> Bad Girl Twilight
>  by Twidashforever
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> Daring Enough to Win?
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“Aaaannnd that’s a check!” Twilight Sparkle said as she levitated a scroll in front of her. Everything, so far, had gone just as planned; Princess Celestia would soon pay a visit. Twilight had personally designed the schedule for the day, booking Octavia Melody, a renowned musician, for Celestia’s grand arrival. She had hired the best catering service around. Hiring the staff of Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie and the Cakes themselves had prepared a delightful feast of tasty treats for Celestia to try—and then an entirely separate set of treats for when Pinkie would undoubtedly eat first. 
 
Twilight had even enlisted the rest of her friends to help out. Rarity had, of course, been put in charge of decorating town hall. Applejack built the stage and necessities for the princess to give a last minute speech, should she so choose. Rainbow was asked to keep the sky clear, and even Fluttershy went out of her way to make sure all her cute critters were in matching, adorable suits.
 
“Princess Twilight, how are the preparations going?” A gray maned mare walked up to the newest princess.
 
Twilight put away her scroll. “Great. It looks like everything is just about ready, Mayor Mare. We have the banquet ready, the decorations are in place, the red carpet has—quite literally—been rolled out.” Twilight smiled as she looked at the red carpet going from the designated landing spot to the town hall. “The ponies and animals are all nicely lined up, and the music’s ready. It should be a perfect day.”
 
“Should be?” Mayor Mare asked.
 
“Well, we’re just waiting on Rainbow Dash to clear the sky,” Twilight replied, looking up.
 
The mayor’s eyes followed Twilight’s. “The sky looks fine, princess.”
 
“See, there’s a small group of clouds over there, and there.” Twilight pointed them out to the mayor.
 
“Well, if she’s going to get to them, she better make it fast,” the mayor said, shrugging.
 
“It’s Rainbow Dash. She’d never turn her back on Ponyville,” Twilight said, chipperly. “She can clear these skies in ten seconds flat. Heck, five seconds.”
 
The mayor walked away. “I still say it’s fine, but if she’s going to do it she better get it done soon. There’s Princess Celestia’s chariot now.”
 
“Any second now,” Twilight said, keeping a faux smile on her muzzle as her eyes darted from Celestia’s chariot in the distance to the small group of clouds ruining a perfect visit. “Aaaaannnny second now…” The chuckle that left her throat did little to help convey the assurance of her words.
 

***

 
“Twilight, I must say, I had a wonderful time on my visit. The food was simply divine, the critters and decorations, so cute!” Celestia said with a shimmering smile as she boarded her chariot.
 
Twilight’s eyes twitched as they automatically fell upon the group of clouds still in the sky. Of her brash friend, there had been no sign. She faked a laugh. “Heh heh, thank you, princess. I’m so happy that your visit went almost perfect.”
 
“Oh it was more than great, Twilight. I’m so happy I got to come see you, we simply must do this again soon!”
 
Twilight put on a fake smile as Celestia sat down and nodded to her personal guard to take flight. “Have a great rest of the day, Twilight,” Celestia said as she smiled once more when the chariot took off.
 
Twilight smiled and waved at Celestia; a well-practiced maneuver for sure. She kept it up until she was one hundred percent sure that the white alicorn was completely out of sight. Then, and only then, did she allow her veneer to fall.
 
Gone was the forced smile, the bright lavender eyes, and the peaceful mask she wore. Twilight had gone out of her way and planned out every part of Princess Celestia’s visit to Ponyville in meticulous detail, and Rainbow Dash had all but spat on those plans for... whatever reason. Rainbow Dash, the pony that swore she’d never leave Ponyville hanging, or be disloyal to the princesses, had done just that.
 
The look of pure, unadulterated anger on her face would have frightened a timberwolf. Twilight shot straight up into the air and through the offending clouds herself.
 
A more rational pony would have just done it themselves; but, at that moment, Twilight was anything but rational. Besides it was the principle of the thing.
 
Rainbow Dash, you better have one darn good explanation for leaving us high and dry.
 
The Princess of Friendship was severely enraged. She had spent weeks planning out each and every detail of Celestia’s visit, all the way down from her friends eccentricities to exactly how many steps the princess would take from location A to location B. She had counted on all of her friends to do what they promised her, to do what they agreed to do, and Rainbow Dash of all ponies had fallen short.
 
Worse, she had betrayed her. Or at least, that’s how it felt.
 
The skies of Ponyville were filled with a lavender stripe, zipping across the sky as far as the eye could see. Twilight zoomed from location to location, trying to find out exactly what happened to her brash friend, where she was, and why she hadn’t shown up to do the one simple, easy thing that she had promised Twilight she’d do.
 
Her first stop was Rainbow Dash’s cloud home. She landed at the front door and pounded on it as hard as she could, so hard that had she been in a different mindset, she would have been worried that she’d break it down.
 
“Rainbow Dash! Wake up!” Twilight shouted angrily.
 
When no reply came, she shouted again. “Rainbow Dash!”
 
Annoyed, Twilight powered her horn and teleported inside. She looked around the unkempt living room before running upstairs to see if her friend was passed out in her bedroom. Of Rainbow, there was no sign. She checked each room in turn before ending up in the mare’s kitchen, fuming. “Where are you, Rainbow‽”
 
Ugh, she’s not here, where could she be? Twilight thought. The options were… limited. Let’s see, she loves practicing, pranks, and napping. She’s not practicing, otherwise I’d have seen her when I looked around town. That leaves pranks. But everypony was at Celestia's visit, so she’d have had to prank one of them all by herself without it being obvious to me. So that’s out. That just leaves napping, but she’s not here…
 
Where else does Rainbow like to nap? Clouds of course, but I destroyed the only ones above Ponyville. So that just leaves… TREES!
 
Immediately turning back to the front door, Twilight stomped outside, slamming the door closed behind her. Casting her gaze out on Ponyville below her, she could still where the offending clouds were that that ruined her day and started all this mess, but no cyan pegasus dreaming away the day. Shifting her gaze, she settled upon Sweet Apple Acres. Far in the distance, she could see a few low hanging clouds scattered over the farm, but from the distance she was at she couldn’t see much about them. Charging her horn once more she teleported outside and flew to the apple farm.
 
Before her hooves even touched the ground, she flapped her wings to fly up to one of the nearest clouds over the border to the forest, just to double check. In a disgusted huff, she saw no sign on the rainbow maned pest she had been searching for.
 
Twilight landed and began to scan the trees. Sure as apple pie is tasty, after a minute of searching, she saw a white blanket hanging down from one tree branch. She frowned and flew up to the offending pegasus.
 
“Rainbow Dash!” Twilight basically screamed in Rainbow’s ear; the princess’s glare settled hard and cold on her friend.
 
With a yawn and a smack of her lips, Rainbow just rolled over on the tree branch, a hoof trying to wave the princess away, almost like she was an offending gnat.
 
Twilight scrunched her eyes in displeasure. “WAKE UP!”
 
That got the cyan mare moving; she jerked her head up and rolled right out of the tree. “Ahh!”
 
Twilight couldn’t even bring herself to feel bad about Rainbow hitting the ground. She was simply too mad.
 
“Ouch, Twilight, what the hay?” Rainbow asked as she sat up and rubbed the top of her head as she sought to untangle herself from the blanket.
 
In a rage, Twi flew down to the ground; however, she didn’t land. She was too angry for that. “What the hay? What the hay? YOU MISSED CELESTIA’S VISIT!”
 
“Calm down Twi, It’s not like I miss—” Rainbow’s eyes widened and she finally looked up at the princess. “That was today?”
 
Twi’s right eye started to twitch, angrily. “YES IT WAS TODAY!” She flew around her friend, almost as if she were attacking her from different angles with her words alone. “YOU promised you’d be there, YOU agreed you’d have the skies clear by two p.m. YOU COMPLETELY ruined everything!”
 
“Come on Twilight, it was just some clouds. I’m sure Celestia didn’t even notice, and if she did big whoop. It’s the sky, clouds are supposed to be in the sky.” Rainbow waved it off with a hoof,
 
“BIG WHOOP‽” Twilight facehoofed. “It’s a visit from PRINCESS CELESTIA! It’s a BIG WHOOP, RAINBOW!”
 
“Sheesh Twilight, if it was such a big deal why didn’t you remind me about it.”
 
“I DID!” I told you last week, I told you Friday, I told you Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and yesterday! I even sent a reminder to your house this morning to have the skies clear! I counted on you, Rainbow!”
 
“Okay, okay, Egghead. I screwed up. But you don’t have to be so explosive about it. The princess’s visit went fine didn’t it? I mean you are here yelling at me instead of well… still dealing with that.”

“We all had our part to play, Rainbow! Had I dealt with it myself, who would have organized the whole visit? Each and every pony had an exact spot to be and knew when they were supposed to be there. I counted on you and you… you… ugh.” Twilight landed on the ground with her eyes shut. “You let me down, you let the princess down.”
 
“Twilight… I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to forget.”
 
“You always say that, and you always forget! Why can’t you be dependable? Why can’t you just do what you’re supposed to do!”
 
“Because everything you think I’m supposed to do is boring! Rainbow Dash do this, Rainbow Dash do that. Come on, Twilight. Just because you think organizing your life down to every second is fun, doesn’t mean it works for the rest of us normal ponies.”
 
“Normal Ponies? Everypony else did exactly what they were supposed to do. Everypony else understands you can’t just goof off all day! You’re the only one not normal!”
 
“Well maybe I’m just too awesome to be normal. Are we done here? I got some boring stuff to go do”
 
“No, we're NOT done here! You need to straighten up, Rainbow Dash!”
 
“Straighten up? What are you talking about, princess?” Rainbow growled, glaring at her friend.
 
“You can’t just goof off all the time, you have duties and responsibilities,” Twilight shouted in Rainbow’s face.
 
“I don’t goof off all the time! I work hard on my routines; I think I’m entitled to a little fun now and again. Unlike you apparently.”
 
“A little fun? A little? All you do is have fun, all you do is goof off and do dar—” Twilight paused as her eyes went wide. She got an idea, a wonderful idea.
 
Rolling her eyes, the pegasus just huffed. “Whatever you say, Twilight.”
 
Twilight grinned. “Hey, you like dares, right?”
 
“Dares? What are you going on about now, Egghead? I thought you were mad at me. Now you want to play a game?” Rainbow raised an eyebrow at her friend.
 
“What, is the great Rainbow Dash afraid of a little wager?” Twilight asked nonchalantly as she started to turn and walk away. “Oh well, I guess she is.”
 
Rainbow quickly flew in front of Twilight and blocked her path. “Wait-wait-wait, I didn’t say I wasn’t interested. I just was curious about your change in attitude. Two seconds ago you were ready to tear my throat out. Now we actually get to do something fun? Count me in, princess.”
 
Twilight tried to keep her grin internal, to not show the enjoyment she had from her plan working. It didn’t really work. She couldn’t help but smile. “I dare you, Rainbow Dash, to fully straighten up for one whole day. You have to not take breaks, not goof off, and do everything expected of you on time and without complaint.”
 
“You’ve got to be joking,” Rainbow said. “That is the lamest dare I’ve ever heard of, and I’ve played truth or dare with Applejack.”
 
“If you can do it for one day, then I’ll leave you alone about your behavior, if you can’t, you gotta start taking your responsibilities seriously.” Twilight poked her in the chest with a hoof. “What’s wrong, Rainbow, you chicken?”
 
Rainbows eyes dropped down to the hoof pressed against her chest. There is no way Twilight Sparkle is going to call me chicken. But this dare is soooo… lame. Ugh. Why can’t SHE be the one to do something? Ha, Like Twilight could give up her lists for one day, or her precious books. Actually… hmm...
 
Rainbow looked back up at her friend, her expression dropping from internal questioning to smug.
 
“We got a deal?” Twilight asked. She knew there was no way Rainbow could manage it for a whole day.
 
“I got a better idea, and if you agree to it and you win, I’ll change.”
 
Twilight jerked her head back, caught of guard by this change in circumstances. “Come again?”
 
“Come on Twi, I do dares all the time. This is just too easy. Instead, here’s my counter dare. If YOU can act completely different than how you normally do with all your books and eggheadishness for a day, then I’ll do whatever you say. Otherwise, you leave me alone about it.”
 
“So… I just have to act different?” Twi asked.
 
“For one whole day!”
 
“And you’ll do whatever I say? No fighting, no nothing? You’ll just do it, and you will not go back on it?”
 
“Uh-huh. But you have to win the dare, and to do that you’re gonna have to give up being so uptight. After all, if you think it’s so simple to change things about yourself, why don’t you try it?” Rainbow’s grin grew wider.
 
What’s she playing at? All I have to do is act exactly like I used to before I met my friends? This’ll be a piece of cake? No… that smile on her face, she’s gotta… wait, this is Rainbow I’m thinking of, I can outsmart her. After all, it’s just one day. How much can really happen in one day?
 
Twilight’s frown became a smile, and then a grin. “You know what Rainbow? I accept your dare. I’ll send Spike to stay at Rarity’s for a day, and starting tomorrow morning, you’re on.”
 
“You think this is going to be easy, huh?” Rainbow just chuckled.
 
“The easiest thing in the world,” Twilight said with a matching smile.
> Buck the Rules
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The previous night Rainbow Dash actually did something she hadn’t done in forever: she set her alarm. The cyan mare awoke to the sound she hated more than anything else in life—well, other than Twilight’s nagging that is—her alarm clock going off. 

Rainbow groaned and forced her eyes open. She both knew and detested that sound. She hated that sound because it meant that today was important. It had to be important; otherwise, there was no way in Tartarus she would have set that infernal thing. 

So, with no options left other than to get up and shut the bucking thing off, she forced her protesting body to move, to try and get up. Rainbow Dash fell out of bed, crawled over, and pulled the blasted thing off the dresser. She was about to toss the thing out of her cloud house, and out of her life, forever—the fate of her past three alarm clocks—when she saw a sticky note attached to it. Something that reminded her the reason why she had hurt herself like this and made herself get up at ten a.m. when there wasn’t a real reason to.

“The bet with Twilight!” Rainbow shouted to herself.

Quickly stretching her wings and glancing out the nearest window, she grinned before jumping out of it and taking off towards the crystal castle of the Princess of Friendship.

Skidding to a halt in front of the crystal steps, Rainbow walked up to the door. 

“Prepare to lose, Twilight Sparkle.” She pushed her way through the door without knocking and made her way down the hall.

Rainbow grinned as she heard a noise coming from the kitchen. She had been expecting Twilight to be awake; because, well, that’s what Twilight does. She wakes up early and takes care of things even though there’s no reason to. Had Twilight been asleep, Rainbow would have known she was in trouble. 

Dash grinned as she made for the kitchen. She was still grinning as she quickly jumped around the corner and yelled out, “Gotcha!”

Twilight looked up from her disgusting breakfast of quesadillas to Rainbow. “Hey, Rainbow Dash. Come to check up on me already?”

“Uh… what?” Rainbow looked from her friend’s unamused face to the meal that sat in front of her. But Twilight hates quesadillas. This is a joke, right? Oh... she’s doing this for the bet. 

“Yep, I’m serious about this! I slept in a whole hour past my normal wake up time. Didn’t check my checklist once. Completely skipped brushing my teeth this morning, and now I’m having… quesadillas,” Twilight said with a grimace, “for breakfast.”

“An hour‽ Twilight do you even know how early I got up today? Never mind that, why are you eating those?” Rainbow gestured a hoof at the plate. “You hate quesadillas.”

“Umm… it’s the bet, you said I have to do things I wouldn’t normally do. These are all things I wouldn’t normally do.”

“Really, Twilight?” Rainbow facehoofed. “Doing a couple of things you hate doesn’t mean you’re different! It just means you’re doing lame stuff that makes you feel bad. And they aren’t even the cool bad things!”

Twilight looked up from her—rather cheesy—meal to the cyan pegasus. “Umm… I don’t understand.”

“Just forget it,” Rainbow said. “I’m going back to bed.”

“What‽ No! We had a bet,” Twilight said as she teleported right in front of Rainbow, blocking her path.

Rainbow waved it off with a roll of her eyes. “And? You’re not even taking it seriously! Eh… good try on your part though. ‘A’ for effort and all that.” 

“I’m serious! I’m very serious about winning this!” Twilight prodded Rainbow with a hoof.

“Maybe that’s why it’s not working”—Rainbow shoved her friend’s hoof aside—“just ease up a bit. Don’t think, just do, Twi.”

“I-I… um, I don’t…” Twi stammered, rubbing her hoof against the side of her other leg. “I don’t know how. I couldn’t find any books about it last night.”

“Sheesh, Twilight, not everything’s in a book! It’s easy; just don’t be, uh, well… you,” Rainbow said with a chuckle. “How about this? I’ll tell you what you need to do all day and you just do that.”

Twilight looked up into her friend’s magenta eyes. “So you’ll just tell me what to do all day?”

“Exactly like what I’ll do if you win.”

Twilight’s resolve faltered for only a moment before she shook her head and glared right at her friend. “You know what? Deal.”

Rainbow raised a brow while smirking at the princess. “What? No list of pros and cons? You’re not gonna think this through before you agree?” 

“Nope, I told you yesterday, I’m going to win this, whatever it takes. So let’s do it. We’ll spend the day together and you can tell me what to do, and when this is over, you’ll finally have to straighten up.”

Rainbow spat on her hoof and stuck it out to Twilight, a smirk staying prominent on her face. Twilight hesitated for a few seconds—something that caused Rainbow’s grin to increase—before she did likewise. The alicorn spat on her own hoof and pressed it against Rainbow’s, watching with trepidation as the pegasus grinned; a grin that seemed to get even larger at Twilight’s momentary doubt. 

“Oh, and before we start, Twi.”

“Yes?”

Rainbow winked at her friend. “Don’t say ‘spend the day together’ like it’s a date or something.” 

Twilight glared at her as Rainbow started to make her way haphazardly out of the castle. The alicorn shook her head clear of that disturbing thought. “So, um, what are the ground rules?” she asked.

“Rules? Really, Twilight?”

“What?”

Rainbow laughed again and ran her hoof over Twilight’s head. “Ugh, whatever. Hmm… easy, you just have to not be Twilight Sparkle.” 

“Yeah, how exactly do I not be me? I mean even if I act different, I’m still me.”

“Geez, you’re a very literal pony aren’t you? Just try to pretend, yeah, let’s start there! Pretend you’re a really awesome pony!” 

“What, like you?” Twilight asked with a roll of her eyes.

“Yeah! Just like me! I mean, I guess I am the most awesome pony you get the honor of knowing.” Rainbow’s smile was bright as the sun and her voice held no note of sarcasm.

“Oh, so just act like I’m the Queen of the World then, gotcha.” Twilight’s reply was dripping with sarcasm.

“Uh… you alright there, Twi?” 

“You accused me of not taking this seriously, when all you’ve said is just to be like you!”

“Fine, you want this to be serious? Let’s do this seriously then. Here’s the ground rules,” Rainbow spoke as they left the castle together. “You don’t give two bucks about anypony or anything. No pony you meet today matters.”

“What?” Twilight asked. “I-I… what?”

“You heard me, act with… uhh… you know, when you couldn’t care less about something?”

“Indifference?” Twilight asked. 

“Yeah that! That should be pretty easy for you, right?” 

“I’ve never treated ponies with indifference!” Twilight protested.

“Yeah you did. Before you met us you treated everypony with indifference. But I don’t just want you to repeat that; no, I want you to take it up to eleven. You’re not just going to go out of your way to ignore other ponies, you’re going to look at them like they’re dirt. Like they should feel lucky just to be in your presence.”

“That’s horrible!”

“That’s the bet, anytime you want out, just say so. Nopony is forcing you to do it.”

“I-I… um…” Twilight paused. No, I’m serious about this; it’s just for one day. I’m going to win this. It may be the only chance we have of really teaching Rainbow responsibility. “Fine.”

“Fine you say? Let’s put it into practice then,” Rainbow stated with an evil grin as she saw Bon Bon and Roseluck walking nearby. “Test it out on them.”

Twilight’s eyes looked at the two mares. This was it; this was the moment when this would move from being ‘just talk’ to something more; something that could cause everypony in town, everypony in Equestria to see her differently. No, she told herself. I’m serious about this, more so than I’ve been about anything for a long time. I can do this. I can win!

“Well, you gonna go? Or can we call it a day?”

“I’m going now,” Twilight replied as she started to walk up to the two mares with her head held up in the same fashion as the Canterlot elite.

“Good luck,” Rainbow snickered out. This should be fun to watch. Time to crash and burn, Sparkle.

Princess Twilight walked right up to the two mares and sat down directly in front of their path. 

Roseluck and Bon Bon came to a stop. “Hello princess, nice day today, isn’t it?” Roseluck asked.

“It’s a day, whether it’s nice or not is purely subjective and cannot be quantified.” 

Did she… did she just try to diss them with science? Rainbow facehoofed, she then did a quick double check to make sure nopony saw her hanging out with someone so uncool.

“Umm… okay?” Bon Bon said with a strange smile on her face as she tried to comprehend the princess’s words. “That was a great party for Princess Celestia yesterday, I’m happy everything turned out so perfectly.”

“You’re definition of perfect is severely lacking, Bon Bon. I’d highly recommend visiting the library at your earliest convenience and looking it up in a dictionary.”

Rainbow groaned and quickly took flight. She flew at top speed and grabbed Twilight, shoving her aside, then glared at her before turning to look at the mares. “How about you two scram?” 

Bon Bon and Roseluck looked at each other with confused expressions on their muzzles. “That was… strange,” Roseluck said as they turned and walked away. 

“Very,” Bon Bon replied. They both silently agreed to forget that it ever happened.

Turning back to Twilight, Rainbow rolled her eyes before pointing a hoof up to a cloud. “Can I talk to you for a second? Up. There.” Before the princess could respond, Rainbow took off into the air.

Twilight was confused. But she unfolded her wings all the same and followed Rainbow. “Rainbow, I don’t understand, I did all—”

“Seriously? What the buck was that? You freaking scienced them, Twi! Do you even know how uncool that is? And I was right there! Do you know how many ponies could’ve seen me with you?”

“You said to treat them with indifference. That was me doing it.”

“I told you to treat them like they were dirt! Not tutor them!”

“So, I—”

“Stop. Whatever you’re going to say, it’s wrong. Let’s run through what you should have done. When Roseluck asked you if it was a nice day, you should have asked what business it was of hers. When Bon Bon told you that she thought the party was perfect, you should have said she needed her eyes checked.”

“That’s just downright rude, and it doesn’t even validate my argument!”

Rainbow shook her head. “You don’t need to validate anything! You were supposed to diss them and then move on! Not... whatever that was.” 

Twilight opened her muzzle, but then shut it again. She looked confused, but thoughtful. 

“Alright, well it was good for a test run. Now that you know what not to do, do you think you’re ready for another go?” Rainbow asked as her eyes spotted somepony very familiar in the distance bounding over to the princess’s castle.
 
Twilight nodded. 

“This is the real deal, your test starts now. Are you sure you’re ready?” Rainbow asked, knowing this would come to an end very soon.

“I’m ready!” Twilight replied.

“Okay, teleport back to the ground and the next pony should be coming up very soon. But Twilight, no backing out, if you do—”

“Never, I’m going to win this. Just treat them like dirt and not give two bucks, right?” 

“Right. Go get em!” Rainbow raised a hoof in the air. There’s no way she’ll actually do it. But at least this will make for some good entertainment.

Twilight grinned and teleported down, her jaw dropped as she saw the next pony come bounding up the trail. It was a mare she fully recognized—one with a fully pink coat and mane—one with three party balloons as her cutie mark, her friend, Pinkie Pie. 

Damn you, Rainbow Dash.

“Hey Twilight! I was just on my way to see you and look! Poof, here you are! You’re amazing, it’s like you knew I was coming, like you had your own version of the pinkie sense, or I guess it’d be called the Twilight sen—”

“Pinkie, shut up.”

“W-w-what?”

“Celestia, you’re annoying. Always jabbering on about this and that, fully unaware that we stopped listening the moment you opened your muzzle.”

Whoa, what did she just say? Rainbow popped back up into a sitting position, as soon as Twilight had left she had laid back to try to catch a small nap while her friend ‘tried’ to be indifferent to the over exuberant pink pony. 

Pinkie fell back onto her haunches, her mane and tail deflated, straightening out. She was completely taken aback by her friend’s words. “T-they do?”

Twilight started to walk around her. “What? Didn’t your ‘pinkie sense’ ever tell you the truth? No, I guess not, huh? Too bad, so sad. So why don’t you do us all a favor, go home, and eat those sugary death treats you love so much until your completely unrealistic metabolism finally gives out and you balloon so much that you can never leave your house again. That way we’ll at least know how to avoid you.”

Rainbow’s ear twitched at those words. Eh… still sciency, but I’m impressed. Way to knock it out of the park this time, Egghead. Although Damn! That was way meaner than I thought she’d be.

Pinkie slowly got to her hooves, backing away from the alicorn with tears forming in her eyes. “Wh-why Twilight?” Before the alicorn could respond, the pink mare spun and took off in the direction she came from. Rainbow Dash waited until Pinkie was far enough away so that she wouldn’t see her before landing by Twilight's side. 

“That was the most horrible thing I’ve done in my life,” Twilight said, her voice pained. 

“Even compared to that time you cast a spell on your doll to make everyone want it?” Rainbow asked, hoping to soften the blow at least a little.

She failed.

Twilight looked up at Rainbow, tears falling from her eyes. “Y-yes.”

“You want out? Say you want out and we’re done. We can both go and apologize to Pinkie together. I’m sure if we explained everything she’d forgive you. But if we keep going, it’ll only get worse from here.” There was a note of desperation in Rainbow’s voice as she found herself really, really hoping that Twilight would drop it here and now. Pranks weren’t all that much fun when somepony got hurt.

Twilight thought about it. She saw the look of concern in Rainbow’s eyes. She closed her eyes and concentrated, hard. Can I do this? Can I do things like that to all my friends? I-I… she looked up at Rainbow, her anger returning at the mare’s behavior from yesterday. This… this is a one-time thing, yes it hurt, it hurt Pinkie, and it hurt me to do it, but Rainbow’s right. Once I explain everything Pinkie will forgive me, as will everypony else that I might… be mean to.

This was a real chance to help Rainbow; a real chance to wake her up, to have her take responsibility seriously. She wasn’t about to throw it away. “No, we keep going. I’m serious about this, Rainbow. I will win.”

Rainbow cringed a little on the inside, but refused to let Twilight see it. She strengthened her resolve. Yes, that had been rough, a little bit more so than even she was comfortable with, but Rainbow wasn’t about to simply roll over and let Twilight win either. She’d never purposely lose a bet. 

“Alright, Egghead, but if you’re going to act tough today, you’ve gotta look the part too.” At that, she led the princess through town to the local barbershop. They avoided running into any ponies along the way, something Rainbow Dash took them out of their way to do. However, that couldn’t be helped when they walked into the shop. 

“Your only response to any question is ‘whatever’, understood?” Rainbow whispered to her.

“Whatever,” Twilight replied. 

“Good,” Rainbow said as she walked into the shop. It was mostly empty, save for one mare sitting in the chair with a newspaper in hoof. Rainbow half expected it to say, ‘Princess Twilight, total “bitch” to her friends’, but knew that’d be impossible; even the Foal Free Press didn’t update that quickly.

“Oh hey, Rainbow Dash, and Princess Twilight. What can I do for you?” 

“The princess here wanted a new manestyle,” Rainbow said as she picked up a magazine with all sorts of different manecuts in them. After a few moments she said, “Why don’t you give her ehh... that one.” There was a wide smirk set on her lips as she held the magazine up for only the barber to see.

The barber looked up from the magazine to the princess. Twilight didn’t even bother to try and look at it. “Umm… princess, are you sure you want that?”

“Whatever,” Twilight replied, barely even looking at her.

“Are you sure? I mean you didn’t even look at it.”

“What-ever.” Twilight said again, rolling her eyes.

“You heard the princess,” Rainbow said with a smile.

The barber gulped and gestured for the princess to get into the chair. Twilight haphazardly did so, almost like she was doing the barber a favor by complying. 

“And Twi, while you’re getting your hair cut, I’ll get you a little gift for being such a good sport.” Rainbow said with a smile.

“Whatever,” Twilight said again as the barber went to work.


***


Rainbow returned twenty minutes later with a bag held in her muzzle. As she approached the barbershop, Twilight sauntered out to greet her. The mare’s long mane had been cut short, front and back. Her bangs still hung above her eyes, and the now shortened mane framed her face in a rounded shape. It really gave her an edgy look compared to her normal clean cut.

“That looks good on you, Twi,” Rainbow said with a smirk, barely keeping herself from laughing.

“Whatever,” Twilight replied

“And now for your gift.” At that, Rainbow pulled out a black dog collar with spikes on either side. It was crafted from fine leather with silver spikes. However those were not its most defining feature. Its most defining feature were the words, written in clear white print for all to see: bite me.

She showed it to Twilight, who, almost, cracked a smile at the sight of it, an expression that was hidden from the world as soon as she felt it. The princess moved her head down, allowing the pegasus easier access to attach the collar around her neck.

She couldn’t explain why but when Rainbow tightened it and caused her a small amount of difficulty in breathing, it felt… liberating, in a way. 

Rainbow passed Twilight a pack of gum as she asked, “Ready for what comes next, Twi?”

Twilight took the offered candy, dropped the wrapper onto the floor, and started to chew. After a minute she blew a bubble and said, with a deadpan glare at Rainbow, “Whatever.”

I don’t care what it is, Rainbow. I’m going to win this.
> Going too Far
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rainbow Dash blinked three times. She took in Twilight’s demeanor, her ‘new look’. It was more than she’d expected the bookworm-turned-princess could ever do. Twilight had not only proved that she’d go the distance with her actions to another pony—something they both owed an apology to Pinkie Pie for—but also that she’d change her very look, something that wouldn’t be quickly undone. 

You’re really serious about this, aren't you, Twi? If you keep this up, I might… I might… I might, lose.

Rainbow’s imagination was filled with images of her spending countless days in the library, a pair of broken reading glasses on her face that were only held together by scotch tape. “That was a great book on thermodynamics, Twi! I can’t wait to re-read it again, for the third time!”

Her expression got serious; very serious. If there was one thing Rainbow Dash wasn’t, it was a loser. “You ready, Twi? Shit’s about to get real.”

Twilight just blew another bubble with her gum, popping it loudly in the pegasus’s face. 

Rainbow glared at her. She thinks she’s already won, that I can’t come up with anything that’ll make her quit. Her eyes darted from Twilight to a shop in the distance: The Carousel Boutique. A grin appeared on Rainbow’s face. “Okay then, Hotshot, your first task is to prank Rarity.”

Twilight kept chewing her gum. “That’s it?” she asked boredly with a roll of her eyes. 

“Gotta be something good though, something you can do with your magic that I couldn’t do. Think you can come up with something?” Bring it Sparkle, let’s see what you got. There is no way you can get Rarity as good as I can, even if you have a better chance of not being seen with that magic of yours. 

Twilight cocked her head to the left and right until her eyes finally settled on the joke store that Pinkie Pie loved to visit. “Yeah, I think I can manage something.”

“Go get ‘em, Tiger,” Rainbow said with a laugh. “I’ll keep an eye out up there.” She pointed to the top of a nearby building. 

“Gotta say, I expected something much harder from you, Rainbow,” Twilight stated as she walked over to the shop. “I mean, pranking Rarity is the best thing you got? Kind of a letdown.”

“Are you saying I’m going easy on you?” 

Twilight stopped and cocked her head, blowing a bubble once more and snapping it between her teeth. “Yep. You oughta just call it quits here and admit I won.”

“We’ll see after this. Come on, I think Rarity’s dealing with some customers. Now’s the perfect chance. That is, if you got what it takes, Sparkles?”

Twilight shrugged and walked up to the window of the shop. She didn’t go in through; in fact, she gave the shop nothing more than a cursory glance before walking to the side of the building. Rainbow looked on, confused. What in the wide-wide world of Equestria is she doing?

Her eyes went wide as she saw Twilight power her horn and a pink can appear right next to her in the alley. She just stole that‽ Wow, good going, Twilight. I didn’t think you had it in you to steal something. Granted you being royalty and all, no one would probably care. Rainbow rolled her eyes, a snort leaving her muzzle as she watch the alicorn. Still pretty impressive for a goody four-hooves.

Rainbow watched, more than a little impressed with the alicorn’s actions as she spread her wings and took flight, heading straight over to the boutique. Twilight paused at the window of Rarity’s shop, unscrewed the can, and waited. 

Rainbow flew in for a closer look. She didn’t know what Twilight had taken from the shop, but she was determined to find out. Looking closely, she saw it and almost bust a gut laughing. 

Itching powder, classic!

Twilight’s expression didn’t change. She simply watched and waited for a satisfied mare to step out of the changing room in her new dress. Then, Twilight teleported a small amount of itching powder directly between the mare’s back and the garment. 

Rainbow increased her laughter as she saw the mare scratching at the dress. Rarity frantically worked to get it off her, apologized profusely, and then got her another garment. 

Twilight did the exact same thing to the new garment. Rarity went through three more before the mare simply stormed off, very unsatisfied and with Rarity’s apologies trailing out after her.

Twilight turned to Rainbow. “Next?”

Rainbow fell out of the air, landing flank first on the ground. She’s really… no, this is Twilight you’re talking about. You just gotta step up your game!

“Alright, so you got Rarity, big whoop. I get her all the time, and when she finds the powder she’ll probably just think it was me anyway. Why not try something more original?” 

“I… whatever.”

“Alright, come on before she sees us. I have an idea on what to try next, but actually try this time, okay?” Rainbow asked with a wink.

“Whatever.”

Both mares stepped away from the boutique’s window and began walking farther into town. Ponies stopped what they were doing to stare at the princess’s manecut in shock.

Rainbow snickered. “Look, Twi, I think they noticed something different about you.”

Twilight just kept looking forward, ignoring the ponies around her as she continued to scowl.

“Is that Princess Twilight?”

“Why’s she wearing a collar?”

“That’s soooo coool!”

“Don’t even think about it!”

One hoof in front of the other, Twilight. This is for Rainbow, your chance to help her, to teach her real responsibility. It’s Just for one day, do whatever. It doesn’t matter, you can and will apologize tomorrow. Just focus on putting one hoof in front of the other.
 
“Hey, Twilight, if you want to back out now, I wouldn’t blame you. I mean, there are so many ponies seeing you right now. Wouldn’t want them to think bad of a princess, now would we?” Rainbow sneered at her friend, her eyes glinting victoriously. 

“I’ve told you before, Rainbow Dash, I’m not backing out. Can we just get to the next thing already? I don’t have all day.” Twilight rolled her eyes, her tone holding a bite to it that caught the pegasus off guard. 

“Fine, fine. How about we go see Fluttershy? I’m sure she’d just love to see you like this.”

Okay, Twilight. We both know she wouldn’t have you do anything to hurt Fluttershy. Relax, whatever it is, It’ll just be a minor inconvenience and you can write her a ten-thousand word apology letter tomorrow, same with Rarity, Pinkie, Roseluck, and Bon Bon. Better make it twenty-thousand, each, just to be safe.

“Yeah, I’m sure she’ll just love to see me.”

She can’t be serious, right? There’s no way she’s going to go through with this. As soon as she sees Fluttershy she’s gonna turn tail and I’ll win. No worries, Dash. Just keep pushing. But... what if she does? Oh man... what was I thinking? Please forgive me for this, Fluttershy. I mean it’s just a prank? No pony is actually going to get hurt. Right?

“You coming, Slowpoke?” Twilight asked. 

Dash blinked her thoughts clear. Somehow she had stopped flying forward and was just hovering in the air. Twilight had not only passed her but also called her slow. Her brow creased in anger. “Oh, that’s it!”

“Giving up already, Dash? That was easier than I thought, and we’re almost to Fluttershy’s house too. Oh, well. Good—”

“Nopony calls me slow and gets away with it, princess. Come on.” Rainbow flew past Twilight and landed in front of Fluttershy’s cabin. She then knocked three times at the door. Sorry about this, ‘Shy. I owe you one.

When the door opened, Fluttershy smiled kindly at the surprise visit from her lifelong friend. “Oh, Rainbow Dash, I wasn’t expecting to see you today. What brings you for a visit? I was just about to have some tea with my animal friends. You’re welcome to join us, if you want to that is?” 

“Uh, that sounds great, ‘Shy! Me and Twi would love to join you. Oh, it’s alright for Twilight to join us, right?”

“You… would?” Fluttershy’s eyes went wide at that; Rainbow didn’t do tea parties. She shook her head clear and just accepted the fortuitous turn of events. “Oh, yes, of course it’s okay for Twilight to…” she paused when she saw Twilight’s new look, accented by her collar. “That’s a new… style.”

“Thanks, I like it,” Twilight said coldly, popping her gum loudly, an action that caused the shy mare to flinch.

Rainbow chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of her head with a hoof. “Uh… did you need help setting up for tea? It’s such a nice day outside. We should totally have it outside. In the sun. With your animal friends.”

Fluttershy blinked, “Oh, no thank you, I can do it. I always have my tea parties outside anyway.”

At least now whatever Twilight does won’t blow up in our faces. What is she even going to do anyways? Wait, I’m supposed to be telling her what to do. Oh man… what can I come up with that won’t destroy my friendship with Fluttershy forever?

As Fluttershy flew back inside her cabin to grab the tea set, Rainbow flew over to Twilight. “Hey, don’t do anything to ‘Shy, alright?”

Twilight glared at her angrily. “Then what are we here for? Just call it quits, Rainbow,” she said through gritted teeth. “I don’t want to do anything to any of my friends, you’re making me!”

“Yeah-yeah-yeah, pipe down before she hears you, okay? Anyways, just don’t do anything that would really scar her, ya know?”

“Everything will scar her!”

“You know what I mean!”

Twilight glared at her before finally saying, “Whatever.”

“Good princess.”

Fluttershy returned a moment later. She flew over to a nice sunny spot in the grass and set out a checkered blanket for all of them to sit on. She then set out the cups and a few plates for the snacks she brought out as well.

“So… Fluttershy, how’s it going?” Rainbow asked as she picked up her cup. 

Twilight unconsciously levitated the tea kettle and poured some tea into all of their cups, causing Rainbow to let loose a small snicker. 

Couldn’t help yourself could you, Sparkles? Rainbow rolled her eyes before taking a sip of the hot tea.

Did I seriously just do that? Maybe I should dump it all on Rainbow “on accident”. Twilight smirked at the thought before she noticed Fluttershy smiling brightly at her.

“Oh, thank you, Twilight. To answer your question, Rainbow, things have been going quite well. I haven’t been having any problems with making sure all my little friends are doing well, and even Angel Bunny has been on his best behavior.”

While Twilight was paying attention but acting like she wasn't, Rainbow had the opposite problem: She wasn’t paying attention but acted like she was. Her eyes were darting around the yard, looking for something, anything they could do that’d get Twilight to call it quits and leave her alone—or, if she didn’t, that wouldn’t scar her best friend for the rest of her life. 

Her answer came from Fluttershy’s very furry friends themselves. Angel Bunny had jumped up to the mare’s lap, a cat she had never seen before crawled up on the blanket to fall asleep, and several squirrels and chipmunks followed suit. Even Harry the bear joined them for afternoon tea. Please forgive me for this, Fluttershy, Rainbow thought.

“No problems at all, huh?” Rainbow asked, casually leaning towards the alicorn who was glaring at a chipmunk stealing food from her plate. 

“None at all.” Fluttershy just smiled brightly, her hoofs picking up Angel to hug him tightly.

“That’s great, Shy! Although something looks off about Angel. Don’t you think so, Twi?”

“Looks like the same rude bunny he always is,” Twilight replied. Why did that feel so good to say? she thought, a smirk making itself at home on her muzzle. 

Fluttershy frowned at her friend. Angel glared at her as well, growling angrily.

“Angel doesn’t look too well, Fluttershy. It looks like... oh man! Is his fur falling out?” Rainbow nudged Twilight in the side with her elbow.

Fluttershy’s eyes went wide at that and she spun Angel around against his will to check him over. “I don’t see anything!” The small bunny’s expression turning to one of worry as he checked himself as well. 

“You sure? It looks like a bad case of hairfallingoutitus to me!” Rainbow’s voice pitched high in fake terror, eyes wide as she gasped at the ailment. 

At that, with Fluttershy distracted, Rainbow nudged Twi again in the gut, hard. 

Twilight blinked before looking between Rainbow and Angel. She then rolled her eyes and lit up her horn. Instantly Angel’s fine fluffy hairs begin to fall out in clumps. 

“Angel! What happened to you?” Fluttershy began to frantically try and stop the hairs from shedding. The rest of her animal friends begin to panic as well, scared their own fur might do likewise. 

“Better get him inside, ‘Shy. I heard that’s contagious,” Rainbow said, false worry oozing from her tone as she nodded solemnly. 

“Yes, right away!” Fluttershy replied as she zoomed inside with a now completely nude bunny in her hooves. “Sorry, I gotta cut thi—”

“Just go!” Rainbow said, her forehooves gesturing for the shy mare to hurry up.

“Right, sorry!” Fluttershy slammed the door shut behind her. Twilight started on a new stick of gum and blew another bubble, the sound of it popping echoing in the silence. 

The other animals scampered away at the sound, leaving just the cyan mare and lavender alicorn on the blanket. Rainbow looked at Twilight and saw the strangest expression on her face. The mare was actually smiling. “You enjoyed that, didn’t you?” 

“Actually, yeah. Not hurting Fluttershy mind you, but I never liked that bunny all that much.” The smirk returning to her muzzle as she recalled the horrified expression on the little tyrant’s face.

Rainbow could only nod at that; nopony liked that bucking bunny but Fluttershy. “C’mon, I know where we’re going next.”

“Good, because that was a bust if you’re trying to get me to quit.”

“I think there might be somewhat of a vicious streak in you, Twi.”

“What? No!” Maybe...

“Sure,” Rainbow replied chuckling as they took off into the sky, flying high enough to not draw another crowd. For this next part she wanted them to be incognito.

“AJ next?” Twilight asked as they flew over to the farm. “What are we going to do, change all her apples into tangerines?” 

“What?” Rainbow asked. 

“Tangerines? You know, those small oranges.” When Rainbow kept giving her a empty stare, Twilight just facehoofed. “Ugh, starting tomorrow we’re going to have so much fun in the library.”

Rainbow’s confused expression turned into a scowl. “That’s what you think. I’ll get you to quit, just wait!”

“What-ever.”

Rainbow frowned as she looked around for their ‘target’. She found her just where she thought she’d be. Setting down upon a cloud Rainbow looked down at Applejack and then at Twilight, who simply spat out her gum and put in a new piece. Somepony is going to step in that… Oh well, not my problem. Future Twilight can deal with that. “So, what do you want me to do to Applejack? Turn her into a liar? Make her weak as a kitten?” 

Rainbow grinned. “Nope, just the opposite in fact.”

“Huh?” Twi asked, her gum chewing paused to raise an eyebrow questioningly at her companion. 

“For the rest of the day, make her as strong as an ox.” Rainbow said seriously, her gaze still locked on the farmer below.

“What? How’s that a prank?” Twilight looked down as well, slowly blowing a bubble before popping it quietly, still confused about what Rainbow’s plan was. 

“Trust me,” Rainbow said with an evil grin. “But keep it hidden.”

Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Whatever.” She leaned over the side of the cloud for a better shot and zapped Applejack with a beam from her magic. She kept it discreet so, to Applejack, it only felt like a bee-sting. 

“What in tarnation?” Applejack asked as she looked from her work to her back. When she didn’t see anything there she simply shrugged it off and moved the next barrel into position to catch the apples. Once she was satisfied, she turned around, reared back, and bucked the tree with all her might. 

It went flying; in one blow it was completely uprooted and flew past the orchard and into the Everfree Forest itself. 

Up high, Rainbow Dash laughed up a lung, Twilight just turned to her, fuming. “Rainbow! That was mean!” 

“Hey, feel free to undo it, but you’ll lose the bet.” Rainbows guffaws quieting as she peered up at her companion, her smirk victorious. Did that really work? It was only one tree. Not like Applejack doesn’t have literally hundreds on the farm. 

Twilight frowned as she turned around to watch the confused earth pony try it again, just for the same result. AJ did it once more before she started to adjust for her new found strength. This buck only knocked over the next tree. Rainbow once again roared with laughter, tears starting to form as she fell over on her side. 

“Well, I, um…” Twilight stammered.

“Your call, Sparkles.” Rainbow managed to get her words out before laughter rippled through her again as Applejack barely touched a tree and it shook. 

Twilight fumed for a bit before saying, “No, let’s go. What’s next?”

Rainbow stopped laughing. “Really?” Her gaze swiveled to stare hard at the alicorn.

She’s not serious is she? Come on! Applejack won’t be able to do any work today! Isn’t that bad, Twi? Rarity isn’t going to have any more customers, and Pinkie isn’t probably going to come out of her room for weeks. Not to mention poor Shy’... Why won’t you just call it quits‽

“Really. I’m going to beat you, Rainbow Dash. I’m going to beat you at your own game.”

“You’re on, Twilight, but how about some lunch first? We’ve been going all morning. I’m starved. Oh, and how about you pay? You’re the one that wanted to ‘spend the day together’ anyways.” Rainbow jumped into the air and flapped her wings before the alicorn could hit her. A laugh followed as she gained altitude. At least lunch will give me some energy to think. There’s no way you’re going to win this, Sparkles. I’d rather eat dirt than become an egghead like you. So freaking uncool.

Twilight scowled but followed. She lept into the air and followed her ‘friend’ into town while staying dead on her flank. I swear to Celestia I’m going to win this, Rainbow!

They landed in front of Sugarcube Corner. Twilight’s eyes went wide as she saw that they were about to prank Pinkie, again. She quickly shook her head clear to put on her ‘give no bucks’ persona. To her surprise/horror, it was becoming slightly easier every time she did it. And, while she didn’t want to admit it to anypony—much less herself—somewhat fun.

“Ahh, here’s a good spot to eat.”

“I’ll get you back for this, Rainbow,” Twilight mumbled as they walked inside. 

“We’ll see, Twilight. We’ll see,” Rainbow said back, her mind already fighting between planning what to do next and deciding what she wanted to eat. Getting up so early meant that she needed more energy to get through the day. At least Twilight was smart enough to have breakfast, even if it was a traumatic experience for her. 

The shop was surprisingly empty that afternoon, which was strange until Twilight remembered that it was Wednesday. Most ponies were at their own shops or jobs earning a living. The lunch rush would be in soon though. 

Mr. Cake was working behind the counter. “Good afternoon, Rainbow Dash! Princess… Twilight?” 

Twilight didn’t know if it was her look, or if he had heard about what she said to Pinkie, but the stallion looked horrified to see her.

“Hey, Mr.Cake, what’s shakin’? Or bakin’ I guess.” Rainbow put a hoof up for the older stallion to bump against hers. He did so, but hesitantly, his eyes shifting between the two mares.

“It’s going quite well, Rainbow. I’ve been mostly handling the shop by myself today though. Mrs. Cake has been busy watching the twins, and Pinkie Pie… well, she’s been locked in her room for awhile now. She didn’t say much when she came back in, I guess her visit with Twilight didn’t go so well?” His eyes shifted to look the princess up and down, finally they just locked onto her new neck accessory. He squinted to read the words and then coughed before turning back to Rainbow.

“Oh, is that so? Twilight, why don’t you go up and talk to her?” Rainbow asked. 

“Bite me,” Twilight replied, her tone harsh and demeaning as she glared at the pegasus.

“We’ll see her tomorrow, first thing,” Rainbow said, feeling somewhat bad, yet amused at the same time. “For today, I think she just needs some time to herself.”

“Well, you girls have never done her wrong before. Other than that surprise party that is.”

“Yeah, that was a lesson learned alright! Anyway, let’s get something to eat, shall we?” Rainbow chuckled awkwardly, remembering that she had been the one that had to go fetch the wayward pink pony on the verge of a mental breakdown.

“Sounds good to me, what can I get for you?”

“Just some chocolate cupcakes, two slices of the M.M.M.M. cake, and a few eclairs.”

“Alright, how about you girls find a seat and I’ll have it right out for you. I just have to go grab some powdered sugar from the back. I guess Pinkie didn’t get a chance to stock them this morning.”

“Oh, and feel free to put it all on the princess’s tab,” Rainbow said with a smile.

“Twilight?” Mr. Cake asked.

“Whatever.” Twilight replied as she jumped up in a booth.

Rainbow grinned as she took a seat next to Twilight. When Mr. Cake was out of range, she whispered, “Twilight, quit now. We don’t have to keep doing this, I know you’re hating it.”

Twilight growled back, “I’m not quitting! What’s wrong, scared you’ll lose‽” 

“As if. I just wanted to give you one last chance. Things are about to get… uh... “ Rainbow blinked. Well buck, I don’t have any ideas this time. With Pinkie upstairs, who can we even prank? The Cakes aren’t worth the time and nopony but us is even here! Come on Dash, think. What could make Twilight back out now? Man, I’m getting tired. All this thinking sucks. I sure could use a nap. No, nap later, pranks now! Wait… I know what we’ll do! Her grin caused Twilight to do a double take. 

“Dash?”

“Oh nothing, let’s eat first and then we’ll talk,” Rainbow said.

The food arrived shortly after and neither pony said so much as a word to each other as they scarfed down a huge meal of sugary treats between them. Rainbow had made sure that Twilight ate the lion’s share, something she’d no doubt regret later. While Twilight was busy, several customers started to line up at the shop for the lunch rush, and without Pinkie Pie there, it was slightly slower than normal. Meaning most had to get it to go.

Rainbow hurriedly scrawled a note on a napkin and then passed it to Twi. She took it and read it over quickly. Then, with a stink eye to the pegasus, she flashed her horn, doing exactly what the note said to do.

Beyond a bright flash of purple light, there wasn’t anything noticeably different. At least, not that the ponies of Ponyville would immediately notice. However when they returned to work, they’d be in for a little disgusting surprise to find that all the sugar in the store had been changed into salt. All except for what Dash and Twilight had ate that is. 

As they left, Rainbow found herself completely dumbfounded. “I can’t believe you did it…”

“It’s called perseverance, Rainbow Dash. Doing what you said you’re going to do regardless of how difficult it is. I have it, you don’t. I’m not quitting because I said I’d beat you.”

“I have persawatchmicallit.”

“Perseverance! P. E. R. S. E. V. E. R. A. N. C. E. It means not giving up just because things get hard!”

“I so have that! I’ve never given up on anything! Well, except boring stuff… But I think that’s excusable.” Rainbow waved a hoof at the comment. 

“You’re unbelieveable.”

“It’s called being awesome, Twilight. Learn it. Sheesh, for such an egghead you’d think you would’ve at least picked up one book on how to be cool.”

Twilight held back a retort; she closed her eyes and let out several deep breaths. Then—almost as if it were a glove—she slipped back on her ‘give no bucks’ persona. “Yeah, well starting tomorrow you’ll see first hoof just how awesome that boring stuff can be, won’t you?” She sneered.

“Actually, you won’t see me tomorrow, at all. I’m so going to win this. Hope your books don’t get soaked with your tears.” Rainbow stepped up to Twilight so they were each glaring at each other, eye to eye.

“Yeah? What are you going to do now, Rainbow? I’ve already gotten the entire town with that stunt.” Twilight lifted a hoof to push Rainbow away, uncomfortable with the proximity of the pegasus in her space.

“You’ll see,” Rainbow said with a grin, allowing the hoof to back her up a step. “But first we’ve gotta fly to Canterlot.”

“Canterlot? You gonna have me prank Celestia next?” Oh please, please, please no. She would probably take my crown and lock me in a dungeon. Or worse, banish me from Equestria. Or worst! Lock me in a dungeon at the place she banishes me to! 

“Nope. Though that would be funny. C’mon, I know just the store that’ll make you change your mind and test that persa—whatever it’s called you claim to have,” Rainbow said as she took off.

Relief rushed through the alicorn at the words, only for her to roll her eyes at Rainbow’s complete destruction of the word. 

“Perseverance. Don’t worry, you’ll get it soon enough,” Twilight said with a chuckle as she took flight for Canterlot right behind Rainbow.

The flight there took the rest of the day. Rainbow made a show of having Twilight prank several different ponies they passed over, but it quickly became more spiteful than fun. It seemed to her that Twilight was dead set on winning this regardless of the damage it might cause. 

We’ll see just how much persa—ehh, whatever that word was you have when we get there, princess goody four-shoes.

It was nightfall when they landed. Something Rainbow purposely did in order to tire out the princess by making her fly slow, and, also, because she didn’t know if this store was open during the day.

Twilight landed right next to Rainbow. Her eyes went wide as she saw the store they were in front of. 

“You can’t be serious?” Twilight’s tone squeaked somewhere between disbelief and terror.

“About us going in?” Rainbow asked with a grin.

“No, about a place like this existing in Canterlot!”

Rainbow chuckled. “I don’t think we’re technically in Canterlot, just on the border.”

“How do you even know about this place?” Twilight asked, never taking her eyes off the front door.

“We’re not all repressed little eggheads that have never taken two steps outside a library, Twi.”

The green neon sign flashed the name of the place over and over again: Stallion Cock, Stallion Cock, Stallion Cock.

Rainbow pushed the door open and waited for Twilight to walk through, unsurprised that she didn’t. 

“Today, Egghead, or are you giving up?”

Twilight continued to stare up at the sign, her jaw slacked. This is not real. I am not standing in front of this shop with Rainbow Dash. This is just a joke. Any minute now Rainbow is going to just laugh and say “got you”.

“So much for your persa-whatever, huh? You quit?”

Snapping her jaw shut, the princess glared at her friend before marching past her and into the store.

Rainbow just snickered and walked in behind her. This is it! I’m so going to win after this. It’s like stealing candy from a foal! There is no way Twilight will last more than two minutes in here, tops. 

Twilight’s eyes went wide as she saw a large assortment of sextoys that she had never seen before in her life. She knew what a stallion’s penis looked like from her anatomy books, but she had never seen one in person. Now? Now she was looking dead-on at more made out of a fresh rubber polymer than she’d ever wanted to see. 

“Hey PRINCESS TWILIGHT? What are you looking at over there‽” Rainbow shouted, false surprised excitement dripping from her words. 

Twilight swore she’d make Rainbow study the dictionary front and back for a whole year for that.

A sweet voice called out from the other side of the shop. “Twily?”

Twilight’s ‘give no bucks’ persona shattered like a mirror. Rainbow almost jumped for joy as she saw a pink alicorn walking over to Twilight. 

“C-C-Cadance?” Twilight asked, wide-eyed and fearful. 

“I never imagined in a million years you’d ever come to this place. I wish you had told me!”

“W-what?” Twilight asked. Rainbow was doing her best not to cry tears of joy. “Y-y-y-you’re here?”

“Sure, I come here all the time for little toys for your brother and I.”

“W-w-w-w-what?” The lavender alicorn was stiff as a board 

“Pst, Twilight, you can totally back out now and I’ll say we’re here for me. I’m sure you don’t want Cadance or anypony else thinking we’re here for you. Or worse, for us.” Rainbow whispered into Twilight’s ear, snickering at the end. Please, please, please give up. Wait… why did I even say us? That’s just weird.

“Here, let me show you around,” Cadance said with a friendly smile as she picked up Twilight and hugged her once. “I wish I had know you’d taken an interest in sex and love, Twilight. I see you’ve already started with the new hairdo and your collar. Let me guess, roleplay with your marefriend there?”

Twilight’s train of thought had officially derailed and crashed into a wall.

There were no survivors.

Even Rainbow caught onto the marefriend comment a little too late. “Wait, what?” By then Cadance had already started taking Twilight through the separate aisles. 

“Over there are the sex-swings, Shiny and I have personally tested out quite a few of them ourselves. I don’t recommend those for beginners though. You and Rainbow Dash should probably take more of a hooves-on approach.”

With Twilight’s conscious mind currently scouring her brain for the train’s wreckage, her subconscious fell back on what she did know, what was a constant for her: learning. Twilight absorbed Cadance’s words like a sponge, paying no attention to what she was learning and choosing to focus on that she was learning.

Given, learning the preferred sexual techniques that Shining Armor liked would haunt her dreams for years to come. But that was future Twilight’s problem.

Rainbow just watched the Princess of Love teach Twilight everything she’d never need to know. Well, not what I planned, but this is even better! Although I need to tell Cadance we are soooo not marefriends though. Like I’d date an egghead. Her smile became a frown when she heard their next topic of discussion. That… that’s kind of gross. I didn’t know Shining Armor was into… that.

Eventually, the train was fixed and a new track laid down, but it’s destination had already been pre-set. Twilight could only focus on her sister-in-law’s words and plan from there. “So, you use anal beads to stimulate from the other side?” 

“Yep, they work especially well in stallions to stimulate the prostate while he’s rutting you, but mares can have a lot of fun with them too.”

Rainbow’s eyes went wide at that. Oh no, no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-NO! She’s learning this, she’s… Oh, dear Celestia. Think Dash, think! You need to up your game, take it to the next level! There should be plenty of stuff around here she’d never let you do!

The pegasus turned away from the two princesses and started to dart around the shop, looking for something, anything that might get Twilight to call it quits. She grinned as she found two items in particular that held her interest. The first were two large silver balls, Ben Wa Balls. The second was more desired for roleplay. A faux tail attached to an anal plug. And to make matters even more perfect, the tail was in a rainbow pattern. 

Rainbow turned back just in time to see Cadance giving Twilight one last hug. “Do come to the Crystal Empire when you get a chance, I have so much more I can teach you!”

“Looking forward to it!” Twilight said back, chipperly. 

Rainbow flew up to the cashier. A brown mare with three too many nose rings. “I’ll take these.”

She rang them up. “That’ll be fifteen bits.”

“What? Fine, whatever.” Rainbow threw the bits onto the table. 

“Hey, Rainbow! I can’t believe Cadance set this place up,” Twilight said as she ran to her friend, only to stop when she saw the items Rainbow was purchasing. “Ben Wa Balls and a double tail?” 

“How do you even know what they’re called? Wait, scratch that. Don’t answer, I already know.” Rainbow grabbed both items from off the counter and turned to her friend, a smirk on her muzzle.

“What are y—” Twilight’s eyes went wide as the realization dawned on her of just what Rainbow wanted to do with those.

“Yep, you’re going to use both of these for the rest of the night!”

“I-I…” Twilight sat back on her flank. So… that’s your plan, Rainbow… Twilight couldn’t help but feel anxiety, worry, disbelief, fear, and strangely, anticipation. She had heard Cadance discuss both those items, and she couldn’t help but wonder what they’d actually feel like.

“Or just call it quits, we’ll go home right now,” Rainbow said as she held up both items.

The clerk just rolled her eyes and sat back. 

Twilight looked to the items and back to Rainbow, back to the items and back to Rainbow. There was uncertainty in her eyes, so much so that Rainbow thought she’d finally won. Twilight then did something unexpected: she tossed five bits up onto the counter and grabbed a bottle of lube in her magic. She squirted out a healthy amount on both balls and the plug before turning around and presenting herself to Rainbow. 

Her only reply was, “Whatever.”

Rainbow was flabbergasted, for a second or two. “Twi, I’m serious about this.” Unconsciously her eyes roved over every inch of the presenting alicorn in front of her. In parallel, a gulp of uncertainty and a shiver of want rolled through the pegasus. 

Twilight just turned her head and grinned at her friend, her tail swishing provocatively behind her. 

Rainbow’s mouth dropped open as she saw it. This was her now-or-never moment, not Twi’s. She stared at her friends presented marehood, and her little puckered anus, both were just waiting for her next action. For her to insert the sex-toys she had bought in them. 

Despite herself, Twilight felt something she had never expected to feel: anticipation. She wanted Rainbow to do it, to not back down. “What are you waiting for, Rainbow Dash? You quit?”

The first ball was roughly inserted straight into Twilight’s pussy. She gasped as her lower lips were spread apart for the first time in her life. She felt every second of Rainbow’s rough treatment, of the large, metal, cold ball being pushed into her insides with her friend’s hoof. 

When the second one was pushed inside, Twilight cried out; not in pain, but not quite in pleasure either. She felt one ball hit another, her own inner walls stimulated by their forceful movements, by Rainbow practically shoving them inside of her. However Rainbow had no intention of letting her off easy, she forced them in as deep as she could possibly get them. Not wanting them to fall out before the night was over. 

Her hoof… it’s on my… oh dear Celestia. This is… Rainbow’s touch, it’s....

Just to push them even deeper, Rainbow stuck the so-far unused anal plug in Twilight’s no-longer virgin pussy. The mare collapsed on her front hooves, her hind ones somehow locked stiff. 

Rainbow realized what she was doing almost too late, almost. She stopped seconds before slamming the anal plug home in Twilight’s ass. That would undoubtedly cause Twilight a lot of pain, something Rainbow had no desire to do. So, with one wing, she grabbed the bottle of lube and dumped the rest out on the plug itself, and a small amount on the puckered little hole. She then spread it around both with her other hoof. 

Twilight moaned out when Rainbow ran a hoof over her asshole. She bit her lip immediately afterwards, hoping that wouldn’t cause the mare to stop. 

Rainbow had no intention of stopping; she had come this far and would be damned before she quit now. She placed the tip of the plug to her friend’s anus, and, slowly, ever so slowly, started to twist it inside of her. Her ears picked up the sounds of her friend moaning in pleasure, but she blocked it out, until, at last, it was all the way inside. 

Only then did she realize just how wet Twilight was, and not from the lube. Rainbow backed up and looked down at her hoof, it was covered in the mare’s juices. “Ahh… Twilight?”

Twilight, upon realizing that she had taken all three objects, stood to her hooves. She felt the balls move around inside of her, pressing her insides up against the plug in her ass. With a quick look back she saw that the toy was well named, she did appear to have two tails right now. 

The fact that it felt incredible was simply a bonus. 

The look on Rainbow’s face told her the pegasus was about to back out, to call it quits. Well, we can’t have that, after all, the night’s still young. Wait… when did I start to enjoy this?

“Twilight?” Rainbow asked again, her mind caught between lust and worry.

Twilight grinned as she looked up. “Rainbow, you’re horrible at this, I thought this was supposed to be something I wouldn’t enjoy. That felt fantastic.”

“Heh heh, funny, Twilight.” The pegasus bit her lip as she took a step back, her eyes shifting to look at everything but the alicorn princess she just violated. 

Twilight’s tone dripped with sarcasm as she said, “Oh, come on, Rainbow, that didn’t bother you did it? I thought you wanted me to do this. You told me to do everything you tell me to do. Did I not do a good job?”

What is she playing at? Did she actually enjoy all that? This has got to be a joke. She did just let me… No. Dash, you can’t lose! Why is she looking at me like that? She thinks she’s won! No bucking way in Tartarus is am I going to lose to an egghead like Twilight Sparkle. This is it. Do or die time Rainbow! Let’s take it to eleven and see what she says!

“So you enjoyed that huh? Well I’ve got an even better idea. If you loved that, you’re so going to love what comes next.” Rainbow turned to the clerk, actually remembering the mare was still there. “Do you know where the nearest tattoo parlor is?” Get ready for the pain and pleasure Sparkles. She’s totally going to back down now, and I can go home and deal with my… uh.. problem. Her problem being the feeling she had gotten between her own hind legs.

The mare stared at her blankly, as if she had heard that a million times before right after somepony purchased something from the store. “Yeah, we do it in the back. Kind of a two for one shop. We do piercings too, if you couldn’t tell.”

Rainbow grinned as she turned to Twilight, who only met her stare for stare. 


***


Thirty minutes later, Twilight was laid back in a chair. On her chest and neck was a stenciled drawing of Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark. Her collar had been given to Rainbow for temporary safekeeping. Laid next to her ears were six different piercings, three on each side. Each piercing was custom made to match her friends’ and her own cutie marks. 

Rainbow’s eyes went wide when her anger calmed down and it dawned on her what they were about to do. “Twilight, let’s not do this. C’mon, get out of the chair and we’ll call off the bet. We both win so neither side loses.” There was real fear in her voice.

The tattoo artist mare turned to look at the two ponies, waiting for the answer. 

Twilight simply looked at Rainbow and cocked a smile. “Perseverance, Rainbow.” She turned to the tattoo artist. “Whenever you’re ready.”
> A mare Changed
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The last time Rainbow felt this bad she had accidentally traded Fluttershy for a first-edition Daring Do book. 

She turned to look at egghead-turned bad girl as the two stepped out of the sex toyshop. Her eyes fell upon the new piercings in Twilight’s ears; each one was in a shape representing the five of her friends and her own cutie marks. On her left ear, resting just above where her ear met her head was Fluttershy’s butterfly; colored in a hot pink instead of it’s natural light hue giving it a intimidating coloring. In the middle, Rarity’s diamond with sharp edges still its elegant shade of blue. And at the top of her ear, Rainbow’s tricolored lightning bolt—the colors shining brightly.

Her right ear had Applejack’s, in bright candy-apple red. On top of that was Pinkie Pie’s; the bright blue balloon resting easy in the middle. And then her own; the six sided star bathed in a royal purple hue, looking as if it always belonged on the mare it represented. 

Twilight had her collar back on, albeit it did nothing to cover the huge tattoo of Rainbow’s cutie mark going from her neck to the center of her chest. The cloud rested just below the collar with the tricolored lightning bolt zigzagging downward. It was beyond obvious and wouldn’t even be hidden by a dress. After getting the tattoo Twilight had cast a spell that numbed the area, making it so she wouldn’t feel any discomfort while it healed.

For Rainbow, each of these items felt like evidence that she had mutilated one of her best friends, that she had taken a dumb bet and went way, way, way too far with it. When it was over, Rainbow had asked if there was a spell that could remove it after the day was over. Twilight’s response still rang in her ears. “Who said I want to remove it?”

Unbeknownst to Rainbow Dash, Twilight was having the time of her life with the excitement she felt in getting the tattoos and piercings. It was something that she had enjoyed far more than she had ever thought she would. With the pain she had felt being taken care of with her magic, they were just… kind of cool. Even if she had to try not to think of how she’d explain them to her friends later, never mind her family, or Celestia for that matter. 

And Cadance had been right: the ben wa balls felt amazing. Every time she moved her hips in the slightest she could feel them, in a good way. The plug—while at first uncomfortable—was quickly growing on her as well. She stuck in another piece of gum and started chewing as she waited with excitement for what Rainbow would have her do next. Hence why it came as a heart-stopping surprise when Rainbow turned to her with tears in her eyes.

“I’m sorry, Twilight. This was dumb and stupid of me.” She paused, looking down, no longer able to even face the friend she had mutilated. “I can’t… I can’t do this to you anymore. Just look at you! I-I’m such a horrible friend and this is way too…” Rainbow clenched her eyes shut, her muzzle lowering downward as she fought against her tears. “I quit. You win.” 

Twilight had to fight to keep her jaw from dropping. She concentrated on keeping her cool, on maintaining her facade. On the outside, she simply started to chew boredly on her gum, rolling her eyes at Rainbow dismissively. Internally she was desperately trying to think of ways to get Rainbow to not quit. Somehow, someway, she had enjoyed today. A lot. There’d been something freeing about ‘bucking the rules’; about just doing whatever, that made her feel so alive. 

She knew that it was just for today though. That thought caused her to feel equally excited and disappointed. ‘Egghead’ Twilight Sparkle would return after they went to sleep. Buck-The-Rules Twilight, her time to enjoy herself was now, and she didn’t want it to end early just because Rainbow Dash was getting cold hooves. 

Twilight blew another bubble as she glared at Rainbow, a challenge unmet by her in return. Popping it loudly, she walked past the pegasus, slapping her in the muzzle with her two tails. “Quitter,” Twilight sneered as she walked away. “Who would’ve thought that the ‘great’ Rainbow Dash would give up so easily?”

Rainbow looked up, her tears still running slowly down her muzzle. “Twilight, look at what I did to you! It’s not worth it,” she said, raising a hoof to gesture to Twilight’s once ‘accessory free’ appearance. 

Twilight stopped walking to look back at her. “Quitter.” A bubble once again popped loudly as she gazed at her friend with indifference. 

“Twilight!” Rainbow shouted, her hoof stamping to the ground as she began to get angry. Why are you doing this, Twilight! Just stop! You won already! I’ll do whatever you want, please! I just want my egghead back. Please...

“Don’t ‘Twilight’ me, quitter. I always knew you didn’t have it in you to go the distance. You lack perseverance, Rainbow. And today, beyond a shadow of a doubt, you’ve just proven it.” Twilight sneered as she turned to walk away again. Her two tails swishing behind her, once again reminding Rainbow of what they had done.

“Twilight, look at yourself! Look what we’ve done, and for what? A stupid bet! You have my cutie mark as a tattoo on your chest, and your ears pierced! How can we possibly explain that to our friends‽” Rainbow didn’t even want to mention the other things she had done to the once ‘pure’ Princess of Friendship.

In truth, Twilight had no idea how to explain it. She was purposely not thinking about tomorrow. Tomorrow was Egghead Twilight’s problem. “A quitter and a loser too, what a shock, Rainbow.” Twilight pretended to gasp in horror, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. “I always thought Rarity was the drama queen, but damn, Dash, you’re giving her a run for her bits.”

“You really want to keep going‽ Rainbow screamed, “Fine, let’s keep going!” She walked up to Twilight, once again invading the alicorn’s personal space.

Twilight had to do her absolute best to not smile. “What’ve you got for me?” she asked, her hoof rising to poke Rainbow on the chest. 

Dash’s chest twitched with fury, her mind latching on to the one thing she could think of. The one thing that they had spent the last two hours in a shop of: sex. 

She literally said the first thing she could think of. “Make out with me.”

“W-what?” Twilight asked, shocked, her hoof sliding away from Rainbow as she stared open-mouthed at her.

“You heard me.” The pegasus smirked, victoriously. This was her moment. She had finally won. 

This’ll put an end to it right here and no—

Rainbow’s thoughts died as a pair of lavender lips pressed themselves right up against hers. 

It was just a dare, just a stupid dare to try and get Twilight to leave her alone. The two had spent the day together for that purpose and that purpose alone. Rainbow dared her to do the worst things she could think of, things she for sure thought Twilight would never, never in a million years, ever do. 

As soon as Twilight’s lips pressed against hers, Rainbow’s thoughts were gone, now replaced with confusion, lust, and something else she didn’t want to name. The dazed pegasus could feel the warmth of Twi’s breath, the taste of her lips. She only…

And just like that, they were gone. Rainbow’s eyes were wide as Twilight pulled away. She didn’t want to admit to herself that she was blushing in shock, but she was.

“What’s next?” Twilight casually asked.

Rainbow blinked twice, just to make sure she was still among the living. “Twi, I said make out with me, not peck me like I’m your grandm—”

Twilight kissed her again. This time Rainbow felt the alicorn’s tongue all but force its way inside of her mouth. She welcomed it, she loved it. Whatever Cadance and Twilight had talked about, French kissing had apparently been part of their conversation. Their tongues started to dance around in Rainbow’s mouth; an intricate ballet that traded saliva and spittle. Twilight tasted every inch inside of the pegasus’s muzzle. She even ran her tongue over the mare’s teeth, almost as if she were counting each and every one of them.

To Twilight’s shock, when she pulled her tongue back, Rainbow’s followed her into her own mouth. The alicorn recovered quick enough and welcomed the appendage in much the same way Rainbow had welcomed her own. 

It was over too quickly for both of them, far, far too quickly. Twilight was left gasping, and Rainbow was unable to shut her muzzle as they both stared at each other, violet eyes piercing into magenta eyes. 

It took Rainbow a moment to realize that she was now chewing on Twilight’s gum.

“Say the first thing that comes to mind,” Twilight stated, her voice dripping with anticipation and desire.

“Buck me,” Rainbow said, smirking. She blew a bubble with her stolen gum and popped it in the alicorn's face.

Twilight had no idea if Rainbow meant that figuratively or literally, nor did she really care. With a devilish smile, she placed a hoof on cyan mare’s shoulder and powered her horn. In a flash of magic, she teleported the two of them to her old tower in the courtyard of Canterlot Castle. 

Her unspoken question was answered when—in the dust covered tower room—Rainbow leapt on her. In the blink of an eye, the pegasus had latched lips with Twilight, pushing her over and onto her back. Their tongues met yet again in an intricate dance that neither of them wanted to come to an end. 

Twilight’s eyes widened as Rainbow’s hooves traced her sides. She had heard about sex before, even mare-on-mare sex before, but this was her first time experiencing it. Then again, that was true for a lot of what happened today.

This is it; I’m really going to have sex... with Rainbow Dash. The thought excited her more than she cared to admit. 

Rainbow’s hooves drifted down to Twilight’s flanks; she grasped and squeezed them, feeling the thick flesh underneath. The alicorn’s flanks were nicely squeezable, plush and soft all at the same time; a lifetime of sitting on her ass reading books made it Rainbow’s favorite type of rear-end.

They broke apart to stare into each other eyes. Twilight spat out the gum careless of where it went and spoke first, “Rainbow… I…”

“Do whatever you want, Twi. In fact, consider that your last challenge for tonight. No restrictions whatsoever.”

Twilight answered by raising her hooves to grasp Rainbow’s flank. Unlike her own, the pegasus was nicely toned with the bare minimum of fat covering her muscles. Her flank fought against Twilight’s touch, refusing to give even a little. 

Rainbow pressed herself against Twilight’s body, smiling as she felt the two little balls that were still within the mare’s pussy. Pressing herself harder into the alicorn’s abdomen, she forced them to move down ever so slightly, causing the princess to squirm and moan beneath her as the balls stimulated from both inside and out. 

Rainbow latched her mouth onto Twilight’s neck, planting soft kisses and licking her up and down as she kept applying force to the alicorn’s body, causing the ben wa balls to shift inside, stimulating her even more.

Twilight moaned softly, tilting her neck to give the pegasus better access while pushing herself closer. She wrapped her hooves around Rainbow’s flank, forcing their bodies tighter and tighter against each other, enjoying the wonderful feeling of Rainbow moving the balls around inside of her. 

The pegasus grinned softly, her normal smirk gone from her face. She let Twilight take the lead and enjoyed the feeling of the normally repressed mare asserting herself like she had never known her to do. Not before today anyway, at least, not like this.

Applying the smallest amount of leverage, Twilight shifted slightly, forcing the pegasus to roll on her back. The alicorn swiftly moved on top of her, sliding her muzzle across Rainbow’s neck. She licked it, tasting Rainbow’s fur. The fine hairs were coarse and salty from sweat, as well as something else.

Mmmhm… that’s strange, she tastes like cherries too.

“Cherries, Rainbow?” Twilight asked, a smirk resting on her lips as she nuzzled the pegasus’s neck. 

“It’s a cherry scented shampoo. It’s all I had,” Rainbow muttered. She looked down her stomach, noticing that Twilight’s marehood was already wet. The pegasus supposed it shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise since the princess still had those pleasure inducing balls inside of her.

The alicorn leaned down, placing her hooves to either side of Rainbow’s head as she kissed her again and again. The pegasus didn’t waste the opportunity to run her hooves up and down Twilight’s sides, savoring the feeling of the soft fur of the friend currently on top of her. 

Twilight cooed in delight as she started to rub her nethers up and down Rainbow’s well-toned abs. Each time she’d push just a little further down, moving closer to the real thing she wanted to rub up against. 

Rainbow’s eyes widened in surprise as she realized what Twilight wanted to do. “What did Cadance and you talk about in there?”

Twilight smiled seductively down at her friend. “Why? What makes you ask? You aren’t actually enjoying this, are you Dash? I thought you didn’t want to lose.” 

“I think the game is over,” Rainbow whispered as she felt the alicorn’s nethers start to grind across her clit, her eyes closing as she breathed out slowly. 

Twilight pulled away slightly so their bodies were no longer in contact, the action caused the pegasus to look up wide-eyed at her in distress. 

“So I won? We can stop?” Please say no, I don’t want to stop. I just want you to beg for it.

Rainbow did a double take. “You forget already, Egghead? I already gave you your last dare. No restrictions, no rules, do whatever you want for the rest of the day. And last I checked, it’s not midnight yet.”

“So if I tell you to stop, Dash?” Is it weird that I’m enjoying telling her what to do?

Rainbow shot up quickly, locking her lips together with Twilight’s. This completely took the alicorn by surprise, a warm tongue plunging directly into her mouth. They held the kiss for thirty seconds before they broke apart, a thin trail of spittle the only thing still connecting them as Twilight stood above Rainbow. “You really want to stop, Sparkles?” Rainbow asked breathlessly.

“Whatever.” Twilight recovered from her surprise quickly, mock glaring down her muzzle at the pegasus. “It’s not like I have anything better to do.” She ducked her head to begin softly biting at Dash’s neck, causing the pegasus to moan.

Rainbow arched her head as she cried out, enjoying the feeling of Twilight Sparkle, the egghead extraordinaire, being so forceful, and so demanding. She felt Twilight work her way down her neck to her chest. Rainbow tried to raise her hooves to get the princess to hurry up to the real show between her hind legs, but whatever Cadance and she had talked about—and right now Rainbow was really regretting not paying attention—it had taught the alicorn a lot. Twilight had locked Rainbow’s hooves at her side with her magic. 

Twilight was going to take it as slow as she wanted. After all, she wanted Rainbow to beg for it.

The alicorn smirked softly as she made her way down Rainbow’s chest; her tongue began flicking out to taste the mare below her again. I think I’ve found my new favorite taste. A smell caught her attention, causing her to raise her head slightly to look down. Maybe second favorite. 

Cadance had indeed given her a quick rundown of all the down and dirty things two mares could do together. They were overviews, barely scratching the surface, but more than enough for her purpose here today. She knew Rainbow was getting wet, she could even smell the mare. It was pungent, but good; like sweat and musky sent all at the same time. 

Twilight found herself anticipating what Rainbow’s marehood would taste like, how she would moan under her ministrations, and what the night would bring when it was the pegasus’s turn to return the favor.

Putting what was to come aside, Twilight brought her focus back to pleasuring the mare below her. As much as I’d like to get to the good part, she still hasn’t begged yet. So what should I do? Cadance said I have to keep her interested, but not simply dive in. She said to tease her, to make her want it so badly she’ll beg for it. And I will make her beg before the night’s over. It was fast becoming her personal dare.

“Oh, sweet Celestia, yes,” Rainbow said as she felt Twilight’s muzzle move farther down than it had all night. She was an inch, then half an inch from Rainbow’s needing marehood. However, Twilight had no intention of giving her what she wanted, not yet anyway. Her trail of licks skipped right over Rainbow’s slit. 

For Twilight, this was her first time face-to-face with another mare’s pussy. She had seen them, of course, a small consequence of living in a clothesless society, but she had never really looked. Rainbow’s labia was puffed up, the blood in her body flowing full-steam to her sex organs. She was already wet, her outer lips spread apart and her inner lips more than prepared for a stallion to mount her. Not that there was a stallion here. 

Twilight couldn’t resist; she lightly blew across Rainbow’s protruding clit and wet slit as she moved her muzzle to the mare’s left hind leg. 

Rainbow moaned as Twilight's breath blew across her aching slit making another trip to her right leg; the action sent sparks of pleasure shooting up to her brain. Twilight didn’t stop there though. She worked down the pegasus’s right inner thigh, starting to kiss it intimately.

Rainbow felt each and every lick, every kiss like it was from a lover’s touch, which she supposed wasn’t far from the truth. Twilight made her way half way down Rainbow’s inner thigh before turning around. She licked her way back up, her actions leaving goosebumps under Rainbow’s fur. 

The pegasus moaned loudly, something that grew in pitch and volume as Twilight went right up to her labia, only for Rainbow to once again meet with disappointment when the alicorn took the round about, kissing up her stomach and around the pair of puffy lips. Twilight grinned as she could feel the pegasus’s disappointment in her continued lack of action. 

The alicorn adjusted her back legs to get even more comfortable. She licked her way down Rainbow’s other thigh, enjoying the cherry-salty taste from the mare’s coat. It was a little bitter at some areas, but she was quickly growing to enjoy it. That, and the fact that Rainbow was all but thrashing under her actions, left Twilight with an ear-to-ear smile on her muzzle. 

Rainbow could feel the alicorn’s muzzle sliding over her legs. The warm tongue tracing over her folds before sliding up the curve of her thigh, nipping at the inside of her leg before making her way back down and once again tracing around overheated area of need. The pegasus rolled her head back and forth, moaning in want. Eyes clenched tight, Rainbow ran her hooves through her mane before peeking downward to watch the alicorn work, violet eyes meeting hers with a seductive smile. One deep lick later causing the pegasus to jerk violently and shout out.

“Twilight!” Rainbow’s voice echoed around the dusty room. 

Twilight smiled as she saw the mare’s lower wet lips glistening in the little moonlight that was shining in through the window. “Yes, Rainbow? Is there a problem?”

“”I… I… I…” Rainbow’s voice was high pitched, the almost girlish moans taking the alicorn princess by pleasant surprise.

“What’s the matter? I don’t think I’ve ever heard you make noises like that before. Should we stop? We wouldn’t want anypony to hear you.”

Rainbow looked up at her in disbelief, her body still squirming in need. Twilight’s expression was the same indifferent look she had on her muzzle the entire day. In frustration, the pegasus practically slammed the back of her head against the ground. “Twi, you’re going to make me beg for it, aren’t you?” She groaned between clenched teeth.

“It’s as you said, Rainbow Dash. The rest of the night is for me to do whatever I want.” As if to emphasize her point, the alicorn puckered her lips and blew from the bottom of Rainbow’s slit to the very tip of her clit, the mare’s juices rippled in response. “And right now, I want to hear you beg.”

“I’ve created a monster.” Rainbow’s voice was a growl, somewhere between anger and lust. She fought off a pleasurable shiver, losing effortlessly.

Pretending to not have heard the pegasus, Twilight continued with her task of teasing her friend. You’re so going to give in, and I’m going to enjoy every moment of it.

And she was right. 

When Twilight puckered her lips once more and blew small circles around Rainbow’s clit, the pegasus didn’t stand a chance. Rainbow found herself bucking her hips up for more contact, only for Twilight to deny it over and over. After the third time, she cried out, “Please, please for the love of Celestia, please, Twi!”

With a grin of knowing she had—at last—won against Rainbow Dash, Twilight said, “Well, if you’re going to beg for it, how can I say no?” 

At that the alicorn stared directly at her friend’s snatch. She wet her lips and stuck her tongue out, licking from the bottom of the mare’s slit all the way to her clit. Rainbow’s back legs kicked out as she moaned in pleasure, completely enraptured by the mare’s actions and the pure unadulterated joy she was receiving.

Twilight immediately dug in, licking her friend’s inner lips. She really tasted her for the first time. Rainbow tasted like tangy-fresh sea breeze. The flavor danced across her taste buds, seeming to come and go just as quickly. She dug in, pushing her tongue as deep as she could go. Twilight’s reward was even more screaming. 

“Twi-Twi, Twilight!” Rainbow screamed as she felt the mare pushing even deeper. 

Twilight licked deeper and deeper. She had never done this before, but the quick down and dirty—combined with the anatomy classes she had, of course, aced—gave her more than enough information to make Rainbow one happy mare. 

Twilight was seeking something very special in Rainbow’s pussy, something she was sure would push the pegasus far over the edge. She was seeking Rainbow Dash’s G-spot. 

It didn’t take long for the lavender alicorn to find it, and her reward was a world-shattering scream from the chromatic pegasus. Rainbow’s back arched as she all but shoved her pussy into Twilight’s muzzle. The alicorn felt her tongue forcibly clamped down upon between Rainbow’s inner folds as the pegasus sought to milk the appendage for all it was worth. 

Rainbow didn’t squirt, she shook. Her entire body was enraptured by Twilight’s actions. Her wings shot out and she cried out the alicorn’s name. 

“TWIIIILLLLLLIIIIIIIGGGHHHHTTT!” 

The alicorn princess smiled, her tongue received even more of the tasty, tangy juices assaulting it. She licked and licked, doing her absolute best to stay within the pegasus the entire time, swallowing as much of the mare’s release as she could. 

It didn’t take Rainbow long to recover, and when she did, Twilight found herself forcibly pushed onto her back before she could blink. The pegasus was already positioned between her legs, still panting from her orgasm, but more than ready to return the favor.

The sheer speed Rainbow had moved with completely flabbergasted the alicorn. But the pegasus didn’t care; she wouldn’t play the games Twilight had played with her. She wanted to blow the egghead’s mind, so that was exactly what she was going to do. 

“R-Rainbow… h-hoow…”

“Save your breath, Twi. You’re going to need it.” At those words Rainbow returned her muzzle down to Twilight’s folds, her tongue flickered out to lap at the alicorn’s inner lips, the outer lips, and she even dug the appendage in as deep as she could, all right off the bat. Twilight had teased, made her beg for it. Neither of those two things was the Rainbow Dash way. She was going to show the princess what quick and dirty could do. What being bad really meant.

All thoughts of holding back had left Rainbow’s mind the moment Twilight had made her beg. She wanted Twilight Sparkle to remember this moment, for it was something that she was definitely going to remember. Her tongue dug deeper into the alicorn, and Twilight's screams of pleasure were showing that she was doing a great job of paying her back for the pleasure Rainbow had received. Dash’s hoof worked its way slowly up Twilight’s thigh, sliding up across her abdomen. The action causing the Ben Wall balls to shift and stimulate even more pleasure for the mare. 

Twilight’s back arched; never had the alicorn expected to simply be taken like this, for Rainbow to just push her onto her back, shove her cyan muzzle directly into the lavender folds and go to town on the mare the way she had. It felt beyond amazing, better than that even. Her body loved every second of it and had her mouth had no problems expressing that love. 

“R-rainbow, don-don’t stop!” The princess’s head thrashed back and forth, the rest of her body stiffening with pleasure.

Rainbow grinned internally. Who said I wanted to? I love hearing you scream, Sparkles. She almost paused. She really did love hearing Twilight scream out in joy, in ecstasy, especially when it was coming from her actions.

Rainbow brought her wings around and lightly started to run the tips of her feathers up and down her friend’s chest and stomach. She played with Twilight, treating the mare like a musical instrument. 

Twilight was outright shocked, and more pleased than ever before. Rainbow’s wings… they were so soft, but still thoroughly treated all the right spots on the mare’s coat. She could just imagine how they’d feel inside of her.

It was like Rainbow had heard her thoughts, as, at that moment, she gently teased Twilight’s labia with a primary, making the mare squirm under her hooves. The pegasus grinned as she brought her right wing down to join her mouth at the main action. 

Twilight’s eyes opened up as she felt the feather join the tongue. Both appendages were stopped from going deeper by the silver balls still inside of her, but they were more than deep enough for her to enjoy.

Took me a long time to learn how to do this, Twi. I hope you’re enjoying it.

The alicorn’s moans were like music to Rainbow’s ears: Each moan drove the pegasus to redouble her efforts. She licked further in, flared her feathers more, and pushed her hooves harder against the alicorn. She could feel Twilight’s orgasm nearing. Out of the corner of her eye, Rainbow noticed the prismatic tail of the double tail dildo still within the mare. Well, that gives me a good idea. Better hold on, Bookworm. You’re in for something awesome. 

Rainbow kept licking; she kept sucking, and her hooves still pushing. She felt the balls move around inside of the alicorn. She grinned as she felt Twilight’s pussy start the all too familiar contraction and relaxing process, signaling that she was right on the verge of cuming. 

The pegasus smiled evilly as she wrapped a hoof around the prismatic tail and readied herself. As she pulled her wing tip away, Rainbow gave the lavender abdomen one last push, forcing the balls down Twilight’s vagina and directly across the mare’s G-spot. 

Twilight cried out as Rainbow pulled on the tail, hard. Her violet eyes went wide with a mix of pleasure and pain as the anal dildo she had gotten used to inside of her was suddenly yanked out at the same time as her first external orgasm from another pony. 

Rainbow pulled her head back, just in time for Twilight’s pussy to pop out both balls. She grinned at seeing the shiny silver balls covered in the mare’s juices; however, she was taken aback by one simple fact that she had not anticipated. While Rainbow wasn’t a squirter, the princess was. 

One good shot of mare’s juices hit Rainbow right in the muzzle. She licked her muzzle clean and readied herself for the next. The pegasus was to be disappointed though, as Twilight only had that one in her, she was too dehydrated for anymore. Shrugging, she settled for licking the mare’s pussy clean with her tongue. 

Twilight slowly came down from her orgasm, her breathing steadily returning to normal as Rainbow crawled back up to lay next to her. The alicorn tilted her head to nuzzle Rainbow’s neck as she asked her, “How… I mean... why are you so good at this?”

Rainbow chuckled at that. “Heh, I do enjoy masturbation, Twi. For the most part I just did to you what I like to do to myself. As far as what I did with my tongue, well, I just remembered what I liked the last time I got bucked.” 

“Rainbow, are you telling me you learned from experimentation?”

“Maybe.” 

“Think we can experiment some more before the night’s over?” 

Rainbow quickly glanced up to the clock on the wall. “If you’re game, I’m up for it.”

It was thirty minutes after midnight.
> I Win!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rainbow awoke feeling like she had just ran one-hundred Running of the Leaves races. Her legs were sore, her mouth was dry, her joints were stiff, and her pussy felt… satisfied. More so than a good night of clopping or even the last time she’d had sex. 

As the pegasus stirred on the sheets, she had no idea what time it was, or even what day it was. Last night had left them both worn out and exhausted, more so than she’d ever felt in her entire life. 

A pleasant smile appeared on her face as she recalled what they had done, or for that matter, even how long it had taken them before they made it up the stairs. Expermination, yeah right right, Twi. She’s definitely got a little freak in her.

Her thoughts made Rainbow realize a fundamental truth: The princess was not in bed with her. The cyan mare shot up, far too quickly for her body’s liking. “Oh, dumb idea, Rainbow,” she said, raising her forehooves to rub away the rush of dizziness. A familiar soft voice nearby startled her, causing her to look up and see the missing princess. 

“I don’t know about that, I’d say what we did last night was an awesome idea,” Twilight said, smiling softly as she stood at the edge of the bed. 

Rainbow looked at her, taking in the mare like she had just teleported in out of nowhere. This was still the lovable egghead she had come to know as one of her closest friends, but something was different now. Twilight’s smile, alight as it was, held something Rainbow couldn’t quite pin down, at least not at the moment. Yes, this was still Twilight Sparkle, but just a “rule-free” Twilight. The six ear piercings were still split between her two ears, the spiked collar was still around her neck, and the most telling of her new features, the rainbow lightning bolt tattoo still upon her chest. 

Rainbow felt the conflicting emotions of happiness to see her and regret over what she had done. Well, some of what she had done. The pegasus’s head dropped to the soiled sheets and mattress cover. “Sorry, Twi.”

“What for?” Twilight tilted her head to the side questioningly, taking a step closer to see into Rainbow’s eyes. 

“The, you know...”

“Oh, still worried about that?” Twilight asked. A soft chuckle left her lips as she shook her head at the thought of ‘The Rainbow Dash’ being sorry for being a bad influence on somepony. 

Rainbow raised an eyebrow, but before she could comment another thought crossed her head. Oh, yeah, I guess that means I lost in the end, doesn’t it? “So I guess this means I’ll start being a bookworm like you?”

Twilight cocked her head. “What do you mean?”

Rainbow Dash, a bookworm? As much as the old me would've liked that idea… I’ve got something else in mind. I wonder if Cadance’s offer still stands? Twilight thought as she watched the pegasus roll her eyes. 

“Twi, don’t play coy, you won the bet, that means I gotta shape up and fly right. I gotta start reading books at the library each day and all that junk, right? Be a goody four-hooves. Right?”

Twilight chuckled as she jumped up on the bed, moving close to the pegasus so their muzzles were only a few inches apart. “Those weren’t the terms of the bet, Rainbow.” In truth, even if she didn’t have other plans, that wasn’t what Twilight wanted in the first place; she’d just wanted Rainbow to take her responsibilities seriously.

“Yeah they were. If you could buck the rules for a day that means I gotta shape up and fly right.” Rainbow was too focused on their conversation to notice the alicorn invading her personal space, not that it mattered much after last night.

Twilight grinned as she concentrated on a spell, she replayed the exact teams of the bet. 

“You’ll do whatever I say? No fighting, no nothing? You’ll just do it, and you will not go back on it?”

“I-I… I don’t understand,” Rainbow muttered, her eyes staring off into the space above Twilight’s head. 

“You said you’d do whatever I asked of you,” Twilight said, her hoof slowly sliding up Rainbow’s chest.

“Yeah, you know, goody four-hooves stuff.” Rainbow’s gaze immediately dropped to watch her friend’s hoof. 

“What if I don’t want you to do that sort of stuff anymore?” Twilight asked, smiling as she saw the look of realization on Rainbow’s face. 

“You mean?” The pegasus looked up at the alicorn, not quite believing what was coming out of the studious mare's mouth.

“You introduced me to a new side of myself, Rainbow Dash.” There was a seductive purr to the way she said her friend’s name. “A side that I kinda… like.” The purr was definitely there. “I’ve never thrown off the rules before, never just did whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, never not thought about the consequences. It was…” she looked down at the bed before looking up at Rainbow, "freeing.”

“You… enjoyed yesterday?” Rainbow asked, already suspecting the answer. “And you want to keep it going? With me?” There was a definite tone to the pegasus’s voice. The idea was ludicrous, and yet there was a pull, a desire, a want that could be heard in her voice.

Twilight nodded, her hoof once again sliding down the mare’s chest, stopping just above the line that would drive her crazy before making it’s way back up. “Oh sure, in public we’ll be the same as we’re supposed to be. You’ll still be part of the Wonderbolts, I’ll still be the Princess of Friendship.

“But no, I don’t want you to be miss goody four-hooves. I enjoyed yesterday a lot. And when it’s just us, I’d like it to stay that way. And… maybe sometimes when it’s not just us. But we’ll build up to stuff like that.” By the end of her statement the alicorn was definitely purring into Rainbow’s ear, causing the mare to coo in delight.

Twilight suddenly stopped her advancement, she then jumped off the bed and onto the floor. “Now, come on, my new pet’s gotta have a collar.”

Rainbow blinked her eyes three times. Each time she expected to wake up, or for Twilight to yell out ‘gotcha’ or something similar. It didn’t happen, at all. 

“Oh, and I also think she needs her master’s mark, don’t you, Rainbow?” 

“M-mark?” Rainbow asked, her eyes widening as she leaned forward to stare at her friend.

“Well, I got your cutie mark tattoo, I think you should get mine. Maybe on your back, right between your wings? I think that lovely mare at Stallion Cocks might be able to offer some suggestions about where to put it.”

Rainbow gulped. “Y-you’re… you’re serious?”

Twilight paused and looked back. “It’s the perfect excuse, no? We can say we got drunk last night and each got the other’s cutie mark as a tattoo. Sure, they’ll look at us strange, but once we say we’ve became marefriends, that’ll—”

“Marefriends?” Rainbow said, her tone pinching between terror, confusion, and something else.

“Well… unless you don’t want to,” Twilight said. “I mean, I know it’s the bet for you to do whatever I said, but I’d never force you to against your will.”

“I... have a choice?” Rainbow asked, her panic pausing to think about the situation.

“Of course, Rainbow. I had a choice in every action I took yesterday, I did it because I thought it’d help you. But… I think you helped me more than I helped you. There was something… freeing about doing what we did.” Twilight smiled dreamily, a shiver running through her body at the thought of ‘bucking the rules’.

“So, if I said no?” Rainbow asked, hesitantly.

Twilight paused, almost as if those words had physically struck her. “Well, you’d be welching on the bet, but I wouldn’t hold it against you.”

“I didn’t say no, I just asked what if I did say no. If I say yes, I’m basically going to be your pet though, huh?”

“Is that going to be an issue?”

Rainbow stayed quiet for a moment before looking up at the alicorn. She mumbled something, but it was too low for her friend to hear it. Can I really do something like this? Last night was fun, for sure, but… I mean…  Rainbow’s thoughts were in turmoil, for the first time in her life she couldn’t decide if being “bad” was good or bad.

“What was that?”

“No, it’s not going to be an issue,” Rainbow huffed before hopping down off the bed and moving past Twilight to the doorway. I want to do this. A bet’s a bet and I’ve never welched on a bet before. Besides, I had fun with Twilight, plus not going to lie, the thought of being Princess Twilight Sparkle’s pet... it’s kinda hot.

“So you don’t mind being my pet?” Twilight asked with a grin, excitement shining in her violet eyes, almost intimidating the pegasus.

What am I getting myself into? Be cool Rainbow, it won’t be so bad right? The collar is kind of weird but I can do this. 

“It’s the bet, right?” Rainbow asked, using that as her excuse. After last night, she had a new appreciation for the egghead that went well past her being a princess or a simple friend.

“Oh I’ve got some great ideas for us,” Twilight said with a chipper smile as she led the way out the door. “They had some whips and chains in that shop that Cadance said were a lot of fun! Oh, and we can also pay her a visit for some more… personal lessons.”

Rainbow chuckled, shaking her head but still smiling at her new marefriend. “It’s always the quiet ones.”

“But first we got to go visit that shop again and then get back to Ponyville as soon as possible. Oh, and you need to start writings those letters of apology to everypony in Ponyville. I’ll be checking over each and every one to make sure they’re heartfelt.”

“Ah, buck me!”

“Tonight, Rainbow, tonight.”



***





Dear Princess Celestia,

Something’s wrong with Twilight. 

I can’t explain it but ever since your last visit a week ago, she’s been… well… she’s got a tattoo of Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark, she’s wearing a collar that says ‘bite me,’ and spending an awful lot of time around Rainbow Dash. Her friends and her got into a big fight where Twilight and Rainbow apologized profusely. In the end her friends forgave her, but… 

I can’t describe it, I think I lack the words to describe it. In the last week I’ve made two checklists. TWO. I used to make at least twenty a day. She told me her and Rainbow have started dating and that’s how they ended up with each other’s cutie marks as tattoos, whatever that means, but… I’ve seen Rainbow with a collar now as well. And Twilight’s taken her... on walks. 

Walks, yes, walks. Like a dog. There’s a leash and everything. And the strangest thing… Rainbow seems to enjoy it. Rainbow Dash, ‘The Rainbow Dash’, enjoying being led around like a pet! 

I don’t know what’s going on here anymore! Twilight hasn’t freaked out once in the past week. A WEEK! Rainbow barely leaves the castle, and above all else they keep sending me on weird errands at odd hours. It’s like they want me out of the castle or something.

After the fight, they’re still cordial to their other friends, but it’s different. It’s like they are because they’re supposed to be, like they're keeping them at hooves length on purpose. 

I suspect dark magic at work. VERY DARK MAGIC. Please come and save Twilight and Rainbow before anything else bad happens to them!

Sincerely, a very concerned, Spike the Dragon.

P.S. if you do decide to come I won’t tell them so you can see what’s going on for yourself.



With a quick lick of green flame the letter was off to Canterlot.

Spike worriedly tapped his claws together, his pacing of the crystal floor echoing around the castle of friendship. Before he could blink, a bright flash of golden light appeared not far from him, blinding him. It momentarily caused him to stop in his tracks. 

Blinking back his surprise, Princess Celestia stood tall in front of him, her expression one of worry, but also stern.

“Where is Princess Twilight?” Her voice was soft but commanding at the same time, her eyes shining brightly in the dim light of the hallway. 

Spike gulped back his fear, his thoughts rushing. Did I do the right thing by asking Celestia to come? Of course, Twilight and Rainbow need help and Twilight always said to ask for help when I need it. Princess Celestia is the best pony for the job. She’ll know what to do.

“She’s…”