Brightdawn

by Betty_Starlight


Chapter 10: Priority Shift

So, what happened?

I sat at my desk, listening to the chatter on my radio…

“Something’s changed! The emotions aren’t responding the same!”

“Y-yeah! I know! It’s like it just, opened up! Freaking blossomed!”

“What?”

I stared at the screen to see what Izzy’s eyes were seeing…

I just saw peaceful blackness…

Odd! It says she’s awake here, but she’s just laying there, with her eyes shut... The emotions are different now… I don’t recognize this…

I stared back at the screen right as she finally opened her eyes to the sleeping bluish-green unicorn held in the hooves…

“Wait! She’s beginning to stir… “

<*****>

Well, it didn’t feel right to just teleport in the middle of their house, and so I phased back into reality in front of the Crystal Brighthouse instead!

Then, I heard screaming! It sounded like Misty, so I widen my eyes and look up at the window near where Misty and Izzy were staying before phasing out of reality yet again!

<*****>

I widen my eyes and smile ecstatically as I feel the wonderful sensations of Izzy’s tongue between my hind legs!

Suddenly, I see a blinding flash that makes me squint my eyes and my grin lowers a bit as I suddenly behold a magenta alicorn there, with a white mane and a really concerned look in her blue eyes!

“Misty! Are you alright?” I hear her ask as Izzy’s snout begins to leave my crotch…

I frown in horror as I say, “I’m fine Opaline! What are you doing in our room?”

“I heard you screaming!”

“She came twice, by my count!” I hear a whimsical feminine voice say from behind me!

I close my eyes and feel heat rush to my cheeks as I cringe in embarrassment!

“Oh! You two were just having sex! I am SO sorry!” I hear Opaline apologize!

I hear Izzy behind me say, “That’s okay Queenie! Just uh, for future reference, Misty here is a screamer”

I feel my cheeks continue to grow warm as I say emphatically, “Opaline! Get the hay out of our room!”

I hear a zap again and finally open my eyes to see that Opaline is no longer there…

I hear Izzy say from behind me in her happy squeaky way, “Now, where were we?” before I feel her snout enter my crotch again…

I widen my eyes again, because I know what’s cumming next…

<*****>

I teleport into Terramore’s kitchen… I glance around the room and I don’t see her at the table, or near the fridge or coffee maker… I widen my eyes, Not unusual! She’s obviously just somewhere else in her house! I think to myself before glancing to the right and using my magick to open the door there…

It swings outward to the left and I see a mist slowly come out of the new opening…

I stare into it and I see Terramore there, standing on her hooves with her eyes closed and smiling a strange grin, as if she were in some sort of trance…

“Terramore?” I say out loud…

She opens her eyes and cranes her head to me, “Opaline? What are you doing here?”

“Why are you meditating in a freezer?” I ask the obvious question…

She frowns, “I’m water based and this is how I slow down… “

I frown as well, “What?”

She smiles demurely, “Well, what do you think makes water slow down?”

“What?” I repeat myself…

She sighs and trots out of the freezer, and closes the door with her magick before embracing me in a tight warm hug! “I love my freezer time as ice, but I also miss my Opaline!”

Her Opaline? I think to myself, “Freezer time as ice?” I repeat her…

“Yeah, you know how water freezes as ice?”

I widen my eyes when it suddenly starts to make sense to me!

<*****>

Misty froze there on the bed in her hooves with her face buried in the front… “I can’t believe Opaline walked in on us doing that!” she screams!

I widen my eyes and bring my forehoof to the top of her head to rub the back of her neck and maybe comfort her? “Well, believe it baby! Opaline caught us having sex!”

“I’m never leaving this room again!”

“Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape.

“Yeah! Bring me my meals!” Misty whines!

“Oh, it’s not the end of the world, sweetie!”

“Yes, it is! Opaline knows I’m sexual now!”

“She didn’t earlier?”

“Well, uh… “

I frown, “I figured she would’ve caught you during self-pleasure once or twice, by now?”

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!” She screams suddenly and I think I hit a nerve as her body tenses up on the bed!

“Uh, is that a yes?” I say quickly as I increase my comfort rubbing…

“Maybe!” She frantically screams back as I continue rubbing the back of her neck with my right hoof…

I lower my body to hers and embrace her with my right hoof while bringing my body to hers so she can feel me and know that I’m here for her, “Well, we’ll just deal with this later, okay sweetie… Uh, you want something to eat?”

Her body begins to loosen, “How could you think about eating when Opaline caught us having sex?”

“Um, well, I was feeling hungry and… “

“What are we gonna do?” She cuts me off…

I sigh as I don’t think I’m getting through to her? “I keep telling you, we can hash this out with her later, okay? Now, we skipped breakfast today and you need to eat something!”

She lifts her face from the mattress and I see her eyes are bloodshot and teary, “Uh, um, y-yeah… I guess you’re right Izzy?”

“Of course, I’m right! Now go sit down and I’ll use my wok and make us some broccoli lo mein!”

She smiles for the first time in two hours and my heart lifts momentarily, “I’ll brew tea!”

I don’t know how she keeps doing that, but I suddenly begin to feel better…I smile back, “Sounds fun!”

<*****>

I sat there in the control room, staring at the emotional readout…

“It just bloomed! I don’t understand what this is or where it’s going?” I hear the voice on the radio…

I widen my eyes as I stare at the screen… I can see she’s kissing Misty again and they’re ignoring the tea, despite the fact that the cups are still about half full… I see them on the side of her view, but her eyes are locked on the half-open green eyes of this blue unicorn sitting next to us…

Us? There’s more than one of us in here! It makes me wonder about the crazy pony… She hasn’t screamed in days now… I haven’t checked on her…

I frown when I realize that I really should do that… I don’t know how she’ll be like, though…

I sigh when I realize this is just going to be more kissing and cuddling and I might as well just do it now…

I finally scoot the chair back and return to all fours on the control room floor…

I turn around in the faded green room with it’s many screens on the walls displaying various diagnostic data about Izzy’s operation…

None of that was nearly as concerning as the emotions we were detecting… Or what was going on, on the screen…

I turn and trot to the door before opening it with my magick to reveal the open stone hallway behind it…

I gulp because I don’t know what’s out there…

I’ve been in here for days now, just drinking coffee and staring at those same screens and trying to figure out just what I was seeing…

It’s odd, but I feel the same, basically… I’m still me… I’m still the same pony… Clop clop clop… I trot towards the door… It’s everything else that’s now different…

But it was finally time to see…

I exit the control room and turn right to trot down the stone hallway towards the isolated little room in the back…

There are many wooden doors here that I pass, but only the metal door in the back interests me…

Clop clop clop clop I hear my hooves tapping on the same stone floor… As I trotted down the same hallway…

The walls were lit by a greenish hue now, although I still have no idea why the light changes color or where it’s even coming from…

Clop clop clop clop I hear more clopping on the floor as I approach the steel door with the little porthole window there…

I stop in front of the door and take a look inside…

I see a lilac unicorn with a big fluffy blue mane and a confused look in her red eyes!

She has no straight jacket either, which is weird, because I don’t remember her being released? She widens her eyes when she sees me and opens her mouth, “Oh, wow! Who are you? You look just like me!”*

<*****>

I stood there, now in a blue parka as I stared at the smiling blue water alicorn in the freezer, “So uh, how long do you have to do this?”

“As long as it takes! Sometimes, I’m out in a few minutes! Other times, it can take longer! One time, I was back here for three days!”

I widen my eyes and repeat her, “Three days?”

She giggles, “Yeah, but don’t worry! I probably don’t need that much time, since you’re here!” and sighs… “Yeah, that was a long time ago and something happened…

I frown, “Me? What do I do for you?”

She widens her eyes and explains, “Just having you here makes me feel better! I don’t get so stressed or wild when you’re around… “

“It does?”

She nods, “Oh, gosh yes, Opaline! Why do I constantly have to reassure you that I like having you around?”

At that point I stopped… Reassuring me? “What do you mean?”

She moves her head forward, “Well, you’re always unsure of yourself… “and frowns… “It’s like I have to tell you where you’re at with me?

I growl, “I’m not used to love, okay?”

Her eyes widen when I think she realized her mistake? “Oh! Yeah! Right! That!”

I stare at the other alicorn intently, before a thought suddenly occurs to me… “Do you ever turn to steam?”

Her eyes widen, “Oh, dear! You don’t want that! That’s bad!”

“It is?”

She shudders with her eyes closed and stares back at me, “Yeah! So whatever you do, make sure I never get too hot!”

“Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape…

She sighs, “Yeah, but that hasn’t happened in like, three hundred years, so you’re probably safe!” and smiles… “I mean, as much as I love you!”

As much as she loves me? I blink, “Uh, okay!” I say before gazing at the blue pony again… “You haven’t moved in two hours!”

She beams brightly from her muzzle, “Yeah, I know… I am at peace… I love it when it’s slow like this… “

It was so strange… I was bored out of my mind, and yet, with this other pony here, that wasn’t an issue… It didn’t matter that I haven’t done anything for hours, because Terramore was here with me…

<*****>

I don’t know how long I’ve been here in Izzy’s hooves and I just don’t care! This is so wonderful! I don’t want to move! “I love you Izzy!” I whisper back to her as she’s holding me and I probably have a happy smile on my muzzle? Uh, probably!

“How long have I been holding you, Misty?” I hear the energetic voice I love saying from behind me…

“I don’t know and I don’t care! Hold me! Love me!” I happily squeal before cuddling into the other bluer pony behind me!

“You act like you didn’t get much affection before?”

I’m silent…

“Oh! Right!” She says before tightening her hooves around me…

“Are you okay, Izzy?” I tentatively ask, because she doesn’t really seem there right now…

“What do you mean?” She chirps back to me.

“Well, you just seem weird! Ever since we started this whole afternoon snuggle-fest thing, you’ve been crazy affectionate and well, I mean, I’m not gonna say no! And I’m definitely not saying I don’t like it! But uh, what gives Izzy? Where did all this come from?”

Izzy is silent for a moment while she continues to hold me…

“Izzy? Are there? I asked you a question!”

“I know! I just don’t know how to answer!”

My muzzle frowns, “What do you mean?”

She sighs, “Well, it’s like something shifted inside me a little while ago… I think of myself as a new pony all of a sudden… “

I frown, “New pony?”

I feel her nod behind me, “Y-yeah! I just feel like, you know? Maybe it’s not just that I can be loved, but uh, maybe I should be loved? I dunno if that makes sense?”

I think on it for a moment before replying, “Oh, like uh, maybe I should love you?”

“Yeah!” I feel her nod again. “It’s exactly like that! Like, you’re here for me and I can count on that!

And for some stupid dumb reason, that comment makes me smile… “I love you Izzy!”

“I love you too Misty Bear!” She says happily before squeezing me lightly and joyfully!

(To be continued…)