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// Round 2 
// Story: Vinyl and Octavia's Pantsing War 
// by Doctor Cobra 
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Round 2

The following morning was standard fare at first. Upon waking up together and doing their respective routines, Octavia and Cobalt came into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. As Cobalt slid waffles into the toaster, he asked curiously, “Hey, where’s…?” He glanced out into the living room saw his unspoken answer lying on the sofa much like he had been the previous night. There was Vinyl, still dressed minus her shades and lolling halfway off the couch in a deep sleep. “Guess a prank or two goes a long way, huh, Tavi?” he asked, turning back to his special somepony with a grin.

Octavia rolled her eyes, remembering the previous night, but smiled softly as she made her morning tea. “Well, you know Vinyl, dear,” she replied. “On top of the world one moment, falling on her face the next.” 

“Wha’s ‘at? Somepony talkin’ to me?” came a slurred voice from the next room. Octavia and Cobalt both looked to see Vinyl slowly stirring, sitting up with what looked like great difficulty and yawning as she tousled her already messy blue mane in annoyance.

“Ah. Good morning, Vinyl,” said Octavia. “When did you doze off last night?”

“Nnngh. I did?” came a muttered response. Then with a sudden loud groan, Vinyl rolled off the couch and stood, scratched the back of her head with one hoof and hitched up her extremely baggy jeans with the other. She stared at her friends through the kitchen door with a dull, bleary expression that indicated it would be a while before she was fully awake.

Octavia suppressed a giggle. “You must have been frightfully tired after waiting up for me just to pull that silly prank,” she said, going back to the stove.

“Prank?” Vinyl mumbled, now standing aimlessly in the middle of the kitchen, facing Cobalt at the table. “Sorry, what happened?”

“I had to change a light bulb last night and as I did, you caught me unawares and, er…” she began saying to Vinyl’s back. “…pantsed me,” she finished, blushing again at the memory. She figured that would jog Vinyl back immediately, but the unicorn’s drowsy expression remained unchanged. ‘Heavens,’ Octavia thought. ‘She’s a heavy sleeper and all but she must have had a bit of cider sometime last night as well.’ Then she had a thought, one she couldn’t help smirking at. “Come to think of it,” she went on, “I think it’s time I finally… got you back.”

“Mmmhm,” Vinyl nodded, looking as though she might fall back to sleep standing up. “You do what you gotta…”

“Think fast!” cried Octavia with surprising enthusiasm. Quickly crouching, she grabbed Vinyl’s white jeans with both hooves and gave a yank; the saggy pants came down easily and the earth pony was suddenly met with Vinyl’s tail and massive rear end in her face, thick thighs encased in a pair of pink boyshorts with lime green polka dots. These were at present wedged halfway up Vinyl’s plot and showed off a quite tempting bit of cheek from where Octavia was kneeling. Realizing for the first time how fun this really was, she laughed out loud and grinned through Vinyl’s legs at Cobalt, who gaped at both of them, then looked up expecting to see Vinyl fully awake now and blushing hard.

But she wasn’t. She just stood there, pants at her ankles as Cobalt stared at her underwear. A faint “Nnhmm…” might’ve escaped her but Octavia couldn’t be sure. 

“Vinyl?” she began hesitantly, releasing her grip and standing up. “You… You aren’t embarrassed?”

“Mmmm, ‘bout what?” mumbled Vinyl.

“I… I pulled your… pants down,” Octavia said awkwardly.

There was a barely audible “Hm?” from Vinyl, who finally glanced down. “Mmm, that’s cool,” she said after a moment, zero enthusiasm in her voice. “Yay for Tavi. You got me. Whoo. Guess I’ll get you back sometime. Where’s the coffee?” she finished, stepping right out of her fallen pants as she walked groggily to the table and dropped into a chair. “Morning, Cobie,” she mumbled, rubbing her half-closed eyes and picking her wedgie, apparently set on having breakfast with no pants on. Cobalt just stared at her then back at Octavia, who looked equally bemused.