//------------------------------// // Shock and Awe and The second Rhythm. // Story: Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust. // by FoxofRarity //------------------------------// Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust. By.FoxofRarity Chapter. 21 Disclaimer- Chapter 18 contained a major clue and arthur's note at end. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. Applejack pushes Rarity off of the bed. "Oof." Rarity looks up from the floor with genuine hurt in her azure eyes. Applejack leaps off the bed and lands in front of Rarity. She presses her face to close to Rarity, with furious green eyes staring directly into the azure eyes. “What do you mean Rainbow Dash kissed you? Answer me Rarity!? Is that why you were so affectionate to her when you came back home before both of us fell asleep, two hours ago.” Questions Applejack. Rarity feels cornered, a feeling she felt before with Twilight Sparkle. And now it’s Applejack causing her to feel it once again. “I-I-I…” “Don’t you Ah-ah-ah me sugarlove, just answer me! Why will you kiss Rainbow Dash!? Was it because I wasn’t here for you and so you kissed Rainbow Dash because she was here? Or is it because Ah’m not enough for you, huh!” Applejack pushes Rarity to her back forcing the white unicorn to lie on the floor, while Applejack stands over her. Rarity’s eyes sees no one else but Twilight. “NO PLEASE!! DON’T HURT ME AGAIN! PLEASE YOU HAD ENOUGH, LEAVE ME BE!! I’M BEGGING YOU!” Rarity yells with complete fear in her voice. Applejack realizes what she's done to Rarity, so she immediately backs away from her. "Oh no." Applejack feels the upmost guilt for causing emotional pain to the love of her life. “No matter how hurt Ah feel right now, it will never amount to the pain she feels right now and from when she was violated.” Carefully Applejack approaches Rarity slowly so she can calm her down. The earth pony gently places a hoof on Rarity’s shoulder but Rarity flinches to the touch. Applejack sighes deeply. “Rarity Ah’m sorry Ah didn’t mean to hurt you like this, please forgive me. But Ah must know why did you kiss Rainbow Dash?” Rarity did not answer nor did she look at Applejack. “All right then sugarlov…Ah mean sugarcube Ah’ll leave you alone.” Applejack say in a low voice. Rarity opens her eyes when Applejack corrected herself and said sugarcube instead of sugarlove. “Rainbow Dash! Ah will get you for this! How dare you kiss the lips of my Rarity! How dare you!! Ah will find you and Ah’ll make you regre…” Rarity speaks. “She was hurt, Applejack…s-she was hurt.” Applejack came back to Rarity’s side. “Hurt? As in what kind of hurt?” “Emotionally hurt. She had a big hole in her heart, Applejack, a really big hole in her heart.” Rarity gets up to look at Applejack. Applejack wants to laugh at this, she for one does not believe Rainbow Dash will feel like this but right now s not the right time to even think about laughing. “Who hurt her?” Asks Applejack. Rarity felt bad telling Applejack about Rainbow Dash’s pain, but it’s the only way to keep Applejack from going ballistic again. She couldn’t risk Applejack getting hurt again or Rainbow Dash getting hurt too. “Rainbow was in love with Soarin, deeply in love that is. So when Rainbow expressed her feelings to Soarin he rejected her because he’s already in a relationship with Derpy…” “Ouch that’s gotta hurt.” Interrupts Applejack. “How rude.” Rarity says flatly. “Sorry.” “So Rainbow saw that Soarin is an unattainable pony, so she figured if she couldn’t be with him then she might as well admire him. After my…my…” Rarity does not want to use that word. “Ordeal. I just tried falling asleep but I couldn’t, but next thing I know Rainbow Dash came into my room and started to comfort me. I-I never thought she’ll do this for me.” Rarity locks eyes with Applejack. “She held me, she hugged me tight like I was the love her life, she made me feel safe and she protected me from my emotions. I thought you and I had a strong bond like Octavia and Gold Sky do. Yet you didn’t sense my pain…but I felt Rainbow’s pain and Rainbow felt mine…I couldn’t believe that I could feel her pain. She saw me as a cure for her pain so that is why she kissed me because she started to fall in love with me.” Applejack sighs deeply, one question with one answer. “Do you love Rainbow Dash?” Applejack felt her heart starting to beat slower. Rarity turns away from Applejack not because of the question but because she wants Applejack to become afraid. Applejack’s eyes want to tear up and she wants to run away but she promised to stay with Rarity no matter what. Rarity answered Applejack. “I love her, Applejack. I love her…” Applejack feels now forming. Rarity knew her cue. “As my best friend. Applejack, I only love Rainbow Dash as my best friend. After she kissed me I pushed her away from me and told her not to use me as a cure for her pain. She understood, but after I stormed away when you told me you tried to beat Gold Sky Rainbow looked for me and…” Applejack quickly got in front of Rarity’s face. “And what!?” She franticly asks. “She knows about our relationship.” Applejack gasps, all the more reason to comfort Rainbow, because if she knows then that means she is more than likely to tell everypony about it. So Applejack dashes past Rarity and heads to the door of the boutique so she can leave. But Rarity teleports in front of Applejack, stopping her. Rarity’s horn startes to glow. “Don’t you dare Applejack! I know what you’re planning, and this time I will stop you! Rainbow Dash did not abandon me when I told her about our relationship instead she gave me her blessing. She wants us to be happy! She wants to be together! And before I fell asleep she asked me when the wedding date is.” Rarity begins rubbed her head against Applejack’s head. She wants Applejack to kiss her with tender love. Applejack’s anger leaks from the bottom of her hoofs, Rarity loves her and she dared to question her about her fidelity. A wedding…marriage…union. Applejack remembered Rarity talking about marriage a couple months back, oh how she went on about the decorations, flying white doves, food, guest list, and their dresses of course. But Applejack isn’t very fond about commitment, so for right now she’ll have to downplay the wedding part carefully. “Ah’m sorry Rarity for doubting your love for me. Ah love you very much and Ah won’t carry out my intentions because Ah learned from what happened, the last time Ah did.” Applejack saw Rarity trying her best to smile. “Because Octavia beat some sense into you, say when are you going to get your hat back? Because the longer I see you without your hat the more I feel like taking off the bands that keeps your mane together, so it can be wavy and loose.” Rarity said in a loving voice. Applejack decided to take advantage of this moment. “Oh, uh Ah think Ah’ll just quickly head home so Ah, WOAH nelly! It’s a invitation from Pinkie, anyway Ah’ll be right back.” Applejack nuzzles Rarity behind the ear before leaving. Rarity knew Applejack got uncomfortable when she mentioned the possibility of both of them getting married. “Is Applejack really the right mare for me? Or am I just so blind in thinking that I’ll ever be married to the mar… I mean Pony of my dreams.” Rarity asks herself before opening the invitation. Applejack gallops through Ponyville while a pair of beautiful Grayish Purple eyes watches her. *** “What do you mean genocide?” Princess Celestia asks in complete confusion. Gold Sky now knows there is no going back in this, since he is going to die, he might as well tell somepony about the innocent blood he honorably shed. “I ask you one more time your majesty do you really want to know?” Celestia nods. "All right." Gold Sky start. “Your majesty, despite having vast wisdom, do you know how it feels when you take a life? This is not a question, I am simply saying this so can have a basic understanding of I go through every night. It all started during my journey, around the thirty second year. I met a griffon. Her name was Ruby; she was a very kind griffon along with having a yearning for adventure. So she asked me if she can join me. I was going to say no at first but since I started to feel lonely so instead I said yes. So both of us journeyed into the unknown, after months of flying and walking we made it to…” Gold Sky stops, he takes a deep breath so he can continue. “The United Zebra clans. The zebras took us to their chieftain. He questioned both of us but mostly me in particular. The chieftain had such a curiosity about the honor you instilled heavily in my head that. YOU KNOW WHAT! FRAK THIS!! Me and Ruby got accepted into the United Zebra clans, we took an oath to protect the clans and to always and I mean always. Honor our word. Both of us thought nothing of the oath, I was stupid and blind in not reading the mind of the chieftain. Do you know why your majesty?” Gold Sky got out from Celestia’s loving wing. “Why?” She asks. Gold Sky’s ears drops but his face maintained an angered expression. “Because one of the clans decided to leave the union, at first I thought this conflict will be solved quickly. But boy oh boy was I wrong. Because this rouge clan is known for having the fiercest, biggest like bigger then Big Macintosh, skilled warriors. The rouge clan had no intent of coming back and to make things worse between the chieftain and the rouge clan is that the warriors from the united clans were deeply afraid of facing the powerful warriors of the Rouge clan. But there was one factor I didn’t take into account…the chieftain had an enormous amount of pride. He despised being defied by the rouge clan and he knew about my telepathic ability because Ruby told him about it.” Gold Sky pounds his chest with his right hoof. “He came to me asking for my help, I said no, because I came to the united clans seeking peace from mommy’s and daddy’s death. But with great pride also comes a silver tongue. He started to tell me that if I didn’t help, the rouge clan will start a conquest by conquering the other clans one by one, he said they will start by killing most of the stallions, taking the mares prisoner, and lastly th-they will kill the weak children. He knew my weakness…I love children very much and I always spent a lot of time with children in the clan. I-I-I agreed, I will be in front of the united forces because the united forces needed somepony to follow because all of them trembled in marching out to meet the powerful warriors of the Rouge clan.” Gold Sky sat back down next to Princess Celestia, he places his head on her shoulder because he knew he’ll cry. Now that he thought about it the pain from his actions of this past event finally came. “Your majesty quick question, what is one thing that can stop anypony?” Gold Sky asks. Princess Celestia knew the answer even before Gold Sky finished asking her his question. “Fear.” She says. “Exactly, fear is the one thing that can turn even the most powerful warrior into a cowering child. And that is exactly what I did. I saw the many intimidating rouge warriors already in battle positions while some from the United Clan forces ran away. My telepathy did its work, I got myself to unparallel boundaries, I went into their minds by showing each rouge warrior what they fear the most. Most of the rouge warriors feared for their families, others feared being alone, some feared death through dishonor, while the rest feared being forgotten. One by one they all fell apart to their undoing, rolling on the ground screaming, apologizing to their fathers' for failing them, and yelling out the names of their wives and children. I stopped my telepathy when I saw all of them pass out in fear. Then the chieftain came to me congratulating me… look into my mind Celestia, because this memory is unshielded now. Look at it, do it, see my pain, my regret, because I became a Razor in order to honor my word.” Gold Sky’s voice persuades Celestia to comply. Celestia’s horn glows as she starts to enter Gold Sky’s mind. The accent of the chieftain came to life while the savannas and Acacia tress glow brightly. “Well done, Gold Sky you saved the children of the United clans I owe you my thanks.” The Chieftain in full glory declares to the Alicorn. “Thank you, but there is no need to thank me, I am simply doing my part to stop conflict from starting and escalating into war.” The chieftain nods his head while having a smirk on his lips for his next words will forever hurt the Alicorn. “WARRIORS KILL THE ROUGE ONES!!!” Roars the chieftain. “WHAT!?” Yells Gold Sky in seeing the warriors of the United clans slaughtering the mighty rouge warriors with no mercy. The chieftain lays a hoof on Gold Sky’s shoulder. “You see Gold Sky, if we give mercy to the rouge clan we are basically giving them a second chance to plan a second revolt and I will not allow that. So by killing them all I prevent that, but also set an example to any other clans if they have any plans to revolt. Basically I wipe out one problem to prevent a new one from ever rising.” The chieftain casually explains. “By killing them dishonorably!? So are you also planning in killing the mares and children too!?” Gold Sky's heart is now beating beyond its limit, because this is not what he thought will happen to the warriors of the rouge clan. “No Gold Sky don’t worry, I won’t be killing the children of the rouge clan.” Gold Sky sighs in deep relief. “It will be you.” Gold Sky’s face became pale, every muscle in his body trembled violently like an earthquake, and his mind could not absorb this- being told to do the unspeakable. Being told to kill children… the greatest gift given from the Great Spirit. Gold Sky starts to stutter. “I-I-I c-c-ca-can’t, I-I can’t! I w-w-won-won-won’t do it!!” The Chieftain pats Gold Sky’s shoulder while using his silver tongue once again. “Oh Gold Sky its simple, you simply take this sword and plunge it into their necks. Nine out of ten die painlessly. But if you don’t kill the children they will always remember the deaths of their parents. They will grow up seeking vengeance…they will revolt once more but with an iron will. And you don’t want to know how hard it is to kill enemies who purely driven by their believes, it’s hard.” The chieftain's accent stuck deep into Gold Sky’s mind. “But they’re children THEY’RE INNOCENT!!!” Booms Gold Sky. The chieftain snorts at this and laughs out loud to the point of tears coming out of his eyes. “Nopony is innocent, there is no such thing as innocence in this world Gold Sky. Everypony is evil at heart you know that, I know that, everypony knows that. Now honor your word! You remember your oath! Now honor it!!” Yells the chieftain. Gold Sky shook his head while trying his best to contain himself from using his magic against the chieftain. So many emotions flash through his mind, he couldn’t do this, he finally figured out why the chieftain expressed so much curiosity in his honor. The chieftain planned to use it against him if there was ever a reason to. “Why do you want to use my honor against me like this? Why?” Questions Gold Sky. “Because I don’t like it when my citizens defy me like this. And you took an oath, besides didn’t you tell me how your Princess taught you a lot about honor and how you held on to it for the sake of your parents who passed away. Don’t disgrace them like this but more importantly don’t disgrace me!” The chieftain presses his face against Gold Sky’s. Gold Sky falls to his knees his mind and heart would not go along with this, his mind will be stained with the gargles of the dying children while his heart will be stabbed with their blood. “I can’t…I cannot part take of this malicious act. Please chieftain don’t make me do this. I can’t do this, I just can’t.” Gold Sky’s voice cracks. The chieftain saw there is no way to make Gold Sky honor his word so he decided a more direct approach. “All right if you will not honor your word then I’ll have to resort to a different strategy. You two! Bring the griffon here!” The Chieftain notices how wide Gold Sky’s eyes got when he ushered those words. “No, leave Ruby out of this! She has no reason to be injected into this PLEASE!” Begs the Alicorn. The Chieftain smiles. “Take the sword, honor your word and she will live. It’s that easy.” Gold Sky sees the blade underneath Ruby’s windpipe, kill many to save one…kill many and lose thyself to the pain of innocent blood. Gold Sky, the chieftain, and Ruby along with the warriors holding her all walked to where the children of the rouge clan are being held, a small filly saw Gold Sky and ran up to him. She remembers him because he will always let her ride on his back whenever he flew. “Hey Gold Sky have you seen my daddy?” She asks. Gold Sky took the sword with his magic... he didn’t want to, he didn’t want to. “Do it.” The chieftain growls. “Gold Sky please!” Ruby begs. Gold Sky took a deep breath. “Please forgive me…forgive me.” He raises the sword. “DO IT!!” Screams the Chieftain. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Gold Sky swung the sword down on the child. Her dying eyes look at him. She gargles before finally breathing her last breath from the stab wound. Gold Sky drops the sword and falls to his knees. “Forgive me!! Please forgive me!! Oh Great Spirit take this child into your kingdom!!” The chieftain kicks Gold Sky in the stomach. “You’re not done yet, because I said children, not child! Finish what you started.” He threw the sword back to Gold Sky. The Razor took over…his heart went cold, the mind decided its best for Gold Sky not to feel pain about this decision, so it suppressed his emotions and brought forth the Razor. Gold Sky took the sword, he look at Ruby with cold eyes and went to the rest of the children. The children scream but one by one the sword silenced them, their blood splattered all over Gold Sky, and tears fell from his eyes. Tears of pain… Tears of a Razor. Princess Celestia got out of the memory. For the first time in her life she became speechless, Gold Sky the stallion she raised murdered hundreds of innocent children. “And yet your majesty you stay by my side. After what happened the chieftain gave me nine pink unpolished blood diamonds three of which I gave to Rarity in exchange for a ruby and to pay for a window I broke. Me and Ruby left the clans but she never looked at me the same way anymore three months later…” Gold Sky start to cry. “We both ran into a dragon and the dragon killed her when she tried to help me get away. Do you know how I feel every time Sweetie Belle hugs me? She sees me as her older brother just as I see Rarity as my older sister. Every time she hugs me, it hurts. Every time children come up to me, it hurts. You want to know the worst part your majesty. That night after I killed those children, I slept like a baby. I DIDN’T FEEL ANYTHING! WHY? EVEN TODAY I DON’T FEEL ANYTHING! ONLY RUBY’S DEATH GIVES ME PAIN!” Gold Sky groans. Princess Celestia places her head over Gold Sky head. She realized he’s been living with this memory for many years and with many more to come. She figured Gold Sky decided to make up for this through his execution. “The Great Spirit still has yet to punish me for what I did. But after waiting many years...I guess his punishment is this memory. I don’t want it purged from my mind…until I forgive myself then I’m sure this memory and the screams of children will leave me, but that won’t be happening anytime soon.” *sigh* “I am a monster like Discord and Nightmare Moon. A monster that fell in love with a beautiful mare and a monster that is getting what he deserves.” Celestia finally speaks. “Gold Sky I know how you feel…” Good intentions, bad moment. “SHUT IT!! You do not know how I feel! Don’t give me that load of bullocks that you know how I feel because you never will.” Gold Sky’s sadness takes over. “UNTIL YOU HAD TO KILL INNOCENT CHILDREN, UNTIL YOU HAD TO FEEL THEIR WARM BLOOD ON YOU, UNTIL YOU HAD TO SEE THEIR EYES LOOKING AT YOU, THEN BY ALL MEANS TELL ME THAT YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL… but you never went through any of that, because you’re pure and will never kill many to save one. You are infinitely stronger than me, wiser, and I just wished you never instilled honor in me. Take me to the royal court let me see the ponies who have my fate in their hooves.” Gold Sky got up and waits for Celestia to take him to the royal court. Celestia took him to the Royal court without any guards, despite seeing what Gold Sky did, she still trusts him because he remembered all the names of the children…all one thousand four hundred and twelve names. *** Princess Celestia and Gold Sky arrive at the Royal court, the court members gasp at the sight of Gold Sky standing next to Princess Celestia, because he only wore the collar of Dark Matter. Two court members who had the power to decide if Gold Sky will be executed or not, admired Gold Sky’s flank and beautiful body. His body almost seems identical to Celestia's; beautiful curves with muscle tone, nice mane, but more importantly is his race. So just like Celestia, Luna, and Cadence his race gives him immortally…something of which Augustus Vincent and Victorious Ayla wanted. Augustus looks at Victorious and Victorious looks back at Augustus with great lust in their eyes. Both then look at Gold Sky. They knew how to get immortally and Gold Sky is the lucky stallion from whom they will extract it from. *** Applejack carefully navigating from tree to tree in Sweet Apple acres watches her back every time she takes a step. Applejack has never been this afraid since she thought she lost the farm to the Flim Flam brothers, funny thing though is that the Flim Flam brothers didn’t beat her severely, Octavia did. Just then an apple lands in front Applejack. She quickly turns around to see if Octavia is behind her, but saw nothing. Applejack sighs and turns back to her original direction… that is when she saw a mare wearing silver armor standing in front of her. “Surprise…Applejack.” Octavia mummers in a voice causing chills to run down Applejack's spine. Applejack freezes. "Octavia what brings you here?” Octavia grabs an apple from the ground, rubs it against her coat a few times and begins eating it. “Well I was just passing by and I thought. Hey! Why not pay Applejack a visit! After all she did try to beat my dear Gold Sky to death and she was the one who sent a letter to Princess Celestia accusing him of raping Rarity…” Octavia gets interrupted. “Because he did rape Rarity!!” “Shut up you damn wretch! Because of you Gold Sky will be executed! You hear! Gold Sky will be executed!! I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT HIM!” Roars Octavia. Applejack gasps at this. “Wait! He, he will be executed?” Octavia trots up to Applejack so she can look into her eyes. “Yes…because of you my innocent husband will die, I will live in misery forever now. While you get to be with the love of your life, that is not fair. I was suppose to start teaching him how to play the cello next week...without magic! But that will never happen now because of you, Applejack.” Octavia starts to feel her strength multiply meaning she is now between Rage and Peace. “Ah-Ah-Ah’m sorry Octavia, Ah’m sorry.” Applejack's guilt is rising… she didn’t know Gold Sky will be executed. “No Applejack. I’m sorry.” Applejack tilts her head in question. “For what?” “For this.” Octavia gave Applejack a powerful uppercut. Applejack lands on her back and she groans in pain. Applejack now understands why Octavia is wearing silver armor, it’s better to have blood stain the armor than to stain her coat. Octavia went up to Applejack and punches her hard in the stomach. Applejack lost all her breath. “Feel my pain Applejack!” Octavia lifts up Applejack’s head and buries her knee into Applejack’s face. Octavia then punches Applejack square in the mouth, causing Applejack to spit out many teeth. “Feel my misery!” Octavia proceeds in head butting Applejack. In pain Applejack collapses. “No! I will not let this mare beat me again!!” Applejack jumps to her feet and lunges forward at Octavia. But the gray mare simply jumps away and lands behind Applejack. Applejack swung at Octavia but she kept on missing. “Humph! You are strong Applejack, but you are slow, clumsy, and uncoordinated. But still, you are the strongest mare in Equestria! So c’mon hit me!” Taunts Octavia. Applejack tries to hit Octavia, but no matter how fast she swung at her. Octavia kept dodging her swings. Finally Applejack starts to become tired but she kept on going. Octavia however did not see a large rock behind her, she steps on it causing her to lose balance and fall. "YES!" Applejack smiles at this and musters up all the extraordinary strength she has left in her and launches her hoof at Octavia. "AUGH!!" Octavia stops Applejack’s hoof in mid swing with her hoof… “Impossible!” Cries Applejack. “But I’m stronger!” Declares Octavia. They gray mare head butts Applejack again. Octavia went all out on Applejack giving her fellow earth pony full taste of her fury. Octavia shatters all of Applejack ribs, broke her jaw, fractures her left elbow, ruptures both kidneys this time and last but not least… “From now on Applejack after Gold Sky is executed, I will come and share my misery with you. I can’t kill you because I don’t want to hurt Rarity, but more importantly I can’t kill you because Gold Sky’s blood healed you before. Some of his blood must of gotten into your system when you came to beat him. Anyway I won’t leave you for dead, I will let Big Macintosh know you’re here, and oh if you tell anypony what I did to you… Rarity will have her share of the pain.” Octavia’s voice is cold as Nightmare Moon’s and sadistic like Discord’s, losing Gold Sky is like losing her heart. Octavia grabs Applejack’s left hind leg and kicks it with such a force, that it caused the tibia to shatter and stick out through Applejack’s skin. Applejack lets out a roar so loud Big Macintosh ran out of the house and run into the field in which a severely damaged Applejack laid. “Good bye Applejack.” Grayish Purple eyes are the last thing Applejack saw before passing out to Big Macintosh’s voice. *** Octavia took off the armor. She places it back in the closest and got on the train heading to Canterlot to see Nurse Redheart, because she has been experiencing nausea and been having massive urges to just eat a ton of food. “Hello Octavia are you ready for your check up?” Cheerfully asks Nurse Redheart. “Ready as I’ll ever be.” Replies the gray mare. So Nurse Redheart did the regular motions, she checks Octavia’s blood pressure, her pupils, O2 saturation, respiratory rate, apical pulse rate, and temperature. Nurse Redheart then asks Octavia to lie on her back. Nurse Redheart palpates Octavia’s abdominal area to feel for any abnormalities. But when Nurse Redheart places her stethoscope on Octavia’s abdominal area to listen for strange bowel movements, her five hundred years of experienced practice ears picked a second rhythm. “Doctor. WholookslikeCarameleventhoughhe'saUnicorn can you please bring me the Doppler stethoscope.” Nurse Redheart asks. "Huh what?" To hear Redheart ask for a instrument she heard of before Octavia got a little alarmed. “Is there something wrong Nurse?” Nurse Redheart smiles softly at Octavia. “There is nothing wrong my dear, my stethoscope appears to be broken so I’ll be using a different one.” This answer relaxed Octavia just as it will for any other pony. Nurse Redheart places the transducer in the center of Octavia's abdominal area. What she heard almost causes her to gasp and drop the doppler... She hears a small but rapid second heartbeat inside of Octavia. A new life is growing inside of Octavia. --- I did not include Princess Luna and Rainbow Dash's bonding scene because I felt it will not go with the tone of this chapter. Anyway I warned Nightmare Moon not post anymore leaks or I might kill off Delta Scorch. Sorry for posting this late, I had to work this morning so I wasn't able to post it earlier. The titles of the next two chapters. Chapter 22- The second Victim Chapter 23- Transcending Pony Limits.