Twilight sat at the circular wooden table surrounded by her new friends. She couldn’t believe that it had been only two weeks since their victory against Nightmare Moon. Since then, Celestia had decided to let her continue her studies in Ponyville due to her not wanting to leave them so soon. Despite being new to friendship, the other mares seemed to like her greatly. They even befriended Spike who seemed happy to have new friends.

But here they sat, as Twilight slowly sorted through her mail. There was something that she had been waiting on, that they’d all been waiting on. She spotted the letter with the royal seal, among the junk mail and coupons and eagerly opened it.

“Dear Twilight Sparkle, I, Princess Celestia, cordially invite you and your friends to the Canterlot Ball. We hope you will wear the appropriate attire and-”

“Um, can you skip to the good part?” Spike asked from his seat. He was sitting on the other side of Twilight on a seat and a stack of books. The other mares nodded in agreement.

“I gotta agree with Spike on this one. I don’t want to hear all this boring official royal garbage,” Rainbow Dash huffed.

“Ah alright then,” Twilight cleared her throat and continued. “These tickets are for you, your new friends and Spike to use,” Twilight levitated tickets towards each mare and Spike. She sat the last one in front of herself. “Sincerely, Princess Celestia.”

“Dang, the Princess was nice of you to think of all of us like that,” Applejack said. “But ah’m still just a bit confused as to what this Canterlot Ball is. Is it like a fancy party?”

Twilight shook her head. “There are two Canterlot Balls that happen around this time of the year. One of them is a fancy party where you drink and dance. The other one, the one we’re invited to is more like sex ball.”

“It’s basically orgies,” Spike shrugged.

“Um well it’s not just orgies,” Twilight explained with a blush. “It’s a way for all the elites to relieve some steam after a long year. You can have sex with whoever there or get kinky or do whatever you want. There are very few rules. Attire is the same as a regular ball for when you first walk in though as to not arouse suspicion since very few are invited.”

“That’s really hot,” Rainbow Dash said finally. “So, we get to go?”

“It’s towards next year,” Twilight said. “I think there’s a date on this letter somewhere.”

“I smell an opportunity!” Rarity exclaimed.

“There’s no date on the letter, but I assume that because the same ponies get invited every year, so we all know when it is. I’ll tell you a couple weeks beforehoof, ok, Rainbow?”

“Customers who want to get off? I could sell my toys there! Oh, but would I need a permit?” Rarity asked, looking at Twilight.

“Nope, it’s a free for all,” Twilight said. “But there might be other vendors there.”

“When they get a look at my goods, they won’t even blink…” Rarity paused for a moment. “Do you think Prince Blueblood would be there?”

Twilight blinked. “Maybe. Why?”

“Oh my goodness, he’s a Prince, Twilight!”

“In name only,” Twilight replied as swept the rest of her mail into a trash bin. “The most power he has is of a noble.”

“That’s because he’s not an alicorn right?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight nodded. “Correct. It’s more like honorary title. I’ve heard it was given to him because he’s a whiny bitch.”

“Damn, sounds like he got spoiled,” Applejack commented.

“Why are you interested in him anyways?” Fluttershy asked.

“Well, I… ahem, I may have a thing for him…” Rarity said, blushing.

“He doesn’t sound like the kind of stallion who’d go out with you,” Applejack said.

“Yeah I’ve read the magazines,” Rainbow Dash said. “I’ve heard every mare who tries to go out with him leaves in tears and only said bad things about him. Why do you even want to try?”

“It’s true, I’ve read the rumors,” Rarity said. She tossed her mane. “But I’m not just doing it because I’m attracted to him! It’s because he’s a prince.”

“She wants the royal status,” Rainbow said, rolling her eyes. “Good grief, you want to marry in rich. Be elite or whatever.”

Rarity turned red. “That’s a dream, yes. But I’m also doing it for love. He just happens to check a lot of boxes as well.”

“Good gravy,” Spike muttered.

Pinkie said, “But don’t worry because you’re amazing, Rarity! So even if you get rejected, it’ll be fine! Plus, I’ll bet you’ll make a ton of money there with your toys!”

“Not to mention that I heard he’s gay,” Spike pointed out. “And this is his first year being invited too.”

“He is not gay!” Rainbow Dash shouted. “If he was, the magazines would be all over him and I haven’t heard them mention him being with another stallion ever!”

“Maybe he’s good at hiding it,” Spike snapped back. “He’s a prince. The reporters would be everywhere.”

“Being gay isn’t that big of deal, Spike,” Pinkie said. “I mean, over half of Ponyville is gay.”

“That may be in a rural town but Canterlot is an elite cesspool filled with rich lowlifes who hate anything that isn’t straight,” Spike said angrily. “I’d know. I spent a majority of my life there.”

“Yeesh Spike, I didn’t mean to upset you,” Pinkie apologized.

“It’s fine,” Spike said.

“Speaking of money, ah’d like to make some mahself,” Applejack said. “Ah bet all those guests will pretty hungry after banging. They might have food there but when they get a whiff of mah delicious pies, they won’t be able to resist!”

“Oh, come on, Applejack, you can’t tell me that you don’t want to do a bit of banging yourself?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“No, ah don’t bang strangers,” Applejack replied, looking downwards.

“I’ll bet,” Rarity muttered. Applejack glared at her.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Well, you know who’ll probably be there? The Wonderbolts!” Rainbow Dash burst out, disrupting Rarity and Applejack’s tiny feud.

“The pornstars, right?” Spike asked, rotating himself towards her. “Are you going to try to bang your way into their group?”

“Nope! I’m going to ask them for tips,” Rainbow Dash said proudly. “You know, to become a pornstar.”

“Why bother? How hard can it be really? You just have sex in front of a camera. That’s it,” Spike shrugged.

“That’s hardly all there is to it!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “There’s far more than that to it! It takes skill to get an audience to enjoy your work. If having sex was all there was to it then there wouldn’t be so many pornstars.” Rainbow said through gritted teeth.

“She’s got a point,” Rarity agreed. “There are some actors who just don’t do it for me.”

“Besides, the Wonderbolts are an elite group of pornstars. They perform for royalty. So they don’t just accept anypony,” Rainbow Dash said. “You have to have the cutie mark for it.”

“The cutie mark for it?” Applejack asked.

“You know, like your sexual mark,” Rainbow replied, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Throughout the world, whether for ponies, griffons or even dragons, every magical creature of higher intelligence received a magical sexual cutie mark. Dragons and griffons couldn’t get regular cutie marks, but they could receive sexual ones, a situation whose origins was still unknown to ponies. The marks represented their sexual talents. They were gained once the creatures reached a certain age and once they had had enough sex. These marks were hidden by magic unless a creature wanted to intentionally reveal them.

Twilight hadn’t thought about it before, but what were these mares’ marks?

“Well that sounds like it weeds out a lot of folks,” Applejack said. She seemed to have forgotten Rarity’s comment. “So even if ya have the talent, if your sexual cutie mark don’t back that up, yer gone?”

“Well, they might make an exception, but I don’t know the details about that,” Rainbow Dash shrugged. “Plus, it’s not just about having a sexual mark. It’s about being able to fly well too.”

“Fly well?” Spike asked.

“Well, they’re pornstars by night but by day, they’re stage fliers. So, they do aerial performances.” Twilight said explained. “It’s not all about sex.”

“Ohhhh.”

“I’m aware and I’ve got that part down,” Rainbow Dash said, having not noticed that it was Spike who’d asked the question. “Did you know that I performed a Sonic Rainboom when I was younger?”

“Whaaaaat?” Exclaimed the group, minus Twilight.

“That shouldn’t be possible,” Twilight shook her head. “The amount of magic energy gained from something like that would kill a filly, not to mention how fast you’d have to be flying to get to that point. You’d rip your wings right off!”

“Well, good thing I wasn’t a filly then,” Rainbow Dash said proudly, thumping her chest. “This happened a couple years ago.”

“Even so I don’t think that you can fly that fast…”

“I did fly that fast!”

“Right,” Twilight said, skeptical as ever. “Could you do it again if I specifically requested it?”

“Probably!”

“Well, anyways,” Fluttershy said, after which, everypony immediately went silent. “I heard Crown Eggs will be there.”

“Who’s that?” Twilight asked.

“He’s famous in my society…”

“A society?” Twilight asked.

“Fluttershy is in a secret society for ponies with kinks,” Pinkie said, bouncing up after having been quiet for so long in the back. For a mare that broke into her house to throw a party, she was awfully less energetic today.

Rarity nodded in agreement. “It’s pretty exclusive. Crown Eggs supposed to be their former leader.”

Fluttershy nodded. “If he’s there, I’d like to meet him, at least once. He’s incredibly famous in our group.”

“What’s he famous for?” Twilight asked. “I mean, besides being a leader?”

“Oh um…” Fluttershy quietly looked to the side.

“We don’t know,” Rainbow Dash finally said after a moment of silence. “It’s a secret club for a reason.”

“Well then why bring it up?” Twilight asked.

“I thought maybe we were in a sharing moment?” Fluttershy said quietly.

Twilight frowned. “You can’t even talk to us about it?”

Fluttershy fidgeted for a moment before speaking. “Well if you wanted more information, you’d have to be interested in joining and I don’t think you’d like it.”

“I’m literally the Element of Kinky,” Twilight emphasized. She paused and tapped her chin thoughtfully. “Or of kinks? Anyways, I’m sure it would be nice to do some research into the club while I’m at it. Joining could help with that.”

“I’ll see what I can do,” Fluttershy whispered.

“Well, what are you going to do there, Pinkie?” Rarity asked, as silence befell the group once more.

“Well it sounds like Rarity is going to be courting Prince Blueblood, so I don’t know. I was going to help her sell her toys in the evening,” Pinkie shrugged. “But now I’m not sure.”

“What don’t you do some banging? I’ll supply the condoms,” Rainbow winked.

“I don’t like having sex,” Pinkie stated.

The room went silent for a third time before Spike spoke up.

“Well, it was cool to hear your guys plans,” Spike said.

“What will you do there, Spike?” Rarity asked.

“Probably just chill. I don’t know,” Spike rubbed his chin. “Maybe I’ll get drunk and light the carpet on fire.”

“Spike!”

Spike laughed. “I’m just joking. Calm your tits, Twi.”

“Well, what are you going to do Twilight?”

“Have sex,” Twilight shrugged. “Like I always do.”

“You’ve been to these things before?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Yeah,” Twilight nodded. “But I usually participated in the orgies. Maybe this time I’ll do something different.”

“Well, now that we all know what we want to do, ah’d like to bring up what you mean by ah don’t have sex with strangers,” Applejack asked, turning back to Rarity. “What in the hay is that supposed to mean?”

“Well, I was saying that… you know… if you don’t have sex with strangers, then who are you having sex with? We live in rural town, Applejack and nearly everypony is town is doing something with somepony. I know you think of the town’s ponies as nearly strangers since you never get off your farm except to sell and well, you know what they say…”

“What do they say?” Applejack frowned.

“Oh n-nothing!” Rarity rubbed the back of her neck. “Actually, if you could just forget my previous comment…”

“It means you only screw family members,” Pinkie said, her tone noticeably changed and her hair suddenly straighter. She stared at Applejack smugly. “I heard that Big Mac is kind of big down there if you know what I mean.”

“Ah don’t know what the hay is your problem, Pinkie!” Applejack said, slamming a hoof down on the table. “You’re insinuating this because you think ah’m just another backwoods country folk, is that it?”

“I’m just stating the facts, Applejack,” Pinkie said. It seemed like both her mane and coat had darkened. There was a look in her eyes, like she was more a crazed wild animal than a normal pony. Twilight even noticed one of her eyes twitched. The eyeball itself twitched. Twilight noticed one of her eyes twitched. Like her eyeball twitched. “Plenty of ponies used to get real, tight with their families back in the olden days. How do you think we populated the world? All I’m saying is that in down to earth families, like yours and mine, we like to keep our traditions alive. And you are the Element of Taboo.”

“Why ah outta-”

“Look, you know the rumors as well as I do,” Pinkie said, her ears twitching. Twilight watched as one eye darted to the side while the other stared straight at Applejack. Everypony else was looking at Applejack, including Spike. Was she was only pony noticing this? “Your parents were… related?”

“Pinkie,” Applejack took a deep breath. “None of that is true.

Twilight watched as Pinkie’s hair immediately ballooned back up and she nodded quickly.

“That’s right!” She looked down at her wrist then up at Applejack. “I’m sorry Applejack! I… um… have somewhere to be! Bye!”

Pinkie was gone faster than Twilight could blink. What had happened in that moment?

“Ah have a farm to handle.” Applejack said, scooping her ticket into her hat. “Thanks for the get together, Twlight. Ah’ll see y’all later in the week.” Applejack left just as quickly as Pinkie had.

“It’s touchy topic for her,” Rarity said, after both mares were gone. “Rumor has it that her parents were siblings."

"Well, the rumor is that most of her family is either siblings or cousins," Fluttershy said quietly. "Though I don't usually listen to rumors. They're rather mean. And there's no basis for them either.

“And she got the Element of Taboo, so it probably doesn’t help those rumors. Although those ponies don’t know why she got it…” Twilight muttered. “But it won’t help when they find out. Maybe we should do something.”

“Like what?” Rainbow Dash asked. “I think this sort of thing will work itself out.”

“I hope so,” Twilight said. “Hey so what’s up with Pinkie Pie?”

“What do you mean, darling?”

“She changed when she was talking to Applejack. It was like she was a whole new pony.” Twilight explained. “Her eyes went sideways.”

“She just gets like that sometime,” Rainbow Dash shrugged.

“But why?” Twilight asked. “Is she ok? Does it happen a lot?”

“I presume not, otherwise she would have brought it up, right?” Rarity asked. “I wouldn’t worry about it. She’s usually pretty strange.”

“Well, alright,” Twilight said with a frown. “Want to play a board game?”

“Why not?” Rainbow Dash shrugged.

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