Prompt: "The Mane Six all do something special together for Hearts and Hooves Day."

Time: 90 minutes

Originally posted at Sexty Minute Ponies

Outside, in Ponyville, there were pink hearts and red flowers and cute little cupid fillies, decorations hung up on every store.

Inside, in the library, six mares sat around a table, not a scrap of pink to be seen. Except, of course, a long pink mane. And a whole pink pony, one who couldn’t stop grinning and fidgeting, even on this dour occasion.

They looked around at each other - Spike had been sent away, tasked with some meaningless errand. A glass sat in front of each of them, filled to the brim with the Apple family’s finest spirits.

Except Fluttershy’s, of course. Applejack had been kind enough to bring a bottle of soft cider for her.

Everything was ready. Twilight sighed loudly, lifting her glass in a glow of magic.

“Girls? I think this is it,” she said. “Who wants to go first?” She looked to her right, where Rarity was sitting.

Rarity lifted her glass as well, pouting angrily at it. “To Hearts and Hooves Day,” she said. “I’m sure all the lucky mares with coltfriends are having a simply marvelous time.”

“It’s okay, Rarity,” Fluttershy, sitting next to her, said. “There’s always next year.”

“Oh, Fluttershy!” Rarity flailed dramatically. “You, of all ponies, alone as well? Sweet, beautiful Fluttershy! The injustice of it all!”

Fluttershy slumped a little on her seat, staring down at her drink.

“My turn!” Pinkie Pie bounced in place. “To Hearts and Hooves Day! Chocolates and cakes and crunchy little chalk hearts!”

Rainbow Dash, next around the table, shook her head. “You’re doing it wrong, Pinkie.”

“I wish I was doing it!” Pinkie growled, suddenly very annoyed. “I haven’t been doing it AT ALL. How can you go to a party and NOT want to do IT? This town is full of crazy ponies!”

Twilight nodded sagely, surprised to hear her own thoughts coming out of Pinkie’s mouth.

“Well, I’ve been gettin’ plenty. I mean come on, it’s me. Not nearly as sad as you guys,” Rainbow Dash said, grinning like she always does when she’s getting high on herself. It faded quickly. “But... y’know. Not that I’m into all this mushy stuff, but nopony even asked me out for today. ME. Rainbow freakin’ Dash. How does that happen?”

They all rolled their eyes, except Applejack. Applejack just glared at nothing, stone still, like she had been since her drink had been poured. The rest of the table stared - it was her turn, after all.

Applejack’s eyes narrowed, shrinking into burning green fires. She lifted her glass in her hooves.

“Fuck. Hearts. And Hooves. Day,” she said, pounding each syllable into the air.

“HEAR HEAR,” they all cheered in reply, and then six glasses were quickly emptied.

“Wheeeeee!” Pinkie Pie slammed her empty glass back down, first as always. “Again! Again!”

“Blegh!” Twilight finished hers just in time to see Pinkie scrambling after one of the bottles on the table, refilling her glass with gleeful abandon. Twilight hated taking shots, except under very specific circumstances. Tonight was one of of those, but she still couldn’t see how Pinkie threw herself into it with her usual enthusiasm.

The rest of them caught up to Pinkie Pie - all except Fluttershy, who just slowly sipped at her cider. She had that look to her - that rare, simmering look, the one only her friends really knew. It was a look that could shame dragons or herd a flock of unruly chickens. Applejack hadn’t even made a single joke about how the soft cider was usually made for little fillies.

“Alright, troops,” Applejack said, pausing to gulp down her second shot. “Report in.”

“No!” Rarity shook her head frantically, looming over her drink. “No, no, no, I just can’t.”

“...Another shallow ex-would-be-prince?” Twilight asked carefully, wondering how she had missed this one.

“Even that would have been preferable,” Rarity said. “Not so much as a single date in months. Months. At this rate I shall end up a forgotten spinster of a mare.”

“You could always hook up with Spike,” Rainbow Dash said, snorting into her glass. A few other members of their club snickered.

Rarity glared long and hard at the pegasus. “Aren’t you the one into bestiality? How closely related are griffons and ponies, anyway?”

“Hey, I was getting more than you!” Rainbow Dash yelled, deflating the moment she said it. “...Was,” she growled to herself.

“Alright, alright,” Applejack cut in. “What about you, Flu -”

Fluttershy lifted her eyes, only long enough to shake her head at Applejack. She just glared and stared and slowly shook her head, her eyes dark, burning turquoise hollows.

“...Anyway,” Applejack quickly turned to Pinkie.

Pinkie, again first, again as always, had already abandoned her glass and gone straight to the bottle.

“Hmm?” She stopped guzzling. “I want a special somepony but I do not have a special somepony and that makes Pinkie sad.” She fumbled with her usual cheery smile, barely recovering it. “They don’t even need to be that special! I just want a colt! ANY colt! I wanna just hold one down and kiss him and smooch and then just put my...”

“Yeah, we know, Pinkie. I’m so damn horny my hooves have been getting all pruney,” Rainbow Dash said.

“I WASN’T DONE!” Pinkie screamed, slamming her bottle on the table. Then she took a long pull at it, breathlessly rambling on. “I was at this party, like... a week ago.” She stopped to burp silently. “And I was dancing for like an HOUR and I was SO WORKED UP and I ate all these carrot cakes - you KNOW how I get when I eat carrot cakes!” she said to Fluttershy, who nodded. “And I just wanted to DO IT. Like, IT. So I grabbed this cuuuuuuuuute stallion and I was like, come on, let’s do it! And he was like, oh I don’t know, and I was like, Oh my god come on, and he was like...”

“Pinkie!” Rarity scolded. “Bareback is gay!”

“Well I didn’t KNOW that!”

“I told you that,” Rainbow Dash slapped her forehead. “I already tried that guy.”

“I thought you said you were getting plenty?” Twilight cocked an eyebrow.

“Yeah... well...” Dash hemmed and hawed, spitting the rest out quietly. “Plenty isn’t really enough for The Rainbow Dash, okay?”

Twilight was going to follow up on that, but Dash bowed down to drink some more. And then Applejack was looking at her.

“Oh, me?” Twilight balked, wishing she could hide under something.

“Yeah, didn’t you say you were gonna give datin’ a try?” Applejack asked.

Twilight sighed loudly. “Early experiments have not produced positive results.”

“What about that earth pony? The... what’s his name, Doctor something?” Rarity asked.

“I don’t know...” Twilight stared sourly at her drink, then gulped it down. “We went out for dinner, but he’s just so weird. I think he really liked me, and I tried, I really tried, but I just...”

Rarity put a hoof on her shoulder. “Well, at least you had a date. But I’m proud of you sticking to your standards. None of us needs a lover, after all.”

“Here’s to that.” Applejack threw another shot down. “This mare don’t need nopony.”

“Don’t tell me you went on a date?” Rarity said.

“I go on dates!” Applejack barked. “Doesn’t mean I want some skeevy sleazebag sayin’ we should do it in the bathroom.” She joined Pinkie in going straight for the bottle. “I know I ain’t like all... y’know, girly mare. But I ain’t trash, either.”

The room went silent, each mare alone with her drink. Twilight sank into her own thoughts, floating hazily on a fine cushion of liquor. This whole dating... thing was turning out to be just a bit more complicated than learning about friendship.

Maybe more research was necessary. Maybe the Princess could give her some good tips. Maybe...

“That’s it!” Pinkie sprang to her feet, crazed and jittering. “I can’t take it! This is all sad face lame tame pouty times!” She looked around at all of them, crying out in desperation. “I just want somepony to rut me!”

They all blinked at her.

“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie almost pounced on her, grabbing the blue pegasus pony’s face. “Come on, give it to me! Remember that one time?”

“Heh, well, yeah Pinks, but...” Rainbow Dash scooted back, trying to escape. “I was like, super drunk.”

“Then drink more!” Pinkie crammed a bottle into Rainbow Dash’s muzzle, pouring eye-watering whiskey all down her chin.

Rainbow Dash coughed and hacked, pushing Pinkie away. “Alright, alright! Sheesh.”

Then Pinkie dove onto her, cramming their muzzles together.

Twilight perked up instantly, her eyes widening on her own. Her horn tingled a little.

There they were, two of her closest friends. Pink and blue. Kissing long and hard, right in front of her.

Suddenly she could think of a whole new set of dating experiments.

“Ahhhh!” Pinkie broke away, looking not the least bit satisfied. “Come on, Dashie! Spank me! Pull my tail! Tell me I’m a naughty nasty party pony!”

“Hold on now!” Applejack growled. “You two can’t just do it right here!”

“Why not?” Rainbow Dash turned on her, forgetting the pink pony in her arms. “What are you, jealous?”

“What?!” Applejack’s tail shot straight out. “No! You ain’t all that!”

“Oh, I ain’t huh? That what you think?” Dash dropped Pinkie, prowling towards AJ. “You gonna stop me then?”

“Maybe I oughta!”

“Well then gimme your best shot!”

And then the two of them dove into each other, wrestling and grunting and biting. The rest of the table watched, enthralled. Dash had speed, true, but Applejack was a solid earth pony, nothing to trifle with when it came to good ole’ wrasslin’.

“There!” Applejack quickly pinned Dash on her belly, yanking her forelegs back and grinding her hips against the pegasus pony’s rump.

Dash panted, blushing a little, her wings flapping angrily. “No... hnn... fair! You were biting!”

Applejack leaned forward, huskily whispering into Dash’s ear, loud enough for all. “Only ‘cause I know you like it.”

They struggled some more, Dash vainly trying to squirm free. Grunting against each other. Hips thrusting and grinding.

Twilight could feel her tail lashing around. She cleared her throat for some reason. Was it getting hot in this library?

“AAAAAHHHHHH WHAT ABOUT ME?!” Pinkie exploded, shouting and squirming on her rump. “Fluttershy!”

“Huh?” Fluttershy froze, a perfect deer in pink headlights.

“Come on! Don’t you wanna give me kisses?”

Pinkie rushed over, planting her front hooves on the table and wiggling her rump right at Fluttershy, throwing her tail around the poor yellow pegasus pony’s face.

“Oh... um...” Fluttershy blushed, and started to hide under her mane. Something stopped her though - her eyes were caught, huge and shimmering, pupils bobbing back and forth in time to Pinkie’s rump.

“Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?!” Pinkie whined, grinning over her shoulder at Fluttershy.

“Pinkie, would you please leave her alone?” Rarity rolled her eyes. “That’s quite inappropriate, and I’m sure you’re making poor Fluttershy very uncomfortable.”

“...ok.” Fluttershy said, barely above a whisper.

“WHAT?!” Rarity dropped her glass.

“Yes! Make out with Flutters time GO!”

Twilight cleared her throat again. Now it was pink and yellow, making out right in front of her. Hotter than before? She wasn’t sure.

“Fl... Fluttershy?” Rarity said, her lips quivering.

“Oh? Oh.” Fluttershy gently pulled away from Pinkie, their lips still barely touching. “Rarity?”

“I... I always thought...” Rarity frowned, lowering her eyes in her best show of pathetic forlorn forgotten sadness.

“Oh, Rarity!” Fluttershy nudged Pinkie Pie, nodding towards their lonely friend. Then she wrapped Rarity up in a tender hug, slowly but surely nuzzling into a long, passionate kiss.

“Oh... oh Fluttershy!” Rarity moaned as soon as her mouth was free, nuzzling into her long pink mane with nothing but bliss on her face.

Fluttershy stroked her long purple tresses back. She glanced back over her shoulder at Pinkie Pie and nodded quickly. Pinkie winked at her and then dove under Fluttershy’s tail, conveniently lifted.

Twilight coughed loudly, her chest tight and hot. Had that... was that really happening, right there in front of her?

“Whoa! They’re making out with Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash spoke up. Applejack was yanking on her colorful mane with her teeth, ramming her hips into Dash even as she tried to squirm away. “Sorry AJ, I gotta get in on this.”

“Hey! Hey, get back here!” Applejack said as Rainbow Dash squirmed out of her hooves. The pegasus jumped up with one flap of her wings, diving into the mess of make outs on the other side of the table.

“Pegasus Pile!” she yelled gleefully, landing right into a sloppy kiss with Pinkie Pie.

Twilight’s jaw was hanging completely slack by now, her eyes getting ever wider as the party next to her got hotter and wetter. Small, hesitant moans quickly grew into throaty wails of satisfaction. Twilight could feel sweat inching down her temples, her coat hot and prickly all over as she surely ruined the pillow she was sitting on.

A hoof, on her shoulder. A strong, orange hoof.

“So... uh... sugarcube.” Applejack’s husky voice, right in her ear, just like it must’ve been for Rainbow Dash. “I was wonderin’ if...”

Twilight turned with her eyes closed and kissed Applejack, fierce and desperate. She could feel Applejack smile in triumph against her lips, and then Twilight was roughly pushed on her back. Applejack dragged her chin down Twilight’s chest, nibbling and nipping and keeping her emerald eyes on Twilight’s the whole time.

“Ah! AhhhhHHH!” Twilight moaned urgently, spreading her legs obediently. Applejack dove in without a moment’s hesitation, and Twilight threw her head back, giving her an interesting upside-down view of her other friends getting ever more tangled and sweaty.

She gasped loudly as Applejack’s tongue plunged roughly right into her, no pretext at all. She bit her lip to hold the rest of it in, weakly kicking with her legs.

This... this was strange. Incredible, but strange. Here she was, in the same room with her best friends, all of them moaning and biting and fucking like there was no tomorrow.

Somehow, Hearts and Hooves Day had turned into a sloppy, drunken orgy.

Twilight sighed and shook her head, smiling widely the whole time.

“Just like last year,” she said.