Driven Batty

Heat.

When Anon had gone to bed, he had been cold. Even with the two blankets, Fluttershy had been like an icicle pressed up against him. It wasn’t quite teeth chattering, but she was cold enough to make him wish he had grabbed a third blanket. As he slowly rose from the dark comfort of slumber, that chill was gone, replaced with an overwhelming heat. It felt like a furnace underneath the blankets.

With that heat, there was a scent as well. The smell of his sweat was there of course, but there was something else; something far more potent. It was a mixture between caramel and the smell of Morning Dews in full bloom, with the heady, focus-annihilating scent of an aroused mare.

As his consciousness came back to him, Anon heard sounds as well. The blankets being moved, heavy breathing. There were whimpers, and the occasional quiet groan. It took him a few moments, but he realized that the noises were coming from not a foot away from him.
Opening an eye, Anon winced as now, fully awake, he noticed that not only was he hot and covered in sweat, but in a good deal of discomfort.

Fluttershy had her sizable rump pressed firmly against his groin. Somewhere in the middle of the night, Anon’s cock had poked out through the slit in his underwear. There, behind enemy lines, surrounded by a set of thick yellow thighs and a rump one could bounce a bit off it, it had been toyed with.

It felt like she had been teasing him since he had fallen asleep. His cock ached, his balls felt like they had grown a size. His underwear was soaked, and he had a feeling the wetness wasn’t all sweat. Every time he felt his cockhead brush against her rump a sharp pang of pain and pleasure shot up his spine.

Anon hissed, vehemently cursing his decision to take off his pajama bottoms right before falling asleep. He reached out, tapping Fluttershy’s shoulder, hoping that she’d stop doing whatever the heck she was doing so his poor penis wouldn’t explode.

“Fluttershy… Stop. Moving. Please.”

He felt the mare’s whole body tense as he touched her. She was curled forward, head tucked against her chin as she panted. Anon could feel the muscles in her shoulder move as she frantically moved her arm. The smell, the grinding, the sounds, the arm; it took a few moments, but he eventually put the pieces together.

“By the moon. My Count, oh my fucking Goddess,” Fluttershy. “I’m nearly…”

Before Anon could even begin to process Fluttershy saying fuck--a word she had never said before aloud for all the years he had known her--the bed creaked as the pegasus bucked her hips over and over again. She mumbled something that he couldn’t hear, her belly heaving as her body twitched. The scent of arousal threw thicker in the air. Anon could feel a wetness collecting on his shaft that wasn’t there before.

A knock on the door caused him to sit up. With robot-like motions, he threw off his covers, swung his legs over to the edge of the bed, and pushed himself off of it.

“Anon, it’s Starlight.” The door shimmered and became translucent, revealing the unicorn. “I was just checking to see if… What the heck?”

His cock bouncing with each stiff-legged step he took, Anon walked over to the door.

“What happened to you?” Starlight asked.

He did his best not to breathe. It was hard, since with his pounding heart even the few steps he had walked was making his lungs burn.

“Open the door.”

“Sure, but are you--”

“Open the goddamn door. Please and thank you.”

Looking very concerned, Starlight snapped her fingers. The door once again became whole. A moment later, there was a click, and the door was opened.

“Where in Celestia’s name are your pants?” the unicorn asked as Anon yanked open the door and stepped outside. “Why’s your dick out? Did Fluttershy do something to--oh!”

With just enough forethought to kick the door behind him closed, he scooped her up into his arms and began walking. She wasn’t wearing anything particularly sexy or revealing, just an overly large shirt and a pair of baggy pj bottoms, but it took all he had not to drop her on the ground and rut her like a wild beast.

“It feels like my dick and balls are going to explode,” he said. “I need help. Please.”

Starlight grinned as he began walking, the soft sounds of his feet hitting the crystal floor barely audible. Anon could feel his tip leaking freely, dribbling onto the floor with each step he took. Many times in his life he had been backed up and blueballed, but he had never felt anything like this. The discomfort was actually steering into genuine pain. He barely contained a whimper.

“What? A night with a supermodel was a bit too much for you?” she asked.

“Yeah,” he replied with a nod. “I know you wanna be funny, but I’m actually not great right now. Do you wanna help me sort this out? If you don’t please say so right now; I might not be able to put you down in a minute.”

Starlight’s smile disappeared. “Of course I’ll help you if you’re hurting,” she said. “Celestia, you really look bad. What did she do to you?”

“Don’t know. Don’t care right now. Need to cum.”

“Alright, but you can’t cum in me.”

Anon stopped in the middle of the hall to look down at the unicorn, who stared sheepishly back.

“What do you mean I can’t cum in you?”

“I promised Trixie I wouldn’t have baby making sex with anypony until she came back,” Starlight replied.

“I can’t have babies with you, Glimmy.”

“You know what I mean. I’m happy to help, but you can’t put it in me, okay?”

Hetook a deep breath. It was not okay; not even a little bit. Still, he held back the intense desire to complain, explosively exhaling. It wasn’t what he wanted, but he wasn’t going to push the issue, even in the state that he was in.

He was about to say something when he very nearly dropped the unicorn as his cock twitched, firing a spurt of cum onto the floor. He stumbled, just barely managing to regain his footing. Starlight tried to say something, but he just broke out into a jog toward her room. He did his best to breathe through his nose, since Fluttershy’s scent still clung to him, making things so much worse. He raced around a corner, nearly slamming into a wall, making the unicorn gasp. Seeing her bedroom door, he broke out into a full sprint, his eyes wide and wild.

Starlight’s horn glowed. Her clothing disappeared with a purple flash. Anon tripped over his feet, nearly face planting when he looked down to see her bare tits bouncing. Through luck and sheer will, he managed to continue his mad charge. Starlight’s horn glowed again, and she just managed to open her door before the human slammed into it.

He slowed his pace, walking through the door, more relieved than he had ever been in his life. He was shaking now, his heart pounding so hard that he wouldn’t have been surprised if Starlight could hear it.

“So, whatcha want me to do?” she asked him as he marched over to her bed. “You actually want that bj or--”

She let out a yelp as he dropped her onto the bed without warning.

“Hey, could you just--”

He grabbed her legs, pinning them together and lifting them up into the air so that her hooves were resting on his shoulder. Ignoring the feathering on her fetlocks tickling his face, he angled his aching, cum-soaked cock between her thighs. He let out a hiss as he slowly pressed himself forward, lifting the unicorn up somewhat to get more leverage.

It was perfect. So warm and soft that if he closed his eyes he could almost imagine that he was slipping into her marehood. Starlight, realizing what he wanted, quickly squeezed her thighs together. She laughed when he nearly crumpled to the ground.

“Come on then, stud,” she cooed, reaching up to cup one of her breasts. “Fuck my thighs~”

Anon, panting, hooked an arm around her knees, pushing them together. This cock gave an appreciative throb as the pressure around it became all that tighter. He barely heard Starlight giggling as he pressed himself between them as far as he could.

His cockhead poked out of the mare’s thighs. It was nearly purple in color, and swollen. As his cock throbbed again, he watched as a spurt of cum shot out of his tip, coating Starlight’s marehood. He gritted his teeth, slowly, carefully pulling back until his dick disappeared.

That warmth and heat followed his withdrawal. He felt himself twitching again, making a mess of her thighs as he pulled back until just his tip was nestled in her flesh. With a hard thrust, he drove himself forward. Her supple fur and flesh yielded, his tip popping out to slide up the length of her marehood. Starlight wiggled as his cockhead teased her clit, biting her bottom lip.

It was right there. He could feel it, smell it, nearly taste it. All he’d need to do was reach down with a hand and push himself in. He’d have the real thing and not second best; a fertile, hot, wet hole to fill and unload.

Snorting in frustration, he began a steady rhythm. Starlight said something; he heard the words but couldn’t process them. His entire focus was on the mare herself. The way that her mane bounced and her flesh rippled. Her breasts jiggling, the nipples hardening. A beautiful, amazing creature just for him.

He reached down to play with a tit, pinching her nipple between his pointer finger and thumb. Starlight reached down, grabbing his hand and lifting it toward her face. Eyes half-lidded, she blew him a kiss before guiding his thumb into her mouth. Her cheeks concaved ever so slightly as she began to suck.

Anon responded by snorting like a wild beast. His thrusting became shorter and more frantic. He couldn’t feel a build up, even though he had coated most of the unicorn’s lower body in pre cum. The pleasure was everywhere; constant, powerful, and equal in intensity from head to foot.

His cone of vision became smaller. It felt like his body was burning up. After a particularly hard thrust, he felt a sense of vertigo hit him. He held onto Starlight’s legs tightly, trying not to fall over as he fucked the mare’s thighs faster and faster.

She let out a groan when the first rope of cum shot from his tip with such force that it hit the bottom of her breasts. The next load left him with just as much force, as did the next one. Rope after rope left him, far more than should have been possible. He continued thrusting the whole while, trying to keep focused, desperately trying not to simply pass out.

With each load, the full body pleasure numbed somewhat. His heartbeat slowed as well, and some of the tension left his body. Relief filled him, putting a small smile on his face.

Using Starlight’s legs as support, breathing hard, he looked over the mare. Her belly and groin were a sticky mess. The mare herself was still sucking on his thumb, though her eyes were huge.

It took a few moments, but Anon eventually realized that he wasn’t getting soft. He also hadn’t ceased thrusting even now. His balls once again began to feel overly stuffed, much to his alarm.

Reaching up, Starlight pulled his thumb out of her mouth with a pop. She licked her lips, brow furrowed.

“Holy Luna,” she said breathlessly. “Do you think you can go again?”

~_~_~_~_~_~_~

As a matter of fact, Anon was able to go again, more than once in fact. The human really didn’t have an idea of just how long they both went at it, only the different places they traveled around the room.

The unicorn had him on the floor once the bed was ruined. When the carpet was thoroughly stained he carried her to her desk. He was also pretty sure he had her pressed up against her window somewhere in between in all. Were he not freaked out about how much he was able to cum, or how hard his heart was beating, he would have been very proud of himself.

Starlight seemed worried as well, though that didn’t stop her from taking full advantage of his seemingly unending arousal. She used her hands, thighs, hooves, legs, and breasts to get him off, along with countless toys that she had hidden around the room. Her worry turned to fascination as orgasm after orgasm tore through him. Thankfully, she made him drink a lot of water even while stroking, jerking, and playing with him so he didn’t turn into a mummy, though even after two gallons of water he still felt dehydrated. She said something about him cumming more than an Apple during summer. And had laughed. He hadn’t; he just wanted it to stop.

Thankfully, mercifully, the pleasure began to ebb. His orgasms were becoming less messy, and he wasn’t as painfully hard immediately after cumming. Seeing that the end was near, Starlight had lead him by his manhood toward her bathroom, where they had been for the past twenty minutes.

“Does that feel good?”

Anon’s eyes were half open. Warm water was pouring down onto his head. He had an arm wrapped around Starlight, who was jerking him off with one hand while playing with his balls with the other. The stream of water had done a good job getting more of the cum off the unicorn, but there were still some stubborn patches clinging to her. With a shaky hand, Anon reached up to wipe a bit of spunk from her crotch.

Starlight hummed, giving his shaft a firm squeeze. “You know, I’m going to smell like you for the next month, right?” she said. “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were trying to mark me.”

“Fluttershy… did something… I think,” the human replied through gritted teeth.

“Oh, that’s just what you want me to think, my big human,” the unicorn cooed, tilting her head up to give him a peck on the cheek. “A good alibi to hide the fact that you want to make this innocent, nice unicorn yours. Is that what you want, Anon? To make me your cute lil wife? Maybe see my belly get big with your foals~?”

With a groan, Anon found himself cumming. Starlight, wrapping an arm around him for support, continued to jerk him off, aiming his tip toward the shower drain. She managed to get two thick ropes out of him before the rest became a dribble. It seemed as if she had finally tapped him out.

Anon sank to his knees, exhausted. He wrapped his arms around the unicorn, resting his head right under her breasts with a sigh.

“Feeling better?” she asked, placing a hand on top of his head.

He nodded.

“Do you want to help me get cleaned up so we can go to sleep for a little while?”

The human nodded again, though made no more to get up.

“Do you maybe need a little breather?” Starlight said, running her fingers through his hair.

After a pause, Anon sighed again before nodding.

The unicorn looked at his bandages. Both were seeping blood, soaked with water, and threatening to peel off. Her nose scrunched.

“We need to get these changed,” she said, poking at his forearm. “Those can’t be comfortable. Especially the one on your neck.

It took a few minutes, but with Starlight’s help he eventually managed to get back to his feet. He could already feel his body begin to ache from what he had put it through, but he did his best to ignore it, reaching for a scrubber and shampoo. Again, with Starlight’s help he thoroughly washed them both. He had been slightly worried that he’d get hard again if he started to rub his hands all over the mare’s body, but his little soldier seemed to be down for the count. Washed, rinsed, bandaged, and finally dried, Starlight helped him out of the shower and toward her bed.

“What do you think Fluttershy did to you?” she asked, helping him sit down.

“I don’t know. I just remember the bed feeling really warm, and my body was sweaty and wet, and she was slicking it right next to me,” he replied, laying back with a pained grunt.

“And you’re sure she did something?”

“Have you seen me cum like that before?”

“Don’t get fussy,” she said, flicking his ear before climbing overtop of him into the center of the bed. “Now get your cute butt over here.”

She laid on her side, patting the space right next to her. Rolling over, Anon crawled toward her. He slung an arm around her side, pressing his face between her warm, still slightly wet boobs. Starlight laughed, placing a hand onto the back of his head and pressing his face more firmly between them.

The unicorn looked around the room, making a face when she noticed the state that it was in. Her horn glowed, and with a spell cum was cleaned, things were rightened and folded, and the overpowering smell of sex began to disappear. She had to cast the spell twice on her bed, annoyed at herself for not doing so before they both climbed in it, but in no time at all her room was as pristine as it had ever been.

“You trashing up my room aside, that was actually pretty fun,” she said. “I wouldn’t want you being a living firehose all the time, but once in a while might not be bad.”

Anon just let out a low groan.

Starlight smiled, kissing the top of his head. “If whatever she did to you wasn’t magical, and I’m guessing it isn’t since you’re well, you, maybe I can figure out a way to recreate it?” she said. “It’d be a nice surprise for Trixie when she gets back.”

“We really don’t need to do that again,” he replied, lifting his face from her chest. “I’m pretty sure I was cumming bits of bone by the end.”

“We should get a vitamin smoothie or two in you after our nap,” she said. “Still though, we need to think of something to do for Trixie when she gets back.”

Anon made a face. “We really don’t.”

“Oh, come on. Don’t be like that,” Starlight said, flicking his nose. “We all had a lot of fun with Trixie last time.”

“You might have.”

“It might have been a little awkward, but it was a good night all around.”

“Her foreplay was ten minutes of card tricks and pulling handkerchiefs out of places, Starlight.”

“She was nervous! You were her first stallion.”

“She pulled ten feet of tied up handkerchiefs out of my ass,” Anon said, a haunted look in her eyes. “Ten feet.”

Starlight opened her mouth.

“Ten,” the human said with a hushed whisper, interrupting whatever she was about to say. “There were twenty knots in it. I had to count each one as they came out.”

An awkward silence followed. Anon shivered, picking his head up to look at the door as if she expected the magician to pop in at that moment.

“I… I did talk to her about that, a few days after” the unicorn said, ears folded against her skull. “She won’t do anything like that again.”

When she noticed Anon just staring off into the distance, his mind elsewhere, she gave his cheek a light slap.

“It’ll be fine. It’ll be fine,” she promised, tilting his chin up so that he was looking up at her. “She said she had a lot of fun with us. I had a great time and while you… didn’t, we can change that. Come on; she might be hotter than Fluttershy, and she’ll let you do whatever you want to her. Isn’t that enough to at least give her another chance?”

She bit her lip when she saw the doubt in his eyes.

“Please? For me?” she said. “I actually really, really like her. Sure, she has her quirks, but she really gets me. If things go well I could see myself settling down with her and you.”

“You? Settle?” Anon replied.

“Yes. Me. Settle,” Starlight said with a nod. “Fooling around is fun, but I want ponies to come home to everyday. Not strangers, but ones I care about and ones that care about me. A big, strong studly stallion--” She kissed his forehead. “--and a mare or two. I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty good to me.”

“What brought this all on?”

“Oh, nothing in particular. I’ve actually been thinking about this for a while now. If this whole thing with Fluttershy hadn’t happened I’d have asked you before Trixie left.”

“... No fooling?”

Starlight looked down at him, collecting her thoughts. She reached up, placing a hand on his cheek.

“I think if I would have met you earlier in my life I wouldn’t have turned out like I did,” she said. “You’re a great stallion, Anon. If I don’t get anything out of Twilight and her teachings I’ll be always grateful that I got to meet you because of her. You’re a lot like me. Different. Weird. Other. When I’m with you I don’t feel so out of place, and I really, really like that.”

She smiled, booping his nose. Anon couldn’t help but smile back.

“So, here’s what’s gonna happen. When Trixie gets back the two of us are taking you out to a nice dinner, wherever you want. After that we’ll go out in some field and stargaze for a little while, sharing a blanket. When we’re done with that we’ll all go back to your place and screw the week away.”

Anon laughed. “The whole week?”

“You better believe it, buster,” Starlight said, pressing his head against her chest. “And you’re putting foals in both of us.”

“You know I can’t have kids with you, Glimmy.”

“You let me worry about that. I have my best ponies on it.”

“No you don’t.”

“I do too. Now be quiet or I’m crawling under these covers and sucking your dick until I get another four or five loads out of you.”

Anon winced, pressing his knees together. Starlight laughed at his expression, kissing his forehead before closing her eyes. As painful as it was, Anon dragged himself upward. Wrapping his arms around the unicorn, he pulled her against his chest. Starlight let out a content sigh, snuggling up against him.

Just as they got settled, there was a knock on the door, which was quickly followed by the doorknob turning. Spike poked his head in, looking around.

“Hey Starlight, are you coming to breakfast or what? The food is getting cold and--”

He stopped, sniffing the air. His face scrunched up in disgust as he looked over toward the bed. Starlight poked her head over Anon to look at him. Anon, meanwhile, was laying very still, trying his hardest to appear like a bunch of pillows.

“What the heck is wrong with you mammals? Why can’t you just lay eggs like civilized folk?” he muttered under his breath, shaking his head. “I’m putting the leftovers in the fridge. If you both want something for lunch and dinner you’re on your own; I’ll be at the Apples for an O and O session for most of the day.”

“Alright Spike, thanks for letting us know,” Starlight said softly.

Spike just stuck his tongue out, still shaking his head as he closed the door. Starlight looked at Anon, who’s eyes were closed.

“We forgot to lock the door,” she said, horror thick in her tone.

“Yeah. We forgot to lock the door,” Anon agreed.

Chewing on her bottom lip. Starlight’s horn sparked to life. The door was locked, then tugged on to make sure it was locked. With that done, she laid her head down, ready for a nap.

~_~_~_~_~_~_~

While Twilight had always held more interest in the fields of magic, she did enjoy dipping her hooves in biology. At times, the equine body was just as interesting--albeit grosser and messier--as a complex spell. So many systems working together in harmony. Those systems could weather some true ordeals if put through their paces. They could also fall apart at the drop of a hat.

The princess had been looking over Fluttershy’s results from their testing the other day as well as the samples she had managed to collect. Saliva, hair, blood; all weighed and measured and ready to examine.

Larger samples and some of her early findings had been sent to Ponyville General this morning. While Twilight considered herself a smart cookie, she was no medical professional. Better to have a group of doctors and nurses with years of experience looking over the data than her doing it herself. She would have liked to have brought in a doctor or two to conduct a complete physical to her friend, but after yesterday she didn’t want to risk anypony else without very good reason.

It was why she was sending Spike to the Apple’s for today. She would call Applejack later to see if the young dragon could stay there until she was more comfortable with Fluttershy’s containment.

She leaned back in her chair, rubbing her eyes. She hadn’t gotten as much sleep as she would have liked last night. She had been so worried about Anon being in the same room as Fluttershy for the whole night she had checked up on him at least a dozen times. He had seemed okay, but she was going to make sure to give him a once over whenever he woke up. Until then, she had some work to do.

The microscope sitting on the desk in front of her was top of the line. She had borrowed it from Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns in preparation for capturing Fluttershy. The school's dean had, kindly yet firmly, explained to her the importance in bringing this piece of equipment back to them in mint condition, as it was worth considerably more than her parents’ house in Canterlot. This meant using the microscope was a bit nerve wracking to say the least, but even so Twilight was having the time of her life with the thing. It could go up to three thousand times magnification. Three thousand!

She grabbed a slide with a drop of Fluttershy’s blood on it, placing it under the objective lenses. Playing with the knobs on either side of the microscope, she peered into the eyepiece. She was just about to bring the sample into focus when she heard hoofsteps.

Ears perking up, she sat up and looked over her shoulder. Starlight, still wearing her pajamas, walked in, running a hand through her messy mane. Twilight had to double take when she saw a ripped up pair of overly large underwear floating next to the unicorn.

“You alright?” Twilight asked. “You look… tired?”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m fine,” Starlight replied, yawning. “I just had to help Anon with something. It took a lot out of me.”

“Did something happen with him and Fluttershy?” Twilight asked, standing up. “Is he hurt? Do we need to--”

“Sit down,” Starlight said, waving her questions away. “He’s fine. He’s sleeping right now.”

As she drew closer, Twilight’s nostrils flared. Anon’s scent was so thick on the unicorn that if she closed her eyes she wouldn’t have been able to tell them apart from each other. She tried her hardest to keep the scowl off her face.

“What happened?” she asked, with a bit more aggressiveness than was needed.

“I guess she was rubbing up against him all night,” Starlight replied with a shrug. “She was jilling off right next to him when he woke up too. Really riled him up.”

Twilight’s anger disappeared in an instant at her student’s bluntness. “W-What?!” she said, face heating up.

“Yep. He was like a wild animal when I went to check up on him. Picked me up and carried me to my room and everything. Hey, do you have another glass slide lying around?”

Still trying to process just what Starlight had said, Twilight wordlessly passed her a slide.

“Thanks,” the mare said with a smile, walking over to take it out of her hands.

Twilight’s nostrils flared again, this time taking in the overwhelming scent of Fluttershy’s arousal. Her horror and embarrassment was such that she wished nothing more than to fold up like a piece of paper and hide under a blanket.

If Starlight noticed the alicorn’s inner turmoil she didn’t comment on it, raising the slide up to the light as she made her way over to a table. She grabbed a beaker and an eye dropper. Twilight made a noise as she twisted the underwear with a spell, causing liquid to seep from it and land into the beaker.

“I know colts can get worked up easily, but I’ve never seen Anon like that. The guy looked like he was going to have a heart attack,” Starlight said, levitating the eye dropper into the beaker and extracting some of the… juices.

“Not to mention his orgasms. His loads were bigger than an earth ponies’,” she continued, squeezing a few drops onto the slider. “I’m talking a lot of cum--”

“Starlight. Please,” Twilight begged, clasping her hands together.

“Hmm? Oh, sorry. Maybe a bit too much information, huh?” Starlight said with a giggle. “Could you move for a second? I wanna check something.”

A thoroughly embarrassed Twilight did as she was told, moving away from the microscope. Starlight took a seat in front of it, putting the slider underneath the objective lens. Looking into the ocular lens, she began adjusting the focus. As she did this, Twilight was trying her hardest to will the blush from her face, with not much success.

Still, as much as her student’s bluntness had absolutely mortified her, the alicorn was still curious as to what was going on. So, she moved to her students side, placing a hand on her shoulder. The unicorn hummed and hawed, suddenly leaning back.

“Huh. I figured that would be the case,” she said, rubbing her chin.

“Figured what?” Twilight asked.

“Remember how Fluttershy’s saliva seemed weird under the microscope?”

“Yes…”

“Guess how strange her cum looks.”

“Don’t… call it that. Please.”

Starlight couldn’t help but roll her eyes. “Alright, her vaginal fluids. There’s something off about it as well.”

“It could be that it’s just a different sort of fluid,” Twilight suggested.

“I don’t think so. There’s something off about the bacteria. I’ve never seen any like this; just like with her spit, but there’s so many more of them.”

“Here, let me take a look,” Twilight said, tapping her shoulder.

Starlight stood up, allowing the princess to take a seat. She peered into the lens, feathers ruffling. Sure enough, she saw exactly what they had seen yesterday. Clusters of strangely shaped organisms. She could see them pulsing as they moved through the fluid, their long, jagged feelers reaching out as if searching for something.

“Huh. You’re right,” she said, sitting back in the chair. “We need to send some of this to get examined as well. Hopefully somepony will know what they’re looking at.”

“I was thinking the same thing,” Starlight said with a nod. “But... I might have a theory.”

Twilight’s ears perked up. She looked toward the mare, motioning her to continue.

“I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t sleep too well last night, so I decided to do some more reading about fruit bats. I figured since we’re both pretty sure it was a fruit bat that infected Fluttershy that it wouldn’t hurt to read up about them. There were a few things that really stuck out to me, and others that didn’t until a few minutes ago.”

“Like what?”

“A fruit bat female is a lot larger than the males, and far more aggressive,” Starlight said. “If they do see a male, they’ll usually try to scare it away by knocking them out of the air or even biting them. Here’s the thing though; if they do bite the male and he manages to bite her back, the female will lose all aggression towards him. In fact, she’ll see him as her mate.”

“You think that’s why Fluttershy is acting like she is to Anon?” Twilight asked, brow furrowed.

“Maybe,” Starlight replied, rubbing her face with a hand. “I also read that if the male has no interest in the female she can pin him to the ground and rub her pu--”

“Starlight.”

“Her sex against his. A female fruit bat produces a pheromone cocktail that increases the males sex drive and sperm production. It takes hours to work, but when it kicks in it drives the male crazy. It’s also really dangerous. A lot of male bats die from heart failure. The craziest thing is that its just not dangerous for them.”

Starlight ran a hand through her mane.

“Some scientists did a study years ago where they took a male monkey and rubbed some of the sexual fluid against his junk. After an hour or two, the poor fella dropped dead of a heart attack. I might be talking out of my flank, but that seems pretty similar to what happened with Anon this morning. Thankfully, the big ape is a lot tougher than his cousins, otherwise we might be having a very different conversation.”

Twilight covered a hand to her mouth. “Sweet Celestia…”

The alicorn’s horn lit up. In a flash of purple magic, a chair appeared behind her. With a groan, she took a seat.

“Are you sure Anon’s alright?” she asked.

“As alright as he can be,” Starlight replied. “I had him drinking water while we were going at it. When he wakes up I want to check up on him, but he could be a lot worse.”

Twilight covered her face with both hands. She took deep breaths, trying to force down the panic twisting her stomach into knots. She held a breath, counting to ten before releasing it. Pulling her hands away from her face, she stood up.

If what Starlight was correct, then Fluttershy was dangerous to everypony in the castle, Anon included. She needed to be cured, and quickly, otherwise it might be disastrous.

“Alright,” she said, puffing her chest out. “Get a sample of that fluid sent to the hospital. You and I have a long day ahead of us."