The room was deathly silent as Rainbow Dash glared daggers at Mavis. Gilda was off to the side, her own eyes filled with loathing.

It seemed that they were at an impasse.

"Your soldier shouldn't have touched me Rainbow...I'm...not a fan of being touched without my permission."

The soldier in question was currently draped unconscious over the bar. The other three soldiers were sprawled out across the floor. All of it had stemmed from when the gryphon currently out cold on the bar had walked up and gave Mavis a joking nudge whilst commenting that the mare sounded like she was a nice lay. After that it was all chaos as Jubilee and Mavis took down the guards. Now, as it currently stood, Mavis held Rainbow immobile in an aura of magic while Gilda had a knife at Jubilee's throat.

"Yet it happened, so here's how this works."
In seconds Mavis teleported Gilda into the air next to Rainbow, effectively immobilizing her, before dropping both her cloak and disguise.
"May I present her royal nopony really gives a fuck, Princess, not Priestess, Twilight Sparkle."
In her echolocation borne 'sight' Twilight was suddenly shocked to find Rainbow wrench herself loose of the aura's hold and throw herself at Twilight. The alicorn, moving purely out of fear of an imminent attack, curled into a tight ball on the ground. Twilight remained like this for at least a minute before soft blue hooves wrapped around her and she felt tears dripping onto her fur.

"I...we all...I thought you were dead...how?" Rainbow managed to choke out as she began to cry into Twilight's shoulder. For Twilight's part she just remained how she was and hugged Rainbow Dash back, tears of her own leaking out from the wet spots at the bottom of the scarf wrapped over her sockets.

Shaking her head speechlessly, Twilight didn't even know how to start. Thankfully it was settled when Jubilee looked out the window to find a large group of guards in the same chest pieces as the one Twilight, as Mavis, had angered earlier.
"So, not necessarily the most urgent thing in the world, but definitely up there, we've got some pissed of guards outside. Twilight, back to Mavis, Rainbow, Gilda, we got a way out?"

Standing up, Twilight re enacted her disguise and began powering her horn for a teleportation.
"When I'm like this, which is most of the time, I'm Mavis Raven. Twilight isn't a much loved name these days."

"Посланник сyka, бросьте себя теперь!"

Mavis froze, her magic sitting ready for use, her mouth turning down at the edges with a twitch.
"Cyka....cyka....Gildedheart, translate."

"It's just Gilda, and he said 'Bitch envoy, give yourself up now', why?"

"Cyka means bitch?"

When Gilda nodded Mavis growled indecipherably. Rainbow made to place a hoof on Mavis' shoulder and urge her to leave but Jubilee crossed her path and shook her head.
"You don't want to be a part of what's about to happen."

With that Mavis disappeared in a flash of light. Seconds later her voice was heard outside.
"Hello there, 'cyka'!"

^~^~^~^

Jubilee shifted as little as possible as she regarded Rainbow Dash cooly. The polychromatic mare was hanging on every word of Jubilee's story, as well as what Jubilee could tell her of Mavis' time in the past six years. Needless to say, Rainbow was less than pleased with many of the details of what the real Twilight Sparkle had endured. Honestly much of it caused Jubilee to cringe. It was one thing to hear the story told, but it was a whole other thing to have the words come out of your mouth.

For some reason the warmth at her side and chest gave her a sense of comfort as her eyelids began to grow heavy. Rainbow seemed to understand that the mare's consciousness was flagging. As Rainbow left the room Jubilee cast a glance down at the alicorn currently tucked into her right side under one of her hooves.

The last thought that passed through Jubilee's mind before sleep took her was how adorable Mavis looked as night fell outside.

^~^~^~^

Swinger spun in a tight circle with a large smile as he voice, melodious and crystal clear, rang out through the woods as she danced amongst her three friends Buccaneer, Recruit and Ratchet. Swinger's slightly swollen abdomen was visible through the dress she wore as she twirled in front of the other three, her tail lifted and brushing the trio's snouts suggestively.

"Swinger, Ah swear you keep twirlin' aroun' an' Ah'm gunna hold you down and show ya that we ain't no strangers in the night!" Ratchet half threatened, half promised. This just earned bedroom eyes from Swinger.

"Well, my hormones are supposed to be all over the place..."

Buccaneer yelped as Ratchet suddenly flipped him onto his back, but did nothing even as Recruit worked him with her hooves until he was at full attention.
"Well, come have a seat if your that horny Swinger...Ratchet and I have plenty we can do to ya!"

Ten minutes later the activities were still continuing when a letter popped into existence. Despite the thorough work Swinger was doing with her tongue and the dexterous show of skill from Ratchet's hooves, Recruit still managed to open the letter and read it.
"Well...Would you...look..at that...Spectrum...is...holy fuck...is wanting us... there..."

"Well sugarcube, Ah want ya here, an' here's where yer gonna stay until we pay you back. Hey, Buccaneer, come sheath that scimitar of yers here!" grinned Ratchet.

Recruit wasn't about to complain.

^~^~^~^

Eepy Squeak breathed softly, unheard as her wings, silent as an owl's, cut through the air. The mare neared the compound and still remained undetected, her all black outfit allowing her to blend with the starless sky well.

Further in the compound, currently outside the reach of the mare now landing noiselessly on the roof, patiently waited none other than Princess Luna. The princess in question was currently regarding the vast amount of security personnel watching over her at the time. They didn't bother her anyway, as she had been in the know of the assassin coming for her since Eepy Squeak had first set out. Steeling herself for the challenges she would face in but a hooful of moments Luna couldn't help but grin at the challenge as the guards steeled themselves at her sudden change in demeanour.

Back up in the dark corridors Eepy Squeak made her way silently through the halls. All was going good so far until a golden armoured guard rounded the corner and found himself face to face with a buttercream pegasus smiling demurely...

Even as she carved a second smile below the poor guard's chin and blinked against the arterial spray.

^~^~^~^

Mavis, by some miracle of a higher being, had managed to find the toilet before emptying any leftover contents of her stomach from yesterday's meal via mouth. Suffice to say that while steak, a food choice forced on her by Celestia during her captivity, didn't taste too terribly bad going down, coming back up was another matter entirely. Come five minutes later Mavis sat hunched over the toilet, her sensitive nose burning against the smell. Feeling around with her hoof, Mavis managed to get a hold of the handle and pull it down.

The silence that had been surrounding her was quickly chased away by the rushing water. Even after the flushing stopped Mavis still didn't get up, thoughts of what she had done the previous day plaguing her mind. For the guards in the tower, she knew what they did everyday, she could justify why she killed them. Those gryphons yesterday though, she didn't knew them, and yet she still tore them apart callously. Retching again, yet with nothing left to come out, Mavis whimpered while painfully rubbing her raw throat before setting her cheek on the rim of the toilet and closing her eyes at the feeling of the cool porcelain against her heated face.

How long she lay there was an unknown to Mavis, but she heard the bed squeak and the clop of hooves on the floor to let her know Jubilee was walking into the bathroom soon. No, not soon actually, she was walking straight in. In but moments there was a hoof rubbing comfortingly across Mavis' back.

"You okay? What are you doing in here?"

Mavis shook her head as much as it could with her leaning on the rim of the bowl.
"It's nothing..."

"So nothing is why is smells of throw up and you look like you got hit by a train?"

The alicorn winced at the description, her sensitive nose easily picking up the stench. Even then Mavis felt that she shouldn't push any more of her problems onto Jubilee. With another firm shake Mavis attempted to cement that nothing was wrong.

"Just tired, must've dozed off, sorry."

Cocking a grin Jubilee reached up and ruffled Mavis' mane.
"A princess waking up in a bathroom leaning over the toilet, what'll the public think when they find out their princess-"

"Is a murderous bitch trying to kill them all?" snarked Mavis, causing Jubilee to wince. "Or that the other Princess is missing, the third isn't doing anything to help them, just running the Crystal Kingdom, and the fourth is some blind wretch that can't control her temper?!"
At this point Mavis' entire body was shaking.
"I hate this! It's not fair, I never asked for this, I never wanted this! Now I'm public enemy number one for things I didn't even do! I've been beaten and tortured and blinded because of some STUPID-FUCKING-RELICS!"
Each yell was punctuated with a strike of a hoof against the tile floor as Mavis began to cry again.
"I'm supposed to help them...I'm supposed to be somepony they trust...I can't even control myself. You saw what I did to those gryphons. And those four from the Crew are hospitalised. I...I...can't even...control myself, much less a country..."

Jubilee heard all of Mavis' words and wrapped her forehooves gently around Mavis' shoulders and hugged the alicorn close to herself. The unicorn's body was now shaking in time with the sobs coming from her friend. Even still it didn't deter the unicorn.

"True, you have done things that most other's wouldn't, but you've also suffered and survived things that would kill a lesser pony. I...don't..." taking in a large steady breath Jubilee prepared herself to continue, "I don't think I ever truly believed it was you that attacked Ponyville. Not after what happened, not with how my sister died. You loved her too much, you two were far too close..."

Breaths hitched in both Jubilee's and Mavis' throats as thoughts of who died, or who might have died in Mavis' case, passed through their heads.

"But I just wanted you to know that even with everything happening, I don't think you're a monster." assured Jubilee, her hooves still wrapped around Mavis, "You're my friend now, and even though it's only been about a week, I know you as the Twilight Sparkle from before the war started. As the, somewhat dorky mind you, alicorn that lived in our library and performed magic shows for the foals, or taught the magic lessons to the younger unicorns. As the mare that would go out with her friends to eat as often as go out with her friends to stop a parasprite invasion. And you still are that mare. Just now instead of getting a little crazy and causing a town to fall in love with a doll, you get a little crazy a kill a bunch of punks who deserve it."

"So you think that some ponies deserve to die?!" Mavis sputtered indignantly.

After a moments thought Jubilee responded.
"For that group? Yes. While you slept Rainbow and I talked, a lot. Turns out that gang had been extorting stores, stealing, mugging ponies and to top it all off were attempting to form an indentured sex slavery ring, which you put an end to last night. So, yes, they deserved to die, also you're the talk of the town. You see, it was one thing for the Spectrum Crew to oppose the regime here, but you, a female, walked right in, insulted the son of the gryphon who ran the group, and then killed said gryphon. Everypony here, including the gryphons, are talking about the Alicorn that dares stand up for the public rather than tread over them!"

Deep inside her, Mavis felt the stirrings of something new, something she hadn't even felt upon meeting her friends again or escaping from Celestia.

Mavis felt hope.

^~^~^~^

Enough blood pooled to cover the entirety of the floor in inches of the crimson liquid. It rippled in ten spots, where the hooves and tail, now stained red with gore, interrupted the natural flow. Blue eyes on blue eyes stared in anticipation of each other as princess and assassin stood off.

"It has been a long time Fl-"

"You know I don't use that name anymore!" the assassin countered in a hardened voice.

The princess nodded.
"I know, and I still love you, do you understand that?"

The assassin gave a curt nod, but kept her features hardened.
"I know, but I have a job, and I need to be finishing it."

"So this is it then 'Eepy Squeak'?"

"Yes Luna, this is it."

The lunar alicorn's muscles twitched as she readied herself for the fight.

^~^~^~^

Rainbow Dash was busy until later that day, so in the meantime Mavis and Jubilee were wandering around acquainting themselves with the city. The first thing they noted was that there seemed to be no class or caste to the public. There were no 'rich ponies' houses' and no 'poor ponies' houses'. Instead every house seemed to look the same. The building that used to hold the government officials had its wall torn open and now housed a large bazaar, plans courtesy of some Saddle Arabians. The police station had been gutted and turned into a large theatre as well. From what it seemed, every sentient being in the city was more or less equal.

It was essentially a city sized pocket of past Equestria.

"So, I'm blind, where are we going?"

Jubilee rolled her eyes and snickered.
"Why do I have to choose where we're going? Why can't you choose?"

"Well, I'm blind..." Mavis trailed off with a roll of her hoof, "So there's that."

"I could just name of places. Like over there is Rumbler's Potato and Window Washing Supplies Shop." Jubilee countered.

"Who in the hay makes a Potato and...Nevermind, I just meant that you should quit being a baby and find us someplace to go for a bit. Believe it or not, I don't really want to walk around aimlessly all day."

"Well there is the bazaar." came a new voice from behind them. Mavis, having not had her echolocation on, skittered forward a bit and grabbed the pony and jerked her into the air. "Friendly! Friendly! It's me, Wyldfyre!"

For her part Mavis was already feeling terrible for reacting in such a manner, a feeling that Jubilee was quick to pick up on and decide to redirect.

"You know Wyldfyre, for such a smart looking pegasus you could have thought of something smarter than walking up on a blind alicorn with high magic levels and is most always on guard an startling her." admonished the unicorn seriously.

Immediately Mavis attempted to assert that it wasn't Wyldfyre's fault when the pegasi intervened.

"You're right, and for that I apologise. I forget how quiet flying can be when you're trained like I am." Wyldfyre announced, "And also, the real name is Spitfire, Lieutenant Spitfire actually. I run most of the grunts around here and keep them in line. I'm actually looking for four ponies in particular. You seen four ponies, three mares, one just showing pregnancy, the stallion dressed like a pirate?"

Even though she knew Spitfire meant no harm, Mavis was hard pressed not to facehoof since they just covered her being blind.
"Oh yeah, and the stallion was pretty much the submissive in the relationship, and it was kind of endearing the way the mares pushed him around even though he liked it?"

Spitfire blinked a couple of times in surprise.
"Yeah, how'd you know?"

At that Mavis lost it.
"I didn't, I was being a bit of a smart ass, cause, you know, I'm blind, I haven't seen anypony in a long time."
The grey alicorn was rolling on the ground at this point flat out laughing her head off. It didn't take too much longer before Jubilee found herself laughing as well, having seated herself as both their sides heaved.
"Oh no please, I'm dying!"
Slowly wet spots built up on Mavis' eye shroud as her laughter continued and she desperately sucked in air in between bouts of uncontrollable laughter. It took another good minute or so of laughter before Mavis or Jubilee could stand back up and even then there were a few giggles.
"I'm sorry Spitfire, that was just hilarious, or for me it was."

Spitfire, who had had a few chuckles at it herself, smiled wider.
"I'm sure, but now you have a crowd to address."

Jubilee had already taken note of the gryphons, Saddle Arabians, ponies and occasional Diamond Dog that had stopped to see why there was an alicorn laughing hysterically in the middle of the street.
"She's right, but if anything Rainbow told me is true then these are all most likely fans. You should say hi, or do something inspiring and such."

Mavis half wanted to run and hide, but knew it wouldn't do anything good. Instead she activated her echolocation and faced the crowd with a large smile. She was about to way hello when a small pony, a filly by the looks of it, came rushing out of the crowd and launched herself at Mavis, wrapping her in a big hug repeating 'thank you' over and over again. In response a Diamond Dog came out of the crown and meekly approached the three mares and filly.

"Micha, off the nice mare! What have I told you about strangers? I am terrible sorry milady," the Diamond Dog started bowing while the filly came and bowed next to him, "Micha didn't mean anything, she is just, how you say, energetic. Again, I apologise."

Mavis just shook her head with a smile.
"No, no it's fine, and stand please, I can't stand being treated special. I'm Mavis Raven, and I believe I've met your..."

"Daughter, Mi-Mavis."

"Daughter, but if I may ask, what is your name?"

"Boscovitch, I run a club in town." replied the now standing Diamond Dog.

Nodding, Mavis just now noticed an off fabric looking lump under Boscovitsh's right eye. Running a thermal overlay in tandem with her echolocation the alicorn picked up on a hotspot around the Diamond Dog's eye, most likely due to bruising.

"What happened to your eye Boscovitch?"

Under the scrutiny of the alicorn, Boscovitch stepped back slightly and lowered himself.
"It is nothing of importance ma'am, no need to worry yourself."

Contradictory to Boscovitch's words Micha dashed forward and hugged Mavis again.
"That's why I was thanking you! These big meanie gryphons used to come in and beat up daddy whenever they came by, but I heard that you made them go away! Now there won't be meanies to my daddy anymore!"

"That's right," chuckled Mavis, "No more meanies here."

Mavis then turned to the crowd with a large smile and amplified her voice so all could hear her.
"Alright then, turns out those jerks I took care of yesterday have been roughing up some of you guys? Well then, anyone who's got any current injuries, caused by them queue up. After all, aren't Equestria's alicorn princesses supposed to care for their subjects?"

A rousing cheer rose up from the crowd, and Jubilee stepped closer and gave Mavis a hug.
"Anything I said this morning ringing any bells?"

Caught up in the moment Mavis turned and gave Jubilee a peck on the cheek before her first 'patient' walked up to her.

^~^~^~^

Luna was painfully picking herself after being slammed through a wall as Eepy Squeak came careening through the hole with a powerful right hook. Luna closed her eye's tight as she pushed her sore body back to a standing position while using a powerful blast of magic to ground the pegasus attacking her.

"Still a strong fighter Eepy."

"And you still bounce back like a pro."

With that the pair continued their fight.

^~^~^~^

Joking around and rowdy as usual, Buccaneer, Ratchet, Recruit and Swinger entered their usual hang out, a slick nightclub on the edge of town. Upon entering, the quartet got a number of greetings and smiles, their presence being well known amongst the usual patrons. The barkeep immediately got them each a drink with a smile.

"On the house you four, the moon knows you all deserve it!"

Smiling back, the four took their drinks and went to go mingle.

^~^~^~^

Mavis let out a loud yawn as she finished up with her final patient, a rather sensitive one that Mavis was personally none too comfortable handling. Even then she had promised to help every pony, and this stallion in particular had done something that earned her a lot of respect.

Apparently he'd interrupted an attempted rape on a mare he didn't recognise, and when the mare got away the culprits beat him badly doing a number on his stallionhood as well as breaking his pelvis. Despite her wanting to have nothing to do with this, Mavis knew she couldn't just ignore him. Thusly she cast a numbing spell and had him wait until everypony else had gone before moving to a more private area. It helped to know that Jubilee had her back though.

The alicorn soon finished, and after a much appreciated thanks and refusal of payment, the stallion ran off and Mavis shuddered.

"That was really brave of you Mavis, since I know your background and all."

For her part Mavis just looked uneasy.
"I need a drink, lots and lots of alcohol, and some brain bleach."

Giving Mavis a playful shove, Jubilee led Mavis outside the shed and began wandering the streets in search of someplace that served alcohol. After an hour of wandering it was starting to get hopeless when they rounded a corner and Jubilee saw a large flashy building with a rather obnoxious name. Letting out snort of laughter, Mavis regarded her non-visibly impaired companion inquisitively.

"What is it Jubille?"

"Well, I found us a nightclub if you're okay with the music." Jubilee explained, then continued after a nod from Mavis, "It's called the Shit-Faced Shrike, and I couldn't help but imagine how somepony got a bird hammered."

Grinning, Mavis nudged Jubilee forward.
"Keep going, I feel like a shrike tonight."

Laughing at the alicorn's attitude, Jubilee led Mavis to the door and gave it a tug. The second it was open the intro guitar riff could be heard slamming against their ears. Seconds later the first line of the song was heard and Mavis cocked a cheeky grin at Jubilee.

"I ask myself the same question all the time, but I never give myself an answer."

Laughing, Jubilee led Mavis to the bar where a familiar voice greeted them.
"Jubilee, Mavis! You are here!"

Both mare's grinned at the tell tale accent of Boscovitch, which was a light tone often found on the southern borders of Stalliongrad. Mavis managed to take a seat and regarded the Diamond Dog.
"Well, you certainly took it to heart when I said treat me like anypony else."

"Da! What can I say? Out there your are a big time hero!, In here though? Well, you are still a big time hero, but I treat all my patrons like family. Here, grab anything you like, tonight it is on the house!" Boscovitch chuckled, "And before you refuse, just now that you have saved me over a thousand bits in 'protection money' dealing with the thugs!"

Giving a warm smile, Jubilee levitated some wine to herself and then proffered a Guinneighs to Mavis.

"Well, he definitely seems nice enough. I must say, I like him better boisterous and loud than scared to look in our direction." Jubilee commented off-hoofedly.

Mavis just shook her head.
"He wasn't that scared, was he? I mean, I hadn't incinerated his daughter for coming near me, so it couldn't be that bad."

Jubilee didn't give any answer, so Mavis assumed she had just grinned and let it go. It was also about that time that the music cut off and there was a tapping on what could only be a microphone. Everypony, save for Mavis, turned to face a stage where Bascovitch stood with a microphone.
"So, as you all know, this town's original four heroes are back in town!" Bocovitch called out as a spotlight lit up four ponies in the back corner, "Who I would like to call on stage so we can all see who they are!"
At that the four ponies walked onto stage.
"Recruit, Swinger, pregnant, I see congratulations are in order there, Ratchet and their husband Buccaneer! This herd has spent more time cleaning up the street than they've spent in this club! But now I want to introduce-"

"Jubilee, please tell me he isn't."

"Two new heroes to our fair city-"

"Don't worry Mavis, he is."

"Unicorn Jubilee and alicorn, that is right the rumours are true! Alicorn Mavis Raven, who spent all day today treating victims of the gang that she put down yesterday evening! And to top that all off, she treated everypony for free with a smile on her face, complete with lollipops for the children! Вы можете верить этому?!"

In response, Jubilee watched as Recruit stepped forward with a cocky grin on her face.
"I'll believe it all right, that is, if this hero comes up and greets me on stage. Besides, sounds like we owe her!"

Mavis tried to shrink back from the attention, but was grabbed by Jubilee.
"Come on Mavis, this will be great, I swear! Just pretend that you can't tell that they're looking at you."

"That's because I can't tell if they are looking at me!"

Jubilee laughed as she began guiding the alicorn up the stairs onto the stage.
"Great, you've got an advantage then!"

Laughing at the joke, Mavis enacted her echolocation and stepped up next to Boscovitch. Suddenly everyone in the room was intrigued in the blind alicorn on stage.

"Speech!" one patron suddenly yelled, others quickly joining in until there was a resounding chorus of 'Speech's that Mavis couldn't ignore. With a blush and much apprehension the alicorn took a microphone from Boscovitch and cleared her throat.

"I..don't really have a speech ready, nor am I good at making them, but that's fine with me." Mavis started, "I have learned that there is much that can be said in the form of words, but that words aren't always enough. It's the actions that define who you are, not what you claim. I had a friend inform me just this morning that many are surprised to see an alicorn standing up for the public rather than stepping on them, so that is my plan. I'm going to find a way to sort this mess out, or I'll die trying. Simple as that. Um...have a nice night..."

The crowd didn't say anything at first, and there was a lot of whispering amongst them before the noise levels suddenly jumped as everyone began cheering. From her exit off the stage to her mild buzz a few hours later Mavis was being congratulated and given pats on the back. It all kind of blurred together in smile and laughter with the occasional funny story until Jubilee managed to find her again, having wandered off earlier. And by find, it is actually meant stumbled drunkenly back to.

"Hey Mavish...fun night..."

Mavis giggled slightly at the image in her head of Jubilee hanging off her side, a drunken blush on her face.
"Well hello to you too Jubilee. Had enough to drink have we?"

"Wha? I haven't had tha' mush..."

Giggling at Jubilee's antics, as she could see the unicorn waving around via echolocation, Mavis nudged her side and wrapped a wing around her.
"I'm heading out Bosco! Have a good night!"

The Diamond Dog grinned at the sight of Mavis leading Jubilee away and grinned.
"Da! You have a good night too Mavis, just not too much of a good one, eh?"

Mavis barely got Jubilee out the door before blushing furiously. Jubilee didn't help as she was rambling about all sorts of fun ponies could have at night, thankfully too drunk to actually think of sex.

"Oh...stargazing...Muffin liked stargazing..." Jubilee sputtered for a moment.

"Your sister again?"

After righting herself, with a lot of help from Mavis, Jubilee shrugged.
"Mmhmm...she was nice..gave lotsha ponies the...the beneh...buneh...be...she was nishe to a lotta ponies...like you, you're nishe to lotsha ponies too...and to me."

Mavis blushed suddenly at Jubilee's soft tone on the last line coupled with how close they were physically. She was about to do something about it when she felt Jubilee's breath tickle her ear.

"Yer really cute when yer ashleep...didja know that?"

Again Mavis was acutely aware of their proximity as her cheeks burned brighter. She made to pull away when a peck on the cheek made her stiffen., follow by another peck, and then a third peck at the edge of her mouth before Jubilee's lips descended upon hers. She both wanted to stop what was happening immediately, but felt a flare of warmth in her chest that calmed her. It was Jubilee after all. Not some random stallion, not a rapist, but her friend, her closest friend.

Purposefully letting her mind relax, Mavis allowed the kiss to continue for a time, their lips moving together in synch. It wasn't until she felt Jubilee's tongue flick lightly at her lips. In a rush Mavis pulled back as horrid memories of other things being forced through those same lips made themselves present, but it all ended as Jubilee's cheek met hers softly, the act comforting enough that when Jubilee swept in for another kiss Mavis didn't refuse. Again Mavis found Jubilee's tongue against her lips, but it was soft, as if asking for permission. Inching her own tongue forward, Mavis only just parted her lips enough to let her tongue meet Jubilee's tentatively.

Soft, fleeting prods continued for a time before Jubilee slid her tongue further, tickling at the back of Mavis' throat with a gentleness that she had never had the chance to experience before. In the moment Mavis teleported both of them straight to the room they were staying in. Jubilee pulled back from the disorientation and Mavis whimpered slightly. The noise seemed to shake Jubilee from her hormone and drink induced mindset enough to slur out and apology.

"M'sorry...I shouldn't've done that..."

Mavis shooked her head slightly and adopted such a face that, if Mavis still possessed eyes, would have been pleading yet apprehensive.
"Please...I think...with you anyway, I think that..."
Feeling as if her face was going to immolate, Mavis turned her head to the side as if to look away nervously.
"I think I want to try it, but a bit more...on my terms."

Careful, even though drunk, Jubilee pressed her lips to Mavis' for what would not be the last time that night as she introduce Mavis to what sex should truly be.

A trust formed bond between two ponies that truly care for eachother.

^~^~^~^

Eepy Squeak ripped a blade from her target as Luna let out a cry of shock. With a guttural cry that was surprising to hear from such a slender mare, the assassin thrust her blade a second time as Luna fell to the ground, yet was seemingly too late as a cyan blur slammed into Eepy Squeak's target. Not needing to worry about it anymore, and glad that the fight was over, the assassin offered a grim smile to the new entry.

"Rainbow, thank you for taking that gryphon down. I missed his heart with the first strike, and I was worried he would have hurt Luna." Eepy explained before offering a hoof to the alicorn, "Now, Luna, what was so important that you had to get captured for?"

In response Luna's horn glowed briefly before opening a zero space rift in which Luna removed two forms.
"I introduce the, still sleeping, ponies Clover the Clever and Knight Regent Sombre Winds. Now, we must flee to the Crystal Kingdom."

Author's Note

Before anyone grumbles, Mavis and Rainbow will talk more in the C.J., but in the meantime life moves on. Recruit, Swinger, Ratchet and Buccaneer will be involved with getting Mavis and Jubilee to the C.K. next chapter too. This just wasn't the chapter for it.

Eepy Squeak and Luna were fighting with not against eachother the whole time. Fun with words!

Oh, and the romance tag, it's in play now.

So, any guesses as to what's going on yet? Any at all? Oh, and if you've guessed Jubilee yet, feel free to give me a holler, just don't spoil it for everypony else.

Any issues and stuff like that, please let me know, but other than that I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!