• Published 7th Sep 2019
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Super Awkward - AugieDog



Against her better judgment, Sunset lets her husband talk her into attending a ceremony to mark five years since she and her former friends from Canterlot High saved the world.

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3 - After

"Umm," Fluttershy said. "Well..."

They'd stopped off in the reception hall to unwrap the dignitaries, collect Doc, and postpone the ceremony for a few hours. "We need to," Rarity had said, her smile dazzling, "compile our after-action reports, then we'll be more than happy to pose for any and all photos." Departing to more applause, they'd quickly moved to the largest elevator and Sentinel HQ on the top floor of the civic center.

"I've become something of a nature spirit," Fluttershy was going on, Rarity and Sunset beside her on the large sofa in a very tasteful, very plush, white-and-silver office overlooking downtown Canterlot City, the two of them casting the double shields that kept Fluttershy's animal magnetism to manageable levels. "And that involves a great deal more than simply sexual activity."

Sunset pressed close to Doc on her other side, Applejack just as close to Rarity down at the other end of the couch. Spike sat up next to the chair Twilight had taken facing them, her hand stroking his neck, while Pinkie and Dash shifted around in a love seat to Twilight's left. "But," Pinkie said, her teeth shining like freshly whipped meringue, "you did say you were gonna do Georgina, right?"

"Oh, yes." Fluttershy's smile seemed to heat up the air. "In addition to my aura, my magic now enables me to form whatever physical part—or parts—my clients may need to emerge from our sessions very well satisfied."

Pinkie leaped to her pink-booted feet, waved a finger back and forth between Sunset and Fluttershy, and shouted, "See? Animal husband! Didn't I say?"

Dash covered her eyes. "Not a picture I need in my head right now, Pinkie!"

"Indeed," Rarity said, though Sunset couldn't help but notice her cuddling up when Applejack rested one big arm around her shoulders. Of course, Sunset also couldn't help but make quick use of the lockbox she'd built in her mind to seal off certain thoughts and images of her own...

Fluttershy's sigh seemed to come up from her feet. "I love the work, of course, but I sometimes wish I could, I don't know, turn it off for a while." She reached up to touch the inside of the shield, and Sunset had to swallow against the sweet, gentle pressure caressing her mind. "I used to think the best possible life would be just me and my animal friends. But..." Her eyes wavered. "I miss all of you so terribly much."

A thought clicked into Sunset's head more surely than any she'd felt in years. "Hey." She pointed at Twilight. "Whatever you built that blocks my powers from affecting you. Could you modify it to block Fluttershy's powers from affecting everyone else? It would utilize the same basic anti-geode technology I assume you've developed; you'd just have to tune it to Fluttershy's piezoelectric frequency instead of mine, then cause it to absorb that frequency instead of deflecting it."

Twilight's hand paused in the fur along Spike's back. "That...that would be...would be... Hmmm..." She scrunched sideways and pulled the handheld device she'd been using earlier from the pocket of her lab coat.

"Twilight?" Fluttershy leaned forward, Sunset focusing her attention on Doc so she wouldn't be tempted to stare at the neckline of Fluttershy's loose blouse draping down to reveal the upper curves of her luscious—

Doc's smiling eyes met hers, and Sunset happily lost herself in them. "You have such interesting friends," he murmured.

She stretched over to give him a quick kiss. "I do, don't I?"

"Huh." Twilight had been tapping away at her device and was now squinting at its screen. "That might work." She raised her gaze to Fluttershy. "I'd have to spend some time with you to fine tune the frequency, but in theory, I should be able to adapt this quite well."

Fluttershy nodded. "You can perform whatever tests you need when you come out to the sanctuary for your sessions with me."

The room would've gone as silent as the city had earlier, Sunset was sure, if Pinkie hadn't leaped up once more from where she'd been patting the arm of a still-blushing Rainbow Dash. "What?" Pinkie shouted. "You're gonna do Twilight?"

"Now, Pinkie." Something about Fluttershy's voice made Sunset think of Princess Celestia. "What happened today showed very clearly that Twilight has a number of psychosexual issues that she needs very much to address. You, on the other hand, are in quite a loving and healthy relationship with Rainbow Dash, aren't you?"

"Well, yeah!" Pinkie spun back into place beside Dash on the love seat. "Dashie's the best! The best!"

"And, umm..." For the first time all day, Fluttershy did some blushing. "I doubt that Rainbow would be open to the idea of the three of us—"

"Nope!" Dash flashed halfway across the room, Pinkie blinking and falling sideways into the sudden empty space beside her. "Nope, nope, nope!"

"But Dashie!" Pinkie flailed a hand toward Fluttershy. "She said she can form the physical parts! The physical parts! Can you imagine—?"

"Nope, nope, nope!" A gust of wind struck Sunset from Dash's rapidly waving arms. "I mean, I look at Shy, and I remember us walking into the first day of kindergarten together! She's always been gorgeous, even before all of this happened, but I—!" She froze, her hands clasped below her chin, her wide eyes fixed on Fluttershy. "I couldn't! I wouldn't! I'd never—"

"I understand." Fluttershy gave a little sigh and turned back to Twilight, sitting just as frozen and wide-eyed in her chair beside Spike. "Speaking of threesomes, however, Twilight, would you be more comfortable if Spike attended our sessions as well?"

Twilight made a choking noise, and Spike's ears pulled so far back, they almost disappeared.

"Hmmm." Fluttershy rubbed her chin. "Of course, it might be that the two of you won't need me at all once everyone's true feelings start getting shared, but I guess we'll find out Monday at 2PM. I should be finished with Georgina by then, and I think she'll make a lovely addition to my staff, don't you?"

Her hand still buried in Spike's fur, Twilight had turned nearly the same dark purple as him. But Sunset couldn't help noticing that they weren't pulling away from each other even the slightest.

Fluttershy was regarding Rarity and Applejack. "I don't suppose I need to tell you two that you're fine now."

"Reckon." Applejack blew out a big breath. "Granny and Mac and Bloom can manage the ol' home place without me crashing around. And long as I got me a window box I can tend—" She reached down and stroked a finger through the hair curling at Rarity's forehead. "I won't miss a thing."

Looking up at Applejack from the crook of her arm, Rarity seemed less like porcelain and more like sweet, flowing cream. "Darling," she whispered, and Sunset didn't think she'd ever heard the word said with more feeling.

Then Fluttershy was turning around, her face radiant and smiling. "And you two. All the unhappy badgers and blue jays and butterflies who come to me, I should just send them to you so they can watch how coupling's supposed to work."

Doc tensed slightly. "You're speaking hypothetically, I hope?"

Sunset giggled at the same time as Fluttershy, then Fluttershy clapped her hands quietly. "Well, then! If you're ready, Spike, I'll ride you back to the sanctuary, and—"

"Wait!" Panic on her face, Twilight jumped to her feet. "I...I just—" She closed her eyes and took a breath. "I know I put this all together originally to get back at Sunset—" Her eyes sprang open, and the fear there almost struck Sunset like a physical blow. "And I'm sorry, Sunset! So, so sorry about... I mean, I want to deny everything you said earlier about us and...and how we were when we were together. But—" The breath she took this time went in loud and shaky. "I don't think I can."

Her head bowed, and she pressed the thumb and index finger of her left hand to her forehead so her palm covered her glasses. "For the past five years, I've been telling myself over and over again how you'd left me, how you'd wronged me, how I was nothing but an innocent victim, and I put this together"—she held up her little device in her right hand—"so you wouldn't be able to get into my head and make me doubt how right I was."

She lowered her hands, and the tears in her eyes tightened Sunset's throat. Twilight sniffed, and her words came out rough but quiet. "But there's more truth in what you said than...than I'd like there to be, and I...I'm sorry."

Without even thinking, Sunset was on her feet, crossing the carpet, and hugging Twilight, something she'd been sure for the past five years that she would never want to do again.

However long the moment lasted, Sunset didn't know, but it was Twilight who stepped away with another sniffle. "And I'm sorry to you, Rarity, for manipulating you into thinking you had something to prove to Sunset and Time Turner so you would go pick them up at the station. And I'm sorry to you, Applejack, for manipulating you into thinking you had something to prove to Rarity so you'd come walking all the way into town and be right there on Main Street exactly when Rarity would need to dodge that moving van." She swallowed. "And I'll need to apologize to the van driver for manipulating him to be exactly there exactly then, too, won't I?"

Sunset couldn't stop a laugh. "Sounds like you've been keeping busy."

Twilight covered her face with a breathy laugh of her own, and Spike leaned against her so heavily, she lost her balance and fell back into the chair.

Rarity got to her feet then, her head now that she was standing just about level with Applejack's, still seated on the sofa. "Well!" Rarity put her hands of her hips. "Meeting adjourned, then?"

A little gasp from Twilight, and she jumped back up. "But the mayor and the city council and everybody's still kind of downstairs wanting to recognize us for, y'know, saving the world and the city and..." She waved a hand, then pulled her glasses off and cleaned them with the tail of her lab coat. "Maybe you could announce, Rarity, that Applejack's rejoining the Sentinels, and I...I can announce that I'm taking some time off before maybe rejoining, too?"

"Yes!" Pinkie and Dash both shouted, Pinkie exploding into multicolored confetti that rained down over them, Dash whooshing around the whole group in a blue streak of a circle.

The confetti all swooped back together into Pinkie right at Sunset's elbow, her usual massive grin forming first of all. "And?" Pinkie asked, drawing the word out and pitching it all the way up her impressive vocal range.

Sunset looked back at Doc, standing now beside Rarity, Applejack, and the still-enclosed Fluttershy. He wore the slightest of smiles, and he gestured with one hand toward her.

"We'll think about it," Sunset said, turning to where Pinkie, Twilight, Spike, and Dash were watching her. "We'll definitely think about it."

"And me, too," Spike said. "Not thinking about it, though. I'm coming back for good."

"What?" Twilight stared at him. "But without Equestrian magic, you'll only live—"

"Twi..." He sat back and spread his forepaws. "As a giant talking wolf monster, I'd say I'm pretty much full of Equestrian magic right now. And as great as Equestria is, I'd much rather be here with you." He cleared his throat and looked around the room. "With, uhh, with all of you, I mean."

Twilight's eyes started shimmering again. "You...you'd do that? Really?"

He nudged the side of his head against her shoulder. "I never should've left."

Which got Pinkie exploding and Dash whooshing and Twilight wiping her glasses again. Then Twilight was tapping her device, calling the mayor, and telling her that the Canterlot City Sentinels were on their way down for the big ceremony. Rarity reformed the shield around Fluttershy into something with handles, and Applejack hefted it from the floor, Fluttershy giggling some more as they followed Dash, Pinkie, Twilight and Spike out to the big elevator.

Someone stroked Sunset's arm, and she looked over to see that Doc had snuck up on her again. "You've already made up your mind, I assume?" he asked, linking his elbow around hers.

She swallowed. "You wouldn't mind too much, would you?"

He tapped his chin. "Let's see: should I remain with the woman I love beyond distraction and help her once more become the hero she's meant to be?" He heaved a completely phony sigh. "How can I ever decide?"

Plans already flashed through her head: get Twilight to build her a dampener like the one she was going to build for Fluttershy; see about getting Doc's fix-it shop back up and running—or would it maybe be too awkward to see if he'd want to work with Twilight putting together whatever machines the Sentinels might need?

Stretching, she reached up to kiss him. "Life's just so difficult," she said, and she pulled him out of the room after the others.

Comments ( 10 )

Fun story I really liked that it had a little bit of PinkieDash.

It's a cute little story - I enjoyed it muchly.

I know this is self-contained, but it's so ripe for further superhero shenanigans.

This is the best version of Pinkie's powers that I've seen; the mobility aspect makes it so much more useful.

I'm kind of curious why Fluttershy can apparently copy that one particular body part for any animal, but can't go full animal-morph; it seems like an incomplete power, like being fireproof, but only on your left side. Or maybe she can, and there's just some obscure reason or another why she didn't do that here?

I'm not entirely convinced that Mr. Turner is a normal human. Despite Sunset's inability to turn off her powers, he manages to sneak up on her multiple times; even Pinkie notices. :unsuresweetie:

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He's a Badass Normal, of course. :twistnerd:

Brilliant stuff, from the evolution of their powers to the consequences thereof to the foibles that led to all of this in the first place. Much as I hate to see my favorite pairing break up, I can't deny that this is an entirely legitimate way it could do so. Thank you for this, and best of luck in the contest.

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Thanks, folks!

It's like Doc's got a natural perception filter or something. As for Fluttershy, her powers are much more awkward this way, and, well, that is the title of the story. And I personally find, "Sentinels? Shall we?" to be a much more genteel call to battle than "Avengers! Assemble!" But maybe that's just me. :eeyup:

Mike

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Okay, but... Fluttershy the animal-fucking nature spirit? Why? Such a strange direction to go for this story.

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I figured:

It was the most awkward direction to go with the powers her geode gives her...

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I found myself wondering if it wouldn't have been better to go with "She can shapeshift into animals, but chooses to use her powers this way" instead of just forcing it on her... But I'm honestly not sure of the answer to that. c.c;

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There may indeed have been:

Better ways to deal with Fluttershy's changed powers, but I was looking for awkward. And "sex goddess to all living beings" was pretty much the most awkward thing I could think of for her. :twilightblush:

Mike

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