Somewhere between several millennia of years passing by…

Smiling broadly, the Doctor pushed and pulled several controls of the TARDIS, steering it through time and space,
“I must say… Marfa Three was such a wonderful place…” On the other side of the control console, a soaking wet Derpy glared over to the Doctor, prompting the time pony to grin a bit nervous. “Come on, Derpy? It isn’t my fault you landed in that pool of water, only to find out that this fruit wasn’t ripe yet and didn’t depicted a muffin but a blurry picture of a Marjin-fruit.”

Grumbling, the Pegasus mare kicked the ground a bit,
“And there I was hoping to get a muffin twice my size that regenerated every time I took a bite…”

The TARDIS then stopped and The Doctor stepped outside,
“Ah! Derpy, come and see this!”

As the Pegasus mare stepped outside, her eyes went wide and her jaw dropped slowly,
“What is that?” In front of them both was the gigantic valley of Equestria filled with giant trees and an enormous supersized giant of a tree reaching high above them all.

Showing this all to her prompted the Doctor to beam,
“Hmhmhm… This Derpy, is what Equestria will look like in 3000 years… The old cities and villages merged together to one huge city of trees. Welcome to Ponytropolis!”

As they trotted along the streets, Derpy’s eyes went wider and wider and looked around in wonder,
“The trees are huge… Far bigger than any tree I’ve ever seen!”

“Of course! The Ponyville library was the first of its kind and with the centuries these magically enhanced trees grew so large they could house several families at once. I think… a thousand years ago ponies advanced heavily in bio-magic. That giant tree above all the others? That’s the new form of the Ponyville library.”

“Wow…” It was then that Derpy noticed much more humans than the mere four she knew as the Harmony Rangers in her time. “There are so many humans here… Surely a few hundred just what I see here… Did they all cross over into our world?”

Nodding in confirmation, the Doctor took notice of this as well,
"Either that or they were born here. These Rangers have a human woman with them, don’t they? One is enough to start a cycle. Yeah… Humans, like ponies can get quite lovey-dovey…” And without further delay, both of them asked around to get to know something about the Darkness Sisters. But whosoever they asked, nopony seemed to have a decent clue of what they were talking about.

“’Darkness Sisters’? Nah… Never heard of that. Is that a singer duo?”

“The what sisters? Darkness? Not that I know about…”

“I think that was a topic in this talk show last night on the Everfree Radio, wasn’t it?”

Sighing in defeat, Derpy frowned at this. At this rate it would take even them forever, no TARDIS could speed this up. However, she was suddenly brought to attention of a shopkeeper who stepped outside his shop in order to intercept her,
“Young filly! May I point your attention to this? Original equestrian Tupperware! It never breaks! It never…” But just as Derpy turned around, her tail swapped the Tupperware out of his hooves and it shattered on the street, prompting the shopkeeper to narrow his eyes. “…broken…” With a swift move he raised his hoof up to a glass container. “Here! One of the last samples of the legendary Mirror Pool, before they forever destroyed the thing. It’s a dust trap for me; you can have it for one Bit.”

While Derpy giggled and bought the container, the Doctor shook his head, as he approached the two of them,
“Alright… Before you continue to embarrass yourself with this junk of yours, can you give us certain information?”

Arching a brow in slight annoyance, the shopkeeper looked at him. Holding up the sonic screwdriver at some crates, the Doctor read the data readings and nodded as if confirmed in suspicion,
“And who might you be?”

“I’m the Doctor, nice to meet you. We need to know about the Darkness Sisters.”

“Silence, good sir! Don’t summon the evil of old ages again!”

“Ah-hah! So you do know about them…”

Nervously, the stallion looked around and gestured the Doctor to keep the voice down,
“I know enough to hold my mouth shut.”

“OK, why don’t we play with open cards? These metal boxes over there, these are Anularian cargo crates and there’s nothing Anularians produce but weapons. What does an ordinary shopkeeper do with these?”

Blinking first, the stallion now gave the Doctor a sly grin and shrugged,
“I must say I like it when customers have a keen eye for merchandise… Yes… I am more than an ordinary shopkeeper, my good sir…”

This prompted the eyes of the Doctor to narrow,
“And I am more than an ordinary doctor… I think some officers of the Selauri council might want to take a look of what is in these crates. These don’t belong on this world and should never have been here in the first place.”

Gritting his teeth for a second, the pony thought in haste,
“Well… I would see them coming if they would approach this world. It’s always a good thing to have a spaceship.”

The Doctor nodded,
“I know… That’s why I travel around in a gallopfreyan TARDIS…”

This visibly shocked the stallion,
“G-Gallopfrey?!?” Now a nervous grin formed on his face. “W-why don’t we go inside? I might have some history data crystals just for your liking…”

Inside the shop, the artifacts and relics of adventures already long forgotten rested on shelves. As they looked around, Derpy wondered what of these things might be artifacts she and the Doctor left behind. Leading the Doctor to a certain chest, the shopkeeper opened it and took out a blue data crystal which he laid gently onto a table. With a brief,
“That would be all for now. Thanks!” the Doctor nodded to the shopkeeper and activated the data crystal to study its content.

While the Doctor browsed through the pages by sliding his hoof over the crystal, Derpy looked over his shoulder,
“Isn’t this altering the timeline?”

“This isn’t our future, Derpy. We as time travelers are in a different timeline and don’t know the outcome of our future. Taking a look into the future of those who have stayed behind might tempt us to alter THEIR future, but I am certain that Princess Celestia…” Just as he opened on the pages on the date of their time departure, the pages were filled with only three words over and over again.

Now the Doctor nodded slightly spooked,
“… already took care of this…” After a frown, he regained his composure and continued browsing. “But I sure wasn’t expecting her to do it like this.”

As he browsed in the pages, several hundred pages were filled with more lines. ‘DARKNESS IS COMING!’, ‘BLACK OMEN’, ‘ETERNAL DARKNESS FOREVER!’, ‘HEART OF DARKNESS’…

The pages went on and on and Derpy went a few steps back,
“I don’t like this, Doctor…” Then finally, the Doctor browsed to one page where two words seemed to have been smeared all over the text like they were written in blood. ‘ALICORN WAR’. Derpy shook her head. “What’s this supposed to mean? Are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna fighting again?”

Gulping, the Doctor slowly backed away,
“No… No, this is much worse!” Deactivating the crystal, the Doctor nodded and gave the shopkeeper a small chip while Derpy put the crystal and the glass container she bought into her saddlebag. As they stepped outside, the Doctor made a hasty trot along the street.

Derpy knew this pace. It was always this pace when the Doctor was concerned about something, but still composed enough not to panic,
“What’s the matter? Is something wrong?”

“That’s the thing, Derpy… I don’t know. There are 1500 years in this history crystal that are completely overwritten and that means either that something really awful happened or Princess Celestia plays a prank on me for taking a peek into the future. In any case, I don’t know. Let’s head back to the TARDIS, we need more clues.”

Looking back to the shopkeeper behind them, Derpy arched a brow,
“What about these weapons?”

“Oh, don’t worry. I already took care of these. Until the Selauri arrive, he will have nothing more than mere doorstoppers in these crates.” After they stepped inside of the TARDIS, the time machine vanished from the very ground it stood on.

* * * * *

Equestria, today

It was shortly before noon as Tyler instructed Flynn and Sam on the top floor of the barn,
"Now, what have we learned?"

Both men looked forward in a determined fashion,
“They’re uncontrollable…” Flynn said.

“Yes?”

“Very excessive and sneaky in their ways to achieve their wishes…” Sam continued.

Tyler nodded,
“And most of all?”

“Unstoppable when in a horde!” Both said in unison.

“Good! And now that you both know that I was right about this, let’s think of a way to make you two survive this day…”

Flynn looked down at the horde of mares besieging them and begging them to let down the ladder again,
“They are worse than a horde of zombies!”

Tyler grinned,
“You should be thankful that these here are only unicorns and earth ponies… If pegasi mares would be among them, we might have to fight.” With that he magically closed the barn doors from the inside.

But this caused Sam to frown,
“Hey, wait! If you close these doors, we can’t get out either!”

With a slight rumble, the doors were shut. Tyler then rested his hands on their shoulders and teleported the three of them outside,
“Duh!”

Now Sam smiled,
“Oh yeah! Your magic!”

One second after that, Flynn closed the barn for good with a bar,
“That should keep them occupied until we’re gone…”

But just as they were about to leave, Applejack slapped Tyler’s back with a broom she held in her mouth,
“Fhoo! Fhoo! Yer not fuppofed to be around here, Fugarcube! Ah already told ya that thif farm needf to be male-free for the fake of Babf!”

Tyler endured the slaps and shook his head,
“Well, we only try to stay faithful to the ones we love, honey… At least Sam and I do that.”

Letting go of the broom, Applejack smirked,
“Ah know that, Sugarcube… That’s why ya get the broom and not the apple pellets from mah shotgun.”

Tyler grabbed the broom and gave his girl a kiss, gently streaking her cheek,
“I’m sorry we gave you a hard time. I will compensate you for that later, OK?” Calming down with a slight blush, the earth pony began to grin and nodded.

Sitting around in their clubhouse, the four crusaders were conversing,
“Well, how does heat feel, Babs? The adults sure make one big fuzz about it…” Sweetie Belle asked.

“Heat sucks! Ah want to play with mahself all the time! Or… ya know… Get someone to do adult stuff to me.”

Scootaloo stretched out her tongue,
“Ewwwww! I’m so not gonna enter heat season when I get older! That’s so gross…”

Sweetie Belle blinked at her Pegasus friend with big eyes before she raised a hoof,
“Rarity says a mare gets in heat whatsoever…” Raising a hoof she tried to imitate her older sister. “Oh! My! This time of the year makes me think so uncouth! It’s so unladylike!”

The four fillies giggled in good fun before Scootaloo jumped up once more,
“So how is your spice cake, Babs? We’ve spent some time with Granny Smith to make it.”

Looking over to the cake, Babs grinned,
“Thanks, folks. That stuff actually is very good. Ah must have Granny Smith make some more for mah folks in Manehattan."

“So… are you going to wear his jacket all day long?” Scootaloo said while pointing at Babs’ new leather jacket.

“Huh? But of course!” The young mare announced. “That jacket is the most precious belonging a guy ever gave me. And ah… ah…” Babs now blushed deeply.

Noticing, Apple Bloom nudged her cousin,
“Yeah… We know… in that moment, ya were completely into Tyler. But… ya know… Ah think ya should concentrate more on crusadin’ with us. Of course, yer jacket can’t come with us then. It might rip and that would ruin the day.” That made Babs smile and she nodded. Getting rid of these thoughts was precisely what she needed right now. And of course nothing should ever happen to her most precious belonging.

A few hours later, Applejack sat down in the library and shook her head while Tyler massaged her. Meanwhile Lyra and Twilight were conversing in the other side of the room. With a sigh the earth pony enjoyed her herdmate’s massage and closed her eyes,
“Finally… Granny had her nap at noon and now keeps Babs busy with the crusaders… And Ah’m sorry for the broom, Sugarcube… Ah guess ya folks had been busy yerself getting out of several mare-hordes, eh?”

“Well, the mares of Ponyville know that I’m in a herd and while one half thinks that I’m unreachable due to the princesses in the herd, the other half thinks rushing at me would be showing ill manners that won’t suit for such a… ‘High-class-herd’…” Tyler said while gesturing quotation marks. “But Flynn and Sam only have one or no mare at their side, so plenty of mares see their chance in getting a decent romance or sexual adventure.” While the mares looked silently at each other, Tyler stood up. “Speaking of romance and adventure… You must excuse me, ladies… I have some things I need to prepare for the evening.” His glance over to Twilight and Applejack said everything and both mares smiled quite charmed as he left.

As Lyra witnessed this, she chuckled,
“Aren’t you two lucky girls? Well, anyway… I don’t have any concerns about Sam. He’s faithful and would never betray me. Actually I’m thinking of giving the ‘pony-human-relationship’ thing a complete chapter in my Anthropology. Human males treat females different than stallions do. That’s because of the population difference between our two species I guess.”

Twilight nodded,
“Right! According to Tyler, humans have a one to one instead of a one to five balance between male and female citizens. Thus human males tend to impress her by doing stuff she desires, which is sweet for a mare, but rather uncommon in Equestria…”

Arching a brow, Applejack grinned,
“Not to forget about the sexual chemistry between mares and stallions…”

But Twilight shook her head,
“Well I can’t say anything about that. Tyler was my first lover ever and I frankly see no purpose in doing it with a stallion for the sake of comparison. I’m more than satisfied with him.”

Applejack smiled while feeding Appleseed,
“That’s because ya never experienced a stallion before, Twilight! Lyra and Ah made that experience. And ya can believe me: It’s a different league… And Ah’m not speaking of size here…”

Lyra nodded in confirmation,
“Although the feeling is the same for the mare, humans last longer and are more agile, resulting in a longer and stronger experience for her. I guess even without love a mare would have difficulties to… you know… return to stallions. I guess I will name the chapter for that ’Potential social problems’…”

“Or maybe it’s the cause for some social evil…. eva… evlo… stuff?” Searching for the term, the country mare looked over to Twilight.

Twilight nodded in thought,
“I should write a letter about these thoughts to the Princess as well. Maybe humans really could cause social evolution to pony society, at least in the way stallions and mares treat each other. I mean human guys all treat their mares sweeter than the average stallion from what you tell me…”

Applejack now leaned forward,
“Ah think ya overthink that issue. So what if human guys treat their female partners better? Human women expect that treatment as well. Ya know what? Ah overheard the three of them talking about human clop material… They sometimes even do it one female and two males! And ya can’t expect two stallions to share one mare like that in a serious relationship. They would fight one among another.”

Lyra held a hoof in front of her mouth in shock,
“Two stallions for one mare? You mean… right into…?

Applejack nodded and pointed at her flank,
“Front and back entrance! Sometimes the front entrance and the mouth…”

This visibly scared Lyra,
“I don’t have experience with that, but if it’s even half as good as normal sex back there then both ways at the same time… No… I would lose my mind!”

Twilight however arched a brow,
“A certain mare AJ and I know seemed to like this experience. Then again, such a thing would-”Twilight opened her eyes and a blush formed under her nose. “Listen to us, girls… All we talk about is sex!”

Applejack chuckled at this,
“Well it IS heat season? Of course we do that, Twilight. Honestly Ah can’t wait to get Tyler into my hooves. Since Babs is in heat, Ah had to make sure that he stays away from the farm. It’s hard to want to but not being allowed to for the sake of a young mare in her first heat…”

* * * * *

Meanwhile, Flynn and Rainbow were on the training grounds again and Flynn was lifting weights while Rainbow was stretching her wings. However, an obvious vibe surrounded the two friends, caused them to behave a bit stiffer than usual.
Shaking her head finally, Rainbow forced herself to take the initiative,
“So… I saw you, Sam and T-man hiding in the barn this morning? Problems with the ladies?”

Resting his weights, Flynn shrugged,
“Yeah… it seems like every pony gets mad to some degree in heat season. At least, you’re behaving normal… That’s a relief."

Rainbow snickered, a drop of sweat ran down her forehead,
“Well… Having a decent amount of willpower comes with being an Element bearer, I think…”

“I’m glad to hear that. I enjoy spending time with you. If you would go crazy like the others, I might have to tie you down and I don’t want to do that.” With that he patted her shoulder and Rainbow smiled, enjoyed the touch on her coat. However, this changed in an instant as the touch of his fingers went over her delicate wings.

It was a gentle touch but it was just the right pressure to send shockwaves of pleasure through her body and caused her to jump up in surprise,
“YEAUGH!!!”

In an instant, Flynn’s hand backed away, fearing that he might have hurt her in a way,
“WHAT?!? What is it?”

Rainbow shortly recollected herself and her breath before looking at him with a slightly angered face,
“I think you know very little about Pegasi!” She sighed once before raising a hoof at him. “Lesson One: CAREFUL with those wings! They are highly erogenous zones! You don’t mess around with this, OK?”

Looking down, he nodded as he understood,
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…”

Rainbow now closed her eyes, controlling the slight anger inside of her. He didn’t know, so she had to explain it to him,
“Lesson Two…” After spending an entire hour on various lessons about what to do and what not do to a mare, she sighed. “You don’t seem to know much about us ponies, huh?

“Actually… No, I don’t. I’ve never been with a pony, remember? Because on Earth there aren’t any sentient ponies like you.” With that he bend down and got his weights again. As Rainbow saw his butt again, a slight flush went over her nose and she turned away. Every once in a while her eyes danced over to Flynn’s trained body, as beads of sweat ran down his naked chest.

When Rainbow saw this, she gulped. 'That guy is impossible! Walking around like this…' Rainbow forced herself to look away. All these muscles made her heat go worse. The sight was actually tempting her to lick every drop of sweat from his body. Pressing her lips together, she got a hold of herself and shook the thoughts away, leaving nothing more than a blush on her angered face,
“You know, Flynn… I really should beat you up!”

“What?!? Well it’s not MY fault you’re in heat!”

“Oh yeah? You could be more of help by not presenting your muscles all the time! Or doing that thing with your butt! Show some decency!”

“What? We both agreed on training together today! This was YOUR idea, RD! And since when are you looking at my butt? Show some decency yourself before accusing me of lack of decency!”

Blushing deeply, Rainbow yelled at him,
“Stupid human!”

Flynn blushed as well; this conversation became strange all of a sudden as she behaved like a human girl arguing with him. “Stupid Pegasus!”

“Oh yeah?!?”

“YEAH!!!” What happened next was a bit too fast for Rainbow Dash to notice, but suddenly he pulled her in and kissed her, prompting her eyes to widen. As their lips parted, he gasped and released her, probably a bit surprised as well. “I… I shouldn’t have done that! I’m sorry!”

But as he turned away from her, she touched her lips with her hoof and looked at him. Should she return the favor or kick him in the face for pulling off that stunt? Before he knew it, she turned him around again and looked into his brown eyes. Her cerise eyes seemed to look for something in them as he gulped. “Rainbow… I…” But before he could finish, she kissed him more passionately and embraced him while doing so. Now he was the one who was surprised.

After this they looked into each other’s eyes for a bit. Rainbow blushed even more now as one thin yarn of saliva reached from her tongue to his. 'Ponyfeathers… I got to say something before this turns awkward…' “What… What the hay just happened?”

Flynn harrumphed nervously,
“Beats me… I think I short-circuit for a moment and did something unexpected. And then you did the same.”

Rainbow chuckled, nervous like he was,
“I… uh… I just followed a gut feeling… “

“Same here… umm… You think we made a mistake?”

Thinking for a bit, Rainbow finally shrugged,
“You know, it wasn’t unpleasant on my side… But I don’t know about you… You have a problem with hanging out with me? Even if we tend to do unexpected things?”

He then looked at her with a smirk,
“Actually I don’t have a problem with unexpected things.” His hand now went through her wild mane. “You know… You have such beautiful eyes… Of all things of you I like the eyes the most.”

Another blush formed on her face,
“M-my eyes?”

Chuckling for a bit he nodded,
“Sure thing. They’re cerise and big and totally cute. And you’re really interested in my butt?”

Wiggling her rump a bit, Rainbow grinned before she looked at him,
“Come on, Flynn! Don’t tell me you’re not looking at my flank either…”

After shrugging, Flynn shook his head,
“I know your flank is sleek and firm but I try not to look at it so often. That’s because… you know… respect and stuff.”

“Yeah, yeah… human males and their way to think females are the weaker gender.” With that Rainbow jumped at Flynn and nailed him down.

As he looked up again, he growled a bit,
“More unexpected things to happen?”

Resting her forehead on his, Rainbow now closed her eyes,
“I’m not weak, OK? I can fight on my own.”

Flynn grinned,
“But you don’t want to fight me, do you?” His hands slowly streaked over her body alongside her torso, causing her wings to erect. With an even broader grin, he looked up to her. “Your wings did that thing again…”

Blushing deeply, Rainbow looked behind,
“I… I was just up to fly to let you stand up agai-” But as she looked back, she saw that his hands went over her flank, slowly kneading her butt. “What… What are you doing?”

“More unexpected stuff…? Hmmm… This is one fine and firm ass…” Giving her flank a spank, he tried to get up. “OK, enough wooing around, RD. Get up, I want to stand again.”

But Rainbow pushed him down again,
“Don’t you know some decency? Spanking me like that in public!” She looked hastily around to see if anyone was looking, then leaned down again and kissed Flynn on his lips once more. As their lips parted, she nodded. “There are some unexpected things we should do in private, Flynn… They’re awesome, but not meant for everypony to see. Maybe you should ask Twilight about a spell to walk on clouds…”

* * * * *

In the afternoon, Flynn went over to the library and got his inspection from Twilight. The Rangers agreed to keep their magical balance in check and since Twilight was the authority in the field of magic in Ponyville, she agreed to keep check on them on a weekly or monthly basis, depending on their usage. While Tyler and Rachel were checked weekly due to their everyday usage of magic, Flynn and Sam only were checked every month,
“She proposed what? A spell for you to walk on clouds?” Twilight smirked at this as she inspected Flynn. “You’re finally going to ask her, right?”

“Excuse me?” he asked with a frown.

“Well, ask her to be your special somepony, dummy!”

“Actually Rainbow and I…” he said with a shake of his head, but Twilight interrupted him.

“…spend more time together than any other two. You love her, admit it!”

Arching a brow, Flynn looked at the unicorn,
“Well… Yeah, but…”

With a provocative smirk, she cocked her head,
“But? Is there a reason why you hesitate?”

With a sigh, he closed his eyes,
“I don’t want to chain her down… She’s like me in a way. Freedom is her thing, but…”

Twilight waved the thought away,
“Oh, excuses! Rainbow thought her pet tortoise Tank would slow her down, now she just loves him. You on the other hand are the fastest on the ground; of course she’s interested in you, the only male that could cope with her if it comes to her speed.”

Flynn now looked down,
“Well… If you put it that way…”

Resting her hoof on Flynn’s chest, Twilight looked up to him,
“Trust me, Flynn… You two match brilliant together. Rainbow must think so, too. Why else would she invite you over to her house?” With that Twilight charged up her horn and transferred the magic to Flynn. “There! Three spells for the time span of about two days, should be enough for six days roughly, but I don’t know if you use them on the spot or whenever you will it. We haven’t experimented with your way to handle magic yet. So... try to get a Pegasus stallion’s attention first and ask him to get you a cloud for trying. Or try it with Rainbow if you want to discover this new experience together with her.”

This brought a smile to Flynn’s face,
“This actually is a great idea, Twilight. Thanks!”

As he stood up, he bent down to kiss the tip of her horn and the unicorn giggled,
“Don’t mention it. You’re quite welcome.”

As Flynn was out, Tyler came downstairs and nodded at Twilight,
“That was very good Twilight… See? Matters of love are best when you do it without magic.” Twilight nodded at him, assured of herself. Not only did she learn to trust in the magic of love since she was in Tyler’s herd… No, he also taught her to think things over, not just using magic as remedy for everything. To evaluate when magic was needed and when not, was a very valuable lesson. This was worthy of a letter to Princess Celestia…

Half an hour later, Rainbow snickered while carrying Flynn up to her home,
“…Yeah, you lack wings. Otherwise we could hang out all the time…” Carefully descending to the cloud, she looked down to Flynn’s feet. “You’re able to step down to them?”

Taking his first step on the cloud, Flynn tried to gain a steady foothold, but his stance was a bit wobbly,
“Whoa! These clouds are… They feel like pillows. Hard to walk on them as someone with two legs. The whole thing is so fluffy… Whoa!” With that he fell down to the cloud, but stemmed himself up again.

Landing onto the cloud herself, Rainbow cocked her head while looking at him,
“You OK?”

“Yeah… but I must admit it feels strange to walk on water vapor. I think I’ll need some time to fully grasp this…” As he reached down to the cloud, it also felt a bit moist. Not like soaking wet, but the touch was similar to fresh grass, wet from the rain. “Twilight said these spells of hers last six days… But would you mind to get me down to the ground tomorrow until I’m more comfortable with this?”

Seeing the concern in his face, Rainbow smiled and nodded,
“Don’t worry, I’ll get you down if you want to. And should anything happen with the spell, don’t worry either. Being part of weather patrol comes with a course of air rescue. This is also one of the requirements for the Wonderbolt Academy. You need a rescue time of at least 3.1 seconds in 50 meter height to fill that requirement. And you have to do that in one go. I mean, objects of that height smash on the ground in five seconds and that means there is no second try”

Arching a brow, he looked at her,
“And your time… is…?”

“2.6! Relax… Even if you would fall, I would be there in a jiffy. And cloud homes like mine have to have a standard height of 75 meter above ground. As for the fluffy ground… That’s usually the case with the outside of cloud homes. Come inside, the floor there is much more dense and should feel like solid stone.”

As they entered the cloud house, the floor indeed became more solid and Flynn heard the buzzing of a small rotor as something hard hit the backside of his head. Making himself little, Flynn ducked in instinct and held his aching head. Forcing out a grin, he looked up to the cause of this. The tortoise flew around slightly uncontrollable and encircled Rainbow a bit,
“Sooo… You must be Tank.”

Raising her chin high in pride, Rainbow hovered beside Tank and pointed her hoof at him,
“Yeah… Tank and I are great buddies. At first I thought he was too slow, but then I saw that he came to my rescue when all other contestants left me behind.”

Flynn cocked his head,
“Contestants?”

“Long story, I’ll tell it to you another time. Anyway, he carried me home when I was injured and since then I don’t want to miss him.”

Nodding in thought, Flynn began to smirk,
“I see… You’re attracted to loyal characters, hm?” As he looked around, he saw in the reflection of a mirror that Rainbow made sure that Flynn wasn’t looking before she nuzzled the tortoise heartily. This made him smile. “You know… You should give a damn about what others think… Forget this fixation over your image.”

Rainbow looked up with a heavy blush and Flynn looked at her in the mirror,
“If you want to show Tank some affection, it shouldn’t bother you what others think, least of all me. He’s your pet and companion and you’re both happy with each other, right?”

The tortoise gave its owner a slow smile and Rainbow grinned before grabbing Tank and nuzzled him thoroughly,
“Sure!”

Looking through her shelves, he saw lots of trophies and medals as well as a few books.

‘Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone’

‘Daring Do and the Griffin’s goblet’

‘Daring Do – Raiders of the forgotten kingdom’

Taking one of the books out to look at the cover, he smiled a bit,
“Rainbow… I… I never thought of you as the type of girl who…”

“Who reads?” Rainbow said while arching a brow.

Putting the book back to its place, he turned around to her,
“No, not that… I meant a girl who’s into adventure stories. I always thought you would be more into sport stories.”

“Well… It’s the kick of danger in these adventure stories that I like…” Frowning for a bit she shook her head. “Actually I don’t know if there are any sport stories… I should ask Twilight about this.”

Due to a lack of a chair, Flynn sat down on the edge of Rainbow’s bed and thought for a minute before he smiled,
“You know… On Earth there was this one story about a guy, a boxer, who died after winning an epic fight in the ring… And I kid you not: The fans of the story held a real funeral for the character.

Rainbow’s eyes widened,
“Wow… It must have been some story if the hero was so popular. How many came to the funeral? Thirty? Forty?”

Flynn shook his head,
“Over 700 people.” That number caused the mare’s eyes to widen. That actually was a big crowd, considering this was a fictional character that died.

Now looking for words, her mind tried to lay out the intentions of why she invited him over in words that would appeal to him. “Flynn… How do I put this? I’m…” Struggling with her words, Rainbow shook her head while shutting her eyes for a second before looking up to him again. “Darn it!!! I’minheatnowandireallyreallywanttomakeoutwithyou!”

With this she winced back in case he wouldn’t take it easily. But there came no reaction. As she looked back to him with one opened eye, he looked up to her,
“Am I understanding you… You, a pony, want me, a human, to fuck your brains out?”

The way he said that gave Rainbow a slight shiver,
“I’m… I’m not your type of mare?"

Getting into a sitting position again, he looked at her,
“Ugh… Rainbow, look…” With this he patted on the bed, inviting her to sit beside him. Rainbow complied, flew up and sat down. “A purely sexual relationship, even when it’s only for the sake of give you relief in that season… doesn’t seem right.”

“I’m not asking for a sexual relationship. You human men don’t get the full extent of us mares in heat when first faced with this, do you? You don’t know how deep…” A tremble went through her body. “Deeep… deep this can go… It’s so embarrassing! You don’t know how hard…” A wingboner formed behind her head. “…haaarrrd this can get.”

As he arched a brow while looking confused at her Rainbow cursed the fact that she wasn’t good in confessing things. Shaking her head fiercely she rested her hooves on his shoulders,
“DARN IT!!! I’m no good with words. I would court you more properly if I just wouldn’t stumble over that gosh darn clumsy tongue of mine all the time. Look: I want to be with you! I want to be the mare you look at. The only mare you look at…”

“The only one? So… like… a monogamous relationship? But don’t you ponies normally live in herds?”

Cocking her head now, Rainbow immediately shook her head in disapproval,
“Herds? Buck that shit! I want you for myself! I’m loyal to all my friends but in life there are certain things that have to be unique! Like one Rainbow Dash! Or one stallion she adores… if you can handle me, I’ll do my best to handle you.”

There was a moment of silence between the two of them. Rainbow gulped, fearing that Flynn could reject her idea of being together with him. But he simply nodded,
“Well… That’s probably the coolest and sweetest thing a pony ever said to me. So you want a relationship the human way?”

“Uh-huh… I guess that would be awesome.”

Flynn nodded once again and seemed to think of it, until he grinned and pulled her in,
“As a little proof of your determination in this… Why don’t you say these three little words?” Her wingboner now stiffened a little more and the cerulean Pegasus backed away a step.

Arching a brow, she shook her head,
“Flynn… Please don’t make me do this…”

“Why? Would it be a lie?”

“No!” She then bowed her head; the deep blush on her face was partially covered by her wild mane. “It’s just… I would feel so silly with this…”

Sitting down beside her again, Flynn nudged her. “What fools we become to yell out our feelings, eh?” Turning her face to himself, he glanced into her eyes. “We’re two idiots who hesitate to exchange these three little words… even though our bodies scream them at each other. Then again… Do we have to exchange them? Do I have to tell you… this?”

With that he slowly pushed Rainbow down to her bed and gently pressed his lips on hers. Surprised at first, Rainbow looked at him with wide eyes, before her eyes closed first halfway and then completely. With closed eyes she caressed his chest for a bit as his kisses wandered down her neck and chest. Following his actions with her eyes, Rainbow slightly raised her face before he winked over to her and let his tongue slide over her tummy.

Under normal conditions, this would feel good. Now, in heat, the feeling sent down little shivers through her body. As he almost had reached her teats, Flynn halted and his tongue ascended again. Looking at him slightly confused, Rainbow gave him an asking glance, shaking her head slightly. Why did he stop?

The answer came as his face slowly ascended to her tummy again and she could feel his warm breath shortly before his lips caressed her once more. The sensation from this mixture of soft warm air and gentle, almost wet touch made her lean her head back with a gasp. Closing her eyes, she already fantasized what this feeling would do to her elsewhere...

And the kisses crawled up her tummy and chest, slowly like a caterpillar. She had stallions before, but all of them were interested in oral or vaginal sex, short adventures where the mare gave more than she would receive. But this here… This was paradise! For once SHE was on the receiving end and it felt awesome.

As Flynn’s lips nibbled on her ear, he grinned,
“You seem to enjoy yourself, Rainbow…”

Her breath was shivering. Something compelled her to lay down a bit more as she saw his face above hers. He had something planned for her and she gave him a shy nod,
“Please… Please don’t stop!”

With that his lips crawled back down her chest and tummy, bringing her sweet sensations again, Rainbow’s body tensed up a bit. As he reached her teats, his tongue slowly encircled the nipples and he gently sucked on one of them, causing Rainbow to let out a silent moan. Then, her body stiffened even further as his tongue wandered further down. Down to her most intimate spot. She could feel the soft and wet flesh of his tongue right there, licking over her labia and the sensation caused her to arch her back with another slight moan.

Right now her private parts were so sensitive her entire body felt like under high voltage. And as his tongue began to invade her, his arms went around her hind legs and his hands rested down on her teats. Her eyes popped open as her nipples felt like being on fire and electrocuted at the same time, a feeling that made her coat hair stand up a bit. And the touch of the soft delicate flesh of his tongue that entered and fucked her ever so gently sent waves of pleasure through her body.

As she looked over to Flynn, his eyes were closed and his face halfway hidden from her sight. Right now he was so close to her and yet so far out of reach. Humming into her labia, he seemed to enjoy licking her. A deep blush came on her face as she thought he would do that for the sweet taste of her down there. Letting out an audible moan, she shook her head,
“I… I want as well!”

Flynn halted in his licking and opened his eyes, looking over to her. After a short nod, he closed his eyes once more and his lips pressed on to one of her labia lips, gently stretching it until his lips released it. The sweet sensation was enough to prompt another gasp from the Pegasus mare, before he stood up and began to undress. First his shirt came off, followed by the shoes. Getting up on the bed, Rainbow could already make out the bulge in his crotch. The jeans currently hid the prize she was claiming tonight, but it would fall any moment now. As his belt and button were undone, Rainbow aided Flynn a bit, tugging down the sturdy fabric of the jeans.

And there it was, his member, towering up in front of her. Rainbow found a liking in the tip’s form. Unlike a pony penis, this one had a rounder tip; it would slide inside easier, making faster and rougher sex quite possible and enjoyable. As she pushed him down onto the bed, she pressed her lips down on his. While kissing him, she could smell her own love juice on his lips. The smell of her own womb on his face aroused her and her hoof slowly stroke down his chest while she hovered over him.

While trying to emulate his caring kissing and licking, a thing she never had to do since stallions always skipped to plain sex, she slid her tongue gently over the muscular chest on the path her hoof had gone before. On the height of his nipple, she began to bite a bit, placing small gentle bites all over it, causing him to twitch a bit in slight pain. When she looked at Flynn’s face, she saw he was looking at her with a sly grin,
“Playful little vixen…”

Giving him a short wink, Rainbow now caressed his tummy and nether regions. Not too muscular, not too fat… His body was trained, just right in her eyes. Her flank shook in anticipation as she let her tongue glide over the hot and hard pole of meat that was his member. The delicate skin was almost as that of a pony penis, only brighter in color. Getting it up, she let her tongue fly over the tip while looking at his face. He was waiting for her to do it and gulped and his body shivered as hers did while he gave her pleasure.

It was most pleasant to see that he enjoyed it as much as she did before, but Rainbow’s eyes narrowed a bit in mischief. From stallions she knew that males tend to have all their sweet spots in the crotch. With that she decided to let her teeth work a bit and delivered a tiny bit of pressure, careful not to bite him hard enough to hurt him. The sensation brought him to let out sweet moans of slight pain as she playfully tugged his foreskin ever so slightly with her lips just as he played with her labia before.

As he reached out for her, his hand went through her wild mane and she knew that he wanted to finally feel her lips. 'Time do make you feel awesome…' With that thought, she wrapped her lips around the tip on his member and slowly began to bob her head. First only blowing the tip, she more and more let him slide deeper into her mouth. By his heavy breathing and her mane in his tight grasp Rainbow knew he was feeling it. He wanted to buck her mouth. Finally she pressed her head down into his crotch taking him in with his full length, what caused him to gasp and grab her mane even tighter.

She could feel the round tip of his member massaging her throat, causing her to slightly gag and a tear forced its way out of her eye. Taking it so deep always was a hard thing to do. But instead of thrusting up to her to finish in her mouth, Flynn pulled her head gently up. When her lips released his member, she was compelled to take a deep breath again, followed by a cough. Meanwhile his member slapped against his tummy, all wet and hard.

Pulling her up to him again, her body slid up his body, causing his hard erection to rub against her tummy. Flynn looked into her eyes before she licked his lips,
“Time for the entrée, Rainbow…” With that he wrapped his arms around her and rolled around with her, taking the top position. His eyes locked on hers, he entered only the tip before he gulped. “Ready?”

But Rainbow managed to get a smirk onto her face. Dolphin position was such a kinky thing to do…
“First time with a mare? Don’t worry… I can handle you.” Her hoof gently slid along his cheek. “You’re my first human as well… Show me what you’re made of!” With that he nodded and one thrust later, he entered her in one long slide. Coming in with enough force, her flank was pressed down into the cloud of the bed.

Still looking into her eyes, Flynn saw and monitored how tiny her pupils had become as she stared at him, mouth and eyes wide open, her voice failing her. The sensation must be amplified by her heat… It took Rainbow a couple of seconds before her mind coped up with it and let her force out a moan while she blushed.

Slowly sliding out of her, Flynn grinned,
“Damn, girl… You have one hell of a tight pussy…”

“Comes from all the training… My muscles down there-” Her sentence ended abrupt as he once again shoved in his entire member, causing her to gasp. Her greedy womb clenched down on him after greeting him welcome like she never wanted to let go off him ever again. It made the feeling inside of her even more intense. As he began to move in a steady rhythm, Rainbow began to reward every thrust with a silent moan. But these silent moans turned into loud and deep moans once he began to really pick up the pace. As one orgasm after another lashed up her spine, her eyes rolled in ecstasy. 'This is a dream… one bucking dream… Oh, holy Luna! Let me sleep forever!' After reaching another, rather strong orgasm, she squirmed beneath him. “BUCK!!!”

After going limp for a bit, she whimpered up to him. It was no use. She could have orgasms all day, but without him releasing it inside of her she would only heat up more and more. But it was in that moment that he grabbed her wild mane and pressed his lips on hers once more as he began to ravage her womb with his fast thrusts. It made her open her eyes in surprise first, but she rolled back these eyes soon as she once more began to feel the wonderful movement inside of her.

It was in this moment, when Rainbow was lying on her back with him on top of her, that she realized how she felt for him. Sure, it was a great feeling. Entirely awesome! But then there was something more… Something she couldn’t point her hoof at. But then Flynn arched back, gritted his teeth and ejaculated in her. Then, in midst of all this sudden bliss that shrouded her mind and devastated her body with shivers, it hit her. Receptive! That was the word… And femininity… With Flynn, she felt like a real mare. Not the type Rarity would like her to see or how the princesses are… No, she was the one touched by his and only his heart and only he was worthy to be the one with her. To be open for him, to take all he could give, to accept every facet of his self… such as he accepted her as his mare and not just because of her awesome moves or fancy speed. Rainbow knew she had her flaws and did her best to hide them from the sight of others.

But Flynn just accepted this as part of her awesomeness. He flipped her flaws around and loved her even more for not being perfect. And it was because of this imperfection that he chose to love her and to dump his seed inside of her womb. Closing her eyes for a second, she grabbed his face as he rested on top of her. With him still being connected and united with her, what better moment could there be? “I love you…” she whispered beneath her breath, barely audible.

But Flynn heard her and pressed his lips on hers for a passionate kiss,
“I love you too…”
As his hips began to thrust again, Rainbow closed her eyes with a smile. He was starting round two. And Rainbow knew that by tomorrow she would be a different mare.

* * * * *

At the next morning, Tyler was sitting at the balcony, reading a book as Twilight levitated the breakfast to the table on the balcony: Scrambled eggs and toast. Putting away the book he then enjoyed the small breakfast with her,
“I think I’ll have to release Applejack’s tension a bit, could you go to the farm for me and invite her over? I would go myself, but since she doesn’t want me on the farm because of Babs…”

Taking a bite from her fork, Twilight nodded,
"Sure… I can do that.” Leaning against the chair, Tyler looked at her and Twilight arched a brow. “What is it?”

Tyler shook his head,
“Oh I just wondered… How was YOUR first heat?”

Smiling, the lavender mare cleaned her mouth with a handkerchief and nodded,
“I was in the castle with Cadance. Princess Celestia sponsored a surrounding for me so my parents didn’t have to worry about sending me Celestia knows where and my studies weren’t interrupted either. Cadance was such a help, explaining to me how to ease these urges the best way.”

Leaning in, Tyler arched his brows,
“So? What is the best way for a young Twilight Sparkle to forget about heat?”

With a beaming smile Twilight held her chin high,
“Playing so much with Cadance that I was too tired to think of anything else but sleeping!” This caused Tyler to laugh and Twilight joined in. “I guess Cadance had the most fun and work with me in these two weeks.” While both enjoyed a cup of coffee, a sudden blue flash let the table go flying back inside the library, followed by several crashing noises. Twilight didn’t even bother to flinch. “A good morning to you too, Rainbow Dash!”

Tyler opened his eyes and levitated the cup of the vague height the table was,
“She certainly is off the track today; she usually aims for you when she crash-lands.”

Half a minute later, Rainbow came out to the balcony, a moony smile on her face. Both herd mates shared a glance before Tyler turned to the Pegasus,
“You look different today, Rainbow Dash… Satisfied…”

“Uh-huhhhh…” Her dreamy response prompted Tyler to chuckle dirty. He seemed to have an exact idea of what she had been through.

Twilight arched a brow while looking at him and smirked,
“You seem to enjoy this, huh?”

“Oh yes, indeed!” he answered, “Rainbow is so gosh damn in love she doesn’t know what to do anymore. Tell me, RD… How often were you two at it last night?”

With a dumb grin on her face Rainbow blushed a bit while babbling her response,
“I lost count at some point…” With that she giggled a bit. “But if I knew that it would turn out like this, I would have done it earlier…”

Tyler bend over to her, but neither waving his hand in front of her nor snapping his fingers near her ears caused a reaction. That face she made right now made her look like she went gaga,
“Now imagine him being instructed on all the sweet spots of a Pegasus mare…” Tyler said this in a low and lewd tone, still a big grin on his face

Rainbows breath became heavier again until she looked up to Tyler. Twilight arched a brow. Was Tyler trying to provoke Rainbow? With a shaky hoof the Pegasus grabbed Tyler’s neck and pulled him towards her face, resting her forehead on his. Closing her eyes while breathing heavily, she slowly shook her head,
“T-man… You know what time of the year it is? If you’re going to heat me up, I’m going to beat you up! But do you honestly think this could get any better than this?”

Tyler grinned, but in his mind he knew that he couldn’t fool around with his friend or she would never forgive him,
“The thought alone of this becoming even better makes you want it right away, huh? At least it causes a reaction in you.”

While remembering the events of the last night, Rainbow bit her bottom lip hard as her flank slightly shivered and she nodded. She was getting all wet and ready just by thinking about it. Twilight, however, was tempted to poke her horn into Tyler’s side, reminding him not to overdo it.

“Well, I could talk to him… teach him the one or another thing about wing muscles and their sensitivity when licked, but in return I want you to let that guy live, OK? I mean one man can only endure-”

Twilight now tugged his shirt,
“Tyler? She came already…”

“Huh?” As he turned around, he could not but chuckle at the Pegasus lying on the ground, squirming in delight with the tongue hanging out of her mouth. “I think her fantasies have gone a bit overboard… You think it was the mentioning about the wing muscles?” Twilight’s angry mumble confirmed him. Of course it was the mentioning of that. Crouching beside the unconscious mare, Tyler and Twilight shared concerned glances. Seeing his friend in this state had made Tyler come back to seriousness. “You make sure she gets on her hooves again and snaps out of it while I’ll have a little talk with Flynn! I want to know how that guy sees things.”

Twilight nodded and a smile returned on her face. Good thing to know that Tyler could make fun, but also knew when fun had to stop,
“Tyler? It would be a good thing to monitor the two of them for a while… before one of them gets out of hoof… or hand…”

* * * * *

One hour later it was very quiet outside. Rainbow Dash, after taking several cold showers under a cloud in high altitude had finally regained her composure. And being zapped with a painful electricity spell sure helped to sober up enough to think normally again. The cold water prickled on her sensitive body and stretching a bit finally got out the tiredness out of her and helped her to come to her senses. After some days of cloudy lust that fogged her mind, her heat was finally under control after that orgy last night and she was able to reflect a bit of what happened.

She had been with Flynn… And by Celestia’s wing, it had been tremendously awesome. Looking down and holding her tummy, she remembered the words she had said to him. Was it rewarding him for making her feeling so good? Or was she growing addicted to him already? In hindsight, she sounded like a whore. But by sleeping with him, what became of the many admirers of hers?

She usually was surrounded by younger Pegasi stallions in this part of the year. They all kept their distance of course, not risking being sent to hospital for forcing something on her. Rainbow had the reputation to do that if someone got too close without her consent and she became used to that, took advantage of it. It saved her the harassment other mares had to endure. A deeper relationship would end this attention, but the compensation…

Rainbow now took another cloud, kicked it hard and let the water run down her body. She had to control her thoughts. Just like speeding up for a Sonic Rainboom… just concentrating on accumulating speed… No more thoughts about sex… 'Sober up, girl! Time to see things from the logical point of view!' He was better than all the toys she had under her bed, was the real thing and couldn’t impregnate her, at least not until she turned human herself. But what were the chances for that? Come to think of it, a relationship with a human would be everything she needed. 'Good and enduring sex, no risks while still pursuing my dreams of becoming a Wonderbolt Elite and later Captain of the Wonderbolts…'

Turning her face into the rain, she smiled while the cold raindrops ran down her body. It sounded like a decent plan. No, the perfect plan! As the rain stopped, Rainbow shook the remaining water out of her mane and tail and took a determined look down at Ponyville. Of course it wasn’t all only her… Flynn had to agree on this as well. But she was certain that if he enjoyed it as much as she did, he would love having her as his mare. Otherwise, she would do so much unexpected stuff with him, he would have no choice but to accept her.

Meanwhile Grinko, Sam, Flynn and Tyler sat on the edge of a lake and fished. Four fishing rods rested in their hands or in Grinko’s case, paws.Letting out a sigh , Flynn shook his head and closed his eyes,
“I did it with a pony… Am I sick now or something?”

Tyler’s face didn’t even flinch,
“You did it with a trans-dimensional alien being in a form similar to Earth’s ponies that just happened to become the girl you love and that loves you back… If that helps you in a way…”

Flynn wrinkled his nose and cracked his neck a bit as he sat down,
“Actually… Yes it does!”

Sam reeled his fishing rod in, only to cast it anew,
“So how was it? You had sex with the fastest pony on the planet. Want to tell us a bit about it? Details, details!”

Looking over to his friend Flynn arched a brow,
“Well, what about you and Lyra? Does she squeal with glee after the fifth orgasm in a row as well?”

Arching a brow, Sam grinned,
“No… Usually she whimpers in joy while I finish for the first time at that point…”

Tyler chuckled and shook his head,
“I take it due to being an athlete and Element Bearer, Rainbow’s willpower and endurance exceed those of average pony mares…”

Flynn looked down,
“Still… although she said she wanted it, I feel like I took advantage of her…”

“I can relate to that…” Tyler said. “Last year Twilight and I were in a very similar situation. You know… In that moment I was worried more about what that would do to the two of us, but she was more afraid than I was that this would affect our friendship for the worse. But since then we both learned even more about each other and love each other more with every passing day.”

Sam smiled,
“Quite a nice story… What about you, Flynn? Do you and Rainbow will continue this? Or was this a one-shot?”

“I don’t know. The sex with her was the most exotic one I ever had. She was willing and ready and took it like she was born to do it… or rather born to endure the most exhausting things.”

Flashbacks of the last night came to his mind, Rainbow lying on the bed of cloud on her back, his hands and arms around her flanks and how her hind legs luffed in the air as he fucked her merciless. With a sex-crazed face impression she shook her head, awestruck by his sexual prowess. “Baby, what you do to me?” she babbled in her ecstasy. “You drive me crazy! Oh, Celestia, Flynn… I’m yours!” Her heavy and helpless moaning echoed in his mind when he remembered how her eyes rolled back as he simply continued to pound her. How her hooves embraced him as she took everything he gave her, slid down to his butt to aid in his thrusts.

Closing his eyes, he gulped. Last night he decided not only to have sex with Rainbow… He was claiming her as his girl. Maybe from the outside the others thought that they were equal in their lust for each other. But from the heat of that moment, Flynn knew that Rainbow already had succumbed to the joy they both had. He endangered the Element of Loyalty. This was a heavy responsibility to carry since it could hurt her as well as others so much. A sudden feeling of dizziness came to his mind as the adrenaline rush went through his body. He had to talk with one the princesses about this.

* * * * *

On the next day, Flynn took a jog to Canterlot. Normally this would take half a day to go up there by foot, but due to his speed he managed it within an hour. Upon entering Canterlot Castle, Flynn recognized the many Guards saluting to him,
“Folks… Uh… Why are you doing this? I’m not one of the Royal Guard.”

“No, Sir! Flynn Marshall, Sir! But you are a Harmony Ranger, one of ponykind’s defenders and a soldier in your world. We do it out of respect and gratitude…” one of the mares said in a disciplined manner, looking straight forward without moving a facial muscle other than to speak. Flynn had to fight the urge to laugh in front of her. The serious face all the time had to be hard to maintain.

Stiffening his own stance, he then raised his chin and inspected the mare’s uniform, corrected minor details that were wrong in his eyes,
“Let me tell you something: I don’t like the sound of being called ‘Sir’ if I don’t serve within the Guard. So either call me Flynn, Flynn Marshall or Ranger Marshall if you have to take a title… Do you understand?”

“Yes, Ranger Marshall… I think I do understand…” she said, smiling a bit.

Patting her shoulder he nodded,
“Good. Remember and tell the others as well. I don’t want to hear another ‘Sir’ from you guys if we’re not serving the country’s army.”

With that he entered the castle and approached the throne room. Before reaching it, a servant, a unicorn with formal attire, held him back,
“Excuse me? Where do you think you are going, Sir?”

Frowning at yet another ‘Sir’, Flynn shook his head,
“I need to speak with the princess. It’s kind of urgent…”

“I will see if she can spare some time for you. Please wait here while I ask.”

While Flynn waited, he looked around. Canterlot Castle was cleaned well. None of the damages they had witnessed during their recapture of the castle were to be seen anymore. One minute later the servant returned and looked up to him with a nod,
“The princess says she has some time to listen.”

Entering the throne room now, Flynn approached Princess Celestia, who signed off some paperwork with her secretary. Giving him a short glimpse while reading the decrees and signing them, a smile formed on the princess’ face,
“Good morning, Flynn! It’s nice of you to visit me. You have a problem of some sort? What is it that you come all the way up here to Canterlot?”

“Well… You see… My relationship with Rainbow Dash…”

Now the princess looked up from the paperwork,
“Oh? So you and Rainbow are now special somepony and special somebody? How wonderful!”

“Yeah… Um…”

Celestia now saw how he was struggling with the words and closed her eyes with a smile. In the next moment, her quill was levitated back to her secretary and she smiled at her in her usual regal way,
“We will continue this later, Raven. Right now I feel a bit more like counseling…”

The white earth pony with the black mane nodded and carried the paperwork away,
“Certainly, Princess Celestia! I will be there if you need me again…”

Standing up from the throne, Celestia now passed by Flynn’s side and smiled,
“Flynn? Let me invite you to a cup of tea…”

Rubbing his neck, he nodded,
“Uh… Sure…”

A few minutes later, Celestia and Flynn were sitting outside at the balcony. Although she didn’t told this to anypony, not even her herd mates, Celestia enjoyed these counsel sessions when it came to human and pony problems. It was something new to handle and every new challenge meant a fresh wind in her life. Pouring some tea into both of their cups, Celestia already eyed Flynn for reactions. What was noticeable on the way to her chambers was that he tried to keep up with her while walking, never walking behind her in order to not even have the chance of being staring at her plot. Human males seemed to have great respect in front of females in their society. She knew that already from Tyler and seeing this with Flynn’s behavior only confirmed it.

With a smile she put two pieces of sugar into her own cup before reaching the sugar cubes to him,
“Sugar?”

Looking at the sugar, Flynn snapped out of his tense stance,
“Oh, yes… Two, please…”

Dropping two cubes into his tea, she nodded and began to stir inside of her own cup,
“Well then, young man… What’s on your mind?”

Grabbing a cookie from the plate, Flynn took a long look at it,
“Last night Rainbow Dash and I did it…”

Levitating the spoon away, Celestia levitated the cup to her mouth, breathing in the gentle aroma of its content,
“You speak of intercourse, right?” As Flynn nodded, the regal mare took a sip from her tea. “Good to see that you two finally gave in to your feelings to each other. It’s certainly not good to hold it back at this age…” Celestia now arched a brow while kept smiling. “I was thinking of appointing Cadance to you two to nudge you a bit into the right direction.”

After taking a bite out of the cookie, Flynn simply stared at the alicorn now,
“What.”

“Or make it an appointment for Twilight since it has been a while since she’d send me a letter regarding friendship…” Celestia continued to speak with closed eyes.

His eyebrows arched as his eyes widened,
“What?”

“Or maybe-” Celestia now noticed that she was thinking loud and giggled a bit. “Oops! I’m sorry! Please, um… Continue!”

Shaking his head for a couple of seconds, he collected his composure,
“So… We were at it and… I…” He blushed deeply now. “You know… Rainbow and I did it very rough and fast and more like…Um…”

Celestia took another sip from her tea before she simply closed her eyes and nodded,
“In short, you two bucked like crazy.” Surprised by her common way to talk, he looked up to her, but the alicorn simply shrugged. “What? You don’t live for thousands of years without seeing even that kind of thing by chance sometimes, Flynn. Some of my subjects like it as rough as possible. I am quite aware of this and I won’t judge them because of this.” Taking another sip of her tea, she looked into the distance. “Am I understanding you? You are worried that your love life with Rainbow Dash could turn out unhealthy?”

Stirring his own cup of tea, Flynn looked down into the cup before he took a deep sip,
“It’s not so much our rough love life coming all of a sudden that worries me… That’s more like a damn breaking apart. Even the others were mocking us a bit that we’re holding back our feelings. It’s the way Rainbow looked at me. Like… forgetting everyone else and… you know… more like a willing love slave. As much as I enjoyed the hard sex we had last night… She’s an Element Bearer! What if she can’t use her Element of Loyalty anymore because of me?”

This prompted Celestia to blink at Flynn in surprise. A smile formed on her lips that she quickly hid behind her hoof. This, however, became a gesture that quickly turned out to be in vain as she started to burst into hearty and loud laughter. Slamming his fist on the table, Flynn looked angry at her,
“Hey! Don’t laugh at me! I’m really worried about this!”

Wiping away a tear with a handkerchief, the princess simply raised her hoof,
“Oh Flynn, you are so sweet! I can see what Rainbow sees in you. One night of excessive sex during heat season when your love to each other finally stands in full bloom, and you are worried she could abandon her friends because of you. And you do this not out of arrogance, but out of concern of everypony else…” She now levitated her teacup down with a gentle smile. “You two really are soul mates. I feel so happy for both of you.”

“So… I shouldn’t worry about this?”

Shaking her head, Celestia simply continued to smile,
“No… If anything should happen, you will have friends coming to your aid. Right now there’s one mare out there waiting for you to treat her good. And you should give her your best. Once heat season is over, your rough love life will ease down as well and Rainbow will normalize.”

Flynn now nodded with a smile of his own,
“I… I see… Thank you, Princess Celestia.”

Giving him a warm hug, she smiled,
“You are quite welcome, Flynn.”

* * * * *

Meanwhile there was a ruckus at the Ponyville spa as Aloe’s voice echoed through the building,
“Lotus!!! Are you out of your pony mind?!?”

The blue Earth pony held both hooves in front of her mouth and looked up to Sam, a deep blush on her nose. As she regained some sense, she walked away a few steps and shook her head, her eyes still locked on to Sam,
“I… I beg your forgiveness, Sam! Saying this was so rude of me! I’m… I’m sorry!”

After digesting the first shock, Sam held up his hands, trying to calm the mare down who was obviously more offended by her own behavior than he was,
“It’s OK… You’re… You’re not to blame for that state of yours…”

Aloe came to his side with a bag of bits, placed it in front of Sam and looked angrily at Lotus,
“Don’t defend her now, Sam… It is NOT our policy to offer ‘relaxing blowjobs’ to employees… especially not to those in relationship with somepony.”

While Lotus hid her face in shame behind her hooves, Sam looked down to the bag,
“What’s this?”

Aloe shook her head,
“Your salary for the next two weeks… You’re on vacation now, Mr. O’Donnel. For the next two weeks you are excused. And a bit more, too… Please deem it as compensation for the inconvenience Lotus caused you.”

Taking the bag, Sam looked at Aloe,
“To make it clear: I am not offended, only shocked. This ‘compensation’ of yours is not necessary. I’m only grateful that there are no customers here right now… THAT would have made it an inconvenience…”

He shook Aloe’s hoof before leaving and the earth pony glared over to Lotus, who gulped,
“A-Aloe? Are you going to…?”

She nodded,
“Yes, disciplining is in fact in order. Go to the staff’s room, while I get the strap-on.”

Shortly after leaving the spa, Sam stowed away the small bag with bits into his pocket. It was then when he saw Pinkie Pie sitting around at one of the many mushroom tables of a restaurant. The usually lively and bouncy party pony was sitting there dull and sad. Her shoulders hanging, her mane flat as could be and tears rolled down her cheeks. And yet Pinkie was smiling. Frowning for a bit, Sam decided to talk to her. But just before he could manage to approach her, a voice became audible just behind him,
“Hold it right there, buster!”

Stiffing up in surprise, Sam turned around, only to see a snickering Rainbow Dash,
“Rainbow!” He grumbled while raising an index finger to her in a scolding manner. “Don’t you ever dare to sneak up on me like that in this time of the year again!”

Yet Rainbow simply shrugged,
“I’m sober right now after last night with Flynn. I didn’t want to startle you, Sam… You’re a good guy and I like you as a friend… But frankly? Stay away from Pinkie Pie if her mane is like that.” With that she pushed him into some bushes to spy on Pinkie Pie with him.

“What do you mean, Rainbow?”

“Hay, if I could explain that to myself I could tell you… Listen: Pinkie Pie can get very emotional! Usually her behavior can’t be predicted, not even in heat season does she obey behavior rules. She’s just…” With that Rainbow looked around, trying to make certain the pink energy bundle wasn’t around. “You know… random!”

Looking over to Pinkie, Sam nodded,
“Yes…Tyler once said she’s the good spirit of Ponyville and maintains happiness.”

“True! But then are times when her mane gets flat… And that’s when things are not alright with Pinkie…”

Sam arched a brow,
“You mean the flat mane is an indicator that her psyche is out of order? Does she have a problem with something?”

Nudging his ribs, Rainbow arched a brow,
“Well, the first time I saw her like that we tried to get her a surprise party and she played tea party with a bucket of turnips, a sack of flour, a pile of stones and Gummy. She thought we would abandon her as friends… When Tyler was missing and imprisoned into a crystal sarcophagus in the Crystal Empire and everypony thought he died in that explosion, her mane flattened once again as she couldn’t cheer certain ponies up. That state was lifted when T-Man returned to Ponyville. So you see there are things about this mane that can tell you something’s not right with Pinkie.”

In thought, Sam nodded once more,
“So you say the state of depression transforms the lively and bouncy party girl into a loner? But she doesn’t look like she’s depressed… Actually I can’t determine if she looks happy or sad… I mean her mane is all flat, she’s crying and yet she’s smiling…”

“Hey, what are you two up to in these bushes?” Both Sam and Rainbow shrieked up in surprise as Tyler’s voice became audible behind them. With a grin, he stood behind them and shook his head. “Sitting in the bushes together? That’s cute… Does Lyra know about that?”

“Get down here, you fool!” Sam mumbled as he pulled Tyler in. “Something’s wrong with Pinkie Pie. I just noticed it as Rainbow held me back to warn me about certain strange or odd behavior patterns. Now I don’t know what to do… And frankly, I have to go now… I promised Lyra to help her out a bit. See you later, folks.” With that he stepped out of the bushes and went back home.

Tyler, however, shook his head and was about to head for Pinkie Pie,
“I’m going to ask her…”

It was in this moment that Rainbow held him back as well,
“What?!? No!!! You can’t do that!”

“Why not?

“Because one cannot know how Pinkie Pie reacts!” she said, shaking her head.

In annoyance, Tyler rolled his eyes,
“Rainbow, that’s silly!”

But the Pegasus shrugged and raised a hoof at him,
“Alright! Don’t blame me if she goes crazy and makes cupcakes out of you!”

Shaking his head, Tyler smirked before he became a bit thoughtful,
“Silly filly! She would never do that! Although… I wonder… How would a Tyler-cupcake taste anyway?”

Stretching out her tongue, Rainbow grimaced,
“How should I know? Ewww! Like I would try one!”

That’s when Tyler grinned once more,
“You would stick with a Flynn-cupcake, hm? Alright…” Sticking out her tongue in disapproval, Rainbow then flew off.

Slowly approaching the pink earth pony, Tyler tried to get a better look into her face. She was crying, that much was certain,
“Pinkie Pie?”

Looking up to him, she sniffed and wiped away her tears, trying to look normal and smiling gently. Still, the tears continued to roll down her cheek,
“Oh? Oh, hello, Tyler…”

Sitting down beside her, Tyler smirked as he remembered something,
“You know… There’s a joke among humans… A horse comes into a bar and the barkeeper asks: Why the long…” As he looked at her, he saw that she wasn’t really in the mood for jokes right now. “…face…” He then looked down. “I’m not as good as you are in cheering up others, huh? Pinkie… The last time I saw you like that was when I was returning from the Crystal Empire… You were a miserable looking little mare.” His hand now rested on her shoulders. “I hate to see you like this. Twilight and the others are concerned too… Please, Pinkie… if there’s anything I can do-”

“I love him!” it broke out of the pink mare. “I love him so bucking much…” As she looked up to Tyler, some tears ran down her cheeks again.

Surprised from the sudden outburst, Tyler stammered a bit in search of words,
“Oh… B-But isn’t this a… good thing?”

Searching for words, the usually blabbering mare stammered,
“I… I don’t know… He… He actually has a special somepony. And they are happy together.”

Slowly, it began to make sense for Tyler,
“Aaaand you’re afraid you would ruin it for the both of them if you step into their relationship?”

Pinkie slowly looked up and nodded,
“Mhm…”

Tyler now leaned back and rested on the ground,
“Well then… Have you talked with one of them? The mare perhaps?”

“No… I think she’s absolutely in love with him. What if… What if she doesn’t accept me as a herd mate?”

Tyler knew what worried Pinkie. Sometimes she was quite an erratic character and although she always meant well, maybe she already knew how others saw her,
“Hmmm… You are a bit hard to understand at times… But every pony of Ponyville knows you mean well. And if you ask me: I say you have a heart of pure gold.”

Looking at Tyler with a pout and big puppy eyes, she cocked her head,
“You don’t only say that to cheer me up?”

But Tyler smirked and shook his head,
“Look at me, girl… You know every pony in Ponyville and probably some from other towns by name! I couldn’t do that for half of Ponyville even if you force me to! You know personal data like birthdays and important events. You care about your fellow pony. And everyone knows that.”

“But if I care more about one of them… won’t the others be mad?”

“You mean that you love one of them not as a friend, but as the one you love above all? Why should they? You sacrificially do SO much for the whole town; no one has the right to demand more.”

He again sat up next to her,
“And if they dare to do so, you tell me! I’ll back you up!”

Now Pinkie cocked her head again and arched a brow, not fully understanding,
“Back me up?”

“Sure! Wouldn’t you stand up for me as well? We’re friends and friends stand up for each other. In fact, I bet the whole town would stand up for the mare who is friends with every pony.” This brought back a smile on Pinkie’s face. Tyler nudged her chin. “There you go, girl…You look better with a smile… Now dry your tears and tell me who the guy is that stormed into your heart…”

As she dried her tears, she shook her head,
“Would you do me a favor? Would you stay with me when I’m confessing to the both of them?”

Rolling his eyes, he nodded and got up with her,
“Sure, I’ll do that. But before we do that, let’s get to Sugarcube Corner. You don’t want to confess your love with a tear-stained face, do you?”

* * * * *

An hour later, Tyler went through the streets with Pinkie Pie until she suddenly stopped. Looking at the house, he first frowned before he recognized it. This was Bon Bon’s and Lyra’s house! Exhaling a bit, Tyler knew what was lying up ahead, but nodded at the pink mare,
“Alright, Pinkie… I will talk to them and you can express to them whatever is on your heart, OK? I will make them listen to you. But I can’t guarantee they will accept you.” Tyler then entered the house and gathered Lyra and Sam in order to talk to them, assuring both of them that he took note that there was a certain someone who had to say something quite important to the both of them.

Both the human and the unicorn nodded despite not knowing what to expect. They all sat down in the living room and waited as Pinkie entered the room. Lyra arched a brow and looked up to Tyler, who rested his index finger on his lips before he nodded towards Pinkie. As Lyra looked at Pinkie, who shyly looked down as to confess to her first love and didn’t know what to say, she looked at Sam, who waited patiently. For Sam, it was solving the mystery of what happened to Pinkie Pie. In Lyra’s mind, she giggled and took a mental note. 'Sometimes human males just don’t get it…'

She continued to smile and stood up, approached Pinkie who was visibly startled by Lyra’s sudden movement. One could see that she was uncertain of what to expect from the unicorn. Possibly denial, the fear of this was written all over her face now. But Lyra quietly sat down beside the pink earth pony and rested a hoof on her shoulder,
“You love him that much?”

Pinkie didn’t look up, but nodded with a smile, as a lonely tear rolled down her cheek,
“Yes…”

Lyra looked at Sam, prompting his eyes to widen as he slowly understood,
“So much that it hurts?” Lyra asked.

“Yes!” Pinkie now looked up to Sam with tears in her eyes. “Oh Celestia, yes!” Looking down once more, Pinkie shook her head. “It’s not easy being around me at times… I know that… It’s not easy having so much more energy than others and sometimes I go beyond the limits… And since I don’t know how you two would react on me… I… I rather restrain myself from telling you. I… I love you so much, Sam… that I would break my own heart before I ruin your love with Lyra…” Lyra looked over to Sam with a gasp.

As he remained silent, visibly unsure what to answer to this, the mint-coated unicorn smirked and faced Pinkie again,
“You don’t ruin it for us, Pinkie Pie… You are…” She tipped her chin twice in thought. “…a little eccentric once in a while, but I wouldn’t want you to suffer for my sake…”Facing Sam again, the unicorn smiled. “I would welcome her, Sam… It’s up to you now…”

When Sam stammered a bit for words, Lyra frowned a bit, nodded towards Pinkie. Obviously she wanted Sam not to break Pinkie’s heart. So he took a gulp and a deep breath and approached the pink mare as well,
“I must say no one ever confessed to me like that. But I never was in a herd before, either. You show us another Pinkie Pie today… One that isn’t all bouncy and lively… It’s a bit startling when you don’t know what’s going on, but a nice surprise once you do… And I do love that mane-cut…I’d love to learn more about THIS new caring Pinkie Pie…”

As he raised her chin, her lips shivered and her eyes became all teary. Leaping up, she pressed her lips on his, whimpering into the kiss as she slowly pressed him down to the ground, embracing him tightly. Witnessing this, Lyra chuckled,
“I guess we’ll have to brief him first on the strength and strong urges of earth ponies… Right, Tyler?” Looking up, Lyra was about to thank Tyler, but he was already out of the room. “Tyler?” As she looked out of the window, she saw him going down the street. Smiling at his decency, she turned back to Pinkie and Sam.

Outside Tyler walked down the street as a carriage approached the village from Canterlot. It didn’t take long for him to recognize it as Luna’s carriage. With a smile he waited until it landed and greeted Luna welcome with open arms,
“Luna! It’s…” With a raised nose she passed by without giving him a look. “… so nice to see you… What the hell is going on?”

“I should be the one asking thou this, Tyler Jones!” she said with a strict tone in her voice.

Tyler grimaced in an instant. She wasn’t in a very good mood and it was best to play with open cards in this state of hers. “What’s on your mind?”

“I deem it thou are aware of the time of the year?”

“Yes, tomorrow it has been one year since I got your love letter. It is heat season.”

His memory of the exact date caused her to gasp and to forget for a moment that she was angry at him, but she found her strictness again in a matter of seconds,
“Tis very sweet of thee to remember this, Tyler, but this is not my problem right now… Last night I noticed a dream that was about thee.”

Tyler shook his head, not really understanding,
“A dream? By whom?”

“A little filly…”

In an instant Tyler face palmed,
“Babs…”

“I usually don’t interfere with these kinds of dreams, but her fantasizing about your adult member thrusting up her petite young womb… Twas a bit too much to see the scepter that usually is for us adult mares to stretch such a young sex to that extent… Once ‘thou’ was done filling thy seed into her, I approached this young filly and told her how it saddens me to see her together with thee, my companion, even if it is only in a dream.”

Tyler grimaced slightly at this,
“I don’t know if that was the right thing to do… How did she respond?”

“Well, she was sorry and ashamed about it and promised to try forgetting thee… I made clear that I’m not angered about this since tis her first heat and she’s not to blame for her dreams, but she should find someone her age in the future and not someone who sees her as a child yet. If thou ask me though, this young lass has a crush on thee. I’m afraid these dreams of hers will continue for the next two weeks” Giving herself a facehoof, Luna shook her head. “This isn’t making my work any easier…”

Tyler nodded. Luna surely was a bit grumpy seeing this and not fully understanding because he didn’t tell her yet,
“Luna? If you want to, I’d let you read my mind regarding her.”

Nodding briefly, the Princess of the night approached him,
“Then I shall do so…” With that her horn charged up and Tyler’s memories about Babs and how she wanted to offer herself to him as well as Tyler’s escape from her flashed up in her mind. “I see…” Stepping back one step, she looked up to Tyler with a smile. “I never doubted thee, beloved. I simply didn’t know how to handle this on first sight.”

Tyler shook his head,
“The whole thing was crazy anyway…”

With a giggle, Luna held a hoof in front of her mouth,
“But thou ARE cute as a boy. Maybe I should transform thee to that age?”

Giving her a smirk, Tyler shook his head,
“What’s next? You let me ride you in that young age?”

Giggling a bit, she shook her head,
“Oh, I would let thee do quite more than that.” Both stopped laughing in an instant and Luna looked up to him, her face one deep purple blush. “Uh… Don’t tell the others I said that!”

Grabbing her jaw, Tyler grinned widely,
“Luna you little minx… You tell me right this instant what you would do to my young body if I would be in that form now!”

Reluctantly, she looked down and send the images into his mind. He then pulled her in gently and smirked,
“Sucking your teats? That’s not a sexual kink I guess… That’s your yearning for maternity!”

Luna looked down again with a smile,
“Well… Tis my wish to give birth to your child…”

Tyler turned around and grinned,
“Well… Maybe I should swing my… ‘scepter’ for you to get one!”

Luna blushed once more,
“Tyler! Please don’t mock me with this! I would rather ask thee a question…”

“Yes?”

“It is quite possible for me to change into the age of a younger mare and back into this mare you know me as… Seeing that young mare has made me curious. “Would you-”

“No I wouldn’t… At least I wouldn’t without the consent of the others. Why don’t you ask them if you want to try something like this?”

“As thou wish… I shall ask permission before we perform our little role-play…”

“Role-play…” he repeated while shaking his head. “Luna, you don’t want to play it, you want to be a young filly while I have sex with you.”

“Well, if it comes to pedofillya, do thou know how old you had to be before Tia and I could deem thou an adult? 3000 years at least in alicorn terms… Thou are but a newborn with the mind and feelings of an adult. It’s no real pedofillya, we know that… But it feels that way at times.”

Tyler nodded with a heavy gulp,
“I see… So by doing this you want to give me an insight in how you feel… Fucking a mare with the body of a filly…” He sighed heavily. “Luna… No… I have to decline this offer for now.” Luna looked up and Tyler could see the disappointment in her eyes not to be able to satisfy her curiosity, so he caressed her cheek. “Are you mad at me?”

“Nay… Maybe my mind still goes a bit astray in these last days of my heat cycle… It’s good to have a partner in thee that isn’t as affected by heat as we are…”

Tyler now beamed as they went back to her carriage,
“Oh yeah! After these two weeks your heat cycle is over as well… In hindsight it sure was funny at times…”

Meanwhile Lyra giggled a bit, nudging Sam and Pinkie into the ribs,
“Come now, you two lovebirds… Don’t eat each other, OK?”

Founding her composure again, Pinkie grinned as her lips separated from Sam’s and she looked down with these big blue eyes of hers; eyes that were filled with love and care as she glanced down to Sam. They seemed deep and vast as the ocean in his eyes,
“I never felt so good since I saw my first Sonic Rainboom…”

Now Sam frowned,
“Wait… If you’re turning back to normal… Why is your mane still flat?”

“Duh! You said you love my mane that way… So every time we’re not outside…”

Sam slowly caressed her cheek and Pinkie leaned into his palm,
“You weren’t lying that you love me so much that it hurts, huh? Wow… I… I don’t know if I can give back that amount of love… until now, I had all hand full with-”

Lyra laid a hoof onto his mouth, cutting him off,
“Hush, big guy… Nopony wants you to go for records… Just give her the best you can as you do for me…”

She whispered something inaudible into Pinkie’s ear and the earth pony looked down to Sam with a deep blush, before she smiled down to him,
“I’d love to try that as well…”

Lyra now giggled dirty and took pen and paper,
“You do that… My Anthropology lacks information about human reactions to earth pony libido…”

Now Sam looked up to his unicorn herd mate. “Lyra!” But a pink hoof turned his face back to Pinkie, who shook her head before she came down to his ear,
“There’s time for this later… I’m a bit scared though… No one popped my cherry yet…”

Sam smiled and nodded up to her,
“In that case there’s really no rush… We should plan ahead to make this a very special moment for you.”

“Why? It’s only you causing me pain for a short moment… Afterwards it’s only fun.”

“No, Pinkie… A girl only has one hymen and can give it to one guy.”

“Well, shouldn’t I doing it with you right away? I want to gi-”

Lyra held a hoof in front of Pinkie’s mouth,
“What Sam means is that the first time is special to a girl. It should be with someone you really like and who likes you as well. You know… So you give it to someone who deserves it and can help you make this moment a wonderful experience.”

Thinking about it for a few seconds, Pinkie finally nodded,
“I see! So it becomes a memory you can look back to with a smile?”

“Yeah, something like that!” Lyra said in response, a gentle smile on her face.

Standing up now, Sam opened the window and let some fresh air into the room. It was getting dark already and the moon rose up,
“By the way, Lyra… Who’s responsible for this calm singing every evening?”

The unicorn turned around and smiled as she heard the Royal Canterlot Canto in the air,
“Oh! Right! You and the others can’t know that yet… Why didn’t you ask before? That’s Princess Luna’s Royal Canterlot Canto. She began doing that soon after Tyler courted her. All of Equestria looks forward to it now every evening! Children love to hear it as a lullaby, couples and herd mates love to gaze at the stars while hearing it…” Then the idea sprang to her mind. “Well… Pinkie? Since you’re new in the herd… Would you like to join us today?”

The earth pony nodded and sat down to Sam’s left side while Lyra sat to his right side. As the moon shined in through the window, the three herd mates sat together and Pinkie leaned her head at Sam’s chest. Lyra watched this with a granting smile. Pinkie Pie wasn’t the easiest herd mate she could think of for her and Sam, but was willing to deny herself her own love in order to ‘preserve’ both their happy life as a couple. Yet this was nothing Lyra could stand for. Nopony should suffer for her sake. Although Pinkie did this in good will, it was a misguided action.

But it gave the unicorn a good insight of the depth of Pinkie’s feelings. Somehow the idea came up in Lyra that her life with Sam was about to get a lot of crazier and all in a good way as well. Sam stroke Pinkie’s shoulder and looked down to her. Somewhere inside this bundle of never-ending energy was a heart beating for him. As he looked over to Lyra, she as well leaned at his chest and smiled as she looked up to him. With both mares leaning against him, he looked up to the moon. This actually was a pleasant change. No dire threat to their lives, no enemies, just hearts opening to each other...

On the next day, Pinkie was bouncing again through the streets with her curly mane, giggling again like a child as she cheered up several ponies. Sam, Lyra and the other Rangers stood there on the balcony of the library and watched her. Rachel shook her head,
“So everything missing in her life was someone to love her? Great! Sam, you go on with this, you can go to hell like Jones here!”

Sam rolled his eyes,
“Shut up, woman!”

Just as Rachel was going inside again, Tyler chuckled,
“Oh, well… She’s just mad that she has to keep her feelings for Big Mac a secret.”

From inside Rachel’s yelling became audible,
“I HEARD THAT, JONES!!!”

“HUSH!!! THIS IS A LIBRARY!!!” Twilight now yelled from downstairs.

Spike’s voice now became audible,
“Twilight… You’re yelling as well…”

“I AM NOT YELLING!!! I AM DISCIPLINING!!! Oh…”

Sam slowly shook his head,
“We humans have layers… Layers we sometimes shed for others and reveal our true self. Even ponies do that to some extent… But Pinkie Pie… Pinkie Pie has no such layers… With her it’s only purity and innocence. She knows no masks, no illusion to hide away feelings…”

Lyra looked up to him,
“You sound worried, Sam… Aren’t you happy that there are two mares who love you with all their hearts?”

“I am worried, Lyra… for Pinkie’s sake. If I sleep with her… will this shatter her innocence?”

Leaning against him, the mint-coated unicorn smiled,
“Ohh… That’s sweet of you…”

But Sam simply shook his head in confusion,
“Actually I’m too confused right now to be sweet… I mean that’s the way things are? One guy and several female partners?”

Lyra and Tyler nodded,
“Sure! Tyler himself struggled to get this right into his head. Twilight told me that he was unfamiliar with the herd topic as well.”

Tyler leaned in and played with Lyra’s left ear,
“What you forgot to tell is that I was chased by a stampede of sex-crazed mares all wanting into my herd…Could it be that you were among them?”

Lyra giggled slightly ashamed and then shrugged,
“Aheh… THAT was before I knew Sam and you know what heat can do to a mare’s mind…”

Sam shook his head with a smile,
“I guess you’re not deep enough in heat season I guess?”

After leading a small parade of ponies bouncing over the rooftops, Pinkie Pie spotted the Rangers at the balcony of the library and hopped off a roof. Gasping in fear that she could harm herself, Sam reached out an arm for her, only to witness her falling on a passing wagon loaded with mattresses and bouncing off it right up to them. With a big grin the pink earth pony leaped into Sam’s arms and laid both front hooves around his neck,
“Guess what! Everypony was worried why I was so sad, but was happy for me once they heard what was the reason for it and that things are now better and this all is so great and screams for a party that I just want to-”

Placing a short kiss on her lips was enough for Sam to halt Pinkie’s sentence and prompted everyone else to laugh at this. Pinkie, now joining the laughter, nuzzled Sam and rubbed her cheek at his,
“We will have so much fun in this herd!”

Meanwhile Flynn went for a walk in the streets as Rainbow Dash crossed his path. Like two teenagers who knew that what they had done went a bit too far, they both looked down a bit embarrassed,
“Rainbow… About that night…”

“Uh-huh… You know, Flynn… That was the best sex I’ve ever had with someone… But…”

He nodded as he caressed her sides and flank for a bit while she was hovering in front of him,
“I know… We shouldn’t let it go overboard…”

With that he pulled her in and gently sniffed her chest, what prompted her to snicker,
“Flynn… Stop it, you dummy!”

With a wide grin he kissed her throat, what caused her to gasp a bit. “I may hold back between the pillows, RD… But why should I stop to hold my girl precious?”

This prompted Rainbow to snicker,
“Your girl? Is this a herd proposal?”

But Flynn only continued to grin as he gently nibbled on her ear before he whispered the six most exciting words to her any stallion ever whispered to her,
“This is for your ears… only…”