//------------------------------// // Ch. 1 No Such Thing as Freedom // Story: Dark Alternative: My Little Slave // by Red Bomber //------------------------------// Dark Alternative: My Little Slave (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fic) Ch. 1 No Such Thing as Freedom It all happen so fast, I can barely remember what happened that night. He came from nowhere and jam some sort of injection down on my neck, I barely had anytime to react to what just happened before the changes came over me. My right arm started to feel numb all of a sudden as light purple fur starts to spread across it. When the fur got closer to my hand, I couldn’t move my fingers anymore as some strange mass from the fur started devour them. One after another my fingers were forcibly fused into it as it grows further than the actual length as my fingers up until I had some sort long pole for a limb instead of a hand. My spine painfully cracked forward when my butt started to grow bigger and crept past my pants. I struggled to keep myself from falling but soon my legs started to changed too and I felt that I was my shin was shrinking at a fast pace as I felt my feet becoming much larger and rounder than they were supposed to be. At the same time my body was becoming much more slimmer and simple, taking away my hips and curves that I worked so hard to keep in the process. I would’ve dropped on my hands and knees due to the changes except that my feet somehow kept me from hitting the ground. As my hands, or poles, hit the ground they made a clopping noise so loud that I thought I was getting a headache but it turned out that something else was growing on my forehead and my ears were being stretched beyond their limits like someone was yanking them. I screamed as my neck painfully grew longer and thicker like someone was chocking me from the inside and outside as my ears and whatever it was that was growing on forehead were finishing. Then the light purple fur started to grow over head as my mouth and nose started to pull away from me. The inside of my mouth felt completely numb but I still could tell that it was going though some drastic changes and my nostrils felt like they were being pulled apart by two sticks as the space between them was getting bigger. Before my eyes started to change I managed catch my tail growing above my butt, although the strange thing was that it was in the same style as my hair, it even has the pink and purple streak being together. I couldn’t even think on how strange it felt when my eyes started to burn like I had soap in them. I could feel them stretching and growing bigger even though I had them shut, it hurts so much that I could no longer hold back my tears as they matted my new fur. Before I lost consciousness from that trauma, I heard a man say “Bring her to the barn with the others. For sure we’ll get a good proceed from her.” Over the next month I was trained to be a slut for sick men who have an obsession with ponies, cartoon ponies. This is what they turned me into that night and apparently I became a special breed of unicorn where having purple fur is rare. But I don’t really care about that, all I know is that now I’m some sort of sex animal for shady rich snobs and one of these people is going to have their way with me whether it would be “the quicky” or becoming their permanent play toy for the rest of my life. Either way, I’ve already resigned myself to my fate and I know that no one is going to save me, there is no hope. All I can do now is, wait for the inevitable. *~~~* “So this is it, My Little Slave.” Ken said as he walked into the entrance of the so called store while tightening his mask. The mask Ken was wearing was supposed to help him and the other customers’ identity hidden so none of the customers or spies would be able to recognize each other and be able to use their identities as leverage against them, since this is a hidden sex store that is meant for only for the few select rich folk that had their special VIPs. It took Ken quite a while to earn his way to get into this store since he was really curious about hidden secrets the aristrocrats have and sometimes frequently go there. But now that he was inside he was amazed to see real life cartoon ponies in here. It was a very surreal sight as the ponies there looked like they actually jumped out of the show and no matter how much depth they have it never took away from their cuteness. Their size was also almost exactly the way he had imagined them to be where their heads are up to his stomach, like the size of a eight to ten year old kid. Although the cages they’re in appear to be this size while the ponies are smaller. As Ken looked around the store, he saw various kinds of ponies lined up in the glass cages of specific rows that separated the pegasus, the earth ponies, and the unicorns. But despite the pleasant surprise of seeing so many ponies at once and small chatter can be heard among the ponies and the customers, the atmosphere here was mostly grim and quiet. Most of the ponies here were sad and depressed, as if they had given up on life and never really wanted to be here. It’s not like Ken could really blame them, who would want to be a sex slave to creepy perverted men (and a couple of women)? But apparently some of them actually did embrace their current sex slave life and even revel in it, due to the fact that some of the ponies tried to hit on Ken when he stared at them long enough. One of the rainbow Pegasus’s Ken saw was showing off her wings and tail while making sexy poses to attract him and the other customers. Ken saw some of the ponies actually do the alternative and tried to look cute like the yellow pegasus he saw as he was passing by. Some even tried to “strip” around him and other groups of customers of the lingerie that all of the ponies here were apparently forced to wear. However there were a couple of different ponies that acted more differently than the others. One of the unicorn ponies he saw was actually leaning on the side her glass cage while standing on her hind legs with her arms, or rather her front legs, crossed. The unicorn’s fur was light green, while her mane and tail was split in two colors of white and very lighter green hair. The lingerie she was wearing was yellow to match her huge yellow eyes that were staring at the ground before darting toward Ken with anger in her face. “What are you looking at sicko?” The green unicorn said angrily, surprising Ken with her accusation, but before he made his reply a man’s voice came from behind him. “Lyra, are you causing trouble again? And what did I tell you about standing on your hind legs.” Ken knew he had to do something fast, because he has a pretty good idea about what was going to happen in a place like this. “Wait.” Ken said as he was turning to face the man who was talking to Lyra. The man is a white man wearing an eye mask with dark brown hair and mustache. His just raised one of his eyebrows letting the whole world know how very much annoyed he is about the interruption that all the ponies behind Ken whimper and flinched at the sight of it, all except for Lyra that is. She just fixed her death glare on him instead of Ken, letting the man before her that know she would still resist him to the bitter end. “D-,” Ken stuttered trying to break the tension here, “Don’t stop her from standing up. I, uh, like her this way, because I think she’s sexy this way.” Ken nervously said to the brown hair men. “What?! Are you kidding me?” Lyra protests in disgust. “Really?” The man asks ignoring Lyra. “Yeah, she’s really sexy and actually kind of cool when she’s standing like this, and I’m sure others will like her this way as well.” Ken said with more confidence with a sly smile on his face, trying to make sure he’s the kind of “sicko” that gets off on this. The man simply chuckled and pat on his hand on Ken’s back, “I like the way you think, kid.” He then turned to look at Lyra, “Alright, you’re off the hook… for now.” He said as he walked back to his position. Ken let out a quiet sigh before hearing Lyra whispered to him to get closer to her cage. Ken kneeled down and followed Lyra’s motions with her hoof until they were almost face to face with each other on each side of the glass cage. “I don’t know what your game here is buddy, but don’t think you’ve won any of my respect with that stunt of yours. Because I know what you and those other bozos here really are, a bunch of perverted creeps who get their kicks off of ponies and no matter how much you pull off this ‘nice guy’ act you’ll never get me to do it with you. None of you will.” Lyra whispered to Ken while giving him her death glares before returning to her previous position in her cage. Ken was left stunned at “Lyra’s promise” about her refusal to cooperate, that she probably would have gotten him to question his morality if her glare didn’t make him want to move away from her as fast as possible until he couldn’t see her anymore. Besides, he knows what he really came here to do and once he remembered that, he was about to get started moving again until he saw a certain purple unicorn was giving him the most curious look he saw on a pony, well, at least for a cartoon pony that exists in real life. The unicorn is wearing red lingerie that compliments her purple fur and the color of her huge dark purple eyes matches her mane and tail except for the two stripes of pink and light violet hair that is on the left side of her horn. She kept her curious gaze on Ken before she turned away from him when he licked his chapped lips under the prospect that he had plans for her. There was something special about this unicorn that Ken couldn’t quite put his finger on it and he just knew that she had to be the one that Ken was looking for in this godforsaken store. “Hey.” Ken called to the nearest clerk, “How much does this one cost?” He asked while pointing at the purple unicorn. “Ah you have a good eye,” said the brown hair masked clerk. Ken nearly buried his face in the palm at that stereotypical line, “You always wanted to say something like that somewhere in your life didn’t you?” “For your information, it’s company policy to say that about our products especially if they’re new shipments.” The clerk said unamused by Ken’s snarky statement. “She’s new?” “Yeah and not to mention rare, we hardly get any purple ponies ‘round here and being a unicorn as well makes her the rarest pony of them all.” “I see.” Ken said who’s now more intrigued by her more than her ever. “So, how does this work? Do I pay you up front or you send me the bill?” “Well you do give me the cash up front, which is $40,000 by the way, and we’ll take you upstairs where you’ll meet your pony in one of our rooms.” “Wait, then how do I actually buy her?” “Oh, so you really do want to keep ‘er for yourself then? We have to go through a whole different procedure then, but first I have to make sure you really want her. The price is now $1,200,000.” “What why? That sounds like a lot of money for one pony.” “What did you expect? I did tell just you that she was a rare purple unicorn and we ain’t gonna give ‘er up that easily.” “Are ponies really that expensive?” “No, it’s just her. Normally, the ponies are a bit cheaper than that so our customers will keep coming back for more and its triple the price if they want to keep them for themselves. But for this beauty, it’s ten times when as much when the price is tripled. So, do you still want to get her?” Ken sighed after realizing there’s no way to try to barter with him for her without raising too many questions about how he even got here or if he even actually deserved to be here. “Fine I’ll buy her. I just didn’t think a pony would be so expensive to buy here, I just really hope…” Ken trailed off after seeing the surprised expression on the clerk’s face (or rather his wide opened mouth since he’s wearing a mask too) and not only him, but the ponies that are closest to the two humans are also surprised too by Ken’s casual response to such a high price of the purple unicorn pony. “Ahem,” the clerk grunted as he recovered his composure while Ken stopped himself from withdrawing his wallet, “Would you follow me so we can make this purchase official?” *~~~* Ken soon found himself sitting in front of a desk in a separate room from the display ponies while a man whom was wearing a mask that covers his entire face, save for his mouth and cleft chin, is sitting across from him waiting for Ken to finish reading the contract of his conditions of the unicorn pony’s purchase. The room in question appeared to be nicely done despite that it was in a basement, but since this was a basement of a rich person it looks more like a comfy motel lobby than an ordinary basement. “Quite the cautious fellow, aren’t you?” The man said after a few more minutes. “Of course,” Ken replied while skimming the contract with a raised eyebrow, “what kind of idiot signs a contract important as this one without reading it? It’s really something, you guys definitely made sure that if anything goes wrong with the pony all of the responsibility goes to me. I even have to make up her origin if I ever get caught with her, and you say I’m a cautious fellow.” “We have to make sure you understand that we can’t risk over exposure about this ‘operation,’ this is an exclusive ‘pet store’ after all.” The man said smoothly. “I can still come back and buy another one right?” Asked Ken while he was flipping between the three pages, since there isn’t a paragraph or sentence on the contract that said he couldn’t. Although it did explicitly say that he would no longer be allowed to come back here anymore and he’ll even be blacklisted. “Yes, as you long uphold your part of the contract we’ll have no problems with you buying as many ponies as you please. Put your worries to rest.” The man answered as he pushed a quill and ink toward Ken. “Kind of old fashioned do-,” Ken started to say before he was interrupted by a girl’s grunt. Both Ken and the man turned to see a big and thick looking man yanking the purple unicorn’s leash behind the men’s desk. “Careful with that you idiot, she’s a delicate prize for our dear customer, or would you like to be put on security detail instead.” The man scolded the pony’s handler and which he made a frustrated grunt. “Oh yeah, I forgot to ask,” Ken intervene drawing the attention of everyone here including the unicorn, whom he started to stare at intently, “What is her name?” The man made a smug smile before replying, “Her name is Twilight Sparkle and before you ask, we call her that because of her beautiful fur coat and that she’s the brightest pony among the bunch. You couldn’t have picked a better pony to purchase.” “I see, so you’re putting her in that type of cage?” Ken asked after he watched Twilight’s handler put her in some sort of one way mirror cage that seems to be just large enough for her size but at the same time smaller than the previous cage he saw her in the display case. “Of course we can’t just have anyone seeing what you just bought and don’t worry, she’ll live and it’s sound proof.” The man said with his hand across his fingers. “Alright, time to seal the deal.” Ken said as he started to sign his name. “Congratulations Mr. Field, you are now the 11th customer to have purchased our products.” *~~~* After the deal was done, Ken made his way out of the rich person’s house with one of the escorts from My Little Slave and got into his car together. The escort guide Ken to the hidden back door to the basement of that rich person’s house where he and the rest of the clerks loaded Twilight into the car. Before they closed it, one of the clerks showed Ken that he can easily carry Twilight in her one way mirror cage by pressing a button that made it hover in the air and then pressing it again to make it stop. Then Ken was led into another exit that made him go to a dirt road that is connected with the highway. Ken let the escort out of his car before he got into the road where Ken’s thoughts start to wonder. He realized how surreal his whole adventure in that house went and wonders why he can’t remember the details of the owner’s house. All he remembered was that he was led into that pony store by an acquaintance he made in the middle of the party. It didn’t help with the fact that Ken already had a hard time remembering faces and was made worse due to the party being a masked/costume social; but the whole affair in there bugs him to no end and it frightens him that he can hardly remember it. If it wasn’t for Twilight Sparkle’s cage in the back seat, Ken would have thought that he was dreaming the whole thing. Twilight’s cage reminded him about what he was planning to do with her all along as he finally started to go through the exit to make it to his home. *~~~* Twilight Sparkle was prepared for her incoming fate as she felt the car of her buyer come to a complete stop. She quickly made herself look presentable when Ken came to take her cage to her new home. Ken was surprised that those clerks were right about the cage being easy to carry once it started to hover, it felt like that he was carrying a small suitcase to his house instead of a cage with a pony in it. Twilight on the other hand was surprised to see that Ken’s home look nothing more than an ordinary middle class home when she looked through one of the many one-way mirrored walls as she was brought inside even though the space between his house in the others are vast. Ken brought Twilight to the living room of his home and gently set her down as he turned off the hover function of her cage. While Ken went to lock his door, Twilight took a look at his room and took note on how spacious it is from her to the sofa ahead of her. Behind her she saw that a wide screen TV was right behind her as well, but strangely to her the TV wasn’t a flat screen. Twilight flinched when she saw Ken walked near her, assuming that he was going to open the cage now, but he went straight to the door next to sofa which was probably the backdoor. ‘What is he planning?’ Twilight thought while she was watching Ken fiddle with the door. This kind of behavior he was showing wasn’t anything like Twilight imagined would happen, but she dismisses it as one of the weird things that he was going to “do to her” when he finally gets ready. Twilight finally stood up getting ready for the entrance that she practiced while she was in “The Barn” as Ken went to get the remote that was attached to the cage and was about to push the button to open it. The cage open with a “whoosh” sound that sounded like a futuristic door opening and Ken saw the purple unicorn in the red lingerie start to come out of her cage, nervously at first, but then trotting more gracefully out of the cage with friendly smile on her face and looked at him with much more gentler eyes she had than when he last saw her. Something about her expression seems off though, it almost looks her expression is forced and is hiding what she truly felt at this time. “Good evening Master, my name is Twilight Sparkle and I hope we’ll have a very fun time together.” She said in an almost eerie cheerful way, which made Ken even surer that she was trained to act like this. This seriously isn’t the same pony that he saw earlier that night who seemed to be miserable about her situation. “Ahem,” Ken coughed to regain his thoughts, “yeah, um, you don’t need to call me ‘Master’ you can just call me Ken, just Ken.” “Yes Ken,” Twilight nodded in compliance with Ken’s ‘order.’ “So what do you want me to do?” Twilight asked curiously, her friendly smile slowly disappearing into a look of concern as begins to question Ken’s true nature. While she did saw what Ken looked like back at the store, a black man with short hair and a sharp-shaped face, Twilight is getting worried about what he is going to say next due to the expression of his light brown eyes. She expected to see a sign of lust and false concern on his face like those of the men she saw back in ‘The Barn,’ but she only saw a face of genuine concern and very little sign of lust. Letting go of her thoughts for the moment, Twilight tries to make sure that she listened to Ken’s next demand so she won’t mishear it. “I want you to get out through the backdoor and enjoy your newfound freedom.” Ken said happily, glad that his mission was almost going to a close. “Wait what?” Twilight couldn’t believe what she just heard, “Ma-I mean, Ken, what did you just say?” Ken repeats himself, “I want you to get out of my house and get as far away from here as possible.” “Master,” Twilight started, clearly slipping from her fake cheerful expression to one of true concern, “D-Did I do something wrong? What did I do wrong?” “Nothing, you didn’t do anything wrong, unless being caught by a bunch bad guys to be used in a store like that counts.” Ken tries to reassure worried purple unicorn pony with a joke, he then continue with a bit more seriousness in his voice, “Look, you’re free now. You don’t have to worry about the bad guys trying to get you involved with all that stuff anymore you can go back to where you came from now.” “Does, does this mean, we won’t have sex?” Twilight asked beginning to panic. “No,” Ken said taken aback by the question, even though he knew that this was coming. “I have absolutely no intention with having sex with you, ever.” “But why?!” Twilight asked desperately. “Because you’re a pony, an animal, even though you’re an intelligent one that can talk, you’re still just an animal, and that’s just wrong. I’ll probably considered it if you were more human, but even that’s a long shot.” Ken explained quickly. “Oh,” Twilight gasped after achieving an idea. Suddenly, Twilight starts to get on her hind hooves, but to quickly fall back down on all four of her legs. She tries again in a second attempt, only to fall back down facing a different direction. She soon started repeat the process earning a confused look from Ken. “What are you doing?” Ken finally asked after the third attempt. “I’m trying to stand on my hind legs so I can look more human for you Ken.” She said while still trying to stand ‘up,’ “I remember that you said that Lyra was sexy because she looked like a human when she was standing on her hind legs.” Ken let out a sigh, “Sorry, but that was a lie just so she wouldn’t get punished by those clerks for this night. Besides I think she was leaning on something the entire time when she was standing.” “Oh, you mean,” Twilight started as she quickly trotted to Ken after falling to her legs again, “like this?” She asked as she now stood on her hind legs again, but lightly pressing her front legs onto Ken’s chest for leverage and had her huge head now closer to Ken’s face. It was at this time when Ken finally took noticed of the purple unicorn’s pony actual size. When Ken first saw the ponies back in the store, he assumed they were no smaller 2 feet about a small suitcase size but their real height must’ve been obscured by the nature of their glass cages. After having Twilight’s huge cartoony face being up close and personal with his face by only just leaning on him for support, Ken now started to guess that a pony must be around 3 to 4 feet, about the height of a 3/4 drawer. Although Ken still needs to look down a little bit just so Twilight’s face could cover his entire view, she is still tall enough to at least steal a kiss from him by just leaning forward if she wanted to as if she was 5 foot woman. “So,” Twilight Sparkle began, breaking the short silence and Ken’s train of thought, “am I sexy enough for you to do it with me now?” She asked with a bit of seductiveness in her voice and her expression. Twilight was leaning in closer to Ken bit by bit before he thought of grabbing her horn to stop her, surprising her in the process. Ken let Twilight down gently as he took a couple of steps backwards to keep her front hooves from just falling into his legs or feet. “No,” Ken finally replied after he finished setting Twilight down, “I’m sorry, but just because you were standing on your hind leg doesn’t change the fact that you’re still a pony, and I won’t have sex with ponies.” Twilight’s pupils suddenly shrunk to express her shock by Ken’s response and rejection for the second time, which also surprised him too. Twilight was now more worried and confuse than ever about Ken’s refusal to have sex with her, but then her pupils grew back to their original size as she remember something important about herself. “But what if I told you that I was human?” Twilight asked while she had her head down. “Wait, what?” Ken asked, “What do you mean by that?” “Exactly as I mean Ken,” Twilight started to explain, with her head raise and a look of happiness in her expression, knowing that her plan might work. “I wasn’t always a pony my entire life, I used to be a human just like you. I was just a regular girl living my ordinary life until those ‘bad guys’ grabbed me and turned me into a pony.” “Really?! You were transformed into a pony?” “Yeah, crazy huh?” Twilight nodded with a smile in a face as she began to trot closer to Ken once again, “So now that you know that I used to be a human, will you have sex with me now?” “Twilight,” Ken said with a raised hand, stopping Twilight from approaching any closer to him, “I’m sorry, I just can’t do it. Even though you’ve told me that you really used to be a human, it doesn’t change anything. You are still technically, right now, a pony, just an animal, and I refuse to have sex with animals. Just because you used to be human doesn’t mean having sex with you in your current form makes it less wrong. I’m sorry.” Ken explained sadly. “B-But, I, you,” Twilight began stammer with a complete crushed and confusion on her face. She continued to mumble to herself in shaky confusion as she turned her back on Ken trying to grip onto the reality of what he just told her, but then, she just suddenly stopped moving with her back facing on Ken. Twilight look back at Ken and said “Hey there, big boy do you want some of this?” She asked seductively again and raised her tail. Ken covered his face with his palm about how ridiculous this whole thing was happening. “I’m sorry Twilight, but that kind of phrase would probably make more sense if that was the first thing you said to me when we first met. You’re, getting very desperate aren’t you?” Ken asked her with concern in his voice. “Desperate.” Twilight began, “Desperate?!” She yelled as she whirled around to face Ken with so much anger in her face that her ears are drooped “Of course I’m desperate, you idiot! First you told me to leave and then you ignored all of my advances! Ever since you bought me, I have been prepared for this very moment! When you buy a pony you’re supposed to have sex with it, not let it go or whatever you just put me though. You’re supposed to have sex with me, that’s how things are supposed to work!” “Sorry, things don’t always go the way you plan,” Ken said shrugging “I know that much in life.” “UURRRAAGGGHH!” Twilight groaned in frustration having fed up with Ken’s apologies while trotting to his side. “Alright, fine then.” Twilight said to Ken before facing him again. Twilight quickly charged into Ken, knocking him down on his back with her hooves. She then put her front hooves on his arms to weaken his resistance. “If you won’t have sex with me, then I will MAKE you have sex with me!” She yelled at Ken’s face with her frustration. Once again Ken found himself face to face with Twilight’s huge head, he could hardly see the ceiling blocking with his view. Twilight leans in closer to Ken’s face and is about to do the same thing that she thought he would do to her. She figured that if she kissed him, he’ll be all over her like the way she imagined the situation should have been. But the closer she leans in the further she’s paying attention to Ken’s struggle. He resists Twilight’s ‘grip’ the best way he can, he tried to lift his arms up, but Twilight’s purple hooves on him was strong enough to keep him pinned to the ground as if she was a somewhat heavy chair or table. He also wouldn’t dare twist his arms under her hooves for fear that they might break his arms. Ken couldn’t use his legs because they couldn’t reach her since her butt is up so high that he can’t kick it. Ken saw that Twilight’s face is getting closer to closer to his own trying to kiss him. So he turned his head away from her to avoid being kissed, especially since he noticed that her horn is glowing, which was even worse news for him considering how a unicorn’s magic could mean anything. The more Ken kept trying to get out from under her, the more Twilight felt less sure about going through with her plan of trying” to help” him along. Twilight remembers when she was told by her trainers to ‘help’ her current masters along if they were too shy to do it themselves. But this situation is different; Ken isn’t shy about having sex with Twilight Sparkle, he is rather furious and scared at the idea of doing it with her and you don’t need eyes the size of dinner plates to see that. Twilight’s heart ached when she saw that in Ken’s eyes, it was at this time she let go of him. As Ken got up from the ground, he saw that Twilight moving away from him before she sat down and covered herself in her hooves. “I can’t do it. I can’t just do it.” Twilight Sparkle said as she starts to cry, “Why?” “Because this isn’t like you, you’re not that kind of person.” Ken said while holding one of his arms from Twilight’s ‘grip.’ “Heh heh heh heh. That’s not what I mean you idiot.” Twilight said through a half hearted chuckle with tears in the corners of her eyes. “I mean why would you do this? Why would you buy me if you’re not going to have sex with me?” Ken was about to answer her question but she cut him off as she continued. “Because you wanted to ‘save me from the bad guys’ and ‘set me free from their prison camp,’ well guess what ‘hero?’ You didn’t save me from being a prisoner; all you did was moved me into a bigger cage. I’m no more free out here than I was back there an hour ago!” Twilight sternly said before dropping to the ground again with her tears swelling up. “There’s no such thing as freedom.” She solemnly said. Ken shook his head, “But what about your family? You told me minutes ago that you were a human being once. So why not just come to them for help? Let them know that their daughter is safe.” “It would be that easy,” Twilight said darkly, “If it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t remember who I was!” She yelled. “Huh, why?” Ken asked. “I completely gave up that there would ever be a chance for me to return to my old life and even if I did, just look at me.” Twilight gestures to herself. “There’s no way for anyone to accept me as I am now, and the only ones that do just only want to rape me for this pitiful excuse of a body… I thought this is the life that I have to lead now. This is the only kind of life that I have left for a pony slut such as myself, so it would be better to forget about my old life and embrace this new one. I never thought about my previous life during my slut training not even once. I’ve been so focus on accepting this new life that I don’t remember my own family anymore.” She said as she buried herself in her hooves. “I can’t even remember my real name if my life depended on it, not that it matters anymore. I’ve lost it when I got captured by them and now I’m about to lose this life too.” Twilight looks up at Ken with almost the same curious eyes she had back in the shop. “You, really, truly have no intention to have sex with me right?” Ken nods, “Right.” “Then… Why? Out of all the ponies you could have bought to ‘save,’ why me?” Twilight asked while trying her best fight back her tears. “You could have just bought Lyra if you were so gun-ho on saving ponies from this place.” “Well to be honest, I didn’t pick Lyra because I think she would not listen to me and at the same time won’t trust me. I think she would actually be fighting me every step of the way.” Ken said light heartedly before changing his tone. “The reason I picked you was because you had that glimmer in your eyes.” “Glimmer?” The purple unicorn pony asked curiously. “Yeah, you had that look of ‘Hope’ on your face, like you actually found the answers to your problems.” Ken explained the best way he can. “Hope? No, no I don’t think that was it.” Twilight said trying her best to deny the human’s claim. “Then what was it? You clearly had a look of hope on your face.” “N-no, you were just being delusional. I, I couldn’t be thinking about that, I just couldn’t.” “Actually I think you were thinking of hope at that moment. I believe that some part of you actually never gave up on the hope of one day that things will get better, even if you weren’t thinking about being rescued.” “NO YOU’RE WRONG!” Twilight yelled with tears coming down her muzzle, “I was never thinking about hope! I gave that up a long time ago! You’re just some stubborn fool who just denied me my entire’s life work! You just ruined my life all for the sake of some game you’re playing! You, you…” Twilight broke down into her hooves and start crying, “I-I never thought about hope, I just didn’t, I wasn’t… You just destroyed whatever life I had left and now I’m left with nothing. What am I supposed to do now? I don’t know who I am anymore.” Ken sighed as he watched Twilight crying on his floor, “If you want,” Ken started as he got up from the sofa, “you can stay in this house as long as you like while recover your memories. But you can still leave and try to find yourself out there; otherwise, the back door is still open. I’m going to go to my room upstairs on the last door to the right after I take a shower… Well this is it then, good night, I suppose.” Ken soon left the crying Twilight Sparkle alone in the living room since he couldn’t figure out what he should’ve done without making things worse for her. *~~~* A couple of hours later and soul searching, Twilight Sparkle finally willed herself to get up on her hooves and start moving towards the backdoor… only to come and close it. After figuring out a way to close the backdoor with her mouth, Twilight went to turn off the living room light and go up stairs to the room where Ken is sleeping in, while she let her mind wander. ‘I don’t understand. I have prepared myself to be ravaged, beaten, used, and raped to becoming an obedient slave by the end of this month. But this man just changed everything in a second.’ Twilight turned around after reaching a dead end in the hallway which made her think that Ken is actually bad at giving directions. ‘Come to think of it, he might be the first person who wasn’t a pony to actually say he’ll help me, not in accepting that I might be a pony forever but to help me recover my old life. Could this feeling I’m experiencing right now be the hope that Ken saw in my eyes when we first met? That’s not right. Did he ever realize that I was really just hoping that he’ll be the one to buy me because he was so gentle compared to the other clients? I just never really expected that he would be too gentle that he’ll refuse to have sex with me. But still, I felt… happy that he wants to help even though he really could just be ly-’ Twilight stops thinking when she finally reaches Ken’s room to observe it. It is a large room that seems mostly empty except for Ken sleeping on his bed on the left side and Ken’s TV on a dresser with various consoles and TV components next to it on the right side. Twilight approach the sleeping Ken slowly, “Ken,” Twilight started to whisper, “Are, I mean, can I ask you something first?” “Mmmmmm…” Ken stirs in his sleep, “Yeah, what is it?” “Is, is it alright that I sleep on the bed with you?” Twilight whispers nervously. “Yeah, it’s alright,” Ken replies drowsily with his eyes still shut, “I’m sorry that I don’t have a second blanket you can use, so you can use mi-” “Don’t worry,” Twilight interrupts Ken and then pausing at what she just said before continuing, “I’ve got all this fur to protect me from the cold. I’m okay with sleeping on top of them, besides I’m used to it.” Ken pulls the blankets a bit closer to him before he goes back to sleep, “Okay, good night.” Twilight smiles as she trots to the other side of the bed and let her thoughts wander once again. ‘Trick or not, he did save me from at least one thing.’ She got on the bed behind Ken and lay down on her side, ‘He just saved me from having to sleep in a pile of hay or a tiny basket for tonight and for that I’m thankful.’ Twilight thought as she unconsciously put her left hoof over Ken’s body in a small attempt to pull him into a light hearted hug and drifts off into the first comfortable sleep she had in a very long while. *~~~~* “Looks your friend has finally been bought off by one of those perverts, are you even worried about her?” Lyra asks the Pegasus covered in shadow. The shadow Pegasus nodded, “Yes, but I’m worried that things will go not go the way she expected. I just hope she’ll be able to handle the changes from here on out. As for right now, we need to get ready.” “Get ready for what?” Lyra asks curiously, “You mean you’re going to execute that Plan of yours now?” “Not tonight,” The shadow Pegasus said shaking her head, “We just need to get ready for the next two weeks, something is going to happen.” “Awww, we have to play the waiting game again?” Lyra complained before calming down, “You know, I wouldn’t take you seriously if your plans haven’t worked before.” “I know and I’m sorry, just please bear with me for this alright?” The shadow Pegasus replied generously. “I will, I will. I just hope whatever you had this time will be the one to get us out of here.” “Don’t worry, this plan will definitely work… although it will be easier if they make their move as soon as possible, but Twilight needs time to recover.” Chapter 2 Highlights: Awkward undressing pony moment. Ken watches the show, is he really that different from the store clients? Unicorns can use magic?! Could this be the reason why Twilight Sparkle lost her memory?