The elements of metal

by sykko


Twilight and Thrasher

Twilight was sitting in her room in Golden Oaks library and record store, practicing her vocal exercises while reading up on the latest magical lesson from Celestia. On nearby the nearby desk and stands laid sheets of paper with incomplete lyrics. A quill levitated in a magenta aura and began scribbling lyrics down. "No!", she snapped crumpling paper and throwing it in a nearby overflowing wastebasket. "Maybe I can come up with some better lyrics after I get something to eat." As if on cue, her stomach began to growl and gurgle.

As Twilight made her way into the kitchen, she opened the fridge and frowned. It was mostly bare, except for some wilted daisies and a moldy, half-eaten sandwich, on the top shelf sat an unopened six-pack of beer with a note stuck to it that read, "in case you need some inspiration or just want a buzz, Thrasher." She sighed taking a beer from the six-pack and closing the door. "How does Thrasher get anything done constantly being drunk?", she asked her self sitting at the kitchen table and cracking open the beer. She took a few sips as a sigh passed her lips. The beer did nothing to alleviate her stomach's growling, in fact it being empty made the alcohol go into her system faster and made her stomach growl louder. Crushing the empty can, she tossed it in the trashcan, opened the fridge door and pulled another one out. Cracking it open, she said to herself, "Alright after this one, I've got to go get something to eat." Tipping her head back, she guzzled down the beer and threw the empty in the trash.

Riding the buzz from the two beers, Twilight stood up to head head out to get food, when Spike walked in wearing a burgundy velvet tracksuit and bronze sunglasses. "Twilight, baby!", he said in his smoothest, smarmiest tone, "When are you gonna get me those vocal tracks you promised three days ago?"

"Soon, Spike.", Twilight answered, "But first I need to get something to eat. I'm starving."

Spike walked over to the fridge and opened the door. "Yeesh!", he exclaimed, "I guess we do need to get some food." He tapped a finger to his snout, "Maybe I can stop by Vinyl's and get you a baggie of 'inspiration powder.'"

"Huh?", Twilight said absentmindedly opening her personal vault to pull out some bits. She blinked when she realized what Spike had said. "Uh no, I'm good. Let's just get something to eat...", she paused glancing around before lowering her voice, "...and...maybe a case of beer."

Spike sniggered softly. "Whatever helps you get those vocal tracks recorded by the end of the week." He walked over and hopped up on Twilight's back reading over contracts.

Twilight and Spike stopped at Sugarcube Corner when her stomach growled loudly. Opening the door, a bell jingled and Pinkie popped up from behind the counter. "Ahh!", Twilight exclaimed in surprise, taking a step back.

"What can I get for ya?!", Pinkie chirped.

Twilight's stomach growled again as if on cue. "I could go for two cranberry muffins, a daisy and lilac sandwich and...", she scuffed her hoof against the floor, giving a dry chuckle, "...a mug of beer."

"I'll take a ruby cupcake.", Spike said.

Pinkie wrote the order. "Like my great-uncles Ten Bit Daryl and Whinny Paul and my Granny Pie used to say 'it's five o'clock somewhere!'", she teased as she poured the frothy amber liquid in a mug. "That'll be eight bits. Go take a seat and I'll have your food quicker than two wiggles of a bunny's nose."

Placing the money on the counter, Twilight levitated the mug of beer and sat at at a table. Licking her lips, she sipped sipped the cold amber beer. "Ah!", she sighed, feeling the beer slide down her throat. As she went to take another sip, Pinkie suddenly appeared with the food, causing to cough and sputter as some of the beer shot out of her nose. "Gah!", she exclaimed, wiping the amber trickle from her snout.

After Twilight and Spike finished eating, she held the empty mug over her mouth to catch the last amber drop on her tongue. Picking up a napkin, she wiped her mouth and looked to Spike who had frosting, crumbs and gem shards all over his mouth. Levitating the napkin over, she chuckled as she wiped his face, "It's almost like you can't eat without making a mess of yourself."

Spike pushed the napkin away. "Okay, okay! Now that you've got something to eat, can we go record that vocal track now?"

"Not until we get some groceries in the house.", Twilight said.

Spike just rolled his eyes and sighed. He pulled out his cell phone, "Should I text the others and tell them you're not getting the vocal track recorded today?"

"WHAT?!", Pinkie shouted and scrambled from behind the counter, "You haven't recorded the vocal tracks yet?! Me and Thrasher finished our tracks last night and she was practically black-out drunk!"

Twilight chuckled nervously, then her thoughts went to Thrasher for a moment. "I know you and Thrasher have a long history. Do you know why she drinks so much?"

Pinkie looked away sad for a moment, "It's...uh...it's not discussed outside the family."

Twilight and Spike blinked in astonishment, they had never seen Pinkie sad before, well except that one time when they didn't show up for Gummy's after-birthday party because she forgot it was her birthday. But this was a different kind of sad, not the deflating mane and having a neurotic break kind of sad. "Can you tell us what happened?", Twilight asked.

Pinkie regained her usual chipper demeanor. "Nope!", she chirped, "Years ago I made a Pinkie promise with Thrasher and as you all know, that's an unbreakable promise."

Twilight gave a sidelong glance to Pinkie, but decided to drop it, on things like this she could be more stubborn than Applejack. "Well thank you for the food and the beer. It was all delicious Pinkie." She passed the plate and mug to her friend before leaving.

"Okie dokie lokie!", Pinkie chirped, "Come back again! AND DON'T FORGET TO RECORD YOUR VOCAL TRACKS!"

Twilight and Spike walked through the supermarket placing groceries in a shopping cart. She pulled out a list and began reading out loud as she checked off the items, "Bread? Check! Canned soup? Check! Cheese? Check! Orange juice? Check! The rest I can pick up from the farmer's market. That just leaves...cereal and a case of beer."

Walking down the cereal aisle, Twilight dropped two boxes of hay nuts and a box of daisy nut bran flakes in the cart. Spike shook a box of cinnamon toast crunchies. She chuckled, "Okay Spike, you can get get that box." She levitated the box and dropped it in the cart. Making her way to the beer cooler, she opened the door and pulled out a a case. "Hmm, maybe I should get two more to lure over thrasher so she can talk about why she drinks so much." She started to slide out two other cases.

"I don't know Twi, you've seen how much she can drink.", Spike said, "She'd drink all three cases while throwing the empties at you before she was even buzzed enough to talk."

Twilight sighed as she slid the two extra cases back into the beer fridge. "You're right."

Reaching the checkout counter, the cashier began tallying Twilight's bill. "Will that be all?", the cashier asked.

"Could you have somepony deliver these to Golden Oaks for me?"

The cashier quickly jotted the delivery fee to the tally. "That'll be thirty-five bits Ma'am." After Twilight hoofed over the bits, the cashier put a hoof to his mouth and shouted, "Bulk! I've got a delivery for you to drop off!"

A white, muscle-bound pegasus, with stumpy wings, red eyes, a dirty blonde mane and a dumbbell as a cutie mark walked out. "Oh my Celestia!", he shouted, dancing in place like a filly, "You-you-you're Black Magic! I caught your band's most righteous tour when they stopped in Manehattan! I think you're the prettiest out of all of them!"

Twilight rubbed a hoof on her leg sheepishly. "Um...thanks?"

"Did you see me at the concert?", Bulk Biceps asked, "I was the one in the back jumping up and down, shouting Yeah Black Magic! Woo Black Magic!"

Twilight gave an uncomfortable chuckle. "Uh...yes.", she lied. "I have other shopping to do. But...uh...thanks for going to the concert."

Bulk Biceps went to gush but the cashier cleared his throat cutting him off. "Oh right, your groceries.", Bulk Biceps said, "I'll get right on that." He gathered up the sacks of groceries and fluttered his tiny wings, flying out of the store, once out of the door he shouted, "YEAH!"

Twilight waited until Bilk Biceps was gone to leave the store and make her way to the farmer's market. As she and Spike made their way through the streets, Spike's stomach heaved and belched up a puff of green flames. A rolled up letter materialized out of the green flames.

Taking the letter in her magic, Twilight unrolled it. Seven golden tickets and a manager's pass on a lanyard with Spike's picture on it plopped out. She read the letter, "Dear Twilight Sparkle, Enclosed are seven tickets for the Grand Rockin' Gala. You and your fellow band mates are invited. This year will be most righteous as this is the first Gala in thousand years to have Luna performing and will serve as a sweet launching platform for our new reunion tour in a thousand years. Signed, The most righteous princesses Celestia and Luna. Dictated-not read P.S. Thou get'st to experience our most divine divine skills that shows we are greatest musician in all Equestria-Luna P.P.S. Luna, you're not the greatest musician, we're both equally skilled. P.P.P.S. That is thou way of saying thou art the most divine musician. P.P.P.P.S. *in royal Canterlot voice* Luna! I'm not better than you! Yes you can play three instrument at once, but remember I wrote all our songs! P.P.P.P.P.S. *in royal Canterlot voice* How dare thou use the voice on us! Maybe we should consider starting up our side project! P.P.P.P.PP.S. Wait?! You're still writing?! Just send the damn thing already."

Twilight jumped up in the air with a whoop. "The Grand Rockin' Gala! Woo-hoo! Come on Spike! Let's get these to the girls!" After placing the lanyard around Spike's neck, Twilight sprinted through the streets of Ponyville.

Turning around a corner, Twilight ran headlong into Applejack. Bouncing off Applejack, Twilight fell to the ground, the tickets landing on her face. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Bats on my face!", Twilight screamed.

"Sugarcube? Are ya okay?", Applejack asked concerned as she helped Twilight back to her hooves, "Y'all haven't been partying with Vinyl have ya?"

Twilight laughed embarrassed as she levitated the tickets off her face. "No.", she answered, "Why would I party with Vinyl?"

"Well after y'all fell over after bumpin' intuh me, you screamed about bats.", Applejack said, "Are ya sure ya didn't eat any blotters or take any pills Vinyl gave ya?"

"You sound like you know from experience.", Spike said, quirking an eyebrow.

"There was this one time back a few years ago when Ah went tuh a party Vinyl was throwin' shortly after she moved here. She gave me this lil pink pill. Fer three hours I thought I was on Mares.", Applejack said, "After Ah came down, me an' three stallions were ruttin' each other stupid." She stared off wistfully, "Good times! Good times!"

Twilight blinked in surprise. "Please don't tell me that Apple Bloom isn't actually your daughter."

"What?! No!", Applejack shouted getting up in Twilight's face, "If's ya ever say sumptin' like that again, I'll wash yer mouth out with soap an' bend you o'er my hind legs an' tank yer flank but good!"

"I'd pay good bits to see that.", Spike snickered.

Twilight smacked Spike across his head as Applejack asked, "Wudd'ya got there Twi?"

Spike grumbled as he rubbed his head, "Hit me will ya! Is it a crime for a guy to wanna see something sexy?"

Twilight glared at Spike before answering Applejack, "Celestia and Luna sent tickets for the Grand Rockin' Gala. This is year is supposed to kick off their reunion tour." She levitated the ticket over to Applejack. "Here ya go."

"Yee-haw!", Applejack shouted, rearing up in the air and waving her stetson in a hoof, "There's always ponies lookin' 'enhance' their experience. I get to try out my newest crop I've been cultivatin' fer these past two years, sour apple. Ah'll make a killin' not only th' new crop, but also on th' food when they get th' munchies!" She darted off.

Twilight chuckled as she continued walking, Pinkie popped out of seemingly nowhere, startling Twilight, causing her to drop the tickets on her face. "AAAAAHHHH! Bugs!", Twilight shouted.

Vinyl and Octavia were walking by and paused seeing Twilight freak out. "Did you give Twilight any window panes?", Octi asked. Vinyl shook her head no. "What about any alicorn dust?", Octi asked. Again Vinyl shook her head no. "Did you give her any little blue pills?", Octi asked. Once more Vinyl shook her head no. "Roitie-o! Then let's head home, I wanna see some bloody messed up stuff and then go crazy.", Octi said. Vinyl and Octavia turned to walk back to their home.

Twilight laughed sheepishly as she stood back to her hooves.

Pinkie looked into Twilight's eyes as she slowly waved a hoof over the, "Pupils constricting normally, so you're not tripping." She gave Twilight a quick sniff. "No skunky smell, so you haven't hitting any of the Apple family's crop. Only a slight smell of alcohol, but you should have sobered up."

"I've been saying for years that her brain wouldn't be so spaghetti if she would just let a stallion give her a shot of vitamin D or a mare to make her walk up the wall.", Spike snarked.

"Spike!", Twilight shouted as she smacked him across the head again, "I'm just not ready yet. It's just so intimidating, with all those...fluids."

Pinkie blinked for a moment in sudden realization. "So nopony has punched your card yet? Makes sense."

Twilight flushed in embarrassment, eagerly seeking to change the topic. "So anyways...I just received these tickets for the Grand Rockin' Gala. Here's yours." She levitated the ticket over with Pinkie's name on it.

"Woo!", Pinkie shouted, leaping in the air, levitating for a moment, before darting off.

"And don't tell anypony about my...err...condition!", Twilight shouted.

Pinkie popped up from behind a bush. "Too late! I already told Rarity, Vinyl and Octavia!" She vanished in a pink streak.

Twilight sighed dejectedly. "Fuck me."

Only if you ask nicely!", a pink blur shouted rushing past.

Twilight ground her teeth in frustration. "Celestia-teet fucking-big fat floppy..." Her expletives became a chain of unintelligible swear words that made the paint on the nearby buildings bubble and peel. "...UP THE PONUT WITH AN ELEPHANT TUSK!" Twilight panted as the last of her anger finally burned itself out.

"Momma? What's a...", a young foal started to ask before its mother snatched it away.

"Feel batter?", Spike asked pulling his fingers out of his ears.

Twilight gave a relaxed sigh. "Yes. Now let's go talk to Rarity and do some damage control on this." She gave a grumble, "I'll be surprised if I don't receive a fine from Mayor Mare for some kind of vulgarity infraction."

Twilight opened the door to Carousel Topic, the bell gave a small jingle. "Welcome to Carousel Topic. Our styles are always hot, where it's at and always on fleek!", Rarity said, "Why hello Twilight darling. Why don't you come on back? We're just putting on a kettle of tea."

"We?", Twilight asked as she followed Rarity. She froze in her tracks seeing Fluttershy sitting at the table. "Just perfect.", Twilight grumbled to herself before sitting down.

"Don't worry darling, we're not here to tease you about you not having relations yet.", Rarity said as she placed the tea service on the table, "I think it's quite commendable that you're waiting until you're ready. I personally think there's too much pressure on ponies too early, it just leaves to too many ponies getting disappointed and becoming repressed."

Twilight blinked in shock.

"I agree.", Fluttershy said, "No stallion or mare should rush into it. Their first time should always be with someone that feels special."

Twilight blushed as Rarity poured the tea. "What's it like...you know when...", Twilight asked trying to forced the blood from her face and ears.

"Oh it's amazing darling.", Rarity said pleasantly, "When a big strong stallion or silky smooth mare is top of you and you start getting close..."

"Then they bite down and it's fireworks and a thousand pinpricks of pain and pleasure all at once.", Fluttershy finished.

The two of them sighed as their eyes fluttered.

"Whoa!", Twilight said feeling her cheeks and ears get hot enough to boil water. She fanned her face with a hoof. "That sounds...really good."

"Yep!", Spike said breathing on his claws and buffing them against his chest, "I've done the sex many of times."

Twilight went to smack Spike on the head, but Rarity beat him to it. "Spike! Don't be crass or crude!"

Spike rubbed his head as his eyes became hearts as he stared at Rarity. "Oh yeah, momma! Abuse me!"

"Nyah!", Rarity exclaimed in sudden shock.

Twilight smacked Spike across the back of his head hard. "Spike!"

Spike rubbed his head and grumbled, "Yeah! Yeah!"

After the three of them finished drinking their tea, Rarity levitated a coupon over to Twilight. "That's good for twenty percent off any merchandise in my back room. Don't be embarrassed, we all have physical needs. Just stop in whenever you're ready, I have plenty of magazines, movies and physical aides."

"Oh, um...thanks?", Twilight said putting the coupon in her saddlebag. She didn't think she could blush any hotter, she found she was wrong. "Oh! Before I forget, this is for you and Fluttershy." She passed two tickets to Rarity.

Rarity walked Twilight to the door. "Come back anytime darling. I'll leave a key under the doormat for you."

Twilight blinked as Rarity ushered her out the door. "Did she just imply what I think she did?", Twilight thought. If she could have heard more than the blood pumping in her ears, she would have heard the two mares shouting cheers in the shop. Her face felt like it was made of fire and she rushed to the nearby pond to cool it off. Plunging her face into the water, she swore she heard steam bubbling off of it.

Twilight pulled her face from the water with a sigh and shook the excess water from her head. As the ripples of the pond subsided, she saw a cyan figure reflected in it. "Fuck me galloping!"

"Okay, but it'll have to be your place as I don't want you falling through the floor of my house.", Rainbow snickered.

Twilight flushed bright red and plunged her head back into the water. Rainbow pulled Twilight's face out of the water. "Calm down. I'm just teasing you.", Rainbow said, "So what happened at Rarity's to get you all flustered? You didn't walk in on her and Fluttershy...", she pushed two of her flight wings together on each wing in a lewd gesture.

Twilight felt her cheeks burn as confusion filled her head. "Huh?"

"Oh come on Twi.", Rainbow said, "It's like the second worst kept secret in all of Ponyville that they've been friends with benefits for years."

"And here I am without my videocamera.", Spike said.

Twilight reared back to smack Spike again. "I got it this time.", he said. He raised a hand and smacked himself across the head.

"You gotta watch that.", Rainbow said, "You're going to give him permanent drain bamage."

"Nah!", Spike said, "Dragon skull are built like boulders. Celestia used to smack me harder than that when she caught me peeking under tail."

Twilight glared at Spike. "let me guess, you're going to give me grief over being a...a...uh..."

"A virgin?", Rainbow finished, "Nah! You see I learned too late that ultimately nopony cares if you are or aren't. Though I can't promise that Thrasher won't give you shit or Granny Smith won't try to hook you up with every stallion between here and Timbucktu."

Twilight paused for a minute. "What do you mean you learned too late? You didn't get pregnant did you?"

Rainbow rubbed her head nervously. "I was young, stupid and thought it was something to be gotten rid of as soon as possible. As far as getting pregnant...yeah, kinda."

"How do you get kinda pregnant?"

"Did you know that most mares miscarry within the first two months of being pregnant, because nopony told me. I was fourteen and though I was sick and had cramps from food poisoning.", Rainbow said, "When I went to the doctor, he told me that I was pregnant and I had just recently miscarried."

"If that ever happened to me, I don't think I could ever do...it again.", Twilight said.

"I didn't for a long time because I was scared of getting pregnant again. But when I finally did again several years later, it was really good and it made me wish I had waited.", Rainbow said, "Don't let nopony pressure you or shame you because you haven't made that leap yet. Like I always tell squirt, don't rush ahead into things and do something before you're ready. Take your time and enjoy life, things will happen when they happen. Now what I don't tell squirt is, if you do, good on ya, if ya don't good on ya too."

Twilight felt a little more relaxed. "Here, this came for you." She passed Rainbow a ticket.

"Oh yeah! The Grand Rockin' Gala!", she cheered as she did a pirouette in the air. "*ahem* It's cool or whatever. Thanks for the ticket. And remember, if you ever decide to jump on that ride, remember I'm just a cloud away." With that Rainbow flew up into the sky with a woop.

Twilight stared at the multicolored contrail sailing off in the sky. "Wait, did she just..."

"Uh, yeah she did,", Spike said bracing himself to get smacked, but relaxed when no smack came.

Twilight stared off in the distance stunned, three mare had just propositioned her, well maybe four, but she couldn't be sure with Pinkie, she was sure that number would increase at her next stop or when Applejack found out. She dreaded when Granny Smith, she was sure she'd try and hook her up with Big Mac. The thought intimidated her, even though he was polite and soft-spoken, he was so big, her mind wondered if other parts of him were just as big.

"Twilight? You okay?", Spike asked, nudging her.

Twilight shook her head to clear the thought that were making her blush. "Yeah Spike, I'm fine." She braced herself. "Let's go see thrasher. She's probably going to give me crap and make some crude comments, most likely throw empty beer cans at my head."

"Definitely the last one.", Spike said.

Walking up to Thrasher's house, Twilight found her sitting on her stoop drinking beer.

Thrasher tipped the long neck bottle up, draining the last of the beer, burped and tossed the empty away. "Hey. Wadda ya need?"

Twilight huffed. "Well?! You gonna give me shit too or hit on me or try and get under my tail?"

"Whoa whoa whoa! Where's this coming from?", Thrasher said annoyed, "Is this because everypony's giving you shit because you haven't decided to get your card punched yet?"

Twilight took a step back and looked down at the ground as she scuffed a hoof in the dirt. "Yes."

"Fuck 'em! Right in the ear so they can hear me cumming!", Thrasher said in an annoyed tone, "You don't have to worry about me, I'm not gonna give you shit or hit on you or try to drag you off to the room, I'm not into punching cards, I prefer experienced ponies."

Twilight slumped down her haunches. "Thank you! I think I preferred it when everypony thought I was high."

Thrasher walked over and placed a hoof on Twilight's wither, "Come on, you look like you need a good stiff drink or twelve."

Twilight nodded as she followed Thrasher in her house. "Go on home Spike.", she said, "I'll be back later and I'll start on the vocal tracks when I get back.

"But...", Spike started before Thrasher cut him off.

"But nothing. She's in good hooves. I'm pretty sure you've had a claw in getting her all wound up too. If she doesn't get the first tracks recorded tonight, I'll lock her in the booth myself."

Spike went to say something, but decided he didn't want to duck an empty can and hurried home as quick as his stumpy legs could carry him.

Twilight walked through Thrasher's house, it surprised her seeing that there weren't that many empty beer cans and bottles laying around, she had expected piles of empties everywhere, instead a half dozen sitting on the counters. She paused at a picture of a familiar-looking earth pony filly, her mane in pigtails and giving the biggest snaggle-toothed grin over the top of a massive birthday cake, the band Ponytera flanked her. "You knew Ponytera?"

"I'd say so seeing as Ten Bit was my grandfather." Thrasher said walking over passing a beer to Twilight, "I remember that day, that was on my eighth birthday and Uncle Whinny had snuck out to get that cake made for me."

Twilight opened the beer and took a sip. "Wait, I remember seeing you in pictures. Fans called you little demon."

Thrasher cracked open a beer and took a swig. "Yep, that was me.", she said with a dry chuckle, "I just wish he was here to see me now."

Twilight looked over the other pictures. "That's your guitar.", she said pointing to the pictures, "It looks well worn even in these older pictures. How did Ten Bit get his hooves on it?"

Thrasher gave a burp. "It was handed down to Ten Bit from his grandfather who started the Trottocaster company. It was said he hoof made a guitar for Celestia and she was so impressed with his work that she gifted him her old guitar that was said to me made from the branch of a magical tree by her own hooves."

Twilight downed the beer and threw the empty on the trashcan. "Whoa!"

"Whoa indeed.", Thrasher said draining her beer and tossing the empty over her shoulder. Walking over to the fridge, she opened the door revealing it was stacked top to bottom with long neck bottles. Pulling out four bottles, she placed them on the table and kicked a chair out. "Now sit down, shut up and drink!"

A few hours later Twilight and Thrasher were about two dozen beers in each. Twilight stared across the table drunkenly at the double image of Thrasher. Twilight blinked uncoordinated and said, "You're*hic* pretty."

"And*hic* you're drunk.*hic*", Thrasher said drunkenly back.

"Hey You're not drunk! I'm drunk!", Twilight blurted out.

The two mares spluttered in laughter as they wobbled in their chairs.

Twilight tried to throw the empty bottle in the trashcan, but missed, causing it to shatter against the wall.

"Good aim.", Thrasher said tossing the empty over her shoulder.

"Shut up*hic*!", Twilight blurted, "You*hic* you*hic* you*hic* Gah! You've been tossing them over your back the whole*hic* the whole time!"

"Yeah but whatcha gon' do?", Thrasher slurred. Staggering over to the fridge, she pulled out two more bottles. Turning around, she jumped slightly at Twilight close to her, giving a crooked, drunken grin. "Uh...what are you doing?"

"This!" Twilight leaned in planting her lips on Thrasher's in a drunken kiss, moaning slightly.

Thrasher pushed Twilight away gently, a small trail saliva still connecting their lips. Thrasher closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip. Her mind warred with itself as her pulse pounded in her ears, on the one hoof she had promised she wouldn't try to get under Twilight's tail, on the other the lavender unicorn had just thrown herself at Thrasher. "Dammit!", she whispered to herself.

When Twilight tried to push forward for another kiss, Thrasher held her back and made the hardest decision of the day, "No!"

Twilight moved back slightly. "What's the matter?"

"This isn't right.", Thrasher said, "You came over here all out of sorts because everypony was giving you shit and I invited you in for some drinks. I think you should go home before I wind up doing something we'll both regret when we sober up. Besides you need to record your vocal tracks."

"If this is wrong, then I don't care.", Twilight said, "Normally you're a massive twat-waffle, but you've been nice to me and showed me a softer side. Don't you want me?"

"Right now more than ever.", thrasher said, "We're both drunk and right now you're feeling a bit vulnerable. If things were different, I'd throw you over that table and send you over the moon. Please don't make this any harder than it has to be. Go home, record a vocal track or two, shovel a pile of junk food down your throat, hoof yourself into a coma. I promise you that if you feel the same tomorrow after we've had a chance to sober up, come over and I'll send you up the wall."

Twilight stared at Thrasher, feeling a bit hurt. She nodded her head and staggered across the room. Stepping out the door, she sniffled.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash were walking down the street together when they saw Twilight walking out of Thrasher's house sniffling.

"Ah don't see if'n it's anypony's business if'n Twi has been...wait a minute, why does Twi look so miserable?" Applejack pointed her hoof. Walking up she asked, "Twi, what's the matter sugarcube?"

Twilight plopped on her haunches and began to blubber drunkenly, "Th-thrasher thinks I-I'm ugly-hee-hee-eee!" She buried her face into AJ's chest and moistened it with drunken tears.

Applejack brushed Twilights mane as she cried dunkenly. "There there sugarcube, don't nopony think yer ugly. Yer just a little drunk an' feelin' a mite vulnerable."

"Wait, Thrasher said Twilight was ugly and you're just telling her she's feeling a bit vulnerable?!", Rainbow said grinding her teeth, "Somepony should kick her flank! Fuck it! I'm putting her ponut between her eyes!" She zipped off as AJ tried to grab her tail.

"Dammit!", Applejack snapped.

Lyra and Bonbon walked up. "What's...uh...what's going on?", Lyra asked.

"Twi here's drunk an' she's feelin' a mite vulnerable. Somehow she's convinced herself that Thrasher thinks she's ugly an' Rainbow went off th' handle.", Applejack replied, "Get her home an' get some water in her tuh help her sober up. I gotta stop Rainbow 'fore Thrasher kills her."

Rainbow bursts through the door on Thrasher's house and got up in her face. "What did you do to Twilight?!"

Thrasher looked back surprised. "What?!"

Rainbow narrowed her eyes and huffed as steam practically poured out her nose. "She's out there crying her eyes out! If you did something to hurt her, I swear to Celestia I'll-GUH!" A sharp blow to her gut driving the air from her lungs cut her words off. Doubling over, Rainbow slumped to the floor add let out a breathless squeak.

"How dare you!", Thrasher shouted, anger and adrenaline burned off the alcohol almost instantly. "You think I would stoop so low as to hurt her?!" She snatched up Rainbow by the scruff of her neck and glared at in eyes. "You think I would do to her what Axl did to me?!", she growled dangerously. Thrasher slammed her hoof hard into Rainbow's face hard.

Rainbow's head reeled as she stumbled across the room and tripped over her hooves, smashing through the coffee table. She tasted copper in her mouth and smelled iron in her nose. Thrasher was on top of her immediately and picked her up by the fuzz of her chest.

Thrasher threw Rainbow into the wall and pinned her with a foreleg on her neck. With a hoof raised, Thrasher screamed, "Then you have the gall to bust in my house and do something to hurt her?!" As her hoof shot forward, an orange hoof grabbed by the crook of her foreleg and snatched her away.

"Easy Thrasher, don't need tuh kill nopony.", Applejack said trying to defuse the situation, "Let's jus' all calm down an' try an' talk this out like rational adults."

Her body still trembling with anger, Thrasher hesitantly put her hoof down on the floor. Stomping over to the kitchen sink, she grabbed a washcloth, wet it and threw it to Rainbow.

Wiping the blood from her nose and mouth, Rainbow asked, "So what happened?"

Applejack took a step, putting herself between Thrasher and Rainbow. "Rainbow Dash!", she scolded, "Let things settle for a mite longer 'fore we start askin' questions."

Thrasher grabbed an old pack of cigarettes from the cabinet, flopped down on the couch, lit one with a match, took a long drag and blew the fire out of her lungs with the smoke. "You know I haven't smoked a cigarette in nearly eight years.", she chuckled dryly rolling the cigarette in her hoof, "Then Twilight comes over wound up tighter than Dick's hatband because you all gave her shit about not having sex yet and basically trying to get under her tail. I invited her in for a few drinks because I felt bad for her."

"It's not my fault she can't take some teasing.", Rainbow snarked.

Thrasher and Applejack glared at Rainbow

Dropping the cigarette into an ashtray, Thrasher threw the pack across the room as she rose to her hooves. "What was that you fuckin' bitch?"

Applejack immediately scrambled to her hooves and stepped in front of Thrasher. "Whoa whoa whoa! Just take it easy.", she said calmly, "Rainbow, Ah think you need tuh leave an' cool off 'fore Thrasher rips off yer head and craps down yer neck." She pointed to the door.

"I was just..."

AJ stamped her hoof. "Now!"

Rainbow nodded, stood up and tossed the washcloth onto the kitchen counter. "Thanks for the washcloth." She rushed out the door in a streak.

Applejack walked across the room picking up the loose cigarettes and placing them back in the pack. Sitting down, she placed the pack next to the ashtray. "Now that it's jus' us, ya mind startin' over from th' beginnin'?"

Thrasher placed her face in her hooves, sighed and ran them through her mane. "Twilight came over this afternoon all out of sorts and wound up tighter than fuck because you all hassled her about not having sex and the tried to get under her tail."

Applejack went to interrupt her, but decided against it.

"She practically but my head off.", Thrasher continued, "I felt bad for her and invited her in for a few drinks so she could blow some steam off, I even promised to not try and get under her tail. She commented on the picture of my eighth birthday party. Of course I didn't tell her that was the last time I saw granddaddy alive."

"Ya didn't tell her about Axl did ya?"

Thrasher undid the snap on the extension in her mane, revealing a scar along her hairline. "Fuck no I didn't bring up that piece of shit who beat me into a wheelchair. Back to what happened, we were enjoying each other's company drinking brews and getting drunk. We shared a few laughs and then things got weird."

"Weird how?"

"When I went to get us some more beers from the fridge I guess I didn't hear Twilight walk up behind me and..." Thrasher pushed her hooves together as she balked, struggling for the right words to say, "...leaned in kissing me."

Applejack gasped softly. "Ya didn't do anything?"

"Oh I wanted to so badly. You don't know how hard it was to tell her no when she was ready to go.", Thrasher sighed, "But I couldn't because I had promised her I wouldn't." She propped her head on her hooves, "You don't know how hard it was to say no when every part of me was screaming yes. I told her to go home and sober up and if she still felt the same tomorrow, then I'd jump in it and send her up the wall."

"You're a good pony.", Applejack said, patting Thrasher on the back.

Thrasher stood up sighing. "Keep an eye on her will ya? Make sure she doesn't do something stupid."

"You ain't gon' do nothin' stupid are ya?"

"I've already done enough stupid for today.", Thrasher said, "I'm just going to lay down. Keep an eye on Twilight tonight and make sure she doesn't do something dumb. I'd hate to hear she hurt herself because of a drunk like me."

Applejack watched as Thrasher walked into her bedroom and closed the door. She paused at the front door, hearing Thrasher crying softly in her room. "That filly's got bitten by the love bug bad.", she sighed before waking out the house. Applejack walked into Golden Oaks, seeing Lyra place a glass of water in front of Twilight. She noted how her friend looked a bit more sober and less out of sorts.

"How could I have done something so dumb.", Twilight said sipping the water,"I mean Thrasher was feeling bad for me and I violated her trust by practically dry humping her."

"A drunken kiss is miles away from dry humpin' sugarcube.", Applejack said sitting down at the table, making Twilight jump slightly, "'S 'cause she cares about ya that she dinnit jump yer bones right then an' there."

"Well she has a funny way of showing it, throwing beer cans at everypony's head.", Twilight said.

"She has real problems with gettin' close with other ponies.", Applejack sighed. She looked to Twilight, Lyra an' Bonbon, "What Ah'm 'bout tuh tell y'all don't leave here. The reason why she is like she is, is because she's been hurt, a lot. First when she was a yearling, her ma an' pa up an' run off, leavin' her gran'daddy tuh raise her, then when she was eight some pony who was sick killed her gran'daddy, the state left her in the custody o' Pinkie's ma an' pa 'siderin' they was her closest family, 'sides her uncle Whinny Paul. When she was eighteen, she married this real bad pony named Axl. He was some o' my relations. 'Course we didn't know how bad he was until he beat her intuh a wheelchair. Now when Ah heard 'bout that, me, Big Mac an' Pinkie conked him o'er th' head with a shovel an' buried him un'ner a tree out Appleloosa-ways. Now y'all keep that un'ner y'alls hats 'cause y'all ain't heard that from me."

Twilight held a hoof up to her mouth in shock, a single tear rolled down her cheek. "I'm so fucking stupid, I drunkenly broke down thinking she thought I was ugly. If she didn't hate me before, she does now."

Applejack nodded to Lyra and Bonbon, telling them she had this. After they left, she turned to Twilight, "Now I c'n rightly say that Thrasher dun hate you none or else she wouldn'ta asked me tuh keep an eye on ya. Though truth be told, Ah think she thinks ya hate her."

Twilight went to stand up and Applejack reached out a hoof. "Let things settle fer now. Ya just drink more water, sober up and put some vocals on tape. Tumarrah if's ya go o'er there, Ah won't try an stop ya."

Twilight nodded silently, slammed down the water and put on a pot of coffee. After she had pounded several cups of coffee, she went down to the basement, stepped in the recording booth and started recording vocal tracks.

Loud banging on her front door caused Thrasher to wake up with a loud snort. Grabbing the alarm clock next to her bed, she saw it was three in the afternoon. "Ugh!", she exclaimed, dropping the clock on the floor. The loud pounding on her door continued. "Don't get your bridle in a knot!", she shouted, "I'm coming! I'm coming!" Snatching the door open, she was half-expecting the local constable to be there to haul her off after she kicked the crap of Rainbow yesterday, but instead took a step back seeing a familiar lavender unicorn. Thrasher gulped, suddenly finding her throat dry, "Twilight? What are you doing here?"

"This!" Twilight pressed her mouth into Thrasher's in a hard kiss, she let out a soft moan as she wrapped her fore legs around Thrasher.

Thrasher nearly tripped over her own hooves in surprise, before leaning back into the kiss hard. The two began exploring each other's mouths in the kiss.

Parting from the kiss, Thrasher panted trying to catch her breath as the blood rushed in her ears. She pressed her mouth hard back into Twilight's for a deep kiss, before leaving several smaller kisses on her lips like a signature.

Twilight yelped in surprise when Thrasher picked her up and threw her across her wither, carrying her into the room. Thrasher roughly threw Twilight on the bed and climbed on top of her, kissing her roughly.

Thrasher kissed down Twilight's body slowly, each burning kiss eliciting as small whimper of pleasure. Reaching Twilight's hind legs, she gently parted them with her hooves and look the lavender unicorn in her brilliant purple eyes, waiting with baited breath. Twilight's body trembled with a combination of adrenaline and anticipation as she looked down at Thrasher. Her chest heaved as she tried to catch her breath and her pounded like a drum in her chest, her brain swam with endorphins as she looked down at Thrasher who was perched at her nethers like hungry predator waiting to pounce.

The seconds seem to stretch into eternities as Twilight Stated at Thrasher. She gave a small nod and Thrasher plunged forward with her muzzle. Twilight bit down on her hoof to keep from screaming as a wave of pleasure rushed over her.

Twilight woke up hours later with Thrasher curled up next to her, nuzzling into her neck as she snored. Twilight smiled as she shifted her weight to better snuggle up to Thrasher and let herself drift back to sleep as she nuzzled the earth pony's mane.