> Adventures in Eroquestria > by dracone > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Was the experience really that bad, Twilight?” Rainbow asked with amusement, “because it sounds to me like you were pretty close to being in paradise to me, even if the country was broken into territories controlled by dragons.” “I see you weren’t paying attention when I said the whole part about slavery and being a slave,” said Twilight with exasperation, “the owning of another sapient being is ethically, morally, and intellectually wrong, and it is an excellent thing that we have legal statutes in place that say such things are illegal as well.” “Oh, yikes,” said Rainbow, “sorry, I just thought the Colosseum thing you mentioned would be cool, I guess I blocked everything you said after describing that facility. I guess I got caught up in thinking of how I could design something for any pony, or creature, to go if they want to scrap or see combatants scrapping.” “I understand Rainbow, and you need to work on paying attention, you already are pretty perceptive, you just need to work on actually listening to others when they’re talking, not latching onto one thing partway through the conversation and checking out. Given your profession, I would have thought that would have been phased out of your habits by now.” “It’s a work in progress,” said Rainbow sheepishly as she made a show of scratching the back of her head with her left hand. “So, did your little extra-dimensional excursion give you any ideas on how we could travel to other realities a bit more safely?” “Not yet, said Twilight with an exasperated sigh, “I’ll let you know if anything changes, especially since you were the first to volunteer for testing that sort of thing.” “Cool, don’t forget the game starts in two days.” “Thanks for the reminder, Rainbow, I’ll be there, I have a host of reminders all over the castle.” “Good, because we’re having it…” “In Conference Hall 5 while the guys are having their game at Mac’s house that’s on the other end of Sweet Apple Acres,” Twilight as she cut of Rainbow, “I know, I’m one of the ponies that made the arrangements. Now, you better head out, didn’t you say had some business to attend to today?” “Oh right, thanks Twi, see ya at the game.” With that Rainbow was out the door. After Rainbow had been gone for a few minutes, Twilight headed up to her room and pulled up the robe she was wearing to reveal nothing underneath as she used her magic to lock the door to the room. “I guess me getting excited about not wearing undergarments is part of the side effects of extended time in the body of the other me,” Said Twilight to herself as she just tossed a new robe on over her birthday suit, “and I don’t even know if I should complain about it or not.” A flash of the older version of Spike she had witnessed, with no attire, flashed through her head for an instant, “no, just no, even if I did have that sort of craving, which I don’t, Spike is far too young for that sort of relationship. Besides, he’s like a little brother to me; any sexual relationships would practically be incestuous.” ***************************************************************** After getting changed, and still going without underwear, Twilight returned to her technologies lab. A lab where the now deactivate beacon that had gotten her and Pinkie home now sat. Twilight was hard at work on devices that were meant to be worn and help zero in on anyone who goes through some means finds themself in an alternate universe, by transmitting to the beacon the interdimensional signal about where the beacon needs to direct itself so that retrieval would be far faster and hopefully less problematic. ***************************************************************** Day of the game “Twilight, it wasn’t what we discussed,” said Rarity, “granted it was pretty quick fix but still a bit of surprise.” “You were right, Rarity,” said Twilight as she greeted the white mare at the doors to the conference room. “I needed to make an effort to get outside my comfort zone, so changing to a Nature priestess was a much better option, plus it offers up some more interesting thematic stuff and roleplaying options. Any word on AJ’s character info?” “Yes, she’s going with the Drunken Master variant.” “Considering the kinds of hard cider Sweet Apple Acres makes, it seems pretty on point for her, I’m just glad she’s not playing a Paladin again. So, what’s this I hear about using me as the subject of a bet?” Rarity gave nervous laugh before saying, “Rainbow had the idea of everyone but you making bets on how long into the campaign it would take you to start writing an academic essay on the differences between arcane and divine casters, whoever is closest with their bet gets to decide your character’s class for the next campaign.” “Well, since it’s all in good fun, and possibly with the intent of helping me get out of my comfort zone in potentially interesting ways, I’m in for the fun, I’ll abstain from the betting pool, for obvious reasons, but I get to decide the variant of the class the winner chooses for me.” “I think we can make that work.” Sometime later the rest of the players started filing in and Twilight met them all, Ember’s armor was almost a concern to the ponies around the table (a bit too form-fitting in the opinion of half the group and a little too gaudy with how it was gold with silver and bronze highlights that bordered on accentuating the dragoness’s figure in potentially provocative ways while still projecting might somehow). Pinkie’s Bard outfit wasn’t better in Rarity’s opinion, mostly because of how loud and flashy the colors of the outfit were. Sugar Belle was in a large robe with a hood that almost obscured her face. “Greetings Adventurers, and welcome to the beginnings of your campaign,” she said with a long drawn out voice she thought was dramatic but just came off as a funny kind of serious. Ember snrked and Applejack, who was dressed in monk robes with the image of barrel that held her cutie mark on it upon her chest did her best to hold back a laugh before profusely apologizing. “Oh, before we get any further I want everyone here to put these on,” said Twilight as she brought up a case with her little project in them, “there’s more than enough for everyone, be sure to make sure they’re secured. After the...incident Pinkie and I had, I decided to whip up a few safeguards to put everyone’s mind at ease, these are my first attempt, they should work, just strap them to your wrist and make sure they’re secure.” “What are they supposed to do exactly,” Ember inquired as she took one slapped it on and made a show of having difficulty securing it. “Somethin’ ta ‘elp find us ef we ever end up in similar situation ta Twi and Pinkie from tha’ firs’ time, Ah reckon,” said Applejack as she secured her own. “Well, at least they’re stylish, and compliment my outfit this time around,” said Rarity as she admired her unit, “Twilight usually has trouble with making items with an appealing form.” “They’re so compact, I doubt this thing will have much impact on my flying,” said Rainbow as she looked over her newly secured device. “What ya call these things?” “Transdimensional Identification Locator Bands,” said Twilight with a hint of pride. “TILB sounds like it might be something related to farming, honestly,” said Rainbow. “Ah have ta admit, Tild does soun’ similar ta tilled,” said Applejack. “Okay, I get it, I need a better name for the bands,” said Twilight with a hint of annoyance, “I’ll put it to committee for what their new name should be when I get to working on the newer versions, but these are just prototypes right now, I don’t know how effective they really are. Not to mention, I’m really hoping we don’t end up having to test them in a potential emergency.” “Well, always better safe than sorry,” said Rarity. “I’m glad your dreadful experience has you working on something to minimize the damage should something similar happen at some point.” “How are those side effects,” asked Rainbow Dash. “Still dealing with them,” said Twilight, “now, let’s get to the game, shall we?” “Oh, yeah, I heard about your little trip to another reality,” said Ember, “what that place like?” “What should have been Equestria was divided up into territories ruled over by dragons, Spike was the Dragonlord in that world,” said Pinkie, addressing Ember specifically, “and you were ruling over the area that is the Crystal Empire.” “Oh, that sounds interesting but not all too fun,” said Ember as she rubbed the back of her head with her right hand, “regardless I’ll have the Dragon Lands have our magic specialists look into that sort of thing, at the very least we should have some idea of potentially hostile worlds seeking to do something to our world.” “Speaking of,” said Sugar Belle, returning everyone’s attention to the game at the table, “you are in the world of Trotsiltek, in the nation of Gemrias. You all are in a tavern within the small town of Pearl Reach, one of the nation’s more prosperous coastal communities, each of you is doing various things, how about you give a description of your character and what they are doing during this early portion.” ************************************************************ After the character introductions had been completed and the adventure had officially started, the game went on for two hours or so before it was decided they would take a short fifteen to twenty-minute break. “So, Twilight,” said Rarity as she and Rainbow met up with Twilight for a private conversation, “how do we switch on the bands?” “You tap the top twice or just put your hand over it and slide it under your hand a bit,” said Twilight informatively, “it’s designed that way so that if your alternate does end up in your body, like what happened with Pinkie and myself, their own acts of curiosity will trigger it and the alert I put on the beacon device will alert all the other band users in range so that we can turn it on as soon as possible. Your bands automatically registered your native magic signatures the moment you put them on and secured them.” Rainbow and Rarity then followed up this by tapping the top of their bands twice, “I think that we should at least have a few active to make sure your alert system is working properly,” said Rainbow. “Besides two to five active bands might earn you some potentially useful data.” “Thanks, you two, I’ll just go check on some things and be right back,” said Twilight. After Twilight headed off, Rainbow and Rarity headed down to the kitchen to grab a snack, while on the way there they ran into Spike. “I thought you were at Sweet Apple Acres,” said Rarity when they saw the young drake. “We were, until some of the guys decided to take their roleplaying a little too far and broke the table and a few walls,” said Spike with annoyance, “I’m just here to whip up some quick snacks for the guys while the ones responsible work on patching up the wall until a licensed contractor can come by to do a proper job fixing it, we’ll be making those responsible pay the bill, we also have them purchasing a new table under Mac’s supervision.” “Yikes,” said Rainbow, “we’re on a break ourselves, maybe you should pass along a message to Sugar Belle and work a few things out while you’re here, and before you get on those snacks.” “Yeah, that sounds like a good idea,” said Spike, “what room is it happening in again?” This was an immediate flag for Rarity, she knew quite well Spike’s notes wouldn’t allow for him asking anypony something like this, he would have just reached into his pocket and pulled out his notebook and asked for confirmation. “Thorax, I thought we were in agreement about these sorts of things.” “Alright, fine,” came Thorax’s voice from Spike before returning to his usual look, only in what looked like some kind of stone armor. The flames of his transformation magic coming close to the bands on the arms of the two mares, shortly but quickly sending a surge of magic through them. “We’re going to have to report this, you kn…” Rarity was cut off as she and Rainbow went blank and just fell over in a frozen state. Thorax, thinking that it was a result of his infiltration/joke gone too far pulled out a crystal carved to look like a pony’s ear and started frantically rambling into it about what just happened. > More Than a Game Now > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow felt a little disoriented when she got up; she felt like she had tried to fly through a mountain the hard way and lost. It was while checking herself that Rainbow Realized that her attire was different, looking around she saw signs of being in her house but things felt a bit off. Rainbow just figured they had called the game for the day and was still stuck at that state between the game and reality and headed to the bathroom to splash some water on her face, what happened next caught her completely off guard. Rainbow walked into the bathroom and tried to run the water, only to find a pitcher and basin where her sink was supposed to be, since she was still a bit groggy she didn't put much thought into it and poured water from the pitcher into the bowl and splashed it on her face. Now feeling more awake Rainbow started wondering why her sink was something a bit less...sophisticated and turned around to see herself in a full-body mirror and got an even bigger surprise. Her bosom was still its modest B-Cup, no surprise there, and her legs looked a bit more toned and longer, nothing to be too worried about there; but it what she was wearing that shot Rainbow entirely away, she was in camo shorts so small they almost could be mistaken for hotpants and a camo tank top, that was short enough to show off her waist area, that did a decent job of showing off her toned arms, with what looked like a stripper parody of a camo jacket tied around her waist. What the…" Rainbow yelled out, in a voice that didn't break any glass, just made it shake a bit, but anyone who heard would swear she could heard up in Canterlot Castle. _________________________________________________________________ At around that same time, Rarity was just getting up, she immediately noticed what she was wearing when she woke up wasn't what she had been wearing when she passed out. She then noticed her chest felt a bit heavier, she knew Opalescence would never sleep on her chest, but had been known to curl up near her legs at night, so she rushed up to the bathroom to check things in a mirror, her entire mind came to a screeching halt for a few seconds when she saw herself in the full-body mirror, which she swore was not the design she recalled, as she was in a formfitting, skimpy, white robe adorned with the design of her cutie mark, and had somehow had her modest CC-Cup jump to being a pair of DD-Cup breasts. She was also wearing some sort of cloth and crystal bead head adornment that was partially kept in place thanks to her horn and the hole in the piece for said horn. Looking closer, she saw that the dress also had a diamond cleavage window and diamond belly button window. But due to the color used for said dress, it gave the impression she was naked from anywhere but up close. "When and how did this happen," said Rarity as she did a quick check of her head, "I certainly hope this is my sleepwear because if it isn't then I'm going to have words with the other me. It's clear I'm in an alternate reality, it's the only way to explain my abrupt change in fashion sense and clear physical changes. I just hope Twilight can get me home soon," she suddenly remembered she had been with Rainbow Dash prior to blacking out, "and I hope Rainbow hasn't experienced the same issue as me." Rarity quickly took stock of her bathroom, it was much more opulent looking than the one she was familiar with, not to mention the sink had what looked like a solid gold faucet and the handle for controlling the flow was jewel encrusted with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds. ***************************************************************** Rainbow decided to go for a fly to clear her head, the attire she had on wasn't problematic, so she saw no reason to change out of it, and she was also a bit too afraid to look over the wardrobe of her alternate self. Ponyville didn't look much different, Twilight's castle was still there at the edge of town, granted the tree design was a bit different than the one she knew, and all the ponies she knew resided in the town were there but all of them were in skimpier outfits, even the stallions, but the foals seemed to be in less revealing attire, which was good. Of course, she stopped and practically hid in a cloud to watch what was going on down below when she spotted Spike and the Crusaders, they looked at least ten years older than she was used to, which put them squarely in legal adult age. And to make matters worse, they were all in skimpy attire, Spike was one of the biggest offenders with the fact he was wearing steel armor with codpiece (a dragon style one at that) and the other great offender ironically enough was Apple Bloom with her partially open jean-hotpants and blue plaid shirt that looked like it was at least a size or two too small for her. This resulted in Rainbow rushing to Carousel Boutique, which had some stylish flourishes that made Rainbow pause for a bit before going in, like the almost phallic flagpole at the top of the structure with no flag. _________________________________________________________________ Rarity's peace and quiet of trying to figure things out was shattered when Rainbow burst in blathering about how everypony in the town was in skimpy attire, and something about Spike going around it plate armor with a codpiece. Rarity's mind came to a screeching halt when heard that, the thought of her sister and her friends going around in over revealing attire, along with Spike in armor with an aesthetic component that was meant to "enhance" the presentation of a male genitals in a very obvious way, the fact it was done in the dragon style just made things odder, and potentially uncomfortable. Before they could say anything more, Pinkie busted through the door babbling about a new mission. A quick look at Pinkie showed her to be wearing bright blue stage shorts, a pink and blue jester's hat with balloon-shaped bells in the styling of her cutie mark, and absolutely no top or undergarment for her torso, her impressively big DDD-Cup breasts were bit of surprise from the usually DD-Cup breasts she had the last time Rainbow and Rarity saw her. "Pinkie," they heard Twilight shout before teleporting flashing in and teleporting and teleporting a pink and blue frilled blouse onto Pinkie, "you can run around absent of any clothes when we're not expected to leave town." She then turned her attention to Rarity and Rainbow Dash, "Rarity, get you Enhanced Crystal Staff and see if your cat might actually want to join us this time around, she is YOUR familiar after all; Rainbow, get your bow, arrows, and shortsword, we're off within the hour. I already told Spike to get Applejack and Fluttershy, and make sure they're dressed for a mission, and possibly quest. Rarity, you might want to change out of your lounge robe into something more suited for time on the road, we might be out for a few days; and Rainbow Dash, try to remember to make sure you have a spare shirt this time, I was barely able to cast a repair spell on it the last time to the extent it would be useable, and even then I had to cast the spell an additional time to shore up some of the larger tears." Twilight was dressed in a very skimpy indigo wizard's robe with her cutie mark adorning it, much to Rarity's well-hidden chagrin. Rarity had been hoping things wouldn't be this bad, but it looked like eroticwear was the norm for all adult society members. Rarity was not happy, Rainbow didn't seem to care, of course, Rainbow was very unsubtle about drooling over Pinkie but that was a discussion for another time. > The Rest of the Party > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The whole group met up in front of Rarity’s shop, when she arrived, Rainbow made a show of probably having forgotten something and did a quick fly off to her house only to come back a few minutes later (having got to check where the note had said to look and getting whatever it was), like before she was in the erotic camo shorts and jacket with a black shirt, the only difference to her now was the fact she looked armed and had a set of bags around her waist; Rarity was in her rather erotic robe with her staff and bags, after packing one she packed two more with all her ideas of what necessities were. Twilight in her erotic robe she had magicked herself into earlier with her staff and scholar’s bag was standing next to the ivory unicorn mare. The next to pop up was Pinkie, quite literally, wearing a loud, and rather erotic, bard’s attire with a backpack on her back, complete with a bedroll atop it, the bag was hot pink, after being reminded of something by Twilight Pinkie rushed off and returned with a set of bongo drums strapped to her left waist and shortbow at her right waist, complete with what looked like at least three quivers poking out from inside her bag. The next to arrive was Fluttershy (who had an impressive DDD-Cup bosom), in an erotic white priestess’s attire, with a white ash staff that had Celestia’s sun atop it while her 3 pink butterflies were on the shaft closer to where it was gripped and a rather large shoulder bag on her right shoulder. The last to show up was Applejack, who was actually in a set of full plate armor that hid her figure (making it rather challenging to get a read on her bust size in this world, especially with the chest dome that all proper breastplates have), if you discounted the area of the breastplate that gave a pronounced look of the breasts underneath while not compromising the purpose of the armor, with a war hammer on her back, arming sword at her right waist, and what looked like a single waist bag at her left waist with an applewood heater shield bearing her cutie mark hanging atop the bag a bit. “So, what’s the mission, Twi,” asked Rainbow as she landed next to the rest of the group. “There’re reports of what might be a new dungeon that cropped up nearby,” said Twilight. “Our job is to make a run through it and assess its overall difficulty, that means we’ll be gathering all the drops and checking every potential storage location in addition to making our way to the dungeon’s core to get a read on its attunements. That means no trying to make off with the core for whatever reason,” she shot annoyed glances at Rarity and Pinkie as she said the last part, “newer dungeons don’t have the ability to regenerate cores, and even many of the older ones lack the ability to do so. To date, only 5 of the 30 dungeons that had their core removed managed to regenerate said core but their functionality was noticeably different than what they were like before the core was removed every time.” Pinkie gave a look of getting caught stealing sweets from the kitchen or pantry, likely with her hand in the cookie jar, and Rarity gave a look of surprised embarrassment, mostly because she was surprised her alternate self had even made such an attempt and embarrassed because was indeed something to be embarrassed about. “Okay, Twi, where ‘re we ‘eading,” inquired Applejack. Everyone made a quick look over their equipment, some even shifting it a bit before Twilight responded. “We’re headed southeast for three or four days, we can’t take the train because taking the tracks to the nearest location will not decrease our overall travel time by a significant amount and might even extend the total travel time. Once we’ve located the dungeon, marked its entrance, and given it a run through we can help coordinate the establishment of a station, and possibly even community, for future use. The Everfree Forest is not a signifier for what to expect when it comes to dungeons. I know you all don’t need me to tell you that, most of the time, but a few instances have made it a requirement at this point.” Pinkie once again looked mildly embarrassed when the whole group set off. “No surprise,” said Fluttershy as they were leaving the edge of the town, “Opal isn’t joining us, how is it your familiar managed to get so unruly?” Thinking fast, Rarity said, “I guess something went wrong with my first summoning her and things just didn’t change after.” “Makes sense,” said Twilight as they all continued down their trek, “familiar summoning has some aspects we don’t fully understand.” After Twilight’s statement, they were quiet, mostly (Rarity whined a few times about her legs hurting from all the trotting about), until nightfall where they all made camp. Rarity, unsurprisingly, had a tent that looked like it was a multi-level structure and had enchantments for raising and lowering it. Applejack’s accommodations looked like a high-end but practical basic camping tent; Pinkie’s tent looked more like a miniature version of a circus tent; Twilight’s tent was a bit closer in design to Rarity’s but much less ostentatious. Fluttershy’s tent looked like a miniature temple, surprisingly enough. And Rainbow Dash found a cot she had missed on her original look over her bags and just asked Rarity if she could hang her bed up in the ivory mare’s tent, to which Rarity agreed. ***************************************************************** The next day was mostly eventful, except for the case of a comedic show of half the tents getting collapsed wrong and a diamond dog bandit attack that was solved by Pinkie just throwing cupcakes that caused them to go to sleep on contact there was nothing to really take note of. Yes, the diamond dogs were in some very skimpy harnesses that showed off their parts, both male and female, but that was the end of it. And to be fair, Rarity and Rainbow were happy about it being the end of it. However, their journey hit a speed bump in the form a cavern they all effectively fell into, it had some sort of magical effect that disabled the ability to fly. So now they were in an unknown dungeon on their way to a supposedly newly discovered dungeon, things were just getting more annoying. Chances were that in order to get out they would have to find what was disabling their ability to fly and shut it down some way, Rainbow didn’t mind because it meant increased chances of her getting to smack on something as hard as she wanted. > An Unexpected Dungeon Crawl > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The six found themselves in passage big enough for them all to form up, looking about the hallway they found themselves in went to the right and left. Not knowing what to really do about the situation Twilight handed Rarity a stone in the shape of a pony’s ear and told her to use it to keep in touch with her. Twilight chose to split the party in half. Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack would go to the left while Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy would go to the right. Twilight also handed out stamps to everypony stating they held an enchantment in them and to slap them on at least two walls of every room they came across with the explanation they would allow Twilight to look through them to see things whenever she chose. The two groups split up and headed down the dusty, stone passageway in opposing directions, not knowing how long they would be taking to make their way through the tunnel. ***************************************************************** After what felt like hours, maybe a little over half an hour in actuality, they arrived in a 30 by 45 room with 3 doorways, one of which they had entered a moment prior, with what looked like 25-foot ceiling, one of the doors was to their left while the other was to the right. Pinkie and Applejack both took the stamps they had out and marked two walls each. While the door they had entered through was open, fallen in and broken into what could only be described splintered wood or kindling to be more accurate, the other 2 doors were closed tight, both appeared to be some kind of painted wood, the one to the right was orange while the one to the left was pink. “These two doors seem to have similar colors to the two you both naturally sport,” said Rarity as she inspected the doors within a 10-foot range. “Do you suppose one or both have some sort of surprise waiting for us.” “Wouldn’t be the first time,” said Pinkie, “but I’ve never seen a door that matches the coat of any of our party before now, and now it looks like we have 2 in the same room as us,” she started to giggle and roll on the floor. Applejack just rolled her eyes and said, “Think ya caun get a magical read on ‘em, Rares.” “Maybe,” said Rarity with a bit of apprehension, “but I’m not that used to doing that, Twilight’s usually the one to do that sort of thing, I’m not sure if I can even remember how at this point.” Applejack just nodded in silent understanding and started looking around the barren room. And Pinkie...was nowhere to be seen, she had just up and disappeared. Rarity started to feel worried before Pinkie popped up next to her and startled her. “Pinkie, where did you go,” Rarity asked in surprise, almost losing her composure. “To check on the door we entered through,” said Pinkie, “and inspect some of the hall, I stopped at where we dropped in and turned around to meet up with you two again. The door we came through, from what I gathered, had white paint on it.” Rarity gave a slight, yet still refined, huff before holding out her staff, closing her eyes, and focusing on sensing the magic around them. Slowly opening her eyes, she noticed the pink door had a blue-ish aura about it while the orange door had a greenish aura about it. Closing her eyes again and focusing on trying to see traps, Rarity felt a series of pulses go out from her body. When Rarity opened her eyes, she could see the presence of a set of five-foot by five-foot squares in a white outline on the other side of the orange door for a split second. “I think both of the doors have some kind of spell on them, I don’t know what blue or green auras mean for objects but it looks like there might be a few traps on the other side of the orange door.” “Grea’ work, Rares,” said Applejack, “Ah knew yer Warlock abilities wud come en handy, again, ya really gotta stop doubtin’ yer abilities.” Rarity blinked a few times; she was cast as the Warlock, she almost would feel insulted if it weren’t for the fact they tend to have their social attributes as one of their highest stats. “Oh yes, but I can’t recall if I have any spells for disabling magics,” said Rarity diplomatically, “which pathway do you think we should take?” “Good question,” said Pinkie, one of the doors has transportation magic on it while the other has transformation magic on it and traps on the other side, what to do?” She stuck her tongue out in thought; the image gave the supposedly serious event a bit of a comedic tone. What none of them would realize until it was too late was the floor itself had a lesser-known enchantment that blocked spells from identifying potential hazards it had. ***************************************************************** After consulting, and debating with the Pinkie and Applejack a bit over a half hour, Rarity decided to go over to a wall and slump down to take a short rest. As she made her way over to the wall all three heard a distinct click, like that from a floor triggered trap, from Rarity’s direction, Rarity looked down in time to see a block in the floor had been depressed by the weight of her hoof as she stepped down and suddenly found herself going down some kind of stone slide beneath the floor, the door to said slide had closed too far for Pinkie or Applejack to get a grip to force the panel open by the time they made it to where Rarity had been standing a moment prior. Rarity came down on a soft surface, in a bit of rough manner, and when she looked up she saw a minotaur that towered over her in only a loincloth secured by an unassuming but rather large belt, which did an abysmal job of hiding said minotaur’s immense member, the thing stopped about a half a foot or so above the floor in its flaccid state. Rarity gulped she was scared, yet strangely turned on, by the sight of the minotaur’s member. Before she knew what was happening Rarity had already torn a portion from the loincloth, while leaving the belt surprisingly untouched, and was attempting to deep throat it while it erected itself within her mouth and throat. She felt a powerful stream of cum going down her throat into her stomach, thankfully, when she came to and pulled out and starting hacking up as much cum as she could. She then started thrashing about a bit blind and somehow managed to get a grip on the belt. Using her innate magic as a unicorn, Rarity undid the belt and pulled it from the minotaur. “Oh, thank the stars,” came a deep resonating female voice, Rarity looked up to see the red and white toned minotaur was now an attractively built red and white splotched minotauress; with a massive set of udders, from the looks of things she had an H-Cup sized bust. “I was cursed to be a horny male with the inability to remove the belt that kept me male.” It was at this point Rarity noticed the Minotauress was completely naked. “Oh, no problem, darling,” said Rarity as her face got more than a bit flushed, “my name is Rarity, would you honor me by gracing me with yours? “Certainly, said the Minotauress, “my name is…” _________________________________________________________________ While Rarity and her half of the party were dealing with their issues, Rainbow and her half the party found themselves locked in a large room, the room was 60 feet across lengthwise, 45 feet across widthwise, and the ceiling was a good 45 feet above their heads. > The Room With a Statue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow, Twilight, and Fluttershy had wandered down the hall and come to a large iron door in the stone wall and found it unlocked as they passed through into the room. The room was 60 feet across lengthwise, 45 feet across widthwise, and the ceiling was a good 45 feet above their heads. The room looked mostly empty, practically barren, save for the golden six-foot statue of a six-armed female figure on some sort of stone throne at the far wall. Twilight went to examine the statue while she had Rainbow and Fluttershy examine the rest of the room. In anticipation of a fight, Rainbow pulled out one of her quivers of elemental arrows, from symbol she saw she guessed it was fire, and secured to her front waist facing up and towards her right arm at an upward angle before beginning to search the room. Fluttershy, catching sight of what Rainbow decided to do, brought her staff close to her body for a moment before she started going around tapping the floor before her with the lower section of her staff. Twilight caught the sound of her two companions doing their distinctive searching styles as she approached the statue. The statue appeared to be that of a female diamond dog, commonly referred to as a bitch, completely devoid of any attire with a buxom chest, by her estimates maybe an F-Cup, and small assortment of writings obscured by the dust in the room around the statue. Twilight, not wanting to accidentally trigger any traps, blew the dust off the script. Twilight’s eyes bulged, the first set of words she saw were in an old Diamond Dog script, she was well-versed in the language thanks to her many studies, the script referred to the figure as the “Goddess of Fertility and Subjugation” but after clearing the rest of the text of dust she found absolutely no mention of the deity’s name, or titles for that matter. Twilight knew that Diamond Dogs had mostly abandoned their religion ages ago, well before the founding of the nation she and her friends now lived within, in favor of a much more simplistic and somewhat materialistic life, none of the resources she found on the subject even speculate on why this cultural shift happened, or even how long it took to take effect or implement. That said, the presence of this statue indicated that the Diamond Dogs had a far more sophisticated culture than they do now and that this room was a place of worship, which would mean the statue was actually an idol, a huge idol that had far more significant cultural and academic value than its supposed monetary value. “Um, Twilight,” came Fluttershy’s voice, quite a bit louder than Twilight or Rainbow was used to, “the door closed behind us while we were preoccupied and seems to be sealed shut, none of my attempts to damage or force it open have done anything. Rainbow even tried heating the area with the lock with some of her equipment to help out but it didn’t have any noticeable effects on our attempts to open the door.” After thinking things through a bit, Twilight said, “From what I managed to uncover, this is some sort of worship hall, maybe you have to wait a set amount of time or perform some sort of ritual.” “How long did ancient worship ceremonies typically last,” inquired Rainbow, she had a bit of an edge to her voice. “A few hours at the very least,” said Twilight, “but I doubt we really want to remain here that long. Chances are, to prevent magical interference, the chamber was treated with something that doesn’t allow spells to extend beyond the walls of the chamber and prevent spells from external sources from reaching this room. I doubt my teleportation spell could get us out of here, once we’ve left this maze of tunnels I’m going to see to it we have some magical researchers study every room they can in this place, in the most minute details possible.” “That sounds great and all, Twi,” said Rainbow as she continued to search the room, “but don’t you think you should be putting that big brain of yours towards getting us out of here at the moment? Or, at least, figuring out what’s up with the statue?” “Oh, right,” said Twilight with obvious embarrassment, “Fluttershy, you’re more well-versed in religious matters than either of us. What can you tell us about Diamond Dog fertility goddesses?” Fluttershy stopped to think a bit before saying, “Not a whole lot, I’m sorry to say, I never learned any names or titles. Diamond Dog religions are so obscure I barely had them touched on in my formal studies, and when I tried to expand my knowledge on the subject, there were very few official or academic sources covering it. All I can tell you is that they had at least a dozen fertility deities, only two or three of which were male with the rest being female.” Twilight thanked Fluttershy and went back to her investigation, turning back to the statue she realized the figure was pleasuring itself on some kind phallic object. She leaned closer to the statue, and without realizing it touched the idol. Upon Twilight’s contact with the idol it came to life, getting up off the throne to reveal a massive golden penis of unknown origin, the phallus seemed to change every few seconds to the penis design of the different races that occupied Equestria and the surrounding areas, and looked to be almost as big as the statue itself. Twilight called out an alert to the others just as the immense phallus was swung at her as if it were a colossal club; she barely managed to dodge it and teleported back almost 15 out of reflex. The statue’s mouth did not open but a metallic reverberating female voice filled with superiority and lust announced, “You shall be made the sex slaves that pave the way to my reascension.” The golden figure then turned its attention towards Fluttershy, who was now the closest target. With alarming speed managed to rush forward and bash the yellow pegasus in the gut with the phallus, which at that moment was in the form of a stallion’s penis, and Fluttershy was down. She appeared to still be conscious but was caught in some sort of sexual fantasy, as was evident by her erotic cries and moans in addition to her statements that sounded like she was caught in some kind of sexual situation where she was being dominated in some capacity. The yellow mare also fondling herself was a big give away. Rainbow fired two fire arrows at the statue, the first missing but second managing to get the idol where the eyes would be on another living being. The goddess seemed to halt for a moment before holding the ever-changing golden phallus in its three right arms as it pulled the arrow out with its topmost left arm. Twilight took advantage of the situation and unleashed a series of six rays of heat upon the idol’s back; gold started to melt off the statue to reveal a figure underneath. The figure was caught off guard so hard that it dropped the ever-changing phallus. Rainbow, in a moment of panic, having noticed the fire arrow do very little damage, reached into her bag and grabbed a random arrow, she aimed for the small hole she had put in the statue’s forehead and fired the shot. With immense luck the arrow sank into the hole and struck the figure beneath the gold, the whole thing turned into a pile of golden dust, leaving the massive golden weapon and a large pile of gold dust behind as the only proof it had been there. Almost as soon as the seemingly living statue disappeared, Fluttershy snapped out of her sexual delusion and only said, “Oh dear,” when she came too. “Well, that was a pain and a half,” snarked Rainbow Dash. “Great work, Rainbow, since you released the final blow, you get to take its weapon as a trophy.” Rainbow looked at the ever-changing golden phallus and said, “Are you sure that thing was its weapon, it looked to me like anypony hit by that gets caught in a sexual fantasy of some kind. How am I going to even carry it? My bags aren’t that spacious.” “No worries,” said Twilight, “I’ll keep it in my special pocket dimension until we’ve cleared this place.” “Sounds good to me,” said Rainbow as she went up to the ever-changing giant phallus and picked it up, she found it to be surprisingly light, and before everyone’s eyes it changed its size to be just a little bigger than Rainbow’s shortsword. “Um, Twi,” she said in confusion, “I think the artifact solved the problem for us.” While they were gathering things up, Twilight collected the dust of the statue in a set jars she then placed in her bag, the three heard the sound of stone scraping on stone and looked up over to see the place on the wall where the statue had been was now revealing a hallway that was behind it. After gathering up everything, and checking the room one last time, the three ponies made their way into the hallway. > The Strangely Sexy Door > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “My name is Brass Beauty,” said the Minotauress with something that looked like an attempt at a respectful curtsey. “Sorry, I don’t have anything for you, ms. Beauty,” said Rarity with her own respectful curtsey, “all my bags are in the room above us. That said, care to explain why and how you were down here?” “I don’t really know for sure, when was the last Minotaur Maze Meeting?” Rarity blinked in confusion a few times before saying, “I honestly don’t know, I wasn’t aware of such things before you mentioned it. The only minotaur my friends and I have any real knowledge of or encounters with is Iron Will, and even then our interactions with him have proven to be less than cordial or pleasant.” Brass Beauty facepalmed and slid her hand down her face for a moment before saying, “What did my younger cousin do?” “Cousin? But his name doesn’t quite line up with yours.” “That’s because he’s my cousin on mother’s side.” “Oh, well,” said Rarity trying to recall everything her friends mentioned about their experiences with Iron will. “We first encountered him when he held a self-assertiveness seminar a while back, my friend Fluttershy attended. He was rather...forceful in his approaches and his ‘advice’ to Fluttershy made her far less pleasant to deal with for a short time, that all got cleared up after a few days, thankfully. The second notable time he was encountered, my friend Twilight was on an airship ride that her family was kind of duped into participating in, he had made it themed cruise without informing Twilight or her sister-in-law they were the main reason for the rest of the passengers, he even held an event prize that was not within the family’s knowing consent. He got thrown off the airship while it was still in the air a few days into the whole cruise when it was revealed his business arrangements were not consented to by the family and then a forced contract was made by him and Twilight then thoroughly abused and ignored by him.” “Will always did chase profits over all else,” Brass Beauty deadpanned, “he was pretty good at making money when he was little but I suspect most of those early profits were not for the reasons he thought they were.” “Maybe we should work on getting out of here before continuing our conversation.” “Sounds like a good idea.” _________________________________________________________________ While Rarity and Brass were having their discussion, then search of the room on the floor below, Pinkie and Applejack were still stuck trying to decide where to go. The two clearly didn’t want to go anywhere without Rarity. The two were debating how to deal with the situation. After concluding that Rarity was likely trying to reach a point she could meet up with them they decided to chance one of the doors, the one with teleportation magic. After gathering up all their things, and Rarity’s (Rarity had left everything, including her staff, behind in her fall) _________________________________________________________________ Rarity and Brass manage to make their way to the door they found, after a considerable amount of time searching, at the back left of the chamber, which was considerably large. The door seemed to be crafted of solid iron, or steel, it was hard to tell with what looked like almost half the door covered in rust. When Rarity went to try opening it the handle came right off, “Well, that’s problematic,” said Rarity in a concerned voice. After seeing the door’s handle break off, and looking to Rarity a bit in contemplation of what to do, Brass kicked the failing metal door and caused a cloud of rusty iron dust to spray around the two, almost triggering a coughing fit for the pair, that settled down to reveal a passageway that was just barely wide and high enough for the minotauress to walk completely upright, her head and horns were mere inches from the roof of the tunnel as the pair passed down it. After a half hour or so of going down the passageway, it began to widen on the sides and the ceiling rose up a few feet, effectively giving both females some breathing room. A few minutes more and they came into a room, the door that was meant to block entry was in pieces inside the room and looked like someone had gone to town on it with a hammer and ax, that was forty feet wide and almost a hundred feet long with a fifty-foot ceiling. The room was barren, aside from the kindling that was once a door and a shattered wooden treasure chest a short ways left of the entry door the room had nothing to offer, on the other side of the room, almost a straight shot from entry door, was a fifteen-foot tall door that was almost half as wide as it was tall, with what looked like a jutting relief of some sort of figure. Rarity and Brass approached the door with some sense of unease. When they got close enough they could see the figure that took up almost the entity of the center of the door was felinoid of some kind that was just a bit shorter than Rarity, the figure had a bust that looked like it was at the dividing line between D and E cups in size but the extra bits down lower made Rarity kind of pause for a bit, and not entirely for the reason she usually would, because this figure also had a massive penis that curved upwards and stopped short of the figure’s bust by maybe half a foot or so with a width proportional to Brass’s fist and a pair of balls the size of a small cantaloupe. The Arms and legs of the figure appeared to be wholly melded into the door, leaving only the torso, head, and extra bits mentioned above. Once the pair were within 15 feet of the door the figure within it seemed to open her eyes, the figures body structure clearly indicated a female, said eyes looked like solid brass, the same color as the door’s supposed but hidden hinges, looked at them and said, a very feminine feline voice, “Oh, thank all the divine forces! I’ve been so lonely; it’s been...I don’t know, I’ve been here for ages and ages, I can barely remember anything.” “Who...What are you? I’ve never seen anything of your like before,” said Rarity in surprise, and from the looks of things, Brass was in the same boat as her. “I am...it’s so hard to remember, I’ve been here for so long most of my memory is gone,” she started weeping a bit for a few seconds, “I was an adventurer, can’t remember what kind, and then I did...something that got me placed here. The one who put me here, can’t remember what they were like, I can barely remember their words, said something about me being the room’s new guardian and proud of ...some kind of something. They said the only way for the door I am part of to open is for me to feel release, but only the one who made me what I am now could do that, every adventurer who came here failed...they collapsed trying to open me...the one who did this to me then took them and used them for something, I never got any clues as to what and if I had seen and heard the hints before I became this then I’ve already forgotten it all.” “So, in order to get the door open, we have to...get the door off? That seems like an extremely pointless security measure that’s more perverted than anything else,” said Rarity, “I doubt I have the capability to even try.” “Agreed,” said Brass, “but once we get the door open we can just remove it from its hinges, I think I might be able to pull off the feat but carrying the door could slow us down.” “We’re not in much of a hurry,” said Rarity, she suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable and started feeling herself up, which given her attire had very kinky implications. After fumbling around herself for a bit, Rarity was surprised to find the Eye Stamp Twilight had handed her before all this craziness had gotten truly under steam. She held up a finger to indicate she needed a moment and went around and stamped 3 of the walls in the room, one of which was right next to the door, before returning to Brass’s side. “Sorry, I just noticed I had something on me that party member gave me with specific instructions, please continue with what you need to do.” Brass approached the door, her head actually brought her to eye level with the figure in the door, and began to massage the balls of the door with one of her hands for several minutes, to no noticeable results. She then set to messaging the door’s member with her bosom, this resulted in the door giving a few erotic moans and pants but nothing to indicate it was building up for a release (which would be silly, there are very few cases of someone getting release seconds into a sexual act) but this remind true after almost 10 minutes of this, thankfully Brass didn’t get any splinters in her breasts from her playing with the wooden member. ***************************************************************** “This is ridiculous,” said Rarity as she stared at the door intensely and addressed it, after a twenty-minute conversation with Brass Beauty. “At this point, you are nothing more than a waste of space that is our way and, in all honesty, probably should have been broken into pieces like the door leading in,” she gestured to the pile kindling that had once been a door. The response Rarity got was not what she expected, the entity in the door gave a massive erotic moan. “Wait,” said Brass, “you have erotic responses to…” _________________________________________________________________ Pinking and Applejack had found themselves in a new room once they opened the door, a very barren room that was so big it could have been a storage area but most of the items had been removed and what crates and barrels did remain were in haphazard broken pieces scattered throughout the room. To add to the annoyance, all three doors that could be seen in the room had been busted open with their shards littering the entry to each of the tunnels they led to. “Well, that’s just rude,” piped Pinkie in frustration, “somepony came through here and smashed in all the doors then didn’t bother to leave any potential treasure for whoever followed, that’s poor dungeon etiquette. If you’re gonna break all the doors the least you could do is leave barrel or two for whoever follows you to at least inspect.” “Ah agree, sugarcube,” said Applejack, “sum dungeon divers ‘re jus’ plain indecent, ef Ah ever find out who tha varmit tha’ did this was Ah’m gonna do more than wan’ conversation wid ‘em.” > Slime Striking Appearance > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow and company made their way down the hallway, after a few minutes of going down the hall Rainbow, Twilight, and Fluttershy found themselves at a big, opaque glass door. Testing the door, Rainbow found it unlocked, once she opened it the three entered and she closed the door behind them. They found themselves in a 40-foot by 60-foot room with a 40-foot ceiling. Inside the room was mostly empty, save for a few collections of four to six barrels in each of the corners and what appeared to be the remains of an intense crate in the center of the room. Twilight gestured to her group to spread out and look around. It was Fluttershy that found the entity first, she brought the barrel over to the center of the room and upended it while calling Rainbow and Twilight over. Once Rainbow and Twilight were within ten feet of Fluttershy and the barrel she lifted it to reveal five bluish-green slimes, that surprisingly had no brownish tint to them, and one shot out a tendril towards Fluttershy while the other four made their way towards Twilight and Rainbow. Rainbow unsheathed her sword and readied to hack at the slime’s appendages should they draw near. Rainbow’s reflexes were fast but she wasn’t fast enough to hack the tendrils fast enough to make it so she wasn’t struck, she thankfully only had one slime to contend with. Twilight was stuck trying to keep the remaining three from striking her, the magical shielding bubble she put up to halt the advance of the tendrils only managed to keep them at bay for a brief moment. After striking the three ponies, the tendrils shot back into the strange blobs, seemingly doing no damage beyond where they left holes in the attire the ponies had on at their strike points, which for all of them was at the right-center chest. After a moment, during which the three ponies stood in complete confusion, the slimes rippled and each took on the form of the ponies in question. In Twilight’s case, each of the slimes that had struck her had transformed into a unicorn version of her, pegasus version of her, and earth pony version of her. Regardless, all of the slimy clones of the ponies were in attire that looked like stripper parodies of the already revealing fetishwear-type attire they had on, which basically meant it was all even more revealing than what Rainbow, Twilight, and Fluttershy had on. Fluttershy’s slime copy was in what appeared to be a collection of cloth strips that just vaguely made up the form of a robe, complete with its replica of her bosom hanging free and the front groin area devoid of any cloth but showing a 12-inch long penis that was maybe three or four inches wide. Rainbow’s copy looked like it was in a super torn up version of her attire that was so shredded that calling it was so shy of being called rags you could just call its clothes that, complete with the exposed groin sporting a thirteen-inch long penis that was maybe four or five inches wide. Twilight’s copies were in a version of her attire that just let her breasts hang free, looked like it was trying to be shredded to something less than rags, and was missing everything below the waistline in terms of attire, with 15-inch long penises that were almost 8-inches. That all said, the attire just looked like a noticeably darker shade of the slime’s natural color. “Well, these are new,” said Twilight excitedly, “let’s try to render them short of a splatter so we can take them back as samples to be studied by the guilds later.” “Really, Twi? That’s your concern,” said Rainbow, “I guess no matter what the situation you’ll still be Twilight. I make no promises but I’ll see what I can do. Besides, seeing a version of me with a dick, that I didn’t ask for, is just weird.” She blinked a few times in confusion, why did her mouth add that extra bit? She just decided to ignore it, for now, and rushed forward at her copy and started hacking at it; the cuts just kept on slurping back together. Fluttershy said nothing, she just raided her staff and said a silent prayer before bringing the staff’s butt down on the floor and making a bright light flash through the room, both the Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash copies were now held completely in a pinkish-yellow aura and were unable to move. After casting her spell Fluttershy said, “I can only hold them for so long, this won’t last.” “It’s fine,” said Twilight as she teleported to a space twenty-five feet away from her almost-copy slimes and pointed her staff and caught the slimes in a violet aura. “A holding spell has more than enough time for what I’m going to do next.” She pulled five rather large, so vast it made your question how they fit in her bag, sample jars from her bag and took the tops off them before chanting in some arcane language Rainbow and Fluttershy were not familiar with, that caused all the slimes to be pulled and compacted into the jars before using her magic to seal the jars with their lids and move them back into her pack. Since we’re the first known adventurers to encounter those things, to my knowledge, we get to name them when asked. I suggest you start thinking of what you want to call them when we get them to guilds for study. “I honestly don’t care,” said Rainbow with an annoyed tone, “pointlessly kinky hermaphroditic copy slimes are just not something I want to think about.” “That’s a great name for them,” said Twilight with excitement, “we haven’t seen what they’re like when they copy male forms but I think it’s a good backup name for them if they have a similar effect with their duplicating of male subjects.” Rainbow facepalmed before saying, “Can we just find a way out of this room? I don’t see any obvious doors.” “I’m Rainbow on this,” said Fluttershy, “we should look for a way out of this room before we do anything else, assuming you don’t want to take a short rest after the match, it was our first battle in this dungeon after all.” “Well, I did expend more powerful spells than intended,” said Twilight, “and it would allow me to try doing some examination of some of our recent acquisitions.” > 2 Ladies and a Door > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rarity and Brass couldn’t believe it, the woman in the door got sexually excited from being insulted. The pair took turns flinging insults at the door for what felt like hours, but in actuality was probably closer to twenty minutes, before the door swung outward, after jizzing what appeared to be white sap of some kind all over the floor before it, revealing a wide, you could fit an entire line of adult ponies 7 strong shoulder to shoulder and still have enough room for a small troop of foals to run between them and the wall without touching the wall, hallway, that at most was thirty-five feet long, with an arched set of doors that seemed to be crafted, quite expertly, into a set of pyramids out of ebony, a very expensive and lustrous black wooded tree that had its wood shares its name. After entering the hallway, carefully stepping around the doors strange goo, Rarity and Brass looked for the doors hinges, it took them almost as long as it had to get the door to orgasm, and carefully removed them from the door so as to not damage the door itself, the hinges actually had the appearance of having cheap quality brass. As they wandered down the surprisingly short hall, Brass lugging the door over her shoulder like a sailor would a barrel, Rarity inspected the hinges and found them to be incredibly poor quality, so poor quality that if they were melted down and purified to serve another purpose almost nopony would by the raw brass. The ebony doors were almost imposing, if you looked closely at the wood you could make out images of various creatures, mostly sapient, being dominated by a figure but due to all the images being barely more than silhouettes it was next to impossible to get any definitive reads on the looks of those being abused and those doing the abusing, each of the abusers seemed to be a different race. After pulling a pack from the door, Rarity tried to open it, it was locked, she gestured to brass to kick it open. Brass got a mischievous grin on her face, almost as if she had been waiting ages for the opportunity, and kicked the set of umbra colored double doors as hard as she could, the doors went flying off their hinges into the chamber beyond. It appeared to be some sort of storeroom or armory, weapons and equipment were hanging about next a variety of foodstuffs. Once they were in the chamber Brass carefully set the door with their new companion in it gently down next to where the room’s entrance was and followed Rarity in the quest for attire and equipment. The two wandered about the room for a bit before Rarity got ahold of a new staff stand-in, it was spear with a jet black shaft and shiny steelhead. Brass, after searching about a bit, found a charcoal gray robe with the symbol of an amethyst dragon’s head breathing emerald flames that actually fit her frame, and was only mildly erotic, the rest of the attire was far too small for one of her build, and a decently sized war hammer, its dark brown shaft was a bit longer than most war hammers and its blunt head and opposing spike looked to be in superb condition, even if they seemed to be made of a black steel. _________________________________________________________________ Applejack and Pinkie wandered through tunnel on the right of the chamber, the other two were blocked after a few feet for some reason, and making their way to what they assumed would be a means of at least getting in contact with the team, Twilight and the rest of the party had neglected to bring some sort of item with a communication type spell. In their defense, they didn’t think they would be split up so early or so long. The pair moved down the hall, which was dimly lit despite having no noticeable light sources, for a few minutes before coming to a large stone door, said stone door seemed to be crafted of red sandstone. Applejack took offense the door, mostly because the main structure on the farm/temple grounds she grew up on was crafted of red sandstone and the idea of using it to make just a door was very wasteful in her mind. “We’re coming back ‘ere later ta pick this door up,” said Applejack in the tone of voice that meant she was being stubbornly serious, “this ‘ere is a waste uh good resources.” Pink just rolled her eyes, she knew Applejack wouldn’t drop this, and just set to looking for a way to open the solid stone door. _________________________________________________________________ Rarity gave an exasperated sigh, all the attire in this room that fit her was either far too erotic or just clashed with her sense of aesthetics, she was now looking for a bag to carry some supplies, seeing as there was a variety of foodstuffs scattered throughout the room. It took her longer than she thought, or wanted, but she managed to find a shoulder bag, that proved to have very little actual space, but Rarity would take what she could get, even if the item in question was something she would drop like an uninteresting stone elsewhere, she was just thankful the bag’s design and decoration met the bare minimum for it to be tolerable for her. That said, she found minorly more acceptable smaller shoulder bag, with even less space as the larger once. Rarity loaded the larger bag up with different foods like dehydrated fruits and vegetables, waterskins, and the like. Rarity stuffed a few outfits that were of a few sizes she approximated their companion in the door might be for when they managed to get the poor woman out of the door, preferably resulting in her also losing that overly large phallus. After their rather pitiful looting of the room, Rainbow was surely going to laugh and mock about this; Brass returned to carrying the door with their new companion and followed Rarity’s lead. Over the course of her searching the room Rarity had managed to find a door leading out, and it thankfully was big enough for her larger companions, but she had yet to actually open the door. Once her impromptu party was regrouped, she remembered the stamp and what Twilight said and quickly put a stamp near both doorways before placing it in the larger bag and opening the door. The next room was immense, easily over a hundred feet in all directions, and looked like some sort of arena. An arena that had its center portion completely filled in with a pool that had platforms jutting out of it at different heights. Rarity was not feeling so good and just stamped the area next to the door. After stamping the area Rarity suddenly had an idea, she tapped the tip of her staff to the impression of an eye she just stamped in the wall and ran some magic through it, if she was right she could at least contact this world’s version of Twilight and expedite getting help. _________________________________________________________________ Elsewhere in the dungeon Twilight got a tinge of pain behind her right eye before seeing Rarity’s face far too close for comfort. She couldn’t hear what the white mare was saying but with a little focus she could at least manage to read her lips, Rarity had obviously figured this out because she just seemed to be repeating the same message over and over half a dozen times before giving an exasperated sigh and making a complaint about her throat feeling sore. Twilight turned to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy before saying, “Girls, Rarity managed to get a message to me with some limited resources, she got separated from Applejack and Pinkie. Thankfully, she managed to meet some potential new friends. Get everything we have and draw close, we’re going to her.” “Oh, thank Celestia and Luna,” cried Rainbow, “I thought we were going to be away from most of our friends way longer than this.” With that, they made sure they had everything as close as they could to them and Twilight before Twilight used a Teleportation spell to transport them to chamber Rarity was in. ***************************************************************** A few minutes after Rarity stopped to take a large swig of water, which was much blander than most of the water she was used to drinking, Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy appeared nearby, with all of their gear and supplies. “Glad you got my message,” said Rarity happily, “I’ll give you proper introductions later, I think it best you check where the rest of our party is before we get with proper formalities.” “I agree,” Twilight with a serious tone, “we don’t want them to be in danger with no chance of timely help.” > AJ and Pinkie Fight by the Water > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinkie and Applejack searched around near the corridor for a bit before Pinkie, unsurprisingly, managed to find the hidden switch to the door. When she hit the switch the red sandstone door slowly slid down into the floor, Applejack said a few curse words under her breath due to the fact she had wanted to take that door as part of her loot from this dungeon. When the door was removed from their vision, they saw what looked like a smooth black sand floor that expanded out about 25 feet before running into a wall that blocked their view but they could see that the wall make the path make a sharp turn right. Applejack readied her war hammer, and began slowly striding forward, and Pinkie pulled her lute out from her hair before taking looking at it then stowing it and pulling out her accordion before following the orange mare’s lead. The two entered the chamber and followed the wall, it came to an end after fifteen feet and both mares beheld an underground lake that was at least 60 feet across in all directions, the chamber itself appeared to be at least two to three times in size, the ceiling was a good fifty feet up. The two gave each other a quizzical look, they didn’t remember going down a decline, at most they should have been 35 feet down, it was a mystery as to where the extra fifteen feet had come for the ceiling. Pinkie and Applejack slowly approached the pool, when they were about thirty-five feet from the pool it began to roil and a fish-like mare emerged from the water, she had almost no attire to speak of. All she had on was an exceptionally revealing bikini bottom, the rest of her body was completely uncovered, her rather small breasts (it looked like they were on the upper end of the B-Cups or lower end of the C-Cups) were free and would probably be swaying free if they were considerably more prominent. The fish-mare had a pair of sturdy legs and arms, the legs looked like they could be brought together to form a tail similar to a seapony but could also be divided for land walking as needed. Her face had a much more fish-like structure to it but still had features that could be defined as being equine in nature. Her body was built in a similar manner to that of an athlete, which considering she appeared to be aquatic was a fair assessment. “Ah, I see there are visitors, the only way you are passing is if you face me,” said the fish-mare with a voice that sounded almost like it she was gurgling something in the back of her throat. When she opened her mouth to speak, Applejack and Pinkie saw rows of sharp teeth in her mouth, they then noticed what she was carrying. She had a massive blue energy spear, the thing had just appeared in her hand while she was talking, it looked to be at least ten feet long. Applejack readied for an attack, she made a call to Pinkie to prep for combat. Pinkie’s response was to play the accordion, which sounded like someone playing a pipe organ for some reason. The fish-mare charged at Applejack, who just barely managed to position her shield in time to block the attack. Applejack followed up the attack from the opposing unit with a strong swing of her apple themed war hammer, her opponent dodged out of the way, right into a massive puddle of fudge that Pinkie somehow managed to drop on the sand floor without any of the topping getting gobbled up by the sand and in the exact direction of the fish-mare’s dodge. She was not amused, she also managed to block Pinkie’s attack and throw the pink mare almost twelve feet behind Applejack. Pinkie was longer making use of her musical instrument, she now had an arming sword readied, along with a parrying dagger in her other hand. Applejack returned her shield to her side and gripped the haft of her war hammer to provide more control from her movements and more power in her blows. The two charged at the spear-wielding fish-mare from opposing sides, the puddle Pinkie had used on their opponent was now gone but the remains of that puddle were still upon the fish-mare herself. The fish-mare prepared herself for the assault, blocking Applejack’s attack with her spear, the orange mare hit with such force that she sent the target of her attack flying through the air and crashing into the pool. A moment later the fish-mare emerged from the water, completely devoid clothing this time. Applejack to a quick aside glance at Pinkie, somehow the bikini bottom was hanging undamaged from the parrying dagger’s hilt, Applejack just huffed and rolled her eyes before returning her attention to her opponent. This wasn’t the first time she fought a naked enemy, and likely wouldn’t be the last either. The fish-mare positioned her spear between her legs and started thrusting as if she were using her hips as soon as she got within ten feet of Applejack. The orange mare blocked the attack with the shaft of her weapon, she was thankful her hammer and shield had enchantments on them, otherwise, her blocks would have been like using tissue paper to stop a sling bullet against this opponent’s attacks. Applejack did her best to draw her opponent's attention while Pinkie hopefully dealt the actual blow for taking out the fish-mare. Of course, this was Pinkie and that mare was more than a little random. Applejack just hoped that randomness didn’t work against her during this fight. “Boop the snoot,” came Pinkie’s shrill voice, as she tapped what would be the nasal area of a pony. “We win,” said Pinkie in her chipper voice. “Indeed you do,” said the fish-mare, moving to a more neutral stance and dismissing her energy weapon. “And you pass, those doors over there,” she gestured to a visible door to the right of the pond and straight ahead of Applejack, “only lead to decoy chambers, nothing of any real interest is there.” She summoned an amulet that was in the shape of a serpent’s tail, “look about the room for this symbol,” she handed it to Pinkie, “and apply the amulet to it to reveal the true door out of this chamber. You did well, it has been some time since I had a match that actually lasted a few minutes, all my opponents in recent memory barely made it to the forty-second mark if they were lucky. I leave you to it, enjoy your dungeon dive, and you can keep whatever you took from me as loot and a reminder of your fun time here.” With that the fish-mare dove back into the pool. Pinkie passed the amulet to Applejack and set to placing stamps on three of the chamber’s walls. Applejack spent some time looking about the room. It took her almost twenty minutes, and Pinkie’s assistance, but the mark on the wall was found, ironically it was about ten feet to the left of where Pinkie had stamped on the far right wall. Applejack pressed the amulet to the matching image on the wall and a space fifteen feet wide and twenty feet high, with a coral patterned rounded frame, seemed to melt away from and materialize into the wall. The amulet glowed a bit in Applejack’s then transformed into an aquatic-themed spear wear she held it. The orange mare shrugged and commented giving it to one of their aquatic friends before she and Pinkie made their way into the secret passage, the entrance returning to being a wall after they had passed fifteen feet into the passageway beyond. _________________________________________________________________ “They just left a large room with black sand and a pool of water,” said Twilight as she looked through the Arcane Eyes that were the stamps she passed out to her friends, “I don’t know if they had any sort of encounter but it looks like if they did that encounter was pretty close to negligible.” “Well, at least they’re okay,” said Rarity with a sigh of relief, “last I saw them we had just entered a room with two doors that both had some not so inviting implications.” “And I thank you for your report on everything that happened,” said Twilight. “Now, about our new associate in the door…” “If you’re thinking of transporting me the normal way,” said the figure in the door, “forget it, part of the spell keeps me here includes knowledge things that can negatively affect my condition. You can’t just take me out of this place, it’s flowing with high concentrations of ambient magic, if I’m removed from a high magic zone for more than twenty minutes I basically turn into a non-magical door, and even if you did do something to separate me from the door after that time you have the door and my dead corpse on your hands, and on top of that neither my body or the door could be used as the target for any kind of magic for at least a day.” “Yeah, that sounds bad,” Rainbow and Brass in unison, they both blinked a few times and stared at one another, seemingly surprised they would both say the same thing almost the exact same way at the same time. > Not an Opponent, Not Quite a Friend > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinkie and Applejack made their way down the hall before coming to a large wooden door with iron bracing in an arched frame. The room beyond was forty feet by forty feet with a thirty-five-foot ceiling. Within was a barren room, aside from a large looking cabinet in the far left corner and what looked like some sort of skeleton warrior with a living young mare as its main body somehow, said mare seemed to be legal age and attractively proportioned in her waist and chest area (the rest of her body that would usually be assessed by male and female alike was primarily hidden from view or didn’t provide enough of a proper view from the distance and angle Applejack and Pinkie had on this entity). Applejack gave the entity a fierce look and reached for her hammer before having her hand stop a tick next to its haft. “I thought those were destroyed ages ago,” Pinkie exclaimed in surprise. “Ya know what et is,” Applejack asked in confusion, “Ah think Ah know wut et is bu’ Ah jus’ wanna see ef we’re bo’ on tha same page.” “That’s a Slave Knight,” said Pinkie, “what did you think it was?” “Same,” said Applejack with a curt nod. “Any suggestions un ‘ow ta deal wid this varmit?” “How about we see what it does first,” said Pinkie as she began to skip towards the figure. Applejack just nodded and followed the pink mare towards the entity. After a minute or so Pinkie and Applejack were within spitting distance of the figure. The mare that acted as its torso looked even more generously proportioned up close, and looked very much like an earth pony, her pepper black form almost blending into the black skeletal-like armored structure of the Slave Knight. “I mean you no harm,” said the Slave Knight in a very feminine voice that was more defensive than anything else, while looking right at the two. This threw the ponies for loop, everything they had learned about this sort of entity was far contradicted this entire encounter. The mare that was held within blinked her eyes open a bit before saying in an ancient Equestrian dialect, one that was so far removed from the modern version it was a bit difficult to understand all her words, “Sorry about my compatriot,” she started, “I am Lily Whisper, I have...what is the polite phrasing for all of this? Suffice to summarize; this unit was designed specifically to help me with a problem present in my body. We have no clue how we got here, or even where here is. Tell me, how is that quaint side town on the island of Manehattan, I was there when they put in the bank, it was quite the site, first three-story building most of us had seen, looked like those extra columns was a smart investment. Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention when they gave me its official name.” The two mares blinked in surprise a bit in surprise before Pinkie said, “Manehattan is one of the largest cities Equestria, it was officially started about three-hundred years ago, they didn’t get their first bank until about thirty years later. This dungeon is quite a ways out from any settlements in Equestria; we’ll take you back home with us.” “Ah’m sure Twilight, an’ maybe Princess Celestia ‘r Princess Luna would be more than ‘appy ta assist ya with whatever yer problem ez,” said Applejack. “The way you both speak is odd, unfamiliar, but you speak of Princess Celestia as if she were a close acquaintance. I am unfamiliar with this ‘Princess Luna’ of which you speak.” “Sounds like you have been out of the loop for far too long,” said Pinkie, “we’ll see what we can do about bringing up to speed on everything you missed out on. Do you know how to get out of here? There’s only the one door to the room.” “There is a magic circle of some kind present,” said the Slave Knight, pointing to the far right corner, “this unit does not have an official designation, you may call this unit by whatever you desire. The circle was unresponsive to this unit’s attempts.” “We don’t quite have our dedicated magic users,” said Pinkie, but I think I can figure this thing out. AJ, how about you use the stamp Twilight gave you and see if you can use its marks or it to get in touch with her.” “Ya got it, Pinks,” said Applejack before going around and stamping all the walls of the room then tapping her weapon to one of the eyes left by the stamp to see if she could trigger a response with her magic, even though arcane and divine magic worked a bit differently. After a few tries with a few different eyes with almost no response, Applejack called Pinkie over to give it a try. She hopped the pink mare would have better luck than her in regards to this. While Pinkie combed through her hair for an item to act as a focus of some kind to use with the stamped on eyes, Applejack took a prayer position and began to focus on the stamp itself, if she couldn’t try contacting Twilight she could at least try locating her. _________________________________________________________________ Twilight felt a disturbance behind her left eye and quickly shut her eyes and focused on the presence of the disturbance. She saw Pinkie, Applejack, and what looked like a non-hostile slave knight, Pinkie was doing her usual chatterbox thing in front of the eye, she basically described everything she and Applejack had dealt with up to that point from the point Rarity had been forcefully separated from them on loop, at almost a mile a minute. _________________________________________________________________ After continuing the story of what she and Applejack had been through, for the fifteenth time, Pinkie stopped her gabbing and sat down to rest a bit. “I’m pretty sure I got through to Twilight,” said Pinkie with a big grin, “how about we take a short rest? We’ve earned it.” “No complaints fro’ me,” said Applejack before setting her gear off to her right and laying her head on her bag like it was some sort of pillow. > Rainbow and Rarity Get Caught Up...Sort Of > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow looked in the emergency case her other self had prepared, inside was a surprise, different items marked her and her five best friends. There was some sort of potion for her to down, and an amethyst marked “Rarity” in the case, those were the one her eyes jumped to, she would inspect the others later. Rainbow motioned for Rarity to come over to her and picked up the gemstone, only to see a note folded in such a way it was completely hidden by the gem when it was placed in its space in the case. She unfolded the note with one hand, which was actually much easier than she had anticipated. “What is it, Rainbow, darling,” inquired Rarity as she drew near Rainbow, once the ivory mare had her head with arm’s reach Rainbow did what the note said and placed the gem on Rarity’s forehead just below her horn while uncorking the potion that had her name on it with her other hand, after quickly placing the note back in the box and grabbing the tonic for her, and down the concoction. The potion was simultaneously delicious and disgusting beyond description. Both mares had their eyes glow white for three or four seconds before both went“Whoa,” in unison. “Is everything okay,” asked Twilight. “Yeah,” said Rainbow Quickly, “just had some memory issues earlier, decided to bring something to help fix the problem.” “I didn’t know you had a memory contingency,” said Twilight with surprise. “Yeah, not something I want to advertise,” said Rainbow, “my training taught me always to be prepared, so I have all sorts of contingencies, just in case.” “Well, you are our master of covert operations,” said Twilight, “it makes sense. When we get out of here, read me on some of them and the reason for this one.” “Sure thing,” said Rainbow, she then turned her attention to Rarity as she removed the gem from the white mare’s forehead and started putting everything away precisely as it had been in the case, minus the potion that was in the vial she had downed. “You okay, Rares?” “Oh my, that was a rush,” said Rarity, looking a little dizzy. “Do we have copies of the memories of our other selves up to this point now?” “No,” said Rainbow, “just the past four months, which should be more than enough for dealing with everything. Why did  you ask?” “The other me had a chant in there that caused a bit of a surge, apparently she wanted to make sure I know the nature of her pact; she didn’t make one with any malicious forces, the entity is more celestial in nature, her Opalescence is a celestial spirit, a rather odd one at that.” “Our group of friends does seem to be filled with those kinds of individuals,” said Rainbow with a smirk. Rainbow then made sure to fold the note properly and place it where it was prior before placing the gem atop it. “Seems my other self went through some special training herself, I was informed of some things I need to do to get more details. How much you willing to bet Pinkie already knows we’re not the right version of her friends?” “Not a bet I’m willing to make,” said Rarity, “I wonder what happened to our alternates.” “Best, we not think about that, for the time being,” said Rainbow, “after we’re out of here and have discussed things with Twilight.” “Ah, yes, good call,” said Rarity. “I feel a bit silly for not coming to that on my own.”         ********************************************** After a short rest (a little over an hour), Rainbow and Rarity went to check on things near the doorway at the other end of the room. Just beyond the door was another chamber, it looked quite large; just eyeballing it, the room seemed to be at least sixty feet long and around eighty feet wide. The room beyond looked like some kind of library; shelves covered the walls, and some of the center floor space, along with a light smattering of chairs and tables for reading. “Twilight,” Rainbow called back, “it looks like the next room doesn’t have a buffer from us and is some kind of library.” Twilight perked at this and rushed over to look at what Rainbow and Rarity were observing. “After we make sure that room is clear,” said Twilight in a giddy voice. “Then we’ll wait for AJ and Pinkie there; I think I have a spell that can bring them to us, but it will require me knowing their general location to us. I can probably modify it to make that a non-issue, but it could still probably be rather dangerous to do so.” “Can’t we just use a communication spell of some kind to keep in touch with them,” inquired Rainbow. “I...forgot to prep one of those today,” said Twilight, “it will take a few hours for me to reprepare all my spells.” “I thought you could fire off any spell you wanted with the only mitigating factor being your personal magical energy,” said Rainbow nonchalantly. Rarity shot the azure mare a withering look of disapproval; she clearly took offense to Rainbow’s comment. “With some spells that is the case,” said Twilight in a measured manner, “but most of the higher-end spells require specific, sometimes special preparations.” Rainbow looked to the rest of their, admittedly odd, group before saying, “How much longer do you think the rest will need before we continue?” “Maybe another ten to twenty minutes,” said Twilight. “I can start repreparing my spells once we make sure the next room is cleared out, some monsters are very good at hiding in plain sight.” “Ah yes, I recall the room that was half-filled with mimics two months ago,” said Rarity, “in my defense I didn’t there would be more than one to a room at the time.” “True, they usually don’t congregate into a singular location like that,” said Twilight, “we, that is to say, the other princesses and I, are investigating as best we can, I haven’t gotten any leads on that just yet.” > Not All Aides are What We Expect > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Fluttershy,” said Twilight, “I’ve been wondering this for a while, why didn’t you change your staff out when you changed your focus of Worship? First, you were a Nature priestess who followed Celestia, then you switched over to a Moon priestess who followed Luna shortly after her return, then switched over to being an Arcana priestess after my ascension before going back to being a Nature priestess while still keeping me as your divine focus. But through all of it, you have never changed staves; you’re still using the one you started your career with way back when, the rest of your gear has updated, but your original staff stays by your side.” “I guess I have a bit too much emotional investment in my staff,” said Fluttershy in her usual withdrawn manner. “I know the feeling,” said Twilight, “we all do, and the way we get around that is our private collections. Every staff I have ever used that I could return home with is in my own personal museum. Pinkie has a section of her cave dedicated to all the equipment she’s used but decided to no longer adventure with. Applejack has a section of her home where she has all her former equipment in cases to keep them safe from less careful family members, and Rainbow...” “I usually take a minimalistic approach, almost everything I use was made by a friend or me; regardless, I have a few hidden cubby holds where I keep older equipment for emergency situations. Does some of it have sentimental value to me? Most of it sure, but I realized that if I hold onto equipment for sentimental reasons only then I’m holding myself back. If your sentiments about equipment is preventing you from taking advantage of objectively better equipment; then it’s time to reevaluate your approach and retire your current equipment. That doesn’t mean you have to get rid of it, just that you shouldn’t take it on adventures with you anymore.” “I...think, I understand,” said Fluttershy, “I guess I was afraid that my staff would be forgotten after I did anything like that.” “Think of it this way,” said Rainbow, “all the old equipment you held onto can be passed down to the next generation, you’re not removing it from use but rather deciding to safeguard it until the time to pass it down comes along.” “I like that sentiment,” said Twilight, “at some point, we’ll all be parents, in one way or another, and passing down our prior gear to our children is a bit of a tradition, especially by former adventurers. We’re getting to the point where we really can’t do the role of adventurer anymore; this is basically one of our last big hurrahs before we hang up our packs and call it quits.” “I suppose you’re right,” said Fluttershy, “I just can’t figure out how to do any of that in my own way.” “We can help,” Rainbow, “that’s what friends do, all you need to do to start is think about who you are and what you would do to pay your respects to the gear you have to regrettably leave behind.” “I think I understand,” said Fluttershy, “I’ll get to work thinking on everything like that once we get back home.” ***************************************************************** After doing a quick inventory check, at the insistence of Twilight and Rainbow, the group made its way into the library room. They hadn’t even made it ten feet into the room before Twilight acted like a foal in a candy store, rushing about looking at everything she could and grabbing few before dashing off somewhere else in the chamber. Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie just rolled their eyes at the violet mare’s antics. “She gets really excited about texts,” said Rainbow to their new companions, “it’ll be a while before she calms down enough to actually progress with us. As if to emphasize this point, Twilight could be seen stuffing various texts with careful exuberance into her bags, all of them. They all just shook their heads and did their best to progress through the library, after what felt like hours they came to a desk with a door on the other side that had a sign that read Ring Bell for service next to what looked like a hotel’s desk bell. Pinkie pushed down on it multiple times, causing the bell to ring in a way that was clearly unintended. A few minutes after the pink mare had stopped an anthropomorphic dog came out of the door in a skimpy secretary uniform, so skimpy it could be called outright slutty. This canine didn’t look quite like some diamond dog offshoot, she/he had both sets of genitals, a rather hefty looking bosom, and their balls were the size of large grapefruits; they also seemed to be wearing a solid black collar around their neck with what looked like a silver-looking ring at the very front of the collar. The creature's penis looked to have stallion proportions, 14 inches long and half as thick, it seemed to be some sort of hybrid design between an actual canine penis and stallion penis. “Greetings,” the figure said the creature in a friendly yet despondent female voice, turns out this creature was a she, “please don’t attack me, I’m Lord Delvarus’s secretary. In other words, I’m akin to his hired help, except I’m required to do everything commanded of me, and I don’t get an actual payment. Such is the life of a summoned creatures, I’m a high-rank support summon; but what do I get stuck doing? Looking after my summoner’s personal library and doing his forsaken paperwork. I knew a few high-rank succubi that were basically summoned to play secretary for dicks but never thought the same fate would befall me. And to make matters worse, I can’t share my name to help someone else to better summon me, doing so would be a breach of contract. Summoned creatures are bound to our contracts; they’re the one set of rules and/or laws we unable to break or breach of our own accord. I can’t purposely share that information thanks to my contract; everything has to be completely unplanned and unintentional. Oh sorry, I rambled a bit, it’s been ages since I’ve seen anyone. If you’re wondering about how you can understand me, it’s part of the magic that makes me unique, all languages, old, present, and new, are completely understandable and speakable to me; the moment you entered a location I have personal jurisdiction over all the languages you know and understand became the same way for me.” “Wow, she really just ranted there,” said Rainbow, “but I can understand why, if I were in her position I would probably do the same if I were in the same general place with no way of leaving for ancestors know how long.” During all of this Twilight had been furiously taking notes on everything, and I mean everything, about what this creature’s features and words were. “Think you can free her, Twilight,” asked Fluttershy. The question snapped Twilight out of her super studious mode. “Maybe,” said the violet mare, “but spells like that are tricky, and they don’t really free the target, just establish a new contract with someone else, and can’t target the caster without enough room and the proper magic circle.” “Do you have all the required materials for casting the spell for having the target forcefully change contracts,” inquired Rainbow. “Not really,” said Twilight, “I have most of the materials, but the amount I have is barely enough and will basically mean I can’t cast certain high-level spells, and the materials I’m missing are exceedingly difficult to procure on their own, individually.” As if on cue, Pinkie pulled out a large bag that spilled out all the materials Twilight required for the spell, the large pieces of jade carved to the exact specifications while remaining uncracked were a particularly impressive sight. The jade pieces were carved into perfect replicas of a mature dragon’s phallus (Spike’s in particular). Predictably, Rarity did a full-body blush to scarlet when she saw them; everyone else didn’t have such overt reactions to the half dozen dragon dildos carved from jade around them, except Fluttershy, who was also blushed furiously for a moment. “Are the jade dragon dildos actually necessary,” inquired Fluttershy as she did an excellent job hiding visible embarrassment. “When one or more parties in the ritual have female genitalia, yes,” said Twilight matter-of-factly. “Both of you take a jade dragon phallus and place it up your rear and vagina, for additional effect you can also put one in your mouth, but that part is optional.” Oh dear lord, Rarity thought, even the magic is far too kinky for my liking. And to think, the Rainbow and me of this world find such things acceptable, if not typical. Fluttershy took two of the dragon dildos, placing them each where Twilight had indicated into the places Twilight had instructed, as if it were perfectly normal. As did this strange dog creature. The dog creature then took two more, placing one between her breasts (for some unexplained reason) and one in her mouth. While the two were positioning the dragon dildos in themselves, Twilight gathered the rest of the materials and placed them in a position that was modeled after what looked to be a large set of breasts, minus the nipples, and motioned for Fluttershy and the summoned dog creature to come stand as if they were the nipples after the two had finished positioning the dildos on, and in, themselves. Rainbow was holding back giggles at watching Twilight and Fluttershy performing the clearly lewd ritual with no hint of a sense of irony; Rarity just kept doing a full-body blush the entire time that got so vibrant she went from scarlet to crimson in record time. But like a train wreck, neither mare could avert their attention from the whole event. Once Fluttershy and the dog creature were in position, Twilight started chanting in a surprisingly erotic sounding arcane language. And kept up the chant for what felt like hours. > Sun and Moon Observation > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celestia stared down the oncoming pack of Dire Timberwolves, here massive war hammer with its hammerhead made from a gold-like metal in the shape of her sun mark gleaming in the light of the noon sun, the spike on the opposing side of head modeled after one of the sun’s rays also shimmered in the light of the sun, the steel shaft with enchanted denim grip felt pleasant in her hands, almost as much as the shaft of her favorite personal guard, and licked her lips. Celestia’s skimpy gold-platinum-enchanted iron alloy armor was just shy of slutty, and offered very little in the way of actual protection (that’s what shield enchantments embedded in it were for), but that hardly mattered when it was overflowing with buffs to all her attributes and raised power and control of her magic and spells but the Sun Silk (a rare kind of silk made possible by the Solar Moth, an exceedingly rare monster Celestia had taken to raising in a secluded part of her gardens) padding and under the armor made it possible to keep the metal away from the more sensitive parts it was mostly layered atop. That said, her massive MM-Cup breasts would be far too constrained in most of the looser fitting armors, and her massive 20-inch long penis that was almost half as wide as it was long with balls the size of a large head of cabbage really wouldn’t fit in any attire that wasn’t enchanted to hold such a monster in its own right, Celestia’s crotch piece had all the necessary enchantments. Luna was also readying herself for the coming conflict, she bore no weapons herself, the closest she had were her combat horseshoes and magically reinforced denim gloves, but she was a Rune Monk, monk trained in the mystic arts who used an ancient form of magic to optimize her effectiveness on the battlefield. Her skimpy, just shy of slutty, monk robe was in her colors and adorned with her signature crescent moon; the cloth was a mystic substance called Night Shroud, a fabric that could only be produced within a set period of time at night with materials for making cloth that could only be harvested at night to bring out their greatest effectiveness, and her moons were crafted from the mother of pearl of a Noctus Oyster, a deepsea oyster that grows to gigantic proportions and can only be found in the darkest parts of deepsea and is the only place to find a Moon Pearl (a potentially giant pearl that can be the size of Luna herself that looks and glows like a full moon, Luna has several in the part of the palace that is stated as her territory within the castle). Luna's luscious LL-Cup size breasts were a sight to behold, so much so that many a poem and sonnet had been dedicated to them in the past, and her equally as impressive penis and sack had all stallions but those completely and entirely secure in their own masculinity jealously insecure; her penis was a good 19 inches long and somewhere between 8 and 9 inches wide, coming very close to having its girth half of its length, and her balls were just shy of half the size of her own bosom. Celestia may have the bigger chest, but Luna clearly had the bigger balls of the two, both figuratively and literally. And during her time as Nightmare Moon, her ball size barely changed but her bust had exceeded the size of Celestia’s, not that any pony would say as much openly. Both mares could feel their bosoms and groins itching with excitement at the coming onslaught; it had been ages since they did anything like this. They might be a bit out of practice, and more than a little rusty, but they were still forces to be reckoned with. The two said nothing as the encroaching army came closer and closer. Both dongs of the mares were in their slings, said dicks were mostly flaccid, the excitement of the two was starting to the process of making them hard. This was a small army of minotaurs, seemed after negotiations had come to a close someone had distorted things to a point before Celestia and Luna noticed something off and cast a combined spell that caused the charging army to go from a rampaging herd of minotaurs to a much more imposing platoon of demons, high-rank ones if the feel of their magical energy was any indication. Celestial raised her hammer up high then brought it careening down only for it to stop moments from hitting the ground, the moment her hammer stopped the sun overhead intensified, and a massive column of light came crashing down upon the charging demons. When the flare cleared a sizeable chunk of the charging army was missings, the only indication they had been there was a swath of land that looked like white ash had been burned into the land in an instant. The demons actually broke formation to move around the section of land that had been marked by Celestia’s magical attack. The ivory alicorn took a moment to take a regal pose, her bosom bouncing a bit from the motion of both the pose and her prior attack, her penis also rocked a bit in its cradle. Luna took this as her cue, she threw out punches and set runes all across the landscape that lit for a split second before seeming to disappear, her breasts shaking with every strong motion of her arms and legs. As if by instinct, Luna spun around did a hefty roundhouse kick on what seemed like nothing but air, her hoofwear lighting up with runes she had embedded in it prior, and kicked a massive gorilla-like demon that just seemed to appear out of nowhere in the waist so hard its body split in two from the attack. The creature’s massive 25-inch long penis that was at least 12 inches in width fell to the ground before Luna, which she quickly stomped on with her right hoof and drove into the ground a few inches, with the rest of the lower body while the upper portion went careening off thirty or so feet back and to the right before seeming to fade into nothingness, the creature’s lower portion remained for some strange reason to Celestia. After another three or so minutes of fighting the demons were vanquished, and Luna had acquired two more demonic phalluses that did not leave with the rest of the fiends they belonged to. “Sister,” said Celestia, “how is it those things still remain? And what you intend to do with them?” “Simple, sister,” said Luna, “I marked these phalluses with the anchoring rune at the bottom of my combat boot, these are now mine as spoils to the victor rightfully go. I will take them to MY research facility for them to be studied, then they will be placed in a case and put in my hall of trophies, it has been far too long since I claimed the phallus of any demon, even if the beasts were intermediate threats to most adventurers at best.” Celestia just sighed and said, “When your ponies are done have them send one to a special facility of mine, they would very much like to study it and find any ways of replicating its form.” “Ah yes,” said Luna, “your ‘mature resource’ research facility on Honey Way lane, I will be sure to let your researchers gather as much data on my trophies, under the supervision of my ponies, before they are cased and taken to my hall.” Celestia just shot her sister an annoyed look, Luna just smirked back with a look that said she had known about that supposed “secret” for quite some time. To be honest, it was no secret that Celestia had gone forth and nearly openly acquired ownership of five different lingerie producers and shops that had named themselves after some aspect of the white mare independent of her. That said, Luna had upped her game against Celestia by acquiring seven night-themed lingerie manufacturers and shops, then using notes acquired in her acquisitions founded at least another dozen on her own, all of which proved highly successful. The two mares might be retired from statecraft and politics, but their own private ventures meant they had plenty of personal finances to draw on. Add that all to the fact the two also had their own special schools they were acting heads of on most days and you had a pair of well-off mares, who just happened to also be former rulers. The mission that Twilight Sparkle had been sent on was intended to act as the violet mare’s last genuine adventure before officially taking the throne. Changing the seat of power from Canterlot to Ponyville wasn’t that much of a big deal, in Celestia’s eyes, the more vocal (and predominantly lazy) members of the social elite would not take the shift of an established capital well, but Twilight wanted to keep close to her friends, and the two former rulers respected that. Besides, it was probably time the capital city of the nation changed after all this time, Canterlot had been the nation’s capital well before Celestia, and Luna had reached the point of taking on the role of rulers themselves. “It seems the so-called ‘Council of Lost Shadows’ has finally started making their move,” said Celestia. “I thought we had taken care of them a good score before the original Nightmare Moon incident,” said Luna, “we were both there, we made sure to destroy all documents and every item that had so much of any hint of magic to make sure any records and/or hidden items were removed permanently before purging their minds of everything concerning that dreadful group and putting them in containers that only we were aware of and hid in places only we knew how to reach.” “Yes, well looks like somepony with less moral fiber than we would like found at least one of those secure locations and used it to revive that dreadful group. It was probably fairly recently, maybe sometime in the past fifteen years or so. And it seems their resurgence has resulted in appearances of monsters that are typically found in dungeons, no matter how you slice it, things are not shaping up to be good.” “Then let us begin our investigation into everything that could be potentially compromised,” declared Luna as she lifted her prizes up in her magic, “then begin our greatest quest since retiring from politics. As you said not too long ago, ‘we need a project’ or some such to keep ourselves occupied.” “I suppose that would be an appropriate ‘project’ for us,” said Celestia with a grin as they made their way back to their camp, “cleaning up a mess we thought had been dealt with. Afterward, we’ll come out in the open to the whole nation and give them access to all the less problematic materials; secrecy seems to have worked against in this case.” Luna nodded and said, “How do you think Twilight Sparkle is fairing as of late?” “I’m sure she has everything under control, she and her friends can handle almost anything that is thrown their way,” said Celestia with a smirk. > An Unusual Encounter > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How did it come to this," cried Rainbow in a distressed inquiring tone, the azure mare was walking a tightrope with her wings bound together with magic so tightly she couldn't so much as twitch them reflexively over a large pot of boiling vegetable soup with a long wooden pole to act as her balance in her hands. "Now, now, now," said the indigo and pink anthropomorphic calico cat in a dark red, and very erotic, female magician/game host outfit, complete with a matching and overly shiny top hat. "My chamber, my rules. And since you removed my lovely assistant from the show before the game could start one of you had to be put in the Punishment Zone while the rest of you participate in the show. After all, this is a Lost Dungeon of Punishment. For every failure on the part of your compatriots, our participant in the Punishment Zone gets additional punishments, some more enjoyable than others. Don't worry; you won't be in the punishment zone for too long." The cat's admittedly fabulous F-Cup bosom was mostly flowing out of her attire. She had introduced herself as "the Gamemaster and Show Master," and given how the group's newest addition reacted to her, this was not someone to be messed with. Rainbow didn't like how their "host" had basically decided how everyone came into the room, especially since she was in a predicament Rainbow really didn't want any part of under any circumstances. "I don't think I like what this implies," said Rarity in an apprehensive voice. "Alright, now that you know the name of the game," said the cat creature, "it's time for you to learn the rules and everyone to give introductions. This game has five portions, all of which have some surprises waiting for anyone who violates the rules or gets something wrong. But before we explain all that I have to explain the rules a bit more. All the players will be in teams of two, you can call in someone to substitute for you that is within the dungeon as long as they are not part of another team in the game we are playing here; Those that choose to opt-out of the game are permitted to say so but in doing so forfeit all rights to participate in the game; all players are awarded points for their actions in the game, regardless of what they actually did. Players earn points for carrying out the challenge assigned to them, the one who carries out the challenge most effectively earns the most points. At the end of each portion, the points of all the players are counted, then the points of each team are added together to determine which group is the winning team. Violence outside the combat portions of the show is strictly prohibited." "Alright, and what are these five challenges," inquired Twilight, "and what are the rules for them? And while we're at it, just what is the name of our 'host'?" "First of all, thank you for inquiring the name the one officiating the challenges, and your choice of terminology is also greatly appreciated," said the cat creature in a dignified manner. "I am Jeu Ace, the master of the games for this show. You'll learn the challenges as the show progresses, the rules for each game will be stated for everyone before the official start of the games. The games are designed to test the knowledge and skill of all those involved in the competition, any found in violation of the rules of the challenge or show itself will be punished, the greater the violation, the harsher the punishment." "Okay," called out Rainbow Dash, "but why did I end up on the log, and rolling it, the moment I entered the room?" "Had to get, and keep, your group's attention somehow," said Jeu, with a snap of her fingers Rainbow was now standing next to Rarity. "Now that I have everyone's attention, and the general rules have been established, it's time for the players of the first round to be decided," she turns to the figure that is technically a door, "I'm sorry to say, due to your...condition, you will not be permitted to participate." The party looked about confused, and maybe a little apprehensive. "So," said Twilight, "maybe telling us what the first challenge is, and its rules, might help us decide." "Well, that does sound like an excellent idea," said Jae, "the first challenge is simple...an eating contest." All of a sudden a buffet-sized table appeared on the large stage before everyone, "before the challenge begins, you will be split into random teams, after that each team will choose someone to eat as many of our' special carrots' as possible," she then held up a thirteen-inch long carrot that was six or seven inches wide at it its midpoint, "the one who consumes the most wins the challenge. Also, you get bonus points and prizes for completing the challenges in a record-setting or breaking way or manner." > A Most Unusual Board Game > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone just stared in awe and horror as Fluttershy and Twilight fell away from the table, Rainbow was still going. Fluttershy had put up a good fight, managing to down thirty-nine of the massive carrots before succumbing to the inability to keep eating. Twilight was a real contender, she somehow managed to down sixty-five of the carrots before her stomach had told her brain it was full to bursting. Rainbow Dash, the most athletic one there and likely voted to be the first one out in this sort of contest, had downed one hundred thirteen of the carrots and was still looking fine when the timer ran out. After she finished, the “host” stated that Rainbow had also broken the previous record, ninety-two, and had thus earned her team some bonus points. Everyone then found out the points were not going towards anything and that the whole thing was just a primer round, which meant the points were technically bonus points to be added on at a later point during the trials. What came next caught everyone by surprise, they were all plopped down at the start of a giant game board with spaces and each given a pair of dice as big as their hands, one die for each hand. Unlike most other board games, instead of a pair of six-sided dice they were each holding a pair of eight-sided dice. And each group was actually at a different starting point on the “board.” Twilight had decided to pair with the futa dog woman, who insisted on being called a bitch, which Twilight was fine with due to that being the proper name for most female canids but Rarity was not. Rarity decided to partner up with Fluttershy, mostly because the yellow pegasus was the most like the Fluttershy she was familiar with. And Rainbow partnered up with Brass Beauty, she was starting to like the female minotaur. The rest of the group that was with them decided to bow out of the game due to either being ineligible or just not wanting to get caught up in the crazy game their “hostess” seemed to be running. By Twilight’s estimation, via a communication spell to the rest of the group, the giant board they were on had at least 8 dozen space which meant that bare minimum they should reach the end in twelve rolls a piece as long as they didn’t run into more than two or three spaces that forced them back a set number of spaces. They all had to roll their giant dice almost as one to see who would go first, the highest roll goes first then it goes anti-clockwise by group, after one member of each group has moved it cycles back to the first group and the roller’s partner takes a turn and the cycle repeats until a win condition is met by one of the players. Twilight rolled the highest with a 15, so she had to start things off. After everyone had rolled the extra dice in each group disappeared and Twilight was forced to roll a pair of eight-sided dice that were forty percent bigger than the set she rolled for deciding the turn order. To make things more awkward, the 6 and 8 both looked like someone had turned their circles into art of uncovered breasts. The violet alicorn just picked up the dice in her magic and threw them straight up, they landed in front of her as a six and a three, she would be moving 9 spaces. She moved the indicated number of spaces and stopped then Jeu said something that caught everyone off guard, “Looks like player one has landed on the Cheerleader Roulette space, and the roulette says she now gets her attire changed to a cheerleader outfit,” and with that Twilight’s outfit turned into a tight, but not constraingly so, erotic cheerleader outfit and any undergarments she was wearing disappeared. This was more embarrassing for Fluttershy and Rarity than anyone else. Next up was Rainbow Dash, she rolled a 3 and a 7, so that’s ten spaces for her. After landing on the space she discovered she was in a one-contestant quiz show. As long as she got most of the answers right she would be fine, but Rainbow wasn’t the kind that was usually suited to dealing with random questions in this sort of environment. Things were only made worse when most of the questions were math and science type questions, and Twilight wasn’t permitted help because they weren’t teammates in this case, with some of the less daunting questions being cooking related, which Pinkie was more suited for. Of the thirty questions asked her, Rainbow only got 3 right so she and her teammate got punished with their bust sizes being tripled for 6 turns, and that was six turns for her team, they’d be stuck with the monster mammaries for more than a little while. Next was Fluttershy’s turn, she rolled a 2 and a 4, so six spaces for her. The space she landed on said, “Neko outfit for 5 turns” and suddenly was naked with a cat ears headband on her head’s crown, cat paw gloves and boots, and a cat tail but plug in her ass. Almost immediately she started ‘grooming’ herself like a cat, much to the dismay of Rarity. “Are you alright, darling,” Rarity called out to Fluttershy. “Of course, Nya am, why mew ask?” Responded Fluttershy, and Rarity started thinking of how it just got worse because of the cat sound tics Fluttershy now had in her voice for the foreseeable future. Next up came Twilight’s partner, she rolled double sixes and landed on a space that caused her overall size to double for 4 turns then got roll again because she rolled doubles, rolling a 3 and an 8, allowing her to go an additional 11 spaces. That space wasn’t accommodating, she was trapped in a latex blanket on the ground for 2 turns. Brass threw out the dice and rolled double 8s, which apparently set off a special rule the players weren’t made aware of, Brass was teleported sixteen spaces to a space that caused her butt and Twilight’s to double in size, in addition, the special rule kicked in and Brass and Twilight also got longer, more toned legs. On the second roll, she rolled a 3 and a 4, for a total of 7 and moved to the space, all it said was “Safe Zone” which confused pretty much all the players. And it was back to Rarity’s turn, she rolled a six and a one, which meant she was moving 7 spaces. The space she landed on was marked as an “event” basically forced Rarity and Fluttershy into an encounter. The two were forced into a battle with small cave-man like imps, Fluttershy wasn’t much help because she was just doing a bunch of cat grooming and other general cat behaviors, but Rarity managed to best the small swarm of 10 with a bit of difficulty. After Rarity won the two returned to where they were on the board and Rarity was awarded her prize. This time, Rarity was offered control of giving a random penalty to another player, Rarity chose Brass Beauty. The minotoress was penalized with a massive butt plug that stretched her ass a bit that also had a set of locks that prevented it from being moved because it was part of some kind of perversion of a chastity belt that was also locked and secured on her. Ironically, the next player was Brass herself, she rolled a 10 with an eight and a two. The space she landed on due to the roll offered up an opportunity for some much-deserved revenge. She landed on an event that forced her to suck off the dick of a massive wolf creature within 9 minutes, she managed to pull it off in 6. Her reward for completing the challenge was choosing one of her “punishments” on another player, she remembered what Rarity did and forced the butt plug chastity belt on Rarity. The white mare’s ass was stretched so much from the plug that it was extremely for her to stand and move. It was Rainbow’s turn up next, she rolled a three and a four for a total of 7. The space said, “Roulette Jump” and before the cyan mare could contemplate this she was warped to a random space, which just so happened to be next to be two spaces directly in front of Rarity. Next up was the summoned dog creature, she rolled a seven and a six for a total of 13. It turned out to be an event that she had to deal with. The monster they encountered was a huge bat-like creature that had a set of large human-like male genitals, the penis was maybe nine inches long with a width of 5 inches and the balls were around the size of apples. She bested the monster and was rewarded with moving forward 4 more spaces, the space she landed on said “Everybody Loves Large Chests” and this caused her to have her bust size triple while also reinforcing her muscles support for her enhanced mammaries. Everyone rolled but the results of each of their spaces was not really all that memorable, except for the time Fluttershy landed on a space that undead her cat curse but left her with the outfit (she was predictably embarrassed). Before they knew it, it was Twilight’s turn again, she rolled a pair of 8s, doubles meant a random special rule would take place regarding her next space. The space forced Twilight into an event that’s a porn scene that was basically some kind of parody of a wedding scene. Twilight was in an erotic parody of a wedding dress, which was basically just super revealing white lingerie with a super transparent wedding veil. Jeu began describing the scene, Twilight didn’t mind the trotting down the aisle. Her “groom” was a towering purple anthro panther man in a wedding-themed banana hammock thong and a collar bow tie, he was pretty looking but she wasn't drooling him (her tastes leaned a bit of a different way than that). What Twilight did mind was being informed her kissing scene would involve kissing the groom’s genitals, not his face. The anthro cat man, on cue, pulled off his thong to reveal that said phallus was nearly half the size of a larger stallion penis with notable girth to it. Twilight, wanting and needed to stay in character, got down on her knees and passionately kissed the feline’s dong, and balls for good measure. When the event ended Twilight was rewarded with moving an additional 10 spaces, her new space said, “double down below” which result in her plot doubling in size along with her hips pulling a similar act. By the way she moaned erotically to all of this, it was clear she found the sensation very PLEASURABLE. Twilight got to roll again since she rolled doubles, her next roll was a one and a three, bringing the total roll to 4. The next space she landed on just said, “Safe Zone” but no one explained the meaning behind that. After several hours, or at least it felt that way, the game was over and Rainbow’s team won with the most points somehow. This meant Rainbow’s team earned the most points. Rainbow had a choice of prizes because she was the one that brought victory to her team. Her choices were Gale Razor, a one-handed sword with the power to create razor winds on command but also a curse to cause deep wind cuts in the user for every missed attack on their target, and an ability called Retro Filcher, an ability that allows her to both steal an object and alter the memory of everything within a 4-mile radius into believing and confirming that the user of the ability is the rightful owner on a successful steal. After a moment of deliberation, Rainbow went with the ability. Of course, the rules said the one who used the ability could not be observed or known to be performing the act by the target or anyone in the target’s immediate vicinity but Rainbow still considered it an upgrade from the cursed blade. At least, there was one good thing about the game “ending” and that was most of the adjustments made to the “players” were removed. Twilight and brass maintained their toned lower bodies when the whole thing was over, Twilight’s bust stopped reducing when she was down to a J-Cup from the overextension the game had put on her bust, Twilight was also physically more capable than she was before the start of the game (the muscle enhancement event just before Rainbow rolled enough to reach the endpoint did that to her), Twilight’s plot was now 35% bigger (much to her own annoyed amusement), Brass had some more ornate looking horns than what she had before the game (they still weren’t sure how a space that upped Charisma did that to a minotaur), and Rarity was left with a small pile of erotic swimwear in a leather bag the size of her waist. > This is Not What I Thought Would Happen When You Said We Would be Playing a Game > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The hostess chuckled to herself as she snapped her fingers, and three unusual items appeared before everyone. These items were 1980s-style arcade machines, each with an erotic fighting game title. The three games were Succu Fighters, Morsel Kumbat, Tearking. Everyone made a move to get a better look before they were suddenly caught in place by the hostess’s magic. Twilight was particularly interested in the items; she had heard about such artifacts but had never really seen any in person. After a moment, the hostess said, “Now, we need some volunteers for this next part.” Almost without thinking, Twilight, Rainbow, and Rarity raised their hands and were allowed to approach the arcade machines. Once they were each about a meter or so from each of the machines, the three suddenly got sucked into the machines as if they were playing Jumanji, leaving their attire, weapons, and gear behind. Everyone just gawked for a moment before Brass demanded to know where their friends just went, the hostess began to explain things. “Now that our ‘volunteers’ have entered the game, it’s up to one of their teammates to take control. Each of your teammates is the character you are playing in the game; your job will be to take control of your teammate as your playable character. Each of the six buttons to the left of the joystick will make your character perform a different action, while moving the joystick will move them in the direction you move the stick. You can perform combination attacks by moving the stick and pressing the buttons in different orders and sequences in short succession. You’ll be playing in the campaign mode first; then, after you complete the campaign, you’ll be taking part in 5 multiplayer matches. Don’t worry; your teammates within the game won’t really die, just be really hurt when it’s all over, and once the competition is done, or they die five times in the game, they’ll be returned to you. That said, all losses by your teammate will result in a loss of points. Each victory by your teammate within the game will result in gaining 10 points, but each failure by them will result in the loss of a minimum of 10 points but can be as much as 30 points lost if they lose. Dodging and blocking can, and will, allow you to keep from loss of points. Combination attacks will allow for the earning of accumulated points in a single maneuver. The points you earn through ‘guiding’ your teammate within the game transfer over when it has been completed.” Everyone else looked around in visible discomfort. Three of their compatriots just disappeared into a set of arcade fighting machines and left their attire behind. This was not the kind of challenge they were used to dealing with. Looking over at the machines, they could all see Twilight, Rainbow, and Rarity in the nude but slowly getting new outfits layered on each of them. Twilight got a policemare style dominatrix outfit, complete with having her unobscured bosom on full display with nothing over it; in addition, Twilight got a riding crop as a weapon; apparently, Succu Fighters had plans for her. Rainbow got put into a dominatrix-style biker uniform and turned transformed from anthro pony to anthro wolf, while still keeping her iconic colors and mane; all within a setting that looked like a grungy urban setting, not unlike what you would find in games like Double Dragon; from the looks of things, Tearking had plans for her. Rarity ended up gaining muscles, lots of muscles, and by the time she was done expanding, she was three or four times her original size; in all terms, when you were talking about things physically, Rarity also shifted to being a stallion with a rather large member, she looked more like a male brute now than her usual elegant female form; she also ended up in a lacy pink crop top that looked like it was being stretched way too tight but still refused to yield to Rarity’s massive pecs, she also was in a pair of shiny pink “fuck me” high heels and tight pink skirt, a skirt that did nothing to hide her new 15-inch long member that had a good 9 inches of girth; from the looks of things, Morsel Kumbut had plans for her. After some discussion, the players were chosen for each team. Still, due to the absurdity of everything, nobody for the life of them can remember who took over as the player for each system. As the three ponies inside the game moved along in the games they started to behave more like the characters they were designed to be in the games; more than a few times, Twilight said something about punishing “naughty” girls and boys in a sexually playful manner while cracking the crop on her leg for emphasis, Rainbow made cracks about pack hunting and literally howled with every win, and Rarity talked like a bodybuilder with no life outside a gym and strength competitions, and when Brute Rarity wasn’t making overt comments about her overly large penis in her new masculine voice, she was making cracks about muscles and protein shakes. There were even signs they were forgetting who they were; this prompted the players to try and speed through the campaign modes of the games the three were in; they didn’t care about points; they just wanted their friends out of the game. Twilight’s player managed to get the most points in the campaign mode, even though they were speeding her through it. After the campaign was finished, the three games entered into fighter vs. mode that had all three fighting against each other, and Brute Rarity won that one. The final match was the 3 versus a giant monstrosity; Rainbow became the MVP for that smackdown (She smacked the monster’s breasts really hard in fast succession). After that, the 3 returned from the games in their natural state with no recollection of the event; Twilight’s team was the overall set of victors. All 3 also had their outfits from the games folded perfectly in their hands. “Okay, what just happened?” Rainbow inquired with apparent confusion. “Your team won,” said Jae flatly, but somehow also bombastically, directly to Rainbow. “We do hope you are not put off by this experience. Also, there might be some side effects from the experience for the next few hours; just ignore them for the time being.” “How about we don’t do that,” said Rarity, “we can barely remember approaching those arcade game machines. It would really help to know what just happened to us.” “Fine,” said Jae in a snarky tone before saying in a more professional tone, “you can spend the next five to seven minutes discussing what just happened and who will be your next participants.”