My Little Amnesia: Ignorance Is Bliss

Twilight groaned as she woke up. The longest, loudest and most pained sounding groan she had made through the entire night up to now. She opened her eyes.

She was in a room. The room didn't have any potions or dissection tables or corpses around, so that was at least a nice change of pace.

It was slightly balanced out by the fact she was hanging from the ceiling by black chains with her back arched to the floor in a suggestive position. The room she was in had a slightly sunken floor, covered entirely in shallow water that swirled around ominously, seemingly with nothing to move it.

She whimpered, jerking her hooves to tug at the chains in hopes of finding a weak link in them. She was unsuccessful, however.

"Girls?" The bound mare questioned, forgetting that her friends had to be the ones to put her in this position to begin with.

"Oh! She's up!" Twilight could barely hear Rarity exclaimed from another room. She heard the creak of a door, and could see her friends pouring in the room from a wall.

Applejack was with them.

She wasn't quite as bad as Rainbow Dash in her bodily dis-figuration. She was more near Pinkie's level, having a hatchet stuck in the back of her neck and the black film Pinkie and Rainbow had on her eyes. Her legs were covered in bruises and cuts, but those actually looked like they would heal if the proper first aid was applied. Other than that, she looked relatively the same.

"A-Applejack?" Twilight managed to choke out.

Applejack took her hat and brought over her chest. A nervous smile was on the farmer's face, but she attempted to be cordial. "Howdy, Twilight. How are ya?"

"I'm scared." Twilight admitted, tugging gently at the chains to illustrate her point. "What's happening? What's going on?"

Applejack seemed ready to answer, but Rarity stepped in. "Well, you see, Twilight Sparkle...you recently took some of what you called an 'Amnesia mixture' so you've forgotten the events that have transpired over the last week or two. We've decided we need to remind of some things you forgot without telling you every thing you forgot."

Twilight narrowed her eyes. "And hanging me up from the ceiling with huge, black chains helps with this...how, exactly?"

Rarity sighed. "It's to keep you from doing anything too rash, darling."

Twilight was starting to get frustrated. "Anything too rash? What do you mean by that!?" Twilight took another look at the chains on her hooves. She gathered energy in her horn and blasted one, but it took the hit like a trooper and didn't come off any worse for the wear except for a little smoke and rattling.

"Arrgh!" Twilight swore. Enchanted to be magic-proof! Or at least magic-resistant. Either way, she should've known. Given how well her friends knew her, and how much her magic was an integral part of her personality, they would never make the oversight of not accounting for her magic.

"Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy." Rarity commanded. "Fly up there and start our plan."

"Plan?" Twilight questioned. Under normal circumstances, Twilight liked plans. But these circumstances were not normal at all, and she found the idea more terrifying than assuring.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flapped their wings and flew up to Twilight. Twilight alternated looks between the two of them before Rainbow flew down underneath Twilight's back while Fluttershy fluttered herself above the unicorn's stomach.

"What are you doing?" Twilight questioned.

"Soft stuff." Fluttershy replied.

Twilight's mouth and brain stopped working for a minute before she could make her question form.

"...What do you mean, soft stuff?"

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash hugged her, wrapping their wings around Twilight and each other to keep them all held together tightly.

"What's going on?" Twilight repeated. "What are you doing!?"

A luminescent blush formed on her face when Twilight started to feel Rainbow's nose burrowing it's way into the back of her neck. Fluttershy rubbed Twilight's chest with her hoof, gently stroking through Twilight's fur.

"Seriously, girls, what...are...you...eh-heh-heh-heh." Twilight let out a airy chuckle, suddenly starting to enjoy the feeling of being nuzzled. "What? No!" Twilight flailed about, shaking the chains. "I am not enjoying this!"

Rainbow and Fluttershy looked to each other.

"Well, we'll just have to fix that, then. Won't we, Fluttershy?"

"Oh, yes." Fluttershy agreed, nodding her head.

"What?" Twilight exclaimed. "What does that mean?"

Fluttershy took in a deep, deep breath before swinging her head down and blowing a raspberry on Twilight's stomach, eliciting a giggle.

"S-stop! Hahaha! S-stop it!" Twilight flailed and struggled again, continuing to tell herself she wasn't enjoying this, even though she was actually starting to get used to it...and like it. Her denial was more to tell herself than her friends.

Twilight felt an absolutely cold shiver down her back when she felt something wet slip across her neck.

Was-was Rainbow Dash licking her?

Twilight sighed, shivering from the bizarre pleasant feelings she was getting. A drip of the light blue liquid escaped from her eye as she got the feeling she had been through this before - or at least something similar to this.

Fluttershy removed her mouth from Twilight's stomach and wiggled around to readjust herself.

Fluttershy stuck her tongue out slightly, barely visible in the corner of Twilight's eye, taunting the unicorn with the knowledge her friend was about to do something else to her.

Fluttershy pushed out her tongue as far as it would go and started licking Twilight's neck as well, giving Twilight a breathtaking sensation as the two pegasi proceeded to work together to coat her neck in saliva.

"Girls..." Twilight murmured, so taken by the alien feeling surreality of the predicament she was in that she could barely make any other word besides the one.

Fluttershy stopped her licking and rose up to admire Twilight's face for a moment.

"Mm. Um...Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy questioned as she rubbed Twilight's cheek with a hoof. "I've, um...kissed her twice already. Would you like a turn?"

"Sure!"

Dash and Fluttershy separated from Twilight and flew around, switching places so that Fluttershy was on Twilight's back and Rainbow was on her front. Rainbow licked her own lips in anticipation before kissing Twilight's, shoving her tongue down Twilight's and slurping the roof of the unicorn's mouth.

"Mmnf..." Twilight groaned. She was starting to become, well...desensitized to the ordeal she was in after so long. Closing her eyes, Twilight brought her hoof down and started to seductively rub the base of Rainbow Dash's wing.

"Rarity, Ah think she's warming up to it." Applejack observed.

"Excellent!" Rarity exclaimed. "Bring her down, you two!"

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash separated from Twilight again, flying away from her. Twilight reached her hooves out, not wanting them to leave. They started fiddling with the chains and eventually manually forced them to unlock. Twilight was prevented from hitting the floor by the pegasi's quick reaction, and they carried her gently to the floor.

Rarity smiled lecherously.

"Now we can get to the real fun."

Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack approached Twilight and the pegasi, circling around as they looked for the best place to be.

"Girls?" Twilight repeated. An excellent question, given her entire vocabulary had been reduced to the one word.

Pinkie and Applejack sat down on their bellies to the side. Rainbow picked up Twilight and weaseled her way under Twilight's back, serving as a sort of bed while still being in a position where she could lick Twilight's neck.

"Uhhhhn...?" Twilight groaned, eye following Rarity nervously as her white opposite walked around them all in predatory circles.

"This is what we used to do, darling." Rarity explained. "Can you remember? All of us, lying together..."

Applejack and Pinkie stuck out their tongues and start licking Twilight's Cutie Mark on both sides, making her shiver and moan.

"Ooooh!"

Rarity chuckled. "Well, that's good...but, I think we can do better."

Rarity reared up and flailed her hooves and brought them down on Twilight's withers with a thump before taking her own turn at kissing Twilight. She was a lot less...rough than Rainbow, Twilight thought to herself.

But she didn't realize, until it was too late...that Rarity was on top of her, Rainbow below her, and Applejack and Pinkie Pie besides...so, where did that leave Fluttershy?

She wasn't sure what Rarity was doing when she felt her white opposite's hind legs rise upward...until she felt a tongue on her stomach that started to trail down.

What in the...? Twilight thought to herself. Is Fluttershy licking my stomach? What's she doing there? Oh, tell me she's not-

Twilight felt a very particular feeling.

She IS! Twilight realized with horror. No! No, Fluttershy, stop! Get out of there! I don't want-Ah ha...haha...ooooh...ahhhh...

Suddenly, flashes of memories came flooding back to Twilight. She remembered. She remembered lying in bed with all her friends, each one in turn, letting them do atrocious things to her. She remembered lying on her back with Applejack on top of her, preparing to give Twilight a good rutting. She remembered Rarity turning around submissively so Twilight could whip her Cutie Mark with a leather strap like the ones they found on her. She remembered Pinkie underneath her hooves, moaning longingly as Twilight drew a knife across her chest. It was then Twilight realized her friends weren't trying to hurt her, or scare her; they were trying to make her feel good.

"Mmmh! Mhh!" Twilight protested, eventually causing Rarity to move her lips away from Twilight's.

"Girls!" Twilight exclaimed, the blue liquid leaking from her eyes. "Girls, I'm starting to remember some things! Keep going, girls! M-m-m-m-m-m-make your Mistress... feel g-guh-goooood."

Everypony heard their Mistress speak, and eagerly heeded the call. Applejack and Pinkie drew back their tongues, then proceeded to gnaw and nip on Twilight's haunches affectionately. Rainbow Dash followed suit, replacing her licks on the back of Twilight's neck with bits on the side of it. Fluttershy put her hooves on Twilight's stomach and started pumping her tongue, going in and out of Twilight like a piston.

"Oh my... oooh yeees...." Twilight moaned. "That's it... that's it, sweeties, right there... ooooh." Twilgiht laid her neck back, content to just let everpony do as they wished.

"AH Ha ha...ha haaaa ooooooh." Twilight moaned and contracted. "OooooOOooooOOOoOOOHoooHOOO!"

Oh, sweet... Twilight thought, her body bucking. How does a pony feel this way without exploding!?

She was about to discover that no, ponies do not feel this way without exploding.

Her breathing got extremely sharp and shallow, and her hind legs were flailing from the feeling. An intense pressure was building in her stomach that needed relief soon...

"Fl-Fluttershhhy!" Twilight exclaimed, suddenly regaining her voice. "I feel like I'm going to explode! I-I-I'm not sure I c-can hold it!"

Rarity chuckled. "Darling, like many things, you've forgotten what you used to tell us. If you need to let it flow...then just..."

Rarity bent her neck over and whispered into Twilight's ear.

"Let it... go."

"I- I don't want to defile Fluttershy like that..." Twilight murmured.

"You won't." Rarity assured her. "Can't you see how hard she's working? She wants it. It's reward to her, not a punishment. Let it go. Relax. Release. Relax...and release... fill her with your love."

Twilight opened her eyes and looked down, seeing Fluttershy lick her while looking up at her pleadingly, begging to be granted the honor of release. Fluttershy stopped for a second, a second that Twilight found the most tortuous second in the history of torturous second, so as to coax Twilight that it was okay for her to let go.

"She wants it, Twilight! Give it to her!"

Rarity's assurances and whispering eventually got to Twilight, and she gave in. Eyes rolling to the back of her head, she took in a deep breath for a scream she knew was coming. Her belly rose up high in the air as she tried to suck up all the oxygen around her.

"Fluttershy! Girls! Girls! Fluttershy! OOOOOOOOOOHHH!"

Twilight screamed and released, scissoring Fluttershy's neck with her hind legs, forcing the shy pony to taste every, last, heated, drip-drop of her love as it was pa-pumped out of her from Fluttershy's licking.

After she was done, everypony drew away from Twilight, and she rolled over off Rainbow Dash onto the floor. Her eyes were spinning like drunken helicopter blades, and she felt like...like a deflated balloon. Like a fire hydrant broken and smashed up beyond repair. Like a pot of boiling water with a leak in it. Like...well, like a lot of things. But most of all...

She felt amazingly satisfied.

Twilight's head remained dizzy for a good long while after that, though she was conscious. She could vaguely make out being picked up and carried out of the room.

"Are you still with us, darling?" Rarity asked.

"Yes..." Twilight sputtered out. "Barely, but I'm here."

"Very good. We're going to clean you up now, is that all right?"

"Yeah...sounds great." Twilight's thoughts drifted to the insane rush of feeling she had received just a few moments ago at Flutershy's hoof (...er, tongue) as she was carried over to the bathroom. How did a pony do that survive that kind of experience? And how, exactly, did Fluttershy of all ponies make it happen!? Her hoof trailed down her stomach, half-wanting to re-capture the moment...but thought better of it, given how exhausted she was. Besides, she was certain it wouldn't be the same as it was with her friends.

"That was...amazing, girls." Twilight muttered.

"You're welcome, darling."

"Another thing, Rarity?"

"Yes?"

"Make the room stop spinning!"

Rarity chuckled. "Terribly sorry, Twilight, but that's out of my control."

Twilight groaned, burying her muzzle into the shoulders of whoever was carrying her and covering her eyes. "We should...do this...more often." Twilight panted.

"We used to!" Rarity replied. "But then the raid happened..." Rarity covered her mouth with her hoof, realizing she had just let something slip.

"Raid...?"

"Nothing, darling. We're almost at the restroom. Let's get you cleaned up, hmm?"

Twilight heard the creak of her bathroom door, and smelled all the bath soaps and colognes inside as she was carried over to the large wooden tub. She opened her eyes a little more, and could see Fluttershy (everypony else left the room) fiddling with the faucet, trying to get it to work. She managed to turn it on, albeit at the expense of blasting a stream of water into her face before she wrestled into the tub. Twilight giggled at the sight of her friend's hair being disheveled from the blast.

"I'm glad you're happy, Twilight." Fluttershy said.

Twilight sighed contentedly. "Why was I not happy, again?"

"It's better if you don't remember." Fluttershy assured her, stroking Twilight's mane soothingly. Twilight, still reeling from her high, responded with the same, trailing her hoof through Fluttershy's mane. Her soaked, heavy mane...

"You made me feel so good in that room..." Twilight murmured.

Fluttershy smiled. "Well...that's good to know."

Twilight happily stroked Fluttershy's mane before a nasty thought wormed its way into her head. Why should she get to feel so good while her friends were left out?

"Come on in." Twilight gestured to Fluttershy . "The water's fine."

Fluttershy tilted her head. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, you made me feel so good in that room." Twilight repeated. She reached over and started trying to undo the straps on Fluttershy's dress. "It's not fair that you - and everypony else- doesn't get that experience."

"Oh! Oh, my...well, I appreciate your thoughtfulness, Twilight, but you don't need to do that."

Fluttershy pulled away and re-did her straps. "Really."

Twilight moaned disappointingly. "Are you sure? Why not?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Fluttershy nodded. "I'm sure Rainbow Dash or somepony would do it to me if I asked..."

"Wha-really?"

"Yes...I mean, you trained us so well, after all...oh my!" Fluttershy covered her mouth with her hooves. "I shouldn't have told you that!"

"Trained you?" Twilight parroted. "What do you mean, 'trained you'?"

Fluttershy whimpered and stepped back.

"Fluttershy, what happened!?" Twilight demanded, slamming her hooves on the edge of the tub.

Fluttershy whimpered and started backing into a corner, startled by Twilight's outburst.

Twilight mentally facehooved. After all the time they had known each other, she should've known better to get aggressive with Fluttershy. She gently tried to coax the pegasus back to here. "Fluttershy, come back here...I didn't mean to lose my temper with you."

Fluttershy hesitated, but complied, crawling back towards the tub. Once she was in Twilight's reach again, Twilight cupped Fluttershy's hoof and pulled her into a kiss. For some reason, Twilight didn't question why she was so open about being affectionate with her friends.

"Now...can you tell me what happened? And remember, it's fine if you don't want to."

Fluttershy looked away, before looking back to Twilight. "Not by myself. I want everypony else around."

"Okay. Okay." Twilight comforted her. She playfully poked Fluttershy's cheek before drawing her hoof back and swimming away from the edge. "I'll get cleaned up, and then you and everypony else can sit down and tell me what happened, okay? Does that sound nice?"

Fluttershy nodded.

"Now, hand me that soap, if you would be so kind?"

"Of course..."

Twilight and Fluttershy stepped out of the bathroom, a towel draped over the former's back. Steam from the water hissed out behind their exit. As they stepped out, Fluttershy stepped aside suddenly.

"So, um...are we going to get the others?" Fluttershy scraped a hoof.

"Ye-." Twilight suddenly had an idea. Fluttershy wasn't comfortable with talking by herself, but that didn't mean the rest of her friends would be. She might get more lucky if she tried to approach, say, Rarity, on a individual basis before gathering the whole group for questioning. "No. I want to see if anypony else would like to tell me anything."

"Okay...I'll wait right here, I guess. Um, if that's okay."

Twilight patted Fluttershy on the back and nuzzled her before heading away. "Now, where did the others go?"

"Um...they went to the guest rooms you made for them, I think. They're all next to each other, and just over that way..." Fluttershy pointed her in the direction.

"Excellent. Thank you, Fluttershy."

"You're welcome, Miss-Twilight."

Gotta remember to add that to my list of questions... Twilight thought to herself. She made her way towards the hallway, where exactly three doors on each wall, six in total. Twilight imagined that since she slept in her own room, so one of these ones had to go unused. She started to remember about Spike...for some reason, she felt assured that he was in a safe place.

Possibly safer than here with her...

Twilight frowned. Why would she have that thought? She took a look at each door, and went first into the nearest one on the left side. She knocked politely on it.

"Come in!" Rarity's voice beckoned her from the other side.

Twilight anxiously pushed the door open. The room was actually quite pleasant, the way she would've like her guest rooms to look for their guests. There was a table, a fancy bed with lace on the pillowcase, and some petty decorations in the corners to keep it from being one bland color. Rarity was lying on her back on the bed.

There was some weird device on her stomach. A small wooded plank, with a metal pulley attached, dangling a needle over her ... that swung down towards it, without making contact, before lifting back up.

"Oh, darling!" Rarity exclaimed. "I'm so sorry, I didn't see you come in." Rarity put the device on the drawer next to the bed. "What do you need?"

Twilight pursed her lips. What did she need? She needed...answers. She needed to question all those things that she said she would question later, as it was now later.

"When Fluttershy and I came out of the room with the Changeling she was trying to get me to dissect...you tried to ask Fluttershy if I was...what?"

Rarity's eyes widened, a worried grimace on her face. "Ahh...eer, that is..." Rarity signed. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath to calm herself.

"We were trying to get back to normal."

"Normal!?" Twilight responded. "How is dissecting Changelings normal!?"

"It's normal for us, darling." Rarity calmly explained. "It's truly a shame, you don't remember..."

"Don't remember what!?" Twilight demanded, stomping a hoof. "Rarity, tell me what happened!"

Rarity glared, her blue eyes sparkling like emotionless diamonds. "Darling...forgive me, but I don't know what happened in full, and what I do know, I'm not willing to share." Rarity rolled over onto her side. "I no longer wish to talk about this!" Rarity added when Twilight raised an objecting hoof. "Now, if you would like to come here and have a little fun..." Rarity raised her tail and spanked her round, shapely Cutie Mark... "That, I would be much more willing towards..."

Twilight moaned quietly, hoof outstretched. She approached the bed and climbed up, getting close enough to rub Rarity's chest. Rarity chuckled confidently and purred, fluttering her long, sharp eyelashes...

"...No." Twilight shook her head, taking her hoof off her friend. "Tempting, Rarity...very tempting. But I need to talk to the others."

Rarity looked disappointed. "Very well. I was never your favorite, I know."

"Favorite?"

"No matter what I did, I could just never match Fluttershy's skill, or Pinkie's enthusiasm, or... Applejack's muscles!" Rarity scoffed, waving a hoof and clearly thinking more of her own complaints over what she let Twilight hear.

Twilight left the room and went to the door opposite, knocking on it. "May I come in?"

"Sure!"

Pinkie Pie. Hmm...

Twilight opened the door slowly, fearful Pinkie would be doing something even worse than what Rarity was doing.

Pinkie's room had a knife holder on the drawer, holding a variety of different kitchen knives for multiple different cuts. At least, that was their intended purpose. Pinkie was drawing them out and hurling them at the wall, where a dartboard had to sit and take the beating.

"What'cha ya need, Twi?" Pinkie happily asked.

Twilight looked at the dartboard, where a selection top-notch sharp instruments were sticking out. And if Twilight said something Pinkie didn't like, she could easily throw one of those at Twilight...

Twilight cleared her throat. "Um...why is there a cart wheel on your neck, and why do you enjoy being stabbed?"

"You don't remember?" Pinkie questioned, leg arched in mid-throw. Her leg dropped, the knife in her hoof clattering against the floor, while her eyes drifted downwards. "Oh...that's right. You don't."

Pinkie picked the knife back up and threw it, like trying to ignore that last turn in the conversation.

Twilight shirked, feeling like she had let Pinkie down somehow. "I-I'm sorry, Pinkie Pie...um, can you tell me what happened at the library that caused everypony to be so mutilated?"

"I can...but why should I?"

Twilight was a little confused by Pinkie's uncooperative behavior. "Uh...because I'm your friend, and I deserve to know what happened?"

Pinkie gave Twilight a hard, cold glare. She stabbed the knife she had drawn into the table, making Twilight wince.

"You were my mistress, and you left me behind. You left us ALL behind, because of your stupid brother."

Twilight was shocked, but that quickly turned to anger. "You can't talk about Shining Armor that way!"

Pinkie huffed and growled, baring her teeth. She pulled the knife out of the table and threw it, where it stabbed into the door. Twilight got the distinct impression she had been aiming for the door, so she closed it and left...then she opened it back up and pried the knife out, tossing on the floor, before leaving for real.

Twilight nervously held the doorknob for a moment before she went on the next door. This time, she went for the middle door on the left.

"Oh! Um...come in."

Twilight hesitated. Fluttershy had said she wasn't comfortable talking without the others... she weighed how much she wanted to know versus her confidence in her ability to make Fluttershy feel comfortable without the rest of their friends.

She went in. Fluttershy was stroking her own mane, holding a picture of her pet bunny, Angel Bunny.

"Oh, Fluttershy..." Twilight moaned sadly, not even realizing she was talking. "I'm so sorry...you must miss him so much."

"Oh, Twilight!" Fluttershy snapped, the picture flying from her hoof. "You startled me...do you need something?"

"I want to talk about what happened." Twilight said determinedly.

Fluttershy whimpered. "Twilight, I already told you I didn't want to-"

Twilight ran up up to the bed and grabbed Fluttershy's head in her hooves. She nuzzled the pegasi's nose. "Fluttershy, would I do anything to hurt you?"

"...No." Fluttershy said after a moment's pause. "Most of your punishments were usually...Oh!" Fluttershy crawled away and bury her face in her hooves on the bed. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that!"

Twilight frowned. She tapped at her chin, trying to think of what the best response would be. "And why were you not supposed to tell me that?"

Fluttershy lifted one hoof off an eye.

"It's okay." Twilight assured her, lying down and stroking Fluttershy's mane. "You can tell me anything. I won't get mad."

"You won't?"

"Yes. I promise." Twilight held her hoof against her chest.

"Okay...um, well...me and everypony else didn't want to tell you anything, because we all really wanted to go back to the way things were..."

"Oh?"

"Yes...in fact, we're all in our beds now because we thought that if we... " Fluttershy stopped and raised her head. "Okay...if I...um...well, you know." Fluttershy stuck her tongue out and swung it side to side. Twilight got the feeling the seductive lowering of her eyelids was an unintentional reflex. "You'd go back to normal."

"Why does everypony keep talking about me going back to normal?" Twilight questioned. "I'm still the same pony I've always been!"

"Erm...you, um, changed." Fluttershy explained. "And then that became normal...to us."

"Oh." Twilight paused to think over anything she might be able to coax out of Fluttershy. "Anything else you can tell me? Pinkie said something about Shining Armor."

"No. I'm sorry." Fluttershy got up and walked away from the bed, her wings and dress trailing elegantly behind her. Twilight got the message. This discussion is over.

She left the room and turned to the center one on the right side. Just opposite. She knocked on that one, but there was no response. She knocked on it again, a bit more loud this time. Then again very loudly and forcefully, and when even that didn't get a response, she went in without being invited.

Inside, the room was empty, but she was going to guess it Rainbow Dash's, as there was a poster with a Wonderbolts logo on the wall. She closed the door and went to the next room over- far door on the right side. She was going to knock, there was a pink note posted on the door.

No need to knock.

It had the same hoofwriting as the weird note she found near Rarity. Since it said there was no need to knock, she went in.

This room wasn't a bedroom. Twilight presumed it was an unused guest room, since there were six rooms and only five of her friends, and as such, had been re-purposed.

Metal instruments and glass vials of aphrodisiac, knockout potion and something else. were stood on the table. Things like needles and pins and metal spheres. There was a few of each attacked to the ends of chains, and similar devices to what Rarity had on her. Rainbow Dash was fiddling with one of them.

"Oh...hey, Twilight." Rainbow greeted nervously. "How you feeling?"

"Fine." Twilight answered, eying the device Rainbow was messing with. "What are you doing?"

"Just playing around with your totally rad..." In something completely unprecedented, Rainbow stuffed her hoof into her mouth at what she was saying. (That was sarcasm, by the way.)

"My rad...?" Twilight asked in a note.

"Uh, well..."

Twilight pouted. Feeling something overtake her, she trotted towards Rainbow Dash, making sure to shake her hips and whip her tail as seductively as possible. Rainbow flushed at her approach. At her touch.

"Now, Rainbow..." Twilight said sweetly, rubbing a hoof on the pegasi' cheek. "What could be keeping you from telling me anything about something of mine?"

"Well, uh..." Rainbow stammered.

Twilight got frustrated. She looked at the table, and got a terrible idea. It was awfully rude...she was going to levitate the aphrodisiac and threaten to use it, but she wasn't going to actually use it!

"Rainbow Dash, tell me what these are, or I'll use that aphrodisiac on you."

Rainbow chuckled, smiling nervously. "Well, uh, funny you say that, Twilight. You know, you invented that aphrodisiac because you wanted -what was it you said?...'To push the limit of pleasure in the pony body.'" Rainbow explained, which made Twilight flush instead.

"Wha-really? Really!?" Twilight repeated, unable to believe that she had been the one to bring such an awful substance from fiction to fact.

"Yeah...you know, you read books about it saying that it burned up ponies from the heat of their arousal, but you didn't want anypony to get hurt, so you made it that it stimulated the brain to make ponies think they were burning, so they'd get even more desperate and...willing. Pretty..." Rainbow smirked warily. "Pretty smart, huh?"

Twilight blinked. She did this? She made this thing? She brought this awful thing to life!? Although, at least what Rainbow said explained why the Guard Twilight saw while doped up on it didn't see her body burning.

"...Hey, are you still going to make me drink it?"

Twilight didn't answer, instead leaving the room. As the door swung behind, Rainbow Dash picked up the aphrodisiac and looked at it curiously, trying to decide if she wanted a sip or not.

There was only one room left now. The door to the right on the left side of the hallway. Her hooves wobbled as she approached the door, her confidence having suffered a hit from what Rainbow Dash revealed.

"A-Applejack?" Twilight stuttered out. She had to be in there, given that she already saw all her other friends in the other rooms.

"Yeah. Come in, Twilight." Applejack answered.

Twilight opened the door. Applejack's was very Applejack. No decorations, a basket of apples on the table next to the bed, and there was hay stuff into the bed. Applejack was under her covers, and seemed hesitant about something.

"Hey, Twi." Applejack greeted. "You want a spot?" Applejack patted her covers.

"Sure." Twilight crawled on the bed and wormed her way under the covers. She nuzzled Applejack's neck and rubbed the farmer's belly.

"You feelin' okay?"

"No...I still don't know what happened here." Twilight answered. "And everypony just gives a little tiny detail. Something about Shining Armor from Pinkie. Something about Rarity not being my favorite..."

Applejack guffawed. "Yeah...for all those romance novels she reads, she's not so good at the actual loving."

Twilight gnawed her lip. "Say, how do you deal with lying down with that hatchet in your neck?"

"Ah'm used to it...c'os, you know, it's been stuck in there for so long."

"Hmm."

Twilight laid there quietly, her hoof trailing up and down between the farmer's stomach and chest. She felt rather at peace with the farmer in the hay-stuffed bed. Like she could be open and honest.

"...Applejack?"

"Yeah?"

Applejack rolled over, and Twilight had to lock eyes with her.

"What happened in the library?"

Applejack frowned. "Wut do you mean?"

"I mean, why is everything so trashed? Why is everypony so cut-up and enjoying things like-like having knives in their chest!? Why did I make that aphrodisiac?"

"Well, uh...ya see, Twi, this weird, uh...thing...happened..." As she spoke, it was clear she had no confidence in what she was saying.

She bolted upright, putting her hooves on her head, and screamed. "AAAAAAHH! RARITY, AH CAN'T TAKE NO MORE! Come on, Twi!" Applejack leaped off the bed and charged the door, turning around and bucking it straight off its hinges.

"Applejack? What you are doing!? Where are we going!?"

"To tell you the truth." Applejack spat. "C'mon!"

Twilight nervously threw the covers off herself and followed after her friend. As they were galloping down the hallway, everypony poked their heads out of their doors to see what was causing all the commotion.

"What is going on out here!?" Rarity cried.

"Applejack's gone crazy!" Rainbow Dash answered.

"Um...she's leading Twilight down the hallway...isn't there where we keep Shi-"

"My goodness, Fluttershy, you're right! AFTER HER! STOP THEM!"

Everypony bolted out their room and took off down the hallway after the two.

"Where are we going, again?" Twilight repeated her earlier question.

"The library's biggest basement." Applejack answered. "We should find everything y'all need to know in there."

"Applejack!" Rarity's shrill, angry voice shouted behind them. "Stop this at once! We all had an understanding!"

Twilight looked over her wither to see the Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie chasing after them.

"An agreement was made not to tell Twilight what happened!"

"To Apple Buck wit' yer agreement! Ah'm not goin' to lie to mah friend!"

"You don't have to lie!" Fluttershy objected. "You just have...not tell her everything."

"Applejack!" Twilight exclaimed at Applejack's language, ignoring the chase scene unfurling around her.

Applejack ignored her and pressed on, hurrying up her pace to make sure their friends didn't catch up with them. Unfortunately, Applejack was tied with Rainbow as the most athletic of the group, so Twilight found herself struggling to play catch-up.

"Applejack, I can't keep up!"

Applejack signed and whinnied. "Fine." She skidded to a stop, turned around, grabbed Twilight's neck with her mouth (which made Twilight moan) and lifted the unicorn up onto her back before resuming her pace.

"Applejack..." Rarity huffed behind them, no doubt exhausted from trying to catch up with Applejack. "Stop. Please. You know what will happen to Twilight... She barely held herself together doing it once!"

"What?" Twilight questioned. "Is Applejack going to do something to me?"

"Yes..." Rarity whimpered. "Please stop...how is she going to handle realizing it twice?"

"Ah'm telling the truth, one way or another!" Applejack snapped.

Twilight saw downwards stairs ahead of them. Applejack rushed down them, Twilight jostling on her back.

The stairs led to a fairly normal room for the library. A circular room with the stairs far enough back to not be obtrusive, and two large wooden doors with rounded tops ahead of the stairs.

The wooden doors, however, were covered in locks and gadgets and doo-dads and chains. Twilight climbed off Applejack's back and went up to examine them.

"It's like that note said..." Twilight realized. "The door is locked, and will take a combination of magic and machinery to unlock it..."

"Darling!"

Applejack narrowed her eyes as Rarity came down the stairs. The others probably wouldn't be far behind.

"Darling, I beseech you, whatever happens, do not go into that room!"

Twilight looked between Rarity and Applejack, expecting them to make their cases in favor of/of not going into the room.

"Darling, darling." Rarity cried. "You don't need to know what's in there. We can be happy if we stay on the path we're on now."

"Happy?" Twilight questioned, not noticing that Rarity was getting closer to her.

"Yes..." Rarity said breathlessly, cozying up to Twilight. "We can go back to the way things were before the raid. Before everything fell apart."

Twilight really didn't know what to make of this. Rarity's tail curled around Twilight's hind leg, and Twilight dismissed it...

But then Rarity's tail curled under her belly and shot up her entrance with an extreme amount of force. Twilight squealed and fell over on her side, looking, and very much feeling, like a cow wanting to be milked.

"There, see? Isn't that nice?" Rarity said soothed her, lying down and re-inserting her tail into Twilight and wiggling it.

"Oooh...yes." Twilight answered, moaning, her eyelids lowering. "Very nice..."

Rarity climbed up on her, wrapping her hooves around her lavender opposite's back and touching their necks to each other. Twilight was genuinely enjoying it, until Applejack walked over, back into her line of sight.

"So, uh...are we gonna just forget about that whole 'telling ya the truth' thing?"

Twilight stared, hips wiggling from Rarity's ministrations, truly conflicted about what she wanted to answer. Did she want to give up- or in, rather, and just let the mystery of the door fade away? Or did she want to reject Rarity and find out what was causing all this ruckus? A back-and-forth went on in her head for quite some time.

"...No." She decided at last. "No, we're not. Get her offa me, A.J.!"

"Can do!" Applejack charged forward, tackling Rarity and throwing her off Twilight. As Rarity was removed, her tail went flying out of Twilight's... leaving the most ticklish sensation as the tail's tip waggled out. Twilight grunted, trying not to fold against the feelings of pleasure, and the oh-so-tempting idea of letting Rarity put her tail back in...

Maybe a little further, too...and faster. No. NO! I've got to focus! What's in that door?

"All right..." Twilight walked up to the door and put a hoof on one of the locks to inspect it.

"Twilight! Don't!"

Rainbow Dash dropped down from the air in between Twilight and the door. Twilight froze when Rainbow pointed her mutilated wing tips at her. Luckily, Applejack pulled the hatchet in her neck and smacked Rainbow in the face with the flat of it, knocking Rainbow out.

"How are we going to get through that door?" Twilight wondered. "This is an extremely complicated system, and I don't have all the steps to unlock it all..."

"Ah got an idea." Applejack answered, holding her hatchet. She raised it up and started smashing wildly at the locks, chopping them off one by one until there was no way for the door to remain closed.

"I guess that works..."

Applejack 'sheathed' the hatchet, putting it back in her neck and stepped away from the door. "Go on, Twi."

Twilight raised her hoof towards the door. It shook as she got closer, but she certainly wasn't going to back down now, of all times, when two of her friends had been incapacitated in the name of getting her in there.

Twilight shoved the door open and entered the room. Applejack entered behind her and shut the door quietly, locking it on the other side.

"Twilight!" Fluttershy's voice pleaded from the other side of the door. "Please don't go any further in there!"

"I'm sorry, Fluttershy, but I'm finding out what happened, one way or another!" Twilight answered. "I've come too far to turn back now, and you can't make me!"

Fluttershy's acid leaked and Rainbow's wing tip stabbed through the door, startling Twilight and Applejack. The wing tip withdrew, then stabbed it in a different place, trying to break the door down.

"Twilight, use yer magic!"

Twilight narrowed her eyes. Her horn lit up, and she made a metal sheet form on the door. There was a clang, and they could hear Rainbow scream "DAAAHOOOOW!" from trying to stab the door again, unaware of the metal on the other side.

Twilight felt a pang of guilt for causing her friend to hurt herself, but she dismissed it. Turning around, she proceeded down the stairs into the basement.

This basement...this basement was dark, dim, and more then a little unsettling. It was light by eerie candles with that weird creepy blue. There were black, metal tables with all the metal instruments, surgical tools, and potions Twilight had seen on the other tables and then some.

She stopped, seeing a light in the certain of the room that much lighter-pink even- in the middle of the room. She rushed forward, unknowing of Applejack's uneasy glare.

Twilight slowed down when she was actually in the light. Looking up at its source in the ceiling, she saw a stained glass window. She couldn't be sure, but it seemed to depict her mentor, Princess Celestia, inside the Guardian's Orb, literally bending over her back, her eyes gazing upwards like she was being driven to insanity.

Looking around the room, Twilight saw similar stained glass portraits scattered on the walls in a circle, with the one in the ceiling forming something of an epicenter.

They each had one of her friends one them, with their limbs spread eagle, hanging in the air. One showed Fluttershy with what appeared to be her stomach torn open with needles poking at it. The next one showed Rarity twitching as leather straps were pulled on her body. Another showed Rainbow with her normal wings outstretched...with metal sticking out of them like they were in the process of turning into the metal blades they were now. The next two showed Pinkie and Applejack being stabbed and slashed by knives and axes.

Applejack walked into the light with Twilight. "Wut do you see?"

"I see...I see all our friends being mutilated." Twilight answered, horrified. "I see Fluttershy with her gut torn open... I see..."

Twilight saw something on the other side of the room she really wasn't expecting to see, but she was all too happy to see.

"Shining Armor!?"

Propped up on an operating table and restrained by metal cuffs, with pieces of vacuum-like machinery pointed at his chest and uncomfortably close to his groin, was Twilight's B.B.B.F.F., Shining Armor. It was obvious he was tired and drained of energy, and that he hadn't eaten anything in Celestia knows how long.

"Oh..." Twilight whined, eyes turning watery. "Shining Armor..."

She dashed through the room and start rummaging throw the drawers on the tables' sides.

"I know there's a shot of adrenaline in here somewhere...wait, how do I know that?"

"Uh..."

Twilight shook her head. "Never mind!" She found the syringe full of the liquid drug and bounded over towards the table. She grabbed his wither and stabbed the syringe into his armpit, pushing it down to inject him with it.

"Please be alive, please be alive..." Twilight prayed under her breath.

Shining's eyes shot open, and he took in a gasp as he took in what must have been his first breath of fresh air in days.

"Shining..." Twilight exhaled, crying from the good news that he was alive. "You're alive."

"AAAAH!" Shining screamed and started flailing in his restraints. "GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU MONSTER!"

"M-monster!?" Twilight parroted, elation at his survival turning into depression from his rejection. "Shining Armor, it's me! It's Twiley..." Twilight stroked his fur, trying to calm him down. Shining quit flailing and panicking long enough to look at her. That look he gave her...it was like this had been the first he had seen her in years.

"Twiley?" Shining questioned. He sighed with relief. "Oh, thank goodness it's you...it was awful, Twiley..." Twilight patted him to assure him he could keep talking. "There was some sort of monster that was...you, but it wasn't you."

"A Changeling!" Twilight pounded the table in anger. "I'll find her, Shining. I'll find every single-"

Shining shook his head. "No, no...it wasn't that. It was something else..."

Twilight pouted. If it wasn't Changelings that had replicated her, then what was it?

"Uh, you know, Twi..." Applejack, bringing her hat over her chest solemnly. "Y'all left a bunch of notes in the drawers in here."

Twilight lifted the latches on the bed's restraints. Shining rubbed his hoof sorely while Twilight started rummaging through the drawers. She found a huge stack of documents in one drawer, and one note next to a rather bright Memorb in another. She pulled one from the large stack and read it. It had that same similar-to-her's writing.

On Fluttershy.

I'm quite happy with the way Fluttershy came out. Looking at her, you'd never know she'd been operated on, but I have surgically altered her digestive system so now, she can produce multiple fluids according to my needs. My knock-out potion, my aphrodisiac recipe, and a sticky sap to hold ponies in place. I wanted to add more, but I ran out of room for the glands. Hehe! There is one slight setback, though. Now that she makes all these things, she needs to eat foreign plants which are normally toxic to ponies to produce them. Shouldn't be a problem, though. I can just alter it further until she can eat them safely!

Twilight was not at all happy with the note's contents. It said Fluttershy had her digestive system altered, and that stained glass window of Fluttershy was probably a testament to that. And whoever wrote it wrote like they were happy about it. She didn't like the idea of somepony altering her friends' bodies... She put the note down and picked up another one.

This one was the same thing, except with Rainbow Dash. And the one after that, Rarity, and the one after was on Pinkie.

On Rainbow Dash
For Rainbow Dash, I decided to go the route of metal replacements. Metal blades sticking out of her body at various points, perfect for pricking and poking. She tries to tell me it isn't her thing, but I've seen how tightly she squeezes those cuffs on her ankles. She likes it. I've made plans to replace her wings, since the wings are one of her most movable parts of her body.

On Rarity
I'm trying to experiment with what to do in the bedroom. I think Rarity would appreciate the finer details of bondage. Fluttershy and Pinkie wouldn't get it. It's more then just "strapping somepony up and then making love" with them. It's about power. It's about control. I've got her covered from horn-to-hoof in straps, and every time she twists her body the wrong way- or the right way, she'll feel it pull on her, ah-hah... sensitive areas.

On Pinkie Pie
Pinkie's so enthusiastic, it's hard to decide something for her. I've decided to keep it simple...for now, at least. I've dulled her nervous system to so that things that would cause pain will instead bring pleasure. You know what? I don't like limits, so I think I'll do the same for Applejack. And everypony else, so I don't, say, confuse my little lovers while in the throes of passion and accidentally stab Fluttershy thinking she has Pinkie's enhancements.

Twilight held the last note in her hoof, eye twitching from the sheer audacity of it, talking about being the 'throes of passion' and stabbing Fluttershy like it was nothing. She put the note down and went back to the other drawer. The one with the Memorb. The note on it said something that was actually somewhat assuring.

This Memorb is different. Most show you one memory from the perspective of the pony who experienced it, but this one is enchanted differently. It will show you multiple memories from a third-person view. It should explain... everything.

Twilight was rather re-assured by the note's emphasis on 'everything'.

"So...y'all gonna go through that Memorb there?"

"Of course! Why wouldn't I? It's going to tell me what happened isn't it?"

She closed her eyes and activated her horn, touching it's tip to the Memorb.

Applejack looked on at as Twilight was held into the Memorb's trances.

"Why not?...Because y'all might not like what ya see..."

Twilight felt like she was falling into water. It looked like she was falling through a starry sky. Eventually, she landed on what she presumed was a wagon's passenger room.

She saw herself and Princess Celestia sitting opposite each other, The Shadow's Orb curled in Celestia's hoof like a protective mother.

"...Princess?" Her past self said.

"Yes?" The Princess answered.

"Why did you use that spell on that stallion?"

Celestia looked away from the orb. "What do you mean?"

"There are lots that can incapacitate somepony without hurting them like that...why didn't you use one of them?"

Her proud mentor looked embarrassed. "It...it's this orb. Something about it draws me to it. By the I realized you were under attack, I could barely think straight."

Twilight opened her mouth, before remembering she was in a memory.

"Maybe we should get rid of it?" Herself suggested.

"Yes...maybe we should..."

Herself began trying to remove the orb. Against the Princess' resistance, she succeeded and tossed it out the window. Celestia flashed a proud smile that made Twilight feel good, even this had to have happened in the past.

"Um, Princess? When you used that spell... some of the blood got into my mouth."

"Oh my. I'm so sorry."

"I forgive you! But I...it tasted good."

Twilight put her hoof over her mouth. Blood had tasted good to her!? That's ridiculous. That-that's insane!

Before she could shake her hoof at her past self, she fell through water and stars again, this time landing in her library. She was studying a book, and Shining Armor was there.

"Ha!" Shining laughed about something said prior to the moment Twilight had been returned to. "Well, anyways, Twiley, the real reason I came over was that the Princess had a BIG, IMPORTANT task for you." Twilight became suspicious of her brother's emphasis on those words.

"Ooh! What is it!?" Her past self jumped and down in excitement about the opportunity to make the Princess proud. "What, What?"

"She needs you to study this...thing from you got from your expedition in Brennenburg." Shining answered.

"Thing?" Herself asked uncertainly. She shifted her gaze.

"Hey." Shining called at her obvious discomfort. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Herself lied. "It's just that this 'thing' better not be what I think is..."

Present Twilight fell again...

This time, she was with Shining Armor, walking through the hallway of the Canterlot palace. She looked like she would rather be anywhere but here.

"Come on, Twiley. Don't you want to know what the BIG IMPORTANT task the Princess has for you is?"

Herself shuddered. "I'm sorry, Shining. I just really don't want to know what's in that. I can feel evil radiating from the other side."

"That's ridiculous! Come on!" He shoved the door opened gestured for his sister to enter. Herself did so reluctantly. There was The Shadow's Orb, held in a gold sculpture of a claw. Herself went up, touched her hooves to it, then withdrew from it and bolted out of the room.

"Shining, I'm sorry. But I can't do this for the Princess! That orb is evil, and their further away it is from me, the better!"

Shining objected, reaching a hoof. "But Twiley! You're the only who-"

"I DON'T CARE!"

Twilight's jaw dropped, unable to grasp how she could reject her brother so rudely. She understood that she was upset, but Shining had never been like that to her...well, he had once, but he wasn't exactly in his right mind that time.

Twilight saw herself stand at the edge of the hallway, looking at the door to The Orb's room. Somehow, she knew that herself was planning on stealing it.

She heard a distorted whisper that...actually somewhat sounded like her voice, but it was, like, playing over itself, if that makes sense. It was probably what was going through her mind at the time of the memory.

"I can't believe this...I care about The Princess enough to get rid of that orb, and she goes behind my back back to Brennenburg and digs it out of the mud."

Twilight was shocked- again- by her language, and her harsh words, but she was more accepting of these ones. She had thrown that orb because she cared, and for The Princess to go out and retrieve it was a betrayal of their bond.

Twilight fell again...

She was right back in the same place she was, in Canterlot's castle. She saw herself wearing a coat much too big for her, walking quietly though the castle like she wanted nopony to know she was there. Herself went into the room with The Orb. and Twilight poked her head in the door to see herself trying to stuff The Orb into the coat. That explained why she was wearing such a large coat, then.

Herself turned around and galloped out the room and over the corridor. To her own (forgetting nothing here could affect her physically) and her past self's horror, Celestia's huge, terrible shadow rose from the corner of the room. Herself went even faster just from the sight, and that was before the Princess spoke.

"Twilight Sparkle! I know it's you! Return that orb to me at once!"

Present Twilight fell down...

This time, she saw herself standing The Orb on it's pedestal like in the basement where she found it in the present day.

The world shifted again, and she saw herself arched on of her many tables in the library with a pile of letters and tears in her eyes, Spike belching flames out time after. Herself whimpered sadly.

"Wow." Spike remarked, reading the letter he had just belched up. "Why is the Princess sending you such mean letters?"

Twilight's head dropped to the table, still crying. "There's this Orb, Spike...I need to keep it away from her, and she's just trying to bully me into giving it back."

"Why can't you give it to her?"

"I-I just can't."

Spike scratched his head.

"And...I know she's just under the orb's influence, but these letters..." Herself picked up a letter up. "They still hurt."

Twilight walked over to her past self and read over her own shoulder. Regardless of what kind of mess she was in, reading over her shoulder was an interesting experience.

The letters were terrible. They were really designed to hit Twilight where it hurt. In her academic record, in her mishaps, saying the Princess was ashamed to have a terrible student like her...

"I...I need some help with this." Herself said, stepping away from the table.

The world shifted again...

Still in the library, herself was holding a letter in hoof, still crying over its content.

"Now, darling." Rarity said, patting her back to comfort her. "You've told us the Princess is clearly obsessed with this Orb. You can't let them get to you."

"I know, but...it's everything I've ever been afraid of." Herself answered. She let go of the letter, and it floated through the air as it fell down.

"...Rarity?" Twilight questioned. "Would you...come down to the basement and help me with some...stress relief?"

"Stress relief?" Rarity responded. "Well, I can understand that you might need some of that, but, what do you mean, darling?"

The world around her shifted again...

This time, she was in the deep basement Applejack had led her to. Instead of Shining Armor on the operating table, Fluttershy was there. Herself was arranging surgical tools and pads.

"This...this is some really weird 'stress relief', Twilight. Um, if you don't mind my saying." Fluttershy squeaked out.

"Oh, I know, Fluttershy." Herself spoke in an eerie tone, loading a syringe with a clear fluid. "But it'll all be okay."

"Uh..." Fluttershy whimpered as Twilight's past self approached with a needle in hoof. "That needle looks awfully sharp..."

"Yes it is."

Present Twilight was horrified as her past self stabbed the syringe into Fluttershy without hesitance, fear, or remorse. Fluttershy let out a pleasured squeal, her eyes rolling into the back of her head, before falling unconscious.

Past Twilight rubbed Fluttershy's Cutie Mark tentatively. "You like my pleasure tranq, Fluttershy? Of course you do...otherwise, you wouldn't be sleeping so soundly right now. Now, let's get to work..."

Past Twilight raised a scalpel, and began cutting into Fluttershy, making incisions around her stomach until it was barely attached. Giggling madly, Past Twilight lifted the skin of Fluttershy's stomach up like a lid on a trash can. "Let's see what I can do with this..."

Her eye twitching, Present Twilight was so mortified she didn't even notice the Memorb take her to another memory.

This one was a little different. This one didn't have her in it at all. It had Shining Armor, stepping into a discussion where the Princess waiting.

"You wanted to see me, Princess?" Shining asked.

"Yes..." Celestia answered.

Shining stepped into the room, and stopped at the sight of the Princess' company. "Princess! There are Changelings in the room!"

"There is no need to point out the obvious, Captain." Celestia told him bitterly in a very -un-Celestia-like fashion. "These Changelings are mercenaries with no loyalty to their Queen. They obey only the highest bidder."

"Okay." Shining said. "...Why are they here?"

"You are going to take your men and them on a raid."

"Oh my." Shining murmured. "Where are we raiding that's so dangerous it warrants Changeling mercenaries?"

Celestia raised her swan neck and glared. "Twilight's library."

Shining sputtered at the idea of raiding his sister's library. "WHAT!? Princess, I can't do that to Twiley!"

Celestia stomped her hoof. "Shining Armor, your sister has stolen something from me and refuses to return it."

Shining didn't notice, but Celestia's exposed eye flashed the dark red of The Shadow's residue.

"I WANT THAT ORB! Now,...go forth, and obtain it, through force if necessary."

Twilight saw everything around her flash, and she got the feeling she was nearing the end of the trip through the Memorb.

It was back in her library. The lighting was dim, and Shining Armor was in his full armor, pink chestguard and all. He was breathing heavily and looking everywhere, like anything could pop out from anywhere at any moment. He heard a pained scream and put his hooves on his head. Twilight recognized the look in his eyes as the one he used when he failed his Guardsmen...his soldiers...his friends.

"Shining?"

"Twiley!"

Shining Armor ran up to embrace his little sister, but Present Twilight, observing the memory from the future, couldn't shake the feeling something was off about her past self...

"Oh, Twiley, it's horrible!" Shining whined into his sister's breast. "First, The Princess sends me to raid your library with a bunch of Changelings-for-hire, then, when we get here, your friends...they've all been mutilated, Twilight! They attacked the Changelings and my Guards, and...and I just don't know what to do!"

"Shush now." Past Twilight told her, stroking his mane. "It'll be okay."

Then, Past Twilight did something that utterly shocked her future self. Cutting into Fluttershy's stomach was nothing compared to this.

Her past self raised a syringe and stabbed her brother with in the chest- her crying, distraught, panicked brother. Shinining instantly went taut and started sliding down off her to the floor, looking at up at her with a "How could you?" look.

"It'll all be okay." Her past self assured him as his eyes closed.

And the worst part of it was...

She sounded completely sincere about it.

Twilight was dropped into another memory before she was ready to move on, and she saw herself, Fluttershy in her dress and floral manecut, and Shining Armor in the operating table like she had found him in the present.

"Hand me that syringe." Her past self instructed Fluttershy.

"Yes, Mistress." Fluttershy obediently picked up the syringe and handed it over to herself. Past-her pointed the syringe at Shining Armor's body, raised up to stab the liquid drug into him...

...Any time now.

Her past self's hoof shook.

"Mistress?" Flutttershy questioned. "Why aren't you operating?"

Her past self threw the syringe away and twirled around, grabbing Fluttershy's neck and shaking her.

"Fluttershy, what's wrong with me!? What happened to me!? I used to be a good pony! I used to be nice! Now..." Her past self broke down crying- and her present self could tell that probably wasn't the only she was breaking down right now. "Now, I'm willing to torture and experiment on my own brother..."

"There, there. It's all right." Fluttershy soothed her.

Past Twilight shook her head. "No. No, it's not." She looked at Fluttershy and put her hooves on Fluttershy's face. "Fluttershy, what did I do to you?...To everypony?"

"Well, um..."

Now, Twilight was brought to Zecora's hut, with her past self in a traveling cloak, Zecora, and Spike there.

"So, can you do it?" Twilight answered. "Can you take care of Spike? Can you keep him safe...from me?"

Zecora nodded. "I will do as you ask, but may I inquire why you need an undertaking of this momentous task?"

"I...I've become unstable, recently, and I can't guarantee Spike's safety." Her past self answered, looking at Spike with Spike looking back.

"I don't like this..." Spike said. "But I understand why you're doing it." Spike hugged her. "I'll miss you, Twilight."

Twilight hugged him back, and a tear escaped from her eye. "I'll miss you, too." She let him go and pushed him towards Zecora, who also hugged him. He need as many as he could get right now.

"Now." Twilight pulled out a tattered paper. "These are the ingredients for the Amnesia Drink. Can you get me all the ones I can't get in Ponyville?"

Zecora eyed the paper and nodded. "I can get you the ingredients for this, but it occurs to me your potion recipe has an incomplete list."

"I know." Twilight answered. "And yes, I know it's dangerous to make and drink a potion when you don't have all the ingredients, but I can't...cope with that the fact I nearly..." Twilight broke down, Zecora catching her before she hit the floor. "OH, SHINING ARMOR! I'm so sorry..."

Another shift, and this was it... Twilight was sure that this would be the Memorb's last memory to show her.

Her library, in her bedroom, Spike's basket nowhere to be found. She was sitting at her desk, with the vial of glowing light blue liquid in her hoof.

She lifted to her mouth and proceed to drink it, chug it, suck it. Her eyes flashed the light blue of the Amnesia Drink, and she stumbled out of her chair. She wobbled back and forth, before stumbling towards her bed. She reached for the mattress, and crawled under the covers, and only after she had safely closed her eyes, did she let go of the vial, where it rolled under her sheet and dripped onto her bed...

Twilight was returned to the present, a clear image of everything in now clear in her mind...

She had gone to Brennenburg with the Princess and got rid of The Orb, but Celestia went back and got The Orb anyways. She stole The Orb from the Princess, and then Celestia tried to get her to give it back by telling her all the things she dreaded hearing... so she went to her friends for relief from the stress of keeping The Orb away, which involved drugs of her own making, experiments on their body, and sex that was anywhere from 'good' to 'fantastic'. Then Celestia sent Shining and the mercenaries after her, and when she and her friends beat them all down and tied them all up, she couldn't cope with having done that to her brother.

That explains why that Changeling was so insistent that the Princess would hear about their murdering her...

That explains why the note's hoofwriting was similar to hers. Because it was hers, except she had developed some sort of...alter ego, so she wrote just a little bit differently.

The door fell down, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie having found some other where to break through. They rushed down the staircase towards Twilight.

"Oh, Twilight!" Rarity cried. She noticed the freed Shining Armor. "Oh, um..Twilight, we can explain! Uh...the, uh, Changeling Queen came back and brainwashed Shining Armor and-"

"No, no!" Pinkie objected. "It was Discord!"

"Stop." Twilight held out her hoof. "Stop. Stop, all of you. I know what happened."

Everypony closed their eyes and hung their heads.

"How..." Twilight questioned, turning to Rarity. "How could you let me do that?"

"Do what?"

"You know! The...the experimentation, the drugs..."

"Well..." Rarity said quietly. "You obviously need some stress relief, and we figured everything we eventually work itself out between you and the Princess, so we didn't complain. We thought you would stop."

"And..." Fluttershy added. "By the time you we realized you weren't going to stop..."

"We didn't want y'all to." Applejack finished.

"We started calling you "Mistress", since, for all intents and purposes...you were our Mistress." Rarity explained. "Having intercourse...making love. It...it wasn't a big deal anymore. It was just what we did. Although, I'm still bitter you never gave me anything more than a B..."

"What?" Twilight snapped.

"On our performance...? In bed?"

"...I gave you grades, on your performance in bed, like little schoofillies!?"

"Eeeyup." Applejack confirmed. "A, B, C, D, and F."

"You always gave me an A plus." Fluttershy boasted, blushing slightly.

"A." Applejack answered.

"A here." Rainbow added.

"I got an A, too!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Rarity scoffed. "Wha-I'm the only one Twilight never gave anything more than a B to!?"

"Rarity, Ah think we have more important thangs to deal wit'." Applejack forcefully insisted. "Anyways, you left yerself a bunch of Memorbs and notes throughout the library, so after you took the Amnesia, you could find them all and fix things...but we didn't want y'all to fix things, so we burnt every note and smashed every orb we could find."

That would explain the note near Rarity...it was part of a set that her friends had destroyed, because they had been afraid of her not going back to the way they wanted her to be...

Twilight just realized something she really didn't want to know. At some point between her theft of The Orb and the raid, she had to have made one of her friends intercourse with one another while one or both was under the influence of aphrodisiac.

"So, wut do y'all wanna do now, Twi?"

Twilight looked between her friends, between Rarity and Shining Armor.

"Shining?"

"I...I just want out of this hell-hole." Shining answered. "Pardon my French..."

"Okay." Twilight closed her eyes. "Where's that paper? The Brennenburg Explosive Compound?"

So, eventually, everypony came to a truce to any potential problems between Shining Armor and the rest of Twilight's friends. Once Twilight had made the explosive compound, they would blast the door, and once they could re-connect with the outside world, then they would figure out what to do about any remaining Guards or Changelings in the library.

In the foyer, Twilight bade Shining Armor to follow as she carried the container of Compound towards the door. For some reason, she wanted her friends to stay back.

"I'm really glad you came to your senses, Twiley." Shining said.

"Yeah...I am, too." Twilight told him.

The two siblings sat down on their haunches, and Twilight placed the Compound down and activated it.

"I can't wait to let Cadence know I'm all right."

"Yes..."

"And, since The Shadow-" Twilight grunted. "Sorry, The Guardian, took his Orb back, that should mean the Princess is better, right?"

"Hopefully..." Twilight muttered.

"You know, I took my journal here with me...I found it while we walking, but it's missing a page on how worried I was when you went to Brennenburg."

Her friends, staying in the back of the room, had been silent until now, but now they noticed a rather distressing thing.

"Uh, Twilight?" Applejack spoke up. "Y'all realize yer supposed to step away from the Explosive Compound, right?"

Twilight and Shining looked at her, Shining's expression worried, Twilight's emotionless.

"Yes...I know."

Everypony gasped.

The blinding flash and deafening boom left Twilight's friend unable to make out anything, and when they could hear and see again, they saw smoke lazily floating all around what used to be the door.

When the smoke cleared, Shining and Twilight were still there, alive, but covered in scorches. The library's main entrance had also been utterly obliterated. Shining stumbled back and forth, taking one last horrified look at what had become of his little Twiley before dashing out the door, never wanting to return here again.

Everypony else rushed up to Twilight to check for signs of life, as Twilight had been lying down instead of standing up.

"Darling?" Rarity cooed.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes with a groan. "...I'm alive. I survived that...I wasn't...supposed to survive that. I was supposed to...go to the Elysian Fields with Shining Armor. We were supposed to die. We-well, him, I'm not sure about myself anymore...but he was supposed to go to Paradise."

Twilight put her hooves together in prayed and looked up at Rarity.

"Rarity, please, please...please. just...tell me it's over."

Rarity looked to Applejack, who nodded. "Go on, Rarity. Tell her."

Rarity smiled sweetly at Twilight, grabbing one of her hooves and patting it. "It's over, darling." Rarity bent down and gave Twilight a sweet, gentle kiss. "Why don't we carry you up to bed?"

"The stairs collapsed." Twilight answered literally.

"Well, I'm sure that shouldn't be any problem if Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash work together."

Rarity was quite right. With the two pegasi working together, they easily carried Twilight over the broken stairs. From there, they carried her into her bed and tuck her in before going back down and bringing everypony else up to bid and kiss her good night.

"Good night, Twilight."

"Good night, Fluttershy."

"Good night, Egg-head."

"Rainbow!" Rarity scolded. "Not a good time!"

"Sorry."

"It's fine. Good night, Rainbow Dash."

"Yes, well...sweet dreams, darling."

"Don't let the beg bugs bite!" Pinkie saluted. "I mean it, don't. Those suckers really hurt. I should know!"

Applejack was the last of them to say it.

"Sleep tight, Twilight." She put her hooves on Twilight's chest. "Ah know it's more than a little early, but ya just went through a lot, and a good nap never hurt nopony."

"Thanks, A.J..." Twilight muttered before rolling around and lifting her covers over herself.

"We'd best leave her be, y'all. Let's get goin'."

The five of them left the room, not really sure what they would do from here, or where they would go. Would they try to reclaim their old lives, or...encourage Twilight to continue her experiment with how much pleasure a pony body could receive?

"Well, there being no objection, I say we go back to our rooms and catch some sleep of our own." Rarity said.

Everypony muttered agreement. Fluttershy and Rainbow began ferrying them down the stairs, but when they went to pick up Rarity, Applejack heard a clink.

"Something wrong, darling?" Rarity asked.

"Actually, yeah. Ah'm gonna go check on Twilight..."

Applejack opened the door to Twilight's room and gasped.

Twilight was lying upright, still awake. Held in her hooves was the vial of Amnesia Drink she that was leaking on her bed when she woke up.

And there was still a little left in it.

Applejack re-actively reached her hooves and lunged forward, but it was too late.

"TWILIGHT, NO! DON'T!"

Twilight lifted the vial up to her mouth and proceed to drink and chug and suck up every drop left in there. When the vial had been completely dried out, Twilight's head jerked, her teeth chattering like she had a shot of espresso. She fell backwards onto the bed, the vial rolling away from her hoof onto her bed.

Applejack rushed to the bed and put her hooves on her. "Twilight...why?"

Rarity came into the room. "What's going on in here?"

Applejack looked at her, crying slightly. "There was...there was still some Amnesia Drink left in her vial and she- she took it, Rarity!"

"Oh my." Rarity exclaimed. She went over to the bed, opposite of Applejack. "Well, I suppose we'll just have to explain everything to her again when she wakes up. Hopefully, it'll turn out better without Shining Armor here..."

"Yeah..." Applejack agreed, looking down at their mistress. "Can y'all promise me one thing, though, Rarity?"

"What's that, darling?"

"That we'll be honest."

Rarity was genuinely unsure of what to say, but then she looked at Applejack's eye.

"To honesty." Rarity said, extending her hoof for Applejack.

"To honesty."

"Thanks...girls."

Applejack and Rarity were surprised, and they looked back at Twilight, who they thought was sleeping.

"You're all..." Twilight rolled over. "Wonderful...friends."

"Mmm." Rarity and Applejack smiled. They both leaned over and nuzzled Twilight's cheeks before going to the door, giving one last glance towards her.

"We should git to bed." Applejack encouraged.

"Quite right."

They turned to leave, hoping to get a good's night rest.

After all, they had a big day tomorrow of sex, torture and ungodly bodily experimentation to do.

Together.

As friends.