walking in. “Okay, where’s the damage?”

“Twi’s bedroom,” the dragon nodded. “She said she had some history books up there she’d lend him to help catch up.”

“And suddenly, my mission gains urgency,” Aspect uttered before ascending the stairs and listening for the sounds of conversation.

“Hmm, that’s weird,” Twilight said, sounding confused. “I know they’re here somewhere…”

“Maybe you’re just not looking hard enough,” Realm said. “What about down there, near the bottom?”

“Hmm,” came Twilight’s reply. “Ah, one second…” Then came the sound of books being moved about. This of course gave the colt the view he’d been looking for. Namely, of a flank in the air. One that swayed back and forth as she looked through the shelf.

“Magical Mysteries… comics… Gardening 101… more comics…” Twilight frowned, her tail flicking in annoyance.

Realm kept himself quiet, just enjoying the view. Clover had eventually grown wise to his games and refused to play them with him. He wouldn’t complain about a fresh mare to the games.

“AHA!” Twilight cheered and yanked a positively massive tome out from behind a stack of Spike’s comic books. “Found it! I don’t know how I missed something so big...”

“You can say that again,” Realm accidentally said aloud.

“Yes, it might take a little getting used to,” Twilight hummed and looked at his dinky little saddlebags. “I don’t even know if it’ll fit…”

“Oh I’m sure we’ll think of something,” Realm smirked. He was enjoying this now.

“I’m sure it’ll be fine,” Twilight smiled as she put the book on the bed. “Just go easy, it hasn’t been used in a while, so I don’t want it damaged by you being too rough.”

“Oh, I can go as fast or slow as I need to,” Realm replied, barely holding back a wider smile and his laughs.

“That makes me feel better,” Twilight nodded as she wiped some dust off of the book. “Some ponies just have no respect these days. It’s a learning experience after all.”

“Well I can start whenever you’re—” Realm got out, before the door was slammed open and Aspect was there, glaring at him. “Um. Hi dad! How...much of that did you hear?”

“Enough,” Aspect rumbled. “Wait in the hallway. I’m going to have words with Twilight.”

Realm pouted and picked up the large book, before barely wedging it into his saddlebags, where it promptly disappeared.

“Oh wow, it did fit after all,” Twilight gasped and looked into his bag. “It’s in so deep!”

Realm chuckled once, before he slowly walked out of the room, and Aspect closed the door.

“Twilight, I have to warn you about my son,” Aspect said simply.

“Warn me?” Twilight blinked and looked at the intruder. “Maybe i should be warned about you, barging uninvited into a mare’s bedroom like that. I thought you were a gentlestallion Aspect. So far, your ‘son’ there has been far more pleasant and welcoming. He even painted the most amazing portrait of me.”

“Twilight, my son had a crush on Clover the Clever,” Aspect illuminated. “The mare you’re a dead ringer for. And he’s also incredibly perverse. I don’t know how he learned the things he did. I’m blaming the other founders for corrupting him, to be honest.”

“Perverse? He’s been nothing but an absolute delight,” Twilight replied, looking even more annoyed. “Besides, he’s just a child and I am not Clover the Clever…” She could never be as good as that…

“He was just about to be a stallion, back by the old laws,” Aspect informed her. “And you’re pretty similar in looks to her that he might not watch his words around you. I want you to think Twilight. Did you or he say anything that could have had a double meaning? Because I will bet you he’s been playing his games with you.”

“A double meaning? Like what?” Twilight blinked, utterly confused.

“Hard,” Aspect started. “It can refer to difficulty...or when applied to sex, the rigidity of the stallion’s member. Thick, how wide something is...also used as a measurement for a stallion’s member. Deep, referring to depth, or how far a stallion can shove his member into a mare’s—”

There was a shriek, followed by a bright flash of light and Twilight was gone, the potency of the teleport left scorch-marks on the wooden floor.

“No fair!” Realm cried out from the hallway. “You ruined my fun!”

“I was not about to have someone who didn’t know better exposed to you,” Aspect riposted, before walking out and picking his son up and putting him on his back. “Let’s get you home before you cause any more trouble.”

“Yes dad,” Realm pouted. And he’d just been about ready to spring a lewd question on the mare.

“So, that’s it huh?” Bon Bon said, having dragged Dash all the way to her store. After a lot of coercing, Bonnie had finally gotten Dash to admit that she might have been crushing on Aspect a little. “Well, I guess I’m surprised more than anything.”

“Huh? Why?” Dash asked, scarfing down the candies that Bon Bon used to bribe her. What? They were good. And it’s not like Bon Bon had laced them with a truth potion…

“Well,” Bon Bon looked a little bashful now. “I guess… I sort of figured…”

“That I was into mares?” Rainbow sighed. She’d heard this a lot growing up. Especially in Flight School. “It’s my mane. You know it’s natural right? My dad has the same mane colouring. And if he were into stallions, then how did I get here?”

“Alright, alright, sorry for assuming,” Bon Bon held up a hoof. “Just… well I suppose my next question is why?”

“Well…” Rainbow blushed and looked down. “I don’t know when it started, I’ve always thought he was pretty cool. I mean, he has awesome magic, that cool sword and he fights monsters! But… he’s also kind. Kind of dense and he likes to stick his nose in, when he’s not putting his hoof in his mouth…”

“And half his damned leg,” Bon Bon replied dryly. “Yeah, I noticed that. And his family is really weird.”

“But awesome!” Rainbow said. “I mean, three alicorns, a phoenix, a seapony-thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a dragon somewhere.”

Both mares made a note to ask him that.

“Okay, so you admire him,” Bon Bon said as she sat at the table. “But, when did you start… liking him.”

“The Young Fliers Competition,” Rainbow Dash nodded. “I was… okay, I was freaking out pretty bad. I thought I’d hidden it, cause I didn’t want to worry the others…”

“But he noticed, because he’s perceptive when he wants to be,” Bon Bon guessed, the rainbow mare nodding in response.

“Yeah, he came backstage and gave me some advice. I still tanked most of the performance, but if it wasn’t for him, I might not have gone out there at all.”

“So, that’s it?’ Bon Bon asked. It wasn’t a very… solid reason. If that was the case, she should be crushing on a therapist…

“No, that started it I think,” Rainbow continued. “What really sold me, was yesterday with Scootaloo. Seeing him help her out like that. Nopony asked him to, yet he still went out of his way to help the squirt out. I mean, sure she’s a cute little fan and all. But she doesn’t deserve that crap that little Diamond brat heaps on her,” Rainbow stomped a hoof. “But seeing her face light up when he taught her how to get her hooves off of the ground?”

Bon Bon had seen it a lot, especially today. He was a amazing father figure, despite his… quirks. She sighed and sipped her mint tea. “Okay, I guess I can see that. But… we still have a problem.”

“Yeah, I know you guys are together,” Rainbow nodded. “And, I’m sorry I was flirting so openly like that. I don’t know what came over me.”

“He’s pretty sexy,” Bon Bon giggled. “Really, I can’t fault you for taste at least.”

“Yeah, but he’s still your stallion,” Rainbow said, looking… rather annoyed actually. “For the Element of Loyalty, I’m not really being that, moving in on another mare’s stallion…”

“Look Dash, can I call you Dash?” at the pegasi’s nod, Bon Bon continued. “I’ll admit, I was a bit annoyed at first. This whole thing with Written Script still has me… feeling off I guess. So yeah, seeing you do that made me see red. Well, at first…”

Okay, that was… not the response Rainbow was expecting. She looked up to see Bon Bon… blushing?

“I’ll admit you’re a pretty decent-looking mare. I mean, that mane and tail of yours is actually quite pretty. And those firm flanks are just—”

“Whoawhoawhoa!” Rainbow flushed crimson and put her hooves up. “W-What the heck Bon Bon? Why are you—”

“Well, I guess… I don’t really mind all that much,” Bon Bon said softly, barely above a whisper. “I mean, if you don’t mind we could always…”

Rainbow gulped hard, she wanted to fly away and forget this ever happened.

Instead, her mouth opened.

“Always?” she said in a raspier tone than normal.

“We could…” Bon Bon said, blushing to the tips of her ears. “Maybe… share him?”

*pomf*

Rainbow’s wings shot out so fast it actually hurt slightly. “S-S-Share? What the HECK!?” then she recalled the conversation from earlier. “Waaaaait, you… you mean that… that HERD thing?”

Bon Bon just nodded, she was pretty sure her whole coat was glowing red now, and Rainbow wasn’t faring any better.

“W-Well… horesapples Bon Bon, you sure know how to throw a curveball…” Rainbow Dash groaned. She scarfed down more sugar and swallowed. “Okay… so uh, so let’s say I’m considering that. Hypnotelepathy.”

“Hypothetically,” Bon Bon corrected.

“Yeah, that…” Rainbow’s discombobulated mind was racing faster than she could ever hope to fly. “What… what would other ponies think?”

“Well…” Bon Bon sighed. “Honestly? Who cares? It’s our life. We can do whatever we bloody want,” Bon Bon tried out that word Aspect liked. “It’s not illegal or anything. I think some ponies might think it’s weird, or even complain but…” She nodded once and slammed her tea back like a liqour shot. “Buck ‘em.”

Rainbow snorted… before busting out with a loud laugh. “Buck ‘em huh?”

“Yup!” Bon Bon nodded, also grinning. “Buck ‘em right to Tartarus.”

“Well… alright then,” Rainbow nodded. Bon Bon blinked as her grin fell and her mouth opened in shock.

“So… wait! You mean…”

“Well, I suppose we can at least try right,” Rainbow smiled, before those eyes wandered over the candy-maker. “And, while I may not be exclusively into mares… I never said I didn’t like ‘em…”

“I...uh...I…” Bon Bon stammered and blushed brighter as the lithe pegasus moved around the table, wrapping her wings around her and licking her lips.

“Maybe I should… sample the goods before committing to a purchase~” Rainbow’s eyes drooped into a half-lidded gaze, Bon Bon’s legs felt like jelly under that stare. Sure, she and Lyra had… messed around before but this…

“I...um…” Bon Bon’s mouth refused to work. “We should...really talk to Aspect…before we...you know…”

“Maybe,” Rainbow smirked as she leaned closer, her lips brushing Bon Bon’s with feathery lightness. “But I don’t think he’d mind…”

“Oohhh…” Bon Bon shuddered. Goddess, she just wanted this sexy mare to ravish her. But… she’d flipped out over Written, and that was just because of a few words. If she slept with somepony else… Aspect would never forgive her.

So with a sigh, she pushed the pegasus back and shook her head. “No, until we sort this out, it wouldn’t be right.”

Rainbow winced, seems she’d come on a little too strong. Dammit, she’d spent too much time with Cloud Kicker.

“Yeah, you’re right,” Rainbow Dash nodded. “Alright, let’s go find him then.”

“Wait, NOW?” Bon Bon blinked.

“Why not?” the pegasus shrugged. “The sooner we get this done, the sooner I get dessert~” She wiggled her flank and that tail hid nothing for the candy mare. Bon Bon swallowed a lump so big, she felt like she was swallowing a baseball.

“R-Right… Aspect… find… talk…” she simply said and stood up, walking with less coherence than a drunk. Rainbow just chuckled and followed her.

It was good to be Rainbow Dash. very good indeed~

“So in short young colt, control your tongue,” Aspect finished. They’d gotten home and Aspect had wasted no time lecturing his adopted son. “Times are different now. You won’t be a stallion according to law for...how long, Celly?”

“Four years,” Celestia said, now back in her true form. Spending too long in a smaller form was lite wearing a dress that was a little too small. Alright for a while, but very uncomfortable after a long period. “Sixteen is the age for sexual consent in Equestria. Before, it used to be if you had a Cutie Mark, you were considered an adult in most senses.”

“This is utter manure,” Realm muttered. “I was about to be a stallion and now suddenly I hafta wait? This is just utter bull-”

“Language,” Aspect warned him. “And I know what you would pull when you thought of it. Unless you were actually awake for those thousand years, no, no you are not a stallion.”

“Shoot,” Realm replied, stamping a hoof. “But that means I don’t get to mess with ponies! And you should have seen the flank on the Clover lookalike! It was just—”

“Realm…” Did uh… did it just get a lot warmer in here? He turned to see Celestia looming over him, her mane flickering like a wildfire. “What did you say about Twilight Sparkle?”

Realm squeaked, curling up into a ball, doing his best to look adorable so the angry big sister wouldn’t smite him.

“How would you like to spend another thousand years in that painting?” she said, stepping closer. “If you aim that perverse little mind at my student again…”

“I didn’t know!” Realm said in a squeaky voice that fully illustrated how little of a stallion he was. “Plus dad ruined the game. She knows about my nature now.”

“Twilight, while a highly intelligent mare, is also adorkabally innocent and naive,” Celestia said, her mane calming down. “She has never had a special somepony before. So likely, she’d have ignored your ‘game’ utterly until you either gave up, or did something truly stupid.” Then something flashed and a scroll appeared. “Well now, speak of the devil…”

“What does she have to say?” Aspect questioned his daughter.

Celestia read through, her smile wavering with each line. She sighed and cleared her throat.

‘Dear Princess Celestia.

Today, I think I have learned that all colts are indeed perverts. No matter how old they are. If I wasn’t interested in a special somepony, I sure as heck am not now!

Colts suck.

I’m seriously considering a marefriend. Do you think Rainbow Dash is single?

With love… are you sin—

Twilight Sparkle.

Celestia finished and looked at the scroll. Twilight must have been really upset for her grammar to be this atrocious. With a sigh, she turned to the pair of stallions. “Alright,” she said a little too calmly. “What the absolute bloody hell did you two idiots do to my cute student!?”

“Realm,” Aspect said, holding out a hoof. “Quill and scroll.”

Realm nodded and fished the items out, before also hooving over some ink. Aspect immediately got to work writing a reply. “And while I do this,” the stallion said, the quill flashing over the scroll. “You can own up to your sisters what you did.”

“I, uh...may have made her look at the bottom shelf of books just to get a look at her flanks,” Realm started.

Celestia’s horn flared and she summoned a long belt…

“And played word games with her that she didn’t respond to,” Realm added on. “I enjoyed them, though.”

Celestia cracked the belt like a whip.

“And then I made sure that she knew what was going on,” Aspect finished. “So that she wouldn’t fall prey to him again. I think I’m just about done here though.”

“You’re not going to sit for a century!” Celestia said, whispering like Mortal Coil himself. “I’ll beat your flanks redder than an apple!”

“Before you do, quickly look at this,” Aspect interrupted, holding out the letter for Celestia to read. She took the paper and read aloud.

Dear Twilight Sparkle.

I can assure you that not all colts are perverts. Spike, for instance. Realm is just a...special case, brought on by the times he was raised in. Back then, colts were stallions when the situation called for it. If he makes you uncomfortable, and he really should, then simply avoid playing his word games with him. Colts in general are decent beings, and mares can have their own shortcomings. In short, it depends on the ponies in question. If you don’t feel like entering that sort of relationship with somepony, then that is your decision to make.

If however you do feel like it, I’m certain Cadenza will be able to provide you with a decent crash course in the subject matter. Especially as she appears to be in a relationship herself.

Keeping Realm on a shorter leash,

Balanced Aspect.

“Okay, one… we are not inflicting an unchained Cadenza on Twilight. Nopony deserves that,” Celestia deadpanned. “Still, though a little long-winded, it’s detailed enough for her… don’t you think so Twilight?”

It was then that Aspect noticed that Celestia’s horn had been glowing the whole time. With the telltale pop of teleportation, Twilight appeared in the room, her horn glowing as well.

“I’m sorry for inflicting an unchained, undisciplined Realm on you,” Aspect said to her, bowing his head and splaying his wings. “It should have been my responsibility to realize who you resembled and how he might react.”

“No… I was just… too blind to see it,” Twilight sighed. “This is embarrassing, a twelve year old has more knowledge on relationships than me.”

“I’m not so sure about the relationships aspect,” Aspect replied, getting up from his bow. He pulled Realm close with a wing and put him in a headlock. “This little colt hasn’t exactly expressed interest in a lasting relationship. He’s just a massive pervert lusting after something he hasn’t had yet. I blame the other founders besides Clover. They were regular visitors at the castle and they only indulged his curiosity for terminology.”

“The Unification Era was… weird,” Celestia chuckled and nuzzled her student. “Well, consider this a lesson in growing up. And, not all colt are icky okay?”

“Yeah well…” Twilight blushed. “He… he saw my…” She couldn’t even finish she was so embarrassed.

“Something I will be making sure he doesn’t make a picture of,” Aspect nodded firmly. “Trust me, I can keep him on a short leash if I have to, to make sure he behaves.”

Realm whimpered, still curled up and trying to be adorable.

Then Twilight smiled.

“Oh that’s alright, in fact, I have an idea if you permit me Aspect.”

“I’d like to hear it first,” the stallion stipulated. “Adopted or not, pervert or not, he’s still my son.”

“Oh, nothing much,” Twilight smiled as she replaced Celestia in looming over him. “I’m just thinking if he likes mares so much… spending a day or two as one should be fun no?”

“I don’t like this version of Clover anymore,” Realm whined.

“On the condition that you put a timer into the spell so that it wears off automatically, and a trigger so that you can take it off whenever,” Aspect stipulated.

“Hmm, I guess,” Twilight grinned sharkishly.

“Dad!” Realm piped up, upset that he was being betrayed like this.

“You made this bed,” Aspect told the colt. “Now you get to lie in it.”

“Oh, I bet he’ll find a nice stallion or two that will let him do just that~” Twilight said, her grin widening.

“No! Please no! Anything but that!” Realm replied in haste and with a flap of his wings and a flare of Gale King wind, he fled the room.

Once he was gone, Twilight sighed and looked at Celestia. “Did I do that right? I said it just like you instructed.”

“T-That was… most well done,” Celestia said in a shaky tone, barely concealing her giggles.

“Bet he’ll think twice about flirting with a mare now,” Aspect sighed. “I’ll just threaten to sic you on him if he doesn’t behave.”

“I didn’t mean to scare him so bad!” Twilight said with wide eyes. “I just did what the Princess said!”

“Trust me, I was this close to letting you actually cast that sort of spell on him,” Aspect returned, holding his wingtips close to one another by way of demonstration. “It’d serve him right to be on the other side of the fence once in a while. That colt’s got a very active imagination, and he does his best to fuel it.”

“I don’t even know a spell like that,” Twilight sighed. “I’m going to find him, apologise and start over.” She turned and walked off, grumbling about how perverts were one thing, annoying adults were another.

“Well, at least he learned respect for all of a second,” Aspect sighed. “I’m still going to keep him on a short leash, though. We don’t need him getting any ideas.”

“You might as well tame Discord while you’re at it,” Celestia sighed as somepony knocked on the door. “Hm? Expecting guests?”

“Not really, no,” Aspect replied as he walked to the front door and peeked out it. As he did, a pair of cream-coloured lips met his.

“Hello love,” Bon Bon smiled once she broke it. “I’m back, a little later than I thought. Sorry about that.”

“Hello there,” Aspect smiled back at her. “So how did your talk go?”

“It… went in a much different direction than I expected.” she said with a blush. “That’s… why Rainbow Dash and I are here to talk to you. We’ve come to an… understanding of sorts and want your opinion before proceeding.”

“O...kay?” Aspect blinked, before opening the door wider. “How about you come in and we can get you introduced to Written Script, properly this time?”

“Um… well you see, I think, I just made things more complicated,” Bon Bon said quietly as she walked in, Dash following her.

“It can’t be that bad,” Aspect brushed off as he looked at a nearby painting. “Where’s Script?” he asked of the artwork.

“Drawing room,” the pony in the painting replied. “Attending a ball with some of the nobles.”

“Thank you,” Aspect nodded to the painting before leading the way. “This way. We’ll get you and her properly met and then you can tell me whatever it is you’re going to tell me.”

“Um… I really think we should tell you first,” Bon Bon squeaked.

“No, I messed up,” Aspect replied, shaking his head. “I should have been honest from the start. I put a strain on our relationship and I’m going to fix it.”

Rainbow groaned. “Urgh, you’re taking too long. Let me explain it.”

And then she kissed him. With tongue.

Aspect responded the only way he could, really. With his eyes going wide and his wings ‘pomf’ing out.

“Yeeaahhh,” Bon Bon said slowly. “We uh… kind of sorta agreed to try the whole herd thing. Turns out Rainbow likes you.”

Rainbow would add her two bits. She was still busy kissing though. Eventually they had to come up for air and Aspect took a moment to get his head on straight. “I...what?” he gasped out.

“Yes, as I said…” Bon Bon blushed. “I guess… if you don’t mind, well… I don’t either…”

“I can honestly say that this is not a thing that has happened to me before,” Aspect muttered.

“Ya think,” Rainbow shrugged. “Well, it was Bon’s idea. And, well I’m cool with it if you are. We talked about it for a while. But, it’s still your decision.”

“I...well…” Aspect mused. “Hmm...Okay. One condition.”

“Condition?” Rainbow and Bon Bon echoed. Celestia was just standing there with an open mouth. How… How did her father do this!?

“No fighting over each other,” Aspect laid down. “No fighting over spending time with each other, and we don’t go to bed angry if we can avoid it. Got it?”

Rainbow smirked. She turned and grabbed Bon Bon, drawing the mare for an almost more passionate kiss than the one she gave Aspect.

“...Okay, so that works too,” Aspect squeaked. “You, uh. Certainly move fast.”

Bon Bon was flustered as all heck, before melting into the kiss and moaning softly.

*pomf*

And there went Celestia’s wings.

“Let’s...take this elsewhere, before Realm comes back,” Aspect urged the mares. Rainbow broke the kiss and licked her lips as Bon Bon collapsed to the floor, panting softly.

And Twilight stood in the doorway with wide eyes.

“Or precisely this happens,” Aspect sighed.

“R-R-Rainbow…?” Twilight stammered. “What?”

“Oh, heya egghead,” Rainbow waved. “Yeah… well, turns out I kinda like the eggheads here as well. So uh, this happened.”

“Come on,” Aspect said, nudging Rainbow and Bon Bon with a wing. “Let’s take this out of the foyer before Realm comes back. You don’t want him getting wind of it just yet.”

“S-Sure…” Bon Bon murmured. Aspect led the way, leading the two mares out of the foyer and leaving Twilight there with her thoughts. Celestia could deal with that.

“Okay, so,” Aspect said as he opened the door to his bedroom. “We need to figure out what’s going on when and where.”

“How… do you mean?” Bon Bon asked. “I’m really confused right now.”

“Yeah, I got that impression,” Aspect chuckled, before leaping up on his bed and settling on it. “Well, let’s put it like this. Rainbow, what do you want out of this?”

“Well…” Rainbow shuffled on her hooves, looking a little awkward after being put on the spot. “I dunno really. I mean, I kinda like you… and Bon’s fun in her own way. I guess… Argh!” She scratched at her head. “I’m no good at all this ‘feelings’ crap!”

“Okay, fine,” Aspect invited with a roll of one hoof. “Show me what you want.”

“Mrrr, now this is awkward n’stuff,” Rainbow blushed. She took a breath and remembered what he’d said about confidence. “Look Aspect. I like you okay, I probably have for a while now. And ever since you helped Scoots like you did, I respect you a ton.” She’d calmed down a little and took another breath. “I… haven't had the best record with special someponies. I’m ‘too intense’ or ‘they don’t wanna deal with me’ so… I can’t guarantee you won’t get sick of me like all the others…”

“That hardly sounds like a fate I would want to bestow upon the bearer of Loyalty,” the stallion idly observed aloud, before petting the bed with a hoof. “Come on. Invitation is still open. Show me what you want. I don’t think Bonnie will mind.”

Bon Bon nodded, while she was still getting used to this, a part of her wanted to see this too.

“So uh… what, do you want me to do?” Rainbow asked. She’d been so confident with Bon Bon… what was different now? Aspect smiled kindly at her before repeating himself.

“Come up here and show me. Actions speak louder than words. I’ll tell you to stop if I feel like you’re going too far, or Bonnie will.”

Oh… Oh!

Then Rainbow’s demeanor changed. She stepped closer, a confident sway in her flanks as she walked up to the bed. “Show you huh? I can do that.” She climbed up onto the bed and crawled towards him, her tail swishing to and fro.

“Don’t forget to make sure Bonnie can see what you get up to,” Aspect reminded her before mentally turning himself over to the prismatic mare’s mercies.

“I can see just fine,” Bon Bon said from the side of the bed as Rainbow started trailing small kisses up his form.

“Turn over, onto your belly,” she said in a husky, breathless whisper. Aspect mentally shrugged and turned so that he was laying on his stomach, wondering what she could get up to. Once he was, she crawled up so she was laying over his hindquarters as she pressed her muzzle into the space between his wings. Finding a small cluster of nerves there, she opened her mouth and nibbled it lightly.

The result was an instant wing-boner from the stallion as he tried to fight down a blush. That had felt...very nice.

Then she moved along his wingjoints, pulling and nibbling as she brought up a hoof and started to rub along the ‘arm’ of his other wing.

“Oohhhh,” Aspect moaned, enjoying the feeling immensely. “That feels...very nice. I haven’t had someone around to preen me in...ages~”

Oh? He thought she was preening him~

Rainbow smirked as she moved in, and nibbled the elbow joint of his wing, pressing her tongue along the joint as she let out a rather lewd moan. Aspect’s response was a moan of his own as he did his best to not shift. Something else was responding to her attentions now, and she still wanted him on his belly.

“Hmm, somepony likes,” Bon Bon smiled as she leaned closer. “Well Aspect? Doing such naughty things with another mare, and in front of me no less. Such a naughty colt~”

And with that breathless whisper, she drew him in for a sensual kiss while Rainbow just kept teasing his wings. The stallion moaned into the kiss, not sure what was going on anymore, but liking it all the same. His wings twitched as Rainbow kept teasing him, while something else...throbbed.

“Heh, I wonder how much he can take?” Rainbow chuckled as she nuzzled his wingjoints again.

“Should we find out?” Bon Bon mused.

Aspect didn’t exactly have much of a mind left, overwhelmed as it was by everything they were doing to him. He’d never been touched by another pegasus before. At least, not like this.

“Wow, I don’t think I’ve even seen him so twitchy before,” Bon Bon giggled. “What did you do to him?”

“A little of this, a little of that,” Dash smiled and ran a hoof down his back. Then in a flash, she was behind the earth mare, pulling her upright onto her butt as she nibbled at her neck and shoulders, Rainbow’s forehooves roaming over her chest and belly.

“A-Ah!” Bon Bon let out a small shriek of surprise, which quickly became one of pleasure. “Oohh~”

“She’s...good,” Aspect managed to get out, slurred though it was. What? He was still feeling it. And now he was wondering why nopony had ever stuck with this mare. He looked up and saw a rather glorious sight, Bon Bon propped upright , her hindlegs splayed outwards as Rainbow assaulted her neck in nips and kisses as her hoof teased the small nubs below her belly. Bon Bon’s mouth was open as she panted, her face flushed pink.

“I’ll give...her this,” Aspect said, his mind slowly congealing. “She knows how...to warm up...a pony...or pair.”

“Y-Yes…” Bon Bon said, though whether that was a statement about the lavish affections Rainbow was placing on her, or the answer to Aspect was up for debate. Then Rainbow found her marehood and spread it with a hoof as she made eye contact with Aspect. She slowly spread the mare for his viewing pleasure as she winked, placing a long, sensual lick along Bon Bon’s neck.

“Mmm,” Aspect mused, enjoying the view. “Gonna get her nice and slick, Rainbow?”

“Mmm, she’s already pretty wet,” the pegasus chuckled, taking one of her ears and nibbling on it as Bon Bon squeaked and moaned in response, her juices flowing down the cyan hoof that lovingly rubbed her clit.

“I do hope you realize, though,” Aspect mentioned, “That your earlier teasing and this show have created a rather pressing problem. If you wear out poor Bonnie, then somepony else will have to help me deal with it.”

“Oh?” Rainbow hummed in a less-than-innocent tone. “And what did you have in mind?”

“Probably something along pinning you to the bed and screwing you until you screamed my daughter’s name,” Aspect said without missing a beat.

“Hmm, and if I don’t wear the little candybutt here out?”

“Then turnabout is fair play, I’d say,” Aspect grinned. “I’m pretty sure she’d enjoy a chance for revenge and to explore a pegasus mare.”

“Aw horseapples…” Rainbow muttered as she felt Bon Bon tense up, before she suddenly turned and pinned Rainbow to the floor. Okay, the pegasus was not expecting her to be this strong. “Um… parley?”

“This isn’t a ship, and I’m not Captain,” Bon Bon smirked as she went for the direct route, moving to all fours and grabbing Rainbow’s hindlegs, spreading them as she dove right in. Dash moved a hoof to her mouth, letting out a muffled moan as the mare’s tongue went to work, licking and lapping at her clit, before probing her entrance.

“Ahhh… f-fuck!” the prismatic mare hissed, gripping at the rug with her forehooves.

“Oh Bonnie, did you hear that?” Aspect asked as he jumped down and let his little problem be on display for the prismatic mare. Only...that wasn’t that little.

Bon Bon’s mouth was occupied, she she wasn’t in any position to respond.

“Poor little mare has a potty mouth,” Aspect continued as he walked over to Rainbow’s head. “Better give it something to do.”

That got a satisfied hum from the candy maker, she closed her mouth around Rainbow’s mound, moaning loudly and pressing her tongue against her clit, flicking the little nub rapidly.

“A-Ahhh~” Rainbow gasped, her eyes widened as she started to pant.

Then something large and leaking a salty substance was introduced to her mouth. Aspect had taken his moment and given Rainbow something to do with her open maw. Namely, he’d shoved the tip of his length into it. She let out a surprised and rather muffled squeak, her tongue pressing against the tip out of reflex.

Bon Bon smiled as she looked up from her own spot, before leaning forwards and pressing her muzzle against his weighty sack, the tongue lolling out as she licked the orbs.

“Not that I don’t appreciate it,” Aspect said, running a hoof along Bon Bon’s head. “But we should make sure our new toy is properly slick, don’t you think? She’ll already be seeing to me for a moment...and then I’m thinking we switch ends.”

“Oh?” Bon Bon mused as she stroked Rainbow’s moist slit with a hoof, before bringing it up and hovering the appendage under his nose. “Tell me what you think.”

“Mmm, nice and slick,” Aspect smirked. “Okay then. Once she’s gotten me nice and slick too, we’ll see about the trade off.” He bucked his hips a little to see how much she could take in her mouth.

He got a few inches in before she coughed slightly, so she wasn’t quite as experienced in that department. Bon Bon moved back and licked her lips. Aspect nodded and pulled back out of Rainbow’s mouth, to let himself hang free. Apparently Bon Bon either had a plan or wanted something.

Her plan was to show Rainbow how it was done, as she eased Aspect back and then proceeded to take more than three quarters of his member into her mouth, a slight bulge in her throat showing how deep it was going.

“Holy Horseapples….” Rainbow breathed, her eyes wide. “Buck that’s hot…”

Aspect moaned softly in pleasure as one hoof stroked along Bon Bon’s mane, wondering how long she’d do this. He wasn’t complaining, heavens no. Just wondering when he’d get to move to the next thing in the lineup.

Bonnie moaned around him, before pulling all the way back, his member sliding free with a wet ‘pop’. She panted a little and looked at Rainbow. “I’ll teach you that if you show me the wing thing you did.”

“Deal,” Rainbow nodded as the two bumped hooves. Oh dear, ten minutes in and they were already conspiring against him.

“Fun as that may be,” Aspect said, before walking around Dash and nosing Bon Bon. “Why don’t you go see how talented her tongue is? I’ll be here, tending to her other needs.”

“Oh, and what if I wanna watch what you have planned?” Bon Bon smiled. “Go on, do whatever you want to her~”

“Waitwha?” Rainbow blinked.

That was all she got out before Aspect lined himself up and sunk the tip and a good half of his shaft into her folds. Even a rudimentary lubrication job like the one they’d gone through did wonders. She let out a loud moan, her wings twitching as Aspect probed a little deeper… before hitting some kind of barrier?

“...Dash, have you never?...” Aspect asked, suddenly stopping.

Rainbow blushed and looked to one side. That expression said it all.

“Are you sure you want to?” Aspect inquired, still holding himself still.

She was still for a few moments, before closing her eyes and nodding.

“Okay, um...this is probably going to hurt,” Aspect warned her. “Do you want me to do it fast or slow?”

“W-Who do ya think you're talking to?” Rainbow blushed. “Pfft, come on, bring it!” She bit her lower lip and braced herself, this was probably going to suck. Oh... well, Bon Bon kissing her, that was nice…

And then Aspect bucked his hips once, powerfully, giving the prismatic mare beneath him everything and tearing the barrier asunder. She let out a loud screech, though that was muffled by the kiss as she trembled beneath him.

Okay, buck! That had hurt. She’d crashed from a hundred feet up and that was a walk in the park compared to that. Aspect stroked one of her wings soothingly, whispering soft words to her. He also held himself still, waiting for her to get used to him before he continued.

Bon Bon broke the kiss, rubbing the lip and Rainbow had bitten. Well, it did save her from screaming down half the house.

“Buck…” Rainbow groaned. The pain was sharp and intense, but it was subsiding quickly, replaced by the full feeling of him inside her.

“Just let me know when you’re ready,” Aspect told Dash soothingly.

“Y-Yeah… you can go,” she nodded, the pain was mostly gone now. Bon Bon continued to stroke her wings as she placed gentle kisses along her neck.

Then Aspect pulled out, until just the tip was inside her. He held it there for a second, letting her feel the emptiness…

And then he thrust forward again, filling her up quite deliciously.

Rainbow let out a deep moan, this time was much better, as he was given a fresh coat of her juices. Not to be left out, Bon Bon sat upright beside her, spreading her legs and rubbing her own pussy for Aspect’s viewing delight.

Aspect was struck with a sudden idea, and used a wing to point from Bon Bon...to Rainbow’s mouth. She could be using it for something other than moaning. And speaking of...Aspect gave her another thrust. And then another, settling into a steady rhythm, wanting to make sure she enjoyed her first bucking.

Bon Bon nodded and stood over Rainbow, the pegasus mare latching onto her flanks and pulling her down, placing a sloppy kiss on her marehood. Bon gasped from the rather sudden and enthusiastic efforts, now moaning herself.

That was when Aspect leaned forward and caught Bon Bon in a kiss, effectively silencing everypony in this three-way. He picked up his speed a touch, enjoying how tight Rainbow was to not. And damned was she tight, even moreso than Bon Bon. Though being a slightly smaller mare might have helped that.

Bon Bon moaned into the kiss as Rainbow took her clit between her teeth, nibbling and sucking on it. Aspect just kept pistoning into and out of her, wondering how long somepony as fresh as Rainbow could possibly last.

He got his answer as she let out a loud moan and her velvety walls squeezed him like a vice, milking his member for its seed as she came. Her body trembled and her wings twitched as she pulled back from Bon Bon moaning and panting with each twitch of her marehood.

“And to think, I’m not quite there yet,” Aspect mused aloud. “Though I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere for a minute, she’s so tight around me.”

“Mmm, so what will you do?” Bon Bon purred as she rubbed her clit with a hoof. “Where are you going to put that generous load of yours~?”

“Let’s ask her where she wants it,” Aspect replied, before leaning down and nibbling at Dash’s neck. “Mmm, where do you think I should cum?”

“N-Not… inside…” Dash panted, her brain felt numb. “Dun wanna… can’t…”

“Well she doesn’t want it in her,” Aspect said, before looking at Bon Bon. “What about you? Any bright ideas as to where I should spend it?”

“Well, that’s all up to you isn’t it?” Bon Bon winked at him. “I won’t complain with what you decide.”

“Mmm, I’m highly tempted to blow a load in each of you,” Aspect growled to them both. “But I know better. Still…” He trailed one hoof down Dash’s body and rubbed at her clit before starting to buck her again, just as fast as he had been going. “Tell me again why I shouldn’t do it to you, Dash.”

“I don’t…” Dash bit her lip, trying to answer but all she could do was moan under his touch.

“Now now, don’t be mean to her,” Bon Bon chuckled. “Getting pregnant would certainly put a dampener on her career dreams.”

“Well then, I could aim for a different hole with her,” Aspect mused. “Or I could avail myself of you, my sweet candy mare. What do you think I should do?”

“Well like I said, as long as you adhere to Dashie’s wishes, I don’t mind,” she cooed and kissed his cheek. “Inside, or a shower... Do. As. You. Like~”

“Well then, sweet mare, would you object to taking a load in you?” Aspect asked, pausing for just a moment.

“As you wish,” Bon Bon hummed as she turned around, straddling Rainbow Dash as she pressed their bellies together. Aspect pulled out of the one mare and plunged into the second, filling Bon Bon with his length. She let out a coo of pleasure, that full feeling was becoming something of an addiction.

“Mmmm, very nice,” his sweet mare sighed contently. “So tell me, what are you gonna do to me~”

“I am going to fill you up,” Aspect grunted to her, now going quite fast in his thrusting, almost slamming their hips together. “And then I am going to introduce Dashie to the wonderful world of how to take a load without getting pregnant.”

“I-Is that… so?” Bon Bon panted, gripping the pegasus under her as the stallion rammed his length into her. “You… like that huh?”

“Dash may be tight, but you’re skilled,” Aspect uttered, before firmly gripping her. His thrusting became erratic, shorter, as his length throbbed within her.

“Mmm, that I am,” Bon Bon moaned, giving the exhausted Rainbow a lazy kiss. “You… you gonna breed this mare now?”

“Here...it...comes!” Aspect snorted out, before he began filling Bon Bon with his release. Long streams of his cum erupted into her tunnel, filling her up. Bon Bon gasped, before her own climax joined his and he felt her walls clamp shut, milking his cock for its seed, each shot emptying into her womb as she cried out in ecstasy.

It lasted for what seemed like forever before Aspect shuddered and pulled free of the mare, quickly dropping next to her and nuzzling and cuddling both her and Dash. Bon Bon also collapsed, Rainbow wincing as the mare fell on top of her.

“Urh, thanks BoulderBon,” the pegasus smirked and smacked her flank. She peered around her and saw the mess Aspect left behind. “Tartarus, you think you stuffed her enough?”

“Mmmnope, I’m still good for another round,” Aspect smirked, before rolling Bon Bon off of Dash and pulling the pegasus mare away from the mess, so that he could cuddle her alone without the fear of either of them getting sticky. “Gimmie like...five minutes to recover and I’ll rock your world again.”

“And I’m just tossed aside,” Bon Bon sighed dramatically. “Well, I suppose Dashie has to catch up somehow~”

“I’ll snuggle you after stuffing her, promise,” Aspect told Bon Bon. “After all, I don’t think this is gonna be any easier on her.”

“Huh?” Rainbow blinked. “Say what now?”

Aspect smirked, looked down, and used a hoof to adjust himself. Dash suddenly felt his length prodding at her again, but it wasn’t at her pussy this time...it was somewhere...lower. Rainbow let out a loud squeak and blushed hard.

“H-hey! J-Just what do you think you’re doing!?”

“Giving you a load where it won’t do you any harm,” Aspect said matter-of-factly before he pushed the tip of his head into her pucker. Her eyes widened and she glared at him.

“W-What? That’s weird! Why would you do that?” Oh gods, she looked like an angry chipmunk. Aspect leaned down, kissed her, and shoved his slickened member as deep into her as it could go in one thrust. She let out a loud noise, something between a moan and a shout of protest.

“Ohh, she’s gonna smack you when you’re done there,” Bon Bon chuckled. “Better enjoy it while it lasts.”

Aspect put one hoof between them and used it to rub at Dash’s clit, trying to make her associate pleasure with the feeling of having her backdoor invaded as he started properly bucking her. He didn’t unseal his lips from hers, though. And wouldn’t until she stopped trying to yell at him.

Once he broke the kiss… well, she wasn’t quite done with him.

“Ahhhh, fuck!” she hissed. “I’m gonna bucking kick your… aaahh~”

“See like this,” Aspect said, starting to pick up the pace a little. “You don’t have to worry about getting pregnant. And after the initial weirdness, it feels good, doesn’t it?”

“N-No! It… feels weird,” Rainbow blushed and looked away. “I mean… you’re weird!”

“Well maybe I just need to try harder,” Aspect mused, before using his hoof to rub her pussylips as he kept pistoning his length into and out of her rear. She couldn’t help but let out a moan. Goddess, why did she like this? It was her butt. Was… was she a weirdo?

“Just tell me how much you like it,” Aspect whispered to her. “And maybe I’ll let you cum~”

Bon Bon rolled her eyes, so he was going to play that game huh? Actually… that gave her an idea…

“I-It’s weird!” Dash replied, though it was sounding less and less convincing. “Jerk…”

“Everypony has things they like more than others,” Aspect said, giving his hoof rubbing her a new mission. He trailed it over that sweet, tight flank he was bucking, rubbed her cutie mark…

And then spanked Dash. Lightly, but there was definitely a smack there.

And she responded with a loud squeak and blushed. “W-What was that for!?”

“For not admitting that you enjoy it,” Aspect grinned down to her, rubbing his hoof into the freshly-spanked flank. Dash glared at him again, but Bon just grinned along with Aspect.

“Spank her again,” she egged him on.

“What? No!” Dash’s eyes widened. “You wouldn’t da—”

*Smack*

Exactly where the first one had landed as well.

Rainbow let out a yelp… well, that sounded like more of a moan actually. But her blush intensified. Aspect rubbed the tender spot with his hoof, smirking as he kept bucking her at a steady, even pace. He didn’t need to cum just yet. He needed her to admit that this was a valid alternative for her.

“Asshole,” Dash muttered under her breath.

*Smack*

Okay, that spot had to be getting sore now. But her moans were getting much louder. Did…

Oh, she was enjoying getting punished like that. The near torrent of marecum running down her legs was evident enough of that. Experimentally, Aspect spanked her other flank now, just to give the first one a break and to see how much she enjoyed fresh pain. Another spurt from her winking sex as she moaned, biting down on her hoof to try and keep the noise she made down.

“Mmmn~ Now that is hot,” Bon Bon purred as she moved behind Aspect, rubbing his balls with a gentle hoof.

“We could totally put her into a haze just by spanking her,” Aspect pointed out, doing exactly that and giving Dash a fresh spanking on both flanks. She moaned again, her eyes rolling back as she came for… well, she forgot how many times she came.

“Now now, don’t break the poor girl,” Bon Bon chided him. She leaned down behind him, putting that muzzle and tongue to work against his balls and the base of his shaft. Aspect grunted before leaning down and whispering something to Dash. A question.

“You like this, don’t you, little toy?” Aspect grunted to her.

“Y-” Dash gasped as he pushed deeper. “Yes… it feels… really gooood~”

“You want my load inside you, don’t you?” Aspect prodded her, holding himself deep inside the mare.

Rainbow bit her lip again, remaining silent. Aspect responded to that by running a hoof over one of the sore parts of her flank. She eeped and looked away, her face burning red as she mumbled something.

“Louder,” Aspect told her, grinding his hoof into that part of her flank.

“I-Inside me,” she gasped, looking both needy and indignant at the same time. “Just… I want it inside okay!?”

“Was that so hard?” Aspect asked as he started picking up the pace, feeling his second load coming just around the corner. Bon Bon stroked the base of his shaft and giggled… before spanking his rump with a nice, loud smack. Aspect was caught off-guard and thrust very hard into Dash all of a sudden. Dash let out a loud yelp, before that turned into a very lewd moan.

“Ooh, that was fun~” Bon Bon hummed as she circled his Cutie Marks. “Seems little Dashie isn’t the only one who likes it~”

“S-She scares me,” Dash panted. “Assertive Bon Bon is scary.”

“To be fair...she’s been the assertive one for me constantly,” Aspect pointed out as his thrusting turned erratic, opting to hold himself as deep in the mare as possible instead of pulling out anymore. “Here it comes, Dashie…”

Bon Bon leaned back down and with a small hum, ran her tongue around the shaft that wasn’t buried inside the pegasus mare. Aspect grunted, locked lips with the mare he was stuffing, and came, filling her rear with his seed as it erupted out of him. Rainbow gasped, holding him with her hooves as what she thought was both the best and absolutely weirdest feeling overcame her.

“Mmmm, not a bad sight at all,” Bon Bon hummed. “I still think she could use a glazing though~”

Aspect just remained still, holding the mare close as he filled her, kissing her and waiting for the twitching to stop. All too soon it did, and he pulled his limp cock out of the cyan flank it had been stuffed into. His seed poured out of her not a moment later, forming a sizeable pool on the floor under her flank as she panted heavily.

“I guess that works too,” Bon Bon shrugged. Then smirked as she leaned down, her flank in the air as she made quite a showing of cleaning the mare up with her tongue.

“Gods damn it, mare,” Aspect swore as he looked at the sight. “Do you want me to die of dehydration? I’m seriously considering pinning you for round three.”

“Hmm, that sounds like a problem for you,” Bon Bon hummed as she slowly licked the cum from around Dash’s ass, licking up past her clit and swallowing the mouthful with a loud gulp. “I’m just enjoying my dessert~”

There was a flap, a thumping feeling on her back, and something prodding her pussy again. “No, I’m pretty sure it’s a problem for you now,” Aspect whispered in her ear.

“Oh, mind explaining how?” Bon Bon giggled, wiggling her rump so he couldn’t aim properly. Aspect growled in her ear and shifted himself around until he caught again and quickly thrust into her.

“Like that,” he replied smugly as the tip sunk into her once again. Bon Bon smiled and sighed contently.

“Still failing to see that it’s a problem,” she cooed back. “You sure you can last?”

“Mare, I will rut you into the ground if that’s what it takes,” Aspect swore. “Plus. I cheat. I always cheat.” He bucked his hips again and sank a good third of his shaft into her.

“Oh? Are you saying you can’t do it without cheating?” Bon Bon taunted him.

“Pussy,” Rainbow smirked.

“Putting up with one mare saps a normal stallion dry,” Aspect pointed out, running his hooves over Bon Bon’s flanks. “But putting up with the needs of two? Yeah, I better damn well cheat if I want to make them moan my name.”

“I suppose,” Bon Bon hummed. “But we can’t be up here all day, we still have to chat with your ex-wife.”

“She isn’t going anywhere,” the stallion replied as he gave a mighty buck and sank himself fully back into Bon Bon. “You put on a show and got me hard again, I’m going to deal with it in the best way possible.”

The mare moaned as he buried himself inside her. “I was just cleaning up after you, it can’t be helped you’re a pervert,” Bon Bon giggled.

“Oh, he is huh?” Rainbow said, still pinned under them. “Well Aspect? You gonna pony up and fuck her or what?”

“I think I’ll fuck her, then you again, just to see if you’re more open to a second round than you were the first one,” Aspect mused. “Maybe then I’ll be able to let sleeping mares lie.” He pulled back and started humping Bon Bon vigorously, wanting to see how quickly he could make her cum.

Bon Bon moaned loudly as she all but collapsed on top of Dash, the pegasus mare holding her steady as the stallion rutted her.

“Ohh, you should see her face,” Dash cooed in a tone that only seemed to make him harder. “Pound that sweet candy flank Aspect!”

Aspect grunted and kept up his fast pace, knowing that neither of them would last long if he kept it up. He just hoped she would finish first.

“Mmm, harder Aspect~” Rainbow continued, throwing in a sensual moan or two of her own. “She’s begging for it, give her what she wants, stuff her full, breed her Aspy~”

Bon Bon’s own moaning almost drowned out her voice, her eyes were rolled back as she lay atop of the pegasus, just letting Aspect do as he liked. If she’d come by now, she had no idea.

Aspect grunted, thrusted harder, harder...and then didn’t stop fucking her, even as he filled her up again with his third load that day.

“Aaahhhhh~ Assspect!” the mare cried out, moaning as Rainbow rubbed her flanks and winked at Aspect. Bon Bon’s walls squeezing him rhythmically as she climaxed again.

“Daaaamn,” Rainbow whistled. “You two can really put on a show.”

“Don’t get too comfy,” Aspect grunted as he eventually slowed down, before stopping and pulling out of the candy mare. “I believe I promised you another round.”

“You’re gonna die at this rate,” Rainbow chuckled. “It’s cool, I’m pretty tired anyway.” She was worried he’d push himself too far, despite whether she wanted him to or not.

“...Fine,” Aspect finally relented. “For now.”

“Ohh, sounds like a threat,” Rainbow chuckled, trying and failing to shift the thoroughly fucked Bon Bon. “You sure you’ll even walk after this?”

“Not without cheating,” Aspect said, casually shifting Bon Bon to one side of the prismatic pegasus before lying down between them and hugging them both close to his sides with his wings. Bon Bon was already out like a light, still panting even in her sleep.

“So… I take it I convinced you then?” Rainbow said with a teasing wink.

“And we convinced you,” Aspect replied, nuzzling the mare. “Mmm. Well this was a delightful experience.”

“Hmm, a stallion not complaining about screwing two hot mares… what a shocker!” Rainbow said with no small amount of snark.

“Aww, you’re snarking already!” Aspect cooed. “You’ll fit right in with the family.”

“Mhmm, well you ‘fit in’ me just fine,’ Rainbow smirked.

“Barely, you were very tight,” Aspect replied, leaning down to whisper in her ears. “I’ll enjoy seeing how long that lasts,” he promised the mare before nibbling on the ears. Rainbow moaned softly, her tail brushing up against his member.

“Mmm, you better stop tempting me into round four, though,” Aspect warned her. “Otherwise I might just see how long you can last.”

“Pfft, as if!” Rainbow snorted. “You’re the one tempting me. I’m still good, you’re the half dead one.”

“I’m seriously abusing the definition of ‘Earth pony stamina’ here, but I am pretty sure I could keep going if I had to,” Aspect replied, nibbling along Rainbow’s neck.

“Uhuh,” Rainbow smirked.

“You’re gonna make me do it to shut you up, aren’t you?” Aspect returned to staring at Dash’s face, his gaze half-lidded in annoyance.

“Nope, never said anything of the sort,” Rainbow hummed, closing her eyes. “That’s you coming to conclusions, after ‘cumming’ to my charms of course~”

“Right,” Aspect said, getting up and standing over Dash. “Round four it is then.”

Then his world spun as the pegasus surged upwards and lifted him off of the ground, before tossing him onto the bed and pinning them there.

“Round four it is~” she cooed and licked her lips.

“You either better make your move or get ready to go back on the bottom,” Aspect warned Dash. “Because you have about five seconds before I put you there otherwise.”

Then she all but buried his shaft inside her as she slammed her hips down in one motion.

“Good move,” Aspect gasped out.

“All my moves are good~” Rainbow said as she flared her wings for more support as she started raising and lowering her hips. He could feel his medial ring slip past her opening, making her moan and gasp each time it did. He raised his hooves and gripped her flanks before he started bucking into her as well, timing it to match each thrust.

“Mmmm, that’s the spirit,” she moaned. “Ahhh~ Fffuck that’s good!” Her tight walls squeezed him and each time she lifted up, he felt like he was just getting sucked right back in again.

Then Aspect smirked and smacked her flanks. She let out a small whine, followed by a moan as her rutting picked up pace a little.

“Somepony likes this~” Aspect teased her. “Not an hour ago you were a virgin and look at you, already coming back for a second round.”

“S-Shut up,” Rainbow whinnied lightly as she picked up speed again, her tail whipping around and slapping his flanks with it.

“Mmm, better be careful though,” Aspect warned her. “Naughty little Dash might get a load in her pussy if she keeps it up like this.”

“Well you better warn Dash beforehoof,” she said back in the same tone. “Or this’ll be the last ride you ever take.”

“You’re good for a little bit,” Aspect soothed, before smacking her flanks again. “Besides, I have other ways to get you to cum first~”

Then Rainbow’s wings drooped, her primaries touching his as he felt her pegasus magic mingling with his own. He knew unicorns could do this with their horns but…

The sensation was novel, but not enough to get him to cum. Not just yet. One hoof went to her lips and started rubbing her clit, while the other one rubbed the sore spot it had made on her flank.

“B-Bucking cheater,” she muttered. She didn’t have the upper hoof here, all his sensitive points were on his back, and she lacked experience for anything else.

Wait, would that work?

She focused… which wasn’t easy, as she started exercising the muscles in her hindquarters. She wanted to try and squeeze him with the muscles in her pussy, though she wasn’t sure if it was working or not…

Aspect’s breath hitched as he felt, quite suddenly, her tunnel getting quite tight. Fuck! Now he couldn’t move through her so easily!

On the upside, though, it felt amazing.

She tried flexing different muscles, having the effect of the muscles pulsing around him as she continued to ride him, not slowing down at all. It was like when Bon Bon used her mouth, the tight warmth and wetness of Rainbow’s, now sucking him hard each time she pulled out. She couldn’t keep this up for long, she could feel her climax building.

“Fuck fuck fuuuuuck,” Aspect moaned as he lay back. “If...if you keep that up, I’ll…”

“Are… are you close?” Rainbow huffed, she was on the edge… just a bit more…

“I can’t hold it for long,” the stallion warned her. “You’d better…”

“Fuuuuuck!” she cried out, her climax finally tipping as she came, her warm juices flooding his member as her walls spasmed, her body trembling.

“It’s comiiiiiiing,” Aspect cried out as his cock twitched inside her. Rainbow groaned, barely pulling herself off of him as she fell forward, landing on his chest as his member settled on her ass, her tail brushing against his weighty orbs.

It was right about then that, if Bon Bon had been awake, she would have seen him glazing the Dash. His member erupted one last time that day, sending seed washing over Dash’s body. The pegasus panted hard as she felt the warm liquid splash her rump, back and wings.

“F-fuuuck,” she groaned. “How… much you...got in there?”

“I have no idea,” Aspect panted as he finally stopped. “Fuck...that’s...okay. Are we good now?”

“Yeah… I’m done… I’m so done…” Rainbow said as she lay there, still panting from the efforts. “This… totally didn’t go the way I expected…”

“Are you complaining?” Aspect asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Nooope,” Rainbow chuckled and yawned. She still needed to clean off before this gunk dried though. So with a weary groan, she pulled herself up. “Bathroom?”

Aspect pointed at the far door with a wing. She nodded and followed his direction. A shower sounded really good right about now.

The stallion chuckled before going back to Bon Bon and laying next to her. Cuddles for everypony involved.

Author's Notes:

And here we see the dangers of associating with a unification-era colt...

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