I was laying on Twilight’s couch in her living room at around eleven pm with my right leg propped up on the back cushions and my left hanging off the side, dressed in my new grey sweatpants and a white tank top. My head was resting on a pillow as I watched a movie play out on my laptop that was sitting on top of a table in front of me, a tub of Rocky Road ice cream in my lap and a spoon in my mouth.
I took the spoon out of my mouth with a nearly silent pop as I continued to watch the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I idly looked down at the ice cream in my lap and noticed it hasn’t melted yet, it stayed the exact same perfect softness. I just figured magic, and I certainly didn’t want to complain about it.
I looked back at the laptop screen and saw a random picture just float down onto it. It stopped in front of the screen and I reached out to pick it up. As soon as I touched it I heard a voice speak, “Time, the real final frontier. This is the token of Max Caulfield, the Master of Time. Its mission: to seek out those who would protect others and tear down tyranny; to boldly go before me so that I may be called when the time is right.”
I blinked, “Oh. It’s a displaced token.” I examined the picture a bit closer. “Seems like a fun person. Eh, what the hell.” I shrugged.
I dramatically raised the picture in the air, “Max! I call thee! Come eat ice cream!”
I heard a sigh and a female voice say, “Fine, guess it’ll help a little.” A blue portal shaped like a butterfly opened near the middle of the room facing me and a woman stepped out. She was wearing a grey hoodie and blue jeans. “What kind do you have?”
I showed the newcomer the tub and raised an eyebrow, “Rocky Road, duh. It’s the only kind that matters.”
“Nice.” The newcomer walked over and sat down next to the couch. “So what’re you trying to drown in ice cream?”
I gave her a quizzical stare, “What? You need a reason to eat ice cream excessively?”
“With my job and kids? Yeah. I’m Max by the way,” She said as a spoon floated over from the kitchen in a white aura and landed in a similarly glowing hand.
“The name’s Vinyl.” I offered the tub to the seated Max.
“Ah, you’re the one Sun talked about.” Max reached into her bag and pulled out an envelope. “You wanna DJ with a pony version of yourself at my wedding?”
I shrugged, “Sounds fun. So… Monkey boy is doing alright I take it?” I scooped up some ice cream.
“He was about a month ago when he fucked me.” Max took a spoonful of ice cream from the tub. “He was about as good as his cousin, Lance.”
I choked on my ice cream when I heard that. After dislodging the ice cream I sat up a bit and looked at Max with wide eyes while shouting, “What?!”
“Yeah.” Max put the ice cream in her mouth. “He kept up with me and another mare at the same time.”
I just gaped at her for a few seconds. I shook my head and took another spoonful of ice cream before laying back down. “I see, bloody hell.”
Max just hummed and took another spoonful, opening her hoodie to reveal that she had nothing on under it. “Well, at least you don’t have to worry about me trying to jump on you.”
“Huh?” I asked before continuing. “By the way, doesn’t that chafe?” I said when I noticed she didn’t have anything under.
“Yeah, but I can ignore it.” Max took another scoop of ice cream, taking out a flask and opening it before realizing something and tossing it away. “Damn it. I can’t even mope properly.”
“I don’t think drinking is proper moping, but why can’t you?” I asked all the while taking a big scoop and putting it in my mouth.
“‘M pregnant. Three months in.” Max finally turned her head to notice my laptop. “Huh, Johnny Depp movie.”
I hummed in thought when I heard she was pregnant. When she noticed my laptop I said, “Yeah, I like a good ol’ Johnny Depp movie. Glad I had this thing with me when I got sent here. It has all my music and movies on it.”
“You know, back on earth I thought he was cool, but now I can’t stop thinking of how hot he is,” Max said, taking close to half of what remained in the tub. “Must be because of the gender-bending.”
I decided to leave the rest of the ice cream to Max. I looked at her and said, “So you were a guy before Equestria too huh? I don’t think I’ve started finding guys attractive. But I’m rather dense I believe, so I might and not realize it yet.” I shrugged.
Max shrugged as well. “Guys, girls, anyone really. Celestia and Luna got me to like being in open relationships.”
I rose an eyebrow, “Celestia and Luna huh? Didn’t see that coming, but I know for a fact that I still like girls. Just not ponies…” I made a face. “If they were anthro maybe, but not the full blown ponies here.”
“They were ponies in mine as well. Still mares, yeah, but there are spells to give a mare a working dick.” Max sighed, taking a bite out of the ice cream on her spoon. “Celestia forgot one simple fact about the spell and I gave birth to twin foals.”
Well then. “Must’ve been painful to give birth to ponies as a human. But that is a convenient spell. I guess the fact forgotten is that the sperm is real too?” I asked.
“Yeah. Soon as I got back from someone else’s universe with the twins, though... Hurricane was attacking the palace with his followers. Stabbed both Luna and ‘Tia before fleeing.”
I didn’t expect that, but something caught my curiosity. “Wait, Hurricane? As in Commander Hurricane? From Hearth’s Warming Eve? Shouldn’t he be dead?” I asked.
“That’s the thing. In my universe he was the one who caused the winter with the pegasi following him. The windegoes helped, sure, but Hurricane was the real enemy. Racist bastard. I’m glad he was done in by his own ally.” Max took another bite out of the ice cream. “But no, he was imprisoned in stone way back when for killing Starswirl and his mates.”
I was surprised, to state an understatement. “Wow, this Equestria is basically the show but with me in the mix. Nothing dark like that here. I don’t think anything truly bad will happen anytime soon.” As soon as that last sentence left my mouth I wish I could’ve taken it back.
“Heh, famous last words. Just so you know, I knocked out a stallion outside that was trying to break in. Mine differs from the show in the way that Celestia was the one to get possessed and sent to the sun. Everypony’s sleep schedule got switched and thestrals took the Pegasi’s place.” Max took another bite from her ice cream. “But that’s not why I’m moping.”
I didn’t question the breaking and entering, “Huh, so everypony basically has a vampire sleep schedule? Neat. So why are you moping then?”
She sighed, putting the spoon back in the tub. “Well, going through the mirror to the EqG dimension for my universe turned me back into a guy. I was summoned by Sephiroth while I was a guy.”
“From Final Fantasy? So what was he like?” I asked putting a hand on my cheek to brace my head.
“She. She was a bit prickly when she summoned me because my token slapped in the face, but...” Max went quiet for a few minutes, obviously trying to hold back tears. “W-we eventually got along and I helped her with some things and she helped me. I-I even got her to think o-of me as her s-sister...”
I always felt awkward when people cried, so I got up and sat down crosslegged. I patted the seat next to me on the couch, motioning for Max to sit. “I’m guessing things didn’t work out so well?”
Max gave me a bitter laugh, not trying to hold her tears back. “That’s an understatement. I... I... Something grabbed hold of me and... I watched as I raped her.”
My jaw dropped. This was rather heavy… “Well… damn.” I said after a moment. I patted and rubbed her back, trying to do my best to comfort Max.
“I-I tried to stop. I t-tried to keep it from happening by just-... Why? Why didn’t I just tell her how to unsummon me before then?” Max turned and threw her arms around me, crying loud enough that I thought Twilight would come down.
I continued to rub her back and hold her as she let her tears loose. Hopefully Twilight wouldn’t come down, Max needed to vent without interruption. “Shh.” I said as I tried to calm her down just a little bit.
I heard the sound of hoofsteps and I knew it was Twilight coming down the stairs. I heard a loud yawn before Twilight spoke, “Just what is all the noise Vinyl? Do you know what time-” Twilight stopped short when she saw Max crying on me after turning the corner. “Uh, what’s going on?”
I turned to Twilight, “Sorry for waking you. Max here needs to vent her frustrations right now. Something bad happened.” My shoulder was wet now, but I didn’t pay much mind to it.
“I see.” Twilight said after a few moments. “Well, you girls want any hot chocolate? I don’t think I’m gonna be able to sleep right now.”
I nodded at Twilight, “Yeah. Sounds good, you want any Max?”
Her crying slowed and she said, “W-will it have marshmallows and whipped cream on top?”
Twilight smiled, “Of course! I’ll go make some then.” Twilight trotted into the kitchen, her horn already glowing. I watched her for a moment before returning my gaze to the crying girl in my arms.
“You feel any better?” I asked, still rubbing her back.
She sniffled and nodded, pushing herself off of me a bit. “Th-thanks. I... I just don’t know what to do when I summon her to my universe. I-I’m going to be summoning her s-so she can be measured for her dress and t-to meet my foals in t-t-two weeks.”
I was in silent thought for a bit before replying, “Admittedly, I don’t know either. It seems like an incredibly awkward affair, does she even know you weren’t in control?”
“I-I-I don’t know. S-she just... her voice was so devoid of emotion when she sent me back, I don’t know...”
“Maybe, wing it? The answer could come to you quicker if you don’t overthink it. I’m not sure about that being a feasible plan, but it’s all I got.” I replied, still unsure.
“H-ow? I-...” Max burst into tears again and fell against me, almost knocking me over.
I grunted, I didn’t expect her to fall back against me. I am not good at comforting, that much is certain, but I at least want to help Max get through this. I didn’t get a chance to reply though, Twilight came back to the living room with three mugs.
“I’m back!” Twilight said. She levitated one of the mugs to me and set Max’s on the table while taking a seat for herself. “I put extra marshmallows and whip cream on yours Max. You look like you need it.”
Max nodded and lit her hand. the mug floated over in a weak aura, almost spilling if not for Twilight helping guide it to Max’s shaking hand.
I went back to rubbing Max’s back and took a small sip of the hot chocolate, it was really good. We didn’t say anything, the three of us just continued to drink the chocolatey beverage.
About half an hour later, Max took a shaky breath and dried her face with her hoodie. I heard something clatter to the floor and looked over to investigate.
I widened my eyes when I saw that it was a pistol. It had a dark grey grip and a tannish casing with the word Feather in white near the end of the barrel and a weird logo. “You keep a gun in your hoodie? Do you prowl the ghetto or something?” I asked, shocked that a random weapon just appeared out of nowhere.
“No. I never let myself get summoned without some protection.” Max took a huge swallow from her mug. “Usually carry a sniper, a shotgun, that pistol, a sword, and two hidden blades. Can’t be too prepared, you know?”
I blinked, “Ah, I see. That makes sense. You don’t keep a cannon in your cooch do you?” Frankly I just want to know where she keeps all those weapons.
Max giggled, the first sign of something getting through. “No, Sol and Mun carry all the cannons. I usually keep all my guns in my bag. It’s way bigger on the inside.”
“A bag of holding? Or time lord tech things? Sounds pretty useful.”
“It’s a camera bag of holding. I do like Doctor Who, but I’m no time lord.”
“Oh, well I just thought time and everything. And sorta put those things together.” I shrugged.
“Ah, it’s okay.” She took another swallow from her mug. “I kinda give off the vibe of being a pervy Doctor, what with me dropping innuendos, flirting with everyone I come across, and my power over time.”
I chuckled, “Pervy Doctor indeed. You don’t happen to have a blonde apprentice do you?”
“No, but my fiance is blonde. That kinda counts, right?”
I rose an eyebrow, “In a weird fanfictiony sorta way yeah. Tons of people would still like it though.”
Max’s expression turned thoughtful as she said, “You know, I can’t shake the thought that someone in the multiverse is writing our lives as they happen. Kinda like how there were a few fanfics on what would happen if Celestia was sent to the sun instead of Luna to the moon.”
I finished off my mug of hot chocolate and said, “I never really read any of those. Or at least I don’t think I did, my memories are a bit blurred after a thousand years.” I shrugged.
Max turned to the unicorn on the couch. “What about you, Twi? You think someone’s writing your life somewhere in the multiverse?”
Her left eye twitched. “Well, Vinyl already showed Celestia and I an episode of our show as written by someone in her universe. So… yeah, I guess I do.” She drank the last of her hot chocolate like it was a shot. It was cute, in a weird way.
Max shook her head in reminiscence. “If only I had my flash drive, I could show you some of the clop stories about you and your friends.”
I snorted, trying to keep myself from laughing at what Max said. “L-Let’s not traumatize her Max. She wouldn’t be able to look at the others the same way again.” Twilight’s face was red, I guess clop meant what it means in the fandom here too.
Max’s expression turned devious as she said, “I even had a story or two about Vinyl in there.”
My face turned red this time, “Heh, pony Vinyl right?”
“And human. At the same time.” she leaned in and whispered in my ear, “Together.”
My blush intensified. “Pervy Doctor indeed... Were they any good?”
Max giggled and pushed herself off of my lap. “I’ll let you figure that out for yourself~.”
“Oh? And how will I do that?” I replied.
“Well, you could wait until the wedding. Unless there’s a pony Vinyl in this universe.”
“There is… but she’s all the way in Canterlot right now.”
Max turned back to Twilight and asked, “Can you gauge how much magical power I have just by sensing me?”
Twilight, finally having got over the thing about clop stories, nodded her head. “Of course. It’s a pretty standard spell.”
“Can you cast it real quick?” Max had an innocent little smile on her face, one that disturbed me slightly.
“Sure!” Twilight replied with a smile of her own. Her horn glowed and she stuck her tongue out in concentration. The spell seemed to reach it’s apex and a glow surrounded Max. Twilight held the spell for a few seconds, then it abruptly dropped as her jaw hit the floor.
“What?” I asked Twilight.
Twilight picked her jaw up and stuttered out, “S-She has more magical power than Celestia and Luna combined!” Must’ve been a lot if she forgot to add ‘Princess’ to their names. I just whistled in appreciation.
“Nice.” I said to Max.
“A teleport to Canterlot is as easy as Twilight levitating a book. I can literally level a mountain with just magic.”
Twilight looked stunned, I simply said, “Can you do huge beams?”
“You know the Death Star’s main cannon? I can do that with a single hand.”
“Neat!” I grinned. “So do you want to teleport us? Or just you and I since Twilight probably wouldn’t want to come along.”
Max rubbed the back of her head and said, “Problem with me going with you. Celestia might notice I’m here. I’d... rather avoid her because of the last summon and because I had twins with the one in my universe.”
I nodded, “Yeah. Seems like something you would want to avoid. But how would I get back? It’s an awfully long train ride.”
Max downed the rest of her chocolate, licking her lips before replying, “Don’t know. I wouldn’t be able to get close to the city for long. Hell, me being here might not last more than a few hours before she pinpoints my location.”
“Ah, well I’m in no hurry honestly, don’t worry about it. I can wait until the wedding, if I actually want to do it. Sure I could bum a train ticket from my pony Vinyl, but I already did that once.” I said to Max. “Besides I’d rather lose this body’s virginity some other way rather than a random one night stand.”
“I can understand that.” Max nodded, turning back to the forgotten tub of ice cream. “So, is there another reason besides sharing ice cream for summoning me?”
I shook my head, “Not really. Your token just sorta floated down in front of Johnny Depp’s face. This was an impulse summoning more than anything else.”
“Ah.” Max scooped out some ice cream and stuck it in her mouth, chewing a bit before saying, “Sho, you don’ have shomething you wanted to try?”
I nodded and crossed my arms, “Yeah. I need a guin- an assistant to help study something my pony version and I were discussing.”
“Just so you know, I’m not running any mazes.”
I waved her off, “Nah, nah. Nothing like that. You just gotta sit down and listen to some wubs!” I paused for a few moments before pointing to her pants, “You aren’t fond of those blue jeans are you?”
Max shrugged. “My only pair. The rest of my wardrobe... well, I have a few dresses but the rest isn’t something I’d want to wear outside the bedroom.”
“Alright. Well if you don’t mind having them extensively washed later tonight can keep them on. You can also use the shower upstairs when we’re done.” I said as I looked for a pair of extra headphones.
By the time I found them and turned back, Max was sitting right next to me completely naked with her spoon dangling out of her mouth.
I gave her a once over, “Nice.” I plugged the headphones into my laptop. I pulled up the new DJ app and handed the headphones to Max. After adjusting a few settings I looked at her and said, “If I can get this to work then fair warning… it’ll feel weird.”
“It can’t feel weirder than using a phallus shaped sponge for the first time.” Max said as she put the headphones on.
I just stared at Max for a second before shaking my head and getting back to work. I made one last touch and pressed the play button. I turned to look at Max and it didn’t seem to do anything. Shaking my head I tweaked a few numbers from the estimated positions.
This went on for a while and I was about to give up until I happened to look down at Max and saw her rubbing her stomach in obvious discomfort. Grinning I did one last touch up and that seemed to be the real spark. Max’s eyes shot open and she groaned when the brown wub was finally hit. She left a rather large mess that would be a pain to clean up.
I was just glad Twilight left after examining Max’s magic level.
“Damn it. Why didn’t I think of this being the reason?” She sighed and lit her hand. “Don’t worry, I’ll clean it up.”
“Thanks. Though I probably should’ve told you…” I sounded a little apologetic when I trailed off, rubbing the back of my head. I watched as her magic surrounded the mess and it was whisked away to who knows where.
“There, now I just need to wash myself.”
I pointed upstairs with a thumb, “The bathroom should be the first door on the left.”
“I’ve visited here before. The bathroom was the only room untouched by the Crusaders’ attempts at getting their cutiemarks.” Max lit her hand and disappeared, a few seconds later I heard the sound of the shower running.
I shrugged and went back to my laptop. I saved these settings under “Brown Wub” and closed the laptop. This was one of the first things I needed to get done with. I pulled out a notepad from my backpack and crossed out the ‘brown wub’ line and proceeded to wait until Max was done cleaning herself up.
A few minutes later, Max came down the stairs almost dry except for her hair.
“You know, I came down those stairs the exact same way when my Celestia teleported into the bathroom while I was bathing. The only difference was that I was in a towel.” I commented.
“Well, I do have magic to dry myself with. Besides, I gave up caring about who saw me naked when Celestia and I first got together. And I left my clothes down here,” Max said, walking over to her clothes.
“Must be nice actually being able to magic when you want. I can only use it when making music.” I leaned back with my arms crossed behind my head.
“Well...” Max rubbed her hands together. “I could give you part of mine. It might not amount to much, but you might be able to use it to let you use the rest of your magic whenever you want.”
I tilted my head, “But wouldn’t I run out of your magic eventually? Especially if I need to use it every time I wanted to use mine.”
“That’s the beauty of me giving you part of my magic. Whatever I give you won’t ‘run out’, it’ll work just like yours and recharge constantly. You won’t be able to have more than what I give you, obviously, but you could experiment with it to figure out how to use your own magic as well.”
Wow, that was rather generous of her. I smiled at Max and said, “Thanks, that would mean a lot to me. It’s always been frustrating to have magic, but never being able to use it when I want.”
Max rolled her eyes and reached down to pick up her hoodie. “I know. I can’t use my actual powers for the next six months.”
“The pregnancy thing right?”
“Yeah. Don’t want to rewind too far only to find out it actually hurt my son.”
“That wouldn’t be good.” I stated the obvious.
“Uhuh.” Max sighed, picking up her pants and stepping into them. “I don’t like not being able to rewind a few weeks if I don’t like how one of my choices turned out.”
“You’ve got a pretty awesome power if you can go back a few weeks at a time.”
“It’s only because I trained while I was in stone,” Max waved her hand. “When I was first Displaced, I couldn’t rewind more than a minute.”
I shrugged, “A pretty big improvement if you ask me.”
“Over a thousand years with nothing else to do except talk with - or annoy - Discord?”
“Ah John is a fun guy. He still doesn’t get why I call him that though. But anyway, I still say it’s a good improvement, time can’t be easy to manipulate right?” I asked.
“It’s child’s play to mess with time, what isn’t is showing the effects.” Max paused for a moment before continuing, “See? Just now I slapped you and broke your computer, but your computer is still unbroken and you can’t feel the sting of my slap.”
I paused for a bit, “You know… I kinda feel incredibly insulted and annoyed right now.”
She gave me a sultry look and said, “You should’ve seen what I did to Twi before I slapped you.”
“I’ll pass on that.” I simply replied.
“So how can you prove I actually did what I said I did if it never happened?”
I shrugged, “Not a clue since I don’t have time powers. So I’ll just go along with it.”
Max sat down next to me and put an arm around my shoulders. “See the problem? Oh, I didn’t actually slap you or break your computer, but I did do a few things with Twi while you watched.”
“Kinky.” I said with a waggle of my eyebrows.
“Very. I didn’t even know she knew some of those positions, let alone how she learned them.” Max chuckled, reaching for the ice cream tub and setting it where both of us could reach it. “So, what movies do you have?”
I scratched my head, “Beside Pirates of the Caribbean, I have Van Helsing, a couple One Piece movies, the Avengers, to name a few. I don’t rightly remember right now.”
“Have any Disney movies like Lilo and Stitch?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“Sweet, let’s put one of those on before you send me home.”
“Alright, I have Hercules, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, and The Lion King. Which do you want to watch?” I turned my head to Max and asked.
Max took a scoop from the tub, mulling over the choice while she swallowed. “I’ve seen Lilo and Stitch the least, let’s go with them.”
I nodded, “Alrighty then.” I started the movie, put it in fullscreen and turned the sound up. I got into a more comfy position on the couch and watched the movie play out. Max and I watched the movie play out in near silence until finally the ending came up and we listened to burning love while watching the family bonding happen between everybody. It was then that I noticed that Max was crying silently, or at least trying to.
“You alright there Max?” I softly inquired.
“.... I betrayed her trust,” Max whispered. “I-... I called her my sister a-and told her that-that I would r-respect her decisions. The-then I went and...”
I winced a bit but I put a hand on her shoulder, “Now you and I both know that you didn’t have a choice in the matter either.” I started massaging her shoulders. “Now come on, stop crying.” I whispered to her.
“You didn’t see the hurt in her eyes. I-I’ll be lucky if she just barely forgives me.”
“You’re right, I didn’t. And I’m certainly not the best to talk about this kind of stuff, since I’ve never experienced it myself. But what I think you should do is vent, and when your head is finally cleared up, then try thinking of a way to make this mess a least a little cleaner.” I replied.
“But how? I-I’ve n-never d-d-done this before! I mean, I’ve had sex far more than I could ever count with both ponies and Displaced, but... I-I’ve ne-never...” Max buried her face in my shoulder.
I shook my head, gave her a sympathetic look and said, “I don’t know either. I’m sorry, I just don’t know.”
“I-I...” Max swallows then pushes off of me, wiping her eyes. “I’m sorry for unloading all this on you. Here, I’ll give you the magic and then you can send me back.” Max held out her hand and it began to glow. A small blob of white liquid formed in her palm, growing in size to match both of my closed fists together.
“It’s alright, I don’t mind trying to help and thank you for the magic once again. Now… how do I do it again?”
“You just say ‘our contract is complete’ or something along those lines.” The ball of ‘magic’ floated over to in front of me, stopping near the tip of my nose. “And with the magic, you just have to drink it.”
I tentatively touched the magic orb, and when it didn’t do much I grabbed it and tried slurping it up like soup. That seemed to work and it had what I’d call a creamy texture, which I didn’t expect a ball of magic to have. I felt tingly and shuddered as the magic ran its course through my body.
I shook my head when it mostly finished and said to Max, “Ok. Max, our contract is complete.” I gave her a thumbs up and a small smile, “See you at your wedding then?”
Max nodded and stepped through the portal that opened up, being whisked away to her universe. I sighed, this summoning was a downer I didn’t expect. I simply shook my head and closed my laptop, I put it in my bag and walked back upstairs to the guest bed. It has practically become mine now.
I yawned loudly and put a hand over my mouth as I got into the bedroom, I really needed to get to sleep. It’s been a long night, I can figure out my newfound magic tomorrow. The tingling sensation still lingering just beyond thought.