One week ago, Rainbow Blitz didn’t think he’d be doing this. At all.

One week ago, Blitz was simply a normal stallion. He did his work, he hung out with his friends, and occasionally tried to check out the local mares, of which he noted there weren’t many. A doctor’s visit had decreed him a normal, healthy stallion. While Blitz didn’t exactly see himself as normal – I mean, who else can do a Sonic Rainboom? he thought proudly and often – he got what the doctor meant; aside from his super speed, he wasn’t exactly that much different physically from the other pegasi.

He was pretty sure that watching as Elusive took off his robe in front of him and him watching with a sort of perverse interest had thrown normal out the window.

One week ago, Blitz hadn’t exactly paid much attention to Elusive. But, given the situation he was in helping Applejack win over Dusk Shine, the romantically-minded stallion was Blitz’ only option instead of his usual impulsive self.

Of course, impulse is what allowed Elusive to currently stand with bedroom eyes in front of Blitz, walking towards him in a rather measured sultry gait. Blitz noticed each hoof was placed in the exact right position that allowed the pure white unicorn’s body to sway with just the right amount to keep his eyes glued on him. Not to mention the pure white ass in the back and the luscious purple tail behind him.

I shouldn’t be liking this, Blitz thought to himself, though he didn’t move from the four-poster bed he was sitting on. I really shouldn’t be liking this, Blitz thought again, but all he could do was watch as Elusive bent down and positioned himself between Blitz’s back legs.

“Elusive…”

“Yes, Blitzy?”

“…I don’t know if I can do this.”

Elusive got up from his position and stroked Blitz’s cheek with a hoof. “What’s wrong, Blitz?”

“This. It all just feels so wrong.”

“What feels so wrong about it?” Elusive gently put a hoof around Blitz’s shoulders and spoke in a quiet, calm voice. “You seemed to enjoy it enough from two days ago to come back for seconds. Tell me what’s bothering you.”

Blitz didn’t feel relaxed. “It just feels so strange. I mean, am I really about to go through with it?”

“Well, if you don’t want to go through with it, we can stop right here if you’d like.”

“That’s the problem. I don’t want you to stop.”

Elusive sighed and shook his head, though he had a smile on his face and chuckled lightly. “Think of it as experimentation. It’s common for stallions to go through an experimentation stage, even at your age. It’s just the once and then we can be done. You don’t even have to do it again if you don’t want to.”

“I’m afraid, though. What if… what if I do it, and I like it? What if I keep coming back to it? It’s… it’s not normal. It’s not what I’m used to, but what if I get a sort of thrill from it? Is it… is it possible I won’t be able to…” Blitz trailed off, both hesitant to say it to Elusive and hesitant to admit it to himself.

Elusive smiled warmly at him. “If it bothers you that much, I won’t do it.”

“But I want to.”

“But you’re afraid of it.”

“Elusive… I don’t know how to put this. I do but I don’t. I want to but I don’t. I’m afraid but I can’t stop myself.”

“Try laying back. You won’t see a thing. Heck, you could imagine me as a mare. Odd, certainly, but try it. See if it works.”

Blitz, for the first time that day, averted his eyes from Elusive’s. He looked down towards his dick but not directly at it, trying to ignore the fact that it was quickly becoming hard.

“Do you trust me, Blitzy?”

Elusive’s question hardly registered to Blitz. He hadn’t even been focusing on the other stallion when he said it. He looked across and tried to ignore Elusive’s own dick staring at him. He lifted his eyes up to look at Elusive, deep blue eyes questioning him again.

Blitz nodded, but didn’t say anything.

“Alright, then. Lay back.”

Blitz adjusted himself on the bed and lay flat on his back, spreading his wings so they didn’t get crumpled underneath him. Of course, now that he was flat on his back, it was probably more difficult to get over the tension of knowing what was about to happen rather than the tension of wondering if it was right or not.

Waiting for it to happen, Blitz closed his eyes and tried to think of what Elusive would look like if he were a mare. Probably he’d have a rounder face and muzzle. Heck, might even have a rounder ass, too, though overall probably daintier. The mane would probably be longer, and maybe end in a bit of a curl. And the eyes would probably be framed by long lashes. Continuing to think about it, Blitz figured a female Elusive would probably suit him qui—

“Ngh!” Blitz flinched as something wet surrounded his dick and started sucking on it. Blitz grabbed onto the bed with his hooves as much as he could, writhing around as his eyes rolled back in ecstasy. He didn’t dare look down at Elusive, afraid that he’d smack him across the face if he saw what he was doing, but Blitz didn’t think he could; his back was arched so much he felt some of it leave the bed and his eyes refused to even look down from the white lace pillows lying on the bed behind him.

It’s not that much different from a mare, to be honest, Blitz thought as Elusive’s tongue started to gently lap at and curl around his dick, still inside the unicorn’s mouth. I just can’t think about it as much.

Blitz tried to shut his eyes and think about a mare version of Elusive again, but the stallion was teasing him. Though his eyes stayed firmly rolled towards the top of his vision he couldn’t shut them. Blitz felt Elusive’s teeth gently tapping on either side of his dick and nearly screamed.

“E-Elusive…” he moaned. “Ngh… no…”

Blitz felt as though he was either drunk or galloping as hard as he could; his heart was racing so much it pounded in his ears and he could hear himself panting as Elusive’s lips started to pull off and he couldn’t see much or feel much other than the stallion, but there was a strange happiness inside him. Not quite content, but it certainly reached that as he felt the stallion finally leave him.

Blitz finally managed to lay back flat on the bed, still panting though his heart had calmed down. A white blur came over him and laid down on top of him, his vision refocusing to find Elusive was lying down with the unicorn’s head on his chest, smiling at him.

“There, Blitzy,” Elusive said. “That wasn’t so bad now, was it?”

Blitz just lay on the bed for a minute. He could feel something dripping from him, but he didn’t want to look down.

“Well, what do you think?”

Blitz smiled and laughed. “Applejack is so gonna hurt me when he realizes I got this before he did.”

Elusive inched forwards along Blitz’s chest, dragging the stallion’s dick with him. Blitz’s laugh was cut off by gasping and moaning as the unicorn’s soft white coat slowly tickled his member. And that was stopped a few seconds later by Elusive gently slapping his cheek, not even enough to leave a mark. “You’re not going to tell him though.”

“Can’t. I can’t let him know. I don’t want anyone to know about this for now.”

“I promise you, my lips are sealed. Unless you want them again.” Elusive winked.

Blitz shook his head. “I’ve had enough of that for one day.”

Elusive rested his head against Blitz’s chest. Blitz noted the stallion was almost like a warm blanket. Now that the sensations were dying down, he actually found himself relaxing and enjoying Elusive currently lying on top of him. Elusive let out a sigh and closed his eyes as Blitz put a hoof on his back. “When do you meet with Dusk Shine?”

“A few days from now I have to return a Daring Do book. I’ll talk to him then.”

“Will he listen to you?”

“He didn’t seem to be angry with me at the restaurant. I’m sure I could at least have a few attempts to get him to listen.”

“How convinced are you that it’ll work out between them?”

“It may be difficult. I don’t even know if it will if Dusk Shine continues acting like he does. I can’t force anything, though.”

Elusive opened his eyes again but kept them half lidded as he stared straight at Blitz, lips forming into a pout. “What about us?”

Blitz initially started laughing, but stopped soon after he saw Elusive’s pouting. He just looked so pitiful. I can’t tell him ‘no’, not with that face and not with how that felt… “Let’s just see where it goes, shall we?”

Elusive broke his pout and chuckled, placing his hooves on the bed and dragging himself upward, causing Blitz to gasp again as Elusive’s coat trickled across him again. “You’re such a tease, Blitzy…”

* * *

A few days later, Blitz took his saddlebags, put the Daring Do book in them, and took off from his home in Cloudsdale. He glided along without flapping his wings, finding currents of wind to lift him up and giving speed, letting the cool air run through his feathers. It was a rather peaceful sensation, something he needed before confronting Dusk Shine and after his ‘experimentation’ with Elusive.

Blitz had to admit he was starting to see how Applejack could fall for someone like Dusk Shine, though admitted Applejack probably wasn’t thinking about a mare version of Dusk Shine when he was thinking about getting a blow job.

Blitz hadn’t seen Applejack since the day at the restaurant. He’d flown over Sweet Apple Acres once while he was on weather duty, but he only saw Red Gala and Applebuck in the orchards and Grandpa Smith in a rocking chair on the porch. He had thought about flying down and at least asking Red Gala about how Applejack was feeling, but he figured it was probably best to leave him alone, and so he had.

After all, he did tell Applejack he didn’t have to speak with Dusk Shine just yet. “Leave it to me,” he had told Applejack just after Dusk Shine had left the restaurant.

Blitz was beginning to wish he hadn’t. Damn the element of Loyalty… he thought. Can’t say no to Applejack, can’t say no to Elusive… Solaris be damned, get out of my head, Elusive!

That had happened more frequently than Blitz would have liked to admit over the past few days. He hadn’t seen Elusive for the past few days either, though this time he was actively avoiding the stallion. Elusive had once come up to him in Sugarcube Corner where he was ordering a donut. Elusive started talking to him and Blitz, afraid of being caught with a hard-on or staring almost exclusively at Elusive’s ass, had paid for his donut and left before even Bubble Berry had realized what was going on.

What worried Blitz the most was the fact that it wasn’t a mare he was having these thoughts about now, but a stallion. Probably why Applejack didn’t want to tell anypony but Butterscotch at first…

It wasn’t much longer before Blitz had arrived in Ponyville. He gently spiraled down with the currents until he was circling above the upper levels of the Golden Oaks Library. Blitz came down and trotted to a stop on the road in front of the library before turning around and knocking on the door. Blitz waited patiently for a minute before Dusk Shine came and opened the door.

“Oh, hey, Rainbow Blitz,” he said cheerfully. “I wasn’t expecting to see you today.”

“I thought you would have,” Blitz said, “since I have a copy of Daring Do due today.” As though to prove it, he pulled the book out of his saddlebags and presented it to Dusk.

Blitz could almost see the lightbulb go off in Dusk’s head. “Oh, I almost forgot! I’ve just been so caught up in my thoughts I’ve been forgetting to do things lately.” Dusk Shine took the book in his magic and went over to a clipboard on the wall near the door. After a flipping a few pages, Dusk Shine marked clipboard with a check and went over to place the book back in the shelf.

Dusk Shine turned back to Blitz. “Now, is there anything else you need? Maybe some help organizing your schedule? Or how about a little discussion about your finances? Ooh! Perhaps you want to check out another book!?” Dusk smiled wide at Blitz, who was trying his hardest to smile back.

“Um, yeah. I was wondering if you had the latest Daring Do book in. You know, ‘Daring Do and the Temple of the Summer Sun’?”

Dusk Shine shook his head. “I have it, but not a library copy to check out. I could let you borrow it, though.”

“That would work out perfectly.”

Dusk Shine nodded. “I’ll be right back. It’s probably on my nightstand; I was in the middle of reading it a third time last night and I managed to finish it before falling asleep.” And he left Blitz alone in the library as he trotted upstairs.

It wasn’t long before Dusk Shine soon returned with the book in his magic. Blitz opened his saddlebag with a wing and let Dusk Shine gently put the book in them before Dusk released the book from his aura and Blitz let the saddlebag snap shut on its own. “Take as long as you need, Blitz,” Dusk Shine said. “You could read it multiple times if you wanted; it’s fast-paced and really engrossing.”

“Yeah, I’ll make sure to remember that.”

Dusk tilted his head and looked at Blitz worriedly. “What’s wrong?”

“Well… it’s about that time at the restaurant a few days ago.”

Dusk Shine frowned. “Look, Blitz, if you want to apologize, you don’t need to; I understand you’ve done nothing wrong and were just there observing the whole thing. It’s Applejack who needs to apologize. And let me tell you, I would accept an apology from him, but the whole situation really does make me uncomfortable.”

“It’s about to more so.”

Dusk Shine raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”

“I was the one who set up that lunch date for the specific purpose of Applejack confessing he liked you.”

Any and all traces of emotion were wiped clean of Dusk’s face. Blitz watched as the color continued to drain. “You mean… you knew but didn’t tell me?”

“I wasn’t supposed to be the one to tell you.”

Blitz found himself grabbed around the neck by Dusk’s aura. It didn’t choke, but Blitz swiftly found he couldn’t move as Dusk swung him around and backed him against the wall. “How long have you known, Blitz?” he nearly growled.

“Since the party for Butterscotch attempting to ask Red Gala out,” Blitz panicked. “Applejack was sitting alone in a corner drinking. I went over to talk to him and he, in a drunken state, told me about what he thought of you.”

“Is there more?”

“I went over to Sweet Apple Acres and got the full story,” Blitz said quickly. “He… He’s been like that ever since you arrived in Ponyville but hasn’t had the gumption to actually say anything about it until I got him and you together at the restaurant.”

Dusk glared at Blitz for a while before releasing the aura around Blitz’s throat. Blitz collapsed on the floor of the library and rubbed his throat for a little while before standing back up to face Dusk.

“What did he say about me?”

“There were a few things in particular he mentioned,” Blitz said, taking deep breaths in an attempt to calm himself down, “and I kind of have to agree with him on all those points. But I’ll give you the short version: you’re from Canterlot but you don’t lord that fact over us, you appreciate the value of hard work more than most other unicorns, and you’re one of the ponies in this town we can go to whenever we have problems.”

Dusk Shine trotted over to a nearby pouf and sat on it. “Why can’t we just be friends, though?”

Blitz sat down and tapped a hoof to his head. “How do I explain this… Applejack has probably spent the most time with you than any other of us Elements. We don’t interact the way with him that you do. I mean, you’ve helped him out three times regarding his orchard and applebucking; once we all worked on, but once you were the one who called it to our attention and once it was just you and him.”

“I still don’t see how that can extend beyond friendship,” Dusk said. “I mean, that’s just one incident, and as you yourself said, there was only once where it was just us two and the other times the rest of you helped out as well. What reason does he have?”

“There’s been a few incidents where you showed genuine care for him and his condition,” Blitz said. “There was the time when he was trying to buck the orchards alone and you were the one who went to talk to him about accepting our help. There was the time he thought about running away after the rodeo and you were the one who voted to go and get him back. When all of us were made to go all wonky and against our Element due to Eris, you went to Applejack first of all of us.”

Dusk Shine had to seriously think about that for a minute before responding. “For the time when Eris was here, Applejack was instrumental in helping to restrain the rest of you with his skill with a lasso. For the time we applebucked the orchard, the warning signs were quite obvious and had even momentarily incapacitated you. As for the rodeo… well…” But Dusk Shine trailed off and couldn’t finish the sentence and his counterargument.

“What’s the big deal about it?” Blitz said. “I mean, it’s not like he’s been staring at your ass the whole time.”

“Rainbow Blitz!” Dusk exclaimed, glaring at Blitz again. “What in the world would make you say that?”

“You’re thinking it, aren’t you? You’re thinking because he asked you about one date he might want to do it to you later, aren’t you?”

Dusk Shine’s face went bright red but he didn’t say anything.

“We both know Applejack as a practical and reasonable pony. What, in your right mind, would justify Applejack fucking you as practical or reasonable?”

The anger completely evaporated from Dusk Shine. Instead, he sighed and trailed a hoof around in circles on the floor.

“I don’t think I could do it.”

“Why not?”

“It just would feel so… wrong.”

“What’s so wrong about it? I mean, you and Applejack are really good friends already. There’s more stuff I could list besides those three little events. So what’s holding you back?”

“It’s not normal. Everywhere you look, the most common pairing is male with female. Stallion with mare. Heck, if you were to go to Canterlot and look around you wouldn’t even see two stallions holding hands or paired with another stallion. A stallion would be more likely to have a little group of females around him.”

“Dusk, let me clue you in on something: you’re not normal. Look at you! An accomplished unicorn scholar who was tutored under Solaris himself and now wields the Element of Magic. How many other unicorns do you know that can say that?”

“Well, Starswirl the Bearded was a very famous, accomplished unicorn scholar who was tutored under Solaris…”

Blitz smacked his own forehead with a hoof. “How many other unicorns do you know that can say that that are alive?”

Dusk didn’t even argue that point anymore. “What about if neither of us like it? What if we’re not compatible?”

“You could stop.”

“You talk about this like it’s so simple.”

“You do that on most issues and terminology. What’s the difference?”

“Difference?” Dusk Shine glared at Blitz. “There’s plenty of difference! I mean, science is proven through experimentation and terminology is certain in its definition.”

“The word ‘rail’ sounds the same in all its uses but differs in definition depending on context. And does the definition of ‘love’ ever take into account ‘stallion and mare only’?”

Dusk Shine was almost looking at Blitz with admiration. “Well, no.”

“And let’s take a look at experimentation. Think of this as a science experiment. Simple scientific formula has given us a question…”

“Could I really go through with this with Applejack?” Dusk Shine completed.

“And a hypothesis…” Blitz continued.

“No because we’re normally not supposed to be together,” Dusk Shine said.

“Time for some field research, then.”

Dusk Shine smiled. “I see you’ve managed to pick up on a thing or two from all the times we’ve been together.”

“I’ve learned how to speak with an egghead,” Blitz replied. “Now, are you going to give Applejack a chance?”

Dusk Shine nodded. “Once. We’ll see what the data says.”

Author's Note

It should be noted I have a man crush on Elusive.