Strong Spirit laid on his bed, a beautiful lavender mare snuggled beside him. Twilight Sparkle, a mare stallions would dream about. He gave her one last kiss before she closed her eyes, and he stared at the ceiling. It was funny really, how he met this mare… how he ended up lying here after the greatest sex in his life. Never did he think he'd actually fall head over hooves for some mare he barely knew. Well, that was until he met her, and then he hung out with her, then…

…let's go back to the beginning.

It was Friday night. Most ponies were heading home from late hour shifts, and those who turned in early were falling asleep. The air was cool, the moon was high in its arc, and the stars were twinkling beautifully above Ponyville. But as the last lights went out, only two remained. The first, was in the middle of downtown Ponyville. Vinyl's club, Remix. Various streaks of multicolored lights shot out in almost every direction, and ponies were lined up to go in. Inside was even brighter, and noisier. The DJ mare was turning tables, ponies were dancing, flirting, and some were starting what would be a very drunk and happy night.

The second, was on the more rural side of Ponyville. Inside was a built earth stallion by the name of Strong Spirit. His black mane was still wet from the shower, but he paid it no mind as he finished with the final touches on his tan coat. No, he wasn't going on a date. He was going to Remix, as he did every Friday, to dance, get drunk, and maybe bring home a mare. Or two. Whatever worked.

He slicked his mane back and looked at the mirror. "Perfect," he grinned. He winked at his reflection and headed for the door.

Within a few minutes, he was only a block away from the entrance to the club. "Strong!"

A cerulean stallion with a charcoal colored mane jogged over to him. "What's up, Lightning?" Strong smiled as he hoof bumped him.

"Ready for another night?" Lightning chuckled, nudging his buddy.

"Heck, yeah," Strong chuckled. "Brick."

The bouncer nodded to them both. "Hey, Strong. Go right in."

The music was already shaking the building as it blasted into their very core. Strong loved the feeling, and he also loved how many ponies were there tonight. He and Lightning split up as he went for the dance floor and his buddy went for the bar. Strong pushed through the crowd and greeted any familiar faces, which was about half the dance floor. Once he was in an open space, he let loose. He bobbed his head in tune with the beat and moved his hooves. The next beat dropped and everypony jumped all at once, cheering and laughing. Mostly because of the liquor in their systems, but that was aside from the point that they were having a good time. He moved in sync with the music, dancing with a few mares and shouting flirty compliments.

He saw the local school teacher, Cherilee, taking a body shot with Thunderlane. Everypony cheered them on like it was natural, and for now it was. The next mix came on and everypony started shaking it. He kept going, moving faster as the beat picked up and the noise only increased. Of course, he started flirting with the local twins, Cloudchaser and Flitter, while they danced together. When his legs were too tired for anymore of his constant moving and grooving, he went to the bar to get a drink.

"Flare!" Strong shouted her over the music.

"Hey, Strong!" she shouted back, giving him a wink and a smile. "Need a shot?"

"Not today! Just a cherry bleedout!" he said. She nodded and ducked under the counter, getting a small glass and filling it with the red liquid. The cherry juice turned blood red when the dark liquor mixed in. Strong dropped the bits on the counter, grabbed his drink and nodded. "Thanks, Flare!"

He worked his way around the crowd so he could climb the stairs to the balconies above. Usually, somepony he knew would be up there, but tonight it was filled with complete strangers. Well, ponies he'd seen or talked to once in a while, but no pony he was familiar with. He could see Lightning hitting on Roseluck from his seat, and in another minute they were heading for the exit. Lightning glanced up to him and winked, Strong returning the gesture. As his gaze wandered across the dance floor, something else caught his attention at the far side of the room. Three stallions were awfully close to a purple mare near the corner. He could see a pink streak cutting her violet mane in half.

From where he was, he could see they were trying to get her to come home with them and wouldn't take no for an answer. The mare was just standing around anyways, just watching everypony else dance. Strong knew these kinds of scenarios. Mare says no, guys say yes, mare ignores them, and then the guy gets wasted or tries to slip her some pure salt. One of his old friends was sent to the cells for doing that.

Deciding to see what exactly was going on, Strong went to see for himself. He left his drink and clambered down the stairs, then pushed through enough ponies so he could see and hear but mix in with them.

"I'm just fine here," he heard the mare say. The more Strong looked at her, the more familiar she looked.

"Come on, babe, gotta be lonely in the library sometimes," the green stallion chuckled. His buddies started laughing too, and what he said reminded Strong she was the librarian, but he swore he knew her name.

"I said I'm fine," she shouted over the music. Strong didn't see an end to this, and one of the stallions looked tipsy already.

Strong made his way over with an idea. "Hey, babe! I was looking all over for ya!" he said casually. He pulled her so that he was holding her below him and he quickly whispered, "Play along."

Without warning he pulled her into a deep kiss, with false passion of course. He cut it short and turned to the stallions with the bewildered, and albeit red faced, mare.

"Who're you guys?" Strong asked with his hoof around his "marefriend".

"None of your business," one of them snorted. They turned around and made their way back into the crowd.

Strong withdrew his hoof and waited for the inevitable slap, which came accordingly. "Why would you do that?! Who are you?!" she yelled.

Strong smiled sheepishly and gently rubbed his stinging cheek. "Strong Spirit, ma'am. Saw those guys giving you a hard time, so I thought I'd help! Sorry!" he laughed. She was red faced and fuming, but she calmed down some.

"You didn't have to kiss me," she huffed with a cross frown. Strong shrugged.

"Hey, had to sell it, y'know?" he chuckled. Now that he was closer to the mare, he could finally tell who she was. "Wait… you're Twilight Sparkle!"

She was surprised that he knew her name. "Um… yeah," she said.

Strong went shit faced. He just kissed the Element of Magic, and personal student of the sun princess. "Um, sorry! Just didn't want things to end up badly!" he said. "So what are you doing here?"

She groaned and walked further away from the crowd, Strong following. "A friend of mine told me I need to get out more, and she had a pass into here," Twilight sighed, rolling her eyes. "I don't know what she could want me to do."

With a chuckle, Strong pointed to the crowd. "Y'know, we're practically shouting to hear each other over music. In a club. Where ponies dance, and drink," he told her.

Twilight rubbed her foreleg in anxiety. "I don't drink, and I don't really dance around strangers," she admitted. Strong chuckled and held out his hoof to her.

"Well how about we change that for one night," he smiled. "Come on, just move the beat… or the bass. That's what they're doing, and that's what I'm doing. Come on, maybe your friend was right."

She looked at his hoof hesitantly, but slowly she raised her own. "I… guess it couldn't hurt," she smiled nervously.

"That's the spirit!" Strong chuckled. He guided her into the herd of dancing ponies, pulling them both into a gap in the crowd. "Just move it to the beat. Watch!"

Strong lost himself in the music again, showing his anxious friend what he meant. She watched him dance, which she thought was pretty silly. He did a last jerk of his hoof and stood with his hoof pointed at her.

"See? Now you!" he said. "Come on, just like I showed you."

Twilight nervously started moving her hooves. Strong had to not burst out laughing at how awkwardly she was dancing. She sort of got the hang of it, but she still didn't look synced with the song. Strong knew just the thing.

"Stay here! I'll be right back!" he told her.

As Twilight tried to dance, Strong worked his way back to the stairs and to his old table. Surprisingly, his cherry bleedout was still intact. He brought it back to her and noticed she was doing pretty well, her flank swaying around in tune with her hooves. She was a pretty mare, he had to admit.

"Twilight!" She broke from her trance and looked at him. "See! You're getting it! Here, try some."

She took it in her magic grasp and looked at it with a suspicious frown. "What is it?" she shouted.

He pushed it closer to her. "Trust me! You need this!" he chuckled. She hesitantly put the drink to her lips and took a small sip. "What is that?!" she coughed.

Strong laughed as he forgot this mare never drank before. "It's not that bad, just drink some more!" he told her.

Reluctantly she put it back up to her lips and drank. Before she could pull it away, Strong tilted it so that she drank the rest of it. She sputtered a few drops out, but he could see it working.

"That's stuff's pretty good!" she smiled lazily. "C'mon let's dance!"

She pulled him forcefully to the dance floor, and immediately she started dancing drunkenly. She kept shaking her flank around, getting some attention from other tipsy and sober stallions, but Strong just laughed and kept dancing. Now and then she would stumble into him and laugh uncontrollably, to which he would just laugh as well.

Two hours, and several cherry bleedouts, later…

The club was empty, save for a very drunk mare, and an equally wasted earth stallion. They were both lying on the floor, giggling like idiots.

"So, then I'm like, 'everypony's crazhy in thish town!'" Twilight slurred. "No, no, okay. Okay sho I shaid 'everypony's crazhy in thish town!'"

"You… said that twi-twice," Strong hiccuped. "Are you drunk?"

"Hey, hey, I-I don't… drink," she giggled as she hit him lightly. "You're drrunk."

"Hey," Vinyl said. "Come on, Strong. Party's over. Time to go home."

Strong groaned audibly as he rolled onto his stomach. "Do I have to?" he whined.

"Yes, Strong, come on," she chuckled as she helped him up. He groaned and stumbled onto his hooves.

"Fine," he grumbled. "Come on, Twi, get up." She was snoring loudly on the floor, a small streak of drool running down her cheek. "Twi. Twi, come on. Ugh, fine, I'll do it."

He got his neck under her, then lifted her onto his back. They didn't call him Strong for nothing. He got the mare onto his back and started for the door. With a shove of his shoulder, he walked back into the town and started for his house, momentarily forgetting the mare on his back. The walk was long and bumpy, in his mind. He could've sworn he had something important to do.

Eh, I'll do it tomorrow.

After unlocking the door, he trudged himself into his home and shut the door behind him. A loud thud made him turn around, and he looked down to Twilight's prone form. He groaned as he remembered what it was that he had to do. Then came an idea, and his drunken mind acted first. He dragged the unicorn across the rug and pushed her onto the couch.

Content with his choice of bedding for this mare, he went into his own room to sleep.

Author's Note

Plot with clop? Of course it is. Will be my first attempt at clop, so like, fav, comment, cross yo' fingas, and have an awesome day or night! Peaces!

(August 2014)

Hey guys! Hope you're interested in the story so far! If you ARE going forward, I have to warn that there are a LOT of spacing issues for a couple chapters before it's like this one. So yeah, I hope you can look past the spacing problems for now. Thanks!